| Saturday, 28 January 2006 |
| 7:30 AM-7:31 AM, Saturday
Short Course and Student Conference Registration |
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| Sunday, 29 January 2006 |
| 7:30 AM-9:00 AM, Sunday
Short Course Registration |
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| 9:00 AM-6:00 PM, Sunday
Conference Registration |
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| Monday, 30 January 2006 |
| 7:30 AM-6:00 PM, Monday
Registration Continues through Thursday, 2 February |
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| 9:00 AM-10:15 AM, Monday, A305
Joint Session 1 A Peek at the Earth Observing System of Tomorrow (Joint between the 10th Symposium on Integrated Observing and Assimilation Systems for the Atmosphere, Oceans, and Land Surface (IOAS-AOLS), the 14th Conference on Satellite Meteorology and Oceanography, and the 22nd Conference on IIPS) |
Organizer: A. E. MacDonald, NOAA/ERL/FSL, Boulder, CO
Chairs: F. Joseph Turk, NRL, Monterey, CA; Terry Tarbell, RS Information Systems, McLean, VA
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| 10:15 AM-10:45 AM, Monday
Coffee Break in Meeting Room Foyer (M1) |
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| 10:45 AM-11:45 AM, Monday, A411
Session 1 Global Meteorological and Hydrological Service Updates Part I |
Cochairs: Fred R. Branski, NOAA/NWS, Silver Spring, MD; Jim Cooper, Earth Satellite Corporation, Rockville, MD
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| 10:45 AM-12:00 PM, Monday, A412
Session 2 International Applications Part I |
Cochairs: John Lincoln, Consultant, Berryville, VA; Howard J. Diamond, NOAA/NESDIS/NCDC, Silver Spring, MD
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|  | 2.1 | Introduction of MICAPS - A Chinese Forecaster's Interactive System 
Bing Luo, National Meteorological Center of CMA, Beijing,, China; and X. Tan and Y. Guo |
| | 2.2 | Data Warehousing and its Potential Using in Weather Forecast
Xiaoguang Tan, Institute of Urban Meteorology of CMA, Beijing, China |
| 10:45 AM | 2.3 | Decision aids products for forecasters 
Antoine Lasserre-Bigorry, Météo-France, Toulouse Cedex, France; and P. Santurette, M. F. Voidrot, and B. Benech |
| 11:00 AM | 2.4 | Combining human and computer generated forecasts using a knowledge based system
Harvey Stern, Bureau of Meteorology, Melbourne, Vic., Australia |
| 11:15 AM | 2.5 | NOAA Climate Prediction Center's global meteorological data dissemination in support of the US Agency for International Development
Timothy B. Love, RSIS and NOAA/NWS/NCEP/CPC, Camp Springs, MD; and E. J. Wolvovsky and K. B. Laws |
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| 12:00 PM-1:10 PM, Monday
Plenary Session 1 AMS Forum Kick-Off Luncheon (Cash & Carry available in the Meeting Room Foyer) |
Chairs: Sue Grimmond, King's College, London United Kingdom; Steven Hanna, Harvard Univ., Boston, MA; Mark Andrews, NOAA/NWS, Silver Spring, MD
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| 12:00 PM | PL1.1 | Forum opening
Gregory S. Forbes, The Weather Channel, Atlanta, GA; and M. Andrews, C. S. B. Grimmond, and S. R. Hanna |
| 12:10 PM | PL1.2 | How should we compare and evaluate urban land surface models?
Martin Best, Met Office, Wallingford, Oxfordshire, United Kingdom |
| 12:40 PM | PL1.3 | THUNDERSTORM IMPACTS: A MIX OF CURSES AND BLESSINGS
Stanley Changnon, Changnon Climatologist, Mahomet, IL |
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| 1:30 PM-5:30 PM, Monday, A411
Session 3 Global Meteorological and Hydrological Service Updates Part II |
Cochairs: Fred R. Branski, NOAA/NWS, Silver Spring, MD; Jim Cooper, Earth Satellite Corporation, Rockville, MD
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| 1:30 PM-5:00 PM, Monday, A412
Session 4 International Applications Part II |
Cochairs: John Lincoln, Consultant, Berryville, VA; Howard J. Diamond, NOAA/NESDIS/NCDC, Silver Spring, MD
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| 1:30 PM | 4.1 | A new high accuracy, low maintenance all weather precipitation gauge for meteorological, hydrological and climatological applications
Heikki Turtiainen, Vaisala Oyj, Helsinki, Finland; and P. Nylander, P. Puura, and R. Hölttä |
| 1:45 PM | 4.2 | Instrumental quality control on raw data collected by automatic weather stations of a new ground-based measurement network in Switzerland
Yves-Alain Roulet, MeteoSwiss, Payerne, Switzerland; and J. Rast, A. Heimo, and B. Calpini |
| 2:00 PM | 4.3 | Pacific Island Global Climate Observing System basic instrument project: High quality tipping bucket raingauges
Mark L. Morrissey, Univ. of Oklahoma, Norman, OK; and D. Solofa, R. Pulehetoa, J. Napat, '. Faanunu, and S. Postawko |
| 2:15 PM | 4.4 | Temporal comparison of the Comprehensive Pacific Rainfall Database (PACRAIN) with satellite rainfall estimates
Michael D. Klatt, Univ. of Oklahoma, Norman, OK; and M. L. Morrissey and J. S. Greene |
| 2:30 PM | | Formal Poster Veiwing with Coffee Break
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| 4:00 PM | 4.5 | Data Products from CPTEC Available on The IDD-BRASIL
Waldenio Gambi de Almeida, CPTEC/INPE, Cachoeira Paulista, S.P., Brazil; and A. A. Lima, A. S. A. Pessoa, A. L. T. Ferreira, A. B. Júnior, D. G. Coelho, G. O. Chagas, L. A. Carvalho, M. V. Mendes, M. G. Justi, and T. Yoksas |
| 4:15 PM | 4.6 | Upgrades to the MSC's National Climate and Water Archives
Chantale Cerny, MSC, Toronto, ON, Canada; and T. H. Sopoco and K. Tiongson |
| 4:30 PM | 4.7 | Implementing an enhanced and integrated quality assurance and quality control system within the MSC's new Data Management Framework
L. Dale Boudreau, MSC, Downsview, ON, Canada; and A. Zucconi |
| 4:45 PM | 4.8 | New 25-year 4 km AVHRR data for risk analysis assessment and climate studies
Felix Kogan, NOAA/NESDIS, Camp Springs, MD |
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| 2:30 PM-4:00 PM, Monday, Exhibit Hall A2
Poster Session 1 IIPS Poster Session I |
Cochairs: Stephen M. Holt, Mitretek Systems, Falls Church, VA; Scott T. Shipley, Raytheon Information Solutions, Upper Marlboro, MD
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| | P1.1 | Using annular rings and quadrants to clip polygons representing tropical cyclone rain shields in a GIS
Corene J. Matyas, Univ. of Florida, Gainesville, FL |
