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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

9:00 AM-6:00 PM: Sunday, 23 January 2011


Registration open for Annual Meeting

12:00 PM-1:30 PM: Sunday, 23 January 2011


Short Course Lunch

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


WeatherFest

5:00 PM-6:00 PM: Sunday, 23 January 2011


Session
91st Annual Review and Fellows Awards
Location: 4C-2 (Washington State Convention Center)
Host: Events

5:30 PM-7:00 PM: Sunday, 23 January 2011


Poster Session 1
Student Poster Submissions
Host: Tenth Annual Student Conference
S1
HWRF Simulation of Hurricane Ike (2008)
Owen H. Shieh, University of Hawaii, Honolulu, HI; and S. M. Mackaro

Handout (4.4 MB)

S2
Tropical circulation changes associated with global warming shown in satellite observations, reanalyses, and climate models
Ahyoung Lim, Seoul National University, Seoul, Korea, Republic of (South); and B. J. Sohn

S4
Optical properties of haze in Seoul using ground-based and satellite observations
Young-Chan Noh, Seoul National University, Seoul, Korea, Republic of (South); and B. J. Sohn

S6
Dynamical and statistical downscaling of ensemble forecasts for wind energy applications in Ireland
Jennifer Courtney, University College, Dublin, Ireland; and C. Sweeney and P. Lynch

S7
Evaluating high-resolution NWP forecasts of the nocturnal low level jet for improving wind power forecasts
Jeffrey A. Deppa, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ; and R. L. Carpenter and B. L. Shaw

S8
Radar-disdrometer comparison to reveal attenuation effects on CASA radar data
Christopher A. Kerr, Univ. of Oklahoma, Norman, OK; and G. Zhang and P. Bukovcic

S9
S10
Diurnal variation in settling velocity of pollen released from corn and consequences for atmospheric dispersion
Simone Claire Gleicher, Pennsylvania State University, State College, PA; and M. Chamecki, N. S. Dufault, and S. A. Isard

S11
Evaluating the Performance of High-Resolution Hurricane Prediction Modeling System
Rosimar Rios, University of Puerto Rico, Mayagüez, PR; and T. Vukicevic, A. Aksoy, and K. Sellwood

Handout (10.1 MB)

S12
Effects of DEM resolution on HAZUS flood mapping for the Monongahela River: California, PA
Timothy M. Lahmers, California University of Pennsylvania, California, PA; and K. Fredrick, T. Mueller, C. M. Kauffman, and M. S. Scott

S13
Understanding Changes in the Arctic Basin Sea Ice Mass Budget as Simulated by CCSM4- Implications from Melt Season Characteristics and the Surface Albedo Feedback
Daniel A. Pollak, Pennsylvania State University & NCAR/SOARS, State College, PA; and M. M. Holland and D. Bailey

S14
On a relationship between the planetary boundary layer height (PBLH) and precipitation
Alyssa V. Bates, Penn State University, University Park, PA; and X. Z. Liang

S15
Development of a Data Acquisition System to Study Turbulence
Kevin J. Sanchez, SIO/Univ. Of California, La Jolla, CA; and J. D. Fuentes

S16
Energy Fluxes and Greenhouse Gas Emissions from a Waste Lagoon
Justin M. Rawley, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA

Handout (862.0 kB)

S17
Verifying model forecasts of arctic fronts in advance of winter storms in the southern Plains
William E. Leatham IV, University of Massachusetts Lowell, Lowell, MA; and P. Burke and A. A. Taylor

S18
The wind-speed dose-response of tree-falls impacting the transmission grid of British Columbia
Wolf A. Read, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada

S19
Temperature forecast opportunities across the NWS Southern Region
Néstor S. Flecha, University of Puerto Rico, Mayaguez, PR; and B. N. Meisner

S20
Effect of Enhanced Moisture Triggers on Mean Precipitation and Winds in the Tropical East Pacific and the Caribbean
Idamis Del Valle, University of Puerto Rico, Mayagüez, PR; and E. D. Maloney

S21
Surface Winds in 2008 Hurricane Ike: Observations and High-Resolution Model Forecasts
Patricia Sanchez, University of Puerto Rico, Mayagüez, PR; and S. Chen

Handout (4.2 MB)

S23
Visualization and Model Intercomparison of the Vector Vorticity Cloud Model
Nicholas Geyer, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA; and C. S. Konor and T. A. Cram

S24
Using HYSPLIT Back Trajectories to Improve Understanding of Tropical Thin Cirrus Cloud Formation Mechanisms
Travis D. Toth, PNNL, Grand Forks, ND; and S. McFarlane and L. Riihimaki

S26
Measured Severe Convective Wind Gust Climatology of Thunderstorms for the Contiguous United States, 2003-2009
Bryan T. Smith, NOAA/NWS/NCEP/SPC, Norman, OK; and A. C. Winters, C. M. Mead, A. R. Dean, and T. E. Castellanos

S27
Sea surface height and intensity change in Western North Pacific Typhoons
Julianna Kurpis, Bard High School Early College, Long Island City, NY; and M. Kokolis, J. N. Thomas, N. N. Solorzano, and G. Terdoslavich

Handout (730.7 kB)

S28
Air pollution dispersion forecasting: a climatological study of Cape Canaveral tropospheric wind patterns
Erich Uher, DRI, Reno, NV; and M. L. Kaplan, A. Joros, and D. Decker

S29
Comparisons of flood affected area derived from MODIS and Landsat imagery
Kevin W. Van Leer, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL; and J. F. Galantowicz

S30
S32
Climatology of Lake-Effect Precipitation in the Lake Tahoe, CA/NV Region
Alicia Bentley, SUNY, Albany, NY; and S. Santeiu, S. Ganetis, A. Stieneke, and N. F. Laird

S33
Meteorological and Ozone Measurements from Barbados during the Summer of 2010
Ashford D'Arcy Reyes, Howard University, Washington, DC

S34
A Tourism Climatology of the Southeastern United States
David Perkins IV, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC

S35
Winter Bird Migration Observed by WSR-88D Radar in the Vicinity of the Great Salt Lake, Utah
Jennifer Hanger, University of Georgia, Athens, GA; and A. Williams and N. F. Laird

S36
A convective climatology of storms over the Green River watershed
William Tollefson, Mississippi State University, Mississippi State, MS; and C. Hunt

S37
Hydrodynamic Model Comparison for Corpus Christi Bay
Sergey Reid, Texas A&M University, Corpus Christi, TX; and J. Davis, Y. Nevel, and P. Tissot

Handout (1.2 MB)

S38
Comparison of MODIS ocean aerosol retrievals with ship-based sun photometer measurements from the Around the America's expedition
Ángel F. Adames-Corraliza, University of Washington, Seattle, WA; and M. Reynolds, A. Smirnov, D. S. Covert, and T. P. Ackerman

Handout (3.4 MB)

S39
What TRMM tells us about tropical cyclone precipitation features
Levi Thatcher, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT; and Y. N. Takayabu

S40
Tsunami travel times and detection capabilities for the Caribbean Region
Alina del Mar Nieves, SCEP NOAA/NWS, Mayaguez, PR

S41
Observations of Local Scale Perturbations Resulting from Urban Environments
Talon B. Atwell, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN; and B. A. Davila, M. J. Dixon, A. C. Hurley, T. A. Johnson, T. M. Lucko, S. J. Sanders, K. W. Van Leer, A. A. Veron, and K. H. Min

S42
Synoptic categorization and data analysis of historical flood-inducing storms in the Northeast
Johnathan P. Kirk, Northeast Regional Climate Center, Ithaca, NY

S43
Dual-Doppler radar and cloud photogrammetry analysis of the 5 June 2009 Goshen County, Wyoming tornado during VORTEX2
Michael Michaud, Lyndon State College, Lyndonville, VT; and C. Johnson and N. T. Atkins

S44
Tornadic behavior related to land-falling tropical cyclones in the United States
Jaclyn M. Ritzman, University of Wyoming, Laramie, WY; and D. S. Arndt and M. C. Kruk

S45
The influence of environmental vertical wind shear on hurricane eye formation
Diamilet Pérez-Betancourt, University of Puerto Rico, Mayagüez, PR; and S. S. Chen and J. L. Vigh

S46
Statistical modeling of Atlantic tropical cyclone counts
Michael E. Kozar, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA; and M. E. Mann, S. J. Camargo, and J. P. Kossin

S47
A Comparison of the Societal Impacts and Warning Operations for the 1989 and 2010 Huntsville, Alabama Tornadoes
Angelica M. Betancourt-Negron, NOAA/NWS and University of Puerto Rico, Huntsville, AL; and K. N. Scotten, J. M. Coyne, and J. L. Lee

S48
Space Weather and Technological Impacts
Jennifer Meehan, Utah State University, Logan, UT; and G. Fisher and W. J. Murtagh

S49
Influence of soil type on dry down patterns of the North Fork of the American River Basin
Andrea R. Thorstensen, St. Cloud State University, St. Cloud, MN

S50
Integrating CASA radar data and GIS using Google Earth to better support emergency managers
AnneMarie Giannandrea, Rochester Institute of Technology, Rochester, NY

S51
Assessing climate change impacts on the Blue River Basin of Oklahoma
Christopher Neal Bednarczyk, Texas Tech University, Lubbock, TX; and Y. Hong, L. Liu, and J. J. Gourley

S52
Composite Analysis of Pittsburgh, PA
Christopher Werner, California University of Pennsylvania, California, PA; and C. Kauffman

S53
Correlating the transport of precipitable water vapor in a complex orographic environment before, during and after a typoon: case study of typhoon morakot (2009)
Vanessa Almanza, San Francisco State University, San Francisco, CA; and B. Kuo, J. J. Braun, D. Hunt, and W. S. Schreiner

S54
Updating the KSC/CCAFS Warm-Season Convective Wind Climatology
Katie Laro, MetStat, Inc., Fort Collins, CO

S58
A Comparison of Specific Differential Propagation in Convective Rain at 10 and 3 cm Wavelengths
Kendell LaRoche, University of North Dakota, Grand Forks, ND; and P. Kennedy, F. Junyent, and V. Chandrasekar

S59
Potential predictability associated with nonlinear regimes in an atmospheric model
John M. Peters, Univ. of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, WI; and S. Kravtsov and N. Schwartz

S60
Oklahoma Weather Lab: An opportunity for operational meteorology for students at the University of Oklahoma
Anthony Lamont Bain, Oklahoma Weather Lab, Norman, OK; and K. D. Sherburn, N. R. Ramsey, and W. G. Blumberg

S61
Upper air observations over the Gulf oil spill: A student experience of a lifetime
Dion M. Delao, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX; and G. N. Seroka and D. T. Conlee

Handout (1.4 MB)

S62
Assessment of groundwater storage derived from IPCC models, and projections for the next 50 years
Katherine Pitts, University of Texas Austin, Austin, TX; and A. F. C. Bridger

Handout (1.9 MB)

S63
Carbon dioxide fluctuations due to weather and the diurnal and annual changes in the environment
Kenneth J. Davis, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA; and S. Richardson and B. L. Twiest

S64
Validation of Z-R relationships for Central Florida thunderstorms
Sarah Elizabeth Tyson, Florida Institute of Technology, Melbourne, FL

Handout (665.4 kB)

S65
Large-Eddy Simulation of Particle Dispersion above and Downstream of Area Sources in the Unstable Atmospheric Boundary Layer
Ying Pan, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA; and M. Chamecki and S. A. Isard

S66
Accuracy of TAMDAR Sensors in Pre-Storm Environments
Timothy E. Marquis, NOAA/NWS, Green Bay, WI

S67
Lyman alpha airglow observations from SORCE SOLSTICE
Erica K. Dolinar, Millersville University, Millersville, PA; and M. Snow, G. Holsclaw, and T. N. Woods

S68
Use of acoustic sodar to detect wakes from wind turbines
Anthony J. Sagliani, Millersville University, Millersville, PA; and M. Charnick

S69
A Neural Network Approach to Tornado Forecasting in North Alabama and Southern Middle Tennessee
Sandra G. LaCorte, University of Alabama, Huntsville, AL; and J. M. Coyne

S70
The effects of the 8.2 ka event on the ITCZ of the Tropical Atlantic
Matthew A. Burger, Ohio University, Athens, OH; and A. Wagner, C. Morrill, and B. L. Otto-Bliesner

S71
Laboratory study of natural gas clathrate hydrates
Raymond Jay Detweiler, UCAR, Corvallis, OR

S72
Regional observations of the nocturnal low level jet over the mid-Atlantic
Adam D. Jacobs, Millersville University, Millersville, PA; and P. E. Falgoust and M. Charnick

S73
The Warm Rain Process in Convective Clouds Influenced by Regional Aerosol and Climate Change
Kathleen Quardokus, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN; and D. G. Burgin, J. A. Crespo, E. R. Fernandes, A. D. Hendricks, S. M. Hinkle, K. A. Hudson, R. T. Knutson, Z. L. Muchow, M. C. Sholty, E. L. Waterman, Z. T. Zobel, and S. Lasher-Trapp

S75
Evaluating Numerical Predictions of Meteorological Features
Kathleen Quardokus, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN; and D. G. Burgin, J. A. Crespo, E. R. Fernandes, A. D. Hendricks, S. M. Hinkle, K. A. Hudson, R. T. Knutson, Z. L. Muchow, M. C. Sholty, E. L. Waterman, Z. T. Zobel, and M. E. Baldwin

S77
Diagnosis of Synoptic Patterns for Snow Events in Northern Alabama
Ismarí Ramos, University of Puerto Rico, Mayagüez, PR; and J. M. Coyne

S78
Study of 2010 monthly rainfall rates and comparison with significant precipitation events in Puerto Rico
Janice M. Maldonado, University of Puerto Rico, Mayagüez, PR; and I. Matos and G. Votaw

Handout (1.0 MB)

S79
Reflectivity structure of hurricanes undergoing an eyewall replacement cycle
Tia Lerud, University of Washington, Seattle, WA; and D. A. Hence and R. A. Houze Jr.

S80
SCIPP hurricane hazard assessment
Alek J. Krautmann, SCIPP, Norman, OK

S81
Wind turbine constellations and their effects on local weather and soil conditions
Joshua A. Holland, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN; and K. A. Demchak, J. P. Martin, M. F. Henschen, E. D. Larson, B. M. Doogs, M. D. Rudkin, L. R. Rhudy, and B. N. Herrholtz

Handout (1.7 MB)

S83
Meeting Client Needs of Medium and Long Range Temperature Forecasting
Sullivan Brown, Lyndon State College, Lyndonville, VT; and J. Sherman and J. C. Shafer

S84
Creating a data aquisition system to study air quality trends in Maryland
Robert C. Harriston, Pennsylvania State University, State College, PA

S85
The characteristic variability of the Amundsen-Bellingshausen Seas Low
Ryan A. Langen, Ohio University, Athens, OH; and R. L. Fogt and A. J. Wovrosh

S86
Jet's quadrants location and strength in 250 mb vector winds for weak tornadoes development
Anthony Ortiz, University of Puerto Rico, Mayagüez, PR; and T. L. Salem Jr.

S87
The Relationship between Regional Icing Distribution and Environmental Conditions
Matthew R. Dewey, NCAR, Boulder, CO; and C. Wolff, M. K. Politovich, and S. Landolt

Handout (5.3 MB)

S89
The National Hydrography Dataset and its Applications
Katelyn Welsh, California University of Pennsylvania, California, PA

S90
An assessment of the quality of real-time mobile pavement temperature observations from snowplows
Crystal Burghardt, NCAR, Boulder, CO; and M. B. Chapman and A. Anderson

S91
Storm duration analysis utilizing TITAN
Logan C. Dawson, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN; and S. Tessendorf and C. Weeks

S93
An analysis on the rapid intensification of Hurricane Wilma from the 2005 Atlantic hurricane season
Vanessa Marie Vincente, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO

Handout (3.3 MB)

S94
Developing a hurricane damage index
Sandra N. Maina, UCAR, Melbourne, FL; and J. M. Done

S95
Observing system simulation experiments for unmanned aircraft in an idealized vortex model framework
Doug A. Koch, University of Miami, Miami, FL; and A. Maki, L. DeVries, S. J. Majumdar, and D. A. Paley

S97
Investigations of hazardous weather preparedness at amusement parks
William Gregory Blumberg, University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK; and K. A. Kloesel and R. Edwards

S98
REVERSE 911® for Non-Immediate Hazard Warnings
Antonia Rosati, University of Colorado, Denver, CO

S99
Estimating the stratocumulus-topped marine boundary layer's height using wind profilers
Aaron Pina, Aeris LLC, Louisville, CO; and L. M. Hartten and L. Bianco

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)

8:30 AM-3:30 PM: Monday, 24 January 2011


Workshop
Atmospheric Science 101: Update Your Library Skills
Location: Washington State Convention Center
Host: 14th Conference of Atmospheric Science Librarians International

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

Recording files available
Session 1
Atmospheric observations, in situ and remote, including from satellites: Advantages and shortcomings compared with other observing systems—Part I
Location: 2B (Washington State Convention Center)
Host: 15th Symposium on Integrated Observing and Assimilation Systems for the Atmosphere, Oceans and Land Surface (IOAS-AOLS)
Chair: Robert M. Atlas, AOML
11:15 AM
1.2
11:30 AM
1.3
Using unmanned aircraft as sensing platforms
Patricia M. Pauley, NRL, Monterey, CA; and L. Phegley and C. M. Amerault
11:45 AM
1.4
Update on the Consensus Reference Concept for Testing Radiosondes
Joseph Facundo, NOAA/NWS, Silver Spring, MD; and C. Bower and M. Liu
Recording files available
Session 1
Computational intelligence methods in forecasting
Location: 2A (Washington State Convention Center)
Host: Ninth Conference on Artificial Intelligence and its Applications to the Environmental Sciences
Chair: William W. Hsieh, Univ. of British Columbia
11:00 AM
1.1
Application of the neural network technique to develop a nonlinear multi-model ensemble for precipitation over ConUS
Vladimir M. Krasnopolsky, IMSG at NCEP/NWS/NOAA, Camp Springs, MD; and Y. Lin

11:15 AM
1.2
A turbine hub height wind speed consensus forecasting system
William Myers, NCAR/RAL, Boulder, CO; and S. Linden
11:30 AM
1.3
Using data mining to improve convective initiation forecasts
John K. Williams, NCAR, Boulder, CO; and D. A. Ahijevych and J. R. Mecikalski

11:45 AM
1.4
Nonlinear principal component analysis applied to the tropical MJO cycle
Johannes Jenkner, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada; and W. W. Hsieh and A. J. Cannon

Session 1
Field, Laboratory, and Modeling Studies of Air Quality—Part I
Location: 3A (Washington State Convention Center)
Host: 13th Conference on Atmospheric Chemistry
Cochairs: Renyi Zhang, Texas A&M University; J. R. Arnold, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers
11:00 AM
1.1
(Invited Speaker) Biogenic secondary organic aerosol: observations and predictions
Scot T. Martin, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA; and Q. Chen, Y. Liu, and N. Donahue

11:30 AM
1.2
An overview of the 2010 Carbonaceous Aerosol and Radiative Effects Study (CARES) field campaign
Rahul Zaveri, PNNL, Richland, WA; and W. J. Shaw and D. J. Cziczo

11:45 AM
1.3A
(Formerly Poster 750) The Hygroscopic Properties of Volcanic Ash and Implications for the Evolution of Volcanic Plumes in the Atmosphere
Terry L. Lathem, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA; and P. Kumar, J. Dufek, and A. Nenes

Recording files available
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
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
11:30 AM
1.3
Utilizing a Lightning Safety Toolkit at Outdoor Venues
Charlie Woodrum, NOAA/NWS, Pittsburgh, PA; and D. Franklin
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
Recording files available
Session 1
Managing the Climate Challenge: Impacts, Adaptation, and Assessment
Location: 618-620 (Washington State Convention Center)
Host: Sixth Symposium on Policy and Socio-economic Research
Cochairs: Mark Shafer, Oklahoma Climatological Survey; Genevieve E. Maricle, Arizona State Univ.
11:00 AM
1.1
America's Climate Choices: Adapting to the Impacts of Climate Change
Thomas Wilbanks, ORNL, Washington, DC; and I. P. Kraucunas and C. Elfring
11:30 AM
1.2
The U.S. National Assessment of Climate Change: Planning the Next Process
Katharine Jacobs, Office of Science and Technology Policy, Washington, DC
Recording files available
Session 1
Results of Field Trials and Numerical Experiments in Planned Weather Modification - Part 1
Location: 605/610 (Washington State Convention Center)
Host: 18th Conference on Planned and Inadvertent Weather Modification
Cochairs: Roy Rasmussen, NCAR/RAL; Masataka Murakami, MRI
11:00 AM
1.1
What have we learned from over 50 years of artificial rain enhancement experiments and operations in Israel?
Zev Levin, Department of Geophysics and Planetary Sciences, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel; and N. Halfon and P. Alpert
11:15 AM
1.2
Microstructure of convective and orographic clouds in Israeli and their suitability for seeding
Daniel Rosenfeld, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Jerusalem, Israel; and E. Freud
11:45 AM
1.4
A Tool for Evaluating Modeling Studies of Planned and Inadvertent Weather Modification
Tara L. Jensen, NCAR/RAL, Boulder, CO; and T. L. Fowler, D. Breed, R. Bullock, J. H. Gotway, P. Oldenburg, and A. Holmes
Recording files available
Session 1
Shifting the Paradigm: Communication Frameworks that Strengthen our Public Health Partnerships
Location: 4C-2 (Washington State Convention Center)
Host: Second Symposium on Environment and Health
Moderator: Wendy Marie Thomas, American Meteorological Society
Chair: Wendy Marie Thomas, American Meteorological Society
11:00 AM
1.1
The use of a medical disease model to communicate the concept of uncertainty
James L. Persson, U.S. Army Aeromedical Activity, Fort Rucker, AL
11:15 AM
1.2
IRI Climate Information for Public Health: towards a knowledge system
Gilma C. Mantilla Caicedo, International Research Institute for Climate and Society ( IRI), Palisades, NY; and M. Thomson and S. Connor
11:30 AM
1.3
Modeling and communicating plague risk in Uganda
Andrew J. Monaghan, NCAR, Boulder, CO; and M. H. Hayden, R. J. Eisen, K. L. Gage, K. S. Griffith, and E. Zielinski-Gutierrez
11:45 AM
1.4
Health forecasting prevents hospital admissions
Tapio Jokinen, Medixine ltd, Espoo, Finland
Recording files available
Joint Session 1
Stratosphere and Climate I
Location: 3B (Washington State Convention Center)
Hosts: (Joint between the 16th Conference on Middle Atmosphere; and the 23rd Conference on Climate Variability and Change )
Chair: Jessica L. Neu, JPL
11:30 AM
J1.2
Stratospheric temperature trends: History of our evolving understanding
Dian J. Seidel, NOAA, College Park, MD; and N. P. Gillett, J. Lanzante, K. P. Shine, and P. Thorne
11:45 AM
J1.3
Could stratospheric water vapor anomalies influence regional climate?
Amanda C. Maycock, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom; and M. M. Joshi, A. A. Scaife, and K. P. Shine
Recording files available
Session 1A
Climate Analysis I
Location: 608 (Washington State Convention Center)
Host: 23rd Conference on Climate Variability and Change
Chair: David R. Easterling, NOAA/NESDIS/NCDC
11:00 AM
1A.1
The climate of 2010 in historical perspective
Derek S. Arndt, NOAA/NESDIS/NCDC, Asheville, NC; and A. Sanchez-Lugo, C. Fenimore, R. R. Heim Jr., and J. Blunden
11:15 AM
1A.2
Extreme weather over parts of the Northern Hemisphere during winter 2009–2010
Lance Bosart, University at Albany, Albany, NY; and H. M. Archambault and J. M. Cordeira
11:30 AM
1A.3
NOAA's 1981–2010 climate normals: a preview
Anthony Arguez, NOAA/NESDIS/NCEI, Asheville, NC; and S. Applequist, I. Durre, L. Ross, M. F. Squires, R. S. Vose, and W. Yin
11:45 AM
1A.4
An analysis of extreme precipitation events in the US during spring 2010
Wayne Higgins, NOAA/OAR/CPO, College Park, MD; and V. Kousky and P. Xie
Recording files available
Session 1A
Decision Support Meteorology I
Location: 613/614 (Washington State Convention Center)
Host: 24th Conference on Weather and Forecasting/20th Conference on Numerical Weather Prediction
Chair: John W. Cannon, NOAA/NWS
11:00 AM
1A.1
NWS Services Roadmap for the Decade Ahead
Andrew Stern, NOAA/NWS, Silver Spring, MD; and D. Green, J. Tuell, E. Jacks, and D. Caldwell
11:15 AM
1A.2
Real-time estimation of population exposure to weather hazards
Kevin A. Scharfenberg, NOAA/NWS, Norman, OK ; and K. L. Manross, K. L. Ortega, and B. P. Walawender
11:30 AM
1A.3
The first steps at providing impact based decision support services (IDSS) in Alaska
Don Moore, NOAA/NWS, Anchorage, AK; and C. Scott, J. Osiensky, G. Hufford, G. Petrescu, and A. Fish
11:45 AM
1A.4
Statistical upscaling of numerical weather predictions to enable coupled modelling of local weather impacts
Lloyd A. Treinish, IBM, Yorktown Heights, NY; and H. Li, A. P. Praino, and A. Praino
Recording files available
Session 1A
Land-Atmosphere Interactions and the Role of HydroEcology on Climate I
Location: 611 (Washington State Convention Center)
Host: 25th Conference on Hydrology
Cochairs: David J. Gochis, NCAR; Jessica D. Lundquist, University of Washington; Enrique R. Vivoni, Arizona State Univ.
11:00 AM
1A.1
The Role of Land-Atmosphere Interactions on Droughts [INVITED]
L. Ruby Leung, PNNL, Richland, WA; and M. Huang, Y. Qian, and X. Liang
11:30 AM
1A.2
On the use of Ecosystem Functional Types to represent lower boundary conditions in the WRF/Noah Model
Ernesto Hugo Berbery, Univ. of Maryland, College Park, MD; and D. Alcaraz-Segura and S. J. Lee
11:45 AM
1A.3
Multi-variate evaluation of land surface model performance in a semi-arid, complex terrain pine forest
David J. Gochis, NCAR, Boulder, CO; and F. Chen, A. A. Turnipseed, J. Hu, F. Dominguez, and P. Harley
Recording files available
Session 1B
Climate Prediction
Location: 609 (Washington State Convention Center)
Host: 23rd Conference on Climate Variability and Change
Chair: Aiguo Dai, NCAR
11:15 AM
1B.2
Variability of the MJO in the NCEP Climate Forecast System Reanalysis and Reforecasts
Scott Weaver, NOAA/CPC, Camp Springs, MD; and W. Wang, M. Chen, and A. Kumar
11:30 AM
1B.3
A Framework for Assessing Operational Model MJO Forecasts
Jon Gottschalck, NOAA/NWS/NCEP/CPC, Camp Springs, MD
11:45 AM
1B.4
Are the more extreme seasonal climate conditions easier to predict?
Cheng-Ta Chen, National Taiwan Normal University, Taipei, Taiwan; and S. L. Lin
Recording files available
Session 1B
Forecasting Skill Improvement I
Location: 615-617 (Washington State Convention Center)
Host: 24th Conference on Weather and Forecasting/20th Conference on Numerical Weather Prediction
CoChair: Levi Thatcher, University of Utah
Chair: Zhaoxia Pu, University of Utah
11:00 AM
1B.1
11:45 AM
1B.4
Gene-expression programming—a new tool for creating NWP ensemble averages and probability forecasts
Atoossa Bakhshaii, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada; and R. B. Stull
Recording files available
Session 1B
Impact of Weather and Climate Extremes on Hydrologic Processes, Responses and Hazards I
Location: 612 (Washington State Convention Center)
Host: 25th Conference on Hydrology
Cochairs: Brent Bower, NOAA/NWS; Bradley R. Colman, NOAA/NWS
11:00 AM
1B.1
Flooding in western Washington: The connection to atmospheric rivers
Paul J. Neiman, NOAA/ESRL, Boulder, CO; and L. J. Schick, F. M. Ralph, M. Hughes, and G. A. Wick
11:45 AM
1B.4
Recording files available
Joint Session 4
Increasing Public Awareness of Weather Forecasts I
Location: 604 (Washington State Convention Center)
Hosts: (Joint between the 20th Symposium on Education; and the 24th Conference on Weather and Forecasting/20th Conference on Numerical Weather Prediction )
Cochairs: David R. Smith, American Meteorological Society; Carolyn Reynolds, NRL

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


Lunch Break

12:15 PM-1:15 PM: Monday, 24 January 2011


Session
Town Hall Meeting: Climate Change and Human Health – Inter-agency Federal Research and Stakeholder Input
Location: 608 (Washington State Convention Center)
Host: Town Hall Meetings
Recording files available
Session
Town Hall Meeting: The Role of the Forecaster in Probabilistic Decision Making
Location: 606 (Washington State Convention Center)
Host: Town Hall Meetings
12:15 PM
Introductory Remarks by Waldstreicher
Jeff S. Waldstreicher, NOAA/NWS, Bohemia, NY
Recording files available
Session
Town Hall Meeting: Weather Matters!: But will It to the 112th Congress?
Location: 609 (Washington State Convention Center)
Host: Town Hall Meetings
Panelists: Ray Ban, The Weather Channel; Frederick H. Carr, Univ. of Oklahoma; Walter F. Dabberdt, Vaisala. Inc.; Wendy Naus, Lewis-Burke Associates, LLC; Jim McDermott, United States House of Representatives

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

Recording files available
Session 1A
Communicating Weather Information Using Mobile Devices Part I
Location: 606 (Washington State Convention Center)
Host: 27th Conference on Interactive Information Processing Systems (IIPS)
Cochairs: Michael Eilts, Weather Decision Technologies; Paul Pisano, FHWA, Team Leader, Road Weather & Work Zone Management; George D. Emmitt, Simpson Weather Associates
1:30 PM
1A.1
The growth of the weather category in the mobile industry
Robyn L. Weeks, The Weather Channel, Atlanta, GA
1:45 PM
1A.2
Smart phone presence for local media: required and options
J. T. Johnson, Weather Decision Technologies, Norman, OK; and M. Eilts, M. Taylor, I. Stinson, M. Gauthier, S. Wrzesien, T. Daniell, T. Hackbarth, J. Jones, M. Woehrer, K. Tran, and J. Peck
2:00 PM
1A.3
Current weather conditions in the smartphone market
Russell Heilig, Davis Instruments, Hayward, CA
2:15 PM
1A.4
Mobile Device Access to Real-time Weather Products using a Web Map Service
Russell Dengel, Univ. of Wisconsin, Madison, WI; and D. Santek, D. Parker, S. Batzli, and N. Bearson
Recording files available
Session 1B
Special International Applications Session: The Eyjafjallajökull Volcanic Eruption of 2010
Location: 607 (Washington State Convention Center)
Host: 27th Conference on Interactive Information Processing Systems (IIPS)
Cochairs: Erik Andersson, ECMWF; John R. Lincoln, US Navy/WMO (Ret.) and Consultant
1:30 PM
1B.1
Volcanic alert warnings to the public; experience from volcanic eruptions in Iceland
Sigrún Karlsdóttir, Icelandic Meteorological Office, Reykjavík, Iceland; and H. Pétursson and V. Reynisson
Manuscript (71.7 kB)

1:45 PM
1B.2
Ash plume monitoring at the Eyjafjallajökull eruption 2010
Sigrún Karlsdóttir, Icelandic Meteorological Office, Reykjavík, Iceland; and H. Pétursson, G. N. Petersen, H. Björnsson, H. Þorsteinsson, T. F. Hervarsson, and K. Hermannsdóttir
2:15 PM
1B.4
The UK Met Office Observations Programme response to the Eyjafjallajökull eruption of spring 2010
Deborah Susan Lee, UK Met Office, Exeter, United Kingdom; and D. Klugmann and O. Cox
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
Recording files available
Session 2
Confronting Challenges in Climate Communication
Location: 618-620 (Washington State Convention Center)
Host: Sixth Symposium on Policy and Socio-economic Research
Cochairs: Amanda Staudt, National Wildlife Federation; Jason P. Samenow, EPA
1:30 PM
2.1
1:45 PM
2.2
Good reasons for trusting climate science communication
Jean Goodwin, Iowa State University, Ames, IA; and M. F. Dahlstrom
2:00 PM
2.3
Models: The Missing Piece in Climate Change Coverage
Karen Akerlof, George Mason University, Fairfax, VA
Recording files available
Session 2
Field, Laboratory, and Modeling Studies of Air Quality—Part II
Location: 3A (Washington State Convention Center)
Host: 13th Conference on Atmospheric Chemistry
Cochairs: Christian Seigneur, CEREA; Yang Zhang, North Carolina State University
1:30 PM
2.1A
1:45 PM
2.2
Contributions of Organic Vapors to Nucleation and Growth of Nanoparticles in the Atmosphere
Lin Wang, Fudan Univ., Shanghai, China; and W. Xu, A. Khalizov, and R. Zhang

Recording files available
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
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
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
Recording files available
Session 2
Results of Field Trials and Numerical Experiments in Planned Weather Modification - Part 2
Location: 605/610 (Washington State Convention Center)
Host: 18th Conference on Planned and Inadvertent Weather Modification
Cochairs: Michael J. Manton, Monash University; T. Jensen, NCAR
1:30 PM
2.1
Invited Speaker: Evaluation of the Wyoming winter orographic cloud seeding program: Design of the randomized seeding experiment
Daniel Breed, NCAR/RAL, Boulder, CO; and M. Pocernich, R. Rasmussen, B. A. Boe, and B. Lawrence
1:45 PM
2.2
New insights into hydrometeor response to ground-based glaciogenic seeding of orographic clouds from profiling radar data
Bart Geerts, University of Wyoming, Laramie, WY; and Q. Miao, R. Rasmussen, D. Breed, and Y. Yang
2:00 PM
2.3
2:15 PM
2.4
Recording files available
Joint Session 2
Stratosphere and Climate II: Response to Surface Forcing
Location: 3B (Washington State Convention Center)
Hosts: (Joint between the 16th Conference on Middle Atmosphere; and the 23rd Conference on Climate Variability and Change )
Chair: Mark P. Baldwin, Northwest Research Associates
1:30 PM
J2.1
1:45 PM
J2.2
El Nino-Southern Oscillation and stratospheric sudden warmings: a re-evaluation
Amy Hawes Butler, NOAA/NWS/NCEP/CPC, College Park, MD; and L. M. Polvani
2:00 PM
J2.3
The impact of surface temperature variability on the climate change response in the NH polar vortex
Barbara Winter, McGill Univ., Montreal, QC, Canada; and M. S. Bourqui

Handout (1.1 MB)

Recording files available
Session 2A
Climate Analysis II
Location: 608 (Washington State Convention Center)
Host: 23rd Conference on Climate Variability and Change
Chair: Eric D. Maloney, Colorado State University
1:30 PM
2A.1
Long-term changes of physical mechanisms in the seasonal cycle of the summertime precipitation variability in Korea
Joon-Woo Roh, Seoul National University, Seoul, Korea, Republic of (South); and K. Y. Kim

1:45 PM
2A.2
2:15 PM
2A.4
The mechanisms of interannual variability within the North Pacific storm track
Sandra M. Penny, University of Washington, Seattle, WA; and D. Battisti and G. H. Roe

Recording files available
Session 2A
Decision/Education Support II
Location: 613/614 (Washington State Convention Center)
Host: 24th Conference on Weather and Forecasting/20th Conference on Numerical Weather Prediction
Chair: Kevin Scharfenberg, NOAA/NWS
1:30 PM
2A.1
New ensemble-based products for tropical cyclones
Thomas M. Hamill, ESRL/NOAA, Boulder, CO; and B. G. Brown, M. DeMaria, Z. Toth, R. L. Gall, and E. Rappaport
2:00 PM
2A.3
Tracking Outflows from Severe Thunderstorms Using NSF EarthScope USArray Pressure Sensors
Jonathan E. Tytell, University of California, La Jolla, CA; and J. Eakins and F. Vernon
2:15 PM
2A.4
Effective use of NWP in the forecast process: A new COMET distance learning course
William R. Bua, UCAR, College Park, MD; and S. D. Jascourt and G. Byrd
Recording files available
Session 2A
Land-Atmosphere Interactions and the Role of HydroEcology on Climate II
Location: 611 (Washington State Convention Center)
Host: 25th Conference on Hydrology
Cochairs: David J. Gochis, NCAR; Jessica D. Lundquist, University of Washington; Enrique R. Vivoni, Arizona State Univ.
1:30 PM
2A.1
Seasonal climate transitions in New England
Alan K. Betts, Atmospheric Research, Pittsford, VT
2:00 PM
2A.3
Impacts of beetle-kill and wildland fire on regional water and energy cycles in western North America [INVITED]
Fei Chen, NCAR, Boulder, CO; and C. Wiedinmyer, M. Barlage, Y. Zhang, J. A. Hicke, and A. J. H. Meddens
Recording files available
Session 2B
Forecast Skill Improvement II
Location: 615-617 (Washington State Convention Center)
Host: 24th Conference on Weather and Forecasting/20th Conference on Numerical Weather Prediction
Chair: Jason E. Nachamkin, NRL
1:30 PM
2B.1
1:45 PM
2B.2
Kalman filter and analog schemes to postprocess numerical weather predictions
Luca Delle Monache, NCAR, Boulder, CO; and T. Nipen, Y. Liu, G. Roux, R. B. Stull, T. T. Warner, and P. Childs
2:00 PM
2B.3
The Impact of Real-Time Observations on the WRF Model Surface Forecasts
Elena Novakovskaia, Earth Networks, Germantown, MD; and Z. Guo and C. Sloop

2:15 PM
2B.4
Recording files available
Session 2B
Impact of Weather and Climate Extremes on Hydrologic Processes, Responses and Hazards II
Location: 612 (Washington State Convention Center)
Host: 25th Conference on Hydrology
Cochairs: Brent Bower, NOAA/NWS; Bradley R. Colman, NOAA/NWS
1:45 PM
2B.2
Extreme Precipitation over the West Coast of North America: Is There a Trend?
Clifford F. Mass, University of Washington, Seattle, WA; and M. Warner and A. Skalenakis
2:00 PM
2B.3
What if the 1–4 May 2010 Historic Nashville, Tennessee Flood Occurred Across East Tennessee?
Brian M. Boyd, NOAA/NWSFO, Morristown, TN; and T. W. Troutman, J. S. Graschel, and S. Roberts
2:15 PM
2B.4
Mesoscale controls on the mountainside snow line
Justin R. Minder, Yale University, New Haven, CT; and D. Durran and G. H. Roe
Recording files available
Session 2B
Observed Changes I
Location: 609 (Washington State Convention Center)
Host: 23rd Conference on Climate Variability and Change
Chair: Xuebin Zhang, EC
1:30 PM
2B.1
An investigation of slow-moving East Coast Winter Storms during the past 55 years
Jase E. Bernhardt, Northeast Regional Climate Center, Ithaca, NY
1:45 PM
2B.2
Changes in cloudiness in the U.S. from surface observations
Melissa Free, NOAA/ARL, Silver Spring, MD; and B. Sun
2:00 PM
2B.3
Meteorological causes of observed extreme precipitation trends in the U.S
Kenneth E. Kunkel, DRI, Reno, NV; and D. R. Easterling, B. Gleason, D. A. R. Kristovich, L. Stoecker, and R. A. Smith
2:15 PM
2B.4
Stratus-impacts on observed long-term cooling-trends of summer max-temperatures in coastal California
James Thomas, San Jose State University, San Jose, CA; and S. Padrick and R. Bornstein
Recording files available
Joint Session 5
Assimilation of observations into models: Atmosphere I
Location: 2B (Washington State Convention Center)
Hosts: (Joint between the 15th Symposium on Integrated Observing and Assimilation Systems for the Atmosphere, Oceans and Land Surface (IOAS-AOLS); and the 24th Conference on Weather and Forecasting/20th Conference on Numerical Weather Prediction )
Chair: R. N. Hoffman, ESSIC UMD
1:30 PM
J5.1
The Canadian regional data assimilation and forecasting system
Luc Fillion, MSC, Dorval, PQ, Canada; and A. Patoine, E. Lapalme, N. Benbouta, P. Vaillancourt, M. Tanguay, S. Macpherson, M. Lajoie, M. Desgagne, and V. Lee

1:45 PM
J5.2
Progress in the GEM-NEMO coupled data assimilation and prediction system
Jean-Marc Bélanger, EC, Dorval, QC, Canada; and G. Smith, F. Roy, H. Ritchie, and S. Skachko
2:00 PM
J5.3
Regional NWP: why bother?
Dale Barker, Met Office, Exeter, United Kingdom; and B. Macpherson, C. Jones, and R. Dumelow
2:15 PM
J5.4
Development of GRAPES Hourly Assimilation System
Chen Zi-tong, CMA, Guangzhou, China

Recording files available
Joint Session 6
Increasing Public Awareness of Weather Forecasts II
Location: 604 (Washington State Convention Center)
Hosts: (Joint between the 20th Symposium on Education; and the 24th Conference on Weather and Forecasting/20th Conference on Numerical Weather Prediction )

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


Formal Poster Viewing with Coffee Break

Poster Session 1
Decision Support, Forecast Verification and Downscaling
Host: 24th Conference on Weather and Forecasting/20th Conference on Numerical Weather Prediction
87
Storm Prediction Information for Decision Making at Sea
Lizzie S. R. Froude, University of Reading, Reading, United Kingdom

Handout (1.2 MB)

90
Verification of simulated radar reflectivity and echo-top forecast at NCEP
Binbin Zhou, I.M. Systems Group and NOAA/NWS/NCEP/Environmental Modeling Center, College Park, MD; and J. Du, S. Liu, and G. Dimego
Manuscript (692.5 kB)

Handout (1.3 MB)

91
A new paradigm for occluded fronts and the occlusion process
David M. Schultz, Universities of Helsinki and Manchester/Finnish Meteorological Institute, Helsinki, Finland; and G. Vaughan

Handout (731.8 kB)

92
COMET Training on the Use of High-Resolution Models
Stephen D. Jascourt, UCAR/COMET, Silver Spring, MD; and G. Byrd
Manuscript (1.1 MB)

Handout (1.5 MB)

93
Model Evaluation Tools (MET) verification statistics visualization
Paul Oldenburg, NCAR, Boulder, CO; and J. Halley Gotway and T. Jensen

Handout (931.3 kB)

94
An objective technique for evaluating forecast radar reflectivity from an NWP model
Edward Colón, NOAA/NWS/NCEP and I.M. Systems Group, Camp Springs, MD; and B. Zhou, B. S. Ferrier, S. Liu, M. Pyle, and G. DiMego

95
Spatial forecast verification: image warping
E. Gilleland, NCAR, Boulder, CO; and J. Lindström, F. Lindgren, L. Chen, M. DePersio, G. Do, K. Ellertson, Y. Jin, C. Xia, R. L. Smith, and E. L. Kang

98
Spatial verification of convective systems during the 2010 NOAA Hazardous Weather Testbed Spring Experiment
Michelle Harrold, NCAR, Boulder, CO; and T. L. Jensen, B. G. Brown, S. J. Weiss, P. T. Marsh, M. Xue, F. Kong, A. J. Clark, K. W. Thomas, J. S. Kain, M. C. Coniglio, and R. S. Schneider
Manuscript (1.1 MB)

99
Geospatial verification of experimental severe weather warnings
Gregory J. Stumpf, CIMMS/Univ. of Oklahoma and NOAA/NWS/MDL, Norman, OK; and T. M. Smith, K. L. Ortega, and S. Stough

Handout (216.2 kB)

100
Regional downscaling of NCEP CFS seasonal forecasts by NCEP RSM
Yunfei Zhang, NOAA/NWS/EMC, Camp Springs, MD; and H. M. H. Juang

101
Development of a global data server using downscaling techniques to produce high-resolution, long-range, hourly forecast data
Holly C. Hassenzahl, Weather Central, LP, Madison, WI; and B. A. Wilt, C. Johnson, R. Runnheim, R. Arb, A. Rice, M. Thomas, B. J. Good, D. Graham, and N. R. Keene

Handout (624.6 kB)

102
Using MODE with Cloudsat Data
Randy Bullock, NCAR, Boulder, CO
Manuscript (342.8 kB)

104
Exploring the use of stability fields from a three dimensional objective analysis scheme in the NCAR AutoNowcaster
Eric J. Nelson, NCAR, Boulder, CO; and R. Roberts, A. R. S. Anderson, D. L. Megenhardt, and P. D. Bothwell

105
A case study of Hurricane Felix (2007) rapid intensification
Ian C. Colon-Pagan, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA; and C. Davis and G. Holland

106
Relationships between heavy rainfall over the Korean peninsula and remote tropical cyclones
Kun-Young Byun, Yonsei University, Seoul, Korea, Republic of (South); and T. Y. Lee

Handout (312.1 kB)

107
Cool-season intermittent precipitation cells in the Pacific Northwest
Sandra E. Yuter, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC; and A. M. Hall, J. G. Cunningham, N. R. Hardin, and B. A. Colle

108
Observed vertical structure of snow storms in Steamboat Springs, CO: Orographic enhancement in a high altitude environment
Nathan R. Hardin, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC; and S. E. Yuter and K. Friedrich

109
110
Observations of Weather Phenomena by NSF EarthScope USArray Seismic and Pressure Sensors
Frank L. Vernon, University of California , La Jolla, CA; and J. Eakins, J. E. Tytell, B. Busby, and B. Woodward
Manuscript (2.6 MB)

Handout (27.2 MB)


Poster Session 1
2Health Poster Session
Location: Washington State Convention Center
Host: Second Symposium on Environment and Health
Organizer: Wendy Marie Thomas, American Meteorological Society
340
An Investigation into the the urban heat island of Detroit, MI., and the role of three spatial variables
E. Oswald, Univ. of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI; and R. B. Rood and M. O'Neill

341
Estimation of WBGT with JMA products and information web site for heat stroke in Japan
Michihiko Tonouchi, Japan Meteorological Business Support Center, Tokyo, Japan; and M. Ono
Manuscript (289.6 kB)

342
"Hot Town, Summer in the City": Exploring perception of and adaptation to extreme heat in Phoenix, Arizona
Dana Pauzauskie, NCAR, Boulder, CO; and M. H. Hayden, O. Wilhelmi, and H. Brenkert-Smith

343A
Risk assessments of outdoor hot environment using urban meteorological numerical model system
Yukitaka Ohashi, Okayama Univ. of Science, Okayama, Japan; and Y. Kikegawa, K. Yamaguchi, and T. Ihara
Manuscript (1.2 MB)


Joint Poster Session 1
6POLICY Poster Session I
Location: Washington State Convention Center
Hosts: (Joint between the Sixth Symposium on Policy and Socio-economic Research; and the Second Symposium on Environment and Health )
Organizer: Sheldon D. Drobot, NCAR
282
Observed changes in the frequency of heavy precipitation events in the southern climate region and policy implications
Esther D. White, Cooperative Institute for Mesoscale Meteorological Studies, Norman, OK; and M. Shafer and J. Hocker
Manuscript (1.9 MB)

Handout (6.7 MB)

283
284
Using scenario planning to confront deep uncertainty: a case study from the Crown of the Continent
Holly C. Hartmann, Univ. of Arizona, Tucson, AZ; and L. Welling

285
The consortium for climate risk in the urban northeast
Radley M. Horton, Columbia University, New York, NY; and C. Rosenzweig, U. Lall, and P. L. Kinney

286
Climate adaptation planning to aid state, municipal, tribal, and federal governmental decision makers in Oklahoma
Renee A. McPherson, Oklahoma Climatological Survey, Norman, OK; and M. A. Shafer, J. E. Hocker, and R. E. Butterworth

Handout (7.8 MB)

288
Assessing users of the NWS point-and-click web-based forecast information
Julie L. Demuth, NCAR, Boulder, CO; and D. Hilderbrand, J. K. Lazo, R. E. Morss, and T. Trogdon

Handout (2.1 MB)

289
A weather survey of western Washington residents: Part I
Jennifer Chang, University of Washington & NOAA, Tacoma, WA

Handout (368.3 kB)

290
A weather survey of western Washington residents: Part II
L. Kirby Cook, NOAA/NWS, Seattle, WA; and J. Chang

291
Story time! Communicating risk through NWS Western Region's weather stories
Gina M. Eosco, Ph.D, American Meteorological Society, Washington, DC; and D. Jones

292
The development of a storm damage estimate calculator
Brenton William MacAloney II, NOAA/NWS, Silver Spring, MD

Handout (123.7 kB)

293
New paradigm for NWS regional and local climate services
Marina Timofeyeva, NOAA/NWS, Silver Spring, MD; and F. M. Horsfall, J. C. Meyers, J. Koepsell, M. D. Hawkins, J. Zdrojewski, S. L. Dixon, and V. Silva

296
IceThreat: using icing algorithm output to propose AIRMET regions
Cory A. Wolff, NCAR, Boulder, CO; and P. Prestopnik, J. J. Levit, F. McDonough, and M. K. Politovich

Handout (663.4 kB)

297
Using GIS to assess vulnerability to climate hazards in the southern United States
Robert J. Gottlieb, University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK; and H. E. Brooks, M. A. Shafer, and M. Richman
Manuscript (850.0 kB)

Handout (1.6 MB)

300
Impacts of regional climate changes on the hydrometeorology of La Hispaniola: The Enriquillo & Sumatra Lakes water basin
Jorge E. González, City College of New York, New York, NY; and R. Gonzalez, D. R. Brito, and D. E. Comarazamy

301A
A Look Back at Major Disaster Declarations: A GIS Perspective
James E. Hocker, SCIPP/Univ. of Oklahoma, Norman, OK


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 1
Computational intelligence methods and their applications to environmental science
Location: Washington State Convention Center
Host: Ninth Conference on Artificial Intelligence and its Applications to the Environmental Sciences
257
Towards the effective communication of weather and climate information—harnessing new technologies to integrate material from various sources on the web to generate new products
Harvey Stern, Bureau of Meteorology, Melbourne, Vic., Australia; and B. Campbell, M. Efron, and J. Cornall-Reilly
Manuscript (371.9 kB)

Handout (80.1 kB)

258
Methods to rank and classify severe weather outbreaks
Chad M. Shafer, University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK ; and C. A. Doswell III
Manuscript (1.8 MB)

259
An analysis of the performance of classification methods applied to lightning images
Marcelo Biancao Crivelaro, Centro Universitario da FEI, Sao Bernardo do Campo, Sao Paulo, Brazil; and R. B. B. Gin and R. A. C. Bianchi

260
Impact of uncertainty in planetary boundary layer depth on concentration predictions
Kerrie J. Schmehl, Penn State University, State College, PA; and S. E. Haupt, B. P. Reen, and A. J. Annunzio

261
262
Support vector machine techniques to predict tropical cyclone re-intensification following extratropical transition
Israel Vaughn, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ; and J. S. Tyo and E. A. Ritchie

Handout (1.3 MB)

263
Expanding ceiling and visibility site forecasting: interesting cases and algorithm improvements
Richard E. Bateman, NCAR, Boulder, CO; and P. Herzegh, B. Lambi, and J. Cowie

263A
Turbulence hazard nowcast products and accident case performance analyses (Formerly Poster 760)
Gary Blackburn, NCAR, Boulder, Colorado; and F. McDonough, J. K. Williams, J. A. Craig, J. M. Pearson, G. Meymaris, J. Abernethy, and R. D. Sharman


Poster Session 1
Experiments involving observations; data impact tests; characteristics of observations
Location: Washington State Convention Center
Host: 15th Symposium on Integrated Observing and Assimilation Systems for the Atmosphere, Oceans and Land Surface (IOAS-AOLS)
199
Simulation of observation and Calibration for Joint OSSEs at NOAA
Michiko Masutani, NOAA/NWS/EMC, Camp Springs, MD; and J. S. Woollen, T. Zhu, N. Prive, Y. Xie, T. J. Kleespies, Z. Ma, H. Sun, L. P. Riishojgaard, F. Weng, G. P. Lou, R. L. Vogel, Y. Han, D. Stokes, and K. L. Howard
Manuscript (209.5 kB)

Handout (7.6 MB)

202
Preliminary results with a coupled global-limited-area analysis system for the time and region of the T-PARC/TCS-08 Field Program
Christina Holt, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX; and G. Gyarmati, I. Szunyogh, and D. Merkova

203
The THORPEX observation impact Inter-comparison experiment
Ronald Gelaro, NASA/GSFC, Greenbelt, MD; and R. Langland, S. Pellerin, and R. Todling

204
Use of TAMDAR-U equipped small tactical UAS for improved near term battlefield forecasts
Jamie T. Braid, AirDat LLC, Lakewood, CO; and T. Jameson and R. Fuschino

205
Evaluation of TAMDAR Data Impact on 4-km CONUS WRF-based RTFDDA Simulations and Warm-season Convection Prediction
Yongxin Zhang, NCAR, Boulder, CO; and Y. Liu, P. Childs, A. Huffman, and T. Nipen

Handout (2.5 MB)

206
TAMDAR Data Assimilation and Its Impact on Mesoscale Numerical Forecast
Feng Gao, NCAR, Boulder, CO; and X. Zhang, X. Y. Huang, X. Zhang, P. Childs, and A. Huffman
Manuscript (408.5 kB)

207
Comparing FY-3A and NOAA-18 Microwave Sounding Data with COSMIC GPS RO Data
Xiang Wang, Nanjing University of Information Science and Technology, Nanjing, Jiangsu, China; and X. Zou and G. Li

208A
(Formerly 9.5) Optimal design of a climatological network: beyond practical considerations
Karin Bumbaco, JISAO/Univ. of Washington, Seattle, WA; and G. Mauger, G. J. Hakim, and P. W. Mote

209
Validation studies of WVSS-II moisture observations
Ralph A. Petersen, CIMSS/University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI; and L. M. Cronce, W. F. Feltz, E. Olson, and D. Helms
Manuscript (1.2 MB)

Handout (1.9 MB)

210
Hybrid Satellite Imagery using NASA LEO and NOAA GEO Data
Kevin K. Fuell, University of Alabama, Huntsville, AL; and M. Smith and G. T. Stano

212
Integration of Ground Radar and Satellite dataset for Studying Cloud and Radiative Property of Deep Convective Systems
Zhe Feng, University of North Dakota, Grand Forks, ND; and X. Dong, B. Xi, P. Minnis, and M. Khaiyer

Handout (7.7 MB)

213
Quantifying the existence of undocumented Atlantic warm-core cyclones in 20th Century Reanalysis Data
Ryan Truchelut, Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL; and R. E. Hart

214
The Variability of Tropical Cyclone Structure within Atmospheric Reanalysis Datasets
Benjamin Schenkel, Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL; and R. E. Hart

Handout (7.1 MB)

215
A Study on Quality Control for AIRS Total Ozone Data within Typhoon Sinlaku(2008)
Hui Wang, Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL; and X. Zou and G. Li

216
Estimation of precipitation over Asia by combined use of gauge and multi-satellite sensor observations at fine scale
Anoop Kumar Mishra, Research Institute for Humanity and Nature, Kyoto, Japan, Japan; and A. Yatagai, A. Hamada, and R. M. Gairola
Manuscript (361.1 kB)

Handout (212.7 kB)

218
The development and utility of a database of mesonet wind observations for use in the RTMA system
Steven L. Levine, Florida Institute of Technology, Melbourne, FL; and S. M. Lazarus, M. Splitt, and M. Pondeca
Manuscript (808.7 kB)

Handout (1.2 MB)

219
Three-dimensional optical turbulence assessments from doppler weather radar for laser applications
Steven T. Fiorino, Air Force Institute of Technology, Wright-Patterson AFB, OH; and R. M. Randall, A. D. Downs, R. J. Bartell, M. J. Krizo, and S. J. Cusumano

Handout (1.5 MB)

220
Urban experiment results characterize building wakes, aiding airborne hazard applications
Gail Vaucher, Army Research Laboratory, White Sands Missile Range, NM
Manuscript (531.3 kB)

Handout (3.3 MB)

221
The University of Utah Local Surface Analysis Tool
Daniel Tyndall, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT; and J. Horel

223
Performance of rain gauges in a field study at the Hong Kong International Airport
P. W. Chan, Hong Kong Observatory, Hong Kong, China
Manuscript (442.3 kB)

225
Nighttime detection of oil spills in the Gulf of Mexico using satellite infrared images
Sungwook Hong, Korean Meteorological Administration, Jincheon-gun, Chungbuk, Korea, Republic of (South); and I. Shin and A. S. Suh

226
Mapping oil for the Deepwater Horizon oil spill disaster in the Gulf of Mexico
Dustin A. Sheffler, NOAA/NESDIS, College Park, MD; and C. J. Warren, D. Streett, and J. Belge

Handout (198.5 kB)


Poster Session 1
Field, Lab, and Modeling Studies of Air Quality
Location: Washington State Convention Center
Host: 13th Conference on Atmospheric Chemistry
Cochairs: Renyi Zhang, Texas A&M University; Nicholas Meskhidze, North Carolina State University
228
Analysis of tropical convective transport of trace gases and lightning NOx production during the TC4 mission using the GMI model
Theodore V. Lyons III, University of Maryland, College Park, MD; and K. E. Pickering and D. Allen

Handout (583.5 kB)

229
Adapting WRF-CHEM GOCART for fine-scale dust forecasting
Sandra L. Jones, AER, Offutt AFB, NE; and G. A. Creighton, E. Kuchera, K. D. George, and A. J. Elliott

230
Analysis of the effects of wildfires upon US air quality for current and future climate conditions
Rodrigo Gonzalez, Washington State University, Pullman, WA; and S. Chung, B. Lamb, I. Tao, J. Avise, T. Strand, D. McKenzie, A. Guenther, C. Wiedinmyer, T. Duhl, E. Salathe, and Y. Zhang

231
Study of persistence of days infected pollutant Particulate Matter (PM10) in city of Tehran using Markov chain model
Jaber Rahimi, University of Tehran, Tehran, Iran; and J. Bazrafshan and A. Rahimi
Manuscript (378.6 kB)

Handout (441.3 kB)

232
Numerical simulation of the low visibility event at the Hong Kong International Airport on 25 December 2009
P. W. Chan, Hong Kong Observatory, Hong Kong, China; and T. Yao and J. C. H. Fung
Manuscript (375.5 kB)

233
Air quality and climate in North America: current and 2050
Janya Kelly, EC, Toronto, ON, Canada; and D. A. Plummer and P. A. Makar

234
Aerosol concentrations observed at Mt. Haruna, Japan, in relation to long-range transport of Asian mineral dust aerosols
Hiroaki Naoe, MRI, Tsukuba, Japan; and H. Takahashia, Y. Igarashia, Y. Inomata, and N. Sugimoto
Manuscript (288.2 kB)

235
236
Validating an isotopic AGCM with new satellite measurements of water vapor isotopologues
Kei Yoshimura, University of Tokyo, Kashiwa, Chiba, Japan

Poster 237 moved to talk J19.4A to be presented Wed. at 2:15pm.

238
Modeling study of Asian dust: Assessment of various dust emission schemes using WRF/Chem
Jung-Yoon Kang, Korea Institute of Atmospheric Prediction Systems, Seoul, Korea, Republic of (South); and M. Mikami, Y. Shao, S. C. Yoon, T. Y. Tanaka, and T. T. Sekiyama

239
The impact of increased ship emissions on nitrate radicals at low irradiation
Nicole Mölders, University of Alaska, Fairbanks, AK; and T. T. Tran, W. R. Simpson, G. Newby, and W. R. Stockwell

Poster 242 moved to talk 21.A to be presented Mon. at 1:30pm.

