| 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, A307
Session 1 The Utility of Lightning Data in the Operational Warning and Decision Making Process |
Organizer: Stephen J. Hodanish, NOAA/NWSFO, Pueblo, CO
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| 9:00 AM | 1.1 | A Survey of the Lightning Launch Commit Criteria  
William P. Roeder, 45th Weather Squadron, Patrick AFB, FL; and T. M. McNamara |
| 9:30 AM | 1.2 | The Johnson Space Center lightning watch and warning program
Timothy D. Oram, NOAA/NWS, Houston, TX; and R. Lafosse and B. Hoeth |
| 9:45 AM | 1.3 | Using cloud-to-ground lightning climatologies to initialize gridded lightning threat forecasts for East Central Florida
Winifred C. Lambert, ENSCO, Inc., Cocoa Beach, FL; and D. W. Sharp, S. M. Spratt, and M. Volkmer |
| 10:00 AM | 1.4 | Toward better use of lightning data in operational forecasting
Alan M. Cope, NOAA/NWS, Westampton, NJ |
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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-12:00 PM, Monday, A307
Session 2 Utility of lightning information for safety and protection-related issues |
Organizer: Martin J. Murphy, Vaisala, Tucson, AZ
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| 10:45 AM | 2.1 | Lightning protection: History and modern approaches
Vladimir A. Rakov, Univ. of Florida, Gainesville, FL |
| 11:15 AM | 2.2 | Warnings of cloud-to-ground lightning hazard based on total lightning and radar information
Martin J. Murphy, Vaisala, Tucson, AZ; and R. L. Holle |
| 11:30 AM | 2.3 | Monthly lightning trends over Florida 1989-2004
Jessica L. Fieux, Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL; and G. T. Stano, C. H. Paxton, and J. P. DiMarco |
| 11:45 AM | 2.4 | The potential of high performance, regional total lightning networks and enhanced display products for public safety and broadcast meteorology applications
Nicholas W. S. Demetriades, Vaisala, Inc., Tucson, AZ; and J. Y. Lojou |
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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-2:30 PM, Monday, A311
Joint Session 1 Advances in Understanding of Lightning and Potential Economic and Societal Benefits (Joint with Second Conference on Meteorological Applications of Lightning Data and Forum on Environmental Risks and Impacts on Society: Successes and Challenges) |
Organizers: Walter A. Petersen, Univ. of Alabama, Huntsville, AL; Gregory S. Forbes, The Weather Channel, Atlanta, GA
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| 2:30 PM-4:00 PM, Monday
Formal Poster Viewing with Coffee Break (M2) |
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| 2:30 PM-4:00 PM, Monday, Exhibit Hall A2
Poster Session 1 Advances in Technology and Operational Utility of Lightning Data |
Organizer: Vladimir A. Rakov, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL
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| | P1.1 | Total Lightning in the Warning Decision Making Process—Two Years of Case Studies
Christopher B. Darden, NOAA/NWS, Huntsville, AL; and P. Gatlin, J. Burks, S. Goodman, D. E. Buechler, and J. M. Hall |
| | P1.2 | A statistical procedure to forecast warm season lightning over portions of the Florida peninsula
Phillip E. Shafer, Florida State Univ., Tallahassee, FL; and H. Fuelberg |
| | P1.3 | Using lightning and total lightning data for a MOS (Model Output Statistics) based thunderstorm nowcasting
Susanne Keyn, Univ. of Hannover, Hannover, Germany; and T. Hauf |
| | P1.4 | Total Lightning Signatures in Tennessee Valley Thunderstorms
P. N. Gatlin, Short-term Prediction Research and Transition Center, Huntsville, AL; and S. Goodman |
| | P1.5 | Developments in the nowcasting total lightning flash rates using GOES satellite infrared convective cloud information
John R. Mecikalski, Univ. of Alabama, Huntsville, AL; and S. J. Paech and K. Bedka |
| | P1.6 | Improving Real-Time Precipitation Estimation over the Mountainous Regions of the Western United States, using Multi-Sources Remotely Sensed and Lightning Data
Ali S. Amirrezvani, NOAA/CRSSTC, New York, NY; and D. S. Mahani and D. R. Khanbilvardi |
