8th Conference on Space Weather

Program Chairs: Robert McCoy , Office of Naval Research ; Genene Fisher , AMS

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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

10:15 AM-11:00 AM: Monday, 24 January 2011


Coffee Break Reception - Sponsored by Ball Aerospace
Location: 4C-3 (Washington State Convention Center)

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


Coffee Break

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

Recording files available
Session 1
Agency Updates—Space Weather Impacts & Initiatives
Location: 4C-3 (Washington State Convention Center)
Host: 8th Conference on Space Weather
Cochairs: Robert McCoy, Office of Naval Research; Genene Fisher, AMS
11:30 AM
1.2
Utility of the the NASA research fleet for SWx prediction
Richard R. Fisher, NASA Heliophysics Division, Washington, DC
11:45 AM
1.3
NSF and Space Weather for the Future
Richard Behnke, NSF, Arlington, VA
Paper 1.4 has been moved. New paper number 1.1A

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


Lunch Break

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

Recording files available
Session 2
Agency Updates II
Location: 4C-3 (Washington State Convention Center)
Host: 8th Conference on Space Weather
Chair: Richard Behnke, NSF
1:30 PM
2.1
1:45 PM
2.2
FAA Update on Space Weather Activities
Hank Krakowski, FAA, Washington, DC; and V. Capezzuto
2:00 PM
2.3A
2:15 PM
2.4

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


Formal Poster Viewing with Coffee Break

Poster Session 1
Space Weather Posters
Host: 8th Conference on Space Weather
Cochairs: Jennifer Meehan, Utah State Univ.; Genene Fisher, AMS
264
Model verses data comparison of the February 26, 2008 substorm
Erika M. Harnett, Univ. of Washington, Seattle, WA; and R. M. Winglee

265
Calibration Tool Development for the GOES-R Solar Ultra-Violet Imager
Jonathan M. Darnel, CIRES, Boulder, CO; and C. Cao

Handout (791.4 kB)

266
Improved modeling and prediction of total atmospheric refractivity by assimilation of angle of arrival and total electron content measurements from an array of GPS receivers
Bonnie Valant-Spaight, Propagation Research Associates, Inc., Marietta, GA; and G. M. Hall, A. J. Mannucci, A. Komjathy, B. D. Wilson, and M. A. Dumett

Handout (908.6 kB)

267
Space Weather Products from the GOES-R Magnetometer and Energetic Particle Instruments
Paul T.M. Loto'aniu, NOAA/NWS/SWPC, Boulder, CO; and J. V. Rodriguez, H. J. Singer, J. C. Green, M. Berguson, T. Onsager, L. Mayer, M. Shouldis, and S. M. Hill

268
Ionosphere mitigation through species characterization and stratification
Christopher T. Rodgers, ITT Industries, Herndon, VA; and O. E. Kia
Manuscript (425.0 kB)

269
Results from a prototype for the GOES Particle Intersensor Toolkit
William Rowland, CIRES/Univ. of Colorado, Boulder, CO; and R. S. Weigel and C. Cao

Handout (3.2 MB)

270
Transition of the ACE and GOES-N,O,P space weather product processing systems to NOAA operations
Thomas King, Dell, Fairfax, VA; and C. Tan, P. Keehn, and W. W. Wolf

271
An approach to test and exercise for space weather system for storming conditions
Rhonda S. Davis, Northrop Grumman, Colorado Springs, CO; and D. H. Polk, R. Vigeant, and S. L. McNew

Handout (753.9 kB)

272
Results from the RAIDS Experiment aboard the ISS
Scott A. Budzien, NRL, Washington, DC; and R. L. Bishop, A. W. Stephan, A. B. Christensen, J. H. Hecht, K. R. Minschwaner, and S. M. Bailey

273
GPS radio occultation data use in operational ionospheric models
William Bagby, Northrop Grumman, Colorado Springs, CO; and B. Prochaska, K. Landis, and D. Kim