243
Effects of acute ozone exposure and methyl jasmonate treatment on white pine monoterpene and sesquiterpene emission rates
Celia L. Faiola, Washington State University, Pullman, Washington; and D. Wagner, T. VanReken, P. Harley, and E. Allwine

244
Tropospheric CO in the Arctic region measured from space by AIRS and MOPITT in the last decade
Juying X. Warner, University of Maryland, Baltimore County, Baltimore, MD; and Z. Wei and G. Diskin

245
Air Quality in the U.S. under Future Climate and Emission Scenarios
Yang Zhang, North Carolina State Univ., Raleigh, NC; and S. Y. Wu, A. Penrod, K. Wang, and L. R. Leung

246
Near field pollutant and tracer dispersion during a prescribed pine forest burn
Melissa Johns, Washington State University, Pullman, WA; and G. Allwine, P. O'Keefe, R. Grivicke, K. Yedinak, B. Lamb, T. Strand, C. B. Clements, H. Thistle, and M. Rorig

247
Analysis of coherent structures during the 2009 CABINEX field campaign: Implications for atmospheric chemistry
Shelley Pressley, Washington State Univesity, Pullman, WA; and A. Steiner, S. H. Chung, S. L. Edburg, E. Jones, and A. Botros

248
An application of the satellite derived NDVI to improve dust emission in the GOCART model
Dongchul Kim, GEST/UMBC, Baltimore, MD; and M. Chin, Q. Tan, H. Bian, and T. Diehl

249
250
Combining measurements and modeling to quantify power plant contributions to atmospheric NO2 and CO2
Keeley R. Costigan, LANL, Los Alamos, NM; and M. K. Dubey, P. Chylek, and L. Zhang
Manuscript (2.1 MB)

251
Seasonal Covariance of Baroclinicity and Ecosystem Metabolism
Nicholas C. Parazoo, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO; and S. Denning, S. R. Kawa, and J. Berry

252
Measurements of Smoke, Ozone, and Inversions in the Lake Tahoe Basin
Miriam Rorig, USDA Forest Service, Seattle, WA; and T. Strand, C. Krull, M. Moore, N. K. Larkin, T. J. Brown, and A. Bytnerowicz

253
BlueSky smoke modeling framework: design, application, and improvements
Tara Strand, New Zealand Forest Research Institute Limited, Rotorua, WA, New Zealand; and N. K. Larkin, S. Raffuse, R. Solomon, D. Sullivan, K. Craig, D. Pryden, M. Rorig, N. Wheeler, and L. Chinkin

254
Identifying the conditions necessary for CONUS fires to impact the Arctic
Narasimhan K. Larkin, USDA Forest Service, Seattle, WA; and S. Raffuse, T. Strand, S. Brown, K. Craig, J. DeWinter, and P. Roberts

255
Evaluating WRF model atmospheric boundary layer simulations for a coastal region in Southeast Texas
Cari-Sue Wilmot, Univ. of Houston, Houston, TX; and X. Li and B. Rappenglueck

256
Investigation into atmospheric concentration and deposition of PCBS to the Lake Ontario due to sources from greater Toronto
Sreerama M. Daggupaty, EC, Downsview, ON, Canada; and S. Csiszar and M. Diamond

Handout (216.6 kB)


Poster Session 1
IIPS Posters Part I
Host: 27th Conference on Interactive Information Processing Systems (IIPS)
Cochairs: Stephen M. Holt, Noblis, Inc.; Marjorie McGuirk, NOAA/NESDIS/NCDC; Anthony Arguez, NOAA/NESDIS/NCEI
1
Parallel grib2 in NCEP POST
Jun Wang, NOAA/NWS/NCEP, Camp Springs, MD

2
An EUMETSAT + LEADS weather decision support system for the Iraqi Air Force
Richard Stedronsky, IPS MeteoStar, Englewood, Colorado

Handout (47.2 MB)

3
A 2011 update on the NOAA Meteorological Assimilation Data Ingest System (MADIS)
Patricia A. Miller, NOAA/ESRL/GSD, Boulder, CO; and M. F. Barth, L. A. Benjamin, T. Kent, R. S. Collander, S. Pritchett, D. Helms, C. Marshall, and J. Dewey

4
Iris Application Framework
Darone Jones, NOAA/NWS, Salt Lake City, UT

5
NOAA Observing Requirements Documentation, Verification and Validation Process
Chandra R. Kondragunta, NOAA/NESDIS, Silver Spring, MD; and P. M. Taylor, L. O'Connor, and B. Fleig

6
The Evolution of NOAA's Observing System Investment Assessment Process
Eric J. Miller, NOAA/NESDIS, Silver Spring, MD; and M. Yapur, N. Wyse, R. Reining, and L. McCulloch

8
Validation of a 3-D cloud product (UW-CAVP) derived from NASA Atmospheric InfraRed Sounder (AIRS) radiances with MODIS, CALIPSO, and COSMIC GPS satellite data using McIDAS-V version 1.0
Elise M. Garms, CIMSS/Univ. of Wisconsin, Madison, WI; and E. Borbas, R. Knuteson, P. Menzel, Y. Plokhenko, H. Revercomb, and D. Tobin
Manuscript (755.8 kB)

Handout (4.3 MB)

9
The development of a storm type climatology using an automated storm classification system
Angelyn G. Kolodziej, CIMMS/Univ. of Oklahoma and NOAA/NSSL, Norman, OK; and V. Lakshmanan and T. M. Smith
Manuscript (880.8 kB)

10
A spatiotemporal assessment of Tornado Warnings within Storm Prediction Center Convective Outlooks using Geographic Information Systems
Darrel M. Kingfield, CIMMS/Univ. of Oklahoma, Norman, OK; and M. Yuan, H. E. Brooks, and M. Richman
Manuscript (524.4 kB)

Handout (16.4 MB)

11
Evaluation of NWS Storm-Based Warnings using Gridded Products
Todd R. Ferebee, NWC REU Program, Norman, OK; and K. L. Ortega and K. A. Scharfenberg
Manuscript (1.5 MB)

12
Homogeneous tropical cyclone intensities from the Community Dvorak Analysis (CoDA) project
Paula Ann Hennon, STG, Inc., Asheville, NC; and K. R. Knapp and J. P. Kossin
Manuscript (23.3 kB)

13
COAMPS-OS® Dashboard
Chad Hutchins, NRL, Monterey, CA; and J. Cook, M. Frost, D. Martinez, K. Xu, D. A. Geiszler, Q. Zhao, P. R. Harasti, J. Kent, and G. Love

Handout (1.7 MB)


Poster Session 1
Land-Atmosphere Interactions and the Role of HydroEcology on Climate
Location: Washington State Convention Center
Host: 25th Conference on Hydrology
Cochairs: David J. Gochis, NCAR; Jessica D. Lundquist, University of Washington; Enrique R. Vivoni, Arizona State Univ.
Paper 16 has been moved. New paper number is 3A.2A.

17
Understanding heat transfer and vapor transport in the shallow subsurface
Martine Rutten, University of Technology, Delft, Netherlands; and S. C. Steele-Dunne and N. van de Giesen

18
Effects of vegetation dynamics on evapotranspiration and soil moisture in northwestern Mexico
Qiuhong Tang, University of Washington, Seattle, WA; and F. Munoz-Arriola, E. R. Vivoni, and D. P. Lettenmaier

Handout (431.6 kB)

19
Vegetation feedback may reduce climatic aridity over the contiguous United States in a 2xCO2 situation
Chang-Eui Park, Seoul National University, Seoul, Korea, Republic of (South); and S. J. Jeong and C. H. Ho

22
Change in land cover in ecological zones of Mongolia Using Long-Term Remotely Sensed Vegetation Index NDVI (1982–2008)
Battumur Tserenchunt Sr., Dryland Sustainability Institute of Mongolia, Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia; and T. Chuluun

Handout (2.3 MB)

23
The Impact of Tree Line Shifts on Orographic Cloud Habits over the Andes
Xiaoming Sun, Duke University, Durham, NC; and A. P. Barros

25
Impacts of variable agricultural extensification on regional-scale hydrology: the case of the Mississippi River Basin
Christopher D. Frans, University of Washington, Seattle, WA; and F. Munoz-Arriola, E. Istanbulluoglu, and D. P. Lettenmaier


Poster Session 1
Observations of the Middle Atmosphere
Location: Washington State Convention Center
Host: 16th Conference on Middle Atmosphere
195
Evaluation of NOAA's Stratospheric Sounding Unit Climate Data Record
Craig S. Long, NOAA, College Park, MD; and R. Lin, L. Wang, and C. Z. Zou

196
Methyl Chloride from the Aura Microwave Limb Sounder: Preliminary validation and climatology
Michelle L. Santee, JPL, Pasadena, CA; and N. J. Livesey, A. Lambert, W. G. Read, and G. L. Manney

198
Diurnal variations of stratospheric/mesospheric trace species, ClO, BrO, and HO2 derived from 4K cooled submm limb sounder ISS/JEM/SMILES
Makoto Suzuki, Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency, Sagamihara, Japan; and C. Mitsuda, C. Takahashi, N. Manago, Y. Iwata, T. Sano, K. Kikuchi, S. Mizobuchi, T. Nishibori, K. Imai, H. Hayashi, E. Nishimoto, Y. Naito, and M. Shiotani
Manuscript (1.2 MB)

Handout (8.1 MB)

344
Annual cycle of total ozone in the latitudinal belt from 20°N to 60°N
Peter Krizan, Institute of Atmospheric Physics, Prague, Czech Republic; and J. Miksovsky, M. Kozubek, W. Gengchen, and B. Jianhui


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


Joint Poster Session 1
Stratospheric Climate and Coupling Between the Stratosphere and Troposphere
Location: Washington State Convention Center
Hosts: (Joint between the 16th Conference on Middle Atmosphere; and the 23rd Conference on Climate Variability and Change )
191
Quality of reanalysis data during stratospheric vortex weakening and intensification events
Patrick Martineau, McGill Univ., Montreal, QC, Canada; and S. W. Son

Handout (1.2 MB)

192
Predictability of stratospheric warming in an idealized model
Lantao Sun, CIRES/Univ. of Colorado Boulder, Boulder, CO; and W. A. Robinson and G. Chen

Handout (1.6 MB)

194
A model study of the impact of source gas changes on the stratosphere for 1850–2100
Eric L. Fleming, SSAI and GSFC, Greenbelt, MD; and C. H. Jackman

Handout (233.8 kB)


Poster Session 1
Poster Session I
Location: Washington State Convention Center
Host: 23rd Conference on Climate Variability and Change
Organizers: Xuebin Zhang, EC; David R. Easterling, NOAA/NESDIS/NCDC
136
The climatology of inland winds from tropical cyclones in the eastern United States
Michael C. Kruk, STG, Inc., Asheville, NC; and E. Gibney, D. H. Levinson, and M. F. Squires
Manuscript (28.3 kB)

137
Assessing climate change and variability in the coastal zone: overview of the Pacific storms climatology products
David H. Levinson, NOAA/NESDIS/NCDC, Asheville, NC ; and M. C. Kruk and J. Marra

138
Analysis of freezing rain patterns in the South Central United States: 1979–2009
Jessica Blunden, NOAA NCEI, Asheville, NC; and D. S. Arndt
Manuscript (296.8 kB)

139
Variability of chlorophyll associated with ENSO and its biological feedback in the Equatorial Pacific
Jong-yeon Park, Korea Ocean Research and Development Institute, Ansan, Korea, Republic of (South); and J. S. Kug, J. S. Park, S. W. Yeh, and C. J. Jang

140
Light rain events change over North America, Europe and Asia for 1973–2009
Yun Qian, PNNL, Richland, WA; and D. Gong and R. Leung

142
On the use of Dvorak current intensity as a climate data record in the western North Pacific
Michael C. Kruk, STG, Inc., Asheville, NC; and K. R. Knapp and P. A. Hennon
Manuscript (166.2 kB)

143
Investigating how background state affects the propagation of the MJO
Kristina L. Laboy, Millersville University, Millersville, PA; and E. D. Maloney

145
On the Influence of Warm Pool SST Variability and Wind Stress Forcing on ENSO in SODA
Yoon-Kyoung Lee, Seoul National University, Seoul, Korea, Republic of (South); and S. W. Yeh, B. Dewitte, B. K. Moon, and J. G. Jhun

Handout (4.0 MB)

146
A pan-Eurasian pattern of Northern Hemisphere wintertime sea level pressure variability
Brian V. Smoliak, The Climate Corporation, Seattle, WA; and J. M. Wallace

147
Seasonal prediction of Northwest Australian tropical cyclones
Kevin H. Goebbert, Valparaiso University, Valparaiso, IN; and L. M. Leslie

Handout (3.5 MB)

148
Temporal Variability of the Atmospheric Zero Trend Level
Robb M. Randall, ARL, White Sands Missle Range, NM; and B. M. Herman and S. T. Fiorino

Handout (598.2 kB)

149
Future Space System Support to US Operations in an Ice-Free Arctic: Broadband Satellite Communications Options
Leslie Wickman, The Aerospace Corp., El Segundo, CA; and P. Smith and I. Min
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Handout (550.0 kB)


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
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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


Poster Session 2
Impact of Weather and Climate Extremes on Hydrologic Processes, Responses and Hazards
Location: Washington State Convention Center
Host: 25th Conference on Hydrology
Cochairs: Brent Bower, NOAA/NWS; Bradley R. Colman, NOAA/NWS
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28
Assessing the potential for changes in extreme precipitation events across the Colorado Front Range
Kelly M. Mahoney, CIRES/Univ. of Colorado, Boulder, CO; and M. A. Alexander, J. D. Scott, J. Barsugli, L. D. Brekke, J. England, S. Gangopadhyay, D. Raff, and J. Soddell

29
Urbanization impact on summer convective storm and flood magnitudes in the Great Lakes region
Laura C. Bowling, Purdue Univ., West Lafayette, IN; and G. Yang, L. Ming, K. A. Cherkauer, D. Niyogi, and B. C. Pijanowski

33
Synoptic drivers of storm surge in Kotzebue Sound
Austin Cross, IARC, Fairbanks, AK; and D. E. Atkinson


Poster Session 3
Precipitation Processes and Observations for Atmospheric, Land Surface, and Hydrological Modeling
Location: Washington State Convention Center
Host: 25th Conference on Hydrology
Cochairs: Thomas Adams, NOAA/NWS; Pingping Xie, NOAA/NWS/NCEP
34
COMET hydrometeorological training: hydrology, QPF, QPE, drought, and verification
Matthew Kelsch, UCAR/COMET, Boulder, CO; and W. Abshire

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A continental scale daily gridded precipitation dataset for Asia based on a dense network of rain gauges—APHRODITE project
Atsushi Hamada, Research Institute for Humanity and Nature, Kyoto, Japan; and K. Kamiguchi, O. Arakawa, N. Yasutomi, and A. Yatagai

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Effects of snowflake characteristics on the collection efficiency of snow gauge
Julie M. Theriault, NCAR, Boulder, CO; and K. Ikeda, R. Rasmussen, S. Landolt, S. Ziegler, and A. Jachcik

Handout (2.0 MB)


Poster Session
18th Conference on Planned and Inadvertent Weather Modification-Posters
Host: 18th Conference on Planned and Inadvertent Weather Modification
905
Warm Fog Dissipation Experiment by Hygroscopic Seeding
Ki-Ho Chang, National Institute of Meteorological Research, Seoul, Korea, Republic of (South); and J. Y. Jeong, C. Lee, J. W. Cha, J. W. Jung, H. Y. Yang, J. Y. Bae, M. J. Lee, Y. H. Kim, H. Lee, and Y. J. Choi

906
Current state of cloud seeding in Korea
Chulkyu Lee, National Institute Meteorological Research/KMA, Seoul, Korea, Republic of (South); and K. H. Chang, J. W. Jung, J. W. Cha, J. Y. Jeong, H. Y. Yang, J. Y. Bae, S. K. Seo, and Y. J. Choi


Poster Session
Educational Outreach Initiatives
Location: Washington State Convention Center
Host: 20th Symposium on Education
Cochairs: Marianne J. Hayes, AMS Education Resource Educator; Kathleen A. Murphy, AMS Education Resource Educator
165
AMS pre-college teacher professional development courses: A hands-on exploration of the dynamic Earth system
James A. Brey, American Meteorological Society, Washington, DC; and I. W. Geer, J. M. Moran, R. S. Weinbeck, E. W. Mills, B. A. Blair, E. J. Hopkins, K. L. O'Neill, H. R. Hyre, K. A. Nugnes, and M. N. Moses

Handout (8.3 MB)

166
Magnify your reach! Opportunities for effective education and outreach with NESTA and Windows to the Universe
Roberta M. Johnson, NESTA, Boulder, CO; and A. Herrold, M. Holzer, and M. J. Passow

167
Global Climate Change Education (GCCE): Sunspots and Thermal Islands
Michael R. Witiw, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, Worldwide, Everett, WA; and R. J. Myers

168
Value to the community of a high school weather website
Jeffrey A. Yuhas, Concord-Carlisle Regional High School, Chelmsford, MA; and C. Donelan

169
Bringing global climate change education to Alabama classrooms: a 2011 update
Luke Marzen, Auburn Univ., Auburn, AL; and M. K. Lee, M. Simon, K. Fielman, Y. Lin, R. Birkhead, C. Miller, P. Norgaard, M. Obley, J. Cox, L. Steltenpohl, E. Wheeles, and M. Wooten

170
Summer Weather Camps - Opening Doors To CAREERs in Meteorology
H. Michael Mogil, How the Weatherworks, Naples, FL; and V. R. Morris

171
High school student produced community weather forecasts for television and radio
Jeffrey A. Yuhas, Concord-Carlisle Regional High School, Chelmsford, MA; and N. Roos, C. Paige, and J. Avery

172
Infusing satellite data into earth science education with SAGE, ESIP and SNAPP
Margaret Mooney, CIMSS/Univ. of Wisconsin, Madison, WI; and S. Ackerman, N. L. Jackson, and T. Whittaker

173
Weather forecasting as a learning tool in a large service course: Does practice make perfect?
Elizabeth J. Suess, Iowa State University, Ames, IA; and C. Cervato, W. A. Gallus Jr., and J. M. Hobbs
Manuscript (498.5 kB)

175
Enhancing public understanding of climate change through museum programs
Michael J. Passow, Dwight Morrow High School and NESTA, Englewood, NJ; and M. Macdonald

Handout (5.7 MB)

176
Rethinking model-based inquiry in terms of weather and climate computer models
Morgan Brown Yarker, University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA; and C. Forbes

178
The Need for longitudinal Tracking of Student Success and Career Choices - Lessons from the SOARS Program
Rebecca Haacker-Santos, UCAR, Boulder, CO; and R. Pandya and M. Kennedy

179
Teaching GIS in the atmospheric sciences curriculum
J. Greg Dobson, University of North Carolina Asheville, Asheville, NC

180
Teaching online weather at Gavilan College
Andrew H. Van Tuyl, Gavilan College, Gilroy, CA

181
Simple Climate and Weather Education via CoCoRaHS's “Message of the Day"
Henry Reges, CoCoRaHS/Colorado State Univ., Fort Collins, CO; and N. J. Doesken, Z. Schwalbe, J. Turner, and N. Newman

183
Developing a curriculum for a summer school on climate change
Otis Brown, NOAA/NESDIS/NCEI, Asheville, NC; and M. McGuirk, F. Miralles-Wilhelm, G. Voos, and J. Dissen

Handout (4.7 MB)

184
Coastal climate hazards and decision-making: introducing a methodology for local decision support
Kirsten M. Winters, Oregon Sea Grant, Corvallis, OR; and J. Cone and P. Corcoran

185
Earth Gauge: Linking Weather, Environment and Climate
Sara Espinoza, The National Environmental Education Foundation, Washington, DC; and K. Kraus

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186
Tapping into the resources of a scientific field campaign to develop education and outreach materials
Vidal Salazar, NCAR, Boulder, CO; and A. Rockwell and B. Baeuerle

187

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

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Joint Session 1
Communicating with Technology (Themed Joint Session)
Location: 604 (Washington State Convention Center)
Hosts: (Joint between the 20th Symposium on Education; the Special Symposium on Advances in Modeling and Analysis Using Python; 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 13th Conference on Atmospheric Chemistry; the Ninth History Symposium; the Seventh Annual Symposium on Future Operational Environmental Satellite Systems; the Sixth Symposium on Policy and Socio-economic Research; and the Second Conference on Weather, Climate, and the New Energy Economy )
Chair: Rajul Pandya, UCAR
4:00 PM
J1.1
Integrating air quality tools with the Wildland Fire Decision Support System
Narasimhan Larkin, USDA Forest Service, Seattle, WA; and M. Rorig, T. Strand, T. J. Brown, S. Raffuse, P. Lahm, and T. Zimmerman

4:15 PM
J1.2
Using YouTube Videos to Communicate Science
Nancy N. Soreide, NOAA/PMEL, Seattle, WA; and T. Nakamura and M. Dunlap
4:30 PM
J1.3
Commuicating Climate Science fo the General Public
Andrew Freedman, Climate Central, Princeton, NJ; and H. Cullen and M. McGuirk
4:45 PM
J1.4
Utility of 2D/3D visualization methods in analyzing and disseminating flood information
Jamie L. Dyer, Mississippi State University, Mississippi State, MS; and P. Amburn, D. Reed, and D. Welch
5:00 PM
J1.5A
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Session 2
Blending the Sciences: Interoperability and Research Applications to Fill Knowledge Gaps
Location: 4C-2 (Washington State Convention Center)
Host: Second Symposium on Environment and Health
Moderator: Wendy Marie Thomas, American Meteorological Society
Chair: Wendy Marie Thomas, American Meteorological Society
4:00 PM
2.1
Impact of meteorological components on diarreal diseases in Bangladesh
Taiichi Hayashi, DPRI, Kyoto Univ., Uji, Kyoto, Japan; and A. Teshima, Y. Wagatuma, M. Hashizume, T. Terao, F. Murata, Y. Yamane, M. Kiguchi, and A. S. G. Faruque
4:15 PM
2.2
Night outdoor air as a major source of indoor air particle concentration in an office
Jack Molinié, Laboratoire de Recherches en Géosciences et Energies, Pointe-à-Pitre Cédex, Guadeloupe, France; and V. Clotaire, T. Plocoste, and R. H. Petit
4:30 PM
2.3
Detection and monitoring vector-born deceases from AVHRR data
Felix Kogan, NOAA/NESDIS, Camp Springs, MD; and A. Powell and M. Goldberg
4:45 PM
2.4
Assessing the connections between weather, season, and smoking in the home
David B. Sherman, University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK; and H. G. Basara, J. B. Basara, and B. G. Illston
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Session 2A
Communicating Weather Information Using Mobile Devices Part II
Location: 606 (Washington State Convention Center)
Host: 27th Conference on Interactive Information Processing Systems (IIPS)
Cochairs: Michael Eilts, Weather Decision Technologies; Paul A. Pisano, Federal Highway Administration; George D. Emmitt, Simpson Weather Associates
4:00 PM
2A.1
Tomorrow's forecast: informed drivers
Sheldon D. Drobot, NCAR, Boulder, CO; and M. Chapman, A. R. S. Anderson, E. Schuler, G. Wiener, B. Mahoney, and P. A. Pisano
4:15 PM
2A.2
Using native vehicle observations to diagnose slick roads
Michael Chapman, NCAR, Boulder, CO; and A. R. S. Anderson, C. Burghardt, S. Drobot, and B. Lambi
4:30 PM
2A.3
Quality of mobile observations collected during the 2010 Development Testbed Environment experiment
Amanda R. S. Anderson, NCAR, Boulder, CO; and M. B. Chapman, S. D. Drobot, A. Tadesse, and P. Pisano
4:45 PM
2A.4
The Mobile Platform Environmental Data (MoPED) System: providing mobile environmental data to the National Mesonet
Brian Bell, Global Science & Technology, Fairmont, WV; and P. O. G. Heppner, A. Orrego, and D. Helms
5:00 PM
2A.5
Driver opinions on the concept of using passenger vehicles as weather sensors
Sheldon D. Drobot, NCAR, Boulder, CO; and B. Mahoney and J. O'Sullivan
5:15 PM
2A.6
Satellite Based Nowcasting and Aviation Applications for Mobile Devices
David Santek, Space Science and Engineering Center/Univ. of Wisconsin, Madison, WI; and R. Dengel, D. Parker, S. Batzli, N. Bearson, W. Feltz, L. Cronce, J. Sieglaff, J. Brunner, and K. Bedka

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Session 2B
International Applications: Techniques for Communicating Weather Data, Forecasts and Warnings
Location: 607 (Washington State Convention Center)
Host: 27th Conference on Interactive Information Processing Systems (IIPS)
Cochairs: John R. Lincoln, US Navy/WMO (Ret.) and Consultant; Erik Andersson, ECMWF; Howard J. Diamond, NOAA/NESDIS/NCDC
4:00 PM
2B.1
ECMWF web re-engineering project
Baudouin Raoult, ECMWF, Reading, Berks., United Kingdom; and S. Siemen, C. Valiente, P. Bispham, S. Lamy-Thepaut, and A. Brady
4:15 PM
2B.2
4:30 PM
2B.3
French forecasters workstation. Synergie-next: Synopsis project
Antoine Lasserre-Bigorry, Météo-France, Toulouse, France; and F. Marty and J. Nicolau
4:45 PM
2B.4
Observed and predicted trends in tropical Pacific rainfall
Michael D. Klatt, Univ. of Oklahoma, Norman, OK; and M. L. Morrissey, J. S. Greene, and N. M. Acton
5:00 PM
2B.5
Introduce on Typhoon Forecast Operational System
Lianqing Yu, China Meteorological Admistration, Beijing, China; and L. Cao, Y. Li, and B. Luo
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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

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Joint Session 3
Computational intelligence methods for climate change attribution, characterization, and downscaling
Location: 2A (Washington State Convention Center)
Hosts: (Joint between the Ninth Conference on Artificial Intelligence and its Applications to the Environmental Sciences; and the 23rd Conference on Climate Variability and Change )
Cochairs: Antonello Pasini, CNR; Xuebin Zhang, EC
4:00 PM
J3.1
4:30 PM
J3.2
A data mining algorithm for climate data: application to double ITCZ
Andrew Geiss, NorthWest Research Associates, Redmond, WA; and G. Levy
4:45 PM
J3.3
Predicting Atlantic tropical cyclone activity
Roshanak Nateghi, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD; and S. M. Quiring, S. D. Guikema, and A. Schumacher

5:00 PM
J3.4
Unsupervised machine learning as a method to identify patterns in regional climate downscaling reanalyses
Jeffrey H. Copeland, NCAR, Boulder, CO; and J. Knievel, F. Vandenberge, and R. Babarsky
5:15 PM
J3.5
Evaluation of STARDEX indices calculated from linear and nonlinear statistical downscaled daily temperatures
Carlos Felipe Gaitan, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada; and W. W. Hsieh, A. J. Cannon, and P. Gachon
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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
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
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
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Session 3
Results of Field Trials and Numerical Experiments in Planned Weather Modification - Part 3
Location: 605/610 (Washington State Convention Center)
Host: 18th Conference on Planned and Inadvertent Weather Modification
Cochairs: Zev Levin, Department of Geophysics and Planetary Sciences, Tel Aviv University; Daniel Breed, NCAR/RAL
4:30 PM
3.2
Results of a cloud seeding project in the Snowy Mountains of Australia
Michael J. Manton, Monash University, Melbourne, VIC, Australia; and L. Warren
4:45 PM
3.3
Observations of mountain-top rime icing in Utah: implications for winter season cloud seeding
David P. Yorty, North American Weather Consultants, Sandy, UT; and W. Weston, M. E. Solak, and D. A. Griffith
5:00 PM
3.4
Evaluation of snow gauges used in a winter cloud seeding experiment in complex terrain
Scott D. Landolt, NCAR, Boulder, CO; and D. Breed, R. M. Rasmussen, and S. Cristanelli
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Session 3A
Land-Atmosphere Interactions and the Role of HydroEcology on Climate III
Location: 611 (Washington State Convention Center)
Host: 25th Conference on Hydrology
Cochairs: David J. Gochis, NCAR; Jessica D. Lundquist, University of Washington; Enrique R. Vivoni, Arizona State Univ.
4:00 PM
3A.1
Observational diagnostics of soil moisture-climate interactions as constraints to IPCC climate projections
Sonia I. Seneviratne, ETH, Zurich, Switzerland; and P. Ciais, M. Reichstein, E. L. Davin, B. Orlowsky, and A. J. Teuling

4:15 PM
3A.2A
4:45 PM
3A.4
Simulated impact of vegetation across the North American monsoon region in CCSM3.5
Michael Notaro, Univ. of Wisconsin, Madison, WI; and D. S. Gutzler
5:15 PM
3A.6
Soil moisture, temperature and heat flux measurements using Distributed Temperature Sensing
Susan C. Steele-Dunne, University of Technology, Delft, Netherlands; and M. M. Rutten, E. Owusu-Ansah, J. Jansen, P. Stive, S. Tyler, and N. van de Giesen

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Session 3A
Observed Changes II
Location: 608 (Washington State Convention Center)
Host: 23rd Conference on Climate Variability and Change
Chair: Aiguo Dai, NCAR
4:00 PM
3A.1
4:15 PM
3A.2
Atlantic tropical cyclones in the 20th century: Natural variability and secular change in cyclone count
Sumant Nigam, University of Maryland, College Park, MD; and B. Guan

4:30 PM
3A.3
The recent decline of the long rains in East Africa
Bradfield Lyon, International Research Institute for Climate and Society, Palisades, NY; and D. G. Dewitt
4:45 PM
3A.4
On the Time-Varying Trend in Global-Mean Surface Temperature
Zhaohua Wu, Center for Ocean-Atmospheric Prediction Studies/Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL; and N. E. Huang, J. M. Wallace, B. V. Smoliak, and X. Chen
5:00 PM
3A.5
Observed growing season changes in Canada
Budong Qian, Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada, Ottawa, ON, Canada; and S. Gameda, X. Zhang, and R. De Jong

5:15 PM
3A.6
Trends in Tropospheric Humidity and Water Vapor from 1973–2008
Aiguo Dai, NCAR, Boulder, CO; and J. Wang and P. Thorne
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Session 3B
Precipitation Processes and Observations for Atmospheric, Land Surface, and Hydrological Modeling
Location: 612 (Washington State Convention Center)
Host: 25th Conference on Hydrology
Cochairs: Thomas Adams, NOAA/NWS; Pingping Xie, NOAA/NWS/NCEP
4:00 PM
3B.1
CCPA Precipitation Analysis and Its Cross Validation
Dingchen Hou, NOAA/NWS/NCEP/EMC, Camp Springs, MD; and Y. Luo, Y. Zhu, P. Xie, and Y. Lin
4:15 PM
3B.2
Moving toward optimum use of gridded precipitation forcings in hydrologic modeling
David H. Kitzmiller, NOAA/NWS, Silver Spring, MD; and W. Wu, F. Ding, D. A. Miller, S. Wu, and Y. Zhang
4:30 PM
3B.3
Analyzing the performance of the high resolution precipitation products for streamflow simulation
Ali Behrangi, JPL/California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA; and B. Khakbaz, T. Jaw, and A. AghaKouchak

4:45 PM
3B.4
Study of Spatial Patterns of Daily Precipitation over the Western United States
Wei Chu, University of California, Irvine, CA; and X. Gao and S. Sorooshian
5:00 PM
3B.5A
Improving Quantitative Precipitation Forecasts Through Objective Evaluations during NOAA Testbed Activities
Tara L. Jensen, NCAR/RAL, Boulder, CO; and E. I. Tollerud, S. J. Weiss, F. E. Barthold, D. R. Novak, H. Yuan, J. H. Gotway, E. Sukovich, P. Oldenburg, W. L. Clark, A. J. Clark, F. Kong, M. Xue, M. Harrold, T. L. Fowler, and B. G. Brown
5:15 PM
3B.6
Hydrological intercomparison of quantitative precipitation estimates in the Colorado Front Range
Hernan Moreno, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ; and E. R. Vivoni and D. J. Gochis
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Session 3B
Predictability
Location: 613/614 (Washington State Convention Center)
Host: 24th Conference on Weather and Forecasting/20th Conference on Numerical Weather Prediction
Chair: James D. Doyle, NRL
4:00 PM
3B.1
On the predictability of cyclogenesis and low-land snow in the Pacific Northwest
Dale Durran, University of Wasington, Seattle, WA; and P. A. Reinecke
4:15 PM
3B.2
4:30 PM
3B.3
4:45 PM
3B.4
5:00 PM
3B.5
Predictability and Dynamics of a squall-line and bow-echo event during BAMEX
Fuqing Zhang, Penn State University, University Park, PA; and C. Melhauser
5:15 PM
3B.6
Microphysical evolution within winter snow storms over Long Island, NY
David A. Stark, NOAA-National Weather Service, Upton, NY; and B. A. Colle and S. E. Yuter
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Session 3B
Understanding the Causes of Climate Change
Location: 609 (Washington State Convention Center)
Host: 23rd Conference on Climate Variability and Change
Chair: Chris E. Forest, Pennsylvania State Univ.
4:00 PM
3B.1
The impact of the state of the troposphere on the response to stratospheric heating in a simplified GCM
Isla R. Simpson, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada; and M. Blackburn, J. D. Haigh, and S. Sparrow
4:15 PM
3B.2
Anthropogenic influence on long return period daily temperature extremes at regional scales
Francis W. Zwiers, EC, Toronto, ON, Canada; and X. Zhang and Y. Feng

4:30 PM
3B.3
The Impact of Stratospheric Ozone on Southern Hemisphere Circulation Change: A Multimodel Assessment
Seok-woo Son, McGill University, Montreal, QC, Canada; and E. P. Gerber, J. Perlwitz, L. M. Polvani, N. P. Gillett, K. H. Seo, and SPARC/CCMVal-2 Coauthors

4:45 PM
3B.5
Effects of systematic measurement errors on detection of climate change
Janet Daniels, SSAI, Hampton, VA; and G. L. Smith and K. J. Priestley
5:15 PM
3B.6
Assessing uncertainty of regional climate change from global climate models
Chris E. Forest, Penn State University, University Park, PA; and W. Li and J. Barsugli
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Joint Session 6
Stratosphere and Climate: Stratospheric Influence on Surface Climate
Location: 3B (Washington State Convention Center)
Hosts: (Joint between the 16th Conference on Middle Atmosphere; and the 23rd Conference on Climate Variability and Change )
Chair: Edwin P. Gerber, Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences
4:00 PM
J6.1
Understanding the linkages between stratospheric variability and surface climate
David W. J. Thompson, Colorado State Univ., Ft. Collins, CO; and T. Birner

4:15 PM
J6.2
Stratospheric ozone depletion: the main driver of 20th century atmospheric circulation changes in the Southern Hemisphere?
Lorenzo M. Polvani, Columbia Univ., New York, NY; and D. Waugh, G. J. P. Correa, and S. W. Son
4:30 PM
J6.3
Separating the effects of ozone depletion/recovery and climate change on the dynamics of the Southern Hemisphere stratosphere and troposphere
Charles McLandress, Univ. of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada; and A. Jonsson, D. Plummer, C. Reader, J. Scinocca, M. Sigmond, and T. G. Shepherd
4:45 PM
J6.4
Impact of late-20th century ozone changes in an atmosphere-only model and a slab ocean model
Paul J. Young, CIRES/Univ. of Colorado, Boulder, CO; and S. M. Davis, S. Solomon, B. Hassler, and G. Bodeker
5:00 PM
J6.5
5:15 PM
J6.6
How will stratospheric effects on climate change during the 21st century?
Mark P. Baldwin, Northwest Research Associates, Redmond, WA
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Joint Session 9
Climate Change Adaptation: From Science to Practice
Location: 618-620 (Washington State Convention Center)
Hosts: (Joint between the Sixth Symposium on Policy and Socio-economic Research; and the Second Symposium on Environment and Health )
Cochairs: Greg Guibert, NCAR; Lee M. Tryhorn, Cornell University
4:15 PM
J9.2
4:30 PM
J9.3
Towards a framework for stakeholder engagement in conducting regional climate assessments
J. Greg Dobson, University of North Carolina Asheville, Asheville, NC; and J. Fox, M. Hutchins, and K. Lichtenstein
4:45 PM
J9.4
Integration of Local Planners' and Scientists' Knowledge of Consequences, Vulnerabilities, and Adaptation Strategies to Climate Change Related Hazards
Seth Tuler, Social and Environmental Research Institute, Greenfield, MA; and K. Dow, J. C. Whitehead, T. Webler, and N. Kettle
5:00 PM
J9.5
“2100? It doesn't keep me up at night!” Incorporating climate information in local water planning
Lee M. Tryhorn, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY; and A. T. DeGaetano

5:15 PM
J9.6
Comparing climate extension approaches to catalyze climate change adaptation planning in Charleston, SC, and Plymouth, NC
Jessica C. Whitehead, South Carolina Sea Grant Consortium & North Carolina Sea Grant, Charleston, SC; and A. Turner, R. H. Bacon, G. Putnam, J. F. Thigpen, and M. Covi
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Joint Session 9
Pacific Northwest Weather including results from the Vancouver 2010 Winter Olympics (Co-Sponsored by the AMS Committee on Mountain Meteorology)
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 Second Aviation, Range and Aerospace Meteorology Special Symposium on Weather-Air Traffic Management Integration )
Chairs: Michael P. Meyers, NOAA/NWS; H. Dawn Reeves, NOAA/NSSL
4:00 PM
J9.1A
4:15 PM
J9.2
Realtime high-resolution mesoscale modeling for the Vancouver Olympics
Aijun Deng, Penn State University, University Park, PA; and D. Stauffer, G. Hunter, J. Zielonka, J. Toffler, E. Sorbo, I. Sykes, and D. Henn
4:30 PM
J9.3
Forecasting sun vs. shade in complex terrain for the 2010 Winter Olympic and Paralympic Games
Rosie Howard, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada; and R. B. Stull
4:45 PM
J9.4
Dual-polarized radar observations of precipitation during SNOW-V10
H. Dawn Reeves, NOAA/NSSL, Norman, OK; and A. V. Ryzhkov, T. J. Schuur, and D. E. Forsyth
5:00 PM
J9.5
The west coast thermal trough: structure, evolution and prediction
Matthew C. Brewer, University of Washington, Seattle, WA; and C. Mass
5:15 PM
J9.6
Wintertime extreme precipitation events and flooding along the Pacific Northwest coast
Michael Warner, University of Washington, Seattle, WA; and C. Mass and E. Salathé
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Joint Session 11
Effective Communication of Aviation Weather Information to Users
Location: 305 (Washington State Convention Center)
Hosts: (Joint between the Sixth Symposium on Policy and Socio-economic Research; and the Second Symposium on Environment and Health )
Cochairs: Cory Wolff, National Center for Atmospheric Research; Jennifer A. Zeltwanger, National Weather Service
4:00 PM
J11.1
4:30 PM
J11.3
Aviation service enhancements across the National Weather Service Central Region
Brian P. Walawender, NWS, Kansas City, MO; and J. A. Zeltwanger
4:45 PM
J11.4
NWS provision of aviation weather information via the FAA QICP-certified Consolidated Aviation Web Services (CAWS) system
Ryan L. Solomon, NOAA/NWS/NCEP, Kansas City, MO; and J. J. Sereno, R. E. Sallee, A. M. Ohrberg, J. S. Lewis, and C. Wallace
5:00 PM
J11.5
Weather Technology In the Cockpit (WTIC): Concept of operations, user needs, education, and training
John M. Lanicci, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical Univ., Daytona Beach, FL; and L. Kirk, L. Martin, J. Vacek, E. A. Roberts, and M. Edwards
5:15 PM
J11.6
Development of an education and training module for use of NEXRAD-based products in the cockpit by general aviation pilots
Erin A. Roberts, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, Daytona Beach, FL; and J. M. Lanicci
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Joint Session 20
Air Quality and Climate Change
Location: 3A (Washington State Convention Center)
Hosts: (Joint between the 13th Conference on Atmospheric Chemistry; the Third Symposium on Aerosol-Cloud-Climate Interactions; and the 23rd Conference on Climate Variability and Change )
Cochairs: Matthew J. Parker, Savannah River National Laboratory; Serena Chung, Washington State Univesity
4:00 PM
J20.1
Effects of global change on air quality in the US
Serena H. Chung, Washington State University, Pullman, WA; and R. Gonzalez Abraham, B. Lamb, J. Avise, E. Salathe, Y. Zhang, A. Guenther, C. Wiedinmyer, T. Duhl, D. G. Streets, C. G. Nolte, and D. Loughlin
4:15 PM
J20.2
Effects of changing climate on fires and the consequences for U.S. regional air quality, using global and regional chemistry and climate/meteorology models
Hyun Cheol Kim, NOAA/ERL/ARL, Silver Spring, MD; and D. W. Byun, D. Lee, R. C. Hudman, D. V. Spracklen, L. J. Mickley, S. Wu, and J. A. Logan

4:30 PM
J20.3
Remote measurement of tropospheric gases under cloud with the AERI Instrument
W.F.J. Evans, North West Research Associates, Redmond, WA; and H. L. Buijs and C. B. Roy
4:45 PM
J20.4
A preliminary assessment of the sensitivity of air quality in North Carolina to global change
Saravanan Arunachalam, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC; and A. F. Hanna, Z. Adelman, M. Omary, B. H. Baek, N. Davis, K. Talgo, and A. Xiu

5:00 PM
J20.5
The use of tracers of opportunity to assess chronic carbon dioxide releases from regional industrial activities
Matthew J. Parker, Savannah River National Laboratory, Aiken, SC; and S. Walter, R. L. Buckley, and A. Andrews

4:00 PM-5:45 PM: Monday, 24 January 2011

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Joint Session 7
Assimilation of observations into models: Atmosphere II
Location: 2B (Washington State Convention Center)
Hosts: (Joint between the 15th Symposium on Integrated Observing and Assimilation Systems for the Atmosphere, Oceans and Land Surface (IOAS-AOLS); and the 24th Conference on Weather and Forecasting/20th Conference on Numerical Weather Prediction )
Cochairs: Stanley G. Benjamin, NOAA/ESRL/GSD; Zhaoxia Pu, University of Utah
4:00 PM
J7.1
The recent progresses of satellite data assimilation in GRAPES
Hua Zhang, China Meteorological Administration, Beijing, China
4:15 PM
J7.2
Optimization of In-situ Aircraft Observations for Various Assimilation Techniques
Neil A. Jacobs, AirDat LLC, Morrisville, NC; and F. Gao, P. Childs, X. Zhang, X. Y. Huang, X. Zhang, M. Croke, and Y. Liu
4:30 PM
J7.3
Recent upgrades to and ongoing challenges for the Real-Time Mesoscale Analysis (RTMA)
Geoffrey S. Manikin, NOAA/NWS/NCEP/EMC, College Park, MD; and M. S. F. V. De Pondeca
4:45 PM
J7.4
Assimilation of infrared Meteosat data into high-resolution NWP and nowcasting models
Robert Nigel Tubbs, Met Office, Reading, Berkshire, United Kingdom
5:00 PM
J7.5
Ensemble data assimilation across a range of scales and phenomena with WRF/DART
C. Snyder, NCAR, Boulder, CO; and J. Anderson, S. M. Cavallo, D. Dowell, S. Y. Ha, G. Romine, and R. Torn
5:15 PM
J7.6
Local ensemble transform Kalman filter experiments with the WRF model
Masaru Kunii, University of Maryland, College Park, MD, College Park, MD; and T. Miyoshi

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


Reception and Exhibits Opening

7:00 PM-8:00 PM: Monday, 24 January 2011

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Session
Town Hall Meeting: NOAA Update on the Climate Service and Dialogue on Regional Climate Services
Location: 618-620 (Washington State Convention Center)
Host: Town Hall Meetings

7:00 PM-8:30 PM: Monday, 24 January 2011

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


Forecast: Communicating Weather and Climate Art Show

8:00 PM-9:00 PM: Monday, 24 January 2011

Tuesday, 25 January 2011

7:15 AM-8:15 AM: Tuesday, 25 January 2011


Session
NOAA Town Hall Meeting
Location: 4C-4 (Washington State Convention Center)
Host: Town Hall Meetings
7:15 AM
NOAA Town Hall
Jane Lubchenco, NOAA Administrator, Washington, DC

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


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

8:15 AM-9:45 AM: Tuesday, 25 January 2011

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Session 2
Experiments involving observations, real or hypothetical: data impact tests (sensitivity of forecasts to a particular source of observations); observing system simulation experiments (OSSEs)—Part I
Location: 2B (Washington State Convention Center)
Host: 15th Symposium on Integrated Observing and Assimilation Systems for the Atmosphere, Oceans and Land Surface (IOAS-AOLS)
Chair: Eric W. Uhlhorn, AIR-Worldwide
8:15 AM
2.1
Impact of Assimilating Refractivity Measurements from a Network of S-band and X-band Radars on the Forecast of Convective Initiation using the ARPS 3DVAR System
Nicholas Antonio Gasperoni, CAPS/Univ. of Oklahoma, Norman, OK; and M. Xue, R. D. Palmer, J. Gao, B. L. Cheong, and D. S. Michaud
8:30 AM
2.2
Technology and data utility challenges for a Doppler Wind Lidar on the International Space Station
George D. Emmitt, Simpson Weather Associates, Charlottesville, VA; and S. A. Wood, M. J. Kavaya, B. Gentry, and W. Baker
9:00 AM
2.4
The simulation and assimilation of Doppler wind lidar observations in support of future instruments
Will McCarty, NASA/GSFC, Greenbelt, MD; and R. Errico, R. Yang, R. Gelaro, and M. M. Rienecker
9:15 AM
2.5
Observing System Simulation Experiments for a US Wind Lidar space mission
Lars Peter Riishojgaard, Joint Center for Satellite Data Assimilation, College Park, MD; and M. Masutani and G. D. Emmitt
9:30 AM
2.6
The impact of satellite-based Doppler wind lidar measurements on high-impact weather forecasting: A regional OSSE study
Lei Zhang, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT; and Z. Pu, B. Gentry, and R. M. Atlas

8:30 AM-9:00 AM: Tuesday, 25 January 2011

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Session 4
Results of Field Trials and Numerical Experiments in Planned Weather Modification - Part 4
Location: 605/610 (Washington State Convention Center)
Host: 18th Conference on Planned and Inadvertent Weather Modification
Cochairs: Don A. Griffith, North American Weather Consultants; Sarah A. Tessendorf, NCAR
8:30 AM
4.1
Development of Hygroscopic Pyrotechnics for Warm Cloud Seeding
Yuzhong Wu Sr., Shanxi Zhongtian Rocket Technology Co.,Ltd., China, Xi'an, Shaanxi, China; and Y. Chen Sr., X. Wang, and W. Xue

8:45 AM
4.2

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

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Session 1
Air pollution and Dust transport studies
Location: 307-308 (Washington State Convention Center)
Host: 5th Symposium on Lidar Atmospheric Applications
Cochairs: Ruben Delgado, JCET/Univ. of Maryland; C. Russell Philbrick, North Carolina State Univ.
8:30 AM
1.1
Synergy of A-Train sensors and in-situ air quality measurements: 3-D structure of Asian dust transported to the Mid-Atlantic United States and its impact on air quality
Ruben Delgado, JCET/Univ. of Maryland, Baltimore, MD; and S. DeSouza-Machado, A. M. Robinson, D. Orozco, O. Torres, L. L. Strow, and R. M. Hoff
8:45 AM
1.2
Multistatic lidar measurements of aerosol properties
C. Russell Philbrick, North Carolina State Univ., Raleigh, NC; and M. Snyder and A. Brown
9:00 AM
1.3
The Taklimakan Dust acting as Ice nuclei observed by dual-wavelength and polarization lidar
Yoshitaka Jin, Nagoya Univ., Nagoya, Japan; and K. Kai, T. Shibata, K. Zhang, and H. Zhou
9:15 AM
1.4
9:30 AM
1.5
Comparison of EZLidar, MPL, and an elastic lidar for urban air quality applications
Raymond M. Hoff, JCET/Univ. of Maryland, Baltimore, MD; and R. Delgado, T. A. Berkoff, K. J. McCann, D. Orozco, P. Sawamura, and J. Compton
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Joint Session 1
Computational intelligence applications in air pollution meteorology
Location: 2A (Washington State Convention Center)
Hosts: (Joint between the Ninth Conference on Artificial Intelligence and its Applications to the Environmental Sciences; and the Special Symposium on Applications of Air Pollution Meteorology )
Cochairs: Sue Ellen Haupt, Penn State Univ.; Michael Brown, LANL
8:30 AM
J1.1
Using a genetic algorithm to assimilate transport and dispersion variables
Sue Ellen Haupt, Penn State Univ., University Park, PA; and A. J. Annunzio and K. J. Schmehl
8:45 AM
J1.2
Source term estimation of a volcanic ash cloud using a genetic algorithm
Kerrie J. Schmehl, Penn State Univ., State College, PA; and S. E. Haupt and D. Truesdell
9:00 AM
J1.3
Source term estimation uncertainty analysis using a genetic algorithm coupled with dispersion models
Luna M. Rodriguez, Penn State Univ., University Park, PA; and S. E. Haupt, G. Young, A. J. Annunzio, and K. J. Schmehl
9:15 AM
J1.4
Multi-entity field approximation for hazard origin estimation
Andrew J. Annunzio, Penn State Univ., University Park, PA; and S. E. Haupt, G. Young, and L. M. Rodriguez
9:30 AM
J1.5
Non-Darwinian evolution for source estimation
Guido Cervone, George Mason Univ., Fairfax, VA; and P. Franzese
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Panel Discussion 1
Environmental Security
Location: 305 (Washington State Convention Center)
Host: Sixth Symposium on Policy and Socio-economic Research
Organizer: John M. Lanicci, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical Univ.
8:30 AM
PD1.1
9:00 AM
PD1.2
Mapping Climate Change and Security in Africa
Joshua Busby, Univ. of Texas, Austin, TX
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Panel Discussion 1
Federal Activities on Climate Change and Human Health
Location: 4C-2 (Washington State Convention Center)
Host: Second Symposium on Environment and Health
Panelists: John Balbus, National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS); George Luber, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention; Juli Trtanj, NOAA; Darrell Winner, EPA
Organizer: Tanya Maslak, United States Global Change Research Program
Moderator: Tanya Maslak, United States Global Change Research Program
8:30 AM
1.2
Climate Change and Human Health: An Update on Federal Activities
John Balbus, National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS), Bethesda, MD
9:15 AM
1.3
Federal Program Overview
Juli Trtanj, NOAA, Silver Spring, MD
9:30 AM
1.4
Panel Discussion

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Session 1
K-12 and Informal Educational Outreach Initiatives
Location: 604 (Washington State Convention Center)
Host: 20th Symposium on Education
Cochairs: Susan Foster, UCAR; Kathleen A. Murphy, AMS Education Resource Educator
8:30 AM
1.1
Hail to the weather! Summer weather camps at the Clinton Presidential Library
Kevin A. Kloesel, University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK; and A. Kolodziej, P. Marsh, C. Taylor, and J. Willis
8:45 AM
1.2
A textbook free high school meteorology course
Jeffrey A. Yuhas, Concord-Carlisle Regional High School, Chelmsford, MA; and V. Tremblay
9:30 AM
1.5
Green Ninja: a new superhero for climate change
Eugene Cordero, San Jose State University, San Jose, CA; and B. Dallas, B. Sarrafan, C. David, and J. Gordon
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Session 1
Satellite Program Status
Location: 4C-1 (Washington State Convention Center)
Host: Seventh Annual Symposium on Future Operational Environmental Satellite Systems
Cochairs: John Furgerson, JPSS Program Office; Steven J. Goodman, NOAA/NESDIS/GOES-R Program Office
8:30 AM
1.1
Update on EUMETSAT Meteorological Satellite Programmes
Johannes Schmetz, EUMETSAT, Darmstadt, Germany; and D. Klaes, R. Stuhlmann, P. Schlüssel, L. Sarlo, K. Holmlund, S. Rota, and M. Cohen
8:55 AM
Welcoming and Introductory Remarks

9:00 AM
1.2
9:15 AM
1.3
NPP/JPSS Status
Gary K. Davis, NOAA/NESDIS/OSD, Silver Spring, MD
9:30 AM
1.4
Defense Weather Satellite System (DWSS) Status
Ibrahim Awwad, Space and Missile Systems Center, El Segundo, CA
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Session 1
Stratosphere-Troposphere Coupling I
Location: 3B (Washington State Convention Center)
Host: 16th Conference on Middle Atmosphere
Chair: Amy Hawes Butler, NOAA/NWS/NCEP/CPC
8:30 AM
1.1A
The Tropospheric Response to Stratospheric Quasi-Bienniel Oscillation during Boreal Summer
Seok-woo Son, McGill Univ., Montreal, QC, Canada; and H. S. Kim, H. Lin, and C. H. Ho

8:45 AM
1.1
What controls the overturning circulation of the stratosphere?
Edwin P. Gerber, Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, New York, NY; and C. Chan and K. E. Sielert
9:15 AM
1.3
Stratosphere—Troposphere Coupling by Planetary Waves
Daniela I.V. Domeisen, University of Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany; and R. A. Plumb
9:30 AM
1.4
Downward wave coupling between the stratosphere and troposphere: The importance of meridional wave guiding and comparison with zonal-mean coupling
Tiffany A. Shaw, Center for Atmosphere Ocean Science/Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, New York, NY; and J. Perlwitz and N. Harnik
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Session 1
Weather - ATM Integration and Translation: Model and Realization
Location: 310 (Washington State Convention Center)
Host: Second Aviation, Range and Aerospace Meteorology Special Symposium on Weather-Air Traffic Management Integration
Chair: Marilyn Wolfson, MIT Lincoln Laboratory
8:30 AM
1.1
ATM-Weather Integration and Translation Model
Mark W. Huberdeau, MITRE Corp., McLean, VA; and D. Pace, S. Bradford, M. Fronzak, C. McKnight, and E. B. Wilhelm
8:45 AM
1.2
2010 results from the 3km HRRR - verification, case study assessment, and HRRR-based convective probabilistic forecasts (HCPF)
Stephen S. Weygandt, NOAA/ESRL/GSD, Boulder, CO; and C. R. Alexander, E. P. James, P. Hofmann, S. G. Benjamin, T. Smirnova, M. Hu, and J. M. Brown
9:00 AM
1.3
Use of a High-Resolution Deterministic Weather Forecast for Strategic Air Traffic Management Decision Support
Michael Robinson, MIT Lincoln Laboratory, Lexington, MA; and J. Venuti and S. McGettigan
9:15 AM
1.4
Prediction of Weather Impacts on Air Traffic through Flow Constrained Areas (FCA)
Yi-Hsin Lin, MIT Lincoln Laboratory, Lexington, MA; and J. Sulkin and R. DeLaura
9:30 AM
1.5
Using stochastic, dynamic weather-impact models in strategic traffic flow management
Mengran Xue, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI; and S. M. Zobell, S. Roy, C. P. Taylor, Y. Wan, and C. Wanke
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Session 1
World Weather Impacts in 2010
Location: 6B (Washington State Convention Center)
Host: IMPACTS: Weather 2010
Chair: Tanja E. Fransen, NOAA/NWS
8:30 AM
1.1
International Weather and Climate Events of 2010
Klaus E. Wolter, ESRL/Univ of Colorado-CIRES, Boulder, CO
9:00 AM
1.2
2010 Weather Impacts on Global Food Supply
Michael Ferrari, Coca Cola, Bethlehem, PA
9:15 AM
1.3
Assessing the Causes and Predictability of the 2010 Russian Heat Wave
Randall M. Dole, NOAA/ESRL, Boulder, CO; and M. Hoerling, J. Perlwitz, J. K. Eischeid, D. Murray, P. Pegion, X. Quan, T. Xu, and T. Zhang
9:30 AM
1.4
The July Floods in Pakistan: Could They Have Been Predicted?
Peter. J. Webster, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA; and R. A. Houze Jr.
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Joint Session 3
Aerosol Direct and Indirect Radiative Forcings
Location: 3A (Washington State Convention Center)
Hosts: (Joint between the Third Symposium on Aerosol-Cloud-Climate Interactions; and the 13th Conference on Atmospheric Chemistry )
Cochairs: Sundar A. Christopher, University of Alabama in Huntsville; Jonathan E. Pleim, EPA
8:30 AM
J3.1
Modeling aerosol direct and indirect effects in the 2-way coupled WRF-CMAQ
Jonathan E. Pleim, EPA, Research Triangle Park, NC; and R. Mathur, D. Wong, S. Yu, and F. Binkowski
8:45 AM
J3.2
The Impact of Aged Aerosols on Mixed-Phased Clouds in the Arctic during April 2008
Jerome D. Fast, PNNL, Richland, WA; and J. Rishel, P. Rasch, and L. Emmons
9:00 AM
J3.3
Marine Primary and Secondary Organic Aerosols and Their Effect on Indirect Radiative Forcing
Nicholas Meskhidze, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC; and B. Gantt, J. Xu, A. Sabolis, E. Morris, and M. D. Petters
9:15 AM
J3.4
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Session 3
Communication and Broadcast Meteorology
Location: 618-620 (Washington State Convention Center)
Host: Sixth Symposium on Policy and Socio-economic Research
Cochairs: Gina M. Eosco, Ph.D; Chris Vaccaro, NOAA
8:30 AM
3.1
Weather as a Tool of Narrative Suspense: Implications and Consequences
Chad M. Kauffman, California University of Pennsylvania, California, PA; and S. A. Jasko and P. Hettler
9:15 AM
3.4
Communicating climate change in a weathercasting context: An analysis of “early adopter” TV meteorologists and their educational methods
Katherine Rowan, George Mason University, Fairfax, VA; and B. Klinger, J. Witte, P. Baldwin, B. Brown, and E. Maibach
9:30 AM
3.5
Supporting TV meteorologists' efforts to educate their viewers about climate change, and testing the impact: A quasi-experimental field study
Joe Witte, NASA / George Mason University, Arlington, 22209; and J. Gandy, B. Klinger, H. Cullen, X. Zhao, J. Thaker, K. Rowan, N. Heller, and E. Maibach

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Session 3A
Communication Technologies for Accessing and Distributing Climate, Weather, and Hydrologic Data, Forecasts, and Information Part I
Location: 606 (Washington State Convention Center)
Host: 27th Conference on Interactive Information Processing Systems (IIPS)
Cochairs: Timothy Crum, Retired, NWS; Christina Lief, NOAA/NCDC; Lola Olsen, NASA
8:30 AM
3A.1
The new NWS WSR-88D level II data collection, distribution, and archive network architecture
Donald J. Horvat, Arctic Slope Regional Corporation, Norman, OK; and C. Horvat, C. Calvert, and T. Crum
8:45 AM
3A.2
The weather and climate toolkit
Steve Ansari, NOAA/NESDIS/NCDC, Asheville, NC; and S. A. Del Greco and B. Hankins
9:00 AM
3A.3
NWS forecast grids served via a Net-Enabled Web Coverage Service
Steven R. Olson, NOAA/NWS, Silver Spring, MD; and M. Oberfield, M. Peroutka, and D. Gilmore

9:15 AM
3A.4
A preview of NCEP's new product communication strategies and data visualization Initiatives
Michelle Mainelli, NOAA/NWS/NCEP, Camp Springs, MD; and B. S. Mabe and S. Jacobs

9:30 AM
3A.5
Improving communication using NWS local climate analysis tool
Marina Timofeyeva, NOAA/NWS, Silver Spring, MD; and A. Hollingshead, D. Hilderbrand, B. Mayes Boustead, T. Hartley, N. McGavock, E. Lau, F. C. Fritsch, L. Brown, E. A. O'Lenic, B. C. Motta, and R. Bunge
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Session 3B
Data Stewardship: Collecting, Preserving, Communicating Weather and Climate Data: Keynote Session
Location: 607 (Washington State Convention Center)
Host: 27th Conference on Interactive Information Processing Systems (IIPS)
Cochairs: Mohan K. Ramamurthy, UCAR; Howard J. Diamond, NOAA/NESDIS/NCDC
9:00 AM
3B.2
The changing research data paradigm
Clifford A. Jacobs, NSF, Arlington, VA
9:15 AM
3B.3
9:30 AM
3B.4
Discussion Session
Mohan K. Ramamurthy, UCAR, Boulder, CO
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Session 4
Climate Analysis III
Location: 608 (Washington State Convention Center)
Host: 23rd Conference on Climate Variability and Change
Chair: David R. Easterling, NOAA/NESDIS/NCDC
8:30 AM
4.1
The association of outgoing solar (albedo) and OLR radiation with variations of precipitation
William M. Gray, Colorado State Univ., Fort Collins, CO; and B. E. Schwartz
8:45 AM
4.2
Extreme temperature regimes during the cool season
Robert X. Black, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA; and R. Westby

9:00 AM
4.3
What forms the subtropical maximum in mid-tropospheric warming?
Jian (Tony) Ma, University of Hawaii, Honolulu, HI; and S. P. Xie
9:15 AM
4.4
The observed extratropical flow response to recurving western North Pacific tropical cyclones
Heather M. Archambault, University at Albany/SUNY, Albany, NY; and L. Bosart and D. Keyser
9:30 AM
4.5
An examination of climate variability in the southeastern United States based on a modulated annual cycle
Sarah E. Strazzo, Center for Ocean-Atmospheric Prediction Studies/Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL; and Z. Wu
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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
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
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
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
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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
Recording files available
Session 4
Post-stationarity? Hydrologic Analysis and Predictions in a Changing Environment I
Location: 611 (Washington State Convention Center)
Host: 25th Conference on Hydrology
Cochairs: Michael D. Dettinger, USGS; Glenn A. Hodgkins, USGS
8:30 AM
4.1
8:45 AM
4.2
Hydrologic sensitivities of Colorado River runoff to changes in temperature and precipitation
Julie A. Vano, University of Washington, Seattle, WA; and T. Das and D. P. Lettenmaier
9:00 AM
4.3
Probabilistic climate change analysis for stormwater runoff in the Pacific Northwest
Gregory S. Karlovits, University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA; and J. C. Adam
9:15 AM
4.4
Climate change impacts in the Tahoe region: past and projected future trends
Robert N. Coats, Hydroikos Ltd., Berkeley, CA; and M. Costa-Cabral, M. D. Dettinger, J. Reuter, J. Riverson, G. Sahoo, G. Schladow, and B. Wolfe
9:30 AM
4.5
Recording files available
Session 4A
Estimating and Communicating Uncertainty I: Large-scale systems
Location: 613/614 (Washington State Convention Center)
Host: 24th Conference on Weather and Forecasting/20th Conference on Numerical Weather Prediction
Chair: Zoltan Toth, NOAA/ESRL/GSD
8:30 AM
4A.1
Prediction of Extratropical Cyclones by TIGGE Ensemble Prediction Systems
Lizzie S. R. Froude, University of Reading, Reading, United Kingdom
9:00 AM
4A.3
Ensemble-based prediction and diagnostics during the PREDICT field experiment
Sharanya J. Majumdar, Univ. of Miami/RSMAS, Miami, FL; and R. Torn
9:15 AM
4A.4
Results from testing of EnKF and an EnKF-Var hybrid using the GFS during the 2010 hurricane season
Thomas M. Hamill, NOAA/ESRL, Boulder, CO; and J. S. Whitaker, S. G. Benjamin, M. Fiorino, and D. T. Kleist
9:30 AM
4A.5
Forecast products for hurricane prediction: deterministic and ensemble-based
Erik Andersson, ECMWF, Reading, United Kingdom; and F. Prates and D. Richardson
Recording files available
Session 4B
New Forecasting Systems and Capabilities
Location: 615-617 (Washington State Convention Center)
Host: 24th Conference on Weather and Forecasting/20th Conference on Numerical Weather Prediction
Chair: Zhaoxia Pu, University of Utah
8:30 AM
4B.1
Overview of Chinese New Generation NWP System GRAPES
Jishan Xue, Chinese Academy of Meteorological Sciences, Beijing, China
8:45 AM
4B.2
Development of a new global forecast system in CMA
Xueshun Shen, China Meteorological Administration, Beijing, China
9:00 AM
4B.3
Experiences with a 1.5km version of the Met Office Unified Model for short range forecasting
Humphrey W. Lean, Met Office, Reading, United Kingdom; and F. J. Bornemann, Y. Tang, and E. Carter
9:15 AM
4B.4
Transitioning research to operations: Implementing the Weather Research and Forecasting (WRF) model for developing countries
Brent L. Shaw, Weather Decision Technologies, Inc., Norman, OK; and R. L. Carpenter, Jr., P. L. Spencer, Z. M. DuFran, J. W. Conway, and M. D. Eilts
Recording files available
Joint Session 6
Land Data Assimilation Systems: Methods and Applications I
Location: 612 (Washington State Convention Center)
Hosts: (Joint between the 25th Conference on Hydrology; and the 15th Symposium on Integrated Observing and Assimilation Systems for the Atmosphere, Oceans and Land Surface (IOAS-AOLS) )
Cochairs: Susan C. Steele-Dunne, University of Technology; Rolf H. Reichle, NASA/GSFC; Wade T. Crow, USDA
8:30 AM
J6.1
Estimating the global terrestrial hydrologic cycle through modeling, remote sensing, and data assimilation [INVITED]
Eric F. Wood, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ; and M. Pan, A. Sahoo, J. Sheffield, and T. Troy

8:45 AM
J6.2
A Bayesian analysis scheme for estimating river depth using SWOT measurements [INVITED]
Michael Durand, The Ohio State Univ., Columbus, OH; and K. Andreadis, L. Smith, and M. Mersel
9:00 AM
J6.3
9:15 AM
J6.4A
Contributions of precipitation and soil moisture observations to the skill of soil moisture estimates in a land data assimilation system
Rolf H. Reichle, NASA/GSFC, Greenbelt, MD; and Q. Liu, R. Bindlish, M. Cosh, W. T. Crow, R. de Jeu, G. De Lannoy, G. J. Huffman, and T. J. Jackson

9:30 AM
J6.5
Towards assimilation methods that adequately reflect distinct sources of error: A Bayesian perspective [INVITED]
Dmitri Kavetski, University of Adelaide, Adelaide, South Australia, Australia; and A. Newman, G. Evin, M. Thyer, and G. Kuczera
Recording files available
Joint Session 7
Special Session on the Life and Work of John Roads I
Location: 609 (Washington State Convention Center)
Hosts: (Joint between the 23rd Conference on Climate Variability and Change; and the 25th Conference on Hydrology )
Chair: Gerald L. Potter, University of Michigan
8:30 AM
J7.1
An overview of the coupled atmosphere-wildland fire model WRF-Fire
Jan Mandel, University of Colorado, Denver, CO; and J. D. Beezley and A. Kochanski
Manuscript (352.5 kB)

8:45 AM
J7.2
9:30 AM
J7.5

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

Recording files available
Session 5
Analyses of Results from Operational Weather Modification Programs - Part 1
Location: 605/610 (Washington State Convention Center)
Host: 18th Conference on Planned and Inadvertent Weather Modification
Cochairs: Don A. Griffith, North American Weather Consultants; Sarah A. Tessendorf, NCAR
9:00 AM
5.1
Invited Speaker: Hail damage reduction activities
Paul L. Smith, South Dakota School of Mines and Technology, Rapid City, SD; and B. A. Boe
9:15 AM
5.2
Assessment of Hail Prevention experiments and operations in Spain: comparison seeded and unseeded periods
J. L. Sánchez, University of Leon, León, León, Spain; and L. López, A. Merino, E. García-Ortega, and J. Dessens
9:30 AM
5.3
Observations of supercooled liquid water over Tasmania and the Southern Ocean
Steven T. Siems, Monash University, Monash, Victoria, Australia; and Y. Huang, A. E. Morrison, and M. J. Manton

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

Joint Poster Session 1
Land Data Assimilation Systems: Methods and Applications
Location: Washington State Convention Center
Hosts: (Joint between the 25th Conference on Hydrology; and the 15th Symposium on Integrated Observing and Assimilation Systems for the Atmosphere, Oceans and Land Surface (IOAS-AOLS) )
Cochairs: Michael B. Ek, NOAA/NWS/NCEP; Rolf H. Reichle, NASA/GSFC; Susan C. Steele-Dunne, TU Delft; Youlong Xia, NOAA/NWS/NCEP
42
Evaluation of the impacts of assimilating multi-sensor snow observations on land surface processes
Sujay V. Kumar, SAIC, Greenbelt, MD; and R. H. Reichle, C. D. Peters-Lidard, M. Shaw, D. K. Hall, J. L. Foster, G. A. Riggs, and J. B. Eylander

Paper 43 has been moved. New paper number is J6.4A.

