Program: Fifth Conference on the Meteorological Applications of Lightning Data (91st American Meteorological Society Annual Meeting)

Program Chair: Timothy J. Lang , Colorado State University

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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

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 )

9:00 AM

CWAC

Recorded Presentation

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

10:30 AM-11:00 AM: Monday, 24 January 2011

Coffee Break

11:00 AM-12:00 PM: Monday, 24 January 2011

Session 1

Lightning Safety, Protection, and Education I

Location: 602/603 (Washington State Convention Center)

Host: Fifth Conference on the Meteorological Applications of Lightning Data

Chair: Timothy J. Lang, Colorado State University

11:00 AM

1.1

Recent studies of lightning safety and demographics

Ronald L. Holle, Holle Meteorology & Photography, Oro Valley, AZ

Recorded Presentation Manuscript (1.6 MB)

11:15 AM

1.2

Communicating lightning safety effectively

William P. Roeder, Private Meteorologist, Rockledge, FL; and R. L. Holle, M. A. Cooper, and S. J. Hodanish

Recorded Presentation Manuscript (1.2 MB)

11:30 AM

1.3

Utilizing a Lightning Safety Toolkit at Outdoor Venues

Charlie Woodrum, NOAA/NWS, Pittsburgh, PA; and D. Franklin

Recorded Presentation

11:45 AM

1.4

Latest Advancements and Results from the Georgia Tech High School Field Mill Project

John Trostel, Georgia Tech Research Institute, Severe Storms Research Center, Atlanta, GA ; and T. Perry

Recorded Presentation

12:00 PM-1:30 PM: Monday, 24 January 2011

Lunch Break

1:30 PM-2:30 PM: Monday, 24 January 2011

Session 2

Lightning in Tropical Cyclones I

Location: 602/603 (Washington State Convention Center)

Host: Fifth Conference on the Meteorological Applications of Lightning Data

Chair: Alexandre Fierro, NOAA/NSSL/Univ. of Oklahoma/CIMMS

1:30 PM

2.1

Lightning flashes in 2005 - 2010 tropical cyclones: implications for intensity change and comparisons with convective and environmental parameters

Natalia N. Solorzano, DigiPen Institute of Technology, Redmond, WA; and J. N. Thomas and R. H. Holzworth

Recorded Presentation

2:00 PM

2.2

Tropical cyclone lightning characteristics as revealed by the World Wide Lightning Location Network (WWLLN)

Kristen L. Corbosiero, Univ. of California, Los Angeles, CA; and S. Abarca, F. O. Rosales, and G. B. Raga

Recorded Presentation

2:15 PM

2.3

Lightning observations and tropical cyclogenesis in the Atlantic and East Pacific

Kenneth D. Leppert II, University of Alabama - Huntsville, Huntsville, AL; and W. A. Petersen

Recorded Presentation

2:30 PM-4:00 PM: Monday, 24 January 2011

Formal Poster Viewing with Coffee Break

Poster Session 1

Climatology of Lightning and the Global Electric Circuit I

Location: Washington State Convention Center

Host: Fifth Conference on the Meteorological Applications of Lightning Data

Chair: Edward R. Mansell, CIMMS/Univ. of Oklahoma

302

A Lightning Climatology for the Northern California Region

Matthew Bloemer, NOAA/NWS, Eureka, CA

303

Verification of thunderstorm occurrence using the National Lightning Detection Network

Kristen L. Corbosiero, Univ. of California, Los Angeles, CA

304

IC/CG Ratio Over the U.S

Stan Heckman, Earth Networks, Germantown, MD

305

Lightning climatology for the State of Colorado

Stephen J. Hodanish, NOAA/NWS, Pueblo, CO; and P. G. Wolyn

Manuscript (757.0 kB)

306

Monthly distributions of NLDN and GLD360 cloud-to-ground lightning

Ronald L. Holle, Vaisala Inc., Tucson, AZ; and K. L. Cummins and N. W. S. Demetriades

Manuscript (4.4 MB)

Handout (9.4 MB)

