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Saturday, 28 January 2006

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


Sat 28 Jan

The American Meteorological Society and the Impact Weather Program Committee wishes to express its appreciation to ITT Industries for its support of this year’s program

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


Short Course and Student Conference Registration

9:15 AM-10:15 AM: Saturday, 28 January 2006


Session 1
Welcoming Remarks and Introduction
Location: A411 (Georgia World Congress Center)
Host: Fifth Annual AMS Student Conference and Career Fair
  9:15 AM
1.1
Welcome: From AMS
Walter A. Lyons, AMS President and FMA Research, Inc., Fort Collins, CO; and K. Seitter

  9:30 AM
1.2
Welcome: From Planning Committee Co-Chairs
Percy W. Thomas, NOAA/NWS, Silver Spring, MD; and D. K. Miller

  9:35 AM
1.3
Setting the Stage
Scott Mackaro, University of Alabama, Huntsville, AL

  9:45 AM
1.4
Career Crossroads: Where Do You Want to Go? & Who Can
Wendy Abshire, UCAR/COMET, Boulder, CO

10:15 AM-11:45 AM: Saturday, 28 January 2006


Session 2
Now-Casting: Job Opportunities Today
Location: A411 (Georgia World Congress Center)
Host: Fifth Annual AMS Student Conference and Career Fair
  10:15 AM
2.1
Forecasting: Part 1
John D. Gordon, Air Force Reserve and NOAA/NWS, Louisville, KY

  10:25 AM
2.2
Forecasting: Part 2
Stephanie Klipfel, Delta Airlines, Atlanta, GA

  10:35 AM
2.3
Research: Part 1
Judith Lean, NRL, Washington, DC

  10:45 AM
2.4
Research: Part 2
George L. Frederick Jr., Vaisala, Louisville, CO

  10:55 AM
2.5
Communication: Part 1
Jack Williams, AMS, Washington, DC

  11:05 AM
2.6
Communication: Part 2
Rob Marciano, CNN, Atlanta, GA

  11:15 AM
2.6a
Discussion

12:00 PM-1:00 PM: Saturday, 28 January 2006


Luncheon and Keynote Speaker
Speaker: Max Mayfield, NOAA/NWS/National Hurricane Center

1:10 PM-2:10 PM: Saturday, 28 January 2006


Session 3
Forecasting: Modeling Your Future
Location: A411 (Georgia World Congress Center)
Host: Fifth Annual AMS Student Conference and Career Fair
  1:10 PM
3.1
Space Weather
William J. Murtagh, NOAA/NWS/Space Weather Prediction, Boulder, CO

  1:20 PM
3.2
Public Health
Jonathan Patz, Johns Hopkins University, Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, MD

  1:30 PM
3.3
Policy
Bryan Hannegan, Univ. of California, Irvine, CA

  1:40 PM
3.4
Weather Economics/Business
William S. Weaving, Planalytics, Wayne, PA

  1:50 PM
3.4a
Discussion

2:30 PM-2:30 PM: Saturday, 28 January 2006


Panel Discussion 1
Conversations with Professionals
Location: A411 (Georgia World Congress Center)
Host: Fifth Annual AMS Student Conference and Career Fair
Panelist: Timothy Spangler, UCAR/COMET

5:00 PM-6:00 PM: Saturday, 28 January 2006


Networking Reception, Career Fair, & Student Local Chapter Poster Session

6:00 PM-8:00 PM: Saturday, 28 January 2006


Dinner

Sunday, 29 January 2006

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


Sun 29 Jan

7:30 AM-8:15 AM: Sunday, 29 January 2006


Breakfast & Networking Opportunities

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


Short Course Registration

8:15 AM-8:30 AM: Sunday, 29 January 2006


Recap of Saturday's Events

8:30 AM-9:45 AM: Sunday, 29 January 2006


Session 4
Beyond Borders: Expanding your Career Options Internationally
Location: A411 (Georgia World Congress Center)
Host: Fifth Annual AMS Student Conference and Career Fair
  8:30 AM
4.1
Atmospheric Science International
George Atkinson, Science Advisor to the President, Washington, DC

  8:40 AM
4.2
Beyond Cyberspace
Edward R. Johnson, NOAA/NWS, Siver Spring, MD

  8:50 AM
4.3
Tawian Space Program
Bill Kuo, NCAR, Boulder, CO

  9:00 AM
4.3A
Discussion

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


Conference Registration

10:00 AM-10:00 AM: Sunday, 29 January 2006


Panel Discussion 2
Nuts & Bolts: Putting it all together
Location: A411 (Georgia World Congress Center)
Host: Fifth Annual AMS Student Conference and Career Fair

11:30 AM-12:00 PM: Sunday, 29 January 2006


Q & A

12:00 PM-1:00 PM: Sunday, 29 January 2006


Conference Closing Luncheon

1:00 PM-5:00 PM: Sunday, 29 January 2006


Poster Session 1
All Submissions
Location: A411 (Georgia World Congress Center)
Host: Fifth Annual AMS Student Conference and Career Fair
 
P1.1
Weather Awareness among Hispanics in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
Aisha Sekelaga Muhammad, CAPS/Univ. of Oklahoma, Norman, OK

 
P1.2
Variability of radar reflectivity in continental boundary layer stratocumulus
Aaron M. Botnick, National Weather Center REU & University of Louisiana at Monroe, Monroe, LA; and Y. L. Kogan and D. B. Mechem

 
P1.3
Validation of a theory for ice formation in freezing drizzle events
Alyssa Saunders, United States Naval Academy, Annapolis, MD

 
P1.4
Using GPS radio occultation data in the study of tropical cyclogenesis
Anthony C. Didlake Jr., UCAR/SOARS, New Haven, CT

 
P1.5
Using CCSM3 to simulate climate changes caused by the 8.2ka meltwater pulse
Melissa Burt, SOARS, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO; and C. Morrill and B. Otto-Bliesner

 
P1.6
The Role of Undergraduates in LEAD Learning Communities
Michael D. Williams, Millersville University of Pennsylvania, Millersville, PA; and C. J. Warren and J. E. Yorks

 
P1.7
The Llanos low-level jet and its association with Venezuelan convective precipitation
Rebekah J. LaBar, National Weather Center Research Experiences for Undergraduates, Central Washington University, Ellensburg, WA; and M. W. Douglas, J. F. Mejia, and J. Murillo

 
P1.8
The impact of a controlled burn on atmospheric and surface conditions on a tallgrass prairie
Amanda J. Schroeder, Oklahoma Climatological Survey, Norman, OK; and J. B. Basara

 
P1.9
The Effect of Aerosol Dispersion on Asthma Related Hospitalizations
Catherine Miller, Meredith College, Raleigh, NC

 
P1.10
The Development and Investigation of Eight Northeast Air Quality Case Studies
Gregory G. Garner, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA; and A. R. Fusco, S. L. O'Clair, and C. J. Sheehan

 
P1.11
Plains Organization for Wind Energy Resources
Nicole Lynn Peterson, University of North Dakota, Grand Forks, ND

 
P1.12
Observations of spatial relationships between specific differential phase and lightning flash origins
Andrew McNeel, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX; and L. D. Carey and V. Chandrasekar

 
P1.13
Observations of Jupiter's Magnetosheath with the Galileo Plasma Instrumentation
Moogega Cooper, Hampton University Center for Atmpspheric Sciences, Hampton, VA; and W. R. Patterson

 
P1.14
 
P1.15
METCRAX- The Meteor Crater Experiment: An upcoming Study of Cold Air Pools and Seiches in Arizona's Meteor Crater
Maura Hahnenberger, Meteorology Department, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT; and C. D. Whiteman, A. Muschinski, S. Zhong, and D. C. Fritts

 
P1.16
Mesaba Airlines supplemental PIREP program
Patrick Boylan, NCAR, Boulder, 80307, CO

 
P1.18
LEADS™ in Education
James McGrath, Minnesota State University, Mankato, MN; and C. S. Keen