43A
(Formerly 7.4) High Spatial Resolution Observation of Rainfall from Space
James A. Weinman, Univ. of Washington, Seattle, WA; and S. Mori, G. Levy, and F. S. Marzano

44
Field-Scale Soil Moisture Assimilation: State, Parameter or Bias Estimation?
Gabriëlle J.M. De Lannoy, NASA/GSFC, Greenbelt, MD; and V. Pauwels, R. H. Reichle, W. P. Kustas, T. Gish, P. R. Houser, A. Russ, and N. Verhoest

46
Impacts of the new satellite derived land products on mesoscale precipitation processes
Vince C. K. Wong, NOAA/NWS/NCEP/EMC, Camp Springs, MD; and M. B. Ek

50
Comparison analysis of water and energy fluxes and application of model products for North-American Land Data Assimilation System phase 2
Youlong Xia, NOAA/NWS/NCEP, Camp Springs, MD; and K. E. Mitchell, M. B. Ek, J. Sheffield, E. F. Wood, B. Cosgrove, L. Luo, C. Alonge, H. Wei, J. Meng, B. Livneh, D. P. Lettenmaier, V. Koren, Q. Duan, K. C. Mo, and Y. Fan

51
Evaluation and analysis of model-simulated soil temperature in the North American Land Data Assimilation System phase 2
Youlong Xia, NOAA/NWS/NCEP, Camp Springs, MD; and J. Sheffield, M. B. Ek, H. Wei, E. F. Wood, S. Feng, L. Luo, J. Meng, and K. Mitchell

52
Surface Water and Energy Budgets for the Mississippi River Basin In Three NCEP Analyses
Rongqian Yang, NOAA/NWS/NCEP, Camp Springs, MD; and M. Ek, J. Meng, and K. Mitchell

53
54
A land data assimilation system using MODIS-derived land data and its application to WRF prediction
Yoon-Jin Lim, Korea Institute of Science and Technology Information, Daejeon, Korea, Republic of (South); and K. Y. Byun, T. Y. Lee, J. Kim, and M. S. Joh

Handout (1.9 MB)

55
Calibration of Three Sophisticated Operational Hydrological Forecast Models Using Land-Data Assimilation: Comparison of Results Over Selected Basins in Romania
John N. McHenry, Baron Advanced Meteorological Systems, LLC, Raleigh, NC; and D. J. Gochis, C. J. Coats Jr., J. Vukovich, and T. K. Burnet

56
NASA Water Resources Program and LDAS for Improved Water Management
David L. Toll, NASA/GSFC, Greenbelt, MD; and B. Doorn

Paper 57 has been moved. New paper number is J21.4A.

58
Snow surface temperature update process in Noah land surface model: a modified approach
Rebeka Sultana, University of California, Irvine, CA; and K. L. Hsu, J. Li, and S. Sorooshian

59
Change in land cover in ecological zones of Mongolia
Battumur Tserenchunt Jr., Dryland Sustainability Institute of Mongolia, Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia


Poster Session 1
Poster Session for ARAM Symposium on Weather - Air Traffic Management Integration
Host: Second Aviation, Range and Aerospace Meteorology Special Symposium on Weather-Air Traffic Management Integration
325
Poster 325 has been moved. New paper number 2.3A

326
Modeling Convective Weather Avoidance of Arrivals in Terminal Airspace
Michael Matthews, MIT Lincoln Laboratory, Lexington, MA; and R. DeLaura
Manuscript (2.5 MB)

Handout (183.8 kB)

327
The Weather and Air Traffic Management Integration course in the graduate Aeronautics program at Embry-Riddle
John M. Lanicci, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical Univ., Daytona Beach, FL
Manuscript (63.8 kB)

Handout (456.7 kB)

331
Evidence of Post-Frontal Mountain Wave Enhanced Wind Shear in Juneau Alaska
Carl F. Dierking, NOAA/NWS, Juneau, AK; and F. C. Fritsch
Manuscript (1.4 MB)

Handout (5.2 MB)

332
333
Objective calibrated wind speed and crosswind probabilistic forecasts for the Hong Kong International Airport
Ping Cheung, Hong Kong Observatory, Hong Kong, China; and C. C. Lam
Manuscript (965.5 kB)

Handout (993.7 kB)

335
Studies of the effectiveness of the water vapor sensing system, WVSS-II, in supporting airline operations and improved air traffic capacity
Randy Baker, United Parcel Service, Louisville, KY; and R. Curtis, D. Helms, A. Homans, and B. Ford
Manuscript (1.6 MB)

Handout (3.4 MB)

337
Impact of abnormal electromagnetic propagation on UAS risk mitigation with radar
Randall Johnson, Univ. of North Dakota, Grand Forks, ND; and M. Askelson, J. Tilley, and C. Theisen

338
On the use of low-cost unmanned aircraft platforms as part of a system to determine short-term electromagnetic propagation characteristics in the surface and boundary layers
Jeffrey S. Tilley, Univ. of North Dakota, Grand Forks, ND ; and D. Delene, J. Nordlie, R. Johnson, K. Strang, B. Gunvalson, P. Tselios, and M. A. Askelson

339
The Utility of TAMDAR in the NextGen-Oriented CLEEN Program
Neil A. Jacobs, AirDat LLC, Morrisville, NC; and M. Croke, P. Childs, Y. Liu, X. Y. Huang, and R. DeJong


Poster Session 2
Ensembles and Probabilistic Forecasting
Host: 24th Conference on Weather and Forecasting/20th Conference on Numerical Weather Prediction
111
The value of ensembles and statistical post-processing for ship routing guidance
James Hansen, NRL, Monterey, CA; and J. Etro, A. Etro, J. Cook, I. Nutall, and S. Hall

112
Covarying TC-forced wind speed/wave height probabilities
James Hansen, NRL, Monterey, CA; and C. R. Sampson, P. A. Wittmann, M. DeMaria, and J. Knaff

113
Ensemble based probabilistic forecast and its verification
Yuejian Zhu, NOAA/NWS/NCEP/EMC, Camp Springs, MD

114
Impact of formulation and resolution on ensemble forecast performance
Carolyn A. Reynolds, NRL, Monterey, CA; and J. McLay, J. S. Goerss, E. Serra, D. Hodyss, C. R. Sampson, M. Flatau, and J. A. Ridout

115
Ensemble Hurricane forecasts from a suite of Mesoscale models
Mrinal K. Biswas, Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL; and T. N. Krishnamurti

116
What is a reasonable ensemble size for operational ensemble forecast?
Juhui Ma, NCEP/NWS, Camp Springs, MD; and Y. Zhu
Manuscript (595.3 kB)

118
Ensemble prediction system development for hydrometeorological testbed (HMT) application
Isidora Jankov, CIRA/Colorado State Univ., Boulder, CO; and S. Albers, H. Yuan, L. S. Wharton, Z. Toth, T. Schneider, A. White, and F. M. Ralph

119
What are the added values of LAMEPS?
Yong Wang, Zentralanstalt für Meteorologie und Geodynamik, Vienna, Austria
Manuscript (772.5 kB)

120
Inclusion of FNMOC ensemble into NAEFS
Bo Cui, NOAA/NWS/NCEP/EMC, Camp Springs, MD; and Y. Zhu

121
NAEFS statistical down-scaling method applications to Alaska
Bo Cui, NOAA/NWS/NCEP/EMC, Camp Springs, MD; and Y. Zhu

122
Evaluating probabilistic precipitation forecasts generated by deterministic convection-allowing NWP models
Jill D. Hardy, NSF, Norman, OK; and J. S. Kain, D. R. Novak, J. J. Gourley, and M. E. Pyle

Handout (1.3 MB)

123
Improving probabilistic ensemble forecasts of convection through the application of QPF-POP relationships
Christopher J. Schaffer, NOAA/NWS, Peachtree City, GA; and W. A. Gallus Jr. and M. Segal
Manuscript (445.1 kB)

125
In-line processing of ensemble distributions in a simple model
Justin McLay, NRL, Monterey, CA; and J. Hansen and C. A. Reynolds

126
Optimization of Stochastic Total Tendency Perturbation Scheme
Dingchen Hou, NOAA/NWS/NCEP/EMC, Camp Springs, MD; and Y. Zhu, S. Moorthi, R. Wobus, J. Ma, and W. Yang

Poster 127 has been moved. New paper number is 6A.3A.

129
Down-Selection of NWP Ensemble Configurations
Jared Lee, NCAR, Boulder, CO; and W. C. Kolczynski Jr., T. C. McCandless, S. E. Haupt, D. R. Stauffer, A. Deng, and K. J. Schmehl
Manuscript (1015.8 kB)

132
ensembleBMA: An R package for probabilistic weather forecasting
Chris Fraley, University of Washington, Seattle, WA; and A. E. Raftery, T. Gneiting, and M. Sloughter
Manuscript (1.3 MB)

133
Geostatistical model averaging for locally calibrated probabilistic quantitative precipitation forecasting
William Kleiber, NCAR, Boulder, CO; and A. E. Raftery and T. Gneiting

134
Impact of Sea Surface Temperature Uncertainty on the Western North Pacific Subtropical High (WNPSH) and rainfall
Xiaodong Hong, NRL, Monterey, CA; and C. Bishop, T. Holt, and L. W. O'Neill

135
Experimental Probabalistic Forecast Information Provided by NWS WFOs
Daniel Nietfeld, NOAA, Valley, NE; and S. A. Amburn


Poster Session 2
Poster Session 2
Location: Washington State Convention Center
Host: 23rd Conference on Climate Variability and Change
150
Global precipitation diurnal variations depicted in the observation and the CFS Reanalysis
Soo-Hyun Yoo, NOAA/NWS/NCEP/CPC and Wyle Scientific, Camp Springs, MD; and P. Xie and W. Wang

Handout (3.7 MB)

151
California temperature and precipitation trends: climate variability or global warming
Steve LaDochy, California State University, Los Angeles, CA; and P. Ramirez, D. Killam, A. Bui, W. C. Patzert, and J. Willis
Manuscript (578.3 kB)

Handout (420.4 kB)

152
Impact of a fine scale SST over the Kuroshio Extension region to wintertime rainfall
Satoshi Iizuka, National Research Institute for Earth Science and Disaster Prevention, Tsukuba, Japan; and K. Dairaku and W. Sasaki

153
Decadal amplitude modulation of two types of ENSO and mean state changes
Jung Choi, Yonsei University, Seoul, Korea, Republic of (South); and S. I. An and S. W. Yeh

154
NARCCAP regional climate model simulations of the North American monsoon
Melissa S. Bukovsky, NCAR, Boulder, CO; and D. J. Gochis and L. O. Mearns

Handout (35.6 MB)

155
Conspicuous greening in the end of growing season over Arctic region
Su Jong Jeong, Seoul National Univ., Seoul, Korea, Republic of (South); and B. M. Kim and C. H. Ho

157
Potential Precursors to and Implications of Tropical Cyclone Passage: A Regional Climate Perspective
Benjamin Schenkel, Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL; and R. E. Hart

Handout (7.2 MB)

158
30-year satellite-based time series: Is vegetation greening up?
Felix Kogan, NOAA/NESDIS, Camp Springs, MD

159
Vegetation greening accelerates surface warming and sea-ice melting over the Arctic and high-latitude regions
Sang-Yoon Jun, Korea Institute of Atmospheric Prediction Systems, Seoul, Korea, Republic of (South); and C. H. Ho, J. H. Jeong, and J. S. Kug

161
Projected changes of regional heat waves in Central/Eastern Europe using climate model simulations
Rita Pongracz, Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest, Hungary; and J. Bartholy, E. B. Bartha, O. Torek, I. Pieczka, and C. Torma
Manuscript (3.2 MB)

Handout (613.2 kB)

162
Simulated trend of wet and dry climatic conditions in Central/Eastern Europe using PRECIS outputs
Judit Bartholy, Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest, Hungary; and R. Pongracz, I. Pieczka, B. Hollosi, and O. Torek
Manuscript (3.0 MB)

Handout (694.1 kB)

163
Analysis of the urban heat island effect—comparison of ground-based and remotely sensed temperature observations
Rita Pongracz, Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest, Hungary; and J. Bartholy, E. Lelovics, and Z. Dezso
Manuscript (264.2 kB)

Handout (8.0 MB)


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
Post-stationarity? Hydrologic Analysis and Predictions in a Changing Environment
Location: Washington State Convention Center
Host: 25th Conference on Hydrology
Cochairs: Michael D. Dettinger, USGS; Glenn A. Hodgkins, USGS
60
Loading the dice: Climate change and recent Northwest droughts
Guillaume Mauger, JISAO/Univ. of Washington, Seattle, WA; and K. A. Mckinnon, P. W. Mote, and P. Pall

Handout (1.0 MB)

61
Trends and sensitivities in late-season snowpack in the Pacific Northwest
Guillaume Mauger, JISAO/Univ. of Washington, Seattle, WA; and N. Mantua

Handout (2.3 MB)

62
Effects of climate change on Olympic National Park flood risks
Alan F. Hamlet, University of Washington, Seattle, WA; and S. Y. Lee and I. M. Tohver

Handout (1.8 MB)

63
64
Sensitivity of Projected Streamflow Changes to Future Scenarios in Three Hydrologic Regimes in BC
Arelia T. Werner, Pacific Climate Impacts Consortium, Victoria, BC, Canada; and K. E. Bennett, M. A. Schnorbus, and A. B. Berland

65
Quantifying the hydrologic impacts of mountain pine beetle and salvage harvest in the Fraser River drainage, British Columbia, Canada
Markus A. Schnorbus, University of Victoria, Victoria, BC, Canada; and K. E. Bennett and A. T. Werner

67
Stationarity, variability and change in hydrologic extremes
Kelly T. Redmond, DRI, Reno, NV; and K. E. Kunkel

68
On the origin of recent changes in western North American snowpack
Sarah Kapnick, University of California, Los Angeles, CA; and A. Hall

69
A study of lakes and wetlands in Africa from land surface modeling
Huilin Gao, University of Washington, Seattle, WA; and T. Bohn and D. P. Lettenmaier

71
Implications of glacier change to Upper Indus River streamflow
Bibi S. Naz, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN; and L. C. Bowling, M. Ashfaq, and N. S. Diffenbaugh

72
Simulating climate variability and change in Central Asia using a coupled NHMM-AR1 Model
Scott Sellars, Columbia Water Center, New York City, NY; and A. W. Robertson and T. Siegfried

Handout (2.3 MB)


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


Poster Session 5
Progress in Estimating Land Surface Evaporation
Location: Washington State Convention Center
Host: 25th Conference on Hydrology
Cochairs: Martha C. Anderson, USDA/ARS; Christa D. Peters-Lidard, NASA/GSFC
73
The fallacy of drifting snow
Edgar L. Andreas, NorthWest Research Associates, Inc., Lebanon, NH
Manuscript (251.7 kB)

Handout (318.7 kB)

74
A watershed scale Groundwater-Land-Surface Model
Yuning Shi, Pennsylvania State Univ., University Park, PA; and K. J. Davis and C. J. Duffy

Handout (1.7 MB)

75
Application of a Unified Land Model for estimation of the terrestrial water balance
Ben Livneh, University of Washington, Seattle, WA; and D. P. Lettenmaier and P. J. Restrepo

Handout (2.3 MB)

76
Improve the estimation of sublimation and evaporation from the ground snow surface and frozen soil in WRF
Yihua Wu, NOAA/NWS/NCEP and I.M. Systems Group, Camp Springs, MD; and M. Ek

78
Regional modeling of evapotranspiration using WRF coupled to the high complexity land surface model ACASA
Liyi Xu, University of California, Davis, CA; and R. D. Pyles and K. T. Paw U

79
Use of a dual temperature-difference two-source model to estimate the turbulent energy fluxes under strongly advective conditions during BEAREX08
Joseph G. Alfieri, USDA/ARS, Beltsville, MD; and W. P. Kustas, M. C. Anderson, P. D. Colaizzi, J. H. Prueger, L. E. Hipps, J. L. Chavez, S. R. Evett, K. S. Copeland, and T. A. Howell

Handout (263.5 kB)

80
Estimating Distributed Soil Evaporation to Account for Background Evaporation Between Satellite Image Dates
Jeppe Kjaersgaard, University of Idaho, Kimberly, ID; and R. Allen, A. Kilic, I. Ratcliffe, P. Ranade, R. Trezza, and C. Robison

Handout (125.2 kB)

81
Web-based disseminating of surface energy balance evapotranspiration estimates
Amnon Nevo, Riverside Technology, inc., Fort Collins, CO; and T. C. Martin

Handout (395.6 kB)

82
Developing two long-term, daily datasets of evaporative demand across the conterminous US
Mike Hobbins, University of Kansas, Boulder, CO; and D. Streubel, K. Werner, and D. Brandon

Handout (8.5 MB)

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

Recording files available
Session 6
Analyses of Results from Operational Weather Modification Programs - Part 2
Location: 605/610 (Washington State Convention Center)
Host: 18th Conference on Planned and Inadvertent Weather Modification
Cochairs: Paul Smith, South Dakota School of Mines and Technology; Richard H. Stone, RHS Consulting, Ltd.
11:00 AM
6.1
Brief description of the rain mitigation operations during Beijing 2008 Olympic opening ceremony
Qiang Zhang, Beijing Weather Modification Office, Beijing, China; and H. He, M. Huang, H. Y. Li, J. Z. Liu, X. Ma, B. P. Koloskov, and V. P. Korneev
11:15 AM
6.2
30+ WINTER SEASONS of OPERATIONAL CLOUD SEEDING in UTAH
Don A. Griffith, North American Weather Consultants, Sandy, UT; and M. E. Solak and D. P. Yorty

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


Bernhard Haurwitz Lecture

Session 1
Communication and Diversity in the History of Atmospheric Science (Co-Sponsored by the Board on Women and Minorities)
Location: 4C-4 (Washington State Convention Center)
Host: Ninth History Symposium
Speakers: Roger D. Turner, Univ. of Pennsylvania; Denzil Ford, University of British Columbia
Chair: Dr. Sepideh Yalda, Millersville Univ.
11:00 AM
1.1
Oceanography, photography, and possession in the south east Pacific, Chile, and Peru
Denzil Ford, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada

11:15 AM
1.2
Historical Perspectives on Structural Discrimination in Atmospheric Science
Roger D. Turner, Univ. of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA

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Session 2
Probabilistic Weather Avoidance and Traffic Flow Management
Location: 310 (Washington State Convention Center)
Host: Second Aviation, Range and Aerospace Meteorology Special Symposium on Weather-Air Traffic Management Integration
Chair: Craig Wanke, The MITRE Corporation
11:00 AM
2.1
NextGen Trajectory-Based Integration of Grid-Based Weather Avoidance Fields
Robert Avjian, Lockheed Martin Information Systems & Global Solutions, Rockville, MD; and J. Dehn, Ph.D and J. G. Stobie, Ph.D
11:15 AM
2.2
Probabilistic pilot-behavior models for clear-air turbulence avoidance maneuvers
R. D. Sharman, NCAR, Boulder, CO; and J. A. Krozel and V. Klimenko
Recording files available
Session 2
Sensor Performance
Location: 4C-1 (Washington State Convention Center)
Host: Seventh Annual Symposium on Future Operational Environmental Satellite Systems
Cochairs: Thomas M. Renkevens, NOAA/NESDIS; Pamela Sullivan, JPSS Flight Project
11:00 AM
2.1
The improved imagery of the ABI on GOES-R
Timothy J. Schmit, NOAA/NESDIS/STAR, Madison, WI; and J. Gurka and M. M. Gunshor
11:15 AM
2.2
NPP CrIS Sensor Performance Review and Cal/Val Plan Overview
Gail A. Bingham, Utah State Univ./SDL, Logan, UT; and C. Fish, M. Esplin, V. Zavyalov, M. Greenman, and T. Nielsen
11:30 AM
2.3
GOES-R space weather observations and products
S. M. Hill, NOAA/NWS/SWPC, Boulder, CO; and R. Rutledge, J. C. Green, T. Onsager, H. J. Singer, R. Viereck, M. Shouldis, P. loto'Aniu, L. Mayer, E. J. Rigler, and J. V. Rodriguez
11:45 AM
2.4
The GOES-R Series Geostationary Lightning Mapper (GLM)
Steven J. Goodman, NOAA/NESDIS/GOES-R Program Office, Greenbelt, MD; and R. J. Blakeslee, W. J. Koshak, and D. M. Mach
Recording files available
Session 2
Winter Impacts 2009-2010
Location: 6B (Washington State Convention Center)
Host: IMPACTS: Weather 2010
Chair: Renee Curry, National Wildlife Federation
11:00 AM
2.1
Tracking Changes in the Arctic Environment
Nancy N. Soreide, NOAA/PMEL, Seattle, WA; and J. E. Overland, J. Calder, and J. A. Richter-Menge
11:15 AM
2.2
Western US Storm Impacts - January 18-23, 2010
Mark A. Tew, NOAA/NWS, Salt Lake City, UT
11:30 AM
2.3
The Southern Plains Ice Storm of January 28-29, 2010
Kevin A. Kloesel, University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK
11:45 AM
2.4
East Coast Snow Storm Impacts
David A. Call, Ball State University, Muncie, IN

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Session 4A
Communication Technologies for Accessing and Distributing Climate, Weather, and Hydrologic Data, Forecasts, and Information Part II
Location: 606 (Washington State Convention Center)
Host: 27th Conference on Interactive Information Processing Systems (IIPS)
Cochairs: Timothy Crum, Retired, NWS; Christina Lief, NOAA/NCDC
11:00 AM
4A.1
Implementation of a hydrologic information data server in the Dallas/Fort Worth Metroplex
John A. McEnery, University of Texas, Arlington, TX; and P. W. McKee, G. P. Shelton, and R. W. Ramsay
11:15 AM
4A.2
Web-based Tsunami Forecasting Tools
Eugene Burger, NOAA/ERL/PMEL, Seattle, WA; and C. W. Moore, C. Chamberlin, and D. W. Denbo
11:30 AM
4A.3
Creating a Scalable Solution for Producing Quality Terminal Aerodrome Forecasts
Daniel W. Lennartson, Telvent DTN, Minneapolis, MN; and J. H. Block
11:45 AM
4A.4
NextGen 4-D Weather Data Cube Development and tools for Content Developers
Jebb Q. Stewart, NOAA/ESRL and CIRA/Colorado State Univ., Boulder, CO; and M. Leon, C. MacDermaid, M. Schultz, and L. Sherretz
Recording files available
Session 4B
Data Stewardship: Data Discovery
Location: 607 (Washington State Convention Center)
Host: 27th Conference on Interactive Information Processing Systems (IIPS)
Cochairs: Steven Worley, NCAR; Mark R. Anderson, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
11:00 AM
4B.1
An introduction to the Advanced Tracking and Resource tool for Archive Collections (ATRAC)
Philip Jones, STG, Inc., Asheville, NC; and K. Roberts and N. Ritchey
11:15 AM
4B.2
11:30 AM
4B.3
Libre: Freeing your data—Free to share, free to discover and use
Ruth E. Duerr, National Snow and Ice Data Center, Boulder, CO; and M. A. Parsons
11:45 AM
4B.4
NOAA's Climate Database Modernization Program (CDMP) paving the road for data stewardship
William E. Angel, NOAA/NESDIS/NCDC, Asheville, NC; and T. F. Ross and R. Truesdall
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
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Session 5
Post-stationarity? Hydrologic Analysis and Predictions in a Changing Environment II
Location: 611 (Washington State Convention Center)
Host: 25th Conference on Hydrology
Cochairs: Michael D. Dettinger, USGS; Glenn A. Hodgkins, USGS
11:15 AM
5.2
Dynamic reservoir operations using seasonal hydrologic forecasts: managing water resources for ecological integrity
Scott Steinschneider, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA; and B. Pitta, R. Palmer, C. Brown, D. Ahlfeld, A. Polebitski, and K. Adamec
11:30 AM
5.3
Management Implications of Non-Stationary Hydrology: Decision-Scale Approaches
J. R. Arnold, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Seattle, IL; and P. Wagner, S. Gangopadhyay, K. D. White, L. D. Brekke, R. Olsen, and D. Raff
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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.
11:30 AM
5.2
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Session 5A
Estimating and Communicating Uncertainty II: Large-scale Systems
Location: 613/614 (Washington State Convention Center)
Host: 24th Conference on Weather and Forecasting/20th Conference on Numerical Weather Prediction
Chair: Justin McLay, NRL
11:00 AM
5A.1
The development of Global Ensemble Forecast System (GEFS)
Yuejian Zhu, NOAA/NWS/NCEP/EMC, Camp Springs, MD; and D. Hou, M. Wei, R. Wobus, S. Moorthi, and J. Ma
11:15 AM
5A.2
Optimizing ensemble forecasts by EnKF in NCEP operational environment
Mozheng Wei, NOAA/NWS/NCEP, Camp Springs, MD; and Y. Zhu, D. Kleist, J. Derber, S. J. Lord, and J. Whitaker

11:30 AM
5A.3
11:45 AM
5A.4
Verification of winds and seas forecasts from the FNMOC ensemble forecast system
Michael Sestak, FNMOC, Monterey, CA; and S. Klotz, J. A. Hansen, P. M. Pauley, and P. A. Wittmann
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Session 5B
Forecast Center Overviews I
Location: 615-617 (Washington State Convention Center)
Host: 24th Conference on Weather and Forecasting/20th Conference on Numerical Weather Prediction
Chair: Carolyn Reynolds, NRL
11:00 AM
5B.1
Recent progress in analysis and prediction at the National Centers for Environmental Prediction, Environmental Modeling Center (Invited Speaker)
Stephen J. Lord, NOAA/NWS/NCEP/EMC, Camp Springs, MD; and W. M. Lapenta, J. Ward, G. DiMego, H. L. Tolman, J. C. Derber, Y. Zhu, M. B. Ek, H. L. Pan, and M. Iredell
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Joint Session 6
Cloud condensation nuclei (CCN)
Location: 3A (Washington State Convention Center)
Hosts: (Joint between the Third Symposium on Aerosol-Cloud-Climate Interactions; and the 13th Conference on Atmospheric Chemistry )
Cochairs: Sonia M. Kreidenweis, Colorado State University; Nicholas Meskhidze, North Carolina State University
11:00 AM
J6.1
(Invited Speaker) Effects of particle composition on cloud droplet nucleation
Sonia M. Kreidenweis, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO
11:30 AM
J6.2
Cloud droplet growth of biogenic and anthropogenic Cloud Condensation Nuclei
Akua Asa-Awuku, University of California, Riverside, CA

11:45 AM
J6.3
Stratus cloud supersaturations
James G. Hudson, DRI, Reno, NV; and S. R. Noble and V. Jha
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Joint Session 6
Computational intelligence methods for remote sensing and analysis
Location: 2A (Washington State Convention Center)
Hosts: (Joint between the Ninth Conference on Artificial Intelligence and its Applications to the Environmental Sciences; and the 27th Conference on Interactive Information Processing Systems (IIPS) )
Cochairs: Amy McGovern, Univ. of Oklahoma; William F. Roberts, NOAA
11:00 AM
J6.1
A winter hydrometeor classification algorithm
Kimberly L. Elmore, CIMMS/Univ. of Oklahoma and NOAA/NSSL, Norman, OK; and H. D. Reeves, T. M. Smith, and K. L. Ortega
11:15 AM
J6.2
A support vector machine model for determining radiative heating profiles
Nathaniel Beagley, PNNL, Richland, WA; and S. A. McFarlane and J. E. Flaherty
11:45 AM
J6.4
Tornadic supercell analysis from Oklahoma mesonet and proximity sounding observations: a spatiotemporal relational data mining approach
David John Gagne II, University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK; and A. McGovern, J. B. Basara, and R. A. Brown
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Joint Session 7
Observations of Middle Atmosphere Composition
Location: 3B (Washington State Convention Center)
Hosts: (Joint between the 16th Conference on Middle Atmosphere; and the 13th Conference on Atmospheric Chemistry )
Chair: Michelle L. Santee, JPL
11:00 AM
J7.1
Discovery of an orange FeO feature in the night airglow spectrum with the OSIRIS spectrograph on Odin
W.F.J. Evans, North West Research Associates, Redmond, WA; and R. L. Gattinger, D. A. Degenstein, E. J. Lewellyn, and T. G. Slanger
11:15 AM
J7.2
Evaluation of the NOAA Cohesive SBUV(/2) Profile Ozone Data Set
Jeannette Wild, NOAA/NWS/NCEP/CPC and U. Maryland/CISESS/ESSIC, College Park, MD; and C. S. Long, A. H. Butler, S. K. Yang, S. Zhou, and R. Lin
11:30 AM
J7.3
Global distribution of minor constituents observed by SMILES and its dynamical background
Yoko Naito, Kyoto Univ., Kyoto, Japan; and N. Nishi, E. Nishimoto, M. Suzuki, C. Mitsuda, C. Takahashi, K. Imai, N. Manago, H. Hayashi, T. Sano, and M. Shiotani
11:45 AM
J7.4
The first, long-term, in situ measurement of ozone depletion in the Antarctic ozone hole
Lars E. Kalnajs, Univ. of Colorado, Boulder, CO; and L. M. Avallone, T. Deshler, and P. Cocquerez
Recording files available
Joint Session 7
What Improved Communication Technologies Mean for Weather and Climate Education
Location: 604 (Washington State Convention Center)
Hosts: (Joint between the 20th Symposium on Education; and the 27th Conference on Interactive Information Processing Systems (IIPS) )
Cochairs: Donna J. Charlevoix, UNAVCO; Lola M. Olsen, NASA; Diane M. Stanitski, NOAA ESRL Global Monitoring Division; Thomas M. Whittaker, CIMSS/Univ. of Wisconsin
11:00 AM
J7.1
Geopod: An interactive module for navigating and probing geophysical data
Michael R. Root, Millersville University, Millersville, PA; and K. P. Waegel, L. M. Crouse, G. M. Zoppetti, R. D. Clark, and S. Yalda

Paper J7.4 has been moved. The new paper number is J1.5A.

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Joint Session 10
Risk Communication of Hurricanes
Location: 618-620 (Washington State Convention Center)
Hosts: (Joint between the Sixth Symposium on Policy and Socio-economic Research; the 24th Conference on Weather and Forecasting/20th Conference on Numerical Weather Prediction; and the Second Symposium on Environment and Health )
Cochairs: Julie L. Demuth, NCAR; Robbie Berg, NOAA/NWS/NCEP/National Hurricane Center
11:00 AM
J10.1
Risk Communication Across Cultures
Vankita Brown, NOAA/NWS, Silver Spring, MD
11:15 AM
J10.2
Dynamics of hurricane risk perception
Holly Marlatt, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO; and C. W. Trumbo, L. Peek, M. Lueck, E. Gruntfest, B. McNoldy, and W. Schubert
11:30 AM
J10.3
Improving storm surge risk communication
Betty Hearn Morrow, SocResearch, Miami, FL; and J. Rhome

11:45 AM
J10.4
Assessing the Publics' Need For Storm Surge Warning Information
Jeffrey K. Lazo, NCAR, Boulder, CO; and B. H. Morrow, J. Rhome, and J. Feyen
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Joint Session 20
Land Data Assimilation Systems: Methods and Applications II
Location: 612 (Washington State Convention Center)
Hosts: (Joint between the 25th Conference on Hydrology; and the 15th Symposium on Integrated Observing and Assimilation Systems for the Atmosphere, Oceans and Land Surface (IOAS-AOLS) )
Cochairs: Michael B. Ek, NOAA/NWS/NCEP/EMC; Youlong Xia, NOAA/NWS/NCEP
11:00 AM
J20.1
Overview of the North American Land Data Assimilation System
Michael B. Ek, NOAA/NWS/NCEP/EMC, College Park, MD; and Y. Xia, E. F. Wood, J. Sheffield, B. Cosgrove, and K. Mo
11:15 AM
J20.2
Monitoring Many Faces of Drought over the United States based on the NLDAS systems [INVITED]
Kingtse C. Mo, NOAA/NWS/NCEP/CPC, Camp Springs, MD; and Y. Xia and M. Ek
11:30 AM
J20.3
Validation and Assessment of Model-Simulated Soil Moisture in the North American Land Data Assimilation System Phase 2
Helin Wei, EMC, College Park, MD; and Y. Xia, J. Sheffield, M. B. Ek, E. F. Wood, L. Luo, J. Dong, and J. Meng
11:45 AM
J20.4
Evaluation and validation of model-simulated streamflow for North American Land Data Assimilation System phase 2
Youlong Xia, NOAA/NWS/NCEP, Camp Springs, MD; and K. Mitchell, M. B. Ek, J. Sheffield, B. Cosgrove, L. Luo, C. Alonge, H. Wei, J. Meng, B. Livneh, Q. Duan, and D. Lohmann
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Lecture
Bernhard Haurwitz Memorial Lecture
Location: 608 (Washington State Convention Center)
Host: 23rd Conference on Climate Variability and Change

11:00 AM-12:15 PM: Tuesday, 25 January 2011

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Session 2
Radar-Lidar Techniques in Pollution, Climate and Weather Studies
Location: 307-308 (Washington State Convention Center)
Host: 5th Symposium on Lidar Atmospheric Applications
Cochairs: Jennifer M. Comstock, PNNL; Simone Lolli, LEOSPHERE
11:15 AM
2.2
Cloud Properties from a Combined Lidar-Radar retrieval in the tropical western Pacific
Julia E. Flaherty, PNNL, Richland, WA; and S. A. McFarlane and J. M. Comstock
11:30 AM
2.3
Attenuation Correction of Reflectivity for X-Band Dual Polarization Radar
Yuxiang He, NWS, Silver Spring, MD; and H. Xiao
Manuscript (583.6 kB)

11:45 AM
2.4
12:00 PM
2.5
Intercomparison of Multi-Sensor Retrievals of Cloud Microphysical Properties—Results using ARM data at Darwin, Australia
Jennifer M. Comstock, PNNL, Richland, WA; and A. Protat, S. McFarlane, J. Delanoë, and M. Deng
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Session 3
Experiments involving observations, real or hypothetical: data impact tests (sensitivity of forecasts to a particular source of observations); observing system simulation experiments (OSSEs)—Part II
Location: 2B (Washington State Convention Center)
Host: 15th Symposium on Integrated Observing and Assimilation Systems for the Atmosphere, Oceans and Land Surface (IOAS-AOLS)
Chair: Tom Hamill, NOAA/ESRL
11:00 AM
3.1
Data assimilative modeling and OSSEs experiments for the monitoring of the Loop Current frontal dynamics—Application to the Deepwater Horizon oil spill
Villy H. Kourafalou, Univ. of Miami/RSMAS, Miami, FL; and M. LeHenaff, A. Srinivasan, G. R. Halliwell Jr., and R. M. Atlas
11:15 AM
3.2
OSE/OSSE Evaluation of the Impact of Targeted P3 Airborne Ocean Observations Obtained in Response to the Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill
George R. Halliwell Jr., NOAA/AOML, Miami, FL; and O. M. Smedstad, P. Hogan, L. K. Shay, V. H. Kourafalou, M. LeHenaff, A. Srinivasan, F. Marks, and R. M. Atlas
11:30 AM
3.3
Observation sensitivity based on ensembles for storm surge forecasting
Martin Verlaan, TU Delft, Delft, Netherlands; and J. Sumihar

11:45 AM
3.4
Observation impact and sensitivity analysis applied to ocean circulation estimates using 4D-Var
Andrew M. Moore, University of California, Santa Cruz, CA; and H. Arango, G. Broquet, C. A. Edwards, M. Veneziani, and B. Powell
12:00 PM
3.5
Forecast Sensitivity to Data Assimilation System Observation and Background Error Covariance Parameters
Dacian N. Daescu, Portland State University, Portland, OR; and R. H. Langland and R. Todling
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Session 3
NOAA Oceans and Human Health Initiative (OHHI): Responses of pathogenic Vibrios to climate, climate change and implications for health early warning systems.
Location: 4C-2 (Washington State Convention Center)
Host: Second Symposium on Environment and Health
Chairs: Mark S. Strom, NOAA Fisheries Service; Carolyn Sotka, NOAA
11:00 AM
Introductory Remarks
11:15 AM
3.2
Public Health, working towards safer shellfish in Washington State
Cari Franz-West, Washington Department of Health, Office of Shellfish and Water Protection, Olympia, WA
11:30 AM
3.4
The West Coast Center for Oceans and Human Health: enhancing early warning systems for marine biotoxins and pathogens using climate information
Mark S. Strom, NOAA Fisheries Service, Seattle, WA; and V. L. Trainer, S. K. Moore, R. N. Paranjpye, and L. D. Rhodes
11:45 AM
3.3
Forecasting Human Health Risks from Bacteria in the Ocean
D. Jay Grimes, University of Southern Mississippi, Ocean Springs, MS
12:15 PM
3.5

11:45 AM-12:00 PM: Tuesday, 25 January 2011

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Session 7
All Other Manmade Impacts on Weather-Scale Phenomena
Location: 605/610 (Washington State Convention Center)
Host: 18th Conference on Planned and Inadvertent Weather Modification
Cochairs: Paul Smith, South Dakota School of Mines and Technology; Richard H. Stone, RHS Consulting, Ltd.
11:45 AM
7.1
Waves of destruction: The launch of SDO
Adam D. Jacobs, NASA, Millersville, PA; and W. D. Pesnell

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


Lunch Break

12:15 PM-1:15 PM: Tuesday, 25 January 2011

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Session
NASA Earth Science Division Town Hall Meeting
Location: 608 (Washington State Convention Center)
Host: Town Hall Meetings
12:15 PM
Townhall_Freilich
Michael H. Freilich, NASA Earth Science Division, Science Mission Directorate, Washington, DC
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Session
Town Hall Meeting: Impact of Human Occupancy at the 2011 AMS Annual Convention
Location: 606 (Washington State Convention Center)
Host: Town Hall Meetings
12:15 PM
Impact of Human Occupancy at 2011 AMS Meeting
David J. Sailor, Portland State Univ., Portland, OR
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Session
Town Hall Meeting: The National Weather Service Strategic Plan
Location: 615-617 (Washington State Convention Center)
Host: Town Hall Meetings
12:15 PM
NWS Strategic Plan
Dr. Jack Hayes, NOAA/NWS, Silver Spring, MD

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


Workshop Session 1
Eloquent Professional Communication: Customer-Oriented Writing and High-Impact Presentations
Location: 304 (Washington State Convention Center)
Host: Workshop on Eloquent Professional Communication
Official: David M. Schultz, Universities of Helsinki and Manchester/Finnish Meteorological Institute
1:30 PM
W1.1
Customer-Oriented Writing and High-Impact Presentations
David M. Schultz, Universities of Helsinki and Manchester/Finnish Meteorological Institute, Helsinki, Finland

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Joint Panel Discussion 2
Communicating with Each Other: The Challenges and Rewards of Expanding Atmospheric Science’s Professional Partners(Themed Joint Session)
Location: 4C-4 (Washington State Convention Center)
Hosts: (Joint between the Ninth History Symposium; the 27th Conference on Interactive Information Processing Systems (IIPS); the 24th Conference on Weather and Forecasting/20th Conference on Numerical Weather Prediction; the Seventh Annual Symposium on Future Operational Environmental Satellite Systems; the Sixth Symposium on Policy and Socio-economic Research; and the Second Symposium on Environment and Health )
Panelists: Ankur R. Desai, Univ. of Wisconsin; Robert Henson, UCAR; Eve Gruntfest, Univ. of Oklahoma; Roger D. Turner, Univ. of Pennsylvania
1:30 PM
JPD2.1
Communicating with Each Other: The Challenges and Rewards of Expanding Atmospheric Science’s Professional Partners
Ankur R. Desai, Univ. of Wisconsin, Madison, WI; and R. Henson, E. Gruntfest, and R. D. Turner
2:00 PM
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Session 2
Computational intelligence methods and their applications to environmental science
Location: 2A (Washington State Convention Center)
Host: Ninth Conference on Artificial Intelligence and its Applications to the Environmental Sciences
Chair: Kimberly L. Elmore, CIMMS/Univ. of Oklahoma and NOAA/NSSL
1:30 PM
2.1
Prescreening of predictors for nonlinear machine learning methods in environmental sciences
Aranildo Lima, Univ. of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada; and W. W. Hsieh and A. J. Cannon
2:00 PM
2.2
Sensitivity analysis in linear and nonlinear models: a review
Caren Marzban, University of Washington, Seattle, WA
2:15 PM
2.3
Gene-expression programming: a variant of genetic programming that allows efficient meteorological function fitting
Atoossa Bakhshaii, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada; and R. B. Stull
2:30 PM
2.4
Comparing datasets and methods to identify major severe weather outbreaks
Chad M. Shafer, University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK ; and A. E. Mercer, M. Richman, L. M. Leslie, and C. A. Doswell III
2:45 PM
2.5
Addressing wind direction uncertainty in source estimation through dynamic time warping
Guido Cervone, George Mason University, Fairfax, VA; and J. Lin and P. Franzese
Manuscript (793.0 kB)

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Panel Discussion 2
Local and Regional Climate Leaders: What is being done in the West about Communicating Climate Change
Location: 305 (Washington State Convention Center)
Host: Sixth Symposium on Policy and Socio-economic Research
Panelists: Ray Rasker, Headwaters Economics; Bart Melton, National Parks Conservation Association; Mike Phillips, Montana State Legislature; Glen Andersen, National Conference of State Legislatures; Patrick Cummins, Western Governors' Association
Chair: Caitlin Buzzas, American Meteorological Society
1:30 PM
PD2.4
State Climate Policy
Glen Andersen, National Conference of State Legislatures, Washington, DC
1:45 PM
PD2.1
Climate and National Parks
Bart Melton, National Parks Conservation Association, Washington, DC
2:00 PM
PD2.2
Climate Change and Wildfire
Ray Rasker, Headwaters Economics, Bozeman, MT
2:15 PM
PD2.3
Planning for Climate Change in the PNW
Amy K. Snover, University of Washington, Seattle, WA
2:30 PM
Panel Discussion

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Session 2
Special Session on Research on Atmospheric/Oceanographic Sciences Education and Outreach
Location: 604 (Washington State Convention Center)
Host: 20th Symposium on Education
Cochairs: Donna J. Charlevoix, UNAVCO; Diane M. Stanitski, NOAA ESRL Global Monitoring Division
1:30 PM
2.1
Student experiences in a research-based laboratory
Kathleen Quardokus, Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, MI; and S. Lasher-Trapp and E. M. Riggs
1:45 PM
2.2
Evaluation of Student Success in Large Enrollment Blended Learning
Sara T. Strey, University of Illinois at Urbana, Champaign, IL; and D. J. Charlevoix
2:15 PM
2.4
How meteorologists learn to forecast the weather
Daphne LaDue, CAPS/Univ. of Oklahoma, Norman, OK
2:30 PM
2.5
How the NWC REU and other extra-curricular experiences impact undergraduates' early career paths
Madison Lindsay Burnett, National Weather Center Research Experiences for Undergraduates Program, Norman, OK; and D. LaDue
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Session 2
Understanding and Predicting Changes in Stratospheric Ozone: The Chemistry-Climate Model Validation Report
Location: 3B (Washington State Convention Center)
Host: 16th Conference on Middle Atmosphere
Chair: Andrew Gettelman, NCAR
1:30 PM
2.1
Overview of Chemistry-Climate Model Validation (CCMVal) project
Darryn W. Waugh, Johns Hopkins Univ., Baltimore, MD; and V. Eyring and T. G. Shepherd
2:15 PM
2.3
Using transport diagnostics to understand chemistry climate model ozone simulations
Susan E. Strahan, Univ. of Maryland, Greenbelt, MD; and A. R. Douglass and R. S. Stolarski
2:45 PM
2.5
Steps toward a quantitative explanation of differences in Chemistry Climate Model predictions of future ozone evolution
Anne R. Douglass, NASA/GSFC, Greenbelt, MD; and S. E. Strahan, L. Oman, and R. S. Stolarski
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Session 3
Clouds, Aerosols, Wind, Radiatively Important Gases and Thermodynamic Structures of the Troposphere and Stratosphere
Location: 307-308 (Washington State Convention Center)
Host: 5th Symposium on Lidar Atmospheric Applications
Cochairs: Rob K. Newsom, PNNL; Zhien Wang, Univ. of Wyoming
1:30 PM
3.1
A Solid State DIAL System for Water Vapor Profiling
David M. Sonnenfroh, Physical Sciences Inc., Andover, MA; and K. Parameswaran

1:45 PM
3.2
Establishing an aerosol backscatter climatology at .355 and 2.06um for the Global Wind Observing System (GWOS) using CALIPSO data and models
Steven Greco, Simpson Weather Associates, Charlottesville, VA; and G. D. Emmitt, D. A. Bowdle, and K. A. Fuller
2:00 PM
3.3
Capturing atmospheric events with a high resolution 5km range Doppler wind Lidar
Matthieu Boquet, LEOSPHERE SAS, Paris, France; and J. P. Cariou, G. Gorju, R. Parmentier, and L. Sauvage

2:15 PM
3.4
Odd Observation in High Altitude Clouds with Depolarization Lidar
I.H. Hwang, Science & Engineering Services, Inc., Columbia, MD; and S. Lee and J. Lei
Manuscript (1.1 MB)

2:30 PM
3.5
Improving Observations of Aerosol Modifications in the presence of clouds
Yonghua Wu, NOAA-CREST, New York, NY; and C. M. Gan, A. Tejada, B. Gross, F. Moshary, and S. Ahmed
2:45 PM
3.6
Observation of boundary layer water vapor and aerosol structures with a compact airborne Raman lidar
Zhien Wang, Univ. of Wyoming, Laramie, WY; and P. J. Wechsler, B. Liu, W. Kuestner, B. Glove, J. French, M. Burkhart, Y. Cai, J. Snider, and L. Oolman
Recording files available
Session 3
Meeting Aviation Weather Requirements
Location: 310 (Washington State Convention Center)
Host: Second Aviation, Range and Aerospace Meteorology Special Symposium on Weather-Air Traffic Management Integration
Chair: Matthias Steiner, NCAR
1:30 PM
3.1
Where is my thunderstorm forecast? The shifting paradigms of NextGen weather information
Jack May, AvMet Applications International, Inc., Reston, VA; and C. G. Souders, R. C. Showalter, J. Tauss, C. Miner, and T. Kays
1:45 PM
3.2
NOAA's hourly-updated 3km HRRR and RUC/Rapid Refresh - recent (2010) and upcoming changes toward improving weather guidance for air-traffic management
Stanley G. Benjamin, NOAA/ESRL/GSD, Boulder, CO; and S. S. Weygandt, C. R. Alexander, J. M. Brown, T. Smirnova, P. Hofmann, E. P. James, and G. Dimego
2:00 PM
3.3
The Aviation Weather Testbed: Science and Technology Infusion for Aviation Operations
Jason J. Levit, NOAA/NWS/NCEP/AWC, Kansas City, MO; and B. Entwistle and C. Wallace
2:15 PM
3.4
Collaborative Decision Making (CDM) Weather Evaluation Team (WET) -- Past and Planned Weather Integration Efforts with Convective Forecasts
Thomas H. Fahey III, Delta Air Lines, Atlanta, GA; and M. Fronzak, J. Huhn, K. Johnston, T. Lloyd, D. Meyer, and M. P. Murphy
2:30 PM
3.5
2:45 PM
3.6
The Network Enabled Verification Service (NEVS): A bridge between weather and ATM weather integration
Jennifer Luppens Mahoney, NOAA/ESRL/GSD, Boulder, CO; and S. Madine, M. A. Petty, C. Grzywinski, and J. L. Vavra

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Session 3
Meteorological Incident Support in 2010
Location: 6B (Washington State Convention Center)
Host: IMPACTS: Weather 2010
Chair: Daniel Nietfeld, NOAA
1:30 PM
3.1
Communicating Weather during the 2010 Winter Games in Vancouver
David Jones, Environment Canada, Vancouver, BC, Canada
1:45 PM
3.2
2010 Wintertime Ozone in Utah’s Uinta Basin
Scott A. Jackson, EPA, Denver, CO; and R. Payton and P. Reddy

2:45 PM
3.5
Rapid Deployment Upper Air Observations for Incident Meteorological Support
Don Conlee, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX; and G. N. Seroka, D. M. Delao, and K. Prochazka
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Session 3
Sensors and Algorithm Development
Location: 4C-1 (Washington State Convention Center)
Host: Seventh Annual Symposium on Future Operational Environmental Satellite Systems
Cochairs: T. J. Schmit, NOAA; Heather Kilcoyne, NOAA/NESDIS/JPSS
1:30 PM
3.1
1:45 PM
3.2
DWSS Microwave Instrument
Ibrahim Awwad, Space and Missile Systems Center, El Segundo, CA; and D. Kunkee and C. D. Reimer
2:00 PM
3.3
GOES-R Algorithm Working Group (AWG)
Mitchell Goldberg, NOAA/NESDIS, Camp Springs, MD; and J. Daniels, W. Wolf, L. Rokke, Z. Cheng, and K. H. Lowe
2:45 PM
3.5
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Session 4
NASA Earth Science Research and the Study of Public Health Applications through Remote Sensing
Location: 4C-2 (Washington State Convention Center)
Host: Second Symposium on Environment and Health
Organizer: Sue M. Estes, NASA
Cochairs: John A. Haynes, NASA; Sue M. Estes, NASA
1:45 PM
Introductory Remarks

2:00 PM
4.2
Modeling the spatial patterns of PM2.5 in Georgia with satellite remote sensing and meteorological information
Shuyan Liu, University of Maryland, College Park, MD; and D. A. Quattrochi, W. L. Crosson, M. Al-Hamdan, M. G. Estes Jr., S. M. Estes, J. Sarnat, M. Klein, J. R. Qualters, P. Garbe, H. Flowers, and A. Vaidyanathan
2:15 PM
4.3
Integration of Dust Prediction Systems and Vegetation Phenology to Track Pollen for Asthma Alerts in Public Health
Jeffrey C. Luvall, MSFC, Huntsville, AL; and W. A. Sprigg, A. Huete, S. Nickovic, G. Pejanovic, E. Levetin, P. Van de water, O. Myers, A. M. Budge, H. Krapfl, and T. M. Crimmins
2:30 PM
4.4
Characterizing extreme heat events in the Southwestern U.S. in support of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's Climate Change Module
William L. Crosson, USRA, Huntsville, AL; and M. Al-Hamdan, M. G. Estes Jr., S. M. Estes, H. Flowers, S. Hemmings, J. R. Qualters, and G. Wade
2:45 PM
4.5
Improving Heat Warning Systems with Remotely Sensed Data
Daniel Patrick Johnson, Indiana University, Indianapolis, IN
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Session 5
Data Stewardship: Metastandards and Policy
Location: 607 (Washington State Convention Center)
Host: 27th Conference on Interactive Information Processing Systems (IIPS)
Cochairs: Nazila Merati, Merati and Associates; Gene Major, Library Associates, NASA/GSFC Library
1:45 PM
5.2
2:00 PM
5.3
Data Conservancy: Designing Services for Data Curation Stewardship, and Re-use
Mary Marlino, UCAR, Boulder, CO; and L. Davis, K. Kelly, and P. Romero-Lankao
2:15 PM
5.4
NSIDC Data Stewardship Processes and Directions
Mark C. Serreze, CIRES/Univ. of Colorado, Boulder, CO; and M. A. Parsons, F. Fetterer, R. L. S. Weaver, and R. Duerr
2:30 PM
5.6
A suite of international standards for the unambiguous transfer of geophysical data
Louis A. Hembree Jr., NRL, Monterey, CA; and R. Cox and F. Mamaghani
2:45 PM
5.5
A standard dictionary for environmental terminology
Louis A. Hembree Jr., NRL, Monterey, CA; and R. Cox and F. Mamaghani
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Session 5B
Weather and Climate Modelling I
Location: 608 (Washington State Convention Center)
Host: 23rd Conference on Climate Variability and Change
Chair: Eric D. Maloney, Colorado State University
2:00 PM
5B.3
Engineering with stratospheric aerosols to avoid climate emergencies
Kelly E. McCusker, Univ. of Washington, Seattle, WA; and D. Battisti and C. M. Bitz
2:15 PM
5B.5
2:30 PM
5B.6
Simulation of Sensitivity of semi-arid climate to global warming
Xiaodan Guan, Lanzhou University, Austin, TX; and Z. L. Yang and J. Huang
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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
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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
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
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
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
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Session 6A
Estimating and Communicating Uncertainty III: Post Processing
Location: 613/614 (Washington State Convention Center)
Host: 24th Conference on Weather and Forecasting/20th Conference on Numerical Weather Prediction
Chair: Craig H. Bishop, NRL
1:30 PM
6A.1
Australian approaches to probabilistic precipitation forecasting
Michael Foley, Bureau of Meteorology, Melbourne, Australia; and S. Cooper, P. Riley, E. Morgan, and J. Bally
1:45 PM
6A.2
Simple- and modified-poor man's QPF ensembles, and a neural network approach
Ying Lin, NOAA/NWS/NCEP, Camp Springs, MD; and V. M. Krasnopolsky
Manuscript (943.6 kB)

Handout (1.6 MB)

2:00 PM
6A.3A
Impact of linear variance calibration on ensemble wind variance in atmospheric transport and dispersion forecasts
Walter C. Kolczynski Jr., NPS, Monterey, CA; and D. R. Stauffer, S. E. Haupt, R. I. Sykes, R. Long, and A. Deng
2:15 PM
6A.3
Ensemble Postprocessing for Weather Trajectories
Tilmann Gneiting, Heidelberg University, Heidelberg, Germany

2:30 PM
6A.4
Probabilistic visibility forecasting using Bayesian model averaging
Adrian E. Raftery, University of Washington, Seattle, WA; and R. M. Chmielecki
2:45 PM
6A.5
Impact of Spatial Bias Correction and Conditional Training on Bayesian Model Averaging Over the Northeast United States
Michael J. Erickson, SUNY/Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY; and B. A. Colle, J. Pollina, and J. J. Charney
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Session 6B
Forecast Center Overviews II
Location: 615-617 (Washington State Convention Center)
Host: 24th Conference on Weather and Forecasting/20th Conference on Numerical Weather Prediction
Chair: Carolyn Reynolds, NRL
2:00 PM
6B.2
2:30 PM
6B.3
National unified operational prediction capability: progress and national research initiatives
Fred Toepfer, NOAA/NWS, Silver Springs, MD; and D. McCarran and S. A. Sandgathe
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Joint Session 8
Modeling Studies On Aerosol-Cloud-Climate Interactions—Part I
Location: 605/610 (Washington State Convention Center)
Hosts: (Joint between the Third Symposium on Aerosol-Cloud-Climate Interactions; and the 13th Conference on Atmospheric Chemistry )
Cochairs: Philip Rasch, PNNL; Yang Zhang, North Carolina State Univ.
1:30 PM
J8.1
1:45 PM
J8.2
2:00 PM
J8.3
The role of small soluble aerosols in the microphysics of deep maritime clouds
Alexander P. Khain, Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Israel; and V. Phillips and A. Pokrovsky
2:15 PM
J8.4
2:45 PM
J8.5
Impact of Future Climate and Emission on Climate-Air Quality Interactions
Yang Zhang, North Carolina State Univ., Raleigh, NC; and Y. Chen and T. Glotfelty

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Joint Session 9
Special Session on the Life and Work of John Roads II
Location: 609 (Washington State Convention Center)
Hosts: (Joint between the 23rd Conference on Climate Variability and Change; and the 25th Conference on Hydrology )
Chair: Michael Bosilovich, NASA/GSFC
1:30 PM
J9.1
Using SMOS to study the Mississippi River basin water budget
Alan Robock, Rutgers, The State Univ. of New Jersey, New Brunswick, NJ; and T. W. Collow
1:45 PM
J9.2
2:00 PM
J9.3
Uncertainty in Analyzed Water and Energy Budgets at Continental Scales
Michael G. Bosilovich, NASA/GSFC/GMAO, Greenbelt, MD; and F. R. Robertson, D. Mocko, and J. Chen
2:15 PM
J9.4
Water balance over oceans observed from satellites
W. Timothy Liu, JPL, Pasadena, CA; and X. Xie
2:30 PM
J9.5
2:45 PM
J9.6
How realistic is precipitation over the western U.S. and Mexico in IPCC AR4 GCMs?
Nicole J. Schiffer, University of Illinois, Urbana, IL; and S. W. Nesbitt
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Joint Session 11
Information System Technologies for Communication and Interpretation of Satellite Data
Location: 606 (Washington State Convention Center)
Hosts: (Joint between the 27th Conference on Interactive Information Processing Systems (IIPS); and the Seventh Annual Symposium on Future Operational Environmental Satellite Systems )
Cochairs: Gerald Dittberner, Harris Corporation; Dongsoo Kim, NOAA/NESDIS/NCDC
1:30 PM
J11.1
Transition of GOES Enterprise Managed System (GEMS) to Operations
Subir Vasanth, Avaya Government Solutions, Lanham, MD; and A. Agarwal, R. Dahmani, S. Tehranian, and K. McKenzie
1:45 PM
J11.2
Consolidating GOES analysis workstations using virtualization and Thin-Client technology
Subir Vasanth, Avaya Government Solutions, Lanham, MD; and A. Agarwal, R. Dahmani, S. Tehranian, and K. McKenzie
2:00 PM
J11.3
An Enterprise Backup Solution for GOES Operations Ground Equipment (OGE) and Space Support Ground System (SSGS)
Abhishek Agarwal, Avaya Government Solutions, Lanham, MD; and R. Dahmani, S. Tehranian, and K. McKenzie
2:15 PM
J11.4
An Enterprise Backup Solution for the Ocean Surface Topography (OSTM)/Jason-2 Mission
Abhishek Agarwal, Avaya Government Solutions, Lanham, MD; and R. Dahmani, S. Tehranian, and K. McKenzie
2:30 PM
J11.5
TRMM Data Service Update
Zhong Liu, George Mason University/CSISS, Fairfax, VA and NASA/GSFC, Greenbelt, MD; and D. Ostrenga and G. Leptoukh
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Joint Session 12
Communication: Focus on Climate Change, Technology, and Uncertainty
Location: 618-620 (Washington State Convention Center)
Hosts: (Joint between the Sixth Symposium on Policy and Socio-economic Research; and the Second Symposium on Environment and Health )
Cochairs: Gina M. Eosco, Ph.D; Betsy Bach, National Communication Association
1:30 PM
J12.1
Impacts of Media Frames and Values on Climate Change Perceptions
Susanna Priest, Unversity of Nevada, Las Vegas, Las Vegas, NV; and T. Greenhalgh and G. R. Young
1:45 PM
J12.2
Overcoming climate skepticism in the schools: using games to communicate climate change mitigation options
Andrea M. Feldpausch-Parker, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX; and T. R. Peterson, D. E. Endres, and M. O'Byrne
2:15 PM
J12.4
2:30 PM
Discussion

