The 85th AMS Annual Meeting (San Diego, CA)

Monday Wednesday
Tuesday, 11 January 2005
5:00 AM-6:00 AM
The American Meteorological Society and the Impact Weather 2004 Program Committee wishes to express its appreciation to SAIC and Team NPOESS for its support of the Impact Weather 2004 Symposium. Their sponsorship made it possible for the AMS to record the on-line submission of speaker abstracts and the recording of their Power Point presentations during the Impact Weather 2004 Symposium. ( 2AWR

8:00 AM-8:15 AM
Towards a Global Earth Observation System of Systems ( 2NPOESS

8:00 AM-9:45 AM
Joint Session 1 Weather Headlines (Joint between the IMPACT: 2004 Weather Symposium and the Third AMS Users Conference: Uses of and Needs for Weather and Climate Services in Managing Water Resources, Energy, and Ocean Transportation) ( 3USERS, 2AWR

8:20 AM-12:00 PM
Session 1 Part I: GOES-R [Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellites – R] ( 2NPOESS

8:30 AM-9:00 AM
Presentation of Interest - 'Global Precipitation Observation From Satellite Image Using Artificial Neural Networks' Soroosh Sorooshian, University of California, Irvine, Irvine, CA: Part of The Symposium on Living in the Coastal Zone (4AI)
8:30 AM-9:45 AM
Joint Session 5 The use of climate forecasts for water resources planning and management (Joint between the Limited Water Supply Symposium and the 19th Confernce on Hydrology) (parallel with Session 2) ( H20SUPPLY, 19HYDROLOGY

8:30 AM-9:54 AM
Panel Discussion 1 EXPLORING ATTITUDES ON SCIENCE NEWS COVERAGE ( 4COMMUNICATION

8:30 AM-5:30 PM
Session 1 Aspects of Space Weather that have an element of commonality with terrestrial weather applications. ( 2SPACEWX

8:30 AM-4:30 PM
Session 1 History Symposium ( 3HISTORY

8:30 AM-12:15 PM
Session 2 University Educational Initiatives ( 14EDUCATION

8:30 AM-12:15 PM
Session 2 Current and future precipitation measurements from space (parallel with Joint Session 5) ( 19HYDROLOGY

8:30 AM-9:45 AM
Session 2 International Polar Year - Invited Presentations ( 8POLAR

8:30 AM-9:45 AM
Session 2 Understanding and Communicating Change ( COASTALZONE

8:30 AM-12:00 PM
Session 2 Coupled Modeling and Coastal Air-Sea Interaction ( 6COASTAL

8:30 AM-12:00 PM
Session 3 Climate Modeling Studies 1(parallel with Sessions 4 and 5) ( 16GLOBAL

8:30 AM-5:30 PM
Session 4 Observed Seasonal to Interannual Climate Variability (parallel with Sessions 3 and 5) ( 16GLOBAL

8:30 AM-10:00 AM
Session 4 Planned weather modification including promising new technologies such as the recent hygroscopic and winter orographic seeding experiments and evaluation methods for seeding experiments ( 16WEAMOD

8:30 AM-9:45 AM
Session 4 Assimilation Techniques and Their Evaluation - Part 2 ( 9IOASAOLS

8:30 AM-12:15 PM
Session 5 Hydrology of Semi-Arid Regions(parallel with Sessions 3 and 4) ( 16GLOBAL

8:30 AM-9:45 AM
Session 5 Advances in lightning technology and transfer from research to operations ( LIGHTNING

8:30 AM-12:15 PM
Session 6 Advances and Applications in Transportation Weather Part 1: Surface Transportation ( 21IIPS

8:30 AM-11:00 AM
Session 7 European and other International Applications (Please note that Papers 10.7 and 10.8 of this program are a continuation of this session. They are scheduled to be presented beginning at 5:00 on Tuesday) ( 21IIPS

