20th Conference on Satellite Meteorology and Oceanography

Program Chairs: Kenneth Carey , Earth Resources Technology (ERT), Inc. ; Derek J. Posselt , University of Michigan ; George P. Kablick III , University of Maryland, College Par ; Christopher S. Velden , CIMSS/Univ. of Wisconsin
Reviewers: Jim G. Yoe , NOAA/NESDIS ; Gary McWilliams , JPSS Program Office/Army Research Laboratory

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Saturday, 3 January 2015

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7:30 AM-10:00 AM: Saturday, 3 January 2015


Registration for Student Conference and Short Courses
Location: Lobby of Exhibit Hall 5 (Phoenix Convention Center - West and North Buildings)

Sunday, 4 January 2015

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7:30 AM-9:00 AM: Sunday, 4 January 2015


Registration for Short Courses and Conference for Early Career Professionals
Location: Lobby of Exhibit Hall 5 (Phoenix Convention Center - West and North Buildings)

9:00 AM-6:00 PM: Sunday, 4 January 2015


Registration Open for Annual Meeting
Location: Lobby of Exhibit Hall 5 (Phoenix Convention Center - West and North Buildings)

12:00 PM-4:00 PM: Sunday, 4 January 2015


WeatherFest
Location: Hall 1 (Phoenix Convention Center - West and North Buildings)

3:00 PM-4:00 PM: Sunday, 4 January 2015


Newcomer’s Welcome and Informational Exchange
Location: 127ABC (Phoenix Convention Center - West and North Buildings)

4:00 PM-5:30 PM: Sunday, 4 January 2015


95th Annual Review, New Fellows, and Featured Awards
Location: 122BC (Phoenix Convention Center - West and North Buildings)

5:45 PM-8:00 PM: Sunday, 4 January 2015


Fellows Reception
Location: North Ballroom Foyer (Phoenix Convention Center - West and North Buildings)

Monday, 5 January 2015

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7:30 AM-6:00 PM: Monday, 5 January 2015


Registration Continues through January 7
Location: Lobby of Exhibit Hall 5 (Phoenix Convention Center - West and North Buildings)

9:00 AM-10:30 AM: Monday, 5 January 2015

Recording files available
Plenary Session 1
15th Presidential Forum: Will Weather Change Forever—Anticipating Meteorology in 2040
Location: North Ballroom CD (Phoenix Convention Center - West and North Buildings)
Hosts: (Joint between the Major Weather Events and Societal Impacts of 2014; the Eugenia Kalnay Symposium; the Harry R. Glahn Symposium; the 31st Conference on Environmental Information Processing Technologies; the 29th Conference on Hydrology; the 27th Conference on Climate Variability and Change; the 24th Symposium on Education; the 20th Conference on Satellite Meteorology and Oceanography; the 20th Conference on Planned and Inadvertent Weather Modification; the 19th Conference on Integrated Observing and Assimilation Systems for the Atmosphere, Oceans, and Land Surface (IOAS-AOLS); the 19th Conference on Air-Sea Interaction; the 18th Conference on Middle Atmosphere; the 17th Conference on Atmospheric Chemistry; the 17th Conference on Aviation, Range, and Aerospace Meteorology; the 13th Conference on Artificial Intelligence; the 13th Symposium on the Coastal Environment; the 13th History Symposium; the 12th Conference on Space Weather; the 11th Annual Symposium on New Generation Operational Environmental Satellite Systems; the 10th Symposium on Societal Applications: Policy, Research and Practice; the Eighth Annual CCM Forum: Certified Consulting Meteorologists; the Seventh Symposium on Lidar Atmospheric Applications; the Seventh Conference on the Meteorological Applications of Lightning Data; the Seventh Symposium on Aerosol-Cloud-Climate Interactions; the Sixth Conference on Weather, Climate, and the New Energy Economy; the Sixth Conference on Environment and Health; the Fifth Conference on Transition of Research to Operations; the Fifth Symposium on Advances in Modeling and Analysis Using Python; the Third Annual Conference for Early Career Professionals; the Third Symposium on the Weather and Climate Enterprise; the Third Symposium on Building a Weather-Ready Nation: Enhancing Our Nation’s Readiness, Responsiveness, and Resilience to High Impact Weather Events; the Third Symposium on the Joint Center for Satellite Data Assimilation; the Third Symposium on Prediction of the Madden-Julian Oscillation: Processes, Prediction and Impact; the First Symposium on High Performance Computing for Weather, Water, and Climate; the Special Symposium on Model Postprocessing and Downscaling; the Special Symposium on the South Asia Monsoon; the Air Pollution Meteorology and Human Health Symposium; and the 15th Presidential Forum )
Program Chair: Kathryn Sullivan, NOAA
Moderator: Kimberly E. Klockow, NOAA
Keynote: Kathryn Sullivan, NOAA
Panelists: Bernadette Woods Placky, Climate Central; Mac Devine, IBM Cloud Services Division; Kathryn Sullivan, NOAA; Curtis L. Walker, University of Nebraska

Twenty five years hence, meteorology will be much different and expand far beyond the traditional weather forecast. Personal sensors will monitor weather nearly everywhere. Advanced computing will allow us to forecast at perhaps minute scales and kilometer resolutions, customized for each particular user. Post-mobile devices will enable instantaneous use of the information – even in remote areas of today’s developing nations. Transportation will be safer, businesses will operate more efficiently, events will automatically schedule around anticipated weather, and much more. Operational weather forecasts will be interlaced with new environmental elements that impact economic, health, energy, and security decisions. Many aspects of our daily lives will change forever. Climate change’s possibilities add a critical dimension to community resiliency. Should global weather patterns be altered, forecasting could become more challenging than today. The recent release of the fifth IPCC synthesis report has brought focus to this particular issue. Dr. Kathryn Sullivan, NOAA Administrator, will lead the session with a keynote on her vision for the meteorology enterprise in the year 2040. Following her keynote, the panelists - representing different demographics and perspectives - will then provide their vision, accompanied by a moderated discussion among the panelists.
  9:00 AM
William B (Bill) Gail: Introductory remarks
Recorded Presentation

  9:08 AM
Kimberly E. Klockow: Moderator welcoming remarks
Audio File

  9:16 AM
Dr. Kathryn Sullivan: AMS 2015 Annual Meeting Presidential Forum Keynote
Recorded Presentation

  9:24 AM
Curtis Walker: Will Weather Change Forever – Anticipating Meteorology in 2040
Recorded Presentation

  9:32 AM
Bernadette Woods Placky: Will Weather Change Forever? Anticipating Meteorology in 2040
Recorded Presentation

  9:40 AM
Mac Devine: The Perfect Storm Intensifies - The Convergence of BigData, Cloud and the Internet of Things is Now at Full Strength
Recorded Presentation

9:00 AM-11:00 AM: Monday, 5 January 2015


Spouses' Coffee

10:30 AM-11:00 AM: Monday, 5 January 2015


Coffee Break
Location: North Ballroom Foyer (Phoenix Convention Center - West and North Buildings)

11:00 AM-12:00 PM: Monday, 5 January 2015

Recording files available
Joint Panel Discussion 1
Enterprise View of Satellites
Location: 231ABC (Phoenix Convention Center - West and North Buildings)
Hosts: (Joint between the 20th Conference on Satellite Meteorology and Oceanography; the 11th Annual Symposium on New Generation Operational Environmental Satellite Systems; and the Third Symposium on the Joint Center for Satellite Data Assimilation )
Moderator: Mitch Goldberg, NOAA/NESDIS
Panelists: John Malay, Lockheed Martin/AMS President; Stephen M. Volz, NOAA/NESDIS; David McCarren, (Acting) Federal Coordinator for Meteorological Services and Supporting Research; Johannes Schmetz, EUMETSAT

The enterprise view of environmental satellites, a vision of a “system of systems” of spacecraft, sensors, and ground assets, is rapidly evolving from a concept to reality. It is driven by the need for government agencies and stakeholders to more effectively and efficiently obtain and share improved satellite data and data products for multiple applications under very challenging budget conditions. The enterprise view is being realized through the establishment of new national and international agreements to promote the sharing of data, and new organizational structures and system architectures to better collect, process, distribute, and use satellite data products from a constellation of satellites. A panel of senior scientists and managers will discuss the pathway and current progress in implementing this new paradigm.
  11:00 AM
Stephen Volz
Recorded Presentation

  11:15 AM
Johannes Schmetz
Recorded Presentation

  11:30 AM
John Malay

  11:45 AM
David McCarren

12:00 PM-1:30 PM: Monday, 5 January 2015


Lunch Break

12:45 PM-1:05 PM: Monday, 5 January 2015


Daily Weather Briefings
Location: 132AB (Phoenix Convention Center - West and North Buildings)

1:30 PM-2:30 PM: Monday, 5 January 2015

Recording files available
Joint Session 2
Design of next generation retrieval, data assimilation, and data fusion algorithms, especially as pertains to an integrated view of the Earth system
Location: 231ABC (Phoenix Convention Center - West and North Buildings)
Hosts: (Joint between the 20th Conference on Satellite Meteorology and Oceanography; the 11th Annual Symposium on New Generation Operational Environmental Satellite Systems; and the Third Symposium on the Joint Center for Satellite Data Assimilation )
Cochairs: Jordan Gerth, CIMSS/Univ. of Wisconsin; Sid A. Boukabara, NOAA/NESDIS
  1:30 PM
J2.1
Towards Atmosphere-Ocean Coupled Assmilation with the GEOS: Skin SST developments & analysis of MW observations
Santha Akella, NASA, Greenbelt, MD; and R. Todling, M. J. Suarez, J. Jin, and W. McCarty

  1:45 PM
J2.2
Variational Cloud-clearing with CrIS data at NCEP
Haixia Liu, EMC/IMSG, College Park, MD; and A. Collard and J. C. Derber
Recorded Presentation

  2:00 PM
J2.3
A First Look at GEWEX's Integrated Global Water and Energy Product
Christian D. Kummerow, Colorado State Univ., Fort Collins, CO; and W. B. Rossow, P. Stackhouse Jr., R. F. Adler, C. A. Clayson, and E. F. Wood
Recorded Presentation

  2:15 PM
J2.4
The NOAA Operational Hyper Spectral IR+MW Retrieval Algorithm: algorithm description and current performance assessment
Antonia Gambacorta, IM Systems Group, College Park, MD

2:30 PM-4:00 PM: Monday, 5 January 2015


Formal Poster Viewing with Coffee Break
Location: Hall 4 (Phoenix Convention Center - West and North Buildings)

Joint Poster Session 1
Joint Satellite Program Poster Session I
Hosts: (Joint between the 20th Conference on Satellite Meteorology and Oceanography; the 11th Annual Symposium on New Generation Operational Environmental Satellite Systems; and the Third Symposium on the Joint Center for Satellite Data Assimilation )
Cochairs: Derek J. Posselt, University of Michigan; Christopher S. Velden, CIMSS/Univ. of Wisconsin; George P. Kablick III, University of Maryland, College Par; Jim G. Yoe, NOAA/NESDIS; Gary McWilliams, JPSS Program Office/Army Research Laboratory
 
140
Satellite observations of Hurricane Bill (2009): links to African easterly waves and precipitation patterns
H. Barbosa, Laboratory for Analyzing and Processing Satellite Images, Maceio, Brazil; and V. Nietosvaara and L. M. Silva

 
141
GOES-R AIT: Development of Standard Test Data Sets for Routine Testing
Jonathan E. Wrotny, I.M. Systems Group, College Park, MD; and Z. Zhang, S. Sampson, W. Wolf, and W. Straka III

 
142
Building OSSE system at JCSDA
Michiko Masutani, EMC, College Park, MD; and J. S. Woollen, S. P. F. Casey, T. Zhu, Z. Ma, K. Kumar, S. A. Boukabara, K. Ide, L. Cucurull, and R. N. Hoffman
Manuscript (5.1 MB)

 
143
Recent process in the use of AMVs in the MSC deterministic prediction systems

 
144
Comparisons of ASCAT Wind Vectors and Buoy Wind Data in China's Coastal Waters
Xiaoping Xie, Jiangsu Province Meteorological Bureau, Nanjing, China; and J. Wei and L. Huang

 
145
Improving Satellite Quantitative Precipitation Estimates By Using Cloud Optical Depth
Ronald Stenz, University of North Dakota, Grand Forks, ND; and X. Dong, B. Xi, and R. J. Kuligowski

 
146
A Module for Assimilating Hyperspectral Infrared Retrieved Profiles into the Gridpoint Statistical Interpolation System for Unique Forecasting Applications
Emily Berndt, University of Alabama in Huntsville, Huntsville, AL; and B. T. Zavodsky, J. Srikishen, and C. B. Blankenship

Handout (1.1 MB)

 
147
Data assimilation improves model forecast for cold air aloft in Alaska region
Jiang Zhu, University of Alaska, Fairbanks, AK; and E. Stevens, E. Weisz, K. Nelson, and T. Heinrichs

 
148
Improving Quality Control of JPSS and GOES-R Radiances for NWP Applications

 
149
Mid-Pacific ground-truth data for validation of the CrIMSS sensor suite aboard Suomi-NPP
Andrew Keeler Mollner, The Aerospace Corporation, El Segundo, CA; and J. Wessel, S. D. LaLumondiere, P. Karuza, M. Williams, P. Belden, K. M. Gaab, W. Lotshaw, N. R. Nalli, A. Gambacorta, Q. Liu, C. D. Barnet, T. Reale, C. Tan, and F. Iturbide-Sanchez

