Program: Sixth Symposium on Lidar Atmospheric Applications (93rd American Meteorological Society Annual Meeting)

Program Chairs: Belay B. Demoz , Howard Univ. ; Sara C. Tucker , Ball Aerospace

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Saturday, 5 January 2013

7:30 AM-10:00 AM: Saturday, 5 January 2013

Registration for Student Conference and Short Course

Location: 4th Street Atrium (Austin Convention Center)

Sunday, 6 January 2013

7:30 AM-9:00 AM: Sunday, 6 January 2013

Registration for Short Course and Conference for Early Career Professionals

Location: 4th Street Atrium (Austin Convention Center)

9:00 AM-6:00 PM: Sunday, 6 January 2013

Registration Open for Annual Meeting

Location: 4th Street Atrium (Austin Convention Center)

12:00 PM-4:00 PM: Sunday, 6 January 2013

WeatherFest

Location: Exhibit Hall 1 (Austin Convention Center)

Monday, 7 January 2013

7:30 AM-5:30 PM: Monday, 7 January 2013

Registration Continues Through January 9

Location: 4th Street Atrium (Austin Convention Center)

8:30 AM-10:30 AM: Monday, 7 January 2013

Plenary Session

13th Presidential Forum: Taking Predictions to the Next Level: Expanding Beyond Today's Weather, Water, and Climate Forecasting and Projections

Location: Ballroom D (Austin Convention Center)

Hosts: (Joint between the 13th Presidential Forum: Taking Predictions to the Next Level: Expanding Beyond Today; the 27th Conference on Hydrology; the 11th Symposium on the Coastal Environment; the 17th Conference on Integrated Observing and Assimilation Systems for the Atmosphere, Oceans, and Land Surface (IOAS-AOLS); the 11th Conference on Artificial and Computational Intelligence and its Applications to the Environmental Sciences; the Symposium on Prediction of the Madden-Julian Oscillation; the First Symposium on the Weather and Climate Enterprise; the Eighth Symposium on Policy and Socio-economic Research; the 16th Conference on Aviation, Range, and Aerospace Meteorology; the First Symposium on Building a Weather-Ready Nation: Enhancing Our Nation’s Readiness, Responsiveness, and Resilience to High Impact Weather Events; the Third Symposium on Advances in Modeling and Analysis Using Python; the Sixth Symposium on Lidar Atmospheric Applications; the Special Symposium on the Joint Center for Satellite Data Assimilation; the Special Symposium on the Next Level of Predictions in Tropical Meteorology: Techniques, Usage, Support, and Impacts; the 10th Conference on Space Weather; the Symposium on the Role of Statistical Methods in Weather and Climate Prediction; the Sixth Conference on the Meteorological Applications of Lightning Data; the 11th History Symposium; the 20th Conference on Applied Climatology; the 29th Conference on Environmental Information Processing Technologies (formerly IIPS); the Robert A. Duce Symposium; the Third Conference on Transition of Research to Operations; the Fourth Conference on Weather, Climate, and the New Energy Economy; the 25th Conference on Climate Variability and Change; and the Fourth Conference on Environment and Health )

8:30 AM

Opening Remarks (by AMS President Dr. Louis Uccellini and Co-Chairs Troy Kimmel/Ken Carey will introduce Texas and Local Representatives)

Recorded Presentation

8:35 AM

Warm Welcome to Austin!

