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

  2:00 PM
Linked Environments for Atmospheric Discovery (LEAD): Architecture, Technology Road Map and Deployment Strategy
Kelvin K. Droegemeier, Univ. of Oklahoma, Norman, OK; and V. Chandrasekar, R. Clark, D. Gannon, S. Graves, E. Joseph, M. Ramamurthy, R. Wilhelmson, K. Brewster, B. Domenico, T. Leyton, V. R. Morris, D. Murray, B. Plale, R. Ramachandran, D. Reed, J. Rushing, D. Weber, A. Wilson, M. Xue, and S. Yalda

http://lead.ou.edu

  2:15 PM
LEAD LEARNING COMMUNITIES
Sepideh Yalda, Millersville University, Millersville, PA; and R. Clark, E. Joseph, J. Alameda, T. Baltzer, K. Droegemeier, D. Bender, and W. Yarnell

  2:30 PM
  2:45 PM
Open Source technologies in science education: what's your geek IQ?
Stephen L. Arnold, Allan Hancock College, Santa Maria, CA

http://arnolds.dhs.org/geography

  3:00 PM
Issues and trends in meteorology and hydrology and their implications for COMET scientific training
Gregory Byrd, UCAR/COMET, Boulder, CO; and D. Wesley, T. Spangler, W. Schreiber-Abshire, T. Dulong, and M. Kelsch

http://meted.ucar.edu

  3:30 PM
Supporting Earth Science Education with Online Visualization and Analysis Information Systems
Zhong Liu, George Mason University/CSISS, Fairfax, VA and NASA/GSFC, Greenbelt, MD; and S. Berrick, G. Leptoukh, L. Pham, H. Rui, S. Shen, W. Teng, and T. Zhu

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

  4:00 PM
An update on MADIS observation ingest, integration, quality control, and distribution capabilities
Patricia A. Miller, NOAA/ERL/FSL, Boulder, CO; and M. F. Barth and L. A. Benjamin*

  4:30 PM
Satellite Observations for Science Education
Steve Ackerman, Univ. of Wisconsin, Madison, WI

 
J7.6b
Web-based distance learning at Penn State University: Beyond shovelware

  5:00 PM
Coffee Break in Exhibit Hall


7
Development of In Situ, Satellite, and Model Data Focused on Hydrometeorological Processes in the Atmosphere and Land Surface (parallel with Session 6)
Sponsor: 16th Conference on Climate Variability and Change
Chair: John Roads, Scripps Institution of Oceanography

Papers:
  1:30 PM
7.1
A pilot study for the intercomparison of data assimilation products during the Coordinated Enhanced Observing Period (CEOP)
Michael Bosilovich, NASA/GSFC, Greenbelt, MD; and J. Roads, A. Ruane, K. E. Mitchell, M. Rodell, P. R. Houser, and S. Benedict

  2:00 PM
7.3
ICTS (Inter-CSE Transferability Study): an application of CEOP data
B. Rockel, GKSS, Geesthacht, Germany; and J. Roads, I. Meinke, W. J. Gutowski, R. W. Arritt, and E. S. Takle

http://w3.gkss.de/ICTS

  2:30 PM
7.5
CPTEC GCM and Eta Model verifications against Rondônia Reference site in Brazil
S.C. Chou, INPE, Cachoeira Paulista, SP, Brazil; and P. Waldheim and C. P. Dereczynski

Poster PDF (1.6 MB)
  2:45 PM
7.6
Development of CEOP reference site data sets
Scot M. Loehrer, UCAR, Boulder, CO; and L. E. Cully and S. F. Williams

http://www.joss.ucar.edu/ghp/ceopdm

Poster PDF (1.7 MB)
  3:15 PM
7.8
Recent Results from the CCPP-ARM Parameterization Testbed (CAPT)
T. J. Phillips, LLNL, Livermore, CA; and G. L. Potter, J. S. Boyle, R. T. Cederwall, M. Fiorino, J. J. Hnilo, S. A. Klein, S. Xie, D. L. Williamson, and J. G. Olson

  3:30 PM
7.9
Cluster analysis of cloud regimes and characteristic dynamics of midlatitude synoptic systems in observations and a model
Neil D Gordon, SIO/Univ. Of California, La Jolla, CA; and J. R. Norris, C. P. Weaver, and S. A. Klein

  3:45 PM
(Formerly 7.7) Evaluating new cloud-radiation and hydrologic cycle parameterizations
Sam F. Iacobellis, SIO/Univ. of California, La Jolla, CA; and R. C. J. Somerville

  4:00 PM
Use of GPS radio occultation data for climate monitoring
Ying-Hwa Kuo, UCAR, Boulder, CO; and C. Rocken and R. A. Anthes

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

  4:15 PM
Radiative heating profiles in the convective tropics: A Comparison of Observations and Models
Sally A. McFarlane, PNNL, Richland, WA; and J. H. Mather and T. P. Ackerman

  4:30 PM
Comparison of the Multi-scale Modeling Framework and NCAR Community Atmospheric Model (CAM) with ISCCP and CERES Retrievals
Roger T. Marchand, PNNL, Richland, WA; and S. J. Ghan, M. Ovtchinnikov, T. P. Ackerman, and M. Khairoutdinov

  4:45 PM
Model Uncertainties Correlated with Spatial Variability of Prognostic Variables
Kun Yang, University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan; and T. Koike, K. Tamagawa, and P. Koudelova

  5:00 PM
Transferability experiments for advancing the GEWEX agenda ( paper will be presented as part of the 16 Global Conference, New Paper number 7.1A)
Eugene S. Takle, Iowa State University, Ames, IA; and B. Rockel, W. J. Gutowski Jr., J. O. Roads, I. Meinke, and R. W. Arritt

  5:15 PM
Coffee Break in Exhibit Hall


Joint Session 8
Global Climate Observing System (Joint with the 21st International Conference on Interactive Information Processing Systems (IIPS) for Meteorology, Oceanography, and Hydrology)
Sponsors: (Joint between the 21st International Conference on Interactive Information Processing Systems (IIPS) for Meteorology, Oceanography, and Hydrology; and the Ninth Symposium on Integrated Observing and Assimilation Systems for the Atmosphere, Oceans, and Land Surface (IOAS-AOLS) )
Organizers: Howard J. Diamond, NOAA/NESDIS; John Lincoln, Consultant; Thomas W. Schlatter, NOAA/ORL/FSL; A. E. MacDonald, NOAA/ERL/FSL

Papers:
  1:30 PM
  1:45 PM
Implementation Plan for the Global Observing Systems for Climate in support of the UNFCCC
Paul Mason, University of Reading, Reading, Berks., United Kingdom

http://www.wmo.ch/web/gcos

 
J8.3
Establishing an EURO-GCOS-Network

  2:15 PM
Enhancing global climate observing system (GCOS) activities in Switzerland
Thomas Frei, Federal Office of Meteorology and Climatology (MeteoSwiss), Zurich, Switzerland

  2:45 PM
NOAA's role in building a global ocean observing system
Diane M. Stanitski, NOAA, Silver Spring, MD; and M. R. Johnson

  3:15 PM
Global Observing System Information (GOSIC) data set information available through NASA's Global Change Master Directory (GCMD)
Gene R. Major, SSAI, Lanham, MD; and C. Lief, L. Olsen, S. A. Ritz, G. Servin, and D. White

http://gcmd.nasa.gov/Data/portals/gosic/

  3:30 PM
On-line provision of data at ECMWF
Baudouin Raoult, ECMWF, Reading, Berks., United Kingdom; and M. Fuentes and M. Manoussakis

  3:45 PM
Analysis of Data Exchange Problems in Global Atmospheric and Hydrological Networks
Stephan Bojinski, WMO, Geneva, Switzerland; and A. R. Thomas

http://www.wmo.int/web/gcos

  4:00 PM
NCDC's GCOS lead center activities
Thomas C. Peterson, NOAA/NESDIS/NCDC, Asheville, NC; and G. R. Hammer and M. J. Menne

  4:15 PM
Adequacy of in situ observing system in the satellite era for climate SST analysis
Huai-Min Zhang, NOAA/NESDIS/NCDC, Asheville, NC; and R. W. Reynolds and T. M. Smith

  4:30 PM
  4:45 PM
Upgrades to and expansion of the Comprehensive Pacific Rainfall Database (PACRAIN)
Michael D. Klatt, University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK; and J. S. Greene and M. L. Morrissey

http://pacrain.evac.ou.edu

  5:00 PM
Coffee Break in Exhibit Hall

2:15 PM-3:00 PM: Tuesday, 11 January 2005


5
The Polar Atmosphere - Precipitation
Sponsor: 8th Conference on Polar Meteorology and Oceanography
Organizer: Jeffrey S. Tilley, University of Alaska

Papers:
  2:15 PM
5.1
Bias adjustments to Arctic precipitation: A comparison of daily versus monthly bias adjustments
David R Legates, University of Delaware, Newark, DE; and D. Yang, S. Quiring, K. Freeman, and T. Bogart

Poster PDF (472.3 kB)
  2:30 PM
5.2
Extreme precipitation events over Greenland: consequences to ice sheet mass balance
Jason Box, Byrd Polar Research Center, Columbus, OH; and L. Yang, J. C. Rogers, D. H. Bromwich, L. S. Bai, K. Steffen, J. C. Stroeve, and S. H. Wang

3:00 PM-3:00 PM: Tuesday, 11 January 2005


Coffee Break in Exhibit Hall

3:00 PM-5:00 PM: Tuesday, 11 January 2005


Exhibits Open


Exhibits Open

3:30 PM-4:30 PM: Tuesday, 11 January 2005


Joint Session 4

Papers:
  3:30 PM
2004: A record year for tornadoes
Joseph T. Schaefer, NOAA/NWS/NCEP/SPC, Norman, OK; and D. W. McCarthy and G. W. Carbin

  4:00 PM
Winter Storms 2004
Paul J. Kocin, The Weather Channel, Atlanta, GA

3:30 PM-4:45 PM: Tuesday, 11 January 2005


NPOESS Mission Capabilities
Sponsor: GOES-R/NPOESS Symposium

Papers:
  3:30 PM
NPOESS Mission Capabilities: VIIRS
W. Paul Menzel, NOAA/NESDIS, Madison, WI

  3:54 PM
NPOESS Mission Capabilities: CrIS
William Smith Sr., Hampton University, Hampton, VA

  4:06 PM
  4:18 PM
NPOESS Mission Capabilities: ATMS
David H. Staelin, MIT, Cambridge, MA

  4:30 PM

3:30 PM-5:00 PM: Tuesday, 11 January 2005


8
Application of lightning data in atmospheric process studies 3: Mesoscale
Sponsor: Conference on Meteorological Applications of Lightning Data
Chair: Walter A. Petersen, University of Alabama

Papers:
  3:30 PM
8.1
Environmental control of cloud-to-ground lightning polarity in severe storms during IHOP
Lawrence D. Carey, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX; and K. M. Buffalo

http://www.met.tamu.edu/personnel/faculty/carey.html

  3:45 PM
8.2
The Houston Environmental Aerosol Thunderstorm (HEAT) Project – 2005
Richard E. Orville, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas; and L. Carey, J. Nielsen-Gammon, D. Collins, R. Zhang, A. Stuart, B. Ely, S. Steiger, and J. Smith

  4:00 PM
8.3
Dissecting the anomaly—A closer look at the documented enhancement in summertime ground flash densities in and around the Houston area
Michael L. Gauthier, University of Alabama, Huntsville, AL; and W. A. Petersen, L. D. Carey, and R. E. Orville

  4:15 PM
8.4
Towards the relationship between total lightning activity and downward as well as upward ice mass fluxes in thunderstorms
Wiebke Deierling, University of Alabama, Huntsville, AL; and W. A. Petersen, J. Latham, S. M. Ellis, and H. J. Christian Jr.

Poster PDF (431.4 kB)
  4:30 PM
8.5
Applications of the Cloud-to-Ground Lightning Surveillance System Database
William P. Roeder, 45th Weather Squadron, Patrick AFB, FL; and J. W. Weems and P. B. Wahner

3:30 PM-5:30 PM: Tuesday, 11 January 2005


3

Papers:
  3:45 PM
3.3
  4:00 PM
3.4
  4:15 PM
3.5
Improved water demand forecasting for water resources managers
Richard W. Stodt, U.S. Bureau of Reclamation, Denver, CO; and D. Matthews, S. Hunter, A. C. T. Pinheiro, K. Arsenault, and P. Houser

Poster PDF (484.1 kB)
  4:30 PM
3.6
Goal-oriented water policy – the Shenandoah valley experience
James Giraytys, Certified Consulting Meteorologist, Winchester, VA; and D. L. Bulova, T. J. Christoffel, and J. R. Staelin

  4:45 PM
Climate Change and Water: What Can We Expect?
Peter H. Gleick, Pacific Institute for Studies in Development, Environment and Security, Oakland, CA

  5:15 PM
Use of ENSO forecasts for optimal irrigation management under drought conditions
Francisco J. Meza, Facultad de Agronomía e Ingeniería Forestal. Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile., Santiago, RM, Chile


Joint Session 6
the water cycle in arid lands (Joint with 16th Conference on Planned and Inadvertent Weather Modification and AMS Forum on Living with a Limited Water Supply)
Sponsors: (Joint between the AMS Forum: Living with a Limited Water Supply; and the 16th Conference on Planned and Inadvertent Weather Modification )
Chair: John L. Wilson, New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology

Papers:
  3:30 PM
Topographic and Ecosystem Controls on Soil Moisture Distribution in the SMEX04-NAME Transect Study, Northern Sonora, Mexico
Enrique R. Vivoni, New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology, Socorro, NM; and H. A. Gutierrez, B. Brooks, C. A. Aragon, A. Rinehart, R. Wyckoff, C. J. Watts, J. C. Rodriguez, and T. J. Jackson

  3:45 PM
Seasonal strategies to enhance groundwater recharge in hyper-arid zones
David N. Yates, NCAR, Boulder, CO; and A. Mangoosh, M. AlMalki, and R. T. Bruintjes

  4:00 PM
Refinement of Numerical Modeling and technology of Global and Regional Water Cycle
Hiromasa Ueda, Disaster Prevention Research Institute, Kyoto University, Uji City, Kyoto, Japan; and T. Yamagata, R. Ohba, H. Sakuma, S. Behera, M. Mujumdar, and A. Chakraborty

http://

  4:15 PM
MM5 Simulations of Precipitation in the El Paso Del Norte
Karina Apodaca, Howard University, Washington, DC; and D. V. R. Morris

  4:45 PM
Influence of soil and vegetation on rainfall in coastal desert and mountainous area
Ryohji Ohba, Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Fukahorimachi, Nagasaki, Japan; and H. Ueda, T. Adachi, T. Hara, R. W. A. Hutjes, H. W. Ter Maat, and B. Bisselink

  5:00 PM
Hydroclimatology of the North American Monsoon Region in Northwest Mexico
David J. Gochis, NCAR, Boulder, CO; and L. Brito-Castillo and W. J. Shuttleworth

  5:15 PM
Geostatistical Mapping of Mountain Precipitation Incorporating Auto-searched Effects of Terrain and Climatic Characteristics
Huade Guan, New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology, Socorro, NM; and J. L. Wilson and O. Makhnin


10
Satellite IIPS and Applications Part II (Please note that Papers 10.7 and 10.8 are a continuation of Session 7: European and other International Applications)
Sponsor: 21st International Conference on Interactive Information Processing Systems (IIPS) for Meteorology, Oceanography, and Hydrology
CoChair: Gerald J. Dittberner, NOAA/NESDIS

Papers:
  3:30 PM
  3:45 PM
CLAVR-x initial operational capability at NESDIS
David R. Donahue, Science and Technology Corporation, Suitland, MD; and J. Sapper, A. Heidinger, A. Jelenak, and V. Kapoor

  4:00 PM
Design and Implementation of a Real-Time Regional Flash Flood Guidance System for Central America Driven by Adjusted GOES Satellite Rainfall
Jason A. Sperfslage, Hydrologic Research Center, San Diego, CA; and K. P. Georgakakos, T. M. Carpenter, E. Shamir, and N. E. Graham

  4:15 PM
Recent Advances in QuikSCAT/Seawinds Near-Real-Time Processing at NOAA/NESDIS
Jeffrey M. Augenbaum, Computer Sciences Corp., Suitland, MD; and R. W. Luczak and G. Legg

  4:30 PM
SBN Data Compression and Digital Video Broadcasting Test Results
Khien B. Nguyen, NOAA/NWS, Silver Spring, MD; and M. D. Buckingham

  4:45 PM
Operational Polar Satellite Validation and Evaluation Systems
Anthony L. Reale, NOAA/NESDIS, Washington, DC; and M. Pettey and C. Brown

  5:00 PM
Use of multiple IR sensors device for an improved ASOS cloud cover algorithm.
Thierry Besnard, ATMOS sarl, Saint Saturnin, Pays de la Loire, France; and L. Berger, I. Genkova, D. Gillotay, C. Long, F. Zanghi, J. P. Deslondes, and G. Perdereau

Poster PDF (301.3 kB)
  5:15 PM
River flow information system with RF current sensors
Yoshinori Kimura, Yokogawa Denshikiki Co., Ltd., Hadano-shi, Kanagawa, Japan; and S. Iida and H. Mori

http://www.yokogawa.com/YDK/

3:30 PM-5:45 PM: Tuesday, 11 January 2005


6
The Polar Atmosphere - Clouds, Radiation, Aerosols
Sponsor: 8th Conference on Polar Meteorology and Oceanography
Organizer: Jeffrey R. Key, NOAA/NESDIS/ORA

Papers:
  3:30 PM
6.1
Properties of super-cooled water clouds over South Pole
Von P. Walden, Dept. of Geography, Univ. of Idaho, Moscow, ID; and M. E. Ellison, R. E. Brandt, M. S. Town, S. R. Hudson, and R. M. Jones

  3:45 PM
6.2
  4:00 PM
6.3
Arctic Mixed-phased Cloud Microphysical Properties Retrieved from Ground-based Active and Passive Remote Sensors
Zhien Wang, GEST/Univ. of Maryland Baltimore County, Greenbelt, MD; and K. Sassen, B. B. Demoz, and D. N. Whiteman

  4:15 PM
6.4
Application of a stochastic cloud model to mixed phase Arctic clouds: an overview
Joseph F. Brodie, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ; and D. E. Veron

  4:45 PM
6.6
Modeling clouds and radiation in the Arctic with a regional climate model
Klaus Wyser, Swedish Meteorological and Hydrological Institute, 601 76 Norrköping, Sweden; and C. Jones, R. Döscher, and H. E. M. Meier

  5:00 PM
6.7
The NSA/SHEBA Cloud and radiation comparison study
Janet M. Intrieri, NOAA/ETL, Boulder, CO; and M. D. Shupe

  5:30 PM
6.9
CCN/IFN and the Arctic surface energy budget
Gustavo Carrió, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO; and H. Jiang and W. R. Cotton

Poster PDF (1.3 MB)

4:00 PM-5:30 PM: Tuesday, 11 January 2005


Panel Discussion 3
REDUCING COASTAL HAZARDS: PUTTING ENGINEERING, TECHNOLOGY AND SCIENCE TO WORK
Sponsor: AMS Forum: Living in the Coastal Zone
Organizer: Margaret A. Davidson, NOAA Coastal Services Center

Papers:
  4:00 PM
  5:30 PM
A Private Sector View Integrated Ocean Observing System
R. Cohen, University of California - Berkekey, Berkeley, CA

  5:45 PM
Reducing Coastal Hazards
Steve Lyons, The Weather Channel

  6:00 PM
Living in a Coastal Zone: Reducing Coastal Hazards through Education
Lundie Spence, Southeast Center for Ocean Sciences Education Excellence

4:30 PM-4:45 PM: Tuesday, 11 January 2005


Joint Session 5

Papers:
  4:30 PM
Space Weather: A Threat for the 21st Century
Joseph Kunches, NOAA/Space Environment Center, Boulder, CO

4:45 PM-5:45 PM: Tuesday, 11 January 2005


Panel Discussion 1
Panel on Weather Impacts (Joint between the IMPACT: 2004 Weather Symposium and the Third AMS Users Conference: Uses of and Needs for Weather and Climate Services in Managing Water Resources, Energy, and Ocean Transportation)
Sponsors: (Joint between the IMPACT: Weather 2004; and the Third Annual Users Conference )
Moderator: Roger S. Pulwarty, NOAA-CIRES Climate Diagnostics Center

