89th American Meteorological Society Annual Meeting

AMS Staff Briefing

Location: Room 132A (Phoenix Convention Center)

Sponsor: Events

Student Conference Registration, AMS Registration Desk

Location: Phoenix Convention Center

Sponsor: The Eighth Annual AMS Student Conference

Student Conference Badge Pick-up Only

Welcome & Introductions

Location: Room 124AB (Phoenix Convention Center)

Sponsor: The Eighth Annual AMS Student Conference

Papers:

9:00 AM

Welcome from the Student Conference Program Chair, Kim Klockow, Student Conference Co-Chair & Univ. of Oklahoma, Norman, OK

9:05 AM

Welcome from the AMS, Walter F. Dabberdt, AMS President, Vaisala Inc., Boulder, CO

9:10 AM

Message from the AMS Teaching Excellence Award Winner, TBA

9:20 AM

Welcome from Your Peers, Chris Schultz, Univ. of Alabama, Huntsville, AL

9:30 AM

Group Breakout Activity

1

Get the Most out of This Conference: How to Develop Yourself as a Professional

Location: Room 124AB (Phoenix Convention Center)

Sponsor: The Eighth Annual AMS Student Conference

Chair: Christopher J. Schultz, Univ. of Alabama

Papers:

10:00 AM

Understanding Your Role as an Atmospheric Scientist, Bill Hooke, AMS Policy Program, Washington DC

10:15 AM

Professional Development, Sundar Christopher, Univ. of Alabama, Huntsville, AL

10:30 AM

Being Flexible and Multi-Faceted, Bruce Thomas, Midland Weather Radio, Kansas City, MO

10:45 AM

Skills in Multiple Areas, DeWayne Mitchell, Weather Decision Technologies, Norman, OK

Exhibitor Lounge

Location: Hall 4 (Phoenix Convention Center)

2

Conversations with Professionals—I

Sponsor: The Eighth Annual AMS Student Conference

Chair: Marcus D. Walter, Pennsylvania State Univ. / NCAR

Papers:

11:00 AM

Julie Demuth, WAS*IS/NCAR, Boulder, CO

11:00 AM

Bill Murtagh, NOAA/SEC, Boulder, CO

11:00 AM

TBD, WeatherBug

11:00 AM

Louis Uccellini, NOAA/NCEP, Camp Springs, MD

11:00 AM

Michael Hesse, NASA/GSFC, Greenbelt, MD

11:00 AM

Lika Guhathakurta, NASA, Washington DC

11:00 AM

Walt Lyons, Sky Fire Productions, Inc., Ft. Collins, CO

11:00 AM

Dan Sarowitz

11:00 AM

Tony Haffer, NWS, Phoenix, AZ

11:00 AM

Jack Hayes, NWS, Silver Spring, MD

11:00 AM

Mohan Ramamurthy, Unidata, Boulder, CO

11:00 AM

Jill Hasling, Weather Research Center, Houston, TX

11:00 AM

Meghan White, St. Louis Univ., St. Louis, MO

11:00 AM

Bob Dreiswerd, Baron Services, Huntsville, AL

Student Conference Luncheon (International Cooperation, with Jack Hayes (Director, NWS), Alex Schenckman (University of Oklahoma), and I-Tee Lee (National Central University, Taiwan))

Location: Ballroom A (Phoenix Convention Center)

Sponsor: The Eighth Annual AMS Student Conference

Papers:

11:30 AM

International Cooperation, with Jack Hayes, NWS, Silver Spring, MD, Alex Schenckman, Univ. of Oklahoma, Norman, OK & I-Tee Lee, National Central Univ., Taiwan

3

Conversation with Professionals—II

Sponsor: The Eighth Annual AMS Student Conference

Chair: Marcus D. Walter, Pennsylvania State Univ. / NCAR

Papers:

12:45 PM

(See list of participants from the previous session)

AMS Student Chapter Town Hall Meeting

Location: Room 124AB (Phoenix Convention Center)

Student Conference Coffee Break

Location: Phoenix Convention Center

Sponsor: The Eighth Annual AMS Student Conference

4A

Undergraduates: An informative guide for life after graduation

Location: Room 124AB (Phoenix Convention Center)

Sponsor: The Eighth Annual AMS Student Conference

Chair: Scott M. Mackaro, Metropolitan State College of Denver

Papers:

3:00 PM

Mentorship, and How to Find Your Mentor! Raj Pandya, UCAR/SOARS, Boulder, CO

3:20 PM

Survey on Graduate Admissions, John Nielsen-Gammon, Texas A&M Univ., College Station, TX

3:40 PM

How to Separate Yourself from the Applicants' Field, Kevin Kloesel, Univ. of Oklahoma, Norman, OK

4:00 PM

The Variety of Government Opportunities, Brandon Dunstan, WFO, Raleigh, NC

4:20 PM

Where to Look for Jobs, and Timeline of Job-Seeking Events, Andrea Bleistein, NOAA/NWS, Silver Spring, MD

4B

Graduate Students: An informative guide for life in graduate school

Location: Room 129AB (Phoenix Convention Center)

Sponsor: The Eighth Annual AMS Student Conference

Chair: Jessica Busse, University of Alabama

Papers:

3:00 PM

Non-Academic Career Paths, Addison-Sears Collins, Swiss Reinsurance, Atlanta, GA

3:20 PM

Funding Opportunities, TBA

3:40 PM

Research HOT Topics, Roger Wakimoto, NCAR/EOL, Boulder, CO

4:00 PM

Open Forum, Positioning Yourself for a Successful Career, Roger Wakimoto, NCAR/EOL, Boulder, CO

Closing Remarks and End of Day 1 Feedback

Location: Room 124AB (Phoenix Convention Center)

Sponsor: The Eighth Annual AMS Student Conference

Career Fair and Graduate School Reception

Location: Hall 5 (Phoenix Convention Center)

Sponsor: The Eighth Annual AMS Student Conference

Short Course Registration

WeatherFest Pre-con Breakfast

Location: Room 132A (Phoenix Convention Center)

Sponsor: Events

A.M.S. Short Course on Online Visualization and Analysis of Atmospheric Processes Utilizing NASA Satellite Data in Giovanni

Location: Room 131C (Phoenix Convention Center)

Sponsor: Events

STATISTICS OF EXTREME EVENTS Short Course

Location: Room 131B (Phoenix Convention Center)

Sponsor: Events

Organizers: Marina Timofeyeva, NOAA/NWS; Cécile Penland, NOAA/ESRL

Chair: Richard W. Katz, NCAR

Short Course on the Modern Era Retrospective-ANALYSIS for RESEARCH and Applications (MERRA) Data and Accessibility

Location: Room 131A (Phoenix Convention Center)

Sponsor: Events

Organizer: Michael G. Bosilovich, NASA/GSFC/GMAO

5

Icebreaker: Writing Effective Titles, Yvette Hancock, University of York, York, UK, and David Schultz, University of Helsinki and FMI, Helsinki, Finland

Location: Room 124AB (Phoenix Convention Center)

Sponsor: The Eighth Annual AMS Student Conference

Teacher Workshop

Location: Room 125A (Phoenix Convention Center)

Sponsor: Events

Teacher Workshop Break-out Room

Location: Room 125B (Phoenix Convention Center)

Sponsor: Events

Annual Meeting Registration Begins

6

Panel of Young Professionals

Location: Room 124AB (Phoenix Convention Center)

Sponsor: The Eighth Annual AMS Student Conference

Chair: Heather A. Dinon, Plymouth State University

Papers:

9:30 AM

Charlie Woodrum, NWS, Wilmington, OH

9:30 AM

Kenny Trapp, Entrepreneurial pursuits!, Norman, OK

9:30 AM

Kristen Cummings, Plymouth State Univ., Plymouth, NH

9:30 AM

Denise Isaac, Telemundo, Alexandria, VA

7

HOT Topics in Local Weather

Location: Room 124AB (Phoenix Convention Center)

Sponsor: The Eighth Annual AMS Student Conference

Chair: Renee Curry, Univ. of Oklahoma

Papers:

10:15 AM

Phoenix Water and Electricity, Jon Skindlov, Salt River Project, Phoenix, AZ

10:30 AM

Flood Control District, Steve Waters, Flood control District of Maricopa County, Phoenix, AZ

10:45 AM

Health and Heat Issues, Robert French,

11:00 AM

Volunteer Outreach to the Homeless, Rebecca Franco

Student Conference Coffee Break

Location: Phoenix Convention Center

Sponsor: The Eighth Annual AMS Student Conference

8

Weather Outside the Lines

Location: Room 124AB (Phoenix Convention Center)

Sponsor: The Eighth Annual AMS Student Conference

Chair: Angelyn Kolodziej, University of Oklahoma

Papers:

11:20 AM

Innovative Climatology, Ryan Boyles, NC State Climatologist, Raleigh, NC

11:35 AM

Weather in the Military, Jennifer Alexander, 45th Weather Squadron, Patrick AFB, FL

11:50 AM

Weather Around the World, Molly Brown, NASA/GSFC, Greenbelt, MD

12:05 PM

Weather Modification Joe Golden, GSD/ESRL/NOAA, Boulder, CO

Weatherfest

Location: Northballroom A (Phoenix Convention Center)

Student Conference Closing Luncheon (Kaj O’Mara, an inspiring career in a few short years)

Location: Ballroom A (Phoenix Convention Center)

Sponsor: The Eighth Annual AMS Student Conference

Papers:

12:20 PM

Kaj O'Mara, KCRG TV, Cedar Rapids, IA

9

Education Forum on Improving Your Writing Skills for Students and Scientists. David Schultz, Univ. of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland

Location: Room 124AB (Phoenix Convention Center)

Sponsor: The Eighth Annual AMS Student Conference

First-Time Attendee Briefing

Location: Room 130 (Phoenix Convention Center)

Annual Meeting Review and Fellows Awards

Location: Room 130 (Phoenix Convention Center)

Fellows Reception

Location: Hall 5 (Phoenix Convention Center)

Poster Session 1

Student Conference Posters

Location: Phoenix Convention Center

Sponsor: The Eighth Annual AMS Student Conference

Papers:

P1.1

Gulf Coast forest damage detection and carbon flux estimation using ICESat GLAS and Landsat TM

Jason Brent Jones, NASA DEVELOP Program, Stennis Space Center, MS; and L. M. Childs, M. W. Brozen, M. C. Batina, A. Maki, A. O. Brooks, J. W. Frey, and C. Chappell

Poster PDF (563.3 kB)

P1.2

Evaluation of NWS watch and warning performance related to tornadic events

Kelly M. Keene, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX; and P. T. Schlatter, J. E. Hales, and H. Brooks

Poster PDF (129.8 kB)

P1.3

Applying Wind Climatology to Oklahoma Prescribed Burns

Jeffrey Scott Zuczek, Univ. of Miami/RSMAS, Miami, FL; and M. A. Shafer

Poster PDF (1.0 MB)

P1.4

The response of university students to Severe Weather Watches

Rebecca Marie Belobraydich, National Weather Center REU, Norman, OK; and M. D. Biddle

Poster PDF (167.1 kB)

P1.5

An outline of the process needed for student understanding of hurricanes and El Niño Southern Oscillation (ENSO)

Karl C. Clarke, UCAR, Boulder, CO

P1.6

The practicality of geoengineering

Allison Marquardt, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ; and A. Robock, B. Kravitz, and G. Stenchikov

P1.7

Evaluation of the Environmental Protection Agency / National Weather Service Ultraviolet Index forecast against independent UV measurements: Phoenix Arizona (2000-2006)

Jessica M. Nolte, NOAA/NWS, Phoenix, AZ; and K. DeBiasse and B. M. Svoma

P1.8

The 18 October 2007, Nappanee, IN Tornado Viewed by a WSR-88D Radar and a Dual-Polarized Radar

Stephanie L. Dunten, Valparaiso University, Valparaiso, IN

P1.9

Investigating the ability of CLM-CN 3.5 to accurately simulate vegetation density

Eowyn C. Connolly-Brown, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY

P1.10

Seasonal frequency of fronts and surface baroclinic zones in the Great Lakes region

Melissa Payer, University at Albany, Albany, NY; and R. J. Maliawco Jr., N. Laird, and E. G. Hoffman

P1.11

Semi-Empirical Projections of Future Atlantic Tropical Cyclone Activity

Thomas A. Sabbatelli, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA; and M. E. Mann, J. L. Evans, and S. K. Miller

P1.12

Atmospheric Aerosol Chemistry in the Arctic: Results from the 2008 International Polar Year (IPY) ICEALOT Experiment

Maria C. Zatko, University of Washington, Seattle, WA

P1.13

Midlevel Cloud Properties from the A-train

Joel P. Scott, Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL; and S. L. Nasiri

P1.14

Regional analysis of heavy precipitation over Puerto Rico during 1975-2005

Luis D. Padilla-Bauzá Sr., University of Puerto Rico, Mayaguez, PR; and R. Méndez-Tejeda

P1.15

The Super Tuesday Tornado Outbreak from February 2008

Richard J. Krupar III, Valparaiso University, Valparaiso, IN; and A. E. Reynolds, T. Brown, A. McMillan, D. Liang, and J. A. Womble

P1.16

QPF Verification for the Alaska-Pacific River Forecast Center

Richard, C. Lam, University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK

P1.17

How Integrating MODIS Data Enhances Numerical Predictions of Sea Breezes

Jordan Gerth, CIMSS/Univ. of Wisconsin, Madison, WI

http://ftp://ftp.ssec.wisc.edu/pub/jordang/talkpost/MODISforSB_11Jan09.pdf

P1.18

Cold temperature ozone production in a mountain basin

Ryan R. Neely III, NOAA, Boulder, Colorado; and R. C. Schnell, S. J. Oltmans, J. V. Molenar, A. B. White, and M. S. Endres

P1.19

Analysis on 2008 Ice Disaster and its causes in Southern China

Tiantian Liu, Meteorological Bureau of HuNan Province, Changsha, Hunan, China; and N. Liu, C. Liao, and J. Ren

P1.20

The Relationship of Transient Upper-Level Troughs to Variability of the North American Monsoon System

Stephen W. Bieda III, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ; and C. L. Castro, S. L. Mullen, A. C. Comrie, and E. S. Pytlak

P1.21

The environmental impacts on the structure and evolution of a cirrus anvil during the CRYSTAL-FACE campaign in Florida 2002

Nicole Ann Hastings, Univ. of Wyoming, Laramie, WY

P1.22

Estimating correlations from a coastal ocean model for localizing an Ensemble Transform Kalman filter

Jonathan Poterjoy, Millersville University, Millersville, PA; and R. N. Hoffman and S. M. Leidner

P1.23

Impacts of climate change on the summer rainfall of the Southern Rocky Mountains

Roque Vinicio Céspedes, Univ. of Miami/RSMAS, Hialeah, FL; and G. J. Holland and R. D. Loft

P1.24

Observing tropical ice as an intraseasonal oscillation variable

Holly Searcy Ramey, University of Alabama, Huntsville, AL

P1.25

The AMO and Sahel rainfall - strong potential for seasonal forecasting of droughts

Amin K. Dezfuli, Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL

P1.26

Upslope snow climatology on the Allegheny Front Range

Joseph Peter Wegman, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL

P1.27

Vulnerability metrics of hurricane forecast accuracy

Adam D. Arnold, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA; and J. L. Evans

Poster PDF (691.7 kB)

P1.28

Assessing tropical cyclone contribution to global annual rainfall

Christopher L. Williams, NCAR, Boulder, CO; and F. D. Marks Jr.

P1.29

Analysis of Aerosol Size Spectrum Measurements from North Dakota, Saudi Arabia, and Mali

Kelsey Watkins, University of North Dakota, Grand Forks, ND

P1.30

A stereoscopic cloud top height retrieval technique from combined geostationary and low earth orbiting satellites

Bruce Veenhuis Jr., NOAA/NWS, Silver Spring, MD; and G. Liu

P1.31

The interannual variability of biomass burning in North America using MODIS data: observations and meteorological influences

David A. Peterson, University of Nebraska, Lincoln, NE; and J. Wang, L. Remer, and C. Ichoku

P1.32

The evaluation and application of CALIPSO products by NASA DEVELOP students

Alexander Matus, DEVELOP National Program, Hampton, VA; and B. Scarino, D. Henderson, and B. Lee

P1.33

Application of the Statistical Theory of Extreme Values to Heat Waves

Marcus D. Walter, NCAR / SOARS, Ithaca, NY

P1.34

Comparison of Water Vapor Measurements from GPS Atmospheric Remote Sensing Techniques

Ian C. Colon-Pagan, North Carolina A&T State University, Greensboro, NC; and B. Kuo, W. S. Schreiner, D. Hunt, and J. J. Braun

P1.35

Determining useful forecasting parameters for lake-effect snow events on the west side of Lake Michigan

Bradley M. Hegyi, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN; and K. A. Kloesel

P1.36

Analysis and verification of multi-sensor precipitation estimates for the Texas Coastal Bend

Angelica M. Villarreal, Texas A&M University, Corpus Christi, TX; and P. E. Tissot and R. G. Hay

Poster PDF (587.8 kB)

P1.37

Nocturnal inversions over the Central Plains of the U.S. (1960-2007)

Karen Galvin, Mississippi State University, Mississippi State, MS; and P. G. Dixon

P1.38

Sensitivity of mesoscale wind speed surface analyses to surface observations in the urban-wildlife interface

Matthew Clayton Brewer, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT; and J. Horel and D. Tyndall

P1.39

Influence of the El Niño Southern Oscillation on Seasonal Global Clouds

Sarah A. Monette, Madison, WI; and M. H. Hitchman

P1.40

Convective transport of chemical constituents at Northern Alabama and Central Oklahoma; A numerical analysis

Lumari Pardo-Rodriguez, SOARS, UCAR, Lajas, PR

P1.41

Hydroxyl radical and sulfuric acid concentrations in Manitou Experimental Forest

Talea Mayo, University of Texas, Austin, TX; and L. Mauldin, J. McGrath, and T. Petaja

P1.42

Late season tropical cyclone formation over the northeastern Atlantic Ocean: 1975-2005

Rachel G. Mauk, Ohio State University, Columbus, OH

P1.43

Illustrating Stratified Ekman Upwelling with Weather in a Tank

Carter Chamberlain, Univ. of Massachussetts, North Dartmouth, MA; and A. Tandon and J. Marshall

P1.44

Precipitation distributions for storm types in southeast Texas

Jennifer M. Stein, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas; and M. D. Cohen, L. J. Hopper Jr., and C. Schumacher

P1.45

Point based comparison study of Daymet and PRISM temperature interpolations from 1980 to 2003

Rebecca A. Scully, Utah State University, Logan, UT; and M. A. White

P1.46

Summertime urban heat Island in Newark, New Jersey and its relationship with urban particulate matter

Christopher Thuman, Rutgers University, Newark, NJ

P1.47

Flow and momentum flux measurement by LIDAR over a forest canopy during NIFTY

P1.48

Statistical Analysis of the Correlations between the Sea Surface Temperatures and the West African Monsoon Precipitation in Western Sahel, Central Sahel, and Guinea Coast Regions

Anastasia G. Yanchilina, Creighton University, Omaha, NE; and D. J. M. Schrage

P1.49

The Effects of Differential Rotation on 1-2 Solar Mass Stars

Marques Cameron, Norfolk State University, Norfolk, VA

P1.50

Analysis of WRF-ARW simulations of the 22 May 2008 Windsor, CO tornado using WSR-88D radar data

Grant E. Gutierrez, University of Northern Colorado, Greeley, CO; and C. L. Moon, D. A. Koch, and S. P. Rocheford

P1.51

CIMSS Educational Outreach Activities: Summer 2008

Luke Schiferl, CIMSS/SSEC/Univ. of Wisconsin, Madison, WI; and S. Ackerman and M. Mooney

P1.52

Optical and Radiative Properties of Aerosols over Southwestern Puerto Rico

Yaítza Luna-Cruz, University of Puerto Rico, Mayagüez, PR; and C. U. Pabón-Ortiz, R. Armstrong, H. J. Jiménez, and E. Joseph

P1.53

Analysis of daily monsoonal wind circulations in the lower troposphere over Estación Obispo, Mexico using wind profilers and the Gulf Surge Index

Sandra Leticia Diaz, NCAR/SOARS, Boulder, CO; and L. M. Hartten

P1.54

Lagrangian satellite imagery

Daniel J. Halperin, Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL; and C. G. Herbster and F. R. Mosher

P1.55

Black Carbon Radiative Effect on Tropical Precipitation

Aaron M. Adams, Univ. of Miami/RSMAS, Coconut Grove, FL

P1.56

An interactive instructional pathway to LEAD portal data and tools

Sean States, Millersville Univ., Millersville, PA; and R. Junod, S. Cecelski, B. Kerschner, R. Carp, J. Kurdzo, K. Ketchell, D. S. Yalda, and D. R. Clark

P1.57

An Overview of the Marine Climate of Lincoln Rock, Alaska

Kevin A. Bowley, NOAA/NWSFO, State College, PA

P1.58

A climatology of the mid-Atlantic winter-time jet stream

Robert Junod, Millersville Univ., Millersville, PA; and S. R. Baxter and D. S. Yalda

P1.59

Defining the early evening boundary layer transition using sodar and surface data

Jessica Busse, University of Alabama, Huntsville, AL

P1.60

Detection of flooded areas using AMSR-E observations

Alexander R. Davies, Millersville University, Millersville, PA; and X. Zhan and A. Kumar

P1.61

Understanding Hurricane Intensity Using Sea Surface Height and Temperature Information

John Sears, CIMSS/Univ. of Wisconsin, Madison, WI; and R. E. Hood and F. J. LaFontaine

http://oz.plymouth.edu/~jsears3/Research.html

Poster PDF (735.6 kB)

P1.62

Distribution of Hydrometeors Inside Regions of Vertical Motion in Thunderstorms

Jacob R. Beitlich, Univ. if Wisconsin, Madison, WI; and P. K. Wang

P1.63

Radar characteristics of tornado producing mini-supercell in Tropical Storm Erin (2007)

Christina Holt, NWC REU & CASA, Mobile, AL; and K. A. Kloesel

P1.64

The February 2007 “Valentine's Day Storm”: diagnosis and impact on the Washington, DC area

Elizabeth J. Thompson, Valparaiso University, Valparaiso, IN; and B. J. Lasorsa and S. Zubrick

P1.65

High flow events in small watersheds in New York State

Andrew J. Shook, Cornell Unviersity, Ithaca, NY; and A. DeGaetano

P1.66

A case study of a Coastally Trapped Wind and Stratus Event along the Northern Coast of the Gulf of Alaska

Emily L. Niebuhr, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI; and M. Hitchman

P1.67

Spatial database analysis of atmospheric deposition and terrestrial accumulation of mercury within Acadia National Park

Melinda S. Diehl, University of Maine, Orono, ME

P1.68

Mass Media During Natural Disasters and Vulnerability of Coastal Communities: A Case Study of the San José Community in Mayagüez, Puerto Rico

Luis D. Padilla-Bauzá, University of Puerto Rico, Mayagüez, PR; and A. Monzón

P1.69

Formation of African Easterly Waves and Mesoscale Convective Systems over Eastern Africa and its Implication to Tropical Cyclogenesis over Eastern Atlantic Ocean

James Spinks, North Carolina A&T State University, Greensboro, NC; and Y. L. Lin, G. Tang, and W. Jones

P1.70

Drop-size distributions of storm types in southeast Texas

Matthew Raper, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX; and C. Schumacher, L. J. Hopper Jr., and K. E. Brugman

P1.71

An observational analysis of middle tropospheric stable layers over the tropical western pacific ARM sites

Bradley R. Charboneau, Texas Tech University, Lubbock, TX; and D. J. Posselt

P1.72

Potential Parameters for Prediction of Tropical Cyclone Genesis

Jason Hwang, University of Miami, Palmetto Bay, FL; and S. S. Chen

P1.73

Assesment of Computer Technology in West Cental Illinois Elementary Schools

Ryan D. Wichman Sr., Western Illinois University, Macomb, IL; and M. S. Tucker II and C. A. Parrott

P1.74

Local AMS student chapter and Eagle chapter of Chi Epsilon Pi at Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University-Daytona Beach

Daniel J. Halperin, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, Daytona Beach, FL; and K. L. Seaman and R. Haley

P1.75

Verification of the ratio of iodine to ozone in typical ozonesonde cathode solutions

L. A. Baran, University of Wyoming, Laramie, WY; and J. L. Mercer and T. Deshler

P1.76

State of tropical instability waves in a current generation coupled climate model

Balachandrudu Narapusetty, George Mason University, Calverton, MD

P1.77

An analysis of the 2007-2008 tornado cool season

Madison L. Burnett, National Weather Center Research Experience for Undergraduates, Norman, OK; and G. W. Carbin and J. Schaefer

P1.78

An updated warm season convective wind climatology for the Florida Spaceport

Christopher J. Ander, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT; and A. J. Frumkin and J. P. Koermer

P1.79

Orographic Effects on the Evolution of African Easterly Wave-Mesoscale Convective Systems over Northern Africa

Wilson Jones, North Carolina A&T State University, Greensboro, NC; and G. Tang, Y. L. Lin, and J. Spinks

P1.80

An assessment of air quality in the Houston region by NASA DEVELOP students

Amy Sanders, DEVELOP National Program, Hampton, VA; and R. Legatt, D. Doddridge, B. Baxley, E. Roberts, and L. Lynaugh

P1.81

Effects of Orography on the Genesis of Hurricane Javier (2004) in the Eastern Pacific Ocean

Van Nguyen, North Carolina A&T State University, Greensboro, NC; and Y. L. Lin

P1.82

A data visualization of the ASCENDS mission by NASA DEVELOP students

Thomas Nelson Hillyer, NASA LaRC, Hampton, VA; and A. Kramolisch, B. Hughes, J. Atkins, J. Wilkins, and J. Crouch

P1.83

An Investigation of Entrainment in Trade Wind Cumuli

Amanda M. Sheffield, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN; and S. Lasher-Trapp

P1.84

An Investigation of Entrainment in Trade Wind Cumulus Clouds

Amanda M. Sheffield, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN; and S. Lasher-Trapp

P1.85

Investigating middle school and college students' conceptions and misconceptions about wind, fog, and tornadoes

P1.86

Does southeast Texas need an additional upper-air station?

Amanda Fanning, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX; and B. Haines, J. Stachnik, and C. Schumacher

P1.87

A case study of the July 24, 2008 New Hampshire tornado

Jennifer F. Newman, University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK; and S. J. Colucci

P1.88

New England Winter Severity Indices

Anthony R. Fusco, Plymouth State University, Plymouth, NH

P1.89

A composite-based diagnostic study of Colorado lee cyclogenesis

Doug A. Koch, University of Northern Colorado, Boulder, CO; and P. Nutter and E. Thaler

P1.90

Relationships between Vegetation Boundaries and Severe Local Storms in the Delta Region of Mississippi

David Paul Keeney, Mississipi State University, Mississippi State, MS; and D. M. Brown

P1.91

Northern Hemisphere tropical cyclone activity

Ryan N. Maue, Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL

P1.92

Observed Ozone in the Troposphere and Stratosphere in Varying Atmospheric Conditions

Jessica Guerrero, NSF, Howard Beach, NY

P1.93

Comparing National Weather Service and Local TV Station Radar Estimates of Rainfall

David Zelinsky, Purdue Univ., West Lafayette, IN; and D. Pezzute, M. Ervin, B. Simpson, K. Burris, J. Stengel, J. Pace, J. Nusbaumer, R. Tharp, J. S. Haase, and M. E. Baldwin

WeatherFest Post-con Meeting

Location: Room 132A (Phoenix Convention Center)

Sponsor: Events

Registration Open

Press Office Monday

Location: Room 222C (Phoenix Convention Center)

Sponsor: Events

Weather Preview Theater

Location: Room 231C (Phoenix Convention Center)

Sponsors: (Joint between the Events; and the Ninth Communications Workshop )

1

Urban Weather and Climate: Now and the Future

Location: Ballroom ABC (Phoenix Convention Center)

Sponsor: Ninth AMS Presidential Forum: Urban Weather and Climate—Now and the Future

Moderator: Rosina Bierbaum, Univ. of Michigan

Papers:

8:30 AM

Welcoming Remarks

8:35 AM

Introduction of Theme of the Presidential Forum and the Four Panelists

Rosina Bierbaum, Univ. of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI

8:45 AM

1.1

An Urbanizing World

Kai N. Lee, The David & Lucile Packard Foundation , Los Altos, CA

Recorded presentation Poster PDF (229.1 kB)

9:00 AM

1.2

Implications of climate change for expanding cities world-wide

Julian C. Hunt, Univ. College London, London, United Kingdom

Recorded presentation Poster PDF (100.2 kB)

9:15 AM

1.3

Coastal Processes and Impacts—Particularly as they Relate to Coastal Cities—in a Changing Global Climate with Rapidly Expanding Urban Populations

Susan K. Avery, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole, MA

Recorded presentation

9:30 AM

1.4

Urban Weather and Climate Services: Meeting the Challenges of Growing Cities and a Changing Climate

Mary Glackin, DOC/NOAA, Washington, DC

Recorded presentation

9:45 AM

Moderator’s Comments and General Discussion with Questions from Audience

Presidential Forum

Location: Ballroom ABC (Phoenix Convention Center)

Coffee Break Reception - Sponsored by Ball Aerospace

Location: Room 126BC (Phoenix Convention Center)

Coffee Break in Meeting Room Foyer

Location: Phoenix Convention Center

1

Atmospheric Observations for Weather and Climate—I

Location: Room 130 (Phoenix Convention Center)

Sponsor: 13th Conference on Integrated Observing and Assimilation Systems for Atmosphere, Oceans, and Land Surface (IOAS-AOLS)

Chair: Carolyn A. Reynolds, NRL

Papers:

10:45 AM

1.1

Exploring the potential of Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UAS) to meet NOAA mission requirements involving weather, water, climate and marine ecosystems

F. Martin Ralph, NOAA / ESRL, Boulder, CO; and A. MacDonald

Recorded presentation

11:00 AM

1.2

Application of Unmanned Aircraft Systems to an Integrated Observing System for atmospheric river events

Gary A. Wick, NOAA/ESRL/PSD, Boulder, CO; and F. M. Ralph and T. Jacobs

Recorded presentation

11:15 AM

1.3

WISDOM System Description and Initial Test Results

A. E. MacDonald, NOAA/OAR, Boulder, CO; and J. Nicinska

Recorded presentation

11:30 AM

1.4

The leading edge: using CASA radars to detect lower troposphere winds in quasi-linear convective systems

B. Philips, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA; and R. Przybylinski, J. Brotzge, D. J. Rude, W. Diaz, B. Dolan, and E. Bass

Recorded presentation

Joint Session 1

Joint Session between the 7th Conference on Artificial Intelligence and the Meteorological Aspects of Air Pollution Committee—I

Location: Room 125A (Phoenix Convention Center)

Sponsor: Seventh Conference on Artificial Intelligence and its Applications to the Environmental Sciences

Chairs: Michael Brown, LANL; Antonello Pasini, CNR

Papers:

10:45 AM

J1.1

Assimilating Concentration Data into Dispersion Models with a Genetic Algorithm

Sue Ellen Haupt, Penn State Univ., University Park, PA; and K. J. Long, A. Beyer-Lout, and G. S. Young

Recorded presentation Poster PDF (669.2 kB)

11:00 AM

J1.2

Source Term Estimation using a Genetic Algorithm and SCIPUFF

Kerrie J. Schmehl, Penn State University, State College, PA; and S. E. Haupt, G. Young, L. M. Rodriguez, and M. McNeal III

Recorded presentation Poster PDF (249.4 kB)

11:15 AM

J1.3

Sheared Gaussian Coupled with Hybrid Genetic Algorithm for Source Characterization using CFD and FFT07 data

Luna M. Rodriguez, Penn State University, University Park, PA; and A. J. Annunzio, S. E. Haupt, and G. S. Young

Recorded presentation Poster PDF (226.8 kB)

11:30 AM

J1.4

Back trajectories for hazard origin estimation: BackHOE

George S. Young, Penn State Univ., University Park, PA; and J. Limbacher and S. E. Haupt

Recorded presentation Poster PDF (267.9 kB)

1

Coastal atmosphere, ocean, and marine biology-I

Location: Room 126A (Phoenix Convention Center)

Sponsor: Eighth Conference on Coastal Atmospheric and Oceanic Prediction and Processes

CoChair: Christopher N. K. Mooers, RSMAS, University of Miami

Papers:

10:45 AM

1.1

Summary of IOOS Workshop on Ocean Modeling and Analysis

Christopher N. K. Mooers, Univ. of Miami/RSMAS, Miami, FL

Recorded presentation

11:00 AM

1.2

Aggregating remotely-sensed data, observations and model results in a Geospatial Framework

Eoin Howlett, Applied Science Associates, Inc., South Kingstown, RI; and C. Beegle-Krause and M. Wholey

Recorded presentation

11:15 AM

1.3

Observed and Simulated Temporal and Spatial Variations of Gap Outflow Region

Qing Wang, Naval Postgraduate School, Monterey, CA; and R. C. Cherrett, S. W. Wang, J. Kalogiros, K. Rados, C. A. Friehe, and D. Khelif

Recorded presentation

11:30 AM

1.4

Changes in California Current upwelling water sources with different resolution wind forcing

Hajoon Song, SIO/Univ. Of California, La Jolla, CA

Recorded presentation

11:45 AM

1.5

Ocean-atmosphere coupling in the area of orographically-intensified flow in coastal upwelling modeling studies

Natalie Perlin, Oregon State Univ., Corvallis, OR; and E. Skyllingstad and R. Samelson

Recorded presentation

1

Field, laboratory, and modeling studies of air quality—I

Location: Room 127A (Phoenix Convention Center)

Sponsor: 11th Conference on Atmospheric Chemistry

Cochairs: Crystal C. Reed, Texas A&M Univ.; J. R. Arnold, NOAA/ARL and USEPA/ORD/NERL

Papers:

10:45 AM

1.1

A transboundary air quality study of pollution over the Gulf of Aqaba

Aiman Soleiman, Aqaba Special Economic Zone Authority, Aqaba, Jordan; and M. Abu-Allaban, B. Bornstein, M. Luria, and A. Gertler

Recorded presentation

11:00 AM

1.2

Ozone Profiles at Dakar Senegal during the summer of 2008

Gregory Jenkins, Howard Univ., Washington, DC; and S. Ndiaye, M. Gueye, R. Fitzhugh, and J. W. Smith

Recorded presentation

11:15 AM

1.3

Mapping small scale air pollution distribution using satellite observations in a large Canadian city

Natividad Urquizo, City of Ottawa, Ottawa, ON, Canada; and D. Sptizer and W. Pugsley

Recorded presentation Poster PDF (687.1 kB)

11:30 AM

1.4

Numerical simulation of atmospheric loadings of mercury from a coal fired power plant to Lake Erie

Sreerama M. Daggupaty, EC, Downsview, ON, Canada; and P. Blanchard, C. Banic, and P. Cheung

Recorded presentation Poster PDF (363.2 kB)

11:45 AM

1.5

Urban ozone over North America from soundings: Mixed influences from pollution, stratosphere, lightning and convection

Anne M. Thompson, Penn State Univ., University Park, PA; and A. M. Luzik, S. K. Miller, J. C. Witte, G. Morris, S. J. Oltmans, B. Rappenglueck, D. W. Tarasick, J. E. Yorks, and E. Joseph

Recorded presentation

1

Hydrology and Water Resources

Location: Room 127BC (Phoenix Convention Center)

Sponsor: 23rd Conference on Hydrology

Chair: Bart Nijssen, 3TIER, Inc.

Papers:

10:45 AM

1.1

From research to operations: transition projects in NOAA's Hydrometeorological Testbed

Timothy Schneider, NOAA/OHD, Boulder, CO

Recorded presentation

11:00 AM

1.2

Estimation of potential evapotranspiration from merged CERES and MODIS observations

Anand K. Inamdar, NCSU, Asheville, NC; and A. French

Recorded presentation Poster PDF (1.1 MB)

11:15 AM

1.3

Effects of multi-sensor radar and rain gauge data on hydrologic modeling in relatively flat terrain

Steven M. Martinaitis, Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL; and H. E. Fuelberg and C. Pathak

Recorded presentation

11:30 AM

1.4

Optimizing precipitation estimates using merged observations and model output: A case study in the California Sierra Nevada Mountains

Edward I. Tollerud, NOAA/ESRL, Boulder, CO; and J. A. Mcginley, S. L. Mullen, T. Vukicevic, H. Yuan, C. Lu, and I. Jankov

Poster PDF (627.5 kB)

11:45 AM

1.5

A two-year analysis of precipitation variability at the Tar Creek Superfund Site

Amanda J. Schroeder, University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK; and H. R. Campbell and J. B. Basara

Recorded presentation Poster PDF (1.0 MB)

1

Space Weather Agency Updates

Location: Room 126BC (Phoenix Convention Center)

Sponsor: Sixth Symposium on Space Weather

Cochairs: Robert McCoy, Office of Naval Research; Genene Fisher, AMS

Papers:

10:45 AM

1.1

Status of NOAA's Space Weather Program

Dr. Jack Hayes, NOAA/NWS, Silver Spring, MD

Recorded presentation

11:00 AM

1.2

Air Force weather-presentation

Fred Lewis, AWS, Washington, DC

11:15 AM

1.3

NSF and new opportunities in space weather

Timothy L. Killeen, NSF, Arlington, VA; and R. Behnke

Recorded presentation

11:30 AM

1.4

New Viewpoints and Vantages from recent NASA Missions

Richard Fisher, NASA / ESS, Washington, DC

Recorded presentation

11:45 AM

1.5

The National Space Weather Program

Samuel P. Williamson, Office of the Federal Coordinator for Meteorology, Silver Spring, MD; and M. R. Babcock

Recorded presentation Poster PDF (30.7 kB)

1

Special Session on Educational Activities of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration

Location: Room 125B (Phoenix Convention Center)

Sponsor: 18th Symposium on Education

Cochairs: David R. Smith, United States Naval Academy; Priti P. Brahma, NOAA

Papers:

11:00 AM

1.1

How do we create a climate literate society? A review of Climate Literacy essential principles and fundamental concepts that ensure climate literate citizens and students

Frank Niepold, NOAA, Silver Spring, MD; and C. Ralston

Recorded presentation

11:15 AM

1.2

NOAA's funding opportunities for educational projects and programs

Sarah Schoedinger, NOAA, Washington, DC ; and C. McDougall

Recorded presentation

11:30 AM

1.3

NOAA's Office of Education Student Scholarship Opportunities

Priti P. Brahma, NOAA, Silver Spring, MD; and C. Haskins

Recorded presentation

11:45 AM

1.4

NOAA's Teacher at Sea Program: A Hands On Teacher Research Experience

Jennifer Hammond, NOAA, Silver Spring, MD; and D. M. Stanitski

Recorded presentation

12:00 PM

1.5

The NOAA Ocean Data Education (NODE) Project

Michiko J. Martin, NOAA, Silver Spring, MD; and A. Ibanez, K. S. Casey, C. Joyce, and T. Viola

Recorded presentation

10:45 AM

Introductory Remarks

Recorded presentation

Panel Discussion 1

Sustainability and Growth: How can a city develop sustainably when its identity is based on growth?

Location: Room 121A (Phoenix Convention Center)

Sponsor: Fourth Symposium on Policy and Socio—Economic Research

Moderator: Genevieve E. Maricle, Arizona State Univ.

Panelists: Grady Gammage, Gammage and Burnham, Attorneys at Law; Robert Melnick, Arizona State Univ.; Josh Foster, Center for Clean Air Policy; Wendy Marie Thomas, AMS

Papers:

10:45 AM

Sustaining Phoenix

Recorded presentation

11:00 AM

Partnering Toward the Possible: Durable Growth & Healthy Cities

Recorded presentation

11:15 AM

Preparing for Climate Change: A Guidebook for Local, Regional and State Governments

Recorded presentation

1A

IIPS Keynote Session

Location: Room 121BC (Phoenix Convention Center)

Sponsor: 25th Conference on International Interactive Information and Processing Systems (IIPS) for Meteorology, Oceanography, and Hydrology

Cochairs: Ward R. Seguin, NOAA/OAR; Michael D. Eilts, Weather Decision Technologies, Inc.

Papers:

10:45 AM

1A.1

Climate, Weather, and Demographic Changes in the Cities

Walter F. Dabberdt, Vaisala. Inc., Boulder, CO

Recorded presentation

11:15 AM

1A.2

Environmental Observations at the Mesoscale: Challenges and Opportunities

Richard E. Carbone, NCAR, Boulder, CO

Recorded presentation

11:45 AM

Q&A Session

1A

Year of Tropical Convection

Location: Room 129A (Phoenix Convention Center)

Sponsor: 21st Conference on Climate Variability and Change

Chairs: Duane E. Waliser, JPL; Mitch Moncrieff, NCAR

Papers:

10:45 AM

1A.1

Year of Tropical Convection (YOTC): A Joint WWRP and WCRP Activity to Address the Challenges of Multi-Scale Organized Convection

Duane Edward Waliser, JPL, Pasadena, CA; and M. W. Moncrieff

Recorded presentation

11:00 AM

1A.2

Convective organization and the Year of Tropical Convection (YoTC)

Mitchell W. Moncrieff, NCAR, Boulder, CO; and D. Waliser

Recorded presentation

11:15 AM

1A.3

The role of continental-scale landmass in monsoons—A GCM investigation

Winston Chao, NASA/GSFC, Greenbelt, MD

11:30 AM

1A.4

Mesoscale organization of equatorial waves

George Kiladis, NOAA Earth System Research Laboratory, Boulder, CO; and S. N. Tulich

Recorded presentation

11:45 AM

1A.5

On the low-level moisture preconditioning of the Madden-Julian Oscillation

Baijun Tian, UCniv. of California, Pasadena, CA; and D. E. Waliser, X. Xie, W. T. Liu, and E. J. Fetzer

1B

Role of land cover in climate and climate change

Location: Room 129B (Phoenix Convention Center)

Sponsor: 21st Conference on Climate Variability and Change

Chair: Thomas C. Peterson, NOAA/NESDIS/NCDC

CoChair: Matthew J. Menne, NOAA/NESDIS/NCDC

Papers:

10:45 AM

1B.1

Development of the Shrub Submodel for the Community Land Model-Dynamic Global Vegetation Model (CLM-DGVM)

Xubin Zeng, Univ. of Arizona, Tucson, AZ; and X. Zeng and M. Barlage

Recorded presentation

11:00 AM

1B.2

Climate, land use and urbanization: a case study in Xinjiang, China

Zhuoting Wu, Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff, AZ; and H. Zhang, C. Krause, and N. Cobb

11:15 AM

1B.3

Climate change, cities, and the urban heat island

Mark McCarthy, UK Met Office, Exeter, Devon, United Kingdom; and M. Best, R. Betts, and M. Hendry

Recorded presentation

11:30 AM

1B.4

Impact of land cover change on climatic variables in Central America

Vani Starry Manoharan, Univ. of Alabama, Huntsville, AL; and R. Welch, D. K. Ray, R. O. Lawton, T. L. Sever, D. Irwin, and R. Griffin

Recorded presentation

11:45 AM

1B.5

Land use change and temperature trends

Matthew J. Menne, NOAA/NESDIS/NCDC, Asheville, NC; and T. C. Peterson

Recorded presentation Poster PDF (94.0 kB)

1B

Special Session on Canadian Olympics Weather Planning for 2010

Location: Room 122BC (Phoenix Convention Center)

Sponsor: 25th Conference on International Interactive Information and Processing Systems (IIPS) for Meteorology, Oceanography, and Hydrology

Cochairs: John R. Lincoln, US Navy/WMO (Ret.) and Consultant; Alfred Hofstadler, ECMWF; Howard J. Diamond, NOAA/NESDIS/NCDC

Papers:

10:45 AM

1B.1

Weather services for the Vancouver 2010 Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games

Al Wallace, EC, Vancouver, BC, Canada; and C. Doyle

Recorded presentation

11:00 AM

1B.2

Overview of the science plan for the Vancouver 2010 Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games

Paul Joe, Environment Canada, Toronto, ON, Canada; and G. Isaac, J. Mailhot, S. Belair, M. Charron, and C. Doyle

11:15 AM

1B.3

Science and Nowcasting Olympic Weather for Vancouver 2010 (SNOW-V10) -- A new World Weather Research Program Project

George A. Isaac, Environment Canada, Toronto, ON, Canada; and S. Bélair, A. Bott, B. Brown, M. Charron, S. G. Cober, C. Doyle, G. L. Frederick Jr., I. Gultepe, P. Joe, T. D. Keenan, J. Koistinen, J. Mailhot, M. Mueller, R. Rasmussen, R. E. Stewart, and B. J. Snyder

Poster PDF (1.6 MB)

11:30 AM

1B.4

An experimental numerical prediction system for the 2010 Vancouver Winter Olympic Games

Jocelyn Mailhot, Environment Canada, Dorval, QC, Canada; and S. Belair, M. Charron, M. Abrahamowicz, N. Bernier, A. Erfani, R. Frenette, A. Giguere, X. Li, N. McLennan, R. McTaggart-Cowan, J. Milbrandt, and L. Tong

11:45 AM

1B.5

A comprehensive training program for forecasters at Vancouver 2010 Olympic and Paralympic Games

Bradley J. Snyder, MSC, Vancouver, BC, Canada; and T. Smith, C. Doyle, and D. Wesley

Recorded presentation

Joint Session 2

Critical Aspects of Satellite Observations and Information in Emerging Systems of Systems

Location: Room 224AB (Phoenix Convention Center)

Sponsors: (Joint between the 16th Conference on Satellite Meteorology and Oceanography; and the 25th Conference on International Interactive Information and Processing Systems (IIPS) for Meteorology, Oceanography, and Hydrology )

Cochairs: Philip E. Ardanuy, Raytheon Information Solutions; Rolf Stuhlmann, EUMETSAT

Papers:

10:45 AM

J2.1

EUMETSAT's Contributions to a Meteorological and Environmental System of Systems

Johannes Schmetz, EUMETSAT, Darmstadt, Germany; and R. Stuhlmann, L. Sarlo, P. Counet, and E. Koenemann

Recorded presentation

11:00 AM

J2.2

New Challenges for Satellite Observations, Data, and Climate Modeling

Michael Gunson, JPL, Pasadena, CA; and A. J. Braverman, D. Crichton, and J. Teixeira

J2.3

Exploiting Satellite Observations and an "Ecosystem of Systems" for Environmental Decision-making

11:30 AM

J2.3A

Evolution of NOAA's satellite archive: transition of CLASS development to operations at NOAA's data centers and future plans

John J. Bates, NOAA/NESDIS/NCDC, Asheville, NC; and K. S. Casey and E. Kihn

Recorded presentation Poster PDF (163.8 kB)

11:45 AM

J2.4

NOAA's Integrated Observations and Data Management and Strategic Portfolio Tools

Martin Yapur, NOAA/NESDIS, Silver Spring, MD; and E. Miller, R. C. Reining, and R. Mairs

Recorded presentation

12:00 PM

J2.5

Strategies to Ensure That Satellite Observations Can Be Fully Exploited within Emerging Environmental Systems of Systems

Carroll A. Hood, Raytheon Company, Aurora, CO

Recorded presentation Poster PDF (364.3 kB)

Joint Session 3

The Use of Lightning Data In Aviation Operations

Location: Room 131A (Phoenix Convention Center)

Sponsors: (Joint between the Fourth Conference on the Meteorological Applications of Lightning Data; and the Aviation, Range and Aerospace Meteorology Special Symposium on Weather-Air Traffic Management Integration )

Chair: William P. Roeder, Private Meteorologist

Papers:

10:45 AM

J3.1

Lightning warning systems for airport ramp operations

David B. Johnson, NCAR, Boulder, CO; and L. Heitkemper and R. F. Price

Recorded presentation

11:15 AM

J3.2

Developments in the nowcasting total lightning flash rates using GOES satellite infrared convective cloud information

John R. Mecikalski, University of Alabama in Huntsville, Huntsville, AL; and C. Siewert

Recorded presentation

11:45 AM

J3.3

A thunderstorm and lightning alert service for airport operations

Rodney J. Potts, CAWCR, Melbourne, Vic., Australia

Poster PDF (303.6 kB)

Joint Session 8

T.R. Oke Symposium: Urban scales, urban systems and the urban heat island

Location: Room 124A (Phoenix Convention Center)

Sponsors: (Joint between the Timothy R. Oke Symposium; and the Eighth Symposium on the Urban Environment )

Chairs: James A. Voogt, Univ. of Western Ontario; H. P. Schmid, Research Center Karlsruhe

Papers:

10:45 AM

J8.1

Interactions between urban areas and weather and climate models; the Oke contribution

Martin Best, Met Office, Exeter, United Kingdom

Recorded presentation

11:00 AM

J8.2 has been moved. New paper number 1.1A (8Urban)

11:00 AM

J8.2A

Newly developed “thermal climate zones” for defining and measuring urban heat island “magnitude” in the canopy layer

Iain Stewart, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada; and T. Oke

Recorded presentation Poster PDF (572.4 kB)

11:15 AM

J8.3

Seeing the city for all the buildings

H. P. Schmid, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT/IMK-IFU), Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany

Recorded presentation

11:30 AM

J8.4

The Need to Establish Protocols in Urban Heat Island Work

Tim Oke, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada

Recorded presentation

1

Variability of the American Monsoon (VAMOS) Ocean-Cloud-Atmosphere-Land Study (VOCALS): Part 1. Overview

Location: Room 128AB (Phoenix Convention Center)

Sponsor: 16th Conference on Air-Sea Interaction

Chair: C. R. Mechoso, Univ. of California

Papers:

10:55 AM

Welcoming Remarks

11:00 AM

1.1

The VOCALS Regional Experiment: Field activities and preliminary findings I

Robert Wood, University of Washington, Seattle, WA; and C. R. Mechoso, C. S. Bretherton, R. A. Weller, B. A. Albrecht, P. Brown, H. Coe, P. H. Daum, C. W. Fairall, R. D. Garreaud, L. Gallardo, C. Grados, and G. Vaughan

http://www.eol.ucar.edu/projects/vocals/

Recorded presentation

11:30 AM

1.2

The VOCALS Regional Experiment: field activities and preliminary findings II

Hugh Coe, University of Manchester, Manchester, United Kingdom; and R. Wood, C. R. Mechoso, C. Bretherton, R. A. Weller, P. H. Daum, and B. A. Albrecht

Recorded presentation

Keynote Speaker Session 1

Oke Symposium Luncheon

Location: Room 132A (Phoenix Convention Center)

Sponsors: (Joint between the Eighth Symposium on the Urban Environment; and the Timothy R. Oke Symposium )

Speaker: Gerald Mills, University College Dublin

Chairs: James A. Voogt, Univ. of Western Ontario; H. P. Schmid, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT/IMK-IFU)

Papers:

12:00 PM

KS1.1

Luke Howard, Tim Oke and the study of urban climates

Gerald Mills, University College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland

Recorded presentation Poster PDF (725.2 kB)

Lunch Break

Tim Oke Symp Luncheon

Location: Room 132A (Phoenix Convention Center)

Progress in the Relationships between NWS and America’s Weather Industry

Location: Room 229AB (Phoenix Convention Center)

Sponsor: Events

2

Coastal atmosphere, ocean, and marine biology-II

Location: Room 126A (Phoenix Convention Center)

Sponsor: Eighth Conference on Coastal Atmospheric and Oceanic Prediction and Processes

Chair: Qing Wang, Naval Postgraduate School

Papers:

1:30 PM

2.1

NOAA Marine Ecological Forecasting System: From Vision to Reality

Marie C. Colton, NOAA National Ocean Service, Silver Spring, MD; and E. Turner, D. Scheurer, and N. Valette-Silver

Recorded presentation

1:45 PM

2.2

Impacts of Atmospheric Corrections on Algal Bloom Detection Techniques

Ruhul Amin, NOAA-CREST, New York, NY; and A. Gilerson, J. Zhou, B. Gross, F. Moshary, and S. Ahmed

Recorded presentation Poster PDF (380.0 kB)

1

Adaptation and Vulnerability to Climate Change and Extremes

Location: Room 121A (Phoenix Convention Center)

Sponsor: Fourth Symposium on Policy and Socio—Economic Research

Cochairs: Juliane Fry, Reed College; Gregg M. Garfin, University of Arizona; Ryan M. Meyer, Consortium for Science, Policy, and Outcomes; Arizona State University

Papers:

1:30 PM

1.1

Are We Adapting to Climate Change? Research and Methods for Evaluating Progress

Benjamin Lee Preston, ORNL, Oak Ridge, TN; and R. Westaway, S. Dessai, and T. F. Smith

Recorded presentation Poster PDF (570.7 kB)

1:45 PM

1.2

How much regional and global climate change can be avoided: Mitigation and adaptation policies

Warren M. Washington, NCAR, Boulder, CO; and R. Knutti, G. Meehl, T. Wigley, H. Teng, L. Buja, and W. G. Strand

Recorded presentation

2:00 PM

1.3

Climate change—which needs to adapt first, science or policy?

Rohan Nelson, CSIRO, Canberra, Australia

Recorded presentation

2:15 PM

1.4

Weather, climate, and water: an assessment of risk vulnerability and communication on the U.S.-Mexico border

Ashley Coles, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ; and C. A. Scott and G. M. Garfin

Recorded presentation Poster PDF (117.6 kB)

1

Tropical Cyclone Studies and Forecasting using Lightning Data

Location: Room 131A (Phoenix Convention Center)

Sponsor: Fourth Conference on the Meteorological Applications of Lightning Data

Chair: Lawrence D. Carey, University of Alabama in Huntsville

Papers:

1:30 PM

1.1

Lightning activity and intensity change in Cyclone Nargis

Natalia N. Solorzano, Bard High School Early College II, Elmhurst, NY; and J. N. Thomas and R. H. Holzworth

Recorded presentation

1:45 PM

1.2

Total lightning activity during the re-intensification of Tropical Storm Erin over Oklahoma on 18-19 August 2007

Donald R. MacGorman, NOAA/NSSL, Norman, OK; and T. J. Schuur and M. R. Kumjian

Recorded presentation

2:00 PM

1.3

Lightning and radar observations of Hurricane Rita landfall

Bradley G. Henderson, LANL, Los Alamos, NM; and D. M. Suszcynsky, K. C. Wiens, C. A. Jeffery, and R. E. Orville

Recorded presentation Poster PDF (197.6 kB)

2:15 PM

1.4

Electrified simulations of Hurricane Rita (2005) with comparisons to LASA data

Stephen R. Guimond, COAPS/Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL; and J. Reisner, C. A. Jeffery, and X. M. Shao

Recorded presentation

2

Atmospheric Observations for Weather and Climate—II

Location: Room 130 (Phoenix Convention Center)

Sponsor: 13th Conference on Integrated Observing and Assimilation Systems for Atmosphere, Oceans, and Land Surface (IOAS-AOLS)

Chair: F. Martin Ralph, NOAA/ESRL

Papers:

1:30 PM

2.1

What causes NCEP GFS model forecast skill “dropouts”?

Bradley Ballish, NOAA/NWS/NCEP, Camp Springs, MD MD; and J. C. Alpert, D. Carlis, and K. Kumar

Recorded presentation Poster PDF (851.6 kB)

1:45 PM

2.2

Complexities of Establishing an Automated Monitoring System Network in Support of the 2010 Vancouver Winter Olympics

William L. Scott, EC, Richmond, BC, Canada

Recorded presentation

2:00 PM

2.3

Update on the Consensus Reference Concept for Testing Radiosondes

Joseph Facundo, NOAA/NWS, Silver Spring, MD; and J. Fitzgibbon and C. Bower

Recorded presentation Poster PDF (287.0 kB)

2:15 PM

2.4

Naval Research Laboratory global model adaptive observing during T-PARC/TCS-08

Carolyn A. Reynolds, NRL, Monterey, CA

Recorded presentation

2

Drought Prediction, Monitoring and Mitigation—I

Location: Room 127BC (Phoenix Convention Center)

Sponsor: 23rd Conference on Hydrology

Chair: Wade T. Crow, USDA/ARS

Papers:

1:30 PM

2.1

A GOES-Based Drought Product Using Thermal Remote Sensing of Evapotranspiration

Martha C. Anderson, USDA/ARS, Beltsville, MD; and W. P. Kustas, J. R. Mecikalski, and C. R. Hain

Recorded presentation

1:45 PM

2.2

Drought Monitoring and Forecasts Using Microwave and Optical Satellite Observations and Noah Land Surface Model Predictions

Xiwu Zhan, NOAA/NESDIS, Camp Springs, MD; and S. V. Kumar, K. Mitchell, F. Weng, and C. Peters-Lidard

Recorded presentation

2:00 PM

2.3

Analysis, Validation and Application of the NCEP Multi-model NLDAS Products for Drought Monitoring and Prediction

Youlong Xia, NOAA/NWS/NCEP, Camp Springs, MD; and K. E. Mitchell, E. F. Wood, L. Luo, J. Sheffield, D. P. Lettenmaier, A. W. Wood, B. A. Cosgrove, C. J. Alonge, J. Meng, H. Wei, M. Ek, P. Restrepo, J. C. Schaake, K. Mo, and R. T. Pinker

Recorded presentation

2:15 PM

2.4

The national integrated drought information system (NIDIS)-drought portal status and plans

Michael J. Brewer, NOAA/NESDIS/NCDC, Asheville, NC; and J. Symonds and R. Heim

Recorded presentation Poster PDF (110.6 kB)

2

Economic and social impacts of space weather

Location: Room 126BC (Phoenix Convention Center)

Sponsor: Sixth Symposium on Space Weather

Chair: William J. Murtagh, NOAA/NWS/Space Weather Prediction

Papers:

1:30 PM

2.1

The economic and societal impacts of space weather

D. N. Baker, Univ. of Colorado, Boulder, CO

Recorded presentation

1:45 PM

2.2

Moving towards space weather management

W. Kent Tobiska, Utah State Univ., Logan, UT

Recorded presentation

2:00 PM

2.3

Geomagnetically Induced Currents and Inadvertent Electricity Flows: The Case of the PJM Power Grid

Kevin F. Forbes, Catholic Univ., Washington, DC; and C. St Cyr

Recorded presentation

2:15 PM

2.4

The development of space weather displays for the Aviation Digital Data Service (ADDS) website

Thomas Nelson Hillyer, Christopher Newport University, Hampton, VA; and A. Dumont, G. Thompson, C. J. Mertens, J. A. Haynes, and J. J. Murray

Recorded presentation

2

Field, laboratory, and modeling studies of air quality—II

Location: Room 127A (Phoenix Convention Center)

Sponsor: 11th Conference on Atmospheric Chemistry

Chair: Yang Zhang, North Carolina State Univ.

Papers:

1:30 PM

2.1

The role of ship emissions for atmospheric composition and input in South Alaska National Parks

Stacy E. Porter, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH; and N. Mölders

Recorded presentation

1:45 PM

2.2

Multiscale Comparison of Air Quality Modeling for the 1996 Paso Del Norte Ozone event

Duanjun Lu, Jackson State University, Jackson, MS; and R. S. Reddy Jr., D. R. M. Fitzgerald, W. R. Stockwell, Q. L. Williams, and P. B. Tchounwou

2:00 PM

2.3

Sensitivity of gaseous and aerosol predictions to aerosol treatments in three-dimensional atmospheric models

Ying Pan, North Carolina State Univ., Raleigh, NC; and Y. Zhang

Recorded presentation

2:15 PM

2.4

Improving chemical mechanisms through the analysis of Mid-Atlantic measurements of volatile organic compounds and nitrogen oxides

Tatiana Gonzalez, Howard University, Washington, DC; and W. R. Stockwell, W. S. Goliff, J. D. Fuentes, A. M. Thompson, D. Wang, E. Joseph, and B. F. Taubman

2

K-12 and Informal Educational Outreach in the Atmospheric, Oceanic, and Hydrologic Sciences

Location: Room 125B (Phoenix Convention Center)

Sponsor: 18th Symposium on Education

Cochairs: Susan Q. Foster, UCAR; Shirley T. Murillo, NOAA/AOML/HRD

Papers:

1:30 PM

2.1

The NOAA National Weather Service education products and services

Ron Gird, NOAA/NWS, Silver Spring, MD; and D. Cain

Recorded presentation

1:45 PM

2.2

Using NOAA data in the classroom

Daniel P. Pisut, I.M. Systems Group, Silver Spring, MD

Recorded presentation Poster PDF (627.4 kB)

2:00 PM

2.3

Science education and the future shortage of scientific thinkers: Local solutions to a problem that affects us al

E. Ashley Steel, NOAA, Seattle, WA

Recorded presentation

2:15 PM

2.4

EWOC 2009—the Eighth International Conference on School and Popular Meteorological and Oceanographic Education

David R. Smith, United States Naval Academy, Annapolis, MD; and T. Halenka and J. M. Walker

Recorded presentation Poster PDF (198.3 kB)

2

Variability of the American Monsoon (VAMOS) Ocean-Cloud-Atmosphere-Land Study (VOCALS): Part 2. In Situ, Surface-Level Observations

Location: Room 128AB (Phoenix Convention Center)

Sponsor: 16th Conference on Air-Sea Interaction

Chair: C. R. Mechoso, Univ. of California

Papers:

1:30 PM

2.1

Surface Meteorology and Air-Sea Fluxes under the Stratus Clouds off Northern Chile

Robert A. Weller, WHOI, Woods Hole, MA; and C. W. Fairall

Recorded presentation

1:45 PM

2.2

Surface-layer and boundary-layer observations from the VOCALS-REX field program: Preliminary look at observations from the NOAA Ship Ronald H. Brown

Chris Fairall, NOAA/ESRL/PSD, Boulder, CO; and D. E. Wolfe, S. Pezoa, S. P. De Szoeke, and S. E. Yuter

Recorded presentation

2:00 PM

2.3

Comparisons and contrasts of recent shipboard mean and covariance flux observations

Jeffrey Hare, CIRES, University of Colorado, and NOAA ESRL, Boulder, CO; and A. Grachev, L. Bariteau, C. Fairall, D. Wolfe, and S. Pezoa

Recorded presentation

2:15 PM

2.4

Surface flux observations for coupled model evaluation in the VOCALS region

Simon P. de Szoeke, NOAA, Boulder, CO; and D. A. Painemal, P. Zuidema, and C. W. Fairall

Recorded presentation

2

Year of Tropical Convection - II

Location: Room 129A (Phoenix Convention Center)

Sponsor: 21st Conference on Climate Variability and Change

Chairs: Duane E. Waliser, JPL; Mitch Moncrieff, NCAR

Papers:

2.1

Lesson Learned from T-PARC 2008 over the western Pacific

2:00 PM

2.2

Interaction of Convection and SST in the Formation and Disappearance of Double ITCZs in the NCAR CCSM3

Guang J. Zhang, SIO/Univ. of California, La Jolla, CA; and X. Song

Recorded presentation

2:15 PM

2.3

Extended-Range Predictions of Madden-Julian Oscillations with the Goddard Multi-scale Modeling System

Bo-Wen Shen, NASA/GSFC, Greenbelt, MD; and W. K. Tao, J. D. Chern, C. Peters-Lidard, and J. L. Li

2:30 PM

2.4

On the importance of macrophysics and microphysics for precipitation in warm clouds - satellite observations and simple continuous collection modeling results

Terence L. Kubar, JPL, Pasadena, CA; and R. Wood and D. L. Hartmann

Recorded presentation

1:30 PM

P1.3

Resolution dependency of tropical convection in Goddard Cumulus Ensemble model

Ildae Choi, Seoul National University, Seoul, South Korea; and W. K. Tao and I. S. Kang

Recorded presentation

2A

Global Meteorological and Hydrological Service Updates

Location: Room 121BC (Phoenix Convention Center)

Sponsor: 25th Conference on International Interactive Information and Processing Systems (IIPS) for Meteorology, Oceanography, and Hydrology

Cochairs: Michael D. Eilts, Weather Decision Technologies, Inc.; Ward R. Seguin, NOAA/OAR

Papers:

1:30 PM

2A.1

Air Force Weather Agency (AFWA) Meteorological and Hydrological Services Update

Fred Lewis, Director of Weather, Air Force Pentagon, Washington, DC

2:00 PM

2A.2

USN Meteorological and Hydrological Services Update

David W. Titley, Commander, Navy Meteorology and Oceanography Command, Stennis Space Center, MS

Recorded presentation

2B

International Applications

Location: Room 122BC (Phoenix Convention Center)

Sponsor: 25th Conference on International Interactive Information and Processing Systems (IIPS) for Meteorology, Oceanography, and Hydrology

Cochairs: John R. Lincoln, US Navy/WMO (Ret.) and Consultant; Alfred Hofstadler, ECMWF; Howard J. Diamond, NOAA/NESDIS/NCDC

Papers:

1:30 PM

2B.1

ECMWF Data and Services

Baudouin Raoult, ECMWF, Reading, Berks., United Kingdom

Recorded presentation

1:45 PM

2B.2

A technology update from the UK Met Office

Peter Trevelyan, The U.K. Met Office, Exeter, United Kingdom; and J. Tandy

Recorded presentation

2:00 PM

2B.3

Production tool for French overseas territories

Brigitte Benech, Météo-France, 31057 Toulouse Cedex, France; and A. lasserre-Bigorry and P. Venzac

Recorded presentation Poster PDF (2.2 MB)

2:15 PM

2B.4

Operational oceanographic and meteorological data visualization

Marie-Francoise Voidrot-Martinez, METEO-FRANCE, Toulouse, France; and B. Ezvan, A. lasserre-Bigorry, B. Benech, and P. Venzac

Recorded presentation Poster PDF (192.6 kB)

Joint Session 3

Joint Session between the 7th Conference on Artificial Intelligence and the Meteorological Aspects of Air Pollution Committee—II

Location: Room 125A (Phoenix Convention Center)

Sponsor: Seventh Conference on Artificial Intelligence and its Applications to the Environmental Sciences

Chairs: Antonello Pasini, CNR; Michael Brown, LANL

Papers:

1:30 PM

J3.1

Accounting for wind direction uncertainty in the BERT event reconstruction tool

Michael D. Williams, LANL, Los Alamos, NM; and M. J. Brown and G. E. Streit

Recorded presentation

1:45 PM

J3.2

A comparison of Bayesian and conditional density models in probabilistic ozone forecasting

Song Cai, Univ. of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada; and W. W. Hsieh and A. J. Cannon

Recorded presentation

2:00 PM

J3.3

Use of Neural Networks Models to Forecast Ozone pollutant in Rome Urban Area

Armando Pelliccioni, ISPESL, Monteporzio Catone, Italy; and F. Pungi, A. Ianni, and L. Bellina

Recorded presentation Poster PDF (585.4 kB)

2:15 PM

J3.4

Satellite Remote Sensing of Particulate Matter Air Quality: A Neural Network Approach

Pawan Gupta, Univ. of Alabama, Huntsville, AL; and S. A. Christopher

Recorded presentation

Joint Session 3

Retrievals and Clouds

Location: Room 224AB (Phoenix Convention Center)

Sponsors: (Joint between the 16th Conference on Satellite Meteorology and Oceanography; and the Fifth Annual Symposium on Future Operational Environmental Satellite Systems- NPOESS and GOES-R )

Cochairs: Timothy J. Schmit, NOAA/NESDIS/ORA; Steven D. Miller, CIRA/Colorado State Univ.

Papers:

1:30 PM

J3.1

Retrieval Skill in Hyperspectral Sounders

Hartmut H. Aumann, JPL, Pasadena, CA; and E. Manning, E. Maddy, and C. D. Barnet

Recorded presentation

1:45 PM

J3.2

Cloud thermodynamic phase retrievals from AIRS

Shaima L. Nasiri, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX; and B. H. Kahn and H. M. Cho

2:00 PM

J3.3

The challenge of passive remote sensing of clouds from satellites over Polar Regions in winter

Steve Ackerman, CIMSS/Univ. of Wisconsin, Madison, WI; and R. Frey and R. Holz

Recorded presentation

2:15 PM

J3.4

Use of ozone channel measurements for deep convective cloud height retrievals over the tropics

Eun-Han Kwon, Seoul National University, Seoul, South Korea; and B. J. Sohn, J. Schmetz, and P. Watts

Recorded presentation Poster PDF (2.0 MB)

Joint Session 9

Urban Energy Balance

Location: Room 124A (Phoenix Convention Center)

Sponsors: (Joint between the Eighth Symposium on the Urban Environment; and the Timothy R. Oke Symposium )

Chair: Sue Grimmond, King's College London

Papers:

J9.1

The Suburban Energy Balance in Shunyi, Beijing City

1:45 PM

J9.1A

The EPiCC Vancouver Experiment—how do urban vegetation characteristics and garden irrigation control the local-scale energy balance?

Andreas Christen, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada; and B. Crawford, N. R. Goodwin, R. Tooke, N. Coops, S. Grimmond, T. R. Oke, and J. A. Voogt

Recorded presentation Poster PDF (861.2 kB)

2:00 PM

J9.2

Wintertime energy budget along an urbanisation gradient in Montreal, Canada

Onil Bergeron, McGill University, Ste-Anne de Bellevue, QC, Canada; and I. B. Strachan

Recorded presentation

2:15 PM

J9.3

Evaluation of the TEB model under cold and snowy conditions for the Montreal Urban Snow Experiment (MUSE) 2005

Aude Lemonsu, CNRM, Météo France, Toulouse, France; and S. Bélair, J. Mailhot, and S. Leroyer

2:30 PM

J9.4

The urban surface energy budget during the early spring period of the Montreal Urban Snow Experiment (2006)

Sylvie Leroyer, McGill Univ., Sainte-Anne-De-Bellevue, QC, Canada; and J. Mailhot, S. Bélair, A. Lemonsu, and I. B. Strachan

Recorded presentation

Joint Session 10

Urban Precipitation Patterns

Location: Room 124B (Phoenix Convention Center)

Sponsors: (Joint between the Eighth Symposium on the Urban Environment; and the Timothy R. Oke Symposium )

Chair: Matthias Roth, National University of Singapore

Papers:

1:30 PM

J10.1

Can satellite-derived rainfall really detect urban rainfall anomalies?

Marshall Shepherd, Univ. of Georgia, Athens, GA; and S. Burian and M. Jin

Recorded presentation

1:45 PM

J10.2

An investigation of warm season spatial rainfall variability in Oklahoma City: Possible linkages to urbanization and prevailing wind

Lauren Hand, Univ. of Georgia, Athens, GA ; and M. Shepherd

Recorded presentation

2:00 PM

J10.3

An anthropogenic signal in Phoenix, Arizona winter precipitation

Bohumil M. Svoma, Arizona State Univ., Tempe, AZ; and R. C. Balling Jr.

Recorded presentation Poster PDF (739.7 kB)

2:15 PM

J10.4

Long-term change and spatial anomaly of warm season afternoon precipitation in Tokyo

Fumiaki Fujibe, MRI, Tsukuba, Japan; and H. Togawa and M. Sakata

Recorded presentation Poster PDF (709.7 kB)

3

Advances in Modeling and Forecasting-I

Location: Room 126A (Phoenix Convention Center)

Sponsor: Eighth Conference on Coastal Atmospheric and Oceanic Prediction and Processes

Chair: James D. Doyle, NRL

Papers:

2:00 PM

3.1

Systematic Error Detection in Dynamical Models: A Framework

S. Lakshmivarahan, University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK; and J. Lewis

Recorded presentation

2:15 PM

3.2

Evaluation of high resolution forecasts of microwave refractivity in a coastal environment

William T. Thompson, NRL, Monterey, CA; and T. Haack

Recorded presentation

Joint Poster Session 1

Air quality modeling and evaluation

Location: Hall 5 (Phoenix Convention Center)

Sponsors: (Joint between the 11th Conference on Atmospheric Chemistry; and the Special Symposium on Aerosol–Cloud–Climate Interactions )

Cochairs: Yang Zhang, North Carolina State Univ.; Brian K. Lamb, Washington State Univ.

