Second Conference on Meteorological Applications of Lightning Data

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Saturday, 28 January 2006

12:00 AM-12:00 AM: Saturday, 28 January 2006


Sat 28 Jan

7:30 AM-7:31 AM: Saturday, 28 January 2006


Short Course and Student Conference Registration

Sunday, 29 January 2006

12:00 AM-12:00 AM: Sunday, 29 January 2006


Sun 29 Jan

7:30 AM-9:00 AM: Sunday, 29 January 2006


Short Course Registration

9:00 AM-6:00 PM: Sunday, 29 January 2006


Conference Registration

Monday, 30 January 2006

12:00 AM-12:00 AM: Monday, 30 January 2006


Mon 30 Jan

7:30 AM-6:00 PM: Monday, 30 January 2006


Registration Continues through Thursday, 2 February

9:00 AM-10:15 AM: Monday, 30 January 2006


Session 1
The Utility of Lightning Data in the Operational Warning and Decision Making Process
Location: A307 (Georgia World Congress Center)
Host: Second Conference on Meteorological Applications of Lightning Data
Organizer: Stephen J. Hodanish, NOAA/NWSFO
  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, Fort Worth, 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

10:15 AM-10:45 AM: Monday, 30 January 2006


Coffee Break in Meeting Room Foyer (M1)

10:45 AM-12:00 PM: Monday, 30 January 2006


Session 2
Utility of lightning information for safety and protection-related issues
Location: A307 (Georgia World Congress Center)
Host: Second Conference on Meteorological Applications of Lightning Data
Organizer: Martin J. Murphy, Vaisala
  10:45 AM
2.1
Lightning protection: History and modern approaches
Vladimir A. Rakov, Univ. of Florida, Gainesville, FL
  11:15 AM
2.2
  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

12:00 PM-1:10 PM: Monday, 30 January 2006


Plenary Session 1
AMS Forum Kick-Off Luncheon (Cash & Carry available in the Meeting Room Foyer)
Hosts: (Joint between the 14th Joint Conference on the Applications of Air Pollution Meteorology with the Air and Waste Management Assoc; the The James Holton Symposium; the Third Symposium on Space Weather; the Event Program; the AMS Forum: Environmental Risk and Impacts on Society: Successes and Challenges; the AMS Forum: Managing our Physical and Natural Resources: Successes and Challenges; the 22nd International Conference on Interactive Information Processing Systems for Meteorology, Oceanography, and Hydrology; the 15th Symposium on Education; the Sixth Symposium on the Urban Environment; the Fourth Presidental History Symposium; the First Symposium on Policy Research; the Eighth Conference on Atmospheric Chemistry; the Symposium on the Challenges of Severe Convective Storms; the The Doug Lilly Symposium; the Second Conference on Meteorological Applications of Lightning Data; the 14th Conference on Interaction of the Sea and Atmosphere; the 18th Conference on Probability and Statistics in the Atmospheric Sciences; the 18th Conference on Climate Variability and Change; the 20th Conference on Hydrology; the 10th Symposium on Integrated Observing and Assimilation Systems for the Atmosphere, Oceans, and Land Surface (IOAS-AOLS); the Second Symposium: Toward a Global Earth Observation System of Systems—Future National Operational Environmental Satellite Systems; the 14th Conference on Satellite Meteorology and Oceanography; the 12th Conference on Aviation Range and Aerospace Meteorology; the Symposium on the Public/Private Sector Partnership; the Impacts of 2005's Weather: Major Stories of the Year; and the Second Special Session on Heat Health )
Chairs: Sue Grimmond, King's College; Steven Hanna, Harvard Univ.; Mark Andrews, NOAA/NWS
  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, Exeter, United Kingdom

  12:40 PM
PL1.3
THUNDERSTORM IMPACTS: A MIX OF CURSES AND BLESSINGS
Stanley Changnon, Changnon Climatologist, Mahomet, IL

