Fourth Conference on Transition of Research to Operations

Program Chairs: John Pereira , NOAA/NESDIS ; Nicolas Powell , Raytheon ; Stephen A. Mango , NOAA/NESDIS/OSD ; Brian Mischel , Space Systems Group ; Tom Pagano , NASA/JPL ; Chandra R. Kondragunta , NOAA/NESDIS

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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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Joint Session 1
Forecast Center Overviews II: Developments in NOAA Operational or Experimental Modeling Systems
Location: Room C201 (The Georgia World Congress Center )
Hosts: (Joint between the 26th Conference on Weather Analysis and Forecasting / 22nd Conference on Numerical Weather Prediction; and the Fourth Conference on Transition of Research to Operations )
Cochairs: Trisha D. Palmer, NOAA/NWSFO; Andrew L. Molthan, NASA/MSFC
  1:30 PM
J1.1
The Rapid Refresh: Operational Upgrade to Version 2 at NCEP and Further Development Toward Version 3
Stephen S. Weygandt, NOAA/ESRL, Boulder, CO; and S. G. Benjamin, M. Hu, T. G. Smirnova, J. B. Olson, C. Alexander, G. S. Manikin, E. P. James, J. M. Brown, P. Hofmann, D. C. Dowell, and H. Lin
  1:45 PM
J1.2
The High-Resolution Rapid Refresh: Recent Model and Data Assimilation Development Towards an Operational Implementation in 2014
Curtis Alexander, NOAA Earth System Research Laboratory, Boulder, CO; and D. C. Dowell, S. S. Weygandt, S. G. Benjamin, M. Hu, T. G. Smirnova, J. B. Olson, J. M. Brown, E. P. James, and P. Hofmann
  2:00 PM
J1.3
  2:15 PM
J1.4
NCEP regional ensemble update: current systems and planned storm-scale ensembles
Jun Du, Environmental Modeling Center/NCEP/NOAA, College Park, MD; and G. DiMego, B. Zhou, D. Jovic, B. Yang, B. Ferrier, G. Manikin, M. Pyle, E. Rogers, Y. Zhu, and S. Benjamin

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


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

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

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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

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: NASA Earth Science Division (ESD) Town Hall Meeting
Location: Room C203 (The Georgia World Congress Center )

This Town Hall session will provide an opportunity for the earth science community to interact with members of the leadership team and staff of the Earth Science Division (ESD) of NASA’s Science Mission Directorate. Brief presentations by the ESD leadership will precede a longer opportunity for audience questions. Topics to be addressed in the Town Hall session include scientific accomplishments and programmatic milestones from the past year, current programmatic directions, and NASA’s progress towards implementing the missions identified in the June 2010 report "Responding to the Challenge of Climate and Environmental Change:NASA’s Plan for a Climate-Centric Architecture for Earth Observations and Applications from Space" which incorporates recommendations from the National Research Council’s 2007 Decadal Survey for Earth Science, “Earth Science and Applications from Space: National Imperatives for the Next Decade and Beyond.” Recent developments in the Venture Class program and the non-flight parts of the NASA program (research and analysis, applied sciences, technology) and NASA's involvement in interagency and international programs will also be reviewed. For additional information, please contact Jack A. Kaye (202-358-2559, Jack.A.Kaye@nasa.gov).
  12:15 PM
ESD Overview: Michael Freilich

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

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Joint Session 5
Research to Operations: Building Requirements for Health I
Location: Room C213 (The Georgia World Congress Center )
Hosts: (Joint between the Fifth Conference on Environment and Health; and the Fourth Conference on Transition of Research to Operations )
Chair: Paul Schramm, Center for Disease Control

