Fourth Aviation, Range, and Aerospace Meteorology Special Symposium

Program Chairs: John Mecikalski , University of Alabama ; Charles A. West , NOAA/NWS ; David J. Pace , Retired FAA

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Sunday, 2 February 2014

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


Registration Open for Annual Meeting

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

Tuesday, 4 February 2014

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

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Joint Session 5
Special International Applications Session on The Impact and Meteorological Challenges of Volcanic Eruptions - Part I
Location: Georgia Ballroom 3 (The Georgia World Congress Center )
Hosts: (Joint between the 30th Conference on Environmental Information Processing Technologies; the Second Symposium on the Weather and Climate Enterprise; and the Fourth Aviation, Range, and Aerospace Meteorology Special Symposium )
Cochairs: Ian Lisk, UK Met Office; Charles A. West, NOAA/NWS; John R. Lincoln, US Navy/WMO (Ret.) and Consultant
  8:30 AM
J5.1
The Road Map for Volcanic Ash Information and Strategic Planning for International Aviation Weather Services
Steven Albersheim, FAA, Washington, DC; and M. K. Peterson, L. Burch, and T. J. Helms Jr.
  8:45 AM
J5.2
  9:00 AM
J5.3
Real-time Volcanic Cloud Products for Aviation Alerts
Nickolay A. Krotkov, NASA/GSFC, Greenbelt, MD; and S. Habib, K. Brentzel, P. Coronado, C. Seftor, M. Linda, J. Li, T. Heinrichs, J. Cable, S. Macfarlane, D. J. Schneider, S. Hassinen, K. Yang, and E. J. Hughes

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

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Joint Session 6
Special International Applications Session on The Impact and Meteorological Challenges of Volcanic Eruptions - Part II
Location: Georgia Ballroom 3 (The Georgia World Congress Center )
Hosts: (Joint between the 30th Conference on Environmental Information Processing Technologies; the Fourth Aviation, Range, and Aerospace Meteorology Special Symposium; and the Second Symposium on the Weather and Climate Enterprise )
Cochairs: Ian Lisk, UK Met Office; John R. Lincoln, US Navy/WMO (Ret.) and Consultant

overflow papers
  11:00 AM
J6.1
Testing volcanic-ash ingestion by a jet engine: approximating distal ash-cloud conditions
David J. Schneider, Alaska Volcano Observatory, Anchorage, AK; and M. Guffanti, C. R. Holliday, L. G. Mastin, and J. J. Murray
  11:15 AM
J6.2
  11:30 AM
J6.3
Network of Raman and dual-polarization LiDARs for the monitoring and characterization of atmospheric aerosols
P. Royer, LEOSPHERE, Orsay, France; and L. Sauvage, A. Bizard, L. Thobois, and M. Boquet

  11:45 AM
J6.4
Dispersion and optical properties of the Kasatochi volcanic plume based on the CALIPSO space-borne lidar
Jean-Paul Vernier, Science Systems and Applications Inc., Hampton, VA; and T. D. Fairlie, J. J. Murray, and M. J. Pavolonis

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 1
Air Traffic Management
Location: Georgia Ballroom 3 (The Georgia World Congress Center )
Host: Fourth Aviation, Range, and Aerospace Meteorology Special Symposium
Cochairs: Steve Abelman, DOT/FAA; Matt Fronzak, The MITRE Corporation
  8:30 AM
1.1
Implementing the Aviation Summer Weather Dashboard: A decision support tool for extended traffic planning
Benjamin R. J. Schwedler, NOAA/NWS/NCEP/AWC & CIRA, Kansas City, MO; and S. A. Lack, L. Greenwood, and D. Bright
  8:45 AM
1.2
  9:00 AM
1.3
Evaluation of Convective Forecast Error Variability by Operationally Relevant Meteorological Characteristics
Colleen Reiche, AvMet Applications Inc., Reston, VA; and M. Robinson, S. Percic, M. Kay, R. Kicinger, and V. Klimenko
  9:45 AM
1.6
FAA NextGen in Support of Meteorological Services for International Aviation
Steven Albersheim, FAA, Washington, DC; and M. K. Peterson, T. J. Helms Jr., and L. Burch

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 2
Forecast Improvement
Location: Georgia Ballroom 3 (The Georgia World Congress Center )
Host: Fourth Aviation, Range, and Aerospace Meteorology Special Symposium
Cochairs: Mike Robinson, AvMet Applications Inc.; Cecilia Miner, NOAA/NWS
  10:30 AM
2.1
  11:15 AM
2.4
The 2014 HRRR and Rapid Refresh: Hourly Updated NWP Guidance from NOAA for Aviation, Improvements for 2013-2016
Stan Benjamin, NOAA/Earth System Research Laboratory, Boulder, CO; and C. Alexander, S. S. Weygandt, J. M. Brown, M. Hu, D. C. Dowell, T. G. Smirnova, J. B. Olson, E. P. James, P. Hofmann, H. Lin, G. A. Grell, E. J. Szoke, T. L. Smith, G. J. DiMego, and G. Manikin
  11:30 AM
2.5
Impact-Based Decision Support Services for Key West International Airport
Rick Curtis, Southwest Airlines, Dallas, TX; and F. Johnson, M. Muehlman, W. Cottrill, C. G. Herbster, and A. Devanas
  11:45 AM
2.6