| | P1.2 | Turbulence Remote Sensing Operational Demonstration System
Jaimi Yee, NCAR, Boulder, CO; and J. K. Williams, G. Blackburn, S. G. Carson, and J. A. Craig |
| | P1.4 | The impact of abrupt land cover changes by savanna fire on northern Australian climate: A grid computing approach
Klaus Görgen, Monash Univ., Melbourne, Vic, Australia; and A. Lynch, C. Enticott, J. Beringer, D. Abramson, N. Tapper, A. G. Marshall, and P. Uotila |
| | P1.5 | Effective Retrieval Performed by DIMES with the Application of Lucene
Ruixin Yang, George Mason University, Fairfax, VA; and Y. Zhao and M. Kafatos |
| | P1.6 | WRFPortal: a Web-based Portal for the WRF model
Jeff S. Smith, CIRA/Colorado State Univ., Ft Collins, CO; and M. W. Govett |
| | P1.7 | Forecaster Usage Patterns of AWIPS D2D and GFESuite During 2005
Leigh K. Cheatwood, CIRA/Colorado State Univ., Boulder, CO; and W. F. Roberts |
| | P1.8 | Giovanni: A System for Rapid Access, Visualization and Analysis of Earth Science Data Online
S. Shen, George Mason Univ. and NASA/GSFC, Greenbelt, MD; and H. Rui, Z. Liu, T. Zhu, L. Lu, S. Berrick, G. Leptoukh, W. Teng, J. Acker, J. Johnson, A. Savtchenko, I. Gerasimov, S. Kempler, and S. P. Ahmad |
| | P1.9 | Kernel Density Estimates of Tornado Occurrence in the United States
Stephen Weinbeck, SUNY, Brockport, NY; and S. Trebes and J. Maliekal |
| | P1.10 | Exploring Climate Patterns Embedded in Global Climate Change Datasets
James Bothwell, Univ. of Oklahoma, Norman, OK; and M. Yuan |
| | P1.11 | Developing a Global Agriculture Information System
Zhong Liu, NASA/GSFC Distributed Active Archive Center, Greenbelt, MD; and B. Teng, S. Kempler, H. Rui, and E. Ocampo |
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| 5:30 PM, Monday
Sessions end for the day (M) |
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| 5:30 PM-7:30 PM, Monday
Formal Opening of Exhibits with Reception (Cash Bar) |
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| 7:30 PM, Monday
Holton Symposium Banquet |
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| Tuesday, 31 January 2006 |
| 8:30 AM-10:00 AM, Tuesday, A312
Joint Session 2 Distributed Earth Science Information Systems (Joint with 18th Conference on Climate Variability and Change and 22nd International Conference on Interactive Information processing Systems for Meteorology, Oceanography, and Hydrology) |
Cochairs: Nancy N. Soreide, NOAA/PMEL, Seattle, WA; Stephen M. Holt, Mitretek Systems, Falls Church, VA
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| 8:30 AM | J2.1 | Surface data integration at NOAA's National Climatic Data Center: data format, processing, QC, and product generation
Stephen A. Del Greco, NOAA/NESDIS/NCDC, Asheville, NC; and J. N. Lott, S. K. Hawkins, R. Baldwin, D. D. Anders, R. Ray, D. Dellinger, P. Jones, and F. Smith |
| 8:45 AM | J2.2 | Recent advances in in-situ data access, summarization, and visualization at NOAA's National Climatic Data Center
J. Neal Lott, NOAA/NESDIS/NCDC, Asheville, NC; and R. Baldwin and D. D. Anders |
| 9:00 AM | J2.3 | Process Management and Improvement for CLASS System Development and Maintenance
Anita K. Konzak, NOAA/NESDIS, Suitland, MD; and R. G. Reynolds and C. Martinez |
| 9:15 AM | J2.4 | MI3: the NCDC's master station history
Jeffrey D. Arnfield, NOAA/NESDIS/NCDC, Asheville, NC |
| 9:30 AM | J2.5 | Evolving EO-1 Sensor Web Testbed Capabilities in Pursuit of GEOSS
Dan Mandl, NASA/GSFC, Greenbelt, MD; and S. W. Frye |
| 9:45 AM | J2.6 | BeringClimate: An Evolving View of Ecosystem Change in the Bering Sea
James E. Overland, NOAA/OAR/PMEL, Seattle, WA; and S. Rodionov and N. N. Soreide |
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| 8:30 AM-12:15 PM, Tuesday, A411
Session 5 Applications in Meteorology, Oceanography, Hydrology and Climatology |
Cochairs: Carl D. Thormeyer, FNMOC, Monterey, CA; Jim Cooper, Earth Satellite Corporation, Rockville, MD
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| 8:30 AM | 5.1 | FORECAST PERFORMANCE OF AN OPERATIONAL MESO-GAMMA-SCALE MODELLING SYSTEM FOR EXTRATROPICAL SYSTEMS
Anthony P. Praino, IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center, Yorktown Heights, NY; and L. A. Treinish |
| 8:45 AM | 5.2 | The NWS' Real-Time Mesoscale Analysis and Analysis of Record
Geoffrey DiMego, NOAA/NWS/NCEP/EMC, Camp Springs, MD; and B. Colman, J. Horel, M. Pondeca, L. Anderson, S. Benjamin, R. Aune, Y. Lin, B. Gockel, and G. Mandt |
| 9:00 AM | 5.3 | Interactive Forecast Visualization Tools for the U.S. Armed Forces
R. Bruce Telfeyan, Air Force Weather Agency, Offutt AFB, NE; and D. M. Rozema and I. Gotchel |
| 9:15 AM | 5.4 | Applying Portal Techniques to Ensemble Modeling of Convection
Brian F. Jewett, Univ. of Illinois, Urbana, IL; and R. Wilhelmson, J. Alameda, S. Hampton, and A. Rossi |
| 9:30 AM | 5.5 | Examples of the value of strong climatological signals in tropical cyclone forecasting
Bradford S. Barrett, Univ. of Oklahoma, Norman, OK; and L. M. Leslie and B. Fiedler |
| 9:45 AM | | Formal Poster Viewing with Coffee Break
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| 11:00 AM | 5.6 | Saving a national treasure—CDMP “Forts” project: adding historic pre-1893 weather observations to NOAA's digital database
Raymond T. Truesdell, Information Manufacturing Corporation, Asheville, NC; and T. F. Ross |
| 11:15 AM | 5.7 | Evaluation and Utilization of Meso-γ-Scale Numerical Weather Prediction for Logistical and Transportation Applications
Peter B. Roohr, Weather Operations, Pentagon, DC; and L. A. Treinish and A. Praino |
| 11:30 AM | 5.8 | Performance of an Energy-Budget and Temperature Index-based SNOW-17 Snowpack Models at SNOTEL Stations in the Carson River Basin
Fan Lei, NOAA/NWS, Silver Spring, MD; and V. Koren, M. Smith, and F. Moreda |
| 11:45 AM | 5.9 | Development of an operational northeast snowfall impact scale
Michael F. Squires, NOAA/NESDIS/NCDC, Asheville, NC; and J. H. Lawrimore |
| 12:00 PM | 5.10 | Integrating New Weather Technology in Forecast operations at Meteorlogix – A new paradigm
James Block, Meteorlogix, Inc., Minneapolis, MN; and J. Foerster |
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| 8:30 AM-12:45 PM, Tuesday, A412
Session 6 Challenges in Data Access, Distribution and Use |
Cochairs: Linda I. Miller, UCAR/Unidata, Boulder, CO; Thomas M. Whittaker, SSEC/CIMSS/Univ. of Wisconsin, Madison, WI
