| 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-10:15 AM, Monday
Session 1 Lightning applications in warning and decision support 1: Operational applications |
Chair: Steven J. Goodman, NASA/MSFC, Huntsville, AL
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| 9:00 AM | 1.1 | Operational Applications of Lightning Data at WFO Melbourne, FL: A 15-Year Retrospective  
David W. Sharp, NOAA/NWS, Melbourne, FL |
| 9:30 AM | 1.2 | The Integration of Total Lightning Information into National Weather Service Operations
Christopher B. Darden, NOAA/NWS, Huntsville, AL; and P. V. Bridenstine, J. E. Burks, S. J. Goodman, D. E. Buechler, J. Hall, and J. T. Bradshaw |
| 9:45 AM | 1.3 | The Incorporation of Lightning Climatologies into the Interactive Forecast Preparation System (IFPS)
Andrew I. Watson, NOAA/NWS, Tallahassee, FL; and T. J. Turnage, P. E. Shafer, J. R. Stroupe, T. P. Lericos, and H. E. Fuelberg |
| 10:00 AM | 1.4 | Use of lightning data for Space Shuttle and Soyuz re-entry and landing forecasts at Johnson Space Center
Timothy D. Oram, NOAA/NWS, Houston, TX; and T. Garner and B. Hoeth |
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| 10:45 AM-12:00 PM, Monday
Session 2 Lightning applications in warning and decision support 2: Developing applications |
Chair: Christopher Bryan Darden, NOAA/NWS, Huntsville, AL
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| 10:45 AM | 2.1 | Applications of advanced lightning mapping technologies to storm research and weather operations
Donald R. MacGorman, NOAA/NSSL, Norman, OK |
| 11:15 AM | 2.2 | One severe storm with two distinct electrical regimes during its lifetime: Implications for nowcasting severe weather with lightning data
Timothy J. Lang, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO; and S. A. Rutledge |
| 11:30 AM | 2.3 | An analysis of lightning holes in a DFW supercell storm using total lightning and radar information
Martin J. Murphy, Vaisala, Tucson, AZ; and N. W. S. Demetriades |
| 11:45 AM | 2.4 | On the representation of two- and three-dimensional total lightning information
Jean-Yves Lojou, Vaisala, Meyreuil, France; and K. L. Cummins |
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| 12:00 PM-1:30 PM, Monday
Lunch Break |
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| 1:30 PM-2:30 PM, Monday
Session 3 Lightning applications in warning and decision support 3: Warning systems and techniques |
Chair: David W. Sharp, NOAA/NWS, Melbourne, FL
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| 1:30 PM | 3.1 | Thunderstorm nowcasting and climatology using cylindrical coordinate Hovmöller diagrams: An NLDN application
Thomas A. Seliga, Volpe National Transportation Systems Center, Cambridge, MA; and D. A. Hazen |
| 1:45 PM | 3.2 | Using WSR-88D reflectivity for the prediction of cloud-to-ground lightning: a central North Carolina study
Brandon R. Vincent, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC and NOAA/NWS, Newport, NC; and L. D. Carey, D. Schneider, K. Keeter, and R. Gonski |
| 2:00 PM | 3.3 | Development of Optimal Lightning Warning Procedures Using Probabilistic Risk Assessment
Terry F. Bott, LANL, Los Alamos, NM; and S. W. Eisenhawer |
| 2:15 PM | 3.4 | Automated two-hour thunderstorm guidance forecasts
Jerome P. Charba, NOAA/NWS, Silver Spring, MD; and F. Liang |
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| 2:30 PM-4:00 PM, Monday
Poster Session 1 Poster Session 1 |
Chair: Stephen J. Hodanish, NOAA/NWSFO, Pueblo, CO
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| | P1.1 | Relationships between total lightning and storm strength using data from the north Alabama Lightning Mapping Array (LMA)