Covering a range of environment and health topics (heat, vector borne, water, and hospital protection), this session explores the methods, and data and collaborations employed to build requirements for health.
  1:30 PM
J5.1
Sustainable and Climate Resilient Healthcare Facilities: an update on federal efforts
John Balbus, National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, Bethesda, MD
  1:45 PM
J5.2
  2:15 PM
J5.4
NOAA's Ecological Forecasting Roadmap: Transition to Operations
Allison L. Allen, NOAA National Ocean Service, Silver Spring, MD; and P. Sandifer and J. Trtanj
  2:30 PM
J5.5
MISR Satellite Observations of Environmental Factors Affecting Human Health in California, from the San Joaquin Valley to the Salton Sea
Michael Garay, NASA / California Institute of Technology Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA; and O. V. Kalashnikova
  2:45 PM
J5.6
Status on reaching the Goals of the Hurricane Forecast Improvement Project (HFIP)
Robert L. Gall, NOAA/NWS, Silver Spring, MD; and F. Toepfer, F. Marks, and E. Rappaport

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

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Joint Session 3
Innovative Transition and Integration of New Observational Platforms and Modeling Technologies and Techniques
Location: Room C203 (The Georgia World Congress Center )
Hosts: (Joint between the 18th Conference on Integrated Observing and Assimilation Systems for the Atmosphere, Oceans, and Land Surface (IOAS-AOLS); and the Fourth Conference on Transition of Research to Operations )
Cochairs: Kenneth Carey, Earth Resources Technology, Inc.; Stephen A. Mango, NOAA/NESDIS/OSD
  3:30 PM
Developing Parameters to Nowcast Intense Storms within the 0-1 Hour Time Frame: John Mecikalski
  3:45 PM
J3.1A
Developing Parameters to Nowcast Intense Storms within the 0–1 hour Timeframe
John R. Mecikalski, Univ. of Alabama, Huntsville, AL; and D. Rosenfeld

  4:00 PM
J3.2
Planned Operational Implementation of the High Resolution Rapid Refresh at NCEP
Stephen S. Weygandt, NOAA/Earth System Research Laboratory, Boulder, CO; and C. Alexander, S. G. Benjamin, M. Hu, D. C. Dowell, T. G. Smirnova, J. B. Olson, E. P. James, P. Hofmann, G. S. Manikin, J. M. Brown, B. D. Jamison, and H. Lin
  4:15 PM
J3.3
Development of a near real time regional satellite data assimilation system for high impact weather forecasts
Jinlong Li, CIMSS/Univ. of Wisconsin, Madison, WI; and J. Li, P. Wang, M. Goldberg, and T. J. Schmit
  4:30 PM
J3.4
  4:45 PM
J3.5
Integration of the total lightning jump algorithm into current operational warning environment conceptual models
Christopher J. Schultz, NASA/MSFC, Huntsville, AL; and L. D. Carey, E. V. Schultz, G. T. Stano, R. J. Blakeslee, and S. J. Goodman
  5:30 PM
J3.8

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
Advances in Satellite Observations and Earth Science
Location: Room C302 (The Georgia World Congress Center )
Host: Fourth Conference on Transition of Research to Operations
Cochairs: Brian Mischel, I.M. Systems Group; Thomas S. Pagano, Jet Propulsion Laboratory
  8:45 AM
1.2
First Operational Implementation of SAR Winds at NOAA
Frank M. Monaldo, APL/Johns Hopkins Univ., Laurel, MD; and W. Pichel
  9:00 AM
1.3
The Total and Spectral Solar Irradiance Sensor (TSIS): Current Challenges in the Transition from Research to Operations
Peter Pilewskie, Univ. of Colorado, Boulder, CO; and G. Kopp, E. Richard, R. F. Cahalan, and T. Sparn

  9:15 AM
1.4
Extreme Weather: Monitoring Severe Storms From Space
Bjorn H. Lambrigtsen, JPL, Pasadena, CA; and A. Behrangi, S. Brown, E. Fetzer, T. Gaier, S. Granger, S. Hristova-Veleva, B. Kahn, H. Su, B. Tian, and J. Turk

