| Monday, 18 January 2010 |
| 7:30 AM-5:30 PM, Monday
Registration Open |
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| Tuesday, 19 January 2010 |
| 8:30 AM-9:45 AM, Tuesday, B306
Joint Session 3 Data Collection, Interpretation, Assimilation, and Stewardship (Joint between the 14th Symposium on Integrated Observing and Assimilation Systems for the Atmosphere, Oceans, and Land Surface (IOAS-AOLS), the First Symposium on Planetary Atmospheres, the 14th Conference on Aviation, Range, and Aerospace Meteorology, the 12th Conference on Atmospheric Chemistry, the 20th Conference on Probability and Statistics in the Atmospheric Sciences, the 24th Conference on Hydrology, and the 18th Conference on Applied Climatology) |
Chair: Stan Benjamin, NOAA/ESRL/GSD, Boulder, CO
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| 8:30 AM | J3.1 | The Impacts on Air Traffic of Volcanic Ash from the 2009 Mt. Redoubt Eruption 
Alexander Matus, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI; and L. A. Hudnall, J. J. Murray, and A. Krueger |
| 8:45 AM | J3.2 | UrbanNet: Urban Environment Monitoring and Modeling with a Wireless Sensor Network
Paul J. Croft, Kean University, Union, NJ; and P. Morreale, F. Qi, A. Tropek, and M. Andujar |
| 9:00 AM | J3.3 | Network of Weather and Climate Observing Networks (NOWCON)
Samuel P. Williamson, Office of the Federal Coordinator for Meteorology, Silver Spring, MD; and J. E. Stailey and S. J. Taijeron |
| 9:15 AM | J3.4 | Comparison of COOP and new HCN-M temperature products
John R. Christy, University of Alabama, Huntsville, AL |
| 9:30 AM | J3.5 | The Impact of Temporally Varying Snowfall Rates on Holdover Time using the LWE and Check Time Systems
Roy Rasmussen, NCAR, Boulder, CO; and S. Landolt, J. Black, and A. Gaydos |
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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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| 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, B213
Session 1 Spacecraft and ground-based observations of planetary atmospheres |
Chair: Mark I. Richardson, CALTECH, Pasadena, CA
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| 1:30 PM | 1.1 | Isotopic ratios in Titan's stratosphere from Cassini CIRS and implications for evolution of the atmosphere
Conor A. Nixon, University of Maryland, College Park, MD; and D. E. Jennings, P. N. Romani, A. Jolly, B. Bézard, A. Coustenis, N. A. Teanby, P. G. J. Irwin, S. Vinatier, and F. M. Flasar |
| 1:45 PM | 1.2 | Satellite-derived cloud motion winds in the north polar region of Mars
David A. Santek, CIMSS/Univ. of Wisconsin, Madison, WI; and E. Sorensen, S. Limaye, and B. Cantor |
| 2:00 PM | 1.3 | Assimilating TES radiances with the DART/Planet-WRF ensemble data assimilation system
Greg Lawson, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA; and J. Anderson and N. Collins |
| 2:15 PM | 1.4 | Martian Atmospheric Data Assimilation Using an Ensemble Kalman Filter
Matthew J. Hoffman, Rochester Institute of Technology, Rochester, NY; and S. J. Greybush, R. J. Wilson, G. Gyarmati, R. N. Hoffman, K. Ide, E. J. Kostelich, T. Miyoshi, I. Szunyogh, and E. Kalnay |
| 2:30 PM | 1.5 | Martian atmosphere breeding: elucidating atmospheric instabilities
Steven J. Greybush, University of Maryland, College Park, MD; and E. Kalnay, M. J. Hoffman, T. Miyoshi, K. Ide, and R. J. Wilson |
| 2:45 PM | 1.6 | Assimilation of TES data into a Mars general circulation model using LETKF
Eugenia Kalnay, Univ. of Maryland, College Park, MD; and S. J. Greybush, M. J. Hoffman, R. J. Wilson, J. Eluszkiewicz, R. N. Hoffman, K. Ide, and T. Miyoshi |
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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, B216
Joint Session 4 Research on extreme weather and climate events and inter-relationships (Joint between the 22nd Conference on Climate Variability and Change, the First Symposium on Planetary Atmospheres, the First Environment and Health Symposium, the 20th Conference on Probability and Statistics in the Atmospheric Sciences, the 24th Conference on Hydrology, the 18th Conference on Applied Climatology, the First Conference on Weather, Climate, and the New Energy Economy, and the Committee on Climate Services) |
Chair: David R. Easterling, NOAA/NESDIS/NCDC, Asheville, NC
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| 3:30 PM | J4.1 | The relative increase of record high maximum temperatures compared to record low minimum temperatures in the U.S
Gerald Meehl, NCAR, Boulder, CO; and C. Tebaldi, G. Walton, D. R. Easterling, and L. R. McDaniel |
| 3:45 PM | J4.2 | A common Midwestern question: Where have all our 90°F days gone?