 
150
The MTG-IRS Level 2 Processor: Data Assimilation
Stephen A. Tjemkes, EUMETSAT, Darmstadt, Germany; and P. Antonelli, S. de Haan, G. J. Marseille, and R. Stuhlmann

Handout (658.3 kB)

 
151
Exploring the influence of built and vegetative features on urban warming and cooling: Does spatial arrangement matter?
Soe W. Myint, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ; and B. Zheng, C. Fan, S. Kaplan, A. J. Brazel, A. Middel, and M. Smith

 
153
Validation and Analysis of Ocean Model Simulations using Satellite Ocean Color Fields
Eric Bayler, NOAA/NESDIS, College Park, MD; and S. Nadiga, D. Behringer, and A. Mehra
Manuscript (1.3 MB)

Handout (466.5 kB)

 
154
Analysis and Forecast Impacts from a 1DVAR Preprocessor-Driven Quality Control in the NCEP GDAS/GFS
Kevin Garrett, NOAA/NESDIS, College Park, MD; and S. A. Boukabara

 
155
Tropical Cyclone Diurnal Cycle as Observed by TRMM
Kenneth D. Leppert II, University of Alabama in Huntsville, Huntsville, AL; and D. J. Cecil

Handout (6.1 MB)

 
156
Inter-Comparison of CrIS Radiances with AIRS and IASI toward Infrared Hyperspectral Benchmark Measurements
Likun Wang, University of Maryland, College Park, MD; and Y. Han, Y. Chen, X. Jin, and D. Tremblay

 
157
Use of JPSS ATMS-MIRS Retrievals to Improve Tropical Cyclone Intensity Forecasting
Galina Chirokova, CIRA/Colorado State Univ., Fort Collins, CO; and M. DeMaria, R. T. DeMaria, J. F. Dostalek, and J. L. Beven

Handout (2.0 MB)

 
158
NESDIS' Atmospheric Motion Vector (AMV) Nested Tracking Algorithm: Exploring its Performance
Jaime Daniels, NOAA, College Park, MD; and W. Bresky, S. Wanzong, A. Bailey, C. S. Velden, and A. Allegrino

 
159
NOAA's Joint Polar Satellite System's Proving Ground and Risk Reduction (PGRR) Program – New Initiatives in Response to Changing User Needs!
Bill Sjoberg, NESDIS/JPSS, Lanham, MD; and M. Goldberg

 
160
Development of a CALIPSO IIR radiance simulator
Chia-Pang Kuo, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX; and P. Yang, S. L. Nasiri, and Y. Hu

Handout (4.5 MB)

 
161
Impact of Multivariate Background Error Covariance Matrix in satellite radiance Assimilation
Chandrasekar Radhakrishnan, IBM Research, New Delhi, New Delhi, India; and R. Mittal, V. Saxena, T. George, M. Dawar, Y. Sabharwal, J. P. Cipriani, and L. A. Treinish

 
162
Land surface albedo from a constellation of geostationary satellites compared and fused with polar-orbiting data
Jessica L. Matthews, Cooperative Institute for Climate and Satellites , Asheville, NC; and E. Mannshardt, B. Reich, A. Lattanzio, and M. Takahashi

 
163
An Examination of the Relative Forecast Error Reduction due to AMVs and Radiances in the Navy Global Environmental Model (NAVGEM)

 
164
CrIS/VIIRS Collated Products and Evaluation
Haibing Sun, IMSG/NESDIS-STAR, College Park, MD; and W. Wolf, T. King, and S. Sampson

Handout (736.4 kB)

 
165
Using Hyperspectral Sounders to Detect Cold Air Aloft over Alaska
Eric Stevens, University of Alaska, Fairbanks, AK; and E. Weisz, K. Nelson, and J. Zhu

 
166
Cloud Hydrometeors Tracking in Severe Weather using LEO Small Satellite Fleet

 
167
Assimilation and evaluation of MISR cloud tracked winds with GEOS-5 operational data assimilation system
Junjie Liu, JPL, Pasadena, CA; and K. Mueller

 
168
Prototype of an ensemble radar and satellite data assimilation system for Warn-on-Forecast
Thomas A. Jones, CIMMS/Univ. of Oklahoma, Norman, OK; and K. H. Knopfmeier, D. M. Wheatley, G. J. Creager, P. Minnis, and R. Palikonda

 
169
Quasi-real-time analysis of solar radiation with photovoltaic power using geostationary satellite
Hideaki Takenaka, Atmosphere and Ocean Research Institute (AORI), the University of Tokyo, Kashiwa, Japan; and T. Y. Nakajima, T. Inoue, A. Higuchi, T. Takamura, and T. Nakajima

 
170
Advancing Marine Forecasting Capability with Lightning Density and Overshooting Top Detection
Colleen Elizabeth Wilson, University of Maryland, College Park, MD

 
171
Characterization of AMSR2 and ATMS Observation Error Covariance in GSI under Cloudy Conditions
Lin Lin, STAR/IMSG, College Park, MD; and F. Weng and G. R. Chen

 
172
Forward Light Scattering and Radiative Transfer Modeling Capabilities in Support of Retrieving Ice Cloud and Dust Properties From Satellite Observations
Ping Yang, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX; and S. L. Nasiri, L. Bi, B. Yi, S. Hioki, C. P. Kuo, Y. Ding, J. Zhang, and G. Xu

 
173
Global Lightning Derived from Satellite-Based Lightning Climatology and CMIP5 Climate Model Output
Brian I. Magi, University of North Carolina at Charlotte, Charlotte, NC

Handout (1.2 MB)

 
174
Optimization of the usage of AMV data within the GSI
Eric Maddy, NOAA/NESDIS, College Park, MD; and K. Garrett and S. A. Boukabara

 
175
Adaptive Weighting of Innovations in Atmospheric Data Assimilation

 
176
Overview of O2R and R2D Activities at JCSDA and NESDIS. S4 and JIBB Upgrades Status
Krishna Kumar, NOAA/NESDIS/STAR/JCSDA, COLLEGE PARK, MD; and J. A. Jung, S. A. Boukabara, S. Nolin, and J. Stroik

 
177
Using CALIPSO and CloudSat Data to Verify Cloud Analyses at Air Force Weather Agency
Mark D. Conner, AER, Offutt AFB, NE; and R. P. d'Entremont

 
178
Suomi National Polar-Orbiting Partnership (S-NPP) Satellite Data and its use in Forecasting Harmful Algal Blooms (HABs)
Kaille A. Farrell, UMD, ASRC, College Park, MD

 
179
The Use of Multi-Parameter Vegetation Remote Sensing in Land Surface Data Assimilation
Michael Barlage, NCAR, Boulder, CO

 
180
A Prototype Hail Detection Algorithm and Hail Climatology Developed with the Advanced Microwave Sounding Unit (AMSU)

 
181
Preliminary Assessment the Assimilation of AMSR2 and GMI Data in the NCEP GDAS
Erin Jones, NOAA/NESDIS, College Park, MD; and K. Garrett, E. Maddy, K. Kumar, and S. A. Boukabara

 
182
CrIS/ATMS Sounding Data Products and Services at NOAA/NESDIS
Awdhesh Sharma, NOAA/NESDIS/OSPO/SPSD, College Park, MD

 
183
Temperature Profiles and Lapse Rate Climatology within Clouds Derived from GPS RO Data Collocated with CloudSat
Shengpeng Yang, Nanjing University of Information Science and Technology, Nanjing, China; and X. Zou

 
184
The Use of AMSU-A Cloudy Radiances in NCEP Globa Model and HWRF

 
185
Tropical Cyclone Structures Captured by Satellite Total Ozone Instruments
Hui Wang, Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL

 
186
Mapping Oil for the Destroyed Taylor Energy Site in the Gulf of Mexico
Christopher J. Warren, NOAA/NESDIS, College park, MD; and A. Macfadyen and C. Henry

 
187
GOES Sounder and Cloud Optical-depth Data Impact on variational LAPS Analysis and Forecast
Yuanfu Xie, NOAA, Boulder, CO; and J. Peng, D. Birkenheuer, and S. Albers

 
188
A-Train-Based Analysis of Frontal Cloud and Precipitation Structures: A Case Study
Juan A. Crespo, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI; and D. J. Posselt

Handout (1.8 MB)

 
189
Machine Learning Algorithms for Tropical Cyclone Center Fixing and Eye Detection
Robert T. DeMaria, CIRA/CSU, Fort Collins, CO; and G. Chirokova, J. A. Knaff, and J. F. Dostalek
Manuscript (526.1 kB)

 
190
Regional and Interannual Comparisons of Marine Stratocumulus Precipitation Detected Using an AMSR-E 89-GHz Passive Microwave Based Method
Matthew A. Miller, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC; and M. L. Frey and S. E. Yuter

 
191
A Bispectral Composite Threshold Approach for Automatic Cloud Detection in VIIRS Imagery
Frank J. LaFontaine, Raytheon, Huntsville, AL; and G. Jedlovec

 
192
Theoretical development of retrieving refractive index, emissivity, and surface temperature of polar sea ice from 6.9 GHz microwave measurements
B. J. Sohn, Seoul National University, Seoul, South Korea; and S. M. Lee

 
193
Applying Satellite Aerosol Retrievals for Improved Lightning Predictions
Tong Ren, Texas A & M University, College Station, TX; and S. L. Nasiri, J. Mecikalski, and L. Carey

 
194
Application of SNPP VIIRS Green Vegetation Fraction in the NCEP Global Forecast System
Weizhong Zheng, NOAA/NWS/NCEP, College Park, MD; and M. B. Ek, Z. Jiang, and M. Vargas

 
195
The Utility of Next Generation GOES Satellite Measurement Techniques for Assessing Lightning Initiation, Intensity and Charge Structure
Jason Apke, University of Alabama, Huntsville, AL; and J. Mecikalski, X. Li, L. Carey, and C. P. Jewett

 
196
VIIRS Unique Fires Compared to the HMS Fire Analysis
Mark G. Ruminski, NOAA/NESDIS, College park, MD; and K. Liddick and C. J. Warren

 
197
Development of Independent Assessment Tool at NOAA/NESDIS/STAR/JCSDA
Deyong Xu, NOAA/NESDIS/STAR/JCSDA, College Park, MD; and K. Kumar and S. A. Boukabara

 
198
Using Radiance Closure Experiments to Evaluate Vaisala RS92 Radiosonde Solar Radiation Dry Bias Correction Algorithms
Andrew M. Dzambo, University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK; and D. D. Turner

 
199
A Climatology of Precipitating Open-cell Convection over the Northeast Gulf of Alaska
Todd D. Sikora, Millersville University, Millersville, PA; and E. B. Wendoloski and R. E. Marter Jr.

Handout (673.0 kB)

 
200
Recalibration of Coupled Optical/Thermal MODIS Infrared Surface Melt Magnitude Retrieval During the Spatially-Extensive 2012 Greenland Ice Sheet Melt Event
Chris Karmosky, University of Tennessee at Martin, Martin, TN; and D. J. Lampkin, D. B. Reusch, and J. Reasons

 
201
The July 2012 Niobrara Valley Wildfires and their Aftermath: Satellite and Radiative Characteristics
Timothy J. Wagner, Creighton University, Omaha, NE; and B. H. Decicco, A. A. Ellis, R. M. Hepper, L. C. Mahoney, M. Salerno, C. B. Risanto, K. Wright, and J. F. Schalles

 
202
Reducing Striping and Non-uniformities in VIIRS Day/Night Band (DNB) Imagery
Stephen Mills, Stellar Solutions Inc., Palo Alto, CA; and S. D. Miller
Manuscript (4.5 MB)

Handout (4.5 MB)

 
203
CERES FLASHFlux: Near Term Global Satellite-based Radiative Fluxes for Science and Applications
Parchai K. Sawaengphokhai, SSAI, Hampton, VA; and P. Stackhouse Jr., D. P. Kratz, S. K. Gupta, and A. C. Wilber

 
204
Generating Clear-Sky Composites Over Canada From VIIRS
Alexander P. Trishchenko, Canada Centre for Remote Sensing, Ottawa, ON, Canada

 
205
Satellite Cloud Data Analytics in Support of the Lunar Laser Communications Demonstration

 
206
SUOMI NPP and JPSS1 Vegetation Index EDR
Marco Vargas, NOAA, College Park, MD

 
207
The NOAA Daily Optimum Interpolation SST: Status and planned improvements
Viva F. Banzon, NOAA/NESDIS/NCDC, Asheville, NC; and D. Saunders, A. Burden, C. Liu, and M. Urzen

Handout (2.3 MB)

 
208
Joint Polar Satellte System (JPSS) Program Algorithm Change Process (ACP) and the Suomi-National Polar Orbiting Partnership (S-NPP) Satellite's External Users
Ashley Nechole Griffin, NOAA/NESDIS/JPSS/ASRC, Lanham, MD

 
209
Ice cloud particle roughness inferred from satellite polarimetric observations
Souichiro Hioki, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX; and P. Yang and B. Baum
Manuscript (1.1 MB)

Handout (226.8 kB)

 
210
Real-time daily rolling weekly Green Vegetation Fraction (GVF) derived from the Visible Infrared Imaging Radiometer Suite (VIIRS) sensor onboard the SNPP satellite
Marco Vargas, NOAA, College Park, MD; and Z. Jiang, J. ju, and I. A. Csiszar

