Tenth Annual Symposium on New Generation Operational Environmental Satellite Systems

Program Chairs: Gary McWilliams , JPSS Program Office/Army Research Laboratory ; John Furgerson , NOAA/NESDIS/JPSS ; Michael L. Jamilkowski , Raytheon Intelligence and Information Systems ; James J. Gurka , GSFC ; Timothy J. Schmit , NOAA/NESDIS/STAR

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Saturday, 1 February 2014

7:30 AM-10:00 AM: Saturday, 1 February 2014


Registration for Student Conference and Short Courses

Sunday, 2 February 2014

7:30 AM-9:00 AM: Sunday, 2 February 2014


Registration for Short Courses and Conference for Early Career Professionals

9:00 AM-6:00 PM: Sunday, 2 February 2014


Registration Open for Annual Meeting

12:00 PM-4:00 PM: Sunday, 2 February 2014


WeatherFest

4:00 PM-5:30 PM: Sunday, 2 February 2014


94th Annual Review, New Fellows, and Featured Awards
Location: Room C302 (The Georgia World Congress Center )

Monday, 3 February 2014

7:30 AM-5:30 PM: Monday, 3 February 2014


Registration Continues through February 5

9:00 AM-10:30 AM: Monday, 3 February 2014

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Plenary Session 1
14th Presidential Forum: Extreme Weather, Climate, and the Built Environment: New Perspectives, Opportunities, and Tools
Location: Thomas Murphy Ballroom (The Georgia World Congress Center )
Hosts: (Joint between the Second Symposium on Prediction of the Madden-Julian Oscillation: Impacts on Weather and Climate Extremes; the 14th Presidential Forum; the Second Symposium on the Joint Center for Satellite Data Assimilation; the Superstorm Sandy and the Built Environment: New Perspectives, Opportunities, and Tools; the Stanley A. Changnon Symposium; the Edward S. Epstein Symposium; the 30th Conference on Environmental Information Processing Technologies; the 28th Conference on Hydrology; the 26th Conference on Climate Variability and Change; the 26th Conference on Weather Analysis and Forecasting / 22nd Conference on Numerical Weather Prediction; the 23rd Symposium on Education; the 22nd Conference on Probability and Statistics in the Atmospheric Sciences; the 18th Joint Conference on the Applications of Air Pollution Meteorology with the A&WMA; the 18th Conference on Integrated Observing and Assimilation Systems for the Atmosphere, Oceans, and Land Surface (IOAS-AOLS); the 16th Conference on Atmospheric Chemistry; the 12th Conference on Artificial and Computational Intelligence and its Applications to the Environmental Sciences; the 12th History Symposium; the 12th Symposium on the Coastal Environment; the 11th Conference on Space Weather; the 11th Symposium on the Urban Environment; the Tenth Annual Symposium on New Generation Operational Environmental Satellite Systems; the Ninth Symposium on Policy and Socio-Economic Research; the Sixth Symposium on Aerosol-Cloud-Climate Interactions; the Fifth Conference on Weather, Climate, and the New Energy Economy; the Fifth Conference on Environment and Health; the Fourth Aviation, Range, and Aerospace Meteorology Special Symposium; the Fourth Conference on Transition of Research to Operations; the Fourth Symposium on Advances in Modeling and Analysis Using Python; the Second Symposium on the Weather and Climate Enterprise; the Second Symposium on Building a Weather-Ready Nation: Enhancing Our Nation’s Readiness, Responsiveness, and Resilience to High Impact Weather Events; and the Special Symposium on Severe Local Storms: The Current State of the Science and Understanding Impacts )
Moderator: Margaret Davidson, NOAA/Office for Coastal Management
Panelists: Leslie Chapman-Henderson, Federal Alliance for Safe Homes; David Perkes, Mississippi State Univ.; Ellis Stanley, Hammerman & Gainer International, Inc.; David W. Titley, Penn State University; Peter Kareiva, The Nature Conservancy
Speaker: Andy Revkin, Dot Earth blogger, The New York Times, and Senior Fellow for Environmental Understanding, Pace University
  9:00 AM
Welcoming Remarks

  9:05 AM
PL1.1
The New Communication Climate - An exploration of tools and traits that give the best chance of success in facing a fast-forward media landscape and changing climate
Andy Revkin, Dot Earth blogger, The New York Times, and Senior Fellow for Environmental Understanding, Pace University, New York, NY
  9:25 AM
Panel Discussion

  10:25 AM
Concluding Remarks

9:00 AM-11:00 AM: Monday, 3 February 2014


Spouses' Coffee

10:30 AM-11:00 AM: Monday, 3 February 2014


Coffee Break

12:00 PM-1:30 PM: Monday, 3 February 2014


Lunch Break

1:30 PM-2:30 PM: Monday, 3 February 2014

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Session 1
Economic Value and Societal Benefits of the New Generation of LEO and GEO Environmental Satellites for Mitigating High Impact Weather and Climate Events, Part I
Location: Room C111 (The Georgia World Congress Center )
Host: Tenth Annual Symposium on New Generation Operational Environmental Satellite Systems
Cochairs: Mitchell Goldberg, NOAA/NESDIS/JPSS; Wenjian Zhang, WMO
  1:30 PM
1.1
Societal Benefits from NOAA Environmental Satellites
Mary E. Kicza, NOAA/NESDIS, Silver Spring, MD; and M. Goldberg
  2:00 PM
1.2
Development of an Architecture for Climate Monitoring from Space
Wenjian Zhang, WMO, Geneva, Switzerland; and J. Lafeuille and S. Bojinski

2:30 PM-4:00 PM: Monday, 3 February 2014


Poster Session 1
10thGOES-R/JPSS Posters
Location: Hall C3 (The Georgia World Congress Center )
Host: Tenth Annual Symposium on New Generation Operational Environmental Satellite Systems
Cochairs: Timothy J. Schmit, NOAA/NESDIS/STAR; Gary McWilliams, JPSS Program Office/Army Research Laboratory

Posters for the 10th Annual Symposium on New Generation Operational Environmental Satellite Systems
 
328
Suomi National Polar-orbiting Partnership (S-NPP) Environmental Products
Kerry D. Grant, Raytheon Intelligence, Information and Services (IIS), Aurora, CO; and S. W. Miller and M. Jamilkowski

 
329
Derivation of 30-m-resolution Water Maps from TERRA/MODIS and SRTM
Sanmei Li, George Mason University, Fairfax, VA; and D. Sun, M. Goldberg, and A. Stefanidis

 
330
 
331
An Investigation of Extreme Wind Events in Extratropical Cyclones Using Innovative Satellite Techniques
Mallory K. Cato, Saint Louis University, Saint Louis, MO; and T. P. Eichler, E. Berndt, and M. J. Folmer

Handout (4.3 MB)

 
332
An End-to-End Framework for Probabilistic Uncertainty Characterization of Climate Satellite Data and Products
Ge Peng, North Carolina State University's Cooperative Institute for Climate and Satellites (CICS-NC), Asheville, NC; and L. D. Cecil and B. Cramer