Papers:

JP1.1

An investigation of positive and negative sampling artifacts for organic carbon in IMPROVE samplers

Ashley D. Mefferd, University of California, Davis, CA; and J. R. Turner and A. M. Dillner

JP1.2

Satellite Data for Assessing Air Quality from the Atmospheric Science Data Center

Nancy A. Ritchey, SSAI, Hampton, VA

JP1.3

Comparisons of observed and simulated atmospheric boundary layer diurnal cycle

Sara A. Michelson, NOAA/ESRL/PSD and CIRES/Univ. of Colorado, Boulder, CO; and I. V. Djalalova and J. W. Bao

JP1.4

Ice-core evidence of a pyrocumulonimbus wildfire in 1950

Robert Field, Univ. of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada; and G. W. K. Moore, G. Holdsworth, and C. Tymstra

JP1.5

Examining the Governing Processes and Export of O3 and PM2.5 in the U.S.:

Yang Zhang, North Carolina State Univ., Raleigh, NC; and X. Y. Wen, K. Wang, and K. Vijayaraghavan

JP1.6

Sensitivity of Aerosol Impact on Regional Meteorology to Simulated Aerosol Number and Size Distributions in East Asia

JP1.7

An Environmental Chamber Study of Atmospheric Reactions Involving Hydrogen Oxides and Nitrogen Oxides

Amber M. Ortega, Penn State University, University Park, PA; and W. Brune

JP1.8

Modeling Dispersion of Buoyant Releases in an Urban Area

Qiguo Jing, University of California, Riverside, CA; and D. Pankratz, M. Princevac, and A. Venkatram

Poster PDF (362.3 kB)

JP1.9

Simulating Air Quality in the Southeastern U.S.: Process Analyses and Responses to Future-Year Emissions

Xiao-Huan Liu, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC; and K. Olsen, Y. Zhang, and W. X. Wang

JP1.10

WRF-Fire: A fire-atmosphere dynamics module for air quality modeling

Kara Yedinak, Washington State University, Pullman, WA; and J. L. Coen and B. Lamb

JP1.11

Research Experiences for Students in Senegal: Investigating Saharan Dust/Tropospheric Ozone Measurements during June 2008

Rachel Fitzhugh, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI; and G. Jenkins

JP1.12

Identifying Trends in 8-Hour “Background” and “Locally Contributed” Ozone in Houston, Texas Controlling for Meteorological Conditions

James Tobin, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX; and J. W. Nielsen-Gammon

JP1.13

Evaluation of 2002 multi-pollutant modeling platform using satellite measurements

JP2.1

Effect of Marine Biogenic Organic Aerosols on Cloud Properties: Community Atmosphere Model (CAM) Study

Jun Xu, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC; and N. Meskhidze, Y. Zhang, B. Gantt, S. Ghan, A. Nenes, X. Liu, R. Easter, and R. Zaveri

Poster Session 1

Applications of Artificial Intelligence Poster Session

Location: Hall 5 (Phoenix Convention Center)

Sponsor: Seventh Conference on Artificial Intelligence and its Applications to the Environmental Sciences

Papers:

P1.1

Forecasting of the winds along the glide paths at an airport by applying a chaotic oscillatory neural network (CONN) to the Doppler LIDAR data

K.M. Kwong, Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong, , China; and P. W. Chan

Poster PDF (2.3 MB)

P1.2

A COMPUTER VISION SYSTEM TO ANALYSE LIGHTNING FLASHES IMAGES

Rosangela B. B. Gin, Centro Universitario da FEI, Sao Bernardo do Campo, Sao Paulo, Brazil; and R. A.C. Bianchi and B. H.A. Pilon

http://...

Poster PDF (159.4 kB)

Poster Session 1

Coastal atmospheric and oceanic processes

Location: Hall 5 (Phoenix Convention Center)

Sponsor: Eighth Conference on Coastal Atmospheric and Oceanic Prediction and Processes

Papers:

P1.1

A Study of Coastal Upwelling and Climate Change along the California Coast

Ramesh Vellore, DRI, Reno, NV; and D. R. Koracin, R. Leung, C. E. Dorman, A. Kochanski, and J. Lewis

P1.2

Sensitivity of WRF model forecasts to different physical parameterizations in the Beaufort Sea region

Jeremy R. Krieger, University of Alaska, Fairbanks, AK; and J. Zhang, D. E. Atkinson, M. D. Shulski, and X. Zhang

Poster PDF (1.4 MB)

P1.3

The impact of high-resolution, satellite-derived urban parameters on urban-coastal meso-circulations

Michael Carter, University of Georgia, Athens, GA ; and M. Shepherd, S. Burian, I. Jeyachandran, and M. Jin

P1.4

Coastal nutrient and water budget assessments for Puerto Ayora, Academy Bay, Santa Cruz Island

Alisha R. Fernandez, NCAR Visiting Scientist, State College, PA

P1.5

A Study of the Impacts of a Saharan Air Layer Plume over the Florida Keys

Kennard B. Kasper, NOAA/NWSFO Key West, Key West, FL

Poster PDF (2.6 MB)

P1.6

The Atmospheric Dispersion Project on the Mississippi Coast

Loren D. White, Jackson State Univ., Jackson, MS; and Y. Anjaneyulu

P1.7

The SIFT Tool: Validation of its Inversion Scheme and use of the Propagation Database for Tsunami Hazard Assessment

Edison Gica, JISAO/Univ. of Washington, Seattle, WA; and M. Spillane and V. V. Titov

P1.8

Forecasting risk using geospatial tools—regional to parcel level approaches to tsunami science and risk assessment

Nazila Merati, JISAO, Seattle, WA; and P. Dunbar, W. L. Power, and C. Chamberlin

Poster Session 1

Data Assimilation and Impact Studies

Location: Hall 5 (Phoenix Convention Center)

Sponsor: 13th Conference on Integrated Observing and Assimilation Systems for Atmosphere, Oceans, and Land Surface (IOAS-AOLS)

Chair: Shirley T. Murillo, NOAA/AOML/HRD

Papers:

P1.1

Comparison of retrospective optimal interpolation with existing retrospective analysis methods and strategies for its implementation

Hyo-Jong Song, Next Generation Model Development Center, Seoul, , South Korea; and G. H. Lim, D. Lee, and H. S. Lee

P1.2

Ensemble/Variational Observation (EnVO): a rigorous approach to adaptive observation built on the framework of EnVE

David Zhang, University of California, La Jolla, CA; and R. Krohn and T. Bewley

P1.3

Verification of the boundary layer properties over heterogeneous surfaces in the coupled Advanced Research Weather Research and Forecasting/National Centers for Environmental Prediction – Oregon State University – Air Force – Hydrologic Research Lab (WRF/Noah) model

Miliaritiana L. Robjhon, Howard University, Washington, DC; and E. Joseph, J. D. Fuentes, and C. A. Stearns

P1.4

Data assimilation in a simulated coupled ocean-atmosphere system

Tamara D. Singleton, University of Maryland, College Park, College Park, MD; and E. Kalnay, S. C. Yang, and J. Ballabrera

P1.5

DART: A community facility for ensemble data assimilation

Jeffrey Anderson, NCAR, Boulder, CO; and T. Hoar, N. Collins, K. Raeder, and H. Liu

P1.6

Observation Error Modeling and EnKF OSSEs Examining the Impact of Spatial and Temporal Resolutions and Errors of Phased-Array Radar

Yasuko Umemoto, University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK; and T. Lei, T. Y. Yu, and M. Xue

Poster PDF (214.6 kB)

P1.7

Adjoint Sensitivity Analysis of the Peruvian Current System

Aneesh Subramanian, SIO/Univ. Of California, La Jolla, CA; and A. J. Miller and B. Cornuelle

P1.8

Monitoring and Assimilation Impact Study of Moisture Data from Aircraft at the Canadian Meteorological Center

Iriola Mati, Canadian Meteorological Centre, Dorval, PQ, Canada; and R. Sarrazin, Y. Zaitseva, and G. Verner

Poster PDF (241.8 kB)

Poster Session 1

Educational Initiatives Poster Session

Location: Hall 5 (Phoenix Convention Center)

Sponsor: 18th Symposium on Education

Cochairs: Marianne J. Hayes, AMS Education Resource Educator; Kathleen A. Murphy, AMS Education Resource Educator

Papers:

P1.1

Assessment of the Needs for Training Teachers in the American Red Cross Masters of Disaster Curriculum

Alan E. Stewart, University of Georgia, Athens, GA ; and D. L. Walters

P1.2

“Implementing Online Ocean Studies in a traditional, lecture-only classroom using a “Lecture Tutorial” format

David J. Ludwikoski, The Community College of Baltimore County, Baltimore, MD

P1.3

Implementing AMS Ocean Studies into the University of Texas at Arlington Curriculum

Cornelia Winguth, Univ. of Texas, Arlington, TX

P1.4

DATASTREME COURSES - AN AMS/NOAA PARTNERSHIP FOR PRE-COLLEGE TEACHER TRAINING

James A. Brey, Univ. of Wisconsin Fox Valley, Menasha, WI; and R. S. Weinbeck, J. M. Moran, I. W. Geer, E. J. Hopkins, E. W. Mills, D. R. Smith, and B. A. Blair

P1.5

A field oriented introduction to Online Ocean Studies

Patricia Ann Crews, Florida Community College of Jacksonville, Jacksonville, FL; and R. Sessions

P1.6

The importance of online ocean studies for circumarctic communities

John J. Kelley, University of Alaska Fairbanks, Fairbanks, AK; and D. W. Norton, C. Madison, C. Gering, C. Lott, and H. Olson

P1.7

G 210 Oceanography course at Indiana University Northwest

Zoran Kilibarda, Indiana University Northwest, Gary, IN

P1.8

Using Conceptests in online oceanography classes

Mary Beck, Valencia Community College, Orlando, FL

P1.9

Oceanography Online Course

Farnosh Saeedi, Bronx Community College, Bronx, NY

P1.10

Implementation of Online Ocean Studies at Amarillo College

P1.11

Ocean studies on an inland sea

P1.12

AMS Ocean Studies in the community college environment

Lynn D. Millwood, Mountain View College, Dallas, TX

P1.13

Teaching oceanography in a desert

Rick Wiedenmann, New Mexico State University – Carlsbad, Carlsbad, NM

P1.14

A unique opportunity to exercise creativity: an entrepreneurial workshop for Research Experiences for Undergraduates participants

Daphne LaDue, CAPS/Univ. of Oklahoma, Norman, OK

P1.15

Online weather studies at Gavilan: year three

Andrew H. Van Tuyl, Gavilan College, Gilroy, CA

P1.16

The Louisiana Lower Atmosphere Research Collaborative (LaLARC)

Boniface J. Mills, Univ. of Louisiana, Monroe, LA ; and A. T. Case Hanks, S. Chenoweth, and A. D. Feig

P1.17

Online Oceanography alternative science course for St. Philip's College, San Antonio, TX

Carmen Nava-Fischer, St. Philip's College, San Antonio, TX

P1.18

Developing climate change modules for middle and high schools on the Pacific Ocean-southern California climate connection

Pedro Ramirez, California State University, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA; and S. LaDochy and W. C. Patzert

P1.19

The Estimation of Wind Shear Hazard Index Using the Airborne Doppler Radar as a Laboratory Module for CCLI Project

Yasuko Umemoto, School of Electrical & Computer Engineering, and Atmospheric Radar Research Center, University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK; and Y. Zhang, K. Brewster, T. Y. Yu, and M. Yeary

P1.20

Educational access to the United States Precision Lightning Network (USPLN) data

Christopher G. Herbster, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, Daytona Beach, FL; and K. Rauenzahn

http://wx.db.erau.edu/faculty/herbster/uspln/

P1.21

Applying LEAD in NCAS Weather Camp

Michael Mogil, How the Weatherworks, Naples, FL; and D. K. Bond, S. St. Gerard, E. Joseph, D. V. R. Morris, S. Yalda, T. Baltzer, and S. Marru

P1.22

Online Weather and Ocean Studies on the Rolling Plains of West Texas

Troy Lilly, Western Texas College, Snyder, TX

P1.23

AMS Ocean Studies at Honolulu Community College

P1.24

Challenges Integrating AMS Ocean Studies into an existing program

David Grant, Brookdale Community College, Sandy Hook, NJ

http://ux.brookdalecc.edu/staff/sandyhook/index2-2.html

P1.25

Implementing AMS Ocean Studies at Mississippi Gulf Coast Community College

Janice Cooley, Mississippi Gulf Coast Community College, Gautier, MS

P1.26

AMS Weather Studies And AMS Ocean Studies: Dynamic Undergraduate Geoscience Courses for Distance Education Programs

James A. Brey, University of Wisconsin Fox Valley, Menasha, WI; and I. W. Geer, J. M. Moran, R. S. Weinbeck, E. W. Mills, B. A. Blair, E. J. Hopkins, and T. P. Kiley Jr.

P1.27

Reflections on the development of a new undergraduate course on Climate Change to be taught within an Internet Distance Learning Environment

Patrick L. Lawrence, University of Toledo, Toledo, OH

P1.28

Working in a Community of Outreach Research Experiences (The Working CORE)

Paul J. Croft, Kean Univ., Union, NJ

Poster PDF (126.2 kB)

P1.29

Engaging undergraduates in Ocean-Atmosphere experiments: From teaching to research and outreach

Amit Tandon, Univ. of Massachusetts, North Dartmouth, MA; and L. Illari and J. Marshall

Poster PDF (1.0 MB)

P1.30

Personal Forecasting: A Compacted Course in Meteorology for Non-Traditional Non-Science Students

P1.31

Teaching science teachers about Masters of Disaster

Alan E. Stewart, University of Georgia, Athens, GA ; and S. Oliver, J. Knox, P. Schneider, and D. Walters

P1.32

Lightning and Lightning Safety—NOAA's Efforts to Promote a Better Understanding of this Underrated Killer

P1.33

Recent results in implementing a learning management system in the National Weather Service

LeRoy Spayd Jr., NOAA/NWS, Silver Spring, MD

P1.34

Education outreach from a NWS field office: "no one left behind"

Robert P. Wanton, NOAA/NWS, Mt. Holly, NJ

P1.35

Promoting Authentic Student Research Using MYNASA DATA

John D. Moore, Burlington County Institute of Technology, Medford, NJ; and L. H. Chambers and S. W. Moore

P1.36

Deep Earth Academy: connecting the classroom with the ocean floor

Michael J. Passow, Dwight Morrow HS and NESTA, Englewood, NJ; and L. Peart and S. Katz Cooper

P1.37

Flood risk factors taught using "hands-on" table top watershed/floodplain model

David W. Chapman, Okemos High School, Okemos, MI; and M. L. Walton

P1.38

No, we didn't always have computers:history in the atmospheric science classroom

Kristine C. Harper, Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL; and S. Yalda

P1.39

NOAA NWS Training Program in Climate Services

Marina M. Timofeyeva, UCAR, Boulder, CO and NOAA/NWS, Silver Spring, MD

P1.40

Not so lost in translation: bringing science to decision-makers through the Carolinas Coastal Climate Outreach Initiative

Jessica C. Whitehead, South Carolina Sea Grant Consortium/North Carolina Sea Grant, Charleston, SC; and R. H. Bacon, J. F. Thigpen, G. Carbone, and K. Dow

P1.41

Climate Discovery Online Courses for Educators from the National Center for Atmospheric Research

Sandra Henderson, UCAR, Boulder, CO; and R. M. Johnson, D. L. Ward, K. Meymaris, E. Gardiner, B. Hatheway, and R. Russell

Poster Session 1

Hydrology and Water Resources

Location: Hall 5 (Phoenix Convention Center)

Sponsor: 23rd Conference on Hydrology

Chair: Bart Nijssen, 3TIER, Inc.

Papers:

P1.1

Long-term eddy covariance measurements of evaporation and surface energy budget over an open water surface in Mississippi, U.S.A

Heping Liu, Jackson State University, Jackson, MS; and Y. Zhang, H. Jiang, and L. Sheng

P1.2

Assessment of radar-based precipitation products in the CONUS for advances in multi-sensor precipitation reanalysis

Brian R. Nelson, NOAA/NESDIS/NCDC, Asheville, NC; and D. Kim and D. J. Seo

Poster PDF (501.4 kB)

P1.3

NASA Water Resources Program Contributions for Societal Benefit

P1.4

Quantifying the Spatial and Temporal Variability of the Surface Energy Budget and Soil Moisture During a Period of Historic Precipitation

P1.5

Multiple-Criteria Calibration of a Distributed Watershed Model Using Spatial Regularization and Response Signatures

Prafulla Pokhrel, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ; and K. K. Yilmaz and H. V. Gupta

P1.6

Monitoring ecohydrological dynamics in the north american monsoon region from remote sensing and ground-based observations

Luis Arturo Méndez-Barroso, New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology, Socorro, NM; and E. Vivoni

P1.7

Field Scale Variability in Soil Temperature and Moisture in Seasonally Frozen Ground

Tushar Sinha, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC; and K. A. Cherkauer

Poster Session 1

IIPS Poster Session I

Location: Hall 5 (Phoenix Convention Center)

Sponsor: 25th Conference on International Interactive Information and Processing Systems (IIPS) for Meteorology, Oceanography, and Hydrology

Cochairs: Stephen M. Holt, Noblis, Inc.; Marjorie McGuirk, NOAA/NESDIS/NCDC; Anthony Arguez, NOAA/NESDIS/NCDC; S. T. Shipley, George Mason Univ.

Papers:

P1.1

Technology Implementation to Support the Kentucky Mesonet

D. Michael Grogan, Western Kentucky University, Bowling Green, KY; and Z. G. Brown, M. M. Ferris, and A. Quilligan

http://www.kymesonet.org/docs/papers/grogan_ams_poster_2009.pdf

P1.2

Improvement of algorithm in cloud thermal infrared spectroscopy

Matthieu Collet, TDL, Saint Saturnin, , France; and T. Besnard, F. Zanghi, P. W. Chan, L. Berger, C. N. Long, and D. Gillotay

Poster PDF (1.2 MB)

P1.3

Anvil forecast tool in the Advanced Weather Interactive Processing System

Joe H. Barrett III, NASA Applied Meteorology Unit/ENSCO, Inc., Cocoa Beach, FL; and D. A. Hood

Poster PDF (1.0 MB)

P1.4

Optimally displaying 2D flow fields for meterology and oceanography

Colin Ware, Center for Coastal and Ocean Mapping, University of New Hamphshire, Durham, NH; and P. Mitchell, J. G. W. Kelley, and R. Arsenault

P1.5

An information system to reduce risks of heat disorders in Japan

Michihiko Tonouchi, Japan Meteorological Business Support Center, Tokyo, Japan; and M. Ono and K. Murayama

http://www.nies.go.jp/health/HeatStroke/

Poster PDF (292.9 kB)

P1.6

Provision of ECMWF real-time data to research and commercial users

Dragan Jokic, ECMWF, Reading, United Kingdom; and B. Raoult

P1.7

Combining automated and human predictions: the results of a 1000-day real-time trial

Harvey Stern, Bureau of Meteorology, Melbourne, Vic., Australia

http://www.weather-climate.com

Poster PDF (589.1 kB)

P1.8

Evaluation of WRF forecasts of tornadic and nontornadic outbreaks occurring in the spring and fall when initialized with synoptic-scale input

Chad M. Shafer, University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK ; and A. E. Mercer, C. A. Doswell III, M. B. Richman, and L. Leslie

P1.9

Leveraging National Weather Service technology for collaboration and training

Darrel M. Kingfield, CIMMS/Univ. of Oklahoma, Norman, OK; and M. A. Magsig

Poster PDF (451.7 kB)

P1.10

Using support vector machines to determine the utility of severe weather parameters in the discrimination of tornadic and nontornadic outbreaks when analyzing reanalysis data

Chad M. Shafer, University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK ; and A. E. Mercer, C. A. Doswell III, M. B. Richman, and L. Leslie

P1.11

An analysis of vertical and horizontal winds inside precipitation gauge shielding

P1.12

Determining snow depth using a liquid water-equivalent measuring system

P1.13

The utility of basic parameters in the evaluation of WRF forecasts of tornadic and nontornadic outbreaks when initialized with synoptic-scale input

Chad M. Shafer, University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK ; and A. E. Mercer, C. A. Doswell III, M. B. Richman, and L. Leslie

P1.14

Evaluation of extinction coefficient algorithms for optimizing reported visibility conditions for air traffic control applications

Thomas A. Seliga, Volpe National Transportation Systems Center, Cambridge, MA; and D. A. Hazen and L. Salcedo

Poster PDF (396.5 kB)

P1.15

An Examination of Simulated Reflectivity Forecasts from a 10-Member Storm Scale Ensemble Prediction System

Derek R. Stratman, NOAA/NSSL, Norman, OK; and D. R. Bright, S. J. Weiss, J. S. Kain, J. J. Levit, M. C. Coniglio, K. W. Thomas, F. Kong, and M. Xue

Poster PDF (320.4 kB)

P1.16

The Network-Enabled Verification Service (NEVS): Providing verification of weather forecast products in NextGen

Sean Madine, OAR, Boulder, CO; and N. D. Matheson, M. A. Petty, D. S. Schaffer, and J. Mahoney

P1.17

Weather and Radar Processor (WARP) Test and Evaluation with En Route Automation Modernization (ERAM)

Jeffrey A. Weinrich, A3 Technology Inc., Galloway, NJ

P1.18

New Data Products and Capabilities in TRMM Online Visualization and Analysis System (TOVAS)

Zhong Liu, George Mason University/CSISS, Fairfax, VA and NASA/GSFC, Greenbelt, MD; and G. G. Leptoukh and H. Rui

http://disc2.nascom.nasa.gov/Giovanni/tovas/

Poster PDF (242.2 kB)

P1.19

Analysis and visualization of high-resolution WRF hurricane simulation using VAPOR

Alan Norton, NCAR, Boulder, CO; and Y. Chen and J. Clyne

http://vis.ucar.edu/~alan/ams09/

Poster PDF (188.3 kB)

Poster Session 1

Lightning Prediction and Operational Applications

Location: Hall 5 (Phoenix Convention Center)

Sponsor: Fourth Conference on the Meteorological Applications of Lightning Data

Chair: Nicholas W. Demetriades, Vaisala, Inc.

Papers:

P1.1

Experience with a Stand-Alone Electric-Field Meter with Siren and Strobe Lights for Lightning Hazard Warning at the Jimmie Austin Golf Club at the University of Oklahoma

William H. Beasley, School of Meteorology, Norman, OK; and A. L. Hinckley and L. D. Maxwell

P1.2

Another Look at Patterns in the Surface Electric Field in Relation to Cloud-to-Ground Lightning in Air-Mass Thunderstorms over Kennedy Space Center: False-Alarm Rates

Patrick T. Hyland, University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK; and D. E. Williams and W. H. Beasley

Poster PDF (2.0 MB)

P1.3

Evaluation of the lightning watch and warning program for NASA's Johnson Space Center

P1.4

Experimental lightning forecasting in a National Weather Service Forecast Office

Gail Hartfield, NOAA/NWS, Raleigh, NC

P1.5

Lightning prediction by WFO Grand Junction using model data and graphical forecast editor smart tools

P. Frisbie, NOAA/NWSFO, Grand Junction, CO; and J. D. Colton and M. P. Meyers

Poster PDF (142.0 kB)

P1.6

Lightning forecasting before the first strike

James J. Stagliano Jr., Propagation Research Associates, Inc., Marietta, GA; and B. Valant-Spaight, J. C. Kerce, G. M. Hall, R. D. Bock, E. J. Holder, and S. F. Dugas

Poster PDF (751.1 kB)

P1.7

Predicting lightning potential on different time scales—a conceptual model and first results

Wiebke Deierling, NCAR, Boulder, CO; and C. Kessinger and E. Nelson

Poster PDF (283.1 kB)

P1.8

Using the perfect prognosis technique for predicting cloud-to-ground lightning in mainland Alaska

Phillip D. Bothwell, NOAA/NCEP/SPC, Norman, OK; and D. Buckey

Poster PDF (694.0 kB)

P1.9

Climatology of cloud-to-ground lightning in mainland Alaska

David Buckey, University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK

Poster PDF (249.5 kB)

P1.10

Inner core lightning in 2004–2007 Atlantic tropical cyclones using Vaisala's Long Range Lightning Detection Network (LLDN)

Nicholas W. S. Demetriades, Vaisala, Inc., Tucson, AZ; and R. L. Holle

Poster PDF (1.5 MB)

P1.11

An Operational Perspective of Total Lightning Information

David J. Nadler, NOAA/NWS, Huntsville, AL; and C. B. Darden, G. T. Stano, and D. Buechler

http://weather.msfc.nasa.gov/sport/

Poster PDF (1.9 MB)

P1.12

Utility of total lightning measurements for very short term forecasts of convection growth and decay at White Sands Missile Range

Eric Nelson, NCAR, Boulder, CO; and W. Deierling and C. Kessinger

Poster PDF (259.3 kB)

P1.13

A Statistical Framework for the Development and Evaluation of a Lightning Jump Algorithm

Lawrence D. Carey, University of Alabama in Huntsville, Huntsville, AL; and W. A. Petersen and C. J. Schultz

P1.14

Real-time Processing and Display of Lightning Mapping Array Data

Harald E. Edens, New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology, Socorro, NM; and W. Rison, S. J. Hunyady, R. J. Thomas, P. R. Krehbiel, and W. P. Winn

Joint Poster Session 1

Lightning Safety and Protection, Including Applications in the Urban Zone (Co-sponosored by the AMS Commission on Education and Human Resources)

Location: Hall 5 (Phoenix Convention Center)

Sponsor: Fourth Conference on the Meteorological Applications of Lightning Data

Chair: Ronald L. Holle, Holle Meteorology & Photography

Papers:

JP1.1

Research Required to Improve Lightning Safety

William P. Roeder, Private Meteorologist, Rockledge, FL

Poster PDF (121.4 kB)

JP1.2

Last Minute Outdoor Lightning Risk Reduction—A Method To Estimate Its Effectiveness And Comments On Its Utility In Public Education

William P. Roeder, Private Meteorologist, Rockledge, FL

Poster PDF (99.6 kB)

JP1.3

Lightning-caused deaths and injuries in and near dwellings and other buildings

Ronald L. Holle, Holle Meteorology & Photography, Oro Valley, AZ

Poster PDF (139.9 kB)

JP1.4

Educating the Public on the Dangers of Lightning

JP1.5

Design considerations of Pad LC39B lightning protection system in support to the Constellation Program at the Kennedy Space Center

Carlos T. Mata, ASRC Aerospace, Kennedy Space Center, FL; and P. J. Medelius

JP1.6

Meteorological case studies of lightning strike victims in Colorado—an update

Stephen J. Hodanish, NOAA/NWS, Pueblo, CO

http://www.weather.gov/pub/ltg.php

Poster PDF (376.0 kB)

Poster Session 1

POSTERS: Mesoscale and Regional-Scale Studies

Location: Hall 5 (Phoenix Convention Center)

Sponsor: 16th Conference on Air-Sea Interaction

Papers:

P1.1

HiGEM: Small scale coupling of atmosphere and tropical instability waves in a high resolution coupled climate model

Len Shaffrey, NCAS-Climate, University of Reading, Reading, United Kingdom; and J. Harle

P1.2

Determination of the vector wind stress response to small-scale SST variability

Larry W. O'Neill, NRL Monterey, Monterey, CA; and D. Chelton

P1.3

Coupled ocean-atmosphere interactions in the tropical Southeast Pacific Ocean

Dian A. Putrasahan, SIO/Univ. Of California, La Jolla, CA; and H. Seo, A. J. Miller, and J. Roads

P1.4

Buoy Observations from the Windiest Location in the World Ocean, Cape Farewell, Greenland

G.W.K. Moore, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada; and R. S. Pickart and I. A. Renfrew

P1.5

A comparison of aircraft-based surface-layer observations over Denmark Strait and the Irminger Sea with meteorological analyses and QuikSCAT winds

Ian A. Renfrew, University of East Anglia, Norwich, Norfolk, United Kingdom; and G. N. Petersen, D. A. J. Sproson, G. W. K. Moore, H. Adiwidjata, S. Zhang, and R. North

Poster PDF (423.6 kB)

P1.6

Great Lakes wintertime mesovortices and the example of February 20, 2008

Frank S. Dempsey, Pickering, ON, Canada

Poster PDF (664.6 kB)

P1.7

Preliminary look at boundary layer doppler wind lidar wind profiles from the Tropical Cyclone Structure, 2008 (TCS-08) experiment

Ralph C. Foster, APL/Univ. of Washington, Seattle, WA; and G. D. Emmitt, D. Carre, S. Greco, S. Wood, D. Eleutario, B. H. Tang, and M. Riemer

Poster PDF (1.2 MB)

P1.8

Oceanic impacts on tropical cyclone intensity prediction using JMA high-resolution global atmospheric model

Hiroto Kitagawa, Japan Meteorological Agency, Tokyo, Japan

Poster PDF (2.9 MB)

P1.9

A Study of Ocean-Atmospheric Interactions and Associated Tropical Cyclone/Hurricane Activity over the Gulf of Mexico using Coupled Atmospheric Modeling System (CAMS)

R. Suseela Reddy Jr., Jackson State University, Jackson, MS; and D. Lu and Q. L. Williams

Poster Session 1

Policy and Socio—Economic Research Poster Session

Location: Hall 5 (Phoenix Convention Center)

Sponsor: Fourth Symposium on Policy and Socio—Economic Research

Papers:

P1.1

Fire Weather Forecasting in the Land Down Under

P1.2

Weekly cycles in Spain and its connections with changes in Sea Level Pressure over the North-Atlantic sector

P1.3

Probabilistic distributions of climate change impacts on the agricultural sector in Bangladesh

Alex C. Ruane, NASA/GISS and Oak Ridge Associated Universities, New York, NY; and D. C. Major, C. Rosenzweig, R. M. Horton, and R. Goldberg

P1.4

Managing business risks arising from seasonal climate variability

Harvey Stern, Bureau of Meteorology, Melbourne, Vic., Australia

http://www.weather-climate.com

Poster PDF (800.1 kB)

P1.5

The potential effects of climate change on wind energy

Jeffrey M. Freedman, AWS Truewind LLC, Albany, NY; and K. T. Waight and P. Duffy

P1.6

Perspectives on Atlantic hurricane risks

P1.7

Ethical Issues in Climate Policy

P1.8

Experiencing the weather: Public perceptions of changes in local weather patterns

Hank Jenkins-Smith, University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK; and C. Silva, K. H. Goebbert, K. E. Klockow, M. Yuan, M. Nowlin, and G. DeLozier

Poster PDF (1.5 MB)

P1.9

WaterNet: the NASA water cycle solutions network

P1.10

Decision Making Under Uncertainty: Ranking of Multiple Stressors on Central Arizona Water Resources

Netra Chhetri, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ

P1.11

Climate Change in Colorado: A Synthesis to Support Water Resources Management and Adaptation

Kristen B. Averyt, CIRES/Univ. of Colorado, Boulder, CO; and A. J. Ray and J. J. Barsugli

P1.12

Severe thunderstorm and tornado warnings in Europe

Jenni Teittinen, Finnish Meteorological Institute, Helsinki, Finland; and D. M. Schultz

P1.13

Examining the nexus of environmental effects, geopolitical instability, and national security: The Environmental Security course at Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University

John M. Lanicci, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical Univ., Daytona Beach, FL; and J. D. Ramsay

Poster PDF (84.8 kB)

P1.14

The mega—tornado outbreak in a high—density built environment : An under—appreciated hurricane hazard: a Florida worst—case scenario

Bartlett C. Hagemeyer, NOAA/NWS, Melbourne, FL

P1.15

Improving Warning Systems: An assessment of public response to tornado warnings during the 2008 tornado season

Jenniffer M. Santos-Hernandez, Disaster Research Center, University of Delaware, Newark, DE; and H. Rodriguez and W. Diaz

P1.16

Housing classification and Calculation of the Maximum Surface Wind speed to estimate wind damage potential by Typhoon

Jong-Kil Park, Inje University, Gimhae, South Korea; and W. S. Jung and H. J. Choi

P1.17

Applying Mesonet Wind Climatology to Oklahoma Prescribed Burns

Jeffrey Scott Zuczek, National Weather Center Research Experience for Undergraduates, Norman, OK and Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, Kennett Square, PA; and M. A. Shafer

Poster PDF (1.0 MB)

P1.18

NOAA's economics website initiative

Adam B. Smith, NOAA/NESDIS/NCDC, Asheville, NC; and J. G. Enloe

Poster PDF (58.8 kB)

P1.19

A sectoral approach to climate services at NOAA's National Climatic Data Center

Adam B. Smith, NOAA/NESDIS/NCDC, Asheville, NC; and E. Shea, W. M. Faas, J. N. Lott, K. Shein, A. Arguez, and T. G. Houston

Poster PDF (136.7 kB)

P1.20

A value proposition of seasonal hurricane forecasts for property insurance risk management

Kyle Beatty, Willis Re Inc., Minneapolis, MN; and R. Cloutier

P1.21

Assessing the sensitivity of landfall risk to warm Atlantic conditions

Ioana Dima, AIR Worldwide, Boston, MA; and P. Dailey and G. Zuba

P1.22

Error Characteristics of Cumulative Temperature Ensemble Forecasts

Michael Sze, AER, Lexington, MA; and T. Connor and D. Hogan

P1.23

Understanding people's attitudes and behaviors for weather forecast information

Julie Demuth, NCAR, Boulder, CO; and J. K. Lazo and R. E. Morss

Poster PDF (1.1 MB)

P1.24

Development of a cold weather warning system for newborn calves

Tanja E. Fransen, NOAA/NWS, Glasgow, MT; and K. L. Frank, L. Kalkstein, W. J. Martin, and D. E. Simonsen

P1.25

CASA's Impact on Radar-Based Wind Assessments

Don J. Rude, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA; and E. J. Bass and B. Philips

http://people.virginia.edu/~djr7m/ams2009/

Poster PDF (2.4 MB)

P1.26

Radar Refractivity Retrievals from KTLX: Benefits and Limitations to Operational Forecasting

Pamela L. Heinselman, NOAA/NSSL, Norman, OK; and B. L. Cheong, R. D. Palmer, and D. Bodine

Poster PDF (1.4 MB)

P1.27

Development of a turfgrass irrigation management system for North Carolina

Mark S. Brooks, North Carolina State Univ., Raleigh, NC; and R. Boyles, C. Peacock, D. Bowman, J. Reynolds, and D. Zahn

http://www.turffiles.ncsu.edu/tims/

Poster PDF (134.5 kB)

P1.28

NPOESS economic benefit estimation in a dynamic policy environment

Irving Leveson, Leveson Consulting, Jackson, NJ

Poster PDF (66.6 kB)

Joint Poster Session 1

Satellite Retrievals and Clouds

Location: Hall 5 (Phoenix Convention Center)

Sponsors: (Joint between the 16th Conference on Satellite Meteorology and Oceanography; and the Fifth Annual Symposium on Future Operational Environmental Satellite Systems- NPOESS and GOES-R )

Cochairs: Timothy J. Schmit, NOAA/NESDIS/ORA; Steven D. Miller, CIRA/Colorado State Univ.

Papers:

JP1.1

Profiling temperature, water vapor and ozone via cm and mm wavelength satellite to satellite occultations

E. Robert Kursinski, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ; and D. Ward, C. Groppi, M. Schein, S. Albanna, and K. Sammler

JP1.2

Exploring the error characteristics of thin ice cloud property retrievals using a Markov chain Monte Carlo algorithm

Derek J. Posselt, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI; and T. S. L'Ecuyer and G. L. Stephens

JP1.3

On the influence of ice particle microphysical model on the retrieval of cirrus cloud optical thickness using MODIS 1.38-μm band

Zhibo Zhang, University of Maryland, Baltimore County, Baltimore, MD; and P. Yang, K. Meyer, S. Platnick, and B. Baum

JP1.4

Partitioning CloudSat Ice Water Content for Comparison with Upper-Tropospheric Cloud Ice in Global Atmospheric Models

Christopher P. Woods, JPL, Pasadena, CA; and D. E. Waliser, J. L. F. Li, J. D. Chern, W. K. Tao, J. Jiang, and A. M. Tompkins

JP1.5

Cloud property variational retrieval for global real-time applications

Alan E. Lipton, AER, Inc., Lexington, MA; and J. L. Moncet, R. P. d'Entremont, G. B. Gustafson, R. Aschbrenner, J. B. Eylander, and S. Sarasamma

JP1.6

Real-Time Global Retrievals of Cloud Spatial, Radiative, and Microphysical Properties

Robert P. d'Entremont, AER, Inc., Lexington, MA; and G. B. Gustafson, J. L. Moncet, and A. Lipton

Poster PDF (942.7 kB)

JP1.7

Evaluations of the CALIPSO Cloud Optical Depth Algorithm Through Comparisons with a GOES Derived Cloud Analysis

Katie Carbonari, Northrop Grumann TASC, Chantilly, VA; and H. Kiley and R. Alliss

Poster PDF (286.5 kB)

JP1.8

Inter-comparison of cloud property retrievals from GOES, Aqua-MODIS, CloudSat, and CALIPSO over the mid-high latitudes of North America during 2008

JP1.9

Preliminary Results for the Retrieval of Convective Momentum Fluxes Using TRMM and CloudSat

Christopher P. Jewett, Univ. of Alabama, Huntsville, AL; and J. R. Mecikalski

JP1.10

Analysis and validation of the spatio-temporal distribution of latent heating in the Southeast Asian monsoon region

Manuel D. Zuluaga, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA; and C. D. Hoyos and P. J. Webster

JP1.11

Empirical normalization for the effect of volcanic stratospheric aerosols on AVHRR NDVI

Marco Vargas, NOAA, Camp Springs, MD; and F. Kogan and W. Guo

JP1.12

Cloud mask and Quality control for SST within the Advanced Clear Sky Processor for Oceans (ACSPO)

Boris Petrenko, NOAA/NESDIS/STAR, IMSG Inc, Camp Springs, MD; and A. Ignatov, Y. Kihai, X. Liang, N. Shabanov, and A. K. Heidinger

Poster PDF (869.6 kB)

JP1.13

Error Characterization in the AVHRR Clear-Sky Processor for Oceans (ACSPO) Sea Surface Temperatures

Feng Xu, NOAA/NESDIS, Camp Springs, MD; and A. Ignatov and X. Liang

Poster PDF (1.9 MB)

JP1.14

Operational cloud analysis in polar regions

Robert P. D'Entremont, AER, Inc, Lexington, MA; and G. B. Gustafson and J. B. Eylander

Poster PDF (1014.9 kB)

JP1.15

Cloud type classified by the split window and CALIOP

Toshiro Inoue, The University of Tokyo, Kashiwa, Chiba, Japan

JP1.16

Cloud climatology over the western ghats of southern india

Ronald M. Welch, Univ. of Alabama, Huntsville, AL; and V. S. Manoharn, U. S. Nair, R. O. Lawton, and D. K. Ray

JP1.17

Enhanced satellite cloud products for climate studies

Tom Greenwald, CIMSS/Univ. of Wisconsin, Madison, WI; and R. Bennartz

JP1.18

Hyperspectral model validation in cloudy radiance space from AIRS

Ovidiu Pancrati, EC, Dorval, QC , Canada; and L. Garand and S. Heilliette

JP1.19

Improved determination of surface and atmospheric temperatures using only shortwave AIRS channels

Joel Susskind, NASA/GSFC, Greenbelt, MD; and J. Blaisdell

JP1.20

Global hyperspectral resolution surface IR emissivity spectra derived from AIRS measurements

Jinlong Li, CIMSS/Univ. of Wisconsin, Madison, WI; and J. Li, E. Weisz, and E. Borbas

JP1.21

Clouds Synergy through NASA Goddard Giovanni Online System

Hualan Rui, ADNET and NASA/GSFC, Greenbelt, MD; and G. Leptoukh, S. Shen, J. Pan, S. Berrick, and S. J. Kempler

JP1.22

A comparison of MISR cloud motion vectors and NOAA radar wind profiler data

Laura M. Hinkelman, JISAO/Univ. of Washington, Seattle, WA; and R. T. Marchand and T. P. Ackerman

JP1.23

Soundings from Current and Future Geostationary Satellites

Timothy J. Schmit, NOAA/NESDIS/ORA, Madison, WI; and J. Li, J. Gurka, J. Daniels, M. Goldberg, and P. Menzel

JP1.24

High Temporal GOES Sounding Retrievals in Cloudy Regions and Applications

Zhenglong Li, CIMSS/Univ. of Wisconsin, Madison, WI; and J. Li, P. Menzel, T. J. Schmit, and J. Nelson

JP1.25

Retrievals of Upper Tropospheric Temperature and Water Vapor using UW/SSEC S-HIS data collected during the Joint Airborne IASI Validation Experiment (JAIVEx)

Sarah Bedka, CIMSS/Univ. of Wisconsin, Madison, WI; and P. Antonelli, R. Knuteson, H. E. Revercomb, W. Smith Sr., D. Tobin, and H. Woolf

JP1.26

Preliminary validation of GPCI simulations with observational data from NASA's A-Train Aqua, CloudSat and Calipso satellites

Sambingo Cardoso, NCAR /CGUL Portugal, Boulder, CO; and J. Teixeira, P. Rasch, P. Miranda, A. Gettelman, Y. Zhang, S. Klein, G. Mace, C. Hannay, M. Koehler, M. Zhao, P. Siebesma, P. Marquet, A. Lock, C. Jakob, C. DeMott, H. Kitagawa, and D. Mironov

JP1.27

Sea surface air temperature and humidity retrievals based on AMSU measurements

Lei Shi, NOAA/NESDIS/NCDC, Asheville, NC; and H. M. Zhang

Poster PDF (128.0 kB)

JP1.28

Examination of viewing zenith angle dependence on cloud heights derived from thermal infrared satellite observations

Christopher Rogers Yost, Science Systems and Applications, Inc., Hampton, VA; and P. Minnis, K. Ayers, R. Palikonda, D. A. Spangenberg, S. Sun-Mack, and Y. Chen

Poster PDF (529.0 kB)

JP1.29

Comparison of cloud properties derived from MSG SEVIRI and ARM Mobile Facility observations

J. Kirk Ayers, SSAI, Hampton, VA; and P. Minnis, R. Palikonda, C. R. Yost, D. A. Spangenberg, F. L. Chang, and L. Nguyen

JP1.30

Retrieving Cloud and Radiation Parameters in Near-Real-Time from Global Geostationary Satellite Data

Patrick Minnis, NASA/LaRC, Hampton, VA; and L. Nguyen, R. Palikonda, P. W. Heck, D. A. Spangenberg, M. Khaiyer, J. K. Ayers, W. L. Smith, Jr., F. L. Chang, Q. Z. Trepte, D. R. Doelling, C. R. Yost, L. A. Avey, and T. L. Chee

http://www-angler.larc.nasa.gov/

Poster Session 1

Year of Tropical Convection - posters

Location: Hall 5 (Phoenix Convention Center)

Sponsor: 21st Conference on Climate Variability and Change

Chair: Duane E. Waliser, JPL

Papers:

P1.1

A comparison of the representation of cumulus convection in a global hydrostatic model and a limited-area non-hydrostatic model

Kengo Miyamoto, AESTO/JMA, Tokyo, Japan; and S. Kanada and M. Sugi

P1.2

Activities on the Field Experiments of Precipitation System around the East China Sea from 2006 to 2008

Dong-In Lee, Pukyong National University, Pusan, South Korea; and M. Jang, G. J. Seo, D. S. Kim, M. Kang, S. M. Jang, M. Kim, H. Uyeda, K. Tsuboki, M. Oue, and C. You

Poster PDF (1.3 MB)

Poster Session 2

Drought Prediction, Monitoring and Mitigation

Location: Hall 5 (Phoenix Convention Center)

Sponsor: 23rd Conference on Hydrology

Chair: Wade T. Crow, USDA/ARS

Papers:

P2.1

Influence of Niño sea-surface temperatures and soil moisture on summer precipitation in the U.S. Great Plains

Lei Meng, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX; and S. Quiring

P2.2

The impact of groundwater-surface water interactions on drought forecasting and characterization

P2.3

Canadian Drought Alert and Monitoring Program (CDAMP)

Don MacIver, EC, Toronto, ON, Canada; and N. Comer, S. Fernandez, B. Wang, H. Auld, and J. Klaassen

P2.4

Human amplification of drought-caused fire emissions in Indonesia since 1960

Robert Field, Univ. of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada; and G. van der Werf, O. Roswintiarti, and S. Shen

P2.5

Developing a state-level drought impact monitoring program: Arizona DroughtWatch

Michael A. Crimmins, Univ. of Arizona, Tucson, AZ

Poster Session 2

POSTERS: Satellite Observations of Air-Sea Interaction

Location: Hall 5 (Phoenix Convention Center)

Sponsor: 16th Conference on Air-Sea Interaction

Papers:

P2.1

Remote sensing of high latitude open cell convection

Todd D. Sikora, Millersville University, Millersville, PA ; and G. S. Young, C. M. Fisher, and M. D. Stepp

P2.2

Wind speed and latent heat flux retrieved by simultaneous observation of multiple geophysical parameters derived by AMSR-E

Masanori Konda, Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan; and H. Ichikawa and H. Tomita

Poster PDF (501.0 kB)

P2.3

Low-level wind jets in the Tsugaru Strait by high-resolution satellite observations and numerical simulations

Teruhisa Shimada, Tohoku University, Sendai, Japan; and H. Kawamura and W. Sha

Poster PDF (2.5 MB)

Poster Session 2

Role of land cover - posters

Location: Hall 5 (Phoenix Convention Center)

Sponsor: 21st Conference on Climate Variability and Change

Papers:

P2.1

Climate trends and urbanization

Benedicte Dousset, Hawaii Institute of Geophysics and Planetology, University of Hawaii, Honolulu, HI

P2.2

Effects of soil wetness, plant litter, and under-canopy atmospheric stability on ground evaporation in the Community Land Model (CLM3.5)

Koichi Sakaguchi, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ ; and X. Zeng

P2.3

Assessing the influence of land development patterns on regional climate using regional circulation models

Guillermo A. Baigorria, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL; and D. W. Shin, J. W. Jones, J. L. Hernandez, and J. J. O'Brien

P2.4

MRI new land surface model HAL and the impacts on global climate

Masahiro Hosaka, MRI, Tsukuba, Ibaraki, Japan

P2.5

Characterization of the Urban Heat Island at Buenos Aires city

Mariana Barrucand, CONICET, Buenos Aires, Argentina; and I. Camilloni and M. Rusticucci

Poster PDF (59.5 kB)

Joint Poster Session 3

Urban Climate Studies—Poster Session

Location: Hall 5 (Phoenix Convention Center)

Sponsors: (Joint between the Eighth Symposium on the Urban Environment; and the Timothy R. Oke Symposium )

Papers:

JP3.1 has been moved. New paper number J11.5A

JP3.2

High resolution surface temperature and urban thermal anisotropy simulations : validation against airborne remote sensing TIR data over Toulouse city (France)

Aurelien Henon, UMR CNRS, Nantes, France; and J. P. Lagouarde, P. G. Mestayer, and D. Groleau

JP3.3

Undercanopy and below ground microclimate patterns at the North Desert Village

Chris A. Martin, Arizona State University, Mesa, AZ

JP3.4

Evolution of snow properties over the winter 2007-2008 in urban and suburban Montreal, Canada

Eric Christensen, McGill University, Ste-Anne de Bellevue, QC, Canada; and O. Bergeron and I. B. Strachan

JP3.5

Sensible, Latent and Ground Heat Flux Model

Yanyan Zhang, Univ. of California, Riverside, CA; and M. Princevac and S. M. Lee

Poster PDF (58.7 kB)

JP3.6

The dynamics of urban growth of Kolkata, India and its influence on precipitation

Chandana Mitra, Univ. of Georgia, Athens, GA; and M. Shepherd

JP3.7

Development of a Mesoscale Thermal Model for Urban Climate

Humberto Ramon Silva Jr., National Center of Excellence, Tempe, AZ; and P. Phelan and J. Golden

JP3.8

Urban climates and the urban surface: a review of T.R. Oke's contributions arising from conceptual representations of the urban surface

James A. Voogt, Univ. of Western Ontario, London, ON, Canada; and S. Grimmond, S. Krayenhoff, S. M. Roberts, M. Roth, J. A. Salmond, and H. P. Schmid

Joint Poster Session 4

Urban Heat Islands—Poster Session

Location: Hall 5 (Phoenix Convention Center)

Sponsors: (Joint between the Eighth Symposium on the Urban Environment; and the Timothy R. Oke Symposium )

Papers:

JP4.1

Urban effects on intense convective precipitation in Mexico City- an update

Ernesto Jauregui Sr., NOAA/CAC, Mexico City, Mexico

JP4.2

Atlanta's urban heat island under extreme heat conditions

Yan Zhou, Univ. of Georgia, Athens, GA ; and M. Shepherd

JP4.3

Assessment of Urban Land Surface Thermal Field Using Integrated Remote Sensing and Ancillary Information

Ying Zhang, Canada Centre for Remote Sensing, Natural Resources Canada, Ottawa, ON, Canada; and B. Guindon, L. Sun, and Y. Yang

JP4.4

The urban heat island in Hong Kong: analyses of spatial variability and exposure

Melissa A. Hart, Univ. of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, Hong Kong; and D. J. Sailor

JP4.5

Winter and summer temperatures in an European medium-sized city. Frost and hot nights trends

Albert Garcia-Manuel, University of Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain; and M. C. Moreno-García and J. Martín-Vide

JP4.6

Observed characteristics of the urban heat island during the harmattan and monsoon in Akure Nigeria

Ahmed Balogun, Univ. of Leeds, Leeds, United Kingdom; and I. A. Balogun, A. A. Abatan, and E. A. Adefisan

Poster PDF (1.7 MB)

JP4.7

Urban southern California heat waves are becoming more frequent and longer

Arbi Tamrazian, Univ. of California, Berkeley, CA; and S. LaDochy, P. Ramirez, J. Willis, and W. C. Patzert

Poster PDF (495.7 kB)

JP4.8

Summertime urban heat Island in Newark, NJ and its relationship with urban particulate matter

Christopher Thuman, Rutgers University, Newark, NJ

Formal Poster Viewing with Coffee Break

Location: Hall 5 (Phoenix Convention Center)

1

Applications of Artificial Intelligence—I

Location: Room 125A (Phoenix Convention Center)

Sponsor: Seventh Conference on Artificial Intelligence and its Applications to the Environmental Sciences

Chair: S. Lakshmivarahan, University of Oklahoma

Papers:

4:00 PM

1.1

On the nonlinear relation between model parameters and forecast parameters

Caren Marzban, APL, Seattle, WA; and S. Sandgathe, D. Morison, and N. Lederer

Recorded presentation

4:15 PM

1.2

Replacing Missing Data for Ensemble Systems

Tyler C. McCandless, Penn State University, University Park, PA; and S. E. Haupt and G. Young

Recorded presentation Poster PDF (290.0 kB)

4:30 PM

1.3

Spatiotemporal field interpolation using artificial neural networks in the Gulf of Maine

François P. Neville, University of Maine, Orono, ME

Recorded presentation

4:45 PM

1.4

Expanding the spatial awareness of spatiotemporal relational probability trees to improve the analysis of severe thunderstorm models

David John Gagne II, University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK; and A. McGovern, N. C. Hiers, M. Collier, and R. A. Brown

Recorded presentation

5:00 PM

1.5

Cluster analysis of kernel-based principal components

Michael B. Richman, Univ. of Oklahoma, Norman, OK; and I. Adrianto

Recorded presentation

5:15 PM

1.6

Comparison of random forest, artificial neural network, and multi-linear regression: a water temperature prediction case

Robyn L. Ball, Texas A&M University, Corpus Christi, TX; and P. Tissot, B. Zimmer, and B. Sterba-Boatwright

Recorded presentation

2

The Utility of Lightning Data In Operational Warning and Decision Making Processes

Location: Room 131A (Phoenix Convention Center)

Sponsor: Fourth Conference on the Meteorological Applications of Lightning Data

Chair: Stephen J. Hodanish, NOAA/NWS

Papers:

4:00 PM

2.1

Application of Vaisala VHF total lightning mapping network data at NWS Fort Worth/Dallas

Gregory R. Patrick, NOAA/NWS, Fort Worth, TX; and N. W. S. Demetriades

Recorded presentation Poster PDF (1.9 MB)

4:15 PM

2.2

Developing an enhanced lightning jump algorithm for operational use

Christopher J. Schultz, Univ. of Alabama, Huntsville, AL; and W. A. Petersen and L. Carey

Recorded presentation Poster PDF (264.6 kB)

4:30 PM

2.3

Comparative Lightning Characteristics of a Tornadic and Non—Tornadic Oklahoma Thunderstorm on 24–25 April 2006

Amanda M. Sheffield, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN; and P. D. Bothwell and J. Schaefer

Recorded presentation

4:45 PM

2.4

Utilizing WDSS-II to automate dataset preparation for a statistical investigation of total lightning and radar echoes within severe and non-severe storms

Scott D. Rudlosky, Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL; and H. E. Fuelberg

Recorded presentation Poster PDF (2.7 MB)

5:00 PM

2.5

Comprehensive and location-specific lightning information service in Hong Kong

L.S. Lee, Hong Kong Observatory, Hong Kong, China

Poster PDF (2.3 MB)

2.6

Electrical and hydrometeorological observations of thunderstorms in the south of Brazil—applications for weather forecast and protection

3

Coupling between the lower and upper atmosphere

Location: Room 126BC (Phoenix Convention Center)

Sponsor: Sixth Symposium on Space Weather

Chair: Geoff Crowley, Atmospheric & Space Technology Research Associates

Papers:

4:00 PM

3.1

Investigating Energy and Momentum Coupling in Earth's Atmosphere and Ionosphere with the Neutral-Ion Coupling Explorer: NICE

Thomas J. Immel, University of California, Berkeley, CA; and S. B. Mende, H. U. Frey, R. A. Heelis, G. R. Swenson, G. Crowley, S. L. England, J. M. Forbes, J. D. Huba, F. Kamalabadi, P. M. Kintner Jr., J. J. Makela, and A. Stephan

Recorded presentation

4:15 PM

3.2

Effect of waves from the lower atmosphere on the thermosphere and ionosphere

Robert W. Schunk, Utah State University, Logan, UT; and L. C. Gardner, L. Scherliess, D. C. Thompson, and J. J. Sojka

Recorded presentation

4:30 PM

3.3

Coupling of meteorological disturbances up to the mesosphere and lower thermosphere

D. E. Siskind, NRL, Washington, DC; and S. Eckermann, L. Coy, and J. P. McCormack

4:45 PM

3.4

Observations and model simulations of the thermospheric density daily variations

Wenbin Wang, NCAR, Boulder, CO ; and J. Lei, A. Burns, H. Liu, Q. Wu, S. Solomon, T. Killeen, and I. Azeem

Recorded presentation

5:00 PM

3.5

Thermosphere and Ionosphere Variability due to Quasi-Two-Day Wave

Han-Li Liu, NCAR, Boulder, CO; and W. Wang and A. D. Richmond

Recorded presentation

5:15 PM

3.6

Coupling between the lower and upper atmosphere as simulated by the Whole Atmosphere Model (WAM)

Rashid A. Akmaev, NOAA / SWPC, Boulder, CO; and T. J. Fuller-Rowell, F. Wu, H. Wang, H. M. H. Juang, S. Moorthi, Y. T. Hou, and M. D. Iredell

Recorded presentation

3

Drought Prediction, Monitoring and Mitigation—II

Location: Room 127BC (Phoenix Convention Center)

Sponsor: 23rd Conference on Hydrology

Chair: Wade T. Crow, USDA/ARS

Papers:

4:00 PM

3.1

The Physical Earth Sciences Requirements to Address the Social-Economical Impacts of Adaptation and Mitigation to Changing Extreme Events: Drought as an Example

P.J. Van Oevelen, International GEWEX Project Office, Silver Spring, MD

Recorded presentation

4:15 PM

3.2

Using Data-Models to Monitor and Forecast Drought

Ana P. Barros, Duke Univ., Durham, NC

Recorded presentation

4:30 PM

3.3

The PAC: A tool for monitorng and forecasting the initiation, longevity, and demise of droughts

Phil Arkin, University of Maryland, College Park, MD; and J. E. Janowiak

Recorded presentation

4:45 PM

3.4

The development of objectively-derived, probabilistic, and verifiable drought prediction methodologies

Bradfield Lyon, International Research Institute for Climate and Society, Palisades, NY; and M. A. Bell

Recorded presentation

5:00 PM

3.5

A climatological analysis associating spring tornadic activity with antecedent precipitation and drought in the Southeastern United States

Marshall Shepherd, University of Georgia, Athens, GA; and D. Niyogi, T. L. Mote, and J. Entin

Recorded presentation

5:15 PM

3.6

Drought Predictability in Mexico

Francisco Munoz-Arriola, University of Washington, Seattle, WA; and S. Shukla, L. Luo, T. Bohn, A. Munoz Orozco, and D. P. Lettenmaier

3

Global climate modeling: new frontiers

Location: Room 129A (Phoenix Convention Center)

Sponsor: 21st Conference on Climate Variability and Change

Chair: Philip W. Mote, Univ. of Washington

Papers:

4:00 PM

3.1

UK-HiGEM: A new high resolution coupled climate model

Len Shaffrey, NCAS-Climate, University of Reading, Reading, United Kingdom; and P. L. Vidale and J. Slingo

Recorded presentation

4:15 PM

3.2

Assessing the diurnal cycle of precipitation in a prototype multi-scale climate model

Michael S. Pritchard, SIO/Univ. Of California, La Jolla, CA; and R. C. J. Somerville and J. O. Roads

Recorded presentation

3.3

Advantage of a 20km-mesh AGCM in simulating climatological mean fields

4:45 PM

3.3A

Simulating the effects of climate change on parameters for tropical cyclone development in the Atlantic basin

George L. Limpert, Univ. of Missouri, Columbia, MO; and B. L. Perrin and A. R. Lupo

Recorded presentation

5:00 PM

3.4

Climate change projections with observation-based interannual variability

David S. Gutzler, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM

Recorded presentation

5:15 PM

3.5

New Metrics for Evaluation of Cloud Simulations in Climate Models

Hui Su, JPL, Pasadena, CA; and J. H. Jiang, G. L. Stephens, A. Gettelman, and X. Huang

5:30 PM

3.6

Can melting Greenland Ice Sheet cool global climate

Aixue Hu, NCAR, Boulder, CO; and G. Meehl and W. Han

Recorded presentation

3

K-12 and Informal Educational Outreach in the Atmospheric, Oceanic, and Hydrologic Sciences: Part 2

Location: Room 125B (Phoenix Convention Center)

Sponsor: 18th Symposium on Education

Cochairs: Susan Q. Foster, UCAR; Shirley T. Murillo, NOAA/AOML/HRD

Papers:

4:00 PM

3.1

Project BudBurst: Citizen Science for All Seasons

Sandra Henderson, UCAR, Boulder, CO; and K. Meymaris, P. Alaback, K. Havens, J. Weltzin, and L. Benton

Recorded presentation

4:15 PM

3.2

Enhancing climate literacy

Mark A. Shafer, Oklahoma Climatological Survey, Norman, OK; and T. E. James and N. Giuliano

Recorded presentation Poster PDF (1.3 MB)

4:30 PM

3.3

Exploring clouds, weather, climate, and modeling through bilingual content, interactives, and activities from the Windows to the Universe program and the Center for Multiscale Modeling of Atmospheric Processes

Susan Q. Foster, UCAR, Boulder, CO; and R. M. Johnson, D. A. Randall, S. Denning, R. Russell, E. Gardiner, B. Hatheway, and J. Bergman

Recorded presentation

4:45 PM

3.4

Air quality course for science teachers at the University of Northern Iowa

Alan C. Czarnetzki, University of Northern Iowa, Cedar Falls, IA

http://www.uni.edu/storm/saqse/

Recorded presentation Poster PDF (21.2 kB)

5:00 PM

3.5

Promoting Climate Literacy through K–12 Professional Development Opportunities

Margaret Mooney, CIMSS/SSEC/Univ. of Wisconsin, Madison, WI; and S. Ackerman, L. Schiferl, J. Martin, and T. Whittaker

Recorded presentation

5:15 PM

3.6

Educating the Public on the North American Monsoon System

Glen W. Sampson, NOAA/NWS, Tucson, AZ; and E. S. Pytlak

http://www.wrh.noaa.gov/twc/monsoon/monsoon_tracker.php

Recorded presentation Poster PDF (624.5 kB)

3

Results from Field Experiments (TAMDAR)

Location: Room 130 (Phoenix Convention Center)

Sponsor: 13th Conference on Integrated Observing and Assimilation Systems for Atmosphere, Oceans, and Land Surface (IOAS-AOLS)

Chair: Gary A. Wick, NOAA/ESRL/PSD

Papers:

4:00 PM

3.1

TAMDAR jet fleets and their impact on Rapid Update Cycle (RUC) forecasts

William R. Moninger, NOAA/ESRL/GSD, Boulder, CO; and S. G. Benjamin, B. D. Jamison, T. W. Schlatter, T. L. Smith, and E. J. Szoke

Recorded presentation Poster PDF (500.4 kB)

4:15 PM

3.2

The Utility of TAMDAR on Short-Range Forecasts over Alaska

Meredith Croke, AirDat, Morrisville, NC; and A. Huffman, P. Childs, and Y. Liu

Recorded presentation Poster PDF (522.0 kB)

4:30 PM

3.3

The Optimization Between TAMDAR Data Assimilation Methods and Model Configuration in WRF-ARW

Allan Huffman, AirDat, Morrisville, NC; and P. Childs, M. Croke, Y. Liu, and X. Y. Huang

Recorded presentation Poster PDF (3.0 MB)

4:45 PM

3.4

Developments in geographic TAMDAR coverage in the CONUS

Jamie T. Braid, AirDat LLC, Lakewood, CO; and J. E. Rex

Recorded presentation Poster PDF (548.3 kB)

5:00 PM

3.5

Peter Childs, AirDat, Morrisville, NC; and A. Huffman, M. Croke, Y. Liu, and X. Y. Huang

Recorded presentation Poster PDF (295.2 kB)

5:15 PM

3.6

The TAMDAR Sensor's Relative Humidity Performance on ERJ-145 Commercial Aircraft

Daniel J. Mulally, AirDat, LLC., Lakewood, CO; and J. T. Braid

Recorded presentation Poster PDF (2.4 MB)

3

The use of surface and remote sensing measurements for air quality model evaluation

Location: Room 127A (Phoenix Convention Center)

Sponsor: 11th Conference on Atmospheric Chemistry

Cochairs: Brian K. Lamb, Washington State Univ.; Raymond Hoff, University of Maryland

Papers:

4:00 PM

3.1

Enhancements in tropospheric CO from biogenic VOC emissions over North America and the western Atlantic Ocean using TES and MOPITT measurements

Yunsoo Choi, NOAA/ARL, Silver Spring, MD; and G. Osterman, A. Eldering, Y. Wang, and E. Edgerton

Recorded presentation

4:15 PM

3.2

Ozone Episodes in U.S.-Mexico Border Cities: Can Fusion of Satellite Information Improve Accuracy of Predictions?

Chune Shi, Arizona State Univ., Tempe, AZ; and H. J. S. Fernando, E. Y. W. Seto, and J. P. Muller

Poster PDF (90.7 kB)

4:30 PM

3.3

Increased availability of satellite remote sensing data for model evaluation through 3D-AQS

Raymond M. Hoff, JCET/Univ. of Maryland, Baltimore, MD; and A. I. Prados, H. Zhang, M. Kacenelenbogen, R. Delgado, S. Kondragunta, J. Szykman, F. Dimmick, B. Johns, C. Kittaka, J. A. Al-Saadi, J. Engel-Cox, S. Weber, A. Huff, A. Wimmers, and S. A. Ackerman

Recorded presentation

4:45 PM

3.4

Refined analysis of satellite tropospheric products for evaluation and improvement of the AIRPACT-3 air quality forecast system

Farren Herron-Thorpe, Washington State University, Pullman, WA; and J. Vaughan, G. Mount, L. Emmons, and B. Lamb

Recorded presentation

5:00 PM

3.5

Meteorological, physical and numerical issues in modeling the long-range transport of mercury

Dorothy A. Durnford, EC, Dorval, QC, Canada; and A. Dastoor and D. Figueras-Nieto

Recorded presentation

5:15 PM

3.6

Evaluation of Smoke Plume Dispersion in Complex Terrain Using a Lagrangian Particle Dispersion Model Driven by WRF Output

Luke Thomas Peffers, Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL; and H. E. Fuelberg and P. A. Rao

http://fuelberg.met.fsu.edu/~lpeffers/EXTRAS/luke_THESIS.pdf

Recorded presentation Poster PDF (1.7 MB)

3

Variability of the American Monsoon (VAMOS) Ocean-Cloud-Atmosphere-Land Study (VOCALS): Part 3. Mesoscale Meteorology and Oceanography

Location: Room 128AB (Phoenix Convention Center)

Sponsor: 16th Conference on Air-Sea Interaction

Chair: Christopher W. Fairall, NOAA/ESRL/PSD

Papers:

4:00 PM

3.1

The PreVOCA model assessment

Matthew C. Wyant, University of Washington, Seattle, WA; and R. Wood, C. R. Mechoso, and C. S. Bretherton

Recorded presentation Poster PDF (252.0 kB)

4:15 PM

Clouds, continents, and the large scale circulation

Carlos R. Mechoso, Univ. of California, Los Angeles, CA

Recorded presentation

4:30 PM

3.2

Mesoscale observations in the Peruvian upwelling region: preliminary results from the VOCALS Peru cruise

Carmen Grados, Instituto del Mar del Peru, IMARPE, Callao, Callao, Peru; and Y. Silva, A. Chaigneau, G. Eldin, L. Vasquez, P. Ayon, M. Graco, S. Sanchez, and J. Ledesma

4:45 PM

3.3

Observations of oceanic mesoscale eddies in the VOCALS region

Peter Gaube, Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR; and D. Chelton

5:00 PM

3.4

HiGEM: High resolution global coupled climate modelling in the South East Pacific

Len Shaffrey, NCAS-Climate, University of Reading, Reading, United Kingdom; and T. Toniazzo and J. Slingo

Recorded presentation

5:15 PM

3.5

Ocean surface heat budget and ocean eddy transport in the South-East Pacific in a high-resolution coupled model

Thomas Toniazzo, NCAS-Climate, University of Reading, Reading, United Kingdom; and C. R. Mechoso, L. Shaffrey, and J. Slingo

5:30 PM

3.6

Inter-Hemispheric Influence of the Atlantic Warm Pool on the Southeast Pacific

Chunzai Wang, NOAA/AOML, Miami, FL; and S. K. Lee, C. R. Mechoso, and D. B. Enfield

Recorded presentation

3A

Global Meteorological and Hydrological Service Updates II

Location: Room 121BC (Phoenix Convention Center)

Sponsor: 25th Conference on International Interactive Information and Processing Systems (IIPS) for Meteorology, Oceanography, and Hydrology

Cochairs: Ward R. Seguin, NOAA/OAR; Michael D. Eilts, Weather Decision Technologies, Inc.