 
Poster 211 has moved. New paper number is 1A.2A

 
211A
Suomi National Polar-Orbiting Partnership (S-NPP) Satellite Data & Its Use in Nighttime Tropical Cyclone Forecasting

 
212
Assessment of Hyper-spectral Infrared Sensors CrIS and IASI Spectral Accuracy Using Community Radiative Transfer Model
Yong Chen, Texas Tech University, Lubbock, TX; and Y. Han, F. Weng, L. Wang, D. Tremblay, and X. Jin

 
213
Comparison of Different Calibration Approaches in S-NPP CrIS Full Spectral Resolution Processing
Yong Chen, Texas Tech University, Lubbock, TX; and Y. Han, L. Wang, D. Tremblay, X. Jin, and F. Weng

 
214
Impacts of assimilating land observational data products on NCEP numerical weather prediction models
Xiwu Zhan, NOAA/NESDIS, College Park, MD; and J. Liu, L. Fang, J. Yin, C. Hain, W. Zheng, and M. B. Ek

 
215
GRAFIIR and JAFIIR – Efficient End-to-End Semi Automated GEO and LEO Sensor Performance Analysis and Verification Systems
Mathew Gunshor, CIMSS/Univ. of Wisconsin, Madison, WI; and H. Zhang, E. Schiffer, and A. Huang

 
216
Advanced Technology Microwave Sounder (ATMS) Geolocation Analysis
M. P. Esplin, Space Dynamics Laboratory, North Logan, UT; and B. Esplin, K. Robinson, and D. Scott

 
217
Ocean Surface Carbon Dioxide Fugacity Observed from Space
W. Timothy Liu, JPL, Pasadena, CA; and X. Xie

 
218
Development of a Himawari-8 Product Processing System

 
219
Comparison of LEO Satellite Moisture Retrieval Derived Total Precipitable Water to GPS Network over Alaska
Richard Dworak, CIMSS/Univ. of Wisconsin, Madison, WI; and R. Petersen

 
220
Transition of Vegetation Health Product to S-NPP/ and JPSS/VIIRS
Wei Guo, IMSG Inc., Fairfax, VA; and F. Kogan

 
221
Validation of GOES-R LAP algorithm with MODIS measurements
Yong-Keun Lee, CIMSS/Univ. of Wisconsin, Madison, WI; and Z. Li, E. Borbas, J. Li, and T. J. Schmit

 
222
Estimating Solar Radiation under Cloudy Conditions for Implementation in NREL's National Solar Radiation Data Base (NSRDB)
Yu Xie, National Renewable Energy Laboratory, Golden, CO; and M. Sengupta

 
223
An Overview of the 2014 Spring River Ice Breakup across Alaska and Utilization of the Suomi NPP VIIRS River Ice and Flooding Areal Extent Products
Melissa Kreller, NOAA/NWSFO, Fairbanks, AK; and E. Holloway and E. Stevens

 
224
Assimilation of GPM GMI rainfall product with WRF GSI
Xuanli Li, Univ. of Alabama, Huntsville, AL; and J. Mecikalski and B. T. Zavodsky

 
225
Development and Impact Study of Community Satellite Data Thinning and Representation Optimization Tool
Tong Zhu, CIRA/NOAA/NESDIS/STAR/Joint Center for Satellite Data Assimilation, College Park, MD; and S. A. Boukabara

Handout (3.2 MB)

 
226
Improvement of ice cloud modeling capabilities in the Community Radiative Transfer Model
Bingqi Yi, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX; and P. Yang, Q. Liu, P. van Delst, S. A. Boukabara, and F. Weng

 
227
Global Emissivity Distribution from 2003 to 2007 and Contributors to its change in the Iranian Plateau, the La Plata and the Indus River Basin
Mackenzie Chance Scott, Miami, FL; and S. S. Roy

 
228
Band-to-band registration of remotely sensed imagery using mutual information and its application to Suomi NPP VIIRS data
Lushalan Liao, Northrop Grumman Corporation, Redondo Beach, CA

4:00 PM-5:30 PM: Monday, 5 January 2015

Recording files available
Joint Session 3
Satellite Testbeds and Proving Ground Activities
Location: 230 (Phoenix Convention Center - West and North Buildings)
Hosts: (Joint between the 11th Annual Symposium on New Generation Operational Environmental Satellite Systems; and the 20th Conference on Satellite Meteorology and Oceanography )
Cochairs: Christopher Velden, CIMSS/Univ. of Wisconsin; Wayne F. Feltz, University of Wisconsin
  4:00 PM
J3.1
NOAA's Joint Polar Satellite System's Proving Ground and Risk Reduction Program – Bringing New Capabilities to Operations!
Bill Sjoberg, NESDIS/JPSS, Lanham, MD; and M. Goldberg
Recorded Presentation

  4:15 PM
J3.2
Evaluating the Usefulness and Usability of Different GOES-R Scanning Strategies at the Operations Proving Ground
Chad M. Gravelle, NWS Operations Proving Ground/CIMSS, Kansas City, MO; and K. J. Runk
Recorded Presentation

  4:30 PM
J3.3
Results from GOES-R Proving Ground Activities within the Storm Prediction Center
William Line, CIMMS/Univ. of Oklahoma and NOAA/NWS/SPC, Norman, OK
Recorded Presentation

  4:45 PM
J3.4
The ‘Unusual' Evolution of Hurricane Arthur 2014: GOES-R and JPSS Satellite Proving Ground Perspective
Michael J. Folmer, Univ. of Maryland, College Park, MD; and J. P. Cangialosi, J. Halverson, E. Berndt, J. M. Sienkiewicz, S. J. Goodman, and M. Goldberg
Recorded Presentation

  5:00 PM
J3.5
CIRA Proving Ground Activities in Preparation for the GOES-R Era
Ed Szoke, NOAA/ESRL/GSD and CIRA, Boulder, CO; and R. Brummer, D. Bikos, S. Miller, B. Connell, D. A. Molenar, and M. DeMaria
Recorded Presentation

Recording files available
Joint Session 4
Societal Benefits of Satellite Data Applications
Location: 231ABC (Phoenix Convention Center - West and North Buildings)
Hosts: (Joint between the 11th Annual Symposium on New Generation Operational Environmental Satellite Systems; and the 20th Conference on Satellite Meteorology and Oceanography )
Cochairs: Mitchell Goldberg, NOAA/NESDIS/JPSS; Sid A. Boukabara, NOAA/NESDIS
  4:00 PM
J4.1
Invited Presentation: KMA Vice Administrator Jung
Recorded Presentation

  4:30 PM
J4.2
Coordination Group for Meteorological Satellites Socioeconomic Benefits Tiger Team
Charles Wooldridge, NOAA/NESDIS, Silver Spring, MD
Recorded Presentation

  4:45 PM
J4.3
Societal Benefits and Economic Value of the GOES-R Series Satellites
Steven J. Goodman, NOAA/NESDIS/GOES-R Program Office, Greenbelt, MD
Recorded Presentation

  5:00 PM
J4.4
Joint Polar Satellite System Socio-Economic Benefits
Ajay Mehta, NOAA/NESDIS, Lanham, MD; and M. Goldberg and J. Furgerson

5:30 PM-7:30 PM: Monday, 5 January 2015


Reception and Exhibits Opening
Location: Hall 5 (Phoenix Convention Center - West and North Buildings)

Tuesday, 6 January 2015

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8:30 AM-9:45 AM: Tuesday, 6 January 2015

Recording files available
Joint Session 5
Program overviews and status for new operational environmental satellite systems
Location: 231ABC (Phoenix Convention Center - West and North Buildings)
Hosts: (Joint between the 11th Annual Symposium on New Generation Operational Environmental Satellite Systems; the 20th Conference on Satellite Meteorology and Oceanography; and the Third Symposium on the Joint Center for Satellite Data Assimilation )
Cochairs: Mitchell Goldberg, NOAA/NESDIS/JPSS; Steven J. Goodman, NOAA/NESDIS/GOES-R Program Office
  8:30 AM
J5.1
GOES-R Program Overview
Greg Mandt, NOAA/NESDIS, Greenbelt, MD; and M. Stringer
Recorded Presentation

  8:45 AM
J5.2
Joint Polar Satellite System: The United States Next Generation Civilian Polar Orbiting Operational Environmental Satellite System
Harry Cikanek, JPSS, Lanham, MD; and M. Goldberg and A. Mehta
Recorded Presentation

  9:00 AM
J5.3
Program Status of DoD Weather Satellites
Brian Kabat, US Air Force, Washington, DC
Recorded Presentation

  9:15 AM
J5.4
Status of EUMETSAT Satellite Programs: Recent Developments of Future Programs and Improved Utilisation of Current Programs
Johannes Schmetz, EUMETSAT, Darmstadt, Germany; and K. Holmlund, P. Schlüssel, R. Stuhlmann, L. Schüller, J. Schulz, M. Cohen, and S. Rota
Recorded Presentation

  9:30 AM
J5.5
Status and Plans of Next Generation Japanese Geostationary Meteorological Satellites Himawari-8/9
Masahiro Hayashi, Meteorological Satellite Center of Japan Meteorological Agency, Kiyose, Japan; and K. Bessho and T. Ohno
Recorded Presentation

Handout (5.9 MB)

9:00 AM-11:00 AM: Tuesday, 6 January 2015


Spouses' Coffee

9:45 AM-11:00 AM: Tuesday, 6 January 2015


Formal Poster Viewing with Coffee Break
Location: Hall 4 (Phoenix Convention Center - West and North Buildings)

11:00 AM-12:00 PM: Tuesday, 6 January 2015

Recording files available
Lecture 1
Bernhard Haurwitz Memorial Lecture
Location: 122BC (Phoenix Convention Center - West and North Buildings)
Hosts: (Joint between the 15th Presidential Forum; the Major Weather Events and Societal Impacts of 2014; the Eugenia Kalnay Symposium; the Harry R. Glahn Symposium; the 31st Conference on Environmental Information Processing Technologies; the 29th Conference on Hydrology; the 24th Symposium on Education; the 20th Conference on Satellite Meteorology and Oceanography; the 20th Conference on Planned and Inadvertent Weather Modification; the 19th Conference on Integrated Observing and Assimilation Systems for the Atmosphere, Oceans, and Land Surface (IOAS-AOLS); the 19th Conference on Air-Sea Interaction; the 27th Conference on Climate Variability and Change; the 18th Conference on Middle Atmosphere; the 17th Conference on Atmospheric Chemistry; the 17th Conference on Aviation, Range, and Aerospace Meteorology; the 13th Conference on Artificial Intelligence; the 13th Symposium on the Coastal Environment; the 13th History Symposium; the 12th Conference on Space Weather; the 11th Annual Symposium on New Generation Operational Environmental Satellite Systems; the 10th Symposium on Societal Applications: Policy, Research and Practice; the Seventh Symposium on Lidar Atmospheric Applications; the Seventh Conference on the Meteorological Applications of Lightning Data; the Seventh Symposium on Aerosol-Cloud-Climate Interactions; the Sixth Conference on Weather, Climate, and the New Energy Economy; the Sixth Conference on Environment and Health; the Fifth Conference on Transition of Research to Operations; the Third Symposium on the Weather and Climate Enterprise; the Third Symposium on Building a Weather-Ready Nation: Enhancing Our Nation’s Readiness, Responsiveness, and Resilience to High Impact Weather Events; the Third Symposium on the Joint Center for Satellite Data Assimilation; the Third Symposium on Prediction of the Madden-Julian Oscillation: Processes, Prediction and Impact; the First Symposium on High Performance Computing for Weather, Water, and Climate; and the Special Symposium on Model Postprocessing and Downscaling )
  11:00 AM
L1.1
Model Diagnoses of El Nino Teleconnections to the Global Atmosphere-Ocean System
Ngar-Cheung Lau, Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China
Recorded Presentation

Recording files available
Joint Session 6
How satellite data are being used to advance our understanding of fundamental weather and climate processes in the atmosphere, oceans, land surface, and cryosphere, and will continue to improve our ability to observe, analyze, predict, and communicate weather and climate data at a new level of fidelity and timeliness
Location: 231ABC (Phoenix Convention Center - West and North Buildings)
Hosts: (Joint between the 20th Conference on Satellite Meteorology and Oceanography; the 11th Annual Symposium on New Generation Operational Environmental Satellite Systems; and the Third Symposium on the Joint Center for Satellite Data Assimilation )
Cochairs: Derek J. Posselt, University of Michigan; Steve Ackerman, CIMSS/Univ. of Wisconsin
  11:00 AM
J6.1
A New View of Snowfall: A Multi-Year Global Snowfall Census from Spaceborne Radar
Mark S. Kulie, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI; and N. B. Wood, T. S. L'Ecuyer, and R. Bennartz
Recorded Presentation

  11:15 AM
J6.2
GOES Observations of Deep Convection in SRSOR with Mesoscale Atmospheric Motion Vectors: Can We Discriminate Between Ordinary and Supercellular Storms By Satellite?
Jason Apke, University of Alabama, Huntsville, AL; and J. Mecikalski, C. P. Jewett, and L. Carey
Recorded Presentation

  11:30 AM
J6.3
Determining the Environmental Parameters that Govern the Power Law Distribution of Convective System Lifetimes in the Tropical Western Pacific (TWP)
Gregory Elsaesser, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO; and Y. Li, C. D. Kummerow, and R. E. Carbone
Recorded Presentation

