| 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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| 10:15 AM-10:45 AM, Monday
Coffee Break in Meeting Room Foyer (M1) |
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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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| 2:30 PM-4:00 PM, Monday
Formal Poster Viewing with Coffee Break (M2) |
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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 |
| 9:45 AM-11:00 AM, Tuesday
Formal Poster Viewing with Coffee Break (T1) |
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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-3:00 PM, Tuesday, A410
Session 1 Historical Perspectives on Understanding and Forecasting Severe Convective Storms |
Organizer: William A. Gallus, Jr., Iowa State University, Ames, IA
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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, A410
Session 2 Current Understanding of Supercell Tornadoes and Future Research Directions |
Organizer: Yvette Richardson, Penn State University, University Park, PA
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| 3:30 PM | 2.1 | What we've learned from storm intercepts (or, A brief history of TIME—Tornado Intercepts using Mobile Equipment)
Howard B. Bluestein, Univ. of Oklahoma, Norman, OK |
| 4:00 PM | 2.2 | Tornadogenesis in supercell storms—what we know and what we don't know  
Robert Davies-Jones, NOAA/NSSL, Norman, OK |
| 4:30 PM | 2.3 | Future directions in tornado observational research
Joshua Wurman, Center for Severe Weather Research, Boulder, CO; and E. N. Rasmussen |
| 5:00 PM | | Discussion
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| 5:30 PM, Tuesday
Sessions end for the day (T) |
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| Wednesday, 1 February 2006 |
| 8:30 AM-9:30 AM, Wednesday, A410
Joint Session 4 Joint Session: Past and Future Climatology of Severe Convective Storms (Joint between the 18th Conference on Climate Variability and Change, the AMS Forum on Environmental Risks and Impacts on Society: Success and Challenges, and the Severe Local Storms Special Symposium) |
Chair: Paul M. Markowski, Penn State Univ., University Park, PA
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| 9:30 AM, Wednesday, A410
Joint Panel Discussion 1 What Might Climate Change Mean for the Future Distribution and Frequency of Severe Convective Storms? (Joint between the 18th Conference on Climate Variability and Change, the AMS Forum on Environmental Risks and Impacts on Society: Success and Challenges, and the Severe Local Storms Special Symposium) |
Panelists: Pasha Groisman, NCDC, Asheville, NC; Thomas R. Karl, NOAA/NCDC, Asheville, NC; Harold E. Brooks, NOAA/NSSL, Norman, OK; Robert J. Trapp, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN
Moderator: Paul Markowski, Penn State University, University Park, PA
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| 10:00 AM-10:30 AM, Wednesday
Coffee Break in Meeting Room Foyer (W1) |
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| 10:30 AM-12:00 PM, Wednesday, A410
Session 3 The Dynamics, Prediction, and Detection of Severe Convective Windstorms, Nonsupercell tornadoes, and Hailstorms |
Organizer: Matthew D. Parker, North Carolina State Univ., Raleigh, NC
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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-4:30 PM, Wednesday, A410
Joint Panel Discussion 2 The Production and Communication of Severe Weather Warnings to the Public (Joint between the Special Symposium on Severe Local Storms and the AMS Forum on Environmental Risks and Impacts on Society: Success and Challenges) |
