First Conference on Transition of Research to Operations: Successes, Plans and Challenges

Program Chair: Kenneth Carey , Noblis, Inc.

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Saturday, 22 January 2011

7:30 AM-10:00 AM: Saturday, 22 January 2011


Registration for Student Conference and Short Course

Sunday, 23 January 2011

7:30 AM-9:00 AM: Sunday, 23 January 2011


Short Course Registration

12:00 PM-4:00 PM: Sunday, 23 January 2011


WeatherFest

6:00 PM-7:00 PM: Sunday, 23 January 2011


Welcome Reception Honoring Newly Elected Fellows
Location: 4E (Washington State Convention Center)

Monday, 24 January 2011

7:30 AM-5:30 PM: Monday, 24 January 2011


Registration continues through January 27

8:00 AM-5:30 PM: Monday, 24 January 2011


Weather Video Preview Theater
Location: 303 (Washington State Convention Center)

9:00 AM-10:30 AM: Monday, 24 January 2011

Recording files available
Plenary Session
Presidential Forum: Communicating Weather and Climate
Location: 6AB (Washington State Convention Center)
Hosts: (Joint between the Events; the 15th Symposium on Integrated Observing and Assimilation Systems for the Atmosphere, Oceans and Land Surface (IOAS-AOLS); the First Conference on Transition of Research to Operations: Successes, Plans and Challenges; the Fourth Annual CCM Forum; the Special Symposium on Advances in Modeling and Analysis Using Python; the Michio Yanai Symposium; the 27th Conference on Interactive Information Processing Systems (IIPS); the 25th Conference on Hydrology; the 24th Conference on Weather and Forecasting/20th Conference on Numerical Weather Prediction; the 23rd Conference on Climate Variability and Change; the 20th Symposium on Education; the 18th Conference on Planned and Inadvertent Weather Modification; the 16th Conference on Middle Atmosphere; the 13th Conference on Atmospheric Chemistry; the Ninth Conference on Artificial Intelligence and its Applications to the Environmental Sciences; the Ninth History Symposium; the 8th Conference on Space Weather; the Seventh Annual Symposium on Future Operational Environmental Satellite Systems; the Sixth Symposium on Policy and Socio-economic Research; the 5th Symposium on Lidar Atmospheric Applications; the Fifth Conference on the Meteorological Applications of Lightning Data; the Third Symposium on Aerosol-Cloud-Climate Interactions; the Second Aviation, Range and Aerospace Meteorology Special Symposium on Weather-Air Traffic Management Integration; the Second Conference on Weather, Climate, and the New Energy Economy; the Second Symposium on Environment and Health; the More Effectively Communicating the Science of Tropical Climate and Tropical Cyclones; the Special Symposium on Applications of Air Pollution Meteorology; the IMPACTS: Weather 2010; and the 14th Conference of Atmospheric Science Librarians International )

Panel Discussion
Communicating Weather and Climate
Location: 6AB (Washington State Convention Center)
Hosts: (Joint between the 11th Presidential Forum: Communicating Weather and Climate; the More Effectively Communicating the Science of Tropical Climate and Tropical Cyclones; the Michio Yanai Symposium; the 27th Conference on Interactive Information Processing Systems (IIPS); the 25th Conference on Hydrology; the 24th Conference on Weather and Forecasting/20th Conference on Numerical Weather Prediction; the 23rd Conference on Climate Variability and Change; the 20th Symposium on Education; the 18th Conference on Planned and Inadvertent Weather Modification; the 16th Conference on Middle Atmosphere; the 15th Symposium on Integrated Observing and Assimilation Systems for the Atmosphere, Oceans and Land Surface (IOAS-AOLS); the 13th Conference on Atmospheric Chemistry; the Ninth Conference on Artificial Intelligence and its Applications to the Environmental Sciences; the Ninth History Symposium; the 8th Conference on Space Weather; the Seventh Annual Symposium on Future Operational Environmental Satellite Systems; the Sixth Symposium on Policy and Socio-economic Research; the Fifth Conference on the Meteorological Applications of Lightning Data; the 5th Symposium on Lidar Atmospheric Applications; the Fourth Annual CCM Forum; the Third Symposium on Aerosol-Cloud-Climate Interactions; the Second Aviation, Range and Aerospace Meteorology Special Symposium on Weather-Air Traffic Management Integration; the Second Conference on Weather, Climate, and the New Energy Economy; the Second Symposium on Environment and Health; the First Conference on Transition of Research to Operations: Successes, Plans and Challenges; the Special Symposium on Advances in Modeling and Analysis Using Python; the Special Symposium on Applications of Air Pollution Meteorology; and the IMPACTS: Weather 2010 )
Panelists: Thomas E. Skilling, WGN-TV/Chicago Tribune; Claire Martin, CBC News: Weather Centre; Doyle Rice, USA Today; Martin Storksdieck, National Academy of Sciences / National Research Council
Moderator: Robert T. Ryan, NBC4 TV
9:00 AM
Panelist: Thomas E. Skilling
Thomas E. Skilling, WGN-TV, Chicago, IL