  11:45 AM
J6.4
Using Satellite Observations to Understand Cloud-Climate Interactions: The Subtropical Cloud Transition
Joao Teixeira, JPL, Pasadena, CA; and M. Lebsock, P. Kalmus, G. Matheou, and K. Suselj

Recording files available
Joint Session 7
Satellite Observations for Climate
Location: 230 (Phoenix Convention Center - West and North Buildings)
Hosts: (Joint between the 20th Conference on Satellite Meteorology and Oceanography; the 11th Annual Symposium on New Generation Operational Environmental Satellite Systems; and the Third Symposium on the Joint Center for Satellite Data Assimilation )
Cochairs: Hank Revercomb, University of Wisconsin; Gary Jedlovec, NASA/MSFC NSSTC

Joint Session between 20th SatMet Conference, 11GOES-R/JPSS Symposium, and 3rd JCSDA Symposium
  11:00 AM
J7.1
Historical GOES AMV Re-processing
Steve Wanzong, CIMSS/Univ. of Wisconsin, Madison, WI; and D. A. Santek, C. S. Velden, J. Daniels, D. Stettner, W. Bresky, and A. Bailey
Recorded Presentation

  11:15 AM
J7.2
Decadal-scale variability of AIRS cloud top properties
Brian H. Kahn, JPL, Pasadena, CA; and T. L'Ecuyer, S. L. Nasiri, and C. M. Naud
Recorded Presentation

  11:30 AM
J7.3
Evaluating Numerical Weather Prediction Model Precipitation Products Via Satellite Remotely Sensed Observations
Song Yang, Naval Research Lab, Monterey, CA; and K. Richardson and S. W. Nesbitt
Recorded Presentation

  11:45 AM
J7.4
An Inter-calibrated Passive Microwave Brightness Temperature Data Record and Ocean Products
Kyle A. Hilburn, Remote Sensing Systems, Santa Rosa, CA; and F. J. Wentz
Recorded Presentation

12:00 PM-1:30 PM: Tuesday, 6 January 2015


Lunch Break

12:45 PM-1:05 PM: Tuesday, 6 January 2015


Daily Weather Briefings
Location: 132AB (Phoenix Convention Center - West and North Buildings)

1:30 PM-3:00 PM: Tuesday, 6 January 2015

Recording files available
Joint Session 8
Selections of Student Research within the Joint Satellite Program
Location: 231ABC (Phoenix Convention Center - West and North Buildings)
Hosts: (Joint between the 20th Conference on Satellite Meteorology and Oceanography; the 11th Annual Symposium on New Generation Operational Environmental Satellite Systems; and the Third Symposium on the Joint Center for Satellite Data Assimilation )
Cochairs: George P. Kablick III, University of Maryland, College Par; Shaima L. Nasiri, Texas A & M University

Pulling student submissions from each of the three conferences within the Joint Satellite Program, this session will highlight the innovations being made by young scientists.
  1:30 PM
J8.1
Identifying 3D Radiative Cloud Effects via Derived Distributions of Liquid Water Path that Conserve MODIS Visible Reflectance Measurements
Amanda R. Gumber, CIMSS/Univ. of Wisconsin, Madison, WI; and M. J. Foster
Recorded Presentation

  1:45 PM
J8.2
Determining an Ideal Vertical Localization for Cloud Water Path Assimilation within WRF-DART
Jessica M. Tomaszewski, University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK; and T. A. Jones
Recorded Presentation

  2:00 PM
J8.3
Limb Correction of Individual Infrared Channels Used in RGB Composite Products
Nicholas J. Elmer, University of Alabama, Huntsville, AL; and E. Berndt, G. J. Jedlovec, and F. J. LaFontaine
Recorded Presentation Manuscript (1.1 MB)

  2:15 PM
J8.4
Temperature and moisture retrieval from AIRS measurements under cloudy condition over East Asia
Ahreum Lee, Seoul National University, Seoul, South Korea; and B. J. Sohn, H. Han, H. S. Jang, and E. Weisz
Recorded Presentation

  2:30 PM
J8.5
Development of a Near-Real Time Hail Damage Swath Identification Algorithm for Vegetation
Jordan R. Bell, University of Alabama, Huntsville, AL; and A. L. Molthan, L. A. Schultz, K. M. McGrath, and J. E. Burks
Recorded Presentation Manuscript (1.4 MB)

Handout (1.6 MB)

  2:45 PM
J8.6A
Investigating the effect of ENSO upon oceanic rainfall estimates
David Henderson, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO; and C. D. Kummerow
Recorded Presentation Manuscript (3.5 MB)

3:00 PM-3:30 PM: Tuesday, 6 January 2015


Coffee Break
Location: Hall 5 (Phoenix Convention Center - West and North Buildings)

Meet the President
Location: 126A (Phoenix Convention Center - West and North Buildings)

3:30 PM-5:30 PM: Tuesday, 6 January 2015

Recording files available
Joint Session 9
Research/studies that assess the impact of satellite data on forecast skill
Location: 230 (Phoenix Convention Center - West and North Buildings)
Hosts: (Joint between the 20th Conference on Satellite Meteorology and Oceanography; the 11th Annual Symposium on New Generation Operational Environmental Satellite Systems; and the Third Symposium on the Joint Center for Satellite Data Assimilation )
Cochairs: Jordan Gerth, CIMSS/Univ. of Wisconsin; Nancy Baker, NRL
  3:30 PM
J9.1
Accounting for Correlated Satellite Observation Error in NAVGEM
William F. Campbell, NRL, Monterey, CA; and E. A. Satterfield
Recorded Presentation

  3:45 PM
J9.2
Impact of Loss of Microwave and Radio Occultation Observations in Operational Numerical Weather Prediction in Support of the US Data Gap Mitigation Activities
Lidia Cucurull, NOAA/OAR/ESRL, Boulder, CO; and R. A. Anthes
Recorded Presentation

  4:00 PM
J9.3
Progress toward the assimilation of surface sensitive infrared channels over land at Environment Canada
Louis Garand, EC, Dorval, QC, Canada; and S. K. Dutta
Recorded Presentation

  4:15 PM
J9.4
Evaluation of the impact of satellite radiance data within the hybrid variational/EnKF Rapid Refresh data assimilation systems
Haidao Lin, CIRA/Colorado State Univ. and NOAA/ESRL/GSD, Boulder, CO; and S. S. Weygandt, M. Hu, C. R. Alexander, and S. Benjamin
Recorded Presentation

  4:30 PM
J9.5
Recent Advances towards the Assimilation of Cloud-Affected Infrared Radiances in the GSI
Will McCarty, NASA/GSFC, Greenbelt, MD
Recorded Presentation

  4:45 PM
J9.6
Assimilation of All-sky Microwave Radiances in the NCEP's Global Forecast System
Yanqiu Zhu, IMSG@NOAA/NCEP/EMC, College Park, MD; and E. Liu, A. Collard, D. T. Kleist, and J. Derber
Recorded Presentation

 
J9.7
Assessing the value of polar satellite data in NWP during high-impact weather events

 
J9.8
An Analysis of the Increasing Benefit to NWP from Earth Observations from Space with Higher Spatial Temporal and Spectral Resolution

Recording files available
Joint Session 10
User readiness for new operational environmental satellite systems
Location: 231ABC (Phoenix Convention Center - West and North Buildings)
Hosts: (Joint between the 11th Annual Symposium on New Generation Operational Environmental Satellite Systems; and the 20th Conference on Satellite Meteorology and Oceanography )
Cochairs: Bill Sjoberg, NESDIS/JPSS; Satya Kalluri, NOAA/NESDIS
  3:30 PM
J10.1
Joint Polar Satellite System's Operational and Research Applications from Suomi NPP
Mitchell Goldberg, NOAA/NESDIS/JPSS, Lanham, MD; and K. Shontz, B. Sjoberg, I. Guch, and R. R. Ferraro
Recorded Presentation

  3:45 PM
J10.2
Active fire data from Suomi NPP VIIRS to serve end user applications
Ivan A. Csiszar, NOAA/NESDIS, College Park, MD; and E. Ellicott, L. Giglio, W. Schroeder, C. O. Justice, M. G. Ruminski, and S. Kondragunta
Recorded Presentation

  4:00 PM
J10.3
Mapping Flood Induced by Hurricane Storm Surge Using the NPP/JPSS ATMS Data
Donglian (Lillian) Sun, George Mason University, Fairfax, VA; and W. Zheng, S. Li, A. Stefanidis, and M. Goldberg
Recorded Presentation

  4:15 PM
J10.4
Preparing Users for the Advanced Baseline Imager (ABI) on GOES-R
Timothy J. Schmit, NOAA/NESDIS/STAR, Madison, WI; and M. Gunshor, K. Bah, J. Gerth, B. Pierce, and S. J. Goodman
Recorded Presentation

  4:30 PM
J10.5
Preparing Users for the Geostationary Lightning Mapper (GLM) on GOES-R
Steven J. Goodman, NOAA/NESDIS/GOES-R Program Office, Greenbelt, MD; and S. D. Rudlosky, G. T. Stano, K. M. Calhoun, L. Carey, P. Dills, P. Roohr, B. C. Motta, and J. LaDue
Recorded Presentation

Handout (4.9 MB)

  4:45 PM
J10.6
GOES-R Data Operations & User Services
Matthew Seybold, NOAA/NESDIS, Greenbelt, MD

  5:00 PM
J10.7
Infusing Information from SNPP and GOES-R Observations for Improved Monitoring of Weather, Water and Climate
Pingping Xie, NOAA/NWS/NCEP/CPC, College Park, MD; and R. J. Joyce, S. Wu, and F. Sun

  5:15 PM
J10.8
Training Framework for Satellite User Readiness in NOAA
LeRoy Spayd Jr., NOAA/NWS, Silver Spring, MD; and A. Mostek
Recorded Presentation

Wednesday, 7 January 2015

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8:30 AM-10:00 AM: Wednesday, 7 January 2015

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Joint Session 11
Preparing for GOES-R series including instrument overviews, data access/flow, and user/education training
Location: 230 (Phoenix Convention Center - West and North Buildings)
Hosts: (Joint between the 20th Conference on Satellite Meteorology and Oceanography; and the 11th Annual Symposium on New Generation Operational Environmental Satellite Systems )
Cochairs: Steven J. Goodman, NOAA/NESDIS/GOES-R Program Office; Timothy J. Schmit, NOAA/NESDIS/STAR
  8:30 AM
J11.1
Progress in Development and Integration of the Product Generation Capabilities of the GOES-R Ground System
Satya Kalluri, NOAA/NESDIS, College Park, MD; and B. J. Haman and D. Vititoe
Recorded Presentation

  8:45 AM
J11.2
NWS Pacific Region: Preparing for GOES-R with Himawari-8
Bill Ward, NOAA/NWS, Honolulu, HI; and J. Gerth
Recorded Presentation

  9:00 AM
J11.3
MetEd Resources at the Ready as Users Prepare for GOES-R+
Wendy Schreiber-Abshire, UCAR/COMET, Boulder, CO; and P. Dills and M. Weingroff
Recorded Presentation

  9:15 AM
J11.4
Transition, Training, and Assessment of Multispectral Composite Imagery in Support of the NWS Aviation Forecast Mission
Kevin K. Fuell, Univ. of Alabama, Huntsville, AL; and G. J. Jedlovec, A. LeRoy, and L. A. Schultz
Recorded Presentation

  9:30 AM
J11.5
Impacts of Improved Quality Control for GOES Imager Radiance Assimilation on Tropical Cyclone Forecasts Using HWRF
Zhengkun Qin, Nanjing University of Information Science and Technology, Nanjing, China; and X. Zou

  9:45 AM
J11.6
Diagnosing Cumulus Cloud Updraft Characteristics and Inferring In-Cloud Parameters using 1-min GOES Observations
John Mecikalski, University of Alabama, Huntsville, AL; and C. P. Jewett and J. Apke
Recorded Presentation

Recording files available
Joint Session 12
The Global Precipitation Measurement Mission--Part 1
Location: 231ABC (Phoenix Convention Center - West and North Buildings)
Hosts: (Joint between the 20th Conference on Satellite Meteorology and Oceanography; and the 29th Conference on Hydrology )
Cochairs: Kenneth Carey, Earth Resources Technology (ERT), Inc.; Ralph R. Ferraro, NOAA/NESDIS/STAR

Joint Session with the 29th Conference on Hydrology
  8:30 AM
J12.1
Current Status and Future Outlook for NOAA/NESDIS Operational Precipitation Products
Ralph R. Ferraro, NOAA/NESDIS/STAR, College Park, MD; and L. Zhao, S. Q. Kidder, C. R. Kondragunta, R. J. Kuligowski, H. Meng, P. C. Meyers, B. R. Nelson, N. Y. Wang, and X. Zhan
Recorded Presentation

  8:45 AM
J12.2
Rainfall Estimates from GPM's Constellation of Radiometers
Christian D. Kummerow, Colorado State Univ., Fort Collins, CO; and D. Randel and W. Berg
Recorded Presentation

  9:00 AM
J12.3
Dual-Scale Neighboring Ensemble Variational Assimilation Scheme to incorporate Satellite Microwave Imager brightness temperatures
Kazumasa Aonashi, MRI; and K. Okamoto and S. Origuchi
Recorded Presentation

  9:15 AM
J12.4
Day 1 for the Integrated Multi-satellitE Retrievals for GPM (IMERG) Data Sets
George J. Huffman, NASA/GSFC, Greenbelt, MD; and D. T. Bolvin, D. Braithwaite, K. Hsu, R. J. Joyce, C. Kidd, S. Sorooshian, and P. Xie
Recorded Presentation