Papers:
  4:45 PM
Occurrences in the Arctic
Mark C. Serreze, CIRES/Univ. of Colorado, Boulder, CO

  5:00 PM
Energy Implications of 2004
Paul R. Janish, NOAA/NWS/NCEP/SPC, Norman, OK

  5:15 PM
  5:30 PM
Introductory Remarks: Roger Pulwarty
Roger S. Pulwarty, NOAA-CIRES Climate Diagnostics Center, Boulder, CO

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


Sessions End for the Day


Sessions End for the Day


Sessions end for the day

5:30 PM-9:00 PM: Tuesday, 11 January 2005


Reception: Team NPOESS Sponsored

Wednesday, 12 January 2005

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


Wed 12 Jan

6:00 AM-6:00 AM: Wednesday, 12 January 2005


WED 12 JAN

7:00 AM-7:00 AM: Wednesday, 12 January 2005


Wed 12 Jan

8:30 AM-9:00 AM: Wednesday, 12 January 2005


Registration and Coffee

8:30 AM-9:30 AM: Wednesday, 12 January 2005


3
Land Atmosphere Interactions I (Process Representation) (parallel with Joint Session 7)
Sponsor: 19th Conf on Hydrology
Organizers: Kaye L. Brubaker, University of Maryland College Park; Deborah K. Nykanen, Minnesota State University

Papers:
  8:45 AM
3.2
Monitoring the diurnal cycle of land-atmosphere interactions in Sonora, Mexico during NAME/SMEX04
A. P. Barros, Duke University, Durham, NC; and F. Munoz, A. W. Wood, N. Voisin, T. Bohn, J. C. Rodriguez, D. P. Lettenmaier, S. S. Burges, and C. J. Watts

  9:00 AM
3.3
Evaporation over a heterogeneous land surface: The EVA-GRIPS project
Heinz-Theo Mengelkamp, GKSS Research Center, Geesthacht, Germany

  9:15 AM
3.4
Antecedent Climate, Santa Ana Winds and Autumn Wildfires in Southern California
Anthony L. Westerling, SIO/Univ. of California, La Jolla, CA; and D. R. Cayan, T. J. Brown, B. L. Hall, and L. G. Riddle


6
Building the Earth Information System
Sponsor: Ninth Symposium on Integrated Observing and Assimilation Systems for the Atmosphere, Oceans, and Land Surface (IOAS-AOLS)
Organizer: Alan R. Thomas, GCOS at WMO

Papers:
  8:45 AM
6.2
Global Earth- system Monitoring using Satellite and in-situ data: GEMS
Anthony Hollingsworth, ECMWF, Reading, Berks., United Kingdom; and G. Brasseur, P. Cox, and H. Eskes

  9:00 AM
6.3

7
Atmospheric/Sea-Ice/Ocean Exchanges
Sponsor: 8th Conference on Polar Meteorology and Oceanography
Organizer: John A. Beesley, Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory

Papers:
  8:30 AM
7.1
Determining wintertime heterogeneous pack ice characteristics and their impact on the aggregate atmospheric surface fluxes
P. O. G. Persson, CIRES/Univ. of Colorado, NOAA/ETL, Boulder, CO; and E. L. Andreas, J. -. W. Bao, C. W. Fairall, A. A. Grachev, P. S. Guest, and R. E. Jordan

  8:45 AM
7.2
Heat transfer in melt ponds
Eric D. Skyllingstad, Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR; and C. Paulson

 
7.3
On the feedbacks between cloud dynamics and ice breeze

  9:15 AM
7.4
Sea ice impacts on GFS forecasts at high latitudes
Xingren Wu, NOAA/NWS/NCEP/EMC and SAIC, Camp Springs, MD; and S. Moorthi, K. Okamoto, and H. L. Pan

  9:30 AM

Joint Session 7
extreme water cycle events: floods and droughts (JOINT BETWEEN THE LIMITED WATER SUPPLY SYMPOSIUM, THE 19TH CONFERNCE ON HYDROLOGY, and the 16th Conference on Planned and Inadvertent Weather Modificaiton) (parallel with Session 3)
Sponsors: (Joint between the AMS Forum: Living with a Limited Water Supply; the 19th Conf on Hydrology; and the 16th Conference on Planned and Inadvertent Weather Modification )
Chair: Kevin Trenberth, NCAR

Papers:
  9:00 AM
  9:15 AM
Agricultural drought: an index based on transpiration deficit
Vittorio Marletto, ARPA Emilia-Romagna, Bologna, Italy; and F. Zinoni and T. Tonelli


8
Regional Climate Modeling Studies (parallel with Session 9)
Sponsor: 16th Conference on Climate Variability and Change
Chair: Julian X.L. Wang, NOAA/ERL/ARL

Papers:
  8:30 AM
8.1
  8:45 AM
8.2
Radiative impacts of absorbing aerosols on tropical maritime boundary layer and trade wind cumuli
Hailong Wang, University of Illinois, Urbana, IL; and G. M. McFarquhar and W. W. Grabowski

http://www.atmos.uiuc.edu/~hailong/cloud.htm

  9:00 AM
8.3
Simulations of the 1988 Drought and 1993 Floods in North American using the Eta Regional Climate Model
Rongqian Yang, NOAA/NWS/NCEP, Camp Springs, MD; and K. Mitchell

http://www.emc.ncep.noaa.gov

  9:15 AM
8.4
Analyzing the Local Climate Impacts due to the Three Gorges Dam
Norman L. Miller, University California - Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA; and J. Jin, Y. He, and C. F. Tsang


9
Living With a Limited Water Supply (parallel with Session 8)
Sponsor: 16th Conference on Climate Variability and Change
Chair: Bradfield Lyon, International Research Institute for Climate Prediction, Columbia Univ.

Papers:
  8:30 AM
9.1
Has the Recent Global Warming Caused Increased Drying over Land?
Aiguo Dai, NCAR, Boulder, CO; and T. Qian and K. E. Trenberth

http://www.cgd.ucar.edu/cas/adai/

  8:45 AM
9.2
Tropical regional rainfall impacts under anthropogenic climate change
J. David Neelin, University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA; and C. Chou, H. Su, J. E. Meyerson, U. Lohmann, and J. Feichter

  9:00 AM
9.3
Simulation and Stochastic Forecasting of Water Cycle Components in Central Asian Alpine Basins
Vladimir B. Aizen, University of Idaho, Moscow, ID; and E. M. Aizen and V. Kuzmichenok

Poster PDF (471.4 kB)
  9:15 AM
9.4
Classifying precipitation events in the Fertile Crescent
Jason P. Evans, Yale University, New Haven, CT; and R. B. Smith

http://www.yale.edu/ceo/Projects/swap.html


11
Internet Applications, Web Portals and Cyberinfrastructure
Sponsor: 21st International Conference on Interactive Information Processing Systems (IIPS) for Meteorology, Oceanography, and Hydrology
Organizers: Linda Miller, UCAR/Unidata; Nancy Soreide, NOAA/PMEL

Papers:
  8:30 AM
Toward a Global Interactive Earth Observing Cyberinfrastructure (Invited Presentation)
Larry Smarr, California Institute for Telecommunications and Information Technology, La Jolla, CA; and H. E. Gruber

  9:00 AM
Cyberinfrastructure to support real-time, end-to-end regional forecasting
Tom Baltzer, UCAR, Boulder, CO; and D. Lindholm, M. Ramamurthy, and B. Domenico

  9:15 AM
An Internet-Based Top-Tier Service for the Distribution of Streaming NEXRAD Level II Data: CRAFT Becomes an Operational System
Kelvin Droegemeier, CAPS/Univ. of Oklahoma, Norman, OK; and J. D. Martin, C. Sinclair, and S. Hill


12
GIS Applications Part I
Sponsor: 21st International Conference on Interactive Information Processing Systems (IIPS) for Meteorology, Oceanography, and Hydrology
Organizers: Nancy N. Soreide, NOAA/PMEL; Scott T. Shipley, Raytheon Information Solutions

Papers:
  8:45 AM
Implementing Marine XML for NOAA Observing Data and GIS integration
Nazila Merati, PMEL and JISAO, Seattle, WA; and E. F. Burger and C. Sun

  9:00 AM
Using Open GIS web services to serve environmental data
Daryl Herzmann, Iowa State University, Ames, IA; and R. Arritt

  9:15 AM
NOS’ nowCOAST: A Web mapping portal to real-time coastal observations and NOAA forecasts
Micah Wengren, NOAA/National Ocean Service, Silver Spring, MD; and J. G. W. Kelley and M. Westington

http://nowcoast.noaa.gov

8:30 AM-10:00 AM: Wednesday, 12 January 2005


5
lidar networks and Autonomous sytems
Sponsor: 2nd Symposium on Lidar Atmospheric Applications
Chair: Raymond M. Hoff, JCET/Univ. of Maryland Baltimore County

Papers:
  8:30 AM
5.1
Aerosol lidar measurements in the framework of EARLINET
Gelsomina Pappalardo, IMAA-CNR Istituto di Metodologie per l'Analisi Ambientale, Potenza, Italy; and J. Bösenberg, A. Ansmann, D. Balis, C. Böckmann, A. Chaikovsky, A. Comeron, R. Eixmann, I. V. Grigorov, A. Hågård, V. Mitev, S. Nickovic, A. Papayannis, J. Pelon, M. R. Perrone, D. Resendes, V. Rizi, V. Simeonov, P. Sobolewski, N. Spinelli, T. Trickl, G. Vaughan, M. Wiegner, and M. Zavrtanik

Poster PDF (213.2 kB)
  8:45 AM
5.2
The NASA Micro-Pulse Lidar Network (MPLNET): co-location of lidars with AERONET sunphotometers and related Earth science applications
Ellsworth J. Welton, NASA/GSFC, Greenbelt, MD; and J. R. Campbell, T. A. Berkoff, S. Valencia, J. D. Spinhirne, B. Holben, and S. C. Tsay

http://mplnet.gsfc.nasa.gov

Poster PDF (333.2 kB)
  9:00 AM
5.3
REALM Lidar Observations during the INTEX/NE-NEAQS Study Period
Raymond M. Hoff, JCET/Univ. of Maryland Baltimore County, Baltimore, MD; and K. J. McCann, W. W. McMillan, R. Rogers, N. Jordan, K. Mubenga, F. Moshary, M. Newchurch, T. J. Duck, and E. W. Eloranta

http://alg.umbc.edu/REALM

  9:15 AM
5.4
Raman Lidar Measurements of Aerosols and Water Vapor over the Southern Great Plains
Richard Ferrare, NASA/LRC, Hampton, VA; and D. Turner, M. Clayton, D. Covert, R. Elleman, H. Jonsson, B. Schmid, J. Redemann, J. Ogren, E. Andrew, M. Chin, I. Brooks, S. Guibert, and M. Schultz

Poster PDF (114.6 kB)
  9:30 AM
5.5
Preliminary measurements with CODI: an automated compact water vapor DIAL
Janet L. Machol, Univ. of Colorado and NOAA/ETL, Boulder, CO

Poster PDF (215.2 kB)
  9:45 AM
5.6
A automated high spectral resolution lidar for long term measurements in the Arctic
E. W. Eloranta, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI; and I. A. Razenkov, J. P. Garcia, and J. Hedrick

8:30 AM-2:30 PM: Wednesday, 12 January 2005


4
MEASAURING THE CHALLENGES OF LIVING IN THE COASTAL ZONE
Sponsor: AMS Forum: Living in the Coastal Zone
Organizers: James E. Hoke, NOAA/NWS/NCEP; Gary B. Griggs, University of California, Santa Cruz

Papers:
  8:30 AM
4.1
DNR-TCOON: An Integrated Observation and Operational Forecast System for the Gulf of Mexico
Philippe E. Tissot, Texas A&M University, Corpus Christi, TX; and S. Duff, P. Michaud, J. Rizzo, and G. Jeffress

http://lighthouse.tamucc.edu/Main/HomePage

  8:45 AM
4.2
An integrated assessment of the impacts of extreme events on the coastal zone in a small Alaskan community
Amanda H. Lynch, Monash University, Clayton, Vic, Australia; and R. D. Brunner

http://nome.colorado.edu/HARC

Poster PDF (504.2 kB)
  9:00 AM
4.3
Living with frozen coasts
Steven M Solomon, Bedford Institute of Oceanography, Dartmouth, NS, Canada

  9:30 AM
4.5
A California coastal climate data archive
Kelly T. Redmond, DRI, Reno, NV; and L. M. Edwards, G. D. McCurdy, D. R. Cayan, L. Riddle, and M. Tyree

  9:45 AM
4.6
California's retreating coastline-where do we go from here?
Gary B. Griggs, University of California, Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, CA

Poster PDF (2.3 MB)
  10:00 AM
4.7
Satellite observations of coastal sea surface temperature in the South Atlantic Bight: A case study of summer 2003 cold water event
Dongliang Yuan, GES DISC DAAC, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD 20771, Greenbelt, Maryland; and A. Savtchenko and C. Li

  10:15 AM
4.8
The Florida Public Hurricane Loss Model
S. Cocke, Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL; and M. D. Powell

  10:30 AM
Coffee Break

  11:00 AM
Presidentail Symp

  1:00 PM
Lunch Break

8:30 AM-5:30 PM: Wednesday, 12 January 2005


4
Development and operation of coastal forecast systems and data assimilation
Sponsor: Sixth Conference on Coastal Atmospheric and Oceanic Prediction and Processes
Organizers: Mark Vincent, University of South Flordia; Leslie K. Rosenfeld, NPS

Papers:
  8:30 AM
4.1
A Coastal Wave Forecasting System for New Jersey and Long Island Waters
Alan Blumberg, Stevens Institute of Technology, Hoboken, NJ; and S. Fan, T. Herrington, M. Bruno, A. M. Cope, Q. Ahsan, and H. Li

  8:45 AM
4.2
Near Real-time Depiction of the California Current System
John C. Kindle, Naval Research Laboratory, Stennis Space Center, MS; and S. DeRada, R. Arnone, I. Shulman, B. Penta, and S. Anderson

  9:00 AM
4.3
A Nowcast/Forecast Model of the St. Johns River and Its Performance Assessment
Aijun Zhang, NOAA/National Ocean Service, Silver Spring, MD; and E. P. Myers and F. Aikman III

  9:30 AM
4.5
Application of COAMPSTM Ocean Data Assimilation in the AOSN II Monterey Bay
Xiaodong Hong, NRL, Monterey, CA; and J. D. Doyle, R. M. Hodur, and P. J. Martin

  9:45 AM
4.6
Modelling Coastal Rivers Operationally: A Case Study in the St. Johns River, Fla
Reggina Cabrera Garza, NOAA/NWS, Peachtree City, GA; and J. Sylvestre and M. Watts

Poster PDF (906.6 kB)
  10:15 AM
4.8
A real-time coastal ocean prediction experiment for MREA04
Dong S. Ko, NRL, Stennis Space Center, MS; and C. D. Rowley, P. J. Martin, and R. H. Preller

  10:30 AM
4.9
Ensemble Forecasting and Adaptive Observations in Monterey Bay
Sharanya J. Majumdar, RSMAS/University of Miami, Miami, FL; and C. H. Bishop, Z. Li, Y. Chao, J. K. Choi, and P. F. J. Lermusiaux

  10:45 AM
An Operational Coastal Mesoscale Forecast System
James K. Titlow III, WeatherFlow Inc., Poquoson, VA

  11:00 AM
DIOPS: A PC-Based Wave, Tide and Surf Prediction System
Richard A. Allard, NRL, Stennis Space Center, MS; and J. D. Dykes, J. M. Kaihatu, and D. Wakeham

  11:15 AM
Using Hydrodynamics to Fill Undersampled Ocean Surface Current Maps
Rosa M. Fitzgerald, The University of Texas at El Paso, El Paso, TX; and D. Barrick

  11:30 AM
Ceiling Forecasts for Naval Operations in Southern California
Rodney Paul Jacques, Naval Pacific Meteorology and Oceanography Center - San Diego, San Diego, CA; and D. Geiszler

  11:45 AM
A data assimilative approach to coastal water level forecasting
Brian O. Blanton, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC; and D. R. Lynch, K. W. Smith, and R. A. Luettich

  12:00 PM
Validation of a nearshore wave model in a harbor entrance with a dynamic wave and littoral process environment
Douglas Saucedo, Humboldt State University, Arcata, CA; and G. B. Crawford and T. Nicolini

  12:15 PM
Coffee Break

  12:45 PM
Formal Poster Viewing with Coffee Break

  4:15 PM
Lunch Break

9:00 AM-9:15 AM: Wednesday, 12 January 2005


Welcome Address. Madeleine Needles, ASLI Chair-Elect, MIT Haystack Observatory, Westford, MA
Sponsor: Eighth Annual Atmospheric Science Librarians International (ASLI) Conference

Papers:
  9:00 AM
Welcoming Address
Madeleine Needles, Librarian, MIT Haystack Observatory, Westford, MA

9:15 AM-10:15 AM: Wednesday, 12 January 2005


1
Session 1
Sponsor: Eighth Annual Atmospheric Science Librarians International (ASLI) Conference
Organizer: Madeleine Needles, Librarian, MIT Haystack Observatory

Papers:
  9:15 AM
1.1
  9:45 AM
1.2

9:30 AM-9:30 AM: Wednesday, 12 January 2005


Coffee Break

9:30 AM-10:00 AM: Wednesday, 12 January 2005


Coffee Break

10:00 AM-10:00 AM: Wednesday, 12 January 2005


Presidential Forum

10:00 AM-11:30 AM: Wednesday, 12 January 2005


Presidential Forum

10:00 AM-12:00 PM: Wednesday, 12 January 2005


Presidential Forum

10:15 AM-10:30 AM: Wednesday, 12 January 2005


Coffee Break

10:30 AM-11:30 AM: Wednesday, 12 January 2005


2
Session 2
Sponsor: Eighth Annual Atmospheric Science Librarians International (ASLI) Conference
Organizer: Evelyn M. Poole-Kober, NOAA/ARL/ASMD Library

Papers:
  10:30 AM
2.1
  11:00 AM
2.2
Where's the Data? Finding Atmospheric Data Sets for Research
Gene R. Major, NASA/GSFC, Greenbelt, MD

11:30 AM-1:00 PM: Wednesday, 12 January 2005


Lunch Break

11:30 AM-1:30 PM: Wednesday, 12 January 2005


Exhibits Open


Exhibits Open


Exhibits Open

12:00 PM-12:00 PM: Wednesday, 12 January 2005


Lunch Break

12:00 PM-1:30 PM: Wednesday, 12 January 2005


Lunch Break


Lunch Break

1:00 PM-2:30 PM: Wednesday, 12 January 2005


3
Session 3
Sponsor: Eighth Annual Atmospheric Science Librarians International (ASLI) Conference
Organizer: Michael Fosmire, Purdue University

Papers:
  1:30 PM
3.2
Library Services in an International Setting--Five Year Review
Julia Triplehorn, Keith B. Mather Library, Fairbanks, AK

1:00 PM-6:30 PM: Wednesday, 12 January 2005


4
Land Atmosphere Interactions II (Coupling and Feedbacks)
Sponsor: 19th Conf on Hydrology
Organizers: Deborah K. Nykanen, Minnesota State University; Kaye L. Brubaker, University of Maryland College Park

Papers:
  1:15 PM
4.2
  1:30 PM
4.3
  1:45 PM
4.4
Response of precipitation to soil moisture constraints in the NCEP global model simulations for GLACE
Cheng-Hsuan Lu, RSIS Inc. McLean, VA and NOAA/NWS/NCEP/EMC, Camp Springs, MD; and Z. Guo and K. Mitchell

  2:15 PM
4.6
The impact of abrupt land cover changes by savannah fire on northern Australian climate
Klaus Görgen, School of Geography and Environmental Science, Monash University, Melbourne, Vic, Australia; and A. Lynch, C. Enticott, J. Beringer, D. Abramson, and N. Tapper

  2:30 PM
4.7
The influence of improved land surface and soil data on mesoscale model predictions
Christopher M. Godfrey, University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK; and D. J. Stensrud and L. M. Leslie

