Session 18 | 
|   | Applications in Meteorology, Oceanography, Hydrology and Climatology | 
|   | Organizer: Carl D. Thormeyer, FNMOC, Monterey, CA 
CoChair: Jim Cooper, Earth Satellite Corporation, Rockville, MD 
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 | 1:30 PM | 18.2 | Tracking NWS Area Forecast Discussions to Study the Subjective use of Wind and Temperature Profiler Data      Douglas W. van de Kamp, NOAA/FSL, Boulder, CO; and D. M. Grant | 
 | 1:45 PM | 18.3 | National Weather Service River Forecast Center Forecast Simulations Using the WES Simulating Hydrologic Activities During Real-Time Events (SHARE)      Eric Jones, NOAA/NWS, Slidell, LA; and A. Roberts and D. Reed | 
 | 2:00 PM | 18.4 | A Severe Weather Proxy Developed From the NOMADS Real Time Data Base of Operational Models      Jordan Alpert, NOAA/NWS/NCEP, Camp Springs, MD; and J. Wang | 
 | 2:15 PM | 18.5 | Modeling turbulence and seeing over Mauna Kea    Tiziana Cherubini, University of Hawaii, Honolulu, HI; and S. Businger, R. Okasawara, and R. Lyman | 
 | 2:30 PM | 18.6 | Convective forecast performance of an operational mesoscale modelling system      Anthony P. Praino, IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center, Yorktown Heights, NY; and L. A. Treinish | 
 | 2:45 PM | 18.6a | Collaborative efforts in the application of Grid Computing to operational Numerical Weather Prediction (NWP)    R. Michael Clancy, FNMOC, Monterey, CA; and C. Kleinschmidt and C. Thormeyer | 
 | 3:15 PM |  | Coffee Break in Exhibit Hall   
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 | 3:30 PM | 18.8 | Weather information to your cell phone    Kenneth Reeves, AccuWeather, Inc., State College, PA; and Y. Douglas, C. James, and S. Michael | 
 | 3:45 PM | 18.9 | The USGODAE Monterey Data Server    Phil Sharfstein, FNMOC, Monterey, CA; and D. Dimitriou and S. Hankin | 
 | 4:00 PM | 18.10 | DEOS: The Delaware Environmental Observing System     David R Legates, University of Delaware, Newark, DE; and D. J. Leathers, T. L. DeLiberty, G. E. Quelch, K. Brinson, J. Butke, R. Mahmood, and S. A. Foster | 
 | 4:15 PM | 18.11 | FSL central facility data system concepts      Paul Hamer, NOAA/ERL/FSL, Boulder and CIRA/Colorado State Univ., Fort Collins, CO | 
 | 4:30 PM | 18.12 | NuSDaS - meteorological database for operational weather service     Eizi Toyoda, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI | 
 | 4:45 PM | 18.13 | Automated validation for summary of the day precipitation data      Michael L. Urzen, NOAA/NESDIS/NCDC, Asheville, NC; and S. A. DelGreco and S. Ansari | 
 | 5:00 PM | 18.14 | Monitoring the health of weather and climate observing networks      Matthew J. Menne, NOAA/NESDIS/NCDC, Asheville, NC; and H. V. Frederick and S. A. Del Greco | 
 | 5:14 PM |  | 18.15 now J2.3 (Climate Variability and Change)   
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 | 5:15 PM | 18.15a | Modernizing workstation technology for the International Satellite Communication System (ISCS) (Formerly Paper Number P2.33)     Paul Heppner, Spatial Software Solutions Inc., Marlton, NJ; and G. Shaffer |