 
P1.19
Large Water Droplets at Cloud Top of Clouds Producing Freezing Drizzle
Jennifer Simard, NCAR, Boulder, CO; and S. Landolt, M. Politovich, and B. Bernstein

 
P1.20
Kinetic energy efficiencies of an idealized developing tropical cyclone
Daniel P. Stern, Penn State University, University Park, PA; and D. S. Nolan

 
P1.21
Investigating airflow effects on the accuracy of cloud particle measurement
Olusegun Goyea, NCAR, New York, NY; and D. Rogers and T. Horst

 
P1.22
Hurricane Katrina: historic disaster, national tragedy
Eric M. Holthaus, Columbia University Earth Institute, New York, NY

 
P1.23
Hurricane intensity and motion – an educational applet
Melissa Ann Yesalusky, Hampton University/CAS, Hampton, VA; and W. L. Smith, C. Velden, A. Levine, and R. Gird

 
P1.24
Harmonic and nonlinear function analysis of tree response to meteorological forcings
Bryan Woods, Yale University, New Haven, CT; and A. Johnson, R. Steward, and R. L. N. Mandock

 
P1.25
Hail Warning Decision Guidance
Michelle Harrold, NCAR, Boulder, CO; and P. T. Schlatter, G. J. Stumpf, and J. LaDue

 
P1.28
Establishment and instrumentation of the Kessler Farm Field Laboratory piconet
Julie A. Phillipson, NSF, Lakewood, CO; and P. B. Chilson

 
P1.29
 
P1.30
Creating a software tool to reuse existing decoders
Shanna-Shaye Sashai Forbes, The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX

 
P1.31
Climatology of the Supercell Composite Parameter (1979 – 2004)
Bryan T. Smith, Ball State University, Muncie, IN; and G. W. Carbin, R. L. Thompson, and J. Hart

 
P1.32
Climate Variability and Cold-Season Energy Budgeting
Brian V. Smoliak, University of Washington, Seattle, WA

 
P1.33
Chi Epsilon Pi Meteorology Honor Society
Kristen M. Connolly, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, Daytona Beach, FL; and C. Oldis

 
P1.34
CALIPSO-measurement of clouds
Sydney Dianne Paul, Hampton, VA; and M. P. McCormick

 
P1.35
Aviation Weather – Educating for the Glass Cockpit
Scott R. Winter, Minnesota State Univ., Mankato, MN; and C. S. Keen

 
P1.37
Analysis of solar backscatter in the ultraviolet ozone measurements
Kristofer B. Macklin, NOAA, 23661 Hampton, VA; and J. Anderson

 
P1.38
Analysis of decadal surface heating trends using Oklahoma Mesonet data
Scott E. Stevens, North Carolina State University, Asheville, NC; and B. G. Illston and J. Basara

 
P1.39
An Investigation of New York State Finger Lakes Snow Band Events
Ryan Sobash, Penn State Univ., State College, PA; and H. Carr and N. Laird

 
P1.40
Advances in Technology Give Challenges to Modern Day Storm Chasing
Joshua J. Jans, Minnesota State University, Mankato, MN; and C. S. Keen

 
P1.41
 
P1.42
A global analysis of atmospheric refractivity anomalies
Erick J. Adame, University at Albany, Albany, NY

 
P1.43
A flash flood risk assessment of the Colorado
Braxton Lee Edwards, University of Oklahoma, Norman, Oklahoma

 
P1.44
A dual-Doppler analysis of a narrow cold frontal rainband in central Pennsylvania
Anthony Chipriano, Penn State University, University Park, PA; and T. Kovich, V. Sankovich, J. Scollins, E. Wanenchak, N. Johnson, K. Altmann, and B. Nicol

 
P1.45
3D Visualization of modeled hurricane forecasts and their impacts at landfall
Quentin J. Hallenbeck, NASA, Hampton, VA; and J. Gleason, C. L. Parren, A. I. Miles, G. R. Shaw, S. M. Parker, E. M. Dale, R. A. Ferrare, R. Atlas, and J. Terry


Optional Student Tours and Informational Dialogue with Speakers

5:30 PM-7:00 PM: Sunday, 29 January 2006


Poster Session 1
Educational Initiatives
Location: Exhibit Hall A2 (Georgia World Congress Center)
Host: 15th Symposium on Education
Organizer: Marianne J. Hayes, Fairfax County (VA) Public Schools
 
P1.1
A Decade of AMS DataStreme Courses—Teachers Using Earth System Information
Robert S. Weinbeck, SUNY, Brockport, NY; and I. W. Geer, J. M. Moran, D. R. Smith, E. J. Hopkins, E. W. Mills, and B. A. Blair

Poster PDF (169.4 kB)

 
P1.2
Using DLESE to facilitate high quality Earth Science Education
Steve Michael Carlson, AMS/NOAA Project Atmosphere AREA, White Salmon, Washington

Poster PDF (120.2 kB)

 
P1.3
Using DLESE to bring atmospheric and oceanographic digital resources to the classroom
William R. Huskin, Central Bucks School District, Doylestown, PA; and J. D. Moore

 
P1.4
Satellite observations in science education
Steven A. Ackerman, CIMSS/Univ. of Wisconsin, Madison, WI; and T. Whittaker, T. Jasmin, and L. howles

 
P1.6
PROBLEM BASED LEARNING: OBSERVING THE EARTH
Paul J. Croft, Kean Univ., Union, NJ

Poster PDF (20.1 kB)

 
P1.8
U.S. Air Force Graduate Research in Meteorology
Lee A. Byerle, AWS, Tucson, 85708; and R. B. Telfeyan

 
P1.9
Bringing cutting-edge research to the classroom: Earth2Class
Michael J. Passow, White Plains Middle School/Columbia Univ., Palisades, NY; and G. J. Iturrino, C. M. Assumpcao, and F. D. Baggio

Poster PDF (148.9 kB)

 
P1.10
AMS DataStreme programs in the Empire and Garden States
Michael J. Passow, White Plains Middle School/Columbia Univ., Palisades, NY; and W. D. Blanchard, C. A. Hildreth, J. D. Moore, G. G. Hofer, and J. T. Williams

Poster PDF (170.6 kB)

 
P1.11
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Commitment to Developing Minority Meteorologists and Atmospheric Scientists
R. Suseela Reddy, Jackson State Univ., Jackson, MS; and G. S. Holmes, K. N. Venable, D. J. Gavin, D. Newton, M. M. Watts, and J. L. Shoemake

 
P1.12
The Scientists' Notebook as a learning tool
Barbara K. Walton-Faria, Thompson Middle School, Newport, RI

 
P1.14
The Integrated Data Viewer (IDV)—A discipline agnostic tool for geoscience exploration
Don Murray, UCAR/Unidata, Boulder, CO; and J. McWhirter

Poster PDF (438.0 kB)

 
P1.17
The 2005 NOAA Center for Atmospheric Sciences (NCAS) Weather Camps
Gregory S. Jenkins, Howard Univ., Washington, DC; and L. White, E. Joseph, S. Yalda, D. Rainney, and R. Jones

 
P1.19
Summer haze hazard
Lisa Mozer, Fernback Science Center, Atlanta, GA

 
P1.20
Serving diverse urban undergraduate students with AMS online earth science courses
Steve LaDochy, California State University, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA; and P. Ramirez

Poster PDF (419.0 kB)

 
P1.21
NASA CloudSat: Students and scientists have their heads in the clouds
Debra K. Krumm, Colorado State Univ., Fort Collins, CO; and J. Lockett

 
P1.22
Meteorology Week during Plymouth State University's Pakistani Teachers Institute
Lourdes B. Avilés, Plymouth State Univ., Plymouth, NH

Poster PDF (101.9 kB)

 
P1.23
Learning Objects in Multimedia Materials: The COMET Program
Sherwood Wang, UCAR/COMET, Boulder, CO; and P. Parrish, P. Dills, and B. Muller

 
P1.24
International EWOC's
Faye McCollum, AMS/AERA, Columbus, GA

Poster PDF (20.1 kB)

 
P1.25
Enlightening lightning!
Richard Orville, Texas A&M Univ., College Sation, TX; and D. H. House and M. F. Hibbs