  2:45 PM
4.8
Testing interactions between radiation, carbon and water processes
Yongkang Xue, Univ. of California, Los Angeles, CA; and F. H. De Sales, G. J. Collatz, and X. Zhan

  3:00 PM
4.9
Sensitivity of wet and dry North American monsoon seasons to variability in sea surface temperature and soil moisture
Stephen M. Saleeby, Colorado State University, Ft. Collins, CO; and W. R. Cotton

Poster PDF (2.9 MB)
  3:15 PM
Numerical Experiments With Upgraded WRF/NoahLSM Model
Mukul Tewari, NCAR, Boulder, CO; and F. Chen, W. Wang, J. Dudhia, M. A. LeMone, K. Mitchell, M. Ek, J. Wegiel, and R. H. Cuenca

  3:30 PM
Desert Oasis Self Preservation Mechanisms
Peter C. Chu, NPS, Monterey, CA; and S. Lu and Y. Chen

  3:45 PM
Impact of Deforestation on the proposed Mesoamerican Biological Corridor in Central America
Ronald M. Welch, University of Alabama, Huntsville, AL; and D. K. Ray, U. S. Nair, T. Sever, and D. Irwin

  4:00 PM
Formal Poster viewing with Coffee Break

1:30 PM-1:30 PM: Wednesday, 12 January 2005


Welcoming Remarks
Sponsor: Special Session for Retaining and Recruiting Minorities in Atmospheric Science
Chair: John E. Jones Jr., NOAA/NWS

Papers:
  1:30 PM
Welcoming Remarks: John E. Jones
John E. Jones Jr., NOAA/NWS, Silver Spring, MD

1:30 PM-2:30 PM: Wednesday, 12 January 2005


4
Extreme water cycle events part II
Sponsor: AMS Forum: Living with a Limited Water Supply
Chair: John Nielson-Gammon, Texas A&M

Papers:
  1:30 PM
4.1
Variability and extremes of precipitation in the global climate as determined by the 25-year GEWEX/GPCP data set
Robert F. Adler, NASA/GSFC, Greenbelt, MD; and G. Gu, S. Curtis, G. J. Huffman, D. T. Bolvin, and E. J. Nelkin

  1:45 PM
4.2
Numerical simulation of heavy precipitation in northern Baja California and southern California
Ruth Cerezo-Mota, CICESE = Centro de Investigacion Cientifica y de Educacion Superior de Ensenada, Ensenada, Baja California, Mexico; and T. Cavazos and L. M. Farfan

  2:00 PM
4.3
Minor flooding on the Milk River after an extreme winter in northeast Montana
Julie Adolphson, National Weather Service, Glasgow, MT; and C. Bogel, T. Fransen, G. Forrester, T. Jamba, M. Rawles, T. Salem, D. Secora, B. Temeyer, G. Loss, T. Gurss, and M. Tunnicliff

  2:15 PM
4.4
Diurnal to multi-day convective organizations in the Bay of Bengal during the Indian summer monsoon
Wen-wen Tung, NCAR, Boulder, CO; and H. M. Hsu and M. W. Moncrieff


7
Ocean and Coastal Observations
Sponsor: Ninth Symposium on Integrated Observing and Assimilation Systems for the Atmosphere, Oceans, and Land Surface (IOAS-AOLS)
Organizer: Kevin Knupp, University of Alabama in Huntsville

Papers:
  1:30 PM
7.1
The NWS Marine Observation Network: Coastal marine component of multiple observing systems
Don T. Conlee, NOAA/NWS/National Data Buoy Center, Stennis Space Center, MS; and P. F. Moersdorf

http://www.ndbc.noaa.gov

  2:00 PM
7.3
Assimilation of Multi-Satellite High Resolution Sea Surface Temperatures for a Real-Time Local Analysis and Forecasting System
Corey G. Calvert, Florida Institute of Technology, Melbourne, FL; and S. M. Lazarus, P. Santos, D. W. Sharp, P. Blottman, and S. Spratt

http://my.fit.edu/wx_fit/home/

  2:15 PM
7.4
1. Coastal Environmental Monitoring in the GOES-R Era. Emphasis: A Paradigm Shift in Temporal and Spatial Resolution for Earth Observations
Brenda J. Zuzolo, The Boeing Company, Springfield, VA; and P. A. Zuzolo, K. Lausten, G. R. Alexander, R. Domikis, and S. G. Hoffert


8
The Cryosphere - Sea Ice Extent
Sponsor: 8th Conference on Polar Meteorology and Oceanography
Organizer: Cecilia Bitz, University of Washington

Papers:
  1:30 PM
8.1
Attribution of Variability in Arctic Minimum Sea Ice Extent (Invited Presentation)
Jennifer A. Francis, Rutgers University, Highlands, NJ; and E. Hunter, J. R. Key, and X. Wang Sr.

  2:15 PM
8.3
Cause and Effect of Variations in Western Arctic Snow and Sea Ice Cover
Robert S. Stone, Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences, University of Colorado,, Boulder, CO; and D. C. Douglas, G. I. Belchansky, S. D. Drobot, and J. M. Harris


14
GIS Applications Part II
Sponsor: 21st International Conference on Interactive Information Processing Systems (IIPS) for Meteorology, Oceanography, and Hydrology
Cochairs: Nancy Soreide, NOAA/PMEL; Scott T. Shipley, Raytheon Information Solutions

Papers:
  1:30 PM
Polygon weather warnings—a new approach for the National Weather Service
Ken R. Waters, NOAA/NWS, Phoenix, AZ; and J. M. Coyne, P. L. Wolf, J. T. Schaefer, J. M. Looney, S. Naglic, B. W. MacAloney II, M. A. Tew, J. Lorens, R. J. Okulski, and N. O. Schwein

  2:00 PM
Refocusing the Texas Mesonet: a window on Texas weather
Gerald J. Creager, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX

  2:15 PM
Integration of Java/Java3D-based oceanographic analysis tools with GIS
Tiffany C. Vance, NOAA/National Marine Fisheries Service, Seattle, WA; and C. W. Moore and N. Merati

http://www.pmel.noaa.gov/vrl/OceanGIS

1:30 PM-5:00 PM: Wednesday, 12 January 2005


7
The Weather Damage Modification Program
Sponsor: 16th Conference on Planned and Inadvertent Weather Modification
Organizer: Andrew Detwiler, South Dakota School of Mines and Technology

Papers:
  1:30 PM
7.1
The Weather Damage Modification Program
Steven M. Hunter, U.S. Bureau of Reclamation, Denver, CO; and J. Medina and D. A. Matthews

  1:45 PM
7.2
  2:00 PM
7.3
An Overview of Results from the Nevada Weather Damage Modification Program
Arlen W. Huggins, DRI, Reno, NV; and D. Koracin, D. P. Boyle, and M. Xiao

  2:15 PM
7.4
North Dakota Research Foci under the Weather Damage Modification Program
Darin W. Langerud, North Dakota Atmospheric Resource Board, Bismarck, ND; and C. A. Grainger, P. Kucera, E. Wise, A. Detwiler, R. D. Farley, F. J. Kopp, M. R. Hjelmfelt, P. L. Smith, and P. W. Mielke

  2:30 PM
7.5
Numerical Simulations of Snowpack Augmentation for Drought Mitigation Studies in the Colorado Rocky Mountains
Curtis L. Hartzell, Project Consultant for the Colorado Water Conservation Board, Denver, CO; and J. Busto, W. R. Cotton, R. McAnelly, G. Carrió, and L. Hjermstad

  2:45 PM
7.6
  3:15 PM
7.8
Weather Modification operations with NEXRAD level-II data and products
J. T. Johnson, Weather Decision Technologies, Norman, OK; and C. Barrere, M. D. Eilts, N. Kuhnert, M. Mathis, and D. Axisa

  3:30 PM
Formal Poster Viewing with Coffee Break

1:30 PM-5:15 PM: Wednesday, 12 January 2005


6
spaceborne lidars
Sponsor: 2nd Symposium on Lidar Atmospheric Applications
Chair: Geary K. Schwemmer, NASA-Goddard Space Flight Center

Papers:
  1:45 PM
6.2
Merits of a Space-based Hybrid Doppler Wind Lidar
George D. Emmitt, Simpson Weather Associates, Charlottesville, VA

Poster PDF (363.3 kB)
  2:00 PM
6.3
Comparison of GWOLF and VALIDAR Doppler Lidar Measurements
George D. Emmitt, Simpson Weather Associates, Charlottesville, VA; and S. A. Wood and G. Koch

Poster PDF (239.1 kB)
  2:30 PM
6.5
Aerosol and Cloud Observations and Data Products by the GLAS Polar Orbiting Lidar Instrument
James D. Spinhirne, NASA/GSFC, Greenbelt, MD; and S. P. Palm, D. L. Hlavka, W. D. Hart, A. Mahesh, and E. J. Welton

Poster PDF (478.6 kB)
  2:45 PM
6.6
Validation of ECMWF gobal forecast model parameters using the Geoscience Laser Altimeter System (GLAS) atmospheric channel measurements
Stephen P. Palm, SSAI, Lanham and NASA/GSFC, Greenbelt, MD; and D. Miller, A. Benedetti, and J. Spinhirne

  3:00 PM
6.7
Lidar global cloud and aerosol layer distribution statistics from GLAS observations
William D. Hart, SSAI, Lanham, MD; and S. P. Palm, D. L. Hlavka, and J. D. Spinhirne

Poster PDF (160.7 kB)
  3:15 PM
6.8
The Cloud Physics Lidar and application to spaceborne lidar validation
Matthew J. McGill, NASA/GSFC, Greenbelt, MD; and D. L. Hlavka, W. D. Hart, S. P. Palm, D. M. Winker, M. A. Vaughan, K. A. Powell, and J. D. Spinhirne

  3:30 PM
6.9
Spaceborne multiple-scattering lidar observations of clouds, with a comparison to oxygen A-band spectroscopy
Anthony B. Davis, LANL, Los Alamos, NM; and I. N. Polonsky, D. M. Winker, M. Vaughan, Q. L. Min, and L. C. Harrison

  3:45 PM
Formal Poster Viewing


13
Satellite IIPS and Applications Part III
Sponsor: 21st International Conference on Interactive Information Processing Systems (IIPS) for Meteorology, Oceanography, and Hydrology
CoChair: Gerald Dittberner, NOAA/NESDIS

Papers:
  1:30 PM
NOAA’s observing requirements collection process—making a global difference
Lauraleen O'Connor, Noblis Inc., Falls Church, VA; and P. Taylor, K. F. Carey, and L. E. Key

  1:45 PM
  2:00 PM
  2:15 PM
The Initial Joint Polar-orbiting Operational Satellite System Verification and Validation Program
Christy L. Crosiar, NOAA/NESDIS, Suitland, MD; and D. N. Srinivas and S. M. Holt

http://sholt@mitretek.org

Poster PDF (97.2 kB)
  2:30 PM
NOAA's NPOESS Data Exploitation Project
Stacy L. Bunin, Mitretek Systems, Inc., Falls Church, VA; and T. Schott and H. J. Silva

http://projects.osd.noaa.gov/nde

  2:45 PM
Flexibility and Adaptability of the Low Rate Infornation Transmission System
Jeffrey A. Manning, Science and Technology Corp., Suitland, MD; and R. Luczak and M. O. Perkins

  3:15 PM
Intelligent Data Thinning Algorithm for Earth System Numerical Model Research and Application
Rahul Ramachandran, University of Alabama, Huntsville, AL; and X. Li, S. Movva, S. Graves, S. Greco, D. Emmitt, J. Terry, and R. Atlas

http://maya.itsc.uah.edu

  3:30 PM
Formal Poster Viewing with Coffee Break

  5:00 PM
Paper 13.9 has been moved to Poster Session P2, New Paper Number P2.43

1:30 PM-5:30 PM: Wednesday, 12 January 2005


10
Climate Modeling Studies 2 (parallel with Session 11)
Sponsor: 16th Conference on Climate Variability and Change
Chair: Gerald L. Potter, LLNL

Papers:
  1:30 PM
An appraisal of coupled climate model simulations: mean state
Peter J. Gleckler, LLNL, Livermore, CA; and K. AcutaRao, C. Covey, C. Doutriaux, M. Fiorino, T. Phillips, K. Sperber, and K. E. Taylor

  1:45 PM
An Appraisal of Coupled Climate Model Simulations: Variability Diagnostics
Kenneth R. Sperber, LLNL/PCMDI, Livermore, CA; and K. AchutaRao, C. Covey, C. Doutriaux, M. Fiorino, P. Gleckler, T. J. Phillips, and K. E. Taylor

  2:00 PM
Comparison of the Multi-Scale Modeling Framework and the NCAR CAM with observations along a Pacific Ocean transect
Thomas P. Ackerman, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, WA; and S. J. Ghan, R. T. Marchand, M. Ovtchinnikov, and A. S. Koontz

  2:30 PM
Heat waves in the Mediterranean Region: Analysis and model results
Marina Baldi, IBIMET/CNR, Rome, Italy; and M. Pasqui, F. Cesarone, and G. De Chiara

  2:45 PM
Teleconnections Resulting from Tropical Deforestation
David Werth, Duke University, Durham, NC; and R. Avissar

  3:00 PM
Validating and Understanding Water Vapor and Cloud Feedbacks in Climate Models
De-Zheng Sun, CIRES/Univ. of Colorado, Boulder, CO

  3:15 PM
Precipitation extreme values in an AGCM ensemble
Tosiyuki Nakaegawa, MRI, Tsukuba, Japan; and K. I. Matsumaru

  3:30 PM
Impact mechanisms of shallow cumulus convection on tropical climate dynamics
Roel A. J. Neggers, University of California, Los Angeles, CA; and J. D. Neelin and B. Stevens

  3:45 PM
  4:00 PM
Formal Poster Viewing with Coffee Break


11
Living With a Limited Water Supply, continued. (parallel with Session 10)
Sponsor: 16th Conference on Climate Variability and Change
Chair: Dian J. Seidel, NOAA/ARL

Papers:
  1:45 PM
A new perspective on drought in West Africa
Sharon E. Nicholson, FSU, Tallahassee, FL

  2:00 PM
Case Studies of Mesoscale Convective Systems in Sub-Sahelian West Africa
Jon M. Schrage, Creighton University, Omaha, NE; and A. H. Fink

  2:15 PM
CLIP: Climate-land interaction project—Investigating human-climate interactions in East Africa
Brent M. Lofgren, Great Lakes Environmental Research Lab, Ann Arbor, MI; and N. J. Moore, J. A. Andresen, J. J. Olson, D. J. Campbell, and B. C. Pijanowski

  2:30 PM
Seasonal temperature and energy demand predictions for the U.S. west
David W. Pierce, SIO/Univ. of California, San Diego, CA; and E. Alfaro, A. Gershunov, T. P. Barnett, and D. Cayan

  2:45 PM
CalClim: An accessible data archive to monitor California climate
Laura M. Edwards, DRI, Reno, NV; and K. T. Redmond, G. D. McCurdy, D. R. Cayan, M. Meyer Tyree, and L. Riddle

  3:15 PM
Seasonal variation of daily evaporation over two distinct biomes in a northern extent of the Chihuahuan desert
J. H. Prueger, National Soil Tilth Laboratory, Ames, IA; and W. P. Kustas, J. L. Hatfield, L. E. Hipps, and T. Schmugge

  3:30 PM
The influence of emission scenarios on climate impacts: A California prototype
Katharine Hayhoe, ATMOS Research & Consulting, South Bend, IN; and D. Cayan, C. B. Field, P. Frumhoff, E. P. Maurer, N. L. Miller, S. Moser, S. Schneider, K. N. Cahill, L. Dale, W. M. Hanemann, L. S. Kalkstein, J. M. Lenihan, R. P. Neilson, C. Lunch, S. C. Sheridan, R. Drapek, and J. Verville

  3:45 PM
Initial results from the North American Regional Climate Change Assessment Program
W. J. Gutowski, Iowa State University, Ames, IA; and R. Arritt, S. Biner, G. Boer, D. Caya, P. Duffy, M. Giguere, F. Giorgi, I. Held, R. Jones, R. Laprise, R. Leung, L. Mearns, A. Nunes, J. Pal, Y. Qian, J. Roads, L. Sloan, M. Snyder, R. Stouffer, E. Takle, and W. Washington

  4:00 PM
Formal Poster Viewing with Coffee Break

1:40 PM-3:15 PM: Wednesday, 12 January 2005


1
Session One
Sponsor: Special Session for Retaining and Recruiting Minorities in Atmospheric Science
Chair: Ahsha N. Tribble, NOAA/NSSL

Papers:
  1:40 PM
1.1
  1:55 PM
1.2
  2:10 PM
1.3
Best Practice for Recruiting---SOARS
Rajul Pandya, DLESE Program Center, Boulder, CO

  2:25 PM
1.4
  2:40 PM
1.5
Transition from School to Work
Ariel Rodriguez, Telemundo 40, Orlando, FL

  2:55 PM
1.6
Preparing for Tomorrow, K-12 Education
Alice Thomas, Sojourner-Douglas College, Baltimore, MD

  3:10 PM
Introductory Remarks: John E. Jones
John E. Jones Jr., NOAA/NWS, Silver Spring, MD

2:30 PM-2:30 PM: Wednesday, 12 January 2005


Poster Session 4
Poster Session: Climate Predictions on Seasonal and Interannual Time Scales
Sponsor: 16th Conference on Climate Variability and Change

Papers:
 
P4.1
Weather extremes in climate change simulations using the global ECHAM5/MPI-OM coupled model

 
The Pacific ENSO Applications Center (PEAC): The First Decade
Eileen L. Shea, East-West Center, Honolulu, HI; and N. Colasacco

 
Southern Hemisphere teleconnection indices associated with SACZ in model simulations
Iracema FA Cavalcanti, Centro de Previsão de Tempo e Estudos Climáticos/Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas Espaciais, Cachoeira Paulista, São Paulo, Brazil; and C. C. Castro

 
Soil moisture impacts on seasonal forecast predictability
Laurel L DeHaan, SIO/Univ. Of California, La Jolla, CA; and M. Kanamitsu, J. Roads, and C. H. Lu

 
New NWS Western Region local climate products
Marina M. Timofeyeva, UCAR and NOAA/NWS, Silver Spring, MD; and A. Bair and D. Unger

 
Global SST prediction system with a multi-model ensemble
Jong-Seong Kug, KORDI, Ansan, South Korea; and I. S. Kang and J. Y. Lee

 
Dynamical downscaling over Nordeste Brazil using NCEP RSM97
Huilan Li, International Research Institute for Climate Prediction, Columbia University, Palisades, NY; and L. Sun

 
P4.10
Climate Change Variability and Extremes in Atlantic Canada

 
Assessment of satellite-sensed leaf area index datasets using statistic analyses and a general circulation model
Hyun-Suk Kang, University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA; and Y. Xue, G. J. Collatz, M. E. Brown, and J. Pinzon

 
An assessment of surface climate variability in a recent version of the Bureau of Meteorology Research Centre atmospheric GCM
Harun A. Rashid, BMRC, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia; and O. Alves, H. Hendon, and L. Deschamps

Poster PDF (860.1 kB)
 
A study of dynamical characteristics associated with abnormal wet summer over the Korean peninsula in 2003
Kyung-Hee Seol, Yonsei University, Seoul, South Korea; and S. Y. Hong

Poster PDF (1014.4 kB)

2:30 PM-2:45 PM: Wednesday, 12 January 2005


Coffee Break

2:30 PM-4:00 PM: Wednesday, 12 January 2005


Poster Session 2

Papers:
 
National Polar-orbiting Operational Environmental Satellite System (NPOESS)
Frank Hinnant, NPOESS/IPO, Silver Spring, MD; and F. Ricker, M. Mader, and M. L. Jamilkowski

 
Advanced Technology Microwave Sounder on NPOESS and NPP
Warren Atwood, NGST, Redondo Beach, CA; and C. Muth, M. Lee, A. Webb, and J. C. Shiue

 
NPOESS Direct Readout
John Overton, NPOESS IPO/Aerospace Corp.

