85th AMS Annual Meeting

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Wednesday, 5 January 2005

12:00 AM-12:00 AM: Wednesday, 5 January 2005


Sun 9 Jan


TUES 11 JAN

Saturday, 8 January 2005

7:30 AM-9:00 AM: Saturday, 8 January 2005


Student Conference Registration

9:30 AM-10:20 AM: Saturday, 8 January 2005


1
Opening Session
Sponsor: Fourth AMS Student Conference

Papers:
  9:30 AM
1.1
Welcome Address
Kenneth Carey, Mitretek Systems, Falls Church, VA; and A. Bleistein

  9:45 AM
1.2
How to Make the Connection between your Career and the AMS
Keith Seitter, AMS Executive Director, Boston, MA

  10:00 AM
1.3
Challenging Careers with Opportunities Available: Top Students Like you Needed!
Susan K. Avery, AMS President and CIRES/Univ. of Colorado, Boulder, CO

10:20 AM-12:00 PM: Saturday, 8 January 2005


2
Your Career Starts Now!
Sponsor: Fourth AMS Student Conference
Chair: Percy W. Thomas, NOAA/NWS

Papers:
  10:20 AM
2.1
Icebreaker Activity
Percy W. Thomas, NOAA/NWS, Silver Spring, MD

  11:00 AM
2.2
Getting the most out of the AMS Annual Meeting
Kenneth F. Heideman, AMS, Boston, MA

  11:20 AM
2.3
Careers in meteorology and beyond - A student's perspective
Joel Gratz, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO

  11:45 AM
Questions & Answers

12:00 PM-1:00 PM: Saturday, 8 January 2005


Luncheon: Special Guest Speaker (My adventure into the eye of the storm - A hurricane research story, Christopher Landsea, NOAA/HRD, Miami, FL)

1:10 PM-1:50 PM: Saturday, 8 January 2005


3
Getting a great job 101
Sponsor: Fourth AMS Student Conference
Chair: Joel Gratz, University of Colorado

Papers:
  1:10 PM
3.1
Finding a great job starts with a Local Chapter connection
Zachary Glenn, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX

  1:30 PM
3.2
Transitioning from school to workforce: Options and tips
Rajul Pandya, DLESE Program Center, Boulder, CO; and N. Wade

1:50 PM-3:05 PM: Saturday, 8 January 2005


Panel Discussion 1
Panel of Professionals: What do Employers Want from Me?
Sponsor: Fourth AMS Student Conference
Panelists: Louis Uccellini, NOAA/NWS/NCEP; Don Winter, Harris Corporation; Michael R. Smith, WeatherData, Inc.; Wendy Abshire, UCAR/COMET; Marie C. Colton, NOAA/NESDIS

Papers:
  1:50 PM
Panelist #1: Louis Uccellini
Louis Uccellini, NOAA/NWS/NCEP, Camp Springs, MD

  2:05 PM
Panelist #2: Don Winter
Don Winter, Harris Corporation, Washington, DC

  2:20 PM
Panelist #3: Michael R. Smith
Michael R. Smith, WeatherData, Inc., Wichita, KS

  2:35 PM
Panelist #4: Wendy Abshire
Wendy Abshire, UCAR/COMET

  2:50 PM
Panelist #5: Marie C. Colton
Marie C. Colton, NOAA/NESDIS, Camp Springs, MD

2:50 PM-3:10 PM: Saturday, 8 January 2005


Coffee Break

3:10 PM-4:10 PM: Saturday, 8 January 2005


4
Career opportunities that can make a difference
Sponsor: Fourth AMS Student Conference
Chair: Andrea Bleistein, NOAA/NESDIS

Papers:
  3:10 PM
4.1
The Peace Corps—A Career enhancing opportunity
Alan Robock, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ

  3:30 PM
4.2
Opening up a world of possibilities—A career in education
H. Mike Mogil, How The Weather Works, Rockville, MD

  3:50 PM
4.3
Teachers—Raising up the next generation of scientists
Marianne J. Hayes, Lindbrook Elementary School, Springfield, VA

4:10 PM-5:10 PM: Saturday, 8 January 2005


Panel Discussion 2
Small Group Discussion
Sponsor: Fourth AMS Student Conference
Panelists: David L. Johnson, NOAA/NWS; Robert Atlas, NASA/GSFC; Elbert (Joe) W. Friday, Sasaki Applied Meteorology Research Institute; Maria A. Pirone, AER, Inc.

Papers:
  4:10 PM
Panelist #1: David L. Johnson
David L. Johnson, NOAA/NWS, Silver Spring, MD

  4:25 PM
Panelist #2: Robert Atlas
Robert Atlas, NASA/GSFC, Greenbelt, MD

  4:40 PM
Panelist #3: Elbert (Joe) W. Friday
Elbert Friday, Sasaki Applied Meteorology Research Institute, Norman, OK

  4:55 PM
Panelist #4: Maria A. Pirone
Maria A. Pirone, AER, Inc., Lexington, MA

5:15 PM-5:15 PM: Saturday, 8 January 2005


Sessions End (AMS Student Assistants meet with AMS Staff)

5:15 PM-6:00 PM: Saturday, 8 January 2005


Student Local Chapter Display

6:00 PM-8:00 PM: Saturday, 8 January 2005


Networking Reception and Career Fair

Sunday, 9 January 2005

6:00 AM-6:00 AM: Sunday, 9 January 2005


SUN 9 JAN

7:30 AM-7:30 AM: Sunday, 9 January 2005


Short Course Registration

7:30 AM-8:15 AM: Sunday, 9 January 2005


Breakfast and Networking Opportunities

7:30 AM-9:30 AM: Sunday, 9 January 2005


Short Course Registration

8:15 AM-9:55 AM: Sunday, 9 January 2005


5
Environmental challenges in a changing world
Sponsor: Fourth AMS Student Conference
Chair: Amanda H. Lynch, Monash University

Papers:
  8:15 AM
5.1
Climate Change—What does that mean for our future?
James Mahoney, NOAA, Washington, DC

  8:35 AM
5.2
The environmental impacts on policymakers
William Hooke, AMS, Atmospheric Policy Program, Washington, DC

  8:55 AM
5.3
Weather impacts on surface transportation
Leon F. Osborne Jr., Regional Weather Information Center and Institute for Surface Transportation Weather Research, Grand Forks, ND

  9:15 AM
5.4
The economicsof commercial weather forecasting
Robert Baron, Baron Services, Inc., Huntsville, AL

  9:35 AM
5.5
Where on earth is space weather headed?
John Foster, MIT, Cambridge, MA

9:00 AM-5:40 PM: Sunday, 9 January 2005


Conference Registration

9:00 AM-6:00 PM: Sunday, 9 January 2005


Conference Registration

10:10 AM-10:30 AM: Sunday, 9 January 2005


Coffee Break

10:30 AM-11:00 AM: Sunday, 9 January 2005


6
EXCELLENCE IN UNDERGRADUATE AND GRADUATE RESEARCH
Sponsor: Fourth AMS Student Conference
Chair: Sarah A. Tessendorf, Colorado State University

Papers:
  10:30 AM
6.1
The economic impacts of tornadoes: A broad analysis of post-event consumption
Kim Klockow, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN

11:10 AM-12:40 PM: Sunday, 9 January 2005


Panel Discussion 3
Panel Discussion: Lesson learned from your peers
Sponsor: Fourth AMS Student Conference
Panelists: Silvia Armitano Mah, University of California, San Diego and SIO; Andrea Bleistein, NESDIS/NOAA; Gina Eosco, AMS; Jennifer C. Roman, AFWA/DNXT; Jim Rourke, Accuweather, Inc.; Ahsha N. Tribble, NOAA

Papers:
  11:10 AM
Panelist #1: Silvia Armitano Mah
Silvia Armitano Mah, University of California, San Diego and SIO, LaJolla, CA

  11:25 AM
Panelist #2: Andrea Bleistein
Andrea Bleistein, NESDIS/NOAA

  11:40 AM
Panelist #3: Gina Eosco
Gina Eosco, AMS, Washington, DC

  11:55 AM
Panelist #4: Jennifer C. Roman
Jennifer C. Roman, AFWA/DNXT, Offutt AFB, NE

  12:10 PM
Panelist #5: Jim Rourke
Jim Rourke, Accuweather, Inc., State College, PA

  12:25 PM
Panelist #6: Ahsha Tribble
Ahsha N. Tribble, NOAA NWS, Silver Spring, MD

11:45 AM-11:45 AM: Sunday, 9 January 2005


Questions and Answers

12:00 PM-1:00 PM: Sunday, 9 January 2005


Conference closing luncheon: Special guest speaker (New horizons for meteorologists in the 21st century, Bruce Thomas, Midland Radio Corp., North Kansas City, MO

Papers:
  12:00 PM
New horizons for meteorologists in the 21st century
Bruce Thomas, Midland Radio Corp, North Kansas City, MO

12:00 PM-4:00 PM: Sunday, 9 January 2005


1
WeatherFest

1:00 PM-4:00 PM: Sunday, 9 January 2005


Optional Student Tours, "Weatherfest", and poster setup

5:00 PM-5:00 PM: Sunday, 9 January 2005


Poster Session 1
Education and Outreach Initiatives
Sponsor: 14th Symp on Education
Organizers: Marianne J. Hayes, Fairfax County (VA) Public Schools; Kathleen A. Murphy, Ladue School District

Papers:
 
Satellite meteorology for middle and high school students and teachers
Margaret Mooney, CIMSS/Univ. of Wisconsin, Madison, WI; and S. A. Ackerman, T. H. Achtor, and J. Brunner

 
Making NASA Earth Observing System satellite data accessible to the K-12 and citizen scientist communities
Lin H. Chambers, NASA/LRC, Hampton, VA; and A. J. Dalton, C. S. Phelps, P. C. Oots, S. W. Moore, and F. M. Mims III

http://mynasadata.larc.nasa.gov

Poster PDF (892.0 kB)
 
Using DLESE to Build the Earth Inforamtion System
John D. Moore, Burlington County Institute of Technology, Medford, NJ; and W. R. Huskin

 
Using Climatological and geological history to develop a physical model that describes changes in stream morphology in the upper Dearborn river.
Sarah Tolan, State College Area High School/AERA, State College, PA; and W. Weiss, J. Greenberg, M. Bell, S. Podwika, and C. Stachowski

Poster PDF (390.0 kB)
 
The greenhouse effect: web based instructional materials for non-science majors
Isidoros Doxas, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO; and K. Garvin-Doxas and F. Bagenal

 
Teaching of Meteorology to Non- Science Majors using Real-Time Datastream, Integrated Data Viewer and Interactive Technologies.
Elen Cutrim, Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, MI; and R. Nogueira and J. Mitchell

 
The Significance of Online Weather Studies to Fire Science
William M. Welton, Haskell Indian Nations University, Lawrence, KS

 
Weather Studies in Fort Valley State university - A realistic Approach
Osondu I,N Latimor M. III, PAGE, Fort Valley, GA

 
Teaching Online Meteorology in the Lower Rio Grande Valley
Terrence G. Miller, South Texas College (formerly South Texas Community College), Weslaco, Texas

 
Online Weather Studies at SUNY / Old Westbury
Judith Weinstein-Lloyd, SUNY, Old Westbury, NY

Poster PDF (13.6 kB)
 
Online Weather Studies as an Ideal General Science Course
Serhii Kalynovs'kyi, Columbia Union College, Takoma Park, MD

 
Incorporating Online Weather Studies into a Physical Geography Course Curriculum
David A. Padgett, Tennessee State University, Nashville, TN

 
Implementation of AMS Online Weather Studies at Pasadena City College
David N. Douglass, Pasadena City College, Pasadena, CA; and Y. L. O'Connor

 
Completely online weather courses
Gong-Yuh Lin, California State University , Northridge, Northridge, California

 
Weather in the West: A new perspective on weather education in a science center
Jason C. Shafer, Univ. of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT; and J. D. Andrade

http://www.utahsciencecenter.org

Poster PDF (234.9 kB)
 
Using WES Activities to reach At-Risk Students
Frankie C. Vann, Sampson County Schools Alternative Program/AERA, Clinton, NC

http://fc_vann

Poster PDF (22.2 kB)
 
Use of AMS Education Program Products in a cross-country, primary-elementary vertical grade collaboration
Freida D. Blink, Clark County School District, Las Vegas, NV, Las Vegas, NV; and S. K. Henke

 
The sea & sky connection
Ann T. Kelly, Our Lady of Sorrows School, St. Louis, MO

 
Understanding Weather Helps in Storm Chasing–Storm Chasing Helps Understand Weather: A Win-Win Situation
Joshua J. Jans, Minnesota State University, Mankato, MN; and C. S. Keen

Poster PDF (2.1 MB)
 
The educational activities of the Royal Meteorological Society
J. Malcolm Walker, Royal Meteorological Society, Reading, United Kingdom

Poster PDF (148.6 kB)
 
Teaching High School Meteorology through Live Event Learning
Craig R. Wolter, AMS/AERA and Windom Area High School, Windom, MN

Poster PDF (114.7 kB)
 
Program on Education, Research and International Training for Students and Junior Scientists in Atmospheric Sciences
Ying-Hwa Kuo, UCAR, Boulder, CO; and F. Chen

http://www.cosmic.ucar.edu/aware.htm

Poster PDF (481.9 kB)
 
The Community Collaborative Rain, Hail and Snow Network (CoCoRaHS): Citizen Science for Volunteers and Preciptiation Information for Decision Makers
Henry Reges, CoCoRaHS Network/Colorado State Univ., Fort Collins, CO; and R. Cifelli, N. Doesken, C. Gimmestad, and C. Spears

 
Professional Development for Undergraduate Minority Meteorology Students Through NWS Summer Internship Programs and Individual NOAA Grants.
John L. Shoemake Sr., Jackson State University, Jackson, MS; and M. Watts, R. S. Reddy, G. Holmes, S. Ivey, B. DeShields, K. Hair, L. Kennard, M. Jones, and T. Hartwell

 
NASA's systems solutions for earth science education
Diane Schweizer, NASA, Washington, DC; and P. Coble and F. Lindsay

 
Multi-Temporal Change Detection Analysis of Beach Erosion using Satellite Remote Sensing
Valentina S. David, Bethune-Cookman College, Daytona Beach, FL

Poster PDF (593.4 kB)
 
Meteorology for the Texas Teacher
Jimmy Rozell II, Tyler Junior College, Tyler, TX

 
Lightning-caused recreation deaths and injuries
Ronald L. Holle, Holle Meteorology & Photography, Oro Valley, AZ

Poster PDF (117.6 kB)
 
Lightning casualties and their proximity to surrounding cloud-to-ground lightning
Megan M. Lengyel, University of Oklahoma School of Meteorology, Norman, OK; and H. E. Brooks, R. E. Holle, and M. A. Cooper, MD

Poster PDF (1.3 MB)
 
Investigating the chemical properties of Milky Stream in the Bob Marshall Wilderness Area in Montana
Timothy Howell, State College High School and AERA, State College, PA; and K. McPherson, M. Selzer, and R. Shaak

Poster PDF (401.4 kB)
 
Hyperthermia Deaths of Children in Vehicles
Jan Null, San Francisco State University, Saratoga, CA, US Virgin Islands

 
Forecast consulting as an educational tool
Louis A. Bowers, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ; and J. F. Brodie, R. Dunk, A. V. Durante, J. R. Klein, M. R. Lanza, and M. A. Sannutti

 
Enlightening Lightning! Coupling Earth Systems Research to K-12 Education Using Planetarium Presentations
Richard E. Orville, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas; and D. House and M. Hibbs

 
Elementary School Earth Systems Science Collaboration Project
Thomas P. Kelly, Grandville Public Schools, Grandville, MI; and D. Davis

 
Educating Aviators in Visualizing Weather
Scott R. Winter, Minnesota State University, Mankato, MN; and C. S. Keen

Poster PDF (2.7 MB)
 
Earth2Class—expanding opportunities to link classroom teachers and research scientists
Michael J. Passow, White Plains Middle School, White Plains, NY and Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory of Colubmia University, Palisades, NY; and G. J. Iturrino

http://www.earth2class.org

Poster PDF (29.7 kB)
 
AMS @ LDEO: follow-up opportunities for AMS education program participants
Michael J. Passow, White Plains Middle School, White Plains, NY and Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory of Columbia Univ., Palisades, NY

http://www.earth2class.org

Poster PDF (27.9 kB)
 
Development Workshops for Middle School Teachers on Topics in Atmospheric Science
Natalie D Murray, University of Arizona Department of Atmospheric Science, Tucson, Arizona; and T. Canizo

 
Developing Online Precipitation Visualization Systems for Education
Zhong Liu, George Mason University/CSISS, Fairfax, VA and NASA/GSFC, Greenbelt, MD; and H. Rui, W. Teng, and L. Chiu

http://lake.nascom.nasa.gov/tovas/

Poster PDF (288.7 kB)
 
DataStreme: Weather from the AMS to the Classroom
Hector Ibarra, AMS/AERA, Iowa City, IA; and R. Wolf

 
DataStreme meeting extras: taking teachers a step further through delightful demos, fantastic fieldtrips, and terrific tours
James A. Brey, University of Wisconsin Fox Valley, Menasha, WI; and J. Clark, J. Moore, and B. Smith

 
Clouds from top to bottom
Randy Furman, AMS Education Resource Agent, Milaca, MN

 
Capitalizing on cloudscapes and other cloud opportunities as teaching resources
H. Michael Mogil, How the WeatherWorks, Rockville, MD

 
Ballooning, the Hindenburg story and a Student Experiment
Jee-Yon Lee, Korea Research Institute of Standards and Science, Cheongju, Deajeon, South Korea; and H. S. Yoo and J. S. Kim

 
An examination of Jupiter's Great Red Spot and other vorticies using the EPIC Model
Christopher J. Melick, University of Missouri, Columbia, MO; and H. Md. Anip, A. Kunz, R. Morales-Juberias, A. R. Lupo, and P. S. Market

Poster PDF (730.7 kB)
 
AMS Pre-College Student Chapters: Touching the Future
Kathleen A. Murphy, Ladue School District, St. Louis, MO

 
Alvernia and Cabrini Colleges: Adaptations of Educational Initiatives
George W. Rumpp, Alvernia College, Reading and Cabrini College, Radnor, PA; and P. E. Rumpp

Poster PDF (269.2 kB)
 
A new freshman-level course in Meteorology at the University of Texas at Brownsville and Texas Southmost College
Ravi C. Nandigam, University of Texas at Brownsville and Texas Southmost College, Brownsville, TX, Brownsville, TX

 
A weather degree program for the new millennium: phase II
Kenneth E. Parsons, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, Prescott, AZ; and M. R. Sinclair, C. James, and R. Tomkins

http://www.erau.edu/omni/pr/academicorgs/prmd/index.html

Poster PDF (99.7 kB)
 
"Hands-on" diversity: Training underrepresented students through atmospheric experimentation
Joseph Everette, Howard University, Washington, DC; and J. D. Fuentes, D. D. Venable, V. R. Morris, B. Demoz, P. Kucera, G. S. Jenkins, F. Nzeffe, M. L. Robjhon, S. Walford, and R. Connell

 
Using near-real-time data in K-6 educational outreach
Walter C. Oechel, San Diego State University, San Diego, CA; and D. DeRoma, D. Ross, N. Taylor, C. Kelly, and J. Verfaillie

 
The chemistry of the environment
Glendora Carter, Jarvis Christian College, Hawkins, TX

 
CLOUDSAT EDUCATION NETWORK
Jennifer Lockett, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO; and D. K. Krumm

Poster PDF (623.8 kB)

5:00 PM-5:30 PM: Sunday, 9 January 2005


Presenters gather with session chair prior to poster session

5:30 PM-5:30 PM: Sunday, 9 January 2005


Poster Session 1
Student Conference Poster Session
Sponsor: Fourth AMS Student Conference
Chair: Thomas Windham, NSF

Papers:
 
Warm Season Climatology of Convective Evolution Over the Coastal Northeast U.S
Michael Charles, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY; and B. A. Colle and J. S. Tongue

 
Tornado probabilities derived from Rapid Update Cycle forecast soundings
Zachary M. Byko, National Weather Center Research Experiences for Undergraduates, West Hartford, CT; and J. L. Guyer, J. J. Levit, and S. J. Taylor

 
P1.4
The Thundersnow Event of February 11, 2003

 
P1.5
The Thundersnow Event of February 11, 2003

 
The Role of Undergraduates in LEAD Learning Communities:
Michael Williams, Millersville University, Millersville, PA; and E. M. Lowery, J. E. Yorks, and D. T. Brewer

 
The Madden-Julian Oscillation and its effect on tropical precipitation
Donna K. Strahan, Susquehanna University, Selinsgrove, PA; and K. H. Straub

 
The effects of high resolution model output on severe weather forecasts as evaluated in the SPC/NSSL spring program 2004
Adam J French, National Weather Center Research Experience For Undergraduates, Valparaiso University, Manchester, CT; and J. S. Kain and S. J. Weiss

 
The Bytheway Method for optimal radar beam scheduling in the CASA IP1a test bed
Janice L Bytheway, Collaborative Adaptive Sensing of the Atmosphere, California, PA

 
Synoptic Analysis of 2001-2004 "Long Rains" on Mt. Kilimanjaro, Tanzania
Rebecca Chan, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA

 
Remote sensing and in situ observations of tropical cyclone structure at landfall
Kevin M. Grise, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA

 
Relationship of warm season cycles in on-shore pressure differences and temperatures in north-central California
Elizabeth Frieberg, San Francisco State University, San Francisco, CA; and J. P. Monteverdi

 
Quantitative analysis of different methods for merging radar reflectivity data
Jennifer S. Green, National Weather Center Research Experience for Undergrads, Sterling Heights, MI; and V. Lakshmanan and T. M. Smith

 
On the observation and development of the urban convective boundary layer during Joint Urban 2003
Michael P. Morris, Oklahoma Climatological Survey, Norman, OK; and J. B. Basara and D. Giuliano

 
Observations of the Zdr column during two severe weather events
Cynthia A. Whittier, National Weather Center REU, Winthrop Harbor, IL

 
Millersville University Local Student Chapter of the AMS
Kristin L. Howett, Millersville University, Millersville, PA; and A. K. Rowe, C. L. Hanna, and D. Brewer

 
Mesoanalysis of Bow Echo Environments during BAMEX
Amber E. Reynolds, NCAR, State College, PA

 
Measurements and dispersion modeling of sulfur dioxide concentrations in the vicinity of a coal-fired power plant
Katherine B. Beem, Susquehanna University, Selinsgrove, PA; and D. J. Straub

 
Lightning Safety in Outdoor Stadiums
Joel Gratz, Center for Science and Technology Policy Research, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO; and E. U. Noble and R. Church

 
Involving high school students in meteorological research: the SF-ROCKS experience
Elizabeth Frieberg, San Francisco State University, San Francisco, CA

 
Investigating the thermodynamic environment of a mesoscale convective system
Melissa Burt, Significant Opportunities in Atmospheric Research and Science, Millersville, PA

 
GatorWeather: Student Production of Television/Online Video Forecasts
Eric Gose, San Francisco State University, San Francisco, CA; and E. Frieberg, C. Meherin, and J. P. Monteverdi

 
Evaluating the Convective Atmospheric Boundary Layer by using Surface Station Data
Braxton Lee Edwards, University of Oklahoma, Norman, Oklahoma

 
Estimating divergence from irregularly spaced observations: A comparison of three techniques
Jacqueline Ann Dubois, National Weather Center Research Experiences for Undergraduates: University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK; and P. L. Spencer

 
Ensemble forecast bias correction
Angeline Greene Pendergrass, National Weather Center REU, University of Oklahoma, Coral Gables, FL; and K. L. Elmore

 
Diagnosis and Prediction of the Refractive Index Structure Parameter on the Mesoscale
Benjamin W. Hershey, University of North Dakota, Grand Forks, ND; and K. A. Naber, M. Askelson, C. M. Paulsen, J. S. Tilley, and S. S. Kumar

 
Design, testing, and initial deployment of a prototype portable automated research micrometeorological station (PARMS)
Jim Southard, Oklahoma Climatological Survey, University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK; and J. B. Basara, D. L. Grimsley, and B. G. Illston

 
Correlating Measured Pollutants in Northeast Philadelphia to its Source using ArcGIS
Evan M Lowery, Millersville University, Millersville, PA; and D. T. Brewer, D. Rabatin, D. O'Donnell, and R. D. Clark

 
Cloud-to-ground lightning production in strongly forced, low-instability convective lines associated with damaging wind
Matthew S. Van Den Broeke, National Weather Center REU, University of Oklahoma, Valparaiso, IN; and D. M. Schultz, R. H. Johns, J. S. Evans, and J. E. Hales

 
An examination of the 22 May 2004 Hallam, Nebraska tornado
Rebecca Adams, Creighton University, Omaha, NE

 
P1.38
An Analysis of the Economic Impact of Tornadoes

 
An Analysis of MM5 and WRF Mesoscale Forecasts Based on MADIS Observation Datasets
Crystal M. Paulsen, University of North Dakota, Grand Forks, ND

 
 
A field study of particulate matter concentrations in the wintertime boundary layer
John E. Yorks, Millersville University, Millersville, PA; and M. T. Maiuri, K. L. Howett, and A. K. Rowe

 
SODAR-based Analysis of Boundary Layer Structure in Complex Terrain
Roberto Cancel, Jackson State University, Jackson, MS

 
Developing a procedure for software testing using synthtic data
Shanna-Shaye Sashai Forbes, Electrical and Computer Engineering, Austin, TX

 
Quantification of Cloud and Inversion Properties Utilizing
Allen Clark Evans, Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL

 
Estimating hail size using polarimetric radar
Angela K Rowe, Millersville University of Pennsylvania, Millersville, PA; and P. L. Heinselman and T. J. Schuur

Monday, 10 January 2005

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6:00 AM-6:00 AM: Monday, 10 January 2005


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Mon 10 Jan

7:00 AM-7:00 AM: Monday, 10 January 2005


Mon 10 Jan

7:30 AM-7:30 AM: Monday, 10 January 2005


Registration Continues through Thursday, 13 January


Registration continues through Thursday, 13 January

8:55 AM-5:45 PM: Monday, 10 January 2005


Joint Session 1
Polar Coastal Processes (Joint with Sixth Conference on Coastal Atmospheric and Oceanic Prediction and Processes and the 8th Conf on Polar Meteorology and Oceanography)
Sponsors: (Joint between the 8th Conference on Polar Meteorology and Oceanography; and the Sixth Conference on Coastal Atmospheric and Oceanic Prediction and Processes )
Organizers: Ruth H. Preller, NRL; Taneil Uttal, NOAA/Earth Systems Research Laboratory; Eric DeWeaver, University of Wisconsin; Stephen D. Burk, NRL

Papers:
  9:25 AM
Local, Regional and Hemispheric forcing of Polynyas: Experiences from the NOW and CASES research networks
David G. Barber, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, MB, Canada; and J. Lukovich and J. M. Hanesiak

  9:40 AM
  10:10 AM
Mesoscale modeling of the Antarctic atmosphere
David H. Bromwich, Byrd Polar Research Center, Ohio State Univ., Columbus, OH; and A. J. Monaghan

  10:40 AM
A development climatology of cyclones affecting the Alaskan coastal zone
Elizabeth N. Cassano, CIRES/Univ. of Colorado, Boulder, CO; and A. H. Lynch

  11:10 AM
Climatology of the air-sea interaction associated with high wind events near Cape Farewell Greenland
Wataru Yanase, University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan; and G. W. K. Moore

  11:25 AM
Storminess and coastal change in the Mackenzie-Beaufort region of the Northwest Territories, Canada (Invited Presentation)
Steven M Solomon, Geological Survey of Canada, Dartmouth, NS, Canada; and G. Manson and D. E. Atkinson

  11:55 AM
  12:10 PM
Hydrologic Regime and Change in the Large Northern Watersheds
Daqing Yang, Univ. of Alaska Fairbanks, Fairbanks, AK; and D. L. Kane and B. Ye

  12:25 PM
Coastal and polar atmospheric regional modeling – how good are our models? (Invited Presentation)
Michael Tjernström, Stockholm University, Stockholm, Sweden

http://www.misu.su.se/~michaelt/home.html

  12:55 PM
Estimating Arctic snowfall with a land surface hydrology model
Jessie Ellen Cherry, Columbia University/Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, Palisades, NY; and S. J. Déry, L. -. B. Tremblay, and M. Stieglitz

  1:10 PM
  1:25 PM
Parameterizing the turbulent surface fluxes over summer sea ice
Edgar L. Andreas, U.S. Army Cold Regions Research and Engineering Laboratory, Hanover, NH; and P. O. G. Persson, R. E. Jordan, T. W. Horst, P. S. Guest, A. A. Grachev, and C. W. Fairall

  1:40 PM
Warm season processes at SHEBA
Kirstie L. Stramler, Columbia University, New York, NY; and A. D. Del Genio and W. B. Rossow

  1:55 PM
Welcoming Remarks
Ruth H. Preller, NRL, Stennis Space Center, MS

  2:00 PM
Coffee Break in Poster Session Room

  2:30 PM
Lunch Break

  4:00 PM
Formal Poster Viewing with Coffee Break

  5:30 PM
Discharge and water chemistry of streams in NW Greenland (76°N, 68°W) (Formerly Paper Number JP1.7)
Birgit Hagedorn, University of Washington, Department of Earth and Space sciences & Quaternary Research Center, Seattle, WA; and R. S. Sletten and B. Hallet

9:00 AM-9:15 AM: Monday, 10 January 2005


1
Kick-off Speaker (Joint between the Symposium on Living with a Limited Water Supply and the 19th Conference on Hydrology)
Sponsors: (Joint between the 19th Conf on Hydrology; and the AMS Forum: Living with a Limited Water Supply )
Organizer: Prof. Malin Falkenmark, SIWI

Papers:
  9:00 AM
1.1
Keynote Speaker
Prof. Malin Falkenmark, SIWI, Stockholm, Sweden

9:00 AM-9:30 AM: Monday, 10 January 2005


Joint Session 1
Building the Earth Information System (Joint with the 16th Conference on Climate Variability and Change, the 21st International Conference on Interactive Information Processing Systems (IIPS) for Meteorology, Oceanography, and Hydrology, and Ninth Symposium on Integrated Observing and Assimilation Systems for the Atmosphere, Oceans, and Land Surface)
Sponsors: (Joint between the 21st International Conference on Interactive Information Processing Systems (IIPS) for Meteorology, Oceanography, and Hydrology; the 16th Conference on Climate Variability and Change; and the Ninth Symposium on Integrated Observing and Assimilation Systems for the Atmosphere, Oceans, and Land Surface (IOAS-AOLS) )
Cochairs: Terry Tarbell, RS Information Systems; Linda Miller, UCAR/Unidata

Papers:

9:00 AM-10:00 AM: Monday, 10 January 2005


1
all aspects of planned and inadvertent weather modification
Sponsor: 16th Conference on Planned and Inadvertent Weather Modification
Organizers: Joseph H. Golden, Forecast Systems Lab, NOAA; Patrick Sweeney, Weather Modification, Inc.

Papers:
 
1.2
Learning the Chemistry of the Environment by the Study of Weather

  9:30 AM
1.3
A PDA-based record keeping system for cloud seeding operations
Paul T. Moen, North Dakota State Water Commission, Bismarck, ND; and D. W. Langerud

  9:45 AM
1.4
Satellite Retrieved Microphysical Properties of AgI Seeding Tracks in Supercooled Layer Clouds
Daniel Rosenfeld, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Jerusalem, Israel; and X. Yu and J. Dai

  10:00 AM
1.5
Hail Metrics Using Conventional Radar
G. Brant Foote, NCAR, Boulder, CO; and T. W. Krauss and V. Makitov

9:00 AM-10:15 AM: Monday, 10 January 2005


1
Atmospheric Chemistry - General Topics
Sponsor: 7th Conf. on Atmospheric Chemistry
Organizers: Nancy A. Marley, ANL; Jeffrey S. Gaffney, ANL

Papers:
  9:00 AM
1.1
Henry Cavendish (1730-1810): His Contributions and Links to Atmospheric Science
Jeffrey S. Gaffney, ANL, Argonne, IL; and N. A. Marley

Poster PDF (44.7 kB)
  9:15 AM
1.2
Annual meteorological modeling in support of visibility improvement in the southeast US
Donald T. Olerud Jr., Baron Advanced Meteorological Systems, Raleigh, NC; and A. P. Sims and M. Abraczinskas

http://www.baronams.com/projects/VISTAS/#annual

  9:30 AM
1.3
Modelling E10 gasoline toxic air contaminants with modified SMOKE/CMAQ
Xin Qiu, RWDI West Inc., Guelph, ON, Canada; and M. Lepage, W. Boulton, and M. Gauthier

  9:45 AM
1.4
A study of the effect of vertical diffusion on an ozone and particulate matter (PM) model simulation
Jia-Yeong Ku, New York State Department of Environmental Conservation, Albany, NY; and K. Civerolo, C. Hogrefe, W. Hao, and G. Sistla

  10:00 AM
Introductory Remarks:
Nancy A. Marley, ANL, Argonne, IL; and J. S. Gaffney


1
Lightning applications in warning and decision support 1: Operational applications
Sponsor: Conference on Meteorological Applications of Lightning Data
Chair: Steven J. Goodman, NASA/MSFC

Papers:
  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, Fort Worth, TX; and T. Garner and B. Hoeth

http://www.srh.noaa.gov/smg


1
Operation and Development of the Heat/Health Systems Chair: Robert E. Livezey, NOAA/National Weather Service
Sponsor: Heat and Health: Reducing Impacts
Organizer: Robert E. Livezey, NOAA/NWS

Papers:
  9:00 AM
1.1
The Foundation of Heat/Health Warning Systems: Developmental Considerations
Laurence Kalkstein, Univ. of Delaware, Newark, DE; and J. D. Watts

  9:15 AM
1.2
The design and operation of heat watch-warning systems
Scott Sheridan, Department of Geography, Kent State University, Kent, OH

  10:00 AM
1.5
Extreme Heat and Health Impacts in California
Katharine Hayhoe, ATMOS Research & Consulting, South Bend, IN; and L. Kalkstein, N. L. Miller, S. Moser, S. C. Sheridan, and M. Dettinger

9:00 AM-10:25 AM: Monday, 10 January 2005


1
The impact of weather and climate on the business enterprise
Sponsor: Third Annual Users Conference
Moderator: George L. Frederick Jr., Vaisala

Papers:
  9:00 AM
1.1
Welcoming Remarks
George L. Frederick Jr., Vaisala, Louisville, CO

  9:15 AM
1.2
Impact of weather and climate on the business enterprise
Jeremy Usher, WeatherNews Americas Inc., San Francisco, CA

  9:55 AM
1.4
  10:10 AM
1.5

9:00 AM-11:15 AM: Monday, 10 January 2005


1
AI Techniques
Sponsor: Fourth Conference on Artificial Intelligence Applications to Environmental Science
Chair: Caren Marzban, CAPS/Univ. of Oklahoma, and Applied Physics Lab/University of Washington

Papers:
  9:00 AM
1.1
On Genetic Algorithms and Discrete Performance Measures
Caren Marzban, CAPS/Univ. of Oklahoma, Norman, OK and University of Washington, Seattle, WA; and S. E. Haupt

  9:15 AM
1.2
Validation of Receptor/ Dispersion Model Coupled with a Genetic Algorithm
Sue Ellen Haupt, Penn State University, State College, PA; and G. Young

  9:30 AM
1.3
Nonlinear principal predictor analysis using neural networks
Alex J. Cannon, MSC, Vancouver, BC, Canada; and W. W. Hsieh

  9:45 AM
1.4
Nonlinear complex principal component analysis
Sanjay S.P. Rattan, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada; and W. W. Hsieh

  10:00 AM
1.5
Techniques for tuning fuzzy logic algorithms
John K. Williams, NCAR, Boulder, CO; and G. Meymaris

 
1.6
Quantitative Analysis of the Benefit of Ontologies and Rich Metadata for Earth Science Data Discovery

  10:30 AM
1.7
Fingerprinting Significant Weather Events
Paul Knight, Penn State Univ., University Park, PA; and J. Ross, B. Root, G. Young, and R. Grumm

  10:45 AM
Welcoming Remarks
Caren Marzban, CAPS/Univ. of Oklahoma, Norman, OK and University of Washington, Seattle, WA

  11:00 AM
Coffee Break in Poster Session Room

  11:30 AM
Predicting Good Probabilities with Supervised Learning
Rich Caruana, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY; and A. Niculescu-Mizil


1
emerging lidar methods in addressing atmospheric issues
Sponsor: 2nd Symposium on Lidar Atmospheric Applications
Organizer: Edward V. Browell, NASA Langley Research Center

Papers:
  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
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

  10:30 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

  10:45 AM
Coffee Break

9:00 AM-12:00 PM: Monday, 10 January 2005


Joint Session 1
Education Out Reach Activities on Living in the Coastal Zone (Joint between the 14th Symp on Education and the Symp on living in the Coastal Zone)
Sponsors: (Joint between the 14th Symp on Education; and the AMS Forum: Living in the Coastal Zone )
Organizers: David R. Smith, U.S. Naval Academy; Leonard J. Pietrafesa, North Carolina State University

Papers:
  9:00 AM
Welcoming Remarks: David R. Smith
David R. Smith, U.S. Naval Academy, Annapolis, MD

  9:15 AM
  9:45 AM
The centers for ocean sciences education excellence (COSEE): a growing national network
Cheryl L. Peach, SIO/Univ. Of California, La Jolla, CA; and S. R. Franks and S. B. Cook

  10:00 AM
Lessons Learned. . . Center for Ocean Sciences Education Excellence: Central Gulf of Mexico (COSEE:CGOM) Nonformal and formal education
Sharon H. Walker, University of Southern Mississippi and J. L. Scott Marine Education Center & Aquarium, Biloxi, MS; and S. A. Brown, S. Culipher-Ross, J. Kastler, J. Dindo, M. Spranger, R. Tinnin, R. D. Brook, P. Tuddenham, T. Bishop, and J. May-Brett

  10:15 AM
Rip current training for coastal forecasters
Kevin Fuell, UCAR/COMET, Boulder, CO; and K. Olson and T. Schott

http://meted.ucar.edu

  10:30 AM
Education and the Integrated Ocean Observing System
Blanche W. Meeson, Ocean.US, Arlington, VA

http://www.ocean.us

  10:45 AM
Education & public outreach for the NASA Aquarius Mission
Annette DeCharon, Bigelow Laboratory for Ocean Sciences, West Boothbay Harbor, ME

http://aquarius.gsfc.nasa.gov

  11:00 AM
The Maury Project and DataStreme Ocean: Teaching teachers about the coastal zone
David R. Smith, U.S. Naval Academy, Annapolis, MD; and I. W. Geer, J. M. Moran, and R. S. Weinbeck

  11:30 AM
Coffee Break in Poster session room

9:00 AM-5:15 PM: Monday, 10 January 2005


1
Suki Manabe Symposium
Sponsor: The Suki Manabe Symposium

Papers:
  9:00 AM
1.1
Dr. Suki Manabe and me over five decades
Jerry D. Mahlman, NCAR, Boulder, CO

  9:15 AM
1.2
Is there a Bi-Polar Seesaw?
Ronald J. Stouffer, NOAA/GFDL, Princeton, NJ; and D. Seidov

  9:30 AM
1.3
Climate change associated with melting events in the northern and southern hemispheres
Andrew J Weaver, University of Victoria, Victoria, BC, Canada

  9:45 AM
1.4
Very High Resolution Modeling Studies of the Last Glacial Maximum
Tom J Crowley, Duke University, Durham, NC; and S. J. Kim, W. T. H. Hyde, D. J. Erickson, and P. Duffy

  10:00 AM
1.5
Atlantic and Pacific Links in Millinenial Climate Variations
Kirk Bryan Jr., Princeton, Princeton, NJ

  10:15 AM
1.6
Coffee Break

  10:45 AM
1.7
Paleoclimate modeling and climate sensitivity
Anthony J. Broccoli, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ

  11:00 AM
1.8
Detection and attribution of anthropogenic climate change
John F. B. Mitchell, MetOffice, Exeter, United Kingdom

  11:15 AM
1.9
  12:00 PM
Lunch Break

  1:30 PM
Model simulations of the impact of SST conditions on atmospheric variability
Ngar-Cheung Lau, NOAA/Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory, Princeton, NJ

  1:45 PM
Faustian aerosol bargain: payment comes due
James E. Hansen, NASA/GISS, New York, NY

  2:00 PM
Modeling of climate change due to anthropogenic trace gases
V. Ramaswamy, NOAA/GFDL, Princeton, NJ

  2:15 PM
From General Circulation Modeling to Climate Modeling
Warren M. Washington, NCAR, Boulder, CO

  2:30 PM
Coffee Break and Poster Viewing

  4:00 PM
  4:15 PM
CO2-induced changes in extratropical continental hydrology in the new GFDL climate Model
Thomas L. Delworth, NOAA/GFDL, Princeton, NJ; and K. L. Findell

  4:45 PM
A local perspective on climate
Alex Hall, UCLA Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences, Los Angeles, CA; and S. Conil, M. Hughes, and G. Masi

9:30 AM-10:15 AM: Monday, 10 January 2005


1
IIPS Keynote Session
Sponsor: 21st International Conference on Interactive Information Processing Systems (IIPS) for Meteorology, Oceanography, and Hydrology
Organizers: Terry C. Tarbell, RS Information Systems, Inc [RSIS]; Linda I. Miller, UCAR/Unidata

Papers:
  9:30 AM
1.1
Earth Information System of the Future
Ghassem R. Asrar, NASA, Washington, DC

9:30 AM-12:00 PM: Monday, 10 January 2005


1
The Atmospheric Infrared Sounder (AIRS)
Sponsor: Ninth Symposium on Integrated Observing and Assimilation Systems for the Atmosphere, Oceans, and Land Surface (IOAS-AOLS)
Organizer: Ralph Petersen, NOAA/NWS

Papers:
  9:30 AM
1.1
The Atmospheric Infrared Sounder (AIRS) A Goldmine of Atmospheric Information
Moustafa Chahine, NASA/JPL, Pasadena, CA; and T. S. Pagano, H. H. Aumann, C. Barnet, B. H. Lambrigtsen, E. J. Fetzer, M. Goldberg, F. W. Irion, E. Olsen, S. Y. Lee, L. M. McMillin, W. McMillin, L. Strow, and J. Susskind

  9:45 AM
1.2
Atmospheric InfraRed Sounder (AIRS) radiance validation with the Scanning High-resolution Interferometer Sounder (S-HIS) aircraft instrument
Henry E. Revercomb, Space Science and Engeering Center, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI; and D. C. Tobin, R. O. Knuteson, F. A. Best, D. D. LaPorte, S. D. Ellington, M. W. Werner, R. G. Dedecker, R. K. Garcia, N. N. Ciganovich, H. B. Howell, S. Dutcher, and J. K. Taylor

  10:00 AM
1.3
Validation of AIRS Moisture Products using Three-way Intercomparisons with Radiosondes and GPS Sensors
Larry M. McMillin, NOAA/NESDIS, Camp Springs, MD; and J. Zhao, M. K. Rama Varma Raja, S. I. Gutman, and J. G. Yoe

  10:15 AM
1.4
Near real-time operational products from AIRS
Mitchell D. Goldberg, NOAA/NESDIS/ORA, Camp Springs, MD; and C. D. Barnet, W. Wolf, L. Zhou, and M. Divakarla

  10:30 AM
1.5
Global OSSE at NCEP, Results from High resolution experiments and AIRS
Michiko Masutani, RSIS and NOAA/NWS/NCEP/EMC, Camp Springs, MD; and J. S. Woollen, R. Treadon, S. J. Lord, H. Sun, T. J. Kleespies, P. VanDelst, and G. D. Emmitt

  11:15 AM
1.8
Extraction of AIRS Sounding Information Under Cloudy Conditions
William Smith Sr., Hampton University, Hampton, VA; and H. L. Huang and D. K. Zhou

  11:30 AM
Coffee Break in Poster Session Room


Joint Session 2
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)
Sponsors: (Joint between the 16th Conference on Climate Variability and Change; and the 21st International Conference on Interactive Information Processing Systems (IIPS) for Meteorology, Oceanography, and Hydrology )
Organizers: Dean N. Williams, LLNL; Nancy N. Soreide, NOAA/PMEL; Stephen M. Holt, Mitretek Systems

Papers:
  9:30 AM
  9:45 AM
Practical techniques for distributed climate analysis using GrADS and the GDS
Jennifer M. Adams, COLA, Calverton, MD; and B. Doty and J. L. Kinter III

  10:00 AM
Bringing together disparate data for climate impacts studies
M. Benno Blumenthal, Columbia University, Palisades, NY; and C. F. Ropelewski, E. Grover-Kopec, J. del Corral, and M. Dilley

  10:15 AM
NQuery: a Network-enabled data-based query tool for multi-disciplinary earth-science datasets
John R. Osborne, NOAA/PMEL/OAR, Seattle and OceanAtlas Software, Vashon Island, WA; and K. T. McHugh and D. W. Denbo

http://www.epic.noaa.gov/epic/software/nquery

  10:30 AM
Autonomous Rapid Response to Monitor Transient Science Events
Daniel J. Mandl, NASA, Greenbelt, MD; and S. W. Frye

  10:45 AM
Arctic Change Detection Website
Nancy N. Soreide, NOAA/PMEL, Seattle, WA; and J. Calder, J. E. Overland, and F. M. Fetterer

http://www.arctic.noaa.gov/detect

  11:00 AM
Couple Distributed Earth System Models
Shujia Zhou, Northrop Grumman IT /TASC, Greenbelt, MD; and B. Womack and G. Higgins

  11:15 AM
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's scientific data stewardship program
John J. Bates, NOAA/NESDIS/NCDC, Asheville, NC; and R. G. Reynolds, C. Cremidis, and C. Martinez

  11:30 AM
Coffee Break in Poster Session Room

  11:59 AM
J2.3 moved to JP1.6

10:15 AM-10:15 AM: Monday, 10 January 2005


Coffee Break in Poster Session Room

10:15 AM-10:45 AM: Monday, 10 January 2005


Coffee Break in Poster Session Room

10:45 AM-11:00 AM: Monday, 10 January 2005


Joint Session 2
Joint Plenary Session with Hydrology Panel Discussion with Malin Falkenmark
Sponsors: (Joint between the AMS Forum: Living with a Limited Water Supply; and the 19th Conf on Hydrology )
Chair: Roy M Rasmussen, NCAR

Papers:
  10:45 AM
PANEL DISCUSSION Abstract
Kevin E. Trenberth, NCAR, Boulder, CO

10:45 AM-11:45 AM: Monday, 10 January 2005


2
Nationalization and Implementation of Heat/Health System
Sponsor: Heat and Health: Reducing Impacts
Organizer: Laurence S. Kalkstein, Univ. of Delaware

Papers:

2
inadvertent weather modification on urban effects on fog, clouds, precipitation, runoff, and lightning
Sponsor: 16th Conference on Planned and Inadvertent Weather Modification
Organizers: Robert D. Bornstein, San Jose State University; Don A. Griffith, North American Weather Consultants

Papers:
  10:45 AM
2.1
Urban and Industrial Aerosols Impacts on Precipitation
Daniel Rosenfeld, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Jerusalem, Israel

  11:00 AM
2.2
Separation between cloud seeding and air pollution effects
Amir Givati, Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Israel; and D. Rosenfeld

  11:15 AM
2.3
Modeling the impacts of urban aerosol on convection and precipitation
Susan C. Van den Heever, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO; and W. R. Cotton

  11:30 AM
2.4
Analysis of Upper Air, Ground and Remote Sensing Data for the ATLAS Field Campaign in San Juan, Puerto Rico
Jorge E. Gonzalez, Santa Clara University, Santa Clara, CA; and J. Luvall, D. Rickman, D. E. Comarazamy, and A. J. Picon

  11:45 AM
2.5
MM5 simulations of uhi-induced thunderstorms over Atlanta, GA
Bob Bornstein, San Jose State Univ., San Jose, CA; and K. J. Craig and Q. Lin


2
the decision making process with respect to weather and climate information
Sponsor: Third Annual Users Conference
Moderator: S. Edward Boselly, Washington State Department of Transportation

Papers:
  10:45 AM
2.1
Exploring Use of Climate Information in Wildland Fire Management: A Decision Calendar Study
Thomas W. Corringham, Univercity of California, San Diego/Scripps Institution of Oceanography, La Jolla, CA; and A. L. Westerling and B. Morehouse

  11:15 AM
2.3
  11:30 AM
2.4
Discussion

10:45 AM-12:00 PM: Monday, 10 January 2005


2
Aerosol and Precipitation Interactions
Sponsor: 7th Conf. on Atmospheric Chemistry
Organizers: Rick Petty, USDOE; Vernon R. Morris, Howard University

Papers:
  10:45 AM
2.1
Atmospheric oxidation of organic particulate matter
Mario J. Molina, MIT, Cambridge, MA; and L. Molina

  11:00 AM
2.2
Rainwater Interactions with Natural Radionuclides on Carbonaceous Soot
Jeffrey S. Gaffney, ANL, Argonne, IL; and M. Krzeminska-Flowers, N. A. Marley, and K. A. Orlandini

Poster PDF (106.4 kB)
  11:15 AM
2.3
Aerosol Removal by Scavenging in Rain and Fog
Lynn M Russell, SIO/Univ. Of California, La Jolla, CA; and S. F. Maria and Y. Ming

  11:30 AM
2.4
Interaction of aerosol particles with low-level, warm, precipitating stratiform clouds
Leiming Zhang, York University and MSC, Toronto, ON, Canada; and D. V. Michelangeli and P. A. Taylor

  11:45 AM
2.5
Aerosol-Cloud interactions during the Cloud Indirect Forcing Experiment (CIFEX)
guillaume sadler Mauger, SIO/Univ. Of California, La Jolla, CA; and V. Ramanathan, E. M. Wilcox, O. Lariviere, and G. C. Roberts


2
Global Meteorological and Hydrological Services Update
Sponsor: 21st International Conference on Interactive Information Processing Systems (IIPS) for Meteorology, Oceanography, and Hydrology
Cochairs: Fred R. Branski, NOAA/NWS; Jim Cooper, Earth Satellite Corporation

Papers:
  10:45 AM
2.1
  11:15 AM
2.2
  11:45 AM
2.3
VTEC - no longer just a dream
Jason P. Tuell, NOAA/NWS, Silver Spring, MD; and H. L. White and A. C. Kraus


2
Lightning applications in warning and decision support 2: Developing applications
Sponsor: Conference on Meteorological Applications of Lightning Data
Chair: Christopher Bryan Darden, NOAA/NWS

Papers:
  11:45 AM
2.4

3
Satellite IIPS and Applications
Sponsor: 21st International Conference on Interactive Information Processing Systems (IIPS) for Meteorology, Oceanography, and Hydrology
Cochairs: Gerald Dittberner, NOAA/NESDIS; Thomas M. Whittaker, SSEC/CIMSS/Univ. of Wisconsin