  9:30 AM
1.5
Addressing Space-Based Wind Lidar Challenges with the Optical Autocovariance Wind Lidar (OAWL)
Sara C. Tucker, Ball Aerospace & Technologies Corp., Boulder, CO; and C. Weimer
  9:45 AM
1.6

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
Technologies and Applications - From Research to Weather Prediction and Climate Assessment
Location: Room C302 (The Georgia World Congress Center )
Host: Fourth Conference on Transition of Research to Operations
Cochairs: Stephen A. Mango, NOAA/NESDIS/OSD; Nicolas Powell, Raytheon
  10:30 AM
2.1A
Persistent Multispectral, Day–Night Imaging of the Arctic from a Highly Elliptical Orbit
Jeffery J. Puschell, Raytheon Space and Airborne Systems, El Segundo, CA; and D. B. Johnson and S. Miller

  10:45 AM
2.2
WR Forecast Confidence Project
Andy Edman, NOAA/NWS, Salt Lake City, UT

  11:00 AM
2.3
Applying MODE time-domain for diagnosis and visualization of simulated supercells
Adam J. Clark, CIMMS/Univ. of Oklahoma and NSSL/NOAA, Norman, OK; and C. Karstens, R. Bullock, and T. L. Jensen
  11:15 AM
2.4
Improving Lake Effect Snow Nowcasting and Quantitative Precipitation Estimation Using Synergistic Satellite and NEXRAD Products
Mark S. Kulie, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI; and J. M. Feltz, A. Walther, M. Dutter, S. W. Nesbitt, R. Bennartz, and A. K. Heidinger
  11:30 AM
2.5
Forecasting Mesoscale Snow Bands in Winter Storms: An R2O Success Story
Jeff S. Waldstreicher, NOAA/NWS, Bohemia, NY; and D. R. Novak
  11:45 AM
2.6
NOAA's Recent Transition of Microwave Radar Water Level Sensors to Operations Results in Enhanced Storm Surge Monitoring Capability
Chung-Chu Teng, Center for Operational Oceanographic Products and Services (CO-OPS), Silver Spring, MD; and R. Heitsenrether, T. Landon, and M. Samant

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 )

12:15 PM-1:15 PM: Wednesday, 5 February 2014


Town Hall Meeting: NASA’s Earth Science – Flight Program Investments in and Planning for the Next-Generation Earth Observatories
Location: Room C302 (The Georgia World Congress Center )

NASA has nine (9) satellites currently in formulation and development, with eight scheduled to launch before the end of 2017. These include GPM, SMAP, and OCO-2 (all in 2014), SAGE III (2015), ICESat-2 and CYGNSS (2016), and GRACE FO and OCO-3 (2017), and SWOT (2020). These nine will join the pantheon of existing US and international weather, climate and research satellites. In addition to these missions, NASA has recently been given additional sustained earth observing measurement responsibilities. chartered by the Administration with the responsibility for defining and implementing, in coordination with the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS), the nation’s Sustained Land Imaging Program to follow the currently flying Landsat & and Landsat 8 (formerly known as LDCM) missions. And NASA has been directed to continue the fundamental climate measurements of solar irradiance, earth radiation budget, and ozone profiling to extend the data record into the future. How will NASA be meeting these demanding measurement objectives? NASA’s Earth Science Division is working now, in collaboration with NOAA, the USGS, DOE and international partners, and with our industrial community, on science studies, technology investments, and mission definition studies to prepare the next generation of satellites and observations for launch in 2018, 2019 and soon thereafter. At this Town Hall meeting we will present the progress and plans for these next generation missions, including mission concepts from the 2007 NRC Decadal Survey (http://science.nasa.gov/earth-science/decadal-surveys/) and from the 2010 NASA Climate Plan (http://science.nasa.gov/earth-science/). We will identify opportunities for greater interaction with the NASA missions already in formulation and development, as well as opportunities for future collaboration as we move forward with this next generation of missions and measurements. For further information, please contact Stephen Volz (svolz@nasa.gov).