 
P1.26
Classroom Exercises in GIS Meteorology
Scott T. Shipley, George Mason Univ., Fairfax, Virginia

Poster PDF (1.2 MB)

 
P1.27
Assessing the Effect of Weather on Sea Turtle Nests, Daytona Beach, Florida
Richard K. Snow, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical Univ., Daytona Beach, FL; and M. M. Snow

Poster PDF (367.1 kB)

 
P1.28
Applying interactive Learning tools in the Advanced Warning Operations Course
James LaDue, NOAA/NWS, Norman, OK; and K. L. Manross, D. Morris, and P. T. Schlatter

Poster PDF (664.3 kB)

 
P1.29
An interdisciplinary field course in marine and atmospheric systems
Mike E. Splitt, Florida Institute of Technology, Melbourne, FL; and J. Windsor and K. Johnson

Poster PDF (779.2 kB)

 
P1.30
A new perspective on surface weather maps
Steven J. Meyer, Univ. of Wisconsin, Green Bay, WI

Poster PDF (241.7 kB)

 
P1.31
Use of the Clark Atlanta University Energy Balance Module in a Freshman Earth System Science Course
Randal L. N. Mandock, Clark Atlanta Univ., Atlanta, GA; and G. W. Grams, I. Mills, and O. Fayanjuola

 
P1.32
Teaching Online Weather Studies at the University of Houston
Sharon Zhong, Univ. of Houston, Houston, TX; and R. Perna

 
P1.33
Teaching Online Weather Studies as a hybrid course in traditional classroom setting
Ravi C. Nandigam Sr., Univ. of Texas, Brownsville, TX

Poster PDF (648.3 kB)

 
P1.34
Teaching meteorology at the University of Texas, El Paso
Thomas E. Gill, Univ. of Texas, El Paso, TX

Poster PDF (189.2 kB)

 
P1.35
Promotion for AMS Online Weather Studies at Del Mar College
Roger Steinberg, Del Mar College, Corpus Christi, TX

Poster PDF (991.0 kB)

 
P1.37
Online Weather Studies Diversity Project: Enhancing an HBCU weather and climate course
David A. Padgett, Tennessee State Univ., Nashville, TN

Poster PDF (215.3 kB)

 
P1.38
Online weather studies at Gavilan College
Andrew H. Van Tuyl, Gavilan College, Gilroy, CA

 
P1.40
Online weather studies and Weatherbug achieve: The best of both worlds.
David Quesada, Saint Thomas Univ., Miami Gardens, FL

 
P1.41
Online Lab Science Course: Meeting the needs of a non-traditional student
James E. Edson Jr., Univ. of Arkansas, Monticello, AR

 
P1.43
Meteorology at Mountain View College, Dallas, Texas
Lynn D. Millwood, Mountain View College, Dallas, TX

 
P1.44
Meteorology and earth/space science at Heritage University
Gregory S. Van Doren, Heritage Univ., Toppenish, WA

 
P1.45
Introducing Online Meteorology at New Mexico Junior College
Roene Neu, New Mexico Junior College, Hobbs, NM; and K. Holladay

 
P1.46
 
P1.47
Implementing the Online Weather Studies into a research base learning community
Ricardo J. Morales-De Jesús, Univ. of Puerto Rico, San Juan, PR

 
P1.48
 
P1.49
Evaluation of the impact of the NWC REU program compared with other undergraduate research experiences
Wilson J. Gonzalez-Espada, Arkansas Tech Univ., Russellville, AR; and D. S. Zaras

Poster PDF (295.0 kB)

 
P1.50
Developing reading skills in a fully on-line weather class
Mary E. Dowse, Western New Mexico Univ., Silver City, NM

 
P1.52
Completely Online Weather Courses at CSUN
Gong-Yuh Lin, California State Univ., Northridge, California

Poster PDF (417.2 kB)

 
P1.53
Bilingual Online Weather Studies: enhancing diversity through collaborations
Erin Argyilan, Indiana Univ., Gary, IN; and A. R. Rentas

 
P1.54
Best Practices of Local Air Quality Outreach Programs
Chelsea Jenkins, SHENAIR Institute, James Madison Univ., Winchester, VA; and T. Hedinger, C. J. Brodrick, and J. Giraytys

 
P1.55
Assessing Student's Understanding of Online Weather Media
Matthew J. Benus, Purdue Univ., Hammond, IN

 
P1.56
 
P1.57
 
P1.58
Weather Outside our Window: Data-Rich, Inquiry-Based Case Studies on Rocky Mountain Front Range Weather
Sandra Laursen, CIRES/Univ. of Colorado, Boulder, CO; and L. Avallone, J. P. Hacker, W. Schreiber-Abshire, and B. Hendrickson

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

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


Session 1
Challenges and Opportunities in Aviation Weather
Location: A301 (Georgia World Congress Center)
Host: 12th Conference on Aviation Range and Aerospace Meteorology
Organizers: Wayne R. Sand, Big Sky Weather Consulting; Lynn A. Sherretz, NOAA/FSL
  9:15 AM
1.2
Weather support to aviation: thoughts for the future with emphasis on operational needs
John McCarthy, Aviation Weather Associates, Palm Desert, CA; and A. B. Carmichael
  9:30 AM
1.3
  10:00 AM
1.5
Discussion


Session 1
Operation and Development of the New NWS Heat/Health Systems
Location: A310 (Georgia World Congress Center)
Host: Second Special Session on Heat Health
Organizer: Mark Tew, NOAA/NWS
  9:00 AM
1.1
Progress in the Nationalization of National Weather Service Heat/Health Warning Systems
Mark A. Tew, NOAA/NWS, Silver Spring, MD; and D. C. Young and J. G. Ferrell
  9:15 AM
1.2
The new generation of heat/health warning systems: how they work
Laurence Kalkstein, University of Delaware, Marco Island, FL
  9:45 AM
1.4
Using the System in Hot Summer Climates: Special Challenges
Anton F. Haffer, NOAA/NWSFO, Phoenix, AZ; and J. A. Skindlov

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


Joint Session 1
A Peek at the Earth Observing System of Tomorrow (Joint between the 10th Symposium on Integrated Observing and Assimilation Systems for the Atmosphere, Oceans, and Land Surface (IOAS-AOLS), the 14th Conference on Satellite Meteorology and Oceanography, and the 22nd Conference on IIPS)
Location: A305 (Georgia World Congress Center)
Hosts: (Joint between the 14th Conference on Satellite Meteorology and Oceanography; the 10th Symposium on Integrated Observing and Assimilation Systems for the Atmosphere, Oceans, and Land Surface (IOAS-AOLS); and the 22nd International Conference on Interactive Information Processing Systems for Meteorology, Oceanography, and Hydrology )
Organizer: A. E. MacDonald, NOAA/ERL/FSL
Chairs: F. Joseph Turk, NRL; Terry Tarbell, RS Information Systems