Jessica R. Stroupe, NOAA/NWSFO, Calera, AL; and M. W. Rose and K. J. Pence |
| | P1.2 | The Application of Total Lightning Data in the Warning Decision Making Process
Priscilla V. Bridenstine, NOAA/NWS, Huntsville, AL; and C. B. Darden, J. Burks, and S. J. Goodman |
| | P1.3 | Assessments of total lightning data utility in weather forecasting
Dennis E. Buechler, University of Alabama in Huntsville, Huntsville, AL; and S. Goodman, K. La Casse, R. Blakeslee, and C. Darden |
| | P1.4 | A comparison of lightning flash rate to rainfall over Florida
Julie A. States, NOAA/NWS, Ruskin, FL; and C. H. Paxton, F. W. Alsheimer, and J. L. Fieux |
| | P1.5 | Developing methods to nowcast total lightning flash rates and convective initiation using satellite infrared convective cloud information
John R. Mecikalski, University of Alabama, Huntsville, AL; and S. J. Paech and K. M. Bedka |
| | P1.6 | Combining lightning with satellite data for analysis and prediction
Roderick A. Scofield, NOAA/NESDIS/ORA, Camp Springs, MD; and R. J. Kuligowski and S. Qiu |
| | P1.7 | Total lightning and radar characteristics of supercells: Insights on electrification and severe weather forecasting
Scott M. Steiger, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX; and R. E. Orville, M. J. Murphy, and N. W. S. Demetriades |
| | P1.8 | Preliminary Results from Phase-1 of the Statistical Forecasting of Lightning Cessation Project
William P. Roeder, 45th Weather Squadron, Patrick AFB, FL; and J. E. Glover |
| | P1.9 | An operational system for real-time lightning display and resource protection
Erik G. Magnuson, ENSCO, Inc., Cocoa Beach, FL; and S. L. Arnold and A. V. Dianic |
| | P1.10 | Comparison of in-situ electric field and radar derived parameters for stratiform clouds in Central Florida
Monte Bateman, Universities Space Research Association and NASA/MSFC, Huntsville, AL; and D. Mach, S. Lewis, J. Dye, E. Defer, C. A. Grainger, P. Willis, F. Merceret, D. Boccippio, and H. Christian |
| | P1.11 | NWS cloud-to-ground lightning threat analysis
Nicole M. Kempf, NOAA/NWS, Tulsa, OK; and G. E. Wiley |
| | P1.12 | A warning method for the risk of cloud-to-ground lightning based on total lightning and radar information
Martin J. Murphy, Vaisala, Tucson, AZ; and R. L. Holle |
| | P1.13 | On The Need for Electric-Field Meters to Support Critical Lightning Hazard-Warning Decision Processes
William H. Beasley, University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK; and L. G. Byerley, E. R. Mansell, J. W. Conway, M. D. Eilts, R. Jabrzemski, and M. M. Lengyel |
| | P1.14 | The Lightning Decision Support System:Predicting lightning threat utilizing integrated data sources
J. William Conway, Weather Decision Technologies, Inc., Norman, OK; and M. D. Eilts |
| | P1.15 | Developing a statistical scheme to predict the occurrence of lightning in south Florida
Justin M. Winarchick, Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL; and H. E. Fuelberg |
| | P1.16 | A statistical procedure to forecast the daily amount of warm season lightning in south Florida
Phillip E. Shafer, Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL; and H. E. Fuelberg |
| | P1.17 | Lightning Safety and Outdoor Stadiums
Joel Gratz, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO; and R. Church and E. Noble |
| | P1.18 | Analysis of Operational Data from the Lightning Detection and Warning System at Los Alamos National Laboratory
S. W. Eisenhawer, LANL, Los Alamos, NM; and T. F. Bott, C. R. Odom, and W. H. Beasley |