8:45 AM

Introduction of Guest Speakers (by Dr. Louis Uccellini)

8:50 AM

"Predicting Weather and Climate: Scientific Progress and Future Opportunities" Dr. Alan Thorpe, European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts

Recorded Presentation

9:10 AM

"River/Rainfall Forecast Fusion Cells" Major General Michael Walsh, US Army Corps of Engineers

Recorded Presentation

9:30 AM

"Cloudy with the Chance of Insight" Dr. Tony Hey, Microsoft Research

Recorded Presentation

9:50 AM

"Where Citizens are Looking" Dr. Nigel Snoad, Google Crisis Response

Recorded Presentation

10:10 AM

Audience Question and Answer (moderated by Dr. William (Bill) Hooke)

Recorded Presentation

10:25 AM

Closing Remarks (by Dr. Louis Uccellini)

5:30 PM-7:30 PM: Monday, 7 January 2013

Reception and Exhibits Opening

Location: Exhibit Hall 4 (Austin Convention Center)

Tuesday, 8 January 2013

9:00 AM-9:45 AM: Tuesday, 8 January 2013

Session 1

Wind Lidar I: Systems and Techniques

Location: Room 18C (Austin Convention Center)

Host: Sixth Symposium on Lidar Atmospheric Applications

Cochairs: Yansen Wang, U.S. Army Research Laboratory, Adelphi, MD; Kevin C. Vermeesch, SSAI, Greenbelt, MD

9:00 AM

1.1

Methodology for Long Range Doppler Lidar validation

Sophie Loaec, LEOSPHERE, Paris, France; and M. boquet and N. vasiljevic

9:15 AM

1.2

Comparisons of Doppler Lidar Wind Measurements using VAD Analysis

Timothy A. Bonin, NOAA/CIRES, Boulder, CO; and P. M. Klein, P. B. Chilson, and C. E. Wainwright

Recorded Presentation

9:30 AM

1.3

Two-component wind fields from eye-safe scanning aerosol lidar

Shane D. Mayor, California State Univ., Chico, CA

Recorded Presentation

9:00 AM-11:00 AM: Tuesday, 8 January 2013

Spouses' Coffee

Location: Hilton Hotel (Austin Convention Center)

9:45 AM-11:00 AM: Tuesday, 8 January 2013

Formal Poster Viewing with Coffee Break

Location: Exhibit Hall 3 (Austin Convention Center)

11:00 AM-12:00 PM: Tuesday, 8 January 2013

Session 2

Wind Lidar II: Applications

Location: Room 18C (Austin Convention Center)

Host: Sixth Symposium on Lidar Atmospheric Applications

Cochairs: Shane D. Mayor, California State Univ., Chico, CA; Tyson N. Randall, California State University Chico, Chico, CA

11:00 AM

2.1

Spatial Variability of Marine Winds as studied by Doppler Lidar

Yelena L. Pichugina, NOAA, Boulder, CO; and R. M. Banta, W. A. Brewer, R. M. Hardesty, R. J. Alvarez II, S. P. Sandberg, and A. M. Weickmann

Recorded Presentation

11:15 AM

2.2

Lidar Wind Profiler for Aircraft Wake Vortex Detection

Anand Radhakrishnan Mylapore, MassTech, Inc., Columbia, MD; and G. K. Schwemmer, C. R. Prasad, and N. S. Prasad

Recorded Presentation

11:30 AM

2.3

A review of wind comparison work at the Howard University Beltsville Research Campus

Kevin C. Vermeesch, SSAI, Greenbelt, MD; and B. Gentry, G. J. Koch, M. Boquet, B. B. Demoz, U. N. Singh, H. Chen, and M. Morris

Recorded Presentation

11:45 AM

2.4

Detection of Low-level-jet Generated Gravity Waves Using a Doppler Wind Lidar and Wave Effect on Momentum and Sensible Heat Vertical Transport

Yansen Wang, U.S. Army Research Laboratory, Adelphi, MD; and D. Garvey, D. Ligon, E. Creegan, and M. Felton

12:00 PM

Pushing resonance-fluorescence lidar to new heights by John Smith

Recorded Presentation

12:00 PM-1:30 PM: Tuesday, 8 January 2013

Lunch Break

1:30 PM-3:00 PM: Tuesday, 8 January 2013

Joint Session 3

Lidar Data Observations and Assimilation

Location: Room 18C (Austin Convention Center)

