| Sunday, 17 January 2010 |
| 9:00 AM-6:00 PM, Sunday
Annual Meeting Registration Begins |
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| 12:00 PM-4:00 PM, Sunday
Weatherfest |
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| Monday, 18 January 2010 |
| 7:30 AM-5:30 PM, Monday
Registration Open |
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| 9:00 AM-10:30 AM, Monday, Thomas Murphy Ballroom 1 and 2
Presidential Forum |
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| 10:30 AM-11:00 AM, Monday
Coffee Break in Meeting Room Foyer |
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| 12:00 PM-1:30 PM, Monday
Lunch Break |
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| 2:30 PM-4:00 PM, Monday, Exhibit Hall B2
Formal Poster Viewing with Coffee Break |
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| 5:30 PM-7:30 PM, Monday, Exhibit Hall B1
Opening of the Exhibit Hall with Reception |
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| Tuesday, 19 January 2010 |
| 8:30 AM-9:45 AM, Tuesday, B202
Joint Session 3 The New Energy Economy (Joint between the First Conference on Weather, Climate, and the New Energy Economy and the 8th Users Forum on Weather and Climate Impacts) |
Chair: Jon Davis, Chesapeake Energy Corporation, Chicago, IL
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| 8:30 AM | J3.1 | The New Energy Economy Invited Speaker
Steve Messner, Environ Corp., Novato, CA |
| 8:45 AM | J3.2 | The Role of Atmospheric Science in Renewable Energy Usage
Betsy Weatherhead, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO |
| 9:00 AM | J3.3 | NOAA's potential to support carbon-free renewable energy: observations, forecasts and climate studies
James M. Wilczak, NOAA/ESRL, Boulder, CO; and M. Marquis |
| 9:15 AM | J3.4 | Global Energy Use and Options for Renewable Economic Growth
Hugo A. Loaiciga, University of California, Santa Barbara, CA |
| 9:30 AM | J3.5 | Space-based Earth observations: Informing energy management decision making
Richard S. Eckman, NASA/LaRC, Hampton, VA; and P. W. Stackhouse Jr. |
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| 9:45 AM-11:00 AM, Tuesday, Exhibit Hall B2
Formal Poster Viewing with Coffee Break |
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| 11:00 AM-6:00 PM, Tuesday, Exhibit Hall B1
Exhibits Open |
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| 11:00 AM-12:00 PM, Tuesday, B202
Joint Session 5 Applied Studies (Joint between the First Conference on Weather, Climate, and the New Energy Economy and the 8th Users Forum on Weather and Climate Impacts) |
Chair: Jon Davis, Chesapeake Energy Corporation, Chicago, IL
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| 11:00 AM | J5.1 | Improvements in NOAA modeling and data assimilation to improve guidance for the renewable energy industry
Stan Benjamin, NOAA/ESRL/GSD, Boulder, CO; and J. M. Brown, J. B. Olson, J. Wilczak, R. Banta, G. DiMego, and F. Weng |
| 11:15 AM | J5.2 | Knowledge Discovery and Dissemination for Climate Extremes and Uncertainty
Auroop R. Ganguly, ORNL, Oak Ridge, TN; and K. Steinhaeuser, A. Sorokine, E. Parish, S. C. Kao, N. Singh, and M. L. Branstetter |
| 11:30 AM | J5.3 | Statistical downscaling of wind for California wind farms with an application to 21st Century climate scenarios
David K. Mansbach, SIO/Univ. of California, La Jolla, CA; and D. R. Cayan |
| 11:45 AM | J5.4 | Impacts of climate change on global wind energy resources
Scott J. Eichelberger, 3TIER, Inc., Seattle, WA; and A. W. Wood, B. Nijssen, and K. J. Westrick |
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| 12:00 PM-1:30 PM, Tuesday, B208
Kuettner Symposium Luncheon |
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| 12:00 PM-1:30 PM, Tuesday
Lunch Break (Cash and Carry in Exhibit Hall) |