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| 8:30 AM | 6.1 | Challenges and opportunities for a new generation of data services for geoscience education and research
Mohan K. Ramamurthy, UCAR, Boulder, CO |
| 8:45 AM | 6.2 | NOAA's Plan for Information Management; A System of Systems That Act as One
Thomas C. Adang, NOAA, Silver Spring, MD; and D. McGuirk, E. Miller, and R. Mairs |
| | 6.3 | National Weather Service Digital Services: The Evolution of Services in the Digital Era
Glenn Austin, NOAA/NWS, Silver Spring, MD |
| 9:00 AM | 6.3A | Densifying the in-situ surface observing network: The Citizen Weather Observer Program, its role in observation and verification, and avenues for enhancement
Gerald J. Creager, Texas A&M Univ., College Station, TX |
| 9:15 AM | 6.4 | The Unidata Internet Data Distribution (IDD) System: A Decade of Development
Tom Yoksas, UCAR, Boulder, CO; and S. Emmerson, S. Chiswell, M. Schmidt, and J. Stokes |
| | 6.5 | The NOAA National Operational Model Archive and Distribution System (NOMADS): growing pains and a look to the future
Glenn K. Rutledge, NOAA/NESDIS/NCDC, Asheville, NC; and D. Brinegar, J. C. Alpert, D. Swank, A. Fey, and M. Seablom |
| 9:30 AM | 6.5A | CONDUIT and Level II Data Distribution: Leveraging that Works for Collaborative Projects
Linda I. Miller, UCAR/Unidata, Boulder, CO; and S. R. Chiswell, S. Emmerson, J. Weber, and T. Yoksas |
| 9:45 AM | | Formal Poster viewing with coffee break
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| 11:00 AM | 6.6 | NetCDF-4: software implementing an enhanced data model for the geosciences
Russell K. Rew, UCAR, Boulder, CO; and E. J. Hartnett and J. Caron |
| 11:15 AM | 6.7 | Integrated in-situ ocean data delivery for low and high bandwidth Internet connections
L. Charles Sun, National Oceanographic Data Center, Silver Spring, MD; and N. Soreide, J. R. Osborne, and J. Sirott |
| 11:30 AM | 6.8 | Gridded FX-Net Prototype Project for the Bureau of Land Managemant, National Interagency Fire Center
Sher Schranz, NOAA/ERL/FSL and CIRA/Colorado State Univ., Fort Collins, CO; and J. Stewart, N. Wang, and E. Polster |
| 11:45 AM | 6.9 | Developing Distributed Data Access Capabilities for the WRF Portal and beyond
Mark W. Govett, NOAA/ERL/FSL, Boulder, CO; and J. S. Smith |
| 12:00 PM | 6.10 | Antarctic Internet data distribution (Antarctic-IDD) system
Matthew A. Lazzara, Univ. of Wisconsin, Madison, WI; and G. Langbauer, K. W. Manning, R. Redinger, M. W. Seefeldt, R. Vehorn, and T. Yoksas |
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| 11:00 AM-6:00 PM, Tuesday
Exhbits Open (T) |
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| 12:15 PM, Tuesday
Plenary Session Presidential Forum with Boxed Lunch (Lunch will be available for purchase outside the meeting room.) |
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| 1:45 PM-6:00 PM, Tuesday, A311
Joint Session 3 Future Delivery of Aviation Weather Services (Joint With 12th Conference on Aviation Range and Aerospace Meteorology, 22nd International Conference on Interactive Information Processing Systems for Meteorology, Oceanography, and Hydrology, and Forum: Environmental Risk and Impacts on Society: Successes and Challenges) |
Organizers: Timothy L. Wilfong, Sr., ENSCO, Inc, Boulder, CO; David Pace, SAIC, Washington, DC
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| 1:45 PM | J3.1 | Weather information in the next generation air transportation system
K. Johnston |
| 2:00 PM | J3.2 | Network-centric dissemination of aviation weather information
Ken Leonard, FAA, Washington, DC |
| 2:15 PM | J3.3 | Implications of a Successful Benefits Demonstration for ATM/Weather System Development and Testing
James Evans, MIT, Lexington, MA |
| | J3.4 | Future delivery of weather products and services in the NAS
Don Zarefoss, Lockheed Martin Air Traffic Management, Rockville, MD |
| 2:30 PM | J3.4A | Challenges and Opportunities in the Architecture of the Next-Generation Aviation Weather Dissemination System
Rich DeLaura, MIT, Lexington, MA |
| 2:45 PM | | Discussion
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| 3:00 PM | | Coffee Break in the Exhibit Hall
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| 3:30 PM | J3.5 | FLYSAFE - meteorological hazard nowcasting, driven by the needs of the pilot
R. W. Lunnon, Met Office, Exeter, United Kingdom; and T. Hauf, T. Gerz, and P. Josse |
| 3:45 PM | J3.6 | Delivery of Aviation Weather Services in Canada
Richard E. Jones, EC, Dorval, QC, Canada |
| 4:00 PM | J3.7 | National Weather Service Graphical Hazards for Aviation
Jack May, NOAA/NWS, Kansas City, MO; and S. Albersheim |
| 4:15 PM | J3.8 | Atlanta Holding Case Study: Identifying a need for the Advancement of En Route Meteorology Programs
Charles A. West, NOAA/NWS, Hampton, GA; and S. Sellars |
| 4:30 PM | J3.9 | Hub Forecast Prototype Test
Dave Rodenhuis, Air Traffic Organization/FAA, Herndon, VA; and D. Torbert |
| 4:45 PM | J3.10 | Real Time Aviation Forecasting at WSI
Peter J. Sousounis, WSI Corporation, Andover, MA; and J. Menard |
| 5:00 PM | J3.11 | Prototyping Tactical Decision Aids for the Aviation Forecast Preparation System
Michael Graf, NOAA/NWS, Silver Spring, MD; and M. Peroutka, T. Boyer, G. Trojan, M. Oberfield, and T. Amis |
| | J3.12 | Common Situational Awareness: the strategic and tactical value of aviation weather information
Michael A. Rossetti, Volpe National Transportation Systems Center, Cambridge, MA; and T. A. Seliga |
| 5:15 PM | P1.5 | Effective Retrieval Performed by DIMES with the Application of Lucene
Ruixin Yang, George Mason University, Fairfax, VA; and Y. Zhao and M. Kafatos |
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| 1:45 PM-5:30 PM, Tuesday, A402
Joint Session 4 Tools to Enhance Weather and Climate Data Use in the Classroom (Joint with 15th Symposium on Education and 22nd Conference on Interactive Information Processing Systems) |
Cochairs: Rajul E. Pandya, UCAR/SOARS, Boulder, CO; Thomas M. Whittaker, SSEC/CIMSS/Univ. of Wisconsin, Madison, WI
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| 1:45 PM | J4.1 | LEAD education initiatives
Sepideh Yalda, Millersville Univ., Millersville, PA; and R. D. Clark and E. Joseph |
| 2:00 PM | J4.2 | Using ocean observing system data to promote ocean science literacy in the southeast U.S.