 
333
Exploring the Inter-Field-of-Regard Radiance Differences of NPP/CRIS
Xin Jin, NOAA/NESDIS/STAR and ERT, College Park, MD; and Y. Han, D. Tremblay, L. Wang, and Y. Chen
Manuscript (90.1 kB)

 
334
Lightning Jump Algorithm for GOES-R Geostationary Lightning Mapper (GLM) Proxy Data
Elise V. Schultz, University of Alabama, Huntsville, AL; and C. J. Schultz, L. D. Carey, D. J. Cecil, G. T. Stano, M. Bateman, and S. J. Goodman
Manuscript (554.5 kB)

Handout (1019.9 kB)

 
335
Preparing the Direct Broadcast Community for GOES-R Part II
Karen Friedman Dubey, SeaSpace Corporation, Poway, CA; and E. Baptiste, H. Y. Shin, and K. Prasad

 
336
Drought, Thermal Stress & Fire Risk from JPSS S-NPP
Felix Kogan, NOAA, College Park, MD; and W. Guo

 
337
Cross Calibration between ATMS and AMSU-A
Xiaolei Zou, Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL

Handout (4.9 MB)

 
338
On-orbit Suomi NPP Day-Night-Band (DNB) geolocation training and accuracy evaluation
Lushalan Liao, Northrop Grumman Aaerospace Systems, Redondo Beach, CA; and S. Weiss

 
339
Absolute and Relative Validation of the Geolocation of the ATMS SDR Data
Chunming Wang, Northrop Grumman Aerospace Systems, Redondo Beach, CA; and D. Gu and A. Foo

Handout (1.4 MB)

 
340
Remapped ATMS Radiance and its Validation for NPP Mission
Chunming Wang, Northrop Grumman Aerospace Systems, Redondo Beach, CA; and D. Gu, A. Foo, G. De Amici, F. Weng, N. Sun, B. Li, and R. V. Leslie

Handout (2.4 MB)

 
341
IMAPP: Supporting the Aqua and Terra Operational Community
Rebecca M. Cintineo, CIMSS/Univ. of Wisconsin, Madison, WI; and K. I. Strabala, L. E. Gumley, A. Huang, J. E. Davies, E. Borbas, E. Weisz, and B. Pierce

 
342
Ocean surface wind direction retrieval from polarimetric microwave radiometer measurements
Degui Gu, Northrop Grumman Aerospace Systems, Redondo Beach, CA; and H. Agravante

 
343
Assessments of CrIS Spectral Calibration Accuracy and Stability
Yong Chen, University of Maryland, College Park, MD; and Y. Han, X. Jin, L. Wang, D. Tremblay, and F. Weng

Handout (1.3 MB)

 
344
Performance Assessment of the SNPP VIIRS Cloud Optical Thickness, Effective Particle Size, Cloud Top Height and Cloud Top Temperature Products
Eric Wong, Northrop Grumman Aerospace Systems, Redondo Beach, CA; and S. C. Ou, A. Heidinger, R. Holz, M. Oo, and A. Walther

Handout (929.8 kB)

 
345
GOES-R Integration & Testing
Leah Raffaeli, Lockheed Martin Space Systems Company, Littleton, CO

 
346
ASSESSMENT OF SUOMI NPP VIIRS VEGETATION INDEX EDR
Marco Vargas, NOAA, College Park, MD; and T. Miura and N. Shabanov

 
347
A fast radiance simulator for the Visible Infrared Imaging Radiometer Suite (VIIRS)
Chao Liu, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX; and P. Yang and S. L. Nasiri

 
348
A Comparison of the Red Green Blue Air Mass Imagery and Hyperspectral Infrared Retrieved Profiles
Emily Berndt, ORAU/NASA/MSFC, Huntsville, AL; and M. J. Folmer and J. P. Dunion

Handout (2.9 MB)

 
350
How to Use the GRB Simulator to test User Terminal Systems
Kevin Gibbons, Harris Corporation, Melbourne, FL; and E. C. Czopkiewicz, C. Miller, B. A. Brown-Bergtold, B. J. Haman, and G. Dittberner

Handout (794.3 kB)

 
351
Assessment of the Pseudo Geostationary Lightning Mapper Products at the Spring Program and Summer Experiment
Geoffrey T. Stano, ENSCO, Inc./NASA SPoRT, Huntsville, AL; and K. M. Calhoun and A. M. Terborg
Manuscript (1.8 MB)

 
352
 
353
The CrIMSS EDR Algorithm Assessment: Provisional Maturity and Beyond
Murty G. Divakarla, IM Systems Group, Inc., Rockville, MD; and X. Liu, D. Gu, M. Wilson, T. Reale, S. Kizer, X. Xiong, E. Maddy, R. Ferraro, R. Knuteson, D. Hagan, X. L. Ma, F. Iturbide-Sanchez, C. Tan, N. Nalli, A. Mollner, W. Yang, A. Gambacorta, M. Feltz, B. Sun, C. D. Barnet, and M. Goldberg

Handout (934.4 kB)


Formal Poster Viewing with Coffee Break
Location: Hall C3 (The Georgia World Congress Center )

4:00 PM-5:30 PM: Monday, 3 February 2014

Recording files available
Session 2
Economic Value and Societal Benefits of the New Generation of LEO and GEO Environmental Satellites for Mitigating High Impact Weather and Climate Events, Part II
Location: Room C111 (The Georgia World Congress Center )
Host: Tenth Annual Symposium on New Generation Operational Environmental Satellite Systems
Cochairs: Steven J. Goodman, NOAA/NESDIS; Wenjian Zhang, WMO
  4:20 PM
2.2
On the Cost/Benefits of Meteorological Satellite Systems
Lars-Peter Riishojgaard, Joint Center for Satellite Data Assimilation/Earth System Science Interdisciplinary Center, College Park, MD; and J. G. Yoe
  5:15 PM
2.5
Photons to Decisions – Joint Polar Satellite System Common Ground System Value Chain
Kerry D. Grant, Raytheon Intelligence and Information Systems, Aurora, CO; and S. W. Miller, M. L. Jamilkowski, and S. Cochran
Recording files available
Themed Joint Session 4
Satellite Technology Advances
Location: Room C105 (The Georgia World Congress Center )
Hosts: (Joint between the 30th Conference on Environmental Information Processing Technologies; the Tenth Annual Symposium on New Generation Operational Environmental Satellite Systems; and the Fourth Conference on Transition of Research to Operations )
Cochairs: Randall Bass, FAA; Gerald Dittberner, Harris Corporation; John J. Pereira, NOAA/NESDIS; Kathleen Fontaine, NASA/GSFC
  4:00 PM
TJ4.1
The Compact Ocean Wind Vector Radiometer: A New Class of Low-Cost Conically Scanning Satellite Microwave Radiometer System
Shannon Brown, JPL, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA; and P. Focardi, A. Kitiyakara, F. Maiwald, O. Montes, S. Padmanabhan, R. Redick, D. Russel, and J. Wincentsen
  4:15 PM
TJ4.2
  4:30 PM
TJ4.3
High Data Rate Satellite Communications for Environmental Remote Sensing
John Jackson, Northrop Grumman Aerospace Systems, Redondo Beach, CA; and J. Munger, P. Emch, B. Sen, and D. Gu
  4:45 PM
TJ4.4
Blogging as a Training Tool for new Forecast Algorithms
A. Scott Bachmeier, CIMSS/Univ. of Wisconsin, Madison, WI; and S. S. Lindstrom
  5:00 PM
TJ4.5
Proposed NOAA Enterprise Precipitation Processing System
Chandra R. Kondragunta, NOAA/NESDIS, Silver Spring, MD; and R. R. Ferraro, M. W. Johnson, D. Hermreck, T. Schott, J. Pereira, M. Kalb, and L. Zhao
  5:15 PM
TJ4.6
User-Centric Distribution of Satellite Products from GOES-R and JPSS
Jamison Hawkins, Lockheed Martin, Arlington, VA; and D. Powell and D. M. Beall

