96th American Meteorological Society Annual Meeting

Location: Room 345 ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)

Host: 15th Annual Student Conference

Speaker: Thomas J. Bogdan, UCAR

Session 6B

Location: Room 346/347 ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)

Host: 15th Annual Student Conference

Speaker: Daniel P. Brown, NOAA/NWS/NHC

Session 6C

Location: Room 348/349 ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)

Host: 15th Annual Student Conference

Speakers: Michael Chapman, AMS Intelligent Transportation Systems; Curtis Louis Walker, AMS Intelligent Transportation Systems

Session 6D

Location: Room 350/351 ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)

Host: 15th Annual Student Conference

Speaker: Emily V. Fischer, Colorado State University

Session 6E

Location: Room 352 ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)

Host: 15th Annual Student Conference

Speaker: Michael Fowler, Vaisala

Session 6F

Location: Room 353 ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)

Host: 15th Annual Student Conference

Speaker: Bart Geerts, Univ. of Wyoming

Session 6G

Conversations with Professionals (Cancelled)

Location: Room 255/257 ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)

Host: 15th Annual Student Conference

Speaker: Matthew Green, FEMA

Session 6H

Location: Room 252/254 ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)

Host: 15th Annual Student Conference

Speaker: Alek J. Krautmann, NWS

Session 6I

Location: Room 245 ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)

Host: 15th Annual Student Conference

Speaker: Bill Lapenta, NOAA/NWS/NCEP

Session 6J

Location: Room 244 ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)

Host: 15th Annual Student Conference

Speaker: Frank Marks, AOML

Session 6K

Location: Room 243 ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)

Host: 15th Annual Student Conference

Speaker: Margaret Orr, WDSU – New Orleans

Session 6L

Location: Room 242 ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)

Host: 15th Annual Student Conference

Speakers: Jeffrey Pereira, NOAA Corps; Rebecca Waddington, NOAA Corps

Session 6M

Breakout Session: Beyond the Weather: Getting the Word Out: Science Policy and Communication

Location: Room 255/257 ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)

Host: 15th Annual Student Conference

Speaker: Emily N. Wilson, Delta Air Lines

3:15 PM-3:45 PM: Saturday, 9 January 2016

Session 7

Integrated Warning Team I: Introduction to Emergency Management

Location: La Nouvelle C ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)

Host: 15th Annual Student Conference

Speakers: Tanja Fransen, NOAA/NWS; Kevin A. Kloesel, University of Oklahoma

Chair: Thomas Bedard, National Disaster Preparedness Training Center

3:15 PM

Tom Bedard

Recorded Presentation

3:45 PM-4:00 PM: Saturday, 9 January 2016

Break

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

4:00 PM-5:15 PM: Saturday, 9 January 2016

Session 8

Extreme Weather Events

Location: La Nouvelle C ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)

Host: 15th Annual Student Conference

Chair: Colin Raymond, Columbia University

4:00 PM

8.1

A Tale of Two Blizzards: Communicating Risk and Forecast Uncertainty to the Public During Two Significant Northeast Storms

Melissa Di Spigna, National Weather Service New York CWSU, Upton, NY

Recorded Presentation

4:15 PM

8.2

Forecasting Fire Weather in the United States

Ariel E. Cohen, NOAA/NWS/NCEP/SPC, Norman, OK

Recorded Presentation

4:30 PM

8.3

The Devastating Flash Floods of 2015

J.J. Gourley, NOAA/NSSL, Norman, OK

Recorded Presentation

4:45 PM

8.4

Wanted: A New Type of Meteorologist for Decision Support in a Crisis

Kenneth Graham, NOAA/NWS, New Orleans, LA

Recorded Presentation

5:00 PM

Concluding Remarks

Recorded Presentation

5:30 PM-7:30 PM: Saturday, 9 January 2016

AMS Career Fair Opening Reception

Location: Hall E ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)

Sunday, 10 January 2016

7:00 AM-12:00 PM: Sunday, 10 January 2016

WeatherReady Nation Scout Event

Location: Room 252/254 ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)

7:30 AM-9:00 AM: Sunday, 10 January 2016

Registration for Short Courses and Conference for Early Career Professionals

Location: Hall D pre-function ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)

8:30 AM-12:30 PM: Sunday, 10 January 2016

AMS Volunteer Project

8:30 AM-5:00 PM: Sunday, 10 January 2016

Coastal Surge and Inundation Modeling Short Course

Location: Room 352 ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)

GIS Tutorial for Atmospheric Sciences

Location: Room 354 ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)

8:30 AM-5:30 PM: Sunday, 10 January 2016

A Beginner's course to Using Python in Climate and Meteorology

Location: Room 357 ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)

AMS Short Course on Meteorological Measurements and Instrumentation

Location: Room 350/351 ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)

AMS Short Course: GOES-R and JPSS Preview for Users

Location: Room 355 ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)

Introduction to PyNIO and Related Python Tools for Geoscientific Data Analysis Short Course

Location: Room 356 ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)

Registration for Student Conference and Short Courses

Location: Hall D pre-function ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)

9:00 AM-9:30 AM: Sunday, 10 January 2016

Session 1

Opening Remarks

Location: Room 243 ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)

Host: Fourth AMS Conference for Early Career Professionals

Cochairs: Matthew C. Lacke, Jefferson County Department of Health; Jared Rennie, CICS/North Carolina State University; Christopher J. Schultz, NASA/MSFC

Keynote Speaker Session 9

Keynote Address

Location: La Nouvelle C ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)

Host: 15th Annual Student Conference

Chair: Joshua J. Alland, SUNY

9:00 AM

9.1

Developing Leadership Skills

Roger Wakimoto, NSF, Arlington, VA

Recorded Presentation

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)

9:30 AM-9:45 AM: Sunday, 10 January 2016

Break

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

Break

9:45 AM-10:40 AM: Sunday, 10 January 2016

Session 10A

Breakout Session: Preparing for your Future: How to Succeed in Graduate School

Location: La Nouvelle C ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)

Host: 15th Annual Student Conference

Chair: Kenzie Krocak, University of Oklahoma

9:45 AM

10A.1

Things to Consider when Applying to Graduate School

William A. Gallus Jr., Iowa State University, Ames, IA

Recorded Presentation

10:00 AM

10A.2

Choosing an Academic Adviser

April L. Hiscox, University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC

Recorded Presentation

10:15 AM

10A.3

From Survival to Success in Graduate School

Susan C. Van den Heever, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO

Recorded Presentation

10:30 AM

Q&A

Session 10B

Breakout Session: Preparing for your Future: Weather Outside the Lines

Location: La Nouvelle A ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)

Host: 15th Annual Student Conference

Chair: Danielle Kozlowski, WSI

9:45 AM

10B.1

Experiences and Opportunities in Atmospheric Observation Using Unmanned Aerial Systems

Jamie L. Dyer, Mississippi State University, Mississippi State, MS

Recorded Presentation

10:00 AM

10B.2

Wild about Weather

David W. Chapman, Okemos High School, Okemos, MI; and K. Murphy

Recorded Presentation

10:15 AM

10B.3

Mentors, Networking, and a Career Outside the Lines

Steve Graham, NASA Outreach/Education, n/a, n/a

Recorded Presentation

10:30 AM

Q&A

9:45 AM-11:45 AM: Sunday, 10 January 2016

Joint Session 1

Making Yourself Stand Out: Communication and Networking

Location: Room 243 ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)

Hosts: (Joint between the Fourth AMS Conference for Early Career Professionals; and the 15th Annual Student Conference )

Keynote: Kim J. Runk, NOAA/NWS

Cochairs: Cody Kirkpatrick, Indiana University; Samantha A. Tushaus, Space Science and Engineering Center

9:45 AM

Introductory Remarks

9:50 AM

Keynote Speaker: Becoming Indispensable

10:15 AM

Small Group Rotating Discussions

10:20 AM-11:45 AM: Sunday, 10 January 2016

Joint Session 2A

Group Discussion 1: Creating or Improving Your Elevator Pitch

Location: Room 244 ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)

Hosts: (Joint between the Fourth AMS Conference for Early Career Professionals; and the 15th Annual Student Conference )

Facilitator: Angel McCoy, Bureau of Ocean Energy Management

Joint Session 2B

Group Discussion 2: Sweat the Small Stuff: What Matters in a Job Interview

Location: Room 242 ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)

Hosts: (Joint between the Fourth AMS Conference for Early Career Professionals; and the 15th Annual Student Conference )

Facilitator: Wes Hyduke, Schneider Electric

Joint Session 2C

Group Discussion 3: Communication When It Counts

Location: Room 245 ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)

Hosts: (Joint between the Fourth AMS Conference for Early Career Professionals; and the 15th Annual Student Conference )

Facilitator: Matt Rogers, Commodity Weather Group, LLC

10:40 AM-10:50 AM: Sunday, 10 January 2016

Break

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

10:50 AM-11:45 AM: Sunday, 10 January 2016

Session 11A

Breakout Session: Beyond the Weather: Tools of the Trade

Location: La Nouvelle C ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)

Host: 15th Annual Student Conference

Cochairs: Stacey M. Hitchcock, Colorado State University; Aryeh J. Drager, Colorado State University

10:50 AM

LaTeX

Jordan R. Bell, University of Alabama in Huntsville, Huntsville, AL

Audio File
Recorded Presentation

10:55 AM

Version Control

Emily V. Fischer, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO

Recorded Presentation

11:00 AM

Fortran

Steve Herbener, Colorado State University, Ft. Collins, CO

Recorded Presentation

11:05 AM

AWIPS

Eric P. Jacobsen, NWS Warning Decision Training Division, Norman, OK

Recorded Presentation

11:10 AM

Python

Patrick T. Marsh, NOAA/NWS/NCEP/SPC, Norman, OK

Recorded Presentation

11:15 AM

WRF

Andrew E. Mercer, Mississippi State Univ., Mississippi State, MS

Recorded Presentation

11:20 AM

WSI

Kweilyn Murphy, WDSU – New Orleans, n/a, n/a

Recorded Presentation

11:25 AM

Big Data

Kevin Tyle, University at Albany, SUNY, Albany, NY

Recorded Presentation

11:30 AM

GIS

Greg Dobson, University of North Carolina, Asheville, NC

Recorded Presentation

Panel Discussion 11B

Location: La Nouvelle A ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)

Host: 15th Annual Student Conference

Moderator: Matthew D. Flournoy, University of Oklahoma

Panelists: Nolan J. Doesken, Colorado State Climatologist; Jen Henderson, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University; Paul Higgins, AMS Policy Program; Paul A. Newman, NASA/GSFC

10:50 AM

Science Policy and Communication -- Josh Alland

Recorded Presentation

11:45 AM-12:00 PM: Sunday, 10 January 2016

Break

12:00 PM-12:30 PM: Sunday, 10 January 2016

Session 12

Embracing the Interface of Science and Society

Location: La Nouvelle C ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)

Host: 15th Annual Student Conference

Speaker: Louis W. Uccellini, Director, NOAA/NWS

Chair: Erik R. Nielsen, Colorado State University

12:00 PM

Ongoing Evolution of the National Weather Service and Skill Set of the Future Workforce

Louis W. Uccellini, NWS, Silver Spring, MD

Recorded Presentation

12:00 PM-4:00 PM: Sunday, 10 January 2016

Weatherfest

Location: Hall C ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)

12:30 PM-12:35 PM: Sunday, 10 January 2016

Session 13

Closing Remarks and Poster Session Announcements

Location: La Nouvelle C ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)

Host: 15th Annual Student Conference

12:30 PM

Closing Remarks -- Josh Alland

Recorded Presentation

12:30 PM-4:30 PM: Sunday, 10 January 2016

AMS Volunteer Project

12:35 PM-2:00 PM: Sunday, 10 January 2016

Lunch (On Your Own)

1:00 PM-1:30 PM: Sunday, 10 January 2016

Session 2

Getting the Ball Rolling: An Open Dialog with Your Peers

Location: Room 243 ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)

Host: Fourth AMS Conference for Early Career Professionals

Chair: Matthew C. Lacke, Jefferson County Department of Health

1:30 PM-1:40 PM: Sunday, 10 January 2016

Session 3

Remarks from the AMS President

Location: Room 243 ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)

Host: Fourth AMS Conference for Early Career Professionals

Speaker: Alexander MacDonald, NOAA/ESRL

1:30 PM-5:30 PM: Sunday, 10 January 2016

Soil Moisture Short Course

Location: Room 348/349 ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)

1:40 PM-3:00 PM: Sunday, 10 January 2016

Session 4

Small Group Rotating Discussions: Mentors and Soft Skills for Early Career Professionals

Location: Room 243 ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)

Host: Fourth AMS Conference for Early Career Professionals

Cochairs: Erik S. Pytlak, Bonneville Power Administration; Elizabeth McGiffin, KTVL-TV CBS10

1:40 PM

Introductory Remarks

1:45 PM

Small Group Rotating Discussions

1:50 PM-3:00 PM: Sunday, 10 January 2016

Session 5A

Group Discussion 1: Selecting a Mentor

Location: Room 243 ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)

Host: Fourth AMS Conference for Early Career Professionals

Facilitator: Wendy Abshire, UCAR/COMET

Session 5B

Group Discussion 2: Soft Skills in the Workplace

Location: Room 244 ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)

Host: Fourth AMS Conference for Early Career Professionals

Facilitator: Jon Nese, Pennsylvania State University

2:00 PM-3:00 PM: Sunday, 10 January 2016

Workshop Session 14B

Résumé Workshop I

Location: Room 238/239 ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)

Host: 15th Annual Student Conference

Speakers: Christopher Alston, Mars, Inc.; Carolyn Brinkworth, UCAR; Rebecca Haacker, NCAR; Valerie Sloan, UCAR

Chair: Olga V. Tweedy, The Johns Hopkins University

2:00 PM

Applying for Jobs in Academia or Grad School -- Valerie Sloan

Recorded Presentation

2:00 PM

Deep Dive Into Private Sector Careers -- Chris Alston

Recorded Presentation

2:00 PM-3:30 PM: Sunday, 10 January 2016

Workshop Session 14A

Integrated Warning Team II: In Their Rainboots Workshop

Location: La Nouvelle C ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)

Host: 15th Annual Student Conference

Speakers: Tanja Fransen, NOAA/NWS; Matthew J. Moreland, NOAA/NWSFO

Chair: Thomas Bedard, National Disaster Preparedness Training Center

2:00 PM

Josh Alland

Recorded Presentation

3:00 PM-4:00 PM: Sunday, 10 January 2016

Newcomer’s Welcome and Informational Exchange

Location: Room 255/257 ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)

Session 6

Networking with AMS Professionals and Coffee Break

Location: Room 243 ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)

Host: Fourth AMS Conference for Early Career Professionals

Speaker: Frederick H. Carr, University of Oklahoma

Cochairs: Christopher J. Schultz, University of Alabama; Andrew L. Molthan, NASA/MSFC

3:30 PM-4:30 PM: Sunday, 10 January 2016

Workshop Session 15

Résumé Workshop II

Location: Room 238/239 ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)

Host: 15th Annual Student Conference

Speakers: Carolyn Brinkworth, NCAR; Rebecca Haacker, NCAR; Valerie Sloan, UCAR; Nicholas Troiano, Mars Inc.

Chair: Olga V. Tweedy, The Johns Hopkins University

3:30 PM

Josh Alland

Recorded Presentation

4:00 PM-5:00 PM: Sunday, 10 January 2016

GoExtreme at AMS 2016

Location: Room 244 ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)

Moderator: Kenneth Dewey, Univ. of Nebraska

Panel Discussion 1

Perspectives from a Panel of Professionals

Location: Room 243 ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)

Host: Fourth AMS Conference for Early Career Professionals

Moderator: Matthew C. Lacke, Jefferson County Department of Health

Panelists: Joshua D. Durkee, Western Kentucky University; Christopher Alston, Mars, Inc.; Kerrin A. Jeromin, WPEC-TV CBS12; Charlie Woodrum, NWS

4:00 PM-5:30 PM: Sunday, 10 January 2016

96th Annual Review, New Fellows, and Featured Awards

Location: Room 252/254 ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)

5:00 PM-5:15 PM: Sunday, 10 January 2016

Session 7

Closing Remarks

Location: Room 243 ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)

Host: Fourth AMS Conference for Early Career Professionals

Cochairs: Matthew C. Lacke, Jefferson County Department of Health; Jared Rennie, CICS/North Carolina State University; Christopher J. Schultz, NASA/MSFC

5:00 PM-7:00 PM: Sunday, 10 January 2016

AMS Career Fair

Location: Hall E ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)

5:45 PM-7:15 PM: Sunday, 10 January 2016

Poster Session

Student Conference Poster Session

Location: Hall E ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)

Host: Events

Welcome Reception Honoring Newly Elected Fellows and Featured Award Winners

Location: Room 252/254 Foyer ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)

Poster Session 1

Student Conference Poster Session

Location: Hall E ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)

Host: 15th Annual Student Conference

Chair: Daniel Rothenberg, MIT

Effects of 19th Century Records on Precipitation Trends for Select Midwestern Cities

Brendan C. Wallace, Midwestern Regional Climate Center, University of Illinois, Champaign, IL; and N. E. Westcott

The Correlation between Mercury, Ions, and Weather Conditions at PA-47

Ashley Orehek, Millersville University, Millersville, PA; and A. Yarosh, P. Lueng, and R. Clark

Aldehyde and Seek: Tracking R-CHO Production through the Ozonolysis of VOCs in Household Air Fresheners

Improved Performance by the TIE-GCM with the Inclusion of Helium as a Major Species

Frederick R. Schmidt, Air Force Institute of Technology, WPAFB, OH; and R. D. Loper, E. K. Sutton, and W. F. Bailey

The relationship of turbulence and nitrogen oxides within and above a tropical forest canopy

Scott Meyer, Dallas, TX; and J. D. Fuentes and T. Gerken

Estimation of Tropospheric OH and Cl concentrations inferred from Non-Methane Hydrocarbons ratios over Southern California

Karimar Ledesma, UPRM, Mayaguez, PR; and D. R. Blake

Comparison of Front Range and East Coast power plant emissions using airborne measurement instrumentation aboard the NSF NCAR C-130

Meghan H. Stell, NCAR, Boulder, CO; and T. Campos

Predicting and comparing fugitive methane emissions in northeast Pennsylvania using numerical weather prediction

Michael J.W. Stewart, University of Georgia, Athens, GA; and Z. Barkley, T. Lauvaux, K. Davis, N. L. Miles, D. K. Martins, A. Karion, and C. Sweeney

Quantitative Analysis of Generation Processes of Greenhouse Gases Emitted from Landfill Sites Using Remote Sensing Technology

Usaama A. Van, Research Experience for Undergraduates (REU), Jackson Heights, NY; and M. R. Nakamura

S10

Evaluation of ClearSky2 for PM2.5 Concentrations and Plume Rise

Charles C. Morris, Valparaiso Univeristy, Saint Augustine, FL; and J. Vaughan and B. K. Lamb

S11

Changes in Aerosol Optical Depth and PM2.5 Concentrations due to Trash Burning

Rachel Cucinotta, STORM- Student Organization of Meteorology, Mt. Laurel, NJ; and J. Kodros, B. Ford, C. Wiedinmyer, and J. R. Pierce

S12

Evaluating the Variability of Saharan Dust Plume Origin and Composition from In Situ Samples

Daniel Yeager, Howard University, Washington, DC; and V. Morris

S13

Aerosol Optical Depth Measurements Using a Handheld Sun Photometer

Edmar Felix Ruano, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX; and C. K. Landry, T. W. Spencer, and C. Nowotarski

S14

Direct Measurement of the Impact of Atmospheric Processing on the Size and Properties of Sub- and Super-micron Aerosol Particles

Gary Aaron Alexander, Texas A&M, Reno, NV; and D. R. Collins and M. A. Salgado

S15

Studies in California Wildfires, Aerosols, and Health Effects

Lenetta Mallory, NCAS, Jackson, MS; and J. Darensbourg, R. S. Reddy, and M. Fadavi

S16

Preliminary Analysis of Aerosol Concentrations Near a Proposed Silica Transfer Station

Matthew C. Sanders, Hobart and William Smith Colleges, Geneva, NY; and S. D. Brooks

S17

Size Resolved Aerosol Composition around Rocky Mountain National Park

Rachel Sussman, CMMAP, La Verne, CA

S18

Examining Ice Nuclei Efficiency and Optical Properties of the Resulting Ice Crystals

Matthew B. Wilson, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX; and S. D. Brooks, G. Xu, J. Zenker, K. Collier, and F. Team

S19

Optical Properties, Hygroscopicity, and Morphology of Β-Caryophyllene Secondary Organic Aerosol

Stephanie Michelle Neumann, Penn State University, University Park, PA; and M. B. Altaf and M. Freedman

S20

Transport of Canadian Wildfire Smoke to the Mid-Atlantic U.S

Shelbi N. Tippett, JCET/Univ. of Maryland Baltimore County, Baltimore, MD; and J. Roman

Handout (2.7 MB)

S21

Regional Aerosol-Cloud Analysis: Vertical Distributions and Seasonal Fluctuations from CALIOP

Ashley Heikkila, University of Hawai'i at Manoa, Honolulu, HI; and J. Small Griswold

S22

Quantification of aerosol-cloud shortwave radiative effects in stratiform cloud cover

Alyson Rose Douglas, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI

S23

An Analysis of Stratospheric Intrusion Ozone Events and Their Meteorological Influences

Elizabeth Lennartson, University of Iowa, Ames, IA; and C. Maiers, W. J. Gutowski, and A. McClure-Begley

S24

Hemispheric Differences in the Transport of Chemical Tracers in the Tropical Lower Stratosphere

Olga V. Tweedy, The Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD; and D. Waugh

S26

Forecasting Air Quality in a Changing Atmosphere during Recent Historically Low Ozone Years in Delaware

Faith A. Eherts, Penn State University, University Park, PA

S25

The Effects of Atmospheric Chemistry on Projected Ozone Concentrations in Response Emission Control Strategies in the South Coast Air Basin

S27

Testing an Inexpensive Ozone Micro-Sensor Against Research Grade Ozone Sensors

Luke Leclair-Marzolf, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT

S28

Ground Level Ozone Production on High Albedo Days in Denver, CO

Jordan Kehaulani Wilkes, Metropolitan State University of Denver, Denver, CO

S29

Convection and Redistribution of Tropospheric Ozone in Central Amazonia

Randy J. Chase, SUNY, Brockport, NY; and J. D. Fuentes, T. Gerken, D. Wei, C. Schumacher, L. Machado, R. M. N. Santos, S. T. Martin, and S. Springston

S30

The correlation between surface temperature, humidity, and snow crystal type to upper atmospheric conditions in Boulder, CO

Joel Hansen, Metropolitan State University of Denver, Denver, CO

S31

Estimating the Transient Climate Response

Brooke K. Adams, Hobart and William Smith Colleges, Geneva, NY; and M. Winton

S32

The Atmospheric Circulation Conditions During the Amundsen and Scott South Pole Race, 1911-1912

Megan E. Jones, Ohio University, Athens, OH; and R. L. Fogt

S33

The Southern Hemisphere Dynamics of Forecast Uncertainty in the THORPEX Interactive Grand Global Ensemble (TIGGE)

Matthew D. Miksch, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX; and M. A. Herrera and I. Szunyogh

S34

Analysis of a better-resolved stratosphere on seasonal forecasts of the Northern Hemisphere Winter

Andre Hernandez-Espiet, University of Puerto Rico at Mayaguez, Mayaguez, PR; and J. H. Richter and C. C. Chen

S35

Modulation of Variability and Projected Change in Winter Precipitation by Extratropical Cyclone Activity over Mid-latitude Regions

Joseph P. Clark, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY; and E. K. M. Chang

S36

The role of temperature and precipitation on mass balance of the Taku and Lemon Creek Glaciers, Alaska (1946-2015)

Arianna Varuolo-Clarke, UCAR, BOULDER, CO; and M. Beedle

S37

Midlatitude Atmospheric Response to Arctic Amplification Using Pre-Industrial Climate Model Integrations

Douglas E. Miller, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN; and Y. Wu

Handout (358.6 kB)

S38

Exploring links between Madden-Julian Oscillation and Antarctic sea ice

Haadi ElSaawy, United States Naval Academy, Annapolis, MD; and G. R. Henderson and B. S. Barrett

S39

Comparison of Antarctic Cross Polarization Gradient Ratio Melt Quantities to Automated Surface Station Readings

John Reasons Jr., Univ of Tenn at Martin, Martin, TN; and C. Karmosky

S40

Effects of a Warming Climate on Daily Snowfall Events in the Northern Hemisphere

James Danco, University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK; and A. M. DeAngelis, B. Raney, and A. J. Broccoli

Handout (2.3 MB)

S41

A meteorological perspective of the hazardous outcomes during two consecutive February-March 2015 winter storms across Kentucky

Tori A. Hampton, Western Kentucky University, Bowling Green, KY; and J. Durkee

S42

Implications of Storm Size on Baroclinicity Generation by Snow Cover

Gabriel Bromley, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, Wisconsin; and A. R. Desai, J. E. Martin, M. Notaro, and S. J. Vavrus

S43

Examining Intensity During Extratropical Transition

Justin Alexander Baldizon Stark, CMMAP, Miami, FL

S44

Sensitivity of Strong Extratropical Cyclones to Large-Scale Climate Variability in the United States

Khara Lukancic, Southern Illinois University, Carbondale, IL; and J. T. Schoof

Handout (2.6 MB)

S45

Investigating the Relationship of Jet Streams with the Intensity and Track of North American Lee Cyclones

Kai Melamed-Turkish, McGill University, Montreal, QC, Canada; and K. Bowley, D. E. Atallah, and D. J. Gyakum

S46

North American Cyclone Teleconnection Relationships

Richard A. Diegan III, Department of Agriculture, Geosciences, and Natural Resources, Martin, TN; and R. M. Simpson and C. Karmosky

S47

Three-Dimensional Climatology of Upper-Level Wind Speed Trends for Brazil from 1980–2014

Joshua M. Gilliland, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA; and B. D. Keim

S48

A 16-year Climatology of the West African Offshore Rainfall Maximum

Kelly Marie Nunez Ocasio, University of Puerto Rico at Mayagüez, Mayagüez,, PR; and J. L. Evans and H. L. Hamilton

S49

Verification of GEFS Precipitation across the Eastern U.S

Nicholas Hayden Balderas, NSF, Katy, TX; and A. Mejia and R. Siddique

S50

Investigating Atmospheric Rivers Affecting Southern California

Sarah M. Harris, University of California, Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA; and L. Carvalho

S51

New Metric for Defining the Time of Extratropical Transition of Tropical Cyclones

Ajay Raghavendra, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, Daytona Beach, FL; and S. M. Milrad

Manuscript (653.3 kB)

Handout (2.5 MB)

S53

Examining Tropical Cyclone Development in the Southwest Caribbean Sea

Breanna L. Zavadoff, SUNY Stony Brook, Stony Brook, NY; and T. J. Galarneau Jr.

S54

TC Induced SST Anomalies in the Eastern Pacific

Andrew Huang, University of Illinois, Urbana, IL; and R. Sriver

S55

Observations of Low-Level Environments and Their Effects on Tornadoes Produced by Land-Falling Hurricanes

Jackeline Michelle Fain, Ohio University Chapter of the American Meteorological Society, athens, OH; and S. R. Marzola and J. Houser

S56

A GIS-Analysis of Tornadogenesis within Hurricanes

Montana Etten-Bohm, University of Alabama in Huntsville, Huntsville, AL

S52

Synoptic-scale precursors to the extratropical transitions of tropical cyclones that impacted the Northeast: an analysis of Irene (2011), Sandy (2012) and Andrea (2013)

S57

Radial and Azimuthal Variations in Convective Burst Structure in Tropical Cyclones from Airborne Doppler Observations

Joshua B. Wadler, University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK; and R. F. Rogers

S58

Which Hurricane Attributes are most Strongly Correlated with Maximum Storm Surge Height?

Stephen Kreller, University of Louisiana Monroe, Monroe, LA; and K. D. Leppert II and L. J. Hopper Jr.

S59

Numerical Simulations of the Storm Surge associated with Hurricane Isabel (2003)

Britney E. Hamilton, North Carolina A&T State University, Greensboro, NC; and Y. L. Lin

S60

Simulated response of the African monsoon and tropical precipitation to orbital precession

Jane Smyth, Yale University, New Haven, CT; and S. A. Hill and Y. Ming

S61

The Periodic Behavior of Tropical Available Potential Energy

Lindsey E. Nytes, University of Wisconsin - Madison, Madison, WI; and G. J. Tripoli

Handout (1.6 MB)

S62

The potential vorticity budget of multi-scale MJO models

Amanda Back, University of California, Davis, Davis, CA; and J. A. Biello and A. J. Majda

S63

The Influence of the Madden-Julian Oscillation on Large Daily Precipitation Events in West Africa

Awolou Silvere Sossa, UCAR/SOARS, Boulder, CO; and B. Liebmann, I. Blade, D. Allured, H. Hendon, and A. Hoell

S64

Exploring the synoptic differences between MJO initiation events identified by multiple algorithms

Rosa M. Vargas, University Corporation for Atmospheric Research (UCAR)-National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR), Boulder, CO; and L. M. Hartten

S65

An Evaluation and Constraint of Thermodynamic Boundary Conditions over the Maritime Continent

Jennifer Bukowski, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI; and D. J. Posselt, J. S. Reid, and S. A. Atwood

Handout (579.2 kB)

S66

Depicting Aviation Weather Threats in the Upper Troposphere in Hurricanes

Vanessa M. Przybylo, NOAA/AOML/HRD, Queensbury, NY

S67

Modeling Boundary Crossing Supercells

Aaron K. Scott, University of North Dakota, Grand Forks, ND; and M. S. Gilmore

S68

Impacts of Graupel Parameterization on Idealized and Real Case Simulations of Squall Lines

Steven Michael Naegele, Pennsylvania State University/Significant Opportunities in Atmospheric Research and Science, University Park, PA; and S. Tessendorf, T. Eidhammer, and G. Thompson

S69

Impacts of Forest Fire Smoke on Deep Convective Clouds in WRF-CHEM Simulations

Azusa Takeishi, Yale University, New Haven, CT; and T. Storelvmo

S70

WRF Model Precipitation Type Algorithms and Verification

Samuel C. Roback, State Climate Office of North Carolina, Raleigh, NC; and A. Sims

S72

Effects of Low-Level Vertical Wind Shear Orientation on Low-Level Rotation in Simulated Supercell Thunderstorms

Felicia R. Guarriello, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX; and C. J. Nowotarski

S73

Sensitivity of Physical Parameterization Schemes to Stochastic Initial Conditions of WRF Tornado Outbreak Simulations

Michelle Anne Elmore, Mississippi State University, Starkville, MS

S74

Understanding and Predicting Nocturnal Convection Initiation using an Ensemble-based Multi-scale Data Assimilation System

Samuel K. Degelia, CIMMS/Univ. of Oklahoma, Norman, Oklahoma; and X. Wang and D. J. Stensrud

S71

Sensitivity of a cold season, nocturnal squall line to planetary boundary layer and microphysical parameterizations

S75

Gust Front Detection Using Neuro-Fuzzy Algorithm with Polarimetric WSR-88D

Amber J. Liggett, Millersville University, Beaver, PA; and T. Y. Yu

S76

Operational uses of Spectrum Width to Improve Warnings for Quasi-Linear Convection in the Western Great Lakes

Brett Borchardt, NOAA/NWS, Romeoville, IL; and E. Lenning and M. Friedlein

S77

Radar-detected Mesocyclone Tilt in Tornadic and Nontornadic Supercells

Michelle M. Serino, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX; and C. J. Nowotarski

Handout (19.8 MB)

S78

Investigating Tornado Genesis Events Within the ARMOR Domain

Christopher A. Lisauckis, University of Alabama, Huntsville, AL; and K. R. Knupp, T. A. Murphy, T. A. Coleman, and A. W. Lyza

S79

Comparison of NEXRAD and GOES Identification of Overshooting Convection

Carolina A. Bieri, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX; and J. Cooney, K. Bedka, C. R. Homeyer, and K. P. Bowman

S80

Analysis of a Complex Mesovortex Evolution during the Second 30 June - 1 July 2014 Derecho Event

Adam W. Clayton, Univ. of Alabama, Huntsville, AL; and A. W. Lyza and R. Wade

S81

A U.S. climatology of mesoscale convective systems

Alex M. Haberlie, Northern Illinois Univ., DeKalb, IL; and W. S. Ashley

Handout (2.3 MB)

S82

Comparison of USA Tornado Days for Two Climatological Periods

Alexandra Marmo, Purdue University, Lafayette, IN; and E. M. Agee

S83

Investigating the Environments of Null Tornado Cases in North Alabama and Southern Middle Tennessee

Amanda M. Murphy, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL; and K. A. Biernat, B. C. Carcione, and C. B. Darden

S84

A Detailed Climatology of Central North Carolina Tornadoes

Raelene C. Campbell, NOAA, Valparaiso, IN; and J. Blaes and B. Locklear

S85

Synoptic-scale Precursors and Characteristics of High-end Tornado Outbreaks in the Southeastern Region of the United States

Benjamin David Dillahunt, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, Daytona Beach, FL; and S. M. Milrad

Manuscript (1.4 MB)

Handout (3.7 MB)

S87

Classification and Analysis of Tornado Outbreaks in Dixie Alley and Tornado Alley

Elisa M. Murillo, University of Louisiana at Monroe, Monroe, LA; and T. A. Murphy

S88

Tornado Climatology for the Appalachian Mountains Region of the Eastern United States

James J. Morrow, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA

S89

Nocturnal Tornado Outbreak Climatology

Alexander M. Elmore, Mississippi State University, Mascoutah, IL; and M. Brown, A. E. Mercer, and C. Fuhrmann

S90

Analysis of the 5 July 2015 Nocturnal Convective Initiation Event During the PECAN Field Campaign

Alexander Staarmann, University of Alabama in Huntsville, Huntsville, AL

S91

Analysis of the 14 July 2015 Nocturnal Convective Initiation Event During the PECAN Field Campaign

Ashley L. Ravenscraft, University of Alabama in Huntsville, Meridianville, AL

S92

Using profiles of water vapor, vertical wind, temperature, and pressure from continuously-operated instruments to characterize turbulent patterns and fluxes between the surface and boundary layer during the PECAN 2015 field campaign

K. Weber, NCAR and University of Colorado-Boulder, Boulder, CO; and T. M. Weckwerth and P. D. Blanken

S93

Examining the Nocturnal Stable Boundary Layer and Low-Level Jet during PECAN

Natalie Midzak, Millersville University, Millersville, PA; and M. McAuliffe, D. Bludis, C. Dearth, K. Fisher, M. Green, J. Hane, V. Hower, K. Morganti, E. Ntonados, A. Orehek, K. Piarulli, K. Pozsonyi, C. Prestine, N. Strickland, R. Clark, and T. Sikora

S86

The Impact of Dry Air on Location and Strength of Tornado Outbreaks Associated with Land Falling Atlantic Basin Tropical Cyclones

S94

Evolution and structure of night time waves and bores

Glorianne M. Rivera-Santiago, University of Miami/RSMAS, Miami, FL; and B. B. Demoz and R. Delgado

S95

Assessing the Southeast Pacific Stratocumulus Cloud Fraction Transition in MERRA Using CloudSat/CALIPSO

Claire E. Schirle, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Lincoln, NE; and A. D. Rapp and A. Zapalac

S96

Clear Lake Texas Extreme Rain Event Case Study

David S. Bonnette, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX; and C. J. Nowotarski and L. Wood

S97

Multi-scale Analysis of August 11th 2014 Metro Detroit Flash Flooding

Patrick Evan Saunders, Central Michigan University, Mt. Pleasant, MI; and D. M. A. Baxter

S98

Vertical Motions in Convective Clouds Over Darwin, Australia

Holly M. Mallinson, Texas A&M University, Monroe, LA; and C. Schumacher and F. Ahmed

S100

A New Technique for Stratus Forecasting in the San Francisco Bay Area

J.P. Kalb, San Jose State University, San Jose, CA

Handout (319.3 kB)

S102

Environmental Factors Contributing to the Development of Above-Anvil Cirrus Plumes

Joel McAuliffe, NSF, Stephens City, VA

S103

Examining the Relative Motion of Derecho- and Non-Derecho-Producing QLCSs with Respect to the Mean Wind

Matthew A. Campbell, CAPS/Univ. of Oklahoma, Columbus, OH; and A. E. Cohen, A. R. Dean, S. F. Corfidi, M. C. Coniglio, S. J. Corfidi, and C. M. Mead

S104

Comparison of Orographic and Thermal Forcings on Mesoscale Convective Systems

Jordan L. Baker, NSF, Raleigh, NC; and R. D. Wiegand

S105

Surface Ice Melt Driven by Föhn-Like Winds at the Base of the Transantarctic Mountains

Nicholas James Morgan, University of Tennessee at Martin, Martin, TN; and D. C. Karmosky

S106

Conditions Favorable for the Occurrence of Trapped Mountain Lee Waves Downstream of Oʻahu

Liye Li, University of Hawaii at Manoa, Honolulu, HI; and Y. L. Chen

S107

Lake-to-Lake Influence on Lake-Effect Snow Amounts in the Lake Michigan Snowbelt

Jessica M. McDonald, St Cloud State University, St Cloud, MN; and D. Doeblin and N. F. Laird

S108

Characteristics of Dendritic Growth Zones during Lake-Effect, Synoptic-Scale, and Lake-Enhanced Winter Storms

Stephen VanHoesen, Hobart and William Smith Colleges, Geneva, NY; and K. Murphy, N. D. Metz, and N. F. Laird

S109

A Seasonal Analysis of Dendritic Growth Zones during Lake-Effect, Synoptic-Scale, and Lake-Enhanced Winter Storms

Kelley Murphy, State University of New York at Oneonta, Oneonta, NY; and S. VanHoesen, N. F. Laird, and N. D. Metz

S99

Comparing Environmental Conditions of Convective Storms Producing Damaging Winds and Hail

S110

An Enhanced Look At Radar And Profiling Observations Of The Interaction Between A Lake-effect Snow Band And A Shallow Cold Front During The Ontario Winter Lake-effect Systems (OWLeS) Experiment

Kyle S. Pennington, The University of Alabama, Huntsville, AL; and K. R. Knupp

S111

The Impacts of the Passage of Three Distinct Short-Wave Troughs on a Prolonged Lake-Effect Snow Event during OWLeS

Shay A. Callahan, Hobart and William Smith Colleges, Geneva, NY; and N. D. Metz, C. C. Crossett, and E. P. Morrill

S112

A Climatology of the Interaction between Short-Wave Troughs and Shore-Parallel Lake-Effect Snowstorms off of Lake Ontario

Zachary Bruick, Valparaiso University, Valparaiso, Indiana; and E. Ott and N. D. Metz

S101

Understanding the Features and Mechanisms of the Great Plains Low-Level Jet in the CMIP5 Models

S113

Forecasting sea breeze enhanced thunderstorms at Eglin Air Force Base: A comparison between empirical methods and the high resolution rapid refresh model

Matthew P. King, Air Force Institute of Technology, WPAFB, OH; and K. S. Bartlett and R. Wacker

S114

High-Resolution Island-Scale Climate Modeling in the Southern Caribbean

Renée C. Elder, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ

S115

A case study of the 2012 High Park fire in Colorado

Amanda G. Hazelton, MSU scams, Littleton, CO

S116

Potential MJO Impacts on Global Wildfires

Matthew Mace McKinney, Univ. of Miami/RSMAS, Coral Gables, FL

S117

Comparison of Texas A&M WRF convection-allowing forecasts with other high-resolution models

Armani L. Cassel, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX; and J. P. McCarthy and C. J. Nowotarski

S118

Verification of RUC analyses using VORTEX2 soundings for non-tornadic and tornadic supercell environments

Brice E. Coffer, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC

Handout (1.1 MB)

S119

Comparison of the TAMU-WRF Simulated Reflectivity to Radar Observations

Brittany J. Toy, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX; and T. W. Spencer, C. K. Landry, and C. Nowotarski

S120

Evaluating the Impact of the Summit Station, Greenland Radiosonde Program on Data Modelers and Forecast Services

Carlos J. Martinez, NOAA/Texas A&M University, College Station, TX; and S. Starkweather, C. J. Cox, A. Solomon, and M. Shupe

S121

Reliability and Skill of the Air Force Weather Agency's Ensemble Prediction Systems

Derek Adam Burns, Air Force Institute of Technology, Dayton, OH; and K. S. Bartlett and R. Wacker

S122

Monitoring Land-Cover Changes in Lake Urmia Basin Using LandSat Imagery

Amarou Bah, Brooklyn, NY; and N. Fazel

S123

Analysis of the Spatial and Temporal Correlation Statistics of Soil Moisture Observed in the Russian River Basin

Enrique R. Chon, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ; and R. J. Zamora

S124

A climatology of peak stream discharge in relation to rapid ablation events in the Chesapeake Basin, 1950-2009

Julia L. Arthur, United States Naval Academy, Annapolis, MD; and G. R. Henderson, D. J. Leathers, D. A. Robinson, and T. Mote

S125

Using Satellite Imagery to Monitor Large Lakes; Case Study Lake Hamun and Lake Eyre

Rezwon Islam, New York City College of Technology, Brooklyn, New York; and A. Bah, H. Norouzi, and A. AghaKouchak

S126

Quality Control of Wind Data from 50-MHz Doppler Radar Wind Profiler

Austin D. Vacek, University of Alabama, Huntsville, AL

S127

Doppler Lidar Retrievals in LUMEX and PECAN: Dual Doppler and Vertical Wind Analyses

Brian J. Carroll, JCET/Univ. of Maryland Baltimore County, Baltimore, MD; and A. Choukulkar, R. Delgado, A. Brewer, J. K. Lundquist, A. Muschinski, and B. B. Demoz

S128

Investigations of a Doppler Wind LIDAR on a Moving Platform

Edward J. Strobach, University of Maryland, Baltimore, MD; and L. C. Sparling and S. Rabenhorst

S129

Low-level Wind Comparisons Using Multiple Sensing Technologies

Trenton Wade Spencer, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX; and E. F. Ruano, B. E. Barker, and D. T. Conlee

S130

Statistical Validation of Calibrated Wind Data Collected from NOAA's Hurricane Hunter Aircraft

Kelly Graham, State University of New York College at Oneonta, Oneonta, NY

S131

Intercomparison of Remotely Sensed Atmospheric Profiles with Dropsonde Observations from the Global Hawk Unmanned Aircraft

Rachel B. Norris, NOAA/ESRL/PSD, Boulder, CO; and G. A. Wick

S132

Derived Snowfall Accumulation Using Optical Sensors

Alex Trellinger, Metropolitan State University of Denver, Niwot, CO

S133

Nowcasting Surface Snowfall Rates by Utilizing Radar Reflectivity and Velocity–Azimuth Display Vertical Wind Profiles

Andrew J. Schwartz, NCAR, Boulder, CO

S135

Merging Radar-only QPE and Rain Gauge Data via Conditional Bias-penalized Optimal Estimation

Beomgeun Kim, The University of Texas at Arlington, Arlington, TX; and D. J. Seo, B. R. Nelson, and O. P. Prat

Manuscript (93.6 kB)

S136

WS600 Ultrasonic Weather Sensor Precipitation Accuracy

Brandon Thorne, Metropolitan State University of Denver, Denver, CO

S137

Temperature, Pressure, and Humidity (Tempredity) Quantifications

Oluwaseun .O. Ojimi, NSF, Pikesville, MD

S138

Assessing CALIPSO Version 4 Attenuated Backscatter 532 nm Calibration with NASA LaRC Airborne High Spectral Resolution Lidar Measurements

Travis D. Toth, Univ. of North Dakota, Grand Forks, ND; and M. A. Vaughan, J. W. Hair, C. F. Butler, C. A. Hostetler, and R. A. Ferrare

S139

Evaluation of the VIIRS Cloud Base Height Intermediate Product Retrieval Algorithm for Single-layer Water Clouds

Kyle E. Fitch, Air Force Institute of Technology (AFIT), Wright-Patterson AFB, OH; and K. S. Bartlett, R. Wacker, K. C. Gross, and K. Hutchison

S140

A Comparison of Cloud and Aerosol Measurements Between OCO-2 and CALIPSO

Emily Rosenthal, Millersville University, Millersville, PA; and C. W. O'Dell, R. Nelson, and H. Q. Cronk

S141

Bias and Observation Error Characterization of the Fengyun-2F Stretched Visible and Infrared Spin Scan Radiometer for Its Radiance Assimilation

Lu Ren, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI; and C. Da and M. Yin

S134

Polarimetric Radar Detection of the Melting Layer using X- and S-band Frequencies

S142

Global Snowfall: A Remote Sensing and Reanalysis Perspective

Marian E. Mateling, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI; and M. S. Kulie and T. L'Ecuyer

S143

Can Microwave Emissivity Show Us Global Drought Estimates?

Yanna Chen, New York City College of Technology, Brooklyn, NY; and H. Norouzi, D. R. Blake, and A. AghaKouchak

S144

Non-internet meteorological data reception for emergency and remote applications

Jamison P. McCarthy, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX; and S. Vaxter, D. Bonnette, D. Conlee, and C. J. Nowotarski

S145

Analysis of ZDR Columns to Aid Severe Weather Forecasting

Aidan R. Kuroski, Brockport, NY; and J. M. Billings and K. R. Cook

S146

Climatology of NEXRAD Dual-Polarization Radar Moments and Derived Products in Select CONUS Regions

Luke L. Davis, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO

S147

Comparison of Doppler Radar Correlation Coefficient, Spectrum Width, and Normalized Rotation in Areas of Rotational Circulations and Convergence Boundaries to Observed Convective Phenomena

Brian R. Greene, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, Urbana, IL; and T. Funk, K. Deitsch, and Z. Taylor

S148

Comparison of Z-R relationships using the Doppler on Wheels, the WSR 88D, and In-Situ Gauge Data

Brett F. Dean, Florida Institute of Technology, Melbourne, Florida; and M. Kane and M. Barnett

S149

Examining the Changes in The Tornado Debris Signature with different Debris Types

Allison T. LaFleur, Lyndon State College, Lyndonville, VT; and N. T. Atkins

S150

Determining the Radar Error in a Tornadic Low-Level Wind Field

Lauriana C. Gaudet, Lyndon State College, Falmouth, ME; and A. T. LaFleur and N. T. Atkins

S151

Interactions between Mesocyclones and Wave Anomalies: Three Case Studies

James L. Dollahite, University of Tennessee at Martin, Martin, TN; and D. C. Karmosky

S152

An Examination of High Impact Severe Weather Events in the Mid-Atlantic Region

Joseph G. Egan, NOAA, Valparaiso, OH; and R. H. Grumm

S153

Satellite Base Soil Moisture Product Validation Using Ground Observations

Christian Campo, NSF, East Elmhurst, NY; and H. Norouzi

S154

A comparison of the VLF waveform and optical emissions using ground based and spaced based lightning detection methods

Jacquelyn Ringhausen, University of Alabama in Huntsville, Huntsville, AL

S156

Synoptic Climatology of High-Impact Wind Events on the Indian River Lagoon

Alex J. Robertson, Florida Institute of Technology, Melbourne, FL

S157

Onshore Wind Acceleration Across the Indian River Lagoon

Mohamed M. Al-Sabri Jr., Florida Institute of Technology, Melbourne, FL

S158

An Analysis of Low Level Vertical Wind Shear Climatology in Illinois

Alexander J. Adams, Western Illinois University, Macomb, IL; and B. C. Wallace, M. L. Buker, and R. L. Herman

S159

Assessment of the Meteorological Elements associated with Coastal Damaging Storms on Eastern Lake Ontario

Matthew Grieco, NOAA, Staten Island, NY; and A. T. DeGaetano

S160

Modeling in the Microscale- The Atmospheric Boundary Layer Environment (ABLE) Model

Amanda Hendrix, The Army Research Laboratory, Adelphi, MD

S161

Extremely Dense Fog Events along the I-77 Corridor of the Virginia Blue Ridge

Benjamin Louis Dominguez, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA

S162

National Weather Service Icing Accumulation Forecast Product: An Investigation of Accuracy and Potential for Integration

Dwight Blanche, Metropolitan State University of Denver, Denver, CO

S163

Urban Form, Urban Heat and Implications for Future Development in the Context of the Durham-Orange County Light Rail Project

Elizabeth M. B. Doran, Duke University, Durham, NC

S155

NLDN and ENTLN Observations of Sprite-Producing Lightning

S164

Retrieving Vegetation Reflectance at Beltsville Using Phothosynthetically Active Radiation (PAR) Sensor and a Spectroradiometer Positioned at an Unmanned Aerial Systems (UAS)

Francois Junior Mertil, New York City College of Technology, Brooklyn, NY

S165

LOCAL COMMUNITY-BASED AIR QUALITY MONITORING NETWORK IN THE EAGLE FORD SHALE

Geoffrey S. Roest, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX

S166

An Evaluation of the MOD17 Gross Primary Production Algorithm in a Mangrove Forest

Hannah Wells, Valparaiso University, Valparaiso, IN; and R. G. Najjar, M. Herrmann, J. D. Fuentes, and J. Ruiz-Plancarte

S167

Atmospheric Effects on Carbon Cycling in a Coastal Salt Marsh

Katharine Wunsch, University of Missouri- Columbia, Columbia, MO; and J. D. Fuentes and J. Ruiz-Plancarte

S168

Surface Energy Budget in Sagebrush Landscape

Raleigh Grysko, Washington State University, Pullman, WA

S169

Accuracy of Frost and Freeze Forecasts for Northwestern Michigan Wine Growers

Kevin C. Prince, Central Michigan University, Mount Pleasant, MI

S170

It's not always cloudy in the Pacific Northwest: Characterizing the solar resource and solar irradiance variability

Nevin Schaeffer, Whitman College, Walla Walla, WA; and L. M. Hinkelman and T. P. Ackerman

Handout (718.4 kB) Handout (6.4 MB)

S171

Spatial Analysis of Enhanced Precipitation Co-located with Wind Turbines in North Central Illinois

Nicholas Alan Delfino, Western Illinois University, Macomb, IL; and R. Herman

S172

Comparing Climatologies Between an ASOS Station, COOP Site, and a USA Mesonet Station in Pascagoula, MS

Nicholas S. Grondin, University of South Alabama, Mobile, AL; and S. Kimball

S173

Meteorological applications of a continuously-operating micropulse lidar in Barcelona, Spain

Robert F. Banks, Barcelona Supercomputing Center, Barcelona, Spain; and J. M. Baldasano and M. Pandolfi

Handout (1.5 MB)

S174

A Study of the Effect of Meteorology on Atmospheric Visibility

Shaun T. Howe, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY; and N. Mahowald and V. Naik

S175

A New Approach to Monitor and Map Heat Exposure in a Semi-Outdoor Environment: A Football Stadium Case Study in West Texas

Travis Ray Reddick, Lubbock, TX

S176

Promoting adaptive management based on participative monitoring and knowledge networks

Claudia Coronel, Centrogeo, Mexico City, Mexico; and J. M. Madrigal Sr., J. Trujillo, A. Porras, C. Navarro, E. Bustamante, O. Ramos, F. Mendoza, E. Yepez, and J. Garatuza-Payan

Handout (3.7 MB)

S177

Modeling and Satellite Remote Sensing of the Meteorological Impacts of Irrigation

Clint Aegerter, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Lincoln, NE; and J. Wang and C. Ge

S179

Quantifying the Impact of Changes in Atmospheric Vapor Pressure on Maize and Soybean Yields

Kelsie M. Ferin, Iowa State University Department of Geological and Atmospheric Sciences, Ames, IA; and A. VanLoocke and J. E. Bagley

S180

Wind patterns contribute to bloom initiation of Dinophysis along the Texas coast

Lauren E. Replogle, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX; and D. W. Henrichs and L. Campbell

S181

Climatological Analyses of Infestations of the Mountain Pine Beetle Dendrocronus ponderosae in the Crown of the Continent Ecosystem from 1962 to 2014

Mario Nicholas Garza, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg, VA; and L. M. Resler, A. W. Ellis, and Y. Shao

S182

Finding the Best Historical Climate Dataset for Ecosytem Modeling

Michael Brackett, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, North Carolina; and A. M. Wootten, G. M. Ely, and R. P. Boyles

S183

Quantifying the Influence of Irrigation and Meteorology on Water Use Efficiency at a Vineyard in Washington

Randy Bartoshevich, Washington State University Tri - Cities, Richland, WA; and J. Chi, S. Pressley, H. Liu, B. K. Lamb, P. O'Keeffe, P. Jacoby, and S. H. Sadeghi

S184

Reassessing the BATSE Catalogue of Terrestrial Gamma-ray Flashes

Amanda Sleinkofer, Millersville University, Millersville, PA

S185

Automated Sunspot Classification and Tracking using SDO Imagery

MacLane A. Townsend, Air Force Institute of Technology, Wright-Patterson AFB, OH; and R. D. Loper, K. S. Bartlett, and W. F. Bailey

S186

Relation between Intensity Contrast and Magnetic Field for Active and Quiet Regions Observed on the Solar Photosphere

Taylor Whitney, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Lincoln, NE; and S. Criscuoli

S187

Estimation of High-Frequency Air-Sea Heat Flux Feedbacks in the Middle Latitudes

Bryan E. Kaiser, WHOI, Woods Hole, MA; and C. A. Clayson and S. R. Jayne

S188

Working within the private sector as a marine meteorologist

Gonzalo A. Agudelo Jr., Matthews-Daniel Co, Houston, TX

S189

The Impact of Climatological Variables on Kelp Canopy Area in the Santa Barbara Channel

Katelyn M. Zigner, Northwest Indiana Chapter of NWA/AMS, Valparaiso, IN; and J. Bausell and R. Kudela

S190

Low Oxygen Zone Water Masses and Their Link to Nitrous Oxide Production in the Eastern Pacific Ocean

Matthew Strauser, NOAA Sea Grant, University Park, PA; and V. Coles

S191

Increased occurrence of Central-Pacific El Niño in ERSST v4

Michael S. Diamond, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN; and R. Bennartz

Handout (10.6 MB)

S192

Seasonal and Regional Variability in North Pacific Upper-Ocean Turbulence

Ryan P. Creedon, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA; and M. F. Cronin and R. G. Najjar

S193

Eddy Length Scales in the Ross Sea From Observations and a Model

Zachary S. Wolff, University Park, PA; and J. M. Klinck

S178

Vertical Farming in Hawaii and Taiwan

S194

The Weather of Martian Dust Devils: Dust Devil Variability Across Different Timescales at Gusev Crater, Mars

Allyson D. Stanton, West Texas A&M University, Canyon, TX; and M. T. Lemmon

S195

The Application of Fractal Dimension in the Analysis of Cloud Structure

Anne Elizabeth Balogh, State College, PA

S196

Impact of vegetation on rooftop temperatures under a modular green roof system

Austin M. Silva, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX; and D. Smith, D. Bosworth, E. F. Ruano, B. J. Toy, S. Vaxter, C. Landry, and D. T. Conlee

S198

Approximating Wet-Bulb Temperature Using the One-Third Rule

David Nevius, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, Milwaukee, WI; and J. A. Knox and P. Knox

S199

A Proposed Remote Sensing Early Warning Dura Home Earthquake System

Frederic Anglade, NSF NOAA- CREST 2 Research for Undergraduate Program at New York City College of Technology, CUNY, Brooklyn, NY

S200

Ingesting Geospatial Data into Hazard Services' Database for NWS Flood Alerts

Nkosi M. Muse, NCAR, Somerset, NJ; and K. Manross, J. Wakefield, T. Hansen, and S. Williams

S201

Changes in the U.S. Hurricane Disaster Landscape: The Relationship between Risk and Exposure

Ashley Irizarry, Northern Illinois University, DeKalb, IL; and W. S. Ashley

S202

Risk Assessment of Outdoor Airport Workers Exposed to Lightning

Melinda Hatt, Millersville University, Millville, PA; and M. Steiner, W. Deierling, and K. Ikeda

S203

An Analytical Study Comparing the Outcomes and Successes of an REU Program Offering

Dr Reginald Blake, New York City College of Technology, Brooklyn, NY; and J. Liou-Mark and R. Santana

S204

Pioneering Pathways for Audience Engagement with Science On a Sphere

Joseph Lilek, NOAA, Boulder, CO; and B. Russell and H. Peddicord

S205

Storm-Scale Ensemble Modeling at Central Michigan University

Timothy Kirk Thielke, Central Michigan University, Sand Lake, MI; and A. N. Honor

S206

An Investigation of the Relationship between Vulnerable Populations and Hazard Casualties in Warning Dissemination Coverage Gaps

Aisha C. Reed Haynes, George Mason University, Silver Spring, MD

S207

Warning Systems in Franklin County, OH: Toward a StormReady Community

John R. Banghoff, Ohio State University, Columbus, OH; and S. E. Smith

S197

Sub-Orbital Space Flight Meteorological Landing Criteria

S208

Proposed Strategic Communications Plan to Support NOAA's Weather Ready Nation Objectives in the Hampton Roads Region

Asiah Williams, Howard University, Hampton, VA; and J. Anderson

S209

Effectiveness of the Pilot Project on Weather Communication in the Southeast US

Damon E. Matson, California University of Pennsylvania, California, PA; and K. Graham and J. D. Eachus

S210

Warning: Here it Comes, Investigating the Effects of Cueing and Cognitive Load on Attention and Memory of Severe Weather Alerts

Carie Cunningham, NA, NA, MI

S211

Evaluating Perceptions of Climate Change Impacts in the Greater Horn of Africa Using the Community Capitals Framework

Jacob Petr, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Lincoln, NE; and D. Bathke

S212

Going Social: The Integration of Social Media into Severe Weather Operations at the National Weather Service Des Moines

Eric C. McCormick, NOAA, Norman, OK

S213

Expert and Public Perceptions of Risk from Toxic Algae Bloom Outbreaks in Lake Erie: An Analysis of Conventional and Social Media

Amber L. Hill, Kent State University, Kent, OH

S214

Protective Action And Evacuation Responses During Hurricane Katrina: A Gendered Analysis

Michelle A. Dovil, NCAS, Washington, DC

S215

Perceptions of Safety and its Gendered Differences: An Exploratory Analysis of Severe Weather Reactions

Shadya J. Sanders, Howard Univ., NCAS, Washington, DC; and T. Adams and E. Joseph

S216

Analysis of Frequency and Impacts of Storm Events and Service Assessments to Inform the National Weather Service (NWS) Operations and Workforce Analysis (OWA)

Jala M. Morrow, NOAA/NWS, Vicksburg, MS; and J. E. Ten Hoeve III

S217

Heart Attack Snow

Nathan A. Halm, Northern Illinois University, Dekalb, IL; and E. T. Dhanens and W. S. Ashley

S218

Communication Uncertainty of Winter Weather Forecasts to the Public through Social Media

Scott B. Sincoff, Mississippi State University, Mississippi State, MS; and K. Sherman-Morris

S219

Geoscience Literacy and Public Policy in Oregon

Sydney E.P. Brahmavar, Mississippi State University, Portland, Oregon

S220

A Case Study of the April 29-30th Rainfall Event Along the Gulf Coast

Austin G. Clark, South Alabama Chapter of the American Meteorological Society, Mobile, AL

7:00 PM-9:00 PM: Sunday, 10 January 2016

Annual Colour of Weather (CoWx) Networking Reception: ”Bridging the Gap by Building Diverse Relationships"

Location: Jefferson Ballroom (Hilton Riverside)

7:30 PM-9:30 PM: Sunday, 10 January 2016

CoRiolis Reception

Location: Versailles Ballroom (Hilton Riverside)

9:00 PM-11:00 PM: Sunday, 10 January 2016

Early Career Professionals Reception

Location: Napoleon Ballroom (Hilton Riverside)

Monday, 11 January 2016

7:30 AM-6:00 PM: Monday, 11 January 2016

Registration Continues through January 13

Location: Hall D pre-function ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)

7:40 AM-8:00 AM: Monday, 11 January 2016

2016 Presidential Forum: Serving Society in Times of Crisis: Past, Present and Future

Location: Room 348/349 ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)

8:00 AM-4:30 PM: Monday, 11 January 2016

Poster Hall Open

Location: Hall E ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)

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

Plenary Session 1

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

This year’s Presidential Forum reflects upon the American Meteorological Society (AMS) annual meeting theme, "Earth System Science in Service to Society" that provides participants a better understanding of living through extreme events. Our society continues to experience the effects of more and more extreme events like hurricanes, tornadoes, floods, and drought, some as a result of our changing climate and others as a result of our expanding population. The AMS needs to continue to address lessons learned, and more importantly, identify what future actions it will take to help mitigate the impact of these devastating life-changing events. To highlight this, we’ve invited an outstanding panel of speakers – Admiral Thad Allen, United States Coast Guard (ret), Executive Vice President Booz Allen Hamilton; Max Mayfield, Director, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration/National Hurricane Center (ret); Dr. Kerry Emanuel, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; and Dr. Shirley Laska, Professor Emerita, and founding past Director of the Center for Hazards Assessment, Response and Technology, University of New Orleans. Moderator Maureen McCann, News 13 Orlando, will lead a discussion of the panelists' personal experiences during Hurricane Katrina and Deepwater Horizon. The panel will also address AMS’s current activities that encompass research and forecasting of events and inspire our members to embrace a renewed sense of purpose as they direct our Society in the coming years.

9:00 AM

Presidential Forum on Serving Society in Times of Crisis: Past, Present and Future

Recorded Presentation

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

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

Spouses' Coffee

Location: Kabacoff (Hilton Riverside)

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

Coffee Break

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

Space Weather Coffee Break—Sponsored by Ball Aerospace

Location: Room 352 ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)

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

Session 1

Advancements and Needs in Dispersion Modeling-Part I

Location: Room 243 ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)

Host: 19th Joint Conference on the Applications of Air Pollution Meteorology with the A&WMA

Chair: Paul Bieringer, Aeris

11:00 AM

Welcoming Remarks

11:15 AM

1.1

Evaluation of a GPU-Based Large-Eddy Simulation for Dispersion in the Atmospheric Boundary Layer

Jeffrey C. Weil, Univ. of Colorado, Boulder, CO; and H. J. J. Jonker and D. F. Steinhoff

Recorded Presentation

11:30 AM

1.3

Modeling dispersion in a street network for emergency response scenarios: the DIPLOS project

Denise Hertwig, University of Reading, Reading, Berkshire, United Kingdom; and O. Coceal, V. Fuka, Z. T. Xie, T. G. Thomas, I. Castro, M. Carpentieri, P. Hayden, and A. Robins

Joint Session 1

Advancing and Leveraging Research into Operations, and Operations Feedback into Research Between and Among International Partners

Location: Room 244 ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)

Hosts: (Joint between the Special Sessions on US-International Partnerships; the Fourth Symposium on the Weather, Water, and Climate Enterprise; and the Sixth Conference on Transition of Research to Operations )

Cochairs: Kenneth Carey, Earth Resources Technology, Inc.; John Pereira, NOAA/NESDIS

11:00 AM

J1.1

Collaborative Efforts between the U.S. and U.K. to Advance Prediction of High Impact Weather

John S. Kain, NSSL, Norman, OK; and S. M. Willington, A. J. Clark, M. C. Coniglio, I. L. Jirak, S. J. Weiss, C. D. Karstens, K. H. Knopfmeier, M. Weeks, J. M. Wilkinson, N. Roberts, and H. Lean

Recorded Presentation

11:15 AM

J1.2

Evaluation of High Resolution Unified Model Configurations at the Hazardous Weather Testbed

Steven M. Willington, Met Office, Exeter, United Kingdom; and M. Weeks, J. M. Wilkinson, L. M. Gilchrist, D. Suri, H. W. Lean, N. Roberts, J. S. Kain, A. J. Clark, M. Coniglio, I. L. Jirak, S. J. Weiss, C. D. Karstens, K. H. Knopfmeier, and K. Hanley

Recorded Presentation

11:30 AM

J1.3

Transitioning the NASA GPM Data to NOAA Operations

Chandra R. Kondragunta, NOAA/OAR, Silver Spring, MD; and R. Ferraro, L. Zhao, and M. W. Johnson

Recorded Presentation

11:45 AM

J1.4

Polarimetric Radar and Surface Data Assimilation Using a Nested-LETKF System and an Ensemble-based Sensitivity Analysis for the Tornadic Supercell on 6 May 2012

Sho Yokota, MRI, Tsukuba, Japan; and H. Seko, M. Kunii, H. Yamauchi, and H. Niino

Recorded Presentation

Session 1

Building a Weather-Ready Nation Kickoff

Location: Room 255/257 ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)

Host: Fourth Symposium on Building a Weather-Ready Nation: Enhancing Our Nation’s Readiness, Responsiveness, and Resilience to High Impact Weather Events

Cochairs: Douglas Hilderbrand, NOAA/NWS; Kenneth Carey, Earth Resources Technology (ERT), Inc.; Dave Jones, StormCenter Communications, Inc.; Jennifer Sprague, NOAA/NWS

11:00 AM

NOAA/NWS New Orleans WFO Meteorologist-in-Charge - Keynote Speaker: Ken Graham

Recorded Presentation

11:15 AM

1.1

10 Years After Katrina: Achievements, Opportunities, and Challenges for the Weather Enterprise

Thomas A. Birkland, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC

Recorded Presentation

11:30 AM

1.2

Building a Weather Ready Nation: External Engagement and Effective Communication

Macy E. Howarth, Hobart and William Smith Colleges, Geneva, NY; and D. Hilderbrand

Recorded Presentation

11:45 AM

1.3

The Evolving Role of the Operations Proving Ground in the National Weather Service Research-to-Operations Process

Kim J. Runk, NOAA/NWS, Kansas City, MO; and C. M. Gravelle, K. L. Crandall, and D. W. Snyder

Recorded Presentation

Session 1

Celebrating 25 years of the AMS Symposium on Education

Location: Room 353 ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)

Host: 25th Symposium on Education

Cochairs: Donna J. Charlevoix, UNAVCO; Diane M. Stanitski, NOAA ESRL Global Monitoring Division

11:00 AM

Opening Remarks from AMS President - Alexander MacDonald, NOAA/ESRL, Boulder, CO

Recorded Presentation

11:15 AM

1.2

25th Anniversary of the AMS Symposium on Education: A Community Response to Promoting Education for the Atmospheric and Oceanographic Sciences

David R. Smith, American Meteorological Society, Washington, DC

Recorded Presentation

11:45 AM

1.3

The Education Symposium at 25: Where do we go from here?

Rajul E. Pandya, American Geophysical Union, Boulder, CO

Recorded Presentation

Session 1

Crowdsourcing Data and Data Portals

Location: Room 348/349 ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)

Host: 32nd Conference on Environmental Information Processing Technologies

Cochairs: Nazila Merati, Merati and Associates; Ken R. Waters, NOAA/NWS

11:00 AM

1.1

The Weather Observations Website (WOW) And The Future For Environmental Observations

Simon J. Gilbert, Met Office, UK, Exeter, United Kingdom

Recorded Presentation

11:15 AM

1.2

Crowdsourcing large-scale environmental data recovery

Kevin R. Wood, JISAO/Univ. of Washington, Seattle, WA; and M. Mollan, P. Brohan, and N. N. Soreide

Recorded Presentation

11:30 AM

1.3

Assessment of Social Media Usage during Hurricane Sandy and the Development of a Twitter-based, Web Application for Real-time Communication of Storm-related Information

John Francis Edwards, Mississippi State University, Starkville, MS; and S. Mohanty, P. Fitzpatrick, and D. Martin

Recorded Presentation

11:45 AM

1.4

ASSESSING THE SKILL OF UPDATED PRECIPITATION TYPE DIAGNOSTICS FOR RAPID REFRESH WITH mPING

Tomer Burg, CIMMS/Univ. of Oklahoma and NOAA/NSSL, Norman, OK; and K. L. Elmore and H. Grams

Recorded Presentation

Session 1

Current Challenges of Aerosol-cloud Interactions in Regional and Global Climate Models

Location: Room 357 ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)

Host: Eighth Symposium on Aerosol–Cloud–Climate Interactions

Chair: Andrew Gettelman, NCAR

Cochairs: Ruby Leung, PNNL; Yi Ming, GFDL

1.1

Assessing Aerosol-cloud Interactions at Global Scale Using Climate Models and Satellite Observations (Invited Presentation)

11:00 AM

1.1A

What Controls the Low Ice Number Concentration in the Upper Tropical Troposphere?

Cheng Zhou, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI; and J. E. Penner, G. Lin, X. Liu, and M. Wang

11:15 AM

1.2

Exploring Links Between Biomass Burning Smoke and Tornado Likelihood: from Regional to Large-eddy Scale Simulations (Invited Presentation)

Pablo E. Saide, NCAR, Boulder, CO; and G. Thompson, T. Eidhammer, A. Da Silva, B. Pierce, and G. Carmichael

11:30 AM

1.3

On the Characteristics of Aerosol Indirect Effect Based on Dynamic Regimes in Global Climate Models

Shipeng Zhang, Nanjing University, Nanjing, Jiangsu, China; and M. Wang, S. Ghan, A. Ding, H. Wang, K. Zhang, D. Neubauer, U. Lohmann, S. Ferrachat, T. Takeamura, A. Gettelman, H. Morrison, Y. Lee, D. T. Shindell, D. G. Partridge, P. Stier, Z. Kipling, and C. Fu

Recorded Presentation

11:45 AM

1.4A

Response of Indian Summer Monsoon to Middle East Dust in WRF-chem: Sensitivity to Dust Absorbing Properties and Initial Conditions

Qinjian Jin, The University of Texas, Austin, TX; and Z. L. Yang and J. Wei

Recorded Presentation

1.4

Aerosol Effects on Global Convective Precipitation in the Ncar Cam5

Joint Session 1

Drought Analysis and Prediction, Part I

Location: Room 240/241 ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)

Hosts: (Joint between the 30th Conference on Hydrology; and the 28th Conference on Climate Variability and Change )

Cochairs: Joshua Roundy, University of Kansas; Eric F. Wood, Princeton University

11:00 AM

J1.1

Seasonal Scale Water Deficit Forecasting in East Africa and the Middle East Region Using the NMME Models Forecasts

Shraddhanand Shukla, University of California, Santa Barbara, CA; and C. C. Funk, B. F. Zaitchik, B. Narapusetty, K. R. Arsenault, and C. Peters-Lidard

11:15 AM

J1.2

Identifying the drivers of drought onset and cessation

Danielle C. Verdon-Kidd, University of Newcastle, Callaghan, NSW, Australia; and B. R. Scanlon, T. Ren, and D. N. Fernando

Recorded Presentation

11:30 AM

J1.3

Can large scale sea ice cover changes affect precipitation patterns over California?

Ivana Cvijanovic, LLNL, Livermore, CA; and C. Bonfils, D. D. Lucas, B. D. Santer, and J. C. H. Chiang

Recorded Presentation

11:45 AM

J1.4

The Role of Stationary Rossby Waves in the Subseasonal Development of Drought over North America and Northern Eurasia

Hailan Wang, NASA, Hampton, VA; and S. D. Schubert and R. D. Koster

Recorded Presentation

Session 1

Evolving the Global Observing System

Location: Room 345 ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)

Host: 20th Conference on Integrated Observing and Assimilation Systems for the Atmosphere, Oceans, and Land Surface (IOAS-AOLS)

Chair: Robert Atlas, NOAA/AOML

11:00 AM

1.1

The NESDIS Role in Integrated Observing and Assimilation Systems (Invited Presentation)

Stephen M. Volz, NOAA/NESDIS, Silver Spring, MD

Recorded Presentation

11:30 AM

1.2

Future Advances in Observing System Simulation Experiments

Ross N. Hoffman, NOAA/AOML, Miami, FL; and R. Atlas

Recorded Presentation

Handout (6.0 MB)

1.3

The Increasing Benefit to NWP from Higher Resolution Earth Observations from Space

Session 1

Future directions for the Federal Agencies, Part I

Location: Room 352 ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)

Host: 13th Conference on Space Weather

Cochairs: Robert P. McCoy, Univ. of Alaska; Genene Fisher, NOAA/NWS

11:00 AM

1.1

NOAA Space Weather Prediction Center Update

Thomas Berger, NOAA, Boulder, CO

Recorded Presentation

11:15 AM

1.2

U.S. Department of Defense Space Weather Services

Ralph O. Stoffler, US Air Force, Washington, DC

Recorded Presentation

11:30 AM

1.3

NASA Heliophysics & Space Weather Science

Steven Clarke, NASA HQ, Washington, DC

Recorded Presentation

11:45 AM

1.4

Space Weather Research at the National Science Foundation

Janet U. Kozyra, NSF, Arlington, VA

Recorded Presentation

Session 1

Hot Topics in Climate

Location: La Nouvelle A ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)

Host: 28th Conference on Climate Variability and Change

Chair: Daniel J. Vimont, University of Wisconsin - Madison

11:00 AM

1.1

The Obama–Xi Accord: A Need for Further Action

Ross J. Salawitch, University of Maryland, College Park, MD; and W. Tribett, A. Hope, and T. Canty

Recorded Presentation

11:15 AM

1.2

The U.S. and Global Climate Conditions of 2015 in Historical Perspective

Jake Crouch, NOAA/NESDIS/National Centers for Environmental Information, Asheville, NC; and D. S. Arndt, K. Gleason, R. R. Heim Jr., A. Sanchez-Lugo, and J. Blunden

Recorded Presentation

11:30 AM

1.3

How Long Could the Current Hiatus in Global Warming Last?

Thomas R. Knutson, NOAA/GFDL, Princeton, NJ; and R. Zhang and L. W. Horowitz

Recorded Presentation

11:45 AM

1.4

Inevitable End-Of-Century Loss of Spring Snowpack over California's Sierra Nevada

Fengpeng Sun, University of California, Los Angeles, CA; and A. Hall, N. E. Berg, D. B. Walton, and M. Schwartz

Recorded Presentation

Themed Joint Session 1

Improving Communication of Threats to the Public

Location: Room 333-334 ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)

Hosts: (Joint between the 11th Symposium on Societal Applications: Policy, Research and Practice; the Fourth Symposium on the Weather, Water, and Climate Enterprise; and the AMS Board of Broadcast Meteorology )

Cochairs: Kathleen Sherman-Morris, Mississippi State University; Maureen McCann, News 13; Rob Eicher, WHDH

11:00 AM

TJ1.1

Designing an Arrival of TS Force Winds Graphic: An Interactive Session

Betty Hearn Morrow, SocResearch Miami and ERG, Miami, FL; and R. Berg

Recorded Presentation

11:15 AM

TJ1.2

Partnering for Safety: Enabling Alerting Authorities to Reach Affected Citizens Before, During and After Events

Jason L. Geer, The Weather Company, Atlanta, GA

Recorded Presentation

Handout (2.0 MB)

11:30 AM

TJ1.3

Evolution of Storm Prediction Center Communication in the Social Media Era

Patrick T. Marsh, NOAA/NWS Storm Prediction Center, Norman, OK; and S. A. Erickson, R. S. Schneider, W. F. Bunting, J. Correia Jr., S. A. Jasko, K. E. Klockow, K. Pirtle, G. W. Carbin, J. T. Ferree, C. M. Mead, and J. Liang

Recorded Presentation

11:45 AM

Discussion

Panel Discussion 1

Leveraging Financial Tools for Weather Risk Transfer in Energy

Location: Room 346/347 ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)

Host: Seventh Conference on Weather, Climate, Water and the New Energy Economy

Moderators: Thomas Duncan, U.S. Bank; Josh Gugel, Pennsylvania State University

Panelists: Heidi Centola, Schneider Electric; Anjelina Belakovskaia, Univ. of Arizona; Kevin Stenson, MeteoGroup

Joint Session 1

Megacity Air Pollution

Location: Room 231/232 ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)

Hosts: (Joint between the Mario J. Molina Symposium; and the 18th Conference on Atmospheric Chemistry )

Chair: William Brune, Pennsylvania State University

CoChair: Misty levy, Texas A&M University

11:00 AM

J1.1

Real-time Mobile Lab Characterization of Urban Ambient Air Quality and Pollutant Emission Sources (Invited Keynote Presentation)

C. E. Kolb, Aerodyne Research Inc., Billerica, MA; and T. I. Yacovitch, J. R. Roscioli, G. R. Magoon, and S. C. Herndon

Recorded Presentation

11:15 AM

J1.2

Globalizing the United States Air Quality Success Story

William Brune, Penn State University, University Park, PA

Recorded Presentation

11:30 AM

J1.3

Reduction in Local Ozone Levels in Urban SãO Paulo Due to a Shift from Ethanol to Gasoline Use (Invited Presentation)

Franz Geiger, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL

Recorded Presentation

11:45 AM

J1.4

Elucidating Severe Urban Haze Formation in Beijing

Misti Levy Zamora, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX; and R. Zhang, S. Guo, and M. Hu

Recorded Presentation

Session 1

Network Design

Location: Room 350/351 ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)

Host: 18th Symposium on Meteorological Observation and Instrumentation

Chair: Sytske Kimball, University of South Alabama

11:00 AM

1.1

Hail, Wind, Ground-Truth, and What We Can Learn

Eric Hewitt, Understory Weather, Somerville, MA; and N. Homeier, A. Kubicek, and A. Jacobs

Recorded Presentation

11:15 AM

1.2

Capabilities and Benefits of Coherent Doppler LIDARs for Future Weather Observing Networks

Ludovic Thobois, LEOSPHERE, Orsay, France; and J. P. Cariou, R. Krishnamurthy, R. Parmentier, and P. Drewniak

11:30 AM

1.3

Army Research Lab's Meteorological Sensor Array

Robb M. Randall, Army Research Lab, White Sands Missle Range, NM; and B. MacCall, J. Smith, and B. Carl

Recorded Presentation

11:45 AM

1.4

Crowd-Sourcing the Storm: A New Approach for Obtaining and Collating Scientific Tornado Observations

John T. Allen, Columbia University/IRI, Palisades, NY; and A. Seimon, T. Seimon, and S. Talbot

Recorded Presentation

Session 1

Numerical Modeling and Air-Sea Interactions with the MJO

Location: Room 338/339 ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)

Host: Fourth Symposium on Prediction of the Madden-Julian Oscillation: Processes, Prediction and Impact

Cochairs: Matthew Janiga, NRL; James A. Ridout, NRL

11:00 AM

1.1

Ocean Feedbacks and Atmospheric Precursor Signals Associated with Eastward-propagating and Eastward-decaying Tropical Intraseasonal Convection (Invited Presentation)

Charlotte DeMott, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO

Recorded Presentation

11:15 AM

1.2

Breaking Down the MJOs Produced by NICAM (Invited Presentation)

Tomoki Miyakawa, University of Tokyo, Kashiwa, Japan

11:30 AM

1.3

Cloud-Resolving Model Sensitivity Studies of MJO Events during DYNAMO

Wei-Kuo Tao, NASA, Greenbelt, MD; and X. Li, S. Y. Kim, and M. I. Lee

Recorded Presentation

11:45 AM

1.4

Convection-permitting Model Simulations of the Processes Controlling the Diurnal Cycle Over the Maritime Continent During Different MJO Phases

Todd P. Lane, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia; and C. L. Vincent

Recorded Presentation

Session 1

Python in the Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences

Location: Room 225 ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)

Host: Sixth Symposium on Advances in Modeling and Analysis Using Python

Chair: Johnny Wei-Bing Lin

11:00 AM

1.1

The Language, Libraries and Culture of Python in Meteorology (Core Science Keynote)

Jonathan Helmus, ANL, Argonne, IL

Recorded Presentation
Audio File

Handout (3.2 MB)

Session 1

Regional Climate Services

Location: Room 245 ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)

Host: 22nd Conference on Applied Climatology

Chair: Barbara E. Mayes Boustead, NOAA/NWS

1.1

Climate Services of Opportunity for the Missouri Basin

11:15 AM

1.2A

New Tools Available through the National Integrated Drought Information System's U.S. Drought Portal

Michael J. Brewer, NOAA/NESDIS/National Centers for Environmental Information, Asheville, NC; and O. Olsina, A. Fotos, P. Cogbill, J. Adams, and K. Bogan

Recorded Presentation

11:30 AM

1.3

Communicating Climate Science to Inform Natural Resource Management Decisions among Native American Communities in the Missouri River Basin

Crystal J. Stiles, University of Nebraska, Lincoln, NE; and N. A. Umphlett, M. D. Shulski, M. D. Svoboda, and D. R. Kluck

Recorded Presentation

How Does Regional Climate Collaboration Work? An Example From the Missouri River Basin

11:45 AM

1.4

Climate Services in Community and Sector-Specific Engagement in the Great Lakes: Localization of Climate Information and Barriers in Partnerships

William Baule, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI; and L. Briley, D. Brown, E. Gibbons, S. Kalafatis, M. C. Lemos, and J. Andresen

Recorded Presentation

Session 1

Statistical Products for Weather Services – Part 1

Location: Room 226/227 ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)

Host: 23rd Conference on Probability and Statistics in the Atmospheric Sciences

Chair: Eric Gilleland, NCAR

11:00 AM

1.1

Improved Aviation Forecast Guidance with a LAMP/HRRR Meld

Bob Glahn, NOAA/NWS/Meteorological Development Laboratory, Silver Spring, MD; and A. D. Schnapp, J. E. Ghirardelli, and J. S. Im

Recorded Presentation Manuscript (1.0 MB)

11:15 AM

1.2

LAMP Convection Probability and "Potential" Guidance: An Experimental Hi-res Upgrade

Jerome P. Charba, NOAA/NWS, Silver Spring, MD; and F. G. Samplatsky, A. J. Kochenash, P. E. Shafer, and J. E. Ghirardelli

Recorded Presentation Manuscript (1.7 MB)

11:30 AM

1.3

The National Blend of Global Models, Version One

Kathryn K. Gilbert, NOAA/NWS/NCEP/Weather Prediction Center, College Park, MD; and D. T. Myrick, J. P. Craven, J. P. Gagan, T. M. Hamill, D. R. Novak, D. P. Ruth, J. Settelmaier, J. E. Sieveking, and B. Veenhuis Jr.

Recorded Presentation

11:45 AM

1.4

Development of a New NAM-based MOS Precipitation Type System

Phillip E. Shafer, NOAA/NWS, Silver Spring, MD; and M. S. Antolik

Recorded Presentation Manuscript (467.2 kB)

Session 1

Synoptic-scale Ensemble Forecasting and Uncertainty Analysis in the Coastal Zone (Including Meteorology, Physical Oceanography and Ecology): Part I

Location: Room 342 ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)

Host: 14th Symposium on the Coastal Environment

Cochairs: Michael J. DeFlorio, SIO/Univ. Of California; Patrick J. Fitzpatrick, Mississippi State Univ.

11:00 AM

1.1

Bias Correction of 10m Wind Forecasts near a Coastal Estuary in East Central Florida

Bryan P. Holman, Florida Institute of Technology, Melbourne, FL; and S. M. Lazarus, M. Splitt, J. Colvin, R. J. Weaver, P. Taeb, and A. Saberi

Recorded Presentation

11:15 AM

1.2

Development of Operational Unstructured Model Storm Surge Guidance: Demonstration of Skill for Katrina

Sergey Vinogradov, ERT, Inc., Laurel, MD; and J. C. Feyen, Y. Funakoshi, and L. Kuang

Recorded Presentation

11:30 AM

1.3

Towards Ensemble Based Flood Forecasting

Alan Blumberg, Stevens Institute of Technology, Hoboken, NJ; and I. Florescu, A. Yakubovskiy, P. Orton, Z. Ye, N. Georgas, P. Ludlow, J. Doyle, P. A. Reinecke, and J. Pullen

Recorded Presentation

11:45 AM

1.4

Forecasting Wind Set-up in a Coastal Estuary

Jeff Colvin, Florida Institute of Technology, Melbourne, FL; and S. M. Lazarus, M. Splitt, and B. P. Holman

Recorded Presentation

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

High Ice Water Content and Airborne Temperature Measurement Anomalies in Tropical Convection

Julie A. Haggerty, NCAR, Boulder, CO; and J. B. Jensen and K. E. Schick

Recorded Presentation

J1.2

Operational Experience and Applications Research with Aircraft Based Observations from the Water Vapor Sensing System, WVSS-II

11:15 AM

J1.2A

The Correlation of Aircraft Reported Relative Humidity to Ceiling Heights at Selected Hub Airports in the United States

Richard D. Mamrosh, NOAA/NWS, Green Bay, WI; and E. S. Brusky and S. Luchs

Recorded Presentation

11:30 AM

J1.3

Advances in Detection of High Ice Concentrations and Supercooled Drizzle from Commercial Aircraft

Darrel Baumgardner, Droplet Measurement Technologies, Boulder, CO; and M. Freer and A. Durant

Recorded Presentation

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

Themed Joint Session 2

Greenhouse Gas Emissions: Quantifying Uncertainties in Measurements and Models and Resultant Climate Impacts I

Location: Room 356 ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)

Hosts: (Joint between the 18th Conference on Atmospheric Chemistry; the 28th Conference on Climate Variability and Change; the 19th Joint Conference on the Applications of Air Pollution Meteorology with the A&WMA; and the 22nd Conference on Applied Climatology )

Cochairs: Abhishek Chatterjee, USRA; A. Scott Denning, Colorado State University

11:00 AM

TJ2.1

Developing a Carbon Observing System

Berrien Moore III, National Weather Center/Univ. of Oklahoma, Norman, OK

Recorded Presentation

11:15 AM

TJ2.2

Long Term Monitoring of Greenhouse Gases at NOAA—a Fifty-plus Year Record (Invited Presentation)

James H. Butler, NOAA, Boulder, CO

Recorded Presentation

11:30 AM

TJ2.3

Preliminary Results from the First Year of Operations of the Orbiting Carbon Observatory-2 (OCO-2) (Invited Presentation)

David Crisp, JPL, Pasadena, CA

Recorded Presentation

11:45 AM

TJ2.4

Empirically Constrained Estimates of Alaskan Regional Net Ecosystem Exchange of CO₂, 2012-2014

Jakob Lindaas, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA; and R. Commane, J. Benmergui, K. Luus, R. Y. W. Chang, C. E. Miller, J. M. Henderson, A. Karion, C. Sweeney, E. S. Euskirchen, D. Zona, W. C. Oechel, M. Ueyama, H. Iwata, Y. Harazono, J. C. Lin, B. C. Daube, J. V. Pittman, and S. C. Wofsy

Recorded Presentation

Joint Session 2

Land Model Benchmarking: Benchmarking, Verification and Validation in Terrestrial Hydrology, Part I

Location: Room 242 ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)

Hosts: (Joint between the 30th Conference on Hydrology; and the 23rd Conference on Probability and Statistics in the Atmospheric Sciences )

Chair: Sujay V. Kumar, SAIC at NASA/GSFC

11:00 AM

J2.1

What is Benchmarking and How does it Relate to PLUMBING

Martin Best, UKMO, Exeter, United Kingdom; and G. Abramowitz, A. Pitman, and S. V. Kumar

Recorded Presentation

11:15 AM

J2.2

The Plumbing of Land Surface Models: Why are Models Performing so Poorly?

Ned Haughton, University of New South Wales, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia; and G. Abramowitz, A. Pitman, and M. Best

Recorded Presentation

11:30 AM

J2.3

Why are the PLUMBER Results so Terrible? A Diagnostic Evaluation of the Errors in Land Surface Model Simulations Across FLUXNET Sites

Martyn Clark, NCAR, Boulder, CO; and B. Nijssen, N. Haughton, and G. Abramowitz

11:45 AM

J2.4

Benchmarking NLDAS-2 Soil Moisture and Evapotranspiration to Separate Uncertainty Contributions

Grey S. Nearing, NASA, Greenbelt, MD; and D. Mocko, C. Peters-Lidard, Y. Xia, and S. Kumar

Recorded Presentation

Themed Joint Session 3

High Impact Weather: Analysis, Prediction, and Interaction with Climate Changes: Part 1

Location: Room 238/239 ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)

Hosts: (Joint between the 28th Conference on Climate Variability and Change; the 22nd Conference on Applied Climatology; and the Fourth AMS Symposium on the Joint Center for Satellite Data Assimilation (JCSDA) )

Chair: Dr. Richard Clark, Millersville Univ.

11:00 AM

TJ3.1

The Multi-dimensional Nature of the Impact of Severe Heat Waves

Michael F. Wehner, LBNL, Berkeley, CA; and D. Stone and F. Castillo

Recorded Presentation

11:15 AM

TJ3.2

Towards a Better Prediction and Mitigation of Heat Waves in Urban India

Violeta Toma, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA; and P. Webster, M. T. Jelinek, J. Belanger, and J. A. Curry

Recorded Presentation

11:30 AM

TJ3.4

The May 2015 Texas Floods vs. Strengthened El Niño Teleconnection

Shih-Yu (Simon) Wang, Utah State University, Logan, UT; and W. R. Huang, H. H. Hsu, and R. Gillies

Recorded Presentation

11:45 AM

TJ3.4

Atmospherical Environment of Extreme Wet and Dry Spells in West Africa

Christophe Lavaysse, European Commission, Ispra, Italy; and J. Vogt, J. Thielen, and P. Barbosa

Recorded Presentation

Themed Joint Session 4

Urban Studies that Support the Understanding of Urban Growth and Climate Variability Impacts on Health, Adaptation, and Resilience—Part I

Location: Room 228/229 ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)

Hosts: (Joint between the Seventh Conference on Environment and Health; the 28th Conference on Climate Variability and Change; the 22nd Conference on Applied Climatology; and the Fourth Symposium on Building a Weather-Ready Nation: Enhancing Our Nation’s Readiness, Responsiveness, and Resilience to High Impact Weather Events )

Speaker: Karen DeSalvo, National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC), Acting Assistant Secretary for Health

Chair: John Balbus, National Institute of Health

11:00 AM

Panel

11:15 AM

Themed Joint Session 4 - Urban Studies that Support the Understanding of Urban Growth and Climate Variability Impacts on Health, Adaptation, and Resilience—Part I

Recorded Presentation

11:30 AM

Urban Health, Resiliency, and Adaptation: What We Learned from Katrina (Invited Presentation)

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

Session 1

AI for Climate Informatics and Extreme Weather

Location: Room 354 ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)

Host: 14th Conference on Artificial and Computational Intelligence and its Applications to the Environmental Sciences

Chair: Caren Marzban, University of Washington

11:30 AM

1.1

Compositing Parameterization Ensemble Simulations of Static Stability in East Coast Winter Storms Using Kernel Principal Component Analysis

Andrew Edward Mercer, Mississippi State Univ., Mississippi State, MS; and J. Dyer and S. Zhang

Recorded Presentation

11:45 AM

1.2

Using AI Techniques to Define the Roles of Temperature and Precipitation Anomalies in the Recent California Drought

Michael B. Richman, Univ. of Oklahoma, Norman, OK; and L. M. Leslie

Recorded Presentation

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

Celebrating 25 years of the AMS Symposium on Education

Location: Room 353 ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)

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

Lunch Break

12:15 PM-1:15 PM: Monday, 11 January 2016

Presidential Town Hall Meeting: An Informal Discussion with Secretary of Commerce Penny Pritzker

Location: La Nouvelle C ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)

Hosts: (Joint between the Town Hall Meetings; and the 2016 Presidential Forum )

Speaker: Penny Pritzker, U.S Department of Commerce

12:15 PM

Panel

12:30 PM

Panel

12:45 PM

Presidential Town Hall - An informal discussion with Secretary of Commerce Penny Pritzker

Recorded Presentation

Town Hall Meeting: Weather Ready Nations (WRNs)

Location: Room 255/257 ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)

Host: Town Hall Meetings

12:15 PM

Introduction -- Viviane Silva

Recorded Presentation

12:15 PM

Mary Power

Recorded Presentation

12:15 PM

Diane Campbell

Recorded Presentation

12:15 PM

Rebecca Hemingway

Recorded Presentation

12:15 PM

Sezin Tokar

Recorded Presentation

Town Hall Meeting: “Outside the Box” Skillsets for Staying Relevant and Landing the Next Job

Location: Room 244 ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)

Host: Town Hall Meetings

Panelists: Richard D. Knabb, NOAA/NWS/NHC; Mike Wolfinbarger, Weather Decision Technologies, Inc.; Susan A. Jasko, California Univ. of Pennsylvania; Douglas Hilderbrand, NOAA/NWS; David Novak, Weather Prediction Center

12:15 PM

Jared Rennie

12:45 PM-1:05 PM: Monday, 11 January 2016

Communicating Weather and Climate Information, Risks and Uncertainty: Research and Applications

Location: Room 348/349 ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)

1:30 PM-2:15 PM: Monday, 11 January 2016

Session 2

AI Techniques Applied to Environmental Science Part I

Location: Room 354 ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)

Host: 14th Conference on Artificial and Computational Intelligence and its Applications to the Environmental Sciences

Chair: John K. Williams, The Weather Company, an IBM Business

1:30 PM

2.1

Using Neural Networks to Fill Gaps in Satellite Measurements

Vladimir M. Krasnopolsky, NOAA/NWS/NCEP, College Park, MD; and S. Nadiga, A. Mehra, E. Bayler, and D. Behringer

Recorded Presentation

1:45 PM

2.2

Global Monitoring of Inland Surface Water Dynamics using Remote Sensing Data

Anuj Karpatne, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN; and A. Khandelwal, X. C. Chen, V. Mithal, and V. Kumar

Recorded Presentation

2:00 PM

2.3

Verification of the Spatial Structure of Gridded Forecasts

Caren Marzban, University of Washington, Seattle, WA; and C. jones, N. Li, and S. Sandgathe

Recorded Presentation

Handout (4.0 MB)

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

Session 1

Location: Room 333-334 ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)

Host: 11th Symposium on Societal Applications: Policy, Research and Practice

Chair: Renee McPherson, University of Oklahoma

1:30 PM

1.1

Sticky Questions and Endless Debates: Integrating Social and Behavioral Science into Meteorological Research and Practices

Zainab Ali, NOAA, Greensboro, NC; and K. E. Klockow

Recorded Presentation

1:45 PM

1.2

What's in a #Name? An Experimental Study Examining Perceived Credibility and Impact of Winter Storm Names

Adam M. Rainear, University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT; and K. A. Lachlan and C. A. Lin

Recorded Presentation

2:00 PM

1.3

Applications of the Term "Pulse” as a Thunderstorm Mode Descriptor

Paul W. Miller, University of Georgia, Athens, GA; and T. L. Mote

2:15 PM

1.4

Communicating Geographic Information in Severe Weather Warnings

Matthew J. Taraldsen, CIMMS/Univ. of Oklahoma and NOAA/NWS/WDTD, Norman, OK; and D. Morris and G. M. Schoor

Recorded Presentation

Joint Session 1

Methods for Identifying the MJO

Location: Room 338/339 ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)

Hosts: (Joint between the Fourth Symposium on Prediction of the Madden-Julian Oscillation: Processes, Prediction and Impact; and the Seventh Conference on Weather, Climate, Water and the New Energy Economy )

Cochairs: Ping Liu, SUNY; Carl J. Schreck III, CICS/North Carolina State University

1:30 PM

J1.1

The MJO Skeleton Model: Stochastic Dynamics, Comparison with Observations, and Development of New MJO Indices (Invited Presentation)

Samuel N. Stechmann, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI; and H. R. Ogrosky and A. J. Majda

Recorded Presentation

1:45 PM

J1.2

Was there a December MJO during DYNAMO? (Invited Presentation)

Katherine H. Straub, Susquehanna University, Selinsgrove, PA; and S. Sullivan

Recorded Presentation

2:00 PM

J1.3

Observations of Convective Organization by the MJO

George N. Kiladis, NOAA/ESRL, Boulder, CO; and J. Dias and K. Kikuchi

Recorded Presentation

2:15 PM

J1.4

The Evolution of the MJO as Revealed by Multivariate Principal Oscillation Analysis

Leslie M. Hartten, CIRES/Univ. of Colorado and NOAA/ESRL/Physical Sciences Division, Boulder, CO; and C. Penland and R. M. Vargas

Recorded Presentation

Perspective and Plans for Future Observing Systems in Earth System Science

Location: Room 252/254 ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)

Hosts: (Joint between the 12th Annual Symposium on New Generation Operational Environmental Satellite Systems; the Fourth AMS Symposium on the Joint Center for Satellite Data Assimilation (JCSDA); the 20th Conference on Integrated Observing and Assimilation Systems for the Atmosphere, Oceans, and Land Surface (IOAS-AOLS); and the Sixth Conference on Transition of Research to Operations )

Moderator: Bill Baker, Tempus Global Data, Inc.

Panelists: Faisal Hossain, University of Washington; Tsengdar Lee, NASA; Paul A. Rosen, JPL; Jeffrey G. Masek, NASA/GSFC; Ralph O. Stoffler, U.S. Air Force

PD1.1

A Hybrid Backward-Forward Iterative Model for Improving Capacity Building of Earth Observations for Sustainable Societal Application in Developing Countries (Invited Presentation)

Faisal Hossain, University of Washington, Seattle, WA; and N. Iqbal and H. Lee

Recorded Presentation Manuscript (76.0 kB)

PD1.2

Scientific Challenges and Opportunities in the NASA Weather Focus Area (Invited Presentation)

Tsengdar Lee, NASA, Washington, DC; and X. Zeng

Recorded Presentation

PD1.3

The NASA-ISRO SAR Mission: An International Partnership for Science and Society (Invited Presentation)

Paul A. Rosen, JPL, Pasadena, CA; and R. Kumar

Recorded Presentation

Handout (6.0 MB)

PD1.4

Landsat: Toward a Half-Century of Land Monitoring (Invited Presentation)

Jeffrey G. Masek, NASA/GSFC, Greenbelt, MD; and J. Dwyer

Recorded Presentation

PD1.5

The Future of DoD Space Based Environmental Monitoring (Invited Presentation)

Ralph O. Stoffler, U.S. Air Force, Washington, DC

Recorded Presentation

PD1.6

Panel Discussion

Panel Discussion 1

Snapshot of the Federal Policy Landscape

Location: Room 335/336 ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)

Host: 11th Symposium on Societal Applications: Policy, Research and Practice

Moderator: Yael Seid-Green, American Meteorological Society

Panelists: Shalini Mohleji, NOAA; Roger Wakimoto, NSF; Laurie Chong, AMS Congressional Science Fellow

Session 1

Solar Forecasting: Energy Application Part 1

Location: Room 346/347 ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)

Host: Seventh Conference on Weather, Climate, Water and the New Energy Economy

Chair: Subhashree Mishra, DOE

1:30 PM

1.1

Progress Toward Improved Solar Forecasts in Hourly Updated RAP and HRRR Forecasts

Stan Benjamin, NOAA/ESRL, Boulder, CO; and E. James, J. Kenyon, J. B. Olson, C. Alexander, and M. Marquis

Recorded Presentation

1:45 PM

1.2

Nowcasting Case Studies with SunCast

Jared A. Lee, NCAR, Boulder, CO; and S. E. Haupt, P. A. Jimenez, T. C. McCandless, M. A. Rogers, S. D. Miller, and X. Zhong

Recorded Presentation

2:00 PM

1.3

Accounting for the Effects of Unresolved Clouds in the Shortwave Irradiance Forecast of the WRF-Solar Model to Improve Solar Power Forecasts

P. Jimenez, NCAR, Boulder, CO; and S. Alessandrini, S. E. Haupt, and A. Deng

Recorded Presentation

2:15 PM

1.4

Using Diurnal Temperature Range to Examine the Climatology of Solar Energy Potential

Colton Zercher, Lyndon State College, Lyndonville, VT; and S. Y. Murphy, J. Hanrahan, and J. C. Shafer

Recorded Presentation

Lecture 1

Walter Orr Roberts Lecture

Location: La Nouvelle A ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)

1:30 PM

L1.1

Understanding the Earth System through Numerical Modeling: Crossing the Disciplinary Frontiers (Invited Presentation)

V. Ramaswamy, NOAA/GFDL, Princeton, NJ

Recorded Presentation

Session 1

Welcome Session: Commission and the Weather, Water and Climate Enterprise

Location: Room 244 ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)

Host: Fourth Symposium on the Weather, Water, and Climate Enterprise

Keynote: Paul A. Pisano, USDOT/Federal Highway Administration

Cochairs: Christopher Strager, NOAA/NWS; Andrea Bleistein, NOAA/NWS

1:30 PM

Welcoming Remarks: CWWCE Commisioner, William P. Mahoney

1:35 PM

Keynote Address: Kenneth C. Spengler Award Winner

Recorded Presentation

2:15 PM

1.1

Highlights of the 2015 AMS Washington Forum

Shawn W. Miller, Raytheon Intelligence, Information and Services, Aurora, CO; and T. Fahy

Recorded Presentation

Handout (1.4 MB)

Session 2

Advancements and needs in dispersion modeling-Part II

Location: Room 243 ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)

Host: 19th Joint Conference on the Applications of Air Pollution Meteorology with the A&WMA

Chair: Luke Thomas Peffers, Florida State University

1:30 PM

2.1

Comparison of Meteorological Simulations created using Nudging, 3DVar and 4DVar with Respect to Key Meteorological Inputs for Air Quality and Dispersion Models

Andrew T. White, University of Alabama, Huntsville, AL; and A. P. Biazar, R. T. McNider, and B. Dornblaser

Recorded Presentation

1:45 PM

2.2

Modeling the convective transport of pollutants from eastern Colorado, USA into Rocky Mountain National Park

Aaron J. Piña, Colorado State University, Ft. Collins, CO; and R. S. Schumacher and A. S. Denning

Recorded Presentation

2:00 PM

2.3

Modeling Atmospheric Dispersion: A Comparison between hp-adaptive FEM and Local Meshless Methods

Darrell W. Pepper, University of Nevada Las Vegas, Las Vegas, NV; and J. Waters

Recorded Presentation

2:15 PM

2.4

A Lagrangian Two-Particle Model for Dense Gas Dispersion Driven by LES Fields

Jeffrey C. Weil, Univ. of Colorado, Boulder, CO

Recorded Presentation

Session 2

Evolving the NWS to Become Second to None

Location: Room 255/257 ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)

Host: Fourth Symposium on Building a Weather-Ready Nation: Enhancing Our Nation’s Readiness, Responsiveness, and Resilience to High Impact Weather Events

Cochairs: Douglas Hilderbrand, NOAA/NWS; Jennifer Sprague, NOAA/NWS

1:30 PM

2.1

Update on the NWS Operations and Workforce Analysis

Joanne Swanson-Kagan, NOAA/NWS, Silver Spring, MD; and J. E. Ten Hoeve III, A. Bleistein, S. Pavlow, J. Morrow, and C. Draggon

Recorded Presentation

1:45 PM

2.2

Evolving the NWS with Impact-based Decision Support Services

Charlie Woodrum, NWS, Honolulu, HI; and M. Solum and J. J. Zeltwanger

Recorded Presentation

2:00 PM

2.3

Building a Weather-Ready Nation Through Social Media: Developing Trust One Tweet at a Time

Gregory Romano, NOAA/NWS, Silver Spring, MD

Recorded Presentation

2:15 PM

2.4

NCEP's Role in Building Preparedness and Resilience to High Impact Weather Events

Genene Fisher, NOAA/NWS, College Park, MD

Recorded Presentation

Session 2

Future directions for the Federal Agencies, Part II

Location: Room 352 ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)

Host: 13th Conference on Space Weather

Chair: Geoff Crowley, Atmospheric & Space Technology Research Associates

1:30 PM

2.1

FEMA Space Weather Activities

Leviticus A. Lewis, FEMA, Washington, DC

Recorded Presentation

1:45 PM

2.2

Geomagnetic Weather: Where we are, Where we need to be

Jeffrey Love, USGS, Denver, CO; and W. Leith, C. Finn, E. J. Rigler, and A. Kelbert

Recorded Presentation

2:00 PM

2.3

Evolving Space Weather Needs Within the FAA

Karen shelton-Mur, Department of Transportation / FAA, Washington, DC

Recorded Presentation

2:15 PM

2.4

Space Environments and NASA's Engineering and Safety Center

Joseph I. Minow, NASA, Huntsville, AL

Recorded Presentation

Session 2

Kenneth Crawford Session, Part 1

Location: Room 245 ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)

Host: 22nd Conference on Applied Climatology

Chair: Christopher A. Fiebrich, Oklahoma Climatological Survey

1:30 PM

2.1

The Colorado Agricultural Meteorological Network (CoAgMet): A Tortoise Among State Mesonets, but Making Progress

Nolan J. Doesken, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO; and W. A. Ryan and Z. Schwalbe

Recorded Presentation

1:45 PM

2.2

Societal Benefits of Mesonets: a New Jersey Example

David A. Robinson, Rutgers University, Piscataway, NJ

Recorded Presentation

2:00 PM

2.3

The Coastal and Inland Flooding Observation and Warning (CI-FLOW) Project

Kodi L. Nemunaitis-Monroe, CIMMS/Univ. of Oklahoma, Norman, OK

Recorded Presentation

2:15 PM

2.4

The National Mesonet Program

Curtis H. Marshall, NWS, Silver Spring, MD

Recorded Presentation

Session 2

Modeling and Teaching Modeling

Location: Room 225 ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)

Host: Sixth Symposium on Advances in Modeling and Analysis Using Python

Chair: Charles Doutriaux, LLNL

2.1

Why Python is the Ideal Language for Teaching Numerical Modeling

1:30 PM

2.2

A Python-based Parcel Model Framework for Studying Aerosol-Cloud Processes

Daniel A. Rothenberg, MIT, Cambridge, MA

Recorded Presentation

2:00 PM

2.3

Python bindings for atmospheric numerical models

Dorota Jarecka, University of Warsaw / NCAR, Boulder, CO; and S. Arabas and D. Del Vento

Recorded Presentation

2:15 PM

Each poster presenter, in order by their poster number, is provided with an opportunity to give a brief introduction to their poster presentation that will be given during the formal poster viewing following the session

Session 2

Pre-College Education Initiatives

Location: Room 353 ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)

Host: 25th Symposium on Education

Cochairs: Jeffrey A. Yuhas, Morristown-Beard School; John Moore, AMS Board on Outreach and Precollege Education

1:30 PM

2.1

Citizen Science Education Program: Two Years Later, an Update

Victoria L. Gorman, Medford Memorial Middle School, Medford, NJ

Recorded Presentation

1:45 PM

2.2

NEW! Aerosols and Sky Color GLOBE Elementary Storybook

Sarah A. Crecelius, NASA LaRC/SSAI, Hampton, Virginia; and J. Taylor

Recorded Presentation

2.3

Lightning and Hurricane Safety Knowledge and the Effects of Education Modes on Elementary School Children

2:15 PM

2.4

Storm Lab: Teaching Kids that Air Masses Drive the Weather Using Serious Games

Andrea Balfour, University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK; and T. Davis and A. McGovern

Recorded Presentation

Joint Session 2

Soil Dust I: Lofting and Transport, Characterization, and Interactions with Clouds and Storms

Location: Room 357 ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)

Hosts: (Joint between the Eighth Symposium on Aerosol–Cloud–Climate Interactions; and the 18th Conference on Atmospheric Chemistry )

Chair: Ottmar Moehler, Institute of Technology

Cochairs: Paquita Zuidema, Univ. of Miami/RSMAS; Paola Formenti, Universite Paris Est

1:30 PM

J2.1

Assessing the Varied Sources of Ice Nucleating Particles from Soils and Their Atmospheric Abundances

Paul J. DeMott, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO; and K. J. Suski, T. C. J. Hill, E. J. T. Levin, C. S. McCluskey, O. Moehler, N. Hiranuma, T. Schiebel, K. Hoehler, M. D. Petters, A. Bertram, R. Mason, C. Chou, and F. Team

Recorded Presentation

1:45 PM

J2.2

Immersion Freezing Experiments Using PM10 Filter Samples from Cape Verde

André Welti, Leibniz Institute for Tropospheric Research, Leipzig, Germany; and S. Hartmann, E. Beaudin, N. Samtleben, P. Herenz, and F. Stratmann

2:00 PM

J2.3

Cloud Ice Formation by Arable Soil Dust Aerosol

Kristina Höhler, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Karlsruhe, Germany; and R. Ullrich, T. Schiebel, I. Steinke, K. Suski, E. Levin, R. Funk, P. J. DeMott, and O. Möhler

Recorded Presentation

2:15 PM

J2.4

The Importance of Soil Dust for Mixed-phase Clouds in Global Climate Models

Luisa Ickes, ETH, Zürich, Switzerland; and T. Stanelle and U. Lohmann

Session 2

State Mesonet Standards and Procedures

Location: Room 350/351 ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)

Host: 18th Symposium on Meteorological Observation and Instrumentation

Chair: Alexandria McCombs, University of South Carolina

1:30 PM

2.1

The National Weather Service Ceilometer Planetary Boundary Layer Project Update

Micheal Hicks, NOAA/NWS, Sterling, VA; and D. Atkinson, B. B. Demoz, and K. C. Vermeesch

Recorded Presentation

1:45 PM

2.2

Meso-scale Equivalent Temperature in Kentucky

Keri Younger, Western Kentucky University, Bowling Green, KY; and R. Mahmood, G. Goodrich, R. A. Pielke Sr., J. D. Durkee, and X. Fan

2:00 PM

2.3

The New York State Mesonet: Siting Process and Challenges

Jerald A. Brotzge, New York State Mesonet, Albany, NY; and C. Thorncroft, E. Joseph, N. Farruggio, S. Perez, E. Kane, W. Flamholtz, S. Soroka, P. Naple, S. D. Miller, J. R. Minder, J. Wang, A. Drumm, and A. Gallagher

Recorded Presentation

2:15 PM

2.4

New York State Mesonet: From Data Quality to Scientific Highlights

Junhong Wang, SUNY, Albany, NY; and J. Brotzge, N. Bain, and N. Bassill

Recorded Presentation

Session 2

Statistical Products for Weather Services – Part 2

Location: Room 226/227 ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)

Host: 23rd Conference on Probability and Statistics in the Atmospheric Sciences

Chair: Matthew S. Wandishin, NOAA/ESRL/GSD, CIRES/Univ. of Colorado

1:30 PM

2.1

Bayesian Model Averaging and DICast Forecasts - Ensuring Consistency

James Cowie, NCAR, Boulder, CO

Recorded Presentation

1:45 PM

2.2

Bias Correction of Station Parameters Worldwide from Unified Model Forecasts

David L. Keller, 557th Weather Wing , Offutt AFB, NE

Recorded Presentation

2:00 PM

2.3

Real-time Monitoring and Flagging of Extreme Value Forecasts - A Practical Example

Gerard Croteau, EC, Dorval, QC, Canada

Recorded Presentation

2:15 PM

2.4

Probabilistic Hazard Detection using a Time-lagged Ensemble

Trevor Alcott, OAR, Boulder, CO; and C. R. Alexander and I. Jankov

Recorded Presentation

Session 2

Synoptic-scale Ensemble Forecasting and Uncertainty Analysis in the Coastal Zone Including Meteorology, Physical Oceanography and Ecology: Part II

Location: Room 342 ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)

Host: 14th Symposium on the Coastal Environment

Cochairs: Nickitas Georgas, Stevens Institute of Technology; Patrick J. Fitzpatrick, Mississippi State Univ.

1:30 PM

2.1

Implementing the Nearshore Wave Prediction System as a Centralized, On-demand Marine Hazard Guidance System

Roberto Padilla-Hernandez, IMSG@NOAA/NWS/NCEP, College Park, MD; and A. Van der Westhuysen, P. Santos, A. Gibbs, D. Gaer, G. Dusek, J. W. Long, H. F. Stockdon, J. Notchey, D. King, and H. L. Tolman

Recorded Presentation

1:45 PM

2.2

Beta Testing with the Nearshore Wave Prediction System and Rip Current and Wave Run Up Forecasting at the Weather Forecast Office

Pablo Santos, NOAA/NWS, Miami, FL; and A. Van der Westhuysen, G. Dusek, J. W. Long, R. Padilla-Hernandez, C. H. Paxton, A. Gibbs, and D. gregoria

Recorded Presentation

2:00 PM

2.3

Methodology for Generating Ensemble Stream Discharge Forecasts to Feed an Ensemble Flood Forecasting System in a Coastal Flood Plain

Firas Saleh, Stevens Institute of Technology, Hoboken, NJ; and N. Georgas, V. Ramaswamy, and A. Blumberg

Recorded Presentation

2:15 PM

2.4

Collaborative Development of a Forecast Capability for Water Levels in the Lower Pearl River Basin, LA/MS

Cheryl Ann Blain, NRL, Stennis Space Center, MS; and M. K. Cambazoglu, E. D. Smythe, S. Van Cooten, D. P. Brunet, A. Roberts, R. J. Moorhead II, K. M. Dresback, and R. L. Kolar

Urban Studies that Support the Understanding of Urban Growth and Climate Variability Impacts on Health, Adaptation, and Resilience—Part II

Location: Room 228/229 ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)

Moderator: Jennifer Vanos, Texas Tech University

Panelists: Kristie L. Ebi, ClimAdapt, LLC; Roger Pulwarty, NOAA; John Balbus, National Institute of Health

1:30 PM

Health and Cascading Systems Failure -- John Balbus

Recorded Presentation

1:30 PM

Kris Ebi

Recorded Presentation

1:30 PM

Roger Pulwarty

Recorded Presentation

Session 2A

Advancements in Information Systems Technology

Location: Room 355 ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)

Host: 32nd Conference on Environmental Information Processing Technologies

Cochairs: Gerald Dittberner, Harris Corporation; Randall Bass, FAA

1:30 PM

2A.1

Preparing for the Next Generation of Satellites in AWIPS II: National Centers Perspective

Monica L. Bozeman, NOAA/NWS/NCEP, Miami, FL; and M. J. Folmer, C. Mello, A. Terborg, G. Grosshans, M. Sardi, M. DeMaria, and S. Leyva

Recorded Presentation

1:45 PM

2A.2

Leveraging HPC Technologies to Accelerate GOES-R Product Processing and Distribution

Brad Brown-Bergtold, Harris Corporation, Melbourne, FL; and J. Gundy

Recorded Presentation

Handout (1014.5 kB)

2:00 PM

2A.3

Evolution of Data Product Processing at JPSS

Kathryn Shontz, Noblis for NOAA/NESDIS/JPSS, Lanham, MD; and M. Goldberg

Recorded Presentation

2:15 PM

2A.4

Weather Enterprise Service Provider Technologies

Wayne Van Sickle, Harris Corporation, Melbourne, FL

Recorded Presentation

Session 2A

Field Experiments I

Location: Room 344 ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)

Host: 20th Conference on Integrated Observing and Assimilation Systems for the Atmosphere, Oceans, and Land Surface (IOAS-AOLS)

Chair: Bill Proenza, NOAA/NWS

1:30 PM

2A.1

On Forecast Sensitivity and Impact of Dropwindsonde Observations during HS3 and TCI

James D. Doyle, NRL, Monterey, CA; and J. R. Moskaitis, P. G. Black, P. A. Reinecke, and C. M. Amerault

Recorded Presentation

1:45 PM

2A.2

Hurricane Imaging Radiometer (HIRAD) 2014 and 2015 Observations

Daniel J. Cecil, NASA/MSFC, Huntsville, AL; and S. Biswas and W. L. Jones

Recorded Presentation

2:00 PM

2A.3

Study of The Impact of NASA Global Hawk Unmanned Aircraft Dropwindsonde Observations on Tropical Cyclone Track, Intensity and Structure

Hui Christophersen, NOAA/AOML and Univ. of Miami/CIMAS, Miami, FL; and A. Aksoy, J. Dunion, B. Dahl, L. Bucci, K. Ryan, and P. Dodge

Recorded Presentation

2:15 PM

2A.4

A First Look at the Impact of Coyote UAS Observations from Hurricane Edouard (2014) on Tropical Cyclone Data Assimilation and Prediction

Altug Aksoy, University of Miami and NOAA/AOML, Miami, FL; and J. J. Cione, H. Christophersen, B. Dahl, B. Annane, L. Bucci, and R. Atlas

Recorded Presentation

Session 2B

AWIPS System Updates, Part I

Location: Room 348/349 ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)

Host: 32nd Conference on Environmental Information Processing Technologies

Cochairs: William F. Roberts, OAR; Jason E. Burks, NASA/MSFC

1:30 PM

2B.1

AWIPS Across the National Weather Service Enterprise

Ronla K. Henry, NOAA/NWS, Silver Spring, MD; and J. Tatum and E. L. Phillips

Recorded Presentation

1:45 PM

2B.2

The NOAA Weather Radio/Broadcast Message Handler (NWR/BMH) Project

Steve S. Schotz, NOAA/NWS, Silver Spring, MD; and R. K. Henry, J. P. Buchman, and J. Naleszkiewicz

Recorded Presentation

2:00 PM

2B.3

The Tsunami IT Modernization Project

Bobby Martinez, NOAA/NWS, Silver Spring, MD; and J. P. Buchman, J. Naleszkiewicz, and R. K. Henry

Recorded Presentation

2:15 PM

2B.4

The Ensemble Tool in AWIPS II - Progress Report

Paul Schultz, CIRES/Univ. of Colorado, Boulder, CO; and E. Polster and X. Jing

Recorded Presentation

Session 2B

Data Assimilation: Ocean and Coupled Models I

Location: Room 345 ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)

Host: 20th Conference on Integrated Observing and Assimilation Systems for the Atmosphere, Oceans, and Land Surface (IOAS-AOLS)

Chair: Matthew J. Carrier, NRL

1:30 PM

2B.1

A New Coupled 4DVAR Assimilation System for Coupled Ocean-Wave Models

Cheryl Ann Blain, NRL, Stennis Space Center, MS; and M. Orzech, M. J. Carrier, H. E. Ngodock, I. Souopgui, and S. Smith

1:45 PM

2B.2

Developing an EnKF Data Assimilation System for the Canadian MEOPAR Project, the Benefits and Costs of High Resolution

Dominik Jacques, EC, Dorval, PQ, Canada; and L. Fillion, W. Chang, and S. J. Baek

Recorded Presentation

2:00 PM

2B.3

An Overview of the Naval Research Laboratory ocean surface flux (NFLUX) system

Jackie C. May, NRL, Stennis Space Center, MS; and C. Rowley and C. N. Barron

Recorded Presentation

2B.4

Towards an Operational Hybrid Global Ocean Data Assimilation System at NCEP

2:15 PM

2B.4A

Investigating the Potential Impact of the Surface Water and Ocean Topography (SWOT) Altimeter on Ocean Mesoscale Prediction

Matthew J. Carrier, NRL, Stennis Space Center, MS; and H. E. Ngodock, S. Smith, and I. Souopgui

Recorded Presentation

Joint Session 3

Drought Analysis and Prediction, Part II

Location: Room 240/241 ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)

Hosts: (Joint between the 30th Conference on Hydrology; and the 28th Conference on Climate Variability and Change )

Cochairs: Joshua Roundy, University of Kansas; Eric F. Wood, Princeton University

1:30 PM

J3.1

Exploring Tools for Quantifying and Ameliorating Meteorological Drought Deficits

Michael C. Kruk, ERT, Inc., Asheville, NC; and R. R. Heim Jr., K. Werner, and R. S. Vose

Recorded Presentation

1:45 PM

J3.2

Assessing the evolution of soil moisture and vegetation conditions during the 2012 United States flash drought

Jason A. Otkin, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI; and M. C. Anderson and C. Hain

Recorded Presentation

2:00 PM

J3.3

An investigation of soil moisture extremes over the 2012 drought

Ronald D. Leeper, Cooperative Institute for Climate and Satellites-North Carolina (CICS-NC), North Carolina State University, Asheville, NC; and J. E. Bell and M. Palecki

Recorded Presentation

2:15 PM

J3.4

EDDI examines the current California drought: early warning and monitoring of agricultural and hydrologic drought with the new Evaporative Demand Drought Index

Michael Hobbins, NOAA, Boulder, CO; and D. McEvoy, J. Huntington, A. Wood, C. Morton, and J. Verdin

Recorded Presentation

Joint Session 3

Stratospheric Chemistry

Location: Room 231/232 ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)

Hosts: (Joint between the Mario J. Molina Symposium; and the 18th Conference on Atmospheric Chemistry )

Chair: Sasha Madronich, NCAR

CoChair: Guy Brasseur, UCAR

1:30 PM

J3.1

Four Decades of Ozone Layer Depletion: What We Did Right and What We Could Have Done Different? (Invited Keynote Presentation)

A. R. Ravishankara, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO

Recorded Presentation

1:45 PM

J3.2

An Historical Perspective on Ozone Research: From 1840 to 1970 (Invited Presentation)

Guy Brasseur, UCAR, Boulder, CO

Recorded Presentation

2:00 PM

J3.3

The Future Ozone Layer Conundrum

Amy Hawes Butler, CIRES/Univ. of Colorado, Boulder, CO; and J. S. Daniel, D. W. Fahey, R. W. Portmann, A. R. Ravishankara, and K. H. Rosenlof

Recorded Presentation

2:15 PM

J3.4

Ground-based Microwave Measurements of ClO in the Stratosphere

Gerald E. Nedoluha, NRL, Washington, DC; and B. J. Connor, T. Mooney, J. W. Barrett, A. Parrish, R. M. Gomez, I. Boyd, D. R. Allen, M. Kotkamp, S. Kremser, T. Deshler, and M. L. Santee

Recorded Presentation

Joint Session 4

Land Model Benchmarking: Benchmarking, Verification and Validation in Terrestrial Hydrology, Part II

Location: Room 242 ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)

Hosts: (Joint between the 30th Conference on Hydrology; and the 23rd Conference on Probability and Statistics in the Atmospheric Sciences )

Chair: Sujay Kumar, NASA/GSFC

1:30 PM

J4.1

Benchmarking a Land-Atmosphere Flux Model using Information Flow Process Networks

Benjamin L. Ruddell, Arizona State University, Mesa, AZ; and D. Drewry

1:45 PM

J4.2

Use of a Priori Benchmarks to Evaluate the Performance of a Physically Based Hydrologic Model

Andrew J. Newman, NCAR, Boulder, CO; and N. Mizukami, M. Clark, A. W. Wood, L. D. Brekke, and J. R. Arnold

Recorded Presentation

2:00 PM

J4.3

CONUS-Scale Model Evaluation and Benchmarking for National Streamflow Prediction

Aubrey Dugger, NCAR, Boulder, Colorado; and D. Gochis, A. RafieeiNasab, J. McCreight, D. Yates, L. Karsten, K. Sampson, W. Yu, M. Somos, F. Salas, and D. Maidment

Recorded Presentation

2:15 PM

J4.4

Benchmarking Different Approaches for Harnessing Predictability in Climate and Hydrologic Initial Conditions for Seasonal Runoff Prediction

Andrew W. Wood, NCAR, Boulder, CO; and P. Mendoza, E. Rothwell, M. Clark, L. Brekke, J. R. Arnold, and S. Gangopadhyay

Themed Joint Session 5

Greenhouse Gas Emissions: Quantifying Uncertainties in Measurements and Models and Resultant Climate Impacts II

Location: Room 356 ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)

Cochairs: A. Scott Denning, Colorado State University; Sean Crowell, University of Oklahoma

1:30 PM

TJ5.1

The Uncertainty of Gridded CO₂ Emissions Data

Eric Marland, Appalachian State University, Boone, NC; and S. Hogue, R. J. Andres, and G. Marland

Recorded Presentation

1:45 PM

TJ5.2

Understanding Urban Carbon Emissions (Invited Presentation)

Riley Duren, JPL, Pasadena, CA; and C. Miller, K. Gurney, E. Kort, S. Feng, P. Rao, R. Keeling, R. Weiss, K. R. Verhulst, F. Hopkins, J. Miller, S. Newman, M. L. Fischer, S. Lehman, M. Falk, and B. Croes

2:00 PM

TJ5.3

Evaluating Ambient Concentrations and Local Emissions of Greenhouse Gases (GHGs) in the San Francisco Bay Area of California Using a Comprehensive Fixed-site and Mobile Monitoring Network

Abhinav Guha, Bay Area Air Quality Management District, San Francisco, CA; and J. Bower, P. Martien, S. Randall, A. Young, H. Hilken, and E. Stevenson

Recorded Presentation

2:15 PM

TJ5.4

The Four Corners Methane Hotspot: Implications for Emission Inventories (Invited Presentation)

Mavendra Dubey, LANL, Los Alamos, NM; and K. R. Costigan, R. Lindenmaier, C. Frankenberg, E. Kort, A. J. Turner, and D. J. Jacob

Recorded Presentation

Joint Session 5

Joint Research and Coordinated Observations in Hydrometeorology, Extremes and High-Impact Events in the US and Asia Part 1

Location: Room 343 ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)

Hosts: (Joint between the Special Sessions on US-International Partnerships; and the 30th Conference on Hydrology )

Chair: Kenneth Carey, Earth Resources Technology (ERT), Inc.