Papers:

4:00 PM

3A.1

Federal Aviation Administration - Update

Kenneth M. Leonard, FAA, Washington, DC

Recorded presentation

4:30 PM

3A.2

National Weather Service (NWS) Services Update

John Hayes, NOAA/NWS, Silver Spring, MD

Recorded presentation

5:00 PM

3A.3

European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts (ECMWF) Meteorological and Hydrological Services Update

Dominique Marbouty, ECMWF, Reading, Berks., United Kingdom

Recorded presentation

3B

International Applications II

Location: Room 122BC (Phoenix Convention Center)

Sponsor: 25th Conference on International Interactive Information and Processing Systems (IIPS) for Meteorology, Oceanography, and Hydrology

Cochairs: John R. Lincoln, US Navy/WMO (Ret.) and Consultant; Alfred Hofstadler, ECMWF; Howard J. Diamond, NOAA/NESDIS/NCDC

Papers:

4:00 PM

3B.1

Using a light weight model to monitor a variety of grain crops in Africa

Eric J. Wolvovsky, Wyle Information Systems and NOAA/NWS/NCEP/CPC, Camp Springs, MD

http://www.cpc.ncep.noaa.gov/products/fews/

Recorded presentation Poster PDF (262.5 kB)

3B.2

Introduction of MICAPS 3.0 - A New Chinese Forecaster's Interactive System

4:30 PM

3B.3

WMO-CIMO survey on the methods and instruments for the measurement of solid precipitation at Automated Weather Stations

Rodica Nitu, EC, Toronto, ON, Canada

Recorded presentation Poster PDF (69.4 kB)

4:45 PM

3B.4

A Latin American Data Workshop to Promote Free and Open Sharing of Earth System Data and Foster Scientific Partnerships

Tom Yoksas, UCAR, Boulder, CO; and M. Ramamurthy, E. Cutrim, C. Rocken, T. Whittaker, and W. G. D. Almeida

Recorded presentation

5:00 PM

3B.5

TC-IDV — A New Tool for Tropical Cyclone Forecasting and Research

Yuan Ho, Unidata/UCAR, Boulder, CO; and J. McWhirter, D. Murray, X. Liang, X. Lu, and Y. Yin

Poster PDF (1.2 MB)

5:15 PM

3B.6

An Update on Programs in the Pacific Islands for Pacific Island GCOS

Dean Solofa, SPREP, Apia, Samoa; and M. L. Morrissey, H. J. Diamond, and S. Postawko

Recorded presentation

5:30 PM

3B.7

The U.S. global climate observing system (GCOS) program: an update on continuing efforts to implement reference climate observation sites

Howard J. Diamond, NOAA/NESDIS/NCDC, Silver Spring, MD

Recorded presentation Poster PDF (98.3 kB)

4

Advances in Modeling and Forecasting-II

Location: Room 126A (Phoenix Convention Center)

Sponsor: Eighth Conference on Coastal Atmospheric and Oceanic Prediction and Processes

Chair: Darko R. Koracin, DRI

Papers:

4:00 PM

4.1

The moist static energy budget and wave dynamics around the ITCZ in idealized WRF simulations

Scott W. Powell, University of Miami, Miami, FL; and D. S. Nolan

Recorded presentation

4:15 PM

4.2

On the predictability of coastal winds using an adjoint modeling system

James D. Doyle, NRL, Monterey, CA; and C. M. Amerault

Recorded presentation

4:30 PM

4.3

Predictability of coastal weather and its implications to ensemble forecasting

Darko Koracin, DRI, Reno, NV; and R. Vellore, J. Lewis, and M. Kaplan

Recorded presentation Poster PDF (757.4 kB)

4:45 PM

4.4

Effects of atmosphere-ocean coupling on the atmospheric simulation for the California Coast

Adam Kochanski, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT; and D. Koracin and C. E. Dorman

Recorded presentation

5:00 PM

4.5

Transformed Flux-form Semi-Lagrangian Schemes for Coastal Ocean Modeling

Peter C. Chu, NPS, Monterey, CA; and C. Fan

Recorded presentation Poster PDF (223.1 kB)

5:15 PM

4.6

Ensemble data assimilation simulation experiments for the coastal ocean: Towards automatic localization

Ross N. Hoffman, AER, Lexington, MA; and J. Poterjoy, S. V. Vinogradov, and S. M. Leidner

Recorded presentation Poster PDF (826.5 kB)

Joint Session 8

Environmental Applications and Decision Support Systems

Location: Room 224AB (Phoenix Convention Center)

Sponsors: (Joint between the 16th Conference on Satellite Meteorology and Oceanography; the Fifth Annual Symposium on Future Operational Environmental Satellite Systems- NPOESS and GOES-R; and the Fourth Symposium on Policy and Socio—Economic Research )

Chair: Steven J. Goodman, NOAA/NESDIS/ORA

Papers:

4:00 PM

J8.1

Environmental Information for the Next Generation Air Transportation System

John J. Murray, NASA/LRC, Hampton, VA; and C. Miner and T. E. Ryan

Recorded presentation Poster PDF (137.1 kB)

4:15 PM

J8.2

An Open-Source SOA Solution Enabling Environmental System-of-Systems Integration and Decision Support

Philip E. Ardanuy, Raytheon Information Solutions, Reston, VA; and A. M. Tarro, A. Ritchie, and A. Nappi

Recorded presentation

4:30 PM

J8.3

The oceanic convection diagnosis and nowcasting system

Cathy Kessinger, NCAR, Boulder, Colorado; and H. Cai, N. Rehak, D. Megenhardt, M. Steiner, R. Bankert, J. Hawkins, M. Donovan, and E. R. Williams

Recorded presentation Poster PDF (1.1 MB)

4:45 PM

J8.4

Nowcasting oceanic convection using random forest classification

Huaqing Cai, NCAR, Boulder, CO ; and C. Kessinger, D. Ahijevich, J. Williams, N. Rehak, D. Megenhardt, R. Bankert, J. Hawkins, M. Donovan, and E. R. Williams

Recorded presentation Poster PDF (800.0 kB)

5:00 PM

J8.5

Using NASA Satellite and Model Analysis for Renewable Energy and Energy Efficiency Applications

Paul W. Stackhouse Jr., NASA/LaRC, Hampton, VA; and W. S. Chandler, C. H. Whitlock, J. M. Hoell, D. Westberg, and T. Zhang

Recorded presentation

5:15 PM

J8.6

Monitoring Vegetation Properties through Satellite Passive Microwave Remote Sensing

Qilong Min, SUNY, Albany, NY; and B. Lin and R. Li

Recorded presentation

Joint Session 9

Climate and Policy: From Local to Global

Location: Room 121A (Phoenix Convention Center)

Sponsors: (Joint between the Fourth Symposium on Policy and Socio—Economic Research; and the 21st Conference on Climate Variability and Change )

Cochairs: Juliane Fry, Reed College; Gregg M. Garfin, University of Arizona; Ryan M. Meyer, Consortium for Science, Policy, and Outcomes; Arizona State University

Papers:

4:00 PM

J9.1

Climate change and New York City's energy sector: evaluation of vulnerabilities, impacts and adaptation strategies

Stephen A. Hammer, Columbia University, New York, NY; and L. Parshall

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Recorded presentation Poster PDF (2.6 MB)

4:15 PM

J9.2

CCAP Urban Leaders Adaptation Initiative: Climate Resilient Local Governments

Josh Foster, Center for Clean Air Policy, Washington, DC; and S. Winkelman

Recorded presentation

4:30 PM

J9.3

Applied science at the local government level—climate change science for planning professionals

Scott Shuford, UNCA, Asheville, NC; and G. Voos, J. Fox, M. McGuirk, S. K. LeDuc, and E. Shea

4:45 PM

J9.4

Federal trial on California AB1493–CO2 emissions: Perspectives from the losing side

John Christy, University of Alabama, Huntsville, AL

5:00 PM

J9.5 has been moved. New paper number 5.2A (4Policy)

5:00 PM

J9.5A

Politics, values, and decision making in US climate science

Ryan M. Meyer, Consortium for Science, Policy, and Outcomes; Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ

Recorded presentation

5:15 PM

J9.6

The Complexities of International Climate Policy

Marilyn Averill, CIRES/Univ. of Colorado, Boulder, CO

Recorded presentation

Joint Session 11

Urban Canopy and Roughness Sublayers

Location: Room 124B (Phoenix Convention Center)

Sponsors: (Joint between the Eighth Symposium on the Urban Environment; and the Boundary Layers and Turbulence Committee )

Chair: Gail-Tirrell Vaucher, Army Research Laboratory

Papers:

4:00 PM

J11.1

Measurements of concentration and dispersion in model urban canopies

Pablo Huq, University of Delaware, Newark, DE; and L. White and S. Dharmavaram

4:15 PM

J11.2

Estimates of air and pollutant exchange for street canyon in combined wind-buoyancy driven flow using the RANS renormalized group k-e turbulence model

Chun-Ho Liu, Department of Mechanical Engineering, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR, Hong Kong; and W. C. Cheng and D. Y. C. Leung

Recorded presentation Poster PDF (339.7 kB)

4:30 PM

J11.3

Urban canyon data analysis using a surface stress which incorporates the effects of canyon walls

Cheryl L. Klipp, U.S. Army Research Laboratory, Adelphi, MD

Recorded presentation Poster PDF (189.7 kB)

4:45 PM

J11.4

LES analysis of turbulent boundary-layer flow over urban-like building arrays with various spatial arrangement and height distribution

Hiromasa Nakayama, Japan Atomic Energy Agency, Naka-gun, Ibaraki, Japan; and T. Takemi and N. Haruyasu

Poster PDF (263.6 kB)

J11.5

Temporal and spatial variability of the vertical transport of heat and carbon dioxide in the urban roughness sublayer

5:15 PM

J11.5A

Eight stable urban environment characteristics

Gail-Tirrell Vaucher, Army Research Laboratory, White Sands Missile Range, NM

Poster PDF (129.2 kB)

5:30 PM

J11.6

Coherent structures within a North American street canyon

Sean C. Arms, Univ. of Oklahoma, Norman, OK; and P. M. Klein

Recorded presentation

Joint Session 12

Urban Heat Islands

Location: Room 124A (Phoenix Convention Center)

Sponsors: (Joint between the Eighth Symposium on the Urban Environment; and the Timothy R. Oke Symposium )

Chair: Tim Oke, University of British Columbia

Papers:

4:00 PM

J12.1

Urban heat island in Phoenix: An emergent property of rapid urbanization

H. J. S. Fernando, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ; and K. Park

Recorded presentation Poster PDF (398.0 kB)

4:15 PM

J12.2

Phoenix Urban Heat Island experiment: Micrometeorological aspects

Brent C. Hedquist, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ; and A. J. Brazel, S. Di Sabatino, W. Carter, and H. J. S. Fernando

Poster PDF (262.0 kB)

4:30 PM

J12.3

Phoenix Urban Heat Island Experiment: Effects of Built Elements

Silvana Di Sabatino, Universita' del Salento, Lecce, Italy; and B. C. Hedquist, W. Carter, L. S. Leo, and H. J. S. Fernando

Poster PDF (534.7 kB)

4:45 PM

J12.4 has been moved. New paper number J8.2A (Oke/8Urban)

4:45 PM

J12.4A

Annual spatio-temporal variability of Toulouse urban heat island

Grégoire Pigeon, CNRM-GAME, CNRS Meteo-France, Toulouse, France; and V. Masson

Recorded presentation Poster PDF (2.1 MB)

5:00 PM

J12.5

Estimating thermal responsiveness of local-scale climate 'zones' with a numerical modeling approach

Scott Krayenhoff, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada; and I. Stewart and T. Oke

Poster PDF (417.7 kB)

5:15 PM

J12.6

Impact of urbanization and land use changes on climate trends

Eugenia Kalnay, University of Maryland, College Park, MD; and M. Cai

Recorded presentation

Sessions Adjourn for the Day

Opening of the Exhibit Hall with Reception

Location: Hall 4 (Phoenix Convention Center)

Preparing for the Earth-Decadal-Survey “PATH” Mission

Location: Room 125B (Phoenix Convention Center)

Sponsor: Events

Community input for the National Academies’ Climate Change Study

Location: Room 125A (Phoenix Convention Center)

Sponsor: Events

Local Chapter Breakfast

Location: Room 229AB (Phoenix Convention Center)

Sponsor: Events

Press Office Tuesday

Location: Room 222C (Phoenix Convention Center)

Sponsor: Events

Weather Preview Theater

Location: Room 231C (Phoenix Convention Center)

Sponsors: (Joint between the Events; and the Ninth Communications Workshop )

1

Symposium Welcome and Keynote

Location: Room 224AB (Phoenix Convention Center)

Sponsor: Fifth Annual Symposium on Future Operational Environmental Satellite Systems- NPOESS and GOES-R

Cochairs: Gary McWilliams, NPOESS Integrated Program Office; James Gurka, NESDIS GOES-R Program Office

Papers:

8:30 AM

Welcoming Remarks

8:35 AM

Keynote address: Meeting National Needs: Transition Issues for Earth Observations, Climate, and Weather

Mary Glackin, NOAA, Washington, DC

Recorded presentation

1

Framing the Weather-ATM Integration Problem

Location: Room 132A (Phoenix Convention Center)

Sponsor: Aviation, Range and Aerospace Meteorology Special Symposium on Weather-Air Traffic Management Integration

Chairs: David J. Pace, FAA; Marilyn Wolfson, MIT Lincoln Laboratory

Papers:

8:30 AM

1.1

REDAC weather – ATM integration study

William S. Leber, Northwest Airlines, Minneapolis, MN

Recorded presentation

8:45 AM

1.2

Toward estimating and reducing forecast uncertainty for aviation applications using high-frequency data assimilation

Stanley G. Benjamin, NOAA/ESRL/GSD, Boulder, CO

Recorded presentation

9:00 AM

1.3

Using weather information for ATM decision support

Craig Wanke, The MITRE Corporation, McLean, VA

Recorded presentation

4B

Ocean Observations for Data Assimilation and Climate—I

Location: Room 131C (Phoenix Convention Center)

Sponsor: 13th Conference on Integrated Observing and Assimilation Systems for Atmosphere, Oceans, and Land Surface (IOAS-AOLS)

Chair: John Proni, NOAA/AOML

Papers:

8:30 AM

4B.1

Development of a new cross-calibrated, multi-platform (CCMP) ocean surface wind product

Robert Atlas, NOAA/AOML, Miami, FL; and R. N. Hoffman, J. Ardizzone, S. M. Leidner, and J. C. Jusem

Recorded presentation Poster PDF (1.7 MB)

8:45 AM

4B.2

Influence of assimilating QuikSCAT wind vectors on Global Forecast System (GFS) analyses and forecasts of tropical cyclones

Sharanya J. Majumdar, Univ. of Miami/RSMAS, Miami, FL; and R. Atlas

Recorded presentation

9:00 AM

4B.3

Redundancy analyses of the coupled atmosphere-ocean system and joint assimilation

Faez Bakalian, Dalhousie University, Halifax, NS, Canada; and H. Ritchie, K. Thompson, and W. Merryfield

Recorded presentation

9:15 AM

4B.4

Getting the ocean right—operational oceanography during RIMPAC 2008

John E. M. Brown, Naval Oceanographic Office, Stennis Space Center, MS; and M. Cobb, K. O'Driscoll, A. Mask, and C. Dehaan

Recorded presentation

Joint Session 1

Advances in Atmospheric Reanalysis—I

Location: Room 127BC (Phoenix Convention Center)

Sponsors: (Joint between the 23rd Conference on Hydrology; and the 21st Conference on Climate Variability and Change )

Chair: Michael G. Bosilovich, NASA/GSFC/GMAO

Papers:

8:30 AM

J1.1

The evolution of tropical easterly waves across Central America and Mexico: Comparisons of historical radiosonde measurements with reanalyses

Yolande Serra, Univ. of Arizona, Tucson, AZ; and G. N. Kiladis

Recorded presentation

8:45 AM

J1.2

Dynamically-downscaled global reanalyses to resolve mesoscale variability in precipitation statistics and their association with large scale circulations

James O. Pinto, NCAR, Boulder, CO; and D. L. Rife, J. A. Grim, and A. Monaghan

Recorded presentation

9:00 AM

J1.3

Winter season forecast experiments with the NCEP coupled forecast system (CFS) using different land models and different initial land states

Rongqian Yang, NOAA/NWS/NCEP, Camp Springs, MD; and K. Mitchell and J. Meng

Recorded presentation

9:15 AM

J1.4

Comparison of ERA-Interim and ERA-40 reanalyses with observations over river basins

Alan K. Betts, Atmospheric Research, Pittsford, VT; and M. Koehler and Y. Zhang

Recorded presentation Poster PDF (1.3 MB)

9:30 AM

J1.5

Modern Era Retrospective-analysis for Research and Applications (MERRA) global water and energy budgets

Michael G. Bosilovich, NASA/GSFC/GMAO, Greenbelt, MD; and F. R. Robertson and J. Chen

Recorded presentation

1

Aerosol and Precipitation

Location: Room 131B (Phoenix Convention Center)

Sponsor: Special Symposium on Aerosol–Cloud–Climate Interactions

Chair: Wei -Kuo Tao, NASA/GSFC

Papers:

8:30 AM

1.1

(Invited Speaker) Flood or drought: How do aerosols affect precipitation?

Daniel Rosenfeld, Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Israel; and M. O. Andreae

Recorded presentation

9:00 AM

1.2

(Invited Speaker) The role of aerosols on precipitation processes

Wei -Kuo Tao, NASA/GSFC, Greenbelt, MD; and X. Li, T. Matsui, A. Khain, and S. E. Lang

9:30 AM

1.3

The Relative Importance of CCN and Giant Aerosol Particles to Warm Rain Formation: Strength in Numbers

Sonia Lasher-Trapp, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN

1

Air pollution applications

Location: Room 122A (Phoenix Convention Center)

Sponsor: Fourth Symposium on Lidar Atmospheric Applications

Chair: C. Russell Philbrick, Penn. State University

CoChair: George Georgoussis, Raymetrics S.A.

Papers:

8:30 AM

1.1

Remote sensing of chemical species in the atmosphere

C. Russell Philbrick, Penn. State University, University Park, PA; and D. M. Brown, A. H. Willitsford, P. S. Edwards, A. M. Wyant, Z. Z. Liu, C. T. Chadwick, and H. D. Hallen

Recorded presentation Poster PDF (520.4 kB)

9:00 AM

1.2

Urban aerosol backscatter properties based on Raman lidar and parametric coefficient models

Viviana Vladutescu, City Tech, New York, NY; and Y. Wu, B. Gross, F. Moshary, and S. Ahmed

Recorded presentation Poster PDF (296.5 kB)

9:15 AM

1.3

Doppler lidar tracking of aerosol plumes

Charles Retallack, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ; and R. Calhoun and H. J. S. Fernando

9:30 AM

1.4

Measurements of particulate matter over an industrial site in the island of Evia (Greece) using synergy of a scanning Lidar and in situ sensors during TAMEX

George Georgoussis, Raymetrics S.A., Glyka Nera, Attika, Greece; and A. Papayannis, E. Remoudaki, G. Tsaknakis, R. Mamouri, G. Avdikos, C. Chontidiadis, P. Kokkalis, G. Koyloyris, M. Veenstra, and M. Tsezos

Joint Session 1

Measurements in the Urban Environment

Location: Room 124A (Phoenix Convention Center)

Sponsors: (Joint between the Eighth Symposium on the Urban Environment; the 11th Conference on Atmospheric Chemistry; the Timothy R. Oke Symposium; the Special Symposium on Measurements in the Urban Environment and Observations; the Eighth Conference on Coastal Atmospheric and Oceanic Prediction and Processes; the 16th Conference on Satellite Meteorology and Oceanography; and the Fourth Conference on the Meteorological Applications of Lightning Data )

Cochairs: Henry Revercomb, SSEC/Univ. of Wisconsin; Bjorn H. Lambrigtsen, JPL

Papers:

8:30 AM

J1.1

An Overview of the Oklahoma City Micronet

Jeffrey B. Basara, Oklahoma Climatological Survey and University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK; and B. G. Illston, C. Fiebrich, R. McPherson, J. P. Bostic, P. Browder, D. Demko, C. Morgan, and K. Kessler

Recorded presentation Poster PDF (992.6 kB)

8:45 AM

J1.2

Development of a NYC Meteorological Network with emphasis on vertical wind profiles in support of meteorological and dispersion models

Mark Arend, City College of New York, New York, NY; and D. Santoro, B. Gross, F. Moshary, S. Ahmed, and S. Abdelazim

Recorded presentation Poster PDF (266.7 kB)

9:00 AM

J1.3

Urban meteorological observations in Helsinki, Finland

David M. Schultz, Univ. of Helsinki/FMI, Helsinki, Finland; and W. F. Dabberdt, J. Damski, E. Gregow, L. Järvi, J. Koskinen, A. Meskanen, J. Poutiainen, H. Turtiainen, T. Vesala, and Y. Viisanen

Recorded presentation

9:15 AM

J1.4

The Environmental Prediction in Canadian Cities (EPiCC) network

James A. Voogt, University of Western Ontario, London, ON, Canada; and T. R. Oke, O. Bergeron, N. R. Goodwin, S. Leroyer, B. R. Crawford, E. Christensen, B. E. Nanni, R. Tooke, D. van der Kamp, D. Aldred, S. Bélair, F. Chagnon, A. Christen, N. Coops, J. Mailhot, I. McKendry, I. B. Strachan, J. Wang, M. Benjamin, S. Grimmond, A. Lemonsu, and V. Masson

Recorded presentation

9:30 AM

J1.5

Phoenix Urban Flash Flood Study (PUFFS)

Kenneth Howard, NOAA/NSSL, Norman, OK; and S. V. Vasiloff, C. Langston, J. Zhang, D. P. Jorgensen, and C. Dempsey

1

Urban Heat Islands - Part II

Location: Room 124B (Phoenix Convention Center)

Sponsor: Eighth Symposium on the Urban Environment

Chair: Anthony Brazel, Arizona State Univ.

Papers:

8:30 AM

1.1A

Tim Oke and the extension of urban heat island observations upwards into the PBL

R. Bornstein, San Jose State Univ., San Jose, CA; and J. C. Hunt

Recorded presentation

8:45 AM

1.1 has been moved. New paper number J12.4A (8Urban/Oke)

8:45 AM

1.2

Using UrbaNet data to quantify the nocturnal heat islands of US cities

Mark Hoekzema, Earth Networks, Germantown, MD; and B. B. Hicks

Recorded presentation Poster PDF (707.6 kB)

9:00 AM

1.3

A Numerical Study of “Urban Heat Islands” over the Washington-Baltimore Region

Da-Lin Zhang, Univ. of Maryland, College Park, MD; and Y. Shou

Recorded presentation

9:15 AM

1.5

Urban heat island effect of large Central European cities using satellite measurements of surface temperature

Rita Pongrácz, Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest, Hungary; and J. Bartholy, Z. Dezső, and E. Lelovics

Poster PDF (241.2 kB)

1.4

The Relation between land-cover and the Urban Heat Island in Northeastern Puerto Rico

9:45 AM

1.4A

Observed characteristics of the urban heat island during the harmattan and monsoon in Akure, Nigeria

Ahmed Balogun, Univ. of Leeds, Leeds, United Kingdom; and I. A. Balogun, A. A. Abatan, and E. A. Adefisan

Recorded presentation Poster PDF (1.7 MB)

1

Weather and Short-Term Decision Making in Water Resource Operations—I

Location: Room 231B (Phoenix Convention Center)

Sponsor: Seventh Users Forum on Weather and Climate Impacts

Chair: Jack Henz, HDR, Inc.

Papers:

8:30 AM

1.1

Forum Introduction

Pam Emch, Northrop Grumman, Redondo Beach, CA

8:45 AM

1.2

Water Operations at Salt River Project

Jon A. Skindlov, Salt River Project, Phoenix, AZ

Recorded presentation

9:15 AM

1.3

Weather and Climate Considerations in Phoenix Water Resource Planning

Steve Rossi, City of Phoenix Water Services Department, Phoenix, AZ

Recorded presentation

1

World Wide High Impact Weather—2008

Location: Room 230 (Phoenix Convention Center)

Sponsor: Impacts of 2008

Chair: Joseph Schaefer, NOAA/NWS/NCEP/NSSL/SPC

Papers:

8:30 AM

1.1

International Events

Klaus E. Wolter, NOAA/ERL/CDC, Boulder, CO

Recorded presentation

9:00 AM

1.2

Coastal Flooding throughout the Federated States of Micronesia

Bill Ward, NOAA/NWS, Honolulu, HI

Recorded presentation Poster PDF (351.7 kB)

9:15 AM

1.3

Chinese Weather 2008

Bi Baogui, National Meteorological Center, China Meteorological Administration, Beijing, , China

Recorded presentation

9:30 AM

1.4

Tropical cyclone prediction in the North Indian Ocean: Nargis and Myanmar

Peter J. Webster, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA; and P. Berlinger and J. Masters

Recorded presentation

2

Applications of Artificial Intelligence—II

Location: Room 125A (Phoenix Convention Center)

Sponsor: Seventh Conference on Artificial Intelligence and its Applications to the Environmental Sciences

Chair: John K. Williams, NCAR

Papers:

8:30 AM

2.1

A Data Mining Approach to Soil Temperature and Moisture Prediction

William Myers, NCAR, Boulder, CO; and S. Linden and G. Wiener

Recorded presentation Poster PDF (41.6 kB)

8:45 AM

2.2

Arctic blizzard prediction by nonlinear statistical downscaling of GFS Reforecast model outputs

Zhen Zeng, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada; and W. W. Hsieh, W. R. Burrows, and A. Giles

Recorded presentation

9:00 AM

2.3

Regionalization of clear-air turbulence forecasting using machine learning

Jennifer Abernethy, NCAR/RAL, Boulder, CO

Poster PDF (466.0 kB)

9:15 AM

2.4

Developing a global atmospheric turbulence decision support system for aviation

John K. Williams, NCAR, Boulder, CO; and R. D. Sharman and C. J. Kessinger

Recorded presentation Poster PDF (1.3 MB)

9:30 AM

2.5

UAV navigation by expert system for contaminant mapping

George S. Young, Penn State Univ., University Park, PA; and Y. Kuroki and S. E. Haupt

Recorded presentation Poster PDF (466.0 kB)

Joint Session 3

Policy, Social and Economic Dimensions of Water

Location: Room 121A (Phoenix Convention Center)

Sponsors: (Joint between the Fourth Symposium on Policy and Socio—Economic Research; and the 23rd Conference on Hydrology )

Cochairs: Adam Schlosser, MIT; Jessica C. Whitehead, South Carolina Sea Grant Consortium

Papers:

8:30 AM

J3.1

Water in the 21st century—a reality check

Pamela L. Stephens, NSF, Arlington, VA; and W. Hooke

Recorded presentation

8:45 AM

J3.2

The Impact of Daily Global Climate Datasets on the Modeling of Global and National Food and Water Systems

Kenneth Stzrepek, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO; and A. McCluskey, M. Rosegrant, and C. A. Schlosser

9:00 AM

J3.3

Exploration of Hydrologic Dynamics during the Colonial Era in the Northeastern United States

Mark B. Green, City College of New York, New York, NY; and C. J. Vorosmarty and A. Schlosser

9:15 AM

J3.4

Climate change adaptation in New York State: extreme rainfall, storm water, and policy implications

Lee M. Tryhorn, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY

9:30 AM

J3.5

Information flows and policy: climate, cyclones, and adaptive water-resources management at the U.S.-Mexico border

Gregg M. Garfin, Univ. of Arizona, Tucson, AZ; and C. Scott, R. Varady, M. Wilder, A. Coles, A. J. Ray, N. Pineda-Pablos, and M. Montero

Recorded presentation

3

Recent Advances in Lightning Technology and Transfer to Operations I

Location: Room 131A (Phoenix Convention Center)

Sponsor: Fourth Conference on the Meteorological Applications of Lightning Data

Chair: Martin J. Murphy, Vaisala

Papers:

8:30 AM

3.1

Recent advances in lightning research

E. Philip Krider, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ; and K. L. Cummins, M. M. F. Saba, and T. A. Warner

9:00 AM

3.2

Comparison of High-Speed Video and VHF LMA Data for CG Lightning Flashes

William H. Beasley, University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK; and D. M. Jordan

3.3

VHF-VLF dual band lightning mapping array for hurricane intensification study

9:30 AM

3.3A

Real time Processing and Display of Lightning Mapping Array Data

Harald E. Edens, New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology, Socorro, NM; and W. Rison, S. J. Hunyady, R. J. Thomas, P. R. Krehbiel, and W. P. Winn

9:45 AM

3.4

World—wide lightning location network: improvements in global detection efficiency and estimated stroke energy

Erin H. Lay, Univ. of Washington, Seattle, WA; and C. J. Rodger, R. H. Holzworth, A. R. Jacobson, D. M. Suszcynsky, J. N. Thomas, and J. B. Brundell

Recorded presentation

4

Monsoons

Location: Room 129A (Phoenix Convention Center)

Sponsor: 21st Conference on Climate Variability and Change

Chair: Rosana Nieto-Ferreira, East Carolina University

Papers:

8:30 AM

4.1

Comparisons of Cloud Water Content between CloudSat Estimates and ECMWF Analyses over Asian Monsoon Region and Tibet

Jui-Lin Li, JPL, Pasadena, CA; and D. E. Waliser, C. P. Woods, H. H. Hsu, C. H. Wu, J. Y. Yu, W. W. Tung, Y. C. Wang, A. M. Tompkins, and M. Köhler

8:45 AM

4.2

On the Predictability of Summer Monsoon Depressions over South Asia

Yi-Chi Wang, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN; and W. W. Tung

Recorded presentation Poster PDF (604.1 kB)

9:00 AM

4.3

Seasonal variations of snow cover over the Tibetan Plateau and ultimate effects on the East Asian summer monsoon

Li Xu, George Mason University, Calverton, MD

9:15 AM

4.4

The relation between the Tibetan snow in spring and the East Asia summer monsoon circulation in 2003: A modling study

Song You Hong, Yonsei University, Seoul, South Korea; and K. H. Seol

Recorded presentation

9:30 AM

4.5

Vertical Cloud Water Structures of the Boreal Summer Intraseasonal Variability Based on CloudSat Observations

Xianan Jiang, JIFRESSE/UCLA and JPL/Caltech, Pasadena, CA; and D. E. Waliser, J. L. Li, and C. P. Woods

4

New developments with physics-based forecast models

Location: Room 126B (Phoenix Convention Center)

Sponsor: Sixth Symposium on Space Weather

Chair: Richard Behnke, NSF

Papers:

8:30 AM

4.1

Demonstrating the space weather nowcasting and forecasting capabilities of the phenomena-based environmental effects predictor (PBEEP)

James M. Griffin, AER, Lexington, MA; and R. Aschbrenner, T. Connor, W. Gallery, and H. E. Snell

Recorded presentation

8:45 AM

4.2

Development of a physics-based coupled Whole Atmosphere and Ionosphere Plasmasphere Model (WAM-GIP) for ionospheric forecasting

Timothy J. Fuller-Rowell, NOAA / SEC and CIRES / Univ. of Colorado, Boulder, CO; and R. A. Akmaev, F. Wu, N. Maruyama, H. Wang, M. V. Codrescu, M. Iredell, and G. Millward

Recorded presentation

9:00 AM

4.3

A TIME-GCM CAM Multi-executable Coupled Model Using ESMF And InterComm

Robert Oehmke, NCAR, Boulder, CO; and M. Wiltberger, A. Sussman, W. Wang, and N. Lo

Recorded presentation

9:15 AM

4.4

A Statistical Comparison of Vertical TEC from Three Ionospheric Models

McArthur Jones Jr., University of Colorado, Boulder, CO; and M. Cordescu and J. Gannon

Recorded presentation Poster PDF (513.0 kB)

9:30 AM

4.5

Simulating Zonal and Meridional Winds on Mars' using Mars-GRAM and Accelerometer Data from the MRO Mission

Kimberly A. Zoldak, California Univ., California, PA

Recorded presentation

4

University and Professional Educational Outreach in the Atmospheric, Oceanic, and Hydrologic Sciences: Beyond the Conventional Classroom

Location: Room 125B (Phoenix Convention Center)

Sponsor: 18th Symposium on Education

Cochairs: Diane M. Stanitski, Geocation, LLC; Donna J. Charlevoix, UCAR

Papers:

8:30 AM

4.1

Earth system science education through the Earth System Science Education Alliance

Michael R. Witiw, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, Worldwide, Everett, WA; and E. Close and R. J. Myers

Recorded presentation Poster PDF (46.7 kB)

8:45 AM

4.2

Developing Inquiry-Based Learning Modules for Integration into Introductory Atmospheric Science Courses for Non-Majors

James Tobin, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX; and R. M. Mosier, C. C. Reed, C. Schumacher, and U. Karadkar

Recorded presentation

9:00 AM

4.3

Increasing stakeholder engagement with new web-based technology, features, and social interaction: The Southwest Climate Change Network

Joe S. Abraham, Climate Assessment for the Southwest, Tucson, AZ

Recorded presentation

9:15 AM

4.4

An Overview of the WxChallenge Forecasting Competition and Its Use as an Educational Tool

Bradley G. Illston, Univ. of Oklahoma, Norman, OK; and J. B. Basara, M. Voss, and C. C. Weiss

Recorded presentation Poster PDF (368.6 kB)

9:30 AM

4.5

European Meteorological Society and Education in Atmospheric Sciences

Tomas Halenka, Charles Univ., Prague, Czech Republic; and M. Belda

4A

Advances and Applications in Transportation Weather, Surface and Aviation

Location: Room 121BC (Phoenix Convention Center)

Sponsor: 25th Conference on International Interactive Information and Processing Systems (IIPS) for Meteorology, Oceanography, and Hydrology

Cochairs: Paul A. Pisano, Federal Highway Administration; S. Edward Boselly, Weather Solutions Group

Papers:

8:30 AM

4A.1

Making Aviation Safer: Results of the National Aviation Weather Program's 10-Year Goal to Reduce Weather-Related Accidents by 80 Percent

Samuel P. Williamson, Office of the Federal Coordinator for Meteorology, Silver Spring, MD; and M. R. Babcock

Recorded presentation Poster PDF (1.1 MB)

8:45 AM

4A.2

The NOAA Forecast Process in the NextGen Era

Steve Abelman, NOAA/NWS Office of Science and Technology, Silver Spring, MD; and C. Miner

Recorded presentation Poster PDF (350.7 kB)

9:00 AM

4A.3

Weather and Radar Processor (WARP) Test and Evaluation

Jeffrey A. Weinrich, A3 Technology Inc., Galloway, NJ

9:15 AM

4A.4

Evaluation of the Use of Visibility to Estimate Snowfall Rate Using ASOS data

Roy M. Rasmussen, NCAR, Boulder, CO; and S. D. Landolt, J. Black, A. W. Tripp, J. Riley, T. Smith, and W. Underwood

Recorded presentation

9:30 AM

4A.5

Testing and Deployment of the Water Vapor Sensing System II

David Helms, NOAA/NWS, Silver Spring, MD; and K. L. Johnston, G. Sanger, B. Taubvurtzel, R. A. Petersen, A. Homans, and A. Hoff

http://amdar.noaa.gov

Recorded presentation

4A

Mesoscale Data Assimilation and Impact Experiments—I

Location: Room 130 (Phoenix Convention Center)

Sponsor: 13th Conference on Integrated Observing and Assimilation Systems for Atmosphere, Oceans, and Land Surface (IOAS-AOLS)

Chair: S. Mark Leidner, AER

Papers:

8:45 AM

4A.2

Sensitivity of mesoscale surface analyses to surface observations in urban environments

John Horel, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT; and D. Tyndall

Recorded presentation

9:00 AM

4A.3

Relative short-range forecast impact in summer and winter from aircraft, profiler, rawinsonde, VAD, GPS-PW, METAR and mesonet observations for hourly assimilation into the RUC

Stanley G. Benjamin, NOAA/ESRL/GSD, Boulder, CO; and W. R. Moninger, B. D. Jamison, and S. R. Sahm

Recorded presentation

9:15 AM

4A.4

Advanced Data Assimilation with a Limited Area Model

Dagmar Merkova, University of Maryland, College Park, MD; and I. Szunyogh

Recorded presentation

9:30 AM

4A.5

The Application of Satellite-derived Dataset in the Analysis and Numerical Weather Prediction of the Winter Storms in Hawaii

Hsi-Chyi Yeh, University of Hawaii, Honolulu, HI; and Y. L. Chen

Recorded presentation Poster PDF (884.9 kB)

8:30 AM

4A.1

Naval Research Laboratory mesoscale model adaptive observing during T-PARC/TCS08

James D. Doyle, NRL, Monterey, CA; and H. Jin, C. M. Amerault, and C. A. Reynolds

Recorded presentation

4A

Remote sensing applied to air-sea interaction

Location: Room 128A (Phoenix Convention Center)

Sponsor: 16th Conference on Air-Sea Interaction

Chair: Ralph C. Foster, University of Washington

Papers:

8:30 AM

4A.1

The combined effect of surface rain and wind on scatterometer observations of surface roughness

David E. Weissman, Hofstra University, Hempstead, NY; and M. A. Bourassa

Recorded presentation

8:45 AM

4A.2

Interrelationship between surface wind, surface wind stress, and sea surface temperature

Larry W. O'Neill, NRL Monterey, Monterey, CA; and D. Chelton and S. Esbensen

Recorded presentation

9:00 AM

4A.3

Airborne Doppler radar measurement of the sea surface and winds in hurricanes

S.J. Frasier, U. Massachusetts, Amherst, MA; and T. Chu, J. McManus, R. Contreras, P. S. Chang, and J. Carswell

Recorded presentation

9:15 AM

4A.4

Diurnally varying wind forcing and upper ocean temperature: Implications for the ocean mixed layer

Sarah T. Gille, SIO/Univ. Of California, La Jolla, CA

Recorded presentation Poster PDF (2.1 MB)

9:30 AM

4A.5

Role of nearshore winds in connecting variability of river discharge with offshore bio-optical properties

Steven L. Morey, COAPS, Tallahassee, FL; and M. A. Bourassa and D. S. Dukhovskoy

Recorded presentation

4B

Applications in Meteorology, Oceanography, Hydrology and Climatology

Location: Room 122BC (Phoenix Convention Center)

Sponsor: 25th Conference on International Interactive Information and Processing Systems (IIPS) for Meteorology, Oceanography, and Hydrology

Cochairs: Lola Olsen, NASA; Timothy Crum, NOAA/NEXRAD Radar Operations Center

Papers:

8:30 AM

4B.1

A real-time automated method to determine forecast confidence associated with tornado warnings

John L. Cintineo, CIMMS/Univ. of Oklahoma, Norman, OK; and T. M. Smith, V. Lakshmanan, and K. L. Ortega

Recorded presentation Poster PDF (286.9 kB)

8:45 AM

4B.2

An Analysis and Evaluation of the Agreement between Severe Geostationary Satellite and National Weather Service (NWS) Radar Signatures during the Fall of 2008

Phil Zuzolo, The Boeing Company, Springfield, VA; and B. Zuzolo

Recorded presentation Poster PDF (1.8 MB)

9:00 AM

4B.3

Evaluation of short- medium- and long-range numerical weather forecasts at the Storm Prediction Center: A Case Study

Ashton Robinson Cook, NOAA/NWS SPC, Norman, OK

Recorded presentation

9:15 AM

4B.4

Statistical Short-Range Guidance for Peak Wind Speed Forecasts at Edwards Air Force Base, CA

Joe Dreher, ENSCO Inc., Cocoa Beach, FL; and W. Crawford, R. Lafosse, B. R. Hoeth, and K. L. Burns

Recorded presentation Poster PDF (1.2 MB)

9:30 AM

4B.5

An icing climatology for the U.S. and southern Canada

Jeffrey M. Freedman, AWS Truewind LLC, Albany, NY

Recorded presentation

4B

Basin-Scale Forcing of Synoptic Weather Patterns

Location: Room 128B (Phoenix Convention Center)

Sponsor: 16th Conference on Air-Sea Interaction

Chair: Ian Renfrew, University of East Anglia

Papers:

8:30 AM

4B.1

Synoptic scale changes in surface heat fluxes due to wind waves

Mark A. Bourassa, COAPS/Florida State Univ., Tallahassee, FL

Recorded presentation

8:45 AM

4B.2

A general theory for the spatial and transient behavior of the South Pacific Convergence Zone

Matthew J. Widlansky, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Georgia; and P. J. Webster

Recorded presentation

9:00 AM

4B.3

Left-hand rule for synoptic eddy and Low-frequency flow Interaction

Jong-Seong Kug, University of Hawaii, Honolulu, HI; and F. F. Jin, H. L. Ren, and J. Park

Recorded presentation

9:15 AM

4B.4

Impact of midlatitude oceanic frontal zones on the atmospheric general circulation and its annular variability: Importance of "oceanic baroclinic adjustment"

Hisashi Nakamura, Univ. of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan; and T. Sampe, A. Goto, B. Taguchi, M. Nonaka, N. Komori, A. Kuwano-Yoshida, W. Ohfuchi, and S. P. Xie

Recorded presentation

9:30 AM

4B.5

On the relationship between the surface and 850mb storm tracks

James Booth, Department of Atmospheric Sciences University of Washington, Seattle, WA; and L. Thompson, K. A. Kelly, J. Patoux, and S. Dickinson

Recorded presentation

Joint Session 6

NPOESS/MetOp Overview and Status

Location: Room 224AB (Phoenix Convention Center)

Sponsors: (Joint between the Fifth Annual Symposium on Future Operational Environmental Satellite Systems- NPOESS and GOES-R; and the 16th Conference on Satellite Meteorology and Oceanography )

Cochairs: Mike Haas, NPOESS; Doug May, Naval Oceanographic Office

Papers:

9:00 AM

J6.1

National Polar-orbiting Operational Environmental Satellite System (NPOESS) Architecture

Edward Phillips, NPOESS , Silver Spring, MD; and M. Haas and C. Nelson

Recorded presentation

9:15 AM

J6.2

National Polar-orbiting Operational Environmental Satellite System (NPOESS) Program Status

Dan Stockton, Program Executive Office, NPOESS Program, Silver Spring, MD; and C. Nelson and M. Haas

9:30 AM

J6.3

Metop-A status and recent achievements

Johannes Schmetz, EUMETSAT, Darmstadt, Germany; and K. D. Klaes, P. Schlüssel, and K. Holmlund

Recorded presentation

Panel Discussion

Question and Answer

Location: Room 132A (Phoenix Convention Center)

Sponsor: Aviation, Range and Aerospace Meteorology Special Symposium on Weather-Air Traffic Management Integration

Chairs: David J. Pace, FAA; Marilyn Wolfson, MIT Lincoln Laboratory

Poster Session 1

Aviation Weather Warning, Forecast and Decision Support Systems Poster Session

Location: Hall 5 (Phoenix Convention Center)

Sponsor: Aviation, Range and Aerospace Meteorology Special Symposium on Weather-Air Traffic Management Integration

Papers:

P1.1

The 2008 CoSPA* Forecast Demonstration *Collaboration Storm Prediction for Aviation

William J. Dupree, MIT, Lexington, MA; and D. Morse, M. Chan, X. Tao, M. Wolfson, J. O. Pinto, J. K. Williams, D. Albo, S. Dettling, M. Steiner, S. G. Benjamin, and S. S. Weygandt

Poster PDF (1.8 MB)

P1.2

The HRRR – 3-km storm-resolving, radar-initialized, hourly updated forecasts for air traffic management

Stanley G. Benjamin, NOAA/ESRL/GSD, Boulder, CO; and T. G. Smirnova, S. S. Weygandt, M. Hu, S. R. Sahm, B. D. Jamison, M. M. Wolfson, and J. O. Pinto

P1.3

Testing of GSI-WRF/ARW System for Potential High-Resolution Rapid Refresh Implementation with a Tropical Storm Over Land and Impact of Model Physics

Yi Yang, CAPS, University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK; and M. Xue, A. M. Shao, M. Hu, S. S. Weygandt, and S. Benjamin

P1.4

An enhanced convective forecast (ECF) for the New York TRACON area

James G. Stobie, ENSCO, Inc., Falls Church, VA; and M. M. Wheeler, D. L. Sims, G. J. Jedlovec, and R. Gillen

http://dist2.extremeforecasting.com/weather/tracon/main.jsp

Poster PDF (719.5 kB)

P1.5

Comparison of Pilot Deviations Around Stratiform vs. Convective Weather Regions

Yi-Hsin Lin, MIT, Lexington, MA; and M. Matthews, R. DeLaura, and M. Wolfson

P1.6

Development of a thunderstorm nowcasting system in support of Air Traffic Management

Peter P.W. Li, Hong Kong Observatory, Kowloon, Hong Kong

Poster PDF (1021.2 kB)

P1.7

Short-range and storm-scale ensemble forecast guidance and its potential applications in air traffic decision support

David R. Bright, NOAA/NWS/NCEP, Kansas City, MO; and J. Huhn, S. J. Weiss, J. J. Levit, J. S. Kain, R. S. Schneider, M. C. Coniglio, M. Duquette, and M. Xue

Poster PDF (1.0 MB)

P1.8

Use of new prototype products from the Canadian Air Navigation System: the dispatch perspective

Martin Kothbauer, Air Canada Jazz Dispatch, Enfield, NS, Canada; and B. Larochelle, R. Honch, and S. Laroche

P1.9

Prototyping new products for the Canadian Air Navigation System : TafPlus and VCMAC

Mr. Rob Honch, EC, Edmonton, AB, Canada; and S. Laroche, B. Larochelle, and M. Kothbauer

P1.10

Site Specific Terminal Forecast Amendment Criteria (SSTAC)

Bradford L. Sipperley Sr., NOAA/NWS, Fairbanks, AK; and J. D. Fairbanks Weather Forecast Office

P1.11

IC4D - A new tool for producing Four Dimensional Aviation Forecasts

Eugene Petrescu, NOAA/NWS/AAWU, Anchorage, AK; and T. Hall

P1.12

NextGen for the near-term, “NowGen”

P1.13

Overview of NextGen Weather Functional and Performance Requirements at end-state

John A. May, AvMet Applications International, Inc., Reston, VA; and C. G. Souders, F. Foss, R. Klein, P. Jackson, M. Carver, P. Schuster, J. Justiniano, S. Spincic, and J. Mechanic

P1.14

Building a 4-D Weather Data Cube for 2013 IOC

Cecilia Miner, NOAA/NWS, Silver Spring, MD; and S. Abelman and J. G. Stobie

Poster PDF (160.3 kB)

P1.15

Meteorological support of the Weather Systems Processor (WSP) operation

Ilana Steinhorn, Weather Processors and Sensors Branch, MMAC, FAA, Oklahoma City, OK

Poster PDF (170.6 kB)

P1.16

A tactical decision aid to limit the impacts of thunderstorms on climb and descent traffic at the Orlando International Airport

Matthew Volkmer, NOAA/NWS/Weather Forecast Office, Melbourne, FL; and S. Spratt, C. Baxter, D. Sharp, R. Mobbs, M. Rosencrans, J. Peters, C. Abelman, and P. Witsaman

Poster PDF (814.1 kB)

P1.17

Terminal Aerodrome Forecast-based Tactical Decision Aid

Eric Avila, NOAA/NWS, Houston, TX

http://www.srh.noaa.gov/zhu/www/tda.php

Poster PDF (593.8 kB)

P1.18

Innovative radar products for the 3D, high-resolution and real-time monitoring of the convective activity in the airspace around airports

Pierre Tabary, Météo France, Trappes, France; and O. Bousquet, S. Sénési, and P. Josse

P1.19

Lightning warnings for airport ramp operations: A case study of possible complications in populating and using the NextGen 4-D data cube

David B. Johnson, NCAR, Boulder, CO

P1.20

The extremely complex airspace over Memphis during the 5 February 2008 tornado outbreak

Daniel Nietfeld, NOAA, Valley, NE

P1.21

An Empirical Model for Aerodrome Wind Forecasting during the Passage of Tropical Cyclones

Tak Chuen Cheung, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, New Territories, Hong Kong; and P. Cheung and C. C. Lam

Poster PDF (878.9 kB)

P1.22

Visibility Forecasting For Warm and Cold Fog Conditions Observed During FRAM Field Projects

Ismail Gultepe, Environment Canada, Toronto, ON, Canada; and P. Minnis, J. Milbrandt, S. G. Cober, G. Isaac, C. Flynn, L. Nguyen, and B. Hansen

Poster PDF (1.6 MB)

P1.23

Doppler SoDAR systems in the airport environment

Kenneth H. Underwood, Atmospheric Systems Corporation, Santa Clarita, CA

P1.24

A Causational Argument for the Influence of Contrail Ice-particle Shape on Thermal Infrared Radiance Observations

Robert P. d'Entremont, AER, Inc., Lexington, MA; and D. L. Mitchell

Poster PDF (515.2 kB)

Joint Poster Session 1

Measurements in the Urban Environment

Location: Hall 5 (Phoenix Convention Center)

Sponsors: (Joint between the Eighth Symposium on the Urban Environment; the Boundary Layers and Turbulence Committee; and the Special Symposium on Measurements in the Urban Environment and Observations )

Cochairs: Petra M. Klein, Univ. of Oklahoma; C. Bruce Baker, NOAA/NESDIS/NCDC

Papers:

JP1.1

Ecosystem respiration of suburban lawns and its response to varying management and irrigation regimes

Kate Liss, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada; and B. Crawford, A. Christen, C. Siemens, and R. S. Jassal

Poster PDF (1.2 MB)

JP1.2

Observations of carbon dioxide concentrations in the greater Vancouver region

Ben Crawford, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada; and A. Christen

JP1.3

A Preliminary Study on the Response of Land Surface Temperatures to Changing Ocean Temperature Gradients along the New York City Area

J.E. Gonzalez, Santa Clara Univ., Santa Clara, CA; and A. Greenbaum and A. Bharth

JP1.4

Spectral characteristics of turbulence from rooftop meteorological stations in Washington, DC

Christoph A. Vogel, NOAA/ARL/ATDD, Oak Ridge, TN; and W. R. Pendergrass

Poster PDF (631.0 kB)

JP1.5

Spatial structure and scale feature of the atmospheric pollution source impact of city agglomeration

Xiangde Xu Sr., Chinese Academy of Meteorological Sciences, Beijing, China; and Z. Meng Jr., G. Ding Sr., X. Zhou Sr., and X. Shi Jr.

JP1.6

2008 roadway sound barrier atmospheric tracer study

Kirk L. Clawson, NOAA/ARL, Idaho Falls, ID; and R. Eckman, T. Pierce, R. Carter, D. Finn, S. Perry, and V. Isakov

JP1.7

Observing the urban mesoscale envronment: The Citizen Weather Observing Program

Gerald J. Creager, Texas A&M Univ., College Station, TX; and R. B. Chadwick, D. Helms, P. A. Miller, M. F. Barth, P. Gladstone, and S. S. Dimse

JP1.8

Design and deployment of traffic signal stations within the Oklahoma City Micronet

Bradley G. Illston, Oklahoma Climatological Survey, Norman, OK; and P. Browder, K. Kesler, and J. B. Basara

http://okc.mesonet.org

Poster PDF (100.6 kB)

JP1.9

Improvement of Aerosol Retrieval and Resolution using a refined Surface Albedo Model based on Simultaneous MODIS and Sunphotometer Measurements

Min Min Oo, Optical remote Sensing Lab City College of New York, New York, NY; and M. Jerg, B. Gross, F. Moshary, and S. Ahmed

Poster PDF (1.0 MB)

JP1.10

The Characteristics Study on the Precipitable Water Vapor measured by the Ground-Based 12 –Channel Microwave Radiometer in Beijing

Hongyan Liu, Institute of Urban Meteorology, China Meteorological Administration, Beijing, China

JP1.11

Temperature correction algorithm for Geonor weighing gauge with three transducers

Harry H. Lamb, MSC, Toronto, ON, Canada; and B. Persaud and H. Mouradian

Poster PDF (143.4 kB)

Poster Session 1

New and Future Sensor Applications and Systems

Location: Hall 5 (Phoenix Convention Center)

Sponsor: 16th Conference on Satellite Meteorology and Oceanography

Papers:

P1.1

An overview of the future GOES-R series data and products to be archived at the NCDC

P1.2

Prospects for high-latitude precipitation estimation with A-Train satellites

Eric J. Nelkin, NASA/GSFC and SSAI, Greenbelt, MD; and G. J. Huffman, R. F. Adler, and D. T. Bolvin

P1.3

The next decade of Earth radiation budget measurement

G. Louis Smith, National Institute of Aerospace, Hampton, VA; and K. J. Priestley and B. A. Wielicki

Poster PDF (348.8 kB)

P1.4

Simulation of the monochromatic radiative signature of Asian dust over the infrared region

Hyo-Jin Han, Seoul National University, Seoul, South Korea; and B. J. Sohn, A. Huang, and E. Weisz

Poster PDF (423.4 kB)

P1.5

Rainfall measurement with space-borne X-band synthetic aperture radars: A new opportunity

James A. Weinman, Univ. of Washington, Seattle, WA; and F. S. Marzano, W. J. Plant, Z. S. Haddad, S. L. Durden, and A. Mugnai

Poster PDF (1.4 MB)

Joint Poster Session 2

GOES-R

Location: Hall 5 (Phoenix Convention Center)

Sponsors: (Joint between the 16th Conference on Satellite Meteorology and Oceanography; and the Fifth Annual Symposium on Future Operational Environmental Satellite Systems- NPOESS and GOES-R )

Cochairs: James Gurka, NESDIS GOES-R Program Office; Timothy J. Schmit, NOAA/NESDIS/ORA; Frank Hinnant, NPOESS/IPO; Jane Whitcomb, NPOESS Integrated Program Office

Papers:

JP2.1

Synthetic satellite datasets for GOES-R ABI bands

Renate Brummer, CIRA/Colorado State Univ., Fort Collins, CO; and M. Sengupta, L. Grasso, D. W. Hillger, D. T. Lindsey, R. DeMaria, and M. DeMaria

JP2.2

GOES-R ABI product development

Donald W. Hillger, NOAA/NEDSIS, Fort Collins, CO CO; and M. DeMaria and R. Brummer

Poster PDF (193.4 kB)

JP2.3

An overview of the future GOES-R series data and products to be archived at the NOAA data centers

Philip Jones, STG, Inc., Asheville, NC; and D. Saunders and K. Knapp

JP2.4

Development of Land Products for GOES-R Satellite Mission

Yunyue Yu, NOAA/NESDIS, Camp Springs, MD; and D. Tarpley and M. D. Goldberg

JP2.5

The UW/CIMSS global land surface infrared emissivity database for GOES-R ABI simulation studies

Eva Borbas, Univ. of Wisconsin, Madison, WI; and R. O. Knuteson, S. W. Seemann, L. Moy, T. Greenwald, D. Tobin, and H. L. Huang

JP2.6

GOES-R/ABI for vegetation health monitoring

Felix Kogan, NOAA/NESDIS, Camp Springs, MD; and W. Guo and Y. Tian

JP2.7

Simulated GOES-R vegetation health product system

JP2.8

Synthetic GOES-R imagery of fires at 3.9 µm

Louie Grasso, CIRA/Colorado State Univ., Fort Collins, CO; and M. Sengupta, R. Brummer, R. DeMaria, and D. W. Hillger

JP2.9

Improving fire detection: Current GOES to GOES-R

Manajit Sengupta, CIRA/Colorado State Univ., Fort Collins, CO; and L. Grasso, R. Brummer, and D. W. Hillger

Poster PDF (166.4 kB)

JP2.10

Retrieving Upper and Lower Cloud Layer Properties Using the GOES-12 Imagery Data: Addressing Problems in Satellite Retrievals of Cloud Layers

Fu-Lung Chang, SSAI, Hampton, VA; and P. Minnis, B. Lin, R. Palikonda, and D. A. Spangenberg

JP2.11

Comparison of the GOES-R cloud Algorithm Working Group's daytime cloud optical property products to those from MODIS, AVHRR and VIIRS

William Straka III, CIMSS/Univ. of Wisconsin, Madison, WI; and A. Walther and A. K. Heidinger

JP2.12

The introduction and evaluation of a prototype GOES-R fog/low stratus algorithm using SEVIRI, CALIPSO and surface observations

Corey G. Calvert, CIMSS/Univ. of Wisconsin, Madison, WI; and M. J. Pavolonis

JP2.13

An analysis of the seasonal and diurnal variation of total precipitable water (TPW) from satellite and ground-based instruments over the ARM-SGP site

Sarah Bedka, CIMSS/Univ. of Wisconsin, Madison, WI; and J. Cychosz, M. Evansen, R. Knuteson, H. E. Revercomb, D. Tobin, and D. D. Turner

Poster PDF (287.8 kB)

JP2.14

Status update from the GOES-R Hydrology Algorithm Team

Robert J. Kuligowski, NOAA / NESDIS, Camp Springs, MD

JP2.15

Prototyping SST Retrievals from GOES-R ABI with MSG SEVIRI data

Nikolay Shabanov, NOAA/NESDIS, IMSG Inc, Camp Springs, MD; and A. Ignatov, B. Petrenko, Y. Kihai, X. Liang, W. Guo, F. Xu, P. Dash, M. Goldberg, and J. Sapper

Poster PDF (1.2 MB)

JP2.16

Sea and lake ice characteristics from GOES-R ABI

Xuanji Wang, CIMSS/Univ. of Wisconsin, Madison, WI; and Y. Liu and J. Key

JP2.17

An automated approach for determining sea ice concentration for the future GOES-R ABI sensor

Marouane Temimi, NOAA-CREST, New York, NY; and H. Ghedira, R. Khanbilvardi, and P. Romanov

JP2.18

Snow cover mapping technique for GOES-R ABI

Peter Romanov, NOAA-CREST, New York, NY; and C. Kongoli

JP2.19

Implementation of the GOES-R AWG product processing system framework

Walter Wolf, NOAA/NESDIS, Camp Springs, MD; and L. Zhou, P. Keehn, Q. Guo, S. Sampson, S. Qiu, and M. Goldberg

JP2.20

Quality Assessment of the GOES-R AWG Level 2 Product Processing System

Lihang Zhou, Perot System, Fairfax, VA; and W. Wolf, Q. Shuang, W. Wang, P. Keehn, Q. Guo, S. Sampson, and M. D. Goldberg

JP2.21

GeoSTAR—A “Geostationary AMSU”

Bjorn H. Lambrigtsen, JPL and California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA; and T. Gaier and L. Herrell

JP2.22

Mesoscale sounding capabilities with GOES-R and beyond

William Smith Sr., Hampton Univ., Hampton, VA; and H. Revercomb and J. Tian

JP2.23

Evaluation of GOES-R and NPOESS instrument in Joint OSSEs

Lars Peter Riishojgaard, JCSDA, Greenbelt, MD; and F. Weng, M. Masutani, T. Zhu, H. Sun, C. M. Hill, V. Anantharaj, P. J. Fitzpatrick, R. M. Errico, S. J. Lord, Y. Han, J. Woollen, D. Groff, and T. J. Kleespies

Poster Session 2

Lightning Applications and Studies in the Atmospheric Sciences

Location: Hall 5 (Phoenix Convention Center)

Sponsor: Fourth Conference on the Meteorological Applications of Lightning Data

Chair: Eric C. Bruning, University of Maryland

Papers:

P2.1

Comparison of charge structures in storms dominated by positive and negative ground flashes

Eric C. Bruning, University of Maryland, College Park, MD; and L. D. Carey, W. A. Petersen, R. J. Blakeslee, S. Goodman, W. D. Rust, and D. R. MacGorman

P2.2

Performance of a statistical framework for analyzing large lightning and radar datasets

Amanda R. S. Anderson, NCAR, Boulder, CO; and T. J. Lang and S. A. Rutledge

Poster PDF (610.4 kB)

P2.3

Further progress on a framework for the statistical analysis of large radar and lightning datasets

Timothy J. Lang, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO; and S. A. Rutledge

Poster PDF (79.3 kB)

P2.4

An evaluation of lightning flash characteristics using LDAR and NLDN networks with warm season Southeast Texas thunderstorms

Joseph W. Jurecka, NOAA/NWSFO, Lubbock, TX; and R. Orville

Poster PDF (612.8 kB)

P2.5

Does the altitude of the charge source region influence stroke multiplicity?

Candace L. Cyrek, Texas Tech University, Lubbock, TX; and K. C. Wiens

P2.6

Microphysics complexity effects on storm evolution and electrification

Blake J. Allen, Pittsburg State University, Pittsburg, KS; and E. R. Mansell

Poster PDF (1.9 MB)

P2.7

Lightning and anthropogenic NOx sources over the U.S. and the western North Atlantic Ocean: Impact on OLR from space-borne observations

Yunsoo Choi, NOAA/ARL, Silver Spring, MD; and J. Kim, A. Eldering, G. Osterman, Y. Yung, and K. N. Liou

P2.8

WRF-Chem Evaluation of Ozone Transport and Production by Lightning and Convection over Western and Central Africa

Jonathan W. Smith, Howard University, Washington, DC; and G. S. Jenkins and M. C. Barth

P2.9

Assimilation of lightning data using cloud analysis within the Rapid Refresh

Ming Hu, NOAA/ESRL/GSD and CIRES, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO; and S. S. Weygandt, S. G. Benjamin, J. M. Brown, S. E. Peckham, and T. G. Smirnova

P2.10

Climate and Lightning: An updated TRMM-LIS Analysis

P2.11

Using TRMM for thunderstom cell identification and lightning climatology

Anita LeRoy, University of Alabama, Huntsville, AL; and W. A. Petersen and D. J. Cecil

P2.12

Tropical frequency and distribution of lightning based on 10 years of observations from space by the Lightning Image Sensor (LIS)

Rachel I. Albrecht, Univ. of Maryland, College Park, MD; and S. Goodman, D. E. Buechler, and T. Chronis

Poster PDF (2.2 MB)

P2.13

Total Lightning Activity within Extreme Weather Events Observed by the TRMM LIS and OTD

Lawrence D. Carey, University of Alabama in Huntsville, Huntsville, AL; and W. A. Petersen and H. J. Christian Jr.

P2.14

A Multi-platform Study of the Environment of Prolific Lightning Producing Storms in South Eastern South America

Mariana Scott, University of Alabama in Huntsville, Huntsville, AL; and D. J. Cecil

P2.15

Narrow Bipolar Event discharges and intense VHF emissions: more on FORTE/LASA joint observations

Abram R. Jacobson, Univ. of Washington, Bellingham, WA

Joint Poster Session 2

Observations/Studies of High—Impact Weather in Urban Regions

Location: Hall 5 (Phoenix Convention Center)

Sponsors: (Joint between the Fourth Symposium on Policy and Socio—Economic Research; the Symposium on Urban High Impact Weather; the Special Symposium on Measurements in the Urban Environment and Observations; the Eighth Conference on Coastal Atmospheric and Oceanic Prediction and Processes; the Eighth Symposium on the Urban Environment; the 23rd Conference on Hydrology; and the Fourth Conference on the Meteorological Applications of Lightning Data )

Cochairs: Pavlos Kollias, McGill University; Bart Nijssen, 3TIER, Inc.

Papers:

JP2.1

Observations of fronts from the Helsinki Testbed mesoscale observing network

David M. Schultz, Universities of Helsinki and Manchester/Finnish Meteorological Institute, Helsinki, Finland; and M. Leskinen

JP2.2

Development and Implementation of Multi-Scale Urban Test Beds

Samuel P. Williamson, Office of the Federal Coordinator for Meteorology, Silver Spring, MD; and W. D. Bach Jr. and W. R. Pendergrass

JP2.3

Diagnostic studies of extreme temperature events using modern reanalysis datasets

Robert X. Black, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA; and B. Miller and J. C. Furtado

JP2.4

Weathering the tropical cyclone: Improving public assistance via vulnerability assessment for the older population of New Hanover county, North Carolina

Rachel L. Godwin, University of North Carolina, Charlotte, NC

JP2.5

The importance of elevated mixed layers in urban heat eave events east of the Rockies

Thomas J. Galarneau Jr., NCAR, Boulder, CO; and J. M. Cordeira and L. F. Bosart

JP2.6

Analysis of air transport patterns bringing dust storms to El Paso, Texas

Nancy Ivette Rivera Rivera, Univ. of Texas, El Paso, TX; and K. A. Gebhart, T. E. Gill, J. L. Hand, D. J. Novlan, and R. M. Fitzgerald

Poster PDF (601.0 kB)

JP2.7

Analysis of extreme rainfall events near Austin, TX and Coffeyville, KS, during summer 2007

Kevin H. Goebbert, Univ. of Oklahoma, Norman, OK; and N. Snook, C. M. Shafer, and A. D. Schenkman

JP2.8

Development of a detailed database of flash flood observations

Jessica Marie Erlingis, CIMMS/Univ. of Oklahoma, Norman, OK; and J. J. Gourley, T. Smith, and K. L. Ortega

Poster PDF (2.4 MB)

JP2.9

The Phoenix Rainfall Index (PRI)

Paul M. Iñiguez, NOAA/NWS, Tempe, AZ

Poster PDF (2.6 MB)

JP2.10

An evaluation of brightness temperatures simulated by various WRF-ARW microphysical algorithms for an atmospheric river event affecting the California coast

Isidora Jankov, CIRA/Colorado State Univ., Boulder, CO; and M. Sengupta, L. Grasso, D. Coleman, D. Zupanski, M. Zupanski, L. Daniel, and R. Brummer

JP2.11

Southwest Florida warm season tornado development

Jennifer M. Collins, University of South Florida, Tampa, FL; and C. H. Paxton, D. G. Noah, and A. N. Williams

Poster PDF (737.9 kB)

Poster Session 3

Global dynamics and prediction - posters

Location: Hall 5 (Phoenix Convention Center)

Sponsor: 21st Conference on Climate Variability and Change

Papers:

P3.1

Comparisons of Satellites Liquid Water Estimates with ECMWF and GMAO Analyses, 20th Century IPCC AR4 Climate Simulations, and GCM Simulations

Jui-Lin Li, JPL, Pasadena, CA; and D. E. Waliser, C. P. Woods, J. Teixeira, J. Bacmeister, J. D. Chern, B. W. Shen, and A. M. Tompkins

P3.2

Progress in Reconstructing 20th Century Oceanic Precipitation

Phillip A. Arkin, University of Maryland, College Park, MD; and T. M. Smith and M. R. P. Sapiano

P3.3

Additive effect of two solar forcing mechanisms and influences on tropical Pacific climate

Gerald A. Meehl, NCAR, Boulder, CO; and J. M. Arblaster, F. Sassi, and K. Matthes

P3.4

Variance Scaling of Temperature and Water Vapor from the Atmospheric Infrared Sounder and Cloud Water Content from CloudSat

Brian H. Kahn, JPL, Pasadena, CA; and J. Teixeira and E. J. Fetzer

P3.5

Future change in Northern Hemisphere wintertime atmospheric blocking simulated by a 20-km mesh atmospheric global circulation model

Mio Matsueda, AESTO/MRI, Tsukuba, Ibaraki, Japan; and R. Mizuta and S. Kusunoki

Poster PDF (563.2 kB)

P3.6

P3.6 has been moved. New paper 7A.4A

P3.7

Global shortwave aerosol radiative effect over land from Terra and Aqua

Thomas A. Jones, CIMMS/Univ. of Oklahoma, Norman, OK; and S. A. Christopher

P3.8

Modeling the ability of the atmosphere to regain an equilibrium state following carbon dioxide-induced forcing

Brittany L. Perrin, University of Missouri, Columbia, MO; and G. L. Limpert and A. R. Lupo

P3.9

P3.9 has been moved. New paper 3.3A

P3.10

Eastern Australian Dust Storm Variability: Result of Multidecadal Pacific Climate System Forcing with Climate Change Implications

Peter J. Lamb, CIMMS/Univ. of Oklahoma; and L. M. Leslie, R. P. Timmer, and M. S. Speer

P3.11

Global and seasonal assessment climate/ vegetation biophysical process (VBP) interactions

P3.12

Diurnal cycle of surface radiation budget and regional climate

Pamela E. Mlynczak, SSAI, Hampton, VA; and G. L. Smith and P. W. Stackhouse Jr.

Poster PDF (2.0 MB)

P3.13

A GCM-based analysis of circulation controls on del18O in the southwest Yukon, Canada: implications for climate reconstructions in the region

Robert Field, Univ. of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada; and G. W. K. Moore and G. Holdsworth

P3.14

Seasonal prediction with CCSM3.0: general skill assessment and impact of land surface initialization

James L. Kinter III, COLA, Calverton, MD; and D. Paolino, D. M. Straus, B. P. Kirtman, and D. Min

P3.15

Large scale variability in the Arctic cloud and radiative climatology

Neil Barton, Univ. of Delaware, Newark, DE; and D. E. Veron

P3.16

Ensuring Consistency Between NWS National and Local 3 Month Temperature Outlooks

Marina M. Timofeyeva, UCAR, Boulder, CO and NOAA/NWS, Silver Spring, MD; and A. Hollingshead and D. A. Unger

P3.17

SCALE AND STABILITY ANALYSIS OF SELECTED ATMOSPHERIC BLOCKING EVENTS

Athar Hussain, Univ. of Missouri, Columbia, MO; and A. R. Lupo

Joint Poster Session 3

Npoess

Location: Hall 5 (Phoenix Convention Center)

Sponsors: (Joint between the Fifth Annual Symposium on Future Operational Environmental Satellite Systems- NPOESS and GOES-R; and the 16th Conference on Satellite Meteorology and Oceanography )

Cochairs: Frank Hinnant, Eagle Consulting, LLC; Jane Whitcomb, NPOESS Integrated Program Office

Papers:

JP3.1

National Polar-orbiting Operational Environmental Satellite System (NPOESS) design and architecture

Frank Hinnant, Eagle Consulting, LLC, Lansing, NC

JP3.2

NPOESS spacecraft and sensor performance

Derrick Day, Northrop Grumman Space Technology, Redondo Beach, CA

JP3.3

NPOESS Command, Control, and Communications Segment (C3S)

Paul B. Koster, Raytheon Intelligence and Information Systems, Aurora, CO

JP3.4

NPOESS' Key to Low Data Latency: SafetyNet^TM

David G. Lubar, Raytheon Intelligence and Information Systems, Aurora, CO; and G. Cook and M. L. Jamilkowski

JP3.5

NPOESS Benefits McMurdo Station, Antarctica Science Community

Joseph Paciaroni, Raytheon Intelligence and Information Systems, Aurora, CO

JP3.6

NPOESS Field Terminal Segment

Joseph Bradley, Raytheon Intelligence and Information Systems, Omaha, NE

JP3.7

NPOESS Interface Data Processing Segment Architecture

Kerry D. Grant, Raytheon Intelligence and Information Systems, Aurora, CO

JP3.8

NPOESS Interface Data Processing Segment (IDPS) Hardware

William J. Sullivan, Raytheon Intelligence and Information Systems, Aurora, CO; and C. R. Bergeron and D. A. Hargrave

JP3.9

NPOESS Environmental Data Record (EDR) Production

Kerry D. Grant, Raytheon Intelligence and Information Systems, Aurora, CO; and R. Hughes

JP3.10

Accessing and Using NPOESS Data Products

Daniel Cornell, Raytheon Company, Omaha, NE

JP3.11

Status and activities of the NPOESS Visible/Infrared Imager Radiometer Suite (VIIRS) in preparation for delivery to the NPP spacecraft

JP3.12

VIIRS Sensor and EDR Performance Summary and Comparisons to Heritage

David Lewis, Northrop Grumman Space Technology, Redondo Beach, CA; and C. Snodgrass, J. McCarthy, D. Shannon, N. Andreas, M. Mussetto, K. D. Grant, P. Smit, and B. Guenther

JP3.13

VIIRS Gridding and Granulation Algorithms for NPOESS

Alain Sei, Northrop Grumman Aerospace Systems, Redondo Beach, CA

Poster PDF (1.4 MB)

JP3.14

VIIRS sensor radiometric performance overview

David Lewis, Northrop Grumman Space Technology, Redondo Beach, CA; and S. Mills, J. McCarthy, M. S. Chou, J. Diehl, G. Grimm, R. Patel, and J. Jaron

JP3.15

Early performance predictions of Cloud Environmental Data Records for the NPOESS Preparatory Project VIIRS sensor

Heather Kilcoyne, NOAA/NESDIS/JPSS, Lanham, MD; and B. Guenther, C. Hoffman, G. Mineart, K. St. Germain, and B. Reed

JP3.16

Early performance predictions of Imagery, Cloud Mask, and Fire Mask data products for the NPOESS Preparatory Project VIIRS sensor

Heather Kilcoyne, NOAA/NESDIS/JPSS, Lanham, MD; and B. Guenther, C. Hoffman, G. Mineart, K. St. Germain, and B. Reed

JP3.17

A geometry-based approach to identifying cloud shadows in the VIIRS cloud mask algorithm for NPOESS

Keith D. Hutchison, Northrop Grumman Aerospace Systems, Redondo Beach, CA CA; and R. Mahoney, E. Vermote, T. J. Kopp, J. M. Jackson, B. Iisager, and A. Sei

Poster PDF (691.9 kB)

JP3.18

Assessment of the NPOESS/VIIRS Nighttime Infrared Cloud Optical Properties Algorithms

JP3.19

Solar channel calibration using deep convective clouds

JP3.20

Early performance predictions of Aerosol Environmental Data Records for the NPOESS Preparatory Project VIIRS sensor

Heather Kilcoyne, NOAA/NESDIS/JPSS, Lanham, MD; and B. Guenther, C. Hoffman, G. Mineart, K. St. Germain, and B. Reed

JP3.21

Predicted performance of NPOESS aerosol products

John M. Jackson, Northrop Grumman Aerospace Systems, Redondo Beach, CA; and E. Vermote and C. F. Quist

Poster PDF (2.4 MB)

JP3.22

Early performance predictions of Ocean Environmental Data Records for the NPOESS Preparatory Project VIIRS sensor

Bonnie Reed, NPOESS IPO, Silver Spring, MD; and B. Guenther, C. Hoffman, G. Mineart, K. St. Germain, and H. Kilcoyne

JP3.23

Pre-launch performance assessment of the VIIRS ocean color/chlorophyll algorithm

Justin Ip, Northrop Grumman Space Technology, Redondo Beach, CA; and B. Hauss and C. Mobley

Poster PDF (1005.2 kB)

JP3.24

Refinement of atmospheric correction of absorbing aerosols for highly productive coastal waters using the SWIR retrieval algorithm together with water leaving reflectance constraints at 412nm

Barry Gross, City College of New York, New York, NY; and M. Oo, F. Moshary, and S. Ahmed

Poster PDF (1.2 MB)

JP3.25

Pre-launch performance assessment of the VIIRS ice surface temperature algorithm

Justin Ip, Northrop Grumman Space Technology, Redondo Beach, CA; and B. Hauss

Poster PDF (1.5 MB)

JP3.26

Early performance predictions of Land Environmental Data Records for the NPOESS Preparatory Project VIIRS sensor

Bonnie Reed, NPOESS IPO, Silver Spring, MD; and B. Guenther, C. Hoffman, G. Mineart, K. St. Germain, and H. Kilcoyne

JP3.27

VIIRS Land Surface Reflectance Algorithm for NPOESS

Alain Sei, Northrop Grumman Space Technology, Redondo Beach, CA; and E. Vermote

JP3.28

Daily Albedo and Reflectance Anisotropy Products

Crystal B. Schaaf, Center for Remote Sensing, Boston University, Boston, MA; and M. Román, Q. Zhang, Y. Shuai, A. Strahler, D. Roy, G. Anderson, and J. L. Privette

JP3.29

Status and activities of the NPOESS Cross-Track Infrared Sounder in preparation for delivery to the NPP spacecraft

Richard Slonaker, NPOESS IPO, Silver Spring, MD

JP3.30

Performance of the as-delivered NPP CrIS sensor

Richard Slonaker, NPOESS IPO, Silver Spring, MD; and F. Sabet-Peyman, P. Moffa, D. Gu, T. Christensen, and R. Glumb

JP3.31

Early performance predictions of Cross-track Infrared Sounder/Advanced Technology Microwave Sounder (CrIMSS) Environmental Data Records for the NPOESS Preparatory Project

Bonnie Reed, NPOESS IPO, Silver Spring, MD; and G. A. Bingham, B. Guenther, C. Hoffman, G. Mineart, K. St. Germain, and H. Kilcoyne

JP3.32

CrIMSS Retrieval Algorithm Testing with Proxy Data

Degui Gu, Northrop-Grumman, Redondo Beach, CA; and X. L. Ma

Poster PDF (2.3 MB)

JP3.33

Status and activities of the NPOESS Advanced Technology Microwave Sounder (ATMS) in preparation for delivery to the NPOESS spacecraft

Christopher Brann, NPOESS IPO, Silver Spring, MD

JP3.34

OMPS—The next generation sensor suite for global Ozone monitoring

Scott C. Asbury, Ball Aerospace & Technologies Corp., Boulder, CO; and S. Cass, L. Farwell, K. Eastman, Q. Remund, and J. Rodriguez

JP3.35

Early performance predictions of Ozone Environmental Data Records for the NPOESS Preparatory Project OMPS sensor

Heather Kilcoyne, NOAA/NESDIS/JPSS, Lanham, MD; and M. Caponi, B. Guenther, C. Hoffman, G. Mineart, K. St. Germain, and B. Reed

JP3.36

OMPS SDR Algorithm Improvements and Verification

Degui Gu, Northrop-Grumman, Redondo Beach, CA; and K. Jordan and M. Novicki

Poster PDF (2.9 MB)

JP3.37

OMPS sensor performance and algorithm description

Scott Farrow, Northrop Grumman Aerospace Systems, Redondo Beach, CA; and D. Gu, T. Christensen, D. Fields, and Q. Remund

JP3.38

The OMPS Limb Profiler instrument: Data analysis and retrieval algorithm

Didier F. Rault, NASA Langley Research Center, Hampton, VA; and R. Loughman

JP3.39

Status of the CERES Instruments for NPP and NPOESS

Stan Schneider, NPOESS Integrated Program Office, Silver Spring, MD; and A. Webb

JP3.40

WindSat Polarimetric Microwave Radiometer: Advanced Sensor Products and Risk Reduction for NPOESS MIS

Michael H. Bettenhausen, NRL, Washington, DC; and I. S. Adams, L. Li, and P. W. Gaiser

JP3.41

Contributions of the NPOESS Microwave Imager/Sounder (MIS) Sensor to data continuity for operations

David Kunkee, The Aerospace Corporation, Los Angeles, CA; and C. Brann and R. Hamilton

JP3.42

Algorithm development program for NPOESS Space Weather products

William F. Denig, NOAA/NESDIS, Boulder, CO; and V. Grano and J. Manley

JP3.43

NPP Cal/Val program and data product mission integration

Heather Kilcoyne, NOAA/NESDIS/JPSS, Lanham, MD; and B. Guenther, C. Hoffman, G. Mineart, K. St. Germain, and B. Reed

JP3.44

GRAVITE—central technical support infrastructure for the IPO NPP Calibration and Validation program

Joseph Zajic, NPOESS Integrated Program Office, Silver Spring, MD; and V. Gonzalez

JP3.45

The Noaa PROoducts (integrated) Validation System (NPROVS) and Environmental Data Graphical Evaluation (EDGE) Interface Part-2: Science

Anthony L. Reale, NOAA/NESDIS, Camp Springs, MD; and B. Sun and M. Pettey

Poster PDF (338.5 kB)

JP3.46

EVEREST: An Integrated Weather Products Testbed for Environmental Remote Sensing Satellite Systems

Merit Shoucri, Northrop Grumman Space Technology, Redondo Beach, CA; and B. Hauss

Poster PDF (2.2 MB)

JP3.47

McIDAS-V applications: multi- and hyper-spectral analysis and visualization

Thomas D. Rink, CIMSS/Univ. of Wisconsin, Madison, WI

JP3.48

NexSat: Reaching out to the weather satellite community

Arunas P. Kuciauskas, NRL, Monterey, CA; and T. F. Lee, S. D. Miller, F. J. Turk, K. Richardson, J. E. Kent, and J. Hawkins

JP3.49

Interactive 4D Visualization and Analysis

Michael C. Lampel, Raytheon Company, Pasadena, CA; and K. Yau, I. Strickland, and P. Li

Poster PDF (1.5 MB)

Poster Session 3

POSTERS: Large-Scale Studies

Location: Hall 5 (Phoenix Convention Center)

Sponsor: 16th Conference on Air-Sea Interaction

Papers:

P3.3 has been moved. New paper number 10.1A

P3.1

The memory of tropical cyclones in climate

Robert E. Hart, Florida State Univ., Tallahassee, FL; and R. N. Maue

P3.2

Low-frequency oscilllations in the atmosphere induced by a mid-latitude SST front

Michael Ghil, Ecole Normale Supérieure, Paris, France

Poster PDF (703.9 kB)

P3.4

Estimates of global oceanic meridional heat transports using surface energy balance method

Masahisa Kubota, Tokai University, Shizuoka, Japan; and E. Yagi, E. Yokotagawa, A. Kimura, Y. Tsuchiya, and T. Sasaki

P3.5

Weakness of the air-sea thermal coupling during Indian Ocean Dipole mode in the 1990s

Masanori Konda, Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan; and H. Kobayashi, T. Mochizuki, and M. Nagura

Poster PDF (2.2 MB)

P3.6

Potential contributions of Tropical Instability Waves in change of eastern equatorial Pacific's climate

Balachandrudu Narapusetty, George Mason University, Calverton, MD; and B. P. Kirtman

Joint Poster Session 4

Satellite Education

Location: Hall 5 (Phoenix Convention Center)

Sponsors: (Joint between the 16th Conference on Satellite Meteorology and Oceanography; and the Fifth Annual Symposium on Future Operational Environmental Satellite Systems- NPOESS and GOES-R )

Cochairs: Thomas F. Lee, NRL; Volker Karl Gaertner, EUMETSAT

Papers:

JP4.1

Satellite Observations in Science Education

Tommy Jasmin, CIMSS/Univ. of Wisconsin, Madison, WI; and S. Ackerman

JP4.2

Satellite Meteorology Education Resources: New Modules, Initiatives, and the Environmental Satellite Resource Center (ESRC) Web Site

Patrick Dills, UCAR/COMET, Boulder, CO; and W. Schreiber-Abshire, M. Weingroff, P. Parrish, and B. Guarente

JP4.3

GOES-R Proving Ground Plans for a Weather Event Simulator

Timothy J. Schmit, NOAA/NESDIS/ORA, Madison, WI; and J. Sieglaff, K. Bah, J. Gerth, G. S. Wade, and J. Gurka

JP4.4

International satellite training activities

Bernadette H. Connell, CIRA/Colorado State Univ., Ft. Collins, CO; and M. Davison, A. Mostek, V. Castro, and T. Whittaker

Poster Session 4

Tropical cyclones and monsoons - posters

Location: Hall 5 (Phoenix Convention Center)

Sponsor: 21st Conference on Climate Variability and Change

Papers:

P4.1

Decadal Change in the Relationship between East Asian-Western North Pacific Summer Monsoon System and ENSO in the Mid-1990s

P4.2

Effects of duyrnal cycles on the simulated precipitation associated with Asian summer monsoon circulation

Song You Hong, Yonsei University, Seoul, South Korea; and M. Kanamitsu and J. E. Kim

P4.3

Structure and evolution of the North American monsoon in Arizona: observational and modeling study

Dorothea Ivanova, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, Prescott, AZ; and C. N. James and P. Grey

P4.4

Simulations of present-day tropical cyclone climatology and their temporal variability associated with ENSO with a 20-km-mesh high-resolution AGCM

Hiroyuki Murakami, AESTO/MRI, Tsukuba, Ibaraki, Japan; and J. Yoshimura and B. Wang

Poster PDF (1.1 MB)

P4.5

The Precipitation Climatology for the Eyewalls of North Atlantic Tropical Cyclones at Landfall

P4.6

The impact of tropical cyclone size on North Atlantic ACE and PDI

Angela M. Fritz, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA; and J. I. Belanger and J. A. Curry

P4.7

Assessing tropical cyclone contribution to annual global rainfall

Christopher L. Williams, NCAR, Boulder, CO; and F. D. Marks Jr.