307

Thunderstorm activity over South America as inferred from the Sferics and Timing Ranging Network – STARNET

Carlos A. R. Morales, University of Sao Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil; and J. R. Neves and E. M. Anselmo

Handout (1.6 MB)

Poster Session 2

General Applications of Atmospheric Electricity and Lightning Data in the Atmospheric Sciences I

Location: Washington State Convention Center

Host: Fifth Conference on the Meteorological Applications of Lightning Data

Chair: Edward R. Mansell, CIMMS/Univ. of Oklahoma

308

Fractal characteristics of simulated and LMA-detected lightning flashes

Blake J. Allen, University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK; and E. R. Mansell and E. C. Bruning

Manuscript (1.2 MB)

Handout (12.1 MB)

309

Global relationships between lightning and ice water path characteristics from WWLLN and AMSU-B/MHS

Yoshitaka Nakamura, Osaka University c/o Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, Suita, Osaka, Japan; and R. H. Holzworth, A. R. Jacobson, J. A. Weinman, L. A. McMurdie, H. Meng, R. R. Ferraro, T. Morimoto, T. Ushio, and Z. I. Kawasaki

Handout (231.8 kB)

310

Inferring lightning-channel geometry from polarimetry of VHF radio emissions

Abram R. Jacobson, Univ. of Washington, Seattle, WA; and R. H. Holzworth and X. M. Shao

Handout (2.1 MB)

311

A balloon-borne high-definition videosonde to measure thunderstorm microphysics

Donald R. MacGorman, NOAA/NSSL/WRDD, Norman, OK; and W. D. Rust, S. Waugh, D. Kennedy, and S. E. Fredrickson

Handout (18.7 MB)

312

A 3-Dimensional DBSCAN Storm Tracking and Identification Algorithm – Description and Implementation

Jenny L. Matthews, Georgia Tech Research Institute, Severe Storms Research Center, Atlanta, GA; and J. Trostel

313

Application of a 3D DBSCAN SCIT algorithm to the characterization of storm cells

John Trostel, Georgia Tech Research Institute, Severe Storms Research Center, Atlanta, GA ; and J. L. Matthews

4:00 PM-5:30 PM: Monday, 24 January 2011

Session 3

Lightning in Tropical Cyclones II

Location: 602/603 (Washington State Convention Center)

Host: Fifth Conference on the Meteorological Applications of Lightning Data

Chair: Natalia N. Solorzano, DigiPen Institute of Technology

4:00 PM

3.1

LASA observations and high-resolution simulation of total lightning during the rapid intensification of Hurricane Rita

Alexandre Fierro, NOAA/NSSL/Univ. of Oklahoma/CIMMS, Norman, OK; and J. M. Reisner, X. M. Shao, T. Hamlin, and J. Harlin

Recorded Presentation

4:30 PM

3.2

Linking lightning to tropical cyclone intensity change: a composite study of frequency and distribution

Marcus D. Austin, NOAA, Brandon, FL; and H. E. Fuelberg

Recorded Presentation

4:45 PM

3.3

Eyewall lightning outbreaks and tropical cyclone intensity change

Nicholas W. S. Demetriades, Vaisala, Inc., Tucson, AZ; and R. L. Holle and S. Businger

Handout (9.2 MB)

5:00 PM

3.4

Tropical cyclone rapid intensity change forecasting using lightning data during the 2010 GOES-R Proving Ground at the National Hurricane Center

Mark DeMaria, NOAA/NESDIS, Fort Collins, CO; and J. Knaff, M. J. Brennan, J. L. Beven II, R. T. DeMaria, A. B. Schumacher, J. Kaplan, and N. W. S. Demetriades

Recorded Presentation

5:15 PM

3.5

Polarity and energetics of inner core lightning in 2005 intense North Atlantic hurricanes

Jeremy N. Thomas, DigiPen Institute of Technology, Redmond, WA; and N. N. Solorzano, S. A. Cummer, and R. H. Holzworth

Recorded Presentation

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)