Mary C. Greganti, Univ. of Georgia, Savannah, GA; and J. R. Nelson and C. Simoniello |
| 2:15 PM | J4.3 | NOAA's NowCOAST: A GIS-Web Mapping Portal to Discover and Display Real-Time Coastal Observations, Satellite Imagery and NOAA Forecasts
Michael Allard, Coast Survey Development Laboratory, National Ocean Service, NOAA, Silver Spring, MD; and M. Wengren and J. G. W. Kelley |
| 2:30 PM | J4.4 | Tools for Exploring NASA Earth Observing System Climate Data in K-12 Classrooms
Erica J. Alston, NASA Langley Research Center, Hampton, VA; and L. H. Chambers, C. S. Phelps, P. C. Oots, and S. W. Moore |
| 2:45 PM | J4.5 | The NCAR climate and global change professional development program
Dennis L. Ward, UCAR, Boulder, Colorado; and R. M. Johnson, S. Henderson, R. Russell, L. Gardiner, S. Gallagher, K. Meymaris, and J. Genyuk |
| 3:00 PM | | Coffee Break in Exhibit Hall
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| 3:30 PM | J4.6 | DLESE Teaching Boxes and Web Services: A learning context for using data in the classroom
Lynne K. Davis, UCAR, Boulder, CO; and J. Weatherley |
| 3:45 PM | J4.7 | An earth science web site for Randolph High School
Christopher Duvall, Randolph High School, Randolph, NJ |
| 4:00 PM | J4.8 | A modern, PC/Mac visualization tool for K-20 students
Renee A. McPherson, OCS/Univ. of Oklahoma, Norman, OK; and J. M. Wolfinbarger, J. B. Basara, A. D. Melvin, and D. S. Arndt |
| 4:15 PM | J4.9 | Enhancing weather and climate data use in the classroom with multimedia modules
John A. Knox, Univ. of Georgia, Athens, GA; and N. Gardiner |
| 4:30 PM | J4.10 | A progress report on the Hands—on interdisciplinary laboratory program: an approach to strengthen the weather radar curriculum at the University of Oklahoma
M. Yeary, Univ. of Oklahoma, Norman, OK; and J. A. Dubois, T. Y. Yu, R. D. Palmer, M. Biggerstaff, L. D. Fink, and C. Ahern |
| 4:45 PM | J4.11 | Curriculum Development in Atmospheric Instrumentation for Undergraduates
Melanie Wetzel, Desert Research Institute, Reno, NV; and W. P. Arnott |
| 5:00 PM | J4.12 | The UNF Advanced Weather Information Systems Laboratory: A novel approach to information systems for Engineering Education
Patrick T. Welsh, Univ. of North Florida, Jacksonville, FL; and J. D. Lambert |
| 5:15 PM | J4.13 | Beyond Bob Dylan: Integrating music and video into meteorology courses
John A. Knox, Univ. of Georgia, Athens, GA |
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| 1:45 PM-5:30 PM, Tuesday, A411
Session 7 INTERACTIVE PROCESSING SYSTEMS |
Cochairs: Ward R. Seguin, NOAA/OAR, Silver Spring, MD; William F. Roberts, NOAA/ERL/FSL, Boulder, CO
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| 1:45 PM | 7.1 | NOAA Information Systems
A. E. MacDonald, NOAA/ERL/FSL, Boulder, CO |
| 2:15 PM | 7.2 | AWIPS: Then and Now
Jason P. Tuell, NOAA/NWS, Silver Spring, MD; and D. W. R. Seguin, D. L. Davis, and C. S. Bullock |
| 2:30 PM | 7.3 | The Evolution of AWIPS
Jason P. Tuell, NOAA/NWS, Silver Spring, MD; and D. L. Davis, M. A. McInerney, R. K. Meiggs, S. Schotz, C. Wu, F. Zichy, and C. Woods |
| 2:45 PM | 7.4 | Plans for Exchanging Graphical Objects in AWIPS and NAWIPS
Steve Schotz, NOAA/NWS/NCEP, Camp Springs, MD; and D. L. Davis, M. McInerney, J. P. Tuell, R. K. Meiggs, and J. Gofus |
| 3:00 PM | | Coffee Break in Exhibit Hall
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| 3:30 PM | 7.5 | Proposed design for service oriented architecture applied to gridded data sets
Darien L. Davis, NOAA/OAR/FSL, Boulder, CO; and G. J. Edwards |
| 3:45 PM | 7.6 | Expanding the Power of AWIPS with Plugins
U. Herbert Grote, NOAA/OAR/FSL, Boulder, CO; and M. McInerney |
| 4:00 PM | 7.7 | Builds five and six of NOAA's NWS weather event simulator
M.A. Magsig, CIMMS/Univ. of Oklahoma and NWS/NWS, Norman, OK; and T. Decker and N. Mohammed Said |
| 4:15 PM | 7.8 | Understanding the Forecasting Process and Implications for Computing Tool Design
C. Ray Russell, Appalachian State Univ., Boone, NC; and G. D. Kreahling |
| 4:30 PM | 7.9 | Changing Demands for Aviation Weather Workstation
John A. May, NOAA/NWS/NCEP, Kansas City, Missouri; and K. L. Johnston |
| 4:45 PM | 7.10 | McIDAS-V and OpenADDE: The next generation of McIDAS
David A. Santek, CIMSS/Univ. of Wisconsin, Madison, WI; and T. Whittaker, B. Hibbard, G. Dengel, D. Parker, and T. Rink |
| | 7.11 | Developing Capability for NOAA Tsunami Warning Centers, NWS Weather Forecast Offices, and Emergency Management Centers to Collaborate Effectively During Tsunami Events
Greg Pratt, NOAA/ERL/FSL, Boulder, CO; and J. L. Partain and L. Sherretz |
| 5:00 PM | 7.12 | The HazCollect Development Program
William F. Roberts, NOAA/ERL/FSL, Boulder, CO; and M. Schultz, H. L. White, L. Lehmann, J. Adkins, R. Dorsey, and M. Tankersley |
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Session 8 GIS Applications |
Cochairs: Nancy N. Soreide, NOAA/PMEL, Seattle, WA; Scott T. Shipley, Raytheon Information Solutions, Upper Marlboro, MD
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| 1:45 PM | 8.1 | A standards-based, web services gateway to netCDF datasets
Ben Domenico, UCAR, Boulder, CO; and S. Nativi, J. Caron, L. Bigagli, and E. R. Davis |
| 2:00 PM | 8.2 | Utilizing Google Earth as a GIS platform for weather applications
Travis M. Smith, CIMMS/Univ. of Oklahoma and NOAA/NSSL, Norman, OK; and V. Lakshmanan |
| 2:15 PM | 8.3 | GeoModeler - using ArcEngine and Java to link a GIS front-end with a modeling back-end
Tiffany C. Vance, NOAA/National Marine Fisheries Service, Seattle, WA; and N. Merati, S. Mesick, and C. W. Moore |
| 2:30 PM | 8.4 | Multi-tiered Peer-to-Peer data distribution for spatially enabled data