1:30 PM-2:30 PM: Monday, 30 January 2006


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)
Location: A311 (Georgia World Congress Center)
Hosts: (Joint between the Second Conference on Meteorological Applications of Lightning Data; and the AMS Forum: Environmental Risk and Impacts on Society: Successes and Challenges )
Organizers: Walter A. Petersen, Univ. of Alabama; Gregory S. Forbes, The Weather Channel
  1:30 PM
J1.1
Societal aspects and impacts of lightning detection technology.
Richard E. Orville, Texas A&M University, College Sation, TX
  2:00 PM
J1.2
Uses of Lightning Data by U.S. Government Agencies
Joseph Facundo, NOAA/NWS, Silver Spring, MD; and M. Carelli

2:30 PM-4:00 PM: Monday, 30 January 2006


Poster Session 1
Advances in Technology and Operational Utility of Lightning Data
Location: Exhibit Hall A2 (Georgia World Congress Center)
Host: Second Conference on Meteorological Applications of Lightning Data
Organizer: Vladimir A. Rakov, University of Florida
 
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

Poster PDF (323.9 kB)

 
P1.3
 
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

 
P1.7
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

 
P1.9
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

Poster PDF (91.3 kB)

 
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

Poster PDF (1.7 MB)

 
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

Poster PDF (332.8 kB)

 
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

Poster PDF (1.1 MB)


Formal Poster Viewing with Coffee Break (M2)

4:00 PM-5:45 PM: Monday, 30 January 2006


Session 3
Observational Fusion of Lightning Data in the Earth and Atmospheric Sciences I
Location: A307 (Georgia World Congress Center)
Host: Second Conference on Meteorological Applications of Lightning Data
Organizer: Lawrence D. Carey, Texas A&M University
  4:00 PM
3.1
  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

5:30 PM-5:30 PM: Monday, 30 January 2006


Sessions end for the day (M)

5:30 PM-7:30 PM: Monday, 30 January 2006


Formal Opening of Exhibits with Reception (Cash Bar)

7:30 PM-7:30 PM: Monday, 30 January 2006


Holton Symposium Banquet

Tuesday, 31 January 2006

12:00 AM-12:00 AM: Tuesday, 31 January 2006


Tue 31 Jan

8:30 AM-9:45 AM: Tuesday, 31 January 2006


Session 4
Assimilation of lightning data into forecast models
Location: A307 (Georgia World Congress Center)
Host: Second Conference on Meteorological Applications of Lightning Data
Organizer: Timothy J. Lang, Colorado State Univ.
  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

9:45 AM-11:00 AM: Tuesday, 31 January 2006


Poster Session 2
Observational fusion and application of lightning data in the earth and Atmospheric Sciences
Location: Exhibit Hall A2 (Georgia World Congress Center)
Host: Second Conference on Meteorological Applications of Lightning Data
Organizer: Michael L. Gauthier, Univ. of Alabama
 
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
 
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

Poster PDF (720.5 kB)

 
P2.4
Role of lightning data in understanding Terrestrial Gamma-Ray Flashes (TGFs)
David M. Smith, Univ. of California, Santa Cruz, CA

 
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

Poster PDF (1.1 MB)

 
P2.8
Total lightning frequency in relation to ice masses and ice mass flux estimates
Wiebke Deierling, Univ. of Alabama in Huntsville, Huntsville, AL; and W. A. Petersen, J. Latham, S. M. Ellis, H. Christian, and J. T. Walters

Poster PDF (249.1 kB)

 
P2.9
Total Lightning Characteristics and Inferred Charge Structure of Ordinary Convection
Shane Motley, Xcel Energy , Denver, CO; and L. D. Carey and M. J. Murphy

Poster PDF (837.7 kB)

 
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

Poster PDF (206.8 kB)

 
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, USRA, 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

Poster PDF (516.1 kB)

 
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


Formal Poster Viewing with Coffee Break (T1)

11:00 AM-12:15 PM: Tuesday, 31 January 2006


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)
Location: A307 (Georgia World Congress Center)
Hosts: (Joint between the 12th Conference on Aviation Range and Aerospace Meteorology; and the Second Conference on Meteorological Applications of Lightning Data )
Chairs: Martin J. Murphy, Vaisala; Mark E. Weber, MIT
  11:00 AM
J2.1
  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, Louisville, CO; and N. W. S. Demetriades, R. L. Holle, and K. L. Cummins

Presentation PDF (1016.1 kB)

11:00 AM-6:00 PM: Tuesday, 31 January 2006


Exhbits Open (T)