Papers:
  10:45 AM
3.1
GOES-R user readiness issues: recommendations from the Third GOES-R Users' Conference
James J. Gurka, NOAA/NESDIS, Silver Spring, MD; and T. J. Schmit, R. R. Reynolds, and P. Viets

  11:00 AM
3.2
The Advanced Baseline Imager (ABI) on Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellites (GOES)-R
Timothy J. Schmit, NOAA/NESDIS/ORA, Madison, WI; and J. Gurka, M. M. Gunshor, W. P. Menzel, and J. Li

http://cimss.ssec.wisc.edu/goes/abi/

  11:15 AM
3.3
ADVANCED TECHNOLOGY FOR FUTURE NOAA SATELLITE SYSTEMS
Gerald Dittberner, NOAA/NESDIS, Silver Spring, MD; and M. Crison and E. Miller

  11:30 AM
3.4
GeoSTAR–A Microwave Sounder for GOES-R
Bjorn H. Lambrigtsen, JPL, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA; and W. Wilson and A. Tanner

Poster PDF (345.7 kB)
  11:45 AM
3.5

11:15 AM-2:30 PM: Monday, 10 January 2005


2
Urban Applications and Data Assimilation
Sponsor: 2nd Symposium on Lidar Atmospheric Applications
Organizer: N. Andrew Crook, NCAR

Papers:
  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
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

  12:15 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

  12:30 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

  12:45 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

  1:00 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

  1:30 PM
Lunch Break

12:00 PM-1:30 PM: Monday, 10 January 2005


Lunch Break


Lunch Break

1:00 PM-5:30 PM: Monday, 10 January 2005


1
Land surface and hydrologic data assimilation (parallel with Joint Session 3 and Joint Session 4)
Sponsor: 19th Conf on Hydrology
Organizer: Christa D. Peters-Lidard, NASA/GSFC

Papers:
  1:00 PM
1.1
Optimal land initialization for the NCEP Global Forecast System using the NASA Land Information System
Jesse Meng, University of Maryland Baltimore County and NOAA/NWS/NCEP, Baltimore and NASA/GSFC, Greenbelt, MD; and K. Mitchell, C. Lu, H. Wei, J. Eastman, C. Peters-Lidard, P. Houser, and M. Rodell

  1:15 PM
1.2
The NCEP Stage II/IV hourly precipitation analyses: development and applications
Ying Lin, NOAA/NWS/NCEP, Camp Springs, MD; and K. E. Mitchell

http://www.emc.ncep.noaa.gov/mmb/ylin/pcpanl/

Poster PDF (197.5 kB)
  1:45 PM
1.4
  2:00 PM
1.5
High-resolution land data assimilation in the NCAR/ATEC real-time FDDA and forecasting system
Andrea N. Hahmann, NCAR, Boulder, CO; and Y. Liu, F. Chen, K. W. Manning, T. T. Warner, and L. Carlson

  2:15 PM
1.6
Forecasts of near-surface variables using a coupled atmosphere-land surface model
Andrew A. Taylor, Univ. of Oklahoma, Norman, OK; and L. M. Leslie and D. J. Stensrud

http://weather.ou.edu/~aataylor/research

Poster PDF (376.9 kB)
  2:30 PM
1.7
Terrestrial hydroclimatology from GRACE
J. S. Famiglietti, University of California, Irvine, CA; and J. Chen, M. Rodell, K. W. Seo, T. H. Syed, and C. R. Wilson

  2:45 PM
1.8
Comparison of GRACE derived terrestrial water storage changes with model, water budget, and observation based estimates
Matthew Rodell, NASA/GSFC, Greenbelt, MD; and N. Johnson, J. S. Famiglietti, J. Chen, S. Seneviratne, S. L. Holl, and P. A. Viterbo

  3:00 PM
1.9
Bias reduction and assimilation of short records of satellite soil moisture
Rolf H. Reichle, NASA/GSFC and University of Maryland, Baltimore County, Greenbelt, MD; and R. D. Koster

  3:30 PM
Parameter sensitivity of soil moisture retrievals using C- and X-band radiometer observations in SMEX02
William L. Crosson, USRA, Huntsville, AL; and A. S. Limaye and C. A. Laymon

  3:45 PM
On Particle Filtering Monte Carlo Approach to Sequential Hydrolometeorological Data Assimilation
Hamid Moradkhani, Center for Hydrometeorology and Remote Sensing / University of California at Irvine (UCI), Irvine, CA; and K. L. Hsu, N. K. Ajami, and S. Sorooshian

  4:00 PM
Formal Poster Viewing with Coffee Break

1:30 PM-2:00 PM: Monday, 10 January 2005


Joint Session 4
The Earth Information System for Water Decision Making (JOINT BETWEEN THE LIMITED WATER SUPPLY SYMPOSIUM, THE 19TH CONFERNCE ON HYDROLOGYand IIPS) (parallel with Session 1 and Joint Session 3)
Sponsors: (Joint between the AMS Forum: Living with a Limited Water Supply; the 21st International Conference on Interactive Information Processing Systems (IIPS) for Meteorology, Oceanography, and Hydrology; and the 19th Conf on Hydrology )
Chair: John Schaake, NOAA/NWS

Papers:
  1:30 PM
Warm season storms, floods, and sediment inputs into the Grand Canyon: Applications to decision making and adaptive management
Shaleen Jain, NOAA-CIRES Climate Diagnostics Center, Boulder, CO; and R. S. Pulwarty, T. Melis, and D. Topping

  1:45 PM
Space-assisted irrigation management: An operational perspective
Anne M. Jochum, ALFAclima Asesoramiento Medioambiental and Universidad de Castilla-La Mancha, Albacete, Spain; and A. Calera and A. Cuesta

1:30 PM-2:30 PM: Monday, 10 January 2005


1
The Challenge of Living in the CZ
Sponsor: AMS Forum: Living in the Coastal Zone
Organizer: Leonard J. Pietrafesa, North Carolina State University

Papers:
  1:30 PM
1.1
Challenges of a Changing Planet: Nexus in the Coastal Zone
Berrien Moore, University of New Hampshire, Durham, NH; and C. Vörösmarty and J. Ericson

  2:00 PM
1.2
Climate Factors Affecting Human Health in Coastal Regions
Dr. Rita R. Colwell, Center for Bioformatics and Computational Biology, College Park, MD


2
Programs for Assimilating Environmental Observations
Sponsor: Ninth Symposium on Integrated Observing and Assimilation Systems for the Atmosphere, Oceans, and Land Surface (IOAS-AOLS)
Organizer: Mitch D. Goldberg, NOAA/NESDIS

Papers:
  1:30 PM
2.1
Recent advances at the Joint Center for Satellite Data Assimilation
John Le Marshall, NOAA Science Center, Camp Springs, MD; and F. Weng, S. Lord, L. P. Riishojgaard, P. Phoebus, and J. Yoe

  1:45 PM
2.2
The Joint Hurricane Testbed (JHT): Progress and Future Plans
Richard D. Knabb, NOAA/NWS/NCEP/TPC/NHC, Miami, FL; and J. G. Jiing, C. W. Landsea, and W. R. Seguin

http://www.aoml.noaa.gov/hrd/Landsea/jht

  2:00 PM
2.3
Constellation Observing System for Meteorology, Ionosphere and Climate (COSMIC): An Overview
Ying-Hwa Kuo, UCAR, Boulder, CO; and C. Rocken and R. A. Anthes

http://www.cosmic.ucar.edu/

  2:15 PM
2.4
Mesoscale Objective Analysis: An Analysis of Record?
John Horel, NOAA/Cooperative Institute for Regional Prediction and University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT; and B. Colman

http://www.met.utah.edu/jhorel/homepages/jhorel/mac.htm


3
Lightning applications in warning and decision support 3: Warning systems and techniques
Sponsor: Conference on Meteorological Applications of Lightning Data
Chair: David W. Sharp, NOAA/NWS

Papers:
  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

Poster PDF (681.1 kB)
  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

  2:15 PM
3.4
Automated two-hour thunderstorm guidance forecasts
Jerome P. Charba, NOAA/NWS, Silver Spring, MD; and F. Liang


Joint Session 3
Probabilistic hydrometeorological forecasting and acceptable uncertainty (Joint between the Limited Water Supply Symposium and the 19th Confernce on Hydrology) (parallel with Session 1 and Joint Session 4)
Sponsors: (Joint between the AMS Forum: Living with a Limited Water Supply; and the 19th Conf on Hydrology )
Organizer: Ana P. Barros, Duke University

Papers:
  1:30 PM
  2:00 PM
Calibration of QPF/PQPF forecasts based on the NCEP global ensemble
Yuejian Zhu, NOAA/NWS/NCEP, Camp Springs, MD; and T. Zoltan

  2:15 PM
Calibration of probabilistic quantitative precipitation forecasts from the RSM ensemble forecasts over hydrologic regions
Huiling Yuan, University of California, Irvine, CA; and S. L. Mullen, X. Gao, and S. Sorooshian

Poster PDF (129.0 kB)

3
Water Resouce Management
Sponsor: Third Annual Users Conference
Moderator: Mary G. Altalo, SAIC

Papers:
  1:30 PM
3.1
  1:45 PM
3.2
Defining Utilization
Mark A. Shafer, Oklahoma Climatological Survey, Norman, OK

Poster PDF (115.6 kB)
  2:00 PM
3.3
2002 Drought in Colorado: Agriculture impacts and climate information needs
Robert S. Webb, NOAA-CIRES Climate Diagnostics Center, Boulder, CO; and R. S. Pulwarty and E. C. Schuck

  2:15 PM
3.4
The general needs of some potential users for meteorological services
Chongjian Liu, Chinese Academy of Meteorological Sciences, Beijing, China; and Y. Liu

1:30 PM-2:45 PM: Monday, 10 January 2005


2
General Interest AI Applications
Sponsor: Fourth Conference on Artificial Intelligence Applications to Environmental Science
Chair: Vladimir Krasnopolsky, EMC/NCEP/NOAA/NWS (SAIC) and ESSIC, University of Maryland

Papers:
 
2.1
Environmental Applications of Machine Learning: Modelling Population Dynamics and Habitat Suitability

  1:45 PM
2.2
Accurate and Fast Neural Network Emulations of the NCAR Community Atmospheric Model Radiation: Accuracy of Approximation and Computational Performance
Vladimir Krasnopolsky, EMC/NCEP/NOAA/NWS (SAIC) and ESSIC, University of Maryland, Camp Springs, MD; and M. S. Fox-Rabinovitz and D. Chalikov

  2:00 PM
2.3
Using Artificial Neural Networks for Predicting Storm Surge Propagation in North Sea and the Thames Estuary.
Daniel B. Prouty, University of Southampton, Southampton, United Kingdom; and P. E. Tissot and A. A. Anwar

  2:15 PM
2.4
Sea surface temperature patterns on the West Florida Shelf using Growing Hierarchical Self-Organizing Maps
Yonggang Liu, University of South Florida, St. Petersburg, FL; and R. H. Weisberg and R. He

http://ocg7.marine.usf.edu/~liu

  2:30 PM
Generation of Real-time Narrative Summaries for Real-time Water Levels and Meteorological Observations in PORTS®
Thomas Bethem, NOAA, Silver Spring, MD; and J. Burton, T. Caldwell, M. Evans, R. Kittredge, B. Lavoie, and J. Werner

  2:45 PM
Discussion

1:30 PM-4:00 PM: Monday, 10 January 2005


Poster Session 1
Poster Session - Seventh Conference on Atmospheric Chemistry
Sponsor: 7th Conf. on Atmospheric Chemistry
Organizers: Jeffrey S. Gaffney, ANL; Nancy A. Marley, ANL

Papers:
 
Verification of surface layer ozone forecasts in the NOAA/EPA Air Quality Forecast System in different regions under different synoptic scenarios
Marina Tsidulko, SAIC, Camp Springs, MD; and J. T. McQueen, G. DiMego, P. C. Lee, R. Mathur, K. L. Schere, J. E. Pleim, T. L. Otte, D. Kang, M. Schenk, J. L. Gorline, and P. M. Davidson

http://wwwt.emc.ncep.noaa.gov/mmb/aq/fvs/cmaqverif.html

Poster PDF (477.3 kB)
 
Simultaneous prediction of weather and air quality during NEAQS2004 using the WRF-Chemistry model
Steven E. Peckham, CIRES/Univ. of Colorado and NOAA/FSL, Boulder, CO; and G. A. Grell, S. A. McKeen, G. J. Frost, and J. M. Wilczak

Poster PDF (106.8 kB)
 
Simulating the effects of urban-scale land use change on surface meteorology and ozone concentrations in the New York City metropolitan region
Kevin L. Civerolo, New York State Department of Environmental Conservation, Albany, NY; and C. Hogrefe, J. Y. Ku, W. Solecki, C. Small, C. Oliveri, J. Cox, and P. Kinney

Poster PDF (206.4 kB)
 
Ozone profile observations and meteorological analysis
John Merrill, University of Rhode Island, Narragansett, RI; and J. Dubois, M. Stevens, and S. J. Oltmans

 
Modeling photochemistry and aerosol formation in point source plumes with the CMAQ plume-in-grid system
James M. Godowitch, NOAA/ARL, Research Triangle Park, NC; and J. O. Young

 
Insights into Free Tropospheric Ozone Sources and Transport in July-August 2004 from IONS Soundings
Anne M Thompson, NASA/GSFC, Greenbelt, MD; and T. Kucsera, J. Merrill, G. Morris, M. J. Newchurch, S. J. Oltmans, K. E. Pickering, F. J. Schmidlin, D. Tarasick, and J. C. Witte

 
Aura Data Product Support and Services at the NASA GES DAAC
James E. Johnson, GES DAAC / SSAI, Greenbelt, MD; and S. P. Ahmad, A. Gopalan, and G. G. Leptoukh

 
Secondary organic aerosol formation by reactive condensation of glyoxal, water vapor and other aldehydes
William P. Hastings, University of San Diego, San Diego, CA; and E. Bailey and D. O. De Haan

 
Radiative Forcing of Dust Haze over the Northern Indian Ocean during Winter and Summer Monsoons
I.A. Podgorny, SIO/Univ. of California, La Jolla, CA; and V. Ramanathan and C. E. Chung

 
Physicochemical transition of aerosols and its effect on cloud condensation nuclei over the Eastern Pacific Ocean: A case study
Greg C Roberts, SIO/Univ. Of California, La Jolla, CA; and O. Lariviere, G. S. Mauger, and V. Ramanathan

 
Observing Aerosol Direct and Indirect Effects from In Situ Spectral Radiometric Measurements
Fonya Nzeffe, Howard University, Washington, DC; and E. Joseph and Q. Min

 
Measurements of aerosol samples in Chebogue Point during the New England Air Quality Study 2004
Katheryn M. Holderness, SIO/Univ. Of California, La Jolla, CA; and L. M. Russell

 
Measurements of marine stratocumulus cloud water composition over the Eastern Pacific Ocean
Derek J. Straub, Susquehanna University, Selinsgrove, PA; and J. L. Collett Jr.

 
Monitoring Interstate Pollutant Transport from the Western Maryland Piney Run Site: Objectives, Design, and Demonstration
Matthew G. Seybold, Maryland Department of the Environment, Baltimore, MD; and C. D. Smith, D. J. Krask, M. F. Woodman, G. A. Allen, M. S. Castro, and J. M. McKnight

Poster PDF (773.0 kB)
 
Examining the aerosol indirect effect in the second aerosol characterization experiment (ACE-2) with a cloud resolving model
Huan Guo, University of Michigan, ann arbor, MI; and J. E. Penner and M. Herzog

Poster PDF (234.9 kB)
 
Evaluation of the aerosol direct radiative forcing using ground-based, satellite data and global transport model
Soon-Chang Yoon, School of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Seoul National University, 151-747, Shilimdong, Gwanakgu, Seoul, South Korea; and J. G. Won

 
Cloudwater measurements of sulfur, nitrogen, and organic species during ICARTT
Anne Marie Macdonald, Meteorological Service of Canada, Toronto, ON, Canada; and W. R. Leaitch, K. L. Hayden, K. G. Anlauf, D. Toom-Sauntry, A. Leithead, S. M. Li, J. W. Strapp, and K. J. Noone

http://www.msc-smc.ec.gc.ca/research/icartt/index_e.html

Poster PDF (245.2 kB)
 
Effects of soot morphology and composition on particle hygroscopic properties
Jay G. Slowik, Boston College, Chestnut Hill, MA; and J. Kolucki, P. Davidovits, L. R. Williams, J. T. Jayne, C. E. Kolb, D. R. Worsnop, Y. Rudich, P. DeCarlo, and J. L. Jimenez

 
P1.19
FTIR analysis of organic functional groups during ICARTT 2004

 
Monitoring air quality from space using OMI data products
Suraiya P. Ahmad, NASA/GSFC, Greenbelt, MD; and P. F. Levelt, P. K. Bhartia, E. Hilsenrath, G. W. Leppelmeier, and J. E. Johnson

http://daac.gsfc.nasa.gov/

Poster PDF (10.9 kB)
 
P1.21
No title

 
Surface and Aloft Measurements of Aerosol Concentrations in a Wintertime Boundary Layer at a Mid-Atlantic Site
Richard D. Clark, Millersville University, Millersville, PA; and D. Brewer, E. Lowery, D. Rabatin, J. Yorks, K. Howett, A. Rowe, C. Hanna, and M. Maiuri

Poster PDF (549.6 kB)

1:30 PM-5:30 PM: Monday, 10 January 2005


1
K-12 and Popular Initiatives
Sponsor: 14th Symp on Education
Organizers: Shirley T. Murillo, NOAA/AOML/HRD; Kathleen A. Murphy, Ladue School District

Papers:
  1:30 PM
1.1
STORM-E: A Weather Simulation
Jane Neuenschwander, NASA-sponsored Classroom of the Future, Wheeling, WV; and C. Mitsch

  1:45 PM
1.2
The Great UK Weather Watch
J. Malcolm Walker, Royal Meteorological Society, Reading, United Kingdom

Poster PDF (1.1 MB)
  2:00 PM
1.3
Lightning safety for schools: An update
James B. Lushine, NOAA/NWS, Miami, FL; and W. P. Roeder and R. J. Vavrek

  2:15 PM
1.4
  2:30 PM
1.5
EdGCM: Enhancing Climate Education Through Climate Modeling Research Projects
Mark A. Chandler, NASA/GISS at Columbia University, New York, NY; and S. J. Richards and M. F. Shopsin

http://www.edgcm.org

  2:45 PM
1.6
  3:00 PM
1.7
Educating an informed citizenry: What should every student know about the oceans?
Robert Stewart, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX

http://oceanworld.tamu.edu/home/news.htm

Poster PDF (86.8 kB)
  3:15 PM
1.8
AMS DataStreme courses - preparing teachers to use Earth system information
Robert S. Weinbeck, SUNY, Brockport, NY; and I. W. Geer, J. M. Moran, E. W. Mills, E. J. Hopkins, D. R. Smith, and B. A. Blair

  3:30 PM
1.9
The NOAA and NWS outreach program for educators
Ron Gird, NOAA/NWS, Silver Spring, MD; and J. simensky

  3:45 PM
Developing a GIS Using Real Time Earth Data: A Study of the Earth System
John D. Moore, Burlington County Institute of Technology, Medford, NJ

  4:00 PM
Pacific Northwest Tsunamis: Generation and Effects!
Steve Michael Carlson, AMS/NOAA Project Atmosphere AREA, White Salmon, Washington

  4:15 PM
Formal Poster viewing with Coffee Break


1
Observed Climate Change: 1(parallel with Session 2)
Sponsor: 16th Conference on Climate Variability and Change
Chair: David R. Easterling, NOAA/NESDIS/NCDC

Papers:
  1:45 PM
1.2
Latitudinal distribution of temperature trends at the surface and in the troposphere
Konstantin Y. Vinnikov, University of Maryland, College Park, MD; and N. Grody, M. D. Goldberg, A. Robock, R. J. Stouffer, and P. D. Jones

  2:00 PM
1.3
Non-thermometric effects on MSU tropospheric temperatures
Leslie Litten, University of Alabama, Huntsville, AL; and J. R. Christy and R. W. Spencer

Poster PDF (401.0 kB)
  2:15 PM
1.4
  2:30 PM
1.5
Uncertainties in ICOADS Sea Surface and Air Temperatures since the 1850s
Nick A. Rayner, Hadley Centre, Met Office, EXETER, United Kingdom; and P. Brohan, D. E. Parker, C. K. Folland, J. Hardwick, J. Kennedy, T. Ansell, S. Tett, and E. C. Kent

  2:45 PM
1.6
Large scale warming confirmed by temperatures in windy weather
David E. Parker, Hadley Centre, Met Office, EXETER, United Kingdom

  3:00 PM
1.7
Tree Ring Records Underestimate Volcanic Cooling
Alan Robock, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ

  3:15 PM
1.8
Precipitation and temperature related climate indices for Canada
Éva Mekis, MSC, Toronto, ON, Canada; and L. A. Vincent

  3:30 PM
1.9
Large scale spatial structure of observed temperature trends
Pedro M. A. Miranda, University of Lisbon, Lisbon, Portugal; and A. R. Tomé

  3:45 PM
Accounting for differences between radiosonde temperature datasets
Melissa Free, NOAA/ARL, Silver Spring, MD; and D. J. Seidel

  4:00 PM
Formal Poster Viewing with Coffee Break


2
Climate Predictions on Seasonal and Interannual Time Scales: 1(parallel with Session 1)
Sponsor: 16th Conference on Climate Variability and Change
Chair: Aiguo Dai, NCAR

Papers:
  1:30 PM
2.1
Sensitivity of North American Precipitation and Temperature to Tropical Indian, Pacific and Atlantic ocean SST anomalies throughout the year.
Prashant D. Sardeshmukh, NOAA-CIRES Climate Diagnostics Center, Boulder, CO; and J. J. Barsugli and S. I. Shin

  1:45 PM
2.2
  2:00 PM
2.3
Understanding the sensitivity of North American drought to Tropical Pacific SSTs in present and past climates
Sang-Ik Shin, NOAA-CIRES Climate Diagnostics Center, Boulder, CO; and R. S. Webb, P. D. Sardeshmukh, R. J. Oglesby, and J. J. Barsugli

  2:15 PM
2.4
  2:30 PM
2.5
Forecasting global temperatures one year ahead
Chris K. Folland, Hadley Centre, Met Office, Exeter, United Kingdom; and A. W. Colman

  2:45 PM
2.6
Examination of the Hydrologic Feedback Pathway for Land-Climate Coupling
Paul A. Dirmeyer, Center for Ocean-Land-Atmosphere Studies, Calverton, MD; and T. DelSole

  3:00 PM
2.7
Evaluation of the Use of Forecast Interpretations information
Diego H. Pedreros, University of California Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA; and A. Bonilla, P. Ramirez, C. Funk, G. Husak, J. Michaelsen, and L. Aguilar

  3:15 PM
2.8
  3:45 PM
Seasonal predictability and the land/air interaction
M. Zhao, COLA, Calverton, MD; and P. A. Dirmeyer

  4:00 PM
Formal Poster Viewing with Coffee Break


4
Global Meteorological and Hydrological Services Update Part II
Sponsor: 21st International Conference on Interactive Information Processing Systems (IIPS) for Meteorology, Oceanography, and Hydrology
Cochairs: Fred R. Branski, NOAA/NWS; Jim Cooper, Earth Satellite Corporation

Papers:
  1:30 PM
4.1
  2:00 PM
4.2
USN Meteorological and Oceanographic Services Update (Invited Presentation)
Timothy McGee, Naval Meteorology and Oceanography, Stennis Space Center, MS

  2:30 PM
4.3
Hydrometeorological Activities of the Private Sector (Invited Presentation)
Larry E. Brazil, Riverside Technology, Inc., Fort Collins, CO

  3:00 PM
4.4
  3:30 PM
4.5
WMO Role in the Earth Information System (Invited Presentation). TBD, Geneva, Switzerland

  4:00 PM
Coffee Break with Formal Poster Viewing


5
Radar IIPS and Applications
Sponsor: 21st International Conference on Interactive Information Processing Systems (IIPS) for Meteorology, Oceanography, and Hydrology
Cochairs: Robert G. Borchers, SAIC; Douglas Forsyth, NOAA/NSSL; Robert Saffle, Mitretek Systems, Inc.