Nazila Merati, NOAA/PMEL and JISAO, Seattle, WA; and J. Marshall and A. Matarese |
| 2:45 PM | 8.5 | Use of a web-GIS to diffuse climate and water data as well as indicators of vulnerability for regional climate change studies
Luc, A. Vescovi, Ouranos, Montreal, QC, Canada |
| 3:00 PM | | Coffee Break in Exhibit Hall
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| 3:30 PM | 8.6 | GIS analysis and modeling for spatial decision support to NOAA's Environmental Real-Time Observation Network (NERON)
William G. McPherson Jr., Univ. of Oklahoma, Norman, OK; and M. Yuan |
| 3:45 PM | 8.7 | The “Best” Interpolation Technique for Atmospheric Datasets
Rochelle G. Williams, Univ. of Alabama, Huntsville, AL |
| 4:00 PM | 8.8 | The joint national oceanic and atmospheric administration's (NOAA) national weather service (NWS) and the united states geological survey (USGS) debris flow warning systems
Pedro J. Restrepo, NOAA/NWS, Silver Spring, MD; and R. Tibi, M. Schmidt, K. Werner, T. Carroll, D. Savage, S. Cannon, J. Bowers, J. Costa, J. Major, G. Wiecksorek, D. P. Jorgensen, J. Gourley, D. E. Kingsmill, and B. Martner |
| 4:15 PM | 8.9 | A discussion of geospatial character of roadway vegetation roughness
Damon M. Grabow, Univ. of North Dakota, Grand Forks, ND; and S. Kroeber |
| 4:30 PM | 8.10 | Web-based verification of numerical model data using GIS, in-situ and remotely sensed observations
Gerald J. Creager, Texas A&M Univ., College Station, TX |
| 4:45 PM | 8.11 | Using Geographic Information Systems methods with the National Digital Forecast Database
Ken R. Waters, NOAA/NWS, Honolulu, HI; and J. B. Settelmaier |
| 5:00 PM | 8.12 | A powerful and easy-to-use weather display tool for PCs and Macs
J. Michael Wolfinbarger, Univ. of Oklahoma, Norman, OK; and J. R. Greenfield, T. A. Cannon, T. B. Stanley, N. L. Hickmon, and R. A. McPherson |
| 5:15 PM | 8.13 | Using GIS to improve real-time severe weather verification
Mike Rawles, NOAA, Glasgow, MT; and T. Fransen, J. Adolphson, and T. Salem |
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Sessions end for the day (T) |
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| Wednesday, 1 February 2006 |
| 8:30 AM-11:30 AM, Wednesday, A411
Session 9 Radar IIPS and Applications Part I |
Cochairs: Robert E. Saffle, Mitretek Systems, Silver Spring, MD; Douglas E. Forsyth, NOAA/NSSL, Norman, OK; Timothy Crum, NOAA/NEXRAD Radar Operations Center, Norman, OK; Robert G. Borchers, SAIC, Melbourne, FL; Joel D. Martin, CAPS/Univ. of Oklahoma
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| 8:30 AM | 9.1 | NEXRAD product improvement—expanding science horizons
Robert E. Saffle, Mitretek Systems, Silver Spring, MD; and M. J. Istok and G. S. Cate |
| 8:45 AM | 9.2 | The ROC/NSSL Technology Transfer MOU: A success story in radar applications technology transfer
Donald W. Burgess, CIMMS/Univ. of Oklahoma, Norman, OK; and M. A. Fresch |
| | 9.3 | Open Radar Data Acquisition (ORDA) Calibration Consistency
Alan D. Free, SI International, Norman, OK; and N. K. Patel and R. W. Macemon |
| 9:00 AM | 9.3A | NEXRAD-ITR: Developing a framework for use of NEXRAD data in hydrology and hydrometeorology
Anton Kruger, The Univ. of Iowa, Iowa City, IA; and A. A. Bradley, W. F. Krajewski, R. E. Lawrence, J. A. Smith, M. L. Baeck, M. Steiner, M. Ramamurthy, J. Weber, S. A. Del Greco, F. M. V. Murthy, and D. Dhutia |
| 9:15 AM | 9.4 | Initial Deployment of the Terminal Doppler Weather Radar Supplemental Product Generator for NWS Operations
Michael J. Istok, NOAA/NWS, Silver Spring, MD; and W. M. Blanchard, B. Klein, N. Shen, and A. D. Stern |
| 9:30 AM | 9.5 | RIDGE - Radar Integrated Display with Geospatial Elements. The NWS New Radar Webpage
Keith Stellman, NOAA/NWS, Fort Worth, TX; and P. Kirkwood, J. M. Coyne, D. Cain, and S. Rae |
| 9:45 AM | 9.6 | Echo classification within the spectral domain to discriminate ground clutter from meteorological targets
Michael Dixon, NCAR, Boulder, CO; and C. Kessinger and J. Hubbert |
| 10:00 AM | | Coffee Break in Meeting Room Foyer
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| 10:30 AM | 9.7 | High-resolution radar data and products over the Continental United States
Valliappa Lakshmanan, CIMMS/Univ. of Oklahoma, NOAA/NSSL, Norman, OK; and T. M. Smith, K. Cooper, J. J. Levit, G. J. Stumpf, and D. R. Bright |
| 10:45 AM | 9.8 | Application and issues of SZ phase coding for NEXRAD
J. C. Hubbert, NCAR, Boulder, CO; and G. Meymaris, S. Ellis, and M. Dixon |
| 11:00 AM | 9.9 | Range and velocity ambiguity mitigation on the WSR-88D: Performance of the staggered PRT algorithm
Sebastian M. Torres, CIMMS/Univ. of Oklahoma, Norman, OK |
| 11:15 AM | 9.10 | A validation of radar reflectivity quality control methods
Angela Fritz, National Weather Center REU, Valparaiso, IN; and V. Lakshmanan, T. M. Smith, E. Forren, and B. Clarke |
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| 8:30 AM-12:30 PM, Wednesday, A412
Session 10 Cyberinfrastructure, Internet and Grid Applications |
Cochairs: Nancy Soreide, NOAA/PMEL, Seattle, WA; Linda I. Miller, UCAR/Unidata, Boulder, CO
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| 8:30 AM | 10.1 | Real-time steering of mesoscale forecast models using objective techniques
Steven R. Chiswell, UCAR/Unidata, Boulder, CO; and B. Domenico and J. Weber |
| 8:45 AM | 10.2 | Toward dynamic adaptivity: steering the WRF model on the Unidata LEAD test bed
Tom Baltzer, UCAR, Boulder, CO; and S. R. Chiswell, B. Domenico, and M. Ramamurthy |
| | 10.3 | The Centralized Atmospheric Analysis and Prediction System (CAAPS)
Thomas J. Neu, FNMOC, Monterey, CA; and C. D. Thormeyer and R. M. Clancy |
