| Sunday, 9 January 2005 |
| 7:30 AM, Sunday
Short Course Registration |
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| 9:00 AM-5:40 PM, Sunday
Conference Registration |
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| Monday, 10 January 2005 |
| 7:30 AM, Monday
Registration continues through Thursday, 13 January |
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| 9:00 AM-11:15 AM, Monday
Session 1 emerging lidar methods in addressing atmospheric issues |
Organizer: Edward V. Browell, NASA Langley Research Center, Hampton, VA
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| 9:00 AM | 1.1 | Recent observations of increased thinning of the Greenland ice sheet measured by aircraft laser altimetry and GPS
William B. Krabill, GSFC, Wallops Island, VA, VA |
| 9:30 AM | 1.2 | Development of a ground-based 2-micron DIAL system for atmospheric boundary layer and climate studies  
Syed Ismail, NASA/LRC, Hampton, VA; and G. J. Koch, U. N. Singh, and K. J. Davis |
| 9:45 AM | 1.3 | Use of an eye-safe, portable lidar for remote wildland fire and smoke detection
Matthew J. Parker, Westinghouse Savannah River Company, Aiken, SC; and C. E. Holton |
| 10:00 AM | 1.4 | Monitoring of air motion using lidar and video observations
Thomas D. Wilkerson, Space Dynamics Laboratory, North Logan, UT; and S. Cornelsen, G. K. Schwemmer, and M. Anderson |
| 10:15 AM | | Coffee Break
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| 10:45 AM | 1.5 | The Potential of Wide Angle Imaging Lidar (WAIL)
Igor N. Polonsky, LANL, Los Alamos, NM; and A. B. Davis and S. P. Love |
| 11:00 AM | 1.6 | Wind Profiles from an Ultra-Violet Lidar
Steven Businger, University of Hawaii, Honolulu, HI; and I. Dors, J. Foster, J. P. McHugh, T. Cherubini, J. Ryan, J. B. Moore, and P. Hays |
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| 10:15 AM, Monday
Coffee Break in Poster Session Room |
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| 11:15 AM-2:30 PM, Monday
Session 2 Urban Applications and Data Assimilation |
Organizer: N. Andrew Crook, NCAR, Boulder, CO
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| 11:15 AM | 2.1 | Lidar as a Lifeline in Confronting Bioterriorism
Richard Danzig, DARPA, Washington, DC |
| 11:45 AM | 2.2 | Autonomous Doppler lidar wind and aerosol measurements for Pentagon Shield
Stephen M. Hannon, CLR Photonics, Inc., a division of Coherent Technologies, Inc., Louisville, CO; and J. V. Pelk and P. Benda |
| 12:00 PM | | Lunch Break
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| 1:30 PM | 2.3 | Evaluating various Lidar-based wind analysis schemes against independent observations.