1:30 PM

J5.1

The Contribution of the Global Space-based InterCalibration System to US-International Partnerships

Mitchell Goldberg, JPSS, Lanham, MD

Recorded Presentation

2:00 PM

J5.2

Improving Prediction and Monitoring of High Impact Landfall Tropical Cyclones over the US and Asia through Satellite Data Assimilation

Xiaolei Zou, University of Maryland, College Park, MD

Recorded Presentation

2:15 PM

J5.3

Building the High-Quality Satellite Sensor Data Records for Climate and Weather Applications

Fuzhong Weng, NOAA, College Park, MD

Recorded Presentation

Themed Joint Session 6

High Impact Weather: Analysis, Prediction, and Interaction with Climate Changes: Part 2

Location: Room 238/239 ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)

Chair: Richard Clark, Millersville University

TJ6.1

Decreasing Frequency of Monsoon Depressions in the 21st Century

1:45 PM

TJ6.2

Reduced Weather Variability Indicated by Decreases in Atmospheric Energy Spectra

Nicholas R. Cavanaugh, LBNL, Berkeley, CA; and T. A. O'Brien and W. D. Collins

Recorded Presentation

2:00 PM

TJ6.3

Seasonal Predictability of Severe Thunderstorms based on ENSO: Methodology and Evaluation of the 2015 forecast

John T. Allen, Columbia University/International Research Institute for Climate and Society, Palisades, NY; and M. K. Tippett and A. H. Sobel

Recorded Presentation

2:15 PM

TJ6.4

An Investigation of Spatial Redistribution of USA Tornado Activity and Its Relationship to Climate Change

Ernest Agee, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN; and S. Childs

Recorded Presentation

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)

Poster Session 1

19AIRPOL Posters

Host: 19th Joint Conference on the Applications of Air Pollution Meteorology with the A&WMA

272

Developments in Hydrocarbon Gas Standards at NIST: Supporting the World Meteorological Organization Measurement Infrastructure

Christina E. Liaskos, National Institute of Standards and Technology, Gaithersburg, MD; and G. C. Rhoderick

Handout (1.4 MB)

273

Summer Seasonal Variation of Baseline Ozone and Source Analysis for California

Arthur John Eiserloh Jr., San Jose State University, San Jose, CA; and S. Chiao

274

Spatial and Temporal Distribution of Summer Ozone Near the Great Salt Lake

Ansley Long, University of Utah, Salt Lake City - Salt Lake, UT; and J. D. Horel and X. Dong

275

Verification Tools for Air Quality Models

Radenko Pavlovic, EC, Dorval, QC, Canada; and S. Gilbert, H. Landry, P. A. Beaulieu, and M. D. Moran

Manuscript (300.5 kB)

Handout (1.3 MB)

276

The Impact of Wind Direction on the Location of High Ozone in the Houston-Galveston-Brazoria Area

Kasey Lynn Savanich, Texas Commission on Environmental Quality, Austin, TX; and Z. Fang, P. Leung, F. Mercado, and J. Steets

Handout (2.5 MB)

277

Applications of the numerical Green's function to urban flows

Keith Ngan, City University of Hong Kong, Kowloon, Hong Kong; and K. W. Lo and J. G. Jackson

Handout (1.7 MB)

278

Analysis of 2010-2014 Ground-Level Ozone at Trinidad Head, CA

Elizabeth Lennartson, Iowa State University, Ames, IA; and I. Petropavlovskikh and A. McClure-Begley

279

Effects of the 2015 summer wildfires in western Canada on air quality in eastern North America

Frank S. Dempsey, AMS member, Locust Hill, ON, Canada

Handout (2.0 MB)

280

Lagrangian exposure and residence times for urban street-canyon models

Ka Wai Lo, City University of Hong Kong, Kowloon, Hong Kong; and K. Ngan

Handout (3.6 MB)

282

Studies on Ambient Air Quality at Kollyanpur , Dhaka City

Koninika Tanzim, AER, Dhaka, Bangladesh

Poster Session 1

32EIPT Monday/Tuesday Posters

Host: 32nd Conference on Environmental Information Processing Technologies

Cochairs: Kevin Tyle, University at Albany/SUNY; Scott Jacobs, NOAA/NWS/NCEP

Valuing Weather and Climate: Economic Assessment of Meteorological and Hydrological Services

Jeffrey K. Lazo, NCAR, Boulder, CO; and G. Anderson, H. Kootval, D. Kull, J. Clements, G. Fleming, T. Frei, D. Letson, B. Mills, A. Perrels, D. Rogers, C. Vaughan, J. W. Zillman, S. Olsson, and J. Carson

Data Management Foundation for Non-Disruptive Weather Information Dissemination

Jeff Lupfer, NetApp, Vienna, VA; and G. Chiorello and M. J. Schmitt

Contrail cloud radiative forcing over the Northern Hemisphere derived from two years of MODIS observations

Douglas A. Spangenberg, SSAI, Hampton, VA; and P. Minnis, D. P. Duda, and S. T. Bedka

Handout (2.6 MB)

Automated Storm-based Scheduling at the National Weather Radar Testbed Phased Array Radar

David L. Priegnitz, CIMMS/Univ. of Oklahoma, Norman, OK

Manuscript (595.8 kB)

Handout (1.7 MB)

Mobile Air Quality Measurements on Light Rail and Helicopter

Alexander A. Jacques, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT; and E. T. Crosman, J. D. Horel, L. Mitchell, B. Fasoli, and L. Leclair-Marzolf

Handout (2.3 MB)

Geospatial Meteorology and Oceanography Analysis and Display System

James D. Dykes, NRL, Stennis Space Center, MS; and S. DeRada, B. Penta, S. McCarthy, and A. Hudson

Evaluating the WRF-EMS Performance During the 2015 Winter Weather Events across Northern Louisiana

Travis Washington, NOAA/NWS, Shreveport, LA; and J. Hansford, C. K. Palmer, and M. Duplantis

Polarimetric Radar Detection of Hail using X- and S-Band Frequencies

Kyle Chudler, University of Michigan, Ann, MI; and P. Kennedy

Operation and First Results of EWR E750 Dual Polarization Radar in Dallas- Fort Worth (DFW) Urban Test Bed

Guy Blase, EWR Weather Radar, Saint Louis, Missouri; and V. Chandrasekar, B. J. Philips, and H. Chen

Improving Operational MADIS

Greg Pratt, NOAA/ESRL/GSD, Boulder, CO; and L. A. Benjamin, T. Kent, G. Padmanabhan, M. Leon, L. Cheatwood, R. Collander, M. Vrencur, S. Pritchett, L. Cano, and C. H. Marshall

Using Early Mission Data from SMAP and ICESat-2 to Inform Polar Class Rules

Vanessa M. Escobar, NASA/GSFC/Science Systems and Applications, Inc., Greenbelt, MD; and S. Delgado

Poster 49 will now be presented as J3.5A

Characteristics and Observations of “Black Ice” in the Atlanta Metropolitan Area

Christopher D. Bosma, School of Earth & Atmospheric Sciences, Atlanta, GA; and S. E. Nelson, S. A. Listemaa, and K. M. Stellman

Handout (2.3 MB)

An AWIPS2 Plug-In for Display of mPING Data

Kimberly L. Elmore, CIMMS/Univ. of Oklahoma/NOAA/NSSL, Norman, OK; and D. L. Andra Jr. and A. R. Anderson

NOAA Observing System Integrated Analysis (NOSIA-II) Integration with the Broader Federal Earth Observation Assessment Effort

David Helms, NOAA/NESDIS, Silver Spring, MD; and M. LaJoie and R. C. Reining

Manuscript (836.7 kB)

Thirty-plus (30+) Years of Snowstorm Climatology Obtained From MERRA Reanalysis

Kwo-Sen Kuo, GSFC, Greenbelt, MD; and M. L. Rilee, A. Oloso, and R. Ramachandran

Handout (3.1 MB)

Poster Session 1

Advances in Using Python in the Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences

Location: Hall E ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)

Host: Sixth Symposium on Advances in Modeling and Analysis Using Python

Chair: David Brown, NCAR

446

Siphon: Extracting Data from THREDDS Data Servers in Multiple Ways using Python

Sean C. Arms, UCAR, Boulder, CO; and R. M. May

Handout (2.6 MB)

447

Hagelslag: Scalable Object-Based Severe Weather Analysis and Forecasting

David John Gagne II, CAPS/Univ. of Oklahoma, Norman, OK; and A. McGovern, N. Snook, R. A. Sobash, J. D. Labriola, J. K. Williams, S. E. Haupt, and M. Xue

Handout (3.3 MB)

448

Atmospheric Radiation Measurement (ARM) Data Integrator (ADI) for OS X

Krista L. Gaustad, PNNL, Richland, WA; and J. vonderfecht, B. Ermold, and C. Sivaraman

Handout (4.9 MB)

449

Using Geographical Surface Characteristics to Detect Near Real-Time Valley Fog

Shane Hubbard, CIMSS/Univ. of Wisconsin, Madison, WI; and M. J. Pavolonis and C. G. Calvert

450

Converting to Python: Roadblocks and Missing Functionality

Ryan M. May, UCAR/Unidata, Boulder, CO; and K. H. Goebbert and S. C. Arms

Handout (1.5 MB)

451

Parallelizing Climate Data Management System, version 3 (CDMS3)

Denis Nadeau, LLNL, Livermore, CA; and D. Williams, C. Doutriaux, and J. Painter

452

Calculating CAPE, CIN, LCL, and LFC from WRF Model Output in Parallel using F2PY-Wrapped FORTRAN Functions and MPI4PY

Timothy S. Sliwinski, Texas Tech University, Lubbock, TX; and S. Kang

453

Scientific analysis and visualization of tropical cyclone's using CloudSat and A-Train data in python

Natalie Tourville, CIRA/Colorado State Univ., Fort Collins, CO

454

PyStormTracker: A Parallel Object-Oriented Cyclone Tracker in Python

Albert M. W. Yau, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY; and K. Paul and J. Dennis

Poster Session 1

CE Posters

Host: 14th Symposium on the Coastal Environment

316

An Analysis of the 22 November 2014 Gulf Coast Seiche

Timothy W. Humphrey, NOAA/NWSFO, Lake Charles, LA; and J. Brazzell

Poster Session 1

Data Assimilation: Data Impact Experiments and OSSEs

Location: Hall D/E ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)

Host: 20th Conference on Integrated Observing and Assimilation Systems for the Atmosphere, Oceans, and Land Surface (IOAS-AOLS)

243

NOSIA-II Calibration using Sensitivity Studies

Aaron Pratt, NOAA/NESDIS, Silver Spring, MD; and D. Helms

244

On the Predictability of Hurricane Track and Intensity Using an OSSE Framework

Bachir Annane, NOAA/AOML/HRD, Miami, FL; and L. Bucci, J. Delgado, A. Aksoy, R. Atlas, and S. T. Murillo

245

OSSE Assessment of a Hyperspectral Sounder and its Potential Impact on Hurricane Forecasts

Kelly Ryan, NOAA/AOML and University of Miami, Miami, FL; and R. Atlas, L. Bucci, J. Delgado, B. Annane, and S. Murillo

246

A LETKF algorithm with divergence constraint for convective-scale radar data assimilation in the scenario of OSSEs

Gang Zhao, CAPS/Univ. of Oklahoma, Norman, OK; and M. Xue

247

Ensemble Transform Sensitivity Method for Targeted Observations: An OSSE Case Study

Hongli Wang, CIRA/Colorado State University, Boulder, CO; and T. Peevey, J. M. English, A. Kren, and L. Cucurull

248

Variational Assimilation of Cloud Liquid/Ice Water Path and its Impact on NWP

Hongli Wang, CIRA/Colorado State University, Boulder, CO; and Y. Chen and L. Cucurull

249

Quantifying Accuracy and Dispersion of Ensemble Forecasts of Severe Convection Using an Object-Based Technique

Brock Burghardt, Texas Tech University, Lubbock, TX; and B. C. Ancell

250

Adaptive Observation Strategies based on the Retrospective Optimal Interpolation using the Lorenz-40 variable model

Nam-Kyu Noh, Seoul National Univertisy, Seoul, South Korea; and G. H. Lim

Poster 251 has moved. New paper number is 2B.4A

252

WSR-88D Radar Data Assimilation at NCEP

Shun Liu, NOAA/NWS/NCEP/EMC, College Park, MD; and J. R. Carley, W. S. Wu, B. S. Ferrier, M. Pyle, G. DiMego, and J. C. Derber

253

Performing Model Space Localization for Satellite Radiances in an Ensemble Kalman Filter

Jeffrey S. Whitaker, NOAA/ESRL/Physical Sciences Division, Boulder, CO ; and L. Lei

254

3D Estimates of Analysis and ShortRange Forecast Error Variances

Jie Feng, NOAA, Boulder, CO; and M. Pena, H. Wang, and Z. Toth

255

The Use of the Breeding Method for Nested WRF-ARW Simulations

James P. Cipriani, IBM Research, Yorktown Heights,, NY; and K. Ide

256

DART: New Research Using Ensemble Data Assimilation in Geophysical Models

Jeffrey Anderson, NCAR, Boulder, CO; and K. Raeder, T. Hoar, N. Collins, G. Romine, J. Barre, B. Gaubert, A. F. Arellano Jr., S. Wuerth, S. Y. Ha, A. P. Mizzi, and L. N. Anderson

Handout (15.8 MB)

257

Improving Global and Hurricane Forecasts Using Time-lagged Ensembles in the GFS 4DEnVar Hybrid Data Assimilation System

Bo Huang, University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK; and X. Wang

258

Multi-model Cross Pollination in Time

Hailiang Du, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL; and L. Smith

Poster 259 has moved. New paper number is 7.2A

260

Evaluation of the Direct and Indirect Assimilation of Radar Reflectivity using the WRFDA 3D-Var

Eder P. Vendrasco, Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas Espaciais, Cachoeira Paulista, Brazil; and D. L. Herdies

261

Sensitivity of High-Resolution WRF Forecasts to Radiosonde Observations over Central TX

Mark David Benoit, University (Texas A&M), College Station, TX; and D. T. Conlee and C. J. Nowotarski

262

Observing System Experiments in the Dallas-Fort Worth Testbed

Frederick H. Carr, University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK; and A. P. Osborne, M. T. Morris, and K. A. Brewster

Manuscript (1.7 MB)

Handout (2.5 MB)

263

Investigating a WRF-Based Mixed Variational and Nudging Data Assimilation Scheme for the US Army Convective-Scale Nowcasting System

Robert E. Dumais Jr., U.S. Army Research Laboratory, White Sands Missile Range, NM; and B. P. Reen, H. Cai, Y. Xie, H. Jiang, and S. albers

264

Integrated Physical Modelling of the Lake George, NY Watershed

Lloyd Treinish, IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center, Yorktown Heights, NY; and C. Watson, C. James, A. Praino, H. Kolar, F. Liu, E. Ragnoli, F. O'Donncha, and L. C. V. Real

Handout (3.0 MB)

265

Progress of All-Sky SEVIRI Radiance Assimilation in NCEP NAMRR System

Xiaoyan Zhang, University of Maryland, College Park, MD; and A. Collard, J. Carley, and G. DiMego

266

Towards the Assimilation of All-Sky Infrared Radiances of Selected Humidity Sensitive IASI Channels at NCEP/EMC

Li Bi, NOAA/NCEP/EMC/I.M. Systems Group, College Park, MD; and A. Collard, E. Liu, J. A. Jung, and J. C. Derber

267

Assimilation of GPM GMI rainfall product with GSI system

Xuanli Li, Univ. of Alabama, Huntsville, AL; and B. T. Zavodsky and J. R. Mecikalski

268

Variational Cloud-Clearing with CrIS Data at NCEP

269

Quantifying the Impact of a Potential Gap in Afternoon Orbit Satellite Radiances on the North American Mesoscale (NAM) Forecast System

Edward Colon, NOAA/NWS/NCEP/EMC/I.M. Systems Group, College Park, MD; and G. DiMego, E. Rogers, and J. R. Carley

270

The Documentation of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's Nonhydrostatic Icosahedral Model (NIM)

Christina Bonfanti, NOAA/ESRL and CIRES, Boulder, CO

Joint Poster Session 1

Drought Analysis and Prediction Posters

Hosts: (Joint between the 30th Conference on Hydrology; and the 28th Conference on Climate Variability and Change )

Cochairs: Joshua Roundy, University of Kansas; Eric F. Wood, Princeton University

Utilizing NASA Earth Observations to Monitor Drought Severity in Texas for Wildfire Mitigation Support

Megan Elizabeth Buzanowicz, NASA/DEVELOP, Hampton, VA; and L. Lykens, Z. Richards, and K. Ross

A correlation analysis comparing satellite-based drought indicators with yields of major Brazilian crops

Critical Aspects of the Coastal Drought Index: Length of Salinity Data Record and Ecological Response Data

Paul Conrads, USGS, Columbia, SC; and D. L. Tufford and L. S. Darby

Use of Land Surface and Routing Models with Satellite Altimetry to Evaluate Risks to Hydropower during Drought

Jeanne M. Roningen, US Army Corps of Engineers, Hanover, NH; and J. B. Eylander

Probabilistic U.S. Drought Monitor Predictions Using Anomalies in Precipitation, Soil Moisture, and Evapotranspiration

David J. Lorenz, Univ. of Wisconsin, Madison, WI; and J. A. Otkin, M. Svoboda, C. Hain, and M. C. Anderson

Competitive influences on droughts: present and future

Céline Bonfils, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, CA; and G. Anderson, B. Santer, B. Cook, T. Phillips, and I. Cvijanovic

Role of Calibration on Ensemble Streamflow Prediction for Seasonal Agricultural Drought Forecasts

Daniel Anthony Rico, Univ. of Nebraska, Lincoln, NE; and K. Smith, J. Chacon, G. Corzo, and F. Munoz-Arriola

Assessing the Association of Drought to Wildfire in California Using a Regional Climate Model Ensemble

Debasish PaiMazumder, NCAR, Boulder, CO; and P. Jain, J. M. Done, and M. Flannigan

Development of an Objective High Spatial Resolution Soil Moisture Index

Bradley T. Zavodsky, NASA/MSFC, Huntsville, AL; and J. L. Case and K. D. White

Handout (1.2 MB)

Poster Session 1

Environment & Health Poster Session I

Host: Seventh Conference on Environment and Health

430

Influence of Wind Direction and Speed on Formation of 2014 Lake Erie Harmful Algae Bloom

Patrick L. Lawrence, Univ. of Toledo, Toledo, OH

432

Assessing the Impact of Climate on the Two Vectors of Chikungunya Virus and Dengue Fever in Brownsville, Texas

Kelly L. Neely, Texas Tech University, Lubbock, TX; and J. K. Vanos and J. K. Vanos

431

Vulnerability Mapping of Malaria Occurrences in the North-Central Region of Nigeria using Temperature Thresholds as an Indicator

433

Effect of Meteorological Variables on Pulmonary Embolism Mortality

Priscilla Venancio Ikefuti, University of Sao Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil; and L. V. Barrozo and A. L. Braga

434

Applications Using AIRS Data

Sharon Ray, JPL, Pasadena, CA; and T. Pagano, E. Fetzer, B. Lambrigtsen, J. Teixeira, E. Olsen, S. Licata, C. K. Thompson, J. Hall, S. Granger, A. Behrangi, D. Drewry, and J. Wallace

Poster Session 1

GOES-R/JPSS Poster Session I

Host: 12th Annual Symposium on New Generation Operational Environmental Satellite Systems

325

Estimation of Outgoing Longwave Radiation from Cross-track Infrared Sounder (CrIS) Radiance Measurements

Kexin Zhang, NOAA/NESDIS, College Park, MD; and F. Sun, Q. Liu, C. Tan, and N. Nali

326

Ongoing Monitoring and Analysis of NOAA-Unique CrIS/ATMS Processing System (NUCAPS) Sounding Product Using NPROVS and its Expansion

Bomin Sun, NOAA/NESDIS/STAR, College Park, MD; and A. L. Reale, M. Pettey, F. Tilley, N. R. Nalli, and Q. Liu

327

Transitioning the Enterprise Winds Algorithm to Multiple Operational Platforms

Tianxu Yu, IMSG, College Park, MD; and M. Fan, S. Sampson, J. E. Wrotny, A. Li, H. Xie, R. Chen, W. Wolf, J. Daniels, W. Straka, and A. K. Heidinger

328

The Microwave Snow Scattering Signature: Precipitation Regime Dependence

Samantha A. Tushaus, Space Science and Engineering Center, Madison, WI; and M. S. Kulie

329

Using Averaging Kernels to Study the Vertical Resolution of the CrIS and IASI Retrieval Products

Flavio Iturbide-Sanchez, STAR, College Park, MD; and Q. Liu, N. R. Nalli, C. Tan, A. Gambacorta, and C. D. Barnet

330

Handling Hydrometeor-impacted Satellite Data in an Inversion and Data Assimilation System by Accounting for Optical Properties

331

The Use of Multi-Parameter Vegetation Remote Sensing in Land Surface Data Assimilation

Michael Barlage, NCAR, Boulder, CO

332

Assimilation of All Sky Radiances from Research to Operations

Francois Vandenberghe, NCAR, Boulder, CO; and J. Hacker, G. Descombes, B. J. Jung, H. Shao, D. Xu, and C. Zhou

333

NWP Background Adjustment Through 1DVAR Preprocessing of Satellite Radiances

Kevin Garrett, RTi, NOAA/NESDIS/STAR, College Park, MD; and E. Maddy and S. Boukabara

334

Science Algorithms Transition to Operations: Lessons Learned

Priyanka Roy, I.M Systems Group, College Park, MD; and W. Wolf, T. King, and D. Powell

339

ASSISTT R2O Tool: STAR Algorithm Processing Framework

Zhuo Zhang, IMSG, College Park, MD; and M. Walters, R. Rollins, S. Sampson, W. Wolf, and A. Li

340

ASSISTT Near Real-Time Processing

Meizhu Fan, IMSG, College Park, MD; and H. Xie, Y. Zhao, S. Sampson, W. Wolf, J. Lindeman, A. Li, and J. M. Daniels

Estimation of precipitable water and cloud liquid water over ocean from dual oxygen absorption band sounding instruments to support the assimilation of secondary generation microwave observations on board FY-3 satellite

335

Accounting for Cloud Microphysical Properties in Variational Data Assimilation of Passive Microwave Brightness Temperatures

341

Migration to Operational Enterprise Algorithms

Walter Wolf, NOAA/NESDIS/STAR, College Park, MD; and J. Daniels, S. Sampson, L. Zhou, T. King, and B. Das

342

Dust Detection using IR channels of Himawari-8

Keiko Yamamoto, CIMSS/Univ. of Wisconsin, Madison, WI; and A. Heidinger and S. Ackerman

337

Diagnosing Tropical Cyclones in the Central Pacific with the VIIRS Day Night Band

343

Aerosol-forecast-oriented Data Assimilation of Himawari-8 Aerosol Products

Tsuyoshi Thomas Sekiyama, MRI, Tsukuba, Japan; and K. Yumimoto, H. Murakami, M. Kikuchi, T. M. Nagao, T. Y. Tanaka, A. Ogi, and T. Maki

345

A BUFR and GRIB Tailoring System for Satellite Operational Products

Yi Song, I.M. Systems Group, College Park, MD; and T. Kings and W. Wolf

346

JPSS-1 CrIS Measurement Noise Covariance Characterization at Full Spectral Resolution

Denis Tremblay, Science Data Processing/NOAA, College Park, MD; and Y. Han, L. Wang, Y. Chen, X. Jin, and X. Xiong

347

Initial Development of Himawari-8 Aerosol Product in JAXA

Maki Kikuchi, Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency, Ibaraki, Japan; and T. M. Nagao and H. Murakami

349

Shadow Detection Using near UV Data for Improving Aerosol Retrieval over Land

Toshiro Inoue, Atmosphere and Ocean Research Institute, University of Tokyo, Kashiwa, Japan; and M. Hashimoto

350

Near-Real Time Processing of S-NPP CrIS Full Spectral Resolution SDR Data at NOAA/STAR

Xiaozhen Xiong, NOAA/NESDIS, College Park, MD; and Y. Han, Y. Chen, L. Wang, D. Tremblay, X. Jin, and L. Zhou

351

Wavelength Registration Correction for the S-NPP OMPS Nadir Instruments

Alin Catalin Tolea, NOAA/NESDIS, College Park, MD; and C. Pan, T. Beck, and L. Flynn

344

JPSS and S-NPP Vegetation Index Products, and Algorithm Development

352

Ship-Based Campaigns Supporting S-NPP CrIS/ATMS Sounder Validation: CalWater/ACAPEX and AEROSE

Nicholas R. Nalli, NOAA/NESDIS, College Park, MD; and V. Morris, E. Joseph, C. D. Barnet, Q. Liu, T. Reale, J. W. Smith, A. Gambacorta, C. Tan, B. Sun, F. Iturbide-Sanchez, D. Wolfe, M. Wilson, T. S. King, W. Wolf, and F. Tilley

Manuscript (2.3 MB)

353

GOES-R ASSISTT: Updated Software Algorithm Packages for GOES-R Operations

Jonathan E. Wrotny, I.M. Systems Group, College Park, MD; and E. McWilliams, A. Ken, B. Morris, T. Yu, H. Lu, S. Sampson, W. Wolf, W. C. Straka III, A. K. Heidinger, and J. M. Daniels

354

Results from Evaluating Different GOES-R Scanning Strategies at the NWS Operations Proving Ground

Chad M. Gravelle, NWS Operations Proving Ground/CIMSS, Kansas City, MO; and K. J. Runk

355

ASSISTT Regression Testing: Quality Control of Scientific Algorithm Source Code Updates

Eric McWilliams, I.M. Systems Group, College Park, MD; and J. E. Wrotny, Z. Zhang, Y. Zhao, S. Sampson, W. Wolf, and W. Straka III

348

Configuration of Direct Broadcast Content for Soumi NPP and Future JPSS Spacecraft

356

ASSISTT R2O Tools: Content Generation

Veena Jose, NOAA/NESDIS, College Park, MD; and Y. Zhao, J. Raymond, S. Sampson, V. Mikles, K. Sprietzer, M. Walters, J. Lindeman, W. Wolf, and N. Rao

357

Application of an Algorithm Change Process to the GOES-R Ground Segment

Ryan Williams, Stellar Solutions, Inc., Chantilly, VA

Handout (3.1 MB)

358

STAR ASSISTT: Facilitating JPSS Algorithm Change Process

Valerie J. Mikles, IMSG at NOAA/NESDIS/STAR, College Park, MD; and B. Das, W. Wolf, M. Tsidulko, Q. Zhao, V. Dharmawardane, W. Chen, and K. Sprietzer

359

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, R. Holtz, R. Garcia, G. Martin, G. Quinn, A. Li, M. Fan, and J. M. Daniels

360

The Joint Polar Satellite System (JPSS) Program Algorithm Change Process (ACP): Past, Present and Future

Ashley Nechole Griffin, Arctic Slope Regional Corporation (ASRC) Space and Defense (AS&D, Inc.), Beltsville, MD

361

Employing Short Courses to Prepare for the GOES-R Satellite Series

Mathew M. Gunshor, CIMSS, Madison, WI; and T. J. Schmit, C. C. Schmidt, S. S. Lindstrom, J. J. Gerth, M. Mooney, T. M. Whittaker, S. J. Goodman, and J. J. Gurka

362

Design and Fabrication of a Simple Sensor For UAS-based Satellite Calibration/Validation

Samuel Oge, Brooklyn, NY

363

A Blended Ice Concentration Product based on Visible/infrared and Microwave

Yinghui Liu, CIMSS/Univ. of Wisconsin, Madison, WI; and J. R. Key

364

The Utility of NUCAPS Soundings in operational forecasting

Daniel Nietfeld, NOAA/NWS, Valley, NE

365

Quality Assurance Procedure for STAR JPSS Program

Xingpin Luo Liu, NOAA/NESDIS/STAR IMSG, College Park, MD; and L. Zhou, M. G. Divakarla, T. Valenzuela, and T. Atkins

366

An Improved Approach for Automated Cloud Detection in VIIRS Imagery

Sarah I. Fairman, University of Missouri, Columbia, MO; and G. J. Jedlovec

367

Providing Researchers and Forecasters with Enterprise Meteorological Algorithms, CSPP SDR and ADL an operations to application Success story

Scott Mindock, CIMSS/Univ. of Wisconsin, Madison, WI; and G. Martin, R. Garcia, K. Strabala, G. Cureton, L. Gumley, and A. Huang

368

Combining GOES Super Rapid Scan Satellite Data, Radar Fields and Total Lightning Observations to Gain Understanding of In-cloud Processes Related to the Occurrence of Lightning in a Thunderstorm

Jason Apke, University of Alabama, Huntsville, AL; and J. R. Mecikalski, C. P. Jewett, X. Li, and L. D. Carey

369

The Influence of Spatial Resolution on the Inference of Ice Cloud Particle Morphological Parameters from Multi-angle Satellite Observations

Souichiro Hioki, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX; and P. Yang

Manuscript (2.5 MB)

Handout (3.5 MB)

370

Multi-mission Satellite Management

Kerry Grant, Raytheon Intelligence, Information and Services, Aurora, CO; and B. Dougherty and M. Teter

371

Methods and Tools for Product Quality Maintenance in JPSS CGS

Kerry Grant, Raytheon Intelligence, Information and Services, Aurora, CO; and W. Ibrahim, K. Brueske, and P. Smit

372

Rapid Algorithm Integration in the JPSS CGS

Kerry Grant, Raytheon Intelligence, Information and Services, Aurora, CO; and M. Jamilkowski and S. W. Miller

373

GOES-R Impact on NCEP Computing

James Gundy, Harris Coprporation, Melbourne, FL; and G. Kowalski, B. A. Brown-Bergtold, and A. Weiner

Handout (2.7 MB)

374

GOES-R GRB direct readout at NWS National Centers

Harlan Yates, Harris Corporation, Melbourne, FL; and L. Nielsen and A. Weiner

375

Level-2 Products in the CSPP-GEO Direct Broadcast Package

Geoff Cureton, CIMSS/SSEC/Univ. of Wisconsin, Madison, WI; and S. Mindock, K. Strabala, R. Garcia, G. Martin, and L. Gumley

376

The Accuracy of Aerosol Satellites' AOD Products over China

Jinyuan Xin Sr., The Institute of Atmospheric Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China; and L. Wang and Y. Wang

Handout (7.4 MB)

377

Using Total Lightning Data to Improve Real-Time Tropical Cyclone Intensity Forecasts

Andrea B. Schumacher, CIRA/Colorado State Univ., Fort Collins, CO; and M. DeMaria

378

The Alaska Direct Broadcast Quick Guides: Local Training to Meet Local Needs

Eric Stevens, University of Alaska, Fairbanks, AK; and C. Dierking and G. Bryson

379

Application of GOES-R LAP algorithm to AHI on Himawari-8

Yong-Keun Lee, CIMSS/Univ. of Wisconsin, Madison, WI; and Z. Li, J. Li, and T. J. Schmit

380

Calibration Validation Of The Cross-track Infrared Sounder (CrIS) With The Aircraft Based Scanning High-resolution Interferometer Sounder (S-HIS)

Joe K. Taylor, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI; and D. C. Tobin, H. E. Revercomb, F. A. Best, R. K. Garcia, A. Merrelli, and M. Goldberg

381

Finding Fires: The Next Generation

Christopher C. Schmidt, CIMSS/Univ. of Wisconsin, Madison, WI

382

Evaluation of Multi-layer Cloud Property Retrievals from Optimal Estimation and Bayesian Retrieval Algorithms

Yifeng Ding, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX; and P. Yang and S. L. Nasiri

384

The Use of Multiple GOES Sounder Water Vapor Channels to Monitor the Evolution of Mid-level Dry Air in Northeastern U.S. Convective Events

Christopher M. Gitro, NOAA/NWS Kansas City/Pleasant Hill, MO Weather Forecast Office, Pleasant Hill, MO; and D. Bikos and C. M. Gravelle

385

GOES-R Level 2 Products: Ground System Testing with Simulated Data

Paul A. Van Rompay, Atmospheric and Environmental Research, Inc., Greenbelt, MD; and R. Kaiser, S. Kalluri, E. J. Kennelly, T. S. Zaccheo, J. Gundy, H. E. Snell, and A. Weiner

383

Joint Polar Satellite System – 1 (JPSS-1) Visible Infrared Imaging Radiometer Suite Instrument (VIIRS) Performance, Comparisons to Suomi National Polar-Orbiting Partnership (SNPP) VIIRS Performance, and Impacts to EDRs

Themed Joint Poster Session 1

Greenhouse Gas Emissions: Quantifying Uncertainties in Measurements and Models and Resultant Climate Impacts Posters

Location: Hall D/E ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)

Cochairs: Abhishek Chatterjee, USRA; A. Scott Denning, Colorado State University; Sean Crowell, University of Oklahoma

283

Implementing Environmental Corrections to Increase the Accuracy of a Low-Cost CO₂ Sensor

Cory R. Martin, University of Maryland, College Park, MD; and N. Zeng, X. Ren, R. R. Dickerson, B. Turpie, K. Prasad, K. Weber, J. Whetstone, and S. Ghosh

284

A Laser Absorption Spectrometry System, for Monitoring the Spatial Distribution of CO₂ over Paris, France

Jeremy T. Dobler, Harris Corp., Fort Wayne, IN; and T. S. Zaccheo, M. Braun, T. G. Pernini, P. Ciais, and G. Broquet

Handout (3.4 MB)

285

Real-Time Monitoring and Mapping of CO₂ Concentrations Over Extended Urban Area: Mapping the Two-Dimensional Distribution of CO₂ over Paris, France

T. Scott Zaccheo, AER, Lexington, MA; and T. G. Pernini, J. T. Dobler, C. Botos, and N. Blume

286

Toward Reduced Transport Errors in a High Resolution Urban CO₂ Inversion System

Aijun Deng, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA; and T. Lauvaux, B. Gaudet, N. Miles, K. Davis, M. Hardesty, K. Gurney, and A. Brewer

Manuscript (481.2 kB)

Handout (335.1 kB)

287

An Airborne Campaign to Quantify and Reduce Atmospheric Transport Errors in Regional Estimates of Greenhouse Gas Fluxes

Kenneth J. Davis, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA; and T. Lauvaux and T. ACT America Science Team

288

The Need for an Integrated Global Greenhouse Gas Information System (IG³IS)

Diane M. Stanitski, NOAA ESRL Global Monitoring Division, Boulder, CO; and J. H. Butler, P. L. DeCola, O. A. Tarasova, and D. E. Terblanche

289

Development and Implementation of a Carbon Data Assimilation System for the Orbiting Carbon Observatory-2 (OCO-2) Mission

Abhishek Chatterjee, USRA, Greenbelt, MD; and B. Weir, L. Ott, S. R. Kawa, and S. Pawson

291

The GeoCARB Mission

Sean Crowell, University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK; and B. Moore and P. Rayner

290

OCO-2 Observations of Africa Fire CO₂ Emissions

292

Comparision of GOSAT XCO2 with CO₂ Column from PCTM Modeling

Yuping Liu, NASA, Greenbelt, MD; and S. R. Kawa and G. J. Collatz

293

Evaluating Sensitivity of Simulated Atmospheric CO₂ to Varied Transport Model Versus Prior Surface Flux

Caroline Palmer Normile, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA; and K. Davis, T. Lauvaux, L. Diaz, N. Miles, and S. Richardson

294

Understanding and Modeling Tropical Grasslands Using Remotely Sensed Fluorescence and Soil Moisture

Dakota C. Smith, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO; and A. S. Denning and I. Baker

295

Global Multiscale Modeling of Coupled Carbon-Climate Processes

A. Scott Denning, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO; and I. Baker, M. Phillips, M. Branson, and D. Randall

296

Mapping the Spatial Distribution of Methane in Houston, Texas

Beata Czader, Rice University, Houston, TX; and D. Cohan, N. Sanchez, F. Tittel, and R. Griffin

297

Identification of Methane Emission Sources in the Baltimore-Washington Metropolitan Area

Jonathan R. Hansford, University of Maryland, College Park, Ellicott City, MD; and D. Ahn, R. J. Salawitch, X. Ren, M. Cohen, and R. R. Dickerson

Handout (3.0 MB)

298

Identification of Carbon Dioxide Emission Sources in Baltimore/Washington Metropolitan Area

Doyeon Ahn, University of Maryland, College Park, College Park, MD; and J. R. Hansford, R. J. Salawitch, X. Ren, M. Cohen, and R. R. Dickerson

299

Ensemble Air Quality Prediction at Convection-Resolving Resolutions for the Continental United States

Xiao-Ming Hu, University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK; and M. Xue, F. Kong, and B. Moore

300

Carbon Sequestration Status of Sunaulo Ghaympe Danda Community Forest, Mid Kathmandu Valley, Nepal

Pabitra Dahal, Goldengate International College, Bhaktapur, Nepal

Manuscript (430.0 kB)

Handout (309.8 kB)

Poster Session 1

Hydrometeorological Extremes Posters

Host: 30th Conference on Hydrology

Chair: John N. McHenry, Baron Advanced Meteorological Systems, LLC

A comparison of the May 1990 and May 2015 high impact river flooding events in Arkansas

Christopher C. Buonanno, NOAA/NWS, North Little Rock, AR; and J. F. Lesko and T. Clarke

Manuscript (1.7 MB)

2015 Red River Basin Flood Event: Timeline and Impacts

Tony O. Hurt Jr., Jackson State University, Jackson, MS; and J. Glinskas

Handout (1.6 MB)

Improving Flood and Flash Flood Forecasts Across South Florida

Stephen Konarik, NOAA/NWS, Miami, FL; and L. kelly

Manuscript (454.6 kB)

Handout (2.8 MB)

Comparing Vertical Distributions of Water Vapor Flux within Two Landfalling Atmospheric Rivers

Jonathan J. Rutz, NOAA/NWS, Salt Lake City, Utah; and D. A. Lavers and M. D. Dettinger

Twin Floods: A Case Study Comparison of the Great Red River Floods of 1990 and 2015

An 11-Year Climatology of Atmospheric River Conditions within Different Watersheds along California and Their Association with Floods and Flash Floods

Klint T. Skelly, NOAA NWS, Plymouth, NH; and C. W. Hecht and J. Cordeira

Upstream Evolution of Landfalling Atmospheric Rivers and Their Impacts on Precipitation Distributions along the U.S. West Coast

Chad W. Hecht, Plymouth State University, Plymouth, NH; and K. T. Skelly and J. Cordeira

Poster Session 1

Major Weather Impacts in 2015

Host: IMPACTS: Major Weather Events and Impacts of 2015

Cochairs: Tanja Fransen, NOAA/NWS; Klaus E. Wolter, ESRL/Univ of Colorado-CIRES

488

The Use of Dual Polarization Radar Precipitation Products during a Small Scale Urban Flash Flood

Lance Wood, NOAA, Dickinson, TX; and C. Roeseler and J. Lindner

489

Tropical Storm Bill – Overview of Societal Impacts, Response and Local Decision Support Challenges and Successes

Thomas Johnstone, NOAA/NWSFO, Old Hickory, TN; and J. S. Evans, L. Wood, and J. Metz

490

The Red River Flood of 2015: Communication and Impacts

Christopher Nuttall, NOAA/NWS, Shreveport, LA; and C. K. Palmer and W. Parker

Handout (4.4 MB)

491

Public Health Partnerships during the 2015 Northern U.S. Wildfire Smoke Intrusion

Tanja E. Fransen, NOAA/NWS, Glasgow, MT

Handout (769.6 kB)

492

The January 26-27, 2015 Winter Storm in the Northeastern United States and the Challenges for Mesoscale Weather Forecasting

James P. Cipriani, IBM Research, Yorktown Heights, NY; and C. D. Watson

Poster 493 has been moved. New paper number 3.4A

494

Evaluating the WRF-ARW Performance During the 2015 Winter Weather Events

Jason Hansford, NOAA/NWS, Shreveport, LA; and C. K. Palmer, M. Duplantis, and T. Washington

495

The 14 July 2015 Tennessee Valley Tornado Event: Challenges in QLCS Tornado Forecasting and Identification

Anthony W. Lyza, University of Alabama, Huntsville, AL; and R. Wade, K. Knupp, B. C. Carcione, S. Latimer, and C. J. Stumpf

Poster 496 has been moved. New paper number 2.4A

Joint Poster Session 1

Mario J. Molina Symposium Posters

Hosts: (Joint between the Mario J. Molina Symposium; and the 18th Conference on Atmospheric Chemistry )

Chair: Mario J. Molina, University of California

Impacts of Aerosols on Precipitation and Thunderstorms in China

Li Cai, Wuhan University, Wuhan, China; and Y. Lin and R. Zhang

Hygroscopic Characteristics of Alkylaminium Carboxylate Aerosols

Reactivity of Ferryl (FeIVO2+) and Mn(III) with Inorganic and Organic Species of Atmospheric Liquid Phases

Virender K. Sharma, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX

Atmospheric Aerosol Nonsphericity Over the Loess Plateau in Northwest China

Tian Pengfei, Key Laboratory for Semi-Arid Climate Change of the Ministry of Education, Lanzhou, China

Handout (2.7 MB)

Observation of aerosol activation in urban Beijing

Biomass Burning Smoke and Deep Convection during the 2011 Midlatitude Continental Convective Clouds Experiment (MC3E)

Timothy Logan, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX

Impacts of Megacities on Air Pollution and Climate (Invited Presentation)

Tong Zhu, Peking University, Beijing, China

Optical Properties of Polymers Relevant to Secondary Organic Aerosols

Wilmarie Marrero-Ortiz, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX; and Z. Du, Y. Wang, M. E. Gomez, S. Guo, S. Madronich, M. Hu, and R. Zhang

The Kinetics of the ClO-Dimer Cycle

Ross J. Salawitch, University of Maryland, College Park, MD; and T. Canty

Variation of Radiative Properties During Black Carbon Aging: Theoretical and Experimental Intercomparison

Cenlin He, University of California, Los Angeles, CA; and K. N. Liou, Y. Takano, R. Zhang, M. levy, P. Yang, Q. Li, and L. R. Leung

Handout (756.8 kB)

Global Climate Models Intercomparison of Anthropogenic Aerosols Effects on Regional Climate over North Pacific

Jiaxi Hu, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX; and Y. Wang, Y. Lin, B. Pan, and R. Zhang

Sensitivity of Contribution of Organic Aerosol on Aerosol Optical Properties in Refractive Index and Hygroscopicity

Chang Hoon Jung, Kyungin Women's University, Incheon, South Korea; and J. Lee, H. J. Shin, and Y. P. Kim

Assessment of the Impacted Area Generated by Freight Transportation over Unpaved Roads Using CFD

Jose Huertas, Instituto Tecnologico y de Estudios Superiores de Monterrey, Toluca, Mexico; and D. Prato Sr., J. C. Miranda Sr., and A. Valencia Sr.

Methodology to Model the Dispersion Pollutants Exposed to Chemical Reactions, Using Gaussian Models

Jose Huertas, Instituto Tecnologico y de Estudios Superiores de Monterrey, Toluca, Mexico; and D. Prato and A. Valencia Sr.

Soot Formation and Properties from Combustion of Toluene in a Shock Tube

Chong Qiu, University of North Alabama, Florence, AL; and A. F. Khalizov, R. Zhang, B. Hogan, and E. L. Petersen

Radiative Properties of Soot Superaggregates in the Infrared

Yang Yu, Aerosol Impacts and Research Laboratory, St. Louis, MO; and I. Arnold and R. K. Chakrabarty

Handout (2.3 MB)

Impacts of Saharan Dust on Regional Climate and Tropical Cyclogenesis over the Atlantic Basin

Bowen Pan, Texas A&M University, College Station, College Station, TX; and Y. Wang, J. Hu, Y. Lin, and R. Zhang

Acid-catalyzed Multiphase reaction of Oxygenated Volatile Organic Compounds with Hydrogen Peroxide

Weigang Wang, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China; and Q. Liu and M. Ge

Measurements of Diffusion Coefficients of Organic Dyes in Proxies of Atmospheric Particles and Comparison with Predictions Using the Stokes-Einstein Equation

Dagny Anna Ullmann, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada; and Y. Chenyakin, S. Kamal, and A. K. Bertram

Handout (1.3 MB)

Aerosol Effects on Precipitation and Lightning Activity over Houston, Texas

Yun Lin, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX; and Y. Wang, R. Zhang, and R. E. Orville

Decadal Record of Ammonia Observed by AIRS

Juying X. Warner, University of Maryland, College Park, MD; and Z. Wei, L. L. Strow, J. Nowak, R. Dickerson, and R. Dickerson

Anthropogenic Influence on Decadal Aerosol Trends over the Western North Atlantic Ocean

Andrew Jongeward, University of Maryland, College Park, MD; and Z. Li and J. Xiong

Size-differentiated Inorganic Chemical Composition of Atmospheric Particles at the T1 Supersite during the MILAGRO Field Campaign

Telma Castro, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Mexico City, Mexico; and O. Peralta, D. Salcedo, J. Santos, M. I. Saavedra, M. L. Espinosa, A. Salcido, A. T. Celada-Murillo, H. Álvarez, G. Carabalí, and S. Madronich

A Laboratory Study to Constrain Gas-Phase Formic Acid and Acetic Acid Sources

Dhruv Mitroo, Washington University, St. Louis, MO; and M. Baasandorj, D. B. Millet, and B. Williams

Comparing and Verifying WRF Simulations of Water Vapor for TC Ingrid (September 2013)

Thomas Daniel Allison, Tallahassee, FL; and H. E. Fuelberg

Handout (2.6 MB)

25A

Satellite retrieval of cloud condensation nuclei concentrations by using clouds as CCN chambers (Invited Presentation)

Daniel Rosenfeld, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Jerusalem, Israel

Volatile Organic Compounds in the Atmosphere of Mexico City

Jessica P. Garzon-Barrera, Universidad Tecnologica Equinoccial de Ecuador, Santo Domingo, Ecuador; and J. Huertas, M. Huertas, M. Magaña, B. Cardenas, T. Watanabe, S. wakamatsu, S. Blanco-Jimenez, and T. Maeda

Manuscript (3.3 MB)

OH-Initiated Oxidation of m-Xylene on Black Carbon Aging

Aerosol Hygroscopic Properties in Seoul during the KORUS-AQ Pre-Campaign

Minsu Park, Yonsei University, Seoul, South Korea; and S. S. Yum, N. Kim, G. N. Bae, K. H. Kwak, H. J. Shin, J. S. Park, I. H. Song, and J. Y. Ahn

Polymer Formation on Atmospheric Nanoparticles and Its Effect on Aerosol Hygroscopicity

Wen Xu, Aerodyne Research, Inc, Billerica, MA; and M. Gomez-Hernandez, S. Guo, M. levy, J. R. Secrest, W. Marrero-Ortiz, D. R. Collins, and R. Zhang

Impact of Asian Dust Storm on Aerosol Chemistry of Xian, Central China: Rapid Heterogeneous Formation of Nitrate

Gehui Wang, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Xi'an, China

Airborne In-Situ Measurements of Formaldehyde over California: First Results from the Compact Formaldehyde Fluorescence Experiment (COFFEE) Instrument

Josette E. Marrero, NASA, Moffett Field, CA; and J. St. Clair, E. L. Yates, T. Tanaka, J. M. Ryoo, W. Gore, A. K. Swanson, L. T. Iraci, and T. Hanisco

Evidence for trans-β-IEPOX as the Main Surface-Active Component of Isoprene-Derived SOA Particles

Mary Alice Upshur, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL; and S. T. Martin, R. J. Thomson, and F. M. Geiger

The Role of Organic Species on Aerosol Nucleation and Growth

Jeremiah R. Secrest, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX; and W. Weigang, Y. Zhu, and R. Zhang

Secondary Aerosol Formation and Growth Analysis Using the mCAGE Environmental Chambers

Manuel A. Salgado, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX; and D. R. Collins

Variations of Aerosol Particles Hygroscopicity During the Dust and Haze Events from Filed Measurements in Spring 2015 in Urban Beijing, China

Assessing the Potential for the Reactions of Epoxides with Amines on Secondary Organic Aerosol Particles

Santino J. Stropoli, Oberlin College, Oberlin, OH; and M. J. Elrod

Chlorine-Catalyzed Ozone Loss: UV Absorption Cross Sections, Quantum Yield, and Equilibrium Constant of ClOOCl

David Wilmouth, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA; and J. Klobas and J. G. Anderson

Aerosols Modeling in the Tropical Atlantic During the Summer of 2009 and Comparisons with Observational Data from the AERosol and Ocean Science Expedition (AEROSE 2009)

Jose M. Tirado, Howard Univ., Washington, DC; and V. R. Morris

Poster Session 1

Measurements Poster Session I

Host: 18th Symposium on Meteorological Observation and Instrumentation

301

The Power to Predict: Innovations and Increased Demand for the World's Most Powerful S-Band Weather Radars

Richard Stedronsky, Enterprise Electronics Corporation, Enterprise, AL

Handout (14.5 MB)

302

Improved Fog and Marine Layer Prediction via Microwave Remote Sensing

303

February 6th Case Study of an Atmospheric River Event Using GPS Radio Occultation

Kelsey M. Malloy, SIO/Univ. of California, Abington, PA

304

Cloud Seeding Experiments: A New Perspective on Utilizing Aerial Drones

Jodie E. Clark, San Jose State University, San Jose, CA; and S. Chiao

305

Environmental Monitoring and Collaborative Research at the Cary Institute in New York State

Victoria R. Kelly, Cary Institute of Ecosystem Studies, Millbrook, NY; and G. M. Lovett

306

A Comparison of Lightning Flashes Observed by Ground-Based Detection Networks and Video

James J. Coy Jr., Texas A&M University, College Station, TX; and K. M. Kuhlman and A. Seimon

Handout (1.3 MB)

307

Development of a Rapidly Deployable Network of Hail Impact Disdrometers

Ian M. Giammanco, Insurance Institute for Business & Home Safety, Richburg, SC; and C. J. P. Estes and W. E. Cranford

Manuscript (1.2 MB)

Handout (2.6 MB)

308

Comparison of Snowfall Rate from Gauge, Ground Radar, Space Radar, and Space Radiometer over the Contiguous United States

Ryan C. Smith, University of Maryland, College Park, MD; and Y. You

309

A First Look at Warm Rain Latent Heating from CloudSat

Ethan L. Nelson, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI; and T. S. L'Ecuyer

310

Procedures and Advances in Mount Washington Observatory's Mountainous Mesonet Sites

Michael Dorfman, Mount Washington Observatory, North Conway, NH; and K. O'Brien and E. P. Kelsey

311

Evaluating Observed Differences in Co-Located Rainfall Measurements at a Highly Exposed Field Research Station in Scotland, UK

Michael Deering Pollock, Newcastle University, Newcastle Upon Tyne, United Kingdom; and M. Dutton, A. Black, P. F. Quinn, and E. O'Connell

Handout (1.3 MB) Handout (918.6 kB)

312

Observations and Operational Application of the 23 Nov. 2014 QLCS Tornadic Event: Persistent Regeneration of Weak Tornadoes with Pronounced Tornado Debris Signatures

Adam Baker, NOAA/NWSFO, Peachtree City, GA; and J. T. Deese, S. E. Nelson, and G. Lackmann

Handout (2.2 MB)

Accuracy of Doppler LIDAR Estimates of Vertical Wind Shear and Turbulence From a Moving Platform

313

Measuring the Transition From the Convectively Unstable Boundary Layer to the Stable Nocturnal Boundary Layer

Michael Kenneth Beall, NPS, Monterey, CA; and G. R. Eberle

314

Measurements of Turbulence Dissipation Rates in the Planetary Boundary Layer from Wind Profiling Radars

Katherine McCaffrey, NOAA/ESRL/PSD, Boulder, CO; and L. Bianco, P. Johnston, and J. M. Wilczak

Poster 315 has been moved. New paper number 6B.4A

Poster Session 1

Monday/Tuesday Poster Session

Host: 28th Conference on Climate Variability and Change

121

Analyses of Heat Index and Heat Waves over the Caribbean

Nazario D. Ramirez-Beltran, University of Puerto Rico, Mayaguez, PR; and J. E. Gonzalez, J. M. Castro, C. M. Salazar, and M. E. Angeles

Handout (1.1 MB)

122

Using a High-Resolution Global Climate Model to Simulate Extreme Extratropical Cyclones

Arielle J. Catalano, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ; and A. J. Broccoli and S. Kapnick

123

Generating Climate Extremes Indices (CLIMDEX) by Using Semi-Parametric Quantile Regression Models

Yang Li, Beijing Normal University, Beijing, China; and C. Yang

Handout (664.7 kB)

124

Projected Sea Ice-Free Conditions in Arctic Waters

Frederic B. Laliberte, EC, Toronto, ON, Canada; and S. Howell and P. J. Kushner

125

A Case Study of Large Snowfall Event Variability in the Upper Colorado River Basin

Johnathan P. Kirk, Kent State University, Kent, OH

126

A Multi-step Approach for Downscaling Daily Precipitation Extremes from Historical Analogs

Christopher M. Castellano, Northeast Regional Climate Center, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY; and A. T. DeGaetano

Carbon Sequestration Trend of Sunaulo Ghaympe Danda Community Forest, Kathmandu, Nepal

Manuscript (430.7 kB)

127

Downscaled Projections of Extreme Precipitation in New York State

Christopher M. Castellano, Northeast Regional Climate Center, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY; and A. T. DeGaetano

128

Orographic Impact on Precipitation Amount in the Hubbard Brook Experimental Forest, New Hampshire

Matthew D. Cann, Plymouth State University, Plymouth, NH; and E. P. Kelsey

129

Drought and Pluvial Dipole Events within the Great Plains of the United States

Katarina Christian, University of Wyoming, Laramie, WY; and J. Christian and J. B. Basara

131

A Dynamical Downscaling Study in the Great Lakes Region Using the WRF/Lake Model: Historical Simulation and Future Projection

Chuliang Xiao, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI; and B. M. Lofgren

130

Simulated Precipitation Extremes Associated with Tropical Cyclones in a Warmer Climate from Very High Resolution Climate Models

133

Linkages Between Arctic Summer Circulation Regimes and Regional Sea Ice Anomalies: Drivers of Retreat?

Mark C. Serreze, CIRES/Univ. of Colorado, Boulder, CO; and A. H. Lynch, J. Stroeve, E. N. Cassano, and A. Crawford

134

Determination of Roughness Length at Ny-Alesund-Svalbard Using near Neutral Conditions

Armando Pelliccioni, Istituto Nazionale Assicurazione contro gli Infortuni sul Lavoro, Monteporzio Catone, Italy; and F. Tampieri, A. P. Viola, and M. Mazzola

Manuscript (217.7 kB)

Climate Variability and Change over the Arid and Semi-Arid lands of Kenya

135

Extreme Wet and Dry Events over Southeast Brazil and Associated Atmospheric Circulation Patterns

Silvia Regina Santos da Silva, University of Maryland, College Park, MD; and V. Kousky

132

Variability, Predictability, and Risk in the Alaskan Arctic Waters

136

Recent Performances of the High-Resolution Rapid Refresh (HRRR) model in Southern California

Ivory J. Small, NOAA/NWS, San Diego, CA

Handout (476.6 kB)

137

Synoptic and Local Influences on a Summertime, Long-Lived, Mixed-Phase Cloud Event Over Summit, Greenland: A Modeling Perspective

Mallory Paige Row, CIMMS/Univ. of Oklahoma, Norman, OK; and S. M. Cavallo and D. D. Turner

138

Mid-Latitude Weather and Climate Extremes Induced by Sea-Ice Loss over the Baffin and Labrador Seas

Cory Francis Baggett, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA; and S. Lee

139

Reproducibility of Atmospheric Conditions Around Japan by CMIP5 for the Assessment of Future Change in Extreme Precipitation with Statistical Downscaling Approach

Shunya Wakamatsu, Japan Meteorological Agency, Tokyo, Japan; and K. Ishihara

140

Refinement of Horizontal Resolution in Dynamical Downscaling of Climate Information Using WRF: Costs, Benefits, and Lessons Learned

O. Russell Bullock Jr., EPA, Research Triangle Park, NC; and E. Salmon

141

Characterizing the December 2013 extreme rainfall event over the Eastern Caribbean

Leonard A. Nurse, University of The West Indies, Bridgetown, Barbados; and J. L. Charlery, L. Pologne, and A. R. T. Joyette

Handout (2.7 MB)

142

Do Thermodynamics Constrain How the Arctic Atmospheric Heat Engine Can Change in a Warming Climate?

Frederic B. Laliberte, EC, Toronto, ON, Canada; and J. D. Zika and S. Howell

143

Projected Storm Track Changes in CMIP5 Model Simulations

Albert M. W. Yau, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY; and K. Paul, J. Dennis, and E. K. M. Chang

145

Evolution of Extreme Precipitation: A Satellite Based Investigation

Ryan Louis Gonzalez, Center for Multiscale Modeling of Atmospheric Processes, Fort Collins, CO; and C. Kummerow and J. Bytheway

146

Anthropogenic Forcing on the Hadley Circulation in CMIP5 simulations

Yongyun Hu, Peking University, Beijing, China; and L. Tao and J. Liu

Handout (947.3 kB)

147

Principal Roles of the Atlantic Multidecadal Oscillation in Variations of Circulation and Precipitation in North America

Qi Hu, University of Nebraska, Lincoln, NE; and M. Veres

148

Trends in Extreme Geopotential Heights over North America: Another Perspective to Investigate Extreme Weather Events

Fuyao Wang, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI; and S. Vavrus

144

Are the American Monsoons Becoming Shorter?: Evaluation of CMIP5 Simulations and Projections

149

The Human Influence on Global Warming

Austin Hope, University of Maryland, College Park, MD; and T. Canty, N. Mascioli, and R. J. Salawitch

150

The Downstream Response to Explosive Extratropical Cyclone Intensification over the North Pacific

Kevin M. Lupo, Plymouth State University, Plymouth, NH; and J. Cordeira and E. G. Hoffman

151

Jet Stream Variability: Creating a Jet Index

Jeffrey M. Schmidt, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA; and G. S. Young, D. W. Titley, S. D. Goldberger, and S. K. Miller

152

Estimating Impacts of North Atlantic Tropical Cyclones Using an Index of Damage Potential

Debasish PaiMazumder, NCAR, Boulder, CO; and J. M. Done, E. Towler, and C. Kishtawal

154

Analysis of Extreme Reversals in Monthly, Seasonal, and Annual Precipitation Anomalies across the United States, 1895–2014

Michael L. Marston Jr., Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg, VA; and A. W. Ellis

155

Large Precipitation Events in Northern Vermont Compared to Global Temperature Anomalies and Carbon Dioxide Concentrations

Melissa Eleanor Segall, Lyndon State College, Lyndonville, VT; and T. Bacchus

153

Recurring Cold Winters over the Gulf Stream and Implications for Northern Hemisphere Ocean Circulation

Future Trends in Extreme Temperatures over the Western U.S.: The Influence of Terrain and Coastlines

Poster Session 1

POSTER: Fourth Symposium on Prediction of the Madden-Julian Oscillation: Processes, Prediction and Impact

Host: Fourth Symposium on Prediction of the Madden-Julian Oscillation: Processes, Prediction and Impact

457

Pathways to Better Prediction of the MJO Initiation over the Indian Ocean

Ajda Savarin, RSMAS, Miami, FL; and S. S. Chen

Handout (11.4 MB)

458

Bimodal Representation of Convection for Extended Range Prediction with a Modified Kain-Fritsch Cumulus Scheme

James A. Ridout, NRL, Monterey, CA

Handout (1.3 MB)

459

Coupled COAMPS Prediction of CINDY/DYNAMO MJO 1

Sue Chen, NRL, Monterey, CA; and S. Gerbersek, J. M. Schmidt, M. Flatau, and P. May

460

Observing Atmospheric Waves' Impacts on Troposphere down to Surface during ASIRI-RAWI Campaign

Patrick Conry, University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, IN; and L. S. Leo, Y. Wang, V. Amelie, U. Jinadasa, C. Wang, B. W. Blomquist, E. Creegan, C. Hocut, B. MacCall, L. K. Yeo, S. Pillay, N. Lalande, U. Adikari, and H. J. S. Fernando

461

Understanding How CYGNSS Will Depict Convective Variability by Ingesting a High Temporal Resolution WRF Simulation in NASA's End-to-End Simulator

Tyler Castillo, University of Alabama, Huntsville, AL; and J. Mecikalski, T. J. Lang, T. Chronis, and X. Li

462

The Interaction of Eastward Propagating Equatorial Modes with the Maritime Continent

Maria K. Flatau, NRL, Monterey, CA; and J. Ridout, C. Reynolds, T. Shinoda, S. Chen, and J. Schmidt

463

Ocean-Atmosphere Interaction during the 2011 DYNAMO MJOs in COAMPS Simulations

Tommy G. Jensen, NRL, Stennis Space Center, MS; and S. Chen, M. K. Flatau, and T. Shinoda

464

On the Nonlinear Kinetic Energy Transfer Between MJO and Synoptic Scales

Sarvesh Kumar Dubey, Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL; and T. N. Krishnamurti

465

ENSO Modulation of MJO Event Variability in Observations, GCMs, and the Skeleton Model

466

Coupled Atmosphere-Ocean Simulations of the MJO during 2015

Matthew Janiga, NRL, Monterey, CA; and N. P. Barton and C. Reynolds

467

The Role of DYNAMO In-situ Observations in Improving NASA CERES-like Surface Atmosphere Radiation Estimation through Improving GMAO Reanalysis

Hailan Wang, NASA, Hampton, VA; and D. Achuthavarier, S. D. Schubert, W. Su, and N. Loeb

468

Use of CYGNSS in Understanding the Onset and Convective Properties in a Weak MJO from the DYNAMO December 2011 Event

Kacie Hoover, University of Alabama, Huntsville, AL; and J. R. Mecikalski, X. Li, T. J. Lang, and T. Chronis

469

Mesoscale Wind Divergence Profiles in the Indian Ocean during the DYNAMO Field Campaign

Arunchandra Susheela Chandra, RSMAS, Miami, FL; and B. E. Mapes

470

Influence of Lateral Boundary Conditions on Regional Extended-Range Simulations of the MJO

Xiaodong Hong, NRL, Monterey, CA; and C. A. Reynolds, J. Doyle, P. May, and J. A. Ridout

471

Impact of Atmospheric Convectively Coupled Equatorial Kelvin Waves on the Upper Ocean Variability

Dariusz B. Baranowski, JPL, Pasadena, CA; and M. Flatau, P. J. Flatau, A. J. Matthews, and S. P. Malinowski

472

Linkage between Seasonal Seychelles-Chagos Thermocline Ridge and MJO formation

Subrahmanyam Bulusu, University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC; and J. D'Addezio

473

A Stochastic Skeleton Model for the MJO

Sulian Thual, Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, New York, NY; and A. J. Majda

Dynamics of the Near-Surface Layer of the Equatorial Ocean under Anomalous Rainfall

474

Study of SST Impact to MJO Prediction through GEFS Model

Yuejian Zhu, NCEP, College Park, MD; and M. Pena, W. Li, D. Hou, X. Zhu, and Q. Zhang

475

Numerical Simulation of MJO Genesis: The Impact of the DYNAMO Data

Xuanli Li, Univ. of Alabama, Huntsville, AL; and J. R. Mecikalski, T. J. Lang, and T. Chronis

Poster Session 1

Host: 22nd Conference on Applied Climatology

235

Numerical Simulations on Influence of Urban Land Cover Expansion and Anthropogenic Heat Release on Urban Meteorological Environment in Pearl River Delta,China

Ning Zhang, Nanjing University, Nanjing, China; and X. Wang

236

Evaluation of Regional Climate Services in the Great Plains and Midwest

237

A New Index for Drought Monitoring: Precipitation Evapotranspiration Difference Condition Index

Liyan Tian, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas; and S. M. Quiring

238

A Comparison Of 20 Years Of Automated And Manual Rainfall Observations At Over 250 Locations Across Oklahoma

Monique A. Sellers, Oklahoma Climatological Survey, Norman, OK; and C. A. Fiebrich and C. R. Luttrell

239

Objective Tracking of Easterly Wave Disturbances over Northeast Brazil

Helber Gomes, Universidade Federal de São Paulo, Diadema, Brazil; and T. Ambrizzi, K. I. Hodges, and M. C. L. Silva

240

The Second Modern-Era Retrospective Analysis for Research and Applications (MERRA-2) Data and Enhanced Services Available at the GES DISC

Dana Ostrenga, NASA/GSFC, Greenbelt, MD; and B. Vollmer, M. G. Bosilovich, B. Deshong, and S. Shen

241

Finding the Best Historical Climate Dataset for Ecological Modeling

Michael Brackett, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, North Carolina; and A. M. Wootten, G. M. Ely, and R. P. Boyles

242

Mapping Daily Light Integrals for Greenhouse Production

Joanne Logan, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN; and C. E. Sams and J. Faust

Poster Session 1

Poster Session I: Atmospheric Sciences Education

Host: 25th Symposium on Education

156

Advancing Atmospheric Science Education: a View of the Broader Landscape and Potential Directions and Approaches

157

Cloud Computing in Atmospheric Science Education

Curtis N. James, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, Prescott, AZ; and J. Weber

Handout (862.7 kB)

158

Use of Low Cost Computational Platforms for Integration of K-12 Education and Research

Udaysankar S. Nair, University of Alabama in Huntsville, Huntsville, AL; and R. Mahmood and E. Rappin

159

Meteorological Support for Atmospheric Impacts Relative to Research in the Radio Science Community: A Call for Collaboration

Robert E. Marshall, Mount Pleasant Meteorology, Woodford, VA

160

Using Simple Classroom Demonstrations as Meteorological Teaching and Learning Tools

Bruce A. Albrecht, Univ. of Miami/RSMAS, Miami, FL

Poster Session 1

Poster Session on Transitioning Research to Operations - I

Host: Sixth Conference on Transition of Research to Operations

Cochairs: Stephen A. Mango, NOAA/NESDIS/OPPA Affiliate; Nicolas Powell, Raytheon

435

Impact of Quikscat and AIRS Data Assimilation on Simulations of the Catarina Hurricane

Maria Cristina Lemos da Silva, University of Sao Paulo (IAG/USP)/CLIMATEMPO, São Paulo, Brazil; and P. L. Silva Dias and H. Gomes

436

An Analysis of ZDR Columns to Improve Severe Weather Forecasting

Aidan R. Kuroski, Brockport, NY; and J. Billings Wright and K. R. Cook

437

An Impact Study of Cloud Optical Properties in Weather Modeling

Ming Liu, NRL, Monterey, CA; and J. Schmidt, S. Yang, and M. Peng

438

Upcoming Changes to the NCEP Production Suite

Hendrik L. Tolman, NOAA/NWS/NCEP, College Park, MD

439

Convective Simulations Using A WRF Microphysics Ensemble

Joshua Markel, University of North Dakota, Grand Forks, ND; and M. S. Gilmore

440

Capabilities and Limitations of New Lightning Data Sets in Operations

Doug T. Kahn, University of Maryland, College Park, MD; and S. D. Rudlosky

441

Long Term Evaluation of NCEP, NSSL, and a New NSSL WRF Microphysical Parameterizations Ensemble

Ronald Stenz, University of North Dakota, Grand Forks, ND; and X. Dong, A. Kennedy, M. Gilmore, J. Markel, and D. Goines

442

The Earth Climate Hyperspectral Observatory: Advances in Cloud and Aerosol Remote Sensing

Peter Pilewskie, Univ. of Colorado, Boulder, CO; and O. Coddington, S. Schmidt, G. Kopp, and T. Sparn

443

Precipitation Forecast Verification from Operational Weather Models

Max Marchand, Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL; and H. Fuelberg

Handout (3.5 MB)

444

Research to Operations Transition of Stochastic Physics into the NCEP Global Ensemble

Walter Kolczynski Jr., NOAA/NWS/NCEP/EMC via IMSG, College Park, MD; and P. Pegion, T. Hamill, J. S. Whitaker, G. Bates, M. Gehne, D. Hou, Y. Zhu, X. Zhou, C. A. Reynolds, J. Berner, and I. Jankov

445

Objective Storm Tracking Using Echo Top Height Maxima from High-Resolution Three-Dimensional Radar Observations

Cameron R. Homeyer, University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK

Handout (1.3 MB)

Poster Session 1

Poster Session: Chemistry and Aerosols - Mon/tue

Host: Eighth Symposium on Aerosol–Cloud–Climate Interactions

Chair: Sonia M. Kreidenweis, Colorado State University

398

Improved Understanding of the Vertical Distribution of Simulated Dust Distribution in the Saharan Air Layer During the ICE-D Field Campaign with the WRF-CHEM Model

Sen Chiao, San Jose State University, San Jose, CA; and G. S. Jenkins

399

Shortwave Direct Radiative Effects of Above Cloud Aerosols Over Global Oceans Derived From Eight Years of CALIOP and MODIS Observations

Zhibo Zhang, University of Maryland, Baltimore, MD

400

Observations and Characteristics of Particles in the 0.5 to 2.5 micron Size Range

Sonia M. Kreidenweis, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO; and P. J. DeMott

401

Temporal Variations of Absorbing Aerosols above Clouds

Ian Chang, University of Alabama, Huntsville, AL; and S. A. Christopher

402

Dense Cloud or Aerosol Plume Geometry Reconstruction in 3D from Airborne Multiangle Imaging: Proof of Concept

404

Quantification of Aerosol-cloud Shortwave Radiative Effects in Tropical Stratiform Cloud Cover

Alyson Rose Douglas, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI; and T. S. L'Ecuyer

403

Biosphere-atmosphere Exchange of NOx, CH4, and O3 in Central Amazonia

405

The Direct Effect of Aerosol on Planetary Boundary Layer (PBL)

Yuwei Zhang, University of Maryland, College Park, MD; and Z. Li

406

On the Angular Effect of Undetected Clouds in Infrared Window Radiance Observations: Aircraft Experimental Analyses

Nicholas R. Nalli, NOAA/NESDIS, College Park, MD; and W. L. Smith Sr. and Q. Liu

407

In Cloud Production Mechanisms of Carbon Dioxide and Methane

Ahmet Cemal Saydam, Hacettepe University, Ankara, Turkey; and A. Hadji Ali Ghandi

Manuscript (730.8 kB)

409

Aerosol Concentration and Size Distribution: Aircraft Measurements in North China

Xiaoyan Ma, University of Information Science and Technology, Nanjing, China

Manuscript (11.3 kB)

410

The Cloud Droplet Relative Dispersion Effect - Does It Exist?

Adele L. Igel, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, Colorado; and S. C. van den Heever

408

Comparative Analysis of Dust and Anthropogenic Aerosol Characteristics Based on In-situ Sunphotometer measurements and AIRS Observations in North China

411

Studying the Impacts of Future Climate and Emission Changes on Air Quality in China Using the Two-Way Coupled WRF-CMAQ

Chaopeng Hong, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China; and Q. Zhang, Y. Zhang, and K. B. He

413

The Significance and Measurement of Ice Nucleating Particles (INPs) in the Atmosphere

Dereje Abera Workneh, Addis Ababa University, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia; and B. J. Murray

Manuscript (74.4 kB)

Handout (1.6 MB)

Poster 414 has been moved. New paper number is 1.4A

415

Exploring Climatology and Long-Term Variations of Global Dust Deposition from NASA Reanalysis MERRA-2 with Giovanni

Suhung Shen, NASA, Greenbelt, MD; and D. Ostrenga, B. Vollmer, and Z. Li

Handout (870.9 kB)

412

Observational Evidence for the Convective Transport of Dust Over the Central United States

416

A Geomorphic Approach to Characterizing Material Availability in Numerical Dust Transport Models

Sandra L. Jones, US Army, Hanover, NH

Poster 417 has been moved. New paper number is TJ12.5A.

418

Long-range saharan dust observations made in south Florida during the summers of 2014 and 2015

Paquita Zuidema, Univ. of Miami/RSMAS, Miami, FL; and R. Delgadillo and S. Kramer

419

2015 Extreme Wildfire Events in Canada and Smoke Forecasts with the FireWork System

Radenko Pavlovic, EC, Dorval, QC, Canada; and P. A. Beaulieu, H. Landry, S. Cousineau, M. D. Moran, and S. Gravel

420

Separate quantification of isoprene oxidation products via the hydroperoxyl and nitric-oxide pathways over Amazonia and the implication for aerosol formation

Yingjun Liu, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA; and K. A. McKinney, T. Watson, S. Springston, M. Dorris, J. C. Rivera-Rios, F. N. Keutsch, R. Seco, S. Kim, J. Shilling, A. Guenther, L. D. Yee, G. Isaacman-VanWertz, A. H. Goldstein, J. F. D. Brito, R. A. F. Souza, S. Duvoisin, A. Manzi, and S. T. Martin

421

The Potential Contribution of Plant Materials to the Ice Nucleation Activity of Vegetated Soil Dust

Ottmar Möhler, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Karlsruhe, Germany; and N. Hiranuma, R. Ullrich, and C. Hoose

422

Modeling Secondary Organic Aerosol and Its Climatic Impacts using WRF/Chem over Continental U.S.: Sensitivity to Gas-Phase Mechanisms and Secondary Organic Aerosol Treatments

Khairunnisa B. Yahya, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC; and T. Glotfelty, K. Wang, and Y. Zhang

Poster Session 1

Poster Session: Societal Applications: Policy, Research and Practice

Host: 11th Symposium on Societal Applications: Policy, Research and Practice

386

Impact of Earth Networks Lightning Data and Dangerous Thunderstorm Alerts on Forecasters' Warning Decision and Confidence

Rashida D. S. Francis, National Weather Center REU Program, Norman, OK; and K. M. Kuhlman and D. LaDue

387

Multiple-Vehicle (Chain-Reaction) Accidents and Radar Signatures

David A. Call, Ball State University, Muncie, IN; and C. M. Wilson and K. N. Shourd

388

WDTD/OLCO Training: Using Social Media to Empower the Public

Stephen Mullens, CIMMS/Univ. of Oklahoma, Norman, OK

Poster 389 has been moved. New paper number 6.6A

389A

Enhancing National Climate Services for Malaria Control in Eastern Africa

Aisha Sekelaga Muhammad, International Research Institute for Climate and Society/Columbia University, New York, NY; and M. Thomson, A. Woyessa, T. Dinku, D. Korecha, R. Cousin, A. G. Barnston, and B. Lyon

390

Information and Trust During Hurricane Ike

Robert Prestley, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA; and J. Nielsen-Gammon and E. Berger

391

Methods of Engagement: RISA Approaches

Caitlin Fiona Simpson, NOAA, Silver Spring, MD

392

Urban Sustainability Maps — Tool for City Development based on Climate, Human, and Spatial Components

393

Health and Hazards in Oregon: Policy Insights from Providing Local Climate Services in Practice

Josh Foster, Oregon Climate Change Research Institute, Corvallis, OR

394

Health and Hazards in Oregon: Insights from Providing Local Climate Services in Practice

Josh Foster, Oregon Climate Change Research Institute, Corvallis, OR

395

Modeling Analysis of Emission Sources for Ozone Concentration over El Paso, TX

Duanjun Lu, Jackson State University, Jackson, MS; and R. M. Fitzgerald and W. R. Stockwell

Poster 396 titled: A Labor Market Analysis of the Electricity Sector for 2030 using the National Energy with Weather System Simulator. L. M. Terry, NOAA/Univ. of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, AL; C. T. Clack, M. Marquis, P. D. Picciano, and J. Paine (Full Abstract details and text can be found under J6.4A)

397

Analysis of Future Potential of Index Insurance in West Africa using CMIP 5 GCM results

Poster Session 1

Poster Viewing

Host: Seventh Conference on Weather, Climate, Water and the New Energy Economy

423

Quantifying the Economic and Grid Reliability Impacts of Improved Wind Power Forecasting

424

Improving Offshore Wind Energy Resource Estimates Using Doppler Wind Lidar: Research to Operation

Alexandra St.Pé, University of Maryland, Baltimore County, Baltimore, MD; and F. Daham, G. Antoszewski, S. Rabenhorst, Q. Liu, and R. Delgado

425

Regional Studies for Renewable Wind Energy Using the Second Modern-Era Retrospective analysis for Research and Applications (MERRA-2) Dataset

Tatiana DaSilva, NASA/GSFC, Lanham, MD; and D. Ostrenga, S. Shen, and K. MacRitchie

426

Quantifying the Effect of Lidar Turbulence Error on Wind Power Prediction

Jennifer F. Newman, National Renewable Energy Laboratory, Golden, CO; and A. Clifton

Handout (2.8 MB)

427

Application of Ensemble Forecast and Linear Regression Method in Improving PM10 Forecast over Beijing Areas

Si Huang, IBM Research, Beijing, China

428

The Forecast is Too Sunny and the Observations are Biased

Stephen D. Jascourt, MDA Information Systems LLC, Gaithersburg, MD; and D. Kirk-Davidoff, C. C. Cassidy, and T. Hartman

Handout (2.1 MB)

429

Weather Driven Renewable Energy Analysis, Modeling New Technologies

Julia Paine, Univ. of Miami/RSMAS, Miami, FL; and C. T. Clack

Handout (15.3 MB)

Poster Session 1

Posters, 11-12 January

Host: 23rd Conference on Probability and Statistics in the Atmospheric Sciences

217

Nonlinear Local Lyapunov Vectors and Their Potential Application in Ensemble Prediction

Jie Feng, NOAA, Boulder, CO; and J. Li, R. Ding, and D. Liu

218

Application of the Analog Ensemble Methodology to Land Surface Conditions

Laura Harding, Pennsylvania State University, State College, PA; and A. Fisher

219

Improvement of Anomaly Forecast for Extreme Weather Events

Hong Guan, Systems Research Group Inc./EMC/NCEP/NOAA, College Park, MD; and Y. Zhu, Y. Luo, and B. Cui

220

Quantification of Forecast Uncertainty Using Polynomial Chaos Expansion

Junjun Hu, University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK; and S. Lakshmivarahan and J. Lewis

221

Impacts of Physics Parameterization and Data Assimilation on Synoptic Feature Modeling in Severe Weather Outbreaks

Erin A. Thead, Mississippi State University, Mississippi State, MS; and A. E. Mercer and J. L. Dyer

Handout (1.4 MB)

222

Probabilistic Ensemble Forecasting using Bayesian Model Averaging

Steven Beale, Amec Foster Wheeler Environment & Infrastructure, St. John's, NF, Canada; and T. Bullock

223

A Probabilistic Statistical Climatological Relationship between Precipitable Water Vapor and Precipitation for Near-Real Time Forecasting Applications

Jacola A. Roman, CIMSS/Univ. of Wisconsin, Madison, WI; and R. Knuteson, S. Hubbard, S. Ackerman, and H. Revercomb

224

Using FRiskNH Model to Determine Freeze in New Mexico Vineyards

Elizabeth Arleen Smith, New Mexico State University, Las Cruces, NM

225

Modeling Range-Dependent Biases in Long-Term Radar-Based Precipitation Estimates

John Nielsen-Gammon, Texas A&M Univ., College Station, TX; and D. B. McRoberts

Handout (2.4 MB)

226

A High-Wind Prediction Model for Bordeaux, Wyoming

Zach Finch, NOAA/NWS, Cheyenne, WY; and D. T. Lindsey

Manuscript (701.4 kB)

Handout (731.9 kB)

227

Diagnostic Variables Governing Rapid Intensification of Tropical Cyclones Revealed Through Composite Analysis

Alexandria D. Grimes, Mississippi State University, Starkville, MS; and A. E. Mercer

228

Clustering of Multi-model Hurricane Sandy Track and Cyclone Phase Space Forecasts using a Regression Mixture Model

Alex Kowaleski, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA; and J. L. Evans

229

Examining Intensity Trends During Extratropical Transition

Justin Alexander Baldizon Stark, CMMAP, Miami, FL

230

Benchmarking and Verification of Rapid Intensification/Weakening of Tropical Cyclone Forecasts by HWRF Model

Mrinal K. Biswas, NCAR, Boulder, CO; and J. H. Gotway, T. Fowler, and L. R. Bernardet

231

Statistical Drought Forecasting in South Central Oklahoma

Virginia G. Silvis, Univ. of Oklahoma, Norman, OK; and M. D. Hunter, R. McPherson, H. Lazrus, and M. B. Richman

232

Short Term Forecasting of Solar Irradiance using Data Analytics and Probabilistic Cloud Cover Forecasts

Peter J. Isaacson, The Aerospace Corporation, Chantilly, VA; and G. J. Bloy, E. B. Wendoloski, and C. N. Mutchler

233

Bayesian Analysis of Lightning Data Sets

Phillip M. Bitzer, University of Alabama, Huntsville, AL; and J. Burchfield

234

Mitigating the Impact of Weather Forecast Error in Electric and Natural Gas Load Forecasting

Wes Hyduke, Schneider Electric, Minneapolis, MN

Handout (470.4 kB)

Poster Session 1

Session 1

Host: Fourth Symposium on the Weather, Water, and Climate Enterprise

455

Improving Multi-Radar Multi-Sensor Cloud-to-Ground Probabilities

Tiffany C. Meyer, CIMMS/Univ. of Oklahoma, Norman, OK; and K. M. Kuhlman

Handout (1.3 MB)

456

Preparing for Climate Change Along the U.S.-Mexico Border

Gregg M. Garfin, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ; and H. C. Hartmann, A. Roberson, M. K. Briggs, J. Bennett, and D. P. Brown

Poster Session 1

Space Weather Posters

Host: 13th Conference on Space Weather

Chair: Robert P. McCoy, Univ. of Alaska

317

Geomagnetic Disturbances and Geomagnetic Induced Currents

Lawrence J. Zanetti, APL, Laurel, MD; and B. Anderson, H. Korth, R. M. Robinson, and A. Pulkkinen

318

Dst Profile Investigation with Gamma Distribution and Diffusion-Like Distribution

M. Chantale Damas, CUNY/Queensborough Community College, Brooklyn, NY; and T. Cheung, Y. Dong, S. Peng, and Z. Yang

Manuscript (64.0 kB)

319

extreme poynting flux over the polar cap region

320

DSCOVR Science Archive Data and Access from NCEI

William Rowland, CIRES/Univ. of Colorado, Boulder, CO; and S. M. Codrescu, M. Tilton, R. Redmon, P. Loto'aniu, J. Cartwright, H. McCullough, and W. F. Denig

322

Geomagnetic storms: How bad can they be?

Chigomezyo M. Ngwira, The Catholic University of America, Greenbelt, MD

Manuscript (39.6 kB)

321

NLDN and ENTLN Observations of Sprite-Inducing Lightning

323

Geomagnetically induced currents in the ground beneath our feet: The view from near space

Daniel T. Welling, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI

Manuscript (107.2 kB)

324

Geomagnetically induced currents in the ground beneath our feet: The view from outer space

N. P. Savani, University of Maryland, Baltimore County, Baltimore, MD; and A. Pulkkinen and L. I. GIC Working Group

Manuscript (61.5 kB)

Joint Poster Session 2

Land Model Benchmarking: Benchmarking, Verification and Validation in Terrestrial Hydrology Posters

Location: New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center

Hosts: (Joint between the 30th Conference on Hydrology; and the 23rd Conference on Probability and Statistics in the Atmospheric Sciences )

Chairperson/Person in Charge: Michael B. Ek, NOAA/NWS/NCEP/EMC

Chair: Sujay Kumar, NASA/GSFC

Comparison of Global Mountain Snow Storage Estimates and the Prospect of Improvement with Regional Climate Modeling

Melissa L. Wrzesien, Ohio State University, Columbus, OH; and M. T. Durand and T. M. Pavelsky

Basin-Scale Evaluation of the Land Surface Water Budget in the NCEP Operational and Research NLDAS-2 Systems

Youlong Xia, IMSG at EMC/NCEP, College Park, MD; and M. Ek, B. Cosgrove, K. Mitchell, C. Peters-Lidard, M. J. Brewer, D. M. Mocko, S. V. Kumar, H. Wei, J. Meng, and L. Luo

The Uncertainty of Precipitation-type Observations and its Effect on the Validation of the Forecast Precipitation Type

Heather D. Reeves, CIMMS/Univ. of Oklahoma and NOAA/NSSL, Norman, OK

Evaluating Evaporation Components in Flux Data and Model Output

Emma L. Robinson, Centre for Ecology and Hydrology, Wallingford, United Kingdom; and E. Blyth

Handout (1.2 MB)

Evaluating a High-resolution Operational LDAS/LSM with In-situ Soil Measurements Throughout North Carolina

John N. McHenry, Baron Advanced Meteorological Systems, LLC, Raleigh, NC; and A. Sims and D. T. Olerud

Similarity Assessment of NLDAS Multi-Model Ensemble Outputs

Shugong Wang, SAIC at NASA/GSFC, Greenbelt, MD; and S. Kumar, D. Mocko, C. Peters-Lidard, Y. Xia, and M. Ek

Quantifying the Mismatch between Snow and Climate in Global Reanalyses and Land Models

Patrick D. Broxton, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ; and X. Zeng and N. Dawson

Estimates of Global Surface Hydrology and Heat Fluxes from the Community Land Model (CLM4.5) with Four Atmospheric Forcing Datasets: Intercomparison and Assessment

Aihui Wang, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China; and X. Zeng and D. Guo

The North American Land Data Assimilation System (NLDAS) Science Testbed: An Environment for the Systematic Evaluation and Benchmarking of NLDAS Outputs

David M. Mocko, SAIC at NASA/GSFC, Greenbelt, MD; and S. V. Kumar, S. Wang, K. R. Arsenault, C. Peters-Lidard, G. S. Nearing, Y. Xia, M. B. Ek, and J. Dong

An Evaluation of the ERDC CRREL FASST Land Surface Model Relative to Measurements and a Comparable, Widely Used Land Surface Model

The Land Verification Toolkit---A Common Methodology For Benchmarks, Evaluation Procedures, And Metrics For The Land Surface Modeling Community

Jerry Wegiel, SAIC, Greenbelt, MD; and S. V. Kumar, C. Peters-Lidard, M. Best, M. B. Ek, S. G. Benjamin, J. D. Cetola, J. B. Eylander, K. R. Arsenault, J. Geiger, D. M. Mocko, S. Wang, C. Franks, R. L. Ruhge, E. D. Hunt, T. A. Lewiston, M. Freimund, N. Wright, T. Smirnova, S. Rheingrover, K. W. Harrison, Y. Tian, Y. Liu, J. A. Santanello Jr., and M. Shaw

100

Stochastic Analysis of Nonlinear Sorption at the Cape Cod Tracer Site

Neal T. Graham, University of Maryland, College Park, MD; and F. Miralles-Wilhelm

Poster Session 2

Poster Session II: Outreach

Host: 25th Symposium on Education

161A

Living with Climate Change: An Undergraduate Course for Western Alaska

Todd A. Radenbaugh, University of Alaska, Dillingham, AK

Handout (15.4 MB)

161

Implementing Learning Paths to meet Professional Earth Systems Competencies in NOAA's National Weather Service

162

Long term Impacts of a One-week Professional Development Program for Undergraduate Students

Valerie Sloan, UCAR, Boulder, CO; and R. Haacker and T. Barnes

Handout (526.8 kB)

163

CoCoRaHS WxTalk Webinars - Sharing Weather and Climate Knowledge with the Public

Henry Reges, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO; and N. J. Doesken, N. Newman, Z. Schwalbe, and J. Turner

Handout (6.7 MB)

164

Weather and Water Go Hand in Hand: Education and Outreach at the Caribbean Institute for Meteorology and Hydrology

Andrea Sealy, Caribbean Institute for Meteorology and Hydrology, St. James, Barbados; and K. A. Caesar and D. Farrell

Handout (2.2 MB) Handout (1.6 MB)

165

Teaching the Weather Merit Badge: STEM Education in the Boy Scouts of America Organization

Brian Blaylock, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT

Handout (1.1 MB)

166

What do Docents Transfer to their Lives from an Earthquake and Tsunami Exhibit?

Shelley Olds, UNAVCO, Boulder, CO

Handout (16.6 MB)

167

Outreach to Children -- A Unique Opportunity to Excite Weather Interest in Hospitalized Children

Laura Paulik, CIRES/Univ. of Colorado, Boulder, CO; and G. J. Alaka Jr.

Handout (3.6 MB)

Poster Session 3

Poster Session III: Pre-College Education Initiatives

Host: 25th Symposium on Education

168

Creating Experiences for K-12 Students to Ehance their Understanding of Meteorological Processes in Complex Terrain

Stephan F.J. De Wekker, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA; and S. Pal

169

Developing a Yearlong NGSS Learning Sequence Focused on Climate Solutions: Opportunities, Challenges and Reflections

Eugene Cordero, San Jose State Univ., San Jose, CA; and D. C. Centeno, E. Walsh, and E. Metzger

170

Integrated Science for Pre-service High School Teachers: Combining Physics, Meteorology and Astronomy

Redina L. Herman, Western Illinois Univ., Macomb, IL; and R. T. Gordon and L. M. Barden-Gabbei

171

First Approaches toward Teaching K – 12 Weather and Climate with an NGSS Approach

Michael J. Passow, Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory of Columbia University, Palisades, NY

172

Going Beyond the Classroom: Weather + Science = Energy Efficiency in School Communities

Victoria L. Gorman, Medford Memorial Middle School, Medford, NJ; and S. Humenik

173

High School Broadcast Meteorology Program

Jeffrey A. Yuhas, Morristown-Beard School, Morristown, NJ; and R. Dorwart, O. Braunstein, and S. Nadler

Oklahoma Teacher Climate Summit: Teaching Climate Science By Understanding Forests

174

STEM Education in a High School Meteorology Program

Jeffrey A. Yuhas, Morristown-Beard School, Morristown, NJ; and T. Margosian, H. Kern, V. Sharma, and B. Rechler

175

Measuring the Accuracy of Hyperlocal Forecasting through Onset of Precipitation Predictions

Stephen Lane, Concord-Carlisle Regional High School, Concord, MA; and T. Ruggiero, T. Wurts, and J. Bailey-Wells

176

ESIP Education Workshops

Margaret Mooney, CIMSS, SSEC, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI; and L. Dahlman, P. M. Lewis, and E. Robinson

Handout (3.7 MB)

177

Use of GLOBE Protocols to Promote the Next Generation Science Standards

Paul E. Adams, Fort Hays State University, Hays, Kansas

Handout (1.4 MB)

178

Climate Changes

Christine A. Fuentes, Universidad Interamericana de Puerto Rico Aguadilla, Aguadilla, PR

Manuscript (250.3 kB)

Handout (1.9 MB)

Joint Poster Session 3

Remote Sensing Applications in Hydrology Posters

Location: New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center

Hosts: (Joint between the 30th Conference on Hydrology; and the 20th Conference on Integrated Observing and Assimilation Systems for the Atmosphere, Oceans, and Land Surface (IOAS-AOLS) )

Chairperson/Person in Charge: David J. Gochis, NCAR

Cochairs: Christopher Hain, University of Maryland; John B. Eylander, US Army Corps of Engineers

101

Observation of Hailstorm with Higher Spatial Resolution Using a Compact Dual Polarimetric X-Band Weather Radar

Toshiaki Takaki, Furuno Electric Co., LTD., Nishinomiya, Hyogo, Japan; and M. Hayano, S. Oishi, and E. Nakakita

Handout (579.4 kB)

102

Quantitative precipitation estimation using the characteristics of raindrop size distribution based on the maximum diameter

Sung-A Jung, KMA, Seoul, South Korea; and D. I. Lee, J. H. Kim, and J. S. Ko

103

Incorporate Satellite Precipitation Product into Radar-Gage Multisensor Precipitation Estimation Algorithm

Yuxiang He, NWS, Silver Spring, MD; and Y. Zhang, R. J. Kuligowski, and R. Cifelli

Handout (4.6 MB)

104

Development of Hydrometeor Classification Algorithm for Korea Precipitation Systems

In-Hae Cho, KMA, Seoul, South Korea; and M. K. Suk, K. Y. Nam, and J. S. Ko

Handout (2.7 MB)

105

Temporal filtering methods for operational snow covered area mapping

Blaine F. Morriss, CRREL (Cold Regions Research and Engineering Lab), Hanover, NH; and E. Ochs, T. A. Lewiston, E. J. Deeb, S. F. Daly, S. D. Newman, and J. B. Eylander

106

Mapping the extent and dynamics of lakes in high northern latitudes of North America

Mark L. Carroll, NASA/GSFC, Greenbelt, MD; and M. Wooten, C. DiMiceli, and R. Sohlberg

107

Pre-monsoon Drought and Heat Wave in India Observed from Space

W. Timothy Liu, JPL, Pasadena, CA; and X. Xie

108

Validation of Global Soil Moisture Products from SMAP Radiometer Observations and their Application in NCEP Global Forecast System

Weizhong Zheng, NOAA/NWS/NCEP, College Park, MD; and J. Liu, L. Fang, J. Yin, X. Zhan, and M. B. Ek

Poster Session 4

Poster Session IV: University Education Initiatives

Host: 25th Symposium on Education

179

Exploring the Persistence of Climate Change and Global Warming Misconceptions of Environmental Science Majors after taking a Global Climate Change Class

Jay P. Muza, Broward College, Davie, FL

Manuscript (93.3 kB)

Handout (982.7 kB)

180

Revitalizing Introductory Earth Science Survey Courses with Modern Active Learning Tutorials

Timothy Slater, University of Wyoming, Laramie, WY; and S. Slater

181

Evidence of Climate change within the five Regions in Virginia

Darlette M. Meekins, Virginia State University, Glen Allen, VA; and S. sriharan

182

AMS Climate Studies Course: Preparation and Implementation

Ivetta V. Abramyan, Florida State College, Jacksonville, FL

183

Modeling Carbon Cycle through the Earth System as a Formative Tool for Learning about Systems Theory and Complexity

184A

Puerto Rico Climate Change and Human Health Teaching Model

Maria C. Ortiz, Universidad Metropolitana, San Juan, PR; and C. Morales

Manuscript (11.3 kB)

Handout (5.1 MB)

184

Using Weatherbug, Davis Instruments and Pasco for teaching about Forest Meteorology, Agrometeorology, and Micrometeorology

185

Teaching Undergraduates Scientific Writing: VU Perspective

Kevin H. Goebbert, Valparaiso Univ., Valparaiso, IN; and T. M. Bals-Elsholz, C. Clark, A. J. Stepanek, and B. J. Wolf

Handout (475.5 kB)

186

To Master or Not to Master; That Is the Question

Teresa Bals-Elsholz, Valparaiso University, Valparaiso, IN; and C. Clark, K. Goebbert, A. Stepanek, and B. Wolf

Manuscript (439.2 kB)

187

Supporting Upper-level Earth Sciences Coursework at Universities: Supplemental Laboratory Packages and Webinars from The COMET® Program

Andrea M. Smith, UCAR, Boulder, CO; and M. Kelsch and J. B. Basara

Handout (2.9 MB)

188

Development and Implementation of an Inquiry Based Lab Approach and Severe Weather Tool (SWAT) to Expose Students to Authentic Research

David Flory, Iowa State University, Ames, IA; and W. A. Gallus Jr., C. Cervato, and C. Ogilvie

189

Implementation of "Weather and Climate Studies" course at North Carolina A&T

Ademe Mekonnen, North Carolina A&T State University, Greensboro, NC

Handout (2.7 MB)

190

Experiential Learning Applied to a MATLAB-based Undergraduate NWP Course

Thomas A. Guinn, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, Daytona Beach, FL

Manuscript (593.0 kB)

191

Chaos and Atmospheric Predictability

Isimar de Azevedo Santos, Universidade Estadual do Norte Fluminense Darcy Ribeiro, Macaé, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil; and J. Buchmann

Manuscript (50.8 kB)

Handout (133.2 kB)

192

Supervised College Teaching from the Supervised College Teacher's Perspective

Anthony W. Lyza, University of Alabama, Huntsville, AL; and K. R. Knupp and L. D. Carey

193

Developing a Complete Curriculum in Meteorology at a Two-Year College

Paul L. Sirvatka, College of DuPage, Glen Ellyn, IL

195

A Mock United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) for Undergraduates at the University of Oklahoma

Renee A. McPherson, University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK; and A. Bamzai, E. Martin, and B. Moore III

Handout (23.7 MB)

196

A Pre- and Post-Test Given to Climate Students to Gauge their Learning

Scott S. Lindstrom, Madison Area Technical College, Madison, WI; and M. A. Lazzara, M. K. Harkey, and S. Lynds

194

Teaching Big Data Workforce Skills Through Tropical Cyclone Investigations

197A

Meteorology Courses at St. Philip’s College, San Antonio, TX. A New Spectrum of Opportunities for Community College Students

Carmen Nava-Fischer, St. Philip's College, San Antonio, TX, San Antonio, TX

198

Providing Application-Driven GIS Education for Earth System Science

Amanda M. Weigel, Univ. of Alabama, Huntsville, AL; and R. Griffin and K. Bugbee

199

Meteorological Applications in a Collaborative Classroom and Stereo Visualization Laboratory

Brian J. Billings, Millersville University, Millersville, PA; and R. J. Kubesh, S. E. Arcand, and M. C. Gill

197

Introducing Climate Science in the General Education Curriculum

200

Driving Climate Studies Curriculum Through a High Traffic Texas Common Course Numbering System Environment

Brett Cummins, Brookhaven College, Farmers Branch, TX

Handout (8.4 MB)

Joint Poster Session 4

The NASA Soil Moisture Active Passive (SMAP) Mission Status and Early Results Posters

Hosts: (Joint between the 30th Conference on Hydrology; and the Sixth Conference on Transition of Research to Operations )

Cochairs: Dara Entekhabi, MIT; Chandra R. Kondragunta, NOAA/OAR; John Pereira, NOAA/NESDIS; Eni Njoku, JPL

109

SMAP Active Passive Soil Moisture Dynamics During the Climate Extremes Across the Southern and Western US During Spring and Early Summer 2015

N. Das, NASA/JPL, Pasadena, CA; and D. Entekhabi and S. H. Yueh

110

Inland Open Water-Body Detection Using Multipolarized L-band SMAP SAR

Seung-Bum Kim, Caltech/JPL, Pasadena, CA; and D. Entekhabi and S. H. Yueh

111

Mapping Field-Scale Soil Moisture Using Ground-Based L-Band Passive Microwave Observations in Western Puerto Rico

Jonathan Muñoz-Barreto, University of Puerto Rico, Mayaguez, PR; and T. Lakhankar, X. Zhan, R. Tirado-Corbalá, and R. Khanbilvardi

112

Converting Between SMOS and SMAP Level-1 Brightness Temperature Observations Over Nonfrozen Land

Gabriëlle J.M. De Lannoy, NASA/GSFC, Greenbelt, MD; and R. H. Reichle, J. Peng, Y. Kerr, R. Castro, E. J. Kim, and Q. Liu

Poster Session 5

Poster Session V: Promoting Diversity in Atmospheric Sciences

Host: 25th Symposium on Education

201

Implementing the AMS Climate Change course to fulfill the science requirement at Wesley College

Stephanie Stotts, Wesley College, Dover, DE

202

‘Climate and the Real World' a Climate Studies Diversity Project at NMSU

David DuBois, New Mexico State Univ., Las Cruces, NM

203

AMS Climate Studies Implementation at San Antonio College

John Strybos, Alamo Colleges - San Antonio College, Live Oak, Texas

Handout (606.7 kB) Handout (1.2 MB)

204

Introducing Climate Studies at Community College of Philadelphia

Margaret Stephens, Community College of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA

205

Trends in Atmospheric Science Degrees in Underrepresented Groups

Marlene Kaplan, NOAA, Silver Spring, MD; and T. Christenson

206

Climate Studies at KCKCC

Ernest M. May, Kansas Community College, Kansas City, KS

207

On the Use of Multi-Disciplinary Climate Literacy Teaching in Building Interest in Science

Gerald J. Mulvey, University of the Incarnate Word, San Antonio, TX

Handout (1.1 MB)

208

Outcomes and Applications of the AMS/NSF Consortium for Ocean Leadership, MSI REaCH Project Workshop: Tools for the University Professor

Gerald J. Mulvey, University of the Incarnate Word, San Antonio, TX

Handout (802.8 kB)

209

NOAA Earth System Research Laboratory Student Development Program: Expanding on Traditional Student Internship Opportunities

Ann Thorne, OAR, Boulder, CO

210

Implementing Climate Literacy at a Tribal College

Rebecca R. Edler, Sustainable Development Institute, College of Menominee Nation, Keshena, WI

211

Linking Climate Science and Biodiversity through Experiential Learning at Chowan University

James ″Bo″ Dame, Chowan University, Murfreesboro, NC; and H. L. McGuire

Handout (3.4 MB)

212

Teaching Aids in the Discussion of Climatology

Gerald J. Mulvey, University of the Incarnate Word, San Antonio, TX

Handout (912.1 kB)

213

Engaging Critical Thinking in Marine Science: The Paleoclimatology-Oceanography Hybrid Course

DeBonne Natalie Wishart, Central State University, Wilberforce, OH

214

Online Geoscience Education Among Ancient and Current Cultures

David M. Stokowski, New Mexico State University, Grants, NM

Handout (8.2 MB)

215

Cheyney University Climate Education

Sakkar A. Eva, Cheyney University of Pennsylvania, Cheyney, PA

216

Online Climate and Weather Education for Underrepresented Undergraduate Students

Kazuhiro Sonoda, Heritage University, Toppenish, WA

4:00 PM-5:00 PM: Monday, 11 January 2016

Session 2

Katrina +10: Reflecting on Hurricane Katrina and Planning Ahead for Future Weather and Climate Extremes

Location: Room 333-334 ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)

Host: 11th Symposium on Societal Applications: Policy, Research and Practice

Chair: Olga Wilhelmi, NCAR

4:00 PM

2.1

Looking Back to Move Forward: The Ecology of Warning 10 Years After Katrina

Vankita Brown, NOAA, Silver Spring, MD; and L. Myers

Recorded Presentation

4:15 PM

2.2

Recovery Migration After Hurricanes Katrina and Rita: Spatial Concentration and Intensification in the Migration System

Elizabeth Fussell, Brown University, Providence, RI; and K. Curtis and J. DeWaard

Recorded Presentation

Handout (11.3 MB)

4:30 PM

2.3

Preparing for the Storm: A New Community Resilience Planning Guide

Therese P. McAllister, National Institute of Standards and Technology, Gaithersburg, MD; and S. A. Cauffman and E. D. Kuligowski

Recorded Presentation

4:45 PM

2.4

A Political Ecology of Extremes: Narrating Urgency in the Anthropocene

Amanda H. Lynch, Brown University, Providence, RI; and S. Veland

Session 2

US CLIVAR Session on Ocean Fingerprints of Decadal-to-Centennial Natural Variability and Anthropogenic Change

Location: La Nouvelle A ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)

Host: 28th Conference on Climate Variability and Change

Cochairs: David Halpern, JPL; Antonietta Capotondi, University of Colorado; Renellys Christine Perez, NOAA/AOML; Arthur J. Miller, SIO/Univ. Of California

4:00 PM

2.1

Indian and Pacific heat shift temporarily hides Earth's warming

Veronica Nieves, University of California, Los Angeles, CA; and J. Willis and W. C. Patzert

4:15 PM

2.2

Decadal-to-Centennial Variations of Tropical Ocean Currents Over the Next 400 Years Under Increasing Greenhouse Gas Emissions

David Halpern, JPL, Pasadena, CA; and R. Bleck, L. Nazarenko, G. Schmidt, and N. Tausnev

Recorded Presentation

4:30 PM

2.3

Is ENSO Really Changing?

Antonietta Capotondi, CIRES, Univ. of Colorado and Physical Sciences Division, NOAA/ESRL, Boulder, CO; and P. D. Sardeshmukh

Recorded Presentation

2.4

Circulation and Water Mass Variability in the South Atlantic

Session 3B

Data Assimilation: Ocean and Coupled Models II

Location: Room 345 ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)

Host: 20th Conference on Integrated Observing and Assimilation Systems for the Atmosphere, Oceans, and Land Surface (IOAS-AOLS)

Chair: G. R. Halliwell Jr., NOAA/AOML

4:00 PM

3B.1

Impact of Assimilating Surface Velocity Observations on the Model Sea Surface Height using the NCOM-4DVAR

Matthew J. Carrier, NRL, Stennis Space Center, MS; and H. E. Ngodock, S. Smith, and P. A. Muscarella

Recorded Presentation

4:15 PM

3B.2

Recent Improvements to US Navy Sea Ice Coupled Modeling Systems Using High-Resolution Data

Michael W. Phelps, Jacobs Technology, Stennis Space Center, MS; and P. Posey, R. Allard, D. Hebert, J. Metzger, A. Wallcraft, and O. M. Smedstad

Recorded Presentation

4:30 PM

3B.3

Steep-Descending Mode Truncation in Ocean Spectral Data Assimilation with Comparison to Optimal Interpolation

Peter C. Chu, NPS, Monterey, CA; and C. Fan and T. Margolina

Recorded Presentation

4:45 PM

3B.4

Strongly Coupled EnKF Data Assimilation in Coupled Ocean-Atmosphere Models

Travis C. Sluka, University of Maryland, College Park, MD; and S. G. Penny, E. Kalnay, and T. Miyoshi

Recorded Presentation

Joint Session 6

Biennial AMS AI Contest

Location: Room 354 ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)

Hosts: (Joint between the 14th Conference on Artificial and Computational Intelligence and its Applications to the Environmental Sciences; and the 30th Conference on Hydrology )

Chair: Carlos Felipe Gaitan, University of Oklahoma/NOAA-GFDL

4:00 PM

J6.1

Feature Engineering on Rainfall Matrices

Mike Kim, Booz Allen Hamilton, VA

4:15 PM

J6.2

Probability Distributions for Kaggle Rain Contest I

Gary Kim, BOEING

Recorded Presentation

4:30 PM

J6.3

Hourly Rainfall Estimation using Gradient Boosted Decision Trees

Devin Anzelmo, University of California, CA

4:45 PM

J6.4

4th Place Solution for “How much Did it Rain? II” Kaggle Competition

Shize Su, University of Virginia, Charlottesville; and A. Jacobs

Joint Session 8

The NASA Soil Moisture Active Passive (SMAP) Mission Status and Early Results

Location: Room 240/241 ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)

Hosts: (Joint between the 30th Conference on Hydrology; and the Sixth Conference on Transition of Research to Operations )

Cochairs: John B. Eylander, US Army Corps of Engineers; Dara Entekhabi, MIT; Chandra R. Kondragunta, NOAA/OAR; Eni Njoku, JPL; John Pereira, NOAA/NESDIS

4:00 PM

J8.1

The NASA Soil Moisture Active Passive (SMAP) Mission Status and Early Results

Simon Yueh, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA; and D. Entekhabi, P. O'Neill, J. Entin, E. Njoku, and K. Kellogg

Recorded Presentation

4:15 PM

J8.2

An Intercomparison of SMAP Passive Soil Moisture Retrieval Algorithms

Steven Chan, NASA JPL, Pasadena, CA; and R. Bindlish, A. Colliander, F. Chen, P. O'Neill, T. Jackson, E. Njoku, A. Berg, T. Rowlandson, K. Caylor, M. Cosh, H. Al Jassar, E. Lopez-Baeza, J. Martinez-Fernandez, A. Gonzalez-Zamora, H. McNairn, A. Pacheco, M. Moghaddam, C. Montzka, C. Notarnicola, G. Niedrist, T. Pellarin, J. Pulliainen, K. Rautiainen, J. Ramos, M. Seyfried, Z. Su, Y. Zeng, R. van der Velde, M. Thibeault, W. Dorigo, M. Vreugdenhil, J. Walker, X. Wu, J. Asanuma, L. Dang, L. Pashaian, M. Spencer, D. Entekhabi, and S. Yueh

4:30 PM

J8.3

SMAP L2/L3 Soil Moisture Product Validation with Core Validation Sites

Thomas Jackson, USDA ARS Hydrology and Remote Sensing Laboratory; and A. Colliander, S. Chan, N. Das, S. Kim, S. Dunbar, R. Bindlish, A. Berg, T. Rowlandson, K. Caylor, M. Cosh, H. Al Jassar, E. Lopez-Baeza, J. Martinez-Fernandez, A. Gonzalez-Zamora, H. McNairn, A. Pacheco, M. Moghaddam, C. Montzka, C. Notarnicola, G. Niedrist, T. Pellarin, J. Pulliainen, K. Rautianen, J. Ramos, M. Seyfried, Z. Su, Y. Zeng, R. van der Velde, M. Thibeault, W. Dorigo, M. Vreugdenhil, J. Walker, X. Wu, J. Asanuma, L. Dang, L. Pashaian, M. Spencer, P. O'Neill, D. Entekhabi, S. Yueh, and E. Njoku

Recorded Presentation

4:45 PM

J8.4

First Results from the SMAP Level 4 Surface and Root Zone Soil Moisture (L4_SM) Data Product

Rolf H. Reichle, NASA/GSFC, Greenbelt, MD; and G. J. M. De Lannoy, R. D. Koster, J. Kimball, W. T. Crow, Q. Liu, J. Ardizzone, A. Berg, D. Bosch, T. Caldwell, A. Colliander, A. Conaty, M. Cosh, D. C. Goodrich, T. Jackson, S. Livingston, J. Prueger, T. Rowlandson, and P. Starks

Recorded Presentation

4:00 PM-5:15 PM: Monday, 11 January 2016

Session 1

Hydrometeorological Extremes, Part I

Location: Room 242 ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)

Host: 30th Conference on Hydrology

Chair: John N. McHenry, Baron Advanced Meteorological Systems, LLC

1.1

Analysis of Spatial Dependence in Extreme Precipitation over the Southeast United States Using Radar and Gauge Observations

4:15 PM

1.2

Hydrometeorological Ensemble Prediction System for flash flood forecasting within HYMEX program

Béatrice Vincendon, CNRM, TOULOUSE, France; and O. Nuissier, F. Bouttier, S. Edouard, and V. Ducrocq

Recorded Presentation

4:30 PM

1.3

Rainfall distributions for varying environmental conditions along the Balcones Escarpment, Texas

Larry J. Hopper Jr., NOAA/NWS, New Braunfels, TX; and N. L. Hampshire

Recorded Presentation

4:45 PM

1.4

Flooding on the Mendenhall River from a Jokulhlaup: How to forecast a moving target

Scott D. Lindsey, NWS/Alaska Pacific River Forecast Center, Anchorage, AK; and E. H. Moran, E. Hood, and A. Jacobs

Recorded Presentation

5:00 PM

1.5

Using river ice time series (MODIS-AQUA) to identify and predict ice hazards

Simon Kraatz, NOAA-CREST, New York, NY; and R. Khanbilvardi and N. Devineni

Recorded Presentation

Session 3

Dispersion Modeling on a Range of Scales for Different Sources and Applications

Location: Room 243 ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)

Host: 19th Joint Conference on the Applications of Air Pollution Meteorology with the A&WMA

Chair: Saravanan Arunachalam, University of North Carolina

4:00 PM

3.1

Characterization of Source Emissions using Short Duration Measurements and Model Predictions

Steven R. Chiswell, Savannah River National Laboratory, Aiken, SC; and R. L. Buckley, R. J. Kurzeja, and B. J. Viner

4:15 PM

3.2

Simulation of Ship Emission Transport and Dispersion in Coastal Southern California Using the COAMPS® Model

Lee W. Eddington, Naval Air Warfare Center Weapons Division, Point Mugu, CA

4:30 PM

3.3

Dust and Air Quality Forecasting and Monitoring in the Eastern Caribbean

Ashford Reyes, Caribbean Institute for Meteorology and Hydrology, St. James, Barbados; and A. Sealy, R. Chewitt, and D. Farrell

Recorded Presentation

4:45 PM

3.4

The Use of Regulatory Air Quality Models to Develop Successful Ozone Attainment Strategies

Timothy Canty, University of Maryland, College Park, MD; and H. He, T. Vinciguerra, D. L. Goldberg, A. Ring, R. J. Salawitch, and R. R. Dickerson

Recorded Presentation

5:00 PM

3.5

Simulation of urban flows using a lattice Boltzmann model

Yansen Wang, U.S. Army Research Laboratory, Adelphi, MD; and B. MacCall, C. Hocut, and G. Huynh

Recorded Presentation

Session 3

Success stories and lessons learned in Research to Operations (R2O)

Location: Room 352 ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)

Host: 13th Conference on Space Weather

Chair: Michael Wiltberger, NCAR

4:00 PM

3.1

Research to Operations: How Does it Really Work?