| | P1.7 | Combined observations of total lightning activity, cloud microphysics and kinematics as observed by the UAH/NSSTC ARMOR dual-polarimetric radar and TRMM
Walter A. Petersen, Univ. of Alabama, Huntsville, AL; and W. Deierling, D. J. Boccippio, R. J. Blakeslee, K. R. Knupp, and J. Walters |
| | P1.8 | Observed relationships among Narrow Bipolar Events, total lightning and convective strength in Summer 2005 Great Plains thunderstorms
Kyle C. Wiens, LANL, Los Alamos, NM; and D. M. Suszcynsky |
| | P1.9 | Narrow bipolar events, strong VHF pulses and the detection of severe weather from GPS orbit
David Michael Suszcynsky, LANL, Los Alamos, NM; and K. Wiens |
| | P1.10 | Lightning observations with Los Alamos sferic arrays (LASA) in Florida and the Great Plains
Xuan-Min Shao, LANL, Los Alamos, New Mexico; and M. A. Stanley, J. Harlin, A. Regan, M. Pongratz, M. Stock, T. Hamlin, and K. Wiens |
| | P1.11 | Cloud-to-ground lightning downwind of the 2002 Hayman forest fire in Colorado
Timothy J. Lang, Colorado State Univ., Fort Collins, CO; and S. A. Rutledge |
| | P1.12 | Numerical simulations of the evolution of tropical cyclone electrification, lightning, microphysics, and dynamics at landfall: preliminary results
Alexandre Fierro, Univ. of Oklahoma, Norman, OK; and L. Leslie, E. R. Mansell, G. J. Holland, and J. M. Straka |
| | P1.13 | Correlating Cloud-to-Ground and Intra-Cloud Lightning to DSD Parameters
J. L. Lapp, Clemson Univ, Clemson, SC; and J. R. Saylor, C. W. Ulbrich, T. E. Lavezzi-Light, J. D. Harlin, and X. Shao |
| | P1.14 | Lightning: Meteorology's New Tool
Nicole Kufa, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical Univ., Daytona Beach, FL; and R. K. Snow |
| | P1.15 | A GIS-based approach to lightning studies for west Texas and New Mexico
Geoffrey A. Wagner, Florida State Univ., Tallahassee, FL; and H. E. Fuelberg, D. Kann, R. Wynne, and S. Cobb |
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| 4:00 PM-5:45 PM, Monday, A307
Session 3 Observational Fusion of Lightning Data in the Earth and Atmospheric Sciences I |
Organizer: Lawrence D. Carey, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas
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| 4:00 PM | 3.1 | Thunderstorm electrical structures observed by lightning mapping arrays
Kyle C. Wiens, LANL, Los Alamos, NM |
| 4:30 PM | 3.2 | Progress and challenges in thunderstorm electrification modeling
Edward R. Mansell, CIMMS/Univ. of Oklahoma, Norman, OK |
| 5:00 PM | 3.3 | Lightning and Radar Observations of the 29 May 2004 Tornadic HP Supercell during TELEX
Kristin M. Kuhlman, Univ. of Oklahoma, Norman, OK; and D. R. MacGorman, M. I. Biggerstaff, W. D. Rust, T. J. Schuur, C. L. Ziegler, and P. Krehbiel |
| 5:15 PM | 3.4 | Observations of two positive cloud-to-ground storms observed during STEPS
Sarah A. Tessendorf, Colorado State Univ., Fort Collins, CO; and S. A. Rutledge |
| 5:30 PM | 3.5 | Applications of long-range lightning data to hurricane formation and intensification
John Molinari, Univ. at Albany/SUNY, Albany, NY; and N. W. Demetriades, R. L. Holle, and D. Vollaro |
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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-9:45 AM, Tuesday, A307
Session 4 Assimilation of lightning data into forecast models |
Organizer: Timothy J. Lang, Colorado State Univ., Fort Collins, CO
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| 8:30 AM | 4.1 | Forecasting lightning probability beyond nowcasting using NWP model output
William R. Burrows, MSC, Edmonton, AB, Canada |
| 9:00 AM | 4.2 | A Lightning Data Assimilation Technique for Mesoscale Forecast Models
Edward R. Mansell, CIMMS/Univ. of Oklahoma, Norman, OK; and C. L. Ziegler and D. R. MacGorman |
| 9:15 AM | 4.3 | Assimilation of lightning data into RUC model convection forecasting
Stan Benjamin, NOAA/ERL/FSL, Boulder, CO; and S. Weygandt, S. Koch, and J. M. Brown |
| 9:30 AM | 4.4 | The performance analysis of total lightning in NCAR's Auto-Nowcaster
Nicholas L. Wilson, Univ. of Oklahoma, Norman, OK; and D. W. Breed, C. K. Mueller, T. R. Saxen, and N. W. S. Demetriades |