274
Whole atmosphere data assimilation and forecast experiments
Houjun Wang, CIRES/Univ. of Colorado and SWPC/NOAA, Boulder, CO; and T. Fuller-Rowell and R. Akmaev
Manuscript (415.6 kB)

Handout (2.5 MB)

277A
Hosted Payload Lessons
Carl Schueler, Orbital Sciences Corporation, Santa Barbara, CA
Manuscript (927.5 kB)

Handout (927.5 kB)

278
Thermospheric Density Fluctuations Derived from the Atmospheric Neutral Density Experiment Missions
Andrew C. Nicholas, NRL, Washington, DC; and M. A. Davis, S. A. Budzien, T. T. Finne, and L. Healy

280
CASES: A Novel Low-Cost Ground-based GPS Software Receiver
Geoff Crowley, Atmospheric & Space Technology Research Associates, San Antonio, TX; and P. M. Kintner Jr., M. Psaiki, T. E. Humphreys, S. Powell, B. O'Hanlon, A. Reynolds, and G. S. Bust

281
Global, real-time ionosphere specification for end-user communication and navigation products
W. Kent Tobiska, Utah State Univ., Logan, UT; and H. Carlson, R. W. Schunk, J. J. Sojka, L. Scherliess, L. Zhu, and L. C. Gardner

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

Recording files available
Session 3
Agency Updates III
Location: 4C-3 (Washington State Convention Center)
Host: 8th Conference on Space Weather
Cochairs: Karen Shelton-Mur, HQ FAA; William J. Murtagh, NOAA
4:00 PM
3.1
The National Space Weather Program: 2010 and the Next Decade
Samuel P. Williamson, Office of the Federal Coordinator for Meteorology, Silver Spring, MD; and M. F. Bonadonna and M. R. Babcock
4:15 PM
3.2
Space Weather and FEMA
Stephen Sterling, FEMA, Denver, CO
4:30 PM
3.3A
A NASA Applied Spaceflight Environments Office Concept
James F. Spann, NASA Headquarters, Washington, DC; and D. L. Edwards, H. D. Burns, and M. A. Xapsos
4:45 PM
3.4
Space Weather Services and Tools at the CCMC
Michael Hesse, NASA/GSFC, Greenbelt, MD; and Y. Zheng, A. Pulkkinen, S. Taktakishvili, M. Maddox, and M. Kuznetsova
3.6 has been moved to 3.3A

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

Recording files available
Session 4
Developments in Data Assimilation and Physics-based Forecast Models
Location: 4C-3 (Washington State Convention Center)
Host: 8th Conference on Space Weather
Chair: Geoff Crowley, Atmospheric & Space Technology Research Associates
8:30 AM
4.1
Prospects and Challenges for Data Assimilation in Magnetosphere Models
Joachim Raeder, Univ. of New Hampshire, Durham, NH; and T. Matsuo and J. Anderson
8:45 AM
4.2
Data assimilation models for ionosphere specifications and forecasts
Robert W. Schunk, Utah State Univ., Logan, UT; and L. Scherliess, J. J. Sojka, D. C. Thompson, and L. Zhu
9:00 AM
4.3
Modeling ring current enhancements during magnetic storms
Michele D. Cash, Univ. of Washington, Seattle, WA; and E. M. Harnett and R. M. Winglee

9:30 AM
4.5
WSA Derived Coronal Hole Comparison with STEREO EUVI Observations
C. Nick Arge, Air Force Research Lab, Kirtland AFB, NM; and C. J. Henney, K. Shurkin, J. Koller, A. Toussaint, S. Young, D. Mackenzie, and J. W. Harvey

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

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


Bernhard Haurwitz Lecture
Recording files available
Session 5
Future Directions in Space Weather
Location: 4C-3 (Washington State Convention Center)
Host: 8th Conference on Space Weather
Chair: Joseph Kunches, NOAA/SWPC
11:15 AM
5.3
GPS & Space Weather: Understanding the Vulnerabilities and Building Resilience
Genene Fisher, AMS Policy Program, Washington, DC