8:45 AM-12:00 PM
Session 3 Aerosol Measurements and Radiative Forcing Effects ( 7ATCHEM

9:00 AM-11:30 AM
Joint Session 5 AI Applications with a Nowcasting Flavor (Joint between the Fourth Conference on Artificial Intelligence and the 21st International Conference on Interactive Information and Processing Systems (IIPS) for Meteorology, Oceanography, and Hydrology) ( 4AI, 21IIPS

9:45 AM-11:00 AM
Formal Poster Viewing with Coffee Break (ANNUAL2005EVENTS, 21IIPS, 19HYDROLOGY, LIGHTNING, H20SUPPLY, 8POLAR, LIDARSYMP, COASTALZONE, 3USERS, 2AWR)
9:45 AM
Formal Poster Viewing with Coffee Break (Please Refer to Poster Session P1for Title and Author Information) (9IOASAOLS)
9:45 AM-11:00 AM
Joint Poster Session 1 Poster Session: Distributed Earth Science Information Systems (Joint with the 16th Conference on Climate Variability and Change and the 21st International Conference on Interactive Information Processing Systems (IIPS) for Meteorology, Oceanography, and Hydrology) ( 16GLOBAL, 21IIPS

9:45 AM-11:45 AM
Poster Session 1 Lidar Atmospheric Applications - Poster Session I ( LIDARSYMP

9:45 AM-10:45 AM
Poster Session 1 International Polar Year - Poster Presentations (Observational Techniques, Programs, Products and Databases ( 8POLAR

9:45 AM
Poster Session 1 Poster ( 4AI

9:45 AM-11:00 AM
Poster Session 1 GOES-R Posters ( 2NPOESS

9:45 AM-11:00 AM
Poster Session 1 Poster Session P1: Formal Viewing ( 6COASTAL

9:45 AM
Poster Session 2 Poster Session: Development of in Situ, Satellite, and Model Data Focused on Hydrometeorological Processes in the Atmosphere and Land Surfaces ( 16GLOBAL

9:45 AM
Poster Session 2 CURRENT AND FUTURE PRECIPITATION MEASUREMENTS POSTERS ( 19HYDROLOGY

9:45 AM-11:15 AM
Poster Session 2 Lidar Atmospheric Applications - Poster Session II ( LIDARSYMP

9:45 AM-11:00 AM
Poster Session 2 Poster Session 2 ( LIGHTNING

9:45 AM-11:00 AM
Poster Session 2 Poster Session 2 ( 9IOASAOLS

9:45 AM-11:00 AM
Poster Session 3 Poster Session: Climate Modeling Studies ( 16GLOBAL

9:45 AM-9:45 AM
Poster Session 1 Space Weather Poster Session ( 2SPACEWX

10:00 AM-10:15 AM
Coffee Break (4COMMUNICATION)
10:15 AM
Panel Discussion 2 PANEL DISCUSSION AND A SAMPLING OF SCIENTISTS’ ATTITUDES ON MEDIA COVERAGE ( 4COMMUNICATION

11:00 AM-12:00 PM
Joint Session 2 Living with a Limited Water Supply (Joint between the IMPACT: 2004 Weather Symposium and the Third AMS Users Conference: Uses of and Needs for Weather and Climate Services in Managing Water Resources, Energy, and Ocean Transportation) ( 2AWR, 3USERS

11:00 AM-12:30 PM
Panel Discussion 2 COMMUNICATING RISK AND ENCOURAGING SELF-PROTECTIVE ACTION ( COASTALZONE

11:00 AM
Session 1 Actions/Next Steps ( 4COMMUNICATION

11:00 AM-12:00 PM
Session 2 global socio-political-economical dimensions of water, including the linkages between human development, food production and water resources ( H20SUPPLY

11:00 AM-12:15 PM
Session 3 Polar Forecasting (Ice, Winds and Weather) ( 8POLAR

11:00 AM-12:00 PM
Session 5 recent developments in understanding natural cloud processes and aerosol cloud interactions and how they might be modified - Part 1 ( 16WEAMOD