 
 
Design Evolution of the VIIRS Sensor Since CDR
Mike Haas, NPOESS IPO/Aerospace Corp.; and T. Scalion, J. R. Swenson, F. J. DeLuccia, M. Schueler, E. Clement, and L. Darnton

 
Capabilities of Safety Net
Gerard D. Wittman, Raytheon Company/IIS, Aurora, CO; and R. Tsugawa, J. Valenti, J. Mulligan, and M. Wenkel

 
The Ozone Mapping and Profiler Suite (OMPS) Algorithms for The Next Generation of US Ozone Monitoring Instruments
Lawrence E. Flynn, NOAA/NESDIS/ORA; and J. Larsen, C. Seftor, G. Jaross, C. Wellemeyer, J. Rodriguez, D. Newell, J. Leitch, Q. Remund, E. Hilsenrath, J. Hornstein, D. Flittner, R. Loughman, F. Sanner, C. C. Stutz, and P. Xu

 
NPOESS Interface Data Processing Segment Architecture and Software
Kerry Grant, Raytheon Company, Aurora, CO; and K. Souza, C. Fox, and S. Turek

 
"UML Representation of NPOESS Data Products in HDF5"
William Johnsen, Raytheon Company, Aurora, CO; and D. Dulaigh and C. Johnson


Poster Session 2
Poster Session P2: Formal Viewing
Sponsor: Sixth Conference on Coastal Atmospheric and Oceanic Prediction and Processes

Papers:
 
Coastal atmospheric boundary layer impacts on refractivity and EM propagation
Stephen D. Burk, NRL, Monterey, CA; and T. Haack

Poster PDF (234.5 kB)
 
The California delta breeze: characteristics and sub-daily forecasting
David W. Pierce, SIO/Univ. of California, San Diego, CA; and D. Gaushell

 
New England coastal air pollution dispersion modeling
Michael Tjernström, Stockholm University, Stockholm, Sweden; and M. Zagar and W. M. Angevine

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

Poster PDF (1.1 MB)
 
Modeling the summer diurnal cycle in SW Iberia (The CICLUS experiment)
Pedro M. M. Soares, Universidade de Lisboa/Instituto Superior de Engenharia de Lisboa, Lisbon, Portugal; and P. M. A. Miranda, J. Teixeira, A. P. Siebesma, and J. P. Ferreira

Poster PDF (1.2 MB)
 
The origins of Southern California's climate diversity
Mimi Hughes, UCLA, Los Angeles, CA; and A. Hall

 
An Observational and Modeled Examination of the Seaward Expansion of a Sea Breeze Circulation
James K. Titlow III, WeatherFlow Inc., Poquoson, VA; and R. E. Marshall

Poster PDF (142.0 kB)
 
Hurricane Isabel: A numerical model study of storm surge along the east coast of the United States
Ruth H. Preller, NRL, Stennis Space Center, MS; and P. G. Posey and G. M. Dawson

Poster PDF (1.8 MB)
 
Development of a tidal model for central California
Leslie K. Rosenfeld, NPS, Monterey, CA; and I. Shulman, M. S. Cook, L. I. Shulman, and J. D. Paduan

Poster PDF (1.3 MB)
 
Orographic and large-scale influence on Southern California precipitation patterns
Gregory John Masi, UCLA, Los Angeles, CA; and A. Hall

 
On the Optimal Wind Direction in Changing the Coastal Sea Level Along the West Florida Shelf
Yonggang Liu, University of South Florida, St. Petersburg, FL; and R. H. Weisberg

 
Trends in coastal impacts of tropical cyclones over the Australian region in an enhanced greenhouse gas environment
Lance M. Leslie, University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK; and D. J. Karoly and M. Leplastrier


Poster Session 3
Formal Poster Viewing - Atmophere, Ice, Ocean
Sponsor: 8th Conference on Polar Meteorology and Oceanography
Organizer: James Pinto, University of Colorado

Papers:
 
Parameterizing snow albedo by means of ARM data measured at Barrow, Ak
Nicole Mölders, University of Alaska Fairbanks, Fairbanks, AK; and H. Luijting and K. Sassen

 
UV radiation in the southern seas in summer 2000
Gerd Wendler, Geophysical Institute, University of Alaska, Fairbanks, AK; and B. Hartmann

Poster PDF (1.8 MB)
 
Increased exposure of Southern Ocean phytoplankton to UV radiation
Dan Lubin, SIO/Univ. Of California, La Jolla, CA; and K. R. Arrigo

 
Surface Cloud-longwave Radiation Relationships at SHEBA site from a Neural Network Approach
Yonghua Chen, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ; and J. R. Miller, J. A. Francis, and F. Aires

Poster PDF (39.0 kB)
 
On the sensitivity of cloud related radiative processes on the initiation and rate of melt over snow covered landfast sea ice
Xin Jin, Centre for Earth Observation Science, Winnipeg, MB, Canada; and D. G. Barber

 
Observation of cloud properties and surface fluxes during the Mixed-Phase Arctic Cloud Experiment
James Mather, PNNL, Richland, WA; and J. Comstock, C. Flynn, C. N. Long, R. Marchand, S. McFarlane, A. Mendoza, D. Turner, K. Widener, J. Kay, and G. Zhang

Poster PDF (386.2 kB)
 
Arctic mixed-phase cloud properties derived from surface-based sensors at SHEBA
Matthew D. Shupe, CIRES/Univ. of Colorado, Boulder, CO; and S. Y. Matrosov and T. Uttal

Poster PDF (207.5 kB)
 
On the extended lifetime of weakly forced mixed-phase clouds in the Arctic
J. O. Pinto, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO; and H. C. Morrison

 
Microphysical Influences on Modeled Arctic Roll Cloud Structure
Steven D. Greenberg, Penn State University, University Park, PA; and J. Y. Harrington

Poster PDF (296.5 kB)
 
Characterization of High Latitude Near-Surface Optical Turbulence - Phase I
Gail-Tirrell Vaucher, Army Research Laboratory, WSMR, NM; and B. Zak, D. Moudry, and K. Sassen

Poster PDF (142.8 kB)
 
Sources of biogenic aerosol particles over the central Arctic Ocean associated with the open lead surface microlayer
Caroline Leck, Stockholm University, Stockholm, Sweden; and K. Bigg and M. Tjernström

Poster PDF (199.6 kB)
 
Characteristics of the turbulent boundary layer under drifting sea ice
Anders Sirevaag, Bjerknes Centre of Climate Research, University of Bergen, Norway; and M. G. McPhee and I. Fer

 
Surface Heat Fluxes over Lake Erie Pack Ice Fields
Mathieu R. Gerbush, University of Illinois, Department of Atmospheric Sciences, Champaign, IL; and D. A. R. Kristovich and N. F. Laird

Poster PDF (385.7 kB)
 
Variability and vertical structure of the summer Arctic boundary layer
Michael Tjernström, Stockholm University, Stockholm, Sweden; and T. Mauritsen

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

Poster PDF (1.4 MB)
 
Sensitivity studies on satellite-based remote sensing of precipitation at high latitudes
Stefano Dietrich, CNR, 00133 Rome, Italy; and F. Baordo, C. Iori, C. M. Medaglia, A. Mugnai, E. Santorelli, G. J. Tripoli, A. S. Adams, and E. A. Smith

 
Investigating Antarctic Precipitation in the Ross Island Region From Various Observing Platforms
Shelley L. Knuth, Antarctic Meteorological Research Center, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI; and G. J. Tripoli and C. R. Stearns

Poster PDF (554.1 kB)
 
Simulation of an Arctic extreme rain event using MM5/3DVAR at different horizontal resolutions
Xingang Fan, University of Alaska, Fairbanks, AK; and J. E. Walsh and J. S. Tilley

Poster PDF (590.5 kB)
 
Assimilation of MODIS retrievals with the MM5/3DVAR system in an Arctic extreme rain event
Xingang Fan, University of Alaska, Fairbanks, AK; and J. R. Krieger, X. Meng, R. W. Smith, and J. E. Walsh

Poster PDF (447.0 kB)
 
Antarctic Net Precipitation Estimates Using TOVS and NCEP-DOE Renalysis-2
Cheng-Zhi Zou, NOAA/NESDIS/ORA, Camp Springs, MD; and M. Van Woert and C. Xu

 
Evaluation of Antarctic Mesoscale Prediction System (AMPS) forecasts for different synoptic weather patterns
Luna M. Rodriguez-Manzanet, University of Puerto Rico - Rio Piedras, San Juan, PR; and J. J. Cassano

Poster PDF (2.0 MB)
 
Paper P3.24 has been moved to Session 7, new paper number 7.3A

 
A study of coherent tropopause disturbances within the Northern Hemispheric circumpolar vortex
Joseph R. Kravitz, University at Albany/SUNY, New York, NY; and L. F. Bosart, D. Keyser, and A. R. Aiyyer

Poster PDF (527.6 kB)
 
The role of rheology in simulating sea-ice ridging
Jinlun Zhang, University of Washington, Seattle, WA; and D. A. Rothrock

 
Sensitivity of simulated Greenland ice sheet mass balance terms to atmospheric model configuration
John J. Cassano, CIRES/Univ. of Colorado, Boulder, CO; and M. J. Shaw and C. S. Takeuchi

 
Assimilation of Observed Sea Ice Motion in Models: Error Analysis
Todd E. Arbetter, NSIDC/CIRES/Univ. of Colorado, Boulder, CO; and W. N. Meier

 
P3.29
Break-up of Giant Tabular Icebergs in North East Greenland

 
Diagnosing Atlantic Layer circulation and properties in AOMIP models
Greg Holloway, Institute of Ocean Science, Sidney, BC, Canada; and E. C. Hunke, M. Maltrud, and M. J. Karcher

 
California Currents of the Arctic Ocean
Greg Holloway, Institute of Ocean Science, Sidney, BC, Canada

 
Paper P3.32 has been moved to Session 4, New Paper Number P4.1A


Poster Session 3
Land Atmosphere Interactions Posters
Sponsor: 19th Conf on Hydrology
Organizers: Deborah K. Nykanen, Minnesota State University; Kaye L. Brubaker, University of Maryland College Park

Papers:
 
Water vapor turbulent flux over a heterogeneous landscape
Miliaritiana L. Robjhon, Howard University, Washington, DC; and E. Joseph and J. D. Fuentes

 
Verification of the North American Land Data Assimilation System (NLDAS) using data from Oklahoma Mesonet OASIS sites
Kodi L. Nemunaitis-Monroe, University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK; and J. B. Basara, B. A. Cosgrove, D. Lohmann, and K. E. Mitchell

 
Variability of Penman-based evapotranspiration estimates in California
Hugo G. Hidalgo, SIO/Univ. Of California, La Jolla, CA; and D. R. Cayan and M. Dettinger

 
The search for linear correlations between atmospheric surface-layer fluxes and soil moisture across Oklahoma
Justin W. Monroe, Oklahoma Climatological Survey, University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK; and J. B. Basara

 
The role of antecedent land surface conditions in warm season monsoon precipitation over northwestern Mexico, 1950-2002
Chunmei Zhu, University of Washington, Seattle, WA; and D. P. Lettenmaier and T. Cavazos

 
The impact of soil moisture initialization on seasonal precipitation in the West African Sahel using the Regional Spectral Model
Andrea M. Sealy, Howard University, Washington, DC; and E. Joseph, C. H. Lu, and H. M. H. Juang

 
Simulations-based Land Surface Sub-grid Parameterization
Hatim Sharif, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA; and N. L. Miller, W. Crow, and E. F. Wood

 
Remote sensing of forest-atmosphere exchanges
Qilong Min, ASRC, SUNY at Albany, Albany, NY; and B. Lin

 
Preliminary results of the meteorological environment near the restoring construction area of the Cheonggye stream in Seoul, Korea
Young-Gon Lee, KMA/METRI, Dongjak-gu, Seoul, South Korea; and H. H. Um and J. C. Nam

 
On the impact of weekly updated Green Vegetation Fraction in Noah Land Surface Model
Vince C. K. Wong, NOAA/NWS/NCEP, Camp Springs, MD; and K. E. Mitchell

 
Observations and Modeling of Evapotranspiration and Latent Heat Flux at Various Sites in North Carolina
Margaret W. P. Puryear, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC; and S. Raman, P. Childs, A. Syed, and R. Boyles

Poster PDF (286.0 kB)
 
Evaluating the use of the Atmospheric and EXchange Inverse (ALEXI) model in short-term prediction and mesoscale diagnosis
John R. Mecikalski, University of Alabama, Huntsville, AL; and S. M. Mackaro, M. C. Anderson, J. M. Norman, and J. B. Basara

Poster PDF (787.5 kB)
 
Evaluate the snow depletion curve theory in the American River basin with distributed snow model
Eylon Shamir, Hydrologic Research Center, San Diego, CA; and J. Wang, S. Taylor, and K. P. Georgakakos

 
Coupling a mosaic land surface scheme (SiBUC) with a nonhydrostatic atmospheric model (ARPS)
Kazuyoshi Souma, Kyoto University, Kyoto, Kyoto, Japan; and K. Tanaka, E. Nakakita, and S. Ikebuchi

Poster PDF (779.7 kB)
 
Correction of global precipitation products for systematic bias and orographic effects
Jennifer C Adam, University of Washington, Seattle, WA; and D. P. Lettenmaier, E. A. Clark, and E. F. Wood

 
Contribution of Land Surface States to Precipitation Variability in Boreal Summer with an Atmospheric General Circulation Model
Tomohito Yamada, Institute of Industrial Science, The University of Tokyo, Meguro, Tokyo, Japan; and S. Kanae and T. Oki

http://hydro.iis.u-tokyo.ac.jp/

Poster PDF (650.4 kB)
 
CLIP: Modeling Land Use Change and Precipitation in Eastern Africa
Nathan J. Moore, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI; and B. M. Lofgren and J. Andresen

 
P3.22
Analysis of multiple precipitation products and preliminary assessment of their impact on GLDAS land surface states

 
AGCM Biases in Evaporation Regime: Impact on Soil Moisture Memory and Land-Atmosphere Feedback
Sarith P. P. Mahanama, GEST and NASA/GSFC, Greenbelt, MD; and R. D. Koster

 
A 2-year climatology of land-surface energy fluxes using the ALEXI model
Jason A. Otkin, CIMSS/Univ. of Wisconsin, Madison, WI; and M. C. Anderson and J. R. Mecikalski

Poster PDF (2.7 MB)
 
"Why are the lower level cumulus clouds often better organized near the east bank of the Tapajos River?" - a mechanistic study
Lixin Lu, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO; and A. S. Denning, M. A. F. Silva Dias, P. L. Silva Dias, and M. Longo


Poster Session 3
Poster Session 3
Sponsor: Ninth Symposium on Integrated Observing and Assimilation Systems for the Atmosphere, Oceans, and Land Surface (IOAS-AOLS)

Papers:
 
 
Testing Radiosonde Replacement System (RRS) Radiosondes—Part 2
James Fitzgibbon, NOAA/NWS, Silver Spring, MD; and J. Facundo

Poster PDF (377.1 kB)
 
Siting New England: a GIS prototype for site selection for the NWS Modernized Cooperative Network
William G. McPherson Jr., University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK; and M. Yuan, D. Giuliano, K. Tapp, and J. Rush

 
Selecting the Sites for CASA NetRad, a Collaborative Radar Network
Keith Brewster, CAPS/Univ. of Oklahoma, Norman, OK; and L. White, B. Johnson, and J. Brotzge

http://casa.caps.ou.edu/netplan/netplan.html

Poster PDF (532.6 kB)
 
Portable Automated Research Micrometeorological Stations (PARMS) Designed for Enhanced Local Monitoring of Atmospheric Processes
Jeffrey B. Basara, Oklahoma Climatological Survey, University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK; and D. Grimsely, B. G. Illston, C. Fiebrich, and J. Southard

 
OSSEs for realistic DWL concepts: Impacts on hurricane track forecasts
George D. Emmitt, Simpson Weather Associates, Charlottesville, VA; and S. Wood, S. Greco, R. M. Atlas, and J. Terry

Poster PDF (159.0 kB)
 
Optimal 3D Wind Retrieval as the Basis for Dynamically Adaptive Doppler Radar Data Collection
Luther White, University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK; and A. M. Shapiro

 
Integrating a Doppler sodar with nuclear power plant meteorological data
Thomas E. Bellinger, Illinois Emergency Management Agency, Springfield, IL

Poster PDF (2.3 MB)
 
Integrated observation of upper ocean response to typhoons and tropical storms from ARGO floats and Satellites
JongJin Park, Seoul National Univeristy, Seoul, South Korea; and K. A. Park, K. Kim, and Y. H. Youn

 
Improvements in MKIIA Radiosonde Relative Humidity Processing
Dr. Richard Scarlet, Sippican, Inc., Marion, MA

 
Impact of precipitation observations on regional climate simulations
Ana M. B. Nunes, SIO/Univ. of California, La Jolla, CA; and J. Roads, M. Kanamitsu, and P. A. Arkin


Formal Poster Viewing with Coffee Break


Formal Poster Viewing with Coffee Break


Poster Session 2
IIPS Poster Session II
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:
 
Applying OpenGIS Consortium standards to environmental observations and display
Gerald J Creager, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX

 
The Meteorological And Range Safety Support (MARSS) system: a GIS-based tool for launch area hazard prediction and visualization
Stephen L. Arnold, ENSCO, Inc., Santa Maria, CA; and A. V. Dianic and E. G. Magnuson

http://www.ensco.com/products/space/mrs/mrs_ovr.htm

Poster PDF (649.6 kB)
 
Using IDL as an unique approach for an automated weather forecast website
Ann L. Mazuk, The Aerospace Corporation, Los Angeles, CA; and L. O. Belsma, A. T. Stier, and A. A. Fote

 
Using a web browser for environmental and climate change studies
T. Dale Bess, NASA/LRC, Hampton, VA; and P. Stackhouse, D. Mangosing, and G. L. Smith

Poster PDF (1019.5 kB)
 
Supplying distributions of historic climate data via the WWW
Catherine A. Smith, NOAA/CIRES, Univ. of Colorado, Boulder, CO

 
Quantitative Precipitation Forecast (QPF) as a Foundation for a Systematic Methodology in GFE
Carven A. Scott, NOAA/NWSFO, Anchorage, AK; and V. J. Proton, J. Nelson, S. Baines, and C. Eldred

Poster PDF (750.3 kB)
 
A Metadata Integrated Data Analysis Server (MIDAS): Enhancements and Updates
Yujie Zhao, George Mason Univ., Fairfax, VA; and R. Yang and M. Kafatos

Poster PDF (99.3 kB)
 
Internet Meteorology: Increasing efficiency with cost-effective approaches
Eric D. Luebehusen, NOAA/NWS/NCEP/CPC, Washington, DC

Poster PDF (533.6 kB)
 
Implementation of the Operational Automated Coral Bleaching E-mail Alert System
Jillian E. Wemmer, Science and Technology Corporation, Suitland, MD; and K. Sprietzer, L. Zhao, and J. Sapper

Poster PDF (895.7 kB)
 
Examples of GFESuite and D2D Use in Operations During 2004
William F. Roberts, NOAA, Boulder, CO; and L. K. Cheatwood

Poster PDF (170.7 kB)
 
Collaborative activities of the NWS MDL and NSSL to improve and develop new severe weather warning guidance applications
Gregory J. Stumpf, CIMMS/Univ. of Oklahoma/NOAA/NWS, Norman, OK; and S. B. Smith and K. E. Kelleher

Poster PDF (460.5 kB)
 
Paper 2.14 has been moved to Session 8, new paper number 8.3A

 
The Galileo weather processing and display system (Formerly Paper number 8.3)
Kenneth Reeves, AccuWeather, Inc., State College, PA; and M. Steinberg and A. Shaw

 
A Component Interface to netCDF
J. Walter Larson, ANL, Argonne, IL; and E. T. Ong and B. Norris

 
Paper P2.16 has been moved to Session 16, New Paper Number 16.1a

 
Technology Changes in AWIPS
Timothy Hopkins, NOAA/NWS, Silver Spring, MD; and D. Rhine and C. S. Bullock

 
AWIPS interdependencies
Franz Zichy, NOAA/NWS, Silver Spring, MD; and J. Barna and T. Hopkins

 
Atovs awips bufr encoder and decoder
Awdhesh K. Sharma, NOAA/NESDIS, Suitland, MD; and T. Yu

Poster PDF (51.7 kB)
 
P2.20
Nowcasting at KMA with non-NEXRAD Radars

 
Reconstruction of gridded model data received via NOAAport
Lloyd A. Treinish, IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center, Yorktown Heights, NY; and A. P. Praino and C. Tashman

http://www.research.ibm.com/weather/DT.html

Poster PDF (2.9 MB)
 