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| 1:30 PM-3:00 PM, Tuesday, B202
Joint Session 6 Energy Supply and Demand (Joint between the First Conference on Weather, Climate, and the New Energy Economy and the 8th Users Forum on Weather and Climate Impacts) |
Chair: Stephen Bennett, EarthRisk Technologies, San Diego, CA
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| 1:30 PM | J6.1 | Energy Supply & Demand Invited Speaker
Josh Logsdon, Round Rock Energy LLC, Cincinnati, OH |
| 1:45 PM | J6.2 | Interacting with energy: a summary of user engagement activities of the energy industry at NOAA's national climatic data center 
Anthony Arguez, NOAA/NESDIS/NCDC, Asheville, NC; and T. G. Houston, J. N. Lott, and H. J. Ray |
| 2:00 PM | J6.3 | The impact of dynamic climate normals to the natural gas industry
Mark S. Russo, Chesapeake Energy Corp., Chicago, IL |
| 2:15 PM | J6.4 | Forecasting extreme cold snaps in the Northeast: Weather and Climate
Alexander Gershunov, SIO/Univ. of California, La Jolla, CA; and K. Guirguis and S. Bennett |
| 2:30 PM | J6.5 | Influence of ENSO on renewable U.S. energy supply
Klaus Wolter, CIRES/Univ. of Colorado, Boulder, CO |
| 2:45 PM | J6.6 | Improving long-range hydropower forecasts in snowmelt dominated basins
Mark T. Jelinek, Georgia Tech, Atlanta, GA; and R. D. Garreaud |
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| 3:00 PM-3:30 PM, Tuesday, Exhibit Hall B1
Coffee Break in Exhibit Hall |
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| 3:30 PM-5:30 PM, Tuesday, B202
Joint Session 7 Wind Energy (Joint between the First Conference on Weather, Climate, and the New Energy Economy and the 8th Users Forum on Weather and Climate Impacts) |
Chair: Jerry H. Crescenti, Iberdrola Renewables, Portland, OR
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| 3:30 PM | J7.1 | Reducing wind energy forecast uncertainty through improved measurements and modeling
Robert M. Banta, NOAA/ESRL, Boulder, CO; and Y. L. Pichugina |
| 3:45 PM | J7.2 | Modeling the Atmospheric Boundary Layer for Wind Power
Sue Ellen Haupt, Penn State Univ., University Park, PA; and F. J. Zajaczkowski and K. J. Schmehl |
| 4:00 PM | J7.3 | Using AWS-WeatherBug observations and the WRF-ARW model for wind energy applications
Elena Novakovskaia, IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center, Yorktown Heights, NY; and H. Centola and L. A. Treinish |
| 4:15 PM | J7.4 | Gravity wave effects on wind farm efficiency
Ronald B. Smith, Yale University, New Haven, CT |
| 4:30 PM | J7.5 | Estimating threshold confidence for wind energy production
Ethan Cook, University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK; and M. Morrissey |
| 4:45 PM | J7.6 | Lidar measurements as an alternative to traditional anemometry in Wind Energy research
Yelena Pichugina, CIRES/Univ. of Colorado, Boulder, CO; and R. M. Banta and N. D. Kelley |
| 5:00 PM | J7.7 | Applications of scanning Doppler Lidar for the wind energy industry
Rod Frehlich, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO; and N. D. Kelley |
| 5:15 PM | J7.8 | An examination of orthogonal expansions for estimating the wind power density function
Mark Morrissey, University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK; and E. Cook |
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| Wednesday, 20 January 2010 |
| 8:30 AM-10:00 AM, Wednesday, B202
Joint Session 9 Wind Energy: Applied Modeling and Forecasting I (Joint between the First Conference on Weather, Climate, and the New Energy Economy and the 8th Users Forum on Weather and Climate Impacts) |
Chair: Kathleen E. Moore, Integrated Environmental Data, LLC, Berne, NY
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| 8:30 AM | J9.1 | Speaker for Wind Engergy Invited Speaker