5:30 PM-7:30 PM: Monday, 3 February 2014


Reception and Exhibits Opening

Tuesday, 4 February 2014

8:30 AM-9:45 AM: Tuesday, 4 February 2014

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Session 3
Satellite Program Overviews and Status (joint with the Committee on Satellite Meteorology)
Location: Room C111 (The Georgia World Congress Center )
Host: Tenth Annual Symposium on New Generation Operational Environmental Satellite Systems
Cochairs: Mitchell Goldberg, NOAA/NESDIS/JPSS; Timothy J. Schmit, NOAA/NESDIS/STAR
  8:30 AM
3.1
GOES-R Program Overview
Greg Mandt, NOAA/NESDIS, Greenbelt, MD
  8:45 AM
3.2
  9:00 AM
3.3
Program Status of DoD Weather Satellites
Scott Larrimore, US Air Force Space and Missile Systems Center, El Segundo, CA; and C. Rieber and J. Baldonado
  9:15 AM
3.4
EUMETSAT's New Satellite Programmes: Service Continuity, Improvements and Innovation
Johannes Schmetz, EUMETSAT, Darmstadt, Germany; and R. Stuhlmann, P. Schlüssel, D. Klaes, M. König, F. Montagner, K. Holmlund, J. Schulz, M. Cohen, S. Rota, and A. Ratier
  9:30 AM
3.5
Status of Next Generation Japanese Geostationary Meteorological Satellites Himawari-8/9 and their Products
Kotaro Bessho, Japan Meteorological Agency, Kiyose City, Tokyo, Japan; and T. Ohno

9:00 AM-11:00 AM: Tuesday, 4 February 2014


Spouses' Coffee

9:45 AM-11:00 AM: Tuesday, 4 February 2014


Formal Poster Viewing with Coffee Break
Location: Hall C3 (The Georgia World Congress Center )

11:00 AM-12:00 PM: Tuesday, 4 February 2014

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Joint Session 2
Research to Operations Pathway for Satellite Data Retrieval Algorithms
Location: Room C111 (The Georgia World Congress Center )
Hosts: (Joint between the Tenth Annual Symposium on New Generation Operational Environmental Satellite Systems; and the Fourth Conference on Transition of Research to Operations )
Cochairs: John J. Pereira, NOAA/NESDIS; Gary McWilliams, JPSS Program Office/Army Research Laboratory
  11:30 AM
J2.3
Use of a Parallel Data Processing and Error Analysis System (DPEAS) for Transition of Multisatellite Hydrometeorological Products into Operations
Andrew S. Jones, CIRA/Colorado State Univ., Fort Collins, CO; and S. Finley, S. Q. Kidder, J. M. Forsythe, T. H. Vonder Haar, L. Zhao, J. Corbett, J. L'Heureux, and D. Allen

  11:45 AM
J2.4
NOAA's Transition to Operations of NDE S-NPP Products
Kevin Berberich, NOAA/NESDIS, Suitland, MD; and S. L. Bunin and T. Schott

12:00 PM-1:30 PM: Tuesday, 4 February 2014


Lunch Break

Stanley a. Changnon Luncheon
Location: Room B401 (The Georgia World Congress Center )

12:15 PM-1:15 PM: Tuesday, 4 February 2014

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Town Hall Meeting: Advances in Direct Broadcast Capabilities and Applications for JPSS and other Polar-orbiting Operational Environmental Satellite Systems
Location: Room C111 (The Georgia World Congress Center )
Moderator: Liam E. Gumley, CIMSS/Univ. of Wisconsin

Direct Broadcast (DB) technology is rapidly evolving to better leverage the expanded observing capabilities offered by the new generation of polar-orbiting environmental satellites. DB offers the user many advantages such as lower costs, reduced data latency, the ability to network with other DB sites to create wider regional or even global coverage, and, very importantly, the ability to combine data from other sources to generate locally-unique products. During this Town Hall you will learn more about these new DB capabilities, actual user experiences and also community-wide software programs, such as the Community Satellite Processing Package (CSPP), which bring this DB technology to reality for worldwide DB users. For additional information, please contact Gary McWilliams (gary.mcwilliams@noaa.gov), 240-684-0597.
  12:45 PM
Kathleen Strabala
  12:30 PM
Isabel Cruz
  12:15 PM
Gary Jedlovec
  1:00 PM
Kota Prasad
  1:15 PM
Liam Gumley

1:30 PM-3:00 PM: Tuesday, 4 February 2014

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Session 4
Preparing User Communities for the New Generation of LEO and GEO Environmental Satellites
Location: Room C111 (The Georgia World Congress Center )
Host: Tenth Annual Symposium on New Generation Operational Environmental Satellite Systems
Cochairs: James J. Gurka, NESDIS GOES-R Program Office; Bill Sjoberg, NESDIS/JPSS
  1:45 PM
4.2
New and Updated Environmental Satellite Education Resources from COMET
Wendy Schreiber-Abshire, UCAR/COMET, Boulder, CO; and P. Dills and M. Weingroff

  2:00 PM
4.3
GOES-14 Super Rapid Scan Operations to Prepare for GOES-R
Timothy J. Schmit, NOAA/NESDIS/STAR, Madison, WI; and S. J. Goodman, D. T. Lindsey, R. M. Rabin, K. Bedka, J. L. Cintineo, C. Velden, A. S. Bachmeier, S. S. Lindstrom, M. Gunshor, and C. Schmidt
  2:15 PM
4.4
  2:45 PM
4.6
An Update to the NRL NexSat Webpage
Arunas P. Kuciauskas, NRL, Monterey, CA; and J. Solbrig, T. Lee, J. Hawkins, S. D. Miller, M. Surratt, K. Richardson, R. Bankert, J. E. Kent, and E. J. Hyer

3:00 PM-3:30 PM: Tuesday, 4 February 2014


Coffee Break

Meet the President
Location: Room C103 (The Georgia World Congress Center )