SBN/NOAAPort Expansion
Philip G. Cragg, NOAA/NWS, Silver Spring, MD; and L. Klet

 
Recent and near-future enhancements to the NOAAPort product suite
Brian Gockel, NOAA/NWS, Silver Spring, MD

 
Recent advances in the FSL Central Facility Data Systems
Robert C. Lipschutz, NOAA/ERL/FSL, Boulder, CO; and C. H. MacDermaid

Poster PDF (114.7 kB)
 
The DEOS Interactive Visualization and Analysis System (DIVAS) prototype
Tracy L. DeLiberty, University of Delaware, Newark, DE; and D. R. Legates, L. L. Parrish, D. J. Leathers, and G. E. Quelch

Poster PDF (316.6 kB)
 
The graphical severe weather warning initiative at the Fort Worth National Weather Service
William Bunting, NOAA/NWS, Fort Worth, TX; and L. Bucklew, P. Kirkwood, and S. Rae

Poster PDF (195.8 kB)
 
Dissemination of critical weather warnings using reverse 911 technology
Richard T Jesuroga, NOAA/ERL/FSL, Boulder, CO; and D. R. B. Chadwick, D. A. E. MacDonald, U. H. Grote, and C. Golden

 
Video Hurricane Local Statement
Dennis Feltgen, NOAA/NWSFO, Key West, FL; and A. Devanas

 
Weather forecast uncertainty management and display
Randy J. Lefevre, ApMet, Albuquerque, NM; and J. Pfautz and K. Jones

Poster PDF (1.4 MB)
 
Value of one-minute data in an operational mesonet
James Finney, Jackson State University, Jackson, MS; and L. D. White

Poster PDF (128.1 kB)
 
The Development of Real-time Airborne and Dropwindsonde Data Acquisition System on Laptops
Po-Hsiung Lin, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan; and Y. H. Chen and C. C. Wu

Poster PDF (304.4 kB)
 
Paper P2.33 has been moved to Session 18, new paper number 18.15A

 
ECMWF 45-Year Reanalysis Data from NCAR
Joseph L. Comeaux II, NCAR, Boulder, CO; and S. J. Worley

Poster PDF (125.7 kB)
 
Assessing Human Dimensions of Weather and Climate Salience
Alan E. Stewart, University of Georgia, Athens, GA

Poster PDF (102.1 kB)
 
P2.37
Assessing the Human Experience of Climate: Development of the Climate Adjective Rating Scale (CARS)

 
Build Four of NOAA's NWS Weather Event Simulator
Michael A. Magsig, CIMMS/Univ. of Oklahoma and NOAA/NWS, Norman, OK; and N. M. Said, N. Levit, and X. Yu

Poster PDF (330.3 kB)
 
Architecture of MADIS data processing and distribution at FSL
Christopher H. MacDermaid, NOAA/ERL/FSL, Boulder, CO; and R. C. Lipschutz, P. Hildreth, R. A. Ryan, A. B. Stanley, M. F. Barth, and P. A. Miller

http://www-its.fsl.noaa.gov/dsg

Poster PDF (587.4 kB)
 
The Use of Satellite Water Vapor Imagery and Model Data to Diagnose and Forecast Turbulent Mountain Waves
Nathan Uhlenbrock, CIMSS/Univ. of Wisconsin, Madison, WI; and S. Ackerman, W. Feltz, T. Whittaker, B. Sharman, K. M. Bedka, and L. Gumley

Poster PDF (282.3 kB)
 
Atmospheric Sciences and Climate Applications Using HDF and HDF5
MuQun Yang, National Center for Supercomputing Applications and Univ. of Illinois, Champaign, IL; and R. McGrath E. and M. Folk

http://hdf.ncsa.uiuc.edu/

Poster PDF (170.6 kB)
 
HDF5—A High Performance data Format for Earth Science
MuQun Yang, National Center for Supercomputing Applications and Univ. of Illinois, Champaign, IL; and R. E. McGrath and M. Folk

http://hdf.ncsa.uiuc.edu/

Poster PDF (287.7 kB)
 
Thermal Effluent Pattern Analysis Discharged from Nuclear Power Plant Using Airborne and Satellite Remote Sensing Image Data (Formerly paper number 13.9)
JongGyu Han, KIGAM-Korea Institute of Geoscience & Mineral Resources, Daejeon, South Korea; and K. Chi and Y. Yeon

 
Discovering Webservices through the NOAA Webservice Registry (Formerly Paper Number 16.1)
Eugene F. Burger, NOAA/PMEL and Univ. of Washington/JISAO, Seattle, WA; and A. N. Keane, E. A. Kihn, and M. W. Govett

2:45 PM-3:45 PM: Wednesday, 12 January 2005


4
Session 4
Sponsor: Eighth Annual Atmospheric Science Librarians International (ASLI) Conference
Organizer: Susan Tarbell, Librarian, Air Force Weather Technical Library

Papers:
  2:45 PM
4.1

3:15 PM-4:30 PM: Wednesday, 12 January 2005


Panel Discussion 1
Student Roundtable
Sponsor: Special Session for Retaining and Recruiting Minorities in Atmospheric Science
Moderator: Mish Michaels, The Weather Channel, Atlanta, GA and WBZ-TV4
Panelists: Ashton Robinson, Univ. of Oklahoma, Graduate Student; Ahsha N. Tribble, NOAA/NSSL; Rajul Pandya, DLESE Program Center; Ariel Rodriguez, Telemundo 40; Alice Thomas, Sojourner-Douglas College

Papers:
  3:15 PM
Panelist #1: Ashton Robinson
Ashton Robinson, Univ. of Oklahoma, Graduate Student, Norman, OK

  3:30 PM
Panelist #2: Ahsha N. Tribble
Ahsha N. Tribble, NOAA/NSSL, Norman, OK

  3:45 PM
Panelist #3: Rajul Pandya
Rajul Pandya, DLESE Program Center, Boulder, CO

  4:00 PM
Panelist #4: Ariel Rodriguez
Ariel Rodriguez, Telemundo 40, Orlando, FL

  4:15 PM
Panelist #5: Alice Thomas
Alice Thomas, Sojourner-Douglas College, Baltimore, MD

3:30 PM-5:00 PM: Wednesday, 12 January 2005


Formal Poster Viewing with Coffee Break

3:30 PM-6:30 PM: Wednesday, 12 January 2005


Exhibits Open


Exhibits Open


Exhibits Open

4:00 PM-5:00 PM: Wednesday, 12 January 2005


Walter Orr Roberts Lecture
Sponsor: 19th Conf on Hydrology

Papers:

4:00 PM-5:15 PM: Wednesday, 12 January 2005


5
Extreme Water Cycle Events III
Sponsor: AMS Forum: Living with a Limited Water Supply
Chair: Robert F. Adler, NASA/GSFC

Papers:
  4:00 PM
5.1
Understanding the value of high resolution regional climate modeling
James M. Done, NCAR, Boulder, CO; and C. A. Davis, L. R. Leung, and B. Kuo

 
5.2
Topographic and meteorological influences on the spatial scaling of heavy convective rainfall in mountainous regions

  4:30 PM
5.3
Extreme rainfall in Texas: patterns and predictability
John W. Nielsen-Gammon, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX; and F. Zhang, A. M. Odins, and B. Myoung

  4:45 PM
5.4
Development of a “scientifically defensible” design storm for South Boulder Creek
John F. Henz, HDR Engineering, Inc; Denver, Colorado, Denver, CO; and W. J. Badini

  5:00 PM
5.5
Analysis of a Monsoon Flood Event in a Regional Semiarid Watershed
Enrique R. Vivoni, New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology, Socorro, NM; and R. S. Bowman, R. Wyckoff, R. Jakubowski, and K. Richards

  5:30 PM
Twentieth century drought in the conterminous United States: An application of severity-area-duration analysis
Kostantinos M Andreadis, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Washington, Seattle, WA; and E. A. Clark and D. P. Lettenmaier

4:00 PM-5:30 PM: Wednesday, 12 January 2005


8
Land-Surface and Urban Observations
Sponsor: Ninth Symposium on Integrated Observing and Assimilation Systems for the Atmosphere, Oceans, and Land Surface (IOAS-AOLS)
Organizer: Pat T. Welsh, NOAA/NWS

Papers:
  4:00 PM
8.1
Land Use Cloud Interaction Experiment (LUCIE): Preliminary results
Robert O. Lawton, University of Alabama, Huntsville, AL; and U. S. Nair, D. K. Ray, and R. M. Welch

  4:30 PM
8.3
Winter Test of Production All-Weather Precipitation Accumulation Gauge for ASOS 2003–2004
Christopher M. Greeney, SAIC, Sterling, VA; and M. D. Gifford and M. L. Salyards

  4:45 PM
8.4
Estimating temperature normals for the USCRN stations
Bomin Sun, STG Inc., Asheville, NC; and T. C. Peterson

  5:00 PM
8.5
Weather support to consequence management during the 2004 Summer Olympic Games
John R. Hannan, Northrop Grumman Information Technology, Alexandria, VA; and P. M. Hayes, S. Hamilton, and J. L. Trigg Jr.

Poster PDF (264.9 kB)
  5:15 PM
8.6
The Kansas City urban heat and moisture flux measurement experiment (KC-FLUXMEX)
Jimmy O. Adegoke, University of Missouri, Kansas City, MO; and A. A. Balogun, Z. W. Klein, G. R. Mickelson, C. Seagraves, and L. A. Ward


Joint Session 9
GIS Applications Part III (Joint Session with Hydrology and IIPS)
Sponsors: (Joint between the 21st International Conference on Interactive Information Processing Systems (IIPS) for Meteorology, Oceanography, and Hydrology; and the 19th Conf on Hydrology )
Organizers: Nancy N. Soreide, NOAA/PMEL; Scott T. Shipley, Raytheon Information Solutions

Papers:
  4:00 PM
An Overview of GIS Projects and Applications at Southern Region River Forecast Centers
Keith Stellman, NOAA/NWS, Shreveport, LA; and D. Welch, M. Love, P. Mckee, and J. Atwell

  4:15 PM
Developing a high resolution precipitation dataset for Florida hydrologic studies
Joseph Marzen, Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL; and H. E. Fuelberg

http://bertha.met.fsu.edu/

  4:30 PM
  4:45 PM
An Integrated Hydrological and Atmospheric Model to predict Malaria Epidemics
Salvi Asefi, University of Alabama, Huntsville, AL; and J. Li, U. S. Nair, D. K. Ray, R. M. Welch, N. Padilla, E. Barrios, and M. E. Benedict

  5:00 PM
Weather radar terrain occultation modeling using GIS
Scott Shipley, Raytheon ITSS, Upper Marlboro, MD; and I. A. Graffman and R. E. Saffle

http://geog.gmu.edu/projects/wxproject/


9
The Cryosphere - Sea Ice Motion, Thickness and Properties
Sponsor: 8th Conference on Polar Meteorology and Oceanography
Organizer: John W. Weatherly, U. S. Army Cold Regions Research and Engineering Lab

Papers:
  4:00 PM
9.1
Estimating Sea-ice Transport Using the Advanced Sensor Microwave Imager (AMSR)
Tom A. Agnew, Meteorological Service of Canada, Downsview, ON, Canada; and J. Vandeweghe and P. Yu

  4:30 PM
9.3
On the way to assimilate satellite data into sea ice models
Valérie Dulière, UCL (Univerité catholique de Louvain-la-neuve), 1348 Louvain-la-neuce, Belgium; and T. Fichefet

  4:45 PM
9.4
Operational modeling of sea ice conditions in the marginal ice zone through the assimilation of satellite-derived ice concentration
Ted Maksym, United States Naval Academy, Annapolis, MD; and L. Toudal, M. Coon, and M. L. Van Woert

  5:00 PM
9.5
Temporal and Regional Variations in Sea Ice Thickness in the Ross Sea during 1995 and 1998
Tracy L. DeLiberty, University of Delaware, Newark, DE; and C. A. Geiger

Poster PDF (554.2 kB)
  5:15 PM
9.6
Melt Pond Coverage on Arctic Sea Ice from MODIS
Mark A. Tschudi, NCAR, Boulder, CO; and J. Maslanik and D. K. Perovich

4:10 PM-5:00 PM: Wednesday, 12 January 2005


2
Session Two
Sponsor: Special Session for Retaining and Recruiting Minorities in Atmospheric Science

Papers:
  4:25 PM
2.2
Diversity Initiatives within NOAA
Jacqueline Rousseau, NOAA EPP/MSI, Washington, DC

  4:40 PM
2.4
AMS Education and Minority Scholarship/Fellowships
Ira W. Geer, American Meteorological Society, Washington, DC

5:15 PM-6:15 PM: Wednesday, 12 January 2005


Panel Discussion 2
Round Table for Response
Sponsor: Special Session for Retaining and Recruiting Minorities in Atmospheric Science
Moderator: John V. Cortinas Jr., University of Oklahoma/CIMMS
Panelists: Eric J. Barron, Penn State Univ.; Ray Ban, The Weather Channel; Ashanti Pyrtle, Univ. of South Florida; Thomas Windham, NSF

Papers:
  5:15 PM
Panelist #1: Eric J. Barron
Eric J. Barron, Penn State Univ., University Park, PA

  5:30 PM
Panelist #2: Ray Ban
Ray Ban, The Weather Channel, Atlanta, GA

  5:45 PM
Panelist #3: Ashanti Pyrtle
Ashanti Pyrtle, Univ. of South Florida, Tampa, FL

  6:00 PM
Panelist #4: Thomas Windham
Thomas Windham, NSF, Arlington, VA

5:30 PM-5:30 PM: Wednesday, 12 January 2005


Sessions End for the Day


Sessions End for the day

5:30 PM-6:30 PM: Wednesday, 12 January 2005


Exhibits Reception (Cash Bar)


Exhibits Reception (Cash Bar)


Exhibits Open

6:00 PM-6:00 PM: Wednesday, 12 January 2005


Annual Dinner with Election of 2005 Officers (Sponsored by Cambridge Scientific Abstracts)


Session Ends

7:30 PM-7:30 PM: Wednesday, 12 January 2005


AMS Annual Awards Banquet


AMS Annual Awards Banquet

Thursday, 13 January 2005

12:00 AM-12:00 AM: Thursday, 13 January 2005


Thurs 13 Jan

6:00 AM-6:00 AM: Thursday, 13 January 2005


THUR 13 JAN

8:30 AM-9:30 AM: Thursday, 13 January 2005


1
Lorenz Symposium I
Sponsor: The Ed Lorenz Symposium

Papers:
  9:00 AM
1.2
Waves, information and local predictability
Joseph Tribbia, NCAR, Boulder, CO

8:30 AM-9:45 AM: Thursday, 13 January 2005


Joint Session 8
Understanding and predicting the water cycle across scales (Joint between the Limited Water Supply Symposium, the 19th Confernce on Hydrology, and the 16th Conference on Planned and Inadvertent Weather Modification) (parallel with Session 5)
Sponsors: (Joint between the AMS Forum: Living with a Limited Water Supply; the 16th Conference on Planned and Inadvertent Weather Modification; and the 19th Conf on Hydrology )
Chair: Roy Rasmussen, NCAR

Papers:
  8:30 AM
What is causing the decline in coastal rainfall in eastern Australia?
Jozef Syktus, Queensland Centre for Climate Applications, Indooroopilly, Queensland, Australia

  8:45 AM
Using Model-Assimilated Meteorological Data in Forecasting of Seasonal Runoff Based on Statistical Models for some Aral Sea Sub-catchments
Mariya G. Glazirina, Institute for Atmospheric and Climate Science, ETH Zurich, Switzerland; and R. Schiemann, J. Gurtz, L. Vasilina, F. Pertziger, S. Dirren, and C. Schär

  9:15 AM

9
Impact on Forecasts of Real and Simulated Observations - Part 1
Sponsor: Ninth Symposium on Integrated Observing and Assimilation Systems for the Atmosphere, Oceans, and Land Surface (IOAS-AOLS)
Organizer: Kiran Alapaty, NSF

Papers:
  8:30 AM
9.1
Operational Testing of MODIS winds in NAVDAS
Patricia M. Pauley, NRL, Monterey, CA; and R. L. Pauley

  8:45 AM
9.2
The Ability of CASA Doppler Radars to Observe Tornadoes: An Assessment Using Tornado Damage Path Width Climatology
Kelvin Droegemeier, Univ. of Oklahoma, Norman, OK; and E. S. Godfrey and D. Fessler

  9:00 AM
9.3
  9:15 AM
9.4

13
Radiative Forcing of the Climate (parallel with Session 12)
Sponsor: 16th Conference on Climate Variability and Change
Chair: Piers M. de F. Forster, University of Reading UK

Papers:
 
13.1
Progress in measuring the radiative forcing of global warming

  8:45 AM
Interannual changes in the global direct radiative climate forcing by well-mixed greenhouse gases over the past 25 years
David J. Hofmann, NOAA/Climate Monitoring & Diagnostics Lab, Boulder, CO; and J. H. Butler, E. J. Dlugokencky, J. W. Elkins, K. Masarie, S. A. Montzka, and P. Tans

 
13.4
On the role of clouds and moisture for the tropical modes in a two-dimensional general circulation model

  9:30 AM
Cloud-climate feedbacks as a result of solar cloud absorption in the SKYHI General Circulation Model
Carynelisa Erlick, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Jerusalem, Israel; and V. Ramaswamy and L. M. Russell


16
Internet Applications, Web Portals and Cyberinfrastructure Part II
Sponsor: 21st International Conference on Interactive Information Processing Systems (IIPS) for Meteorology, Oceanography, and Hydrology
Cochairs: Linda Miller, UCAR/Unidata; Nancy N. Soreide, NOAA/PMEL

Papers:
  8:30 AM
Paper 16.1 has been moved to poster session P2, new paper number P2.44

  8:31 AM
A comparison of common geospatial data model between AS and GIS communities
Yuan Ho, Unidata/UCAR, Boulder, CO; and J. Weber and J. Caron

http://my.unidata.ucar.edu/content/projects/THREDDS/index.html

  8:46 AM
Networked synchronization of netCDF datasets
Joe Sirott, Sirott and Associates, Seattle, WA; and L. C. Sun and D. W. Denbo

  9:31 AM
A RELAX NG Way to Live: The Story of Updating The Live Access Server Configuration XML (Formerly Paper Number P2.16)
Roland H. Schweitzer, Weathertop Consulting, LLC, College Station, TX; and A. Manke, K. O'Brien, J. McLean, J. Callahan, and S. Hankin

8:30 AM-11:45 AM: Thursday, 13 January 2005


5
atmospheric and oceanic processes
Sponsor: Sixth Conference on Coastal Atmospheric and Oceanic Prediction and Processes
Organizers: Steven Businger, University of Hawaii; Julie Pullen, NRL

Papers:
 
5.1
Analysis of simulations of landfalling storms from the CALJET/PACJET field programs

  9:15 AM
5.4
Development of the coastal boundary layer in offshore flow from New England
Wayne M. Angevine, University of Colorado/CIRES/NOAA, Boulder, CO; and J. E. Hare, C. W. Fairall, and D. E. Wolfe

  9:30 AM
5.5
Interannual and synoptic variability of non-brightband and brightband winter rain in California’s coastal mountains
Paul J. Neiman, NOAA/ERL/ETL, Boulder, CO; and B. E. Martner, A. White, G. A. Wick, F. M. Ralph, and D. Kingsmill

  9:45 AM
5.6
Numerical simulations of air flows in and around a city in a coastal region
Tetsuji Yamada, Yamada Science & Art Corporation, Santa Fe, NM

  10:00 AM
5.7
Impact of tropical easterly waves on gulf surges during the North American Monsoon
Jennifer L. Adams, University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK; and D. J. Stensrud

  10:15 AM
5.8
Mean structure and variability of the low-level jet across the central Gulf of California from NOAA WP-3D flight level observations during the North American Monsoon Experiment
John F. Mejia, CIMMS/Univ. of Oklahoma, Norman, OK; and M. Douglas

http://www.nssl.noaa.gov/projects/pacs/web/html/NAME/ENGLISH/P3/indexP3.html

  10:30 AM
5.9
Simulation of Interaction of the Atmospheric Marine Layer with Point Conception
Clive E. Dorman, SIO/Univ. of California, La Jolla, CA; and D. R. Koracin