P4.8

Modeling hurricane hazard in the United States using regression trees

Roshanak Nateghi, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD; and S. M. Quiring and S. D. Guikema

Formal Poster Viewing with Coffee Break

Formal Poster Viewing with Coffee Break (See poster listing in Monday's program)

Location: Hall 5 (Phoenix Convention Center)

2

Air Pollution

Location: Room 122A (Phoenix Convention Center)

Sponsor: Fourth Symposium on Lidar Atmospheric Applications

Chair: C. Russell Philbrick, Penn. State University

CoChair: George Georgoussis, Raymetrics S.A.

Papers:

11:00 AM

2.1

Combined Lidar and Radar Observations of Smoke Plumes from Prescribed Burns

P.S. Tsai, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA; and S. J. Frasier, S. Goodrick, G. L. Achtemeier, and M. T. Odman

Recorded presentation Poster PDF (927.7 kB)

11:15 AM

2.2

Dual-Doppler lidar observations over Washington DC

Rob K. Newsom, PNNL, Richland, WA; and D. Ligon and D. Garvey

Poster PDF (2.5 MB)

2

Weather and Short-Term Decision Making in Water Resource Operations—II

Location: Room 231B (Phoenix Convention Center)

Sponsor: Seventh Users Forum on Weather and Climate Impacts

Chair: Jack Henz, HDR, Inc.

Papers:

11:00 AM

2.1

The Use and Impact of Cloud Seeding on Water Resources and HydroPower Generation in California

Brian McGurty, South California Edison Company, Rosemead, CA

Recorded presentation

1

Environmental History

Location: Room 223 (Phoenix Convention Center)

Sponsor: Presidential History Symposium

Chairs: Kristine C. Harper, Florida State University; Sepideh Yalda, Millersville Univ.

Papers:

11:00 AM

1.1

Lewis & Clark—Weather and Climate Data from the Expedition Journals (1803–1806)

Vernon L. Preston, NOAA/NWSFO, Pocatello, ID

Recorded presentation Poster PDF (122.6 kB)

11:30 AM

1.2

A scientists' environmentalism?: atmospheric science, climate change, and american environmentalism, 1968–1992

Joshua P. Howe, Stanford University, Stanford, CA

Recorded presentation

Joint Panel Discussion 1

Water in the West

Location: Room 121A (Phoenix Convention Center)

Sponsors: (Joint between the Fourth Symposium on Policy and Socio—Economic Research; and the 23rd Conference on Hydrology )

Moderator: Patricia Gober, Arizona State University

Panelists: Kathy Jacobs, U.S. Global Change Research Program; Jeanine Jones, California Department of Water Resources; Bradley H. Udall, CIRES/Univ. of Colorado

2

High Impact Marine Events

Location: Room 230 (Phoenix Convention Center)

Sponsor: Impacts of 2008

Chair: Christopher W. Landsea, NOAA/NWS/TPC/NHC

Papers:

11:00 AM

2.1

Rip Currents: An Underrated Hazard

Steven R. Pfaff, NOAA/NWS, Wilmington, NC

Recorded presentation

11:15 AM

2.2

Weather Impacts: The Aleutian Low

Aimee Devaris, NOAA/NWS, Silver Spring, MD

Recorded presentation

11:30 AM

2.3

The “Tehuantepecer” Gale—An Extreme Gap Wind Event

Hugh D. Cobb III, NOAA/NWS/TPC, Miami, FL

Recorded presentation

11:45 AM

2.4

Dead Zones Grow With More Precipitation, Animals and Fuel Demand

Robert E. Magnien, NOAA/Center for Sponsored Coastal Ocean Research, Silver Spring, MD

Recorded presentation

2

Impact of aerosols on convection and weather

Location: Room 131B (Phoenix Convention Center)

Sponsor: Special Symposium on Aerosol–Cloud–Climate Interactions

Chair: Renyi Zhang, Texas A&M University

Papers:

11:00 AM

2.1

(Invited Speaker) The Impact of Asian Pollution on Pacific Storm Track

Renyi Zhang, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX; and G. Li, Y. Wang, and Y. Diao

Recorded presentation

11:30 AM

2.2

The impacts of aerosol indirect forcing on tropical convection

Susan C. van den Heever, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO

Recorded presentation

11:45 AM

2.3

Observational Evidence for Absorbing Aerosols' Influence on the South Asian Summer Monsoon. Are Coupled Models Ready for Probing Mechanisms?

Massimo A. Bollasina, NOAA/GFDL, Princeton, NJ; and S. Nigam

Recorded presentation Poster PDF (948.6 kB)

2

Integrating Weather with ATM-I

Location: Room 132A (Phoenix Convention Center)

Sponsor: Aviation, Range and Aerospace Meteorology Special Symposium on Weather-Air Traffic Management Integration

Chairs: David J. Pace, FAA; Marilyn Wolfson, MIT Lincoln Laboratory

Papers:

11:00 AM

2.1

The 4-D Weather Data Cube: Roadmap to 2022

Jason Tuell, NOAA, Silver Spring, MD; and T. E. Ryan and B. Lambert

Recorded presentation

11:15 AM

2.2

Comparing Convective Weather Avoidance Models and Aircraft-Based Data

Rich DeLaura, MIT Lincoln Laboratory, Lexington, MA; and B. Crowe, R. Ferris, W. Chan --Pending, and J. F. Love

Recorded presentation Poster PDF (1.3 MB)

11:30 AM

2.3

Toward using NWP model ensemble data for strategic planning of the national airspace

James O. Pinto, NCAR, Boulder, CO; and M. Steiner, R. E. Bateman, C. L. Phillips, S. S. Weygandt, and S. G. Benjamin

Recorded presentation

11:45 AM

2.4

The complexities of thunderstorm avoidance due to turbulence and implications for traffic flow management

Robert Sharman, NCAR, Boulder, CO; and J. K. Williams

Poster PDF (1.5 MB)

2

Urban Energy and Water Balances

Location: Room 124B (Phoenix Convention Center)

Sponsor: Eighth Symposium on the Urban Environment

Chair: David J. Sailor, Portland State Univ.

Papers:

11:00 AM

2.1

Climate and urban form effects on the water and energy budgets in a residential area of Salt Lake City, Utah

Steven Burian, Univ. of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT; and E. Pardyjak, I. Jeyachandran, N. Augustus, P. Ramamurthy, C. Forster, and B. Skousen

Recorded presentation

11:15 AM

2.2

Quantifying anthropogenic moisture emissions and their potential impact on the urban climate

David J. Sailor, Portland State Univ., Portland, OR; and A. Brooks

Recorded presentation

11:30 AM

2.3

The evolution of urban heat island and water demand

Christopher A. Scott, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ; and E. Halper, S. Yool, and A. Comrie

Recorded presentation Poster PDF (3.0 MB)

11:45 AM

2.4

Variability of the surface energy balance in and around Oklahoma City

Kodi L. Nemunaitis-Monroe, NOAA/NSSL, Norman, OK; and J. B. Basara

Recorded presentation

Joint Session 4

Advances in Atmospheric Reanalysis—II

Location: Room 127BC (Phoenix Convention Center)

Sponsors: (Joint between the 23rd Conference on Hydrology; and the 21st Conference on Climate Variability and Change )

Chair: Michael G. Bosilovich, NASA/GSFC/GMAO

Papers:

11:00 AM

J4.1

The interrelationships among water and energy parameters in reanalyses

Junye Chen, Univ. of Maryland/ESSIC & NASA/GSFC/GMAO, Greenbelt, MD; and M. G. Bosilovich

Recorded presentation

11:15 AM

J4.2

Atmospheric water cycle component interactions in the NCEP North American Regional Reanalysis

A.C. Ruane, NASA/GISS and Oak Ridge Associated Universities, New York, NY

Recorded presentation

11:30 AM

J4.3

The Multi-Source Analysis of Precipitation (MSAP)

Phillip A. Arkin, University of Maryland, College Park, MD; and M. R. P. Sapiano and T. M. Smith

Recorded presentation

11:45 AM

J4.4

The Twentieth Century reanalysis project

Gilbert P. Compo, Univ. of Colorado/CIRES/Climate Diagnostics Center and NOAA/ESRL/PSD, Boulder, CO; and J. Whitaker and P. D. Sardeshmukh

Recorded presentation

4

Recent Advances in Lightning Technology and Transfer to Operations II

Location: Room 131A (Phoenix Convention Center)

Sponsor: Fourth Conference on the Meteorological Applications of Lightning Data

Chair: Walter A. Petersen, University of Alabama

Papers:

11:00 AM

4.1

Overview of the operation and performance of the U.S. National Lightning Detection Network

Martin J. Murphy, Vaisala Inc., Tucson, AZ; and N. W. S. Demetriades, R. L. Holle, and K. L. Cummins

11:30 AM

4.2

An Overview of the United States Precision Lightning Network (USPLN)

Peter P. Neilley, WSI, Corp, Andover, MA; and R. B. Bent

Recorded presentation

5

Advances in Tsunami Research with Application to Forecasts and Warnings for Coastal Regions

Location: Room 126A (Phoenix Convention Center)

Sponsor: Eighth Conference on Coastal Atmospheric and Oceanic Prediction and Processes

Chair: Eddie N. Bernard, NOAA/PMEL/TIME

Papers:

11:00 AM

5.1

A Starting Point for a New Generation of Tsunami Scientists

Eddie N. Bernard, NOAA/PMEL/TIME, Seattle, WA; and A. Robinson

Recorded presentation

11:15 AM

5.2

NOAA/NWS Tsunameter Operations Supporting Real-time Tsunami Warnings and Tsunami Research

Paul Moersdorf, NOAA/NDBC, Stennis Space Center, MS; and R. H. Bouchard

http://www.ndbc.noaa.gov

Recorded presentation Poster PDF (210.1 kB)

11:30 AM

5.3

Progress in tsunami forecasting

Vasily V. Titov, NOAA, Seattle, WA

Recorded presentation

11:45 AM

5.4

Generation of non-earthquake tsunamis

Galen Gisler, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway

Recorded presentation

5

Community Modeling and Data Assimilation

Location: Room 126B (Phoenix Convention Center)

Sponsor: Sixth Symposium on Space Weather

Chair: Timothy J. Fuller-Rowell, NOAA / SEC and CIRES / Univ. of Colorado

Papers:

11:00 AM

5.1

Lessons learned for a community space weather modeling program - The CISM experience

W. Jeffrey Hughes, Boston University, Boston, MA; and J. Quinn

Recorded presentation

11:15 AM

5.2

Community Modeling Program for Space Weather: A CCMC Perspective

Michael Hesse, NASA/GSFC, Greenbelt, MD

Recorded presentation

11:30 AM

5.3

The Challenges of Validating Global Assimilative Models of the Ionosphere

L. F. McNamara, Boston College, Chestnut Hill, MA; and G. J. Bishop, D. D. Decker, C. R. Baker, and J. A. Welsh

Recorded presentation

11:45 AM

5.4

Ionosphere Data Assimilation Models for Specifications and Forecasts

Robert W. Schunk, Utah State University, Logan, UT; and L. Scherliess, J. J. Sojka, D. C. Thompson, and L. Zhu

Recorded presentation

5

Monsoons - II

Location: Room 129A (Phoenix Convention Center)

Sponsor: 21st Conference on Climate Variability and Change

Chair: Rosana Nieto-Ferreira, East Carolina University

Papers:

11:00 AM

5.1

Analyzing occurrences and vertical structures of hydrometeors over the Asian summer monsoon regions and the Tibetan Plateau region using CloudSat/CALIPSO data

Yali Luo, Chinese Academy of Meteorological Sciences, Beijing, , China; and R. Zhang and H. Wang

11:15 AM

5.2

Mechanisms for temporal and spatial variations of South America Monsoon Onset gleaned from TRMM observations of convective structure

Thomas M. Rickenbach, East Carolina University, Greenville, NC; and R. Nieto-Ferreira, S. W. Nesbitt, and D. Herdies

Recorded presentation

11:30 AM

5.3

Radar observations of convective system variability and interaction with African easterly waves in the West African Sahel region

Rosana Nieto-Ferreira, East Carolina University, Greenville, NC; and T. M. Rickenbach, N. Guy, and E. R. Williams

Recorded presentation

11:45 AM

5.4

Mechanisms of increasing North Indian Ocean and the Indian subcontinent precipitation after major El Nino events

Hyo Seok Park, Univ. of California, Berkeley, CA; and J. C. H. Chiang, B. R. Lintner, and G. J. Zhang

5

University and Professional Educational Outreach in the Atmospheric, Oceanic, and Hydrologic Sciences: Strategies for Improving Diversity and Outreach

Location: Room 125B (Phoenix Convention Center)

Sponsor: 18th Symposium on Education

Cochairs: Donna J. Charlevoix, UCAR; Diane M. Stanitski, Geocation, LLC

Papers:

11:00 AM

5.1

Engaging Students with Disabilities in the atmospheric Science—Lessons learned from hosting Students with Disabilities in SOARS

Rebecca Haacker-Santos, UCAR, Boulder, CO; and R. Pandya

Recorded presentation

11:15 AM

5.2

Untapped career opportunities for persons with visual impairments

Imke Durre, NOAA/NESDIS/NCDC, Asheville, NC

Recorded presentation Poster PDF (19.5 kB)

11:30 AM

5.3

ERAU McNair Scholars Program, students' learning, and their future career in meteorology

Dorothea Ivanova, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, Prescott, AZ; and K. E. Parsons

Recorded presentation

11:45 AM

5.4

COMET® Education and Traiing: Embarking on New Horizons

Gregory Byrd, UCAR/COMET, Boulder, CO; and W. Abshire and T. Spangler

5A

Advances and Applications in Transportation Weather, Surface and Aviation II

Location: Room 121BC (Phoenix Convention Center)

Sponsor: 25th Conference on International Interactive Information and Processing Systems (IIPS) for Meteorology, Oceanography, and Hydrology

Cochairs: Paul Pisano, Federal Highway Administration; S. Edward Boselly, Weather Solutions Group

Papers:

11:00 AM

5A.1

An Update on FHWA Road Weather Management Initiatives

Paul A. Pisano, USDOT/Federal Highway Administration, Washington, DC; and A. D. Stern and P. J. Kennedy

Recorded presentation

11:15 AM

5A.2

The Clarus Regional Demonstration

Andrew D. Stern, Noblis, Inc., Falls Church, VA; and P. A. Pisano, P. J. Kennedy, and B. B. McKeever, P.E.

Recorded presentation Poster PDF (286.1 kB)

11:30 AM

5A.3

Status update of the transition from research to operations of the Meteorological Assimilation Data Ingest System (MADIS)

David Helms, NOAA/NWS, Silver Spring, MD; and P. A. Miller, M. F. Barth, A. C. Darling, F. Kelly, and S. Koch

Recorded presentation

5A.4

Mitigation of weather-related non-recurring congestion impacts on Utah's highways:developing and tracking performance measure algorithms

5A

Mesoscale Data Assimilation and Impact Experiments—II

Location: Room 130 (Phoenix Convention Center)

Sponsor: 13th Conference on Integrated Observing and Assimilation Systems for Atmosphere, Oceans, and Land Surface (IOAS-AOLS)

Chair: John Horel, University of Utah

Papers:

11:00 AM

5A.1

Impact of Lake Okeechobee Sea Surface Temperatures on Numerical Predictions of Summertime Convective Systems over South Florida

Michael Splitt, Florida Institute of Technology, Melbourne, FL; and J. L. Case, K. K. Fuell, P. Santos, S. M. Lazarus, and G. J. Jedlovec

Recorded presentation Poster PDF (816.5 kB)

11:15 AM

5A.2

Examining the Impacts of High-Resolution Land and Ocean Surface Initialization on Local Model Predictions of Convection in the Southeastern U.S

Jonathan L. Case, ENSCO, Inc., Huntsville, AL; and S. V. Kumar, P. Santos, J. M. Medlin, and G. J. Jedlovec

Recorded presentation Poster PDF (360.4 kB)

11:30 AM

5A.3

High Temporal and Spatial Resolution 2D Wind Analysis of CASA and WSR-88D Radar Data using the ARPS 3DVAR

Jidong Gao, CAPS/Univ. of Oklahoma, Norman, OK; and J. A. Brotzge, Y. Wang, K. W. Thomas, K. Brewster, M. Xue, V. Chandrasekar, Y. Wang, B. D. Phillips, and M. Zink

Recorded presentation Poster PDF (1.4 MB)

11:45 AM

5A.4

Impact of Assimilating Multiple-radar Data through the GSI System on Numerical Prediction of Tropical Storm Erin (2007)

A.M. Shao, University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK; and M. Xue, Y. Yang, M. Hu, S. S. Weygandt, and S. G. Benjamin

http://twister.ou.edu/papers/Shao_AMS2009.pdf

Recorded presentation

5B

Applications in Meteorology, Oceanography, Hydrology and Climatology II

Location: Room 122BC (Phoenix Convention Center)

Sponsor: 25th Conference on International Interactive Information and Processing Systems (IIPS) for Meteorology, Oceanography, and Hydrology

Cochairs: Lola Olsen, NASA; Timothy Crum, NOAA/NEXRAD Radar Operations Center

Papers:

11:00 AM

5B.1

CO-OPS expands meteorological sensor network and quality control

Kathleen Elizabeth Egan, NOAA, Silver Spring, MD; and R. W. Bourgerie

Poster PDF (213.2 kB)

11:15 AM

5B.2

Pseudo Volume-filling Sampling (PVS) via Bouyancy Control in Hurricane and Ocean Systems

Robert Krohn, University of California - San Diego, La Jolla, CA; and D. Zhang and T. Bewley

Recorded presentation

11:30 AM

5B.3

Interactive Quality Control and Operational Product Generation of Hourly Multi-sensor Precipitation Estimates in the NWS

Mark J. Glaudemans, NOAA/NWS, Silver Spring, MD; and B. A. Lawrence and P. S. Tilles

Recorded presentation Poster PDF (1.2 MB)

11:45 AM

5B.4

TIGGE Archive Access at NCAR

Steven J. Worley, NCAR, Boulder, CO; and D. Schuster, D. Stepaniak, and H. Wilcox

Recorded presentation

5B

Ocean Observations for Data Assimilation and Climate—II

Location: Room 131C (Phoenix Convention Center)

Sponsor: 13th Conference on Integrated Observing and Assimilation Systems for Atmosphere, Oceans, and Land Surface (IOAS-AOLS)

Chair: Bill Proenza, NOAA/NWS

Papers:

11:00 AM

5B.1

Tropical cyclone position, intensity, and size analysis: Operational challenges over the data sparse subtropical oceans

Christopher W. Landsea, NOAA/NWS/TPC/NHC, Miami, FL

Recorded presentation

11:15 AM

5B.2

Assimilation of nearshore winds into a high-resolution atmosphere/wave modeling system

Natalie Lamberton, Florida Institute of Technology, Melbourne, FL; and S. Lazarus, M. Splitt, S. Chiao, G. Zarillo, P. Santos, and D. Sharp

Recorded presentation Poster PDF (276.9 kB)

11:30 AM

5B.3

Hurricane Irene: a case study for the use of underwater sound for the monitoring of mesoscale convective systems occurring in the ocean

John Proni, NOAA/AOML, Miami, FL; and J. Wilkerson

Recorded presentation

11:45 AM

5B.4

Ocean-surface wind impacts in regional and global models

S. Mark Leidner, AER, Norman, OK; and J. Ardizzone, J. C. Jusem, E. Brin, and R. Atlas

Recorded presentation

Joint Session 6

Hydrology and AI: Status and Applications–I

Location: Room 125A (Phoenix Convention Center)

Sponsors: (Joint between the Seventh Conference on Artificial Intelligence and its Applications to the Environmental Sciences; and the 23rd Conference on Hydrology )

Chairs: Philippe Tissot, Texas A&M Univ.; Bart Nijssen, University of Arizona

Papers:

11:00 AM

J6.1

(Invited Speaker) Precipitation monitoring and streamflow flow forecasting using ANN models

Kuo-lin Hsu, Center for Hydrometeorology and Remote Sensing, Irvine, CA

Recorded presentation

11:30 AM

J6.2

A Simple Data-Driven Model for Streamflow Prediction

Valliappa Lakshmanan, CIMMS/Univ. of Oklahoma, NOAA/NSSL, Norman, OK; and J. J. Gourley, Z. Flamig, and S. Giangrande

Recorded presentation Poster PDF (213.4 kB)

11:45 AM

J6.3

Comparison of manual and automated quality control of operational hourly precipitation data of the national weather service

Dongsoo Kim, NOAA/NESDIS/NCDC, Asheville, NC; and E. I. Tollerud, S. V. Vasiloff, and J. Caldwell

Recorded presentation Poster PDF (270.0 kB)

Joint Session 7

GOES-R Overview and Status

Location: Room 224AB (Phoenix Convention Center)

Sponsors: (Joint between the Fifth Annual Symposium on Future Operational Environmental Satellite Systems- NPOESS and GOES-R; and the 16th Conference on Satellite Meteorology and Oceanography )

Cochairs: Gary K. Davis, NOAA/NESDIS; James J. Gurka, NOAA/NESDIS/GOES-R Program Office

Papers:

11:00 AM

J7.1

GOES-R Program Overview

Greg Mandt, NOAA/NESDIS, Greenbelt, MD

Recorded presentation

11:30 AM

J7.2

GOES-R instrument operations

Tim Walsh, NOAA/NESDIS GOES-R Program Office, Greenbelt, MD

Recorded presentation

11:45 AM

J7.3

GOES-R ground system status

Vanessa Griffin, NOAA/NESDIS, Greenbelt, MD; and R. Pfister

Recorded presentation

Joint Session 9

Satellite Observations of Air-Sea Interaction

Location: Room 128AB (Phoenix Convention Center)

Sponsors: (Joint between the 16th Conference on Air-Sea Interaction; and the 16th Conference on Satellite Meteorology and Oceanography )

Cochairs: Deborah K. Smith, Remote Sensing Systems; Ralph C. Foster, University of Washington

Papers:

11:00 AM

J9.1

Representation of air-sea turbulent fluxes from varying satellite methodologies

Carol Anne Clayson, Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL

11:15 AM

J9.2

Using neural networks to improve surface temperature and humidity prediction with satellite measurements

J. Brent Roberts, Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL; and C. A. Clayson and F. R. Robertson

Recorded presentation

11:30 AM

J9.3

Evaluation and comparison of satellite-derived estimates of the gas transfer velocity with direct observations from research vessels

Darren L. Jackson, CIRES/Univ. of Colorado, Boulder, CO; and G. A. Wick

11:45 AM

J9.4

On the development of the eastern Pacific double ITCZ

Hirohiko Masunaga, Nagoya University, Nagoya, Japan

Recorded presentation

Joint Session 13

Joint Session on Air Quality Measurements in Coastal Cities

Location: Room 124A (Phoenix Convention Center)

Sponsors: (Joint between the Eighth Symposium on the Urban Environment; the Eighth Conference on Coastal Atmospheric and Oceanic Prediction and Processes; and the Special Symposium on Measurements in the Urban Environment and Observations )

Chair: Martin Best, Met Office

Papers:

11:00 AM

J13.1

Observations of carbon dioxide fluxes in two suburban neighborhoods in Vancouver, Canada

Ben Crawford, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada; and A. Christen, T. R. Oke, J. A. Voogt, and S. Grimmond

Recorded presentation Poster PDF (434.1 kB)

11:15 AM

J13.2

Characterization of local sources of atmospheric pollution in the megacity of São Paulo, Brazil

Maria de Fatima Andrade, University of São Paulo, São Paulo, SP, Brazil

11:30 AM

J13.3

Dependence of peak daily ozone concentrations in Houston, Texas on the sea breeze and meteorological variables

Robert M. Banta, NOAA/ESRL, Boulder, CO; and C. J. Senff, R. J. Alvarez, D. D. Parrish, M. K. Trainer, T. B. Ryerson, L. S. Darby, R. M. Hardesty, B. Lambeth, J. A. Neuman, W. M. Andevine, J. W. Nielsen-Gammon, S. P. Sandberg, A. O. Langford, and A. B. White

Recorded presentation Poster PDF (376.4 kB)

11:45 AM

J13.4

Carbon dioxide concentration and fluxes in a tropical city

Matthias Roth, National University of Singapore, Singapore, Singapore; and C. Jansson and M. Rahiz

Recorded presentation

Exhibitor Lounge

Location: Hall 4 (Phoenix Convention Center)

Exhibits Open

Panel Discussion 1

"Where do we go from here?" I

Location: Room 231B (Phoenix Convention Center)

Sponsor: Seventh Users Forum on Weather and Climate Impacts

Moderator: Jack Henz, HDR, Inc.

Panelists: Jon A. Skindlov, Salt River Project; Steve Rossi, City of Phoenix Water Services Department; Brian McGurty, South California Edison Company

3

Automated Operational Lidars, Networks and Associated Studies

Location: Room 122A (Phoenix Convention Center)

Sponsor: Fourth Symposium on Lidar Atmospheric Applications

Chair: Gelsomina Pappalardo, CNR/IMAA

CoChair: Christine David, Service d'Aeronomie-IPSL

Papers:

11:30 AM

3.1

The EARLINET-CALIPSO experience for the calibration, validation and full exploitation of satellite data

Gelsomina Pappalardo, CNR/IMAA, Tito Scalo (Potenza), Italy; and L. Mona, U. Wandinger, I. Mattis, J. Bösenberg, H. Linnè, A. Amodeo, A. Ansmann, A. Apituley, L. A. Arboledas, D. Balis, A. Chaikovsky, A. Comeron, G. D'Amico, V. Freudenthaler, A. Giunta, I. Grigorov, D. Müller, A. Papayannis, M. R. Perrone, A. Pietruczuk, M. Pujadas, V. Rizi, N. Spinelli, and M. Wiegner

11:45 AM

3.2

Intercomparison of Methods for the Determination of Mixing Layer Heights using a new Network of advanced Ceilometers in Germany

Dirk Engelbart, German Meteorological Service, Lindenberg, Germany; and J. Reichardt and G. Teschke

12:00 PM

3.3

EZ Lidar™ measurement results in the frame of Nasa/Aeronet campaign Tiger-Z

Simone Lolli, LEOSPHERE, Paris, France; and L. Sauvage and F. Faijan

Recorded presentation

12:15 PM

3.4

Water vapor Raman lidar as an operational tool in MeteoSwiss

Bertrand Calpini, MeteoSwiss, 1530 Payerne, Switzerland; and T. Dinoev and V. Simeonov

Ad Hoc Committee on Uncertainty in Forecasts (ACUF) Update

Location: Room 131A (Phoenix Convention Center)

Sponsor: Events

Lunch Break (Cash and Carry in Exhibit Hall)

Women in the Atmospheric Sciences Luncheon

Location: Room 229AB (Phoenix Convention Center)

Sponsor: Events

Integrated Solutions for Environment and Health: Your Research Can Inform Public Health Decisions

Location: Room 129B (Phoenix Convention Center)

Sponsor: Events

The Elections Are Over: What Next? Advice to the New Administration and Congress: Actions to Make our Nation Resilient to Severe Weather and Climate Change

Location: Room 131B (Phoenix Convention Center)

Sponsor: Events

3

Integrating Weather with ATM - II

Location: Room 132A (Phoenix Convention Center)

Sponsor: Aviation, Range and Aerospace Meteorology Special Symposium on Weather-Air Traffic Management Integration

Chairs: David J. Pace, FAA; Marilyn Wolfson, MIT Lincoln Laboratory

Papers:

1:30 PM

3.1

NextGen Weather Requirements

Cheryl G. Souders, FAA, Washington, DC; and R. C. Showalter, E. R. Dash, J. A. May, J. Tauss, S. Abelman, and C. Miner

Recorded presentation Poster PDF (105.9 kB)

1:45 PM

3.2

European Initiatives for the Integration of Meteorological Data with ATM

Andrew K. Mirza, Met Office, Exeter, Devon, United Kingdom; and P. Gill and R. W. Lunnon

http://www.eu-flysafe.org/Project.html

Recorded presentation Poster PDF (588.1 kB)

6B

Development and use of global air-sea data sets

Location: Room 128B (Phoenix Convention Center)

Sponsor: 16th Conference on Air-Sea Interaction

Chair: Carol Anne Clayson, Florida State University

Papers:

1:30 PM

6B.1

Climate variability of air-sea heat, evaporation, and vector wind developed by OAFlux

Lisan Yu, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole, MA

1:45 PM

6B.2

Sea surface fluxes and analysis: datasets and services at NCDC and WCRP

Huai-Min Zhang, NOAA/NESDIS/NCDC, Asheville, NC; and R. W. Reynolds, L. Shi, and C. W. Fairall

Recorded presentation Poster PDF (297.0 kB)

2:00 PM

6B.3

A Theoretical Framework for the Sampling Error Variance for Three Dimensional Climate Averages of ICOADS Monthly Ship Data

Mark L. Morrissey, University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK; and J. S. Greene

Recorded presentation

2:15 PM

6B.4

CALIPSO Global Ocean Surface Roughness and Wind Speed Measurements and Potential Application

Yongxiang Hu, NASA/LaRC, Hampton, VA; and B. Lin

Recorded presentation

2:30 PM

6B.5

Climate Variability as Identified in the New NOAA High Resolution SST Dataset

Michael A. Alexander, NOAA/Earth System Research Laboratory, Boulder, CO; and Y. O. Kwon and C. Frankignoul

Recorded presentation

6B

Internet Applications and Cyberinfrastructure

Location: Room 122BC (Phoenix Convention Center)

Sponsor: 25th Conference on International Interactive Information and Processing Systems (IIPS) for Meteorology, Oceanography, and Hydrology

Cochairs: Michael D. Eilts, Weather Decision Technologies, Inc.; John Horel, University of Utah

Papers:

1:30 PM

6B.1

A community supported, Internet-based surface meteorological network, the Wunderground experience

John J. Celenza, Weather Underground, Inc., San Francisco, CA; and A. B. Cowdin and R. W. Carver

Recorded presentation

1:45 PM

6B.2

A new approach for using web services, grids and virtual organizations in mesoscale meteorological research

Kelvin K. Droegemeier, Univ. of Oklahoma, Norman, OK

http://portal.leadproject.org

Recorded presentation Poster PDF (247.5 kB)

2:00 PM

6B.3

A novel approach to detect regions of phenomena from NAM model outputs

Xiang Li, Univ. of Alabama, Huntsville, AL; and R. Ramachandran, S. Graves, K. Brewster, S. M. Lazarus, and B. T. Zavodsky

Recorded presentation Poster PDF (132.3 kB)

2:15 PM

6B.4

Aeroweb: a new met website for aeronautical users

Lior Perez, METEO-FRANCE, Toulouse, France; and P. Venzac

http://aviation.meteo.fr/login.php?lang=gb

Recorded presentation Poster PDF (221.4 kB)

2:30 PM

6B.5

Development of a smart search system for climate services

Mark S. Brooks, North Carolina State Univ., Raleigh, NC; and B. E. Aldridge

http://www.nc-climate.ncsu.edu

Recorded presentation Poster PDF (998.6 kB)

1

New and Future Sensors Applications and Systems

Location: Room 230 (Phoenix Convention Center)

Sponsor: 16th Conference on Satellite Meteorology and Oceanography

Cochairs: Bjorn H. Lambrigtsen, JPL; Henry Rivercomb, SSEC and Univ. of Madison

Papers:

1:30 PM

1.1

Initiating a New Highly Accurate Climate Record with CLARREO

David F. Young, NASA/LaRC, Hampton, Va

Recorded presentation

1:45 PM

1.2

The Polar Communications and Weather (PCW) mission: a Canadian project to observe the Arctic region from a higly elliptical orbit

Louis Garand, EC, Dorval, QC, Canada; and G. Kroupnik

Recorded presentation

2:00 PM

1.3

Applications of lightning observations to tropical cyclone intensity forecasting

Mark DeMaria, NOAA/NESDIS, Fort Collins, CO; and R. T. DeMaria

Recorded presentation Poster PDF (160.5 kB)

2:15 PM

1.4

Preliminary Demonstration of FY-3 Satellite Products and Applications

Jun Yang, Chinese National Meteorological Satellite Center, District Haidian, Beijing, China; and N. Lu, P. Zhang, and F. Weng

2:30 PM

1.5

Progress in developing a geostationary microwave sounder

Bjorn H. Lambrigtsen, JPL and California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA; and T. Gaier and L. Herrell

2:45 PM

1.6

NPOESS Preparatory Project Cross-track Infrared Sounder Sensor Characterization and Performance Predictions

Gail A. Bingham, Utah State Univ./SDL, Logan, UT; and L. L. Strow, D. Tobin, C. D. Barnet, F. Sabet-Peyman, P. Moffa, D. Gu, D. Hagan, T. Christensen, and R. Glumb

Recorded presentation

Joint Panel Discussion 2

Climate services

Location: Room 129B (Phoenix Convention Center)

Sponsors: (Joint between the 21st Conference on Climate Variability and Change; and the Fourth Symposium on Policy and Socio—Economic Research )

Moderator: Eileen Shea, NOAA/NESDIS/NCDC

Panelists: Elliot Abrams, AccuWeather Inc.; Eric Barron, NCAR; James Buizer, Arizona State University; Anton F. Haffer, NOAA/NWSFO

Papers:

1:30 PM

Topic: Special Challenges for Climate Services to Cities in a Changing Climate.

Recorded presentation

2

Historical Aspects of Observational and Modeling Efforts

Location: Room 223 (Phoenix Convention Center)

Sponsor: Presidential History Symposium

Chairs: Sepideh Yalda, Millersville Univ.; Roger D. Turner, Univ. of Pennsylvania

Papers:

1:30 PM

2.1

Fifty years of progress in tropical meteorology: a personal view

Richard H. Johnson, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO

Recorded presentation

2:00 PM

2.2

Bert Bolin and his 1959 forecast of atmospheric carbon dioxide and climate change

Richard C. J. Somerville, Scripps/Univ. of California, La Jolla, CA

Recorded presentation

2:30 PM

2.3

Will meteorologists lose their jobs? NWP and Automation Fears in the Fifties

Kristine C. Harper, Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL

Recorded presentation

Joint Session 2

Observations/Studies of High—Impact Weather in Urban Regions

Location: Room 124A (Phoenix Convention Center)

Sponsors: (Joint between the Symposium on Urban High Impact Weather; the Special Symposium on Measurements in the Urban Environment and Observations; the Eighth Conference on Coastal Atmospheric and Oceanic Prediction and Processes; the Eighth Symposium on the Urban Environment; the 23rd Conference on Hydrology; the Fourth Conference on the Meteorological Applications of Lightning Data; the Fourth Symposium on Policy and Socio—Economic Research; the Timothy R. Oke Symposium; and the Impacts of 2008 )

Cochairs: Pavlos Kollias, McGill University; Bart Nijssen, 3TIER, Inc.

Papers:

1:30 PM

J2.1

(Invited Talk) Fire at the Urban Interface: The San Diego County Wildfires of October 2007

Jim Purpura, NOAA/NWS, San Diego, CA

Recorded presentation

2:00 PM

J2.2

Evolution of severe convection in the New York City Metropolitan Region

Brian A. Colle, SUNY, Stony Brook, NY ; and K. Lombardo and J. Murray

Recorded presentation

2:15 PM

J2.3

An observational study of the movement of Lake Breeze Fronts in the vicinity of Chicago, IL

Jason M. Keeler, University of Illinois, Urbana, IL; and D. A. R. Kristovich

Recorded presentation

2:30 PM

J2.4

An observational and modeling study of a rare tornadic storm in a major central business district: Possible linkages to drought and urban land cover

Dev Niyogi, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN; and M. J. Shepherd, M. Lei, W. O. Shem, and J. Entin

2:45 PM

J2.5

Meteorological conditions associated with major storm surge events at New York City

Katherine Rojowsky, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY; and B. A. Colle and F. Bounaiuto

Recorded presentation

2

Societal Dimensions of Weather and Climate Hazards

Location: Room 121A (Phoenix Convention Center)

Sponsor: Fourth Symposium on Policy and Socio—Economic Research

Cochairs: Sheldon D. Drobot, NCAR; Sam Ng, Metropolitan State College of Denver

Papers:

1:30 PM

2.1

Mapping social vulnerability to heat wave in Chicago

Chona E. Sister, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ; and C. G. Boone, J. Golden, D. Hartz, and W. C. Chuang

Recorded presentation Poster PDF (18.2 kB)

1:45 PM

2.2

Heat-attributable mortality in a changing world: accounting for climate change and adaptation

J. Scott Greene, Univ. of Oklahoma, Norman, OK; and L. Kalkstein, D. M. Mills, and J. Samenow

2:00 PM

2.3

Societal Impacts of Weather Hazards: Understanding Public Response to Tornado Events

Havidan Rodriguez, Univ. of Delaware, Newark, DE; and J. Santos and W. Diaz

Recorded presentation

2:15 PM

2.4

Impacts on city policy from the early morning tornadoes that hit Omaha, Nebraska on 8 June, 2008

Daniel Nietfeld, NOAA, Valley, NE

Recorded presentation

2:30 PM

2.5

Lessons Learned: Evacuations Management of Hurricane Gustav

Mark A. Shafer, Oklahoma Climatological Survey, Norman, OK; and B. Keim, S. Van Cooten, and G. M. Eosco

Recorded presentation Poster PDF (1.9 MB)

2:45 PM

2.6

Political Cultural and Economic Vulnerabilities in One Nicaraguan Community

Monica K. Zappa, OU-University of Oklahoma, SSWIM-Social Science Woven into Meteorology, Norman, OK

Recorded presentation

3

Climate and Long-Term Planning of Water Resources—I

Location: Room 231B (Phoenix Convention Center)

Sponsor: Seventh Users Forum on Weather and Climate Impacts

Chair: Holly C. Hartman, University of Arizona

Papers:

1:30 PM

3.1

Climate Information Use in California Water and Ecosystem Policy Making

John Kirlin, Delta Vision Task Force, Sacramento, CA

Recorded presentation

2:00 PM

3.2

ADWR's Assured Water Supply Program and Climate Variability

Scott Miller, Arizona Department of Water Resources, Phoenix, AZ

Recorded presentation

2:30 PM

3.3

Harvesting Highly Variable Rainfall to Conserve Potable Water in Tuscon, Arizona

Ann Audrey, City of Tuscon, Tuscon, AZ

Recorded presentation

3

Experimental, field, and modeling studies on aerosol-cloud interactions-I

Location: Room 131B (Phoenix Convention Center)

Sponsor: Special Symposium on Aerosol–Cloud–Climate Interactions

Cochairs: John H. Seinfeld, California Institute of Technology; Brian K. Lamb, Washington State Univ.

Papers:

1:30 PM

3.1

(Invited Speaker) Evaluation of Global Anthropogenic Aerosol Indirect Effects

Wei-Ting Chen, JPL/California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA; and A. Nenes, H. Liao, P. J. Adams, and J. H. Seinfeld

2:00 PM

3.2

Observations of aerosol chemical and optical properties during the Cumulus Humilis Aerosol Processing Study

Larry K. Berg, PNNL, Richland, WA; and C. Berkowitz, Y. N. Lee, X. Y. Yu, J. Jayne, J. Ogren, B. Andrews, and M. L. Alexander

Recorded presentation

2:15 PM

3.3

Interactions between forest fire smoke and clouds: a satellite comparison of Canada and Siberia

Brian L. Vant-Hull, NOAA/CREST CCNY, New York, NY; and Z. Li and L. A. Remer

Recorded presentation

2:30 PM

3.4

Lidar observations of aerosols near clouds

Richard A. Ferrare, NASA/LaRC, Hampton, VA; and M. Clayton, D. Turner, R. K. Newsom, C. Sivaraman, C. A. Hostetler, J. Hair, A. Cook, D. Harper, M. Obland, R. Rogers, W. Su, L. Berg, H. Jonsson, J. Ogren, and B. Andrews

Recorded presentation

2:45 PM

3.5

Large Variability in Morphology, Hygroscopicity and Optical Properties of Soot Aerosols during Atmospheric Processing

Alexie Khalizov, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX; and H. Xue, R. Zhang, J. Pagels, and P. McMurry

Recorded presentation

4

Comparisons of Distributed Hydrological Models

Location: Room 127BC (Phoenix Convention Center)

Sponsor: 23rd Conference on Hydrology

Chair: Michael B. Smith, NOAA/NWS

Papers:

1:30 PM

4.1

Results of phase 2 of the Distributed Model Intercomparison Project

Michael B. Smith, NOAA/NWS, Silver Spring, MD; and B. Cosgrove, S. Reed, Z. Zhang, F. Moreda, Z. Cui, N. Mizukami, and S. Sheldon

Recorded presentation

2:00 PM

4.2

Application of the TOPKAPI model within the DMIP 2 project

Gabriele Coccia, University of Bologna, Bologna, Italy; and C. Mazzetti, E. A. Ortiz, and E. Todini

Recorded presentation Poster PDF (1.9 MB)

2:15 PM

4.3

A omparison of the NWS Distributed Versus Lumped Hydrologic Model

Eric T. Jones, NOAA/NWS, Slidell, LA; and K. Roth and K. Costanza

Recorded presentation

2:30 PM

4.4

Effects of biases in NEXRAD precipitation estimates and sub-basin resolution in the hydrologic modeling of Blue River Basin using a semi-distributed hydrologic model

Md. Zahidul Islam, University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB, Canada; and T. Y. Gan

Recorded presentation

2:45 PM

4.5

Evaluating precipitation uncertainties using the Vflo hydrologic model

Jonathan Looper, University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK; and B. E. Vieux and M. A. Moreno

3:00 PM

4.6

Tests of the Baron LIS Distributed Modeling System for a US basin

John McHenry, Baron Advanced Meteorological Systems, Raleigh, NC; and D. N. Yates, D. J. Gochis, and C. J. Coats Jr.

Recorded presentation

4

Lidar Application Studies in The Boundary Layer and Lower Troposphere - I

Location: Room 122A (Phoenix Convention Center)

Sponsor: Fourth Symposium on Lidar Atmospheric Applications

Chair: Jennifer Comstock, PNNL

CoChair: Belay B. Demoz, Howard University

Papers:

1:30 PM

4.1

Doppler lidar measurements of higher-order vertical velocity statistics in the convective boundary layer

Donald H. Lenschow, NCAR, Boulder, CO; and M. Lothon and S. D. Mayor

Recorded presentation Poster PDF (192.3 kB)

2:00 PM

4.2 has been moved to Poster P1.14

2:00 PM

4.3

Planetary Boundary Layer dynamic measurements with new compact long range wind Lidar Windcube™ WLS70

Jean Pierre Cariou, LEOSPHERE, Paris, France; and L. Sauvage, S. Lolli, R. Parmentier, M. Boquet, and S. Loaec

Recorded presentation

2:15 PM

4.4

Short time fluctuations of the convective boundary layer height and entrainment observed with Doppler lidar

Katja Träumner, Forschungszentrum Karlsruhe, Eggenstein-Leopoldshafen, Germany; and A. Wieser, C. Kottmeier, and U. Corsmeier

Recorded presentation Poster PDF (932.6 kB)

2:30 PM

4.5

Studies of marine boundary layer dynamics using a ship-based coherent Doppler lidar

Sara C. Tucker, CIRES, University of Colorado, and NOAA/ESRL, Boulder, CO; and W. A. Brewer and S. P. Sandberg

Recorded presentation

5

Applications of Atmospheric Electricity and Lightning Data In the Atmospheric Sciences

Location: Room 131A (Phoenix Convention Center)

Sponsor: Fourth Conference on the Meteorological Applications of Lightning Data

Chair: Henry E. Fuelberg, Florida State University

Papers:

1:30 PM

5.1

The impacts of urban-enhanced aerosols on downwind thunderstorms

Susan C. van den Heever, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO

Recorded presentation

2:00 PM

5.2

Detecting Anthropogenic Impacts on Lightning: Is There an Obvious Signal?

Walter A. Petersen, NASA/Wallops Flight Facility, Wallops Island, VA; and L. D. Carey

Recorded presentation

2:15 PM

5.3

Simulated electrification and lightning in a small multicell storm

Edward R. Mansell, NOAA/NSSL, Norman, OK ; and E. C. Bruning and C. L. Ziegler

Recorded presentation Poster PDF (922.3 kB)

2:30 PM

5.4

Lightning behavior and its dependence on storm kinematic and precipitation processes in Northern Alabama

Elise V. Johnson, Univ. of Alabama, Huntsville, AL; and W. A. Petersen

Recorded presentation

2:45 PM

5.5

Volcanic lightning

R. J. Thomas, New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology, Socorro, NM; and P. Krehbiel, W. Rison, and S. A. Behnke

Recorded presentation

6

Global dynamics and processes

Location: Room 129A (Phoenix Convention Center)

Sponsor: 21st Conference on Climate Variability and Change

Chair: Gerald L. Potter, Univ. of California Davis

Papers:

1:30 PM

6.1

Stochastic processes in climate modeling: from Lorenz to the El-Niño recharge oscillator and beyond

Michael Ghil, Ecole Normale Supérieure, Paris, France; and M. D. Chekroun and E. Simonnet

1:45 PM

6.2

Evaluating the physics of climate models using satellite observations and high-resolution models: the GCSS/WGNE Pacific Cross-section Intercomparison (GPCI)

Joao Teixeira, JPL, Pasadena, CA

2:00 PM

6.3

Observed Relationships between Global Precipitation and Surface Temperature on Inter-annual and Longer Time Scales

Robert F. Adler, ESSIC, University of Maryland, College Park, College Park, MD; and G. Gu and G. J. Huffman

Recorded presentation

2:15 PM

6.4

Water vapor variability on daily to decadal timescales

T. H. Vonder Haar, CIRA/Colorado State Univ., Fort Collins, CO; and J. M. Forsythe

Recorded presentation

2:30 PM

6.5

Sensitivity of Global Warming Prediction to Surface Latent Heat Flux: Relative Humidity Feedback

Jian (Tony) Ma, AGU, Honolulu, HI; and S. P. Xie and I. Richter

Recorded presentation

6

Mesoscale Data Assimilation and Impact Experiments—III

Location: Room 130 (Phoenix Convention Center)

Sponsor: 13th Conference on Integrated Observing and Assimilation Systems for Atmosphere, Oceans, and Land Surface (IOAS-AOLS)

Chair: Stan Benjamin, NOAA/ESRL/GSD

Papers:

1:30 PM

6.1

Weather Research and Forecasting model wind sensitivity study at Edwards Air Force Base, CA

Leela R. Watson, ENSCO, Inc., Cocoa Beach, FL; and W. H. Bauman III and B. Hoeth

Recorded presentation Poster PDF (2.3 MB)

1:45 PM

6.2

The use of LAPS as an assimilation and model initialization tool for tropical cyclones

S. Albers, CIRA/NOAA/ESRL/GSD, Boulder, CO; and I. Jankov, J. A. Mcginley, Y. Xie, J. Y. Kim, S. G. Gopalakrishnan, J. Gamache, and S. Aberson

2:00 PM

6.3

Hurricane Dennis Simulations By Using Various Initial Conditions and WRF Dynamic Cores

Jin-Young Kim, Pukyoung National University, Busan, South Korea; and I. Jankov, S. Albers, J. H. Oh, J. A. McGinley, S. G. Gopalakrishnan, and X. Zhang

Recorded presentation

2:15 PM

6.4

Multi-scale Analysis and Prediction of the 8 May 2003 Oklahoma City Tornadic Supercell Storm Assimilating Radar and Surface Network Data using EnKF

Ting Lei, University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK; and M. Xue and T. Y. Yu

http://twister.ou.edu/papers/LeiXueYu_AMS2009.pdf

Recorded presentation

2:30 PM

6.5

A Three-Dimensional Variational Data Assimilation Scheme in Support of Coastal Ocean Observing Systems

Zhijin Li, JPL, Pasadena, CA; and Y. Chao, J. Farrara, J. C. McWilliams, and K. Ide

6.6

Tropical cyclone intensity and rainfall forecasts: sensitivity to assimilation of microwave satellite observations

6

New data sources and products

Location: Room 126B (Phoenix Convention Center)

Sponsor: Sixth Symposium on Space Weather

Chair: W. Kent Tobiska, Utah State Univ.

Papers:

1:30 PM

6.1

Solar flares and subsurface vorticity measurements

Rudolf Komm, National Solar Observatory, Tucson, AZ ; and F. Hill, R. Howe, R. Ferguson, G. Barnes, and K. D. Leka

Recorded presentation

1:45 PM

6.2

Continual Solar Observations for Space Weather from GONG, a Ground-Based Network

Frank Hill, National Solar Observatory, Tucson, AZ ; and R. Komm, G. Petrie, J. W. Harvey, and I. Gonzalez Hernandez

Recorded presentation

2:00 PM

6.3

Comparisons of space-based GPS occultation ionospheric scintillation measurements with ground-based VHF measurements

Frank H. Ruggiero, Air Force Research Laboratory, Hanscom AFB, MA; and K. M. Groves, M. J. Starks, and T. L. Beach

Recorded presentation Poster PDF (371.9 kB)

2:15 PM

6.4

Ionospheric TEC mapping from GPS orbit using VHF radio receivers

David Michael Suszcynsky, LANL, Los Alamos, NM; and E. Lay, S. Close, and M. Pongratz

2:30 PM

6.5

Understanding Ionospheric Effects for the LWA

Christopher Watts, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM; and M. Kuniyoshi and K. Dymond

Recorded presentation Poster PDF (2.4 MB)

2:45 PM

6.6

Global-scale Observations of the Limb and Disk (GOLD)

Richard W. Eastes, Florida Space Institute, Kennedy Space Center, FL; and W. E. McClintock, A. Aksnes, D. N. Anderson, L. Andersson, S. A. Budzien, A. G. Burns, M. V. Codrescu, R. E. Daniell, K. F. Dymond, S. L. England, F. G. Eparvier, J. E. Harvey, T. J. Immel, A. Krywonos, M. R. Lankton, J. D. Lumpe, A. D. Richmond, D. W. Rusch, O. H. Siegmund, S. C. Solomon, D. J. Strickland, and T. N. Woods

Recorded presentation

6A

GIS Applications

Location: Room 121BC (Phoenix Convention Center)

Sponsor: 25th Conference on International Interactive Information and Processing Systems (IIPS) for Meteorology, Oceanography, and Hydrology

Cochairs: Ken R. Waters, NOAA/NWS; Nazila Merati, JISAO

Papers:

1:30 PM

6A.1

Global assessment of urban heat island effect and future heat waves: GIS applications in urban climate modeling

Olga Wilhelmi, NCAR, Boulder, CO; and J. Boehnert, K. Oleson, J. Feddema, and T. Jackson

Recorded presentation

1:45 PM

6A.2

TouchTable supported climate services and applications developed at NOAA's National Climatic Data Center

Stephen A. Del Greco, NOAA/NESDIS/NCDC, Asheville, NC; and S. Ansari and M. Phillips

Recorded presentation Poster PDF (158.8 kB)

2:00 PM

6A.3

HabitatModeler - GIS-based multidimensional habitat modeling in the ocean and atmosphere

Tiffany C. Vance, NOAA/National Marine Fisheries Service, Seattle, WA; and S. Mesick and D. Reusser

Recorded presentation

2:15 PM

6A.4

The weather and climate toolkit

Steve Ansari, NOAA/NESDIS/NCDC, Asheville, NC; and C. Hutchins, S. A. Del Greco, N. S. Stroumentova, and M. Phillips

Recorded presentation Poster PDF (2.4 MB)

2:30 PM

6A.5

GIS-enabled multi-sensor visualization and analysis of extreme precipitation and drought

Stephanie Granger, JPL, Pasadena, CA; and M. dela Torre-Juarez, E. J. Fetzer, M. Garay, R. Raskin, and N. Strout

Recorded presentation

6A.6

Study on Weather Services Producing System Based on GIS Geoprocessing

6A

Ocean-atmosphere interactions and influences on tropical and extratropical storms: Part 1

Location: Room 128A (Phoenix Convention Center)

Sponsor: 16th Conference on Air-Sea Interaction

Chair: Ernesto Muñoz, New Mexico Consortium

Papers:

1:30 PM

6A.1

Climate Changes and Atlantic Hurricane Activity

Chunzai Wang, NOAA/AOML, Miami, FL; and S. K. Lee

Recorded presentation

2:00 PM

6A.2

The possible role of hurricanes in the climate system

Aixue Hu, NCAR, Boulder, CO; and G. A. Meehl

Recorded presentation

2:15 PM

6A.3

Spray-mediated enthalpy flux to the atmosphere and salt flux to the ocean in high winds

Edgar L. Andreas, NorthWest Research Associates, Inc., Lebanon, NH

Recorded presentation Poster PDF (476.8 kB)

2:30 PM

6A.4

Impact of a warm ocean eddy's circulation on hurricane-induced sea surface cooling with implications for hurricane intensity

Richard M. Yablonsky, University of Rhode Island, Narragansett, RI; and I. Ginis

Recorded presentation Poster PDF (2.0 MB)

2:45 PM

6A.5

A Coupled Ocean-Atmosphere Model for Tropical Cyclone Studies – Boundary Layer Interactions and the Response to Tropical Cyclone Passage

Henry R. Winterbottom, The Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL; and C. A. Clayson and E. Chassignet

Recorded presentation

Joint Session 7

Climate Variability in Coastal Zones

Location: Room 126A (Phoenix Convention Center)

Sponsors: (Joint between the Eighth Conference on Coastal Atmospheric and Oceanic Prediction and Processes; and the 21st Conference on Climate Variability and Change )

Cochairs: David H. Levinson, NOAA/NESDIS/NCDC; Darko Koracin, DRI

Papers:

1:30 PM

J7.1

Variations in Large-Scale Circulation Affecting Extreme Hurricane-Generated Waves and Surges in the Gulf of Mexico

Donald T. Resio, ERDC, Vicksburg, MS; and E. A. Orelup and D. H. Levinson

Recorded presentation

2:00 PM

J7.2

Impact of Land Cover Land Use Changes on a Sea Breeze Dominated Climate in the Tropics

Daniel E. Comarazamy, Santa Clara University, New York, NY; and J. E. Gonzalez and E. Harmsen

Recorded presentation

2:15 PM

J7.3

Coastal process research in Alaska

David E. Atkinson, University of Alaska, Fairbanks, AK

Recorded presentation

2:45 PM

J7.4

Detecting the impacts of climate change on precipitation extremes for southern coastal Alaska

David H. Levinson, NOAA/NESDIS/NCDC, Asheville, NC; and M. C. Kruk

Recorded presentation Poster PDF (185.5 kB)

Joint Session 7

Hydrology and AI: Status and Applications—II

Location: Room 125A (Phoenix Convention Center)

Sponsors: (Joint between the Seventh Conference on Artificial Intelligence and its Applications to the Environmental Sciences; and the 23rd Conference on Hydrology )

Chairs: Philippe Tissot, Texas A&M Univ.; Bart Nijssen, University of Arizona

Papers:

1:30 PM

J7.1

The added value of surface data to radar-derived rainfall rate estimation using an artificial neural network

Benjamin Root, University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK; and T. Y. Yu and M. Yeary

Recorded presentation Poster PDF (160.0 kB)

1:45 PM

J7.2

Winter hydrometeor classification using polarimetric radar and spatiotemporal relational probability trees

Andy L. Spencer, Canoga Park, CA; and A. McGovern, K. L. Elmore, and M. B. Richman

Recorded presentation Poster PDF (65.5 kB)

2:00 PM

J7.3

Time tracking of precipitation systems in observed and forecast data

Michael E. Baldwin, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN

Recorded presentation

2:15 PM

J7.4

Northern Hemispheric Flood Fingerprints

Kathleen E. Walls, Penn State University, University Park, PA; and P. G. Knight, H. N. Shirer, and G. S. Young

Recorded presentation Poster PDF (693.8 kB)

2:30 PM

J7.5

Discussion

Joint Session 10

Satellite Education and Public Outreach

Location: Room 224AB (Phoenix Convention Center)

Sponsors: (Joint between the 16th Conference on Satellite Meteorology and Oceanography; the 18th Symposium on Education; and the Fifth Annual Symposium on Future Operational Environmental Satellite Systems- NPOESS and GOES-R )

Cochairs: Thomas F. Lee, NRL; Volker Karl Gaertner, EUMETSAT

Papers:

1:30 PM

J10.1

GOES-R Proving Ground Program

James Gurka, NESDIS GOES-R Program Office, Greenbelt, MD; and A. Mostek, T. J. Schmit, S. D. Miller, A. S. Bachmeier, and M. DeMaria

Recorded presentation

1:45 PM

J10.2

Contributions from CIRA to the GOES-R Satellite Proving Ground

Steven D. Miller, CIRA/Colorado State Univ., Fort Collins, CO; and M. DeMaria, D. Molenar, D. W. Hillger, E. J. Szoke, R. Brummer, A. P. Kuciauskas, F. J. Turk, and H. Gosden

Recorded presentation

2:00 PM

J10.3

Satellite Training Activities at CIMSS: Helping to Prepare Forecasters for the GOES-R and NPOESS Era

A. Scott Bachmeier, CIMSS, Madison, WI; and J. Gerth

Recorded presentation

2:15 PM

J10.4

After more than 10-years of e-Learning, what have we learned?

Steven A. Ackerman, CIMSS/Univ. of Wisconsin, Madison, WI

Recorded presentation

2:30 PM

J10.5

Satellite Proving Ground for the GOES-R Geostationary Lightning Mapper (GLM)

Steven J. Goodman, NOAA/NESDIS/ORA, Camp Springs, MD; and E. C. Bruning, J. J. Gurka, R. Blakeslee, and D. Buechler

Recorded presentation

2:45 PM

J10.6

International Training Events and Educational Seminars on Satellite Remote Sensing

Paul Menzel, Univ. of Wisconsin, Madison, WI; and P. Antonelli, T. D. Rink, K. I. Strabala, L. E. Gumley, A. Huang, S. Ackerman, H. Revercomb, and B. Smith

Recorded presentation

Joint Session 14

Dense Gas Dispersion (Joint with the Meteorological Aspects of Air Pollution Committee)

Location: Room 124B (Phoenix Convention Center)

Sponsor: Eighth Symposium on the Urban Environment

Chair: Steven R. Hanna, Hanna Consultants

Papers:

1:30 PM

J14.1

Source emissions and transport and dispersion models for Toxic Industrial Chemicals (TICs) released in cities

Steven R. Hanna, Hanna Consultants, Kennebunkport, ME; and R. Britter, J. Leung, O. R. Hansen, R. I. Sykes, P. Drivas, J. C. Weil, and D. Strimaitis

Recorded presentation Poster PDF (934.3 kB)

1:45 PM

J14.2

Modeling of releases of flashing liquids around buildings

Mathieu Ichard, GexCon, Bergen, Norway; and O. Hansen and J. Melheim

Recorded presentation Poster PDF (305.8 kB)

2:00 PM

J14.3

Issues with use of toxicity values for emergency response

Timothy J. Bauer, NSWCDD, Dahlgren, VA

Recorded presentation

2:15 PM

J14.4

Review and assessment of chlorine mammalian lethality data and the development of a human estimate

Douglas R. Sommerville, US Department of Defense, Aberdeen Proving Ground, MD; and J. J. Bray, S. A. Reutter-Christy, R. E. Jablonski, and E. E. Shelly

Recorded presentation

2:30 PM

J14.5

Large-eddy simulations of density currents over complex terrain

Branko Kosovic, LLNL, Livermore, CA; and J. D. Mirocha

2:45 PM

J14.6

Shallow water model for dense gas simulation in urban areas: a new approach

Sara Brambilla, Politecnico di Milano, Milano, MI, Italy; and M. D. Williams, A. Gowardhan, D. Manca, and M. J. Brown

Recorded presentation Poster PDF (383.0 kB)

Panel Discussion 1

Quantifying the Impact of Weather on Air Traffic

Location: Room 132A (Phoenix Convention Center)

Sponsor: Aviation, Range and Aerospace Meteorology Special Symposium on Weather-Air Traffic Management Integration

Moderators: David J. Pace, FAA; Marilyn Wolfson, MIT Lincoln Laboratory

Panelists: Alexander Klein, Air Traffic Analysis, Inc; James E. Evans, MIT Lincoln Laboratory; Kapil Sheth, NASA Ames Research Center; Michael Matthews, MIT Lincoln Laboratory; Sean Madine, OAR

Papers:

2:00 PM

PD1.1

NAS Weather Index: quantifying impact of actual and forecast en-route and surface weather on air traffic

Alexander Klein, Air Traffic Analysis, Inc, Fairfax, VA; and T. MacPhail, S. Kavoussi, D. Hickman, and M. Phaneuf

Recorded presentation Poster PDF (1.1 MB)

2:15 PM

PD1.2

Convective weather forecasting to support better NAS network flow decision making in severe weather

James E. Evans, MIT Lincoln Laboratory, Lexington, MA

Recorded presentation

2:30 PM

PD1.3

Analysis of Probabilistic Weather Forecasts for Use in Air Traffic Management

Kapil Sheth, NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, CA; and T. Amis and S. Gutierrez-Nolasco

Recorded presentation Poster PDF (2.1 MB)

2:45 PM

PD1.4

Measuring the uncertainty of weather forecast specific to air traffic management operations

Michael Matthews, MIT Lincoln Laboratory, Lexington, MA

Recorded presentation Poster PDF (821.2 kB)

3:00 PM

PD1.5

Conditioning forecasts of convection for use in air traffic management: A step toward measuring economic value

Sean Madine, OAR, Boulder, CO; and M. P. Kay, S. A. Lack, G. J. Layne, and J. Mahoney

Recorded presentation

Coffee Break in Exhibit Hall

Location: Hall 4 (Phoenix Convention Center)

4

Climate and Long-Term Planning of Water Resources—II

Location: Room 231B (Phoenix Convention Center)

Sponsor: Seventh Users Forum on Weather and Climate Impacts

Chair: Holly C. Hartman, University of Arizona

Papers:

3:30 PM

4.1

Helping Water Utilities Consider Climate Change in Their Planning Process

David Yates, NCAR, Boulder, CO

Recorded presentation

4:00 PM

4.2

Current and Future Direction of NOAA's Water Resource Forecast Services

David Brandon, NOAA/NWS, Salt Lake City, UT

Recorded presentation

3

High Impact US Weather Events

Location: Room 230 (Phoenix Convention Center)

Sponsor: Impacts of 2008

Chair: Tanja E. Fransen, NOAA/NWS

Papers:

3:30 PM

3.1

The Midwest Flooding of June 2008: A National Weather Service Assessment

James E. Hoke, NOAA/NWS/NCEP, Camp Springs, MD

Recorded presentation

3:45 PM

3.2

Major Winter Weather Events in the US, 2007–2008: Overview and Impacts

Douglas A. Wesley, UCAR/COMET, Boulder, CO

Recorded presentation

4:00 PM

3.3

The 2008 California Fires (and elsewhere)

Timothy J. Brown, DRI, Reno, NV

Recorded presentation

4:15 PM

3.4

Atlantic Hurricanes

William L. Read, NOAA/NHC, Miami, FL

Recorded presentation

4:30 PM

3.5

The 2008 U.S. Tornado Year: An Early and Angry Start

Joseph Schaefer, NOAA/NWS/NCEP/NSSL/SPC, Norman, OK; and G. W. Carbin

Recorded presentation

3

History of Atmospheric Sciences

Location: Room 223 (Phoenix Convention Center)

Sponsor: Presidential History Symposium

Chairs: Kristine C. Harper, Florida State University; Sepideh Yalda, Millersville Univ.