| 9:00 AM | 10.3A | Recent developments and trends in Network Access to Oceanographic In-situ Data
Nancy N. Soreide, NOAA/PMEL, Seattle, WA |
| 9:15 AM | 10.4 | Ontology-based Semantic Search Tool for Atmospheric Science
Rahul Ramachandran, Univ. of Alabama, Huntsville, AL; and S. Movva, S. Graves, and S. Tanner |
| 9:30 AM | 10.5 | PEA: Phenomena Extraction Algorithm
Rahul Ramachandran, Univ. of Alabama, Huntsville, AL; and X. Li, S. Graves, R. D. Clark, and D. Fitzgerald |
| 9:45 AM | 10.6 | Unidata's THREDDS data server
John Caron, UCAR, Boulder, CO; and E. R. Davis, Y. Ho, and R. P. Kambic |
| 10:00 AM | | Coffee Break in Meeting Room Foyer
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| 10:30 AM | 10.7 | The USGODAE Monterey data server
Phil Sharfstein, FNMOC, Monterey, CA; and D. Dimitriou and S. Hankin |
| 10:45 AM | 10.8 | Compression and Relay Management System in Gridded FX-Net, System Architecture and Use of Wavelet Compression
Jebb Q. Stewart, CIRA/Colorado State Univ., Ft. Collins, and NOAA/FSL, Boulder, CO; and E. Polster and N. Wang |
| 11:00 AM | 10.9 | Ensemble Broker Service Oriented Architecture for LEAD
Jay Alameda, National Center for Supercomputing Applications, Champaign, IL; and S. Hampton, B. F. Jewett, A. Rossi, and R. B. Wilhelmson |
| 11:15 AM | 10.10 | An architecture for the LEAD data repository
Doug Lindholm, UCAR, Boulder, CO; and A. Wilson and T. Baltzer |
| 11:30 AM | 10.11 | Data access and storage in the LEAD cyberinfrastructure
Anne Wilson, UCAR, Boulder, CO; and D. Lindholm and T. Baltzer |
| 11:45 AM | 10.12 | EarlyLEAD: A WRF ensemble demonstrating a data mining capability
Richard D. Clark, Millersville Univ., Millersville, PA; and D. Fitzgerald, T. Baltzer, E. Joseph, R. Ramachandran, and S. Chiao |
| 12:00 PM | 10.13 | 10.13: Data Management Support for Adaptive Analysis and Prediction of the Atmosphere in LEAD
Beth Plale, Indiana Univ., Bloomington, IN; and R. Ramachandran and S. Tanner |
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| 11:00 AM-7:30 PM, Wednesday
Exhibits Open (W) |
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| 12:00 PM-1:30 PM, Wednesday
Lunch Break (Cash & Carry available in the Exhibit Hall) (W) |
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| 1:30 PM-5:15 PM, Wednesday, A411
Session 11 Radar IIPS and Applications-Part II |
Cochairs: Robert E. Saffle, Mitretek Systems, Silver Spring, MD; Douglas E. Forsyth, NOAA/NSSL, Norman, OK; Timothy Crum, NOAA/NEXRAD Radar Operations Center, Norman, OK; Robert G. Borchers, SAIC, Melbourne, FL; Joel D. Martin, CAPS/Univ. of Oklahoma
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| 1:30 PM | 11.1 | Status 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 |
| 1:45 PM | 11.2 | The Radar Control Interface for the National Weather Radar Testbed
David Priegnitz, NOAA/NSSL and CIMMS/Univ. of Oklahoma, Norman, OK; and D. E. Forsyth |
| 2:00 PM | 11.3 | GIS Tools for Radar Siting and Analysis
Scott T. Shipley, Environmental Resource Technologies, Jessup, MD; and I. A. Graffman, R. E. Saffle, and J. Facundo |
| 2:15 PM | 11.4 | The Severe Weather Inventory (NSWI): spatial query tools, web services and data portals at NOAA's National Climatic Data Center
Steve Ansari, NOAA/NESDIS/NCDC, Asheville, NC; and S. A. Del Greco, H. Frederick, and B. R. Nelson |
| 2:30 PM | | Formal Poster Viewing with Coffee Break
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| 4:00 PM | | Paper 11.5 moved. New Poster number P2.15
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| 4:15 PM | 11.5A | Enhancements in Clutter/Precipitation Discrimination for the WSR-88D
S. M. Ellis, NCAR, Boulder, CO; and C. Kessinger, J. Van Andel, M. Dixon, and J. Hubbert |
| 4:30 PM | 11.6 | Potentials and limitations of Radarsat SAR in estimating Snow Water Equivalent (SWE) in the Great Lakes region of the United States
Amir E Azar, NOAA/CREST, New York, NY; and R. Khanbilvardi, H. Ghedira, P. Romanov, J. C. Carlos, and P. G. Zikalala |
| 4:45 PM | 11.7 | Solid State Fractional Phased Array Addition To NWRT
Sheldon Katz, Lockheed Martin Corporation, Moorestown, New Jersey; and D. Lafrance, H. Urkowitz, D. Staiman, M. Campbell, and D. Forsyth |
| 5:00 PM | 11.8 | Radar Receiver Correction of Polarization
Harry Urkowitz, Lockheed Martin Corporation, Moorestown, NJ |
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| 1:30 PM-5:00 PM, Wednesday, A412
Session 12 Applications of Weather and Climate Data |
Cochairs: Carl D. Thormeyer, FNMOC, Monterey, CA; Jim Cooper, Earth Satellite Corporation, Rockville, MD
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| 1:30 PM | 12.1 | A real-time system to estimate weather conditions at high-resolution
Peter P. Neilley, WSI, Corp, Andover, MA; and B. Rose |
| 1:45 PM | 12.2 | Verification of a Real-Time System to Estimate Weather Conditions at High Resolution in the United States
Joseph Koval, The Weather Channel, Atlanta, GA; and J. G. Estupiñán and J. Staudinger |
| 2:00 PM | 12.3 | Incorporating data-denial statistics into real-time quality control filtering of surface observations
Bruce Rose, The Weather Channel, Atlanta, GA; and N. McGillis, J. P. Koval, P. Neilley, and J. G. Estupiñán |
| 2:15 PM | 12.4 | Accessing NOAA daily temperature and precipitation extremes based on combined/threaded station records
Timothy W. Owen, NOAA/NESDIS/NCDC, Asheville, NC; and K. L. Eggleston, A. T. DeGaetano, and R. Leffler |
| 2:30 PM | | Formal Poster Viewing with Coffee Break
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| 4:00 PM | 12.5 | Real time data monitoring at NCEP
Krishna V. Kumar, QSS Group, Inc., NCEP Central Operations, Camp Springs, MD; and B. Ballish and J. Stoudt |