12:15 PM-12:15 PM: Tuesday, 31 January 2006


Plenary Session
Presidential Forum with Boxed Lunch (Lunch will be available for purchase outside the meeting room.)
Hosts: (Joint between the Event Program; the 18th Conference on Probability and Statistics in the Atmospheric Sciences; the 14th Conference on Satellite Meteorology and Oceanography; the 15th Symposium on Education; the AMS Forum: Environmental Risk and Impacts on Society: Successes and Challenges; the AMS Forum: Managing our Physical and Natural Resources: Successes and Challenges; the Eighth Conference on Atmospheric Chemistry; the Symposium on the Challenges of Severe Convective Storms; the The Doug Lilly Symposium; the First Symposium on Policy Research; the 14th Joint Conference on the Applications of Air Pollution Meteorology with the Air and Waste Management Assoc; the Second Conference on Meteorological Applications of Lightning Data; the Sixth Symposium on the Urban Environment; the 14th Conference on Interaction of the Sea and Atmosphere; the 10th Symposium on Integrated Observing and Assimilation Systems for the Atmosphere, Oceans, and Land Surface (IOAS-AOLS); the Second Symposium: Toward a Global Earth Observation System of Systems—Future National Operational Environmental Satellite Systems; the 20th Conference on Hydrology; the 12th Conference on Aviation Range and Aerospace Meteorology; the 18th Conference on Climate Variability and Change; the 22nd International Conference on Interactive Information Processing Systems for Meteorology, Oceanography, and Hydrology; the Fourth Presidental History Symposium; the Symposium on the Public/Private Sector Partnership; the The James Holton Symposium; the Third Symposium on Space Weather; and the Impacts of 2005's Weather: Major Stories of the Year )

1:45 PM-3:00 PM: Tuesday, 31 January 2006


Session 5
Observational Fusion of Lightning Data in the Earth and Atmospheric Sciences II
Location: A307 (Georgia World Congress Center)
Host: Second Conference on Meteorological Applications of Lightning Data
Organizer: Richard J. Blakeslee, NASA/MSFC
  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. J. DeCaria, G. Stenchikov, and W. K. Tao
  2:15 PM
5.2
  2:30 PM
5.3
  2:45 PM
5.4
Characteristics of sprite-producing electrical storms in the STEPS 2000 domain
Walter A. Lyons, WeatherVideoHD.TV, Fort Collins, CO; and L. Anderson, T. E. Nelson, and G. R. Huffines

3:00 PM-3:30 PM: Tuesday, 31 January 2006


Coffee Break in Exhibit Hall (T2)

3:30 PM-5:30 PM: Tuesday, 31 January 2006


Session 6
Advances in lightning technology and transfer of that technology from research to operations
Location: A307 (Georgia World Congress Center)
Host: Second Conference on Meteorological Applications of Lightning Data
Organizer: Christopher B. Darden, NOAA/NWS
  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
William 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
  5:00 PM
6.6
Thunderstorm Visualization in 3-D
Gary R. Huffines, Univ. of Northern Colorado, Greeley, CO
  5:15 PM
6.7

5:30 PM-5:30 PM: Tuesday, 31 January 2006


Sessions end for the day (T)

Wednesday, 1 February 2006

12:00 AM-12:00 AM: Wednesday, 1 February 2006


Wed 1 Feb

11:00 AM-7:30 PM: Wednesday, 1 February 2006


Exhibits Open (W)

5:30 PM-7:30 PM: Wednesday, 1 February 2006


Reception in the Exhibit Hall (Cash Bar)

7:30 PM-7:30 PM: Wednesday, 1 February 2006


AMS Annual Awards Banquet

Thursday, 2 February 2006

12:00 AM-12:00 AM: Thursday, 2 February 2006


THUR 2 FEB

11:00 AM-4:00 PM: Thursday, 2 February 2006


Exhibits Open (Th)

3:00 PM-3:00 PM: Thursday, 2 February 2006


Registration Desk Closes

4:00 PM-4:00 PM: Thursday, 2 February 2006


Exhibit Close

5:30 PM-5:30 PM: Thursday, 2 February 2006


Conference Ends

6:00 PM-6:00 PM: Thursday, 2 February 2006


Lilly Symposium Banquet