  10:45 AM
Formal Poster Viewing with Coffee Break (Please Refer to Poster Session P2 for Title and Author Information)

8:30 AM-12:00 PM: Thursday, 13 January 2005


5
Land Surface Albedo and Its Impacts on Surface Climate (parallel with Joint Session 8)
Sponsor: 19th Conf on Hydrology
Organizers: Menglin Jin, San Jose State University; Crystal B Schaaf, Boston University

Papers:
  8:30 AM
5.1
Spatially complete global surface albedos derived from Terra/MODIS data (INVITED)
Michael D. King, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD; and E. G. Moody, S. Platnick, and C. B. Schaaf

  9:00 AM
5.2
The MODIS BRDF/Albedo Products for Climate Studies
Crystal B. Schaaf, Boston University, Boston, MA; and F. Gao, A. Strahler, X. Li, J. Salomon, X. Zhang, J. C. F. Hodges, and E. Tsvetsinskaya

  9:30 AM
5.4
Land Surface Albedo and the Global Energy-Water Cycle
Christopher L. Brest, Columbia University, New York, New York; and Y. Zhang and W. B. Rossow

  10:00 AM
5.6
Development of Land Surface Albedo Parameterization Based on MODIS data (INVITED)
Xin-Zhong Liang, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Champaign, IL; and M. Xu, W. Gao, K. E. Kunkel, J. R. Slusser, Y. Dai, Q. Min, P. R. Houser, M. Rodell, C. B. Schaaf, and F. Gao

  10:15 AM
5.7
  10:30 AM
5.8
Coupling and Analysis of CLM3 in MM5 to Improve Snow Simulations
Jiming Jin, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, University of California, Berkeley, CA; and N. L. Miller

  10:45 AM
Coffee Break with Formal Poster Viewing


12
Observed Climate Change: 2 (parallel with Session 13)
Sponsor: 16th Conference on Climate Variability and Change
Chair: Christopher W. Landsea, NOAA/AOML/HRD

Papers:
  8:30 AM
The climate of 2004 in historical perspective
David H. Levinson, NOAA/NESDIS/NCDC, Asheville, NC; and R. R. Heim Jr., S. Stephens, A. M. Waple, and C. Tankersley

  8:45 AM
Northern Hemisphere spring warming during the past five decades: links to snow cover losses.
Dan Cayan, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, UC San Diego /U.S. Geological Survey, La Jolla, CA; and M. Dettinger

  9:00 AM
Issues with identification of trends in 20th Century U.S. snowfall
Kenneth E. Kunkel, ISWS, Champaign, IL; and D. R. Easterling, K. T. Redmond, and K. G. Hubbard

  9:15 AM
Quantifying the uncertainties in the long-term trend of global land precipitation as observed in gauge-based analyses
Mingyue Chen, RS Information Systems, Inc., Camp Springs, MD; and P. Xie, J. E. Janowiak, and P. A. Arkin

Poster PDF (378.2 kB)
  9:30 AM
Changes in precipitation distribution spectra and contemporary warming of the extratropics: implications for intense rainfall, droughts, and potential forest fire danger
Pavel Ya. Groisman, NOAA/NESDIS/NCDC, Asheville, NC; and R. W. Knight, D. R. Easterling, D. Levinson, R. R. Heim Jr., T. R. Karl, P. H. Whitfield, G. C. Hegerl, V. N. Razuvaev, B. G. Sherstyukov, J. G. Enloe, and N. S. Stroumentova

  9:45 AM
Rainfall changes in Hawaii during the last century
Henry F. Diaz, NOAA/OAR/CDC, Boulder, CO; and P. S. Chu and J. K. Eischeid

Poster PDF (446.2 kB)
  10:15 AM
Increasing Midwestern dew points: Is this a result of changing agricultural practices?
David Changnon, Northern Illinois University, DeKalb, IL; and M. Sandstrom, R. Lauritsen, and M. Bentley

  10:30 AM
  10:45 AM
Formal Poster Viewing with Coffee Break

8:30 AM-12:30 PM: Thursday, 13 January 2005


15
Interactive Processing Systems Part II
Sponsor: 21st International Conference on Interactive Information Processing Systems (IIPS) for Meteorology, Oceanography, and Hydrology
Cochairs: Ward R. Seguin, NOAA/OAR; Richard Thigpen, Consultant; William F. Roberts, NOAA

Papers:
  8:30 AM
The InteractiveGrid Analysis and Display System (IGrADS) for the U.S. Armed Forces
R. Bruce Telfeyan, Air Force Weather Agency, Offutt AFB, NE; and D. M. Rozema and J. J. Wesely

Poster PDF (2.6 MB)
  8:45 AM
Future forecast workstations/systems
Carl S. Bullock, NOAA/FSL, Boulder, CO

  9:00 AM
Building Operational Weather Systems using an Enterprise Architecture Framework
Edward L. Bensman, Raytheon Intelligence and Information Systems, Bellevue, NE

  9:15 AM
FX-Net- Integrating Air Chemistry and Weather Data for Research and Operations
Sher Schranz, NOAA/FSL, Boulder and CIRA/Colorado State Univ., Fort Collins, CO; and J. Stewart, E. Polster, and N. Wang

  9:30 AM
Capital project test warning system: collaboration between NOAA and the Department of Homeland Security
Rich Jesuroga, FSL, Boulder, CO; and U. H. Grote, D. A. E. MacDonald, B. B. Hicks, D. R. B. Chadwick, D. J. A. McGinley, P. M. Kenul, M. Paese, and C. Golden

  9:45 AM
National Weather Service Digital Services Operations Concept
LeRoy Spayd, NOAA/NWS, Silver Spring, MD; and G. Austin and D. C. Young

  10:00 AM
  10:15 AM
GFE - The Next Generation
Carven A. Scott, NOAA/NWSFO, Anchorage, AK; and V. J. Proton, J. A. Nelson Jr., R. Wise, S. T. Miller, and C. Eldred

  10:30 AM
Multipass Processing for Automatic Text Forecast Generation
Tracy L. Hansen, NOAA/ERL/FSL, Boulder, CO; and T. J. Lefebvre

  10:45 AM
The Aviation Forecast Preparation System (AvnFPS) of the National Weather Service
Matthew R. Peroutka, NOAA/NWS/Office of Science and Technology, Silver Spring, MD; and R. Rood, M. Graf, M. G. Oberfield, G. Trojan, and B. Li

  11:00 AM
Investigations Using NOMADS in an AWIPS Environment
Darien L. Davis, NOAA/OAR/FSL, Boulder, CO; and U. H. Grote, C. S. Bullock, T. B. Kent, G. J. Edwards, J. E. Ramer, E. J. Mandel, J. P. Tuell, and T. Hopkins

  11:15 AM
Formal Poster Viewing with Coffee Break

8:30 AM-5:00 PM: Thursday, 13 January 2005


4
Air Quality Forecasting - Aerosols and Ozone
Sponsor: 7th Conf. on Atmospheric Chemistry
Organizers: B. K. Lamb, Washington State University; V. Rao Kotamarthi, ANL

Papers:
  8:45 AM
4.2
The WRF-chemistry air quality model: updates, improvements and evaluation
Georg A. Grell, NOAA/ERL/FSL and CIRES/ Univ. of Colorado, Boulder, CO; and S. E. Peckham, R. Schmitz, S. A. McKeen, and G. J. Frost

  9:00 AM
4.3
Tests of rhe SMOKE emissions processing and modeling system in WRF-Chem
John N. McHenry, Baron Advanced Meteorological Systems, LLC, Raleigh, NC; and C. J. Coats Jr.

  9:15 AM
4.4
Tests of an updated aerosol module in WRF-Chem
John N. McHenry, Baron Advanced Meteorological Systems, LLC, Raleigh, NC; and C. J. Coats Jr.

  9:30 AM
4.5
The emissions processing system for the ETA/CMAQ air quality forecast system
Georg A. Pouliot, NOAA/ERL/ARL and U.S. EPA, Research Triangle Park, NC

http://www.nws.noaa.gov/ost/air_quality/index.htm

  9:45 AM
4.6
Eta-CMAQ modeling system's capability to provide PM2.5 and aerosol optical thickness forecast
Pius Lee, SAIC, Camp Springs, MD; and R. Mathur, J. McQueen, S. Kondragunta, J. Pleim, J. Young, M. Tsidulko, M. Schenk, G. DiMego, T. Otte, G. Pouliot, K. Schere, and P. Davidson

  10:00 AM
4.7
  10:15 AM
4.8
CMAQ Aerosol Number and Mass Evaluation for Pacific Northwest
Robert A. Elleman, University of Washington, Seattle, WA; and R. A. Kotchenruther, D. S. Covert, C. F. Mass, and J. Chen

  10:30 AM
4.9
Assessment of Eta-CMAQ forecasts of particulate matter distributions through comparisons with surface network and specialized measurements
Rohit Mathur, Air Resources Laboratory, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Research Triangle Park, NC; and K. L. Schere, J. Pleim, D. Kang, S. Yu, and P. Lee

  10:45 AM
National Air Quality Forecasting Capability: Initial Operational Capability
Paula Davidson, NOAA/NWS, Silver Spring, MD; and N. Seaman, J. McQueen, R. Mathur, J. Hayes, and R. A. Wayland

  11:30 AM
An operational regional haze forecasting system
Robert E. Imhoff, Baron Advanced Meteorological Systems, Candler, NC; and J. N. McHenry and R. L. Miller

  11:45 AM
A conservative framework for sub-gridscale terrain effects in air quality modeling
Carlie J. Coats Jr., Baron Advanced Meteorological Systems, Raleigh, NC

  12:00 PM
An Evaluation of Ozone Forecast Methods for the Eastern United States: Is There Room for Improvement?
Scott A. Jackson, EPA, Research Triangle Park, NC; and A. C. Chan, C. E. Lengyel, R. A. Wayland, J. E. White, and T. S. Dye

  12:15 PM
Application of adaptive unstructured grids to plume dispersion
Ananthakrishna Sarma, Science Applications International Corporation, McLean, VA; and N. Ahmad, D. Bacon, T. Dunn, and M. Hall

  12:30 PM
Attenuation of solar UV irradiances by different types of cloud conditions: a potential improvement for UV indices forecast
Didier Gillotay, Belgian Institute for Space Aeronomy, Brussels, Belgium; and D. Bolsee and T. Besnard

Poster PDF (255.4 kB)
  12:45 PM
  1:00 PM
Near-realtime simulation of O3 and PM2.5 over the Northeastern United States: results for summer 2004
Christian Hogrefe, New York State Department of Enviormental Conservation, Albany, NY; and G. Sistla, W. Hao, J. Y. Ku, R. S. Gaza, L. Sedefian, K. Schere, A. Gilliland, and R. Mathur

Poster PDF (914.9 kB)
  1:15 PM
Simulation of smart balloon trajectories during the 2004 AIRMAP campaign
Annette Hollingshead, University of Hawaii, Honolulu, HI; and S. Businger and R. Johnson

  1:30 PM
Simulations of fine particular matter (PM2.5) in Houston, Texas
Jiwen Fan, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX; and R. Zhang

  1:45 PM
Formal Poster Viewing with Coffee Break

  3:00 PM
Lunch Break

  4:30 PM
Coffee Break

8:45 AM-9:00 AM: Thursday, 13 January 2005


Coffee Break

8:45 AM-9:45 AM: Thursday, 13 January 2005


10
Haurwitz lecture
Sponsor: 8th Conference on Polar Meteorology and Oceanography

Papers:
  8:45 AM
SUBPOLAR CLIMATE DYNAMICS
Peter B. Rhines, Univsersity of Washington, Seattle, WA

9:00 AM-12:00 PM: Thursday, 13 January 2005


5
Publishing/Product Updates and Live Demos
Sponsor: Eighth Annual Atmospheric Science Librarians International (ASLI) Conference

Papers:
  9:00 AM
5.1
Update on AMS Publishing
Keith Seitter, Executive Director, American Meteorological Society, Boston, MA

  9:30 AM
5.2
Meteorological and Geoastrophysical Abstracts
Michael Miyazaki, Cambridge Scientific Abstracts, Bethesda, MD

  10:15 AM
5.3
American Geophysical Union
Steve Cole, American Geophysical Union, Washington, DC

  10:45 AM
5.4
Elesevier Science
Frank J. Cynar, Earth & Planetary Sciences, San Diego, CA

  11:15 AM
5.5
Wiley Interscience
Louise Breinholt, John Wiley & Sons Ltd, London, United Kingdom

  11:45 AM
Coffee Break

9:45 AM-9:45 AM: Thursday, 13 January 2005


Joint Poster Session 2
Understanding and Predicting the Water Cycle across scales (poster session)
Sponsors: (Joint between the AMS Forum: Living with a Limited Water Supply; and the 19th Conf on Hydrology )

Papers:
 
Upper tropospheric troughs and their interaction with the North American Monsoon
Erik Pytlak, NOAA/NWS, Tucson, AZ; and M. Goering and A. Bennett

Poster PDF (1.7 MB)
 
The NOAA FEWS-NET hazards assessment for the heavy rainfall event in Haiti on May 23-24, 2004
Kevin B. Laws, NOAA/NWS/NCEP/CPC, Camp Springs, MD; and C. V. Schmitt, T. B. Love, and V. B. Kumar

 
GLOBE student observations in support of SMEX04
Martha P. L. Whitaker, University of Arizona; and B. Nijssen, J. C. Washburne, and T. P. A. Ferré

9:45 AM-11:00 AM: Thursday, 13 January 2005


Joint Poster Session 2
Formal Poster Viewing - High Latitude Climate Variability and Change (Joint with the Eight Conference on Polar Meteorology and the 16th symposium on Global Change & Climate Variations)
Sponsors: (Joint between the 8th Conference on Polar Meteorology and Oceanography; and the 16th Conference on Climate Variability and Change )
Organizer: Vladimir Alexeev, University of Alaska

Papers:
 
Using a global climate model to examine changes in Arctic permafrost
James R. Miller, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ; and G. L. Russell

 
Spatial and Temporal Variability of Carbon Flux on the North Slope of Alaska: A Study of the Barrow-Atqasuk-Ivotuk Region
Walter C. Oechel, San Diego State University, San Diego, CA; and H. Kwon, R. Zulueta, J. Verfaillie Jr., G. Kinoshita, J. Kimball, F. A. Heinsch, and S. Running

 
Characteristics of winter cyclone activity in the Northern North Atlantic
Maria A. Tsukernik, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO; and M. C. Serreze

 
The response of winter Arctic sea ice to Arctic Oscillation and dipole anomaly in the atmosphere
Jia Wang, University of Alaska, Fairbanks, AK; and B. Wu and J. E. Walsh

 
Mechanisms of decadal and interdecadal Arctic climate variability in the Community Climate System Model CCSM2
Hugues Goosse, Universite Catholique de Louvain, Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium; and M. M. Holland

 
Investigating the Relationship Between Modeled Ice Extent and the AO/NAO
Todd E. Arbetter, NSIDC/CIRES/Univ. of Colorado, Boulder, CO; and M. Serreze

 
Investigating the climatic effects of the NAO over Greenland using Polar MM5
Michael Previdi, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ; and D. E. Veron

Poster PDF (498.1 kB)
 
Analyzing Low Frequency Variability in Atlantic Water using the CCSM3
Kara A. Sterling, International Arctic Research Center, Fairbanks, AK; and U. Bhatt and I. Polyakov

 
Strong trends in the skill of the ERA-40 and NCEP/NCAR reanalyses in the high and middle latitudes of the Southern Hemisphere, 1958–2001
David H. Bromwich, Byrd Polar Research Center/Ohio State Univ., Columbus, OH; and R. L. Fogt

http://polarmet.mps.ohio-state.edu/PolarMet/PMGAbstracts/rfogt_final.pdf

 
Ice Ocean Model Forcing using ERA-40 Data.
Axel J. Schweiger, University of Washington, Seattle, WA; and R. W. Lindsay and J. Zhang

 
Application of A mesoscale 3DVAR system at high latitudes as a step towards Arctic reanalysis
Jeffrey S. Tilley, Regional Weather Information Center, University of North Dakota, Grand Forks, ND; and X. Fan and J. E. Walsh

Poster PDF (1015.0 kB)
 
Antarctic Net Precipitation Estimate from NCEP-DOE Reanalysis-2
Chuanyu Xu, U.S. National Ice Center, Washington, DC and QSS Group, Inc., Lanham, MD; and C. Z. Zou and M. L. Van Woert

Poster PDF (311.9 kB)
 
A re-evaluation of upper tropospheric winds in reanalyses near Svalbard
David H. Bromwich, Byrd Polar Research Center, Ohio State Univ., Columbus, OH; and S. H. Wang

Poster PDF (444.6 kB)
 
Paper JP2.14 has been moved to Joint Session J4, New Paper Number J4.3A

 
High resolution regional climate simulations over Iceland using Polar MM5
David H. Bromwich, Byrd Polar Research Center, Ohio State Univ., Columbus, OH; and L. Bai and G. G. Bjarnason

Poster PDF (1.0 MB)
 
The Arctic boundary layer in six regional scale (ARCMIP) models
Michael Tjernström, Stockholm University, Stockholm, Sweden; and M. Žagar, G. Svensson, A. Rinke, K. Dethloff, J. Cassano, C. Jones, K. Wyser, and M. Shaw

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

Poster PDF (376.0 kB)
 
Glaciers and Climate in Southern Alaska: present and future
Uma S. Bhatt, Univ. of Alaska, Fairbanks, AK; and J. Zhang, C. Lingle, W. Tangborn, and J. Tilley

Poster PDF (709.0 kB)
 
Ocean Dynamics in Recent Arctic Freshwater Changes
Xiangdong Zhang, International Arctic Research Center, University of Alaska Fairbanks, Fairbanks, AK

 
The thinning of arctic sea ice, 1988–2003: have we passed a tipping point?
R. W. Lindsay, University of Washington, Seattle, WA; and J. Zhang

Poster PDF (655.5 kB)
 
Locating and removing problematic data in the DMSP SSM/I data sets
Andrew L. Molthan, University of Nebraska, Lincoln, NE; and M. R. Anderson

Poster PDF (503.7 kB)
 
Developing a climate record for a glacial lake valley in Svalbard
Daniel Philip Lane, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY

 
Climatology as the mean of two modes: an application to interior Alaska temperatures from medium range MOS
Timothy L Shy, NOAA/NWSFO, Fairbanks, AK; and R. Thoman and E. Stevens

Poster PDF (26.8 kB)
 
Climate variability of free atmosphere in the polar regions
Alexander P. Makshtas, Arctic and Antarctic Research Institute, St. Petersburg, Russia; and V. V. Maistrova and V. Alexeev

 
A time series analysis of multiyear sea ice in the central Arctic
Andrew J. Hamm, NASA/GSFC Greenbelt, MD and Northland College, Ashland, WI; and P. Gloersen

Poster PDF (1.3 MB)
 
Climate variability determined from Arctic Ocean snow melt onset dates
Mark R. Anderson, University of Nebraska, Lincoln, NE

 
Climatology of the winter surface temperature inversion in Fairbanks, Alaska
Brian Hartmann, University of Alaska, Fairbanks, AK; and G. Wendler

Poster PDF (828.9 kB)
 
Dynamical Amplifier of Global Warming
Ming Cai, Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL

 
Footprint of the dynamical amplifier of global warmings at the TOA
Christelle Castet, Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL; and M. Cai

 
Advantages of T-mode Decomposition in Rotated Principal Component Analysis: Applications to the Arctic
Nathaniel C. Johnson, Penn State Univ., University Park, PA; and A. Avramov, E. E. Clothiaux, N. Shirer, J. Harrington, and J. Verlinde


Poster Session 4
LAND SURFACE ALBEDO AND ITS IMPACTS ON SURFACE CLIMATE POSTERS
Sponsor: 19th Conf on Hydrology
Organizers: Crystal B. Schaaf, Boston University; Menglin Jin, San Jose State University

Papers:
 
Use of MODIS derived broadband albedo in the RAMS
Udaysankar S. Nair, University of Alabama in Huntsville, Huntsville, AL; and D. K. Ray, R. M. Welch, R. A. Pielke Sr., and S. A. Christopher

 
Urban albedo impact using NCAR single column CAM2/CLM2
Menglin Jin, Deparement of Meteorology, University of Maryland, College Park, College Park, MD; and C. D. Peters-Lidard and E. G. Moody