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
Sensors and Methods: Research to Operations Enablers
Location: Room C302 (The Georgia World Congress Center )
Host: Fourth Conference on Transition of Research to Operations
Cochairs: Stephen A. Mango, NOAA/NESDIS/OSD; Thomas S. Pagano, Jet Propulsion Laboratory
  1:30 PM
3.1
NASA's Atmospheric Infrared Sounder (AIRS) from Research to Operations
Thomas S. Pagano, JPL, Pasadena, CA; and E. Fetzer and S. Ray

  1:45 PM
3.2
  2:00 PM
3.3
Encouraging the use of hyperspectral sounder products in forecasting applications
Elisabeth Weisz, Space Science and Engineering Center/University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI; and N. Smith and W. Smith Sr.

  2:15 PM
3.4
Process and Technologies for the Transition of Research Algorithms to Operations for Real-Time Satellite Processing
Alexander Werbos, AER, Lexington, MA; and E. Steinfelt, J. Bentley, E. Kennelly, D. Hogan, H. Snell, and T. S. Zaccheo
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Joint Session 8
Research to Operations: Building Requirements for Health II
Location: Room C213 (The Georgia World Congress Center )
Hosts: (Joint between the Fifth Conference on Environment and Health; and the Fourth Conference on Transition of Research to Operations )
Chair: Paul Bieringer, NCAR

Covering a range of environment and health topics (heat, vector borne, water, and hospital protection), this session explores the methods, data and collaborations employed to build requirements for health.
  2:15 PM
Discussion

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


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

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

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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

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Session 4
Operational and Research Organizations: Cornerstones for Successful R2O Transition
Location: Room C302 (The Georgia World Congress Center )
Host: Fourth Conference on Transition of Research to Operations
Cochairs: John Pereira, NOAA/NESDIS; Chandra R. Kondragunta, NOAA/NESDIS
  4:15 PM
4.2
NOAA Satellite Partnerships
Suzanne Hilding, NOAA/NESDIS, Silver Spring, MD; and J. J. Pereira

  4:30 PM
4.3
More opportunities for forecaster interaction for future operational satellite products – CIRA's activities in the GOES-R and JPSS Proving Grounds
Edward J. Szoke, CIRA/Colorado State Univ. and NOAA/GSD, Boulder, CO; and R. Brummer, H. Gosden, C. Seaman, D. Bikos, S. Miller, M. DeMaria, D. Lindsey, D. Hillger, and D. Molenar
  4:45 PM
4.4
Using the SPoRT LEO/Geo Hybrid Product in OCONUS Forecasting
Matt Smith, University of Alabama, Huntsville, AL; and K. K. Fuell, J. A. Nelson Jr., and M. Kreller
  5:00 PM
4.5
Bridging the Research to Operations Gap in Dam Safety Applications
Victoria Lynn Sankovich, Bureau of Reclamation, Denver, CO; and R. J. Caldwell, N. Novembre, J. England Jr., K. M. Mahoney, M. A. Alexander, and L. D. Brekke
  5:15 PM
4.6

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

Thursday, 6 February 2014

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

Recording files available
Joint Session 6
Testbed Activities in Numerical Weather Prediction, Observations, Analysis, and Forecasting I
Location: Room C201 (The Georgia World Congress Center )
Hosts: (Joint between the 26th Conference on Weather Analysis and Forecasting / 22nd Conference on Numerical Weather Prediction; and the Fourth Conference on Transition of Research to Operations )
Cochairs: John Pereira, NOAA/NESDIS; Trisha D. Palmer, NOAA/NWSFO

