Poster Session |
| | Student Poster Session |
| | S1 | Evaluating the usage, performance, and limitations of the WSR-88D Doppler radar system in Alaska
Luke E. Madaus, University of Washington, Seattle, WA |
| | S2 | Global climatology of the planetary boundary layer inversions
Angelica M. Betancourt-Negron, NOAA/NWSFO Huntsville, AL/ University of Puerto Rico- Rio Piedras, Huntsville, AL; and D. J. Seidel |
| | S3 | Development toward an Advanced Aerobiological Vegetable Disease Forecasting Tool
Lara E. Pagano, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC; and A. P. Sims, T. Keever, and R. Boyles |
| | S4 | Tsunami warning signs—educational, annoying or ignored? 
Antonia L. Rosati, Santa Monica College, Santa Monica, CA |
| | S5 | Databasing of AOC weather data for public access
Kelly Scott, University of Missouri, Columbia, MO; and P. Flaherty |
| | S6 | A citizen science campaign encouraging urban forest professionals to engage the public in the collection of tree phenological data
Karl C. Clarke, UCAR, Boulder, CO |
| | S7 | Increasing potential predictability of Indian summer monsoon wet and dry spells
Neena Joseph Mani, JIFRESSE/Univ. of California, Pasadena, CA; and B. N. Goswami |
| | S8 | Lightning Activity in Atlantic Tropical Cyclones:Using the Long-Range Lightning Detection Network (LLDN)
Lumari Pardo-Rodriguez, UCAR/SOARS, Lajas, PR |
| | S9 | Anomaly and Mean Weather Patterns Associated with Extreme High and Low Temperatures during summer and winter in Southeast Alaska
Richard, C. Lam, NOAA/NWSFO, Juneau, AK |
| | S10 | Retrieval of Global Land Surface Emissivity Maps from AMSR-E Passive Microwave Data Using Different Skin Temperature Data
Hamidreza Norouzi, NOAA-CREST, New York, NY; and M. Temimi and R. Khanbilvardi |
| | S11 | Sensible heating over the Tibetan Plateau and the onset of Asian Monsoon
Li Xu, George Mason University, Calverton, MD |
| | S12 | A Comparison of Icing Pilot Reports to Weather Conditions
Brooke Lewis, NCAR, Boulder, CO; and C. A. Wolff |
| | S13 | Flash floods: A spatial and temporal analysis—A case study of the flash floods in southwestern Missouri in March 2008
Daniel A. Pollak, Pennsylvania State University & NCAR/SOARS, State College, PA |
| | S14 | A method for determining the historical climatology of East Coast Winter Storms
Jase E. Bernhardt, Northeast Regional Climate Center, Ithaca, NY |
| | S15 | A higher order tracer transport scheme for icosahedral hexagonal grids
Maximo Q. Menchaca, University of Washington, Seattle, WA; and W. C. Skamarock |
| | S16 | Loss of Significance and Multidecadal Variability of the Madden-Julian Oscillation
E. Suhas, Indian Institute of Tropical Meteorology, Pune, India; and B. N. Goswami |
| | S17 | Synoptic environments and convective modes associated with significant tornadoes in the contiguous United States—a null case dataset
Darren V. Snively, NOAA/Ohio University, Athens, OH; and R. L. Thompson and J. S. Grams |
| | S18 | "Identifying QBO and Seasonal Variations in Stratospheric Chemical Species using UARS HALOE Data"
John Anderson, Hampton Univ., Hampton, VA; and B. A. Crandall and N. M. Pothier |
| | S19 | Impacts of super-resolution data on National Weather Service warning decision making
Jonathan M. Vogel, McGill University, Montreal, QC, Canada; and C. D. Payne, C. A. Van Den Broeke, and L. R. Lemon |
| | S20 | The relationship between sea breezes and rainfall along western Mexico during the North American Monsoon
Vanessa Marie Vincente, UCAR/SOARS and Valparaiso University |
| | S21 | Turbulent flux responses to leaf density changes