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

9:00 AM-11:30 AM: Monday, 30 January 2006


Session 1
urban air quality (including urban airshed modeling and urban air chemistry experiments)
Location: A316 (Georgia World Congress Center)
Host: Sixth Symposium on the Urban Environment
Organizers: Robert D. Bornstein, San Jose State University; Walter F. Dabberdt, Vaisala. Inc.
  9:00 AM
1.1
Effect of land cover change on future air Quality in Atlanta
Maudood Khan, Georgia Department of Natural Resources, Atlanta, GA; and W. L. Crosson, W. Lapenta, D. A. Quattrochi, and M. G. Estes Jr.
  9:15 AM
1.2
Differences in Ozone Production Efficiencies in Large Urban, Small Urban and Rural Areas in Georgia, USA
Kari Maxwell-Meier, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA; and A. Marmur, Y. Hu, and M. Chang
  9:30 AM
1.3
Spatial and temporal variability in acrolein and select volatile organic compounds in Detroit, Michigan
Gretchen Goldman, Cornell Univ., Ithaca, NY; and C. Croghan, P. Egeghy, and A. Vette
  9:45 AM
1.4
An Observational Study on Air Quality in Lanzhou China
Peter C. Chu, NPS, Monterey, CA; and Y. Chen, S. Lu, Z. Li, Y. Lu, and X. An
  10:15 AM
1.6
A technique for forecasting enhanced ozone days in a complex sub-tropical coastal urban environment
Melissa Hart, Macquarie Univ., Sydney, New South Wales, Australia; and R. DeDear and R. Hyde
  10:45 AM
1.8
RSim: A model that integrates air quality, noise, habitat, and water quality
Farhan Akhtar, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA; and M. E. Chang, V. H. Dale, T. Ashwood, L. Baskaran, R. Efroymson, C. Garten, L. Olsen, M. W. Berry, M. Aldridge, and C. Stewart
  11:15 AM
1.10
The effects of atmospheric particle concentration on cloud microphysics over Arecibo
Daniel E. Comarazamy, Univ. of Puerto Rico, Mayaguez, Puerto Rico; and J. E. Gonzalez, C. A. Tepley, S. Raizada, and V. Pandya
  11:30 AM
1.5A
Coffee Break in Meeting Room Foyer

9:00 AM-11:45 AM: Monday, 30 January 2006


Session 1
Aerosols—Radiative Impacts and Visibility Reduction
Location: A408 (Georgia World Congress Center)
Host: Eighth Conference on Atmospheric Chemistry
Cochairs: Rick Petty, U.S. Dept. of Energy; Jeffrey S. Gaffney, ANL
  9:00 AM
1.1
Direct and Indirect Effects of Nitrate and Ammonium Aerosol: A Column Model Study
Yan Feng, SIO/Univ. Of California, La Jolla, CA; and J. E. Penner and Y. Chen
  9:15 AM
1.2
Effect of iron oxides on radiative properties of mineral dust
Sandra Lafon, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA; and I. N. Sokolik
  9:45 AM
1.4
Evidence for Carbonaceous Aerosol Absorption Change in Mexico City 2003
Nancy A. Marley, ANL, Argonne, IL; and J. S. Gaffney
  10:00 AM
1.5
A Brief History of Aerosol Carbon Analytical Methods
Jeffrey S. Gaffney, ANL, Argonne, IL; and N. A. Marley
  10:15 AM
1.6
Mesoscale modeling of transport and radiative impacts of Central American smoke aerosols
Jun Wang, University of Nebaska, Lincoln, NE; and S. A. Christopher, U. S. Nair, J. S. Reid, E. Prins, J. Szykman, and J. L. Hand
  10:45 AM
1.8
  11:00 AM
1.9
The effects of the size-resolved mineralogical composition of dust particles on the tropospheric photochemistry
Gill-Ran Jeong, Georgia Institude of Technology, Atlanta, GA; and I. N. Sokolik

  11:15 AM
1.10
CMAQ simulation of aerosol size distributions with ternary nucleation
Robert A. Elleman, Univ. of Washington, Seattle, WA; and D. S. Covert, C. F. Mass, and J. Chen
  11:30 AM
1.5a
Coffee Break in Meeting Room Foyer


Session 1
Coupled Ocean–Atmosphere Basin–Scale And Decadal Variability
Location: A309 (Georgia World Congress Center)
Host: 14th Conference on Interaction of the Sea and Atmosphere
Chair: Daniel J. Vimont, Univ. of Wisconsin
  9:00 AM
1.1
Investigating the causes of the response of the thermohaline circulation to past and future climate changes
Ronald Stouffer, NOAA/GFDL, Princeton, NJ; and J. Yin, J. Gregory, K. W. Dixon, M. Spelman, W. Hurlin, A. Weaver, M. Eby, G. M. Flato, H. Hasumi, A. Hu, J. H. Jungclaus, I. V. Kamenkovich, A. Levermann, M. Montoya, S. Murakami, S. Nawrath, A. Oka, W. R. Peltier, D. Y. Robitaille, A. P. Sokolov, G. Vettoretti, and S. L. Weber
  9:15 AM
1.2
  9:30 AM
1.3
positive feedback between NAO and SSTA tripole in the North Atlantic region
Lin-Lin Pan, Florida State Univ., Tallahassee, FL; and F. F. Jin
  9:45 AM
1.4
Effects of Ekman Transport on the NAO Response to a Tropical Atlantic SST Anomaly
Shiling Peng, NOAA/CIRES/CDC, Boulder, CO; and W. A. Robinson, S. Li, and M. A. Alexander
  10:00 AM
1.5
The Midlatitude Atmospheric Bridge to the North Pacific
Grant Branstator, NCAR, Boulder, CO

  10:15 AM
1.6
Statistical prediction of midlatitude Pacific sea surface temperatures
Cécile Penland, NOAA/CIRES/CDC, Boulder, CO; and M. Alexander and L. Matrosova
  10:45 AM
1.8
Seasonal dependence of the WES feedback in the Pacific
Daniel J. Vimont, Univ. of Wisconsin, Madison, WI
  11:00 AM
1.9
Are El Niño events becoming more prevalent?
Todd Mitchell, Univ. of Washington, Seattle, WA; and J. M. Wallace

  11:30 AM
1.5A
Coffee Break in Meeting Room Foyer


Session 1
Forecast Evaluation
Location: A304 (Georgia World Congress Center)
Host: 18th Conference on Probability and Statistics in the Atmospheric Sciences
Cochairs: Barbara G. Brown, NCAR; Marina M. Timofeyeva, UCAR, Boulder, CO and NOAA/NWS
  9:00 AM
1.1
The skill of forecasting relatively isolated severe thunderstorm events
Andrew R. Dean, CIMMS/Univ. of Oklahoma, Norman, OK; and J. T. Schaefer
  9:15 AM
1.2
Real time forecast verification tools at The Weather Channel, Atlanta GA
Jeral G. Estupiñán, The Weather Channel & Georgia Tech, Atlanta, GA; and J. P. Koval, P. M. Rouse, D. M. Long, B. Rose, R. Lucksinger, and C. Peters
  9:30 AM
1.3
Probabilistic forecasts, calibration and sharpness
Tilmann Gneiting, University of Washington, Seattle, WA; and F. Balabdaoui and A. E. Raftery
  9:45 AM
1.4
Overestimating Forecast Skill Through Improper Application of Verification Metrics: Simpson's Paradox in Meteorology
Thomas M. Hamill, Physical Sciences Division/ESRL/NOAA, Boulder, CO; and J. Juras

  10:00 AM
1.5
Paper 1.5 moved. New paper number 8.1A

  10:01 AM
1.6
Extending ROC analysis to the multicategory forecast problem
Matthew S. Wandishin, Univ. of Arizona and NSSL, Norman, OK ; and S. L. Mullen
  10:16 AM
1.7
Evaluating spatial quantitative precipitation forecasts in the form of binary images
Thomas C.M. Lee, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO; and E. Gilleland, B. G. Brown, and R. G. Bullock
  10:31 AM
1.8
Bayesian Verification Measures for Forecasts of Continuous Predictands
Roman Krzysztofowicz, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA

  10:46 AM
1.9
Application of Evidence Theory to Quantify Uncertainty in Forecast of Hurricane Path
Svetlana V. Poroseva, Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL; and J. Letschert and M. Y. Hussaini
  11:16 AM
1.6A
Coffee Break in Meeting Room Foyer