Presentations on a wide range of testbed and proving ground activities supporting the research to operations process. Topics include NOAA Testbed activities, government-academic partnerships, satellite proving grounds, and other applications.
  8:30 AM
J6.1
  8:45 AM
J6.2
  9:00 AM
J6.3
The Joint Hurricane Testbed
Christopher W. Landsea, NOAA/NWS/NCEP/National Hurricane Center, Miami, FL
  9:15 AM
J6.4
Transition of research to operations for the Hurricane WRF model
Ligia R. Bernardet, CIRES/Univ. of Colorado, Boulder, CO; and V. Tallapragada, T. Brown, S. Trahan, S. Bao, M. K. Biswas, D. Stark, and L. Carson
  9:30 AM
J6.5
An Ensemble Processing Application Under Development and Testing at the NOAA Aviation Weather Testbed
David Bright, NOAA/NWS/NCEP/AWC, Kansas City, MO; and J. S. Smith, B. R. J. Schwedler, G. Liu, and S. A. Lack

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


Joint Poster Session 3
Posters: Testbed Activities in Numerical Weather Prediction, Observations, Analysis, and Forecasting
Location: Hall C3 (The Georgia World Congress Center )
Hosts: (Joint between the 26th Conference on Weather Analysis and Forecasting / 22nd Conference on Numerical Weather Prediction; and the Fourth Conference on Transition of Research to Operations )
Cochairs: Andrew L. Molthan, NASA/MSFC; Kelly M. Mahoney, CIRES/Univ. of Colorado
 
608
NWP Testing and Evaluation for Specific Needs: The DTC Connection with NOAA Testbeds
Edward Tollerud, CIRA/Colorado State Univ., Boulder, CO; and T. Fowler, T. L. Jensen, W. L. Clark, E. Gilleland, L. R. Bernardet, and B. G. Brown
Manuscript (2.6 MB)

 
609
Expansion and Enhancement of the Mesoscale Model Evaluation Testbed (MMET)
Jamie K. Wolff, NCAR, Boulder, CO; and M. Harrold and C. Phillips

Handout (2.8 MB)

 
611
Quantifying the effect of irrigation on non-local aspects of the atmosphere
Jennifer C. Nauert, Texas Tech University, Lubbock, TX; and B. C. Ancell

 
612
Numerical Simulation of Sea Fog over the Yellow Sea: Comparison between PAFOG+UM and PAFOG+WRF Coupled Systems
WonHeung Kim, Yonsei University, Seoul, South Korea; and S. S. Yum and C. K. Kim


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 7
Testbed Activities in Numerical Weather Prediction, Observations, Analysis, and Forecasting II
Location: Room C201 (The Georgia World Congress Center )
Hosts: (Joint between the 26th Conference on Weather Analysis and Forecasting / 22nd Conference on Numerical Weather Prediction; and the Fourth Conference on Transition of Research to Operations )
Cochairs: John Pereira, NOAA/NESDIS; Adam Baker, NWS/WFO Peachtree City

Presentations on a wide range of testbed and proving ground activities supporting the research to operations process. Topics include NOAA Testbed activities, government-academic partnerships, satellite proving grounds, and other applications.
  11:00 AM
J7.1
Using a Collaborative Testbed-Proving Ground Paradigm for Bridging Research to Operations
Kim J. Runk, NOAA/NWS Operations Proving Ground, Kansas City, MO; and C. M. Gravelle
  11:15 AM
J7.2
Recent Advancements of the Research-to-Operations (R2O) Process at HMT-WPC
Thomas E. Workoff, NOAA/NWS/NCEP, College Park, MD; and F. E. Barthold, M. J. Bodner, B. Ferrier, E. Sukovich, B. J. Moore, L. R. Bernardet, T. M. Hamill, G. Bates, and W. Hogsett
  11:30 AM
J7.3
The 2013 Flash Flood and Intense Rainfall Experiment
Faye E. Barthold, NOAA/NWS/WPC and I.M. Systems Group, Inc., College Park, MD; and T. E. Workoff, W. Hogsett, J. J. Gourley, K. M. Mahoney, L. R. Bernardet, and D. R. Novak
  11:45 AM
J7.4