 
MODIS Albedo Data in Greenland Ice Sheet Climate Modeling: Melt Sensitivity, Climate Feedback, and Assimilation Development
Jason Box, Byrd Polar Research Center, Columbus, OH; and J. C. Stroeve and A. W. Nolin

 
Land surface modification by fire of tropical savanna and feedbacks to climate
Nigel J. Tapper, Monash University, Melbourne, Australia, Clayton, Vic, Australia; and J. Beringer, A. Lynch, C. Wendt, and L. B. Hutley

 
Intercomparison and validation of snow and sea-ice albedo parameterisation schemes in climate models
Christina A. Pedersen, Norwegian Polar Institute, Tromsø, Norway; and J. G. Winther

http://npiweb.npolar.no/

Poster PDF (183.8 kB)
 
Improved Albedo Formulation for Chemistry-Transport Models based on satellite observations and assimilated snow data and its impact on tropospheric photochemistry
Thomas Laepple, NCAR/ MPI for Meteorology, 20146 Hamburg, Germany; and J. F. Lamarque, M. S., S. R.E., L. B.L., A. E., and M. Schultz

 
Impact of MODIS BRDF and Albedo on Land Surface Models
Zhuo Wang, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ; and X. Zeng, M. Barlage, R. Dickinson, C. Schaaf, and F. Gao

Poster PDF (474.3 kB)
 
Deriving a Global Surface Albedo Map from Geostationary Observations
A Lattanzio, Makalu Media, Darmstadt, Germany; and Y. M. Govaerts and J. Schmetz


Poster Session 4
Poster Session 4
Sponsor: Ninth Symposium on Integrated Observing and Assimilation Systems for the Atmosphere, Oceans, and Land Surface (IOAS-AOLS)

Papers:
 
InterMet 403 MHz Radiosonde System
Rodney D. Wierenga, International Met Systems, Grand Rapids, MI; and J. Parini

Poster PDF (188.5 kB)
 
P4.2
High-resolution modeling for consequence assessment during the 2004 Summer Olympic Games

 
Feasibility of a reanalysis using only surface data
Gilbert P Compo, NOAA/CIRES/CDC, Boulder, CO; and J. S. Whitaker and P. D. Sardeshmukh

 
FDDA/TOVS Impact on MM5 Rainfall Forecast over Portugal
Yoshihiro Yamasaki, University of Aveiro, Aveiro, Aveiro, Portugal; and O. Maria de Los Dolores Manso

 
Preliminary analysis of the difference between temperature observations recorded by COOP and USCRN systems
Bomin Sun, STG Inc., Asheville, NC; and G. W. Goodge and C. B. Baker

Poster PDF (145.3 kB)
 
 
Characterization of global microwave surface emissivity over land
Andrew S. Jones, CIRA/Colorado State Univ., Fort Collins, CO; and J. M. Forsythe, C. L. Combs, and T. H. Vonder Haar

Poster PDF (49.7 kB)
 
An operational system for launch area hazard prediction and mitigation
Allan V. Dianic, ENSCO, Inc., Cocoa Beach, FL; and E. G. Magnuson and S. L. Arnold

 
P4.10
An observing system for land process characterization featuring NPOESS

 
Single-Doppler radar wind-field retrieval experiment on a qualified velocity-azimuth processing technique
Yongmei Zhou, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada; and R. Stull and R. Nissen

Poster PDF (548.8 kB)

Poster Session 5
Poster Session: Seasonal to Interannual Variability
Sponsor: 16th Conference on Climate Variability and Change

Papers:
 
The Misnomer of the "East Asian Summer Monsoon"
Winston Chao, NASA/GSFC, greenbelt, MD; and B. Chen

 
Role of Indian Ocean on Pakistan Summer Rainfall
Muhammad Jawed Iqbal Sr., I am a Ph.D. student in Institure of Space and Palanetary Astrophysics, University of Karachi, Karachi, Pakistan

 
Rainfall Climatology of the Monsoon Season in New Mexcio: Observations from NEXRAD Stage III (1996-2003)
Hongjie Xie, University of Texas at San Antonio, San Antonio, TX; and E. R. Vivoni, X. Zhou, and J. M. H. Hendrickx

 
The Hydrological onset and withdrawal index (HOWI) for the West Africa Monsoon
Giovanni A. Dalu, IBIMET - CNR, Rome, Italy; and M. Gaetani, F. Meneguzzo, A. Crisci, G. Maracchi, F. Guarnieri, and V. Capecchi

Poster PDF (547.7 kB)
 
Intraseasonal to Decadal Variability of the Greater Horn of Africa
J. Bowden, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC; and F. H. M. Semazzi, R. Anyah, and C. Schreck

http://climlab4.meas.ncsu.edu

Poster PDF (1.8 MB)
 
P5.7
The use of SST and SOI anomalies as indicators of crops yield variability

 
P5.9
Correlation of West African ITCZ position to satellite-derived precipitation based on MEI-evaluated ENSO patterns

 
Interannual variability of tropical cyclone activity in the southern South China Sea
Zabani Md. Zuki, University of Missouri, Columbia, MO; and A. R. Lupo

Poster PDF (168.9 kB)
 
Interannual variability in the troposphere-stratosphere climate system and the solar cycle
Robert X. Black, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA; and B. W. Whitesides

 
Decadal and year-to-year variations of the spring polar temperature in the lower-stratosphere
Wookap Choi, Seoul National University, Seoul, South Korea; and D. Kim

 
The variability of surface cloud radiative forcing over the US
Haig Iskenderian, Northrop Grumman Information Technology, Reading, MA

Poster PDF (1.4 MB)
 
Summertime North Pacific cloud feedbacks inferred from synoptic-scale dynamic and thermodynamic relationships
Joel R. Norris, SIO/Univ. Of California, La Jolla, CA; and S. F. Iacobellis

Poster PDF (517.9 kB)
 
Water Vapor Trends and Variability from the Global NVAP Dataset
Thomas H. Vonder Haar, CIRA/Colorado State Univ., Fort Collins, CO; and J. M. Forsythe, J. Luo, D. L. Randel, and S. Woo

Poster PDF (598.9 kB)
 
Multi-year observations of ocean albedo from a rigid marine platform
Charles Kendall Rutledge, NASA/LRC, Hampton, VA; and G. L. Schuster

http://www-svg.larc.nasa.gov

Poster PDF (320.5 kB)
 
P5.18 moved to oral presentation 15.7a

 
Towards greater understanding of inter-seasonal and multi-decadal variability and extremes of extratropical storminess in Florida
Bartlett C. Hagemeyer, NOAA/NWS, Melbourne, FL; and J. R. Almeida

http://www.srh.noaa.gov/mlb/enso/mlbnino.html

Poster PDF (190.4 kB)
 
Intraseasonal interactions between terrestrial vegetation and climate variability in northern mid-latitudes
Weile Wang, Boston University, Boston, MA; and B. Anderson, N. Phillips, R. K. Kaufmann, and R. B. Myneni


Formal Poster Viewing with Coffee Break


Formal Poster Viewing with Coffee Break (Please Refer to Poster Session P2 for Title and Author Information)

9:45 AM-9:45 AM: Thursday, 13 January 2005


Poster Session 1
Lorenz Symposium Posters
Sponsor: The Ed Lorenz Symposium

Papers:
 
Value of the NWS/NCEP Short Range Ensemble Forecast (SREF) system for Quantifying Mesoscale Model Error
Jeffery T. McQueen, NOAA/NWS/NCEP, Camp Springs, MD; and J. Du, B. Zhou, G. DiMego, B. Ferrier, G. Manikin, E. Rogers, H. Juang, and Z. Toth

 
Using numerical continuation to examine the predictability of the atmospheric boundary layer
Richard T. McNider, University of Alabama, Huntsville, AL; and M. Friedman, A. Biazar, and X. Shi

 
Time-step sensitivity of nonlinear atmospheric models: numerical convergence, truncation error growth and ensemble design
João Teixeira, UCAR Visiting Scientist, NRL, Monterey, CA; and C. A. Reynolds and K. Judd

 
The influence of rawinsonde observations on 3-7 day weather forecasts
Sharanya J. Majumdar, RSMAS/University of Miami, Miami, FL

 
Slow manifold and predictability
V. Krishnamurthy, COLA, Calverton, MD

 
Roots of ensemble forecasting
John M. Lewis, NOAA/NSSL, Reno, NV, NV

 
Quantifying and reducing uncertainty by employing model error estimation methods
Dusanka Zupanski, CIRA/Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO

 
Predictability—Who is the Main Player: IC or Model Physics Uncertainty?
Jun Du, NOAA/NWS/NCEP, Camp Springs, MD; and J. McQueen

 
On the predictability of mesoscale convective systems
David J. Stensrud, NOAA/NSSL, Norman, OK; and L. J. Wicker

 
Non-Gaussian probability distributions: What are their implications for predictability?
Philip Sura, NOAA-CIRES Climate Diagnostics Center, Boulder, CO; and M. Newman, C. Penland, and P. Sardeshmukh

 
Model error, attractors, and predictability
Kevin Judd, University of Western Australia, Perth, Western Australi, Australia; and C. A. Reynolds and T. E. Rosmond

 
Model diversities and their implication in multi-model ensembles
Dingchen Hou, NOAA/NWS/NCEP/EMC, Camp Springs, MD; and Z. Toth, Y. Zhu, and R. Wobus

 
Maximum likelihood ensemble filter: exploiting dynamic localization of Lyapunov vectors
Milija Zupanski, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO; and S. J. Fletcher, I. M. Navon, and B. Uzunoglu

 
P1.17
Local Lagrangian and Eulerian available energetics in moist atmospheres

 
Intercomparison of Global Research and Operational Forecasts
Jennifer C. Roman, AFWA/DNXT, Offutt AFB, NE; and G. Miguez-Macho, L. A. Byerle, and J. Paegle

 
Initial-time sensitivity of tropical cyclone track forecasts
Melinda S. Peng, NRL, Monterey, CA; and C. A. Reynolds

 
Flow and Regime dependent mesoscale predictability
Fuqing Zhang, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX; and C. Snyder and R. Rotunno

 
Extratropical control of subtropical humidity: diagnosis using tracers of last saturation
Joseph Galewsky, Columbia University, New York, NY; and A. H. Sobel and I. M. Held

 
EOFs –myths, misconceptions and open problems
Ian T Jolliffe, University of Reading, Cowes, Isle of Wight, United Kingdom

 
Ensemble Data Assimilation with the NCEP GFS
Jeffrey S. Whitaker, NOAA-CIRES/CDC, Boulder, CO; and T. M. Hamill

 
Energy-conserving and Hamiltonian extensions of the Lorenz model
Alexander Gluhovsky, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN

 
Off-line sequential bias estimation experiments with a Lorenz model
Joshua P. Hacker, NCAR, Boulder, CO; and C. Snyder

 
Available potential energy and its relatives
Theodore G. Shepherd, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada

 
P1.28
Assessing Predictability using Linear Inverse Models

 
Another look at predictability in flows with many scales
Chris Snyder, NCAR, Boulder, CO; and R. Rotunno, F. Zhang, and R. Morss

 
A simple 2-dimensional chaotic rain gush model
Stanley David Gedzelman, The City College of New York, New York, NY

 
A dynamical system analysis of Lorenz's low order model of the general circulation
Joy Romanski, Columbia University, New York, NY; and W. B. Rossow

 
Singular vectors computed with a flow-dependent analysis error covariance norm
Mark Buehner, MSC, Dorval, QC, Canada; and A. Zadra

11:00 AM-12:00 PM: Thursday, 13 January 2005


Joint Session 9
Understanding and predicting the water cycle across scale part II (Joint between the Limited Water Supply Symposium the 16th Conference on Planned and Inadvertent Weather Modification)
Sponsors: (Joint between the AMS Forum: Living with a Limited Water Supply; and the 16th Conference on Planned and Inadvertent Weather Modification )
Chair: Enrique R. Vivoni, New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology

Papers:
  11:00 AM
  11:15 AM
The representation of hydrological processes across spatial scales using the NASA-GSFC Land Information System (LIS)
Matthew Garcia, UMBC/GEST and NASA/GSFC Hydrological Sciences Branch, Greenbelt, MD; and C. D. Peters-Lidard

  11:30 AM
  11:45 AM
An End-to-End Hydrometeorological Forecasting System
John N. McHenry, Baron Advanced Meteorological Systems, Raleigh, NC; and G. S. Wilson, K. P. Georgakakos, C. D. Peters-Lidard, and M. Matreata


10
Impact on Forecasts of Real and Simulated Observations - Part 2
Sponsor: Ninth Symposium on Integrated Observing and Assimilation Systems for the Atmosphere, Oceans, and Land Surface (IOAS-AOLS)
Organizer: Patricia M. Pauley, NRL

Papers:
  11:00 AM
Model Sensitivity to Space- and in situ- based sub-grid Flux Parameterization
Gad Levy, NorthWest Research Associates, Inc., Bellevue, WA; and J. C. Alpert

http://www.nwra.com/resumes/levy/papers/AMS

 
10.3
Forecast impacts from a nationwide wind profiler network: results from an observing system simulation experiment

  11:45 AM
Assessing the forecast impacts of simulated GEMS observations
Joseph G. Dreher, ENSCO, Inc., Melbourne, FL; and J. Manobianco, R. J. Evans, and J. L. Case

  12:00 PM
Assimilation of GOES Retrievals into a Mesoscale Model
Kiran Alapaty, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC; and A. Biazar, W. M. Lapenta, and R. T. McNider


14
Climate Services (parallel with Joint Session 3)
Sponsor: 16th Conference on Climate Variability and Change
Organizer: Fiona Horsfall, Climate Services Division/OCWWS/NWS/NOAA

Papers:
  11:00 AM
NOAA Climate Cores: Enhancing the national climate decision support capacity
Fiona Horsfall, NOAA/NWS/OCWWS/Climate Services Division, Silver Spring, MD; and H. Hill, R. Pulwarty, and K. Redmond

  11:15 AM
NOAA’s National Weather Service climate outreach in 2004-05
Barbara E. Mayes, NOAA/NWS, Silver Spring, MD; and R. E. Livezey

  11:30 AM
Living with a Climate in Transition: Pacific Islands Experience
Eileen L. Shea, East-West Center, Honolulu, HI

http://research.eastwestcenter.org/climate

  11:45 AM
Evaluating the cost of protecting against global climate change: options pricing theory and weather derivatives
Harvey Stern, Bureau of Meteorology, Melbourne, Vic., Australia

http://www.weather-climate.com/ams2005cc.html

11:00 AM-12:15 PM: Thursday, 13 January 2005


Joint Session 3
Climate of the Southern High Latitudes (Joint Session with the Eight Conference on Polar Meteorology and the 16th Conference on Climate Variability and Change) ( parallel with Session 14)
Sponsors: (Joint between the 16th Conference on Climate Variability and Change; and the 8th Conference on Polar Meteorology and Oceanography )
Organizer: Hugues Goosse, Universite Catholique de Louvain

Papers:
  11:00 AM
Reconstructing the mid-Twentieth Century climate of the Antarctic Peninsula region
John Turner, British Antarctic Survey, Cambridge, United Kingdom

Poster PDF (411.2 kB)
  11:15 AM
  11:30 AM
Decadal variability of the ENSO teleconnection to the South Pacific governed by coupling with the Antarctic Oscillation
Ryan L. Fogt, Byrd Polar Research Center, Ohio State Univ., Columbus, OH; and D. H. Bromwich

  12:00 PM
Recent Sea Ice Variability and Its Association with Large-Scale Processes
Jiping Liu, School of Earth & Atmospheric Sciences, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA; and J. A. Curry


17
Internet Applications, Web Portals and Cyberinfrastructure Part II
Sponsor: 21st International Conference on Interactive Information Processing Systems (IIPS) for Meteorology, Oceanography, and Hydrology
Organizers: Linda I. Miller, UCAR/Unidata; Nancy Soreide, NOAA/PMEL

Papers:
  11:00 AM
ACRF data collection and processing infrastructure
Matt C. Macduff, PNNL, RIchland, WA; and R. C. Eagan

  11:30 AM
MeteoForum—Extending Real-time Throughout Central and South America
Tom Yoksas, UCAR/Unidata, Boulder, CO; and W. G. D. Almeida, D. G. Coelho, V. C. Leon, and T. Spangler

  12:00 PM
A Client Application for Real Time NOMADS at NCEP To Disseminate NOAA’s Information Data Base
Jordan Alpert, NOAA/NWS/NCEP, Camp Springs, MD; and J. Wang

http://wwwt.emc.ncep.noaa.gov/gmb/wd23ja/index1.html

11:15 AM-12:15 PM: Thursday, 13 January 2005


2
Lorenz Symposium II
Sponsor: The Ed Lorenz Symposium

Papers:
  11:15 AM
2.1
Insight of the second kind: A 21st century view of Ed Lorenz's visions of predictability from the 1950's onward
Leonard Allen Smith, London School of Economics/ Pembroke College, Oxford, London, United Kingdom

  11:45 AM
2.2
Have we reached the limit of weather predictability?
J. Shukla, George Mason Univ. and COLA, Calverton, MD

12:00 PM-1:00 PM: Thursday, 13 January 2005


Lunch Break

12:00 PM-3:45 PM: Thursday, 13 January 2005


Exhibits Open


Exhibits Open


Exhibits Open

12:15 PM-12:15 PM: Thursday, 13 January 2005


Lunch Break

12:15 PM-1:30 PM: Thursday, 13 January 2005


Lunch Break


Lunch Break


Lunch Break

1:00 PM-2:00 PM: Thursday, 13 January 2005


6
Session 6
Sponsor: Eighth Annual Atmospheric Science Librarians International (ASLI) Conference

Papers:
  1:00 PM
6.1
AMS Publishing/BAMS Update
Kenneth F. Heideman, AMS, Boston, MA; and J. Rosenfeld

1:30 PM-3:00 PM: Thursday, 13 January 2005


3
Lorenz Symposium III
Sponsor: The Ed Lorenz Symposium

Papers:
  2:00 PM
3.2
Stochastic parametrisation in Earth-system models
Tim Palmer, ECMWF, Reading, Berks., United Kingdom

  2:30 PM
3.3
On the formation of tropical cyclones: Sequential downscale and upscale interactions
Peter J. Webster, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA; and G. J. Holland and R. A. Houze Jr.