William B. Cade III, Baylor University, Waco, TX

4:15 PM

3.2

Research to Operations Success in Operational Space Weather Forecasting

Robert Rutledge, NWS/SWPC, Boulder, CO; and G. Millward, R. Steenburgh, and D. Biesecker

4:30 PM

3.3

Advancing Space Weather Impact Modeling Capabilities

Masha Kuznetsova, NASA/GSFC, Greenbelt, MD; and M. M. Maddox, P. J. Macneice, M. L. Mays, A. A. Pulkkinen, L. Rastaetter, J. S. Shim, A. Taktakishvili, C. Wiegand, and Y. Zheng

Recorded Presentation

4:45 PM

3.4

Short-Term Forecasting Ground Magnetic Perturbations with the Space Weather Modeling Framework

Daniel T. Welling, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI; and G. Toth, H. J. Singer, G. Millward, and T. Gombosi

Recorded Presentation Manuscript (56.1 kB)

5:00 PM

3.5

An All-Clear Space Weather Forecasting System Based on Magnetogram in Near Real Time

David A. Falconer, University of Alabama Huntsville, Huntsville, AL; and N. Barghouty and I. Khazanov

Recorded Presentation

4:00 PM-5:30 PM: Monday, 11 January 2016

Workshop Session 1

Brief Python Tutorials Workshop, Part I

Location: Room 225 ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)

Host: Sixth Symposium on Advances in Modeling and Analysis Using Python

Lecturers: Hannah Aizenman, City College of New York; David Brown, NCAR; Sheri Mickelson, NCAR

4:00 PM

IPython Notebook in Teaching

4:30 PM

Packaging a Module Using Conda

5:00 PM

Simple Ways to Increase Performance

Session 1

JPSS and GOES-R Instrument Innovators (Invited)

Location: Room 252/254 ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)

Host: 12th Annual Symposium on New Generation Operational Environmental Satellite Systems

Cochairs: Mitchell Goldberg, JPSS; Frank J. DeLuccia, JPSS/Aerospace Corp

4:00 PM

1.1

A Brief History of the GOES-R Geostationary Lightning Mapper (GLM) (Invited Presentation)

Steven J. Goodman, NOAA/NESDIS/GOES-R Program Office, Greenbelt, MD; and H. J. Christian and R. J. Blakeslee

Recorded Presentation

4:15 PM

1.2

The Pre-launch History of the Advanced Baseline Imager (ABI) on GOES-R (Invited Presentation)

Timothy J. Schmit, NOAA/NESDIS/Center for Satellite Applications and Research, Madison, WI; and M. M. Gunshor, J. J. Gurka, and W. P. Menzel

Recorded Presentation

4:30 PM

1.3

JPSS and GOES-R Instrument Innovators: VIIRS (Invited Presentation)

Jeffery J. Puschell, Raytheon Space and Airborne Systems, El Segundo, CA

Recorded Presentation

4:45 PM

1.4

CrIS - The Evolution of the Operational Advanced Sounder (Invited Presentation)

William L. Smith Sr., University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI; and H. E. Revercomb, F. A. Best, R. J. Glumb, K. D. Klaes, R. O. Knuteson, S. A. Mango, D. C. Tobin, and D. A. Santek

Recorded Presentation

5:00 PM

1.5

Approaching 50 Years of Earth Atmospheric Sensing from Space Using Passive Microwave Observations: A Retrospective (Invited Presentation)

William J. Blackwell, MIT Lincoln Laboratory, Lexington, MA

Recorded Presentation

Panel Discussion 1

Utilizing Financial Tools for Weather Risk Transfer in Business Continuity, Supply Chain, and Capital Markets

Location: Room 244 ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)

Host: Fourth Symposium on the Weather, Water, and Climate Enterprise

Moderators: Ian M. Giammanco, Insurance Institute for Business & Home Safety; Mark S. Russo, EarthRisk Technologies

Panelists: Mark Bove, MunichRe; James Waller, Guy Carpenter & Company, LLC; Mark S. Russo, EarthRisk Technologies

Session 2

Analysis of Observations from the DYNAMO/CINDY Field Campaign

Location: Room 338/339 ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)

Host: Fourth Symposium on Prediction of the Madden-Julian Oscillation: Processes, Prediction and Impact

Cochairs: Charles Jones, Univ. of California; Tommy G. Jensen, NRL

4:00 PM

2.1

Madden-Julian Oscillation: Impact, Challenge, and Progress (Core Science Lecture)

Chidong Zhang, Univ. of Miami/RSMAS, Miami, FL

Audio File
Recorded Presentation

4:30 PM

2.2

Cloud-Resolving Simulations of Convection during AMIE/DYNAMO

Matthew Janiga, NRL, Monterey, CA; and S. Wang, X. Li, and C. Zhang

Recorded Presentation

4:45 PM

2.3

Humidity, Wind Divergence, and Convection's Moisture Sensitivity in DYNAMO Data and an Attribution Model

Brian E. Mapes, Univeristy of Miami / RSMAS, Miami, FL

Recorded Presentation

5:00 PM

2.4

Impact of DYNAMO Observations on the NASA GEOS-5 Reanalysis and the Representation of the MJO Initiation over Tropical Indian Ocean

Deepthi Achuthavarier, GMAO/USRA, Greenbelt, MD; and H. Wang, S. Schubert, and M. E. Sienkiewicz

Recorded Presentation

5:15 PM

2.5

Examining Tropical Cyclone — Kelvin Wave Interactions using Adjoint Diagnostics

Carolyn A. Reynolds, NRL, Monterey, CA; and J. D. Doyle and X. Hong

Recorded Presentation

Panel Discussion 2

Building a Consistent Message: Establishing Ground Rules for the Weather Enterprise

Location: Room 335/336 ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)

Host: 11th Symposium on Societal Applications: Policy, Research and Practice

Moderators: Kimberly E. Klockow, NOAA; Susan A. Jasko, California Univ. of Pennsylvania

Panelists: Dexter Accardo, St Tammany Parish; Joshua D. Eachus, WBRZ; Angela M. Fritz, Georgia Institute of Technology; Gina M. Eosco, Eastern Reseach Group; J. T. Johnson, Weather Decision Technologies; Bryan Norcross, The Weather Channel; Richard Smith, NOAA/NWSFO

4:00 PM

PD2.1

Building a Consistent Message: Establishing Ground Rules for the Weather Enterprise

Richard Smith, NOAA/NWSFO, Norman, OK; and D. Accardo, J. D. Eachus, E. Holthaus, G. M. Eosco, R. Jennings, J. T. Johnson, and D. Kenny

Recorded Presentation

Joint Session 2

Climate Change and Infectious Diseases

Location: Room 228/229 ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)

Hosts: (Joint between the Seventh Conference on Environment and Health; and the Sixth Conference on Transition of Research to Operations )

Chair: Wendy Marie Thomas, NOAA/NWS

4:00 PM

J2.1

What is One Health: Why Should I Care, and What is the Connection to Climate, Weather and Water? (Core Keynote Lecture)

Juli Trtanj, NOAA/OAR/Climate Program Office, Silver Spring, MD

Recorded Presentation

4:30 PM

J2.2

Lessons Learned on Health Adaptation to Infectious Diseases in Low- and Middle-income Countries

Kristie L. Ebi, University of Washington, Seattle, WA

4:45 PM

J2.3

Nonstationary and Mediated Dynamics between Climate and Cholera Incidence in Piura, Peru, 1991-2001

Ivan J. Ramirez, The New School, New York, NY; and S. C. Grady

Manuscript (9.0 kB)

Handout (1.5 MB)

5:00 PM

J2.4

Impact of Changing Climate on Diarrheal Diseases: A Case Study for Cholera

Fariborz Nasr Azadani, West Virginia University, Morgantown, WV; and A. Jutla and R. Colwell

J2.5

Modeling the Potential Impact of Climate Change on Vector-borne Diseases and Respiratory Viruses

Session 2

Solar Forecasting: Energy Application Part 2

Location: Room 346/347 ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)

Host: Seventh Conference on Weather, Climate, Water and the New Energy Economy

Chair: Craig M. Smith, DRI

4:00 PM

2.1

Enabling High Penetration of Solar

Subhashree Mishra, DOE, Washington, DC; and R. Pitchumani

Recorded Presentation

4:15 PM

2.2

Geographic Smoothing of Solar PV: Results from Gujarat

Kelly Klima, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA; and J. Apt

Recorded Presentation

Handout (887.9 kB)

4:30 PM

2.3

Relating Solar Irradiance Variations and Weather across the Northwestern United States

Laura M. Hinkelman, University of Washington, Seattle, WA; and N. Schaeffer and T. P. Ackerman

Recorded Presentation

4:45 PM

2.4

Enhanced Statistical Post-Processing of Solar Irradiance Predictions Using Optimized WRF Forecasts of Cloud Cover Categories

Campbell D. Watson, IBM Research, Yorktown Heights, NY; and I. Khabibrakhmanov, J. Cipriani, and S. Lu

5:00 PM

2.5

Coupling Numerical Weather Predictions to Demand and Solar Energy Forecasting Models in an Operational Setting

Vincent P.A. Lonij, IBM Research, Dublin, Ireland; and J. B. Fiot, B. Chen, J. Villumsen, F. Fusco, P. Pompey, Y. Gkoufas, M. Sinn, L. A. Treinish, J. Cipriani, A. P. Praino, I. Khabibrakhmanov, D. Tougas, M. Coombs, and A. Stamp

Recorded Presentation

5:15 PM

2.6

Development and Evaluation of Near-Real-Time Solar Power Forecasts

Duane Apling, Northrop Grumman Corporation, McLean, VA; and K. Darmenova and G. Higgins

Session 3

AWIPS System Updates, Part II

Location: Room 348/349 ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)

Host: 32nd Conference on Environmental Information Processing Technologies

Cochairs: William F. Roberts, OAR; Jason E. Burks, NASA/MSFC

4:00 PM

3.1

AWIPS II for the University Community

Michael James, UCAR, Boulder, CO

Recorded Presentation

4:15 PM

3.2

Unifying In-flight and Terminal Aviation Forecast Information for a Continuum of Aviation Information

Cammye Sims, NOAA/NWS, Silver Spring, MD; and T. Hansen, T. J. LeFebvre, S. Pontius, and K. Manross

Recorded Presentation

4:30 PM

3.3

GSD's Short-term GFE Point Blender

Kevin L. Manross, CIRA/Colorado State Univ., Boulder, CO; and T. J. LeFebvre and I. S. Tsai

Recorded Presentation

4:45 PM

3.4

Activities in the Experimental Products Development Team at SPoRT

Jason E. Burks, NASA/MSFC, Huntsville, AL

Recorded Presentation

5:00 PM

3.5

Developing AWIPS to support forecaster demands in the new generation of satellites

Jordan J. Gerth, CIMSS, Madison, WI

Recorded Presentation

5:15 PM

3.6

Ingesting Geospatial Data into Hazard Services' Database for National Weather Service Flood Alerts

Nkosi M. Muse, NOAA, Somerset, NJ; and K. Manross, J. Wakefield, T. Hansen, and S. Williams

Recorded Presentation

Handout (1003.3 kB)

Session 3

Building a WRN Through Innovative Partnerships

Location: Room 255/257 ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)

Host: Fourth Symposium on Building a Weather-Ready Nation: Enhancing Our Nation’s Readiness, Responsiveness, and Resilience to High Impact Weather Events

Cochairs: Dave Jones, StormCenter Communications, Inc.; Shawn Freeman, Northrop Grumman

4:00 PM

3.1

Unlocking the Future of Wireless Emergency Alerts

Michael Gerber, NOAA, Silver Spring, MD; and R. Bunge and H. L. White

Recorded Presentation

4:15 PM

3.2

A Unique Partnership for a Common Goal

Gregory M. Schoor, NWS/OCLO/WDTD, Norman, OK

Recorded Presentation

4:30 PM

3.3

Web-based Integration of Social Media Streams with Weather and Infrastructure Data to Facilitate Decision-making During Hazardous Weather Episodes

Shawn Freeman, Northrop Grumman, Chantilly, VA; and G. Higgins, K. Darmenova, A. Maffei, and J. Lynch

Recorded Presentation

4:45 PM

3.4A

Impact based Decision Support Advisory for use in the National Air Space: Collaborative Aviation Weather Statement

Amy Bettwy, NOAA/NWS/Aviation Weather Center, Kansas City, MO; and J. Becker

Recorded Presentation

5:00 PM

3.5

Western Illinois University Outreach Events

Zachary Riel, Western Illinois University, Macomb, IL

Recorded Presentation

5:15 PM

3.6

Making Data and Mapping Platforms More Relevant and Useful during Decision Support

Rafael Ameller, StormCenter Communications, Inc., Halethorpe, MD

Recorded Presentation

Session 3

Kenneth Crawford Session, Part 2

Location: Room 245 ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)

Host: 22nd Conference on Applied Climatology

Chair: Christopher A. Fiebrich, Oklahoma Climatological Survey

4:00 PM

3.1

The Impact of Nearly Two Decades of Co-Located Research-Quality Observations of Soil and Atmospheric Variables

Jeffrey B. Basara, University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK; and B. G. Illston

Recorded Presentation

3.2

Soil Temperature Variability Across a Single Meteorological Station Footprint

4:15 PM

3.3

Ground Level and Aboveground Observations of Record Rainfall in May 2015 in Oklahoma

Claude E. Duchon, University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK; and C. A. Fiebrich and B. G. Illston

Recorded Presentation

4:45 PM

3.4

Observational Analysis of Flash Flood Events in North Texas

Amanda J. Schroeder, NOAA/NWS Weather Forecast Office, Fort Worth, TX; and D. Cavanaugh, T. Ryan, and J. Dunn

Recorded Presentation

5:00 PM

3.5

The New York State Mesonet: A Technical Overview

Jerald A. Brotzge, SUNY, University at Albany, Albany, NY; and C. Thorncroft and E. Joseph

Recorded Presentation

5:15 PM

3.6

The Role of the Oklahoma Mesonet in Decision Support Services for a Weather-Ready Nation

David L. Andra Jr., NOAA/NWS/Weather Forecast Office, Norman, OK

Recorded Presentation

Session 3

Novel Oceanographic Observational Techniques

Location: Room 342 ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)

Host: 14th Symposium on the Coastal Environment

Cochairs: Patrick J. Fitzpatrick, Mississippi State Univ.; Gregory Dusek, NOAA

4:00 PM

3.1

Measuring Wind-driven Wave Properties in a Coastal Estuary

Jeff Colvin, Florida Institute of Technology, Melbourne, FL; and S. M. Lazarus, M. Splitt, and B. P. Holman

Recorded Presentation

4:15 PM

3.2

Coastal Currents and Waves along the Texas Coastal Bend: Measurements and Model Comparisons

Philipe Tissot, Texas A&M University, Corpus Christi, TX; and L. Dell

Recorded Presentation Manuscript (3.4 MB)

4:30 PM

3.3

Investigating the Relationships between Tropical Cyclones, Sediment Loading, and Algal Blooms over the Great Barrier Reef

Chelsea. L. Parker, Brown University, Providence, RI; and A. H. Lynch and S. Spera

Recorded Presentation

4:45 PM

3.4

The Effects of Chronic Salinity on the Carbon Cycle of Strawberry Swamp, SC

Alexandria McCombs, University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC; and A. L. Hiscox, S. T. Allen, K. W. Krauss, J. Duberstein, and W. H. Conner

Recorded Presentation

5:00 PM

3.5

Mobile Transects of Gulf of Mexico Coastal Environment

Loren D. White, Jackson State University, Jackson, MS

Recorded Presentation

5:15 PM

3.6

Salinity and Hydrology Control Evapotranspiration From a Degraded Coastal Swamp

Scott T. Allen, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA; and A. McCombs, A. L. Hiscox, K. W. Krauss, J. Duberstein, W. H. Conner, and R. F. Keim

Session 3

Pre-college Education Initiatives II

Location: Room 353 ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)

Host: 25th Symposium on Education

Cochairs: John Moore, AMS Board on Outreach and Precollege Education; Jeffrey A. Yuhas, Morristown-Beard School

4:00 PM

3.1

Verification of Satellite-Derived Cloud Properties Using Cloud Observations from Students and the General Public

Megan A. McKeown, NASA/LaRC, Hampton, VA; and K. M. Bedka, L. H. Chambers, S. A. Crecelius, and T. M. Rogerson

Recorded Presentation

4:15 PM

3.2

Promoting K-12 Teacher Involvement in Educational Research Projects

Jeffrey A. Yuhas, Morristown-Beard School, Morristown, NJ; and S. Lane

Recorded Presentation

4:30 PM

3.3

NOAA-CREST Pre-College Education & Training Model: High School Initiative in Remote Sensing of the Earth System Science and Engineering HIRES

Shakila B . Merchant, NOAA/CREST, New York, NY; and R. Khanbilvardi and E. T. A. Morimoto

Recorded Presentation

4:45 PM

3.4

Earth SySTEM: Observing the Earth Visualizing the Future

John Moore, AMS Board on Outreach and Precollege Education, Laurel Springs, NJ

Recorded Presentation

5:00 PM

3.5

Educating Students about Hurricane Hazards and Preparedness

John P. Cangialosi, NOAA/NWS/NCEP/National Hurricane Center, Miami, FL; and D. P. Brown, C. W. Knowlton, H. Morin, A. B. Damiano, and R. G. Henning

Recorded Presentation

5:15 PM

3.6

Invited Presentation: To See the Whole Elephant; Finding Opportunities for Collaboration in Education

Stephen Lane, Concord-Carlisle Regional High School, Concord, MA

Recorded Presentation

Session 3

Statistical Forecasting

Location: Room 226/227 ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)

Host: 23rd Conference on Probability and Statistics in the Atmospheric Sciences

Chair: Eric Gilleland, NCAR

4:00 PM

3.2

Predicting Seasonal Tornado Activity

James B. Elsner, Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL

Recorded Presentation

Handout (1.8 MB)

3.1

Modeling Large-Scale Atmospheric Flow Using a Mixture of Local Linear Empirical Models

4:30 PM

3.3

Sensitivity of Spatial Structure of Forecasts on Model Parameters

Caren Marzban, University of Washington, Seattle, WA; and N. Li, C. Jones, and S. Sandgathe

Recorded Presentation

Handout (1.1 MB)

4:45 PM

3.4

The Temporal and Probabilistic Relationship between Lightning Jump Occurrence and Radar-Derived Thunderstorm Intensification

Christopher J. Schultz, NASA/MSFC, Huntsville, AL; and P. M. Bitzer, L. D. Carey, T. Chronis, and S. M. Stough

Recorded Presentation

5:00 PM

3.5

Convective Precipitation Estimation in Complex Terrain by using Cloud-to-ground Lightning

Carlos M. Minjarez-Sosa, Universidad de Sonora, Hermosillo, Mexico; and J. Waissman-Vilanova

Recorded Presentation

5:15 PM

3.6

Stochastic simulation of predictive space-time scenarios of wind speed using observations and physical model

Julie Bessac, ANL, Lemont, IL; and E. Constantinescu and M. Anitescu

Recorded Presentation

Session 3

Unmanned Aerial Vehicles for Atmospheric Research I

Location: Room 350/351 ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)

Host: 18th Symposium on Meteorological Observation and Instrumentation

Chair: C. Bruce Baker, NOAA/OAR/ARL/ATDD

4:00 PM

3.1

Feasbility Evaluation of the Unmanned Aircraft System (UAS) Weather Observations for Operational Weather Prediction

Robbie E. Hood, NOAA Unmanned Aircraft Systems Program, Silver Spring, MD; and G. A. Wick, M. L. Black, J. P. Dunion, S. Van Cooten, R. J. Moorhead II, and J. R. Walker

Recorded Presentation

4:15 PM

3.2

Coyote Hurricane Airborne Observations and Sensing (CHAOS)

Joseph J. Cione, NOAA, Miami, FL; and K. Twining, E. A. Kalina, E. W. Uhlhorn, and A. Brescia

Recorded Presentation

4:30 PM

3.3

Exploring the Use of Unmanned Aerial Systems for Local-Scale Boundary Layer Observations in a Coastal Environment

Jamie L. Dyer, Mississippi State University, Mississippi State, MS; and L. Wasson and R. J. Moorhead II

Recorded Presentation

4:45 PM

3.4

Integration of a Vector Electric-field Sonde into a Small UAS

Brian Argrow, Univ. of Colorado, Boulder, CO ; and R. Sonnenfeld, J. Mack, D. Jensen, and G. Aulich

Recorded Presentation

5:00 PM

3.5

Using a Small Unmanned Aerial System for Atmospheric Research

Edward Dumas, NOAA, Oak Ridge, TN; and B. Baker and C. Brown

Recorded Presentation

5:15 PM

3.6

Atmospheric Boundary Layer Investigations Using an Instrumented Multi-Rotor Copter

Stephan F.J. De Wekker, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA; and N. Rose and R. Palomaki

Recorded Presentation

Session 3A

Field Experiments II

Location: Room 344 ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)

Host: 20th Conference on Integrated Observing and Assimilation Systems for the Atmosphere, Oceans, and Land Surface (IOAS-AOLS)

Cochairs: James D. Doyle, NRL; Daniel J. Cecil, NASA/MSFC

4:00 PM

3A.1

An Overview of Mesoscale Convective System Observations During the Plains Elevated Convection at Night (PECAN) Field Campaign

Russ S. Schumacher, CSU, Ft. Collins, CO; and M. C. Coniglio, S. M. Hitchcock, M. D. Parker, C. Ziegler, and M. Biggerstaff

Recorded Presentation

4:15 PM

3A.2

Observational and Numerical Analysis of the 24–25 June 2015 Mesoscale Convective System During PECAN

Stacey M. Hitchcock, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO; and R. S. Schumacher

Recorded Presentation

4:30 PM

3A.3

Impacts by Deep Convection on the Surrounding Environment: Observations and Model Analyses

Christopher A. Kerr, CIMMS/Univ. of Oklahoma, Norman, OK; and D. J. Stensrud and X. Wang

Recorded Presentation

4:45 PM

3A.4

HAMSR Observations from Recent Field Campaigns

Bjorn H. Lambrigtsen, JPL/California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA; and S. Brown and M. Schreier

5:00 PM

3A.5

Atmospheric Surface Forcing Corrections Derived from assimilating Ocean Observations using the NCOM-4DVAR

Hans E. Ngodock, NRL, Stennis Space Center, MS; and S. R. Smith, M. J. Carrier, and I. Souopgui

Recorded Presentation

5:15 PM

3A.6

Aircraft Measurements of a Low-Level, Three-Layer Structure Offshore of Pt. Buchon, CA and the Possible Role of Kelvin-Helmholtz Instability

David A. Rahn, Univ. of Kansas, Lawrence, KS; and T. R. Parish and D. Leon

Recorded Presentation

Joint Session 4

Aerosol Nucleation, Growth, and Transformation (I)

Location: Room 231/232 ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)

Hosts: (Joint between the Mario J. Molina Symposium; and the 18th Conference on Atmospheric Chemistry )

Chair: Franz Geiger, Northwestern University

CoChair: Shan-Hu Lee, University of Alabama

4:00 PM

J4.1

Anthropogenic Control of Biogenic SOA: Salt Interactions of Water Soluble Oxygenated Hydrocarbons (Invited Presentation)

Rainer Volkamer, CIRES/Univ. of Colorado, Boulder, CO; and E. Waxman, T. Kurten, and J. Elm

Recorded Presentation

4:15 PM

J4.2

Formation of High-Altitude Ice Clouds: Ice Nucleation or Freezing?

Anatoli Bogdan, Helsinki, Finland; and M. J. Molina

Recorded Presentation

Handout (51.3 kB)

4:30 PM

J4.3

The Role of Coating-Surface Interactions in the Restructuring of Soot Nanoparticles

Alexei Khalizov, New Jersey Institute of Technology, Newark, NJ; and C. Chen and X. Fan

Recorded Presentation

4:45 PM

J4.4

Structure-Reactivity Analyses for Epoxide, Organosulfate, and Organonitrate Reactions Relevant to Secondary Organic Aerosol Composition

Matthew J. Elrod, Oberlin College, Oberlin, OH

Recorded Presentation

Handout (968.2 kB)

5:00 PM

J4.5

Isoprene Suppression of New Particle Formation: Potential Mechanisms and Atmospheric Implications (Invited Presentation)

Shan-Hu Lee, University of Alabama, Huntsville, AL

5:15 PM

J4.6

Growth of Freshly Nucleated Particles by Condensation of Low-Volatility Organics

Neil M. Donahue, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA; and W. Chuang, J. Troestl, and D. Worsnop

Joint Session 5

Soil Dust II: Lofting and Transport, Characterization, and Interactions with Clouds and Storms

Location: Room 357 ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)

Hosts: (Joint between the Eighth Symposium on Aerosol–Cloud–Climate Interactions; and the 18th Conference on Atmospheric Chemistry )

Chair: Ottmar Moehler, Institute of Technology

Cochairs: Paquita Zuidema, Univ. of Miami/RSMAS; Paola Formenti, Laboratoire Interuniversitaire des Systemes Atmospheriques

4:00 PM

J5.1

The Complexity and Cloud Formation Potential of Atmospheric Mineral Dust (Invited Presentation)

D. J. Cziczo, MIT, Cambridge, MA; and K. D. Froyd, S. Garimella, C. Christopoulos, and D. Murphy

Recorded Presentation

4:30 PM

J5.2

Response of Tropical Convection to the Presence of Saharan Dust over the Atlantic Ocean During Summer 2013

Lars Klueser, German Aerospace Center, Wessling, Germany; and T. Popp

Recorded Presentation

4:45 PM

J5.3

Ice in Clouds Experiment – Dust: a field campaign to study aerosol-cloud interactions

Richard J. Cotton, UK Met Office, Exeter, United Kingdom

Recorded Presentation

5:00 PM

J5.4

The Influence of Tropical Convection on the Evolution and Transport of the Saharan Air Layer

Cynthia H. Twohy, NorthWest Research Associates, Redmond, WA; and K. Sauter, T. L'Ecuyer, S. R. Herbener, S. C. van den Heever, B. E. Anderson, and R. Ferrare

5:15 PM

J5.5

Saharan Dust Processing and Transport by Atlantic Tropical Cyclones

Stephen R. Herbener, Colorado State Univ., Fort Collins, CO; and S. C. van den Heever, C. H. Twohy, S. M. Saleeby, and T. S. L'Ecuyer

Recorded Presentation

Joint Session 7

Joint Research and Coordinated Observations in Hydrometeorology, Extremes and High-Impact Events in the US and Asia Part 2

Location: Room 343 ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)

Hosts: (Joint between the Special Sessions on US-International Partnerships; and the 30th Conference on Hydrology )

Chair: Jin Huang, NOAA NCEP Climate Prediction Center

4:00 PM

J7.1

Droughts in the US and China - Occurrences and Mechanisms

Robert E. Dickinson, The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX; and R. Fu, B. Pu, and K. Wang

Recorded Presentation

4:30 PM

J7.2

How Realistic are Hydrometeorological Processes from Reanalysis? – Intercomparison of Multiple Reanalysis Products using in situ Observational Data (Invited talk)

Xubin Zeng, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ; and P. Broxton, M. Brunke, N. Dawson, J. Eyre, W. Lytle, S. Stillman, and A. Wang

Recorded Presentation

5:00 PM

J7.3

Effects of Climate Internal Variability on the Drought Characteristics over China and U.S

Aihui Wang, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China; and X. Zeng

Recorded Presentation

5:15 PM

J7.4

China Drought Meteorology Scientific Research Project

Yaohui Li, Institute of Arid Meteorology, China Meteorological Administration, Lanzhou, China

Recorded Presentation

Themed Joint Session 7

Research to Operations: Transitioning from Science to Service

Location: Room 355 ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)

Hosts: (Joint between the 32nd Conference on Environmental Information Processing Technologies; the Sixth Conference on Transition of Research to Operations; the 11th Symposium on Societal Applications: Policy, Research and Practice; and the AMS Board of Broadcast Meteorology )

Cochairs: John J. Pereira, NOAA/NESDIS; Scott Jacobs, NOAA/NWS/NCEP

4:00 PM

TJ7.1

• R2O Challenges Given Increasing Pace, Partners, Possibilities and Patrons

William Callahan, Earth Networks, Germantown, MD

Recorded Presentation

4:15 PM

TJ7.2

Global Model Test Bed: Fostering Community Involvement in NOAA's Next-Generation Global Prediction System

Ligia R. Bernardet, CIRES/Univ. of Colorado and NOAA/ESRL, Boulder, CO; and L. Nance and B. Kuo

Recorded Presentation

4:30 PM

TJ7.3

The Multiple-Radar / Multiple-Sensor Products: The First Year of NWS Operations

Gregory J. Stumpf, CIMMS/Univ. of Oklahoma and NOAA/NWS Meteorological Development Laboratory, Norman, OK; and D. M. Kingfield, J. G. LaDue, R. A. Prentice, S. B. Cocks, S. M. Martinaitis, T. C. Meyer, A. V. Bates, J. D. Hardy, C. S. Spannagle, M. J. Taraldsen, and A. C. Wood

Recorded Presentation

4:45 PM

TJ7.4

From CRREL to the 557th Weather Wing: Snow Assessments in Remote, Austere Watersheds

Steven F. Daly, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Hanover, NH; and T. A. Lewiston, E. Deeb, E. Ochs, B. F. Morriss, C. Vuyovich, S. Newman, and J. B. Eylander

Recorded Presentation

5:00 PM

TJ7.5

Using an Inland Extent Forecasting Tool to Support Future Experimentation with National Weather Service Lake-Effect Snow Warning/Advisory Polygons

Michael L. Jurewicz Sr., NOAA/NWS, Johnson City, NY; and J. Villani

Recorded Presentation

TJ7.6

Displaying NEXRAD Dual Pol Products on TV

Themed Joint Session 8

High Impact Weather: Analysis, Prediction, and Interaction with Climate Changes: Part 3

Location: Room 238/239 ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)

Chair: Richard D. Clark, Millersville University

4:00 PM

TJ8.1

Climate Change Effects on Wildland Fire Risk in the Northeastern United States and Great Lakes Region

Gaige Hunter Kerr, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD; and A. T. DeGaetano

Recorded Presentation

Handout (7.9 MB)

4:15 PM

TJ8.2

Examination of Land-falling Tropical Cyclones in an IPCC Extreme Climate Scenario

Justin G. McLay, NRL, Monterey, CA; and E. A. Hendricks and J. R. Moskaitis

Recorded Presentation

4:30 PM

TJ8.3

Observed and Projected Decrease in Extratropical Cyclone Activity in Northern Hemisphere Summer and Its Impacts on Extreme Weather

Edmund K. M. Chang, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY; and C. G. Ma

Recorded Presentation

4:45 PM

TJ8.4

Locations and Trends in US Midwest Urban-induced Heavy Rain Events

David A. R. Kristovich, ISWS/Prairie Research Institute/University of Illinois, Champaign, IL; and L. Bard and L. Stoecker

Recorded Presentation

5:00 PM

TJ8.5

Andrew Hoell, NOAA, Boulder, CO; and C. C. Funk, B. Lyon, M. Hoerling, and B. Liebmann

Recorded Presentation

TJ8.6

Variability of extremes in the 21st century as deduced from AIRS data

Themed Joint Session 9

Greenhouse Gas Emissions: Quantifying Uncertainties in Measurements and Models and Resultant Climate Impacts III

Location: Room 356 ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)

Cochairs: Abhishek Chatterjee, USRA; Sean Crowell, University of Oklahoma

4:00 PM

TJ9.1

Evaluation of a Computationally-Efficient CH₄-CO-OH (ECCOH) Module with Climate-Sensitive Wetland CH₄ Emissions Within the GEOS-5 Climate Model

James S. Wang, USRA, Greenbelt, MD; and B. Duncan, Y. F. Elshorbany, and S. A. Strode

Recorded Presentation

4:15 PM

TJ9.2

Understanding the Global Methane Budget: The Present and Future View Using Top-Down Approaches

Lori Bruhwiler, NOAA, Boulder, CO

Recorded Presentation

4:30 PM

TJ9.3

Evaluating the Influence of Stratospheric Variability on Methane Total Columns

Katherine M. Saad, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA; and P. O. Wennberg

4:45 PM

TJ9.4

Tracer-based Estimates of Transport Uncertainty from NASA's GEOS-5 AGCM: Implications for Inversion Flux Estimates (Invited Presentation)

Lesley Ott, NASA/GSFC, Greenbelt, MD; and A. Chatterjee and B. Weir

Recorded Presentation

5:00 PM

TJ9.5

Quantification of Transport Errors and their Impact in CO₂ Mixing Ratios with a WRF-Chem Physics-based Ensemble

Liza Ivelisse Diaz-Isaac, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA; and T. Lauvaux and K. Davis

5:15 PM

TJ9.6

Evaluating Local-scale CO₂ Meteorological Model Transport Uncertainty for the INFLUX Urban Campaign through the Use of Realistic Large Eddy Simulation

Brian Gaudet, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA; and T. Lauvaux, A. Deng, K. Davis, and D. Sarmiento

Recorded Presentation

5:00 PM-5:30 PM: Monday, 11 January 2016

Joint Session 9

Remote sensing applications in hydrology, Part I

Location: Room 240/241 ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)

Hosts: (Joint between the 30th Conference on Hydrology; and the 20th Conference on Integrated Observing and Assimilation Systems for the Atmosphere, Oceans, and Land Surface (IOAS-AOLS) )

Cochairs: John B. Eylander, US Army Corps of Engineers; Christopher Hain, University of Maryland

5:00 PM

Temporal Methods for Operational Filtering snow covered area mapping -- Blaine Morriss

Recorded Presentation

5:15 PM

J9.1

Defining Surface Land Cover Features Using High Resolution Imagery from Unmanned Aerial Systems

Christopher M. Zarzar, Mississippi State University, Mississippi State, MS; and P. Dash, J. Dyer, G. Turnage, and R. J. Moorhead II

Recorded Presentation

J9.2

High resolution longwave radiation from the geostationary satellite imager IR channels

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)

7:00 PM-8:00 PM: Monday, 11 January 2016

Town Hall Meeting: NWS Model Development Forum

Location: Room 240/241 ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)

Host: Town Hall Meetings

7:00 PM

NWS Model Plans -- Hendrik Tolman

7:00 PM

UMAC Report -- Fred Carr

7:00 PM-9:00 PM: Monday, 11 January 2016

Town Hall Meeting: Weather, Climate, Water and the New Energy Economy – Integrating and Operationalizing Renewable Energy Forecasts

Location: Room 346/347 ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)

Hosts: (Joint between the Town Hall Meetings; and the Seventh Conference on Weather, Climate, Water and the New Energy Economy )

Moderator: Matthew J. Parker, Savannah River National Laboratory

Panelists: Sue E. Haupt, NCAR; John Zack, AWS Truepower; Nick Keener, Duke Energy; Lidija Sekaric , DOE

7:00 PM

Introduction - Matt Parker

Recorded Presentation

7:00 PM

Presentation 1 - Nick Keener

Recorded Presentation

7:00 PM

Presentation 2 - Lidija Sekaric

Recorded Presentation

7:00 PM

Presentation 3 - John Zack

Recorded Presentation

7:00 PM

Presentation 4 - Sue Haupt

Recorded Presentation

7:15 PM-10:00 PM: Monday, 11 January 2016

23|5 Talks: The ‘Wow’ of Weather, Water, and Climate

Location: New Orleans Theater ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)

Tuesday, 12 January 2016

7:00 AM-8:15 AM: Tuesday, 12 January 2016

Town Hall Meeting: NOAA Space Platform Requirements Working Group (SPRWG)

Location: Room 252/254 ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)

Host: Town Hall Meetings

7:00 AM

Presentation 1 - Steve Volz

Recorded Presentation

7:40 AM-8:00 AM: Tuesday, 12 January 2016

Soil Dust III: Lofting and Transport, Characterization, and Interactions with Clouds and Storms

Location: Room 348/349 ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)

8:00 AM-8:30 AM: Tuesday, 12 January 2016

Local AMS Chapter Town Hall

Location: Room 238/239 ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)

Host: Town Hall Meetings

8:00 AM-9:45 AM: Tuesday, 12 January 2016

Session 3

AI Techniques for Decision Support

Location: Room 354 ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)

Host: 14th Conference on Artificial and Computational Intelligence and its Applications to the Environmental Sciences

Chair: Haig Iskendarian, MIT Lincoln Laboratory

8:00 AM

3.1

A Runway Decision Support System to Improve Airport Maintenance during Adverse Winter Weather

Seth Linden, NCAR, Boulder, CO

Recorded Presentation

8:15 AM

3.2

Predicting Weather Impact on Airspace Flow Using Multiple Forecasts

Mark S. Veillette, MIT Lincoln Laboratory, Lexington, MA; and M. Matthews, H. Iskenderian, and R. DeLaura

Recorded Presentation

8:30 AM

3.3

The Optimal Meteorological Forecast System Project at Meteorological Services of Canada

Donald Talbot, EC, Dorval, QC, Canada; and C. Landry, J. Marcoux, M. Nadeau, and M. Verville

Recorded Presentation

8:45 AM

3.4

Severe Hail Forecasting Evaluation: Machine Learning and Severe Weather Proxy Variables

David John Gagne II, CAPS/Univ. of Oklahoma, Norman, OK; and A. McGovern, N. Snook, R. A. Sobash, J. K. Williams, S. E. Haupt, and M. Xue

Recorded Presentation

Handout (7.4 MB)

9:00 AM

3.5

Real-time Prediction of Damaging Straight-line Winds Produced by Thunderstorms

Ryan A. Lagerquist, University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK; and A. McGovern, V. Lakshmanan, and T. M. Smith

Recorded Presentation

9:15 AM

3.6

Using Machine Learning for Nowcasting Severe Weather Hazards

Amy McGovern, Univ. of Oklahoma, Norman, OK; and C. D. Karstens, T. M. Smith, and K. M. Kuhlman

Recorded Presentation

9:30 AM

3.7

On Learning Patterns Between GPS Derived Precipitable water fields and Radar Reflectivity Fields

Aditya Nagarajan, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA; and D. L. Pepyne

Recorded Presentation

8:00 AM-6:00 PM: Tuesday, 12 January 2016

Poster Hall Open

Location: Hall D/E ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)

8:30 AM-9:30 AM: Tuesday, 12 January 2016

Session 4

Air Pollution and Atmospheric Chemistry

Location: Room 243 ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)

Host: 19th Joint Conference on the Applications of Air Pollution Meteorology with the A&WMA

Chair: Jonathan E. Pleim, EPA

8:30 AM

4.1

MULTI-DAY LIDAR OBSERVATIONS DURING A SUMMERTIME WILDFIRE AND OZONE ENHANCEMENT EPISODE

John T. Sullivan, NASA/GSFC, Greenbelt, MD; and T. J. McGee, R. Delgado, J. Dressen, B. B. Demoz, G. Sumnicht, L. Twigg, and D. Hoang

Recorded Presentation

8:45 AM

4.2

Recent Advances in Modeling of the Atmospheric Boundary Layer for Air Quality Modeling

Jonathan E. Pleim, EPA, Research Triangle Park, NC; and H. Foroutan, R. Gilliam, W. Appel, and L. Ran

Recorded Presentation

9:00 AM

4.3

Seasonal Variation in Contribution of Local Anthropogenic Emissions vs Long-Range Transport in Urban Environment

Tabish Umar Ansari, IIT Madras, Chennai, India; and C. Radhakrishnan, R. Mittal, and G. Thomas

9:15 AM

4.4

Summertime Response of Air Emissions to Ambient Temperature in the Eastern United States Over the Years 2005-2013

Ryan M. Kladar, NOAA, Boulder, CO; and T. Holloway and M. K. Harkey

Recorded Presentation

8:30 AM-9:45 AM: Tuesday, 12 January 2016

Session 1

Global Events in 2015

Location: Room 338/339 ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)

Host: IMPACTS: Major Weather Events and Impacts of 2015

Cochairs: Klaus E. Wolter, ESRL/Univ of Colorado-CIRES; Tanja Fransen, NOAA/NWS

8:30 AM

1.1

Global Weather and Climate Extremes of 2015

Klaus Wolter, CIRES/Univ. of Colorado, Boulder, CO

Recorded Presentation

9:00 AM

1.2

The 2015 El Niño: A Communication Challenge

Thomas Di Liberto, NOAA/NWS/NCEP/CPC - Innovim, College Park, MD; and M. L'Heureux, A. G. Barnston, and E. J. Becker

Recorded Presentation

9:15 AM

1.3

January 2015 Malawi Floods from a Remote Sensing Perspective

Andrew Kruczkiewicz, IRI/Red Cross Red Crescent Climate Centre, Palisades, NY; and H. Cen, B. Moneymaker, J. Lessel, R. Kufandiko, J. Pagona, E. Coughlan de Perez, A. Sweeney, K. Ndungu, and P. Ceccato

Recorded Presentation

9:30 AM

1.4

Reality of Resilience

Roop K. Singh, Red Cross Red Crescent Climate Centre, New York, NY

Recorded Presentation Manuscript (51.2 kB)

Workshop Session 2

Brief Python Tutorials Workshop, Part II

Location: Room 225 ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)

Host: Sixth Symposium on Advances in Modeling and Analysis Using Python

Lecturers: Scott Collis, ANL; Hannah Aizenman, City College of New York; Ryan M. May, UCAR/Unidata

8:30 AM

Using GitHub

9:00 AM

Profiling

9:15 AM

Remote Data Access using Netcdf4-Python and Siphon

Session 2

Hydrometeorological Extremes, Part II

Location: Room 242 ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)

Host: 30th Conference on Hydrology

Chair: John N. McHenry, Baron Advanced Meteorological Systems, LLC

8:30 AM

2.1

Improvement of the Optimal Blended NLDAS Drought Index (OBNDI) by Incorporating USGS Runoff Percentile and NCEI Operational Drought Indices

Youlong Xia, IMSG at EMC/NCEP, College Park, MD; and M. B. Ek, K. Mitchell, M. J. Brewer, C. D. Peters-Lidard, and D. M. Mocko

Recorded Presentation

8:45 AM

2.2

Environment Canada's hydrological forecasting system

Dorothy A. Durnford, EC, Dorval, QC, Canada; and V. Fortin, E. Gaborit, and N. Alavi

Recorded Presentation

9:00 AM

2.3

The Climatology of Flooding in the US

Shane Hubbard, CIMSS/Univ. of Wisconsin, Madison, WI

Recorded Presentation

9:15 AM

2.4

Progress in predicting May‒July (MJJ) seasonal rainfall over the south central US: implications for improving summer drought preparedness in Texas

D. Nelun Fernando, Texas Water Development Board, Austin, TX; and R. S. Solis, R. Fu, and R. E. Mace

Recorded Presentation

9:30 AM

2.5

Atmospheric Contributors to Heavy Rainfall Events in the Arkansas-Red River Basin

Taylor McCorkle, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT; and S. S. Williams, J. B. Basara, and T. A. Pfeiffer

Recorded Presentation

Session 2

Impacts of Aerosol-cloud Interactions on Radiation I

Location: Room 357 ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)

Host: Eighth Symposium on Aerosol–Cloud–Climate Interactions

Chair: Jun Wang, University of Iowa

CoChair: Zhibo Zhang, University of Maryland

8:30 AM

2.1

Measurement-Based Estimates of Direct Radiative Effects of Absorbing Aerosols above Low-level Clouds

Nan Feng, Univ. of Alabama, Huntsville, AL; and S. Christopher

Recorded Presentation

8:45 AM

2.2

Semi-direct Effects of Aerosols on Low Clouds: Mechanisms for Climate Cooling by Black Carbon Aerosols (Invited Presentation)

Eric M. Wilcox, DRI, Reno, NV

Recorded Presentation

9:00 AM

2.3

Decadal Trend of Aerosol and Cloud Properties over the Western North Atlantic Ocean: Any Connection?

Andrew Jongeward, University of Maryland, College Park, MD; and Z. Li

Recorded Presentation

9:15 AM

2.4

Using High-resolution Airborne Remote Sensing to Quantify Aerosol near Clouds

Robert Levy, NASA/GSFC, Greenbelt, MD; and L. Munchak and S. Mattoo

Recorded Presentation

9:30 AM

2.5

The Updated Effective Radiative Forcing of Major Anthropogenic Aerosols and Their Effects on Global Climate at Present and in the Future

Hua Zhang, National Climate Center/China Meteorological Administration, Beijing, China; and S. Zhao and Z. Wang

Recorded Presentation

Session 2

Program Overviews and Status for New Operational Environmental Systems (Invited)

Location: Room 252/254 ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)

Host: 12th Annual Symposium on New Generation Operational Environmental Satellite Systems

Cochairs: Wanda Harding, NOAA/NESDIS/JPSS; Steven J. Goodman, NOAA/NESDIS/GOES-R

8:30 AM

2.1

NESDIS: First Year Perspective (Invited Presentation)

Stephen M. Volz, NOAA/NESDIS, Silver Spring, MD

Recorded Presentation

8:45 AM

2.2

GOES-R: Program Overview and Status (Invited Presentation)

Michael Stringer, NOAA/NESDIS, Greenbelt, MD

Recorded Presentation

9:00 AM

2.3

Joint Polar Satellite System: the United States next Generation Civilian Polar Orbiting Environmental Satellite System (Invited Presentation)

Harry Cikanek, JPSS, Lanham, MD; and M. Goldberg and A. Mehta

Recorded Presentation

9:15 AM

2.4

Status of EUMETSAT Satellite Programs: Towards the Next Generation Meteorological Satellites (Invited Presentation)

Kenneth Holmlund, EUMETSAT, Darmstadt, Germany; and P. Schlüssel, R. Stuhlmann, L. Schüller, J. Schmetz, M. Cohen, S. Rota, and K. D. Klaes

Recorded Presentation

Handout (8.4 MB)

9:30 AM

2.5

Advanced Performance of Himawari-8 Onboard Imager AHI (Invited Presentation)

Toshiyuki Kurino, Japan Meteorological Agency, Chiyoda, Tokyo, Japan

Recorded Presentation

Session 3

Arctic Circulation and Sea-Ice Variability and Trends

Location: La Nouvelle C ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)

Host: 28th Conference on Climate Variability and Change

Chair: R. Saravanan, Texas A&M University

8:30 AM

3.1

Contrasting the Impact of Arctic and Antarctic Stratospheric Sudden Warmings

Jeffrey Fitzgerald Sr., University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT; and T. Reichler

Recorded Presentation

8:45 AM

3.2

Covariance Between Atmospheric State Regimes, Arctic Low Clouds, and Sea Ice in Observations and Climate Models

Patrick C. Taylor, NASA, Hampton, VA; and S. Kato, K. M. Xu, and M. Cai

Recorded Presentation

9:00 AM

3.3

Influences of Atmospheric Eddies on the Initial Melt of Arctic Sea Ice: The Role of Cloud Fraction Anomalies and Poleward Heat Transport by High- and Low-Frequency Atmospheric Eddies

Bradley M. Hegyi, NASA, Hampton, VA; and Y. Deng and P. C. Taylor

Recorded Presentation

3.4

Extreme Moisture Transport into the Arctic and Its Effect on Sea-Ice Concentration

9:30 AM

3.5

The Impact of Multidecadal NAO Variations on Atlantic Ocean Heat Transport and Rapid Changes in Arctic Sea Ice in the 20th and Early 21st Centuries

Thomas L. Delworth, NOAA/GFDL, Princeton, NJ; and F. Zeng

Recorded Presentation

Joint Session 3

Data Assimilation: Operational Advancements I

Location: Room 345 ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)

Hosts: (Joint between the 20th Conference on Integrated Observing and Assimilation Systems for the Atmosphere, Oceans, and Land Surface (IOAS-AOLS); and the Sixth Conference on Transition of Research to Operations )

Chair: Jeffrey S. Whitaker, NOAA/ESRL/Physical Sciences Division

8:30 AM

J3.1

A 4D-Ensemble-Variational System for Data Assimilation and Ensemble Initialization

Neill Bowler, Met Office, Exeter, United Kingdom; and A. Clayton, M. Jardak, P. Jermey, A. Lorenc, C. Piccolo, S. Pring, M. Wlasak, D. Barker, G. Inverarity, and R. Swinbank

Recorded Presentation

8:45 AM

J3.2

Operational Uses of AIRS Data

Eric J. Fetzer, JPL, Pasadena, CA; and S. E. Ray, B. H. Lambrigtsen, T. S. Pagano, and J. Teixeira

9:00 AM

J3.3

Title: Implementation Plans of Hybrid 4D EnVar for the NCEP GFS and Future Directions

Rahul Mahajan, EMC, College Park, MD; and D. T. Kleist, C. Thomas, J. C. Derber, and R. Treadon

Recorded Presentation

9:15 AM

J3.4

Outer Loops and Scale-Dependence in the NCEP GDAS Hybrid 4D EnVar Assimilation Scheme

Daryl T. Kleist, University of Maryland, College Park, MD; and R. B. Mahajan, C. Thomas, and J. C. Derber

Recorded Presentation

9:30 AM

J3.5

A Coupled Global/Regional Data Assimilation System

Michael A. Herrera, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX; and C. Bishop, T. R. Holt, K. W. Hoppel, D. D. Kuhl, S. Rainwater, I. Szunyogh, Q. Zhao, and A. Brainard

Recorded Presentation

Joint Session 3

Integrative Approaches to Understanding Extreme Temperature Risk I

Location: Room 228/229 ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)

Hosts: (Joint between the Seventh Conference on Environment and Health; and the 11th Symposium on Societal Applications: Policy, Research and Practice )

Chair: Kim Knowlton, Natural Resources Defense Council

8:30 AM

J3.1

Turning up the Heat on Parents and Caregivers: Risk Perceptions of Forgetting a Child in a Hot Car

Castle Adam Williams, University of Georgia, Athens, GA; and A. J. Grundstein

Recorded Presentation

8:45 AM

J3.2

Are Bounce Houses too Hot?

J. Marshall Shepherd, Univ. of Georgia, Athens, GA; and A. Grundstein and J. A. Knox

Recorded Presentation

9:00 AM

J3.3

Indoor Heat Exposure: Links to Weather and Housing Characteristics

Darryn W. Waugh, Johns Hopkins Univ., Baltimore, MD; and M. McCormack, A. A. Scott, B. F. Zaitchik, Z. He, and R. Peng

Recorded Presentation

9:15 AM

J3.4

Adaptation Measures to Extreme Heat Events and their Effects on Sleep Quality and Health Among Senior Residents of Affordable Housing

Augusta Williams, Harvard University, Boston, MA; and A. K. Hard, S. Flanigan, A. Hem, J. D. Spengler, and J. G. Cedeno-Laurent

Recorded Presentation

Session 3

Risk Perception and Communication

Location: Room 333-334 ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)

Host: 11th Symposium on Societal Applications: Policy, Research and Practice

Chair: Susan A. Jasko, California Univ. of Pennsylvania

3.1

‘Deaf Ears': Why Good Communication Can Still Result in Bad Decision-Making

8:30 AM

3.1A

Effective Messaging for Public Tsunami Warnings: Clarity, Specificity, and Sensemaking

Jeannette Sutton, University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY; and M. M. Wood and C. W. Woods

8:45 AM

3.2

The Proof Is in the Picture: Exploring the Influence of Visual Type on Hurricane Risk Perception

Gina M. Eosco, Eastern Reseach Group, Arlington, VA; and L. Rickard and C. Scherer

Recorded Presentation

9:00 AM

3.3

Exploring the Role of Conflicting Information on Severe Weather Risk Perception

Mark A. Casteel, Penn State Univ. York, York, PA

Recorded Presentation

9:15 AM

3.4

Place Attachment and Tornado Risk Perception in the Oklahoma City Metro Area

Kimberly E. Klockow, NOAA, Silver Spring, MD; and R. A. Peppler and A. Goodin

Recorded Presentation

9:30 AM

3.5

Evaluating the Effectiveness of a Tornado Watch Scale Using Uncertainty

Jason C. Senkbeil, University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, AL; and L. Myers and J. B. Mason

Recorded Presentation

Session 3

Solar and Wind Forecasting: Energy Application

Location: Room 346/347 ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)

Host: Seventh Conference on Weather, Climate, Water and the New Energy Economy

Chair: Andrew Clifton, National Renewable Energy Laboratory

8:30 AM

3.1

Case Studies of Solar Irradiance Forecast Outlier Events for Regional Area of Photovoltaic Power Forecasts

Hideaki Ohtake, National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology, Tsukuba, Ibaraki, Japan; and F. Uno, T. Takashima, T. Oozeki, J. Gari da Silva Fonseca Jr., and Y. Yamada

8:45 AM

3.2

The Variability and Intermittency of Wind and Solar Power Can Be Overcome Without Storage By Using the National Energy With Weather System (NEWS) Simulator To Design A National US Electric Sector

Christopher T. Clack, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO; and A. MacDonald, P. D. Picciano, J. Paine, L. M. Terry, and M. Marquis

Recorded Presentation

Handout (26.5 MB)

9:00 AM

3.3

Availability and Variability of Potential PV Solar and Wind Power Production in Oklahoma

Keith A. Brewster, University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK; and S. Degelia

Recorded Presentation Manuscript (669.8 kB)

9:15 AM

3.4

Lidar Measurements of Wind Flow over Complex Terrain

Yelena Pichugina, Colorado Univ./NOAA, Boulder, CO; and A. Brewer, R. M. Banta, A. Choukulkar, J. Olson, M. Marquis, J. M. Wilczak, A. M. Weickmann, S. P. Sandberg, T. A. Bonin, R. M. Hardesty, and J. W. Cline

Recorded Presentation

9:30 AM

3.5

Evaluation of 2-D and 3-D Wind Retrievals from Single and Multiple Doppler Lidars during the XPIA Field Campaign

Aditya Choukulkar, Colorado Univ./NOAA/ESRL/CSD, Boulder, CO; and A. Brewer, S. P. Sandberg, A. M. Weickmann, Y. Pichugina, R. M. Banta, T. A. Bonin, J. K. Lundquist, J. C. Y. Lee, P. T. Quelet, R. Delgado, A. St Pe, G. V. Iungo, R. Ashton, M. Debnath, B. Kosovic, S. P. Oncley, and D. Wolfe

Recorded Presentation

Session 4

Addressing Broader Impacts: Lessons Learned from recent NSF-CAREER Awards

Location: Room 353 ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)

Host: 25th Symposium on Education

Cochairs: Manda Adams, Univ. of North Carolina; Donna J. Charlevoix, UNAVCO

8:30 AM

4.1

CAREER: The Faculty Early Career Development Program

Amanda Adams, NSF, Arlington, VA; and L. Avallone

Recorded Presentation

8:45 AM

4.2

A Flipped-Class Model for Integrating Meteorology into Middle School Science Curriculum

Eric R. Snodgrass, Univ. of Illinois, Urbana, IL; and N. Riemer

Recorded Presentation

9:00 AM

4.3

Inspiring Middle School Girls and Empowering Graduate Students: Two CAREER Education Initiatives at the University of Hawai'i

Jennifer D. Small Griswold, University of Hawaii, Honolulu, HI

Recorded Presentation

9:15 AM

4.4

Teaching Climate Change from a Climate Justice Perspective in Harlem

Evelyn Roman-Lazen, Frederick Douglass Academy, New York, NY; and A. Giannini

Recorded Presentation

9:30 AM

4.5

Building a Network of "Multi-lingual" Early-career Researchers and Practitioners in the SPREAD Workshop

Russ S. Schumacher, CSU, Ft. Collins, CO

Recorded Presentation

Session 4

Advances in Space Weather Observations

Location: Room 352 ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)

Host: 13th Conference on Space Weather

Chair: W. Dean Pesnell, NASA

8:30 AM

4.1

A new Life for the High frequency Active Auroral Research Program (HAARP)

Robert P. McCoy, Univ. of Alaska, Fairbanks, AK

Recorded Presentation

8:45 AM

4.2

The Deep Space Climate Observatory (DSCOVR)

Richard E. Ullman, NOAA, Silver Spring, MD; and N. M. Simpson

Recorded Presentation

9:00 AM

4.3

Global-scale Observations of the Limb and Disk (GOLD) Mission – Observing Forcing of the Thermosphere-Ionosphere System from Above and Below

Alan Burns, NCAR, Boulder, CO; and R. W. Eastes, W. McClintock, D. N. Anderson, L. Andersson, M. V. Codrescu, R. E. Daniell, S. L. England, A. Krywonos, A. D. Richmond, D. W. Rusch, S. C. Solomon, O. H. Siegmund, and T. N. Woods

Recorded Presentation

9:15 AM

4.4

The NASA Ionospheric Connection Explorer: Observing the key drivers of variability in our space environment

Thomas J. Immel, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, CA; and S. England, S. Mende, O. Siegmund, H. U. Frey, D. E. Rowland, R. A. Heelis, R. Stoneback, C. R. Englert, E. Korpela, J. Edelstein, J. Huba, A. Stephan, J. M. Harlander, K. Marr, G. Crowley, A. Maute, J. M. Forbes, G. S. Bust, E. Talaat, J. Klenzing, F. Kamalabadi, B. Harding, J. Makela, B. Hubert, J. C. Gerard, A. Saito, C. E. Valladares, D. L. Hysell, S. Frey, M. Bester, and G. R. Swenson

Recorded Presentation

9:30 AM

4.5

RAMS: A Miniature Ram Angle and Magnetic Field Sensor Pre-Flight Calibration Results

Andrew Nicholas, NRL, Washington, DC; and F. A. Herrero, T. Finne, I. Galysh, and N. Creamer

Session 4

Drought Monitoring, Prediction, and Impacts, Part 1

Location: Room 245 ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)

Host: 22nd Conference on Applied Climatology

Chair: Mark D. Svoboda, National Drought Mitigation Center

8:30 AM

4.1

From Too Much to Too Little: A State-by-state Assessment of the 2012 Central U.S. Drought

Natalie A. Umphlett, University of Nebraska, Lincoln, NE; and B. Fuchs

Recorded Presentation

8:45 AM

4.2

A Drought Early Warning System for the Pacific Northwest

Kathie D. Dello, Oregon State Univ., Corvallis, OR; and A. Marrs

9:00 AM

4.3

Using NOAA CDRs and Satellite Data to Connect Phases of the El Niño Southern Oscillation (ENSO) with Precipitation across Hawaii and the U.S. Affiliated Pacific Islands (USAPI)

Nicholas T. Luchetti, DEVELOP National Program, Asheville, NC; and J. Sutton and E. Wright

Recorded Presentation

9:15 AM

4.4

Monitoring Rainfall Trends and Extremes in South Sudan and Sudan Using Daily Station and Satellite Rainfall Data for 1983-2013

Andreas H. Fink, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Karlsruhe, Germany; and N. Elagib, T. Engel, and L. Seregina

Recorded Presentation

9:30 AM

4.5

Monitoring Drought with a National Soil Monitoring Network

Jesse Eugene Bell, CICS/North Carolina State University, Asheville, NC

Recorded Presentation

Session 4

Ensemble Forecasting – Part 1

Location: Room 226/227 ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)

Host: 23rd Conference on Probability and Statistics in the Atmospheric Sciences

Chair: Michael Scheuerer, NOAA/ESRL

8:30 AM

4.1

Accounting for Model Uncertainties with Stochastic Forcing and the Impact on Ensemble Performance

Mozheng Wei, NRL, Stennis Space Center, MS; and P. Martin, P. Haley Jr., P. F. J. Lermusiaux, C. Barron, C. Rowley, and G. Jacobs

Recorded Presentation

8:45 AM

4.2

Inducing Tropical Cyclones to Undergo Brownian Motion

Daniel Hodyss, NRL, Monterey, CA; and J. G. McLay, J. Moskaitis, and E. Serra

Recorded Presentation

9:00 AM

4.3

Investigating the Performance of Multi-Model Ensemble Prediction Systems

Elizabeth A. Satterfield, NRL, Monterey, CA; and W. F. Campbell and C. H. Bishop

Recorded Presentation

9:15 AM

4.4

Use of Path Clustering of a Multi-model Ensemble to Diagnose Causes of Differences in the Motion of Hurricane Sandy

Jenni L. Evans, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA; and A. Kowaleski

Recorded Presentation

9:30 AM

4.5

Gridded Probabilistic Forecasts of Weather Parameters with an Analog Ensemble

Simone Sperati, Ricerca Sistema Energetico, Milan, Italy; and S. Alessandrini, L. Delle Monache, G. Cervone, L. Harding, and S. E. Haupt

Recorded Presentation

Session 4

Evolving the Warning Paradigm to Better Inform Individuals

Location: Room 255/257 ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)

Host: Fourth Symposium on Building a Weather-Ready Nation: Enhancing Our Nation’s Readiness, Responsiveness, and Resilience to High Impact Weather Events

Cochairs: Jennifer Sprague, NOAA/NWS; Lanz Rothfusz, NSSL

8:30 AM

4.1

Forecasting a Continuum of Environmental Threats (FACETs): Progress on Accelerating a Proposed High-Impact Weather Forecasting Paradigm to Operations

Lans P. Rothfusz, NOAA, Norman, OK; and R. S. Schneider, D. R. Novak, and T. L. Hansen

Recorded Presentation

8:45 AM

4.2

Forecaster Decision-Making with Automated Probabilistic Guidance in the 2015 Hazardous Weather Testbed Probabilistic Hazard Information Experiment

Christopher D. Karstens, CIMMS/Univ. of Oklahoma, Norman, OK; and G. J. Stumpf, C. Ling, D. M. Kingfield, J. Correia Jr., D. LaDue, K. M. Kuhlman, T. C. Meyer, T. M. Smith, J. L. Cintineo, C. J. Melick, and L. P. Rothfusz

Recorded Presentation

9:00 AM

4.3

The Multi-Year Reanalysis of Remotely Sensed Storms: A CONUS-wide, Multi-Radar, Multi-Sensor Climatological Database for Severe Weather Hazards

Kiel L. Ortega, OU/CIMMS and NOAA/OAR/NSSL, Norman, OK; and T. M. Smith

Recorded Presentation

9:15 AM

4.4

The NWS Hazard Simplification Project: An Update on the Effort to Improve NWS Hazard Messaging

Eli Jacks, NOAA/NWS Forecast Services Division, Silver Spring, MD; and G. M. Eosco, A. Horvitz, M. Bilder, J. Sprague, and L. Girardi

Recorded Presentation

9:30 AM

4.5

Meteotsunamis: Working Toward an Operational Forecasting Capability

Michael Angove, NOAA, Silver Spring, MD; and P. Whitmore

Recorded Presentation

Handout (1020.7 kB)

Session 4

Unmanned Aerial Vehicles for Atmospheric Research II

Location: Room 350/351 ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)

Host: 18th Symposium on Meteorological Observation and Instrumentation

Chair: Edward Dumas, NOAA

8:30 AM

4.1

CLOUD-MAP: Advancing Meteorology and Atmospheric Physics Through Unmanned Aerial Systems

Phillip B. Chilson, Univ. of Oklahoma, Norman, OK; and J. Jacob, S. Smith, and A. L. Houston

Recorded Presentation

8:45 AM

4.2

UAV Platform for In-Situ Boundary Layer Wind Measurements

Suzanna Diener, Northrop Grumman, Boulder, CO; and N. Keyek-Franssen, G. Davis, K. Corkey, D. Corona, R. E. Lacy, J. Schenderlein, R. Sloss, D. Smith, and D. Gerren

9:00 AM

4.3

The ASAPS Observing System for Unmanned Aerial Vehicles

Brian D. Griffith, PEMDAS Technologies & Innovations, Monument, CO; and M. L. Gauthier

9:15 AM

4.4

Small UAS for Atmospheric Surface Layer Measurements

Kevin D. Jones, NPS, Monterey, CA; and Q. Wang, R. T. Yamaguchi, and R. J. Lind

Recorded Presentation

9:30 AM

4.5

Turbulence Measurements with the Controlled Towed Vehicle in the Marine Surface Layer Under Ducting Conditions

Djamal Khelif, University of California, Irvine, CA; and J. Barge, R. T. Yamaguchi, H. Jonsson, and Q. Wang

Session 4

Visualization Techniques for Climatology and Meteorology

Location: Room 348/349 ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)

Host: 32nd Conference on Environmental Information Processing Technologies

Cochairs: Kathrin Häb, University of Kaiserslautern; Nazila Merati, Merati and Associates

8:30 AM

4.1

Visualize the high resolution model output with 3-D Adaptive Resolution feature in the IDV

Yuan Ho, UCAR, Boulder, CO

Recorded Presentation

8:45 AM

4.2

Analysis and visualization of multi-dimensional atmospheric data using Pareto sets

Lars Hüttenberger, University of Kaiserslautern, Kaiserslautern, RLP, Germany; and K. Häb, H. Hagen, and C. Garth

Recorded Presentation

9:00 AM

4.3

A new visualization system for displaying NOAA weather data

Timothy Murphy, NOAA, Silver Spring, MD; and D. P. Pisut

Recorded Presentation

9:15 AM

4.4

Novel Cyberinfrastructure Systems for Scientific Visualization of Large-Scale Radar and Satellite Data on the Web

Ibrahim Demir, University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA; and W. F. Krajewski

Recorded Presentation

9:30 AM

4.5

Using McIDAS-V with the next Generation of Satellite Sensors

Joleen M. Feltz, CIMSS/Univ. of Wisconsin, Madison, WI; and M. M. Gunshor, R. M. Rabin, and T. J. Schmit

Joint Session 6

Location: Room 356 ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)

Hosts: (Joint between the Eighth Symposium on Aerosol–Cloud–Climate Interactions; and the 18th Conference on Atmospheric Chemistry )

Chair: Ottmar Moehler, Institute of Technology

Cochairs: Paquita Zuidema, Univ. of Miami/RSMAS; Paola Formenti, Laboratoire Interuniversitaire des Systemes Atmospheriques

8:30 AM

J6.1

Regional Modeling of Saharan Dust Aerosol (Invited Presentation)

Ina Tegen, Leibniz-Institute for Tropospheric Research, Leipzig, Germany; and B. Heinold and K. Schepanski

Recorded Presentation

9:00 AM

J6.2

Identification and Characterization of Dust Source Regions Across North Africa and the Middle East Using MISR Satellite Observations

Olga V. Kalashnikova, JPL, Pasadena, CA; and M. Garay, Y. Yu, and M. Notaro

Recorded Presentation

9:15 AM

J6.3

The Global Atmospheric Loading of Dust Aerosols

Jasper F. Kok, University of California, Los Angeles, CA; and D. A. Ridley, K. Haustein, R. L. Miller, and C. Zhao

Recorded Presentation

9:30 AM

J6.4

Global and Regional Dust Forecasting

Adrien Deroubaix, NOAA, Princeton, NJ; and P. Ginoux and C. Pérez

Recorded Presentation

Joint Session 7

Aerosol Nucleation, Growth, and Transformation (II)

Location: Room 343 ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)

Hosts: (Joint between the Mario J. Molina Symposium; and the 18th Conference on Atmospheric Chemistry )

Cochairs: Alexei Khalizov, New Jersey Institute of Technology; Rainer Volkamer, CIRES/Univ. of Colorado

8:30 AM

J7.1

A Multi Isotope Approach to Understanding Aerosol Formation, Transformation and Climate: From 3.8 Billion Years Ago to Present. Earth and Mars (Invited Keynote Presentation)

Mark Thiemens, University California, La Jolla, CA

Recorded Presentation

8:45 AM

J7.2

Chemical Reactivity and Non-Liquid/Liquid States of Secondary Organic Material (Invited Presentation)

Scot T. Martin, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA; and Y. J. Li, A. K. Bertram, P. Liu, Z. Gong, Y. Wang, A. P. Bateman, and C. Bergoend

9:00 AM

J7.3

Contributions of Amines and Highly Oxidized Organics to New Particle Formation in the Atmosphere: Global Simulations and Implications

Fangqun Yu, SUNY, Albany, NY; and G. Luo

9:15 AM

J7.4

Henry's Law Constant of Atmospheric Amines and their Dependence on Temperature, pH, and Ionic Strength

Yong Liu, University of Colorado, Denver, CO; and C. Leng and J. Roberts

Recorded Presentation

9:30 AM

J7.5

Size-Resolved Measurements of Ice Nucleating Particles at Six Locations in North American and One in Europe

Ryan H. Mason, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada; and M. Si, C. Chou, V. Irish, R. Dickie, P. Elizondo, R. Wong, M. Brintnell, M. Elsasser, W. Lassar, K. Pierce, K. Suski, J. P. D. Abbatt, P. J. DeMott, T. C. J. Hill, J. A. Huffman, W. R. Leaitch, A. M. Macdonald, A. Platt, R. Sarda-Estève, C. L. Schiller, D. Toom-Sauntry, and A. K. Bertram

Recorded Presentation

Joint Session 7

Special Symposium on Hurricane Katrina

Location: Room 344 ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)

Hosts: (Joint between the Special Symposium on Hurricane Katrina: Progress in Leveraging Science, Enhancing Response and Improving Resilience; the 14th Symposium on the Coastal Environment; the Fourth Symposium on Building a Weather-Ready Nation: Enhancing Our Nation’s Readiness, Responsiveness, and Resilience to High Impact Weather Events; the AMS Committee on Tropical Meteorology and Tropical Cyclones; and the AMS Committee on Weather Analysis and Forecasting )

Cochairs: Kenneth Carey, Earth Resources Technology (ERT), Inc.; Patrick A. Harr, NSF

8:30 AM

Panel

8:45 AM

Joint Session 7 - Special Symposium on Hurricane Katrina

Recorded Presentation

9:00 AM

Opening Remarks by AMS President Sandy MacDonald

9:15 AM

Keynote Presentation by Former National Hurricane Center Director Max Mayfield

9:45 AM

Keynote Presentation by Federal Emergency Management Agency Director Craig Fugate

Themed Joint Session 10

High Impact Weather: Analysis, Prediction, and Interaction with Climate Changes: Part 4

Location: La Nouvelle A ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)

Chair: Richard Clark, Millersville University

8:30 AM

TJ10.1

The Self-Regulated Induction of United States Cold Air Outbreaks by the North Atlantic Oscillation

Robert X. Black, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA; and R. M. Westby

8:45 AM

TJ10.2

Numerical Simulation of a Monsoonal Link to the Rapid Arctic Ice Melt

T. N. Krihsnamurti, Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL; and V. Kumar

Recorded Presentation

9:00 AM

TJ10.3

Large-Scale Antecedent Conditions Associated with 2014–2015 Winter Onset over North America and their Impact on Predictability

Lance F. Bosart, University at Albany, SUNY, Albany, NY; and P. P. Papin, A. M. Bentley, and B. J. Moore

Recorded Presentation

Handout (16.9 MB)

9:15 AM

TJ10.4

Towards Improved Understanding of Extreme Snow Melt Runoff Events: a Case Study of the Chesapeake Basin

Gina Henderson, U.S. Naval Academy, Annapolis, MD; and K. M. Masters, D. J. Leathers, D. A. Robinson, and T. L. Mote

Recorded Presentation

9:30 AM

TJ10.5

Impacts of Storm Track Variations on Cold Season Extreme Weather Events over the Continental United States

Chen-Geng Ma, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY; and E. K. M. Chang

Recorded Presentation

Joint Session 10

Remote sensing applications in hydrology, Part II

Location: Room 240/241 ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)

Hosts: (Joint between the 30th Conference on Hydrology; and the 20th Conference on Integrated Observing and Assimilation Systems for the Atmosphere, Oceans, and Land Surface (IOAS-AOLS) )

Cochairs: Christopher Hain, University of Maryland; John B. Eylander, US Army Corps of Engineers

8:30 AM

J10.1

Satellite soil moisture products and their application to drought monitoring

Jifu Yin, NOAA/NESDIS, College Park, MD; and X. Zhan, J. Liu, L. Fang, C. Hain, W. Zheng, and M. B. Ek

Recorded Presentation Manuscript (25.4 kB)

Handout (2.5 MB)

8:45 AM

J10.2

Enhancing NCEP-NAM Weather Forecasts via Assimilating Real-time Satellite-based Soil Moisture and Green Vegetation Fraction (Invited Presentation)

Li Fang, NOAA/NESDIS, College Park, MD; and C. Hain, X. Zhan, W. Zheng, J. Dong, and M. Ek

Recorded Presentation

9:00 AM

J10.3

Characterizing Satellite-Based Passive Microwave Estimates of Snow Water Equivalent at Sub-Grid Resolution (Invited Presentation)

Elias J. Deeb, CRREL (Cold Regions Research and Engineering Lab), Hanover, NH; and C. A. Hiemstra, S. F. Daly, C. Vuyovich, and J. B. Eylander

Recorded Presentation

9:15 AM

J10.4

Sensitivity Analysis of passive microwave brightness temperatures to distributed snowmelt

Carrie Vuyovich, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Hanover, NH; and J. Jacobs, C. A. Hiemstra, E. Deeb, S. F. Daly, and J. B. Eylander

Recorded Presentation

9:30 AM

J10.5

Infusion of gap-filling radar, snow data assimilation and airborne lidar for improved water supply forecasting in the inter-mountain western U.S

David J. Gochis, NCAR, Boulder, CO; and J. Busto, K. Howard, A. Dugger, W. Yu, J. McCreight, C. Langston, M. richardson, J. deems, N. coombs, T. H. Painter, J. mickey, M. skiles, K. Sampson, and L. karsten

Recorded Presentation

9:00 AM-9:30 AM: Tuesday, 12 January 2016

Session 1

Advancements in Radiative Transfer Modeling and Surface Emissivity Modeling to Support Assimilation of Satellite Radiance Data

Location: Room 335/336 ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)

Host: Fourth AMS Symposium on the Joint Center for Satellite Data Assimilation (JCSDA)

Chair: Sid-Ahmed Boukabara, NOAA/NESDIS/STAR

9:00 AM

1.1

Improvements to the CRTM for Cloudy Radiance Calculations

Louie Grasso, CIRA/Colorado State Univ., Fort Collins, CO; and D. T. Lindsey and Y. J. Noh

Recorded Presentation

9:15 AM

1.2

Uncertainty in Microwave Radiative Simulations Associated with Cloud Scattering Database Used in CRTM

Lin Lin, STAR/IMSG, College Park, MD; and F. Weng

Recorded Presentation

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

Session 2

Enterprise Topics Around a Weather-Ready Nation

Location: Room 244 ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)

Host: Fourth Symposium on the Weather, Water, and Climate Enterprise

Cochairs: Christopher Strager, NOAA/NWS; Andrea Bleistein, NOAA/NWS

9:00 AM

2.1

Icon Project Comment Review: A Full Analysis of Feedback Regarding the New NWS Forecast Icons

James David Luehrs, NOAA/NWS, Silver Spring, MD

Recorded Presentation

9:15 AM

2.2

CASA WX: Demonstrating Value for Customers and Providers in a Public Private Partnership Model for X-band Radar Networks

Brenda J. Philips, Univ. of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA; and A. Bajaj, V. Chandrasekar, M. McFadden, J. Ortiz, A. Everly, T. McClung, G. Blase, F. Junyent, R. Stedronsky, P. O. G. Heppner, E. J. Lyons, F. H. Carr, K. A. Brewster, and M. Bloomberg

Recorded Presentation

9:30 AM

2.3

Environmental Intelligence, Actionable Information for Decision Makers

Timothy J. Hall, The Aerospace Corporation, Columbia, MD; and T. Adang and K. B. Kreitman

Handout (828.9 kB)

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

Spouses' Coffee

Location: Kabacoff (Hilton Riverside)

9:30 AM-11:00 AM: Tuesday, 12 January 2016

Book Signing

Location: Hall D/E ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)

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)

Joint Poster Session 1

Mario J. Molina Symposium Posters

Hosts: (Joint between the Mario J. Molina Symposium; and the 18th Conference on Atmospheric Chemistry )

Chair: Mario J. Molina, University of California

Impacts of Aerosols on Precipitation and Thunderstorms in China

Li Cai, Wuhan University, Wuhan, China; and Y. Lin and R. Zhang

Hygroscopic Characteristics of Alkylaminium Carboxylate Aerosols

Reactivity of Ferryl (FeIVO2+) and Mn(III) with Inorganic and Organic Species of Atmospheric Liquid Phases

Virender K. Sharma, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX

Atmospheric Aerosol Nonsphericity Over the Loess Plateau in Northwest China

Tian Pengfei, Key Laboratory for Semi-Arid Climate Change of the Ministry of Education, Lanzhou, China

Handout (2.7 MB)

Observation of aerosol activation in urban Beijing

Biomass Burning Smoke and Deep Convection during the 2011 Midlatitude Continental Convective Clouds Experiment (MC3E)

Timothy Logan, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX

Impacts of Megacities on Air Pollution and Climate (Invited Presentation)

Tong Zhu, Peking University, Beijing, China

Optical Properties of Polymers Relevant to Secondary Organic Aerosols

Wilmarie Marrero-Ortiz, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX; and Z. Du, Y. Wang, M. E. Gomez, S. Guo, S. Madronich, M. Hu, and R. Zhang

The Kinetics of the ClO-Dimer Cycle

Ross J. Salawitch, University of Maryland, College Park, MD; and T. Canty

Variation of Radiative Properties During Black Carbon Aging: Theoretical and Experimental Intercomparison

Cenlin He, University of California, Los Angeles, CA; and K. N. Liou, Y. Takano, R. Zhang, M. levy, P. Yang, Q. Li, and L. R. Leung

Handout (756.8 kB)

Global Climate Models Intercomparison of Anthropogenic Aerosols Effects on Regional Climate over North Pacific

Jiaxi Hu, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX; and Y. Wang, Y. Lin, B. Pan, and R. Zhang

Sensitivity of Contribution of Organic Aerosol on Aerosol Optical Properties in Refractive Index and Hygroscopicity

Chang Hoon Jung, Kyungin Women's University, Incheon, South Korea; and J. Lee, H. J. Shin, and Y. P. Kim

Assessment of the Impacted Area Generated by Freight Transportation over Unpaved Roads Using CFD

Jose Huertas, Instituto Tecnologico y de Estudios Superiores de Monterrey, Toluca, Mexico; and D. Prato Sr., J. C. Miranda Sr., and A. Valencia Sr.

Methodology to Model the Dispersion Pollutants Exposed to Chemical Reactions, Using Gaussian Models

Jose Huertas, Instituto Tecnologico y de Estudios Superiores de Monterrey, Toluca, Mexico; and D. Prato and A. Valencia Sr.

Soot Formation and Properties from Combustion of Toluene in a Shock Tube

Chong Qiu, University of North Alabama, Florence, AL; and A. F. Khalizov, R. Zhang, B. Hogan, and E. L. Petersen

Radiative Properties of Soot Superaggregates in the Infrared

Yang Yu, Aerosol Impacts and Research Laboratory, St. Louis, MO; and I. Arnold and R. K. Chakrabarty

Handout (2.3 MB)

Impacts of Saharan Dust on Regional Climate and Tropical Cyclogenesis over the Atlantic Basin

Bowen Pan, Texas A&M University, College Station, College Station, TX; and Y. Wang, J. Hu, Y. Lin, and R. Zhang

Acid-catalyzed Multiphase reaction of Oxygenated Volatile Organic Compounds with Hydrogen Peroxide

Weigang Wang, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China; and Q. Liu and M. Ge

Measurements of Diffusion Coefficients of Organic Dyes in Proxies of Atmospheric Particles and Comparison with Predictions Using the Stokes-Einstein Equation

Dagny Anna Ullmann, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada; and Y. Chenyakin, S. Kamal, and A. K. Bertram

Handout (1.3 MB)

Aerosol Effects on Precipitation and Lightning Activity over Houston, Texas

Yun Lin, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX; and Y. Wang, R. Zhang, and R. E. Orville

Decadal Record of Ammonia Observed by AIRS

Juying X. Warner, University of Maryland, College Park, MD; and Z. Wei, L. L. Strow, J. Nowak, R. Dickerson, and R. Dickerson

Anthropogenic Influence on Decadal Aerosol Trends over the Western North Atlantic Ocean

Andrew Jongeward, University of Maryland, College Park, MD; and Z. Li and J. Xiong

Size-differentiated Inorganic Chemical Composition of Atmospheric Particles at the T1 Supersite during the MILAGRO Field Campaign

A Laboratory Study to Constrain Gas-Phase Formic Acid and Acetic Acid Sources

Dhruv Mitroo, Washington University, St. Louis, MO; and M. Baasandorj, D. B. Millet, and B. Williams

Comparing and Verifying WRF Simulations of Water Vapor for TC Ingrid (September 2013)

Thomas Daniel Allison, Tallahassee, FL; and H. E. Fuelberg

Handout (2.6 MB)

25A

Satellite retrieval of cloud condensation nuclei concentrations by using clouds as CCN chambers (Invited Presentation)

Daniel Rosenfeld, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Jerusalem, Israel

Volatile Organic Compounds in the Atmosphere of Mexico City

Manuscript (3.3 MB)

OH-Initiated Oxidation of m-Xylene on Black Carbon Aging

Aerosol Hygroscopic Properties in Seoul during the KORUS-AQ Pre-Campaign

Minsu Park, Yonsei University, Seoul, South Korea; and S. S. Yum, N. Kim, G. N. Bae, K. H. Kwak, H. J. Shin, J. S. Park, I. H. Song, and J. Y. Ahn

Polymer Formation on Atmospheric Nanoparticles and Its Effect on Aerosol Hygroscopicity

Wen Xu, Aerodyne Research, Inc, Billerica, MA; and M. Gomez-Hernandez, S. Guo, M. levy, J. R. Secrest, W. Marrero-Ortiz, D. R. Collins, and R. Zhang

Impact of Asian Dust Storm on Aerosol Chemistry of Xian, Central China: Rapid Heterogeneous Formation of Nitrate

Gehui Wang, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Xi'an, China

Airborne In-Situ Measurements of Formaldehyde over California: First Results from the Compact Formaldehyde Fluorescence Experiment (COFFEE) Instrument

Josette E. Marrero, NASA, Moffett Field, CA; and J. St. Clair, E. L. Yates, T. Tanaka, J. M. Ryoo, W. Gore, A. K. Swanson, L. T. Iraci, and T. Hanisco

Evidence for trans-β-IEPOX as the Main Surface-Active Component of Isoprene-Derived SOA Particles

Mary Alice Upshur, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL; and S. T. Martin, R. J. Thomson, and F. M. Geiger

The Role of Organic Species on Aerosol Nucleation and Growth

Jeremiah R. Secrest, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX; and W. Weigang, Y. Zhu, and R. Zhang

Secondary Aerosol Formation and Growth Analysis Using the mCAGE Environmental Chambers

Manuel A. Salgado, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX; and D. R. Collins

Variations of Aerosol Particles Hygroscopicity During the Dust and Haze Events from Filed Measurements in Spring 2015 in Urban Beijing, China

Assessing the Potential for the Reactions of Epoxides with Amines on Secondary Organic Aerosol Particles

Santino J. Stropoli, Oberlin College, Oberlin, OH; and M. J. Elrod

Chlorine-Catalyzed Ozone Loss: UV Absorption Cross Sections, Quantum Yield, and Equilibrium Constant of ClOOCl

David Wilmouth, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA; and J. Klobas and J. G. Anderson

Aerosols Modeling in the Tropical Atlantic During the Summer of 2009 and Comparisons with Observational Data from the AERosol and Ocean Science Expedition (AEROSE 2009)

Jose M. Tirado, Howard Univ., Washington, DC; and V. R. Morris

Joint Poster Session 1

Special Symposium on Hurricane Katrina Monday/Tuesday Posters

Location: Room 344 ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)

Cochairs: Kenneth Carey, Earth Resources Technology (ERT), Inc.; Christopher S. Velden, CIMSS; Patrick A. Harr, NSF; Andrew L. Molthan, NASA/MSFC; Patrick J. Fitzpatrick, Geosystems Research Institute, Mississippi State University

476

A Spatial Analysis of Hurricane Katrina's Outer Rainbands prior to Landfall in Louisiana

Corene J. Matyas, Univ. of Florida, Gainesville, FL; and J. Tang, I. J. Comstock, and S. E. Zick

Manuscript (306.8 kB)

Handout (728.6 kB)

477

Development and Evolution of Convective Bursts in WRF Simulations of Dean (2007) and Bill (2009)

Andrew Todd Hazelton, Florida State Univ., Tallahassee, FL; and R. Hart and R. F. Rogers

478

Evolving Geometries in the Moisture Budgets and Precipitation Structures of US Gulf Coast Landfalling Hurricanes

Stephanie E. Zick, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL; and C. J. Matyas

Manuscript (1010.9 kB)

Handout (2.1 MB)

479

Katrina in the Cubed Sphere NASA GEOS-5: Sensitivity to Resolution

Marangelly Cordero-Fuentes, NASA, Greenbelt, MD; and W. M. Putman and O. Reale

480

Tropical Cyclone (TC) Intensity Change Caused by Binary TC Interaction

Lianshou Chen, Chinese Academy of Meteorological Sciences, Beijing, China; and Y. Yu and Z. Zeng

481

Hurricane Katrina in the Courtroom

Timothy P. Marshall, Haag Engineering Co., Irving, TX

482

Short-Fuse Hurricanes: Time to Landfall and the Influence of ENSO

Coryn Collins, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA; and J. Nielsen-Gammon and T. M. Hall

483

On the Multiple Intensity Changes of Hurricane Earl (2010)

Daniel P. Nielsen, University of Maryland, College Park, MD; and J. H. Shin and D. L. Zhang

Handout (2.1 MB)

484

Comparisons of Atlantic Tropical Cyclone Outflow Structure and Environmental Interaction as Functions of Intensity Change and Environmental Shear

Levi P. Cowan, Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL; and R. E. Hart

485

Non-equilibrium Multi-fluid Model of a Marine Boundary Layer Laden with Evaporating Ocean Spray under High-wind Conditions

Yevgenii Rastigejev, North Carolina A&T State Univ., Greensboro, NC; and S. A. Suslov

486

Probabilistic Prediction of Hurricane Intensity with an Analog Ensemble

Stefano Alessandrini, NCAR, Boulder, CO; and L. Delle Monache, C. M. Rozoff, and W. E. Lewis

487

The Arbitrary Definition of the Current Atlantic Major Hurricane Landfall Drought

Robert E. Hart, Florida State Univ., Tallahassee, FL; and D. R. Chavas and M. P. Guishard

Poster Session 2

Advances in Evaporation and Evaporative Demand Posters

Host: 30th Conference on Hydrology

Cochairs: Michael Hobbins, NOAA; Martha C. Anderson, USDA/ARS; Christopher Hain, University of Maryland; Jennifer C. Adam, Washington State University

GOES Evapotranspiration and Drought Product System (GET-D)

Zhengpeng Li, University of Maryland, College Park, MD; and C. Hain, L. Fang, X. Zhan, and M. C. Anderson

MICROWAVE BASED IMPLEMENTATION OF TWO SOURCE ENERGY BALANCE MODEL TO ESTIMATE EVAPORATION

Thomas R. H. Holmes, USDA, Beltsville, MD; and C. Hain, M. C. Anderson, W. P. Kustas, and W. T. Crow

A Satellite-based Evapotranspiration Retrieval over Local-to-Global Scales in Support of Land Surface, Hydrological, Mesoscale, and Global Climate Models

Ali L. Yagci, NASA/GSFC, Greenbelt, MD; and J. A. Santanello Jr. and J. W. Jones

Handout (1.1 MB)

Comparison of Evapotranspiration Following Fire in a Primary Amazonian Forest Based on MOD16 Data

Gabriel de Oliveira, INPE, Sao Jose dos Campos, SP, Brazil; and E. C. Moraes, Y. E. Shimabukuro, N. A. Brunsell, L. E. O. C. Aragão, and G. Bertani

National Weather Service Forecast Reference Evapotranspiration Goes Nationwide

Cynthia K. Palmer, NOAA/NWS, Shreveport, LA; and H. D. Osborne, M. T. Hobbins, D. P. Matusiewicz, and F. Melton

Drivers of variability in evaporative demand in models and observations

Poster Session 3

Flood prediction, analysis, decision support, & management Posters

Host: 30th Conference on Hydrology

Cochairs: J.J. Gourley, NOAA/NSSL; Thomas Adams, NOAA/NWS; David J. Gochis, NCAR

The NWS Louisville Flash Flood Hotspot Program

Christina E. Andress, NOAA/NWS, Louisville, KY; and E. Rau

Flood Alert System using High Resolution Radar Data in the Mayaguez-Puerto Rico Bay Drainage Basin

Luz Estella Torres Molina, Universidad del Turabo, Gurabo, PR; and J. Colom and S. Cruz-Pol

Manuscript (1.6 MB)

Development of NFIE forcing engine

Linlin Pan, NCAR, Boulder, CO; and D. J. Gochis, W. Yu, Y. Zhang, A. Dugger, M. Winn, A. Rafieeinasab, Y. Liu, M. Valenzuela, and D. Maidment

Handout (4.6 MB)

Operational Hydrological Forecasting during the IPHEx-IOP Campaign – Meet the Challenge

Jing Tao, Duke Univ., Durham, NC; and W. Di, J. J. Gourley, S. Zhang, W. Crow, C. D. Peters-Lidard, and A. P. Barros

Muskinum Channel Routing using reach storage as an operating variable

Srishti Vishwakarma, GHCC, Jabalpur, Madhya Pradesh, India

The Northeast River Forecast Center's Decision Support Services for Federal and State Fisheries Activities in the Gulf of Maine Region

David R. Vallee, NWS Northeast River Forecast Center, Taunton, MA

Handout (2.9 MB)

Comparison of Semi-Distributed and Fully Distributed Hydrological Models in Complex Terrain

Jungho Kim, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO; and R. Cifelli, L. Johnson, B. Livneh, and V. Chandrasekar

Poster Session 4

Hydrometeorological applications, products and services in service to society posters

Location: Room 242 ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)

Host: 30th Conference on Hydrology

Chair: John N. McHenry, Baron Advanced Meteorological Systems, LLC

Development of hydrometeorological information database and application technology

Ji-in Kim, Korea Water Resources Corporation, Gwacheon-si, South Korea; and A. S. Suh

Forecasting Atmospheric Rivers During CalWater 2015

Jason Cordeira, Plymouth State University, Plymouth, NH; and F. M. Ralph

DASSP: A System for High-Resolution, Global Prediction of Soil Moisture Content and Soil Strength

Jerry Bieszczad, Creare LLC, Hanover, NH; and M. P. Ueckermann, C. A. Brooks, R. Chambers, W. E. Audette, and J. D. Walthour

Integration of Great Lakes Water Resources into National and Continental Systems for Weather and Climate Prediction

Brent M. Lofgren, NOAA/GLERL, Ann Arbor, MI; and A. Gronewold, C. Xiao, and R. Bolinger

Revision to Flood Hazard Assessment at the Savannah River Site

Robert L. Buckley, Savannah River National Laboratory, Aiken, SC; and D. W. Werth

Handout (875.8 kB)

Joint Poster Session 5

Land Data Assimilation Techniques and Systems Posters

Hosts: (Joint between the 30th Conference on Hydrology; and the 20th Conference on Integrated Observing and Assimilation Systems for the Atmosphere, Oceans, and Land Surface (IOAS-AOLS) )

Cochairs: Rolf H. Reichle, NASA/GSFC; Youlong Xia, NOAA/NWS/NCEP/EMC; Clara Draper, NASA/GSFC

113

Assimilation of Gridded GRACE Terrestrial Water Storage Observation for Improving Soil Moisture and Shallow Groundwater Estimates

Manuela Girotto, NASA/GSFC, Greenbelt, MD; and G. J. M. De Lannoy, R. H. Reichle, and M. Rodell

114

Testing a Successive Correction Based Data Assimilation Methodology in the NWS Hydrology Laboratory Research Distributed Hydrological Model

Robert J. Zamora, NOAA/ESRL, Boulder, CO; and A. R. Thorstensen and R. Cifelli

115

What Can Data Assimilation Tell Us about Our Models?

Grey S. Nearing, NASA, Greenbelt, MD

116

An Integrated Hydrological Modeling System for High-Resolution Coastal Applications

Teddy Holt, NRL, Monterey, CA; and S. Chen, J. Schmidt, C. DeLuca, M. B. Ek, J. B. Eylander, D. J. Gochis, and C. D. Peters-Lidard

117

Assimilation of Combined Snow Cover and Snow Depth Data into NCEP Operational Global Forecast System

Jiarui Dong, NOAA NCEP, College Park, MD; and M. B. Ek, W. Zheng, S. Kumar, C. Peters-Lidard, and G. S. Nearing

118

Creating Higher Resolution Surface Forcings from NLDAS-2/Stage-IV/GSIP for Hydrologic Monitoring

Ming Pan, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ; and G. Coccia, C. Fisher, X. He, N. Chaney, J. Sheffield, and E. F. Wood

119

Using Virtual Reality Catchment Simulations as Testbeds for Data Assimilation

Bernd Schalge, University of Bonn, Bonn, Germany; and J. Rihani, G. Baroni, D. Erdal, I. Neuweiler, H. J. Hendricks-Franssen, F. Ament, S. Kollet, O. Cirpka, B. Haese, P. Saavedra, X. Han, S. Attinger, H. Kunstmann, H. Vereecken, and C. Simmer

120

Assessment of the Basin-Scale Land Surface Energy Budget in the NCEP Operational and Research NLDAS-2 Systems

Youlong Xia, EMC/NCEP/I.M. Systems Group, College Park, MD; and M. B. Ek, B. Cosgrove, K. Mitchell, C. Peters-Lidard, S. V. Kumar, D. M. Mocko, and H. Wei

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

Joint Session 1

HPC and AI for Big Data in Atmosphere, Ocean and Water

Location: Room 354 ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)

Hosts: (Joint between the 14th Conference on Artificial and Computational Intelligence and its Applications to the Environmental Sciences; and the Second Symposium on High Performance Computing for Weather, Water, and Climate )

Chair: Amy McGovern, Univ. of Oklahoma

11:00 AM

J1.1

High Performance Computing for Mesoscale Weather Prediction with the K-computer

Kazuo Saito, MRI/JAMSTEC, Tsukuba, Japan; and T. Oizumi, L. Duc, K. Ito, M. Kunii, S. Yokota, S. Origuchi, W. Mashiko, J. Ito, and H. Seko

Recorded Presentation

11:15 AM

J1.2

Combining Large-Scale Machine Learning Techniques with HPC to Better Understand Tornadoes

Amy McGovern, Univ. of Oklahoma, Norman, OK; and C. K. Potvin and R. A. Brown

Recorded Presentation

11:30 AM

J1.3

Restructuring of the NEMS Framework — to Adapt the Requirements for Independent Models Development

Eugene Mirvis, IMSG@NOAA/NCEP/EMC, College Park, MD; and M. Iredell

Recorded Presentation

Handout (2.8 MB)

11:45 AM

J1.4

Exploring Methods to Leverage Apache Spark in Meteorological Applications Through the Creation of Scispark

Kim D. Whitehall, JPL/California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA; and R. Palamuttam, R. Marroquin Mogrovejo, B. D. Wilson, C. Mattmann, L. J. McGibbney, R. Verma, and P. Ramirez

Session 1

History of Atmospheric Science

Location: Room 231/232 ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)

Host: 14th History Symposium

Chair: Lourdes B. Avilés, Plymouth State University

11:00 AM

1.1

Inventing Atmospheric Science. The Quest for Prevision and the Gordian Knots of Meteorology (Core Keynote Lecture)

James Rodger Fleming, Colby College, Waterville, ME

Recorded Presentation

11:45 AM

1.2

A Legacy in the Making: “Science in Service to Society” in the BAMS Archive

Jeff Rosenfeld, American Meteorological Society, Boston, MA; and K. F. Heideman

Recorded Presentation

Joint Session 1

Integrating Social Science Methods into Decision Support Tools to Enhance Community Resilience

Location: Room 255/257 ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)

Hosts: (Joint between the Fourth Symposium on Building a Weather-Ready Nation: Enhancing Our Nation’s Readiness, Responsiveness, and Resilience to High Impact Weather Events; and the 11th Symposium on Societal Applications: Policy, Research and Practice )

Chair: Jennifer Sprague, NOAA/NWS

11:00 AM

J1.1

Taking Social Science to the Next Level...a Community Comes Together

Jennifer Sprague, NOAA/NWS, Silver Spring, MD; and J. Cortinas Jr., K. E. Klockow, and V. Brown

Recorded Presentation

11:15 AM

J1.2

Enhancing Risk Management Decisions through Impact Based Warnings and Expressions of Urgency, Severity, and Certainty

John T. Ferree, NOAA/NWS, Norman, OK

Recorded Presentation

11:30 AM

J1.3

Moving toward Hazard Simplification (#HazSimp): The Strengths and Weaknesses of the NWS Warning System from an NWS External Partner Perspective

Gina M. Eosco, Eastern Reseach Group, Arlington, VA; and L. Girardi, S. Shrestha, E. Jacks, J. Sprague, A. Horvitz, and M. Bilder

Recorded Presentation

11:45 AM

J1.4

The Sustainability Challenge — Developing More Resilient Electrical Infrastructure Systems

James Belanger, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA; and V. M. Thomas

Recorded Presentation

Session 2

Impact Assessments for Satellite Data Assimilated in Numerical Prediction Modeling Systems

Location: Room 335/336 ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)

Host: Fourth AMS Symposium on the Joint Center for Satellite Data Assimilation (JCSDA)

Chair: Lidia Cucurull, NOAA/OAR/ESRL

11:00 AM

2.1

Developments in the Assimilation of Satellite Observations in the Met Office Global Model

William Bell, Met Office, Exeter, United Kingdom; and J. Cameron, A. Booton, P. Weston, A. Lorenc, D. Li, E. Pavelin, S. Newman, K. Lean, A. Doherty, S. Migliorini, F. Carminati, F. Smith, Y. Pradhan, M. Ujiie, R. Saunders, D. Barker, and A. Smith

Recorded Presentation

11:15 AM

2.2

Sensitivity of the RAP Satellite Radiance Assimilation to the Model Top and Other Factors

Haidao Lin, CIRA/Colorado State Univ. and NOAA/ESRL/GSD, Boulder, CO; and S. Weygandt, J. Brown, M. Hu, C. Alexander, and S. Benjamin

Recorded Presentation

11:30 AM

2.3

The Assimilation of Cloud-Affected Infrared Radiances in Fully-Cycled Data Assimilation Experiments

Will McCarty, NASA/GSFC, Greenbelt, MD

Recorded Presentation

11:45 AM

2.4

Satellite-derived 3D Winds: Global Model Impact Studies for Current and Future Observing Systems

David A. Santek, Univ. of Wisconsin, Madison, WI; and W. McCarty

Recorded Presentation

Joint Session 2

The Use of Social Media in Education, Outreach and Training

Location: Room 353 ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)

Hosts: (Joint between the 25th Symposium on Education; and the 32nd Conference on Environmental Information Processing Technologies )

Cochairs: Diane M. Stanitski, NOAA ESRL Global Monitoring Division; Scott Lindstrom

11:00 AM

J2.1

Most Popular Blog Posts of 2015 from CIMSS

Scott S. Lindstrom, CIMSS/Univ. of Wisconsin, Madison, WI; and A. S. Bachmeier

Recorded Presentation

11:15 AM

J2.2

From Facebook to Community Blog: Expanding upon Peer Dialogue in an Online Course about Regional Climate Modeling

Morgan Brown Yarker, Yarker Consulting, Cedar Rapids, IA; and M. D. S. Mesquita

Recorded Presentation

11:30 AM

J2.3

The Use of Audience Response Devices and Social Media in Introductory Earth Science Courses

Mario Majcen, California University of Pennsylvania, California, PA

Recorded Presentation

11:45 AM

J2.4

Weather Basics Interactive Video Training – Teaching Teachers, Students, and more!

Tim Brice, NOAA/NWS/Weather Forecast Office in El Paso, TX, Santa Teresa, NM; and J. Laney and M. Pazos

Recorded Presentation

Session 2

Winter Season 2014-2015

Location: Room 338/339 ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)

Host: IMPACTS: Major Weather Events and Impacts of 2015

Cochairs: Tanja Fransen, NOAA/NWS; Klaus E. Wolter, ESRL/Univ of Colorado-CIRES

11:00 AM

2.1

The Winter of 2014-15 - A Season of Extremes

David R. Novak, NOAA/NWS, College Park, MD; and P. J. Kocin

Recorded Presentation

11:15 AM

2.2

The January-February 2015 Winter Blitzkrieg over the Northeastern United States: Significant Predictability Issues and Communicating Uncertainty Problems

Lance F. Bosart, SUNY, Albany, NY

Recorded Presentation

Handout (20.2 MB)

11:30 AM

2.3

The Historic Cumberland Plateau Ice Storm of 20-21 February 2015

Samuel W. Shamburger, NOAA/NWSFO Nashville, Old Hickory, TN

Recorded Presentation

2.4

2006-2015 Mega-drought in the Western USA from NOAA Operational Satellites

11:45 AM

2.4A

Hurricane PATRICIA in Jalisco, Mexico

Josh Morgerman, iCyclone.com, West Hollywood, CA

Recorded Presentation

Session 3

Challenges in Meeting Water Needs for Cities in the World’s Developing Nations

Location: Room 244 ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)

Host: Fourth Symposium on the Weather, Water, and Climate Enterprise

Cochairs: Melinda Marquis, NOAA; Kathleen A. Miller, NCAR

11:00 AM

3.1

Water for Development: The Utility of Precipitation and Streamflow Forecasts in Sectoral Decision-making

Paul J. Block, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI

Recorded Presentation

11:15 AM

3.2

Climate-Information for Improved Water and Energy Management: Opportunities and Challenges

Sankar Arumugam, North Carolina State Univ., Raleigh, NC; and U. Lall

Recorded Presentation

11:30 AM

3.3

Social Inequality and Resilience in the City: Insights from Mumbai, India

Paty Romero-Lankao, NCAR, Boulder, CO; and J. Sperling

Recorded Presentation

Session 3

GIS and Visualization

Location: Room 225 ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)

Host: Sixth Symposium on Advances in Modeling and Analysis Using Python

Chair: Scott Collis, ANL

11:00 AM

3.1

Radar Toolkit for ArcGIS – Bringing Easy Radar Data Processing to Geographers

Jingyin Tang, Univ. of Florida, Gainesville, FL; and C. J. Matyas

Recorded Presentation

11:15 AM

3.2

Visualizing the Verification of Quantitative Precipitation Forecasts using PyQGIS

Christopher J. Schaffer, NOAA/NWS, Peachtree City, GA

Recorded Presentation

11:30 AM

3.3

Visualizing ensemble information from a real-time ensemble system at NCAR

Ryan A. Sobash, NCAR, Boulder, CO; and G. S. Romine, C. S. Schwartz, and K. R. Fossell

Recorded Presentation

11:45 AM

3.4

From GEMPAK to Python: Evolution of the Storm Prediction Center's Graphics In the Social Media Era

Patrick T. Marsh, NOAA/NWS Storm Prediction Center, Norman, OK

Recorded Presentation

Session 3

Hydrometeorological applications, products and services in service to society

Location: Room 242 ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)

Host: 30th Conference on Hydrology

Chair: John N. McHenry, Baron Advanced Meteorological Systems, LLC

11:00 AM

3.1

Advancement of a Real-Time Automated Gauge Quality Control Process for Multi-Radar Multi-Sensor Precipitation Estimation

Steven M. Martinaitis, CIMMS/Univ. of Oklahoma and NOAA/NSSL, Norman, OK; and Y. Qi, S. B. Cocks, J. Zhang, and K. Howard

Recorded Presentation

11:15 AM

3.2

Supporting Hydrometeorological Research and Applications with Global Precipitation Measurement (GPM) Products and Services

Zhong Liu, George Mason University/CSISS and NASA GSFC GES DISC, Greenbelt, MD; and D. Ostrenga, B. Vollmer, B. Deshong, K. MacRitchie, M. Greene, and S. Kempler

Recorded Presentation

11:30 AM

3.3

Real-time Land Information System over the Continental U.S. for Situational Awareness and Local Numerical Weather Prediction Applications

Jonathan L. Case, ENSCO, Inc., Huntsville, AL; and K. D. White, B. Guyer, J. Meyer, J. Srikishen, C. B. Blankenship, and B. T. Zavodsky

Recorded Presentation Manuscript (3.8 MB)

11:45 AM

3.4

Towards an operational hydrological and hydrodynamic forecasting system for the Great Lakes and St. Lawrence River watershed at Environment Canada

Vincent Fortin, EC, Dorval, QC, Canada; and G. Smith, D. A. Durnford, F. Dupont, B. Winter, M. Mackay, O. Champoux, and J. F. Cantin

Recorded Presentation

Session 3

Impacts of Aerosol-cloud Interactions on Radiation II

Location: Room 357 ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)

Host: Eighth Symposium on Aerosol–Cloud–Climate Interactions

Chair: Zhibo Zhang, University of Maryland

CoChair: Jun Wang, University of Nebaska

11:00 AM

3.1

Atmospheric and Oceanic Responses to the Redistribution of Anthropogenic Aerosols

Yuan Wang, California Institute of Technology/JPL, Pasadena, CA; and J. Jiang and H. Su

11:15 AM

3.2

The Climate Response to Black Carbon as a Function of Altitude

Bjorn H. Samset, Center for International Climate and Environmental Research , Oslo, Norway; and G. Myhre

Recorded Presentation

11:30 AM

3.3

Aerosol-radiation-cloud Interactions in the South-east Atlantic: Future Suborbital Activities to Address Knowledge Gaps in Satellite and Model Assessments (Invited Presentation)

Jens Redemann, NASA/ARC, Moffett Field, CA; and R. Wood, P. Zuidema, J. Haywood, S. Piketh Sr., P. Formenti, T. S. L'Ecuyer, M. Kacenelenbogen, M. Segal-Rosenheimer, Y. Shinozuka, S. E. LeBlanc, M. A. Vaughan, K. S. Schmidt, C. J. Flynn, B. Schmid, B. Luna, and S. J. Abel

Recorded Presentation

11:45 AM

3.4

On the Sensitivity of Model-derived Estimates of Aerosol Indirect Effects and Forcings to Activation Schemes

Daniel Rothenberg, MIT, Cambridge, MA; and C. Wang and A. Avramov

Recorded Presentation

Joint Session 4

Data Assimilation: Operational Advancements II

Location: Room 345 ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)

Chair: Ron Gelaro, NASA/GSFC

11:00 AM

J4.1

Evaluation of the NASA Modern Era Reanalysis for Research and Applications, Version-2 (MERRA-2)

Ron Gelaro, NASA/GSFC, Greenbelt, MD; and W. McCarty and G. Partyka

Recorded Presentation

11:15 AM

J4.2

The Stratosphere in the MERRA-2 Reanalysis

Steven Pawson, GMAO, Greenbelt, MD; and K. Wargan, L. Coy, J. Jin, and W. McCarty

Recorded Presentation

11:30 AM

J4.3

Progress of GSI 3DVAR-Ensemble Hybrid Data Assimilation for Rapid Refresh with Regional Ensembles

Ming Hu, NOAA/ESRL/Global Systems Division, Boulder, CO; and J. Beck, S. S. Weygandt, D. Dowell, S. G. Benjamin, J. S. Whitaker, and C. Alexander

Recorded Presentation

11:45 AM

J4.4

Development and research of the GSI-based, Cycled, Dual Resolution Hybrid Ensemble-Variational Data Assimilation System for HWRF

Xu Lu, University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK; and X. Wang

Recorded Presentation

Joint Session 4

Integrative Approaches to Understanding Extreme Temperature Risk II

Location: Room 228/229 ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)

Hosts: (Joint between the Seventh Conference on Environment and Health; and the 11th Symposium on Societal Applications: Policy, Research and Practice )

Chair: Andrew Monaghan, NCAR

11:00 AM

J4.1

Impact of Heat Index on Emergency Department Admissions in the Northeast

Rebecca Lincoln, Maine Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Augusta, ME; and D. Holt, K. Bush, J. Gold, M. Eliot, and G. Wellenius

Recorded Presentation

11:15 AM

J4.2

Thermal Comfort and Extreme Heat: A Summertime Assessment of RayMan Model Sensitivity in Downtown Tempe, AZ

Melissa A. Wagner, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ; and A. Brazel, V. Benson-Lira, D. Hoots, M. Smith, and A. Middel

Recorded Presentation

11:30 AM

J4.3

Assessing the Need for Regional Heat Safety Guidelines in Athletics

Andrew Grundstein, University of Georgia, Athens, GA; and Y. Hosokawa and D. Casa

Recorded Presentation

11:45 AM

J4.4

Prevalence of Heat Related Fatalities in Physical Activities

Yuri Hosokawa, University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT; and A. J. Grundstein, R. L. Stearns, and D. J. Casa

Session 4

Weather Warnings and Responses

Location: Room 333-334 ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)

Host: 11th Symposium on Societal Applications: Policy, Research and Practice

Chair: Kimberly E. Klockow, NOAA

Paper 4.1 will now be 4.3A

11:00 AM

4.1A

Improving Weather Communication in Areas of High Socioeconomic Vulnerability: Spanish-Language Information for the Lower Rio Grande Valley of Texas

Justin G. Gibbs, NOAA/NWS, Norman, OK; and M. M. Torres, B. S. Goldsmith, C. D. Birchfield, D. Butts Jr., and S. M. Drillette

Recorded Presentation Manuscript (128.9 kB)

11:15 AM

4.2

Reactions to NWS Warnings: Actions Taken and Characteristics of Individuals More Likely to Take Action

Lou Nadeau, Eastern Research Group, Lexington, MA

Recorded Presentation

Paper 4.3 will now be 4.1A

11:30 AM

4.3A

A Statistical Overview of Operational Storm-Based Warnings

David Harrison, University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK; and C. D. Karstens

Recorded Presentation

11:45 AM

4.4

Throwing Caution to the Wind: National Weather Service Wind Products as Perceived by a Weather-Savvy Public

Castle Adam Williams, University of Georgia, Athens, GA; and P. W. Miller, A. W. Black, and J. A. Knox

Recorded Presentation

Handout (18.0 MB)

Session 4

Wind Forecasting: Energy Application Part 1

Location: Room 346/347 ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)

Host: Seventh Conference on Weather, Climate, Water and the New Energy Economy

Chair: Andrew Clifton, National Renewable Energy Laboratory

11:00 AM

4.1

WFIP2 – The Second Wind Forecast Improvement Project: Overview

Melinda Marquis, NOAA, Boulder, CO; and R. M. Banta, L. A. Benjamin, S. Benjamin, L. K. Berg, L. Bianco, J. Bickford, A. Brewer, A. Choukulkar, K. L. Clawson, A. Clifton, J. W. Cline, D. Cook, I. V. Djalalova, R. M. Eckman, H. J. S. Fernando, K. Friedrich, J. Kenyon, B. Kosovic, C. W. King, K. Lantz, C. Long, J. K. Lundquist, J. McCaa, K. McCaffrey, V. R. Morris, J. Olson, Y. Pichugina, J. Sharp, W. J. Shaw, K. Wade, S. Wharton, and J. M. Wilczak

Recorded Presentation

11:15 AM

4.2

WFIP2 – The Second Wind Forecast Improvement Project: Observing Systems and Case Studies

James M. Wilczak, NOAA/ESRL, Boulder, CO; and J. W. Cline, R. M. Banta, L. Benjamin, S. Benjamin, L. K. Berg, L. Bianco, J. Bickford, A. Brewer, A. Choukulkar, K. L. Clawson, A. Clifton, D. Cook, I. V. Djalalova, H. J. S. Fernando, K. Friedrich, J. Kenyon, B. Kosovic, C. W. King, K. Lantz, C. Long, J. K. Lundquist, M. Marquis, J. McCaa, K. McCaffrey, V. R. Morris, J. B. Olson, Y. Pichugina, J. Sharp, W. J. Shaw, K. Wade, and S. Wharton

Recorded Presentation

11:30 AM

4.3

Using WRF-LES to Simulate Wind Plant In-Flow Conditions in a Region of Complex Terrain: Application to the Second Wind Forecast Improvement Project (WFIP2)

Raj K. Rai, PNNL, Richland, WA; and L. K. Berg, B. Kosovic, J. D. Mirocha, M. Pekour, and W. J. Shaw

Recorded Presentation

11:45 AM

4.4

WFIP2 – The Second Wind Forecast Improvement Project: Model Improvement Plans and Preliminary Results

Joseph B. Olson, NOAA/CIRES, Boulder, CO; and J. S. Kenyon, J. Brown, J. M. Wilczak, J. W. Cline, R. M. Banta, S. G. Benjamin, L. Benjamin, L. K. Berg, W. J. Shaw, J. Bickford, L. Bianco, I. V. Djalalova, A. Choukulkar, Y. Pichugina, K. L. Clawson, R. M. Eckman, A. Clifton, R. Kotamarthi, M. Marquis, B. Kosovic, J. K. Lundquist, K. A. Lundquist, J. D. Mirocha, J. McCaa, M. T. Stoelinga, E. P. Grimit, J. Sharp, K. Lantz, C. Long, P. A. Jimenez, B. Ancell, C. Draxl, A. Brewer, D. Cook, K. Friedrich, H. J. S. Fernando, K. McCaffrey, C. W. King, S. Wharton, V. R. Morris, and K. Wade

Recorded Presentation

Session 4A

Distinguishing Among Climate Variability, Anthropogenic Forcing, and Evolution of Current Climate State: Contributions of US CLIVAR Science

Location: La Nouvelle C ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)

Host: 28th Conference on Climate Variability and Change

Cochairs: Gregg M. Garfin, University of Arizona; Andrea J. Ray, NOAA; Kevin Werner, NOAA/NCEI

11:00 AM

4A.1

The Intensification of Global and Regional Climate Variability and Change

Scott Weaver, NOAA/CPC, College Park, MD; and A. Kumar, S. Baxter, and K. J. Harnos

Recorded Presentation

11:15 AM

4A.2

California: Indications for continued groundwater depletion after drought and causes of drought variety

Shih-Yu (Simon) Wang, Utah State University, Logan, UT; and Y. H. Lin, R. R. Gillies, and K. Hakala

Recorded Presentation

11:30 AM

4A.3

A Signal Processing Approach to Multi-Decadal Temperature Forecasts, Revealing the Role of Anthropogenic Forcing Amidst Modes of Natural Variability

Kevin W. Murphy, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ

Recorded Presentation

11:45 AM

4A.4

Global Warming Projection in the 21st Century based on an Observational Data-Driven Model

Xubin Zeng, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ; and K. Geil

Recorded Presentation

Session 4B

Extreme Events

Location: La Nouvelle A ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)

Host: 28th Conference on Climate Variability and Change

Chair: Richard Clark, Millersville Univ.

11:00 AM

4B.1

A Conceptual Model for Development of Intense Pyroconvection in Western North America

David A. Peterson, NRL, Monterey, CA; and J. E. Solbrig, E. J. Hyer, J. R. Campbell, and M. D. Fromm

Recorded Presentation

11:15 AM

4B.2

Noteworthy Cool-Season Extreme Weather Events over Central and Eastern North America Associated with Strong Extratropical Cyclones

Alicia M. Bentley, University at Albany, Albany, NY; and L. F. Bosart and D. Keyser

Recorded Presentation

11:30 AM

4B.3

Anomalous Low Elevation Snowfall Event in Southern California of 30–31 December 2014

Brandt D. Maxwell, NOAA/NWS, San Diego, CA

Recorded Presentation

11:45 AM

4B.4

Diagnosing Anthropogenic Contributions to Heavy Colorado Rains in September 2013

Pardeep Pall, LBNL, Berkeley, CA; and C. Patricola, M. F. Wehner, D. Stone, C. J. Paciorek, and W. Collins

Session 5

Drought Monitoring, Prediction, and Impacts, Part 2

Location: Room 245 ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)

Host: 22nd Conference on Applied Climatology

Chair: James R. Angel, ISWS

11:00 AM

5.1

Applied Climatology: Polishing Its Golden Age (Core Keynote Lecture)

Barbara E. Mayes Boustead, NOAA/NWS, Valley, NE

Recorded Presentation

11:30 AM

5.2

Dry Fusion: A Timeline of the U.S. Drought Monitor's Evolution

Mark D. Svoboda, National Drought Mitigation Center, Lincoln, NE

Recorded Presentation

11:45 AM

5.3

Soil Moisture Observations and Drought Onset and Recovery

Michael Palecki, NOAA/NESDIS/National Centers for Environmental Information, Asheville, NC

Recorded Presentation

Session 5

Ensemble Forecasting – Part 2

Location: Room 226/227 ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)

Host: 23rd Conference on Probability and Statistics in the Atmospheric Sciences

Chair: Michael Scheuerer, NOAA

11:00 AM

5.1

Improving Ensemble Forecasting in the Global Forecast System by Better Accounting for Additional Sources of Uncertainty

Philip Pegion, CIRES/Univ. of Colorado, Boulder, CO; and G. Bates, M. Gehne, T. Hamill, and J. S. Whitaker

Recorded Presentation

11:15 AM

5.2

New Mesoscale Multimodel Ensemble Prediction System in Spain

Jose A. Garcia-Moya, Agencia Estatal de Meteorologia AEMET, Madrid, Spain; and A. Callado, P. Escriba, and C. Santos

Recorded Presentation

11:30 AM

5.3

A Combined Method for Forecasting Extreme Monthly Precipitation in Europe

Christophe Lavaysse, European Commission, Ispra, Italy; and J. Vogt, A. Torreti, J. Thielen, and G. Masato

Recorded Presentation

11:45 AM

5.4

The Impacts of Ensemble Size and Initial Perturbation Calibration on the probabilistic forecast performance

Mozheng Wei, NRL, Stennis Space Center, MS; and C. Rowley, C. Barron, and P. Martin

Recorded Presentation

Joint Session 5

Ensuring the Data Continuity from the Environmental Satellite Constellation (Invited)

Location: Room 252/254 ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)

Hosts: (Joint between the 12th Annual Symposium on New Generation Operational Environmental Satellite Systems; and the Sixth Conference on Transition of Research to Operations )

Cochairs: Kevin Garrett, RTi, NOAA/NESDIS/STAR; Kathryn Shontz, Office of Satellite Ground Systems

11:00 AM

J5.1

Overview of Space-based Component of WMO Integrated Global Observing Systems (WIGOS) – Critical Analysis and Potential Gaps, Vision in 2040 and the Way Forward

Wenjian Zhang, WMO, Geneva, Switzerland

Recorded Presentation

11:15 AM

J5.2

Observing System Simulation Experiments (OSSEs) to Assess the Potential Impact of Proposed Observing Systems on Global NWP and Hurricane Prediction

Sid A. Boukabara, NOAA/NESDIS, College Park, MD; and R. Atlas and R. N. Hoffman

11:30 AM

J5.3

NASA's Earth Science Flight Program Meets the Challenges of Today and Tomorrow

Eric Ianson, NASA, Washington, DC

Recorded Presentation

11:45 AM

J5.4

Providing Continuity into the Future: EUMETSAT Next Generation Meteorological Satellites

Kenneth Holmlund, EUMETSAT, Darmstadt, Germany; and R. Stuhlmann, P. Schlüssel, D. Klaes, R. Munro, F. Montagner, J. Grandell, C. Hanson, S. Rota, and M. Cohen

Recorded Presentation

Handout (5.3 MB)

Session 5

Impacts of space weather

Location: Room 352 ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)

Host: 13th Conference on Space Weather

Chair: Richard D. Clark, Millersville University

11:00 AM

5.1

Atmospheric radiation flight dose rates

W. Kent Tobiska, Space Environment Technologies, Pacific Palisades, CA; and D. Bouwer, J. Bailey, L. Didkovsky, K. Judge, W. Atwell, B. Gersey, R. Wilkins, D. Rice, R. W. Schunk, D. Bell, C. J. Mertens, X. Xu, M. Wiltberger, S. Wiley, and E. H. Teets Jr.

Recorded Presentation

11:15 AM

5.2

Space weather conditions during the Galaxy 15 spacecraft anomaly

Paul T.M. Loto'aniu, NOAA, Boulder, CO; and H. J. Singer, J. V. Rodriguez, J. Green, W. F. Denig, D. Biesecker, and V. Angelopoulos

Recorded Presentation

11:30 AM

5.3

On the spatial complexity of geoelectric fields induced during magnetic storms in realistic lithospheric conductivity

Jeffrey Love, USGS, Denver, CO; and P. A. Bedrosian

11:45 AM

5.4

The ionospheric weather of S4 scintillation probed by FORMOSAT-3/COSMIC during 2007-2014

J.Y. Liu, National Central University, Chung-Li, Taiwan; and S. P. Liu and W. H. Yeh

Recorded Presentation

Session 5

International Applications: Sharing Environmental Data

Location: Room 348/349 ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)

Host: 32nd Conference on Environmental Information Processing Technologies

Cochairs: John R. Lincoln, US Navy/WMO (Ret.) and Consultant; Ian Lisk, UK Met Office; Baudouin Raoult, ECMWF

11:00 AM

5.1

EarthServer - Serving data from ECMWF's archive through OGC coverage services

Stephan Siemen, ECMWF, Reading, Berks., United Kingdom; and S. Lamy-Thepaut, B. Raoult, and J. Wagemann

Recorded Presentation

11:15 AM

5.2

Copernicus Climate Data Store

Baudouin Raoult, ECMWF, Reading, United Kingdom

Recorded Presentation

11:30 AM

5.3

OpenMeteo, one tool to rule them all

Remy Giraud, Meteo France, Toulouse, France; and M. Dellacqua Sr. and D. Dure

Recorded Presentation

11:45 AM

5.4

Approach of UV Climatology in Belgium by Monitoring Ultra Violet Irradiance at the Surface of the Earth : The Belgian Network

Didier J. Gillotay, Belgian Institue for Space Aeronomy, Brussels, Belgium; and P. Pandey and T. Besnard

Recorded Presentation Manuscript (1.1 MB)

Session 5

Observations of Low Level Jets and Gravity Waves

Location: Room 350/351 ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)

Host: 18th Symposium on Meteorological Observation and Instrumentation

Chair: Sean Arms, UCAR

11:00 AM

5.1

Ceilometer and Sonic Anemometer Observations of Undulatus Asperatus/Gravity Wave at the Savannah River Site

Stephen Weinbeck, Savannah River National Labatory, Aiken, SC; and S. R. Chiswell and R. L. Buickley

11:15 AM

5.2

Comparison of Estimates of Vertical Motion from Vertically-Pointing Lidar and Radar Within Gust Fronts, Bores and Low-Level Gravity Waves

Kevin Knupp, University of Alabama, Huntsville, AL; and R. Wade, A. W. Lyza, and S. M. Wingo

Recorded Presentation

11:30 AM

5.3

Analysis of a Gravity Wave Train and its Influence on the Nocturnal Boundary Layer Using Direct and Indirect Measurement Systems

Benjamin A. Toms, University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK; and J. M. Tomaszewski, D. D. Turner, and S. Koch

Recorded Presentation

5.4

Integrated Observations of Nocturnal Low-Level Jet Evolution during the Plains Elevated Convection at Night Field Campaign

Joint Session 8

Innovations and Improvements in Hurricane Preparedness, Communication and Resilience Since Katrina

Location: Room 344 ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)

Cochairs: Joshua Hacker, NCAR; Andrew L. Molthan, NASA/MSFC

11:00 AM

J8.1

Taking Katrina Storm Surge Resilience Lessons to Galveston Bay

William Read, Former Director, National Hurricane Center, League City, TX

Recorded Presentation

11:15 AM

J8.2

Issuance of Timely Tropical Storm and Hurricane Watches and Warnings Before Tropical Cyclone Formation

Daniel P. Brown, NOAA/NWS/NHC, Miami, FL; and J. L. Franklin and R. D. Knabb

Recorded Presentation

11:30 AM

J8.3

Communicating Hurricane and Storm Surge Risks in the Modern Information Environment

Rebecca E. Morss, NCAR, Boulder, CO; and C. A. Davis, C. Snyder, K. Fossell, D. A. Ahijevych, K. M. Anderson, C. M. Barton, J. L. Demuth, H. Lazrus, L. Palen, J. Watts, and O. Wilhelmi

Recorded Presentation

11:45 AM

J8.4

From the “Statement Heard Around the World” to Hurricane Threats and Impacts: The Evolution of Communicating Potential Impacts and Safety Messages since Katrina

Barry S. Goldsmith, NOAA/NWSFO, Brownsville, TX; and D. W. Sharp, P. Santos, R. J. Ricks Jr., and M. J. Moreland

Recorded Presentation Manuscript (915.3 kB)

Joint Session 8

Atmospheric Chemistry, Climate, and Policy

Location: Room 343 ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)

Hosts: (Joint between the Mario J. Molina Symposium; and the 18th Conference on Atmospheric Chemistry )

Chair: A. R. Ravishankara, Colorado State University

CoChair: Ronald G. Prinn, MIT

11:00 AM

J8.1

Meeting the Climate Challenge of 2 Degrees Centigrade: A Study Using an Integrated Economics and Earth System Model (Invited Presentation)

Ronald G. Prinn, MIT, Cambridge, MA; and A. Sokolov and S. Paltsev

Recorded Presentation

11:15 AM

J8.2

Projection of Future Air Quality in South Asia Using High Resolution

Rajesh Kumar, NCAR, Boulder, CO; and M. C. Barth, G. Pfister, J. F. Lamarque, S. Walters, S. Madronich, M. Naja, and S. D. Ghude

Recorded Presentation

11:30 AM

J8.3

Mario Molina's Research Not Only Led to the Solution for the Antarctic Ozone Hole, But it Led to the Solution for Global Warming Caused by Humans Since 1960

Peter L. Ward, USGS Retired, Jackson, WY

Recorded Presentation

11:45 AM

J8.4

Climate Change: Science, Policy and Solutions (Invited Keynote Presentation)

Mario J. Molina, University of California, San Diego, CA

Recorded Presentation

Joint Session 11

Land Data Assimilation Techniques and Systems, Part I

Location: Room 240/241 ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)

Hosts: (Joint between the 30th Conference on Hydrology; and the 20th Conference on Integrated Observing and Assimilation Systems for the Atmosphere, Oceans, and Land Surface (IOAS-AOLS) )

Cochairs: Rolf H. Reichle, NASA/GSFC; Youlong Xia, NOAA/NWS/NCEP/EMC; Clara Draper, NASA/GSFC

11:00 AM

J11.1

Microwave Data Assimilation and Its Potential for Land Surface Model Calibration (Invited Presentation)

Kun Yang, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China

Recorded Presentation

11:15 AM

J11.2

Data Assimilation of SMAP Soil Moisture in a 3-km Regional Model

Clay B. Blankenship, USRA, Huntsville, AL; and J. L. Case and B. T. Zavodsky

Recorded Presentation

Handout (10.6 MB)

11:30 AM

J11.3

Impact of Soil Moisture Assimilation on Land Surface Model Spinup and Coupled Land-Atmosphere Prediction

Joseph A. Santanello Jr., NASA/GSFC, Greenbelt, MD; and S. Kumar, C. Peters-Lidard, and P. Lawston

Recorded Presentation

11:45 AM

J11.4

Assimilation of Remotely Sensed Near-Surface Soil Moisture into the GEOS-5 Atmospheric Modeling and Assimilation System

Clara Draper, NASA/GSFC, Greenbelt, MD; and R. H. Reichle and G. J. M. De Lannoy

Recorded Presentation

Themed Joint Session 11

The Combined Effects of Meteorology and Chemistry on Air Quality

Location: Room 243 ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)

Hosts: (Joint between the Eighth Symposium on Aerosol–Cloud–Climate Interactions; the 19th Joint Conference on the Applications of Air Pollution Meteorology with the A&WMA; and the 18th Conference on Atmospheric Chemistry )

Chair: Jonathan E. Pleim, EPA

11:00 AM

TJ11.1

National Air Quality Forecast Capability Predictions: Chemistry, Meteorology and Emission Impacts

Ivanka Stajner, NOAA/NWS, Silver Spring, MD; and J. McQueen, P. Lee, A. Stein, S. Upadhayay, and P. Dickerson

Recorded Presentation

11:15 AM

TJ11.2

The Impact of Teleconnection-Driven Patterns on Long-Range Transport into Southern California

Marilyn B. Jones, University of Missouri, Columbia, MO; and J. R. Schroeder, N. K. Heath, S. W. Freeman, and D. R. Blake

Recorded Presentation

11:30 AM

TJ11.3

Have Recent Improvements in Air Quality Eliminated the Summertime Warming Hole in the Southeast United States?

Michael G. Tosca, JPL, Pasadena, CA; and M. Garay, O. V. Kalashnikova, J. R. Campbell, F. C. Seidel, and S. Lolli

Recorded Presentation

11:45 AM

TJ11.4

Operational Air Quality Forecasting in Canada: Status and Future Plans

Radenko Pavlovic, EC, Dorval, QC, Canada; and S. Cousineau, S. Menard, M. D. Moran, and S. Gravel

Recorded Presentation

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

Lunch Break

Women in the Atmospheric Sciences Luncheon: What Atom are You?