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 11
Testbed Activities in Numerical Weather Prediction, Observations, Analysis, and Forecasting III
Location: Room C201 (The Georgia World Congress Center )
Hosts: (Joint between the 26th Conference on Weather Analysis and Forecasting / 22nd Conference on Numerical Weather Prediction; and the Fourth Conference on Transition of Research to Operations )
Cochairs: Adam Baker, NWS/WFO Peachtree City; John Pereira, NOAA/NESDIS

Presentations on a wide range of testbed and proving ground activities supporting the research to operations process. Topics include NOAA Testbed activities, government-academic partnerships, satellite proving grounds, and other applications.
  1:30 PM
J11.1
An Overview of the 2013 NOAA Hazardous Weather Testbed Spring Forecasting Experiment
Israel L. Jirak, NOAA/NWS/NCEP/SPC, Norman, OK; and M. Coniglio, A. J. Clark, J. Correia Jr., K. H. Knopfmeier, C. J. Melick, S. J. Weiss, J. S. Kain, M. Xue, F. Kong, K. W. Thomas, K. Brewster, Y. Wang, S. Willington, and D. Suri
  1:45 PM
J11.2
A four year climatology of simulated convective storms from NSSL WRF
James Correia Jr., CIMMS/Univ. of Oklahoma/SPC, Norman, OK; and J. S. Kain and A. J. Clark
  2:00 PM
J11.3
Verification of Proxy Severe Weather Reports from Updraft Helicity
Mallory Paige Row, Valparaiso University, Valparaiso, IN; and J. Correia Jr.
  2:15 PM
J11.4
In search of CI: Developing a strategy for detection and verification of thunderstorm initiation in convection-allowing models
Stuart D. Miller Jr., CIMMS/Univ. of Oklahoma, Norman, OK; and J. S. Kain, P. Marsh, A. J. Clark, M. Coniglio, and J. Correia Jr.
  2:45 PM
J11.6

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 13
Testbed Activities in Numerical Weather Prediction, Observations, Analysis, and Forecasting IV
Location: Room C201 (The Georgia World Congress Center )
Hosts: (Joint between the 26th Conference on Weather Analysis and Forecasting / 22nd Conference on Numerical Weather Prediction; and the Fourth Conference on Transition of Research to Operations )
Cochairs: John Pereira, NOAA/NESDIS; Bradley T. Zavodsky, NASA/MSFC

Presentations on a wide range of testbed and proving ground activities supporting the research to operations process. Topics include NOAA Testbed activities, government-academic partnerships, satellite proving grounds, and other applications.
  3:30 PM
J13.1
  3:45 PM
J13.2
NASA-SPoRT Methodology for JPSS and GOES-R Proving Ground Assessments
Anita LeRoy, University of Alabama, Huntsville, AL; and K. K. Fuell and L. Rosa
  4:00 PM
J13.3
SPoRT transition of JPSS VIIRS Imagery for Night-time Applications
Geoffrey T. Stano, ENSCO, Inc./NASA Short-term Prediction Research and Transition Center, Huntsville, AL; and K. K. Fuell, A. LeRoy, M. Smith, S. D. Miller, D. Kann, D. Bernhardt, N. Rydell, and R. Cox
  4:30 PM
J13.5
Sensitivity of Hurricane WRF model track and intensity forecasts to microphysics and radiation parameterizations
Mrinal K. Biswas, Developmental Testbed Center/NCAR, Boulder, CO; and A. Chakraborty, G. Thompson, Y. Kwon, S. Trahan, L. R. Bernardet, and V. Tallapragada

  4:45 PM
J13.6
Evaluating the performance of a sodar gap-filling algorithm in short term wind forecasting
Velayudhan Praju Kiliyanpilakkil, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC, Raleigh, NC; and S. Basu

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


AMS 94th Annual Meeting Adjourns