The James Holton Symposium

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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

8:30 AM-12:15 PM: Monday, 30 January 2006


Session 1
James Holton Oral Presentations
Location: A302 (Georgia World Congress Center)
Host: The James Holton Symposium
Organizers: Peter J. Webster, Georgia Institute of Technology; Dennis L. Hartmann, University of Washington
  8:30 AM
1.1
An Overview of Jim Holton's Scientific Contributions
Conway B. Leovy, Univ. of Washington, Seattle, WA
  9:15 AM
1.3
Tropical waves, instabilities and ITCZ: A perspective from the early days of Jim Holton and now
Timothy J. Dunkerton, NorthWest Research Associates, Bellevue, WA

  9:30 AM
1.4
Convectively coupled equatorial waves
Brian Hoskins, Univ. of Reading, Reading, Berks., United Kingdom; and G. Yang and J. Slingo
  10:00 AM
1.5
Jim Holton's fascination with equatorial waves
John Michael Wallace, Univ. of Washington, Seattle, WA
  10:15 AM
1.6
Kelvin waves, internal gravity waves and their behaviors in numerical models
Taroh Matsuno, Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology, Yokohama, Japan
  11:00 AM
1.8
Mesoscale circulations near the tropopause
Dale R. Durran, Univ. of Washington, Seattle, WA; and M. Ammerman

  11:45 AM
1.5A
Coffee Break in Meeting Room Foyer

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


Session 2
James Holton Oral Presentations II
Location: A302 (Georgia World Congress Center)
Host: The James Holton Symposium
  1:30 PM
2.1
  2:15 PM
2.3
Variability in stratospheric water vapor
Karen H. Rosenlof, NOAA ESRL, Boulder, CO

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


Poster Session 1
James Holton Poster Presentations
Location: A302 (Georgia World Congress Center)
Host: The James Holton Symposium
 
P1.1
Using a reforecast data set to improve weather predictions
Thomas M. Hamill, NOAA/CIRES/CDC, Boulder, CO; and J. S. Whitaker

 
P1.2
Tropical stationary waves in a shallow water model with realistic zonal-mean winds
Ian P. Kraucunas, National Research Council / National Academy of Sciences, Washington, DC; and D. L. Hartmann

 
P1.4
The QBO and interannual variability of stratospheric inertial instability
John A. Knox, Univ. of Georgia, Athens, GA; and V. L. Harvey

 
P1.5
Supertyphoon Dale (1996): An impact from the deep tropics to the arctic
Eric P. Kelsey, Univ. at Albany/SUNY, Albany, NY; and L. Bosart

 
P1.6
Stratosphere-troposphere coupling during polar vortex breakdown
Robert X. Black, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA; and B. A. McDaniel and W. A. Robinson

 
P1.7
Precipitation enhancement through mesoscale features induced by a landfalling tropical storm
Alan F. Srock, University at Albany/SUNY, Albany, NY; and L. Bosart and J. D. Molinari

 
P1.8
On the sources of gravity waves near the andes cordillera
H. Teitelbaum, Laboratoire de Météorologie Dynamique, Paris Cedex 05, France; and A. Spiga and V. Zeitlin

 
P1.9
Net thermal effect of dissipating gravity waves and its parameterization
Rashid A. Akmaev, CIRES/Univ. of Colorado, Boulder, CO

 
P1.10
 
P1.11
Is there an extratropical tropopause layer?
Shaun W. Bell, SUNY, Stony Brook, NY; and M. A. Geller

 
P1.12
Computational solutions of introductory atmospheric dynamics problems
John A. Knox, Univ. of Georgia, Athens, GA; and P. R. Ohmann

 
P1.13
Characteristics of the tropical tropopause layer 2
Stefan Fueglistaler, Univ. of Washington, Seattle, WA; and P. W. Mote and T. J. Dunkerton

 
P1.14
Advances in understanding the atmospheric dynamics of wildland fires
Brian E. Potter, USDA Forest Service, East Lansing, MI; and J. J. Charney, W. E. Heilman, and X. Bian

 
P1.16
A Global convection circulation paradigm for the Annular Mode
Ming Cai, Florida State Univ., Tallahassee, FL; and R. C. Ren


Formal Poster Viewing with Coffee Break (M2)

4:00 PM-5:15 PM: Monday, 30 January 2006


Session 3
James Holton Oral Presentations III
Location: A302 (Georgia World Congress Center)
Host: The James Holton Symposium
  4:00 PM
3.1
Strat-Trop exchange: recent evidence from in situ observations of isotopes, water and reactive intermediates
J.G. Anderson, Harvard Univ., Cambridge, MA; and E. J. Moyer, F. N. Keutsch, T. F. Hanisco, and E. M. Weinstock
  4:30 PM
3.2
Role of Chemistry in Earth's Climate
A. R. Ravishankara, NOAA/AL, Boulder, CO

  4:45 PM
3.3
The EOS Aura Mission
Mark R. Schoeberl, Science and Technology Corporation, Columbia, MD

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 )

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)

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


Formal Poster Viewing with Coffee Break (W2)

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

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


Exhibits Open (Th)

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


AMS iPod Raffle in Exhibit Hall

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


Lilly Symposium Banquet