Donald Furman, Iberdrola Renewables, Portland, OR |
| 8:45 AM | J9.2 | A climate model investigation of lower-atmospheric wind speed biases over wind farm development regions of the continental United States
Jonathan Collier, Garrad Hassan America, Inc., San Diego, CA; and G. Zhang |
| 9:00 AM | J9.3 | Examination of spatial wind features associated with ramping events using MODE
Tressa L. Fowler, NCAR, Boulder, CO; and R. Bullock |
| 9:15 AM | J9.5 | An investigation of simulated low-level jets produced by different PBL schemes in the WRF-ARW as verified against tower data
Joseph B. Olson, NOAA/ESRL/GSD and National Research Council, Boulder, CO; and J. M. Brown |
|  | J9.4 | Wind energy site characterization with loosely coupled mesoscale-CFD modeling
Julia E. Flaherty, PNNL, Richland, WA; and M. C. Richmond, C. L. Rakowski, J. A. Serkowski, and L. K. Berg |
| 9:30 AM | J9.6 | Using a large eddy simulation model to simulate wakes from large wind projects
John Manobianco, AWS Truewind LLC, Albany, NY; and P. Beaucage, C. Alonge, and M. C. Brower |
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| 10:00 AM-10:30 AM, Wednesday
Coffee Break in Meeting Room Foyer |
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| 10:30 AM-12:00 PM, Wednesday, B202
Joint Session 10 Wind Energy: Applied Modeling and Forecasting II (Joint between the First Conference on Weather, Climate, and the New Energy Economy and the 8th Users Forum on Weather and Climate Impacts) |
Chair: Catherine A. Finley, WindLogics Inc., Grand Rapids, MN
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| 10:30 AM | J10.1 | A Community Wind Energy Project in Rural Albany County, New York State
Kathleen E. Moore, Integrated Environmental Data, Berne, NY; and L. W. Pruskowski |
| | J10.2 | Application of an operational meso-scale modelling system for industrial plant energy operations
Lloyd A. Treinish, IBM Systems and Technology Group, Yorktown Heights, NY; and A. Praino and J. H. Chapman |
| 10:45 AM | J10.3 | What really happened in Altona?
Elena Novakovskaia, Earth Networks, Germantown, MD; and L. A. Treinish and A. Praino |
| 11:00 AM | J10.4 | Peak load matching and the offshore wind resource
Jeffrey M. Freedman, AWS Truewind LLC, Albany, NY; and B. H. Bailey, J. Manobianco, K. T. Waight, J. W. Zack, and M. Brower |
| 11:15 AM | J10.5 | Multiple satellite blended sea surface winds and their applications to offshore renewable energy
Huai-Min Zhang, NOAA/NESDIS/NCDC, Asheville, NC; and R. W. Reynolds and J. J. Sturman |
| 11:30 AM | J10.6 | A green roof demonstration project
Richard D. Clark, Millersville University, Millersville, PA; and J. Price and J. Dougherty |
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| 11:00 AM-6:30 PM, Wednesday
Exhibits Open |
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| 12:00 PM-1:30 PM, Wednesday
Lunch Break (Cash and Carry in Exhibit Hall) |
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| 12:00 PM-1:30 PM, Wednesday, B313
Joint Panel Discussion 1 Panel Discussion - NPOESS and GOES-R User Community (DoD, NOAA, NASA) Applications (Joint between the 6th Annual Symposium on Future National Operational Environmental Satellite Systems-NPOESS and GOES-R and the 8th Users Forum on Weather and Climate Impacts) |
Panelists: Mary E. Kicza, NOAA/NESDIS, Silver Spring, MD; Robert Winokur, Oceanographer of the Navy, Washington, D.C., DC; Fred Lewis, Director of Weather, Air Force Pentagon, Washington, DC; Dr. Jack Hayes, NOAA/NWS, Silver Spring, MD; Lars Peter Riishojgaard, JCSDA, Greenbelt, MD; Lars Prahm, EUMETSAT, D-64205 Darmstadt Germany
Cochairs: Michael L. Jamilkowski, Raytheon Intelligence and Information Systems, Greenbelt, MD; Hal Bloom, NOAA/NESDIS/GOES-R Program Office, Greenbelt, MD