 
Paper J12.5 has moved. New paper number is J13.1A

  9:30 AM
J12.5A
A Prototype Precipitation Retrieval Algorithm Over Land Using Passive Microwave Observations Stratified by Surface Condition and Precipitation Vertical Structure
Yalei You, MRI, College Park, MD; and N. Y. Wang and R. R. Ferraro
Recorded Presentation

  9:45 AM
J12.6
Real-Time Forecasting of Precipitation and Hydrology for GPM Field Campaigns
Christa D. Peters-Lidard, NASA/GSFC, Greenbelt, MD; and D. Wu, Y. Liu, E. M. Kemp, and W. K. Tao
Recorded Presentation

9:00 AM-11:00 AM: Wednesday, 7 January 2015


Spouses' Coffee

10:00 AM-10:30 AM: Wednesday, 7 January 2015


Coffee Break
Location: Hall 5 (Phoenix Convention Center - West and North Buildings)

Meet the President
Location: 126A (Phoenix Convention Center - West and North Buildings)

10:30 AM-12:00 PM: Wednesday, 7 January 2015

Recording files available
Joint Session 13
The Global Precipitation Measurement Mission--Part 2
Location: 231ABC (Phoenix Convention Center - West and North Buildings)
Hosts: (Joint between the 20th Conference on Satellite Meteorology and Oceanography; and the 29th Conference on Hydrology )
Cochairs: Kenneth Carey, Earth Resources Technology (ERT), Inc.; Song Yang, Naval Research Laboratory

Joint Session with the 29th Conference on Hydrology
 
Paper J13.1 has moved. New paper number is J12.5A

  10:30 AM
J13.1A
Extremely Low Passive Microwave Brightness Temperatures Due To Thunderstorms
Daniel J. Cecil, NASA/MSFC, Huntsville, AL
Recorded Presentation

  10:45 AM
J13.2
Assimilation of precipitation radars on TRMM and GPM Core satellites
Kozo Okamoto, MRI, Tsukuba, Japan; and K. Aonashi, S. Origuchi, and T. Tashima

  11:00 AM
J13.3
Global Precipitation Measurement (GPM) Mission Products and Services at the NASA Goddard Earth Sciences (GES) Data and Information Services Center (DISC)
Zhong Liu, CSISS/George Mason University, Fairfax, VA; and D. Ostrenga, B. Vollmer, B. Deshong, M. Greene, W. Teng, G. Vicente, and S. J. Kempler
Recorded Presentation

  11:15 AM
J13.4
Hurricane GPROF: An improved hurricane rain rate retrieval for TRMM and GMI
Paula J. Brown, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO; and C. D. Kummerow

Recording files available
Joint Session 14
Algorithm Development I
Location: 230 (Phoenix Convention Center - West and North Buildings)
Hosts: (Joint between the 11th Annual Symposium on New Generation Operational Environmental Satellite Systems; and the 20th Conference on Satellite Meteorology and Oceanography )
Cochairs: Ivan A. Csiszar, NOAA/NESDIS; Fuzhong Weng, NOAA/NESDIS/STAR
  10:30 AM
J14.1
Advances in ATMS Sensor Data Record (SDR) Algorithm Sciences
Fuzhong Weng, NOAA/NESDIS/STAR, College Park, MD

  10:45 AM
J14.2
Validation of the S-NPP NOAA-Unique CrIS/ATMS Processing System (NUCAPS) Operational EDR Products
Nicholas R. Nalli, NOAA/NESDIS, College Park, MD; and A. Gambacorta, Q. Liu, C. D. Barnet, T. Reale, C. Tan, F. Iturbide-Sanchez, B. Sun, L. Borg, E. Joseph, V. Morris, A. K. Mollner, T. King, W. Wolf, J. W. Smith, F. Tilley, and D. E. Wolfe
Recorded Presentation

  11:00 AM
J14.3
Suomi-NPP Cross-Track Infrared Sounder (CrIS): Radiometric Calibration and Validation
David C. Tobin, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI; and H. Revercomb, R. Knuteson, J. Taylor, L. Borg, D. H. DeSlover, G. Martin, A. Merrelli, and T. Greenwald

  11:15 AM
J14.4
Survey of cloud optical parameters during night from lunar reflectance measurements
Andi Walther, CIMSS/Univ. of Wisconsin, Madison, WI; and S. D. Miller and A. Heidinger
Recorded Presentation

  11:30 AM
J14.5
Maintaining SNPP VIIRS Reflective Solar Band Sensor Data Record Quality: On-Orbit Update of Screen Transmission and Solar Diffuser BRDF Parameters
Evan Haas, The Aerospace Corporation, El Segundo, CA; and F. J. DeLuccia and D. Moyer
Recorded Presentation Manuscript (1.2 MB)

  11:45 AM
J14.6
Development of an Algorithm Suite for MODIS and VIIRS Cloud Climate Data Record Continuity
Robert E. Holz, CIMSS/Univ. of Wisconsin, Madison, WI; and S. Platnick, A. Heidinger, G. Wind, R. Frey, and K. Meyer
Recorded Presentation

12:00 PM-1:30 PM: Wednesday, 7 January 2015


Lunch Break

Women in the Atmospheric Sciences Luncheon
Location: 213AB (Phoenix Convention Center - West and North Buildings)

12:45 PM-1:05 PM: Wednesday, 7 January 2015


Daily Weather Briefings
Location: 132AB (Phoenix Convention Center - West and North Buildings)

1:30 PM-2:30 PM: Wednesday, 7 January 2015


Lecture 2
Horton Lecture
Location: 127ABC (Phoenix Convention Center - West and North Buildings)
Hosts: (Joint between the Eugenia Kalnay Symposium; the 31st Conference on Environmental Information Processing Technologies; the 27th Conference on Climate Variability and Change; the 24th Symposium on Education; the 20th Conference on Satellite Meteorology and Oceanography; the 20th Conference on Planned and Inadvertent Weather Modification; the 19th Conference on Integrated Observing and Assimilation Systems for the Atmosphere, Oceans, and Land Surface (IOAS-AOLS); the 19th Conference on Air-Sea Interaction; the 29th Conference on Hydrology; the 18th Conference on Middle Atmosphere; the 17th Conference on Atmospheric Chemistry; the 17th Conference on Aviation, Range, and Aerospace Meteorology; the 13th Conference on Artificial Intelligence; the 13th Symposium on the Coastal Environment; the 13th History Symposium; the 12th Conference on Space Weather; the 11th Annual Symposium on New Generation Operational Environmental Satellite Systems; the 10th Symposium on Societal Applications: Policy, Research and Practice; the Eighth Annual CCM Forum: Certified Consulting Meteorologists; the Seventh Symposium on Lidar Atmospheric Applications; the Seventh Conference on the Meteorological Applications of Lightning Data; the Seventh Symposium on Aerosol-Cloud-Climate Interactions; the Sixth Conference on Weather, Climate, and the New Energy Economy; the Sixth Conference on Environment and Health; the Fifth Conference on Transition of Research to Operations; the Third Symposium on the Weather and Climate Enterprise; the Third Symposium on Building a Weather-Ready Nation: Enhancing Our Nation’s Readiness, Responsiveness, and Resilience to High Impact Weather Events; the Third Symposium on the Joint Center for Satellite Data Assimilation; the Third Symposium on Prediction of the Madden-Julian Oscillation: Processes, Prediction and Impact; the First Symposium on High Performance Computing for Weather, Water, and Climate; and the Special Symposium on Model Postprocessing and Downscaling )
Chair: Michael B. Ek, NOAA/NWS/NCEP/EMC
  1:30 PM
L2.1
Quantifying Potential Evapotranspiration in a Changing Climate (Core Science Lecture)
P. C. D. Milly, USGS, Princeton, NJ

Recording files available
Joint Session 15
Direct broadcast capabilities for polar-orbiting and geostationary satellites
Location: 231ABC (Phoenix Convention Center - West and North Buildings)
Hosts: (Joint between the 11th Annual Symposium on New Generation Operational Environmental Satellite Systems; and the 20th Conference on Satellite Meteorology and Oceanography )
Cochairs: Gary McWilliams, JPSS Program Office/Army Research Laboratory; Liam E. Gumley, CIMSS/SSEC/Univ. of Wisconsin
  1:30 PM
J15.1
CSPP: Direct Broadcast Software for Operational Environmental Forecasters
Kathleen I. Strabala, CIMSS/Univ. of Wisconsin, Madison, WI; and L. E. Gumley, H. L. Huang, D. Hoese, J. Gerth, E. Weisz, W. L. Smith Jr., and N. Smith
Recorded Presentation

  1:45 PM
J15.2
Community Satellite Processing Package (CSPP): Recent Progress and Future Updates
Liam E. Gumley, CIMSS/SSEC/Univ. of Wisconsin, Madison, WI; and H. L. Huang, S. Mindock, G. Martin, R. Garcia, G. Cureton, J. E. Davies, and K. I. Strabala
Recorded Presentation

  2:00 PM
J15.3
Monitoring and Predicting the Intensity of Saharan Air Layer (SAL) Events Over the Caribbean Using Remote Sensing and a Dust Model Ensemble
Arunas P. Kuciauskas, NRL, Monterey, CA; and P. Lynch, E. J. Hyer, J. R. Campbell, L. Rosa, J. Prospero, S. D. Miller, J. E. Solbrig, and M. L. Surratt
Recorded Presentation

  2:15 PM
J15.4
The MTG-IRS level 2 Processor: NWC applications
Stephen A. Tjemkes, EUMETSAT, Darmstadt, Germany; and P. Antonelli, J. Asmus, C. Herold, M. Koutek, S. de Haan, and R. Stuhlmann
Recorded Presentation

Recording files available
Joint Session 16
Algorithm Development II
Location: 230 (Phoenix Convention Center - West and North Buildings)
Hosts: (Joint between the 11th Annual Symposium on New Generation Operational Environmental Satellite Systems; and the 20th Conference on Satellite Meteorology and Oceanography )
Cochairs: Kenneth Carey, Earth Resources Technology (ERT), Inc.; Vince Grano, JPSS Program Office
  1:30 PM
J16.1
Benefits of a Consistent Algorithm Change Approach to the NESDIS Enterprise Ground Systems
Heather Kilcoyne, NOAA/NESDIS, Greenbelt, MD
Manuscript (26.0 kB)

Handout (518.5 kB)

  1:45 PM
J16.2
Enterprise Plan for Algorithm Development and Integration to Operations
Walter Wolf, NOAA/NESDIS/STAR, College Park, MD; and J. Daniels, S. Sampson, L. Zhou, T. King, and B. Das
Recorded Presentation

  2:00 PM
J16.3
Improvements and Extensions for Joint Polar Satellite System Algorithms
Kerry Grant, Raytheon Intelligence, Information and Services, Aurora, CO; and J. Feeley, S. W. Miller, and M. Jamilkowski
Recorded Presentation

  2:15 PM
J16.4
JPSS Science Product Requirements and Implementation Evolution
Kathryn Shontz, Noblis for NOAA/NESDIS/JPSS, Lanham, MD; and M. Goldberg and A. Layns
Recorded Presentation

2:30 PM-4:00 PM: Wednesday, 7 January 2015


Formal Poster Viewing with Coffee Break
Location: Hall 4 (Phoenix Convention Center - West and North Buildings)

Joint Poster Session 2
Joint Satellite Program Poster Session II
Hosts: (Joint between the 20th Conference on Satellite Meteorology and Oceanography; the 11th Annual Symposium on New Generation Operational Environmental Satellite Systems; and the Third Symposium on the Joint Center for Satellite Data Assimilation )
Organizer: Kenneth Carey, Earth Resources Technology (ERT), Inc.
Cochairs: Derek J. Posselt, University of Michigan; Christopher S. Velden, CIMSS/Univ. of Wisconsin; George P. Kablick III, University of Maryland, College Par; Jim G. Yoe, NOAA/NESDIS; Gary McWilliams, JPSS Program Office/Army Research Laboratory
 
603
Snowfall Rate Retrieval Using Passive Microwave Measurements and Its Applications in Weather Forecast and Hydrology
Huan Meng, NOAA/NESDIS/STAR, College Park, MD; and R. R. Ferraro, C. Kongoli, B. Yan, L. Zhao, J. Dong, N. Y. Wang, and B. T. Zavodsky

 
604
Testing, Troubleshooting and Integrating Changes to Joint Polar Satellite Systems (JPSS) Algorithms using Algorithm Development Library (ADL)
Bigyani Das, NOAA/NESDIS/STAR/IMSG, College Park, MD; and W. Wolf, W. Chen, M. Tsidulko, Y. Zhao, V. Mikles, K. Sprietzer, and V. Dharmawardane

Handout (1.1 MB)

 
605
JPSS-1 xDR Requirements Verification: Pre-Launch to Post-Launch Plans
Murty G. Divakarla, IM Systems Group, Inc., Rockville, MD; and L. Zhou, X. Liu, W. Wolf, E. Gottshall, J. Feeley, T. Atkins, R. S. Steadley, and R. Godin

 
606
Community Radiative Transfer Model (CRTM) Support To Cloud Radiance Assimilation
Quanhua Liu, NOAA/NESDIS, College Park, MD; and P. van Delst, D. Groff, H. Liu, E. Liu, M. Chen, A. Collard, S. A. Boukabara, F. Weng, and J. C. Derber