N. Andrew Crook, NCAR, Boulder, CO; and A. Didlake, J. Sun, and Y. Zhang |
| 1:45 PM | 2.4 | Doppler lidar data fusion with a 3-dimensional wind field model in an urban domain
Yansen Wang, U.S. Army Research Laboratory, Adelphi, MD; and C. Klipp, C. Williamson, D. Ligon, M. Felton, and S. Chang |
| 2:00 PM | 2.5 | First 4-d variational assimilation of water vapor DIAL data in a mesoscale model
V. Wulfmeyer, Hohenheim University, 70599 Stuttgart, Germany; and H. S. Bauer, M. Grzeschik, A. Behrendt, F. C. Vandenberghe, and E. V. Browell |
| 2:15 PM | 2.6 | Assimilation of high-resolution DIAL water vapor data into the MM5 4DVAR system - Experiments and Validation
Hans-Stefan Bauer, Hohenheim University, 70599 Stuttgart, Germany; and V. Wulfmeyer, M. Grzeschik, F. Vandenberghe, and E. V. Browell |
| 2:30 PM | 2.7 | Wind observations with the VALIDAR doppler lidar
Grady J. Koch, NASA/LRC, Hampton, VA; and J. Y. Beyon, B. W. Barnes, and M. J. Kavaya |
|  | 2.8 | Measurement of the spatial variations in the height of the atmospheric boundary layer over urban areas using Doppler lidar
Karen E. Bozier, University of Salford, Salford, United Kingdom; and F. Davies and C. G. Collier |
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| 12:00 PM-1:30 PM, Monday
Lunch Break |
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| 2:30 PM-4:00 PM, Monday
Formal Poster Viewing with Coffee Break |
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| 4:00 PM-5:45 PM, Monday
Session 3 Clouds, Climate, Chemistry and air quality |
Chair: Kenneth Sassen, University of Alaska Fairbanks, Fairbanks, AK
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| 4:00 PM | 3.1 | Lidar Applied to Cirrus Cloud Research
Kenneth Sassen, University of Alaska, Fairbanks, AK; and L. Wang and D. O. Starr |
| 4:30 PM | 3.2 | VERTICAL STRUCTURE OF THE DUST LAYER AND HIGH- AND MIDDLE- LEVEL CLOUDS OVER THE TAKLAMAKAN DESERT, CHINA BY LIDAR
Kenji Kai, Nagoya University, Furo-cho, Nagoya, Japan; and N. Tsunematsu, M. Goto, T. Matsumoto, S. Hu, H. Zhou, M. Abo, T. Nagai, and T. Matsumura |
| 4:45 PM | 3.3 | Ozone and aerosol measurements with airborne lidar during the 2004 Intercontinental Chemical Transport Experiment - North America (INTEX-NA) field experiment: Initial results
Edward V. Browell, NASA Langley Research Center, Hampton, VA; and J. W. Hair, C. F. Butler, S. A. Kooi, A. Notari, S. Ismail, and M. A. Fenn |
| 5:00 PM | 3.4 | Lidar observation of jet engine exhaust for air quality
Wynn L. Eberhard, NOAA/ETL, Boulder, CO; and W. A. Brewer and R. L. Wayson |
| 5:15 PM | 3.5 | Scanning backscatter lidar observations for characterizing 4-D cloud and aerosol fields to improve radiative transfer parameterizations
Geary Schwemmer, NASA/GSFC, Greenbelt, MD; and D. O. Miller |
| 5:30 PM | 3.6 | Applications of data from the Cloud Physics Lidar
Matthew J. McGill, NASA/GSFC, Greenbelt, MD; and D. L. Hlavka and W. D. Hart |
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| 5:30 PM, Monday
Sessions End for the day |
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| 7:30 PM, Monday
Suki Manabe Symposium Banquet |
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| Tuesday, 11 January 2005 |
| 9:45 AM-11:00 AM, Tuesday
Formal Poster Viewing with Coffee Break |
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| 9:45 AM-11:45 AM, Tuesday
Poster Session 1 Lidar Atmospheric Applications - Poster Session I |
Cochairs: Shane D. Mayor, NCAR, Boulder, CO; Belay B. Demoz, NASA/GSFC, Greenbelt, MD
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| | P1.1 | The development of the Howard University Raman lidar
Demetrius Venable, Howard University, Washington, DC; and E. Joseph, D. Whiteman, B. Demoz, R. Connell, and S. Walford |
| | P1.2 | Prospects for DIAL measurement of ammonia profiles and emission rates
Wynn L. Eberhard, NOAA/ETL, Boulder, CO; and Y. Zhao and W. A. Brewer |
