Donald R. Johnson Symposium

Program Chair: Robert Gall , NCAR

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Thursday, 6 February 2014

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8:00 AM-9:15 AM: Thursday, 6 February 2014

Recording files available
Session 1
Numerical Weather Prediction and Climate Models
Location: Room C112 (The Georgia World Congress Center )
Host: Donald R. Johnson Symposium
Chair: Robert L. Gall, NOAA/NWS
  8:00 AM
Opening Remarks. Robert L. Gall, Hurricane Forecast Improvement Project/OST, NOAA/NWS, Silver Spring, MD
Recorded Presentation

  8:15 AM
1.1
Donald R. Johnson: Wise Words—Great Impacts - His Lifelong Journey to Understand and Predict the General, Synoptic, and Mesoscale Circulations that Drive our Climate and Weather
Louis W. Uccellini, NOAA/NWS, Silver Spring, MD; and R. S. Schneider
Recorded Presentation

  8:45 AM
1.2
Design of Global Models to Adhere to Thermodynamic Relationships (Invited Presentation)
A. E. MacDonald, NOAA/OAR, Boulder, CO
Recorded Presentation

Handout (4.7 MB)

9:15 AM-9:45 AM: Thursday, 6 February 2014


Session 2
Quick Poster Presentation Intros
Location: Room C112 (The Georgia World Congress Center )
Host: Donald R. Johnson Symposium
Chair: Richard A. Anthes, UCAR
 
Each poster presenter, in order by their poster number is provided with an opportunity to give a quick (two minute max) intro of their poster presentation that will be given during the formal poster viewing

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


Poster Session 1
Poster Session
Location: Hall C3 (The Georgia World Congress Center )
Host: Donald R. Johnson Symposium
 
876
Quasi-Biennial Oscillation in Phase Speed, Vertical Tilting, and Form Stress of Equatorial Waves in the Stratosphere
Cory Barton, Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL; and M. Cai and C. S. Shin

 
877
Medium-range forecasting with a hybrid-isentropic global circulation model
Rainer Bleck, NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies & NOAA/Earth System Research Laboratory, Boulder, CO; and J. W. Bao, S. Benjamin, M. Fiorino, G. Grell, T. Henderson, B. Jamison, J. Lee, P. Madden, J. Middlecoff, J. Rosinski, T. Smirnova, S. Sun, and N. Wang

Handout (5.0 MB)

 
878
A Total Flow Representation of Atmospheric Mass and Angular Momentum Circulations: Part I. Boreal Winter Mean State
Ming Cai, Florida State Univ., Tallahassee, FL; and C. S. shin

 
879
Planetary Boundary Layer Heights from COSMIC and CALIOP over Ocean
Shu-peng Ho, NCAR, Boulder, CO; and L. Peng, R. A. Anthes, and Y. H. Kuo

 
880
The Impacts of GPS Radio Occultation Data on the Analysis and Prediction of Tropical Cyclones
Ying-Hwa Kuo, UCAR, Boulder, CO; and H. Liu and X. Fang

 
881
Extreme precipitation trend estimation in Conterminous United States (CONUS)
Dongsoo Kim, NOAA/NESDIS/NCDC, Asheville, NC; and K. E. Kunkel

 
882
Observation System Simulation Experiment
Michiko Masutani, EMC, College Park, MD; and J. S. Woollen, L. P. Riishojgaard, S. P. F. Casey, Z. Ma, T. Zhu, and L. Cucurull

Handout (3.3 MB)

 
883
Hybrid Isentropic Coordinate Modeling at the University of Wisconsin - Madison
Todd K. Schaack, CIMSS/Univ. of Wisconsin, Madison, WI; and A. L. Lenzen

 
884
Numerical Weather and Snowpack Prediction at the Colorado Avalanche Information Center


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
Session 3
Cyclones: Angular Momentum and Energetics
Location: Room C112 (The Georgia World Congress Center )
Host: Donald R. Johnson Symposium
Chair: John A. Dutton, Prescient Weather Ltd
  11:00 AM
3.1
The dynamics and energetics of tropical cyclones--a brief history (Invited Presentation)
Richard Anthes, UCAR, Boulder, CO
Recorded Presentation

  11:30 AM
3.2
A historical and research perspective of the life cycle of extratropical cyclones: observations and high-resolution numerical simulations (Invited Presentation)
Melvin A. Shapiro, NCAR, Boulder, CO
Recorded Presentation

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


Donald R. Johnson Luncheon
Location: Room C204 (The Georgia World Congress Center )
Facilitator: Louis W. Uccellini, NOAA/NWS
Speaker: Donald Johnson, University of Wisconsin

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

Recording files available
Session 4
Global Circulations/Energetics Part I
Location: Room C112 (The Georgia World Congress Center )
Host: Donald R. Johnson Symposium
Chair: Robert L. Gall, NOAA/NWS
  1:30 PM
4.1
The Fundamental Theorems of Atmospheric Science (Invited Presentation)
John A. Dutton, Prescient Weather Ltd, State College, PA
Recorded Presentation

  2:00 PM
4.2
The Global Circulation: A Paleoclimate Perspective (Invited Presentation)
Bette L. Otto-Bliesner, NCAR, Boulder, CO

  2:30 PM
4.3
The Use of Statistics in the Remote Sensing of Atmospheric Profiles (Invited Presentation)
William L. Smith Sr., Hampton Univ./Univ. of Wisconsin, Seaford, VA
Recorded Presentation

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-4:30 PM: Thursday, 6 February 2014

Recording files available
Session 5
Global Circulations/Eneregtics Part II
Location: Room C112 (The Georgia World Congress Center )
Host: Donald R. Johnson Symposium
Chair: Robert L. Gall, NOAA/NWS
  3:30 PM
5.1
Aspects of potential vorticity: impermeability, angular momentum, attribution, coordinates (Invited Presentation)
Josef Egger, Universität München, München, Germany
Recorded Presentation Manuscript (14.8 kB)

Handout (1.9 MB)

  4:00 PM
5.2
The Nature and Causes of Changes in the General Circulation of the Atmosphere (Invited Presentation)
Martin Hoerling, NOAA/ESRL-PSD, Boulder, CO
Recorded Presentation

4:30 PM-5:30 PM: Thursday, 6 February 2014

Recording files available
Session 6
Education/Public Policy
Location: Room C112 (The Georgia World Congress Center )
Host: Donald R. Johnson Symposium
Chair: Richard A. Anthes, UCAR
  4:30 PM
6.1
Global Cooperation: Madison, Melbourne and Mateship in Meteorology (Invited Presentation)
John Zillman, Bureau of Meteorology, Melbourne, Vic., Australia; and W. Downey
Recorded Presentation

  5:00 PM
6.2
Earth System Science Education: Don Johnson's Leadership in Systemic Reform (Invited Presentation)
Martin Ruzek, Universities Space Research Association, Columbia, MD
Recorded Presentation

6:00 PM-8:00 PM: Thursday, 6 February 2014


Donald R. Johnson Symposium Reception
Location: International Ballroom (Omni Hotel at CNN Center)
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