9:10 AM
Panelist: Claire Martin
Claire Martin, CBC News: Weather Centre, Vancouver, BC, Canada

9:20 AM
Panelist: Doyle Rice
Doyle Rice, USA Today, Washington, DC

9:30 AM
Panelist: Martin Storksdieck
Martin Storksdieck, National Academy of Sciences / National Research Council, Washington, DC

9:00 AM-11:00 AM: Monday, 24 January 2011


Spouses' Coffee

5:30 PM-7:00 PM: Monday, 24 January 2011


Reception and Exhibits Opening

7:00 PM-9:00 PM: Monday, 24 January 2011


Forecast: Communicating Weather and Climate Art Show

Tuesday, 25 January 2011

8:00 AM-5:30 PM: Tuesday, 25 January 2011


Weather Video Preview Theater
Location: 303 (Washington State Convention Center)

9:00 AM-11:00 AM: Tuesday, 25 January 2011


Spouses' Coffee

9:30 AM-6:00 PM: Tuesday, 25 January 2011


Exhibit Hours

11:00 AM-12:00 PM: Tuesday, 25 January 2011


Bernhard Haurwitz Lecture

3:00 PM-3:30 PM: Tuesday, 25 January 2011


Meet the President
Location: 601 (Washington State Convention Center)

3:30 PM-5:30 PM: Tuesday, 25 January 2011

Recording files available
Joint Session 20
Improving communications between the research and operational communities, including HFIP
Location: 615-617 (Washington State Convention Center)
Hosts: (Joint between the 24th Conference on Weather and Forecasting/20th Conference on Numerical Weather Prediction; and the First Conference on Transition of Research to Operations: Successes, Plans and Challenges )
Chair: Zhaoxia Pu, University of Utah
3:30 PM
J20.1
The Hurricane Forecast Improvement Project: Accomplishments, Lessons Learned, and Challenges
Robert L. Gall, NOAA/NWS, Silver Spring, MD; and F. Toepfer, F. Marks, and E. Rappaport
3:45 PM
J20.2
The HFIP high resolution hurricane forecast test
Louisa Nance, NCAR, Boulder, CO; and L. Bernardet, S. Bao, B. G. Brown, L. Carson, T. L. Fowler, J. Halley Gotway, C. W. Harrop, E. J. Szoke, E. I. Tollerud, J. Wolff, and H. Yuan
4:00 PM
J20.3
Application of COAMPS-TC for HFIP
James Doyle, NRL, Monterey, CA; and R. M. Hodur, S. Chen, J. Cummings, E. Hendricks, T. Holt, H. Jin, Y. Jin, C. S. Liou, J. R. Moskaitis, M. Peng, K. D. Sashegyi, J. Schmidt, and S. Wang
4:15 PM
J20.4
4:45 PM
J20.6
5:00 PM
J20.7
Advancing the national ensemble prediction system capability
Anthony Eckel, NOAA/NWS, Silver Spring, MD; and D. Hilderbrand
5:15 PM
J20.8
Collaborative efforts by the atmospheric research and operations communities for improving a thunderstorm nowcasting system
Amanda R. S. Anderson, NCAR, Boulder, CO; and R. D. Roberts, M. R. Volkmer, and D. W. Sharp

Wednesday, 26 January 2011

8:00 AM-5:30 PM: Wednesday, 26 January 2011


Weather Video Preview Theater
Location: 303 (Washington State Convention Center)