Papers:

3:30 PM

3.1

Comic Strips, Military Training, and Early TV Weather Reports

Roger D. Turner, Univ. of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA

Recorded presentation

4:00 PM

3.2

The Warren Washington Digital Collection at NCAR

Diane Rabson, NCAR, Boulder, CO; and M. Marlino

Joint Session 1

Joint Session Between 18Education and 25IIPS

Location: Room 125B (Phoenix Convention Center)

Sponsors: (Joint between the 18th Symposium on Education; and the 25th Conference on International Interactive Information and Processing Systems (IIPS) for Meteorology, Oceanography, and Hydrology )

Cochairs: Thomas Whittaker, SSEC/CIMSS/Univ. of Wisconsin; Lola Olsen, NASA

Papers:

3:30 PM

J1.1

CoCoRaHS (The Community Collaborative Rain, Hail and Snow Network): Biggest Little Data Gathering Network for Education, Climate Monitoring and Research

Nolan J. Doesken, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO; and H. Reges, R. Cifelli, J. Turner, Z. Schwalbe, and O. Bliss

Recorded presentation

3:45 PM

J1.2

User Preferences for Weather Data Dissemination Standards on the Web

John L. Schattel Jr., NOAA/NWS, Silver Spring, MD; and R. Bunge and P. R. Hershberg

Recorded presentation Poster PDF (172.8 kB)

4:00 PM

J1.3

The CALMET conference: International sharing of approaches to education and training in hydrology and meteorology

Patrick Parrish, UCAR/COMET, Boulder, CO; and T. Spangler, J. Lamos, and W. Abshire

Recorded presentation

4:15 PM

J1.4

An interactive, integrated, instructional pathway to the LEAD science gateway

Sepideh Yalda, Millersville Univ., Millersville, PA; and R. Clark, L. K. Davis, and E. N. Wiziecki

Recorded presentation

4:30 PM

J1.5

Weather radar education at the University of Oklahoma: An integrated interdisciplinary approach

Robert D. Palmer, Univeristy of Oklahoma, Norman, OK; and M. I. Biggerstaff, P. B. Chilson, G. E. Crain, K. K. Droegemeier, Y. Hong, M. Yeary, T. Y. Yu, G. Zhang, and Y. Zhang

Recorded presentation

4:45 PM

J1.6

The use of geovisualization in presenting weather and climate data to local decision makers

Mark Phillips, UNC-Asheville, Asheville, NC; and J. G. Dobson, T. Pierce, and J. Fox

http://www.nemac.unca.edu/presentations/phillips-ams-200901

Recorded presentation

1

Severe Storms Impacts on the Urban Environment: Modeling and Observations

Location: Room 123 (Phoenix Convention Center)

Sponsor: Symposium on Urban High Impact Weather

Chair: Pavlos Kollias, McGill University

Papers:

3:30 PM

1.1

The dramatic effect of tornadic severe weather on a rapidly growing urban interface

Ivory J. Small, NOAA/NWS, San Diego, CA; and T. Mackechnie and S. Vanderburg

Recorded presentation Poster PDF (1.5 MB)

3:45 PM

1.2

Extreme microburst events in the Phoenix metropolitan area

Steven V. Vasiloff, NOAA/NSSL, Norman, OK; and K. Howard, D. P. Jorgensen, C. Dempsey, and G. D. Green

Recorded presentation Poster PDF (1.4 MB)

4:00 PM

1.3

High resolution WRF and ADCIRC simulations of hurricane Gloria (1985) for the New York City Metropolitan Region

Tom DiLiberto, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY; and B. A. Colle and F. Bounaiuto

Recorded presentation

4:15 PM

1.4

The Use of Mesoscale Models for Analysis of High Impact Weather Events

Alfred M. Klausmann, TRC, Lowell, MA

Recorded presentation Poster PDF (1.8 MB)

4:30 PM

1.5

Urban growth and aerosol effects on convection over Houston

Gustavo Carrió, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO; and W. Y. Cheng, W. R. Cotton, and S. M. Saleeby

Recorded presentation Poster PDF (616.0 kB)

4:45 PM

1.6

Development and deployment of a mesoscale weather and outage prediction service for electric utility operations

Lloyd A. Treinish, IBM Systems and Technology Group, Yorktown Heights, NY; and A. P. Praino, H. Li, E. Novakovskaia, and J. M. Drexel

Recorded presentation Poster PDF (2.7 MB)

Panel Discussion 2

Into the Policy Fray: Bringing Science to the U.S. Congress

Location: Room 126C (Phoenix Convention Center)

Sponsor: Fourth Symposium on Policy and Socio—Economic Research

Moderator: Paul A. T. Higgins, AMS

Panelists: Jack Fellows, UCAR; Eric Webster, ITT Corp; Michael C. Morgan, University of Wisconsin; Kevin Rennert, AMS Policy Program

5

Lidar Application Studies in The Boundary Layer and Lower Troposphere - II

Location: Room 122A (Phoenix Convention Center)

Sponsor: Fourth Symposium on Lidar Atmospheric Applications

Chair: David W. Roberts, Georgia Tech Research Institute

CoChair: Sara Tucker, CIRES/Univ. of Colorado, and NOAA/ESRL

Papers:

3:30 PM

5.1

Lidar-radar analyses of convection initiation by gravity currents, bores, and solitons

Steven Koch, NOAA/ESRL, Boulder, CO

Recorded presentation

3:45 PM

5.2

Lidar-radar measurements of snowfall

Edwin W. Eloranta, Univ. of Wisconsin, Madison, WI

Recorded presentation

4:00 PM

5.3

Advantages of a coordinated scanning Doppler lidar and cloud radar system for wind measurements

Katja Träumner, Forschungszentrum Karlsruhe, Eggenstein-Leopoldshafen, Germany; and J. Handwerker, A. Wieser, J. Grenzhäuser, and C. Kottmeier

Recorded presentation Poster PDF (359.5 kB)

4:15 PM

5.4

Buoyancy profiling with lidar

Andreas Behrendt, University of Hohenheim, Stuttgart, Germany; and M. Radlach, S. Pal, and V. Wulfmeyer

4:30 PM

5.5

Lidar measurements of extreme inflow events for wind-energy operations

Yelena L. Pichugina, CIRES/Univ. of Colorado and NOAA/ESRL, Boulder, CO; and R. M. Banta, A. W. Brewer, and N. D. Kelley

Recorded presentation Poster PDF (587.0 kB)

4:45 PM

5.6

Water vapor variability within the atmospheric boundary layer using Raman Lidar and sounding measurements

Mariana Adam, Howard University, Washington, DC; and M. Hicks, T. Dejene, M. Robjhon, B. B. Demoz, J. D. Fuentes, E. Joseph, D. Venable, and R. Connell

Recorded presentation

7A

Ocean-atmosphere interactions and influences on tropical and extratropical storms: Part 2

Location: Room 128A (Phoenix Convention Center)

Sponsor: 16th Conference on Air-Sea Interaction

Chair: William A. Perrie, Bedford Insitute of Oceanography

Papers:

3:30 PM

7A.1

New strategies for comprehensive coupled atmosphere-wave-ocean modeling in tropical cyclones

Isaac Ginis, University of Rhode Island, Narragansett, RI; and Y. Fan, T. Hara, and Z. Yu

Recorded presentation

3:45 PM

7A.2

Comparisons of surface latent heat fluxes from numerical model simulations with those calculated from buoy observations

Donglian Sun, George Mason University, Fairfax, Viriginia

4:00 PM

7A.3

Spectra and cospectra of turbulence in the hurricane boundary layer over the ocean

Jun A. Zhang, NOAA/AOML, Miami, FL; and W. M. Drennan

Recorded presentation

4:15 PM

7A.4

Influence of an oceanic warm anomaly on the intensity of tropical cyclone Dora (2007) in the South West Indian Ocean

Guillaume Samson, Meteo-France/LACy, Sainte Clotilde, France; and D. Barbary, H. Giordani, G. Caniaux, and F. Roux

Recorded presentation Poster PDF (296.9 kB)

4:30 PM

7A.5

High-resolution numerical atmospheric and ocean simulations of Typhoon Maemi (September 2003)

Travis A. Smith, Naval Research Laboratory, Stennis Space Center, MS; and T. Campbell, R. Allard, J. Dykes, R. J. Small, and S. Riedlinger

Recorded presentation Poster PDF (410.5 kB)

4:45 PM

7A.6

Seasonal evolution of Aleutian Low-Pressure Systems: Implications for the North Pacific Ocean Sub-Polar Circulation

R. S. Pickart, WHOI, Woods Hole, MA; and G. W. K. Moore, A. Macdonald, I. A. Renfrew, J. E. Walsh, and W. S. Kessler

Recorded presentation

7B

Mesoscale Data Assimilation and Impact Experiments—IV

Location: Room 131C (Phoenix Convention Center)

Sponsor: 13th Conference on Integrated Observing and Assimilation Systems for Atmosphere, Oceans, and Land Surface (IOAS-AOLS)

Chair: Eric W. Uhlhorn, NOAA/AOML

Papers:

3:30 PM

7B.1

Observation denial and performance of a local mesoscale model

Leela R. Watson, ENSCO, Inc., Cocoa Beach, FL; and W. H. Bauman III

Recorded presentation Poster PDF (2.6 MB)

3:45 PM

7B.2

On the Impact of Super Resolution WSR-88D Doppler Radar Data Assimilation on High Resolution Numerical Model Forecasts

Steven R. Chiswell, Savannah River National Laboratory, Aiken, SC

Recorded presentation Poster PDF (757.5 kB)

4:00 PM

7B.3

Sheared Gaussian Coupled with Hybrid Genetic Methods of Mitigating Uncertainty in Contaminant Dispersion in a Turbulent Flow: Data Assimilation vs. Multisensor Data Fusion

Andrew J. Annunzio, Penn State Univ., University Park, PA; and S. E. Haupt and G. S. Young

Recorded presentation Poster PDF (109.9 kB)

4:15 PM

7B.4

The application of retrospective optimal interpolation to WRF

Shin-Woo Kim, Seoul National University, Seoul, South Korea; and H. J. Song and G. H. Lim

Recorded presentation

4:30 PM

7B.5

Assimilating Mesoscale Model Data into Computational Fluid Dynamics Models

Sue Ellen Haupt, Penn State Univ., University Park, PA; and F. J. Zajaczkowski, L. J. Peltier, K. J. Long, D. R. Stauffer, and J. R. Zielonka

Recorded presentation Poster PDF (2.0 MB)

4:45 PM

7B.6

Assimilation of radar reflectivity data using a diabatic digital filter: Applications to the Rapid Update Cycle and Rapid Refresh and initialization of High Resolution Rapid Refresh forecasts with RUC/RR grids

Stanley G. Benjamin, NOAA/ESRL/GSD, Boulder, CO; and S. S. Weygandt, T. G. Smirnova, M. Hu, S. E. Peckham, J. M. Brown, K. J. Brundage, and G. S. Manikin

Recorded presentation

7A

GIS Applications II

Location: Room 121BC (Phoenix Convention Center)

Sponsor: 25th Conference on International Interactive Information and Processing Systems (IIPS) for Meteorology, Oceanography, and Hydrology

Cochairs: Ken R. Waters, NOAA/NWS; Nazila Merati, JISAO

Papers:

7A.1

Study on typhoon forecast product creation based on GIS

3:45 PM

7A.2

How Enterprise GIS is Improving the Effectiveness of the National Weather Service

Keith Stellman, NOAA/NWS, Shreveport, LA; and C. Pieper, K. S. Lander, A. Foster, D. Hansing, and T. Brice

http://www.weather.gov/gis

Recorded presentation Poster PDF (232.1 kB)

4:00 PM

7A.3

Weather forecasts and GIS hazards data viewer for Southern California

Jayme L. Laber, NOAA/NWS, Oxnard, CA

Recorded presentation

4:15 PM

7A.4

Developing geospatial decision support tools for a local NWS office and other regional decision makers

J. Greg Dobson, UNC-Asheville, Asheville, NC; and T. Pierce and M. Phillips

Recorded presentation Poster PDF (1.3 MB)

4:30 PM

7A.5

Server GIS at the NWS Central Region

Kristopher S. Lander, NOAA/NWS, Kansas City, MO

Recorded presentation

4:45 PM

7A.6

Using python client libraries to access remote servers via Web Coverage Services

Ben Domenico, UCAR, Boulder, CO; and D. Lowe

http://docs.google.com/Doc?id=dc6q6qjx_763vcb2n3fn&hl=en

Recorded presentation Poster PDF (704.7 kB)

5:00 PM

7A.7

Application of open source GIS and statistical software for hydrometeorological analyses

Thomas Adams, NOAA/NWS, Wilmington, OH

Recorded presentation

7B

High-latitude air-sea interaction

Location: Room 128B (Phoenix Convention Center)

Sponsor: 16th Conference on Air-Sea Interaction

Chair: Edgar L. Andreas, NorthWest Research Associates, Inc.

Papers:

3:30 PM

7B.1

Recently Intensified Arctic Atmosphere-Ice-Ocean Interaction and Accelerated Sea Ice Reduction

Xiangdong Zhang, University of Alaska Fairbanks, Fairbanks, AK

Recorded presentation

3:45 PM

7B.2

Observed feedback between winter sea ice and the North Atlantic Oscillation

Gudrun Magnusdottir, University of California, Irvine, Irvine, CA; and C. Strong and H. Stern

Recorded presentation

4:00 PM

7B.3

Simulation of Arctic Storms

Zhenxia Long, Bedford Institute of Oceanography, Dartmouth, Nova Scotia, Canada; and W. Perrie and L. Zhang

Recorded presentation Poster PDF (1.2 MB)

4:15 PM

7B.4

On the Nature of Upwelling Storms in the Western Arctic

R. S. Pickart, WHOI, Woods Hole, MA; and G. W. K. Moore

Recorded presentation

4:30 PM

7B.5

Impacts of Air-Sea Fluxes on the Evolution of an Arctic “Bomb”

Lujun Zhang, Nanjing University and Bedford Institute of Oceanography, Dartmouth, NS, Canada; and W. Perrie and Z. Long

Poster PDF (920.2 kB)

4:45 PM

7B.6

Aircraft observations of the atmospheric boundary layer over the Ronne Polynya, Southern Weddell Sea, Antarctica

Emma Fiedler, University of East Anglia, Norwich, , United Kingdom; and I. Renfrew, T. Lachlan Cope, and J. C. King

Recorded presentation Poster PDF (1.3 MB)

5:00 PM

7B.7

A new estimate of air-sea buoyancy fluxes over the Southern Ocean by state estimate

Ivana Cerovecki, SIO/Univ. Of California, La Jolla, CA; and L. Talley, M. Mazloff, and J. McClean

Recorded presentation

3

Forecasting Contest

Location: Room 125A (Phoenix Convention Center)

Sponsor: Seventh Conference on Artificial Intelligence and its Applications to the Environmental Sciences

Chair: Michael B. Richman, Univ. of Oklahoma

Papers:

3:30 PM

3.1

Polarimetric Radar and validation data for the 2008 artificial intelligence competition

Kimberly L. Elmore, CIMMS/Univ. of Oklahoma and NOAA/NSSL, Norman, OK; and M. B. Richman

Recorded presentation Poster PDF (33.0 kB)

3:45 PM

3.2

Probabilistic hedging of the True Skill Statistic

Neil Gordon, Meteorological Service of New Zealand, Kelburn, Wellington, New Zealand; and D. Kilminster and A. Ziegler

Poster PDF (269.3 kB)

4:00 PM

3.3

Application of Neural Net Models to Classify and to Forecast the Observed Precipitation Type at the Ground using the Artificial Intelligence Competition Data Set

Armando Pelliccioni, ISPESL, Monteporzio Catone, Italy; and R. Cotroneo Jr. and F. Pungi

Recorded presentation Poster PDF (64.5 kB)

4:15 PM

3.4

Regime Dependent Precipitation Type Forecasting

Tyler C. McCandless, Penn State University, University Park, PA

Recorded presentation Poster PDF (116.1 kB)

4:30 PM

3.5

Employing stratified data mining models

Valliappa Lakshmanan, CIMMS/Univ. of Oklahoma, NOAA/NSSL, Norman, OK

Recorded presentation Poster PDF (65.5 kB)

4:45 PM

3.6

The effects of data issues and skill scores in creating predictive models

Matthew J. Pocernich, NCAR, Boulder, CO

Recorded presentation Poster PDF (2.4 MB)

5:00 PM

3.7

Ensemble classifier for winter storm precipitation in polarimetric radar data

Emmanuel Goossaert, University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK; and R. Alam

Recorded presentation Poster PDF (72.3 kB)

5:15 PM

3.8

Comparison of support vector machines and minimax probability machines for precipitation prediction

Stephen Sullivan, UCAR, Boulder, CO

Recorded presentation Poster PDF (337.5 kB)

Joint Session 3

Measurements in the Urban Environment—II

Location: Room 124A (Phoenix Convention Center)

Sponsors: (Joint between the Eighth Conference on Coastal Atmospheric and Oceanic Prediction and Processes; the Eighth Symposium on the Urban Environment; and the Boundary Layers and Turbulence Committee )

Cochairs: Petra M. Klein, Univ. of Oklahoma; C. Bruce Baker, NOAA/NESDIS/NCDC

Papers:

3:30 PM

J3.1

Development of an Innovative Laboratory for Research and Education in Urban Meteorology: An Overview of the NSF Career Project: ILREUM

Petra M. Klein, Univ. of Oklahoma, Norman, OK; and S. C. Arms and J. M. Galvez

Recorded presentation

3:45 PM

J3.2

Scintillometry applied to urban studies: evaluation of scintillometer measurements made at a sub-urban site

Jose M. Galvez, University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK; and P. M. Klein and S. Arms

Recorded presentation

4:00 PM

J3.3

An Analysis of the July and August 2008 Heat Wave Using Oklahoma City Micronet Observations

Kenneth C. Crawford, Oklahoma Climatological Survey, Norman, OK; and J. B. Basara, B. G. Illston, and A. J. Schroeder

Recorded presentation Poster PDF (2.7 MB)

4:15 PM

J3.4

An analysis of observations from portable temperature and humidity sensors deployed across Oklahoma City

Amanda J. Schroeder, University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK; and J. B. Basara

Recorded presentation

4:30 PM

J3.5

Outdoor scale model experiment to evaluate the complete urban surface temperature

Sarah M. Roberts, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada; and J. A. Voogt and T. R. Oke

Poster PDF (1.5 MB)

4:45 PM

J3.6

Atmospheric stability in urban areas detected by ultrasonic anemometers

Martin Piringer, Central Institute for Meteorology and Geodynamics, Vienna, Austria

Recorded presentation

5:00 PM

J3.7

Measuring meteorology in urban areas—some progress and many problems

Ekaterina Batchvarova, National Institute of Meteorology and Hydrology, Sofia, Bulgaria; and S. E. Gryning

Recorded presentation Poster PDF (448.9 kB)

5:15 PM

J3.8 has been moved. New paper number J9.1A

3

Use of Forecasts and Communicating Uncertainty

Location: Room 121A (Phoenix Convention Center)

Sponsor: Fourth Symposium on Policy and Socio—Economic Research

Cochairs: Julie Demuth, NCAR; Daniel Nietfeld, NOAA

Papers:

3.1

Ad Hoc Committee on uncertainty in forecasts (ACUF)

3:45 PM

3.1A

Communicating Weather Forecast Uncertainty: An Exploratory Study with Broadcast Meteorologists

Julie Demuth, NCAR, Boulder, CO; and B. H. Morrow and J. K. Lazo

Recorded presentation

4:00 PM

3.2

Weather visuals and the public: How do we help the public understand our visuals?

Gina M. Eosco, American Meteorological Society, Washington, DC

Recorded presentation

4:15 PM

3.3

Understanding the use of forecast uncertainty information in decision making: Results from a survey

Rebecca E. Morss, NCAR, Boulder, CO; and J. K. Lazo and J. Demuth

Recorded presentation Poster PDF (174.4 kB)

4:30 PM

3.4

Where do people obtain weather information and how do they perceive that information? Results from the January 2008 California Winter Storm

Sheldon D. Drobot, NCAR, Boulder, CO; and C. Schmidt and J. Demuth

Recorded presentation

4:45 PM

3.5

Beyond Storm-Based Warnings: An Advanced WAS*IS Workshop to study communication of probabilistic hazardous weather information

Kristin M. Kuhlman, CIMMS/Univ. of Oklahoma and NOAA/National Severe Storms Laboratory, Norman, OK; and E. Gruntfest, K. A. Scharfenberg, and G. J. Stumpf

Recorded presentation Poster PDF (693.0 kB)

5:00 PM

3.6

Next generation warning products and services workshop

John T. Ferree, NOAA/NWS Office of Climate, Water, and Weather Services, Norman, OK; and E. Jacks, K. Scharfenberg, and K. A. Kloesel

Recorded presentation

5:15 PM

3.7

NOAA/NWS Winter Weather Advisory and Warning product simplification

Eli Jacks, NOAA/NWS, Silver Spring, MD; and P. Stokols

Recorded presentation

4

Experimental, field, and modeling studies on aerosol-cloud interactions-II

Location: Room 131B (Phoenix Convention Center)

Sponsor: Special Symposium on Aerosol–Cloud–Climate Interactions

Cochairs: Mark Z. Jacobson, Stanford University; Yang Zhang, North Carolina State Univ.

Papers:

3:30 PM

4.1

(Invited Speaker) The effect of locally-emitted CO2 on gases, aerosols, clouds, and health

Mark Z. Jacobson, Stanford University, Stanford, CA

Recorded presentation

4:00 PM

4.2

Simulating Climate-Air Quality Interactions using Global-Through-Urban WRF/Chem

Yang Zhang, North Carolina State Univ., Raleigh, NC; and Y. Pan, X. Y. Wen, X. Y. Dong, P. Karamchandani, D. G. Streets, W. C. Skamarock, and G. A. Grell

4:15 PM

4.3

Indirect Effect in NCAR CAM: Sensitivity to the Treatment of Aerosols

Xiaohong Liu, PNNL, Richland, WA; and S. Ghan, R. Easter, R. Zaveri, A. Gettelman, P. Rasch, H. Morrison, P. Hess, J. F. Lamarque, N. Mahowald, F. M. Vitt, P. Cameron-smith, C. C. Chuang, and A. Ekman

Recorded presentation

4:30 PM

4.4

Regional analysis of multi-year aerosol indirect effects

Thomas A. Jones, CIMMS/Univ. of Oklahoma, Norman, OK; and S. A. Christopher

Recorded presentation

4:45 PM

4.5

Role of Spectral Dispersion in the Aerosol-Cloud-Climate Loop

Yangang Liu, Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, NY; and P. H. Daum

Recorded presentation

5:00 PM

4.6

The radiative and dynamical impact of aerosols on mixed-phase clouds observed during ISDAC

Amy B. Solomon, CIRES/NOAA/ESRL/PSD, Boulder, CO; and M. Shupe, H. Morrison, and P. O. G. Persson

Recorded presentation

5:15 PM

4.7

Influence of Aerosol Histories on the Direct Aerosol Effect in IPCC-AR4 20th Century Simulations—Models vs. Observations

Christian Ruckstuhl, SIO/Univ. Of California, La Jolla, CA; and J. R. Norris

4

Integrating Weather with ATM - III

Location: Room 132A (Phoenix Convention Center)

Sponsor: Aviation, Range and Aerospace Meteorology Special Symposium on Weather-Air Traffic Management Integration

Chairs: David J. Pace, FAA; Marilyn Wolfson, MIT Lincoln Laboratory

Papers:

3:30 PM

4.1

Use of operationally available weather forecast products beyond 6 hours for air traffic strategic planning

John Huhn, The MITRE Corporation, McLean, VA; and M. Duquette, D. R. Bright, S. J. Weiss, R. S. Schneider, J. Racy, and B. Sherman

Recorded presentation Poster PDF (812.1 kB)

3:45 PM

4.2

Initial studies of an objective model to forecast achievable airspace flow program throughput from current and forecast weather information

Michael Robinson, MIT Lincoln Laboratory, Lexington, MA; and R. DeLaura, B. Martin, J. E. Evans, and M. E. Weber

Recorded presentation Poster PDF (1.5 MB)

4:00 PM

4.3

Evaluation of Ensemble-based Probabilistic Weather Information for Air Traffic Management

Matthias Steiner, NCAR, Boulder, CO ; and R. E. Bateman, D. L. Megenhardt, and J. O. Pinto

Recorded presentation Poster PDF (2.4 MB)

4:15 PM

4.4

Probabilistic evaluation of convective forecasts

S. Mark Leidner, AER, Norman, OK; and M. Pirone

Recorded presentation

4:30 PM

4.5

Ensemble forecast of ceiling, visibility and fog with NCEP Short-Range Ensemble Forecast System (SREF)

Binbin Zhou, NOAA/NWS/NCEP/EMC, Camp Springs, MD; and J. Du, J. McQueen, and G. DiMedo

Recorded presentation Poster PDF (216.6 kB)

4:45 PM

4.6

Investigating a New Ground Delay Program Strategy for Coping with SFO Stratus

David A. Clark, MIT, Lexington, MA

Recorded presentation Poster PDF (177.7 kB)

5:00 PM

4.7

Building a Stochastic Terminal Airspace Capacity Forecast from Convective Weather Forecasts

Diana Michalek, MIT, Cambridge, MA; and H. Balakrishnan

Poster PDF (1.1 MB)

5:15 PM

4.8

Integrating convective weather forecasts with the traffic management advisor (TMA)

James G. Stobie, ENSCO, Inc., Falls Church, VA; and R. Gillen and W. A. Lester

Recorded presentation Poster PDF (229.8 kB)

6

Lightning Warning and Prediction Using Observations and Models

Location: Room 131A (Phoenix Convention Center)

Sponsor: Fourth Conference on the Meteorological Applications of Lightning Data

Chair: Christopher B. Darden, NOAA/NWS

Papers:

3:30 PM

6.1

Statistically-derived lightning forecast guidance prepared at Florida State University

Henry E. Fuelberg, Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL; and P. Shafer, G. Stano, H. Anderson, S. D. Rudlosky, and P. Saunders

Recorded presentation

4:00 PM

6.2

Development, operational use, and evaluation of the perfect prog national lightning prediction system at the Storm Prediction Center

Phillip D. Bothwell, NOAA/NCEP/SPC, Norman, OK

Recorded presentation Poster PDF (731.9 kB)

4:30 PM

6.3

Short range ensemble forecast (SREF) calibrated thunderstorm probability forecasts: 2007–2008 verification and recent enhancements

David R. Bright, NOAA/NWS/NCEP/SPC, Norman, OK; and J. S. Grams

Recorded presentation Poster PDF (286.1 kB)

4:45 PM

6.4

An Algorithm to Nowcast Lightning Initiation and Cessation in Real-time

Valliappa Lakshmanan, CIMMS/Univ. of Oklahoma, NOAA/NSSL, Norman, OK; and T. Smith and K. D. Hondl

Recorded presentation Poster PDF (522.0 kB)

5:00 PM

6.5

The North Alabama Lightning Warning Product

Dennis E. Buechler, University of Alabama, Huntsville, AL; and R. J. Blakeslee and G. T. Stano

Recorded presentation

5:15 PM

6.6

An assesment of cloud-to-ground lightning warning at Dugway Proving Ground using Kennedy Space Center algorithms

Margaret B. Kimball, U.S Army, Dugway Proving Ground, Dugway, UT; and F. W. Gallagher

Recorded presentation Poster PDF (86.7 kB)

7A

Atmospheric Observations for Weather and Climate: AIRS/COSMIC

Location: Room 130 (Phoenix Convention Center)

Sponsor: 13th Conference on Integrated Observing and Assimilation Systems for Atmosphere, Oceans, and Land Surface (IOAS-AOLS)

Chair: Joel Susskind, NASA/GSFC

Papers:

3:45 PM

7A.2

Validation of AIRS retrievals of CO2 and comparison to chemistry transport models

Moustafa Chahine, NASA/JPL, Pasadena, CA; and E. T. Olsen, L. Chen, X. Jiang, T. Pagano, and Y. Yung

4:00 PM

7A.3

The impact of AIRS data, assimilated using an Ensemble Kalman filter, in WRF forecasts for the Central United States

Brian J. Etherton, University of North Carolina, Charlotte, NC; and S. O. Holmberg

Recorded presentation

4:15 PM

7A.4

Univariate and multivariate assimilation of AIRS humidity retrievals with the Local Ensemble Transform Kalman Filter

Junjie Liu, University of California, Berkeley, CA; and H. Li, E. Kalnay, I. Szunyogh, and E. J. Kostelich

Recorded presentation

4:30 PM

7A.5

Use of COSMIC RO data to evaluate AIRS and ECMWF temperature profiles

Thomas P. Yunck, Foundation for Earth Science, Pasadena, CA; and E. J. Fetzer, C. O. Ao, G. J. Manipon, B. Wilson, A. J. Mannucci, and F. W. Irion

Recorded presentation

4:45 PM

7A.6

Inter-instrument and Structural Uncertainty in Radio Occultation Data: Comparing COSMIC and GRAS Data and Retrievals

Christian Marquardt, EUMETSAT, Darmstadt, Germany; and A. von Engeln, Y. Andres, and F. Sancho

Recorded presentation

5:00 PM

7A.7

Global Comparisons of Atmospheric Soundings in the Lower Troposphere from COSMIC Radio Occultation, Radiosonde, and ECMWF Analysis

Shu-peng Ho, NCAR, Boulder, CO; and Y. H. Kuo, W. He, D. Hunt, C. Rocken, W. Schreiner, and S. Sokolovskiy

5:15 PM

7A.8

Interhemispheric coupling of large-scale atmospheric waves in stratospheric/mesospheric temperature at middle and high latitudes: COSMIC vs MLS-AURA observations

Marianna G. Shepherd, York University, Toronto, ON, Canada; and S. P. Alexander and T. Tsuda

Recorded presentation

3:30 PM

7A.1

Cross validation of water vapor retrievals from GPS radio occultations, AIRS and radiosondes

A. J. Mannucci, JPL, Pasadena, CA; and C. O. Ao, E. J. Fetzer, B. A. Iijima, F. W. Irion, G. Manipon, B. D. Wilson, and T. P. Yunck

Recorded presentation

7B

Internet Applications and Cyberinfrastructure II

Location: Room 122BC (Phoenix Convention Center)

Sponsor: 25th Conference on International Interactive Information and Processing Systems (IIPS) for Meteorology, Oceanography, and Hydrology

Cochairs: Michael D. Eilts, Weather Decision Technologies, Inc.; John Horel, University of Utah

Papers:

3:30 PM

7B.1

Earth Information Services

Tracy Lee Hansen, NOAA/Earth System Research Laboratory, Boulder, CO; and T. J. LeFebvre, M. Schultz, M. Romberg, A. Mysore, K. Holub, P. McCaslin, S. Salm, A. Esterline, Y. Li, C. Baber, K. Fuller, Y. Pogue, W. Wright, M. Heavner, M. Steinbach, R. Olobode, L. Qian, and R. Fatland

Recorded presentation

3:45 PM

7B.2

Earth system case studies for research and education

Jeff Weber, UCAR, Boulder, CO; and J. McWhirter

Recorded presentation Poster PDF (218.5 kB)

4:00 PM

7B.3

Evolution of a distributed laboratory for coastal research

Gerald J. Creager, Texas A&M Univ., College Station, TX; and G. Allen, G. T. Almes, J. Bintz, B. Blanton, P. Bogden, J. Davis, S. Graves, W. A. Perrie, P. Sheng, H. Wang, D. Forrest, and D. Wright

Recorded presentation

4:15 PM

7B.4

Flexible Computing Architectures for Supporting Rapid Algorithm Development

Jason D. James, NOAA, Suitland, MD

Recorded presentation Poster PDF (443.6 kB)

4:30 PM

7B.5

IDV at 5: New features and future plans

Don Murray, UCAR/Unidata, Boulder, CO; and J. McWhirter, Y. Ho, and T. M. Whittaker

http://www.unidata.ucar.edu/software/idv

Recorded presentation Poster PDF (35.3 kB)

7B.6

Leveraging LEAD, TDR and RAMADDA to create meteorological case studies containing diverse data and documents

5:00 PM

7B.7

Web-based Skew-T displays of GOES and POES operational atmospheric soundings

Laura B. Kowal, NOAA/NESDIS/OSDPD/SSD, Camp Springs, MD; and A. Sharma, D. R. Donahue, D. Xu, and J. Guo

Recorded presentation Poster PDF (93.3 kB)

7B

Tropical cyclones

Location: Room 129B (Phoenix Convention Center)

Sponsor: 21st Conference on Climate Variability and Change

Chair: Philip W. Mote, Univ. of Washington

Papers:

3:30 PM

7B.1

An overview of the International Best Track Archive for Climate Stewardship (IBTrACS) project

Michael C. Kruk, STG, Inc., Asheville, NC; and K. Knapp, D. Levinson, H. Diamond, and J. P. Kossin

http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/oa/ibtracs

Recorded presentation Poster PDF (368.6 kB)

3:45 PM

7B.2

The Atlantic basin hurricane database re-analysis for the decades of the 1920s and 1930s

Christopher W. Landsea, NOAA/NWS/TPC/NHC, Miami, FL

Recorded presentation

4:00 PM

7B.3

The dynamic warm pool: A new paradigm for understanding the role of the tropics in the global heat balance

Peter J. Webster, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA; and C. D. Hoyos

Recorded presentation

4:15 PM

7B.4

Evolution of the tropical dynamical warm pool and modulation of the intensity and numbers of tropical cyclones

Carlos D. Hoyos, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA; and P. J. Webster

Recorded presentation

4:30 PM

7B.5

Impact of global warming on tropical cyclone structure change with a 20km-mesh high-resolution global model

Hiroyuki Murakami, AESTO/MRI, Tsukuba, Ibaraki, Japan; and A. Kitoh

Recorded presentation

4:45 PM

7B.6

Modulation of tropical cyclones by natural modes of large-scale climate variability

Adam H. Sobel, Columbia Univ., New York, NY; and S. J. Camargo and M. C. Wheeler

Recorded presentation

5:00 PM

7B.7

Aircraft measurement of the probability distribution of precipitation rate and liquid water content in the hurricane: measurement and model criteria for prescription of a variable moisture climate

Robert A. Black, NOAA/AOML, Miami, FL; and J. Hallett

Recorded presentation Poster PDF (763.6 kB)

5:15 PM

7B.8

Variability of tornadoes induced by U.S. landfalling tropical cyclones

James I. Belanger, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA; and C. D. Hoyos, J. A. Curry, and B. A. Miller

Recorded presentation

Joint Session 11

Satellite Forecaster Training

Location: Room 224AB (Phoenix Convention Center)

Sponsors: (Joint between the Fifth Annual Symposium on Future Operational Environmental Satellite Systems- NPOESS and GOES-R; the 16th Conference on Satellite Meteorology and Oceanography; and the 18th Symposium on Education )

Cochairs: Anthony Mostek, NOAA/NWS; Steven A. Ackerman, CIMSS/Univ. of Wisconsin

Papers:

3:30 PM

J11.1

NOAA Satellite Training

Anthony Mostek, NOAA/NWS, Boulder, CO; and M. DeMaria, J. J. Gurka, and T. J. Schmit

Recorded presentation

3:45 PM

J11.2

Training optimisation with web based training methodologies for satellite meteorology and related application areas

Volker Karl Gaertner, EUMETSAT, Darmstadt, , Germany

Recorded presentation

4:00 PM

J11.3

A new environmental satellite resource center on the web

Wendy Abshire, UCAR/COMET, Boulder, CO; and B. Guarente, P. Parrish, and P. Dills

Recorded presentation

4:15 PM

J11.4

Transitioning NPOESS data to weather offices: The SPoRT paradigm with EOS data

Gary J. Jedlovec, NASA/MSFC, Huntsville, AL

Recorded presentation Poster PDF (52.6 kB)

4:30 PM

J11.5

Collaborative training efforts at the NESDIS Cooperative Institutes

Ingrid Guch, NOAA/NESDIS, Camp Springs, MD; and S. Q. Kidder, P. Menzel, R. Ferraro, S. Ackerman, D. R. Khanbilvardi, T. Strub, B. Vant Hull, R. D. Hudson, and M. DeMaria

Recorded presentation Poster PDF (118.2 kB)

4:45 PM

J11.6

Navigating the hurricane highway: Understanding hurricanes with Google Earth

F. J. Turk, NRL, Monterey, CA; and S. Kluge, A. Evan, K. Hutson, L. Kropuenske, T. Ledley, and M. Mooney

Recorded presentation

5:00 PM

J11.7

Applications of the NPOESS Imagers

T. F. Lee, NRL, Monterey, CA; and J. D. Hawkins, F. J. Turk, P. Gaiser, M. Bettenhausen, and S. D. Miller

Recorded presentation Poster PDF (2.3 MB)

5:15 PM

J11.8

The NPOESS Data Exploitation Project

James G. Yoe, NOAA/NESDIS, Suitland, MD; and J. Silva, G. Goodrum, and T. Schott

Recorded presentation

Joint Session 15

Dispersion and Air Quality in Cities—DAPPLE Experiment (Joint with the Meteorological Aspects of Air Pollution Committee)

Location: Room 124B (Phoenix Convention Center)

Sponsor: Eighth Symposium on the Urban Environment

Chair: Stephen E. Belcher, University of Reading

Papers:

3:30 PM

J15.1

Wind tunnel experiments in support of the DAPPLE project

Alan Robins, University of Surrey, Guildford, United Kingdom; and P. Hayden and J. Barlow

Recorded presentation

3:45 PM

J15.2

Wind field observations during the DAPPLE 2004 campaign in London, UK

Janet Barlow, University of Reading, Reading, United Kingdom; and A. Dobre, R. Smalley, S. Arnold, A. Tomlin, and S. Belcher

Recorded presentation

4:00 PM

J15.3

Measurements of flow and turbulence within and above an urban intersection in central London (DAPPLE 2007 campaign)

Ahmed Balogun, University of Leeds, Leeds, United Kingdom; and A. Tomlin, C. R. Wood, J. Barlow, S. Belcher, R. Smalley, J. Lingard, S. Arnold, A. Dobre, A. Robins, and D. Martin

Recorded presentation

4:15 PM

J15.4

An overview of methods of full-scale urban dispersion in experiments during DAPPLE

Damien Martin, University of Bristol, Bristol, United Kingdom; and D. Shallcross, C. R. Wood, S. Arnold, A. Balogun, J. Barlow, S. E. Belcher, R. Britter, A. Robins, F. Petersson, J. Tate, and A. Tomlin

Recorded presentation

4:30 PM

J15.5

Line source tracer release experiments in central London (DAPPLE project)

James Tate, University of Leeds, Leeds, United Kingdom; and C. R. Wood, D. Martin, S. Arnold, A. Balogun, J. Barlow, S. E. Belcher, R. Britter, J. J. N. Lingard, C. Oates, A. Robins, D. E. Shallcross, and A. Tomlin

Recorded presentation

4:45 PM

J15.6

A numerical study of the flow and exchange processes within a complex urban geometry: the DAPPLE case study

Marina K.-A. Neophytou, Univ. of Cyprus, Nicosia, Cyprus; and Y. Panayiotou, D. Hamlyn, and R. Britter

Recorded presentation

5:00 PM

J15.7

Pathways for dispersion in urban areas revealed by the DAPPLE experiments

Stephen E. Belcher, University of Reading, Reading, Berks., United Kingdom; and S. Arnold, A. Balogun, J. Barlow, R. E. Britter, H. Cheng, A. Dobre, J. J. N. Lingard, D. Martin, M. K. –. Neophytou, F. Petersson, A. Robins, D. E. Shallcross, R. Smalley, J. Tate, A. Tomlin, I. R. White, and C. R. Wood

Recorded presentation

5:15 PM

J15.8

Fast response measurements for the dispersion of nanoparticles in vehicle wake and street canyon

Prashant Kumar, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, United Kingdom; and A. Robins and R. Britter

Recorded presentation Poster PDF (54.4 kB)

7A

Global dynamics and processes - II

Location: Room 129A (Phoenix Convention Center)

Sponsor: 21st Conference on Climate Variability and Change

Chair: Gerald L. Potter, Univ. of California Davis

Papers:

3:30 PM

7A.1

Decadal variability in surface solar irradiance observed in the NASA/GEWEX Surface Radiation Budget data set

Laura M. Hinkelman, JISAO/Univ. of Washington, Seattle, WA; and P. W. Stackhouse Jr., S. J. Cox, and T. Zhang

Recorded presentation

3:45 PM

7A.2

Characterizing warm-ENSO variability in the equatorial Pacific: An OLR perspective

Andrew M. Chiodi, NOAA/PMEL/JISAO, Seattle, WA; and D. E. Harrison

Recorded presentation

4:00 PM

7A.3

Dynamical Self-Organization Processes for NAO

Hong-Li Ren, China Meteorological Administration, Beijing, China; and F. F. Jin and J. S. Kug

Recorded presentation

7A.4

The Influence of ENSO on the frequency and intensity of extreme precipitation events in South America

4:15 PM

7A.4A

Impact of the Arctic Oscillation on ENSO-precipitation teleconnections across the eastern USA

Dagmar Budikova, Illinois State University, Normal, IL

Recorded presentation

4:45 PM

7A.5

Observed and simulated influence of rainy-region SST on the tropical upper tropospheric humidity (UTH)

Hui-Wen Chuang, Univerisity of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI; and X. Huang

Recorded presentation

5:00 PM

7A.6

Variability in Meridional Overturning Circulation and Thermohaline Structure Detected From Argo/GTSPP/MOODS/OSCAR Data

Peter C. Chu, NPS, Monterey, CA; and L. C. Sun and C. Fan

Recorded presentation Poster PDF (1.2 MB)

5:15 PM

7A.7

The ENSO signal in stratospheric temperatures from radiosonde observations

Melissa Free, NOAA/ARL, Silver Spring, MD

Recorded presentation

5:30 PM

7A.8

Relationship between sea Ice, land surface temperature, and vegetation in the Arctic coastal zone

Uma Bhatt, University of Alaska, Fairbanks, AK; and D. Walker, M. Raynolds, and J. Comiso

5:45 PM

7A.9

SCALE AND STABILITY ANALYSIS OF AN UNUSUALLY PROLONGED AND A MODERATELY EXTREME BLOCKING EVENT LEADING TO HEAT WAVE IN GULF OF ALASKA DURING AUGUST 2004

Athar Hussain, Univ. of Missouri, Columbia, MO; and A. R. Lupo

7

General space weather contributions

Location: Room 126B (Phoenix Convention Center)

Sponsor: Sixth Symposium on Space Weather

Chair: William J. Murtagh, NOAA/NWS/Space Weather Prediction

Papers:

4:00 PM

7.1

Impacts of Ionospheric Scintillation on GPS Positioning Accuracy

Charles S. Carrano, ISR, Chestnut Hill, MA; and C. T. Bridgwood and K. M. Groves

4:15 PM

7.2

Space weather impacts on satellites: the near-Earth radiation environment

Richard A. Quinn, AER, Lexington, MA

Recorded presentation

4:30 PM

7.3

Identifications and Climatology of Convective Sources for Generating Gravity Waves in the Ascent Rate Profiles in US High – Resolution Radiosonde Data

Jie Gong, JPL, Pasadena, CA; and M. Geller

Recorded presentation

4:45 PM

7.4

Physics-Based Modeling of Space Weather in the Ionosphere and Thermosphere

Geoff Crowley, Atmospheric & Space Technology Research Associates, San Antonio, TX

Recorded presentation

5:00 PM

7.5

Space Weather Applications of IDA4D

Gary S. Bust, Atmospheric & Space Technology Research Associates, San Antonio, TX; and G. Crowley

Recorded presentation

Panel Discussion 2

"Where do we go from here? II

Sponsor: Seventh Users Forum on Weather and Climate Impacts

Moderator: Holly C. Hartman, University of Arizona

Panelists: John Kirlin, Delta Vision Task Force; Scott Miller, Arizona Department of Water Resources; Ann Audrey, City of Tuscon; David Yates, NCAR; David Brandon, NOAA/NWS

Papers:

4:30 PM

5:00-5:30 p.m. Open for Q & A

Joint Session 12

Walter Orr Roberts Lecture

Location: Room 127BC (Phoenix Convention Center)

Sponsors: (Joint between the 16th Conference on Satellite Meteorology and Oceanography; the 23rd Conference on Hydrology; and the 13th Conference on Integrated Observing and Assimilation Systems for Atmosphere, Oceans, and Land Surface (IOAS-AOLS) )

Papers:

5:00 PM

Introduction by Walt Dabberdt, AMS President & Vaisala Inc., Boulder, CO

5:03 PM

J12.1

Climate Variability and Hydrologic Extremes: Lessons from the past, understanding of the present and prediction of the future—a personal viewpoint

Soroosh Sorooshian, Univ. of California, Irvine, CA

Recorded presentation

Sessions Adjourn for the Day

Climate Change, Indigenous Communities in the US, and AMS: Needs and Opportunities

Location: Room 125A (Phoenix Convention Center)

Sponsor: Events

NOAA Town Hall: Navigating the Administration Transition and Planning for the Future

Location: Room 224AB (Phoenix Convention Center)

Sponsor: Events

CCM Breakfast

Location: Room 229B (Phoenix Convention Center)

Sponsor: Events

Press Room Wednesday

Location: Room 222C (Phoenix Convention Center)

Sponsor: Events

Registration at the AMS Attendee Registration Desk

Location: Room 132A (Phoenix Convention Center)

Weather Preview Theater

Location: Room 231C (Phoenix Convention Center)

Sponsors: (Joint between the Events; and the Ninth Communications Workshop )

ASLI Break

Location: Room 132A (Phoenix Convention Center)

Sponsor: Events

Welcome and Introductions. Anita Colby, Chair, Atmospheric Science Librarians International and University of California, Los Angeles, CA

Location: Room 132A (Phoenix Convention Center)

8

Sea-Surface Physics, Including Waves, Whitecaps, and Aerosol Generation: Part 1

Location: Room 128A (Phoenix Convention Center)

Sponsor: 16th Conference on Air-Sea Interaction

Chair: William A. Perrie, Bedford Insitute of Oceanography

Papers:

8:30 AM

8.1

Validation of satellite-based estimates of whitecap coverage: Approaches and initial results

Magdalena D. Anguelova, NRL, Washington, DC ; and J. P. Bobak, W. E. Asher, D. J. Dowgiallo, B. I. Moat, R. W. Pascal, and M. J. Yelland

Poster PDF (936.5 kB)

8:45 AM

8.2

Effects of Bubbles and Sea Spray on Drag Coefficient in Hurricane Conditions

Alexander V. Soloviev, Nova Southeastern Univ., Dania Beach, FL; and R. Lukas

Recorded presentation

9:00 AM

8.3

Impact of sea spray on air-sea fluxes: a physical model

James A. Mueller, Univ. of Delaware, Newark, DE; and F. Veron

9:15 AM

8.4

Evaluation and improvement of spray-modified air-sea enthalpy and momentum flux parameterizations for operational purricane prediction

J.-W. Bao, NOAA, Boulder, CO; and C. Fairall, S. A. Michelson, and L. Bianco

9:30 AM

8.5

Sea State dependent air-sea gas flux parameterization

Zachary VanKirk, University of Delaware, Newark, DE; and J. Mueller and F. Veron

Recorded presentation

8A

Interactive Processing Systems

Location: Room 121BC (Phoenix Convention Center)

Sponsor: 25th Conference on International Interactive Information and Processing Systems (IIPS) for Meteorology, Oceanography, and Hydrology

Cochairs: William F. Roberts, NOAA; Ward R. Seguin, NOAA/OAR

Papers:

8:30 AM

8A.1

AWIPS II technology infusion – status update

Jason Tuell, NOAA, Silver Spring, MD; and S. S. Schotz, J. Roe, R. Henry, and D. Plummer

Recorded presentation Poster PDF (53.6 kB)

8:45 AM

8A.2

AWIPS II Overview and Status

Ronla Henry, NOAA/NWS, Silver Spring, MD; and E. Welles, T. Hopkins, O. Brown-Leigh, and A. M. Tarro

Recorded presentation

9:00 AM

8A.3

NAWIPS Integration with AWIPS II Technology Infusion - Status Update

Scott Jacobs, NOAA/NWS/NCEP, Camp Springs, MD; and D. Plummer, S. Gilbert, S. S. Schotz, J. P. Tuell, and R. K. Henry

Recorded presentation

9:15 AM

8A.4

An Exercise in Extending AWIPS II

Joanne Edwards, CIRA/Colorado State Univ., Fort Collins, CO; and J. Fluke and X. Jing

Recorded presentation Poster PDF (447.9 kB)

9:30 AM

8A.5

Software development to support probabilistic forecasting on AWIPS II

Paul Schultz, NOAA/Earth System Research Laboratory, Boulder, CO; and T. J. LeFebvre, T. L. Hansen, L. Cheatwood-Harris, T. Kent, J. Ramer, and B. C. Motta

Recorded presentation

1

Eighth Communications Workshop

Location: Room 221C (Phoenix Convention Center)

Sponsor: Ninth Communications Workshop

Papers:

8:30 AM

Communication: Moving toward a Better Understanding of a Complex Process

Stephanie Kenitzer, AMS, Seattle, WA

Recorded presentation

8:45 AM

The Changing Media Landscape

Tom Rosenstiel, Project for Excellence in Journalism, Washington, DC

9:00 AM

Communicating on Climate Change

Bud Ward, The Yale Forum on Climate Change & The Media, New Haven, CT

Recorded presentation

9:15 AM

Covering Science for the Print World

Pete Spotts, Christian Science Monitor, Boston, MA

Recorded presentation

9:30 AM

Covering Science in the New Online World

Michael Reilly, Discovery Channel News and Discovery Earth, San Francisco, CA; and L. O'Hanlon

Recorded presentation

9:45 AM

Q&A

Joint Session 2

Applications of artificial learning techniques in climate variability, especially as it relates to the urban environment

Location: Room 125A (Phoenix Convention Center)

Sponsors: (Joint between the 21st Conference on Climate Variability and Change; and the Seventh Conference on Artificial Intelligence and its Applications to the Environmental Sciences )

Cochairs: William W. Hsieh, Univ. of British Columbia; Sue Ellen Haupt, Penn State Univ.

Papers:

8:30 AM

J2.1

(Invited Speaker) Using Neural Networks in Numerical Climate and Weather Forecast Systems

Vladimir M. Krasnopolsky, NCEP/NWS/NOAA (SAIC), Camp Springs, MD

Recorded presentation

8:45 AM

J2.2

Fast neural network emulations of long wave radiation for the NCEP Climate Forecast System Model: seasonal prediction and climate simulation

Vladimir M. Krasnopolsky, NCEP/NWS/NOAA (SAIC), Camp Springs, MD; and M. S. Fox-Rabinovitz, S. J. Lord, Y. T. Hou, and A. A. Belochitski

Recorded presentation

9:00 AM

J2.3

Major Influences of Circulation Patterns on Temperatures in the Italian Side of the Greater Alpine Region: an Investigation via Neural Network Modeling

Antonello Pasini, CNR, Rome, Italy; and R. Langone

Recorded presentation Poster PDF (234.2 kB)

9:15 AM

J2.4

Statistical seasonal prediction of extreme precipitation in winter over Canada

Zhen Zeng, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada; and W. W. Hsieh and A. Shabbar

Recorded presentation

9:30 AM

J2.5

Post-processing GCM forecasts of seasonal extreme climate using machine learning methods

Joel Finnis, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada; and W. W. Hsieh, Z. Zeng, A. Shabbar, W. Merryfield, and H. Lin

Recorded presentation

Panel Discussion 3

Societal Benefits of Research

Location: Room 121A (Phoenix Convention Center)

Sponsor: Fourth Symposium on Policy and Socio—Economic Research

Moderator: Genevieve E. Maricle, Arizona State Univ.

Panelists: William Hooke, AMS; Ira Bennett, Arizona State Univ.; Nancy Beller-Simms, NOAA

3

Weather Forecasting for Urban Areas

Location: Room 124B (Phoenix Convention Center)

Sponsor: Eighth Symposium on the Urban Environment

Chair: Sue Grimmond, King's College London

Papers:

8:30 AM

3.1

An international urban surface energy balance model comparison study: first results

Sue Grimmond, King's College London, London, United Kingdom; and M. Blackett and M. Best

Recorded presentation

8:45 AM

3.2 has been moved. New paper number 3.3A

8:45 AM

3.2A

Model Complexity: First results from the international urban surface energy balance model comparison study

Sue Grimmond, King's College London, London, United Kingdom; and M. Blackett and M. J. Best

Recorded presentation

9:00 AM

3.3A

How do initial assumptions for parameters and state variables influence accuracy?

Maggie Hendry, Met Office, Exeter, United Kingdom; and M. Best, M. Gouvea, S. Grimmond, and A. Porson

Recorded presentation

3.3

Is there really an optimal solution for model simulations of the urban environment?

9:30 AM

3.4

Impact of urban parameters on the surface energy balance in urban areas

Sylvia I. Bohnenstengel, University of Reading, Reading, Berks., United Kingdom; and A. Porson and S. Belcher

Recorded presentation

9:45 AM

3.5

Inclusion of a multi-layer drag approach in urban surface schemes: which benefits ?

Valéry Masson, CNRM/Meteo France, Toulouse, France; and R. Hamdi and G. Pigeon

Recorded presentation

10:00 AM

3.6

Simulation of fall and winter surface energy balance over a dense urban area using the TEB scheme

Grégoire Pigeon, CNRS Meteo-France, Toulouse, France; and M. Moscicki, J. A. Voogt, and V. Masson

Recorded presentation Poster PDF (1.1 MB)

5

Aerosol direct and indirect effects

Location: Room 131B (Phoenix Convention Center)

Sponsor: Special Symposium on Aerosol–Cloud–Climate Interactions

Chair: Gregory Leptoukh, NASA

Papers:

8:30 AM

5.1

Direct aerosol radiative effect estimated with OMI, MISR and CERES observations over northern Africa

Eun-Su Yang, University of Alabama, Huntsville, AL; and P. Gupta and S. Christopher

8:45 AM

5.2

Lower tropospheric heating by Saharan dust over the tropical Atlantic Ocean

Sun Wong, Texas A&M Univ., College Station, TX; and A. E. Dessler, N. Mahowald, P. Yang, and Q. Feng

Recorded presentation

9:00 AM

5.3

Examination of the Arizona precipitation record for evidence of precipitation suppression by air pollution aerosols

Israel L. Jirak, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, Prescott, AZ; and A. Keith

Recorded presentation Poster PDF (966.2 kB)

9:15 AM

5.4

Large-scale link between African aerosols and precipitation in the West African Monsoon

Jingfeng Huang, Univ. of Miami/RSMAS, Miami, FL; and C. Zhang and J. M. Prospero

Recorded presentation

9:30 AM

5.5

Multi-Satellite Observations of Aerosol, Ice Clouds and Precipitation Relations over Asia

Jonathon H. Jiang, JPL, Pasadena, CA; and H. Su, S. Massie, and M. R. Schoeberl

Recorded presentation

9:45 AM

5.6

Regional Studies of Spatio-temporal Correlations Between Aerosols and Clouds

Gregory Leptoukh, NASA, Greenbelt, MD; and V. Zubko, R. Levy, and A. Gopalan

5A

Advances in Data Assimilation Techniques and Their Applications to Land Surface State and Parameter Estimation in Hydrology—I

Location: Room 127B (Phoenix Convention Center)

Sponsor: 23rd Conference on Hydrology

Chair: Susan C. Steele-Dunne, TU Delft

Papers:

8:30 AM

5A.1

(Invited Speaker) Assimilation of GRACE terrestrial water storage data into a land surface model

Rolf H. Reichle, NASA, Greenbelt, MD; and B. F. Zaitchik and M. Rodell

9:00 AM

5A.2

The potential of distributed GRACE measurements to estimate spatially variable terrestrial water storage changes in the Colorado River basin

Peter A. Troch, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ; and S. Hasan, R. Uijlenhoet, R. Hurkmans, and M. Durcik

9:15 AM

5A.3

Recent progress and upcoming projects with the Canadian Land Data Assimilation System

Stéphane Bélair, Environment Canada, Dorval, QC, Canada; and B. Bilodeau, M. Carrera, N. Bernier, C. Derksen, D. Chan, and M. Ishizawa

9:30 AM

5A.4

Soil moisture assimilation with microwave brightness temperatures in Canadian prediction systems

Marco Carrera, Environment Canada, Dorval, QC, Canada; and S. Belair and B. Bilodeau

9:45 AM

5A.5

Synthetic experiments to estimate hillslope-scale soil moisture through assimilation of anticipated remotely sensed microwave products

Alejandro N. Flores, MIT, Cambridge, MA; and R. L. Bras and D. Entekhabi

Recorded presentation

5B

Validation of Remotely-Sensed Hydrometeorological Observations—I

Location: Room 127C (Phoenix Convention Center)

Sponsor: 23rd Conference on Hydrology

Chair: Robert J. Kuligowski, NOAA/NESDIS

Papers:

8:30 AM

5B.1

Satellite Precipitation Validation Activities of the International Precipitation Working Group

Ralph Ferraro, NOAA/NESDIS, Camp Springs, MD; and C. Kidd, P. A. Arkin, and J. F. Turk

http://www.isac.cnr.it/~ipwg/IPWG.html

Recorded presentation Poster PDF (360.4 kB)

9:00 AM

5B.2

Comparison of high latitude GPCP monthly and daily satellite-based precipitation estimates with high latitude gauge observations

David T. Bolvin, SSAI and NASA/GSFC, Greenbelt, MD; and R. F. Adler, G. J. Huffman, E. J. Nelkin, and J. Poutiainen

Recorded presentation

9:15 AM

5B.3

Assessing microwave-based satellite rain rate retrievals using TRMM ground validation data

David B. Wolff, NASA/GSFC and SSAI, Greenbelt, MD; and B. Fisher

Recorded presentation

9:30 AM

5B.4

Comparison of multi-sensor precipitation estimates over the lower Mississippi River alluvial plain

Jamie L. Dyer, Mississippi State University, Mississippi State, MS

Recorded presentation

9:45 AM

5B.5

Real-time error reduction for satellite-based precipitation estimates

Yudong Tian, UMBC/GEST, Greenbelt, MD; and C. D. Peters-Lidard and J. B. Eylander

Recorded presentation

6

Emerging lidar methods in addressing atmospheric issues

Location: Room 122A (Phoenix Convention Center)

Sponsor: Fourth Symposium on Lidar Atmospheric Applications

Chair: Richard A. Ferrare, NASA/LRC

CoChair: Valentin Simeonov, EPFL Ecole Polytechnique Federale Lausanne

Papers:

8:30 AM

6.1

First airborne laser remote measurements of atmospheric carbon dioxide

Edward V. Browell, NASA/LaRC, Hampton, VA; and M. E. Dobbs, J. Dobler, S. Kooi, Y. Choi, F. W. Harrison, B. Moore III, and T. S. Zaccheo

Recorded presentation

9:00 AM

6.2

Combined Water Vapor, Temperature and Aerosol Raman Lidars Developed at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne

Valentin Simeonov, Ecole Polytechnique Federale Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland; and T. Dinoev, I. Serikov, P. Ristori, B. Calpini, M. Froidevaux, H. Van den Bergh, and M. B. Parlange

Recorded presentation

9:15 AM

6.3

Using Airborne High Spectral Resolution Lidar Data to Evaluate Combined Active Plus Passive Retrievals of Aerosol Extinction Profiles

Richard A. Ferrare, NASA/LaRC, Hampton, VA; and S. Burton, C. Hostetler, J. Hair, A. Cook, D. Harper, M. Obland, R. Rogers, C. Kittaka, and L. Remer

Recorded presentation

9:30 AM

6.4

End-to-end testbed for rapid analysis of laser remote sensing data and application to flight data in preparation for ASCENDS

T. Scott Zaccheo, AER, Inc., Lexington, MA; and H. E. Snell, J. Dobler, M. E. Dobbs, E. V. Browell, and B. Moore

Recorded presentation Poster PDF (108.6 kB)

9:45 AM

6.5

CW Fiber Laser Absorption Spectrometer for O2 Column Meausurements in support of the ASCENDS Mission

Jeremy Dobler, ITT Industries Space Systems, LLC, Fort Wayne, IN; and M. E. Dobbs, T. S. Zaccheo, J. Nagel, F. W. Harrison, E. V. Browell, and B. Moore

Recorded presentation Poster PDF (300.3 kB)

Joint Session 6

Lightning and Atmospheric Chemistry—I

Location: Room 126A (Phoenix Convention Center)

Sponsors: (Joint between the Fourth Conference on the Meteorological Applications of Lightning Data; and the 11th Conference on Atmospheric Chemistry )

Chair: Kenneth E. Pickering, Univ. of Maryland

Papers:

8:30 AM

J6.1

The influence of lightning NOx emissions on the summertime North American upper tropospheric ozone maximum

Owen R. Cooper, CIRES Univ. of Colorado/NOAA/ESRL, Boulder, CO

Recorded presentation

9:00 AM

J6.2

Deep convective clouds and chemistry (DC3): Description of the field campaign and modeling of lightning NOx in the DC3 study areas

Mary C. Barth, NCAR, Boulder, CO; and C. Cantrell, S. A. Rutledge, W. Brune, C. Barthe, W. C. Skamarock, and M. Weisman

Recorded presentation

9:30 AM

J6.3

Lightning and anthropogenic NOx sources over the U.S. and the western North Atlantic Ocean: Impact on tropospheric O3 from space borne observations

Yunsoo Choi, JPL, Pasadena, CA; and A. Eldering, G. Osterman, Y. Wang, D. Cunnold, Q. Yang, E. Bucsela, and K. E. Pickering

Recorded presentation

9:45 AM

J6.4

NOx Production by Laboratory Simulated TLEs

Harold Peterson, NASA/MSFC, Huntsville, AL; and M. P. Bailey, J. Hallett, and W. Beasley

Recorded presentation Poster PDF (2.2 MB)

8

Atmospheric Observations for Weather and Climate: COSMIC—I

Location: Room 130 (Phoenix Convention Center)

Sponsor: 13th Conference on Integrated Observing and Assimilation Systems for Atmosphere, Oceans, and Land Surface (IOAS-AOLS)

Cochairs: Nick Yen, National Space Organization; Ying-Hwa Kuo, UCAR

Papers:

8:30 AM

8.1

The COSMIC/FORMOSAT-3 Mission: Overview and Status

Ying-Hwa Kuo, UCAR, Boulder, CO; and C. Rocken, R. A. Anthes, N. Yen, and J. J. Miau

Recorded presentation

8:45 AM

8.2

International Collaboration of Global Radio Occultation Mission for Meteorology Beyond 2011

Nick Yen, National Space Organization, Hsin-Chu, Taiwan; and J. Fong, V. Chu, C. C. Hsiao, J. J. Miau, and Y. A. Liu

Recorded presentation

9:00 AM

8.3

Recent improvements on the operational assimilation of GPS Radio Occultation observations

Lidia Cucurull, NOAA/NESDIS, Suitland, MD

Recorded presentation

9:15 AM

8.4

The Impact of GPS Radio Occultation Data on Cyclone/Typhoon Predictions

Ching-Yuang Huang, National Central University, Jhongli, Taoyuan County, Taiwan; and Y. H. Kuo and S. Y. Chen

Recorded presentation

9:30 AM

8.5

COSMIC and TIMED combined observation of the atmospheric tides

Qian Wu, NCAR, Boulder, CO; and S. C. Solomon, T. L. Killeen, and Y. H. Kuo

Recorded presentation

9:45 AM

8.6

Impact of radio occultation observations on ensemble analyses and forecasts of tropical cyclones

Hui Liu, NCAR, Boulder, CO; and J. Anderson, Y. H. Kuo, Y. Chen, and C. Snyder

Recorded presentation

Joint Session 8

Coastal Mesoscale Circulations-I

Location: Room 128B (Phoenix Convention Center)

Sponsors: (Joint between the 16th Conference on Air-Sea Interaction; and the Eighth Conference on Coastal Atmospheric and Oceanic Prediction and Processes )

Chair: Clive E. Dorman, SIO/Univ. Of California

Papers:

8:30 AM

J8.1

Influence of SST on atmospheric trapping layers

Tracy Haack, NRL, Monterey, CA; and W. T. Thompson

Recorded presentation

8:45 AM

J8.2

The contribution of dry surface air over land to the strength of radio frequency trapping layers in the sea breeze circulation

Robert E. Marshall, NSWCDD, Dahlgren, VA; and K. Horgan

Recorded presentation

9:00 AM

J8.3

Study of sea-breeze interactions which can produce strong warm-season convective winds in the Cape Canaveral area

Christopher J. Ander, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT; and A. J. Frumkin, J. P. Koermer, and W. P. Roeder

Recorded presentation Poster PDF (968.7 kB)

9:15 AM

J8.4

The Ambrose Jet: Climatology and Simulations of Warm-Season Coastally Enhanced Winds in the New York Bight Region

David R. Novak, NOAA/NWS/HPC, Camp Springs, MD; and B. A. Colle

Recorded presentation

9:30 AM

J8.5

The coastal oscillation

John W. Nielsen-Gammon, Texas A&M Univ., College Station, TX; and A. McNeel

Recorded presentation

9:45 AM

J8.6

The Evolution of a Convective Squall Line as it Crossed the Upwind Coast of Lake Erie

Thomas E. Workoff, University of Illinois, Urbana, IL; and D. A. R. Kristovich

Recorded presentation

Joint Session 8

Forecasts, Nowcasts and Warning Systems in Urban Areas

Location: Room 126B (Phoenix Convention Center)

Sponsors: (Joint between the Symposium on Urban High Impact Weather; and the 23rd Conference on Hydrology )

Cochairs: Bart Nijssen, 3TIER, Inc.; Thomas Adams, NOAA/NWS

Papers:

8:30 AM

J8.1

(Invited Speaker)The Hydrology and Hydrometeorology of Flash Floods in Urban Environments

James A. Smith, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ

Recorded presentation

8:45 AM

J8.2

Convective storm nowcasting using the Space-Time Meso Analysis System

Steven Koch, NOAA/ESRL, Boulder, CO; and Y. Xie, J. A. Mcginley, and S. Albers

Recorded presentation

9:00 AM

J8.3

Considerations for Urban Floods Monitoring using X-band Dual-polarization Radar Network

V. Chandrasekar, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO; and M. Maki, Y. Wang, and K. Nakane

9:15 AM

J8.4

Assessment of urban hydrologic prediction accuracy using radar

John M. Imgarten, University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK; and B. E. Vieux

Recorded presentation

9:30 AM

J8.5

The extreme wind warning and its role in improving public preparation and response to extreme landfalling hurricane winds in the urban environment

Bartlett C. Hagemeyer, NOAA/NWS, Melbourne, FL

Recorded presentation

J8.6

Heat and Health warnings in the Netherlands

8A

Prediction of climate on seasonal to decadal timescales

Location: Room 129A (Phoenix Convention Center)

Sponsor: 21st Conference on Climate Variability and Change

Chair: David R. Easterling, NOAA/NESDIS/NCDC

Papers:

8:30 AM

8A.1

A filtered model of convectively coupled waves associated with the Madden-Julian Oscillation

Alex Omar Gonzalez, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO; and W. Schubert and M. T. Masarik

Recorded presentation

8:45 AM

8A.2

Role of stochastic forcing in ENSO variability in a coupled GCM

Atul Kapur, Univ. of Miami/RSMAS, Miami, FL; and C. Zhang and J. Zavala-Garay

Recorded presentation Poster PDF (1.6 MB)

9:00 AM

8A.3

Characterizing the Space-Time Modes of Instability Propagation at the Global Scale in a 16-year GCM Simulation

Kun Tao, Duke University, Durham, NC; and A. P. Barros

Recorded presentation

9:15 AM

8A.4

Do extratropical stormtracks substantially feed back on the response to ENSO ?

Prashant D. Sardeshmukh, Univ. of Colorado/CIRES/CDC and NOAA/ESRL, Boulder, CO; and S. I. Shin

9:30 AM

8A.5

El Niño signal in American midwest precipitation

Cécile Penland, NOAA/ESRL, Boulder, CO; and L. E. Matrosova

Recorded presentation

9:45 AM

8A.6

A multi-model comparison of low-level circulation and precipitation variability in U.S. CLIVAR idealized SST experiments

Scott Weaver, NOAA Climate Prediction Center, Camp Springs, MD; and S. Schubert and H. Wang

Recorded presentation

8B

Observed changes in climate

Location: Room 129B (Phoenix Convention Center)

Sponsor: 21st Conference on Climate Variability and Change

Chair: Aiguo Dai, NCAR

Papers:

8:30 AM

8B.1

Removing ENSO-related variations from the climate record

Gilbert P. Compo, Univ. of Colorado/CIRES/CDC and NOAA/ESRL/PSD, Boulder, CO ; and P. D. Sardeshmukh

Recorded presentation

8:45 AM

8B.2

Is climate change inducing a more volatile climate?

Peter Dailey, AIR Worldwide, Boston, MA; and G. Zuba and I. M. Dima

Recorded presentation

9:00 AM

8B.3

The response of the equatorial Pacific Ocean to global warming

Kristopher B. Karnauskas, Columbia University, Palisades, NY; and R. Seager, A. Kaplan, Y. Kushnir, and M. Cane

http://www.ldeo.columbia.edu/~krisk/

Recorded presentation Poster PDF (291.7 kB)

9:15 AM

8B.4

North Atlantic warming: Patterns of long-term trend and multidecadal variability

Igor Polyakov, University of Alaska, Fairbanks, AK; and V. Alexeev, U. Bhatt, E. Polyakova, and X. Zhang

Recorded presentation

9:30 AM

8B.5

Spatial and temporal trends in Arctic temperature climate data records

Sheldon D. Drobot, NCAR, Boulder, CO

Recorded presentation

8B.6

Long-term variability of the East Asian summer precipitation

10:00 AM

8B.6A

Homogenizing the Russian Federation upper air climate record by adjusting radiosonde temperatures and dew points for instrument changes

Steven R. Schroeder, Texas A&M Univ., College Station, TX

Recorded presentation Poster PDF (670.3 kB)

8B

Radar Applications - Session I

Location: Room 122BC (Phoenix Convention Center)

Sponsor: 25th Conference on International Interactive Information and Processing Systems (IIPS) for Meteorology, Oceanography, and Hydrology

Cochairs: Timothy Crum, NOAA/NEXRAD Radar Operations Center; Douglas E. Forsyth, NOAA/NSSL; Robert E. Saffle, Noblis, Inc.; Julian Wang, NOAA/ARL

Papers:

8:30 AM

8B.1

Evaluation of the Multifunction Phased Array Radar Planning Process

Paul L. Smith, South Dakota School of Mines and Technology, Rapid City, SD; and C. H. Marshall

8:45 AM

8B.2

The National Weather Radar Testbed (Phased-Array) – a progress report

Douglas E. Forsyth, NOAA/NSSL, Norman, OK; and J. F. Kimpel, D. S. Zrnic, R. Ferek, J. Heimmer, T. J. McNellis, J. E. Crain, A. M. Shapiro, R. J. Vogt, and W. Benner

Recorded presentation Poster PDF (613.3 kB)

9:00 AM

8B.3

Progress of Multi-Function Phased Array Radar (MPAR) program

William Benner, FAA, Atlantic City, NJ; and G. S. Torok, M. Emanuel, and M. E. Weber

Recorded presentation Poster PDF (2.8 MB)

9:15 AM

8B.4

Update on signal processing upgrades for the National Weather Radar Testbed

Sebastian M. Torres, CIMMS/Univ. of Oklahoma, Norman, OK; and C. D. Curtis, I. R. Ivic, D. A. Warde, E. Forren, J. Thompson, D. Priegnitz, and R. Adams

Recorded presentation

9:30 AM

8B.5

An Update on Multi-Channel Receiver Development for the Realization Multi-Mission Capabilities at the National Weather Radar Testbed

M. Yeary, Univ. of Oklahoma, Norman, OK; and G. E. Crain, A. Zahrai, T. Y. Yu, R. Palmer, G. Zhang, Y. Zhang, R. J. Doviak, P. Chilson, M. Xue, and X. Qin

Recorded presentation Poster PDF (144.2 kB)

9:45 AM

8B.6

Spatial filtering of wind turbine clutter using adaptive phased array radars

R. D. Palmer, Atmospheric Radar Research Center, School of Meteorology, University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK; and K. D. Le, B. M. Isom, and S. M. Torres

Recorded presentation

Joint Session 13

Climate Monitoring and Studies

Location: Room 224AB (Phoenix Convention Center)

Sponsors: (Joint between the 16th Conference on Satellite Meteorology and Oceanography; and the Fifth Annual Symposium on Future Operational Environmental Satellite Systems- NPOESS and GOES-R )

Cochairs: Mitchell D. Goldberg, NOAA/NESDIS; Deborah K. Smith, Remote Sensing Systems

Papers:

8:30 AM

J13.1

GOES-R Improvements for Climate Monitoring

Mitchell Goldberg, NOAA/NESDIS, Camp Springs, MD

Recorded presentation

8:45 AM

J13.2

NOAA's approach to providing Climate Data Records (CDRs) within a new interagency initiative

Jeff L. Privette, NOAA/NESDIS/NCDC, Asheville, NC; and J. J. Bates, T. R. Karl, B. R. Barkstrom, E. Kearns, and D. Markham

http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/sds/index.html

Recorded presentation Poster PDF (46.1 kB)

9:00 AM

J13.3

Spatial and temporal inter-relationships betweenanomalies and trends of temperature, moisture, cloud cover, and OLR as observed by AIRS/AMSU on Aqua

Joel Susskind, NASA/GSFC, Greenbelt, MD ; and G. Molnar

Recorded presentation

9:15 AM

J13.4

Assessing Uncertainties and Variability in Global and Regional Radiative Fluxes from the NASA/GEWEX Surface Radiation Budget (SRB) Release-3.0 Dataset

Paul W. Stackhouse Jr., NASA/LaRC, Hampton, VA; and S. K. Gupta, S. J. Cox, J. C. Mikovitz, T. Zhang, and L. M. Hinkelman

Recorded presentation

9:30 AM

J13.5

Regional and Seasonal Variations in Marine Boundary Layer Cloud Properties from MODIS and GOES observations

Michael P. Jensen, Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, NY; and A. M. Vogelmann and E. Luke

Recorded presentation

9:45 AM

J13.6

Application of an optically thin model to limb scatter data for retrievals of aerosol extinction profiles

D. E. Flittner, NASA/LaRC, Hampton, VA; and R. Loughman, D. F. Rault, R. McPeters, E. Hilsenrath, E. J. Llewellyn, A. E. Bourassa, and D. A. Degenstein

Recorded presentation

Joint Session 16

Boundary Layer and Turbulence Measurements in the Urban Environment

Location: Room 124A (Phoenix Convention Center)

Sponsors: (Joint between the Eighth Symposium on the Urban Environment; the Boundary Layers and Turbulence Committee; and the Special Symposium on Measurements in the Urban Environment and Observations )

Chair: Robert M. Banta, NOAA/ESRL

Papers:

8:30 AM

J16.1

On the coupling between urban surface wind fields and skimming flow

Bruce B. Hicks, Metcorps, Norris, TN; and W. R. Pendergrass, C. A. Vogel, and R. S. Artz

Recorded presentation Poster PDF (415.2 kB)

8:45 AM

J16.2

On the rooftop micrometeorology and heat islands of Washington and New York City

William R. Pendergrass, NOAA/ARL/ATDD, Oak Ridge, TN; and B. B. Hicks and C. A. Vogel

Recorded presentation Poster PDF (669.8 kB)

9:00 AM

J16.3

Utilizing surface network data in urban dispersion models

William Callahan, AWS/WeatherBug, Germantown, MD; and B. B. Hicks, W. R. Pendergrass, and C. A. Vogel

Recorded presentation Poster PDF (428.9 kB)

9:15 AM

J16.4

Quantifying the effects of rooftop modifications on building thermal environment through field measurements

Anthony Dominguez, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA; and J. Kleissl

Recorded presentation

9:30 AM

J16.5

Boundary layer dynamics over London as observed using Doppler lidar

Janet Barlow, University of Reading, Reading, United Kingdom; and T. M. Dunbar, E. Nemitz, C. R. Wood, M. W. Gallagher, F. Davies, and R. M. Harrison

Recorded presentation

9:45 AM

J16.6

Turbulence Characteristics in Oklahoma City Measured from an 83-meter PseudoTower

Sam Chang, U.S. Army Research Laboratory, Adelphi, MD; and G. Huynh and D. Tofsted

Recorded presentation

1

Information Resources and Knowledge Collaboration

Location: Room 132A (Phoenix Convention Center)

Sponsor: 12th Conference of Atmospheric Science Librarians International

Papers:

8:45 AM

1.1

An Information Life-Preserver for Atmospheric Scientists

Elizabeth Fish, University of Miami, Rosenstiel School Library, Miami, FL

9:15 AM

1.2

LibGuides Subject Pages: Not Just for Subject Research!

