Fifth Aviation, Range, and Aerospace Meteorology Special Symposium

Program Chairs: Cecilia Miner , NOAA/NWS ; Timothy H. Miner , Allied Pilots Association

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Sunday, 10 January 2016

9:00 AM-6:00 PM: Sunday, 10 January 2016


Registration Open for Annual Meeting
Location: Hall D pre-function ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)

Monday, 11 January 2016

9:00 AM-10:30 AM: Monday, 11 January 2016

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Plenary Session 1
2016 Presidential Forum: Serving Society in Times of Crisis: Past, Present and Future
Location: La Nouvelle B-C ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)
Moderator: Maureen McCann, News 13
Panelists: Admiral Thad Allen, United States Coast Guard (ret), Executive Vice President Booz Allen Hamilton; Kerry Emanuel, MIT; Shirley Laska, University of New Orleans; Max Mayfield, WPLG-TV/Former NOAA/National Hurricane Center Director
9:00 AM
Presidential Forum on Serving Society in Times of Crisis: Past, Present and Future
9:05 AM
Opening Remarks (by AMS President Alexander E. “Sandy” MacDonald)

9:15 AM
Introduction of Moderator McCann (MacDonald)

9:16 AM
Introduction of Speakers (McCann)

9:20 AM
Opening Remarks of Speakers

10:05 AM
Q&A

10:30 AM
Concluding Remarks

10:30 AM-11:00 AM: Monday, 11 January 2016


Coffee Break
Location: La Nouvelle Foyer ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)

11:00 AM-12:00 PM: Monday, 11 January 2016

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Joint Session 1
Weather Observing Systems Via Airborne Platforms
Location: Room 355 ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)
Hosts: (Joint between the 32nd Conference on Environmental Information Processing Technologies; and the Fifth Aviation, Range, and Aerospace Meteorology Special Symposium )
Cochairs: Steve Abelman, FAA; Randall Bass, FAA
11:00 AM
J1.1
11:45 AM
J1.4
The ASAPS Weather Observing System for Remotely Piloted Aircraft
Brian D. Griffith, PEMDAS Technologies & Innovations, Monument, CO; and M. L. Gauthier

12:00 PM-1:30 PM: Monday, 11 January 2016


Lunch Break

1:30 PM-2:30 PM: Monday, 11 January 2016

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Lecture 1
Walter Orr Roberts Lecture
Location: La Nouvelle A ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)

2:30 PM-4:00 PM: Monday, 11 January 2016


Formal Poster Viewing with Coffee Break
Location: Hall D/E ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)

5:30 PM-7:30 PM: Monday, 11 January 2016


Exhibits Opening Reception, Ribbon Cutting, and Corporate Recognition
Location: Hall D/E ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)

Tuesday, 12 January 2016

9:45 AM-11:00 AM: Tuesday, 12 January 2016


Formal Poster Viewing with Coffee Break
Location: Hall D/E ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)

12:00 PM-1:30 PM: Tuesday, 12 January 2016


Lunch Break

1:30 PM-2:30 PM: Tuesday, 12 January 2016

Recording files available
Lecture 2
Bernhard Haurwitz Lecture
Location: La Nouvelle C ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)

1:30 PM-3:00 PM: Tuesday, 12 January 2016

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Joint Session 3
International Applications: Science to Services (including volcanic ash): Multi-Hazard Impact-based Risk Assessments and Warnings - Challenges and Opportunities
Location: Room 348/349 ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)
Hosts: (Joint between the 32nd Conference on Environmental Information Processing Technologies; and the Fifth Aviation, Range, and Aerospace Meteorology Special Symposium )
Cochairs: John R. Lincoln, US Navy/WMO (Ret.) and Consultant; Ian Lisk, UK Met Office; Baudouin Raoult, ECMWF
1:30 PM
J3.1
The NASA Applied Sciences Program: Volcanic Ash Observations and Applications
John J. Murray, NASA Langley Research Center, Hampton, VA; and D. S. Green, T. D. Fairlie, J. P. Vernier, C. Trepte, N. A. Krotkov, and M. J. Pavolonis
1:45 PM
J3.2
Automated Utilization of Weather Satellites for Global Mitigation of Aviation Related Volcanic Hazards
Michael J. Pavolonis, NOAA/NESDIS, Madison, WI; and J. Sieglaff and J. L. Cintineo
2:45 PM
J3.6
Impacts of Climate Variability on Commercial Aviation Operations
Christopher Justus Goodman, University of Hawaii at Manoa, Honolulu, HI; and J. D. Small Griswold

3:00 PM-3:30 PM: Tuesday, 12 January 2016


Coffee Break
Location: Hall D ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)