Hosts: (Joint between the Sixth Symposium on Lidar Atmospheric Applications; and the 17th Conference on Integrated Observing and Assimilation Systems for the Atmosphere, Oceans, and Land Surface (IOAS-AOLS) )

Cochairs: Mike Newchurch, Univ. of Alabama, Huntsville, AL; Lorenza Cooper Jr., Howard Univ., Washington, DC

1:30 PM

J3.1

Analysis of a Low Level Jet System with GLOW lidar observations, numerical simulations and data assimilation

Zhaoxia Pu, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT; and Z. Li, B. Demoz, and B. Gentry

Recorded Presentation

1:45 PM

J3.2

Lidar Applications For Wind Energy Studies

Jeff Freedman, AWS TruePower LLC, Albany, NY; and J. M. Wilczak, M. Boquet, P. Beaucage, J. B. Olson, M. Filippelli, E. G. Osler, and T. Paff

Recorded Presentation

2:00 PM

J3.3

Remote Sensing of Boundary Layer Thermodynamics and Wind

Marta Nelson, Radiometrics, Boulder, CO; and L. Thobois, L. Sauvage, and R. Ware

Recorded Presentation

2:15 PM

J3.4

Abrupt marine boundary layer changes revealed by airborne in situ and lidar measurements

David A. Rahn, Univ. of Kansas, Lawrence, KS; and T. R. Parish and D. Leon

Recorded Presentation

3:00 PM-3:30 PM: Tuesday, 8 January 2013

Coffee Break

Location: Exhibit Hall 4 (Austin Convention Center)

Meet the President

Location: Room 1 (Austin Convention Center)

3:30 PM-5:15 PM: Tuesday, 8 January 2013

Session 3

Lidar Applications: Aerosols, Air Pollution, and Fire

Location: Room 18C (Austin Convention Center)

Host: Sixth Symposium on Lidar Atmospheric Applications

Cochairs: Belay B. Demoz, Howard Univ., Washington, DC; Mary Morris, Univ. of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI

3:30 PM

3.1

CREST Lidar Network Observations of Particle Pollution across the Eastern United States and Caribbean

Ruben Delgado, University of Maryland, Baltimore County, Baltimore, MD; and D. Orozco, P. Sawamura, J. Sullivan, T. Berkoff, R. M. Hoff, K. R. Leavor, R. B. Lee III, L. Lei, N. Boyouk, J. Su, M. P. McCormick, S. Galicia, J. Nieves, H. Parsiani, L. Cordero, Y. Wu, B. Gross, and F. Moshary

Recorded Presentation

3:45 PM

3.2

Mixed Layer Heights and Aerosol Products derived from the NASA LaRC airborne High Spectral Resolution Lidar during the First DISCOVER-AQ Field Mission

Amy Jo Scarino, Science Systems and Applications, Inc., Hampton, VA; and S. P. Burton, R. A. Ferrare, C. A. Hostetler, M. D. Obland, J. W. Hair, R. R. Rogers, A. L. Cook, D. B. Harper, A. Da Silva, B. Holben, R. M. Hoff, T. Berkoff, R. Delgado, A. M. Thompson, and J. Everette

Handout (2.8 MB)

4:00 PM

3.3

An Optical Autocovariance Lidar for aerosol transport studies

Sara C. Tucker, Ball Aerospace, Boulder, CO; and T. Delker and C. Weimer

Recorded Presentation

4:15 PM

3.4

The California State University-Mobile Atmospheric Profiling System: A New Platform for Fire Weather Research

Craig B. Clements, San Jose State Univ., San Jose, CA

4:30 PM

3.5

Characterizing Transport Processes of Ozone and Greenhouse Gases with Lidar

Christoph J. Senff, CIRES, University of Colorado, and NOAA ESRL, Boulder, CO; and R. M. Hardesty, W. A. Brewer, R. M. Banta, A. O. Langford, R. J. Alvarez II, S. P. Sandberg, A. M. Weickmann, R. D. Marchbanks, C. Sweeney, G. Petron, and A. Karion