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| 9:45 AM-11:00 AM, Tuesday
Formal Poster Viewing with Coffee Break (T1) |
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| 9:45 AM-11:00 AM, Tuesday, Exhibit Hall A2
Poster Session 2 Observational fusion and application of lightning data in the earth and Atmospheric Sciences |
Organizer: Michael L. Gauthier, Univ. of Alabama, Huntsville, AL
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| | P2.1 | Total lightning characteristics of storms: supercells and cells within mesoscale convective systems
Scott M. Steiger, SUNY, Oswego, NY; and R. E. Orville, L. D. Carey, N. W. Demetriades, M. J. Murphy, and B. Ely |
| | P2.2 | Relationship of Narrow Bipolar Events to Microwave Ice-Scattering Convective-Storm Signatures
Abram R. Jacobson, Univ. of Washington, Seattle, WA |
| | P2.3 | Houston LDAR network performance, data usage, and first results
Brandon Ely, Texas A&M Univ., College Station, Texas; and R. E. Orville and L. D. Carey |
| | P2.4 | Role of lightning data in understanding Terrestrial Gamma-Ray Flashes (TGFs)
David M. Smith, Univ. of California, Santa Cruz, CA |
| | P2.5 | TECHNOLOGY OVERVIEW AND VALIDATED PERFORMANCE OF ALPS™ TECHNOLOGY WITHIN THE UNITED STATES PRECISION LIGHTNING NETWORK
Rodney B. Bent, TOA Systems, Inc., Melbourne, FL; and M. D. Eilts |
| | P2.6 | Analyses of the peak current polarity from the long range VLF network – ZEUS
Carlos Augusto Morales, Univ. of Sao Paulo, Sao Paulo, Brazil; and E. Anagnostou and E. R. Williams |
| | P2.7 | Applications of an electrified one-dimensional cloud model
Rachel Albrecht, Univ. of Sao Paulo, Sao Paulo, Brazil; and C. Morales, M. A. Silva Dias, and W. A. Petersen |
| | P2.8 | Total lightning frequency in relation to ice masses and ice mass flux estimates
Wiebke Deierling, Univ. of Alabama, Huntsville, AL; and W. A. Petersen, J. Latham, S. M. Ellis, H. Christian, and J. T. Walters |
| | P2.9 | Total Lightning Characteristics and Inferred Charge Structure of Ordinary Convection
Shane Motley, Texas A&M Univ., College Station, TX; and L. D. Carey and M. J. Murphy |
| | P2.10 | Warm season Gulf Stream Lightning: Convective Structure and Forcing
Walter A. Petersen, Univ. of Alabama, Huntsville, AL; and S. A. Rutledge and T. Lang |
| | P2.11 | Large current lightning flashes in Canada
B. Kochtubajda, MSC, Edmonton, AB, Canada; and W. R. Burrows and B. E. Power |
| | P2.12 | Intra-Cloud and Cloud to Ground Lightning Detected Within Hurricanes Dennis and Emily by the United States Precision Lightning Network
Charles A. Barrere Jr., Weather Decision Technologies, Inc., Norman, OK; and M. D. Eilts, J. W. Conway, W. Geitz, and R. B. Bent |
| | P2.13 | Electric field and lightning observations in the core of category 4 Hurricane Emily
Richard J. Blakeslee, NASA/MSFC, Huntsville, AL; and D. Mach, M. Bateman, and J. Bailey |
| | P2.14 | Electric field and microphysics of hurricanes
Monte Bateman, Universities Space Research Association and NASA/MSFC, Huntsville, AL; and R. J. Blakeslee, D. Mach, and J. Bailey |
| | P2.15 | Long range lightning nowcasting applications for tropical cyclones
Nicholas W. S. Demetriades, Vaisala, Inc., Tucson, AZ; and R. L. Holle |
| | P2.16 | Real-time data monitoring and payload control for atmospheric research
Douglas Mach, Univ. of Alabama, Huntsville, AL; and R. Blakeslee, M. Bateman, J. Bailey, J. M. Hall, L. Freudinger, S. Yarbough, and C. Sorensen |
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| 11:00 AM-6:00 PM, Tuesday
Exhbits Open (T) |
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| 11:00 AM-12:15 PM, Tuesday, A307
Joint Session 2 Use of Lightning Data in Aviation Operations (Joint with Second Conference on Meteorological Applications of Lightning Data and 12th Conference on Avaition, Range and Aerospace Meteorology) |
Chairs: Martin J. Murphy, Vaisala, Tucson, AZ; Mark E. Weber, MIT, Lexington, MA
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| 11:00 AM | J2.1 | Total lightning activity as diagnostic for severe weather
Earle Williams, MIT, Lexington, MA |