3:30 PM-5:30 PM: Tuesday, 4 February 2014

Recording files available
Session 5
Suomi-NPP /JPSS Cal/Val Program Status
Location: Room C111 (The Georgia World Congress Center )
Host: Tenth Annual Symposium on New Generation Operational Environmental Satellite Systems
Cochairs: Mitchell Goldberg, NOAA/NESDIS/JPSS; David C. Smith, Raytheon Intelligence and Information Systems
  3:30 PM
5.1
JPSS Program Science Partnership with Ca/Val Program (Invited Presentation)
Mitchell Goldberg, NOAA/NESDIS/JPSS, Lanham, MD; and J. Gleason, E. Gottshall, F. Weng, I. Csiszar, J. Furgerson, G. McWilliams, L. Zhou, and L. Gaches
  3:45 PM
5.2
Overview of Suomi NPP Sensor Data Records from CrIS, ATMS, VIIRS and OMPS
Fuzhong Weng, NOAA/NESDIS, College Park, MD; and C. Cao, Y. Han, X. Wu, and N. Sun
  4:15 PM
5.4
SNPP CrIS Sensor Data Record: Validated Maturity Level Product
Yong Han, NOAA/NESDIS, College Park, MD; and D. Tremblay, D. Gu, D. Mooney, H. Revercomb, D. K. Scott, and L. L. Strow
  4:30 PM
5.5
SUOMI NPP VIIRS CALIBRATION/VALIDATION PROGRESS UPDATE
Quanhua (Mark) Liu, ESSIC, University of Maryland, College Park, MD; and C. Cao, S. blonski, X. shao, and S. Uprety
  4:45 PM
5.6
Current Status of the Terrestrial Environmental Data Products from the Suomi NPP satellite
Ivan A. Csiszar, NOAA/NESDIS, College Park, MD; and J. L. Privette, M. Román, C. O. Justice, and E. Vermote
  5:00 PM
5.7
Suomi NPP VIIRS Near Constant Contrast (NCC) Imagery
Donald W. Hillger, NOAA/NESDIS, Fort Collins, CO; and C. J. Seaman, C. K. Liang, S. D. Miller, D. T. Lindsey, and T. J. Kopp
  5:15 PM
5.8
On-orbit radiometric characterization of Suomi NPP Day-Night-Band (DNB)
Lushalan Liao, Northrop Grumman Aerospace Systems, Redondo Beach, CA; and S. Weiss, S. Mills, B. Hauss, and C. K. Liang

5:00 PM-6:00 PM: Tuesday, 4 February 2014

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Session 1
Bernhard Haurwitz Memorial Lecture
Location: Room C106 (The Georgia World Congress Center )
Hosts: (Joint between the 26th Conference on Climate Variability and Change; the 14th Presidential Forum; the Second Symposium on Prediction of the Madden-Julian Oscillation: Impacts on Weather and Climate Extremes; the Second Symposium on the Joint Center for Satellite Data Assimilation; the Stanley A. Changnon Symposium; the 30th Conference on Environmental Information Processing Technologies; the 28th Conference on Hydrology; the 26th Conference on Weather Analysis and Forecasting / 22nd Conference on Numerical Weather Prediction; the 23rd Symposium on Education; the 22nd Conference on Probability and Statistics in the Atmospheric Sciences; the 18th Joint Conference on the Applications of Air Pollution Meteorology with the A&WMA; the 18th Conference on Integrated Observing and Assimilation Systems for the Atmosphere, Oceans, and Land Surface (IOAS-AOLS); the 16th Conference on Atmospheric Chemistry; the 12th Conference on Artificial and Computational Intelligence and its Applications to the Environmental Sciences; the 12th History Symposium; the 12th Symposium on the Coastal Environment; the 11th Conference on Space Weather; the 11th Symposium on the Urban Environment; the Tenth Annual Symposium on New Generation Operational Environmental Satellite Systems; the Ninth Symposium on Policy and Socio-Economic Research; the Sixth Symposium on Aerosol-Cloud-Climate Interactions; the Fifth Conference on Weather, Climate, and the New Energy Economy; the Fifth Conference on Environment and Health; the Fourth Aviation, Range, and Aerospace Meteorology Special Symposium; the Fourth Conference on Transition of Research to Operations; the Fourth Symposium on Advances in Modeling and Analysis Using Python; the Second Symposium on the Weather and Climate Enterprise; the Second Symposium on Building a Weather-Ready Nation: Enhancing Our Nation’s Readiness, Responsiveness, and Resilience to High Impact Weather Events; the Major Weather Events and Societal Impacts of 2013; and the Special Symposium on Severe Local Storms: The Current State of the Science and Understanding Impacts )
  5:00 PM
L1.1
Towards a general theory of global monsoons (Invited Presentation)
Peter J. Webster, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA

Wednesday, 5 February 2014

8:30 AM-10:00 AM: Wednesday, 5 February 2014

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Session 6
New Capabilities in Satellite Ground Processing Systems
Location: Room C111 (The Georgia World Congress Center )
Host: Tenth Annual Symposium on New Generation Operational Environmental Satellite Systems
Cochairs: Donald W. Hillger, NOAA/NESDIS; David C. Smith, Raytheon Intelligence and Information Systems
  8:30 AM
6.1
Establishing a High Quality Climate Benchmark of the Earth: Utilizing a New On-orbit IR Transfer Standard to Leverage Next Generation Operational Environmental Satellite Capabilities
Hank Revercomb, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI; and F. A. Best, R. O. Knuteson, D. C. Tobin, J. K. Taylor, P. J. Gero, D. Adler, C. Pettersen, and M. Mulligan
  8:45 AM
6.2
JPSS CGS SNPP Performance
Kerry D. Grant, Raytheon Intelligence and Information Systems, Aurora, CO; and C. R. Bergeron and D. C. Smith

  9:00 AM
6.3
  9:15 AM
6.4
ATMS Radiance Transformation System (ARTS) Prepared for JPSS Mission
Hu Yang, University of Maryland, College park, MD; and F. Weng, M. Tian, and N. Sun
  9:30 AM
6.5
  9:45 AM
6.6
Joint Polar Satellite System (JPSS) Common Ground System (CGS) Overview and Architectural Tenets
Shawn W. Miller, Raytheon Intelligence, Information and Services (IIS), Aurora, CO; and K. D. Grant, M. L. Jamilkowski, and D. C. Smith

9:00 AM-11:00 AM: Wednesday, 5 February 2014


Spouses' Coffee

10:00 AM-10:30 AM: Wednesday, 5 February 2014


Coffee Break

Meet the President
Location: Room C103 (The Georgia World Congress Center )