Wednesday, 13 January 2016

8:30 AM-10:00 AM: Wednesday, 13 January 2016

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Session 1
Aviation Weather Hazards to the National Airspace System
Location: Room 344 ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)
Host: Fifth Aviation, Range, and Aerospace Meteorology Special Symposium
Cochairs: Alex Mahalov, Arizona State University; John J. Murray, NASA Langley Research Center
8:45 AM
1.2
Discrimination Between Winter Precipitation Types Based on Spectral-bin Microphysical Modeling
Heather D. Reeves, CIMMS/Univ. of Oklahoma and NOAA/NSSL, Norman, OK; and A. Ryzhkov, J. Krause, and W. Bartolini
9:00 AM
1.3
9:30 AM
1.5
Application of a Subgrid-Scale Cloud Parameterization to Improve RAP and HRRR Cloud Ceiling Forecasts
Jaymes Kenyon, NOAA/ESRL and CIRES, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO; and J. B. Olson, J. M. Brown, W. M. Angevine, and G. Thompson
9:45 AM
1.6
Comparison of In-Situ Turbulence Indicators Obtained from Flight Data
Soo-Hyun Kim, Yonsei Univ., Seoul, South Korea; and H. Y. Chun and P. W. Chan

10:00 AM-10:30 AM: Wednesday, 13 January 2016


Coffee Break
Location: Hall D ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)

10:30 AM-12:00 PM: Wednesday, 13 January 2016

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Session 2
Impacts of Weather on the Nation's Aviation System
Location: Room 344 ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)
Host: Fifth Aviation, Range, and Aerospace Meteorology Special Symposium
Cochairs: Michael Robinson, AvMet Applications Inc.; Matt Fronzak, The MITRE Corporation
10:45 AM
2.2
Improvements in Forecasting Regions of Aviation Hazard Impact from Advances in the HRRR and RAP Models
Stephen S. Weygandt, NOAA/ESRL, Boulder, CO; and C. R. Alexander, S. G. Benjamin, T. G. Smirnova, D. C. Dowell, M. Hu, J. B. Olson, J. Kenyon, E. P. James, H. Lin, and I. Jankov
11:00 AM
2.3
Success in Mitigating a Bad Situation: Intense, Long-Lived Thunderstorms Over the Atlanta Airport on 24 June 2015
Matthew Bloemer, NOAA/NWS, Hampton, GA; and C. A. West, S. E. Nelson, and P. A. Atwell
11:15 AM
2.4
Enabling GBAS Operations in Challenging Ionospheric Conditions
Joseph Kunches, Atmospheric & Space Technology Research Associates, Boulder, CO; and G. Crowley and I. Azeem
11:30 AM
2.5
Translating Convective Weather Forecasts into Strategic Traffic Management Decision Aids
Michael Matthews, MIT Lincoln Laboratory, Lexington, MA; and J. Venuti and R. DeLaura
11:45 AM
2.6
Convective Weather Avoidance Polygon (CWAP) Algorithm Improvements and Applications
Laura J. Bickmeier, MIT Lincoln Laboratory, Lexington, MA; and R. DeLaura and M. Ishutkina

12:00 PM-1:30 PM: Wednesday, 13 January 2016


Lunch Break

1:30 PM-2:30 PM: Wednesday, 13 January 2016

Recording files available
Lecture 3
Horton Lecture
Location: Room 244 ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)
Hosts: (Joint between the 32nd Conference on Environmental Information Processing Technologies; the 23rd Conference on Probability and Statistics in the Atmospheric Sciences; the Fourth Symposium on the Weather, Water, and Climate Enterprise; the Fifth Aviation, Range, and Aerospace Meteorology Special Symposium; the Seventh Conference on Environment and Health; the 22nd Conference on Applied Climatology; the 13th Conference on Space Weather; the 19th Joint Conference on the Applications of Air Pollution Meteorology with the A&WMA; the 30th Conference on Hydrology; the Special Sessions on US-International Partnerships; the 25th Symposium on Education; the 14th Symposium on the Coastal Environment; the 12th Annual Symposium on New Generation Operational Environmental Satellite Systems; the Fourth Symposium on Building a Weather-Ready Nation: Enhancing Our Nation’s Readiness, Responsiveness, and Resilience to High Impact Weather Events; the Fourth AMS Symposium on the Joint Center for Satellite Data Assimilation (JCSDA); the Peter Lamb Symposium; the 20th Conference on Integrated Observing and Assimilation Systems for the Atmosphere, Oceans, and Land Surface (IOAS-AOLS); the 18th Symposium on Meteorological Observation and Instrumentation; the 14th Conference on Artificial and Computational Intelligence and its Applications to the Environmental Sciences; the 11th Symposium on Societal Applications: Policy, Research and Practice; the Seventh Conference on Weather, Climate, Water and the New Energy Economy; the Sixth Conference on Transition of Research to Operations; the Fourth Symposium on Prediction of the Madden-Julian Oscillation: Processes, Prediction and Impact; the 28th Conference on Climate Variability and Change; the Events; the 18th Conference on Atmospheric Chemistry; the 14th History Symposium; the Eighth Symposium on Aerosol–Cloud–Climate Interactions; and the Special Symposium on Seamless Weather and Climate Prediction—Expectations and Limits of Multi-scale Predictability )
1:30 PM
L3.1
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Session 3
Translation of Forecast Uncertainty into Capacity Impact Uncertainty
Location: Room 344 ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)
Host: Fifth Aviation, Range, and Aerospace Meteorology Special Symposium
Cochairs: Jason C. Knievel, NCAR; Le Jiang, IMSG
2:00 PM
3.3
Development and Validation of Korean Aviation Turbulence Guidance (KTG) System
Hye-Yeong Chun, Yonsei Univ., Seoul, South Korea; and D. B. Lee and S. H. Kim