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| 4:00 PM-5:15 PM, Monday
Session 4 Lightning prediction, safety, and protection |
Chair: William P. Roeder, AWS, Patrick AFB, FL
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| 4:00 PM | 4.1 | Objective Lightning Forecasting at Kennedy Space Center and Cape Canaveral Air Force Station using Cloud-to-Ground Lightning Surveillance System Data
Winifred C. Lambert, ENSCO, Inc., Cocoa Beach, FL; and M. Wheeler and W. Roeder |
| 4:15 PM | 4.2 | Development of an operational statistical scheme to predict the location and intensity of lightning
Phillip D. Bothwell, NOAA/NWS/NCEP/SPC, Norman, OK |
| 4:30 PM | 4.3 | A physically-based parameter for lightning prediction and its calibration in ensemble forecasts
David R. Bright, NOAA/NWS/NCEP/Storm Prediction Center, Norman, OK; and R. E. Jewell, M. S. Wandishin, and S. J. Weiss |
| 4:45 PM | 4.4 | Warm season lightning probability prediction for Canada and the northern United States
William R. Burrows, MSC, Edmonton, AB, Canada; and C. Price and L. Wilson |
|  | 4.5 | Meteorological case studies of lightning strike victims in Colorado
Stephen J. Hodanish, NOAA/NWS, Pueblo, CO |
| 5:00 PM | 4.6 | Florida lightning deaths and injuries 1998-2003 and mitigation strategies using lightning data.
Jessica L. Fieux, Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL; and R. J. Sharp, C. H. Paxton, and J. A. States |
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| 5:30 PM, Monday
Sessions End for the day |
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| 5:30 PM-7:00 PM, Monday
FORMAL OPENING OF EXHIBITS WITH RECEPTION (CASH BAR) |
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| 7:30 PM, Monday
Suki Manabe Symposium Banquet |
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| Tuesday, 11 January 2005 |
| 8:30 AM-9:45 AM, Tuesday
Session 5 Advances in lightning technology and transfer from research to operations |
Chair: Richard J. Blakeslee, NASA/MSFC, Huntsville, AL
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| 8:30 AM | 5.1 | Powerful VHF pulses from thunderstorms as a satellite-remote-sensing proxy for severe convection
Abram R. Jacobson, LANL, Los Alamos, NM |
| 8:45 AM | 5.2 | Real-time observations with the Lightning Mapping Array
Paul R. Krehbiel, New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology, Socorro, NM; and B. Rison, T. Hamlin, R. Thomas, D. R. MacGorman, and W. D. Rust |
| 9:00 AM | 5.3 | A flash clustering algorithm for North Alabama Lightning Mapping Array data
Eugene W. McCaul Jr., USRA, Huntsville, AL; and J. C. Bailey, J. Hall, S. J. Goodman, R. J. Blakeslee, and D. E. Buechler |
| 9:15 AM | 5.4 | Applications of lightning data: Past, present and future
Walter A. Lyons, FMA Research, Inc., Fort Collins, CO |
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| 9:45 AM-11:00 AM, Tuesday
Formal Poster Viewing with Coffee Break |
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| 9:45 AM-11:00 AM, Tuesday
Poster Session 2 Poster Session 2 |
Chair: Martin J. Murphy, Vaisala, Tucson, AZ
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| | P2.1 | The North Alabama Lightning Mapping Array (LMA): A network overview
Richard J. Blakeslee, NASA/MSFC, Huntsville, AL; and J. C. Bailey, D. E. Buechler, S. J. Goodman, E. W. McCaul, and J. M. Hall |
| | P2.2 | LIGHTNING MEASUREMENTS OVER BRAZIL: ASSEMENT OF DIFFERENT LIGHTNING DETECTION SYSTEMS
Carlos Morales, University of Sao Paolo, Sao Paulo, 05508-900, Sao Paulo, Brazil; and O. Pinto and E. N. Anagnostou |
| | P2.3 | Mapping lightning at White Sands - a first look.