10:30 AM-12:00 PM: Wednesday, 5 February 2014

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Session 7
GOES-R and JPSS Proving Ground Activities in Observing and Forecasting
Location: Room C111 (The Georgia World Congress Center )
Host: Tenth Annual Symposium on New Generation Operational Environmental Satellite Systems
Cochairs: James G. Yoe, NOAA/NESDIS; Wanda Harding, NOAA/NESDIS/JPSS
  10:30 AM
7.1
GOES-R Proving Ground: Results from the 2013 Demonstrations and Future Plans
James Gurka, NESDIS GOES-R Program Office, Greenbelt, MD; and S. J. Goodman, T. J. Schmit, M. DeMaria, A. Mostek, B. Motta, M. J. Folmer, A. Terborg, C. M. Gravelle, K. Miretzky, and W. Feltz
  10:45 AM
7.2
  11:00 AM
7.3
"The GOES-R/JPSS Proving Ground: A National Centers Perspective"
Amanda M. Terborg, CIMSS/Univ. of Wisconsin, Kansas City, MO; and M. J. Folmer and W. Line
  11:15 AM
7.4
Danger at Sea: Diagnosing and Communicating the Threat for Strong Maritime Thunderstorms
Michael J. Folmer, Univ. of Maryland, Elkridge, MD; and A. Stinner, J. M. Sienkiewicz, C. Schultz, and S. D. Rudlosky
  11:30 AM
7.5
A New Look at the GOES-R ABI Split Window Difference for Convective Initiation Forecasting
Daniel T. Lindsey, NOAA Center for Satellite Applications and Research, Fort Collins, CO; and L. Grasso and E. J. Szoke

12:00 PM-1:30 PM: Wednesday, 5 February 2014


Lunch Break

Women in the Atmospheric Sciences Luncheon: A Conversation about the Future
Location: Room C112 (The Georgia World Congress Center )

1:30 PM-2:30 PM: Wednesday, 5 February 2014

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Lecture 2
Horton Lecture
Location: Georgia Ballroom 1 (The Georgia World Congress Center )
Hosts: (Joint between the 28th Conference on Hydrology; the Second Symposium on Prediction of the Madden-Julian Oscillation: Impacts on Weather and Climate Extremes; the Second Symposium on the Joint Center for Satellite Data Assimilation; the Edward S. Epstein Symposium; the 30th Conference on Environmental Information Processing Technologies; the 26th Conference on Climate Variability and Change; the 26th Conference on Weather Analysis and Forecasting / 22nd Conference on Numerical Weather Prediction; the 23rd Symposium on Education; the 22nd Conference on Probability and Statistics in the Atmospheric Sciences; the 18th Joint Conference on the Applications of Air Pollution Meteorology with the A&WMA; the 18th Conference on Integrated Observing and Assimilation Systems for the Atmosphere, Oceans, and Land Surface (IOAS-AOLS); the 16th Conference on Atmospheric Chemistry; the 12th Conference on Artificial and Computational Intelligence and its Applications to the Environmental Sciences; the 12th History Symposium; the 12th Symposium on the Coastal Environment; the 11th Conference on Space Weather; the 11th Symposium on the Urban Environment; the Tenth Annual Symposium on New Generation Operational Environmental Satellite Systems; the Ninth Symposium on Policy and Socio-Economic Research; the Seventh Annual CCM Forum: Certified Consulting Meteorologists; the Sixth Symposium on Aerosol-Cloud-Climate Interactions; the Fifth Conference on Weather, Climate, and the New Energy Economy; the Fifth Conference on Environment and Health; the Fourth Aviation, Range, and Aerospace Meteorology Special Symposium; the Fourth Conference on Transition of Research to Operations; the Fourth Symposium on Advances in Modeling and Analysis Using Python; the Second Symposium on the Weather and Climate Enterprise; the Second Symposium on Building a Weather-Ready Nation: Enhancing Our Nation’s Readiness, Responsiveness, and Resilience to High Impact Weather Events; and the Special Symposium on Severe Local Storms: The Current State of the Science and Understanding Impacts )
Recording files available
Session 8
Use of Lightning Data to Improve Short-Term Prediction of Severe and High Impact Weather
Location: Room C111 (The Georgia World Congress Center )
Host: Tenth Annual Symposium on New Generation Operational Environmental Satellite Systems
Cochairs: Peter Roohr, NOAA/NWS; Steven J. Goodman, NOAA/NESDIS
  1:30 PM
8.1
Geostationary Lightning Mapper
Karen Gheno, Lockheed Martin, Palo Alto, CA; and S. Edgington and H. Christian
  1:45 PM
8.2
Simulation and Analysis of GOES-R Geostationary Lightning Mapper Detection Algorithm Performance
Loren Sadewa Clark, NASA/GSFC, Falls Church, VA; and T. Dixon, P. Armstrong, R. Cholvibul, J. Clarke, P. Silverglate, and D. Chu
  2:00 PM
8.3
Colorado Lightning Mapping Array Collaborations through the GOES-R Visiting Scientist Program
Geoffrey T. Stano, ENSCO, Inc./NASA SPoRT, Huntsville, AL; and E. J. Szoke, N. Rydell, R. Cox, and R. Mazur
  2:15 PM
8.4
A Total Lightning Product Monitor
Steven J. Goodman, NOAA/NESDIS, Greenbelt, MD; and M. Bateman, P. M. Bitzer, B. Carcione, K. M. Calhoun, K. L. Cummins, S. D. Rudlosky, and K. D. White

2:30 PM-4:00 PM: Wednesday, 5 February 2014


Formal Poster Viewing with Coffee Break
Location: Hall C3 (The Georgia World Congress Center )

Poster Session 2
10thGOES-R/JPSS Posters
Location: Hall C3 (The Georgia World Congress Center )
Host: Tenth Annual Symposium on New Generation Operational Environmental Satellite Systems
Cochairs: Michael L. Jamilkowski, Raytheon Intelligence and Information Systems; Bill Sjoberg, NESDIS/JPSS

Posters for the 10th Annual Symposium on New Generation Operational Environmental Satellite Systems
 
673
Procedures to Validate S-NPP Sounding Products using Conventional and Reference/Dedicated Observations,
Tony Reale, NOAA/NESDIS, College Park, MD; and B. sun, F. Tilley, M. Pettey, N. R. Nalli, D. Tobin, and C. D. Barnet

 
674
STAR Algorithm Integration Team: Software Development Tools
Valerie J. Mikles, NOAA/NESDIS, Riverdale, MD; and K. Sprietzer, W. Chen, Y. Zhao, M. Tsidulko, Y. Tang, B. Das, and W. Wolf

 
675
Using NPROVS for Evaluation of Suomi NPP Atmospheric Sounding Retrievals against Conventional Radiosonde Observations
Bomin Sun, IMSG & NOAA/NESDIS/STAR, College Park, MD; and A. Reale, M. Pettey, F. Tilley, C. Brown, N. Nalli, A. Gambacorta, and M. G. Divakarla

 
676
An experiment using high resolution CrIS measurements for atmospheric retrievals: carbon monoxide impact study
Antonia Gambacorta, IM Systems Group, College Park, MD; and C. D. Barnet, W. Wolf, T. King, E. Maddy, L. L. Strow, Y. Han, D. Tremblay, N. Nalli, X. Xiong, and M. Goldberg

Handout (2.3 MB)

 
677
Graphical Analytical Programs for Validating S-NPP Sounding Products Using Conventional and Reference/Dedicated Observations
Michael Pettey, IMSG & NOAA/NESDIS/STAR, Suitland, MD; and C. Brown, T. Reale, and B. Sun