2:30 PM-4:00 PM: Wednesday, 13 January 2016


Formal Poster Viewing with Coffee Break
Location: Hall D/E ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)

Poster Session 1
Aviation's Usable Regions of Airspace, Hazards and Mitigations
Host: Fifth Aviation, Range, and Aerospace Meteorology Special Symposium
821
Exploring Variants of the Experimental Collaborative Decision Making (CDM) Convective Forecast Planning (CCFP) Guidance
Steven A. Lack, NOAA/NWS/NCEP/Aviation Weather Center, Kansas City, MO; and B. R. J. Schwedler

824
Key Enablers to Station Keeping High Altitude Long Endurance Balloons in Service to Society
Randall J. Alliss, Northrop Grumman Corporation, McLean, VA; and B. D. Felton and M. Mason

825
Using Reforecasts to Improve Forecasting of Fog and Visibility for Aviation
Gregory R. Herman, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO

826
Results of the NASA Kennedy Space Center 50-MHz Doppler Radar Wind Profiler Operational Acceptance Test
Robert E. Barbre Jr., Jacobs, Huntsville, AL; and R. K. Decker, F. B. Leahy, and L. L. Huddleston
Manuscript (812.4 kB)

Poster 827 is being presented as J1.2A under EIPT on Monday

830
Evaluation of Total Lightning Data in the Aviation Weather Testbed
Brian P. Pettegrew, CIRA/Colorado State Univ., Kansas City, MO; and B. Entwistle and S. A. Lack

831
Probability of Turbulence in the Aviation Weather Testbed
Brian P. Pettegrew, CIRA/Colorado State Univ., Kansas City, MO

832
World Area Forecast System Updates for Medium and Long Term Goals
Brian P. Pettegrew, CIRA/Colorado State Univ., Kansas City, MO; and J. H. Kim and M. Strahan

834
Three Dimensional Aviation-Specific Hydrometeor Classification for Polarimetric WSR-88D Network
Lin Tang, CIMMS/Univ. of Oklahoma, Norman, OK; and K. Elmore, J. Zhang, H. Grams, and K. W. Howard

835
Canadian Radar Quality Control in Multi-Radar-Multi-Sensor System
Lin Tang, CIMMS/Univ. of Oklahoma, Norman, OK; and J. Zhang, C. Langston, and K. Cooper
Manuscript (2.3 MB)

837
Temporal and Spatial Variability of Wind Profiles for Use in Aviation Planning
Joseph A. Grim, NCAR, Boulder, CO; and J. C. Knievel, A. P. Mizzi, and F. Vandenberghe

839
Recent Efforts in Cloud & Visibility Forecast Techniques at the Aviation Weather Testbed
Benjamin R. J. Schwedler, NOAA/NWS/NCEP/Aviation Weather Center & CIRA, Kansas City, MO; and S. A. Lack and A. Cross

841
Offshore Radar-like Analyses and Forecasts for Aviation
Christopher J. Mattioli, MIT Lincoln Laboratory, Lexington, MA; and M. S. Veillette, H. Iskenderian, E. P. Hassey, and P. M. Lamey

842
Ceiling and Visibility Forecasting with the Graphical Forecast Editor at the Aviation Weather Testbed
Austin Cross, NOAA/NWS/NCEP/Aviation Weather Center, Kansas City, MO; and S. A. Lack and B. R. J. Schwedler

845
Integrated Turbulence Forecasts
James Foerster, Schneider Electric, Minneapolis, MN

4:00 PM-5:30 PM: Wednesday, 13 January 2016

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Session 4
United States Government and International Perspectives
Location: Room 344 ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)
Host: Fifth Aviation, Range, and Aerospace Meteorology Special Symposium
Cochairs: Cecilia Miner, NOAA/NWS; Timothy H. Miner, Allied Pilots Association
4:00 PM
4.1
FAA NextGen Weather Systems
Alfred Moosakhanian, FAA, Washington, District of Columbia; and R. Segers, W. N. Brown, and X. Yang
4:30 PM
4.3
Responding to Changing Operator Needs and Bridging the Gap to NextGen: Aviation Weather Highlights from 2015
Thomas P. Kiley Jr., AvMet Applications, Inc., Washington, DC; and S. Albersheim, M. P. Murphy, L. Burch, T. J. Helms Jr., and M. K. Peterson
4:45 PM
4.4
USAF Global Air Land Weather Exploitation Model
Ralph O. Stoffler, US Air Force, Washington, DC
5:15 PM
4.6

5:30 PM-6:30 PM: Wednesday, 13 January 2016


Awards Banquet Reception in the Exhibit Hall
Location: Hall D ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)

7:00 PM-10:00 PM: Wednesday, 13 January 2016


96th AMS Awards Banquet
Location: Great Hall ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)