Moderator: William Hooke, AMS, Washington, DC
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| 12:00 PM | JPD1.1 | Satellite User Community
Mary E. Kicza, NOAA/NESDIS, Silver Spring, MD |
| 12:15 PM | JPD1.2 | NPOESS
Robert Winokur, Oceanographer of the Navy, Washington, D.C., DC |
| 12:30 PM | JPD1.3 | NPOESS & GOES-R User Community Applications Panel
John Hayes, NOAA/NWS, Silver Spring, MD |
| 12:45 PM | JPD1.4 | NPOESS: Panel Discussion
Lars Peter Riishojgaard, Joint Center for Satellite Data Assimilation, College Park, MD |
| 1:00 PM | JPD1.5 | EUMETSAT
Lars Prahm, EUMETSAT, D-64205 Darmstadt, Germany |
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| 1:30 PM-2:30 PM, Wednesday, B202
Joint Session 11 Issues on the Grid (Joint between the First Conference on Weather, Climate, and the New Energy Economy and the 8th Users Forum on Weather and Climate Impacts) |
Chair: Russell L. Bigley, Xcel Energy, Littleton, CO
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| 1:30 PM | J11.1 | Climate Change Impacts on Residential and Commercial Loads in the Western U.S. Grid
L. Ruby Leung, PNNL, Richland, WA; and N. Lu, T. Z. Taylor, W. Jiang, J. Correia, and P. Wong |
| 1:45 PM | J11.2 | Using multiple linear regression to develop a plant damage model for a major utility company
Brian J. Cerruti, Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey, New Brunswick, NJ; and S. G. Decker |
| 2:00 PM | J11.3 | Statistical Solution to Forecasting Electric Power Outages Caused by Severe Storms
Hongfei Li, IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center, Yorktown Heights, NY; and L. A. Treinish |
| 2:15 PM | J11.4 | Integrating renewable energy into the North American power grid: realities, challenges and opportunities
Mark L. Ahlstrom, WindLogics Inc., St. Paul, MN |
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| 2:30 PM-4:00 PM, Wednesday, Exhibit Hall B2
Formal Poster Viewing with Coffee Break |
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| 2:30 PM-4:00 PM, Wednesday, Exhibit Hall B2
Joint Poster Session New Energy Economy Poster Session (Joint between the First Conference on Weather, Climate, and the New Energy Economy and the 8th Users Forum on Weather and Climate Impacts) |
| | 497 | Risk analysis for a mixed wind farm and solar power plant portfolio
Heinz-Theo Mengelkamp, GKSS Research Center, Geesthacht, Germany; and D. Bendel, D. Obst, and R. Meyerhof |
| | 498 | Development of a wind resource map based on mesoscale model WRF over the Korean Peninsula
Young-Jean Choi, National Institute of Meteorological Research, Seoul, South Korea; and J. Y. Byon and B. K. Seo |
| | 499 | Incorporating weather into the Smart Grid
James H. Block, Telvent DTN, Minneapolis, MN |
| | 500 | Avoiding "subprime" carbon—applying lessons learnt from the current financial crisis to the carbon derivatives market
Harvey Stern, Bureau of Meteorology, Melbourne, Vic., Australia; and J. Cornall-Reilly and P. McBride |
| | 501 | Numerical simulation of wind power potential in Upstate New York
Robert J. Ballentine, SUNY, Oswego, NY; and S. Steiger and D. B. Phoenix |
| | 502 | Seasonal predictability of energy-relevant weather/climate variables
Hye-Mi Kim, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA; and P. J. Webster and J. A. Curry |
| | 503 | Improved capabilities for siting wind farms and mitigating impacts on RADAR observations
Steven R. Chiswell, Savannah River National Laboratory, Aiken, SC |
| | 504 | Extreme winds and trends in the U.S
Jeffrey M. Freedman, AWS Truewind LLC, Albany, NY; and N. D. Babij, D. Bernadette, and M. C. Brower |
| | 505 | Meteorological factors affecting solar radiation efficiency - applications to the tropics
Paul Ruscher, Florida State Univ., Tallahassee, FL |