9:00 AM-12:00 PM: Monday, 30 January 2006


Session 1
Advanced Modeling of Dispersion and Air Quality on All Scales: Part I
Location: A407 (Georgia World Congress Center)
Host: 14th Joint Conference on the Applications of Air Pollution Meteorology with the Air and Waste Management Assoc
Chair: Jeffrey C. Weil, CIRES/Univ. of Colorado
  9:00 AM
1.1
Statistical Variability of Dispersion in the Atmospheric Boundary Layer
Jeffrey C. Weil, CIRES/Univ. of Colorado, Boulder, CO; and P. P. Sullivan, C. H. Moeng, and E. G. Patton
  9:15 AM
1.2
Fine Scale Modeling of Urban Structures: Dependence on Grid and Model Features
Sue Ellen Haupt, Penn State Univ., State College, PA; and R. P. Wilson, R. F. Kunz, and L. J. Peltier
  9:30 AM
1.3
Thermal Effects on Dispersion about Structures
Sue Ellen Haupt, Penn State Univ., State College, PA; and L. J. Peltier, J. J. Dreyer, and R. F. Kunz
  9:45 AM
1.4
On a theory of relative dispersion by continuous movements
Pasquale Franzese, George Mason Univ., Fairfax, VA; and M. Cassiani
  10:00 AM
1.5
Lagrangian stochastic modelling of concentration fluctuations in atmospheric flows
Massimo Cassiani, Duke Univ., Durham, NC; and P. Franzese, J. D. Albertson, and A. Radicchi
  10:15 AM
1.6
Implementation of a traffic-produced turbulence scheme into the fast-response model QUIC
James V. Clark, Univ. of Oklahoma, Norman, OK; and P. Klein
  10:30 AM
1.7
Application and Evaluation of MM5 for North Carolina with a 4-km Horizontal Grid Spacing
Srinath Krishnan, North Carolina State Univ., Raleigh, NC; and S. Y. Wu, D. Hamilton, Y. Zhang, and V. P. Aneja
  10:45 AM
1.8
Application of CFD Simulations for Short-Range Atmospheric Dispersion
Wei Tang, National Research Council, RTP, NC; and A. H. Huber, B. Bell, K. Kuehlert, and W. Schwarz
  11:00 AM
1.9
Effects of sub-grid scale terrain in meteorology and air quality modeling
Carlie J. Coats Jr., Baron Advanced Meteorological Systems, Raleigh, NC; and M. T. Odman

  11:30 AM
1.5A
Coffee Break in Meeting Room Foyer


Session 1
All aspects of space weather with a preference for those that address "impacts": Part 1
Location: A406 (Georgia World Congress Center)
Host: Third Symposium on Space Weather
Chairs: Robert McCoy, Office of Naval Research; Genene Fisher, NOAA/NWS
  9:00 AM
1.1
Space weather effects and human technology
D. N. Baker, Univ. of Colorado, Boulder, CO
  9:30 AM
1.2
Decadal assessment of the National Space Weather Program
Louis J. Lanzerotti, New Jersey Institute of Technology, Newark, NJ
  10:00 AM
1.3
The NSF view of space weather
Richard Behnke, NSF, Arlington, VA
  10:15 AM
1.4
Space science, space weather, and space exploration
Richard Fisher, Earth-Sun System Division, NASA Headquarters, Washington, DC

  10:30 AM
1.5
NOAA Space Environment Center—exciting changes and challenges
Ron Zwickl, NOAA Space Environment Center, Boulder, CO; and J. Kunches
  10:45 AM
1.6
DoD Perspectives on Space Weather
Col. Harold Elkins, U.S. Department of Defense, Pentagon, DC
  11:00 AM
1.7
Space weather hazards to satellite systems
Joe H. Allen, SCOSTEP, Denton, TX; and H. J. Singer
  11:30 AM
1.3A
Coffee Break in Meeting Room Foyer


Session 1
K-12 Education and Public Outreach Initiatives
Location: A402 (Georgia World Congress Center)
Host: 15th Symposium on Education
Cochairs: Kathleen A. Murphy, Ladue School District; Shirley T. Murillo, NOAA/AOML/HRD
  9:00 AM
1.1
Why Scientists Must Move Beyond K-12 Classroom Visits to Active Participants in Professional Development Courses for Teachers
Andrea Dawn Melvin, Univ. of Oklahoma, Norman, OK; and K. A. Kloesel, D. S. Arndt, L. A. Gmachl, and M. A. Shafer
  9:30 AM
1.3
NOAA's Environmental Literacy Grants Program
Carrie McDougall, NOAA, Washington, DC; and S. Schoedinger
  9:45 AM
1.4
Satellite meteorology resources for K-16 educators and students
Margaret Mooney, CIMSS/Univ. of Wisconsin, Madison, WI; and S. A. Ackerman
  10:00 AM
1.5
  10:30 AM
1.7
Advanced atmosphere workshop for certified GLOBE teachers
Tina J. Cartwright, West Virginia Univ./Community Technical College, Institute, WV; and S. Fleegel
  10:45 AM
1.8
EWOC 2006 – An international conference to promote meteorological and oceanographic education
David R. Smith, United States Naval Academy, Annapolis, MD; and S. Q. Foster and M. Walker
  11:00 AM
1.9
Hawaiian Islands National Marine Sanctuary/National Geographic Field Study
John D. Moore, Burlington County Institute of Technology, Medford, NJ; and A. Tranchitella
  11:15 AM
1.0A
Introductory Remarks

  11:30 AM
1.4A
Coffee Break in Meeting Room Foyer

  12:00 PM
1.6A
The Community Collaborative Rain, Hail and Snow Network (CoCoRaHS): "Hands-On" Science for Communities Right in their own Backyards
Henry Reges, CoCoRaHS/Colorado State Univ., Fort Collins, CO; and N. J. Doesken, R. C. Cifelli, and J. Turner

9:00 AM-12:15 PM: Monday, 30 January 2006


Session 1
Observed Seasonal to Interannual Climate Variability: Part I
Location: A314 (Georgia World Congress Center)
Host: 18th Conference on Climate Variability and Change
Chair: Bradfield Lyon, International Research Institute for Climate Prediction, Columbia Univ.
  9:00 AM
1.1
Surface humidity and temperature trends in Canada for 1953–2004
Lucie A. Vincent, MSC, Toronto, ON, Canada; and W. A. Van Wijngaarden
  9:45 AM
1.4
  10:00 AM
1.5
Paper 1.5 has been moved, New Paper number is 5.14A

  10:30 AM
1.7
Temporal and spatial variability of large U.S. snowstorms 1950-2000
David Changnon, Northern Illinois Univ., DeKalb, IL; and S. Changnon
  10:45 AM
1.8
  11:00 AM
1.9
U.S. Forts Daily Data and the Frequency of Extreme Events in the 19th Century
Michael A. Palecki, ISWS, Champaign, IL; and K. E. Kunkel and J. R. Angel

  11:15 AM
1.10
Trends in temperature extremes for Southern New Zealand
Paula J. Brown, Univ. of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand; and L. Kavalieris

  11:30 AM
1.5A
Cross-tropopause transport over the Tibetan Plateau and its ambient regions during late summer/early fall 2004
Yuanlong Hu, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA; and R. Fu, J. H. Jiang, W. G. Read, M. J. Filipiak, and J. W. Waters

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

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


Coffee Break in Meeting Room Foyer (M1)

10:45 AM-11:45 AM: Monday, 30 January 2006


Session 1
Global Meteorological and Hydrological Service Updates Part I
Location: A411 (Georgia World Congress Center)
Host: 22nd International Conference on Interactive Information Processing Systems for Meteorology, Oceanography, and Hydrology
Cochairs: Fred R. Branski, NOAA/NWS; Jim Cooper, Earth Satellite Corporation
  10:45 AM
1.1
NWS Services Update
John Jones, NWS, Silver Spring, MD
  11:15 AM
1.2
Private Sector—Environmental Risk Management Activities of the Private Sector
Brian O'Hearn, President and CEO of Guaranteed Weather and President of the Weather Risk Management Association, Kansas City, MO