David Changnon, Northern Illinois Univ., DeKalb, IL; and V. A. Gensini and J. Prell |
| 4:00 PM | J4.3 | Using large scale circulation indices to predict the intensity of cold air outbreaks over extended time scales across the southeastern U.S
Charles E. Konrad, NOAA Southeastern Regional Climate Center, Chapel Hill, NC |
| 4:15 PM | J4.4 | Heat waves and cold spells in a warming climate
Karsten Steinhaeuser, ORNL, Oak Ridge, TN; and A. R. Ganguly |
| 4:30 PM | J4.6 | Extreme european weather regimes
Ricardo Morais Fonseca, Portugal; and B. J. Hoskins and M. Blackburn |
| 4:45 PM | J4.7 | Meteorological features of observed trends in U.S. heavy precipitation events
Kenneth E. Kunkel, DRI, Reno, NV; and D. R. Easterling, B. E. Gleason, D. A. R. Kristovich, R. A. Smith, and L. Ensor |
| 5:00 PM | J4.8 | Contemporary climatic changes in North America and Northern Eurasia with foci on extreme events and transitions through environmentally and socio-economically significant thresholds
Pavel Ya. Groisman, NOAA/NESDIS/NCDC, Asheville, NC; and R. W. Knight and T. R. Karl |
| 5:15 PM | J4.5 | Climatological, meteorological, and societal implications for the large number of fatalities from central Florida Dry Season tornadoes during El Niño
Bartlett C. Hagemeyer, NOAA/NWS, Melbourne, FL; and L. A. Jordan, A. L. Moses, S. M. Spratt, and D. F. Van Dyke III |
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| Wednesday, 20 January 2010 |
| 8:30 AM-10:00 AM, Wednesday, B215
Joint Session 5 Advances in Modeling, From Local through Regional to Large Scale, and From Deterministic to Ensemble-Probabilistic Prediction Part I (Joint between the 22nd Conference on Climate Variability and Change, the 14th Symposium on Integrated Observing and Assimilation Systems for the Atmosphere, Oceans, and Land Surface (IOAS-AOLS), the First Symposium on Planetary Atmospheres, the 14th Conference on Aviation, Range, and Aerospace Meteorology, the 12th Conference on Atmospheric Chemistry, the 20th Conference on Probability and Statistics in the Atmospheric Sciences, and the 24th Conference on Hydrology) |
Chair: Ed Olenic, NOAA/NWS/CPC, Camp Springs, MD
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| 8:30 AM | J5.1 | On the seamless prediction of weather and climate
Timothy N. Palmer, ECMWF, Reading, United Kingdom |
| 8:45 AM | J5.2 | Performance of the NOAA FIM global ensemble prediction system for hurricanes during the 2009 season
Tom Hamill, NOAA/ESRL, Boulder, CO; and J. S. Whitaker and S. Benjamin |
| 9:00 AM | J5.3 | Why does cloud superparameterization improve the simulated daily rainfall cycle in a multiscale climate modeling framework?
Michael S. Pritchard, SIO/Univ. Of California, La Jolla, CA; and R. C. J. Somerville |
| 9:15 AM | J5.4 | North Pacific decadal variability and climate change in the IPCC AR4 models
Jason C. Furtado, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA; and E. Di Lorenzo |
| 9:30 AM | J5.5 | Aquaplanet GCM simulations of tropical intraseasonal variability
Eric D. Maloney, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO; and W. Hannah |
| 9:45 AM | J5.6 | Factors affecting forecast skill of the MJO over the Maritime Continent
Augustin Vintzileos, NOAA/NWS/NCEP/EMC - SAIC, Camp Springs, MD |
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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, B215
Joint Session 6 Advances in Modeling, From Local through Regional to Large Scale, and From Deterministic to Ensemble-Probabilistic Prediction Part II (Joint between the 22nd Conference on Climate Variability and Change, the 14th Symposium on Integrated Observing and Assimilation Systems for the Atmosphere, Oceans, and Land Surface (IOAS-AOLS), the First Symposium on Planetary Atmospheres, the 14th Conference on Aviation, Range, and Aerospace Meteorology, the 12th Conference on Atmospheric Chemistry, the 20th Conference on Probability and Statistics in the Atmospheric Sciences, and the 24th Conference on Hydrology) |
Chair: Ed Olenic, NOAA/NWS/CPC, Camp Springs, MD
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| 10:30 AM | J6.1 | Quantifying Contributions to Polar Warming Amplification in a Coupled General Circulation Model
Ming Cai, Florida State Univ., Tallahassee, FL; and J. Lu |
| 10:45 AM | J6.2 | The development of a coupled hurricane storm surge forecasting Model for the Pascagoula River
David A. Ramirez Jr., NOAA/NWS, Slidell, LA |
| 11:00 AM | J6.3 | Evaluation of the new Australian climate model ACCESS
Ian G. Watterson, CAWCR, Aspendale, Victoria, Australia; and L. Rikus, B. Hu, and T. Elliott |
| 11:15 AM | J6.4 | Mesoscale circulations in the urban-coastal environment: a modeling analysis and assessment of sensitivity to high-fidelity representation of the urban canopy
Michael Carter, Mississippi State University, Mississippi State, MS; and J. M. Shepherd, S. Burian, and I. Jeyachandran |
| 11:30 AM | J6.5 | Ensemble downscaling of seasonal forecasts