9:00 AM-11:00 AM: Wednesday, 26 January 2011


Spouses' Coffee

10:00 AM-10:30 AM: Wednesday, 26 January 2011


Meet the President

10:00 AM-6:30 PM: Wednesday, 26 January 2011


Exhibit Hours

2:30 PM-4:00 PM: Wednesday, 26 January 2011


Formal Poster Viewing with Coffee Break

Poster Session
1R2O Poster Session
Host: First Conference on Transition of Research to Operations: Successes, Plans and Challenges
Chair: Kenneth Carey, Noblis, Inc. Center for Sustainability
811
Transition from Research to Operations of Solar Wind Data and Coronal Mass Ejection Imaging
Benjamin Diedrich, NOAA/NESDIS, Silver Spring, MD; and T. M. Wrublewski, N. M. Simpson, and P. Mulligan

812
The National Oceanographic Data Center and National Data Buoy Center: Operational, in-situ observations – real-time and archived
William H. Burnett, NOAA/NDBC, Stennis Space Center, MS; and K. Casey, R. Bouchard, T. Ryan, and R. V. Hervey

813
University of Wisconsin proving ground participation within the NOAA Hazardous Weather Testbed
Wayne F. Feltz, CIMSS/Univ. of Wisconsin, Madison, WI; and K. Bah, K. Bedka, L. M. Cronce, J. Gerth, J. S. Kain, S. S. Lindstrom, J. A. Otkin, T. J. Schmit, J. Sieglaff, C. W. Siewert, and R. Rabin

814
Four decades of technology transitions from research to operations at the National Data Buoy Center
Helmut H. Portmann, NOAA/NDBC, Stennis Space Center, MS; and R. Bouchard and D. B. Gilhousen
Manuscript (3.4 MB)

815
Research to operations for a new sensing paradigm
B. Philips, Univ. of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA; and E. J. Bass and J. A. Brotzge

817
An operational assessment of the Joint Hurricane Testbed's first decade
Edward Rappaport, NOAA/NHC, Miami, FL; and J. G. Jiing, C. W. Landsea, and S. T. Murillo
Manuscript (633.0 kB)

818
Applications of an Objective Overshooting Top Detection Algorithm
Sarah A. Monette, CIMSS/Univ. of Wisconsin, Madison, WI; and W. Feltz, C. S. Velden, and K. Bedka

819
Operational Model Transition Process at FNMOC
Charles E. Skupniewicz, FNMOC, Monterey, CA; and M. S. Swenson

Handout (1.5 MB)

820
Atmospheric precursors to central Florida's severe hail events
Charles H. Paxton, NOAA/NWS, Tampa Bay Area - Ruskin, FL; and T. P. Barron and N. J. Weis
Manuscript (934.6 kB)

824
Transition of Research to Operations in GPS Radio Occultation: From COSMIC to COSMIC-II
Ying-Hwa Kuo, NCAR, Boulder, CO; and G. S. Chang, D. R. Ector, W. Schreriner, and P. Wilczynski

4:00 PM-5:30 PM: Wednesday, 26 January 2011

Recording files available
Joint Session 10
Research to Operations and Information System Technologies for Satellite Systems: successes, plans, and challenges
Location: 607 (Washington State Convention Center)
Hosts: (Joint between the 27th Conference on Interactive Information Processing Systems (IIPS); and the First Conference on Transition of Research to Operations: Successes, Plans and Challenges )
Cochairs: Gerald Dittberner, Harris Corporation; John Pereira, NOAA/NESDIS
4:00 PM
J10.1
GOES-R Proving Ground—Demonstrating GOES-R products in 2010
Bonnie Reed, NOAA/GOES-R, Silver Spring, MD; and C. W. Siewert, R. S. Schneider, G. L. Hufford, B. Entwhistle, M. DeMaria, D. Reynolds, and M. J. Brennan
4:15 PM
J10.2
The Applied Meteorology Unit: Nineteen years successfully transitioning research into operations for America's space program
John T. Madura, NASA, Kennedy Space Center, FL; and W. H. Bauman III, F. J. Merceret, W. P. Roeder, F. C. Brody, and B. C. Hagemeyer
4:30 PM
J10.3
4:45 PM
J10.4
5:00 PM
J10.5
5:15 PM
J10.6
WSA-Enlil-Cone Transition to Operations at NWS/SWPC
Vic Pizzo, NOAA/NWS, Boulder, CO; and G. Millward