Daniel Breed, NCAR, Boulder, CO; and C. Mueller, T. Saxen, and N. Oien |
| | P2.4 | Installation, Upgrade, and Evaluation of a Short Baseline Cloud-to-Ground Lightning Surveillance System used to Support Space Launch Operations
Billie F. Boyd, 45th Weather Squadron, Patrick AFB, FL; and W. P. Roeder, D. L. Hajek, and M. B. Wilson |
| | P2.5 | VHF lightning detection and storm tracking from GPS orbit
David M. Suszcynsky, LANL, Los Alamos, NM; and A. R. Jacobson, J. Linford, T. E. Light, and A. Musfeldt |
| | P2.6 | The United States Precision Lightning Network:A new era in lightning detection technologies
Rodney B. Bent, TOA Systems, Inc., Melbourne, FL; and M. D. Eilts |
| | P2.7 | Idealized Numerical Simulation of the Evolution of Tropical Cyclone Electrification, Lightning, Microphysics, and Kinematics at Landfall
Alexandre O. Fierro, Univ. of Oklahoma, Norman, OK; and L. M. Leslie, E. R. Mansell, and J. Straka |
| | P2.8 | Long-Range lightning applications for hurricane intensity
Nicholas W. S. Demetriades, Vaisala, Inc., Tucson, AZ; and R. L. Holle |
| | P2.9 | Re-construction of historical extreme precipitation events using radar, cloud-to-ground lightning and conventional observations
John F. Henz, HDR Engineering, Inc; Denver, Colorado, Denver, CO |
| | P2.10 | Incorporating lightning data into a real-time infrared/microwave satellite precipitation algorithm
Robert J. Kuligowski, NOAA/NESDIS, Camp Springs, MD; and J. S. Im |
| | P2.11 | Convective Precipitation and Cloud-to-Ground Lightning Relationships in Canada
B. Kochtubajda, MSC, Edmonton, AB, Canada; and W. R. Burrows and M. Lapalme |
| | P2.12 | The Influence of the El Niño -Southern Oscillation on Cloud-to-Ground Lightning Activity along the Gulf Coast of the United States
Mark LaJoie, NPS, Monterey, CA; and A. Laing, S. Reader, and K. Pfeiffer |
| | P2.13 | Examination of thundersnow cases in the United States utilizing NLDN data
Larry Smith, University of Missouri, Columbia, MO; and C. J. Melick and P. S. Market |
| | P2.14 | Alaska lightning climatology and application to wildfire science
Elaine McGuiney, Penn State University, State College, PA; and M. Shulski and G. Wendler |
| | P2.15 | The impact of lightning NOx production on atmospheric chemistry in a CRYSTAL-FACE thunderstorm simulated using a 3-D cloud-scale chemical transport model
L. Ott, Department of Meteorology, University of Maryland, College Park, MD; and K. Pickering, G. Stenchikov, R. -. F. Lin, B. Ridley, M. Loewenstein, J. Lopez, and E. Richard |
| | P2.16 | Lightning characteristics of the Aurora, NE record hail stone producing supercell of 22-23 June 2003 during BAMEX
Walter A. Lyons, FMA Research, Inc., Fort Collins, CO; and S. A. Cummer |
| | P2.17 | Cloud-to-ground lightning behavior of convective cells observed during STEPS
Sarah A. Tessendorf, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO; and S. A. Rutledge |
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| 11:00 AM-12:15 PM, Tuesday
Session 6 Application of lightning data in atmospheric process studies 1: Assimilation and forecasting |
Chair: Don MacGorman, NOAA/NSSL, Norman, OK
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| 11:00 AM | 6.1 | Lightning and its application to improving short-range forecasting
Steven J. Goodman, NASA/MSFC, Huntsville, AL |
| 11:30 AM | 6.2 | Lightning produced by cold season oceanic extratropical cyclones: Observations related to nowcasting storm development, intensity and precipitation amounts
Nicholas W. S. Demetriades, Vaisala, Inc., Tucson, AZ; and R. L. Holle |
| 11:45 AM | 6.3 | Toward the Assimilation of Lightning Data over the Pacific Ocean into a Mesoscale NWP Model
Antti T. Pessi, University of Hawaii, Honolulu, HI; and S. Businger, T. Cherubini, K. L. Cummins, and T. Turner |