| | P1.3 | Observation of clouds and aerosol with elastic depolarization lidar during the Mixed-Phase Arctic Cloud Experiment
Connor Flynn, PNNL, Richland, WA; and A. Mendoza, D. D. Turner, J. Comstock, S. A. McFarlane, and J. Mather |
| | P1.4 | Lidar depolarization ratios from CRYSTAL-FACE thunderstorm anvils
James R. Campbell, University of Alaska, Fairbanks, AK; and K. Sassen, M. J. McGill, and W. D. Hart |
| | P1.5 | Evolution of stratospheric temperature structure in a marine environment: Comparison of lidar and GPS occultation retrievals near Hawaii
Robert Farley, The Aerospace Corp., Los Angeles, CA; and G. S. Peng and J. E. Wessel |
| | P1.6 | DIAL Measurements of SO2, NO2, And O3 in Beijing
Yinchao Zhang, AER, Hefei, Anhui, China |
| | P1.7 | Development of a Meteorological Lidar for the Phoenix Scout Mission
John F. Hahn, Optech Inc., Toronto, ON, Canada; and D. V. Michelangeli, A. I. Carswell, V. Ussyshkin, V. Podoba, T. J. Duck, A. Ulitsky, P. A. Taylor, V. Hipkin, M. Daly, and E. Choi |
| | P1.8 | A lidar-radar observing system for monitoring optical and microphysical properties of cirrus
Cristian Mitrescu, NRL, Monterey, CA; and J. Haynes and S. Miller |
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| 9:45 AM-11:15 AM, Tuesday
Poster Session 2 Lidar Atmospheric Applications - Poster Session II |
Chairs: Belay B. Demoz, NASA/GSFC, Greenbelt, MD; Shane D. Mayor, NCAR, Boulder, CO
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| | P2.1 | Lidar validation of numerical simulations of a Lake Michigan land breeze
Gijs De Boer, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI; and E. W. Eloranta and G. J. Tripoli |
| | P2.2 | Wind and Water Vapor Comparisons from IHOP 2002
Joseph P. Comer, SSAI, Lanham, MD; and B. Gentry, D. Whiteman, and B. Demoz |
| | P2.3 | TODWL: An Airborne Doppler Wind Lidar for Atmospheric Research
George D. Emmitt, Simpson Weather Associates, Charlottesville, VA; and C. O'Handley, S. Wood, S. Greco, R. Bluth, and H. Jonsson |
| | P2.4 | Characterization and Visualization of Water Vapor and Atmospheric Stability During the IHOP Field Experiment
Victoria Sankovich, NASA/LRC, Hampton, VA; and G. Shaw, J. Gleason, S. Newsome, E. Nguyen, R. A. Ferrare, E. V. Browell, S. Ismail, S. Kooi, V. G. Brackett, H. Revercomb, B. Knuteson, and P. Antonelli |
| | P2.5 | Scanning-Lidar Measurements of Atmospheric Boundary-Layer Height and Variability
David O. Miller, Science Systems and Applications, Inc., Greenbelt, MD; and G. Schwemmer and B. B. Demoz |
| | P2.6 | On the evolution of a cirrus anvil observed by NASA Scanning Raman Lidar on 19–20 June 2002 during IHOP
Ruei-Fong Lin, Univ. of Maryland, Baltimore County, Baltimore and NASA/GEST, Greenbelt, MD; and D. Starr, B. Demoz, Z. Wang, and D. Whiteman |
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| 11:30 AM-1:30 PM, Tuesday
Exhibits Open |
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| 12:15 PM, Tuesday
Lunch Break |
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| 1:30 PM-3:15 PM, Tuesday
Session 4 Results from IHOP_2002 and Mesoscale Studies using Lidar |
Cochairs: Cyrille N. Flamant, Service d'Aéronomie, IPSL/CNRS, Paris France; Tammy M. Weckwerth, NCAR, Boulder, CO
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| 1:30 PM | 4.1 | Along-frontal kinematic and moisture variability and the impact on convection initiation
Tammy M. Weckwerth, NCAR, Boulder, CO; and H. V. Murphey, C. Flamant, C. R. Pettet, and R. M. Wakimoto |
| 1:45 PM | 4.2 | Moisture variability in the atmospheric boundary layer: a comparison of in situ and remote sensing measurements acquired during IHOP_2002 with Large-Eddy Simulations
Cyrille N. Flamant, Service d'Aéronomie, IPSL/CNRS, Paris, France; and F. W. Couvreux, T. M. Weckwerth, and F. F. Guichard |
| 2:00 PM | 4.3 | LIDAR APPLICATIONS IN ATMOSPHERIC DYNAMICS: MEASUREMETNS OF WIND, MOISTURE AND BOUNDARY LAYER EVOLOUTION.