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Joint Session 21
Land Data Assimilation Systems: Methods and Applications III
Location: 611 (Washington State Convention Center)
Hosts: (Joint between the 25th Conference on Hydrology; and the 15th Symposium on Integrated Observing and Assimilation Systems for the Atmosphere, Oceans and Land Surface (IOAS-AOLS) )
Cochairs: Youlong Xia, NOAA/NWS/NCEP; Michael B. Ek, NOAA/NWS/NCEP/EMC
1:30 PM
J21.1
Development and applications of land data assimilation systems for China [INVITED]
Kun Yang, Institute of Tibetan Plateau Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences (ITP-CAS), Beijing, China; and J. Qin, L. Zhao, and Y. Chen

1:45 PM
J21.2
ECMWF land surface analysis
Patricia de Rosnay, ECMWF, Reading, United Kingdom; and G. Balsamo, L. Isaksen, J. Muñoz Sabater, M. Drusch, K. Scipal, C. Albergel, J. C. Calvet, and R. Essery
2:00 PM
J21.3
Plans and tests for the operational implementation of the new Canadian Land Data Assimilation System (CaLDAS)
Stephane Belair, EC, Dorval, QC, Canada; and M. Carrera, B. Bilodeau, S. J. Solomon, C. Derksen, L. Wang, and S. Leroyer

2:15 PM
J21.4A
Improving operational streamflow via remotely sensed microwave radiance data
Caleb Matthew DeChant, Portland State University, Portland, OR; and H. Moradkhani
2:30 PM
J21.5
Comparison of Modeled and SMOS-Observed Surface Soil Moisture Estimates in Preparation for the SMAP L4_SM Assimilation Product
Gabriëlle J.M. De Lannoy, NASA/GSFC, Greenbelt, MD; and R. H. Reichle, W. T. Crow, R. D. Koster, J. Kimball, and Q. Liu

2:45 PM
J21.6
The land data assimilation system in the NOAA Climate Forecast System Reanalysis
Jesse Meng, NOAA/NWS/NCEP, Camp Springs, MD; and R. Yang, H. Wei, M. B. Ek, Y. Xia, and K. E. Mitchell

1:30 PM-3:45 PM: Tuesday, 25 January 2011

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Joint Session 11
Assimilation of observations into models: Atmosphere III
Location: 2B (Washington State Convention Center)
Hosts: (Joint between the 15th Symposium on Integrated Observing and Assimilation Systems for the Atmosphere, Oceans and Land Surface (IOAS-AOLS); and the 24th Conference on Weather and Forecasting/20th Conference on Numerical Weather Prediction )
Cochairs: Patricia M. Pauley, NRL; Richard E. Peterson, Texas Tech University
1:30 PM
J11.1
2:00 PM
J11.3
Diagnostic analysis of short-term hurricane vortex evolution in high-resolution ensemble Kalman Filter data assimilation
Tomislava Vukicevic, NOAA/AOML/HRD, Miami, FL; and A. Aksoy, K. Sellwood, P. Reasor, S. Gopalakrishnan, L. Bucci, S. Aberson, and F. D. Marks Jr.
2:15 PM
J11.4
NOAA/AOML/HRD's Hurricane Ensemble Data Assimilation System (HEDAS): A comparative analysis of a Hurricane Paloma (2008) case using simulated vs. real vortex-scale aircraft observations
Altug Aksoy, University of Miami/CIMAS and NOAA/AOML/HRD, Miami, FL; and S. Lorsolo, T. Vukicevic, K. Sellwood, P. Reasor, and S. D. Aberson
2:30 PM
J11.5
NOAA/AOML/HRD's Hurricane Ensemble Data Assimilation System (HEDAS), results of semi-operational implementation during the 2010 Atlantic hurricane season
Kathryn Sellwood, University of Miami/CIMAS and NOAA/AOML/HRD, Miami, FL; and A. Aksoy, T. Vukicevic, S. Aberson, and S. Lorsolo
3:00 PM
J11.7
Data Assimilation Experiments of an Antarctic Cyclone Using WRF 4DVAR
Qingnong Xiao, University of South Florida, St. Petersburg, FL; and K. Chu

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


Coffee Break

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

3:30 PM-4:00 PM: Tuesday, 25 January 2011

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Session 2
Reconstructing Extreme Events from Unusual Sources
Location: 4C-4 (Washington State Convention Center)
Host: Ninth History Symposium
Speakers: G. W. K. Moore, University of Toronto; Steven A. LaVoie, Ball State University
3:30 PM
2.1
The Great Hurricane: The story of how 22,000 souls were lost in a single tempest
Steven A. LaVoie, Ball State University, Muncie, IN; and J. S. M. Coleman
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Session 4
Meeting Aviation Weather Requirements (Continued)
Location: 310 (Washington State Convention Center)
Host: Second Aviation, Range and Aerospace Meteorology Special Symposium on Weather-Air Traffic Management Integration
Chair: Matthias Steiner, NCAR
3:30 PM
4.1
Integration of current weather systems for NextGen Aviation Weather
Robert Stamm, Raytheon Company, Marlborough, MA; and R. W. Bowne, S. Badstuebner, P. Ackroyd, T. M. Raglin, and J. Wegiel

3:30 PM-4:30 PM: Tuesday, 25 January 2011

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Session 3
Understanding and Predicting Changes in Stratospheric Ozone
Location: 3B (Washington State Convention Center)
Host: 16th Conference on Middle Atmosphere
Chair: Paul A. Newman, NASA/GSFC
3:30 PM
3.1
Ozone layer science and its assessments
A. R. Ravishankara, NOAA/ESRL/CSD, Boulder, CO

4:00 PM
3.2
Attribution of observed changes in stratospheric ozone and temperature
Nathan P. Gillett, EC, Victoria, BC, Canada; and H. Akiyoshi, S. Bekki, V. Eyring, R. Garcia, C. McLinden, A. Y. Karpechko, D. A. Plummer, E. Rozanov, J. F. Scinocca, and K. Shibata
4:15 PM
3.3

3:30 PM-5:15 PM: Tuesday, 25 January 2011

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Joint Session 12
Assimilation of observations into models: Advanced methods
Location: 2B (Washington State Convention Center)
Hosts: (Joint between the 15th Symposium on Integrated Observing and Assimilation Systems for the Atmosphere, Oceans and Land Surface (IOAS-AOLS); and the 24th Conference on Weather and Forecasting/20th Conference on Numerical Weather Prediction )
Cochairs: Chris Snyder, NCAR; Timothy L. Miller, NASA/MSFC
3:30 PM
J12.1
TOWARD THE ASSIMILATION OF IMAGES
Francois-Xavier Le Dimet, INRIA, Grenoble, France
3:45 PM
J12.2
On the Gaussian approach to adaptive covariance inflation
Takemasa Miyoshi, University of Maryland, College Park, MD
4:00 PM
J12.3
4:15 PM
J12.4
A kernel-density based ensemble filter applicable to high-dimensional systems
Thomas M. Hamill, NOAA / ESRL, Boulder, CO; and J. S. Whitaker
4:30 PM
J12.5
4:45 PM
J12.6
Bias correction using analysis increments within an ensemble Kalman filter data assimilation
Ji-Sun Kang, University of Maryland, Seoul, Korea, Republic of (South); and E. Kalnay and T. Miyoshi
5:00 PM
J12.7
Spectral and morphing ensemble Kalman filters
Jan Mandel, University of Colorado, Denver, CO; and J. D. Beezley and L. Cobb
Manuscript (2.9 MB)

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

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Session 3
Fourth annual AMS Artificial Intelligence forecasting contest: methods and results
Location: 2A (Washington State Convention Center)
Host: Ninth Conference on Artificial Intelligence and its Applications to the Environmental Sciences
Cochairs: Jennifer Abernethy, NCAR/RAL; Sue Ellen Haupt, Penn State Univ.
3:30 PM
3.1
The 4th annual AMS Artificial Intelligence Forecasting Contest
Jennifer Abernethy, NCAR/RAL, Boulder, CO; and S. E. Haupt, A. Pelliccioni, and J. K. Williams
3:45 PM
3.2
AI Forecasting Contest - Presenter I
Xiaolei Yan, University of Oklahoma, Oklahoma City, OK
4:00 PM
3.3
AI Forecasting Contest - Presenter II
Aaron Johnston, University of Oklahoma, Oklahoma City, OK

4:15 PM
3.4
Hidden Markov Model with Multivariate Normal Emissions Applied to Ozone Emission Data
Jeremy Troisi, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN; and J. Rounds

4:30 PM
3.5
Support vector regression with hyper-parameters found using genetic algorithm and predictors screened using partial mutual information
Johannes Jenkner, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada; and W. W. Hsieh
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Session 3
University Educational Initiatives
Location: 604 (Washington State Convention Center)
Host: 20th Symposium on Education
Cochairs: Lourdes B. Avilés, Plymouth State Univ.; Laura Furgione, NOAA
3:30 PM
3.1
Eloquent Science: A course to improve scientific and communication skills
David M. Schultz, Universities of Helsinki and Manchester/Finnish Meteorological Institute, Helsinki, Finland
3:45 PM
3.2
A Newton story: overcoming barriers to communicating science to the public
Kimberly Del Bright, Penn State University, University Park, PA; and J. M. Nese and J. L. Evans
4:00 PM
3.3
4:15 PM
3.4
NASA Space Grant successes with meteorology students at Plymouth State University
James P. Koermer, Plymouth State University, Plymouth, NH; and W. P. Roeder
4:30 PM
3.5
Bridging the gap: Hands-on learning through radiosonde launches
Teresa M. Bals-Elsholz, Valparaiso University, Valparaiso, IN; and K. H. Goebbert, R. Evaristo, A. Stepanek, C. A. Clark, and B. J. Wolf
4:45 PM
3.6
AMS introductory college-level courses: A hands-on exploration of the dynamic Earth system
James A. Brey, American Meteorological Society, Washington, DC; and I. W. Geer, J. M. Moran, R. S. Weinbeck, E. W. Mills, B. A. Blair, E. J. Hopkins, K. L. O'Neill, H. R. Hyre, K. A. Nugnes, and M. N. Moses
5:00 PM
3.7
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Session 4
2010 US Weather Impacts
Location: 6B (Washington State Convention Center)
Host: IMPACTS: Weather 2010
Chair: Tanja E. Fransen, NOAA/NWS
3:30 PM
4.1
Are you Storm Ready? On the Road with Vortex2
Maureen McCann, Central Florida News 13, Orlando, FL
3:45 PM
4.2
East Coast Heat Wave
Jason Samenow, Washington Post, Washington, DC
4:00 PM
4.3
Record Floods of Greater Nashville, May 1 - 3, 2010
Jane Hollingsworth, NOAA/NWS, Reno, NV; and A. W. Wood

4:15 PM
4.4
Aviation Weather Impacts in 2010
Bob Maxson, NOAA/NWS/Aviation Weather Center, Kansas City, MO

4:30 PM
4.5
El Nino Impacts: Winter 2009-2010
Ed Olenic, NOAA/NWS/CPC, Camp Springs, MD
4:45 PM
4.6
A Review of the Active Winter Season of 2009-2010
Christopher Hedge, NOAA/NWS/HPC, Camp Springs, MD; and J. E. Hoke
5:00 PM
4.7
U.S. Tropical Cyclones of 2010
Lixion A. Avila, NWS/NHC, Miami, FL
5:15 PM
4.8
Recording files available
Session 4
Expected Operational Improvements from Future Sensors
Location: 4C-1 (Washington State Convention Center)
Host: Seventh Annual Symposium on Future Operational Environmental Satellite Systems
Cochairs: Michael W. Johnson, NOAA/NWS; Bruce Guenther, JPSS Program Office
3:30 PM
4.1
NWS preparation for future satellite systems
Michael W. Johnson, NOAA/NWS, Silver Spring, MD; and K. Schrab, J. Heil, B. Sjoberg, W. H. Campbell, and B. Reed
3:45 PM
4.2
GOES-R overview of aviation algorithms and applications
Wayne F. Feltz, CIMSS/Univ. of Wisconsin, Madison, WI; and K. L. Pryor, M. J. Pavolonis, K. Bedka, A. Wimmers, W. L. Smith Jr., B. Pierce, J. R. Mecikalski, and W. M. MacKenzie Jr.
4:00 PM
4.3
GOES Land Line Data Distribution - Present and Future
Thomas M. Renkevens, NOAA/NESDIS, Camp Springs, MD; and R. Lawrence
4:15 PM
4.4
4:30 PM
4.5
Improvements to Ozone measurements Expected from the Ozone Mapping and Profiler Suite for Weather and Climate
M. Caponi, NPOESS Integrated Program Office, Silver Spring, MD; and L. E. Flynn, J. Hornstein, C. Long, and D. F. Rault
4:45 PM
4.6
5:00 PM
4.7
5:15 PM
4.8
Space Situational Awareness Environmental Monitoring (SSAEM)
Donald J. Boucher, The Aerospace Corporation, Los Angeles, CA
Recording files available
Session 6
Progress in Estimating Land Surface Evaporation
Location: 611 (Washington State Convention Center)
Host: 25th Conference on Hydrology
Cochairs: Martha C. Anderson, USDA/ARS; Christa D. Peters-Lidard, NASA/GSFC
3:30 PM
6.1
The LandFlux-EVAL Initiative [INVITED]
Sonia I. Seneviratne, ETH, Zurich, Switzerland; and C. Jimenez, B. Mueller, C. Kummerow, M. McCabe, W. B. Rossow, G. Balsamo, P. Ciais, P. A. Dirmeyer, J. B. Fisher, R. H. Reichle, M. Reichstein, M. Rodell, K. Wang, and E. F. Wood

3:45 PM
6.2
Analysis of multi-year global evapotranspiration datasets and IPCC AR4 model simulations
Brigitte Mueller, ETH, Zurich, Switzerland; and S. I. Seneviratne and C. Jimenez
4:00 PM
6.3
An observational and reanalysis study of the water budget in the Amazon basin
Janice L. Bytheway, Science and Technology Corporation, Laporte, CO; and C. D. Kummerow
4:15 PM
6.4
Land Surface Evaporation from Reanalysis and Modeling
Xubin Zeng, Univ. of Arizona, Tucson, AZ; and M. Decker, K. Sakaguchi, Z. Wang, and M. Brunke
4:30 PM
6.5
Developing a dual assimilation approach for thermal infrared and passive microwave soil moisture retrievals [INVITED]
Christopher Hain, Earth System Science Interdisciplinary Center, University of Maryland, Camp Springs, MD; and W. T. Crow, M. C. Anderson, and J. R. Mecikalski
4:45 PM
6.6
Temperature-driven PET projections
Laura S. Harrison, Univ. of California, Santa Barbara, CA; and E. Tarnavsky, C. C. Funk, J. Michaelsen, M. Brown, and M. T. Marshall
5:00 PM
6.7
Improvements and Evaluations of the MODIS Global Evapotranspiration Algorithm
Qiaozhen Mu, University of Montana, Missoula, MT; and M. Zhao and S. W. Running
5:15 PM
6.8
Estimating irrigation use and improving water resources management using energy balance (METRIC) estimates of evapotranspiration
Timothy C. Martin, Riverside Technology, Inc., Fort Collins, CO; and R. Allen, J. Kjaersgaard, and A. Nevo
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Session 6A
Mapping, Web Applications, and Social Media for Improved Communication of Weather and Climate Data
Location: 606 (Washington State Convention Center)
Host: 27th Conference on Interactive Information Processing Systems (IIPS)
Cochairs: Nazila Merati, Merati and Associates; Ken R. Waters, NWS Forecast Office
3:45 PM
6A.2
Social media and The Weather Channel
Timothy D. Ballisty, The Weather Channel, Atlanta, GA
4:15 PM
6A.4
A cooperative pilot project on weather and emergency management decision support
Jessica L. Losego, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC; and B. E. Montz, S. S. Schotz, E. Mandel, K. Galluppi, B. J. Etherton, W. F. Roberts, and G. Austin
4:30 PM
6A.5
Online real-time information on local jobs affected by hurricanes
Jeremy S. Wu, U.S. Census Bureau, Suitland, MD; and C. D. Flannery, G. O. Walker, R. K. Pitts, and C. F. Anderson
4:45 PM
6A.6
LarvaMap— particles in the (compute) cloud
Tiffany C. Vance, NOAA, Seattle, WA; and S. Cross and E. Howlett
5:00 PM
6A.7
Regional snowfall impact scale
Michael F. Squires, NOAA/NESDIS/NCDC, Asheville, NC; and J. H. Lawrimore, R. R. Heim Jr., D. A. Robinson, M. R. Gerbush, T. W. Estilow, L. Ross, and C. Tabor
Recording files available
Session 6A
Special session on WCRP Projects
Location: 608 (Washington State Convention Center)
Host: 23rd Conference on Climate Variability and Change
Chair: Tony J. Busalacchi, Univ. of Maryland
3:30 PM
6A.1
CLIVAR: future plans and priorities
Jim Hurrell, NCAR, Boulder, CO; and M. Visbeck, H. Cattle, and R. Molinari
4:00 PM
6A.2
The new GEWEX
Kevin E. Trenberth, NCAR, Boulder, CO
4:30 PM
6A.3
The Climate and Cryosphere (CliC) Project
Konrad Steffen, Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research, Zürich, Switzerland; and D. Yang
4:45 PM
6A.4
The SPARC Project: Analysis and modeling of climate variability and change in the stratosphere
N. McFarlane, SPARC International Project Office, Toronto, ON, Canada; and T. G. Shepherd and T. Peter
5:00 PM
Panel Discussion

5:15 PM
6A.5
WCRP_osc
Jim Hurrell, NCAR, Boulder, CO
5:30 PM
Discussion

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Session 6B
Data Stewardship: Data Archives
Location: 607 (Washington State Convention Center)
Host: 27th Conference on Interactive Information Processing Systems (IIPS)
Cochairs: Ted L. Tsui, NRL; Steven Worley, NCAR
3:30 PM
6B.1
Successful data curation practices for large data archives
Joseph L. Comeaux, NCAR, Boulder, CO; and S. Worley

4:00 PM
6B.3
Field campaign atmospheric sounding legacy data sets
Paul E. Ciesielski, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO; and R. Johnson and S. Williams
4:15 PM
6B.4
The Arctic Observing Network and its Data Management Challenges: Three Years On
Florence Fetterer, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO; and J. A. Moore
4:30 PM
6B.5
Freeing polar data in an information commons
Mark A. Parsons, National Snow and Ice Data Center, Boulder, CO; and R. Duerr and R. Chen
4:45 PM
6B.6
Creating the Long-Term T-28 Instrumented Research Aircraft Data Archive
Andrew Detwiler, South Dakota School of Mines and Technology, Rapid City, SD; and J. Scannell, D. Kliche, and S. Williams
5:00 PM
6B.7
Data management and archive activities at NCAR's Earth Observing Laboratory
Steve Williams, NCAR, Boulder, CO; and L. Cully, S. Loehrer, J. Aquino, and D. Stott
5:15 PM
6B.8
The Research Data Archive at NCAR
Douglas Schuster, NCAR, Boulder, CO; and S. Worley
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Session 6B
US Climate Data
Location: 609 (Washington State Convention Center)
Host: 23rd Conference on Climate Variability and Change
Chair: David R. Easterling, NOAA/NESDIS/NCDC
3:30 PM
6B.1
Climate Perspectives: A new tool for assessing the state of the climate across the southeastern U.S. 
Charles E. Konrad, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC; and R. Boyles, J. McGuire, and W. Schmitz
4:00 PM
6B.3
Analysis of extratropical cyclones in the northern hemisphere using the NOAA historical reanalysis
Scott Applequist, NOAA/NESDIS/NCDC, Asheville, NC; and D. R. Easterling, K. E. Kunkel, and G. P. Compo
4:15 PM
6B.4
Comparison of the NCDC sea surface temperature datasets: ERSST and OISST
Chunying Liu, STG, Inc., Asheville, NC; and R. W. Reynolds, T. Smith, and P. V. Banzon
4:45 PM
6B.6
Assessing structural uncertainty in the U.S. Historical Climatology Version 2 adjusted temperature records
Matthew J. Menne, NOAA/NESDIS/NCEI, Asheville, NC; and C. N. Williams Jr. and P. Thorne

5:00 PM
6B.7
An analysis of Atlantic hurricane seasons in the Pre-HURDAT era (1751–1850)
Steven A. LaVoie, Ball State University, Muncie, IN; and J. S. M. Coleman

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Session 7
Estimating and Communicating Uncertainty IV: Short-range Ensemble Forecasting
Location: 613/614 (Washington State Convention Center)
Host: 24th Conference on Weather and Forecasting/20th Conference on Numerical Weather Prediction
Chair: Kelly M. Mahoney, CIRES/Univ. of Colorado
3:30 PM
7.1
Challenges to ensemble system design for Warn-on-Forecast
David J. Stensrud, NOAA/NSSL, Norman, OK; and N. Yussouf and D. M. Wheatley
3:45 PM
7.2
Evaluation of convection-allowing ensemble forecasts of extreme rainfall associated with a mesoscale vortex
Russ S. Schumacher, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX; and A. J. Clark, M. Xue, and F. Kong
4:00 PM
7.3
The performance of high-resolution WRF ensemble QPF during heavy winter precipitation events in California
Edward I. Tollerud, NOAA/ESRL, Boulder, CO; and T. L. Jensen, I. Jankov, H. Yuan, J. H. Gotway, and P. Oldenburg
4:15 PM
7.4
NCAR ensemble RTFDDA: real-time operational forecasting applications and new data assimilation developments
Yubao Liu, NCAR, Boulder, CO; and T. Warner, S. Swerdlin, T. Betancourt, J. Knievel, B. Mahoney, J. Pace, D. Rostkier-Edelstein, N. A. Jacobs, P. Childs, and K. Parks
4:45 PM
7.6
NCEP activities in very-short range and high resolution ensemble prediction
Jun Du, NOAA/NWS/NCEP, Camp Springs, MD; and B. Zhou, M. Pyle, D. Jovic, G. DiMego, and G. Manikin
5:00 PM
7.7
NCEP model guidance for the 2009–0 mid-Atlantic snowfest
Geoffrey S. Manikin, NOAA/NWS/NCEP/EMC, College Park, MD
5:15 PM
7.8
The global ensemble prediction system(GEPS) and regional ensemble prediction system (REPS) at CMA and its application in monsoon season
Jing Chen, Chinese Meteorological Administration, Beijing, China; and H. Tian, G. Deng, X. Li, J. Gong, Y. Li, X. Wang, and J. Hu
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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
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Joint Session 9
Modeling Studies On Aerosol-Cloud-Climate Interactions—Part II
Location: 605/610 (Washington State Convention Center)
Hosts: (Joint between the Third Symposium on Aerosol-Cloud-Climate Interactions; and the 13th Conference on Atmospheric Chemistry )
Cochairs: Mark Z. Jacobson, Stanford University; Christopher S. Bretherton, Univ. of Washington
4:00 PM
J9.2
The aerosol indirect effect of cloud droplet sedimentation through stratocumulus entrainment
Christopher S. Bretherton, University of Washington, Seattle, WA; and S. Park
4:15 PM
J9.3
Simulation of boundary layer clouds with double-moment microphysics and microphysics-oriented subgrid-scale modeling
Dorota Jarecka, University of Warsaw, Warsaw, Poland; and W. W. Grabowski, H. Morrison, and H. Pawlowska
4:30 PM
J9.4
Aerosol Impacts on Clouds and Regional Climate in Southeast of China– Results from Bin and Bulk Microphysics
Jiwen Fan, PNNL, Richland, WA; and R. Leung, Z. Li, H. Morrison, Y. Qian, and H. Chen
4:45 PM
J9.5
Impact of aerosols on the microphysical processes within a seeder-feeder orographic cloud environment
Stephen M. Saleeby, Colorado State Univ., Fort Collins, CO; and W. R. Cotton and D. Lowenthal
5:00 PM
J9.6
Aerosol Effects on Cirrus Clouds and Climate in NCAR CAM5: Impacts of Heterogeneous Ice Nuclei
Xiaohong Liu, PNNL, Richland, WA; and X. Shi, D. Barahona, A. Nenes, E. J. Jensen, and A. Gettelman
5:15 PM
J9.7
Land use change impact on aerosols and clouds in southwest Australia
Udaysankar S. Nair, University of Alabama, Huntsville, AL; and W. Junkermann, T. J. Lyons, J. Hacker, Y. Wu, and J. Kala
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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
4:30 PM
J10.3
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
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
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Joint Session 13
Communicating Uncertainty
Location: 618-620 (Washington State Convention Center)
Hosts: (Joint between the Sixth Symposium on Policy and Socio-economic Research; and the Second Symposium on Environment and Health )
Cochairs: Julie L. Demuth, NCAR; Douglas Hilderbrand, NOAA/NWS
3:30 PM
J13.1
Expressing forecast uncertainty: NOAA/NWS progress report
Douglas Hilderbrand, NOAA/NWS, Silver Spring, MD
3:45 PM
J13.2
5:00 PM
J13.7
The Effects of the Use of Uncertainty Estimates on Weather-Related Decision-Making
Jared E. LeClerc, University of Washington, Seattle, WA; and S. Joslyn
5:15 PM
J13.8
Gaps in Communicating Weather and Climate Uncertainty in Near Term Water Resources Management
Jade Soddell, US Bureau of Reclamation, Denver, CO; and J. P. Giovannettone and J. R. Prairie
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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

3:30 PM-5:45 PM: Tuesday, 25 January 2011

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Session 4
Lidar Networks, Long-term Climate Observations, Automated Operational Lidars
Location: 307-308 (Washington State Convention Center)
Host: 5th Symposium on Lidar Atmospheric Applications
Cochairs: Thierry Leblanc, California Institute of Technology; David M. Sonnenfroh, Physical Sciences Inc.
3:30 PM
4.1
3:45 PM
4.2
Long-Term Evaluation of Raman Lidar Temperature Profiles
Rob K. Newsom, PNNL, Richland, WA; and D. D. Turner
4:00 PM
4.3
Characterizing urban boundary layer dynamics using radar, lidar, sodar, surface observations and predictions from numerical models
Mark Arend, City College of New York, New York, NY; and E. Gutierrez, B. Madhavan, C. M. Gan, S. Abdelazim, B. Gross, D. Santoro, F. Moshary, J. Gonzalez, and S. Ahmed
4:15 PM
4.4
Comparison of wind measurements at the Howard University Beltsville Research Campus
Kevin Vermeesch, SSAI, Greenbelt, MD; and B. Gentry, G. J. Koch, M. Boquet, H. Chen, U. N. Singh, B. B. Demoz, and T. Bacha
4:30 PM
4.5
Shareware lidar: an entry level network system to enable boundary layer and cloud studies for the lower troposphere
Timothy A. Berkoff, GEST/Univ. of Maryland, Greenbelt, MD; and J. Compton, P. Sawamura, J. Campbell, E. J. Welton, and R. M. Hoff

5:00 PM
4.7
Formation and climatology of tropical mid-level clouds at Darwin, Australia
Laura D. Riihimaki, PNNL, Richland, WA; and S. A. McFarlane and J. M. Comstock
5:15 PM
4.8
Measurements Of Humidity in the Atmosphere and Validation Experiments (MOHAVE) 2009: Campaign Review
Thierry Leblanc, California Institute of Technology, Wrightwood, CA; and I. S. McDermid, D. Hurst, L. Miloshevich, H. Vomel, D. N. Whiteman, T. J. McGee, S. I. Gutman, G. E. Nedoluha, N. Kampfer, C. Straub, L. Twigg, G. Toon, T. D. Walsh, J. J. Braun, and B. Haines
5:30 PM
4.9
Optical Autocovariance Wind Lidar (OAWL): A New Approach to Direct-Detection Doppler Wind Profiling
Christian Grund, Ball Aerospace & Technologies Corp., Boulder, CO; and S. C. Tucker
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Session 5
Heat and Human Health
Location: 4C-2 (Washington State Convention Center)
Host: Second Symposium on Environment and Health
Chair: Glenn Russell McGregor, Univ. of Auckland
3:30 PM
5.1
The development of Accumulated Heat Stress Index (AHSI) based on the time-weighted function
Hi-Ryong Byun, Pukyong National University, Busan, Korea, Republic of (South); and J. S. Lee and S. M. Lee
3:45 PM
5.2
Assessing regional characteristics of heat waves in the US
Bradfield Lyon, International Research Institute for Climate and Society, Palisades, NY
4:00 PM
5.3
Hyperthermia deaths in football players: a retrospective analysis of meteorological, temporal and demographic risk factors
Myron Thomas Petro, University Of Georgia, Athens, GA; and A. J. Grundstein, C. Ramseyer, F. Zhao, J. L. Pesses, P. Akers, A. Qureshi, L. Becker, and J. A. Knox
4:15 PM
5.4
Heat-related morbidity in North Carolina: Who's at risk?
Christopher M. Fuhrmann, NOAA's Southeast Regional Climate Center, Chapel Hill, NC; and M. Kovach, C. E. Konrad, D. J. Perkins, and D. B. Richardson
4:45 PM
5.6
Heat health risk awareness and responses among vulnerable urban residents: a Phoenix case study
Olga Wilhelmi, NCAR, Boulder, CO; and M. H. Hayden, H. Brenkert-Smith, S. L. Harlan, K. Komatsu, S. Santana, and D. Pauzauskie
5:00 PM
5.7
Utilizing GIS Technology to Address Heat Wave Morbidity
Jennifer L. Kwan, University of California, Davis, Sacramento, CA; and H. Margolis, E. Roberts, G. King, P. English, and A. Gershunov
5:15 PM
5.8
Impact assessment of human health and energy consumption caused by urban climate change
Tomohiko Ihara, University of Tokyo, Kashiwa, Japan; and H. Kusaka, T. Takata, M. Hara, and Y. Genchi
5:30 PM
5.9
The development of a vulnerability index for communicating heat risk information
Glenn Russell McGregor, Univ. of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand; and T. Wolf

4:00 PM-4:30 PM: Tuesday, 25 January 2011

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Session 3
Connections between Atmosphere and Social Organization
Location: 4C-4 (Washington State Convention Center)
Host: Ninth History Symposium
Speakers: Alan E. Stewart, Univ. of Georgia; Richard C. J. Somerville, SIO/Univ. Of California
4:15 PM
3.2

4:00 PM-5:30 PM: Tuesday, 25 January 2011

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Panel Discussion 1
Summary of Weather - ATM Integration Technology
Location: 3A (Washington State Convention Center)
Host: Second Aviation, Range and Aerospace Meteorology Special Symposium on Weather-Air Traffic Management Integration
Panelists: William Chan, NASA/ARC; Mark Hopkins, Delta Airlines; Rafal Kicinger, Metron Aviation; James E. Evans, MIT Lincoln Laboratory; Craig Wanke, The MITRE Corporation
Chair: David J. Pace, FAA-Retired
4:00 PM
PD1.1
Summary of Weather - ATM Integration Technology
Jimmy Krozel, Metron Aviation, Inc, Herndon, VA
4:30 PM
PD1.2
Meeting NextGen weather ATM integration goals, a critique
John McCarthy, Aviation Weather Associates, Inc., Palm Desert, CA; and N. Stoer
4:45 PM
Panel Discussion

4:30 PM-5:00 PM: Tuesday, 25 January 2011

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Session 4
Langley's Legacy: How NASA Has Measured the Sky
Location: 4C-4 (Washington State Convention Center)
Host: Ninth History Symposium
Speakers: G. Louis Smith, LRC; Ellis Remsberg, NASA Langley Research Center
4:30 PM
4.1
Remote measurement of pollution--a 40-year retrospective: temperature and gaseous species
Ellis Remsberg, NASA Langley Research Center, Hampton, VA; and P. Rinsland, G. Gibson, and M. Ko
4:45 PM
4.2
History of atmospheric sciences at Langley Research Center
G. Louis Smith, LRC, Hampton, VA; and R. DiPasquali and G. G. Gibson

4:30 PM-5:30 PM: Tuesday, 25 January 2011

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Session 4
Stratospheric Circulation Trends
Location: 3B (Washington State Convention Center)
Host: 16th Conference on Middle Atmosphere
Chair: Natalia Calvo, NCAR
4:30 PM
4.1
Strengthening of the Brewer-Dobson Circulation since 1980
Qiang Fu, Univ. of Washington, Seattle, WA; and P. Lin, S. Solomon, and D. Hartmann

4:45 PM
4.2
5:00 PM
4.3
Long-Term Changes in Stratospheric Age Spectra in the 21st Century in GEOSCCM
Feng Li, USRA, Greenbelt, MD; and A. R. Douglass, S. Pawson, D. Waugh, P. A. Newman, S. E. Strahan, and J. E. Nielsen
5:15 PM
4.4

6:00 PM-7:30 PM: Tuesday, 25 January 2011

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Session
Town Hall Meeting: Flipping the Switch: The Energy Complex Demystified
Location: 608 (Washington State Convention Center)
Hosts: (Joint between the Town Hall Meetings; and the Second Conference on Weather, Climate, and the New Energy Economy )
6:00 PM
How does energy work?
Russell L. Bigley, Xcel Energy, Littleton, CO

6:00 PM-8:00 PM: Tuesday, 25 January 2011

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Session
6:00 PM
National Climate Assessment
Kathy Jacobs, U.S. Global Change Research Program, Washington, DC

7:30 PM-8:30 PM: Tuesday, 25 January 2011


“Energizing” Happy Hour
Location: 605/610 (Washington State Convention Center)

Wednesday, 26 January 2011

7:00 AM-8:15 AM: Wednesday, 26 January 2011

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Session
Town Hall Meeting: NOAA Update on the Climate Service: Dialogue on Regional Climate Services
Location: 606 (Washington State Convention Center)
Host: Town Hall Meetings

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


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

8:30 AM-8:45 AM: Wednesday, 26 January 2011


Welcome Address and Introductions. Gene Major, ASLI Chairperson and NASA/GSFC Library, Lanham, MD
Location: 304 (Washington State Convention Center)

8:30 AM-9:15 AM: Wednesday, 26 January 2011

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Session 1
Dollars and Cents: Weather for Energy Markets I
Location: 4C-4 (Washington State Convention Center)
Host: Second Conference on Weather, Climate, and the New Energy Economy
Chair: Mark S. Russo, Chesapeake Energy Corp.
8:30 AM
1.1
Winter's shorter shadow on natural gas demand
Joshua Darr, Chesapeake Energy, Chicago, IL; and J. Davis and M. Russo
8:45 AM
1.2
9:00 AM
1.3
Using Customized Weather Derivatives to Hedge Earnings Volatilities in Energy Markets
Richard Oduntan, Nephila Capital Ltd, Hamilton, Bermuda; and B. Schauble

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

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Session 1
TCs: Engaging and educating the public
Location: 604 (Washington State Convention Center)
Host: More Effectively Communicating the Science of Tropical Climate and Tropical Cyclones
Chair: Elizabeth A. Ritchie, Univ. of Arizona
9:00 AM
1.3
Role-playing scenario of a landfalling tropical system
Kodi L. Nemunaitis-Monroe, CIMMS/Univ. of Oklahoma, Norman, OK; and D. A. Morris, D. S. LaDue, C. Spannagle, V. Holtz, H. Moser, E. M. Quoetone, P. T. Schlatter, J. G. LaDue, B. Rooks, S. Van Cooten, J. Kelley, R. Fowler, M. Stallings, and J. A. Smith
9:30 AM
1.5
Making sense of hurricanes
Catherine F. Smith, Greenville, NC; and D. J. Kain and K. Wilson
9:45 AM
1.6
Analysis of federally funded tropical cyclone research and development
Frank Marks, NOAA, Miami, FL; and R. Ferek and M. Welshinger
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Session 1
The Emerging 21st Century CCM
Location: 309 (Washington State Convention Center)
Host: Fourth Annual CCM Forum
Moderator: George D. Greenly Jr., CCM
8:30 AM
1.1
Census of private sector meteorology: An Update
Gale F. Hoffnagle, TRC Environmental Consultants, Windsor, CT
8:45 AM
1.2
Solar energy forecasting
Betsy Weatherhead, Univ. of Colorado, Boulder, CO; and C. S. Long
9:00 AM
1.3
A Certified Consulting Meteorologist working in the government: Unlikely? Not really!
Bernard N. Meisner, NWS Southern Region Headquarters, Fort Worth, TX
9:30 AM
1.5
Wind Energy: Calling all Meteorologists
Kenneth H. Underwood, Atmospheric Systems Corporation, Santa Clarita, CA
9:45 AM
1.6
The CCM practice climate is changing: Will you be ready?
John F. Henz, Certified Consulting Meteorologist, Aurora, Colorado
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Session 3
Field and modeling studies from Recent Field Campaigns: SHARP 2009 and CalNex 2010
Location: 3A (Washington State Convention Center)
Host: 13th Conference on Atmospheric Chemistry
Cochairs: Bernhard Rappenglueck, University of Houston; Sylvain Ménard, EC
8:30 AM
3.1
Emissions of radical precursors and related species from urban highway traffic
Bernhard Rappenglueck, University of Houston, Houston, TX; and S. L. Alvarez, J. Golovko, G. Lubertino, I. Y. Eom, L. Ackermann, A. Shnitzler, R. Fuller, and L. Pedemonte

8:45 AM
3.2
9:00 AM
3.3A
(Formerly Poster 728.) Size resolved CCN composition and cloud properties in cumulus humilis
Xiao-Ying Yu, PNNL, Richland, WA; and L. K. Berg, C. Berkowitz, Y. N. Lee, J. Ogren, M. L. Alexander, and B. Andrews
9:15 AM
3.4
CMAQ Modeling of SHARP 2009 Episodes
Beata Czader, Univ. of Houston, Houston, TX; and X. Li, B. Rappenglueck, and D. W. Byun
9:30 AM
3.5
Operational GEM-MACH15 forecast for CalNex 2010 field campaign
Sylvain Ménard, EC, Dorval, QC, Canada; and W. Gong, S. Gong, H. Landry, P. A. Beaulieu, S. A. McKeen, M. D. Moran, P. Huang, P. A. Makar, R. Pavlovic, D. Anselmo, M. Sassi, S. Gilbert, C. Stroud, T. L. Zhao, B. Pabla, L. Poulin, J. P. Toviessi, G. Morneau, and V. Bouchet
9:45 AM
3.6
Airborne remote sensor observations of pollution structure and transport during CALNEX 2010
R. Michael Hardesty, NOAA/ESRL, Boulder, CO; and C. J. Senff, R. Volkamer, R. J. Alvarez II, W. A. Brewer, F. Davies, A. O. Langford, R. M. Banta, S. P. Sandberg, and G. N. Pearson
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Joint Session 3
Risk Communication of Weather and Climate Information (Themed Joint Session)
Location: 611 (Washington State Convention Center)
Hosts: (Joint between the Sixth Symposium on Policy and Socio-economic Research; 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 Second Conference on Weather, Climate, and the New Energy Economy; and the Second Symposium on Environment and Health )
Cochairs: Nate Johnson, NBC Owned Television Stations Group; John Sokich, NOAA/NWS
8:30 AM
J3.1
The Communication of Risk: At the Crossroads of Science, Economics, and Communications
Paul Hettler, California University of Pennsylvania, California, PA; and S. A. Jasko and C. M. Kauffman
8:45 AM
J3.2
Communicating weather, climate and catastrophe risk and preparedness
Jeanne Salvatore, Insurance Information Institute, New York, NY
9:15 AM
J3.4
Visualization of slow-developing hazards: Influencing perceptions and behaviors to facilitate adaptation planning
Tim G. Frazier, University of Idaho, Moscow, ID; and F. Murtinho, G. Broad, D. Campbell, P. Howe, and H. Reyes Hernandez

9:30 AM
J3.5
How do people perceive and respond to flash flood risk and warnings?
Rebecca E. Morss, NCAR, Boulder, CO; and J. K. Lazo, K. Mulder, J. L. Demuth, and A. Bostrom
9:45 AM
J3.6
Now what do people know about global climate change? A mental models approach
Ann Bostrom, University of Washington, Seattle, WA; and T. W. Reynolds and R. Hudson
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Joint Session 4
Computational intelligence methods in aviation weather
Location: 2A (Washington State Convention Center)
Hosts: (Joint between the Ninth Conference on Artificial Intelligence and its Applications to the Environmental Sciences; and the Second Aviation, Range and Aerospace Meteorology Special Symposium on Weather-Air Traffic Management Integration )
Chair: John K. Williams, NCAR
8:30 AM
J4.1
Intelligent Understanding and Processing of Airborne Sense and Avoid Radar Data with Antenna Diversities
Zhengzheng Li, The University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK; and Y. Zhang
Manuscript (1.8 MB)

8:45 AM
J4.2
Probabilistic forecasting of ceiling and visibility: Blending NWP, LAMP and regression
Paul H. Herzegh, NCAR, Boulder, CO; and B. Lambi, R. Bateman, and J. Cowie
9:15 AM
J4.4
Using spatiotemporal relational random forests (SRRFs) to predict convectively induced turbulence
Jonathan Trueblood, Dordt College, Sioux Center, IA; and T. Sliwinski, D. J. Gagne II, A. McGovern, J. K. Williams, and J. Abernethy

9:30 AM
J4.5
Spatiotemporal relational random forest (SRRF) prediction of convectively-induced turbulence: a severe encounter case study
Timothy Sliwinski, Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL; and J. Trueblood, D. J. Gagne II, A. McGovern, J. K. Williams, and J. Abernethy
9:45 AM
J4.6
Dynamic programming for aircraft routing using probabilistic global turbulence forecasts
John K. Williams, NCAR, Boulder, CO; and J. Abernethy, J. A. Craig, and G. Blackburn

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Session 4
Experiments involving observations, real or hypothetical: data impact tests (sensitivity of forecasts to a particular source of observations); observing system simulation experiments (OSSEs)—Part III
Location: 2B (Washington State Convention Center)
Host: 15th Symposium on Integrated Observing and Assimilation Systems for the Atmosphere, Oceans and Land Surface (IOAS-AOLS)
Chair: George D. Emmitt, Simpson Weather Associates
8:30 AM
4.1
Verification and Sensitivity of the NCAR-AirDat Operational Forecasting Systems to TAMDAR Observations
Allan Huffman, AirDat, Morrisville, NC; and N. A. Jacobs, M. Croke, P. Childs, X. Y. Huang, and Y. Liu
8:45 AM
4.2
Validation of the NCAR 4DREKF Data Assimilation Scheme with OSSE-based Numerical Experiments
Linlin Pan, NCAR, Boulder, CO; and Y. Liu, Y. Wu, T. Warner, and J. C. Pace
9:15 AM
4.4
A preliminary assessment of UAS data impact on tropical cyclone track forecasts based on a global OSSE system
Yuanfu Xie, NOAA/ESRL, Boulder, CO; and N. Prive, S. E. Koch, M. Masutani, J. S. Woollen, R. M. Atlas, and L. P. Riishojgaard
9:30 AM
4.5
Assessment of hurricane observational under-sampling and its impact on estimated intensity
Eric W. Uhlhorn, AIR-Worldwide; and T. L. Miller, D. S. Nolan, and R. E. Hood
9:45 AM
4.6
Applications of GPS Radio Occultation Data to Tropical Cyclone Prediction
Ying-Hwa Kuo, UCAR, Boulder, CO; and X. Fang, Y. R. Guo, H. Liu, Z. Ma, and T. Iwabuchi
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Session 5
Emerging Lidar methods and applications
Location: 307-308 (Washington State Convention Center)
Host: 5th Symposium on Lidar Atmospheric Applications
Cochairs: Anthony B. Davis, Jet Propulsion Laboratory / California Institute of Technology; Shane D. Mayor, California State Univ.
8:30 AM
5.1
A case for more multiple scattering lidar from space: Analysis of four LITE pulses returned from a marine stratocumulus deck
Anthony B. Davis, Jet Propulsion Laboratory / California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA; and D. M. Winker
8:45 AM
5.2
Lidar Wind Resource Assessment in Simple and Complex Terrain
Amina El Kasmi, GL Garrad Hassan, Montreal, QC, Canada; and D. Faghani, É. Derosiers, and D. Jaynes
9:00 AM
5.3
Application of Doppler lidar in forestry research
Katja Träumner, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Eggenstein-Leopoldshafen, Germany; and A. Wieser, L. Röhner, B. Ruck, and U. Corsmeier
9:15 AM
5.4
Fiber Raman amplifier for O2 integrated path differential absorption measurements near 1.26 micron
Jeremy T. Dobler, ITT Geospatial Systems, Fort Wayne, IN; and J. Nagel, V. L. Temyanko, B. Karpowicz, T. S. Zaccheo, E. V. Browell, and F. W. Harrison
9:30 AM
5.5
Validation of airborne CO2 laser measurements
Edward V. Browell, NASA/LaRC, Hampton, VA; and J. T. Dobler, S. A. Kooi, M. A. Fenn, Y. Choi, S. A. Vay, F. W. Harrison, B. Moore III, and T. S. Zaccheo
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Session 5
Preparing the User Communities I
Location: 4C-1 (Washington State Convention Center)
Host: Seventh Annual Symposium on Future Operational Environmental Satellite Systems
Cochairs: James J. Gurka, GSFC; Gary McWilliams, NESDIS JPSS Program Office/Science and Technology Corporation
8:30 AM
5.1
GOES-R proving ground: plans for 2011 and beyond
James J. Gurka, GSFC, Greenbelt, MD; and S. J. Goodman, T. J. Schmit, A. Mostek, S. D. Miller, A. S. Bachmeier, M. DeMaria, and B. Reed
8:45 AM
5.2
New Features in COMET's Environmental Satellite Resource Center V2.0
Wendy Schreiber-Abshire, COMET, Boulder, CO; and B. Guarente and P. Dills
9:00 AM
5.3
Satellite meteorology education resources from COMET: what's new?
Patrick Dills, UCAR/COMET, Boulder, CO; and W. Schreiber-Abshire and M. Weingroff
9:15 AM
5.4
NASA SPoRT prepares for the Geostationary Lightning Mapper
Geoffrey T. Stano, ENSCO/SPoRT, Huntsville, AL; and K. K. Fuell and G. J. Jedlovec
9:30 AM
5.5
The GOES-R Proving Ground 2010 Spring Experiment at NOAA's Hazardous Weather Testbed and Storm Prediction Center
Christopher W. Siewert, Univ. of Oklahoma/CIMMS, Norman, OK; and K. M. Kuhlman, B. Reed, D. Reynolds, R. S. Schneider, and S. J. Goodman
9:45 AM
5.6
The Global Impact of Polar Orbiter Direct Broadcast Data
Kathleen I. Strabala, CIMSS/Univ. of Wisconsin, Madison, WI; and L. E. Gumley and A. Huang
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Session 5
Upper Troposphere / Lower Stratosphere
Location: 3B (Washington State Convention Center)
Host: 16th Conference on Middle Atmosphere
Chair: G.L. Manney, NorthWest Research Associates/New Mexico Tech Univ.
8:30 AM
5.1
9:00 AM
5.2
Structure of the UTLS in GEOS-5
Steven Pawson, NASA/GSFC, Greenbelt, MD
9:15 AM
5.3
Numerical experiments on extratropical tropopause inversion layer using a mesoscale model
Shigeo Yoden, Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan; and S. Otsuka and M. Takeshita
9:30 AM
5.4
Chemical tracers as indicators of transport time scales and source regions of air in the UTLS
Eric A. Ray, NOAA/ESRL/CSD, Boulder, CO; and F. Moore and K. H. Rosenlof
9:45 AM
5.5
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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
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
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
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
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Session 7
Hydrologic Prediction and Verification for Water and Energy Resources and Other Applications I
Location: 612 (Washington State Convention Center)
Host: 25th Conference on Hydrology
Cochairs: Barbara G. Brown, NCAR; Julie Demargne, NOAA/NWS; Andrew W. Wood, NOAA/NWS; James David Brown, NOAA/NWS/Office of Hydrologic Development
8:30 AM
7.1
Verification of peak flow forecasts in the Colorado Basin
Ashley Nielson, NOAA/NWS, Salt Lake City, UT; and K. Werner and A. W. Wood
8:45 AM
7.2A
Impact of basin scale and initial condition on ensemble streamflow forecast uncertainty
Giuseppe Mascaro, University of Cagliari, Cagliari, Italy; and E. R. Vivoni and R. Deidda
9:15 AM
7.4
Coastal and Inland FLooding Observation and Warning (CI-FLOW) Project- An Assesment of Research Outcomes From An Integrated Hydrologic Prediction System for Coastal Watersheds [INVITED]
Suzanne Van Cooten, NOAA/NSSL, Norman, OK; and K. Kelleher, K. Howard, J. Zhang, J. J. Gourley, C. Langston, V. Farmer, K. Nemunatitis-Monroe, Z. L. Flamig, H. Moser, R. Kolar, Y. Hong, K. Dresback, E. Tromble, H. Vergara, R. Luettich, B. Blanton, K. Galuppi, C. A. Blain, J. F. Thigpen, K. Mosher, D. Figursky, M. Moneypenny, J. Orrock, R. S. Bandy, C. Goodall, J. G. W. Kelley, J. Greenlaw, M. Wengren, D. Eslinger, J. Payne, J. Feldt, J. Schmidt, T. Hamill, R. H. Bacon, R. Stickney, and L. Spence
9:30 AM
7.5
Short range operational streamflow forecasting in western washington state, usa
Matthew Wiley, 3TIER, Inc., Seattle, WA; and B. Nijssen, P. Storck, and J. Lerner
9:45 AM
7.6
Hydrological model sensitivity to small-scale rainfall forecasts
Andrea L. Zimmer, IBM, Yorktown Heights, NY

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Session 7A
AWIPS II System Part I
Location: 606 (Washington State Convention Center)
Host: 27th Conference on Interactive Information Processing Systems (IIPS)
Cochairs: William F. Roberts, NOAA; Ward R. Seguin, Consultant; Scott Jacobs, NOAA/NWS/NCEP
8:30 AM
7A.1
NWS S&T Roadmap: Preparing for NWSTomorrow
Don Berchoff, NOAA/NWS, Silver Spring, MD; and P. M. Davidson and P. Roohr
9:00 AM
7A.2
AWIPS II Migration Status
Timothy Hopkins, NOAA, Silver Spring, MD; and R. K. Henry, E. Mandel, and N. Dipasquale

9:15 AM
7A.3
NAWIPS Integration with AWIPS II Technology Infusion—Status Update
David Plummer, NOAA/NWS/NCEP, Camp Springs, MD; and M. Mainelli and S. Jacobs
9:30 AM
7A.4
The NCEP Product Generation capability within AWIPS II
David Plummer, NOAA/NWS/NCEP, Camp Springs, MD; and S. Jacobs, S. Gilbert, and M. Mainelli
9:45 AM
7A.5
A Study of the Culture and Communication of Weather Information
Jennifer A. Spinney, Univ. of Western Ontario, London, ON, Canada; and E. Gruntfest and H. Lazrus
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Session 7A
Climate Monitoring
Location: 608 (Washington State Convention Center)
Host: 23rd Conference on Climate Variability and Change
Chair: David R. Easterling, NOAA/NESDIS/NCDC
8:30 AM
7A.1
New Tools for Climate Measurement—the Vaisala Climate Reference Radiosonde Program
Heikki Turtiainen, Vaisala Oyj, Helsinki, Finland; and H. Jauhiainen, T. Lehtola, J. Lentonen, A. Paukkunen, P. Survo, M. Turunen, V. P. Viitanen, H. von Bagh, and W. F. Dabberdt
8:45 AM
7A.2
Climate monitoring from space—a call for an international space-based architecture
Barbara J. Ryan, WMO, Geneva, Switzerland; and J. Lafeuille and W. Zhang
9:00 AM
7A.3
What is coastal?
Michael C. Kruk, STG, Inc., Asheville, NC; and D. H. Levinson, E. Gibney, and P. A. Hennon
9:15 AM
7A.4
9:30 AM
7A.5
Improved climate monitoring in British Columbia
Dave Rodenhuis, University of Victoria, Victoria, BC, Canada; and E. J. Weick, J. Hiebert, A. Soux, and L. Pitt
9:45 AM
7A.6
The distribution of vog on the Big Island of Hawaii
Abigail Kristen Dyer, NOAA, Columbia, MO; and S. Ryan
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Session 7B
Improved Communication of Weather Data and Information for Ground and Air Transportation Safety and Mobility
Location: 607 (Washington State Convention Center)
Host: 27th Conference on Interactive Information Processing Systems (IIPS)
Cochairs: Paul A. Pisano, Federal Highway Administration; S. Edward Boselly, Weather Solutions Group
8:30 AM
7B.1
9:00 AM
7B.3
Enhancing Digital Services for Aviation
Steve Abelman, Federal Aviaiton Administration, Washington, DC; and C. Sims and M. P. Murphy
9:15 AM
7B.4
Advancing the Use of Clarus Road Weather Data
Paul Pisano, Federal Highway Administration, Washington, DC; and C. H. Harris
9:30 AM
7B.5
Integration of Mesonet Stations into the New Hampshire Road Weather Information System
Brendon Hoch, Plymouth State University, Plymouth, NH; and T. F. Dunigan, R. A. Eaton, and P. M. Thienpont
9:45 AM
7B.6
The Impact of Clarus Data on Weather and Road Weather Forecasts
Robert Haas, SAIC, Oak Ridge, TN; and P. Pisano, S. D. Drobot, L. F. Osborne, J. J. Mewes, B. C. Boyce, and C. Hill
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Session 7B
NCAR Community Modeling Session I: Status and Developments
Location: 609 (Washington State Convention Center)
Host: 23rd Conference on Climate Variability and Change
Chair: Jay S. Fein, NSF
8:45 AM
7B.2
9:00 AM
7B.3
9:30 AM
7B.5
A weakly coupled ocean-atmosphere ensemble data assimilation system
Timothy J. Hoar, NCAR, Boulder, CO; and N. Collins, K. Raeder, J. Anderson, S. Yeager, M. Vertenstein, G. Danabasoglu, and J. Tribbia
9:45 AM
7B.6
Initialized decadal prediction experiments using CCSM4
Steve Yeager, NCAR, Boulder, CO; and G. Danabasoglu, J. Tribbia, J. Anderson, N. Collins, T. J. Hoar, J. Hurrell, K. Raeder, and H. Teng
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Session 8A
Estimating and Communicating Uncertainty V: Verification and Validation
Location: 613/614 (Washington State Convention Center)
Host: 24th Conference on Weather and Forecasting/20th Conference on Numerical Weather Prediction
Chair: Andrew L. Molthan, NASA/MSFC
8:30 AM
8A.1
8:45 AM
8A.2
SLOSH model verification: a GIS-based approach
Nicole C. Grams, University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK
9:00 AM
8A.3
The DTC Ensemble Testbed: A New Testing and Evaluation Facility for Mesoscale Ensembles
Zoltan Toth, NOAA/ESRL/GSD, Boulder, CO; and B. G. Brown, I. Jankov, T. L. Jensen, H. Yuan, E. I. Tollerud, L. S. Wharton, P. T. McCaslin, B. Kuo, L. Nance, and S. E. Koch
9:15 AM
8A.4
A method for validating convection-permitting models using an automated convective-cell tracking algorithm
Simon Caine, The University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia; and T. P. Lane, P. T. May, J. O. Pinto, C. Jakob, M. J. Manton, and S. T. Siems
9:30 AM
8A.5
Assessment of Numerical Weather Prediction Model Storm Forecasts using an Object-Based Approach
Huaqing Cai, NCAR, Boulder, CO; and M. Steiner, J. O. Pinto, B. G. Brown, and P. He
9:45 AM
8A.6
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Session 8B
Numerical Modeling I: Numerics and Dynamics
Location: 615-617 (Washington State Convention Center)
Host: 24th Conference on Weather and Forecasting/20th Conference on Numerical Weather Prediction
Chair: Dale R. Durran, University of Washington
8:30 AM
8B.1
Incremental implementation of model dynamics for NCEP GFS
Hann-Ming Henry Juang, NOAA/NWS/NCEP/EMC, Camp Springs, MD
8:45 AM
8B.2
Multiscale Eulerian member of NCEP's National Environmental Modeling System
Zavisa Janjic, NOAA/NWS/NCEP, College Park, MD; and R. Vasic
9:00 AM
8B.3
Introduction of GRAPES dynamic core
Dehui Chen Sr., Chinese Meteorological Administration, Beijing, China; and J. Xue Sr. and X. Shen Sr.
9:15 AM
8B.4
A GPU implementation of the WRF-ARW dynamical core
Thomas N. Nipen, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada; and R. B. Stull
9:30 AM
8B.5A
10:00 AM
8B.6
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Joint Session 11
Aerosol and Cloud Properties and Microphysics
Location: 605/610 (Washington State Convention Center)
Hosts: (Joint between the Third Symposium on Aerosol-Cloud-Climate Interactions; and the 13th Conference on Atmospheric Chemistry )
Cochairs: Peter McMurry, University of Minnesota; C. Russell Philbrick, North Carolina State University
8:30 AM
J11.1
Observations and modeling of the 9 April 2009 convective 'brown' cloud near Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
Jeffrey S. Tilley, Univ. of North Dakota, Grand Forks, ND ; and D. Delene and T. W. Krauss
8:45 AM
J11.2
Variability in aerosol properties observed during ISDAC
Nicole C. Shantz, EC, Toronto, ON, Canada; and I. Gultepe, A. Zelenyuk, P. S. K. Liu, M. E. Earle, and W. R. Leaitch
9:00 AM
J11.3
Remote sensing of atmospheric aerosol properties
C. Russell Philbrick, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC; and M. Snyder and A. Brown
9:15 AM
J11.4
Ground Based Approach to Direct Evaluation of Aerosol-Cloud Interaction
Chuen Meei Gan, City College of New York, New York, NY; and L. Cordero, Y. Wu, B. Madhavan, B. Gross, F. Moshary, and S. Ahmed
Manuscript (538.6 kB)

9:30 AM
J11.5
(Invited Speaker) New Particle Formation: Atmospheric and Laboratory Evidence for Chemical Nucleation of Sulfuric Acid and Amines
Peter McMurry, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN; and M. Chen, F. Eisele, D. Hanson, J. Jiang, M. Titcombe, and J. Zhao

8:30 AM-4:00 PM: Wednesday, 26 January 2011


Poster Session 1
Future Operational Environmental Satellite Systems
Location: Washington State Convention Center
Host: Seventh Annual Symposium on Future Operational Environmental Satellite Systems
Cochairs: Vince Grano, JPSS Program Office; James J. Gurka, GSFC; Dick Reynolds, Short and Associates
563A
GOES-R Ocean Dynamics Algorithm
Eileen Maria Maturi, NOAA/NESDIS/STAR, Camp Springs, MD; and A. Harris and I. Appel

564
From GOES and POES to GOES-R and JPSS: Improvements in Operational Volcanic Cloud Monitoring
Michael J. Pavolonis, NOAA/NESDIS, Madison, WI; and J. Sieglaff

565
Retrieval of Total Precipitable Water and Cloud Liquid Water Path from Jason-2 AMR Observations
Fuzhong Weng, NOAA, College Park, MD; and W. Yu and N. Sun
Manuscript (438.8 kB)

Handout (749.8 kB)

566
Developing a product validation and inter-calibration system for GOES-R using advanced collocation methods
Greg Quinn, CIMSS/Univ. of Wisconsin, Madison, WI; and R. E. Holz, F. W. Nagle, W. Wolf, and H. Sun

567
NOAA PROducts Validation System (NPROVS) status and integration into next generation NPP/JPSS
Anthony L. Reale, NOAA/NESDIS, College Park, MD; and B. Sun

568
GOES-R ABI true-color capability
Donald W. Hillger, NOAA/NEDSIS, Fort Collins, CO CO; and L. Grasso, R. Brummer, and R. T. DeMaria

Handout (1.6 MB)

569
Detection and characterization of biomass burning in the GOES-R era
Christopher C. Schmidt, CIMSS/Univ. of Wisconsin, Madison, WI; and J. P. Hoffman and E. M. Prins

570
Ozone estimation with the ABI
Christopher C. Schmidt, CIMSS/Univ. of Wisconsin, Madison, WI; and J. P. Hoffman

571
Validation of CrIMSS EDR products with matched ECMWF analysis, RAOB Measurements, and IASI retrievals
Murty G. Divakarla, IM Systems Group, Inc., Rockville, MD; and C. D. Barnet, M. Goldberg, D. Gu, X. Liu, W. J. Blackwell, E. Maddy, S. Kizer, G. Guo, X. L. Ma, A. Gambocorta, T. King, N. Nalli, and K. Zhang
Manuscript (3.0 MB)

Handout (1.3 MB)

572
Land surface product development for GOES-R satellite mission
Yunyue Yu, NOAA/NESDIS, Camp Springs, MD; and M. Goldberg and I. Csiszar

573
Improving GOES derived Rain Areal Coverage Estimate by using a Hybrid WSR-88D and GOES Classification for Deep Convective Systems
Zhe Feng, University of North Dakota, Grand Forks, ND; and X. Dong, B. Xi, P. Minnis, and M. Khaiyer

Handout (5.7 MB)

574
NPOESS Lessons Evaluation
Timothy J. Hall, The Aerospace Corporation, Silver Spring, MD

575
GOES-R Air Quality Proving Ground
Hai Zhang, JCET/Univ. of Maryland, Baltimore, MD; and R. M. Hoff, S. Kondragunta, A. K. Huff, M. C. Green, S. A. Christopher, B. Pierce, and B. Gross

Handout (3.5 MB)

576
Assimilation of cloud affected radiances in NCEP GDAS
Min-Jeong Kim, NOAA/NESDIS, Camp Springs, MD; and F. Weng

577
Recent Improvements to the Community Radiative Transfer Model (CRTM)
Yong Han, NOAA/NESDIS/STAR, Camp Springs, MD; and P. Van Delst, F. Weng, Q. Liu, D. Groff, B. Yan, and Y. Chen

578
Efficient access to raw measurements and processing coefficients for NPOESS preparatory project (NPP) and joint polar satellite system (JPSS) sensor data
Drew Saunders, NOAA/National Climatic Data Center, Asheville, NC; and J. Biard, J. L. Privette, D. Baldwin, and A. Burden
Manuscript (52.1 kB)

Handout (1.6 MB)