 
607
Effect of Solar Irradiance Fluctuations on S-NPP Reflective Band Calibration
Yelena Savranskaya, The Aerospace Corporation, El Segundo, CA; and J. Wicker, E. Haas, J. Cardema, and F. De Luccia
Manuscript (2.2 MB)

Handout (2.5 MB)

 
608
A Study of the 2012 American Extremely Drought and Precipitation using Satellite Data Assimilation
Min Shao, George Mason University, Fairfax, VA; and J. Xu and A. Powell

 
609
SUOMI NPP/VIIRS: Improvements in land cover monitoring and socioeconomic services
Felix Kogan, NOAA, College Park, MD; and M. Goldberg, T. B. Schott, and W. Guo

 
610
A Training Concept Plan that Promotes Skillful and Proficient Use of NOAA Satellite Data and Products

 
611
Next Generation Satellite Technologies: Recent Evaluations at WFO Omaha
Daniel Nietfeld, NOAA/NWS, Valley, NE

 
612
SNPP ATMS Striping Mitigation and Its Impacts on Numerical Weather Prediction
Xiaolei Zou, University of Maryland, College Park, MD; and Y. Ma and F. Weng

 
613
Improvement of the Satellite-Based Microwave Physical Retrieval of Temperature and Water Vapor in NUCAPS
FLAVIO Iturbide-Sanchez, NOAA/NESDIS, College Park, MD; and A. Gambacorta, Q. Liu, T. Reale, N. R. Nalli, C. Tan, and B. Sun

 
614
JPSS CGS Architectural Overview and Technical Performance Measures
Shawn W. Miller, Raytheon Intelligence, Information and Services, Aurora, CO; and K. Grant and M. Jamilkowski

Handout (5.4 MB)

 
615
Adding a Mission to the JPSS CGS
Shawn W. Miller, Raytheon Intelligence, Information and Services, Aurora, CO; and K. Grant and M. Jamilkowski

Handout (5.8 MB)

 
616
Ensuring Continuity in the Earth Radiation Budget Climate Data Record: Radiation Budget Instrument
G. Louis Smith, Science Systems and Applications, Inc., Hampton, VA; and K. J. Priestley, M. Shankar, and N. Loeb

 
617
In-Flight Radiometric Calibration of SNPP VIIRS using Rayleigh scattering over oceanic oligotrophic regions
Alain Sei, Northrop Grumman Aerospace Systems, Redondo Beach, CA; and B. Hauss, P. Pratt, and R. Frouin

 
618
MetEd Satellite Education Resources for GOES-R, S-NPP and JPSS User Readiness
Patrick Dills, UCAR/COMET, Boulder, CO; and W. Schreiber-Abshire and M. Weingroff

Handout (1.2 MB)

 
619
Maintaining JPSS Product Quality
Kerry Grant, Raytheon Intelligence, Information and Services, Aurora, CO; and W. Ibrahim, K. F. Brueske, and P. Smit

 
620
Rapid Algorithm Integration in the JPSS CGS
Kerry Grant, Raytheon Intelligence, Information and Services, Aurora, CO; and S. W. Miller and M. Jamilkowski

 
Implications of Cris Full Spectral Resolution Operations on Suomi Npp High Rate Data Direct Broadcast

 
621
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, E. Borbas, E. Weisz, and B. Pierce

Handout (9.5 MB)

 
622
The TANSO-FTS-2 Instrument for the GOSAT-2 Greenhouse Gas Monitoring Mission
Ronald J. Glumb, Exelis Geospatial Systems, Fort Wayne, IN; and C. Lietzke, J. Bougher, A. D. Bell, and C. Ellsworth

Handout (2.6 MB)

 
623
Demonstrating S-NPP VIIRS Imagery via Naval Research Laboratory Satellite Websites
Arunas P. Kuciauskas, NRL, Monterey, CA; and J. Hawkins, J. E. Solbrig, R. L. Bankert, K. A. Richardson, M. L. Surratt, S. D. Miller, and J. Kent

 
624
SNPP VIIRS Solar Diffuser BRDF Degradation Trend Changes in Early 2014
Evan Haas, The Aerospace Corporation, El Segundo, CA; and F. J. DeLuccia
Manuscript (1.4 MB)

 
625
MetOp-IASI to SNPP-CRIS: Concurrence of NUCAPS Operational Sounding Products with Quasi-Continuous ECMWF Forecast/Analysis Fields

 
626
Testing the new land data sets in the NCEP parallel GFS
Helin Wei, NOAA/NCEP/EMC, College Park, MD; and M. B. Ek, J. Meng, and W. Zheng

 
627
Characterization of the NOAA Unique CrIS/ATMS Processing System (NUCAPS) sounding products within extreme moisture environments

 
628
Sounding and Tracking Observatory for Regional Meteorology (STORM) Constellation Program Status and Sensor Update

 
629
Suomi NPP Day/Night Band (DNB) low light radiometry and long term radiometric characteristics
Lushalan Liao, Northrop Grumman Corporation, Redondo Beach, CA; and C. K. Liang

 
630
Application of Satellite RGB Imagery by Operational Weather Forecast Offices for Analysis of Low-Level Precipitating Clouds
Kevin K. Fuell, Univ. of Alabama, Huntsville, AL; and P. Nutter

 
631
Development of Cloud Product toward Next Generation Geostationary Meteorological Satellites Himawari-8/9
Masahiro Hayashi, Meteorological Satellite Center of Japan Meteorological Agency, Kiyose, Japan

Handout (421.5 kB)

 
632
Comparison of the NOAA PATMOS-x Cloud Climate Data Records and the NCEP CFS Reanalysis Data
Andrew Heidinger, NOAA, Madison, WI

Handout (1011.9 kB)

 
633
A New Ice-Surface Temperature Dataset for the Great Lakes from MODIS
Dorothy K. Hall, NASA, Greenbelt, MD; and G. A. Leshkevich, S. V. Nghiem, N. E. DiGirolamo, and G. A. Riggs
Manuscript (172.2 kB)

 
634
Cyclone Center: A Crowd Sourcing Application of the HURSAT-B1 Data Record
Christopher C. Hennon, Univ. of North Carolina, Asheville, NC; and K. R. Knapp, C. J. Schreck III, J. P. Kossin, and S. E. Stevens

Handout (345.5 kB)

 
635
HIRS-Derived Temperature and Humidity Profiles and Comparisons with Radiosonde Observations and GPS RO Derived Profiles
Lei Shi, NOAA/NESDIS/NCDC, Asheville, NC; and J. L. Matthews, Q. Yang, and S. P. Ho

 
636
Obs4MIPs using NOAA's Climate Data Records

 
638
Study of Cloud Contamination on the Aerosol Optical Thickness (AOT) Trend Derived from AVHRR AOT Climate Data Record (CDR)
Xuepeng Zhao, NOAA/NESDIS/NCDC, Asheville, NC

 
639
Comparing Vertical Distributions of Cloud Liquid Water and Ice from MODIS Collections 5 and 6 to CMIP5 Model Simulations
Katherine Pitts, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX; and S. L. Nasiri
Manuscript (2.1 MB)

Handout (14.3 MB)

 
640
The Radiation Budget Instrument (RBI): A New Standard for Measuring the Earth's Radiation Balance
Ronald J. Glumb, Exelis Geospatial Systems, Fort Wayne, IN; and C. Lietzke, S. Luce, R. Leszczynski, G. White, and H. Latvakoski

Handout (1.6 MB)

 
641
Joint Polar Satellite System (JPSS) Common Ground System (CGS) Use of Space Link Extension (SLE) Protocol
Michael Jamilkowski, Raytheon Intelligence, Information and Services (IIS), Greenbelt, MD; and G. Cordier, L. M. Roberts, and C. J. Tillery

 
642
The Solar Irradiance Climate Data Record
Odele Coddington, Laboratory of Atmospheric and Space Physics, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO; and J. Lean, P. Pilewskie, M. Snow, and D. Lindholm

 
643
Demonstrating the Impact of AMSU Hydrological Product CDR's for Merged Product Time Series

 
644
Performance and Capabilities of the New Compact Ocean Wind Vector Radiometer System
Shannon Thomas Brown, JPL and California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA; and P. Focardi, A. Kitiyakara, F. Maiwald, O. Montes, S. Padmanabhan, R. Redick, D. Russell, J. Wincentsen, F. Wentz, K. Hilburn, and T. Meissner

 
645
Assimilating GPM/GMI and TRMM/TMI Microwave Radiance Data With GEOS-5
Jianjun Jin, NASA/GSFC, Greenbelt, MD; and M. J. Kim, W. McCarty, S. Akella, and W. Gu

 
646
Developing Climate Data Records from Microwave Water Vapor Channels
Isaac Moradi, University of Maryland, College Park, MD; and R. R. Ferraro, J. Beuchamp, H. Meng, and T. Smith

 
647
The International Satellite Cloud Climatology Project (ISCCP): Update and Transition to Processing at NOAA/NCDC

 
648
Reprocessing NOAA's Geo-Polar Sea Surface Temperature Analysis
Xiaofang Zhu, Global Science and Technology, inc, College Park, MD; and E. Maturi, J. Mittaz, A. Harris, C. M. Eakin, A. Ignatov, and X. Zhou

 
649
A Unified and Coherent Land Surface Temperature and Emissivity (LST&E) Earth System Data Record (ESDR) for Earth Science Research
Pierre C. Guillevic, Jet propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA; and G. Hulley, S. Hook, C. Hain, E. Borbas, R. T. Pinker, M. C. Anderson, and R. Knuteson

 
650
Interpreting AMSR-E Liquid Water Path Products in Warm Precipitating Clouds using MODIS and CloudSat
Tom Greenwald, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI; and R. Bennartz, M. Lebsock, and C. O'Dell

 
651
A CERES-Consistent Cloud Property Climate Data Record From AVHRR Data
Patrick Minnis, NASA Langley Research Center, Hampton, VA; and B. Kristopher, D. David, K. Seiji, Q. Z. Trepte, B. Sarah, S. Benjamin, Y. Christopher, K. Konstantin, H. Gang, K. Mandana, P. Rabindra, G. Arun, B. Rajendra, H. Conor, S. Alok, and P. W. Heck

 
652
Global Top-of-Atmosphere Broadband Shortwave and Longwave Fluxes Derived from AVHRR
Mandana M. Khaiyer, SSAI, Hampton, VA ; and P. Minnis, K. M. Bedka, S. Kato, W. F. Miller, A. K. Shrestha, C. R. Yost, M. L. Nordeen, and B. Scarino

 
653
PERSIANN-CDR Daily Precipitation Used for High Resolution Long-term Trend Analysis of Global Precipitation Extreme
Hamed Ashouri, University of California, Irvine, CA; and K. L. Hsu, S. Sorooshian, and D. Braithwaite

 
654
Merged Satellite Microwave Radiometer Data Products for Climate Studies
Deborah K. Smith, Remote Sensing Systems, Santa Rosa, CA; and C. A. Mears, K. A. Hilburn, and L. Ricciardulli

Handout (3.4 MB)

 
655
Leaf Area Index and Fraction of Absorbed Photosynthetically Active Radiation Thematic Climate Data Record from AVHRR
Martin claverie, University of Maryland, College Park, DC; and E. Vermote and C. O. Justice

Handout (3.8 MB)

 
656
Concerns on cross comparison of satellite land surface temperature retrievals, a case study between VIIRS and MODIS LST product
Yuling Liu, NOAA/NESDIS, College Park, MD; and Y. Yu, P. Yu, and Z. Wang

 
657
A Systematic Approach to Building Climate Data Records (CDRs)
Daniel Wunder, Global Science and Technology Inc., Asheville, NC; and W. J. Glance and X. Zhao

Handout (685.8 kB)

 
658
Systematic Evaluation of AIRS Version 6 Thermodynamic Phase, Effective Diameter, and Optical Depth Retrievals
Volkan H. Firat, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX; and S. L. Nasiri and B. H. Kahn

 
659
Validation of MODIS Total Precipitable Water Over the North American Monsoon Region Using Surface GPS Technology
Yolande L. Serra, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ; and A. J. Fears and J. Moker

 
660
A 27-Year Climate Data Record of Intercalibrated Brightness Temperatures and Precipitation Estimates from the DMSP Microwave Imagers
Wesley Berg, Colorado State Univ., Fort Collins, CO; and C. D. Kummerow

 
661
A Comparison Of SSM/I-Derived Global Marine Surface Specific Humidity Datasets
John Prytherch, University of Leeds, Leeds, United Kingdom; and E. C. Kent, S. Fangohr, and D. I. Berry

Handout (14.7 MB)

 
662
Improving the Quality of Extreme Precipitation Estimates Using Satellite Passive Microwave Rainfall Retrievals
Veljko Petkovic, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO; and C. D. Kummerow
Manuscript (998.8 kB)

 
663
Assessment of Vertical Resolution's Effect in the Intercomparison of Temperature Profiles from Hyperspectral Infrared Sounders and GPS Radio Occulation
Michelle Feltz, CIMSS/Univ. of Wisconsin, Madison, WI; and R. Knuteson

 
664A
Snowfall Observations at NASA Wallops FLight Facility
Jorel Torres, Department of Atmospheric and Environmental Sciences, Rapid City, SD; and A. Tokay, D. Kliche, D. B. Wolff, L. F. Bliven, and W. A. Petersen

 
665
Microwave Remote Sensing of Lake-Effect Snow in the GPM Era
Mark S. Kulie, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI; and S. A. Tushaus, Y. You, and N. Y. Wang