| 11:15 AM | J2.2 | Utility of Total Lightning Data in the NCAR Thunderstorm Nowcast System
Cynthia Mueller, NCAR, Boulder, CO; and D. Breed, T. Saxen, and N. L. Wilson |
| 11:30 AM | J2.3 | Geostationary Lightning Mapper (GLM)
Hugh J. Christian Jr., NASA/MSFC, Huntsville, AL |
| 11:45 AM | J2.4 | VHF lightning detection and storm tracking from GPS orbit
David Michael Suszcynsky, LANL, Los Alamos, NM; and K. C. Wiens and A. Jacobson |
| 12:00 PM | J2.5 | Overview of capabilities and performance of the U.S. National Lightning Detection Network
Martin J. Murphy, Vaisala, Tucson, AZ; and N. W. S. Demetriades, R. L. Holle, and K. L. Cummins |
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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-3:00 PM, Tuesday, A307
Session 5 Observational Fusion of Lightning Data in the Earth and Atmospheric Sciences II |
Organizer: Richard J. Blakeslee, NASA/MSFC, Huntsville, AL
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| 1:45 PM | 5.1 | Improving lightning NOx parameterizations for global chemical transport models
Kenneth E. Pickering, Univ. of Maryland, College Park, MD; and L. Ott, D. Allen, A. DeCaria, G. Stenchikov, and W. K. Tao |
| 2:15 PM | 5.2 | Investigating Possible Causative Mechanisms behind the Houston Cloud-to-Ground Lightning Anomaly
Michael L. Gauthier, Univ. of Alabama, Huntsville, AL; and W. A. Petersen |
| 2:30 PM | 5.3 | Global distributions of thunderstorms based on 7+ years of TRMM
Daniel J. Cecil, Univ. of Alabama, Huntsville, AL |
| 2:45 PM | 5.4 | Characteristics of sprite-producing electrical storms in the STEPS 2000 domain
Walter A. Lyons, FMA Research, Inc., Fort Collins, CO; and L. Anderson, T. E. Nelson, and G. R. Huffines |
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| 3:00 PM-3:30 PM, Tuesday
Coffee Break in Exhibit Hall (T2) |
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| 3:30 PM-5:30 PM, Tuesday, A307
Session 6 Advances in lightning technology and transfer of that technology from research to operations |
Organizer: Christopher B. Darden, NOAA/NWS, Huntsville, AL
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| 3:30 PM | 6.1 | The U.S. National Lightning Detection Network: Post-upgrade status
Kenneth L. Cummins, Vaisala, Inc., Tucson, AZ; and J. A. Cramer, C. Biagi, E. P. Krider, J. Jerauld, M. A. Uman, and V. A. Rakov |
| 4:00 PM | 6.2 | A review of lightning phenomenology in thunderstorms
P.R. Krehbiel, New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology, Socorro, NM; and W. Rison, R. J. Thomas, D. R. MacGorman, W. D. Rust, T. Marshall, and M. Stolzenburg |
| 4:15 PM | 6.3 | Real time processing and display of lightning mapping data
W. Rison, New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology, Socorro, NM; and P. R. Krehbiel, S. J. Goodman, and D. R. MacGorman |
| 4:30 PM | 6.4 | Improved timeliness of thunderstorm detection from mapping a larger fraction of lightning flashes
D. R. MacGorman, NOAA/NSSL, Norman, OK; and I. Apostolakopoulos, A. Nierow, J. Cramer, N. W. Demetriades, P. R. Krehbiel, and W. Rison |
| 4:45 PM | 6.5 | Three dimensional lightning mapping of the central Oklahoma supercell on 26 May 2004
Elise V. Johnson, Iowa State Univ., Ames, IA; and E. R. Mansell |
| 5:00 PM | 6.6 | Thunderstorm Visualization in 3-D
Gary R. Huffines, Univ. of Northern Colorado, Greeley, CO |
| 5:15 PM | 6.7 | Using LDAR II total lightning data in an operational setting: Experiences at WFO Fort Worth TX
Nicholas W. S. Demetriades, Vaisala, Inc., Tucson, AZ; and G. R. Patrick |
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| 5:30 PM, Tuesday
Sessions end for the day (T) |
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| Wednesday, 1 February 2006 |
| 11:00 AM-7:30 PM, Wednesday
Exhibits Open (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 |
| 11:00 AM-4:00 PM, Thursday
Exhibits Open (Th) |
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| 3:00 PM, Thursday
Registration Desk Closes |
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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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