Paper 5.2 has been moved. New Paper number 5.4A

11:30 AM
5.4
Space Weather Impacts on the Ground Based Augmentation System
Tim Murphy, Boeing Commercial Airplane Group, Seattle, WA

11:45 AM
5.4A
A Tribute to Paul Kintner
Anthea Coster, MIT, Westford, MA

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


Lunch Break

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

Recording files available
Session 6
New Data Sources and Products
Location: 4C-3 (Washington State Convention Center)
Host: 8th Conference on Space Weather
Cochairs: W. Kent Tobiska, Space Environment Technologies; Richard Clark, Millersville Univ.
1:30 PM
6.1
1:45 PM
6.2
Coherent thermospheric dynamic and electrodynamic response to stratospheric warmings
Tim Fuller-Rowell, Univ. of Colorado, Boulder, CO; and R. A. Akmaev, H. Wang, F. Wu, T. W. Fang, and M. V. Codrescu
2:00 PM
6.3
2:15 PM
6.4
Observations of the Ionosphere and Thermosphere from the Special Sensor Ultraviolet Limb Imager (SSULI)
Clayton Coker, NRL, Washington, DC; and A. W. Stephan, K. F. Dymond, A. C. Nicholas, S. A. Budzien, P. B. Dandenault, S. E. McDonald, D. Chua, D. P. Drob, J. T. Emmert, and K. A. Roach
2:30 PM
6.5
Untangling daytime ionospheric remote sensing: RAIDS contributions to solving an old problem
Andrew W. Stephan, NRL, Washington, DC; and L. Cashman, R. L. Bishop, S. A. Budzien, A. B. Christensen, S. Chakrabarti, J. H. Hecht, and P. R. Straus
2:45 PM
6.6
Integrating the Sun-Earth System for the Operational Environment: A study of the 3–5 April 2010 geomagnetic storm
Sarah E. McDonald, NRL, Washington, DC; and J. Lean, J. Krall, J. D. Huba, G. Joyce, C. C. Wu, B. Wood, J. A. Fedder, A. W. Stephan, S. A. Budzien, D. H. Chua, C. Coker, J. Emmert, D. Drob, R. R. Meier, J. M. Picone, Y. M. Wang, K. A. Zawdie, S. P. Plunkett, R. A. Howard, J. Chen, P. A. Bernhardt, C. L. Siefring, A. Rouillard, K. F. Dymond, and R. L. Bishop

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

Recording files available
Session 7
General Space Weather Contributions
Location: 4C-3 (Washington State Convention Center)
Host: 8th Conference on Space Weather
Cochairs: W. Dean Pesnell, NASA; Jennifer Meehan, Utah State Univ.
3:30 PM
7.1
Upper Atmosphere and Space Weather Education
C. Russell Philbrick, North Carolina State Univ., Raleigh, NC
3:45 PM
7.2
Global geospace imaging for operational space weather monitoring
Damien H. Chua, NRL, Washington, DC; and D. G. Socker, S. Slinker, R. R. Meier, C. R. Englert, B. Wood, J. D. Huba, and J. Krall
4:00 PM
7.3
4:15 PM
7.4
How Astrophysics Noise Paves the Way for Improved Space Weather Forecasting
Michael R. Collier, NASA/GSFC, Greenbelt, MD; and D. G. Sibeck, F. S. Porter, J. L. Burch, J. A. Carter, T. Cravens, K. Kuntz, N. Omidi, A. Read, I. Robertson, S. Sembay, and S. L. Snowden
4:45 PM
7.6
Radio Aurora Explorer: Investigating ionospheric turbulence response to magnetospheric forcing
Hasan Bahcivan, SRI International, Menlo Park, CA; and J. Cutler

5:00 PM
7.7
A Baseline Space Weather Forecast Capability
Shawn Young, Air Force Research Laboratory, Kirtland AFB, NM; and C. N. Arge and J. C. Johnston
5:15 PM
7.8
Space weather product generation transition from SWPC to NESDIS
Arthur T. McClinton Jr., Noblis, Falls Church, VA; and K. Mckenzie, S. Hill, A. Booth, and P. Yu

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

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

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)

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