 
666
Characterizing Precipitation Product Errors across the United States using Triple Collocation
Seyed Hamed Alemohammad, MIT, Cambridge, MA; and K. A. McColl, A. G. Konings, D. Entekhabi, and A. Stoffelen

Handout (1.3 MB)

 
667
Improving satellite precipitation detection using Global Precipitation Measurement mission (GPM) and Ground Based Radar (NMQ)
Michael Angelo DiRosa, Colorado State University, Annandale-On-Hudson, NY; and J. King and C. D. Kummerow

 
668
GPM Snowfall Retrievals: Information Gained from Day 1 GPROF Empirical Databases
Marian E. Mateling, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI; and M. S. Kulie

 
669
Recent Improvements to the GOES-R Rainfall Rate Algorithm
Yaping Li, I. M. Systems Group, College Park, MD; and R. J. Kuligowski and Y. Hao

 
670
Improvement and Validation of NESDIS Satellite Snowfall Rate Algorithm
Jun Dong, University of Maryland, College Park, MD; and H. Meng, C. Kongoli, and R. R. Ferraro

 
671
Improved ANN method for retrieving Asian dust AOT and altitude from AIRS measurements
Byeong-Gwon Kim, Seoul National University, Seoul, South Korea; and H. Han and B. J. Sohn

 
672
Aerosol Correction for Improving OMPS/LP Ozone Retrieval
Zhong Chen, SSAI, Lanham, MD; and P. K. Bhartia and R. Loughman

 
673
The MTG-IRS Level 2 Processor: background
Stephen A. Tjemkes, EUMETSAT, Darmstadt, Germany; and P. Antonelli, C. Serio, E. Holm, J. L. Moncet, G. Masiello Sr., and R. Stuhlmann

Handout (584.1 kB)

 
674
Sensitivity of Assimilating Cloud Water Path as a Function of Horizontal Localization Radius
Kyle Chudler, University of Michigan, Ann, MI; and T. A. Jones

 
675
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

 
676
Routine Validation of the GOES-R Multi-Satellite Processing System Framework
William Straka III, CIMSS/Univ. of Wisconsin, Madison, WI; and W. Wolf, S. Sampson, G. Quinn, R. Garcia, G. Martin, R. Rollins, M. Fan, and E. Schiffer

 
677
GOES-R AIT: Near-Real-Time Processing
Hua Xie, NOAA/NESDIS, College Park, MD; and M. Fan, S. Sampson, W. Wolf, J. Lindeman, Y. Zhao, A. Li, and J. Daniels

 
678
GOES-R AIT: Configuration Management
Yunhui Zhao, NOAA/NESDIS, College Park, MD; and S. Sampson, W. Wolf, and R. Garcia

 
679
Suomi National Polar-orbiting Partnership Calibration/Validation Lessons Learned and Applications to Future Polar Orbiting and Geostationary Satellite Systems
Janna Feeley, Aerospace Corporation, Silver Spring, MD; and H. Kilcoyne and B. Reed

4:00 PM-5:30 PM: Wednesday, 7 January 2015

Recording files available
Joint Session 17
Aquarius Mission--Modeling and Analysis of Satellite-based Salinity Data
Location: 231ABC (Phoenix Convention Center - West and North Buildings)
Hosts: (Joint between the 19th Conference on Air-Sea Interaction; and the 20th Conference on Satellite Meteorology and Oceanography )
Cochairs: Frank J. Wentz, Remote Sensing Systems; Magdalena D. Anguelova, NRL
  4:00 PM
J17.1
Salinity anomaly as a trigger for ENSO events
Jieshun Zhu, NOAA/NCEP, College Park, MD; and B. Huang, R. H. Zhang, Z. Z. Hu, A. Kumar, M. A. Balmaseda, L. Marx, and J. L. Kinter III
Recorded Presentation

  4:15 PM
J17.2
Assimilation of Satellite Sea-Surface Salinity Fields: Validating Ocean Analyses and Identifying Errors in Surface Buoyancy Fluxes
Avichal Mehra, NOAA/NWS/NCEP, College Park, MD; and S. Nadiga, E. Bayler, and D. Behringer

Handout (1008.1 kB)

  4:30 PM
J17.3
Three Years of Aquarius Salinity Measurements: Algorithm, Validation and Applications
Thomas Meissner, Remote Sensing Systems, Santa Rosa, CA; and F. J. Wentz, D. K. Smith, D. LeVine, and G. Lagerloef
Recorded Presentation

  4:45 PM
J17.4
The Relative Influence of Surface Sea Salinity and Temperature on Surface Density Gradient in the Tropical Pacific Ocean
Audrey Hasson, JPL, Pasadena, CA; and T. Lee

  5:00 PM
J17.5
Aquarius Satellite Salinity Measurement Mission Status, and Science Results from the initial 3-Year Prime Mission
Thomas Meissner, Remote Sensing Systems, Santa Rosa, CA; and H. Y. Kao
Recorded Presentation

  5:15 PM
J17.6
Upper Ocean Salinity Structure Variability and its Relationship to Aquarius Observations
Carol Anne Clayson, WHOI, Woods Hole, MA
Recorded Presentation

Recording files available
Joint Session 18
Calibration and Validation I
Location: 230 (Phoenix Convention Center - West and North Buildings)
Hosts: (Joint between the 20th Conference on Satellite Meteorology and Oceanography; and the 11th Annual Symposium on New Generation Operational Environmental Satellite Systems )
Cochairs: Johannes Schmetz, EUMETSAT; Paul Menzel, NOAA/NESDIS
  4:00 PM
J18.1
Validation of Level 2 Temperature and Water Vapor Profiles from JPSS and EUMETSAT Operational Polar Satellites using DOE ARM, SuomiNet, and COSMIC Datasets
Robert Knuteson, CIMSS/Univ. of Wisconsin, Madison, WI; and M. Feltz, J. Roman, J. Gartzke, S. Ackerman, H. Revercomb, D. Tobin, L. Borg, T. August, T. Hultberg, and T. Reale
Recorded Presentation

  4:15 PM
J18.2
New Methodology for ATMS Noise Characterization
Miao Tian, Earth System Science Interdisciplinary Center, Univ. of Maryland, College Park, College Park, MD; and F. Weng
Recorded Presentation

  4:30 PM
J18.3
Inter-calibration and validation of observations from modern satellite microwave humidity and temperature sounders
Isaac Moradi, University of Maryland, College Park, MD; and R. R. Ferraro
Recorded Presentation

  4:45 PM
J18.4
Nonlinearity Analysis For JPSS-1 ATMS Instrument
Hu Yang, University of Maryland, College Park, MD; and F. Weng, N. Sun, and M. Tian
Recorded Presentation

  5:00 PM
J18.5
S-NPP CrIS Full Spectral Resolution SDR Processing and Quality Assessment
Yong Han, NOAA/NESDIS, College Park, MD; and Y. Chen, X. Jin, L. Wang, and D. Tremblay
Recorded Presentation Manuscript (919.5 kB)

  5:15 PM
J18.6
Reflector Emissivity Biases on ATMS
Kent L. Anderson, Northrop Grumman Electronic Systems, Azusa, CA; and V. Jacobo
Recorded Presentation Manuscript (409.1 kB)

5:30 PM-6:30 PM: Wednesday, 7 January 2015


Awards Banquet Reception in the Exhibit Hall
Location: Hall 5 (Phoenix Convention Center - West and North Buildings)

7:00 PM-10:00 PM: Wednesday, 7 January 2015


95th AMS Awards Banquet
Location: North Ballroom (Phoenix Convention Center - West and North Buildings)

Thursday, 8 January 2015

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8:30 AM-9:45 AM: Thursday, 8 January 2015

Recording files available
Themed Joint Session 7
The Observations Gap: Approaches to filling observation gaps at higher space and time scales as neededfor next-generation forecasting and monitoring
Location: 231ABC (Phoenix Convention Center - West and North Buildings)
Hosts: (Joint between the 19th Conference on Integrated Observing and Assimilation Systems for the Atmosphere, Oceans, and Land Surface (IOAS-AOLS); the 20th Conference on Satellite Meteorology and Oceanography; the 17th Conference on Aviation, Range, and Aerospace Meteorology; the 11th Annual Symposium on New Generation Operational Environmental Satellite Systems; the Seventh Symposium on Lidar Atmospheric Applications; the Seventh Conference on the Meteorological Applications of Lightning Data; the Third Symposium on the Joint Center for Satellite Data Assimilation; the Seventh Symposium on Aerosol-Cloud-Climate Interactions; and the 17th Conference on Atmospheric Chemistry )
Cochairs: Christopher Velden, CIMSS/Univ. of Wisconsin; Sharanya J. Majumdar, Univ. of Miami/RSMAS
  8:30 AM
TJ7.1
The LAPS Cloud Analysis: Validation with All-sky imagery and development of a variational cloud assimilation
Steve Albers, NOAA & CIRA, Boulder, CO; and K. Holub, Y. Xie, Z. Toth, H. Jiang, and J. Zhou

  8:45 AM
TJ7.2
Using Connected Vehicle Data to Fill In the Observations Gap for Data Assimilation
Amanda R. S. Anderson, NCAR, Boulder, CO; and J. A. Lee, S. D. Drobot, and P. Pisano
Recorded Presentation

  9:00 AM
TJ7.3
Recent Advancements in the TAMDAR Sensor Network Expansion
Neil Jacobs, Chief Atmospheric Scientist, Panasonic Avionics Corporation, Morrisville, NC; and D. Mulally, A. Anderson, J. Braid, P. Childs, A. Huffman, E. Wilson, and F. Gao
Recorded Presentation

  9:15 AM
TJ7.4
Ground-based Infrared Sounders: A New Look at Their Capabilities for Operational Meteorologists
Timothy J. Wagner, Creighton University, Omaha, NE; and W. G. Blumberg
Recorded Presentation

  9:30 AM
TJ7.5
Realization of PATH Goals using a Small Satellite Constellation
Albin Gasiewski, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO; and B. T. Sanders and D. W. Gallaher
Recorded Presentation

Recording files available
Joint Session 19
Factors influencing the design and operation of satellites and satellite instrumentation for observing the atmosphere, oceans, and the Earth
Location: 230 (Phoenix Convention Center - West and North Buildings)
Hosts: (Joint between the 20th Conference on Satellite Meteorology and Oceanography; and the 11th Annual Symposium on New Generation Operational Environmental Satellite Systems )
Cochairs: Shaima L. Nasiri, Texas A & M University; Jeffrey Hawkins, NRL
  8:30 AM
J19.1
On Design of Satellite Constellation For Continuous Observation Of Earth Polar Regions
Alexander P. Trishchenko, Canada Centre for Remote Sensing, Ottawa, ON, Canada; and L. Garand, L. Trichtchenko, and L. Nikitina
Recorded Presentation

  8:45 AM
J19.2
Arctic Weather Every 10 Minutes: Design and Operation of ABI for PCW
Paul C. Griffith, Exelis, Fort Wayne, IN; and S. M. Wirth
Recorded Presentation

  9:00 AM
J19.3
Progress in developing a geostationary microwave sounder
Bjorn H. Lambrigtsen, JPL, Pasadena, CA

  9:15 AM
J19.4
Cubesat Fourier Transform Spectrometer (CubeSat-FTS) for Three-Dimensional Global Wind Measurements
Ronald J. Glumb, Exelis Geospatial Systems, Fort Wayne, IN; and C. Lietzke, S. Luce, and P. Wloszek
Recorded Presentation

  9:30 AM
J19.5
Joint Polar Satellite System (JPSS) Common Ground System (CGS) Multimission Support
Michael Jamilkowski, Raytheon Intelligence, Information and Services (IIS), Greenbelt, MD; and K. Grant and S. W. Miller
Recorded Presentation

9:45 AM-11:00 AM: Thursday, 8 January 2015


Formal Poster Viewing with Coffee Break
Location: Hall 4 (Phoenix Convention Center - West and North Buildings)

11:00 AM-12:00 PM: Thursday, 8 January 2015


Lecture 3
Walter Orr Roberts Lecture
Location: 124A (Phoenix Convention Center - West and North Buildings)
Hosts: (Joint between the Major Weather Events and Societal Impacts of 2014; the 15th Presidential Forum; the Eugenia Kalnay Symposium; the Harry R. Glahn Symposium; the 31st Conference on Environmental Information Processing Technologies; the 29th Conference on Hydrology; the 27th Conference on Climate Variability and Change; the 24th Symposium on Education; the 20th Conference on Satellite Meteorology and Oceanography; the 20th Conference on Planned and Inadvertent Weather Modification; the 19th Conference on Integrated Observing and Assimilation Systems for the Atmosphere, Oceans, and Land Surface (IOAS-AOLS); the 19th Conference on Air-Sea Interaction; the 17th Conference on Atmospheric Chemistry; the 18th Conference on Middle Atmosphere; the 17th Conference on Aviation, Range, and Aerospace Meteorology; the 13th Conference on Artificial Intelligence; the 13th Symposium on the Coastal Environment; the 13th History Symposium; the 12th Conference on Space Weather; the 11th Annual Symposium on New Generation Operational Environmental Satellite Systems; the 10th Symposium on Societal Applications: Policy, Research and Practice; the Seventh Symposium on Lidar Atmospheric Applications; the Seventh Conference on the Meteorological Applications of Lightning Data; the Seventh Symposium on Aerosol-Cloud-Climate Interactions; the Sixth Conference on Weather, Climate, and the New Energy Economy; the Sixth Conference on Environment and Health; the Fifth Conference on Transition of Research to Operations; the Fifth Symposium on Advances in Modeling and Analysis Using Python; the Third Symposium on the Weather and Climate Enterprise; the Third Symposium on Building a Weather-Ready Nation: Enhancing Our Nation’s Readiness, Responsiveness, and Resilience to High Impact Weather Events; the Third Symposium on the Joint Center for Satellite Data Assimilation; the Third Symposium on Prediction of the Madden-Julian Oscillation: Processes, Prediction and Impact; the First Symposium on High Performance Computing for Weather, Water, and Climate; the Special Symposium on Model Postprocessing and Downscaling; and the Air Pollution Meteorology and Human Health Symposium )
  11:00 AM
L3.1
Air-Ice Chemical Interactions, Their Impacts, and Connections to Climate Change
Paul B. Shepson, Purdue Univ., West Lafayette, IN