Miliaritiana L. Robjhon, Howard University, Washington, DC; and E. Joseph, C. A. Stearns, and M. K. Payne |
| | S22 | Effects of drop size distribution on NEXRAD rain rate estimation
Nazario D. Ramirez-Beltran, Univ. of Puerto Rico, Mayaguez, Puerto Rico, PR; and E. J. Suarez-Vazquez and S. Cruz-Pol |
| | S23 | Poleward moisture transport by a Recurving Tropical Cyclone and its effect on Midlatitude Precipitation
Graylen L. Boone, UCAR/NCAR, Gates, NC; and C. A. Davis and R. S. Schumacher |
| | S24 | Improving Hurricane Intensity Awareness by Creating a Radius of 64 Knot Winds Scale and NASA Satellite Monitoring System for the Atlantic Basin and Gulf of Mexico
Josh David Stodghill, NASA DEVELOP, Mobile, AL; and A. M. Billiot, R. M. Penton, A. K. Dixon, and A. J. Eiserloh Jr. |
| | S25 | Climatology of lake-effect precipitation events over the Lake Tahoe, CA/NV region
Andrew Stieneke, Raleigh, NC; and S. Ganetis and N. F. Laird |
| | S26 | Documentation and Analysis of Flash Flood Prone Streams and Subwatershed Basins in Pulaski County, Virginia
Anthony Phillips, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA |
| | S27 | Developing a reliable predictor of lightning initiation and cessation through radar analysis
Greg Seroka, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX |
| | S28 | A stochastic daily mean temperature model for weather derivatives
Jeffrey P. Viel, NWC REU, Charlton, MA; and T. Connor |
| | S29 | Operational uses for an objective overshooting top detection algorithm
Sarah A. Monette, CIMSS/Univ. of Wisconsin, Madison, WI; and K. Bedka and W. Feltz |
| | S30 | Forecasting Southern Plains wind ramp events using the WRF model at 3km
Kristen Taylor Bradford, NWC REU, Norman, OK; and R. L. Carpenter Jr. and B. Shaw |
| | S31 | Impact of Vegetation on the Energy and Water Balance of a Temperate Wetland
Gregory J. Cutrell, University of Nebraska, Lincoln, NE; and J. Lenters, K. Herman, E. Istanbulluoglu, A. Kilic, D. Scott, and S. Walters |
| | S32 | Climatology of Lake-Effect Precipitation Events over the Great Salt Lake, UT
Benjamin Albright, Howard University, Washington, DC; and J. Popp and N. F. Laird |
| | S33 | Improving the radar Z-R relationships over Puerto Rico
Nazario D. Ramirez-Beltran, Univ. of Puerto Rico, Mayaguez, Puerto Rico, PR; and C. J. Carrasquillo and S. Cruz-Pol |
| | S34 | Study of 3-D total lightning activity relative to radar-inferred storm parameters
Aaron Preston, NOAA/NSSL, Norman, OK |
| | S35 | Initial Tests of an Automated Freezing Drizzle Detection Algorithm applied to ASOS
Matthew Dewey, NCAR, Boulder, CO; and S. Landolt, C. A. Wolff, and M. K. Politovich |
| | S36 | A Survey of Impacts Resulting from the Drought of 2007 in Kentucky
Crystal J. Bergman, University of Nebraska, Lincoln, NE |
| | S37 | Cloud photogrammetry and single-Doppler radar analysis of the 5 June 2009 La Grange, WY tornado during VORTEX 2
Rachel Ducharme, Lyndon State College, Lyndonville, VT; and A. McGee and N. Atkins |
| | S38 | Quality Assessment of a Winter Road Maintenance Decision Support System
Eric Haave, NCAR, Boulder, Colorado; and M. B. Chapman and S. Linden |
| | S39 | Reconsidering the role of Rossby waves and inertia-gravity waves in the Madden-Julian Oscillation (MJO)
Alex Omar Gonzalez, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO |
| | S40 | Verification of ESTOFEX lightning and severe weather forecasts
Alex Kowaleski, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA; and H. E. Brooks and C. A. Doswell III |
| | S41 | Evaluation of the CALIPSO Satellite Cloud Sub-Type Classification Product over a Global Distribution
Christopher J. Slocum, NASA/LRC DEVELOP National Program, University Park, PA |