Donna E. Cromer, Centennial Science and Engineering Library University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM

Recorded presentation

9:45 AM

Break

10:00 AM

1.3

Collaboration in Knowledge Creation

Cutler Cleveland, Boston University, Boston, MA

Recorded presentation

11:15 AM

1.4

Thirteen Historical Websites and Counting

Doria B. Grimes, NOAA Central Library (Retired), Silver Spring, MD

Recorded presentation

Coffee Break in Meeting Room Foyer

Location: Phoenix Convention Center

9A

Interactive Processing Systems II

Location: Room 121BC (Phoenix Convention Center)

Sponsor: 25th Conference on International Interactive Information and Processing Systems (IIPS) for Meteorology, Oceanography, and Hydrology

Cochairs: William F. Roberts, NOAA; Ward R. Seguin, NOAA/OAR

Papers:

10:30 AM

9A.1

Putting meteorological data into the context of the local environment

Jeremy Tandy, The U.K. Met office, Exeter, United Kingdom; and P. J. Trevelyan

Recorded presentation

10:45 AM

9A.2

The Noaa PROoducts (integrated) Validation System (NPROVS) and Environmental Data Graphical Evaluation (EDGE) Interface Part-1: System

Michael Pettey, IMSG & NOAA/NESDIS/STAR, Suitland, MD; and B. Sun and A. L. Reale

Recorded presentation Poster PDF (1.5 MB)

11:00 AM

9A.3

GOES Enterprise Managed System (GEMS), Re-Architecting GOES Operational Ground Equipment (OGE)

Shahram Tehranian, Nortel Government Solutions, Lanham, MD; and A. Agarwal, S. Vasanth, K. Mckenzie, and P. Yu

Recorded presentation Poster PDF (864.2 kB)

11:15 AM

9A.4

McIDAS-V - A powerful data analysis and visualization tool for multi and hyperspectral environmental satellite data

Thomas H. Achtor, CIMSS/Univ. of Wisconsin, Madison, WI; and T. Rink, T. Whittaker, and D. Santek

Recorded presentation

11:30 AM

9A.5

Innovation at the Royal Netherlands Meteorological Institute (KNMI); web technologies for every day use by the forecaster

Marcel Molendijk, KNMI, De Bilt, Netherlands

Recorded presentation

11:45 AM

9A.6

The Model Evaluation Tools (MET): Community tools for forecast evaluation

Barbara G. Brown, NCAR, Boulder, CO; and J. H. Gotway, R. Bullock, E. Gilleland, and D. Ahijevych

Recorded presentation Poster PDF (203.4 kB)

6B

Validation of Remotely-Sensed Hydrometeorological Observations—II

Location: Room 127C (Phoenix Convention Center)

Sponsor: 23rd Conference on Hydrology

Chair: Robert J. Kuligowski, NOAA/NESDIS

Papers:

10:30 AM

6B.1

A Comparison of Evolving Multisensor Precipitation Estimation Methods

David Kitzmiller, NOAA/NWS, Silver Spring, MD; and F. Ding, Y. Zhang, D. Brewer, S. Van Cooten, K. Howard, C. Langston, J. Zhang, H. Moser, D. Moran, and D. Kim

Recorded presentation

10:45 AM

6B.2

The use of dual-polarimetric radar data to improve rainfall estimation across the Tennessee River Valley

Walter A. Petersen, NASA / MSFC, Huntsville, AL ; and P. N. Gatlin, L. Carey, and S. R. Jacks

Recorded presentation Poster PDF (578.4 kB)

11:00 AM

6B.3

A Study of Comparison of Reflectivity Using WSR-88D and Disdrometers

Aaron C. Ferrel, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX; and A. Tokay, L. Carey, C. Schumacher, and D. B. Wolff

Recorded presentation

11:15 AM

6B.4

Raindrop Size Distribution: Inter-Storm Variability

Collin Baxter Lawrence, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX; and A. Tokay, L. Carey, C. Schumacher, and D. B. Wolff

Recorded presentation

11:30 AM

6B.5

Mapping evapotranspiration in Alto Piranhas Basin - Northeast Brazil using SEBAL/METRIC algorithms

Bernardo Barbosa da Silva, Federal University of Campina Grande, Campina Grande, PB, Brazil; and S. T. A. D. Silva and A. C. Braga

Panel Discussion 1

Eighth Communications Workshop Panel Discussion

Location: Room 221C (Phoenix Convention Center)

Sponsor: Ninth Communications Workshop

Panelists: Tom Rosenstiel, Project for Excellence in Journalism; Bud Ward, The Yale Forum on Climate Change & The Media; Pete Spotts, Christian Science Monitor; Michael Reilly, Discovery Channel News and Discovery Earth; Larry O'Hanlon, Discovery Channel News and Discovery Earth

Workshop Session 1

Eloquent Professional Communication: Customer-Oriented Writing and High-Impact Presentations

Location: Room 231BC (Phoenix Convention Center)

Sponsor: Workshop on Eloquent Professional Communication

Facilitator: David M. Schultz, Universities of Helsinki and Manchester/Finnish Meteorological Institute

Papers:

10:30 AM

1.1

Customer-Oriented Writing and High-Impact Presentations

David M. Schultz, Universities of Helsinki and Manchester/Finnish Meteorological Institute, Helsinki, Finland

Panel Discussion 1

Severe Weather Impact Studies

Location: Room 231A (Phoenix Convention Center)

Sponsor: Second Annual CCM Forum

Panelists: Lee E. Branscome, Climatological Consulting Corporation; Arthur P. Mizzi, National Center for Atmospheric Research; Jack Henz, HDR, Inc.; James Giraytys, SHENAIR Initiative, James Madison Univ.

Chair: Elizabeth Austin, WeatherExtreme Ltd.

Papers:

10:30 AM

Moderator PPT

10:45 AM

PD1.1

Hurricane Impacts - How can CCMs help reduce them?

Lee E. Branscome, Climatological Consulting Corporation, Palm Beach Gardens, FL

11:00 AM

PD1.2

Impact of Climate Change on Regional Wind Energy Resources

Arthur P. Mizzi, National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, CO

11:15 AM

PD1.3

Flood, Drought and Climate Change Impacts to Engineering

Jack Henz, HDR, Inc., Denver, CO

11:30 AM

PD1.4

Severe Weather Impacts

James Giraytys, SHENAIR Initiative, James Madison Univ., Winchester, VA

11:45 AM

Discussion

4

Biogeochemical Cycling of Trace Gases and Aerosols

Location: Room 127A (Phoenix Convention Center)

Sponsor: 11th Conference on Atmospheric Chemistry

Cochairs: José D. Fuentes, University of Virginia; Brian K. Lamb, Washington State Univ.

Papers:

10:30 AM

4.1

Influences of in-forest canopy chemical processing on regional air quality

José D. Fuentes, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA; and W. R. Stockwell, R. Forkel, Y. Zhang, and D. Wang

10:45 AM

4.2

Coupling vegetation, hydrological, and biogenic emission processes to improve modeling of isoprene emission

Anil Kumar, NASA/GSFC, Greenbelt, MD; and F. Chen, D. Niyogi, E. Patton, A. Guenther, X. Wang, and U. Charusombat

11:00 AM

4.3

A Simple Model for Vertical Transport of Reactive Species in the Convective Atmospheric Boundary Layer

Leif Kristensen, Risoe DTU National Laboratory for Sustainable Energy; and D. H. Lenschow and D. Gurarie

Recorded presentation Poster PDF (166.3 kB)

11:15 AM

4.4

Factors Controllong CO2 Exchange in a Middle Latitude Forest

Qilong Min, SUNY, Albany, NY; and L. Wu

11:30 AM

4.5

Measuring gaseous losses of nitrogen from irrigated crops

Shelley Pressley, Washington State Univesity, Pullman, WA; and M. Capiral, G. Mount, and B. Lamb

Recorded presentation

11:45 AM

4.6

Future Trend of Soil Organic Carbon over the U.S. Midwest Cropland

Zaitao Pan, St. Louis Univ., St. Louis, MO; and D. Andrade, J. Wimberley, N. McKinne, M. Segal, and E. Takle

Recorded presentation

4

Biometeorology and Public Health In Urban Areas

Location: Room 124B (Phoenix Convention Center)

Sponsor: Eighth Symposium on the Urban Environment

Chair: Gordon M. Heisler, USDA Forest Service

Papers:

10:30 AM

4.1

Human thermal comfort in summer in different urban quarters of a mid-size central European city (Freiburg, Germany)

Helmut Mayer, Meteorological Institute, Albert-Ludwigs-University, Freiburg, , Germany; and J. Holst and F. Imbery

Recorded presentation Poster PDF (545.0 kB)

10:45 AM

4.2

Physiologically equivalent temperature and climate change in Freiburg

Andreas Matzarakis, University of Freiburg, Freiburg, , Germany; and C. Endler

Poster PDF (434.6 kB)

11:00 AM

4.3

Urban climate and human heat-stress values during the July 2006 Portland, Oregon heat wave

Andrew Melford, San Joe State University, San Jose, CA; and R. Bornstein

Recorded presentation

11:15 AM

4.4

Analysis of daily climate-suicide relationships in Mississippi

P. Grady Dixon, Mississippi State University, Mississippi State, MS; and D. M. Brommer

Recorded presentation

11:30 AM

4.5

Reconstruction of the airborne emissions by inverse dispersion modelling and generation of synthetic emission data by a Monte Carlo model

Gunther Schauberger, University of Veterinary Medicine Vienna, Vienna, Austria; and M. Piringer, E. Petz, W. Knauder, and K. Baumann-Stanzer

Recorded presentation

11:45 AM

4.6

Heat waves, urban heat stress and mortality: a satellite surveillance system

Benedicte Dousset, Univ. of Hawaii, Honolulu, HI; and F. Gourmelon, E. Giraudet, K. Laaidi, K. Zeghnoun, and P. Bretin

4

Evaluation and Use of Decision—Support Systems

Location: Room 121A (Phoenix Convention Center)

Sponsor: Fourth Symposium on Policy and Socio—Economic Research

Cochairs: Eileen Shea, NOAA/NESDIS/NCDC; Elizabeth McNie, Purdue University

Papers:

10:30 AM

4.2

Results of a developmental test of the Heat Stress Index: Does it have operational potential?

Jannie G. Ferrell, NOAA/NWS, Silver Spring, MD; and E. Jacks and L. Kalkstein

Recorded presentation

10:45 AM

4.1

Design and deployment of specialized visualizations for weather-sensitive electric distribution operations

Lloyd A. Treinish, IBM Systems and Technology Group, Yorktown Heights, NY

Recorded presentation Poster PDF (2.5 MB)

11:00 AM

4.3

Economic Benefits of the Oklahoma Mesonet to Crop Producers in Oklahoma

Kimberly E. Klockow, Oklahoma Climatological Survey, Norman, OK; and R. A. McPherson

Recorded presentation

11:15 AM

4.4

User-Motivated Policies for NWS Climate Services

Ahsha N. Tribble, NOAA NWS, Silver Spring, MD; and M. M. Timofeyeva, M. Berger, and R. Reeves

Recorded presentation

4.5

What climate policymakers should know about climate services: lessons from NOAA's RISA program

Joint Session 4

Modeling and Forecasting Urban Areas

Location: Room 124A (Phoenix Convention Center)

Sponsors: (Joint between the Eighth Symposium on the Urban Environment; the Timothy R. Oke Symposium; the Eighth Conference on Coastal Atmospheric and Oceanic Prediction and Processes; the 11th Conference on Atmospheric Chemistry; the Fourth Conference on the Meteorological Applications of Lightning Data; and the 16th Conference on Satellite Meteorology and Oceanography )

Chair: Gregory R. Carmichael, University of Iowa, Center for Global and Regional Environmental Research

Papers:

10:30 AM

J4.1

Regional and Global Perspectives of Megacity Air Pollution

Gregory R. Carmichael, University of Iowa, Center for Global and Regional Environmental Research, Iowa City, IA

Recorded presentation

10:45 AM

J4.2

GURME—the WMO GAW Urban Research Meteorology and Environment Project

Liisa Jalkanen, WMO/AREP, Geneva, Switzerland; and G. R. Carmichael

Recorded presentation

11:00 AM

J4.3

Regional modeling and prediction of the extreme smoke episode in Buenos Aires, 15–20 April 2008

Ernesto Hugo Berbery, Univ. of Maryland, College Park, MD; and E. Kalnay and H. Ciappesoni

Recorded presentation

11:15 AM

J4.4

How well can we model the Houston area for air pollution studies?

Wayne M. Angevine, CIRES, University of Colorado, and NOAA/ESRL, Boulder, CO; and M. Zagar and J. Brioude

Recorded presentation Poster PDF (682.4 kB)

J4.5

Modeling of TexAQS–II Urban Air Quality Events

11:45 AM

J4.6

NOAA-EPA's National Air Quality Forecast Capability: Recent Progress in Providing Guidance for Cities

Paula Davidson, NOAA/NWS, Silver Spring, MD; and J. McQueen, R. Mathur, R. Draxler, R. A. Wayland, and I. Stajner

6A

Advances in Data Assimilation Techniques and Their Applications to Land Surface State and Parameter Estimation in Hydrology—II

Location: Room 127B (Phoenix Convention Center)

Sponsor: 23rd Conference on Hydrology

Chair: Susan C. Steele-Dunne, TU Delft

Papers:

10:30 AM

6A.1

(Invited Speaker) Rainfall Uncertainty Estimation Using Observed Streamflow Data

Jasper A. Vrugt, LANL, Los Alamos, NM

Recorded presentation

11:00 AM

6A.2

Stochastic Generation of Precipitation Replicates for Ensemble Forecasting and Data Assimilation

R. Wojcik, MIT, Cambridge, MA; and D. McLaughlin, A. Konings, and D. Entekhabi

Recorded presentation

11:15 AM

6A.3

A New Data Assimilation Framework for Enhancing Hydrologic Predictions Using Remotely-Sensed Surface Soil Moisture Retrievals

Wade T. Crow, USDA/ARS, Beltsville, MD; and D. Ryu

Recorded presentation

11:30 AM

6A.4

Uncertainty analysis for land surface model predictions: Application to the Sib3 model at tropical and semi-desert locations

Luis A. Bastidas, Utah State Univ., Logan, UT; and J. Roundy, L. G. Goncalves, J. Shuttleworth, R. Rosolem, S. Saleska, and N. Restrepo-Coupe

Recorded presentation

11:45 AM

6A.5

Comparison of Bias Mitigation Strategies for Skin Temperature Assimilation

Sujay V. Kumar, SAIC, Greenbelt, MD; and R. H. Reichle and C. Peters-Lidard

Recorded presentation

7

The Use of Lidar Measurements in Model Evaluation and Assimilation

Location: Room 122A (Phoenix Convention Center)

Sponsor: Fourth Symposium on Lidar Atmospheric Applications

Cochairs: Tammy M. Weckwerth, NCAR; Andreas Behrendt, University of Hohenheim

Papers:

10:30 AM

7.1

Using lidar and radar simulators to understand the number concentration of ice crystals in cirrus clouds

Jennifer M. Comstock, PNNL, Richland, WA; and S. A. McFarlane

Recorded presentation

11:00 AM

7.2

Diagnostic Wind Model Initialization Using Airborne Doppler Wind Lidar Data

Yansen Wang, U.S. Army Research Laboratory, Adelphi, MD; and C. Williamson, D. Emmitt, and S. Greco

Recorded presentation Poster PDF (736.0 kB)

11:15 AM

7.3

Water Vapor DIAL and DOW Observations and Comparisons with Mesoscale Models in COPS

Tammy M. Weckwerth, NCAR, Boulder, CO; and V. Wulfmeyer

Recorded presentation

11:30 AM

7.4

CALIPSO Compared to the GEOS-5 Model

Nikisa S. Jordan, JCET/Univ. of Maryland, Baltimore, MD; and R. M. Hoff and J. Bacmeister

11:45 AM

7.5

A Modeling Study of Low-Level-Jets over the Mid-Atlantic Region during

Mengsteab Weldegaber, Univ. of Maryland, Baltimore, MD; and B. B. Demoz, L. C. Sparling, and R. Delgado

Recorded presentation

Joint Session 8

Lightning and Atmospheric Chemistry—II

Location: Room 126A (Phoenix Convention Center)

Sponsors: (Joint between the Fourth Conference on the Meteorological Applications of Lightning Data; and the 11th Conference on Atmospheric Chemistry )

Chair: Timothy J. Lang, Colorado State University

Papers:

10:30 AM

J8.1

Development of a lightning NOx algorithm for WRF-Chem

Amanda Hansen, Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL; and H. E. Fuelberg, K. E. Pickering, and S. Peckham

Recorded presentation

10:45 AM

J8.2

A NASA Model for Improving the Lightning NOx Emission Inventory for CMAQ

William Koshak, NASA/MSFC, Huntsville, AL; and M. Khan, A. P. Biazar, M. Newchurch, and R. T. McNider

Poster PDF (310.6 kB)

J8.3

Lightning NOx emissions over the USA investigated using TES, NLDN, LRLDN, IONS data and the GEOS-Chem model

11:15 AM

J8.4

Improving techniques for satellite-based constraints on the lightning parameterization in a global chemical transport model

Lee Thomas Murray, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA; and D. J. Jacob, J. A. Logan, and W. Koshak

Recorded presentation

11:30 AM

J8.5

The Impacts of Lightning NOx on Tropospheric Chemistry

Yuan Wang, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX; and R. Zhang, Y. Diao, and X. Tie

Recorded presentation

11:45 AM

J8.6

Lightning NOx production during the NASA TC4 experiment as observed by Aura/OMI

Kenneth E. Pickering, NASA/GSFC, Greenbelt, MD; and E. Bucsela, T. Huntemann, R. C. Cohen, A. Perring, J. Gleason, R. Blakeslee, D. V. Navarro, I. M. Segura, A. P. Hernández, and S. Laporte-Molina

Recorded presentation

9

Sea-Surface Physics, Including Waves, Whitecaps, and Aerosol Generation: Part 2

Location: Room 128A (Phoenix Convention Center)

Sponsor: 16th Conference on Air-Sea Interaction

Chair: Magdalena D. Anguelova, NRL

Papers:

10:30 AM

9.1

A Two-Scale Approximation for Nonlinear Energy Transfers in Wave Spectra

Will Perrie, Bedford Institute of Oceanography, Dartmouth, NS, Canada; and D. T. Resio

Recorded presentation Poster PDF (30.5 kB)

10:45 AM

9.2

The impact of atmospheric model resolution on a coupled wind/wave forecast system

Katherine Howard, Florida Institute of Technology, Melbourne, FL; and G. Zarillo, M. Splitt, S. Lazarus, S. Chiao, P. Santos, and D. Sharp

Recorded presentation Poster PDF (387.2 kB)

11:00 AM

9.3

Numerical simulations and observations of surface wave fields under an extreme tropical cyclone

Yalin Fan, University of Rhode Island, Narragansett, RI; and I. Ginis

Recorded presentation

11:15 AM

9.4

The contribution of wave breaking to air-sea interaction

J.M. Kleiss, SIO/Univ. of California, La Jolla, CA; and W. K. Melville

11:30 AM

9.5

Numerical simulations of wind-wave spectra in the Gulf of Tehuantepec

Leonel Romero, SIO/Univ. of California, La Jolla, CA; and W. K. Melville

11:45 AM

9.6

Speed factors and deflection angles of wind-driven flows at the sea surface

Yutaka Yoshikawa, RIAM, Kyushu University, Kasuga, Fukuoka, Japan; and A. Masuda

Recorded presentation Poster PDF (516.6 kB)

9A

Advanced Methods for Data Assimilation—I

Location: Room 130 (Phoenix Convention Center)

Sponsor: 13th Conference on Integrated Observing and Assimilation Systems for Atmosphere, Oceans, and Land Surface (IOAS-AOLS)

Chair: Frank D. Marks Jr., NOAA/AOML

Papers:

10:30 AM

9A.1

Latest results with the local ensemble transform Kalman filter

Eric J. Kostelich, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ

Recorded presentation

10:45 AM

9A.2

Assimilation of Lagrangian and Quasi-Lagrangian Observations Using Ensemble Kalman Filter

Kayo Ide, University of Maryland, College Park, MD; and G. Vernieres and C. K. R. T. Jones

11:00 AM

9A.3

En4D-Var: An Innovative Data Assimilation Technique Combining Ensemble Forecast with 4D-Var

Qingnong Xiao, NCAR, Boulder, CO; and C. Liu

Poster PDF (346.6 kB)

11:15 AM

9A.4

Weight interpolation for efficient data assimilation with the Local Ensemble Transform Kalman Filter

Shu-Chih Yang, Univ. of Maryland, College Park, MD; and E. Kalnay, B. Hunt, and N. Bowler

Recorded presentation

11:30 AM

9A.5

EnKF Localization Techniques and Balance

Steven J. Greybush, University of Maryland, College Park, MD; and E. Kalnay

Recorded presentation

11:45 AM

9A.6

Outer loop and fast spin-up in EnKF

Eugenia Kalnay, University of Maryland, College Park, MD; and S. C. Yang

Recorded presentation

9A

Prediction of climate on seasonal to decadal timescales - II

Location: Room 129A (Phoenix Convention Center)

Sponsor: 21st Conference on Climate Variability and Change

Chair: David R. Easterling, NOAA/NESDIS/NCDC

Papers:

10:30 AM

9A.1

Can large scale climate controls help predict seasonal tornado activity?

Brittany L. Perrin, Univ. of Missouri, Columbia, MO; and K. Hughes and A. R. Lupo

Recorded presentation Poster PDF (587.2 kB)

10:45 AM

9A.2

Predictibility of seasonal and interannual variability from the long term trend: Defining the climate state

Dan C. Collins, NOAA/NWS/NCEP/CPC, Camp Springs, MD; and D. A. Unger and E. A. O'Lenic

Recorded presentation

11:00 AM

9A.3

NAEFS/GEFS extended forecast

Yuejian Zhu, NOAA/NWS/NCEP/EMC, Camp Springs, MD; and Z. Toth, D. Hou, M. Peña, Q. Zhang, and J. Gottschalck

11:15 AM

9A.4

Seasonal prediction with CCSM3.0: Role and dynamics of circulation regimes

David M. Straus, George Mason University, Beltsville, MD; and D. Paolino

Recorded presentation Poster PDF (3.0 MB)

11:30 AM

9A.5

Decadal predictability of North Pacific Sea Surface Temperatures

Grant Branstator, NCAR, Boulder, CO; and H. Teng

Recorded presentation

11:45 AM

9A.6

North pacific gyre oscillation synchronizes climate fluctuations in the eastern and western north pacific

Lina I. Ceballos, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA; and E. Di Lorenzo, N. Schneider, and C. D. Hoyos

9B

Observed changes in climate - II

Location: Room 129B (Phoenix Convention Center)

Sponsor: 21st Conference on Climate Variability and Change

Chair: Aiguo Dai, NCAR

Papers:

10:30 AM

9B.1

Snowfall changes in California's Sierra Nevada Mountains

John Christy, Univ. of Alabama, Huntsville, AL; and J. J. Hnilo

10:45 AM

9B.2

A Practical Guide for Detecting Abrupt Changes in Time Series

Aiguo Dai, NCAR, Boulder, CO

Recorded presentation

11:00 AM

9B.3

On improving NOAA's climate normals: an introduction to ‘optimal normals' of temperature

Anthony Arguez, NOAA/NESDIS/NCDC, Asheville, NC; and R. S. Vose

Recorded presentation Poster PDF (322.2 kB)

11:15 AM

9B.4

Inferring Significance of Trend and Adaptive Detrending of Complex Climate Time Series

Wen-Wen Tung, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN; and J. Gao and J. Hu

11:30 AM

9B.5

False spring occurrence over the southeastern United States, 1901 – 2007

Garrett P. Marino, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA; and D. Kaiser

Recorded presentation

11:45 AM

9B.6

Observed and Modeled Surface-based Temperature Inversions in Alaska: Trends and Variability

Stefanie M. Bourne, Geophysical Institute, University of Alaska Fairbanks, Fairbanks, AK; and U. S. Bhatt, J. Zhang, and R. Thoman

9B

Radar Applications - Session I Part II

Location: Room 122BC (Phoenix Convention Center)

Sponsor: 25th Conference on International Interactive Information and Processing Systems (IIPS) for Meteorology, Oceanography, and Hydrology

Cochairs: Timothy Crum, NOAA/NEXRAD Radar Operations Center; Douglas Forsyth, NOAA/NSSL; Robert E. Saffle, Noblis, Inc.; Julian Wang, NOAA/ARL

Papers:

10:30 AM

9B.1

Polarimetric phased array radar – possibilities and challenges

Dusan S. Zrnic, NOAA/NSSL, Norman, OK; and G. Zhang

Recorded presentation

10:45 AM

9B.2

Calibration of polarimetric phased array radar for improved measurement accuracy

David Staiman, Lockheed Martin, Moorestown, NJ

Poster PDF (212.2 kB)

11:00 AM

9B.3

Evolutionary characteristics of a tornadic supercell thunderstorm: Comparisons of 1.0–min Phased Array Radar and 4.2–min WSR-88D measurements

Rodger A. Brown, NOAA/NSSL, Norman, OK; and J. Kurdzo and P. L. Heinselman

Recorded presentation Poster PDF (190.3 kB)

11:15 AM

9B.4

Radar sampling of low-altitude circulations by Phased Array Radar

Pamela L. Heinselman, NOAA/NSSL, Norman, OK; and T. M. Smith, K. L. Ortega, and K. Manross

Recorded presentation

11:30 AM

9B.5

Spring 2008 phased array radar experiment

Pamela L. Heinselman, NOAA/NSSL, Norman, OK

Recorded presentation Poster PDF (1.1 MB)

11:45 AM

9B.6

Scheduling of the Phased-Array weather radar for adaptive sensing using time balance

Ricardo Reinoso-Rondinel Sr., Atmospheric Radar Research Center, University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK; and T. -. Y. Yu

Recorded presentation

Joint Session 10

Coastal Mesoscale Circulations-II

Location: Room 128B (Phoenix Convention Center)

Sponsors: (Joint between the 16th Conference on Air-Sea Interaction; and the Eighth Conference on Coastal Atmospheric and Oceanic Prediction and Processes )

Chair: Todd D. Sikora, Millersville University

Papers:

10:30 AM

J10.1

Ocean mixed Layer Response to Gap Wind Scenarios

Qing Wang, Naval Postgraduate School, Monterey, CA; and N. Konstantinou, R. W. Garwood, S. Wang, K. Rados, J. Kalogiros, W. K. Melville, D. Khelif, and C. A. Friehe

Recorded presentation

10:45 AM

J10.2

The role of major west coast capes in coastal summer high speed wind structure

Clive E. Dorman, SIO/Univ. Of California, La Jolla, CA; and B. A. Vanhoff and D. Koracin

Recorded presentation

11:00 AM

J10.3

A case study of a Greenland Lee Cyclogenesis Event and the Subsequent Spawning of a Tip Jet

Carling Hay, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada; and G. W. K. Moore and R. S. Pickart

Recorded presentation

11:15 AM

J10.4

A Climatology of Cold Air Outbreaks over the Gulf of Mexico

Charlene Forgue, Florida State Univ., Tallahassee, FL; and C. A. Clayson

11:30 AM

J10.5

Modeling of Cold-Air Outbreaks and Return Flow Over the Gulf of Mexico

Donald F. Van Dyke III, Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL; and C. A. Clayson and E. Chassignet

11:45 AM

J10.6

Coastal mesoscale circulations induced by the interaction among the northeast winter monsoon, Kuroshio Current and mountains of Taiwan

Wu-ron Hsu, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan; and J. H. Tai

Joint Session 14

Improvements to Numerical Weather Prediction and Short-Term Forecasting

Location: Room 224AB (Phoenix Convention Center)

Sponsors: (Joint between the 16th Conference on Satellite Meteorology and Oceanography; the 13th Conference on Integrated Observing and Assimilation Systems for Atmosphere, Oceans, and Land Surface (IOAS-AOLS); and the Fifth Annual Symposium on Future Operational Environmental Satellite Systems- NPOESS and GOES-R )

Cochairs: Nancy L. Baker, NRL; Lars Peter Riishojgaard, JCSDA

Papers:

10:30 AM

J14.1

Data assimilation experiments using quality controlled AIRS Version 5 temperature soundings

Joel Susskind, NASA/GSFC, Greenbelt, MD ; and O. Reale

Recorded presentation

10:45 AM

J14.2

Winter QPF Sensitivities to Snow Parameterizations and Comparisons to NASA CloudSat Observations

Andrew L. Molthan, NASA/MSFC, Huntsville, AL; and J. M. Haynes, G. J. Jedlovec, and W. M. Lapenta

http://weather.msfc.nasa.gov/sport

Recorded presentation Poster PDF (326.5 kB)

11:00 AM

J14.3

The importance of numerical weather prediction and data assimilation systems in the calibration and validation of current and future satellite sensor measurements sensitive to atmospheric temperature and humidity

Nancy L. Baker, NRL, Monterey, CA; and S. D. Swadley, G. Poe, B. Ruston, and W. Bell

Recorded presentation Poster PDF (1.1 MB)

11:15 AM

J14.4

The benefits of increased use of the information content of hyperspectral observations in numerical weather prediction

John F. Le Marshall, Bureau of Meteorology, Docklands, Vic., Australia; and J. Jung

Recorded presentation Poster PDF (324.2 kB)

11:30 AM

J14.5

Use of satellite derived cloud products in a generalized cloud analysis package utilized within two regional assimilation systems, the Rapid Update Cycle and the Rapid Refresh

Stephen S. Weygandt, NOAA/ESRL/GSD, Boulder, CO; and M. Hu, S. G. Benjamin, P. Minnis, W. L. Smith Jr., and D. Devenyi

11:45 AM

J14.6

Impact of satellite radiance data in the Rapid Refresh system and problems of regional satellite radiance assimilation

Dezso Devenyi, NOAA/ESRL/GSD and CIRES/University of Colorado, Boulder, CO; and M. Hu, S. S. Weygandt, and S. G. Benjamin

Recorded presentation

9B

Atmospheric Observations for Weather and Climate: COSMIC—II

Location: Room 131C (Phoenix Convention Center)

Sponsor: 13th Conference on Integrated Observing and Assimilation Systems for Atmosphere, Oceans, and Land Surface (IOAS-AOLS)

CoChair: Lidia Cucurull, NOAA/NESDIS

Papers:

11:00 AM

9B.1

Assimilation of GPS Radio Occultation Data for an Intense Atmospheric River with the NCEP Regional GSI System

Zaizhong Ma, NCAR, Boulder, CO; and B. Kuo, B. Wang, W. S. Wu, S. Sokolovskiy, P. J. Neiman, and F. M. Ralph

Recorded presentation

11:15 AM

9B.2

Impacts of COSMIC GPS data assimilation on real time numerical weather prediction in Taiwan

Pay-Liam Lin, National Central University, Jhong-Li, Taiwan; and S. T. Miow and J. Y. Chen

11:30 AM

9B.3

Impact of Ground-based GPS Precipitable Water Vapor and COSMIC GPS Refractivity Profile on Hurricane Dean Forecast

Tetsuya Iwabuchi, UCAR, Boulder, CO; and J. J. Braun and T. Van Hove

Recorded presentation Poster PDF (1.5 MB)

11:45 AM

9B.4

Examination of the tropical cyclone environment through comparison of COSMIC with other satellite data

Christopher M. Hill, Mississippi State Univ., Stennis Space Center, MS; and P. J. Fitzpatrick, Y. Lau, and H. Karan

Recorded presentation

Exhibits Open

Joint Panel Discussion 1

Meeting Future Urban Weather and Climate Information Needs from Space - Panel Discussion

Location: Room 224AB (Phoenix Convention Center)

Sponsors: (Joint between the Fifth Annual Symposium on Future Operational Environmental Satellite Systems- NPOESS and GOES-R; and the 16th Conference on Satellite Meteorology and Oceanography )

Cochairs: Gary McWilliams, NPOESS Integrated Program Office; Michael L. Jamilkowski, Raytheon Intelligence and Information Systems; Rick Ohlemacher, Northrup Grumman; James J. Gurka, NOAA/NESDIS/GOES-R Program Office; Philip E. Ardanuy, Raytheon Information Solutions; Wayne Feltz, CIMSS/Univ. of Wisconsin; Timothy J. Schmit, NOAA/NESDIS

Papers:

12:00 PM

PD1.1

Joint Panel Discussion

Gary McWilliams, NPOESS Intergrated Program Office/Army Research Laboratory, Adelphi, MD

Recorded presentation

12:15 PM

PD1.2

Jedlovec Presentation for Luncheon

Gary J. Jedlovec, NASA/MSFC XD11, Huntsville, AL

12:30 PM

PD1.3

Shepherd Presentation for Luncheon

J. Marshall Shepherd, NASA/GSFC, Greenbelt, MD

12:45 PM

PD1.4

Berchoff Presentation for Luncheon

Don Berchoff, United States Air Force, Arlington, VA

Lunch Break (Cash and Carry in Exhibit Hall)

National Unified Operational Prediction Capability

Location: Room 126A (Phoenix Convention Center)

Sponsor: Events

Observing Weather and Climate from the Ground Up: A Nationwide Network of Networks. Findings and Recommendations of the Board on Atmospheric Sciences and Climate’s Committee on Developing Mesoscale Meteorological Observational Capabilities to Meet Multiple National Needs

Location: Room 125A (Phoenix Convention Center)

Sponsor: Events

U.S. Joint Subcommittee on Ocean Science and Technology (JSOST) Town Hall: Progress Towards Ocean Research Priorities

Location: Room 125B (Phoenix Convention Center)

Sponsor: Events

Papers:

12:15 PM

JSOST Town Hall

Jack A. Kaye, NASA, Science Mission Directorate, Washington, DC

Recorded presentation

Panel Discussion 1

Managing Digital Materials

Location: Room 132A (Phoenix Convention Center)

Sponsor: 12th Conference of Atmospheric Science Librarians International

Panelists: Mary Molina, NCAR Library; Jinny Nathans, AMS; Doria B. Grimes, NOAA Central Library (Retired); Michele Reilly, Arizona Memory Project; Maliaca Oxnam, University of Arizona – Technical Report Archive and Image Library (TRAIL)

Papers:

1:15 PM

PD1.1

NCAR Library

Mary Marlino, NCAR, Boulder, CO

1:25 PM

PD1.2

AMS

Jinny Nathans, AMS, Boston, MA

1:35 PM

PD1.3

NOAA Central Library

Doria B. Grimes, NOAA Central Library (Retired), Silver Spring, MD

1:45 PM

PD1.4

Arizona Memory Project

Michele Reilly, Arizona Memory Project, Phoenix, AZ

1:55 PM

PD1.5

Univ. of Arizona - Technical Report Archive and Image Library

Maliaca Oxnam, University of Arizona – Technical Report Archive and Image Library (TRAIL), Tucson, AZ

Joint Panel Discussion 3

Developing a National Climate Service

Location: Room 121A (Phoenix Convention Center)

Sponsors: (Joint between the Fourth Symposium on Policy and Socio—Economic Research; and the 21st Conference on Climate Variability and Change )

Moderator: Phillip A. Pasteris, Global Water Resources

Panelists: Chet Koblinsky, NOAA CPO; Jonathan Overpeck, University of Arizona; Philip W. Mote, Univ. of Washington; Kelly Redmond, Western Regional Climate Center

Papers:

1:30 PM

Moderator Overview

Phillip A. Pasteris, Global Water Resources, Portland, OR

Recorded presentation

Joint Session 3

Distributed Earth Science Information Systems

Location: Room 129A (Phoenix Convention Center)

Sponsors: (Joint between the 21st Conference on Climate Variability and Change; and the 25th Conference on International Interactive Information and Processing Systems (IIPS) for Meteorology, Oceanography, and Hydrology )

Cochairs: Nancy Soreide, NOAA/PMEL; Kenneth Carey, Noblis

Papers:

J3.1

An Advanced Next Generation Archival and Distribution System for Global Atmospheric Science Research

1:45 PM

J3.2

A distributed information and architecture system for integrating operational data and product providers into the Global Earth Observing System of Systems (GEOSS)

Ronald P. Lowther, Northrop Grumman Corporation, Bellevue, NE; and M. Brill, B. Puetz, and M. Mayorga

Recorded presentation

2:00 PM

J3.3

Compression and Relay Management System as Applied to Gridded FX-Net, and an Update on Wavelet Compression

Jebb Q. Stewart, NOAA/ESRL, Boulder and CIRA/Colorado State Univ., Boulder, CO; and N. Wang, E. Polster, and S. Schranz

Recorded presentation Poster PDF (32.9 kB)

2:15 PM

J3.4

Online Visualization and Analysis of Global Half-hourly Pixel-Resolution Infrared Dataset

Zhong Liu, George Mason University/CSISS, Fairfax, VA and NASA/GSFC, Greenbelt, MD; and D. Ostrenga, G. G. Leptoukh, and A. V. Mehta

http://disc.gsfc.nasa.gov/hurricane/trmm_quikscat_analysis.shtml

Recorded presentation Poster PDF (1015.8 kB)

5

Air quality and climate change—I

Location: Room 127A (Phoenix Convention Center)

Sponsor: 11th Conference on Atmospheric Chemistry

Chair: Jeffrey S. Gaffney, Univ. of Arkansas

Papers:

1:30 PM

5.1

Absorbing aerosols from agricultural burning and biomass emissions: Climate connections

Jeffrey S. Gaffney, Univ. of Arkansas, Little Rock, AR; and N. A. Marley

Poster PDF (91.0 kB)

1:45 PM

5.2

Formation and transformation of humic-like substances (HULIS) in atmospheric aerosols: Relation to climate forcing

Nancy A. Marley, Univ. of Arkansas, Little Rock, AR; and J. S. Gaffney

Poster PDF (192.2 kB)

2:00 PM

5.3

Nucleation and Growth of Nano-Sized Particles in the Atmosphere

Renyi Zhang, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX; and L. Wang, A. Khalizov, and J. Zheng

2:15 PM

5.4

The meteorology of aerosol particle formation events

David M. Schultz, Univ. of Helsinki/FMI, Helsinki, Finland; and L. Sogacheva, S. B. Mazon, and I. Riipinen

Recorded presentation

7A

Hydrological Impacts of Land Use Change

Location: Room 127B (Phoenix Convention Center)

Sponsor: 23rd Conference on Hydrology

Chair: C. Adam Schlosser, MIT

Papers:

1:30 PM

7A.1

Urbanization impacts on the hydroclimatology of the Upper Great Lakes Region

Laura C. Bowling, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN; and V. Mishra, K. A. Cherkauer, G. Yang, L. Ming, D. Niyogi, and B. Pijanowski

Recorded presentation

1:45 PM

7A.2

Impacts of remotely-sensed, seasonal land cover dynamics on distributed hydrological response in two forested mountain settings

Taufique H. Mahmood, New Mexico Institute of Mining & Technology, Socorro, NM; and E. R. Vivoni

Recorded presentation

2:00 PM

7A.3

Hydrologic response to urbanization in the Milwaukee River basin, WI

Guoxiang Yang, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN; and L. C. Bowling, K. A. Cherkauer, and B. C. Pijanowski

Recorded presentation

2:15 PM

7A.4

ARMOR And MAX Radar Observations Of The Lake Breeze Generated By A Small Anthropogenic Lake

Salvi Asefi, University of Alabama, Huntsville, AL; and K. Knupp, U. S. Nair, R. M. Welch, and D. Phillips

Recorded presentation

7B

Remote Sensing of High-Impact Hydrometeorological Events—I

Location: Room 127C (Phoenix Convention Center)

Sponsor: 23rd Conference on Hydrology

Chair: Robert J. Kuligowski, NOAA/NESDIS

Papers:

1:30 PM

7B.1

Global flood and landslide detection and prediction using satellite observations

Robert F. Adler, NASA/GSFC and Univ. of Maryland/ESSIC, Greenbelt, MD; and Y. Hong, D. B. Kirschbaum, and H. Pierce

Recorded presentation

2:00 PM

7B.2

Comparison of TRMM radar rainfall estimates with NOAA Next Generation QPE in high-impact hydrometeorological events

Eyal Amitai, Chapman University and NASA/GSFC, Greenbelt, MD; and X. Llort

2:15 PM

7B.3

Precipitation extremes in the TMPA

George J. Huffman, NASA/GSFC and SSAI, Greenbelt, MD; and R. F. Adler, D. T. Bolvin, and E. J. Nelkin

Recorded presentation

10

Prediction of climate on seasonal to decadal timescales - III

Location: Room 129B (Phoenix Convention Center)

Sponsor: 21st Conference on Climate Variability and Change

Chair: Aiguo Dai, NCAR

Papers:

1:30 PM

10.1

Decadal Climate Information for Water Management Applications

Kathy Jacobs, U.S. Global Change Research Program, Washington, DC; and L. Goddard

Recorded presentation

1:45 PM

10.2

A comparison of high frequency climate of the 20th century IPCC model runs to observations

Justin J. Hnilo, Univ. of Alabama, Huntsville, AL; and J. R. Christy

2:00 PM

10.3

Seasonal prediction of Southeast Indian Ocean tropical cyclone activity

Kevin H. Goebbert, Univ. of Oklahoma, Norman, OK; and L. M. Leslie and M. B. Richman

Recorded presentation

2:15 PM

10.4

Improving Seasonal Predictions of Climate Variability and Water Availability at the Catchment Scale

Matthew B. Switanek, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ; and P. A. Troch and C. L. Castro

Recorded presentation

10

Turbulent Air-Sea Flux Measurements from Aircraft

Location: Room 128AB (Phoenix Convention Center)

Sponsor: 16th Conference on Air-Sea Interaction

Chair: Larry Mahrt, Oregon State University

Papers:

10.1

Air-sea interaction in the Gulf of Tehuantepec

1:45 PM

10.1A

The implementation of a prognostic sea surface skin temperature scheme into climate and weather models

Michael A. Brunke, Univ.of Arizona, Tucson, AZ; and X. Zeng, V. Misra, and A. Beljaars

Recorded presentation

2:00 PM

10.2

Direct measurements of momentum and enthalpy fluxes in the hurricane force wind regime

Jun A. Zhang, NOAA/AOML, Miami, FL; and W. M. Drennan, J. R. French, and P. Black

Recorded presentation

2:15 PM

10.3

Aircraft-based observations of air-sea fluxes over Denmark Strait and the Irminger Sea during high wind speed conditions

G. N. Petersen, University of East Anglia, Norwich, Norfolk, United Kingdom; and I. A. Renfrew

Recorded presentation Poster PDF (204.6 kB)

2:30 PM

10.4

Air-sea interaction measurements from a new towed airborne platform

Djamal Khelif, University of California at Irvine, Irvine, CA; and C. A. Friehe, R. Bluth, J. Barge, T. Morse, and D. Bierly

10A

Advanced Methods for Data Assimilation—II

Location: Room 130 (Phoenix Convention Center)

Sponsor: 13th Conference on Integrated Observing and Assimilation Systems for Atmosphere, Oceans, and Land Surface (IOAS-AOLS)

Chair: Eugenia Kalnay, Univ. of Maryland

Papers:

10A.1

Accounting for background and observation bias in the Local Ensemble Transform Kalman Filter

1:45 PM

Discussion: Workshop on 4D-Var and EnKF Intercomparisons, Buenos Aires 10-13 Nov '08

Recorded presentation

2:00 PM

10A.1A

Summary of the WMO/THORPEX Workshop on 4D-Var/EnKF Intercomparisons

Eugenia Kalnay, Univ. of Maryland, College Park, MD

2:15 PM

10A.2

Local Predictability of the Performance of an Ensemble Forecast System

Elizabeth A. Satterfield, University of Maryland, College Park, MD; and I. Szunyogh

Recorded presentation Poster PDF (2.3 MB)

2:30 PM

10A.3

Nonlinear characterization of uncertainty in model physics routines and implications for ensemble-based prediction

Derek J. Posselt, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI; and T. Vukicevic

Recorded presentation

2:45 PM

10A.4

The Impact of Online Empirical Model Correction on Nonlinear Forecast Error Growth

Christopher M. Danforth, University of Vermont, Burlington, VT ; and E. Kalnay

10A

Challenges in Data Access, Distribution, and Use

Location: Room 121BC (Phoenix Convention Center)

Sponsor: 25th Conference on International Interactive Information and Processing Systems (IIPS) for Meteorology, Oceanography, and Hydrology

Cochairs: Thomas M. Whittaker, CIMSS/Univ. of Wisconsin; Anthony Arguez, NOAA/NESDIS/NCDC

Papers:

1:30 PM

10A.1

AIRNow - Improving the future of Air Quality Communication

Scott A. Jackson, EPA, Research Triangle Park, NC; and P. H. Zahn, C. P. MacDonald, D. S. Miller, and A. C. Chan

Recorded presentation

1:45 PM

10A.2

SwissMetNet : a unique platform for surface and upper air meteorological data collection and transfer

Yves-Alain Roulet, MeteoSwiss, Payerne, Switzerland; and B. Landl and B. Calpini

Recorded presentation

2:00 PM

10A.3

Addressing sensor data challenges in North Carolina: creating a statewide sensor network inventory

Jessica L. Losego, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC; and K. Galluppi and R. Boyles

Recorded presentation

2:15 PM

10A.4

The 4-D Weather Data Cube: Data services, standards and IT architecture

Timothy Hopkins, NOAA/NWS Chief, Analysis Branch, Office of Science and Technology, Silver Spring, MD; and R. C. Deininger, J. Tuell, T. E. Ryan, and B. Lambert

10B

Atmospheric Observations for Weather and Climate: COSMIC—III

Location: Room 131C (Phoenix Convention Center)

Sponsor: 13th Conference on Integrated Observing and Assimilation Systems for Atmosphere, Oceans, and Land Surface (IOAS-AOLS)

Chair: Ching–Yuang Huang, National Central University

Papers:

1:30 PM

10B.1

The Development of an In-Situ GPS Reference System

Joseph Facundo, NOAA/NWS, Silver Spring, MD; and J. Fitzgibbon and C. Bower

Recorded presentation Poster PDF (228.0 kB)

1:45 PM

10B.2

Estimates of the precision of GPS radio occultation bending angles from the COSMIC/ FORMOSAT-3 mission

William Schreiner, UCAR, Boulder, CO; and B. Kuo, C. Rocken, S. Sokolovskiy, and D. Hunt

Recorded presentation

2:00 PM

10B.3

The Use of COSMIC Data to Identify Radiosonde Type Characteristics and Understand Spatial &Temporal Sensitivities in the Collocation Validation/Comparison

Bomin Sun, IMSG & NOAA/NESDIS/STAR, Suitland, MD; and A. L. Reale and D. C. Hunt

Recorded presentation Poster PDF (543.4 kB)

2:15 PM

10B.4

Impacts of COSMIC GPS observations on a climate reanalysis

Jeffrey Anderson, NCAR, Boulder, CO; and K. Raeder, H. Liu, N. Collins, and T. Hoar

Recorded presentation

10B

Radar Applications - Session II

Location: Room 122BC (Phoenix Convention Center)

Sponsor: 25th Conference on International Interactive Information and Processing Systems (IIPS) for Meteorology, Oceanography, and Hydrology

Cochairs: Timothy Crum, NOAA/NEXRAD Radar Operations Center; Douglas E. Forsyth, NOAA/NSSL; Robert E. Saffle, Noblis, Inc.; Julian Wang, NOAA/ARL

Papers:

1:30 PM

10B.1

NEXRAD Product Improvement -- Update 2009

Robert E. Saffle, Noblis, Inc., Falls Church, VA; and G. S. Cate and M. J. Istok

Recorded presentation Poster PDF (39.4 kB)

1:45 PM

10B.2

Leveraging Multiple FAA Radars for NWS Operations

Michael J. Istok, NOAA/NWS, Silver Spring, MD; and A. Cheek, A. D. Stern, R. E. Saffle, W. M. Blanchard, B. R. Klein, and N. Shen

Recorded presentation Poster PDF (2.7 MB)

2:00 PM

10B.3

Real time identification and filtering of ground clutter

J. C. Hubbert, NCAR, Boulder, CO; and S. M. Ellis and M. Dixon

Poster PDF (139.6 kB)

2:15 PM

10B.4

A simplified approach to staggered PRT clutter filtering

J. C. Hubbert, NCAR, Boulder, CO; and G. Meymaris

Poster PDF (204.8 kB)

Joint Session 15

Advances in Natural Hazards Monitoring

Location: Room 224AB (Phoenix Convention Center)

Sponsors: (Joint between the 16th Conference on Satellite Meteorology and Oceanography; and the Fifth Annual Symposium on Future Operational Environmental Satellite Systems- NPOESS and GOES-R )

Cochairs: Wayne F. Feltz, CIMSS/University of Wisconsin; Brian Hughes, NOAA/NESDIS

Papers:

1:30 PM

J15.1

New automated methods for detecting volcanic ash and retrieving its properties from infrared radiances

Michael J. Pavolonis, NOAA/NESDIS, Madison, WI; and J. Sieglaff

Recorded presentation

1:45 PM

J15.2

Toward an end-to-end satellite-based convection nowcasting system

Kristopher M. Bedka, CIMSS/Univ. of Wisconsin, Madison, WI; and W. F. Feltz, J. Sieglaff, R. Rabin, M. J. Pavolonis, and J. C. Brunner

Recorded presentation

2:00 PM

J15.3

Early prediction of malaria in forest hills of Bangladesh using AVHRR based satellite data

Mohammad Nizamuddin, NOAA / CREST, New York, NY; and A. Rahman, L. Roytman, F. Kogan, and A. Powell

Poster PDF (57.0 kB)

2:15 PM

J15.4

Geostationary detection of fires and the global and long-term datasets of the WF_ABBA

Christopher C. Schmidt, CIMSS/Univ. of Wisconsin, Madison, WI; and E. M. Prins, J. C. Brunner, J. P. Hoffman, S. S. Lindstrom, and J. M. Feltz

Recorded presentation

Joint Session 17

Building—Resolving Modeling and Forecasting in Urban Areas

Location: Room 124A (Phoenix Convention Center)

Sponsors: (Joint between the Eighth Conference on Coastal Atmospheric and Oceanic Prediction and Processes; and the Eighth Symposium on the Urban Environment )

Chair: H.J.S. Fernando, Arizona State University

Papers:

1:30 PM

J17.1

Model- and Application-Specific Validation Data for LES-Based Transport and Diffusion Models

M. Y. Lee, NRL, Washington, DC; and F. Harms, T. R. Young, B. Leitl, and G. Patnaik

Recorded presentation Poster PDF (2.7 MB)

J17.2

LES studies on pedestrian level ventilation in Hong Kong

2:00 PM

J17.2A

A successive downscaling LES simulation of local-scale weather circulations

Yubao Liu, NCAR, Boulder, CO; and W. Wu, J. Beohnert, G. Roux, T. T. Warner, and S. P. Swerdlin

Recorded presentation

2:15 PM

J17.3

Impact Assessment on Local Meteorology due to the Land Use Changes During Urban Development in Seoul

Hae-Jung Koo, National Institute of Meteorological Research, Seoul, South Korea; and K. R. Kim, Y. J. Choi, T. H. Kwon, Y. H. Kim, and C. Y. Choi

Recorded presentation Poster PDF (929.6 kB)

2:30 PM

J17.4

Modeling of Urban Canyon with Three Dimensional Radiation and its Impact to Urban Weather

Keiko Takahashi, JAMSTEC, Kanazawa-ku, Yokohama, Japan; and R. Onishi, T. Sugimura, and Y. Baba

Recorded presentation

Joint Session 18

Urban Transport and Dispersion Modeling—Part I (Joint with the Meteorological Aspects of Air Pollution Committee)

Location: Room 124B (Phoenix Convention Center)

Sponsor: Eighth Symposium on the Urban Environment

Chairs: Michael J. Brown, LANL; Petra M. Klein, Univ. of Oklahoma

Papers:

1:30 PM

J18.1

Quantitative probabilistic model for urban dispersion

Eugene Yee, Defence R&D Canada - Suffield, Medicine Hat, AB, Canada; and B. C. Wang

Recorded presentation Poster PDF (701.1 kB)

1:45 PM

J18.2

Urban HPAC/SCIPUFF and a simple urban dispersion model compared with the Madison Square Garden 2005 (MSG05) tracer observations in New York City

Steven R. Hanna, Hanna Consultants, Kennebunkport, ME; and R. I. Sykes, J. Chang, J. M. White, and E. Baja

Recorded presentation Poster PDF (538.2 kB)

2:00 PM

J18.3

Development of a vegetation deposition model for a fast response urban Lagrangian dispersion model

Eric Pardyjak, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT; and U. N. Amatul, M. A. Nelson, and M. J. Brown

Recorded presentation

2:15 PM

J18.4

The importance of terrain and building definitions for transport and dispersion CFD simulations of pollutants

Fernando E. Camelli, George Mason Univ., Fairfax, VA; and D. Wong, M. Sonwalkar, and R. Lohner

Break

Poster Session 1

Modeling and Forecasting in Urban Area—Poster Session

Location: Hall 5 (Phoenix Convention Center)

Sponsor: Eighth Symposium on the Urban Environment

Papers:

P1.1

Heat ventilation efficiency of urban surfaces using Large-Eddy Simulation

P1.2

Observational and numerical study of the Great Salt Lake breeze

Erik T. Crosman, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT; and J. Horel

P1.3

Application of an Adaptive Nudging Scheme in Air Quality Forecasting in China

Xu Xiangde Sr., Chinese Academy of Meteorological Sciences, Beijing, China; and X. Lian Sr. and C. Xinghong Jr.

Poster PDF (579.8 kB)

P1.4

A sensitivity study on anthropogenic heat release and building / street aspect ratio using a mesoscale model in Tokyo Metropolitan area, Japan

Toshinori Aoyagi, Meteorological Research Institute, Tsukuba, Japan; and N. Seino

P1.5

Urban effects on summer monsoon convection in the Phoenix (Arizona, USA) metropolitan area

Susanne Grossman Clarke, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ; and Y. Liu, J. A. Zehnder, and M. Ge

P1.6

Verification of three storm surge models over the New York Bight and Long Island regions

Tom DiLiberto, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY; and B. A. Colle, F. Bounaiuto, and M. J. Bowman

P1.7

Modeling hilly urban canopy using immersed boundary method in large eddy simulation

Long Sun, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA; and J. Kleissl

P1.8

Formation of horizontal convective rolls in urban areas

Shiguang Miao, Institute of Urban Meteorology, CMA, Beijing, China; and F. Chen

P1.9

Characterization of PM2.5 over the El Paso-Juarez Airshed using the CMAQ model

Juan Gustavo Arias, SACNAS, UTEP, El Paso, TX; and M. Güereque, R. M. Fitzgerald, D. Lu, and W. R. Stockwell

P1.10

Aerosol characterization in a city influenced by both rural and urban regions

Angel E. Esparza, Univ. of Texas, El Paso, TX; and J. Polanco and R. M. Fitzgerald

P1.11

Characterization of aerosols over the El Paso-Juarez Airshed using the CMAQ model

Juan Gustavo Arias, Univ. of Texas, El Paso, TX; and M. Guereque, R. M. Fitzgerald, D. Lu, and W. R. Stockwell

P1.12

Real-time forecasting for New York City and its surroundings, with emphasis on sea breezes and other coastal circulations

P1.13

Factors involved in the formation and development of severe weather conditions over the megacity of São Paulo

Edmilson D. Freitas, University of São Paulo, São Paulo, SP, Brazil; and P. L. Silva Dias, V. S. B. Carvalho, C. R. M. Rocha, L. D. Martins, J. A. Martins, and M. D. F. Andrade

Poster PDF (987.9 kB)

Poster Session 1

Modeling, Forecasting, and Impacts of Urban High Impact Weather

Location: Room 126B (Phoenix Convention Center)

Sponsor: Symposium on Urban High Impact Weather

Cochairs: Pavlos Kollias, McGill University; Bart Nijssen, 3TIER, Inc.

Papers:

P1.1

High-resolution modeling analysis of hazardous winds associated with mesoscale disturbances for the safety of railway transportation system in a coastal area

Tetsuya Takemi, Kyoto University, Uji, Kyoto, Japan

Poster PDF (1.1 MB)

P1.2

Preliminary Study on Mechanism of â Mmesoscale Rainstorm Forming in Beijing City

Yun Chen, National Meteorological Center, CMA, Beijing, China; and Q. Li II, T. Chen III, Z. Li IV, B. Bi V, and L. He

P1.3

Urban Flood Forecasting using an Integrated Hydrometeorological System

Jonas Cordazzo, IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center, Yorktown Heights, NY; and U. Mello, E. Novakovskaia, D. Rude, L. Treinish, and A. Praino

P1.4

The downtown Atlanta, Georgia, EF-2 tornado of 14 March 2008

Steven E. Nelson, NOAA/NWS, Peachtree City, GA; and L. Rothfusz

Poster PDF (656.5 kB)

P1.5

The Determination of Optimal Thresholds of Tropical Cyclone Incremental Wind Speed Probabilities to Support Expressions of Uncertainty in Text Forecasts

Pablo Santos, NOAA/NWS, Miami, FL; and D. Sharp, M. DeMaria, and S. Kiser

Poster PDF (107.0 kB)

P1.6

Urban climate impact and prioritization of essential climates variables

Shane Forsythe-Newell, STG, Inc., Asheville, NC; and K. Roberts and B. R. Barkstrom

Poster PDF (1.2 MB)

P1.7

A Spatial Model for the Prediction of Electrical Power Outages Caused by Severe Storms

Hongfei Li, IBM T. J. Watson Research Center, Yorktown Heights, NY; and L. A. Treinish

P1.8

A comparison of NWS IMET and SMG operations with respect to future operations in Decision Support Meteorology

Kurt M. Van Speybroeck, NOAA/NWS Spaceflight Meteorology Group, Houston, TX; and M. Fox, C. Simms, and J. W. Zeitler

P1.9

Societal vulnerability and response to hurricanes in the Lower Rio Grande Valley

Isabelle Ruin, NCAR, Boulder, CO; and J. G. Estupiñán, B. S. Goldsmith, M. H. Hayden, C. Brown, J. P. Koval, K. Strebe, and O. Sobrevilla Blanco

P1.10

Post processing high resolution modelling data to provide an Extreme Rainfall Alert service to emergency responders

P. A. Davies, Met Office UK, Exeter, England, United Kingdom

P1.11

Central Florida smoke and fog - carnage on Interstate 4

Jennifer M. Collins, University of South Florida, Tampa, FL; and C. H. Paxton, R. J. Davis, N. M. Petro, and A. N. Williams

Poster PDF (388.4 kB)

P1.12

The morphological characteristic and spatial behavior of the meteorological disaster event

Hu Haibo Hu, Institute of Urban Meteorology, CMA, Beijing 100089, Beijing, CO, China

P1.13

An assessment of anthropogenic effects on precipitation in and near the Phoenix, Arizona, Metropolitan Area

Paul M. Iñiguez, NOAA/NWS, Tempe, AZ

Poster PDF (572.8 kB)

Poster Session 1

Poster: Advances in Lidar Applications

Location: Hall 5 (Phoenix Convention Center)

Sponsor: Fourth Symposium on Lidar Atmospheric Applications

Chairs: Belay B. Demoz, Howard University; Jennifer Comstock, PNNL; Andreas Behrendt, University of Hohenheim

Papers:

P1.1

Potential for lidar measurements of scattering coefficient profiles in thick clouds

Tamas Varnai, JCET/Univ. of Maryland Baltimore County, Baltimore, MD; and R. F. Cahalan and A. Marshak

P1.2

Calculation of turbulence intensity based on spectrum width data of a Doppler LIDAR

C.C. Wong, University of Hong Kong, ; and P. W. Chan, K. Akaeda, and H. Mizuno

Poster PDF (772.1 kB)

P1.3

The Astronomical Lidar for Extinction (ALE): High cadence precision measurements of nighttime scattering and absorption

Peter Zimmer, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM; and J. T. McGraw, G. Gimmestad, D. W. Roberts, J. Smith, and J. Fitch

P1.4

Water vapor transport within the atmospheric boundary layer from Raman lidar, radiosondes, wind profiler, and tower observations

Mariana Adam, Howard University, Washington, DC; and T. Dejene, M. Hicks, M. Robjhon, B. B. Demoz, J. D. Fuentes, E. Joseph, D. Venable, and R. Connell

P1.5

Lidar algorithms for the EarthCARE satellite

Gerd-Jan van Zadelhoff, KNMI, De Bilt, Netherlands; and D. P. Donovan

P1.6

Lidar Polar Stratospheric Clouds studies in Antarctica using the “MATCH” method during the International Polar Year

Christine David, Service d'Aeronomie-IPSL, Paris, France; and A. Klekociuk, M. C. Pitts, M. Snels, L. Di Liberto, C. Stark, J. Jumelet, and P. Keckhut

P1.7

Remote retrieval of cumulus cloud entrainment rates

Timothy J. Wagner, CIMSS/Univ. of Wisconsin, Madison, WI; and D. D. Turner and S. A. Ackerman

P1.8

Adapting the microspulse LIDAR for use as a reference for cloud measurement

Aaron J. Poyer, NOAA/NWS, Sterling, VA; and R. Lewis

Poster PDF (1.1 MB)

P1.9

Evaluation of the CT25KT Vaisala Ceilometer and its uses in dynamics meteorological studies

Belay B. Demoz, Howard University, Washington, DC; and M. Adam and K. Vermeesch

P1.10

4DVAR analysis of the wind field based on Doppler LIDAR data

Frank Yu, Department of Environment and Conservation, Western Australia, Kensington WA, , Australia; and P. W. Chan

Poster PDF (211.9 kB)

P1.11

An examination of AIRS data during overshooting events observed from MODIS, CloudSat and CALIPSO data

Alisa Holley Young, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA

P1.12

Assessment of space based DWL in Joint OSSE

Michiko Masutani, EMC, Camp Springs, MD; and G. D. Emmitt, G. J. Marseille, A. Stoffelen, S. Greco, S. A. Wood, E. Andersson, E. Brin, A. Da Silva, M. J. McGill, J. Woollen, and L. P. Riishojgaard

P1.13

High Performance Micropulse Lidar to Support Ground Based Astronomy

D.W. Roberts, Georgia Tech Research Institute, Atlanta, GA; and J. M. Stewart, G. G. Gimmestad, P. Zimmer, J. T. McGraw, J. Smith, and J. Fitch

P1.14

Boundary layer turbulence measurements via Raman lidar water vapor detection

Erin P. Wagner, CIMSS/Univ. of Wisconsin, Madison, WI; and D. D. Turner

Joint Poster Session 2

Aerosol, climate, and biogeochemical cycles

Location: Hall 5 (Phoenix Convention Center)

Sponsors: (Joint between the 11th Conference on Atmospheric Chemistry; and the Special Symposium on Aerosol–Cloud–Climate Interactions )

Cochairs: Renyi Zhang, Texas A&M University; Steven Peckham, CIRES/Univ. of Colorado & NOAA/ESRL/GSD

Papers:

JP2.2

Chemical apportionment of direct aerosol radiative forcing in Korea

Jiyoung Kim, National Institute of Meteorological Research, Dongjak-gu, Seoul, South Korea; and B. J. Kim

Poster PDF (233.8 kB)

JP2.3

Modeling the direct aerosol radiative forcing using in-situ, ground and satellite observations

Falguni Patadia, Univ. of Alabama, Huntsville, AL; and S. Christopher

JP2.4

Regional modeling of particulate chemistry and cloud-aerosol interactions for the VOCALS model assessment

Jerome D. Fast, PNNL, Richland, WA; and E. G. Chapman, W. Wang, R. Easter, and S. Ghan

JP2.5

Toward assessing the effect of aerosols on deep convection: A numerical study using the WRF-Chemistry model

Wendilyn J. Kaufeld, University of Illinois, Urbana, IL; and S. W. Nesbitt

Poster PDF (531.5 kB)

JP2.6

A numerical study of aerosol recycling using WRF coupled with a bin microphysics scheme

Lulin Xue, NCAR, Boulder, CO; and A. Teller, R. Rasmussen, I. Geresdi, and Z. Pan

Poster PDF (1.1 MB)

JP2.7

Space time variability of clouds, rainfall and aerosols in Central Nepal using satellite data

Prabhakar Shrestha, Duke University, Durham, NC; and A. P. Barros

JP2.8

Examining the influence of complex terrain on aerosol transport across the Central Himalayas using a high resolution model

Prabhakar Shrestha, Duke University, Durham, NC; and A. P. Barros

JP2.9

Observations of Saharan dust impacts on East Atlantic Convection Intensity and Tropical Cyclogenesis during NAMMA-06

Aaron Pratt, NASA, Greenbelt, MD; and G. Jenkins

JP2.10

Formation of Secondary Organic Aerosol through Cloud Processing of Anthropogenic VOCs

James W. Hutchings III, Arizona State Univ., Tempe, AZ; and P. Herckes

JP2.11

An estimation method for male flower production of Japanese Cedar

Motoo Suzuki, Japan Meteorological Business Support Center, Tokyo, Japan; and M. Tonouchi, T. Kanazashi, and S. Fukusima

Poster PDF (19.5 kB)

JP2.12

An analytic model of the vertical carbon dioxide rectifier effect

Vincent E. Larson, Univ. of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, WI; and H. Volkmer

http://www.uwm.edu/~vlarson

Poster PDF (229.8 kB)

JP2.13

Use of the MEGAN biogenic emission model on hemispheric and continental US domains for climate change and air quality analyses

Alfredo Arroyo, Washington State University, Pullman, WA; and R. Gonzalez, S. Chung, Y. Zhang, E. Salathe, C. Wiedinmyer, A. Guenther, and B. Lamb

JP2.14

Examining the impact of radiative absorption and scattering by atmospheric aerosols on WRF/Chem forecasts

Steven E. Peckham, NOAA/ESRL/GSD and CIRES-Univ. of Colorado, Boulder, CO; and G. A. Grell, S. A. McKeen, J. D. Fast, W. I. Gustafson Jr., J. C. Barnard, and R. Zaveri

JP2.15

Analysis of Aerosol Number Size Distributions and Hygroscopic Growth Factors as functions of Ambient Relative Humidity during the North American Monsoon

Karina Apodaca, Howard University, Washington, DC; and V. R. Morris

Poster PDF (297.9 kB)

Poster Session 2

IIPS Poster Session II

Location: Hall 5 (Phoenix Convention Center)

Sponsor: 25th Conference on International Interactive Information and Processing Systems (IIPS) for Meteorology, Oceanography, and Hydrology

Cochairs: Stephen M. Holt, Noblis, Inc.; Marjorie McGuirk, NOAA/NESDIS/NCDC; Anthony Arguez, NOAA/NESDIS/NCDC; S. T. Shipley, George Mason Univ.

Papers:

P2.1

Comparison of Crossbeam Wind Measurements using Spaced-Antenna and Monopulse Configurations with the National Weather Radar Testbed

Yinguang Li, Univ. of Oklahoma, Norman, OK; and G. Zhang and R. J. Doviak

Poster PDF (1.1 MB)

P2.2

Range overlaid staggered PRT

David A. Warde, CIMMS/Univ. of Oklahoma, Norman, OK; and S. M. Torres

Poster PDF (223.0 kB)

P2.3

A 2009 update on the NOAA Meteorological Assimilation Data Ingest System (MADIS)

Patricia A. Miller, NOAA/ESRL/GSD, Boulder, CO; and M. F. Barth and L. A. Benjamin

P2.4

LEAD-to-LEARN: A demonstration of an instructional pathway for undergraduate meteorology education using a science gateway

Sepideh Yalda, Millersville Univ., Millersville, PA; and R. D. Clark, S. States, S. Cecelski, B. Kerschner, R. Junod, L. K. Davis, E. N. Wiziecki, T. Daley, and H. Gadde

P2.5

Variational retrieval of raindrop size distribution from polarimetric radar data in presence of attenuation

Qing Cao, University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK; and G. Zhang and M. Xue

Poster PDF (2.5 MB)

P2.6

Automatic clutter mitigation in the WSR-88D, integration and evaluation

Richard L. Ice, Air Force Weather Agency, Norman, OK; and R. D. Rhoton, J. C. Krause, D. S. Saxion, O. E. Boydstun, A. K. Heck, J. N. Chrisman, D. S. Berkowitz, W. D. Zittel, and D. A. Warde

P2.7

A Technique for Real-time Visualization of Meteorological Radar

Kenneth H. Bergeron, EW Radar, Saint Louis, MO

P2.8

Simulations of Polarimetric Radar Signals Based on Numerical Weather Prediction Model Output

Lei Lei, University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK; and G. Zhang, B. L. Cheong, and R. D. Palmer

Poster PDF (602.7 kB)

P2.9

Evaluating multi-radar, multi-sensor hail diagnosis with high resolution hail reports

Christopher J. Wilson, CAPS/Univ. of Oklahoma, Stronghurst, IL; and K. L. Ortega and V. Lakshmanan

Poster PDF (553.1 kB)

P2.10

Evaluation of a multi-scale storm-tracking technique

Brett Roberts, CIMMS/Univ. of Oklahoma and NOAA/NSSL, Norman, OK; and V. Lakshmanan and T. M. Smith

P2.11

Urban observations available from MADIS

Michael F. Barth, NOAA/ESRL/GSD, Boulder, CO; and P. A. Miller and L. A. Benjamin

P2.12

Development of a Real-time Dynamic and Adaptive Nowcasting System

E. Ruzanski, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO; and Y. Wang and V. Chandrasekar

Poster PDF (338.8 kB)

Poster Session 2

Observing Systems

Location: Hall 5 (Phoenix Convention Center)

Sponsor: 13th Conference on Integrated Observing and Assimilation Systems for Atmosphere, Oceans, and Land Surface (IOAS-AOLS)

Chair: Shirley T. Murillo, NOAA/AOML/HRD

Papers:

P2.1

Improved forecast skill using pseudo-observations in the NCEP GFS

Jordan C. Alpert, NOAA/NWS/NCEP, Camp Springs, MD; and D. Carlis, B. Ballish, and K. Kumar

Poster PDF (1.5 MB)

P2.2

The Field Systems Operations Center ASOS Dataset Library

Chester V. Schmitt IV, NOAA/NWS, Silver Spring, MD

Poster PDF (21.6 kB)

P2.3

Performance of drop-counting rain gauges in an operational environment

P. W. Chan, Hong Kong Observatory, Hong Kong, China; and C. M. Li

Poster PDF (349.3 kB)

P2.4

Near-global, interannual validation of AIRS temperature and water vapor retrievals using dedicated radiosondes

Eric J. Fetzer, JPL, Pasadena, CA; and F. W. Irion and V. T. Dang

P2.5

Observations of snow particle size distribution with 2-D video disdrometer and polarimetric radar

Sean Luchs, University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK; and G. Zhang, A. V. Ryzhkov, M. Xue, L. Ryzhkova, and Q. Cao

Poster PDF (191.1 kB)

P2.6

COSMIC GPS radio occultation: neural networks for tropospheric profiling over the intertropical ocean area

Fabrizio Pelliccia, Università degli Studi di Perugia, Perugia, Italy; and S. Bonafoni, P. Basili, N. Pierdicca, V. De Cosmo, and P. Ciotti

Poster PDF (93.1 kB)

P2.7

A study of precipitation microphysics using S- and X- band polarimetric radar and disdrometer measurements

Petar Bukovcic, University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK; and D. S. Zrnic, G. Zhang, and Q. Cao

Poster PDF (540.0 kB)

P2.8

Short and Long Period Oscillations in the Middle and Upper Atmosphere

Veena Suresh Babu, Indian Space Research Organization, Trivandrum, Kerala, India; and G. Ramkumar, L. Jose, and S. Raveendran

P2.9

Retrieving In-Cloud Vertical Profiles of the Atmospheric State from COSMIC GPS RO Data

P2.10

The proposed replacement of Liquid in Glass thermometers by digital technology in Canadian meteorological networks

Tomasz Stapf, MSC, Toronto, ON, Canada

Poster PDF (659.8 kB)

P2.11

Comparison of Water Vapor Measurements from Ground-based and Space-based GPS Atmospheric Remote Sensing Techniques

Ian C. Colon-Pagan, UCAR, Boulder, CO; and B. Kuo, W. S. Schreiner, D. C. Hunt, and J. J. Braun

P2.12

Assessing sensitivities of radiative fluxes to recent meteorological assimilations from the NASA/GEWEX Surface Radiation Budget (SRB) Release-3.0 dataset

P2.13

Assimilation of radiosonde-based vertical wind patterns to improve realtime wind profiler retrievals

Young Yee, Mkey Technologies, LLC, Las Cruces, NM; and E. Yee

Poster PDF (206.0 kB)

P2.14

(Formerly 12A.2) Mean Sea Level Pressure Reduction in Canada and the Correction for Plateau Effect and Local Lapse Rate Anomaly: Ferrel versus Bigelow

Christopher Andrew Hampel, MSC, Toronto, ON, Canada

Poster PDF (1.3 MB)

Poster Session 3

Advances in Data Assimilation Techniques and Their Applications to Land Surface State and Parameter Estimation in Hydrology

Location: Hall 5 (Phoenix Convention Center)

Sponsor: 23rd Conference on Hydrology

Chair: Susan C. Steele-Dunne, TU Delft

Papers:

P3.1

Bias Reduction to Satellite Retrieved Soil Moisture in Land Data Assimilation

Yan Luo, Center for Research on Environment and Water, Calverton, MD; and G. J. M. De Lannoy, P. Houser, and X. Zhan

P3.2

Using high resolution land data assimilation system to improve prediction of soil temperature and moisture for agriculture application prediction of soil temperature and moisture for agriculture applicationUsing high Resol System to Improve Prediction of Soil Temperature and Moisture for Agriculture Application

Ying Zhang, NCAR, Boulder, CO; and F. Chen, W. Myers, K. W. Manning, and S. Linden

P3.3

Probabilistic prediction of recharge under future climate change scenarios

Gene-Hua Crystal Ng, MIT, Cambridge, MA; and D. McLaughlin, D. Entekhabi, and B. R. Scanlon

P3.4

Accounting for temporal variation of hydraulic conductivity in the calibration of a distributed hydrologic model

Heather Moser, CIMMS/Univ. of Oklahoma, Norman, OK; and J. J. Gourley and Y. Hong

Poster PDF (430.0 kB)

P3.5

Assimilation of microwave scatterometer observations to estimate soil moisture in West Africa

Jair Smits, Technical University of Delft, Delft, Netherlands; and M. M. Rutten, S. C. Steele-Dunne, and N. van de Giesen

P3.6

Quantitative precipitation estimates by the gauge network and high-resolution ensemble forecasts using the SMTAS technique

Huiling Yuan, CIRES, University of Colorado and NOAA/ESRL/GSD, Boulder, CO; and W. Li, Y. Xie, J. A. McGinley, E. I. Tollerud, and R. S. Collander

Poster Session 4

POSTERS: Small-Scale Studies

Location: Hall 5 (Phoenix Convention Center)

Sponsor: 16th Conference on Air-Sea Interaction

Papers:

P4.1

A synoptic description of surface currents and winds at the Delaware Bay mouth

Philip A. Muscarella, College of Marine and Earth Studies, University of Delaware, Newark, DE; and N. P. Barton, B. L. Lipphardt, Jr., D. E. Veron, K. C. Wong, and A. D. Kirwan, Jr.