Recording files available
Joint Session 20
Development of innovative methods of processing, combining, assimilating and analyzing the observations from satellites, and the development of applications such as those related to energy security, and land and ocean remote sensing applications (e.g., soil moisture, ocean color).
Location: 231ABC (Phoenix Convention Center - West and North Buildings)
Hosts: (Joint between the 20th Conference on Satellite Meteorology and Oceanography; the 11th Annual Symposium on New Generation Operational Environmental Satellite Systems; and the Third Symposium on the Joint Center for Satellite Data Assimilation )
Cochairs: George P. Kablick III, University of Maryland, College Par; John Mecikalski, University of Alabama
  11:00 AM
J20.1
Comparison of efficient algorithms for assimilating satellite partial column retrievals with WRF-Chem/DART
Arthur P. Mizzi, NCAR, Boulder, CO; and A. F. Arellano, D. P. Edwards, and J. Anderson
Recorded Presentation

  11:15 AM
J20.2
Assimilation of thermodynamic information in cloudy regions from advanced IR sounder for tropical cyclone forecasts
Jun Li, CIMSS/Univ. of Wisconsin, Madison, WI; and M. Goldberg, P. Wang, H. Han, T. J. Schmit, A. Lim, Z. Li, and J. Li
Recorded Presentation

  11:30 AM
J20.3
Near-Real Time Satellite-Retrieved Cloud and Surface Properties for Nowcasting and Assimilation
Rabindra Palikonda, SSAI/NASA/LaRC, Hampton, VA; and P. Minnis, G. Hong, Q. Z. Trepte, D. A. Spangenberg, B. Shan, B. Scarino, S. Sun-Mack, T. L. Chee, F. L. Chang, J. K. Ayers, W. L. Smith Jr., K. Bedka, L. Nguyen, and P. W. Heck
Recorded Presentation

  11:45 AM
J20.4
The Global Cloud Re-Analysis at the Air Force Weather Agency
Timothy E. Nobis, Northrop Grumman, Papillion, NE
Recorded Presentation

Recording files available
Joint Session 21
NOAA Satellite Data Operations
Location: 230 (Phoenix Convention Center - West and North Buildings)
Hosts: (Joint between the 11th Annual Symposium on New Generation Operational Environmental Satellite Systems; and the 20th Conference on Satellite Meteorology and Oceanography )
Cochairs: Michael Jamilkowski, Raytheon Intelligence, Information and Services (IIS); Heather Kilcoyne, NOAA/NESDIS

Session to discuss current future satellite data operational capabilities.
  11:00 AM
J21.1
NOAA Satellites: Updates, Products, and More!
Natalia Donoho, NOAA/NESDIS, College Park, MD; and T. Renkevens

  11:15 AM
J21.2
NOAA/NESDIS/ESPC - Where it is going and what can I expect?
Rich Baker, Solers, Greenbelt, MD; and M. Brogan, G. Wilkinson, and D. M. Beall
Recorded Presentation

  11:30 AM
J21.3
NOAA's ESPDS - NDE: The Operational Enterprise Ground Solution for S-NPP and Beyond
Dylan Powell, Lockheed Martin, Greenbelt, MD; and P. MacHarrie, D. M. Beall, and J. Hawkins
Recorded Presentation

  11:45 AM
J21.4
NOAA Satellite Operational Products Quality Monitoring
Zhaohui Cheng, NOAA/NESDIS, College Park, MD; and A. Irving
Recorded Presentation

12:00 PM-1:30 PM: Thursday, 8 January 2015


Lunch Break

12:45 PM-1:05 PM: Thursday, 8 January 2015


Daily Weather Briefings
Location: 132AB (Phoenix Convention Center - West and North Buildings)

1:30 PM-3:00 PM: Thursday, 8 January 2015

Recording files available
Session 1A
Display and use of satellite data for both research and operational purposes, including weather, ocean, and climate monitoring and forecasting
Location: 230 (Phoenix Convention Center - West and North Buildings)
Host: 20th Conference on Satellite Meteorology and Oceanography
Cochairs: Donald W. Hillger, NOAA/NESDIS; Derek J. Posselt, University of Michigan
  1:30 PM
1A.1
Tropical Cyclone one- and ten-minute ‘Best Track' Maximum Winds compared with Satellite-Only Estimates for Western North Pacific and Indian Ocean Basins
Peter G. Black, SAIC/NRL, Monterey, CA; and J. Hawkins and C. S. Velden

  1:45 PM
1A.1A
NOAA Okeanos Ocean Color Operational Product System: Status and Prospective
Banghua Yan, NOAA, College Park, MD; and I. Simpson, E. Rodriguez, D. Van Pelt, and A. Irving
Recorded Presentation

Handout (2.4 MB)

 
Paper 1A.2 has moved. New paper number is 211A

  2:00 PM
1A.2A
Supporting Disaster Assessment and Response with the VIIRS Day-Night Band
Lori A. Schultz, University of Alabama, Huntsville, AL ; and T. A. Cole and A. L. Molthan
Recorded Presentation

  2:15 PM
1A.3
A Probabilistic Pattern Recognition Method for Detection of Overshooting Cloud Tops Using Satellite Imager and Numerical Weather Analysis Data
Kristopher Bedka, LRC, Hampton, VA; and K. Khlopenkov
Recorded Presentation

  2:30 PM
1A.4
Development and Application of Hyperspectral Infrared Ozone Retrieval Products for Operational Meteorology
Emily Berndt, University of Alabama in Huntsville, Huntsville, AL; and B. T. Zavodsky and G. J. Jedlovec
Recorded Presentation

 
Paper 1A.5 has moved. New paper number is 1A.1A

  2:45 PM
1A.6
Combining multiple satellite datasets for the detection and verification of aircraft icing
Laura Paulik, CIRES/Univ. of Colorado, Boulder, CO; and B. J. Etherton, G. J. Layne, M. S. Wandishin, and M. A. Petty
Recorded Presentation

Recording files available
Session 1B
Satellite Climate Data Records and Applications I
Location: 231ABC (Phoenix Convention Center - West and North Buildings)
Host: 20th Conference on Satellite Meteorology and Oceanography
Cochairs: Xuepeng Zhao, NOAA/NESDIS/NCDC; Kenneth R. Knapp, NOAA/NESDIS/NCDC
  1:30 PM
1B.1
Uncertainty of AMSU-A derived temperature trends in relationship with clouds and precipitation over oceans
Fuzhong Weng, NOAA/NESDIS/STAR, College Park, MD; and X. Zou

  1:45 PM
1B.2
Recalibrating HIRS Sensors to Produce a 30 year Record of Radiance Measurements Useful for Cloud and Moisture Trend Analysis
W. Paul Menzel, CIMSS/Univ. of Wisconsin, Madison; and C. Cao, R. Frey, E. Borbas, B. Baum, and N. A. Bearson
Recorded Presentation

Handout (6.0 MB)

  2:00 PM
1B.3
Observed Global and Regional Variation in Earth's Water Vapor
John Forsythe, CIRA/Colorado State Univ., Fort Collins, CO; and T. Vonder Haar and H. Cronk
Recorded Presentation

  2:15 PM
1B.4
Strategies for the transition and sustainment of climate data records within operations at the National Climatic Data Center
Edward J. Kearns, NOAA/NESDIS/NCEI, Asheville, NC; and W. J. Glance, X. Zhao, J. J. Bates, J. L. Privette, and H. Semunegus
Recorded Presentation

  2:30 PM
1B.5
Long-term cloud cover trends over the U.S. from ground-based data and satellite products
Hyelim Yoo, NOAA/OAR/ARL, College Park, MD 20740, MD; and M. Free and B. Sun
Recorded Presentation

  2:45 PM
1B.6
Climate Data Records Using Radio Occultation And Coordination with Other Upper Air Observing Systems such as GRUAN and GSICS
A. J. Mannucci, JPL, Pasadena, CA; and C. O. Ao, E. R. Kursinski, O. Verkhoglyadova, B. A. Iijima, and P. Vergados
Recorded Presentation

3:00 PM-3:05 PM: Thursday, 8 January 2015


Registration Closes

3:00 PM-3:30 PM: Thursday, 8 January 2015


Coffee Break
Location: Meeting room foyers (Phoenix Convention Center - West and North Buildings)

Meet the President
Location: 126A (Phoenix Convention Center - West and North Buildings)

3:30 PM-5:00 PM: Thursday, 8 January 2015

Recording files available
Session 2
Satellite Climate Data Records and Applications II
Location: 231ABC (Phoenix Convention Center - West and North Buildings)
Host: 20th Conference on Satellite Meteorology and Oceanography
Cochairs: Kenneth R. Knapp, NOAA/NESDIS/NCDC; Xuepeng Zhao, NOAA/NESDIS/NCDC
  3:30 PM
3.1
The PATMOS-x Cloud CDR: Climate Applications and Methods for Usage
Michael J. Foster, CIMSS/Univ. of Wisconsin, Madison, WI; and A. Heidinger, A. Walther, D. Botambekov, and M. J. Hiley
Recorded Presentation

  3:45 PM
3.2
An Improved Microwave Satellite Data Set for Hydrological and Meteorological Applications
Wenze Yang, University of Maryland, College Park, MD; and H. Meng and R. R. Ferraro
Recorded Presentation

  4:00 PM
3.3
The Global Precipitation Climatology Project (GPCP) CDR: Research to Real-time Climate Monitoring
Robert F. Adler, University of Maryland, College Park, MD; and M. R. P. Sapiano, G. J. Huffman, D. T. Bolvin, and L. Chiu
Recorded Presentation

  4:15 PM
3.4
Climate Data Record for High-Resolution Global Precipitation
Pingping Xie, NOAA/NWS/NCEP/CPC, College Park, MD; and R. J. Joyce and S. Wu

  4:30 PM
3.5
Land Long Term Climate Data Records from AVHRR, MODIS and VIIRS
Eric Vermote, NASA, Greenbelt, MD; and C. O. Justice, M. claverie, I. A. Csiszar, D. Meyer, R. Myneni, S. devadiga, E. Masuoka, and R. wolfe
Recorded Presentation

  4:45 PM
3.6
Producing Long-Term Radiative Flux Data Sets From Satellite Analysis: Sample Results from the Next Version of the NASA/GEWEX Surface Radiation Budget Project
Paul W. Stackhouse Jr., NASA Langley Research Center, Hampton, VA; and S. J. Cox, S. K. Gupta, J. C. Mikovitz, and T. Zhang

Recording files available
Joint Session 22
Calibration and Validation II
Location: 230 (Phoenix Convention Center - West and North Buildings)
Hosts: (Joint between the 20th Conference on Satellite Meteorology and Oceanography; and the 11th Annual Symposium on New Generation Operational Environmental Satellite Systems )
Cochairs: Wanda Harding, NOAA/NESDIS/JPSS; Fuzhong Weng, NOAA/NESDIS/STAR
  3:30 PM
J22.1
Advances in AMSR2 Precipitation Retrievals
Patrick C. Meyers, Univ. of Maryland, College Park, MD; and R. R. Ferraro, N. Y. Wang, and S. D. Rudlosky
Recorded Presentation

  3:45 PM
J22.2
Ocean Surface Vector Wind, Sea Ice and Soil Moisture Retrieval from Microwave Radiometer Measurements
Degui Gu, Northrop Grumman Aerospace Systems, Redondo Beach, CA; and H. Agravante

  4:00 PM
J22.3
Suomi NPP VIIRS Imagery Update
Donald W. Hillger, NOAA/NESDIS, Fort Collins, CO; and C. J. Seaman, S. D. Miller, T. J. Kopp, R. Williams, and G. Mineart
Recorded Presentation

  4:15 PM
J22.4
Issues in Developing and Validating Satellite Land Surface Temperature Product
Yunyue Yu, NOAA/NESDIS, College Park, MD; and Y. Liu, P. Yu, Z. Wang, and I. A. Csiszar
Recorded Presentation

  4:30 PM
J22.5
Suomi NPP Terrestrial Data Products and their use in NOAA operations
Ivan A. Csiszar, NOAA/NESDIS, College Park, MD; and X. Zhan, M. Vargas, Y. Yu, M. B. Ek, and M. Román
Recorded Presentation

  4:45 PM
J22.6
GOES-R Algorithm Working Group (AWG) Level-2 Product Validation Activities
Jaime Daniels, NOAA, College Park, MD
Recorded Presentation

5:00 PM-5:05 PM: Thursday, 8 January 2015


AMS 95th Annual Meeting Adjourns
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