579
CrIS Flight Model 1 delivered performance
Ron Glumb, ITT Geospatial Systems, Fort Wayne, IN; and J. Bobilya, S. Wells, L. Suwinski, R. Frain, J. Predina, B. Fluegeman, and A. Lane

580
Use and evaluation of GOES‐R Proving Ground products at WFO Omaha and WFO Milwaukee
Daniel Nietfeld, NOAA, Valley, NE; and J. Gerth and J. Craven

581
Updated version of a convective initiation nowcasting algorithm
John R. Walker, Cherokee Nation Technologies, LLC, Huntsville, AL; and W. M. MacKenzie Jr. and J. R. Mecikalski

582
Preparation for use of GOES-R Advance Baseline Image (ABI)
Kaba Bah, CIMSS/Univ. of Wisconsin, Madison, WI; and T. J. Schmit, J. Gerth, M. R. Cronce, and J. A. Otkin

Handout (12.5 MB)

583
ITT's Hyperspectral Imaging Test Bed (HITB)
Ronald J. Glumb, ITT Geospatial Systems, Fort Wayne, IN; and G. White, J. Strong, J. P. Predina, J. Richcreek, L. Barry, D. Wickholm, G. Davis, A. D'Souza, and F. Grandmont

584
Planck weighted transmittance and correction of solar reflection for broadband infrared satellite channels
Yong Chen, CIRA, Camp Springs, MD; and F. Weng, Y. Han, and Q. Liu

Handout (1.6 MB)

585
ABI PTM Performance
Alan D. Bell, ITT Geospatial Systems, Fort Wayne, IN; and P. C. Griffith

586
High impact weather nowcasting and short range forecasting using advanced IR soundings
Jun Li, CIMSS, Madison, WI; and J. Li, H. Liu, J. Otkin, and T. J. Schmit

588
Sub-pixel fractional area of wildfires from satellite measurements: retrieval, validation, and potential applications
David A. Peterson, University of Nebraska, Lincoln, NE; and J. Wang and C. Ichoku

Handout (3.6 MB)

589
Atmospheric Applications From The Advanced Baseline Imager
Rachel Fitzhugh, ITT Corp, Rochester, NY

590
GOES-R AWG product processing system framework: algorithm rollbacks
Walter W. Wolf, NOAA/NESDIS/STAR, Camp Springs, MD; and S. Sampson, R. Garcia, G. D. Martin, Z. Cheng, G. Fu, T. Yu, W. Straka III, S. Qiu, A. Li, E. Schiffer, and M. Goldberg

591
NOAA's product processing from future polar-orbiting environmental satellites
Stacy L. Bunin, Noblis, Falls Church, VA; and T. B. Schott and J. Silva
Manuscript (587.1 kB)

592
Preliminary Demonstration of Thematic Climate Data Records from MSU/AMSU/ATMS
Fuzhong Weng, NOAA, College Park, MD; and X. Zou and P. Wang

593
Preparation of CRTM for NPP/JPSS and GOES-R
Yong Chen, Cooperative Institute for Research in the Atmosphere, Camp Springs, MD; and F. Weng, Y. Han, P. Van Delst, Q. Liu, and D. Groff

Handout (6.3 MB)

594
Plan of Use of IR emissivity data to improve assimilation of GOES-R ABI in GFS
Tong Zhu, CIRA/NOAA/NESDIS/STAR/Joint Center for Satellite Data Assimilation, College Park, MD; and F. Weng

595
Improve microwave snow emissivity model using QCA/DMRT
Ding Liang, I. M. Systems Group, Camp Spring, MD; and F. Weng and B. Yan

596
Geosynchronous Ocean-color Hyperspectral Imager
Jeffery J. Puschell, Raytheon Space and Airborne Systems, El Segundo, CA; and J. Silny, L. Cook, and E. Kim

597
Land surface emissivity from high temporal resolution geostationary infrared imager radiances
Zhenglong Li, CIMSS/Univ. of Wisconsin, Madison, WI; and J. Li, X. Jin, T. J. Schmit, L. Zhou, and M. Goldberg

598
McIDAS-V, Visualization and Data Analysis for GOES-R
W. Straka III, Univ. of Wisconsin/CIMSS, Madison, WI; and T. D. Rink and T. H. Achtor

599
The Ground Segment architecture for GOES-R
Dennis Hansen, Harris Corporation, Melbourne, FL; and S. Kalluri, J. Bristow, G. Dittberner, and A. Weiner

600
The GOES-R Product Generation architecture
Gerald Dittberner, Harris Corporation, Greenbelt, MD; and S. Kalluri, A. Weiner, and A. Tarpley

601
Ensuring the SI Traceability of Satellite Measurements from the Next Generation Geostationary Imager GOES-R/ABI
Changyong Cao, NOAA/NESDIS/STAR, Camp Springs, MD; and E. Shirley, R. Datla, J. Rice, C. Johnson, S. Brown, K. Lykke, J. Fraser, M. Weinreb, J. Clarke, D. F. Young, B. A. Wielicki, J. Xiong, K. J. Thome, D. C. Tobin, D. Chesters, B. B. Pfarr, M. Goldberg, and S. Goodman

602
GeoSTAR – The geosynchronous hurricane observatory
Bjorn H. Lambrigtsen, JPL and California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA; and T. Gaier, A. Tanner, P. Kangaslahti, B. Lim, and C. S. Ruf

Handout (5.0 MB)

603
The Global Space-based InterCalibration System (GSICS) for GOES-R and JPSS
Mitchell Goldberg, NOAA/NESDIS, Camp Springs, MD; and F. Weng, X. Wu, F. Yu, L. Wang, D. C. Tobin, and M. M. Gunshor

604
Reference Inter-Calibration Ability of the CLARREO Reflected Solar Spectrometer and JPSS Sensors
Constantine Lukashin, NASA, Hampton, VA; and C. M. Roithmayr, P. W. Speth, and B. A. Wielicki

Handout (2.5 MB)

605
Recommendations from the Science Community Workshop on Polar Orbiting IR and MW Sounders
Thomas S. Pagano, JPL, Pasadena, CA; and C. D. Barnet, J. Susskind, K. Bowman, and E. Fetzer

Handout (1.2 MB)

606
Quantitative evaluation of active fire detection capabilities from VIIRS
Ivan A. Csiszar, NOAA/NESDIS, Camp Springs, MD; and W. Schroeder, L. Giglio, C. O. Justice, and E. Ellicott

Handout (1.9 MB)

607
McIDAS-V support for the Joint Polar Satellite System (JPSS) program
Thomas D. Rink, SSEC/CIMSS/Univ. of Wisconsin, Madison, WI; and T. Jasmin and T. Achtor

608
STAR Integrated CalVal System (ICVS) and Global Bias Monitoring System (GBMS) for JPSS/METOP/GOES-R
N. Sun, NESDIS, College Park, MD; and F. Weng, C. Cao, and M. Goldberg

609
Updated analysis of lossless compression techniques for the GOES-R Rebroadcasting (GRB) sub-system
Peter M Finocchio, Univ. of Miami/RSMAS, Miami, FL; and Y. He, D. B. Hogan, D. Hunt, and T. S. Zaccheo
Manuscript (252.0 kB)

610
End-to-end design and development of GOES-R level 2 algorithms: Cloud pathfinder algorithm case study
Andra Ivan, AER, Lexington, MA; and P. A. Van Rompay, E. Hughes, and X. Papadakis

611
GOES-R Algorithm Library Services, an extensible framework for executing next generation environmental data products
Alexander Werbos, AER, Lexington, MA; and J. L. Baldwin, J. Donboch, J. Downer, M. Sze, A. Tarpley, and T. S. Zaccheo

612
NPOESS Preparatory Project Validation Program for the Ozone Mapping and Profiler Suite
Lawrence E. Flynn, NOAA/NESDIS/ORA, Camp Springs, MD; and I. Petropavlovskikh, D. F. Rault, C. S. Long, W. Yu, E. Beach, D. Swales, and J. Niu

613
Development of a Combined Precipitation Estimation Algorithm for the GOES-R/GPM era
Ali Behrangi, JPL and California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA; and K. L. Hsu, S. Sorooshian, and B. H. Lambrigtsen

614
Integration of VIIRS data into AWIPS and AWIPS II
Matthew Smith, University of Alabama in Huntsville, Huntsville, AL

615
Planned Tools and correlative data for the Execution of NPP Calibration and Validation
Janna Feeley, Aerospace Corporation, Silver Spring, MD; and H. Kilcoyne

616
GRAVITE Transfer Protocol support of the NPP Cal/Val Process
John Henson, NOAA/NESDIS, Silver Spring, MD; and J. Feeley and J. Zajic

618
JPSS CGS Tools for Rapid Algorithm Updates
Kerry D. Grant, Raytheon Intelligence and Information Systems, Aurora, CO; and R. Hughes and G. Route

619
NPP Environmental Products
Kerry D. Grant, Raytheon Intelligence and Information Systems, Aurora, CO; and R. Hughes and N. Andreas

620
Features of the Deployed NPP-JPSS-DWSS Common Ground System
Gary Heckmann, Raytheon Intelligence & Information Systems, Aurora, CO; and G. Route, K. D. Grant, and J. Mulligan

621
JPSS CGS C3S Expandability: Distributed Receptor Network and McMurdo Improvements
Joseph Paciaroni, Raytheon Intelligence and Information Systems, Aurora, CO; and F. Pela and M. L. Jamilkowski

622
JPSS CGS C3 Segment McMurdo Multimission Communications System
Joseph Paciaroni, Raytheon Intelligence and Information Systems, Aurora, CO; and C. Higgins and M. L. Jamilkowski

623
GRAFIIR – an efficient end-to-end semi automated GOES-R ABI algorithm performance analysis and implementation verification system
Hong Zhang, CIMSS/Univ. of Wisconsin, Madison, WI; and M. Gunshor, W. Straka, G. Martin, S. Wanzong, E. Schiffer, R. Garcia, and A. Huang

Handout (2.2 MB)

624
Preparing for the next generation of direct broadcast
Hae-Yong Shin, SeaSpace Corporation, Poway, CA; and K. Friedman Dubey, E. Baptiste, K. Prasad, and D. Lawrence

Handout (1.0 MB)

625
A comparison of forward radiative transfer models used in the production of simulated proxy data for the GOES-R ABI
James E. Davies, CIMSS, Madison, WI; and T. Greenwald, J. A. Otkin, Y. K. Lee, J. Sieglaff, and A. Huang

626
Training for GOES-R directed towards forecasters
B. H. Connell, CIRA, Ft. Collins, CO; and D. Bikos, J. Braun, A. S. Bachmeier, S. S. Lindstrom, A. Mostek, M. DeMaria, and T. J. Schmit

Handout (1.9 MB)

628
New forecaster training paradigm for GOES-R?
B. H. Connell, CIRA, Ft. Collins, CO; and L. Veeck

Handout (1.7 MB)

632
2010 NOAA Aerosol and Ocean Science Expedition (AEROSE) CrIMSS marine proxy dataset
Nicholas R. Nalli, NOAA/NESDIS/STAR, Camp Springs, MD; and C. D. Barnet, E. Joseph, V. R. Morris, G. Guo, M. G. Divakarla, H. Xie, D. E. Wolfe, and P. J. Minnett

Handout (1.1 MB)

633
NPOESS Preparatory Project Validation Program for the Cross-track Infrared Sounder
Nicholas Nalli, NOAA/NESDIS, Silver Spring, MD; and C. D. Barnet and L. Zhou

Handout (1.2 MB)

635
An overview of CIRA's contribution to the GOES-R Proving Ground
Edward J. Szoke, CIRA/Colorado State Univ. and NOAA/GSD, Boulder, CO; and R. Brummer, H. Gosden, S. D. Miller, M. DeMaria, and D. A. Molenar
Manuscript (2.1 MB)

Handout (10.5 MB)

637
Intercalibration activities at CIMSS in preparation for the GOES-R era
M. M. Gunshor, CIMSS/Univ. of Wisconsin, Madison, WI; and T. J. Schmit, D. Tobin, and P. Menzel

638
NPP Advanced Technology Microwave Sounder (ATMS): Sensor description and preliminary data product performance
William J. Blackwell, MIT Lincoln Laboratory, Lexington, MA; and R. V. Leslie, M. L. Pieper, and J. E. Samra

639
Improved Calibration of Space-based Passive Microwave Cross-track Sounders
William J. Blackwell, MIT Lincoln Laboratory, Lexington, MA; and R. V. Leslie

640
NOAA science test results from the GOES-14 and -15 imager and sounder
Donald W. Hillger, NOAA/NEDSIS, Fort Collins, CO CO; and T. J. Schmit, A. S. Bachmeier, M. M. Gunshor, J. A. Knaff, and D. T. Lindsey

Handout (2.4 MB)

641
Initial Test Results using a Temporal Variational Data Assimilation Method to Retrieve Deep Soil Moisture
Andrew S. Jones, CIRA/Colorado State Univ., Fort Collins, CO; and S. J. Fletcher, J. Cogan, G. Mason, and G. McWilliams

Handout (2.3 MB)

642
Pre-Launch Characterization of Cross-track Infrared Sounder/Advanced Technology Microwave Sounder (CrIMSS) Environmental Data Records (EDRs)' Performance
Lihang Zhou, JPSS Program Office, Silver Spring, MD; and C. D. Barnet, N. Nalli, H. Kilcoyne, and K. St. Germain

643
The calibration of GOES visible sensors using MODIS as a reference to provide consistent clouds and fluxes for CERES
David R. Doelling, LRC, Hampton, VA; and R. Bhatt, D. Morstad, and A. Gopalan

644
Exploring urban surface effects for GOES-R aerosol retrieval
Julia He, City College of New York NOAA CREST, New York, US Virgin Islands; and B. Madhavan, B. Gross, F. Moshary, and S. Ahmed

645
The role of CLARREO as an IR intercalibration reference for JPSS and GOES-R
D. C. Tobin, Space Science and Engeering Center, Univ.of Wisconsin, Madison, WI; and R. Holz

646
647
NOAA ENTERPRISE ARCHIVE ACCESS TOOL (NEAAT):ACCELERATED APPLICATION DEVELOPMENT (XAD)
Robert Rank, NOAA/NESDIS, Suitland, MD; and S. McCormick and C. Cremidis

648
649
Mesoscale soundings using combined GOES-R and JPSS spectral radiances
William L. Smith Sr., Univ. of Wisconsin, Seaford, VA; and S. Kireev, E. Weisz, and J. Li

650
CrIS Sensor Cal-Val Readiness for NPP Satellite Mission
Denise Hagan, Northrop Grumman Aerospace Systems, Redondo Beach, CA; and D. Gu, G. Kratz, D. Tremblay, C. Wang, G. De Amici, and X. L. Ma
Manuscript (2.7 MB)

651
Spectral Calibration of the CrIS Instrument On-Orbit
Denise Hagan, Northrop Grumman Aerospace Systems, Redondo Beach, CA; and D. Gu, J. Predina, G. Kratz, D. Tremblay, and X. L. Ma
Manuscript (934.4 kB)

652
VIIRS SDR Algorithm Three-Phase Performance Test Approach for Radiometric Calibration
Steve Mills, Northrop Grumman Aerospace Systems, Redondo Beach, CA; and L. Liao, T. Ohnuki, and Z. P. Sun

653
Testing and Tuning CrIMSS EDR Algorithm with Proxy Data in Preparation for NPP Post-launch EDR Product Validation
Degui Gu, Northrop-Grumman, Redondo Beach, CA; and X. L. Ma, D. Hagan, and A. Foo

654
A Case Study Assessing the Impact of GOES Imager Data Assimilation on Precipitation Forecast
Zhengkun Qin, Nanjing University of Information Science & Technology, Nanjing, China; and X. Zou, F. Weng, and T. Zhu

Handout (2.7 MB)

656
CrIS SDR & EDR algorithms & data products
Joseph P. Predina, ITT Geospatial Systems, Fort Wayne, IN; and R. J. Glumb, L. Suwinski, R. Frain, C. Buttles, D. Hagan, C. Wang, and D. Gu

Handout (4.1 MB) Handout (4.4 MB)

657
Speeding up the GOES-R Legacy Atmospheric Sounding Algorithm: a Blend of the CRTM Forward Model and the Fast Analytical Jacobian Scheme
Xin Jin, NOAA/NESDIS, Camp Springs, MD; and J. Li, T. J. Schmit, S. Sampson, G. D. Martin, W. Wolf, and M. Goldberg

658
Data fusion of Radarsat and MODIS images for Arctic sea ice mapping
Yi Luo, EC, Ottawa, ON, Canada; and R. De Abreu

Handout (11.7 MB)

8:45 AM-9:45 AM: Wednesday, 26 January 2011

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Panel Discussion 1
Tech Tools & Tips Panel
Location: 304 (Washington State Convention Center)
Host: 14th Conference of Atmospheric Science Librarians International
8:45 AM
PD1.1
Best resources for communication skills for scientists
David M. Schultz, Univ. of Helsinki/FMI, Helsinki, Finland
9:45 AM
PD1.3
Presenting Prezi
Anita Colby, Librarian, UCLA Science and Engineering Library, Los Angeles, CA
10:00 AM
PD1.2
Animoto
Linda Musser, Pennsylvania State University, State College, PA

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


Spouses' Coffee

9:15 AM-10:00 AM: Wednesday, 26 January 2011


Panel Discussion 1
Dollars and Cents: Weather for Energy Markets (Panel Discussion)
Location: 4C-2 (Washington State Convention Center)
Host: Second Conference on Weather, Climate, and the New Energy Economy
Moderator: Kevin Stenson, MeteoGroup USA
9:15 AM
PD1.1
Weather Risk Management and Renewable Energy
Lawrence Heitkemper, MDA Information Systems LLC, Gaithersburg, MD; and C. Hanson and T. Hamilton

9:45 AM-10:00 AM: Wednesday, 26 January 2011

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Session 1
Information Resources
Location: 304 (Washington State Convention Center)
Host: 14th Conference of Atmospheric Science Librarians International
9:45 AM
1.1

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-11:00 AM: Wednesday, 26 January 2011

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Session 2
Dollars and Cents: Weather for Energy Markets II
Location: 4C-2 (Washington State Convention Center)
Host: Second Conference on Weather, Climate, and the New Energy Economy
Chair: Russell L. Bigley, Xcel Energy
10:30 AM
2.1
The value of wind power forecasting
Debra Lew, National Renewable Energy Laboratory, Golden, CO; and M. Milligan and G. Jordan
Manuscript (310.0 kB)

10:45 AM
2.2
Offshore Wind Energy: Prospects for Florida and the Gulf of Mexico
Mark Powell, NOAA/AOML/HRD, Tallahassee, FL; and S. R. Smith, S. Cocke, and C. Collier

10:30 AM-11:30 AM: Wednesday, 26 January 2011

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Session 2
Studying and Communicating Weather and Climate
Location: 304 (Washington State Convention Center)
Host: 14th Conference of Atmospheric Science Librarians International
10:30 AM
2.1
Use of Climate Science for Decision-Making
Eugene S. Takle, Iowa State University, Ames, IA
11:00 AM
2.2
VORTEX2: Inside the tornado research project
Susan Cobb, NOAA Boulder and NOAA Earth System Research Laboratory, Boulder, CO

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

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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
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
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
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
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Joint Session 2
Hydrologic Prediction and Verification for Water and Energy Resources and Other Applications—II
Location: 611 (Washington State Convention Center)
Hosts: (Joint between the 25th Conference on Hydrology; and the Ninth Conference on Artificial Intelligence and its Applications to the Environmental Sciences )
Cochairs: Julie Demargne, NOAA/NWS; James David Brown, NOAA/NWS/Office of Hydrologic Development; Andrew W. Wood, NOAA/NWS; Barbara G. Brown, NCAR
10:30 AM
J2.4
Seasonal rainfall prediction in the East Mediterranean with statistical downscaling
Wanli Wu, NCAR, Boulder, CO; and Y. Liu, M. Ge, G. Descombes, T. Warner, D. Yates, T. Hopson, S. Swerdlin, D. Rostkier-Edelstein, P. Kunin, and A. Givati

10:45 AM
J2.2
Invited Speaker: A new multi-decadal reforecast global ensemble reforecast data set using the NCEP GFS
Thomas M. Hamill, Physical Sciences Division/ESRL/NOAA, Boulder, CO; and J. S. Whitaker
11:00 AM
J2.3
Verification of ENSO-weighted long-range ensemble streamflow forecasts in the Blue Nile River
Mohamed A. Habib, University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA; and A. A. Bradley, M. Elshamy, and D. Amin
Manuscript (354.0 kB)

11:15 AM
J2.1
11:30 AM
J2.5
Short-term streamflow forecasting by ensemble Bayesian neural network models with climate variability
Kabir Rasouli, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada; and W. W. Hsieh and A. J. Cannon

11:45 AM
J2.6A
The HydroMet Decision Support System: transfer of hydrometeorological technologies to developing countries
J. William Conway, Weather Decision Technologies, Inc., Norman, OK; and B. Clarke, C. Porter, L. Venkatrmani, Y. Li, A. Oldaker, P. Spencer, W. Ladwig, C. Goering, B. Shaw, E. D. Mitchell, C. Barrere, and M. Eilts
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Session 2
Improving Client-CCM Communication Enhances Business
Location: 309 (Washington State Convention Center)
Host: Fourth Annual CCM Forum
Moderator: Sean Potter, Certified Consulting Meteorologist
10:30 AM
2.1
A Course in Forensic Meteorology: Effective Communication of Analyses and Conclusions
Elizabeth Austin, WeatherExtreme Ltd., Fallbrook, CA; and M. L. Kaplan
10:45 AM
2.2
How clear communication of uncertainty brings CCM and client closer together
Christopher D. Bedford CCM, Sailing Weather Service, LLC, Watertown, MA

11:00 AM
2.3
Weatherwise, otherwise, and CCMs
J. Giraytys, James Madison University, Harrisonburg, VA

11:15 AM
2.4
Embracing Social Media
Michael Gerber, NOAA/NWS, Silver Spring, MD
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Session 2
TCs: Toward Improving and Expanding Public Forecasts
Location: 604 (Washington State Convention Center)
Host: More Effectively Communicating the Science of Tropical Climate and Tropical Cyclones
Chair: Paula Ann Hennon, STG, Inc.
10:30 AM
2.1
Large ensemble tropical cyclone intensity forecasting
R. N. Hoffman, AER, Lexington, MA; and K. Emanuel, S. Hopsch, D. Gombos, and T. Nehrkorn
10:45 AM
2.2
Mechanism of concentric eyewall replacement cycle and associated intensity change
Xiaqiong Zhou, Univ. of Hawaii, Honolulu, HI; and B. Wang

11:00 AM
2.3
Tropical Cyclone Prediction Through Multiple Global-model Ensemble Forecast System
Jiayi Peng, NOAA/NWS/NCEP, Camp Springs, MD; and Y. Zhu and R. Wobus
11:15 AM
2.4
Atlantic tropical cyclones during strong and moderate ENSO events
Constantin Andronache, Boston College, Chestnut Hill, MA
11:30 AM
2.5
The new frontier: operational tropical cyclone forecasts beyond five days
James I. Belanger, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA; and M. T. Jelinek, J. A. Curry, and P. Webster
11:45 AM
2.6
Adaptive Forecasting—Improving End User Understanding of Tropical Cyclones
Mark T. Jelinek, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA; and J. I. Belanger and J. A. Curry
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Session 4
Asian air pollution and export
Location: 3A (Washington State Convention Center)
Host: 13th Conference on Atmospheric Chemistry
Cochairs: Angela K. Baker, Max Planck Institute for Chemistry; Neng-Huei Lin, National Central University
10:30 AM
4.1
Export of pollutants to the UT over Southern Asia during the summer monsoon: results from CARIBIC
Angela K. Baker, Max Planck Institute for Chemistry, Mainz, Germany; and D. E. Oram, A. Rauthe-Schöch, T. J. Schuck, F. Slemr, P. F. J. van Velthoven, and C. A. M. Brenninkmeijer
10:45 AM
4.2
Relationship between a spatial pattern of future atmospheric warming and Asian dust emission
Nobumitsu Tsunematsu, Chiba University, Chiba, Japan; and M. Hayasaki, T. Sato, N. Manago, F. Cui, S. Miyazawa, A. Kondoh, H. Kuze, and K. Sakamoto
11:00 AM
4.3
Discoveries from the Mt. Bachelor Observatory: Findings from 6 years of observations (2004-2009)
David R. Reidmiller, University of Washington, Washington, DC; and D. Jaffe
11:15 AM
4.4
Episodes of aerosol pollution and dust exported from East Asia to the Arctic: satellite observations
Maurizio Di Pierro, University of Washington, Seattle, WA; and L. Jaeglé and T. L. Anderson
11:30 AM
4.5
11:45 AM
4.6
Characteristics of Ambient Volatile Organic Compounds (VOCs) Measured in Shanghai, China
Fuhai Geng Sr., Shanghai Meterological Bureau, Shanghai, China; and X. Tang and C. Cai

Handout (98.3 kB)

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Joint Session 4
Communicating Climate Change I (Themed Joint Session)
Location: 609 (Washington State Convention Center)
Hosts: (Joint between the 23rd Conference on Climate Variability and Change; the 27th Conference on Interactive Information Processing Systems (IIPS); the 25th Conference on Hydrology; the 13th Conference on Atmospheric Chemistry; the Ninth History Symposium; the Sixth Symposium on Policy and Socio-economic Research; and the Second Conference on Weather, Climate, and the New Energy Economy )
Chair: Susan Solomon, MIT
10:30 AM
J4.1
10:45 AM
J4.3
Communicating climate change: from awareness to action
Amy K. Snover, University of Washington, Seattle, WA; and L. C. Whitely Binder, A. F. Hamlet, and J. Littell
11:15 AM
J4.4
Making climate part of the human world
Simon D. Donner, University of British Colombia, Vancouver, BC, Canada
11:30 AM
J4.6A
Communicating uncertainty in the IPCC 5th Assessment
Myles R. Allen, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom
Recording files available
Session 6
Preparing the User Communities II
Location: 4C-1 (Washington State Convention Center)
Host: Seventh Annual Symposium on Future Operational Environmental Satellite Systems
Cochairs: Wendy Abshire, UCAR/COMET; John Furgerson, JPSS Program Office
10:30 AM
6.1
Polar Orbiting Weather Satellite Proving Ground: Facilitating Broad and Optimal Use of Global Direct Broadcast Data
Allen Huang, CIMSS/Univ. of Wisconsin, Madison, WI; and K. I. Strabala and L. E. Gumley
10:45 AM
6.2
Future remote sensing with NexSat
Arunas P. Kuciauskas, NRL, Monterey, CA; and S. D. Miller, T. F. Lee, J. Hawkins, J. E. Solbrig, K. Richardson, M. Surratt, and J. Kent
11:15 AM
6.3
Planning and Opportunities for Community Participation in the NPP Measurement Validation Activities
Bruce Guenther, JPSS Program Office, Lanham, MD; and H. Kilcoyne and J. Feeley
11:45 AM
6.4
Recording files available
Session 6
Updates on Field Experiments
Location: 307-308 (Washington State Convention Center)
Host: 5th Symposium on Lidar Atmospheric Applications
Cochairs: Tammy M. Weckwerth, NCAR; Zhaoxia Pu, Univ. of Utah
10:30 AM
6.1
The impact of GLOW wind profile data on numerical simulation of a warm season convection observed during IHOP_2002
Zhaoxia Pu, Univ. of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT; and L. Zhang, B. B. Demoz, and B. Gentry
11:00 AM
6.3
Validation of Leosphere Windcube© Lidar measurements aboard the Aerosols Ocean Science Expedition VI (AEROSE VI)
Mayra I. Oyola, Howard Univ., Washington, DC; and E. Joseph, N. R. Nalli, and V. Morris
11:15 AM
6.4
Advanced DWL data processing with tornado and tropical cyclone applications
George D. Emmitt, Simpson Weather Associates, Charlottesville, VA; and H. Bluestein, K. Godwin, and J. Houser
11:30 AM
6.5
On the use of a mobile Doppler lidar to probe the boundary layer near and in tornadic and non-tornadic supercells
Howard B. Bluestein, Univ. of Oklahoma, Norman, OK; and G. D. Emmitt, J. Houser, and R. Bluth
11:45 AM
6.6
A convection initiation case study during COPS: 6 August 2007
Tammy M. Weckwerth, NCAR, Boulder, CO; and L. J. Bennett, J. Van Baelen, and P. Di Girolamo
Recording files available
Session 6
Upper Troposphere / Lower Stratosphere: Tropical Tropopause Layer
Location: 3B (Washington State Convention Center)
Host: 16th Conference on Middle Atmosphere
Chair: Kevin M. Grise, Univ. of Virginia
10:30 AM
6.1
Boundaries of the tropical tropopause layer (TTL) identified by the ozone-water vapor relationship
Laura L. Pan, NCAR, Boulder, CO; and L. Munchak, H. Voemel, J. Bian, and H. B. Selkirk

10:45 AM
6.2
11:00 AM
6.3
Radiative impacts of clouds in the tropical tropopause layer
Qiong Yang, Univ. of Washington, Seattle, WA; and Q. Fu and Y. Hu
11:30 AM
6.5
A model study on the influence of overshooting convection on TTL water vapor
Muhammad E. Hassim, The University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia; and T. P. Lane
11:45 AM
6.6
The Advection-Condensation Paradigm for Stratospheric Water Vapour
Yu Sue Liu, University of St Andrews, St Andrews, United Kingdom; and S. Fueglistaler and P. H. Haynes
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Session 8
NCAR Community Modeling Session II: Climate Change 1 (Climate Sensitivity)
Location: 608 (Washington State Convention Center)
Host: 23rd Conference on Climate Variability and Change
Chair: Andrew Gettelman, NCAR
10:45 AM
8.2
How does CO2 forcing magnitude impact radiative feedbacks in CCSM3?
Alexandra K. Jonko, Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR; and K. M. Shell, B. Sanderson, and G. Danabasoglu
11:00 AM
8.3
The future evolution of the Earth's reflected shortwave spectrum
William D. Collins, University of California, Berleley, CA; and D. R. Feldman
11:15 AM
8.4
Comparison of radiative feedbacks and climate sensitivities between CCSM3 and CCSM4
Karen M. Shell, Oregon State Univ., Corvallis, OR; and C. Bitz and D. Bailey
11:30 AM
8.5
Changing climate sensitivity through cloud adjustment
Andrei Sokolov, MIT, Cambridge, MA; and E. Monier

11:45 AM
8.6
Decomposition of Radiative Forcing by Black Carbon in CESM1
Steven J. Ghan, PNNL, Richland, WA; and X. Liu, R. Easter, P. Rasch, J. F. Lamarque, A. Conley, and M. G. Flanner
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Session 8A
AWIPS II System Part II
Location: 606 (Washington State Convention Center)
Host: 27th Conference on Interactive Information Processing Systems (IIPS)
Cochairs: William F. Roberts, NOAA; Ward R. Seguin, Consultant; Scott Jacobs, NOAA/NWS/NCEP
10:30 AM
8A.1
AWIPS-II into the future
Frank P. Griffith, Raytheon Company, Omaha, NE; and A. M. Tarro
10:45 AM
8A.2
AWIPS II Technology Infusion—Extended Projects Overview and Status
Steve S. Schotz, NOAA/NWS, Silver Spring, MD; and R. K. Henry, T. Hopkins, and E. Mandel
11:00 AM
8A.3
Integrated hazard information services (IHIS)
John T. Ferree, NOAA/NWS, Norman, OK; and K. A. Scharfenberg, T. L. Hansen, and T. J. LeFebvre
11:15 AM
8A.4
Early Development Activities for the Integrated Hazard Information Services
Tracy Lee Hansen, NOAA/ESRL, Boulder, CO; and T. J. LeFebvre
11:30 AM
8A.5
WES2 Bridge: Training and Simulation Capabilities for the AWIPS-2 Platform
Dale A. Morris, CIMMS/Univ. of Oklahoma, Norman, OK; and I. A. Virani, A. Anderson, B. C. Baranowski, D. Kingfield, M. A. Magsig, and N. Mohammed Said
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Session 8B
Communicating Radar Data in the 21st Century Part I
Location: 607 (Washington State Convention Center)
Host: 27th Conference on Interactive Information Processing Systems (IIPS)
Cochairs: Douglas E. Forsyth, NOAA/NSSL; Timothy Crum, Retired, NWS; Julian Wang, NOAA/ARL; Robert E. Saffle, Noblis, Inc.; Mark Yeary, University of Oklahoma
10:30 AM
8B.1
NWS radar projects—update 2011
Robert E. Saffle, Noblis, Inc., Falls Church, VA; and M. J. Istok and G. S. Cate
10:45 AM
8B.2
Generalized testing and analysis of storm cell tracking algorithms
Benjamin Root, University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK; and M. B. Yeary and T. Y. Yu
11:00 AM
8B.3
Novel storm cell tracking with multiple hypothesis tracking
Benjamin Root, University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK; and M. B. Yeary and T. Y. Yu
11:15 AM
8B.4
Range correction for radar-derived azimuthal shear: applications to a tornado detection algorithm
Jennifer F. Newman, University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK; and V. Lakshmanan, P. L. Heinselman, and T. M. Smith
11:30 AM
8B.5
Investigating thunderstorm wind damage with a high-resolution verification dataset
Keith D. Sherburn, Univ. of Oklahoma, Norman, OK; and K. L. Ortega and T. M. Smith
11:45 AM
8B.6
Modeling and experimental observations of weather radar ground clutter
John C. Hubert, NCAR, Boulder, CO; and M. Dixon, G. Meymaris, and S. Ellis
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Session 9A
NOAA HWT Spring Experiment
Location: 613/614 (Washington State Convention Center)
Host: 24th Conference on Weather and Forecasting/20th Conference on Numerical Weather Prediction
Chair: Gail Hartfield, NOAA/NWS
10:30 AM
9A.1
An overview of the 2010 NOAA Hazardous Weather Testbed spring forecasting experiment
Steven J. Weiss, NOAA/NWS/NCEP/SPC, Norman, OK; and A. J. Clark, I. L. Jirak, C. J. Melick, C. W. Siewert, R. Sobash, P. T. Marsh, A. R. Dean, M. Xue, F. Kong, K. W. Thomas, J. Du, D. R. Novak, F. E. Barthold, M. J. Bodner, J. J. Levit, B. Entwistle, T. L. Jensen, R. Schneider, J. S. Kain, and M. C. Coniglio
10:45 AM
9A.2
Realtime Convection-Permitting Ensemble and Convection-Resolving Deterministic Forecasts of CAPS for the Hazardous Weather Testbed 2010 Spring Experiment
Ming Xue, CAPS/Univ. of Oklahoma, Norman, OK; and F. Kong, K. W. Thomas, Y. Wang, K. A. Brewster, J. Gao, X. Wang, S. J. Weiss, A. Clark, J. S. Kain, M. C. Coniglio, J. Du, T. Jensen, and Y. H. Kuo
11:15 AM
9A.4
The quantitative precipitation forecasting component of the 2010 NOAA Hazardous Weather Testbed Spring Experiment
Faye E. Barthold, NOAA/NWS and I.M. Systems Group, Inc., College Park, MD; and M. J. Bodner, D. R. Novak, R. Bann, R. Oravec, B. Sullivan, A. R. Dean, I. L. Jirak, C. J. Melick, R. A. Sobash, A. J. Clark, F. Kong, S. J. Weiss, and M. Xue
11:30 AM
9A.5
The Aviation Weather Forecasting Component of the 2010 NOAA Hazardous Weather Testbed Spring Experiment
Jason J. Levit, NOAA/NWS/NCEP/AWC, Kansas City, MO; and B. Entwistle, S. J. Weiss, S. P. Burback, K. T. Burtis, K. S. Eagle-Brogan, and S. Silberberg
11:45 AM
9A.6
The Developmental Testbed Center Objective Evaluation Performed During the 2010 NOAA Hazardous Weather Testbed Spring Experiment
Tara L. Jensen, NCAR/RAL, Boulder, CO; and M. Harrold, S. J. Weiss, M. Xue, P. T. Marsh, F. E. Barthold, J. J. Levit, F. Kong, A. J. Clark, B. G. Brown, D. R. Novak, J. S. Kain, R. S. Schneider, and M. C. Coniglio
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Session 9B
Numerical Modeling II: Surface and Boundary Layer Modeling
Location: 615-617 (Washington State Convention Center)
Host: 24th Conference on Weather and Forecasting/20th Conference on Numerical Weather Prediction
Chair: Jim Steenburgh, University of Utah
10:30 AM
9B.1
Improving the representation of surface exchanges between the urban canopy and the surface layer in a mesoscale atmospheric model
Syed Zahid Husain, EC, Dorval, QC, Canada; and S. Bélair, S. Leroyer, N. Gauthier, M. Abrahamowicz, and J. Mailhot
10:45 AM
9B.2
Influence of land surface models on predictions of the vertical structure of stable boundary layers in AT&D applications
David R. Stauffer, Penn State Univ., Univ. Park, PA; and B. P. Reen, B. Gaudet, and N. L. Seaman
11:15 AM
9B.4
Evaluation of a real-time analysis of the boundary layer height
Caterina M. Tassone, SAIC, Camp Springs, MD; and M. Tsidulko, Y. Zhu, J. T. Mcqueen, and G. DiMego
11:30 AM
9B.5
Simulating atmospheric boundary layer transition during a winter storm event with the WRF model
Wanli Wu, NCAR, Boulder, CO; and Y. Liu, J. A. Grim, F. Vandenberghe, A. Bourgeois, J. C. Knievel, T. Warner, M. Padovani, G. Luft, and K. Fling

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Joint Session 12
Experimental and Field Studies On Aerosol-Cloud-Climate Interactions
Location: 605/610 (Washington State Convention Center)
Hosts: (Joint between the Third Symposium on Aerosol-Cloud-Climate Interactions; and the 13th Conference on Atmospheric Chemistry )
Cochairs: Robert Wood, Univerisity of Washington; Cynthia H. Twohy, Oregon State University
10:30 AM
J12.1
(Invited Speaker) The VOCALS Regional Experiment: aerosol-cloud-precipitation interactions in marine boundary layer cloud
Robert Wood, University of Washington, Seattle, WA; and C. Bretherton, C. R. Mechoso, R. A. Weller, B. J. Huebert, H. Coe, B. A. Albrecht, P. H. Daum, D. Leon, A. Clarke, P. Zuidema, C. W. Fairall, and G. Allen
11:00 AM
J12.2
Sources and Impacts of Particles on Stratocumulus Clouds in the Southeast Pacific
Cynthia H. Twohy, Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR; and J. Anderson, D. W. Toohey, M. Lytle, P. Zuidema, D. Leon, and M. Andrejczuk
11:15 AM
J12.3
Observations of single scattering Albedo made during the 2007 cumulus humilis aerosol processing study: size or composition?
Carl Berkowitz, PNNL, Richland, WA; and L. K. Berg, B. Andrews, X. Y. Yu, J. Ogren, and Y. N. Lee

11:30 AM
J12.4
Response of polluted marine stratocumulus to additional particle pollution
J. A. Coakley Jr., Oregon State Univ., Corvallis, OR; and B. Sechrist and W. R. Tahnk
11:45 AM
J12.5
Barbados Aerosol Cloud Experiment—BACEX
Bruce Albrecht, Univ. of Miami/RSMAS, Miami, FL; and E. Jung
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Joint Session 14
Societal Dimensions of Weather and Climate Hazards I
Location: 618-620 (Washington State Convention Center)
Hosts: (Joint between the Sixth Symposium on Policy and Socio-economic Research; and the Second Symposium on Environment and Health )
Cochairs: Angelyn G. Kolodziej, CIMMS/Univ. of Oklahoma and NOAA/NSSL; Kimberly E. Klockow, Oklahoma Climatological Survey
10:30 AM
J14.1
10:45 AM
J14.2
Utilizing emerging technologies to better address the societal impacts focus of NWS warnings
Michael J. Hudson, NOAA National Weather Service, Kansas City, MO; and C. Pieper
11:00 AM
J14.3
11:45 AM
J14.6
CRC cards: a method to learn about emergency management decision processes
Burrell E. Montz, East Carolina University, Greenville, NC; and J. L. Losego and C. F. Smith

10:30 AM-12:15 PM: Wednesday, 26 January 2011

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Session 5
Experiments involving observations, real or hypothetical: data impact tests (sensitivity of forecasts to a particular source of observations); observing system simulation experiments (OSSEs)—Part IV
Location: 2B (Washington State Convention Center)
Host: 15th Symposium on Integrated Observing and Assimilation Systems for the Atmosphere, Oceans and Land Surface (IOAS-AOLS)
Chair: Lars P. Riishojgaard, NASA/GSFC
10:30 AM
5.1
Adjoint observation impact system for COAMPS/NAVDAS
Clark M. Amerault, NRL, Monterey, CA; and J. D. Doyle
11:00 AM
5.3
Testing and Evaluation of the GSI Data Assimilation System
Kathryn Crosby, NCAR, Boulder, CO; and C. Zhou, H. Shao, X. Y. Huang, and M. Hu
11:15 AM
5.4
11:30 AM
5.5
12:00 PM
5.7
A sensor web simulator: project status and the benefits to the atmospheric sciences
Stephen J. Talabac, NASA/GSFC, Greenbelt, MD; and R. M. Atlas, G. D. Emmitt, S. Wood, J. Ardizzone, R. Burns, E. M. Kemp, and L. R. Bucci
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Joint Session 13
Assimilation of observations into models: Atmosphere IV
Location: 2A (Washington State Convention Center)
Hosts: (Joint between the 15th Symposium on Integrated Observing and Assimilation Systems for the Atmosphere, Oceans and Land Surface (IOAS-AOLS); and the 24th Conference on Weather and Forecasting/20th Conference on Numerical Weather Prediction )
10:30 AM
J13.1
10:45 AM
J13.2
Impacts of the STMAS cycling data assimilation system on improving severe weather forecasting
Huiling Yuan, Nanjing University, and NOAA/ESRL, Nanjing, Jiangsu, China; and Y. Xie, S. Albers, and I. Jankov

11:15 AM
J13.4
Comparison of RTMA and ensemble Kalman filter surface analyses
Brian C. Ancell, Texas Tech University, Lubbock, TX; and C. F. Mass, P. Regulski, B. Colman, and L. K. Cook
11:30 AM
J13.5
GFS vs. GFS Parallel Model Verification for the May 1st–2nd Nashville, TN Flood
Adam Schwantes, NOAA/NCAS, Manitowoc, WI; and D. L. Carlis

11:45 AM
J13.6
Downscaling by Assimilating NWP fields into a CFD Model
Sue Ellen Haupt, Penn State Univ., University Park, PA; and F. J. Zajaczkowski and K. J. Schmehl

11:00 AM-12:00 PM: Wednesday, 26 January 2011

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Session 3
Weather Fundamentals for Energy Planning: Data and User Groups I
Location: 4C-4 (Washington State Convention Center)
Host: Second Conference on Weather, Climate, and the New Energy Economy
Chair: Catherine A. Finley, WindLogics Inc.
11:00 AM
3.1
Renewable Energy in a Coastal Domain: Observations and Modeling
Len Pietrafesa, Center for Marine & Wetland Studies, Conway, SC; and P. Gayes, M. Peng, and K. Ma
11:15 AM
3.2
Comparison and validation of high-resolution techniques for spatial mapping of wind energy resources
Mark T. Stoelinga, 3TIER, Inc., Seattle, WA; and M. F. Garvert, S. J. Eichelberger, and J. McCaa
11:30 AM
3.3
Assimilation of Real-Time Observations for Short-Term Wind Power Forecasting and Renewable Systems Management
Elena Novakovskaia, Earth Networks, Germantown, MD; and H. Centola and C. Sloop

11:45 AM
3.4
Maximizing the value of short-term observational data using numerical weather prediction models
Scott J. Eichelberger, 3TIER, Inc., Seattle, WA; and J. McCaa and P. Storck

11:30 AM-12:00 PM: Wednesday, 26 January 2011

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Session 3
Communicating Science History
Location: 304 (Washington State Convention Center)
Host: 14th Conference of Atmospheric Science Librarians International

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


Lunch Break

Session
Women in Atmospheric Science Luncheon
Location: 4C-3 (Washington State Convention Center)
Host: Town Hall Meetings

12:15 PM-1:15 PM: Wednesday, 26 January 2011

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Session
Town Hall Meeting: Developing a Space-based Architecture for Climate Monitoring
Location: 608 (Washington State Convention Center)
Host: Town Hall Meetings
12:30 PM
Townhall_Kicza: NOAA
Mary E. Kicza, NOAA/NESDIS, Silver Spring, MD

Session
Town Hall Meting: Into the Fray: Bringing Science to the U.S. Federal Policy Process
Location: 615-617 (Washington State Convention Center)
Host: Town Hall Meetings

12:15 PM-1:30 PM: Wednesday, 26 January 2011

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Session
The development by NCAR and UNIDATA of a community-wide CF-compliant netCDF format for radial RADAR and LIDAR data
Location: 609 (Washington State Convention Center)
Host: Town Hall Meetings
12:15 PM

1:30 PM-2:00 PM: Wednesday, 26 January 2011

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Session 4
Weather Fundamentals for Energy Planning: Data and User Groups II
Location: 4C-2 (Washington State Convention Center)
Host: Second Conference on Weather, Climate, and the New Energy Economy
Chair: John Manobianco, AWS Truepower LLC
1:30 PM
4.1
Observed Impacts of Transient Clouds on Utility-Scale PV Fields
J. Adam Kankiewicz, Clean Power Research, Kirkland, WA; and M. Sengupta and D. Moon
1:45 PM
4.2
Solar variability and its impact on photovoltaic generation
Manajit Sengupta, National Renewable Energy Laboratory, Golden, CO; and R. George

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


Panel Discussion 1
The 21st Century Certified Consulting Meteorologist—All You Ever Wanted to Know about becoming One or Being One!
Location: 309 (Washington State Convention Center)
Host: Fourth Annual CCM Forum
Panelists: Jill F. Hasling, Weather Research Center; Michael Gerber, NOAA/NWS; Kathryn E. Anthony, University of Kentucky; Christopher D. Bedford, Sailing Weather Service, LLC; Gale F. Hoffnagle, TRC Environmental Consultants; Elizabeth Austin, WeatherExtreme Ltd.; Bernard N. Meisner, NOAA/NWS Southern Region Headquarters; J. Giraytys, James Madison University
Moderators: Margaret Benner, Weatherwise Magazine; Jerry D. Hill, CCM, Consulting Meteorologist
1:30 PM
Panel Discussion

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Session 3
TCs: Use of Technology to Disseminate Information
Location: 604 (Washington State Convention Center)
Host: More Effectively Communicating the Science of Tropical Climate and Tropical Cyclones
Chair: Elizabeth A. Ritchie, Univ. of Arizona
1:30 PM
3.1
1:45 PM
3.2
Unifying tropical cyclone best track data
Paula Ann Hennon, STG, Inc., Asheville, NC; and K. R. Knapp, M. C. Kruk, D. H. Levinson, H. J. Diamond, and E. Gibney
2:00 PM
3.3
The ICAT Damage Estimator
Kevin Joseph Sharp, ICAT, Boulder, CO
2:15 PM
3.4
A tool to interpret the National Hurricane Center wind probability forecasts
William P. Roeder, U.S. Air Force, Patrick AFB, FL; and M. C. Szpak
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Session 4
The Written Process from Publishing to Allowing Access
Location: 304 (Washington State Convention Center)
Host: 14th Conference of Atmospheric Science Librarians International
1:30 PM
4.1
How to Publish a Scientific Paper: Reflections on Being a Journal Editor
David M. Schultz, Universities of Helsinki and Manchester/Finnish Meteorological Institute, Helsinki, Finland
1:45 PM
4.2
Technical Report Archive and Image Library (TRAIL)
Mel DeSart, Univ. of Washington, Seattle, WA
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Joint Session 5
Communicating Climate Change II (Themed Joint Session)
Location: 609 (Washington State Convention Center)
Hosts: (Joint between the 23rd Conference on Climate Variability and Change; the 27th Conference on Interactive Information Processing Systems (IIPS); the 25th Conference on Hydrology; the 13th Conference on Atmospheric Chemistry; the Ninth History Symposium; the Sixth Symposium on Policy and Socio-economic Research; and the Second Conference on Weather, Climate, and the New Energy Economy )
Chair: Francis W. Zwiers, University of Victoria
1:30 PM
J4.6
Devils Lake climate, weather, and water decision support system
Fiona M. Horsfall, NOAA/NWS, Silver Spring, MD; and D. Kluck, M. J. Brewer, M. Timofeyeva, J. Symonds, S. Dummer, and M. Frazier
1:45 PM
J5.1
2:15 PM
J5.4
Turning the tide on climate change
Philippe de Casabianca, Cefic, Brussels, Belgium; and R. Kandel

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Session 6
Atmospheric observations, in situ and remote, including from satellites: Advantages and shortcomings compared with other observing systems—Part II
Location: 2B (Washington State Convention Center)
Host: 15th Symposium on Integrated Observing and Assimilation Systems for the Atmosphere, Oceans and Land Surface (IOAS-AOLS)
Chair: Bill Proenza, NOAA/NWS
1:45 PM
6.2
Using GPSRO data to examine radiation induced biases in global radiosonde data
Bomin Sun, NOAA/NESDIS, Suitland, MD; and T. Reale, D. J. Seidel, B. Ballish, S. R. Schroeder, L. Cucurull, M. Pettey, and F. Tilley
2:15 PM
6.4
Evaluation of AIRS V5 temperature profiles using matched retrievals from COSMIC and ECMWF analyses
Patrick F. Callaghan, UCAR, Boulder, CO; and S. P. Ho, T. P. Yunck, B. D. Wilson, and G. Manipon

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Session 7
Lidar Application Studies-I: Boundary Layer
Location: 307-308 (Washington State Convention Center)
Host: 5th Symposium on Lidar Atmospheric Applications
Cochairs: Belay B. Demoz, Howard Univ.; Yansen Wang, U.S. Army Research Laboratory
1:30 PM
7.1
Convective boundary layer entrainment: A review and consolidation using Doppler lidar
Katja Träumner, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Eggenstein-Leopoldshafen, Germany; and C. Kottmeier, U. Corsmeier, and A. Wieser
1:45 PM
7.2
Lidar-sonde-radiometer based analysis of the inversion strength of the entrainment zone and its daytime evolution
Micheal Hicks, NOAA/NWS, Sterling, VA; and R. Connell, B. B. Demoz, S. L. Kang, E. Joseph, J. Facundo, and D. Venable
2:00 PM
7.3
Automatic Planetay Boundary Layer detection with different sensors and Lidar systems
Sophie Loaec, LEOSPHERE, Paris, France; and L. Sauvage, A. El Filali, M. Boquet, and S. Lolli
2:15 PM
7.4
Internal Boundary Layer Structure Observed by dual-Doppler Lidar
Rob K. Newsom, PNNL, Richland, WA; and D. Ligon and D. Garvey
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Session 7
NPP Users Seminar I
Location: 4C-1 (Washington State Convention Center)
Host: Seventh Annual Symposium on Future Operational Environmental Satellite Systems
Cochairs: Carl Hoffman, NOAA/NESDIS/JPSS; Lihang Zhou, JPSS Program Office
1:30 PM
7.1
User Readiness for the National Polar-Orbiting Operational Environmental Satellite System Preparatory Project (NPP)
Lihang Zhou, JPSS Program Office, Silver Spring, MD; and H. Kilcoyne, L. Rokke, and K. St. Germain

2:00 PM
7.2
Accessing NPP data from CLASS, a tutorial
Drew Saunders, NOAA/National Climatic Data Center, Asheville, NC; and N. Ritchey and R. Rank
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Session 7
Upper Troposphere / Lower Stratosphere: Field Campaigns
Location: 3B (Washington State Convention Center)
Host: 16th Conference on Middle Atmosphere
Chair: Eric A. Ray, NOAA/ESRL/CSD
1:30 PM
7.1
START08/satellite data comparisons and large-scale context for START08 from MLS and ACE-FTS satellite data
G.L. Manney, NorthWest Research Associates and New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology, Socorro, NM; and M. I. Hegglin, W. Daffer, R. Fuller, E. Atlas, L. Pan, S. C. Wofsy, T. Campos, D. Hurst, M. Schwartz, M. L. Santee, and J. R. Walker

1:45 PM
7.2 has been moved to 7.3A

2:15 PM
7.2A
Dynamical and chemical characteristics of tropospheric intrusions observed during START08
Cameron R. Homeyer, NCAR, Boulder, CO; and K. P. Bowman, L. Pan, E. Atlas, R. S. Gao, and T. L. Campos

2:30 PM
7.3 has been moved to 7.2A

2:45 PM
7.4
Simultaneous water vapor and ozone lidar observations of a stratospheric intrusion during the MOHAVE-2009 campaign
Thierry Leblanc, California Institute of Technology, Wrightwood, CA; and I. S. McDermid and A. Hauchecorne
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Joint Session 8
Communicating Earth Science Information Part I
Location: 607 (Washington State Convention Center)
Hosts: (Joint between the 27th Conference on Interactive Information Processing Systems (IIPS); and the 23rd Conference on Climate Variability and Change )
Cochairs: Stephen M. Holt, Noblis, Inc.; Nancy N. Soreide, NOAA/PMEL; Eileen Shea, NOAA/Pacific Fisheries Science Center
1:45 PM
J8.2
Communicating fire weather information and assessing societal response
Peter Roohr, NOAA/NWS, Silver Spring, MD; and H. Hockenberry, J. Sprague, and S. Schranz
2:00 PM
J8.3
Evolution of NOAA's Observing System Investment Assessment Process
Eric J. Miller, NOAA/NESDIS, Silver Spring, MD; and M. Yapur, N. Wyse, R. Reining, and L. McCulloch
2:15 PM
J8.4
Developing tsunami flooding forecast software
Nancy N. Soreide, NOAA/PMEL, Seattle, WA; and D. W. Denbo, Y. Wei, D. Arcas, and V. V. Titov
Recording files available
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
1:45 PM
8.2
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
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
Recording files available
Session 9
Communicating Radar Data in the 21st Century Part II
Location: 606 (Washington State Convention Center)
Host: 27th Conference on Interactive Information Processing Systems (IIPS)
Cochairs: Douglas E. Forsyth, NOAA/NSSL; Timothy Crum, Retired, NWS; Julian Wang, NOAA/ARL; Robert E. Saffle, Noblis, Inc.; Mark Yeary, University of Oklahoma
1:30 PM
9.1
Extending the CLEAN-AP filter to staggered PRT signals in Doppler weather radars
David A. Warde, CIMMS/Univ. of Oklahoma, Norman, OK; and S. M. Torres
1:45 PM
9.2
Recent efforts to improve estimates of and mitigate potential wind turbine clutter impacts on WSR-88Ds
Richard J. Vogt, NOAA/NWS, Norman, OK; and T. Crum, B. Greenwood, E. Ciardi, and R. Guenther
2:00 PM
9.3
Wind Turbine Clutter Mitigation for Weather Radar: A Feasibility Study by Means of Scaled Measurement
Fanxing Kong, University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK; and Y. Zhang, R. D. Palmer, and Y. Bai
2:15 PM
9.4
Wind turbine clutter mitigation using range-Doppler domain signal processing method
Feng Nai, University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK; and R. D. Palmer and S. M. Torres
Recording files available
Session 10B
Numerical Modeling III: Precipitation Modeling and Verification
Location: 613/614 (Washington State Convention Center)
Host: 24th Conference on Weather and Forecasting/20th Conference on Numerical Weather Prediction
Chair: Roger V. Pierce, OAR
1:30 PM
10B.1
Quantitative precipitation forecast verification comparison between the Global Forecast System and North American Mesoscale operational models
Jamie K. Wolff, NCAR, Boulder, CO; and B. G. Brown, J. H. Gotway, M. Harrold, Z. Trabold, L. Nance, and P. Oldenburg
1:45 PM
10B.2
2:00 PM
10B.3
A comparison of three high-resolution dynamical downscaling methods to examine extreme precipitation in future climate regimes
Kelly M. Mahoney, CIRES/Univ. of Colorado, Boulder, CO; and M. A. Alexander, J. D. Scott, G. M. Lackmann, and J. Barsugli
2:15 PM
10B.4
The utility of Ensemble Kalman Filter-based modeling for short-term forecasts of banded snow
Astrid Suarez, National Weather Center Research Experience for Undergraduates, Norman, OK; and H. D. Reeves, D. M. Wheatley, and M. C. Coniglio
Recording files available
Joint Session 13
The Impacts of Cloud-Aerosol Interactions On Precipitation—Part I
Location: 605/610 (Washington State Convention Center)
Hosts: (Joint between the Third Symposium on Aerosol-Cloud-Climate Interactions; the 18th Conference on Planned and Inadvertent Weather Modification; and the 13th Conference on Atmospheric Chemistry )
Cochairs: Daniel Rosenfeld, Hebrew University; Roelof T. Bruintjes Sr., NCAR
Recording files available
Joint Session 14
Assimilation of observations into models: Ocean and other applications
Location: 2A (Washington State Convention Center)
Hosts: (Joint between the 15th Symposium on Integrated Observing and Assimilation Systems for the Atmosphere, Oceans and Land Surface (IOAS-AOLS); and the 24th Conference on Weather and Forecasting/20th Conference on Numerical Weather Prediction )
Chair: George R. Halliwell Jr., NOAA/AOML
1:45 PM
J14.2
Assimilating satellite and in situ data into a Chesapeake Bay model using the LETKF
Matthew J. Hoffman, Rochester Institute of Technology, Rochester, NY; and T. Miyoshi, T. W. N. Haine, and D. Waugh
2:00 PM
J14.3
Ensemble data assimilation for wind energy applications
Luca Delle Monache, NCAR, Boulder, CO; and G. Descombes, B. Kosovic, M. D. Simpson, V. Bulaevskaya, M. Alai, and L. G. Glascoe
Recording files available
Joint Session 15
Societal Dimensions of Weather and Climate Hazards II
Location: 618-620 (Washington State Convention Center)
Hosts: (Joint between the Sixth Symposium on Policy and Socio-economic Research; and the Second Symposium on Environment and Health )
Cochairs: Sheldon D. Drobot, NCAR; Greg Guibert, NCAR
1:30 PM
J15.1
Challenges in Communicating Two Consecutive High Impact Weather Events
Michael B. Scotten, NOAA/NWS, Memphis, TN; and K. N. Scotten and W. R. Borghoff
1:45 PM
J15.2
Public perceptions of the 10 May 2010 Oklahoma and the 17 June 2010 Minnesota tornado outbreaks
Sarah L. Stalker, NWC REU, Hudson, WI; and K. M. Kuhlman, H. Lazrus, R. A. Peppler, and K. E. Klockow
Recording files available
Joint Session 19
Data Assimilation for Air Quality Simulation and Forecast
Location: 3A (Washington State Convention Center)
Hosts: (Joint between the 13th Conference on Atmospheric Chemistry; and the 15th Symposium on Integrated Observing and Assimilation Systems for the Atmosphere, Oceans and Land Surface (IOAS-AOLS) )
Cochairs: Steven E. Peckham, NOAA/ESRL/GSD and CIRES-Univ. of Colorado; Scott A. Jackson, EPA
1:30 PM
J19.1
Techniques for improving air quality maps with data fusion
Scott A. Jackson, EPA, Research Triangle Park, NC; and P. H. Zahn and A. Pasch

1:45 PM
J19.2
2:00 PM
J19.3
3DVAR chemical data assimilation in WRF/Chem forecasts during CalNEX
Mariusz Pagowski, NOAA/GSD and CIRA, Colorado State University, Boulder, CO; and S. E. Peckham, G. Grell, and S. A. McKeen
2:15 PM
J19.4A
(Formerly Poster 237.) Use of ensemble WRF meteorological fields in July 2005 CMAQ simulations over the eastern U.S
Brian J. Etherton, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC; and P. D. Dolwick, S. Arunachalam, and K. Baker
Recording files available
Joint Session 19
High Resolution Simulations, and Applications for Aviation
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 Second Aviation, Range and Aerospace Meteorology Special Symposium on Weather-Air Traffic Management Integration )
Chair: Steven J. Weiss, NOAA/NWS/NCEP/SPC
1:30 PM
J19.1
Verification of diurnal cycle characteristics in the CAPS 2010 Storm Scale Ensemble Forecast System
Adam J. Clark, NOAA/NSSL/CIMMS, Norman, OK; and M. Xue, F. Kong, S. J. Weiss, I. L. Jirak, C. J. Melick, R. Sobash, P. T. Marsh, A. R. Dean, K. W. Thomas, J. S. Kain, and M. C. Coniglio

1:45 PM
J19.2
Simulation of MCS anvil cloud bands associated with flight-level turbulence
S. B. Trier, NCAR, Boulder, CO; and R. D. Sharman and R. Fovell
2:00 PM
J19.4
2:15 PM
J19.3
Experimental LAMP 2-h convection guidance on a 20-km grid
Jerome P. Charba, NOAA/NWS, Silver Spring, MD; and F. G. Samplatsky and P. E. Shafer
Recording files available
Lecture
Robert E. Horton Lecture
Location: 611 (Washington State Convention Center)
Host: 25th Conference on Hydrology
1:30 PM
L.1
What Robert Horton Did Not Know About Floods
James A. Smith, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ

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

Recording files available
Joint Session 7
Weather and Climate Applications for Energy Decision Support—I
Location: 4C-4 (Washington State Convention Center)
Hosts: (Joint between the Second Conference on Weather, Climate, and the New Energy Economy; and the Ninth Conference on Artificial Intelligence and its Applications to the Environmental Sciences )
Chair: Russell L. Bigley, Xcel Energy
2:00 PM
J7.1
Operational utilization and evaluation of a coupled weather and outage prediction service for electric utility operations
Lloyd A. Treinish, IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center, Yorktown Heights, NY; and A. Praino, H. Li, R. Derech, and B. Hertell
2:15 PM
J7.2
Introducing the Renewable Energy Network Optimization Tool (ReNOT): Part I
Randall Alliss, Northrop Grumann Corporation, Chantilly, VA; and R. Link, D. Apling, M. L. Mason, H. Kiley, G. Higgins, and K. Darmenova