| | S42 | A Case Study of the 13-14 February 2007 Extended Sleet Event
Matthew S. Potter, University at Albany, Albany, NY; and P. A. Selmer |
| | S43 | The influence of ENSO on tropical cyclone trajectories in the South Indian Ocean
Kevin D. Ash, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL; and C. J. Matyas |
| | S44 | Comparison of the VORTRAC retrieved structure of Hurricane Danny (1997) to prior analyses
Matthew B. Paulus, UCAR, Boulder, CO |
| | S45 | Sources of carbon monoxide and formaldehyde in North American determined from high-resolution atmospheric data
Scot M. Miller, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA; and D. M. Matross, A. Andrews, D. B. Millet, M. Longo, E. W. Gottlieb, A. I. Hirsch, C. Gerbig, J. C. Lin, B. C. Daube, R. C. Hudman, P. L. S. Dias, V. Y. Chow, and S. C. Wofsy |
| | S46 | Exploring the possible existence of embedded supercell thunderstorms
Dustin Edwin Pittman, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN; and R. J. Trapp |
| | S47 | Viability of weather dissemination via social network technologies
Justin M. Wittrock, NWC REU, Ames, IA; and K. K. Droegemeier and S. A. Erickson |
| | S48 | Quantifying the onset of extra-tropical transition using four-dimensional analysis techniques
Diedra D. Boyd, Mississippi State University, Mississippi State, MS; and J. L. Dyer |
| | S49 | Developing the Ozarks pulse thunderstorm index
Doug Thomas Cramer, NOAA/NWSFO, Springfield, MO; and N. A. Lock |
| | S50 | Orographic Effects On Tropical Cyclogenesis Over Eastern Pacific Ocean
Van Nguyen, North Carolina A&T State University, Greensboro, NC; and Y. L. Lin and G. Tang |
| | S51 | Passage of Tropical Cyclones over Mountainous Islands Part I: Control Experiment
Ian C. Colon-Pagan, North Carolina A&T State University, Greensboro, NC; and Y. L. Lin, Y. H. Kuo, and S. Koch |
| | S52 | Examining the Effect of Tornadoes on Population in Oklahoma
Eric Scott Apel, Western Illinois University, Macomb, IL; and R. D. Ostrowski and P. A. Watson |
| | S53 | Evaluation of WSR-88D Methods to Predict Warm Season Convective Wind Events at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station and Kennedy Space Center
Jared Rennie, Plymouth State University, Plymouth, NH |
| | S54 | Spatial and temporal variability of precipitation in the Okavango-Kwando-Zambezi catchment, southern Africa
Andrea E. Gaughan, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL; and P. R. Waylen |
| | S55 | Validation and development of existing and new RAOB based warm-season convective wind forecasting tools for Cape Canaveral Air Force Station and Kennedy Space Center
Mitchell H. McCue, Plymouth State University, Plymouth, NH |
| | S56 | Kinematic structure and evolution of the 9 March 2006 Mississippi/Alabama bow echo
Calvin Elkins, University of Alabama in Huntsville, Huntsville, AL |
| | S57 | Climatology of Lake-Effect Clouds over the Great Lakes
Lindsey Higgins, Byrd Polar Research Center, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH; and D. Zelinsky and N. F. Laird |
| | S58 | Improving the Skill of the NWS's Extratropical Total Water Level Forecast System
Rosimar Rios-Berrios, NOAA/NWS/OST/MDL and UPRM, Mayagüez, PR |
| | S59 | Transverse cirrus bands and aviation turbulence
Emily N. Wilson, Univ. of Georgia, Athens, GA; and L. C. Paulik, J. A. Knox, A. S. Bachmeier, M. Carter, J. E. Tarantino, and M. J. Mays |
| | S60 | Reduction in surface ozone concentrations under ultra-high temperatures in central California
Adam James Davis, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI; and R. C. Owen, S. Sillman, and A. Steiner |