6
Coastal storms, waves, tides, and storm surge
Sponsor: Sixth Conference on Coastal Atmospheric and Oceanic Prediction and Processes
Organizer: Roger Proctor, Proudman Oceanographic Laboratory

Papers:
  1:30 PM
6.1
The historic San Francisco flash flood event of 25 February 2004
Warren Blier, NOAA/NWSFO, Monterey, CA; and J. P. Monteverdi and J. Null

  1:45 PM
6.2
A high resolution nearshore wave model and bar forecast model for northwestern California
Troy Nicolini, NOAA/NWS, Eureka, CA; and G. B. Crawford, E. Rogers, T. Williams, E. M. Devaliere, and D. Saucedo

  2:00 PM
6.3
  2:15 PM
6.4
  2:30 PM
6.5
Tidal prediction in the Asian marginal Pacific
Ruth H. Preller, NRL, Stennis Space Center, MS; and P. J. Martin and S. K. Riedlinger

  2:45 PM
6.6
Modeling and mapping water levels and transport in the St. Johns River, Forida
Frank Aikman, NOAA, NOS, MMAP, Silver Spring, MD; and J. Sylvestre, E. P. Myers, and M. Watts

1:30 PM-3:15 PM: Thursday, 13 January 2005


Joint Session 4
Climate of the Northern High Latitudes (Joint Session with the Eight Conference on Polar Meteorology and the 16th Symposium on Global Change & Climate Variations) (parallel with Session 15)
Sponsors: (Joint between the 16th Conference on Climate Variability and Change; and the 8th Conference on Polar Meteorology and Oceanography )
Organizer: Marika M. Holland, NCAR

Papers:
  1:30 PM
  2:00 PM
Simulations of Wintertime Arctic Air Surges into Middle Latitudes
Steve Vavrus, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI; and J. E. Walsh, W. L. Chapman, and D. Portis

 
J4.3
Arctic sea ice and its feedback on the atmospheric circulation

  2:30 PM
  2:45 PM
North Atlantic variability and self-organizing maps: early results
David B. Reusch, Penn State University, University Park, PA; and R. B. Alley

  3:00 PM
On adapting a next-generation mesoscale model for the polar regions (Formerly Paper Number JP2.14)
Keith M. Hines, Byrd Polar Research Center, Ohio State University, Columbus, OH; and D. H. Bromwich

1:30 PM-4:00 PM: Thursday, 13 January 2005


Joint Session 10
Understanding and predicting the water cycle across scales part III (Joint between the Limited Water Supply Symposium and the 16th Conference on Planned and Inadvertent Weather Modification)
Sponsors: (Joint between the AMS Forum: Living with a Limited Water Supply; and the 16th Conference on Planned and Inadvertent Weather Modification )
Chair: Fei Chen, NCAR

Papers:
  1:30 PM
The Time-Integrated Random Access NEXRAD Database (TIRAND): description and opportunity
John N. McHenry, Baron Advanced Meteorological Systems, Raleigh, NC; and W. T. Smith

  2:00 PM
Precipitation development in convective clouds over the eastern Arabian Penisula
Daniel Breed, NCAR, Boulder, CO; and T. Jensen, R. Bruintjes, S. Piketh, A. Al Mangoosh, and A. Al Mandoos

  2:15 PM
Observed declines in mountain snowpack and changes in snow seasons
Philip W. Mote, University of Washington, Seattle, WA; and A. F. Hamlet, D. Lettenmaier, and M. P. Clark

  2:30 PM
Intercomparison among TRMM, GPCP1DD and Radar-AMeDAS
Kenji Kamiguchi, MRI, Tsukuba, Ibaraki, Japan; and A. Kitoh and M. Hosaka

  2:45 PM
How snowmelt onset varies with elevation
Jessica D. Lundquist, SIO/Univ. of California and USGS, La Jolla, CA

  3:15 PM
Detection and attribution of 20th Century hydrologic variations and change over western North America
Shaleen Jain, NOAA-CIRES Climate Diagnostics Center, Boulder, CO; and M. Hoerling

  3:30 PM
Coffee Break

1:30 PM-5:00 PM: Thursday, 13 January 2005


11
Atmospheric Observations
Sponsor: Ninth Symposium on Integrated Observing and Assimilation Systems for the Atmosphere, Oceans, and Land Surface (IOAS-AOLS)
Organizers: Seth I. Gutman, NOAA/FSL; Joseph Facundo, NOAA/NWS

Papers:
  1:30 PM
Error characteristics of satellite-derived atmospheric motion vectors
David A. Santek, CIMSS/Univ. of Wisconsin, Madison, WI; and C. S. Velden and J. R. Key

  2:00 PM
Distributed Collaborative Adaptive Sensing (DCAS) for Improved Detection, Understanding, and Prediction of Atmospheric Hazards
David J. McLaughlin, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA; and V. Chandrasekar, K. Droegemeier, S. Frasier, J. Kurose, F. Junyent, B. Philips, S. Cruz-Pol, and J. Colom

  2:30 PM
Testing Radiosonde Replacement System (RRS) Radiosondes—Part 1
James Fitzgibbon, NOAA/NWS, Silver Spring, MD; and J. Facundo

Poster PDF (352.1 kB)
  2:45 PM
Standards for evaluating radiosonde measurements
F. J. Schmidlin, NASA/GSFC, Wallops Island, VA; and E. T. Northam

Poster PDF (210.3 kB)
  3:00 PM
Quality control of radiosonde moisture observations
Seth I. Gutman, NOAA/FSL, Boulder, CO; and J. Facundo and D. R. Helms

http://gpsmet.noaa.gov

  3:15 PM
Universal Upper Air Sounding System
Rodney D. Wierenga, International Met Systems, Grand Rapids, MI; and F. A. Clowney

  3:30 PM
A multi-platform approach to forecasting supercell tornado potential
Angela D. Lese, NOAA/NWS, Springfield, MO; and W. D. Browning and D. T. Cramer

  4:15 PM
Using Integrated Surface Radiation Measurements to infer Cloud Properties
Charles N. Long, PNNL, Richland, WA; and J. C. Barnard, J. Calbo, and T. P. Ackerman

  4:30 PM
Coffee Break

1:30 PM-5:15 PM: Thursday, 13 January 2005


15
Climate Predictions on Seasonal to Interannual Time Scales: 2 (parallel with Joint Session 4)
Sponsor: 16th Conference on Climate Variability and Change
Chair: Ed Olenic, NOAA/NWS/CPC

Papers:
  1:30 PM
A connection between El Nino and Interdecadal Variability
Cécile Penland, NOAA-CIRES/Climate Diagnostics Center, Boulder, CO; and L. Matrosova

  1:45 PM
Rainfall variability in equatorial Africa
Sharon E. Nicholson, FSU, Tallahassee, FL; and N. Balas

  2:00 PM
  2:30 PM
Storm track predictability on seasonal to decadal scales
Gilbert P. Compo, NOAA-CIRES Climate Diagnostics Center, Boulder, CO; and P. D. Sardeshmukh

  2:45 PM
 
15.7
Predictability of the MJO: GCM and Surface Boundary Condition Sensitivity

  3:15 PM
A Simulation of the Maintenance of the Madden Julian Oscillation: Using Scale Interactions as a Framework
Adam O'Shay, Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL; and T. N. Krishnamurti

Poster PDF (64.2 kB)
  3:30 PM
Simulation of a summer monsoon over Korea in 2003
Yu-Bin Yhang, Department of Atmospheric Sciences, Yonsei university, Seoul, Korea, Seoul, South Korea; and S. Y. Hong

  4:15 PM
Dynamical Downscaling of Seasonal Climate Information: Linkage with Grazing Simulation System
Jozef Syktus, Queensland Centre for Climate Applications, Indooroopilly, Queensland, Australia; and G. McKeon

  4:30 PM
Coffee Break

  5:00 PM
Interannual Variability of Tropical Diurnal SST Variability
Derrick K. Weitlich, Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL; and C. A. Clayson

1:30 PM-5:16 PM: Thursday, 13 January 2005


Joint Session 6
The Global Energy and Water Cycle Experiment (GEWEX) (Joint between the 19th conference on Hydrology and 16th Conference on Climate Variability and Change)
Sponsors: (Joint between the 19th Conf on Hydrology; and the 16th Conference on Climate Variability and Change )
Organizer: Richard G. Lawford, International GEWEX Project Office

Papers:
 
J6.3
Hydrometeorology of the Amazon from ERA-40

  2:00 PM
Solar dimming/brightening and consequences for the water cycle
Beate G. Liepert, Columbia University, Palisades, NY; and A. Romanou

  2:15 PM
The GEWEX Global Land Atmosphere System Study (GLASS) – Recent Results and Future Plans
Paul A. Dirmeyer, Center for Ocean-Land-Atmosphere Studies, Calverton, MD

  2:30 PM
Multiscale Evaluation of GLDAS Products for CEOP with the Land Information System
Christa D. Peters-Lidard, NASA/GSFC, Greenbelt, MD; and S. V. Kumar, M. Rodell, Y. Tian, J. V. Geiger, S. Olden, L. Lighty, J. L. Eastman, P. R. Houser, E. F. Wood, J. Sheffield, K. E. Mitchell, C. J. Meng, P. A. Dirmeyer, B. Doty, and J. Adams

  2:45 PM
Evaluation of Reanalysis Soil Moisture Simulations Using Newly Updated Soil Moisture Observations from the Ukraine and China
Alan Robock, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ; and H. Li, M. Mu, and K. Y. Vinnikov

  3:15 PM
Evaluation of Cloud Resolving Simulations over the Southern Great Plains During IHOP 2002
L. Ruby Leung, PNNL, Richland, WA; and L. K. Berg, T. P. Ackerman, and R. T. Marcharnd

  3:45 PM
Interpreting Lake Victoria in terms of regional hydrology and hydrologic change
Sharon E. Nicholson, FSU, Tallahassee, FL; and X. Yin

  4:00 PM
Land Surface Water Cycles Observed with Satellite Sensors(Formerly paper j6.6)
S. V. Nghiem, JPL and California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA; and E. G. Njoku, G. R. Brakenridge, Y. Kim, and G. Neumann

Poster PDF (1.8 MB)
  4:15 PM
Paper J6.5 to be presented as part of Session 7 in the 16 Global program, new paper number 7.1A

  4:30 PM
Paper J6.6 Moved to end of session. New paper number J6.14

  4:31 PM
Coffee Break in Exhibit Hall

  5:01 PM
GEWEX Water and Energy Budget Studies
J. Roads, SIO/Univ. Of California, La Jolla, CA

1:30 PM-5:30 PM: Thursday, 13 January 2005


18
Applications in Meteorology, Oceanography, Hydrology and Climatology
Sponsor: 21st International Conference on Interactive Information Processing Systems (IIPS) for Meteorology, Oceanography, and Hydrology
Organizer: Carl D. Thormeyer, FNMOC
CoChair: Jim Cooper, Earth Satellite Corporation

Papers:
  2:00 PM
A Severe Weather Proxy Developed From the NOMADS Real Time Data Base of Operational Models
Jordan Alpert, NOAA/NWS/NCEP, Camp Springs, MD; and J. Wang

http://wwwt.emc.ncep.noaa.gov/gmb/wd23ja/index1.html

  2:15 PM
Modeling turbulence and seeing over Mauna Kea
Tiziana Cherubini, University of Hawaii, Honolulu, HI; and S. Businger, R. Okasawara, and R. Lyman

  2:30 PM
Convective forecast performance of an operational mesoscale modelling system
Anthony P. Praino, IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center, Yorktown Heights, NY; and L. A. Treinish

  2:45 PM
Coffee Break in Exhibit Hall

  3:00 PM
Weather information to your cell phone
Kenneth Reeves, AccuWeather, Inc., State College, PA; and Y. Douglas, C. James, and S. Michael

  3:15 PM
The USGODAE Monterey Data Server
Phil Sharfstein, FNMOC, Monterey, CA; and D. Dimitriou and S. Hankin

  3:30 PM
DEOS: The Delaware Environmental Observing System
David R Legates, University of Delaware, Newark, DE; and D. J. Leathers, T. L. DeLiberty, G. E. Quelch, K. Brinson, J. Butke, R. Mahmood, and S. A. Foster

Poster PDF (558.9 kB)
  3:45 PM
FSL central facility data system concepts
Paul Hamer, NOAA/ERL/FSL, Boulder and CIRA/Colorado State Univ., Fort Collins, CO

  4:00 PM
NuSDaS - meteorological database for operational weather service
Eizi Toyoda, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI

Poster PDF (411.5 kB)
  4:15 PM
Automated validation for summary of the day precipitation data
Michael L. Urzen, NOAA/NESDIS/NCDC, Asheville, NC; and S. A. DelGreco and S. Ansari

  4:30 PM
Monitoring the health of weather and climate observing networks
Matthew J. Menne, NOAA/NESDIS/NCDC, Asheville, NC; and H. V. Frederick and S. A. Del Greco

  4:44 PM
18.15 now J2.3 (Climate Variability and Change)

  4:45 PM

19
Radar IIPS and Applications Part II
Sponsor: 21st International Conference on Interactive Information Processing Systems (IIPS) for Meteorology, Oceanography, and Hydrology
Cochairs: Robert G. Borchers, SAIC; Robert Saffle, Mitretek Systems, Inc.; Douglas E. Forsyth, NOAA/NSSL

Papers:
  1:45 PM
Radar range and velocity ambiguity mitigation: Censoring methods for the SZ-1 and SZ-2 phase coding algorithms
Scott M. Ellis, NCAR, Boulder, CO; and M. Dixon, G. Meymaris, S. Torre, and J. C. Hubbert

  2:15 PM
Progress report on the National Weather Radar Testbed (Phased-Array)
Douglas E. Forsyth, NOAA/NSSL, Norman, OK; and J. F. Kimpel, D. S. Zrnic, R. Ferek, J. F. Heimmer, T. J. McNellis, J. E. Crain, A. M. Shapiro, R. J. Vogt, and W. Benner

http://www.nssl.noaa.gov

  2:30 PM
Recent Advances in Phased Array Radar for Meteorological Applications
Tom McNellis, Lockheed Martin Corporation, Moorestown, New Jersey; and S. Katz, M. Campbell, and J. Melody

  2:45 PM
Coffee Break

  3:00 PM
Phase noise, coherency, and clutter suppression
James J. Stagliano Jr., DRS Weather Systems, Inc., Enterprise, AL; and J. Helvin, J. L. Alford, and D. Nelson

Poster PDF (404.2 kB)
  3:15 PM
An Update on the NWS Implementation of the WSR-88D Level II Data Collection and Distribution Network
Tim Crum, NOAA/NWS/Radar Operations Center, Norman, OK; and C. Gilbert, S. Smith, J. Heimer, J. Casamento, P. Cragg, T. Sandman, and W. Blanchard

  3:30 PM
Ultra High Compression for Weather Radar Reflectivity Data Storage and Transmission
Pravas R. Mahapatra, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, Karnataka, India; and V. V. Makkapati

http://aero.iisc.ernet.in/~pravas/home.html

  3:45 PM
Radar Networking: Considerations for Data transfer Protocols and Network Characteristics
Tarun Banka, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO; and A. Maroo, A. P. Jayasumana, V. Chandrasekar, N. Bharadwaj, and S. Chittibabu

  4:00 PM
MCNA—A reliable multicast protocol for radar product distribution
Zack Jing, NOAA/NWS, Norman, OK; and S. Ahlert and G. Gookin

Poster PDF (67.6 kB)
  4:15 PM
Development of the Terminal Doppler Weather Radar Supplemental Products Generator for NWS Operations
Andrew D. Stern, Mitretek Systems, Inc., Falls Church, VA; and M. J. Istok, W. M. Blanchard, and N. Shen

  4:30 PM
Principles of Radar Operation over the Internet: The VCHILL
V. Chandrasekar, Colorado State University, Ft. Collins, CO; and Y. G. Cho, D. A. Brunkow, and A. Jayasumana

Poster PDF (116.3 kB)
  4:45 PM
The Meteorological Command and Control Structure of a Dynamic, Collaborative, Automated Radar Network
Jerald Brotzge, CAPS/Univ. of Oklahoma, Norman, OK; and D. Westbrook, K. Brewster, K. Hondl, and M. Zink

  5:00 PM
NEXRAD Open Radar Data Acquisition (ORDA) receiver characteristics
Nita K. Patel, RS Information Systems Inc., Norman, Oklahoma, Norman, OK; and G. W. Jim and A. D. Free

Poster PDF (139.1 kB)

2:00 PM-2:30 PM: Thursday, 13 January 2005


ASLI Survey Results

2:30 PM-3:00 PM: Thursday, 13 January 2005


ASLI Award for Best Reference Resource

3:00 PM-3:00 PM: Thursday, 13 January 2005


Coffee Break


Registration Desk Closes


Registration Desk Closes


Registration Desk Closes

3:00 PM-3:15 PM: Thursday, 13 January 2005


Coffee Break

3:00 PM-3:30 PM: Thursday, 13 January 2005


Coffee Break

3:15 PM-4:00 PM: Thursday, 13 January 2005


ASLI Business Meeting

3:30 PM-4:00 PM: Thursday, 13 January 2005


6
hydro-meteorological monitoring in sparsely observed regions
Sponsor: AMS Forum: Living with a Limited Water Supply
Chair: Ana P. Barros, Duke University

Papers:
  3:30 PM
6.1
  3:45 PM
6.2
Improved "Climate Divisions" for monitoring, assessing, and predicting climate in the U.S.
Klaus Wolter, NOAA/ERL/CDC, Boulder, CO; and R. Bigley, J. K. Eischeid, and D. Allured

3:30 PM-5:00 PM: Thursday, 13 January 2005


7
Tropical Cyclones
Sponsor: Sixth Conference on Coastal Atmospheric and Oceanic Prediction and Processes
Organizer: Christopher N. K. Mooers, Univ. of Miami/RSMAS

Papers:
  3:30 PM
7.1
Tornado outbreaks associated with land-falling tropical cyclones in the Atlantic Basin
Stephanie M. Verbout, University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK; and L. M. Leslie, H. E. Brooks, D. M. Schultz, and D. J. Karoly

  4:00 PM
7.4
Precipitation distribution from landfalling tropical cyclones over the Southeast United States Coast
Alan F. Srock, University at Albany/SUNY, Albany, NY; and L. Bosart and J. E. Molinari

  4:15 PM
7.5
Data Mining for Tropical Cyclone Intensity Prediction
Jiang Tang, George Mason University, Fairfax, VA; and R. Yang and M. Kafatos

  4:30 PM
7.6
A simulative improvement of Hurricane Andrew with a landfall on Florida by the physical dissipative technique
Ying Liu, Chinese Academy of Meteorological Sciences, Beijing, China; and C. Liu

  4:45 PM
7.7
4. Tropical Storm Forecast Improvements in the GOES-R Era. Emphasis: A Survey of the Expected Spatial and Temporal Atmosphere and Ocean Observational Improvements
Phillip A. Zuzolo, The Boeing Company, Springfield, VA; and B. Zuzolo, S. G. Hoffert, M. F. Tutza, K. Lausten, R. Domikis, and G. R. Alexander

3:30 PM-5:30 PM: Thursday, 13 January 2005


4
Lorenz Symposium IV
Sponsor: The Ed Lorenz Symposium

Papers:
  3:30 PM
4.1
Role of the annular modes in the atmospheric general circulation
John M. Wallace, Univ. of Washington, Seattle, WA; and D. W. J. Thompson

  4:00 PM
4.2
Scaling in geostrophic flow
Harry L. Swinney, University of Texas, Austin, TX; and S. Jung

  4:30 PM
4.3
Dynamical fundamentals: some recent advances
ME McIntyre, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom

  5:00 PM
4.4

Joint Session 7
Mechanisms of Climate Change (Joint Session with the Eight Conference on Polar Meteorology and the 16th Symposium on Global Change & Climate Variations)
Sponsors: (Joint between the 16th Conference on Climate Variability and Change; and the 8th Conference on Polar Meteorology and Oceanography )
Organizer: James R. Miller, Rutgers University

Papers:
  3:30 PM
Future Polar Climate Change Simulations with the CCSM3
Warren M. Washington, NCAR, Boulder, CO; and H. Teng, G. A. Meehl, J. Arblaster, A. Hu, and L. Buja

  3:45 PM
Climate variability during the last millennium in the Arctic: a model-data comparison using ensemble simulations
Hugues Goosse, Universite Catholique de Louvain, Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium; and H. Renssen, A. Timmermann, and R. S. Bradley

  4:00 PM
Building and using an Arctic climate information system
James E. Overland, NOAA/OAR/PMEL, Seattle, WA; and N. N. Soreide, M. C. Serreze, and J. Francis

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

  4:15 PM
  4:30 PM
Sea ice forced climate change in a GCM
C. M. Bitz, University of Washington, Seattle, WA; and A. Hall, M. M. Holland, and R. W. Lindsay

  4:45 PM
What controls planetary albedo and its interannual variability?
Xin Qu, Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences, UCLA, Los Angeles, CA; and A. Hall

  5:00 PM
Variability in the Arctic sea ice melt season
John W. Weatherly, U. S. Army Cold Regions Research and Engineering Lab, Hanover, NH; and D. K. Perovich and S. Nghiem

http://snow.usace.army.mil/

  5:15 PM
Influence of the sea ice thickness distribution on simulated polar climate
Marika M. Holland, NCAR, Boulder, CO; and C. M. Bitz, J. L. Schramm, W. H. Lipscomb, and E. C. Hunke

3:45 PM-3:45 PM: Thursday, 13 January 2005


Exhibits Close


Exhibits Close


Exhibits Close

5:30 PM-5:30 PM: Thursday, 13 January 2005


Conference Ends


Conference Ends

6:00 PM-6:00 PM: Thursday, 13 January 2005


Ed Lorenz Symposium Banquet


Ed Lorenz Symposium Banquet


Lorenz Symposium Banquet

Friday, 14 January 2005

12:00 AM-12:00 AM: Friday, 14 January 2005


FRI 14 JAN

8:30 AM-4:30 PM: Friday, 14 January 2005


Annual ASLI Field Trip: Scripps Institution of Oceanography Library and SPAWAR (Space and Naval Warfare Systems Center) Technical Library ($40 cost not included; please see Judie Triplehorn for details)