8:30 AM-9:45 AM: Tuesday, 25 January 2011

Session 4

Climatology of Lightning and the Global Electric Circuit II

Location: 602/603 (Washington State Convention Center)

Host: Fifth Conference on the Meteorological Applications of Lightning Data

Chair: Eric C. Bruning, Texas Tech Univ

8:30 AM

4.1

Combined aircraft and satellite-derived storm electric current and lightning rates measurements and implications for the global electric circuit

Douglas M. Mach, University of Alabama, Huntsville, AL; and R. J. Blakeslee, M. Bateman, and J. Bailey

Recorded Presentation

9:00 AM

4.2

The North American Lightning Detection Network (NALDN): Analysis of Flash Data – 2001-2009

Richard E. Orville, Texas A&M University, College Sation, TX; and G. R. Huffines, W. R. Burrows, and K. L. Cummins

Recorded Presentation

9:15 AM

4.3

Toward a climatology of precipitating systems that produce lightning with large impulse charge moment changes

Timothy J. Lang, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO; and W. A. Lyons, S. A. Cummer, S. Rutledge, and T. E. Nelson

Recorded Presentation

9:30 AM

4.4

Total lightning and precipitation over Brazil: An overview from 12-years of TRMM satellite

Rachel I. Albrecht, INPE, Cachoeira Paulista, SP, Brazil; and K. P. Naccarato, O. Pinto Jr., and I. R. C. A. Pinto

Recorded Presentation

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

Spouses' Coffee

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

Exhibit Hours

9:45 AM-11:00 AM: Tuesday, 25 January 2011

Formal Poster Viewing with Coffee Break

Poster Session 3

Lightning Safety, Protection, and Education II

Location: Washington State Convention Center

Host: Fifth Conference on the Meteorological Applications of Lightning Data

Chair: Gregory R. Patrick, NWS

314

Detection Efficiencies and Range Accuracies of Three Portable Lightning Detectors Compared with the National Lightning Detection Network

Alex J. DeCaria, Millersville University, Millersville, PA; and J. W. Wimer, H. M. Fijalkowski, M. R. Miziorko, and J. A. Limbacher

Manuscript (82.0 kB)

Handout (358.9 kB)

315

Comparison of the United States Precision Lightning Network™ (USPLN™) and the Cloud-to-Ground Lightning Surveillance System (CGLSS)

Alexander A. Jacques, Univ. of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT; and J. P. Koermer and T. R. Boucher

Manuscript (833.6 kB)

Handout (1.1 MB)

316

A statistical model for the inter-annual and intra-annual number of lightning fatalities

William P. Roeder, Private Meteorologist, Rockledge, FL

Manuscript (241.3 kB)

Handout (235.3 kB)

317

Is the risk of a lightning casualty actually less in an open field than a forest?

William P. Roeder, Private Meteorologist, Rockledge, FL

Manuscript (136.6 kB)

Handout (142.5 kB)

Poster Session 4

The Utility of Lightning Data in Operational Warning and Decision-Making Processes I

Location: Washington State Convention Center

Host: Fifth Conference on the Meteorological Applications of Lightning Data

Chair: Gregory R. Patrick, NWS

318

Assessing impulses and decay of overshooting tops relative to supercell collapse using lightning and phased array radar data

Vanna C. Chmielewski, University of South Alabama, Mobile, AL; and K. M. Kuhlman, D. R. MacGorman, and S. A. Weiss

Manuscript (1.1 MB)

Handout (1.5 MB)

319

The Utility of Total Lightning for Diagnosing the Severity of Summer Pulse Convection

Christopher B. Darden, NOAA/NWS, Huntsville, AL; and B. Carcione, A. M. Woodward, and G. T. Stano

Handout (2.3 MB)

Poster 320 has been moved. New paper number J1.2A

321

NCAR AutoNowcaster performance using total lightning and NLDN data

Cathy Kessinger, NCAR, Boulder, CO; and E. Nelson, W. Deierling, and N. Oien

Handout (607.1 kB)