| | S61 | The correlation between tornadoes and population density changes in Illinois
David J. Anderson, Western Illinois University, Macomb, IL; and J. A. Maples Sr. |
| | S62 | Modeling Wildfire Behavior and Analyzing Emissions
Marques A. Cameron, SOARS, Woodbridge, VA |
| | S63 | Frequency, duration and synoptic setting of late summer heat waves in Georgia
Myron Thomas Petro, University Of Georgia, Athens, GA; and J. A. Knox |
| | S64 | The effects of cloud cover on photosynthesis in a subalpine forest ecosystem focusing on Niwot Ridge, Colorado
Raymond Jay Detweiler, UCAR, Boulder, CO |
| | S65 | Weather's impact on Golf Attendance
John Parkinson, Western Illinois University, Macomb, IL; and G. Matson |
| | S66 | Rainfall Climatology Study of Puerto Rico
Mayra Oyola, University of Puerto Rico, Mayaguez, PR; and A. F. Adames, I. Del Valle, J. M. Maldonado, A. Marrero, I. Ramos, and L. F. Bejarano, Ph.D |
| | S67 | Effects of the Saharan Air Layer on the 2006 Atlantic Hurricane Season, using level 2.0 AERONET AOT/AOD datasets
Mayra I. Oyola, Howard University, California, MD |
| | S68 | Linking climate to landscape: Investigating the response of vegetation to precipitation variability in a semi-arid catchment area of southern Africa
Forrest R. Stevens, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL; and A. E. Gaughan and C. Gibbes |
| | S69 | Analysis and prediction of heavy banded snow events in the Northeastern United States using independent variables
Norman Shippee Jr., Plymouth State University, Plymouth, NH |
| | S70 | Comparison of ABL Heights
Sharome Goode, NCAR, Oklahoma City, OK; and S. Sokolovskiy, L. Cucurrull, and D. Hunt |
| | S71 | Climatology of Convection in Florida: Implications for Mercury Deposition
Eleanor Ferguson, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI; and F. J. Marsik, D. J. Posselt, and G. J. Keeler |
| | S72 | Analysis of diurnal trends in stratocumulus drizzle from the VOCALS field campaign
Angel F. Adames, University of Puerto Rico, Mayagüez Campus, Mayagüez, PR; and C. Aldereguia and S. E. Yuter |
| | S73 | Interannual to decadal variability of dominant modes in the ocean circulation of the tropical western Indian Ocean
Rondrotiana Barimalala, Earth System Physics Section, Trieste, Italy; and A. Bracco, F. Kucharski, and A. Crise |
| | S74 | Re-examination of Northeast United States Drought Trends and Characteristics
Marcus D. Walter, SOARS/Cornell University, Ithaca, NY |
| | S75 | The impact of liquid water and ice in Arctic clouds on cloud radiative forcing and the surface energy budget
Elizabeth A. Maroon, MIT, Cambridge, MA; and A. B. Solomon and M. Shupe |
| | S76 | The Generation, Maintenance and Propagation of the pre-Helene African Easterly Wave and Mesoscale Convective System over Africa: A Numerical Study and Analysis of the Environment
James Spinks, North Carolina A & T State University, Greensboro, NC; and Y. L. Lin and G. Tang |
| | S77 | Fair-Weather diurnal wind field evolution in a complex mountainous region
Jonathan Michael Tippetts, Salt Lake City, UT; and C. D. Whiteman |
| | S78 | Laboratory Studies of Chlorine Activation by Nitrogen Oxides
Justin A. Perry, JISAO/Univ. of Washington/Morehouse College, Atlanta, GA; and T. P. Riedel and J. A. Thornton |
| | S79 | Evaluation of MERRA using CERES cloud objects for the 1998 El Nino - La Nina transition
Andrew Jongeward, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI; and D. J. Posselt |
| | S80 | Statistical tropical cyclone track model for the western North Pacific with genesis dependence on large-scale climate state