Location: Room 238/239 ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)

12:15 PM-1:15 PM: Tuesday, 12 January 2016

AMS Publications Workshop — A Panel Discussion on Open Access, Ethics, and Other Hot Topics in Scientific Publishing

Location: Room 335/336 ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)

NASA Earth Science Division Town Hall meeting

Location: Room 242 ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)

Host: Town Hall Meetings

12:15 PM

Earth Science Status and Plans -- Michael Freilich

NOAA Town Hall

Location: Room 255/257 ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)

Host: Town Hall Meetings

12:15 PM

NOAA Town Hall

Recorded Presentation

Presidential Town Hall Meeting: The Historical Development of Meteorology over the Last 100 Years or so, as Seen from Norway

Location: Room 245 ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)

Hosts: (Joint between the Town Hall Meetings; and the 2016 Presidential Forum )

12:15 PM

Panel

Recorded Presentation

12:30 PM

Presidential Town Hall - The Historical Development of Meteorology over the Last 100 Years or so, as seen from Norway

Recorded Presentation

Town Hall Meeting: Contributions of environmental satellites to societal weather readiness and environmental intelligence and security

Location: Room 252/254 ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)

Hosts: (Joint between the Town Hall Meetings; and the 12th Annual Symposium on New Generation Operational Environmental Satellite Systems )

12:15 PM

Introduction and Sponsor Recognition -- Jeffery Puschell

12:15 PM

Douglas Hilderbrand

12:15 PM

Bill Ward

Town Hall Meeting: Strategic DOE Investments for Data in the Atmospheric and Climate Sciences

Location: Room 342 ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)

Host: Town Hall Meetings

12:15 PM

Dean Williams

Town Hall Meeting: “What if the water can’t be stopped?” Tribal Resilience in an Age of Sea Level Rise

Location: Room 344 ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)

Hosts: (Joint between the Town Hall Meetings; and the Special Symposium on Hurricane Katrina: Progress in Leveraging Science, Enhancing Response and Improving Resilience )

12:45 PM-1:05 PM: Tuesday, 12 January 2016

Preparation for the Assimilation of Observations from Next-generation Operational and Reserach Satellites in Numerical Weather Prediction Modeling Systems

Location: Room 348/349 ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)

1:30 PM-2:15 PM: Tuesday, 12 January 2016

Session 2

History of Weather Observations and Tools

Location: Room 231/232 ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)

Host: 14th History Symposium

Chair: Joseph P. Bassi, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University

1:30 PM

2.1

“The Quicksilver Experiment:” and the Establishment of Tabular Data Recording in Early Instrumental Weather Observation

Brant M. Vogel, Independent Scholar, Brooklyn, NY

Recorded Presentation

1:45 PM

2.2

NOAA's Cooperative Observer Program (COOP): 125 Years of Operations and Impact

Nolan J. Doesken, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO; and J. Zdrojewski

Recorded Presentation

2:00 PM

2.3

Meteorology and Photography: A Symbiotic and Historical Relationship

Terry Nathan, Univ. of California, Davis, CA

Recorded Presentation

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

Lecture 2

Bernhard Haurwitz Lecture

Location: La Nouvelle C ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)

1:30 PM

L2.1

What's Happening over the Poles? (Invited Presentation)

John Marshall, MIT, Cambridge, MA

Recorded Presentation

Session 3

Location: Room 335/336 ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)

Host: Fourth AMS Symposium on the Joint Center for Satellite Data Assimilation (JCSDA)

Chair: Jim G. Yoe, NOAA/NESDIS

1:30 PM

3.1

Applications of CrIS Full Spectral Resolution Data in NWP Models to Improve the Quality Control of IR Radiance Assimilation

Xiaolei Zou, University of Maryland, College Park, MD; and F. Weng

Recorded Presentation

3.2

All-sky Microwave Imagers' Radiance Observations Assimilation with GEOS-5: Testing and Further Development

1:45 PM

3.2A

Assimilating New Passive Microwave Data in the NOAA GDAS

Erin Jones, RTi, NOAA/NESDIS/STAR, College Park, MD; and K. Garrett, E. Maddy, K. Kumar, and S. Boukabara

2:00 PM

3.3

A Priori filtering of Radio Occultation Bending Angles in the Moist Atmosphere for Data Assimilation Application

Hui Liu, NCAR, Boulder, CO; and B. Kuo, S. Sokolovskiy, Z. Zeng, and R. Anthes

2:15 PM

3.4

Supporting and facilitating R2O transitions for satellite data assimilation at the DTC

Hui Shao, NCAR/NOAA, College Park, MD; and M. Hu, D. Stark, K. M. Newman, C. Zhou, L. Nance, Y. H. Kuo, and J. Hacker

Recorded Presentation

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

Joint Panel Discussion 1

The NOAA Big Data-CRADAs. An Update and a Look at the Opportunities They Pose for the AMS Community and Its Members

Location: Room 342 ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)

Hosts: (Joint between the 32nd Conference on Environmental Information Processing Technologies; the 14th Conference on Artificial and Computational Intelligence and its Applications to the Environmental Sciences; and the 11th Symposium on Societal Applications: Policy, Research and Practice )

Moderator: Mohan K. Ramamurthy, UCAR

Panelists: William Gail, Global Weather Corp.; Amy Gaskins, NOAA Big Data Project Senior Consultant; George Percivall, Open Geospatial Consortium; Leanne Haselden, IBM; Valliappa Lakshmanan, Climate Corporation; Maria Patterson, Open Science Data Cloud

1:30 PM

William Gail

Recorded Presentation

3:00 PM

Amy Gaskins

Recorded Presentation

4:30 PM

George Percivall

Recorded Presentation

6:00 PM

Leanne Haselden

Recorded Presentation

7:30 PM

Valliappa Lakshmanan

Recorded Presentation

9:00 PM

Maria Patterson

Recorded Presentation

10:30 PM

JPD1.1

Panel Discussion

Panel Discussion 2

Challenges in Meeting Water Needs for Cities in the World’s Developing Nations

Location: Room 244 ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)

Host: Fourth Symposium on the Weather, Water, and Climate Enterprise

Moderators: Melinda Marquis, NOAA; Kathleen A. Miller, NCAR

Panelists: Marcus Moench, Institute for Social and Environmental Transition; David Yates, NCAR

1:30 PM

Marcus Moench

Recorded Presentation

1:30 PM

David Yates

Recorded Presentation

Joint Panel Discussion 2

Local Voices: Louisiana Bayou Tribes Discuss Living with Climate Challenges

Location: Room 333-334 ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)

Hosts: (Joint between the 11th Symposium on Societal Applications: Policy, Research and Practice; and the Special Symposium on Hurricane Katrina: Progress in Leveraging Science, Enhancing Response and Improving Resilience )

Moderators: Heather Lazrus, NCAR; Randy A. Peppler, CIMMS/Univ. of Oklahoma

Panelists: Chief Albert Naquin, Chief of the Isle de Jean Charles Band of Biloxi-Chitimacha-Choctaw Indians; Theresa Dardar, Member of the Pointe-au-Chien Indian Tribe; Rosina Philippe, Member of the Grand Bayou Village Indian Tribe; Kristina Peterson, Facilitator for the Lowlander Center; Julie Maldonado, Livelihoods Knowledge Exchange Network/Univ. of California; Bob Gough, Intertribal Council on Utility Policy

1:30 PM

PD2.1

Local Voices: Louisiana Bayou Tribes Discuss Living with Climate Challenges

Randy A. Peppler, CIMMS/Univ. of Oklahoma, Norman, OK; and H. Lazrus

Recorded Presentation

Workshop Session 3

Brief Python Tutorials Workshop, Part III

Location: Room 225 ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)

Host: Sixth Symposium on Advances in Modeling and Analysis Using Python

Lecturers: Hannah Aizenman, City College of New York; Johnny Wei-Bing Lin

1:30 PM

Simple Stuff With Pandas

2:00 PM

Getting a Package Using Pip

2:15 PM

Tips on Making Multiple Plots in Matplotlib

2:45 PM

Simple Tips On Writing a Cross-Platform Program

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

Recorded Presentation

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

Recorded Presentation

2:00 PM

J3.3

Advances in Detection of Volcanic Ash from Commercial Aircraft

Darrel Baumgardner, Droplet Measurement Technologies, Boulder, CO; and M. Freer, A. Durant, and A. Vogel

Recorded Presentation

2:15 PM

J3.4

Volcanic Eruption Response by NWS Alaska: A Multi-Hazard Risk Based Approach to Warning Services

Jeffrey M. Osiensky, NOAA/NWS, Anchorage, AK; and D. Moore, K. Nelson, and A. Fish

J3.5

Capabilities of Detecting Aerosol Layers with Coherent Doppler LIDARs for Enhancing Forecasting and Warning Systems

2:30 PM

J3.5A

SHORTCASTING OF ONE HOUR MICRO SCALE CLOUD FRACTION TREND THROUGH CLOUD INFRARED RADIOMETER DATA

Thierry Besnard, ATMOS sarl, Saint Saturnin, France; and A. Ventre, M. Bleuse, L. Berger, A. El Kaabouchi, and D. Gillotay

Recorded Presentation Manuscript (472.5 kB)

Handout (951.1 kB)

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

Session 3

Major Floods and Fires of 2015

Location: Room 338/339 ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)

Host: IMPACTS: Major Weather Events and Impacts of 2015

Cochairs: Tanja Fransen, NOAA/NWS; Klaus E. Wolter, ESRL/Univ of Colorado-CIRES

1:30 PM

3.1

Which Came First: The End of Drought or the Beginning of Flood (in Texas in 2015)?

John Nielsen-Gammon, Texas A&M Univ., College Station, TX

Recorded Presentation

Handout (39.9 MB)

1:45 PM

3.2

Flash Flood Emergency — Houston

Jeffry S. Evans, NOAA/NWS/WFO, Dickinson, TX; and J. Lindner

Recorded Presentation

2:00 PM

3.3

The 2015 Storm Season in the Greater Dallas Fort Worth Metroplex: Record Rain, Floods, and Severe Weather

Brenda J. Philips, Univ. of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA; and C. League, V. Chandrasekar, F. Junyent, D. J. Seo, and J. T. Bradshaw

Recorded Presentation

3.4

Impacts from the 2015 Memorial Day Weekend Blanco River, Texas, Flood & Lessons Learned in Communicating the Message

2:15 PM

3.4.A

Assessing the Value of DSS: Using Experimental Short Term Ensemble River Forecasts for Evacuation Decisions in Wichita Falls, Texas

Richard Smith, NOAA/NWSFO, Norman, OK; and T. Lindley, S. Kruckenberg, S. Curl, J. Kurtz, J. H. Paul, R. Harjo, L. Myers, and V. Brown

Recorded Presentation

2:30 PM

3.5

2015 Fire Season in Alaska — Unprecedented IDSS to support an Unprecedented Season

Richard L. Thoman Jr., NOAA, Fairbanks, AK; and A. Fish

Recorded Presentation

2:45 PM

3.6

The 2015 Wildfire Season: 420,002,015th Year of Biomass Burning on Earth

Timothy J. Brown, DRI, Reno, NV

Recorded Presentation

Session 3

Selections of Student Research on New Generation Operational Environmental Satellite Systems

Location: Room 252/254 ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)

Host: 12th Annual Symposium on New Generation Operational Environmental Satellite Systems

Cochairs: Ethan L. Nelson, University of Wisconsin-Madison; Steven Ackerman, CIMSS/Univ. of Wisconsin

1:30 PM

3.1

A Physical Model for Television Frequency Interference (TFI) Correction of AMSR2 Data over Ocean near U. S. and Europe

Xiaoxu Tian, University of Maryland, College Park, MD; and X. Zou and F. Weng

Recorded Presentation

1:45 PM

3.2

Ten Year Climatology of CAPE Observations East of the Rocky Mountains from Hyperspectral IR Sounders

Jessica M. Gartzke, CIMSS/Univ. of Wisconsin, Madison, WI; and R. Knuteson, S. A. Ackerman, W. Feltz, and G. Przybyl

Recorded Presentation Manuscript (1.6 MB)

2:00 PM

3.3

Limb Correction of Infrared Imagery in Cloudy Regions for the Improved Interpretation of RGB Composites

Nicholas J. Elmer, University of Alabama, Huntsville, AL; and E. Berndt and G. J. Jedlovec

Recorded Presentation Manuscript (1011.9 kB)

Handout (2.6 MB)

2:15 PM

3.4

Characterization of Nighttime Light Variability over the Southeastern United States

Tony A. Cole, University of Alabama, Huntsville, AL; and A. L. Molthan and L. A. Schultz

Recorded Presentation

2:30 PM

3.5

Sea Ice Mapping Algorithm for Future Operational Geostationary Satellites

Rouzbeh Nazari, Rowan University, Glassboro, NJ; and P. Dorofy, P. Romanov, and R. Khanbilvardi

Recorded Presentation

2:45 PM

3.6

On the Development of Real-time GOES-SRSOR Derived Flow Products of Deep Convective Cloud Tops

Jason Apke, University of Alabama, Huntsville, AL; and J. R. Mecikalski, C. P. Jewett, and L. D. Carey

Recorded Presentation

Session 4

Flood prediction, analysis, decision support, & management, Part I

Location: Room 242 ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)

Host: 30th Conference on Hydrology

Cochairs: J.J. Gourley, NOAA/NSSL; Thomas Adams, NOAA/NWS

1:30 PM

4.1

Iowa Real-Time Flood Forecasting System

Witold F. Krajewski, Univ. of Iowa, Iowa City, IA

Recorded Presentation

1:45 PM

4.2

Hydrologic Modeling at the National Water Center: Operational Implementation of the WRF-Hydro Model to support National Weather Service Hydrology

Brian Cosgrove, NWS/Office of Water Prediction, Silver Spring, MD; and D. J. Gochis, E. Clark, Z. Cui, A. Dugger, G. Fall, X. Feng, M. A. Fresch, J. J. Gourley, S. Khan, D. Kitzmiller, H. Lee, Y. Liu, J. McCreight, A. Newman, A. Oubeidillah, L. Pan, C. Pham, F. Salas, K. Sampson, G. Sood, M. B. Smith, A. W. Wood, D. Yates, W. Yu, and Y. Zhang

Recorded Presentation

2:00 PM

4.3

Toward estimating the probability of flood severity over the United States

Pierre-Emmanuel Kirstetter, NOAA/NSSL / Univ. of Oklahoma, Norman, OK; and H. Vergara, J. J. Gourley, and Z. L. Flamig

2:15 PM

4.4

River Ice and Flood Detection Products Derived from Suomi NPP VIIRS Satellite Data to Support 2015 Hydrologic Forecast Operations in Alaska

Melissa Kreller, NOAA/NWSFO, Fairbanks, AK; and E. W. Plumb, E. Holloway, and S. Li

Recorded Presentation

2:30 PM

4.5

Opportunities and Challenges of Ensemble-based Probablistic Hydrologic Predictions

Robert Hartman, NOAA, Sacramento, CA; and A. Henkel, B. Whitin, and K. He

Recorded Presentation

2:45 PM

4.6

Real-time demonstration and evaluation of over-the-loop medium-range ensemble streamflow forecasting

Andrew W. Wood, NCAR, Boulder, CO; and B. Nijssen, P. Mendoza, M. Clark, J. R. Arnold, L. D. Brekke, and S. Gangopadhyay

Session 5

Building a WRN Through More Effective Communications

Location: Room 255/257 ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)

Host: Fourth Symposium on Building a Weather-Ready Nation: Enhancing Our Nation’s Readiness, Responsiveness, and Resilience to High Impact Weather Events

Chair: Dave Jones, StormCenter Communications, Inc.

1:30 PM

5.1

Communicating Storm Surge Forecast Uncertainty

John A. Troutman, California University of Pennsylvania, California, PA; and J. Rhome

Recorded Presentation

1:45 PM

5.2

Using NWS Criteria to Name Winter Storms

Bryan Norcross, The Weather Channel, Atlanta, GA

Recorded Presentation

2:00 PM

5.3

Extreme Weather Experience

Erik Salna, FIU Extreme Events Institute, Miami, FL

Recorded Presentation

2:15 PM

5.4

Better Communication During Severe Weather to Keep the Public Better Informed

Christopher John Gloninger, Media, Milwaukee, WI

Recorded Presentation Manuscript (148.5 kB)

2:30 PM

5.5

Forecasting Rainfall When it Matters: Providing Context for Precipitation Forecasts

Richard Grumm, NOAA/NWSFO, State College, PA; and T. Alcott and J. W. Scheck

Recorded Presentation

2:45 PM

5.6

Targeted Safety Messaging during Hazardous Weather Situations at the Daytona International Speedway

William A. Ulrich, NOAA/NWS, Melbourne, FL; and T. Sedlock, D. S. Kelly, S. Spratt, D. Sharp, F. Johnson, L. LaHue, and T. Willrick

Recorded Presentation

Session 5

Innovative Teaching Strategies in University Instruction focused on Earth System Science

Location: Room 353 ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)

Host: 25th Symposium on Education

Chair: Mark W. Seefeldt, CIRES/Univ. of Colorado

1:30 PM

5.1

Transition to a Research-style Approach in an Undergraduate Earth Science Laboratory Course

Rebecca Paulsen Edwards, Southwestern University, Georgetown, TX

Recorded Presentation

1:45 PM

5.2

The Missing Link: Where is Earth Systems Science in the Environmental Studies Curriculum?

Jessica M. Kleiss, Lewis and Clark College, Portland, OR; and K. P. O'Neill

Recorded Presentation

2:00 PM

5.3

Imbedding an Earth Systems Perspective Throughout a Traditional Meteorology Degree Program

Richard Wagner, Metropolitan State University of Denver, Denver, CO; and K. C. Schuenemann

Recorded Presentation

2:15 PM

5.4

Teaching the Human Relationship of Our Changing Climate with AMS Resources

Chad M. Kauffman, California University of Pennsylvania, California, PA; and J. A. Brey, E. W. Mills, K. A. Nugnes, I. W. Geer, and R. S. Weinbeck

2:30 PM

5.5

Using Multimedia to Teach Climate Science Concepts to Undergraduate Students

Lindsay E. Johnson, University of Northern Colorado, Greeley, CO

Recorded Presentation

2:45 PM

5.6

Making Sense of Climate Science Denial MOOC videos: a resource for educators and meteorologists

Keah C. Schuenemann, Metropolitan State University, Boulder, CO; and J. Cook

Recorded Presentation

Session 5

Topics in Interannual Variability: Part 1

Location: La Nouvelle A ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)

Host: 28th Conference on Climate Variability and Change

Chair: Ben Kirtman, RSMAS

1:30 PM

5.1

Tropical Atmospheric Forcing of the Wintertime North Atlantic Oscillation

Bin Yu, EC, Toronto, ON, Canada; and H. Lin

Recorded Presentation

1:45 PM

5.2

Observed Oceanic and Terrestrial Drivers of North African Climate

Yan Yu, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI; and M. Notaro, F. Wang, J. Mao, X. Shi, and Y. Wei

Recorded Presentation

2:00 PM

5.3

An Analytical Model for Understanding Tropical Meridional Mode Behavior

Daniel J. Vimont, University of Wisconsin - Madison, Madison, WI; and C. Martinez-Villalobos

Recorded Presentation

2:15 PM

5.4

A Comparison of ENSO Variability in PMIP3 Models to Observations in the Southwest Pacific

Grace Duke, University of Maryland, College Park, MD

Recorded Presentation

2:30 PM

5.5

The Early-1990s Climate Shift in the Pacific: Evidence in ENSO Diversity and Its Linkage to the Atlantic Multi-decadal Oscillation

Jin-Yi Yu, University of California, Irvine, CA; and H. Paek, E. S. Saltzman, and T. Lee

Recorded Presentation

2:45 PM

5.6

Deterministic and Stochastic Aspects of El NiñO's Impact on Atlantic Tropical Cyclones

Christina M. Patricola, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX; and P. Chang and R. Saravanan

Recorded Presentation

Session 5

Wind Forecasting: Energy Application Part 2

Location: Room 346/347 ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)

Host: Seventh Conference on Weather, Climate, Water and the New Energy Economy

Chair: Katherine McCaffrey, NOAA/ESRL/PSD

1:30 PM

5.1

Improving Short-Term Wind Ramp Forecasting in the Tehachapi Wind Resource Area through Targeted Measurements and Next-Generation Prediction Techniques

John W. Zack, MESO, Inc., Troy, NY; and C. P. van Dam, S. H. Chen, C. Y. Chen, and C. P. MacDonald

Recorded Presentation

1:45 PM

5.2

Extreme Weather Alerts for Wind Energy Forecasts

Kristin Larson, Global Weather Corporation, Boulder, CO; and B. Basarab, S. Motley, and R. L. Bigley

Recorded Presentation

Handout (628.3 kB) Handout (630.4 kB)

5.3

Re-Analysis Data for Fine Temporal Resolution Wind Power Estimation: A Comparison of Boundary Layer Parameterizations

2:00 PM

5.4

Exploring the Impacts of Wind Forecasting Error on the PJM Electrical Grid for Offshore Wind in the Mid-Atlantic

Dana Veron, University of Delaware, Newark, DE; and J. F. Brodie, Y. Shirazi, and J. Gilchrist

Recorded Presentation

2:30 PM

5.5

Analysis of Short-term Wind Power Forecasting in the Northeastern United States

Xi Xia, IBM Research, Beijing, China; and X. Rui, X. Bai, W. Yin, J. Dong, L. A. Treinish, A. P. Praino, J. P. Cipriani, I. Khabibrakhmanov, M. Coombs, and A. Stamp

Recorded Presentation

2:45 PM

5.6

Dealing with Power Curve Uncertainty — Evaluation of Various Wind (power) Calibration Techniques

Gerald van der Grijn, MeteoGroup, Wageningen, Netherlands; and Y. van der Schans-Hinssen, H. Asseng, and B. Barahona

Joint Session 6

Observing System Simulation Experiments (OSSEs) I

Location: Room 345 ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)

Cochairs: Lidia Cucurull, NOAA/OAR/ESRL; Sean P. F. Casey, JCSDA/Earth System Science Interdisciplinary Center

1:30 PM

J6.1

Lessons Learned with the NASA/GMAO OSSE

Nikki Prive, Morgan State University, Greenbelt, MD; and R. Errico

1:45 PM

J6.2

Towards High-Resolution NMM-B Nature Run Weather Forecasts for Hurricane OSSEs

Javier Delgado, NOAA/AOML, Miami, FL; and T. Quirino, S. Gopalakrishnan, and R. Atlas

Recorded Presentation

2:00 PM

J6.3

Validation of Hurricane OSSE

Lisa Bucci, University of Miami and NOAA/AOML, Miami, FL; and K. Ryan, P. P. Dodge, B. Annane, J. Delgado, H. Christophersen, K. Sellwood, S. T. Murillo, and R. Atlas

Recorded Presentation

2:15 PM

J6.4

OSSE Assessment of Ocean Observing Strategies to Improve Coupled Tropical Cyclone Prediction

G. R. Halliwell Jr., NOAA/AOML, Miami, FL; and M. F. Mehari, J. Dong, V. H. Kourafalou, R. Atlas, H. S. Kang, and M. Le Henaff

Recorded Presentation

2:30 PM

J6.5

Assimilation of GOES-R ABI Satellite and WSR-88D Radar Observations During a Convection-Resolving OSSE

Rebecca M. Cintineo, CIMSS/Univ. of Wisconsin, Madison, WI; and J. Otkin, T. A. Jones, S. Koch, L. J. Wicker, and D. J. Stensrud

Recorded Presentation

2:45 PM

J6.6

Impact of CYGNSS Data on Tropical Cyclone Analyses and Forecasts in a Regional OSSE Framework

Brian D. McNoldy, Univ. of Miami/RSMAS, Miami, FL; and B. Annane, J. Delgado, L. Bucci, R. Atlas, S. J. Majumdar, M. Leidner, and R. N. Hoffman

Recorded Presentation

Session 6

Statistical Postprocessing of Ensemble Forecasts – Part 1

Location: Room 226/227 ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)

Host: 23rd Conference on Probability and Statistics in the Atmospheric Sciences

Chair: Daniel S. Wilks, Cornell University

1:30 PM

6.1

Statistical Post-processing of Ensemble Forecasts: Recent Developments and Current Issues (Invited Presentation)

Michael Scheuerer, NOAA, Boulder, CO

Recorded Presentation

2:00 PM

6.2

A Comparative Study of Statistical Post-processing Methods for the Calibration of Ensemble Forecasts

Nina Schuhen, Met Office, Exeter, United Kingdom; and P. Buchanan, G. Evans, and S. Jackson

2:15 PM

6.3

Inclusion of New Ensemble Probabilistic Forecasts to NAEFS

Bo Cui, IMSG at EMC/NCEP, College Park, MD; and Y. Zhu, H. Guan, and W. Meng

Recorded Presentation

2:30 PM

6.4

Improvement of Multi-model Ensemble Forecasting using Recursive Bayesian Model Process

Hong Guan, Systems Research Group Inc./EMC/NCEP/NOAA, College Park, MD; and J. Zhu and B. Cui

Recorded Presentation

2:45 PM

6.5

Consensus Forecasting using Constrained, Regularized Regression

John K. Williams, The Weather Company, an IBM Business, Andover, MA; and P. P. Neilley, J. P. Koval, and J. McDonald

Recorded Presentation

Session 6A

Observing and Predicting Convective Initiation in the Southeast U.S.

Location: Room 350/351 ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)

Host: 18th Symposium on Meteorological Observation and Instrumentation

Chair: Roy Rasmussen, NCAR

1:30 PM

6A.1

An Examination of Surface Energy Force/Response Using High Temporal Resolution Data During Periods of Summertime Convection in the Southeastern United States

Tilden P. Meyers, NOAA/OAR/ARL/ATDD, Oak Ridge, TN; and T. R. Lee, C. A. Vogel, and W. Pendergrass

Recorded Presentation

1:45 PM

6A.2

A Statistical Methodology for Coupled Observational and NWP–based 1-4 hour Forecasts of Convective Storm Initiation

John R. Mecikalski, Univ. of Alabama, Huntsville, AL; and C. P. Jewett, U. Narayan, X. Li, and T. Berendes

Recorded Presentation

2:00 PM

6A.3

An Observational Study of Convection Initiation under Quiescent Conditions in the Southeastern United States

Temple R. Lee, NOAA ATDD/University of Maryland ESSIC, Oak Ridge, TN; and T. P. Meyers, C. B. Baker, J. Kochendorfer, W. Pendergrass, M. Buban, M. W. Heuer, D. Senn, and R. White

Recorded Presentation

2:15 PM

6A.4

Evaluation of Radiometrics MP-3000A Computed Convective Indices

William Pendergrass, NOAA/OAR/ARL/ATDD, Oak Ridge, TN; and T. P. Meyers and R. White

Recorded Presentation

2:30 PM

6A.5

The Simulated Effect of Surface Flux Heterogeneity on Convection Initiation in the Southeast US

Michael Buban, NOAA/OAR/ARL/ATDD, Oak Ridge, TN; and R. Eckman, T. P. Meyers, and C. B. Baker

Recorded Presentation

2:45 PM

6A.6

Combining Satellite and Radar in the Development of a 0-1 hour Lightning Threat Algorithm

John R. Mecikalski, Univ. of Alabama, Huntsville, AL; and C. P. Jewett, L. Carey, T. Chronis, G. T. Stano, and B. T. Zavodsky

Recorded Presentation

Session 6B

Inter-Comparison and Calibration of Instruments

Location: Room 355 ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)

Host: 18th Symposium on Meteorological Observation and Instrumentation

Chair: Steven P. Oncley, NCAR

1:30 PM

6B.1

Suomi NPP OMPS Radiometric Calibration Sensitivity Evaluation on OMPS SDR and EDR

Jian Zeng, ERT and NOAA/NESDIS/STAR, College Park, MD; and F. Weng and Z. Zhang

1:45 PM

6B.2

Intercomparison Experiment for Anemometers in Snowfall Season in Hokuriku Region, Japan

Shin Miyazaki, Sonic Corporation, Tachikawa, Japan; and S. Nakai, K. Yamashita, Y. Ito, A. Ohtani, S. Uchiyama, Y. Watanabe, K. Yokoyama, and S. Yamaguchi

Recorded Presentation

2:00 PM

6B.3

A Preliminary Discussion on the National Weather Service's Upper Air Data Continuity Study

Ryan Brown, CyberData Technologies, Herndon, VA; and J. Fitzgibbon

Recorded Presentation

6B.4

Evaluation of Mechanically-Aspirated Temperature/Relative Humidity Radiation Shields

2:15 PM

6B.4A

Assessing Microwave Radiometer's Retrievals and Radio Acoustic Sounding System's Measurements for Wind Energy Applications

Laura Bianco, NOAA/ESRL/PSD and CIRES/Univ. of Colorado, Boulder, CO; and K. Friedrich, J. M. Wilczak, D. Hazen, D. Wolfe, R. Delgado, and J. K. Lundquist

Recorded Presentation

2:30 PM

6B.5

Quality Control and Extreme Values of Surface Temperature Measurements from the South Alabama Mesonet

Sytske Kimball, University of South Alabama, Mobile, AL

Recorded Presentation

2:45 PM

6B.6

Performance Stability Evaluation of Clouds and Earth's Radiant Energy System (CERES) Instruments on EOS-Terra, EOS-Aqua and S-NPP Spacecraft

Susan Thomas, SSAI, Hampton, VA; and M. Shankar, N. M. Smith, D. R. Walikainen, N. P. Smith, P. C. Hess, R. S. Wilson, Z. P. Szewczyk, and K. J. Priestley

Recorded Presentation

Joint Session 9

Atmospheric Chemistry Lab, Field, and Modeling Studies (I)

Location: Room 343 ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)

Hosts: (Joint between the Mario J. Molina Symposium; and the 18th Conference on Atmospheric Chemistry )

Cochairs: R. Dickerson, University of Maryland; John Burrows, University of Breman

1:30 PM

J9.1

Measuring Sources and Sinks of Greenhouse Gases at The "Missing Scales: Ecosystem to Continent, Weeks to Decades (Invited Keynote Presentation)

Steven Wofsy, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA

Recorded Presentation

1:45 PM

J9.2

Observing the Anthropocene from Instrumentation on Aircraft and Space: (from SCIAMACHY to CarbonSat and SCIA-ISS)

John P. Burrows, University of Bremen, Bremen, Germany

Recorded Presentation

2:00 PM

J9.3

Measurements of Bromine Monoxide and Iodine Monoxide in the Lower Stratosphere: Constraints on Total Inorganic Halogen Budgets and Chlorine Activation

Theodore Koenig, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO; and R. Volkamer, S. Baidar, B. Dix, E. Atlas, S. Schauffler, V. Donets, R. Lueb, M. Navarro, E. C. Apel, N. J. Blake, A. Hill, R. Hornbrook, D. D. Riemer, A. J. Weinheimer, S. Hall, K. Ullmann, T. Hanisco, G. M. Wolfe, D. Anderson, T. L. Campos, M. Reeves, P. Romashkin, L. L. Pan, R. J. Salawitch, S. Y. Wang, A. Saiz-Lopez, R. P. Fernandez, D. Kinnison, J. F. Lamarque, D. J. Jacob, J. Schmidt, M. Evans, and T. Sherwen

Recorded Presentation

2:15 PM

J9.4

Tropical Tropospheric Bromine and Stratospheric Injection from VSL Compounds Inferred from CONTRAST and ATTREX

Ross J. Salawitch, University of Maryland, College Park, College Park, MD; and P. Wales, J. M. Nicely, D. C. Anderson, T. P. Canty, S. Choi, J. P. Joiner, E. Atlas, S. Schauffler, V. Donets, R. A. Lueb, M. Navarro, E. C. Apel, N. J. Blake, A. Hills, R. Hornbrook, D. D. Riemer, D. Chen, L. G. Huey, D. Tanner, R. Volkamer, T. Koenig, S. Baidar, B. Dix, A. J. Weinheimer, G. M. Wolfe, T. Hanisco, S. Hall, K. Ullmann, R. P. Fernandez, A. Saiz-Lopez, D. E. Kinnison, J. F. Lamarque, S. Honomichl, and L. L. Pan

Recorded Presentation

2:30 PM

J9.5

Direct Radiative Forcing of Black Carbon Particles: A Global Climate Model Perspective

Yuan Wang, California Institute of Technology/JPL, Pasadena, CA; and J. Peng, M. Hu, and R. Zhang

2:45 PM

J9.6

Combining Laboratory Studies and Radiative Transfer Modeling to Better Assess the Risks of Geoengineering Using Stratospheric Aerosols

John A. Dykema, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA; and F. N. Keutsch and D. W. Keith

Recorded Presentation

Joint Session 9

Innovations in Observing Tropical Cyclones and Aspects of Storm Surge

Location: Room 344 ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)

Cochairs: Christopher S. Velden, CIMSS/Unviersity of Wisconsin; Patrick J. Fitzpatrick, Geosystems Research Institute, Mississippi State University; Douglas Hilderbrand, NOAA/NWS; Jamie R. Rhome, NOAA/NWS/NCEP/TPC/NHC

1:30 PM

J9.1

Innovations Over the Past Decade Enhancing the NOAA WP-3D and Gulfstream G-IV Aircraft

Richard G. Henning, NOAA Aircraft Operations Center, MacDill AFB, FL; and P. Flaherty

Recorded Presentation

Handout (3.7 MB)

1:45 PM

J9.2

Progress in Satellite Tropical Cyclone Monitoring: Katrina and Beyond

Jeffrey Hawkins, Retired, Carmel, CA; and C. S. Velden

Recorded Presentation

2:00 PM

J9.3

Leveraging Private-Sector Innovation in Weather Data Collection for Better Forecasts of High-Impact Events

Rob Kursinski, PlanetiQ, Boulder, CO

Recorded Presentation

2:15 PM

J9.4

Storm Surge Then and Now: Improvements since Hurricane Katrina

Jamie Rhome, NOAA/NHC, Miami, FL; and N. Hardin, W. Booth, C. Forbes, C. L. Fritz, E. Gibney, T. Sharon, and B. C. Zachry

Recorded Presentation

2:30 PM

J9.5

Improvements in NWS’s Tropical Storm Surge Guidance since Hurricane Katrina

Arthur A. Taylor, NOAA/NWS, Silver Spring, MD; and A. Van der Westhuysen

Recorded Presentation

2:45 PM

J9.6

Improvements to Southeast Louisiana's Floodwalls and Pump Stations since Katrina — the Hurricane and Storm Damage Risk Reduction System (HSDRRS)

Pat Fitzpatrick, Mississippi State University, Stennis Space Center, MS

Recorded Presentation

Joint Session 9

Integrative Approaches to Understanding Extreme Temperature Risk III

Location: Room 228/229 ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)

Hosts: (Joint between the Seventh Conference on Environment and Health; and the 11th Symposium on Societal Applications: Policy, Research and Practice )

Chair: Mary H. Hayden, NCAR/RAL

1:30 PM

J9.1

Spatial Delineation of the Temperature-mortality Relationship During Extreme Hot Weather: a Case Study in Greater Vancouver, Canada

Hung Chak Ho, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, BC, Canada; and S. B. Henderson, A. Knudby, and B. B. Walker

Recorded Presentation

1:45 PM

J9.2

Where to Wear iButtons: Individual Level Temperature and Humidity Observations for Public Health Surveillance

Justin S. Dumas, Florida Department of Health, Tallahassee, FL; and M. A. Jagger and K. W. Kintziger

Recorded Presentation

J9.3

Comparative Assessment of the Impact of Cold and Hot on Mortality in Ontario (Canada)

2:15 PM

J9.4

Do Spatial Heat Vulnerability Assessment Studies Influence Policy?

Tanja Wolf, King's College London, London, United Kingdom; and W. C. Chuang and G. R. McGregor

Recorded Presentation

2:30 PM

J9.5

A Comparison of Heat Indices for Quantifying Heat-Health Risk

Daniel J. Vecellio, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX; and S. M. Quiring, J. K. Vanos, and A. Garza

2:45 PM

J9.6

Exploring the Meteorological Origins of Winter Mortality in England Using Back Trajectory Analysis

Glenn Russell McGregor, Univ. of Durham, Durham, United Kingdom; and K. Dimitriou, P. Kassomenos, and A. Paschalidou

Recorded Presentation

Themed Joint Session 12

Atmospheric Chemistry and Aerosols in Weather and Climate Prediction and Analysis

Location: Room 357 ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)

Hosts: (Joint between the Eighth Symposium on Aerosol–Cloud–Climate Interactions; the 22nd Conference on Applied Climatology; the 28th Conference on Climate Variability and Change; the 19th Joint Conference on the Applications of Air Pollution Meteorology with the A&WMA; and the 18th Conference on Atmospheric Chemistry )

Chair: Pablo E. Saide, NCAR

Cochairs: Paul Bieringer, Aeris; Gregory Carmichael, University of Iowa

1:30 PM

TJ12.1

Aerosol Awareness in a Convective Parameterization for Deep and Shallow Convection: Comparison to Cloud Resolving Simulations (Invited Presentation)

Georg A. Grell, NOAA, Boulder, CO; and S. R. Freitas, P. Marrapu, and S. E. Peckham

Recorded Presentation

1:45 PM

TJ12.2

Impacts of Anthropogenic Air Pollution on Precipitation in Downwind Mountains

Jiwen Fan, PNNL, Richland, WA; and Y. Yang, D. Rosenfeld, L. R. Leung, C. Zhao, and Z. Li

Recorded Presentation

2:00 PM

TJ12.3

Recent Advances in Aerosol Treatments in Climate Modeling (Invited Presentation)

Philip Rasch, PNNL, Richland, WA

Recorded Presentation

2:15 PM

TJ12.4

The Modern-Era Retrospective Analysis for Research and Applications, Version 2: The Goddard Aerosol Assimilation System Aerosol Reanalysis 1979 — Present

Cynthia A. Randles, NASA/GSFC, Greenbelt, MD; and A. Da Silva, V. Buchard, P. Colarco, A. S. Darmenov, V. Aquila, H. Yu, H. Bian, and R. Govindaraju

TJ12.5

Physicochemical Characterization of Coastal Aerosols over the Mediterranean- Comparison with WRF-Chem Simulations

2:30 PM

TJ12.5A

Boundary Layer Clouds and Absorbing Aerosols in the Southeast Atlantic

Adeyemi Adebiyi, RSMAS, Miami, FL; and P. Zuidema

Recorded Presentation

2:45 PM

TJ12.6

How We Can Constrain Aerosol Type Globally

Ralph Kahn, NASA/GSFC, Greenbelt, MD

Handout (14.6 MB)

Joint Session 12

Land Data Assimilation Techniques and Systems, Part II

Location: Room 240/241 ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)

Hosts: (Joint between the 30th Conference on Hydrology; and the 20th Conference on Integrated Observing and Assimilation Systems for the Atmosphere, Oceans, and Land Surface (IOAS-AOLS) )

Cochairs: Rolf H. Reichle, NASA/GSFC; Youlong Xia, NOAA/NWS/NCEP/EMC; Clara Draper, NASA/GSFC

1:30 PM

J12.1

Land Data Assimilation Systems (LDAS) of the National Centers for Environmental Modeling Prediction (NCEP): Current Status and Future Plan

Michael B. Ek, NOAA/NCEP, College Park, MD; and Y. Xia, J. Meng, R. Shrestha, H. Wei, J. Dong, Y. Wu, and K. Mitchell

Recorded Presentation

1:45 PM

J12.2

Assimilation of Soil Moisture Data from a Regional Network of Cosmic Ray Probes in the Land Surface-Subsurface Model TerrSysMP (Invited Presentation)

Harrie-Jan Hendricks Franssen, Forschungszentrum, Julich, Germany; and W. Kurtz and H. Vereecken

Recorded Presentation

2:00 PM

J12.3

Real-Time, Continental Scale Streamflow Nudging with WRF-Hydro: A First Benchmark

James McCreight, NCAR, Boulder, Colorado; and Y. Wu, D. Gochis, A. Raffieei Nasab, A. Dugger, W. Yu, B. Cosgrove, Z. Cui, A. Oubeidillah, and D. Briar

Recorded Presentation

2:15 PM

J12.4

Using the Ensemble Kalman Filter Recursively to Update Soil Moisture Estimates in a Conceptually-Based Distributed Hydrologic Model

Andrea R. Thorstensen, University of California, Irvine, Irvine, CA; and P. Nguyen, R. J. Zamora, K. Hsu, and S. Sorooshian

Recorded Presentation

2:30 PM

J12.5

Evaluating the utility of satellite soil moisture retrievals over irrigated areas and the ability of land data assimilation methods to correct for unmodeled processes

Sujay Kumar, NASA/GSFC, Greenbelt, MD; and C. Peters-Lidard, J. A. Santanello Jr., R. H. Reichle, C. Draper, R. D. Koster, G. S. Nearing, and M. F. Jasinski

Recorded Presentation

2:45 PM

J12.6

NCA-LDAS: An Integrated Terrestrial Water Analysis System for Development, Evaluation, and Dissemination of National Climate Indicators

Christa Peters-Lidard, NASA/GSFC, Greenbelt, MD; and M. F. Jasinski, S. V. Kumar, K. R. Arsenault, H. Beaudoing, J. Bolten, J. S. Borak, S. J. Kempler, B. Li, Y. Liu, D. M. Mocko, M. Rodell, and B. Vollmer

Themed Joint Session 13

Helping Society Mitigate and Adapt to Climate Variability and Change Part I

Location: Room 245 ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)

Hosts: (Joint between the 22nd Conference on Applied Climatology; the 11th Symposium on Societal Applications: Policy, Research and Practice; the Fourth Symposium on the Weather, Water, and Climate Enterprise; and the 28th Conference on Climate Variability and Change )

Chair: Nancy J. Selover, Arizona State University

1:30 PM

TJ13.1

Expanding the Scope and User Community of NOAA's Climate Data Records (CDRs)

Daniel Wunder, Global Science & Technology Inc., Asheville, NC; and W. J. Glance and X. Zhao

Recorded Presentation

1:45 PM

TJ13.2

The U.S. Air Force's Climate Monitoring, Analysis, and Prediction (CMAP) Capability—Fusing Global Climate-scale Intelligence with Long-term Risk Analysis and Military Decision-making

Ryan J. Harris, United States Air Force, Asheville, NC

Recorded Presentation

2:00 PM

TJ13.3

Transient Climate Sensitivity of Simple Climate Models

Adria Schwarber, University of Maryland, College Park, MD; and S. Smith and C. Hartin

Recorded Presentation

2:15 PM

TJ13.4

The NIDIS Coping with Drought Initiative: Understanding Drought Awareness and Informing Drought Early Warning Systems

Nancy Beller-Simms, NOAA, Silver Spring, MD; and C. Nierenberg

Recorded Presentation

2:30 PM

TJ13.5

Agro-climatological Support of International Food Security Assessments by the Famine Early Warning Systems Network

Andrew Hoell, NOAA, Boulder, CO; and J. Verdin

Recorded Presentation

2:45 PM

TJ13.6

Policy Implications for an Optimized Electric Power System Utilizing a National High-Voltage Direct-Current Transmission Network

Paul D. Picciano, NOAA/Pomona College, Seattle, WA; and C. T. Clack, J. Paine, and L. M. Terry

Handout (13.3 MB)

Joint Session 14

Advances in Space Weather Modeling and Prediction, Part I

Location: Room 352 ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)

Hosts: (Joint between the 13th Conference on Space Weather; and the Sixth Conference on Transition of Research to Operations )

Cochairs: Richard A. Behnke, NSF, Retired; Larisa Goncharenko, MIT

1:30 PM

J14.1

Predictions of Solar Cycle 24, What Went Wrong, What Went Wright

W. Dean Pesnell, NASA, Greenbelt, Maryland

Recorded Presentation

1:45 PM

J14.2

Advances in Modeling, Specifying, and Predicting Space Weather

Robert W. Schunk, Utah State University, Logan, UT; and L. Scherliess, V. Eccles, L. C. Gardner, J. J. Sojka, L. Zhu, X. Pi, A. J. Mannucci, M. D. Butala, B. D. Wilson, A. Komjathy, C. Wang, and G. Rosen

Recorded Presentation

2:00 PM

J14.3

Physics-Based Assimilative Atmospheric Modeling for Satellite Drag Specification and Forecasts

Geoff Crowley, Atmospheric & Space Technology Research Associates, Boulder, CO; and M. Pilinski, J. Wolfe, T. Fuller-Rowell, T. Matsuo, M. Fedrizzi, S. C. Solomon, L. Qian, J. P. Thayer, and M. Codrescu

Recorded Presentation

2:15 PM

J14.4

Effect of Model Resolution on Prediction of Space Weather Parameters

Michael Wiltberger, NCAR, Boulder, CO; and E. J. Rigler

Recorded Presentation

J14.5

Whole Atmosphere Model (WAM): Current Status and Future Plans

J14.6

A Non-hydrostatic Scheme for the NCEP's Global Forecast System (GFS)

2:15 PM-3:00 PM: Tuesday, 12 January 2016

Session 3

Historical Perspectives on Climatology and Climate Change

Location: Room 231/232 ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)

Host: 14th History Symposium

Chair: Joseph P. Bassi, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University

2:15 PM

3.1

Some Perspectives on Historical Climatology, Extreme Events, and Society

Cary J. Mock, University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC

Recorded Presentation

2:30 PM

3.2

A Vexed Question: Climate Change and Uncertainty in the Gilded Age and Progressive Era

Joseph Giacomelli, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY

Recorded Presentation

2:45 PM

3.3

Climate Change in Congressional Hearings: The Early Years

Bradford Johnson, Hill Heat, Washington, DC

Recorded Presentation

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

Coffee Break

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

Meet the President

Location: Room 230 ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)

3:30 PM-4:45 PM: Tuesday, 12 January 2016

Joint Session 2

Applications of Artificial Intelligence Methods for Energy

Location: Room 354 ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)

Hosts: (Joint between the 14th Conference on Artificial and Computational Intelligence and its Applications to the Environmental Sciences; and the Seventh Conference on Weather, Climate, Water and the New Energy Economy )

Chair: Sue E. Haupt, NCAR

3:30 PM

J2.1

The Application and Evaluation of Analog Ensemble Method to Day-Ahead Wind Power Production Forecasting in California

Steven H. Young, AWS Truepower, Albany, NY; and J. Zack

Recorded Presentation

3:45 PM

J2.2

An Evaluation of Statistical Learning Methods for Gridded Solar Irradiance Forecasting

David John Gagne II, NCAR, Boulder, CO; and S. E. Haupt, S. Linden, and G. Wiener

Recorded Presentation

Handout (2.5 MB)

4:00 PM

J2.3

A Regime-Dependent Neural Network Approach to Short-Range Solar Irradiance Prediction Using Surface Observations and Satellite Data

Tyler C. McCandless, NCAR, Boulder, CO; and S. E. Haupt and G. S. Young

Recorded Presentation

4:15 PM

J2.4

Comparison of Solar Power Forecasting Techniques

Sue Ellen Haupt, NCAR, Boulder, CO

Recorded Presentation

4:30 PM

J2.5

Lessons Learned Implementing a Real-time Electrical / Gas Load Forecasting System

Thomas Brummet, NCAR, Boulder, CO; and J. Williams, S. Dettling, and G. Weiner

Recorded Presentation

Session 4

Historical Events and Practices

Location: Room 231/232 ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)

Host: 14th History Symposium

Chair: Lourdes B. Avilés, Plymouth State University

3:30 PM

4.1

The Beginnings of a Scientific Peak: Post WWII Sun-Earth Connection Research in Boulder, Colorado

Joseph P. Bassi, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, Lompoc, CA

3:45 PM

4.2

The History, Development and Application of the Business of Weather at IBM

Anthony P. Praino, IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center, Yorktown Heights, NY; and L. A. Treinish

Recorded Presentation

4.3

Decision Support June 6, 1944

4:15 PM

4.4

The Contributions of Benito Viñes, S. J. to the Development of Tropical Meteorology

Oswaldo Garcia, San Francisco State Univ., San Francisco, CA; and L. Ramos

Recorded Presentation

4:30 PM

4.5

Impacts of Droughts on the Transatlantic Slave Trade

William Turner IV, University of California, Davis, CA; and T. Nathan

Recorded Presentation

Session 4

The Assimilation of Satellite Data to Improve Land Surface, Ocean, and Air Quality Analyses and Models

Location: Room 335/336 ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)

Host: Fourth AMS Symposium on the Joint Center for Satellite Data Assimilation (JCSDA)

Chair: Thomas Auligne, Joint Center for Satellite Data Assimilation

3:30 PM

4.1

Incorporation of Near-real-time Suomi NPP Land Surface Products into the NCEP Land Modeling Framework

Ivan A. Csiszar, NOAA/NESDIS, College Park, MD; and M. B. Ek, Y. Yu, M. Vargas, Y. Wu, W. Zheng, and H. Wei

Recorded Presentation

3:45 PM

4.2

Experiences Using the Latest Generation of Satellite Aerosol Products in a Global Aerosol Data Assimilation System

Edward Hyer, NRL, Monterey, CA; and P. Lynch, Y. Shi, T. M. McHardy, and J. Zhang

Recorded Presentation

4:00 PM

4.5

Sea Surface Height Observational Capabilities: from Mesoscale to Submesoscale

Gregg Jacobs, NRL, Stennis Space Center, MS; and R. Helber, C. Rowley, S. Smith, I. Souopgui, and M. Yaremchuk

Recorded Presentation

4:15 PM

4.3A

Assimilation of ISS-RapidScat Ocean Surface Winds within NOAA Global Assimilation System

Ling Liu, AER, College Park, MD; and S. A. Boukabara

Recorded Presentation

4.3

Using Satellite Aerosol Observations for Improving Global Aerosol Forecasting and Data Assimilation System at NCEP

4.4

Optimization of Radiometric and Geophysical Covariances in a 1DVar System for All-Sky Data Assimilation

Session 5B

Flood prediction, analysis, decision support, & management, Part II

Location: Room 242 ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)

Host: 30th Conference on Hydrology

Cochairs: J.J. Gourley, NOAA/NSSL; Thomas Adams, NOAA/NWS; David J. Gochis, NCAR

3:30 PM

5B.1

A multi-faceted approach to improve short-term, real-time flood forecasting

Bradley R. Carlberg, Iowa State University, Ames, IA; and W. A. Gallus Jr. and K. Franz

Recorded Presentation

3:45 PM

5B.2

High-resolution, rapid-update flash flood forecasting for the NWS

Jonathan J. Gourley, NOAA/NSSL, Norman, OK; and Z. L. Flamig, H. Vergara, R. Clark III, P. E. Kirstetter, G. Terti, Y. Hong, and K. W. Howard

Recorded Presentation

4:00 PM

5B.3

Surface runoff simulation and application using WRF-Hydro for city flood in China

Baoguo Xie, IBM Research, Beijing, China; and M. Zhang, H. Du, X. Zhang, W. Yin, and J. Dong

Recorded Presentation

4:15 PM

5B.4

Evaluation of the community WRF-Hydro Modeling System over the NFIE experiment

Arezoo Rafieeinasab, NCAR, Boulder, CO; and A. Dugger, M. Somos, F. Salas, D. Maidment, D. J. Gochis, J. McCreight, D. N. Yates, L. Karsten, K. Sampson, C. David, and W. Yu

Recorded Presentation

4:30 PM

5B.5

Evaluation of Flood Risk in Afghanistan using Retrospective Land Surface and Routing Models via the Land Information System

Jeanne M. Roningen, US Army Corps of Engineers, Hanover, NH; and J. B. Eylander, M. J. Shaw, and C. M. Vuyovich

Recorded Presentation

3:30 PM-5:00 PM: Tuesday, 12 January 2016

Joint Session 2

Innovative Academic/Public/Private Partnerships Within and Across Economic Sectors between US and Asia

Location: Room 244 ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)

Hosts: (Joint between the Fourth Symposium on the Weather, Water, and Climate Enterprise; and the Special Sessions on US-International Partnerships )

Cochairs: Kenneth Carey, Earth Resources Technology, Inc.; Melinda Marquis, NOAA

3:30 PM

J2.1

QuantumWeather® Helping the Electric Industry become Weather-Ready

Robert W. Pasken, Saint Louis Univ., Saint Louis, MO; and W. Dannevik

Recorded Presentation

3:45 PM

J2.2

Expanding Mesonet Assets through a Public Private Partnership

James Titlow III, WeatherFlow Inc., Poquoson, VA; and K. Kasper

Recorded Presentation

4:00 PM

J2.3

Surface Transportation Weather Collaboration: The Pathfinder Project

Kevin M. Barjenbruch, NOAA/NWS, Salt Lake City, UT; and P. A. Pisano, B. C. Boyce, and D. A. Carpenter

Recorded Presentation

4:15 PM

J2.4

Facilitating the Exchange of Open Ocean Tsunameter Measurements across the Pacific Ocean Basin

Richard H. Bouchard, NOAA/NDBC, Stennis Space Center, MS; and J. Wasserman, K. Kern, K. Grissom, J. Zhou, S. A. Weinstein, D. Wang, and C. Popham

Recorded Presentation

4:30 PM

J2.5

Observations of Windblown Dust Transportation Hazards Using Time-lapse Photography

David DuBois, New Mexico State Univ., Las Cruces, NM; and K. Desomer, A. Quevedo, Y. Zhao, S. Engle, and E. Smith

Recorded Presentation

J2.6

Hello Mother, Hello Father: How Summer Camps Brought to You by the Integrated Warning Team (NWS, EM, and Media) Plus University Departments Contribute to a Weather Ready Nation

Joint Session 15

Advances in Space Weather Modeling and Prediction, Part II

Location: Room 352 ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)

Hosts: (Joint between the 13th Conference on Space Weather; and the Sixth Conference on Transition of Research to Operations )

Cochairs: W. Kent Tobiska, Space Environment Technologies; Marsha Korose, NorthropGrumman IT/TASC

3:30 PM

J15.1

Modified Rossby Waves in the Solar Interior: Driving A Solar “Meteorology” Mission

Scott McIntosh, NCAR, Bouder, CO

Recorded Presentation

3:45 PM

J15.2

Quantifying Total Electron Content Forecasts during Ionospheric Storms

A. J. Mannucci, JPL, Pasadena, CA; and X. Meng, O. P. Verkhoglyadova, and B. T. Tsurutani

Recorded Presentation

4:00 PM

J15.3

A Magnetically-Driven mMdel of Flux-Rope Expansion from the Sun to 1AU in Order to Compute Bz at 1AU

Valbona Kunkel, HelioMagnetics LLC, Arlington, VA

Recorded Presentation

4:15 PM

J15.4

Estimating the Global Solar Photospheric Magnetic Field Distribution Using the ADAPT Model

C. Nick Arge, Air Force Research Laboratory, Kirtland AFB, NM; and C. J. Henney, K. Hickmann, H. C. Godinez, and K. Shurkin

Recorded Presentation

4:30 PM

J15.5

Towards a Physics-Based Flare Irradiance Model

R. A. Hock-Mysliwiec, Air Force Research Laboratory, Kirtland AFB, NM; and J. A. Klimchuk, F. G. Eparvier, T. N. Woods, and K. S. Balasubramaniam

4:45 PM

J15.6

Whole Atmosphere Impacts of Auroral EEP in WACCM

Ethan D. Peck, Columbia University, Palisades, NY; and L. M. Polvani

Recorded Presentation

3:30 PM-5:15 PM: Tuesday, 12 January 2016

Session 5

Climate Risks Communication Strategies

Location: Room 333-334 ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)

Host: 11th Symposium on Societal Applications: Policy, Research and Practice

Chair: Olga Wilhelmi, NCAR

3:30 PM

5.1

Using Visualization Science to Evaluate Effective Communication of Climate Indicators

Melissa A. Kenney, University of Maryland, College Park, MD; and M. Gerst, J. F. Wolfinger, A. Lloyd, and I. Feygina

Recorded Presentation

3:45 PM

5.2

RISA Progress on Drought Indicators for Decision Making

Caitlin Fiona Simpson, NOAA, Silver Spring, MD; and S. L. Close

Recorded Presentation

5.3

The Social Construction of Climate Extremes

4:00 PM

5.4

Communication for Preparedness to Climate Extremes in the Intermountain West

Gregg M. Garfin, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ; and S. Leroy

Recorded Presentation

4:30 PM

5.5

Health and Climate in Oregon: Policy Insights from Providing Local Climate Services in Practice

Josh Foster, Oregon Climate Change Research Institute, Corvallis, OR

Recorded Presentation

4:45 PM

5.6

The American Society of Adaptation Professionals (ASAP): An Emerging Community of Practice for AMS Climate Services Partnerships

Josh Foster, Oregon Climate Change Research Institute, Corvallis, OR; and S. Petersen and S. Adams

Recorded Presentation

5:00 PM

5.7

Keeping it Off the Loading Dock: Climate Adaptation Engagement with the Department of Defense

Gregg M. Garfin, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ; and R. Sagarin (deceased), D. Falk, A. Haworth, K. Jacobs, C. O'Connor, J. Overpeck, J. Weiss, and A. Zuniga-Teran

Recorded Presentation

Session 6B

Topics in Interannual Variability: Part 2

Location: La Nouvelle A ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)

Host: 28th Conference on Climate Variability and Change

Chair: Ben P. Kirtman, Univ. of Miami/RSMAS

3:30 PM

6B.1

Interannual Variability of the Madden-Julian Oscillation and Its Impact on the North Atlantic Oscillation in the Boreal Winter

Hai Lin, EC, Dorval, QC, Canada; and G. Brunet and B. Yu

Recorded Presentation

3:45 PM

6B.2

Causes of Upper-Ocean Temperature Anomalies in the Tropical North Atlantic

Allyson Rugg, NCAR, Boulder, CO; and G. R. Foltz and R. Perez

Recorded Presentation

4:00 PM

6B.3

The El Niño-Southern Oscillation Frequency Cascade

Malte F. Stuecker, University of Hawaii, Honolulu, HI; and F. F. Jin and A. Timmermann

Recorded Presentation

4:15 PM

6B.4

Mechanisms of Linear and Non-Linear Pacific Meridional Mode/ENSO Interactions

Erin E. Thomas, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI; and D. J. Vimont

Recorded Presentation

4:30 PM

6B.5

Impacts of Rossby Wave Breaking on Atlantic Tropical Cyclone Activity

Zhuo Wang, University of Illinois, Urbana, IL; and G. Zhang, T. J. Dunkerton, M. Peng, and G. Magnusdottir

4:45 PM

6B.6

Mean State and Interannual Variability of the Indian Summer Monsoon Simulation by NCEP CFSv2

Ravi Shukla, COLA, Fairfax, VA; and B. Huang

Recorded Presentation

6B.7

Using Climate Variability to Predict the Inter-annual Variability of Precipitation and to Estimate the Persistence of Climate Extremes for Urban Areas and Regions within the United States

6B.8

A new link between Indo-Pacific sea surface temperature variability and Australian region tropical cyclone counts

3:30 PM-5:30 PM: Tuesday, 12 January 2016

Joint Session 3

Working Toward a More Weather, Water and Climate-Ready World—Issues and Opportunities: Part 1 (Joint with The Board on Global Strategies)

Location: Room 255/257 ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)

Hosts: (Joint between the Fourth Symposium on Building a Weather-Ready Nation: Enhancing Our Nation’s Readiness, Responsiveness, and Resilience to High Impact Weather Events; and the Special Sessions on US-International Partnerships )

Cochairs: Kenneth Carey, Earth Resources Technology (ERT), Inc.; Melinda Marquis, NOAA

3:30 PM

J3.1

The Weather Ready Nations Initiative

Sezin A. Tokar, United States Agency for International Development, Washington, DC

3:45 PM

J3.2

Implementing the Global Framework on Climate Services: Information Systems Across the Weather –Climate Continuum

Roger S. Pulwarty, NOAA, Boulder, CO; and W. Higgins, R. K. Kolli, M. Muth, and M. Timofeyeva

Recorded Presentation

4:00 PM

J3.3

Building Inter-Professional Relationships to Create a Weather Ready Nation - Thoughts of an Emergency Manager Turned NWS Forecaster

David Schlotzhauer, NOAA/NWS, Slidell, LA

Recorded Presentation

4:15 PM

J3.4

Need for Relevant and Actionable Climate Information in Extreme Weather Mitigation Planning: Why the Gap Still Persists

Hana Putnam, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ; and N. Selover, N. Chhetri, K. Galluppi, and A. Cox

Recorded Presentation

4:30 PM

J3.5

A Tale of Two Blizzards: Communicating Risk and Forecast Uncertainty During Two Significant Northeast Storms and the Public Response That Followed

Melissa Di Spigna, National Weather Service New York CWSU, Upton, NY; and J. C. Picca

Recorded Presentation

4:45 PM

J3.6

National Weather Service Impact-Based Decision Support Services in the El Paso/Ciudad Juarez Region of the U.S. – Mexico Border: Challenges and Success Stories

Jesus A. Haro, NOAA/NWS, Santa Teresa, NM

Recorded Presentation Manuscript (29.1 kB)

5:00 PM

J3.7

NWS Climate Services Program: Linking Climate and Weather for Improved Decision Support Services

Fiona Horsfall, NOAA/NWS, Silver Spring, MD; and M. T. Livezey, M. Hawkins, J. Zdrojewski, and D. DeWitt

Recorded Presentation

5:15 PM

J3.8

Providing Impact-based Decision Support Services through the Applied Climate Information System (ACIS)

Arthur T. DeGaetano, Northeast Regional Climate Center, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY; and W. Noon

Recorded Presentation

Session 4

Data Analysis and Workflow Integration

Location: Room 225 ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)

Host: Sixth Symposium on Advances in Modeling and Analysis Using Python

Chair: Mary Haley, NCAR

3:30 PM

4.1

Get More from Your Data with PyFerret

Karl Smith, PMEL, Seattle, WA; and A. C. Manke and S. Hankin

Recorded Presentation

3:45 PM

4.2

MetPy: An Open-Source Toolkit for Meteorology

Ryan M. May, UCAR/Unidata, Boulder, CO; and S. C. Arms

Recorded Presentation

4:00 PM

4.3

MesoPy: A Simple Library for Interacting with MesoWest Data

Joshua Clark, MesoWest, Univ. of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT

Recorded Presentation

4:15 PM

4.4

GHCNPy: Using Python to Analyze and Visualize Daily Weather Station Data in Near Real Time

Jared Rennie, Cooperative Institute for Climate and Satellites/North Carolina State University, Asheville, NC; and S. P. Lillo

Recorded Presentation

4:30 PM

4.5

Aqua-MODIS and CALIPSO Subset Product Generation for OCO-2 Validation Using Python

Heather Q. Cronk, CIRA/Colorado State Univ., Fort Collins, CO; and P. T. Partain, T. E. Taylor, and C. W. O'Dell

Recorded Presentation

4:45 PM

4.6

Using Python in the Cloud to Generate Hydrometeorological Data Products in Real-Time from Terabytes of Geospatial Data

Jerry Bieszczad, Creare LLC, Hanover, NH; and M. P. Ueckermann, C. A. Brooks, W. E. Audette, J. D. Walthour, and R. Chambers

Recorded Presentation

5:00 PM

4.7

A novel use of Python on a high-performance computer to streamline the forecast production chain

AC Bennett, Met Office, Exeter, United Kingdom; and E. Campbell, L. Dreyer, P. Elson, G. Evans, R. Hattersley, P. Killick, T. Knight, B. Little, G. Marchiori, P. Peglar, and B. Wright

Recorded Presentation

5:15 PM

4.8

Using Python as a Tool for Unifying Data Collection, Storage, and Visualization

Stanley Engle, NMSU, Las Cruces, NM; and D. W. DuBois

Recorded Presentation

Session 4

Major North American Impacts in 2015

Location: Room 338/339 ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)

Host: IMPACTS: Major Weather Events and Impacts of 2015

Cochairs: Klaus E. Wolter, ESRL/Univ of Colorado-CIRES; Tanja Fransen, NOAA/NWS

3:30 PM

4.1

October Extreme Flooding hits South Carolina Lowcountry (Invited Presentation)

Sonya Stevens (Heath), WCIV TV, Mount Pleasant, SC

Recorded Presentation

3:45 PM

4.2

Weather Impacts on the 2015 U.S. Agricultural Growing Season: Corn Planting and Harvesting

Brian V. Smoliak, The Climate Corporation, Seattle, WA; and M. F. Garvert and W. B. Leeds

Recorded Presentation

4:00 PM

4.3

Extreme Heat during the Toronto 2015 Pan Am Games

Melissa MacDonald, EC, Dartmouth, NS, Canada; and T. C. Farrell and D. Henderson

Recorded Presentation

4:15 PM

4.4

Southwest Louisiana Heat Burst of 19 April 2015

Benjamin J. Terry, KPLC TV, Lake Charles, LA; and J. R. Brazzell

Recorded Presentation

4:30 PM

4.5

Educating and Engaging Communities on Impacts of Severe Weather through Fast Response Engineering Assessments of Social Media Data

David B. Roueche, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL; and D. O. Prevatt and J. Doreste

Recorded Presentation

4:45 PM

4.6

Major Weather related Aviation Impacts of 2015

Michael T. Eckert, NOAA/NWS, Warrenton, VA

Recorded Presentation

5:00 PM

4.7

Highlights of the 2015 Atlantic and Eastern North Pacific Tropical Cyclones

Lixion A. Avila, NWS/NHC, Miami, FL

Recorded Presentation

5:15 PM

4.8

The 2015 Severe Weather and Tornado Season (Invited Presentation)

Russell S. Schneider, NOAA/NWS/SPC, Norman, OK; and G. W. Carbin

Recorded Presentation

Session 4A

Aerosol and Precipitation

Location: Room 356 ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)

Host: Eighth Symposium on Aerosol–Cloud–Climate Interactions

Chair: Rong Fu, University of Texas at Austin

CoChair: Jiwen Fan, PNNL

3:30 PM

4A.1

Impact of aerosols on precipitation associated with atmospheric rivers: An observational and model-based approach

Aaron Naeger, University of Alabama, Huntsville, AL; and J. M. Creamean and A. L. Molthan

Recorded Presentation

3:45 PM

4A.2

Aerosol Impacts on Convective Updraft Core Characteristics: A Modeling Study

Xiaowen Li, Morgan State University, Greenbelt, MD; and W. K. Tao

Recorded Presentation

4:00 PM

4A.3

Determining Aerosol Indirect Effects from Satellite Data

Steven Massie, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO; and C. G. Bardeen and J. Dalanoe

Recorded Presentation

Handout (1.5 MB)

4:15 PM

4A.4

Investigating the Impacts of Aerosol Composition on a Mesoscale Convective System in the Central Great Plains

Stacey Kawecki, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI; and A. Steiner and G. M. Henebry

Recorded Presentation

4:30 PM

4A.5

The Influence of Aerosols on Deep Convection Through Its Life Cycle over Tropical Continents Tested by AMF GoAmazon/CHUVA and West Africa and Ganges Valley Data

Rong Fu, The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX; and S. Chakraborty

4:45 PM

4A.6

An A-train Perspective on Cloud-Aerosol-Precipitation-Interaction over Eastern China

Jianping Guo, Chinese Academy of Meteorological Sciences, Beijing, China; and F. Wang and H. Liu

4A.7

Impact of Dust Long Range Transport on North American Monsoon

5:00 PM

4A.7A

Understanding the Effect of African Dust Aerosols on Cloud Properties and Precipitation in Puerto Rico using the WRF model

Carlos J. Valle-Diaz, San Juan, PR; and M. C. Barth, E. Rodriguez, and O. L. Mayol-Bracero

5:15 PM

4A.8

Characterizing the Distribution of Water in the Tropospheric Column During the Monsoon Season in the Philippines

Kar’retta N. Venable, Howard University, Washington, DC; and D. V. Morris

Session 4B

Aerosol-cloud Interactions in Shallow Clouds I

Location: Room 357 ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)

Host: Eighth Symposium on Aerosol–Cloud–Climate Interactions

Chair: Robert Wood, University of Washington

CoChair: Paquita Zuidema, Univ. of Miami/RSMAS

3:30 PM

4B.1

Aerosol Indirect Effects Versus Aerosol-cloud Interactions: a Top-down Approach for Reconciling Estimates (Invited Presentation)

Allison McComiskey, NOAA, Boulder, CO; and G. Feingold and C. N. Long

3:45 PM

4B.2

Annual Cycle in Aerosol and Cloud Microphysics in the Northeast Pacific: Exploring the Link Between Cloud and Aerosol Variability

David Painemal, SSAI/NASA Langley, Hampton, VA; and H. Liu and P. Minnis

Recorded Presentation

4:00 PM

4B.3

The Effects of Boundary Layer Depth, Stability, Precipitation, and Droplet Concentration on Stratocumulus Evolution Using a New Lagrangian Approach

Ryan Eastman, University of Washington, Seattle, USA, Seattle, WA; and R. Wood

Recorded Presentation

4:15 PM

4B.4

The Cloud System Evolution in the Trades (CSET) Study—A Showcase for Aerosol-Cloud-Precipitation Interactions

Bruce A. Albrecht, Univ. of Miami/RSMAS, Miami, FL; and P. Zuidema, C. S. Bretherton, R. Wood, and V. Ghate

Recorded Presentation

4:30 PM

4B.5

Observation and Measurement of Shallow Marine Clouds

Alison D. Nugent, NCAR, Boulder, CO; and J. B. Jensen

Recorded Presentation

4:45 PM

4B.6

Processing of Aerosol Particles by Tradewind Cumuli at a Mountain Top in Puerto Rico

Graciela B. Raga, Centro de Ciencias de la Atmosfera/Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico, Mexico City, Mexico; and D. Baumgardner and O. L. Mayol-Bracero

Recorded Presentation

5:00 PM

4B.7

Mapping the Impact of Aerosol-Cloud Interactions on Low Level Rainfall in Mountainous Regions Using a Column Model

Yajuan Duan, Duke University, Durham, NC; and A. P. Barros

Recorded Presentation

5:15 PM

4B.8

Assessing and Improving Active and Passive Ground Based Remote Sensor Techniques to Explore Aerosol-Cloud Interaction in Urban Environments

Zaw Han, City College of New York, New York, NY; and Y. Wu, B. Gross, and F. Moshary

Recorded Presentation

Session 5

Studies in Atmospheric Chemistry, Aerosols, Prediction, and Observing Systems

Location: Room 243 ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)

Host: 19th Joint Conference on the Applications of Air Pollution Meteorology with the A&WMA

Chair: Ivanka Stajner, NOAA/NWS

3:30 PM

5.1

Monitoring and Quantifying Particles Emissions around Industrial Sites and Cities with Scanning Doppler LIDARs

Ludovic Thobois, LEOSPHERE, Orsay, France; and P. Royer, J. P. Cariou, and P. Drewniak

3:45 PM

5.2

Improvements of the dust prediction system in Japan Meteorological Agency

Akinori Ogi, Japan Meteorological Agency, Tokyo, Japan; and T. Y. Tanaka, N. Ohkawara, T. Maki, T. T. Sekiyama, and K. Yumimoto

Recorded Presentation

Handout (4.9 MB)

4:00 PM

5.3

Resolution and Content Improvements to the MISR Operational Aerosol Product

Michael Garay, NASA/JPL/California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA; and D. J. Diner, M. Bull, and E. Hansen

Recorded Presentation

4:15 PM

5.4

Rapid refreshing of anthropogenic NOx emissions through assimilating fused ground and satellite observations to support NOAA National Air Quality Forecast Capability

Daniel Tong, NOAA/OAR/ARL, College Park, MD; and L. Pan, P. Lee, H. Kim, Y. Tang, and L. Lamsal

Recorded Presentation

4:30 PM

5.5

Operational Air Quality Forecasting in a Changing Emissions and Meteorological Environment in the Mid-Atlantic Region

Amy K. Huff, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA; and W. F. Ryan, J. Dreessen, S. Nolan, and D. Salkovitz

Recorded Presentation

4:45 PM

5.6

Top-down and bottom-up emission estimations for air quality impact forecasting: A first step to dynamic management of prescribed fires

M. Talat Odman, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA; and A. Pophale, Y. Hu, and A. G. Russell

Recorded Presentation

5:00 PM

5.7

Improvements of NAQFC PM2.5 predictions using two different bias correction methods

Jianping Huang, IMSG, NOAA/NWS/NCEP, College Park, MD; and J. McQueen, P. Shafran, I. V. Djalalova, J. M. Wilczak, D. Allured, H. C. Huang, J. Wang, P. Lee, J. L. Gorline, G. DiMego, S. Upadhayay, and I. Stajner

Recorded Presentation

5:15 PM

5.8

CMAQ PM2.5 forecast improvements to a Kalman-filter Analog hybrid post-processing scheme

Irina V. Djalalova, CIRES, Boulder, CO; and L. Delle Monache and J. Wilczak

Recorded Presentation

Session 5A

Advances in Evaporation and Evaporative Demand, Part I

Location: Room 240/241 ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)

Host: 30th Conference on Hydrology

Cochairs: Michael Hobbins, NOAA; Martha C. Anderson, USDA/ARS; Christopher Hain, University of Maryland; Jennifer C. Adam, Washington State University

3:30 PM

5A.1

Including tree water potential in plot-level transpiration modeling using the hydrodynamic approach

Gil Bohrer, the Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio; and A. M. Matheny and G. Mirfenderesgi

Recorded Presentation

3:45 PM

5A.2

Application of a tree-level hydrodynamic model to simulate plot-level transpiration in the upland oak/pine forest in New Jersey

Golnazalsadat Mirfenderesgi, the Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio; and G. Bohrer, S. Fatichi, A. M. Matheny, R. P. D. M. Frasson, and K. V. R. Schäfer

Recorded Presentation

4:00 PM

5A.3

Estimating Daily Landsat-Scale Evapotranspiration over a Managed Pine Plantation in North Carolina, USA using a Data Fusion Method

Yun Yang, USDA/ARS, Beltsville, MD; and M. C. Anderson, F. Gao, C. Hain, W. P. Kustas, A. Noormets, R. Wynne, V. Thomas, and G. Sun

Recorded Presentation

4:15 PM

5A.4

Combining Energy and Soil Water Balances Based on Remote Sensing Inputs for Monitoring Irrigated and Rainfed Agriculture

Isidro Campos, Univ. of Nebraska, Lincoln, NE; and J. B. Barker, C. M. U. Neale, A. E. Suyker, and T. J. Arkebauer

Recorded Presentation

4:30 PM

5A.5

Use of Satellite Skin Temperatures to Improve Surface Evapotranspiration Performance in WRF

Richard T. McNider, Univ. of Alabama, Huntsville, AL; and K. Doty, Y. Wu, A. Pour-Biazar, P. Lee, M. Huang, B. Dornblaser, and C. Hain

Recorded Presentation

4:45 PM

5A.6

A Multi-Perspective Evaluation of ET variability related to recent droughts in the Southeastern United States

Walter L. Ellenburg, Univ. of Alabama, Huntsville, AL; and V. Mishra, R. T. McNider, J. Mecikalski, J. Christy, C. Handyside, and J. F. Cruise

Recorded Presentation

5:00 PM

5A.7

Mesoscale Evapotranspiration from In Situ and Satellite Observations

Jeffrey B. Basara, University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK; and J. Liu, B. G. Illston, and X. Xiao

Recorded Presentation

5A.8

Relating temperature extremes and droughts to evaporation estimates from SMAP passive microwave soil moisture retrievals

Session 6

APIs and Web Services for Accessing, Integrating and Using Weather, Water, Climate and Societal Information via Desktop and Mobile Platforms

Location: Room 348/349 ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)

Host: 32nd Conference on Environmental Information Processing Technologies

Cochairs: Larry E. Brazil, Riverside Technology, Inc.; George Smith, Riverside Technology, Inc.

3:30 PM

6.1

Increasing the Availability and Utility of Weather and Climate Data to Meet Decision Maker Needs

George Smith, Riverside Technology, Inc., Fort Collins, CO

Recorded Presentation

3:45 PM

6.2

Leveraging Globus to support access and delivery of scientific data

Thomas A. Cram, NCAR, Boulder, CO; and D. Schuster and S. Worley

Recorded Presentation

Handout (3.2 MB)

4:00 PM

6.3

A Flexible Approach to Designing Client Specific APIs:

Peter Trevelyan, The U.K. Met Office, Exeter, United Kingdom; and R. Carne

Recorded Presentation

4:15 PM

6.4

NOAA's Weather and Climate Toolkit

Stephen A. Del Greco, NOAA/NESDIS/NCEI, Asheville, NC; and S. Ansari

Recorded Presentation

4:30 PM

6.5

SkyWise for Mobile Apps

Mike Wolfinbarger, Weather Decision Technologies, Inc., Norman, OK

Recorded Presentation

4:45 PM

6.6

Developing a Visualization Portal for NOAA Data: Part 1 - A New More Modular Design

Daniel P. Pisut, I.M. Systems Group, Silver Spring, MD; and V. Goel and T. Loomis

Recorded Presentation

5:00 PM

6.7

Alaska Fire and Fuels: Leveraging the MesoWest API for Fire Protection

Joseph S. Young, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT; and M. Lammers, J. D. Horel, C. Galli, and R. H. Ziel

Recorded Presentation

6.8

NWS Las Vegas Dashboards for Situational Awareness and Mesoanalysis

Session 6

University Education Initiatives

Location: Room 353 ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)

Host: 25th Symposium on Education

Chair: Thomas A. Guinn, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical Univ.

3:30 PM

6.1

Invited Presentation: The AMS Edward N. Lorenz Teaching Excellence Award Recipient

Jonathan E. Martin, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI

Recorded Presentation

4:00 PM

6.2

The Storm Prediction Center in the University of Oklahoma Classroom: Applications of Meteorological Theory to Severe-Thunderstorm Forecasting

Ariel E. Cohen, NOAA/NWS/NCEP/Storm Prediction Center, Norman, OK; and S. M. Cavallo

Recorded Presentation

4:15 PM

6.3

The Use of a Displaced Radar Dataset to Provide an Authentic Environment for a Radar-based Severe Weather Laboratory Exercise

David Flory, Iowa State University, Ames, IA; and W. A. Gallus Jr. and D. Herzmann

Recorded Presentation

4:30 PM

6.4

Orchestrating Magic: Designing and Conducting What Participants Call an Amazing Research Experiences for Undergraduates Program

Daphne LaDue, CAPS/Univ. of Oklahoma, Norman, OK

Recorded Presentation

4:45 PM

6.5

Creation of a Teaching Module based on the CSET Field Campaign

Shaunna L. Donaher, Emory University, Atlanta, GA; and B. A. Albrecht and P. Zuidema

Recorded Presentation

5:00 PM

6.6

The Importance of the Provider-User Relationship as Part of an Undergraduate Meteorology Capstone Course

John M. Lanicci, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical Univ., Daytona Beach, FL

Recorded Presentation Manuscript (463.4 kB)

5:15 PM

6.7

Using Worked Examples to Improve Student Understanding and Problem Solving Skills

Casey E. Davenport, University of North Carolina, Charlotte, NC

Recorded Presentation Manuscript (120.6 kB)

Session 6

Wind Forecasting: Energy Application Part 3

Location: Room 346/347 ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)

Host: Seventh Conference on Weather, Climate, Water and the New Energy Economy

Chair: Jennifer F. Newman, National Renewable Energy Laboratory

3:30 PM

6.1

The Use of a High Resolution Surface and Remote Sensing Network for Renewable Energy Applications

Jeff Freedman, SUNY, Albany, NY; and E. Joseph, J. A. Brotzge, C. D. Thorncroft, and R. Perez

Recorded Presentation

3:45 PM

6.2

Improving Numerical Wind Forecasts of Wind Ramps at 100m Height in the Stable Boundary Layer

David E. Jahn, Iowa State University, Ames, IA; and E. S. Takle and W. A. Gallus Jr.

Recorded Presentation

4:00 PM

6.3

Sensitivity of Short-term Wind Ramp Forecast Error in Complex Terrain to NWP Model Configuration

Andrew Meier, MESO, Inc., Troy, NY; and T. Melino, J. W. Zack, J. Manobianco, and S. H. Young

Recorded Presentation

4:15 PM

6.4

A Sensitivity Study of the Hub-Height Wind Speed Forecast to the PBL Scheme and Initial Condition Selection in the WRF Model in Complex Terrain

David M. Siuta, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada; and G. L. West and R. B. Stull

Recorded Presentation

4:30 PM

6.5

Replacing Met Towers with Remote Sensing

Andrew Clifton, National Renewable Energy Laboratory, Golden, CO; and J. F. Newman

4:45 PM

6.6

A Climate Benefits Analysis as a Result of Development of Federal Offshore Wind Energy Leases

Angel McCoy, McCoy Environmental Group, Inc., Hyattsville, MD

Recorded Presentation Manuscript (907.2 kB)

5:00 PM

6.7

Using Climatology and Modeling for Regional Offshore Wind Farm Optimization

Joseph F. Brodie, University of Delaware, Newark, DE; and D. E. Veron

Recorded Presentation

5:15 PM

6.8

Scheduling More Wind: Exploiting Probabilistic Forecasts

Eric P. Grimit, Vaisala, Seattle, WA; and J. Lerner

Recorded Presentation

Session 6A

Climate Change and the Large-scale Circulation

Location: La Nouvelle C ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)

Host: 28th Conference on Climate Variability and Change

Chair: Kerry H. Cook, University of Texas

3:30 PM

6A.1

Is the Large-Scale Circulation Response to Increasing Greenhouse Gases Related to Climate Sensitivity? Lessons from CMIP5 Models

Kevin M. Grise, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA; and L. M. Polvani

Recorded Presentation

3:45 PM

6A.2

Free and Forced Changes of the Surface Atmospheric Circulation and Storminess over the last 140 years

Prashant D. Sardeshmukh, CIRES/Univ. of Colorado and Physical Sciences Division/ESRL/NOAA, Boulder, CO; and G. P. Compo, C. Penland, and C. McColl

4:00 PM

6A.3

The Sinuosity of Atmospheric Circulation over North America and Its Relationship to Arctic Climate Change and Extreme Events

Stephen J. Vavrus, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI; and F. Wang, J. E. Martin, and J. Francis

Recorded Presentation

4:15 PM

6A.4

Interpretting Projected Changes in the Large Scale Circulation Relevant to the Climate of East Africa

Bradfield Lyon, Columbia University/International Research Institute for Climate and Society, Palisades, NY; and A. Giannini and N. Vigaud

Recorded Presentation

4:30 PM

6A.5

Trends in the global divergent overturning circulation, including the Hadley and Walker Circulations

Gilbert P. Compo, CIRES, Univ. of Colorado and Physical Sciences Division/ESRL/NOAA, Boulder, CO; and P. D. Sardeshmukh

4:45 PM

6A.6

Future Changes in Winter Stationary Waves in East Asia and the North Pacific Induced by Robust Changes in the Tropical Circulation

Shuhei Maeda, MRI, Tsukuba, Japan; and M. Harada and S. Wakamatsu

Recorded Presentation

5:00 PM

6A.7

Robust Changes in the Hadley Circulation and Global Dryness Under CO₂ Warming from CMIP5 Model Projections

William K.-M. Lau, University of Maryland, College Park, MD; and K. M. Kim

Recorded Presentation

5:15 PM

6A.8

Evaluating CMIP5 Models' Representation of Oceanic Drivers of North African Climate

Fuyao Wang, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI; and M. Notaro, Y. Yan, J. Mao, X. Shi, and Y. Wei

Recorded Presentation

Session 7

Integrated Instrumentation and Observing Systems for All Applications

Location: Room 350/351 ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)

Host: 18th Symposium on Meteorological Observation and Instrumentation

Chair: John Kochendorfer, NOAA

3:30 PM

7.1

The Helicopter Observation Platform (HOP) of the University of Miami and its Application for the Characterization of the Atmospheric Boundary Layer

Roni Avissar, Univ. of Miami/RSMAS, Miami, FL; and K. Broad, R. L. Walko, and W. M. Drennan

Recorded Presentation

3:45 PM

7.2

Real-time Ozone Measurements During the 2015 Great Salt Lake Summer Ozone Study

Alexander A. Jacques, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT; and E. T. Crosman, J. D. Horel, B. Blaylock, A. Long, and S. Arens

Recorded Presentation

Handout (3.8 MB)

4:00 PM

7.3

Dual-Doppler Observations of Boundaries, Vortices, and Varying Band Morphology in the Long-Lake Axis Parallel Snow Band of 10-11 December 2013 During the Ontario Winter Lake-effect Systems (OWLeS) Project

Jeffrey Frame, University of Illinois, Urbana, IL; and A. C. Springer, D. Conrad, and N. Zelasko

Recorded Presentation

4:15 PM

7.4

The NWS Volunteer Observing Ship (VOS) Program and the Port Meteorological Officers Work to Bring High Quality In-Situ Oceanic Observations from Ships at Sea

James Luciani, DOC, Silver Spring, MD

Recorded Presentation

4:30 PM

7.5

Fostering a Nationwide Network of Networks: An Update on Prior and Future Steps of the American Meteorological Society

James R. Stalker, RESPR, Inc., Las Cruces, NM; and J. D. Horel

Recorded Presentation

4:45 PM

7.6

Development of New Technology to Manufacture Meteorological Balloons

Lakshmi Bhukta, Space Data Corporation, Chandler, AZ; and G. M. Knoblach

5:00 PM

7.7

Solid State Detector for Wind and Hydrometeor Measurements

Alexander Jacobs, Understory Weather, Somerville, MA; and A. Kubicek, E. Hewitt, and N. Homeier

Recorded Presentation

5:15 PM

7.8

Data From the Coast: Deployment of a Radar Wind Profiler Network to Support Operational Wind Energy Forecasts and WFIP2

Julia Flaherty, PNNL, Richland, WA; and W. J. Shaw, V. R. Morris, L. K. Berg, J. M. Wilczak, A. B. White, T. Ayers, J. Jordan, and C. W. King

Recorded Presentation

Joint Session 7

Observing System Simulation Experiments (OSSEs) II

Location: Room 345 ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)

Cochairs: Nikki Prive, Morgan State University; Lisa Bucci, University of Miami and NOAA/AOML

3:30 PM

J7.1

Climate Observing System Simulation Experiments

Betsy Weatherhead, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO

Recorded Presentation

3:45 PM

J7.2

Community Global OSSE Package (CGOP)

Sid Ahmed Boukabara, NOAA/NESDIS, Camp Springs, MD; and I. Moradi, R. Atlas, R. N. Hoffman, K. Ide, T. Auligne, N. Shahroudi, Y. Zhou, J. Woolen, S. P. F. Casey, L. Cucurull, R. Li, P. van Delst, Q. Liu, K. Kumar, R. Errico, and N. Prive

Recorded Presentation

Handout (1.1 MB)

4:00 PM

J7.3

Observing System Simulation Experiments with Several Combinations of Radio Occultation Constellations

Lidia Cucurull, NOAA-OAR/ESRL, Boulder, CO; and R. Li, S. P. F. Casey, T. Peevey, R. Atlas, R. N. Hoffman, and J. S. Woollen

Recorded Presentation

4:15 PM

J7.4

Geostationary Hyperspectral Infrared Constellation: Global Observing System Simulation Experiments for five Geo-HSS instruments

Sean P. F. Casey, JCSDA/Earth System Science Interdisciplinary Center, College Park, MD; and R. Atlas, S. A. Boukabara, R. N. Hoffman, K. Ide, M. Masutani, I. Moradi, and J. S. Woollen

Recorded Presentation

4:30 PM

J7.5

Impact Analysis of LEO Hyperspectral Sensor IFOV Size on the Next Generation High-Resolution NWP Model Forecast Performance

Agnes Lim, CIMSS/Univ. of Wisconsin, Madison, WI; and Z. Li, J. A. Jung, A. Huang, J. Woollen, G. Quinn, F. W. Nagle, S. B. Healy, J. A. Otkin, M. Goldberg, and R. Atlas

Recorded Presentation

4:45 PM

J7.6

A quick regional OSSE impact study on Geostationary Hyperspectral Infrared Sounder for Hurricane Forecasts

Zhenglong Li, CIMSS/Univ. of Wisconsin, Madison, WI; and J. Li, T. J. Schmit, F. Zhu, P. Wang, A. Lim, J. Li, R. Atlas, and R. N. Hoffman

Recorded Presentation

5:00 PM

J7.7

Ensemble Sensitivity-based Observation Targeting OSSEs for Southern Plains Dryline Convection

Aaron J. Hill, Texas Tech University, Lubbock, TX; and C. C. Weiss and B. C. Ancell

Recorded Presentation

5:15 PM

J7.8

OSSE Experiments for Stormscale Radar Data Assimilation with an Ensemble of 3DVAR System

Jidong Gao, NSSL/NOAA, Norman, OK; and C. Fu, D. J. Stensrud, and J. S. Kain

Recorded Presentation

Session 7

Statistical Postprocessing of Ensemble Forecasts – Part 2

Location: Room 226/227 ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)

Host: 23rd Conference on Probability and Statistics in the Atmospheric Sciences

Chair: Daniel S. Wilks, Cornell University

7.1

Calibration of Probabilistic Forecasts: The Bayesian Processor of Ensemble

3:45 PM

7.3

Probabilistic Forecasts of Precipitation Type Based on Global Ensemble Forecasts

Michael Scheuerer, NOAA, Boulder, CO; and S. Gregory, T. Hamill, P. Shafer, and G. Wagner

Recorded Presentation

7.2

A Framework for Statistical Postprocessing of Ensemble Forecasts Using Cluster-Weighted Modeling

4:00 PM

7.4

A Dynamical-Statistical Downscaling Approach for Range-Scale Numerical Weather Prediction

Yubao Liu, NCAR, Boulder, CO; and G. Roux, L. Pan, L. Delle Monache, and J. Knievel

Recorded Presentation

4:30 PM

7.5.

An Investigation of Reforecasting Applications for NGGPS Aviation Weather Prediction: An Initial Study of Cloud Ceiling and Visibility Prediction

Kathryn L. Verlinden, Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR; and D. Bright

Recorded Presentation Manuscript (5.3 MB)

Handout (3.1 MB)

4:45 PM

7.6

Calibrated Hub-height Wind Speed Forecasts in Complex Terrain from a Multi-initial Condition, Multi-PBL Scheme WRF Ensemble

David M. Siuta, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada; and G. L. West, T. Nipen, and R. B. Stull

Recorded Presentation

5:00 PM

7.7

Improving Forecasts for Locally Extreme Rainfall: A Probabilistic Approach

Gregory R. Herman, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO; and R. S. Schumacher

Recorded Presentation

5:15 PM

7.8

How to Optimize the Decision-Making Using Ensemble Probabilistic Forecasts?

Hui-Ling Chang, Central Weather Bureau, Taipei, Taiwan; and S. C. Yang, H. Yuan, P. L. Lin, and Y. C. Liou

Recorded Presentation

Handout (505.8 kB)

Joint Session 9

Satellite Testbeds and Proving Ground Activities

Location: Room 252/254 ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)

Hosts: (Joint between the 12th Annual Symposium on New Generation Operational Environmental Satellite Systems; and the Sixth Conference on Transition of Research to Operations )

Cochairs: Bill Sjoberg, NESDIS/JPSS; Michael J. Folmer, CICS

3:30 PM

J9.1

Assimilation of AHI Infrared Radiance Measurements for Improved Tropical Cyclone Forecasts Using HWRF

Xiaolei Zou, University of Maryland, College Park, MD; and X. Zhuge and F. Weng

3:45 PM

J9.2

Increased Satellite Reception and Utilization Capabilities in NWS Pacific Region

Jordan J. Gerth, CIMSS/Univ. of Wisconsin, Madison, WI; and B. Ward and E. Lau

Recorded Presentation

4:00 PM

J9.3

Using Layered Precipitable Water and Other Satellite Derived Datasets to Anticipate High Impact Weather Events. Part I: Heavy Precipitation Applications

Michael L. Jurewicz Sr., NOAA/NWS, Johnson City, NY; and C. M. Gitro and S. J. Kusselson

Recorded Presentation

4:15 PM

J9.4

Using Layered Precipitable Water and Other Satellite-Derived Datasets to Anticipate High-Impact Weather Events. Part II: Severe Weather Applications

Christopher M. Gitro, NOAA/NWS/Kansas City Weather Forecast Office, Pleasant Hill, MO; and M. L. Jurewicz Sr. and S. Kusselson

Recorded Presentation

4:30 PM

J9.5

The Use of Temperature and Water Vapor Profiles for Weather Applications: Recent Activities in the NOAA/JPSS Proving Ground

Christopher D. Barnet, STC, Columbia, MD; and A. Gambacorta, B. Sjoberg, W. Line, and D. M. Goldberg

Recorded Presentation

4:45 PM

J9.6

Development of a GOES-based Verification and Forecaster Guidance System for the High-Resolution Rapid Refresh Model

Jason A. Otkin, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI; and J. Sieglaff, S. M. Griffin, L. M. Cronce, and C. R. Alexander

Recorded Presentation

5:00 PM

J9.7

Results from GOES-R and JPSS Proving Ground Demonstrations at the HWT 2015 Spring Experiment

William Line, OU/CIMMS and NOAA/NWS/SPC, Norman, OK

Recorded Presentation Manuscript (691.3 kB)

5:15 PM

J9.8

A Day in the Life Using 1-Minute Satellite Imagery: An Operational Forecaster Perspective

Daniel Nietfeld, NOAA/NWS, Valley, NE; and C. M. Gravelle and J. M. Laflin

Recorded Presentation

Joint Session 10

Advances in Modeling and Prediction of Tropical Cyclones and Associated Hazards

Location: Room 344 ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)

Cochairs: Richard D. Knabb, NOAA/NWS/NHC; Frank D. Marks Jr., NOAA/AOML

3:30 PM

J10.1

Rationale for Advances at the National Hurricane Center

Richard D. Knabb, NOAA/NWS/NHC, Miami, FL

Recorded Presentation

3:45 PM

J10.2

From Katrina to Sandy: Progress, Challenges, and Way Forward

Shuyi S. Chen, Univ. of Miami/RSMAS, Miami, FL

Recorded Presentation

4:00 PM

J10.3

The Hurricane Forecast Improvement Project: Progress in Hurricane Prediction Since Hurricane Katrina

Frank D. Marks Jr., NOAA/AOML, Miami, FL; and F. Toepfer, E. Rappaport, V. Tallapragada, S. Gopalakrishnan, and R. L. Gall

Recorded Presentation

4:15 PM

J10.4

Advancements in Operational Hurricane Forecast Guidance from NCEP/EMC HWRF Modeling System: Progress in Hurricane Forecast Improvements During the Last Decade since Hurricane Katrina

Vijay Tallapragada, NOAA/NWS/NCEP/EMC, College Park, MD; and H. Tolman and F. Toepfer

Recorded Presentation

4:30 PM

J10.5

Enhancing Hurricane Analysis and Prediction through Advanced Assimilation of High-resolution Radar and Satellite Observations

Fuqing Zhang, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA; and M. Minamide, E. E. Clothiaux, Y. Weng, and S. Sieron

Recorded Presentation

4:45 PM

J10.6

Impact of Atmospheric and Ocean Initial Conditions on the Intensity Prediction of Hurricane Katrina with the GFDL Hurricane Model

Morris Bender, NOAA/GFDL, Princeton, NJ; and I. Ginis, B. Thomas, M. J. Morin, J. A. Knaff, and C. R. Sampson

Recorded Presentation

5:00 PM

J10.7

Ensemble Hurricane Flood Forecasting with Atmosphere and Wind Stress Uncertainties

Philip Orton, Stevens Institute of Technology, Hoboken, NJ; and J. Doyle, A. Reinecke, N. Georgas, A. F. Blumberg, and J. Pullen

Recorded Presentation

5:15 PM

Closing Remarks -- AMS President Sandy MacDonald

Joint Session 10

Atmospheric Chemistry Lab, Field, and Modeling Studies (II)

Location: Room 343 ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)

Hosts: (Joint between the Mario J. Molina Symposium; and the 18th Conference on Atmospheric Chemistry )

Chair: Ross J. Salawitch, University of Maryland, College Park

CoChair: Renyi Zhang, Texas A&M University

3:30 PM

J10.1

Mario J. Molina: Creative Science that Redefined Human Responsibility to the Planet While Uniting Chemistry and Meteorology (Invited Keynote Presentation)

James G. Anderson, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA

Recorded Presentation

3:45 PM

J10.2

A Tropical Tropospheric Source of High Ozone/Low Water Filaments

Daniel C. Anderson, University of Maryland, College Park, MD; and J. M. Nicely, R. J. Salawitch, T. P. Canty, R. R. Dickerson, T. Hanisco, G. M. Wolfe, E. C. Apel, E. Atlas, T. Bannan, S. Bauguitte, N. J. Blake, J. Bresch, T. L. Campos, L. Carpenter, M. Cohen, M. Evans, R. P. Fernandez, B. H. Kahn, D. E. Kinnison, S. Hall, N. R. P. Harris, R. Hornbrook, J. F. Lamarque, M. Le Breton, J. Lee, C. Percival, L. Pfister, R. B. Pierce, D. D. Riemer, A. Saiz-Lopez, A. M. Thompson, K. Ullmann, A. Vaughn, and A. J. Weinheimer

Recorded Presentation

4:00 PM

J10.3

Laboratory Studies to Investigate the Role of Volatile and Semi-Volatile Organic Compounds in the Atmospheric Aging of Biomass Devolatilization Products

Claire Fortenberry, Washington University, St Louis, MO; and M. Walker, Y. Zhang, D. Mitroo, C. Oxford, W. Brune, and B. Williams

Recorded Presentation

4:15 PM

J10.4

Comparison of Global Tropospheric Ozone Precursors from Measurements and the MACCity Global Emissions Inventory

Birgit Hassler, CIRES/Univ. of Colorado, Boulder, CO; and G. J. Frost, T. B. Ryerson, A. Borbon, C. Granier, B. McDonald, D. D. Parrish, I. Pollack, K. H. Rosenlof, M. K. Trainer, and E. von Schneidemesser

Recorded Presentation

4:30 PM

J10.5

Pressure-Dependent Stabilization of Carbonyl Oxides from Alkene Ozonolysis (Invited Presentation)

Neil M. Donahue, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA; and J. Hakala and V. Hofbauer

Recorded Presentation

4:45 PM

J10.6

Analysis of TES Ozone Observations to Understand Air Pollution Transport

Ryan M. Kladar, NOAA, Boulder, CO; and O. R. Cooper

Recorded Presentation

5:00 PM

J10.7

Investigating Transported and Local Carbon Monoxide in the Southern Hemisphere with Satellite and Ground-based Remote Sensing

Rebecca R. Buchholz, NCAR, Boulder, CO; and D. P. Edwards, M. Deeter, H. Worden, L. K. Emmons, N. B. Jones, C. Paton-Walsh, N. M. Deutscher, V. A. Velazco, D. W. T. Griffith, J. Robinson, and D. Smale

Recorded Presentation

5:15 PM

J10.8

Trace Gas Measurements and Models in the Mid Atlantic States: Policy Relevant Science

Russell Dickerson, University of Maryland, College Park, MD; and X. Ren, R. J. Salawitch, T. Canty, D. Allen, A. M. Thompson, M. Woodman, and G. T. aburn

Recorded Presentation

Joint Session 13

NASA Earth Observations and Climate Change

Location: Room 228/229 ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)

Hosts: (Joint between the Seventh Conference on Environment and Health; and the Sixth Conference on Transition of Research to Operations )

Chair: Sue M. Estes, NASA/University of Alabama

3:30 PM

J13.1

NASA Earth Observation Systems and Applications for Public Health and Air Quality Models and Decisions

Sue M. Estes, University of Alabama, Huntsville, AL; and J. A. Haynes

Recorded Presentation

3:45 PM

J13.2

Using a Novel Spatiotemporal Exposure Assessment to Estimate Respiratory Health Effects during the 2008 Northern California Wildfires

Colleen E. Reid, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA; and M. Jerrett, I. B. Tager, M. Petersen, J. K. Mann, and J. R. Balmes

Recorded Presentation

4:00 PM

J13.3

Improved Air Quality Simulations during NASA's DISCOVER-AQ Texas: Incorporating Geostationary Satellite Observations

Arastoo Pour Biazar, University of Alabama, Huntsville, AL; and A. T. White, R. T. McNider, D. S. Cohan, R. Zhang, B. Dornblaser, and M. Estes

Recorded Presentation

4:15 PM

J13.4

Satellite Remote Sensing Based Assessment of Environmental Sustainability of Water, Vibrios and Human Health

Antarpreet Jutla, West Virginia University, Morgantown, WV; and R. Colwell

Recorded Presentation

4:30 PM

J13.5

Aedes aegypti Global Suitability Maps Using a Water Container Energy Balance Model for Dengue Risk Applications

Daniel F. Steinhoff, NCAR, Boulder, CO

4:45 PM

J13.6

How Wild is Your Model Fire? Constraining WRF-Chem Wildfire Smoke Simulations with Satellite Observations

William Lassman, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO; and B. Ford, R. Gan, G. Pfister, S. Magzamen, J. Volckens, E. V. Fischer, and J. R. Pierce

Recorded Presentation

5:00 PM

J13.7

Meteorological Factors Limit Aedes aegypti Longevity and Dengue Virus Transmission in the Sonoran Desert

Cory W. Morin, University of Washington, Seattle, WA; and D. A. Quattrochi

Recorded Presentation

5:15 PM

J13.8

Ecological Forecasting of West Nile Virus Outbreaks in a High-risk Area of the North-central United States

Michael C. Wimberly, South Dakota State University, Brookings, SD; and C. L. Merkord, L. Kightlinger, G. Vincent, and M. B. Hildreth

Recorded Presentation

Themed Joint Session 14

Helping Society Mitigate and Adapt to Climate Variability and Change Part II

Location: Room 245 ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)

Hosts: (Joint between the 22nd Conference on Applied Climatology; the 28th Conference on Climate Variability and Change; the 11th Symposium on Societal Applications: Policy, Research and Practice; and the Fourth Symposium on the Weather, Water, and Climate Enterprise )

Chair: Kristen Averyt, CIRES/Univ. of Colorado

3:30 PM

TJ14.1

Advances in Local Adaptation to Climate Change

Joel B. Smith, Stratus Consulting Inc., Boulder, CO; and J. Vogel, K. Carney, C. Herrick, M. O'Grady, H. Hosterman, A. St. Juliana, and M. Stults

Recorded Presentation

3:45 PM

TJ14.2

Estimating the Impact of Quality Education on Individual Lifetime Carbon Emissions

Eugene Cordero, San Jose State Univ., San Jose, CA; and D. C. Centeno

Recorded Presentation

4:00 PM

TJ14.3

NMME and the Frontier of Climate Scale Decision Support in Alaska

Richard L. Thoman Jr., NOAA, Fairbanks, AK

Recorded Presentation

4:15 PM

TJ14.4

Green and Cool Roofs to Mitigate Urban Heating: An Analysis with a Regional Climate Model

Ashish Sharma, University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, IN; and P. Conry, H. J. S. Fernando, A. F. Hamlet, J. Hellmann, and F. Chen

Recorded Presentation

4:30 PM

TJ14.5

Can Solar Shade Structures Significantly Reduce Interior Automobile Temperatures?

Nancy J. Selover, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ; and A. Middel, N. Chhetri, B. Mackowski, and C. J. Sisodiya

Recorded Presentation

4:45 PM

TJ14.6

Increasing the Capacity for Municipal Climate Adaptation Planning in the Missouri River Basin

Natalie A. Umphlett, University of Nebraska, Lincoln, NE; and M. D. Shulski

Recorded Presentation

5:00 PM

TJ14.7

Assisting Hyde County, NC, with Comprehensive Community Flood Resilience Planning

Jessica C. Whitehead, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC; and J. M. Evans

Recorded Presentation

5:15 PM

TJ14.8

Supporting Resilient Coastal Communities and Ecosystems in a Changing Climate: Lessons Learned from an Interdisciplinary Research Program

Adrienne Antoine, OAR, Silver Spring, MD

5:30 PM-7:00 PM: Tuesday, 12 January 2016

Town Hall Meeting: Broadcast Meteorologists & The Work Behind The Scenes

Location: Room 225 ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)

Host: Town Hall Meetings

6:00 PM-7:30 PM: Tuesday, 12 January 2016

Town Hall Meeting: Communicating Probabilities, Uncertainties and Confidence in Weather and Climate Outlooks

Location: Room 242 ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)

Host: Town Hall Meetings

6:00 PM

Communicating Uncertainty in Weather and Climate – From PoPs to Beyond CO2

Robert Ryan, Consulting Meteorologist, McLean, VA

Recorded Presentation Manuscript (287.1 kB)

6:00 PM-8:00 PM: Tuesday, 12 January 2016

Town Hall Meeting: Spirituality and the Atmospheric Sciences--Ethics and Climate Change from the Perspective of Religion and Faith

Location: Room 240/241 ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)

Host: Town Hall Meetings

6:00 PM

David Mitchell

7:30 PM-9:30 PM: Tuesday, 12 January 2016

Molina Symposium Banquet

Location: Room 238/239 ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)

Wednesday, 13 January 2016

7:00 AM-8:15 AM: Wednesday, 13 January 2016

Town Hall Meeting: The Weather Coalition: Organizational Status and Recent Activities

Location: Room 242 ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)

Host: Town Hall Meetings

7:40 AM-8:00 AM: Wednesday, 13 January 2016

Panel on Geomagnetically Induced Currents: Science, Engineering, and Future Challenges

Location: Room 348/349 ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)

8:00 AM-6:30 PM: Wednesday, 13 January 2016

Poster Hall Open

Location: Hall D/E ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)

8:30 AM-9:00 AM: Wednesday, 13 January 2016

Session 1

Welcome & Introductions

Location: Room 340/341 ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)

Host: 19th Conference of Atmospheric Science Librarians International

8:30 AM-9:30 AM: Wednesday, 13 January 2016

Panel Discussion 1

Location: Room 352 ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)

Host: 13th Conference on Space Weather

Moderator: Madhulika Guhathakurta, NASA

Panelists: Antti Pulkkinen, NASA/GSFC; Robert S. Weigel, George Mason University; Christopher C. Balch, NOAA/NWS Space Weather Prediction Center; Emanuel Bernabeu, PJM

8:30 AM

Introduction -- Madhulika Guhathakurta

Recorded Presentation

8:30 AM

Antti Pulkkinen

Recorded Presentation

8:30 AM

Daniel Welling

Recorded Presentation

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

Session 1

Advances in CubeSats and SmallSats to Improve Earth Science and Weather Forecasting

Location: Room 338/339 ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)

Host: Sixth Conference on Transition of Research to Operations

Cochairs: John Pereira, NOAA/NESDIS; Brian Mischel, Riverside Technology Inc.

8:30 AM

1.1

CubeSat Infrared Atmospheric Sounder (CIRAS)

Thomas S. Pagano, JPL, Pasadena, CA

Recorded Presentation

8:45 AM

1.2

MISTiC Winds, a Micro-Satellite Constellation Approach to High Resolution Observations of the Atmosphere using Infrared Sounding and 3D Winds Measurements

K. R. Maschhoff, BAE Systems, Nashua, NH; and J. J. Polizotti and J. Hartley

Recorded Presentation

9:00 AM

1.3

New Small Satellite Capabilities for Microwave Atmospheric Remote Sensing: The Earth Observing Nanosatellite-Microwave (EON-MW)

William J. Blackwell, MIT Lincoln Laboratory, Lexington, MA; and J. J. Pereira

Recorded Presentation

9:15 AM

1.4

Tropospheric Water Vapor and Cloud ICE (TWICE): Development of Millimeter- and Sub-millimeter Wave Radiometer Instrument for 6U-Class Nanosatellites

Steven C. Reising, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO; and P. Kangaslahti, E. Schlecht, T. C. Gaier, S. Padmanabhan, S. T. Brown, J. Jiang, R. Cofield, N. Chahat, X. Bosch-Lluis, M. Ogut, W. Deal, A. Zamora, K. Leong, and X. B. Mei

9:30 AM

1.5

Constellations to Climate: Advances in Microwave Radiometer Technology Enabling Sustainable Observations using Small Satellites

Shannon T. Brown, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA; and P. Focardi, A. Kitiyakara, F. Maiwaid, L. Milligan, O. Montes, S. Padmanabhan, R. Redick, D. Russell, V. Bach, and P. Walkemeyer

Recorded Presentation

9:45 AM

1.6

From Paper To Production: Status Update For The COSMIC-2 / FORMOSAT-7 Program

John D. Murphy, NOAA/NWS, Silver Spring, MD; and J. Fulford, K. Cook, M. J. Wenkel, C. J. Fong, N. Yen, G. S. Chang, and J. Pica

Recorded Presentation

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

8:30 AM

1.1

Forecasting Convective Gusts from WRF 15km Model Data Using the New Random Nearest Neighbor Data Mining

David L. Keller, 557th Weather Wing, Offutt AFB, NE

Recorded Presentation

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

Recorded Presentation

9:00 AM

1.3

Pinpointing Convection to Improve Situational Awareness

Jim Anderson, Earth Networks, Germantown, MD

Recorded Presentation

9:15 AM

1.4

A GOES-R Proving Ground Overview from the 2015 Summer Experiment at NOAA's Aviation Weather Center

Amanda M. Terborg, CIMSS/Univ. of Wisconsin, Kansas City, MO

Recorded Presentation

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

Recorded Presentation

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

Session 1

Cloud Effects on Atmospheric Chemistry

Location: Room 356 ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)

Host: 18th Conference on Atmospheric Chemistry

Chair: Kenneth Pickering, NASA/GSFC

CoChair: Annmarie Carlton, Rutgers University

8:30 AM

1.1

Molecular Composition of Cloud Water in the Eastern US and Impacts of Aqueous Reactions (Invited Presentation)

Kerri A. Pratt, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI; and E. Boone, Y. H. Lin, A. Laskin, R. K. Chu, N. Tolic, J. Laskin, C. Wirth, P. B. Shepson, and B. Stirm

Recorded Presentation

8:45 AM

1.2

Convective Transport and Scavenging of Formaldehyde in Thunderstorms over the Central United States: Analysis of Measurements Acquired During the DC3 & SEAC4RS Studies (Invited Presentation)

Alan Fried, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO; and M. C. Barth, M. M. Bela, P. Weibring, D. Richter, J. Walega, Y. Li, K. Pickering, and Z. J. Luo

Recorded Presentation

9:00 AM

1.3

Convective Transport of Peroxides by Thunderstorms Observed over the Central U.S. during DC3

Mary C. Barth, NCAR, Boulder, CO; and M. M. Bela, P. O. Wennberg, J. Crounse, J. St. Clair, and A. Fried

Recorded Presentation

9:15 AM

1.4

Aerosol Mixing State Impacts on Aqueous Phase Chemistry

Matthew L. Dawson, University of California, Irvine, CA; and N. Riemer and D. Dabdub

Recorded Presentation

9:30 AM

1.5

Atmospheric Chemistry Effects on Cloud—Representing In-Cloud Oxidation of Sulfur in a Particle-Based Cloud-Microphysics Scheme

Anna Jaruga, University of Warsaw, Warsaw, Poland; and H. Pawlowska and S. Arabas

Recorded Presentation

Handout (5.1 MB)

9:45 AM

1.6

Incorporation of a Cloud Optical Depth Parameterization in GEOS-Chem and Its Impacts on Photochemistry and Aerosol Microphysics

Gan Luo, SUNY, Albany, NY; and F. Yu

Recorded Presentation

Joint Session 2

Regional Climate Variability on Intraseasonal-to-Multidecadal Time Scales

Location: Room 343 ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)

Hosts: (Joint between the Peter Lamb Symposium; and the 28th Conference on Climate Variability and Change )

Chair: Michael Richman, CIMMS/Univ. of Oklahoma

J2.1

Synoptic Kelvin Type Perturbation Waves over Congo Basin During the Period 1979–2010

8:30 AM

J2.1A

Assessment of Soil Moisture Budget Using a Water Balance Model and Use of Model Results for Drought Early Warning. Case of a Moderate Semi Arid Watershed Northern Tunisia

Zoubeida Bargaoui, Université Tunis El Manar, Tunis, Tunisia; and M. zamouri and N. Abid

Recorded Presentation

Handout (688.6 kB)

8:45 AM

J2.2

Projected Changes in Malawi's Growing Season: Connections with the Large-scale Circulation

Kerry H. Cook, University of Texas, Austin, TX; and E. Vizy

Recorded Presentation

9:00 AM

J2.3

Representation of African Easterly Waves in CMIP5 Models

Elinor Martin, University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK; and C. D. Thorncroft

Recorded Presentation

9:15 AM

J2.4

Comparison of Simulated and Reconstructed Variations in East African Hydroclimate over the Last Millennium

François Klein, Université catholique de Louvain, Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium; and H. Goosse, N. E. Graham, and D. Verschuren

Recorded Presentation

9:30 AM

J2.5

Horn of Africa Rainfall Sensitivity to Regional Sea Surface Temperature Forcing in the Indian and Atlantic Oceans

Zewdu Segele, CIMMS/Univ. of Oklahoma, Norman, OK; and L. M. Leslie and A. Tarhule

Recorded Presentation

9:45 AM

J2.6

Exploration of the ENSO-Sahel Relationship on Intraseasonal to Interannual Timescales and its Relevance to Local Climate Services

Catherine Pomposi, Columbia University, Palisades, NY; and O. Ndiaye, A. Giannini, and Y. Kushnir

Adapting to Climate Variability and its Impacts on Energy Sector Resilience Part 1

Location: Room 346/347 ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)

Hosts: (Joint between the Seventh Conference on Weather, Climate, Water and the New Energy Economy; and the 22nd Conference on Applied Climatology )

Moderator: Brian D'Agostino, Sempra Energy

Panelists: Gail Vaucher, Army Research Laboratory; Bradfield Lyon, Columbia University/IRI; Jerald A. Brotzge, SUNY; Renato Derech, Consolidated Edison Company of New York; David A. Robinson, Rutgers University and NJ State Climatologist

8:30 AM

Introduction - Brian D'Agostino

Recorded Presentation

8:45 AM

Presentation 1 - Brad Lyon

Recorded Presentation

9:00 AM

Presentation 2 - David Robinson

Recorded Presentation

9:15 AM

Presentation 3 - Jerry Brotzge

Recorded Presentation

9:30 AM

TJPD3.1

Atmospheric Input for Renewable Energy Microgrids (Educating 'Smart Grids')

Gail Vaucher, Army Research Laboratory, White Sands Missile Range, NM

Manuscript (434.6 kB)

Panel Discussion 3

Towards Operational Earth System Prediction for Informed Decision Support

Location: Room 244 ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)

Host: Fourth Symposium on the Weather, Water, and Climate Enterprise

Moderator: David McCarren, Meteorological Services and Supporting Research

Panelists: Louis Uccellini, NOAA/NWS; Gerald Geernaert, DOE; Patrick A. Harr, NSF; Craig McLean, NOAA/OAR; RDML Timothy Gallaudet, U.S. Navy ; Thomas Drake, ONR; Jack A. Kaye, NASA, Science Mission Directorate; Ralph O. Stoffler, U.S. Air Force

8:30 AM

Dave McCarren

Recorded Presentation

8:30 AM

RDML Timothy Gallaudet

Recorded Presentation

8:30 AM

Jack Kaye

Recorded Presentation

8:30 AM

Pat Harr

Recorded Presentation

8:30 AM

Tom Drake

Recorded Presentation

8:30 AM

Craig McLean

Recorded Presentation

8:30 AM

Louis Uccellini

Recorded Presentation

Session 4

Earth System Science and Interacting Processes in the Coastal Environment: Part I

Location: Room 342 ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)

Host: 14th Symposium on the Coastal Environment

Cochairs: Nickitas Georgas, Stevens Institute of Technology; Gregory Dusek, NOAA

8:30 AM

4.1

Evolution of High Fidelity Surge and Wave Models of Southern Louisiana since Hurricane Katrina (2005)

Joannes Westerink, University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, IN; and J. Smith, J. C. Dietrich, and R. A. Luettich

Recorded Presentation

8:45 AM

4.2

Sea State Dependent Surface Stress in ADCIRC for Storm Surge Predictions

Jie Gao, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Morehead City, NC; and R. Luettich, B. Reichl, I. Ginis, and T. Asher

Recorded Presentation

9:00 AM

4.3

StormSurgeViz: a Community-based Approach for Data Analysis and Visualization of Storm Surge and Wave Forecasts

Brian Blanton, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC; and R. Luettich

Recorded Presentation

9:15 AM

4.4

Creating Storm Tide Inundation Guidance and Bridging the Bering Strait with the NWS's ETSS Model

Arthur A. Taylor, NOAA/NWS, Silver Spring, MD; and H. Liu

Recorded Presentation Manuscript (650.2 kB)

9:30 AM

4.5

Hindcast Validation of Shallow Water Wave Processes in the Great Lakes using Unstructured Spectral Models

Jian Kuang, IMSG@NOAA/NWS/NCEP, College Park, MD; and A. J. Van der Westhuysen, G. Mann, E. J. Anderson, A. Fujisaki, and J. G. W. Kelly

Recorded Presentation

Handout (3.9 MB)

9:45 AM

4.6

Super-oceanic Winds over a Narrow Coastal Estuary in Onshore Flow Events

Michael Splitt, Florida Institute of Technology, Melbourne, FL; and S. M. Lazarus, J. Colvin, and B. Holman

Recorded Presentation

Handout (2.4 MB)

Session 4

Observing Systems I

Location: Room 345 ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)

Host: 20th Conference on Integrated Observing and Assimilation Systems for the Atmosphere, Oceans, and Land Surface (IOAS-AOLS)

Chair: John Manobianco, Mano Nanotechnologies, Inc.

8:30 AM

4.1

Steps towards evaluating the cost-benefit of observing systems

Rebecca A. Reid, Met Office, Exeter, United Kingdom; and J. Eyre

Recorded Presentation

8:45 AM

4.2

Scientific contributions from GPS radio occultation sounding of the atmosphere: decadal-scale variability and vertical profiles of water vapor

A. J. Mannucci, JPL, Pasadena, CA; and C. O. Ao, P. Vergados, O. P. Verkhoglyadova, B. A. Iijima, and E. R. Kursinski

Recorded Presentation

9:00 AM

4.3

Characteristics of radiosonde observations and their impact in satellite sounding product validation

Bomin Sun, NOAA/NESDIS/Center for Satellite Applications and Research/I.M. Systems Group, College Park, MD; and T. Reale, F. Tilley, and M. Pettey

9:15 AM

4.4

Airborne Doppler Wind Lidar Missions in the Arctic: Calibration and Validation of Existing and Future Space-based Wind measuring Platforms

G. D. Emmitt, Simpson Weather Associates, Charlottesville, VA; and S. Greco, K. S. Godwin, and M. J. Kavaya

Recorded Presentation

9:30 AM

4.5

Applications of the Earth Observation Requirements Evaluation System

Eric Miller, NOAA/NESDIS, Silver Spring, MD; and L. McCulloch and S. Smith

Recorded Presentation

9:45 AM

4.6

An Integrated Approach to Improve Cloud Characterizations from Satellite Imager Data for Weather and Climate Applications

William L. Smith Jr., NASA, Hampton, VA; and P. Minnis, C. Fleeger, D. A. Spangenberg, S. Sun-Mack, and Y. Chen

Recorded Presentation

Session 4

Preparing for GOES-R Series Including Instruments Overviews, Data Access/Flow, and User/Education Training

Location: Room 252/254 ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)

Host: 12th Annual Symposium on New Generation Operational Environmental Satellite Systems

Cochairs: Timothy J. Schmit, NOAA/NESDIS/Center for Satellite Applications and Research; Patricia Maloney, The Aerospace Corporation

8:30 AM

4.1

Status of the GOES-R Space Weather Sensors and Products

William F. Denig, NOAA, Boulder, CO; and W. Rowland and P. Loto'aniu

Recorded Presentation

8:45 AM

4.2

Preparing for GOES-R: Supporting User Readiness of Level 1b Data

Matthew Seybold, NOAA/NESDIS, Greenbelt, MD; and J. Fulbright, H. Kilcoyne, R. A. Iacovazzi Jr., R. Williams, E. J. McMichael, K. Miretzky, and W. M. MacKenzie Jr.

Recorded Presentation

9:00 AM

4.3

Preparing for GOES-R: Supporting User Readiness of Level 2+ Products

Wayne M. MacKenzie Jr., NOAA/NESDIS, Greenbelt, MD; and M. Seybold, H. Kilcoyne, K. Miretzky, E. J. McMichael, J. Fulbright, and R. Williams

Recorded Presentation

9:15 AM

4.4

GLM: Geostationary Lightning Mapper for Early Warning of Severe Storms

Samantha Edgington, Lockheed Martin, Palo Alto, CA; and C. Tillier and H. J. Christian Jr.

Recorded Presentation

9:30 AM

4.5

Preparing for the GOES-R Era: Recommendations for NWS Training on 1-Minute Satellite Imagery

Katie L. Crandall, CIMMS/Univ. of Oklahoma, Kansas City, MO; and C. M. Gravelle, D. W. Snyder, and K. J. Runk

Recorded Presentation

9:45 AM

4.6

The Importance of Education and Outreach: The GOES-R Perspective

Daniel Karlson, NOAA/NESDIS, Greenbelt, MD

Recorded Presentation

Session 5

Aerosol-cloud Interactions in Shallow Clouds II

Location: Room 357 ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)

Host: Eighth Symposium on Aerosol–Cloud–Climate Interactions

Chair: Paquita Zuidema, Univ. of Miami/RSMAS

CoChair: Robert Wood, University of Washington

8:30 AM

5.1

What Can We Learn from Ship Tracks about the Importance of Aerosol-cloud Interactions in Shallow Clouds? (Invited Presentation)

Ulrike Lohmann, ETH Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland; and A. Possner, E. Zubler, and C. Schär

Recorded Presentation

8:45 AM

5.2

Simulating Feedbacks Between Stratocumulus Cloud Dynamics, Microphysics and Aerosols Over Large Scales

Daniel P. Grosvenor, University of Leeds, Leeds, West Yorkshire, United Kingdom; and P. R. Field, A. Hill, and B. Shipway

Recorded Presentation

9:00 AM

5.3

The Importance of Shallow Cloud Microphysics for Aerosol-Cloud Interactions

Andrew Gettelman, NCAR, Boulder, CO

Recorded Presentation

9:15 AM

5.4

Coupling Spectral-bin Cloud Microphysics with the MOSAIC Aerosol Model in WRF-Chem: Methodology and Preliminary Results

Wenhua Gao, Chinese Academy of Meteorological Sciences, Beijing, China; and J. Fan, R. Easter, Q. Yang, C. Zhao, and S. J. Ghan

Recorded Presentation

9:30 AM

5.5

Spurious Cloud-Edge Supersaturation in Eulerian and Lagrangian Microphysical Schemes

Dorota Jarecka, NCAR, Boulder, CO; and S. Arabas and W. W. Grabowski

Recorded Presentation

9:45 AM

5.6

Turbulent Entrainment-mixing and Its Effects on Continental Stratus/stratocumulus Cloud Microphysics Observed During the RACORO Campaign

Seong Soo Yum, Yonsei University, Seoul, South Korea; and J. Yeom, Y. Liu, and C. Lu

Recorded Presentation

Session 6

Advances in Evaporation and Evaporative Demand, Part II

Location: Room 240/241 ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)

Host: 30th Conference on Hydrology

Cochairs: Michael Hobbins, NOAA; Martha C. Anderson, USDA/ARS; Christopher Hain, University of Maryland; Jennifer C. Adam, Washington State University

8:30 AM

6.1

Estimating Evapotranspiration in the Caribbean Region using an Operational Water and Energy Balance Algorithm

Eric W. Harmsen, University of Puerto Rico, Mayaguez,, PR; and J. R. Mecikalski and E. Álvarez Pérez

Recorded Presentation

6.2

The Expansion of Agriculture and Its Effects of Evapotranspiration in Brazil's Newest Agricultural Frontier

8:45 AM

6.2A

Implementing the Remotely Sensed Evaporative Stress Index Globally Using MODIS Day/Night Land-surface Temperatures

Christopher Hain, University of Maryland, College Park, MD; and M. C. Anderson, J. Otkin, T. R. H. Holmes, and W. T. Crow

9:00 AM

Microwave Based Implementation of Two Source Energy Balance model to Estimate Evaporation -- Christopher Hain

Recorded Presentation

9:15 AM

6.4

Estimating reservoir evaporation: Evaluating current and future practices and research-to-operations pathways

Ben Livneh, CIRES/Univ. of Colorado, Boulder, CO; and K. Friedrich, R. L. Grossman, P. D. Blanken, and J. L. Huntington

Recorded Presentation

9:30 AM

6.5

IMPROVING OPERATIONAL HYDROLOGIC PREDICTION MODELING THROUGH SATELLITE REMOTE SENSING APPLICATIONS

Angela L. Bowman, Iowa State University, Ames, IA; and K. J. Franz and T. Hogue

Recorded Presentation

6.3

Groundwater Dependent Ecosystem Connections to Hydrometeorology and Management in Arid Environments

9:45 AM

6.6

Moving from Empirical Estimation of Humidity to Observation: A Spatial and Temporal Evaluation of MTCLIM Assumptions Using Regional Networks

Ruben J. Behnke, University of Montana, Missoula, MT

Recorded Presentation

Session 6

Sectoral Applications

Location: Room 245 ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)

Host: 22nd Conference on Applied Climatology

Chair: Dennis P. Todey, South Dakota State Univ.