P4.2

Satellite and in situ observations of marine boundary layer adjustment to an unstable-to-stable stratification transition

Ralph C. Foster, APL/Univ. of Washington, Seattle, WA; and D. Vandemark, H. Stern, L. Mahrt, D. Vickers, W. M. Drennan, D. G. Long, P. Vachon, and P. Mourad

Poster PDF (1.0 MB)

P4.3

Forecast Challenges and Lessons from the 2008 Saint Patrick's Day Super Swell

Mark Willis, NOAA/NWS, Bohemia, NY; and K. Korte and J. Elardo

Poster PDF (1.4 MB)

P4.4

The Development of a Coastal Flood Nomogram for South Coastal Maine and the Seacoast of New Hampshire

P4.5

Oceanic whitecap coverage measured during UK-SOLAS cruises

Ben I. Moat, National Oceanography Centre, Southampton, United Kingdom; and M. J. Yelland and R. W. Pascal

Poster PDF (114.5 kB)

P4.6

The lake-atmosphere turbulent exchanges (LATEX) field measurement campaign

Elie Bou-Zeid, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ; and N. Vercauteren, U. Lemmin, H. Huwald, and M. B. Parlange

P4.7

High Wind Air-Sea Exchanges (HiWASE) - initial turbulent flux results from Station Mike

John Prytherch, National Oceanography Centre, Southampton, United Kingdom; and M. J. Yelland, R. W. Pascal, P. Taylor, B. I. Moat, I. Skjelvan, and C. Neill

http://www.noc.soton.ac.uk/ooc/CRUISES/HiWASE/index.php

Poster PDF (2.9 MB)

P4.8

Ship-borne Ozone Flux Measurements during GasExIII 2008

Ludovic Bariteau, CIRES, University of Colorado, and NOAA ESRL, Boulder, Colorado; and E. K. Lang, D. Helmig, C. W. Fairall, J. E. Hare, L. Ganzveld, and J. Hueber

Poster PDF (1.5 MB)

Poster Session 4

Remote Sensing of High-Impact Hydrometeorological Events

Location: Hall 5 (Phoenix Convention Center)

Sponsor: 23rd Conference on Hydrology

Chair: Robert J. Kuligowski, NOAA/NESDIS

Papers:

P4.1

GPS precipitable water mapping using RUC station pressures

James D. Means, SIO/Univ. Of California, La Jolla, CA; and D. R. Cayan

Poster PDF (519.7 kB)

P4.2

An operational assessment of the MODIS false color composite with the Great Falls, Montana National Weather Service

Gina Loss, NOAA/NWS, Great Falls, MT; and D. Bernhardt, K. K. Fuell, and G. T. Stano

Poster PDF (651.6 kB)

P4.3

Characteristics of warm season TRMM Precipitation Features over the eastern China

Yali Luo, Chinese Academy of Meteorological Sciences, Beijing, , China; and H. Wang and R. Zhang

Joint Poster Session 5

Climate

Location: Hall 5 (Phoenix Convention Center)

Sponsors: (Joint between the 16th Conference on Satellite Meteorology and Oceanography; and the Fifth Annual Symposium on Future Operational Environmental Satellite Systems- NPOESS and GOES-R )

Cochairs: Mitchell D. Goldberg, NOAA/NESDIS/ORA; Deborah K. Smith, Remote Sensing Systems

Papers:

JP5.1

A radar enhanced passive microwave rainfall algorithm (GPROF2008)

Christian D. Kummerow, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO; and S. Finn, J. Crook, and D. Randel

JP5.2

Exploration of Meteorology and Oceanography Data for Climate Monitoring and Studies through Giovanni

Suhung Shen, George Mason Univ., NASA/GSFC, Greenbelt, MD; and G. G. Leptoukh, H. Rui, J. Pan, S. Berrick, and S. J. Kempler

JP5.3

Monitoring of IR Clear-sky Radiances over Oceans for SST (MICROS): Near-Real Time, Web-Based Tool for Monitoring CRTM—AVHRR Biases for Improved Cloud Mask and SST Retrievals

XingMing Liang, NOAA/NESDIS, Camp Springs, MD; and A. Ignatov, Y. Kihai, and F. Xu

Poster PDF (960.4 kB)

JP5.4

Validation of improved broadband shortwave and longwave fluxes derived from GOES

Mandana Khaiyer, SSAI, Hampton, VA ; and P. Minnis, D. R. Doelling, M. L. Nordeen, R. Palikonda, and Y. Yi

Poster PDF (502.5 kB)

JP5.5

Seven year analysis of global aerosol radiative forcing over land using satellite measurements

Falguni Patadia, Univ. of Alabama, Huntsville, AL; and S. Christopher

JP5.6

Evaluating global annual atmospheric energy balance using satellite products

Bing Lin, NASA/LaRC, Hampton, VA; and P. W. Stackhouse Jr., Y. X. Hu, P. Minnis, B. A. Wielicki, W. Sun, A. Fan, and L. M. Hinkelman

JP5.7

Possible solar influences observed in GOES and MODIS total precipitable water product data

Daniel Birkenheuer, NOAA/ESRL, Boulder, CO; and S. Gutman, S. Sahm, and K. Holub

Poster PDF (1.4 MB)

JP5.8

Intercalibration of the world's geostationary imagers with high spectral resolution data

Mathew M. Gunshor, CIMSS/Univ. of Wisconsin, Madison, WI; and T. J. Schmit, D. C. Tobin, and P. Menzel

JP5.9

Recent improvements in the HIRS outgoing longwave radiation climate data record

Hai-Tien Lee, University of Maryland, College Park, MD; and A. Gruber

JP5.10

NOAA 9 wide-field-of-view radiometer data record

G. Louis Smith, National Institute of Aerospace, Hampton, VA; and T. Wong and R. B. Lee III

Poster PDF (699.3 kB)

JP5.11

Eight Years of AMSU Derived Climate Products

JP5.12

An SSM/I—SSMI/S Application for Climate Research: the Extension of Hydrological Products Climate Records

Daniel A. Vila, Earth System Science Interdisciplinary Center, College Park, MD; and R. R. Ferraro, J. F. Turk, and F. Weng

JP5.13

NetCDF SSM/I data publicly available: an improved and extended period of record

Hilawe Semunegus, NOAA/NESDIS/NCDC, Asheville, NC; and J. J. Bates

Poster PDF (72.4 kB)

JP5.14

The NVAP global water vapor climate data record: science results and plans for improvement and continuation

T. H. Vonder Haar, CIRA/Colorado State Univ., Fort Collins, CO; and J. M. Forsythe

Poster PDF (523.6 kB)

JP5.15

Characterization of a regional wind using SSM/I and QuikSCAT data

Deborah K. Smith, Remote Sensing Systems, Santa Rosa, CA; and K. Hilburn and F. J. Wentz

Poster PDF (862.8 kB)

JP5.16

Area rain flagging: What is it and why is it necessary when using satellite microwave data?

Deborah K. Smith, Remote Sensing Systems, Santa Rosa, CA; and K. Hilburn and F. Wentz

Poster PDF (267.3 kB)

JP5.17

Regional satellite climatologies for Central America from GOES

Bernadette H. Connell, CIRA/Colorado State Univ., Ft. Collins, CO; and L. G. Guirola

JP5.18

Statistical Structure of the Global Ocean Surface Current Speeds from Satellite Altimetry

Peter C. Chu, NPS, Monterey, CA

Poster PDF (354.1 kB)

JP5.19

Hurricane reanalysis using Hurricane Satellite (HURSAT) AVHRR data

JP5.20

New Results from FLASHFlux: A Case Study of the Observed Radiative Anomalies In the Arctic for 2007 and 2008 Summer Seasons

Paul W. Stackhouse Jr., NASA/LRC, Hampton, VA; and S. Kato, D. P. Kratz, S. K. Gupta, A. C. Edwards, and A. C. Wilber

JP5.21

The Response of Arctic Clouds to Surface Changes

Yinghui Liu, CIMSS/Univ. of Wisconsin, Madison, WI; and J. Key, X. Wang Sr., B. Maddux, and S. Ackerman

JP5.22

Long term spatial and temporal variation of vegetation associated with desertification over East Asia and its relation to climate variables

JP5.23

Cloud regime determined by reflectivities of Cloud Profiling Radar

Yong-Keun Lee, CIMSS/Univ. of Wisconsin, Madison, WI; and T. Greenwald and H. L. Huang

JP5.24

Quality assurance of GOES-R climate data

JP5.25

A New El Nino Atmospheric Perspective via GPS Radio Occultation

Ana L. Kursinski, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ; and M. Evans, C. O. Ao, and E. R. Kursinski

Poster Session 5

Climate trends and extremes

Location: Hall 5 (Phoenix Convention Center)

Sponsor: 21st Conference on Climate Variability and Change

Papers:

P5.4 has been moved to new paper 8B.6A

P5.1

Climate change in the sub-antarctic: an illustration from Heard Island

Harvey Stern, Bureau of Meteorology, Melbourne, Vic., Australia

http://www.weather-climate.com

Poster PDF (456.1 kB)

P5.2

Comparison of precipitation change estimates across the U.S. - Canadian border

Pavel Ya. Groisman, NOAA/NESDIS/NCDC, Asheville, NC; and R. W. Knight and D. R. Easterling

Poster PDF (1.5 MB)

P5.3

Trends in the variability of daily high temperatures in the Southeast

Walter Martin, Univ. of North Carolina, Charlotte, NC; and T. Hoffman, C. Helm, and C. Fugle

P5.5

Variations and trends in extreme cold airmasses over northern North America

Isaac E. Hankes, University of Illinois, Urbana, IL; and J. E. Walsh

P5.6

Perspectives on temperature trends and variability from the first U.S. climate reference network stations

Anthony Arguez, NOAA/NESDIS/NCDC, Asheville, NC; and J. H. Lawrimore

Poster PDF (32.4 kB)

P5.7

Analysis of expected change of extreme climate indices in the Carpathian basin by 2071-2100

Rita Pongrácz, Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest, Hungary; and J. Bartholy and P. Szabó

Poster PDF (304.7 kB)

P5.8

Changes in freezing rain patterns in the South Central United States

Timothy A. Bonin, National Weather Center Research Experience for Undergraduates, Valparaiso, IN; and D. S. Arndt

Poster PDF (546.0 kB)

P5.9

Tornado frequency and its large-scale environments over Ontario, Canada

Zuohao Cao, EC, Toronto, ON, Canada; and H. Cai

http://extended abstract

Poster PDF (162.3 kB)

P5.10

An examination of the long-term variability of frost-free season in the Contiguous United States

Jose Maliekal, The College at Brockport, Brockport, NY; and N. Damyanov

P5.11

The exponential increase in anthropogenic atmospheric carbon dioxide and its relation to human population growth

David J. Hofmann, NOAA/ESRL, Boulder, CO

Poster PDF (167.4 kB)

Joint Poster Session 5

Modeling Tools for Urban and Complex Terrain Environments Including Energy Applications—Posters

Location: Hall 5 (Phoenix Convention Center)

Sponsors: (Joint between the Eighth Symposium on the Urban Environment; and the The Energy Committee )

Papers:

JP5.3 has been moved. New paper number J22.1A

JP5.1

A WRF and MM5-based weather analysis and forecasting system for supporting wind energy prediction

Yubao Liu, NCAR, Boulder, CO; and T. Warner, F. Chen, W. Wu, and S. P. Swerdlin

JP5.2

Improved large-eddy simulation over complex terrain using the Weather Research and Forecasting model

Jeffrey D. Mirocha, LLNL, Livermore, CA; and J. K. Lundquist, B. Kosovic, and F. K. Chow

JP5.4

Application of an operational meso-scale modelling system for commercial/industrial plant operations

Anthony P. Praino, IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center, Yorktown Heights, NY; and L. A. Treinish

JP5.5

Advances in AERMOD for urban and complex terrain applications

Roger W. Brode, EPA/OAQPS/AQAD/AQMG, Research Triangle Park, NC

JP5.6

Statistical relationships between temperature and electricity load forecasts for New York City and State

Eric E. Wertz, MDA Earthsat Weather, Gaithersburg, MD; and A. A. Small, III and G. S. Young

Poster Session 5

Validation of Remotely-Sensed Hydrometeorological Observations

Location: Hall 5 (Phoenix Convention Center)

Sponsor: 23rd Conference on Hydrology

Chair: Robert J. Kuligowski, NOAA/NESDIS

Papers:

P5.1

Enhancement of the MODIS Daily Snow Albedo Product

Dorothy K. Hall, NASA, Greenbelt, MD; and C. B. Schaaf and G. A. Riggs

Poster PDF (280.7 kB)

P5.2

Intercomparison of the relationship between precipitation and mountain heights among gridded precipitation datasets

Osamu Arakawa, MRI, Tsukuba, Ibaraki, Japan; and K. Kamiguchi and A. Kitoh

P5.3

Reexamining convective/stratiform classification of TRMM ground validation radar data

David S. Silberstein, NASA/GSFC and SSAI, Greenbelt, MD; and D. B. Wolff, D. A. Marks, and J. L. Pippitt

P5.4

Efficiency of a simple split-window for land surface temperature estimation using MODIS products

Juarez Dantas de Souza, State University of Paraíba, Campina Grande, PA, Brazil; and B. B. D. Silva and J. C. Ceballos

Poster PDF (302.9 kB)

P5.5

Satellite-derived precipitation: Its validation and integration with weather radar and raingauge data in applications for the south of Brazil

P5.6

Integrated water vapor retrieved from sky radiometer measurements with aid of microwave radiometer and radiosonde estimates of water vapor

Joint Poster Session 6

Improvements to NWP and Short-term Forecasting

Location: Hall 5 (Phoenix Convention Center)

Sponsors: (Joint between the 16th Conference on Satellite Meteorology and Oceanography; and the Fifth Annual Symposium on Future Operational Environmental Satellite Systems- NPOESS and GOES-R )

Cochairs: Nancy Baker, NRL; Lars Peter Riishojgaard, JCSDA

Papers:

JP6.17 has been moved to Poster Session II in IIPS

JP6.1

Observation-based, Probabilistic Cloud Forecasting

JP6.2

Impact results from the 3D-var assimilation of cloudy hyperspectral infrared radiances

JP6.3

Using satellite and in situ data to evaluate snow albedo schemes in weather and climate models

Zhuo Wang, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ ; and X. Zeng

Poster PDF (115.1 kB)

JP6.4

Nowcasting Algorithms: A Ground Validation Approach using SEVIRI Data

Daniel A. Vila, Earth System Science Interdisciplinary Center, College Park, MD; and R. J. Kuligowski

JP6.5

Microphysics schemes based on DSD-parameter constraints and their impact on convective storm forecasts

Charlotte E. Wainwright, CAPS/Univ. of Oklahoma, Norman, OK; and M. Xue, G. Zhang, and D. T. Dawson II

Poster PDF (203.7 kB)

JP6.6

Applications of FY-3A Sounding Data in NOAA Weather and Climate Research

Fuzhong Weng, NOAA/NESDIS, Camp Springs, MD; and N. Lu and P. Zhang

JP6.7

Microwave Radiative Transfer at the Sub-Field-of-View

Thomas J. Kleespies, NOAA/NESDIS, Camp Springs, MD

Poster PDF (132.5 kB)

JP6.8

Hourly Analyses with NAVDAS 3DVAR System for COAMPS-OS

JP6.9

Recent developments in the Canadian Operational Network of Coupled Environmental PredicTion Systems (CONCEPTS)

Harold Ritchie, Environment Canada, Dartmouth, NS, Canada; and F. Davidson, G. M. Flato, Y. Lu, P. Pellerin, W. Renaud, M. Taillefer, K. Thompson, B. Topliss, and D. Wright

JP6.10

Upper-air forecast improvement utilizing radiance bias correction algorithms that account for forecast model bias

Young-Joon Kim, NRL, Monterey, CA; and W. F. Campbell and S. D. Swadley

JP6.11

Data assimilation and regional forecasts using Atmospheric InfraRed Sounder (AIRS) profiles

Shih-Hung Chou, NASA/MSFC, Huntsville, AL; and B. Zavodsky and G. J. Jedlovec

Poster PDF (1.1 MB)

JP6.12

Microburst windspeed potential assessment: progress and developments

Kenneth L. Pryor, NOAA/NESDIS, Camp Springs, MD

http://arxiv.org/abs/0810.1622

Poster PDF (1.4 MB)

JP6.13

Using satellite observations to validate a large-scale high-resolution WRF model simulation

Jason Otkin, CIMSS/Univ. of Wisconsin, Madison, WI; and J. Sieglaff, T. Greenwald, and Y. K. Lee

JP6.14

Calibrating probabilistic multimodel ensemble pentad and weekly precipitation forecasts: a comparison of techniques

Dan C. Collins, NOAA/NWS/NCEP/CPC, Camp Springs, MD; and T. M. Hopson and D. A. Unger

JP6.15

An operational mesoscale ensemble data assimilation and prediction system: E-RTFDDA

Yubao Liu, NCAR, Boulder, CO; and G. Roux, M. Xu, T. Hopson, J. Hacker, J. Knievel, T. Warner, and S. Swerdlin

JP6.16

Global capability for AFWA's Diagnostic Cloud Forecast system

John M. Henderson, AER, Lexington, MA; and T. Nehrkorn, J. B. Eylander, and C. Carlson

Poster PDF (208.3 kB)

JP6.18

A technique for creating composite sea surface temperatures from NASA's MODIS instruments in order to improve numerical weather prediction

JP6.19

A robust neural network ensemble approach for snowfall detection using AMSU data

Yajaira Mejia, NOAA/CREST at City College of New York, New York, NY; and H. Ghedira and D. R. Khanbilvardi

JP6.20

Impact of atmospheric infrared sounder (AIRS) and QuickSCAT satellite data on numerical simulations of tropical cyclone intensity changes

Zhaoxia Pu, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT; and L. Zhang

JP6.21

Sensitivity of short-term weather forecasts to assimilated AIRS data: Implications for NPOESS applications

Bradley T. Zavodsky, University of Alabama, Huntsville, AL; and W. McCarty, S. H. Chou, and G. J. Jedlovec

JP6.22

An observing system simulation experiment to evaluate CrIS / ATMS observations in modeling a mesoscale weather event

Christopher M. Hill, Mississippi State Univ., Stennis Space Center, MS; and P. J. Fitzpatrick, X. Fan, V. Anantharaj, M. Masutani, L. P. Riishojgaard, and Y. Li

JP6.23

Assimilation of simulated GOES-R imager data in a generalized cloud analysis package within the hourly updated Rapid Refresh

Stanley G. Benjamin, NOAA/ESRL/GSD, Boulder, CO; and S. S. Weygandt, M. Hu, and D. Devenyi

JP6.24

Atmospheric Sounding Under Cloudy Atmospheric Conditions

Xu Liu, NASA/LaRC, Hampton, VA; and D. Zhou, A. Larar, W. L. Smith Sr., P. Schluessel, S. A. Mango, and K. St. Germain

JP6.25

Improvements and plans for global and regional numerical weather prediction

JP6.26

Evaluation of prediction with GOES radiance data assimilation in the WRF-ARW model over East Asia

Jianjun Xu, JCSDA/UCAR/AFWA, Camp Springs, MD; and S. Rugg

Poster Session 6

Seasonal-interannual variability

Location: Hall 5 (Phoenix Convention Center)

Sponsor: 21st Conference on Climate Variability and Change

Papers:

P6.1

Surface energy budget and boundary layer cloud development over the United States Mid-Atlantic region

Cassie A. Stearns, Howard University, Beltsville, MD; and E. L. Joseph, J. D. Fuentes, M. L. Robjhon, G. A. Davis, M. Adam, and T. Dejene

P6.2

Climatic Variability and Its Trend Over Different Regions of Bangladesh

Mohammad Shohrab Hossain Sarker, vrije Universiteit Brussel Belgium, London, United Kingdom

P6.3

Northward propagation of the subseasonal variability over the eastern Pacific warm pool

Xianan Jiang, JIFRESSE/UCLA and JPL/Caltech, Pasadena, CA; and D. E. Waliser

P6.4

A climatology of apparent temperature

Peter A. Browning, NOAA/NWS, Kansas City, MO; and B. P. Walawender

Poster PDF (2.7 MB)

P6.5

Seasonal variation of the atmospheric component of the Pacific Decadal Oscillation

Catrin M. Mills, Univ. of Illinois, Urbana, IL; and J. E. Walsh

P6.6

Diurnal and seasonal wind variability for selected stations in central and northern california climate regions

Charles J. Fisk, Naval Base Ventura County, Point Mugu, CA

Poster PDF (2.7 MB)

Joint Poster Session 7

Natural Hazards

Location: Hall 5 (Phoenix Convention Center)

Sponsors: (Joint between the 16th Conference on Satellite Meteorology and Oceanography; and the Fifth Annual Symposium on Future Operational Environmental Satellite Systems- NPOESS and GOES-R )

Cochairs: Wayne F. Feltz, CIMSS/University of Wisconsin; Brian Hughes, NOAA/NESDIS

Papers:

JP7.1

Atmospheric instability and airmass parameters derived from MSG data using temperature and humidity information from IASI on Metop-A

JP7.2

Ongoing enhancements to satellite nowcasting of 0-1 hour convective initiation

John R. Mecikalski, University of Alabama, Huntsville, AL; and W. M. MacKenzie Jr., J. R. Walker, and C. Siewert

JP7.3

A new product to help forecast convective initiation in the 1-6 hour timeframe

John R. Walker, University of Alabama, Huntsville, AL; and J. R. Mecikalski and W. M. MacKenzie Jr.

JP7.4

Optimizing the impact of GOES sounder products in very—short—range forecasts—recent results and future plans

Ralph A. Petersen, CIMSS/University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI; and R. M. Aune

JP7.5

Development of objective overshooting top and anvil temperature couplet detection algorithms for GOES-R ABI

Kristopher M. Bedka, CIMSS/Univ. of Wisconsin, Madison, WI; and J. C. Brunner and W. F. Feltz

JP7.6

Cloud model based interpretation of satellite observed IR features of enhanced-V and cold ring on top of severe thunderstorms

Pao K. Wang, Univ. of Wisconsin, Madison, WI; and M. Setvak, R. Rabin, and A. S. Bachmeier

JP7.7

Using geostationary imagers for convective and lightning initiation nowcasting

Justin Sieglaff, CIMSS/Univ. of Wisconsin, Madison, WI; and K. M. Bedka, W. F. Feltz, and M. J. Pavolonis

JP7.8

An Evaluation of a Convection Diagnosis Algorithm over the Gulf of Mexico Using NASA TRMM Observations

Michael Donovan, MIT, Lexington, MA; and E. R. Williams, C. Kessinger, N. Rehak, H. Cai, D. L. Megenhardt, R. L. Bankert, and J. D. Hawkins

Poster PDF (1.1 MB)

JP7.9

WF_ABBA Version 6.5: An overview of the improvements and trend analyses of fires from 1995 to present over the western Hemisphere

Jason C. Brunner, CIMSS/Univ. of Wisconsin, Madison, WI; and C. C. Schmidt, E. M. Prins, J. M. Feltz, J. P. Hoffman, and S. S. Lindstrom

JP7.10

Recent WF_ABBA fire detection and characterization algorithm validation efforts at CIMSS

Jay P. Hoffman, CIMSS/Univ. of Wisconsin, Madison, WI; and C. C. Schmidt, E. M. Prins, S. S. Lindstrom, and J. C. Brunner

JP7.11

The Tropical Cyclone Structure (TCS-08) near real-time and science studies satellite product suite

Jeffrey D. Hawkins, NRL, Monterey, CA; and F. J. Turk, K. Richardson, R. Bankert, C. Mitrescu, C. Velden, D. C. Herndon, A. Wimmers, T. Olander, S. D. Miller, and J. E. Kent

Poster PDF (376.7 kB)

JP7.12

Propagating patterns in 6.7 µm imagery in re-intensifying tropical-to extratropical cyclone transitions

JP7.13

Tropical cyclone applications of NPOESS and GOES-R

Mark DeMaria, NOAA/NESDIS, Fort Collins, CO

JP7.14

Unusual droughts around the globe in the new millennium detected and monitored from NOAA operational satellites

Felix Kogan, NOAA/NESDIS, Camp Springs, MD

JP7.15

The NOAA/NESDIS OMI volcanic SO2 cloud and Aerosol Index online, near-real-time distribution system

Gilberto A. Vicente, NOAA, Camp Springs, MD; and G. Serafino, A. Krueger, S. Carn, K. Yang, N. Krotkov, M. Guffanti, and P. Levell

http://satepsanone.nesdis.noaa.gov/pub/OMI/OMISO2/index.html

JP7.16

Development and application of an automated atmospheric river detection procedure using passive microwave satellite data

Gary A. Wick, NOAA/ESRL/PSD, Boulder, CO

JP7.17

Nowcasting aircraft turbulence from tropopause folds operationally for GOES-R

Anthony Wimmers, CIMSS/Univ. of Wisconsin, Madison, WI; and W. Feltz

Joint Poster Session 8

Operational Products and Transition from Research to Operations

Location: Hall 5 (Phoenix Convention Center)

Sponsors: (Joint between the 16th Conference on Satellite Meteorology and Oceanography; and the Fifth Annual Symposium on Future Operational Environmental Satellite Systems- NPOESS and GOES-R )

Cochairs: Christopher Velden, CIMSS/Univ. of Wisconsin; Jeffrey Hawkins, NRL

Papers:

JP8.4 has been moved. New paper number J2.3A

JP8.1

Web-based global quality control and monitoring of NESDIS AVHRR SST products for long term stability and cross-platform consistency in near real-time

Prasanjit Dash, NOAA, Camp Springs, MD; and A. Ignatov, Y. Kihai, J. Sapper, and X. Liang

http://www.star.nesdis.noaa.gov/sod/sst/squam/

Poster PDF (1.1 MB)

JP8.2

Assessment of objective satellite-based techniques as viable alternatives to subjective dvorak

Alan Schwartz, NOAA/NESDIS, Camp Springs, MD; and M. Spampata, G. M. Gallina, and M. A. Turk

JP8.3

Estimating hurricane strength using multiple integrated satellite data sources

Christopher S. Velden, CIMSS/Univ. of Wisconsin, Madison, WI; and D. C. Herndon, T. Olander, and A. Wimmers

JP8.5

Operational multi-satellite sea surface temperature analysis

Eileen Maturi, NOAA, Camp Springs, MD; and A. Harris and J. Sapper

JP8.6

Combined MODIS / AMSR-E composite SST data for regional weather applications

Gary J. Jedlovec, NASA/MSFC, Huntsville, AL; and J. Vazquez, E. Armstrong, and S. L. Haines

Poster PDF (194.4 kB)

JP8.7

GOES winter precipitation efficiency algorithm

Robert Rabin, NOAA / NSSL & Univ of Wisconsin / CIMSS, Madison, WI; and D. A. Sheffler and J. W. Hanna

JP8.8

Application of MODIS Data to Land Surface Modeling Systems as part of an Agricultural Decision Support System

JP8.9

NOAA-generated operational products available from the MetOp satellite

Stacy L. Bunin, Noblis, Falls Church, VA; and T. Schott

Poster PDF (247.3 kB)

JP8.10

Examining MODIS-derived aerosol optical thickness over the land vs ocean using AERONET measurements over East Asia

JP8.11

Cluster satellite processing at the Naval Research Laboratory

Kim Richardson, NRL, Monterey, CA; and R. Manzano, F. J. Turk, S. D. Miller, J. D. Hawkins, and C. Mitrescu

JP8.12

Increasing the land coverage of blended multisensor total precipitable water products for weather analysis

John Forsythe, CIRA/Colorado State Univ., Fort Collins, CO; and S. Kidder, S. Kusselson, A. S. Jones, and T. H. Vonder Haar

Formal Poster Viewing with Coffee Break

Location: Hall 5 (Phoenix Convention Center)

Joint Poster Session 6

Dispersion and Air Quality in Cities—Poster Session (Joint with the Meteorological Aspects of Air Pollution Committee)

Location: Hall 5 (Phoenix Convention Center)

Sponsor: Eighth Symposium on the Urban Environment

Papers:

JP6.1

A Weekend Effect in Diurnal Temperature Range and its Association with Aerosol Radiative Effects in Korea

Byung-Gon Kim, Kangnung National University, Gangnung, South Korea; and Y. J. Kim, S. H. Eun, and M. H. Choi

JP6.2

Computational Fluid Dynamics Simulation of Flow and Gas Diffusion in the Recirculation cavity behind an Isolated Building

Mohamed F. Yassin, Department of Environmental Technology Management, Kuwait, Safat , Kuwait

JP6.3

Plume Rise and Ground-Level Concentration of Emission from a Distributed Power Generation Unit: Field Observations and Water Channel Modeling

Xiangyi Li, University of California at Riverside, Riverside, CA; and S. Chen, M. Princevac, A. Venkatram, D. Pankratz, and C. Bartolome

Poster PDF (847.9 kB)

JP6.4

Evaluation of an Urban Vegetative Canopy Scheme and Impact on Plume Dispersion

Matthew A. Nelson, LANL, Los Alamos, NM; and M. D. Williams, D. Zajic, E. R. Pardyjak, and M. J. Brown

Poster PDF (644.9 kB)

JP6.5

Urban transport & dispersion model sensitivity to wind direction and source location

Luna M. Rodriguez, Penn State Univ., University Park, PA; and P. Bieringer

JP6.6

Meteorological, photochemical, and radiative-forcing feedback modeling of emission and anthropogenic heating reductions in the greater Portland OR region

Panel Discussion 2

Tech Tools and Tips

Location: Room 132A (Phoenix Convention Center)

Sponsor: 12th Conference of Atmospheric Science Librarians International

Moderator: Linda Musser, Librarian, Penn State Univ.

Panelists: Gloria Aversano, NOAA Miami Regional Library; Anita Colby, Librarian, UCLA Science and Engineering Library; Linda Musser, Librarian, Penn State Univ.

Papers:

3:00 PM

PD2.1

Penn State University

Linda Musser, Librarian, Penn State Univ., State College, PA

3:15 PM

PD2.2

Miami Regional Library

Gloria Aversano, NOAA Miami Regional Library, Miami, FL

3:30 PM

PD2.3

UCLA Science and Engineering Library

Anita Colby, Librarian, UCLA Science and Engineering Library, Los Angeles, CA

3:45 PM

PD2.4

Google

Gene Major, Global Change Master Directory, SSAI, Lanham, MD

Discussion and Questions Period for the Panel on Managing Digital Materials

Location: Room 132A (Phoenix Convention Center)

ASLI Sessions end for the day

11B

Atmospheric Observations for Weather and Climate: COSMIC—IV

Location: Room 131C (Phoenix Convention Center)

Sponsor: 13th Conference on Integrated Observing and Assimilation Systems for Atmosphere, Oceans, and Land Surface (IOAS-AOLS)

Chair: Christian Rocken, UCAR

Papers:

4:00 PM

11B.1

Estimating the Uncertainty of using GPS Radio Occultation Data for Climate Monitoring: Inter-comparison of CHAMP Refractivity Climate Records 2002-2006 from Different Data Centers

Shu-peng Ho, NCAR, Boulder, CO; and G. Kirchengast, S. S. Leroy, J. Wickert, A. J. Mannucci, A. Steiner, Y. H. Kuo, C. Rocken, D. C. Hunt, W. S. Schreiner, and S. Sokolovskiy

11B.2

Algorithms for planetary boundary layer height determination from GPS radio occultation data

4:30 PM

11B.3

Ionospheric Errors in COSMIC Radio Occultation Profiles

Christian Rocken, UCAR, Boulder, CO; and W. Schreiner, S. Sokolovskiy, and D. Hunt

Recorded presentation

Joint Session 5

Geographic Effects on Urban Weather and Climate

Location: Room 126A (Phoenix Convention Center)

Sponsors: (Joint between the Eighth Conference on Coastal Atmospheric and Oceanic Prediction and Processes; the Timothy R. Oke Symposium; the 21st Conference on Climate Variability and Change; the Fourth Symposium on Policy and Socio—Economic Research; the Eighth Symposium on the Urban Environment; the 23rd Conference on Hydrology; and the Fourth Conference on the Meteorological Applications of Lightning Data )

Chair: William T. Thompson, NRL

Papers:

4:00 PM

J5.1

Assessing sea breeze and heat island interactions using coastal-urban mesoscale ensembles

Teddy R. Holt, NRL, Monterey, CA; and J. Pullen

Recorded presentation

4:30 PM

J5.2

Urban effects on Sea Breeze Circulation over Huston, TX

Kazuyuki Ota, University of Alabama, Huntsville, AL; and U. S. Nair, W. A. Petersen, L. D. Carey, and T. E. Nobis

Recorded presentation

4:45 PM

J5.3

Variable impacts and differential response to flash flooding in the Paso del Norte metroplex (El Paso, Texas, USA / Ciudad Juárez, Chihuahua, Mexico)

Thomas E. Gill, University of Texas, El Paso, TX; and T. W. Collins and D. J. Novlan

Recorded presentation Poster PDF (260.3 kB)

5:00 PM

J5.4

Modeling and forecasting lee side spillover precipitation resulting in major flooding in an urban valley location

Michael L. Kaplan, DRI, Reno, NV; and P. J. Marzette, C. S. Adaniya, K. C. King, and S. J. Underwood

Recorded presentation Poster PDF (1.4 MB)

5:15 PM

J5.5

The evolution of lake-effect clouds and snow across Lake Michigan

Faye E. Barthold, University of Illinois, Urbana, IL; and D. A. R. Kristovich

Poster PDF (172.9 kB)

5

Socio—Economic Research Methods and Their Applications

Location: Room 121A (Phoenix Convention Center)

Sponsor: Fourth Symposium on Policy and Socio—Economic Research

Cochairs: Amanda Lynch, Monash University; Lee M. Tryhorn, Cornell University

Papers:

4:00 PM

5.1

Bounded rationality in responding to climate change: Avoiding the unmanageable and managing the unavoidable

Amanda H. Lynch, Monash University, Clayton, Vic., Australia; and R. D. Brunner

4:15 PM

5.2 has been moved. New paper number J9.5A (4Policy/21Climate)

4:15 PM

5.2A

U.S. science policy for climate change adaptation: A preliminary evaluation

Lisa Dilling, Center for Science and Technology Policy Research/Univ. of Colorado, Boulder, CO

Recorded presentation

4:30 PM

5.3

Catalyzing Interdisciplinary Research: Results from NOAA's Sector Applications Research Program

Nancy Beller-Simms, NOAA Climate Program Office, Silver Spring, MD

Recorded presentation

4:45 PM

5.4

The Strategic Plan for Integrating Social Science into NOAA's Weather and Water Mission

Irving Leveson, Leveson Consulting, Jackson, NJ; and J. E. Gaynor and R. Weiher

Recorded presentation Poster PDF (29.2 kB)

5:00 PM

5.5

Assessing the National Weather Service's Storm Data loss estimation methodology

Emily Laidlaw, NCAR, Boulder, CO; and J. K. Lazo and N. F. Bushek

Recorded presentation

5:15 PM

5.6

“Old Indian Ways” of knowing the weather: Weather predictions for the winters of 1950-51 and 1951-52

Randy Peppler, The University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK

Recorded presentation Poster PDF (147.4 kB)

6

Air quality and climate change—II

Location: Room 127A (Phoenix Convention Center)

Sponsor: 11th Conference on Atmospheric Chemistry

Cochairs: Carey J. Jang, EPA; Jonathan E. Pleim, EPA

Papers:

4:00 PM

6.1

AIRS, OCO and Options for Future Global Greenhouse Gas Observations

Thomas Pagano, JPL and California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA; and C. E. Miller, S. W. Boland, and M. Chahine

Recorded presentation

4:15 PM

6.2

CCN Predictions from Global WRF/Chem: Sensitivity to Activation Parameterizations, Gas-Phase Mechanisms, and Aerosol Modules

Xin-Yu Wen, North Carolina State Univ., Raleigh, NC; and Y. Pan, Y. Zhang, A. Nenes, S. Ghan, and R. Easter

4:30 PM

6.3

Development of the coupled 2-way WRF-CMAQ system

Jonathan E. Pleim, EPA, Research Triangle Park, NC; and D. Wong, R. Mathur, R. Gilliam, J. Young, T. Otte, S. Roselle, F. Binkowski, and A. Xiu

Recorded presentation

4:45 PM

6.4

Analysis of current and projected air quality levels in Canada with AURAMS

Veronique S. Bouchet, EC, Dorval, QC, Canada; and S. Cousineau, L. P. Crevier, A. Duhamel, J. Racine, M. Sassi, and M. Moran

Recorded presentation Poster PDF (359.1 kB)

5:00 PM

6.5

Climate Change Impact on Air Quality in High Resolution Simulation for Central Europe in Project CECILIA

Tomas Halenka, Charles Univ., Prague, Czech Republic; and P. Huszar and M. Belda

5:15 PM

6.6

Aerosol Influences on Tornado Genesis

David Lerach, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO; and B. Gaudet and W. R. Cotton

Recorded presentation Poster PDF (326.1 kB)

8

Remote Sensing of High-Impact Hydrometeorological Events—II

Location: Room 127B (Phoenix Convention Center)

Sponsor: 23rd Conference on Hydrology

Chair: Robert J. Kuligowski, NOAA/NESDIS

Papers:

4:00 PM

8.1

Characteristics of tropical cyclones in the several high resolution satellite based precipitation products

Renu Joseph, Univ. of Maryland, College Park, MD; and Y. Zhou, M. R. P. Sapiano, R. R. Ferraro, and T. Smith

Recorded presentation

4:15 PM

8.2

Improvements to the Self-Calibrating Multivariate Precipitation Retrieval (SCaMPR) for estimating high-impact rainfall events

Robert J. Kuligowski, NOAA/NESDIS, Camp Springs, MD; and R. Chen and Y. Li

Poster PDF (28.1 kB)

4:30 PM

8.3

An algorithm for detecting warm-top rainy clouds

Nazario D. Ramirez-Beltran, University of Puerto Rico, Mayaguez, PR; and R. J. Kuligowski, M. J. Cardona, E. W. Harmsen, S. Cruz-Pol, and J. M. Castro

Recorded presentation

4:45 PM

8.4

Flood monitoring over the Mississippi River watersheds using AMSR-E 37 GHz brightness temperature

Marouane Temimi, NOAA/CREST, New York, NY; and H. Ghedira, T. Lakhankar, and R. Khanbilvardi

5:00 PM

8.5

An update on the operational implementation of blended total precipitable water products

Sheldon J. Kusselson, NOAA/NESDIS, Camp Springs, MD; and S. Q. Kidder, J. M. Forsythe, A. S. Jones, and L. Zhao

Poster PDF (375.5 kB)

5:15 PM

8.6

Evaluation of Performance of Brigntness Temperature and Emissivity Data in Eastimating Snowpackpack Properties

Narges Shahroudi, NOAA/CREST/CUNY, New York, NY; and A. E Azar, D. Seo, D. R. Khanbilvardi, and A. Powell

11A

Advanced Methods for Data Assimilation—III

Location: Room 130 (Phoenix Convention Center)

Sponsor: 13th Conference on Integrated Observing and Assimilation Systems for Atmosphere, Oceans, and Land Surface (IOAS-AOLS)

Chair: Kayo Ide, University of California

Papers:

4:00 PM

11A.1

Reduced rank filtering in a chaotic quasi-geostrophic ocean system

Adel Ahanin, MIT, Cambridge, MA; and D. McLaughlin, D. Entekhabi, and P. Malanotte- Rizzoli

Recorded presentation

4:15 PM

11A.2

Optimal Spectral Decomposition (OSD) for Observational Ocean Data Analysis

Peter C. Chu, NPS, Monterey, CA; and L. M. Ivanov and C. Fan

Recorded presentation

4:30 PM

11A.3

Assimilation of SBUV/2 ozone retrievals with the Local Ensemble Transform Kalman Filter

David D. Kuhl, NRL, Washington, DC; and I. Szunyogh and R. B. Pierce

Recorded presentation Poster PDF (58.3 kB)

4:45 PM

11A.4A

A consistent hybrid ensemble/variational estimation strategy for multiscale uncertain systems

Thomas Bewley, University of California, La Jolla, CA; and J. B. Cessna and C. Colburn

5:00 PM

11A.5A

Ensemble/Variational Estimation (EnVE) and its application to turbulent flows in complex geometries

Joseph B. Cessna, University of California, La Jolla, CA; and C. Colburn and T. Bewley

5:15 PM

11A.6A

Ensemble/Variational Estimation (EnVE) and its application to canonical turbulent flow realizations

Chris Colburn, University of California, La Jolla, CA; and J. B. Cessna and T. Bewley

11A

Air-Sea Interaction Over Eddies and Fronts (contributions from the Western Boundary Current Working Group)

Location: Room 128A (Phoenix Convention Center)

Sponsor: 16th Conference on Air-Sea Interaction

Cochairs: Michael A. Alexander, NOAA/Earth System Research Laboratory; R. Justin Small, Naval Research Laboratory

Papers:

4:00 PM

11A.1

Ocean-atmosphere Coupling over Mid-latitude Ocean Fronts

W. Timothy Liu, JPL, Pasadena, CA; and X. Xie and P. P. Niiler

Recorded presentation

4:15 PM

11A.2

Atmospheric response to the SST front associated with the Agulhas Return Current

Qingtao Song, Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR; and D. Chelton and S. Esbensen

Recorded presentation

4:30 PM

11A.3

Air-sea interactions in the Gulf Stream region from long-term in-situ observations

Sebastien P. Bigorre, WHOI, Woods Hole, MA; and R. A. Weller

Recorded presentation

4:45 PM

11A.4

Air-sea heat exchanges characteristic to a prominent midlatitude oceanic front in the South Indian Ocean as simulated in a high-resolution coupled GCM

Masami Nonaka, JAMSTEC, Yokohama, Kanagawa, Japan; and H. Nakamura, B. Taguchi, N. Komori, A. Kuwano-Yoshida, and K. Takaya

Recorded presentation

5:00 PM

11A.5

Damping of Tropical Instability Waves caused by the action of surface currents on stress

R. Justin Small, Naval Research Laboratory, Stennis Space Center, MS; and K. Richards, S. P. Xie, P. Dutrieux, and T. Miyama

Recorded presentation

5:15 PM

11A.6

Mesoscale air-sea interaction and feedback in the western Arabian Sea

Hyodae Seo, IPRC/Univ. Hawaii, Honolulu, HI; and R. Murtugudde, M. Jochum, and A. J. Miller

11A

Challenges in Data Access, Distribution, and Use - Part II

Location: Room 121BC (Phoenix Convention Center)

Sponsor: 25th Conference on International Interactive Information and Processing Systems (IIPS) for Meteorology, Oceanography, and Hydrology

Cochairs: Thomas M. Whittaker, CIMSS/Univ. of Wisconsin; Anthony Arguez, NOAA/NESDIS/NCDC

Papers:

4:00 PM

11A.1

Efficient reduction and compression of weather radar data in universal format

W. David Pan, University of Alabama in Huntsville, Huntsville, AL; and P. R. Harasti, M. D. Frost, Q. Zhao, J. Cook, T. Maese, and L. Wagner

Poster PDF (754.2 kB)

4:15 PM

11A.2

A General Purpose System for Server-side Analysis of Earth Science Data

Roland Schweitzer, Weathertop Consulting, LLC, College Station, TX; and K. M. O'Brien, J. Li, A. Manke, J. Malczyk, and S. Hankin

Recorded presentation

4:30 PM

11A.3

Investigation of using HDF5 Archival Information Packages(AIP) to store NASA ECS Data

MuQun Yang, The HDF Group, Champaign, IL; and R. E. Duerr and C. Lee

http://www.hdfgroup.org/projects/noaa-sds/index.html

Recorded presentation Poster PDF (579.3 kB)

4:45 PM

11A.4

Using a friendly OPeNDAP client library to access HDF5 data

MuQun Yang, The HDF Group, Champaign, IL; and H. K. Lee

http://www.hdfgroup.org/projects/opendap/index.html

Recorded presentation Poster PDF (338.8 kB)

5:00 PM

11A.5

Choices for Data Providers in a post-NetCDF-4 World

Edward Hartnett, UCAR, Boulder, CO; and R. K. Rew

Recorded presentation

11A

Climate Change Science Program Report 3.3

Location: Room 129A (Phoenix Convention Center)

Sponsor: 21st Conference on Climate Variability and Change

Chair: Klaus Wolter, CIRES/Univ. of Colorado

Papers:

4:00 PM

11A.1

CCSP 3.3: why weather and climate extremes matter

Thomas C. Peterson, NOAA/NESDIS/NCDC, Asheville, NC; and D. M. Anderson, S. J. Cohen, M. Cortez-Vazquez, R. J. Murnane, C. Parmesan, D. Phillips, R. Pulwarty, and J. M. R. Stone

Recorded presentation Poster PDF (20.1 kB)

4:15 PM

11A.2

CCSP 3.3: observed changes in weather and climate extremes

Kenneth Kunkel, ISWS, Champaign, IL; and P. Bromirski, H. E. Brooks, T. Cavazos, A. V. Douglas, D. R. Easterling, K. A. Emanuel, P. Y. Groisman, G. J. Holland, T. Knutson, J. P. Kossin, P. Komar, D. Levinson, and R. L. Smith

Recorded presentation

4:30 PM

11A.3

CCSP 3.3: Causes of Observed Changes in Extremes and Projections of Future Changes

William J. Gutowski Jr., Iowa State University, Ames, IA; and G. Hegerl, G. J. Holland, T. R. Knutson, L. O. Mearns, R. J. Stouffer, P. J. Webster, M. F. Wehner, and F. W. Zwiers

Recorded presentation

4:45 PM

11A.4

CCSP3.3: Measures to improve our understanding of weather and climate extremes

David R. Easterling, NOAA/NESDIS/NCDC, Asheville, NC; and S. J. Cohen, W. J. Gutowski Jr., G. J. Holland, K. E. Kunkel, R. S. Pulwarty, and M. F. Wehner

Recorded presentation Poster PDF (16.8 kB)

11B

In situ turbulent air-sea flux measurements, including gas exchange

Location: Room 128B (Phoenix Convention Center)

Sponsor: 16th Conference on Air-Sea Interaction

Chair: Jeffrey E. Hare, CIRES, University of Colorado, and NOAA/ESRL

Papers:

4:00 PM

11B.1

Parameterization of gas exchange from the southern ocean gas exchange experiment

Alejandro Cifuentes-Lorenzen, University of Connecticut, Groton, CT; and C. J. Zappa, L. Bariteau, J. B. Edson, W. McGillis, and C. W. Fairall

Recorded presentation

4:15 PM

11B.2

Direct measurements of momentum and latent heat transfer coefficients during the GasExIII 2008 field program in the Southern Ocean: Comparisons with the COARE3.0 bulk flux algorithm

Chris Fairall, NOAA/ESRL/PSD, Boulder, CO; and L. Bariteau, J. E. Hare, S. Pezoa, J. B. Edson, A. Cifuentes-Lorenzen, W. McGillis, and C. J. Zappa

Recorded presentation Poster PDF (327.8 kB)

4:30 PM

11B.3

Influence of Waves, Whitecaps, and Turbulence on Gas Transfer during the Southern Ocean Gas Exchange Experiment

Christopher J. Zappa, Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, Columbia University, Palisades, NY; and A. Cifuentes-Lorenzen, W. R. McGillis, J. B. Edson, L. Bariteau, and C. W. Fairall

4:45 PM

11B.4

Wind stress under the presence of swell in moderate to strong wind conditions

Hector Garcia-Nava, CICESE, Ensenada, Baja California, Mexico; and F. J. Ocampo-Torres, B. K. Haus, and I. Savelyev

Recorded presentation

5:00 PM

11B.5

Turbulent transfer and mixing of trace gases in the Houston urban area and the surrounding coastal zone of Gulf of Mexico during TexAQS 2006

Andrey A. Grachev, CIRES/Univ. of Colorado, Boulder, CO; and L. Bariteau, C. W. Fairall, J. Hare, D. Helmig, J. Hueber, and E. K. Lang

Recorded presentation

5:15 PM

11B.6

Mesoscale variability of sea-surface fluxes

Larry Mahrt, Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR; and D. Khelif and C. A. Friehe

Recorded presentation

11B

Radar Applications - Session II - Part II

Location: Room 122BC (Phoenix Convention Center)

Sponsor: 25th Conference on International Interactive Information and Processing Systems (IIPS) for Meteorology, Oceanography, and Hydrology

Cochairs: Timothy Crum, NOAA/NEXRAD Radar Operations Center; Douglas E. Forsyth, NOAA/NSSL; Robert E. Saffle, Noblis, Inc.; Julian Wang, NOAA/ARL

Papers:

4:00 PM

11B.1

Performance of a Proposed Hybrid Spectrum Width Estimator for the NEXRAD ORDA

Gregory Meymaris, NCAR, Boulder, CO; and J. K. Williams and J. C. Hubbert

Poster PDF (312.4 kB)

4:15 PM

11B.2

Update on deployment of Staggered PRT for the NEXRAD network

Sebastian M. Torres, CIMMS/Univ. of Oklahoma, Norman, OK; and D. Zittel and D. Saxion

Recorded presentation Poster PDF (754.4 kB)

4:30 PM

11B.3

Data driven adaptive identification and suppression of ground clutter for weather radar

Svetlana M. Bachmann, Lockheed Martin MS2, Syracuse, NY; and M. D. Tracy

Poster PDF (279.0 kB)

4:45 PM

11B.4

Identifying Critical Strengths and Limitations of Current Radar Systems

Jennifer F. Newman, National Weather Center REU, Norman, OK ; and D. LaDue and P. L. Heinselman

Recorded presentation Poster PDF (164.8 kB)

5:00 PM

11B.5

Prediction and mitigation of anomalous propagation

James J. Stagliano Jr., Propagation Research Associates, Inc., Marietta, GA; and J. C. Kerce, B. Valant-Spaight, G. M. Hall, R. D. Bock, E. J. Holder, and S. F. Dugas

Recorded presentation Poster PDF (693.0 kB)

5:15 PM

11B.6

Continued progress in assessing and mitigating wind farm impacts on WSR-88Ds

Richard J. Vogt, TriAgencies' (Dept of Commerce, Defense & Transportation), Norman, OK; and T. D. Crum, J. B. Sandifer, T. L. Allmon, G. Secrest, R. Guenther, R. Steadham, and E. Ciardi

Recorded presentation Poster PDF (934.9 kB)

Joint Session 16

Operational Products and the Transition from Research to Operations

Location: Room 224AB (Phoenix Convention Center)

Sponsors: (Joint between the 16th Conference on Satellite Meteorology and Oceanography; and the Fifth Annual Symposium on Future Operational Environmental Satellite Systems- NPOESS and GOES-R )

Cochairs: Christopher S. Velden, CIMSS/Univ. of Wisconsin; Jeffrey D. Hawkins, NRL

Papers:

4:00 PM

J16.1

Preliminary Assessment of ASCAT Ocean Surface Vector Wind (OSVW) Retrievals at NOAA Ocean Prediction Center

Khalil. A. Ahmad, NOAA/NESDIS/StAR - Perot Systems Government Services, Camp Springs, MD; and J. M. Sienkiewicz, Z. Jelenak, and P. S. Chang

Poster PDF (1.1 MB)

4:15 PM

J16.2

ATOVS Derived Soundings Using Noaa PROduct Validation System (NPROVS) Datasets for Computing First Guess and Sensor Bias Adjustments Independent of NWP

Anthony L. Reale, NOAA/NESDIS, Camp Springs, MD; and F. Tilley and S. A. Boukabara

Recorded presentation Poster PDF (2.8 MB)

4:30 PM

J16.3A

Validation of the Ensemble Tropical Rainfall Potential (e-TRaP) for land-falling tropical cyclones

Elizabeth E. Ebert, BMRC, Melbourne, Vic., Australia; and A. E. Salemi, M. Turk, M. Spampata, and S. J. Kusselson

Recorded presentation Poster PDF (236.3 kB)

J16.3

Integrating non-baseline satellite datasets into operations

5:00 PM

J16.4

Monitoring the Saharan Air Layer with satellite-derived AOD algorithms

Arunas P. Kuciauskas, NRL, Monterey, CA; and K. Richardson and C. Hsu

Recorded presentation

5:15 PM

J16.5

Transitioning Satellite Products to National Weather Service Operations, and Future Directions for the GOES-R Era

Jordan Gerth, CIMSS/Univ. of Wisconsin, Madison, WI; and A. S. Bachmeier

http://ftp://ftp.ssec.wisc.edu/pub/jordang/talkpost/R2OinGOESR_14Jan09.pdf

Recorded presentation

5:30 PM

Closing Remarks

Joint Session 19

Urban Transport and Dispersion Modeling—Part II (Joint with the Meteorological Aspects of Air Pollution Committee)

Location: Room 124A (Phoenix Convention Center)

Sponsor: Eighth Symposium on the Urban Environment

Organizers: Michael J. Brown, LANL; Petra M. Klein, Univ. of Oklahoma

Papers:

4:00 PM

J19.1

Numerical Simulations of Air Flows and Transport and Diffusion from Wind Tunnel to Terrain Scales

Tetsuji Yamada, Yamada Science & Art Corporation, Santa Fe, NM

Recorded presentation Poster PDF (246.9 kB)

4:15 PM

J19.2

Rapid-response urban CFD simulations using a GPU computing paradigm on desktop supercomputers

Inanc Senocak, Boise State University, Boise, ID; and J. Thibault and M. Caylor

Poster PDF (1.7 MB)

4:30 PM

J19.3

The prediction of toxic gas infiltration for a building in an urban area

S. Kim, CFD Research Corporation, Huntsville, AL

Recorded presentation Poster PDF (486.4 kB)

4:45 PM

J19.4

Evaluation of the QUIC wind and dispersion models using the Joint Urban 2003 Field Experiment

Akshay Gowardhan, LANL, Los Alamos, NM; and M. J. Brown, E. R. Pardyjak, M. D. Williams, and M. A. Nelson

Recorded presentation Poster PDF (522.0 kB)

5:00 PM

J19.5

Integrating a complete Lagrangian dispersion model into an urban GPU-based simulation system

Balwinder Singh, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT; and E. R. Pardyjak, A. Norgren, and P. Willemsen

Recorded presentation Poster PDF (959.4 kB)

5:15 PM

J19.6

The development of a prototype of a Canadian urban flow and dispersion modeling system

Richard Hogue, MSC, Dorval, QC, Canada; and N. Benbouta, S. Bélair, J. Mailhot, E. Yee, F. S. Lien, and J. D. Wilson

Recorded presentation Poster PDF (1.3 MB)

11B

Seasonal-interannual variability - I

Location: Room 129B (Phoenix Convention Center)

Sponsor: 21st Conference on Climate Variability and Change

Chair: Juliane Fry, Reed College

Papers:

4:15 PM

11B.1

Dry and wet periods in the Northwestern Maghreb for present day and future climate conditions

Andreas H. Fink, Univ. of Cologne, Cologne, Germany; and M. Christoph, K. Born, and H. Paeth

Recorded presentation

4:30 PM

11B.2

The climate of 2008 in historical perspective

Richard Heim, NOAA/NESDIS/NCDC, Asheville, NC; and K. Gleason, K. Shein, A. Sanchez-Lugo, M. J. Brewer, and E. Godfrey

Recorded presentation Poster PDF (728.9 kB)

5:00 PM

11B.3

The 2007/08 La Nina Cycle: Evolution and Prediction

Yan Xue, NOAA/NWS/NCEP/CPC, Camp Springs, MD; and B. Huang, W. Wang, A. Kumar, P. Pegion, and M. LHeureux

Recorded presentation

5:15 PM

11B.4

Seasonal climate variability resulting from extreme Arctic ridging during a major reconfiguration of the North Pacific atmospheric circulation from late November to early December 2007

Jason M. Cordeira, Univ. of Albany/SUNY, Albany, NY; and L. F. Bosart

Recorded presentation

5:30 PM

11B.5

A new and improved Multivariate ENSO Index (MEI)

Klaus Wolter, NOAA/ERL/CDC, Boulder, CO; and M. Timlin

Recorded presentation

ASLI’s Choice Book Award presentation at ASLI booth in Exhibit Hall

Location: Hall 4 (Phoenix Convention Center)

6

Haurwitz Lecture

Location: Room 125B (Phoenix Convention Center)

Sponsor: Eighth Conference on Coastal Atmospheric and Oceanic Prediction and Processes

Papers:

5:00 PM

Introduction by Walter F. Dabberdt, AMS President & Vaisala Inc., Boulder, CO

5:03 PM

6.1

Kelvin's Theorem, the Tunneling of Rossby Waves and the Circulation around Planetary Islands

Joseph Pedlosky, WHOI, Woods Hole, MA

Recorded presentation

Sessions Adjourn for the Day

Reception in Exhibit Hall (Cash Bar)

Location: Hall 4 (Phoenix Convention Center)

Annual ASLI Dinner Sam’s Café (at the Arizona Center) $38 Contact Linda Musser (Lrm4@psu.edu) for reservations and details.

AMS Annual Awards Banquet

Location: Northballroom (Phoenix Convention Center)

2010 Program Chair Meeting

Location: Room 126B (Phoenix Convention Center)

Sponsor: Events

Press Room Thursday

Location: Room 222C (Phoenix Convention Center)

Sponsor: Events

Weather Preview Theater

Location: Room 231C (Phoenix Convention Center)

Sponsors: (Joint between the Events; and the Ninth Communications Workshop )

2

State of the Library

Location: Room 132A (Phoenix Convention Center)

Sponsor: 12th Conference of Atmospheric Science Librarians International

Papers:

8:15 AM

2.1

The NASA Goddard Space Flight Center Library Microclimate: Partly Cloudy with a Chance of Sunshine

Gene Major, Program Manager,Library Associates, NASA/GSFC Library, Lanham, MD

Recorded presentation

8:45 AM

2.2

The Year in Science as a Marketing Tool for Libraries

Robert Tolliver, Fletcher L. Byrom Earth and Mineral Sciences Library Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA

Recorded presentation

ASLI Break

Location: Room 132A (Phoenix Convention Center)

Sponsor: Events

1

Anthony Hollingsworth Symposium—I

Location: Room 131C (Phoenix Convention Center)

Sponsor: The Anthony J. Hollingsworth Symposium

Cochairs: David Burridge, Director THORPEX IPO (former Director ECMWF); Gerald L. Potter, Univ. of California Davis

Papers:

8:25 AM

Welcoming Remarks by David Burridge

8:30 AM

1.1

(Invited Speaker) Recollections of Tony Hollingsworth

Dominique Marbouty Sr., ECMWF, Reading, United Kingdom

Recorded presentation

8:45 AM

1.2

(Invited Speaker) ECMWF’s Reanalyses for the Satellite Era

Adrian J. Simmons, ECMWF, Reading, Berks, United Kingdom

Recorded presentation

9:15 AM

1.3

(Invited Speaker) Diagnostic evaluation of the ECMWF model using observations

Alan K. Betts, Atmospheric Research, Pittsford, VT

Recorded presentation Poster PDF (1.5 MB)

Joint Session 4

Global environmental observing systems including, but not limited to, the Global Climate Observing System (GCOS), Global Ocean Observing System (GOOS), and Global Terrestrial Observing System (GTOS)

Location: Room 122BC (Phoenix Convention Center)

Sponsors: (Joint between the 25th Conference on International Interactive Information and Processing Systems (IIPS) for Meteorology, Oceanography, and Hydrology; and the 13th Conference on Integrated Observing and Assimilation Systems for Atmosphere, Oceans, and Land Surface (IOAS-AOLS) )

Cochairs: Howard J. Diamond, NOAA/NESDIS/NCDC; John R. Lincoln, US Navy/WMO (Ret.) and Consultant

Papers:

8:30 AM

J4.1

GCOS progress and plans

John W. Zillman, Bureau of Meteorology, Melbourne, Vic., Australia

Recorded presentation

9:00 AM

J4.2

The role of the Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission (IOC) in developing Earth Science Information

John H. Dunnigan, NOAA/NOS, Silver Spring, MD

Recorded presentation

9:15 AM

J4.3

Progress against Implementation of Global Observing Systems for Climate, Updating the GCOS Plan

Paul Mason, University of Reading, Reading, Berks., United Kingdom; and S. Bojinski

Recorded presentation

9:30 AM

J4.4

The U.S. Group on Earth Observations (USGEO): Progress towards coordinated and sustained observations of the Earth system

Helen M. Wood, NOAA, Silver Spring, MD; and G. Withee

Recorded presentation

Panel Discussion 4

State of the Field

Location: Room 121A (Phoenix Convention Center)

Sponsor: Fourth Symposium on Policy and Socio—Economic Research

Moderator: Genevieve E. Maricle, Arizona State Univ.

Panelists: Arnim Wiek, Arizona State Univ; Genevieve E. Maricle, Arizona State Univ.

7

Air quality forecasting

Location: Room 127A (Phoenix Convention Center)

Sponsor: 11th Conference on Atmospheric Chemistry

Chair: Steven E. Peckham, NOAA/ESRL/GSD and CIRES-Univ. of Colorado

Papers:

8:30 AM

7.1

Description and application of a state-of-the-art online multi-scale air quality and weather prediction model (WRF/Chem)

Steven E. Peckham, NOAA/ESRL/GSD and CIRES-Univ. of Colorado, Boulder, CO; and G. A. Grell and S. A. McKeen

8:45 AM

7.2

Apply the Air Quality Forecasting system to the Air Pollution caused by the Wildfire in California during the summer of 2008

Hsin-mu Lin, STC, Hampton, VA, Research Triangle Park, NC; and R. Mathur, G. A. Pouliot, and D. Kang

9:00 AM

7.3

Assessments on NAM-CMAQ and the bias-corrected PM2.5 air quality forecast over the continental United States during 2007

Daiwen Kang, Science and Technology Corporation, Research Triangle Park, NC; and R. Mathur, J. Pleim, G. A. Pouliot, S. T. Rao, J. O. Young, D. Wong, K. Schere, D. Tong, H. M. Lin, S. Yu, T. Chai, P. Lee, J. McQueen, M. Tsidulko, and P. Davidson

9:15 AM

7.4

Improving air quality forecasts using CMAQ with satellite observations

Eun-Su Yang, University of Alabama, Huntsville, AL; and S. Christopher, Y. Wu, and S. Kondragunta

9:30 AM

7.5

Chemical data assimilation with Community Multiscale Air Quality (CMAQ) model

Tianfeng Chai, Science and Technology Corporation, Research Triangle Park, NC; and R. Mathur, D. Wong, D. Kang, H. M. Lin, and D. Tong

Recorded presentation

8

Satelite Studies and Lidar Observations - I

Location: Room 122A (Phoenix Convention Center)

Sponsor: Fourth Symposium on Lidar Atmospheric Applications

Chair: M. Patrick McCormick, Hampton University

CoChair: Sebastien Berthier, SSEC ( Space Science and Engineering Center) / University of Wisconsin

Papers:

8:30 AM

8.1

Retrieving optical depths for optically thick clouds from the Geoscience Laser Altimeter System (GLAS) on board ICESat

Alexander Marshak, NASA/GSFC, Greenbelt, MD; and Y. Yang, J. Y. C. Chiu, and W. J. Wiscombe

Recorded presentation

9:00 AM

8.2

Direct radiative effect of aerosols over clouds and clear skies determined using CALIPSO and the A-Train

Robert Wood, University of Washington, Seattle, WA; and D. Chand and T. Anderson

http://www.atmos.washington.edu/~robwood/papers/duli/Chand_etal_NGS-2008-07-00763_MS_revised.pdf

Recorded presentation Poster PDF (1.7 MB)

9:15 AM

8.3

African Dust and Smoke Influences on Radiative Effects in the Tropical Atlantic Using CERES and CALIOP Data

John E. Yorks, SSAI/NASA GSFC, Greenbelt, MD; and M. J. McGill, S. Rodier, M. Vaughan, Y. Hu, and D. L. Hlavka

Recorded presentation Poster PDF (409.3 kB)

9:30 AM

8.4

Properties of thin clouds observed by ICESat and CALIPSO over ice sheets and their impact on ice altimetry measurements

Yuekui Yang, University of Maryland Baltimore County, Greenbelt, MD; and A. Marshak, T. Varnai, and W. Wiscombe

Recorded presentation

9

Applications of Operational Weather and Climate Forecasts in End User Sectors

Location: Room 127B (Phoenix Convention Center)

Sponsor: 23rd Conference on Hydrology

Chair: Andrew W. Wood, 3TIER, Inc.

Papers:

8:30 AM

9.1

Gauge adjusted radar rainfall estimation and basin averaged rainfall for use in local flash flood prediction and runoff modeling

Beth Marie Clarke, Weather Decision Technologies Inc, Norman, OK; and C. A. Kudym and B. Rindahl

Poster PDF (1.4 MB)

8:45 AM

9.2

Generating short term hydrologic ensembles from numerical weather prediction model ensembles

Thomas Adams, NOAA/NWS, Wilmington, OH; and R. Shedd and J. Ostrowski

Recorded presentation

9:00 AM

9.3

Communicating hydrologic forecast uncertainty information ** INVITED **

Mary G. Mullusky, NOAA/NWS, Silver Spring, MD; and P. Restrepo, D. Page, L. Wolpert, T. Aten, L. Sager, and R. McCormack

Recorded presentation

9:15 AM

9.4

Optimizing probabilistic high resolution ensemble guidance for hydrologic prediction

Craig S. Schwartz, University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK ; and J. S. Kain, D. R. Bright, S. J. Weiss, M. Xue, F. Kong, J. J. Levit, M. C. Coniglio, and M. S. Wandishin

Recorded presentation Poster PDF (1.7 MB)

9:30 AM

9.5

Hydrologic application of atmospheric forecasts: Multi-scale uncertainty issues

John C. Schaake, NOAA/NWS, Annapolis, MD

Recorded presentation

12

Virtual Globe technology and applications

Location: Room 121BC (Phoenix Convention Center)

Sponsor: 25th Conference on International Interactive Information and Processing Systems (IIPS) for Meteorology, Oceanography, and Hydrology

Cochairs: S. T. Shipley, George Mason Univ.; Gerald J. Dittberner, NOAA/NESDIS

Papers:

8:30 AM

12.1

Radar visualization and occultation in 4-dimensions using Google Earth

S. T. Shipley, George Mason Univ., Fairfax, Virginia; and A. Peterlin and S. Cantrell

http://wxanalyst.com/

Recorded presentation Poster PDF (2.1 MB)

8:45 AM

12.2

Touch the Sky: Interactive particle systems for learning about the weather via a globe display

Colin Ware, Center for Coastal and Ocean Mapping, University of New Hamphshire, Durham, NH; and D. Pineo and R. F. Calusdian

9:00 AM

12.3

A Google Earth application for querying personalized weather data

Joe Young, CIMMS/Univ. of Oklahoma and NOAA/NSSL, Norman, OK; and T. M. Smith, V. Lakshmanan, and K. D. Hondl

Recorded presentation

9:15 AM

12.4

The Application of virtual globe software in fireweather forecasting

Tim Brice, NOAA/NWS, Santa Teresa, NM

Recorded presentation Poster PDF (270.0 kB)

9:30 AM

12.5

Airborne Doppler Wind Lidar: in-flight visualization and analysis using Google Earth

G.D. Emmitt, Simpson Weather Associates, Charlottesville, VA; and S. Greco, S. A. Wood, and S. T. Shipley

http://www.swa.com/ald/ILIMMS/

Poster PDF (3.0 MB)

12A

Coupled ocean-atmosphere interactions and their contribution to climate variability on all time scales: Part 1

Location: Room 128A (Phoenix Convention Center)

Sponsor: 16th Conference on Air-Sea Interaction

Chair: Gerald A. Meehl, NCAR

Papers:

8:30 AM

12A.1

Ocean-atmosphere coupling on different temporal and spatial scales

Lei Zhou, Columbia University, Palisades, NY; and R. Murtugudde

Recorded presentation

8:45 AM

12A.2

Air-sea heat fluxes and the dynamics of intraseasonal variability

Adam H. Sobel, Dept of Applied Mathematics and Applied Physics, and Dept. of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Columbia Univ., new York, NY; and E. D. Maloney, G. Bellon, and D. M. W. Frierson

Recorded presentation

9:00 AM

12A.3

Dynamics associated with simulated northward propagation of monsoon convection in the SNU CGCM

Daehyun Kim, Seoul National University, Seoul, South Korea; and I. S. Kang

Recorded presentation

9:15 AM

12A.4

An assessment of the Forecast Capability for BSISO by the NCEP Operational Global Forecast Systems

Mingyue Chen, NOAA/NWS/NCEP/CPC, Camp Springs, MD; and W. Wang and A. Kumar

9:30 AM

12A.5

External influences on the variability of the monsoon

Sara Vieira, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA; and P. J. Webster

12A

Surface Measurements and Trends—I

Location: Room 130 (Phoenix Convention Center)

Sponsor: 13th Conference on Integrated Observing and Assimilation Systems for Atmosphere, Oceans, and Land Surface (IOAS-AOLS)

Chair: Allen B. White, NOAA/ESRL

Papers:

8:30 AM

12A.1

The influence of land use change on mesoscale circulations in Southwest Australia

Yuling Wu, Univ. of Alabama, Huntsville, AL; and U. S. Nair, T. J. Lyons, and R. A. Pielke Sr.