322

The application of lightning density map in the analysis of a severe rainstorm case in Hong Kong

W.H. Leung, Hong Kong Observatory, Hong Kong, China; and W. M. Ma and H. K. Yeung

Manuscript (846.8 kB)

323

Determining relationships between lightning and radar in severe and non-severe storms

S. D. Rudlosky, NOAA/NESDIS/STAR, College Park, MD; and H. E. Fuelberg

324

Diagnosing storm intensity using coupled TRMM Lightning Imaging Sensor and Meteosat Second Generation in preparation for GOES-R

C. P. Jewett, Univ. of Alabama in Huntsville, Huntsville, AL; and J. Walker, W. M. MacKenzie Jr., and J. R. Mecikalski

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

Bernhard Haurwitz Lecture

Session 5

Recent Advances in Lightning Technology and Transfer of that Technology from Research to Operations I

Location: 602/603 (Washington State Convention Center)

Host: Fifth Conference on the Meteorological Applications of Lightning Data

Chair: Wiebke Deierling, NCAR

11:00 AM

5.1

The GOES-R Geostationary Lightning Mapper (GLM): Algorithm and Instrument Status

Steven J. Goodman, NOAA/NESDIS/GOES-R Program Office, Greenbelt, MD; and H. J. Christian Jr.

Recorded Presentation

11:30 AM

5.2

The WeatherBug Total Lightning Network Technical Overview

Stan Heckman, Earth Networks, Germantown, MD

Recorded Presentation

12:00 PM-1:30 PM: Tuesday, 25 January 2011

Lunch Break

1:30 PM-3:00 PM: Tuesday, 25 January 2011

Session 6

Recent Advances in Lightning Technology and Transfer of that Technology from Research to Operations II

Location: 602/603 (Washington State Convention Center)

Host: Fifth Conference on the Meteorological Applications of Lightning Data

Chair: Richard E. Orville, Texas A&M University

1:30 PM

6.1

A network for real-time lightning impulse charge moment change measurements

Steven A. Cummer, Duke University, Durham, NC; and W. A. Lyons and T. E. Nelson

Recorded Presentation

2:00 PM

6.2

A Lightning Mapping Array for West Texas: Deployment and Research Plans

Eric C. Bruning, Texas Tech Univ, Lubbock, TX; and N. Y. Wang, R. I. Albrecht, and K. Gopalan

Recorded Presentation Manuscript (1.2 MB)

2:30 PM

6.3

Lightning Mapping Arrays - current status and recent results

William Rison, New Mexico Tech; and P. Krehbiel, H. Edens, S. Hunyady, G. Aulich, and R. Thomas

Recorded Presentation

2:45 PM

6.4

A New Lightning Instrumentation System for Pad 39B at the Kennedy Space Center, Florida

Carlos T. Mata, ASRC Aerospace, Kennedy Space Center, FL; and V. A. Rakov

Recorded Presentation

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

Coffee Break

Meet the President

Location: 601 (Washington State Convention Center)

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

Joint Session 10

Understanding Lightning’s Role in Atmospheric Chemistry

Location: 602/603 (Washington State Convention Center)

Hosts: (Joint between the Fifth Conference on the Meteorological Applications of Lightning Data; and the 13th Conference on Atmospheric Chemistry )

Chair: Kenneth E. Pickering, NASA/GSFC/Univ. of Maryland

3:30 PM

J10.1

Lightning-produced NOx in the tropics: Results from TROCCINOX, SCOUT-O3 and AMMA, and recommendations for future LNOx parameterizations

H. Huntrieser, Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt, Oberpfaffenhofen, Germany; and H. Schlager, U. Schumann, M. Lichtenstern, A. Roiger, P. Stock, H. Höller, K. Schmidt, and H. D. Betz

Recorded Presentation

4:00 PM

J10.2

Multiscale simulations of the impact of lightning NOx on atmospheric chemistry and an investigation of the aerosol direct and semi-direct effects on lightning

Lesley Ott, Univ. of Maryland, Greenbelt, MD; and K. E. Pickering, S. Pawson, and D. Allen