 
678
Inter-comparison of Land Surface Temperature products from NPP/VIIRS and Aqua/MODIS – Protocol, Limitations and Validation Results
Jim Biard, Cooperative Institute for Climate and Satellites, Asheville, NC; and P. C. Guillevic, G. Hulley, and J. L. Privette

Handout (16.9 MB)

 
679
Error Characterization of Atmospheric Motion Vectors Derived via a Nested Tracking Algorithm Developed for the GOES-R Advanced Baseline Imager (ABI)
Jaime Daniels, NOAA, College Park, MD; and W. Bresky, S. Wanzong, A. Bailey, C. Velden, A. Allegrino, and X. Li

 
680
CrIS Reprocessing Compute System
Denis Tremblay, Science Data Processing/NOAA, College Park, MD; and Y. Han, Y. Chen, X. Jin, L. Wang, and A. Gambacorta

 
681
NOAA Aerosols and Ocean Science Expeditions (AEROSE) Supporting S-NPP EDR Validation
Nicholas R. Nalli, NOAA/NESDIS, College Park, MD; and C. D. Barnet, T. Reale, E. Joseph, V. R. Morris, D. E. Wolfe, A. Gambacorta, P. J. Minnett, T. King, H. Xie, E. Maddy, F. Iturbide-Sanchez, M. Divakarla, M. I. Oyola, J. W. Smith, and E. D. Roper
Manuscript (382.3 kB)

 
682
GOES-R AWG Product Processing System Framework: R2O
Shanna Sampson, NOAA/NESDIS, College Park, MD; and W. Wolf, X. Liu, A. Li, T. Yu, R. Rollins, V. Jose, R. Garcia, G. Martin, W. Straka III, E. Schiffer, and J. Daniels

 
683
JPSS S-NPP Land Surface Temperature Product: Beta and Provisional Release Status
Yunyue Yu, NOAA/NESDIS, College Park, MD; and Y. Liu, Z. Wang, P. Yu, I. A. Csiszar, J. L. Privette, and P. C. Guillevic

 
684
GOES-R AWG Product Processing System Framework: Near Real-Time Product Generation
Shanna Sampson, IMSG, College Park, MD; and W. Wolf, M. Fan, X. Liu, A. Li, T. Yu, Y. Zhao, R. Rollins, V. Jose, R. Garcia, G. Martin, W. Straka III, and J. Daniels

 
685
Using the model simulation to improve the Land Surface Temperature retrieval for JPSS and GOES-R Missions
Zhuo Wang, I. M, Systems Group, Inc., College Park, MD; and Y. Yu, Y. Liu, and P. Yu

 
686
Validation of S-NPP VIIRS Provisional Land Surface Temperature Product
Yuling Liu, CICS of University of Maryland, College Park, MD; and Y. Yu, Z. Wang, and P. Yu

 
687
Environmental Analysis of GOES-R Convection Initiation Forecasting Algorithms
Daniel Nietfeld, NOAA/NWS, Valley, NE; and J. Apke and M. R. Anderson

 
688
An Objective Validation Approach to GOES-R Based Convection Initiation Forecasting Algorithms
Daniel Nietfeld, NOAA/NWS, Valley, NE; and J. Apke and M. R. Anderson

 
690
Suomi NPP/JPSS Cross-track Infrared Sounder (CrIS): Calibration Validation With The Aircraft Based Scanning High-resolution Interferometer Sounder (S-HIS)
Joe K. Taylor, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI; and D. C. Tobin, H. E. Revercomb, F. A. Best, R. O. Knuteson, R. K. Garcia, D. Deslover, and L. A. Borg
Manuscript (5.3 MB)

Handout (2.7 MB)

 
691
Evaluation and Improvement of the S-NPP CrIMSS Rain Flag
Wenze Yang, University of Maryland, College Park, MD; and F. Iturbide-Sanchez, R. R. Ferraro, M. Divakarla, and T. Reale

Handout (2.9 MB)

 
692
Satellite Training Activities: VISIT, SHyMet and WMO VLab
Bernadette H. Connell, CIRA/Colorado State Univ., Ft. Collins, CO; and D. Bikos, E. J. Szoke, A. S. Bachmeier, S. Lindstrom, A. Mostek, B. Motta, T. J. Schmit, M. Davison, K. A. Caesar, V. Castro, and L. Veeck

Handout (1.8 MB)

 
693
Implications of CrIS Full Spectral Resolution Operations on Suomi NPP High Rate Data Direct Broadcast
Michael J. Denning, Integrity Applications Incorporated, Chantilly, VA; and B. Guenther and Y. Han

 
694
JPSS System Architecture S-NPP to the Future
Arron Layns, NOAA/NESDIS, Lanham, MD; and J. Furgerson, J. Feeley, A. N. Griffin, and G. Trumbower

 
695
A Stewardship Maturity Matrix for Assessing the State of Environmental Data Quality and Usability Practices
Ge Peng, North Carolina State University's Cooperative Institute for Climate and Satellites (CICS-NC), Asheville, NC; and J. L. Privette

 
696
Operational Implementation of Algorithm Changes using the Algorithm Development Library
Kerry D. Grant, Raytheon Intelligence, Information and Services (IIS), Aurora, CO; and S. W. Miller and M. L. Jamilkowski

 
697
VIIRS Improvements Over MODIS
Kerry D. Grant, Raytheon Intelligence and Information Systems, Aurora, CO; and S. W. Miller and J. J. Puschell

 
699
 
700
Validation of Suomi-NPP CRIMSS retrievals of temperature and water vapor using ARM site best estimates of atmospheric state
Lori A. Borg, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI; and D. Tobin, R. Knuteson, H. Revercomb, A. Reale, N. R. Nalli, D. J. Holdridge, and J. H. Mather


Joint Poster Session 5
Poster Session on Transitions from Research to Operations
Location: Hall C3 (The Georgia World Congress Center )
Hosts: (Joint between the Fourth Conference on Transition of Research to Operations; the 26th Conference on Weather Analysis and Forecasting / 22nd Conference on Numerical Weather Prediction; the 18th Conference on Integrated Observing and Assimilation Systems for the Atmosphere, Oceans, and Land Surface (IOAS-AOLS); and the Tenth Annual Symposium on New Generation Operational Environmental Satellite Systems )
 
Poster 741 has been moved. Will now be 2.1A

 
742
A New Method for Calculating Vertical Motion in Isentropic Space
Michael Simpson, University of Missouri, Columbia, MO

Handout (389.6 kB)

 
886
Research to Operations, Possibilities for Total and Spectral Solar Irradiance in the next 25 years
Thomas Sparn, Univ. of Colorado, Boulder, CO; and P. Pilewskie, P. Withnell, and G. Kopp