8:30 AM

6.1

Automated Design Storm Notification System

Patrick Guinan, Univ. of Missouri, Columbia, MO; and J. Lory and R. Massey

Recorded Presentation

8:45 AM

6.2

Evaluating Weather and Climate Impacts on Global Crop Production

Thomas R. Walsh, Thomson Reuters, Chicago, IL; and A. H. Turchioe

Recorded Presentation

9:00 AM

6.3

Frost and its Implications on Maize Production in the Free State Province of South Africa

Mokhele Edmond Moeletsi, Agricultural Research Council, Pretoria, Gauteng, South Africa; and M. I. Tongwane

Recorded Presentation

9:15 AM

6.4

Climatological Drivers of Double Cropping Expansion in the Brazilian Cerrado

Keith R. Spangler, Brown University, Providence, RI; and A. H. Lynch and S. Spera

9:30 AM

6.5

Spatial and Temporal Variability of Springtime Freeze Events and their Impact on Tart Cherry Production in the Great Lakes Region

Lydia D. Rill, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI; and J. Andresen, J. A. Winkler, J. R. Black, and S. Schultze

Recorded Presentation

9:45 AM

6.6

Ensemble Creation with Downscaled Climate Projections for Ecological Use

Geneva M. E. Gray, NC State University, Raleigh, NC; and R. P. Boyles

Recorded Presentation

Session 6

Urban Meteorology and Dispersion

Location: Room 243 ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)

Host: 19th Joint Conference on the Applications of Air Pollution Meteorology with the A&WMA

Chair: Akshay Gowardhan, LLNL

8:30 AM

6.1

Quantifying the Impact of Traffic-Related Air Pollution on the Indoor Air Quality of a Naturally Ventilated Building

Zheming Tong, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA; and Y. Chen and A. Malkawi

8:45 AM

6.2

Jack Rabbit II – A Field Experiment on Dense Gas Dispersion in a Built Environment

Steven R. Hanna, Hanna Consultants, Kennebunkport, ME; and J. Chang, T. Spicer, M. Sohn, S. B. Fox, M. Whitmire, L. Stockham, and D. Nicholson

Recorded Presentation

9:00 AM

6.3

A Fast CFD model Aeolus for simulating flow and dispersion in urban areas and complex terrain

Akshay Gowardhan, LLNL, Livermore, CA

9:15 AM

6.4

Predictions of nanoparticles concentrations at Marylebone Road in London (UK)

Silvana Di Sabatino, University of Bologna, BOLOGNA, Italy; and B. Pulvirenti, F. Municchi, and K. Prashant

9:30 AM

6.5A

Characterising urban pollutant ventilation with the tracer age and age spectrum

Keith Ngan, City University of Hong Kong, Kowloon, Hong Kong; and K. W. Lo and G. Duan

Session 7

Disseminating Earth Science and Climate Information for Better Decision Making

Location: Room 348/349 ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)

Host: 32nd Conference on Environmental Information Processing Technologies

Cochairs: Alex Coletti, Syneren Technologies Corp; Nancy N. Soreide, NOAA/PMEL

8:30 AM

7.1

TsunamiCast: A Web-Based and Cloud Capable Tsunami Modeling Tool

Eugene Burger, NOAA/ERL/PMEL, Seattle, WA; and L. Kamb, C. K. Pells, and T. Nakamura

8:45 AM

7.2

Experimental Hazard Services -- Expanding the Concepts to Communicate Hazard Information

Tracy Lee Hansen, NOAA/ESRL, Boulder, CO; and K. Manross, C. Golden, J. L. Mahoney, J. Wakefield, S. Williams, and R. Pierce

Recorded Presentation

Handout (4.9 MB)

9:00 AM

7.3

Offshore Radar-like Analyses for Aviation

Mark S. Veillette, MIT Lincoln Laboratory, Lexington, MA; and H. Iskenderian, C. J. Mattioli, E. P. Hassey, and P. M. Lamey

Recorded Presentation

9:15 AM

7.4

Arctic Report Card: Update for 2015

Nancy N. Soreide, NOAA/PMEL, Seattle, WA; and M. Jeffries, J. A. Richter-Menge, and J. E. Overland

Recorded Presentation

9:30 AM

7.5

Aqua and Terra Polar Orbiter Direct Broadcast Data in Support of Operational Environmental Forecasters

Kathleen Strabala, CIMSS/Univ. of Wisconsin, Madison, WI; and L. Gumley, H. L. Huang, R. M. Cintineo, D. Hoese, J. E. Davies, and B. Pierce

Recorded Presentation

9:45 AM

7.6

Voice-enabled Knowledge Engine using Ontologies and Natural Language Processing for Weather and Hydrological Data

Ibrahim Demir, University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA; and Y. Sermet and W. F. Krajewski

Session 7

Outreach and Broader Impacts

Location: Room 353 ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)

Host: 25th Symposium on Education

Cochairs: Teresa M. Bals-Elsholz, Valparaiso Univ.; Margaret Mooney, CIMSS/Univ. of Wisconsin

8:30 AM

7.1

Scientists Educating Scientists: How Outreach Begins--From the Pages of BAMS

Jeff Rosenfeld, American Meteorological Society, Boston, MA; and K. F. Heideman

Recorded Presentation

8:45 AM

7.2

Climate Literacy through a Partnership with Public Libraries

Steve Ackerman, CIMSS/Univ. of Wisconsin, Madison, WI; and M. Mooney, J. Morrill, Z. Handlos, and S. Morrill

Recorded Presentation

9:00 AM

7.3

STEM Engagement: NASA Earth Science Content and SciGirls Seven Strategies

Sarah A. Crecelius, NASA LaRC/SSAI, Hampton, Virginia; and J. Taylor and L. Chambers

Recorded Presentation

9:15 AM

7.4

Developing Interdisciplinary Curriculum for the Geosciences: “GIS Tutorial for Atmospheric Sciences”

Jennifer Boehnert, NCAR, Boulder, CO; and G. Dobson

Recorded Presentation

9:30 AM

7.5

The Evolution of NOAA's Science On a Sphere

Elizabeth L. Russell, CIRES/Univ. of Colorado, Boulder, CO; and J. Lilek, E. Hackathorn, D. P. Pisut, and E. MacIntosh

Recorded Presentation

9:45 AM

7.6

From Science to Storytelling: How Satellite Data Connects to our Daily Lives

Daniel P. Pisut, I.M. Systems Group, Silver Spring, MD; and K. Herring and L. Gaches

Recorded Presentation

Session 7A

Earth System Climate Reanalyses: Low Frequency Variability and Trends

Location: La Nouvelle C ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)

Host: 28th Conference on Climate Variability and Change

Cochairs: Siegfried D. Schubert, Global Modeling and Assimilation Office; Dick Dee, ECMWF; Michael G. Bosilovich, NASA/GSFC/GMAO

8:30 AM

7A.1

Examining the Effects of Pacific Decadal Oscillation and ENSO on Global Precipitation during the Satellite Era (1979–2014)

Guojun Gu, Univ. of Maryland, College Park, MD; and R. Adler

Recorded Presentation

8:45 AM

7A.2

Trends in Lower Tropospheric Relative Humidity from 1979 to 2013

Hui Su, JPL, Pasadena, CA; and L. Wu and J. Jiang

Recorded Presentation

9:00 AM

7A.3

Ocean Response to Atmospheric Forcing by the ERA-20C Climate Reanalysis Within the ERA-CLIM2 Project

Eric de Boisseson, ECMWF, Reading, United Kingdom; and M. A. Balmaseda

Recorded Presentation

9:15 AM

7A.4

Temperature Trends and Variability in the 20th Century reanalysis version “2c” dataset spanning 1851 to 2012

Gilbert P. Compo, CIRES, Univ. of Colorado and Physical Sciences Division/ESRL/NOAA, Boulder, CO; and J. S. Whitaker, P. D. Sardeshmukh, B. S. Giese, and P. Brohan

Recorded Presentation

9:30 AM

7A.5

Reanalysis Reveals a Possible Wave Pattern in 250hPa Meridional Wind Anomaly Since 1997

Gerald L. Potter, NASA, Greenbelt, MD; and G. Kiladis, T. P. Maxwell, and L. Carriere

Recorded Presentation

9:45 AM

7A.6

The Global Moisture Balance and its Variability in the MERRA-2 Reanalysis

Michael G. Bosilovich, NASA/GSFC/Global Modeling and Assimilation Offic, Greenbelt, MD; and F. R. Robertson and G. Partyka

Recorded Presentation

Session 7B

Multi-model Predictability and Prediction on Subseasonal to Seasonal Timescales: Part 1

Location: La Nouvelle A ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)

Host: 28th Conference on Climate Variability and Change

Cochairs: Kathleen Pegion, George Mason University; Emily J. Becker, NOAA/NWS/NCEP; Hye-Mi Kim, SUNY

8:30 AM

7B.1

The Pacific Meridional Mode as an ENSO Precursor and Predictor in the North American Multimodel Ensemble

Sarah M. Larson, University of Miami RSMAS, Miami, FL; and B. Kirtman

Recorded Presentation

8:45 AM

7B.2

Multi-Model Ensemble for Seasonal Prediction at Environment Canada

Bertrand Denis, EC, Dorval, QC, Canada; and W. Merryfield

Recorded Presentation

9:00 AM

7B.3

Forecasting Temperature Extremes with the North American Multi-Model Ensemble

Emily J. Becker, NOAA/NWS/NCEP and Innovim, College Park, MD; and H. van den Dool

Recorded Presentation

9:15 AM

7B.4

Grand European and Asian-Pacific Multi-Model Seasonal Forecasts: Maximization of Skill and of Potential Economical Value to End-Users

Andrea Alessandri, Italian National Agency for New Technologies/Energy and Sustainable Economic Development, Santa Maria di Galeria, Italy; and M. De Felice, F. Catalano, D. Y. Lee, J. H. Yoo, J. Y. Lee, and B. Wang

9:30 AM

7B.5

Multivariate Correction and Statistical Disaggregation for Seasonal Multi-Model Ensemble Forecast Applications

J. Brent Roberts, NASA/MSFC, Huntsville, AL; and F. R. Robertson

9:45 AM

7B.6

NMME Plans for Sub-seasonal Forecasts

Jin Huang, NOAA, College Park, MD; and K. Pegion and B. P. Kirtman

Recorded Presentation

Session 8

Best Practices for Statistical Inference in the Atmospheric Sciences – Part 1

Location: Room 226/227 ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)

Host: 23rd Conference on Probability and Statistics in the Atmospheric Sciences

Chair: Bob Glahn, NOAA/NWS/Meteorological Development Laboratory

8:30 AM

8.1

Analyzing Data: What to do till the Statisticians Agree (Invited Presentation)

Douglas H. Johnson, USGS, Saint Paul, MN; and J. R. Fieberg

Recorded Presentation

9:00 AM

8.2

Statistical Significance: the Wrong Answer to the Wrong Question (Invited Presentation)

Simon J. Mason, Columbia University/IRI, Palisades, NY

9:30 AM

8.3

Ingredients of Statistical Hypothesis Testing – and their Significance (Invited Presentation)

Hans von Storch, Helmholtz-Zentrum Geesthacht Centre for Materials and Coastal Research, Geesthacht, Germany

Recorded Presentation

Handout (665.2 kB)

Session 8

Remote Sensing of the Atmosphere I

Location: Room 350/351 ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)

Host: 18th Symposium on Meteorological Observation and Instrumentation

Chair: Kenneth H. Underwood, Atmospheric Systems Corporation

8:30 AM

8.1

Boundary Layer Thermodynamic and Wind Observations for Improved Fog and Marine Layer Modeling and Forecasting

R. Ware, Radiometrics, Boulder, CO; and L. Blanchette, D. Berchoff, W. Callahan, C. Clements, P. Croft, M. Eilts, P. Flatau, I. Gultepe, R. Hipschman, D. Holland, J. Kleissl, B. Koch, S. McLaughlin, M. Nelson, J. Negus, E. Osler, R. Parmentier, K. Reed, P. Roller, N. Sette, L. Thobois, S. Vandenburg, Y. Xie, and J. Zack

Recorded Presentation Manuscript (358.5 kB)

8:45 AM

8.2

Ground-based Water Vapor Profilers: A Comparison and Combination of Spectral Infrared Retrievals and Differential Absorption Lidar Observations

D. D. Turner, NOAA/NSSL, Norman, OK; and S. M. Spuler, T. M. Weckwerth, and K. Weber

Recorded Presentation

9:00 AM

8.3

A New Method for First Principles Calibration of Water Vapor Raman Lidars

Valentin Simeonov, Ecole Polytechnique Federale, Lausanne, Switzerland

Recorded Presentation Manuscript (61.0 kB)

9:15 AM

8.4

Advances in Continuous Atmospheric Boundary Layer Humidity Profiling with a Compact Dial Instrument

Christoph Münkel, Vaisala GmbH, Hamburg, Germany; and W. F. Dabberdt, J. Kallio, M. Komppula, S. Laukkanen, and E. J. O'Connor

Recorded Presentation

9:30 AM

8.5

Validation of AIRS V6 Temperature and Humidity Profiles Around Tropical Cyclones Using a Long-term (1996-2012) Dropsonde Dataset

Junhong Wang, SUNY, Albany, NY; and J. Herron

Recorded Presentation

9:45 AM

8.6

Radiometric Retrievals During Cloud Seeding Operations near Vail Colorado

Marta Nelson, Radiometrics Corp., Boulder, CO; and P. Holbrook

Recorded Presentation

Joint Session 13

Regional climate modeling predicting future changes in extreme precipitation events - Towards More Resilient Engineering Design

Location: Room 242 ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)

Hosts: (Joint between the 30th Conference on Hydrology; and the 28th Conference on Climate Variability and Change )

Cochairs: Francina Dominguez, University of Arizona; Kelly Mahoney, CIRES/University of Colorado; Kenneth E. Kunkel, CICS

8:30 AM

J13.1

Hydrometeorological Analyses of the June 1903 Heppner, Oregon Flood

Jim Smith, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ; and M. L. Baeck

Recorded Presentation

8:45 AM

J13.2

Examining terrain elevation assumptions used in current extreme precipitation estimation practices: A modeling study of the 2013 Colorado Front Range floods

Kelly M. Mahoney, CIRES/Univ. of Colorado, Boulder, CO; and J. J. Lukas and B. McCormick

Recorded Presentation

9:00 AM

J13.3

CWRF Physics Ensemble Improving Extreme Precipitation Prediction

Xin-Zhong Liang, University of Maryland, College Park, MD

Recorded Presentation

9:15 AM

J13.4

Extreme precipitation revealed through high-resolution dynamical downscaling

Robert Trapp, University of Illinois, Urbana, IL; and K. Hoogewind

9:30 AM

J13.5

Precipitation Extremes and Anthropogenically-forced Warming: Considerations for Future Changes in Design Values

Kenneth E. Kunkel, CICS, Asheville, NC; and J. A. Young

Recorded Presentation

9:45 AM

J13.6

High Resolution Simulation of a Colorado Rockies Extreme Snow and Rain Event in both a Current and Future Climate

Roy M. Rasmussen, NCAR, Boulder, CO; and K. Ikeda, C. Liu, E. Gutmann, and J. M. Thériault

Recorded Presentation

Themed Joint Session 15

Understanding Urban Growth and Climate Variability Impacts on Health, Adaptation, and Resilience: Part 3

Location: Room 255/257 ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)

Hosts: (Joint between the Fourth Symposium on Building a Weather-Ready Nation: Enhancing Our Nation’s Readiness, Responsiveness, and Resilience to High Impact Weather Events; the 28th Conference on Climate Variability and Change; the 22nd Conference on Applied Climatology; and the Seventh Conference on Environment and Health )

Chair: Wendy Marie Thomas, NOAA/NWS

8:30 AM

TJ15.1

Coastal Resilience to Extreme Weather and Climate: A Case Study of Applications on Long Island New York

Minghua Zhang, SUNY, Stony Brook, NY; and B. A. Colle, E. K. M. Chang, H. Bowman, S. G. Jang, W. Lin, and P. Liu

8:45 AM

TJ15.2

Hot in Baltimore: Urban Form's Impact on Fine-scale Temperature Differences

Anna A. Scott, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD; and D. W. Waugh, B. F. Zaitchik, and S. D. Guikema

Recorded Presentation

9:00 AM

TJ15.3

Heat Waves and the Urban Heat Island: Employing Citywide Observational Networks to Assess Spatiotemporal Variability of Air Temperature in the U.S. Northeast

Jennifer Vanos, Texas Tech University, Lubbock, TX; and A. W. Hardin

Recorded Presentation

9:15 AM

TJ15.4

The World Urban Database and Access Portal Tools, WUDAPT—an International Collaborative Project for Climate Relevant Physical Geography Data for the World's Cities

J. Ching, Univ. of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC; and G. Mills, L. See, B. Bechtel, J. Feddema, and A. Hanna

Recorded Presentation Manuscript (7.0 MB)

9:30 AM

TJ15.5

Urban Heat Island Reduction Strategies in Neighborhoods in Northern Manhattan, New York City

Juan Declet-Barreto, Natural Resources Defense Council, Washington, DC; and K. Knowlton, A. Huang, J. White-Newsome, C. D. Corbin-Mark, and O. Dotson-Newman

Recorded Presentation

9:45 AM

TJ15.6

The Potential Impacts of 21st Century Climatic and Population Changes on Human Exposure to the Virus Vector Mosquito Aedes aegypti

Andrew J. Monaghan, NCAR, Boulder, CO; and K. Sampson, D. F. Steinhoff, K. C. Ernst, K. L. Ebi, B. Jones, and M. H. Hayden

Recorded Presentation

Joint Session 15

Water: Too Much, too Little. How Climate Information Supports Community Preparedness, Part I

Location: Room 335/336 ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)

Hosts: (Joint between the 30th Conference on Hydrology; and the 11th Symposium on Societal Applications: Policy, Research and Practice )

Cochairs: John N. McHenry, Baron Advanced Meteorological Systems, LLC; Nancy Beller-Simms, NOAA; Stephanie Herring, NOAA

8:30 AM

J15.1

The Role of Climate and Water Resources Data in Societal Decisions

Mark Deutschman, Houston Engineering Inc., Maple Grove, MN

Recorded Presentation

8:45 AM

J15.2

State Management Impacts from Hydroclimatic Extremes in Texas and Oklahoma, 2011-2015

David P. Brown, NOAA, Fort Worth, TX; and C. Black, B. Hoeth, M. A. Shafer, and V. W. Murphy

Recorded Presentation

9:00 AM

J15.3

Developing Tailored Climate Change Information for Strategic Water Supply Planning at a North Carolina Utility

Aashka Patel, University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC; and G. Carbone

9:15 AM

J15.4

Decision-Centric Adaptation Appraisal for Water Management Across Colorado's Continental Divide

Kathleen A. Miller, NCAR, Boulder, CO; and D. N. Yates, R. L. Wilby, and L. Kaatz

Recorded Presentation

9:30 AM

J15.5

Hydrologic Information for Tracking Water Availability in Africa and the Middle East

Amy McNally, ESSIC/UMD at NASA/GSFC, Greenbelt, MD; and A. Getirana, K. R. Arsenault, and C. Peters-Lidard

9:45 AM

J15.6

Impact of Non-stationary Climate Conditions on Extreme Precipitation Frequency Estimates Needed for Engineering Design

Sanja Perica, NOAA, Silver Spring, MD; and M. St. Laurent, S. Pavlovic, C. Trypaluk, D. Unruh, and O. Wilhite

Recorded Presentation

8:45 AM-10:00 AM: Wednesday, 13 January 2016

Session 6

Communicating Coastal Risk

Location: Room 333-334 ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)

Host: 11th Symposium on Societal Applications: Policy, Research and Practice

Chair: Kathleen Sherman-Morris, Mississippi State University

8:45 AM

6.1

Bridging Gaps in Coastal Hazard Communication: Color-Indexed Elevation Maps for Flood Vulnerable Coastal Communities in Western Alaska

Aimee Fish, NOAA/NWS, Anchorage, AK; and N. Kinsman, T. Tschetter, and R. L. Thoman Jr.

Recorded Presentation

6.2

Visualizing Inundation: Improving Communication and Understanding of Coastal Risk

Paper 6.3 has been moved. New paper number 3.1A

9:00 AM

6.3A

User Interpretation of Hurricane Forecast Graphics

Kathleen Sherman-Morris, Mississippi State Univ., Mississippi State, MS; and K. Antonelli

Recorded Presentation

9:15 AM

6.4

Towards More Actionable Tropical Storm Warnings, Google Public Alerts

Pete Giencke, Google, Inc., Mountain View, CA; and N. Savio, P. Patel, and S. Hakusa

Recorded Presentation

9:30 AM

6.5

Experimental Testing of Evacuation Messages in Sandy-affected Areas

Cara L. Cuite, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ; and S. G. Decker, D. A. Robinson, W. K. Hallman, K. M. O'Neill, R. E. Morss, and J. L. Demuth

Recorded Presentation

9:45 AM

6.6A

Twitter During Sandy: Data Analysis and Insights For Future Events

John A. Knox, University of Georgia, Athens, GA; and B. Mazanec and E. M. Sullivan

Recorded Presentation

Paper 6.6 has been moved. New paper number 6.3A

9:00 AM-10:00 AM: Wednesday, 13 January 2016

Keynote Speaker Session 2

Keynote: Resources to Help Scientists Communicate Climate Science

Location: Room 340/341 ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)

Host: 19th Conference of Atmospheric Science Librarians International

Speaker: Richard C. J. Somerville, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, UC San Diego

9:00 AM

KS.1

Resources to Help Scientists Communicate Climate Science (Invited Presentation)

Richard C. J. Somerville, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, UC San Diego, La Jolla, CA

Recorded Presentation

Handout (11.8 MB)

Session 5

Observation System Simulation Experiments and Other Studies to Assess the Impact of Future Satellite Sensors

Location: Room 225 ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)

Host: Fourth AMS Symposium on the Joint Center for Satellite Data Assimilation (JCSDA)

Chair: Will McCarty, NASA/GSFC

9:00 AM

5.1

Assimilation of Lightning Observations and GOES Infrared Imagery at Convection-Permitting Scales

Max Marchand, Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL; and H. Fuelberg

Recorded Presentation

9:15 AM

5.2

Analysis of CrIS FOV Sizes on the next Generation High-resolution NWP Model Forecast Performance Through an OSSE

Agnes Lim, CIMSS/Univ. of Wisconsin, Madison, WI; and Z. Li, J. A. Jung, A. Huang, J. Woollen, G. Quinn, F. W. Nagle, S. B. Healy, J. A. Otkin, M. Goldberg, and R. Atlas

Recorded Presentation

9:30 AM

5.3

Impact of a Degraded Constellation of Environmental Satellites on NOAA Numerical Weather Prediction

Sid-Ahmed Boukabara, NOAA/NESDIS/STAR, College Park, MD; and K. Garrett and K. Kumar

Recorded Presentation

9:45 AM

5.4

Tracking of Hydrometeors State in Severe Weather using LEO CubeSat Fleet

Kun Zhang, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO

Recorded Presentation

9:00 AM-11:00 AM: Wednesday, 13 January 2016

Spouses' Coffee

Location: Kabacoff (Hilton Riverside)

9:30 AM-10:00 AM: Wednesday, 13 January 2016

Keynote Speaker Session 1

Keynote: The New Horizons Mission to Pluto

Location: Room 352 ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)

Host: 13th Conference on Space Weather

Chair: James F. Spann, NASA/MSFC

9:30 AM

KS1.1

The New Horizons Mission to Pluto (Invited Presentation)

Fran Bagenal, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO

Recorded Presentation

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

Coffee Break

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

Meet the President

Location: Room 230 ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)

Space Weather Coffee Break—Sponsored by Space Environment Technologies

Location: Room 352 ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)

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

Joint Session 1

Air Pollution Meteorology in the Urban Environment (Joint between the 19th Joint Conference on the Applications of Air Pollution Meteorology with the A&WMA and the AMS Board on the Urban Environment)

Location: Room 243 ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)

Host: 19th Joint Conference on the Applications of Air Pollution Meteorology with the A&WMA

Chair: Daniel Mendoza, University of Utah

10:30 AM

J1.1

The University of Utah Urban Undertaking (U⁴): Measurements and Simulations of Air Pollution from Neighborhood to Regional Scales

John C. Lin, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT; and L. Mitchell, D. Mendoza, R. Bares, B. Fasoli, D. Bowling, E. Crosman, J. Horel, R. Patarasuk, K. Gurney, M. Buchert, A. K. Kochanski, D. V. Mallia, D. Pataki, B. Eng, D. Catharine, C. Strong, and J. R. Ehleringer

10:45 AM

J1.2A

Spatiotemporal comparison of highly-resolved emissions and concentrations of carbon dioxide and criteria pollutants in Salt Lake City, Utah for health and policy applications: a chronic obstructive pulmonary disease case study

Daniel Mendoza, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT; and J. C. Lin, L. Mitchell, K. Gurney, R. Patarasuk, D. O'Keeffe, T. Song, J. Huang, B. Fasoli, R. Bares, J. Horel, E. Crosman, D. Blagev, J. Sorensen, F. Sakaguchi, S. Rea, C. Fillmore, B. Horne, and J. R. Ehleringer

11:00 AM

J1.3

The 2015 Great Salt Lake Summer Ozone Study

John D. Horel, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT; and E. Crosman, A. Jacques, B. Blaylock, A. Long, S. Arens, R. S. Martin, and J. Sohl

Recorded Presentation

11:15 AM

J1.4

WRF Simulation of a Summer Ozone Event in the Salt Lake Valley Initialized from HRRR Analyses

Brian Blaylock, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT; and E. T. Crosman and J. D. Horel

Recorded Presentation

11:30 AM

J1.5

Predictability and error dynamics of street-canyon flows

Ka Wai Lo, City University of Hong Kong, Kowloon, Hong Kong; and K. Ngan

Session 1

Urban Growth and Connections with Climate & Health

Location: Room 228/229 ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)

Host: Seventh Conference on Environment and Health

Chair: Jennifer Vanos, Texas Tech University

10:30 AM

1.1

Climate Change Impacts in the United States: Benefits of Global Action

Lesley C. Jantarasami, EPA, Washington, DC

Recorded Presentation

10:45 AM

1.2

Assessment of Heat Stress and Associated Air Quality for Current and Future Climate in a Major Urban Area in the USA

Adel Hanna, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC; and J. Pinto and J. Ching

Recorded Presentation

11:00 AM

1.3

Urban Livability Index(ULI): Identifying At-Risk Populations and the Interconnected Factors of the Urban Heat Island Effect

Jose Pillich, City University of New York Graduate Center, New York, NY; and Y. Klein

11:15 AM

1.4

Ariane Middel, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ; and J. Vanos and B. L. Ruddell

11:30 AM

1.5

A Spatial Assessment of Urban Air Quality in a Growing City Using Innovative Portable Sensing Technologies

Grant R. McKercher, Texas Tech University, Lubbock, TX; and J. Vanos

Recorded Presentation

11:45 AM

1.6

Historical Trend in PM2.5 Long-term Exposure and its Health Impacts Associated with Emission Mitigations during 1990-2010 Across the Northern Hemisphere

Jiandong Wang, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China; and J. Xing, R. Mathur, S. wang, J. E. Pleim, C. Hogrefe, C. M. Gan, D. Wong, and J. Hao

Recorded Presentation

Session 2

Advances in Satellite Observations and Earth Science and Observing Technologies

Location: Room 338/339 ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)

Host: Sixth Conference on Transition of Research to Operations

Cochairs: Robert Bauer, NASA/ESTO; Brian Mischel, Riverside Technology Inc.

10:30 AM

2.1

RainCube, a Constellation of Precipitation Profiling Radars in CubeSat

Eva Peral, JPL, Pasadena, CA; and S. Tanelli, Z. Haddad, D. Price, C. Parashare, B. Ortloff, S. Durden, G. Stephens, and E. Im

10:45 AM

2.2

Development of a Three-Frequency Spaceborne Radar for Cloud and Precipitation Measurement

Gregory A. Sadowy, JPL, Pasadena, CA; and M. Sanchez-Barbetty, S. Tanelli, B. Cannon, K. Vanhille, A. Brown, and K. Brown

11:00 AM

2.3

A Multi-frequency Wide-swath Spaceborne Cloud And Precipitation Imaging Radar

Lihua Li, NASA/GSFC, Greenbelt, MD; and M. McLinden, G. M. Heymsfield, P. A. Stenger, M. E. Cooley, T. Spence, and R. E. Park

11:15 AM

2.4

Differential Absorption Radar for Water Vapor Sounding

Matthew Lebsock, JPL, Pasadena, CA; and K. Cooper and L. F. Millan

11:30 AM

2.5

Total and Spectral Solar Irradiance (TSSI) Measurements for the Next 35 Years

Thomas Sparn, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO; and P. Pilewskie

Recorded Presentation

11:45 AM

2.6

The Green-OAWL (GrOAWL) Airborne Demonstrator For The ATHENA-OAWL Mission Concept: System Progress And Flight Plans

Sara Tucker, Ball Aerospace & Technologies Corp., Boulder, CO; and R. M. Hardesty

Recorded Presentation

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

10:30 AM

2.1

Impact-based Decision Support Services TAF Rating (I-TAF Rating) Application for the National Weather Service

Joseph Facundo, Herndon, VA; and L. Laughlin, S. Rasheeth, and G. Stark

Recorded Presentation

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

Recorded Presentation

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

Recorded Presentation

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

Recorded Presentation

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

Recorded Presentation Manuscript (1.1 MB)

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

Recorded Presentation

Panel Discussion 2

National Space Weather Strategy

Location: Room 352 ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)

Host: 13th Conference on Space Weather

Moderator: William J. Murtagh, White House Office of Science and Technology Policy

Panelists: Tamara Dickinson, OSTP; Louis W. Uccellini, Director, NOAA/NWS; Caitlin Durkovich, Infrastructure Protection, DHS; Thomas E. Berger, NOAA/NWS; Christopher Cannizzaro, Office of Space & Advanced Technology; Seth Jonas, IDA Science and Technology Policy Institute

10:30 AM

Bill Murtagh

Recorded Presentation

Joint Panel Discussion 3

Making Climate Information Available to Decision Makers: Challenges, Risks, and Uncertainty

Location: Room 244 ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)

Hosts: (Joint between the Fourth Symposium on the Weather, Water, and Climate Enterprise; the 11th Symposium on Societal Applications: Policy, Research and Practice; and the 32nd Conference on Environmental Information Processing Technologies )

Moderators: Scott Jacobs, NOAA/NWS/NCEP; Kathleen Sherman-Morris, Mississippi State Univ.

Panelists: Mari Tye, NCAR; Christopher Little, AER; Marjorie McGuirk, CASE Consultants International, LLC

10:30 AM

Marjorie McGuirk

Recorded Presentation

10:30 AM

Christopher Little

Recorded Presentation

10:30 AM

Mari Tye

Recorded Presentation

Session 3

Outreach & Communication: Facilitating & Promoting Access to Resources, Collections, and Services

Location: Room 340/341 ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)

Host: 19th Conference of Atmospheric Science Librarians International

Chair: Amy Butros, UC San Diego

10:30 AM

3.1

Communicating Science Across Organizations

Jean Phillips, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI

10:45 AM

3.2

An Embedded Librarian Working in the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management

Stephen Pomes, U.S. Dept. of the Interior, Bureau of Ocean Energy Management, New Orleans, LA

Recorded Presentation

Handout (728.1 kB)

11:00 AM

3.3

Public Access to Scientific Research at Los Alamos National Laboratory Research Library

Michelle A. Mittrach, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM

Recorded Presentation

11:15 AM

3.4

Public Access to Federally Funded Scientific Research: Building Communities of Collaboration

Janice Young, U.S. Department of Energy, Oak Ridge, TN

11:30 AM

3.5

As Clear as Mud: Librarian as Facilitator during a Sedimentology Outreach Event for Young Girls

Raquel Horlick, Tulane University, New Orleans, LA

Recorded Presentation

Handout (689.4 kB)

11:45 AM

3.6A

Questions & Discussion

Joint Session 4

Working Toward a More Weather, Water and Climate-Ready World—Issues and Opportunities: Part 2 (Joint with The Board on Global Strategies)

Location: Room 255/257 ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)

Hosts: (Joint between the Fourth Symposium on Building a Weather-Ready Nation: Enhancing Our Nation’s Readiness, Responsiveness, and Resilience to High Impact Weather Events; and the Special Sessions on US-International Partnerships )

Cochairs: Owen H. Shieh, National Disaster Preparedness Training Center; Kenneth Carey, Earth Resources Technology (ERT), Inc.

10:30 AM

J4.1

Innovative Partnership Models to Advance the Delivery of Weather, Water and Climate Services

Mary M. Glackin, The Weather Company, Washington, DC

Recorded Presentation

10:45 AM

J4.2

A New Global Weather Network: Changing the Face of Forecasting Models with the Power of Crowdsourcing Weather Observation Data Globally, with 400 Million Reports Coming in Daily, Already, from Asia and the US

Julia LeStage, Weathermob, Inc., Boston, MA; and T. Ishibashi

Recorded Presentation

11:00 AM

J4.3

Interagency Science and Service: Vertical Farming in Hawaii and Taiwan

Owen H. Shieh, National Disaster Preparedness Training Center, Honolulu, HI; and C. Hyde

Recorded Presentation

11:15 AM

J4.4

Lessons Learned in Building Hydrometeorological Early Warning Systems in Developing Countries : Why Some Systems Fail and Others Succeed

Curt Barrett, USAID Office of Foreign Disaster Assistance (OFDA), Westminster, MD; and S. A. Tokar

Recorded Presentation

Handout (5.4 MB)

11:30 AM

J4.5

The Most Effective Methods for Delivering Severe Weather Early Warnings to Fishermen on Lake Victoria

Richard Tushemereirwe, African Centres for Lightning and Electromagnetics, Kampala, Uganda; and D. Tuhebwe, M. A. Cooper, and F. M. D'Ujanga

Recorded Presentation

11:45 AM

J4.6

African Centres for Lightning and Electromagnetics

Mary Ann Cooper, African Centres for Lightning and Electromagnetics, River Forest, IL; and R. Tushemereirwe, C. Gomes, E. Ataremwa, J. B. Ngamini, and F. C. Lubasi

Recorded Presentation

Session 5

Earth System Science and Interacting Processes in the Coastal Environment: Part II

Location: Room 342 ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)

Host: 14th Symposium on the Coastal Environment

Cochairs: Arthur J. Miller, SIO/Univ. Of California; Michael J. DeFlorio, SIO/Univ. Of California

5.1

Summer Lower Atmosphere Structure and Trends in Western US Coastal Environment

10:45 AM

5.2

The CONsortium for Oil Spill Exposure Pathways in COastal River-dominated Ecosystems (CONCORDE) --- Year One Activities and Results

William Graham, University of Southern Mississippi, Stennis Space Center, MS; and A. Shiller, J. Wiggert, F. Hernandez, S. Howden, K. Martin, R. Vandermeulen, J. Kastler, R. Arnone, P. Fitzpatrick, J. Davis, Y. Lau, A. Boyette, I. Church, C. Culpepper, A. Evans, A. Mojzis, S. Muffelman, L. Quas, J. Book, G. Jacobs, B. Cowen, B. Dzwonkowski, E. Hofmann, T. Miles, J. N. Moum, O. Schofield, and S. Warner

Recorded Presentation

5.3

A Numerical Study of the Arabian Gulf Sea Breeze Interactions with Topographic Flows

11:15 AM

5.4

Forecasting Meteotsunamis along Florida's West Coast

Charles H. Paxton, NOAA/NWS, Ruskin, FL; and L. Paxton and J. M. Collins

Recorded Presentation

11:30 AM

5.6

How Can Active and Stabilized Coastal Dunes Coexist under the Same Climate Conditions?

Haim Tsoar, Ben Gurion University of the Negev, Beer Sheva, N/A = Not Applicable, Israel

5.5

Lake-breezes Impact on High-resolution Numerical Weather Predictions for a Coastal Urban Area

Joint Session 5

Impacts and Adaptation: Communicating and Translating New Interdisciplinary Knowledge into Actionable Information and Tools

Location: Room 343 ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)

Hosts: (Joint between the Peter Lamb Symposium; and the 11th Symposium on Societal Applications: Policy, Research and Practice )

Chair: M. Issa LeLe, CIMMS/Univ. of Oklahoma

10:30 AM

J5.1

Climate Monitoring and Forecasting for Humanitarian Response Planning

Wassila Mamadou Thiaw, NOAA, College Park, MD

10:45 AM

J5.2

Towards a Forecast Based Financing Framework to Trigger Humanitarian Action Before Floods

Andrew Kruczkiewicz, Columbia University / Red Cross Red Crescent Climate Centre, Palisades, NY; and H. Cen, B. Moneymaker, J. Lessel, A. Sweeney, E. Coughlan de Perez, P. Ceccato, R. Kufandiko, J. Moyo, and N. Heita

Recorded Presentation

11:00 AM

J5.3

Hydrological Modeling and Capacity Building in the Republic of Namibia

Race Clark III, CIMMS/Univ. of Oklahoma, Norman, OK; and Z. L. Flamig and Y. Hong

Recorded Presentation

11:15 AM

J5.4

Linking Past, Present and Future Climate Change to Adaptation in the African Sahel

Alessandra Giannini, IRI/Columbia University, Palisades, NY

Recorded Presentation

11:30 AM

J5.5

Development of Innovative Technology to Provide Low-Cost Surface Atmospheric Observations in Africa

Paul A. Kucera, NCAR, Boulder, CO; and K. Sponberg and M. Steinson

Recorded Presentation

11:45 AM

J5.6

Tigge Ensemble Weather Forecasts to Help Manage Meningitis in the Sahel

Thomas M. Hopson, NCAR, Boulder, CO

Session 5

JPSS-1 Leveraging the Success of Suomi NPP: Instruments, Science Algorithms, Data Access, and Education Outreach

Location: Room 252/254 ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)

Host: 12th Annual Symposium on New Generation Operational Environmental Satellite Systems

Cochairs: Bill Sjoberg, NESDIS/JPSS; Vince Grano, NOAA/NESDIS/OSGS JPSS Ground Project

10:30 AM

5.1

JPSS Instruments and their Impacts on Applications

Mitchell Goldberg, JPSS, Lanham, MD

Recorded Presentation

10:45 AM

5.2

NOAA's Joint Polar Satellite System's Proving Ground and Risk Reduction (PGRR) Program – Initiatives Making the Difference in NOAA Operations

Bill Sjoberg, NESDIS/JPSS, Lanham, MD; and D. M. Goldberg

Recorded Presentation

11:00 AM

5.3

Joint Polar Satellite System (JPSS) Common Ground System (CGS) Current Technical Performance Measures (TPMs)

Shawn W. Miller, Raytheon Intelligence, Information and Services, Aurora, CO; and M. Panas

Recorded Presentation

Handout (5.9 MB)

11:15 AM

5.4

Status of the NOAA Unique CrIS ATMS Processing System (NUCAPS): algorithm development and lessons learned from recent field campaigns

Antonia Gambacorta, Science and Technology Corporation, Columbia, MD; and C. D. Barnet and M. Goldberg

Recorded Presentation

11:30 AM

5.5

JPSS User Readiness through Training: VISIT, SHyMet, WMO VLab and a new Liaison

Bernadette H. Connell, CIRA/Colorado State Univ., Ft. Collins, CO; and S. D. Miller, D. Bikos, E. J. Szoke, A. S. Bachmeier, S. Lindstrom, A. Mostek, B. C. Motta, and L. Veeck

Recorded Presentation

11:45 AM

5.6

A Novel Approach to Prepare the Next Generation Cadre of JPSS Scientists through Pragmatic Education and Training

Shakila Merchant, NOAA/CREST, New York, NY; and M. Goldberg and R. Khanbilvardi

Recorded Presentation

Session 5

Observing Systems II

Location: Room 345 ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)

Host: 20th Conference on Integrated Observing and Assimilation Systems for the Atmosphere, Oceans, and Land Surface (IOAS-AOLS)

Chair: G. David Emmitt, Simpson Weather Associates, Inc.

10:30 AM

5.1

GlobalSense: A New Atmospheric Observing System Featuring Innovative Airborne Probes

John Manobianco, Mano NanoTechnologies, Inc., Guilderland, NY; and M. Adams and J. W. Zack

Recorded Presentation

10:45 AM

5.2

Near-continuous Profiling of Atmospheric Stability During Severe Weather Events

Timothy J. Wagner, CIMSS/Univ. of Wisconsin, Madison, WI; and W. G. Blumberg

Recorded Presentation

11:00 AM

5.3

Using Mobile Vehicle Observations to Improve Numerical Weather Prediction Forecasts

Amanda R. S. Anderson, NCAR, Boulder, CO; and J. A. Lee, B. G. Brown, G. Wiener, S. Linden, L. Sturges, R. Patterson, and P. Pisano

Recorded Presentation

11:15 AM

5.4

Recent Improvements in Wind Speed Retrieval for the CYGNSS Mission

Maria-Paola Clarizia, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI; and C. S. Ruf

Recorded Presentation

5.5

A Comparison of in Situ and Satellite-Based Water Temperature Data over Tropical Coral Reefs: Implications for Ecological Forecasting of Coral Bleaching

11:45 AM

5.6

Visualization and Validation of NWP Cloud and other Fields with Simulated Weather Imagery

Steve Albers, NOAA & CIRA, Boulder, CO; and K. Holub, Z. Toth, and Y. Xie

Handout (23.4 MB)

Session 6

Aerosol Impacts on Cirrus Clouds

Location: Room 357 ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)

Host: Eighth Symposium on Aerosol–Cloud–Climate Interactions

Chair: Andreas Muhlbauer, JISAO/Univ. of Washington

Cochairs: Trude Storelvmo, Yale University; Eric Jensen, NASA/Ames Research Center

10:30 AM

6.1

Advances in Understanding the Role of Aerosols in Cirrus Formation from the Fifth International Ice Nucleation (FIN) Workshop (Invited Presentation)

Daniel J. Cziczo, MIT, Cambridge, MA; and P. J. DeMott, N. Hiranuma, O. Moehler, and F. Team

Recorded Presentation

10:45 AM

6.2

Enhanced Ice Nucleation Ability of Aerosol Particles by the Pore Condensation and Freezing Mechanism

Ottmar Möhler, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Karlsruhe, Germany; and R. Wagner

Recorded Presentation

11:00 AM

6.3

On the Susceptibility of Cold Tropical Cirrus to Ice Nuclei Abundance

Eric Jensen, NASA, Moffett Field, CA; and R. Ueyama, L. Pfister, T. V. Bui, R. P. Lawson, S. Woods, T. Thornberry, A. W. Rollins, G. S. Diskin, and M. A. Avery

Recorded Presentation

11:15 AM

6.4

The Seasonal, Latitude and Temperature Dependence of Homogeneous Ice Nucleation

David L. Mitchell, DRI, Reno, NV; and A. Garnier, M. A. Avery, and E. Erfani

Recorded Presentation

11:30 AM

6.5

Aerosol and Dynamical Impacts on Cirrus Cloud Properties Analyzed from In-situ Observations and CAM5 Simulations (Invited Presentation)

Xiaohong Liu, University of Wyoming, Laramie, WY; and C. Wu and M. Diao

Recorded Presentation

11:45 AM

6.6

Cirrus Clouds Radiative Effects in the Present Day Climate and in Response to Cirrus Seeding

Blaz Gasparini, ETH Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland; and T. Schaer, A. Meyer, and U. Lohmann

Recorded Presentation

Session 7

Climate Decision Support Services

Location: Room 245 ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)

Host: 22nd Conference on Applied Climatology

Chair: Bernadette Placky, Climate Central

10:30 AM

7.1

Climate Decision Support Services: Building a Climate-Ready Community

Barbara E. Mayes Boustead, NOAA/NWS, Valley, NE; and M. Timofeyeva and D. R. Kluck

Recorded Presentation

7.2

Using Cumulative Rainfall Graphs for Agriculture Risk Management

10:45 AM

7.3

Identifying Decision Support Tools to Bridge Climate and Agricultural Needs in the Midwest

Beth L. Hall, ISWS/Midwestern Regional Climate Center, Champaign, IL; and M. S. Timlin, O. Kellner, M. E. Woloszyn, C. Black, D. R. Kluck, and J. L. Hatfield

Recorded Presentation

11:15 AM

7.4

Evaluating an Interdisciplinary Effort to Create and Promote Ag/climate Decision Support Tools

Jenna Klink, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI; and V. Koundinya, K. Kies, C. Robinson, and A. Rao

Recorded Presentation

11:30 AM

7.5

U2U Decision Support Tools for Midwestern Corn Producers

James R. Angel, ISWS, Champaign, IL; and M. Widhalm and D. P. Todey

Recorded Presentation

11:45 AM

7.6

Mapping the Decision Calendar across the U.S. Corn Belt

Melissa Widhalm, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN; and T. Haigh, E. S. Takle, J. Andresen, S. Carlton, and J. R. Angel

Recorded Presentation

Session 7

Strategies, Tactics, and Opportunities for Operationalizing Multi-Disciplinary Expertise in Wx and Natural Hazard Context

Location: Room 333-334 ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)

Host: 11th Symposium on Societal Applications: Policy, Research and Practice

Cochairs: Kimberly E. Klockow, NOAA; Susan A. Jasko, California Univ. of Pennsylvania

10:30 AM

7.1

Social and Behavioral Science for a Weather Ready Nation: Coordinating OAR Research to Address NWS Needs

Kimberly E. Klockow, NOAA, Silver Spring, MD; and J. Cortinas Jr., J. Sprague, and V. Brown

Recorded Presentation

10:45 AM

7.2

Probabilistic Forecasting: From Scientific Understanding to Societal Use

Zoltan Toth, NOAA, Boulder, CO; and R. Krzysztofowicz, M. S. Antolik, M. Pena, and B. J. Etherton

Recorded Presentation

11:00 AM

7.3

Playing Together in the Same Sand Box: How Living Lab Test Beds Foster Trans-disciplinary Research and Transition to Practice

Brenda J. Philips, Univ. of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA

Recorded Presentation

11:15 AM

7.4

Co-Creating the Form and Function of the Prototype Probabilistic Hazard Information (PHI) to Meet Emergency Manager User Needs

Daphne LaDue, CAPS/Univ. of Oklahoma, Norman, OK; and S. Ernst, C. D. Karstens, J. Correia Jr., J. E. Hocker, and J. P. Wolfe

Recorded Presentation

11:30 AM

7.5

Ways of Knowing: The Matter of Methodology and Cross Discipline Collaboration

Susan A. Jasko, California Univ. of Pennsylvania, California, PA; and J. Correia Jr.

Recorded Presentation

11:45 AM

7.6

Moving toward Hazard Simplification (#HazSimp): The Strengths and Weaknesses of the NWS Warning System from an NWS Internal Perspective

Gina M. Eosco, Eastern Reseach Group, Arlington, VA; and L. Girardi, S. Shrestha, E. Jacks, J. Sprague, A. Horvitz, and M. Bilder

Session 8

Mapping and GIS for Weather and Climate

Location: Room 348/349 ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)

Host: 32nd Conference on Environmental Information Processing Technologies

Cochairs: Lori Armstrong, Esri; Ken R. Waters, NOAA/NWS

10:30 AM

8.1

Contextualizing Impacting Weather and Climate Information via GIS

Jack Settelmaier, NOAA/NWS, Fort Worth, TX

Recorded Presentation Manuscript (2.9 MB)

10:45 AM

8.2

Interactive Computing and Processing of NASA Land Surface Observations using Google Earth Engine

Andrew L. Molthan, NASA/MSFC, Huntsville, AL; and J. E. Burks and J. R. Bell

Recorded Presentation

11:00 AM

8.3

National Weather Service's Modernization of Storm Data to Create a High-Resolution Events Database

Brenton William MacAloney II, NOAA/NWS, Silver Spring, MD

Recorded Presentation

11:15 AM

8.4

Operationalizing ArcServer for NOAA's Integrated Dissemination Program

Kari L. Sheets, NOAA/NWS, Bohemia, NY; and I. A. Graffman, J. Greenlaw, K. Jenkins, J. G. W. Kelley, T. LaVoi, N. Parikh, K. Ward, and M. Hamann

Recorded Presentation

11:30 AM

8.5

Overview, Recent Work, and Future Direction of the National Weather Service Geospatial Integrated Work Team

Brian J. Miretzky, NOAA/NWS, Bohemia, NY; and K. L. Sheets, I. Graffman, J. C. Meyers, N. Parikh, J. Settelmaier, C. Kahler, K. S. Lander, S. Shea, K. Kodama, E. Clark, and V. Silva

Recorded Presentation

11:45 AM

8.6

The Road to An Operational Open Source Geospatial System for Meteorological Data

Kari L. Sheets, NOAA/NWS, Bohemia, NY; and K. Mars, K. Pelman, R. L. Solomon, K. Ward, and A. Calamito

Recorded Presentation

Session 8

Promoting Diversity in Earth System Science

Location: Room 353 ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)

Host: 25th Symposium on Education

Cochairs: Reginald Blake, New York City College of Technology, City University of New York; Janet Liou-Mark, New York City College of Technology of the City University of New York

10:30 AM

8.1

AMS Education Program Diversity Initiatives: A Celebration of the Past as We Look Forward to New Opportunities to Increase Environmental Literacy

James A. Brey, AMS, Washington, DC; and E. W. Mills, I. Geer, K. A. Nugnes, and A. E. Stimach

Recorded Presentation

10:45 AM

8.2

SOARS: 20 Years of the Atmospheric Science Community Working to Increase Diversity

Rebecca L. Batchelor, UCAR, Boulder, CO; and T. L. Windham, R. E. Pandya, and R. Haacker

Recorded Presentation

11:00 AM

8.3

NOAA Educational Partnership Program A Unique Success Story of Education & Training in NOAA Sciences to increase Workforce Diversity in Earth System Sciences & Engineering

Reza Khanbilvardi, NOAA Cooperative Remote Sensing Science and Technology (NOAA-CREST) Center, New York, NY; and D. V. Morris, P. Chigbu, and M. Abazinge

Recorded Presentation

11:15 AM

8.4

Introducing and Engaging Non-Geoscience, Minority STEM Majors in Geoscience Research – An Interdisciplinary Approach

Dr Reginald Blake, New York City College of Technology, Brooklyn, NY; and J. Liou-Mark

11:30 AM

8.5

Urban Heat Island Investigations, Geospatial Technology Applications, and Service Learning Outreach

David Padgett, Tennessee State Univ., Nashville, TN

Recorded Presentation

11:45 AM

8.6

Center for Applied Atmospheric Research and Education (CAARE)

Sen Chiao, San Jose State University, San Jose, CA

Recorded Presentation

Session 8A

20th Century Reanalysis: Methods and Applications

Location: La Nouvelle C ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)

Host: 28th Conference on Climate Variability and Change

Chair: Gilbert P. Compo, CIRES/Univ. of Colorado and Physical Sciences Division/ESRL/NOAA

10:30 AM

8A.1

Changes in Extreme Warm and Cold Temperatures Associated with 20th Century Global Warming

Prashant D. Sardeshmukh, CIRES, University of Colorado and PSD/ESRL/NOAA, Boulder, CO; and G. P. Compo, C. McColl, and C. Penland

10:45 AM

8A.2

SOUSEI 150-year Coupled Atmosphere-Ocean Reanalysis

Masayoshi Ishii, Japan Meteorological Agency, Tsukuba, Japan; and H. Koyama, H. Tatebe, T. Kataoka, J. Ono, H. Kubota, K. Lestari, H. Tokinaga, and M. Kimoto

11:00 AM

8A.3

Interannual to Decadal Variability of Ocean Evaporation as Viewed from Climate Reanalyses

Franklin R. Robertson, NASA/MSFC, Huntsville, AL; and M. G. Bosilovich, J. B. Roberts, and H. Wang

Recorded Presentation

11:15 AM

8A.4

Adjustment of the Surface Heat Balance over the Tropical and Subtropical Oceans

Kerry H. Cook, University of Texas, Austin, TX; and E. Vizy

Recorded Presentation

11:30 AM

8A.5

Isentropic Analysis of Polar Cold Air Mass Streams in the Northern Hemispheric Winter Monsoon

Toshiki Iwasaki, Tohoku University, Sendai, Japan; and Y. Kanno and M. R. ABDILLAH

Recorded Presentation

11:45 AM

8A.6

Evaluating CFSR and MERRA Reanalysis Using AIRS, MLS and Radiosonde Vertical Air Temperature and Specific Humidity over India

Partha S. Bhattacharjee, NOAA, College Park, MD; and S. Saha

Recorded Presentation

Session 8B

Multi-model Predictability and Prediction on Subseasonal to Seasonal Timescales: Part 2

Location: La Nouvelle A ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)

Host: 28th Conference on Climate Variability and Change

Chair: Kathleen Pegion, George Mason University

10:30 AM

8B.1

Towards a Multi-Model Subseasonal Excessive Heat Outlook System

Augustin Vintzileos, University of Maryland/Earth System Science Interdisciplinary Center, Camp Springs, MD; and J. Gottschalck

Recorded Presentation

10:45 AM

8B.2

Assessment of Calibration and Combination of Multi-Model Ensembles for Subseasonal Prediction

Dan C. Collins, NOAA/CPC, College Park, MD; and A. Vintzileos and S. Baxter

Recorded Presentation

11:00 AM

8B.3

Evaluation of the NMME Seasonal Climate Forecasts for Water Infrastructure Operations and Disaster Risk Management in East Africa

Solomon S. Demissie, University of California, Los Angeles, CA; and M. Gebremichael, T. Hospson, and E. Riddle

11:15 AM

8B.4

SST Forecast and SST-US Precipitation Connections: A Diagnostic for North American Multi Model Ensemble

Li Xu, NOAA/NWS/NCEP, College Park, MD

11:30 AM

8B.5

Sub-seasonal to Seasonal Scale Skill Assessment of NMME Models in Forecasting Precipitation in California

Shraddhanand Shukla, University of California, Santa Barbara, CA; and D. Cayan and F. M. Ralph

11:45 AM

8B.6

2-Tiered Seasonal Climate Prediction over North America with CCSM4

Johnna Infanti, RSMAS, Miami, FL; and B. P. Kirtman

Session 9

Best Practices for Statistical Inference in the Atmospheric Sciences – Part 2

Location: Room 226/227 ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)

Host: 23rd Conference on Probability and Statistics in the Atmospheric Sciences

Chair: Bob Glahn, NOAA/NWS/Meteorological Development Laboratory

10:30 AM

9.1

Caveat Venditor, Lector, et Emptor (Invited Presentation)

Francis W. Zwiers, University of Victoria, Victoria, BC, Canada

11:00 AM

9.2

Testing the Tests: A Look at Size and Power for Hypothesis Tests of Competing Forecasts (Invited Presentation)

Eric Gilleland, NCAR, Boulder, CO; and B. G. Brown, T. L. Fowler, and A. S. Hering

11:30 AM

9.3

"The Stippling Shows Statistically Significant Gridpoints": How Research Results are Routinely Overstated and Over-interpreted, and What to Do About It (Invited Presentation)

Daniel S. Wilks, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY

Recorded Presentation Manuscript (705.3 kB)

Session 9A

Remote Sensing of the Atmosphere II

Location: Room 350/351 ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)

Host: 18th Symposium on Meteorological Observation and Instrumentation

Chair: Alexandria McCombs, University of South Carolina

10:30 AM

9A.1

Validation of an Advanced Ceilometer-Based Boundary Layer Height Detection Algorithm

Scott M. Mackaro, Vaisala Inc, Louisville, CO

Recorded Presentation

10:45 AM

9A.2

The NCAR Modular Wind Profiler

William O. J. Brown, NCAR, Boulder, CO; and S. A. Cohn, J. Sobtzak, C. Martin, and T. Hock

Recorded Presentation

11:00 AM

9A.3

Evaluation of Infrared and Microwave Sounding Data for Characterizing the Dynamics and Evolution of the Saharan Air Layer in West Africa

Stephen D. Nicholls, NASA/GSFC and Oak Ridge Associated Universities, Greenbelt, MD; and K. I. Mohr

Recorded Presentation

11:15 AM

9A.4

Integrated Polarimetric Radar and Kinematic Analyses of the 19 May 2013 Norman-Shawnee, Oklahoma Tornadic Supercell

Michael M. French, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY; and D. W. Burgess, C. K. Potvin, and L. J. Wicker

Recorded Presentation

11:30 AM

9A.5

Ground Based Remote Sensing Observations of a Wave and Cold Front Interaction during the PLOWS Field Campaign

Carter B. Hulsey, University of Alabama in Huntsville, Huntsville, AL; and K. R. Knupp

Recorded Presentation

11:45 AM

9A.6

Calibration of a Monostatic SoDAR for Quantitative Measurement of CN**2

Kenneth H. Underwood, Atmospheric Systems Corporation, Santa Clarita, CA

Recorded Presentation

Session 9B

WMO Solid Precipitation Intercomparison

Location: Room 355 ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)

Host: 18th Symposium on Meteorological Observation and Instrumentation

Chair: Tilden P. Meyers, NOAA/ATDD

10:30 AM

9B.1

WMO Solid Precipitation Intercomparison: from Experiments to Results

Rodica Nitu, EC, Toronto, ON, Canada; and R. Rasmussen, C. D. Smith, M. Earle, Y. A. Roulet, A. Reverdin, M. Wolff, B. B. Baker, and J. Kochendorfer

Recorded Presentation

10:45 AM

9B.2

Snow Water Equivalent Intercomparisons during the WMO Solid Precipitation Intercomparison Experiment

Craig D. Smith, EC, Saskatoon, SK, Canada; and A. Kontu, R. Laffin, and J. W. Pomeroy

Recorded Presentation

11:00 AM

9B.3

Biases and Errors in Weighing Gauge Precipitation Measurements

John Kochendorfer, NOAA, Oak Ridge, TN; and C. B. Baker, R. M. Rasmussen, M. Wolff, M. E. Hall, S. D. Landolt, M. E. Earle, T. Meyers, R. Nitu, and A. Reverdin

Recorded Presentation

11:15 AM

9B.4

Study of the Solid Precipitation Wind Induced Under-Catch Using Snowfall Intensity

Matteo Colli, Univerisity of Genoa, Genoa, Italy; and J. M. Thériault, M. Stagnaro, L. Lanza, and R. M. Rasmussen

Recorded Presentation

11:30 AM

9B.5

Examination of the Catch Efficiency of Snow Gauges based on the Observed Characteristics of Snow

Julie M. Thériault, UQAM, Montréal, QC, Canada; and R. M. Rasmussen, M. Colli, and L. Lanza

Recorded Presentation

11:45 AM

9B.6

Using Geolysimeters for an Independent Validation of Automated Precipitation Gauge Measurements

Craig D. Smith, EC, Saskatoon, SK, Canada; and G. van der Kamp, R. Schmidt, L. Arnold, and A. Barr

Recorded Presentation

Joint Session 11

Atmospheric Convection: Impact on Atmospheric Composition and Chemistry

Location: Room 356 ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)

Hosts: (Joint between the 18th Conference on Atmospheric Chemistry; and the Eighth Symposium on Aerosol–Cloud–Climate Interactions )

Chair: Jonathan Jiang, JPL

CoChair: Nathaniel Livesey, JPL

10:30 AM

J11.1

Deep Convective Transport in Convective Systems of Three Different Scales from the DC3 Field Campaign Using Results from WRF-Chem Simulations with Lightning Data Assimilation

Yunyao Li, University of Maryland, College Park, MD; and K. Pickering, M. C. Barth, M. M. Bela, K. A. Cummings, D. J. Allen, L. Carey, R. M. Mecikalski, A. Fierro, and G. Mullendore

Recorded Presentation

10:45 AM

J11.2

Composition of the Asian Summer Monsoon Anticyclone: Climatology and Variability from 11 Years of Aura Microwave Limb Sounder Measurements (Invited Presentation)

Michelle L. Santee, JPL, Pasadena, CA; and G. L. Manney, N. J. Livesey, J. L. Neu, M. J. Schwartz, and W. G. Read

11:00 AM

J11.3

High North American Monsoon Lowermost Stratospheric Water Vapor: Signatures of Convective Injection from MLS and Other Satellite Measurements

Michael J. Schwartz, JPL, Pasadena, CA; and M. L. Santee, W. G. Read, and N. J. Livesey

11:15 AM

J11.4

An Assessment of Upper-troposphere and Lower-stratosphere Water Vapor in MERRA2 Reanalyses Using Aura MLS Observations

Jonathan Jiang, JPL, Pasadena, CA; and H. Su and A. Molod

Recorded Presentation

11:30 AM

J11.5

Convective Influence of Lower Stratospheric Water Vapor in the Boreal Summer Monsoon Regions

Rei Ueyama, NASA, Moffett Field, CA; and E. Jensen and L. Pfister

Recorded Presentation

11:45 AM

J11.6

Analysis of Ozone in Cloudy Versus Clear Sky Conditions

Sarah A. Strode, USRA, Greenbelt, MD; and A. R. Douglass and J. Ziemke

Recorded Presentation

Joint Session 14

Land-Atmosphere Interactions, Part I

Location: Room 240/241 ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)

Hosts: (Joint between the 30th Conference on Hydrology; and the 28th Conference on Climate Variability and Change )

Cochairs: Randal D. Koster, NASA/GSFC; Yongkang Xue, University of California; Steven Quiring, Texas A&M University

10:30 AM

J14.1

From Groundwater to the Atmosphere – a study of the Hydroclimate of the La Plata Basin

Francina Dominguez, University of Illinois, Urbana, IL; and A. Martinez and G. Miguez-Macho

Recorded Presentation

10:45 AM

J14.2

Bridging the Soil Water Scale Gap in Land-Atmosphere Interactions

Ian Baker, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO; and P. J. Sellers

Recorded Presentation

11:00 AM

J14.3

Using ARM Observations to Evaluate Land-Atmosphere Coupling in CAM5 Model Hindcasts on the U.S. Southern Great Plains

Thomas J. Phillips, LLNL, Livermore, CA; and S. A. Klein and H. Y. Ma

Recorded Presentation

11:15 AM

J14.4

An Analysis of Soil Moisture-Precipitation Feedback Using the North American Regional Reanalysis Dataset

Deanna Apps, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI; and L. Luo

Recorded Presentation

11:30 AM

J14.5

Seasonal and Interannual Variability of Land-Atmosphere Coupling within the Southern Great Plains

Jordan Christian, University of Wyoming, Laramie, WY; and J. B. Basara

Recorded Presentation

11:45 AM

J14.6

The Impact of Soil Moisture on the Oklahoma Dryline During the 2011 Drought

Paul X. Flanagan, School of Meteorology, Norman, OK; and J. B. Basara

Themed Joint Session 16

Adapting to Climate Variability and its Impact on Energy Sector Resilience Part 2

Location: Room 346/347 ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)

Hosts: (Joint between the Seventh Conference on Weather, Climate, Water and the New Energy Economy; and the 22nd Conference on Applied Climatology )

Cochairs: Heidi Centola, Schneider Electric; Olivia Kellner, Midwestern Regional Climate Center

10:30 AM

TJ16.1

Merging Data on Energy Infrastructure and Climate to Support Climate Adaptation

Terence Randall Thompson, Logistics Management Institute, Tysons, VA

Recorded Presentation

10:45 AM

TJ16.2

Water, Energy, and Emissions to Explore Climate Mitigation and Adaptation in the Southwestern US

David N. Yates, NCAR, Boulder, CO; and V. Mehta, K. A. Miller, and J. Sieber

Recorded Presentation

11:00 AM

TJ16.3

Predicting Risk to Electric Power Distribution Lines

Daniel Kirk-Davidoff, MDA Information Systems LLC, Gaithersburg, MD; and T. Hartman

Recorded Presentation

11:15 AM

TJ16.4

Forecasting Storm-Related Power Outages in Connecticut and Massachusetts

David W. Wanik, University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT; and E. N. Anagnostou, B. M. Hartman, M. Astitha, and M. E. B. Frediani

11:30 AM

TJ16.5

Impacts of Climate Change in Energy Infrastructure in Tropical Coastal Regions

Pablo Ortiz, City College of New York, New York, NY; and M. Angeles and J. Gonzalez

Recorded Presentation

11:45 AM

TJ16.6

Storm Damage Assessment with Weather Forecasting to Determine a Utility's Restoration Efforts

Shylesh Muralidharan, Schneider Electric, Burnsville, MN; and C. Riland and M. R. Smith

Recorded Presentation

Handout (2.7 MB)

Joint Session 22

Water: Too Much, too Little. How Climate Information Supports Community Preparedness, Part II

Location: Room 242 ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)

Hosts: (Joint between the 30th Conference on Hydrology; and the 11th Symposium on Societal Applications: Policy, Research and Practice )

Cochairs: Stephanie Herring, NOAA; Nancy Beller-Simms, NOAA

10:30 AM

J22.1

Climate Change, California Drought, and New Water Management Approaches

Peter Gleick, Pacific Institute, Oakland, CA

Recorded Presentation

J22.2

California Drought: Assessment and Action

10:45 AM

J22.2A

Integration of climate projections and hydrologic models in a web-based, participatory design tool for watershed planning

Meghna Babbar-Sebens, Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR; and S. Mukhopadhyay

Recorded Presentation

11:00 AM

J22.3

The Russian River, Preparing for Too Much and Too Little

Julie F. Kalansky, SIO, La Jolla, CA; and F. M. Ralph, J. Jasperse, M. Dettinger, L. E. Flint, D. Cayan, and A. Flint

Recorded Presentation

11:15 AM

Panel Discussion

11:00 AM-11:45 AM: Wednesday, 13 January 2016

Session 4

AI Techniques Applied to Environmental Science Part II

Location: Room 354 ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)

Host: 14th Conference on Artificial and Computational Intelligence and its Applications to the Environmental Sciences

Chair: Carlos Felipe Gaitan, University of Oklahoma/NOAA-GFDL

11:00 AM

4.1

A New Approach to Automated Cold Pool Tracking

Aryeh J. Drager, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO; and S. C. van den Heever

11:15 AM

4.2

Using mPING data to generate Random Forests for Precipitation Type Forecasts

Kimberly L. Elmore, CIMMS/Univ. of Oklahoma/NOAA/NSSL, Norman, OK; and H. Grams

Recorded Presentation

11:30 AM

4.3

Optimization of Input Data for a Neural Network with a Mathematical Argument Diagram: A Case Study of Ozone Prediction

Armando Pelliccioni, INAIL, Monteporzio Catone, Italy; and S. E. Haupt

Recorded Presentation Manuscript (594.9 kB)

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

Lunch Break

Peter Lamb Symposium Luncheon

Location: Room 238/239 ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)

12:15 PM-1:15 PM: Wednesday, 13 January 2016

Presidential Town Hall on Demystifying Careers in the Atmospheric Sciences

Location: Room 252/254 ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)

Hosts: (Joint between the Town Hall Meetings; and the 2016 Presidential Forum )

12:15 PM

Panel

12:30 PM

Presidential Town Hall on Demystifying Careers in the Atmospheric Sciences

Recorded Presentation

Town Hall Meeting: NASA’s Earth Science – Flight Program Investments in and Planning for the Next-Generation Earth Observatories

Location: Room 338/339 ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)

Hosts: (Joint between the Sixth Conference on Transition of Research to Operations; and the Town Hall Meetings )

12:15 PM

Eric Ianson

Town Hall Meeting: NOAA’s Research and Development Enterprise

Location: Room 245 ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)

Host: Town Hall Meetings

Town Hall Meeting: NSF Division of Atmospheric and Geospace Sciences Strategies and Frontiers in Research: 2016-2020

Location: Room 244 ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)

Host: Town Hall Meetings

12:15 PM

Pat Harr

Town Hall Meeting: The 2017-2027 National Academy of Sciences Decadal Survey for Earth Science and Applications from Space

Location: Room 240/241 ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)

Host: Town Hall Meetings

12:15 PM

Art Charo

Recorded Presentation

Town Hall Meeting: The Integrated Water Community

Location: Room 333-334 ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)

Host: Town Hall Meetings

Moderators: Paul Higgins, AMS Policy Program; Eileen Shea, NOAA/Pacific Fisheries Science Center

Panelists: Manson Brown, Assistant Secretary of Commerce for Environmental Observation and Prediction; William Hooke, Associate Executive Director of AM; Mary Glackin, Commissioner, AMS Commission on the Weather Water and Climate Enterprise

12:15 PM

Manson Brown

Recorded Presentation

Town Hall Meeting: The Weather Value Chain of the Future: From Commercial Satellites to Crowdsourcing, and Everything In Between

Location: Room 243 ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)

Host: Town Hall Meetings

Moderator: J. Marshall Shepherd, University of Georgia

Panelists: Lloyd Treinish, IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center; Julia LeStage, Weathermob, Inc.; Neil Jacobs, Panasonic Weather; Wallace Hogsett, Weather Analytics; Andreas Vallgren, Ignitia; Rob Kursinski, PlanetiQ

12:15 PM

Introduction - Marshall Shepherd

Recorded Presentation

12:30 PM

Lloyd Treinish

Recorded Presentation

12:45 PM

Wallace Hogsett

Recorded Presentation

1:00 PM

Andreas Vallgren

Recorded Presentation

1:15 PM

Rob Kursinski

Recorded Presentation

1:30 PM

Neil Jacobs

Recorded Presentation

1:45 PM

Julia LeStage

Recorded Presentation

2:00 PM

Panel Discussion - Marshall Shepherd

Recorded Presentation

12:45 PM-1:05 PM: Wednesday, 13 January 2016

New Roles for Researchers and Librarians: Scholarly Profiles, Cited References, and Bibliometrics

Location: Room 348/349 ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)

1:30 PM-2:15 PM: Wednesday, 13 January 2016

Joint Session 2

Air Pollution Consulting Meteorology Applications

Location: Room 243 ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)

Hosts: (Joint between the 19th Joint Conference on the Applications of Air Pollution Meteorology with the A&WMA; and the Ninth Annual CCM Forum: Certified Consulting Meteorologists )

Chair: Steven R. Hanna, Hanna Consultants

1:30 PM

J2.1

Sulfur Dioxide Data Requirements Rule – A Proactive Compliance Approach

Mark Wenclawiak, All4 Inc., Kennesaw, GA; and A. Essner

Recorded Presentation

1:45 PM

J2.2

Adventures in Toxic Tort Litigation

Gale F. Hoffnagle, TRC Environmental Consultants, Windsor, CT

Recorded Presentation

2:00 PM

J2.3

Meteorological Uncertainty and the Expert Witness

Steven R. Hanna, Hanna Consultants, Kennebunkport, ME

Recorded Presentation

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

Panel Discussion 1

Best Practices for Statistical Inference in the Atmospheric Sciences

Location: Room 226/227 ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)

Host: 23rd Conference on Probability and Statistics in the Atmospheric Sciences

Moderator: Bob Glahn, NOAA/NWS/Meteorological Development Laboratory

Panelists: E. Gilleland, NCAR/RAL; Douglas H. Johnson, USGS; Simon J. Mason, Columbia University/IRI; Hans von Storch, Institut für Küstenforschung; Daniel S. Wilks, Cornell University; Francis W. Zwiers, University of Victoria

1:30 PM

Panel Discussion

Recorded Presentation

Session 1

Creating Societally Important Climate Indices

Location: Room 343 ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)

Host: Peter Lamb Symposium

Chair: Randy A. Peppler, CIMMS/Univ. of Oklahoma

1:30 PM

1.1

The Lamb Index from the Early Years Onward

Michael A. Bell, Columbia University, Palisades, NY; and C. F. Ropelewski

Recorded Presentation

1:45 PM

1.2

Development of a Seasonally – Inclusive NAO Index

Diane H. Portis, CIMMS/Univ. of Oklahoma; Department of Atmospheric Sciences, University of Illinois, New Bern, NC; and J. E. Walsh and M. El Hamly

Recorded Presentation

2:00 PM

1.3

The Roles of Temperature and Precipitation in Drought: A Comparison of California and Ethiopia

Michael Richman, CIMMS/Univ. of Oklahoma, Norman, OK; and L. M. Leslie and Z. T. Segele

Recorded Presentation

2:15 PM

1.4

World Weather Attribution and Well-being

Roop K. Singh, Red Cross Red Crescent Climate Centre, New York, NY

Recorded Presentation Manuscript (43.8 kB)

Panel Discussion 3

Advancing the Space Weather Enterprise

Location: Room 352 ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)

Host: 13th Conference on Space Weather

Moderator: Matthew J. Parker, Savannah River National Laboratory

Panelists: W. Kent Tobiska, Space Environment Technologies; Douglas Hilderbrand, NOAA/NWS; Patricia Doherty, Boston College

1:30 PM

Kent Tobiska

Recorded Presentation

1:30 PM

Patricia Doherty

Recorded Presentation

1:30 PM

Douglas Hilderbrand

Recorded Presentation

1:30 PM

Matthew Parker

Recorded Presentation

Session 3

Earth Science Product and Algorithm Improvements for Weather, Water, Climate

Location: Room 338/339 ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)

Host: Sixth Conference on Transition of Research to Operations

Cochairs: Stephen A. Mango, NOAA/NESDIS/OPPA Affiliate; Eric Fetzer, JPL

1:30 PM

3.1

The role of NOAA Cooperative Institutes in the Transition from Research to Operations

Steve Ackerman, CIMSS/Univ. of Wisconsin, Madison, WI; and E. H. Berbery, O. Brown, C. Kummerow, and F. Miralles-Wilhelm

Recorded Presentation

1:45 PM

3.2

NOAA Satellite Products from Development to Operations

Stacy L. Bunin, Noblis, Falls Church, VA; and T. Schott and B. Reed

Recorded Presentation

2:00 PM

3.3

The Heated Condensation Framework as a Convective Trigger in the NCEP Climate Forecast System version 2

Rodrigo Bombardi, George Mason University, Fairfax, VA; and L. Marx, C. S. Shin, A. Tawfik, E. K. Schneider, P. A. Dirmeyer, and J. L. Kinter

Recorded Presentation

2:15 PM

3.4

Development of a Transition Roadmap for Weather Observing Strategies using Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UAS)

Robbie E. Hood, NOAA Unmanned Aircraft Systems Program, Silver Spring, MD; and G. A. Wick, M. L. Black, J. P. Dunion, and J. R. Walker

Recorded Presentation

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

Climate and Humans as Amplifiers of Hydro-ecologic Change: Science and Policy Implications for Intensively Managed Landscapes (Invited Presentation)

Efi Foufoula-Georgiou Sr., Univ. of Minnesota/National Center for Earth Surface Dynamics, Minneapolis, MN

Recorded Presentation

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

1:30 PM

3.1

Weather Uncertainty in All Phases of Aviation Decisions

Steve Abelman, FAA, Washington, DC; and G. Pokodner

Recorded Presentation

1:45 PM

3.2

Climate Change and the Increasing Frequency of Weight Restriction

Ethan David Coffel, NASA/GISS, New York, NY; and T. R. Thompson and R. M. Horton

Recorded Presentation

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

2:15 PM

3.4

Upper Air Measurements of Wind and Turbulence with Doppler LIDAR Systems on Airports: Challenges and Opportunities

Ludovic Thobois, LEOSPHERE, Orsay, France; and J. P. Cariou

Session 4

Location: Room 340/341 ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)

Host: 19th Conference of Atmospheric Science Librarians International

Chair: Gloria Aversano, NOAA Miami Regional Library

1:30 PM

4.1

Evolving Services for Scholars

Linda Musser, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA

Recorded Presentation

1:45 PM

4.2

Measuring Impact at NCAR: Bibliometrics and Beyond

Matthew S. Mayernik, NCAR, Boulder, CO; and M. Ramey and K. Maull

Recorded Presentation

2:15 PM

4.3

Understanding the Needs of the Modern Research Scientist

Courtney Kearney, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA

Recorded Presentation

Session 6

Case Studies: Part I

Location: Room 342 ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)

Host: 14th Symposium on the Coastal Environment

Cochairs: Gregory Dusek, NOAA; Arthur J. Miller, SIO/Univ. Of California

1:30 PM

6.1

Forecasting Significant Wave Height in a Coastal Estuary

Steven M. Lazarus, Florida Institute of Technology, Melbourne, FL; and M. Splitt, B. Holman, J. Colvin, R. J. Weaver, A. Saberi, and P. Taeb

Recorded Presentation

1:45 PM

6.2

Impacts of Bias Correction of Wind Forecasts on Hydrodynamic and Wave Model Predictions

Robert J. Weaver, Florida Institute of Technology, Melbourne, FL; and P. Taeb, A. Saberi, S. M. Lazarus, M. E. Splitt, B. P. Holman, and J. Colvin

Recorded Presentation

2:00 PM

6.3

Coastal Fog along the NE United States and E Canada Based on 58 years of Ship Observations

Clive E. Dorman, SIO/Univ. Of California, La Jolla, CA; and J. F. Mejia, D. Koracin, and I. Gultepe

Recorded Presentation

2:15 PM

6.4

The 30th Anniversary of Surfline Highlighted by Once in a Decade Swell Event

Mark C. Willis, Surfline/Wavetrak Inc., Nags Head, NC; and K. S. Wallis and R. Starr

Session 6

NWS Foundational Data and Modeling Advances

Location: Room 255/257 ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)

Host: Fourth Symposium on Building a Weather-Ready Nation: Enhancing Our Nation’s Readiness, Responsiveness, and Resilience to High Impact Weather Events

Cochairs: Douglas Hilderbrand, NOAA/NWS; Kari Sheets, NOAA/NWS

1:30 PM

6.1

Planned Upgrades to the NCEP Operational Modeling Suite

William Lapenta, NOAA/NWS/NCEP, College Park, MD; and H. L. Tolman

Recorded Presentation

1:45 PM

6.2

National Blend Of Models: Transformational Forecast Change by the National Weather Service

Mark A. Tew, NWS, Silver Spring, MD; and A. Stern, A. Horvitz, K. Gilbert, and D. T. Myrick

Recorded Presentation

2:00 PM

6.3

Weather Ready Nation: NWS Exploitation of New Satellite Data

Mike W. Johnson, NOAA/NWS, Silver Spring, MD; and J. K. Zajic, E. Guillot, W. Cambell, and L. Byerle

Recorded Presentation

2:15 PM

6.4

Operational Geographic Information System Services for a Weather Ready Nation

Kari L. Sheets, NOAA/NWS, Bohemia, NY; and I. A. Graffman, T. LaVoi, N. Parikh, K. Pelman, and K. Ward

Recorded Presentation

Session 6

Numerical Analysis and Prediction Experiments I

Location: Room 345 ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)

Host: 20th Conference on Integrated Observing and Assimilation Systems for the Atmosphere, Oceans, and Land Surface (IOAS-AOLS)

Chair: Stephen S. Weygandt, NOAA/ESRL

1:30 PM

3D Estimates of Analysis and Short-Range Forecast Error Variances -- Jie Feng

Recorded Presentation

1:45 PM

6.1

Extra aircraft data including humidity: ECMWF evaluation of quality and impact

Bruce Ingleby, ECMWF, Reading, United Kingdom; and L. Isaksen and T. Kral

Recorded Presentation

6.2

Improving Forecast Skill by Assimilation of Quality Controlled AIRS Cloud Cleared Radiances

2:15 PM

6.3

Global Forecast Dropout Prediction Tool in Support of the NCEP Model Evaluation Group (MEG)—A Collaborative Project between JCSDA/NESDIS & NWS

V. Krishna Kumar, NOAA/NESDIS/Center for Satellite Applications and Research/JCSDA, COLLEGE PARK, MD; and E. Maddy, J. C. Alpert, and S. A. Boukabara

Recorded Presentation

2:30 PM

6.4

Observation Sensitivity Experiments with the Hourly Rapid Refresh Using Hybrid-Ensemble/Variational Data Assimilation

Eric P. James, CIRES/Univ. of Colorado and NOAA/ESRL/Global Systems Division, Boulder, CO; and M. Hu, S. Benjamin, and S. Weygandt

Recorded Presentation

Session 6

Special Session on US-International Partnerships, Part III

Location: Room 252/254 ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)

Host: 12th Annual Symposium on New Generation Operational Environmental Satellite Systems

Cochairs: Kenneth Carey, Earth Resources Technology (ERT), Inc.; Satya Kalluri, NOAA/NESDIS/STAR

1:30 PM

6.1

Land Surface Water and Energy Estimates in the Global MERRA-2 Reanalysis

Clara Draper, NASA/GSFC, Greenbelt, MD; and R. Reichle, Q. Liu, R. Koster, S. Mahanama, G. De Lannoy, and M. Girotto

Recorded Presentation

1:45 PM

6.2

Calibration of Ocean Forcing with Satellite Flux Estimates (COFFEE)

Charlie N. Barron, NRL, Stennis Space Center, MS; and J. M. Dastugue, J. C. May, C. Rowley, S. Smith, P. L. Spence, and S. Gremes-Cordero

Recorded Presentation

2:00 PM

6.3

A Review of Adaptive Observations during the THORPEX Era

Sharanya J. Majumdar, Univ. of Miami/RSMAS, Miami, FL

Recorded Presentation

2:15 PM

6.4

Enhancing National Climate Services for Development in Africa

Tufa Dinku, Columbia University, Palisades, NY; and A. Kruczkiewicz, P. Ceccato, R. Cousin, J. Del corral, R. Faniriantsoa, M. Thomson, and A. S. Muhammad

Recorded Presentation

Session 7

Weather & Energy: Efficiency and Decision Support

Location: Room 346/347 ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)

Host: Seventh Conference on Weather, Climate, Water and the New Energy Economy

Chair: Kristin Larson, Global Weather Corporation

1:30 PM

7.1

Keeping the Lights On and Communities Smiling: How National Grid Expanded Outage Forecasting Improvements into a Successful Community Engagement Initiative

Dennis Stewart, Earth Networks, Germantown, MD

1:45 PM

7.2

Linking Weather to Home Energy Use: Delighting Consumers, Benefiting Society

Sandy Humenik, Earth Networks, Germantown, MD; and A. Ali

Recorded Presentation

2:00 PM

7.3

Weather & Energy: Leveraging Real-Time Localized Weather Observations to Better Model Home Energy Efficiency

Michael Siemann, Earth Networks, Germantown, MD; and C. Sloop and R. Tiwari

Recorded Presentation

2:15 PM

7.4

Deployment of Coupled Models to Enable Renewable Integration in Vermont

Lloyd Treinish, IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center, Yorktown Heights, NY; and A. Praino, I. Khabibrakhmanov, J. Cipriani, S. Ghosh, M. Sinn, V. P. A. Lonij, X. Bai, X. Xia, X. Guang Rui, A. Stamp, M. Coombs, and R. D'Arienzo

Recorded Presentation

Handout (8.6 MB)

Session 8

Climate Services

Location: Room 245 ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)

Host: 22nd Conference on Applied Climatology

1:30 PM

8.1

Use-Inspired Data Information Services for NOAA's National Centers for Environmental information

Michael J. Brewer, NOAA/NESDIS/National Centers for Environmental Information, Asheville, NC; and T. Owen, K. Matthews, and S. Mesick

Recorded Presentation

1:45 PM

8.2

Use-Inspired Data Information Services for Climate, Weather, Coasts, Oceans, and Geophysics

Katy Vincent Matthews, NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Asheville, NC; and G. Hammer, S. Mesisk, and T. Owen

Recorded Presentation

2:00 PM

8.3

Providing Access to a Diverse Set of Global Reanalysis Dataset Collections

Douglas Schuster, NCAR, Boulder, CO; and S. J. Worley

Recorded Presentation

2:15 PM

8.4

Debunking Myths Cited By Climate Change Skeptics

Robert S. Marshall, Earth Networks, Germantown, MD; and W. Callahan

Recorded Presentation

Session 8

Weather and Climate Literacy and Citizen Science

Location: Room 333-334 ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)

Host: 11th Symposium on Societal Applications: Policy, Research and Practice

Cochairs: Mark Shafer, Oklahoma Climatological Survey; Henry Reges, Colorado State University

Paper 8.1 will now be 8.2A

1:30 PM

8.1A

What Can Citizen Scientists Tell Us about Drought? Using the Community Collaborative Rain, Hail & Snow Network (CoCoRaHS) to Improve the Monitoring and Reporting of Drought Impacts

Amanda Brennan, Carolinas Integrated Sciences and Assessments, Columbia, SC; and K. Dow, B. K. Haywood, and K. Lackstrom

Recorded Presentation

Paper 8.2 will now be 8.1A

1:45 PM

8.2A

Assessing the Usefulness of Citizen Science Information in Drought-Related Decision Making

Kirsten Lackstrom, Carolinas Integrated Sciences & Assessments, Columbia, SC; and A. Brennan and K. Dow

Recorded Presentation

2:00 PM

8.3

Assessment of Climate Literacy within a Massive Open Online Course based on Information Disseminated by Mass Media

Zachary Handlos, Northern Illinois University, DeKalb, IL; and M. Mooney, S. Ackerman, and D. Brossard

Recorded Presentation

2:15 PM

8.4

Applying the Concept of Weather Salience to a Specific User Community: General Aviation Pilots

Jennifer E. Thropp, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical Univ., Daytona Beach, FL; and J. M. Lanicci, J. K. Cruit, T. A. Guinn, and E. L. Blickensderfer

Recorded Presentation Manuscript (138.2 kB)

Session 9A

Climate Scenarios for the National Climate Assessment: Future Directions

Location: La Nouvelle C ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)

Host: 28th Conference on Climate Variability and Change

Cochairs: David R. Easterling, NOAA/NESDIS/NCDC; Kenneth E. Kunkel, CICS

1:30 PM

9A.1

The Development of Climate Scenarios for the National Climate Assessment

Kenneth E. Kunkel, CICS, Asheville, NC; and D. R. Easterling

Recorded Presentation

1:45 PM

9A.2

A Seamless Approach of Improving Climate Projection for US Great Plains

Rong Fu, University of Texas, Austin, TX; and D. N. Fernando, L. Yin, and B. Pu

2:00 PM

9A.3

The Value of GCM-RCM Simulation Programs for Determining Credible Regional Projections of Climate and their Potential Use in Future National Climate Assessments

Linda O. Mearns, NCAR, Boulder, CO; and W. J. Gutowski

Recorded Presentation

2:15 PM

9A.4

NCA-LDAS: An Integrated Terrestrial Water Analysis System for Sustained Assessment and Dissemination of National Climate Indicators

Michael F. Jasinski, NASA GSFC, Greenbelt, MD; and S. V. Kumar, C. D. Peters-Lidard, K. R. Arsenault, H. Beaudoing, J. Bolten, J. S. Borak, S. J. Kempler, B. Li, Y. Liu, D. M. Mocko, M. Rodell, and B. Vollmer

Session 9B

Subseasonal Variability: Part 1

Location: La Nouvelle A ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)

Host: 28th Conference on Climate Variability and Change

Chair: Hai Lin, EC

1:30 PM

9B.1

Effects of Sudden Stratospheric Warmings and Quasi-biennial Oscillation on El Nino Teleconnections

Jadwiga H. Richter, NCAR, Boulder, CO; and C. Deser and L. Sun

Recorded Presentation

1:45 PM

9B.2

Updating the paradigm of Convectively Coupled Equatorial Waves and the MJO

Prashant D. Sardeshmukh, CIRES, Univ. of Colorado and Physical Sciences Division/ESRL/NOAA, Boulder, CO; and M. Newman

2:00 PM

9B.3

The Antecedents of Subtropical PV Streamer Formation in the North Atlantic Basin

Philippe P. Papin, University at Albany, SUNY, Albany, NY; and L. F. Bosart and R. D. Torn

Recorded Presentation

2:15 PM

9B.4

Charge and Discharge of Polar Cold Air Mass in Northern Hemispheric Winter

Yuki Kanno, Tohoku University, Sendai, Japan; and M. R. Abdillah and T. Iwasaki

Session 10

Radar and Lidar Calibration and Observations

Location: Room 350/351 ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)

Host: 18th Symposium on Meteorological Observation and Instrumentation

Chair: Craig D. Smith, EC

1:30 PM

10.1

Misovortices and Boundaries within the 7 January 2014 Long Lake-Axis-Parallel (LLAP) Lake-effect Snow Band during the Ontario Winter Lake-effect Systems (OWLeS) Project

Jake Mulholland, University of Illinois, Urbana, IL; and J. W. Frame

Recorded Presentation Manuscript (2.9 MB)

1:45 PM

10.2

An Intercomparison of WSR-88D and ARMOR Radar Observations of the 14 July 2015 Tennessee Valley Tornadic Quasi-Linear Convective System

Anthony W. Lyza, University of Alabama, Huntsville, AL; and K. R. Knupp

Recorded Presentation

2:00 PM

10.3

Calibrating a Wind Profiler (After the Fact) Using Surface- and Satellite-Based Methods

Leslie M. Hartten, CIRES/Univ. of Colorado and NOAA/ESRL/Physical Sciences Division, Boulder, CO; and P. E. Johnston, V. M. Rodriguez, and P. S. Esteban

Recorded Presentation

2:15 PM

10.4

Lidar Calibration Technique for Quantifying Spray Drift

April L. Hiscox, University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC; and T. Strand, H. Thistle, and B. Richardson

Recorded Presentation

Joint Session 12

Atmospheric Chemistry Core Science Keynote

Location: Room 356 ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)

Hosts: (Joint between the 18th Conference on Atmospheric Chemistry; and the Eighth Symposium on Aerosol–Cloud–Climate Interactions )

Speaker: Garvin A. Heath, National Renewable Energy Laboratory

Chair: Jeffrey L. Collett Jr., Colorado State University

Cochairs: Jiwen Fan, PNNL; Sonia M. Kreidenweis, Colorado State University

1:30 PM

J12.1

Environmental Impacts of Electricity Generation Technologies—a Review of GHG Emissions, Water Use, and Land Use, with a Focus on Oil and Gas Systems (Core Science Keynote)

Garvin A. Heath, National Renewable Energy Laboratory, Golden, CO

Recorded Presentation

Joint Session 16

Emergency Management: Education and Outreach to Better Prepare the Public

Location: Room 353 ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)

Hosts: (Joint between the 25th Symposium on Education; the 30th Conference on Hydrology; and the Fourth Symposium on Building a Weather-Ready Nation: Enhancing Our Nation’s Readiness, Responsiveness, and Resilience to High Impact Weather Events )

Cochairs: Owen H. Shieh, National Disaster Preparedness Training Center; Kenneth Carey, Earth Resources Technology (ERT), Inc.; Mark W. Seefeldt, CIRES/Univ. of Colorado

J16.1

Educating Disadvantaged Citizens about Severe Weather Events and Impacts

1:45 PM

J16.2

The Outreach and Education Season: Summary of the National Hurricane Center's Annual Hurricane Preparedness Training Efforts

Daniel P. Brown, NOAA/NWS/NHC, Miami, FL; and R. D. Knabb

Recorded Presentation

2:00 PM

J16.3

The National Disaster Preparedness Training Center: Training for a Weather-Ready Nation

Owen H. Shieh, National Disaster Preparedness Training Center, Honolulu, HI; and T. Bedard

Recorded Presentation

2:15 PM

J16.4

Web-based Learning: Interpreting and Communicating Probabilistic Tropical Cyclone Guidance

Tsvetomir Ross-Lazarov, UCAR/COMET, Boulder, CO; and R. Berg, D. P. Brown, A. Devanas, S. White, D. Sharp, M. J. Moreland, D. P. Santos, J. Koch, V. M. Vincente, and P. J. Brown

Recorded Presentation Manuscript (59.7 kB)

Themed Joint Session 17

Weather Information at Our Fingertips

Location: Room 348/349 ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)

Hosts: (Joint between the 32nd Conference on Environmental Information Processing Technologies; and the Sixth Conference on Transition of Research to Operations )

Cochairs: Michael Eilts, Weather Decision Technologies; Jennifer Sprague, NOAA/NWS; Scott Jacobs, NOAA/NWS/NCEP

1:30 PM

TJ17.1

Transitioning Data with NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information (NCEI)

Heather B. Brown, NOAA/NESDIS/NCEI/STG, Inc., Asheville, NC; and N. A. Ritchey, P. Jones, and V. Toner

Recorded Presentation

1:45 PM

TJ17.2

Seasonality Pro: Essential Workflows and Ongoing Development

Mike Piatek-Jimenez, Gaucho Software, LLC., Mount Pleasant, MI

Recorded Presentation

2:00 PM

TJ17.3

Weather Informant — Impact Based Smartphone Application

Pete Curran, 911 Weather, San Clemente, CA

Recorded Presentation

2:15 PM

TJ17.4

RadarScope and WeatherOps: Integrating Cross-App Workflow Through Custom URL Schemes and Deep Linking

Mike Wolfinbarger, Weather Decision Technologies, Inc., Norman, OK

Recorded Presentation

2:15 PM-2:30 PM: Wednesday, 13 January 2016

Session 7

Applications of Air Pollution Meteorology Award Presentation

Location: Room 243 ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)

Host: 19th Joint Conference on the Applications of Air Pollution Meteorology with the A&WMA

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

Book Signing

Location: Hall D/E ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)

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

822

An Integrated Atmospheric Analysis Observing System in Support of Free Space Optical Communications

Mary Ellen Craddock, Northrop Grumman Corporation, McLean, VA; and R. J. Alliss

823

A Demonstration of the Impact-based Decision Support Services TAF Rating (I-TAF Rating) Application

Joseph Facundo, NOAA, Herndon, VA; and L. Laughlin, S. Rasheeth, and G. stark

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

828

The Quality Control Algorithms used in the Creation of NASA Kennedy Space Center Lightning Protection System Towers Meteorological Database

John M. Orcutt, Jacobs, Huntsville, AL; and J. Brenton

Manuscript (392.8 kB)

829

A Numerical Study on an Aviation Turbulence Encounter over Bohai Sea, China on 13 February 2013

Dan-Bi Lee, Yonsei University, Seoul, South Korea; and H. Y. Chun

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

833

Updates to MDL's Objective Analyses of Forecasts and Observations: Current and Planned Implementations of Localized Aviation MOS Products

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)

836

Observational and Model Analyses of the 29 June 2000 Thunderstorm for Potential Hazards to the Future A-10 Storm Penetrating Aircraft

Jeffrey T. Wetter, South Dakota School of Mines and Technology, Rapid City, SD

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

838

Collaborative Aviation Weather Statement (CAWS), Supporting Air Traffic Management (ATM) with Aviation Weather Constraint Forecasts

John Huhn, The MITRE Corporation, McLean, VA; and K. Johnston

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

840

Statistical Analyses of Aviation Turbulence Encounters Revealed in Aircraft Observations

Soo-Hyun Kim, Yonsei Univ., Seoul, South Korea; and H. Y. Chun

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

843

Mitigating Aviation Weather Threats in the Upper Troposphere of Hurricanes

Vanessa M. Przybylo, NOAA/AOML/HRD, Queensbury, NY

845

Integrated Turbulence Forecasts

James Foerster, Schneider Electric, Minneapolis, MN

844

Development of Regional Hazardous Weather Advisory Centers

846

Identification, Quantification and Mitigation of ATM-Weather Integration Gaps for NSIP Increments Dependent on Weather Information

Matt Fronzak, The MITRE Corporation, McLean, VA; and C. V. McKnight

Poster Session 1

Fourth Symposium on Building a Weather-Ready Nation: Enhancing Our Nation's Readiness, Responsiveness, and Resilience to High Impact Weather Events

Host: Fourth Symposium on Building a Weather-Ready Nation: Enhancing Our Nation’s Readiness, Responsiveness, and Resilience to High Impact Weather Events

860

Decision Support Services and Impacts of the Flash Flood and Debris Flow in Mount Charleston, Nevada, 28 July 2014

Michael J. Paddock, NWS, Las Vegas, NV

Manuscript (2.3 MB)

Handout (2.6 MB)

861

Weather Impact Matrix for Supporting FEMA at the Regional and National Level

863

Understanding Psychological Factors that Influence Perceptions of Safe Shelter and Decisions to Shelter after a Tornado Warning

Marita A. O'Brien, Franciscan University of Steubenville, Steubenville, OH

Handout (297.7 kB)

862

Thoughts on the Use of Probabilistic and Deterministic Weather Data for Incident Command Support and Decision Support Services

864

Weather Ready Nation Ambassadors Program at the Bureau of Indian Affairs

Harold Peterson, Bureau of Indian Affairs Eastern Region Office, Nashville, TN; and C. McGhee, J. Blackhair, L. Rawlings, M. Kelley, K. Bluecloud, R. Harjo, A. Ruth, and D. Saunders

Manuscript (500.0 kB)

866

Optimization of Stormwater management practices under Climate Change and continued Urbanization in the US Mid-Atlantic region

Ibraheem M. P. Khan, University of Maryland, College Park, Hyattsville, MD; and G. Moglen and K. Hubacek

868

Marine Weather Decision Support in a Complex Coastal Environment

Kennard B. Kasper, NOAA/NWSFO, Key West, FL; and C. Rothwell

Handout (2.0 MB)

869

The Potential Adverse Effects of the Cold-dry (Harmattan) season on Respiration, Behaviour and Work output of Pack Donkeys in Northern Nigeria mitigated by Ascorbic acid

Olaifa Helen Folashade Sr., Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria, Kaduna, Nigeria; and A. J. Olusegun Sr.

871

Implementation of the Impacts Catalog at the Miami Weather Forecast Office

Kristian Mattarochia, NWS, Hanford, CA; and K. Rodriguez, D. Gregoria, and J. G. Estupiñán

873

Recent Changes of the Urban Local Climate using Satellite Data and In-situ Measurements

Judit Bartholy, Eotvos Lorand University, Budapest, Hungary; and R. Pongrácz, Z. Dezső, C. Dian, and C. Fricke

Manuscript (3.0 MB)

875

An Overview of the Unusual Severe Weather Events in a Near Record Fire Weather season in Alaska

Melissa Kreller, NOAA/NWSFO, Fairbanks, AK; and C. Cox, R. Metzger, and R. Thoman

876

National Weather Service Decision Support Tools: Communicating Impacts Effectively

Holly M. Allen, NOAA/NWSFO Birmingham, Calera, AL; and M. L. Grantham, M. E. Anderson, E. E. Carpenter, M. R. Wilson, and L. Myers

870

Toward Improved Consistency of Flash Flood Product Issuance in the Southwestern United States

877

Use of Live Google Traffic Maps to Assess Weather Impacts on Roads

Barry R. Bowers, NOAA/NWS Amarillo, TX, Amarillo, TX; and C. B. Elsenheimer

878

Air Quality Messaging; A Look into the Inland Northwest Inter-Agency Coordination

Andy Brown, NOAA/NWS, Spokane, WA

872

The Improved Satellite Analysis Branch Precipitation Program and its Use of GOES-R/JPSS Proving Ground Products in an Operational Environment

879

Benefits of Social Media in Communicating Weather Information during Hurricane/Post-Tropical Cyclone Sandy and the 2013 Colorado Floods

Kari Kundert Bowen, NOAA/NWSFO, Westminster, CO

880

Military vs NWS weather warning process: Case study of 28 May 2015 New Mexico hailstorm

Calvin Elkins, United States Air Force, Davis-Monthan AFB, AZ; and T. C. Richmond

874

A Summer Experience: A Warning Coordination Meteorologist and an Emergency Management Student Learning From Each Other about Impact-Decision Support Services (IDSS)

881

The Winter 2014-2015 Probabilistic Storm Total Snowfall Forecast Experiment

David B. Radell, NOAA/NWS, Bohemia, NY; and J. S. Waldstreicher, J. Watson, R. Watling, S. M. Zubrick, J. W. Dellicarpini, A. M. Cope, and J. S. Tongue

Handout (1.2 MB)

882

Providing Forecasters with Mesoscale Domain Options of the WRF-EMS for Enhancing Local Decision Support, Continuity of Operations, and Service Backup

Da'Vel Johnson, Florida Institute of Technology, Melbourne, FL; and P. F. Blottman and D. W. Sharp

883

Real-time Evaluation of National Weather Service Forecasts in Support of Cold Protection of Agricultural Commodities in Florida

William R. Lusher, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL; and G. W. Braun

884

Diagnosing the Meteorology of 'Double Impact' Tornado/Flash Flood Events

Gregory R. Herman, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO; and E. R. Nielsen, R. Tournay, J. M. Peters, and R. S. Schumacher

885

Innovative Evaluations of National Weather Service Severe Weather Warnings with a CONUS-wide Multi-Radar, Multi-Sensor Climatological Database

Joint Poster Session 1

Joint Poster Session for the 4th MJO Symposium and the 7th Energy Conference

847

Using GPM IMERG Precipitation Products and Services at the NASA Goddard Earth Sciences Data and Information Services Center to Monitor and Study MJO Events

Kyle MacRitchie, NASA/GSFC, Greenbelt, MD; and D. Ostrenga, Z. Liu, and B. Vollmer

848

A Revised Real-time Multivariate MJO Index

Ping Liu, SUNY, Stony Brook, NY; and Q. Zhang, C. Zhang, Y. Zhu, M. Khairoutdinov, H. M. Kim, C. Schumacher, and M. Zhang

Manuscript (91.1 kB)

849

Is the MJO Signature a Continuum? The Statistics of Global Observations of Multi-day Cloud Systems

Brian L. Vant-Hull, NOAA/City College, New York, NY; and W. B. Rossow and C. Pearl

Handout (3.2 MB)

850

Spring Tornado Activity in the United States Related to the GWO

Victor A. Gensini, College of DuPage, Glen Ellyn, IL; and A. Marinaro

Handout (6.0 MB)

851

Scale-Dependent Relationships Between U.S. Temperatures and Teleconnections

Carl J. Schreck III, CICS/NC State, Asheville, NC; and J. Rennie, L. Watkins, K. Dobeck, and D. Podowitz

852

Kelvin Waves and Tropical Cyclogenesis in a Lagrangian Framework

Carl J. Schreck III, CICS/NC State, Asheville, NC

853 has been moved. New paper number J3.6A.

854

A Climatological Relationship between MJO/ENSO Phases and Tropical Cyclone Interactions with Saharan Dust Storms across the Tropical Atlantic Basin

Jordan L. Rabinowitz, University of Missouri, Columbia, MO; and A. R. Lupo

855

The Impact of Tropical Intraseasonal Variability on the Global Distribution of Precipitation

855A

Seasonality of the Tropical Intraseasonal Oscillation

Bohar Singh, George Mason University, Fairfax, VA; and J. L. Kinter III

856

Mechanisms Relating the Madden-Julian Oscillation (MJO) to Intraseasonal Variability of the Surface Climate in the Americas

Michael Natoli, University of Maryland, College Park, MD; and E. H. Berbery

858

Amplification of Extratropical Influence on the MJO in the Presence of Air-Sea Interactions

Xi Chen, Florida Institute of Technology, Melbourne, FL; and P. Ray

857

Relative Influence of Extratropical Northern and Southern Hemisphere on the MJO

859

The Connection Between the Lower and Upper Level Quasi-Biweekly Oscillations of the South Asian Monsoon

Sebastián Ortega, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA; and P. J. Webster, V. Toma, and H. R. Chang

Poster Session 1

Lamb Symposium Poster Session

Host: Peter Lamb Symposium

513

Influence of the Atlantic Ocean on the Interannual Variability of the Eastern Africa Rainfall

Rowan Elizabeth Argent, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC; and F. Semazzi and M. P. Angus

514

GPM Rainfall-based Streamflow Analyses for East Africa

Clay B. Blankenship, USRA, Huntsville, AL; and A. S. Limaye and F. Mitheu

Handout (2.4 MB)

515

Sensitivity of Wind Energy Potential Analysis over East Africa to Land Cover Change

Masilin Gudoshava, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC; and F. Semazzi

516

Impact of land use and land cover on the local Climate of Lake Victoria Basin

Masilin Gudoshava, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC; and F. Semazzi

517

Sunspot numbers: Implications on Eastern African Rainfall

Francis Gachari, Jomo Kenyatta University of Agriculture and Technology, Nairobi, Kenya

Manuscript (315.8 kB)

Handout (710.9 kB)

518

Nocturnal Low Level Jets in West Africa

Geoffrey Elie Quentin Bessardon, University of Leeds, Leeds, United Kingdom; and B. J. Brooks, J. H. Marsham, and A. M. Blyth

Handout (769.5 kB)

519

Investigating Key Climate Parameters over West Africa under RCP8.5 Scenario from RCA Multi Model Simulations

Abdoulaye Sarr, National Meteorological Service of Senegal, Dakar-Fann, Senegal

520

Impacts of Climate Variability and Agricultural Intensification on the Origin of Runoff: The Case Study of the Watershed Kolondieba in the South of Mali

Amidou Dao, Universite Nangui Abrogoua, Abidjan, Cote d'Ivoire

522

Interannual to Multidecadal Climatic Fluctuations Due to Volcanic Eruptions

Joanna Maja Slawinska, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ; and A. Robock and D. Giannakis

523

Helping Africa Help Itself

Jim Anderson, Earth Networks, Germantown, MD

Poster Session 2

32EIPT Wednesday/Thursday Posters

Host: 32nd Conference on Environmental Information Processing Technologies

Cochairs: Kevin Tyle, University at Albany/SUNY; Scott Jacobs, NOAA/NWS/NCEP

524

Breaking it Down, Using Modular Services to Improve the NOAA Earth Information System (NEIS)

Jebb Q. Stewart, NOAA, Boulder, CO; and J. Joyce, J. S. Smith, and E. Hackathorn

525

Remaining Scientific Questions for Weather Surveillance with a Multifunction Phased Array Radar (MPAR)

Kurt D. Hondl, NOAA, Norman, OK

526

Designing an API that will allow the Flexible Sampling of Multidimensional Data:

Peter Trevelyan, The U.K. Met Office, Exeter, United Kingdom; and R. Carne

527

Improving Radio Frequency Interference Mitigation Strategies at the National Weather Radar Testbed

John Lake, Univ. of Oklahoma, ARRC, Norman, OK; and M. Yeary and C. Curtis

528

Tapping into Real-Time Mesonet Data Streams to Drive Critical Applications

529

Detection of Bragg scatter using S-band polarimetric weather radar: Theoretical and experimental considerations

Phillip B. Chilson, Univ. of Oklahoma, Norman, OK; and T. M. Weckwerth and W. O. J. Brown

530

Polarimetric Spectral Densities for the Analysis of Tornado-Vortex Radar Observations

Arturo Umeyama, The University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK; and S. Torres and B. L. Cheong

531

Using Dual Polarization Radar to Determine Supercell and QLCS Characteristics Just Prior to Tornadogenesis and Tornado Dissipation

Michael L. Jurewicz Sr., NOAA/NWS, Johnson City, NY; and M. S. Evans and C. M. Gitro

Handout (1.7 MB)

532

Developing a Visualization Portal for NOAA Data: Part 2 - Lessons Learned in Open Source

Daniel P. Pisut, I.M. Systems Group, Silver Spring, MD; and T. Loomis and V. Goel

533

A Study of High Temporal and Spatial Resolution RHIs Through Outflow Boundaries and Squall Lines Using the Atmospheric Imaging Radar

Andrew Mahre, University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK; and T. Y. Yu, R. D. Palmer, and J. M. Kurdzo

534

A process and system for managing the metadata needed to better understand and use the observations in Numerical Weather Prediction and Operational Decision Support

Michael Leon, CIRA/Colorado State Univ., Boulder, CO; and C. MacDermaid, G. Pratt, and L. Benjamin

535

Assessing phase noise effects on weather-radar data quality

David A. Warde, CIMMS/Univ. of Oklahoma and NOAA/OAR/NSSL, Norman, OK; and S. M. Torres

Handout (10.4 MB)

537

METGATE: the European Meteorological information portal for aviation

Yann Genin, Meteo France, toulouse, France; and M. Dell'Acqua, R. Giraud, and K. Rebai

536

CASA Radar Display in AWIPS2

Poster Session 2

Environment & Health Poster Session II

Host: Seventh Conference on Environment and Health

Poster 807 has been moved to Poster 161A

804

Public Health Impacts of Climate Change in Portugal: Potential Effects on Chronic Diseases due to Extreme Temperatures

Mónica Rodrigues, AER, Aveiro, Portugal

805

A GIS Study of Air Pollutants for Association with Asthma Rate in New York State

Francis Tuluri, Jackson State Univ., Jackson, MS; and A. Gorai and D. Miller

806

Curriculum Development & Delivery via 4-H

Natalie J. Carroll, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN

Handout (1.9 MB) Handout (364.8 kB)

809

Surface Temperature Variation Prediction Model Using Real-Time Weather Forecasts

Maryam Karimi, NOAA/CREST, New York, NY; and B. vant-Hull, R. Nazari, and R. Khanbilvardi

Poster Session 2

GOES-R/JPSS Poster Session II

Host: 12th Annual Symposium on New Generation Operational Environmental Satellite Systems

719

GOES-R Education Proving Ground

Margaret Mooney, CIMSS/Univ. of Wisconsin, Madison, WI; and T. J. Schmit, T. M. Whittaker, and S. Ackerman

Handout (5.2 MB)

720

Global Weather Watchers Campaign: An Earth SySTEM Project

John Moore, AMS Board on Outreach and Precollege Education, Laurel Springs, NJ; and T. Schmit and M. Mooney

721

Impact of Precipitation Assimilation on Tropical Cyclone Structure in the NARR

Stephanie E. Zick, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL; and C. J. Matyas

Handout (1.7 MB)

722

Operational Land Data Products from Suomi NPP and their Integration into NOAA's Enterprise Algorithm Suite

Ivan A. Csiszar, NOAA/NESDIS, College Park, MD; and Y. Yu, L. Zhou, J. M. Daniels, W. Wolf, and M. Román

723

Pathways Towards Data Exploitation and New Product Development from GOES-R

Satya Kalluri, NOAA/NESDIS/STAR, College Park, MD; and J. Daniels, S. J. Goodman, A. Heidinger, and D. Lindsey

724

Pixel Classification for Pre-College Students Using GOES-R Proxy Data

Peter Dorofy, Rowan University, Glassboro, NJ; and M. Mooney and R. Nazari

725

Operational Forecaster Perspectives of GOES-R and JPSS Proving Ground Satellite and Proxy Products

Kristopher D. White, NOAA, Huntsville, AL

726

AMV Retrieval Using Brightness Temperature Difference Image

Toshiro Inoue, JAXA, Tsukuba, Japan; and H. Takenaka and T. Sakashita

727

Evaluate the Impact of Antenna Emissivity on ATMS TDR Products Based on a Full Polarization Radiative Transfer Model

Hu Yang, University of Maryland, College Park, MD; and F. Weng and N. Sun

728

On Hyper-spectral Infrared Sensor CrIS Spectral Accuracy

Yong Chen, ESSIC/University of Maryland, College Park, MD; and Y. Han and F. Weng

729

JPSS-1 Science Product Algorithms: Pre-launch Performance Characterization and Verification

Murty G. Divakarla, IMSG, Rockville, MD; and L. Zhou, X. Liu, W. Wolf, F. Weng, T. Atkins, B. Guenther, R. S. Steadley, and J. Feeley

730

Geolocation Assessment Tool and Correction Model for JPSS CrIS

Likun Wang, University of Maryland, College Park, MD; and B. Zhang, Y. Han, X. Jin, Y. Chen, and D. Tremblay

731

A First Look at Imagery from Himawari-8

Daniel T. Lindsey, RAMMB/CIRA, Fort Collins, CO; and S. D. Miller, C. J. Seaman, D. A. Molenar, D. W. Hillger, T. J. Schmit, W. Straka, and Y. Sumida

732

The Role of Near Real-Time Processing Systems in the STAR Development Environment

Thomas S. King, I.M. Systems Group, College Park, MD; and L. Soulliard, Y. Song, M. Wilson, P. Keehn, H. Sun, and W. Wolf

733

LPW Data Impact Study Preparing for GOES-R Applications

Yuanfu Xie, NOAA, Boulder, CO; and S. Albers and J. Li

734

Preparing for GOES-R: Post-Launch Product Tests and Activities

Elizabeth J. McMichael, Science and Technology Corporation, Greenbelt, MD; and W. M. MacKenzie Jr., M. Seybold, R. A. Iacovazzi Jr., J. Fulbright, H. Kilcoyne, and K. Miretzky

735

The Network Adapter Box, Supporting User Readiness for CGS Block 2.0

Constantino Cremidis, NASA/JPSS, MD; and R. Romero and A. Drew

Handout (15.1 MB)

736

Biases and Correlations in the Co-sampled OMPS and NOAA Ground-based Ozone Network

738

Approach for Detecting Rapidly Developing Convective Clouds with "HIMAWARI-8"

Yasuhiko Sumida, Japanese Meteorological Agency, Madison, WI; and H. Seko, A. Hashimoto, T. J. Schmit, A. Heidinger, and W. Straka III

737

Assessment of the Current Satellite Observing System Using the GEOS-5 Observation Impact Monitoring Tool

739

NOAA/NESDIS ESPDS - Enterprise Product Generation and Distribution for NESDIS

Rich Baker, Solers, Greenbelt, MD; and M. Brogan, G. Wilkinson, R. Niemann, and D. M. Beall

Handout (7.4 MB)

740

The Total Operational Weather Readiness - Satellites (TOWR-S) Project

Eric M. Guillot, Integrity Applications Inc for the National Weather Service Office of Observations, Silver Spring, MD; and M. W. Johnson, J. K. Zajic, W. H. Campbell, and L. A. Byerle

Handout (1.7 MB)

741

JPSS and GOES-R Applications in a Near Real Time Regional Numerical Forecast System at CIMSS

Jinlong Li, CIMSS/Univ. of Wisconsin, Madison, WI; and J. Li, P. Wang, H. Han, F. zhu, T. J. Schmit, D. M. Goldberg, and S. J. Goodman

742

Integration of VIIRS Aerosol EDR Algorithm for the JPSS Satellite Mission

Bigyani Das, NOAA/NESDIS/STAR/IMSG, College Park, MD; and W. Chen, W. Wolf, J. Huang, H. Zhang, S. Kondragunta, and I. Laszlo

744

Propagation of JPSS Precipitation Retrievals using Near Real-Time Lightning Data

Patrick C. Meyers, Univ. of Maryland, College Park, MD; and R. R. Ferraro and S. Rudlosky

745

VIIRS Active Fire Algorithm Integration in NOAA's Suomi NPP Data Exploitation Environment: Research to Operations

Marina Tsidulko, IMSG at NOAA/NESDIS/STAR, College Park, MD; and W. Wolf, I. Csiszar, L. Giglio, W. Schroeder, and V. Mikles

746

An Analysis of the Extratropical Transition of Hurricane Arthur (2014) from a JPSS Proving Ground Perspective

Emily Berndt, University of Alabama , Huntsville, AL; and M. J. Folmer, J. Halverson, and J. Dunion

GOES-R Ground Readiness at the Aviation Weather Center

743

Evaluation of VIIRS Aerosol Model Selection Involving Qualitative Comparisons of Global Maps of VIIRS Aerosol Model Vs. Dust/smoke Mask Product and Quantitative Analysis of Spatial and Temporal Patterns

747

Development, Application, and Transition to Operations of Aerosol and Trace Gas Products Derived from Next-Generation Satellite Observations

Emily Berndt, University of Alabama, Huntsville, AL; and A. Naeger, B. T. Zavodsky, K. M. McGrath, and F. J. LaFontaine

748

GEOS Skin SST Analysis: Results from Evaluations with a Hybrid 3dVar System

Santha Akella, NASA, Greenbelt, MD; and R. Todling and M. Suarez

749

Preparing for GOES-R: Pre-launch Data Operations Exercises (DOE)

Kathryn W. Miretzky, Science and Technology Corporation, Greenbelt, MD; and W. M. MacKenzie Jr., M. Seybold, E. J. McMichael, and J. Fulbright

750

Himawari-8 AHI Radiance Assimilation with NOAA GDAS system

Zaizhong Ma, NOAA/NCEP/EMC, College Park, MD; and S. A. Boukabara, E. Maddy, and T. zhu

751

Land Long Term Climate Data Records from AVHRR, MODIS and VIIRS

Eric Vermote, NASA, Greenbelt, MD; and C. O. Justice, M. claverie, B. Franch, I. Csiszar, D. Meyer, R. Myneni, F. Baret, E. Masuoka, and R. wolfe

752

Processing Himawari Data through GOES-R Algorithms using the Algorithm Workbench Software Integration Suite

Erik Steinfelt, AER, Lexington, MA; and Y. He, D. Hogan, D. Hunt, R. J. Lynch, A. Werbos, and T. S. Zaccheo

753

Recent Product Assessments and User Readiness Activities at SPoRT with NASA's Short-term Prediction Research and Transition (SPoRT) Center

Kevin K. Fuell, Univ. of Alabama, Huntsville, AL; and G. T. Stano, A. LeRoy, L. A. Schultz, E. Berndt, M. R. Smith, A. L. Molthan, and B. T. Zavodsky

Forecasting winter storms with Global Hawk UAS observations

754

Comparing Global Precipitation Mission (GPM) data with ground radar -- interests specific to the aviation community

Laura Paulik, CIRES/Univ. of Colorado, Boulder, CO; and B. J. Etherton, M. S. Wandishin, and M. A. Petty

Handout (3.7 MB)

755

Coupled Ocean-Atmosphere 4D-Var: Formulation and Sensitivity Analysis Results

Hans E. Ngodock, NRL, Stennis Space Center, MS; and M. J. Carrier, C. D. Rowley, T. Campbell, C. M. Amerault, and L. Xu

756

Satellite to Satellite Occultations near Water Vapor & Ozone Absorption Lines: The Most Precise & Accurate Atmospheric Profiling Method from Orbit

E. Robert Kursinski, Space Sciences and Engineering, LLC, Boulder, CO; and D. Ward, A. Otarola, J. McGhee, H. Reed, and D. Erickson

757

Satellite Data Applications for Offshore Aviation Weather

Haig Iskenderian, MIT Lincoln Laboratory, Lexington, MA; and M. S. Veillette, C. J. Mattioli, P. M. Lamey, E. P. Hassey, J. R. Mecikalski, G. T. Stano, and R. Bass

Handout (4.5 MB)

758

Weather Satellite Enterprise Information Chain

Kerry Grant, Raytheon Intelligence, Information and Services, Aurora, CO; and M. Jamilkowski

759

Managed and Supported Environmental Missions in the Joint Polar Satellite System (JPSS) Common Ground System (CGS)

Michael Jamilkowski, Col USAF Ret and AMS Fellow, Silver Spring, MD; and K. Grant and S. W. Miller

761

STAR Integrated Cal/Val System for the NOAA Satellite Common Ground System

Kenneth Carey, Earth Resources Technology (ERT), Inc., Laurel, MD; and N. Sun, F. Weng, and L. K. Brown

762

Application of Remote-sensing Data for Monitoring Water Resources over Ungauged Basin in Korean Peninsula

Ji-in Kim, Korea Water Resources Corporation, Gwacheon-si, South Korea; and K. Ryoo and A. S. Suh

763

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 D. M. Goldberg

764

Successes and Lessons Learned during Development of NOAA's Next Generation GOES-R Ground System

Robert Basta, Harris Corporation, Melbourne, FL

Handout (1.2 MB)

765

Security Considerations for an Enterprise Ground System

Nick Patellis, Harris Corporation, Melbourne, FL

760

Joint Polar Satellite System (JPSS) Common Ground System (CGS) Block 3.0 Communications Strategies

766

Development of a CubeSat Passive Microwave Constellation for Operational Meteorology

Albin Gasiewski, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO; and B. T. Sanders, D. W. Gallaher, J. Gordon, K. Zhang, L. Periasamy, W. Hosack, and R. McAllister

767

Science Benefits of Proposed Sensor Improvements for Future Joint Polar Satellite System Missions

Laura J. Dunlap, STC/NOAA/NESDIS/JPSS, Lanham, MD; and M. Goldberg and K. Shontz

768

GRATDAT: A novel approach to monitoring and processing radiometric data from GOES-R ABI

David Pogorzala, Integrity Applications Incorporated, Chantilly, VA; and Z. Li, J. Fulbright, and M. Seybold

769

Preparing for GOES-R and JPSS at the Satellite Proving Ground for Marine, Precipitation and Satellite Analysis: 2015 Demonstrations

Michael J. Folmer, Univ. of Maryland, College Park, MD; and J. M. Sienkiewicz, J. D. Clark, H. D. Cobb III, N. Ramos, D. R. Novak, A. Orrison, J. Kibler, S. D. Rudlosky, S. J. Goodman, and M. Goldberg

Poster Session 2

Measurements Poster Session II

Location: New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center

Host: 18th Symposium on Meteorological Observation and Instrumentation

678

Analysis of Temperature and Humidity Sounding Using Compact Mid-Wave Infrared Instruments

Caleb Parnell Lampen, Aerospace Corporation, El Segundo, CA; and S. Lampen and J. A. Hackwell

Handout (1.8 MB)

679

The WMO (CIMO) International Cloud Atlas — Revision for the 21st Century

Stephen A. Cohn, NCAR, Boulder, CO; and M. Bruhn, G. Anderson, R. Atkinson, M. Campos, E. Lovell, C. Rae, K. H. Tam, E. Thürig-Jenzer, and J. Trice

680

Advances in Single Particle Polarimetry for Studies of Clouds, Dust and Volcanic Ash

Darrel Baumgardner, Droplet Measurement Technologies, Boulder, CO; and M. Freer

681

A Comparison of Cloud and Aerosol Measurements from OCO-2 and CALIPSO

Emily Rosenthal, Millersville University, Millersville, PA; and C. O'Dell, R. Nelson, and H. Q. Cronk

Handout (3.8 MB)

682

Enhancements to the NWS Aircraft Based Observations Program

Steve Pritchett, NOAA/NWS, Silver Spring, MD

683

The Climate Corporation Field Experiments of Sub-Field Variability of Precipitation and Wind

Adam Pasch, Climate Corporation, San Francisco, CA; and V. Lakshmanan, A. Kleeman, H. Dail, N. Cizek, and R. Spirada

684

Fine-scale Airborne Doppler Radar Measurements of Vertical Air Motions within Long Lake-Axis-Parallel Lake-Effect Snow Bands

Christopher J. Johnston, University of Illinois, Urbana, IL; and J. Frame

Handout (4.3 MB)

685

Performing Hourly Manual Weather Observations on the Summit of Mount Washington, NH

Michael A. Carmon, Mount Washington Observatory, North Conway, NH; and M. Dorfman and K. O'Brien

686

Explaining the Difference Between the Reflectivity of Deep Convective Clouds over the Western Pacific and Tropical Continental Regions

Jihoon Ryu, Seoul National Univ., Seoul, South Korea; and B. J. Sohn and M. J. Choi

687

An Update on the USArray TA Alaskan Deployment — Current and Future Footprint

Jonathan E. Tytell, University of California, La Jolla, CA; and F. L. Vernon, B. Busby, and J. Eakins

688

EEC's Solid-State Ranger X-Band Weather Radar: Synergy, Analytical Diagnosis and Technology Advancement via the CASA Dallas-Fort Worth X-band Radar Innovations Testbed

Richard Stedronsky, Enterprise Electronics Corporation, Enterprise, AL

Handout (6.5 MB)

689

Kinematic Observations of Tornadic Debris Signatures in Two Supercells during the 10 May 2010 Oklahoma Tornado Outbreak

Casey B. Griffin, University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK; and D. J. Bodine and R. D. Palmer

690

SPARC: A Mobile Facility for a New Generation of Atmospheric Research

Timothy J. Wagner, CIMSS/Univ. of Wisconsin, Madison, WI; and N. Smith, F. Best, E. W. Eloranta, W. F. Feltz, and E. Olson

691

A Novel Physical Consistency-Based Calibration Tool for Polarimetric Weather Radar

Qing Cao, Enterprise Electronics Corporation, Norman, OK; and M. Knight, A. V. Ryzhkov, and P. Zhang

Manuscript (2.1 MB)

Handout (2.7 MB)

692

The Rare Atmospheric Undular Bore Event Observed over Lake Ontario During the Morning of April 3, 2015

Frank S. Dempsey, University of Toronto, Locust Hill, ON, Canada; and P. Lutzak

693

New All In One Sensors- Looking Into the Future of Meteorological Instrumentation Packages

Rebecca A. Tate, Oklahoma Climatological Survey, Norman, OK; and D. L. Grimsley and C. A. Fiebrich

694

Statistical Retrieval of Thin Liquid Cloud Microphysical Properties Using Ground-Based Infrared and Microwave Observations

695

Uncertainty in Measurements of Wind from an NSF/NCAR Research Aircraft

W. A. Cooper, NCAR, Boulder, CO

696

Application of Surface Mobile Observing Techniques in Complex Terrain

Loren D. White, Jackson State University, Jackson, MS

697

Comparison of Atmospheric Refractive Index Gradient Variations Derived from Time-lapse Photography to Mesoscale Modeling and Radar Measurements

Santasri Basu, Air Force Institute of Technology, Wright-Patterson AFB, OH; and J. McCrae, S. Fiorino, L. Burchett, and C. Rice

Handout (3.7 MB)

Poster Session 2

Observing Systems and their Applications

Location: Hall D/E ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)

Host: 20th Conference on Integrated Observing and Assimilation Systems for the Atmosphere, Oceans, and Land Surface (IOAS-AOLS)

659

Sensitivity of Surface Analyses to Mobile Observations

John D. Horel, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT; and X. Dong

660

Analysis of Hurricanes Using Long-Range Lightning Detection Networks

Benjamin Trabing, University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK; and J. Knaff

Handout (1001.8 kB)

661

Developing Forecast Techniques for Lightning Cessation Using Radar, NLDN, and LMA Analyses

Amanda M. Sink, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX; and R. E. Orville

662

Comparison of the Lightning Observations with the National Radar Reflectivity Mosaic

Jing He, China Meteorological Administration, Beijing, China; and S. Liu, G. DiMego, and X. Liang

663

AIRS/CrIS Sounding Profile Data Improves the Short-term Weather Forecast of Alaska

Jiang Zhu, University of Alaska, Fairbanks, AK; and E. Stevens, T. Heinrichs, J. Cherry, and C. Dierking

664

Examination of Tropical Cyclone Structure Through Synthetic Satellite Brightness Temperatures

Kate D. Musgrave, CIRA/Colorado State Univ., Fort Collins, CO; and J. A. Knaff, C. J. Slocum, L. D. Grasso, and M. DeMaria

665

The Use of Satellite Imagery to Assess Tornado Damage in the Central Appalachian Region

James Morrow, NOAA/NWS, Blacksburg, VA; and S. J. Keighton

666

An Observationally Based Global Band-By-Band Surface Emissivity Dataset for Climate and Weather Modeling Effort

Xianglei Huang, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI; and X. Chen, X. Liu, and D. K. Zhou

667

Using DOE-ARM and Space-Based Assets to Assess the Quality of Air Force Weather 3D Cloud Analysis and Forecast Products

Timothy E. Nobis, Northrop Grumman, Papillion, NE

668

Enhanced Observations of Rainfall Rates on Pacific Ocean TAO Buoys

Dawn C. Petraitis, NOAA/NWS, Stennis Space Center, MS; and K. Grissom, R. Beets, and D. Pounder

Handout (11.3 MB)

669

Evolution of the TAO Data Analyst

Daniel Pounder, Pacific Architects and Engineers/National Data Buoy Center, Stennis Space Center, MS; and M. G. Winterkorn and D. C. Petraitis

Handout (1.2 MB)

670

Airborne Doppler Wind Lidar Missions in the Arctic: Low Level Observations and Comparison with Models and other Observing Platforms

Steven Greco, Simpson Weather Associates, Charlottesville, VA; and G. D. Emmitt, M. J. Kavaya, J. J. Cassano, and K. M. Hines

Manuscript (1.4 MB)

Handout (2.1 MB)

671

Impact of halving the number of Russian radiosonde reports

Bruce Ingleby, ECMWF, Reading, United Kingdom; and M. Rodwell and L. Isaksen

672

Arctic Sea Ice: Snow Depth Distributions Over Variable Ice Types

Marissa Dattler, University of Maryland, College Park, MD; and S. L. Farrell and T. Newman

673

Evaluating the Impact of the Summit Station, Greenland Radiosonde Program on Science and Forecast Services

Carlos J. Martinez, NOAA/Texas A&M University, College Station, TX; and S. Starkweather, C. J. Cox, M. Shupe, and A. Solomon

674

Long-Term Statistics of Arctic Mixed-Phase Cloud Properties Retrieved From Doppler Spectra

Alexis N. Ortiz, NSF, State College, PA; and J. Verlinde and Y. Chen

675

Automated Cloud Detection and Classification of Ground-Based Hemispheric Sky Images

Jessica M. Kleiss, Lewis and Clark College, Portland, OR; and T. J. Wagner and L. M. Garrett

676

An Integrated Modeling, Observing and Visualization System for the Sutdy of the Ecology of Lake George in the Jefferson Project

Anthony P. Praino, IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center, Yorktown Heights, NY; and E. Dow, H. Kolar, L. Treinish, J. Cipriani, M. Henderson, M. Kelly, R. Kubich, F. Liu, F. O'Donncha, M. Passow, E. Ragnoli, L. Villa Real, and C. Watson

677

Using In-Situ Seismic Measurements to Model the Velocity Structure of Subsurface Aquifers in Southeast Greenland

Lynn N. Montgomery, University of Maryland, College Park, MD; and N. Schmerr, L. S. Koenig, C. Miège, A. Legchenko, D. K. Solomon, O. Miller, and R. Forster

Poster Session 2

Host: 22nd Conference on Applied Climatology

651

A Simple Rule For Calculating Wet-Bulb Temperature Near Freezing, With Application to Irrigation for Frost Prevention

John A. Knox, University of Georgia, Athens, GA; and D. Nevius and P. Knox

High-intensity Rainfall Events as Observed by the Oklahoma Mesonet

652

Spatial Patterns of Wildfire along Climatic, Ecological, and Social Gradients

Daniel Schimoler, Longwood University, Farmville, VA; and C. F. Labosier

654

Climatology of Sounding-derived Parameters Associated with Tropical Cyclone Tornado Outbreaks

Richard W. Dixon, Texas State University, San Marcos, TX; and T. Moore and C. G. Townsend

Handout (1.3 MB)

653

Development of a Waterspout Sounding Climatology for the Florida Keys Wet Season

655

Extreme Rainfall Events in the Southeast: Spatial and Temporal Variations

Thomas D. Karmel, Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL; and M. L. Griffin, P. N. Knox, and D. F. Zierden

656

Spatiotemporal Variability in U.S. Blizzard Occurrence

Jill S. M. Coleman, Ball State Univ., Muncie, IN; and R. M. Schwartz

657

A Climatology of Short-wave Troughs in the Great Lakes Region and their Interaction with Shore-Parallel Lake-Effect Snowstorms off of Lake Ontario

Nicholas D. Metz, Hobart and William Smith Colleges, Geneva, NY; and Z. Bruick and E. Ott

658

Analysis of Winter Climate in the Tennessee Valley Based on ENSO Phase and Magnitude

Kristopher D. White, NOAA, Huntsville, AL

Poster Session 2

Poster Session on Transitioning Research to Operations - II

Host: Sixth Conference on Transition of Research to Operations

Cochairs: Stephen A. Mango, NOAA/NESDIS/OPPA Affiliate; Nicolas Powell, Raytheon

810

Statistical Analysis of the Experimental Neighborhood Probabilistic Excessive Rainfall Outlook from the 2014 and 2015 Flash Flood and Intense Rainfall Experiments

Benjamin Albright, Systems Research Group, Inc., College Park, MD; and S. Perfater, S. Jacobs, M. J. Bodner, M. Klein, and D. R. Novak

811

Recent AWIPS2 Testbed Activities at the NWS WFO Omaha (The TOAX System)

Daniel Nietfeld, NOAA/NWS, Valley, NE

812

The 2015 Hydrometeorological Testbed — Hydrology (HMT-Hydro) Experiment

Steven M. Martinaitis, CIMMS/Univ. of Oklahoma and NOAA/NSSL, Norman, OK; and J. J. Gourley, Z. L. Flamig, E. M. Argyle, R. Clark III, A. Arthur, L. P. Rothfusz, and Y. Hong

813

Lessons Learned from Transitioning a Coupled Ocean-wave Prediction System into Operations

814

The 3rd Annual Flash Flood and Intense Rainfall Experiment Advancements & Successes

Sarah Perfater, I. M. Systems Group, College Park, MD; and B. Albright, T. E. Workoff, F. Barthold, M. J. Bodner, S. Jacobs, M. Klein, B. Cosgrove, and D. R. Novak

815

Transitioning NCAR's Aviation Algorithms into NCEP's Operations

Hui-ya Chuang, NOAA/NWS/NCEP, College Park, MD; and Y. Mao

Handout (530.8 kB)

816

A New Program to Support Transitioning Weather Research to Operations

John Cortinas Jr., OAR, Silver Spring, MD

817

The Ensemble Situational Awareness Table: A Tool to Improve Forecasts for Extreme Weather Events

William S. Lamberson, I.M. Systems Group, Inc., College Park, MD; and T. I. Alcott and C. Kahler

Handout (2.6 MB)

818

Operationalizing an Objective Technique to Standardize Surface Wind Speed Observations to Common Metadata

Marty Bell, WeatherFlow, Ft. Collins, CO

819

Next Generation of the NCEP Flexible HPC Functionally Equivalent Environment is a Bridge from Operations to Research

Eugene Mirvis, IMSG@NOAA/NCEP/EMC, College Park, MD; and M. Iredell

Handout (3.8 MB)

820

Overview of the 2015 Aviation Weather Testbed Summer Experiment

Steven A. Lack, NOAA/NWS/NCEP/Aviation Weather Center, Kansas City, MO; and B. R. J. Schwedler, A. Cross, A. M. Terborg, A. R. Harless, B. P. Pettegrew, S. Silberberg, R. L. Solomon, and C. B. Entwistle

Poster Session 2

Poster Session: Cloud and Climate - Wed/thu

Host: Eighth Symposium on Aerosol–Cloud–Climate Interactions

Chair: Jiwen Fan, PNNL

771

Tethered Balloon Operations & Modeling Efforts at ARM AMF3 Site at Oliktok Point, AK

Darielle Dexheimer, Sandia National Laboratory, Albuquerque, NM; and E. Roesler, A. Bendure, J. Hardesty, F. Helsel, and M. Ivey

Handout (1.1 MB)

772

Effects of Pollution on Surface Cloud Radiative Forcing in the Arctic

Timothy J. Garrett, Univ. of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT; and C. Zhao

773

The Remarkable Condensational Growth of Cloud Droplets Grown on Giant Sea-salt Aerosol Particles

Alison D. Nugent, NCAR, Boulder, CO; and J. B. Jensen

774

Evaluation of Cloud Resolving Model Simulations of Midlatitude Cirrus with ARM and A-train Observations

Andreas Muhlbauer, University of Washington, Seattle, WA; and T. P. Ackerman, R. P. Lawson, S. Xie, and Y. Zhang

775

An Infrared Technique for Detection of Intense Pyroconvection in Western North America

Jeremy E. Solbrig, NRL, Monterey, CA; and D. A. Peterson, M. D. Fromm, E. J. Hyer, and J. R. Campbell

776

Regional Climate Effects of Aerosols on Precipitation and Snowpack in California

Longtao Wu, JPL, Pasadena, CA; and H. Su, J. Jiang, C. Zhao, Y. Qian, and T. H. Painter

777

Observations of Aerosol-cloud Interactions in the North East of the United States

Siwei Li, Howard University, Washington, DC; and E. Joseph, Q. Min, and B. Yin

778

Possible Aerosol Effects on Clouds and Precipitation over Korea during the January 2013 Severe Haze Episode

779

Effects of Turbulence-induced Collision Enhancement on Heavy Precipitation: the September 21, 2010 Case over the Middle Korean Peninsula

Hyunho Lee, Seoul National University, Seoul, South Korea; and J. J. Baik

780

Improvement to microphysical schemes in WRF Model based on observation data, part I: size distribution function

Yunpeng Shan Sr., DRI, Reno, NV; and E. M. Wilcox, L. Gao, Y. Yin, and T. Zhao

781

Aerosol-cloud Interactions in Orographic Wave Clouds (ICE-L)

Annette Miltenberger, University of Leeds, Leeds, United Kingdom; and P. R. Field, A. Hill, and B. Shipway

Poster 782 has been moved. New paper number is 1.1A.