Recorded Presentation

4:30 PM

J10.3

Regional modeling of enhanced upper tropospheric ozone due to biomass burning and lightning in Central Africa during the 2006 AEROSE II Cruise

Jonathan W. Smith, Howard University, Washington, DC; and K. E. Pickering and G. S. Jenkins

Recorded Presentation

4:45 PM

J10.4

The Lightning Nitrogen Oxides Model (LNOM): status and recent applications

William J. Koshak, NASA/MSFC, Huntsville, AL; and M. Khan, H. Peterson, L. Wang, and A. P. Biazar

5:00 PM

J10.5

Application of a New Lightning-NOx Parameterization in a Hector Thunderstorm Cloud/Chemistry Simulation

Kristin A. Cummings, University of Maryland, College Park, MD; and K. E. Pickering, M. C. Barth, T. Huntemann, W. C. Skamarock, G. Vaughan, A. Volz-Thomas, H. Schlager, and H. Höller

Recorded Presentation

5:15 PM

J10.6

Impact of lightning-NO emissions on summertime U.S. photochemistry as determined using the CMAQ model with NLDN-constrained flash rates

Dale Allen, University of Maryland, College Park, MD; and K. E. Pickering, R. Pinder, W. J. Koshak, T. Pierce, and K. W. Appel

Recorded Presentation

Wednesday, 26 January 2011

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

Weather Video Preview Theater

Location: 303 (Washington State Convention Center)

8:30 AM-10:00 AM: Wednesday, 26 January 2011

Session 7

General Applications of Atmospheric Electricity and Lightning Data in the Atmospheric Sciences II

Location: 602/603 (Washington State Convention Center)

Host: Fifth Conference on the Meteorological Applications of Lightning Data

Chair: Lawrence Carey, University of Alabama in Huntsville

8:30 AM

7.1

Diagnosing the Electrical Structure of Dusty Gust Fronts in the Sahel

Harvey Elliott, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI; and E. Williams, N. O. Renno, W. Beasley, N. Nathou, and B. Russell

Recorded Presentation

9:00 AM

7.2

Volcanic lightning observations from the Redoubt and Eyjafjallajokul eruptions

Sonja A. Behnke, New Mexico Tech, Socorro, NM; and R. J. Thomas, P. R. Krehbiel, W. Rison, H. E. Edens, and S. R. McNutt

Recorded Presentation

9:15 AM

7.3

Coordinated video and RF measurements of positive CGs inducing both sprites and upward tower discharges

Tom A. Warner, SDSMT, Rapid City, SD; and W. A. Lyons, S. A. Cummer, T. J. Lang, and T. E. Nelson

Recorded Presentation

9:30 AM

7.4

Lightning and polarimetric signatures of electrified winter storms in central Oklahoma

Kristin M. Kuhlman, CIMMS/Univ. of Oklahoma and NOAA/NSSL, Norman, OK; and K. L. Manross

Manuscript (4.8 MB)

9:45 AM

7.5

Analysis of TRMM-LIS lightning and related microphysics using a cell-scale database

A. LeRoy, Univ. of Alabama in Huntsville, Huntsville, AL; and W. A. Petersen

Recorded Presentation

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

Spouses' Coffee

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

Coffee Break

Meet the President

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

Exhibit Hours

10:30 AM-12:00 PM: Wednesday, 26 January 2011

Joint Session 1

The Use of Lightning Data in Aviation Operations

Location: 602/603 (Washington State Convention Center)

Hosts: (Joint between the Fifth Conference on the Meteorological Applications of Lightning Data; and the Second Aviation, Range and Aerospace Meteorology Special Symposium on Weather-Air Traffic Management Integration )

Chair: Kristin M. Kuhlman, University of Oklahoma

10:30 AM

J1.1

Anvil-level lightning flashes initiated by an airplane as detected by the Oklahoma Lightning Mapping Array

Stephanie A. Weiss, University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK; and D. R. MacGorman, W. Rison, and P. R. Krehbiel