Papers:
  1:30 PM
5.1
NEXRAD Product Improvement - expanding science horizons
Robert E. Saffle, Mitretek Systems, Silver Spring, MD; and M. Istok and R. Okulski

  2:00 PM
5.3
NWS use of FAA radar data – Progress and Plans
Michael J. Istok, NOAA/NWS, Silver Spring, MD; and P. Pickard, R. Okulski, R. E. Saffle, and B. Bumgarner

  2:15 PM
5.4
Validation of FAA WARP system radar mosaic generation algorithms
Joseph C. Lang, Unisys Weather Information Services, Kennett Square, PA; and J. Stobie and K. Yarber

  2:30 PM
5.5
The Volume Coverage Pattern Explorer: A New Tool for Visualizing Radar Beam Paths
Kevin L. Manross, CIMMS/Univ. of Oklahoma and NOAA/NSSL, Norman, OK; and J. LaDue and G. J. Stumpf

http://www.cimms.ou.edu/~kmanross/VCPRPE/

  2:45 PM
5.6
A meteorological radar emulator for education and research
Michael I. Biggerstaff, University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK; and R. M. May

  3:00 PM
5.7
Evaluation of various algorithms and display concepts for weather forecasting
Indra Adrianto, University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK; and T. M. Smith, K. A. Scharfenberg, and T. B. Trafalis

  3:15 PM
5.8
Experiences Towards Advanced Weather Research and Training
Xuechao Yu, CIMMS/Univ. of Oklahoma and NOAA/NWS, Norman, OK; and N. L. Levit, K. R. Hoggard, and N. A. M. Said

  3:30 PM
5.9
Development of advanced techniques using the NOAA’s WSR-88D research radar
Dusan Zrnic, NOAA/NSSL, Norman, OK; and A. Zahrai, S. Torres, I. Ivic, C. D. Curtis, and V. Melnikov

  3:45 PM
Development and testing of polarimetric radar applications in WDSS-II
Kevin A. Scharfenberg, NOAA/NWS Office of Climate, Water, and Weather Services, Norman, OK ; and V. Lakshmanan and S. E. Giangrande

  4:00 PM
Formal Poster Viewing with Coffee Break

2:30 PM-2:30 PM: Monday, 10 January 2005


Poster Session 1
Probabilistic Hydrometeorological forecasting (poster session)
Sponsor: AMS Forum: Living with a Limited Water Supply

Papers:
 
National long-range hydrologic prediction system (NLHPS)
John. C. Schaake, NOAA/NWS, Silver Spring, MD; and P. Restrepo

 
Climate index weighting schemes for NWS ESP Based seasonal volume forecasts
Kevin Werner, National Weather Service, Western Region Scientific Services Division, Salt Lake City, UT


Poster Session 2
The Use of Climate Forecasts for Water Resources Planning and Management (Poster)
Sponsor: AMS Forum: Living with a Limited Water Supply

Papers:
 
Progress in Operational Integrated Forecast and Management of Northern California Water Resources: Hourly to Seasonal Time Scales
Konstantine P. Georgakakos, Hydrologic Research Center and SIO/Univ. Of California, San Diego, CA; and N. E. Graham, A. P. Georgakakos, H. Yao, E. Shamir, S. V. Taylor, and T. M. Carpenter

 
Analysis of water recycling in CCSM
Zhao Li, University of Alaska Fairbanks, Fairbanks, AK; and N. Mölders

 
Advanced hydrometeorological analysis and forecasting for water management decision-makers in Slovenia
Dave A. Matthews, Hydromet DSS, Silverthorne, CO; and M. Brilly, G. Gregoric, J. Polajnar, and P. Houser

http://home.comcast.net/~hydrometdss/HDSSIndex.html

Poster PDF (2.1 MB)
 
A Pilot Program for a Low Flow Impacts Database at the National Weather Service
Cody L. Knutson, National Drought Mitigation Center, Lincoln, NE; and M. Svoboda and D. R. Kluck

Poster PDF (27.1 kB)

2:30 PM-4:00 PM: Monday, 10 January 2005


Joint Poster Session 1
Formal Poster Viewing - Polar Coastal Processes (Joint with Sixth Conference on Coastal Atmospheric and Oceanic Prediction and Processes and the 8th Conf on Polar Meteorology and Oceanography)
Sponsors: (Joint between the 8th Conference on Polar Meteorology and Oceanography; and the Sixth Conference on Coastal Atmospheric and Oceanic Prediction and Processes )
Organizer: Peter S. Guest, NPS

Papers:
 
Freshwater distribution and its variability in the Arctic Ocean deduced from historical hydrochemistry
Michiyo Yamamoto-Kawai, International Arctic Research Center, University of Alaska Fairbanks, Fairbanks, AK; and N. Tanaka, S. Pivovarov, and L. Timokhov

Poster PDF (428.0 kB)
 
Meteorological conditions in Nares Strait and Smith Sound derived from a regional mesoscale model
Philip L. Barbour, Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR; and R. M. Samelson

 
Turbulent mixing in the under-ice boundary layer in Van Mijenfjorden (Svalbard), melt season 2004.
Karolina Widell, Geophysical Institute, University of Bergen, 5007 Bergen, Norway; and I. Fer

 
The role of tides in Arctic ice/ocean climate
Greg Holloway, Institute of Ocean Science, Sidney, BC, Canada; and A. Proshutinsky

 
Modeling Bering Sea Tides
Congbiao Liu, University of Alaska Fairbanks, Fairbanks, AK; and J. Wang and Z. Kowalik

 
Surface water and energy fluxes of the pan-Arctic land region based on a land surface model and ERA-40 reanalysis
Fengge Su, University of Washington, Seattle, WA; and J. C. Adam, K. E. Trenberth, and D. P. Lettenmaier

 
Paper JP1.7 has been moved to Joint Session J1, New Paper Number J1.15A

 
Moisture transport and polar ice sheets variability
Wenqing Tang, JPL, Pasadena, CA; and W. T. Liu

 
Numerical investigation of the relationship between the Ross Iceshelf Air Stream (RAS) and katabatic flows
Amanda S. Adams, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI; and G. J. Tripoli

 
An assessment of four model bulk aerodynamic algorithms used over sea ice
Michael A. Brunke, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ; and M. Zhou, X. Zeng, and E. L. Andreas

 
The Effect of the Sea Ice Zone on the Development of Boundary Layer Roll Clouds during Cold Air Outbreaks
Anthony Liu, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada; and G. W. K. Moore, K. Tsuboki, and I. A. Renfrew

 
Mesoscale modeling during MPACE
Alexander Avramov, Penn State University, University Park, PA; and V. T. Yannuzzi, P. Q. Olsson, C. P. Bahrmann, J. Y. Harrington, and J. Verlinde

Poster PDF (1.0 MB)
 
Numerical simulations of cyclone interaction with the orography of Greenland
Rebekah Martin, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada; and G. W. K. Moore

 
Barrier flow and tip jets: A QuikSCAT climatology of high wind speed events near Greenland
G. W. K. Moore, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada; and I. A. Renfrew


Poster Session 1
IIPS Poster Session I
Sponsor: 21st International Conference on Interactive Information Processing Systems (IIPS) for Meteorology, Oceanography, and Hydrology
Cochairs: Stephen M. Holt, Mitretek Systems; Scott T. Shipley, Raytheon Information Solutions

Papers:
 
The current Linux-Intel Portable WSR-88D CODE distribution and a summary of how it is being used in research, development, and operations
Thomas J. Ganger, Mitretek Systems Inc., Falls Church, VA; and M. J. Istok and W. M. Blanchard

Poster PDF (195.3 kB)
 
NEXRAD Open Radar Data Acquisition (ORDA) receiver calibration
Alan D. Free, SI International, Norman, OK; and A. K. Heck and N. K. Patel

Poster PDF (157.3 kB)
 
Radar Operations Center (ROC) progress in RVP8 time series playback for signal processing evaluation
Rick D. Rhoton, RS Information Systems, Inc., Norman, OK; and D. S. Saxion, G. T. McGehee, R. L. Ice, D. A. Warde, D. Sirmans, and D. L. Rachel

Poster PDF (512.0 kB)
 
Radar Operations Center (ROC) Evaluation of New Signal Processing Techniques for the WSR-88D
Richard L. Ice, RS Information Systems, Inc., Norman, OK; and G. T. McGehee, R. D. Rhoton, D. S. Saxion, D. A. Warde, R. G. Guenther, D. Sirmans, and D. L. Rachel

http://www.roc.noaa.gov/eng/RVP8Evalreports.asp

Poster PDF (683.6 kB)
 
The AP ground clutter mitigation scheme for the WSR-88D
Cathy Kessinger, NCAR, Boulder, CO; and S. Ellis, J. Van Andel, J. Yee, and J. Hubbert

Poster PDF (851.0 kB)
 
Evaluation of the SZ(8/64) Phase Code Algorithm: Some Operational Considerations
Gregory Meymaris, NCAR, Boulder, CO; and J. Hubbert, S. Ellis, and M. Dixon

Poster PDF (21.8 kB)
 
Radar Operations Center (ROC) Production Software Status for RV Ambiguity Mitigation
Darcy S. Saxion, RS Information Systems, Inc., Norman, OK; and R. D. Rhoton, G. T. McGehee, R. L. Ice, D. A. Warde, and D. Sirmans

Poster PDF (168.4 kB)
 
Radar Operations Center (ROC) Evaluation of Proposed Super Resolution Techniques for the WSR-88D
David A. Warde, SI International, Inc., Norman, OK; and D. Sirmans, R. L. Ice, R. D. Rhoton, and D. S. Saxion

Poster PDF (607.7 kB)
 
Multi-sensor storm cell identification and analysis
Travis M. Smith, Univeristy of Oklahoma/CIMMS and NOAA/NSSL, Norman, OK; and G. J. Stumpf

 
A comparison of multi-sensor hail diagnosis techniques
Kiel L. Ortega, University of Oklahoma/CIMMS and NOAA/NSSL, Norman, OK; and T. M. Smith, G. J. Stumpf, J. Hocker, and L. López

Poster PDF (336.8 kB)
 
A Multidisciplinary Approach to WSR-88D Data Quality Assurance
Charles A. Ray, RS Information Systems, Norman, OK; and J. W. Roper and B. Harp

Poster PDF (632.2 kB)
 
Identifying the cause of WSR-88D ghost echoes
Randy M. Steadham, NOAA/NEXRAD Radar Operations Center, Norman, OK; and C. A. Ray

 
An update on WSR-88D Level II data collection and distribution
Phil Cragg, NOAA/NWS, Silver Spring, MD; and W. M. Blanchard and T. Sandman

 
Radar Dissemination and Display Efforts by the Texas Mesonet
Gerald J. Creager, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX; and T. Yoksas

 
The National Severe Storms Laboratory: 40 Years Young and Going Strong
Rodger A. Brown, NOAA/NSSL, Norman, OK; and K. Tarp

Poster PDF (83.1 kB)
 
Digital Services Training in the National Weather Service
Brian Motta, NOAA/NWS, Boulder, CO

http://www-md.fsl.noaa.gov/IFPS/AMS05.html

Poster PDF (459.9 kB)
 
Operationally useful parameters viewed in three-dimensions during winter storms and severe thunderstorm outbreaks
Daniel D. Nietfeld, NOAA/NWSFO, Valley, NE; and K. Faltin and A. Prenzlow

 
P1.19
DESIGN OF A SITUATION AWARENESS DISPLAY FOR OPERATIONAL FORECASTERS

 
Symposium on the 50th Anniversary of Operational Numerical Weather Prediction
Kenneth F. Carey, Center for Science and Technology, Falls Church, VA; and L. W. Uccellini and L. Morone

 
Data Assimilation Systems Using the Earth System Modeling Framework
Carlos A Cruz, NASA, Greenbelt, MD; and A. M. DaSilva, W. Yang, and A. Trayanov

 
The role of NWS (and the Private Sector) in the Dissemination of Non-Weather and Weather Warnings
Herbert L. White, NOAA/NWS, Silver Spring, MD; and A. C. Kraus

 
Earth Science Data Grid System
Yuechen Chi, George Mason University, Fairfax, VA; and R. Yang and M. Kafatos

 
The pavement precipitation accumulation estimation system (PPAES)
Mark Askelson, University of North Dakota, Grand Forks, ND; and L. F. Osborne Jr.

 
A preliminary validation of the MDSS version 3 blowing snow heuristic algorithm
Jeffrey S. Tilley, Surface Transportation Weather Research Center, University of North Dakota, Grand Forks, ND; and B. Hershey, S. G. Gaddy, and J. J. Mewes

 
A blowing and drifting snow algorithm supporting MDSS
Leon F. Osborne Jr., Surface Transportation Weather Research Center, University of North Dakota, Grand Forks, ND

 
Providing tailored meteorological services and information on the global level—The Joint Air Force Army Weather Information Network (JAAWIN)
Fritz VanWijngaarden, Northrop Grumman Mission Systems, Bellevue, NE; and R. S. Penc and D. Payne

 
NOAA/NESDIS Near-real-time MODIS Data Distribution
Kristina Sprietzer, Science and Technology Corp., Suitland, MD; and P. Haggerty and G. Legg

Poster PDF (25.7 kB)
 
S4P-based data processing solutions at the Atmospheric Sciences Data Center
R. J. Walter, NASA, Hampton, VA; and F. Y. Wang

 
Imager capability on cloud classification using MODIS
Zhenglong Li, CIMSS/Univ. of Wisconsin, Madison, WI; and J. Li, P. Menzel, and T. J. Schmit

Poster PDF (2.4 MB)
 
Design and functionality of the NOAA MODIS near-real-time scheduler
Paul D. Haggerty, Science and Technology Corp., Suitland, MD; and K. Sprietzer and G. Legg

http://www.osdpd.noaa.gov/MODIS/AMS

Poster PDF (15.2 kB)
 
Retrieval of cloud microphysics from blended MODIS cloud products and AIRS radiance measurements
Chian-Yi Liu, CIMSS/Univ. of Wisconsin, Madison, WI; and J. Li and T. J. Schmit

Poster PDF (874.9 kB)
 
Near-Real-Time AMSR-E products at NOAA
Ivan Tcherednitchenko, Computer Sciences Corporation, Suitland, MD; and P. Haggerty, G. Legg, and R. Luczak

Poster PDF (62.7 kB)
 
Advances in Compression of Ultraspectral Sounder Data
Bormin Huang, CIMSS/Univ. of Wisconsin, Madison, WI; and A. Ahuja, H. L. Huang, T. J. Schmit, and R. W. Heymann

Poster PDF (560.7 kB)
 
P1.36 moved to JP1.7 (Climate Variability and Change)

 
P1.37 moved to JP1.8 (Climate Variability and Change)

 
P1.38 moved to JP1.9 (Climate Variability and Change)

 
The Advanced Satellite Aviation-weather Products (ASAP) initiative at the University of Wisconsin - CIMSS
Wayne F. Feltz, CIMSS/Univ. of Wisconsin, Madison, WI; and J. R. Mecikalski, J. J. Murray, D. B. Johnson, K. M. Bedka, S. M. Thomas, A. J. Wimmers, S. A. Ackerman, and C. C. Schmidt

 
Assessing two different commercial aircraft-based moisture sensing systems
Ralph A. Petersen, CIMSS/Univ. of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin; and W. Feltz

 
Objective estimation of tropical cyclone wind structure from infrared satellite data.
Kimberly J. Mueller, CIRA/Colorado State Univ., Fort Collins, CO; and M. DeMaria

 
P1.42
Design studies for management of metadata, schemas and queries for hyperspectral atmospheric observations

 
A processing system to produce blended total precipitable water products
Stanley Q. Kidder, CIRA/Colorado State Univ., Fort Collins, CO; and A. S. Jones

Poster PDF (392.7 kB)
 
Calibration Algorithm Accuracy Versus Efficiency Tradeoffs for a Geosynchronous Imaging Fourier Transform Spectrometer
Robert Knuteson, CIMSS/Univ. of Wisconsin, Madison, WI; and S. Ackerman, F. Best, R. Dedecker, R. Garcia, E. Olson, H. Revercomb, M. Smuga-Otto, and D. Tobin

Poster PDF (316.8 kB)
 
A prototype for the GIFTS information processing system
Raymond K. Garcia, SSEC/Univ. of Wisconsin, Madison, WI; and S. A. Ackerman, P. Antonelli, R. G. Dedecker, S. Dutcher, H. B. Howell, H. -. L. Huang, R. O. Knuteson, E. R. Olson, H. E. Revercomb, M. J. Smuga-Otto, and D. Tobin

Poster PDF (473.6 kB)
 
Trade-off study on vertical resolution for high spectral resolution sounder
Fang Wang, CIMSS/Univ. of Wisconsin, Madison, WI; and J. Li and T. J. Schmit

Poster PDF (592.1 kB)
 
Comparison of simulated top of atmosphere radiance datasets generated from MM5 and WRF numerical simulations
Jason A. Otkin, CIMSS/Univ. of Wisconsin, Madison, WI; and E. R. Olson

Poster PDF (336.1 kB)

Poster Session 1
LAND SURFACE AND HYDROLOGIC DATA ASSIMILATION POSTERS
Sponsor: 19th Conf on Hydrology
Organizer: Christa D. Peters-Lidard, NASA/GSFC

Papers:
 
Use of MODIS snow cover imagery for streamflow and reservoir storage forecasts in the Snake River basin
Marketa McGuire, University of Washington, Seattle, WA; and A. W. Wood, Q. Zeng, and D. P. Lettenmaier

 
The use of NASA land data assimilated products to improve flood and drought risk analysis and forecasting for water resources management in the Columbia River Basin
Kristi R. Arsenault, University of Maryland, Baltimore County, Greenbelt, MD; and P. R. Houser, S. M. Hunter, D. Frevert, R. Stodt, and D. Matthews

 
The Latency of Model Generated Precipitation in Winter Time Cyclones
Holly M. Allen, University of Alabama, Huntsville, AL; and J. R. Mecikalski and C. B. Darden

Poster PDF (460.0 kB)
 
Snow microwave products from the NOAA's Advanced Microwave Sounding Unit
Cezar Kongoli, QSS Group, Inc., Lanham and NOAA/NESDIS, Camp Springs, MD; and R. R. Ferraro, P. Pellegrino, and H. Meng

Poster PDF (736.6 kB)
 
Multiseasonal validation of GOES-based insolation estimates
Jason A. Otkin, CIMSS/Univ. of Wisconsin, Madison, WI; and M. C. Anderson and J. R. Mecikalski

Poster PDF (541.3 kB)
 
Estimating stability indices from MODIS infrared measurements over the Korean Peninsula
Sung-Hee Park, Seoul National University, Seoul, South Korea; and B. J. Sohn, E. S. Chung, and M. Koenig

 
Assimilating passive microwave brightness temperature for snow water equivalent estimation
Kostantinos M Andreadis, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Washington, Seattle, WA; and D. P. Lettenmaier

 
A comparison of satellite derived global hydrological products
Arief Sudradjat, University of Maryland and CICS/ESSIC, College Park, MD; and R. R. Ferraro


Poster Session 1
Poster Session
Sponsor: 16th Conference on Planned and Inadvertent Weather Modification

Papers:
 
Modeling the complex interactions among urban climate, air quality, and adaptive/reactive human response
David J. Sailor, Portland State University, Portland, OR; and R. D. Bornstein, L. George, J. Semenza, and H. Taha

http://www.fuse.pdx.edu

Poster PDF (57.5 kB)
 
Probe into the Hail Formation Mechanism on the Northeastern Border of Qinghai-Xizang Plateau and its Neighbourhood
Kang Fengqin, Lanzhou Institute of Arid Meteorology, Lanzhou, Gansu, China; and Z. Qiang and G. Xueliang

http://cxp.ys168.com

Poster PDF (113.0 kB)
 
Fog Aerosol analysis and cloud seeding experiments at DaeGwalryoung, Korea.
Sung-Nam Oh, Meteorological Research Institute / Korea Meteorological Administration, Seoul, South Korea; and Y. H. Kim, J. Y. Kim, G. M. Park, J. Y. Jeong, and H. Y. Yang

Poster PDF (103.3 kB)
 
Impacts of Cloud Seeding on COOP Precipitation Measurements in the Southern Plains
Bradley G. Illston, Univ. of Oklahoma, Norman, OK OK

Poster PDF (320.8 kB)
 
P1.5
Evaluation of Hail Suppression Operations on the North Dakota Cloud Modification Project 1985-2003

 
Effect of air pollution on precipitation along the Front Range of the Rocky Mountains
Israel L. Jirak, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO; and W. R. Cotton and W. L. Woodley

Poster PDF (541.7 kB)
 
A Model Based Feasibility Study of Glacionic Seeding during a Winter Orographic Precipitation Event in Wyoming
Tara Jensen, NCAR, Boulder, CO; and R. Bruintjes, D. Breed, W. D. Hall, B. Boe, and K. Ross

Poster PDF (180.0 kB)
 
P1.9
A look at thunderstorm indices and their ability to discriminate between seedable and non-seedable days in the Southern Ogallala Aquifer Rainfall (SOAR) program target area

 
Three-dimensional modeling of North Dakota clouds using a new microphysical scheme with explicit treatment of atmospheric aerosols and hygroscopic seeding effects
Richard D. Farley, South Dakota School of Mines and Technology, Rapid City, SD; and M. R. Hjelmfelt and S. L. Hansen

Poster PDF (174.3 kB)
 
THE UNFORTUNATE ACADEMY REPORT ON WEATHER MODIFICATION
Roland List, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Poster PDF (43.9 kB)
 
Summary of trace chemical and physical measurements of snowfall in two Nevada cloud seeding target areas
Arlen W. Huggins, DRI, Reno, NV; and P. R. Edwards and J. R. McConnell

Poster PDF (983.1 kB)
 
The Magnifying Glass Versus The Rubber Stamp—The Role of Statistics in Weather Modification
Tressa L. Fowler, NCAR, Boulder, CO; and B. G. Brown and E. Gilleland

Poster PDF (148.3 kB)

Poster Session 1
Poster Session 1
Sponsor: Conference on Meteorological Applications of Lightning Data
Chair: Stephen J. Hodanish, NOAA/NWSFO

Papers:
 
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

Poster PDF (211.7 kB)
 
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

 
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

Poster PDF (443.0 kB)
 
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

Poster PDF (234.0 kB)
 
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

Poster PDF (340.0 kB)
 
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

Poster PDF (315.4 kB)
 
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

Poster PDF (337.4 kB)
 
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

 
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

Poster PDF (271.6 kB)
 
NWS cloud-to-ground lightning threat analysis
Nicole M. Kempf, NOAA/NWS, Tulsa, OK; and G. E. Wiley

Poster PDF (497.1 kB)
 
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 III, E. R. Mansell, J. W. Conway, M. D. Eilts, R. Jabrzemski, and M. M. Lengyel

Poster PDF (267.8 kB)
 
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

 
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

http://bertha.met.fsu.edu

Poster PDF (534.0 kB)
 
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

http://bertha.met.fsu.edu

Poster PDF (1.4 MB)
 
Lightning Safety and Outdoor Stadiums
Joel Gratz, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO; and R. Church and E. Noble

Poster PDF (1.8 MB)
 
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

Poster PDF (2.9 MB)

Poster Session 1
Poster Session 1
Sponsor: Ninth Symposium on Integrated Observing and Assimilation Systems for the Atmosphere, Oceans, and Land Surface (IOAS-AOLS)

Papers:
 
Trace Gas Observations by AIRS and Preliminary Validation Results Against Airborne Measurements from INTEX
Juying X. Warner, University of Maryland Baltimore County, Baltimore, MD; and W. W. McMillan, C. D. Barnet, M. L. McCourt, S. Vay, and O. Investigators

 
The effect of using AWIPS LAPS and High Resolution SSTs to locally initialize the Workstation ETA
Brian Etherton, University of North Carolina, Charlotte, NC; and P. Santos, S. Lazarus, and C. Calvert

Poster PDF (1.3 MB)
 
Structure of the lower troposphere over the Pacific Ocean: information gained from AIRS observations
Hengchun Ye, California State University, Los Angeles, CA; and E. J. Fetzer, E. T. Olsen, A. Eldering, S. Granger, L. Chen, B. H. Lambrigtsen, E. Fishein, S. Y. Lee, B. Kahn, and A. Braverman

Poster PDF (2.5 MB)
 
Numerical Simulation of Convection during IHOP _2002 using the Flux-Adjusting Surface Data Assimilation System (FASDAS)
Peter P. Childs, State Climate Office of North Carolina and North Carolina State Univ., Raleigh, NC; and A. L. Qureshi, S. Raman, K. Alapaty, R. Ellis, R. Boyles, and D. Niyogi

Poster PDF (526.8 kB)
 
Short-term, seasonal and interannual variability of the vertical distribution of water vapor observed by AIRS
Edward T. Olsen, JPL and California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA; and S. L. Granger and E. J. Fetzer

http://airsteam.jpl.nasa.gov

Poster PDF (2.1 MB)
 
Sensitivity characteristics of a variational assimilation of cloudy satellite radiances using the GOES sounder
Tomoko Koyama, Japan Meteorological Agency, Tokyo, Japan; and T. Vukicevic, A. S. Jones, M. Sengupta, and T. H. Vonder Haar

 
 
Ongoing Japanese long-term Reanalysis project (JRA-25); Assimilation of NOAA polar-orbiter satellite sounder data
Masami Sakamoto, Japan Meteorological Agency, Tokyo, Japan; and S. Kobayashi, K. Kato, T. Matsumoto, H. Koide, K. Onogi, T. Ose, and H. Hatsushika

http://www.jreap.org/index-e.html

Poster PDF (195.9 kB)
 
Estimating clear-sky radiances from the AIRS/AMSU instrument suite
Evan Fishbein, JPL, Pasadena, CA; and L. Chen, E. J. Fetzer, and S. Y. Lee

 
P1.12 Moved to Oral Session 10; new presentation number 10.3

 
Two year trends in AIRS and AMSU observations
Hartmut H. Aumann, JPL, Pasadena, CA; and D. T. Gregorich, L. Strow, and S. Hannon

 
P1.14
AIRS associated accomplishments at the JCSDA


Poster Session 1
Poster Session: Climate Assessments, Drought, and Observed Climate Change
Sponsor: 16th Conference on Climate Variability and Change

Papers:
 
Bringing together disparate data for climate impacts studies
M. Benno Blumenthal, Columbia University, Palisades, NY; and C. F. Ropelewski, E. Grover-Kopec, J. del Corral, and M. Dilley

 
Response of winter cereal productivity in Spain to climate variability
Concepcion Rodriguez-Puebla, University of Salamanca, Salamanca, Spain; and A. H. Encinas and M. D. Frías

Poster PDF (170.3 kB)
 
P1.3
Study on the Potential Impacts of Climate Change on Wheat Production in Contrast Environments of South Australia

 
A climatology of weather influences on electric power outages in New Hampshire
Michael H. Nahmias, Plymouth State University, Plymouth, NH; and E. G. Hoffman

Poster PDF (58.5 kB)
 
Afghanistan weather hazards
Bradford R. Pugh, NOAA/NWS/NCEP/CPC, Camp Springs, MD

http://www.cpc.ncep.noaa.gov/products/fews/AFGHANISTAN/index.html

Poster PDF (20.3 kB)
 