Emmi Yonekura, Columbia University, New York, NY; and T. M. Hall |
| | S81 | Mesoscale variability in the Gulf of Mexico and its impact on the marine ecosystem
Yuley Cardona, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA; and A. Bracco |
| | S82 | Understanding the UHI effect of Minneapolis-St. Paul: a radar analysis of snowfall modification
Nyssa M. Perryman, Mississippi State University, Mississippi State, MS; and P. G. Dixon |
| | S83 | Climatology Study of African Easterly Wave and Mesoscale Convective System in Northern Africa from 2004-2006
Wilson Jones, North Carolina A & T State University, Greensboro, NC |
| | S84 | Investigating the summertime midday precipitation peak in southeast Texas
Brad J. Reinhart, Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL; and C. McCaskill, L. J. Hopper Jr., and C. Schumacher |
| | S85 | Evolution of a tornadic supercell and its environment sampled by the Phased Array Radar and Oklahoma City Micronet
Rick Hluchan, University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK; and P. L. Heinselman |
| | S86 | Using atmospheric trajectories to study complex winter storms: Two case studies from central North Carolina
Christopher M. Fuhrmann, Univ. of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC |
| | S87 | Modeling aerosol impacts on convective storms in different environments
Rachel L. Storer, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO; and S. C. van den Heever and G. Stephens |
| | S88 | The DOW Radar Observations at Purdue study (DROPs)
Robert J. Trapp, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN; and J. Carley, J. Damjanovic, A. Eggink, J. Gebhard, K. Hoogewind, E. Jones, O. Kellner, B. Kraemer, M. Laureano, L. Little, R. Miller, D. Pittman, K. Quardokus, E. D. Robinson, B. Schwedler, D. Sheehan, D. Pittman, D. Solomon, and M. Toth |
| | S89 | A Study of the 9 April 2009 Tornado Outbreak over the Shreveport, Louisiana County Warning Area (CWA)
Ismarí Ramos, University of Puerto Rico, Mayagüez, PR; and A. Garza and K. Falk |
| | S90 | Correlation between vehicle miles driven and air quality in the U.S
Erica K. Dolinar, Millersville University, Millersville, PA |
| | S91 | Identifying Inland Impacts of Decaying Hurricanes Rita, Gustav, and Ike over Northern Louisiana and Northeast Texas
Idamis Del Valle, University of Puerto Rico Mayagüez Campus, Mayagüez, PR; and A. Garza and K. Stellman |
| | S92 | Classification of climatologic, synoptic and mesoscale patterns for tornadoes in the Mid-South (2009): Analysis of upper level jet streaks patterns to determine significant tornadoes development
Janice M. Maldonado, University of Puerto Rico, Mayagüez, PR; and T. L. Salem Jr. and J. Belles |
| | S93 | A Study of Cost of Hurricane Evacuations in Florida
Allyson Clark, Penn State University, State College, PA; and J. L. Evans |
| | S94 | Diurnal variation in the latent heat flux
Joel P. Scott, Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL; and M. A. Bourassa and C. A. Clayson |
| | S95 | On the spatial variability of storm accumulations in Southeast Texas
Brian Haines, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX; and R. Husted, J. Stachnik, and C. Schumacher |
| | S96 | The effects of convective clouds on vertical scalar transport using a numerically simulated flow field
Nicole Ngo, Columbia University, New York, NY; and C. H. Moeng and J. C. Weil |
| | S97 | Adaptation challenges to climate change disasters in the Karamoja cluster (cattle corridor) in Uganda
Nanteza Jamiat, Makerere University, Kampala, Uganda |
| | S98 | Standard error of radar estimated precipitation as a function of distance and intensity