Recorded Presentation

J1.2

First National Weather Service Use of the new Vaisala Long-Range GLD360® Data

10:45 AM

J1.2A

Numerical Simulations of Maritime Deep Convection using an Unstructured Adaptive Grid Model Initialized with Lightning Data

Thomas Dunn, University of Hawaii, Honolulu, HI; and S. Businger

Recorded Presentation

11:00 AM

J1.3

Use of inferred lighting results within a detection scheme for oceanic convection

Cathy Kessinger, NCAR, Boulder, CO; and W. Deierling and N. Rehak

Recorded Presentation

11:15 AM

J1.5

Defining interest fields for 0-1 hour lighting initiation using GOES infrared temperature and reflectance data

John R. Mecikalski, University of Alabama in Huntsville, Huntsville, AL; and R. J. Harris, W. M. MacKenzie Jr., P. A. Durkee, and K. E. Nielsen

Recorded Presentation

J1.4

Using satellite observed total lightning and overshooting tops to diagnose convectively-induced aviation hazards over the ocean

11:30 AM

J1.6

Radar nowcasting of total lightning over the Kennedy Space Center

Greg N. Seroka, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX; and R. E. Orville

Recorded Presentation

12:00 PM-1:30 PM: Wednesday, 26 January 2011

Lunch Break

1:30 PM-2:30 PM: Wednesday, 26 January 2011

Session 8

The Utility of Lightning Data in Operational Warning and Decision-Making Processes II

Location: 602/603 (Washington State Convention Center)

Host: Fifth Conference on the Meteorological Applications of Lightning Data

Chair: Henry E. Fuelberg, Florida State University

1:30 PM

8.1

Improved real-time lightning trend products

Geoffrey T. Stano, ENSCO/SPoRT, Huntsville, AL; and B. Carcione and C. B. Darden

Recorded Presentation Manuscript (440.2 kB)

1:45 PM

8.2

The Application of Total Lightning Detection and Cell Tracking for Severe Weather Prediction

Chonglin (Charlie) Liu, AWS/WeatherBug, Germantown, MD; and S. Heckman

Recorded Presentation

2:00 PM

8.3

Advancements in the development of an operational lightning jump algorithm for GOES-R GLM

Christopher J. Schultz, Univ. of Alabama, Huntsville, AL; and W. A. Petersen and L. D. Carey

Recorded Presentation

2:15 PM

8.4

Winter-time lightning during cold-air outbreaks over the North Pacific ocean

Lynn A. McMurdie, University of Washington, Seattle, WA; and J. A. Weinman, R. H. Holzworth, and Y. Nakamura

Recorded Presentation

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

Formal Poster Viewing with Coffee Break

Poster Session 5

Lightning Warning and Prediction Using Observations and Models I

Location: Washington State Convention Center

Host: Fifth Conference on the Meteorological Applications of Lightning Data

Chair: William P. Roeder, 45th Weather Squadron

679

Automating Lightning Notification and Communication at Savannah River Site

Steven R. Chiswell, Savannah River National Laboratory, Aiken, SC; and E. Kabela

Handout (14.7 MB)

680

Mesoscale lightning threat guidance for operational use at NWS offices

Pete Saunders, Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL; and H. E. Fuelberg, S. J. Hodanish, J. Mittelstadt, A. I. Watson, and S. Zubrick

681

Predicting of lightning activity in Japan using mesoscale model output statistics

Syugo Hayashi, MRI, Tsukuba, Japan

Handout (1.2 MB)

682

Evaluation of mesoscale lightning threat guidance for the State of Colorado

Stephen J. Hodanish, NOAA/NWS, Pueblo, CO; and P. Wolyn, P. Saunders, H. E. Fuelberg, and A. Gibbs

683

The Time Between First Radar Echoes and First VHF Lightning Radiation Source Locations as an Indicator of Eventual Storm Intensity

Patrick T. Hyland, University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK; and W. H. Beasley and S. A. Weiss

684

A Study of Severe Thunderstorm Warnings Based on WTLN Total Lighting Data and the WRF Model