| | 506 | Operational evaluation of a meso-scale weather and outage prediction service for electric utility operations
Lloyd A. Treinish, IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center, Yorktown Heights, NY; and A. P. Praino, H. Li, E. Novakovskaia, J. M. Drexel, R. Derech, and B. Hertell |
| | 507 | Weather-driven characteristics of a reliable national renewable energy system
Alexander E. MacDonald, OAR, Boulder, CO; and A. Alexander |
| | 508 | A Plan of Satellite Data Assimilation in Supports of Renewable Energy Forecasts
Fuzhong Weng, NOAA/NESDIS, Camp Springs, MD; and M. D. Goldberg |
| | 509 | The impact of Anthropogenic Climate Change on the U.S. Wind Resource
Daniel B. Kirk-Davidoff, Univ. of Maryland, College Park, MD; and D. Barrie |
| | 510 | Application and validation of a new multi scale wind flow modeling system
Michael C. Brower, AWS Truewind LLC, Albany, NY; and P. Beaucage, J. Manobianco, and C. Alonge |
| | 511 | Collective effects of large scale wind energy
Amanda S. Adams, University of North Carolina, Charlotte, NC; and D. W. Keith |
| | 512 | California's wind energy resource: seasonal cycle, synoptic and diurnal characteristics, and variability
David K. Mansbach, SIO/Univ. Of California, La Jolla, CA; and D. R. Cayan |
| | 513 | Tornadoes, Thomson, and turbulence: an analogous perspective on tornadogenesis and coherent structure in the atmosphere
Marcus L. Büker, Western Illinois University, Macomb, IL; and G. J. Tripoli |
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| 4:00 PM-5:30 PM, Wednesday, B202
Joint Session 12 Solar Energy (Joint between the First Conference on Weather, Climate, and the New Energy Economy and the 8th Users Forum on Weather and Climate Impacts) |
Chair: Heidi Centola, CME Group, Chicago, IL
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| 4:00 PM | J12.1 | Speaker for Solar Invited Speaker
Richard Perez, SUNY/Atmospheric Sciences Research Center, Albany, NY |
| 4:15 PM | J12.2 | Proposal for a solar and aerosol optical depth network for the United States
Joseph J. Michalsky, NOAA/ESRL, Boulder, CO; and E. G. Dutton and T. Stoffel |
| 4:30 PM | J12.3 | Short-Term Solar Radiation Forecasts in Support of Smart Grid Technology
George D. Modica, AER, Inc, Lexington, MA; and R. d'Entremont, E. Mlawer, and G. Gustafson |
| 4:45 PM | J12.4 | Global Wind and Solar Energy Estimate and Forecasting
Quanhua Liu, Dell Inc., Camp Springs, MD; and F. Weng and M. Goldberg |
| 5:00 PM | J12.5 | GOES-based solar energy prediction products for decision makers
Steven D. Miller, CIRA/Colorado State Univ., Fort Collins, CO; and C. Combs, S. Kidder, A. K. Heidinger, M. Sengupta, J. Knaff, D. W. Hillger, R. Brummer, and I. Laszlo |
| 5:15 PM | J12.6 | Improved forecasts of cloud fraction due to shallow cumuli
Larry K. Berg, PNNL, Richland, WA; and W. I. Gustafson Jr. and E. I. Kassianov |
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| 5:30 PM-6:30 PM, Wednesday, Exhibit Hall B1
Reception in Exhibit Hall (Cash Bar) |
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| 7:00 PM-9:00 PM, Wednesday, Thomas Murphy Ballroom 1-4
AMS Annual Awards Banquet |
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| Thursday, 21 January 2010 |
| 7:30 AM-8:30 AM, Thursday, B208
Washington Symposium Breakfast |
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| 9:45 AM-1:30 PM, Thursday
Exhibits Open |
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| 9:45 AM-11:00 AM, Thursday, Exhibit Hall B2
Formal Poster Viewing with Coffee Break |
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| 3:00 PM-3:30 PM, Thursday
Coffee Break in Meeting Room Foyer |
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| 5:00 PM-5:05 PM, Thursday
AMS 90th Annual Meeting Adjourns |
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