783

The Role of Submicron Aerosol Particles in the Formation of High Ice Water Content Regions

Luis A. Ladino, Environment Canada, Toronto, Ontario, Canada; and A. Korolev and M. Wolde

784

Surface Roughness of Small Cirrus Ice Particles

M. Schnaiter, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Karlsruhe, Germany; and E. Järvinen, P. Vochezer, O. Jourdan, V. Shcherbakov, and C. G. Schmitt

785

The Sensitivity of Simulated Shallow Cumulus Convection and Cold Pools to Microphysics

Zhujun Li, NASA Langley Research Center, Hampton, VA; and P. Zuidema, P. Zhu, and H. Morrison

786

Aerosol-Cloud Interactions in Warm Continental Cumulus During GoMACCS

Jennifer D. Small Griswold, University of Hawaii, Honolulu, HI; and P. Y. Chuang and H. H. Jonsson

787

Interaction Between Aerosol and the Planetary Boundary Layer Depth at Sites in the US and China

Virginia R. Sawyer, University of Maryland, College Park, MD; and Z. Li, S. Liu, and Z. Wang

788

Impact of Anthropogenic Aerosol on the Properties of Shallow Maritime Cumulus Clouds

Lan Gao, DRI, Reno, NV; and E. Wilcox

789

Response of Marine Boundary Layer Cloud Properties to Aerosol Perturbations Associated with Meteorological Conditions over the AMF-Azores Site

Jianjun Liu, University of Maryland, College Park, MD; and Z. Li

790

Ultra-clean Layers and Low Albedo Clouds in the Marine Boundary Layer

Robert Wood, University of Washington, Seattle, WA; and P. Zuidema, C. Bretherton, B. A. Albrecht, V. Ghate, M. Sarkar, S. Glienke, H. Mohrmann, R. A. Shaw, and J. Fugal

792

Limits of Marine Cloud Brightening as a Technique for Climate Engineering

Tobias Schad, KIT, Eggenstein-Leopoldshafen, Germany; and D. Rieger, T. Leisner, and B. Vogel

791

Evaluation of Warm-rain Microphysical Parameterizations in Mesoscale Simulations of the Cloudy Marine Boundary Layer

Poster 793 has been moved. New paper number is 4A.7A

794

Quantifying SAL Aerosol Concentrations During Tropical Cyclogenesis

Amy Ip, San Jose State University, San Jose, CA; and S. Chiao

795

Saharan Air Layer and Its Aerosol-cloud-radiation Interactions – a NU-WRF Simulation of an HS3 Event

Zhining Tao, USRA, Greenbelt, MD; and S. A. Braun, J. J. Shi, and M. Chin

796

Convection and Redistribution of Tropospheric Ozone in Central Amazonia

Randy J. Chase, SUNY, Brockport, NY; and J. D. Fuentes, T. Gerken, D. Wei, C. Schumacher, L. A. T. Machado, R. M. Nascimento dos Santos, S. T. Martin, and S. Springston

797

The Impact of Convection in the Tropical Atlantic Ocean on the Processing, Transport and Redistribution of Dust Aerosols

Kathryn Sauter, University of Wisconsin , Madison, WI; and T. L'Ecuyer

799

Liquid Particulate Matter above Tropical Rain Forests

A.P. Bateman, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA; and Z. Gong, S. de Sá, R. Wernis, L. D. Yee, G. Isaacman-VanWertz, A. H. Goldstein, P. Castillo, A. Sedlacek, B. B. Palm, P. Campuzano-Jost, D. A. Day, W. Hu, J. L. Jimenez, M. L. Alexander, R. A. F. Souza, A. O. Manzi, P. Artaxo, and S. T. Martin

Poster 802 has been moved. New paper number is J14.2A

798

Investigations of Light Absorbing Aerosols in the Central Amazon During the Wet Season

801

The Relationship Between Cloud And Rain Cells And The Role Of The Environment In Convective Processes During CHUVA-GoAmazon2014/5

Cristiano Wickboldt Eichholz, INPE, São José dos Campos, Brazil; and C. Schumacher and L. A. T. Machado

803

Using Radar and Ozone Observations Collected During GoAmazon2014/5 to Identify Characteristics of Convective Downdrafts

Hannah Upton, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas; and C. Schumacher, L. A. T. Machado, S. Giangrande, and J. D. Fuentes

800

Micro and Macrophysical Characteristics of Non-precipitating Morning Shallow Clouds in Central Amazonia Using One-year of Data from Goamazon 2014/15 Experiment

Poster Session 2

Posters, 13-14 January

Host: 23rd Conference on Probability and Statistics in the Atmospheric Sciences

636

Identification and Analysis of Contiguous Hours' Climatological Wind Pattern Modes Utilizing K-Means Clustering Analysis combined with the V-Fold Cross Validation Algorithm

Charles J. Fisk, Naval Base Ventura County, Point Mugu, California

Manuscript (638.4 kB)

637

Temperatures in Transient Climates: Improved Methods for Simulating with Evolving Variability

Andrew Poppick, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL; and D. J. McInerney, E. J. Moyer, and M. L. Stein

638

Effect of Interannual Variations on Detection of Climate Change

Janet L. Daniels, SSAI, Hampton, VA; and G. L. Smith and K. J. Priestley

639

Nonstationary Daily Stochastic Weather Generator for the Great Basin Region

Kimberly Smith, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT; and C. Strong and F. Rassoul-Agha

640

Decadal Variability of Rainfall Extremes in the U.S. Northeastern Region

Ali Hamidi, The City University of New York, New York, NY; and N. Devineni and R. Khanbilvardi

641

User-Centric Metrics for Evaluating Solar Forecasts

Tara L. Jensen, NCAR/RAL, Boulder, CO; and T. Fowler, B. G. Brown, S. E. Haupt, B. Kosovic, and J. K. Lazo

642

Verification of GEFS Precipitation across the Eastern United States

Nicholas Hayden Balderas, NSF, Katy, TX; and A. Mejia and R. Siddique

643

Statistical Comparison of RAP Analyses with MPEX Observed Soundings

Andrew Wade, University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK; and M. Coniglio

644

A Machine Learning Analysis of the First Aerosol Indirect Effect Using in situ Cloud Measurements

Mark Bauman, JPL, Pasadena, CA; and J. H. Jiang, R. L. Herman, L. Mandrake, and J. D. Small Griswold

645

Impacts of Microphysics and PBL Physics Schemes on Tornado Outbreak Prediction

Erin A. Thead, Mississippi State University, Mississippi State, MS; and A. E. Mercer and J. L. Dyer

Handout (396.1 kB)

646

Self-Organizing Maps in the Near-Storm Environment: Toward Improving Tornado Forecasting

Alexandra Anderson-Frey, Pennsylvania State Univ., University Park, PA; and Y. P. Richardson, A. R. Dean, R. L. Thompson, and B. T. Smith

Manuscript (938.9 kB)

647

Spatio-temporal Dependence Detection in Model Residuals

Lindsey Dietz, Minneapolis, MN; and S. Chatterjee

648

A Comparison of Two Daily Temperature Averaging Methodologies: Uncertainties and Spatial Variability

Jase E. Bernhardt, Pennsylvania State Univ., University Park, PA

649

A Baseline Sounding Climatology and a Risk Assessment Tool to Forecast Impact Weather in the Tropical Island of Puerto Rico

Ernesto Rodriguez, NOAA/NWS Weather Forecast Office, Carolina, PR

650

Spatiotemporal Uncertainties in Flood Predictability in the Missouri River Basin

Rafael Resendiz-Ramirez, Universidad Autonoma de Baja California, Mexicali, Mexico; and G. Lopez-Morteo, I. Luna-Espinoza, and F. Munoz-Arriola

Poster Session 2

Wednesday/Thursday Poster Session

Location: Hall D/E ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)

Host: 28th Conference on Climate Variability and Change

595

An Exploratory Analysis of the 20th Century Reanalysis Extra-Tropical Cyclone Track Density

Ronald D. Leeper, Cooperative Institute for Climate and Satellites, Asheville, NC

596

An Evaluation of the Atmospheric Water Budget Components over the Southwest Pacific Using Multiple Datasets, with Special Emphasis on Evaporation

Ning Li, The University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand; and G. Bellon

597

Climatology of the Extratropical Transition of Tropical Cyclones in the North Atlantic Using a Variable-Resolution GCM with Regional Refinement

Diana R. Thatcher, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI; and C. M. Zarzycki and C. Jablonowski

598

Predictability of the Wintertime Arctic Oscillation Based on Autumn Circulation: Assessment on Independent Data

Vladimir Kryjov, Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation Climate Center, Busan, South Korea; and Y. M. Min

599

Collaborative REAnalysis Technical Environment—Visualizer (CREATE-V)

Mark McInerney, NASA/GSFC, Greenbelt, MD; and G. L. Potter, L. Carriere, D. Nadeau, E. Winter, J. Peters, T. P. Maxwell, S. Strong, Y. Shen, J. Hertz, S. Ambrose, J. L. Schnase, and G. S. Tamkin

600

Reducing Reanalyses Data Wrangling with CREATE-IP

Laura Carriere, NASA, Greenbelt, MD; and G. L. Potter, M. McInerney, Y. Shen, J. Hertz, G. Britzolakis, and D. Nadeau

601

Historical Caribbean Synoptic types and Downscaling to Northeast Puerto Rico Precipitation Variability using Self-Organizing Maps

Craig A. Ramseyer, University Of Georgia, Athens, GA; and T. L. Mote

Handout (6.2 MB)

602

Application of the delta-four-stream approximation method to the global forecast model of Japan Meteorological Agency

Ryohei Sekiguchi, Japan Meteorological Agency, Tokyo, Japan; and R. Nagasawa and S. Yabu

603

Future Changes in Monsoon Precipitation by High-Resolution MRI-AGCM Ensemble Simulations with Multi-SSTs and Multi-Physics

Hirokazu Endo, MRI, Tsukuba, Japan; and A. Kitoh, K. Yoshida, R. Mizuta, and O. Arakawa

604

A Machine-Learning Approach to Studying Relationships Between Extremes in Geopotential Height and Surface Temperature

Krishna Karthik Gadiraju, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC; and B. Ramachandra, D. Kaiser, T. P. Karnowski, R. R. Vatsavai, and S. Ostro

Handout (5.9 MB)

605

Plate Climatology Theory

Paul Edward Kamis, Independent, Norman, Oklahoma; and J. E. Kamis

Manuscript (205.1 kB)

Handout (1.3 MB)

606

Low-Level Cloud and Low-Level Jet Occurrence during Warm ENSO Events in Indonesia and Northern Australia

C. Bayu Risanto, Creighton University, Omaha, NE; and J. M. Schrage

608

The Dominant Features of the Intraseasonal Oscillation Related to the Rainfall over the Yangtze River Basin in Meiyu seasons

Yonghong Yao, Nanjing University, Nanjing, China; and H. Lin, Q. Wu, and Y. Huang

Poster 607 has been moved to poster 855A.

609

Diurnal variation of isolated convection over land and ocean in the southeastern United States: A case study

Thomas M. Rickenbach, East Carolina University, Greenville, NC; and R. Ferreira and M. Nissenbaum

610

Climate Variability of Indian Summer Monsoon and their Impacts Associated with Large-Scale Circulations

R. Suseela Reddy, Jackson State Univ., Jackson, MS; and F. Tuluri and M. Fadavi

611

West Pacific Jet Retraction: A Case Study and Phase Space Analysis

Melissa L. Breeden, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI; and J. E. Martin

612

Contrasting Relationship between Tropical Western North Pacific Convection and Rainfall over East Asia during Indian Ocean Warm and Cold Summers

Jie Song, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China

613

Linear Stochastic Analysis of AMOC Dynamics in Different General Circulation Models

614

Using High Spectral Resolution Infrared Satellite Measurements to Monitor Climate Trends

Daniel DeSlover, CIMSS/Univ. of Wisconsin, Madison, WI; and R. Knuteson, D. Tobin, and H. Revercomb

615

Sensitivities of the double-ITCZ rainfall bias in the Superparameterized Community Earth System Model

Sungduk Yu, University of California, Irvine, CA; and M. Pritchard and C. Bretherton

616

Evaluating Predictions of Convective Environments using the Climate Forecast System Version 2

Adam J. Stepanek, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN; and R. Trapp and M. E. Baldwin

617

Application of the 30km FIM-iHYCOM coupled model to subseasonal forecasting within S2S NMME

Stan Benjamin, NOAA/ESRL, Boulder, CO; and S. Sun, H. Li, B. Green, R. Bleck, and G. Grell

618

The Influence of Large-Scale Climate Drivers on Synoptic-Scale Precipitation Variability in the Snowy Mountains, South-East Australia

Alison Theobald, University of Queensland, St. Lucia, Australia; and H. McGowan and J. Speirs

619

Subseasonal to Seasonal Forecast Skill of North American Precipitation and Surface Air Temperature

Zhichang Guo, COLA, Fairfax, VA; and P. A. Dirmeyer

620

Comparison of Warm Season North American Precipitation Variability Observations to CFSv2

Kirstin J. Harnos, NOAA/NWS/NCEP/CPC, College Park, MD; and S. Weaver

622

Effects of a better-resolved stratosphere on seasonal forecasts of the Northern Hemisphere Winter

Andre Hernandez-Espiet, University of Puerto Rico, Mayaguez, PR; and J. H. Richter and C. C. Chen

621

An Evaluation of the Seasonal Arctic Sea Ice Predictions from CFSv2

623

Application of Self-Organizing Maps to Observed and Simulated Daily Precipitation over the Tropical and Southern Pacific Ocean

Max Pike, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ; and B. R. Lintner and M. J. Niznik

624

Precipitation variations during the recent SST warming period in the Intra-Americas Region, 1982–2012

Equisha Glenn, City College, New York, NY; and M. Angeles, D. Comarazamy, T. Smith, and J. Gonzalez

625

Multi-Model Prediction for Western Pacific Cross-Equatorial Flow

Hye-Mi Kim, SUNY, Stony Brook, NY; and Y. Zhou

626

An Observational Radiative Constraint on Hydrologic Cycle Intensification

Anthony M. DeAngelis, University of California, Los Angeles, CA; and X. Qu, M. D. Zelinka, and A. Hall

Handout (1.3 MB)

627

Climate Projections for the Central USA at High Resolution

Quinn Pallardy, University of Missouri, Columbia, MO; and B. M. Svoma

628

PDO Modulated ENSO Variability Impacting Regional Missouri Crop Yields

Chasity B. Henson, University of Missouri, Columbia, MO; and P. S. Market, A. R. Lupo, and P. Guinan

629

North Atlantic Oscillation, Jet and Blocking in CESM1 Large Ensemble Simulations

Alicia C. Camacho, NCAR, Elgin, IL; and Y. O. Kwon and H. Seo

Impacts of Long-Term Drought on Regional Precipitation-Frequency

630

Spatio-Temporal Analysis of Air Temperature over Northwestern Nigeria: A Climate Change Perspective

Bernard Tarza Tyubee, Benue State Univ., Makurdi, Nigeria; and D. O. Onyilo

631

Estimation of Regional Climate Changes in European and Mediterranean Subregions Using Different RCP Scenarios

Rita Pongrácz, Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest, Hungary; and J. Bartholy, I. Pieczka, and K. Szabóné André

Manuscript (3.0 MB)

632

ENSO and PDO Trends and Phases and Their Influence on California Climate Variability and Extreme Weather, Including Floods and Droughts

William C. Patzert, JPL, Pasadena, CA; and P. Ramirez, S. LaDochy, and J. Willis

633

The Role of Anthropogenic External Forcing in Australian Rainfall Trends

Carsten Frederiksen, Collaboration for Australian Weather and Climate Research, Docklands, Australia; and S. Grainger

634

Climate Change and the Sea Breeze in the North Carolina Coast

Nicholas T. Luchetti, Digital Earth Virtual Environment and Learning Outreach Project National Program, Greenville, NC; and R. Ferreira

635

Identification of California, Oregon, and Washington Coastal Area Climate Divisions' Relative Anomaly Modes in Total Seasonal Precipitation with Characterization of Their Occurrence Probabilities Relative to El Nino, Neutral, and La Nina Episodes

Charles J. Fisk, Naval Base Ventura County, Pt. Mugu, CA

Manuscript (520.1 kB)

"Carbon poll and Sequestration Scenario of Sunaulo Ghaympe Danda Community Forest, Kathmandu"

Joint Poster Session 6

Land-Atmosphere Interactions Posters

Location: New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center

Hosts: (Joint between the 30th Conference on Hydrology; and the 28th Conference on Climate Variability and Change )

Cochairs: Randal D. Koster, NASA/GSFC; Yongkang Xue, University of California; Steven M. Quiring, Texas A&M University

567

The dynamic diagnosis on developing mechanism of two low vortex snowstorm processes in Liaoning in early 2015

yan qi Jr., Chinese Academy of Meteorological Sciences (CAMS), Shenyang, China; and M. wen Jr.

568

Development of a Coordinated National Soil Moisture Network: A Pilot Study

Steven M. Quiring, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX; and J. M. Lucido, L. A. Winslow, T. W. Ford, P. B. Baruah, J. Verdin, R. S. Pulwarty, and M. L. Strobel

569

Moisture and Precipitation Evolution during Tropical Cyclone Formation as Revealed by SSMI/SSMIS

Zhuo Wang, University of Illinois, Urbana, IL

570

Evaluation of Long-term Soil Moisture Proxies in the U.S. Great Plains

Shanshui Yuan, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX; and S. M. Quiring

571

Integrated Cropland and Grassland Flux Tower Observation Sites over Grazinglands for Quantifying Surface-Atmosphere Exchange

Hayden R. Mahan, University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK; and Y. Zhou, R. Bajgain, J. B. Basara, X. Xiao, P. Wagle, P. Starks, J. Steiner, and B. Northup

572

Evaluating Land Information System (LIS) capabilities in simulating the water budget and surface water dynamics over data-scarce areas in the Middle East

Augusto Getirana, NASA, Greenbelt, MD; and A. McNally, C. Peters-Lidard, and H. C. Jung

573

Satellite remote sensing observations of land-atmosphere interactions for understanding drought mechanisms

Joshua Roundy, University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS; and J. A. Santanello Jr.

574

NOAA/CMA High Resolution Real Time Analysis for Severe Weather Warnings

Qianhong Tang, CMA, Beijing, China; and Y. Xie and X. Tan

575

Soil Moisture Prediction in the Soil, Vegetation and Snow (SVS) Scheme

Nasim Alavi, EC, Dorval, QC, Canada; and S. Bélair, V. Fortin, S. Zhang, S. Z. Husain, M. Carrera, and M. Abrahamowicz

576

Impacts of soil moisture initialization and memory on subseasonal forecast skill over North America

Zhichang Guo, COLA, Fairfax, VA; and P. A. Dirmeyer

577

The Comparison of Summer-seasonal Surface Water Cycles in the NCEP Coupled Forecast System (CFS) Using Noah and Noah Multiple Parameterization (Noah-MP) Land Surface Models

Rongqian Yang, NOAA/NWS/NCEP and IMSG, College Park, MD; and M. Ek

578

Influences of Cloud Super-Parameterization on Land-Atmosphere Energetics and Surface Temperature Biases

Gabriel J. Kooperman, University of California, Irvine, Irvine, CA; and M. S. Pritchard

579

Stem-root flow effect on land-atmosphere interaction

Tzu-Hsien Kuo, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan; and J. P. Chen

580

Estimating water surface energy balance from a single depth temperature measurement

Jiachuan Yang, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ; and Z. H. Wang, Q. Li, N. Vercauteren, E. Bou-Zeid, and M. B. Parlange

581

Assessment of Irrigation and Wind Turbine Wake Effects on Land-Atmosphere Interactions in a Desert Regime using High-Resolution Model Simulations

Patricia Lawston, University of Delaware, Newark, DE

582

Effects of Multidecadal Changes in Temperature, Snowpack and Precipitation on Streamflow in Southwestern Rivers

David S. Gutzler, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM

583

Analysis of seasonal snowpack simulations in the southern Rocky Mountains

Logan Karsten, NCAR, Boulder, Colorado; and A. Dugger, D. J. Gochis, and M. Barlage

584

The influence of canopy architecture on the effective surface roughness of vineyards

Joseph G. Alfieri, USDA/ARS, Beltsville, MD; and W. P. Kustas, F. Gao, J. H. Prueger, and L. E. Hipps

Canopy Interception and Sheltering Effects on Macroscale Snow Sublimation

Joint Poster Session 7

Regional climate modeling predicting future changes in extreme precipitation events - Towards More Resilient Engineering Design Posters

Hosts: (Joint between the 30th Conference on Hydrology; and the 28th Conference on Climate Variability and Change )

Cochairs: Francina Dominguez, University of Arizona; Kelly M. Mahoney, CIRES/Univ. of Colorado; Kenneth E. Kunkel, CICS

585

An Integrated High-Resolution Multi-Member Modeling Approach to Assessing Mid-Century Climate Change Impacts on Extreme Hydrological Events and Water Supplies in the Western United States

Brianna Rita Pagan, Loyola Marymount University, Los Angeles, CA; and M. Ashfaq, D. R. Kendall, and J. S. Pal

586

How well do high resolution limited area models simulate sub-tropical precipitation? A comparison of High Resolution Regional Climate Model output for Puerto Rico

Adrienne M. Wootten, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC; and J. H. Bowden, V. Misra, L. Stefanova, R. P. Boyles, and A. Terando

587

Projected changes of extreme runoff characteristics under climate change conditions – case study for a Central/Eastern European catchment

Rita Pongrácz, Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest, Hungary; and J. Bartholy, A. Kis, and J. A. Szabó

Manuscript (1.2 MB)

588

Changes in Water Balance in the Corn Belt over the past 30 years

Cody H. Troop, South Dakota School of Mines & Technology, Rapid City, SD; and D. P. Todey and W. Capehart

589

Evaluation of the Weather Research and Forecasting Model Estimates of Mountain Snow

Melissa L. Wrzesien, Ohio State University, Columbus, OH; and M. T. Durand and T. M. Pavelsky

Joint Poster Session 8

Water: Too Much, too Little. How Climate Information Supports Community Preparedness

Hosts: (Joint between the 30th Conference on Hydrology; and the 11th Symposium on Societal Applications: Policy, Research and Practice )

Cochairs: John N. McHenry, Baron Advanced Meteorological Systems, LLC; Nancy Beller-Simms, NOAA; Stephanie Herring, NOAA

590

Changes in Duration, Frequency, and Magnitude of Low Flows in the Chesapeake Bay Watershed

Brandon J. Fleming, USGS, Baltimore, MD; and S. A. Archfield, R. Hirsch, and J. E. Kiang

591

Assessing the Impacts of Historic and Pre-Historic Droughts on a Modern-Day Reservoir System Serving Phoenix, Arizona, USA

Andrew W. Ellis, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg, VA; and K. W. Murphy

592

Candidate Indicators for Long Term Persistence of Stream Flow Losses for the Lower Colorado River in Texas

Ronald Anderson, Lower Colorado River Authority, Austin, TX; and B. Rose and L. Oliver

Handout (502.7 kB)

593

Applying Season-ahead Streamflow Forecasts to Guide Reservoir Allocations: Case Study of the Highland Lakes in Central Texas

Paul J. Block, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI; and M. Grzegorzewski

594

Climate Forecast-Aided Drought Decision Support for North Central Texas

Sunghee Kim, The University of Texas at Arlington, Arlington, TX; and D. J. Seo, H. Sadeghi, A. Philpott, F. Bell, J. Brown, A. Winguth, N. Fang, L. Blaylock, and G. Clingenpeel

Joint Poster Session 9

20IOAS and 12GOESRJPSS Poster Session

Location: Hall D/E ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)

Hosts: (Joint between the 12th Annual Symposium on New Generation Operational Environmental Satellite Systems; and the 20th Conference on Integrated Observing and Assimilation Systems for the Atmosphere, Oceans, and Land Surface (IOAS-AOLS) )

770

Progress of all-sky microwave radiance assimilation in NCEP's GSI analysis system

Yanqiu Zhu, IMSG/NOAA/NCEP/EMC, College Park, MD; and E. Liu, R. Mahajan, C. Thhomas, D. Groff, P. V. Delst, A. Collard, D. T. Kleist, R. Treadon, and J. C. Derber

Poster Session

Wed/Thu Poster Session

Host: 18th Conference on Atmospheric Chemistry

Chair: Jeffrey L. Collett Jr., Colorado State University

CoChair: Jiwen Fan, PNNL

698

Impacts of an Unknown Daytime HONO Source on the Mixing Ratio and Budget of HONO, and Hydroxyl, Hydroperoxyl and Organic Peroxy Radicals, in the Coastal Regions of China

Yu Jia Tang, IBM Research, Beijing, China

699

Quantifying Molecular Hydrogen Emissions and an Industrial Leakage Rate for the South Coast Air Basin of California

Matthew C. Irish, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI; and J. R. Schroeder, A. J. Beyersdorf, and D. R. Blake

Handout (2.3 MB) Handout (24.1 MB)

700

Impact of Synoptic & Global Scale Features On The Year-To-Year Variability of Ozone Exceedances in Houston

Alexander Kotsakis, University of Houston, Houston, TX; and Y. Choi, J. H. Flynn III, B. lefer, G. Morris, M. Estes, and D. Westenbarger

701

Lucy-Alamo Projects - Hydroxyl Generation and Atmospheric Methane Destruction

Malcolm P.R. Light, Retired, Cortegana, Spain

702

The Impact of Tropical Cyclones on Atmospheric Chemistry Using WRF-Chem and Satellite Observations

Aaron Preston, Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL; and H. E. Fuelberg

Handout (6.5 MB)

703

Evaluation of an Ion Mobility Spectrometer for the Measurement of Atmospheric Ammonia

Derek J. Straub, Susquehanna University, Selinsgrove, PA; and S. W. Sullivan and L. A. Scholl

704

An Investigation of High Frequency Motions in the Tropical Tropopause Layer near Convection

Leonhard Pfister, NASA, Moffett Field, CA; and T. V. Bui and J. Dean-Day

705

A Real-Time Emergency Response Plan for Accidental Exposure of HNS (Hazardous and Noxious Substances) over the Sea near Korean Peninsula

Jiwon Oh, Pukyung National University, Busan, South Korea; and S. I. Yang, J. H. Oh, and M. J. Lee

Handout (1.8 MB)

706

Ozone photochemistry trends in the Houston Ship Channel

Laura Judd, University of Houston, Houston, TX; and J. H. Flynn III, B. lefer, M. Estes, and D. Westenbarger

Handout (17.9 MB)

707

Quantifying “Convective Influence” on Upper Tropospheric and Lower Stratospheric Composition using Lagrangian Trajectories and Aura Microwave Limb Sounder Observations

Nathaniel J. Livesey, JPL, Pasadena, CA; and L. Pfister, M. L. Santee, W. G. Read, M. Schwartz, and H. Su

708

Quantification of Methane Emission Rates from Unconventional Natural Gas Completion Activities

Andrea Clements, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO; and L. P. MacDonald, A. Hecobian, K. Shonkwiler, B. Wells, Y. Zhou, Y. Desyaterik, J. M. Ham, J. R. Pierce, and J. L. Collett Jr.

709

Reactive Nitrogen Emissions from Marcellus Shale Natural Gas Activity and Implications for Regional Deposition

Justin G. Coughlin, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA; and L. Rose, N. Pekney, and E. M. Elliott

710

The Relationship between Volatile Organic Compounds and Methane Emitted from Natural Gas Operations in the Piceance Basin

Noel G. Hilliard, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO; and A. Hecobian, A. Clements, K. Shonkwiler, L. P. MacDonald, B. L. Wells, Y. Zhou, Y. Desyaterik, J. Ham, and J. L. Collett Jr.

711

Impact of Overshooting Deep Convection on the Stratospheric Water Vapor: an A-Train Satellite View

Hui Su, JPL, Pasadena, CA; and J. Jiang, Z. J. Luo, and H. H. Aumann

712

Global Changes in Aerosol Concentration, Radiative Effects, and Health Impacts Due to Open Combustion of Domestic Waste

Rachel Cucinotta, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC

713

Analysis of 2010-2014 Ground-Level Ozone at Trinidad Head, California

Elizabeth Lennartson, Iowa State University, Ames, IA; and I. Petropavlovskikh and A. McClure-Begley

714

Load of Heavy Metals Reaching Small Glacial Catchment of High Arctic (Svalbard) by Rain Waters

Zaneta Polkowska, Polish Chemical Society, Gdansk, Poland; and S. Lehmann, G. Gajek, W. Kociuba, and S. Chmiel

715

Does Sodium Chloride Influence Oceanic Cloud-to-Ground Lightning Peak Current?

Themis Chronis, University of Alabama, Huntsville, AL; and W. J. Koshak and E. W. McCaul Jr.

716

The Role of Precipitation in the Process of PAHs Deposition in the Arctic Environment at the Background of Climate Change

Marek Ruman, University of Silesia, Sosnowiec, Poland; and K. Kozak, K. Kosek, and Z. Polkowska

717

Effect of Stratospheric Intrusions on Tropospheric and Boundary Layer Ozone in the NASA SEAC4RS Campaign

Zachary Thomas Fasnacht, University of Maryland, College Park, MD; and A. M. Thompson, B. Duncan, and L. Ott

718

Size Resolved Aerosol Composition near Rocky Mountain National Park

Rachel Sussman, Center for Multiscale Modeling of Atmospheric Processes, La Verne, CA

3:30 PM-4:00 PM: Wednesday, 13 January 2016

Session 5

ASLI Choice Book Awards

Location: Room 340/341 ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)

Host: 19th Conference of Atmospheric Science Librarians International

Chair: Christine Sherratt, MIT Libraries, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

3:30 PM

Awards

Recorded Presentation

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

Session 7

Case Studies: Part II

Location: Room 342 ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)

Host: 14th Symposium on the Coastal Environment

Cochairs: Nickitas Georgas, Stevens Institute of Technology; Gregory Dusek, NOAA

4:00 PM

7.1

Inconsistencies in the Weather Research and Forecasting (WRF) Model of the Marine Boundary Layer along the coast of California

Andrew M. Fisher, University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS; and D. A. Rahn

Recorded Presentation

4:15 PM

7.2

Effects of Weather on Fall and Winter Waterfowl Habitat on Inland Agricultural Lands in the Gulf Coast Joint Venture

Emily J. Ryan, University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK; and S. DeMaso, N. Enwright, and M. A. Shafer

Recorded Presentation

4:30 PM

7.3

Case Study Analysis of RTMA in the Northern Gulf of Mexico

Pat Fitzpatrick, Mississippi State University, Stennis Space Center, MS; and Y. Lau

Recorded Presentation

4:45 PM

7.4

A Comparison of 1D Vs. 2D Hydraulic Models for a Coupled Model System in the Tar River and Pamlico Sound

Samuel T. Bush, University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK; and K. M. Dresback, K. L. Nemunaitis, and R. L. Kolar

Recorded Presentation

Joint Session 18

Joint Research and Coordinated Observations in Hydrometeorology, Extremes and High-Impact Events in the US and Asia Part 3

Location: Room 242 ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)

Hosts: (Joint between the 30th Conference on Hydrology; and the Special Sessions on US-International Partnerships )

Cochairs: Fuzhong Weng, NOAA; John B. Eylander, US Army Corps of Engineers

4:00 PM

J18.1

High-Resolution Simulation of the Rapid Intensification of Super Typhoon Rammasun (2014)

Duan Yihong, Chinese Academy of Meteorological Sciences, Beijing, China

4:30 PM

J18.2

Short-Range (0–6 h) PQPFs of Typhoons from Time-Lagged Multimodel Ensembles Using LAPS

Hui-Ling Chang, Central Weather Bureau, Taipei, Taiwan; and H. Yuan and P. L. Lin

Recorded Presentation

4:45 PM

J18.3

Impact of Water Vapor over the Southeast Part of Tibetan Plateau on the Precipitation over Middle Reaches of the Yangtze River

Cui Chunguan Sr., Institute of Heavy Rain, Wuhan, China

Recorded Presentation Manuscript (141.5 kB)

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

Panel Discussion 1

Panel Session on Considerations and Best Practices for Transition of Research to Operations

Location: Room 338/339 ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)

Host: Sixth Conference on Transition of Research to Operations

Moderator: Michael Farrar, NOAA/NWS

Panelists: Walter F. Dabberdt, Vaisala. Inc.; Richard Spinrad, NOAA; Ellen Stofan, NASA; Michael J. Thompson, UCAR

4:00 PM

Introduction -- Michael Farrar

Recorded Presentation

4:00 PM

Walter Dabberdt

Recorded Presentation

4:00 PM

Michael Thompson

Recorded Presentation

4:00 PM

William Burnett

Recorded Presentation

Panel Discussion 1

Visualizing Climate: Focus on Big Data

Location: Room 245 ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)

Host: 22nd Conference on Applied Climatology

Moderator: Bernadette Placky, Climate Central

Panelists: Tamara Dickinson, Executive Office of the President, Office of Science and Technology Policy; Marc DaCosta, Enigma Technologies; Alyson Kenward, Climate Central

4:00 PM

Climate Data in the Obama Administration -- Tamara L. Dickenson

4:00 PM

Climate Central and WX Shift -- Dennis Adams-Smith

4:00 PM

Public Data in the Anthropocene: Communication & Resiliency -- Marc DaCosta

Session 2

Air Quality Impacts of Oil and Gas Development

Location: Room 356 ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)

Host: 18th Conference on Atmospheric Chemistry

Cochairs: Arsineh Hecobian, Colorado State University; Shane M. Murphy, University of Wyoming

4:00 PM

2.1

A Detailed Look at Oil and Gas Impacts on Air Quality in the Colorado Northern Front Range (Invited Presentation)

Gabriele Pfister, NCAR, Colorado, CO; and F. Flocke, J. H. Crawford, K. E. Pickering, and G. Pierce

Recorded Presentation

4:15 PM

2.2

Regional Emissions of Methane from the Marcellus Shale Formation Using a Continuous Atmospheric Monitoring System

Thomas Lauvaux, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA; and Z. Barkley, Y. Cao, K. J. Davis, A. Karion, E. K. kim, E. Kort, N. Miles, D. K. Martins, S. Richardson, S. schwietzke, M. Smith, M. J. W. Stewart, C. Sweeney, G. Cervone, and T. Murphy

4:30 PM

2.3

Air Quality Impacts from Natural Gas Development as Observed in Western Maryland

Natalie Pekney, National Energy Technology Laboratory, Pittsburgh, PA; and M. Reeder and J. Dreessen

Recorded Presentation

4:45 PM

2.4

Emission rates of Volatile Organic Compounds Associated with Natural Gas Extraction Activities in Western Colorado

Arsineh Hecobian, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO; and A. Clements, L. P. MacDonald, Y. Zhou, K. Shonkwiler, B. L. Wells, Y. Desyaterik, J. Ham, J. R. Pierce, and J. L. Collett Jr.

5:00 PM

2.5

Quantification of Methane and Volatile Organic Compound Emissions from Oil and Natural Gas Production in the Uintah Basin

Anna Robertson, University of Wyoming, Laramie, WY; and R. Edie, R. Field, J. Soltis, D. C. McCabe, P. B. Shepson, T. N. Lavoie, A. Heimburger, J. A. de Gouw, M. Omara, M. R. Sullivan, X. Li, R. Subramanian, A. Robinson, A. Presto, J. C. Lin, S. Lyman, and S. M. Murphy

5:15 PM

2.6

Emissions of Methane, Volatile Organic Compounds, and Black Carbon from Natural Gas and Oil Development, and an Examination of the Fat-Tail Problem (Invited Presentation)

R. Subramanian, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA; and A. L. Robinson, A. A. Presto, X. Li, M. Omara, M. Sullivan, J. R. Roscioli, S. C. Herndon, L. Williams, T. L. Vaughn, D. Zimmerle, A. J. Marchese, C. Weyant, T. Bond, A. Heimburger, P. B. Shepson, D. C. McCabe, and E. Baum

Session 2

The Continuing Legacy - Lessons Learned and Future Avenues of Predictability, Outreach, and Capacity Development

Location: Room 343 ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)

Host: Peter Lamb Symposium

Chair: R. J. Cornforth, NCAS Centre for Global Atmospheric Modelling, University of Reading

4:00 PM

2.1

The Role of the Atlantic Ocean in Determining the Recent Multi-Decadal Drought of East Africa

Fred H. M. Semazzi, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC; and K. A. Smith, M. P. Angus, M. Gudoshava, B. Liu, L. Xie, R. E. Argent, X. Sun, S. Liess, and A. Bhattacharya

Recorded Presentation

4:15 PM

2.2

Understanding the Role of Low- and Mid-level Cloudiness for the West African Monsoon: the DACCIWA Project

Andreas H. Fink, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Karlsruhe, Germany; and P. Knippertz, R. Redl, R. van der Linden, and L. Hannak

Recorded Presentation

4:30 PM

2.3

Africa Monsoon Multidisciplinary Analysis: Legacy and Future Plans

Serge Janicot, IRD, Paris, France; and D. J. Parker and C. D. Thorncroft

Recorded Presentation

4:45 PM

2.4

Transitioning Enhanced Land Surface Initialization and Model Verification Capabilities to the Kenya Meteorological Service

Jonathan L. Case, ENSCO, Inc., Huntsville, AL; and J. Mungai, V. Sakwa, B. T. Zavodsky, J. Srikishen, A. S. Limaye, and C. B. Blankenship

Recorded Presentation Manuscript (2.0 MB)

5:00 PM

2.5

Building Climate Resilient Society in the Sahel: The Rainwatch-AfClix Experience

Aondover, A. Tarhule, University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK; and R. J. Cornforth and M. I. LeLe

Recorded Presentation

5:15 PM

2.6

The NCAR Colloquium on African Weather and Climate: Fulfilling Peter Lamb's Mission

Arlene Laing, Science Education and Research, Boulder, CO; and K. H. Cook

Recorded Presentation Manuscript (8.2 MB)

Joint Session 3

Interactions Between the MJO, the Extratropics, and Tropical Cyclones

Location: Room 346/347 ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)

Cochairs: Lawrence C. Gloeckler, SUNY; Carl J. Schreck III, CICS/North Carolina State University; Pallav Ray, Florida Institute of Technology

4:00 PM

J3.1

Characteristics of Predictable MJOs

Hye-Mi Kim, SUNY, Stony Brook, NY; and D. Kim, F. Vitart, V. Toma, J. S. Kug, and P. Webster

4:15 PM

J3.2

Potential Predictability of Heavy Precipitation in the Contiguous United States and the Madden-Julian Oscillation

Charles Jones, Univ. of California, Santa Barbara, CA

Recorded Presentation

4:30 PM

J3.3

Testing the Sensitivity of the Extratropical Response to the Convective Source Region

Michael Goss, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA; and S. B. Feldstein

Recorded Presentation

4:45 PM

J3.4

Variations of the Mid-latitude Storm Track Activity in Association with the Madden-Julian Oscillation

Yanjuan Guo, Texas A&M Univ., Corpus Christi, TX; and T. Shinoda

Recorded Presentation

5:00 PM

J3.5

Tropical Cyclone Contributions to Madden–Julian Oscillation-Associated Extratropical Circulation Patterns

Lawrence C. Gloeckler, SUNY, Albany, NY; and P. E. Roundy

Recorded Presentation

J3.6

The Impact of the MJO and Convectively Coupled Kelvin Waves on Tropical Cyclone Intensity Change

5:15 PM

J3.6A

Variations in Global Tropical Cyclone Activity and the Madden-Julian Oscillation since the Mid-Twentieth Century

Philip J. Klotzbach, Colorado State Univ., Fort Collins, CO; and E. Oliver

Recorded Presentation

Panel Discussion 4

Expanding Space Weather Information Into Traditional Weather Media

Location: Room 352 ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)

Host: 13th Conference on Space Weather

Moderator: Tom Champoux, AMS

Panelists: John Toohey-Morales, NBC Telemundo and Climadata; Robert Rutledge, NWS/SWPC; Susan A. Jasko, California Univ. of Pennsylvania; Tamitha Skov, Aerospace Corporation

4:00 PM

Tom Champoux

Recorded Presentation

4:00 PM

Tamitha Skov

Recorded Presentation

4:00 PM

Robert Rutledge

Recorded Presentation

4:00 PM

Susan A. Jasko

Recorded Presentation

4:00 PM

John Toohey-Morales

Recorded Presentation

Panel Discussion 4

Opportunities, Obstacles, and Evolving Solutions for Transboundary Climate Services: Experiences from the North American Climate Services Partnership (NACSP)

Location: Room 244 ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)

Host: Fourth Symposium on the Weather, Water, and Climate Enterprise

Moderators: David P. Brown, NOAA/National Centers for Environmental Information; Meredith Muth, NOAA/Climate Program Office

Panelists: Diane Campbell, Environment Canada; Trevor Hadwen, Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada; Edward D. Delgado, National Interagency Fire Center; Gregg M. Garfin, University of Arizona; Bertrand Denis, EC

4:00 PM

Introduction -- Diane Campbell

Recorded Presentation

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

Recorded Presentation

4.2

Development of a Semi-automated TAF Production System at MSC

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

Recorded Presentation

4:45 PM

4.4

USAF Global Air Land Weather Exploitation Model

Ralph O. Stoffler, US Air Force, Washington, DC

Recorded Presentation

5:00 PM

4.5

Reorganization of Meteorological Services at the International Civil Aviation Organization and Its Implications on the Provision of Meteorological Information for International Air Navigation

Steven Albersheim, FAA, Washington, DC; and T. J. Helms Jr., L. Burch, M. K. Peterson, and T. P. Kiley Jr.

Recorded Presentation

5:15 PM

4.6

Significant Revisions in Aviation Weather Guidance, 2015: Updates to FAA Advisory Circulars

Larry Burch, AvMet Applications, Inc., Reston, VA; and J. May, T. P. Kiley Jr., A. Hoprich, T. J. Helms Jr., M. Phaneuf, and R. Sultan

Recorded Presentation

Joint Session 5

Development, Implementation, and Evaluation of Health Early Warning Systems

Location: Room 228/229 ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)

Hosts: (Joint between the Seventh Conference on Environment and Health; and the Fourth Symposium on Building a Weather-Ready Nation: Enhancing Our Nation’s Readiness, Responsiveness, and Resilience to High Impact Weather Events )

Chair: Mary H. Hayden, NCAR/RAL

4:00 PM

J5.1

The Science Basis for Heat-Health Early Warning Systems

Wayne Higgins, NOAA/OAR/Climate Program Office, Silver Spring, MD; and H. M. Jones, R. S. Pulwarty, and J. Trtanj

Recorded Presentation

4:15 PM

J5.2

Some Validation Results of a Spatially Fine Scale Air Temperature Statistical Model in New York City

Brian L. Vant-Hull, NOAA/City College, New York, NY; and M. Karimi, A. sossa, L. Waxman, E. Guiterez, and R. Khanbilvardi

Recorded Presentation

4:30 PM

J5.3

A Framework to Conceptualize Environmental and Social Vulnerability to High Temperatures in Urban Landscapes

Rouzbeh Nazari, Rowan University, Glassboro, NJ; and M. Karimi, C. Goins, A. Musilli, M. Ghandehari, and R. Khanbilvardi

4:45 PM

J5.4

Heat Health Warning Systems in Canada: Development, Implementation and Assessment

Dave Henderson, EC, Gatineau, QC, Canada; and S. Jeffers and A. Yagouti

Recorded Presentation

5:00 PM

J5.5

Space and Time—Impacts on Modeling Extreme Heat Warning Systems

Austin C. Stanforth, Indiana University, Indianapolis, IN

Recorded Presentation

5:15 PM

J5.6

Climate Variability and Seasonal Recurrence of Harmful Algae Blooms in the Gulf of Guayaquil, Ecuador

Mercy J. Borbor-Cordova, Escuela Superior Politecnica del Litoral, Guayaquil, Ecuador; and G. Torres, B. Bayot, A. R. Cedeno, R. Bermudez, L. E. Escobar, S. Hamilton, M. Pozo, C. G. Recalde, S. J. Ryan, and A. M. Stewart-Ibarra

Session 7

Impact-based Decision Support Services

Location: Room 255/257 ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)

Host: Fourth Symposium on Building a Weather-Ready Nation: Enhancing Our Nation’s Readiness, Responsiveness, and Resilience to High Impact Weather Events

Chair: Wendy Marie Thomas, NOAA/NWS

4:00 PM

7.1

NOAA's Impacts Catalog: Through the Eyes of a Storm

Matthew W. Davis, NOAA/NWS, Boulder, CO; and W. M. Thomas and D. Feltgen

Recorded Presentation

4:15 PM

7.2

Enhancing Impact-Based Decision Support Services in the GOES-R Era

Chad M. Gravelle, NWS Operations Proving Ground/CIMSS, Kansas City, MO

Recorded Presentation

4:30 PM

7.3

The Benefits of Social Media Virtual Operations Support Teams (VOST) in the NWS During High Impact Weather Events

Aaron Treadway, NOAA/NWSFO, New Braunfels, TX; and T. Boucher, K. Jones, R. Smith, C. Pieper, and M. Barry

Recorded Presentation

4:45 PM

7.4

A Changing Culture; Expanding Decision Support Services within the National Weather Service

Erik Heden, NOAA, Johnson City, NY

Recorded Presentation

5:00 PM

7.5A

Launching an Integrated Warning Team in a Uniquely Challenged Region

Joshua D. Eachus, WBRZ, Baton Rouge, LA; and M. J. Hill

Recorded Presentation Manuscript (491.8 kB)

5:15 PM

7.6

Successful Integration of the NWS Las Vegas Weather Support Team concept into WFO Operations

Todd Lericos, NOAA/NWS, Las Vegas, NV; and M. J. Paddock

Recorded Presentation

Session 7

Numerical Analysis and Prediction Experiments II

Location: Room 345 ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)

Host: 20th Conference on Integrated Observing and Assimilation Systems for the Atmosphere, Oceans, and Land Surface (IOAS-AOLS)

Cochairs: Zhaoxia Pu, University of Utah; Jonathan Poterjoy, NCAR

4:00 PM

7.1

Radar Data Assimilation Impacts in the RAP and HRRR Models

Stephen S. Weygandt, NOAA/ESRL, Boulder, CO; and C. R. Alexander, D. C. Dowell, M. Hu, E. P. James, S. G. Benjamin, T. G. Smirnova, H. Lin, J. Kenyon, and J. B. Olson

Recorded Presentation

7.2

Assessing the Impact of High-Frequency Non-conventional Observations on a Convective Initiation Case using the GSI-based EnKF System

4:15 PM

7.2A

Further development of GSI–based hybrid data assimilation system for convective scale forecast: Assimilation of Reflectivity Data in GSI-based Hybrid Data Assimilation System Using Three Options of Control Variables for the analysis and prediction of 8 May 2003 Oklahoma City Tornadic Supercell Storm

Yongming Wang, University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK, Norman, OK; and X. Wang and T. Lei

Recorded Presentation

4:30 PM

7.4

Multi-Scale Assimilation for Predicting Heavy Precipitation in Taiwan During the Mei-Yu Season

Shu-Chih Yang, National Central University, Jhongli City, Taiwan; and S. H. Chen, K. Kondo, and T. Miyoshi

Recorded Presentation

4:45 PM

7.3

The Impact of the High Temporal Resolution GOES/GOES-R Moisture Information on Severe Weather Systems in a Regional NWP Model

Pei Wang, CIMSS/Univ. of Wisconsin, Madison, WI; and J. Li, Y. K. Lee, Z. Li, J. Li, Z. Liu, T. J. Schmit, and S. A. Ackerman

Recorded Presentation

5:00 PM

7.5

The Impact of Supplemental Observations on the Track, Intensity and Structure of Hurricane Isaac in the NCEP Hybrid Gridpoint Statistical Interpolation (GSI) scheme

Michael J. Brennan, National Hurricane Center, Miami, FL; and S. J. Majumdar, D. T. Kleist, and K. L. Howard

Recorded Presentation

5:15 PM

7.6

The Impacts of Assimilating Enhanced Atmospheric Motion Vectors (AMVs) on HWRF Analyses and Forecasts of Hurricanes

Shixuan Zhang, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT; and Z. Pu and C. S. Velden

Recorded Presentation

Session 7

One Year of Himawari 8

Location: Room 252/254 ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)

Host: 12th Annual Symposium on New Generation Operational Environmental Satellite Systems

Cochairs: Toshiyuki Kurino, Japan Meteorological Agency; Teryuki Nakajima, JAXA

4:00 PM

7.1

Advanced Himawari Imager (AHI) Design and Operational Flexibility

Paul C. Griffith, Harris, Fort Wayne, IN

Recorded Presentation

Handout (7.1 MB)

4:15 PM

7.2

Derivation algorithm of Himawari-8 atmospheric motion vector

Kazuki Shimoji, Japan Meteorological Agency, Kiyose, Tokyo, Japan

4:30 PM

7.3

Utilization of Himawari-8 in the Global Satellite Mapping of Precipitation (GSMaP) Nowcast version

Misako Kachi, JAXA, Tsukuba-shi, Ibaraki, Japan; and T. Kubota and R. Oki

4:45 PM

7.4

Coordinated Efforts for using Himawari-8 AHI Data for the Earth's Environmental Monitoring

Teruyuki Nakajima, University of Tokyo, Kashiwa, Japan

5:00 PM

7.5

Estimation of Solar Radiation using HIMAWARI-8 with Analysis of Renewable Energy

Hideaki Takenaka, JAXA, Tsukuba, Japan; and T. Nakajima, T. Y. Nakajima, A. Higurashi, M. Hashimoto, T. Inoue, and T. Kurino

5:15 PM

7.6

The Return of True Color to Geostationary Satellites: Transitioning from Polar, to Himawari, to GOES-R

Steven D. Miller, CIRA/Colorado State Univ., Fort Collins, CO; and T. J. Schmit, C. J. Seaman, M. Gunshor, D. T. Lindsey, D. W. Hillger, and Y. Sumida

Session 8

Regional and Urban Air Pollution Modeling and Observations

Location: Room 243 ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)

Host: 19th Joint Conference on the Applications of Air Pollution Meteorology with the A&WMA

Chair: Gail Vaucher, Army Research Laboratory

4:00 PM

8.1

Investigating the Impact of Marine Ship Emissions on Regional Air Quality using OMI Satellite NO2 Observations and the CMAQ Model

Allison Ring, University of Maryland, College Park, MD; and T. Canty, R. J. Salawitch, R. R. Dickerson, L. Lamsal, H. He, T. Vinciguerra, J. Dressen, M. Cohen, and L. N. Montgomery

Recorded Presentation

4:15 PM

8.2

Analysis of different aerosol plume products in order to identify a useful Smoke Indicator (SI) and applying the SI and Satellite AOD from VIIRS as inputs of a Neural Network to predict surface level PM2.5

Barry Gross, City College of New York, New York, NY; and C. Nazmi, Y. Wu, and S. Kondragunta

Recorded Presentation

4:30 PM

8.3

Numerical simulations on the effect of traffic restriction on the air quality of Sao Paulo city – Brazil

Flavia N. D. Ribeiro, University of Sao Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil; and A. P. Oliveira, J. Soares, R. M. Miranda, and F. Chen

Recorded Presentation

Paper 8.4 (abstract 284808) has been moved to the poster session.

4:45 PM

8.4A

Estimation of suspended particulate matters with lead in Dhaka city ambient air

Ajwad Alam, AER, Dhaka, Pick here, or type in box below., Bangladesh

5:00 PM

8.5A

Estimation of Gaseous Pollutants at Kalyanpur, Dhaka City

Farhana Tarannum, AER, Dhaka, Bangladesh

Session 9

From Planetary to Personal: Connecting Earth Sciences and Health in the Classroom

Location: Room 353 ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)

Hosts: (Joint between the 25th Symposium on Education; and the Seventh Conference on Environment and Health )

Cochairs: John Moore, AMS Board on Outreach and Precollege Education; John Balbus, National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences

4:00 PM

9.1

Building Society's Capacity for Climate Change and Health through Interdisciplinary Training, Education, and Workforce Development

Frank Niepold, NOAA, Silver Spring, MD

Recorded Presentation

4:15 PM

9.2

Climate and Health Connections: Strategies for K-12 Teachers

Dana Haine, UNC-Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC

Recorded Presentation

4:30 PM

9.3

Expanding the Health Coverage in AMS DataStreme Courses

Robert S. Weinbeck, AMS, Washington, DC; and J. A. Brey, I. W. Geer, K. A. Nugnes, and A. E. Stimach

Recorded Presentation

4:45 PM

9.4

People, Place and Weather: Interdisciplinary Education Training

William A. Sprigg, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ; and S. L. Steinberg

Session 9

Quasi-Operational Products You Can Use Now

Location: Room 348/349 ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)

Host: 32nd Conference on Environmental Information Processing Technologies

Cochairs: Kevin Kelleher, NOAA/NSSL; Valliappa Lakshmanan, Climate Corporation

4:00 PM

9.1

Monitoring the Evolution of Deep Convection Through the Use of Ground-Based Spectral Infrared Thermodynamic Sounders

William Gregory Blumberg, CIMMS/University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK; and T. J. Wagner and D. D. Turner

Recorded Presentation

4:15 PM

9.2

NEXRAD Products and NOAA's Big Data Partnership

Edward J. Kearns, NOAA/NESDIS/NCEI, Asheville, NC; and S. Ansari, S. A. Del Greco, S. E. Stevens, S. Wilkins, B. Eiler, and O. Brown

Recorded Presentation

4:30 PM

9.3

Real-time Multi-Doppler Radar Analysis for Retrieving Wind Field over Dallas-Fort Worth (DFW) Metroplex

Haonan Chen, Colorado State Univ., Fort Collins, CO; and V. Chandrasekar, S. Joshil, and R. Bechini

4:45 PM

9.4

Enabling Open Access to High-Resolution Global Models Running in Real-time Research Mode

Bonny Strong, NOAA, Boulder, CO; and T. Schneider, R. C. Lipschutz, J. Stewart, S. G. Benjamin, C. DeLuca, J. Valdez, and C. MacDermaid

Recorded Presentation

5:00 PM

9.5

Probabilistic Hazard Products Using a Time-Lagged HRRR Ensemble

Curtis R. Alexander, NOAA/ESRL and CIRES/Univ. of Colorado, Boulder, CO; and T. Alcott, I. Jankov, S. S. Weygandt, and S. G. Benjamin

Recorded Presentation

5:15 PM

9.6

Aviation Weather Decision Support: INSITE

Brian J. Etherton, ESRL/GSD, Boulder, CO; and G. J. Layne, P. Hamer, and M. A. Petty

Recorded Presentation

Session 9

Weather and Climate Hazards Impacts and Vulnerability Research

Location: Room 333-334 ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)

Host: 11th Symposium on Societal Applications: Policy, Research and Practice

Chair: Olga Wilhelmi, NCAR

4:00 PM

9.1

Living with Extreme Weather Workshop: Summary and Path Forward

Kelvin K. Droegemeier, University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK; and L. Rothfusz, A. J. Knoedler, J. T. Ferree, J. Henderson, K. L. Nemunaitis-Monroe, D. Nagele, and K. E. Klockow

Recorded Presentation Manuscript (329.3 kB)

4:15 PM

9.2

Assessing the Preparedness of Major League Baseball Stadiums for Thunderstorm Hazards

Nathan M. Hitchens, Ball State University, Muncie, IN

Recorded Presentation

4:30 PM

9.3

Tornado Vulnerability Across the Central United States

Holly M. Widen, Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL

Recorded Presentation

4:45 PM

9.4

Castles in the Air: Mitigating the Health Impacts of Weather-Related Bounce House Accidents

John A. Knox, University of Georgia, Athens, GA; and T. E. Gill, C. A. Williams, L. V. Boggs, E. Schumacher, K. Arney, N. Bagley, I. Boatman, J. Croft, J. Printup, J. Rackley, C. Scarborough, J. White, and D. J. Novlan

Recorded Presentation

5:00 PM

9.5

Assessing and Communicating Risk: A Study of Flood Risk Awareness and Resilience in Tulsa, Oklahoma

Alex Nongard, University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK; and D. Jones and T. Lovell

Recorded Presentation

5:15 PM

9.6

Projecting the Burden of Injury Related to Tropical Cyclone Impacts in Florida, 2020-2040

Kristina W. Kintziger, Florida Department of Health, Tallahassee, FL; and J. S. Dumas and M. A. Jagger

Session 10

Extreme-value Analysis

Location: Room 226/227 ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)

Host: 23rd Conference on Probability and Statistics in the Atmospheric Sciences

Chair: Caren Marzban, University of Washington

4:00 PM

10.1

Extreme Value Statistics in Atmospheric Science: Progress and Current Challenges (Invited Presentation)

Daniel S. Cooley, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO

Recorded Presentation

Handout (1.1 MB)

10.2

Regime-Dependent Modeling of Extremes in the Extratropical Atmospheric Circulation

4:30 PM

10.3

A New Approach to Extreme Value Analysis in a Changing Climate

Prashant D. Sardeshmukh, CIRES/Univ. of Colorado and Physical Sciences Division/ESRL/NOAA, Boulder, CO; and G. P. Compo and C. Penland

5:00 PM

10.4

Locally Extreme Precipitation in Models: Model Climatologies by Extreme Value Theory

Gregory R. Herman, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO; and R. S. Schumacher

Recorded Presentation

5:15 PM

10.5

The Occurrence of Extreme Monthly Temperatures and Precipitation in Two Global Regions

Max J. Nunes, University of Missouri, Columbia, MO; and M. G. Lebedeva, A. R. Lupo, and Y. G. Chendev

Recorded Presentation

Session 10A

Mechanisms of Anthropogenic Aerosol-Forced Regional Climate Variability

Location: La Nouvelle C ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)

Host: 28th Conference on Climate Variability and Change

Cochairs: Massimo A. Bollasina, University of Edinburgh; Yi Ming, GFDL

4:00 PM

10A.1

Confronting the Global Climate Response to Black Carbon Aerosols with its Uncertainty

Salil Mahajan, ORNL, Oak Ridge, TN; and M. Kovilakam

Recorded Presentation

4:15 PM

10A.2

Oceanic Feedback in Regional Climate Response to Sulfate Aerosol Forcing

Tarun Verma, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX; and S. Mahajan, W. C. Hsieh, P. Chang, and R. Saravanan

Recorded Presentation

4:30 PM

10A.3

The Importance of Aerosol Scenarios in Projections of Future Heat Extremes

Yangyang Xu, NCAR, Boulder, CO; and J. F. Lamarque and B. Sanderson

Recorded Presentation

4:45 PM

10A.4

Impacts of Snow Darkening by Absorbing Aerosols on Eurasian Climate

Kyu-myong Kim, NASA/GSFC/Climate and Radiation Laboratory, Greenbelt, MD; and W. K. M. Lau, T. J. Yasunari, and M. K. Kim

5:00 PM

10A.5

Attempts to Separate the Effects of Aerosol, Greenhouse Gases and Urbanization in the Temperature and Precipitation Trends in China

Zhanqing Li, University of Maryland, College Park, MD

Recorded Presentation

5:15 PM

10A.6

Non-local Impact of South and East Asian Aerosols on Monsoon Onset and Withdrawal

Rachel E. Bartlett, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, Midlothian, United Kingdom; and M. A. Bollasina, B. B. B. Booth, N. Dunstone, and F. Marenco

Session 10B

Subseasonal Variability: Part 2

Location: La Nouvelle A ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)

Host: 28th Conference on Climate Variability and Change

Chair: Hai Lin, EC

4:00 PM

10B.1

An Investigation of the Presence of Atmospheric Rivers During the Planetary-Scale Wave Life Cycle and Their Role in Arctic Warming

Cory Francis Baggett, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA; and S. Lee

Recorded Presentation

4:15 PM

10B.2

Skillful North American Temperature and Precipitation Forecasts for Weeks 3 and 4 Conditioned on the ENSO and MJO Base State

Daniel S. Harnos, Innovim/NOAA/NWS/NCEP/CPC, College Park, MD; and N. Johnson, M. L'Heureux, and S. Baxter

Recorded Presentation

4:30 PM

10B.3

Boreal Winter Storm Tracks and Associated Precipitation in North America: A Potential Vorticity Perspective

Katherine E. Lukens, University of Maryland, College Park, MD; and E. H. Berbery

Recorded Presentation

4:45 PM

10B.4

A Stratospheric Link Between Barents-Kara Sea-Ice and the Circulation in the North Atlantic Sector

Paolo Ruggieri, University of L'Aquila, L'Aquila, Italy; and F. Kucharski, R. Buizza, and G. Visconti

Recorded Presentation

5:00 PM

10B.5

Stationary Wave Interference, and Its Relation to Tropical Convection and Arctic Warming

Michael Goss, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA; and S. B. Feldstein and S. Lee

Recorded Presentation

5:15 PM

10B.6

Implications of the Observed 25 Day Periodicity in the Extratropical Circulation for Weather and Climate

Brian R. Crow, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO; and D. W. J. Thompson

Recorded Presentation

Session 11

Accuracy of Observations

Location: Room 350/351 ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)

Host: 18th Symposium on Meteorological Observation and Instrumentation

Chair: Scott D. Landolt, NCAR

4:00 PM

11.1

Comparison of Two Radiosonde Pressure Measurements: Pressure Sensor vs. GPS-derived Pressure

Raisa Lehtinen, Vaisala Oyj, Helsinki, Finland; and P. Survo, H. Jauhiainen, and M. Lehmuskero

Recorded Presentation Manuscript (828.4 kB)

4:15 PM

11.2

Modernization of the Sterling NWS Wind Tunnel for Evaluating Accuracy of Wind Observations

Gregory Kochanowicz, CyberData Technologies, Herndon, VA; and B. M. Hays, J. Fitzgibbon, and M. Hicks

Recorded Presentation Manuscript (133.1 kB)

4:30 PM

11.3

Quality Control in the AmeriFlux Network: Filling the Gaps

Alexandria McCombs, University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC; and A. L. Hiscox and A. R. Desai

Recorded Presentation

4:45 PM

11.4

The Uncertainty of Tropospheric Observations Using Dropsondes

Holger Voemel, NCAR, Boulder, CO; and K. Young, T. Hock, and J. Wang

5:00 PM

11.5

A Neural-Network Method to Evaluate Data Quality

Rudy Klucik, NCAR, Boulder, CO; and S. P. Oncley

Recorded Presentation

5:15 PM

11.6

Assessing Global Precipitation Mission (GPM) data for use by the Aviation Community

Laura Paulik, CIRES/Univ. of Colorado, Boulder, CO; and B. J. Etherton, M. S. Wandishin, and M. A. Petty

Recorded Presentation

Joint Session 13

Chemistry, Aerosol, Cloud and Convection During the GoAmazon2014/5 Field Campaign I

Location: Room 357 ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)

Hosts: (Joint between the Eighth Symposium on Aerosol–Cloud–Climate Interactions; and the 18th Conference on Atmospheric Chemistry )

Chair: Scot T. Martin, Harvard University

CoChair: Luiz Machado, INPE

4:00 PM

J13.1

Chemical and Physical Properties and Effects of the Manaus Urban Plume

Scot T. Martin, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA

4:15 PM

J13.2

Aerosol Physical and Chemical Properties in the Several Sites of the GoAmazon 2014/15 Experiment (Invited Presentation)

Paulo Artaxo, University of Sao Paulo, Sao Paulo, Sao Paulo, Brazil; and H. M. J. Barbosa, J. F. D. Brito, S. Carbone, S. T. Martin, M. O. Andreae, and L. A. T. Machado

4:30 PM

J13.3

CCN Activity of Amazonian Aerosols During GoAmazon 2014/5

Ryan Thalman, Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, NY; and S. S. de Sá, B. B. Palm, H. M. J. Barbosa, M. Krüger, M. L. Alexander, S. Carbone, P. Campuzano-Jost, D. A. Day, W. Hu, C. Kuang, A. O. Manzi, N. L. Ng, C. Pöhlker, A. Sedlacek, G. Senum, R. A. F. Souza, S. Springston, T. Watson, U. Pöschl, M. O. Andreae, P. Artaxo, J. L. Jimenez, S. T. Martin, and J. Wang

4:45 PM

J13.4

Influence of Anthropogenic Emissions on the Production of Organic Particulate Matter During GoAmazon2014/5

Suzane S. de Sá, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA; and B. B. Palm, P. Campuzano-Jost, D. A. Day, W. Hu, J. F. D. Brito, S. Carbone, P. Artaxo, Y. Liu, G. Isaacman-VanWertz, L. D. Yee, R. Wernis, A. H. Goldstein, R. Thalman, J. Wang, J. Shilling, M. Newburn, R. A. F. Souza, A. O. Manzi, M. L. Alexander, J. L. Jimenez, and S. T. Martin

5:00 PM

J13.5

Modeling the Formation and Evolution of Secondary Organic Aerosols (SOA) During the GoAmazon2014/5 Campaign

Manishkumar Shrivastava, PNNL, Richland, WA; and J. D. Fast, J. Shilling, J. A. Thornton, S. jathar, V. F. McNeil, R. Zaveri, R. C. Easter, A. Zelenyuk, H. M. J. Barbosa, H. Gomes, J. Fan, S. T. Martin, A. H. Goldstein, G. I. VanWertz, L. D. Yee, M. L. Alexander, L. K. Berg, A. Guenther, C. Zhao, D. Gu, Y. Liu, J. D. Fuentes, P. Artaxo, J. F. D. Brito, and S. De Sa

5:15 PM

J13.6

How Does Optical Properties Change with the Aging of the Manaus' Pollution Plume?

Henrique de Melo Jorge Barbosa, University of São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil; and G. Cirino, J. Brito, L. Rizzo, T. Pauliquevis, and P. Artaxo

Joint Session 17

Land-Atmosphere Interactions, Part II

Location: Room 240/241 ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)

Hosts: (Joint between the 30th Conference on Hydrology; and the 28th Conference on Climate Variability and Change )

Cochairs: Randal D. Koster, NASA/GSFC; Yongkang Xue, University of California; Steven M. Quiring, Texas A&M University

4:00 PM

J17.1

Role of the carbon cycle on land-atmosphere interactions

Pierre Gentine, Columbia University, New York, NY; and L. Lemordant and J. Greent

Recorded Presentation

4:15 PM

J17.2

Coupling Noah-MP to the NCEP Climate Forecast System (CFS) to improve land-atmosphere interactions at seasonal forecast timescales

Michael Barlage, NCAR, Boulder, CO; and F. Chen, M. B. Ek, R. Yang, J. Meng, Z. L. Yang, and S. Chung

Recorded Presentation

4:30 PM

J17.3

Impact of land surface initialization on seasonal forecasts of the extremes of Indian summer monsoon

Subhadeep Halder, COLA, Fairfax, VA; and P. A. Dirmeyer, L. Marx, and J. L. Kinter III

4:45 PM

J17.4

Interaction of Convective Processes and Associated Precipitation Driven by the Land Surface Heterogeneity in the Coastal Carolinas

Aaron P. Sims, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC; and S. Raman

Recorded Presentation

5:00 PM

J17.5

WRF simulations of thunderstorms triggered by the Alberta oil sands development

Daniel Martin Brown, University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB, Canada; and G. W. Reuter

Recorded Presentation

5:15 PM

J17.6

The Effect of the Groundwater Representation on Land surface-Atmosphere Feedbacks in Regional Climate Simulations

Jessica Keune, University of Bonn, Germany, Bonn, Germany; and K. Görgen, M. Sulis, F. Gasper, P. Shrestha, A. Hense, and S. Kollet

Recorded Presentation

4:15 PM-4:45 PM: Wednesday, 13 January 2016

Session 6

Historical Data Rescue

Location: Room 340/341 ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)

Host: 19th Conference of Atmospheric Science Librarians International

Chair: Linda Musser, Pennsylvania State University

4:15 PM

6.1

ACRE and Data Rescue: Bringing Yesterday's Climatic Data into the Present and Future (Invited Presentation)

Gilbert P. Compo, Univ. of Colorado/NOAA/Earth System Research Laboratory/Physical Sciences Division, Boulder, CO

Recorded Presentation

4:45 PM-5:30 PM: Wednesday, 13 January 2016

Session 7

Technology Tools & Tips

Location: Room 340/341 ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)

Host: 19th Conference of Atmospheric Science Librarians International

Chair: Brian Voss, Librarian, NOAA Seattle Regional Library

4:45 PM

7.1

NTRL, the National Technical Reports Library

Linda Musser, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA

Recorded Presentation

5:00 PM

7.2

3D Scanning – the Next Horizon for Libraries?

Linda Musser, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA

Recorded Presentation

5:15 PM

7.3

Browsing Journals on the Go: BrowZine

Gene Major, Program Manager,Library Associates, NASA/GSFC Library, Greenbelt, MD

Recorded Presentation

5:30 PM

7.4

Searching & Using Collections in HathiTrust

Amy Butros, UC San Diego, La Jolla, CA

Recorded Presentation

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)

Session

ASLI Annual Dinner

Host: 19th Conference of Atmospheric Science Librarians International

Thursday, 14 January 2016

7:40 AM-8:00 AM: Thursday, 14 January 2016

Materhorn: Improved Modeling and Observations of Weather in Complex Terrain-Part I

Location: Room 348/349 ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)

8:00 AM-9:45 AM: Thursday, 14 January 2016

Session 1

Weather and Climate Predictability 1

Location: Room 231/232 ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)

Host: Special Symposium on Seamless Weather and Climate Prediction—Expectations and Limits of Multi-scale Predictability

Chair: Kerry Emanuel, MIT

8:00 AM

1.1

Weather Predictability (Core Science Keynote)

Richard Rotunno, NCAR, Boulder, CO

Recorded Presentation
Recorded Presentation

8:45 AM

1.2

The Forecast Skill Horizon (Invited Presentation)

Roberto Buizza, ECMWF, Reading, United Kingdom

Recorded Presentation

9:15 AM

1.3

Thunderstorms and the Cascade of Energy and Error through the Mesoscale

Dale R. Durran, University of Washington, Seattle, WA; and J. A. Weyn

Recorded Presentation

9:30 AM

1.4

Intrinsic versus Practical Limits of Multi-Scale Atmospheric Predictability

Fuqing Zhang, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA; and Y. Q. Sun and R. Rotunno

Recorded Presentation

8:00 AM-12:00 PM: Thursday, 14 January 2016

Poster Hall Open

Location: Hall D/E ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)

8:15 AM-9:45 AM: Thursday, 14 January 2016

Session 1

Atmospheric Waves, Part I

Location: Room 343 ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)

Host: Marvin Geller Symposium

8:15 AM

Welcoming Remarks

8:30 AM

1.1

The Role of Ground Based Radar Observations in Understanding Atmospheric Tides

Susan K. Avery, WHOI, Woods Hole, MA

Recorded Presentation

8:45 AM

1.2

Tides in the Earth's Upper Atmosphere

Maura E. Hagan, NCAR, Boulder, CO

Recorded Presentation

9:00 AM

1.3

The Lunar Tide: An Enduring Atmospheric Problem

Jeffrey M. Forbes, University of Colorado UCB429, Boulder, CO

9:15 AM

1.4

Simulating atmospheric tides in WACCM

Anne K. Smith, NCAR, Boulder, CO; and N. Pedatella and H. L. Liu

Recorded Presentation

9:30 AM

1.5

Ionospheric Effects of Strong El Niño Southern Oscillation Conditions

Thomas J. Immel, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, CA; and A. Maute, S. L. England, R. S. Lieberman, J. M. Forbes, J. D. Huba, G. Liu, and K. Greer

Recorded Presentation

Session 3

Convection, Clouds, and Chemistry

Location: Room 356 ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)

Host: 18th Conference on Atmospheric Chemistry

Cochairs: Jonathan Jiang, JPL; Kenneth Pickering, NASA/GSFC

8:15 AM

3.1

Estimates of Lightning NOx Production Based on OMI NO2 Observations over the Gulf of Mexico

Kenneth Pickering, NASA/GSFC, Greenbelt, MD; and E. J. Bucsela, D. J. Allen, A. Ring, R. H. Holzworth, and N. A. Krotkov

Recorded Presentation

8:30 AM

3.2

Evaluating Lightning Flash Rates and OMI LNOx Estimates over the Amazon Basin, West- and Central-Africa

Dale J. Allen, University of Maryland, College Park, MD; and K. Pickering, E. J. Bucsela, R. H. Holzworth, A. Nag, and N. A. Krotkov

Recorded Presentation

8:45 AM

3.3

WRF-Chem Simulations of Lightning-NOx Production and Transport in Oklahoma and Colorado Thunderstorms Observed During DC3

Kristin A. Cummings, University of Maryland, College Park, MD; and K. E. Pickering, M. C. Barth, M. M. Bela, Y. Li, D. Allen, E. Bruning, D. R. MacGorman, S. A. Rutledge, B. Basarab, B. R. Fuchs, A. Weinheimer, I. Pollack, T. B. Ryerson, F. Flocke, T. Campos, G. Diskin, and L. Carey

9:00 AM

3.4

Possible Effects of Ammonium on Lightning Properties

Themis Chronis, University of Alabama, Huntsville, AL

Recorded Presentation Manuscript (529.3 kB)

9:15 AM

3.5

Cloud-Resolved Chemistry Simulations of Deep Convective Storms Observed during the DISCOVER-AQ Campaign

G. Mazzuca, University of Maryland, College Park, MD; and K. Pickering, Y. Li, R. Clark, A. J. Weinheimer, D. Stein-Zweers, and R. R. Dickerson

Recorded Presentation

9:30 AM

3.6

Impact of Lightning Data Assimilation and Subgrid-Scale Cloud-Radiation Interaction on Regional Meteorology and Atmospheric Composition During DISCOVER-AQ TX Period

Xinzhou Huang, University of Maryland, College Park, MD; and D. J. Allen, C. P. Loughner, K. Pickering, and J. A. Herwehe

Recorded Presentation

8:30 AM-9:00 AM: Thursday, 14 January 2016

Session 8

AMS Update

Location: Room 340/341 ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)

Host: 19th Conference of Atmospheric Science Librarians International

Chair: Amy Butros, UC San Diego

8:30 AM

8.1

AMS Publications: Year in Review and 2016 Update

Kenneth F. Heideman, AMS, Director of Publications, Boston, MA; and S. J. Shangraw

Recorded Presentation

8:30 AM-9:30 AM: Thursday, 14 January 2016

Session 9

Location: Room 243 ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)

Host: 19th Joint Conference on the Applications of Air Pollution Meteorology with the A&WMA

Chair: Jeffrey Weil, NCAR

8:30 AM

9.1

Stable Stratified Flows over Isolated Obstacles: Results from MATERHORN Experiments

L. S. Leo, University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, IN; and M. Thompson, S. Di Sabatino, H. J. S. Fernando, Q. Zhong, and H. Wang

8:45 AM

9.2

Flows over Isolated Mountains at Low Froude Numbers Driven by the Approach Wind and by Downslope Buoyancy Forces

Julian C.R. Hunt, University of Notre Dame / Univ. College London / Trinity College - Cambridge, London, United Kingdom; and H. J. S. Fernando, S. Di Sabatino, and L. S. Leo

Recorded Presentation

9:00 AM

9.3

Synoptic Flow Interactions with an Isolated Mountain in Complex Terrain

Edward D. Creegan, U.S. Army Research Laboratory, White Sands Missile Range, NM; and C. M. Hocut, Y. Wang, Z. Silver, S. Hoch, L. S. Leo, S. Di Sabatino, H. J. S. Fernando, and E. Pardyjak

Recorded Presentation

9:15 AM

9.4

WRF Simulations of Synoptic Flow Modification over Mountainous Terrain during MATERHORN Observation Periods

Zachariah Silver, University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, IN; and R. Dimitrova, T. Zsedrovits, H. J. S. Fernando, L. S. Leo, S. Di Sabatino, S. Serafin, Y. Wang, E. D. Creegan, M. Felton, and C. M. Hocut

Recorded Presentation

Joint Session 19

Joint Research and Coordinated Observations in Hydrometeorology, Extremes and High-Impact Events in the US and Asia Part 4

Location: Room 242 ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)

Hosts: (Joint between the 30th Conference on Hydrology; and the Special Sessions on US-International Partnerships )

Cochairs: Fuzhong Weng, NOAA; John B. Eylander, US Army Corps of Engineers

8:30 AM

J19.1

Impact of GPS Radio Occultation Data on the Prediction of Tropical Cyclogenesis

Ying-Hwa Kuo, NCAR, Boulder, CO; and S. Y. Chen and T. J. Galarneau Jr.

Recorded Presentation

9:00 AM

J19.2

A numerical study of the June 2013 flood-producing extreme rainstorm over southern Alberta

Yanping Li, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, SK, Canada; and K. K. Szeto, R. E. Stewart, J. M. Thériault, L. Chen, B. Kochtubajda, A. Liu, S. Boodoo, R. Goodson, and C. J. Mooney

Recorded Presentation

9:15 AM

J19.3

Continue Environmental Condition for a Long-Lived, Quasi-Stationary MCS

Wang Xiaofang, Institute of Heavy Rain, Wuhan, China

Recorded Presentation Manuscript (114.6 kB)

8:30 AM-9:45 AM: Thursday, 14 January 2016

Session 1

High Performance Computing in Operations

Location: Room 344 ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)

Host: Second Symposium on High Performance Computing for Weather, Water, and Climate

Chair: Brian J. Etherton, ESRL/GSD

8:30 AM

1.1

NOAA's WCOSS Upgrade and Lessons Learned for Shared Storage and Managing Memory

Michelle Mainelli, NOAA/NWS/NCEP, College Park, MD; and B. Kyger, S. Earle, and G. Vandenberghe

Recorded Presentation

8:45 AM

1.2

HPC Considerations for NOAA's Next Generation Global Prediction System

John Michalakes, NOAA/NWS/NCEP, College Park, MD

Recorded Presentation

9:00 AM

1.3

A Cost-Benefit Analysis of CPU, GPU and MIC chips using NIM Performance as a Guide

Mark W. Govett, NOAA/ESRL/GSD, Boulder, CO; and T. Henderson, J. Middlecoff, and J. Rosinski

Recorded Presentation

9:15 AM

1.4

ECMWF's Next Generation IO for the IFS Model

Tiago Quintino, ECMWF, Reading, United Kingdom; and B. Raoult and P. Bauer

Recorded Presentation

9:30 AM

1.5

Optimizing Performance and Scalability of HWRF

John Michalakes, NOAA/NWS/NCEP, College Park, MD; and S. Trahan

Recorded Presentation

Session 4

Weather Modeling and Data Assimilation to Provide the Science to Serve Society — Part I

Location: Room 338/339 ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)

Host: Sixth Conference on Transition of Research to Operations

Cochairs: Stephen A. Mango, NOAA/NESDIS/OPPA Affiliate; Brian Mischel, Riverside Technology Inc.

8:30 AM

4.1

Recent Improvements to the Navy's COAMPS-TC Tropical Cyclone Forecast System and Transition to Operations

James D. Doyle, NRL, Monterey, CA; and R. M. Hodur, J. R. Moskaitis, S. Chen, E. A. Hendricks, Y. Jin, H. Jin, P. A. Reinecke, and S. Wang

Recorded Presentation

8:45 AM

4.2

US Navy Research and Development under the National Earth System Prediction Capability Partnership

Carolyn A. Reynolds, NRL, Monterey, CA; and M. S. Peng, G. A. Jacobs, J. G. Richman, J. A. Ridout, and D. P. Eleuterio

Recorded Presentation

9:00 AM

4.3

Physics-Oriented Evaluation of the GEFS Reforecast

Weiwei Li, University of Illinois, Urbana, IL; and Z. Wang and M. Peng

Recorded Presentation

9:15 AM

4.4

Research to Operations in NCEP Production Suite; What Works and What Does Not Work

Hendrik L. Tolman, NOAA/NWS/NCEP, College Park, MD

Recorded Presentation

9:30 AM

4.5

Observing System Simulation Experiment to link Research and Operation

Michiko Masutani, EMC, College Park, MD

Handout (8.3 MB)

Joint Session 6

Earth Observations that Support Health Early Warning Systems and Monitoring of Disease Risks

Location: Room 228/229 ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)

Chair: Juli Trtanj, NOAA/OAR/Climate Program Office

8:30 AM

J6.1

Nationwide (U.S.) Climatic Influences on Salmonella Infections

Chris Uejio, Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL

8:45 AM

J6.2

Understanding Scale Dependency Between Microbiological and Climatic Processes for Prediction of Vibrios in Estuarine Environments

Md Rakibul Hassan Khan, West Virginia University, Morgantown, WV; and A. Jutla, A. Chen, R. Colwell, and A. Huq

9:00 AM

J6.4

Monitoring the Urban Atmosphere in NYC Using Ground Based Remote Sensing Vertical Profilers and Surface Stations with Applications to Airborne Toxins

Mark Arend, City College of New York, New York, NY; and I. Valerio, S. Neufeld, and F. Moshary

9:15 AM

J6.5

Seasonal Mapping of Inhalation-Level Urban Aerosol in Washington, DC

Vernon R. Morris, Washington, DC; and N. A. Greene, M. Fayissa, J. M. Tirado, and S. Abegaz

Recorded Presentation

Joint Session 6

Economic Impacts and Value of Improved Forecast Information

Location: Room 355 ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)

Hosts: (Joint between the 32nd Conference on Environmental Information Processing Technologies; and the 11th Symposium on Societal Applications: Policy, Research and Practice )

Chair: Randall Bass, FAA

8:30 AM

J6.1

The Continued Evolution of NOAA's Observing System Investment Assessment Process

David Helms, NOAA/NESDIS, Silver Spring, MD; and L. Cantrell Jr.

Recorded Presentation Manuscript (836.7 kB)

8:45 AM

J6.2

Developments towards an Environment Catalyst for the UK

Vicky Pope, Met Office, Exeter, United Kingdom

Recorded Presentation

9:00 AM

J6.3

Economic Assessment of Hydro-Met Services: A “Benefits Transfer” Critique of the State of Economics in Support of Meteorology

Jeffrey K. Lazo, NCAR, Boulder, CO

Recorded Presentation

J6.4

Enhancing the Utility of LiDAR Data through Collaborations: NASA Carbon Monitoring System, NASA Ice Cloud and Land Elevation Satellite-2, and USGS 3-D Elevation Program

9:15 AM

J6.4A

A Labor Market Analysis of the Electricity Sector for 2030 using the National Energy with Weather System Simulator

Leigh M. Terry, NOAA/University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, AL; and C. T. Clack, M. Marquis, P. D. Picciano, and J. Paine

Recorded Presentation

Handout (9.3 MB)

9:30 AM

J6.5

The Value of a TAF — Aviation Forecasting Cost Impacts

Rick Curtis, Southwest Airlines, Dallas, TX; and A. Krull, E. Fenelon, K. Fryar, E. A. Wildgrube, and M. Muehlman

Recorded Presentation

Session 7

Precipitation Processes and Observations for Atmospheric, Land Surface, and Hydrological Modeling, Part I

Location: Room 240/241 ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)

Host: 30th Conference on Hydrology

Cochairs: Yu Zhang, NOAA/NWS; Paul A. Kucera, NCAR; Emad Habib, Univ. of Louisiana

8:30 AM

7.1

Quantification of atmospheric rivers precipitation from space: Composite assessments and case studies over the western United States

Ali Behrangi, JPL/California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA; and B. Guan, P. J. Neiman, and B. Lambrigtsen

8:45 AM

7.2

Orographic Precipitation Processes - Observations, Modeling and Scaling

Ana P. Barros, Duke University, Durham, NC; and A. M. Wilson, V. Y. Duan, and X. Sun

Recorded Presentation

9:00 AM

7.3

Vertical Evolution of Raindrop Size Distribution due to Breakup and Coalescence Observed with Vertically Pointing Radars

Christopher R. Williams, CIRES/Univ. of Colorado, Boulder, CO

Recorded Presentation

9:15 AM

7.4

A Kalman filter model to estimate precipitation employing Cloud-to-Ground Lightning Events en Complex Terrain

Carlos M. Minjarez-Sosa, Universidad de Sonora, Hermosillo, Mexico; and J. Waissman-Vilanova

Recorded Presentation

9:30 AM

7.5

Rainfall Microstructure and Its Linkage to Structure and Evolution of Flash-Flood Producing Storms

Long Yang, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ; and J. A. Smith

Recorded Presentation

Handout (1.3 MB)

Session 8

Data Assimilation: New Methodologies

Location: Room 345 ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)

Host: 20th Conference on Integrated Observing and Assimilation Systems for the Atmosphere, Oceans, and Land Surface (IOAS-AOLS)

Chair: Daryl T. Kleist, University of Maryland

8:30 AM

8.1

Assimilating Observations with Correlated Errors in a Global Atmospheric Model

Jeffrey Anderson, NCAR, Boulder, CO

Recorded Presentation

8:45 AM

8.2

Ensemble-Based Variational Method with Observation Localization: Difference from LETKF

Sho Yokota, MRI, Tsukuba, Japan; and S. Origuchi, M. Kunii, and K. Aonashi

Recorded Presentation

9:00 AM

8.3

An Estimate of the Ensemble Size Necessary for an EnKF Comparable to an Optimal 4DEnVAR

Jeffrey S. Whitaker, NOAA/ESRL/Physical Sciences Division, Boulder, CO ; and L. Lei

Recorded Presentation

9:15 AM

8.4

Development and testing of an efficient, non-Gaussian ensemble filter for data assimilation in geophysics

Jonathan Poterjoy, NCAR, Boulder, CO; and J. Anderson

Recorded Presentation

8.5

The GIGG-EnKF: Ensemble Kalman Filtering for highly skewed non-negative uncertainty distributions

9:30 AM

8.5A

Strongly Coupled Data Assimilation Using Leading Averaged Coupled Covariance

Feiyu Lu, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI; and Z. Liu, S. Zhang, Y. Liu, and R. Jacob

Recorded Presentation

Session 8

Quantifying and Communicating Risk

Location: Room 255/257 ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)

Host: Fourth Symposium on Building a Weather-Ready Nation: Enhancing Our Nation’s Readiness, Responsiveness, and Resilience to High Impact Weather Events

Cochairs: Jennifer Sprague, NOAA/NWS; Pablo Santos, NOAA/NWS

8:30 AM

8.1

Hurricane Decision-Making: Risk Tolerance and the Safety Margin Forecast

David W. Sharp, NOAA/NWSFO, Melbourne, FL; and D. P. Santos

Recorded Presentation

8:45 AM

8.2

A New Hurricane Impact Level Ranking System: A Multivariable Approach to Forecasting Loss Using Artificial Neural Networks for Communicating Risk to the Public

Stephanie F. Pilkington, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO; and H. N. Mahmoud

Recorded Presentation

9:00 AM

8.3

A Diagnostic and Predictability Case Study: Was the Atlanta 2014 Snowmaggedon Rare?

Robert Daniel Haynes Jr., Georgia Institute of Technology, Tucker, GA; and V. Toma, J. I. Belanger, and L. G. Belanger

Recorded Presentation

9:15 AM

8.4

Double Impact: When both Tornadoes and Flash Floods Threaten the Same Place at the Same Time

Erik R. Nielsen, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO; and G. R. Herman, R. Tournay, J. M. Peters, and R. S. Schumacher

Recorded Presentation

9:30 AM

8.5

Spatially Generalized Model for Predicting Power Outages Caused by Tropical Cyclones

D. Brent McRoberts, Texas A&M Univ., College Station, TX; and S. D. Guikema and S. M. Quiring

Recorded Presentation

Session 8

Weather and Energy: Efficiency and Decision Support Part 2

Location: Room 346/347 ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)

Host: Seventh Conference on Weather, Climate, Water and the New Energy Economy

Chair: Mitchell T. Baer, DOE

8:30 AM

8.1

WSI's New Sub-Seasonal Forecasting Process

Michael Ventrice, WSI Corporation, Andover, MA

Recorded Presentation

8:45 AM

8.2

Toward Integration of Seasonal Climate Forecasts into Energy Decision Support Systems

Mukul Tewari, TWC, an IBM Business, New York, NY; and C. Watson, J. Cipriani, and W. Wu

Recorded Presentation

9:00 AM

8.3

The Value of More Accurate Power Forecasting in Global Electricity Markets

Eric P. Grimit, Vaisala, Seattle, WA; and P. Storck

Recorded Presentation

9:15 AM

8.4

Moderate and Higher Cloud to Ground Lightning Within Tropical Cyclone Feeder Bands on the Florida Peninsula

Marcus R. Smith, Schneider Electric, Burnsville, MN

Recorded Presentation Manuscript (650.9 kB)

9:30 AM

8.5

The Characteristics and Formation Mechanisms of Low Level Jets in China and their Relationship with Wind Energy

Yu Du, IBM Research, Beijing, China; and R. Rotunno, Q. Zhang, Y. L. Chen, and W. Yin

Recorded Presentation

Session 8A

Algorithm Development

Location: Room 225 ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)

Host: 12th Annual Symposium on New Generation Operational Environmental Satellite Systems

Cochairs: Shawn W. Miller, Raytheon Intelligence, Information and Services; Donald W. Hillger, NOAA/NESDIS

8:30 AM

8.1

Real Time All-weather Precipitable Water Product Development from Geostationary Infrared Radiances and Applications in Weather Forecasts

Jun Li, CIMSS/Univ. of Wisconsin, Madison, WI; and J. Gerth, Z. Li, Y. K. Lee, T. J. Schmit, and S. Bachmeier

Recorded Presentation

8:45 AM

8.2

The NOAA/CIMSS ProbSevere Model – Integration of NWP, Satellite, Lightning, and Radar data for Improved Severe Weather Warnings

Michael J. Pavolonis, NOAA/NESDIS, Madison, WI; and J. L. Cintineo, J. Sieglaff, and D. T. Lindsey

Recorded Presentation

9:00 AM

8.3

Using 1-min Resolution GOES Observations to Diagnose Earlier Signs of Convective Initiation, Determine Cumulus Cloud Updraft Characteristics, and Infer In-Cloud Processes

John R. Mecikalski, Univ. of Alabama, Huntsville, AL; and C. P. Jewett and J. Apke

Recorded Presentation

9:15 AM

8.4

The GOES-R/JPSS Approach for Identifying Hazardous Low Clouds: Overview and Operational Impacts

Corey G. Calvert, CIMSS/Univ. of Wisconsin, Madison, WI; and M. J. Pavolonis, S. Hubbard, C. M. Gravelle, and S. S. Lindstrom

Recorded Presentation

9:30 AM

8.5

Development of the GeoKompsat-2A AMI Rainfall Rate Algorithm

Dong-Bin Shin, Yonsei University, Seoul, South Korea; and D. So

Session 8B

Direct Broadcast Capabilities for Polar-orbiting and Geostationary Satellites and Their Use in Support of Societal Needs

Location: Room 252/254 ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)

Host: 12th Annual Symposium on New Generation Operational Environmental Satellite Systems

Cochairs: Matthew Seybold, NOAA/NESDIS; Vince Grano, NOAA/NESDIS/OSGS JPSS Ground Project

8:30 AM

9.1

Impacts to Remote Sensing and Direct Broadcast from Radio Spectrum Sharing

David G. Lubar, Aerospace Corporation, Colorado Springs, CO; and B. Backus and P. de Matthaeis

Recorded Presentation

Handout (6.0 MB)

8:45 AM

9.2

The Community Satellite Processing Package (CSPP): Support for multiple sensors and satellites for real-time decisions

Liam E. Gumley, CIMSS/SSEC/Univ. of Wisconsin, Madison, WI; and K. Strabala, A. Huang, S. Mindock, G. Martin, R. Garcia, N. Bearson, G. Cureton, J. Davies, and J. Braun

Recorded Presentation

9:00 AM

9.3

Support for GOES-R and Himawari-8 in CSPP Geo

Graeme D. Martin, CIMSS/Univ. of Wisconsin, Madison, WI; and L. Gumley, N. Bearson, J. Braun, G. Cureton, R. Garcia, T. Jasmin, S. Mindock, and K. Strabala

Recorded Presentation

9:15 AM

9.4

Polar2Grid Version 2.0: Reprojecting VIIRS Satellite Data Made Easy

David Hoese, CIMSS, Madison, WI; and K. Strabala, L. Gumley, H. L. Huang, and R. Garcia

Recorded Presentation

9:30 AM

9.5

The Status of NOAA Satellite Operations

Jason D. Taylor, NOAA/NESDIS, College Park, MD; and T. Renkevens and N. Donoho

Recorded Presentation

Session 9

Data Quality and Climate Data Sets

Location: Room 245 ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)

Host: 22nd Conference on Applied Climatology

Chair: Bradfield Lyon, Columbia University/IRI

8:30 AM

9.1

POST-aws: Analysis of the Biases Induced by the Transition from Conventional to Automatic Measurements in Parallel Datasets

Enric Aguilar, Universitat Rovira i Virgili, Tortosa, Spain; and V. Venema, P. Stepanek, R. Auchmann, F. D. dos Santos Silva, E. Engstrom, A. Gilabert, Z. Kretova, J. A. Lopez-Diaz, Y. L. Rico, C. O. Rojas, M. Prohom, D. Rasilla, M. Salvador, G. Vetacnik, and Y. Yosef

Recorded Presentation

8:45 AM

9.2

Recent Decline in Consistency Among Gridded Precipitation Datasets for the Greater Horn of Africa

Michael P. Angus, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC; and F. Semazzi

Recorded Presentation

9:00 AM

9.3

Estimation of Land Surface Precipitation for Contiguous U.S. Using a New Spatial Interpolation Method

Elsa Nickl, CICS, Asheville, NC; and C. J. Willmott and R. S. Vose

Recorded Presentation

9:15 AM

9.4

Assessing the Quality of Wind Observations Using a Regional Scale Model

Timothy J. Brown, DRI, Reno, NV; and M. Fearon and G. McCurdy

Recorded Presentation

9:30 AM

9.5

Estimating in "Vane": A Quantitative Description of Wind Speed Overestimation by Human Observers Versus Instrument Measurements

Paul W. Miller, University of Georgia, Athens, GA; and A. W. Black, C. A. Williams, and J. A. Knox

Session 10

Radar Technologies and Applications, Part I: Operational Radar Applications

Location: Room 348/349 ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)

Host: 32nd Conference on Environmental Information Processing Technologies

Cochairs: Michael J. Istok, NOAA/NWS; Mark B. Yeary, University of Oklahoma; Kurt D. Hondl, NOAA

8:30 AM

10.1

NEXRAD Product Improvement – Update 2016

Michael J. Istok, NOAA/NWS, Silver Spring, MD; and R. L. Ice

Recorded Presentation

10.2

Identifying and Mitigating Clutter for Polarimetric Variables

9:00 AM

10.3

Monitoring radar ZDR calibration using ground clutter

Valery Melnikov, Univ. of Oklahoma / CIMMS, Norman, OK; and D. S. Zrnic

Recorded Presentation Manuscript (1.6 MB)

9:15 AM

10.4

Eye-Tracking Applications to Assess Impacts of Phased Array Radar Data on Forecasters' Cognitive Processes

Katie A. Bowden, CIMMS/Univ. of Oklahoma, Norman, OK; and P. L. Heinselman and Z. Kang

Recorded Presentation Manuscript (529.9 kB)

9:30 AM

10.5

WEATHER RADAR DATA SERVICES AT NOAA'S NATIONAL CENTERS FOR ENVIRONMENTAL INFORMATION

Stephen A. Del Greco, NOAA/NESDIS/NCEI, Asheville, NC

Recorded Presentation

Session 10

Water Resources Information Services

Location: Room 333-334 ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)

Host: 11th Symposium on Societal Applications: Policy, Research and Practice

Chair: Arleen O'Donnell, Eastern Research Group

10.1

American Meteorological Society's (AMS) Board on Enterprise Planning (BEP) Integrated Water Resources (IWR) Annual Partnership Topic (APT) Study

Paper 10.1 has been merged into 10.2

8:30 AM

10.2

Advancing National Weather Service Water Resources Services with Social Science

Daniel Patrick Matusiewicz, NOAA/NWS, Silver Spring, MD; and R. H. Carr, A. O'Donnell, and M. G. Mullusky

Recorded Presentation

8:45 AM

Panel Discussion

Session 11

Climate Data Analysis and Downscaling – Part 1

Location: Room 226/227 ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)

Host: 23rd Conference on Probability and Statistics in the Atmospheric Sciences

Chair: Andrew Poppick, University of Chicago

8:30 AM

11.1

Estimating Statistical Uncertainty in the Australian Temperature Record

Simon Grainger, BOM, Docklands, Australia; and D. Jones, B. Trewin, and K. Braganza

Recorded Presentation

8:45 AM

11.2

A Real Time Algorithm Based on GOES Data to Estimate Hourly Air Temperature for Puerto Rico

Nazario D. Ramirez-Beltran, University of Puerto Rico, Mayaguez, PR; and C. M. Salazar, J. M. Castro, and J. Gonzalez

9:00 AM

11.3

A 6-Year Cloud-to-Ground Lightning Climatology and Its Relationship to Rainfall over Central and Eastern China

Rudi Xia, Chinese Academy of Meteorological Sciences, Beijing, China; and D. L. Zhang

Recorded Presentation

9:15 AM

11.4

Statistical Modelling for a Randomised Trial of a Rainfall Modification Technology

Raymond Chambers, University of Wollongong, Wollongong, Australia; and S. Beare, S. Peak, and M. Al-Kalbani

Recorded Presentation

Handout (4.4 MB)

9:30 AM

11.5

Daily Precipitation Extremes over Eastern United States: Variability and Change Stemming from North Atlantic Tropical Cyclones

Nirajan Dhakal, Spelman College, Atlanta, GA; and S. Jain

Session 11A

Advances in Climate Modeling and Prediction: Part 1

Location: La Nouvelle C ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)

Host: 28th Conference on Climate Variability and Change

Chair: R. Saravanan, Texas A&M University

11A.1

Signs of Surprising Skill in Dynamic Predictions Beyond the 2-Week Limit of Predictability—Evaluation of the Operational CFSv2 for Week 3 and 4

8:30 AM

11A.2

Atmospheric Rivers and Heavy Precipitation From a Hierarchy of Climate Simulations

L. Ruby Leung, PNNL, Richland, WA; and S. M. Hagos, J. Lu, Y. Gao, and C. Zhao

Recorded Presentation

9:00 AM

11A.3

Identifying Leading Spatial Patterns of Model Uncertainty and Bias in Perturbed Physics Ensembles and Multi-Model Ensembles

Baird Langenbrunner, University of California, Los Angeles, CA; and J. D. Neelin, B. R. Lintner, and D. N. Bernstein

Recorded Presentation

9:15 AM

11A.4

Impacts of Changes in Atmospheric Physics Parameterizations in a Coupled Regional Climate Model

Mark W. Seefeldt, CIRES/Univ. of Colorado, Boulder, CO; and J. J. Cassano, A. DuVivier, and M. Hughes

Recorded Presentation

9:30 AM

11A.5

Cloud Resolving Simulation of Indian Monsoon Precipitation and Implications on Cumulus Parameterizations

Deepeshkumar Jain, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India; and A. Chakraborty and R. S. Nanjundiah

Recorded Presentation

Session 11B

Decadal-Multidecadal Variability in Pacific, Atlantic and Indian Basins: Part 1

Location: Room 352 ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)

Host: 28th Conference on Climate Variability and Change

Chair: Benjamin J. Henley, University of Melbourne

8:30 AM

11B.1

Initialized Decadal Prediction for Transition to Positive Phase of the Interdecadal Pacific Oscillation and Resumption of Larger Rates of Global Warming

Gerald Meehl, NCAR, Boulder, CO; and A. Hu and H. Teng

Recorded Presentation

8:45 AM

11B.2

Why Was It so Wet in Winter 2013–14 over North West Europe?

Jeff Knight, Met Office Hadley Centre, Met Office, Exeter, United Kingdom, Exeter, Devon, United Kingdom; and A. Maidens, D. Fereday, C. Folland, A. Scaife, and G. Brunet

Recorded Presentation

9:00 AM

11B.3

Is the PDO a Coupled Atmosphere-Ocean Process?