Examination of Global Wind Trends Due to Global Climate Change to Improve Wind Resource Assessments
Glenn E. Van Knowe, AWS Truewind, LLC, Troy, NY; and J. W. Zack, K. T. Waight, and M. Brower

http://www.meso.com

Poster PDF (145.7 kB)
 
Customer satisfaction with NOAA’s National Weather Service climate products and services
Barbara E. Mayes, NOAA/NWS, Silver Spring, MD; and R. E. Livezey

 
Status report on NWS climate services implementation at the regional and local level
Judith A. Koepsell, Climate Services Division/OCWWS/NWS/NOAA, Silver Spring, MD; and R. E. Livezey

 
Monitoring and forecasting drought in Southern Africa during the 2002-2003 season
James Verdin, USGS, Sioux Falls, SD; and C. C. Funk, T. Magadzire, J. Michaelsen, and G. Husak

 
Analysis of meteorological drought in Mexico
Juan Matias Méndez-Pérez Sr., Center for Atmospheric Sciences / National Autonomous University of Mexico, Mexico city, Mexico, Mexico; and V. Magaña and E. Caetano

 
P1.12 moved to oral presentation 5.6a

 
Recent Trends in Mid-Atlantic Regional Water Cycle
Donglian Sun, George Mason University, Fairfax, VA

 
An analysis of century-long Southwest U. S. precipitation data using wavelet analysis
Eileen A. Hall-McKim, University of Colorado, CIRES/NOAA/AL, Boulder, CO; and G. N. Kiladis

 
Radiosonde Atmospheric Temperature Products for Assessing Climate (RATPAC): Extending a homogeneity-adjusted radiosonde temperature time series using first differences
Melissa Free, NOAA/ARL, Silver Spring, MD; and D. J. Seidel, J. K. Angell, J. Lanzante, I. Durre, T. C. Peterson, and J. Lawrimore

 
Surface pressure trends in the canadian arctic during 1953–2003
William A. Van Wijngaarden, York University, Toronto, ON, Canada

Poster PDF (174.4 kB)
 
A revised U.S. climate extremes index
Karin L. Gleason, NOAA/NESDIS/NCDC, Asheville, NC; and J. H. Lawrimore, D. H. Levinson, and T. R. Karl

Poster PDF (396.1 kB)
 
P1.20
Consistency of recent European summer climate trends and extremes with future regional climate projections

 
Climate extreme indices via regional climate change workshops
Thomas C. Peterson, NOAA/NESDIS/NCDC, Asheville, NC

Poster PDF (173.8 kB)
 
Recent California climate variability: Spatial and temporal temperature trend patterns
Richard Medina, California State University, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA; and G. Gongora, S. LaDochy, and W. C. Patzert

 
Central California: Opposing temperature trends valley vs. mountains
John R. Christy, University of Alabama, Huntsville, AL; and W. B. Norris, K. T. Redmond, and K. P. Gallo

Poster PDF (1.7 MB)
 
Examining local and regional temperature changes for the 1977-2003 period using a truly homogeneous station record
David R. Easterling, NOAA/NESDIS/NCDC, Asheville, NC; and M. Menne, C. N. Williams Jr., D. Levinson, and G. M. Goodge

Poster PDF (28.6 kB)
 
Detection of Inhomogeneity in Extreme Value Series
Xuebin Zhang, MSC, Downsview, ON, Canada; and J. Wang

 
MONITORING OF BACKGROUND ATMOSPHERE ON CLIMATE CHANGE OVER KOREAN PENINSULA
Sung-Nam Oh, Meteorological Research Institute / Korea Meteorological Administration, Seoul, South Korea

Poster PDF (1.6 MB)
 
From Dimming to Brightening: Trends in Solar Radiation inferred from Surface Observations
C. N. Long, PNNL, Richland, WA; and M. Wild and E. G. Dutton

 
P1.28
Asymmetric responses of the hydrological cycle in global warming and El Niño

 
An examination of the quality of the Atlantic tropical cyclone database
Bradford S. Barrett, University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK; and L. M. Leslie

Poster PDF (154.9 kB)
 
P1.32 moved to JP2.28

 
Distributed flash-flood hydrologic modeling for semi-arid regions using radar data
Soni Yatheendradas, HWR-SAHRA, The University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ; and T. Wagener, H. V. Gupta, C. Unkrich, M. Schaffner, and D. Goodrich


Poster Session 1
Suki Manabe Symposium Poster Session
Sponsor: The Suki Manabe Symposium

Papers:
 
Tropical cyclones in a greenhouse-warmed climate: a projection from a 20-km mesh global climate model
Kazuyoshi Oouchi, AESTO/MRI, Kanagawa, Japan; and J. Yoshimura, H. Yoshimura, R. Mizuta, and A. Noda

 
The predictability of inter-decadal changes in ENSO activity and ENSO teleconnections
Scott B Power, BMRC, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia; and M. Haylock, R. Colman, and X. Wang

 
The climate sensitivity and its components diagnosed from 1 Diagnosing the climate sensitivity from Earth radiation budget data
Piers M. de F. Forster, University of Reading UK, Reading, England; and J. M. Gregory

 
Satellite-derived calculations of global lower tropospheric relative humidity, 1988 - 1999
Thomas H Vonder Haar, CIRA/Colorado State Univ., Fort Collins, CO; and J. M. Forsythe, B. Ruston, and S. Woo

 
Response of the wintertime sea level pressure with A0-like pattern to the global warming — Implication of stratospheric origin
Seiji Yukimoto, Meteorological Research Institute, Japan, Tsukuba, Japan; and K. Kodera

 
Global warming and simulated snowfall trends in eastern North America
John P. Krasting, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ; and A. J. Broccoli

 
Energy Spectrum of Global Atmosphere Governed by Rossby Wave Breaking
H. L. Tanaka, University of Tsukuba, Tsukuba, Japan

 
Diurnal Cycle of Summertime Deep Convection over North America: A Satellite Perspective
Baijun Tian, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ; and I. Held, G. Lau, and B. Soden

 
Diagnosis of radiative feedbacks in the latest version of the GFDL AM2 climate model
Stephanie A. Weber, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ

 
Change of the East Asian summer rainy season (Bai-u) projected by a super high resolution global model
Shoji Kusunoki, Meteorological Research Institute, Climate Research Department, 4th Laboratory (Global warming projection), 305-0052, Tsukuba, Ibaraki, Japan

 
A generalized energy balance climate model with parameterized dynamics and diabatic heating
Karen M. Shell, SIO/Univ. of California, La Jolla, CA; and R. C. J. Somerville


Formal Poster Viewing with Coffee Break

4:00 PM-5:00 PM: Monday, 10 January 2005


4
Transportation
Sponsor: Third Annual Users Conference
Moderator: Leon F. Osborne Jr., Meridian Environmental Technology, Inc.

Papers:
  4:00 PM
4.1
A Mobile Meteorological Center
J. Cogan, Army Research Laboratory, White Sands Missile Range, NM; and M. Torres, E. Vidal Jr., Y. Wang, C. Williamson, Y. Yee, and R. E. Dumais Jr.

  4:30 PM
4.2
Matching User Needs to Provider Capabilities
John J. Mewes, Meridian Environmental Technology, Inc., Grand Forks, ND

4:00 PM-5:15 PM: Monday, 10 January 2005


4
Lightning prediction, safety, and protection
Sponsor: Conference on Meteorological Applications of Lightning Data
Chair: William P. Roeder, AWS

Papers:
  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

http://science.ksc.nasa.gov/amu

  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, EC, Edmonton, AB, Canada; and C. Price and L. Wilson

 
4.5
Meteorological case studies of lightning strike victims in Colorado

  5:15 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

4:00 PM-5:30 PM: Monday, 10 January 2005


1
Probabilistic Hydrometeorological forecasting part II
Sponsor: AMS Forum: Living with a Limited Water Supply
Chair: Ana P. Barros, Duke University

Papers:
  4:00 PM
1.1
  4:15 PM
1.2
Spatial Scaling of Simulated Streamflow Uncertainty
Theresa M. Carpenter, Hydrologic Research Center and SIO/Univ. of California, San Diego, CA; and K. P. Georgakakos

  4:30 PM
1.3
Recursive Bayesian Model Combination for Streamflow Forecasting
Newsha K. Ajami, University of California at Irvine (UCI), Irvine, CA; and Q. Duan, H. Moradkhani, and S. Sorooshian

  5:00 PM
1.5
Using NWSRFS ESP for Making Early Outlooks of Seasonal Runoff Volumes into Lake Powell
David G Brandon, Colorado Basin River Forecast Center, Salt Lake City, Utah

http://www.cbrfc.noaa.gov


Panel Discussion 1
THE U.S. INTEGRATED OCEAN OBSERVING SYSTEM: INDUSTRY PERSPECTIVE AND SPECIFIC EXAMPLES OF GLOBAL AND REGIONAL APPLICATIONS.
Sponsor: AMS Forum: Living in the Coastal Zone
Organizer: Margaret A. Davidson, NOAA Coastal Services Center

Papers:
  4:00 PM
The U.S. Integrated Ocean Observing System: Industry Perspective and Specific Examples of Global and Regional Applications
Thomas C. Malone, Ocean.US Office for Integrated and Sustained Ocean Observations, Arlington, VA; and S. Piotrowicz, M. E. Luther, and R. L. Cohen


3
Assimilation Techniques and Their Evaluation - Part 1
Sponsor: Ninth Symposium on Integrated Observing and Assimilation Systems for the Atmosphere, Oceans, and Land Surface (IOAS-AOLS)
Organizer: Chris Snyder, NCAR

Papers:
  4:00 PM
3.1
  4:15 PM
3.2
Experiments with the NCEP gridpoint statistical interpolation system
Daryl T. Kleist, EMC/SAIC, Camp Springs, MD; and J. C. Derber, D. Parrish, R. Treadon, and W. -. S. Wu

  4:30 PM
3.3
Using hourly and daily precipitation analyses to improve model water budget
Ying Lin, NOAA/NWS/NCEP, Camp Springs, MD; and K. E. Mitchell, E. Rogers, and G. J. DiMego

Poster PDF (154.3 kB)
  4:45 PM
3.4
Application of GPS Slant Water Vapor Tomography to an IHOP Storm Case with Simple Constraints
Yuanfu Xie, NOAA/ERL/FSL, Boulder, CO; and J. Braun, A. E. MacDonald, and R. Ware

  5:00 PM
3.5
Jungian data assimilation
Gregory S. Duane, NCAR, Boulder, CO; and J. J. Tribbia

  5:15 PM
3.6

3
development and refinement of conceptual models; application of numerical models to planned and inadvertent weather modification topics
Sponsor: 16th Conference on Planned and Inadvertent Weather Modification
Organizer: Tara Jensen, NCAR

Papers:
  4:00 PM
3.1
Purposeful tornado amelioration: Is the science ready?
Joseph H. Golden, Forecast Systems Lab, NOAA, Boulder, CO

  4:15 PM
3.2
Modeled sensitivity of wintertime precipitation to CCN and GCCN concentrations
Stephen M. Saleeby, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO; and W. R. Cotton

Poster PDF (1.7 MB)
  4:45 PM
3.4
  5:15 PM
3.6
Controlling the evolution of a simulated hurricane through optimal perturbations: Initial experiments using a 4-D variational analysis system
R. N. Hoffman, AER, Lexington, MA; and C. Grassotti, J. M. Henderson, S. M. Leidner, G. Modica, and T. Nehrkorn

4:00 PM-5:45 PM: Monday, 10 January 2005


3
Clouds, Climate, Chemistry and air quality
Sponsor: 2nd Symposium on Lidar Atmospheric Applications
Chair: Kenneth Sassen, University of Alaska Fairbanks

Papers:
  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

Poster PDF (46.4 kB)
  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

http://kai@info.human.nagoya-u.ac.jp

  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

  5:30 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

5:00 PM-5:30 PM: Monday, 10 January 2005


5
Energy
Sponsor: Third Annual Users Conference
Moderator: Mary G. Altalo, SAIC

Papers:
  5:00 PM
5.1
  5:15 PM
5.2
The Value of National Weather Service Forecasts in Scheduling Electricity Generation
Rodney F. Weiher, NOAA/U.S. Department of Commerce, Washington, DC; and T. J. Teisberg and A. Khotanzad

5:30 PM-5:30 PM: Monday, 10 January 2005


Sessions End for the Day


Sessions End for the day

5:30 PM-7:00 PM: Monday, 10 January 2005


Formal Opening of Exhibits with Reception (Cash Bar)


FORMAL OPENING OF EXHIBITS WITH RECEPTION (CASH BAR)

7:15 PM-7:15 PM: Monday, 10 January 2005


Suki Manabe Symposium Banquet

7:30 PM-7:30 PM: Monday, 10 January 2005


Suki Manabe Symposium Banquet

Tuesday, 11 January 2005

12:00 AM-12:00 AM: Tuesday, 11 January 2005


Tues 11 Jan

5:00 AM-6:00 AM: Tuesday, 11 January 2005


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.

6:00 AM-6:00 AM: Tuesday, 11 January 2005


TUE 11 JAN

8:00 AM-8:15 AM: Tuesday, 11 January 2005


Keynote Speaker
Towards a Global Earth Observation System of Systems
Sponsor: GOES-R/NPOESS Symposium
Speaker: Gregory Withee, NOAA/NESDIS

Papers:
  8:00 AM

8:00 AM-9:45 AM: Tuesday, 11 January 2005


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)
Sponsors: (Joint between the Third Annual Users Conference; and the IMPACT: Weather 2004 )
Chair: William Hooke, AMS, Atmospheric Policy Program

Papers:
  8:00 AM
Introductory Remarks
Joseph Schaefer, NOAA/NSSL/SPC, Norman, OK

  8:15 AM
2004 Year in Review
Robert W. Corell, National Science Foundation, Arlington, VA

  8:45 AM
  9:15 AM
Tsunami 2004 and US Preparedness
Eddie N. Bernard, NOAA/PMEL/TIME, Seattle, WA

8:20 AM-12:00 PM: Tuesday, 11 January 2005


1

Papers:
  8:20 AM
1.1
GOES-R Program Overview
Gary K. Davis, NOAA/NESDIS

  8:40 AM
1.2
GOES-R Users’ Conference GUC–3
James Gurka, NOAA/NESDIS, Silver Spring, MD

  8:50 AM
1.3
ABI [Advanced Baseline Imager]
Timothy J. Schmit, ORA, Madison, WI

  9:10 AM
1.4
  9:25 AM
1.5
  9:35 AM
1.6
  9:45 AM
1.7
Other Planned Instruments – Lightning Mapper
Hugh J. Christian Jr., NASA/MSFC, Huntsville, AL

  9:55 AM
1.8
GOES – Polar synergy
W. Paul Menzel, NOAA/NESDIS, Madison, WI

  10:20 AM
1.9
  10:30 AM
  10:40 AM
Closing Remarks - Dr. Gerald J. Dittberner, NOAA/NESDIS
Gerald Dittberner, NOAA/NESDIS, Silver Spring, MD

  10:45 AM
Formal Poster Viewing and Coffee Break

8:30 AM-9:00 AM: Tuesday, 11 January 2005


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

8:30 AM-9:45 AM: Tuesday, 11 January 2005


2
International Polar Year - Invited Presentations
Sponsor: 8th Conference on Polar Meteorology and Oceanography
Organizer: David H. Bromwich, Byrd Polar Research Center, Ohio State Univ.

Papers:
  8:30 AM
2.1
Update on Plans for the International Polar Year (Invited Presentation)
Sheldon Drobot, The National Academies, Washington, DC; and D. H. Bromwich

  8:45 AM
2.2
  9:15 AM
2.4
  9:30 AM
2.5
Canada and the International Polar Year (Invited Presentation)
Barry E. Goodison, MSC, Downsview, Ontario, Canada


2
Understanding and Communicating Change
Sponsor: AMS Forum: Living in the Coastal Zone
Organizer: Leonard J. Pietrafesa, North Carolina State University

Papers:
  8:30 AM
2.1
  9:00 AM
2.2
  9:30 AM
2.3
Climate Change and Short-Term Forecasting for Alaskan Northern Coasts
Gary L. Hufford, NOAA/NWS, Anchorage, AK; and J. L. Partain

Poster PDF (181.1 kB)

4
Assimilation Techniques and Their Evaluation - Part 2
Sponsor: Ninth Symposium on Integrated Observing and Assimilation Systems for the Atmosphere, Oceans, and Land Surface (IOAS-AOLS)
Organizer: Yuanfu Xie, Forecast Research Division

Papers:
  8:45 AM
4.2
Critical issues of ensemble data assimilation in application to GOES-R risk reduction program
Dusanka Zupanski, CIRA/Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO; and M. Zupanski, M. DeMaria, and L. Grasso

http://ftp://ftp.cira.colostate.edu/Zupanski/presentations/D.Zupanski.talk.AMS.IOAS-AOLS.ppt

  9:00 AM
4.3
An ensemble Kalman filter for WRF and a comparison with the WRF three-dimensional variational assimilation scheme
Chris Snyder, NCAR, Boulder, CO; and A. Caya, D. M. Barker, J. Anderson, and W. C. Skamarock

  9:15 AM
4.4
Correcting CMAQ photolysis rates based on GOES observed clouds
Arastoo Pour Biazar, University of Alabama, Huntsville, AL; and R. T. McNider, S. J. Roselle, and R. J. Suggs

  9:30 AM
4.5
4DDATA assimilation of GOES imager IR radiances in cloudy conditions
T. Vukicevic, CIRA/Colorado State University, Ft. Collins, CO; and M. Sengupta, A. Jones, and T. Vonder Haar


5
Advances in lightning technology and transfer from research to operations
Sponsor: Conference on Meteorological Applications of Lightning Data
Chair: Richard J. Blakeslee, NASA/MSFC

Papers:
  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

http://nis-www.lanl.gov/nis-projects/forte_science/

  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


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)
Sponsors: (Joint between the AMS Forum: Living with a Limited Water Supply; and the 19th Conf on Hydrology )
Chair: David Reynolds, NOAA/NWSFO

Papers:
  8:30 AM
Experimental real-time seasonal hydrologic forecast system for the western U.S.
Andrew W. Wood, University of Washington, Seattle, WA; and D. P. Lettenmaier

  8:45 AM
Effects of climate variability on hydropower production and covariability with energy demand in California and the Pacific Northwest
Alan F. Hamlet, JISAO Climate Impacts Group and the Dept. of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Univ. of Washington, Seattle, WA; and N. Voisin, D. Lettenmaier, and D. W. Pierce

  9:00 AM
Creative Application of Hydro-Climate Predictions for a Drought Management Plan
John F. Henz, HDR Engineering, Inc; Denver, Colorado, Denver, CO; and W. J. Badini

8:30 AM-9:54 AM: Tuesday, 11 January 2005


Panel Discussion 1
EXPLORING ATTITUDES ON SCIENCE NEWS COVERAGE
Sponsor: 4th Communications Workshop - Science and the Media: Can We Improve the Communication of Science via the Mass Media
Panelists: Anthony Socci, EPA/Office of Atmospheric Programs; Tegan Blaine, SIO; Bud Ward, Environmental Journalist and Journalism Educator; Dale Willman, Field Notes Productions; Rick Anthes, NCAR; Steve Schneider, Stanford University; Andy Revkin, New York Times

Papers:
  8:30 AM
Panelist #1
Tegan Blaine, SIO, La Jolla, CA

  8:42 AM
Panelist #2
Bud Ward, Environmental Journalist and Journalism Educator, Washington, DC

  8:54 AM
Panelist #3
Anthony Socci, EPA/Office of Atmospheric Programs, Washington, DC

  9:06 AM
Panelist #4
Dale Willman, Field Notes Productions, Sarasota Springs, NY

  9:18 AM
Panelist #5
Richard Anthes, UCAR, Boulder, CO

  9:30 AM
Panelist #6
Steve Schneider, Stanford University, Stanford, CA

  9:42 AM
Panelist #7
Andy Revkin, New York Times, New York, NY

8:30 AM-10:00 AM: Tuesday, 11 January 2005


4
Planned weather modification including promising new technologies such as the recent hygroscopic and winter orographic seeding experiments and evaluation methods for seeding experiments
Sponsor: 16th Conference on Planned and Inadvertent Weather Modification
Organizers: William L. Woodley, Woodley Weather Consultants; Darin W. Langerud, North Dakota Atmospheric Resource Board

Papers:
  8:30 AM
4.1
The Santa Barbara Cloud Seeding Project in Coastal Southern California, Operations and Research Spanning More Than 50 Years
Don A. Griffith, North America Weather Consultants, Sandy, UT; and M. E. Solak, R. B. Almy, and D. Gibbs

  8:45 AM
4.2
Observations of rime icing in the Wasatch Mountains of Utah: implications regarding winter season cloud seeding
Mark E. Solak, North American Weather Consultants, Sandy, UT; and D. P. Yorty and D. A. Griffith

  9:00 AM
4.3
The search for the optimal size of hygroscopic seeding particles
Ronen Lahav, The Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Israel; and D. Rosenfeld

  9:30 AM
4.5
The Snowy Precipitation Enhancement Research Program
Mark F. Heggli, Innovative Hydrology, Auburn, CA; and B. Dunn, A. W. Huggins, J. Denholm, L. Angri, and T. Luker

  9:45 AM
4.6
Artificial Atmospheric Ionization: A Potential Window for Weather Modification
Phillip Kauffman, Ionogenics Corp., Bedford, MA; and A. Ruiz-Columbié

8:30 AM-11:00 AM: Tuesday, 11 January 2005


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)
Sponsor: 21st International Conference on Interactive Information Processing Systems (IIPS) for Meteorology, Oceanography, and Hydrology
Cochairs: John R. Lincoln, US Navy Retired; WMO Retired; Consultant; Howard J. Diamond, NOAA/NESDIS

Papers:
  8:30 AM
7.1
Using a knowledge based forecasting system to establish the limits of predictability
Harvey Stern, Bureau of Meteorology, Melbourne, Vic., Australia

http://www.weather-climate.com/ams2005lr.html

  8:45 AM
7.2
Operational Scribe Nowcasting sub-system: Objective Verification Results
Claude Landry, MSC, Dorval, QC, Canada; and R. Parent, J. -. F. Deschênes, A. Giguère, G. Hardy, and R. Verret

Poster PDF (83.0 kB)
  9:30 AM
7.5
Perspectives on Internet Data Distribution Expansion and Use in Brazil
Waldenio Gambi de Almeida, CPTEC/INPE, Cachoeira Paulista, S.P., Brazil; and L. A. D. Carvalho, S. H. S. Ferreira, D. G. Coelho, M. G. A. Justi da Silva, and T. Yoksas

  9:45 AM
Formal Poster Viewing with Coffee Break

8:30 AM-12:00 PM: Tuesday, 11 January 2005


2
Coupled Modeling and Coastal Air-Sea Interaction
Sponsor: Sixth Conference on Coastal Atmospheric and Oceanic Prediction and Processes
Organizers: Alan Blumberg, Stevens Institute of Technology; John G.W. Kelley, NOAA

Papers:
  8:30 AM
2.1
A unified dynamical model for atmospheric and oceanic flows
Claude Girard, Recherche en prévision numérique, Meteorological Service of Canada, Dorval QC H9P 1J3, Dorval, QC, Canada; and R. François, P. Pellerin, F. Saucier, and H. Ritchie

  8:45 AM
2.2
Development of a regional coupled ocean-atmosphere model
Hyodae Seo, IPRC, Univ. Hawaii, Honolulu, HI; and A. J. Miller, J. O. Roads, and M. Kanamitsu

Poster PDF (2.5 MB)
  9:00 AM
2.3
Southern California Bight current system forced by 1996-2003 MM5 wind
Changming Dong, IGPP/UCLA, Los Angeles, CA; and M. Blaas, A. Hall, M. Hughes, and J. McWilliams

  9:15 AM
2.4
Seasonal comparisons of strong western North Pacific cyclones and the SST anomalies beneath them
Richard E. Danielson, Dalhousie University, Halifax, NS, Canada; and J. R. Gyakum

  9:30 AM
2.5
Adriatic air-sea coupling
Julie Pullen, NRL, Monterey, CA; and J. D. Doyle and R. Signell

  9:45 AM
2.6
Application of Adaptive Triangular Grids to Simulation of Coastal Atmospheric & Oceanic Prediction
David Bacon, Science Applications International Corporation, McLean, VA; and N. Ahmad, T. J. Dunn, M. S. Hall, and A. Sarma

  10:00 AM
2.7
Response of the East Florida Shelf and Florida Current to mesocale wind-forcing
Christopher N. K. Mooers, RSMAS, University of Miami, Miami, FL; and J. Fiechter and I. Bang

  10:15 AM
2.8
Seasonal heat storage and advection in the California Current
Kathleen A. Edwards, University of Washington, Seattle, WA; and K. A. Kelly

  10:30 AM
2.9
Wind stress and wind stress curl during upwelling season along the California coast
Darko R. Koracin, DRI, Reno, NV; and A. Kochanski, C. E. Dorman, and E. Dever

  10:45 AM
Formal Poster Viewing with Coffee Break (Please Refer to Poster Session P1 for Title and Author Information)


3
Climate Modeling Studies 1(parallel with Sessions 4 and 5)
Sponsor: 16th Conference on Climate Variability and Change
Chair: Gerald L. Potter, LLNL

Papers:
  8:30 AM
3.1
Are summer climate variations in north west Europe and West Africa linked?
Chris K. Folland, Hadley Centre, Met Office, Exeter, United Kingdom; and J. W. Hurrell, D. P. Rowell, and J. Knight