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


Session 1
Experiments Involving Observations, Real or Hypothetical: Data Impact Tests (Sensitivity of Forecasts to a Particular Source of Observations); Observing System Simulation Experiments (OSSEs) Part 1
Location: A405 (Georgia World Congress Center)
Host: 10th Symposium on Integrated Observing and Assimilation Systems for the Atmosphere, Oceans, and Land Surface (IOAS-AOLS)
Organizer: Tracy L. Smith, GSD/ESRL
  11:00 AM
1.2
Adaptive targeting OSSEs for planning a space-based Doppler Wind Lidar
G. D. Emmitt, Simpson Weather Associates, Charlottesville, VA; and S. A. Wood, S. Greco, M. Masutani, J. Woolen, Z. Toth, and Y. Song
  11:15 AM
1.3
The impact of MODIS SST composites on short-term regional forecasts
Katherine M. LaCasse, Univ. of Alabama, Huntsville, AL; and W. M. Lapenta, S. M. Lazarus, M. E. Splitt, G. J. Jedlovec, and S. L. Haines
  11:30 AM
1.4
The roles of Observing system simulation experiments at JCSDA and NCEP
Michiko Masutani, EMC, Camp Springs, MD; and J. F. LeMarshall, S. J. Lord, J. S. Woollen, R. Treadon, Y. Song, Z. Toth, and G. D. Emmitt
  11:45 AM
1.5
The impact of Terra, Aqua, TRMM, AVHRR, and dropsonde data on Hurricane Lili simulations
Patrick J. Fitzpatrick, Geosystems Research Institute, Stennis Space Center, MS; and Q. Xiao, Y. Lau, S. Bhates, N. Tran, E. Johnson, Y. Li, and X. Zhang

Session 1
Retrievals and Cloud Products: Part I
Location: A305 (Georgia World Congress Center)
Host: 14th Conference on Satellite Meteorology and Oceanography
Chair: Christopher S. Velden, CIMSS/Univ. of Wisconsin
  10:45 AM
1.1
Satellite Strategies for Earth Observations
Gregory Withee, NOAA/NESDIS, Silver Spring, MD
  11:15 AM
1.2
WMO Space Programme Implementation Activities
Donald E. Hinsman, WMO, Geneva, Switzerland

  11:30 AM
1.3
Recent developments in convective initiation forecasting using GOES and MODIS
John R. Mecikalski, University of Alabama, Huntsville, AL; and K. Bedka and S. J. Paech
  11:45 AM
1.4
Angular Dependence of Cloud Property Retrievals from Satellite Data
J. Kirk Ayers, AS&M, Hampton, VA; and P. Minnis, R. F. Arduini, P. W. Heck, W. L. Smith Jr., M. M. Khaiyer, L. Nguyen, and R. Palikonda

Session 2
International Applications Part I
Location: A412 (Georgia World Congress Center)
Host: 22nd International Conference on Interactive Information Processing Systems for Meteorology, Oceanography, and Hydrology
Cochairs: John Lincoln, Consultant; Howard J. Diamond, NOAA/NESDIS/NCDC
  11:15 AM
2.3
Decision aids products for forecasters
Antoine Lasserre-Bigorry, Météo-France, Toulouse Cedex, France; and P. Santurette, M. F. Voidrot, and B. Benech
  11:30 AM
2.4
  11:45 AM
2.5

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

10:45 AM-12:15 PM: Monday, 30 January 2006


Session 2
Aviation Weather Problems- Unmet User Needs
Location: A301 (Georgia World Congress Center)
Host: 12th Conference on Aviation Range and Aerospace Meteorology
Organizers: Lynn A. Sherretz, NOAA/FSL; Wayne R. Sand, Big Sky Weather Consulting
  10:45 AM
2.1
  11:15 AM
2.3
Unmet User Needs—General Aviation
Bruce Landsberg, Air Safety Foundation, Frederick, MD
  11:30 AM
2.4
Forecasts of Convection for Air Traffic Management Strategic Decision Making: Comparison of User Needs and Available Products
Thomas H. Fahey III, Northwest Airlines, Minneapolis, MN; and M. Phaneuf, T. B. Determined, M. W. Huberdeau, D. P. Morin, and D. L. Sims
  12:00 PM
2.6
Discussion


Session 2
System Implementation and Intervention Activities to Lessen Heat/Health Problems
Location: A310 (Georgia World Congress Center)
Host: Second Special Session on Heat Health
Organizer: Laurence S. Kalkstein, Univ. of Delaware
  10:45 AM
2.0
Hyperthermia Deaths of Children in Vehicles
Jan Null, San Francisco State University, Saratoga, CA, US Virgin Islands
  11:00 AM
2.1
A survey of the public perception and response to heat warnings and advisories
Scott C. Sheridan, Department of Geography, Kent State University, Kent, OH

  11:30 AM
2.3
EPA's Role in Saving Lives in Vulnerable Urban Areas
Jason Samenow, US Environmental Protection Agency, Washington, DC; and A. D. Perrin
  11:45 AM
2.4
  12:00 PM
2.5

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

1:29 PM-1:30 PM: Monday, 30 January 2006


Session
Forum Introduction
Location: A403 (Georgia World Congress Center)
Host: Fourth Annual User's Forum
  1:29 PM
Welcome
William P. Mahoney III, Chair, BEED, Boulder, CO

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

Session 2
ADVANCED MODELING OF DISPERSION AND AIR QUALITY ON ALL SCALES: Part II
Location: A407 (Georgia World Congress Center)
Host: 14th Joint Conference on the Applications of Air Pollution Meteorology with the Air and Waste Management Assoc
Chair: Jason K.S. Ching, NOAA/ARL/ASMD
  1:30 PM
2.1
An approach for incorporating sub-grid variability information into air quality modeling
Jason K. Ching, USEPA/ORD/NERL/AMD, Research Triangle Park, NC NC; and V. Isakov, M. A. Majeed, and J. S. Irwin
  1:45 PM
2.2
Direct linkage of meteorological data for WRF-NMM/CMAQ coupling
Hsin-mu Lin, STC, Hampton, VA and NOAA/ARL/ERL, Research Triangle Park, NC; and T. L. Otte, H. Y. Chuang, P. Lee, R. Mathur, J. E. Pleim, and D. W. Byun
  2:00 PM
2.3
Air Quality Modeling Sensitivity to PBL Scheme
Qi Mao, Tennessee Valley Authority, Muscle Shoals, AL; and L. L. Gautney, T. M. Cook, M. E. Jacobs, S. N. Smith, and J. J. Kelsoe
  2:15 PM
2.4

Session 2
ALL ASPECTS OF SPACE WEATHER WITH A PREFERENCE FOR THOSE THAT ADDRESS "IMPACTS": Part 2
Location: A406 (Georgia World Congress Center)
Host: Third Symposium on Space Weather
Chairs: Richard Behnke, NSF; Robert McCoy, Office of Naval Research
  1:30 PM
2.1
  1:45 PM
2.2
  2:00 PM
2.3
Telecommunication system vulnerabilities to space-weather events
John Michael Goodman Sr., Radio Propagation Services, Inc., Alexandria, VA
  2:15 PM
2.4

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

Session 2
K-12 Educational Outreach Activities for Space Weather
Location: A402 (Georgia World Congress Center)
Host: 15th Symposium on Education
Cochairs: David R. Smith, United States Naval Academy; Genene M. Fisher, AMS
  1:30 PM
2.1
Windows to the Universe: A growing educational resource with new climate and space weather content, Spanish-language pages, and ways to collaborate
Roberta Johnson, UCAR, Boulder, CO; and L. Gardiner, R. Russell, M. LaGrave, J. Genyuk, J. Bergman, and T. Metcalfe
  2:00 PM
2.2
Education and Public Outreach with a NASA Space Weather Mission (SDO)
Emilie Drobnes, NASA, Greenbelt, Maryland; and D. Scherrer, W. D. Pesnell, and B. Thompson
  2:15 PM
2.3
NASA's THEMIS Mission and the Involvement of Schools
N. Craig, Univ. of California, Berkeley, CA; and L. M. Peticolas

Session 2
Retrievals and Cloud Products 2
Location: A305 (Georgia World Congress Center)
Host: 14th Conference on Satellite Meteorology and Oceanography
Chair: Arlene Laing, NCAR
  1:30 PM
2.1
Terra product fusion for improved cloud mask and cloud top heights
Iliana Genkova, Univ. of Illinois, Urbana, IL; and L. Di Girolamo

  2:30 PM
2.2A
  2:45 PM
2.3A
Upper Tropospheric Divergence in Tropical Convective Systems from Meteosat-8 (Formerly P1.38)
Johannes Schmetz, EUMETSAT, Darmstadt, Germany; and R. Borde, K. Holmlund, and M. König