11:00 AM-12:00 PM
Session 5 Observational Field Experiments ( 9IOASAOLS

11:00 AM-12:15 PM
Session 6 Application of lightning data in atmospheric process studies 1: Assimilation and forecasting ( LIGHTNING

11:00 AM-1:45 PM
Session 8 Interactive Processing Systems ( 21IIPS

11:30 AM-1:30 PM
Exhibits Open (14EDUCATION, 4AI, ANNUAL2005EVENTS, 19HYDROLOGY, LIGHTNING, H20SUPPLY, 16WEAMOD, 21IIPS, 2SPACEWX, 8POLAR, 3USERS, LIDARSYMP, COASTALZONE, 2AWR)
11:30 AM-1:30 PM
Exhibits Open (7ATCHEM)
11:30 AM-1:30 PM
Exhibits Open (9IOASAOLS)
12:15 PM
Lunch Break (21IIPS, ANNUAL2005EVENTS, 19HYDROLOGY, 4AI, LIGHTNING, H20SUPPLY, 16WEAMOD, 8POLAR, LIDARSYMP, COASTALZONE, 3USERS, 2AWR)
12:15 PM-1:30 PM
Lunch Break (9IOASAOLS)
12:15 PM-1:30 PM
Panel Discussion 1 Part II: Panel Session [with GOES-R Industry Partners Sponsored Box Lunch] ( 2NPOESS

1:00 PM-5:00 PM
Session 6 The Second GEWEX Global Soil Wetness Project (GSWP-2) ( 19HYDROLOGY

1:30 PM-3:00 PM
Joint Session 3 Living in the Coastal Zone (Joint between the IMPACT: 2004 Weather Symposium and the Third AMS Users Conference: Uses of and Needs for Weather and Climate Services in Managing Water Resources, Energy, and Ocean Transportation) ( 2AWR, 3USERS

1:30 PM-2:45 PM
Joint Session 6 AI in Studies with a Climate Component (Joint between the Fourth Conference on Artificial Intelligence and the 21st International Conference on Interactive Information and Processing Systems (IIPS) for Meteorology, Oceanography, and Hydrology) ( 4AI, 21IIPS

1:30 PM-5:30 PM
Joint Session 7 Cyberinfrastructure to support atmospheric and Oceanic Education: Examples and strategies (Joint with 21IIPS and Education) ( 14EDUCATION, 21IIPS

1:30 PM-5:30 PM
Joint Session 8 Global Climate Observing System (Joint with the 21st International Conference on Interactive Information Processing Systems (IIPS) for Meteorology, Oceanography, and Hydrology) ( 21IIPS, 9IOASAOLS

1:30 PM-5:30 PM
Session 2 Part III: NPOESS – [National Polar-orbiting Operational Environmental Satellite System] ( 2NPOESS

1:30 PM-3:00 PM
Session 3 Understanding Change in the Coastal Environment ( COASTALZONE

1:30 PM-5:30 PM
Session 3 Ocean-atmosphere-land Observations, Models and Data Analysis ( 6COASTAL

1:30 PM-3:15 PM
Session 4 Results from IHOP_2002 and Mesoscale Studies using Lidar ( LIDARSYMP

1:30 PM-2:30 PM
Session 4 The Polar Oceans (Circulations) ( 8POLAR

1:30 PM-5:00 PM
Session 6 Climate Change Assessment Activities of the IPCC and the CCSP(parallel with Session 7) ( 16GLOBAL

1:30 PM-3:00 PM
Session 6 RECENT DEVELOPMENTS IN UNDERSTANDING NATURAL CLOUD PROCESSES AND AEROSOL CLOUD INTERACTIONS AND HOW THEY MIGHT BE MODIFIED - Part 2 ( 16WEAMOD