8:45 AM

12A.2 moved. New paper number P2.14

8:46 AM

12A.2

An overview of the Federal Government's Automated Surface Observing System sustainment activity

James A. McNitt, NOAA NWS, Silver Spring, MD; and J. Facundo

Recorded presentation Poster PDF (183.7 kB)

9:00 AM

12A.3

A quality control algorithm for the ASOS ice free wind sensor

Chester V. Schmitt IV, NOAA/NWS, Silver Spring, MD

Recorded presentation Poster PDF (87.7 kB)

9:15 AM

12A.4

ASOS product improvement program ceilometer replacement testing

Aaron J. Poyer, NOAA/NWS, Sterling, VA; and R. Lewis

Recorded presentation Poster PDF (378.5 kB)

12B

Climate and weather extremes

Location: Room 129B (Phoenix Convention Center)

Sponsor: 21st Conference on Climate Variability and Change

Chair: Aiguo Dai, NCAR

Papers:

8:30 AM

12B.1

Characteristics of the top ten snowstorms at first order stations in the U.S

Tamara G. Houston, NOAA/NESDIS/NCDC, Asheville, NC; and S. Changnon

Recorded presentation Poster PDF (121.9 kB)

8:45 AM

12B.2

The frequency distribution of daily precipitation over the United States

Emily J. Becker, University of Maryland, College Park, MD; and E. H. Berbery and R. W. Higgins

9:00 AM

12B.3

Seasonal and regional variations of U.S. trends in extreme precipitation frequency

Kenneth E. Kunkel, ISWS, Champaign, IL; and M. A. Palecki, R. Smith, L. Ensor, and D. R. Easterling

Recorded presentation

9:15 AM

12B.4

Signal detectability in extreme precipitation changes assessed from twentieth century climate simulations

Seung-Ki Min, EC, Toronto, ON, Canada; and X. Zhang, F. W. Zwiers, P. Friederichs, and A. Hense

http://www.springerlink.com/content/rv470641v6222257/

9:30 AM

12B.5

Diagnosing the synoptic influences driving changes in climate extremes over southern Australia during the last century

Lisa V. Alexander, Monash Univ., Clayton, Vic., Australia

Recorded presentation

12B

Laboratory studies of air-sea exchange processes

Location: Room 128B (Phoenix Convention Center)

Sponsor: 16th Conference on Air-Sea Interaction

Chair: Andrey Grachev, CIRES, University of Colorado, and NOAA/ESRL

Papers:

8:30 AM

12B.1

Quantifying rain-induced momentum exchange at the ocean surface

Emily L. Harrison, University of Delaware, Lewes, DE; and M. Buckley and F. Veron

8:45 AM

12B.2

Curvature Imaging of Breaking Wind-wave Characteristics in the Laboratory

Brian K. Haus, Univ. of Miami/RSMAS, Miami, FL; and T. Hara

Recorded presentation

9:00 AM

12B.3

Airflow separation above wind waves

Marc Buckley, University of Delaware, Newark, DE; and J. Mueller and F. Veron

9:15 AM

12B.4

Empirical parameterization for wind-wave momentum flux in high winds

Ivan Savelyev, Univ. of Miami/RSMAS, Miami, FL; and B. Haus and M. Donelan

Recorded presentation

9:30 AM

12B.5

Laboratory Measurements of the Moist Enthalpy Transfer Coeffcient

Dahai Jeong, Univ. of Miami/RSMAS, Miami, FL; and B. K. Haus, M. A. Donelan, and J. Zhang

Recorded presentation

Joint Session 17

Remote Sensing Applications of GEOSS to the Hydrologic Cycle—I

Location: Room 127C (Phoenix Convention Center)

Sponsors: (Joint between the 23rd Conference on Hydrology; and the 16th Conference on Satellite Meteorology and Oceanography )

Cochairs: Ralph R. Ferraro, NOAA/NESDIS; Chandra R. Kondragunta, NOAA/NWS

Papers:

8:30 AM

J17.1

(Invited Speaker) Contributions of TRMM and GPM to GEOSS

Arthur Y. Hou, NASA/GSFC, Greenbelt, MD

Recorded presentation

8:45 AM

J17.2

Reducing bias in the real-time TMPA

George J. Huffman, NASA/GSFC and SSAI, Greenbelt, MD; and R. F. Adler, D. T. Bolvin, and E. J. Nelkin

Recorded presentation

9:00 AM

J17.3

Inter-comparing high resolution satellite precipitation estimates at different scales

Phillip A. Arkin, University of Maryland, College Park, MD; and M. R. P. Sapiano

Recorded presentation

9:15 AM

J17.4

CHOMPS: A new high resolution satellite derived precipitation data set for climate studies

Renu Joseph, Univ. of Maryland, College Park, MD; and T. Smith, M. R. P. Sapiano, and R. R. Ferraro

Recorded presentation

9:30 AM

J17.5

Uncertainties in oceanic rainfall retrievals from passive microwave observations

Thomas T. Wilheit, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX

Recorded presentation

Joint Session 20

Air Quality in Cities—Criteria Pollutants (Joint with the Meteorological Aspects of Air Pollution Committee)

Location: Room 124A (Phoenix Convention Center)

Sponsor: Eighth Symposium on the Urban Environment

Panelist: Marko Princevac, University of California, Riverside

Papers:

8:30 AM

J20.1

Air quality modeling in support of children's health studies

Reneta Dimitrova, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ; and B. C. Hedquist, P. Hyde, H. J. S. Fernando, and J. Anderson

Recorded presentation Poster PDF (653.7 kB)

8:45 AM

J20.2

A multi-scale framework for assessing the air quality impacts of aviation

Steven R. H. Barrett, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom; and R. E. Britter and I. A. Waitz

Recorded presentation

9:00 AM

J20.3

Field, Laboratory and Numerical Study on Flow and Dispersion of PM2.5 in Southern Californian Cities

Hansheng Pan, Univ. of California, Riverside, CA; and M. Princevac, R. Edwards, A. Sfazl, M. Boarnet, J. Wu, and R. Lejano

Recorded presentation Poster PDF (159.6 kB)

9:15 AM

J20.4

Performance evaluation of NOAA-EPA air quality forecasts, 2007 – 2008

Jerry Lee Gorline, NOAA/NWS, Silver Spring, MD; and P. C. Lee

Recorded presentation

9:30 AM

J20.5

EnviNNet: a Neural Network for hindcasting PM10 in Urban Phoenix

M. C. Mammarella, ENEA, Rome, Italy; and G. Grandoni, P. Fedele, R. A. DiMarco, H. J. S. Fernando, and P. Hyde

Poster PDF (326.1 kB)

Joint Session 21

Weather and Climate in Coastal Urban Areas—I

Location: Room 126A (Phoenix Convention Center)

Sponsors: (Joint between the Eighth Conference on Coastal Atmospheric and Oceanic Prediction and Processes; and the Eighth Symposium on the Urban Environment )

Chair: David H. Levinson, NOAA/NESDIS/NCDC

Papers:

8:30 AM

J21.1

Cooling summer daytime temperatures in two urban coastal California air basins during 1948–2005: observations and implications

R. Bornstein, San Jose State Univ., San Jose, CA; and B. Lebassi, E. P. Maurer, P. Switzer, and J. E. Gonzalez

Recorded presentation

9:00 AM

J21.2

Assessment of extreme weather events along the coastal areas of Thailand

Atsamon Limsakul, Environmental Research and Training Center, Klong Luang, Pathumthani, Thailand; and S. Limjirakan and T. Sriburi

Recorded presentation Poster PDF (428.1 kB)

9:15 AM

J21.3

Observational Analysis and simulation of the Delaware Sea/Bay Breeze

Dana E. Veron, University of Delaware, Newark, DE; and N. P. Barton, A. Satinsky, and E. Geiger

Recorded presentation

9:30 AM

J21.4

Regional Impacts on Energy Demands from a Changing Climate in Coastal California Environments

J.E. Gonzalez, Santa Clara Univ., Santa Clara, CA; and B. Lebassi, R. D. Bornstein, H. Taha, and R. D. Van Buskirk

12A

Seasonal-interannual variability II

Location: Room 129A (Phoenix Convention Center)

Sponsor: 21st Conference on Climate Variability and Change

Chair: Klaus Wolter, CIRES/Univ. of Colorado

Papers:

12A.1

Observed Responses of Global Precipitation and Surface Temperature to ENSO

9:00 AM

12A.2

Assessing climate model simulations of storm track variability

Xiaoming Xia, SUNY, Stony Brook, NY; and E. K. M. Chang

Recorded presentation

9:15 AM

12A.3

Interannual variability of the west coast cyclone landfall and its influence on the western U.S. winter precipitation

Yi Deng, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA; and B. Myoung

9:30 AM

12A.4

Climatology of warm season precipitating storms in the southern Great Plains

Donna F. Tucker, University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS; and X. Li

Recorded presentation Poster PDF (188.2 kB)

9:45 AM

12A.5

Long-term variations in intensity and location of the African Easterly Jet

Amin K. Dezfuli, Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL ; and S. Nicholson

Poster PDF (100.5 kB)

Exhibitor Breakfast

Location: Room 131A (Phoenix Convention Center)

3

AMS Publications Program Updates

Location: Room 132A (Phoenix Convention Center)

Sponsor: 12th Conference of Atmospheric Science Librarians International

Papers:

9:15 AM

3.1

Upcoming Trends in Scholarly and Society Publishing

Keith Seitter, Director, AMS, Boston, MA

Recorded presentation

9:30 AM

3.2

Publications Review and Update

Kenneth F. Heideman, AMS, Director of Publications, Boston, MA

Recorded presentation

9:45 AM

Discussion

10:00 AM

Break

10:15 AM

3.3

AMS Monographs

Sarah Jane Shangraw, AMS, Book and Monograph Manager, Boston, MA

Recorded presentation

10:30 AM

3.4

Description and Demo of BAMS Digital Edition, a new Benefit for Individual Members

Bryan Hanssen, American Meteorological Society, BAMS Managing Editor, Boston, MA

Poster Session 1

Anthony Hollingsworth Symposium Posters

Location: Hall 5 (Phoenix Convention Center)

Sponsor: The Anthony J. Hollingsworth Symposium

Papers:

P1.1

Validation of the GMAO baseline OSSE

Ronald M. Errico, UMBC/GEST and NASA/GSFC/GMAO, Greenbelt, MD ; and R. Yang, M. Sienkiewicz, and E. Liu

P1.2

International collaborative Joint OSSEs—Toward reliable and timely assessment of future observing systems

Michiko Masutani, NOAA/NWS/NCEP/EMC & JCSDA & Wyle, Camp Springs, MD; and E. Andersson, L. P. Riishojgaard, F. Weng, R. M. Errico, J. Woollen, A. Stoffelen, G. J. Marseille, T. W. Schlatter, S. J. Lord, O. Reale, Y. Xie, G. D. Emmitt, T. Zhu, R. Yang, N. Prive, and Y. Song

http://www.emc.ncep.noaa.gov/research/JointOSSEs/

Poster PDF (282.5 kB)

Poster Session 2

Human and Environmental Impacts of Urbanization - Poster Session

Location: Hall 5 (Phoenix Convention Center)

Sponsor: Fourth Symposium on Policy and Socio—Economic Research

Papers:

P2.1

Climate variability and change in central Arizona

P2.2

Heating and cooling degree days as an indicator of climate change in Freiburg

Andreas Matzarakis, University of Freiburg, Freiburg, , Germany; and F. Thomsen

Poster PDF (378.2 kB)

P2.3

Trends in urban seasonal and annual mean temperature from 1973-2002 in the continental United States: Is there a human factor?

Steven B. Newman, Central Connecticut State Univ., New Britain, CT

P2.4

Weather and the built environment: Helping the public see the connection between the urban built environment and the impacts of weather and climate

Joseph P. Lamos, UCAR/COMET, Boulder, CO; and B. Muller, S. Espinoza, and D. Sliter

P2.5

Current situation of the patients from heat disorders in the major cities in Japan

Masaji Ono, National Institute for Environmental Studies, Tukuba, Japan

P2.6

The Impact of Urbanization on Hydrological Variables

Heather Yael Glickman, NOAA-CREST/ City University of New York/ CUNY Graduate Center, New York, NY; and D. S. Mahani and D. R. Khanbilvardi

P2.7

The relationship between urban morphology and heat vulnerability in the City of Chicago

Wen-Ching Chuang, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ; and C. Sister, D. A. Hartz, and J. Golden

P2.8

Climate linkages to heat related emergency (911) calls in Chicago, Illinois 2003–2006

Donna A. Hartz, Arizona State Univ., Tempe, AZ; and W. C. Chuang, C. Sister, and J. S. Golden

Poster Session 6

New Approaches to Hydrologic Prediction and Forecast Communication

Location: Hall 5 (Phoenix Convention Center)

Sponsor: 23rd Conference on Hydrology

Cochairs: Andrew W. Wood, 3TIER, Inc.; Mary G. Mullusky, NOAA/NWS

Papers:

P6.1

Investigating Preconvective Synoptic and Frontal Heavy Rainfall Atmospheric Settings Utilizing Proximity Soundings

Michael J. Paddock, NOAA/NWS, Phoenix, AZ; and C. E. Graves and J. T. Martinelli

Poster PDF (637.9 kB)

P6.2

The presentation of risk and uncertainty in hydrologic forecasts by the U.S. National Weather Service

Thomas Adams, NOAA/NWS, Wilmington, OH

P6.3

QPFHelper: Application of the “Mountain Mapper” precipitation forecast technique within the Graphical Forecast Editor

Chris V. Gibson, NOAA/NWS, Salt Lake City, UT; and K. Pomeroy

Poster PDF (1016.0 kB)

P6.4

Avoiding Disaster across Western Colorado: The 2007-08 Winter Season Near-Record Snowfall and impact on the Spring Runoff

Jeffery D. Colton, NOAA/NWS, Grand Junction, CO; and J. Ramey, M. P. Meyers, B. A. Lawrence, and A. Strautins

Poster PDF (329.6 kB)

P6.5

Distributed flood forecasting for different radar-based products in the Colorado Front Range

Hernan Moreno, New Mexico Tech, Socorro, NM; and E. R. Vivoni and D. J. Gochis

Poster Session 7

Regional climate modeling

Location: Hall 5 (Phoenix Convention Center)

Sponsor: 21st Conference on Climate Variability and Change

Papers:

P7.1

Characteristics of extreme rainfall in downscaled climate model data over the Northeastern United States

Lee M. Tryhorn, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY; and A. DeGaetano

P7.2

Sensitivity of the mid-21st century cold season hydroclimate in California to global warming: An RCM projection based on NCAR CCSM3 projection and SRES-A1B emission scenarios

Jinwon Kim, Univ. of California, Los Angeles, CA; and Y. Chao, A. Eldering, R. Fovell, A. Hall, Q. Li, K. N. Liou, J. C. McWilliams, D. E. Waliser, and S. Kapnick

P7.3

The effects of aerosol on regional climate

Hui Du, Univ. of California, Davis, CA; and B. Weare

P7.4

Changes in summertime precipitation over the US due to climate change as simulated by the WRF model

Melissa S. Bukovsky, University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK; and D. J. Karoly

P7.5

Simulating high elevation snowpack: The impact of snow albedo and multi-layer snow treatment

Jinwon Kim, UCLA, Los Angeles, CA; and D. E. Waliser, Y. Xue, A. Hall, K. N. Liou, S. Kapnick, and F. De Sale

P7.6

CCSM/WRF Regional climate simulations of extreme hydrologic events in Central America

Alex C. Ruane, NASA/GISS and Oak Ridge Associated Universities, New York, NY; and C. Rosenzweig and R. M. Horton

P7.7

Lessons and pitfalls in archiving large datasets -- the NARCCAP experience

Seth A. McGinnis, NCAR, Boulder, CO; and L. O. Mearns and L. R. McDaniel

P7.8

Large-scale environmental characteristics of severe weather environments in the NARCCAP simulations of current and future climate

James Correia Jr., PNNL, Richland, WA ; and R. Leung

Joint Poster Session 9

Remote Sensing Applications of GEOSS to the Hydrologic Cycle

Location: Hall 5 (Phoenix Convention Center)

Sponsors: (Joint between the 16th Conference on Satellite Meteorology and Oceanography; and the 23rd Conference on Hydrology )

Cochairs: Ralph R. Ferraro, NOAA/NESDIS; Chandra R. Kondragunta, NOAA/NWS

Papers:

JP9.1

Improvement of Cold Season Land Precipitation Retrievals through the use of Field Campaign Data and High Frequency Microwave Radiative Transfer Model

JP9.2

Snowfall estimation from multi-spectral satellite-based information

Cecilia Hernandez, NOAA/CREST, New York, NY; and S. Mahani and R. Khanbilvardi

JP9.3

Potential reduction of uncertainty in passive microwave precipitation retrieval by the inclusion of dynamic and thermodynamic constraints as part of the cloud dynamics and radiation database approach

W. Y. Leung, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI; and A. V. Mehta, A. Mugnai, E. A. Smith, and G. J. Tripoli

JP9.4

The South American Land Data Assimilation System (SALDAS): the rainfall retrieval methodology

Daniel A. Vila, Earth System Science Interdisciplinary Center, College Park, MD; and L. G. G. D. Goncalves

JP9.5

Tropical Rainfall-Surface Temperature Relations and 10-year Composite Rainfall Climatology from TRMM

Jian-Jian Wang, NASA/GSFC and GEST/Univ. of Maryland, Greenbelt, MD; and R. Adler, G. Gu, and G. J. Huffman

JP9.6

How TRMM Precipitation Radar and Microwave Imager retrieved rain rates differ

Eun-Kyoung Seo, Kongju National University, Kongju, Chung Nam, South Korea; and G. Liu

Poster PDF (193.8 kB)

JP9.7

Combined Radar-Radiometer Analysis of Global Rain and Cloud Microphysics

Stephen Joseph Munchak, NASA GSFC and University of Maryland, Greenbelt, MD; and C. Kummerow

JP9.8

Typhoon rainfall estimation by Bayesian approach from TMI observations over oceans around Taiwan

Wann-Jin Chen, Chung Cheng Institute of Technology / National Defense Univ., Tahsi, Taoyuan, Taiwan; and J. C. Hu, J. Y. C. Chiu, Y. C. Lin, and G. R. Liu

JP9.9

Evaluation of GPM-era satellite precipitation estimates for potential hydrological applications

F. J. Turk, NRL, Monterey, CA; and V. Anantharaj, G. Mostovoy, P. R. Houser, Q. Lu, and Y. Ling

JP9.10

Estimates of Terrestrial Freshwater Discharge Using Satellite Data

Alice Fan, SAIC, Hampton, VA; and B. Lin

Formal Poster Viewing with Coffee Break (See poster listing in Wednesday's program)

Location: Hall 5 (Phoenix Convention Center)

4

Proquest MGA Update

Location: Room 132A (Phoenix Convention Center)

Sponsor: 12th Conference of Atmospheric Science Librarians International

Papers:

11:00 AM

4.1

ProQuest MGA Editorial Update

Christopher Readinger, Editor, MGA, Bethesda, MD; and G. Sawchuck

11:30 AM

4.2

ProQuest MGA Publishing Update

Gerry Sawchuck, Publisher, Natural Sciences, ProQuest, Bethesda, MD

Recorded presentation

9

Satelite Studies and Lidar Observations - II

Location: Room 122A (Phoenix Convention Center)

Sponsor: Fourth Symposium on Lidar Atmospheric Applications

Chair: John A. Reagan, Univ. of Arizona

CoChair: Soon-Chang Yoon, School of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Seoul National University

Papers:

11:00 AM

9.1

Dual-wavelength lidar aerosol retrievals via CRAM

John A. Reagan, Univ. of Arizona, Tucson, AZ; and C. J. Mcpherson, C. A. Hostetler, J. W. Hair, R. A. Ferrare, M. D. Obland, and R. R. Rogers

Recorded presentation Poster PDF (51.2 kB)

11:30 AM

9.2

The evaluation and application of CALIPSO products with focus on expedited data retrievals, temperature dataset comparisons, and trajectory modeling

Alexander Matus, DEVELOP National Program, Hampton, VA; and B. Scarino, D. Henderson, B. Lee, and C. Trepte

Recorded presentation Poster PDF (730.7 kB)

11:45 AM

9.3

Intercomparisons of cloud top and bottom heights from CALIPSO, CloudSat, MODIS, and ground-based LIDAR

Soon-Chang Yoon, School of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Seoul National University, Seoul, South Korea; and K. C. Moon, S. W. Kim, and E. S. Chung

Recorded presentation

12:00 PM

9.4

Comparisons of Cirrus cloud statistics derived from CALIOP spaceborne lidar and MODIS measurements

Sebastien Berthier, SSEC/Univ. of Wisconsin, Madison, WI ; and A. Heidinger, P. Chazette, and B. Baum

Recorded presentation

12:15 PM

9.5

Characterization of global cirrus and polar stratospheric clouds

M. Patrick McCormick, Hampton University, Hampton, VA; and H. Nazaryan and M. T. Hill

Recorded presentation

12B

Surface Measurements and Trends—II

Location: Room 130 (Phoenix Convention Center)

Sponsor: 13th Conference on Integrated Observing and Assimilation Systems for Atmosphere, Oceans, and Land Surface (IOAS-AOLS)

Chair: James A. McNitt, NOAA NWS

Papers:

11:00 AM

12B.1

The application of the NWS OT&E process to the HCN-M

Kenneth L. Stricklett, NOAA/NWS, Silver Spring, MD; and H. Tran, J. Facundo, and C. V. Schmitt IV

Recorded presentation Poster PDF (76.9 kB)

11:15 AM

12B.2

Estimating high-resolution near-surface forecast uncertainty to support optimization of resources

Elena Novakovskaia, IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center, Yorktown Heights, NY; and U. Mello and L. Treinish

Poster PDF (2.2 MB)

11:30 AM

12B.3

21st century observation and modeling activities in support of the California Department of Water Resources flood protection plan

Allen B. White, NOAA / ESRL, Boulder, CO; and M. L. Anderson, M. D. Dettinger, and J. A. Mcginley

Recorded presentation

11:45 AM

12B.4

Issues relating to wind chill from mesonets and vertical wind profile variations

Loren D. White, Jackson State Univ., Jackson, MS; and M. Jones

Recorded presentation

13

Virtual Globe technology and applications - Part II

Location: Room 121BC (Phoenix Convention Center)

Sponsor: 25th Conference on International Interactive Information and Processing Systems (IIPS) for Meteorology, Oceanography, and Hydrology

Cochairs: Scott T. Shipley, George Mason Univ.; Gerald J. Dittberner, NOAA/NESDIS

Papers:

11:00 AM

13.1

The application of virtual globe software in forecasting flash flooding of low water crossings

Tim Brice, NOAA/NWS, Santa Teresa, NM; and A. Foster

Recorded presentation Poster PDF (756.4 kB)

11:15 AM

13.2

Using Virtual Globes to Improve Situational Awareness in the National Weather Service

Andy Foster, NOAA/NWS, Springfield, MO; and K. Stellman and D. Hansing

Recorded presentation Poster PDF (647.6 kB)

11:30 AM

13.3

Google Earth: The power of the GeoWeb and the road ahead

Peter Birch, Google Earth, Mountain View, CA; and M. Jones

13A

Regional climate modeling, especially with urban applications

Location: Room 129A (Phoenix Convention Center)

Sponsor: 21st Conference on Climate Variability and Change

Chair: Raymond Arritt, Iowa State

Papers:

11:00 AM

13A.1

Development of a high-resolution coupled regional climate model in the Atlantic sector for climate change studies

R. Saravanan, Texas A & M Univ., College Station, TX; and J. S. Hsieh, P. Chang, H. Seidel, and G. Creager

Recorded presentation

11:15 AM

13A.2

Improving regional climate change projections of temperature for Halifax, Nova Scotia via statistical downscaling

Lee Titus, Environment Canada/Dalhousie University, Dartmouth, NS, Canada; and R. Greatbatch, I. Folkins, and J. Sheng

Recorded presentation Poster PDF (429.2 kB)

11:30 AM

13A.3

Regional climate model experiments for the Carpathian basin

Judit Bartholy, Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest, Hungary; and R. Pongrácz, C. Torma, I. Pieczka, and A. Hunyady

Poster PDF (449.2 kB)

11:45 AM

13A.4

Regional and decadal analysis of climate change induced extreme hydrometeorological stresses informs adaptation and mitigation policies

Auroop R. Ganguly, ORNL, Oak Ridge, TN; and E. S. Parish, N. Singh, K. Steinhaeuser, D. J. Erickson, M. Branstetter, A. W. King, and E. J. Middleton

http://www.ornl.gov/sci/knowledgediscovery/WarGaming/

Recorded presentation Poster PDF (34.7 kB)

13B

Climate and weather extremes - II

Location: Room 129B (Phoenix Convention Center)

Sponsor: 21st Conference on Climate Variability and Change

Chair: David R. Easterling, NOAA/NESDIS/NCDC

Papers:

11:00 AM

13B.1

Climate variability on intraseasonal time scales: Severe cold and record-breaking rains in Mexico and disruptive wild fires in California in late October 2007

Lance F. Bosart, SUNY, Albany, NY; and H. M. Archambault and J. M. Cordeira

Recorded presentation

11:15 AM

13B.2

Increasing trend of extreme rain events over Bangkok Metropolitan area

Sangchan Limjirakan, Environmental Research Institute, Chulalongkorn University, Pathumwan, Bangkok, Thailand; and A. Limsakul and T. Sriburi

Recorded presentation Poster PDF (576.0 kB)

13B.3

The Extreme Cold Anomaly over Southeast Asia in February 2008:

11:45 AM

13B.4

NOAA's National Climatic Data Center -- resources regarding climate and weather extremes

J. Neal Lott, NOAA/NESDIS/NCDC, Asheville, NC; and R. Heim

Recorded presentation Poster PDF (1.5 MB)

2

Climate Monitoring and Studies—II

Location: Room 126BC (Phoenix Convention Center)

Sponsor: 16th Conference on Satellite Meteorology and Oceanography

Cochairs: Deborah K. Smith, Remote Sensing Systems; Mitchell D. Goldberg, NOAA/NESDIS/ORA

Papers:

11:00 AM

2.1

Climate calibration of the ISCCP visible imagers

Laura M. Hinkelman, JISAO/Univ. of Washington, Seattle, WA; and C. Bishop, D. R. Doelling, S. Kato, J. C. Mikovitz, W. B. Rossow, P. W. Stackhouse Jr., T. C. Stone, and B. A. Wielicki

Recorded presentation

11:15 AM

2.2

Recalibrating Historical HIRS Visible Channel Measurements towards Creating Fundamental Climate Data Records

Likun Wang, Perot System Government Service, Camp Spring, MD ; and C. Cao

Recorded presentation

11:30 AM

2.3

Version 3.2 of the Remote Sensing Systems MSU/AMSU datasets; construction and comparison with radiosondes

Carl A. Mears, Remote Sensing Systems, Santa Rosa, CA; and F. Wentz

Recorded presentation

11:45 AM

2.4

Reprocessing long-term satellite data for climate monitoring and reanalyses

cheng-Zhi Zou, ORA, Camp Springs, MD

12:00 PM

2.5

The Development of an Improved Satellite Rainfall Dataset for Climate Applications

Wesley Berg, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO; and C. D. Kummerow

Recorded presentation

Joint Session 5

Global environmental observing systems including, but not limited to, the Global Climate Observing System (GCOS), Global Ocean Observing System (GOOS), and Global Terrestrial Observing System (GTOS)—II

Location: Room 122BC (Phoenix Convention Center)

Sponsors: (Joint between the 25th Conference on International Interactive Information and Processing Systems (IIPS) for Meteorology, Oceanography, and Hydrology; and the 13th Conference on Integrated Observing and Assimilation Systems for Atmosphere, Oceans, and Land Surface (IOAS-AOLS) )

Cochairs: Howard J. Diamond, NOAA/NESDIS/NCDC; John R. Lincoln, US Navy/WMO (Ret.) and Consultant

Papers:

11:00 AM

J5.1

Upper-air observations for climate: Rationale, progress, and plans for the GCOS Reference Upper-Air Network (GRUAN)

Dian J. Seidel, NOAA/ARL, Silver Spring, MD; and H. J. Diamond, D. M. Goodrich, and P. Thorne

Recorded presentation

11:15 AM

J5.2

Updates on radiatively important atmospheric trace gas concentrations and trends in other parameters from the NOAA ESRL global network

Russell C. Schnell, NOAA/ESRL/GMD, Boulder, CO

Recorded presentation

11:30 AM

J5.3

Using THREDDS to “sew” observational data into the Observing System Monitoring Center

Kevin M. O'Brien, JISAO/University of Washington, Seattle, WA; and S. Hankin, R. Schweitzer, T. Habermann, J. Cartwright, J. Larocque, K. Kern, and M. Little

Recorded presentation

11:45 AM

J5.4

Contributions of the Global Ocean Observing System—what is the observing system telling us about the ocean and how is it helping to improve assimilating models

Christopher Meinen, NOAA/AOML, Miami, FL; and C. Schmid, G. Goni, M. Baringer, R. Lumpkin, and S. Garzoli

Recorded presentation

12:00 PM

J5.5

Analyses and applications of the PACRAIN tipping bucket gauge dataset

Michael D. Klatt, Univ. of Oklahoma, Norman, OK; and M. L. Morrissey and J. S. Greene

http://pacrain.evac.ou.edu

Recorded presentation Poster PDF (198.1 kB)

Joint Session 6

Urban Implications of Climate Change and Population Growth

Location: Room 121A (Phoenix Convention Center)

Sponsors: (Joint between the Fourth Symposium on Policy and Socio—Economic Research; the 21st Conference on Climate Variability and Change; and the Eighth Symposium on the Urban Environment )

Chair: Genevieve E. Maricle, Arizona State Univ.

Papers:

11:00 AM

J6.1

Impact of global climate change on central European cities

Wilhelm Kuttler, Univ. of Duisburg-Essen, Essen, Germany; and S. Weber

11:15 AM

J6.2

Impacts of Rapid Development of Urban Environment on City Weather Services in the Shanghai Region

Xu Tang Sr., Shanghai Meteorological Regional Center, CMA, China, Shanghai, China

Recorded presentation

11:30 AM

J6.3

Modeling global climate change in urban areas

Keith Oleson, NCAR, Boulder, CO; and J. Feddema, T. Jackson, G. Bonan, O. Wilhelmi, and J. Boehnert

Recorded presentation

11:45 AM

J6.4

Climate Change Scenarios for the New York Metropolitan Region

Cynthia Rosenzweig, NASA/GISS and the Columbia Earth Institute, New York, NY; and R. M. Horton

Recorded presentation

12:00 PM

J6.5

Scales of perception: public awareness of neighborhood and regional temperature differences

Darren M. Ruddell, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ; and S. L. Harlan, S. Grossman-Clarke, and G. Chowell

Recorded presentation

8

The effects of meteorology on air quality

Location: Room 127A (Phoenix Convention Center)

Sponsor: 11th Conference on Atmospheric Chemistry

Chair: Nicole Mölders, Universitz of Alaska

Papers:

11:00 AM

8.1

First Observations of Surface Ozone Concentration on Mount Everest

G.W.K. Moore, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada; and J. Semple

Recorded presentation

11:15 AM

8.2

Boundary layer profiling utilizing various techniques for air quality assessments

David DuBois, New Mexico State University, Las Cruces, NM; and I. Kavouras and G. Nikolich

Recorded presentation

11:30 AM

8.3

Investigations on simulating winter inversions causing poor air quality in Fairbanks, Alaska

Nicole Mölders, University of Alaska, Fairbanks, AK; and S. Chigullapalli and G. Kramm

Recorded presentation

11:45 AM

8.4

Meteorologically Adjusted Ozone Trend Analysis in North Carolina

Adrienne M. Wootten, NC State University, Raleigh, NC; and K. L. Gore, T. D. Brown, and J. Zheng

Recorded presentation Poster PDF (677.2 kB)

12:00 PM

8.5

Impacts on Dispersion Prediction Resulting from Different Types of NWP Ensembles

Jared Lee, Penn State University, State College, PA; and L. J. Peltier, S. E. Haupt, D. R. Stauffer, J. C. Wyngaard, and A. Deng

Recorded presentation Poster PDF (562.2 kB)

10

Verification of Hydrological Forecasts—I

Location: Room 127B (Phoenix Convention Center)

Sponsor: 23rd Conference on Hydrology

Chair: Mary G. Mullusky, NOAA/NWS

Papers:

11:00 AM

10.1

On development of a performance measure for extreme quantitative precipitation forecasts using data from HMT-2006 in California

F. Martin Ralph, NOAA/ESRL, Boulder, CO; and E. Sukovich, P. J. Neiman, N. W. Junker, and D. W. Reynolds

Recorded presentation

11:15 AM

10.2

A new soil moisture observational network in Arizona: design, deployment and preliminary results

Robert J. Zamora, NOAA/ETL, Boulder, CO; and E. Clark, D. Brandon, and T. Schneider

Recorded presentation

11:30 AM

10.3

Event-based streamflow simulation using the TREX distributed model and ensemble forecasts from the HMT-west project

Huiling Yuan, CIRES, University of Colorado and NOAA/ESRL/GSD, Boulder, CO; and J. J. Gourley, P. Schultz, J. A. McGinley, Z. Flamig, and C. J. Anderson

Recorded presentation

11:45 AM

10.4

Optimization of quantitative precipitation forecast time horizons used in river forecasts

Noreen O. Schwein, NOAA/NWS, Kansas City, MO; and K. S. Lander

Recorded presentation Poster PDF (289.7 kB)

12:00 PM

10.5

National Weather Service river flood warning verification

Mary G. Mullusky, NOAA/NWS, Silver Spring, MD; and E. Wells, T. Helble, and T. Graziano

Recorded presentation

13

Coupled ocean-atmosphere interactions and their contribution to climate variability on all time scales: Part 2

Location: Room 128A (Phoenix Convention Center)

Sponsor: 16th Conference on Air-Sea Interaction

Chair: Gerald A. Meehl, NCAR

Papers:

11:00 AM

13.1

Indian Ocean capacitor effect: El Nino's long grip on the Asian-western Pacific summer monsoon

Shang-Ping Xie, Univ. of Hawaii, Honolulu, HI; and Y. Du, Y. Du, J. Hafner, J. Hafner, H. Tokinaga, K. Hu, T. Sampe, G. Huang, H. Tokinaga, and T. Sampe

Recorded presentation

11:15 AM

13.2

Coupled air-sea interactions in the Western Pacific and large-scale climate variability

Ben P. Kirtman, Univ. of Miami/RSMAS, Miami, FL

11:30 AM

13.3

The impact of the mean state on the ENSO simulation and prediction

Xiaohua Pan, George Mason Univ./COLA, Beltsville, MD; and J. Shukla and B. Huang

Recorded presentation Poster PDF (1.2 MB)

11:45 AM

13.4

Mean state and SST variability of the South-Eastern Pacific: a model study

Thomas Toniazzo, NCAS-Climate, University of Reading, Reading, United Kingdom

Recorded presentation

12:00 PM

13.5

Seasonal Cycle-ENSO Interactions: Validation of Hypotheses

Heng Xiao, Dept. of Atmos. and Oceanic Sci., UCLA, Los Angeles, CA; and C. R. Mechoso

Joint Session 18

Remote Sensing Applications of GEOSS to the Hydrologic Cycle—II

Location: Room 127C (Phoenix Convention Center)

Sponsors: (Joint between the 23rd Conference on Hydrology; and the 16th Conference on Satellite Meteorology and Oceanography )

Cochairs: Chandra R. Kondragunta, NOAA/NWS; Ralph R. Ferraro, NOAA/NESDIS

Papers:

11:00 AM

J18.1

Vertical profiling of cloud structure and light precipitation using CloudSat's 94 GHz radar data

Cristian Mitrescu, NRL, Monterey, CA; and J. M. Haynes, T. Ellis, T. S. L'Ecuyer, S. D. Miller, and J. F. Turk

Recorded presentation

11:15 AM

J18.2

WindSat Land Surface Products as a Tool for the Analysis of 2003 European Heat Wave

Li Li, NRL, Washington, DC; and P. W. Gaiser

Recorded presentation

11:30 AM

J18.3

Closing the Water Cycle over the Ocean using a Constellation of Satellites

Kyle Hilburn, Remote Sensing Systems, Santa Rosa, CA; and F. J. Wentz

Recorded presentation

J18.4

Application of a linearized land-atmosphere model to remote-sensing and hydrometeorology

12:00 PM

J18.5

NOAA Observation Requirement Assessment for Hydrologic Variables

Chandra R. Kondragunta, NOAA, Silver Spring, MD; and P. M. Taylor, E. Miller, M. Yapur, L. O'Connor, R. Mairs, and R. C. Reining

Recorded presentation

Joint Session 22

Modeling Tools for Energy Production in Urban and Complex Terrain

Location: Room 124A (Phoenix Convention Center)

Sponsors: (Joint between the Eighth Symposium on the Urban Environment; and the The Energy Committee )

Chairs: Jon Davis, Chesapeake Energy Corporation; Julie K. Lundquist, University of Colorado at Boulder

Papers:

J22.1

Comparing the challenges of the wind resource analysis of urban versus non-urban wind farms

11:15 AM

J22.1A

Application of the Weather Research and Forecasting Model for the planning and operation of wind plants

Larry K. Berg, PNNL, Richland, WA; and J. D. Fast, J. E. Flaherty, W. I. Gustafson Jr., and W. J. Shaw

11:30 AM

J22.2

Operational wind generation forecasting

Russell L. Bigley, Xcel Energy, Littleton, CO

11:45 AM

J22.3

Research needs for wind resource characterization

William J. Shaw, PNNL, Richland, WA; and S. Schreck and J. K. Lundquist

Recorded presentation

12:00 PM

J22.4

Nesting large-eddy simulations within mesoscale simulations for urban and complex terrain

Julie K. Lundquist, University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder, CO; and J. D. Mirocha, F. K. Chow, B. Kosovic, and K. A. Lundquist

12:15 PM

J22.5

The impacts of wind energy turbines on local meteorology: implications for urban environments

Amanda S. Adams, Univ. of Calgary, Calgary, AB, Canada; and D. W. Keith

Recorded presentation

12:30 PM

J22.6

Undergraduate forecasting and nowcasting for a major urban public utility

Brian J. Cerruti, Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey, New Brunswick, NJ; and S. G. Decker, L. A. Bowers, W. K. Wittman, and J. Carlson

Recorded presentation Poster PDF (156.3 kB)

Exhibits Open

2

Anthony Hollingsworth Symposium—II

Location: Room 131C (Phoenix Convention Center)

Sponsor: The Anthony J. Hollingsworth Symposium

Cochairs: David Burridge, Director THORPEX IPO (former Director ECMWF); Gerald L. Potter, Univ. of California Davis

Papers:

11:15 AM

2.1

(Invited Speaker) The Legacy of Anthony Hollingsworth in Hydrometeorology: remote sensing, data assimilation, and ensemble predictions

Soroosh Sorooshian, University of California, Irvine, CA

Recorded presentation

11:45 AM

2.2

(Invited Speaker) Tony Hollingsworth's contributions to The Observing System Research and Predictability Experiment (THORPEX)

David Burridge, Director THORPEX IPO (former Director ECMWF), Reading, United Kingdom

Hollingsworth Symp Luncheon

Location: Room 131AB (Phoenix Convention Center)

Lunch Break (Cash and Carry in Exhibit Hall)

2009 Program Chair Thank you Lunch

Location: Room 126B (Phoenix Convention Center)

Sponsor: Events

Town Hall Meting: Climate Change Science Program Listening Session

Location: Room 125B (Phoenix Convention Center)

Sponsor: Events

5

Vendor and Publisher Updates

Location: Room 132A (Phoenix Convention Center)

Sponsor: 12th Conference of Atmospheric Science Librarians International

Papers:

1:00 PM

5.1

Wiley-Blackwell

Alexa Dugan, Wiley Interscience, Manchester, United Kingdom

1:30 PM

5.2

Springer

Robert Doe, Geosciences, Amsterdam, Netherlands

2:00 PM

5.3

Cambridge University Press

Matt Lloyd, Senior Commissioning Editor for Earth and Space Science, Cambridge, United Kingdom

2:30 PM

5.4

American Geophysical Union

Karine Blaufuss, Marketing and Membership, American Geophysical Union, Washington, DC

Recorded presentation

14

Regional climate modeling - II

Location: Room 129A (Phoenix Convention Center)

Sponsor: 21st Conference on Climate Variability and Change

Chair: Ruby Leung, PNNL

Papers:

1:30 PM

14.1

Surface and free-air lapse rates in the Cascade Mountains of Washington

Philip W. Mote, Univ. of Washington, Seattle, WA; and J. D. Lundquist and J. R. Minder

Recorded presentation

1:45 PM

14.2

Assessing the sensitivity of Western U.S. mountain snowfall to future climate temperature

John Horel, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT; and L. Jones

Recorded presentation

2:00 PM

14.3

Regional Climate Change Modeling in High Resolution for Central and Eastern Europe in Project CECILIA

Tomas Halenka, Charles Univ., Prague, Czech Republic; and M. Belda and J. Miksovsky

Recorded presentation

2:15 PM

14.4

Constraining future Projections for Temperature Extremes at local scale

Xuebin Zhang, EC, Toronto, ON, Canada; and F. W. Zwiers

Recorded presentation

13

Observing system simulation experiments (OSSEs)—I

Location: Room 130 (Phoenix Convention Center)

Sponsor: 13th Conference on Integrated Observing and Assimilation Systems for Atmosphere, Oceans, and Land Surface (IOAS-AOLS)

Chair: Robert Atlas, NOAA/AOML

Papers:

1:30 PM

13.1

Simulation of the impact of new air- and space-based ocean surface wind measurements on H*Wind analyses and numerical forecasts

Timothy L. Miller, NASA/MSFC, Huntsville, AL; and R. M. Atlas, P. G. Black, J. L. Case, S. S. Chen, R. E. Hood, J. W. Johnson, L. Jones, C. S. Ruf, E. W. Uhlhorn, T. Krishnamurti, and C. M. Albers

Recorded presentation

1:45 PM

13.2

Expanding cplaboration in Joint OSSEs

Michiko Masutani, EMC, Camp Springs, MD; and R. M. Errico, J. S. Woollen, Y. Xie, T. Zhu, N. Prive, R. Yang, H. Sun, A. Da Silva, C. Hill, Y. Song, S. Greco, S. A. Wood, E. Andersson, T. Jung, L. P. Riishojgaard, F. Weng, O. Reale, T. W. Schlatter, V. Anantharaj, P. J. Fitzpatrick, A. Stoffelen, G. J. Marseille, G. D. Emmitt, S. Lord, Y. Sato, M. Hu, S. S. Weygandt, M. J. McGill, D. Devenyi, T. J. Kleespies, E. Liu, M. Sienkiewicz, D. Groff, D. T. Kleist, K. Fielding, H. Pryor, E. Salmon, M. W. Govett, X. Fan, E. Brin, Z. Pu, L. Cucurull, Z. Toth, T. Miyoshi, T. Enomoto, M. Watanabe, H. Koyama, Y. Rochen, M. Seablom, B. Hauss, R. Burns, G. Higgins, H. Wang, Y. Chen, and X. Y. Huang

http://www.emc.ncep.noaa.gov/research/JointOSSEs

Poster PDF (117.9 kB)

2:00 PM

13.3

Observing System Simulation Experiments for Unmanned Aircraft Systems: preliminary efforts

Nikki Prive, NOAA, Boulder, CO; and Y. Xie, T. W. Schlatter, M. Masutani, R. Atlas, Y. Song, J. Woollen, and S. Koch

Recorded presentation Poster PDF (1.6 MB)

2:15 PM

13.4

The Impact of GPS Radio Occultation Data on Typhoon Prediction: An OSSE Study of Typhoon Shanshan (2006)

Shu-Ya Chen, National Central University, Jhongli, Taiwan; and C. Y. Huang and Y. H. Kuo

Recorded presentation

2:30 PM

13.5

Potential impacts of Lidar wind measurements on high-impact weather forecasting: A regional OSSEs Study

Zhaoxia Pu, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT; and B. Gentry and B. B. Demoz

Recorded presentation

3

Anthony Hollingsworth Symposium—III

Location: Room 131C (Phoenix Convention Center)

Sponsor: The Anthony J. Hollingsworth Symposium

Cochairs: David Burridge, Director THORPEX IPO (former Director ECMWF); Gerald L. Potter, Univ. of California Davis

Papers:

1:30 PM

3.1

(Invited Speaker) Our MIT student times

Eugenia Kalnay, University of Maryland, College Park, MD

Recorded presentation

2:00 PM

3.2

(Invited Speaker) Contributions to tropical meterology

Peter Webster, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA

Recorded presentation

2:30 PM

3.3

(Invited Speaker) Seamless Prediction of Weather and Climate from Days to Decades

J. Shukla, George Mason Univ./COLA, Beltsville, MD

Recorded presentation

Joint Session 7

Sustainable Urban Design

Location: Room 131A (Phoenix Convention Center)

Sponsors: (Joint between the Special Symposium on Aerosol–Cloud–Climate Interactions; the 11th Conference on Atmospheric Chemistry; the Fourth Symposium on Policy and Socio—Economic Research; the Eighth Symposium on the Urban Environment; and the Fourth Conference on the Meteorological Applications of Lightning Data )

Chair: Eric Pardyjak, University of Utah

Papers:

1:30 PM

J7.1

The Centrality of Design in the Reduction of Urban Sprawl: A Summary of Issues

Emily Talen, Arizona State University, Phoenix, AZ

Recorded presentation

2:00 PM

J7.2

Urban climate modeling, heat island mitigation and local knowledge: co-producing science for urban policy

Lily Parshall, Columbia University, New York, NY; and J. Corburn

Recorded presentation Poster PDF (113.4 kB)

2:15 PM

J7.3

Mitigating urban heat island effects with water and energy sensitive urban designs

Anthony J. Brazel, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ; and P. Gober, S. Grossman-Clarke, S. Myint, S. Grimmond, A. Q. Miller, R. Quay, and S. Rossi

Recorded presentation Poster PDF (44.3 kB)

2:30 PM

J7.4

Simulations of the London urban climate: the LUCID project

Sylvia I. Bohnenstengel, University of Reading, Reading, Berks., United Kingdom; and A. Porson, M. Davies, and S. Belcher

Recorded presentation

2:45 PM

J7.5

Optimization of urban designs for air quality and energy efficiency

Eric Pardyjak, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT; and P. Willemsen and D. E. Johnson

Recorded presentation

9

Air quality and climate change—III

Location: Room 127A (Phoenix Convention Center)

Sponsor: 11th Conference on Atmospheric Chemistry

Cochairs: Bernhard Rappenglueck, Univ. of Houston; Barry Gross, City College of New York

Papers:

1:30 PM

9.1

Aerosols and associated precipitation patterns in Atlanta

Matthew C. Lacke, Jefferson County Department of Health, Birmingham, AL; and T. L. Mote and J. M. Shepherd

Recorded presentation

1:45 PM

9.2

Using Mie Raman Lidar measurements to explore cloud properties

Barry Gross, City College of New York, New York, NY; and Y. Wu, S. Chaw, F. Moshary, and S. Ahmed

Recorded presentation Poster PDF (1.0 MB)

2:00 PM

9.3

Seasonal and Spatial Comparisons between Cloud and Aerosol Optical Properties Derived from Satellite Based Remote Sensing in Northeast Asia

Byung-Gon Kim, Kangnung National University, Gangnung, South Korea; and Y. J. Kim, C. H. Ho, and C. K. Song

Recorded presentation Poster PDF (131.3 kB)

2:15 PM

9.4

VOCs in Alberta's Industrial Heartland

Rachel Mintz, EC, Edmonton, AB , Canada; and R. D. McWhinney, B. Chaitan, C. Englot, and R. D'amours

Poster PDF (964.7 kB)

2:30 PM

9.5

Analysis of urban online VOC data in Houston, Texas

Bernhard Rappenglueck, Univ. of Houston, Houston, TX

9.6

Characterizations of paved road dust in urban area

11

Verification of Hydrological Forecasts—II

Location: Room 127B (Phoenix Convention Center)

Sponsor: 23rd Conference on Hydrology

Chair: Mary G. Mullusky, NOAA/NWS

Papers:

1:30 PM

11.1

Verification of a downscaling approach for large area flood prediction over the Ohio River Basin

Nathalie Voisin, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Seattle, WA; and J. C. Schaake and D. P. Lettenmaier

Recorded presentation

1:45 PM

11.2

Evaluation of an operational heavy rainfall and flash flood prediction system for the Colorado Front Range region

David J. Gochis, NCAR, Boulder, CO; and D. Yates, W. Yu, S. Rutledge, R. Cifelli, P. C. Kennedy, and E. Vivoni

Recorded presentation

2:00 PM

11.3

Use of quantile regression for calibration of hydrologic forecasts

Andrew W. Wood, 3TIER, Inc., Seattle, WA; and M. Wiley and B. Nijssen

Recorded presentation

2:15 PM

11.4

On development of a performance measure for snow-level forecasts

Allen B. White, NOAA/ESRL, Boulder, CO; and D. J. Gottas, P. J. Neiman, E. A. Ellis, D. E. Kingsmill, S. I. Gutman, F. M. Ralph, and A. F. Henkel

Recorded presentation

2:30 PM

11.5

Evaluation of land surface process scheme: The single-column tests and seasonal prediction

KyungHee Seol, Yonsei University, Seoul, South Korea; and S. Y. Hong, M. Kanamitsu, H. L. Hugo, and D. Tapash

2:45 PM

11.6

High-resolution land surface prediction system for the Vancouver 2010 Winter Olympic Games

Natacha Bernier, Environment Canada, Dorval, QC, Canada; and S. Bélair, L. Tong, M. Abrahamowicz, and J. Mailhot

14

Coupled ocean-atmosphere interactions and their contribution to climate variability on all time scales: Part 3

Location: Room 128AB (Phoenix Convention Center)

Sponsor: 16th Conference on Air-Sea Interaction

Chair: Simon P. De Szoeke, NOAA/ESRL/PSD3

Papers:

1:30 PM

14.1

SST sensitivity of a global ocean-atmosphere coupled system to the parameterization of boundary layer clouds

Joao Teixeira, JPL, Pasadena, CA; and P. May, M. K. Flatau, and T. F. Hogan

1:45 PM

14.2

The Intra-Americas Sea springtime temperature dipole as fingerprint of remote influences

Ernesto Muñoz, New Mexico Consortium, Los Alamos, NM; and C. Wang and D. B. Enfield

Recorded presentation

2:00 PM

14.3

Free and forced variability of the tropical Atlantic Ocean: Role of the wind-evaporation-sea surface temperature (WES) Feedback

Salil Mahajan, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX; and R. Saravanan and P. Chang

Recorded presentation

2:15 PM

14.4

Observed Impact of Subtropical-Midlatitude South Atlantic SST Anomalies on the Atmospheric Circulation

Qigang Wu, Univ. of Oklahoma, Norman, OK

Recorded presentation

2:30 PM

14.5

Modeling Atlantic tropical instability waves using a coupled regional climate model

Jen-Shan Hsieh, Department of Atmospheric science, Texas A & M University, College Station, TX; and C. Wen, P. Chang, and R. Saravanan

Recorded presentation

2:45 PM

14.6

High-resolution simulations of air-sea interaction in the Mediterranean Sea

Richard Justin Orford Small, NRL, Stennis Space Center, MS; and T. A. Smith, T. Campbell, R. Allard, J. Dykes, and J. Teixeira

Recorded presentation

14

Radar Applications - Session III

Location: Room 122BC (Phoenix Convention Center)

Sponsor: 25th Conference on International Interactive Information and Processing Systems (IIPS) for Meteorology, Oceanography, and Hydrology

Cochairs: Timothy Crum, NOAA/NEXRAD Radar Operations Center; Douglas E. Forsyth, NOAA/NSSL; Robert E. Saffle, Noblis, Inc.; Julian Wang, NOAA/ARL

Papers:

1:30 PM

14.1

Consistent clustering of radar reflectivities using Strong-Point Analysis -- a prelude to storm tracking

Benjamin Root, University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK; and T. Y. Yu and M. Yeary

Recorded presentation Poster PDF (162.9 kB)

1:45 PM

14.2

Sea Surface Clutter Velocity Estimation and Its Affect on Clutter Filtering Performance

Chuck Reed, BCI, Moorestown, NJ; and H. S. Owen and T. Maese

2:00 PM

14.3

Evaluation of a new multiple-Doppler tornado detection and characterization technique using real radar observations

Corey K. Potvin, University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK; and A. M. Shapiro, T. Y. Yu, J. Gao, and M. Xue

Recorded presentation Poster PDF (691.9 kB)

2:15 PM

14.4

Application of a new vorticity-equation based dual-Doppler radar wind analysis technique to a tornadic supercell storm

Alan Shapiro, University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK; and C. K. Potvin, M. R. Kumjian, K. Donner, and J. Gao

Recorded presentation

2:30 PM

14.5

Effects of convective boundary layer inhomogeneities on radar measurements of mean wind and turbulence

Danny E. Scipion, University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK; and R. D. Palmer, P. B. Chilson, E. Fedorovich, and A. M. Botnick

Recorded presentation Poster PDF (990.9 kB)

2:45 PM

14.6

Radar refractivity applications for convective initiation forecasting and observations of the convective boundary layer

David Bodine, Atmospheric Radar Research Center, School of Meteorology, University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK; and B. L. Cheong, P. L. Heinselman, R. D. Palmer, and D. S. Michaud

Recorded presentation Poster PDF (507.2 kB)

Joint Session 19

Use of Virtual and Digital Globes for Visualizing Satellite Data and “Mashups"

Location: Room 121BC (Phoenix Convention Center)

Sponsors: (Joint between the 16th Conference on Satellite Meteorology and Oceanography; and the 25th Conference on International Interactive Information and Processing Systems (IIPS) for Meteorology, Oceanography, and Hydrology )

Cochairs: Gerald J. Dittberner, NOAA/NESDIS; Joseph F. Turk, NRL

Papers:

J19.1

The use of virtual globes to visualize non-imagery meteorological satellite data

1:30 PM

J19.2

An improved dynamic global cloud layer for virtual globes

F. J. Turk, NRL, Monterey, CA; and S. D. Miller and C. Castello

Recorded presentation

2:00 PM

J19.3

Development of a consumer oriented meteorological display system using web mapping services

Yaniv A. Zimet, Weather Underground, Inc., San Francisco, CA; and J. J. Celenza, T. Roche, M. T. Kallio, M. Beaver, and R. W. Carver

2:15 PM

J19.4

Innovative Strategies for NASA Satellite Data Visualization using Google Earth

Michael J. Garay, Raytheon Corporation, Pasadena, CA; and J. Burke

2:30 PM

J19.5

Design of web-based GIS tools to support routine quality monitoring of remote sensed products from next generation LEO and GEO missions

T. Scott Zaccheo, AER, Inc., Lexington, MA; and M. Sze, E. J. Kennelly, and D. B. Hogan

Poster PDF (546.7 kB)

2:45 PM

J19.6

A tool for rapid assessment of renewable energy potential

Christian P. Sarason, 3TIER, Seattle, WA; and B. Nijssen

Recorded presentation

Joint Session 23

Modeling and Forecasting Urban Areas—II

Location: Room 124A (Phoenix Convention Center)

Sponsors: (Joint between the Eighth Conference on Coastal Atmospheric and Oceanic Prediction and Processes; and the Eighth Symposium on the Urban Environment )

Chairs: Fei Chen, NCAR; Jason K.S. Ching, NOAA

Papers:

1:30 PM

J23.1

Testing of a multi-layer urban canopy model with two boundary layer schemes in WRF

Alberto Martilli, Centro de Investigaciones Energéticas, Medioambientales y Tecnológicas, Madrid, Spain; and S. Grossman Clarke, F. Chen, and J. Dudhia

Recorded presentation

1:45 PM

J23.2

Effects of historical land use changes on near surface meteorological variables in the Phoenix (Arizona, USA) metropolitan area

Susanne Grossman Clarke, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ; and J. A. Zehnder

2:00 PM

J23.3

Sensitivity of mesoscale urban boundary layer meteorology to uncertainty in the urban morphology

David D. Flagg, York University, Toronto, ON, Canada; and P. A. Taylor

Recorded presentation

2:15 PM

J23.4

Relationships between Urban and Suburban Micrometeorological Variables

Wenjun Qian, University of California, Riverside, CA; and M. Princevac and A. Venkatram

Poster PDF (882.9 kB)

2:30 PM

J23.5

Results and sensitivities of the Town Energy Budget (TEB) coupled to the Regional Atmospheric Modeling System (RAMS) over Washington DC

Timothy E. Nobis, AWS, Whitesboro, NY; and R. A. Pielke Sr.

Recorded presentation

2:45 PM

J23.6

Parameterization of subgrid concentration distributions in CMAQ for urban air quality assessments

Jason K. Ching, USEPA/ORD/NERL/AMD, Research Triangle Park, NC; and M. A. Majeed, V. Isakov, and J. A. Herwehe

Recorded presentation

15

Regional modeling - NARCCAP

Location: Room 129A (Phoenix Convention Center)

Sponsor: 21st Conference on Climate Variability and Change

Chair: Linda O. Mearns, NCAR

Papers:

2:30 PM

15.1

The North American regional climate change assessment program (NARCCAP): overview of phase II results

Linda O. Mearns, NCAR, Boulder, CO

Recorded presentation

2:45 PM

15.2

Assessing uncertainty in regional climate experiments

Stephan R. Sain, NCAR, Boulder, CO

Recorded presentation

Break

Coffee Break and Exhibit Hall Raffle

Location: Hall 4 (Phoenix Convention Center)

ASLI Business Meeting—All conference attendees are encouraged to participate

14

Observing Systems Simulation Experiments (OSSEs)—II

Location: Room 130 (Phoenix Convention Center)

Sponsor: 13th Conference on Integrated Observing and Assimilation Systems for Atmosphere, Oceans, and Land Surface (IOAS-AOLS)

Chair: Nikki Prive, NOAA

Papers:

4:00 PM

14.3

Two-dimensional Variational Analysis of Near-Surface Moisture from Simulated Radar Refractivity-related Phase Change Observations

Ken-ichi Shimose, Kyushu Univ., Fukuoka, Japan; and M. Xue, R. D. Palmer, J. Gao, B. L. Cheong, and D. Bodine

Recorded presentation Poster PDF (1.6 MB)

4:15 PM

14.4

An integrated global ocean observing system for sea surface temperature using satellites and in situ data: research-to-operations

Huai-Min Zhang, NOAA/NESDIS/NCDC, Asheville, NC; and R. W. Reynolds, R. Lumpkin, R. Molinari, K. Arzayus, and T. Smith

Recorded presentation

14.1

Impact of COSMIC and Other Satellite Data on Prediction of Cyclone Gonu

3:45 PM

14.2

Multivariate Data Assimilation of Carbon Cycle Using Local Ensemble Transform Kalman Filter

Ji-Sun Kang, University of Maryland, College Park, MD; and E. Kalnay, J. Liu, I. Fung, and N. Zeng

Recorded presentation Poster PDF (208.5 kB)

3

Special Session on Latest Developments in Hyperspectral Remote Sensing

Location: Room 126BC (Phoenix Convention Center)

Sponsor: 16th Conference on Satellite Meteorology and Oceanography

Chair: William L. Smith Sr., Hampton University

Papers:

3:30 PM

3.1

Geosynchronous Imaging Fourier Transform Spectrometer (GIFTS): An advanced sounder offering two orders of magnitude improvement

Hank Revercomb, Univ. of Wisconsin/SSEC, Madison, WI; and B. Smith, G. A. Bingham, and C. Velden

Recorded presentation

4:00 PM

3.2

Inferring convective weather characteristics with geostationary high spectral resolution IR window measurements: A look into the future

Justin Sieglaff, CIMSS/Univ. of Wisconsin, Madison, WI; and T. J. Schmit, P. Menzel, and S. Ackerman

Recorded presentation

4:15 PM

3.3

Comparisons between GOES and LEO hyperspectral IR soundings over CONUS

Jun Li, CIMSS/Univ. of Wisconsin, Madison, WI; and E. Weisz, T. J. Schmit, J. P. Nelson III, J. Li, and Z. Li

Recorded presentation

4:30 PM

3.4

Five-year climatology of dry air intrusions as viewed by AIRS/Aqua

Sean P. F. Casey, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX; and A. E. Dessler and C. Schumacher

Recorded presentation

4:45 PM

3.5

First results on IASI assimilation in the global Canadian forecast system

Sylvain Heilliette, EC, Dorval, QC , Canada; and L. Garand

Recorded presentation Poster PDF (1.3 MB)

4

Anthony Hollingsworth Symposium—IV

Location: Room 131C (Phoenix Convention Center)

Sponsor: The Anthony J. Hollingsworth Symposium

Cochairs: David Burridge, Director THORPEX IPO (former Director ECMWF); Gerald L. Potter, Univ. of California Davis

Papers:

3:30 PM

4.1

(Invited Speaker) Assimilation of radio occultation observations in weather models-a tribute to Tony Hollingsworth's vision of using observations of all types to improve forecasts

Richard A. Anthes, UCAR, Boulder, CO

Recorded presentation

4:00 PM

4.2

Stochastic parameterizations: from satellite observations to ensemble prediction

Joao Teixeira, JPL, Pasadena, CA; and C. A. Reynolds, B. H. Kahn, J. S. Goerss, and J. G. McLay

4:15 PM

4.3

(Invited Speaker) Environmental monitoring and prediction

Adrian Simmons, ECMWF, Reading, Berks, United Kingdom

Recorded presentation

4:45 PM

Concluding Remarks by David Burridge

5

Urban Heat Islands—Mitigation Studies

Location: Room 124B (Phoenix Convention Center)

Sponsor: Eighth Symposium on the Urban Environment

Chair: Jay S. Golden, National Center of Excellence on SMART Innovations for Urban Climate and Energy

Papers:

3:30 PM

5.1

Relating urban thermal patterns to vegetation distribution at various scales

Anita Walz, Marshall University, Huntington, WV; and W. H. Hwang

Recorded presentation Poster PDF (2.0 MB)

3:45 PM

5.2

Tree-cover influences on below-canopy air temperatures in Baltimore, MD

Gordon M. Heisler, USDA Forest Service, Syracuse, NY; and D. Nowak, I. Yesilonis, R. Pouyat, A. Lee, A. Ellis, E. Greenfield, and S. Grimmond

Recorded presentation

4:00 PM

5.3

Evaluating the surface energy balance of alternative parking lot paving materials in hot arid climates

Joby D. Carlson, National Center of Excellence on SMART Innovations for Urban Climate and Energy, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ; and J. H. Jo, K. E. Kaloush, and J. S. Golden

Recorded presentation

4:15 PM

5.4

Quantifying the direct and indirect benefits of a ‘cool' roof renovation project in hot dry climate zones

Jin Ho Jo, National Center of Excellence on SMART Innovations for Urban Climate and Energy, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ; and J. Carlson, K. S. Bae, H. Bryan, and J. S. Golden

Recorded presentation

4:30 PM

5.5

The Effect of Heat Transfer from Artificial Turf on the Urban Energy Balance

Neda Yaghoobian, Univ. of California, San Diego, CA; and J. Kleissl and S. Krayenhoff

Recorded presentation

4:45 PM

5.6

CUFR tree carbon calculator

James R. Simpson, USDA Forest Service, Davis, CA; and E. G. McPherson

10

Air pollution in mega cities in the world

Location: Room 127A (Phoenix Convention Center)

Sponsor: 11th Conference on Atmospheric Chemistry

Cochairs: Wallace McMillan, University of Maryland; Satoru Chatani, Japan Petroleum Energy Center

Papers:

3:30 PM

10.1

Applying the Aerosol Modeling Testbed to assess modal and sectional predictions of particulates and aerosol radiative forcing downwind of a megacity

Jerome D. Fast, PNNL, Richland, WA; and W. I. Gustafson Jr., E. G. Chapman, G. A. Grell, S. Peckham, and R. Schmitz

Recorded presentation

3:45 PM

10.2

Validation of the 3-D air quality simulation based on OH reactivity over Tokyo metropolitan area

Satoru Chatani, Japan Petroleum Energy Center, Minato-ku, Tokyo, Japan; and N. Shimo, S. Matsunaga, Y. Kajii, S. Kato, Y. Nakashima, and K. Miyazaki

Recorded presentation Poster PDF (368.6 kB)

4:00 PM

10.3

Comparative analysis of air quality models CIT, WRF-Chem and SPM-BRAMS for the second ozone campaign in Metropolitan Area of São Paulo

Vanessa S.B. Carvalho, University of São Paulo, São Paulo, SP, Brazil; and C. R. Mazzoli, L. D. Martins, M. F. Andrade, and E. D. Freitas

Recorded presentation

4:15 PM

10.4

Satellite-based assessment of particulate matter air pollution in global mega cities

Pawan Gupta, Univ. of Alabama, Huntsville, AL; and S. A. Christopher

Recorded presentation

4:30 PM

10.5

Satellite observations of megacity air pollution, biomass burning emissions, and their long-range transport

Wallace McMillan, University of Maryland, Baltimore, MD; and L. Yurganov, A. Krueger, R. Hoff, C. D. Barnet, J. Gleason, E. Celarier, N. Krotkov, X. Liu, T. Kurosu, G. Osterman, and O. Torres

Recorded presentation

4:45 PM

10.6

An assessment of air quality in the Houston region: investigating the ability to infer surface PM2.5 from remote sensing measurements and examining possible aerosol sources

Amy Sanders, DEVELOP National Program, Hampton, VA; and R. Legatt, B. Baxley, D. Doddridge, L. Lynaugh, E. Roberts, and R. A. Ferrare

Recorded presentation Poster PDF (966.6 kB)

15

Coupled ocean-atmosphere interactions and their contribution to climate variability on all time scales: Part 4

Location: Room 128AB (Phoenix Convention Center)

Sponsor: 16th Conference on Air-Sea Interaction

Chair: Edgar L. Andreas, NorthWest Research Associates, Inc.

Papers:

3:30 PM

15.1

Low-frequency variability in a mid-latitude coupled model: Gulf Stream influence on the tropospheric jet

Michael Ghil, Ecole Normale Supérieure, Paris, France; and Y. Feliks and E. Simonnet

http://www.atmos.ucla.edu/tcd/

Poster PDF (23.6 kB)

3:45 PM

15.2

An enhancement of a coupled mode of variability in CCSM3 in the North Pacific owing to ocean model biases

LuAnne Thompson, University of Washington, Seattle, WA; and Y. O. Kwon

Recorded presentation

4:00 PM

15.3

The role of Rossby wave breaking in the Pacific Decadal Oscillation

Courtenay Strong, Univ. of California, Irvine, Irvine, CA; and G. Magnusdottir

Recorded presentation

4:15 PM

15.4

Rethinking the Impacts of Atmosphere-Ocean Coupling

Sang-Ik Shin, U. of Colorado/CIRES/Climate Diagnostics Center and NOAA/ESRL/PSD, Boulder, CO; and P. D. Sardeshmukh

4:30 PM

15.5

Modelling the impact of polar mesoscale cyclones on ocean circulation

Alan Condron, Climate System Research Center, Amherst, MA; and G. Bigg and I. A. Renfrew

Recorded presentation Poster PDF (58.9 kB)

4:45 PM

15.6

Atmospheric conditions associated with oceanic convection in the south-east Labrador Sea

D.a.J. Sproson, University of East Anglia, Norwich, Norfolk, United Kingdom; and I. Renfrew and K. Heywood

Recorded presentation Poster PDF (47.8 kB)

5:00 PM

Announce winners for best student papers

5:05 PM

Concluding remarks

15

Radar Applications - Session III - PART II

Location: Room 121BC (Phoenix Convention Center)

Sponsor: 25th Conference on International Interactive Information and Processing Systems (IIPS) for Meteorology, Oceanography, and Hydrology

Cochairs: Timothy Crum, NOAA/NEXRAD Radar Operations Center; Douglas E. Forsyth, NOAA/NSSL; Robert E. Saffle, Noblis, Inc.; Julian Wang, NOAA/ARL

Papers:

3:30 PM

15.1

A comparison of Mobile Micro Rain Radar data to disdrometer and weather station data in North Carolina

Jessica L. Losego, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC; and K. Galluppi

Recorded presentation

3:45 PM

15.2

Radar polarimetric signatures of fire plumes

Valery Melnikov, University of Oklahoma/CIMMS, Norman, OK; and D. S. Zrnic, R. M. Rabin, B. Pierce, and P. Zhang

Recorded presentation Poster PDF (751.5 kB)

4:00 PM

15.3

Modular Software Architecture for Tactical Weather Radar Processing

Timothy Maese, BCI, Moorestown, NJ; and J. A. Hunziker, H. S. Owen, C. Reed, R. Bluth, and L. Wagner

4:15 PM

15.4

Simultaneous horizontal and vertical transmit radar data and polarization errors

J. C. Hubbert, NCAR, Boulder, CO; and M. Dixon, S. M. Ellis, and G. Meymaris

Recorded presentation Poster PDF (1.5 MB)

4:30 PM

15.5

WSR-88D Dual Polarization Initial Operational Capabilities

Michael J. Istok, NOAA/NWS, Silver Spring, MD; and M. A. Fresch, S. D. Smith, Z. Jing, R. Murnan, A. V. Ryzhkov, J. Krause, M. H. Jain, J. T. Ferree, P. T. Schlatter, B. Klein, D. J. Stein III, G. S. Cate, and R. E. Saffle

Poster PDF (1.2 MB)

4:45 PM

15.6

The advantage of using CASA radars to detect lower troposphere winds in quasi-linear convective systems

B. Philips, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA; and R. Przybylinski, B. Dolan, J. Brotzge, D. J. Rude, E. Bass, and W. Diaz

16

Regional modeling - NARCCAP Part II

Location: Room 129A (Phoenix Convention Center)

Sponsor: 21st Conference on Climate Variability and Change

Chair: Linda O. Mearns, NCAR

Papers:

3:30 PM

16.1

ENSO precipitation skill in the North American Regional Climate Change Assessment Program (NARCCAP)

Raymond W. Arritt, Iowa State University, Ames, IA

3:45 PM

16.2

Simulations of regional, extreme monthly precipitation by the NARCCAP RCMs

William J. Gutowski Jr., Iowa State University, Ames, IA; and L. O. Mearns, R. Arritt, S. Biner, D. Caya, D. Flory, R. Jones, R. Laprise, R. Leung, W. Moufouma-Okia, A. Nunez, Y. Qian, J. Roads, L. Sloan, M. Snyder, and G. Takle

Recorded presentation

4:00 PM

16.3

Analysis of the NARCCAP WRF Simulations of Cold Season Extreme Precipitation Events

L. Ruby Leung, PNNL, Richland, WA; and Y. Qian

Recorded presentation

4:15 PM

16.4

Changes of Climate and Hydrological Cycle in the Upper Mississippi River Basin

Er Lu, Iowa State University, Ames, IA; and E. S. Takle, M. Jha, and T. NARCCAP-Team

Recorded presentation

4:30 PM

16.5

Characteristics of Wind Speeds over the US from 1982-2004 as Simulated by Regional Climate Models

Eugene S. Takle, Iowa State Univ., Ames, IA; and S. C. Pryor, R. J. Barthelmie, T. Andersen, and T. NARCCAP-Team

Recorded presentation

4:45 PM

16.6

Dynamical Downscaling of Short-Term Climate Fluctuations

Ana M. B. Nunes, SIO/Univ. of California, La Jolla, CA

Joint Session 24

Modeling Tools for Urban and Complex Terrain Environments

Location: Room 124A (Phoenix Convention Center)

Sponsors: (Joint between the Eighth Symposium on the Urban Environment; and the The Energy Committee )

Chairs: Fei Chen, NCAR; Jason K.S. Ching, NOAA

Papers:

3:30 PM

J24.1

MM5, WRF and CMAQ using NUDAPT for advanced urban applications

Jason K. Ching, USEPA/ORD/NERL/AMD, Research Triangle Park, NC; and F. Chen, H. Taha, M. Tewari, and T. L. Otte

Recorded presentation

3:45 PM

J24.2

Satellite-based approaches to determine urban characteristics: implications for NUDAPT and modeling

Steven Burian, Univ. of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT; and I. Jeyachandran, J. M. Shepherd, M. Carter, and M. Jin

Recorded presentation

4:00 PM

J24.3

Application of an integrated WRF/urban modeling system to urban environmental problems

Fei Chen, NCAR, Boulder, CO; and M. Tewari, Y. Liu, J. Dudhia, S. G. Miao, A. Martilli, S. Grossman-Clarke, J. K. Ching, and H. Kusaka

Recorded presentation

4:15 PM

J24.4

Two-way coupling approach between WRF NWP and EULAG LES models for urban area transport and dispersion modeling

Andrzej A. Wyszogrodzki, NCAR, Boulder, CO; and F. Chen, S. G. Miao, and J. Michalakes

Recorded presentation

J24.5

Building resolving simulations in the Weather Research and Forecasting model incorporating surface physics and dispersion

4:45 PM

J24.5A

The effect of stratification on the aerodynamic roughness length and displacement height

Sergej Zilitinkevich, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland; and I. Mammarella, A. Baklanov, and S. Joffre

Recorded presentation

5:00 PM

J24.6

Numerical experiments using WRF/Urban Canopy Model over Houston region

Mukul Tewari, NCAR, Boulder, CO; and F. Chen, K. W. Manning, S. Grimmond, T. Loridan, J. K. Ching, and S. G. Miao

ASLI Sessions end for the day

Location: Room 132A (Phoenix Convention Center)

Sponsor: 12th Conference of Atmospheric Science Librarians International

ASLI Executive Board meeting

Location: Room 132A (Phoenix Convention Center)

Sponsor: 12th Conference of Atmospheric Science Librarians International

AMS 89th Annual Meeting Adjourns

ASLI Field Trip. Friday is devoted to a field trip to Taliesin West (Frank Lloyd Wright Architectural Library), the brand new Dial Center for Innovation Library and Salt River Project Library. Reservations are required. Please e-mail gilibrary@gi.alaska.edu. Cost is $45 (lunch not included). Bus departs from the Convention Center at 8:30 sharp and will return by 4:30.

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