5:30 PM-6:30 PM: Wednesday, 26 January 2011


Awards Banquet Reception in the Exhibit Hall

7:00 PM-10:00 PM: Wednesday, 26 January 2011


91st AMS Awards Banquet
Location: 6ABCD (Washington State Convention Center)

Thursday, 27 January 2011

8:00 AM-5:30 PM: Thursday, 27 January 2011


Michio Yanai Symposium

Weather Video Preview Theater
Location: 303 (Washington State Convention Center)

8:30 AM-9:45 AM: Thursday, 27 January 2011

Recording files available
Session 1
Recent Successes in Satellite Observing Systems
Location: 602/603 (Washington State Convention Center)
Host: First Conference on Transition of Research to Operations: Successes, Plans and Challenges
Cochairs: Al Powell, NOAA/NESDIS/STAR; John Pereira, NOAA/NESDIS
8:30 AM
Introductory Remarks: Mary E. Kicza, Assistant Administrator, NOAA Satellite and Information Service (NESDIS) and Dr. Michael H. Freilich, Director, NASA Earth Science Division

9:15 AM
1.3
9:30 AM
1.4
NOAA's preparation for NASA's Global Precipitation Measurement (GPM) mission – successes and obstacles
Ralph R. Ferraro, NOAA/NESDIS, College Park, MD; and C. R. Kondragunta, J. Pereira, D. Mamula, and K. Hampton

9:30 AM-12:30 PM: Thursday, 27 January 2011


Exhibit Hours

9:45 AM-11:00 AM: Thursday, 27 January 2011


Formal Poster Viewing with Coffee Break

11:00 AM-12:15 PM: Thursday, 27 January 2011

Recording files available
Session 2
Satellite research to operations (R2O) plans and challenges
Location: 602/603 (Washington State Convention Center)
Host: First Conference on Transition of Research to Operations: Successes, Plans and Challenges
Cochairs: John Pereira, NOAA/NESDIS; Daniel Mamula, NOAA/NESDIS
11:00 AM
2.1
Research to Operations Activities using Products from Polar Orbiting Satellites
William C. Straka III, Space Science and Engineering Center/Univ. of Wisconsin, Madison, WI; and A. S. Bachmeier, J. Gerth, K. I. Strabala, S. S. Lindstrom, and R. Dengel
11:30 AM
2.3
Research-to-Operations Planning for CLARREO: You Can Never Start Too Soon
David F. Young, NASA/LARC, Hampton, VA; and B. A. Wielicki, M. G. Mlynczak, K. J. Thome, K. Jucks, M. Goldberg, and C. Cao
11:45 AM
2.4
Altimetry for the U.S. Navy's Operational Ocean Application
Lamar A. Russell, Naval Oceanographic Office, Stennis Space Center, MS; and D. May, J. Rigney, and G. A. Jacobs
12:00 PM
2.5
An Outline in Transferring Satellite Research Products to National Weather Service Operations
Jordan Gerth, Physical Scientist, National Weather Service Office of Observations, Silver Spring, MD