Recorded Presentation

4:45 PM

3.6

Doppler lidar observations of fire-induced circulations in the convection column of a wildland fire plume

Allison Charland, San Jose State Univ., San Jose, CA; and C. Clements and B. Davis

Recorded Presentation

5:00 PM

3.7

Retrievals of aerosol microphysical parameters from a combination of airborne HSRL and ground-based elastic lidars during DISCOVER-AQ: Preliminary results

Patricia Sawamura, Univ. of Maryland Baltimore County, Baltimore, MD; and R. M. Hoff, D. Mueller, C. A. Hostetler, R. A. Ferrare, S. Crumeyrolle, and B. E. Anderson

Recorded Presentation

Wednesday, 9 January 2013

8:45 AM-10:00 AM: Wednesday, 9 January 2013

Session 4

Lidar studies of liquid water and water vapor

Location: Room 18C (Austin Convention Center)

Host: Sixth Symposium on Lidar Atmospheric Applications

Cochairs: Christoph J. Senff, CIRES/University of Colorado and NOAA/ETL, Boulder, CO; James A. Schafer, California State Univ., Chico, CA

8:45 AM

4.1

Application of the Lamp Mapping Technique to Raman LIDAR Systems

Monique Walker, NASA/GSFC, Greenbelt, MD; and D. Venable and D. N. Whiteman

Recorded Presentation

9:00 AM

4.2

Compact, Automated Differential Absorption Lidar for Tropospheric Profiling of Water Vapor

David M. Sonnenfroh, Physical Sciences Inc., Andover, MA; and K. S. Repasky, A. R. Nehrir, and R. K. Newsom

9:15 AM

4.3

Evaluation of an Eye-Safe Differential Absorption Lidar (DIAL) for Water Vapor Profiling in the Lower Troposphere

Tammy M. Weckwerth, NCAR, Boulder, CO; and S. M. Spuler, R. E. Carbone, K. S. Repasky, A. R. Nehrir, B. B. Demoz, and R. Ware

Recorded Presentation

9:30 AM

4.4

Integrated Precipitable Water validation study using LIDAR, GPS, microwave radiometers, and radiosonde measurements

Lorenza Cooper Jr., Howard University, Washington, DC; and B. B. Demoz

Recorded Presentation

9:00 AM-11:00 AM: Wednesday, 9 January 2013

Spouses' Coffee

Location: Hilton Hotel (Austin Convention Center)

10:00 AM-10:30 AM: Wednesday, 9 January 2013

Coffee Break

Location: Exhibit Hall 4 (Austin Convention Center)

Meet the President

Location: Room 1 (Austin Convention Center)

10:30 AM-12:00 PM: Wednesday, 9 January 2013

Session 5

Space-borne Lidars and Applications I: Operational Systems

Location: Room 18C (Austin Convention Center)

Host: Sixth Symposium on Lidar Atmospheric Applications

Cochairs: Sara C. Tucker, Ball Aerospace, Boulder, CO; Brooke Sutphin, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX

10:30 AM

5.1

Spaceborne Lidars: Building on Successes (Invited)

Carl Weimer, Ball Aerospace & Technologies Corp., Boulder, CO

Recorded Presentation

5.2

Transport Pathways and Sources Associated with the Asian Tropopause Aerosol Layer during 2006-2011

11:00 AM

5.2A

Scopes and Challenges of Dual-Doppler Lidar Wind Measurements - An Error Analysis

Christina Stawiarski, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), Karlsruhe, Germany; and C. Knigge, R. Calhoun, A. Wieser, C. Kottmeier, and K. Träumner

Recorded Presentation

11:15 AM

5.3

Using NASA EOS to Assess Air Quality and Health Risks Associated with the Virginia Dismal Swamp Fires of 2011 for Improved Decision Making

Katherine Taylor Beard, NASA, Hampton, VA; and D. Mallon, J. Mayer, A. R. Chimmel, J. Weiser, and C. Rose