| 4:15 PM | 12.6 | Development of weather and climate decision support tools for agricultural applications
Mark Brooks, North Carolina State Univ., Raleigh, NC; and B. Shew, A. P. Sims, A. Baker, R. Boyles, and S. Raman |
| 4:30 PM | 12.7 | An Innovative Approach to Weather-Based Decision-Support for Agricultural Models
Rafal Jabrzemski, Univ. of Oklahoma, Norman, OK; and A. Sutherland |
| 4:45 PM | 12.8 | Disdrometer data use in analyzing blowing snow characteristics within the roadway environment
Benjamin Hershey, Univ. of North Dakota, Grand Forks, ND; and L. F. Osborne |
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| 2:30 PM-4:00 PM, Wednesday, Exhibit Hall A2
Poster Session 2 IIPS Poster Session II |
Cochairs: Stephen M. Holt, Mitretek Systems, Falls Church, VA; Scott T. Shipley, Raytheon Information Solutions, Upper Marlboro, MD
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| | P2.1 | A update on MADIS emphasizing observations added to support advances in transportation weather
Patricia A. Miller, NOAA/ERL/FSL, Boulder, CO; and M. F. Barth and L. A. Benjamin |
| | P2.2 | Preliminary evaluation of the GIFTS calibration algorithm using the GIPS
Robert O. Knuteson, CIMSS/Univ. of Wisconsin, Madison, WI; and R. Garcia, E. Olson, H. Revercomb, M. Smuga-Otto, and D. Tobin |
| | P2.3 | Improving the Efficiency of Neural Network Retrieval of Soil Moisture from Active Microwave Data
Tarendra Lakhankar, NOAA/CREST and The City Univ. of New York, New York, NY; and H. Ghedira and R. Khanbilvardi |
| | P2.4 | The Atmospheric Composition Data and Information Services Center (ACDISC)
Irina Gerasimov, NASA/GSFC, Greenbelt, MD; and S. Kempler, G. Leptoukh, S. P. Ahmad, and J. E. Johnson |
| | P2.5 | Use of Smart Tools in GFESuite to Forecast the North and Central Georgia Ice Storm of 28–30 January 2005
Steven E. Nelson, NOAA/NWSFO, Peachtree City, GA; and G. M. Beeley |
| | | Poster P2.6 moved. New paper number is 6.5A
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| | P2.7 | WSR-88D monitoring of shallow lake-effect snowstorms over and around Lake Ontario: Simulations of improvements using lower elevation angles
Rodger A. Brown, NOAA/NSSL, Norman, OK; and T. Niziol, N. Donaldson, P. Joe, and V. T. Wood |
| | P2.8 | The use of WSR-88D precipitation estimates for near real-time quality assurance of surface network rainfall observations
Kenneth L. Tapp, Univ. of Oklahoma, Norman, OK; and R. A. McPherson |
| | | Poster P2.9 moved. New Paper number 11.5A
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| | 9.3A | NEXRAD-ITR: Developing a framework for use of NEXRAD data in hydrology and hydrometeorology
Anton Kruger, The Univ. of Iowa, Iowa City, IA; and A. A. Bradley, W. F. Krajewski, R. E. Lawrence, J. A. Smith, M. L. Baeck, M. Steiner, M. Ramamurthy, J. Weber, S. A. Del Greco, F. M. V. Murthy, and D. Dhutia |
| | P2.11 | New Features of the VCPExplorer: Simulated Precipitation
Kevin L. Manross, CIMMS/Univ. of Oklahoma and NOAA/NSSL, Norman, OK; and J. LaDue |
| | P2.12 | Exploring Distributed Ocean Profile Datasets with Java OceanAtlas and Dapper
John R. Osborne, OceanAtlas Software and NOAA/PMEL, Seattle, WA; and J. Swift |
| | P2.13 | Dchart: A Remote Scripting Web Application for In-Situ OPeNDAP Data
Joe Sirott, Sirott and Associates, Seattle, WA |
| | P2.14 | Geostationary interferometer 24-hour simulated dataset for testing processing and calibration algorithms
Erik R. Olson, CIMSS/Univ. of Wisconsin, Madison, WI; and J. Otkin, R. Knuteson, M. Smuga-Otto, R. Garcia, W. Feltz, H. L. Huang, C. Velden, and L. Moy |
| | P2.15 | Using a low-order model to characterize tornadoes in multiple-Doppler radar data
Corey K. Potvin, Univ. of Oklahoma, Norman, OK; and A. M. Shapiro, T. Y. Yu, and M. Xue |
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| 3:45 PM, Wednesday
Sessions end for the day (W) |
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| 5:30 PM-7:30 PM, Wednesday
Reception in the Exhibit Hall (Cash Bar) |
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| 7:30 PM, Wednesday
AMS Annual Awards Banquet |
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| Thursday, 2 February 2006 |
| 8:30 AM-12:15 PM, Thursday, A411
Joint Session 5 Related to Global Environmental Observing Systems Including Global Climate Observing System (GCOS), Global Ocean Observing System (GOOS), and Global Terrestrial Observing System (GTOS) (Joint between the 22nd Conference on IIPS, and the 10th Symposium on Integrated Observing and Assimilation Systems for the Atmosphere, Oceans, and Land Surface (IOAS-AOLS)) |
Cochairs: Howard J. Diamond, NOAA/NESDIS/NCDC, Silver Spring, MD; John R. Lincoln, US Navy/WMO (Ret.) and Consultant, Berryville, VA; A. E. MacDonald, NOAA/ERL/FSL, Boulder, CO; Thomas W. Schlatter, NOAA/ORL/FSL, Boulder, CO
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| 8:30 AM | J5.1 | Global Climate Observing System Implementation: Progress and Challenges
David M. Goodrich, Global Climate Observing System Secretariat, Geneva, Switzerland |
| 8:45 AM | J5.2 | Taking forward the “GCOS Implementation Plan for the Global Observing Systems for Climate in support of the UNFCCC” a component of the GEOSS
Paul Mason, University of Reading, Reading, Berks., United Kingdom |
| 9:00 AM | J5.3 | Improving the GCOS Surface and Upper Air Networks
Richard K. Thigpen, GCOS Secretariat, Silver Spring, MD; and H. Diamond |
| 9:15 AM | J5.4 | Pacific Island Meteorological Service Offices Web Site Development: a Model for Cost Efficient Implementation and Sustainability—the Case of Papua New Guinea
Christina Lief, Univ. of Delaware, Lewes, DE; and H. J. Diamond and K. Luana |
| 9:30 AM | J5.5 | Update on the US Global Climate Observing System (GCOS) program