Natalie Perlin, RSMAS/Univ. of Miami, Miami, FL; and B. P. Kirtman

Recorded Presentation

Handout (4.3 MB)

9:15 AM

11B.4

Decadal Variability in the Pacific: observations, modelling and palaeoclimate

Benjamin J. Henley, University of Melbourne, Parkville, Australia; and D. J. Karoly, J. Gergis, and M. Freund

Recorded Presentation

9:30 AM

11B.5

Ice core-derived histories of North Pacific climate variability

Stacy E. Porter, Byrd Polar and Climate Research Center, Columbus, OH; and E. Mosley-Thompson and L. G. Thompson

Recorded Presentation

Session 11C

Regional Climate Variability and Change: Part 1

Location: La Nouvelle A ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)

Host: 28th Conference on Climate Variability and Change

Chair: Kerry H. Cook, University of Texas

8:30 AM

11C.1

Large-scale Influences on the Occurrence and Maintenance of Mixed Phase Clouds over the Greenland Ice Sheet

Jonathan Edwards-Opperman, CIMMS/Univ. of Oklahoma, Norman, OK; and D. D. Turner and S. M. Cavallo

Recorded Presentation

8:45 AM

11C.2

Changes in Global Precipitation from the 18th Century to 2013

William A. van Wijngaarden, York University, Toronto, ON, Canada

Recorded Presentation Manuscript (526.8 kB)

9:00 AM

11C.3

Variability of Hawaiian Winter Rainfall During La Nina Events Since 1956

Pao-Shin Chu, University of Hawaii, Honolulu, HI; and C. O'Conner, P. C. Hsu, and K. Kodama

Recorded Presentation

Handout (1.2 MB)

9:15 AM

11C.4

Using Resolved Jet Dynamics to Address Rainfall Uncertainty over the Sahel

David P. Whittleston, MIT, Cambridge, MA; and D. Entekhabi

Recorded Presentation

9:30 AM

11C.5

How Much Does Downscaling Contribute to Uncertainty in Downscaled Climate Projections? A Case Study in Eastern North Carolina

Adrienne M. Wootten, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC; and A. Terando, B. Reich, and R. P. Boyles

Recorded Presentation

Joint Session 14

Chemistry, aerosol, cloud and convection during the GoAmazon2014/5 field campaign II

Location: Room 357 ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)

Hosts: (Joint between the Eighth Symposium on Aerosol–Cloud–Climate Interactions; and the 18th Conference on Atmospheric Chemistry )

Chair: Jiwen Fan, PNNL

CoChair: Meinrat O. Andreae, Max Planck Institute for Chemistry

8:30 AM

J14.1

Aircraft Measurements of Vertical Profiles from Cloud Base to Anvils of Cloud Drops, Precipitation and Ice Particles in Relations to the CCN (Invited Presentation)

Daniel Rosenfeld, Hebrew Univ. of Jerusalem, Jerusalem 91904, , Israel; and M. Krämer, M. O. Andreae, R. C. Braga, M. Krüger, R. Albrecht, C. A. Morales, L. A. T. Machado, M. Wendisch, U. Pöschl, V. Dreiling, and M. Zöger

Recorded Presentation

J14.2

Cloud Contrast During the GoAmazon/ACRIDICON/CHUVA Campaign: Differences Between Polluted and Pristine Conditions, Dry and Wet Seasons

8:45 AM

J14.2A

'Amazonian Clouds' Microphysical Structures in Different Thermodynamic and Aerosol Conditions

Micael A. Cecchini, INPE, São José dos Campos, Brazil

Recorded Presentation

9:00 AM

J14.3

Impacts of Anthropogenic Pollution on Convective Clouds and Precipitation in a Downwind Pristine Environment

Jiwen Fan, PNNL, Richland, WA; and Y. yang, W. Gao, L. Machado, J. Comstock, C. Zhao, M. Shrivastava, Z. Feng, C. Schumacher, S. T. Martin, H. M. J. Barbosa, H. Gomes, and Y. Liu

9:15 AM

J14.4

The Shallow-to-deep Transition in Convective Clouds During the Green Ocean Amazon 2014/5 Campaign

Michael P. Jensen, Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, NY; and S. E. Giangrande and C. L. Gostic

Recorded Presentation

9:30 AM

J14.5

In-situ Observations of Ice Crystal Habits, Their Surface Roughness and Light Scattering Properties During ACRIDICON-CHUVA

Emma Järvinen, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Eggenstein-Leopoldshafen, Germany; and C. Mahnke, M. O. Andreae, H. Schlager, R. Weigel, B. Weinzierl, M. Wendisch, and M. Schnaiter

Recorded Presentation

9:00 AM-9:15 AM: Thursday, 14 January 2016

Session 9

Springer Update

Location: Room 340/341 ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)

Host: 19th Conference of Atmospheric Science Librarians International

Chair: Amy Butros, UC San Diego

9:00 AM

9.1

Springer Publications News

Robert Doe, Springer, Department of Earth Science and Geography, Dordrecht, Netherlands

9:15 AM-9:45 AM: Thursday, 14 January 2016

Session 10

Historical Glimpses and Perspectives — Part 1

Location: Room 340/341 ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)

Host: 19th Conference of Atmospheric Science Librarians International

9:15 AM

10.1

Online at Last! A Description of the BAMS Legacy Scanning Project

Jinny Nathans, American Meteorological Society, Boston, MA

Recorded Presentation

9:30 AM

10.2

Access to Legacy Information from the Meteorological and Geoastrophysical Abstracts (MGA)

Rich Hummel, Sr. Project Manager, SciTech, Ann Arbor, MI

Recorded Presentation

9:45 AM-11:00 AM: Thursday, 14 January 2016

Formal Poster Viewing with Coffee Break

Location: Hall D/E ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)

Poster Session 1

HPC Poster Session

Host: Second Symposium on High Performance Computing for Weather, Water, and Climate

886

A Sustainable High Performance Computing System for Teaching and Research

Steven Boring, San Jose State University, San Jose, CA; and S. Chiao and A. Bridger

887

Visualization of Weather Information Using a Scalable Database

Michael E. Baldwin, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN; and S. Cook, S. Harrell, and J. Shin

888

Integrating an Archival Filesystem in a Research Workflow

Patrick Calhoun, University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK

889

Use of Interoperability/Information Systems to Inform Crop-, Cattle-, and Community-Decision Makers in a Changing Climate

Carlos Ancona-Villarreal, University of Nebraska, Lincoln, NE; and A. Rosales-Marinez, D. Rudnick, G. Lopez-Morteo, R. Resendis-Ramirez, and F. Munoz-Arriola

890

High Performance Computing for 4D Weather Cubes and Real-Time, World-Wide Visualization of Radiative Effects

Steven T. Fiorino, Air Force Institute of Technology, Wright Patterson AFB, OH; and A. VanFossen, B. Elmore, J. Schmidt, and K. Keefer

Handout (7.1 MB)

891

Acceleration of the Analysis of Big Data Output from Mesoscale WRF-LES Simulations through Parallelization based on Spatial and Computational Dependencies

Timothy S. Sliwinski, Texas Tech University, Lubbock, TX; and S. Kang

892

Large-scale Parallelized EOF Computation on the CSFR Ocean Temperature Field

Alex Gittens, International Institute for Computer Science, Berkeley, CA; and N. R. Cavanaugh, K. Kashinath, T. A. O'Brien, M. Prabhat, and M. Mahoney

Poster Session 1

Seamless Weather and Climate Prediction and Predictability Posters

Location: Hall D/E ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)

Host: Special Symposium on Seamless Weather and Climate Prediction—Expectations and Limits of Multi-scale Predictability

894

Practical and Intrinsic Predictability of Warm-Core Mesoscale Vortex Formation with the 8 May 2009 “Super Derecho” Event

Caleb Grunzke, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, Milwaukee, WI; and C. Evans

895

Relative Skill of Forecasts of Downslope Windstorms in the Owens Valley, CA

Craig M. Smith, DRI, Reno, NV

896

The Influence of Assimilating Targeted Observations upon Ensemble Forecasts of Convection Initiation

Alexandra M. Keclik, University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, WI; and C. Evans, P. J. Roebber, G. Romine, and R. D. Torn

897

Predictability of Mid-Latitude Extreme Weather Changes in Response to Arctic Sea Ice Loss

Hans W. Chen, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA; and F. Zhang and R. B. Alley

Manuscript (48.1 kB)

898

The Sensitivity of Supercell Simulations to Initial Condition Resolution: Implications for Warn-on-Forecast

Elisa M. Murillo, University of Louisiana, Monroe, LA; and C. K. Potvin

899

On The Limits Of Predictability Of Day To Day Weather Forecasts For Melbourne Australia

Harvey Stern, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia; and N. E. Davidson

Manuscript (476.9 kB)

Handout (704.0 kB)

900

Using Convection-Allowing Ensembles to Understand the Predictability of Extreme Rainfall

Erik R. Nielsen, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO; and R. S. Schumacher

901

Roles of Synoptic to Quasi-Biweekly Disturbances in Generating the Summer 2003 Heavy Rainfall in East China

Hong-Bo Liu, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China; and J. Yang, D. L. Zhang, and B. Wang

902

An Investigation of the Skill of Week Two Extreme Temperature and Precipitation Forecasts in the Context of Two Recent Extreme Weather Events

Andrew C. Winters, University at Albany/SUNY, Albany, NY; and L. F. Bosart and D. Keyser

Handout (20.9 MB)

903

Study of High Resolution Ensemble and Extend Range (Week 3 and 4) in the NCEP Global Ensemble Forecast System

Xiaqiong Zhou, NOAA/NWS/NCEP/EMC and I.M. Systems Group, College Park, MD; and Y. Zhu, M. Pena, W. Li, and D. Hou

904

Predictabilities and uncertainties of tracer trajectories and Lagrangian Coherent Structures with ensemble system

Mozheng Wei, NRL, Stennis Space Center, MS; and C. Rowley, C. Barron, G. Jacobs, P. Hogan, O. M. Smedstad, and P. L. Spence

905

Atmosphere-Sea Ice Coupling in the Navy's Global Coupled Modeling System: Diagnosing Polar Prediction using the sea ice models, CICE4 and CICE5, coupled with the NAVGEM Atmospheric Model

Neil Barton, NRL, Monterey, CA; and C. Chen, M. Peng, and T. R. Whitcomb

906

Seamless Enhancement of Climate Prediction over Land by Increasing the Model Sensitivity to Vegetation Variability

Andrea Alessandri, Italian National Agency for New Technologies, Energy and Sustainable Economic Development (ENEA), Santa Maria di Galeria - Rome, Italy; and F. Catalano, M. De Felice, F. J. Doblas-Reyes, B. J. J. M. van den Hurk, P. Miller, S. Boussetta, and G. Balsamo

907

Predictability of Precipitation over the Conterminous U.S. In the CMIP5 Multi-Model Ensembles

Mingkai Jiang, Lehigh University, Bethlehem, PA; and B. Felzer

Poster Session 1

Wednesday/Thursday Posters

Host: Marvin Geller Symposium

500

Global survey of concentric gravity waves in AIRS 89 images and ECMWF analysis

Jie Gong, USRA, Greenbelt, MD; and J. Yue and D. L. Wu

501

The Sudden Stratospheric Warming Atlas

Amy Hawes Butler, CIRES/Univ. of Colorado, Boulder, CO; and J. P. Sjoberg and D. J. Seidel

Handout (9.2 MB)

502

Attributing changes of global stratospheric temperatures to natural and anthropogenic forcings

Valentina Aquila, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD; and W. H. Swartz, P. Colarco, S. Pawson, L. M. Polvani, R. S. Stolarski, and D. W. Waugh

Manuscript (64.1 kB)

Handout (1.2 MB)

503

The Relationship between the Thorpe and Ozmidov Length Scales from Direct Numerical Simulations of Multi-Scale Interactions

Ling Wang, GATS, Boulder, CO; and D. C. Fritts and M. A. Geller

504

Understanding and Simulation of the Stratospheric Circulation

Tiehan Zhou, NASA/GISS, New York, NY

505

Constraining Whole Atmosphere Predictions by Space-Borne Data

Valery Yudin, Colorado University, Boulder, CO; and M. A. Geller, B. Khattatov, R. A. Akmaev, T. Matsuo, and T. J. Fuller-Rowell

506

The SPARC Data Center and Stratospheric Precursors for Tropospheric Phenomena

Stefan Liess, University of Minnesota, Saint Paul, MN

Handout (7.1 MB)

507

The Radiative Influences of Lower Stratospheric Water Vapor Anomalies on Temperatures in the Upper Troposphere and Lower Stratosphere

Daniel Gilford, MIT, Cambridge, MA; and S. Solomon

Handout (2.2 MB)

508

Tropical Waves and QBO Dynamics in a 7-km Global Climate Simulation

Laura Holt, NorthWest Research Associates, Boulder, CO; and M. J. Alexander, L. Coy, A. M. Molod, S. Pawson, W. M. Putman, and M. J. Suarez

509

Separating the Effects of Ozone Depletion and Greenhouse Gas Increases on Southern Hemisphere Climate Change

Feng Li, USRA, Greenbelt, MD

510

Waves From Planetary to Gravity: Modeling and Observations in the Atmosphere

Jordan C. Alpert, NOAA/NWS/NCEP, College Park, MD

511

Ubiquitous Influence of Waves on Cirrus Cloud Occurrence in the Tropical Tropopause Layer

Ji-Eun Kim, NorthWest Research Associates, Boulder, CO; and M. J. Alexander, T. P. Bui, R. P. Lawson, S. Woods, and D. L. Hlavka

512

The QBO Influence on Tropical Convection : Cloud-Resolving Modeling Study

Wei Yuan, SUNY, Stony Brook, NY; and M. A. Geller, M. Khairoutdinov, and J. Nie

Poster Session 5

Hydrological Processes with Application to Urban Environments Posters

Host: 30th Conference on Hydrology

Chair: Dev Niyogi, Purdue University

538

Modulation of Urban Heat Island and Heat Waves under Current and Future Climate

Mukul Tewari, IBM, New York, NY; and H. Kusaka, C. D. Watson, L. A. Treinish, J. P. Cipriani, and A. P. Praino

539

Influence of Soil Moisture Deficit on Local and Regional Climate

Prathap Ramamurthy, The City College of New York, New York, NY; and T. Lakhankar

540

Assessment of the impact of optimal irrigation scheduling with rainwater harvesting for water conservation and runoff reduction in large urban areas

Junhak Lee, The University of Texas at Arlington, Arlington, TX; and D. J. Seo and A. Norouzi

541

Cooling an arid city using irrigated vegetation: Assessing the energy-water trade-off with the latest WRF-urban canopy model

Zhihua Wang, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ; and J. Yang

Poster Session 6

Precipitation Processes and Observations for Atmospheric, Land Surface, and Hydrological Modeling Posters

Host: 30th Conference on Hydrology

Cochairs: Yu Zhang, NOAA/NWS; Paul A. Kucera, NCAR; Emad Habib, Univ. of Louisiana

542

Necessity of Convective Parameterization in Simulating MCS Precipitation at High Resolution

J. Michael Battalio, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX; and M. Herrera and K. Pitts

544

The 2015 Upgrade of NCEP's Climatology-Calibrated Precipitation Analysis (CCPA)

Yan Luo, NOAA/NWS/NCEP/EMC, College Park, MD; and D. Hou, Y. Zhu, Y. Lin, and P. Xie

545

An Investigation on Wind-induced Evolution of Raindrop Size Distribution

Firat Yener Testik, University of Texas at San Antonio, San Antonio, TX; and B. Pei

547

The Evaluation and Verification of a Distributed Snow Model with Time, Space, and Elevation Variables

Jongkwan Kim, NOAA, TUSCALOOSA, AL; and M. Smith

Handout (4.6 MB)

546

Detection of Rainfall Using Traffic Cameras

548

Evaluation of 22 precipitation and 23 soil moisture products over a semiarid area

Susan Stillman, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ; and X. Zeng

549

WRF Precipitation Type Algorithms and Verification

Samuel C. Roback, State Climate Office of North Carolina, Raleigh, NC; and A. Sims

550

A Comparison of Weather and Research Forecast Model Precipitation Forecasts versus Observed SNOTEL Precipitation

Vincent Patrick Holbrook, Idaho Power Company, Boise, ID; and D. Blestrud and M. L. Kunkel

Handout (1.2 MB)

551

Rainfall kinetic energy and intensity relationships in Mexico City

Alejandra Amaro-Loza, National Autonomous University of Mexico, Mexico, D.F., Mexico; and S. Arciniega-Esparza, A. Pedrozo-Acuña, and A. Breña-Naranjo

Handout (755.4 kB)

552

Towards an analysis of the liquid-water fraction for orographic precipitation

W. Massey Bartolini, University at Albany/SUNY, Albany, NY; and H. D. Reeves

553

Development of a Merged Precipitation Product for the Automated Multi-Radar Multi-Sensor System

Steven M. Martinaitis, CIMMS/Univ. of Oklahoma and NOAA/NSSL, Norman, OK; and Y. Qi, S. B. Cocks, L. Tang, C. Langston, B. T. Kaney, J. Zhang, and K. Howard

Poster 554 will now be presented as 8.2A

555

Hydrologic evaluation of the latest bias-corrected satellite precipitation products over the Huaihe River basin

Huiling Yuan, Nanjing University, Nanjing, Jiangsu, China; and R. Sun, X. Liu, and X. Jiang

559

Using Flood Forecasting to Guide COAMPS®-TC Model Development

Brian J. Billings, Millersville University, Millersville, PA; and B. M. Lund, B. R. Carlberg, J. D. Doyle, and N. L. Lehtola

560

Detecting Beam Blockage in Radar Precipitation Estimates

D. Brent McRoberts, Texas A&M Univ., College Station, TX; and J. W. Nielsen-Gammon

556

Recent Upgrades to the NCEP Stage IV Precipitation Analysis

562

Physically Based Two-Dimensional Seamless Mosaic for Radar QPE in a national network

Youcun Qi Sr., NOAA/NSSL, Norman, OK; and J. Zhang

557

Precipitation Estimation by Cloud-to-Ground Lightning Over SW US

563

High resolution LDAS over CONUS using downscaled OLR precipitation

Roshan Shrestha, NOAA NCEP, College Park, MD; and J. Dong, J. Meng, P. Xie, Y. Xia, and M. B. Ek

558

Validating and Improving Snow Modeling in Forests

564

MRMS QPE Performance East of the Rockies during the 2014 Warm Season

Stephen B. Cocks, CIMMS/Univ. of Oklahoma and NOAA/NSSL, Norman, OK; and S. M. Martinaitis, Y. Qi Sr., H. Grams, K. W. Howard, and J. Zhang

565

MRMS QPE Performance West of the Rockies during the 2013-2014 Cool and Warm Seasons

Stephen B. Cocks, CIMMS/Univ. of Oklahoma and NOAA/NSSL, Norman, OK; and S. M. Martinaitis, K. W. Howard, and J. Zhang

566

Hydrologic Evaluation of Integrated Multi-satellitE Retrivals for GPM over Tar Basin in Eastern Continuous United States

Sheng Chen, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, China; and J. Hu and B. Hu

561

Sensitivity Investigation and Related Review of Some Factors Critical to Satellite Data Assimilation in the Land Surface Modeling Context Through LIS

11:00 AM-11:30 AM: Thursday, 14 January 2016

Session 11

The National Centers for Environmental Information Climate Portal

Location: Room 340/341 ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)

Host: 19th Conference of Atmospheric Science Librarians International

Chair: Christine Sherratt, MIT Libraries, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

11:00 AM

11.1

Finding Climate Data Fast: Navigating the National Centers for Environmental Information Climate Portal

Michael J. Brewer, NOAA/NESDIS/NCEI, Asheville, NC

Recorded Presentation

11:00 AM-11:45 AM: Thursday, 14 January 2016

Session 12B

Decadal-Multidecadal Variability in Pacific, Atlantic and Indian Basins: Part 2

Location: Room 352 ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)

Host: 28th Conference on Climate Variability and Change

Chair: Benjamin J. Henley, University of Melbourne

11:00 AM

12B.1

Temporal Multiscaling Behaviors of Sea Surface Temperature in Observations and CMIP5 Historical Simulations

Ming Luo, Chinese University of Hong Kong, New Territories, Hong Kong

Recorded Presentation

11:15 AM

12B.2

Mechanisms and Predictability of the June to August Summer North Atlantic Oscillation

Chris Folland, Met Office, Exeter, United Kingdom; and H. L. Ren, H. Linderholm, and J. Knight

Recorded Presentation

11:30 AM

12B.3

AGCM Simulation of the North Pacific Climate Shift in the 1920s

Hiroki Tokinaga, Kyoto University, Uji, Japan

11:00 AM-12:00 PM: Thursday, 14 January 2016

Session 2

Cloud Systems and Visualization

Location: Room 344 ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)

Host: Second Symposium on High Performance Computing for Weather, Water, and Climate

Cochairs: Tiffany C. Vance, NOAA; Nazila Merati, Merati and Associates

11:00 AM

2.1

Advanced Information Systems to Support Climate Projection Data Analysis

Daniel Duffy, NASA/GSFC, Greenbelt, MD; and T. P. Maxwell, C. Doutriaux, D. Williams, A. Chaudhary, and S. Ames

Recorded Presentation

2.2

ROC GENI: The CASA On Demand Radar Operations Center

11:15 AM

2.2A

TECA an Extreme Event Detection and Climate Analysis Package for High Performance Computing

Burlen Loring, LBL, Berkeley, CA; and S. Byna, M. Prabhat, J. Gu, H. Krishnan, M. Wehner, and O. Ruebel

11:30 AM

2.3

Enabling End-to-End Climate Science Workflows in High Performance Computing Environments

Harinarayan Krishnan, LBNL, Berkeley, CA; and B. Loring, S. Byna, M. F. Wehner, T. A. O'Brien, M. Prabhat, C. Paciorek, and D. Stone

11:45 AM

2.4

ADCIRC Surge Guidance System in Real Time For Hurricane Planning and Response

Jason G. Fleming, Seahorse Coastal Consulting, Morehead City, NC; and J. V. Reynolds-Fleming and R. A. Luettich

Recorded Presentation

Session 2

Weather and Climate Predictability 2

Location: Room 231/232 ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)

Host: Special Symposium on Seamless Weather and Climate Prediction—Expectations and Limits of Multi-scale Predictability

Chair: Dale R. Durran, University of Washington

11:00 AM

2.1

Convective-scale Warn-on-Forecast: Tension Between Seamless Prediction and Intrinsic Predictability (Invited Presentation)

David J. Stensrud, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA

Recorded Presentation

11:30 AM

2.2

On the Short- to Medium-Range Predictability of Thunderstorm Formation

Clark Evans, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, Milwaukee, WI; and B. Burghardt, B. Burlingame, A. Keclik, and P. Roebber

Recorded Presentation

11:45 AM

2.3

On the Predictability of Mesoscale Convective Systems: Experiences of the Plains Elevated Convection at Night (PECAN) Forecasting Team

William A. Gallus Jr., Iowa State University, Ames, IA; and J. Lawson and B. J. Squitieri

Recorded Presentation

Session 5

Weather Modeling and Data Assimilation to Provide the Science to Serve Society — Part II

Location: Room 338/339 ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)

Host: Sixth Conference on Transition of Research to Operations

Cochairs: Brian Mischel, Riverside Technology Inc.; Stephen A. Mango, NOAA/NESDIS/OPPA Affiliate

11:00 AM

5.1

A Multi-Scale Modeling System for Improved Hurricane Prediction

Sundararaman Gopalakrishnan, NOAA/AOML/HRD, Miami, FL; and X. Zhang, L. R. Bernardet, T. Quirino, J. Frimel, V. Tallapragada, F. D. Marks, F. Toepfer, and B. Kuo

Recorded Presentation

11:15 AM

5.2

Microphysics Changes to Address Precipitation Biases in the 4-km Operational NAM Model

Eric Aligo, EMC/NCEP/NWS/NOAA and I.M. Systems Group, Inc., College Park, MD; and B. S. Ferrier, J. R. Carley, E. Rogers, and G. DiMego

Recorded Presentation

11:30 AM

5.3

Progress on the High Impact Weather Prediction Project - A Mid-Project Update

Timothy Schneider, NOAA, Boulder, CO; and B. Strong, S. Benjamin, J. Whitaker, S. G. Gopalakrishnan, and J. Huang

Recorded Presentation

11:45 AM

5.4

Simulation of Summer Monsoon Convection at the U.S. Army White Sand Missile Range Using NCAR RTFDDA-VLES

Yubao Liu, NCAR, Boulder, CO; and J. Knievel, Y. Liu, R. Dumais, and D. I. Knapp

Recorded Presentation

Session 7

Aerosol and Monsoon Interactions

Location: Room 357 ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)

Host: Eighth Symposium on Aerosol–Cloud–Climate Interactions

Chair: Zhanqing Li, University of Maryland

CoChair: Yuan Wang, California Institute of Technology/JPL

11:00 AM

7.1

Assessment of Aerosol V. Greenhouse Warming Impacts on Asian Monsoon Precipitation and Climate (Invited Presentation)

William K.-M. Lau, University of Maryland, College Park, MD; and K. M. Kim

Recorded Presentation

11:15 AM

7.2

Can the Elevated Heat Pump Work Without Clouds? (Invited Presentation)

Daniel Rosenfeld, Hebrew Univ. of Jerusalem, Jerusalem 91904, , Israel; and Y. Zhu, Z. Yue, G. Liu, X. Yu, X. Xu, J. Dai, and Y. Xi

Recorded Presentation

11:30 AM

7.3

Overview of Aerosol and Monsoon Climate Interactions over Asia

Zhanqing Li, University of Maryland, College Park, MD

Recorded Presentation

11:45 AM

7.4

Air Pollution or Global Warming: Attribution of Extreme Precipitation Changes in Eastern China

Yuan Wang, California Institute of Technology/JPL, Pasadena, CA; and P. L. Ma, J. Jiang, and H. Su

Session 8

Precipitation Processes and Observations for Atmospheric, Land Surface, and Hydrological Modeling, Part II

Location: Room 240/241 ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)

Host: 30th Conference on Hydrology

Cochairs: Yu Zhang, NOAA/NWS; Paul A. Kucera, NCAR; Emad Habib, Univ. of Louisiana

11:00 AM

8.1

Local Gauge Correction of Radar QPE in the Multi-Radar Multi-Sensor System

Jian Zhang, NOAA/NSSL, Norman, OK; and Y. Qi, C. Langston, and B. T. Kaney

Handout (26.4 MB)

8.2

A Methodology to Improve Satellite Quantitative Precipitation Estimates Using the UND Hybrid Classification Product and GOES Optical Depth Retrievals

11:15 AM

8.2A

Comparison of GPCP 1DD Precipitation Product with NEXRAD Q2 Precipitation Estimates over the CONUS

Wenjun Cui, University of North Dakota, Grand Forks, ND; and X. Dong, B. Xi, and R. Stenz

Recorded Presentation

11:30 AM

8.3

Real-time High Resolution Precipitation Estimation with the CASA DFW Urban Demonstration Network (Invited Presentation)

Haonan Chen, Colorado State Univ., Fort Collins, CO; and V. Chandrasekar

11:45 AM

8.4

Improving multiple satellite precipitation estimation for hydrologic applications and uncertainty analysis

Kuolin Hsu, University of California, Irvine, Irvine, CA

Session 9

Building a Weather-Ready Nation: Training and Outreach

Location: Room 255/257 ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)

Host: Fourth Symposium on Building a Weather-Ready Nation: Enhancing Our Nation’s Readiness, Responsiveness, and Resilience to High Impact Weather Events

Cochairs: Matthew J. Moreland, NOAA/NWSFO; Kim J. Runk, NOAA/NWS

11:00 AM

9.1

A Potential Framework for Whole Office Training in National Weather Service Weather Forecast Offices

Derrick W. Snyder, NWS Operations Proving Ground/CIMMS, Kansas City, MO; and K. J. Runk, C. M. Gravelle, and K. L. Crandall

Recorded Presentation

11:15 AM

9.2

NWS Impact-Based Decision Support Training: Two Successful Classroom Examples

Matthew J. Moreland, NOAA/NWSFO, Key West, FL; and D. P. Brown, P. Santos, J. McNatt, D. W. Sharp, A. Devanas, S. White, and D. Manning

Recorded Presentation

9.3

OK-First: 20 Years of Partnership with Oklahoma's Public Safety Community

11:30 AM

9.3A

Wall of Wind Mitigation Challenge

Erik Salna, FIU Extreme Events Institute, Miami, FL

Recorded Presentation

11:45 AM

9.4

National Weather Service's Development of a Fire Weather Performance Management Suite

Brenton William MacAloney II, NOAA/NWS, Silver Spring, MD; and L. Van Bussum, R. Heffernan, and D. C. Young

Recorded Presentation

Session 9

Data Assimilation: Satellites

Location: Room 345 ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)

Host: 20th Conference on Integrated Observing and Assimilation Systems for the Atmosphere, Oceans, and Land Surface (IOAS-AOLS)

Chair: Dale Barker, Met Office

11:00 AM

9.1

On the Assimilation of Advanced Infrared Sounder Radiances in Cloudy Skies

Jun Li, CIMSS/Univ. of Wisconsin, Madison, WI; and P. Wang, M. Goldberg, J. Li, Z. Li, and T. J. Schmit

Recorded Presentation

11:15 AM

9.2

All-Sky Microwave Radiance Data Assimilation in NASA GEOS-5 System: Developments, Impacts, and Future Plans

M.-J. Kim, NASA/GSFC, Greenbelt, MD; and J. Jin, W. McCarty, R. Todling, R. Gelaro, and W. Gu

11:30 AM

9.3

Localizing the Impact of Satellite Radiances Using a Global Group Ensemble Filter

Lili Lei, University of Colorado/CIRES, Boulder, CO; and J. S. Whitaker

Recorded Presentation

11:45 AM

9.4

Assimilation of Surface-Sensitive Radiance Observations over Land from Multiple Infrared Sensors

Louis Garand, EC, Dorval, QC, Canada; and S. K. Dutta

Recorded Presentation

Session 9

Remote Sensing Techniques for Wind Energy Assessment and Forecasting

Location: Room 346/347 ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)

Host: Seventh Conference on Weather, Climate, Water and the New Energy Economy

Chair: Jennifer F. Newman, National Renewable Energy Laboratory

11:00 AM

9.1

Evaluating Parameters for Species-Based Classification of Bird Radar Echoes for Wind Energy Site Assesment

Sheila Werth, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA; and S. Frasier

Recorded Presentation Manuscript (497.9 kB)

11:15 AM

9.2

TTUKa XPIA Results: Data Validation and Boundary Layer Structure

W. Scott Gunter, Texas Tech University, Lubbock, TX; and J. L. Schroeder

Recorded Presentation

11:30 AM

9.3

Assessment of 3-Dimensional Wind Retrievals Using Common-Volume, Temporally-Coordinated Triple Doppler Lidar Measurements Made During the XPIA Field Campaign

W. Alan Brewer, NOAA/ESRL, Boulder, CO; and A. Choukulkar, S. P. Sandberg, A. Weickmann, R. M. Banta, J. K. Lundquist, J. C. Y. Lee, P. T. Quelet, R. K. Newsom, G. V. Iungo, R. Ashton, M. Debnath, B. Kosovic, S. P. Oncley, and D. Wolfe

Recorded Presentation

11:45 AM

9.4

Evaluation of Turbulence Measurement Techniques from a Single Doppler Lidar

Timothy A. Bonin, NOAA/CIRES, Boulder, CO; and A. Choukulkar, W. A. Brewer, S. P. Sandberg, A. M. Weickmann, Y. Pichugina, R. M. Banta, J. K. Lundquist, J. C. Y. Lee, P. T. Quelet, B. Kosovic, S. P. Oncley, A. Muschinski, and D. E. Wolfe

Recorded Presentation

Session 10

Data Quality and Observations

Location: Room 245 ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)

Host: 22nd Conference on Applied Climatology

Chair: Olivia Kellner, Midwestern Regional Climate Center

11:00 AM

10.1

Characterizing Cloud-top Relative Humidity with Respect to Ice in Midlatitude Cirrus Clouds as a Function of Synoptic State

Andrew M. Dzambo, CIMMS/Univ. of Oklahoma, NOAA/OAR/NSSL, Norman, OK; and D. D. Turner

Recorded Presentation

11:15 AM

10.2

Impact of Rooftop Siting and other Observing Practices on Precipitation Trends at Select Midwest Urban Locations

Nancy E. Westcott, Midwestern Regional Climate Center, Illinois State Water Survey, INRS, University of Illinois, Champaign, Illinois; and B. C. Wallace

Recorded Presentation

11:30 AM

10.3

Temporal and Spatial Variability of Early 20th Century Atmospheric Data from Signal Stations along the German Coastline

Dörte Röhrbein, German Meteorological Service, Hamburg, Germany; and B. Tinz and H. von Storch

Recorded Presentation

11:45 AM

10.4

Steps Towards a Homogenized Sub-Monthly Temperature Monitoring Tool

Jared Rennie, Cooperative Institute for Climate and Satellites/North Carolina State University, Asheville, NC; and K. E. Kunkel

Recorded Presentation

Joint Session 10

Enterprise Ground Architectures and the Research to Operations Process: Tools, Technologies, and Experiences, Part I

Location: Room 252/254 ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)

Hosts: (Joint between the 12th Annual Symposium on New Generation Operational Environmental Satellite Systems; and the Sixth Conference on Transition of Research to Operations )

Cochairs: Steven Petersen, NOAA; Walter Wolf, NOAA/NESDIS/STAR

11:00 AM

J10.1

Multi-Mission Elements: Key Ground Systems Services for EUMETSAT Future Programmes

Michel Horny, EUMETSAT, Darmstadt, Germany; and J. Gonzalez, G. Mori, and S. Burns

Recorded Presentation

11:15 AM

J10.2

EUMETSAT — From Science to Operations

Kenneth Holmlund, EUMETSAT, Darmstadt, Germany; and S. Burns, J. Gonzalez, and B. Mora

Recorded Presentation

Handout (3.2 MB)

11:30 AM

J10.3

The Operational Adoption of the European Ground System Common Core at ESA

Anthony Walsh, European Space Agency/European Space Operations Centre, Darmstadt, Germany; and M. Pecchioli

11:45 AM

J10.4

O2R2O – A 21st Century Approach to the Operationalization of Weather Science

Stephen Marley, Jeffries Technology Solutions Inc., Herndon, VA; and S. Petersen and M. Madden

Recorded Presentation

Session 10

Materhorn: Improved Modeling and Observations of Weather in Complex Terrain-Part II

Location: Room 243 ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)

Host: 19th Joint Conference on the Applications of Air Pollution Meteorology with the A&WMA

Chair: Jeffrey Weil, NCAR

11:00 AM

10.1

Fine-Scale Turbulent Bursts in Stable Atmospheric Boundary Layer

H.J.S. Fernando, University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, IN; and E. Kit, C. M. Hocut, and D. Liberzon

Recorded Presentation

11:15 AM

10.2

Assessing the effect of soil moisture on katabatic flow dynamics over a shallow slope during the MATERHORN field program

Derek D. Jensen, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT; and D. F. Nadeau and E. R. Pardyjak

Recorded Presentation

11:30 AM

10.3

Observations of evening and morning transition in valleys and slopes

Silvana Di Sabatino, University of Bologna / University of Notre Dame, Bologna, Italy; and L. S. Leo, H. J. S. Fernando, E. R. Pardyjak, M. Lehner, C. D. Whiteman, and S. Hoch

11:45 AM

10.4

Bias estimation for near-surface observations in ensemble Kalman filter with WRF model over complex terrain

Raquel Lorente-Plazas, University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, IN; and J. Hacker and J. A. Lee

Recorded Presentation

Session 10

Societal Benefits of Satellite Data Applications

Location: Room 225 ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)

Host: 12th Annual Symposium on New Generation Operational Environmental Satellite Systems

Cochairs: Mitch Goldberg, NOAA/NESDIS; Mike Kalb, NESDIS/STAR

11:00 AM

11.1

Measuring the Value of Environmental Satellites: An International Effort (Invited Presentation)

Charles Wooldridge, NOAA/NESDIS, Silver Spring, MD

Recorded Presentation

11:15 AM

11.2

Using 1-Minute Imagery from GOES-14 to Help Identify and Forecast High Impact Weather in the Carolinas

Frank Alsheimer, NOAA/NWS, North Charleston, SC; and R. Ellis and J. Blaes

Recorded Presentation

11:30 AM

11.3

SUOMI NPP/VIIRS: Improve drought watch, crop losses prediction and food security

Mitch Goldberg, NOAA/NESDIS, Camp Springs, MD; and F. Kogan and W. Guo

Recorded Presentation

11:45 AM

11.4

Towards Aiding Aviation Safety: Detection of Cold Air Aloft Using COSMIC RO and AIRS Hyperspectral IR Sounder

Michelle Feltz, CIMSS, Madison, WI; and R. Knuteson, E. Weisz, N. Smith, W. Feltz, and S. Ackerman

Manuscript (2.2 MB)

Session 11A

Radar Technologies and Applications, Part II: X-Band Networks

Location: Room 348/349 ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)

Host: 32nd Conference on Environmental Information Processing Technologies

Cochairs: Kurt D. Hondl, NOAA; Mark B. Yeary, University of Oklahoma; Michael J. Istok, NOAA/NWS

11:00 AM

11A.1

Software Design for Coordinated Remote Control of Weather Radar Networks

David L. Pepyne, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA; and E. J. Lyons, M. Zink, V. Chandrasekar, D. Westbrook, and B. J. Philips

11:15 AM

11A.2

Short-term Prediction of Weather Radar Quantities and Lightning Activity in Dallas-Fort Worth (DFW) Area

Evan Ruzanski, Vaisala, Inc., Louisville, CO; and V. Chandrasekar

11A.3

Dual-polarization X-band weather radar observations in Dallas Forth Worth as lightning precursors

11:45 AM

11A.4

Four-Dimensional Variational Data Assimilation of High-resolution Radar Observations from CASA Dallas-Fort Worth (DFW) Urban Demonstration Network

Renzo Bechini, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO; and V. Chandrasekar, J. Sun, and H. Chen

Session 11B

Weather and the Roads, Part I

Location: Room 355 ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)

Host: 32nd Conference on Environmental Information Processing Technologies

Cochairs: Paul A. Pisano, USDOT/Federal Highway Administration; Ralph Patterson, NarwhalMet; Brenda C. Boyce, Booz Allen Hamilton

11:00 AM

11B.1

Cloud Impacts on Road Pavement Temperature and Mobile Vehicle Observations

Curtis L. Walker, University of Nebraska, Lincoln, NE; and M. R. Anderson

Recorded Presentation

11:15 AM

11B.2

Experimental applications of Mobile Vehicle Observations: Scientific and technical challenges associated with the utilization of vehicle probe data

Barbara G. Brown, NCAR, Boulder, CO; and M. Billmire, N. French, J. D. Horel, N. Lucke, J. Wang, J. Zeng, A. R. S. Anderson, J. A. Lee, L. Sturges, and P. Pisano

Recorded Presentation

11:30 AM

11B.3

Helios Road Weather: transforming the way you see weather

Sheldon D. Drobot, Harris, Boulder, CO

Recorded Presentation

11:45 AM

11B.4

The Pikalert® Vehicle Data Translator – Updates and Applications

Amanda R. S. Anderson, NCAR, Boulder, CO; and G. Wiener, S. Linden, W. Petzke, G. N. Guevara, B. C. Boyce, and P. Pisano

Recorded Presentation

Session 12

Climate Data Analysis and Downscaling – Part 2

Location: Room 226/227 ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)

Host: 23rd Conference on Probability and Statistics in the Atmospheric Sciences

Chair: Andrew Poppick, University of Chicago

11:00 AM

12.1

Tropospheric Biennial Oscillation (TBO) Indistinguishable from White Noise

Malte F. Stuecker, University of Hawaii, Honolulu, HI; and A. Timmermann, J. Yoon, and F. F. Jin

Recorded Presentation

11:15 AM

12.2

A Fast and Objective Multidimensional Kernel Density Estimation Method for Climate Data Analysis: fastKDE

Travis A. O'Brien, LBNL, Berkeley, CA; and K. Kashinath, N. R. Cavanaugh, W. D. Collins, and J. P. O'Brien

Recorded Presentation

11:30 AM

12.3

Comparing Statistical Downscaling Method Performance: Different Methods, Different Metrics, Different Time Periods

John Lanzante, NOAA/GFDL, Princeton, NJ; and K. W. Dixon

Recorded Presentation

11:45 AM

12.4

A Bayesian Hierarchical Model for Statistical Downscaling of Climate Extremes Using Monthly Output from CMIP5 Models

Chi Yang, Beijing Normal University, Beijing, China; and Y. Li

Recorded Presentation

Handout (2.0 MB)

Session 12A

Advances in Climate Modeling and Prediction: Part 2

Location: La Nouvelle C ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)

Host: 28th Conference on Climate Variability and Change

Chair: R. Saravanan, Texas A&M University

11:00 AM

12A.1

Improving the Prognostic Ozone Parameterization in the NCEP GFS and CFS for Climate Reanalysis and Operational Forecasts

Gilbert P. Compo, CIRES, Univ. of Colorado and Physical Sciences Division/ESRL/NOAA, Boulder, CO; and S. Moorthi, S. Lu, C. S. Long, H. T. Lee, J. P. McCormack, P. D. Sardeshmukh, and J. S. Whitaker

11:15 AM

12A.2

The Use of Reduced Complexity Frameworks for Model Development

Kevin A. Reed, SUNY, Stony Brook, NY; and B. Medeiros and D. R. Chavas

Recorded Presentation

11:30 AM

12A.3

Ultraparameterization: A New Strategy for Including Explicit Low Cloud Physics in Global Climate Models at the GPU-Accelerated Petascale

Mike Pritchard, University of California, Irvine, CA; and C. Bretherton, M. Khairoutdinov, H. Parishani, M. Wyant, and B. Singh

Recorded Presentation

11:45 AM

12A.4

Role of Ocean Dynamics in Realizing the Climate over the Intra-Americas Seas

Vasu Misra, Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL; and A. K. Mishra

Session 12C

Regional Climate Variability and Change: Part 2

Location: La Nouvelle A ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)

Host: 28th Conference on Climate Variability and Change

Chair: Kerry H. Cook, University of Texas

12C.1

Attribution of record high daily temperatures in Australia in 2013 and 2014

11:00 AM

12C.1A

The variability of the Saharan Heat Low intensity and its impact on the West African Climate and precipitation

Christophe Lavaysse, European Commission, Ispra, Italy; and C. Flamant, A. Evan, S. Janicot, and M. Gaetani

Recorded Presentation

11:15 AM

12C.2

Revisiting Trends in Wetness and Dryness in the Presence of Internal Climate Variability

Sanjiv Kumar, NOAA, Boulder, CO; and R. P. Allan, P. A. Dirmeyer, D. M. Lawrence, and F. W. Zwiers

Recorded Presentation Manuscript (49.4 kB)

11:30 AM

12C.3

An Attempt to Deconstruct the Observed Climate Trends in the Baltic Sea Basin

Hans von Storch, Helmholtz-Zentrum Geesthacht Centre for Materials and Coastal Research, Geesthacht, Germany; and A. Barkhordarian and C. R. Mechoso

Recorded Presentation

Handout (4.1 MB)

11:45 AM

12C.4

Factors Contributing to Regional and Seasonal Trends in Temperature Extremes

Randall Dole, NOAA/ESRL, Boulder, CO; and M. Hoerling, J. Perlwitz, K. Wolter, and J. Eischeid

Recorded Presentation

Joint Session 20

Hydrological Processes with Application to Urban Environments (Joint between the 30th Conference on Hydrology and the AMS Board on Urban Environment)

Location: Room 242 ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)

Host: 30th Conference on Hydrology

Chair: Dev Niyogi, Purdue University

11:00 AM

J20.1

Observational and Modeling Studies of Extreme Floods in Urban Environments

James Smith, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ; and M. L. Baeck, L. Yang, and D. Niyogi

Recorded Presentation

11:15 AM

J20.2

Applying Improved Surface Urban Hydrological Processes in the New Single Layer Urban Canopy Model over Houston

James Brownlee, Florida Institute of Technology, Melbourne, FL; and P. Ray and M. Tewari

Recorded Presentation

11:30 AM

J20.3

Real-time flash flood forecasting for the Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex (DFW)

Hamideh Habibi, Univ. of Texas, Arlington, TX; and B. Nazari, A. Norouzi, D. J. Seo, S. Noh, P. Jangyodsuk, J. Gao, R. Muttiah, H. Chen, V. Chandrasekar, E. J. Lyons, B. J. Philips, B. Kerkez, and M. Zink

11:45 AM

J20.4

Assessing urban impact on winter precipitation type using dual polarization radar

Bradford Johnson, University of Georgia, Athens, GA; and J. M. Shepherd

Recorded Presentation

11:00 AM-12:15 PM: Thursday, 14 January 2016

Session 2

Atmospheric Waves, Part II

Location: Room 343 ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)

Host: Marvin Geller Symposium

11:00 AM

2.1

Studies of Gravity Waves and Contributions to SCOSTEP

Robert Vincent, University of Adelaide, Adelaide, SA, Australia

Recorded Presentation

11:15 AM

2.2

Multi-Scale Gravity Wave Dynamics: Implications for Instabilities, Turbulence, and Mixing Throughout the Atmosphere

David C. Fritts, GATS, Inc, Boulder, CO; and L. Wang and M. A. Geller

Recorded Presentation

11:30 AM

2.3

Gravity Waves, Upper Tropospheric Dehydration and Stratospheric Water Vapor

Mark R. Schoeberl, Science and Technology Corporation, Columbia, MD; and A. E. Dessler, T. Wang, and E. Jensen

Recorded Presentation

11:45 AM

2.4

Gravity Wave Forcing and the Simulation of Antarctic Polar Ozone in the Whole Atmosphere Community Climate Model

Rolando R. Garcia, NCAR, Boulder, CO; and A. Smith and D. Kinnison

Recorded Presentation

12:00 PM

2.5

The Coupling of Mixed Rossby-Gravity Waves with Diabatic Heating

Minghua Zhang, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook University, NY; and X. Wang

Session 4

Pollutant Sources, Transport, Transformation, and Sinks

Location: Room 356 ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)

Host: 18th Conference on Atmospheric Chemistry

CoChair: Jeffrey L. Collett Jr., Colorado State University

11:00 AM

4.1

Megacity Levels of Black Carbon in the Port of Valparaiso, Chile: The Role of Synoptic and Mesoscale Circulations

Graciela B. Raga, Centro de Ciencias de la Atmosfera/Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico, Mexico City, Mexico; and J. C. Marin, D. Baumgardner, A. M. Cordova, J. Arevalo, and D. Pozo

Recorded Presentation

11:15 AM

4.2

Modelling development and Assessment: Impact of Arctic Shipping Emissions upon Northern Canada

Stephen R. Beagley, EC, Toronto, ON, Canada; and W. Gong, S. Cousineau, S. Menard, J. Racine, R. Munoz-Alpizar, and J. Zhang

Recorded Presentation

11:30 AM

4.3

Overview and evaluation of the new Community Multiscale Air Quality (CMAQ) model version 5.1

K. Wyat Appel, EPA, Research Triangle Park, NC; and S. Napelenok, C. Hogrefe, G. A. Pouliot, B. K. Eder, K. M. Foley, S. J. Roselle, R. Mathur, and J. E. Pleim

Recorded Presentation

11:45 AM

4.4

WRF-Chem Modeling of Carbon Monoxide Emissions Budget and Satellite EDR Assimilation Experiment: AEROSE 2013 Case Study

Jonathan W. Smith, NOAA/NESDIS/Center for Satellite Applications and Research, College Park, MD; and N. Nalli

Recorded Presentation

12:00 PM

4.5

Impacts of Heterogeneous HONO Formation on Radical Sources and Ozone Chemistry in Houston, Texas

william vizuete, University of North Carolina, chapel hill, NC; and E. couzo, B. Lefer, J. Stutz, G. Yarwood, P. Karamchandani, and B. Henderson

Recorded Presentation

11:30 AM-12:00 PM: Thursday, 14 January 2016

Session 12

Librarians and Research Data Curation & Management Programs and Initiatives

Location: Room 340/341 ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)

Host: 19th Conference of Atmospheric Science Librarians International

Chair: Gene Major, Program Manager,Library Associates, NASA/GSFC Library

11:30 AM

12.1

Communities, Collaboration, and Conversation: Building Blocks for Data Curation

Elizabeth Fish, University of Miami, Miami, FL; and T. Norris

Recorded Presentation

11:45 AM

12.2

The Library Research Data Curation Program - Building Buzz at UC San Diego

Reid Otsuji, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA

Recorded Presentation

Handout (4.3 MB) Handout (232.8 kB)

12:00 PM-1:30 PM: Thursday, 14 January 2016

Lunch Break

12:45 PM-1:05 PM: Thursday, 14 January 2016

Weather Modeling and Data Assimilation to Provide the Science to Serve Society — Part III

Location: Room 348/349 ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)

1:30 PM-2:00 PM: Thursday, 14 January 2016

Session 6

Location: Room 338/339 ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)

Host: Sixth Conference on Transition of Research to Operations

Cochairs: Eric Miller, NOAA/NESDIS; Sabrina J. Taijeron, Riverside Technology Inc.

1:30 PM

6.1

Fine Scale Hail Hazard Prediction using the WRF Model

Badrinath Nagarajan, IBM Research, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia; and L. Treinish, J. P. Cipriani, and J. Calusinski

Recorded Presentation

Handout (2.7 MB)

1:45 PM

6.2

Operational Predictability of Explicit High Shear, Low CAPE Convection

Lindsay Blank, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC; and G. Lackmann

Recorded Presentation

1:30 PM-2:45 PM: Thursday, 14 January 2016

Session 11

Materhorn and Other Complex Terrain Meteorological Investigations

Location: Room 243 ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)

Host: 19th Joint Conference on the Applications of Air Pollution Meteorology with the A&WMA

Chair: Robert F. Banks, Barcelona Supercomputing Center

1:30 PM

11.1

Experimental investigation of flow over a double ridge with several Doppler lidar systems

Jakob Mann, DTU Wind Energy (RisÃ¸), Roskilde, Denmark; and J. M. L. M. Palma, J. C. Matos, N. Angelou, M. Courtney, G. Lea, and N. Vasiljevic

Recorded Presentation

1:45 PM

11.4

Sensitivity of Numerical Prediction of Fog Events to WRF Model Physical Parameterization Schemes: A Study with MATERHORN Fog-X Observations

Catherine N. Chachere, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT; and Z. Pu

Recorded Presentation

2:00 PM

11.3

Assimilation of MATERHORN field program data for better understanding and prediction of mountainous atmospheric flows over complex terrain

Zhaoxia Pu, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT; and L. Zhang

2:15 PM

11.2

Ice Fog Microphysical Properties at High Elevations: MATERHORN Observations and Parameterizations

Ismail Gultepe, EC, Toronto, ON, Canada; and L. S. Leo, E. R. Pardyjak, S. Hoch, E. Creegan, Z. Silver, S. D. Wekker, and H. J. S. Fernando

2:30 PM

11.5

Precision Airdrop Modeling Studies Using TODWL Wind Data Collected over Complex Terrain during MATERHORN-X

G. D. Emmitt, Simpson Weather Associates, Charlottesville, VA; and S. Greco and K. S. Godwin

Recorded Presentation

Joint Session 21

AI Applications in Real-World Hydrologic Problems

Location: Room 354 ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)

Host: 30th Conference on Hydrology

Cochairs: Valliappa Lakshmanan, Climate Corporation; John N. McHenry, Baron Advanced Meteorological Systems, LLC

1:30 PM

J21.1

A Rainfall Nowcasting Algorithm Based on Hydro-Estimator Data

Joan M. Castro, University of Puerto Rico, Mayaguez, PR; and N. D. Ramirez-Beltran and J. Gonzalez

1:45 PM

J21.2

Better Living Through Post-Processing: Improving Probabilistic Heavy Rainfall Prediction

Trevor Alcott, OAR, Boulder, CO; and C. R. Alexander and I. Jankov

Recorded Presentation

2:00 PM

J21.3

Spatial Clustering of Extreme Rainfall Events in Greater New York Area Using Weather Radar Data

Ali Hamidi, City University of New York, New York, NY; and N. Devineni, J. F. Booth, R. R. Ferraro, and R. Khanbilvardi

Recorded Presentation

2:15 PM

J21.4

Evaluating the Use of a Naïve Bayes Classification Algorithm to Identify Tweets Containing Observations of Flash Flooding

Brandon R. Smith, OU/CIMMS and NOAA/OAR/NSSL, Norman, OK; and J. J. Gourley, Y. Hong, C. Silva, and Z. L. Flamig

Recorded Presentation

2:30 PM

J21.5

Can We Obtain Viable Alternatives to Manning's Equation Using Genetic Programming?

Carlos Felipe Gaitan, University of Oklahoma/NOAA-GFDL, Princeton, NJ; and B. Moore III and V. Balaji

Recorded Presentation

Joint Session 21

AI Applications in Real-World Hydrologic Problems

Location: Room 354 ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)

Host: 14th Conference on Artificial and Computational Intelligence and its Applications to the Environmental Sciences

Cochairs: Valliappa Lakshmanan, Climate Corporation; John N. McHenry, Baron Advanced Meteorological Systems, LLC

1:30 PM

J21.1

A Rainfall Nowcasting Algorithm Based on Hydro-Estimator Data

Joan M. Castro, University of Puerto Rico, Mayaguez, PR; and N. D. Ramirez-Beltran and J. Gonzalez

1:45 PM

J21.2

Better Living Through Post-Processing: Improving Probabilistic Heavy Rainfall Prediction

Trevor Alcott, OAR, Boulder, CO; and C. R. Alexander and I. Jankov

Recorded Presentation

2:00 PM

J21.3

Spatial Clustering of Extreme Rainfall Events in Greater New York Area Using Weather Radar Data

Ali Hamidi, City University of New York, New York, NY; and N. Devineni, J. F. Booth, R. R. Ferraro, and R. Khanbilvardi

Recorded Presentation

2:15 PM

J21.4

Evaluating the Use of a Naïve Bayes Classification Algorithm to Identify Tweets Containing Observations of Flash Flooding

Brandon R. Smith, OU/CIMMS and NOAA/OAR/NSSL, Norman, OK; and J. J. Gourley, Y. Hong, C. Silva, and Z. L. Flamig

Recorded Presentation

2:30 PM

J21.5

Can We Obtain Viable Alternatives to Manning's Equation Using Genetic Programming?

Carlos Felipe Gaitan, University of Oklahoma/NOAA-GFDL, Princeton, NJ; and B. Moore III and V. Balaji

Recorded Presentation

1:30 PM-3:00 PM: Thursday, 14 January 2016

Session 3

Ocean Circulation Modeling and High Performance Computing

Location: Room 344 ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)

Host: Second Symposium on High Performance Computing for Weather, Water, and Climate

Cochairs: Gerald J. Creager, CIMMS/Univ. of Oklahoma/NSSL; Brian J. Etherton, ESRL/GSD

1:30 PM

3.1

Rationale for Large Domain High Resolution Unstructured Grids to Simulate Coastal Hydrodynamic Processes

Joannes Westerink, University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, IN; and R. Luettich and C. Dawson

Recorded Presentation

1:45 PM

3.2

High Order Numerical Methods for Geophysical Fluid Flows on HPC Architectures

Clint Dawson, University of Texas, Austin, TX; and J. Westerink, C. Michoski, and S. Brus

Recorded Presentation

2:00 PM

3.3

Using New Programming Models to Improve the Scalability and Performance of Near Real-time High Resolution Coastal Modeling

Hartmut Kaiser, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA

Recorded Presentation

2:15 PM

3.4

Techniques for Enabling Interoperability Between Existing Fortran Codes and Hpx, a Next-generation C++ Based Parallel Runtime System

Zachary D. Byerly, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA; and S. Brus and A. Schäfer

Recorded Presentation

2:30 PM

3.5

Updates on the Utilization of the Intel® Xeon Phi Co-processors with the Community-based Shallow Water Model, ADCIRC

Kendra M. Dresback, University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK; and P. Velesko, R. L. Kolar, B. Starcher, A. Sharp, R. Green, T. Phung, J. Alexander, D. Akin, and H. Neeman

2:45 PM

3.6

CERA - An Interactive ADCIRC Storm Surge and Wave Visualization Framework

Carola Kaiser, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA

Recorded Presentation

Session 3

Ozone and Solar-Terrestrial Coupling

Location: Room 343 ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)

Host: Marvin Geller Symposium

1:30 PM

3.1

Impact of the Montreal Protocol: Evidence from Stratospheric Ozone Data

Richard S. Stolarski, Johns Hopkins Univ., Baltimore, MD

Recorded Presentation

1:45 PM

3.2

An Update on Stratospheric OzoneLayer Depletion and Geller's Contributions to this Global Environmental issue

A. R. Ravishankara, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO

Recorded Presentation

2:00 PM

3.3

The impact of sudden stratospheric warmings on Arctic ozone depletion

Susan E. Strahan, NASA/GSFC, Greenbelt, MD; and A. R. Douglass and S. D. Steenrod

Recorded Presentation

2:15 PM

3.4

The recovery of the Antarctic ozone hole

Paul A. Newman, NASA/GSFC, Greenbelt, MD; and E. R. Nash, N. Kramarova, S. E. Strahan, and V. Aquila

2:30 PM

3.5

Some Developments and Advances in the Study of Waves and Coupling in the Solar Terrestrial System under MAP and CAWSES

Chao Han Liu, Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan

Recorded Presentation

2:45 PM

3.6

Solar Cycle Influence on the North Atlantic

Lesley J. Gray, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom; and M. Andrews, J. Knight, and A. A. Scaife

Session 3

Seamless Weather and Climate Prediction 1—future NWP models

Location: Room 231/232 ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)

Host: Special Symposium on Seamless Weather and Climate Prediction—Expectations and Limits of Multi-scale Predictability

Chair: Roberto Buizza, ECMWF

1:30 PM

3.1

Current and Future Plans of the Unified Global Modeling System Development at NCEP for Seamless Weather and Climate Predictions (Invited Presentation)

Vijay Tallapragada, NOAA/NWS/NCEP/EMC, College Park, MD

Recorded Presentation

2:00 PM

3.2

Extended-Range Severe Weather Guidance Using a Global Convection-Permitting Model (Invited Presentation)

William C. Skamarock, NCAR, Boulder, CO; and L. J. Wicker, A. J. Clark, and S. M. Cavallo

Recorded Presentation

2:30 PM

3.3

Extended-Range Forecast of Tropical Cyclogenesis in the Western North Pacific Using a Global Nonhydrostatic Atmospheric Model

Masuo Nakano, Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology, Yokohama, Japan; and T. Nasuno, K. Kikuchi, and M. Satoh

2:45 PM

3.4

Research on Prediction and Predictability at the Weather-Climate Continuum

Heather M. Archambault, NOAA, Silver Spring, MD; and A. Mariotti, D. Barrie, W. Chong, and A. Stevens

Recorded Presentation

Session 5

Secondary Organic Aerosols: Formation, Properties, and Atmospheric Evolution

Location: Room 356 ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)

Host: 18th Conference on Atmospheric Chemistry

Cochairs: Alla Zelenyuk, PNNL; Jason Surratt, Univ. of North Carolina

1:30 PM

5.1

Uptake and Release of Gaseous Species Accompanying the Reactions of Isoprene Photo-Oxidation Products with Sulfate Particles (Invited Presentation)

Scot T. Martin, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA; and Y. Liu, M. Kuwata, and K. A. McKinney

1:45 PM

5.2

New Approaches for SOA Modeling Based on Recent Experimental Results (Invited Presentation)

Manishkumar Shrivastava, PNNL, Richland, WA; and A. Zelenyuk, R. C. Easter, J. D. Fast, C. Zhao, Y. Qian, P. Rasch, and S. Ghan

Recorded Presentation

2:00 PM

5.3

Mulitphase Chemistry Promotes Isoprene SOA Formation: Recent Results from Field and Lab Studies

Jason D. Surratt, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC; and M. Riva, A. Gold, Y. H. Lin, Z. Zhang, S. H. Budisulistiorini, T. Cui, Y. Chen, W. Vizuete, W. Rattanavaraha, K. Chu, T. Riedel, J. A. Thornton, A. Zelenyuk, and M. Glasius

2:15 PM

5.4

The Effect of Hydrophobic Gas-phase Organics on Nucleation, Mass Loading, Volatility, Viscosity, and Oligomer Content of SOA Particles

Alla Zelenyuk, PNNL, Richland, WA; and D. Imre, J. Wilson, D. Bell, J. Beranek, and M. Shrivastava

2:30 PM

5.5

Using Microfluidics to Measure Surface-Bulk Partitioning of Aerosol Constituents

Andrew R. Metcalf, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN; and H. Boyer and C. S. Dutcher

2:45 PM

5.6

Surface Tension Modeling of Secondary Organic Aerosol Chemical Mimics

Hallie Boyer, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN; and C. Dutcher

Recorded Presentation

Joint Session 7

Data Stewardship

Location: Room 340/341 ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)

Hosts: (Joint between the 19th Conference of Atmospheric Science Librarians International; and the 32nd Conference on Environmental Information Processing Technologies )

CoChair: Matthew S. Mayernik, NCAR

1:30 PM

J7.1

Repository Cross-Linking for Open Archiving and Sharing of Scientific Data and Articles

Matthew S. Mayernik, NCAR, Boulder, CO; and J. Phillips, D. Middleton, and E. Nienhouse

Recorded Presentation

1:45 PM

J7.2

Parameterisation of Flows and Pollutant Transport over Idealised Urban Roughness

Chun-Ho Liu, University of Hong Kong, Pokfulam, Hong Kong; and Y. K. Ho and C. T. Ng

Recorded Presentation

2:00 PM

J7.3

Transforming NOAA's Data Stewardship: Formation of the National Centers for Environmental Information (NCEI)

Scott A. Hausman, NOAA/NESDIS, Asheville, NC

2:15 PM

J7.4

New Information Systems for Data Stewardship at NCEI

Nancy A. Ritchey, National Centers for Environmental Information (NOAA/NESDIS/NCEI), Asheville, NC; and P. Jones, K. S. Casey, and A. Milan

Recorded Presentation

2:30 PM

J7.5

Publishers' Policies for Data Citation: Do they Ease Data Discovery and Use?

Christine Sherratt, MIT Libraries, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA; and C. Malinowski

Recorded Presentation

2:45 PM

J7.6

But I Don't Have Access to Your Server, and My Grad Student Left Last Month: Meeting the Challenges of Data Transfer and Metadata Gathering

Juliane Schneider, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA

Recorded Presentation

Joint Session 7

Studies Involving Extreme Temperature Variability and Intensity Related to our Changing Change

Location: Room 228/229 ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)

Hosts: (Joint between the Seventh Conference on Environment and Health; and the 28th Conference on Climate Variability and Change )

Chair: Austin C. Stanforth, Indiana University

1:30 PM

J7.1

Historical Changes in the Moisture Content of Heat Waves in the United States

J.T. Schoof, Southern Illinois University, Carbondale, IL

Recorded Presentation

1:45 PM

J7.2

On the Use of Statistical Downscaling Time-invariant Transfer Functions and Their Effect on Historical and Future Climate Indices. Case study: Heat Wave Duration in Montreal, Canada

Carlos Felipe Gaitan, University of Oklahoma/NOAA-GFDL, Princeton, NJ

Recorded Presentation

2:00 PM

J7.3

Regional Climate Change Over Southwest Asia

Jeremy S. Pal, Loyola Marymount University, Los Angeles, CA; and E. A. B. Eltahir

2:15 PM

J7.4

Detection of Anthropogenic Influence on a Summertime Heat Stress Index

Thomas R. Knutson, NOAA/GFDL, Princeton, NJ; and J. J. Ploshay

Recorded Presentation

2:30 PM

J7.6

Science Communication: Meteorologists and Climate Change & Health

Jay Lemery, University of Colorado , Denver, Colorado; and C. Sorensen

Recorded Presentation

Session 8

Case Studies: Part III

Location: Room 342 ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)

Host: 14th Symposium on the Coastal Environment

Cochairs: Michael J. DeFlorio, SIO/Univ. Of California; Gregory Dusek, NOAA

1:30 PM

8.1

Spatial Variability of Tidal Currents in Puget Sound, Washington

Gregory Dusek, NOAA, Silver Spring, MD; and C. Pico, C. Paternostro, and P. Fanelli

Recorded Presentation Manuscript (1.2 MB)

1:45 PM

8.2

The Effect of Western Michigan's Coastline on Heavy Rainfall

Sarah Trojniak, Saint Louis University, St. Louis, MO

Recorded Presentation

2:00 PM

8.3

Sensitivity of Modeled Wave Field to Temporal and Spatial Resolution of Meteorological Forcing

Peyman Taeb, Florida Institute of Technology, Melbourne, FL; and R. J. Weaver, A. Saberi, S. M. Lazarus, M. E. Splitt, B. P. Holman, and J. Colvin

Recorded Presentation

2:15 PM

8.4

U.S. Tropical Cyclone Precipitation Characteristics based on NCEP STIV and GFS data

Tristan J. Hall, Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL; and H. E. Fuelberg and R. E. Hart

Recorded Presentation

2:30 PM

8.5

Marine Boundary Layer Effects on Gravity Wave Launching during DEEPWAVE

Brian J. Billings, Millersville University, Millersville, PA; and N. M. Carlyle, T. C. Osborne, and J. D. Doyle

Recorded Presentation

2:45 PM

8.6

Effect of Wind Reduction Factors on Forecasting Circulation in an Estuary

Atousa Saberi, Florida Institute of Technology, Melbourne, FL; and R. J. Weaver, P. Taeb, S. M. Lazarus, M. E. Splitt, B. P. Holman, and J. Colvin

Recorded Presentation

Session 8

Impacts of Aerosols on Storm Dynamics, Cloud Physics, and Precipitation I

Location: Room 357 ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)

Host: Eighth Symposium on Aerosol–Cloud–Climate Interactions

Chair: Wei -Kuo Tao, NASA/GSFC

CoChair: Xiaowen Li, Morgan State University

1:30 PM

8.1

Anthropogenic Aerosols and past Precipitation Change (Invited Presentation)

Chien Wang, MIT, Cambridge, MA

Recorded Presentation

1:45 PM

8.2

Modulation of Aerosol Impacts on Convective Clouds (Invited Presentation)

Susan C. van den Heever, Colorado State Univ., Fort Collins, CO; and L. D. Grant, S. R. Herbener, P. J. Marinescu, and A. M. Sheffield

Recorded Presentation

2:00 PM

8.3

Interactions between Thunderstorms, Chemistry, and Aerosols for a Severe Storm Ingesting an Elevated Wildfire Smoke Plume

Mary C. Barth, NCAR, Boulder, CO; and S. M. Saleeby, S. C. van den Heever, S. A. Rutledge, and M. M. Bela

2:15 PM

8.4

Impacts of Vertically Varying Aerosol Layers on MCS Cold Pool and Precipitation Processes

Peter J. Marinescu, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO; and S. M. Saleeby, S. C. van den Heever, S. M. Kreidenweis, and P. J. DeMott

2:30 PM

8.5

Investigating Sensitivity to Saharan Dust in Atlantic Hurricane Formation Using the GEOS-5 Adjoint Model

Daniel Holdaway, NASA, Greenbelt, MD

Recorded Presentation

2:45 PM

8.6

Impacts of Forest Fire Smoke Aerosols on Deep Convective Clouds in WRF-CHEM Simulations

Azusa Takeishi, Yale University, New Haven, CT; and T. Storelvmo

Recorded Presentation

Session 9

Precipitation Processes and Observations for Atmospheric, Land Surface, and Hydrological Modeling, Part III

Location: Room 240/241 ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)

Host: 30th Conference on Hydrology

Cochairs: Yu Zhang, NOAA/NWS; Paul A. Kucera, NCAR; Emad Habib, Univ. of Louisiana

1:30 PM

9.1

Evaporation of Melting Ice Particles Within a Melting Layer Model

Andrea J. Neumann, University of North Dakota, Grand Forks, ND; and M. R. Poellot and A. J. Heymsfield

Recorded Presentation

1:45 PM

9.2

An evaluation of WRF microphysics schemes using the satellite-observed vertical structure of heavy rainfall over the Korean peninsula

Hwan-Jin Song, Seoul National University, Seoul, South Korea; and B. J. Sohn, S. Y. Hong, and T. Hashino

2:00 PM

9.3

Precipitation Forecasts for COAMPS-Hydro - An Initial Look from Hurricane Irene (2011)

Jerome Schmidt, NRL, Monterey, CA; and S. Chen and T. Holt

Recorded Presentation

2:15 PM

9.4

Probabilistic Quantitative Precipitation Estimates with Ground and Space-based Radars

Pierre-Emmanuel Kirstetter, NOAA/NSSL / Univ. of Oklahoma, Norman, OK; and S. Tanelli, J. J. Gourley, and J. Zhang

9.5

Impact of Total Precipitable Water Assimilation into North American Moonsoon Precipitation Forecasts

2:45 PM

9.6

Initial Results of Integrating GPM/IMERG Precipitation Data into Operational Forecasting Environments

Matthew R. Smith, Univ. of Alabama, Huntsville, AL; and A. LeRoy, J. L. Case, and D. T. Bolvin

Recorded Presentation

Session 10

Data Assimilation: Ground-Based and In-Situ

Location: Room 345 ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)

Host: 20th Conference on Integrated Observing and Assimilation Systems for the Atmosphere, Oceans, and Land Surface (IOAS-AOLS)

Chair: Jeff Anderson, NCAR

1:30 PM

10.1

Improving HWRF Vortex Initialization Through Assimilation of Hurricane Inner-Core Observations with the GSI Hybrid Data Assimilation System

Zhaoxia Pu, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT; and S. Zhang

Recorded Presentation

1:45 PM

10.2

Thinning Strategies for Combined Radar and Satellite Data Sets to Increase Storm-Scale Data Assimilation Efficiency

Thomas A. Jones, CIMMS, Norman, OK; and D. M. Wheatley, K. H. Knopfmeier, P. Minnis, and R. Palikonda

Recorded Presentation

2:00 PM

10.3

Assimilation of Dual-Polarimetric Radar Observations Using WRFVAR with Ice Particles in Control Variables

Xuanli Li, Univ. of Alabama, Huntsville, AL; and J. R. Mecikalski

Recorded Presentation

2:15 PM

10.4

Surface Data Assimilation with the Canadian Fast-Cycling High-Resolution Ensemble Kalman Filter

Weiguang Chang, EC, Dorval, QC, Canada; and S. J. Baek, L. Fillion, and D. Jacques

Recorded Presentation

2:30 PM

10.5

Impact of Tropical Cyclone-Associated Background Structure on Tropical Cyclone Assimilation and Prediction

Kuan-Jen Lin, National Central University, Jhongli City, Taiwan; and S. C. Yang and S. Chen

Recorded Presentation

2:45 PM

10.6

Tuning an Analysis and Incremental Analysis Updating Assimilation for an Efficient High Resolution Forecast System

Keith A. Brewster, University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK; and D. R. Stratman

Recorded Presentation Manuscript (1017.9 kB)

Session 10

Decision Support Tools Part 1

Location: Room 255/257 ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)

Host: Fourth Symposium on Building a Weather-Ready Nation: Enhancing Our Nation’s Readiness, Responsiveness, and Resilience to High Impact Weather Events

Chair: Steven Zubrick, NOAA/NWS

1:30 PM

10.1

Using GIS for Automated Near Real-time Storm Surge Inundation Mapping and Visualization for the Gulf of Mexico

Amanda M. Weigel, Univ. of Alabama, Huntsville, AL; and D. Gallagher and R. Griffin

Recorded Presentation

10.2

Perceptions of Accuracy, Communication and Utilization of Fire Weather Spot Forecasts

1:45 PM

10.2A

Applications of Satellite Imagery Applications to Assist in Storm Damage Assessment

Lori A. Schultz, University of Alabama, Huntsville, AL ; and K. Angle, T. Cole, K. Skow, J. Bell, A. L. Molthan, J. E. Burks, and K. M. McGrath

2:00 PM

10.3

Coastal Flood Decision Support Tool for Forecast Operations in Alaska

Andrew David Moore, NOAA, Washington DC, DC

Recorded Presentation

2:15 PM

10.4

Using Micronets to Direct and Facilitate Rapid Response*

Nicole L. Homeier, Understory Weather, Somerville, MA; and E. Hewitt, A. Kubicek, and A. Jacobs

Recorded Presentation

2:30 PM

10.5

Conveying Potential Snow Threat in Days 4-7 Given Predictability Limitations Using Multi-Model Ensembles

Steven Zubrick, NWS Weather Forecast Office, Sterling, VA; and J. E. Lee, C. Strong, B. LaSorsa, M. Elliott, D. R. Novak, and M. J. Bodner

Recorded Presentation

2:45 PM

10.6

Embracing the New NWS Financial and Organizational Structure: Leading a Multi-Office Damage Path Tool Project to Support a FEMA-Requested Service

Joshua W. Scheck, NOAA/NWS, Bismarck, ND; and P. Kirkwood, B. P. Walawender, M. Foster, A. Anderson, D. L. Andra Jr., J. P. Camp, E. Mandel, M. A. Magsig, and J. T. Ferree

Recorded Presentation

Session 11

Calibration and Validation, Part I

Location: Room 225 ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)

Host: 12th Annual Symposium on New Generation Operational Environmental Satellite Systems

Cochairs: Fuzhong Weng, NOAA; Kerry Grant, Raytheon Intelligence, Information and Services

1:30 PM

11.1

An Integrated Geo-Stationary Validation System for GOES-R

Robert Holz, CIMSS/Univ. of Wisconsin, Madison, WI; and G. Quinn, F. W. Nagle, and W. Wolf

Recorded Presentation

1:45 PM

11.2

ABI's Unique Calibration and Validation Capabilities

Paul C. Griffith, Harris, Fort Wayne, IN

Recorded Presentation

Handout (4.9 MB)

2:00 PM

11.3

Updates on SNPP/JPSS Data Products Performance and Calibration/Validation (Cal Val)

Lihang Zhou, NOAA/NESDIS, College Park, MD; and F. Weng, I. Csiszar, M. Divakarla, X. Liu, T. Atkins, J. Feeley, A. Layns, and M. Goldberg

2:15 PM

11.4

JPSS-1 VIIRS Pre-Launch Testing and Performance Assessment

Jack Xiong, NASA/GSFC, Greenbelt, MD; and J. Butler, H. Oudrai, J. McIntire, and K. Thome

2:30 PM

11.5

Suomi NPP/J1 VIIRS SDR Performance Highlights and cal/val Update

Changyong Cao, NOAA/NESDIS/STAR, College Park, MD; and W. Wang, S. Uprety, S. blonski, Z. Wang, X. shao, and Y. Bai

Recorded Presentation

2:45 PM

11.6

The New Operational VIIRS Active Fire Product in NOAA's NDE System

Ivan A. Csiszar, NOAA/NESDIS, College Park, MD; and L. Giglio, W. Schroder, W. Wolf, M. Tsidulko, and V. Mikles

Recorded Presentation

Session 11

Weather and Climate Connections: Severe Weather and Health

Location: Room 245 ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)

Host: 22nd Conference on Applied Climatology

1:30 PM

11.1

The Effects of Antecedent Soil Moisture Anomalies on Tornado Activity in the United States

Ryann Wakefield, Reseach Experiences for Undergraduates, Norman, OK; and E. Mullens, D. H. Rosendahl, and H. E. Brooks

Recorded Presentation Manuscript (990.3 kB)

1:45 PM

11.2

Soil Moisture Gradients and LU/LC Boundary Impacts on U.S. Northern Tier Derechos

Adrienne K. Tucker, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA

Recorded Presentation

2:00 PM

11.3

Spatial Climatology of Tornado Energy

Tyler Fricker, Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL; and J. B. Elsner

Recorded Presentation

2:15 PM

11.4

Australian Tornadoes: Climatology 1795-2014 Compared to a ‘Record' 2013

John T. Allen, Columbia University/IRI, Palisades, NY; and E. R. Allen

Recorded Presentation

2:30 PM

11.5

Using the Bering Sea and Typhoon Rules to Generate Long-Range Forecasts and Predictability of Severe Weather:

Joseph Renken, KOPN Radio Columbia, MO, Columbia, MO; and J. Herman, T. Bradshaw, and A. R. Lupo

Recorded Presentation

2:45 PM

11.6

Impacts of the Charlotte (North Carolina) Urban Heat Island on Local Precipitation, Biodiversity, Human Health, and Energy Use

Matthew Eastin, University of North Carolina, Charlotte, NC; and S. A. Gagne, M. Baber, A. Boucher, and R. Hubler

Recorded Presentation

Joint Session 12

Enterprise Ground Architectures and the Research to Operations Process: Tools, Technologies, and Experiences, Part II

Location: Room 252/254 ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)

Hosts: (Joint between the 12th Annual Symposium on New Generation Operational Environmental Satellite Systems; and the Sixth Conference on Transition of Research to Operations )

Cochairs: Edward J. Kennelly, Atmospheric and Environmental Research, Inc.; Maureen Madden, NOAA

1:30 PM

J12.1

Application of a Consistent Algorithm Change Approach to the NESDIS Ground Systems

Heather Kilcoyne, NOAA/NESDIS, Greenbelt, MD; and A. Layns and R. Williams

Recorded Presentation

1:45 PM

J12.2

The ASSISTT R2O Process: Easing Algorithm Research to Operations

Shanna Sampson, I.M. Systems Group, College Park, MD; and W. Wolf, T. S. King, and B. Das

Recorded Presentation

2:00 PM

J12.3

NOAA/NESDIS ESPDS – Transition of Science Algorithms into Enterprise Product Generation Operations

Dylan Powell, Lockheed Martin, Greenbelt, MD; and P. MacHarrie, R. Niemann, and D. M. Beall

Recorded Presentation

2:15 PM

J12.4

The Algorithm Workbench: A Scalable Systems Toolkit Using Shared Algorithm Components

Alexander Werbos, AER, Lexington, MA; and D. B. Hogan, D. Hunt, E. Steinfelt, and T. S. Zaccheo

Recorded Presentation

2:30 PM

J12.5

Modeling Additional Missions in the Joint Polar Satellite System (JPSS) Common Ground System (CGS)

Shawn W. Miller, Raytheon Intelligence, Information and Services, Aurora, CO; and K. D. Grant, K. K. Ottinger, and S. Cochran

Recorded Presentation

Handout (2.9 MB)

2:45 PM

J12.6

Improving the Efficiency of Product Processing and Research to Operations for an Enterprise Ground System

Allan Weiner, Harris Corporation, Melbourne, FL

Recorded Presentation

Session 12

Innovative Measurements

Location: Room 350/351 ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)

Host: 18th Symposium on Meteorological Observation and Instrumentation

Chair: Ronald J. Dobosy, NOAA/ATDD

1:30 PM

12.1

The CWOP Solar Radiation Database

Lucy Hancock, Consultant, Washington, DC; and R. B. Chadwick

Recorded Presentation Manuscript (1.4 MB)

Handout (1.8 MB)

1:45 PM

12.2

Tropical Cyclone Forecast Skill Impact Simulations with the NASA CYGNSS Constellation

Christopher S. Ruf, Univ. of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI; and M. Morris, R. Atlas, S. J. Majumdar, and Z. Pu

Recorded Presentation

Handout (4.3 MB)

2:00 PM

12.3

Using an Iridium Satellite Telemetered Gage (iGage) for Hydrologic, Snowfall, and Coastal Storm Surge Measurements to Support Forecast Operations in Alaska

Edward W. Plumb, NOAA/NWS, Fairbanks, AK; and C. Johnson

Recorded Presentation

2:15 PM

12.4

Calibration of Linearly Polarized Weather Radar for Accurate Measurements of Circular Depolarization Ratio

Qing Cao, Enterprise Electronics Corporation, Norman, OK; and M. Knight, A. V. Ryzhkov, and P. Zhang

2:30 PM

12.5

Sampling Marine Atmosphere Surface Layer in Undisturbed Environment

Qing Wang, NPS, Monterey, CA; and R. B. Rainer, D. Kang, D. Alappattu, R. T. Yamaguchi, and R. J. Lind

Recorded Presentation

2:45 PM

12.6

A New Automated Technique for Detecting Freezing Drizzle

Scott D. Landolt, NCAR, Boulder, CO; and A. J. Schwartz, A. Gaydos, and J. L. Black

Recorded Presentation

Session 12A

Radar Technologies and Applications Part III: Phased Array Radar R&D

Location: Room 348/349 ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)

Host: 32nd Conference on Environmental Information Processing Technologies

Cochairs: Mark B. Yeary, University of Oklahoma; Kurt D. Hondl, NOAA; Michael J. Istok, NOAA/NWS

1:30 PM

12A.1

Multifunction Phased Array Radar (MPAR) Progress Report

Judson E. Stailey, NOAA, Silver Spring, MD; and K. D. Hondl and M. J. Emanuel

Recorded Presentation

1:45 PM

12A.2

Planar phased array weather radars - Calibration and verification of measurements

Dusan S. Zrnic, NOAA/NSSL, Norman, OK; and I. R. Ivic and D. Mirkovic

Recorded Presentation

2:00 PM

12A.3

Advanced Concepts for Multifunction Phased Array Radar

Mark E. Weber, NOAA/OAR/NSSL/CIMMS/Univ. of Oklahoma, Norman, OK; and J. Cho

Recorded Presentation

2:15 PM

12A.4

Development of an All-Digital Polarimetric Phased Array for Future Multi-Function Radar Systems

Caleb Fulton, The University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK; and R. D. Palmer, J. Salazar, Y. Zhang, J. Meier, R. Kelley, M. McCord, D. Schmidt, and B. McGuire

Recorded Presentation

2:30 PM

12A.5

High-Resolution X-band Volumetric Observations of Spring 2015 Tornadoes with the Atmospheric Imaging Radar

James M. Kurdzo, University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK; and F. Nai, D. J. Bodine, R. D. Palmer, B. L. Cheong, J. Lujan Jr., A. Mahre, and A. D. Byrd

Recorded Presentation

2:45 PM

12A.6

2015 Phased Array Radar Innovative Sensing Experiment

Pamela L. Heinselman, NOAA/NSSL, Norman, OK; and K. A. Bowden, D. M. Kingfield, and C. M. Kuster

Recorded Presentation Manuscript (526.5 kB)

Session 12B

Weather and the Roads, Part II

Location: Room 355 ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)

Host: 32nd Conference on Environmental Information Processing Technologies

Cochairs: Paul A. Pisano, USDOT/Federal Highway Administration; Ralph Patterson, NarwhalMet; Brenda C. Boyce, Booz Allen Hamilton

1:30 PM

12B.1

The Impact of Multi-Depth Subsurface Sensor Data on Road Surface Model Forecasts

Antti Pessi, Vaisala, Westford, MA

Recorded Presentation

1:45 PM

12B.2

Road Weather Tools for Integrated Modeling and Performance Management

Brenda C. Boyce, Booz Allen Hamilton, Washington, DC; and P. Pisano and G. N. Guevara

Recorded Presentation

2:00 PM

12B.3

Verification of Global Weather Corp untuned road weather forecasts

Danny Cheresnick, Global Weather Corporation, Boulder, CO; and W. B. Gail, J. Thompson, and B. Myers

Recorded Presentation

2:15 PM

12B.4

A High-Resolution Freezing Precipitation dataset for the South-Central U.S

Esther Mullens, South Central Climate Science Center, Norman, OK; and R. A. McPherson

Recorded Presentation

2:30 PM

12B.5

Filling in the Transportation Observation and Forecast Gaps in both Space and Time

Jeremy Paul Duensing, Schneider Electric, Minneapolis, MN

Recorded Presentation

2:45 PM

12B.6

Real-time Hazardous Weather Detection and Convective Model Data Assimilation from Mobile Platforms

Paul, O.G. Heppner, Global Science & Technology, Inc., Greenbelt, MD; and C. Cogar and K. Sonntag

Recorded Presentation

Session 13

Forecast Evaluation/Verification – Part 1

Location: Room 226/227 ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)

Host: 23rd Conference on Probability and Statistics in the Atmospheric Sciences

Chair: Caren Marzban, University of Washington

1:30 PM

13.1

Evaluation of Weather and Climate Forecasts: A 2016 perspective (Invited Presentation)

Barbara G. Brown, NCAR, Boulder, CO

13.2

The Daily Variation in Verification Scores

2:00 PM

13.3

Case Study Applying GIS Tools to Verifying Forecasts over a Domain

Jeffrey A. Smith, U.S. Army Research Laboratory, WSMR, NM; and T. A. Foley, J. W. Raby, B. P. Reen, and R. S. Penc

Recorded Presentation

2:30 PM

13.4

Feature-Relative Forecast Evaluation

Michael E. Baldwin, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN; and B. Fehnel and K. L. Elmore

Recorded Presentation

2:45 PM

13.5

MODE-TD: An Expansion of an Object-based Spatial Method

Randy Bullock, NCAR, Boulder, CO; and T. L. Jensen, T. L. Fowler, J. E. Halley Gotway, and B. G. Brown

Recorded Presentation

Session 13A

Decadal-Multidecadal Variability in Pacific, Atlantic and Indian Basins: Part 3

Location: Room 352 ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)

Host: 28th Conference on Climate Variability and Change

Chair: Benjamin J. Henley, University of Melbourne

1:30 PM

13A.1

Different Influences on Tropical Pacific SST Gradient from Natural Forcing and Anthropogenic Forcing

Liang Ning, Nanjing Normal University and University of Massachusetts, Nanjing, Jiangsu, China; and J. Liu and Z. Wang

Recorded Presentation

1:45 PM

13A.2

Atlantic Induced Climate Changes in the Tropical Ocean and Atmosphere

Xichen Li, IAP, Beijing, China; and S. P. Xie, S. T. Gille, and C. Yoo

Recorded Presentation

2:00 PM

13A.3

Evaluating the Effects of the Pacific Decadal Oscillation on Winter Precipitation in the Cascades Using a Mixed-Physics WRF Ensemble

Carly Buxton, University of Delaware, Newark, DE

Recorded Presentation

2:15 PM

13A.4

On the Application of Microwave Satellite Data to Assess Changes in Storminess over the Pacific Ocean

Michael C. Kruk, ERT, Inc., Asheville, NC; and K. Hilburn and J. Marra

Recorded Presentation

2:30 PM

13A.5

Interdecadal Variability and Frequency of Extreme Precipitation Events in South America during the Monsoon Season

Alice M. Grimm, Federal University of Parana, Curitiba, Brazil; and N. C. Laureanti, R. B. Rodakoviski, and C. B. Gama

Recorded Presentation

2:45 PM

13A.6

Circulation changes of Western North Pacific warm pool in tropical cyclone season

Yen-Heng Lin, Utah State University, Logan, UT; and S. Y. Wang

Session 13B

Regional Climate Variability and Change: Part 3

Location: La Nouvelle A ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)

Host: 28th Conference on Climate Variability and Change

Chair: Massimo A. Bollasina, University of Edinburgh

1:30 PM

13B.1

Investigation of the Community Multiscale Air Quality (CMAQ) model using the Climate Penalty Factor (CPF)

Linda Hembeck, University of Maryland, College Park, MD; and T. Vinciguerra, R. J. Salawitch, and T. Canty

1:45 PM

13B.2

Assessment of High-Resolution Climate Extreme Indices over Europe Based on Daily Precipitation and Temperature Data (Raw and Bias-Adjusted) as Issued from an Ensemble of RCM CORDEX

Milka Radojevic, European Centre for Research and Advanced Training in Scientific Computation , Toulouse, France; and L. Bärring, G. Nikulin, M. Kolax, R. Wilcke, M. Juckes, C. Pagé, and N. Tatarinova

Recorded Presentation

2:00 PM

13B.3

Examining Changes in North Atlantic Extratropical Cyclones with Climate Change

Allison C. Michaelis, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC; and J. A. Willison, G. M. Lackmann, and W. A. Robinson

Recorded Presentation

2:15 PM

13B.4

The Sensitivity of WRF Downscaled Precipitation in Puerto Rico to Cumulus Parameterization and Interior Grid Nudging

Adrienne M. Wootten, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC; and J. H. Bowden, R. P. Boyles, and A. Terando

Recorded Presentation

2:30 PM

13B.5

Regional Climate Model Precipitation Projections for the Southern Great Plains

Melissa S. Bukovsky, NCAR, Boulder, CO; and A. Seth, R. McCrary, and L. O. Mearns

Recorded Presentation

2:45 PM

13B.6

Case Studies of the Impacts of Climate Change on Precipitation Organization in the SE US

Mark Nissenbaum, East Carolina University, Greenville, NC; and R. Ferreira and T. Rickenbach

Recorded Presentation

Session 13C

Topics in Climate Variability and Change: Part 1

Location: La Nouvelle C ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)

Host: 28th Conference on Climate Variability and Change

Chair: Daniel J. Vimont, University of Wisconsin

1:30 PM

13C.1

The Response of Tropical Climate to Orbital, Ice Sheet, and Greenhouse Gas Forcing

Anthony J. Broccoli, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ; and M. P. Erb and B. Raney

Recorded Presentation

1:45 PM

13C.2

Distributions of Tropical Precipitation Cluster Power and Their Change Under Global Warming

Kevin M. Quinn, University of California, Los Angeles, CA; and J. D. Neelin

Recorded Presentation

13C.3

The Origins of Itczs, Monsoons and Monsoon Onset—A Review

2:00 PM

13C.4

Building the World's Largest GHG Monitoring Network—Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow

Robert S. Marshall, Earth Networks, Germantown, MD; and W. Callahan

Recorded Presentation

2:30 PM

13C.5

Extratropical Cyclone Characteristics and Cloud Processes

James B. Polly, City College, New York, NY; and W. B. Rossow

Recorded Presentation

2:45 PM

13C.6

Comparison of Global Precipitation Estimates across a Range of Temporal and Spatial Scales

Maria Gehne, CIRES/Univ. of Colorado and NOAA, Boulder, CO; and T. Hamill, G. N. Kiladis, and K. E. Trenberth

Recorded Presentation

2:00 PM-3:00 PM: Thursday, 14 January 2016

Session 7

Role of Calibration/Validation for Transitions of Research to Operations

Location: Room 338/339 ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)

Host: Sixth Conference on Transition of Research to Operations

Cochairs: Eric Miller, NOAA/NESDIS; Meredith Wagner, NOAA/NESDIS Affiliate

2:00 PM

7.1

Validation of Operational pre/potential Tropical Cyclones (pTCs) Using Model Diagnostics

Michael Natoli, University of Maryland, College Park, MD; and M. Fiorino

Recorded Presentation

2:15 PM

7.2

Bias Estimates from Ocean Analyses and Forecasts with Different Atmospheric Forcing Products

Patrick J. Hogan, NRL, Stennis Space Center, MS; and E. J. Metzger, D. S. Franklin, and Z. D. Garraffo

Recorded Presentation

2:30 PM

7.3

Operational Upgrades to the Rapid Refresh (RAP) and High-Resolution Rapid Refresh (HRRR)

Curtis R. Alexander, NOAA/ESRL and CIRES/Univ. of Colorado, Boulder, CO; and S. S. Weygandt, S. G. Benjamin, D. C. Dowell, M. Hu, T. G. Smirnova, J. B. Olson, J. Kenyon, G. Grell, E. P. James, H. Lin, and J. M. Brown

Recorded Presentation

2:45 PM

7.4

The Impact of Weather Forecast Uncertainty in Mobility Modeling and Mission Planning

Susan Frankenstein, CRREL, Hanover, NH

Recorded Presentation

3:00 PM-3:05 PM: Thursday, 14 January 2016

Registration Closes

Location: Hall D pre-function ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)

3:00 PM-3:30 PM: Thursday, 14 January 2016

Coffee Break

Location: New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center

Meet the President

Location: Room 230 ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)

3:30 PM-4:15 PM: Thursday, 14 January 2016

Session 12

Further Meteorological Studies in Complex Terrain

Location: Room 243 ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)

Host: 19th Joint Conference on the Applications of Air Pollution Meteorology with the A&WMA

Chair: Robert F. Banks, Barcelona Supercomputing Center

3:30 PM

12.1

Impact of meteorological uncertainty on dispersion predictions in complex terrain

Matthew D. Simpson, LLNL, Livermore, CA; and D. Lucas, R. Baskett, and P. J. Cameron-Smith

3:45 PM

12.2

Investigating convective boundary layer heights over mountain ridges

Stephan F.J. De Wekker, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA; and S. Serafin

Recorded Presentation

4:00 PM

12.3

On the Role of the Andes on Weather Patterns and Related Environmental Hazards in Chile

Sebastian Felipe Otarola, Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile, Santiago, Chile; and R. Alcafuz, R. Dimitrova, L. S. Leo, C. Escauriaza, R. Arroyo, G. Yanez, and H. J. S. Fernando

Recorded Presentation Manuscript (6.4 MB)

Session 13

Historical Glimpses and Perspectives — Part 2

Location: Room 340/341 ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)

Host: 19th Conference of Atmospheric Science Librarians International

Chair: Amy Butros, UC San Diego

3:30 PM

13.1

The Early History of Space Weather: Observations that Connected Solar Activity and its Influence on the Earth

Gene Major, NASA/GSFC Library, Greenbelt, MD

Recorded Presentation

3:30 PM-5:00 PM: Thursday, 14 January 2016

Joint Session 1

Seamless Weather and Climate Prediction 2: data assimilation and ensemble forecasting

Location: Room 231/232 ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)

Hosts: (Joint between the Special Symposium on Seamless Weather and Climate Prediction—Expectations and Limits of Multi-scale Predictability; and the 20th Conference on Integrated Observing and Assimilation Systems for the Atmosphere, Oceans, and Land Surface (IOAS-AOLS) )

Chair: Fuqing Zhang, Pennsylvania State University

J1.2

Towards Seamless Multi-scale Data Assimilation into a High Resolution Ocean-Atmosphere-Sea Ice Coupled Model. Step 1: Tackling the Ocean-Sea Ice Meso-scale (Invited Presentation)

3:30 PM

J1.2A

The Physics of Convective Clustering: Possible Implications for Tropical Predictability

Kerry Emanuel, MIT, Cambridge, MA

Recorded Presentation

4:00 PM

J1.1

Ensemble Data Assimilation for Seamless Prediction (Invited Presentation)

Jeffrey Anderson, NCAR, Boulder, CO

Recorded Presentation

4:30 PM

J1.3

Predictability from Weather to Intraseasonal Timescales Using Stochastic Ensembles

Shuyi S. Chen, Univ. of Miami/RSMAS, Miami, FL; and H. Christensen, B. Kerns, and F. Judt

Recorded Presentation

4:45 PM

J1.4

Ensemble Predictability of Convective Weather Hazards

Glen Romine, NCAR, Boulder, CO; and C. Schwartz, R. A. Sobash, and K. Fossell

Recorded Presentation

Session 4

Tuning Codes for HPC or Evolving Interconnects to Improve Performance

Location: Room 344 ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)

Host: Second Symposium on High Performance Computing for Weather, Water, and Climate

Cochairs: Nazila Merati, Merati and Associates; Carolyn Reynolds, NRL

3:30 PM

4.1

A Scalable Implementation of Ensemble Data Assimilation for Very Large Models

Helen Kershaw, NCAR, Boulder, CO; and J. Hendricks, Y. Feng, J. Anderson, and N. Collins

Recorded Presentation

3:45 PM

4.2

Preparing NASA Global Modeling and Assimilation Systems for Future HPC Applications/Arhitectures

William M. Putman, NASA, Greenbelt, MD; and M. J. Suarez and A. Trayanov

Recorded Presentation

4:00 PM

4.3

WRF Performance Optimization Targeting Intel Multicore and Manycore Architectures

Samuel J. Elliott, NCAR, Boulder, CO; and N. Sobhani, D. Del Vento, and D. Gill

4:15 PM

4.4

Tuning Weather Codes for Omnipath, EDR, and Other High Speed Interconnects

David Akin, University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK; and G. J. Creager and Y. Wang

4:30 PM

4.5

Performance Analysis, Profiling and Optimization of Weather Research Forecasting (WRF) Model

Negin Sobhani, University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA; and D. Del Vento, D. Gill, S. Elliot, and S. Vadlamani

4:45 PM

4.6

Towards Operational Weather Prediction at 3.0km Global Resolution With the Dynamical Core NUMA

Andreas Mueller, NPS, Monterey, CA; and M. Kopera, S. Marras, and F. X. Giraldo

Recorded Presentation

Session 8

Weather, Water, Climate Testbeds to Enable and Accelerate Transitions of Research-to-Operations-to-the Public Use

Location: Room 338/339 ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)

Host: Sixth Conference on Transition of Research to Operations

Cochairs: Chandra R. Kondragunta, NOAA/OAR; Mark LaJoie, Riverside Technology Inc.

3:30 PM

8.1

NOAA Testbeds and Proving Grounds: Transitioning Research to NOAA Applications/Operations

Paula M. Davidson, NOAA/NWS, Silver Spring, MD; and M. Uhart

3:45 PM

8.2

Status of NOAA's Weather Testbeds for High Impact Precipitation, Severe Weather, and Hurricanes

Richard A. Fulton, OAR, Silver Spring, MD; and J. V. Cortinas Jr.

Recorded Presentation

4:00 PM

8.3

The NOAA Hydrometeorology Testbed: A Research to Operations Collaboration

Robert Cifelli, NOAA/ESRL, Boulder, CO; and A. White, D. Novak, K. Mahoney, and E. Clark

Recorded Presentation

4:15 PM

8.4

Developmental Testbed Center: Facilitating R2O for Numerical Weather Prediction

Louisa Nance, NCAR, Boulder, CO; and Y. H. Kuo, L. R. Bernardet, T. Jensen, K. M. Newman, H. Shao, I. Jankov, and J. K. Wolff

Recorded Presentation

4:30 PM

8.5

The Experimental Warning Program at the NOAA Hazardous Weather Testbed

Kristin M. Kuhlman, CIMMS/Univ. of Oklahoma/NOAA/NSSL, Norman, OK; and G. S. Garfield, D. M. Kingfield, C. D. Karstens, D. LaDue, W. Line, T. C. Meyer, T. M. Smith, and G. J. Stumpf

Recorded Presentation

4:45 PM

8.6

The Federal Aviation Administration's Advanced Weather Radar Techniques Program

Randall Bass, FAA, Washington, DC; and C. Maciejewski

Recorded Presentation

Handout (2.6 MB)

Session 9

Impacts of Aerosols on Storm Dynamics, Cloud Physics, and Precipitation II

Location: Room 357 ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)

Host: Eighth Symposium on Aerosol–Cloud–Climate Interactions

Chair: Xiaowen Li, Morgan State University

CoChair: W.-K. Tao, NASA/GSFC

3:30 PM

9.1

Cloud Regimes as a Tool for Systematic Study of Various Aerosol-cloud-precipitation Interactions

Lazaros Oreopoulos, NASA/GSFC, Greenbelt, MD; and N. Cho and D. Lee

3:45 PM

9.2

Evidence for Convective Invigoration from A-Train Observations

Johannes Mülmenstädt, Universität Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany; and D. Rosenfeld, O. Sourdeval, J. Delanoë, and J. Quaas

Recorded Presentation

4:00 PM

9.3

Polarimetric Radar and Lightning Mapping Array Observations of Convective Updrafts Obtained in Variable Aerosol Regimes in a Relatively Susceptible Environment

Marcus van Lier-Walqui, Columbia University & NASA/GISS, New York, NY; and A. M. Fridlind, A. S. Ackerman, R. E. Orville, and D. Rosenfeld

Recorded Presentation

4:15 PM

9.4

Aircraft-measured Indirect Cloud Effects from Biomass Burning Smoke in the Arctic and Subarctic

Lauren M. Zamora, NASA/ORAU, Greenbelt, MD; and R. Kahn, M. C. Cubison, G. S. Diskin, J. L. Jimenez, Y. Kondo, G. M. McFarquhar, A. Nenes, A. Wisthaler, A. Zelenyuk, and L. Ziemba

4:30 PM

9.5

A New Look to Impacts of Aerosols on Storm Track Dynamics through Wave Activity

Farnaz Hosseinpour, DRI, Reno, NV; and E. M. Wilcox and P. R. Colarco

4:45 PM

9.6

An Investigation of Convection and Aerosol-Effects on Storms in the Tropics (CAST)

Nathan Hosannah, The City College of New York, New York, NY; and J. E. Gonzalez, H. Parsiani, E. W. Harmsen, P. Ramamurthy, B. Bornstein, D. Niyogi, R. Rodriguez, L. León, F. Moshary, L. Aponte, D. V. Morris, R. A. Armstrong, W. Peña, R. Davis, N. D. Ramirez, and J. Diaz

Recorded Presentation

Session 12

User Readiness for New Operational Environmental Satellite Systems

Location: Room 252/254 ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)

Host: 12th Annual Symposium on New Generation Operational Environmental Satellite Systems

Cochairs: Wendy Abshire, UCAR/COMET; Frank W. Alsheimer, NOAA/NWS

3:30 PM

12.1

Near-Real Time Severe Weather Damage Identification Algorithm for Vegetation: Development and Early Results

Jordan R. Bell, University of Alabama, Huntsville, AL; and A. L. Molthan

Recorded Presentation

Observing a Changing Earth - Monitoring, Assessment, and Projection (Invited Presentation)

3:45 PM

12.2

COMET Program Training Resources: Part of the Solution as User's Prepare to Embrace Environmental Satellite Advances

Wendy Schreiber-Abshire, COMET, Boulder, CO; and P. Dills and M. Weingroff

Recorded Presentation

4:00 PM

12.3

GOES-R Training Plan for NOAA National Weather Service (NWS) Forecasters

LeRoy Spayd Jr., NOAA/NWS, Silver Spring, MD

Recorded Presentation

4:15 PM

12.4

The Himawari Training Program for NWS Pacific Region Meteorologists

Bill Ward, NWS, Honolulu, HI; and J. J. Gerth

Recorded Presentation

4:30 PM

12.5

Preparing for GOES-R and JPSS in AWIPS II: National Centers Perspective

Michael J. Folmer, CICS, College Park, MD; and M. L. Bozeman, C. Mello, A. M. Terborg, G. Grosshans, M. Sardi, M. DeMaria, and S. Leyva

Recorded Presentation

4:45 PM

12.6

National Weather Service Training for the Joint Polar Satellite System

Brian C. Motta, NWS, Boulder, CO; and A. Mostek

Recorded Presentation

Session 12

Weather and Climate Connections: Precipitation and Cold Season

Location: Room 245 ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)

Host: 22nd Conference on Applied Climatology

Chair: Richard Thoman, NOAA/NWS

3:30 PM

12.1

The Midwest's Wet Summer of 2015: The Impacts and Comparisons to Past Midwest Summers

Bryan Peake, ISWS, Griffith Dr, IL; and O. Kellner

Recorded Presentation

3:45 PM

12.2

A Statistical and Synoptic Analysis of Rainfall in the Central Mississippi Valley Region

Jordan L. Rabinowitz, University of Missouri, Columbia, MO; and A. R. Lupo and E. J. Sadler

Recorded Presentation

4:00 PM

12.3

A Multi-algorithm Reanalysis-based Freezing Precipitation Dataset for Climate Studies in the South Central U.S

Esther Mullens, South Central Climate Science Center, Norman, OK; and R. A. McPherson

Recorded Presentation

4:15 PM

12.4

Development of an Ice Event and Icing Impacts Climatology for Georgia

Carly E. Kovacik, NOAA/NWS Weather Forecast Office, Peachtree City, GA

Recorded Presentation

Handout (4.1 MB)

4:30 PM

12.5

The Contribution of Upper-Level Flow Regimes to Seasonal Snowfall Totals in Upstate New York

Justin J. Hartnett, Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY

Recorded Presentation

4:45 PM

12.6

Synoptic Climatology of Extreme Snow and Avalanche Events in Southern Alaska

Kristy C. Carter, Iowa State University, Ames, IA; and C. J. Mock

Recorded Presentation

Session 13

Boundary Layer Studies Including Flux Measurements

Location: Room 350/351 ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)

Host: 18th Symposium on Meteorological Observation and Instrumentation

Chair: Temple R. Lee, NOAA/OAR/ARL/ATDD

3:30 PM

13.1

Estimating Planetary Boundary Layer Heights from NOAA Profiler Network Wind Profiler Data

Andrea M. Molod, University of Maryland College Park, Greenbelt, MD; and H. Salmun

Recorded Presentation

3:45 PM

13.2

High-Temporal Resolution Ground-Based Observations of an Eastern Kansas Bore during the PECAN Field Campaign

David M. Loveless, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI; and N. Smith, C. M. Rozoff, T. J. Wagner, D. D. Turner, W. F. Feltz, and S. Ackerman

Recorded Presentation Manuscript (3.7 MB)

4:00 PM

13.3

June 9-10, 2015: A Case Study of the Great Plains Low-Level Jet during PECAN (Plains Elevated Convection at Night)

Sharon M. Sullivan, University of Wyoming, Laramie, WY; and T. R. Parish

Recorded Presentation

4:15 PM

13.4

Sources and Estimates of Uncertainty in Fluxes from Aircraft

Ronald J. Dobosy, NOAA/ATDD, Oak Ridge, TN; and P. Krishnan, E. J. Dumas Jr., D. S. Sayres, and C. E. Healy

Recorded Presentation

4:30 PM

13.5

The Quest to Understand Heavy Lake-Effect Snowfall from Long-Lake-Axis-Parallel Snow Bands: Multi-Frequency Reflectivity Profiles of the 11 December 2013 Band over and Downwind of Lake Ontario

Daniel Welsh, University of Wyoming, Laramie, WY; and B. Geerts, J. R. Minder, J. Steenburgh, and P. T. Bergmaier

Recorded Presentation

4:45 PM

13.6

Measurement and Simulation of the Ground to Hub-Height Wind and Temperature Profiles in Complex Terrain

David M. Siuta, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada; and R. B. Stull and R. Howard

Recorded Presentation

Session 13

Calibration and Validation, Part II

Location: Room 225 ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)

Host: 12th Annual Symposium on New Generation Operational Environmental Satellite Systems

Cochairs: Lihang Zhou, NOAA/NESDIS; Ivan A. Csiszar, NOAA/NESDIS

3:30 PM

13.1

How is VIIRS EDR Imagery Validated?

Donald W. Hillger, NOAA/NESDIS, Fort Collins, CO; and T. J. Kopp, C. J. Seaman, S. D. Miller, and D. T. Lindsey

Recorded Presentation

3:45 PM

13.2

Validation and Expected Error Estimation of Suomi-NPP VIIRS Aerosol Optical Thickness and Angström Exponent with AERONET

Jingfeng Huang, UMD/ESSIC, NOAA/NESDIS/STAR, College Park, MD; and H. Liu, S. Kondragunta, I. Laszlo, L. Remer, H. Zhang, S. Superczynski, P. Ciren, B. Holben, and P. Maksym

Recorded Presentation

4:00 PM

13.3

An Overview of JPSS-1 CrIS SDR Algorithm and Pre-launch Performance Test Results

Yong Han, NOAA/NESDIS, College Park, MD

4:15 PM

13.4

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

Recorded Presentation

4:30 PM

13.5

Validation and Long-Term Monitoring of the Operational S-NPP NOAA-Unique CrIS/ATMS Processing System (NUCAPS)

Nicholas R. Nalli, NOAA/NESDIS, College Park, MD; and Q. Liu, C. Tan, T. Reale, B. Sun, F. Iturbide-Sanchez, C. D. Barnet, A. Gambacorta, E. Joseph, V. Morris, L. Borg, D. Tobin, A. K. Mollner, M. Wilson, T. S. King, W. Wolf, J. W. Smith, F. Tilley, and D. Wolfe

Recorded Presentation Manuscript (1.2 MB)

4:45 PM

13.6

Recent Improvements to S-NPP OMPS SDR

Chunhui Pan, NOAA/NESDIS, College Park, MD; and F. Weng, T. Beck, L. Flynn, A. C. Tolea, D. Liang, and D. liang

Session 13A

Communication Technologies for Accessing and Distributing Climate, Weather and Hydrological Data

Location: Room 348/349 ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)

Host: 32nd Conference on Environmental Information Processing Technologies

Cochairs: Nancy Soreide, OAR; Alex Coletti, Syneren Technologies Corp

3:30 PM

13A.1

The Master Archive Collection Inventory (MACI): Facilitating Legacy Data Documentation through Innovative Scientific Engagement and Evolving Technology

Christina Lief, NOAA/NESDIS/NCEI, Asheville, NC

Recorded Presentation

3:45 PM

13A.2

Inside The National Massive Realtime Meteorological Data Processing System

Ruotong Wang, National Meteorological Center Of China, Beijing, Beijing, China; and B. Luo, X. Huang, and J. Wang

Recorded Presentation

4:00 PM

13A.3

climate4impact: Providing, tailoring and facilitating climate model data access

Christian Pagé, CERFACS, Toulouse, France; and S. Joussaume, M. N. Juckes, W. S. de Cerff, M. Plieger, L. Barring, M. Kolax, R. Hutjes, F. de Jong, E. Bucchignani, N. Tatarinova, A. Cofiño, and E. de Vreede

Recorded Presentation

4:15 PM

13A.4

NOAA's Operational Integrated Dissemination Program System

Michelle Mainelli, NOAA/NWS/NCEP, College Park, MD; and L. Cano, C. Shelton, R. L. Cosgrove, and B. Kyger

Recorded Presentation

4:30 PM

13A.5

MADIS the Pathway to NWS Operations

Leon A. Benjamin, CIRES/Univ. of Colorado, Boulder, CO; and G. Pratt, G. Padmanabhan, L. K. Cheatwood, T. Kent, R. S. Collander, M. Leon, M. Vrencur, L. Cano, S. Pritchett, B. D. Jackson, P. Fajman, and L. M. Penn

Recorded Presentation Manuscript (70.6 kB)

4:45 PM

13A.6

Practical, real-time weather data interoperability: the National Mesonet Program

John D. Evans, Global Science & Technology, Inc., Greenbelt, MD; and B. Werner, C. Cogar, and P. Heppner

Recorded Presentation

Handout (15.4 MB)

Session 13B

Software Engineering and Cyberinfrastructure

Location: Room 355 ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)

Host: 32nd Conference on Environmental Information Processing Technologies

Cochairs: William F. Roberts, OAR; Jennifer Mahoney, NOAA/ERL/FSL

3:30 PM

13B.1

Recent Advances in The Weather Company's 1 - 15 Day Forecasting Guidance Infrastructure

Joseph P. Koval, The Weather Company, Atlanta, GA; and J. Williams, P. P. Neilley, J. McDonald, W. Cassanova, and D. Winn

Recorded Presentation

3:45 PM

13B.2

Advancing netCDF-CF for the Geoscience Community

Ethan R. Davis, UCAR/Unidata, Boulder, CO; and C. S. Zender, D. Arctur, A. Jelenak, D. A. Santek, K. M. O'Brien, and M. Dixon

Recorded Presentation

4:00 PM

13B.3

THREDDS 5.0: The Good, The Bad, and The Awesome

John Caron, UCAR, Boulder, CO; and S. C. Arms, E. R. Davis, D. Heimbigner, R. M. May, and C. Ward-Garrison

Recorded Presentation

4:15 PM

13B.4

Collaborative research and education with numerical weather prediction in a common environment enabled by software containers

Joshua Hacker, NCAR, Boulder, CO; and J. Exby, N. Chartier, D. Gill, I. Jimenez, C. Maltzahn, and G. Mullendore

Recorded Presentation

4:30 PM

13B.5

UniCloud: Docker Use at Unidata

Julien Chastang, UCAR, Boulder, CO; and W. Fisher and S. Arms

Recorded Presentation Manuscript (73.2 kB)

4:45 PM

13B.6

Analysis and Display Meteorological Data using MeteoInfo

Yaqiang Wang, Chinese Academy of Meteorological Sciences, Beijing, China

Handout (11.5 MB)

Session 14

Forecast Evaluation/Verification – Part 2

Location: Room 226/227 ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)

Host: 23rd Conference on Probability and Statistics in the Atmospheric Sciences

Chair: Francis W. Zwiers, University of Victoria

3:30 PM

14.1

Recent Advancements of Verification Capability for R2O Testing and Evaluation within the Developmental Testbed Center

Tara L. Jensen, NCAR/RAL, Boulder, CO; and J. E. Halley Gotway, R. Bullock, T. L. Fowler, and B. G. Brown

Recorded Presentation

3:45 PM

14.2

Forecasts of "normal"

Simon J. Mason, IRI, Palisades, NY; and C. A. T. Ferro and W. A. Landman

Recorded Presentation

4:00 PM

14.3

Towards Improving the Framework for Probabilistic Forecast Evaluation

Hailiang Du, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL; and L. Smith, E. B. Suckling, E. L. Thompson, and T. Maynard

Recorded Presentation

4:15 PM

14.4

Statistical Generation of Forecasts and Accompanying Observations and Steps towards a Universal Theory of Verification

Albert R. Boehm, AFGL Retired, Huntsville, AL

Recorded Presentation

4:30 PM

14.5

Verification of High-resolution WRF-ARW Forecasts for Vermont Utility Applications

James P. Cipriani, IBM Research, Yorktown Heights,, NY; and L. Treinish, A. P. Praino, R. D'Arienzo, M. Coombs, and A. Stamp

Recorded Presentation

4:45 PM

14.6

Evaluation of Convective Updraft Spacing in NU-WRF Simulations using Forward-simulation and Feature Analysis of KDP Columns

Marcus van Lier-Walqui, Columbia University & NASA/GISS, New York, NY; and A. M. Fridlind, A. S. Ackerman, X. Li, D. Wu, and W. K. Tao

Recorded Presentation

Session 14A

Regional Climate Variability and Change: Part 4

Location: La Nouvelle A ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)

Host: 28th Conference on Climate Variability and Change

Chair: Massimo A. Bollasina, University of Edinburgh

3:30 PM

14A.1

Recent Climate Change in the High Elevations of the Southern Appalachians

Ryan P. Shadbolt, Central Michigan University, Mt. Pleasant, MI

Recorded Presentation Manuscript (554.6 kB)

3:45 PM

14A.2

Climatology of November Snow Days in the Lake Michigan Region: Is the Decrease in Lake Michigan November Snowfall Frequency Mostly Due to Lake-Effect Snowfall, or Synoptic Systems?

Craig Clark, Valparaiso Univ., Valparaiso, IN; and K. Goebbert, B. Ganesh-Babu, R. Connelly, A. Young, E. Delap, K. Heinlein, A. VanDe Guchte, Z. Sefcovic, A. L. Caruthers, T. J. Elless, A. Lyza, S. Fingerle, D. Koning, A. Carne, A. Krull, K. M. Zigner, and M. Haynes

Recorded Presentation

4:00 PM

14A.3

One and a half centuries of rainfall variability in West Africa and its links to large-scale factors

Sharon E. Nicholson, Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL

4:15 PM

14A.4

Moisture transport regimes associated with large-scale organized convection over subtropical South America

Kyle S. Mattingly, University of Georgia, Athens, GA; and T. Mote

Recorded Presentation

4:30 PM

14A.5

Significant Anthropogenic-Induced Changes of Climate Classes Since 1950

Duo Chan, Nanjing University, Nanjing, China; and Q. Wu

Recorded Presentation

4:45 PM

14A.6

Role of Radiatively Forced Temperature Changes in Enhanced Semi-Arid Warming over East Asia

Xiaodan Guan, College of Atmospheric Sciences, Lanzhou University, Lanzhou, China; and J. Huang and R. guo

Recorded Presentation

Session 14B

Topics in Climate Variability and Change: Part 2

Location: La Nouvelle C ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)

Host: 28th Conference on Climate Variability and Change

Chair: Daniel J. Vimont, University of Wisconsin

3:30 PM

14B.1

Climatological Snow Cover Feedbacks to the Land-Atmosphere System

Ankur R. Desai, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI; and G. Bromley, M. Rydzik, J. E. Martin, S. Vavrus, and M. Notaro

Recorded Presentation

3:45 PM

14B.2

Boundary Layer Exposure as a Control in Elevation Dependent Warming

Eric P. Kelsey, Plymouth State University, Plymouth, NH; and G. Murray

Recorded Presentation

4:00 PM

14B.3

Changing Global Seasonal Onsets and Durations

Gwangyong Choi, Jeju National University, Jeju-si, South Korea; and D. A. Robinson

4:15 PM

14B.4

Remote Impacts of Lowland Urbanization on Orographic Cloud Properties

Brian Freitag, University of Alabama, Huntsville, AL; and U. S. Nair

Recorded Presentation

4:30 PM

14B.5

Climate Warming and Land Cover Change

Felix Kogan, STAR, College Park, MD

4:45 PM

14B.6

The Effects of Reforestation on Temperature in the Southeast United States

Jennifer A. Blake, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX; and J. Nielsen-Gammon

Recorded Presentation

3:30 PM-5:30 PM: Thursday, 14 January 2016

Session 4

Troposphere-Middle Atmosphere Coupling

Location: Room 343 ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)

Host: Marvin Geller Symposium

3:30 PM

4.1

Stratosphere–Troposphere Coupling

Mark P. Baldwin, University of Exeter, Exeter, Devon, United Kingdom

Recorded Presentation

3:45 PM

4.2

Variability and trends in UTLS temperatures and water vapor

Karen H. Rosenlof, NOAA ESRL, Boulder, CO; and S. M. Davis, A. H. Butler, and R. R. Neely III

Recorded Presentation

4:00 PM

4.3

Satellite measurements of stratospheric temperature trends over 1979-2015

William J. Randel, NCAR, Boulder, CO; and A. K. Smith and C. Z. Zou

Recorded Presentation

4:15 PM

4.4

Variability in 20-plus Year Records of Stratospheric Composition and Its Relationship to Stratospheric Circulation Change

Anne R. Douglass, NASA, Greenbelt, MD; and S. E. Strahan and L. Oman

Recorded Presentation

4:30 PM

4.5

Quasi-Biennial Oscillation in a warming world

Jadwiga H. Richter, NCAR, Boulder, CO; and J. Bacmeister

Recorded Presentation

4:45 PM

4.6

C3Winds: A New Wind Observing System to Study Mesoscale Cloud Dynamics and Processes

Dong L. Wu, NASA/GSFC, Greenbelt, MD; and M. A. Kelly, J. H. yee, J. boldt, R. Demajistre, E. Reynolds, G. J. Tripoli, L. Oman, N. Prive, A. K. Heidinger, and S. Wanzong

Recorded Presentation

5:00 PM

4.7

The warming of tropical central Pacific drying the lower stratosphere

Qiang Fu, University of Washington, Seattle, WA; and Q. Ding

5:15 PM

4.8

Roles of the Stratosphere in Climate

M. Joan Alexander, NorthWest Research Associates, Boulder, CO

Recorded Presentation

Session 11

Decision Support Tools Part 2

Location: Room 255/257 ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)

Host: Fourth Symposium on Building a Weather-Ready Nation: Enhancing Our Nation’s Readiness, Responsiveness, and Resilience to High Impact Weather Events

Chair: Michael J. Paddock, NWS

3:30 PM

11.1

DSS Full Throttle: NOLA Navy Week

Andrew J. Ansorge, NOAA/NWS New Orleans/Baton Rouge, Slidell, LA; and M. J. Hill

Recorded Presentation

11.2

Summary of DSS and Lessons Learned during the May 2015 Flooding in Texas

3:45 PM

11.3

Decision Support Services and Impacts Associated with the Devastating Flash Flood in Moapa Valley, Nevada

Michael J. Paddock, NWS, Las Vegas, NV; and J. Pullin

Recorded Presentation Manuscript (4.0 MB)

4:00 PM

11.4

Design and Evaluation of Operational Support Systems for Flash Flood Forecasting

Elizabeth M. Argyle, CIMMS/Univ. of Oklahoma, Norman, OK; and J. J. Gourley, S. M. Martinaitis, Z. L. Flamig, and K. Manross

Recorded Presentation

4:15 PM

11.5

Banging the Drum: Getting the Attention of Decision Makers Prior to the Historic Inland Northwest Windstorm

Andy Brown, NOAA/NWS, Spokane, WA

Recorded Presentation

4:30 PM

11.6

An Overview of New Coastal Flood Tools for NWS Forecast Operations in Alaska

Melissa Kreller, NOAA/NWSFO, Fairbanks, AK; and E. Townsend Jr., E. W. Plumb, C. Johnson, and A. Stuart

Recorded Presentation

4:45 PM

11.7

Automated Weather Damage Assessment for Event Response from Overhead Imagery

shari matzner, PNNL, Sequim, WA; and A. Coleman and J. Tagestad

Recorded Presentation

Handout (6.0 MB)

5:00 PM

11.8

An Improved Fire Weather Index for Florida

Charles H. Paxton, NOAA/NWS, Ruskin, FL; and C. Makris and J. M. Collins

Recorded Presentation

4:15 PM-5:00 PM: Thursday, 14 January 2016

Session 14

ASLI Business Meeting

Location: Room 340/341 ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)

Host: 19th Conference of Atmospheric Science Librarians International

Chair: Christine Sherratt, MIT Libraries, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

5:00 PM-5:05 PM: Thursday, 14 January 2016

AMS 96th Annual Meeting Adjourns

6:30 PM-8:30 PM: Thursday, 14 January 2016

Marvin Geller Symposium Banquet

Location: Jefferson Ballroom (Hilton Riverside)

Speakers: Gerald North, Texas A&M University; Jack A. Kaye, NASA, Science Mission Directorate

The Early History of The Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission

Gerald R. North, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX

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Saturday, 9 January 2016

8:00 AM-5:00 PM: Saturday, 9 January 2016

Teacher's Workshop and Share-a-Thon

Location: Versailles Ballroom (Hilton Riverside)

Click here for Teacher's Workshop and Share-a-thon Registration

8:30 AM-5:30 PM: Saturday, 9 January 2016

A Beginner's course to Using Python in Climate and Meteorology

Location: Room 357 ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)

9:00 AM-9:30 AM: Saturday, 9 January 2016

Welcoming Remarks

Location: La Nouvelle C ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)

9:30 AM-10:10 AM: Saturday, 9 January 2016

Get the Most out of this Conference: How to Develop Yourself as a Professional

Location: La Nouvelle C ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)

Get primed for the AMS Student Conference! Our first speakers will help set you up for a successful conference in New Orleans. You will get tips on how to network, how to walk up to big-name scientists, and how to make yourself competitive in achieving your future goals.

10:10 AM-10:25 AM: Saturday, 9 January 2016

Break

10:25 AM-11:10 AM: Saturday, 9 January 2016

PD 3A

Panel Discussion Breakout Panel Session Rotation 1: What’s Your Passion? Skill-Based Careers in Meteorology: Operational Meteorology

Location: La Nouvelle C ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)

You will get a chance to attend two unique panels during this breakout session, which is designed to highlight a range of careers in meteorology based on your skills or interests. You will have a chance to ask professionals how they got their jobs, what they do, and what you can do now to prepare yourself to follow in their footsteps.

PD 3B

Panel Discussion Breakout Panel Session Rotation 1: What’s Your Passion? Skill-Based Careers in Meteorology: Communications

Location: Room 252/254 ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)

PD 3C

Panel Discussion Breakout Panel Session Rotation 1: What’s Your Passion? Skill-Based Careers in Meteorology: Research

Location: Room 255/257 ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)

11:15 AM-12:00 PM: Saturday, 9 January 2016

PD 4A

Panel Discussion Breakout Panel Session Rotation 2: What’s Your Passion? Skill-Based Careers in Meteorology: Operational Meteorology

Location: La Nouvelle C ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)

PD 4B

Panel Discussion Breakout Panel Session Rotation 2: What’s Your Passion? Skill-Based Careers in Meteorology: Communications

Location: Room 252/254 ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)

PD 4C

Panel Discussion Breakout Panel Session Rotation 2: What’s Your Passion? Skill-Based Careers in Meteorology: Research

Location: Room 255/257 ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)

12:00 PM-1:00 PM: Saturday, 9 January 2016

Lunch (Sponsored by the Weather Company)

Location: La Nouvelle A ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)

1:00 PM-1:30 PM: Saturday, 9 January 2016

Introduction to Conversations with Professionals

Location: La Nouvelle C ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)

Stretch your mind by learning about the wide variety of careers in meteorology. From traditional to non-traditional careers, we’ve assembled a group of professionals who will each give a 2-3 minute introduction on who they are, what they do, and why you’ll want to talk with them in the next session. Be sure to note down their room numbers!

1:30 PM-3:45 PM: Saturday, 9 January 2016

Location: Room 345 ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)

In this session, you’ll have an opportunity to meet with the professionals you were just introduced to in small-group settings and discuss their jobs. This is a great opportunity to ask questions and have discussions with top professionals. Note: Each rotation will consist of a 15-minute discussion period followed by an 8-minute transition period.

Location: Room 346/347 ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)

Location: Room 348/349 ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)

Location: Room 350/351 ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)

Location: Room 352 ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)

Location: Room 353 ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)

Conversations with Professionals (Cancelled)

Location: Room 255/257 ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)

Location: Room 252/254 ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)

Location: Room 245 ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)

Location: Room 244 ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)

Location: Room 243 ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)

Location: Room 242 ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)

Breakout Session: Preparing for your Future: How to Succeed in Graduate School

Location: Room 255/257 ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)

3:15 PM-3:45 PM: Saturday, 9 January 2016

Integrated Warning Team I: Introduction to Emergency Management

Location: La Nouvelle C ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)

Dark clouds approach, a red banner scrolls along the bottom of a news broadcast, and the ominous drone of the sirens begins. In this session, you will have the opportunity to learn about the operations of the Integrated Warning Team and how to become involved with emergency management. Note: This session will take place during the last two rotations of Session 3b.

3:45 PM-4:00 PM: Saturday, 9 January 2016

Break

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

4:00 PM-5:15 PM: Saturday, 9 January 2016

Extreme Weather Events

Location: La Nouvelle C ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)

Get a review of the world’s recent extreme weather events from the experts who forecast and research them.

5:30 PM-7:30 PM: Saturday, 9 January 2016

AMS Career Fair Opening Reception

Location: Hall E ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)

The Career Fair is an excellent opportunity to interview on-site, one-on-one, with organizations looking to recruit highly talented individuals. View available full-time and part-time job opportunities, network with government agency and private industry employees, and meet recruiters from some of the country’s best graduate school programs -- all in one convenient location, and all at no cost. On the evening of Saturday, January 9, the Career Fair will open with a reception for attendees of the 15th Annual AMS Student Conference. This is a great opportunity for you to meet with employer and graduate school representatives in an informal setting and to schedule interviews for later in the week. There is no cost to attend this opening night reception but you must be registered for the Student Conference. While it is not necessary to register for participation in the Career Fair, you are encouraged to do so if you wish to submit a resume that may be viewed by Career Fair recruiters. If you are not interested in sharing your resume with recruiters prior to the meeting, it is not necessary to register in order to attend. Please note that we cannot accept resumes from those not registered for the Student Conference, the Early Career Professionals Conference or the Annual Meeting.

Sunday, 10 January 2016

7:00 AM-12:00 PM: Sunday, 10 January 2016

WeatherReady Nation Scout Event

Location: Room 252/254 ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)

You can have a hand at building a WeatherReady Nation by interacting with 200 Boy and Girl Scouts as they learn about weather and emergency management. Participating scouts (ages 10–17) will have the opportunity to earn the new Weather-Ready Nation Patch, as well as their respective Weather Merit Badges in full. During this program, scouts will learn how to interpret symbols on a weather map, discover the difference between different weather alerts and how the public receives them, discuss what items need to be in an emergency kit, determine ways families and communities can be prepared in the event of a weather emergency, and much more. AMS is in need of several volunteers to lead or assist with the instructional sessions. Click http://wrnscoutevent.wix.com/wrnscoutevent for more information and to become a volunteer!

7:30 AM-9:00 AM: Sunday, 10 January 2016

Registration for Short Courses and Conference for Early Career Professionals

Location: Hall D pre-function ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)

Click here for Short Course Registration and Click here for Conference for Early Career Professionals Registration

8:30 AM-12:30 PM: Sunday, 10 January 2016

AMS Volunteer Project

Please join the AMS Committee on Environmental Stewardship to help remove invasive plant species from New Orleans City Park's wetlands and bioretention parking lot. AMS will be working with local landscape architecture firm, Dana Brown & Associates, whom designed both of these spaces in City Park. Volunteers are encouraged to wear outdoor working clothes and shoes that can potentially get muddy. Waterproof shoes are encouraged, as some parts of the wetlands may hold up to 1' of water. Sunscreen may be needed, weather permitting, and all other tools will be provided, including bug spray. There is a $25 fee per person to participate, which will cover the cost of transportation and snacks. Interested attendees are invited to sign up for the project when preregistering for the meeting. Register here. The deadline for registration is Wednesday, 16 December. For information on this event, please contact Christine Keane. For those that are participating, plan on meeting in the lobby of Hall D, across from the AMS Registration desk, located on the first level of the convention center at 900 Convention Center Blvd at 8:30am.

8:30 AM-5:00 PM: Sunday, 10 January 2016

Coastal Surge and Inundation Modeling Short Course

Location: Room 352 ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)

GIS Tutorial for Atmospheric Sciences

Location: Room 354 ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)

8:30 AM-5:30 PM: Sunday, 10 January 2016

A Beginner's course to Using Python in Climate and Meteorology

Location: Room 357 ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)

AMS Short Course on Meteorological Measurements and Instrumentation

Location: Room 350/351 ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)

AMS Short Course: GOES-R and JPSS Preview for Users

Location: Room 355 ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)

Introduction to PyNIO and Related Python Tools for Geoscientific Data Analysis Short Course

Location: Room 356 ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)

Registration for Student Conference and Short Courses

Location: Hall D pre-function ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)

Click here for Student Conference Registration and Click here for Short Course Registration

9:00 AM-9:30 AM: Sunday, 10 January 2016

Opening Remarks

Location: Room 243 ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)

KS 9

Keynote Speaker Keynote Address

Location: La Nouvelle C ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)

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)

Everyone presenting (both oral and poster) and/or attending the 96th AMS Annual Meeting must register and wear a badge. Early registration rates are valid through Tuesday, 1 December 2015. Registrations forms faxed or mailed to AMS Headquarters will be accepted until 15 December 2015. Online registrations will be accepted throughout the conference. Preregistration forms must be accompanied by one of the following forms of payment: check (personal/business/traveler's), money order, purchase order, or credit card number (MasterCard/VISA/American Express). Foreign checks must be drawn on a U.S. bank and made payable in U.S. dollars. Confirmation of registration will be sent once the form is processed. Refunds (less a $25 processing fee) will be granted only for cancellations received before 22 December 2015. Click here for more information on registration.

9:30 AM-9:45 AM: Sunday, 10 January 2016

Break

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

Break

9:45 AM-10:40 AM: Sunday, 10 January 2016

10A

Location: La Nouvelle C ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)

It doesn’t matter where you are or where you’re going with your career; there is always something more you can do to prepare yourself for success! This breakout session focuses on different career paths to consider and strategies for success.

10B

Breakout Session: Preparing for your Future: Weather Outside the Lines

Location: La Nouvelle A ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)

9:45 AM-11:45 AM: Sunday, 10 January 2016

J 1

Joint Session Making Yourself Stand Out: Communication and Networking

Location: Room 243 ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)

Joint session with the 15th Annual AMS Student Conference

10:20 AM-11:45 AM: Sunday, 10 January 2016

J 2A

Joint Session Group Discussion 1: Creating or Improving Your Elevator Pitch

Location: Room 244 ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)

J 2B

Joint Session Group Discussion 2: Sweat the Small Stuff: What Matters in a Job Interview

Location: Room 242 ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)

J 2C

Joint Session Group Discussion 3: Communication When It Counts

Location: Room 245 ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)

10:40 AM-10:50 AM: Sunday, 10 January 2016

Break

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

10:50 AM-11:45 AM: Sunday, 10 January 2016

11A

Breakout Session: Beyond the Weather: Tools of the Trade

Location: La Nouvelle C ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)

As we endeavor to serve society through science, we must keep in mind that our science does not operate in a vacuum. We draw upon the computational sciences in generating forecasts and analyzing data. Meanwhile, we draw upon the social sciences in communicating our work and drafting sound policy. This breakout session focuses on the lessons we can learn and the skills we can develop at the interface between meteorology and these allied fields.Employers in forecasting, research, broadcasting and nearly all other careers under the AMS umbrella seek applicants who possess not only scientific expertise, but also proficiency with specialized software platforms and programming languages ("tools"). Sometimes the task of learning a new tool can seem daunting, and it’s hard to know where to begin. This session will help you get started through a series of short talks introducing some of the “tools” used in different AMS-related careers.

PD 11B

Panel Discussion Breakout Session: Beyond the Weather: Getting the Word Out: Science Policy and Communication

Location: La Nouvelle A ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)

As we endeavor to serve society through science, we must keep in mind that our science does not operate in a vacuum. We draw upon the computational sciences in generating forecasts and analyzing data. Meanwhile, we draw upon the social sciences in communicating our work and drafting sound policy. This breakout session focuses on the lessons we can learn and the skills we can develop at the interface between meteorology and these allied fields.Successful science has two phases: do the science, and get the word out. How do researchers working at the interface of science, society, and policy effectively communicate their findings and recommendations to stakeholders beyond the research community? This session discusses the importance of effective communication between researchers and policy makers and provides some insight into how this process works.

11:45 AM-12:00 PM: Sunday, 10 January 2016

Break

12:00 PM-12:30 PM: Sunday, 10 January 2016

Embracing the Interface of Science and Society

Location: La Nouvelle C ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)

We’ve spent the past two days learning about new, exciting, and different career options in meteorology and ways to prepare ourselves for them. But we must remember that the future of our field and careers go beyond the weather. This session will focus on how YOU can make a difference in our field by embracing the interface of science and society

12:00 PM-4:00 PM: Sunday, 10 January 2016

Weatherfest

Location: Hall C ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)

WeatherFest, sponsored by the American Meteorological Society, is an interactive four-hour science and weather fair designed to promote the fields of meteorology, oceanography, and the related sciences to New Orleans area families, students, and teachers. WeatherFest is the Society’s only public event that features science exhibits, including hands-on experiments, as well as educational and career information. WeatherFest will feature more than 65 cool and interactive science exhibits with experiments, educational information, career guides, and much more from scientists and teachers from all over the nation. The mission of WeatherFest is to instill a love for math and science in children of all ages and to spark a young person’s interest in these areas so they may consider a career in the science and engineering fields. This is a fun afternoon designed not only for the residents of New Orleans but for all attending the annual meeting. For additional information, contact Program Chairperson Kevin Kloesel or visit the Weatherfest website.

12:30 PM-12:35 PM: Sunday, 10 January 2016

Closing Remarks and Poster Session Announcements

Location: La Nouvelle C ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)

12:30 PM-4:30 PM: Sunday, 10 January 2016

AMS Volunteer Project

Please join the AMS Committee on Environmental Stewardship to help remove invasive plant species from New Orleans City Park's wetlands and bioretention parking lot. AMS will be working with local landscape architecture firm, Dana Brown & Associates, whom designed both of these spaces in City Park. Volunteers are encouraged to wear outdoor working clothes and shoes that can potentially get muddy. Waterproof shoes are encouraged, as some parts of the wetlands may hold up to 1' of water. Sunscreen may be needed, weather permitting, and all other tools will be provided, including bug spray. There is a $25 fee per person to participate, which will cover the cost of transportation and snacks. Interested attendees are invited to sign up for the project when preregistering for the meeting here. The deadline for registration is Wednesday, 16 December. For information on this event, please contact Christine Keane. For those that are participating, plan on meeting in the lobby of Hall D, across from the AMS Registration desk, located on the first level of the convention center at 900 Convention Center Blvd at 12:30pm.

AMS Volunteer Project

12:35 PM-2:00 PM: Sunday, 10 January 2016

Lunch (On Your Own)

1:00 PM-1:30 PM: Sunday, 10 January 2016

Getting the Ball Rolling: An Open Dialog with Your Peers

Location: Room 243 ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)

1:30 PM-1:40 PM: Sunday, 10 January 2016

Remarks from the AMS President

Location: Room 243 ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)

1:30 PM-5:30 PM: Sunday, 10 January 2016

Soil Moisture Short Course

Location: Room 348/349 ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)

1:40 PM-3:00 PM: Sunday, 10 January 2016

Small Group Rotating Discussions: Mentors and Soft Skills for Early Career Professionals

Location: Room 243 ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)

Participants will divide into 2 groups, in which group facilitators will rotate between each group with a different topic for discussion. Timeline: 1:50-2:20 P.M. Group Discussion 1; 2:25-2:55 P.M. Group Discussion 2

1:50 PM-3:00 PM: Sunday, 10 January 2016

Group Discussion 1: Selecting a Mentor

Location: Room 243 ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)

Group Discussion 2: Soft Skills in the Workplace

Location: Room 244 ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)

2:00 PM-3:00 PM: Sunday, 10 January 2016

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Workshop Résumé Workshop I

Location: Room 238/239 ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)

In today's competitive job market, recruiters get hundreds of applications per job position. How will you make sure you stand out and secure an interview? A good resume is the first step! Come to this workshop and learn what it takes to prepare a good resume, and hear about the latest job-hunting tips! If you like, bring your resume to get feedback from job recruiters and professionals from academia and the private industry!