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


Formal Poster Viewing with Coffee Break

Joint Poster Session 1
Aerosol, Cloud, and Climate
Location: 4E (Washington State Convention Center)
Hosts: (Joint between the Third Symposium on Aerosol-Cloud-Climate Interactions; the 18th Conference on Planned and Inadvertent Weather Modification; and the 13th Conference on Atmospheric Chemistry )
Cochairs: Yang Zhang, North Carolina State Univ.; Nicole Mölders, University of Alaska
693
Phase composition and seedability of cumulus clouds in the Camaguey meteorological site
Carlos Alberto Perez-Sanchez Sr., Camaguey Meteorological Center, Camaguey, Cuba; and D. Martinez, V. V. Petrov Sr., I. Pomares-Ponce, F. Gamboa-Romero, and B. P. Koloskov

Handout (2.8 MB)

694
Report on the Polarimetric Cloud Analysis and Seeding Test 3 (POLCAST3) Field Project
Korey Southerland, University of North Dakota, Grand Forks, ND; and D. Delene, G. Mullendore, P. A. Kucera, and D. Langerud

695
Accounting for spatiotemporal variation of rainfall measurements in detecting ground-based sources of weather modification
Raymond Chambers, University of Wollongong, Wollongong, NSW, Australia; and S. Beare and S. Peak

697
Storm duration analysis using TITAN
Logan C. Dawson, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN; and S. Tessendorf and C. Weeks

698
Numerical simulation of the accumulation zones and hail growth in hailstorms
Kailin Zheng, Nanjing University, Nanjing, Jiangsu, China; and B. Chen

699
Comprehensive Analysis of Satellite and Other Observations from a Convective Clouds Merger
Yuquan Zhou Sr., Chinese Academy of Meteorological Science, Beijing, China; and M. Cai II

700
Urbanisation and maximum temperature
Harvey Stern, Bureau of Meteorology, Melbourne, Vic., Australia; and B. Campbell, M. Efron, J. Cornall-Reilly, and J. McBride
Manuscript (2.0 MB)

Handout (67.3 kB)

701
A Study of the Vertical Structure and Distribution of Cloud System in China from Upper-Air Observations
Yuquan Zhou Sr., Chinese Academy of Meteorological Science, Beijing, China; and J. Ou

702
Preventing Tornadogenesis—Concept for Thunderstorm Intervention
Lyle M. Jenkins, Jenkins Enterprises, Houston, TX

703
Can precipitation suppression due to anthropogenic aerosol pollution be detected using back trajectory methods?
Thomas H. Chubb, Monash University, Monash University, VIC, Australia; and S. T. Siems and M. J. Manton

704
Silver enrichment in rain from clouds in Israel under different seeding and cloud microstructure conditions
Assaf Zipori, Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Israel; and D. Rosenfeld and Y. Erel

705
Examining the Connection between Particle Hygroscopicity and Immersion Freezing
Heike Wex, Leibniz Institute for Tropospheric Research, Leipzig, Germany; and D. Niedermeier, S. Hartmann, T. Clauss, A. Kiselev, R. C. Sullivan, M. D. Petters, P. J. DeMott, P. Reitz, J. Schneider, and F. Stratmann

706
Evolution of summer thunderstorms in the Baltimore-Washington, DC metropolitan area
Cassie A. Stearns, Howard University, Washington, DC; and E. Joseph, A. E. Reynolds, G. M. Heymsfield, D. Venable, and B. B. Demoz

707
Polarimetric Radar Analysis of Hygroscopic Seeding of Clouds in Eastern North Dakota
Paul A. Kucera, NCAR, Boulder, CO; and D. Delene, C. A. Grainger, and D. Langerud

708
The effect of aerosols on the onset of precipitation
Kathryn Boyd, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO; and C. D. Kummerow

709
The possible effects of aerosol on cloud and precipitation over the Korean peninsula
Hwan-Jin Song, Seoul National University, Seoul, Korea, Republic of (South); and B. J. Sohn

710
Aerosol impacts on cloud properties and precipitation variability over the Mid-Atlantic Region
Megan K. Payne, Howard University, Washington, DC; and E. Joseph and J. D. Fuentes

Handout (1.3 MB)

711
Aerosol effects on precipitaiton in a multiscale aerosol climate model
Minghuai Wang, PNNL, Richland, WA; and S. J. Ghan, M. Ovchinnikov, R. Easter, X. Liu, Y. Qian, and E. I. Kassianov

714
Aerosols in the marine boundary layer at the Azores AMF
Matthew C. Wyant, Univ. of Washington, Seattle, WA; and J. K. Fletcher, C. S. Bretherton, and R. Wood

715
Marine boundary layer albedo continuum investigations utilizing active and passive remote sensing data
Louise Leahy, Univerisity of Washington, Seattle, WA; and R. Wood

716
The Earth's Energy balance inferred from A-Train observations
David Henderson, Colorado State Univ., Fort Collins, CO; and T. S. L'Ecuyer

Handout (5.8 MB)

717
Polarimetric radar analysis of rain drop size variability in clouds near Brisbane Australia
James W. Wilson, NCAR, Boulder, CO; and C. A. Knight, S. A. Tessendorf, and C. Weeks

720
Resolving both mixing and number of activated CCN in deep convective clouds
Eyal Freud, Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Israel; and D. Rosenfeld

721
Aerosol, clouds and water vapor transport across the tropopause: observations and model results
Hui Su, JPL, Pasadena, CA; and J. Jiang, X. Liu, and W. G. Read

723
Spatio-temporal variability of aerosol in the tropics and its relationship with the hydrological cycle
Manuel D. Zuluaga, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA; and C. D. Hoyos and P. J. Webster

724
Examining aerosol indirect effects on tropical deep convection
Rachel L. Storer, Colorado State Univ., Fort Collins, CO; and S. C. van den Heever

Handout (6.0 MB)

725
Large-eddy simulation of the VOCALS RF06 pocket of open cells: cloud macrostructure, entrainment and microphysical timescale
Andrew H. Berner, University of Washington, Seattle, WA; and C. S. Bretherton, R. Wood, and P. N. Blossey

726
The effects of aerosol and meteorological conditions on low-level shallow clouds over East Asia
In-Jin Choi, Korea Institute of Atmospheric Prediction Systems, Seoul, Korea, Republic of (South); and T. Nakajima and S. C. Yoon

727
Urban Aerosol Direct Effect on Surface Temperature
Menglin Jin, San Jose State University, San Jose, CA; and J. M. Shepherd and W. Zheng

Poster 728 moved. New Talk 3.3A scheduled for Wed. at 9:15am

732
Measurement of Interstitial Particles During the PLOWS and the GRIP Aircraft Campaigns
Arash Moharreri, Clarkson University, Potsdam, NY; and P. Dubey, L. W. Craig, A. Schanot, D. C. Rogers, D. W. Toohey, B. E. Anderson, and S. Dhaniyala

734
Numerical Study of the Impact of Aerosol-Cloud Interactions during Mesoscale Convective
Priyanka Roy, NOAA/NESDIS, College Park, MD; and Z. Boybeyi

735
Global modeling of aerosol effects on cirrus clouds
Trude Storelvmo, Yale University, New Haven, CT; and D. Barahona and A. Nenes

736
Preliminary results of an aerosol-aware bulk microphysics scheme in WRF
Gregory Thompson, NCAR, Boulder, CO; and T. Eidhammer and R. M. Rasmussen

737
Regional model simulations of aerosol-cloud interactions in the Southeast Pacific
Andreas Muhlbauer, JISAO/Univ. of Washington, Seattle, WA; and R. Wood

Handout (425.6 kB)

738
Testing sea salt injections into marine stratocumulus as a geoengineering option
Andreas Muhlbauer, JISAO/Univ. of Washington, Seattle, WA; and T. P. Ackerman and R. Wood

Handout (2.6 MB)

739
CCN estimates from bulk hygroscopic growth factors of ambient aerosols during the pre-monsoon season over Central Nepal
Prabhakar Shrestha, Duke University, Durham, NC; and A. P. Barros and A. Khlystov

741
Cloud Condensation and Ice Nuclei Impacts on Tropical Convection in Cloud Resolving Model Simulations in Radiative Convective Equilibrium
Amanda M. Sheffield, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, Colorado; and S. C. van den Heever

743
Direct and indirect radiative forcing of biomass burning aerosols at Kilimanjaro
Udaysankar S. Nair, University of Alabama, Huntsville, AL; and J. G. Fairman Jr. and S. Christopher

745
746
Potential retrieval of aerosol properties for aerosol cloud interaction studies using Aerosol Polarimetry Sensor (APS) measurements
Alexandra Tsekeri, City College of New York, New York, NY; and B. Gross, F. Moshary, and S. Ahmed
Manuscript (788.2 kB)

747
Cloud base aerosol characteristics and implications for cloud microphysics in southeast Queensland
Sarah Tessendorf, NCAR, Boulder, CO; and C. Weeks, R. Bruintjes, and D. Axisa
Manuscript (492.1 kB)

748
Cold pools and aerosols under stratocumuli
Christopher R. Terai, University of Washington, Seattle, WA; and R. Wood

Poster 750 moved. New Talk 1.3A scheduled for Mon. at 12:00pm

751
Feasibility of Space-Based Monitoring for Governance of Solar Radiation Management Activities
Leslie Wickman, The Aerospace Corp., El Segundo, CA; and P. Smith, I. Min, and S. Beck
Manuscript (335.5 kB)

Handout (678.3 kB)


Poster Session 1
Dollars and Cents: Weather for Energy Markets
Host: Second Conference on Weather, Climate, and the New Energy Economy
761
762
Gene-expression programming—an electrical-load forecast alternative to artificial neural networks
Atoossa Bakhshaii, Univ. of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada; and R. B. Stull

Handout (1.2 MB)

763
On the efficiency of solar energy in the tropics
Paul Ruscher, Florida State Univ., Tallahassee, FL

Handout (3.0 MB)

764
Establishing the value in day ahead solar power forecasting
Jeff Lerner, Vaisala, Seattle, WA; and E. Grimit, B. Nijssen, and M. Wiley

765
Wind farm layout optimization
Jayant R. Kalagnanam, IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center, Yorktown Heights, NY; and B. Dilkina and L. A. Treinish

Handout (1.0 MB)


Poster Session 1
TCs: Communicating the Science, Technology, and Forecasting of TCs to the General Public
Location: Washington State Convention Center
Host: More Effectively Communicating the Science of Tropical Climate and Tropical Cyclones
848
The influence of the North Atlantic Oscillation on hurricane landfalls from Virginia to Maine
William Christopher Alston, Rutgers Univ., New Brunswick, NJ

849
Oil Spill and Sea Surface Effects Over Gulf of Mexico Using WRF and Satellite Data
Francis. Tuluri, Jackson State Univ., Jackson, MS; and R. S. Reddy, A. Yerramilli, V. B. R. Dodla, and A. Milan

Handout (253.0 kB)

850
The Rising Frequency of Hurricane-Tornadoes: Possible Causes and Consequences
Virginia G. Silvis, Univ. of Oklahoma, Norman, OK

851
On the display of tropical cyclone model ensemble structure information
Kate D. Musgrave, CIRA/Colorado State Univ., Fort Collins, CO; and M. DeMaria, B. D. McNoldy, and R. T. DeMaria

852
Hurricane Data Analysis Tool
Zhong Liu, George Mason Univ./CSISS, Fairfax, VA and NASA/GSFC, Greenbelt, MD; and D. Ostrenga and G. Leptoukh

853
The utilization of NASA satellite data to analyze tropical cyclone wind speed and cloud height in the Gulf of Mexico
Josh Stodghill, NASA, Mobile, AL; and A. Cederholm, A. Johnston, D. Mullek, and R. White

Handout (1.5 MB)


Joint Poster Session 1
Weather and Climate Applications for Energy Decision Support
Hosts: (Joint between the Second Conference on Weather, Climate, and the New Energy Economy; and the Ninth Conference on Artificial Intelligence and its Applications to the Environmental Sciences )
753
Making energy balancing decisions based on very uncertain wind power ramp forecasts
Eric P. Grimit, 3TIER, Inc., Seattle, WA; and K. Larson, J. Lerner, and M. T. Stoelinga

754
NASA products to enhance energy utility load forecasting
Erica Zell, Battelle, Arlington, VA; and P. Stackhouse Jr., G. Lough, J. Engel-Cox, A. Carpenter, G. J. Jedlovec, R. Homer, and S. Bliley

755
Visualizing wind power forecast performance
Lacey Holland, 3TIER, Seattle, WA; and A. Atkins and C. Teeter

Poster 756 has been moved to oral presentation J9.1A

758
Applications of the Renewable Energy Network Optimization Tool (ReNOT) for use by Wind & Solar Developers: Part II
Randall Alliss, Northrop Grumann Corporation, Chantilly, VA; and R. Link, D. Apling, H. Kiley, M. Mason, E. Martin, and G. Higgins
Manuscript (1.9 MB)

Handout (2.0 MB)

759
Simulating Photovoltaic Array Performance with Solar Radiations Observations from the Oklahoma Mesonet
Nicholas A. Engerer, Univ. of Oklahoma, Norman, OK; and M. L. Morrissey

Handout (2.1 MB)

Poster 760 now Poster 263A


Poster Session 2
6 POLICY Poster Session II
Location: Washington State Convention Center
Host: Sixth Symposium on Policy and Socio-economic Research
Chair: Sheldon D. Drobot, NCAR
659
The impacts of misinterpreting probabilistic seasonal climate outlooks
Holly C. Hartmann, Univ. of Arizona, Tucson, AZ; and B. G. Colby

660
Water Management and Climate Change in the Himalayas: Providing New Tools to Prevent Hazards and Enable the Understanding of Changing Climate
Molly Brown, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD; and K. Yager, S. Habib, G. Artan, A. Racovinteanu, and M. S. Shrestha

662
Fieldwork in Indian Country: A Conversational Experience
Randy A. Peppler, CIMMS/Univ. of Oklahoma, Norman, OK

Handout (3.5 MB)

663
The Winter Storm Scale: A measure of the ability of winter storms to disrupt society
Brian J. Cerruti, Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey, New Brunswick, NJ; and S. G. Decker
Manuscript (259.2 kB)

664
History of the IMGW websites development as a communication tool
Mieczyslaw Stefan Ostojski, Institute of Meteorology and Water Management, Warsaw, Poland
Manuscript (303.7 kB)

665
Societal Dimensions of the 2009 Aug 19 Minneapolis Tornado
Lisa Schmit, NWS, Chanhassen, MN; and M. Friedlein

Handout (5.3 MB)

666
Distribution of Maximum Wind Potential Damage by the Typhoon Maemi in Gyeongnam Province, Korea
Jong-Kil Park, Inje University, Gimhae, Korea, Republic of (South); and W. S. Jung, H. J. Choi, E. B. Kim, and H. L. Park

Handout (567.0 kB)

667
The Ogallala Agro-Climate Tool
Steven A. Mauget, USDA, Lubbock, Texas; and G. Leiker

669
Space and spatiality in warnings: a new way to evaluate warning comprehension
Kimberly E. Klockow, University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK

670
671
Integrating NASA models and missions into Central American agricultural decision support
Jonathan M. Winter, NASA/GISS, New York, NY; and A. C. Ruane, R. M. Horton, and C. Rosenzweig

672
Improving a Classic Outreach Model by Integrating Researchers and Information-users: the Coastal and Inland Flood Observation and Warning Information System (CI-FLOW)
John F. Thigpen III, North Carolina Sea Grant, Raleigh, NC; and S. Van Cooten, K. Kelleher, K. Nemunaitis-Monroe, L. Spence, R. H. Bacon, K. M. Patterson, D. Figursky, R. S. Bandy, and J. G. W. Kelley

673
An Analysis of Southern U.S. Ice Storm Frequency from 2000-2009
Carly Kovacik, CAPS/Univ. of Oklahoma, Norman, OK; and J. Hocker and M. Shafer

674
Community-based Flood Risk Management of urban and rural area in Kumamoto, Japan
Kenji Tanaka, Kumamoto Univ., Kumamoto, Japan; and F. Yamada, R. Kakimoto, T. Fujimi, and T. Ohmoto

675
Development of a user scorecard for Navy operations
James Hansen, NRL, Monterey, CA; and E. Regnier, T. Murphree, S. Klotz, M. Sestak, A. J. Reiss, and B. Martin

676
Situation-Specific Flood and Flash Flood Call-to-Action Statements
Brian M. Boyd, NOAA/NWSFO, Morristown, TN; and T. W. Troutman

Handout (740.2 kB)

677
Enhancing local river flood hazard communication at the Rio Grande Valley
Mike Castillo, NOAA/NWS, Brownsville, TX; and A. Vega, B. S. Goldsmith, and J. Estupiñán

Handout (2.9 MB)

Poster 678 has been moved. New poster number 343A


Poster Session 2
Assimilation of observations
Location: Washington State Convention Center
Host: 15th Symposium on Integrated Observing and Assimilation Systems for the Atmosphere, Oceans and Land Surface (IOAS-AOLS)
536
Assimilation of Doppler Radar Radial Wind For High Resolution Forecast initialization at NCEP
Shun Liu, IMSG and NOAA/NWS/NCEP/EMC, College Park, MD; and D. Parrish, M. Pyle, J. Derber, W. S. Wu, and G. DiMego

540
Real Time Radar Quality Control for Assimilation in Numerical Models
Guangxin He, Nanjing University of Information Science and Technology, Nanjing, China; and G. Li, P. Ray, and X. Zou

Handout (2.5 MB)

541
Evaluation of WRFDA 4D-VAR through Month-long Run and Case Study
Xiaoyan Zhang, NCAR, Boulder, CO; and X. Y. Huang and X. Zhang
Manuscript (8.5 MB)

542
Assimilation of Radar Radial Velocity Data with the WRF Ensemble-3DVAR Hybrid System for the Prediction of Hurricane IKE (2008)
Yongzuo Li, University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK, Norman, OK; and X. Wang and M. Xue
Manuscript (1.4 MB)

Handout (1.4 MB)

543
Impact of cycled 3DVAR assimilation of COSMIC observations on nor'easter simulations
Stephen D. Nicholls, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ; and S. G. Decker
Manuscript (2.4 MB)

544
Assimilation of AIRS CO2 observations with an EnKF in a Carbon-Climate model
Junjie Liu, Univ. of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, CA; and E. Kalnay, I. Fung, M. Chahine, and E. T. Olsen

545
Study on forecasting a cold-air-damming event with the WRF-EnKF system
Linlin Pan, NCAR, Boulder, CO; and Y. Liu, W. Wu, W. Cheng, G. Descombes, H. Liu, J. Anderson, L. delle Monache, G. Roux, N. A. Jacobs, and P. Childs

546
AMSU-A Bias Correction for COAMPS/NAVDAS
William F. Campbell, NRL, Monterey, CA; and K. Sashegyi

547
Raising the model top for an ensemble Kalman filter
Seung-Jong Baek, EC, Dorval, QC, Canada; and P. L. Houtekamer, N. Gagnon, and X. Deng

Handout (1.3 MB)

548
Assimilating spacecraft observations into a Mars Global Circulation Model using LETKF: managing bias and ensemble spread
Steven J. Greybush, University of Maryland, College Park, MD; and M. J. Hoffman, E. Kalnay, K. Ide, T. Miyoshi, R. N. Hoffman, J. Eluszkiewicz, and R. J. Wilson

550
An Regional Ensemble Kalman Filter Data Assimilation System Employing GSI Observation Processing and Initial Tests for Rapid Refresh Forecast Configurations
Kefeng Zhu, CAPS/Univ. of Oklahoma, Norman, OK; and M. Xue, X. Wang, J. Whitaker, S. Benjamin, and S. S. Weygandt

551
NAVDAS-AR for COAMPS
Clark M. Amerault, NRL, Monterey, CA

552
Improving EnKF spin-up for typhoon assimilation and prediction
Shu-Chih Yang, National Central University, Jhongli City, Taoyuan County, Taiwan; and E. Kalnay and T. Miyoshi
Manuscript (555.3 kB)

Handout (4.5 MB)

553
Dynamics and structure of forecast error covariance for a developing hurricane
Jonathan Poterjoy, Penn State University, University Park, PA; and F. Zhang

554
Applying a retrospective optimal interpolation to WRF
Shin-Woo Kim, Seoul National University, Seoul, Korea, Republic of (South); and H. J. Song, N. K. Noh, E. Jung, and G. H. Lim

Handout (1.3 MB)

555
A hybrid ensemble Kalman filter approach to data assimilation in WRF / DART
Lili Lei, University of Colorado, CIRES Climate Diagnostics Center, Boulder, CO; and D. R. Stauffer
Manuscript (710.4 kB)

Handout (1.4 MB)

556
The Data Assimilation Research Testbed: New algorithms and applications
Jeffrey Anderson, NCAR, Boulder, CO; and G. Romine, K. Raeder, H. Liu, N. Collins, and T. J. Hoar

Handout (4.6 MB)

557
NOGAPS DART: A comparison of EnKF-based and FNMOC operational ensemble forecasts
Justin McLay, NRL, Monterey, CA; and D. Hodyss, T. R. Whitcomb, J. Hansen, T. J. Hoar, N. Collins, and J. Anderson

558
A comparison between mixed and transform data assimilation schemes on short-, medium- and long-term forecasts
Erin A. Kashawlic, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI; and S. J. Fletcher, J. Forsythe, A. S. Jones, and T. H. Vonder Haar

559
Using the Kalman-Bucy filter in an ensemble framework
Javier Amezcua, University of Maryland, College Park, MD; and E. Kalnay

Handout (197.0 kB)

560
Markov-chain Monte Carlo assimilation of radar reflectivity to improve microphysical parameterization
Marcus van Lier-Walqui, Univ. of Miami/RSMAS, Miami, FL; and T. Vukicevic and D. J. Posselt

562
A stochastic parameter estimation method based on the unscented transformation
Richard Linares, University at Buffalo, Amherst, NY


Poster Session 2
Data Assimilation and Reanalyses
Location: Washington State Convention Center
Host: 16th Conference on Middle Atmosphere
519
NOGAPS-ALPHA assimilation of middle atmospheric water vapor from Aura MLS measurements 2005–2009
J. P. McCormack, NRL, Washington, DC; and F. Sassi, K. W. Hoppel, and G. E. Nedoluha

520
Ensemble assimilation of stratospheric temperature and ozone observations in a chemistry-climate model
Thomas Milewski, McGill Univ., Montreal, QC, Canada; and M. S. Bourqui

Handout (126.7 kB)

522
Stratospheric Characteristics of the NCEP Climate Forecast System Reanalysis
Craig S. Long, NOAA, College Park, MD; and A. H. Butler, S. Zhou, S. K. Yang, R. Lin, and J. Wild


Poster Session 2
IIPS Posters Part II
Host: 27th Conference on Interactive Information Processing Systems (IIPS)
Cochairs: Stephen M. Holt, Noblis, Inc.; Marjorie McGuirk, NOAA/NESDIS/NCDC; Anthony Arguez, NOAA/NESDIS/NCEI
361
AWIPS II Extended—Data Delivery Paradigm
Joanne Edwards, CIRA/Colorado State Univ., Fort Collins, CO; and J. Fluke and B. A. Lawrence

Handout (1.5 MB)

362
Leveraging open-source and new technology infusion in AWIPS II
Bradley Scalio, Raytheon, Silver Spring, MD

364
WSR-88D: Still the best and getting better
Richard J. Vogt, NOAA/NWS, Norman, OK; and T. Crum, J. Chrisman, J. R. Reed, M. J. Istok, B. Saffle, D. Melendez, K. Kelleher, and D. E. Forsyth
Manuscript (210.7 kB)

Handout (192.6 kB)

365
New science for the WSR-88D: validating the dual polarization upgrade
Darcy S. Saxion, Air Force Weather Agency, Norman, OK; and R. L. Ice, P. T. Schlatter, O. E. Boydstun, A. K. Heck, J. N. Chrisman, S. D. Smith, W. D. Zittel, R. W. Hall, J. C. Krause, A. D. Free, M. J. Prather, M. V. Briggs, and R. D. Rhoton
Manuscript (209.9 kB)

Handout (169.9 kB)

366
Multiple National laboratory and University partnership to develop dual polarization weather radar for the FAA
David J. Smalley, MIT Lincoln Lab., Lexington, MA; and B. J. Bennett, M. Donovan, R. G. Hallowell, K. T. Hood, and E. R. Williams

367
Design, Fabrication and Test of a TWT Transportable Polarimetric X-band Radar
B. L. Cheong, University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK; and R. D. Palmer, M. Yeary, T. Y. Yu, and Y. Zhang

Handout (19.4 MB)

368
Performance evaluation of the time balance scheduling algorithm for phased-array radar adaptive weather sensing
Ricardo Reinoso-Rondinel Sr., University of Oklahoma, Norman, Oklahoma; and T. Y. Yu and S. M. Torres

369
Online Determination of Noise Level in Weather Radars
Igor R. Ivic, CIMMS/Univ. of Oklahoma, Norman, OK; and S. M. Torres
Manuscript (368.4 kB)

Handout (765.6 kB)

370
Sensitivity of operational weather radars
Richard L. Ice, Air Force Weather Agency, Norman, OK; and D. S. Saxion, O. E. Boydstun, W. D. Zittel, R. W. Hall, G. S. Cate, A. D. Free, R. D. Rhoton, R. W. Macemon, and B. Walker
Manuscript (1022.3 kB)

Handout (127.2 kB)

371
Early Satellite Detection and Subsequent Radar Tracking of Thunderstorms
Lindsey M. Richardson, University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK; and T. M. Smith, V. Lakshmanan, and K. L. Manross

372
A technique for spatial evaluation of severe thunderstorm warnings issued by the National Weather Service
Nicole R. Ramsey, CIMMS/Univ. of Oklahoma and NOAA/NSSL, Norman, OK; and K. L. Ortega and V. Lakshmanan
Manuscript (1.0 MB)

373
Interactive web access for detailed global current conditions, forecast, history, and climate data
John L. Keller, Weather Analytics Inc., Winchester, MA; and C. A. Khuen

Handout (1.6 MB)


Poster Session 2
Weather Fundamentals for Energy Planning: Data and User Groups
Host: Second Conference on Weather, Climate, and the New Energy Economy
766
Performance of a wind-profiling LIDAR in the region of wind turbine rotor disks
Matthew L. Aitken, Univ. of Colorado, Boulder, CO; and M. E. Rhodes and J. K. Lundquist

Handout (870.4 kB)

767
An evaluation of different data mining methods for forecasting wind farm power
Gerry Wiener, NCAR, Boulder, CO; and J. M. Pearson, B. Lambi, and W. Myers

Handout (531.9 kB)

768
Simulating Wind Power Density around Buildings for Siting
Sue Ellen Haupt, Penn State Univ., University Park, PA; and S. W. Stewart, J. A. Cole, F. J. Zajaczkowski, and K. J. Schmehl
Manuscript (659.3 kB)

769
Simulating time-series winds using genetic programming
Ethan Cook, Univ. of Oklahoma, Norman, OK; and M. L. Morrissey and J. S. Greene

771
A U.S. Wind Climatology: new tools to monitor wind trends across the contiguous United States
Jake Crouch, NOAA/NCDC, Asheville, NC; and T. W. R. Wallis and D. S. Arndt
Manuscript (304.3 kB)


Poster Session 3
Forecast System Development and Applications
Host: 24th Conference on Weather and Forecasting/20th Conference on Numerical Weather Prediction
438
Of weather prediction without models II
M. Jeremie Lafitte (Levitas), Metivdata, Safed, Israel

440
Human improvement to NWP at the Hydrometeorological Prediction Center
David R. Novak, NOAA/NWS/HPC, Camp Springs, MD; and K. F. Brill, C. Bailey, M. Eckert, D. Petersen, R. Rausch, and M. Schichtel
Manuscript (402.9 kB)

441
An overview of NRL's atmospheric global modeling and research
Carolyn A. Reynolds, NRL, Monterey, CA; and M. Flatau, J. Hansen, T. F. Hogan, Y. J. Kim, R. H. Langland, M. Liu, J. McLay, J. R. Moskaitis, M. Peng, J. A. Ridout, K. C. Viner, T. R. Whitcomb, and E. Serra

443
Evaluation of retrospective forecasts from 2010 HFIP Stream 1.5 candidates
Christopher L. Williams, NCAR, Boulder, CO; and L. Nance, B. G. Brown, K. Crosby, M. Harrold, T. L. Jensen, and P. A. Kucera

444
Community Hurricane Weather Research and Forecast (HWRF) work at the Developmental Testbed Center
Shaowu Bao, CIRES/Univ. of Colorado and NOAA/ESRL, Boulder, CO; and L. R. Bernardet, C. W. Harrop, D. Stark, and L. Carson
Manuscript (53.2 kB)

445
Diagnosis of operational model track forecast error for Hurricane Ike (2008)
Michael J. Brennan, NOAA/NWS/NHC, Miami, FL; and S. J. Majumdar

Handout (19.6 MB)

446
Development of GRAPES_Meso system and its performance
Jian Sun, Center for Numerical Weather Prediction/CMA, Beijing, China; and X. Shen, D. Chen, and J. Xue

447
On the improvement of cloud radiation in GRAPES global model and its forecast impact
Qiying Chen, China Meteorological Administration, Beijing, China; and X. Z. Liang

448
Comparison experiments between GRAPES_Meso and WRF
LianTang Deng, China Meterological Administration, Beijing, China; and Y. Su Sr. and D. Chen Sr.

449
Moistening and heating effects of convection simulated in the JMA global NWP model
Takuya Komori, Japan Meteorological Agency, Tokyo, Japan

450
Validation of the 10-meter Winds from WRF Mesoscale Forecast over Puerto Rico
Gian A. Villamil, University of Puerto Rico, Mayagüez, PR; and A. F. Adames, I. Del Valle, A. Marrero, D. Pérez-Betancourt, R. Rios, P. Sanchez, and L. F. Bejarano

452
Aviation applications of a new generation of mesoscale numerical weather prediction system of the Hong Kong Observatory
W.K. Wong, Hong Kong Observatory, Hong Kong, Hong Kong; and P. W. Chan and I. Ng
Manuscript (3.4 MB)

453
Verification of NWP turbulence intensity guidance using eddy dissipation rate from aircraft data
W.K. Wong, Hong Kong Observatory, Hong Kong, Hong Kong; and P. W. Chan and C. M. Li
Manuscript (1.4 MB)

454
Demonstrating the operational value of Atmospheric Infrared Sounder (AIRS) retrieved profiles in the pre-convective environment
Danielle M. Kozlowski, University of Missouri, Columbia, MO; and B. T. Zavodsky and G. J. Jedlovec
Manuscript (824.8 kB)

Handout (1.6 MB)

455
Forecasting lake-effect precipitation in the Great Lakes region using NASA enhanced satellite data
Michelle L. Cipullo, North Carolina State University, Salisbury, NC; and A. L. Molthan, J. L. Case, and G. J. Jedlovec
Manuscript (1.1 MB)

Handout (1.5 MB)

456
Deep convection initiation in the WRF model
Elizabeth A. Rockwell, NOAA/NSSL, Norman, OK; and D. J. Stensrud

457
CAPS Multi-Model Storm-Scale Ensemble Forecast for the NOAA HWT 2010 Spring Experiment
Fanyou Kong, CAPS/Univ. of Oklahoma, Norman, OK; and M. Xue, K. W. Thomas, Y. Wang, K. A. Brewster, X. Wang, J. Gao, S. J. Weiss, A. J. Clark, J. S. Kain, M. C. Coniglio, and J. Du
Manuscript (1.7 MB)

458
The severe thunderstorm forecasting component of the 2010 NOAA Hazardous Weather Testbed spring experiment
Steven J. Weiss, NOAA/NWS/NCEP/SPC, Norman, OK; and A. J. Clark, I. L. Jirak, C. J. Melick, C. W. Siewert, R. Sobash, P. T. Marsh, A. R. Dean, M. Xue, F. Kong, K. W. Thomas, J. Du, R. S. Schneider, J. S. Kain, and M. C. Coniglio

459
Recent enhancements to real-time probabilistic thunderstorm guidance products from a time-lagged ensemble of High Resolution Rapid Refresh (HRRR) forecasts
Curtis R. Alexander, NOAA/ESRL/GSD, Boulder, CO; and D. A. Koch, S. S. Weygandt, T. G. Smirnova, S. G. Benjamin, and E. P. James

461
Addressing convective-scale forecast challenges with the High Resolution Rapid Refresh (HRRR) Model
Eric P. James, CIRES/Univ. of Colorado and NOAA/ESRL/GSD, Boulder, CO; and C. R. Alexander, S. S. Weygandt, S. G. Benjamin, and J. M. Brown

464
Downslope Wind Forecasts in a Mountainous Region: Assessing Uncertainty in High-Resolution Modeling over the Las Vegas Forecast Zone
Andre Pattantyus, Florida Institute of Technology, Melbourne, FL; and S. Chiao, S. Czyzyk, and M. J. Staudenmaier Jr.
Manuscript (582.5 kB)

Handout (312.5 kB)


Poster Session 3
Dynamics and Transport
Location: Washington State Convention Center
Host: 16th Conference on Middle Atmosphere
523
Radiative-Photochemical Damping of Equatorial Waves in the Middle Atmosphere
Dustin Grogan, Univ. of California, Davis, CA; and T. Nathan, E. Cordero, and R. Echols

525
The temperature response to stratospheric water vapor changes
Amanda C. Maycock, Univ. of Reading, Reading, United Kingdom; and M. M. Joshi and K. P. Shine

Handout (2.2 MB)

526
Effect of energetic particle precipitation on the atmosphere as simulated by WACCM
Ethan D. Peck, Univ. of Colorado, Boulder, CO; and C. E. Randall, X. Fang, D. R. Marsh, V. L. Harvey, and M. Mills

527
Life-cycle of the ‘frozen-in anticyclone' in the 2005 Arctic summer stratosphere
Douglas R. Allen, NRL, Washington, DC; and G. L. Manney and A. R. Douglass

Handout (2.0 MB)

528
The role of transient tropospheric forcing in stochastic low-order models of sudden stratospheric warmings
Jeremiah P. Sjoberg, Colorado State Univ., Fort Collins, CO; and T. Birner


Poster Session 3
Poster Session 3
Location: Washington State Convention Center
Host: 23rd Conference on Climate Variability and Change
Organizers: Xuebin Zhang, EC; David R. Easterling, NOAA/NESDIS/NCDC; Jim Hurrell, NCAR
494
Transformed Eddy-PV Flux and Positive Synoptic Eddy Feedback onto Low-Frequency Flow
Hong-Li Ren, University of Hawaii, Honolulu, HI; and F. F. Jin, J. S. Kug, and L. Gao

Handout (257.6 kB)

495
Weakening of East Asian Winter Monsoon in the Middle of 1980s
Pei-ken Kao, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan; and C. W. Hung

496
Diurnal variation in diffusion scheme on a global atmospheric model
Sun-Hee Shin, MRI, Tsukuba, Japan; and A. Kitoh and K. Ha

498
Arctic aerosols: origins and direct radiative forcings
Ilissa Ocko, Environmental Defense Fund, New York, NY; and V. Ramaswamy and P. Ginoux

Handout (4.9 MB)

499
A comparison of physical climate feedbacks between GCM and reanalysis datasets
Meghan M. Flink, Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR; and K. M. Shell

Handout (475.3 kB)

500
Numerical Studies of Lower Boundary Forcing on Tropical Storm Fay (2008) over Southern Florida
Travis Washington, Florida Institute of Technology, Melbourne, FL; and S. Chiao
Manuscript (8.4 MB)

501
Tropical Intra-seasonal Variability in a 20-km mesh MRI/JMA AGCM incorporating a New Convective Scheme
Hirokazu Endo, MRI/Japan Meteorological Agency, Tsukuba, Ibaraki, Japan; and H. Yoshimura, H. Murakami, T. Ose, and A. Kitoh

503
Intraseasonal variability sensitivity tests in an aqua-plant general circulation model
Kiranmayi Landu, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO; and E. D. Maloney

Handout (1.4 MB)

504
The fully coupled atmosphere-ocean climate on an aquaplanet geography
Younglan Shin, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada; and S. A. Cowling and W. R. Peltier

505A
Comparison of Earth radiation annual cycles from CERES and model computations
Pamela E. Mlynczak, SSAI, Hampton, VA; and G. L. Smith and G. L. Potter


Poster Session 3
Supply/Demand Fundamentals: Short Range Forecasting
Host: Second Conference on Weather, Climate, and the New Energy Economy
773
A convection permitting forecast ensemble for the mid-Atlantic states: applications for renewable energy
Brian J. Etherton, Univ. of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC; and M. J. Parker and B. Weatherhead

Handout (2.9 MB)

774
Solar and Wind Energy Forecasting and Projection
Quanhua (Mark) Liu, NOAA/NESDIS, Camp Sprins, MD; and F. Weng

775
Intra-hour forecasting with a total sky imager at the UC San Diego solar energy testbed
Bryan Urquhart, Univ. of California, La Jolla, CA; and C. W. Chow, M. Lave, J. Kleissl, and B. Washom

Handout (1.5 MB)

776
Prototyping and Validating a Solar Irradiance Forecasting System
George D. Modica, AER, Inc, Lexington, MA; and R. P. D'Entremont, M. J. Iacono, G. B. Gustafson, and H. E. Snell

Handout (351.9 kB)

777
Creation of a WRF Ensemble for Improved Wind Forecasts at Turbine Height
Adam J. Deppe, Iowa State Univ., Ames, IA; and W. A. Gallus Jr. and E. S. Takle
Manuscript (488.6 kB)

Handout (899.2 kB)

778
Improving the 0-3 hour wind forecast through wind farm data assimilation in the NCAR/ATEC WRF RTFDDA
William Y. Y. Cheng, NCAR, Boulder, CO; and Y. Liu, Y. Liu, B. Mahoney, M. Politovich, T. T. Warner, K. Parks, and J. Himelic

779
Probabilistic Wind Vector Forecasting using Ensembles and Bayesian Model Averaging
McLean Sloughter, Seattle Univ., Seattle, WA; and T. Gneiting and A. E. Raftery

780
Verification and analysis of hub-height wind forecasts from the NCAR-Xcel WRF-RTFDDA
Gregory Roux, NCAR, Boulder, CO; and Y. Liu, M. J. Pocernich, W. Y. Y. Cheng, L. Delle Monache, A. Fournier, S. Linden, and W. Myers

781
Evaluation of wind ramp forecasts from an initial version of a rapid update dynamical-statistical ramp prediction system
John W. Zack, AWS Truepower, LLC, Troy, NY; and S. H. Young and E. J. Natenberg

782
Application Of An Operational Meso-Scale Modelling System For Industiral Plant Energy Operations
Anthony P. Praino, IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center, Yorktown Heights, NY; and L. A. Treinish, D. Pinckney, and R. Calio

Handout (8.0 MB)

783
Observations and downscaled predictions of effects of land use and urban heat island on climate
Benjamin J. Hatchett, DRI, Reno, NV; and D. Koracin, J. T. Abatzoglou, S. D. Bassett, and M. Dolloff

784
Numerical weather forecast with variational data assimilation in the Andes
Estatio J. Gutiérrez, City College of New York, New York, NY; and A. Muñoz


Poster Session 4
Supply/Demand Fundamentals: Medium/Long Range Forecasting
Host: Second Conference on Weather, Climate, and the New Energy Economy
785
An Analysis of Climate Change's Impacts on Future Wind Energy Production in California
David M. Rasmussen Jr., Univ. of Wisconsin, Madison, WI; and T. Holloway and G. F. Nemet

786
Using long range forecasts to assess hydro potential
Michael Ferrari, Coca Cola, Bethlehem, PA

787
The Impact of Climate Change on Renewable Energy Production across the United States: An Illustrative Study using The Renewable Energy Network Optimization Tool (ReNOT)
Randall Alliss, Northrop Grumann Corporation, Chantilly, VA; and R. Link, H. Kiley, D. Apling, G. Higgins, and K. Darmenova

Handout (1.5 MB)

788
Climate change implications of summer coastal cooling on energy demands over US
B. Lebassi, College of New York, New York, NY; and J. E. Gonzalez, O. Rhone, and R. Bornstein

790
Numerical Simulations of a Summer 2010 Heat Wave in New York City using WRF's Building Energy Parameterization
Estatio J. Gutiérrez, City College of New York, New York, NY; and J. E. González, R. D. Bornstein, M. Arend, and A. Martilli

Handout (921.9 kB)


Poster Session 4
Upper Troposphere / Lower Stratosphere
Location: Washington State Convention Center
Host: 16th Conference on Middle Atmosphere
529
Diagnosis of tropical cyclone activity in the UT/LS through gravity wave energy density in the South West Indian Ocean
Chouaïbou Ibrahim, Laboratoire de l'atmosphere et des cyclones, Saint Denis, Reunion

531
Validation of a new operational package for the Lagrangian diagnosis of stratosphere-troposphere exchange at Environment Canada
Michel S. Bourqui, McGill Univ., Montreal, QC, Canada; and A. Yamamoto, D. W. Tarasick, M. Moran, L. P. Beaudoin, I. Beres, J. Davies, A. Elford, C. Guertin, M. Osman, R. Wilkinson, W. Hocking, and P. S. Argall

Handout (4.7 MB)

532
533
Cloud-top height variability associated with equatorial Kelvin waves in the tropical tropopause layer during the Mirai Indian Ocean cruise for the Study of the MJO-convection Onset (MISMO) campaign
Junko Suzuki, Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology (JAMSTEC), Kanagawa, Japan; and M. Fujiwara, A. Hamada, and R. Shirooka

534
535
Effects of all-sky heating rates, nucleation mechanisms, convection, and waves on water vapor at the tropical tropopause
Leonhard Pfister, NASA/Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, CA; and E. Jensen


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

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)

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


Poster Session 5
Renewable Energy: Unintended Consequences??
Host: Second Conference on Weather, Climate, and the New Energy Economy
791
Effects of wind turbine wakes on micrometeorological conditions over a crop canopy
Lars Mattison, South Dakota State Univ., Brookings, SD; and D. A. Rajewski, E. S. Takle, J. L. Hatfield, and J. H. Prueger

792
Characteristics of wind turbine wakes in an intensively managed agricultural area
Aaron J. Rosenberg, Iowa State Univ., Ames, IA; and J. K. Lundquist, A. J. Deppe, D. A. Rajewski, M. E. Rhodes, M. L. Aitken, and E. S. Takle

793
The impact of wind energy on weather: studies with a simplified model
Daniel Barrie, Univ. of Maryland, College Park, MD; and D. B. Kirk-Davidoff

794
Considering wildlife impacts in building the new energy economy
Justin Allegro, National Wildlife Federation, Washington, DC; and A. Staudt and R. Curry


Poster Session 6
Hydrologic Prediction and Verification for Water and Energy Resources and Other Applications
Location: Washington State Convention Center
Host: 25th Conference on Hydrology
Cochairs: Andrew W. Wood, NOAA/NWS; Barbara G. Brown, NCAR; James David Brown, NOAA/NWS/Office of Hydrologic Development; Julie Demargne, NOAA/NWS
375
Improving Hydrologic Analysis and Applications in the U.S. and Canada Using Quality Controlled Radar Data and the Storm Precipitation Analysis System
Beth Clarke, Weather Decision Technologies, Inc., Norman, OK; and T. W. Parzybok, D. M. Hultstrand, B. D. Kappel, and E. Tomlinson

376
High spatial resolution hydrological modeling on the Hydrologic Rainfall Analysis Project (HRAP) grid
Jiarui Dong, NOAA/NCEP/EMC, Camp Springs, MD; and M. Ek, B. Cosgrove, V. Koren, H. Lee, M. Smith, P. Restrepo, and K. Mitchell

377
Analysis of National Mosaic and Multi-sensor Quantitative Precipitation Estimates during warm season rainfall events in Oklahoma
Anthony L. Brown, CIMMS/Univ. of Oklahoma, Norman, OK; and S. Van Cooten, K. Howard, K. M. Willingham, J. Zhang, and C. Langston

Handout (1.3 MB)

378
Evaluation of GFS water vapor forecast errors during the 2009-2010 West Coast cool season using the MET/MODE object analyses package
Wallace L. Clark, STC/NOAA, Boulder, CO; and H. Yuan, T. L. Jensen, G. Wick, E. I. Tollerud, R. Bullock, and E. Sukovich
Manuscript (524.2 kB)

Handout (1015.7 kB)

379
The utility of soil moisture estimates from a land surface model in seasonal streamflow forecasts
Eric A. Rosenberg, University of Washington, Seattle, WA; and E. A. Clark, A. C. Steinemann, and D. P. Lettenmaier

Paper 380 has been moved. New paper number is 7.2A.

381
Incorporating weather and climate predictions from NCEP GFS and CFS into seasonal water supply forecasts for the Colorado River basin
Andrew W. Wood, NOAA/NWS, Salt Lake City, UT; and J. Lhotak, J. C. Schaake, K. Werner, and M. Schmidt

382
The quandary with QPF in hydrologic forecasting
Thomas Adams, NOAA/NWS, Wilmington, OH; and T. Rench

383
Modeling seasonal river discharge with heavy-tailed distributions
Matthew C. Bowers, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN; and W. W. Tung and J. Gao

384
Summertime Flash Floods in the Southern Appalachians
Jing Tao, Duke University, Durham, NC; and A. P. Barros

Paper 385 has been moved and replaced with Paper 385A. New paper number is J2.6A.

385A
Improved Ensemble Streamflow Prediction through New ESP Weighting Schemes and Bias Correction
Mohammad Reza Najafi, Portland State University, Portland, OR; and H. Moradkhani


Poster Session 6
Weather, Climate and Policy: Issues for the New Energy Economy
Host: Second Conference on Weather, Climate, and the New Energy Economy
795
Advanced nuclear power systems to mitigate climate change
Charles Archambeau, Science Council for Global Initiatives, Boulder, CO; and T. Blees, Y. Chang, R. J. Peterson, R. Serafin, J. Shuster, E. Velikhov, and R. Ware

Handout (1.0 MB)

796
Calculating the carbon emissions associated with San Jose's Green Vision goals
Eugene Cordero, San Jose State Univ., San Jose, CA; and L. Prada


Poster Session 7
Remote Sensing of Hydrometeorological Variables
Location: Washington State Convention Center
Host: 25th Conference on Hydrology
Cochairs: George J. Huffman, NASA/GSFC and SSAI; Chandra R. Kondragunta, NOAA
386
Rainfall estimation using a C-band polarimetric radar
Raquel Evaristo, Valparaiso University, Valparaiso, IN; and A. Stepanek, K. H. Goebbert, D. J. Smalley, and E. R. Williams

Handout (2.5 MB)

387
Radar-observed Lahar at Redoubt Volcano on 4 Apr 2009
Andrew Dixon, NOAA/WFO, Grand Rapids, MI; and D. Schnieder

388
Version 7 TRMM Multi-satellite Precipitation Analysis (TMPA)
David T. Bolvin, SSAI and NASA/GSFC, Greenbelt, MD; and G. J. Huffman, E. J. Nelkin, and R. F. Adler

389
Validation of the CMORPH satellite-rainfall product using an experimental rain gauge network and radar rainfall product
Emad Habib, University of Louisiana, Lafayette, LA; and A. Haile, L. Qin, and Y. Tian

390
An Experimental Study of Small-Scale Variability of Rainfall
Kurtulus Ozturk, Turkish State Meteorological Service, Kalaba, Turkey; and A. Tokay and P. G. Bashor

392
Annual and diurnal variation of precipitable water over California and Nevada
James D. Means, SIO/Univ. of California, La Jolla, CA; and D. Cayan

Handout (448.8 kB)

393
Initiation times of warm season precipitating storms in the southern Great Plains
Donna F. Tucker, University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS; and X. Li

394
The planetary boundary layer height (PBLH) and its relationship with precipitation
Alyssa V. Bates, Penn State University, University Park, PA; and X. Z. Liang

395
Multisite calibration of a multifractal downscaling model for satellite-based soil moisture estimates
Giuseppe Mascaro, University of Cagliari, Cagliari, Italy; and E. R. Vivoni and R. Deidda


Poster Session 7
Special Topics in Weather, Climate and the New Energy Economy
Host: Second Conference on Weather, Climate, and the New Energy Economy
798
Ensemble wind speed forecasting for a wind plant in British Columbia
Selena Katharine Farris, Univ. of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada; and M. Rucker, R. B. Stull, and H. Modzelewski

Handout (7.8 MB)

799
Observed and simulated interactions between electricity consumption and urban surface air temperatures in downtown Tokyo and Osaka
Yukihiro Kikegawa, Meisei Univ., Tokyo, Japan; and Y. Ohashi, T. Ihara, and H. Kondo

800
Regional climate modeling and energy demand projections for selected Colorado sites
Glenn Higgins, Northrop Grumman Corporation, Chantilly, VA; and K. Darmenova, D. Apling, and H. Kiley

802
Solar Thermal Drinking Water Production: Weather Challenges and Climate Change
Hugo A. Loaiciga, Univ. of California, Santa Barbara, CA

803
Development of low cost X-Band Radar for rain reflectivity measurements in the western region of Puerto Rico
Gianni Alexis Pablos, Univ. of Puerto Rico, Mayaguez, PR; and J. G. Colom, J. Ortiz, S. Cruz-Pol, and J. Trabal

804
Analysis of solar radiation measurements for decentralized solar energy usage in the New York City metropolitan area
Beate G. Liepert, NWRA NorthWest Research Associates, Redmond, WA; and C. D. Klose

805
Wind ramp events at an Iowa wind farm: a climatology and evaluation of WRF ensemble forecast skill
William A. Gallus Jr., Iowa State Univ., Ames, IA; and A. J. Deppe
Manuscript (741.1 kB)

Handout (894.3 kB)

806
Improvement of a wind map over the Korean Peninsula based on mesoscale model WRF
Young-Jean Choi, National Institute of Meteorological Research, Seoul, Korea, Republic of (South); and J. Y. Byon and B. K. Seo

808
Automatic Wind Turbine Detection Using Level-II Data
B. L. Cheong, Univ. of Oklahoma, Norman, OK; and R. D. Palmer and S. M. Torres

Handout (11.5 MB)

809
The effects of varying meteorological conditions on power production at a central North American wind farm
Brian Joseph Vanderwende, Univ. of Colorado, Boulder, CO; and J. K. Lundquist

Handout (454.9 kB)

810
A comparison of turbine-based and farm-based methods for converting wind to power
Julia M. Pearson, NCAR, Boulder, CO; and G. Wiener, B. Lambi, and W. Myers
Manuscript (444.5 kB)

Handout (957.4 kB)


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-4:30 PM: Wednesday, 26 January 2011

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Session 5
Information Discoveries and Adventures
Location: 304 (Washington State Convention Center)
Host: 14th Conference of Atmospheric Science Librarians International
4:00 PM
5.1

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

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Session 4
TCs: Improving Public Awareness
Location: 604 (Washington State Convention Center)
Host: More Effectively Communicating the Science of Tropical Climate and Tropical Cyclones
Chair: Frank Marks, Hurricane Research Division, AOML
4:00 PM
4.1
4:30 PM
4.3
An analysis of the rapid intensification of Hurricane Wilma from the 2005 Atlantic hurricane season
Vanessa Marie Vincente, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO; and J. Weber
4:45 PM
4.4
Hurricane tracking for local television news
Joe Witte, WJLA TV 7, Arlington, VA

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

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Session 3
Climate Change: Emerging Practice and Communication Needs
Location: 309 (Washington State Convention Center)
Host: Fourth Annual CCM Forum
Moderator: Steven W. Harned, Atlantic States Weather, Inc.
4:00 PM
3.1
Land use versus climate change impact on regional carbon cycle and carbon isotope signatures
Ming Chen, University of Minnesota, Saint Paul, MN; and T. Griffis, M. Erickson, and J. M. Baker

4:15 PM
3.2
4:30 PM
3.3
Statistical Analysis of Sea Level Rise Accelartion in the 20th Century
Michael Beenstock, Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Israel; and D. Felsenstein, Y. Reingewertz, and M. Lichter

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Session 5
Field, Laboratory, and Modeling Studies of Air Quality—Part III
Location: 3A (Washington State Convention Center)
Host: 13th Conference on Atmospheric Chemistry
Cochairs: Brian Lamb, Washington State Univ.; Jason K. Ching, USEPA/ORD/NERL/AMD
4:00 PM
5.1
Fine scale sensitivity studies of meteorological and air quality simulations using CMAQ and urbanized WRFV3.2 for Houston area for TexAQS 2006
Jason K. Ching, USEPA/ORD/NERL/AMD, Research Triangle Park, NC; and R. Gilliam, G. Sarwar, J. M. Godowitch, A. Martilli, F. Salamanca, M. Tewari, and F. Chen
4:15 PM
5.2
An intense dust event over Mediterranean basin during June 2006: model description and evaluation with in situ data
Francesca Calastrini, CNR-IBIMET, Sesto Fiorentino, Italy; and C. Busillo, F. Guarnieri, M. Gaetani, E. Valentini, A. Taramelli, S. Becagli, S. Nava, R. Udisti, F. Lucarelli, and M. Pasqui
4:30 PM
5.3
Fine particulate matter modeling in Central California, Part I: Application of the Weather Research and Forecasting model
Raphael Rogers, Weather Analytics, Bethesda, MD; and A. Deng, D. Stauffer, Y. Jia, S. T. Soong, S. Tanrikulu, S. Beaver, and C. Tran
4:45 PM
5.4
Fine particulate matter modeling in Central California, Part II: Application of the Community Multiscale Air Quality model
Scott Beaver, Bay Area Air Quality Management District, San Francisco, CA; and S. Tanrikulu, C. Tran, S. T. Soong, Y. Jia, R. Rogers, A. Deng, and D. R. Stauffer
5:00 PM
5.5
Atmospheric formaldehyde sources in an urban winter environment
Farah Abedin, Washington State University, Pullman, WA; and H. W. Wallace, M. H. Erickson, J. McCoskey, J. Vaughan, B. K. Lamb, T. VanReken, and B. T. Jobson

5:15 PM
5.6
CMAQ and dispersion modeling of 1,3-butadiene for the Houston-Galveston Area
Beata Czader, Univ. of Houston, Houston, TX; and B. Rappenglueck, S. S. Isukapalli, X. Tang, and P. G. Georgopoulos
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Joint Session 6
Ways of Knowing: Dismantling the Divide between Social and Natural Sciences in Weather and Climate Research I (Themed Joint Session)
Location: 4C-4 (Washington State Convention Center)
Hosts: (Joint between the Sixth Symposium on Policy and Socio-economic Research; the Second Symposium on Environment and Health; and the Ninth History Symposium )
Cochairs: Heather Lazrus, University of Oklahoma; Randy A. Peppler, CIMMS/Univ. of Oklahoma
4:00 PM
J6.1
Climate and history: an ethnohistorian's epistemology
William B. Carter, South Texas College, McAllen, TX
4:30 PM
J6.3
4:45 PM
J6.4
How much do farmers trust scientific forecasts, and why? Results from surveys in Northeast Brazil
Renzo Taddei, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brazil; and A. Pfaff, D. R. Nelson, and K. Broad

5:00 PM
J6.5
Kenyah Badeng ethnoclimatology and the transmission of weather information in East Malaysia
Gotzone Garay Barayazarra, University of Kent, Canterbury, Kent, United Kingdom; and R. K. Puri
5:15 PM

Session 8
NPP Users Seminar II
Location: 4C-1 (Washington State Convention Center)
Host: Seventh Annual Symposium on Future Operational Environmental Satellite Systems
Cochairs: Lihang Zhou, JPSS Program Office; Carl Hoffman, NOAA/NESDIS/JPSS
4:00 PM
8.1
Using the McIDAS-V scientific data software system to visualize and analyze NPP data
Tommy Jasmin, CIMSS/Univ. of Wisconsin, Madison, WI; and T. Rink and T. Achtor

4:45 PM
8.2
HDF5 FOR NPP SENSORS AND ENVIRONMENTAL DATA RECORDS
Richard E. Ullman, NASA, Lanham, MD; and M. J. Denning
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Session 8
Remote Sensing of Hydrometeorological Variables I
Location: 611 (Washington State Convention Center)
Host: 25th Conference on Hydrology
Cochairs: George J. Huffman, NASA/GSFC/SSAI; Chandra R. Kondragunta, NOAA
4:00 PM
8.1
Flood hazard monitoring in Colorado mountains with mobile Doppler radars [INVITED]
Steven V. Vasiloff, NOAA/NSSL, Norman, OK; and J. Busto, M. P. Meyers, D. J. Gochis, and K. Friedrich
4:15 PM
8.2
Assessing the role of dual-polarimetric radar in quantitative precipitation estimation and nowcasting in the Colorado Front Range region
David J. Gochis, NCAR, Boulder, CO; and S. Rutledge, K. Ikeda, P. Kennedy, R. Cifelli, B. A. Dolan, R. M. Rasmussen, and P. A. Kucera
4:30 PM
8.3
5:00 PM
8.5
Practical considerations for using remotely sensed precipitation estimates—TMPA and 1DD
George J. Huffman, NASA/GSFC/SSAI, Greenbelt, MD; and R. F. Adler, D. T. Bolvin, and E. J. Nelkin
5:15 PM
8.6
A multi-sensor merged analysis of high-resolution global precipitation analysis
Pingping Xie, NOAA/NWS/NCEP, Camp Springs, MD; and S. H. Yoo, R. J. Joyce, and Y. S. Yarosh
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Session 8
Upper Troposphere / Lower Stratosphere: Dynamics and Transport
Location: 3B (Washington State Convention Center)
Host: 16th Conference on Middle Atmosphere
Chair: Cameron R. Homeyer, NCAR
4:15 PM
8.2
The annual cycle in lower stratospheric temperatures revisited
Stephan Fueglistaler, Princeton Univ., Princeton, NJ; and P. H. Haynes and P. M. D. F. Forster

4:30 PM
8.3
Shear-flow turbulent mixing in the tropical tropopause layer
Thomas Flannaghan, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ; and S. Fueglistaler

4:45 PM
8.4
5:00 PM
8.5
Mixing between the troposphere and lowermost stratosphere indicated by HIRDLS measurements of isentropic tracer-tracer correlations
John C. Gille, Univ. of Colorado/NCAR, Boulder, CO; and S. Karol, L. Smith, D. E. Kinnison, V. Yudin, and B. Nardi
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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
4:15 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
4:30 PM
9.3
Dry thunderstorm forecast procedure
Nick Nauslar, DRI, Reno, NV; and J. Wallmann and T. J. Brown
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
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
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Joint Session 9
Weather and Climate Applications for Energy Decision Support—II
Location: 4C-2 (Washington State Convention Center)
Hosts: (Joint between the Second Conference on Weather, Climate, and the New Energy Economy; and the Ninth Conference on Artificial Intelligence and its Applications to the Environmental Sciences )
Chair: Mitchell T. Baer, Dept. of Energy
4:15 PM
J9.1A
NASA's Prediction of Worldwide Energy Resource (POWER) Web services
William S. Chandler, SSAI, Hampton, VA; and J. M. Hoell, D. Westberg, C. H. Whitlock, T. Zhang, and P. W. Stackhouse Jr.
4:30 PM
J9.2
The Wind ENergy Data and Information (WENDI) Gateway: New information and analysis tools for wind energy stakeholders
Dale Kaiser, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, TN; and G. Palanisamy, S. Santhana-Vannan, Y. Wei, T. Smith, M. Starke, B. Wilson, and L. Wibking
4:45 PM
J9.3
Estimation of confidence intervals for wind forecasts
Robert Mureau, Meteo Group, Wageningen, Netherlands