Howard J. Diamond, NOAA/NESDIS/NCDC, Silver Spring, MD; and R. S. Vose |
| 9:45 AM | | Formal Poster Viewing with Coffee break (See Wed. schedule for poster listings)
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| 11:00 AM | J5.6 | NOAA's contributions to the global ocean observing system for climate
Diane M. Stanitski, Shippensburg University, Shippensburg, PA; and M. Johnson |
| 11:15 AM | J5.7 | Real-time oil platform ocean current data in the Gulf of Mexico: An IOOS industry partnership success story
Richard L. Crout, National Data Buoy Center, Stennis Space Center, MS; and D. Conlee, D. Gilhousen, R. Bouchard, M. Livingston, M. Garcia, C. Cooper, and R. Raye |
| 11:30 AM | J5.8 | The Georgia Mesonet: Concepts and Systems to Demonstrate a New Cooperative Climate Network
Lans P. Rothfusz, NOAA/NWS, Peachtree City, GA; and K. Crawford, G. Hoogenboom, D. E. Stooksbury, and P. N. Knox |
| 11:45 AM | J5.9 | COOP Modernization: NOAA's Environmental Real-time Observation Network in New England, the Southeast, and Addressing NIDIS in the West
Kenneth C. Crawford, Office of Science and Technology, National Weather Service Headquarters, Silver Spring, MD; and G. R. Essenberg |
| 12:00 PM | J5.10 | Extreme Data Collection—The Arizona Experience
Anton F. Haffer, NOAA/NWSFO, Phoenix, AZ |
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| 8:30 AM-12:15 PM, Thursday, A412
Session 13 Advances and Applications in Transportation Weather |
Cochairs: S. Edward Boselly, Weather Solutions Group, Olympia, WA; David Pace, FAA, Washington, DC; Paul A. Pisano, Federal Highway Administration, Washington, DC
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| 8:30 AM | 13.1 | Improving surface transportation safety and effectiveness through modern weather technologies and information: An integrated approach to meet user needs
Samuel P. Williamson, NOAA/OFCM, Silver Spring, MD; and F. L. Estis |
| 8:45 AM | 13.2 | The design of a quality control algorithm for environmental sensor stations
Bonnie J. Haskins, Univ. of North Dakota, Grand Forks, ND |
| 9:00 AM | 13.3 | An initial evaluation of the performance of the Pavement Precipitation Accumulation Estimation System (PPAES)
Mark Askelson, Univ. of North Dakota, Grand Forks, ND |
| 9:15 AM | 13.4 | FHWA's Clarus Initiative: Concept of Operations and Associated Research
Paul A. Pisano, Federal Highway Administration, Washington, DC; and J. S. Pol, L. C. Goodwin, and A. D. Stern |
| 9:30 AM | 13.5 | Ensemble member forecast spread and its implication for road weather forecasting
Jamie K. Wolff, NCAR, Boulder, CO; and S. Linden and W. P. Mahoney |
| 9:45 AM | | Lunch Break (Cash & Carry available in the Exhibit Hall)
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| 11:00 AM | 13.6 | Automated weather forecasting and treatment recommendations to support winter maintenance operations
Robert G. Hallowell, MIT Lincoln Lab., Lexington, MA; and P. A. Pisano |
| | 13.7 | Early validation of the UND/STWRC ensemble modeling system
Jeffrey S. Tilley, Univ. of North Dakota, Grand Forks, ND; and R. L. Freeman, J. Hanson, and L. F. Osborne |
| 11:15 AM | 13.8 | A blowing and drifting snow algorithm supporting winter road maintenance decision making
Leon F. Osborne Jr., Univ. of North Dakota, Grand Forks, ND |
| 11:30 AM | 13.9 | Implementation of RWIS in New Hampshire
Brendon Hoch, Plymouth State Univ., Plymouth, NH; and J. P. Koermer, W. L. Real, and S. W. Gray |
| 11:45 AM | 13.10 | Spring Load Restriction Modeling
Jennifer L. Hanson, Surface Transportation Weather Research Center, Grand Forks, ND |
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| 11:00 AM-4:00 PM, Thursday
Exhibits Open (Th) |
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| 1:30 PM-2:45 PM, Thursday, A412
Session 14 Satellite IIPS and Applications |
Cochairs: Gerald Dittberner, NOAA/NESDIS, Silver Spring, MD; Thomas M. Whittaker, SSEC/CIMSS/Univ. of Wisconsin, Madison, WI
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| 1:30 PM | 14.1 | NOAA Observation Requirements Process—Foundation of the NOAA Observing Systems Architecture (Formerly Paper 14.3)
Pamela M. Taylor, NOAA/NESDIS, Silver Spring, MD; and T. C. Adang, L. O'Connor, and K. F. Carey |
| 1:45 PM | 14.2 | NOAA FY08 Observing Systems Investment Analysis
Eric J. Miller, NOAA/NESDIS, Silver Spring, MD; and T. C. Adang, R. C. Reining, P. Salamone, and L. E. Key |
| 2:00 PM | 14.3 | The NOAA Long-Term Requirements Process In Support of the US Commercial Remote Sensing Space Policy (Formerly Paper 14.1)
John Pereira, NOAA/NESDIS, Silver Spring, MD; and K. Carey and C. Killion |
| 2:15 PM | 14.4 | Improved Algorithms for Combining Satellite Imagery and Geographic Basemaps
Richard A. Kohrs, SSEC/Univ. Wisconsin, Madison, WI |
| 2:30 PM | | Paper 14.5 has been moved. New Poster number is P2.14
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| | 14.6 | A Genetic Algorithm (GA) tool for automated tuning of an operational cloud detection algorithm
Phillip Johnson, Northrop Grumman Corporation, Bellevue, NE; and R. S. Penc and J. Smith |
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| 3:00 PM, Thursday
Registration Desk Closes |
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| 3:00 PM-3:30 PM, Thursday
Coffee Break in the Exhibit Hall and AMS IPOD Raffle (Th2) |
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| 4:00 PM, Thursday
Exhibit Close |
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| 5:30 PM, Thursday
Conference Ends |
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| 6:00 PM, Thursday
Lilly Symposium Banquet |
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