  8:45 AM
3.2
Climate change commitment in the 21st and 22nd centuries in the CCSM3 global coupled climate model
Gerald A. Meehl, NCAR, Boulder, CO; and W. M. Washington, J. Arblaster, and A. Hu

  9:00 AM
3.3
Simulating the recent Holocene
Simon Tett, Hadley Centre, Met Office, Reading, United Kingdom; and R. Betts, T. J. Crowley, A. Jones, J. Gregory, E. Ostrom, D. L. Roberts, and M. J. Woodage

  9:15 AM
3.4
The impact of convective parameterization schemes on climate sensitivity
David J. Karoly, University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK; and L. M. Leslie, D. Ren, and M. Leplastrier

  9:30 AM
3.5
Summer heatwaves and interannual variability in a changing climate
Christoph Schär, Atmospheric and Climate Science ETH, Zurich, Switzerland, Zurich, Switzerland; and P. L. Vidale, C. Frei, M. Hirschi, D. Lüthi, R. Wegmann, and M. Wild

  9:45 AM
3.6
Pacific vs. Indian Ocean warming: How does it matter for global and regional climate change?
Joseph J. Barsugli, NOAA-CIRES Climate Diagnostics Center, Boulder, CO; and S. I. Shin and P. D. Sardeshmukh

  10:00 AM
3.7
Effects of Aerosol on Atmospheric Dynamics and Hydrologic Processes during boreal spring and summer
William K. M. Lau, NASA/GSFC, MD, Maryland; and M. K. Kim, K. M. Kim, and M. Chin

  10:15 AM
3.8
Climate response over North America to a simultaneous El Niño and volcanic eruption
Megan E. Linkin, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ; and A. Robock, G. L. Stenchikov, and W. Stern

  10:30 AM
3.9
Climate change, tropical cyclones and ENSO
Kevin J.E. Walsh, University of Melbourne, Parkville, Vic., Australia; and K. C. Nguyen and J. L. McGregor

  10:45 AM
Formal Poster Viewing with Coffee Break

8:30 AM-12:15 PM: Tuesday, 11 January 2005


2
Current and future precipitation measurements from space (parallel with Joint Session 5)
Sponsor: 19th Conf on Hydrology
Organizers: Robert J. Kuligowski, NOAA/NESDIS; A. P. Barros, Duke University

Papers:
  8:30 AM
2.1
Spatial Scales of Tropical Precipitation Inferred from TRMM Microwave Imager Data
Dean F. Smith, Physics Department, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO; and A. J. Gasiewski, D. L. Jackson, and G. A. Wick

  8:45 AM
2.2
TRMM evidence of a "weekend effect" for U.S. rainfall
Thomas L. Bell, NASA/GSFC, Greenbelt, MD; and M. Hahnenberger

  9:00 AM
2.3
Using TRMM to develop a tropical cyclone rainfall climatology model
Frank D. Marks Jr., NOAA/AOML/HRD, Miami, FL; and M. Lonfat

  9:15 AM
2.4
Diurnal Variations of Precipitation Using Opaque Microwave Frequency Bands
Frederick W. Chen, MIT/Lincoln Lab, Lexington, MA; and D. H. Staelin

  9:30 AM
2.5
Leveraging TRMM Results for GPM Ground Validation Planning
David B. Wolff, NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD; and D. A. Marks, E. A. Smith, S. W. Bidwell, and D. Silberstein

Poster PDF (1.4 MB)
  10:00 AM
2.7
Is more data better? An assessment of incorporating additional passive microwave datasets in the MPA
George J. Huffman, NASA/GSFC and SSAI, Greenbelt, MD; and R. F. Adler, D. T. Bolvin, and E. J. Nelkin

  10:15 AM
2.8
  10:45 AM
Formal Poster Viewing with Coffee Break


2
University Educational Initiatives
Sponsor: 14th Symp on Education
Organizers: Donna J. Charlevoix, University of Illinois; Paul J. Croft, Kean University

Papers:
  8:30 AM
2.1
  9:15 AM
2.4
A hands-on interdisciplinary laboratory program: an approach to strengthen the weather radar curriculum at the University of Oklahoma
M. Yeary, University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK; and T. Yu, R. Palmer, M. Biggerstaff, and L. D. Fink

http://www.ou.edu/engineering/ece/faculty/myeary.html

  9:45 AM
2.6
Attempts towards introducing an Online Weather Studies course in a rural college
Safianu Rabiu, Paul D. Camp Community College, Franklin, Virginia 23851, Franklin, VA

  10:00 AM
2.7
Online Weather Studies in a 2-year program in Applied Meteorology at West Virginia State University
Tina J. Cartwright, West Virginia State University, Institute, WV; and S. Fleegel

  10:15 AM
2.8
Climatology at a tribal college
Subodh K. Singh, Sinte Gleska University, Mission, SD

  10:30 AM
2.9
Attempting to improve communications skills: A senior capstone seminar course in meteorology
David R. Smith, U.S. Naval Academy, Annapolis, MD; and T. D. Sikora, B. B. Yoakum, and R. M. Kyhos

  10:45 AM
An assessment of the added value of a written course project in a general meteorology course
Kenneth E. Parsons, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, Prescott, AZ; and A. Beck and P. McElwain

  11:00 AM
Coffee Break


5
Hydrology of Semi-Arid Regions(parallel with Sessions 3 and 4)
Sponsor: 16th Conference on Climate Variability and Change
Chair: Mathew Barlow, AER

Papers:
  8:45 AM
5.2
Regional drivers of aridity in Southwest Asia and sensitivity to surface change
Benjamin F. Zaitchik, Yale University, New Haven, CT; and J. P. Evans and R. B. Smith

  9:00 AM
5.3
Evaluation of snow model complexity within the NWS streamflow forecasting system
Kristie J. Franz, University of California, Irvine, Irvine, CA; and T. S. Hogue and S. Sorooshian

  9:15 AM
5.4
Atmospheric moisture cycling over the southwestern US
Bruce T. Anderson, Boston University, Boston, MA; and H. Kanamaru and J. O. Roads

  9:30 AM
5.5
Role of the Monsoons Variability on the Summer Drought events in the Mediterranean Basin
Marina Baldi, IBIMET - CNR, Rome, Italy; and L. Genesio, F. Meneguzzo, F. Cesarone, and F. Piani

  9:45 AM
5.7
The great 20th Century drying of Africa
James W. Hurrell, NCAR, Boulder, CO; and M. Hoerling

  10:15 AM
5.9
Water allocation during drought: using a DSS to examine gains from trade on the Rio Conchos, MX
Steven Stewart, Hydrology and Water Resources, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ; and J. Valdes, J. Gastelum, J. Aparicio, and J. Hidalgo

  10:45 AM
Formal Poster Viewing

  12:00 PM
An observed trend in central South American precipitation
Brant Liebmann, NOAA/CIRES/CDC, Boulder, CO; and C. S. Vera, L. M. V. Carvalho, I. Camilloni, V. Barros, M. Hoerling, and D. Allured

http://www.cdc.noaa.gov/people/brant.liebmann/publications.shtml

  12:14 PM
Paper 5.6 moved to P1.33


6
Advances and Applications in Transportation Weather Part 1: Surface Transportation
Sponsor: 21st International Conference on Interactive Information Processing Systems (IIPS) for Meteorology, Oceanography, and Hydrology
Cochairs: S. Edward Boselly, Washington State Department of Transportation; Roemer Alfelor, Federal Highway Administration

Papers:
  8:30 AM
6.1
Surface Transportation and the Weather, A Highway Operations Perspective
Richard J. Nelson, Nevada Department of Transportation, Carson City, NV

  9:00 AM
6.3
Clarus—The Nationwide Surface Transportation Weather Observing and Forecasting System
Paul A. Pisano, Federal Highway Administration, Washington, DC; and R. M. Alfelor, J. S. Pol, L. C. Goodwin, and A. D. Stern

  9:15 AM
6.4
Development of the Clarus Concept of Operations: Status report
Leon F. Osborne Jr., Meridian Environmental Technology, Inc., Grand Forks, ND; and S. M. Conger, J. S. Pol, and P. Pisano

  9:30 AM
6.5
The U.S. Federal Highway Administration Winter Road Maintenance Decision Support System (MDSS) Project: Overview and Results
Paul A. Pisano, Federal Highway Administration, Washington, DC; and A. D. Stern and W. P. Mahoney III

  9:45 AM
6.6
The Pooled Fund Study Maintenance Decision Support System: A Functional Overview
John J. Mewes, Meridian Environmental Technology, Inc., Grand Forks, ND; and R. Hart, L. F. Osborne Jr., and B. Podoll

Poster PDF (383.2 kB)
  10:00 AM
6.7
On the use of an ensemble modeling system versus a very high resolution deterministic forecast as input to a road weather forecast system
Jeffrey S. Tilley, Surface Transportation Weather Research Center, University of North Dakota, Grand Forks, ND; and J. Nordlie

  10:15 AM
6.8
Mesoscale forecast products for travel information
Ed Boselly, Washington State Department of Transportation, Olympia, WA

  10:30 AM
6.9
A field research test facility for long-term RWIS-ESS Validation
Leon F. Osborne Jr., Surface Transportation Weather Research Center, Grand Forks, ND; and J. Hanson, J. L. Horner, and R. Hart

  10:45 AM
An Automated Algorithm to Predict Winter Storm Road Conditions and Recommend Treatment Actions
Robert G. Hallowell, MIT Lincoln Lab., Lexington, MA; and W. Myers and G. Phetteplace

  11:00 AM
Formal Poster Viewing with Coffee Break

8:30 AM-4:30 PM: Tuesday, 11 January 2005


1
History Symposium
Sponsor: Third Presidential History Symposium

Papers:
  8:30 AM
1.1
The weather observations of Surgeon Menzies
Malcolm Walker, Royal Meteorological Society, Reading, United Kingdom

Poster PDF (519.1 kB)
  9:00 AM
1.2
  9:30 AM
1.3
  10:00 AM
1.4
New Online Resources for the Historian of Meteorology
Doria B. Grimes, NOAA Central Library, Silver Spring, MD

  10:30 AM
1.5
From heat budget of the earth to interferometry: Suomi and Parent's legacy
Terri Gregory, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI; and T. Achtor, J. Phillips, and T. Haig

  11:00 AM
1.6
The sky as water reservoir: weather control for the arid U.S. West
Kristine C. Harper, Dibner Institute -- MIT, Cambridge, MA

  12:00 PM
1.8
Weather Support to the Space Shuttle - An Historical Perspective
Dan G. Bellue, NOAA/NWS, Houston, TX; and B. F. Boyd, W. W. Vaughan, T. Garner, J. W. Weems, J. T. Madura, and H. C. Herring

  12:30 PM
1.9
Global Cooling, the Cold War - and A Chilly Beginning for the Climate Analysis Center?
Robert W Reeves, NOAA, Silver Spring, MD; and D. Gemmill, R. Livezey, and J. Laver

  1:00 PM
Formal Poster Session

  2:30 PM
Lunch Break

  4:00 PM
Coffee Break

8:30 AM-5:30 PM: Tuesday, 11 January 2005


1
Aspects of Space Weather that have an element of commonality with terrestrial weather applications.
Sponsor: 2nd Symposium on Space Weather
Organizers: Robert McCoy, Office of Naval Research; Genene Fisher, AMS; Joseph Kunches, NOAA/Space Environment Center; Richard Behnke, NSF

Papers:
  8:45 AM
1.2
  9:00 AM
1.3
Air Force Space Command: Space weather for the Warfighter
Maj David T. Lawyer, HQ AFSPC/DRCC, Peterson AFB, CO; and C. H. D. Baird, M. K. J. Hand, and M. E. C. Sorbo

  9:15 AM
1.4
Space Weather Training In the National Weather Service
Barbara Poppe, NOAA/Space Environment Center, Boulder, CO

  9:30 AM
1.5
Space Weather Training at COMET
Dolores Kiessling, UCAR/COMET, Boulder, CO

http://meted.ucar.edu

  9:45 AM
1.6
Science Communication Efforts in Space Weather: Benefits and Challenges of the "Weather" Analogy
Cherilynn Ann Morrow, Space Science Institute, Boulder, CO; and J. Harold and P. Dusenbery

  10:15 AM
1.8
Integrating Space Weather information into global aviation operations
J Bryn L Jones, SolarMetrics Limited, Guildford, Surrey, United Kingdom; and R. H. A. Iles and M. J. Smith

  10:30 AM
1.9
Space situation awareness environmental effects fusion system (SEEFS)
Maj David T. Lawyer, HQ AFSPC/DRCC, Peterson AFB, CO; and M. K. J. Hand and L. C. S. J. Higley

  10:45 AM
  11:00 AM
COSMIC—A Satellite Constellation for Atmospheric Soundings from 800 km to Earth’s Surface
Christian Rocken, UCAR, Boulder, CO; and W. S. Schreiner, S. Syndergaard, and D. C. Hunt

  11:15 AM
  11:45 AM
Towards a Distributed Network of Automated Low-Light Atmospheric Imagers
Mark C. Beaubien, Yankee Environmental Systems, Inc., Turners Falls, MA; and T. Pederson, W. Q. Jeffries, and E. T. Griffin

  12:00 PM
Evidence for space weather affecting tropospheric weather and climate
Brian A. Tinsley, University of Texas at Dallas, Richardson,, Texas

http://www.utdallas.edu/dept/physics/Faculty/tinsley/tinsley.htm

  12:15 PM
  12:30 PM
Diagnostic Analysis of Solar Variation Impact on the Lower Atmosphere
Alfred M. Powell Jr., NOAA/NESDIS, Camp Springs, MD; and M. Chen

  12:45 PM
NOGAPS-ALPHA: A prototype high-altitude version of the Navy’s global numerical weather prediction model
Stephen Eckermann, NRL, Washington, DC; and J. P. McCormack, L. Coy, D. Allen, T. F. Hogan, Y. J. Kim, and D. E. Siskind

  1:15 PM
Methods and Experiences in Data Assimilation for Global Ionosphere Monitoring and Forecast
Chunming Wang, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA; and G. A. Hajj, X. Pi, I. G. Rosen, and B. Wilson

  1:30 PM
Recursive estimation and variational strategies in space data assimilation
Farzad Kamalabadi, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL

  1:45 PM
Global assimilation of ionospheric measurements (GAIM): An operational space weather model
Robert W. Schunk, Utah State University, Logan, UT; and L. Scherliess, J. J. Sojka, and D. C. Thompson

  2:00 PM
Spatially constrained Kalman filtering for data assimilation
Oscar Barrero Mendoza, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Leuven, Belgium; and J. Chandrasekhar, D. S. Bernstein, B. De Moor, and A. Ridley

  2:15 PM
Integrating Space Weather Services into NWS Operations
Louis W. Uccellini, NOAA/NWS/NCEP, Camp Springs, MD

  2:45 PM
Formal Poster Viewing with Coffee Break

  4:00 PM
Lunch Break

  5:15 PM
Coffee Break


4
Observed Seasonal to Interannual Climate Variability (parallel with Sessions 3 and 5)
Sponsor: 16th Conference on Climate Variability and Change
Cochairs: Bradfield L Lyon, IRI; Sumant Nigam, University of Maryland

Papers:
  8:30 AM
4.1
Effects of atmospheric composition on radiation balance, cloud microphysics and Indian summer monsoon rainfall
Prabir K. Patra, Frontier Research Center for Global Change, Yokohama, Japan; and S. K. Behera, J. R. Herman, H. Akimoto, and T. Yamagata

http://www.jamstec.go.jp/frsgc/research/p3/prabir/anim_ai.htm

  9:00 AM
4.3
ENSO influence on Atlantic hurricanes via tropospheric warming
Brian H Tang, University of California - Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA; and J. D. Neelin

  9:15 AM
4.4
ENSO and the spatial extent of interannual precipitation extremes in tropical land areas
Bradfield Lyon, International Research Institute for Climate Prediction, Columbia Univ., Palisades, NY

  9:45 AM
4.6
QE or not QE: vertical profiles of temperature perturbations in the tropical atmosphere
Christopher E. Holloway, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA; and J. D. Neelin

  10:00 AM
4.7
Interannual variations in tropical upper-tropospheric humidity: Understanding tropical convective and dynamical processes
Franklin R. Robertson, NASA/MSFC, Huntsville, AL; and D. E. Fitzjarrald and T. L. Miller

  10:15 AM
4.8
Intraseasonal variability of cloudiness and rainfall in the Madden-Julian Oscillation
Katherine H. Straub, Susquehanna University, Selinsgrove, PA; and D. K. Strahan and G. N. Kiladis

  10:30 AM
4.9
Scale interactions within the Madden-Julian Oscillation
George N. Kiladis, NOAA/AL, Boulder, CO; and K. H. Straub and P. T. Haertel

  10:45 AM
Easterly waves in the tropical Atlantic: Climatology and variability
Christina M. Patricola, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY; and K. H. Cook

  11:00 AM
An evaluation of January temperature anomalies in the United States utilizing a synoptic climatological approach
Melissa Lynn Malin, Center for Climatic Research, Newark, DE; and K. L. Frank, S. Quiring, and L. S. Kalkstein

  11:15 AM
Stratosphere-Troposphere coupling during spring onset
Robert X. Black, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA; and B. A. McDaniel and W. A. Robinson

  11:30 AM
The nonlinear association between the Arctic Oscillation and North American winter temperature and precipitation
Aiming Wu, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada; and W. W. Hsieh and A. Shabbar

  11:45 AM
Low frequency variability of the Southern Hemisphere winter split jet
Xiaosong Yang, SUNY at Stony Brook, Stony Brook, NY; and E. K. M. Chang

  12:00 PM
Quasi-stationary anticyclones in the Northern Hemisphere: An analysis of interannual and interdecadal variability and long-term trends at 1000 hPa and 500 hPa using a geometric definition
Mikhail Bardin, Russian Academy of Science, Moscow, Russia; and G. V. Gruza, A. R. Lupo, I. I. Mokhov, and V. A. Tikhonov

Poster PDF (289.7 kB)
  12:30 PM
Mulit-year variability of salinity in the northern hemisphere oceans
Tim P Boyer, NOAA, Silver Spring, MD; and S. Levitus and J. Antonov

  12:45 PM
Hydrological budget in the tropical Pacific
Xiaosu Xie, JPL, Pasadena, CA; and W. T. Liu

Poster PDF (1.3 MB)
  1:00 PM
The Interdecadal Pacific Oscillation and its climatic impacts
Chris K. Folland, Hadley Centre, Met Office, Exeter, United Kingdom; and B. Dong, R. J. Allan, H. Meinke, and B. Bhaskaran

  1:15 PM
Does ENSO lead the Pacific interdecadal change?
SOON-IL An, International Pacific Research Center, Univ. of Hawaii, Honolulu, HI; and J. S. Kug and I. S. Kang

  1:30 PM
ENSO-forced Decadal Variability in the North Pacific
Matt Newman, NOAA-CIRES Climate Diagnostics Center, Boulder, CO

  1:45 PM
Diurnal cycle of cloud and precipitation associated with the North American Monsoon System: Preliminary results for 2003 and 2004
Pingping Xie, NOAA/NWS/NCEP/CPC, Camp Springs, MD; and Y. Yarosh, M. Chen, R. Joyce, J. E. Janowiak, and P. A. Arkin

  2:00 PM
Interannual Variability of Surface Radiation Budget
Shashi K. Gupta, AS&M, Hampton, VA; and P. W. Stackhouse Jr., S. J. Cox, J. C. Mikovitz, M. Chiacchio, and T. Zhang

  2:15 PM
Statistical Analyses of Satellite Cloud Object Data to Study Climate Sensitivities
Kuan-Man Xu, NASA/LRC, Hampton, VA; and B. A. Wielicki and T. Wong

  2:30 PM
Formal Poster Viewing with Coffee Break

  3:45 PM
Lunch Break

  5:00 PM
Coffee Break in Exhibit Hall

8:45 AM-12:00 PM: Tuesday, 11 January 2005


3
Aerosol Measurements and Radiative Forcing Effects
Sponsor: 7th Conf. on Atmospheric Chemistry
Organizers: Judith Weinstein-Lloyd, SUNY; Rohit Mathur, NOAA/ARL

Papers:
  8:45 AM
3.1
The Indirect Effect of Aerosols on Cold Clouds in the East Asian APEX region
Rodrigo Munoz-Alpizar, University of Quebec at Montreal, Montreal, QC, Canada; and J. P. Blanchet and E. Girard

  9:00 AM
3.2
Radiative Forcing of North Pacific Cloud Systems Under the Influence of Asian Aerosols
Eric M Wilcox, NOAA/GFDL, Princeton, NJ; and G. S. Mauger, O. Lariviere, G. Roberts, V. Ramanathan, and S. Haimov

  9:15 AM
3.3
Trans-Pacific Transport of Black Carbon and Dust during the Cloud Indirect Forcing Experiment (CIFEX)
Odelle Lariviere, SIO/Univ. Of California, La Jolla, CA; and V. Ramanathan, G. R. Carmichael, G. Roberts, Y. Tang, and G. S. Mauger

  10:00 AM
3.6
Black carbon in urban areas: Measurements on holidays demonstrate the impact of diesel soot
Nancy A. Marley, ANL, Argonne, IL; and J. S. Gaffney, B. R. Grams, U. Hernandez, J. E. Frederick, and T. Baryzk

Poster PDF (195.3 kB)
  10:30 AM
3.8
Radiation Measuring Radiosonde
Dr. Richard Scarlet, Sippican, Inc., Marion, MA

  10:45 AM
Formal Poster Viewing with Coffee Break (Please Refer to Poster Session P1 for title and author information)

9:00 AM-11:30 AM: Tuesday, 11 January 2005


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)
Sponsors: (Joint between the Fourth Conference on Artificial Intelligence Applications to Environmental Science; and the 21st International Conference on Interactive Information Processing Systems (IIPS) for Meteorology, Oceanography, and Hydrology )
Chair: V. Lakshmanan, CIMMS/Univ. of Oklahoma/NOAA/NSSL

Papers:
  9:00 AM
Feature selection of radar-derived tornado attributes with support vector machines
Michael B. Richman, University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK; and B. Santosa and T. B. Trafalis

 
J5.3
Short-term wind forecasting using off-site observations and numerical weather prediction

  9:45 AM
A neural network to retrieve upper level winds from ground based profilers
Young Yee, U.S. Army Research Laboratory, White Sands Missile Range, NM; and E. Creegan

  10:00 AM
  10:15 AM
A Real-Time Learning Technique to Predict Cloud-to-Ground Lightning
V. Lakshmanan, CIMMS/Univ. of Oklahoma and NOAA/NSSL, Norman, OK; and G. J. Stumpf

  10:30 AM
Formal Poster Viewing with Coffee Break

9:45 AM-9:45 AM: Tuesday, 11 January 2005


Poster Session 1
Poster
Sponsor: Fourth Conference on Artificial Intelligence Applications to Environmental Science

Papers:
 
Teaching Artificial Intelligence to Meteorology Undergraduates
George S. Young, Penn State University, University Park, PA; and S. E. Haupt

Poster PDF (173.6 kB)
 
Self-Organizing Nonlinear Output Map (SONO): An Artificial Neural Network Suitable for Cloud-Patch based Rainfall Estimation
Kuo-lin Hsu, University of California, Irvine, CA; and Y. Hong and S. Sorooshian

Poster PDF (247.6 kB)
 
Artificial Neural Network in Hydrologic Forecasting (Model Generalization Using Cross Validation)
Hamid Moradkhani, Portland State University, Portland, OR; and K. L. Hsu and S. Sorooshian


Poster Session 2
CURRENT AND FUTURE PRECIPITATION MEASUREMENTS POSTERS
Sponsor: 19th Conf on Hydrology
Organizers: A. P. Barros, Duke University; Robert J. Kuligowski, NOAA/NESDIS

Papers:
 
Uncertainties in the retrieval of oceanic precipitation from passive microwave observations.
T. T. Wilheit, Texas A&M University, College Station,, TX; and S. Hong, K. Jin, and R. Weitz

 
The NASA GES-DISC-DAAC Precipitation Data and Information Services Center (PDISC)
Gilberto Vicente, NASA/GSFC, Greenbelt, MD; and H. Rui, B. Teng, Z. Liu, L. Lu, P. Hrubiak, J. Bonk, J. McManus, L. Chiu, and G. Leptoukh

http://daac.gsfc.nasa.gov/hydrology/pdisc

Poster PDF (291.0 kB)
 
Studying the topography impact on rain retrieval from TRMM TMI measurements over the Korean Peninsula
Eun-Han Kwon, Seoul National University, Seoul, South Korea; and B. J. Sohn, D. E. Chang, M. H. Ahn, and S. Yang

 
Retrieval of Drop Size Distribution from Simulated Dual-Frequency Radar Measurements
Stephen Joseph Munchak, Pennsylvania State University, State College, PA; and A. Tokay

 
New piezoelectric Vaisala RAINCAP® precipitation sensor
Atte Salmi, Vaisala Corporation, Helsinki, Finland; and J. Ikonen

 
The effects of cold microphysical processes on surface precipitation variability. Part II: Tropical Precipitation
Jianzhong Wang, Hydrologic Research Center, San Diego, CA; and K. P. Georgakakos

 
The Effects of Cold Microphysical Processes on Surface Precipitation Variability. Part I: Mid-latitude Precipitation
Jianzhong Wang, Hydrologic Research Center, San Diego, CA; and K. P. Georgakakos

 
Evaluation of WRF with NASA/TRMM-3B42 and Polarimetric Radar Products
Sen Chiao, Howard University, Washington, DC; and E. Joseph, P. Kucera, and H. Laryea

 
Comparison of TRMM rain rates using nonparametric statistical methods
Chunguang Yu, George Mason University, Fairfax, VA; and L. S. Chiu

Poster PDF (28.4 kB)
 
