Event Program

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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

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


Coffee Break in Meeting Room Foyer (M1)

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

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


Formal Poster Viewing with Coffee Break (M2)

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

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


Formal Poster Viewing with Coffee Break (T1)

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 )

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


Coffee Break in Exhibit Hall (T2)

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

10:00 AM-10:30 AM: Wednesday, 1 February 2006


Coffee Break in Meeting Room Foyer (W1)

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


Exhibits Open (W)

12:00 PM-1:30 PM: Wednesday, 1 February 2006


Lunch Break (Cash & Carry available in the Exhibit Hall) (W)

2:30 PM-4:00 PM: Wednesday, 1 February 2006


Formal Poster Viewing with Coffee Break (W2)

3:45 PM-3:45 PM: Wednesday, 1 February 2006


Sessions end for the day (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


Symposium Ends

THUR 2 FEB

9:45 AM-11:00 AM: Thursday, 2 February 2006


Formal Poster Viewing with Coffee Break (Th1)

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


Exhibits Open (Th)

12:15 PM-1:30 PM: Thursday, 2 February 2006


Lunch Break (Cash & Carry available in the Exhibit Hall) (Th)

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


Registration Desk Closes

3:00 PM-3:30 PM: Thursday, 2 February 2006


AMS iPod Raffle in Exhibit Hall

Coffee Break in the Exhibit Hall and AMS IPOD Raffle (Th2)

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