Dustin Edwin Pittman, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN; and A. Eggink, J. Gebhard, B. Kraemer, L. Little, R. Miller, D. Sheehan, and D. Solomon |
| | S99 | Empirical analysis of the non-Gaussianity of global geopotential heights
Maxime Perron, Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL; and P. Sura |
| | S100 | An Analysis of Sea Surface Temperature Anomalies in the AVHRR & AMSR + AVHRR Datasets
James J. Taeger, The Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL; and P. Sura |
| | S101 | On the changes in the distribution and strength of convection and the relationship with the rapid intensification of Super Typhoon Jangmi (2008)
Levi Thatcher, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT; and Z. Pu |
| | S102 | COPS Climatology
Tracy J. Emerson, NCAR, Boulder, CO |
| | S103 | The effect of marine cold-air outbreaks on tropical cyclone potential intensity in the Gulf of Mexico
Rebecca Hunniford, Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL; and C. A. Clayson and A. S. Bogdanoff |
| | S104 | A space weather forecasting contest: Fall '09 summary
Brian D. Curtis, George Mason University, Fairfax, VA; and R. S. Weigel |
| | S105 | An Introductory Study of Warm Rain Productivity in Convective Clouds Influenced by Regional Climate Change
Kathleen Quardokus, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN; and S. M. Blakely, P. R. Brandt, K. E. Fischer, K. K. Gleason, B. J. Harvey, A. S. Keller, T. M. Lucko, R. M. Meizberg, C. A. Miller, J. M. Palac, J. C. Rogers, C. K. Simpson, K. J. Snow, K. W. van Leer, T. C. Ward, B. S. Westfall, C. M. Woodward, J. M. Woznicki, and S. Lasher-Trapp |
| | S106 | Thunderstorm Identification and Geospatial Distribution Study
Kathleen Quardokus, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN; and S. M. Blakely, P. R. Brandt, K. E. Fischer, K. K. Gleason, B. J. Harvey, A. S. Keller, T. M. Lucko, R. M. Meizberg, C. A. Miller, J. M. Palac, J. C. Rogers, C. K. Simpson, K. J. Snow, K. W. Van Leer, T. C. Ward, B. S. Westfall, C. M. Woodward, J. M. Woznicki, and R. J. Trapp |
| | S107 | Ocean response to hurricanes: A look a cold wake restratification
Robert L. Deal, Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL; and C. A. Clayson |
| | S108 | Aerosol dispersion in the boundary layer after autumnal frontal passages in Central London and Suburban Oklahoma
Margaret Frey, ILREUM, Norman, OK |
| | S109 | Resolving the diurnal cycle in satellite derived sea surface temperatures and its significance on surface heat fluxes
Rachel R. Weihs, Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL |
| | S110 | A case-by-case study of the Significant Tornado Parameter and non-tornadic supercells
Sarah M. Glenn, NOAA/NWS, Norman, OK |
| | S111 | Comparison of GPS Dropsondes between developing and non-developing disturbances in the Atlantic
Diamilet Pérez, University of Puerto Rico, Mayagüez Campus, Mayagüez, PR |
| | S112 | The Role of Midlatitude Circulations in Triggering Extratropical Convection during the 2004 North American Monsoon
Bo Tan, DRI, Reno, NV; and A. Joros and M. L. Kaplan |
| | S113 | Analysis and characterization of Convective Monsoonal Surges into the Northern Great Basin
Andrew Joros, DRI, Reno, NV; and M. L. Kaplan and B. Tan |
| | S114 | Statistical Prediction of the Storm Surge Associated with Cool Weather Storms at The Battery, New York
Kamila Wisniewska, Hunter College, CUNY, Ridgewood, NY |
| | S115 | Observational Study of the Great Salt Lake Breeze
Cody Oppermann, University of Nebraska - Lincoln, Lincoln, NE; and E. T. Crosman and J. Horel |