A multi-site evaluation of the range correction and convective-stratiform separation algorithms for improving WSR-88D rainfall estimates
Feng Ding, RS Information System and NOAA/NWS, Silver Spring, MD; and D. Kitzmiller, D. J. Seo, D. Riley, C. Dietz, C. Pham, and D. Miller

Poster PDF (609.2 kB)
 
Potential Improvement Areas for Hydrometeorological Observing and Forecasting in the GOES-R Era. Emphasis: Improving Precipitation Potential Estimates Using the HES Sensor
Steven Hoffert, The Boeing Company, Springfield, VA; and P. Zuzolo, K. Lausten, R. Domikis, B. Zuzolo, and G. Alexander

Poster PDF (300.8 kB)

Poster Session 2

Papers:
 
Weigh gauge algorithms
Harry H. Lamb, MSC, Downsview, ON, Canada; and Y. Durocher

Poster PDF (118.4 kB)
 
The CEOP model data archive as part of the World Data Centre for Climate
Frank Toussaint, World Data Center for Climate, Hamburg, Germany; and M. Lautenschlager and H. Luthardt

http://wdcc.dkrz.de

Poster PDF (135.7 kB)
 
RSM transferability studies during CEOP
Insa Meinke, SIO/Univ. Of California, La Jolla, CA; and J. Roads and M. Kanamitsu

http://w3.gkss.de/ICTS

Poster PDF (235.1 kB)
 
Remote sensing of microphysical particles in hurricanes from aircraft observations
Cerese M. Albers, Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL; and G. Skofronick-Jackson

Poster PDF (1.7 MB)
 
Measurement errors using a Geonor weighing gauge with a Campbell Scientific datalogger
Harry H. Lamb, MSC, Downsview, ON, Canada; and J. Swenson

Poster PDF (118.8 kB)
 
Investigation of shortwave radiative transfer at the ARM CART Sites using a multiple layer stochastic model
Dana E. Veron, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ; and J. Secora and M. Foster

Poster PDF (249.7 kB)
 
Impacts of the climate change on the simulation of the Asian summer monsoon
Annalisa Cherchi, National Institute of Geophysics and Volcanology, Bologna, Italy; and S. Gualdi, S. Behera, J. J. Luo, S. Masson, T. Yamagata, and A. Navarra

 
Evaluation of the land surface model of JMA’s operational global NWP model - with the CEOP EOP-3 Reference Site Dataset
Masayuki Hirai, Japan Meteorological Agency, Tokyo, Japan; and T. Sakashita and S. Murai

Poster PDF (898.1 kB)
 
Evaluation and further-development of the HTSVS soil frost/permafrost module using data measured at Barrow, Ak
Nicole Mölders, University of Alaska Fairbanks, Fairbanks, AK; and V. Romanovsky

 
The Effects of Cold Land Processes on Regional Climate and Hydrological Cycle
Ki-Hong Min, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN; and W. Y. Sun


Formal Poster Viewing with Coffee Break (Please Refer to Poster Session P1for Title and Author Information)

9:45 AM-10:45 AM: Tuesday, 11 January 2005


Poster Session 1
International Polar Year - Poster Presentations (Observational Techniques, Programs, Products and Databases
Sponsor: 8th Conference on Polar Meteorology and Oceanography
Organizer: Janet M. Intrieri, NOAA/ETL

Papers:
 
Salinity of Sea Ice: In situ Measurements and Modelling
Dirk Notz, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom; and M. G. Worster

 
The High Efficiency Hyperspectral Imager – a new instrument for measurements of the Arctic surface
Peter J. Minnett, Univ. of Miami/RSMAS, Miami, FL; and R. G. Sellar

Poster PDF (538.7 kB)
 
Surface-based Infrared Interferometers – versatile sensors for the IPY
Peter J. Minnett, Univ. of Miami/RSMAS, Miami, FL; and M. Szczodrak and E. L. Key

Poster PDF (389.1 kB)
 
Measurement capabilities of the Polar Atmospheric Emitted Radiance Interferometer (PAERI)
Von P Walden, Dept. of Geography, Univ. of Idaho - Moscow, Moscow, ID; and M. S. Town and B. Halter

 
Surface radiation measurements in Arctic polynyas
Erica L. Key, Univ. of Miami/RSMAS, Miami, FL; and P. J. Minnett

Poster PDF (25.7 kB)
 
Seaglider exploration of subpolar Atlantic climate
Charlie Eriksen, Univsersity of Washington, Seattle, WA; and P. B. Rhines

 
Microphysical properties of Arctic mixed-phase clouds using ground-based remote sensors
Jennifer M. Comstock, PNNL, Richland, WA; and C. J. Flynn, C. N. Long, R. T. Marchand, J. H. Mather, S. A. McFarlane, A. Mendoza, D. D. Turner, and K. Widener

Poster PDF (252.1 kB)
 
Observation of polar sudden stratospheric warming events using GPS radio occultation technique
Grace S. Peng, The Aerospace Corporation, Los Angeles, CA; and J. H. Hecht and R. L. Walterscheid

 
Mooring-based Arctic Ocean Observational System
Igor Polyakov, International Arctic Research Center, Fairbanks, AK; and E. Carmack, B. Dickson, L. Fortier Sr., E. Hansen, M. Johnson, E. Fahrbach, C. Mauritzen, V. Ivanov, I. Dmitrenko, J. Walsh, M. Steele, L. Timokhov, and D. Walsh

Poster PDF (196.4 kB)
 
Detection of arctic cloud ice properties using submillimeter-wave radiometers
Sally G. Dowlatshahi, Science and Technology Corporation, Boulder, Colorado; and A. J. Gasiewski, T. Uttal, M. Klein, E. R. Westwater, and D. Cimini

http://www.etl.noaa.gov/technology/gsr/

Poster PDF (316.2 kB)
 
Aerosols collected during the 19th Chinese Antarctic Research Expedition (CHINARE 19) and the Second Chinese National Arctic Research Expedition (CHINARE II)
Catherine F. Cahill, Geophysical Institute, University of Alaska Fairbanks, Fairbanks, AK; and L. Chen and Z. Gao

 
Overview of the Mixed-Phase Arctic Cloud Experiment (M-PACE)
Johannes Verlinde, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA; and J. Y. Harrington, G. M. McFarquhar, J. H. Mather, D. Turner, B. Zak, M. R. Poellot, T. Tooman, A. J. Prenni, G. Kok, E. Eloranta, A. Fridlind, C. Bahrmann, K. Sassen, P. J. DeMott, and A. J. Heymsfield

http://nsa.met.psu.edu/

Poster PDF (594.6 kB)
 
International Heliophysical Year
Joseph M. Davila, NASA, Greenbelt, MD; and N. Gopalswamy and B. J. Thompson

 
Drifting station “North Pole-23”: scientific program, organization and invitation to collaboration
Ivan E. Frolov, Arctic and Antarctic Research Institute, St. Petersburg, Russia; and A. P. Makshtas, S. M. Priamikov, and V. T. Sokolov

 
Designing an Arctic Observing Network
Sheldon Drobot, The National Academies, Washington, DC; and C. Elfring

 
Atmospheric modeling over the Mackenzie, Kuparuk and Lena watersheds: A contribution to the NSF ARCSS Freshwater Initiative
John J. Cassano, CIRES/Univ. of Colorado, Boulder, CO; and W. Gutowski, M. J. Shaw, and C. S. Takeuchi

 
Antarctic Regional Interactions Meteorology Experiment (RIME)
David H. Bromwich, Byrd Polar Research Center, Ohio State Univ., Columbus, OH

Poster PDF (56.7 kB)
 
Interannual variability in summer Beaufort Sea ice conditions
Sheldon Drobot, The National Academies, Washington, DC; and J. A. Maslanik

 
McMurdo Station, Antarctica fog climatology: 1973-1998
Matthew A. Lazzara, Antarctic Meteorological Research Center/ Univ. of Wisconsin, Madison, WI

http://amrc.ssec.wisc.edu/fog.html

Poster PDF (38.0 kB)
 
Assimilation of RGPS data with the Trajectory Assimilation Model
R. W. Lindsay, University of Washington, Seattle, WA; and H. L. Stern

 
Potential of AMSR-E derived sea ice motions for assimilation into sea ice models
Walter N. Meier, NSIDC/CIRES/Univ. of Colorado, Boulder, CO

Poster PDF (226.2 kB)
 
Development of the CWRF for Arctic Climate Applications
Julian X.L. Wang, NOAA/ERL/ARL, Silver Spring, MD; and X. Z. Liang, J. Pan, K. Kunkel, E. C. Hunke, and B. Lipscomb

 
Database for Ecological Studies of the Arctic Seas: Barents, Kara, Laptev, and White Seas (1810-2001)
Igor Smolynar, Ocean Climate Laboratory, NOAA/NESDIS/NODC, Silver Spring, MD; and R. Locarnini, R. Tatusko, T. Boyer, S. Levitus, G. Matishov, A. Zuyev, and V. Golubev

Poster PDF (2.1 MB)
 
Cloud cover climatology for the South Pole from surface-based infrared radiation measurements.
Michael S. Town, University of Washington, Seattle, WA; and V. P. Walden and S. G. Warren

Poster PDF (973.7 kB)
 
Comparison of monthly mean cloud fraction and cloud optical depth determined from surface cloud radar, TOVS, AVHRR, and MODIS over Barrow, Alaska
Taneil Uttal, NOAA/Earth Systems Research Laboratory, Boulder, CO; and S. Frisch, X. Wang Sr., J. Key, A. Schweiger, S. Sun-Mack, and P. Minnis

Poster PDF (67.2 kB)
 
A climatology of the McMurdo, Antarctica region based on the AMPS archive
Andrew J. Monaghan, Byrd Polar Research Center, Ohio State Univ., Columbus, OH; and D. H. Bromwich, J. G. Powers, and K. W. Manning

Poster PDF (534.5 kB)
 
The AMPS Archive: an atmospheric resource for the Antarctic research community
Andrew J. Monaghan, Byrd Polar Research Center, Ohio State Univ., Columbus, OH; and J. G. Powers, D. H. Bromwich, and K. W. Manning

Poster PDF (407.2 kB)
 
Climate lessons from the first International Polar Year 1881-83
Kevin R. Wood, NOAA/PMEL and JISAO/U of Washington, Seattle, WA; and J. E. Overland

 
SEARCH Climate Indicators: Melt Onset and Other Cryospheric Data Products
Bruce Raup, University of Colorado/CIRES, Boulder, CO; and F. M. Fetterer, M. Parsons, M. Savoie, and K. Knowles

9:45 AM-11:00 AM: Tuesday, 11 January 2005


Poster Session 1
GOES-R Posters
Sponsor: GOES-R/NPOESS Symposium

Papers:
 
Baseline Instruments Planned for the GOES-R Series
James Gurka, NOAA/NESDIS, Silver Spring, MD; and T. J. Schmit

 
Introducing the Next Generation Geostationary Imager-- GOES-R's Advanced Baseline Imager (ABI)
Timothy J. Schmit, NOAA/NESDIS, Madison, WI; and J. Gurka, W. P. Menzel, M. M. Gunshor, and K. B. Karnouskas

 
Space Environment Monitoring in the GOES Era
Howard J. Singer, NOAA/NWS, Boulder, CO; and S. M. Hill

 
Applications of the GOES-R HES Coastal Waters Capability
Christopher W. Brown, NOAA/NESDIS, Camp Springs, MD; and M. Ondrusek and R. Stumpf

 
The GOES Lightning Mapper - Design Characteristics and Performance
Hugh J. Christian Jr., NASA/MSFC, Huntsville, AL

 
CLASS Overview (Also in IIPS)
Richard G. Reynolds, NOAA/NESDIS; and J. Bates, C. Cremidis, and C. Martinez

 
CLASS Future (Also in IIPS)
Richard G. Reynolds, NOAA/NESDIS; and J. Bates, C. Cremidis, and C. Martinez

 
CLASS GOES (Also in IIPS)
Richard G. Reynolds, NOAA/NESDIS; and J. Bates, C. Cremidis, and C. Martinez


Poster Session 1
Poster Session P1: Formal Viewing
Sponsor: Sixth Conference on Coastal Atmospheric and Oceanic Prediction and Processes

Papers:
 
Modeling upwelling with a coupled Atmosphere-Ocean mesoscale model
João P. Ferreira, Instituto de Meteorologia, Lisbon, Portugal; and P. M. A. Miranda

Poster PDF (687.0 kB)
 
Turbulence surface fluxes in the cloudy marine atmospheric boundary layer near the coast
John Kalogiros, National Observatory of Athens, Athens, Greece; and Q. Wang, S. R. Ramp, G. Buzorius, and H. Jonsson

 
Utilizing the New Jersey sea breeze as an alternative energy source
Louis A. Bowers, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ; and R. Dunk, J. F. Brodie, M. E. Linkin, C. A. Rhodes, and M. E. Papier

 
A Multiseason Comparison Study of the Forecast Skill among Three Numerical Models over the South-central United States
Duanjun Lu, Jackson State University, Jackson, MS; and L. D. White and R. S. Reddy

 
Large-scale atmospheric circulation associated with northwesterly surface wind along the Central and Southern California coasts
Stephen V. Taylor, SIO/Univ. of California and Hydrologic Research Center, La Jolla, CA; and N. E. Graham, D. R. Cayan, and K. P. Georgakakos

 
Planning forecasts for the coastal and offshore air quality measurement activities for the ICARTT summer 2004 campaign
James P. Koermer, Plymouth State University, Plymouth, NH; and J. Zabransky, E. Hoffman, T. Bray, R. Cloutier, J. Cordeira, M. DiProfio, A. Loconto, and M. Wellman

Poster PDF (249.8 kB)
 
An Extreme Event Analysis for the Portuguese Coast - Coupling of Atmospheric and Oceanographic Features
Alvaro Semedo, NPS, Monterey, CA; and W. A. Nuss and T. H. C. Herbers

 
Observations of coastal upwelling off the coast of the South Atlantic Bight in summer of 2003: An application of NASA’s remote sensing data to coastal studies
Dongliang Yuan, GES DISC DAAC, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD 20771, Greenbelt, Maryland; and A. Savtchenko and C. Li

 
Verification study: Modeling the evolution and structure of nocturnal stratocumulus during DYCOMS-II
Ramesh K. Vellore, DRI, Reno, NV; and D. Koracin, M. Wetzel, and J. G. Powers

Poster PDF (259.4 kB)
 
High resolution marine wind retrieval using synthetic aperture radar
Richard E. Danielson, Dalhousie University, Halifax, NS, Canada; and H. Ritchie, M. Dowd, and L. Fillion


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)
Sponsors: (Joint between the 16th Conference on Climate Variability and Change; and the 21st International Conference on Interactive Information Processing Systems (IIPS) for Meteorology, Oceanography, and Hydrology )

Papers:
 
NASA Cloud Object Data Website: An Interative Cloud Object Data Retrieval System for Climate Quality Satellite Cloud and Radiation Data
Takmeng Wong, NASA/LARC, Hampton, VA; and D. Mangosing, K. M. Xu, B. A. Wielicki, and L. Parker

Poster PDF (438.1 kB)
 
JP1.2
Climatological features of blocking anticyclones in present-day and increased CO2 environments: An updated model comparison

 
Building the GSFC Land Information System with distributed and parallel computing technologies
Yudong Tian, UMBC/GEST, Greenbelt, MD; and C. Peters-Lidard, S. V. Kumar, J. V. Geiger, S. Olden, L. Lighty, J. L. Eastman, P. R. Houser, J. Sheffield, E. F. Wood, K. E. Mitchell, J. Meng, H. Wei, P. Dirmeyer, B. Doty, and J. M. Adams

 
Enhancing the shareability of climate model data through the development of a framework for numerical climate model metadata
Katherine A. Bouton, CGAM, Dept Meteorology, U Reading, UK, Reading, United Kingdom; and L. Steenman-Clark

 
Climate Science Modelling Language: standards-based markup for metocean data
Andrew Woolf, CCLRC Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, Chilton Didcot, United Kingdom; and B. Lawrence, R. Lowry, K. Kleese van Dam, R. Cramer, M. Gutierrez, S. Kondapalli, S. Latham, K. O'Neill, and A. Stephens

Poster PDF (282.0 kB)
 
GOES data in CLASS
John J. Bates, NOAA/NESDIS/NCDC, Asheville, NC; and R. G. Reynolds, C. Cremidis, and C. Martinez

Poster PDF (31.2 kB)
 
CLASS future plans
John J. Bates, NOAA/NESDIS/NCDC, Asheville, NC; and R. G. Reynolds, C. Cremidis, and C. Martinez

Poster PDF (60.8 kB)
 
CLASS capabilities overview
John J. Bates, NOAA/NESDIS/NCDC, Asheville, NC; and R. G. Reynolds, C. Cremidis, and C. Martinez

Poster PDF (153.2 kB)

Poster Session 2
Poster Session 2
Sponsor: Conference on Meteorological Applications of Lightning Data
Chair: Martin J. Murphy, Vaisala

Papers:
 
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 Jr., and J. M. Hall

 
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 Jr. and E. N. Anagnostou

 
Mapping lightning at White Sands - a first look.
Daniel Breed, NCAR, Boulder, CO; and C. Mueller, T. Saxen, and N. Oien

 
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

Poster PDF (415.4 kB)
 
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

Poster PDF (1.3 MB)
 
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

 
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

Poster PDF (645.6 kB)
 
Long-Range lightning applications for hurricane intensity
Nicholas W. S. Demetriades, Vaisala, Inc., Tucson, AZ; and R. L. Holle

Poster PDF (265.7 kB)
 
Incorporating lightning data into a real-time infrared/microwave satellite precipitation algorithm
Robert J. Kuligowski, NOAA/NESDIS, Camp Springs, MD; and J. S. Im

Poster PDF (39.9 kB)
 
Convective Precipitation and Cloud-to-Ground Lightning Relationships in Canada
B. Kochtubajda, MSC, Edmonton, AB, Canada; and W. R. Burrows and M. Lapalme

 
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

Poster PDF (191.9 kB)
 
Alaska lightning climatology and application to wildfire science
Elaine McGuiney, Penn State University, State College, PA; and M. Shulski and G. Wendler

Poster PDF (1.1 MB)
 
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

 
Cloud-to-ground lightning behavior of convective cells observed during STEPS
Sarah A. Tessendorf, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO; and S. A. Rutledge

http://radarmet.atmos.colostate.edu/~saraht/STEPS/Thetae.html

Poster PDF (143.1 kB)

Poster Session 2
Poster Session 2
Sponsor: Ninth Symposium on Integrated Observing and Assimilation Systems for the Atmosphere, Oceans, and Land Surface (IOAS-AOLS)

Papers:
 
Ensemble data assimilation: experiments using NASA’s GEOS column precipitation model
Dusanka Zupanski, CIRA/Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO; and A. Y. Hou, S. Zhang, M. Zupanski, and C. D. Kummerow

 
Ensemble Based Data Assimilation of observations of Hurricane Humberto
Brian J. Etherton, University of North Carolina, Charlotte, NC; and S. D. Aberson

Poster PDF (82.2 kB)
 
Developing the ADAS/ARPS as a satellite data assimilation testbed at the University of Alabama in Huntsville
John R. Mecikalski, University of Alabama, Huntsville, AL; and W. M. Lapenta, K. M. LaCasse, K. Doty, and G. J. Jedlovec

Poster PDF (352.9 kB)
 
Data Assimilation with the Noah Land Surface model in NLDAS
Dag Lohmann, NOAA/NCEP/EMC, Suitland, MD; and P. Grunmann, H. Wei, and K. Mitchell

http://nomad4.ncep.noaa.gov

Poster PDF (948.7 kB)
 
Data assimilation scheme of satellite derived heating rates for soil state initialization in a regional atmospheric mesoscale model: methodology.
Massimiliano Pasqui, Institute of Biometeorology/National Research Council, Florence, Italy; and R. L. Walko, S. Migliorini, A. Antonini, S. Melani, and G. Messeri

http://www.ibimet.cnr.it

Poster PDF (69.3 kB)
 
Climate Data Records from US environmental satellites
Sheldon Drobot, The National Academies, Washington, DC; and D. A. Robinson

 
Characterization of AIRS temperature and water vapor measurement capability using correlative observations
Eric J. Fetzer, JPL and California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA; and A. Eldering and S. Y. Lee

Poster PDF (135.1 kB)
 
Assimilation of surface observations in complex terrain
Xingxiu Deng, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada; and R. B. Stull

Poster PDF (302.2 kB)
 
Aqua MODIS and AIRS Data Product Synergies available from GES DISC DAAC
Arun Gopalan, NASA/GSFC, Greenbelt, MD; and J. Qin, A. Savtchenko, G. Leptoukh, and G. A. Vicente

 
P2.10
Application of Variational Data Assimilation Techniques to Numerical Forecasts of Tropical Cyclones in the East Asia

 
P2.11
Adjoint of a Non-Hydrostatic Limited-Area Model: Identical Twin experiments


Poster Session 3
Poster Session: Climate Modeling Studies
Sponsor: 16th Conference on Climate Variability and Change

Papers:
 
Longwave cloud radiative forcing depending on the different definition of clear sky: Upper tropospheric water vapor climatology
B. J. Sohn, Seoul National Univ., Seoul, South Korea; and J. Y. Lee, J. Schmetz, and R. Stuhlmann

Poster PDF (429.4 kB)
 
Toward Improving and Understanding the Simulation of Madden-Julian Oscillation in NCAR CCM3
Mingquan Mu, SIO/Univ. Of California, La Jolla, CA; and G. J. Zhang

 
A Local-Coupled CGCM Study of MJO in the Indo-Pacific Ocean
Jin-Yi Yu, University of California, Irvine, CA; and S. P. Weng

 
The impact of Ekman transport on ENSO-induced SST anomalies
Michael A. Alexander, NOAA/ERL/CDC, Boulder, CO; and J. Scott

 
 
Dynamical mechanisms for monsoon changes during the mid-holocene
Hui Su, University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA; and J. D. Neelin and J. E. Meyerson

 
Interannual variability of Great Plains summer rainfall in Reanalyses and NCAR and NSIPP AMIP-like simulations
Alfredo Ruiz-Barradas, University of Maryland, College Park, MD; and S. Nigam

 
The impact of fluctuating winds on the persistence of anomalous midlatitude sea surface temperatures
Philip Sura, NOAA-CIRES Climate Diagnostics Center, Boulder, CO; and M. Newman and M. Alexander

 
Impacts of Anomalous Western North Atlantic Sea-Surface Temperature on Ice Storms in the Southeast US
Renato Ramos da Silva, Duke University, Durham, NC; and D. Werth, R. Avissar, and G. Bohrer

 
Decadal Climate Simulations Using Accurate and Fast Neural Network Emulations for the NCAR Community Atmospheric Model Radiation
Vladimir M. Krasnopolsky, SAIC at NOAA/NCEP/EMC and ESSIC, Univ. of Maryland, Camp Springs, MD; and M. S. Fox-Rabinovitz and D. Chalikov

 
Evaluating a high resolution global coupled ice-ocean model
Meibing Jin, University of Alaska, Fairbanks, AK; and J. Wang, T. Suzuki, J. Takahashi, and J. E. Walsh

 
Assessment of PCM Results for Predictions of Climate Changes in the Caribbean
Moises Angeles, University of Puerto Rico, Mayaguez, PR; and J. E. Gonzalez, P. Mulero, D. J. Erickson III, and J. Hernandez-Figueroa

Poster PDF (479.4 kB)
 
An Evaluation of RCM Climatology in a Multi-decadal Hindcast for East Asia
Jinwon Kim, University of California, Los Angeles; and H. S. Jung and C. R. Mechoso

 
The role of land models in the FSU regional climate model and its implication to crop model forecasting
Dong-Wook Shin, COAPS, Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL; and T. E. LaRow, S. Cocke, and J. J. O'Brien

 
Response of the NCEP Global Coupled Atmosphere Land Ocean Model (CFS) to Idealized Isolated Soil Moisture Anomalies
Suranjana Saha, NOAA/NWS/NCEP/EMC, Camp Springs, MD; and H. L. Pan and H. M. Van den Dool

 
Empirical correction to the COLA coupled Ocean-Atmosphere prediction system
Xiaohua Pan, COLA, Calverton, MD; and B. P. Kirtman

 
A novel partnership for addressing the impacts of climate change in western North Carolina
Douglas K. Miller, Univ. of North Carolina, Asheville, NC; and P. J. McCown

Poster PDF (422.3 kB)
 
Influences on predictability in multi-year regional climate simulations for the continental United States
Raymond W. Arritt, Iowa State University, Ames, IA; and C. J. Anderson, W. J. Gutowski, E. S. Takle, D. Caya, C. G. Jones, J. J. Katzfey, J. W. Larson, R. Laprise, J. L. McGregor, J. Roads, and J. Taylor

 
Climate response to the vertically stratified forcing.
Andrei P. Sokolov, MIT, Cambridge, MA

 
Impact of orographically induced gravity wave drag parameterization on seasonal and weather prediction
Eun-Chul Chang, Yonsei University, Seoul, South Korea; and S. Y. Hong and Y. J. Kim

Poster PDF (835.7 kB)
 
International stretched-grid model intercomparison project (SGMIP)
Michael S. Fox-Rabinovitz, University of Maryland, College Park, MD; and J. Cote, B. Dugas, M. Deque, J. McGregor, and P. Gleckler

 
Stratospheric forcing, lower stratospheric temperatures and volcanic water vapour
Simon Tett, Hadley Centre (Reading Unit), Met Office, Reading, United Kingdom; and P. M. Forster, S. Hare, M. Joshi, and J. Knight

 
Improvements on CO2 flux estimation over the central U.S. using explicit crop phenology in a regional climate model
Zaitao Pan, St. Louis University, St. Louise, MO; and E. S. Takle, L. Xue, and M. Segal