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 )
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Session 3
Enhanced Observations
Location: Georgia Ballroom 3 (The Georgia World Congress Center )
Host: Fourth Aviation, Range, and Aerospace Meteorology Special Symposium
Cochairs: John R. Mecikalski, Univ. of Alabama; Franzeska Houtas, NASA
  1:30 PM
3.1
Cloud Property Measurements from Commercial Aircraft
Darrel Baumgardner, Droplet Measurement Technologies, Boulder, CO; and K. Beswick and M. W. Gallagher
  1:45 PM
3.2
Total lightning as an indication of Convectively Induced Turbulence potential in and around thunderstorms
Ryan Hunter Rogers, Univ. of Alabama, Huntsville, AL; and L. D. Carey, M. Bateman, G. T. Stano, S. A. Monette, W. F. Feltz, K. Bedka, and C. Fleeger
  2:00 PM
3.3
KITsonde: Modular Multi-Sensor Dropsonde for High Resolution Measurements
Andreas Wieser, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Karlsruhe, , Germany; and U. Corsmeier, C. Kottmeier, and T. Feuerle

  2:15 PM
3.4

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 1
Aviation, Range, and Aerospace Meteorology Posters
Location: Hall C3 (The Georgia World Congress Center )
Host: Fourth Aviation, Range, and Aerospace Meteorology Special Symposium
 
743
 
744
Overview of the 2013 Aviation Weather Testbed Activities: Winter and Summer Experiments
Steven A. Lack, NOAA/NWS/NCEP/Aviation Weather Center, Kansas City, MO; and R. L. Solomon, A. R. Harless, B. R. J. Schwedler, A. M. Terborg, B. P. Pettegrew, D. Blondin, S. Silberburg, B. Entwistle, D. Vietor, and D. Bright
Manuscript (1.7 MB)

Handout (1.2 MB)

 
745
Weather Avoidance Guidelines for NASA Global Hawk High-Altitude UAS
Daniel J. Cecil, NASA/MSFC, Huntsville, AL; and E. Zipser, C. S. Velden, S. A. Monette, G. M. Heymsfield, S. A. Braun, P. A. Newman, P. G. Black, M. L. Black, and J. P. Dunion

 
746
Assessment and Evaluation from the AWC Summer Experiment
Brian P. Pettegrew, CIRA/Colorado State Univ., Kansas City, MO; and S. A. Lack, A. R. Harless, A. Terborg, B. R. J. Schwedler, and D. Bright

Handout (923.6 kB)

 
747
Effective Operation of a Storm-Penetrating Aircraft
Aaron Carmichael, South Dakota School of Mines and Technology, Rapid City, SD; and A. Ward

 
749
Meteorological Support at Airports in Europe
Jelle Wisse, MeteoGroup, Wageningen, Netherlands; and M. Wokke, M. Noort, I. Smeding, and R. Mureau

 
751
Meeting User Needs: Identifying Weather Attributes for ATM Decision Making
Claudia V. McKnight, The MITRE Corporation, McLean, VA; and M. Fronzak and M. Huberdeau

Handout (4.1 MB)

 
752
Assimilation of GOES satellite based convective initiation data into the Rapid Refresh and HRRR systems to improve aviation forecast guidance
Tracy Lorraine Smith, NOAA/Earth System Research Laboratory/Global Systems Division and CIRA, Boulder, CO; and S. S. Weygandt, C. Alexander, M. Hu, H. Lin, and J. R. Mecikalski

Handout (3.5 MB)

 
753
Statistical and case study assessment of RAP and HRRR convective forecast skill for 2013
Stephen S. Weygandt, NOAA/Earth System Research Laboratory, Boulder, CO; and C. Alexander, D. C. Dowell, E. P. James, S. G. Benjamin, M. Hu, T. G. Smirnova, J. B. Olson, P. Hofmann, J. M. Brown, and H. Lin

 
754
Safety Risk Management—What does it Mean for Aviation Weather Information for International Services?
Steven Albersheim, FAA, Washington, DC; and M. K. Peterson, L. Burch, and T. J. Helms Jr.

 
755
Use of the Flow Constraint Index:Combining Weather and Traffic Information to Identify Constraint
Geary J. Layne, NOAA/Earth System Research Laboratory/Global Systems Division and CIRES/Univ. of Colorado, Boulder, CO; and M. S. Wandishin, B. J. Etherton, and M. A. Petty

 
756
 
758

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

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Session 4
Unique Forecasting Algorithms
Location: Georgia Ballroom 3 (The Georgia World Congress Center )
Host: Fourth Aviation, Range, and Aerospace Meteorology Special Symposium
Cochairs: John J. Murray, NASA/LaRC; Benjamin Schwendler, NOAA/NWS Aviation Weather Center
  4:00 PM
4.1
Aircraft-Specific In-flight Icing Forecasts
Donald W. McCann, McCann Aviation Weather Reaserch, Inc., Overland Park, KS; and D. W. Lennartson and J. H. Block
  4:15 PM
4.2
  4:45 PM
4.4
Integrated Turbulence Forecasts
Donald W. McCann, McCann Aviation Weather Reaserch, Inc., Overland Park, KS; and D. W. Lennartson and J. H. Block

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

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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