Recorded Presentation

11:30 AM

5.4

Cirrus cloud ice water content in the uppermost troposphere: Six years of observations from the Cloud and Aerosol Lidar with Orthogonal Polarization

Melody A. Avery, NASA/LARC, Hampton, VA; and A. J. Heymsfield, D. M. Winker, M. Vaughan, S. A. Young, and C. Trepte

Recorded Presentation Manuscript (2.4 MB)

Handout (13.8 MB)

12:00 PM-1:30 PM: Wednesday, 9 January 2013

Lunch Break

1:30 PM-2:30 PM: Wednesday, 9 January 2013

Session 6

Lidar Networks, Long-Term Climate Observations, and Automated Operational Lidars

Location: Room 18C (Austin Convention Center)

Host: Sixth Symposium on Lidar Atmospheric Applications

Cochairs: Monique Walker, NASA/GSFC, Greenbelt, MD; Tammy M. Weckwerth, NCAR, Boulder, CO

1:30 PM

6.1

Towards a ceilometer network in the US: A report on initial activities, progress, and data examples

Belay B. Demoz, Howard Univ., Washington, DC; and M. Hicks and D. Atkinson

Recorded Presentation

1:45 PM

6.2

Automatic Determination of Atmospheric Structures, Aerosol Optical Properties and Particle Type with the R-MAN510 Raman Dual-Polarization Lidar Super Ceilometer

P. Royer, LEOSPHERE, Orsay, France; and L. Sauvage, L. Thobois, A. Bizard, M. Boquet, M. Renaudier, and B. Bennai

Recorded Presentation

2:00 PM

6.3

Tropospheric Ozone Lidar Network (TOLNet) - Tropospheric Ozone and Aerosol Profiling for Satellite Continuity and Process Studies

Mike Newchurch, Univ. of Alabama, Huntsville, AL; and R. alvarez, J. A. Al-Saadi, J. Burris, W. Cantrell, G. Chen, R. De Young, M. Hardesty, R. Hoff, J. A. Kaye, K. Knupp, S. Kuang, A. O. Langford, T. Leblanc, I. S. McDermid, T. J. McGee, B. Pierce, C. Senff, A. P. Sullivan, J. Szykman, G. Tonnesen, and L. Wang

Recorded Presentation

Handout (4.8 MB)

2:30 PM-4:00 PM: Wednesday, 9 January 2013

Formal Poster Viewing with Coffee Break

Location: Exhibit Hall 3 (Austin Convention Center)

Poster Session 1

Lidar Applications: wind, waves, water, air pollution, and aerosols

Location: Exhibit Hall 3 (Austin Convention Center)

Host: Sixth Symposium on Lidar Atmospheric Applications

Cochairs: Craig B. Clements, San Jose State University, San Jose, CA; Katherine Taylor Beard, NASA, Hampton, VA

710

Determining precipitation probability of tropical midlevel clouds using satellite observations

Brooke Sutphin, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX; and S. L. Nasiri, A. D. Rapp, and H. Jin

Handout (2.2 MB)

711

The National Center for Atmospheric Research eye-safe high spectral resolution lidar: a facility for airborne and ground based measurements of the optical properties of atmospheric aerosols and clouds

Bruce Morley, NCAR, Boulder, CO; and S. Spuler, J. Vivekanandan, M. Hayman, and E. Eloranta

Handout (6.7 MB)

712

A simulation study of the ensemble-based data assimilation of satellite-borne lidar aerosol observations

Tsuyoshi Thomas Sekiyama, MRI, Tsukuba, Japan; and T. Y. Tanaka and T. Miyoshi

Handout (1.0 MB)

713

Validation of Ground-Based Doppler Lidar Measurements of Atmospheric Wind Profile Observations

Mary Morris, Univ. of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI; and K. Vermeesch, B. Gentry, B. B. Demoz, and H. Chen