Poster PDF (219.5 kB)
 
Developing daily climate scenarios for agricultural impact studies
Budong Qian, Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada, Ottawa, ON, Canada; and H. Hayhoe and S. Gameda

Poster PDF (596.5 kB)
 
How often does it rain?
Ying Sun, NOAA/AL, Boulder, CO; and S. Solomon, A. Dai, and R. W. Portmann

Poster PDF (2.3 MB)
 
Coupling sub-grid scale moist convection with global dynamics
Amik St-Cyr, NCAR, Boulder, CO; and S. J. Thomas, A. Wyszogrodzki, and W. W. Grabowski

 
The leading mode of air-sea interaction in the North Atlantic region
Lin-lin Pan, University of Hawaii at Manoa, Honolulu, HI; and F. F. Jin and M. Watanabe


Formal Poster Viewing with Coffee Break

9:45 AM-11:15 AM: Tuesday, 11 January 2005


Poster Session 2
Lidar Atmospheric Applications - Poster Session II
Sponsor: 2nd Symposium on Lidar Atmospheric Applications
Chairs: Belay B. Demoz, NASA/GSFC; Shane D. Mayor, NCAR

Papers:
 
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

 
Wind and Water Vapor Comparisons from IHOP 2002
Joseph P. Comer, SSAI, Lanham, MD; and B. Gentry, D. Whiteman, and B. Demoz

Poster PDF (1.1 MB)
 
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

Poster PDF (335.2 kB)
 
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

Poster PDF (339.1 kB)
 
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

 
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

Poster PDF (110.9 kB)

9:45 AM-11:45 AM: Tuesday, 11 January 2005


Poster Session 1
Lidar Atmospheric Applications - Poster Session I
Sponsor: 2nd Symposium on Lidar Atmospheric Applications
Cochairs: Shane D. Mayor, NCAR; Belay B. Demoz, NASA/GSFC

Papers:
 
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

Poster PDF (1.4 MB)
 
Prospects for DIAL measurement of ammonia profiles and emission rates
Wynn L. Eberhard, NOAA/ETL, Boulder, CO; and Y. Zhao and W. A. Brewer

 
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

 
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

Poster PDF (125.6 kB)
 
DIAL Measurements of SO2, NO2, And O3 in Beijing
Yinchao Zhang, AER, Hefei, Anhui, China

 
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

 
A lidar-radar observing system for monitoring optical and microphysical properties of cirrus
Cristian Mitrescu, NRL, Monterey, CA; and J. Haynes and S. Miller

Poster PDF (954.2 kB)

9:45 AM-9:45 AM: Tuesday, 11 January 2005


Poster Session 1
Space Weather Poster Session
Sponsor: 2nd Symposium on Space Weather

Papers:
 
Redefining the solar cycle: an operational perspective
William J. Murtagh, NOAA/NWS/Space Weather Prediction, Boulder, CO

 
Vertically Propagating Waves in the Lower Atmosphere Influenced by Solar Forcing?
Alfred M. Powell Jr., NOAA, Camp Springs, MD; and M. Chen

 
Nonlinear system identification for modeling ionospheric dynamics using magnetometer data
Harish Palanthandalum-Madapusi, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI; and A. Ridley and D. S. Bernstein

 
US-TEC:A new data assimilation product from the Space Environment Center characterizing the ionospheric total electron content
Timothy J. Fuller-Rowell, NOAA/Space Environment Center, Boulder, CO; and M. Codrescu, E. Araujo-Pradere, C. Minter, D. Robertson, S. Gutman, and G. Adams

 
Halloween 2003 storms: providing Space Weather services for aviation operations
R. H. A. Iles, SolarMetrics Limited, Guildford, Surrey, United Kingdom; and J. B. L. Jones and M. J. Smith

 
Space weather policy issues
Genene Fisher, American Meteorological Society, Washington, DC

 
Space Environmental Impacts Tool (SEIT™)
Michael R. Heer, ARINC Engineering Services, LLC, Colorado Springs, CO; and A. J. Heineman IV, J. K. Hay, and J. W. Dettler

 
Space and Terrestrial Weather Systems - Life-Extension, Modernization, and Component-Obsolescence Programs
Michael R. Heer, ARINC Engineering Services, LLC, Colorado Springs, CO; and J. L. Justice and A. F. Heineman IV

10:00 AM-10:15 AM: Tuesday, 11 January 2005


Coffee Break

10:15 AM-10:15 AM: Tuesday, 11 January 2005


Panel Discussion 2
PANEL DISCUSSION AND A SAMPLING OF SCIENTISTS’ ATTITUDES ON MEDIA COVERAGE
Sponsor: 4th Communications Workshop - Science and the Media: Can We Improve the Communication of Science via the Mass Media

11:00 AM-11:00 AM: Tuesday, 11 January 2005


1
Actions/Next Steps
Sponsor: 4th Communications Workshop - Science and the Media: Can We Improve the Communication of Science via the Mass Media

11:00 AM-12:00 PM: Tuesday, 11 January 2005


Joint Session 2

Papers:
  11:00 AM
Fire Weather 2004
Richard Ochoa, Bureau of Land Management, Boise, ID

  11:30 AM
Drought 2004
Donald A. Wilhite, National Drought Mitigation Center, Lincoln, NE


2

Papers:
  11:00 AM
2.1
Improving the conveyance of risk to people living and working in areas subject to flooding: Building partnerships to address the national inland flood threat
Douglas C. Marcy, NOAA/NWS at the Coastal Services Center, Charleston, SC; and G. Austin, T. M. Graziano, and M. Kolowith

  11:15 AM
2.2
Impact of climate change on California water users
W. Michael Hanemann, University of California - Berkeley, Berkeley, CA; and L. Dale, E. P. Maurer, and N. L. Miller

  11:45 AM
2.4
Bringing agriculture back to water - a solution for the 21st century
Richard T. McNider, University of Alabama in Huntsville, Huntsville, AL; and J. R. Christy and J. E. Hairston


5
Observational Field Experiments
Sponsor: Ninth Symposium on Integrated Observing and Assimilation Systems for the Atmosphere, Oceans, and Land Surface (IOAS-AOLS)
Organizer: Taumi S. Daniels, NASA

Papers:
  11:00 AM
5.1
The TAMDAR Great Lakes Fleet Experiment
Richard D. Mamrosh, NOAA/NWS, Green Bay, WI; and E. S. Brusky, J. K. Last, W. R. Moninger, and T. S. Daniels

  11:30 AM
5.3
  11:45 AM
5.4
Measurement Sampling Rates for Daily Maximum and Minimum Temperatures
X. Lin, University of Nebraska, Lincoln, NE; and K. G. Hubbard and C. B. Baker


5
recent developments in understanding natural cloud processes and aerosol cloud interactions and how they might be modified - Part 1
Sponsor: 16th Conference on Planned and Inadvertent Weather Modification
Organizer: Roelof T. Bruintjes, NCAR

Papers:
  11:00 AM
5.1
The impacts of Saharan dust on Florida storm characteristics
Susan C. van den Heever, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO; and G. G. Carrió, W. R. Cotton, and W. C. Straka

  11:30 AM
5.3
On the stochastic nature of droplet growth by coalescence
A. B. Kostinski, Michigan Technological University, Houghton, MI

  11:45 AM
5.4
The Relationship between Cloud Droplet Distributions and Ambient Aerosol Populations in a Subtropical Desert Region
Tara Jensen, NCAR, Boulder, CO; and V. Salazar, D. Breed, R. Bruintjes, S. Piketh, A. Al Mangoosh, and A. Al Mandoos

11:00 AM-12:15 PM: Tuesday, 11 January 2005


3
Polar Forecasting (Ice, Winds and Weather)
Sponsor: 8th Conference on Polar Meteorology and Oceanography
Organizer: James E. Overland, NOAA/PMEL

Papers:
  11:00 AM
3.1
  11:30 AM
3.3
Polar winds from satellite imagers for numerical weather prediction and climate applications
Jeffrey R. Key, Office of Research and Applications, NOAA/NESDIS, Madison, WI; and D. A. Santek, C. S. Velden, J. M. Daniels, W. Bresky, and W. P. Menzel

  11:45 AM
3.4
An Improved Algorithm for Atmospheric Wind Retrievals from Satellite Soundings over the Polar Region
Cheng-Zhi Zou, NOAA/NESDIS/ORA and Joint Center for Satellite Data Assimilation, Camp Springs, MD; and W. Zheng

  12:00 PM
3.5
Application of the Weather Research and Forecasting (WRF) Model in Antarctica
Jordan G. Powers, NCAR, Boulder, CO; and K. W. Manning and M. M. Lambertson

Poster PDF (433.4 kB)

6
Application of lightning data in atmospheric process studies 1: Assimilation and forecasting
Sponsor: Conference on Meteorological Applications of Lightning Data
Chair: Don MacGorman, NOAA/NSSL

Papers:
  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

11:00 AM-12:30 PM: Tuesday, 11 January 2005


Panel Discussion 2
COMMUNICATING RISK AND ENCOURAGING SELF-PROTECTIVE ACTION
Sponsor: AMS Forum: Living in the Coastal Zone
Organizer: Margaret A. Davidson, NOAA Coastal Services Center

Papers:
  11:00 AM
Communicating Risk and Encouraging Self-Protective Action
Kathleen Tierney, Natural Hazards Center, University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder, CO

11:00 AM-1:45 PM: Tuesday, 11 January 2005


8
Interactive Processing Systems
Sponsor: 21st International Conference on Interactive Information Processing Systems (IIPS) for Meteorology, Oceanography, and Hydrology
Cochairs: Ward R. Seguin, NOAA/U.S. Weather Research Program Interagency Program Office; William F. Roberts, NOAA; Richard Thigpen, Consultant

Papers:
  11:30 AM
8.2
The next generation of McIDAS
David A. Santek, CIMSS/Univ. of Wisconsin, Madison, WI; and T. M. Whittaker

  11:44 AM
8.3
Paper 8.3 has been moved to Poster Session P2, New Paper Number P2.14A

  11:45 AM
8.4
An Advanced Linux Prototype of AWIPS
Herb Grote, NOAA/OAR/FSL, Boulder, CO; and D. Davis, C. Bullock, and J. Tuell

  12:00 PM
An internet site for professional meteorologists (Formerly Paper Number P2.14)
Kenneth Reeves, AccuWeather, Inc., State College, PA; and M. Steinberg and J. Candor

  12:15 PM
Lunch Break

11:30 AM-1:30 PM: Tuesday, 11 January 2005


Exhibits Open


Exhibits Open


Exhibits Open

12:15 PM-12:15 PM: Tuesday, 11 January 2005


Lunch Break

12:15 PM-1:30 PM: Tuesday, 11 January 2005


Panel Discussion 1

Papers:
  12:15 PM

Lunch Break

1:00 PM-5:00 PM: Tuesday, 11 January 2005


6
The Second GEWEX Global Soil Wetness Project (GSWP-2)
Sponsor: 19th Conf on Hydrology
Organizer: Paul A. Dirmeyer, Center for Ocean-Land-Atmosphere Studies

Papers:
  1:00 PM
6.1
Transition of the Second Global Soil Wetness Project (GSWP-2) from Modeling Phase to Analysis Phase
Paul A. Dirmeyer, Center for Ocean-Land-Atmosphere Studies, Calverton, MD; and X. Gao

  1:15 PM
6.2
Validation of the GSWP2 baseline simulation
Kenji Tanaka, Kyoto University, Uji, Japan; and K. Yorozu, R. Hamabe, and S. Ikebuchi

http://?username=87730&password=981084

  1:30 PM
6.3
The GSWP2 baseline simulations: summary evaluation
C. Adam Schlosser, MIT, Cambridge, MA; and P. A. Dirmeyer

  1:45 PM
6.4
Multi-model analysis and validation in GSWP-2 (INVITED)
Xiang Gao, Center for Ocean-Land-Atmosphere Studies, calverton, MD; and P. A. Dirmeyer

  2:15 PM
6.5
Global water balance estimated by land surface models participated in the GSWP2 (INVITED PRESENTATION)
Taikan Oki, University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan; and N. Hanasaki, Y. Shen, S. Kanae, K. Masuda, and P. A. Dirmeyer

http://hydro.iis.u-tokyo.ac.jp/~taikan

  2:45 PM
6.6
Climatology of soil wetness and terrestrial water storage: comparison between model results and observational data
Kooiti Masuda, Frontier Research Center for Global Change / JAMSTEC, Yokohama, Japan; and J. Xu and K. Motoya

Poster PDF (155.2 kB)
  3:00 PM
6.7
The Impact of Reservoir Operation on the Global River Discharge
Naota Hanasaki, The university of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan; and S. Kanae and T. Oki

  3:30 PM
6.9
Sensitivity of simulated surface fluxes to vegetation greenness and leaf area index (LAI)
Helin Wei, NOAA/NCEP/EMC, Camp Springs, MD; and K. Mitchell, D. Lohmann, and M. Ek

  3:45 PM
The sensitivity of soil moisture to external forcing in SSiB land surface scheme
Zhichang Guo, COLA, Calverton, MD; and P. Dirmeyer, X. Gao, and M. Zhao

  4:00 PM
  4:15 PM
Global Runoff Dataset Produced by GSWP2
Naota Hanasaki, The university of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan; and S. Kanae and T. Oki

  4:30 PM
Coffee Break

1:30 PM-2:30 PM: Tuesday, 11 January 2005


4
The Polar Oceans (Circulations)
Sponsor: 8th Conference on Polar Meteorology and Oceanography
Organizer: Steve Vavrus, University of Wisconsin

Papers:
 
4.1
Arctic Straits: a high resolution model study

  1:45 PM
4.2
Deep Water Mixing in the Arctic Ocean induced by Geothermal Heat Flow
Peter Winsor, WHOI, Woods Hole, MA; and G. Bjork

  2:15 PM
Towards eddy permitting estimates of the global-ocean and sea-ice circulations (Formerly Paper Number P3.32)
Dimitris Menemenlis, JPL, Pasadena, CA; and C. Hill, A. Adcroft, J. M. Campin, B. Cheng, I. Fukumori, T. Lee, M. Steele, O. Wang, and J. Zhang

http://ecco.jpl.nasa.gov/cube_sphere/

1:30 PM-2:45 PM: Tuesday, 11 January 2005


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)
Sponsors: (Joint between the Fourth Conference on Artificial Intelligence Applications to Environmental Science; and the 21st International Conference on Interactive Information Processing Systems (IIPS) for Meteorology, Oceanography, and Hydrology )
Chair: Antonello Pasini, CNR

Papers:
  1:30 PM
  1:45 PM
  2:00 PM
The Application of Support Vector Machines to the Analysis of Global Datasets from MISR
Michael J. Garay, UCLA, Los Angeles, CA; and D. M. Mazzoni, R. Davies, and D. Diner

1:30 PM-3:00 PM: Tuesday, 11 January 2005


Joint Session 3

Papers:
  1:30 PM
2004 Atlantic Hurricane Season
Max Mayfield, NOAA/NWS/NCEP, Miami, FL

  2:00 PM
  2:30 PM
Hurricane Tornadoes 2004
Eugene W. McCaul Jr., USRA, Huntsville, AL


3
Understanding Change in the Coastal Environment
Sponsor: AMS Forum: Living in the Coastal Zone
Organizer: Leonard J. Pietrafesa, North Carolina State University

Papers:
  1:30 PM
3.1
paper 3.1 Moved, new paper number 2.1

  1:31 PM
3.2
Trends and variations of Hurricane related precipitation
Thomas R. Karl, NOAA/NESDIS/NCDC, Asheville, NC; and B. Gleason, D. Levinson, T. Wallis, L. J. Pietrafesa, L. Xie, and D. Dickey

  1:45 PM
3.3
Climate Connections of Land-Falling Tropical Cyclones: A Case Study for North Carolina
Leonard J. Pietrafesa, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC; and L. Xie, D. Dickey, T. R. Karl, and M. A. Davidson

  2:00 PM
3.4
The San Diego hurricane of October 2, 1858
Michael Chenoweth, Independent Scholar, Elkridge, MD; and C. W. Landsea


6
RECENT DEVELOPMENTS IN UNDERSTANDING NATURAL CLOUD PROCESSES AND AEROSOL CLOUD INTERACTIONS AND HOW THEY MIGHT BE MODIFIED - Part 2
Sponsor: 16th Conference on Planned and Inadvertent Weather Modification
Organizers: Daniel Rosenfeld, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem; Daniel Breed, NCAR

Papers:
  1:30 PM
6.1
Aerosol Intercations on Clouds with emphasis on the Arabian peninsula
Roelof T. Bruintjes, NCAR, Boulder, CO; and V. Salazar, D. Breed, J. Li, P. R. Buseck, T. Jensen, S. Piketh, and J. Reid

  1:45 PM
6.2
On the Documentation of Microphysical Signatures Following the Base-Seeding of Texas Convective Clouds Using Salt Micro-Powder
William L. Woodley, Woodley Weather Consultants, Littleton, CO; and D. Rosenfeld, D. Axisa, R. Lahav, and G. Bomar

  2:00 PM
6.3
  2:15 PM
6.4
The mechanism of increase of precipitation efficiency by large aerosols and the optimum size of seed particles
Khain Alexander, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Jerusalem 91904, Israel; and D. Rosenfeld, A. Pokrovsky, and Y. Segal

  2:30 PM
6.5
Saharan dust and optical properties of anvil-cirrus clouds
Gustavo Carrió, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO; and S. C. Van den Heever and W. R. Cotton

Poster PDF (235.0 kB)

7
Application of lightning data in atmospheric process studies 2: Climatological Studies
Sponsor: Conference on Meteorological Applications of Lightning Data
Chair: Larry Carey, Texas A&M University

Papers:
  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

Poster PDF (354.7 kB)
  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

http://www.zeus.iag.usp.br

Poster PDF (253.6 kB)
  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


9
Advances and Applications in Transportation Weather Part II: Aviation
Sponsor: 21st International Conference on Interactive Information Processing Systems (IIPS) for Meteorology, Oceanography, and Hydrology
CoChair: David J. Pace, SAIC

Papers:
  1:45 PM
9.2
Image Comparison from two cloud cover sensor in infrared and visible spectral regions
L. Berger, Institut Universitaire de Technologie, Le Mans, Pays de La Loire, France; and T. Besnard, I. Genkova, D. Gillotay, C. Long, F. Zanghi, J. P. Deslondes, and G. Perdereau

Poster PDF (249.0 kB)
  2:00 PM
9.3
Automated real-time analysis of ceiling and visibility on the national scale
Matthew L. Tryhane, NCAR, Boulder, CO; and P. Herzegh, G. Wiener, and B. Weekley

  2:15 PM
9.4
The potential role for cloud-scale numerical weather prediction for terminal area planning and scheduling
Lloyd A. Treinish, IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center, Yorktown Heights, NY; and A. P. Praino

http://www.research.ibm.com/weather/DT.html

  2:30 PM
9.5
Volcanic ash coordination tool (VACT)
Dennis M. Rodgers, NOAA/FSL, Boulder, CO; and G. Pratt and J. M. Osiensky

  2:45 PM
9.6

1:30 PM-3:15 PM: Tuesday, 11 January 2005


4
Results from IHOP_2002 and Mesoscale Studies using Lidar
Sponsor: 2nd Symposium on Lidar Atmospheric Applications
Cochairs: Cyrille N. Flamant, Service d'Aéronomie, IPSL/CNRS; Tammy M. Weckwerth, NCAR

Papers:
  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

Poster PDF (256.6 kB)
  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

Poster PDF (221.7 kB)
  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

1:30 PM-5:00 PM: Tuesday, 11 January 2005


6
Climate Change Assessment Activities of the IPCC and the CCSP(parallel with Session 7)
Sponsor: 16th Conference on Climate Variability and Change
Cochairs: Piers M. de F. Forster, University of Reading UK; Dian J. Seidel, NOAA/ARL

Papers:
  2:15 PM
6.3
Global climate sensitivity
Gerald A. Meehl, NCAR, Boulder, CO

  2:30 PM
6.4
Radiative Forcing by Well-Mixed Greenhouse Gases: Estimates from GCMs in the IPCC AR4
William D. Collins, NCAR, Boulder, CO; and D. Fillmore, V. Ramaswamy, M. D. Schwarzkopf, and Q. Fu

  2:45 PM
6.5
Radiative forcing of climate: expanding the concept
Daniel J. Jacob, Division of Engineering an Applied Sciences and Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA; and A. C. Staudt

  3:00 PM
6.6
CCSP Decision Support Resources Development
James Mahoney, NOAA, Washington, DC; and R. Moss

  4:00 PM
6.9
  4:15 PM
NARCCAP, North American Regional Climate Change Assessment Program
Linda O. Mearns, NCAR, Boulder, CO; and R. Arritt, G. Boer, D. Caya, P. Duffy, F. Giorgi, W. J. Gutowski, I. M. Held, R. Jones, R. Laprise, L. R. Leung, J. Pal, J. Roads, L. Sloan, R. Stouffer, G. Takle, and W. Washington

  4:30 PM
Coffee Break in Exhibit Hall

1:30 PM-5:30 PM: Tuesday, 11 January 2005


2

Papers:
  1:30 PM
2.1
Introductory Remarks: Future National Operational Environmental Satellites
Stephen A. Mango, NPOESS Integrated Program Office, Silver Spring, MD

  1:35 PM
2.2
Meteorological Mission
Elbert (Joe) W. Friday, National Academy of Sciences, Washington, DC

  1:55 PM
2.3
Climate Mission
Berrien Moore III, University of New Hampshire, Durham, NH

  2:15 PM
2.4
Ocean Mission
Robert Winokur, Technical Director for the Oceanographer of the Navy, Washington, DC

  2:35 PM
2.6
  2:50 PM
2.7
WindSat/Coriolis
Peter W. Gaiser, NRL, Washington, DC 20375, DC

  3:05 PM
Preparing the Way for NPOESS
John D. Cunningham, NOAA/NPOESS Integrated Program Office, Silver Spring, MD

  3:30 PM
Coffee Break

  4:15 PM
NPOESS Mission Capabilities


3
Ocean-atmosphere-land Observations, Models and Data Analysis
Sponsor: Sixth Conference on Coastal Atmospheric and Oceanic Prediction and Processes
Organizers: Frank Aikman, NOAA, NOS, MMAP; Jay Titlow III, WeatherFlow, Inc.

Papers:
  1:30 PM
3.1
Progress with the POL Coastal Observatory
Roger Proctor, Proudman Oceanographic Laboratory, Liverpool, United Kingdom; and J. Howarth and P. Knight

  1:45 PM
3.2
A 20+ year climatology of northwesterly surface wind along the California coast
Stephen V. Taylor, SIO/Univ. of California and Hydrologic Research Center, La Jolla, CA; and N. E. Graham, D. R. Cayan, and K. P. Georgakakos

  2:15 PM
3.4
Observations and modeling of the coastal meteorology of the United Arab Emirates during the Unified Aerosol Experiment (2004)
Rebecca E. Eager, North Carolina State Univ., Raleigh, NC; and S. Raman, P. Childs, R. P. Boyles, J. S. Reid, and D. Westphal

  2:30 PM
3.5
 
3.6
Influence of MODIS vegetation data on sea breeze forecasts along the Mississippi Gulf coast using a mesoscale weather prediction model

  3:00 PM
3.7
Seasonal evolution of the sea-land breeze circulation and its role in the precipitation climatology of northwestern Mexico
Michael Douglas, NOAA/NSSL, Norman, OK; and J. M. Galvez, J. F. Mejia, C. Brown, R. Orozco, and C. Watts

http://www.nssl.noaa.gov/projects/pacs/web/html/NAME/ENGLISH/index.html

  3:15 PM
3.8
Observations and simulations of intense spring sea breezes along the New York – New Jersey coast
Stanley David Gedzelman, The City College of New York, New York, NY; and K. Y. Kong and S. A. Austin

  3:30 PM
3.9
Do we understand the subtropical sea breeze?
John W. Nielsen-Gammon, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX; and K. R. Walter, C. C. Epifanio, and V. Chadwick

  4:00 PM
Prediction of Synoptic Current Reversals on the Louisiana-Texas Continental Shelf
Peter C. Chu, NPS, Monterey, CA; and L. M. Ivanov and O. Melnichenko

  4:15 PM
Decadal variations of Mixed Layer Depth and biological response in the southern California current
Hey-Jin Kim, SIO/Univ. Of California, La Jolla, CA; and A. Miller, D. Neilson, and J. McGowan

  4:30 PM
Airborne Doppler Wind Lidar Investigations of OLEs over the Eastern Pacific and the Implications for Flux Parameterizations
George D. Emmitt, Simpson Weather Associates, Charlottesville, VA; and C. O'Handley, S. Greco, R. Foster, and R. A. Brown

  4:45 PM
Design and performance of smart balloons during the 2004 AIRMAP campaign
Steven Businger, University of Hawaii, Honolulu, HI; and R. Johnson and R. W. Talbot

  5:00 PM
Coffee Break in Exhibit Hall


Joint Session 7
Cyberinfrastructure to support atmospheric and Oceanic Education: Examples and strategies (Joint with 21IIPS and Education)
Sponsors: (Joint between the 14th Symp on Education; and the 21st International Conference on Interactive Information Processing Systems (IIPS) for Meteorology, Oceanography, and Hydrology )
Organizers: Thomas M. Whittaker, SSEC/CIMSS/Univ. of Wisconsin; Rajul Pandya, UCAR

Papers:
  1:45 PM
The National Forum for Geosciences Information Technology (“FIGIT”)
Kelvin K. Droegemeier, CAPS/Univ. of Oklahoma, Norman, OK; and R. B. Wilhelmson