Session 2
VAMOS Ocean-Cloud-Atmosphere-Land Studies (VOCALS) I
Location: A309 (Georgia World Congress Center)
Host: 14th Conference on Interaction of the Sea and Atmosphere
Chair: Carlos R. Mechoso, Univ. of California
  1:30 PM
2.1
The VOCALS Program - Ocean Dynamics, Stratocumulus and Climate in the Southeast Pacific
Christopher S. Bretherton, Univ.of Washington, Seattle, WA; and R. A. Weller and C. R. Mechoso
  1:45 PM
2.2
Coupled Simulations by the UCLA AGCM with a new PBL Parameterization and the MIT OGCM: Sensitivity to the AGCM Resolution
Gabriel Cazes-Boezio, Univ. of California, Los Angeles, CA; and C. S. Konor, A. Arakawa, and C. R. Mechoso
  2:00 PM
2.3
Regional climate dynamics and remote tropical influences for subtropical eastern oceanic boundaries
James C. McWilliams, Univ. of California, Los Angeles, CA; and X. Capet, F. Colas, A. Hall, W. Large, and G. Danabasoglu
  2:15 PM
2.4
Low-level coastal jet off central Chile: Climatology, dynamics, and associated cloud/SST properties
René Garreaud, Universidad de Chile, Santiago, Chile; and R. Muñoz and J. Rullant

1:30 PM-3:00 PM: Monday, 30 January 2006


Session 1
Session A: Energy Industry
Location: A403 (Georgia World Congress Center)
Host: Fourth Annual User's Forum
Organizer: John Lasley, SAIC
  1:30 PM
1.1
Overall U.S. Economic Sensitivity to Weather
Jeff Lazo, NCAR/Societal and Economic Benefits Program, Boulder, CO
  2:00 PM
1.2
Role and Impact of Weather at the Tennessee Valley Authority
Patrick Walshe, Energy Supply Operations, Chattanooga, TN
  2:30 PM
1.3
Role and Impact of Weather at Shell
Robert Mulloy, Shell Trading Gas and Power, Houston, TX

1:30 PM-5:00 PM: Monday, 30 January 2006


Session 2
AMS Bernhard Haurwitz and Walter Orr Roberts Lectures
Location: A314 (Georgia World Congress Center)
Host: 18th Conference on Climate Variability and Change
  3:30 PM
2.1a
Formal Poster Viewing


Session 4
International Applications Part II
Location: A412 (Georgia World Congress Center)
Host: 22nd International Conference on Interactive Information Processing Systems for Meteorology, Oceanography, and Hydrology
Cochairs: John Lincoln, Consultant; Howard J. Diamond, NOAA/NESDIS/NCDC
  1:30 PM
4.1
  2:00 PM
4.3
Pacific Island Global Climate Observing System basic instrument project: High quality tipping bucket raingauges
Mark L. Morrissey, Univ. of Oklahoma, Norman, OK; and D. Solofa, R. Pulehetoa, J. Napat, Faanunu, and S. Postawko
  2:15 PM
4.4
  2:30 PM
4.5
Data Products from CPTEC Available on The IDD-BRASIL
Waldenio Gambi de Almeida, CPTEC/INPE, Cachoeira Paulista, S.P., Brazil; and A. A. Lima, A. S. A. Pessoa, A. L. T. Ferreira, A. B. Júnior, D. G. Coelho, G. O. Chagas, L. A. Carvalho, M. V. Mendes, M. G. Justi, and T. Yoksas
  2:45 PM
4.6
Upgrades to the MSC's National Climate and Water Archives
Chantale Cerny, MSC, Toronto, ON, Canada; and T. H. Sopoco and K. Tiongson
  3:15 PM
4.8
  3:30 PM
4.4A
Formal Poster Veiwing with Coffee Break

1:30 PM-5:30 PM: Monday, 30 January 2006


Joint Session 1
LAND-ATMOSPHERE INTERACTIONS: Soil Moisture Feedback and Modeling Studies (Joint with 18th Conference on Climate Variability and Change and 20th Conference on Hydrology)
Location: A313 (Georgia World Congress Center)
Hosts: (Joint between the 18th Conference on Climate Variability and Change; and the 20th Conference on Hydrology )
Cochairs: Yongkang Xue, Univ. of California; Randal D. Koster, NASA/GSFC
  1:30 PM
J1.1
High-Resolution Convective Modeling using WRF and GCE coupled to LIS
Christa D. Peters-Lidard, NASA/GSFC, Greenbelt, MD; and W. K. Tao, S. V. Kumar, J. L. Eastman, X. Zeng, S. E. Lang, Y. Tian, and P. R. Houser

  1:45 PM
J1.2
  2:00 PM
J1.3
Numerical Simulation of the 2004 North American Monsoon sensitivity to surface data
Michael Bosilovich, NASA/GSFC, Greenbelt, MD; and J. D. Chern, K. R. Arsenault, P. R. Houser, and J. D. Radakovich

  2:30 PM
J1.5
Land-atmosphere coupling and climate variability in future-climate scenarios for the European continent
Sonia I. Seneviratne, ETH, Zuerich, Switzerland; and D. Luthi, P. Vidale, and C. Schar
  3:00 PM
J1.7
Soil moisture—atmosphere interactions during the 2003 European summer heatwave
Erich M. Fischer, ETH, Zurich, Switzerland; and S. Seneviratne, D. Luethi, C. Schaer, and P. Vidale
  3:30 PM
J1.9
Effects of solar dimming on soil moisture trends
Alan Robock, Rutgers Univ., New Brunswick, NJ; and H. Li
  3:45 PM
J1.10
Assessing Land Memory in the GSWP2 Simulations and Association to Global Recycling Estimates
C. Adam Schlosser, MIT, Cambridge, MA; and P. A. Dirmeyer and K. L. Brubaker
  4:00 PM
J1.4A
Formal Poster Viewing with Coffee Break


Session 2
Experiments Involving Observations, Real or Hypothetical: Data Impact Tests (Sensitivity of Forecasts to a Particular Source of Observations); Observing System Simulation Experiments (OSSEs) Part 2
Location: A405 (Georgia World Congress Center)
Host: 10th Symposium on Integrated Observing and Assimilation Systems for the Atmosphere, Oceans, and Land Surface (IOAS-AOLS)
Organizers: John Manobianco, ENSCO Inc.; Dave Emmitt, Simpson Weather Associates, Inc.
  1:30 PM
2.1
Feasibility of a 100 year reanalysis using only surface pressure data
Gilbert P. Compo, NOAA-CIRES Climate Diagnostics Center, Boulder, CO; and J. S. Whitaker and P. D. Sardeshmukh
  1:45 PM
2.2
Operational Assimilation of GPS-IPW observations in the 13-km RUC at NCEP
Tracy Lorraine Smith, CIRA/Colorado State Univ., Ft. Collins, and NOAA/FSL, Boulder, CO; and S. G. Benjamin, S. I. Gutman, S. Sahm, and K. L. Holub
  2:00 PM
2.3
Assimilation of ground-based GPS observations in the Canadian Regional Analysis and Forecast System
Stephen R. Macpherson, MSC, Dorval, QC, Canada; and G. Deblonde and J. Aparicio
  2:30 PM
2.5
Regional Forecast Impacts from GEMS Observations
John Manobianco, ENSCO Inc., Melbourne, FL; and J. G. Dreher
  3:00 PM
2.7
Adaptive Observation Strategies with the Local Ensemble Transform Kalman Filter
Junjie Liu, University of Maryland, College Park, MD, College Park, MD; and E. Kalnay and T. Miyoshi
  3:15 PM
2.8
Assimilation of Diverse Meteorological Datasets with a Four-Dimensional Mesoscale Analysis and Forecast System
Yubao Liu, NCAR, Boulder, CO; and F. Vandenberghe, A. N. Hahmann, W. Yu, T. T. Warner, and S. P. Swerdlin
  3:30 PM
2.9
Evaluation of land surface spin-up and their impacts on hi-resolution convective modeling
Joseph L. Eastman, GEST/UMBC, Greenbelt, MD; and C. Peters-Lidard, S. V. Kumar, Y. Tian, and P. R. Houser
  3:45 PM
2.10
Sensitivity of WRF forecasts for south Florida to initial and boundary Conditions
Brian Etherton, University of North Carolina, Charlotte, NC; and P. Santos
  4:15 PM
2.4b
Formal Poster Viewing with Coffee Break