R. W. Arritt, Iowa State University, Ames, IA |
| 11:45 AM | J6.6 | The misrepresentation of Tropical SSTs in climate models
Prashant D. Sardeshmukh, Univ. of Colorado/CIRES/CDC and NOAA/ESRL/PSD, Boulder, CO; and S. I. Shin |
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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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| 2:30 PM-4:00 PM, Wednesday, Exhibit Hall B2
Formal Poster Viewing with Coffee Break |
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| 4:00 PM-5:30 PM, Wednesday, B314
Session 2 Numerical modeling of planetary meteorology and climate dynamics |
Chair: Mark I. Richardson, CALTECH, Pasadena, CA
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| 4:00 PM | 2.1 | Striving towards simulating all known atmospheres equally well: vertical coordinate and pressure-gradient force
Timothy E. Dowling, University of Louisville, Louisville, KY |
| 4:15 PM | 2.2 | Simulation of Venus' general circulation
Christopher Lee, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA |
| 4:30 PM | 2.3 | Atmospheric circulations of terrestrial planets orbiting low mass stars
Adam R. Edson, ITT Visual Information Solutions, Springfield, VA; and S. Lee, P. R. Bannon, D. Pollard, and J. Kasting |
| 4:45 PM | 2.4 | Formation of zonal jets by large-scale latent heating on the giant planets
Adam P. Showman, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ; and Y. Lian |
| 5:00 PM | 2.5 | Methane in Titan's weather and climate
Jonathan L. Mitchell, Univ. of California, Los Angeles, CA |
| 5:15 PM | 2.6 | The dynamics and structure of Titan's middle atmosphere
F. Michael Flasar, NASA/GSFC, Greenbelt, MD |
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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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| 11:00 AM-12:15 PM, Thursday, B211
Session 3 Martian Atmosphere and Climate |
Chair: Mark I. Richardson, CALTECH, Pasadena, CA
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| 11:00 AM | 3.1 | Modeling the global Martian atmosphere
R. John Wilson, NOAA/GFDL, Princeton, NJ; and M. I. Richardson |
| 11:15 AM | 3.2 | Application of mesoscale atmospheric models to Mars missions
Scot C. R. Rafkin, Southwest Research Institute, Boulder, CO |
| 11:30 AM | 3.3 | Dust lifting on Mars: towards better representations of reality
Claire E. Newman, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA; and M. I. Richardson and A. D. Toigo |
| 11:45 AM | 3.4 | Global constraints on precipitation in Mars' ancient past
Alejandro Soto, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA; and M. I. Richardson |
| 12:00 PM | 3.5 | Modeling Milankovitch cycles on Mars
Mark I. Richardson, CALTECH, Pasadena, CA; and M. Mischna |
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| 1:30 PM-3:00 PM, Thursday, B211
Joint Session 8 New challenges for applied meteorology and climatology (Joint between the 18th Conference on Applied Climatology, the First Symposium on Planetary Atmospheres, the 14th Conference on Aviation, Range, and Aerospace Meteorology, the First Environment and Health Symposium, the 12th Conference on Atmospheric Chemistry, the 20th Conference on Probability and Statistics in the Atmospheric Sciences, the First Conference on Weather, Climate, and the New Energy Economy, and the Fifth Symposium on Policy and Socio-economic Research) |
Chair: Melissa Griffin, Florida Climate Center/Florida State Univ., Tallahassee, FL
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| 1:30 PM | J8.1 | Developing useful science: methods for engaging stakeholders and evaluating integrated climate tools
Gigi Owen, CLIMAS/University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ; and K. Averyt, K. Werner, and D. Ferguson |
| 1:45 PM | J8.2 | 10 years of the U.S. Drought Monitor: a look back and a look forward
Mark D. Svoboda, National Drought Mitigation Center, Lincoln, NE; and B. Fuchs, S. Scott, and J. Nothwehr |
| 2:00 PM | J8.3 | User-driven downscaling: advances in data apportioning and analysis to augment adaptation planning
Edwin P. Maurer, Santa Clara University, Santa Clara, CA; and L. D. Brekke, T. Pruitt, K. D. White, E. Ochs, P. Duffy, and E. H. Girvetz |
| 2:15 PM | J8.4 | Trends of U.S. snowfall and snow cover in a warming world, 1948-2008
Richard R. Heim Jr., NOAA/NESDIS/NCDC, Asheville, NC |
|  | J8.5 | Use of the Brazilian Model of Climate and Health (BHMC) in order to estimate admissions for respiratory diseases in Brazil
Micheline S. Z. S. Coelho, Weather Brasilian Service, São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil |
| 2:30 PM | J8.6 | Martian dust storm hazards: improving characterization and forecasting
Nicholas Heavens, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA; and M. I. Richardson, I. J. McEwan, and M. W. Busch |
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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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