Session 5A |
| Atmospheric observations for weather and climate II |
| Chair: Mark Powell, NOAA/AOML/HRD, Tallahassee, FL
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| 1:30 PM | 5A.2 | Maintaining a local data integration system in support of weather forecast operations Leela R. Watson, ENSCO, Inc., Cocoa Beach, FL; and P. F. Blottman, D. W. Sharp, and B. Hoeth |
| 1:45 PM | 5A.6 | NOAA's unmanned aircraft program: recent accomplishments and future plans Robbie E. Hood, NOAA Unmanned Aircraft Systems Program, Silver Spring, MD; and A. E. MacDonald, F. M. Ralph, G. A. Wick, B. Weatherhead, R. F. Rogers, C. W. Landsea, and J. J. Cione |
| 2:00 PM | 5A.4 | WISDOM System 2009 Proof of Concept Test Results Justyna Nicinska, NOAA/OAR, Boulder, CO; and A. E. MacDonald and Y. Xie |
| 2:15 PM | 5A.5 | Improvements in GOES/GOES-R water vapor calibration and validation Seth I. Gutman, NOAA/ESRL, Boulder, CO; and D. L. Birkenheuer |
| 2:30 PM | 5A.3 | Quantification of forecast impact of ASCAT surface winds assimilated into NCEP's GFS model Li Bi, NRL, Monterey, CA; and J. Jung, D. A. Santek, and M. C. Morgan |
| 2:45 PM | 5A.1 | From measurement to model domain: data ensembles of surface heat flux for improving climate model parameterizations Meredith Franklin, ANL and University of Chicago, Chicago, IL; and V. R. Kotamarthi, D. R. Cook, and M. L. Stein |