| 12:00 PM | 6.4 | Lightning contribution to improvement of passive microwave vertical structure and rainfall estimation
Dennis J. Boccippio, NASA/MSFC, Huntsville, AL |
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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-3:00 PM, Tuesday
Session 7 Application of lightning data in atmospheric process studies 2: Climatological Studies |
Chair: Larry Carey, Texas A&M University, College Statiion, Texas
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| 1:30 PM | 7.1 | GLOBAL LIGHTNING ACTIVITY
Hugh J. Christian Jr., NASA/MSFC, Huntsville, AL; and W. Petersen |
| 2:00 PM | 7.2 | On the Use of Satellite Observations For Research in Meteorology and Climate Dynamics
William H. Beasley, University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK; and D. J. Karoly and C. M. M. Noble |
| 2:15 PM | 7.3 | TRMM observations of the basic relationship between ice water content and lightning
Walter A. Petersen, University of Alabama, Huntsville, AL; and D. J. Boccippio and H. J. Christian |
| 2:30 PM | 7.4 | Thunderstorm Characteristics during the 2002 RACCI/LBA Field Campaign
Carlos Augusto Morales, University of Sao Paulo, Sao Paulo, SP, Brazil; and M. E. Frediani and L. A. T. Machado |
| 2:45 PM | 7.5 | Application of ground-based lightning flash network data in flight planning for the NASA Intercontinental Chemical Transport Experiment – North America (INTEX-NA)
K. Pickering, University of Maryland, College Park, MD; and A. M. Thompson, T. Kucsera, L. Pfister, H. B. Selkirk, M. A. Avery, E. V. Browell, and R. Cohen |
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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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| 3:30 PM-5:00 PM, Tuesday
Session 8 Application of lightning data in atmospheric process studies 3: Mesoscale |
Chair: Walter A. Petersen, University of Alabama, Huntsville, AL
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| 3:30 PM | 8.1 | Environmental control of cloud-to-ground lightning polarity in severe storms during IHOP
Lawrence D. Carey, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX; and K. M. Buffalo |
| 3:45 PM | 8.2 | The Houston Environmental Aerosol Thunderstorm (HEAT) Project – 2005
Richard E. Orville, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas; and L. Carey, J. Nielsen-Gammon, D. Collins, R. Zhang, A. Stuart, B. Ely, S. Steiger, and J. Smith |
| 4:00 PM | 8.3 | Dissecting the anomaly—A closer look at the documented enhancement in summertime ground flash densities in and around the Houston area
Michael L. Gauthier, University of Alabama, Huntsville, AL; and W. A. Petersen, L. D. Carey, and R. E. Orville |
| 4:15 PM | 8.4 | Towards the relationship between total lightning activity and downward as well as upward ice mass fluxes in thunderstorms
Wiebke Deierling, University of Alabama, Huntsville, AL; and W. A. Petersen, J. Latham, S. M. Ellis, and H. J. Christian |
| 4:30 PM | 8.5 | Applications of the Cloud-to-Ground Lightning Surveillance System Database
William P. Roeder, 45th Weather Squadron, Patrick AFB, FL; and J. W. Weems and P. B. Wahner |
| 4:45 PM | 8.6 | Surface Observations of the Electric Field and the Radar Reflectivity of Decaying Thunderstorm Anvils and Debris Clouds at the NASA Kennedy Space Center
Natalie D. Murray, University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona; and E. P. Krider and J. E. Dye |
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| Wednesday, 12 January 2005 |
| 7:30 PM, Wednesday
AMS Annual Awards Banquet |
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| Thursday, 13 January 2005 |
| 5:30 PM, Thursday
Conference Ends |
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