12:00 PM-1:30 PM: Thursday, 27 January 2011


Lunch Break

12:15 PM-1:15 PM: Thursday, 27 January 2011

Recording files available
Session
Presidential Town Hall Meeting
Location: 6A (Washington State Convention Center)
Hosts: (Joint between the Town Hall Meetings; the Events; the 14th Conference of Atmospheric Science Librarians International; the Michio Yanai Symposium; the 27th Conference on Interactive Information Processing Systems (IIPS); the 25th Conference on Hydrology; the 24th Conference on Weather and Forecasting/20th Conference on Numerical Weather Prediction; the 23rd Conference on Climate Variability and Change; the 20th Symposium on Education; the 18th Conference on Planned and Inadvertent Weather Modification; the 16th Conference on Middle Atmosphere; the 15th Symposium on Integrated Observing and Assimilation Systems for the Atmosphere, Oceans and Land Surface (IOAS-AOLS); the 13th Conference on Atmospheric Chemistry; the Ninth Conference on Artificial Intelligence and its Applications to the Environmental Sciences; the Ninth History Symposium; the 8th Conference on Space Weather; the Seventh Annual Symposium on Future Operational Environmental Satellite Systems; the Sixth Symposium on Policy and Socio-economic Research; the Fifth Conference on the Meteorological Applications of Lightning Data; the 5th Symposium on Lidar Atmospheric Applications; the Fourth Annual CCM Forum; the Third Symposium on Aerosol-Cloud-Climate Interactions; the Second Aviation, Range and Aerospace Meteorology Special Symposium on Weather-Air Traffic Management Integration; the Second Conference on Weather, Climate, and the New Energy Economy; the Second Symposium on Environment and Health; the First Conference on Transition of Research to Operations: Successes, Plans and Challenges; the Special Symposium on Advances in Modeling and Analysis Using Python; the More Effectively Communicating the Science of Tropical Climate and Tropical Cyclones; and the Special Symposium on Applications of Air Pollution Meteorology )
12:15 PM
Ensuring Integrity in the Doing and Using of Science
Ralph Cicerone, National Academy of Sciences, Washington, DC

12:15 PM-1:30 PM: Thursday, 27 January 2011


Michio Yanai Symposium Luncheon
Location: 4C-1 (Washington State Convention Center)

1:30 PM-3:00 PM: Thursday, 27 January 2011

Recording files available
Session 3
Algorithm and product research to operations
Location: 602/603 (Washington State Convention Center)
Host: First Conference on Transition of Research to Operations: Successes, Plans and Challenges
Cochairs: Al Powell, NOAA/NESDIS/STAR; Kenneth Carey, Noblis, Inc. Center for Sustainability
1:30 PM
3.1
Success factors and critical lessons learned implementing a repeatable CMMI research-to-operations systems engineering process for NESDIS/STAR
Philip E. Ardanuy, Raytheon Intelligence and Information Systems, Sterling, VA; and K. A. Jensen, W. W. Wolf, M. Goldberg, and A. Powell
1:45 PM
3.2
An Automated Retrieval of Land Surface Emissivity from Microwave Observations
Hamidreza Norouzi, New York City College of Technology-CUNY ; NOAA/CREST, Brooklyn, NY; and M. Temimi, D. R. Khanbilvardi, and M. Azarderakhsh
2:00 PM
3.3
Challenges in transitioning research data to operations—The SPoRT Paradigm
Gary J. Jedlovec, NASA/MSFC, Huntsville, AL; and M. Smith and K. M. McGrath
2:30 PM
3.5
Arctic environmental monitoring and prediction
Steve R. Shelton, Raytheon Company, Aurora, CO; and T. M. Raglin

2:45 PM
3.6

3:00 PM-3:05 PM: Thursday, 27 January 2011


Registration Closes

3:00 PM-3:30 PM: Thursday, 27 January 2011


Coffee Break

Meet the President

3:30 PM-5:00 PM: Thursday, 27 January 2011

Recording files available
Session 4
Climate product research to operations
Location: 602/603 (Washington State Convention Center)
Host: First Conference on Transition of Research to Operations: Successes, Plans and Challenges
Cochairs: Jeffrey L. Privette, NOAA/NESDIS/NCDC; Al Powell, NOAA/NESDIS/STAR
3:30 PM
4.1
The Evolving Research to Operations Process for NOAA's Satellite Climate Data Records
Jeffrey L. Privette, NOAA/NESDIS/NCDC, Asheville, NC; and J. J. Bates, E. Kearns, D. Wunder, and D. Carter
3:45 PM
4.2
Facilitating the Use of Satellite Observations for Evaluating CMIP5/IPCC Simulations
Duane Edward Waliser, JPL, Pasadena, CA; and J. Teixeira, R. Ferraro, G. L. Potter, D. Crichton, P. J. Gleckler, K. E. Taylor, A. Braverman, and S. Lee
4:00 PM
4.3
4:30 PM
4.5
4:45 PM
Concluding Remarks

5:00 PM-5:05 PM: Thursday, 27 January 2011


AMS 91st Annual Meeting Adjourns