1:30 PM-5:30 PM
Session 7 Development of In Situ, Satellite, and Model Data Focused on Hydrometeorological Processes in the Atmosphere and Land Surface (parallel with Session 6) ( 16GLOBAL

1:30 PM-3:00 PM
Session 7 Application of lightning data in atmospheric process studies 2: Climatological Studies ( LIGHTNING

1:30 PM-3:00 PM
Session 9 Advances and Applications in Transportation Weather Part II: Aviation ( 21IIPS

2:15 PM-3:00 PM
Session 5 The Polar Atmosphere - Precipitation ( 8POLAR

3:00 PM-5:00 PM
Exhibits Open (ANNUAL2005EVENTS, 19HYDROLOGY, 4AI, LIGHTNING, 14EDUCATION, H20SUPPLY, 2SPACEWX, LIDARSYMP, COASTALZONE, 2AWR)
3:00 PM
Coffee Break in Exhibit Hall (ANNUAL2005EVENTS, 19HYDROLOGY, 4AI, LIGHTNING, H20SUPPLY, 21IIPS, 16WEAMOD, 8POLAR, LIDARSYMP, COASTALZONE, 3USERS, 2AWR)
3:00 PM-5:00 PM
Exhibits Open (9IOASAOLS)
3:30 PM-4:30 PM
Joint Session 4 Continental Weather (Joint between the IMPACT: 2004 Weather Symposium and the Third AMS Users Conference: Uses of and Needs for Weather and Climate Services in Managing Water Resources, Energy, and Ocean Transportation) ( 2AWR, 3USERS

3:30 PM-5:30 PM
Joint Session 6 the water cycle in arid lands (Joint with 16th Conference on Planned and Inadvertent Weather Modification and AMS Forum on Living with a Limited Water Supply) ( H20SUPPLY, 16WEAMOD

3:30 PM-4:45 PM
Session NPOESS Mission Capabilities ( 2NPOESS

3:30 PM-5:30 PM
Session 10 Satellite IIPS and Applications Part II (Please note that Papers 10.7 and 10.8 are a continuation of Session 7: European and other International Applications) ( 21IIPS

3:30 PM-5:30 PM
Session 3 interpreting knowledge of climate variability to water resources planners and decisions makers ( H20SUPPLY

3:30 PM-5:45 PM
Session 6 The Polar Atmosphere - Clouds, Radiation, Aerosols ( 8POLAR

3:30 PM-5:00 PM
Session 8 Application of lightning data in atmospheric process studies 3: Mesoscale ( LIGHTNING

4:00 PM-5:30 PM
Panel Discussion 3 REDUCING COASTAL HAZARDS: PUTTING ENGINEERING, TECHNOLOGY AND SCIENCE TO WORK ( COASTALZONE

4:30 PM-4:45 PM
Joint Session 5 Space Weather (Joint between the IMPACT: 2004 Weather Symposium and the Third AMS Users Conference: Uses of and Needs for Weather and Climate Services in Managing Water Resources, Energy, and Ocean Transportation) ( 2AWR, 3USERS

4:45 PM-5:45 PM
Panel Discussion 1 Panel on Weather Impacts (Joint between the IMPACT: 2004 Weather Symposium and the Third AMS Users Conference: Uses of and Needs for Weather and Climate Services in Managing Water Resources, Energy, and Ocean Transportation) ( 2AWR, 3USERS

5:30 PM
Sessions end for the day (ANNUAL2005EVENTS, 21IIPS, 19HYDROLOGY, 16WEAMOD, 8POLAR, 4AI, 9IOASAOLS, 6COASTAL, 16GLOBAL, H20SUPPLY, LIDARSYMP, COASTALZONE, 2AWR, 3USERS)
5:30 PM
Sessions End for the Day (7ATCHEM)
5:30 PM-9:00 PM
Reception: Team NPOESS Sponsored (2NPOESS)
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