4:00 PM-5:30 PM: Wednesday, 5 February 2014

Recording files available
Joint Session 1
Satellite data and technology for forecasting and responding to natural disasters
Location: Room C111 (The Georgia World Congress Center )
Hosts: (Joint between the Tenth Annual Symposium on New Generation Operational Environmental Satellite Systems; and the 18th Conference on Integrated Observing and Assimilation Systems for the Atmosphere, Oceans, and Land Surface (IOAS-AOLS) )
Cochairs: Michael J. Folmer, Univ. of Maryland; Michael L. Jamilkowski, Raytheon Intelligence and Information Systems; Sharanya J. Majumdar, Univ. of Miami/RSMAS
  4:00 PM
J1.1
Using GOES-R Demonstration Products to Bridge the Gap Between Severe Weather Watches and Warnings for the 20 May 2013 Moore, OK Tornado Outbreak
Chad M. Gravelle, NWS Operations Proving Ground / CIMSS, Kansas City, MO; and J. Mecikalski, R. Petersen, J. Sieglaff, and G. T. Stano
  4:30 PM
J1.3A
  4:45 PM
J1.4
Multi-Mission Remote Sensing Ground Processing Algorithms
David Hogan, AER, Lexington, MA; and A. Werbos, J. Bentley, E. Kennelly, E. Steinfelt, T. S. Zaccheo, and W. Davis
  5:00 PM
J1.5
Sky Cover: Shining Light on a Gloomy Problem
Jordan J. Gerth, CIMSS/Univ. of Wisconsin, Madison, WI
  5:15 PM
J1.6
Lessons from Response to Superstorm Sandy using COSMO-SkyMed Radar Satellites to Produce Damage Proxy Maps of New York City
Sang-Ho Yun, JPL, Pasadena, CA; and A. Coletta, E. Fielding, S. Elhami, T. Farr, D. Ferguson, J. Helly, R. Butgereit, F. Webb, P. A. Rosen, M. Simons, and S. Owen

5:00 PM-6:00 PM: Wednesday, 5 February 2014

Recording files available
Lecture 3
Walter Orr Roberts Lecture
Location: Room C113 (The Georgia World Congress Center )
Hosts: (Joint between the 16th Conference on Atmospheric Chemistry; the Second Symposium on Prediction of the Madden-Julian Oscillation: Impacts on Weather and Climate Extremes; the Second Symposium on the Joint Center for Satellite Data Assimilation; the Stanley A. Changnon Symposium; the Edward S. Epstein Symposium; the 30th Conference on Environmental Information Processing Technologies; the 28th Conference on Hydrology; the 26th Conference on Climate Variability and Change; the 26th Conference on Weather Analysis and Forecasting / 22nd Conference on Numerical Weather Prediction; the 23rd Symposium on Education; the 22nd Conference on Probability and Statistics in the Atmospheric Sciences; the 18th Joint Conference on the Applications of Air Pollution Meteorology with the A&WMA; the 18th Conference on Integrated Observing and Assimilation Systems for the Atmosphere, Oceans, and Land Surface (IOAS-AOLS); the 12th Conference on Artificial and Computational Intelligence and its Applications to the Environmental Sciences; the 12th History Symposium; the 12th Symposium on the Coastal Environment; the 11th Conference on Space Weather; the 11th Symposium on the Urban Environment; the Tenth Annual Symposium on New Generation Operational Environmental Satellite Systems; the Ninth Symposium on Policy and Socio-Economic Research; the Seventh Annual CCM Forum: Certified Consulting Meteorologists; the Sixth Symposium on Aerosol-Cloud-Climate Interactions; the Fifth Conference on Weather, Climate, and the New Energy Economy; the Fifth Conference on Environment and Health; the Fourth Aviation, Range, and Aerospace Meteorology Special Symposium; the Fourth Conference on Transition of Research to Operations; the Fourth Symposium on Advances in Modeling and Analysis Using Python; the Second Symposium on the Weather and Climate Enterprise; the Second Symposium on Building a Weather-Ready Nation: Enhancing Our Nation’s Readiness, Responsiveness, and Resilience to High Impact Weather Events; and the Special Symposium on Severe Local Storms: The Current State of the Science and Understanding Impacts )
  5:00 PM
L3.1

5:30 PM-6:30 PM: Wednesday, 5 February 2014


Awards Banquet Reception in the Exhibit Hall

7:00 PM-10:00 PM: Wednesday, 5 February 2014


94th AMS Awards Banquet

Thursday, 6 February 2014

8:30 AM-9:45 AM: Thursday, 6 February 2014

Recording files available
Joint Session 3
Data Impact Studies
Location: Room C111 (The Georgia World Congress Center )
Hosts: (Joint between the Second Symposium on the Joint Center for Satellite Data Assimilation; and the Tenth Annual Symposium on New Generation Operational Environmental Satellite Systems )
Chair: James G. Yoe, NOAA/NESDIS
  8:30 AM
J3.1
  8:45 AM
J3.2
Observation Impact on Mesoscale Model Forecast Accuracy over South West Asia
Michael D. McAtee, AFWA/The Aerospace Corporation, Offutt AFB, NE
  9:15 AM
J3.4
Impact of different satellite radiance data sets using 3D-Var and hybrid variational/EnKF data assimilation systems in the Rapid Refresh
H. Lin, CIRA/Colorado State Univ. and NOAA/ESRL/GSD, Boulder, CO; and S. Weygandt, M. Hu, S. G. Benjamin, C. Alexander, and P. Hofmann
  9:30 AM
J3.5
Application and Impacts of SSMIS on NRL COAMPS Data Assimilation System
Song Yang, NRL, Monterey, CA; and B. Campbell, N. L. Baker, and S. D. Swadley
Recording files available
Session 9
Suomi-NPP/JPSS Cal/Val and Product Development, Part I
Location: Room C213 (The Georgia World Congress Center )
Host: Tenth Annual Symposium on New Generation Operational Environmental Satellite Systems
Cochairs: Fuzhong Weng, NOAA/NESDIS; Henry. E. Revercomb, Univ. of Wisconsin
  8:30 AM
9.1
The NOAA Unique CrIS/ATMS processing System (NUCAPS): algorithm description and validation results after two years in orbit
Antonia Gambacorta, IM Systems Group, College Park, MD; and C. D. Barnet, W. Wolf, T. King, E. Maddy, N. Nalli, K. Zhang, F. Iturbide-Sanchez, X. Xiong, C. Tian, B. Sun, T. Reale, and M. Goldberg
  8:45 AM
9.2
  9:00 AM
9.3
Validation Methods for Infrared Sounder Environmental Data Records: Application to Suomi NPP
Nicholas R. Nalli, NOAA/NESDIS, College Park, MD; and C. D. Barnet, T. Reale, A. Gambacorta, E. Maddy, B. Sun, E. Joseph, L. A. Borg, A. Mollner, M. Divakarla, X. Liu, R. O. Knuteson, T. King, and W. Wolf
  9:15 AM
9.4
Assessments of S-NPP CrIS Full Resolution SDR Radiometric and Spectral Accuracy
Yong Chen, University of Maryland, College Park, MD; and Y. Han, D. Tremblay, L. Wang, X. Jin, and F. Weng
  9:30 AM
9.5
Latest results of the development and evaluation of the Suomi NPP VIIRS active fire products
Ivan A. Csiszar, NOAA/NESDIS, College Park, MD; and W. Schroeder, L. Giglio, E. Ellicott, and C. O. Justice