714

Assimilation Experiment On A Local Heavy Rainfall Event Using Doppler Lidar Observations

Takuya Kawabata, MRI, Tsukuba, Ibaraki, Japan; and K. Saito, H. Iwai, Y. Shoji, and H. Seko

Handout (637.1 kB)

715

Lidar observations of fine-scale internal gravity waves

Tyson N. Randall, California State Univ., Chico, CA; and E. R. Jachens and S. D. Mayor

716

DOE ARM Climate Research Facility – Cloud, Atmosphere, Aerosol, and Surface Measurements for Climate Model Evaluation and Advancement

Jimmy Voyles, PNNL, College Station, Texas; and J. Mather

Handout (5.3 MB)

717

Comparison of convective boundary layer heights derived from radar profiler and scanning aerosol lidar data near Chico, California

James A. Schafer, California State Univ., Chico, CA; and L. Bianco and S. D. Mayor

718

LASE measurements of water vapor, aerosol, and cloud distributions during GRIP

Syed Ismail, NASA, Hampton, VA; and R. A. Ferrare, J. Hair, A. R. Nehrir, S. A. Kooi, A. Notari, C. Butler, and M. A. Fenn

719

Detecting Surface Layer Coherent Structures with Dual-Doppler Lidar and Tower Measurements: A Comparative Study

Christina Stawiarski, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), Karlsruhe, Germany; and C. Knigge, C. Kottmeier, and K. Träumner

Handout (1.3 MB)

4:00 PM-5:15 PM: Wednesday, 9 January 2013

Session 7

Space-borne Lidars and Applications II: Future Systems

Location: Room 18C (Austin Convention Center)

Host: Sixth Symposium on Lidar Atmospheric Applications

Cochairs: Amy Jo Scarino, Science Systems and Applications, Inc., Hampton, VA; Ruben Delgado, University of Maryland Baltimore County, Baltimore, MD

4:00 PM

7.1

Update on the Development of a Multifunctional Fiber Laser Lidar for CO2 and O2 Detection

Jeremy T. Dobler, ITT Geospatial Systems, Fort Wayne, IN; and M. D. Obland, M. Shure, M. Braun, T. S. Zaccheo, B. Moore, F. W. Harrison, S. Ismail, and E. V. Browell

Recorded Presentation

4:15 PM

7.2

High Altitude Test Flights of the TWiLiTE Direct Detection Doppler Lidar

Bruce Gentry, NASA/GSFC, Greenbelt, MD; and H. Chen, J. Cervantes, R. Machan, D. Reed, S. Mitchell, and C. Marx

Recorded Presentation

4:30 PM

7.3

An Intensity-Modulated CW Laser Absorption Spectrometer Approach for Column CO2 Measurements for the ASCENDS Mission

Syed Ismail, NASA, Hampton, VA; and F. W. Harrison, J. Dobler, E. V. Browell, A. R. Nehrir, B. Lin, B. Meadows, M. Vanek, M. D. Obland, S. A. Kooi, J. Collins, T. Refaat, M. Y. M. Yang, Y. Choi, and M. Dijoseph

5:00 PM

7.4

A Novel Approach for Active Measurement of Atmospheric Greenhouse Gases from a Geostationary Orbit

Jeremy T. Dobler, Harris Corp., Fort Wayne, IN; and M. Braun, J. Pruitt, N. Blume, and T. S. Zaccheo

Recorded Presentation

5:30 PM-6:30 PM: Wednesday, 9 January 2013

Awards Banquet Reception in the Exhibit Hall

Location: Exhibit Hall 4 (Austin Convention Center)

7:00 PM-10:00 PM: Wednesday, 9 January 2013

93rd AMS Awards Banquet

Location: Ballroom D (Austin Convention Center)

Thursday, 10 January 2013

3:00 PM-3:05 PM: Thursday, 10 January 2013

Registration Closes

5:00 PM-5:05 PM: Thursday, 10 January 2013

AMS 93rd Annual Meeting Adjourns

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