5:00 PM
J9.4
Nobody Lives at the Airport
Lawrence Heitkemper, MDA Information Systems LLC, Gaithersburg, MD; and D. D. Kirk-Davidoff, T. Hartman, and R. Haas
5:15 PM
J9.6
From Coordination to Collaboration: Energy Meteorology and the Public-Private Value Chain
Steve Woll, WeatherFlow Inc., Poquoson, VA; and J. Titlow and D. Green
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Session 10
Communicating Earth Science Information Part II
Location: 606 (Washington State Convention Center)
Host: 27th Conference on Interactive Information Processing Systems (IIPS)
Cochairs: Stephen M. Holt, Noblis, Inc.; Nancy N. Soreide, NOAA/PMEL; Eileen Shea, NOAA/Pacific Fisheries Science Center
4:00 PM
10.1
Observations of ongoing Arctic Change
Nancy N. Soreide, NOAA/PMEL, Seattle, WA; and J. E. Overland, J. A. Richter-Menge, H. Eicken, H. Wiggins, and J. Calder
4:15 PM
10.2
Climate Knowledge Integration Centers (CKIC)
Fritz VanWijngaarden, Northrop Grumman, Bellevue, NE; and G. Higgins and S. Kumar
4:30 PM
The use of YouTube videos to communicate science
Nancy N. Soreide, NOAA/PMEL, Seattle, WA; and T. Nakamura and M. Dunlap
4:45 PM
10.4
Extraction of variability trends via record-breaking statistics
Amalia Anderson, Michigan Technological University, Houghton, MI; and A. Kostinski
5:00 PM
10.5
A study of climatological temperature profiles in the Northern Hemisphere
Young Yee, Mkey Technologies, LLC, Las Cruces, NM; and K. Yee
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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
Recording files available
Session 10A
NCAR Community Modeling Session III: Atmosphere
Location: 608 (Washington State Convention Center)
Host: 23rd Conference on Climate Variability and Change
Chair: Steven J. Ghan, PNNL
4:15 PM
10A.2
Aerosol-Cloud-Climate Interactions in the Community Earth System Model
Andrew Gettelman, NCAR, Boulder, CO; and H. Morrison, S. J. Ghan, and X. Liu
4:30 PM
10A.3
High-resolution simulations using CAM—impacts of parameterized convection
Julio T. Bacmeister, NCAR, Boulder, CO; and P. Lauritzen, R. Neale, and G. Skok
4:45 PM
10A.4
5:00 PM
10A.5
Modeling the West African Monsoon using the Superparameterized CAM
Rachel McCrary, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO; and D. A. Randall
5:15 PM
10A.6
Recording files available
Session 10B
Teleconnection I
Location: 609 (Washington State Convention Center)
Host: 23rd Conference on Climate Variability and Change
Chair: Hai Lin, Environment Canada
4:00 PM
10B.1
Interaction between the Atlantic meridional and Nino modes
Gregory R. Foltz, JISAO/Univ. of Washington, Seattle, WA; and M. McPhaden
4:15 PM
10B.2
Two types of El Niño and their related atmospheric and oceanic dynamics
Hanna Na, Seoul National University, Seoul, Korea, Republic of (South); and K. Y. Kim and B. G. Jang
4:30 PM
10B.3
Subseasonal variability of western North Pacific subtropical high associated with ENSO and its relationship with East Asian summer monsoon
Sae-Rim Yeo, Seoul National University, Seoul, Korea, Republic of (South); and J. G. Jhun, W. Kim, and K. Y. Kim
4:45 PM
10B.4
Transitions between Central-Pacific and Eastern-Pacific Types of ENSO
Jin-Yi Yu, Univ. of California, Irvine, CA; and S. T. Kim
Recording files available
Session 11A
Operational Weather Forecasting I: High Impact Weather
Location: 613/614 (Washington State Convention Center)
Host: 24th Conference on Weather and Forecasting/20th Conference on Numerical Weather Prediction
Chair: Lisa Schmit, NWS
4:00 PM
11A.1
Synoptic-scale environments and dynamical mechanisms associated with predecessor rain events ahead of tropical cyclones
Benjamin J. Moore, Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences, Boulder, CO; and L. Bosart, D. Keyser, and M. L. Jurewicz Sr.
4:15 PM
11A.2
Advances in Forecasting Monsoonal Upper Tropospheric Lows: Potential Vorticity Disturbances
Erik S. Pytlak, Bonneville Power Administration, Portland, OR; and L. Bosart, S. R. Sukup, T. J. Melino, R. H. Johnson, and Z. Finch
4:30 PM
11A.3
Potential vorticity disturbances as a trigger of southwest U.S. severe weather
Lance Bosart, University at Albany, Albany, NY; and T. J. Melino, S. R. Sukup, E. S. Pytlak, J. E. Matusiak, S. J. Weiss, J. Racy, and R. S. Schneider
4:45 PM
11A.4
A climatological analysis of deep convection interactions with the Lake Erie marine boundary layer
Thomas E. Workoff, Systems Research Group, Inc. and NOAA/NCEP/WPC, College Park, MD; and D. A. R. Kristovich, N. F. Laird, R. LaPlante, and D. Leins
5:00 PM
11A.5
Convective storm evolution and frequency around coastal southern New England
Brian A. Colle, Stony Brook University/SUNY, Stony Brook, NY; and J. Murray
5:15 PM
11A.6
Relationship between organized convective structures and severe weather type over the northeast U.S
Kelly Lombardo, Stony Brook University/SUNY, Stony Brook, NY; and B. A. Colle
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Session 11B
Numerical Modeling IV: High Resolution Modeling
Location: 615-617 (Washington State Convention Center)
Host: 24th Conference on Weather and Forecasting/20th Conference on Numerical Weather Prediction
Chair: William M. Lapenta, NOAA/NWS/NCEP/EMC
4:15 PM
11B.2
Using Traditional and Spatial Verification Methods to Evaluate Real-Time Model Forecasts of Convection
Derek R. Stratman, CAPS/Univ. of Oklahoma, Norman, OK; and M. C. Coniglio and M. Xue
4:30 PM
11B.3
Relationships between Sounding-Derived Parameters and Simulated Convective Storm Surface Outflows
Cody Kirkpatrick, University of Alabama, Huntsville, AL; and E. W. McCaul Jr.
5:15 PM
11B.6
Initial condition and forecast uncertainty for the 24 December 2009 blizzard
Kenneth Dixon, University of Washington, Seattle, WA; and H. D. Reeves, D. M. Wheatley, and M. C. Coniglio
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Joint Session 14
The Impacts of Cloud-Aerosol Interactions On Precipitation—Part II
Location: 605/610 (Washington State Convention Center)
Hosts: (Joint between the Third Symposium on Aerosol-Cloud-Climate Interactions; the 18th Conference on Planned and Inadvertent Weather Modification; and the 13th Conference on Atmospheric Chemistry )
Cochairs: Wei-Kuo Tao, NASA/GSFC; Susan C. van den Heever, Colorado State Univ.
4:00 PM
J14.1
4:30 PM
J14.2
Aerosol indirect forcing on the precipitable water budget of the Tropics
Susan C. van den Heever, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO
4:45 PM
J14.3
Intercomparison of aerosol-cloud-precipitation interactions in stratiform orographic mixed-phase clouds
Andreas Muhlbauer, JISAO/Univ. of Washington, Seattle, WA; and T. Hashino, L. Xue, A. Teller, U. Lohmann, R. M. Rasmussen, I. Geresdi, and Z. Pan
5:00 PM
J14.4
Numerical Simulation Interaction between Drop and Ice Particles and its Influence on Formation of strong Precipitation
Ganna Pirnach, Ukrainian Hydrometeorological Institute, Kyiv, Ukraine; and T. Belyi

Handout (1.8 MB)

5:15 PM
J14.5
Modeling the role of aerosols on warm-season rainfall in a coastal urban environment
Nathan Hosannah, City University of New York, New York, NY; and J. E. González and D. E. Comarazamy

4:00 PM-5:45 PM: Wednesday, 26 January 2011

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Session 7
Atmospheric observations, in situ and remote, including from satellites: Advantages and shortcomings compared with other observing systems—Part III
Location: 2B (Washington State Convention Center)
Host: 15th Symposium on Integrated Observing and Assimilation Systems for the Atmosphere, Oceans and Land Surface (IOAS-AOLS)
Cochairs: Kathryn Sellwood, University of Miami/CIMAS and NOAA/AOML/HRD; Bill Kuo, NCAR
4:00 PM
7.4 moved. New poster 43A

4:15 PM
Testing Visa Letter Output
Donna Brousseau, Confex Technologies Inc., Cumberland, RI; and D. Sidla

4:30 PM
7.1
Uses of COSMIC data to cross-calibrate AMSU-A
Rafik H. Hanna, Earth Resources & Technology Inc, Camp Springs, MD; and F. Weng and M. Goldberg

4:45 PM
7.2
Diurnal Cycles in HIRS Brightness Temperatures
Anders Vilhelm Lindfors, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, United Kingdom; and S. Tett
5:15 PM
7.5
Using Ceilometer Backscatter from Aerosol to Analyze Boundary Layer Structure
Steven R. Chiswell, Savannah River National Laboratory, Aiken, SC; and M. J. Parker
5:30 PM
7.6
5:45 PM
7.7
Validation of QuikSCAT and ASCAT wind vectors by dropwindsonde data from DOTSTAR and T-PARC field experiments
Kun-Hsuan Chou, Chinese Culture University, Taipei, Taiwan; and C. C. Wu

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Session 8
Lidar Application Studies
Location: 307-308 (Washington State Convention Center)
Host: 5th Symposium on Lidar Atmospheric Applications
Cochairs: Belay B. Demoz, Howard Univ.; Yansen Wang, U.S. Army Research Laboratory
4:15 PM
8.2
Lidars support air quality management in Delhi
Benjamin Guinot, Leosphere, Paris, France; and L. Sauvage, S. Lolli, S. Loaec, S. Guttikunda, and G. Calori
4:30 PM
8.3
Lidar calibration at 1064-nm channel using the water-phase and cirrus clouds
Yonghua Wu, NOAA-CREST, New York, NY; and C. M. Gan, L. Cordero, B. Gross, F. Moshary, and S. Ahmed
4:45 PM
8.4
All-fiber coherent Doppler LIDAR for wind sensing
Sameh Abdelazim, City College of New York, New York, NY; and D. Santoro, M. Arend, F. Moshary, and S. Ahmed
5:00 PM
8.5
Application of a handheld laser wind sensor to provide instantaneous wind profiles in operations with very short lead-times
Christopher D. Bedford CCM, Sailing Weather Service, LLC, Watertown, MA; and D. B. Dakin

5:30 PM
8.7
Calculation of windshear hazard factor based on Doppler LIDAR data
P. W. Chan, Hong Kong Observatory, Hong Kong, China; and P. A. Robinson
Manuscript (2.6 MB)

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Joint Session 15
Assimilation of observations into models: Use of observations
Location: 2A (Washington State Convention Center)
Hosts: (Joint between the 15th Symposium on Integrated Observing and Assimilation Systems for the Atmosphere, Oceans and Land Surface (IOAS-AOLS); and the 24th Conference on Weather and Forecasting/20th Conference on Numerical Weather Prediction )
Cochairs: Jeffrey Anderson, NCAR; Dale Barker, Met Office
4:00 PM
J15.1
AIRS near-surface atmospheric CO2 for modeling, transports and assimilation
Moustafa Chahine, NASA/JPL, Pasadena, CA; and E. Olsen, L. Chen, T. Pagano, X. Jiang, and Y. Yung

4:30 PM
J15.3
Data-denial and adjoint-based forecast impact experiments during T-PARC/TCS-08
Rolf H. Langland, NRL, Monterey, CA; and C. Reynolds, P. Pauley, C. Velden, and H. Berger

4:45 PM
J15.4
5:00 PM
J15.5
A retrieval strategy for interactive ensemble data assimilation
R. N. Hoffman, AER, Lexington, MA; and J. Eluszkiewicz, S. J. Greybush, M. J. Hoffman, E. Kalnay, T. Nehrkorn, and R. J. Wilson
5:15 PM
J15.6
5:30 PM
J15.7
Dynamical Adjustment of Clouds in WRF based on GOES-Derived Clouds
Arastoo Pour Biazar, University of Alabama, Huntsville, AL; and R. T. McNider, K. Doty, and Y. H. Park

4:45 PM-5:00 PM: Wednesday, 26 January 2011


ASLI's Choice Book Awards

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


Awards Banquet Reception in the Exhibit Hall

Exhibit Reception/Cash Bar

6:30 PM-9:00 PM: Wednesday, 26 January 2011


Annual ASLI Dinner at Il Fornaio (600 Pine Street, within easy walking distance of the Convention Center). $50.00 (Contact Kari Kozak (kari-kozak@uiowa@edu) for reservations and details)

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-8:30 AM: Thursday, 27 January 2011


Session
Michio Yanai Symposium Opening Remarks
Location: Washington State Convention Center
Host: Michio Yanai Symposium
8:00 AM
Yanai Opening Remarks
Robert Fovell, Univ. of California, Los Angeles, CA

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
Dense Gas Experiments & Modeling I
Location: 604 (Washington State Convention Center)
Host: Special Symposium on Applications of Air Pollution Meteorology
Chair: George Famini, DHS/CSAC
8:30 AM
1.1
The DHS/TSA Jack Rabbit Field Trials and the Relevance to Modeling and Simulation
Shannon B. Fox, Department of Homeland Security, Aberdeen Proving Ground, MD; and J. Aherne, C. L. Schuhmacher, and D. P. Storwold Jr.

8:45 AM
1.2
The Jack Rabbit Test Program Trial Summary
Donald P. Storwold Jr., U.S. Army, Dugway Proving Ground, UT; and E. P. Argenta Jr., J. M. White, J. C. Pace, and S. B. Fox
9:15 AM
1.4
Recording files available
Session 1
Lectures on Tropical Meteorology I
Location: 4C-3 (Washington State Convention Center)
Host: Michio Yanai Symposium
Chairs: Wei -Kuo Tao, NASA/GSFC; Chung-Hsiung Sui, National Taiwan Univ.
8:30 AM
1.1
9:00 AM
1.2
Cumulus-Environment Interaction
Richard H. Johnson, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO; and C. Schumacher and W. W. Tung
9:15 AM
1.4
Eddy Transports
Courtney Schumacher, Texas A&M Univ., College Station, TX
9:30 AM
1.3
Cumulus-Environment Interaction: II
Wen-Wen Tung, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN
Recording files available
Joint Session 1
Modification of Marine and Supercooled Stratocumulus
Location: 605/610 (Washington State Convention Center)
Hosts: (Joint between the 18th Conference on Planned and Inadvertent Weather Modification; and the Third Symposium on Aerosol-Cloud-Climate Interactions )
Cochairs: W. R. Cotton, Colorado State University; Jerry M. Straka, Univ. of Oklahoma
8:30 AM
J1.1
Commerical aircraft Inadvertent cloud seeding
Andrew Heymsfield, NCAR, Boulder, CO; and A. Bansemer, G. Thompson, H. Morrison, R. Rasmussen, Z. Wang, D. Zhang, and P. Minnis
8:45 AM
J1.2
Simulation results of unintentional aircraft-induced cloud clearing
Gregory Thompson, NCAR, Boulder, CO; and H. Morrison, A. Heymsfield, and R. Rasmussen
Recording files available
Session 1
Python as an Integration Platform
Location: 307-308 (Washington State Convention Center)
Host: Special Symposium on Advances in Modeling and Analysis Using Python
Chair: Johnny Wei-Bing Lin
8:30 AM
Introductory Remarks
8:45 AM
1.1
Python Adoption at the Naval Research Laboratory
Timothy R. Whitcomb, NRL, Monterey, CA; and N. L. Baker, J. A. Hansen, J. E. Peak, B. C. Ruston, and K. Xu
9:15 AM
1.3
9:30 AM
Concluding Remarks

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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
Recording files available
Panel Discussion 2
Open Access Panel
Location: 304 (Washington State Convention Center)
Host: 14th Conference of Atmospheric Science Librarians International
8:30 AM
Open Access in the AMS
Keith Seitter, Director, AMS, Boston, MA
8:45 AM
Panel Discussion

9:15 AM
Introduction to Panel

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Session 5
Supply/Demand Fundamentals: Short Range Forecasting I
Location: 4C-2 (Washington State Convention Center)
Host: Second Conference on Weather, Climate, and the New Energy Economy
Chair: Julie K. Lundquist, University of Colorado at Boulder
8:30 AM
5.1
Public-Private Collaboration to Improve Wind Ramp Forecasts
Melinda Marquis, NOAA, Boulder, CO; and A. Stern and S. Calvert
8:45 AM
5.2
9:00 AM
5.3
Progress in NOAA hourly-updated model forecasting for renewable energy guidance
Stanley G. Benjamin, NOAA/ESRL/GSD, Boulder, CO; and J. M. Wilczak, J. M. Brown, M. Marquis, J. B. Olson, S. S. Weygandt, C. R. Alexander, and G. Dimego
9:15 AM
5.4
Short-term wind-speed forecasting system for wind power applications
Justin Joseph Traiteur, Weather Central LP, Madison, WI; and S. Baidya Roy
9:30 AM
5.5
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Session 6
The Effects of Meteorology On Air Quality
Location: 3A (Washington State Convention Center)
Host: 13th Conference on Atmospheric Chemistry
Cochairs: Dan Jaffe, University of Washington; Nicole Mölders, University of Alaska
8:30 AM
6.1
Impacts of simulated stability on simulated PM2.5 concentrations
Nicole Mölders, University of Alaska, Fairbanks, AK; and K. Brunner, H. N. Q. Tran, and G. Kramm

8:45 AM
6.2
Attainment demonstration uncertainty stemming from poor meteorological model performance
Saffet Tanrikulu, Bay Area Air Quality Management District, San Francisco, CA; and S. Beaver, A. N. Palazoglu, and A. Singh
Manuscript (735.0 kB)

9:00 AM
6.3
Characterization of mercury concentration at a costal site under marine, continental and land-sea-breeze flow regimes
Yuling Wu, University of Alabama, Huntsville, AL; and U. U. Nair, J. Walters, J. Jansen, and E. Edgerton
9:15 AM
6.4
(Invited Speaker) Role of the free troposphere on surface air quality
Dan Jaffe, University of Washington, Bothell, WA

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Session 8B
Experiments involving observations, real or hypothetical: data impact tests (sensitivity of forecasts to a particular source of observations); observing system simulation experiments (OSSEs)—Part V
Location: 2B (Washington State Convention Center)
Host: 15th Symposium on Integrated Observing and Assimilation Systems for the Atmosphere, Oceans and Land Surface (IOAS-AOLS)
Chair: Rolf Langland, NRL
8:30 AM
8B.1
Assimilation of surface-based profiler observations during an observation system simulation experiment: Part 1: Analysis Impact
Jason A. Otkin, CIMSS/Univ. of Wisconsin, Madison, WI; and D. C. Hartung, D. Turner, R. A. Petersen, W. F. Feltz, and E. Janzon

8:45 AM
8B.2
Assimilation of surface-based profiler observations using an observation system simulation experiment: Part 2: forecast impact
Daniel C. Hartung, CIMSS/Univ. of Wisconsin, Madison, WI; and J. A. Otkin, R. Petersen, D. D. Turner, and W. F. Feltz
9:00 AM
8B.3
Estimation of Observation Impact using the Adjoint of the GSI Analysis at NCEP
DaNa L. Carlis, NOAA/NWS/NCEP, College Park, MD; and V. K. Kumar and J. C. Alpert
9:15 AM
8B.4
Assessing observation impact in ensemble data assimilation
Hong Li, Shanghai Typhoon Institute, Shanghai, China; and Q. Wang
9:30 AM
8B.5
Validation of version one of the OSSEs at the GMAO
Ronald M. Errico, NASA, Greenbelt, MD; and R. Yang, M. E. Sienkiewicz, R. Todling, and H. C. Liu
Recording files available
Session 9
Remote Sensing of Hydrometeorological Variables II
Location: 611 (Washington State Convention Center)
Host: 25th Conference on Hydrology
Cochairs: George J. Huffman, NASA/GSFC and SSAI; Chandra R. Kondragunta, NOAA
8:30 AM
9.1
Evaluation of passive microwave land surface emissivities for improved precipitation retrievals over land for GPM-era algorithms—part I: comparison of inversion methodsp
Ralph R. Ferraro, NOAA/NESDIS, College Park, MD; and C. D. Peters-Lidard, G. Skofronick-Jackson, N. Y. Wang, K. Gopalan, and C. Hernandez
8:45 AM
9.2
9:00 AM
9.3
The Establishment of the International Soil Moisture Network
P.J. Van Oevelen, International GEWEX Project Office, Silver Spring, MD; and W. Dorigo, W. Wagner, T. J. Jackson, and M. Drusch
9:15 AM
9.4
9:30 AM
9.5
Using the vegetation signal to determine the root zone soil moisture from radar remote sensing
Susan C. Steele-Dunne, University of Technology, Delft, Netherlands; and J. Friesen and N. van de Giesen

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Joint Session 10
Regional Climate Modeling to Improve Climate Variability and Change Projections at the Local Scale I
Location: 612 (Washington State Convention Center)
Hosts: (Joint between the 25th Conference on Hydrology; and the 23rd Conference on Climate Variability and Change )
Cochairs: Francina Dominguez, Univ. of Arizona; Dennis P. Lettenmaier, University of Washington; L. Ruby Leung, PNNL
8:30 AM
J10.1
Drivers of extreme events at the regional scale: Investigations with regional climate simulations and observations [INVITED]
Sonia I. Seneviratne, ETH, Zurich, Switzerland; and E. L. Davin, M. Hirschi, E. B. Jaeger, R. Lorenz, B. Orlowsky, and A. J. Teuling

8:45 AM
J10.2
9:00 AM
J10.3A
Assessment of AOGCM biases for RCM applications over the Great Basin in the western U.S
John Mejia, DRI, Reno, NV; and D. Koracin, E. M. Wilcox, and K. E. Kunkel
9:30 AM
J10.5
Recording files available
Session 11A
Communicating Earth Science Information Part III
Location: 606 (Washington State Convention Center)
Host: 27th Conference on Interactive Information Processing Systems (IIPS)
Cochairs: Stephen M. Holt, Noblis, Inc.; Nancy N. Soreide, NOAA/PMEL; Eileen Shea, NOAA/Pacific Fisheries Science Center
8:45 AM
11A.2
Investigating patterns and changes in global tropical cyclone storm frequency and intensity
Paula Ann Hennon, STG, Inc., Asheville, NC; and K. R. Knapp, M. C. Kruk, and D. H. Levinson
9:00 AM
11A.3
Vermont climate change indicators
Alan K. Betts, Atmospheric Research, Pittsford, VT
9:15 AM
11A.4
Development of new indices for the prediction of the West African climate
Isaac K. Tetteh, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC; and F. H. M. Semazzi
9:30 AM
11A.5
Changes of precipitation in Armenia
A. M. Gevorgyan, Russian State Hydrometeorological University , Saint-Petersburg, Russia

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Session 11A
NCAR Community Modeling Session IV: Climate Change 2 (Future Projections)
Location: 608 (Washington State Convention Center)
Host: 23rd Conference on Climate Variability and Change
Chair: William Collins, The University of California, Berkeley
8:30 AM
11A.1
CMIP5 experiments with CCSM4 and CESM1
Gerald A. Meehl, NCAR, Boulder, CO; and W. M. Washington, J. M. Arblaster, A. Hu, and H. Teng
8:45 AM
11A.2
High-resolution downscaled climate-change simulations of snowfall in the Colorado Headwaters region
Jimy Dudhia, NCAR, Boulder, CO; and R. M. Rasmussen, K. Ikeda, C. Liu, G. Thompson, F. Chen, M. Tewari, and D. J. Gochis
9:00 AM
11A.3
Characterizing the Climate Effects of Biofuel Cultivation
Andrew D. Jones, University of California, Oakland, CA; and M. Torn, W. Collins, and W. J. Riley

9:15 AM
11A.4
Studying regional climate change based on uncertainty in climate parameters using CAM3
Erwan Monier, MIT, Cambridge, MA; and A. Sokolov, J. Scott, A. Schlosser, and C. E. Forest
Recording files available
Session 11B
Communicating Radar Data in the 21st Century Part III
Location: 607 (Washington State Convention Center)
Host: 27th Conference on Interactive Information Processing Systems (IIPS)
Cochairs: Douglas E. Forsyth, NOAA/NSSL; Timothy Crum, Retired, NWS; Julian Wang, NOAA/ARL; Robert E. Saffle, Noblis, Inc.; Mark Yeary, University of Oklahoma
8:30 AM
11B.1
Radar aeroecology: A call for collaborative radar investigations of organisms in the aerosphere
Phillip B. Chilson, University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK; and W. F. Frick, K. W. Howard, J. F. Kelly, and T. H. Kunz
8:45 AM
11B.2
Understanding Radar Refractivity
Daniel S. Michaud, University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK; and R. D. Palmer, D. Bodine, P. L. Heinselman, J. A. Brotzge, N. A. Gasperoni, B. L. Cheong, M. Xue, and J. Gao
9:00 AM
11B.3
The development of a CF-compliant netCDF format for radial RADAR and LIDAR data
Michael Dixon, NCAR, Boulder, CO; and W. C. Lee, R. A. Rilling, C. D. Burghart, J. H. VanAndel, and D. Flanigan
9:15 AM
11B.4
Weather radar data services at NOAA's National Climatic Data Center
Stephen A. Del Greco, NOAA/NESDIS/NCDC, Asheville, NC
9:30 AM
11B.5
Taking stock of the NSF CASA Engineering Research Center at Year 8
David J. McLaughlin, University of Massachusetts , Amherst, MA

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Session 11B
Weather and Climate Modelling II
Location: 609 (Washington State Convention Center)
Host: 23rd Conference on Climate Variability and Change
Chair: Eric D. Maloney, Oregon State Univ.
8:30 AM
11B.1
Impact of different definitions of clear-sky flux on the longwave cloud radiative forcing: NICAM simulation results
Hyun-Sung Jang, Seoul National University, Seoul, Korea, Republic of (South); and B. J. Sohn, T. Nakajima, and M. Satoh
9:00 AM
11B.3
Impact of Interactive Westerly Wind Bursts in CCSM3
Hosmay Lopez, Univ. of Miami/RSMAS, Miami, FL; and B. Kirtman
9:15 AM
11B.4
Radiative impacts of precipitating hydrometeors on atmosphere circulation features in weather and climate models
Jui-Lin Li, JPL, Pasadena, CA; and D. Waliser, T. L'Ecuyer, A. M. Molod, J. D. Chern, R. M. Forbes, W. W. Tung, Y. C. Wang, L. Oreopoulos, M. J. Suarez, M. Rienecker, M. Miller, and W. K. Tao

9:30 AM
11B.5
Cloud-climate feedbacks and climate models: using satellite observations to improve boundary layer cloud parameterizations
Joao Teixeira, JPL, Pasadena, CA; and H. Kawai, J. Karlsson, J. P. A. Martins, B. H. Kahn, S. Lee, and K. Suselj
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Session 12A
Operational Weather Forecasting II: High Impact Weather
Location: 613/614 (Washington State Convention Center)
Host: 24th Conference on Weather and Forecasting/20th Conference on Numerical Weather Prediction
Chair: Cliff Mass, University of Washington
8:30 AM
12A.1
New England record rain event of 29–31 March 2010
Richard Grumm, NOAA/NWSFO, State College, PA
8:45 AM
12A.2
Anticipating a rare event utilizing forecast anomalies: The western U.S. storm of 18–23 January 2010
Randy Graham, NOAA/NWS, Salt Lake City, UT; and R. Grumm, N. Hosenfeld, and T. I. Alcott
9:00 AM
12A.3
The great Alaska warm-up of January 2009
Shaun E. Baines, NOAA/NWSFO, Anchorage, AK
9:15 AM
12A.4
Climatology, Life Cycle, and Impacts of Intermountain Cyclones
W. James Steenburgh, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT; and G. L. West, M. E. Jeglum, T. Lee, L. Bosart, J. Massey, and T. Painter

9:30 AM
12A.5
Topographic and geographical influences on regional severe tornado maxima
Grayum Vickers, Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL; and J. Cossuth
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Session 12B
Numerical Modeling V: High Resolution Modeling
Location: 615-617 (Washington State Convention Center)
Host: 24th Conference on Weather and Forecasting/20th Conference on Numerical Weather Prediction
Chair: Edward J. Szoke, CIRA/Colorado State Univ. and NOAA/GSD
8:30 AM
12B.1
The Rapid Refresh—Replacement for the RUC, Pre-Implementation Development and Evaluation
Stephen S. Weygandt, NOAA/ESRL/GSD, Boulder, CO; and M. Hu, T. G. Smirnova, G. S. Manikin, C. R. Alexander, S. G. Benjamin, J. M. Brown, J. B. Olson, and P. Hofmann
8:45 AM
12B.2
The High Resolution Rapid Refresh (HRRR): Recent and future enhancements, time-lagged ensembling, and 2010 forecast evaluation activities
Curtis R. Alexander, NOAA/ESRL/GSD and CIRES/Univ. of Colorado, Boulder, CO; and S. S. Weygandt, S. G. Benjamin, T. G. Smirnova, J. M. Brown, P. Hofmann, and E. P. James
9:00 AM
12B.3
A prototype implementation of the high resolution rapid refresh for Alaska
Eugene Petrescu, NOAA/NWS, Anchorage, AK; and C. F. Dierking and D. Morton
9:15 AM
12B.4A
9:30 AM
12B.5

8:30 AM-10:00 AM: Thursday, 27 January 2011

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Joint Session 7
Ways of Knowing: Dismantling the Divide between Social and Natural Sciences in Weather and Climate Research II (Themed Joint Session)
Location: 4C-4 (Washington State Convention Center)
Hosts: (Joint between the Sixth Symposium on Policy and Socio-economic Research; the Ninth History Symposium; and the Second Symposium on Environment and Health )
Cochairs: Heather Lazrus, University of Oklahoma; Randy A. Peppler, CIMMS/Univ. of Oklahoma
8:30 AM
J7.1
Understanding climate change: a dialogue between natural science and indigenous communities in Alaska
Nicole Herman-Mercer, USGS, Boulder, CO; and S. Koester and P. F. Schuster

8:45 AM
J7.2
9:00 AM
J7.3
A community-of-practice approach to assess the nature and impacts of sea-ice changes on Bering and Chukchi Sea ice users
Hajo Eicken, University of Alaska Fairbanks, Fairbanks, AK; and M. L. Kapsch, I. Krupnik, W. Weyapuk Jr., L. Apangalook, M. Johnson, and G. L. Hufford
9:15 AM
J7.4
9:30 AM
J7.5
Democracy in policy making: Implementing the California Global Warming Solutions Act of 2006
Karen Michele Hoffman, University of Puerto Rico, San Juan, PR

9:45 AM
10:00 AM
J7.6
Peppler
Randy A. Peppler, CIMMS/Univ. of Oklahoma, Norman, OK

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Session 8A
Field experiments: observational results from past field experiments; potential relevance of the field observations to operational prediction—Part I
Location: 2A (Washington State Convention Center)
Host: 15th Symposium on Integrated Observing and Assimilation Systems for the Atmosphere, Oceans and Land Surface (IOAS-AOLS)
Chair: Ronald Gelaro, NASA/GSFC
8:45 AM
8A.2
A review of adaptive observations
Sharanya J. Majumdar, Univ. of Miami/RSMAS, Miami, FL; and T. THORPEX Data Assimilation and Observing Strategies Working Group
9:00 AM
8A.4
Recent Advancements in the TAMDAR Sensor Network Expansion
Meredith Croke, AirDat, Morrisville, NC; and N. A. Jacobs, D. J. Mulally, A. K. Anderson, J. T. Braid, P. Childs, A. Huffman, Y. Liu, and X. Y. HUang
9:15 AM
8A.3
TAMDAR enabled atmospheric knowledge system and the warfighter
Jamie T. Braid, AirDat LLC, Lakewood, CO; and R. Fuschino
9:30 AM
8A.5
An integrated radar-infrasound network for meteorological detection and analysis
David L. Pepyne, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA; and M. Zink, J. A. Brotzge, E. Knapp, A. Mendes, B. McCarthy, S. Klaiber, and B. Benito-Figueroa
Manuscript (2.3 MB)

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

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Session 9
Stratosphere-Troposphere Coupling II
Location: 3B (Washington State Convention Center)
Host: 16th Conference on Middle Atmosphere
Chair: Daniela I.V. Domeisen, University of Hamburg
8:45 AM
9.1
Connection between Antarctic ozone depletion and tropospheric Rossby wave breaking and cut-off lows
Thando Ndarana, Johns Hopkins Univ., Baltimore, Maryland; and D. Waugh, L. Polvani, G. J. P. Correa, and E. P. Gerber
9:00 AM
9.2
Downward influence of stratospheric final warming events in an idealized model
Lantao Sun, CIRES/Univ. of Colorado Boulder, Boulder, CO; and W. A. Robinson and G. Chen
9:15 AM
9.3
Sources of Annular Mode timescales
Paul J. Kushner, Univ. of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada; and L. R. Mudryk
9:30 AM
9.5
9.4 has been moved. New paper number 1.1A

9:30 AM-11:00 AM: Thursday, 27 January 2011


Poster Session 4
Numerical Modeling and Simulations, and High Impact Weather
Host: 24th Conference on Weather and Forecasting/20th Conference on Numerical Weather Prediction
Paper 491 has been moved. New paper number is 8B.5A.

Paper 477 has been moved. New paper number is 14A.2A.

465
Heavy rains and historic flooding over Pakistan in late July 2010: Synoptic conditions and physical mechanisms
Thomas J. Galarneau Jr., NCAR, Boulder, CO; and T. M. Hamill and J. S. Whitaker

Handout (14.3 MB)

466
A Case Study of a Large-Amplitude Inertia–Gravity Wave over the Southeast
James H. Ruppert Jr., Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO; and L. Bosart

468
The impact of cloud hydrometeor advection on NWP model forecasts
Weiguo Wang, NOAA/NWS/NCEP, Camp Springs, MD; and B. S. Ferrier and E. Colón

Handout (1.9 MB)

Paper 469 has been moved. New paper number is 12B.4A

470
WRF QNSE test and evaluation
Jamie K. Wolff, NCAR, Boulder, CO; and L. Nance, J. H. Gotway, and P. Oldenburg
Manuscript (474.7 kB)

Handout (1.4 MB)

471
A climatology of tropical cyclone-induced tornadoes in the Florida Keys
Kennard B. Kasper, NOAA/NWS, Key West, FL
Manuscript (1.6 MB)

Handout (956.1 kB)

472
473
Dynamical Aspects of Gulf Surge Events
Andrew J. Newman, NCAR, Boulder, CO; and R. H. Johnson

474
Simulation of Nocturnal LLJs with a WRF PBL Scheme Ensemble and Comparison to Observations from the ARM Project
Kristy C. Carter, Iowa State University, Ames, IA; and A. J. Deppe and W. A. Gallus Jr.
Manuscript (420.0 kB)

Handout (624.9 kB)

475
A comparison of WRF 3.2 and WRF 3.1.1 forecasts of seven nor'easter events
Stephen D. Nicholls, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ; and S. G. Decker
Manuscript (1.7 MB)

476
Analysis of summertime convective initiation in central Alabama using the Land Information System
Robert S. James, North Carolina State University, Indian Trail, NC; and J. L. Case, A. L. Molthan, and G. J. Jedlovec
Manuscript (1.2 MB)

Handout (515.1 kB)

478
The eastern United States heat wave of 3–8 July 2010
Kevin S. Lipton, NOAA/NWSFO, Albany, NY; and R. H. Grumm
Manuscript (1.6 MB)

479
A detailed analysis of SPC "High Risk" outlooks, 2003-2009
Jason M. Davis, Valparaiso University, Valparaiso, IN; and A. R. Dean and J. L. Guyer
Manuscript (277.9 kB)

480
Quasi-stationary convective systems forming perpendicular to, and above the cold pools of, strong bow echoes
Kelly M. Keene, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX; and R. S. Schumacher

Handout (1.9 MB)

481
Tropical convection interaction with Alaskan weather
Bill Ludwig, NOAA/NWSFO, Anchorage, AK

482
Snowfall variance in the northeastern United States: Looking at what defines a "normal" winter
Paul, O.G. Heppner, Global Science & Technology, Inc., Greeenbelt, MD

483
Very high-resolution prediction of tornado-like vortices in a long-lived mesovortex
Alexander D. Schenkman, University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK; and M. Xue

484
Structure and evolution of cloud clusters occurred over southern Korean peninsula
Won-Su Kim, Yonsei University, Seoul, Korea, Republic of (South); and T. Y. Lee

Handout (1.4 MB)

485
A Numerical Simulation of the Bowing Process of A Squall Line Associated with a Stationary Front in South China during 23–24 April 2007
Zhiyong Meng, Peking University, Beijing, China; and F. Zhang, P. Markowski, D. Wu, and K. Zhao

486
Simulation of the TWP-ICE case with the Vector Vorticity Model
Nicholas Geyer, Center for Multiscale Modeling of Atmospheric Processes, University Park, PA; and T. A. Cram and C. S. Konor

Handout (785.9 kB)

487
A baroclinic instability test case on an anelastic dynamical core
Daniel A. Rothenberg, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY; and R. Heikes

Handout (5.0 MB)

488
489
A single-source software approach for the inclusion of GPUs in community NWP models
Thomas N. Nipen, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada; and R. B. Stull

490
Non-iteration dimensional-split semi-Lagrangian advection with Riemann solver in non-hydrostatic system
Hann-Ming Henry Juang, NOAA/NWS/NCEP/EMC, Camp Springs, MD; and J. F. Fan

492

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

Poster Session 1
Dense Gas Experiments & Modeling
Location: Washington State Convention Center
Host: Special Symposium on Applications of Air Pollution Meteorology
Organizer: Michael J. Brown, LANL
825
Source term saturated liquid flow rate gap
Jeff T. Henrikson, Institute for Defense Analyses, Alexandria, VA; and N. Platt
Manuscript (494.6 kB)

Handout (176.7 kB)

Poster 828 moved to Oral Presentation 1.5A

829

Poster Session 1
Monsoon Systems and Tibetan Plateau
Location: Washington State Convention Center
Host: Michio Yanai Symposium
855
The Yanai Wave in the Asian Monsoon: Results From an Observational and Modeling Study
Charlotte DeMott, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO; and C. Stan, D. A. Randall, J. L. Kinter III, and M. F. Khairoutdinov

856
Vertical cloud structures over the Tibetan Plateau as revealed from cloudsat observations
Baode Chen, Shanghai Typhoon Institute, Shanghai, China; and J. Liu

857
Utilization of a high-resolution daily rain-gauge based precipitation product for an improvement of the Asian monsoon forecasts
Akiyo Yatagai, Research Institute for Humanity and Nature, Kyoto, Japan; and T. N. Krishnamurti, A. K. Mishra, N. Yasutomi, A. Hamada, V. Kumar, and A. Simon

859
The summertime “heat” low over Pakistan/Northwestern India: Evolution and origin
Sumant Nigam, University of Maryland, College Park, MD; and M. A. Bollasina

861
The influence of coastal topography on the South Asian Monsoon
Stephen W. Nesbitt, University of Illinois, Urbana, IL; and Z. Wang

Handout (4.8 MB)


Joint Poster Session 2
Drought Management, Policy and Social Implications
Location: 4E (Washington State Convention Center)
Hosts: (Joint between the 25th Conference on Hydrology; and the Sixth Symposium on Policy and Socio-economic Research )
Cochairs: Rosalind Bark, University of Arizona; Gregg M. Garfin, University of Arizona; Mark Shafer, Oklahoma Climatological Survey
397
Drought Characterization: Indicators and Decision-Making
Shraddhanand Shukla, University of Washington, Seattle, WA; and A. C. Steinemann and D. P. Lettenmaier

399
Water shortages and agriculture in the Colorado River Basin: adaptations and economic impacts
George Frisvold, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ; and K. Konyar

400
Vision into Action: The Establishment and Facilitation of an Effective Drought Coordinator Network in the United States
Crystal J. Bergman, University of Nebraska, Lincoln, NE; and D. Bathke, M. D. Svoboda, N. A. Wall, J. Nothwehr, J. Robine, T. K. Bernadt, and M. Hayes

Handout (807.0 kB)


Poster Session 2
The Allwine-Doran Retrospective
Location: Washington State Convention Center
Host: Special Symposium on Applications of Air Pollution Meteorology
Organizer: Michael J. Brown, LANL
830
Large-eddy simulation of pollutant plume dispersion in the urban canopy layer over 2D idealized street canyons
Chun-Ho Liu, Univ. of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, Hong Kong; and C. C. C. Wong

832.A
Source Term Model Implementation in a Multimedia Modeling System
James G. Droppo Jr., PNNL, Richland, WA; and M. Pelton

833
Investigating Dispersion of Buoyant Emissions from Low Level Sources in Urban Areas: Water Channel Modeling
Sam Pournazeri, Univ. of California, Riverside, CA; and Q. Jing, M. Princevac, and A. Venkatram
Manuscript (734.9 kB)

Handout (1.2 MB)

835
An Ad-Hoc PBL variability experiment over the Washington, DC area
Jeffery T. McQueen, NOAA/NWS/NCEP, Camp Springs, MD; and C. M. Tassone, M. Tsidulko, G. Manikin, G. DiMego, W. Lapenta, W. R. Pendergrass, C. A. Vogel, E. J. Welton, E. Joseph, M. Hicks, B. B. Demoz, R. M. Hoff, R. Delgado, J. Compton, and M. D. Simpson

836
Comparisons of a Lagrangian particle model for urban dispersion with laboratory experiments
Pasquale Franzese, George Mason Univ., Fairfax, VA; and L. Mortarini and P. Huq
Manuscript (195.5 kB)

837
Dispersion length scales within and above the urban canopy
Pablo Huq, Univ. of Delaware, Newark, DE; and P. Franzese
Manuscript (96.2 kB)

838
Modeling the urban circulation in the Salt Lake City area using the WRF urban canopy parameterization
Thomas Nehrkorn, AER, Lexington, MA; and J. Henderson, M. Leidner, M. Ellis, A. Maher, and J. Eluszkiewicz
Manuscript (1.9 MB)

839
Some plume dispersion highlights from JU03 and URBAN 2000
Dennis Finn, NOAA/ARL, Idaho Falls, ID; and K. L. Clawson, R. G. Carter, J. Rich, C. A. Biltoft, and M. J. Leach
Manuscript (502.4 kB)

Handout (5.9 MB)

841 has been moved. New paper number 4.6A

842
Building-Resolved Urban Dispersion Models Evaluated with MID05 Data
Julia E. Flaherty, PNNL, Richland, WA; and K. J. Allwine, M. J. Brown, W. J. Coirier, S. C. Ericson, O. Hansen, A. H. Huber, S. Kim, M. J. Leach, J. D. Mirocha, R. K. Newsom, G. Patnaik, and I. Senocak

Handout (195.5 kB)

843
Modeling atmospheric transport and dispersion of smoke from wildland fires
Sharon Zhong, Michigan State Univ., East Lansing, MI; and W. Lu, J. J. Charney, M. T. Kiefer, W. E. Heilman, R. P. Shadbolt, and X. Bian

Handout (2.3 MB)

844
The Canadian urban dispersion modeling (CUDM) system: Results from applications over Vancouver and Toronto
Pierre Bourgouin, MSC, Dorval, QC, Canada; and R. Hogue, N. Benbouta, N. Ek, J. P. Gauthier, G. Mercier, S. Trudel, and C. Zaganescu
Manuscript (1009.8 kB)

Handout (547.6 kB)

845
Development and evaluation of high resolution simulation tools to improve fire weather forecasts
Brian K. Lamb, Washington State Univ., Pullman, WA; and P. O'Keefe, K. Yedinak, G. Allwine, N. Wagenbrenner, P. Robichaud, J. Forthofer, B. Butler, and D. Finn

847
First results from the Swiss Slope Experiment at La Fouly (SELF) investigating the interaction of thermal circulation patterns and turbulent fluxes on steep slopes
Eric R. Pardyjak, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT; and D. Nadeau, C. Higgins, H. Huwald, R. Mage, and M. B. Parlange


Poster Session 2
Tropical Convection
Location: Washington State Convention Center
Host: Michio Yanai Symposium
Chair: Robert Fovell, Univ. of California
862
Regional rainfall variability in East Asia associated with climate trends
Chung-Hsiung Sui, National Taiwan Univ., Taipei, Taiwan; and P. Liu and P. C. Tang

864
Diabatic heating and drying profiles in the tropical intraseasonal variations: Results from the recent field campaigns in and around the warm pool
Masaki Katsumata, Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology, Yokosuka, Japan; and K. Yoneyama, H. Yamada, H. Kubota, M. Fujita, R. Shirooka, R. H. Johnson, and P. E. Ciesielski

865
Latent Heating from TRMM Satellite Measurements
Wei-Kuo Tao, NASA/GSFC, Greenbelt, MD; and Y. N. Takayabu, S. Shige, W. S. Olson, and S. E. Lang

867
A data analysis study on the atmospheric disturbances associated with shallow convection over the eastern tropical Pacific
Chie Yokoyama, Atmosphere and Ocean Research Institute, Kashiwa, Chiba, Japan; and Y. N. Takayabu

868
Applying CloudSat/A-Train and ECMWF analyses to constrain and evaluate cloud, convection and radiation processes in climate/forecast models
Jui-Lin Li, JPL, Pasadena, CA; and W. T. Chen, D. Waliser, T. L. Kubar, T. L'Ecuyer, J. D. Chern, W. K. Tao, and J. D. Neelin

869
Mechanisms for precipitation variability of the eastern Brazil/SACZ convective margin
Hsi-Yen Ma, Univ. of California, Los Angeles, CA; and X. Ji, J. D. Neelin, and C. R. Mechoso

870
A see-saw pattern of the Intertropical Convergence Zone over the eastern Pacific
Chih-wen Hung, National Taiwan Normal University, Taipei, Taiwan; and M. F. Shih

871
873
A parametrization of convective momentum transport
Boualem Khouider, University of Victoria, Victoria, BC, Canada; and Y. Han Jr. and J. A. Biello

874
A study on the effects of convective momentum transport asociated with rain bands within the Madden-Julian Oscillation
Tomoki Miyakawa, Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology, Yokosuka, Kanagawa, Japan; and Y. N. Takayabu, T. Nasuno, H. Miura, and M. Satoh

875
A Microphysics Parameterization for Convective Clouds in a Global Climate Model
Xiaoliang Song, SIO/Univ. Of California, La Jolla, CA; and G. J. Zhang

876
Tropical convection and anvil cirrus
Sally A. McFarlane, PNNL, Richland, WA; and J. Comstock

877
Cloud vertical evolution associated with the MJO life cycle
Liping Deng, PNNL, Richland, WA; and S. McFarlane

878
Electrically-active convection and tropical cyclogenesis in the Atlantic and East Pacific
Kenneth D. Leppert II, University of Alabama , Huntsville, AL; and W. A. Petersen

879
Enhancement of annual precipitation range under global warming
Chia Chou, Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan; and C. W. Lan

880
Interannual rainfall variability over the eastern maritime continent
Hisayuki Kubota, Research Institute for Global Change/ Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology, Yokosuka, Japan; and R. Shirooka, J. I. Hamada, and F. Syamsudin

881
Reinstatement of land in tropical meteorology: Dynamical similarity between sea-land breeze and monsoon
Manabu D. Yamanaka, Agency for the Assessment and Application of Technology , Jakarta, Indonesia

882
Environmental condition of pre-monsoon rainfall over Bangladesh and the northeastern part of Indian subcontinent
Masashi Kiguchi, University of Tokyo, Toyko, Japan; and Y. Yamane, F. Murata, T. Terao, T. Hayashi, and T. Oki

883
The Coupling of Convection and Circulation of Monsoon Depressions during the South Asian Summer Monsoon
Yi-Chi Wang, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN; and W. C. Wu and W. W. Tung


Joint Poster Session 3
Regional Climate Modeling to Improve Climate Variability and Change Projections at the Local Scale
Location: Washington State Convention Center
Hosts: (Joint between the 25th Conference on Hydrology; and the 23rd Conference on Climate Variability and Change )
Cochairs: Francina Dominguez, Univ. of Arizona; Dennis P. Lettenmaier, University of Washington; L. Ruby Leung, PNNL
401
The potential for an abrupt failure of the West African monsoon as climate warms
Naresh Neupane, University of Texas, Austin, TX; and E. K. Vizy and K. H. Cook

402
Combined effects of global warming and an AMOC shutdown on West African and European climate
Meredith Brown, University of Texas , Austin, TX; and E. K. Vizy and K. H. Cook

403
Air-sea coupling mechanisms in the North Pacific using a high-resolution mesoscale atmospheric model
Ramesh K. Vellore, DRI, Reno, NV; and D. Koracin, I. Cerovecki, and C. E. Dorman

404
Local and remote influences on vertical wind shear in the tropical Atlantic region
Xiaojie Zhu, Texas A&M University, College station, TX; and R. Saravanan

Handout (8.8 MB)

405
High resolution simulation of the succession of hurricanes in 2008: Gustav, Hanna, and Ike
Wuyin Lin, Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, NY; and M. Zhang, A. M. Vogelmann, and J. He

Handout (2.4 MB)

Paper 407 has been moved and replaced by 407A. New paper numer is J10.3A.

407A
Advances in Coupling Regional Circulation/Land Surface Models and Dynamic Crop Models
Guillermo A. Baigorria, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL; and D. W. Shin

408
Dynamical Downscaling of NASA/GISS ModelE: Continuous, Multi-Year WRF Runs
Tanya L. Otte, EPA, Research Triangle Park, NC; and J. H. Bowden, C. G. Nolte, M. J. Otte, J. E. Pleim, J. A. Herwehe, G. Faluvegi, and D. Shindell

Handout (2.2 MB)

409
Analysis and quantification of uncertainty in climate adaptation products for the southwestern US
Duane Apling, Northrop Grumman Corporation, Chantilly, VA; and G. Higgins, K. Darmenova, and H. Kiley

410
Regional climate modeling in the Lower Mississippi River Valley for water resources assessments
Valentine G. Anantharaj, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, TN; and G. V. Mostovoy, Y. Lau, C. A. Peterson, C. D. Armstrong, and X. Fan

411
Reproducibility and future projection of monthly maximum number of consecutive dry days in Japan: Improvement by a 5-km-mesh regional climate model
Masuo Nakano, Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology, Tsukuba, Japan; and S. Kanada, T. Kato, and K. Kurihara

412
Assessment of Climate Change over Colorado River Basin as predicted by Regional Climate Models
Yanhong Gao, Environmental and Engineering Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Lanzhou, China; and J. Vano and D. P. Lettenmaier

Handout (1.9 MB)

413
Simulated regional climate change in the Carpathian Basin using ENSEMBLES model simulations
Judit Bartholy, Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest, Hungary; and R. Pongracz, E. Miklos, and A. Kis
Manuscript (211.4 kB)

Handout (1005.2 kB)

414
Paleo-reconstruction of summer streamflow with estimates of uncertainties and applications to climate change assessments
Eric Lutz, University of Washington, Seattle, WA; and A. F. Hamlet and J. Littell

418
Development of the Regional Arctic Climate System Model (RACM) --- Performance of the VIC land surface model in coupled simulations
Chunmei Zhu, University of Washington, Seattle, WA; and D. Lettenmaier, J. He, T. Craig, and W. Maslowski

419
Evaluation and adaptation of a regional climate model for the Horn of Africa: Rainfall climatology and interannual variability
Zewdu Segele, University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK; and L. Leslie and P. J. Lamb

Handout (249.6 kB)

420
Conservative and Noise Resistant Data Remapping for Coupling WRF and CAM
Ying Chen, SUNY, Stony Brook, NY; and X. Jiao, W. Lin, M. H. Zhang, and J. He

Handout (1.1 MB)

421
Construction of WRF/CAM two-way coupling system and preliminary results
Juanxiong He, Stony Brook University/SUNY, Stony Brook, NY; and M. Zhang, W. Lin, Y. Chen, and A. M. Vogelmann

Handout (384.6 kB)

422
Assessment of dynamical downscaling in Japan using the Regional Atmospheric Modeling System (RAMS)
Koji Dairaku, National Research Institute for Earth Science and Disaster Prevention, Tsukuba, Japan; and R. Pielke Sr., A. Beltran-Przekurat, S. IIzuka, and W. Sasaki

423
Assessment of Climate Model Performance over the Australian Region
Luke M. Leslie, Washington University in St. Louis, Norman, OK

Paper 424 has been moved. New paper number is 505A


Poster Session 3
Tropical Cyclones
Location: Washington State Convention Center
Host: Michio Yanai Symposium
884
Application of the Marsupial Paradigm to tropical cyclone formation from northwestward propagating disturbances
Zhuo Wang, Univ. of Illinois, Urbana, IL; and T. J. Dunkerton and M. T. Montgomery

Handout (6.8 MB)

887A
Structure and characteristics of submonthly-scale waves propagating along the Indian Ocean ITCZ
Yoshiki Fukutomi, Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology, Yokohama, Japan; and T. Yasunari

888
Role of diabatic heating on tropical cyclone structure and motion
Robert G. Fovell, Univ. of California, Los Angeles, CA; and K. L. Corbosiero, H. C. Kuo, and K. N. Liou

Handout (25.9 MB)

889
Influence of topography on tropical cyclone motion and rainfall
Li-huan Hsu, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan; and H. C. Kuo and R. G. Fovell

Handout (26.4 MB)

891
Observational and numerical studies of gravity waves during tropical cyclone Ivan (2008)
Chouaïbou Ibrahim, Laboratoire de l'Atmosphere et des Cyclones, Saint Denis, Reunion; and F. Chane-Ming, C. Barthe, and N. Bidjee

892
Angular Momentum Transport in an Idealized Tropical-cyclone
Hyun-Gyu Kang, Pukyong National University, Busan, Korea, Republic of (South); and H. B. Cheong, J. R. Park, and H. J. Han

893
A High Resolution Modeling Approach to Impoved Landfalling Tropical Cyclone Wind Forecasts
Bryce Paul Tyner, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC; and A. Aiyyer

Handout (1.6 MB)


Poster Session 4
Poster Session 4
Location: Washington State Convention Center
Host: 23rd Conference on Climate Variability and Change
507
Climate of the 20th and 21th century simulations by a 60-km mesh global atmospheric model
Shoji Kusunoki, MRI, Tsukuba, Japan; and J. Yoshimura and H. Murakami

Handout (358.4 kB)

508
Northern Hemisphere atmospheric blocking as simulated by a 60-km-mesh MRI AGCM in the period 1872-2099
Mio Matsueda, Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology, Tsukuba, Japan; and H. Endo

509
Climate sensitivity to lake properties and distribution using an improved lake model in CCSM
Zachary M. Subin, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ; and W. J. Riley and C. Bonfils

Handout (891.4 kB)

512
Global warming shifts Pacific tropical cyclone location
MinHo Kwon, Korea Ocean Research and Development Institute, Ansan, Korea, Republic of (South); and T. Li, J. S. Kug, and J. J. Luo
Manuscript (395.8 kB)

513
Using climate model data to determine spatial synoptic classifications
Neil Davis, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC; and A. Hanna, A. Xiu, K. Talgo, and S. C. Sheridan

514
Downscaling CCSM data using WRF for air quality modeling
Kevin Talgo, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC; and A. Hanna, A. Xiu, and N. Davis

517
The redistribution of heat within the Arctic atmosphere during years with very low sea ice extent
Ron Lindsay, University of Washington, Seattle, WA; and A. Schweiger

518
Sensitivity of the thermocline feedback to global warming in coupled GCMs: Implications for changes in ENSO amplitude
P.N. DiNezio, University of Miami, Miami, FL; and A. Clement, G. A. Vecchi, B. Kirtman, and S. K. Lee


Poster Session 4
Tropical Waves and MJO
Location: Washington State Convention Center
Host: Michio Yanai Symposium
894
The role of Easterly Waves on the Tropical Americas Climate
Víctor O. Magaña, Univ. Nacional Autonoma de Mexico, Mexico City, Mexico; and J. A. Salinas and M. Méndez

895
Observed Dispersion Relation of Yanai Waves in the Ocean
Toshiaki Shinoda, NRL, Stennis Space Center, MS

896
Reflection of Yanai waves at eastern ocean boundaries
Dennis W. Moore, PMEL, Seattle, WA; and S. Schmidtko

897
Different Precipitation Characteristics associated with Convectively Coupled Equatorial Wave
Kazuaki Yasunaga, Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology , Yokosuka, Japan; and B. Mapes

899
Analysis of small scale wave over the West African area
Petronille Kafando, Laboratoire de Physique et de Chimie de l'Environnement, Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso; and F. Chane-Ming and M. Petitdidier
Manuscript (472.8 kB)

Handout (1.3 MB)

900
Bimodal representation of the tropical intraseasonal oscillation
Kazuyoshi Kikuchi, University of Hawaii, Honolulu, HI; and B. Wang and Y. Kajikawa

901
Moist thermodynamics of Madden Julian Oscillation in a cloud resolving model
Samson M. Hagos, PNNL, Richland, WA; and L. R. Leung and J. Dudhia

902
A new method for identification of Madden-Julian events
Kenneth R. Sperber, LLNL, Livermore, CA

Handout (7.1 MB)

903
MJO-ENSO teleconections during the boreal winter in projections of future climate in the IPCC AR4 Simulations
Takahashi Chiharu, Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Schence and Technology, Yokosuka, Japan

904
Mechanism on inverse relationship between the annual-cycle's and ENSO's amplitudes
Soon-Il An, Yonsei University, Seoul, Korea, Republic of (South); and J. Choi


Poster Session 8
Drought Analysis, Monitoring and Prediction
Location: Washington State Convention Center
Host: 25th Conference on Hydrology
Cochairs: Andrew W. Wood, NOAA/NWS; Randal D. Koster, NASA/GSFC; Kingtse C. Mo, NOAA/NWS/NCEP/CPC
425
426
Evaluation of an ET-based Drought Index Derived from Geostationary Satellite Data
M. C. Anderson, USDA-ARS, Beltsville, MD; and C. R. Hain, X. Zhan, and J. Mecikalski

427
Application of the moisture balance drought index in the Colorado River Basin, USA
Andrew W. Ellis, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ; and G. M. Garfin and M. Lenart

Paper 428 has been moved. New paper number is 11.3A.