9:45 AM-11:00 AM: Thursday, 6 February 2014


Formal Poster Viewing with Coffee Break
Location: Hall C3 (The Georgia World Congress Center )

11:00 AM-12:00 PM: Thursday, 6 February 2014

Recording files available
Joint Session 4
Preparation for Assimilation of Data from New Sensors and Satellites
Location: Room C111 (The Georgia World Congress Center )
Hosts: (Joint between the Second Symposium on the Joint Center for Satellite Data Assimilation; and the Tenth Annual Symposium on New Generation Operational Environmental Satellite Systems )
Chair: Stanley G. Benjamin, NOAA/ESRL/GSD
  11:00 AM
J4.1
Preparing to assimilate current and future land surface products at GMAO, AFWA, NCEP, and NRL using a common data assimilation infrastructure
Christa D. Peters-Lidard, NASA/GSFC, Washington, DC; and S. V. Kumar, Y. Liu, R. H. Reichle, C. Draper, G. J. M. De Lannoy, J. B. Eylander, J. D. Cetola, M. B. Ek, X. Zhan, and T. R. Holt
  11:15 AM
J4.2
Soil Moisture Operational Product System (SMOPS) for NCEP GFS Soil Moisture Data Assimilation
Xiwu Zhan, NOAA/NESDIS, College Park, MD; and J. Liu, W. Zheng, and M. B. Ek
  11:30 AM
J4.3
Recording files available
Session 10
Suomi -NPP/JPSS Cal/Val and Product Development, Part II
Location: Room C213 (The Georgia World Congress Center )
Host: Tenth Annual Symposium on New Generation Operational Environmental Satellite Systems
Cochairs: Kenneth Carey, Earth Resources Technology, Inc.; Ivan A. Csiszar, NOAA/NESDIS
  11:00 AM
10.1
Role of STAR Algorithm Integration Team (AIT) in Integrating JPSS Algorithms using Algorithm Development Library (ADL) for Product Maturity
Bigyani Das, NOAA/NESDIS/STAR, College Park, MD; and M. Tsidulko, Y. Tang, W. Chen, V. Mikles, K. Sprietzer, Y. Zhao, and W. Wolf
  11:15 AM
10.2
A Physical Approach for a Simultaneous Retrieval of Sounding, Surface, Hydrometeor and Cryospheric Parameters from SNPP/JPSS ATMS
Sid Ahmed Boukabara, NOAA/NESDIS, Camp Springs, MD; and K. J. Garrett, C. Grassotti, F. Iturbide-Sanchez, W. Chen, Z. Jiang, S. A. Clough, X. Zhan, F. Weng, P. Liang, Q. Liu, T. Islam, V. Zubko, and A. M. Mims

  11:30 AM
10.3
Suomi-NPP Cross-Track Infrared Sounder (CrIS) Radiometric Calibration Uncertainty
David Tobin, CIMSS/Univ. of Wisconsin, Madison, WI; and H. Revercomb, R. Knuteson, J. Taylor, L. Borg, and D. Deslover
  11:45 AM
10.4
Validation of CrIMSS AVTP and AVMP Retrievals with PMRF RAOBs, ECMWF Analysis Fields, and the Retrieval Products from Heritage Algorithms
Murty G. Divakarla, IM Systems Group, Inc., Rockville, MD; and E. Maddy, M. Wilson, A. L. Reale, N. R. Nalli, A. Mollner, X. Liu, D. Gu, X. Xiong, S. Kizer, C. Tan, F. Iturbide-Sanchez, C. D. Barnet, A. Gambacorta, and M. Goldberg

12:00 PM-1:30 PM: Thursday, 6 February 2014


Lunch Break

1:30 PM-3:00 PM: Thursday, 6 February 2014

Recording files available
Joint Session 5
The Role of Satellite Data in Numerical Weather Prediction
Location: Room C111 (The Georgia World Congress Center )
Hosts: (Joint between the Second Symposium on the Joint Center for Satellite Data Assimilation; and the Tenth Annual Symposium on New Generation Operational Environmental Satellite Systems )
Chair: Sid Ahmed Boukabara, NOAA/NESDIS
  1:30 PM
J5.1
An Analysis of the Benefit of Earth Observations from Space on Regional and Global Numerical Weather Prediction
John F. Le Marshall, Bureau of Meteorology, Docklands, Vic., Australia; and J. Lee, P. Gregory, J. Jung, R. Norman, and R. Seecamp
  2:15 PM
J5.4
  2:30 PM
J5.5
Accelerated Uses of Suomi NPP Data in HWRF for Improving Hurricane/Typhoon Forecasts
Fuzhong Weng, NOAA/NESDIS, College Park, MD; and X. Zou, L. Lin, B. Zhang, and V. Tallapragada
  2:45 PM
J5.6A
Handling clouds in assimilating high spectral resolution infrared radiances
Jun Li, CIMSS/Univ. of Wisconsin, Madison, WI; and F. Weng, P. Wang, J. Li, W. Bai, and Z. Li

3:00 PM-3:05 PM: Thursday, 6 February 2014


Registration Closes

3:00 PM-3:30 PM: Thursday, 6 February 2014


Coffee Break

Meet the President
Location: Room C103 (The Georgia World Congress Center )

3:30 PM-5:00 PM: Thursday, 6 February 2014

Recording files available
Joint Session 6
The Role of Satellite Data on the Current and Potential Future use of Satellite Data in Air Quality, Ocean, and Climate Prediction Systems
Location: Room C111 (The Georgia World Congress Center )
Hosts: (Joint between the Second Symposium on the Joint Center for Satellite Data Assimilation; and the Tenth Annual Symposium on New Generation Operational Environmental Satellite Systems )
Chair: Lars Peter Riishojgaard, Joint Center for Satellite Data Assimilation
  3:30 PM
J6.1A
Forecast and analysis results from assimilation of aerosol optical depth data from NPP VIIRS in a global aerosol model
Edward J. Hyer, NRL, Monterey, CA; and J. Zhang, W. R. Sessions, J. Reid, C. Curtis, and D. Westphal
  3:45 PM
J6.2
Suomi NPP (SNPP) Visible Infrared Imager Radiometer Suite (VIIRS) Active Fire Data for Fire Management and Fire Weather Applications
Evan Ellicott, University of Maryland, College Park, MD; and I. A. Csiszar, W. Schroeder, P. Roohr, B. Quayle, L. Giglio, and C. O. Justice
  4:30 PM
J6.5
Development of 3-D Background Error Covariance Model for PATH
Kun Zhang, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO; and A. Gasiewski
  4:45 PM
J6.6A
Assimilating OSCAT winds to NCEP GDAS/GFS
Li Bi, NOAA/NESDIS/STAR, Camp Srpings, MD; and J. A. Jung and S. A. Boukabara

5:00 PM-5:05 PM: Thursday, 6 February 2014


AMS 94th Annual Meeting Adjourns