Elena Novakovskaia, Earth Networks, Germantown, MD; and C. Liu and S. Heckman

685

New Advances in Lightning Forecasting from WFO Grand Junction

Paul Frisbie, NOAA/NWSFO, Grand Junction, CO; and M. P. Meyers, J. D. Colton, and J. Daniels

686

Vertically integrated ice – a new lightning nowcasting tool

Matt Mosier, NOAA/NWS, Fort Worth, TX

Manuscript (365.9 kB)

Handout (1.7 MB)

687

Observation of winter lightning in the Shonai area railroad weather project: preliminary results

Masahide Nishihashi, MRI, Tsukuba, Ibaraki, Japan; and K. I. Shimose, K. Kusunoki, S. Hayashi, K. Bessho, S. Hoshino, K. Arai, Y. Hono, K. Adachi, W. Kato, O. Suzuki, M. Nakazato, W. Mashiko, H. Yamauchi, H. Y. Inoue, and M. Kusume

Manuscript (1.8 MB)

688

Using temperature layered VIL as automated lightning warning guidance

William P. Roeder, 45th Weather Squadron, Patrick AFB, FL; and T. M. McNamara

Manuscript (599.4 kB)

Handout (277.7 kB)

689

A combined prediction of the risk of dry thunderstorm outbreaks

690

Exploring the use of radar for physically-based nowcasting of lightning cessation

Elise V. Schultz, Univ. of Alabama, Huntsville, AL; and W. A. Petersen and L. D. Carey

Manuscript (5.0 MB)

Handout (747.1 kB)

691

Development and testing of operational dual-polarimetric radar based lightning initiation forecast techniques

Crystal J. Woodard, University of Alabama Huntsville, Huntsville, AL; and L. D. Carey, W. A. Petersen, M. Scott, and W. P. Roeder

Manuscript (121.1 kB)

692

A new scheme for predicting intra-cloud and cloud-to-ground flash densities

Barry Lynn, Weather It Is, LTD, Efrat, Israel; and Y. Yair and C. G. Price

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

Session 9

Lightning Warning and Prediction Using Observations and Models II

Location: 602/603 (Washington State Convention Center)

Host: Fifth Conference on the Meteorological Applications of Lightning Data

Chair: Christopher B. Darden, NOAA/NWS

4:00 PM

9.1

A multiple source approach to operational lightning prediction

Gail Hartfield, NOAA/NWS, Raleigh, NC

Recorded Presentation Manuscript (562.6 kB)

4:15 PM

9.2

Enhanced Lightning Products and Services for Decision Support Operations through Improved Short Term Forecast Techniques

Benjamin S. Herzog, National Westher Service—St. Louis, St. Charles, MO; and M. R. Volkmer, S. M. Spratt, and D. W. Sharp

Recorded Presentation

4:30 PM

9.3

Dry thunderstorm forecast procedure

Nick Nauslar, DRI, Reno, NV; and J. Wallmann and T. J. Brown

Recorded Presentation

4:45 PM

9.4

Vertically Integrated Ice (VII): an operational lightning forecasting tool

Brian Hoeth, NOAA/NWS, Houston, TX; and D. A. Hood, M. Keehn, and M. Mosier

Recorded Presentation

5:00 PM

9.5

Strategic lightning threat prediction--An assessment of multiple techniques

Wiebke Deierling, NCAR, Boulder, CO; and M. Steiner and C. Kessinger

5:15 PM

9.6

Dual-polarimetric signatures of ice orientation for lightning prediction: A radar modeling study of ice mixtures at X, C and S bands

Lawrence D. Carey, University of Alabama in Huntsville, Huntsville, AL; and W. A. Petersen and E. V. Schultz

Recorded Presentation

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)

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

Exhibit Hours

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

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

Audio File

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

Michio Yanai Symposium Luncheon

Location: 4C-1 (Washington State Convention Center)

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

Registration Closes

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

Meet the President

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

AMS 91st Annual Meeting Adjourns

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