2:00 PM-3:30 PM: Sunday, 10 January 2016

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Workshop Integrated Warning Team II: In Their Rainboots Workshop

Location: La Nouvelle C ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)

Ensuring public safety during hazardous weather events is no solo performance. In this workshop session, you will have the opportunity to actively participate in two Integrated Warning Team exercises. Professionals from the broadcast, forecast, social science, and emergency management fields will be present to guide the activity and help you better understand the connection between science and decision-making.

3:00 PM-4:00 PM: Sunday, 10 January 2016

Newcomer’s Welcome and Informational Exchange

Location: Room 255/257 ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)

This session is designed to provide first-time attendees with an overview of the annual meeting and suggestions on how to get the most out of their time while attending the meeting. AMS Past-President Marshall Shepherd and Ken Heideman, the Society’s director of publications, along with the AMS Beacons (member-staffed welcoming ambassadors), will provide a lively and interactive overview of the programs, special events, exhibits, and services. All attendees and exhibitors are encouraged to attend.

Networking with AMS Professionals and Coffee Break

Location: Room 243 ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)

This session will have a short keynote address by Dr. Frederick Carr, the AMS President-Elect. Conference attendees will then have an opportunity to network with representatives from numerous AMS Boards and Committees. The networking part of this session will be in conjunction with a Coffee Break.

3:30 PM-4:30 PM: Sunday, 10 January 2016

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Workshop Résumé Workshop II

Location: Room 238/239 ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)

4:00 PM-5:00 PM: Sunday, 10 January 2016

GoExtreme at AMS 2016

Location: Room 244 ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)

Extreme weather and extreme climate are the focus of this event immediately following Weatherfest. All are invited to join in and have their questions about extreme weather and climate answered by a panel of experts. This event will be of interest to the public of all ages, as well as to the attendees at the AMS annual meeting in New Orleans. The panel of experts for this event will include Laura Buchtel, TV meteorologist, WWL TV, New Orleans; Barry Keim, Louisiana state climatologist; Tim Marshall, storm chaser and meteorologist at Haag Engineering, Dallas, Texas; Robert Ricks Jr., lead forecaster, NWS, Slidell, Louisiana; and Marshall Shepherd, director, Atmospheric Sciences Program, The University of Georgia.

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Panel Discussion Perspectives from a Panel of Professionals

Location: Room 243 ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)

4:00 PM-5:30 PM: Sunday, 10 January 2016

96th Annual Review, New Fellows, and Featured Awards

Location: Room 252/254 ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)

Introductory remarks, President, Alexander E. MacDonald Presentation of Fellows and Featured Awards Annual Report, Secretary–Treasurer, Richard D. Rosen Professional Affairs Commission, Jay J. Trobec, CCM, CBM Education and Human Resources Commission, Rajul Pandya

5:00 PM-5:15 PM: Sunday, 10 January 2016

Closing Remarks

Location: Room 243 ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)

5:00 PM-7:00 PM: Sunday, 10 January 2016

AMS Career Fair

Location: Hall E ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)

The Career Fair is an excellent opportunity to interview on-site, one-on-one, with organizations looking to recruit highly talented individuals. View available full-time and part-time job opportunities, network with government agency and private industry employees, and meet recruiters from some of the country’s best graduate school programs -- all in one convenient location, and all at no cost. The Career Fair is open to all attendees of the Annual Meeting and the Student Conference so we encourage you to stop by, whether you are soon-to-be graduate, a young professional, or a seasoned pro! The Career Fair is open to those registered for the AMS Annual Meeting, Early Career Professionals Conference, and the Student Conference. While it is not necessary to register for participation in the Career Fair, you are encouraged to do so if you wish to submit a resume that may be viewed by Career Fair recruiters. If you are not interested in sharing your resume with recruiters prior to the meeting, it is not necessary to register in order to attend. Please note that we cannot accept resumes from those not registered for the Student Conference, the Early Career Professionals Conference or Annual Meeting.

5:45 PM-7:15 PM: Sunday, 10 January 2016

Poster Session Student Conference Poster Session

Location: Hall E ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)

Welcome Reception Honoring Newly Elected Fellows and Featured Award Winners

Location: Room 252/254 Foyer ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)

A Welcome Reception will be held following the 96th Annual Review, New Fellows, and Featured Awards. The reception will be held jointly with the Student Conference Poster Session. All are encouraged to attend.

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Poster Session Student Conference Poster Session

Location: Hall E ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)

7:00 PM-9:00 PM: Sunday, 10 January 2016

Annual Colour of Weather (CoWx) Networking Reception: ”Bridging the Gap by Building Diverse Relationships"

Location: Jefferson Ballroom (Hilton Riverside)

The NOAA Center for Atmospheric Sciences (NCAS) is hosting the 15th annual networking and diversity reception at the 96th Annual Meeting of the American Meteorological Society (AMS) in Louisiana. The next generation of scientists serving the atmospheric and related oceanic and hydrologic sciences community will be drawn from an American population that is more culturally and ethnically diverse than ever before. As custodians of our respective professions, today’s scientists look to the future with great anticipation and the duty to encourage our brightest talents to pursue careers in the geosciences, by providing access to leaders in the field, and engaging them in ways that promote exchanges. The annual CoWx reception is an event celebrating diversity of representation in careers and fields of study contributing to the atmospheric sciences. This event provides a unique mentoring and professional development experience for students and young professionals of color and/or from groups that are traditionally underrepresented in the fields of atmospheric sciences, earth sciences, hydrology, meteorology, and other fields encompassed by the AMS. The event is co-sponsored by NOAA, NCAS, Howard University, and Colour of Weather, Inc. Event information can be found at the NCAS website. For additional information, please contact Dr. Vernon Morris.

7:30 PM-9:30 PM: Sunday, 10 January 2016

CoRiolis Reception

Location: Versailles Ballroom (Hilton Riverside)

The CoRioliS reception brings together lesbian–gay–bisexual–transgender–queer (LGBTQ) friends and allies to mentor, network, and connect with individuals who share common professional and personal interests. Students and professionals from all levels, as well as their relatives, are welcome to attend and participate. The reception is hosted by the AMS Board of Women and Minorities. For additional information, please contact Aaron Piña or follow CoRioliS on Facebook

9:00 PM-11:00 PM: Sunday, 10 January 2016

Early Career Professionals Reception

Location: Napoleon Ballroom (Hilton Riverside)

Do you consider yourself an early career professional? Are you trying to find your niche within the AMS community? Or, perhaps you are looking to connect with other AMS early career professionals? If so, you are not alone! Consider yourself invited to attend the Sixth Annual Reception for Early Career Professionals, which will offer an opportunity to mix and mingle with others who are beginning their careers in the public, private, and academic sectors. Cash bar and snacks will be available. For more information, contact Beth Farley, AMS director of Member Services.

Monday, 11 January 2016

7:30 AM-6:00 PM: Monday, 11 January 2016

Registration Continues through January 13

Location: Hall D pre-function ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)

7:40 AM-8:00 AM: Monday, 11 January 2016

Location: Room 348/349 ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)

8:00 AM-4:30 PM: Monday, 11 January 2016

Plenary Session 2016 Presidential Forum: Serving Society in Times of Crisis: Past, Present and Future

Location: Hall E ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)

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

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Location: La Nouvelle B-C ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)

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

Spouses' Coffee

Location: Kabacoff (Hilton Riverside)

Spouses and guests are invited to meet and to renew acquaintances.

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

Coffee Break

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

Space Weather Coffee Break—Sponsored by Ball Aerospace

Location: Room 352 ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)

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

Advancements and Needs in Dispersion Modeling-Part I

Location: Room 243 ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)

Advancements and needs in dispersion modeling including: a) the roles of plume, puff, Lagrangian particle, and other approaches, b) predictions for short averaging times (sec to minutes) in hazards and other assessments, and c) use of mesoscale models for providing meteorological data driving applied dispersion models.

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Joint Session Advancing and Leveraging Research into Operations, and Operations Feedback into Research Between and Among International Partners

Location: Room 244 ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)

Building a Weather-Ready Nation Kickoff

Location: Room 255/257 ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)

Keynote speaker along with other high-level presentations on WRN.

Celebrating 25 years of the AMS Symposium on Education

Location: Room 353 ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)

Crowdsourcing Data and Data Portals

Location: Room 348/349 ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)

Current Challenges of Aerosol-cloud Interactions in Regional and Global Climate Models

Location: Room 357 ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)

This session is focused on the development and evaluation of aerosol cloud interactions in large-scale (regional and global) models. Large-scale models of weather and climate continue to advance their representations of aerosols, and the interactions between aerosols and cloud microphysics. There remain large uncertainties and discrepancies between observational based estimates of climate-scale aerosol-cloud interaction effects and the same effects estimated from global models. This uncertainty contributes to uncertainty in radiative forcing of climate, and in uncertainty regarding aerosol effects on precipitation. We invite papers on the development, evaluation, and analysis of Aerosol-Cloud-Interactions in large-scale models and intercomparison and coordinated modeling experiments that shed light on these issues. We encourage analysis of observational constraints on aerosol-cloud interactions and comparisons to models, both radiative effects and effects on precipitation in large-scale models. We also encourage process based studies using cloud resolving and other models that seek to bridge the scale gap between observations, detailed and large scale models.

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Joint Session Drought Analysis and Prediction, Part I

Location: Room 240/241 ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)

Drought is a multi-faceted phenomenon that challenges our current prediction capabilities. Taking drought prediction and hydrological applications to the next level requires advances in understanding, monitoring, communications and water resources management. Specific topics addressed by presenters could include but are not limited to: Current drought prediction science and skill at various lead times; innovative management uses of that science; and case studies illustrating advances in understanding, monitoring and prediction of drought and drought impacts. Further, papers addressing gaps and deficiencies in our current methods for predicting droughts and estimating its effects on vegetation, water resources, and human populations are also invited. Please contact the program Co-Chairs, Joshua Roundy (JKRoundy@ku.edu) for additional information.

Evolving the Global Observing System

Location: Room 345 ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)

Future directions for the Federal Agencies, Part I

Location: Room 352 ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)

Hot Topics in Climate

Location: La Nouvelle A ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)

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Themed Joint Session Improving Communication of Threats to the Public

Location: Room 333-334 ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)

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Panel Discussion Leveraging Financial Tools for Weather Risk Transfer in Energy

Location: Room 346/347 ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)

In the 1990’s the weather risk transfer market emerged enabling energy companies to protect their profitability against adverse weather events. Weather impacts businesses and municipalities in many ways but one of the major impacts is financial, including the supply, demand, and price of energy. Climate change coupled with the evolving and expanding weather risk has led to a significant increase in volatility and the importance of understanding its financial implications.

J 1

Joint Session Megacity Air Pollution

Location: Room 231/232 ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)

Network Design

Location: Room 350/351 ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)

Numerical Modeling and Air-Sea Interactions with the MJO

Location: Room 338/339 ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)

Python in the Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences

Location: Room 225 ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)

Regional Climate Services

Location: Room 245 ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)

Statistical Products for Weather Services – Part 1

Location: Room 226/227 ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)

Synoptic-scale Ensemble Forecasting and Uncertainty Analysis in the Coastal Zone (Including Meteorology, Physical Oceanography and Ecology): Part I

Location: Room 342 ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)

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Joint Session Weather Observing Systems Via Airborne Platforms

Location: Room 355 ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)

TJ 2

Themed Joint Session Greenhouse Gas Emissions: Quantifying Uncertainties in Measurements and Models and Resultant Climate Impacts I

Location: Room 356 ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)

Over the last few years, significant advances have been made in both in situ and remote sensing technologies for measuring greenhouse gases (GHGs). The successful launch of global observing systems such as the Orbiting Carbon Observatory (OCO-2), the Soil Moisture Active Passive (SMAP) missions as well as deployment of localized surface networks and aircraft campaigns such as the Carbon in Arctic Reservoirs Vulnerability Experiment (CARVE) and the Megacities Carbon Project, is starting to yield more information on both natural and anthropogenic sources than ever before. While these multiple observational platforms provide a significant potential for the monitoring of GHG emissions, more and more uncertainties are coming to light regarding our understanding of the global and regional budgets of GHGs, errors due to deficiency in atmospheric transport modeling (especially related to convection and vertical mixing), and identification and quantification of climate feedback sensitivities. This session solicits abstracts that address these uncertainties using models and observations and provide new insights on understanding GHG dynamics at various spatial (local to global) and temporal (sub-diurnal to decadal) scales. We encourage contributions on current and prospective observation technologies for GHGs, modeling studies to quantify budgets and/or uncertainties in GHG flux estimates, and evaluation and benchmarking of GHG estimates from Earth System Models using contemporary observations. We also encourage studies of perturbations to the carbon balance of terrestrial ecosystems in response to climate variability and change, especially as they combine models and observations or pertain to carbon-climate feedback. In addition, we seek contributions on improved quantification and understanding of underlying GHG emissions at the urban scale, policy issues related to GHG monitoring and regulation, and how the current state of the science is informing policy decisions.

J 2

Joint Session Land Model Benchmarking: Benchmarking, Verification and Validation in Terrestrial Hydrology, Part I

Location: Room 242 ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)

There are significant challenges associated with assessing the quality and informativeness of both models and data products that are largely related to scale, heterogeneity, complexity, and representativeness. These challenges compound when assessing spatially and temporally distributed model/data products. This session solicits contributions related to innovative methods for: (1) Assessing quality of model/data products, and (2) Assessing the fidelity of models of complex terrestrial hydrologic systems. The former might include methods for measuring or interpreting accuracy, precision, uncertainty, information content, reliability, observability, etc., while the latter recognizes that models are valuable beyond simply their ability to make accurate predictions. Related to the latter we encourage contributions on model diagnostics, identification, and benchmarking. We are particularly interested in benchmarking studies that focus on evaluating the performance of models using a priori metrics and expectations of performance. The use of novel techniques to assess distributed data or models that focus on impacts to and understanding of coupled land atmosphere and hydrometeorological processes and prediction is also encouraged. Please contact the program organizer, Mike Ek (Michael.Ek@noaa.gov), or the session chair, Sujay Kumar (Sujay.V.Kumar@nasa.gov) for additional information.

TJ 3

Themed Joint Session High Impact Weather: Analysis, Prediction, and Interaction with Climate Changes: Part 1

Location: Room 238/239 ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)

TJ 4

Themed Joint Session Urban Studies that Support the Understanding of Urban Growth and Climate Variability Impacts on Health, Adaptation, and Resilience—Part I

Location: Room 228/229 ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)

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

AI for Climate Informatics and Extreme Weather

Location: Room 354 ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)

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

Celebrating 25 years of the AMS Symposium on Education

Location: Room 353 ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)

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

Lunch Break

12:15 PM-1:15 PM: Monday, 11 January 2016

Presidential Town Hall Meeting: An Informal Discussion with Secretary of Commerce Penny Pritzker

Location: La Nouvelle C ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)

As the 38th U.S. Secretary of Commerce, Penny Pritzker is a key member of President Obama’s economic team, with 27 years of private sector experience. Before joining the Obama Administration, Pritzker founded and ran five different businesses in the real estate, hospitality, senior living, and financial services industries. Since taking office in June 2013, she has worked closely with the business community and helped advance the President’s priorities of expanding growth and opportunity for all Americans. Guided by conversations with more than 1,600 CEOs and business leaders, and over one-third of the Fortune 500 CEOs, Secretary Pritzker has developed the “Open for Business Agenda.” This bold strategic plan and policy blueprint for the Commerce Department focuses on expanding trade and investment, unleashing government data for economic benefit, spurring innovation, protecting the environment—and executing these priorities with operational excellence as careful stewards of taxpayer dollars. In a keynote address to the AMS Washington Forum, Secretary Pritzker announced that NOAA is forming new alliances to help bring its vast data resources to the public. Partnerships such as those with Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure, IBM, Google, and the Open Cloud Consortium help address the growing need for access to NOAA’s huge—and rapidly growing—environmental data resource. Secretary Pritzker earned her bachelor's degree in economics from Harvard University and J.D. and M.B.A. degrees from Stanford University. The informal discussion with Secretary Pritzker in this Presidential Town Hall will be moderated by NOAA Administrator Dr. Kathryn Sullivan. For additional information, please contact Marni Goldberg mgoldberg@doc.gov.

Town Hall Meeting: Weather Ready Nations (WRNs)

Location: Room 255/257 ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)

“Weather Ready Nation” has become the guiding set of principles for evolving the U.S. National Weather Service. Other countries are developing—or have developed—similar visions for the future, which emphasize ‘impact based decision support’ and responsiveness to subsets of users. The U.S. Government, in conjunction with WMO and other countries, have begun the establishment of “Weather Ready Nations”, an initiative to expand internationally the appropriate use of lessons learned thus far. Current plans are to hold two workshops in order to draft a list of “Best Practices” and to design three demonstration projects. These projects would explore application of selected practices in developing countries—examples might include use of WRN “ambassadors”, developing a weather ready plan or ‘roadmap’, and application of social and economic benefits analysis to assist in better defining user community needs. Please join us at this Town Hall meeting for further discussion of this initiative. For additional information, please contact Viviane Silva viviane.silva@noaa.gov.

Town Hall Meeting: “Outside the Box” Skillsets for Staying Relevant and Landing the Next Job

Location: Room 244 ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)

The job market has become highly demanding in the weather and climate enterprise. It is essential for applicants to have a broad range of expertise in order to stand out in a sea of job applications. This is especially true for early career professionals, who are entering their second or subsequent job. Learning does not end at the academic level, and it is important to have the ability to adapt to new proficiencies in order to stay competitive when moving to the next career step. The AMS Board for Early Career Professionals, Board for Operational Government Meteorologists, Board for Private Sector Meteorologists, Board on Higher Education, and the Weather Analysis and Forecast Committee invite you to participate in a panel discussion regarding skillsets that aren’t necessarily required in an academic curriculum, but may be of importance to have in a resume or curriculum vitae. Experts in each skillset will be on hand to discuss its importance in weather and climate, how it applies to their particular field of work, and where early career professionals can find opportunities for training. Talks will be given by each panelist, along with a Q&A session at the end. All members of the AMS community, including graduate students, post docs, and early career professionals are encouraged to attend this one hour town hall meeting. For additional information, please contact Jared Rennie jared@cicsnc.org.

12:45 PM-1:05 PM: Monday, 11 January 2016

Communicating Weather and Climate Information, Risks and Uncertainty: Research and Applications

Location: Room 348/349 ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)

1:30 PM-2:15 PM: Monday, 11 January 2016

AI Techniques Applied to Environmental Science Part I

Location: Room 354 ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)

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

Location: Room 333-334 ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)

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Joint Session Methods for Identifying the MJO

Location: Room 338/339 ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)

Perspective and Plans for Future Observing Systems in Earth System Science

Location: Room 252/254 ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)

A panel of senior managers and scientists will present their perspective on the challenges and opportunities of future spaced-based earth observation missions needed for providing more value-added applications addressing societal needs and increasing the scientific understanding of earth processes. They will describe how these challenges and opportunities are being addressed through changes to satellite architecture, sensor design, an evolving business model, and increased inter-agency and international cooperation, etc.

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Panel Discussion Snapshot of the Federal Policy Landscape

Location: Room 335/336 ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)

This panel will introduce the federal policy landscape as related to the AMS community. The session will represent perspectives from both the Executive and Legislative branches and the role of the AMS Policy Program in the policy setting. The panelists will cover timely issues by discussing the 2015 activities and priorities of the Administration and Congress. Talks will include Congressional activity as experienced by the 2015-2016 AMS Congressional Science Fellow, pending legislation and relevant hearings in the U.S. House of Representatives and Senate, and other timely topics.

Solar Forecasting: Energy Application Part 1

Location: Room 346/347 ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)

Solar Forecasting: Energy Application Part 1

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Lecture Walter Orr Roberts Lecture

Location: La Nouvelle A ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)

Welcome Session: Commission and the Weather, Water and Climate Enterprise

Location: Room 244 ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)

Kick-off session for the Symposium on Weather, Water and Climate Enterprise

Advancements and needs in dispersion modeling-Part II

Location: Room 243 ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)

Evolving the NWS to Become Second to None

Location: Room 255/257 ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)

(e.g., forecaster tools, social science applications, dissemination systems) that support Impact-based Decision Support Services

Future directions for the Federal Agencies, Part II

Location: Room 352 ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)

Kenneth Crawford Session, Part 1

Location: Room 245 ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)

Modeling and Teaching Modeling

Location: Room 225 ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)

Pre-College Education Initiatives

Location: Room 353 ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)

J 2

Joint Session Soil Dust I: Lofting and Transport, Characterization, and Interactions with Clouds and Storms

Location: Room 357 ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)

Dust from both desert and more vegetated areas contributes a major fraction of the atmospheric aerosol with a variety of sources, compositions and impacts. The goal of this session is to bring together scientist from different disciplines working on the characterisation, emission, atmospheric transport, chemical transformation and impact of dust from desert, vegetated or agricultural areas, not only including mineral but also organic and other constituents. We invite and welcome contributions from the general areas (1) speciation and characterisation of the mineralogy, organic content and other constituents of dust sampled from source regions or directly from the atmosphere, (2) emission fluxes, transport and chemical transformation of dust in the atmosphere, and (3) cloud and climate impact of atmospheric dust, including optical properties and cloud microphysics like CCN activation and heterogeneous ice nucleation.

State Mesonet Standards and Procedures

Location: Room 350/351 ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)

Statistical Products for Weather Services – Part 2

Location: Room 226/227 ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)

Synoptic-scale Ensemble Forecasting and Uncertainty Analysis in the Coastal Zone Including Meteorology, Physical Oceanography and Ecology: Part II

Location: Room 342 ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)

Urban Studies that Support the Understanding of Urban Growth and Climate Variability Impacts on Health, Adaptation, and Resilience—Part II

Location: Room 228/229 ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)

Advancements in Information Systems Technology

Location: Room 355 ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)

Field Experiments I

Location: Room 344 ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)

AWIPS System Updates, Part I

Location: Room 348/349 ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)

Data Assimilation: Ocean and Coupled Models I

Location: Room 345 ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)

J 3

Joint Session Drought Analysis and Prediction, Part II

Location: Room 240/241 ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)

J 3

Joint Session Stratospheric Chemistry

Location: Room 231/232 ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)

J 4

Joint Session Land Model Benchmarking: Benchmarking, Verification and Validation in Terrestrial Hydrology, Part II

Location: Room 242 ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)

There are significant challenges associated with assessing the quality and informativeness of both models and data products that are largely related to scale, heterogeneity, complexity, and representativeness. These challenges compound when assessing spatially and temporally distributed model/data products. This session solicits contributions related to innovative methods for: (1) Assessing quality of model/data products, and (2) Assessing the fidelity of models of complex terrestrial hydrologic systems. The former might include methods for measuring or interpreting accuracy, precision, uncertainty, information content, reliability, observability, etc., while the latter recognizes that models are valuable beyond simply their ability to make accurate predictions. Related to the latter we encourage contributions on model diagnostics, identification, and benchmarking. We are particularly interested in benchmarking studies that focus on evaluating the performance of models using a priori metrics and expectations of performance. The use of novel techniques to assess distributed data or models that focus on impacts to and understanding of coupled land atmosphere and hydrometeorological processes and prediction is also encouraged. Please contact the program organizer, Mike Ek (Michael.Ek@noaa.gov), or Session Chair, Sujay Kumar (sujay.v.kumar@nasa.gov) for additional information.

TJ 5

Themed Joint Session Greenhouse Gas Emissions: Quantifying Uncertainties in Measurements and Models and Resultant Climate Impacts II

Location: Room 356 ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)

J 5

Joint Session Joint Research and Coordinated Observations in Hydrometeorology, Extremes and High-Impact Events in the US and Asia Part 1

Location: Room 343 ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)

TJ 6

Themed Joint Session High Impact Weather: Analysis, Prediction, and Interaction with Climate Changes: Part 2

Location: Room 238/239 ( 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)

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Poster Session 19AIRPOL Posters

P 1

Poster Session 32EIPT Monday/Tuesday Posters

P 1

Poster Session Advances in Using Python in the Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences

Location: Hall E ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)

P 1

Poster Session CE Posters

P 1

Poster Session Data Assimilation: Data Impact Experiments and OSSEs

Location: Hall D/E ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)

JP 1

Joint Poster Session Drought Analysis and Prediction Posters

P 1

Poster Session Environment & Health Poster Session I

Infectious diseases & climate change; linking earth observations to environmental and human health.

P 1

Poster Session GOES-R/JPSS Poster Session I

TJP 1

Themed Joint Poster Session Greenhouse Gas Emissions: Quantifying Uncertainties in Measurements and Models and Resultant Climate Impacts Posters

Location: Hall D/E ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)

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Poster Session Hydrometeorological Extremes Posters

Same as parent oral session

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Poster Session Major Weather Impacts in 2015

The Major Weather Impacts of 2015 Poster Session specifically focuses on the weather/climate/water events of late 2014 and 2015 including: -How did the significant event impact a community or entire region? -What were the economic impacts that occurred due to the significant climate/weather/hydrology events? -What new techniques, tools and procedures helped warn/inform the public? -What lessons were learned that can help others in the future in forecasting, preparing/responding to the event and communicating the message?

JP 1

Joint Poster Session Mario J. Molina Symposium Posters

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Poster Session Measurements Poster Session I

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Poster Session Monday/Tuesday Poster Session

This is for Monday / Tuesday sessions

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Poster Session POSTER: Fourth Symposium on Prediction of the Madden-Julian Oscillation: Processes, Prediction and Impact

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Poster Session Poster Session 1

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Poster Session Poster Session I: Atmospheric Sciences Education

Posters in the Symposium on Education

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Poster Session Poster Session on Transitioning Research to Operations - I

Poster Session on Transitioning Research to Operations

P 1

Poster Session Poster Session: Chemistry and Aerosols - Mon/tue

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Poster Session Poster Session: Societal Applications: Policy, Research and Practice

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Poster Session Poster Viewing

7 Energy Poster

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Poster Session Posters, 11-12 January

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Poster Session Session 1

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Poster Session Space Weather Posters

JP 2

Joint Poster Session Land Model Benchmarking: Benchmarking, Verification and Validation in Terrestrial Hydrology Posters

Location: New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center

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Poster Session Poster Session II: Outreach

Symposium on Education posters focused on outreach

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Poster Session Poster Session III: Pre-College Education Initiatives

Posters in the Symposium on Education focused on pre-college education initiatives

JP 3

Joint Poster Session Remote Sensing Applications in Hydrology Posters

Location: New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center

The session will focus on science and applications of remote sensing in land surface hydrologic sciences. The remotely sensed measurements related to hydrological parameters are from satellite, radar, airborne, or other platforms. We are hoping to increase the discussions on: (1) the current and future requirements for the data sets; (2) the current state of the science for measuring hydrologic parameters using remote sensing platforms; (3) how hydrological models or downstream applications use the remotely sensed data products for decision support; (4) areas where current science methodology does not adequately address the needs of the broader hydrologic community; and (5) new methods and/or new remote sensing technologies that offer potential for improving hydrologic (including land surface parameter) remote sensing. For additional information about the session, please contact the session chairs Xiwu Zhan (xiwu.zhan@noaa.gov) and John Eylander (john.b.eylander@usace.army.mil), or the program organizer, David Gochis (gochis@ucar.edu).

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Poster Session Poster Session IV: University Education Initiatives

Posters in the Symposium on Education focused on university education

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Joint Poster Session The NASA Soil Moisture Active Passive (SMAP) Mission Status and Early Results Posters

NASA’s Soil Moisture Active Passive (SMAP) mission, launched on January 31, 2015, makes high-resolution, frequent revisit global mapping of surface soil moisture and its freeze/thaw state based on its unique coincident L-band radiometer and L-band radar measurements. The early period of science data acquisition contains the intense calibration and validation phase. Early beta geophysical data products release is scheduled for November 2015. Validated data are due after one year of calibration and validation. The instrument data products (Level 1) are released on a more accelerated schedule. The data are public and accessible at designated open data archives (National Snow and Ice Data Center in Boulder, CO and the Alaska Satellite Facility in Fairbanks, AK). This special session includes presentations on the status of the SMAP observatory, reports on calibration and validation, and early science results. The session also include presentations on SMAPVEX15 and SMAPEx-4 airborne field campaigns, in Arizona and New South Wales, Australia respectively, that deploy airborne active and passive SMAP instrument simulators during several weeks in Summer 2015. The field campaigns fly the airborne instruments during SMAP overpasses and also include teams collecting ground-truth observations. The SMAP project has developed pre-launch collaborations with applied science and operational users who require soil moisture information in their decision-support systems. These include Numerical Weather Prediction, operational flash-flood and main-stem flood forecasting, and drought monitoring among others. The special session will include contributions from early users of SMAP observations about the impact of the new data stream on their operations. The special session is in line with the “Earth System Science in Service to Society” theme of the 96th Annual AMS Meeting.

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Poster Session Poster Session V: Promoting Diversity in Atmospheric Sciences

Posters in the Symposium on Education focused in promoting diversity

4:00 PM-5:00 PM: Monday, 11 January 2016

Katrina +10: Reflecting on Hurricane Katrina and Planning Ahead for Future Weather and Climate Extremes

Location: Room 333-334 ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)

US CLIVAR Session on Ocean Fingerprints of Decadal-to-Centennial Natural Variability and Anthropogenic Change

Location: La Nouvelle A ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)

In-situ and satellite ocean observations and paleo-climate measurements have contributed to our fundamental knowledge of decadal-to-centennial natural variability and anthropogenic changes in the ocean. Examples of ocean observables are heat content, sea ice, sea level, sea surface temperature, sea surface salinity, surface wind speed, air-sea fluxes, deoxygenation, carbon uptake, acidification, etc. Examples of coupled ocean-atmosphere processes are El Niño/La Niña, Pacific Decadal Oscillation, North Pacific Gyre Oscillation, North Atlantic Oscillation, Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation, and Southern Annular Mode. Papers documenting such low-frequency ocean variations, including results on discriminating between their natural and anthropogenic components, are invited.

Data Assimilation: Ocean and Coupled Models II

Location: Room 345 ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)

J 6

Joint Session Biennial AMS AI Contest

Location: Room 354 ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)

The focus will be on estimating the probability of specific rainfall amounts given polarimetric radar observations. For more detail on the contest, see https://www.kaggle.com/c/how-much-did-it-rain.

J 8

Joint Session The NASA Soil Moisture Active Passive (SMAP) Mission Status and Early Results

Location: Room 240/241 ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)

4:00 PM-5:15 PM: Monday, 11 January 2016

Hydrometeorological Extremes, Part I

Location: Room 242 ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)

High-impact hydrometeorological events produce the most destructive and costly outcomes of any weather-driven phenomena world-wide. Furthermore, despite significant progress over the last several decades, forecasting and warning for these events still lacks the precision that could minimize loss of property and life, especially in developing nations. Excessive precipitation or runoff associated with tropical cyclones/convection, land-based convection, atmospheric rivers, ENSO, and even slow-moving non-convective systems results in both flash-flooding and large-river system floods whose characteristics often depend on local soils, vegetation/agriculture, and topography. Excessive snow-melt, including rain-on-snow, as well as ice-breakup, can also result in destructive flood events. Conversely, severe droughts create deleterious impacts on crop/food production and the water supply. In this session, papers are invited that contribute to our ability to improve real-time/operational forecasts and warnings for these kinds of extremes, including observational as well as modeling approaches that may vary depending upon differing societal contexts. In addition, papers that address promising and innovative methods of assessing and modeling the statistics of hydrometeorological extremes as applied to real-time/operational forecasting/warning systems are encouraged. Papers that document forecast system performance and/or needed improvements in case studies of extreme events are also solicited. Please contact the session organizer, John McHenry (john.mchenry@baronweather.com) for additional information.

Dispersion Modeling on a Range of Scales for Different Sources and Applications

Location: Room 243 ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)

Success stories and lessons learned in Research to Operations (R2O)

Location: Room 352 ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)

4:00 PM-5:30 PM: Monday, 11 January 2016

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Workshop Brief Python Tutorials Workshop, Part I

Location: Room 225 ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)

JPSS and GOES-R Instrument Innovators (Invited)

Location: Room 252/254 ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)

PD 1

Panel Discussion Utilizing Financial Tools for Weather Risk Transfer in Business Continuity, Supply Chain, and Capital Markets

Location: Room 244 ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)

This panel discussion will bring together experts from the weather and climate enterprise to discuss how the community contributes to business continuity practices, managing supply chains during extreme weather events, and the influence on capital markets. This session will also highlight recent extreme events which caused significant global supply chain impacts and how active planning for future events can mitigate financial impacts.

Analysis of Observations from the DYNAMO/CINDY Field Campaign

Location: Room 338/339 ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)

PD 2

Panel Discussion Building a Consistent Message: Establishing Ground Rules for the Weather Enterprise

Location: Room 335/336 ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)

Over the last decade, great advances in meteorological technology, models and data visualization techniques have been matched by increasing access to these tools and forecasts, especially through social media. As members of the forecasting community, including broadcasters, private sector companies offering specialized services, National Weather Service forecasters, and emergency managers all adjust to these new technologies and communication media, messages have become increasingly complex, raising concerns that this increase in volume is being compounded by message inconsistency. Scholars in the social and behavioral sciences, especially in risk communication, point to inconsistency of message as a key challenge in assuring that members of various publics can be best-empowered to make decisions to protect themselves when hazardous weather threatens. As this issue has risen in importance within the meteorological community, there have been calls to work together as a forecasting enterprise to identify ground rules that could preserve consistency while still allowing for competition. This panel will assemble representatives from across the enterprise, including broadcast, emergency management, private sector, social media, academic, and federal partners, to unpack the idea of message consistency and - with help from the audience - identify ground rules for creating consistent messages

J 2

Joint Session Climate Change and Infectious Diseases

Location: Room 228/229 ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)

This session will explore research-to-operation concepts and applications that are bringing us closer to understanding how Earth's changing environment can influence the geographic range and incidence of infectious diseases, and will explore how this knowledge can increase our preparedness capacity.

Solar Forecasting: Energy Application Part 2

Location: Room 346/347 ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)

Solar Forecasting: Energy Application Part 2

AWIPS System Updates, Part II

Location: Room 348/349 ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)

Building a WRN Through Innovative Partnerships

Location: Room 255/257 ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)

Kenneth Crawford Session, Part 2

Location: Room 245 ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)

Novel Oceanographic Observational Techniques

Location: Room 342 ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)

Pre-college Education Initiatives II

Location: Room 353 ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)

Statistical Forecasting

Location: Room 226/227 ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)

Unmanned Aerial Vehicles for Atmospheric Research I

Location: Room 350/351 ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)

Field Experiments II

Location: Room 344 ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)

J 4

Joint Session Aerosol Nucleation, Growth, and Transformation (I)

Location: Room 231/232 ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)

J 5

Joint Session Soil Dust II: Lofting and Transport, Characterization, and Interactions with Clouds and Storms

Location: Room 357 ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)

J 7

Joint Session Joint Research and Coordinated Observations in Hydrometeorology, Extremes and High-Impact Events in the US and Asia Part 2

Location: Room 343 ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)

TJ 7

Themed Joint Session Research to Operations: Transitioning from Science to Service

Location: Room 355 ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)

TJ 8

Themed Joint Session High Impact Weather: Analysis, Prediction, and Interaction with Climate Changes: Part 3

Location: Room 238/239 ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)

TJ 9

Themed Joint Session Greenhouse Gas Emissions: Quantifying Uncertainties in Measurements and Models and Resultant Climate Impacts III

Location: Room 356 ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)

5:00 PM-5:30 PM: Monday, 11 January 2016

J 9

Joint Session Remote sensing applications in hydrology, Part I

Location: Room 240/241 ( 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)

Please join other attendees for the Opening Reception of the 2016 Annual Meeting, sponsored by the exhibiting companies. Local government officials and other dignitaries will be present for the ribbon-cutting event.

7:00 PM-8:00 PM: Monday, 11 January 2016

Town Hall Meeting: NWS Model Development Forum

Location: Room 240/241 ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)

The mission of NWS weather and seasonal prediction models is to provide the best possible numerical guidance to customers, where forecasts must be available reliably and on time. To address growing service demands and improve the accuracy of forecasts, NWS also needs to remain at the cutting-edge of research and continuously transition science advances from the research community into operations. This town hall meeting is for NWS to communicate with its partners and stakeholders on NWS model development and transition processes at the NCEP Environmental Modeling Center with the goal of fostering more effective research-to-operations transition to improve NWS models. For additional information, please contact Michael Ek michael.ek@noaa.gov or Hendrik Tolman hendrik.tolman@noaa.gov.

7:00 PM-9:00 PM: Monday, 11 January 2016

Town Hall Meeting: Weather, Climate, Water and the New Energy Economy – Integrating and Operationalizing Renewable Energy Forecasts

Location: Room 346/347 ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)

There is a tight correlation between weather and energy consumption but the relationship between meteorology and the electricity grid runs much deeper. The industry has undergone many changes and our nation’s grid is increasingly more complex. From the integration of large scale wind and solar generation and the complexities introduced from their intermittent behavior, to the disruptive forces of distributed solar generation and it’s ever increasing footprint. These increasing challenges with their increasing levels of complexity are being met head on by increased computational resources, big weather, and advances in data science. The topics this Town Hall Meeting will address broadly are: Advances in the state of the art with forecasting renewable energy. How forecasts are being integrated into utility operations. What is the future of renewables forecasting…NWP, AI, or both. How are utilities dealing with the integration of distributed and centralized solar…are they different. This Town Hall Meeting is held in conjunction with the AMS Energy Committee and the AMS Renewable Energy Committees’ Seventh Conference on Weather, Climate and the New Energy Economy. For additional information, please contact Matt Parker matt.parker@srnl.doe.gov or Brian D'Agostino BDAgostino@semprautilities.com.

7:15 PM-10:00 PM: Monday, 11 January 2016

23|5 Talks: The ‘Wow’ of Weather, Water, and Climate

Location: New Orleans Theater ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)

Please join us for the popular AMS program "23|5 Talks." This hour-long set of public talks will follow the format of the well-known TED Talks, and feature various views and perspectives on weather, water, and climate from engaging, thought-provoking people representing all facets of the enterprise. This year, four speakers will present topics of interest for meeting attendees as well as the general public: • Bill Gail, Global Weather Corporation • Bill Read, former head National Hurricane Center • Mike Smith, AccuWeather • Naomi Oreskes, Harvard University Following the talks, we are also pleased to be screening the feature-length documentary film, “Merchants of Doubt,” based on the 2010 book by Naomi Oreskes and Erik M. Conway. For additional information, please contact Tom Champoux.

Tuesday, 12 January 2016

7:00 AM-8:15 AM: Tuesday, 12 January 2016

Town Hall Meeting: NOAA Space Platform Requirements Working Group (SPRWG)

Location: Room 252/254 ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)

NOAA is beginning a study (NOAA Satellite Observing System Architecture Study, or NSOSA) to plan for the future operational environmental satellite system that will follow GOES and JPSS, beginning about 2030. This is an opportunity to design a modern architecture with no pre-conceived notions regarding instruments, platforms, orbits, etc. Part of this study is the Space Platforms Requirements Working Group (SPRWG), which is being commissioned by NESDIS. The SPRWG is charged to assess new or existing requirements against the baseline architecture, and to provide relative priorities for observational requirements in the context of the future architecture. The SPRWG will confirm and/or provide inputs for new foundational (Level 0 and Level 1) requirements for the next generation of NOAA satellites post the GOES-R, JPSS, DSCOVR, and COSMIC-2 missions, with the goal of achieving a more flexible, responsive and sustainable architecture. For additional information, please contact Johannes Loschnigg johannes.loschnigg@gmail.com or Richard Anthes anthes@ucar.edu.

7:40 AM-8:00 AM: Tuesday, 12 January 2016

Location: Room 348/349 ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)

8:00 AM-8:30 AM: Tuesday, 12 January 2016

Local AMS Chapter Town Hall

Location: Room 238/239 ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)

Looking for ideas for your local AMS chapter? Have an idea to share? Interested in learning about local AMS chapters? Join us at the second annual Local AMS Chapter Town Hall - designed for both student and regular chapter officers, members, and prospective members. This town hall will be held on Tuesday, January 12, 2016 from 8:00am to 8:30am. All chapters are invited to share their successful activities in addition to their challenges and seek advice from other chapters. Those interested in joining a local chapter are also invited to attend to learn about local AMS chapters and how to get involved. The Local Chapter Affairs Committee and local AMS chapters from across the country invite YOU to take part in this information sharing session! The town hall will be held at the Convention Center; room TBD. For questions, email amschaps@ametsoc.org.

8:00 AM-9:45 AM: Tuesday, 12 January 2016

AI Techniques for Decision Support

Location: Room 354 ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)

8:00 AM-6:00 PM: Tuesday, 12 January 2016

Program Overviews and Status for New Operational Environmental Systems (Invited)

Location: Hall D/E ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)

8:30 AM-9:30 AM: Tuesday, 12 January 2016

Air Pollution and Atmospheric Chemistry

Location: Room 243 ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)

8:30 AM-9:45 AM: Tuesday, 12 January 2016

Global Events in 2015

Location: Room 338/339 ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)

This session will focus on the major weather events and their associated impacts in 2015 around the globe. It will start with a summary of highlights and then look at specific events and impacts.

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Workshop Brief Python Tutorials Workshop, Part II

Location: Room 225 ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)

Hydrometeorological Extremes, Part II

Location: Room 242 ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)

Impacts of Aerosol-cloud Interactions on Radiation I

Location: Room 357 ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)

Aerosol-cloud interactions have significant influences on natural climate variability and are also one of the largest uncertainties in the estimate of anthropogenic climate forcing. A variety of aerosol-cloud interaction mechanisms and processes have been identified over the past few decades. This session seeks to advance the understanding of how various aerosol-cloud interactions impact the local and/or global radiative energy budget and consequent implications. We welcome discussion forum related to i) how microphysical interactions between aerosol and cloud modulate the cloud radiative properties and radiative effects (e.g., Twomey and lifetime effect); how the relative position of aerosol and cloud (e.g., aerosol above, below and inside clouds) influences the radiative energy distribution; and iii) novel measurement (remote sensing and in situ) and modeling techniques to quantify the impacts of aerosol-cloud interactions on radiation.

Location: Room 252/254 ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)

Arctic Circulation and Sea-Ice Variability and Trends

Location: La Nouvelle C ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)

Structure and mechanisms; connection with climatological phenomena.

J 3

Joint Session Data Assimilation: Operational Advancements I

Location: Room 345 ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)

Joint between the 20IOAS-AOLS and the 6R2O

J 3

Joint Session Integrative Approaches to Understanding Extreme Temperature Risk I

Location: Room 228/229 ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)

Presentations will involve various disciplinary research methods and policies that are currently used for coping with extreme heat risk, and how they could be integrated for more accurate spatial and temporal understanding of extreme heat risk

Risk Perception and Communication

Location: Room 333-334 ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)

Solar and Wind Forecasting: Energy Application

Location: Room 346/347 ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)

Solar and Wind Forecasting: Energy Application

Addressing Broader Impacts: Lessons Learned from recent NSF-CAREER Awards

Location: Room 353 ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)

Advances in Space Weather Observations

Location: Room 352 ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)

Drought Monitoring, Prediction, and Impacts, Part 1

Location: Room 245 ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)

Ensemble Forecasting – Part 1

Location: Room 226/227 ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)

Evolving the Warning Paradigm to Better Inform Individuals

Location: Room 255/257 ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)

Unmanned Aerial Vehicles for Atmospheric Research II

Location: Room 350/351 ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)

Visualization Techniques for Climatology and Meteorology

Location: Room 348/349 ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)

J 6

Joint Session Soil Dust III: Lofting and Transport, Characterization, and Interactions with Clouds and Storms

Location: Room 356 ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)

J 7

Joint Session Aerosol Nucleation, Growth, and Transformation (II)

Location: Room 343 ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)

J 7

Joint Session Special Symposium on Hurricane Katrina

Location: Room 344 ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)

Organized by the AMS Committees on Tropical Meteorology and Tropical Cyclones, Weather Analysis and Forecasting, and Satellite Meteorology, Oceanography, and Climatology, as well as jointly with the Symposium on Building a Weather-Ready Nation: Enhancing Our Nation's Readiness, Responsiveness, and Resilience to High Impact Weather and 14th Symposium on the Coastal Environment

TJ 10

Themed Joint Session High Impact Weather: Analysis, Prediction, and Interaction with Climate Changes: Part 4

Location: La Nouvelle A ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)

J 10

Joint Session Remote sensing applications in hydrology, Part II

Location: Room 240/241 ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)

9:00 AM-9:30 AM: Tuesday, 12 January 2016

Advancements in Radiative Transfer Modeling and Surface Emissivity Modeling to Support Assimilation of Satellite Radiance Data

Location: Room 335/336 ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)

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

Enterprise Topics Around a Weather-Ready Nation

Location: Room 244 ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)

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

Spouses' Coffee

Location: Kabacoff (Hilton Riverside)

Spouses and guests are invited to meet and to renew acquaintances.

9:30 AM-11:00 AM: Tuesday, 12 January 2016

Book Signing

Location: Hall D/E ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)

Come visit with authors during book signings at the AMS Resouce Center! Bob Henson: The Thinking Person's Guide to Climate Change Bill Hooke: Living on the Real World: How Thinking and Acting Like Meteorologists Will Help Save the Planet Bill Gail: Climate Conundrums: What the Climate Debate Reveals About Us

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)

JP 1

Joint Poster Session Mario J. Molina Symposium Posters

JP 1

Joint Poster Session Special Symposium on Hurricane Katrina Monday/Tuesday Posters

Location: Room 344 ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)

This joint poster session was organized by the AMS Committees on Tropical Meteorology and Tropical Cyclones, Weather Analysis and Forecasting, and Satellite Meteorology, Oceanography, and Climatology, as well as jointly with the Symposium on Building a Weather-Ready Nation: Enhancing Our Nation's Readiness, Responsiveness, and Resilience to High Impact Weather and 14th Symposium on the Coastal Environment.

P 2

Poster Session Advances in Evaporation and Evaporative Demand Posters

Advances in the estimation of evapotranspiration (ET) and atmospheric evaporative demand (Eo) are made across a broad range of scales and techniques, from in-situ observations to remote sensing and modeling. Specific topics for this session may include but are not limited to: (1) estimating ET from various perspectives: remote sensing platforms, ground-based point observations and parameterizations, plant-based experimentation, and water budgets; (2) operational ET estimation; (3) land surface-atmosphere feedbacks; (4) future remote sensing missions and needs for ET; (5) Eo as an input to operational LSMs to derive ET, schedule crop irrigation, and as a metric of hydroclimatic trends and variability.Please contact the program organizer, Mike Ek (Michael.Ek@noaa.gov) for additional information.

P 3

Poster Session Flood prediction, analysis, decision support, & management Posters

A number of new regional and national real-time flood forecasting systems are emerging for a variety of applications. These new systems are taking advantage of new national hydrologic data standards, new advances in supercomputing availability and improvements in model parameterizations and meteorological forcing datasets. This session encourages contributions from academic, government and the private sector groups who have built and deployed such systems. Additionally, contributions are welcome from researchers who have developed novel methodologies to sense and model fast response dynamics including very high resolution hydraulics models. Presentations on hydrologic data assimilation methodologies for flood prediction and presentations summarizing results from recent real-time flood prediction projects such as the NOAA Flash Flood and intense Rainfall (FFaiR) experiment and National Flood Interoperability Experiment (NFIE) among others are also encouraged. Please contact the Program Chairs, David Gochis (gochis@ucar.edu), J.J. Gourley (jj.gourley@noaa.gov) and Thomas Adams (thomas.adams@noaa.gov) for additional information.

P 4

Poster Session Hydrometeorological applications, products and services in service to society posters

Location: Room 242 ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)

Same as parent oral session

JP 5

Joint Poster Session Land Data Assimilation Techniques and Systems Posters

Please contact the program organizer, Mike Ek (Michael.Ek@noaa.gov) for additional information. This session highlights advances in development and applications of land data assimilation systems (LDAS), which merge ground- or satellite-based land surface observations with estimates from coupled or off-line land surface models, and can be used to initialize weather and seasonal climate forecasts, monitor and predict extreme events, provide improved background information for atmospheric data assimilation, improve process understanding, and support model development. Contributions may include studies that evaluate or improve land DA methods, assess the impact of the assimilation on the quality of theLDAS products, or use LDAS for the above-mentioned applications. Moreover, contributions may address the simultaneous assimilation of multiple observation types, use of current and planned hydrology satellite missions, or focus on operational and other routinely-run systems for land-hydrology analysis, forecasting and related purposes.

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

J 1

Joint Session HPC and AI for Big Data in Atmosphere, Ocean and Water

Location: Room 354 ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)

History of Atmospheric Science

Location: Room 231/232 ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)

J 1

Joint Session Integrating Social Science Methods into Decision Support Tools to Enhance Community Resilience

Location: Room 255/257 ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)

Impact Assessments for Satellite Data Assimilated in Numerical Prediction Modeling Systems

Location: Room 335/336 ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)

J 2

Joint Session The Use of Social Media in Education, Outreach and Training

Location: Room 353 ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)

Winter Season 2014-2015

Location: Room 338/339 ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)

This session focuses on the major events and their associated impacts that started in the winter of 2014-2015.

Challenges in Meeting Water Needs for Cities in the World’s Developing Nations

Location: Room 244 ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)

Abstract: Cities in the world’s developing countries are experiencing dramatic growth. The United Nations estimates the world’s urban population will increase from about half to nearly 60% of the world’s population within just two decades. This growth is stressing the ability of resource infrastructure needed to support that growth. Despite the extension of improved water supplies to more than a billion urban residents over the past two decades, the development of water resources infrastructure is lagging the explosive population growth, particularly in Africa and Asia. This is true especially for sanitation and waste water management, but also for both domestic water quantity and quality. Furthermore, droughts and floods disproportionately affect cities in the developing world, with impacts falling most heavily on the poor because slums are frequently located in flood-prone areas and not connected to centralized water supply and waste-water networks. Water supplies for many of these cities are also vulnerable to international boundary water resource management issues where multiple countries have jurisdiction over a watershed or an aquifer. Trans-boundary water resource management issues, exacerbated by population growth, geographic redistribution, and climate change, add a layer of complication to problems faced by cities of developing and developed nations. Further, water resource management challenges are exacerbated by extremes and changes in weather and climate, such as changes in evapotranspiration and in the frequency and intensity of precipitation. Improved understanding and predictions of these changes are key to addressing better water resource management. The Hydrological Ensemble Prediction Eperiment (HEPEX), an international project to advance technologies for hydrological forecasting, has the potential to provide needed forecasts to mitigate problems suffered by urban populations in developing countries and others. The AMS science community could support this growing population with the science enterprise it represents. Application of environmental forecasts and data such as atmospheric and hydrologic variables has considerable potential to inform sustainable water management and effective infrastructure investment in these areas This session invites presentations in the above areas, specifically forecasting and mitigating impacts of floods and droughts faced by urban poor, HEPEX products and services, and trans-boundary water management issues. Both U.S. and non-U.S. authors are encouraged to submit abstracts.

GIS and Visualization

Location: Room 225 ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)

Hydrometeorological applications, products and services in service to society

Location: Room 242 ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)

Both private and public-sector entities are involved in the development, deployment, use, and consumption of hydrological/hydro-meteorological products and services provided via decision-support systems (DSS's). Such DSS's span a wide variety of water resources applications including impoundments, reservoir/hydro-power, regional water supply management, drought response strategies, irrigation/agriculture, urban runoff/drainage, potable water, and water pollution mitigation. They also include heavy precipitation and flash-flood/river-flooding awareness and forecast services. DSS's range in complexity from highly-sophisticated to consumer-oriented and include products for emergency management, broadcast television and smart-phone application developers (e.g. Web data services/API's), while also covering a broad range of both space and time scales. On the other hand, consumers of such products and services desire to minimize impacts -- often within very specialized niche exposure to hydro-meterologically generated threats -- while looking to both commercial and government suppliers to generate the needed information. We invite contributions that document working decision support systems with specific case study analyses across this wide spectrum of applications consistent with the overall meeting theme of earth-system-science in service to society. Please contact John McHenry (john.mchenry@baronweather.com) for additional information.

Impacts of Aerosol-cloud Interactions on Radiation II

Location: Room 357 ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)

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Joint Session Data Assimilation: Operational Advancements II

Location: Room 345 ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)

J 4

Joint Session Integrative Approaches to Understanding Extreme Temperature Risk II

Location: Room 228/229 ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)

Weather Warnings and Responses

Location: Room 333-334 ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)

Wind Forecasting: Energy Application Part 1

Location: Room 346/347 ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)

Wind Forecasting: Energy Application Part 1

Distinguishing Among Climate Variability, Anthropogenic Forcing, and Evolution of Current Climate State: Contributions of US CLIVAR Science

Location: La Nouvelle C ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)

Detection and attribution of climate signals and distinguishing natural variability from anthropogenic forcing of climate variations and trends are two key climate science challenges, and are foci of the new US CLIVAR strategic plan. For over 15 years the US CLIVAR program has fostered the understanding, monitoring, and prediction of climate variability and change on intraseasonal-to-centennial timescales through coordinated research activities. Distinctions between natural and forced climate variations are important for natural resource managers, who are responsible for planning for an uncertain future, and for whom the differences between historic and projected ranges of variability underlie important management decisions. This session invites talks on US CLIVAR-related science to improve distinctions between the manifestation of natural and anthropogenic forcing of climate and weather phenomena that affect society. The session also invites talks on insights about this science that can inform efforts of climate science translators to convey information to a resource management world that is hungry for a foundation of useful and usable scientific insight.

Extreme Events

Location: La Nouvelle A ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)

Analysis of specific heat waves, drought, flooding, polar air outbreaks, and other extreme events; insights into predictability of extremes.

Drought Monitoring, Prediction, and Impacts, Part 2

Location: Room 245 ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)

Ensemble Forecasting – Part 2

Location: Room 226/227 ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)

J 5

Joint Session Ensuring the Data Continuity from the Environmental Satellite Constellation (Invited)

Location: Room 252/254 ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)

Impacts of space weather

Location: Room 352 ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)

International Applications: Sharing Environmental Data

Location: Room 348/349 ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)

Observations of Low Level Jets and Gravity Waves

Location: Room 350/351 ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)

J 8

Joint Session Innovations and Improvements in Hurricane Preparedness, Communication and Resilience Since Katrina

Location: Room 344 ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)

J 8

Joint Session Atmospheric Chemistry, Climate, and Policy

Location: Room 343 ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)

J 11

Joint Session Land Data Assimilation Techniques and Systems, Part I

Location: Room 240/241 ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)

TJ 11

Themed Joint Session The Combined Effects of Meteorology and Chemistry on Air Quality

Location: Room 243 ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)

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

Lunch Break

Women in the Atmospheric Sciences Luncheon: What Atom are You?

Location: Room 238/239 ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)

The Board on Women and Minorities is pleased to sponsor the 2016 Women in Atmospheric Science Luncheon. This year’s luncheon will feature Ms. Wendy Schreiber-Abshire as our keynote speaker. Through personal anecdotes and in-room sharing this session will focus on the power of positivity in the workplace. Ms. Abshire will discuss how to find "it", create "it", and maintain "it" as well as including some reflections on her own career journey. She also promises the curious title will be explained. Ms. Abshire serves as the UCAR/COMET Program Senior Program Manager and UCAR Ombudsperson. She was elected as an AMS Councilor in 2014. Please plan to attend and for more information contact AMS Board on Women and Minorities Chair, Melissa Burt. RSVP is not required.

12:15 PM-1:15 PM: Tuesday, 12 January 2016

AMS Publications Workshop — A Panel Discussion on Open Access, Ethics, and Other Hot Topics in Scientific Publishing

Location: Room 335/336 ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)

Please join us for a panel of four publication experts as they and the audience discuss the hottest topics in scientific publishing and how they affect authors and readers of AMS publications. You won’t want to miss this entertaining and informative session! Stay tuned for further details. For additional information, please contact Mike Friedman.

NASA Earth Science Division Town Hall meeting

Location: Room 242 ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)

This Town Hall session will provide an opportunity for the earth science community to interact with members of the leadership team and staff of the Earth Science Division (ESD) of NASA’s Science Mission Directorate. Brief presentations by the ESD leadership will precede a longer opportunity for audience questions. Topics to be addressed in the Town Hall session include scientific accomplishments and programmatic milestones from the past year, current programmatic directions, and upcoming milestones. Recent developments in the Venture Class program and the non-flight parts of the NASA program (research and analysis, applied sciences, technology), NASA's involvement in interagency and international programs and NASA’s response to and preparation for guiding documents, including the prior (2007) and forthcoming (2017) decadal survey from the National Academy of Sciences will all be reviewed and discussed in this session. For additional information, please contact Jack Kaye Jack.A.Kaye@nasa.gov.

NOAA Town Hall

Location: Room 255/257 ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)

Through its long-standing mission of science, service, and stewardship, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) generates tremendous value for the Nation—and the world—by advancing our understanding of and ability to anticipate changes in the Earth’s environment, by improving society’s ability to make scientifically informed decisions, and by conserving and managing ocean and coastal resources. At this Town Hall, NOAA leadership will discuss key strategic issues related to important topics for the broader weather, water, and climate enterprise. Representatives from both inside and external-to NOAA are encouraged to attend and engage in a conversation with NOAA leadership on current and future initiatives. For additional information, please contact Christina Crowe Christina.crowe@noaa.gov.

Presidential Town Hall Meeting: The Historical Development of Meteorology over the Last 100 Years or so, as Seen from Norway

Location: Room 245 ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)

Vilhelm Bjerknes initiated the era of modern meteorology around 1900 when he proposed that weather prediction be treated as an initial value problem of mathematical physics. In the subsequent development of dynamic meteorology, Nordic and American scientists have played key roles. Their scientific interaction produced results that form today’s theoretical basis for our understanding of the behavior of the atmosphere and numerical weather prediction. Dr. Eliassen (speaker) will highlight selected parts of this transatlantic interaction from a scientific but also personal perspective since he met many of these scientists in his youth, being the son of one of those who played a key role in this period. Dr. Eliassen will also present the development of atmospheric chemistry and its relationship with dynamic meteorology based on personal experience. Finally he will have a look at whether the general public has received its fair share of present-day, high-quality weather forecasting. For additional information, please contact Annie Reiser ann.m.reiser@noaa.gov.

Town Hall Meeting: Contributions of environmental satellites to societal weather readiness and environmental intelligence and security

Location: Room 252/254 ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)

NOAA leadership has stated on several occasions that basic tenets of a rigorous National environmental strategy are: (1) societal weather readiness, (2) environmental intelligence and (3) environmental security. The Town Hall will convene a distinguished panel of experts with broad expertise in environmental satellites to address how the new generation of operational environmental satellites have and will contribute to achieving the objectives of the NWS Weather Ready Nation program and make our Nation better prepared for and responsive to a range of natural disasters. Impacts from severe storms in the United States cost billions of dollars and claim thousands of lives per year. “Becoming a Weather Ready Nation means not just providing timely, accurate, and reliable weather forecasts, but it also means communicating that information in a way that compels people to act to protect themselves and their interests. NOAA’s global observing systems are the foundation of the environmental intelligence NOAA provides. The FY 2016 budget includes critical investments in weather satellite systems and the NOAA fleet to preserve — and improve — the U.S. ability to generate environmental intelligence.”* Ensuring communities and businesses have the necessary information, products, and services to prepare for and prosper in a changing environment leads to environmental security. The current and new generation of operational polar-orbiting and geostationary environmental satellite systems (e.g., S-NPP, JPSS, GCOM-W, Metop, DMSP, Sentinels, GOES-R, MeteoSat and Himawari) with their new and improved sensor capabilities are being accompanied by novel and enhanced user applications. Such new capabilities as VIIRS Day-Night Band (DNB), GOES-R Global Lightning Monitor (GLM) lightning data, the satellites improved temporal and spatial resolution, and reduced data latencies combine to greatly advance our environmental situational awareness, intelligence, readiness, and security. *Source: Statement from Dr. Kathryn Sullivan on NOAA’s Fiscal Year 2016 Budget Request For additional information, please contact Gary McWilliams gary.mcwilliams@noaa.gov.

Town Hall Meeting: Strategic DOE Investments for Data in the Atmospheric and Climate Sciences

Location: Room 342 ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)

Currently available systems to disseminate observations and model-generated data to atmospheric and climate scientists are varied, and funding agencies are exploring ways to harmonize data inventories into a form where researchers can access information in a seamless and efficient manner. We will summarize DOE efforts towards unification of sponsored data inventories, including investments to provide server side analysis, multi-dimensional visualization, federated data nodes, and options to overcome the growing data storage challenge. Within this Town Hall we hope to facilitate a forum whereby attendees can help shape our future plans. For addiitonal information, please contact Justin Hnilo Justin.hnilo@science.doe.gov.

Town Hall Meeting: “What if the water can’t be stopped?” Tribal Resilience in an Age of Sea Level Rise

Location: Room 344 ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)

Can't Stop the Water (http://www.cantstopthewater.com) is a film that tells the story of Isle de Jean Charles, Louisiana, and the Native American community fighting to save its culture as its land washes away. For 170 years, the Isle de Jean Charles band of Biloxi-Chitimacha-Choctaw Indians has occupied the island deep in the bayous of south Louisiana. They have fished, hunted, and lived off the land. Now the land that has sustained them for generations is vanishing before their eyes. Years of gas and oil exploration have ravaged the surrounding marsh, leaving the island defenseless against the ocean tide and hurricanes that will eventually destroy it. Chief Albert Naquin is actively working to implement a sustainable community-driven relocation plan to bring his tribe together on higher ground, while still maintaining the Isle and its cultural significance. We will screen this film and hear from those supporting the community. For additional information, please contact Randy Peppler rpeppler@ou.edu or Heather Lazrus hlazrus@ucar.edu.

12:45 PM-1:05 PM: Tuesday, 12 January 2016

Preparation for the Assimilation of Observations from Next-generation Operational and Reserach Satellites in Numerical Weather Prediction Modeling Systems

Location: Room 348/349 ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)

1:30 PM-2:15 PM: Tuesday, 12 January 2016

History of Weather Observations and Tools

Location: Room 231/232 ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)

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

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Lecture Bernhard Haurwitz Lecture

Location: La Nouvelle C ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)

Location: Room 335/336 ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)

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

JPD 1

Joint Panel Discussion The NOAA Big Data-CRADAs. An Update and a Look at the Opportunities They Pose for the AMS Community and Its Members

Location: Room 342 ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)

PD 2

Panel Discussion Challenges in Meeting Water Needs for Cities in the World’s Developing Nations

Location: Room 244 ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)

JPD 2

Joint Panel Discussion Local Voices: Louisiana Bayou Tribes Discuss Living with Climate Challenges

Location: Room 333-334 ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)

Louisiana Bayou tribal communities face critical challenges from shifting climate, extreme weather, hydrologic processes, and man-made environmental disaster. As a result, sea levels rise, storms surge, and coastlines shift. Community members are observing and experiencing changes that affect livelihoods, cultural practices, locally-produced environmental knowledges, and plans for their communities’ futures. This panel brings participatory researchers and thought leaders from the Isle de Jean Charles Tribe and Pointe au Chien Tribe of the lower Terrebonne and Lafourche Parishes, Louisiana into conversation about weather and climate impacts and responses. Panelists will draw from their experience to address questions about integrating scientific and local knowledge, community resilience, and adaptation in the 10 years since Hurricane Katrina and other events forever changed the bayou and coastlines.

W 3

Workshop Brief Python Tutorials Workshop, Part III

Location: Room 225 ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)

J 3

Joint Session 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)

Major Floods and Fires of 2015

Location: Room 338/339 ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)

This session will look at the major wildfire and flood impacts in 2015.

Selections of Student Research on New Generation Operational Environmental Satellite Systems

Location: Room 252/254 ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)

Flood prediction, analysis, decision support, & management, Part I

Location: Room 242 ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)

Building a WRN Through More Effective Communications

Location: Room 255/257 ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)

Innovative Teaching Strategies in University Instruction focused on Earth System Science

Location: Room 353 ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)

Topics in Interannual Variability: Part 1

Location: La Nouvelle A ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)

Inter-basin links; internally-generated vs. externally-forced basin variability; ocean-atmosphere structure and mechanisms in observations and climate simulations; progress prospects of seasonal-to-interannual prediction.

Wind Forecasting: Energy Application Part 2

Location: Room 346/347 ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)

Wind Forecasting: Energy Application Part 2

J 6

Joint Session Observing System Simulation Experiments (OSSEs) I

Location: Room 345 ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)

Statistical Postprocessing of Ensemble Forecasts – Part 1

Location: Room 226/227 ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)

Ensemble postprocessing methods

Observing and Predicting Convective Initiation in the Southeast U.S.

Location: Room 350/351 ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)

Inter-Comparison and Calibration of Instruments

Location: Room 355 ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)

J 9

Joint Session Atmospheric Chemistry Lab, Field, and Modeling Studies (I)

Location: Room 343 ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)

J 9

Joint Session Innovations in Observing Tropical Cyclones and Aspects of Storm Surge

Location: Room 344 ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)

J 9

Joint Session Integrative Approaches to Understanding Extreme Temperature Risk III

Location: Room 228/229 ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)

Presentations will involve various disciplinary research methods and policies that are currently used for coping with extreme temperature risk, and how they could be integrated for more accurate spatial and temporal understanding of this risk

TJ 12

Themed Joint Session Atmospheric Chemistry and Aerosols in Weather and Climate Prediction and Analysis

Location: Room 357 ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)

Large uncertainties exist in the effects of atmospheric gases and aerosols on weather and climate which impair our predictive capabilities. This session will focus on studies showing new developments and assessing these effects on multiple spatial and temporal scales. Studies including, but not limited to, aerosol-cloud-radiation interactions, ozone and chemistry impacts, and effects of performing data assimilation for atmospheric composition will be considered. Studies based on observations, models and both are welcome.

J 12

Joint Session Land Data Assimilation Techniques and Systems, Part II

Location: Room 240/241 ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)

TJ 13

Themed Joint Session Helping Society Mitigate and Adapt to Climate Variability and Change Part I

Location: Room 245 ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)

How does our community expect to continue to improve climate services to help society mitigate and adapt to climate variability and change? (NIDIS, IPCC, lessons learned from high impact events)

J 14

Joint Session Advances in Space Weather Modeling and Prediction, Part I

Location: Room 352 ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)

2:15 PM-3:00 PM: Tuesday, 12 January 2016

Historical Perspectives on Climatology and Climate Change

Location: Room 231/232 ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)

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

Coffee Break

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

Meet the President

Location: Room 230 ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)

Alexander “Sandy” MacDonald has focused on two basic themes as AMS President. The first, Earth System Science in Service to Society, is reflected in his annual meeting that highlights the 10th anniversary of Hurricane Katrina and lessons learned to better serve society in the event of a similar natural disaster. Dr. MacDonald continues to strengthen AMS’ international ties, as this serves society on a greater scale. Second, Dr. MacDonald emphasizes the value of the AMS to its members when faced with finding a job or if they are in the midst of a career change. New college graduates, mid and seasoned professionals looking for a change all benefit from the wide-ranging contacts in diverse sectors of government, academia, and private industry that constitute AMS membership. Dr. MacDonald invites all to come learn more about these topics, share their thoughts and concerns, or just to say hello during the traditional “Meet the President” sessions. These are scheduled on Tuesday through Thursday, at different times each day to maximize opportunities for a one-on-one with Dr. MacDonald. See the schedule below: Tuesday 3:00–3:30 P.M. Wednesday 10:00–10:30 A.M. Thursday 3:00–3:30 P.M.

3:30 PM-4:45 PM: Tuesday, 12 January 2016

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Joint Session Applications of Artificial Intelligence Methods for Energy

Location: Room 354 ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)

Historical Events and Practices

Location: Room 231/232 ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)

The Assimilation of Satellite Data to Improve Land Surface, Ocean, and Air Quality Analyses and Models

Location: Room 335/336 ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)

Flood prediction, analysis, decision support, & management, Part II

Location: Room 242 ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)

3:30 PM-5:00 PM: Tuesday, 12 January 2016

J 2

Joint Session Innovative Academic/Public/Private Partnerships Within and Across Economic Sectors between US and Asia

Location: Room 244 ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)

(e.g., financial, insurance, transportation, agricultural, health, energy, etc.)

J 15

Joint Session Advances in Space Weather Modeling and Prediction, Part II

Location: Room 352 ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)

3:30 PM-5:15 PM: Tuesday, 12 January 2016

Climate Risks Communication Strategies

Location: Room 333-334 ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)

Topics in Interannual Variability: Part 2

Location: La Nouvelle A ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)

3:30 PM-5:30 PM: Tuesday, 12 January 2016

J 3

Joint Session Working Toward a More Weather, Water and Climate-Ready World—Issues and Opportunities: Part 1 (Joint with The Board on Global Strategies)

Location: Room 255/257 ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)

Data Analysis and Workflow Integration

Location: Room 225 ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)

Major North American Impacts in 2015

Location: Room 338/339 ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)

This session will look at some of the major events and impacts from them in 2015 across North America.

Aerosol and Precipitation

Location: Room 356 ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)

Aerosol-cloud Interactions in Shallow Clouds I

Location: Room 357 ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)

Many shallow cloud systems are sensitive to changes in aerosol properties, which modulate cloud microphysical properties and can influence precipitation formation and cloud scale dynamics. In addition, absorbing aerosols can modulate the thermodynamic environment experienced by clouds. Ultimately, these controls may alter low cloud radiative properties and climate. Aerosol particles, in turn, are impacted by shallow cloud processes. Together, these interactions result in a coupling of the aerosol-cloud system whose coupling strength is highly variable and is poorly understood in terms of basic process understanding. Correctly representing this coupling has proven challenging to represent in large scale models. In this session, we invite presentations on all topics related to aerosol-cloud coupling in shallow clouds, including those addressing basic physical understanding, the quantification of aerosol indirect effects, cloud effects on aerosols, and the coupling between aerosols and boundary layer turbulence, cloud dynamics, and precipitation.

Studies in Atmospheric Chemistry, Aerosols, Prediction, and Observing Systems

Location: Room 243 ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)

Studies on operational air quality predictions and prediction systems with an emphasis on advances in aerosol/contaminant prediction and chemical data assimilation and improvements in emissions for air quality prediction.

Advances in Evaporation and Evaporative Demand, Part I

Location: Room 240/241 ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)

APIs and Web Services for Accessing, Integrating and Using Weather, Water, Climate and Societal Information via Desktop and Mobile Platforms

Location: Room 348/349 ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)

University Education Initiatives

Location: Room 353 ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)

Wind Forecasting: Energy Application Part 3

Location: Room 346/347 ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)

Wind Forecasting: Energy Application Part 3

Climate Change and the Large-scale Circulation

Location: La Nouvelle C ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)

GCM simulations of contemporary climate change under greenhouse gas forcing predict significant adjustments in the large-scale circulation, including the Hadley and Walker cells and the mid-latitude storm tracks. This session brings together modeling and observational studies of changes in the large-sale circulation in the 20th and 21st centuries to promote direct comparison between models and observations and an improved physical understanding.

Integrated Instrumentation and Observing Systems for All Applications

Location: Room 350/351 ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)

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Joint Session Observing System Simulation Experiments (OSSEs) II

Location: Room 345 ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)

Statistical Postprocessing of Ensemble Forecasts – Part 2

Location: Room 226/227 ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)

J 9

Joint Session Satellite Testbeds and Proving Ground Activities

Location: Room 252/254 ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)

J 10

Joint Session Advances in Modeling and Prediction of Tropical Cyclones and Associated Hazards

Location: Room 344 ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)

J 10

Joint Session Atmospheric Chemistry Lab, Field, and Modeling Studies (II)

Location: Room 343 ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)

J 13

Joint Session NASA Earth Observations and Climate Change

Location: Room 228/229 ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)

Understanding how to live on other planets first begins with understanding life interactions on Earth. The NASA and R2O session explores concepts and applications that utilize NASA satellites and instruments to improve our understanding of environment and human health.

TJ 14

Themed Joint Session Helping Society Mitigate and Adapt to Climate Variability and Change Part II

Location: Room 245 ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)

5:30 PM-7:00 PM: Tuesday, 12 January 2016

Town Hall Meeting: Broadcast Meteorologists & The Work Behind The Scenes

Location: Room 225 ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)

Some of the hardest work by our most recognized meteorologists doesn’t get recognized. Many broadcast meteorologists are involved in side research projects that other AMS members may not be aware of. Publishing the work in BAMS may not be a priority to some broadcasters as they already get plenty of recognition from being on TV, but that doesn’t mean the AMS community shouldn’t hear about it. While this will be a good opportunity for the broadcasters to gather at the annual meeting, the hope is this won’t be just a small AMS Broadcast Conference. Instead, we welcome all AMS members who are interested in learning from broadcasters and vice-versa. For additional information, please contact Rob Eicher eicher.rob@gmail.com or Maureen McCann maureen.mccann@gmail.com.

6:00 PM-7:30 PM: Tuesday, 12 January 2016

Town Hall Meeting: Communicating Probabilities, Uncertainties and Confidence in Weather and Climate Outlooks

Location: Room 242 ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)

More and more weather forecasts and warnings are being communicated by categorical statements or simple graphic emojis. The public knows forecasting involves uncertainty but is increasingly left to evaluate uncertainty from personal experience before making a weather or climate related decision. Should there be a statement for the media and media messengers explaining the value of quantitative uncertainty information to aid in better public decision making in the use of weather and climate information? What and how should this information be communicated so the public is left feeling confident in their understanding of probabilities and uncertainties. Invited panelist include members from National Weather Association, Media Companies, Academia and Industry Risk Managers…all who are responsible for for communicating weather and climate information for the general public. For additional information, please contact Jenny Dissen jennydissen@cicsnc.org or Bob Ryan rtryan@cox.net.

6:00 PM-8:00 PM: Tuesday, 12 January 2016

Town Hall Meeting: Spirituality and the Atmospheric Sciences--Ethics and Climate Change from the Perspective of Religion and Faith

Location: Room 240/241 ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)

While science can tell us what is true, it cannot answer the question of what is moral and just. Representatives from major faith groups will discuss the moral implications of the science of climate and climate change, and how we should frame our responses to the science. There will a special representative from the Roman Catholic Church to discuss the moral implications expressed in the Pope’s recent encyclical on climate change. Presentations will be relatively short allowing for maximum discussion with and between AMS attendees on how they are spiritually called to respond. For additional information, please contact Tim Miner tminer@alliedpilots.org (tel: 571.212.0804).

7:30 PM-9:30 PM: Tuesday, 12 January 2016

Molina Symposium Banquet

Location: Room 238/239 ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)

Wednesday, 13 January 2016

7:00 AM-8:15 AM: Wednesday, 13 January 2016

Town Hall Meeting: The Weather Coalition: Organizational Status and Recent Activities

Location: Room 242 ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)

The Weather Coalition (WC) welcomes new and returning members, as well as non-members interested in learning about the Weather Coalition and its activities, to this Town Hall event. The Weather Coalition Co-Chairs will provide a status of the organization, summarize activities associated with weather-related advocacy and legislation that took place across the past year, and discuss expected activities during 2016. For additional information, please contact Pam Emch pam.emch@ngc.com.

7:40 AM-8:00 AM: Wednesday, 13 January 2016

Location: Room 348/349 ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)

8:00 AM-6:30 PM: Wednesday, 13 January 2016

Panel Discussion Panel on Geomagnetically Induced Currents: Science, Engineering, and Future Challenges

Location: Hall D/E ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)

8:30 AM-9:00 AM: Wednesday, 13 January 2016

Welcome & Introductions

Location: Room 340/341 ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)

First Session of the ASLI Program to Introduce Chair and Program Chair, and present members.

8:30 AM-9:30 AM: Wednesday, 13 January 2016

PD 1

Location: Room 352 ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)

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

Advances in CubeSats and SmallSats to Improve Earth Science and Weather Forecasting

Location: Room 338/339 ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)

Aviation Weather Hazards to the National Airspace System

Location: Room 344 ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)

This session identifies and discusses several aviation weather hazards and how they impact usable areas in the National Airspace System.

Cloud Effects on Atmospheric Chemistry

Location: Room 356 ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)

Clouds affect the distributions and abundance of atmospheric constituents in many ways. This session seeks abstracts that address 1) vertical transport and redistribution of trace gases and aerosols by clouds; 2) wet scavenging; 3) aqueous chemistry; 4) lightning NOx production; 5) modification of photolysis rates; and 6) resulting downwind effects on new particle formation and photochemistry. Results from both field measurement programs (such as SOAS, SENEX, DC3, SEAC4RS, CONTRAST) and modeling studies are sought.

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Joint Session Regional Climate Variability on Intraseasonal-to-Multidecadal Time Scales

Location: Room 343 ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)

Adapting to Climate Variability and its Impacts on Energy Sector Resilience Part 1

Location: Room 346/347 ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)

PD 3

Panel Discussion Towards Operational Earth System Prediction for Informed Decision Support

Location: Room 244 ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)

In the face of increased public and Federal awareness and concern over high-impact weather and ocean events globally and the changing climate environment, a number of calls have appeared in the literature seeking revolutionary collaboration among research sponsors and operational environmental prediction agencies and between the weather and climate communities to significantly advance our prediction capability to benefit mitigation, response and policy. Two partnership have been combined: National Unified Operational Prediction Capability (NUOPC and Earth System Prediction Capability have been combined in the National Earth System Prediction Capability (ESPC). National EPSC represents part of the U.S. response to this need for improved coordination of research towards more skillful and extended range operational environmental prediction. Synoptic/sub-seasonal to seasonal global earth system models are under development at several U.S. centers consisting of high-resolution atmosphere, ocean, sea ice, land, and near space components with the goal of seamless prediction at lead times from a few hours to months or years in operations by 2025. The National ESPC addresses the scientific, technical, computational, and organizational challenges to meet this ambitious goal.

Earth System Science and Interacting Processes in the Coastal Environment: Part I

Location: Room 342 ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)

Observing Systems I

Location: Room 345 ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)

Preparing for GOES-R Series Including Instruments Overviews, Data Access/Flow, and User/Education Training

Location: Room 252/254 ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)

Aerosol-cloud Interactions in Shallow Clouds II

Location: Room 357 ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)

Advances in Evaporation and Evaporative Demand, Part II

Location: Room 240/241 ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)

Sectoral Applications

Location: Room 245 ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)

Urban Meteorology and Dispersion

Location: Room 243 ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)

Disseminating Earth Science and Climate Information for Better Decision Making

Location: Room 348/349 ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)

Outreach and Broader Impacts

Location: Room 353 ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)

Earth System Climate Reanalyses: Low Frequency Variability and Trends

Location: La Nouvelle C ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)

The last three decades have been marked by major shifts in a number of climate modes of variability including the Atlantic Multi-decadal Oscillation and the Pacific Decadal Oscillation – shifts that have been linked to changes in drought and weather extremes throughout the world, as well as the recent hiatus in long-term surface temperature trends. Reanalyses offer a dynamically and physically consistent global interdisciplinary framework for assessing and understanding the nature of such regional changes. This session seeks contributions that take advantage of reanalyses of observations to address various aspects of climate variability and change as outlined above. This includes comparisons between the multi-disciplinary set of reanalyses of the Earth System(e.g. land, ocean, aerosol and cryosphere) and observations, downscaling of reanalyses including an assessment of changes in weather extremes, modeling (e.g., AGCM) studies that put the reanalysis results in the context of underlying climate uncertainty, as well as studies that seek to assess, understand and/or correct inhomogeneities that limit the usefulness of reanalyses for assessing low frequency variability and trends including efforts to improve the ability to produce consistent reanalyses of the coupled climate system.

Multi-model Predictability and Prediction on Subseasonal to Seasonal Timescales: Part 1

Location: La Nouvelle A ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)

The recent development of multi-¬‐model ensemble (MME) databases containing real-¬time and historical forecasts, such as the North American Multi-¬‐model Ensemble (NMME) and the WCRP/WWRP Subseasonal to Seasonal (S2S) project, provides an ideal opportunity to explore predictability and prediction on subseasonal to seasonal timescales. Furthermore, the multi-¬‐model ensemble approach has been shown to have superior average skill to any single model. We invite contributions that explore predictability and prediction using multiple models, including initialization strategies, optimal combination strategies, methods for calibration and correcting biases, skill assessments, predictability studies, understanding sources of skill, and identifying forecasts of opportunity.

Best Practices for Statistical Inference in the Atmospheric Sciences – Part 1

Location: Room 226/227 ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)

Remote Sensing of the Atmosphere I

Location: Room 350/351 ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)

J 13

Joint Session Regional climate modeling predicting future changes in extreme precipitation events - Towards More Resilient Engineering Design

Location: Room 242 ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)

Extreme precipitation estimates used for engineering design of runoff control structures in the United States are largely based on a series of Hydrometeorological Reports by the National Weather Service which include storm data up to the 1970s. While the scientific community now has a better understanding of the physical processes responsible for extreme storms than it did in the 1970s, the application of this understanding to estimating design values has been lagging. Furthermore, given observed and future projected changes in precipitation extremes in a changing climate, the engineering design of hydraulic structures based solely on statistics of past observations is no longer defensible. Regional climate models (RCMs) can play an important role in downscaling global climate model information to the regional and local scale - at which local stakeholders and decision makers operate. In this session we solicit talks related to understanding historical characteristics/trends and future changes in extreme precipitation of relevance to engineering design, with a particular focus on the most extreme values - from 50-100-year return periods to Probable Maximum Precipitation (PMP) values. We welcome talks focusing on historical observations and new observational analyses, modeling (including mesoscale and cloud-resolving models), theoretical/dynamical constraints, and methods to convey uncertainty including actionable information for stakeholders. More general application of RCMs to hydrological, ecological, agricultural and water resources management problems, including the prediction of hydrologic extremes, are also welcome. Please contact the Program Organizers, Francina Dominguez (francina@illinois.edu), Kelly Mahoney (kelly.mahoney@noaa.gov), Kenneth Kunkel (kekunkel@ncsu.edu), David Gochis (gochis@ucar.edu).

TJ 15

Themed Joint Session Understanding Urban Growth and Climate Variability Impacts on Health, Adaptation, and Resilience: Part 3

Location: Room 255/257 ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)

J 15

Joint Session Water: Too Much, too Little. How Climate Information Supports Community Preparedness, Part I

Location: Room 335/336 ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)

Precipitation patterns across the nation are changing, but not in the same way everywhere. Some places are experiencing new record extreme precipitation events, while others are coping with drought. As the climate continues to warm it is expected that historical precipitation patterns can no longer be reliably used to plan for the future. The uncertainty about future precipitation places new risks on community infrastructure essential for the livelihoods and safety of its residents.This session will explore how communities are using hydrological information in the context of a changing climate to prepare for an uncertain future for their water, either too much or too little. Presentations should focus on direct applications of climate and hydrological information and tools that inform decision making for community preparedness. Community preparedness can include:(1) Improvements to the built environment, including land use changes, to address changing water resources based on climate information; (2) Policy changes, such as updates to emergency response protocols, water utility planning, and water restriction measures; (3) Help to decision makers to communicate their water related risk management decisions to the public and improve community support and compliance for their decisions. In addition to showing how current information and tools can be used, it is encouraged to demonstrate what additional information would be useful, but is not readily available. Public, academic, and private sector decision support services and tools are welcomed. Key questions each presentation should address include:(a) How is hydrological information in the context of a changing climate being used to inform risk management decisions that improve community preparedness for water too much, and/or water too little? (b) What lessons learned or best practices emerged from your example that could be applied to other communities? (c) Who did you partner with and were these the right partners to improve community preparedness? (4) What additional information could the decision makers in your example have used that is not yet available? For more information, please contact the Program Organizers, Nancy Beller-Simms (nancy.beller-simms@noaa.gov) or Stephanie Herring (stephanie.herring@noaa.gov.

8:45 AM-10:00 AM: Wednesday, 13 January 2016

Communicating Coastal Risk

Location: Room 333-334 ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)

9:00 AM-10:00 AM: Wednesday, 13 January 2016

KS 2

Keynote Speaker Keynote: Resources to Help Scientists Communicate Climate Science

Location: Room 340/341 ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)

Observation System Simulation Experiments and Other Studies to Assess the Impact of Future Satellite Sensors

Location: Room 225 ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)

9:00 AM-11:00 AM: Wednesday, 13 January 2016

Spouses' Coffee

Location: Kabacoff (Hilton Riverside)

Spouses and guests are invited to meet and to renew acquaintances.

9:30 AM-10:00 AM: Wednesday, 13 January 2016

KS 1

Keynote Speaker Keynote: The New Horizons Mission to Pluto

Location: Room 352 ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)

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

Coffee Break

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

Meet the President

Location: Room 230 ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)

Space Weather Coffee Break—Sponsored by Space Environment Technologies

Location: Room 352 ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)

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

J 1

Joint Session Air Pollution Meteorology in the Urban Environment (Joint between the 19th Joint Conference on the Applications of Air Pollution Meteorology with the A&WMA and the AMS Board on the Urban Environment)

Location: Room 243 ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)

Urban Growth and Connections with Climate & Health

Location: Room 228/229 ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)

The sessions will address the interconnectedness of urban growth, climate, and health, and novel research and methods employed to accurately understand these connections. This session will bring in concepts of urban climate from small to large scales.

Advances in Satellite Observations and Earth Science and Observing Technologies

Location: Room 338/339 ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)

Impacts of Weather on the Nation's Aviation System

Location: Room 344 ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)

This session offers six perspectives on how weather issues impact the National Airspace System and offers opportunities to explore mitigations to the hazards.

PD 2

Panel Discussion National Space Weather Strategy

Location: Room 352 ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)

On 29 October, 2015, the White House released the National Space Weather Strategy and the National Space Weather Action Plan. The Strategy and Action Plan were developed by the Federal interagency via that National Science and Technology Council, with input from stakeholders outside of the Federal government, to clearly articulate how the Federal government will work to address risks associated with space weather by coordinating, integrating, and expanding existing policy efforts; engaging a broad range of sectors; and collaborating with international counterparts. The Strategy identifies goals and establishes guiding principles, while the Action Plan identifies specific activities, outcomes, and timelines that the Federal government will pursue. The Strategy and Action Plan will facilitate the integration of space-weather considerations into Federal planning and decision making to enhance national preparedness and the resilience of critical infrastructures to the potentially debilitating effects of space weather on the people, economy, and security of the United States.

JPD 3

Joint Panel Discussion Making Climate Information Available to Decision Makers: Challenges, Risks, and Uncertainty

Location: Room 244 ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)

Often climate models and data are complex and built for use by climate scientists, but what about the decision makers looking for climate information to make decisions? Creating information from climate data and models involves making the data easy to understand and useful to citizen scientists and non-scientists alike. How can climate experts provide outlooks on climate useful for decisions on policy, infrastructure, resources, and life and safety? Some issues related to providing this information include data/model uncertainty, sampling errors, spatial resolution, model down-scaling, visualization, liability, and risk management, to name a few. This panel will discuss plans, strategies, challenges, perspectives, technologies, and the future of climate change information and services for society.

Outreach & Communication: Facilitating & Promoting Access to Resources, Collections, and Services

Location: Room 340/341 ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)

J 4

Joint Session Working Toward a More Weather, Water and Climate-Ready World—Issues and Opportunities: Part 2 (Joint with The Board on Global Strategies)

Location: Room 255/257 ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)

Joint with the Board for Global Strategies

Earth System Science and Interacting Processes in the Coastal Environment: Part II

Location: Room 342 ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)

J 5

Joint Session Impacts and Adaptation: Communicating and Translating New Interdisciplinary Knowledge into Actionable Information and Tools

Location: Room 343 ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)

JPSS-1 Leveraging the Success of Suomi NPP: Instruments, Science Algorithms, Data Access, and Education Outreach

Location: Room 252/254 ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)

Observing Systems II

Location: Room 345 ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)

Aerosol Impacts on Cirrus Clouds

Location: Room 357 ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)

Aerosol effects on cirrus clouds are highly uncertain both in terms of magnitude and sign of the effective radiative forcing (IPCC, 2013). The key uncertainties of aerosol effects on cirrus clouds are tied to the limited understanding of the properties (e. g., size distribution, chemical composition) of ice nucleating aerosols in the upper troposphere as well as limited knowledge of the environmental conditions (e. g., ice supersaturation, vertical velocity) leading to the formation of cirrus clouds through homogeneous or heterogeneous ice nucleation and affecting their evolution and life cycle. Recent observational studies indicate that heterogeneous ice nucleation could be the dominant freezing mechanism operating in cirrus clouds because heterogeneous ice nucleation requires lower values of ice supersaturation whereas recent GCM simulations find aerosol effects on cirrus clouds smaller than previously estimated and of opposite sign. This session will discuss results from new observational and modeling studies relevant to aerosol effects on cirrus clouds, including laboratory studies on ice nucleation, observations from recent field campaigns (e. g., ATTREX, DC3, SEAC4RS, AIRTOSS, ML-CIRRUS), remote sensing (ground-based and space-borne), process-oriented modeling, and geoengineering of cirrus clouds. Specific topics of interest are (but not limited to) the formation, life cycle, microphysical and radiative properties of cirrus clouds as well as the physiochemical properties of ice nucleating aerosols in the upper troposphere.

Climate Decision Support Services

Location: Room 245 ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)

Strategies, Tactics, and Opportunities for Operationalizing Multi-Disciplinary Expertise in Wx and Natural Hazard Context

Location: Room 333-334 ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)

Mapping and GIS for Weather and Climate

Location: Room 348/349 ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)

Promoting Diversity in Earth System Science

Location: Room 353 ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)

20th Century Reanalysis: Methods and Applications

Location: La Nouvelle C ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)

To better understand and model the observed variability of the earth system, one can rapidly expand the available record by objectively combining disparate observations with numerical model-generated guesses. The "reanalyses" or "syntheses" of atmospheric, oceanic, land, and cryospheric observations generated by such a data assimilation process provide comprehensive physically consistent descriptions of evolving system states. Such widely used datasets have become essential to the study of the earth system on timescales from hours to a century. However, they are not without room for improvement. This session welcomes all contributions on applications of reanalysis data, on comparisons of reanalyses and observations, on advancing reanalysis methodology, and on issues in using reanalysis for weather and climate problems.

Multi-model Predictability and Prediction on Subseasonal to Seasonal Timescales: Part 2

Location: La Nouvelle A ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)

Best Practices for Statistical Inference in the Atmospheric Sciences – Part 2

Location: Room 226/227 ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)

Remote Sensing of the Atmosphere II

Location: Room 350/351 ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)

WMO Solid Precipitation Intercomparison

Location: Room 355 ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)

J 11

Joint Session Atmospheric Convection: Impact on Atmospheric Composition and Chemistry

Location: Room 356 ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)

Atmospheric convection and its impacts on chemical tracer distribution and transport present a significant challenge to modeling of both climate and atmospheric composition. The global and regional impacts of convection on clouds, water vapor and trace gases are large and poorly quantified especially in the upper troposphere, leading to significant uncertainties in radiative forcing and in the impact on global air quality. The goal of this proposed session is to solicit recent global observations from satellite and their applications for improving model simulations of convective transport and associated atmospheric composition. We encourage abstract submissions to the following topics: Topic 1: Modeling of convection in global, regional, and process level models Topic 2: Modeling convective influence on atmospheric composition in global and regional chemistry models Topic 3: Using satellite observations to diagnosis convective influence on global and regional atmospheric composition.

J 14

Joint Session Land-Atmosphere Interactions, Part I

Location: Room 240/241 ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)

Land-climate interactions play a key role in the climate system. The land’s role in the climate system – its impact on atmospheric means and variability across a broad range of timescales, ranging from hours to centuries, for past, present, and future climates – has been the subject of much recent exploratory research. The meteorological, hydrological, biophysical, biogeochemical, ecosystem processes and the boundary-layer processes that underlie the connections between climate and soil moisture, soil temperature, vegetation, snow, and frozen soil, however, are not yet fully understood. The scarcity of relevant observations, the complexity of the underlying processes and feedbacks, and the wide range of scales involved make the necessary investigations challenging. This session focuses on (1) interfaces between climate, ecosystems, and the land branches of the energy, water, and carbon cycles and the impact of land processes on climate variability and change as well as on extreme events (such as droughts and flooding); (2) dynamic, physical, and biogeochemical mechanisms by which the land surface (e.g., soil moisture and temperature, albedo, snow, frozen soil, vegetation) influences atmospheric processes and climate; (3) predictability associated with land-surface/atmosphere/ocean interaction and land initialization; (4) impacts of land-cover and land use change on climate; (5) land-climate interactions in the context of climate variability and change, and (6) application and analyses of large scale field data and observational networks (such as FLUXNET) for land/atmosphere studies.. Please contact the program organizer, Mike Ek (Michael.Ek@noaa.gov) for additional information.

TJ 16

Themed Joint Session Adapting to Climate Variability and its Impact on Energy Sector Resilience Part 2

Location: Room 346/347 ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)

Adapting to Climate Variability and its Impact on Energy Sector Resilience Part 2

J 22

Joint Session Water: Too Much, too Little. How Climate Information Supports Community Preparedness, Part II

Location: Room 242 ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)

11:00 AM-11:45 AM: Wednesday, 13 January 2016

AI Techniques Applied to Environmental Science Part II

Location: Room 354 ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)

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

Lunch Break

Peter Lamb Symposium Luncheon

Location: Room 238/239 ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)

12:15 PM-1:15 PM: Wednesday, 13 January 2016

Presidential Town Hall on Demystifying Careers in the Atmospheric Sciences

Location: Room 252/254 ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)

The rapid growth of atmospheric, weather, and climate science applications in industry, finance, and the corporate sector opens a range of career opportunities for AMS members beyond the better known careers in academia and the federal government. In this Presidential Town Hall, weather enterprise leaders will share concepts, thoughts, and perspectives on how their industries operate and what skill sets they value. In addition, they will share thoughts on employment trends, changes, and areas of future growth. Whether you are a mid-career professional, freshly graduated, or looking for your next adventure, this discussion will raise your awareness of opportunities in our field, and the skills and competencies that employers are looking for. In the current ever-fluxing employment climate, when mid-career job changes are common and new directions and opportunities are emerging in our field, AMS is committed to supporting our members in bringing their skills to the service of society. Panelists: Heidi Centola, Manager of Business Development at Schneider Electric, Dr. Michael Farrar, Director, Meteorological Development Laboratory, and Dr. Kevin Petty, Chief Science Officer at Vaisala Moderator: Rebecca Haacker For additional information, please contact Scott Mackaro scott.mackaro@vaisala.com.

Town Hall Meeting: NASA’s Earth Science – Flight Program Investments in and Planning for the Next-Generation Earth Observatories

Location: Room 338/339 ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)

NASA Earth Science Division has made some significant additions to its fleet of satellites, with the recent launches of GPM, OCO-2, RapidScat, CATS, and SMAP. This brings the total number of operating NASA Earth science research missions to nineteen. In addition, the Division has ten Earth science missions currently in formulation and development, with six scheduled to launch before the end of 2018. These include SAGE III (2016), CYGNSS (2016), TEMPO (2017), GRACE FO (2017), ICESat-2 (2017), and ECOSTRESS (2018). NASA also has the responsibility for defining and implementing, in coordination with the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS), the nation’s Sustainable Land Imaging (SLI) program to follow the currently flying Landsat 7 and Landsat 8 missions. Taking the next step in this process, NASA has initiated the planning for the Landsat 9 project. Another major project NASA is kicking off in 2016 is the PACE mission, to perform radiometric and possibly polarimetric ocean and atmosphere data collection, returning a range of geophysical data from which properties of the ocean and atmosphere can be determined to add to other critical climate and Earth system records. Additionally, NASA has been directed to continue the fundamental climate measurements of solar irradiance, Earth radiation budget, and Ozone profiling to extend these data records into the future. How will NASA meet these demanding measurement objectives? NASA’s Earth Science Division is working now, in collaboration with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), the USGS, DOE, international partners, and with the industrial community on science studies, technology investments, and mission definition studies to prepare the next generation of satellites and observations for launch in 2019 and beyond. At this Town Hall meeting we will present the progress and plans for these next generation missions, including mission concepts from the 2007 NRC Decadal Survey (http://science.nasa.gov/earth-science/decadal-surveys/) and from the 2010 NASA Climate Plan (http://science.nasa.gov/earth-science/). We will identify opportunities for greater interaction with the NASA missions already in formulation and development, as well as opportunities for future collaboration as we move forward with this next generation of missions and measurements. For further information, please contact Eric Ianson eianson@nasa.gov.

Town Hall Meeting: NOAA’s Research and Development Enterprise

Location: Room 245 ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)

At this town hall we will discuss NOAA’s strategic developments in managing the agency’s research portfolio. Specific areas of focus include strategic research guidance, transitioning research to operations, and managing our partnerships with academia and industry. For additional information, please contact Rick Spinrad rick.spinrad@noaa.gov.

Town Hall Meeting: NSF Division of Atmospheric and Geospace Sciences Strategies and Frontiers in Research: 2016-2020

Location: Room 244 ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)

The mission of the National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Atmospheric and Geospace Sciences (AGS) is to extend the intellectual frontiers in atmospheric and geospace sciences by making responsible investments in fundamental research, technology development, and education to enable discoveries, nurture a vibrant, diverse scientific workforce, and help attain a prosperous and sustainable future. In this Town Hall meeting, the philosophies and strategies that will be applied to address the AGS mission during the coming years will be discussed. Specific topics include the framework in which AGS operates, interdisciplinary research, facilities, the role of broader impacts, and research frontiers that map to initiatives within the Geoscience Directorate and NSF overall. For additional information, please contact Patrick Harr pharr@nsf.gov.

Town Hall Meeting: The 2017-2027 National Academy of Sciences Decadal Survey for Earth Science and Applications from Space

Location: Room 240/241 ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)

In 2007, the National Research Council issued its inaugural “decadal survey” of all Earth sciences that could benefit from spaceborne observations (http://www.nap.edu/openbook.php?record_id=11820). The next survey, covering a 10-year period starting in late 2017, is again sponsored by NASA, NOAA, and the USGS. Some 100 community members are expected to serve on the survey’s steering committee or one of its study panels, and many more will participate via white paper submissions and outreach events. The survey occurs against a backdrop of both highly constrained budgets and ever-increasing national needs for Earth observations and information products. A key element of the survey will be a canvas of the community for new ideas about missions, programs, and capabilities to advance Earth system science and ensure the nation maintains healthy, robust, and successful research and application programs. Representatives from the survey will be on hand to lead a discussion towards these objectives. For additional information, please contact Art Charo acharo@nas.edu.

Town Hall Meeting: The Integrated Water Community

Location: Room 333-334 ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)

This panel and discussion will describe activities within NOAA and AMS to advance a comprehensive and integrated understanding of water. We will identify key challenges and opportunities for AMS and the broader community in collaboratively advancing the critical water issues facing our communities and business today. For additional information, please contact Ya’el Seid-Green yseidgreen@ametsoc.org or Eileen Shea eshea@att.net.

Town Hall Meeting: The Weather Value Chain of the Future: From Commercial Satellites to Crowdsourcing, and Everything In Between

Location: Room 243 ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)

The world of weather and climate data collection is being transformed by the emergence of innovative data sources including commercial weather satellites, sensors on commercial aircraft, crowdsourced data via mobile phones and automobiles, and even drones. This panel will showcase key players in the weather value chain of the future, and discuss the opportunities and challenges of merging diverse data streams with advances in modeling, computing and data mining, in order to drive a dramatically better weather forecast and fuel a next generation of analytics and risk management solutions for various industries. For additional information, please contact Dan Stillman dstillman@planetiq.com.

12:45 PM-1:05 PM: Wednesday, 13 January 2016

Panel Discussion Best Practices for Statistical Inference in the Atmospheric Sciences

Location: Room 348/349 ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)

1:30 PM-2:15 PM: Wednesday, 13 January 2016

J 2

Joint Session Air Pollution Consulting Meteorology Applications

Location: Room 243 ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)

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

PD 1

Location: Room 226/227 ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)

Creating Societally Important Climate Indices

Location: Room 343 ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)

PD 3

Panel Discussion Advancing the Space Weather Enterprise

Location: Room 352 ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)

Earth Science Product and Algorithm Improvements for Weather, Water, Climate

Location: Room 338/339 ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)

L 3

Lecture Horton Lecture

Location: Room 244 ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)

Translation of Forecast Uncertainty into Capacity Impact Uncertainty

Location: Room 344 ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)

New Roles for Researchers and Librarians: Scholarly Profiles, Cited References, and Bibliometrics

Location: Room 340/341 ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)

Case Studies: Part I

Location: Room 342 ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)

NWS Foundational Data and Modeling Advances

Location: Room 255/257 ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)

Numerical Analysis and Prediction Experiments I

Location: Room 345 ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)

Special Session on US-International Partnerships, Part III

Location: Room 252/254 ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)

Integration of In-situ and Satellite-derived Observations into Data Assimilation and Weather, Water and Climate Modeling Systems for the Improvement of Forecasts

Weather & Energy: Efficiency and Decision Support

Location: Room 346/347 ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)

Weather & Energy: Efficiency and Decision Support

Climate Services

Location: Room 245 ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)

Weather and Climate Literacy and Citizen Science

Location: Room 333-334 ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)

Climate Scenarios for the National Climate Assessment: Future Directions

Location: La Nouvelle C ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)

This session will discuss ideas for the development and choices of new climate scenarios for the National Climate Assessment (NCA), based on experience in producing the Third NCA report and needs identified during and since the preparation of that report. The Sustained Assessment process is ongoing, and the Fourth NCA is tentatively scheduled for release in 2018. Both activities have a need for state of the art climate scenarios using the most recent generation of climate models and downscaling techniques.

Subseasonal Variability: Part 1

Location: La Nouvelle A ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)

Spatiotemporal structure in the troposphere (and stratosphere); link with teleconnection patterns and MJO; dynamical and thermodynamic mechanisms; hydroclimate impacts; predictability and prediction; representation in climate simulations.

Radar and Lidar Calibration and Observations

Location: Room 350/351 ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)

J 12

Joint Session Atmospheric Chemistry Core Science Keynote

Location: Room 356 ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)

J 16

Joint Session Emergency Management: Education and Outreach to Better Prepare the Public

Location: Room 353 ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)

TJ 17

Themed Joint Session Weather Information at Our Fingertips

Location: Room 348/349 ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)

New technological information services that will assist in the timely and accurate weather information at our fingertips (what are they, how are they used, examples of best practices, how to transition these to the public)

2:15 PM-2:30 PM: Wednesday, 13 January 2016

Applications of Air Pollution Meteorology Award Presentation

Location: Room 243 ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)

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

Book Signing

Location: Hall D/E ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)

Come visit with AMS authors for book signings at the AMS Resource Center: Joe Bassi: A Scientific Peak: How Boulder Became a World Center for Space and Atmospheric Science Oswaldo Garcia: Father Benito Vines: The 19th-Century Life and Contributions of a Cuban Hurricane Observer & Scientist Lourdes Aviles: Take by Storm, 1938: A Social and Meteorological History of the Great New England Hurricane

Formal Poster Viewing with Coffee Break

Location: Hall D/E ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)

P 1

Poster Session Aviation's Usable Regions of Airspace, Hazards and Mitigations

How can the National Airspace System identify usable regions of airspace from those impacted by hazards? Are there mitigations to the hazards that give access to more area?

P 1

Poster Session Fourth Symposium on Building a Weather-Ready Nation: Enhancing Our Nation's Readiness, Responsiveness, and Resilience to High Impact Weather Events

JP 1

Joint Poster Session Joint Poster Session for the 4th MJO Symposium and the 7th Energy Conference

P 1

Poster Session Lamb Symposium Poster Session

P 2

Poster Session 32EIPT Wednesday/Thursday Posters

P 2

Poster Session Environment & Health Poster Session II

Extreme temperatures, air pollution & health; Education and health.

P 2

Poster Session GOES-R/JPSS Poster Session II

P 2

Poster Session Measurements Poster Session II

Location: New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center

P 2

Poster Session Observing Systems and their Applications

Location: Hall D/E ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)

P 2

Poster Session Poster Session 2

P 2

Poster Session Poster Session on Transitioning Research to Operations - II

P 2

Poster Session Poster Session: Cloud and Climate - Wed/thu

P 2

Poster Session Posters, 13-14 January

P 2

Poster Session Wednesday/Thursday Poster Session

Location: Hall D/E ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)

This is for Wednesday and Thursday sessions

JP 6

Joint Poster Session Land-Atmosphere Interactions Posters

Location: New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center

JP 7

Joint Poster Session Regional climate modeling predicting future changes in extreme precipitation events - Towards More Resilient Engineering Design Posters

JP 8

Joint Poster Session Water: Too Much, too Little. How Climate Information Supports Community Preparedness

Same as parent oral session

JP 9

Joint Poster Session 20IOAS and 12GOESRJPSS Poster Session

Location: Hall D/E ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)

Poster Session Wed/Thu Poster Session

3:30 PM-4:00 PM: Wednesday, 13 January 2016

ASLI Choice Book Awards

Location: Room 340/341 ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)

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

Case Studies: Part II

Location: Room 342 ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)

J 18

Joint Session Joint Research and Coordinated Observations in Hydrometeorology, Extremes and High-Impact Events in the US and Asia Part 3

Location: Room 242 ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)

Hydrometeorological disasters are the most recurring and devastating natural hazards in the world, directly impacting human lives and causing severe economic damage through property loss. The US and Asia face similar challenges in observing, understanding and forecasting hydrometeorological events, in particularly associated with extremes and high-impact events. This session is aimed at fostering and promoting communications and collaborations among US and Asian countries through information exchange on science advances, technology and infrastructure capabilities, data, and common practices. We invite contributions dealing with all aspects of hydrometeorological studies including in-situ and satellite observation, data assimilation, atmospheric and hydrologic process studies and modeling, and weather and hydrologic forecasting on timescales from days to seasons. We particularly welcome US-Asian joint research in those areas.

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

PD 1

Panel Discussion Panel Session on Considerations and Best Practices for Transition of Research to Operations

Location: Room 338/339 ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)

The Sixth Conference on Transition of Research to Operations (6R2O) will hold a panel discussion on Considerations and Best Practices for Transition of Research to Operations along the theme of connecting research to societal benefits. The panel will be composed of leaders in R2O from government, academia, and industry. The panel of experts will each make a brief presentation on their experience with R2O leadership and their understanding of best practices. Many challenges are common to R2O programs across sectors, and best practices from one agency will likely prove applicable in another. Funding is a well known challenge, and frequently cited as the limitation, but often is only part of a solution in combination with other factors such as coordinating policies and process to support transition. Many of the most successful institutes or companies relative to R2O cultivate a culture of transition with close ties and good communication between their research teams and operations teams. Our panel of experts will present their lessons learned and best practices for successful transition across agencies, sectors, and operational scales.

PD 1

Panel Discussion Visualizing Climate: Focus on Big Data

Location: Room 245 ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)

Across the U.S., and globally, there is an ever-increasing availability of immense quantities of climate data. This data reveals how our climate has been shifting and also projects changes on the horizon. However, making climate data accessible to businesses, decision-makers, and the public remains a challenge. Visualizing climate data in easy-to-understand and compelling ways helps people understand the changes taking place around them, and can help them better plan for the future. This session will bring together specialists in climate data and visualization in service of many different audience. The discussion will focus on best practices and tools for data visualization, considering your audience when designing visualizations, reviewing remaining challenges and future opportunities with climate data.

Air Quality Impacts of Oil and Gas Development

Location: Room 356 ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)

Recent increases in oil and gas extraction and production activities have raised questions about the ambient impact of the emissions from these processes and facilities, which have been known to emit a variety of compounds to the atmosphere that can affect local, regional and possibly global air quality. As future plans for the increase of oil and gas production are considered in the United States, the overall effect on air quality is an important consideration. Research conducted on qualifying and quantifying these emissions is relatively new, and many more experiments and modeling studies are needed to provide a clear understanding of them and their impact on air quality. This session will allow scientists to showcase their observational and modeling studies concerning emissions from oil and gas development and their impacts on air quality. The session will include invited talks and submitted oral and poster presentations. Student participation will be especially encouraged. Student presentations are particularly encouraged. Students are eligible to compete for cash prizes and certificates from AMS awarded to outstanding first author student presentations.

The Continuing Legacy - Lessons Learned and Future Avenues of Predictability, Outreach, and Capacity Development

Location: Room 343 ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)

J 3

Joint Session Interactions Between the MJO, the Extratropics, and Tropical Cyclones

Location: Room 346/347 ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)

PD 4

Panel Discussion Expanding Space Weather Information Into Traditional Weather Media

Location: Room 352 ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)

PD 4

Panel Discussion Opportunities, Obstacles, and Evolving Solutions for Transboundary Climate Services: Experiences from the North American Climate Services Partnership (NACSP)

Location: Room 244 ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)

In order to meet the growing needs of a diverse range of information users and constituents, the delivery of timely and effective climate services frequently requires collaboration across geopolitical boundaries. This session will explore the opportunities, obstacles, and evolving solutions associated with transboundary climate services, drawing upon concrete experiences within the North American Climate Services Partnership (NACSP). A panel of international climate services practitioners, including both government and academic, will provide their perspectives on the challenges and benefits of transboundary work, and session attendees will also be invited to share their transboundary experiences in a dialogue with the panel. Specific examples and lessons learned from sectoral and user engagement in the weather, water and climate enterprise will be highlighted - at both the continental and regional/boundary geographic scales - drawn from the portfolio of NACSP activities in Canada, Mexico, and the United States. Outcomes from the session will be used to foster a broader dialogue on the unique nature of cross-boundary collaborations, refine the priorities of NACSP going forward, and provide a framework for reporting these opportunities, obstacles, and evolving solutions in the climate services literature.

United States Government and International Perspectives

Location: Room 344 ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)

This session gives the opportunity for major United States government and international organizations to comment and showcase their contributions.

J 5

Joint Session Development, Implementation, and Evaluation of Health Early Warning Systems

Location: Room 228/229 ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)

Research with focus on how early warnings systems, as applied to weather-health impacts, are developed, implemented, and tested to provide increased resiliency to extreme weather.

Impact-based Decision Support Services

Location: Room 255/257 ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)

Numerical Analysis and Prediction Experiments II

Location: Room 345 ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)

One Year of Himawari 8

Location: Room 252/254 ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)

Regional and Urban Air Pollution Modeling and Observations

Location: Room 243 ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)

From Planetary to Personal: Connecting Earth Sciences and Health in the Classroom

Location: Room 353 ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)

Demand for education at all levels that integrates health and climate change science is growing, from the commitments by medical, nursing and public health school deans to incorporate climate change into their curricula to the integration of health in the teaching of earth sciences to K-12 students. There are both challenges and benefits to integrating health and earth science concepts. In joint sessions, the Boards on Education and Environment and Health will explore ideas and best practices.

Quasi-Operational Products You Can Use Now

Location: Room 348/349 ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)

Weather and Climate Hazards Impacts and Vulnerability Research

Location: Room 333-334 ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)

Extreme-value Analysis

Location: Room 226/227 ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)

10A

Mechanisms of Anthropogenic Aerosol-Forced Regional Climate Variability

Location: La Nouvelle C ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)

Despite substantial progress in the last decades, the climate impact of anthropogenic aerosols is still highly uncertain, especially at regional scale. One key area were improvements are much needed is the understanding of the physical pathways linking aerosol emissions-radiative forcing-climate variations, both regionally and remotely, via, for example, atmospheric circulation changes. This session welcomes contributions from observations and modelling studies that contribute to advancing the understanding of the mechanisms for the aerosol impact on regional climate worldwide, from the Tropics to high latitude regions, and its interactions with other climate forcing factors and natural variability. Studies focusing on aerosol-induced changes in variability, long-term trends, and extremes in the hydrological cycle, in the recent past as well as the coming decades, are particularly solicited.

10B

Subseasonal Variability: Part 2

Location: La Nouvelle A ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)

Accuracy of Observations

Location: Room 350/351 ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)

J 13

Joint Session Chemistry, Aerosol, Cloud and Convection During the GoAmazon2014/5 Field Campaign I

Location: Room 357 ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)

Both aerosol properties and meteorology conditions in the Amazon Basin vary significantly among different seasons. Amazon Basin represents one of the most pristine and natural continental sites but polluted situations occur with the perturbations of tropical megacity pollution and biomass burning emissions. Past studies showed very complex interactions between chemistry, aerosols, clouds, and meteorology, and therefore, a challenge to understand and model convection and precipitation in the region. Very recent field experiments, including GoAmazon2014/15 and ACRIDICON-CHUVA, have been conducted over the Amazon region to reveal new insights in the complex interactions in Amazonia. This special session will discuss the new observational and modeling studies on meteorology, aerosols, clouds, convection and precipitation and the associated interactions related to the GoAmazon2014/15 and ACRIDICON-CHUVA. We will have invited talks, contributed oral and poster presentations. Student presentations are particularly encouraged. Cash prizes and a certificate from AMS will be awarded to outstanding first author student presentations.

J 17

Joint Session Land-Atmosphere Interactions, Part II

Location: Room 240/241 ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)

4:15 PM-4:45 PM: Wednesday, 13 January 2016

Historical Data Rescue

Location: Room 340/341 ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)

4:45 PM-5:30 PM: Wednesday, 13 January 2016

Technology Tools & Tips

Location: Room 340/341 ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)

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)

ASLI Annual Dinner

Thursday, 14 January 2016

7:40 AM-8:00 AM: Thursday, 14 January 2016

Location: Room 348/349 ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)

8:00 AM-9:45 AM: Thursday, 14 January 2016

Weather and Climate Predictability 1

Location: Room 231/232 ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)

8:00 AM-12:00 PM: Thursday, 14 January 2016

Materhorn: Improved Modeling and Observations of Weather in Complex Terrain-Part I

Location: Hall D/E ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)

8:15 AM-9:45 AM: Thursday, 14 January 2016

Atmospheric Waves, Part I

Location: Room 343 ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)

Convection, Clouds, and Chemistry

Location: Room 356 ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)

8:30 AM-9:00 AM: Thursday, 14 January 2016

AMS Update

Location: Room 340/341 ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)

8:30 AM-9:30 AM: Thursday, 14 January 2016

Location: Room 243 ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)

J 19

Joint Session Joint Research and Coordinated Observations in Hydrometeorology, Extremes and High-Impact Events in the US and Asia Part 4

Location: Room 242 ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)

8:30 AM-9:45 AM: Thursday, 14 January 2016

High Performance Computing in Operations

Location: Room 344 ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)

Weather Modeling and Data Assimilation to Provide the Science to Serve Society — Part I

Location: Room 338/339 ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)

J 6

Joint Session Earth Observations that Support Health Early Warning Systems and Monitoring of Disease Risks

Location: Room 228/229 ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)

The focus will be to address how various earth observations, such as satellite, remote sensing, or in-situ, can be implemented to improve earth warning systems specific to disease monitoring. Topics can focus on implementation at various spatiotemporal scales to prepare the nation for the risks of weather and climate health impact.

J 6

Joint Session Economic Impacts and Value of Improved Forecast Information

Location: Room 355 ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)

Precipitation Processes and Observations for Atmospheric, Land Surface, and Hydrological Modeling, Part I

Location: Room 240/241 ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)

This session focuses on precipitation observation, modeling, estimation, and applications of in situ and remotely sensed precipitation products. Topics include, but are not limited to (1) precipitation processes and modeling; (2) advances in remote sensing of precipitation from satellite and radar platforms; (3) recent development pertaining to fusion and down-scaling of precipitation products; (4) assimilation of precipitation and precipitation related variables in NWP models; and (5) impacts of improving precipitation estimates on hydrologic and land surface modeling. We particularly encourage novel work related to assimilation of precipitation products into numerical weather prediction models. Please contact the session organizers: Yu Zhang (yu.zhang@noaa.gov), Paul Kucera (pkucera@ucar.edu) and/or Emad Habib (habib@louisiana.edu).

Data Assimilation: New Methodologies

Location: Room 345 ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)

Quantifying and Communicating Risk

Location: Room 255/257 ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)

Weather and Energy: Efficiency and Decision Support Part 2

Location: Room 346/347 ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)

Weather and Energy: Efficiency and Decision Support Part 2

Algorithm Development

Location: Room 225 ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)

Direct Broadcast Capabilities for Polar-orbiting and Geostationary Satellites and Their Use in Support of Societal Needs

Location: Room 252/254 ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)

Data Quality and Climate Data Sets

Location: Room 245 ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)

Radar Technologies and Applications, Part I: Operational Radar Applications

Location: Room 348/349 ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)

Water Resources Information Services

Location: Room 333-334 ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)

Climate Data Analysis and Downscaling – Part 1

Location: Room 226/227 ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)

11A

Advances in Climate Modeling and Prediction: Part 1

Location: La Nouvelle C ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)

Improvements in model parameterizations and their impact on climate; innovative model diagnostics and numerical experiments.

11B

Decadal-Multidecadal Variability in Pacific, Atlantic and Indian Basins: Part 1

Location: Room 352 ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)

Ocean surface/subsurface structure; ocean-atmosphere-land-cryosphere interactions; hydroclimate impacts (e.g., droughts) and mechanisms; potential predictability; experimental prediction (statistical/ dynamical).

11C

Regional Climate Variability and Change: Part 1

Location: La Nouvelle A ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)

Detection and attribution of temperature and precipitation variations; role of greenhouse gases, anthropogenic aerosols, land use, and multidecadal natural variability; high-resolution regional climate projections.

J 14

Joint Session Chemistry, aerosol, cloud and convection during the GoAmazon2014/5 field campaign II

Location: Room 357 ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)

Joint session

9:00 AM-9:15 AM: Thursday, 14 January 2016

Springer Update

Location: Room 340/341 ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)

9:15 AM-9:45 AM: Thursday, 14 January 2016

Historical Glimpses and Perspectives — Part 1

Location: Room 340/341 ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)

9:45 AM-11:00 AM: Thursday, 14 January 2016

Formal Poster Viewing with Coffee Break

Location: Hall D/E ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)

P 1

Poster Session HPC Poster Session

Posters for 2nd Annual HPC Symposium

P 1

Poster Session Seamless Weather and Climate Prediction and Predictability Posters

Location: Hall D/E ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)

P 1

Poster Session Wednesday/Thursday Posters

P 5

Poster Session Hydrological Processes with Application to Urban Environments Posters

Same as parent oral session

P 6

Poster Session Precipitation Processes and Observations for Atmospheric, Land Surface, and Hydrological Modeling Posters

11:00 AM-11:30 AM: Thursday, 14 January 2016

The National Centers for Environmental Information Climate Portal

Location: Room 340/341 ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)

11:00 AM-11:45 AM: Thursday, 14 January 2016

12B

Decadal-Multidecadal Variability in Pacific, Atlantic and Indian Basins: Part 2

Location: Room 352 ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)

11:00 AM-12:00 PM: Thursday, 14 January 2016

Cloud Systems and Visualization

Location: Room 344 ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)

use of cloud systems to promote "elastic" systems for model runs; cloud storage techniques to improve the concept of data locality

Weather and Climate Predictability 2

Location: Room 231/232 ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)

Weather Modeling and Data Assimilation to Provide the Science to Serve Society — Part II

Location: Room 338/339 ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)

Aerosol and Monsoon Interactions

Location: Room 357 ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)

Monsoon is the most distinct climate regime that affects the well-being for more than two thirds of the world population, chiefly in the developing and undeveloped countries. The majority of the monsoon regions happen to have heavy aerosol loading such as south and east Asia, Africa, South America, etc. Any interactions between aerosol and monsoon are likely to have profound impact on the weather and climate in these and downstream regions. Fundamentally, the monsoon climate is driven by heat sources and sinks in the atmosphere stemming from the strong thermal contrast between land and ocean induced by the seasonally varying incoming solar radiation. Aerosols, by reflecting and absorbing solar radiation, reduce surface insolation and weaken the land-ocean thermal contrast, thus inhibiting the formation of monsoons. The atmospheric thermodynamic state may also be altered by aerosol absorption, aerosol microphysical effect by serving as cloud condensation nuclei (CCN) or ice nuclei (IN), etc. Many mechanisms have been put forth regarding how aerosols modulate cloud and precipitation, monsoon circulation, amplitude, frequency, intensity, and phase of monsoon changes. These mechanisms are complicated by feedbacks with large-scale moist environmental dynamics. There exist multi-scale interactions between aerosols and the monsoon system from the location-specific alteration of single-column stability to the organization of meso-scale cloud clusters, and to the modification of monsoon circulation and precipitation on continental scales. Climate-scale numerical model simulations have indicated strong sensitivities to aerosol loading and properties. This special session invites papers on any aspects of aerosol-monsoon interactions including but not exclusive to: (1) Aerosol properties in monsoon dominant regions; (2) Monsoon phenomena that are likely affected by aerosol (3) Fundamental mechanisms by which aerosol affect monsoon circulation, energy and water cycles; (4) Long-term trends of changes in monsoon climate that may be linked with aerosol; (5) Social and economic implications of aerosol-monsoon climate interactions.

Precipitation Processes and Observations for Atmospheric, Land Surface, and Hydrological Modeling, Part II

Location: Room 240/241 ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)

Building a Weather-Ready Nation: Training and Outreach

Location: Room 255/257 ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)

Data Assimilation: Satellites

Location: Room 345 ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)

Remote Sensing Techniques for Wind Energy Assessment and Forecasting

Location: Room 346/347 ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)

Data Quality and Observations

Location: Room 245 ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)

J 10

Joint Session Enterprise Ground Architectures and the Research to Operations Process: Tools, Technologies, and Experiences, Part I

Location: Room 252/254 ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)

Materhorn: Improved Modeling and Observations of Weather in Complex Terrain-Part II

Location: Room 243 ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)

Societal Benefits of Satellite Data Applications

Location: Room 225 ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)

11A

Radar Technologies and Applications, Part II: X-Band Networks

Location: Room 348/349 ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)

Radar Session

11B

Weather and the Roads, Part I

Location: Room 355 ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)

Climate Data Analysis and Downscaling – Part 2

Location: Room 226/227 ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)

12A

Advances in Climate Modeling and Prediction: Part 2

Location: La Nouvelle C ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)

12C

Regional Climate Variability and Change: Part 2

Location: La Nouvelle A ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)

J 20

Joint Session Hydrological Processes with Application to Urban Environments (Joint between the 30th Conference on Hydrology and the AMS Board on Urban Environment)

Location: Room 242 ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)

The Hydrology Committee and the AMS Board on Urban Environment will jointly host a conference session that solicits papers on experimental measurements, numerical modeling, and theoretical advances in understanding hydrological processes with applications to urban environments. Topics of interests include urban hydroclimate forecasting, hydrological modeling in built environments, water resources management in cities, and water-energy nexus in sustainable urban development. Of particular interest, this joint session invites papers that address: (1) The complex geographic effect due to the presence of heterogeneous land use land covers; (2) The impact of engineered materials and structures on the coupled energy and water cycles; (3) The regulating power of man-made hydrological/hydraulic systems on environmental sustainability, including green infrastructure, irrigation schemes, retention ponds, etc.; and (4) Mitigation and adaptation strategies to emerging urban hydrometeorological patterns and extremes. For additional information please contact the program chairpersons: John Eylander (John.B.Eylander@usace.army.mil), Dev Niyogi (dniyogi@purdue.edu), or John McHenry (john.mchenry@baronams.com)

11:00 AM-12:15 PM: Thursday, 14 January 2016

Atmospheric Waves, Part II

Location: Room 343 ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)

Pollutant Sources, Transport, Transformation, and Sinks

Location: Room 356 ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)

Anthropogenic emissions to the atmosphere can result in substantial adverse impacts to human health and the environment. Understanding the nature and magnitude of these impacts requires knowledge of pollutant source emissions, the transport and physical/chemical transformation of those emissions in the atmosphere, and sinks for their eventual removal. This session will focus broadly on these topics for primary and secondary gas and particle phase pollutants. Transport over local to global scales; transformations via gas phase, aqueous phase, and heterogeneous processes; and removal by dry and wet deposition processes are all of interest. Presentations that examine combinations of emissions, transport, transformation, and/or deposition processes are of particular interest. Student participation is especially encouraged. Students giving first author posters or platform presentations will be eligible to compete for cash prizes and certificates from AMS.

11:30 AM-12:00 PM: Thursday, 14 January 2016

Librarians and Research Data Curation & Management Programs and Initiatives

Location: Room 340/341 ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)

12:00 PM-1:30 PM: Thursday, 14 January 2016

Lunch Break

12:45 PM-1:05 PM: Thursday, 14 January 2016