Belay B. Demoz, NASA/GSFC, Greenbelt, MD; and D. Whiteman, B. Gentry, G. Schwemmer, K. Evans, P. Di Girolamo, and J. Comer |
| 2:15 PM | 4.4 | Direct detection Doppler lidar wind measurements obtained during the 2002 International H2O Project (IHOP)
Bruce Gentry, NASA/GSFC, Greenbelt, MD; and S. Li, H. Chen, J. Comer, S. Mathur, and J. Dobler |
| 2:30 PM | 4.5 | Aerosol Variability within the Marine Boundary Layer off the California Coast:
S. A. Wood, Simpson Weather Associates, Charlottesville, VA; and G. D. Emmitt and D. A. Bowdle |
| 2:45 PM | 4.6 | Application of High Resolution Doppler Lidar data for wind energy assessment
Yelena L. Pichugina, CIRES/Univ. of Colorado and NOAA/ESRL, Boulder, CO; and R. M. Banta and N. D. Kelly |
| 3:00 PM | 4.7 | Comparison of lidar data with tower, profiler, radiosonde, and tethersonde data
Ron Calhoun, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ; and A. Wieser, M. Princevac, and C. Kottmeier |
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| 3:00 PM-5:00 PM, Tuesday
Exhibits Open |
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| 3:00 PM, Tuesday
Coffee Break in Exhibit Hall |
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| 5:30 PM, Tuesday
Sessions end for the day |
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| Wednesday, 12 January 2005 |
| 8:30 AM-10:00 AM, Wednesday
Session 5 lidar networks and Autonomous sytems |
Chair: Raymond M. Hoff, JCET/Univ. of Maryland Baltimore County, Baltimore, MD
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| 8:30 AM | 5.1 | Aerosol lidar measurements in the framework of EARLINET
Gelsomina Pappalardo, IMAA-CNR Istituto di Metodologie per l'Analisi Ambientale, Potenza, Italy; and J. Bösenberg, A. Ansmann, D. Balis, C. Böckmann, A. Chaikovsky, A. Comeron, R. Eixmann, I. V. Grigorov, A. Hågård, V. Mitev, S. Nickovic, A. Papayannis, J. Pelon, M. R. Perrone, D. Resendes, V. Rizi, V. Simeonov, P. Sobolewski, N. Spinelli, T. Trickl, G. Vaughan, M. Wiegner, and M. Zavrtanik |
| 8:45 AM | 5.2 | The NASA Micro-Pulse Lidar Network (MPLNET): co-location of lidars with AERONET sunphotometers and related Earth science applications
Ellsworth J. Welton, NASA/GSFC, Greenbelt, MD; and J. R. Campbell, T. A. Berkoff, S. Valencia, J. D. Spinhirne, B. Holben, and S. C. Tsay |
| 9:00 AM | 5.3 | REALM Lidar Observations during the INTEX/NE-NEAQS Study Period
Raymond M. Hoff, JCET/Univ. of Maryland Baltimore County, Baltimore, MD; and K. J. McCann, W. W. McMillan, R. Rogers, N. Jordan, K. Mubenga, F. Moshary, M. Newchurch, T. J. Duck, and E. W. Eloranta |
| 9:15 AM | 5.4 | Raman Lidar Measurements of Aerosols and Water Vapor over the Southern Great Plains
Richard Ferrare, NASA/LRC, Hampton, VA; and D. Turner, M. Clayton, D. Covert, R. Elleman, H. Jonsson, B. Schmid, J. Redemann, J. Ogren, E. Andrew, M. Chin, I. Brooks, S. Guibert, and M. Schultz |
| 9:30 AM | 5.5 | Preliminary measurements with CODI: an automated compact water vapor DIAL
Janet L. Machol, Univ. of Colorado and NOAA/ETL, Boulder, CO |
| 9:45 AM | 5.6 | A automated high spectral resolution lidar for long term measurements in the Arctic