Panelists: Dennis McCarthy, NOAA, Silver Spring, MD; Michael Smith, Weather Data, Inc., Wichita, KS; Charles A. Doswell, III, CIMMS/Univ. of Oklahoma, Norman, OK; David J. Stensrud, NOAA/NSSL, Norman, OK; Michael A. Magsig, CIMMS/Univ. of Oklahoma and NOAA/NWS, Norman, OK; Eve Gruntfest, NCAR, Boulder, CO
Moderator: Erik N. Rasmussen, CIMMS/Univ. of Oklahoma, Norman, OK
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| 1:30 PM | JPD2.1 | The Production and Communication of Severe Weather Warnings to the Public
Charles A. Doswell III, CIMMS/Univ. of Oklahoma, Norman, OK |
| 2:30 PM | JPD2.2 | What is the Private Sector's role in the warning process
Michael R. Smith, WeatherData, Inc., Wichita, KS |
| 3:30 PM | JPD2.3 | Panel Discussion: Gruntfest
Eve Gruntfest, University of Colorado, Colorado Springs, CO |
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| 2:30 PM-4:00 PM, Wednesday
Formal Poster Viewing with Coffee Break (W2) |
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| 2:30 PM-4:00 PM, Wednesday, Exhibit Hall A2
Poster Session 1 The Observation, Modeling, Theory, and Prediction of Severe Convective Storms and Their Attendant Hazards |
| | P1.1 | Verification of multi-sensor, multi-radar hail diagnosis techniques
Kiel L. Ortega, University of Oklahoma/CIMMS and NOAA/NSSL, Norman, OK; and T. M. Smith and G. J. Stumpf |
| | P1.2 | Storm Scale Forecasts and Observations of a North Alabama Hailstorm on December 10, 2004
Steven J. Goodman, NASA/MSFC, Huntsville, AL; and W. Lapenta, K. La Casse, E. W. McCaul, and W. A. Petersen |
| | P1.3 | Optimal sampling strategies for hazardous weather detection using networks of dynamically adaptive Doppler radars
Jessica L. Proud, Center for Analysis and Prediction of Storms and Univ. of Oklahoma, Norman, OK; and K. K. Droegemeier, V. T. Wood, R. A. Brown, and L. White |
| | P1.4 | A quantitative analysis of the enhanced-V signature in relation to severe weather
Jason Brunner, CIMSS/Univ. of Wisconsin, Madison, WI; and S. A. Ackerman, A. S. Bachmeier, and R. M. Rabin |
| | P1.5 | The Infrasound Network (ISNet):as a 88D Adjunct Tornado Detection Tool: A Perspective After Operations Since the Spring of 2003
Alfred J. Bedard Jr., ETL, Boulder, CO |
| | P1.6 | Utilizing Experimental Graphical Severe Weather Warning Probabilities to Supplement the Hazardous Weather Outlook
J. Brad McGavock, NOAA/NWSFO, Tulsa, OK; and G. N. Mathews and J. M. Frederick |
| | P1.7 | Tornado Warnings, Lead Times and Tornado Casualties: An Empirical Investigation
Daniel Sutter, CIMMS/Univ. of Oklahoma, Norman, OK; and K. M. Simmons |
| | P1.8 | The first workshop on severe weather technology for NWS warning decision making
M.A. Magsig, CIMMS/Univ. of Oklahoma/NWS/WDTB, Norman, OK; and G. J. Stumpf |
| | P1.9 | Interactive Mesoscale Analysis Utilized in Assisting Local Decision Makers: A Review of the 24 March 2005 Supercell
J. Brad McGavock, NOAA/NWSFO, Tulsa, OK; and R. B. Darby and S. F. Piltz |
| | P1.10 | A case study of convective initiation along a retrograding dryline
Robert E. Barbre Jr., University of Alabama, Huntsville, AL; and J. R. Mecikalski and K. R. Knupp |
| | P1.11 | Ridge rollers: mesoscale disturbances on the periphery of cutoff anticyclones
Thomas J. Galarneau Jr., SUNY, Albany, NY; and L. Bosart |
| | P1.12 | Meteorological aspects of high-impact tornado outbreaks
Gregory S. Forbes, The Weather Channel, Atlanta, GA |
| | P1.13 | Ground-based remotely sensed high temporal-resolution stability indices associated with southern Great Plains tornado outbreaks
Timothy J. Wagner, CIMSS/Univ. of Wisconsin, Madison, WI; and W. F. Feltz, R. A. Petersen, and S. A. Ackerman |
| | P1.14 | Elevated convection and tropospheric inertial instability: A connection?