430
Comparison of EDI with SPI as the globally unified drought index
Hi-Ryong Byun, Pukyong National University, Busan, Korea, Republic of (South); and D. W. Kim and S. M. Lee
Manuscript (23.9 kB)

431
Characterizing the surface dynamics of Canadian Prairie droughts
Barrie R. Bonsal, EC, Saskatoon, SK, Canada; and E. Wheaton and E. Siemens

432
Characteristics of agriculture drought in China during 1950-2006
Aihui Wang, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China; and D. P. Lettenmaier and J. Sheffield

433
Hydrological response to meteorological drought: a case study in La Plata Basin
Olga C. Penalba, Universidad de Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires, Argentina; and J. A. Rivera

Handout (1.8 MB)

31
Temporal variability in rainfall, dry days, water balance and extreme events in northeastern Argentina
Olga C. Penalba, Universidad de Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires, Argentina; and V. C. Pántano, J. Rivera, and F. Robledo

Handout (568.0 kB)

435
The impact of groundwater-land surface interactions on hydrologic persistence in macroscale modeling
Elizabeth A. Clark, University of Washington, Seattle, WA; and A. C. Steinemann and D. P. Lettenmaier

437
Wintertime forcing of the 1998-2002 Northern Hemisphere drought
Andrew Hoell, Univ. of Massachusetts, Lowell, MA; and M. Barlow

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

Recording files available
Joint Session 4
Aerosol Impacts on Hurricanes
Location: 605/610 (Washington State Convention Center)
Hosts: (Joint between the 18th Conference on Planned and Inadvertent Weather Modification; and the Third Symposium on Aerosol-Cloud-Climate Interactions )
Cochairs: Bruce A. Albrecht, Univ. of Miami/RSMAS; Daniel Rosenfeld, Hebrew University
11:30 AM
J4.3
(Invited Speaker) Hurricane modification by cold-pool manipulation
William R. Cotton, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO

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

Recording files available
Session 2
Data and Time Series Analysis I
Location: 307-308 (Washington State Convention Center)
Host: Special Symposium on Advances in Modeling and Analysis Using Python
Chair: Johnny Wei-Bing Lin
11:00 AM
Introductory Remarks
11:45 AM
2.2
Visualizing and analysing mosaic data with CDAT (invited)
Alexander Pletzer, Tech-X Corp., Boulder, CO; and D. Kindig, J. Painter, V. Balaji, and Z. Liang
12:30 PM
Concluding Remarks

Recording files available
Session 2
Dense Gas Experiments & Modeling II
Location: 604 (Washington State Convention Center)
Host: Special Symposium on Applications of Air Pollution Meteorology
Organizer: Michael J. Brown, LANL
11:00 AM
2.1
A Preliminary Analysis of HPAC Modeling during the Jack Rabbit Test program
Edward P. Argenta Jr., U.S. Army, Dugway Proving Ground, UT; and J. M. White, D. P. Storwold Jr., and J. C. Pace
11:15 AM
2.2
CFD simulations of the Jack Rabbit ammonia and chlorine release experiments using FLACS
Filippo Gavelli, GexCon US, Bethesda, MD; and M. Ichard, S. Davis, and O. R. Hansen
11:30 AM
2.3
Comparing Results of Two Chlorine Release Field Experiments—Wild Stallion and Jack Rabbit
Steven R. Hanna, Hanna Consultants, Kennebunkport, ME; and R. Britter, R. Koopman, and J. Chang
11:45 AM
2.4
Simulation of the Jack Rabbit Release Scenarios using SCIPUFF
Ian Sykes, Sage Management, Inc., Princeton, NJ; and D. Henn and R. Babarsky
12:00 PM
2.5
A comparison of hazard area predictions based on the ensemble-mean plume versus individual plume realizations using different toxic load models
Nathan Platt, Institute for Defense Analyses, Alexandria, VA; and C. Czech, J. Urban, P. Bieringer, G. Bieberbach, A. Wyszogrodzki, and J. Weil
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Session 2
Lectures on Tropical Meteorology II
Location: 4C-3 (Washington State Convention Center)
Host: Michio Yanai Symposium
Chairs: Baode Chen, GEST, University of Maryland Baltimore County; Timothy J. Dunkerton, NorthWest Research Associates
11:00 AM
2.1
Michio Yanai's Contributions to the Problem of Tropical Cyclogenesis: A Review and some New Results
Kerry Emanuel, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA; and E. D. Rappin
11:45 AM
2.3
The Madden-Julian Oscillation: Prof. Yanai's Unique Perspectives and Influences
Eric D. Maloney, Colorado State Univ., Fort Collins, CO; and C. Zhang
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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
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Session 6
Supply/Demand Fundamentals: Short Range Forecasting II
Location: 6A (Washington State Convention Center)
Host: Second Conference on Weather, Climate, and the New Energy Economy
Chair: Jennifer States, PNNL
11:00 AM
6.1
11:15 AM
6.2
Spatial and temporal variability of incoming solar irradiance at a measurement site in Hawai'i
Laura M. Hinkelman, JISAO/Univ. of Washington, Seattle, WA; and R. George, S. Wilcox, and M. Sengupta
11:30 AM
6.3
Observational targeting using ensemble sensitivity analysis to Improve short-term wind power forecasting in the Mid-Columbia Basin
Edward J. Natenberg, MESO, Inc., Troy, NY; and S. Young, G. Van Knowe, J. W. Zack, J. Manobianco, and C. Kamath
11:45 AM
6.4
An overview of NCAR's advanced wind forecasting system for integrating wind resources into the new energy economy
David B. Johnson, NCAR, Boulder, CO; and B. Mahoney, Y. Liu, G. Wiener, W. Myers, and K. Parks
12:00 PM
6.5
WindNET: An advanced wind sensor network to improve short-range wind forecasts for electric utility dispatch and operation
John Manobianco, AWS Truepower LLC, Albany, NY; and J. W. Zack, S. Young, D. Nakafuji, T. Aukai, L. Rogers, and L. Dangelmaier
Recording files available
Session 6
Updates
Location: 304 (Washington State Convention Center)
Host: 14th Conference of Atmospheric Science Librarians International
11:30 AM
6.2
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Session 7
Air Quality Forecasting—Part I
Location: 3A (Washington State Convention Center)
Host: 13th Conference on Atmospheric Chemistry
Cochairs: Alexander Baklanov, Danish Meteorological Institute; Douglas L. Westphal, NRL
11:00 AM
7.1
(Invited Speaker) Physical and chemical weather forecasting as a joint problem: two-way interacting integrated modelling
Alexander Baklanov, Danish Meteorological Institute, Copenhagen, Denmark; and U. S. Korsholm, A. G. Mahura, R. B. Nuterman, B. H. Sass, and A. S. Zakey
11:30 AM
7.2
Global Aerosol Analyses for AQ Decision-Making in the United States
Douglas L. Westphal, NRL, Monterey, CA; and R. B. Husar and S. E. McClure
11:45 AM
7.3
Evaluation of WRF-Chemistry air quality forecasts produced during CalNex-2010
Steven E. Peckham, NOAA/ESRL/GSD and CIRES-Univ. of Colorado, Boulder, CO; and G. Grell and S. A. McKeen

12:00 PM
7.4
Expansion of NOAA's national air quality forecast guidance capability to 50 states
Ivanka Stajner, NOAA/NWS and Noblis, Silver Spring, MD; and P. Davidson, D. Byun, J. McQueen, R. Draxler, G. Maninkin, K. Wedmark, K. Carey, and T. McClung
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Joint Session 8
Communicating Uncertainty (Themed Joint Session)
Location: 611 (Washington State Convention Center)
Hosts: (Joint between the Second Conference on Weather, Climate, and the New Energy Economy; the 25th Conference on Hydrology; the 24th Conference on Weather and Forecasting/20th Conference on Numerical Weather Prediction; the Sixth Symposium on Policy and Socio-economic Research; and the Second Symposium on Environment and Health )
Chair: Manda Adams, Univ. of North Carolina
11:15 AM
J8.2
User engagement for water resources forecasts: a framework for iterative communication
Kevin Werner, NOAA/NWS, Salt Lake City, UT; and K. Averyt and G. Owen
11:45 AM
J8.4
Meaning, Context, and Weather-Related Information Sharing
Susan A. Jasko, California Univ. of Pennsylvania, California, PA; and C. M. Kauffman and P. Hettler
12:00 PM
J8.5
Communicating Satellite MW Ocean Product Errors to a Variety of Users
Deborah K. Smith, Remote Sensing Systems, Santa Rosa, CA; and F. J. Wentz, K. Hilburn, and C. A. Mears

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Session 9
Field experiments: observational results from past field experiments; potential relevance of the field observations to operational prediction—Part II
Location: 2A (Washington State Convention Center)
Host: 15th Symposium on Integrated Observing and Assimilation Systems for the Atmosphere, Oceans and Land Surface (IOAS-AOLS)
Chair: Craig H. Bishop, NRL
11:00 AM
9.1
Linkages of the weather system between over the Pacific and Arctic regions -Importance of the atmospheric river-
Yoshio Asuma, University of the Ryukyus, Nishihara, Okinawa, Japan; and T. Yamanouchi and Z. Toth
11:15 AM
9.2
11:30 AM
9.3
Measuring the structure of hurricanes and severe storms with a microwave sounder
Bjorn H. Lambrigtsen, JPL and California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA; and Y. Marchetti

11:45 AM
9.4
Observations during GRIP from HIRAD: Ocean surface wind speed and rain rate
Timothy L. Miller, NASA/MSFC, Huntsville, AL; and M. W. James, W. L. Jones, C. S. Ruf, E. W. Uhlhorn, M. C. Bailey, C. D. Buckley, D. E. Simmons, S. Johnstone, A. Peterson, L. A. Schultz, S. Biswas, J. W. Johnson, G. Shah, D. Fenigstein, W. H. Cleveland, and R. E. Hood
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Session 10
Dynamics: ENSO, QBO, and the Response to Surface Forcing
Location: 3B (Washington State Convention Center)
Host: 16th Conference on Middle Atmosphere
Chair: Feng Li, USRA
11:00 AM
10.1
The response of the tropical lower stratosphere to ENSO
Isla R. Simpson, Columbia University, Palisades, NY; and T. G. Shepherd and M. Sigmond
11:15 AM
10.2
Influence of ENSO and QBO on the frequency of sudden stratospheric warmings
Jadwiga H. Richter, NCAR, Boulder, CO; and K. Matthes, N. Calvo, and L. J. Gray
11:30 AM
10.3
QBO Influence on Polar Stratospheric Variability in the GEOS Chemistry-Climate Model
Margaret M. Hurwitz, NASA Postdoctoral Program, Greenbelt, MD; and L. Oman, F. Li, I. S. Song, P. A. Newman, and J. E. Nielsen

11:45 AM
10.4
Mechanisms for the atmospheric circulation response to idealized thermal forcings in a simple GCM
Amy Hawes Butler, NOAA/NWS/NCEP/CPC, College Park, MD; and D. W. J. Thompson
12:00 PM
10.5
Sensitivity of the stratospheric circulation to the latitude of thermal surface forcing
Barbara Winter, McGill Univ., Montreal, QC, Canada; and M. S. Bourqui

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Joint Session 11
Regional Climate Modeling to Improve Climate Variability and Change Projections at the Local Scale II
Location: 612 (Washington State Convention Center)
Hosts: (Joint between the 25th Conference on Hydrology; and the 23rd Conference on Climate Variability and Change )
Cochairs: Francina Dominguez, Univ. of Arizona; Dennis P. Lettenmaier, University of Washington; L. Ruby Leung, PNNL
11:15 AM
J11.2
11:45 AM
J11.4
Modeled onshore and offshore California coastal-cooling: General Circulation and mesoscale effects
B. Lebassi, College of New York, New York, NY; and J. E. Gonzalez and R. Bornstein
12:00 PM
J11.5
Future Impact of Weakening Atlantic Thermohaline Circulation on the Loop Current in the Gulf of Mexico
Yanyun Liu, NOAA, College Park, MD; and S. K. Lee, B. A. Muhling, and J. T. Lamkin
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Session 12A
Challenges in Data Access, Distribution, and Use Part I
Location: 606 (Washington State Convention Center)
Host: 27th Conference on Interactive Information Processing Systems (IIPS)
Cochairs: Anthony Arguez, NOAA/NESDIS/NCEI; John D. Horel, University of Utah
11:00 AM
12A.1
Frequency protection, why should I care and what can I do?
Richard Kelley Jr., Alion Science and Technology, Suitland, MD; and D. Furlong and D. McGinnis
11:15 AM
12A.2
McIDAS-V—Accessing, visualizing and analyzing multi and hyperspectral environmental satellite data
Thomas Achtor, SSEC/CIMSS/Univ. of Wisconsin, Madison, WI; and T. Rink, T. Jasmin, and T. M. Whittaker
11:30 AM
12A.3
The Interactive Earth Science Data Visualization Gallery (vizGal)
Roland Schweitzer, Weathertop Consulting, LLC, College Station, TX; and S. Hankin, J. Malczyk, A. Manke, and K. M. O'Brien
11:45 AM
12A.4
SWARM: A highly-scalable WMS and tile-based weather image solution
David VandenHeuvel, Weather Decision Technologies, Norman, OK; and C. Goering, C. Barrere, S. Ganson, W. Ladwig, M. D. Eilts, and B. Shaw
12:00 PM
12A.5
The Unified Access Framework: A GEO-IDE project to integrate scientific data management and access
Kevin M. O'Brien, JISAO/Univ. of Washington, Seattle, WA; and K. Casey, T. Habermann, S. Hankin, L. McCulloch, K. R. McDonald, R. Mendelssohn, G. K. Rutledge, and R. Signell
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Session 12A
Climate Projection I
Location: 608 (Washington State Convention Center)
Host: 23rd Conference on Climate Variability and Change
Chair: Xuebin Zhang, EC
11:00 AM
12A.1
11:15 AM
12A.2
Is the Pacific's response to global warming La Nina-like or El Nino-like?
Ka-Kit Tung, University of Washington, Seattle, WA; and J. Zhou
11:30 AM
12A.3
Precipitation response to global warming: a model-by-model theory-model comparison
Jacob S. Scheff, University of Washington, Seattle, WA; and D. M. Frierson
11:45 AM
12A.4
Arctic Oscillation Responses to Greenhouse Warming and Role of Synoptic Eddy Feedback
Jong-Seong Kug, Korea Ocean Research and Development Institute, Ansan, Korea, Republic of (South); and D. H. Choi and W. T. Kwon
12:00 PM
12A.5
Investigation of the energy budget and physical mechanisms associated with long-term climate changes in IPCC AR4 models
Hun-Gyu Lee, Seoul National University, Seoul, Korea, Republic of (South); and K. Y. Kim

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Session 12B
Communicating Radar Data in the 21st Century Part IV
Location: 607 (Washington State Convention Center)
Host: 27th Conference on Interactive Information Processing Systems (IIPS)
Cochairs: Douglas E. Forsyth, NOAA/NSSL; Timothy Crum, Retired, NWS; Julian Wang, NOAA/ARL; Robert E. Saffle, Noblis, Inc.; Mark Yeary, University of Oklahoma
11:00 AM
12B.1
The Multifunction Phased Array Radar Initiative—Status and Outlook
Samuel P. Williamson, Office of the Federal Coordinator for Meteorology, Silver Spring, MD; and J. E. Stailey and M. R. Babcock
11:15 AM
12B.2
What's new at the National Weather Radar Testbed (Phased Array)
Douglas E. Forsyth, NOAA/NSSL, Norman, OK; and J. F. Kimpel, D. S. Zrnic, R. Ferek, J. Heimmer, T. J. McNellis, J. E. Crain, A. M. Shapiro, R. J. Vogt, and W. Benner
11:30 AM
12B.3
Software and signal processing upgrades for the National Weather Radar Testbed phased-array radar
Sebastian M. Torres, CIMMS, Norman, OK; and R. Adams, C. Curtis, E. Forren, I. Ivic, D. Priegnitz, J. Thompson, and D. Warde
11:45 AM
12B.4
2010 Phased-array radar innovative sensing experiment
Pamela L. Heinselman, NOAA/NSSL, Norman, OK; and S. M. Torres, D. LaDue, and H. Lazrus
12:00 PM
12B.5
A status report on the integration and test of the new multi-channel receiver at the National Weather Radar Testbed
Mark Yeary, University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK; and J. E. Crain, A. Zahrai, J. Meier, I. R. Ivic, C. Curtis, R. Kelley, Y. Zhang, R. D. Palmer, T. Y. Yu, G. Zhang, R. J. Doviak, Q. Xu, P. B. Chilson, and M. Xue
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Session 12B
NCAR Community Modeling Session V: Paleo + Regional Responses
Location: 609 (Washington State Convention Center)
Host: 23rd Conference on Climate Variability and Change
Chair: Jim Hurrell, NCAR
11:00 AM
12B.1
Transient simulation of the climate evolution of the last 21,000 years in CCSM3
Zhengyu Liu, Univ. of Wisconsin, Madison, WI; and B. L. Otto-Bliesner, F. He, E. Brady, P. U. Clark, and A. E. Carlson

11:15 AM
12B.2
A long CCSM3 transient simulation of the centennial to millennial variability of the hydrologic cycle in Africa
Bette L. Otto-Bliesner, NCAR, Boulder, CO; and Z. Liu, F. He, M. Wehrenberg, P. U. Clark, and A. Carlson

11:30 AM
12B.3
Arctic Climate Response to Aerosols on Sea Ice and Snow in CESM
Naomi L. Goldenson, University of Washington, Seattle, WA; and M. M. Holland, C. Bitz, S. Doherty, and B. Light
11:45 AM
12B.4
12:00 PM
12B.5
Glacial Inception in CCSM4
Markus Jochum, NCAR, Boulder, CO; and D. Bailey, J. Fasullo, J. Kay, S. Levis, K. Lindsay, K. Moore, B. L. Otto-Bliesner, and S. Peacock
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Session 13A
Operational Weather Forecasting III: Tropical Cyclones
Location: 613/614 (Washington State Convention Center)
Host: 24th Conference on Weather and Forecasting/20th Conference on Numerical Weather Prediction
Chair: Michael J. Brennan, NOAA/NWS/NHC
11:00 AM
13A.1
Improvements to the operational HWRF modeling system
Vijay Tallapragada, NOAA/NWS/NCEP/EMC, Camp Springs, MD; and Y. Kwon, Q. Liu, Z. Zhang, R. Tuleya, J. Oconnor, S. Trahan, E. Aligo, N. Surgi, W. M. Lapenta, and S. J. Lord
11:15 AM
13A.2
Diagnostic verification of COAMPS-TC performance for the HFIP retrospective forecasts
Jonathan R. Moskaitis, NRL, Monterey, CA; and J. D. Doyle and R. M. Hodur
11:30 AM
13A.3
11:45 AM
13A.4
Simulating Waves Nearshore (SWAN) modeling efforts at NWS Southern Region Coastal Weather Forecast Offices
Jack Settelmaier, NOAA/NWS, Fort Worth, TX; and A. Gibbs, P. Santos, T. Freeman, and D. Gaer
12:00 PM
13A.5
How vertical wind shear affects the intensification of Typhoon Jangmi (2008)
Levi Thatcher, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT; and Z. Pu
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Session 13B
Numerical Modeling VI: Physical Parameterizations
Location: 615-617 (Washington State Convention Center)
Host: 24th Conference on Weather and Forecasting/20th Conference on Numerical Weather Prediction
Chair: Roger V. Pierce, OAR
11:00 AM
13B.1
11:15 AM
13B.2
Sensitivity of WRF-RTFDDA model physics in weather forecasting applications: From synoptic scale to meso-gamma scale
William Y. Y. Cheng, NCAR, Boulder, CO; and Y. Liu, Y. Zhang, Y. Liu, D. Rostkier-Edelstein, A. Pietrkovski, B. Mahoney, T. T. Warner, and S. Drobot
11:30 AM
13B.3
Thunderstorm Outflow Dust Lofting and Resulting Impacts on Convection
Robert B. Seigel, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO; and S. C. van den Heever
11:45 AM
13B.4
Comparison of hydrometeor fall speed distributions in bin and bulk microphysical schemes
Eric A. Aligo, Iowa State University, Camp Springs, MD; and W. A. Gallus Jr., G. Thompson, and B. S. Ferrier
12:00 PM
13B.5
Impact of microphysics parameterizations on simulation of 13 March 2003 bow echo
Rebecca D. Adams-Selin, Atmospheric and Environment Research, Inc., Offutt AFB, NE; and R. Johnson and S. C. van den Heever
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Joint Session 16
Assimilation of observations into models: Hybrid methods
Location: 2B (Washington State Convention Center)
Hosts: (Joint between the 15th Symposium on Integrated Observing and Assimilation Systems for the Atmosphere, Oceans and Land Surface (IOAS-AOLS); and the 24th Conference on Weather and Forecasting/20th Conference on Numerical Weather Prediction )
Chair: Kayo Ide, Univ. of Maryland
11:00 AM
J16.1
11:15 AM
J16.2
Tests of a hybrid variational-ensemble data global assimilation system for hurricane prediction
Jeffrey Whitaker, NOAA/ESRL, Boulder, CO; and D. T. Kleist, X. Wang, and T. Hamill
11:45 AM
J16.4
Expanding the GSI-based hybrid ensemble-variational system to include more flexible parameter settings
Daryl T. Kleist, NCEP, College Park, MD; and K. Ide, J. Whitaker, J. C. Derber, D. Parrish, and X. Wang
12:00 PM
J16.5
A GSI-based hybrid ensemble-variational data assimilation system and its comparison with GSI and ensemble Kalman filter
Xuguang Wang, Univ. of Oklahoma, Norman, OK; and J. Whitaker, D. T. Kleist, D. F. Parrish, and B. W. Holland
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Joint Session 16
Drought Management, Policy and Social Implications
Location: 618-620 (Washington State Convention Center)
Hosts: (Joint between the 25th Conference on Hydrology; and the Sixth Symposium on Policy and Socio-economic Research )
Cochairs: Rosalind Bark, University of Arizona; Gregg M. Garfin, University of Arizona; Mark A. Shafer, Oklahoma Climatological Survey
11:00 AM
J16.1
Colorado River Operations and Planning in a Changing Climate
Terrance Fulp, Bureau of Reclamation, Boulder City, NV
11:15 AM
J16.2
Drought, climate change and water resources management in Australia
Jason Alexandra, Murray-Darling Basin Authority, Canberra, Australia

11:30 AM
J16.3
Building an integrated evidence-base to support drought policy in Australia
John Gray, Australian Bureau of Agricultural and Resource Economics-Bureau of Rural Sciences, Canberra, ACT , Australia; and M. Nicholson, D. Platzen, S. Bruce, J. Walcott, and J. Sims
11:45 AM
J16.4
The impact of drought on rivers in federal political systems
Jamie Pittock, Australian National University, Canberra, Australia
12:00 PM
J16.5
Climate Change and Drought Management in the Okanagan Basin, British Columbia: Opportunities for Translation
Stewart J. Cohen, EC, Vancouver, BC, Canada; and S. M. Langsdale, K. Harma, and M. Johnson

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


Lunch Break

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

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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)

Lunch and ASLI Business Meeting
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Session
Yanai Symposium Luncheon
Location: 4C-1 (Washington State Convention Center)
Host: Michio Yanai Symposium
Panelists: Akio Arakawa, Department of Atmospheric Sciences, UCLA; William M. Gray, Colorado State University; Akira Kasahara, NCAR; Kikuro Miyakoda, Princeton University; Pamela L. Stephens, NSF; John Michael Wallace, Univ. of Washington; Guo-Xiong Wu, Chinese Academy of Sciences
Speaker: Taroh Matsuno, Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology
Chair: Steve Esbensen, Oregon State University
12:15 PM
Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology
Taroh Matsuno, Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology, Yokohama, Japan

12:30 PM
Luncheon Presentation
Guo-Xiong Wu, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China
12:45 PM
Yanai Luncheon Keynote
Taroh Matsuno, Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology, Yokohama, Japan

1:30 PM-2:00 PM: Thursday, 27 January 2011

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Session 7A
Supply/Demand Fundamentals: Short Range Forecasting III
Location: 6A (Washington State Convention Center)
Host: Second Conference on Weather, Climate, and the New Energy Economy
Chair: Cegeon J. Chan, MIT
1:30 PM
7A.1
Overview of the eastern Washington wind energy study
Larry K. Berg, PNNL, Richland, WA; and J. D. Fast, R. K. Newsom, M. Pekour, W. J. Shaw, C. A. Finley, and J. R. McCaa
1:45 PM
7A.2
Do More Sophisticated Models Improve the Accuracy of Wind Resource Estimates?
Philippe Beaucage, AWS Truepower LLC, Albany, NY; and J. Manobianco and M. Brower

1:30 PM-2:30 PM: Thursday, 27 January 2011

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Session 7
Part 2 Updates: Publisher updates
Location: 304 (Washington State Convention Center)
Host: 14th Conference of Atmospheric Science Librarians International
1:30 PM
7.1
1:45 PM
7.2
Wiley Blackwell
Fiona Murphy, Wiley, Chichester, n/a, United Kingdom

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

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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
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Session 3
Lectures on Tropical Meteorology III
Location: 4C-3 (Washington State Convention Center)
Host: Michio Yanai Symposium
Chairs: Shang-Ping Xie, Univ. of Hawaii; Tetsuzo Yasunari, Nagoya University
1:30 PM
3.1
Monsoons and the Legacy of Professor Michio Yanai
Peter Webster, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA; and H. M. Kim

2:00 PM
3.2
The East Asian Winter Monsoon (EAWM)
Chih-Pei Chang, Naval Postgraduate School, Monterey, CA; and M. M. Lu
2:30 PM
3.3
Influences of the Tibetan Plateau on the Asian Monsoon in Different Seasons
Guo-Xiong Wu, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China; and Y. Liu, A. Duan, W. Li, X. Liu, X. Liang, T. Wang, Z. Wang, and Y. Guan

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Session 3
The Allwine-Doran Retrospective I
Location: 604 (Washington State Convention Center)
Host: Special Symposium on Applications of Air Pollution Meteorology
Chair: Brian Lamb, Washington State Univ.
1:45 PM
3.2
2:00 PM
3.3
2:15 PM
3.4
Understanding urban canopy-PBL dispersion interactions: a legacy from the SLC, OKC, and NYC urban tracer studies
Robert D. Bornstein, San Jose State University, San Jose, CA; and M. J. Leach and M. Reynolds
2:30 PM
3.5
Odd Behavior in a Peculiar Basin
C. David Whiteman, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT; and S. W. Hoch, M. Lehner, and T. Haiden
2:45 PM
3.6
Urban turbulent kinetic energy budgets as influenced by nocturnal low-level jets
Julie K. Lundquist, University of Colorado at Boulder, Bouder, CO

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Session 3
Visualization
Location: 307-308 (Washington State Convention Center)
Host: Special Symposium on Advances in Modeling and Analysis Using Python
Chair: Charles Doutriaux, LLNL
1:30 PM
Introductory Remarks
2:45 PM
3.3
3:00 PM
3.4
3:15 PM
Concluding Remarks

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Session 7B
Continuation of Dollars and Cents: Weather for Energy Markets and Weather Fundamentals for Energy Planning: Data and User Groups
Location: 4C-2 (Washington State Convention Center)
Host: Second Conference on Weather, Climate, and the New Energy Economy
Chair: Melinda Marquis, NOAA
1:30 PM
7B.1
Does it matter to the atmosphere where wind farms are located?
Amanda S. Adams, Univ. of North Carolina, Charlotte, NC
1:45 PM
7B.2
Solar resource maps for renewable energy
Ray George, National Renewable Energy Laboratory, Golden, CO; and M. Sengupta and S. Wilcox
2:00 PM
7B.3
New wind energy resource potential estimates for the United States
Dennis Elliott, National Renewable Energy Laboratory, Golden, CO; and M. Schwartz, S. Haymes, D. Heimiller, G. Scott, M. Brower, E. Hale, and B. Phelps

Handout (4.5 MB)

2:15 PM
7B.4
Assessment of the gross U.S. offshore wind energy potential
Marc Schwartz, National Renewable Energy Laboratory, Golden, CO; and D. Heimiller and S. Haymes
Manuscript (760.9 kB)

2:30 PM
7B.5
Optimal unit commitment and dispatch for wind farm operations
Jay Mashburn, IBM, Mansfield, TX; and J. Bloom, J. R. Kalagnanam, and L. A. Treinish
2:45 PM
7B.6
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Session 8
Air Quality Forecasting—Part II
Location: 3A (Washington State Convention Center)
Host: 13th Conference on Atmospheric Chemistry
Cochairs: Daewon W. Byun, NOAA/OAR/ARL; William F. Ryan, Pennsylvania State University
1:30 PM
8.1
The effect of recent regional emissions reductions on air quality forecasting in the mid-Atlantic
Willam F. Ryan, Pennsylvania State Univ., Univ. Park, PA; and J. E. Bradbury
1:45 PM
8.2
Evaluation of PBL depths for poor air quality episodes from the NOAA forecast systems
Marina Tsidulko, NOAA/NESDIS/STAR, Camp Springs, MD; and J. McQueen, C. Tassone, G. DiMego, J. Whiting, and I. Stajner
2:30 PM
8.4
Analysis of OMI NO2 trends in comparison to regional model forecasts for urban areas of the Pacific Northwest
Farren L. Herron-Thorpe, Washington State University, Pullman, WA; and J. Vaughan, G. Mount, and B. Lamb
2:45 PM
8.5
Impact of marine boundary layer parameterization schemes on surface ozone prediction in coastal regions
Jianping Huang, NOAA/NWS/NCEP, Camp Springs, MD; and J. McQueen, Y. Tang, M. Tsidulko, H. C. Huang, S. Lu, C. Tassone, B. Lapenta, G. DiMego, D. W. Byun, P. Lee, Y. Choi, D. Tong, and I. Stajner
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Session 10
Atmospheric observations, in situ and remote, including from satellites: Advantages and shortcomings compared with other observing systems—Part IV
Location: 2B (Washington State Convention Center)
Host: 15th Symposium on Integrated Observing and Assimilation Systems for the Atmosphere, Oceans and Land Surface (IOAS-AOLS)
Chair: Bjorn H. Lambrigtsen, JPL
1:30 PM
10.1
Comparison of O-B between FY-3A and NOAA-18 for Microwave Sounding Data
Li Guan, Nanjing University of Information Science & Technology, NanJing, JiangSu, China; and X. Zou and G. Li
1:45 PM
10.2
In-flight icing hazards: comparison of ground, model and pilot in-situ based severity products
Christopher J. Johnston, NCAR, Boulder, CO; and D. J. Serke, D. R. Adriaansen, A. L. Reehorst, M. K. Politovich, and C. A. Wolff
2:00 PM
10.3
An analysis of wind retrieval algorithms for small unmanned aerial systems
Timothy A. Bonin, University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK; and B. Zielke, W. Bocangel, W. Shalamunenc, and P. B. Chilson
2:15 PM
10.4
2:30 PM
10.5
Statistical Analysis of Meteorological Observations from NOAA's Hurricane Hunter Aircraft for the Development of Quality Control Algorithms
Ian T. Sears, AOC, Lakeland, FL; and M. Saari, R. G. Henning, A. B. Damiano, J. Parrish, J. Williams, and P. Flaherty
2:45 PM
10.6
Access to NCAR's historical upper-air database
Joseph L. Comeaux, NCAR, Boulder, CO; and S. Worley
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Session 10
Drought Analysis, Monitoring and Prediction I
Location: 611 (Washington State Convention Center)
Host: 25th Conference on Hydrology
Cochairs: Randal D. Koster, NASA/GSFC; Kingtse C. Mo, NOAA/NWS/NCEP/CPC; Andrew W. Wood, NOAA/NWS
1:30 PM
10.1
A global drought monitoring web portal
Michael J. Brewer, NOAA/NESDIS/NCDC, Asheville, NC; and J. Symonds and R. Heim
1:45 PM
10.2
Recent declines in southern Australian rainfall: a review of recent science
Karl Braganza, Australian Bureau of Meteorology, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia; and M. England, J. Frederiksen, P. Hope, N. Nicholls, J. Risbey, B. Timbal, and I. G. Watterson
2:15 PM
10.4
Reconstruction of 20th century North American droughts reveals a key role for Atlantic basin temperatures
Sumant Nigam, University of Maryland, College Park, MD; and B. Guan and A. Ruiz-Barradas
2:45 PM
10.6
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Session 11
Dynamics and Transport: Potpourri
Location: 3B (Washington State Convention Center)
Host: 16th Conference on Middle Atmosphere
Chair: Jadwiga H. Richter, NCAR
1:30 PM
11.1
The Holton and Tan relationship in a 150-year simulation with WACCM4
Natalia Calvo, NCAR, Boulder, CO; and D. R. Marsh

1:45 PM
11.2
Stratospheric response to 11-year solar forcing: Observations and Model Comparisons
Lon L. Hood, Univ. of Arizona, Tucson, AZ; and B. Soukharev, J. Arblaster, and K. Matthes

2:00 PM
11.3
Seasonally coherent recoveries from stratospheric sudden warmings
Peter Hitchcock, Univ. of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada; and T. G. Shepherd
2:15 PM
11.4
The stratospheric circulation in a high-top and low-top version of the Met Office climate model
Steven C. Hardiman, Met Office, Exeter, United Kingdom; and N. Butchart, L. J. Gray, T. J. Hinton, S. M. Osprey, C. Bell, C. Johnson, and W. Seviour
2:30 PM
11.5
Variability of Irreversible Poleward Transport in the Lower Stratosphere
Mark A. Olsen, NASA/GSFC, Greenbelt, MD; and A. R. Douglass, P. A. Newman, E. R. Nash, J. C. Witte, and J. Ziemke
2:45 PM
11.6
Descent of Water Vapor from the Arctic Vortex to the Lowermost Stratosphere
G. Nedoluha, NRL, Washington, DC; and J. P. McCormack, K. W. Hoppel, E. M. Dahlburg, A. J. Kochenash, and A. Lambert
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Joint Session 12
Regional Climate Modeling to Improve Climate Variability and Change Projections at the Local Scale III
Location: 612 (Washington State Convention Center)
Hosts: (Joint between the 25th Conference on Hydrology; and the 23rd Conference on Climate Variability and Change )
Cochairs: Francina Dominguez, Univ. of Arizona; Dennis P. Lettenmaier, University of Washington; L. Ruby Leung, PNNL
2:00 PM
J12.3
Comparison of climate downscaling methods and results for stakeholder-driven research in the urban Northeast U.S
Radley M. Horton, Columbia Univ., Palisades, NY; and A. C. Ruane, J. M. Winter, and C. Rosenzweig
2:15 PM
J12.4
Assessment of regional climate change and development of climate adaptation decision aids in the Southwestern US
Kremena Darmenova, Northrop Grumman Corporation, Chantilly, VA; and G. Higgins, H. Kiley, and D. Apling
2:30 PM
J12.5
Regional Climate Model results in Pacific North America and the northern Columbia Basin
Trevor Q. Murdock, Pacific Climate Impacts Consortium, Victoria, BC, Canada; and G. Bürger and A. T. Werner
2:45 PM
J12.6
Precipitation Extremes in western U.S. urban areas: How reliable are regional/global climate model projections?
Vimal Mishra, University of Washington, Seattle, WA; and F. Dominguez and D. P. Lettenmaier
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Session 13A
Challenges in Data Access, Distribution, and Use Part II
Location: 606 (Washington State Convention Center)
Host: 27th Conference on Interactive Information Processing Systems (IIPS)
Cochairs: Anthony Arguez, NOAA/NESDIS/NCEI; John D. Horel, University of Utah
1:30 PM
13A.1
Antarctic meteorological data: Access, distribution, and challenges
Matthew A. Lazzara, Antarctic Meteorological Research Center/ Univ. of Wisconsin, Madison, WI; and L. M. Keller, D. J. Rasmussen, and K. E. Willmot
1:45 PM
13A.2
The ARM implementation of data object design
Matt C. Macduff, PNNL, Richland, WA; and B. Ermold, S. Beus, and C. Sivaraman
2:15 PM
13A.4
An enterprise approach for meeting user distribution needs
John W. Linn III, Noblis, Falls Church, VA; and R. Lawrence and C. Condrey
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Session 13A
Climate Projection II
Location: 608 (Washington State Convention Center)
Host: 23rd Conference on Climate Variability and Change
Chair: Kristen Averyt, CIRES/Univ. of Colorado
1:45 PM
13A.2
2:00 PM
13A.4
Construction of high resolution monthly temperature scenarios for North America
Guilong Li, EC, Toronto, ON, Canada; and X. Zhang and F. W. Zwiers
2:30 PM
13A.5
The variation of the Asian summer monsoon in warmer climates
Yihui Ding, Beijing Climate Center/China Meteorological Administration, Beijing, China; and Y. Sun, Z. Wang, Y. Liu, and Y. Song

2:45 PM
13A.6
The past and future of coastal and open ocean upwelling in the NE Pacific
Todd Mitchell, JISAO/Univ. of Washington, Seattle, WA; and N. Mantua and E. Salathé
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Session 13B
Communicating Radar Data in the 21st Century Part V
Location: 607 (Washington State Convention Center)
Host: 27th Conference on Interactive Information Processing Systems (IIPS)
Cochairs: Douglas E. Forsyth, NOAA/NSSL; Timothy Crum, Retired, NWS; Julian Wang, NOAA/ARL; Robert E. Saffle, Noblis, Inc.; Mark Yeary, University of Oklahoma
1:30 PM
13B.1
A Cylindrical Polarimetric Phased Array Radar for Weather Measurement: Advantages and Drawbacks
Guifu Zhang, University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK; and R. J. Doviak, D. S. Zrnic, R. D. Palmer, L. Lei, and Y. Al-Rashid
1:45 PM
13B.2
Optimized scan strategy for multi-mission phased array radar
Svetlana Monkahova Bachmann, Lockheed Martin , Syracuse, NY; and P. Bronecke, Y. Al-Rashid, and S. Shreck
2:00 PM
13B.3
Optimization of a multi-band, multi-mission phased array radar network using a genetic algorithm
James M. Kurdzo, Atmospheric Radar Research Center, School of Meteorology, University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK; and R. D. Palmer
2:15 PM
13B.4
Using the NWRT PAR to evaluate temporal sampling during two rapidly evolving tornado events
Adam J. Smith, University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK; and P. B. Chilson and P. L. Heinselman
2:30 PM
13B.5
Evolution of a quasi-linear convective system sampled by phased array radar
Jennifer F. Newman, University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK; and P. L. Heinselman
2:45 PM
13B.6
Efficient range oversampling processing on the National Weather Radar Testbed
Christopher D. Curtis, CIMMS/NSSL, Norman, OK; and S. M. Torres
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Session 13B
NCAR Community Modeling Session VI: Climate Variability
Location: 609 (Washington State Convention Center)
Host: 23rd Conference on Climate Variability and Change
Chair: Gerald Meehl, NCAR
1:30 PM
13B.1
The role of linear interference in the Annular Mode response to Tropical forcing
Paul J. Kushner, Univ. of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada; and C. G. Fletcher
1:45 PM
13B.2
2:00 PM
13B.3
The impact of land surface initialization on seasonal forecasts with CCSM
Dan Paolino, COLA, Calverton, MD; and J. L. Kinter III, B. P. Kirtman, D. Min, and D. M. Straus
2:15 PM
13B.4
Observed and simulated modes of vertical wind shear variability over the tropical Atlantic
Xiaojie Zhu, Texas A&M University, College station, TX; and R. Saravanan
2:30 PM
13B.5
ENSO variability in an ultra-high resolution CCSM simulation
Kenneth R. Sperber, LLNL, Livermore, CA; and D. P. Ivanova
2:45 PM
13B.6
Evaluating the impact of the CAM 5 dynamical core in idealized tropical cyclone simulations
Kevin A. Reed, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI; and C. Jablonowski
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Session 14A
Operational Weather Forecasting IV: Product Development and Evaluation
Location: 613/614 (Washington State Convention Center)
Host: 24th Conference on Weather and Forecasting/20th Conference on Numerical Weather Prediction
Chair: Brian A. Colle, SUNY
1:30 PM
14A.1
The NOAA Environmental Modeling System at NCEP
Mark Iredell, NOAA/NWS/NCEP/EMC, Camp Springs, MD; and T. Black
2:00 PM
14A.2A
Preliminary investigation into lightning hazard prediction from high resolution model output
Stuart D. Miller Jr., CIMMS/Univ. of Oklahoma, Norman, OK; and G. W. Carbin, J. S. Kain, E. W. McCaul Jr., A. R. Dean, and C. J. Melick
2:15 PM
14A.3
Diagnosing diurnal convection signals in the NCEP GFS
Hua-Lu Pan, NOAA/NWS/NCEP/EMC, Camp Springs, MD; and R. Sun
2:30 PM
14A.4
Quantifying extreme rainfall threats at the Hydrometeorological Prediction Center
David R. Novak, NOAA/NWS, Camp Springs, MD; and F. E. Barthold, M. J. Bodner, K. F. Brill, and M. Eckert
2:45 PM
14A.5
3:00 PM
14A.6
Spatial and temporal climatology of atmospheric wave packets
Matthew Brian Souders, SUNY, Stony Brook, NY; and B. A. Colle and E. K. M. Chang
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Session 14B
Numerical Modeling VII: Physical Parameterizations
Location: 615-617 (Washington State Convention Center)
Host: 24th Conference on Weather and Forecasting/20th Conference on Numerical Weather Prediction
Chair: Kay Suselj, JPL
1:30 PM
14B.1
Evaluating cloud microphysics schemes in nested NMMB forecasts
Brad S. Ferrier, IMSG/NOAA/NWS/NCEP/EMC, College Park, MD; and W. Wang and E. Colon
2:00 PM
14B.3
Implementation of the Ferrier cloud microphysics scheme in the NCEP GFS
Masayuki Nakagawa, NOAA/NWS/NCEP, Camp Springs, MD; and H. L. Pan, R. Sun, S. Moorthi, and B. Ferrier
2:45 PM
14B.6
Parameterized convective momentum adjustment
Dr. Gary Lackmann, North Carolina State Univ., Raleigh, NC; and K. M. Mahoney and M. D. Parker
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Joint Session 15
The Impacts of Cloud-Aerosol Interactions On Precipitation—Part III
Location: 605/610 (Washington State Convention Center)
Hosts: (Joint between the 18th Conference on Planned and Inadvertent Weather Modification; the Third Symposium on Aerosol-Cloud-Climate Interactions; and the 13th Conference on Atmospheric Chemistry )
Cochairs: Alexander P. Khain, Hebrew University; Andrew J. Heymsfield, NCAR
1:30 PM
J15.2
CCN effects on simulated storm electrification and precipitation
Edward R. Mansell, NOAA/NSSL, Norman, OK ; and C. L. Ziegler
2:00 PM
J15.4
2:30 PM
J15.5
Heterogeneous Freezing of Droplets with immersed Mineral Dust Particles – the Roles of Droplet Volume and Nucleation Time
Frank Stratmann, Leibniz Institute for Tropospheric Research, Leipzig, Germany; and T. Clauss, S. Hartmann, D. Niedermeier, A. Kiselev, R. A. Shaw, and H. Wex
2:45 PM
J15.6
Observations and modelings of aerosol and CCN in Northwestern China
Shengjie Niu Sr., Nanjing University of Information Science & Technology, Nanjing, jiangsu, China

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Joint Session 17
Assimilation of observations into models: 4D methods
Location: 2A (Washington State Convention Center)
Hosts: (Joint between the 15th Symposium on Integrated Observing and Assimilation Systems for the Atmosphere, Oceans and Land Surface (IOAS-AOLS); and the 24th Conference on Weather and Forecasting/20th Conference on Numerical Weather Prediction )
Chair: Altug Aksoy, University of Miami/CIMAS and NOAA/AOML/HRD
1:30 PM
J17.1
The NCAR 4DREKF ensemble data assimilation and forecasting system
Yubao Liu, NCAR, Boulder, CO; and L. Pan, Y. Wu, A. Bourgeois, T. Warner, S. Swerdlin, S. F. Halvorson, and J. Pace
1:45 PM
J17.2
2:00 PM
J17.3
Mesoscale ensemble 4DVAR and its comparison with EnKF and 4DVAR
Meng Zhang, Penn State University, University Park, PA; and F. Zhang, X. Zhang, and X. Y. Huang
2:30 PM
J17.5
Recently upgrades and improvements of WRF 4D-Var system
Xin Zhang, NCAR, Boulder, CO; and N. Pan, Q. Cheng, and X. Y. HUang
2:45 PM
J17.6
Introduction of GRAPES_VAR
Wei Han, NOAA, College Park, MD; and J. Xue

2:00 PM-3:00 PM: Thursday, 27 January 2011

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Session 8
Supply/Demand Fundamentals: Medium/Long Range Forecasting
Location: 4C-4 (Washington State Convention Center)
Host: Second Conference on Weather, Climate, and the New Energy Economy
Chair: Jerry H. Crescenti, Iberdrola Renewables
2:00 PM
8.1
The impact of anthropogenic global warming on the United States wind resource
Daniel Barrie, Univ. of Maryland, College Park, MD; and D. B. Kirk-Davidoff
2:15 PM
8.2
Seasonal forecasting for wind energy applications
Jeffrey M. Freedman, AWS Truewind LLC, Albany, NY; and L. Fusina, M. Brower, and J. Manobianco
2:30 PM
8.3
500mb Synoptic Precursors for Severe Cold in the Midwest/Northeast U.S
Kristen Guirguis, SIO/Univ. Of California, La Jolla, CA; and A. Gershunov and S. Bennett
2:45 PM
8.4
Climate change, hurricane risk to energy systems, and implications for the new energy economy
Seth D. Guikema, Johns Hopkins Univ., Baltimore, MD; and S. M. Quiring and R. Nateghi

2:30 PM-3:00 PM: Thursday, 27 January 2011


Panel Discussion 3
eBooks panel with publishers
Location: 304 (Washington State Convention Center)
Host: 14th Conference of Atmospheric Science Librarians International

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-4:30 PM: Thursday, 27 January 2011

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Session 9A
Renewable Energy: Unintended Consequences??
Location: 4C-4 (Washington State Convention Center)
Host: Second Conference on Weather, Climate, and the New Energy Economy
Chair: Jan Kleissl, University of California, san diego
3:45 PM
9A.2
Effect of wind turbine wakes on cropland surface fluxes in the US great plains during a nocturnal low level jet
Michael E. Rhodes, Univ. of Colorado, Boulder, CO; and M. L. Aitken, J. K. Lundquist, E. S. Takle, and J. H. Prueger

4:00 PM
9A.3
A WRF simulation of the effect of a large wind farm on 40 years of precipitation in the eastern United States
David B. Sherman, Univ. of Oklahoma, Norman, OK; and B. Fiedler, M. S. Bukovsky, and A. S. Adams

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

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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

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Session 4
Data and Time Series Analysis II
Location: 307-308 (Washington State Convention Center)
Host: Special Symposium on Advances in Modeling and Analysis Using Python
Chair: Charles Doutriaux, LLNL
3:30 PM
Introductory Remarks
3:45 PM
4.1
4:00 PM
4.2
Interpolation of missing radar wind profiler data
John Nielsen-Gammon, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX
4:15 PM
4.3
Beyond surface monitors: AMET v2.0
Neil Davis, Univ. of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC; and A. Zubrow
4:30 PM
4.4
A Python wrapper for NASA's Radar Software Library
Eric C. Bruning, Texas Tech Univ, Lubbock, TX
4:45 PM
Concluding Remarks

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Session 4
Lectures on Tropical Meteorology IV
Location: 4C-3 (Washington State Convention Center)
Host: Michio Yanai Symposium
Chairs: Wen-Wen Tung, Purdue University; David A. Randall, Colorado State University
3:45 PM
4.2
Global cloud resolving modeling
Masaki Satoh, Atmosphere and Ocean Research Institute, Kashiwa, Japan; and K. Oouchi
4:15 PM
4.2a
Tropical Cyclone in a Warmer Climate II
Kazuyoshi Oouchi, AESTO/MRI, Kanagawa, Japan
4:30 PM
4.3
Q1, Q2, and beyond: a modeling perspective
Akio Arakawa, University of California, Los Angeles, CA
5:00 PM
Concluding Remarks

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Joint Session 5
Land Use and Urban Impacts on Clouds and Precipitation
Location: 605/610 (Washington State Convention Center)
Hosts: (Joint between the 18th Conference on Planned and Inadvertent Weather Modification; and the Third Symposium on Aerosol-Cloud-Climate Interactions )
Cochairs: Robert Bornstein, SJSU; J. Marshall Shepherd, Univ. of Georgia
3:30 PM
J5.1
(Invited Speaker) Impacts of land-cover change on clouds and precipitation
Roni Avissar, Univ. of Miami/RSMAS, Miami, FL; and R. Walko and D. Medvigy
4:30 PM
J5.4
Direct and indirect effects of urban pollution and land-use change impacts: A comparison
Gustavo G. Carrio, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO; and W. R. Cotton
4:45 PM
J5.5
An Examination of the Skin-level Urban Heat Island Effect Using Satellite Observations
Menglin S. Jin, San Jose State University, San Jose, CA; and M. J. Shepherd
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Session 9
Development and Application of the Integrated Meteorology and Chemistry Models
Location: 3A (Washington State Convention Center)
Host: 13th Conference on Atmospheric Chemistry
Cochairs: Georg Grell, NOAA/ESRL/GSD; Paul, A. Makar, EC
4:00 PM
9.2
Evaluation of convective transport in the GEOS-5 Chemistry and Climate Model
Kenneth E. Pickering, NASA/GSFC/Univ. of Maryland, Greenbelt, MD; and L. Ott, J. J. Shi, W. K. Tao, C. Mari, and H. Schlager
4:15 PM
9.3
Simulation of air pollution events in western North America using a nested on-line model (GEM-MACH)
Paul, A. Makar, EC, Toronto, ON, Canada; and C. Stroud, C. J. Mooney, W. Gong, S. Gong, M. D. Moran, A. M. Macdonald, R. Leaitch, S. Menard, H. Landry, R. Pavlovic, and A. Kallaur
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Joint Session 9
Special Data Stewardship Session: Publishing and Sharing Data (Themed Joint Session)
Location: 607 (Washington State Convention Center)
Hosts: (Joint between the 27th Conference on Interactive Information Processing Systems (IIPS); the Special Symposium on Advances in Modeling and Analysis Using Python; and the 14th Conference of Atmospheric Science Librarians International )
Cochairs: Mark R. Anderson, Univ. of Nebraska; Nazila Merati, Merati and Associates
3:45 PM
J9.2
MeaSURES Program Data Ingest Process at the NSIDC
Ronald L. S. Weaver, University of Colorado , Boulder, CO; and R. Duerr, A. Leon, D. Miller, D. J. Scott, and L. Booker
4:00 PM
J9.3
An automated system for processing the Multi-Year Reanalysis Of Remotely-Sensed Storms (MYRORSS)
John L. Cintineo, CIMMS/Univ. of Oklahoma, Norman, OK; and T. Smith, V. Lakshmanan, and S. Ansari
4:15 PM
J9.4
GRIB2 templates and its usage at NCEP
V. Krishna Kumar, NOAA/NWS/NCEP, Camp Springs, MD MD; and B. Vuong and J. Wang
4:30 PM
J9.5
An introduction to the NOAA/CO-OPS coastal meteorological network
Kathleen Egan, NOAA/NOS, Silver Spring, MD; and E. B. Roggenstein

4:45 PM
J9.6
Comprehensive Large Array-data Stewardship System (CLASS): Data preservation activities
Robert Rank, NOAA/NESDIS, Suitland, MD; and S. McCormick and C. Cremidis

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Session 9B
Supply/Demand Funds: Short-Range Forecasting IV
Location: 4C-2 (Washington State Convention Center)
Host: Second Conference on Weather, Climate, and the New Energy Economy
Chair: Justin Sharp, Sharply Focused LLC
3:45 PM
9B.2
Lidar measurements of wind flow characteristics for inland and offshore Wind Eenergy
Yelena L. Pichugina, CIRES/Univ. of Colorado and NOAA/ESRL, Boulder, CO; and R. M. Banta, R. M. Hardesty, and W. A. Brewer
4:00 PM
9B.3
Kalman filter, analog and wavelet postprocessing in the NCAR-Xcel operational wind-energy forecasting system
Luca Delle Monache, NCAR, Boulder, CO; and A. Fournier, T. M. Hopson, Y. Liu, B. Mahoney, G. Roux, and T. Warner
4:15 PM
9B.4
Statistical Analysis of intra-farm microscale wind characteristics at selected Xcel wind farms
Yuewei Liu, NCAR, Boulder, CO; and Y. Liu, W. Cheng, G. Wiener, B. Lambi, and B. Mahoney
4:30 PM
9B.5
An Investigation into the Spatiotemporal Scale of Two Wind Ramp Events in Northeastern Colorado
Theresa A. Aguilar, NCAR, Boulder, CO; and Y. Liu, Y. Liu, and B. Mahoney

4:45 PM
9B.6
Wind energy forecasting with the NCAR RTFDDA and ensemble RTFDDA systems
Yubao Liu, NCAR, Boulder, CO; and W. Y. Y. Cheng, G. Roux, Y. Liu, L. Delle Monache, M. Pocernich, B. Kosovic, T. M. Hopson, A. Bourgeois, G. Wiener, T. Warner, B. Mahoney, and D. B. Johnson
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Session 11
Drought Analysis, Monitoring and Prediction II
Location: 611 (Washington State Convention Center)
Host: 25th Conference on Hydrology
Cochairs: Kingtse C. Mo, NOAA/NWS/NCEP/CPC; Andrew W. Wood, NOAA/NWS; Randal D. Koster, NASA/GSFC
3:45 PM
11.2
Drought monitoring and forecasting in the Apalachicola-Chatahoochee-Flint River Basin in the Southeastern United States [INVITED]
Joshua K. Roundy, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ; and J. Sheffield, E. F. Wood, K. C. Mo, and J. Dobur
4:00 PM
11.3A
4:15 PM
11.4
Predicting hydrological drought: relative contributions of soil moisture and snow information to seasonal streamflow forecast skill
Randal D. Koster, NASA/GSFC, Greenbelt, MD; and S. Mahanama, B. Livneh, D. P. Lettenmaier, and R. H. Reichle
4:30 PM
11.5
Evaluating the role of weather forecast skill in seasonal drought prediction
Shraddhanand Shukla, University of Washington, Seattle, WA; and N. Voisin and D. P. Lettenmaier

4:45 PM
11.6
Development of a new set of web-based tools for drought analysis and prediction
Michael A. Bell, Columbia University, Palisades, NY; and B. Lyon
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Session 12
Dynamics and Transport: Waves
Location: 3B (Washington State Convention Center)
Host: 16th Conference on Middle Atmosphere
Chair: Tiffany A. Shaw, University of Toronto
3:30 PM
12.1
The stratospheric index-of-refraction for planetary wave propagation
Paul A. Newman, NASA/GSFC, Greenbelt, MD; and M. A. Olsen and E. R. Nash

4:15 PM
12.4
Mesospheric structure of the 2009 major stratospheric sudden warming as seen in the 0-100km analysis fields from the NOGAPS-ALPHA data assimilation system
Lawrence Coy, NRL, Washington, DC; and J. P. McCormack, D. E. Siskind, S. D. Eckermann, F. Sassi, and K. W. Hoppel
4:30 PM
12.5
Mesospheric Temperature Enhancements over Antarctica During Wintertime Planetary Wave Surges in 2007
I. Azeem, Atmospheric & Space Technology Research Associates, Boulder, CO; and W. J. R. French, D. E. Siskind, and G. G. Sivjee

4:45 PM
12.6
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Session 14
Communicating Radar Data in the 21st Century Part VI
Location: 606 (Washington State Convention Center)
Host: 27th Conference on Interactive Information Processing Systems (IIPS)
Cochairs: Douglas E. Forsyth, NOAA/NSSL; Timothy Crum, Retired, NWS; Julian Wang, NOAA/ARL; Robert E. Saffle, Noblis, Inc.; Mark Yeary, University of Oklahoma
3:30 PM
14.1
The Dual-polarization Radar Upgrade: Operational Benefits Seen Thusfar
Paul T. Schlatter, NOAA/NWS, Norman, OK; and L. R. Lemon, C. D. Payne, and C. A. Van Den Broeke
3:45 PM
14.2
Hail size discrimination for polarimetric WSR-88D radars
Matthew R. Kumjian, CIMMS/Univ. of Oklahoma and NOAA/NSSL, Norman, OK ; and A. V. Ryzhkov, J. Krause, J. C. Picca, and S. M. Ganson
4:00 PM
14.3
Enhancing sensitivity on the polarimetric WSR-88D
Valery Melnikov, University of Oklahoma/CIMMS, Norman, OK; and P. T. Schlatter
4:15 PM
14.4
4:30 PM
14.5
Impacts and mitigation of ground clutter on dual-polarimetric radar data
Scott Ellis, NCAR, Boulder, CO; and G. Meymaris, J. Hubbert, and M. Dixon
4:45 PM
14.6
Implementation of a Hydrometeor Classification Algorithm for consumer-oriented dual-polarization radar products
Chris Porter, Weather Decision Technologies, Inc., Norman, OK; and S. Ganson, L. Venkatramani, B. Clarke, J. W. Conway, B. Shaw, D. VandenHeuvel, and M. Eilts
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Session 14A
Teleconnection II
Location: 608 (Washington State Convention Center)
Host: 23rd Conference on Climate Variability and Change
Chair: Hai Lin, Environment Canada
3:30 PM
14A.1
A Dynamical Linkage between the NAO and Its Downstream Development
Mi-Kyung Sung, Yonsei University, Seoul, Korea, Republic of (South); and S. I. An and J. S. Kug
3:45 PM
14A.2
4:00 PM
14A.3
Atlantic influence on Amazon Rainfall
Jin-Ho Yoon, PNNL, Richland, WA; and N. Zeng
4:30 PM
14A.4
4:45 PM
14A.6
Tropical influences on the decadal-scale oscillation in cool-season Arctic precipitation
Bradley M. Hegyi, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA; and Y. Deng
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Session 14B
Weather and Climate Modeling III
Location: 609 (Washington State Convention Center)
Host: 23rd Conference on Climate Variability and Change
Chair: Eric D. Maloney, Oregon State Univ.
3:30 PM
14B.1
3:45 PM
14B.2
Impact of new ocean initial conditions on seasonal forecasts with the POAMA coupled model
Mei Zhao, Bureau of Meteorology, Melbourne, Australia; and H. H. Hendon, Y. Yin, and O. Alves

4:00 PM
14B.3
Evaluation of the Australian Climate Ocean Model (AusCOM) in the tropical oceans
Xiaobing Zhou, Bureau of Meteorology, Melbourne, VIC, Australia; and D. Bi, S. Marsland, Z. Sun, A. C. Hirst, O. Alves, and G. Wang
4:15 PM
14B.4
Assessing inter- to multi-decadal variability in climate model simulations
Patrick Thomas Brown, San Jose State University, San Jose, CA; and E. Cordero and S. A. Mauget
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Session 15A
Operational Weather Forecasting V: Product Development and Evaluation
Location: 613/614 (Washington State Convention Center)
Host: 24th Conference on Weather and Forecasting/20th Conference on Numerical Weather Prediction
Chair: Lans P. Rothfusz, NOAA
3:30 PM
15A.1
Upcoming changes to the NCEP North American Mesoscale Modeling system: Transition to NEMS-NMMB and high resolution nests
Eric Rogers, NOAA/NWS/NCEP/EMC, College Park, MD; and G. DiMego, T. Black, M. Ek, Z. Janjic, Y. Lin, M. Pyle, W. S. Wu, B. S. Ferrier, G. Gayno, H. M. Lin, W. Wang, V. Wong, and Y. Wu
4:00 PM
15A.3
Evaluation of Severe-Weather Forecasting Parameters Derived from Quasi-Real-Time Mesoscale Analyses using VORTEX2 soundings
Michael C. Coniglio, NOAA/NSSL, Norman, OK; and D. M. Wheatley, D. J. Stensrud, and N. Yussouf
4:15 PM
15A.4
Challenges in verifying predictions of the pre-convective environment
Scott S. Lindstrom, Univ. of Wisconsin, Madison, WI; and R. A. Petersen and R. M. Aune
4:30 PM
15A.6
A comparison of several analysis schemes in their ability to diagnose boundaries
Ed Szoke, CIRA and NOAA/ESRL/GSD, Boulder, CO; and S. Albers, Y. Xie, L. S. Wharton, R. Glancy, E. Thaler, D. Barjenbruch, B. Meier, and Z. Toth
Recording files available
Session 15B
Numerical Modeling VIII: Tropical Cyclones
Location: 615-617 (Washington State Convention Center)
Host: 24th Conference on Weather and Forecasting/20th Conference on Numerical Weather Prediction
Chair: Bruce Telfeyan, Air Force Weather Agency
3:30 PM
15B.1
Quantification of the processes driving the overland reintensification of Tropical Storm Erin (2007)
Clark Evans, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, Milwaukee, WI; and R. S. Schumacher and T. J. Galarneau, Jr.
3:45 PM
15B.2
The effects of model initialization on model forecasts of tropical cyclones
Frank P. Colby Jr., Univ. of Massachusetts, Lowell, MA; and J. L. Franklin, R. J. Pasch, and W. Hogsett
4:00 PM
15B.3
Initialization of Tropical Cyclones in Numerical Prediction Systems
Eric Hendricks, NRL, Monterey, CA; and M. S. Peng, T. Li, and X. Ge

4:15 PM
15B.4
4:30 PM
15B.5
Wave coupling impact on tropical cyclone simulations in global models
Yalin Fan, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ; and S. J. Lin
4:45 PM
15B.6
Ensemble WRF simulations of the 1938 New England Hurricane Using 20th Century Reanalysis
Robert E. Hart, Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL

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Joint Session 18
Assimilation of observations into models: Atmosphere V
Location: 2A (Washington State Convention Center)
Hosts: (Joint between the 15th Symposium on Integrated Observing and Assimilation Systems for the Atmosphere, Oceans and Land Surface (IOAS-AOLS); and the 24th Conference on Weather and Forecasting/20th Conference on Numerical Weather Prediction )
Chair: Jeffrey S. Whitaker, NOAA-CIRES Climate Diagnostics Center
3:30 PM
J18.1
Progress in Development of the Flow-Following Finite-Volume Icosahedral Model (FIM) Toward Improving NCEP Global Ensemble Forecasts and Toward a Chemistry-Coupled Global Model Research Capability
Stanley G. Benjamin, NOAA/ESRL/GSD, Boulder, CO; and R. Bleck, J. M. Brown, S. Sun, J. W. Bao, S. R. Sahm, G. Grell, M. Fiorino, and T. Henderson
3:45 PM
J18.2
Introduction to Community Gridpoint Statistical Interpolation System (GSI) and its User Support
Ming Hu, NOAA/ESRL/GSD and CIRES, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO; and D. Stark, H. Shao, and X. Y. Huang
4:00 PM
J18.3
Improvement of microwave land emissivity calculation in the CRTM
Weizhong Zheng, NOAA/NWS/NCEP, Camp Springs, MD; and M. B. Ek and J. Derber

4:15 PM
J18.4
Radiance bias correction in the National Centers for Environmental Prediction's Gridpoint Statistical Interpolation
Yanqiu Zhu, EMC/I.M. Systems Group, Inc., College Park, MD; and J. Derber, A. Collard, R. Treadon, G. Gayno, and J. A. Jung
4:30 PM
J18.5
FIM Performance for some of the Major events of the 2009-2010 Winter Season
Edward J. Szoke, CIRA/Colorado State Univ. and NOAA/GSD, Boulder, CO; and S. Benjamin, J. M. Brown, M. Fiorino, B. D. Jamison, W. R. Moninger, and S. R. Sahm
4:45 PM
J18.6
Improvements to NAVDAS 3DVAR Analysis for COAMPS
Keith D. Sashegyi, NRL, Monterey, CA; and P. M. Pauley, J. S. Goerss, W. F. Campbell, W. T. Thompson, R. L. Pauley, and R. A. Stocker
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Joint Session 22
Regional Climate Modeling to Improve Climate Variability and Change Projections at the Local Scale IV
Location: 612 (Washington State Convention Center)
Hosts: (Joint between the 25th Conference on Hydrology; and the 23rd Conference on Climate Variability and Change )
Cochairs: Francina Dominguez, Univ. of Arizona; Dennis P. Lettenmaier, University of Washington; L. Ruby Leung, PNNL
4:00 PM
J22.3
Outstanding challenges in projecting North American drought changes over the 21st century
Prashant D. Sardeshmukh, Univ. of Colorado/CIRES/CDC and NOAA/ESRL, Boulder, CO; and S. I. Shin

4:15 PM
J22.4
Extreme precipitation events in the NAM region—testing a modified convective parameterization scheme
Francina Dominguez, Univ. of Arizona, Tucson, AZ; and X. Zhang, L. Thang, and C. Christopher
4:30 PM
J22.5
Study of interior nudging for regional climate modeling using annual simulations: investigation of mean error and added value
Jared H. Bowden, EPA, Research Triangle Park, NC; and T. Otte, C. G. Nolte, J. E. Pleim, J. A. Herwehe, and M. J. Otte
4:45 PM
J22.6
A Regional Climate Model Evaluation System based on Satellite and other Observations for Application to CMIP/AR Downscaling
Peter Lean, JPL/California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA; and J. Kim, D. E. Waliser, A. Hall, C. Mattman, S. L. Granger, K. Case, C. Goodale, A. Hart, B. Guan, N. Molotch, and S. Kaki

3:30 PM-5:15 PM: Thursday, 27 January 2011

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Session 4
The Allwine-Doran Retrospective II
Location: 604 (Washington State Convention Center)
Host: Special Symposium on Applications of Air Pollution Meteorology
Chair: Sharon Zhong, Michigan State Univ.
3:30 PM
4.1
Assessing Utah Basin Flows: PSEX, VTMX, PCAPS
John D. Horel, Univ. of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT; and C. B. Clements and C. D. Whiteman
3:45 PM
4.2
Evaluation of HPAC-Urban and JEM with U2000, JU2003, MSG05, and MID05 tracer observations
Steven R. Hanna, Hanna Consultants, Kennebunkport, ME; and J. Chang and I. Sykes
4:00 PM
4.3
The 2001 Phoenix Sunrise Experiment: what's been learned since then
Carl Berkowitz, PNNL, Richland, WA; and W. J. Shaw and R. L. Coulter
4:15 PM
4.4
DUSTRAN—history and current development of an atmospheric dust transport model
William J. Shaw, PNNL, Richland, WA; and J. P. Rishel, F. C. Rutz, and E. G. Chapman
4:30 PM
4.5
Evening transition in inland and coastal mountainous terrain
H.J.S. Fernando, Univ. of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, IN; and L. S. Leo, S. Di Sabatino, and A. Dallman
4:45 PM
46.A
5:15 PM
4.7
Winds on the slope and in the valley cold pool
Larry Mahrt, NorthWest Research Associates, Inc., Corvallis, OR; and N. L. Seaman, S. Richardson, and D. R. Stauffer
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Session 11
Land-surface and ocean observations: what do the observations tell us about the environment; applications in public health, transport models, and emergency response
Location: 2B (Washington State Convention Center)
Host: 15th Symposium on Integrated Observing and Assimilation Systems for the Atmosphere, Oceans and Land Surface (IOAS-AOLS)
Chair: Sharanya J. Majumdar, Univ. of Miami/RSMAS
3:30 PM
11.2
A real-time MODIS vegetation composite for land surface models and short-term forecasting
Jonathan L. Case, ENSCO, Inc., Huntsville, AL; and F. J. LaFontaine, S. V. Kumar, and G. J. Jedlovec
4:15 PM
11.4
4:30 PM
11.5
Observations and modeling of summer 2010 heat wave events in New York City
Mark Arend, City College of New York, New York, NY; and J. E. Gonzalez, E. J. Gutiérrez, and B. Bornstein

4:30 PM-5:00 PM: Thursday, 27 January 2011

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Session 10
Weather, Climate and Policy: Issues for the New Energy Economy
Location: 4C-4 (Washington State Convention Center)
Host: Second Conference on Weather, Climate, and the New Energy Economy
Chair: Melinda Marquis, NOAA
4:30 PM
10.1
Are Policies to Encourage Wind Energy Predicated on a Misleading Statistic?
Kevin F. Forbes, Catholic Univ. of America, Washington, DC; and M. Stampini and E. Zampelli
4:45 PM
10.2
The need to go slow with renewable energy development
William M. Gray, Colorado State Univ., Fort Collins, CO

4:45 PM-5:30 PM: Thursday, 27 January 2011

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Session
Yanai Symposium Closing Remarks
Location: 4C-3 (Washington State Convention Center)
Host: Michio Yanai Symposium
Speaker: Víctor O. Magaña, Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico
4:45 PM
Remembering Michio Yanai
Víctor O. Magaña, Univ. Nacional Autonoma de Mexico, Mexico City, Mexico

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


AMS 91st Annual Meeting Adjourns