E. W. Eloranta, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI; and I. A. Razenkov, J. P. Garcia, and J. Hedrick |
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| 9:30 AM, Wednesday
Coffee Break |
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| 10:00 AM-12:00 PM, Wednesday
Presidential Forum |
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| 11:30 AM-1:30 PM, Wednesday
Exhibits Open |
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| 12:00 PM, Wednesday
Lunch Break |
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| 1:30 PM-5:15 PM, Wednesday
Session 6 spaceborne lidars |
Chair: Geary K. Schwemmer, NASA-Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD
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| 1:30 PM | 6.1 | The potential impact of space-based lidar wind profiles on weather prediction
Robert Atlas, NASA/GSFC, Greenbelt, MD |
| 1:45 PM | 6.2 | Merits of a Space-based Hybrid Doppler Wind Lidar
George D. Emmitt, Simpson Weather Associates, Charlottesville, VA |
| 2:00 PM | 6.3 | Comparison of GWOLF and VALIDAR Doppler Lidar Measurements
George D. Emmitt, Simpson Weather Associates, Charlottesville, VA; and S. A. Wood and G. Koch |
| 2:15 PM | 6.4 | Preparations for use of Doppler wind lidar data from the Atmospheric Dynamics Mission (ADM-Aeolus) in data assimilation and numerical weather prediction
David G.H. Tan, ECMWF, Reading, United Kingdom; and E. Andersson |
| 2:30 PM | | Formal Poster Viewing
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| 4:00 PM | 6.5 | Aerosol and Cloud Observations and Data Products by the GLAS Polar Orbiting Lidar Instrument
James D. Spinhirne, NASA/GSFC, Greenbelt, MD; and S. P. Palm, D. L. Hlavka, W. D. Hart, A. Mahesh, and E. J. Welton |
| 4:15 PM | 6.6 | Validation of ECMWF gobal forecast model parameters using the Geoscience Laser Altimeter System (GLAS) atmospheric channel measurements
Stephen P. Palm, SSAI, Lanham and NASA/GSFC, Greenbelt, MD; and D. Miller, A. Benedetti, and J. Spinhirne |
| 4:30 PM | 6.7 | Lidar global cloud and aerosol layer distribution statistics from GLAS observations
William D. Hart, SSAI, Lanham, MD; and S. P. Palm, D. L. Hlavka, and J. D. Spinhirne |
| 4:45 PM | 6.8 | The Cloud Physics Lidar and application to spaceborne lidar validation
Matthew J. McGill, NASA/GSFC, Greenbelt, MD; and D. L. Hlavka, W. D. Hart, S. P. Palm, D. M. Winker, M. A. Vaughan, K. A. Powell, and J. D. Spinhirne |
| 5:00 PM | 6.9 | Spaceborne multiple-scattering lidar observations of clouds, with a comparison to oxygen A-band spectroscopy
Anthony B. Davis, LANL, Los Alamos, NM; and I. N. Polonsky, D. M. Winker, M. Vaughan, Q. L. Min, and L. C. Harrison |
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| 3:30 PM-5:00 PM, Wednesday
Formal Poster Viewing with Coffee Break |
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| 3:30 PM-6:30 PM, Wednesday
Exhibits Open |
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| 5:30 PM, Wednesday
Sessions End for the day |
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| 7:30 PM, Wednesday
AMS Annual Awards Banquet |
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