John A. Knox, University of Georgia, Athens, GA; and D. M. Schultz |
| | P1.15 | Discriminating Among Non Severe, Severe, and Derecho-Producing Mesoscale Convective System Environments
Ariel E. Cohen, Ohio State Univ., Columbus, OH; and M. C. Coniglio, S. F. Corfidi, and S. J. Corfidi |
| | P1.16 | Adiabatic lapse rates in tornadic environments
Matthew D. Parker, North Carolina State Univ., Raleigh, NC |
| | P1.17 | A numerical investigation of the synoptic environment associated with tornadic and nontornadic severe weather outbreaks
Hamish A. Ramsay, University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK; and C. A. Doswell and L. M. Leslie |
| | P1.18 | The need for an improved documentation of severe thunderstorms and tornadoes in South America
Ernani L. Nascimento, Instituto Tecnológico SIMEPAR, Curitiba, PR, Brazil; and C. A. Doswell |
| | P1.19 | Reconstructing the frequency of tornado occurrence in the central United States
Matthew J. Menne, NOAA/NESDIS/NCDC, Asheville, NC |
| | P1.20 | Simulations of exteme convective storms in future climates: proof-of-concept tests with a retrospective event
Brooke A. Halvorson, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN; and R. J. Trapp and N. S. Diffenbaugh |
| | P1.21 | A Twelve Year Climatological Analysis of Severe Local Storms Observed by the Oklahoma Mesonet
James E. Hocker, Oklahoma Climatological Survey, University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK; and J. B. Basara |
| | P1.22 | A five-year climatology of elevated severe convective storms in the United States east of the Rocky Mountains
Katherine L. Horgan, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC, Raleigh, NC; and D. M. Schultz, R. H. Johns, S. F. Corfidi, and J. E. Hales |
| | P1.23 | Why the swirl ratio is a useless parameter
David S. Nolan, Univ. of Miami/RSMAS, Miami, FL |
| | P1.24 | Tornado strength and the influence of dissipative heating
Jerry M. Straka, Univ. of Oklahoma, Norman, OK; and P. Markowski |
| | P1.25 | Comparison of numerical model and laboratory simulator tornado wind fields with radar observations of the Spencer, South Dakota tornado
William A. Gallus Jr., Iowa State University, Ames, IA; and F. L. Haan, P. Sarkar, K. Le, and J. Wurman |
| | P1.26 | Analysis of a hook echo and rear flank downdraft from a simulated supercell on 8 May 2003
Lewis Grasso, Cooperative Institute for Research in the Atmosphere, Fort Collins, CO; and D. T. Lindsey |
| | P1.27 | Development of Double Moment Scheme in Very High Resolution WRF Model and Evaluate the Existing Microphysics Process and New Scheme for High-Impact Weather System
Ju-Hye Kim, Yonsei Univ., Seoul, South Korea; and S. Y. Hong |
| | P1.28 | Challenges in comparing realistic, high-resolution spatial fields from convective-scale grids
Michael E. Baldwin, CIMMS/Univ. of Oklahoma and NOAA/NSSL, Norman, OK; and K. L. Elmore, D. C. Dowell, T. Fujita, L. J. Wicker, and D. J. Stensrud |
| | P1.29 | What is a bow echo?
George H. Bryan, NCAR, Boulder, CO; and J. C. Knievel |
| | P1.30 | Forecasting the speed and longevity of severe mesoscale convective systems
Michael C. Coniglio, NOAA/NSSL, Norman, OK; and S. F. Corfidi |
| | P1.31 | An examination of three Derecho events during the first week of July 2003 concurrent with BAMEX
Nicholas D. Metz, Univ. at Albany/SUNY, Albany, NY; and L. Bosart |
| | P1.32 | An examination of the long-lived MCV of 10-13 June 2003
Thomas J. Galarneau Jr., SUNY, Albany, NY; and L. Bosart |
| | P1.33 | An examination of flash flooding in the Binghamton, NY county warning area
Stephen M. Jessup, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY |
| | P1.34 | An analysis of severe hail swaths in the Southern Plains of the United States
Daniel R. Cheresnick, Oklahoma Climatological Survey and University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK; and J. Basara and E. D. Mitchell |
| | P1.35 | Meso-scale pressure dips accompanied by a severe convective storm of tropical cyclones
Hironori Fudeyasu, National Research Institute for Earth Science and Disaster Prevention, Tsukuba, Japan; and S. IIzuka and T. Matsuura |
| | P1.36 | The Connection Between a Cold Front Aloft and the Extensive Squall Line of 29–30 October 2004
Mark Stoelinga, Univ. of Washington, Seattle, WA; and J. D. Locatelli |
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| 3:45 PM, Wednesday
Sessions end for the day (W) |
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| 4:00 PM-5:30 PM, Wednesday, A410
Session 4 Numerical Modeling of Severe Convective Storms |
Organizer: David C. Dowell, CIMMS, Norman, OK
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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 |
| 12:00 AM, Thursday
Symposium Ends |
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| 8:30 AM-9:45 AM, Thursday, A302
Joint Session 3 Using Numerical Models in Real-Time to Improve Forecasts of Convective Storms (Joint between the Doug Lilly Symposium and the Severe Local Storms Special Symposium) |
Chair: Frederick H. Carr, Univ. of Oklahoma, Norman, OK
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| 9:45 AM-11:00 AM, Thursday
Formal Poster Viewing with Coffee Break (Th1) |
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| 11:00 AM-4:00 PM, Thursday
Exhibits Open (Th) |
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| 12:15 PM-1:30 PM, Thursday
Lunch Break (Cash & Carry available in the Exhibit Hall) (Th) |
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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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| 6:00 PM, Thursday
Lilly Symposium Banquet |
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