Session 3
Global Meteorological and Hydrological Service Updates Part II
Location: A411 (Georgia World Congress Center)
Host: 22nd International Conference on Interactive Information Processing Systems for Meteorology, Oceanography, and Hydrology
Cochairs: Fred R. Branski, NOAA/NWS; Jim Cooper, Earth Satellite Corporation
  1:30 PM
3.1
DoD1- AFWA Meteorological and Hydrological Services Update
John M. Lanicci, Air Force Weather Agency, Offutt AFB, NE
  2:00 PM
3.2
DoD2 –USN Meteorological and Hydrological Services Update
Timothy McGee, Naval Meteorology and Oceanography, Stennis Space Center, MS

  2:30 PM
3.3
Intl1– WMO Services Update
Michel Jarraud, WMO, Geneva, Switzerland; and D. M. Goodrich
  3:00 PM
3.4
  4:00 PM
3.2A
Formal Poster Viewing with Coffee Break

1:30 PM-5:45 PM: Monday, 30 January 2006


Joint Session 1
Comparison and Evaluation of Urban Land Surface Schemes for Mesoscale Models (Joint with 6th Symposium on the Urban Environment and Forum on Managing our Physical and Natural Resources)
Location: A315 (Georgia World Congress Center)
Hosts: (Joint between the Sixth Symposium on the Urban Environment; and the AMS Forum: Managing our Physical and Natural Resources: Successes and Challenges )
Cochairs: Sue Grimmond, Kings College; Steven R. Hanna, Harvard Univ.
  1:30 PM
J1.1
Evaluation of an urban surface exchange parameterization for mesoscale models
Alberto Martilli, CIEMAT, Madrid, Spain; and Y. A. Roulet and C. Muller
  1:45 PM
J1.2
Application of meso-scale atmospheric modeling to the comparison of urban processes above North-American and European cities
Aude Lemonsu, EC, Dorval, QC, Canada; and J. Hidalgo, S. Belair, J. Mailhot, V. Masson, and C. Pelletier
  2:00 PM
J1.3
Impact of Using the Urban Canopy Model on the Simulation of the Heat Island of Tokyo
Hiroyuki Kusaka, Central Research Institute of Electric Power Industry, Abiko, Japan; and F. Chen and M. Tewari

  2:15 PM
J1.4
  2:30 PM
J1.5
Simple urban energy balance model for meso-scale simulations (SUMM)
Manabu Kanda, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Tokyo, , Japan; and T. Kawai, R. Moriwaki, K. I. Narita, and A. Hagishima
  3:00 PM
J1.7
Experimental and Model-Computed Area-Averaged Vertical Profiles of Wind Speed for Evaluation of Mesoscale Urban Canopy Schemes
Michael J. Brown, LANL, Los Alamos, NM; and A. Gowardhan, S. U. Pol, P. Klein, M. A. Nelson, A. Huber, S. Kim, W. Coirier, and M. Freeman
  3:15 PM
J1.8
Development of an urban parameterization for a global climate model
Keith Oleson, NCAR, Boulder, CO; and G. Bonan and J. Feddema
  3:30 PM
J1.9
Urban uMM5 land-use patterns and its effects on Houston UHI strength
Rochelle Balmori, San Jose State Univ., San Jose, CA; and R. Bornstein, M. Voss, and H. Taha
  3:45 PM
J1.10
Mesoscale modeling of Atlanta, GA utilizing a new high-resolution landcover data set
William L. Crosson, USRA, Huntsville, AL; and M. G. Estes Jr., M. Khan, W. Lapenta, and D. A. Quattrochi

  4:15 PM
J1.4A
Formal Poster Viewing With Coffee Break


Session 3
FAA Aviation Weather Research Program
Location: A301 (Georgia World Congress Center)
Host: 12th Conference on Aviation Range and Aerospace Meteorology
Organizer: Gloria J. Kulesa, FAA
  1:30 PM
3.1
  1:45 PM
3.2
Recent success stories from the Inflight Icing PDT
Marcia K. Politovich, NCAR, Boulder, CO; and B. C. Bernstein
  2:00 PM
3.3
The FAA AWRP Turbulence PDT
Robert D. Sharman, NCAR, Boulder, CO; and L. Cornman, J. K. Williams, S. E. Koch, and W. R. Moninger
  2:15 PM
3.4
  2:30 PM
3.5
Advanced weather radar techniques: progress and future opportunities
Kimberly L. Elmore, CIMMS/Univ. of Oklahoma, Norman, OK; and G. Meymaris, T. L. Schneider, and D. J. Smalley
  2:45 PM
3.6
Winter Weather PDT
Roy Rasmussen, NCAR, Boulder, CO
  3:00 PM
3.7
FAA AWRP Convective Weather Product Development Team
Marilyn M. Wolfson, MIT, Lexington, MA; and C. K. Mueller
  3:15 PM
3.8
Terminal and national ceiling and visibility PDTs
David A. Clark, MIT, Lexington, MA; and P. H. Herzegh
  3:30 PM
3.9
Oceanic PDT
Cathy Kessinger, NCAR, Boulder, Colorado
  3:45 PM
3.10
  4:00 PM
3.4A
Formal Poster Viewing with Coffee Break

  5:30 PM
3.8A

1:45 PM-2:45 PM: Monday, 30 January 2006


Session 2
Gridded Forecasts, Their Production and Use
Location: A304 (Georgia World Congress Center)
Host: 18th Conference on Probability and Statistics in the Atmospheric Sciences
Cochairs: Christopher Daly, Oregon State Univ.; Barbara Casati, MSC
  1:45 PM
2.1
Gridded MOS--Techniques, Status, and Plans
Bob Glahn, NOAA/NWS, Silver Spring, MD; and J. P. Dallavalle
  2:15 PM
2.2
Evaluation of NDFD and downscaled NCEP forecasts in the Intermountain West
Brandon C. Moore, University of Idaho, Moscow, ID; and V. P. Walden, T. R. Blandford, B. Harshburger, and K. Humes
  2:45 PM
2.3a
Probabilistic Forecasts Based on "Reforecasts"
Tom Hamill, NOAA/ERL/CDC, Boulder, CO; and J. S. Whitaker

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


Poster Session 1
Retrievals and Cloud Products
Location: Exhibit Hall A2 (Georgia World Congress Center)
Host: 14th Conference on Satellite Meteorology and Oceanography
 
P1.1
Clouds in the extreme: challenging satellite retrievals of atmospheric properties
Erica L. Key, Univ. of Miami/RSMAS, Miami, FL; and P. J. Minnett

 
P1.2
Cloud detection: Reseaching the 1 percent requirement
Steven A. Ackerman, CIMSS/Univ. of Wisconsin, Madison, WI; and R. A. Frey, E. Eloranta, and R. Holz

 
P1.3
Retrieval of optical thickness and effective radius of low-level water cloud using the split window data of Meteosat-8
Toshiro Inoue, MRI, Tsukuba, Ibaraki, Japan; and K. Kawamoto, H. J. Lutz, and J. Schmetz

 
P1.4
New Method for Retrieving Liquid Water Path over Land using AMSR-E Observations
Merritt N. Deeter, NCAR, Boulder, CO; and J. Vivekanandan

Poster PDF (745.6 kB)

 
P1.6
Validation of satellite derived CONUS cloud top pressure using cloud physics lidar data from the ATReC field campaign
Sarah Bedka, CIMSS/Univ. of Wisconsin, Madison, WI; and W. F. Feltz, A. J. Schreiner, and R. Holz

Poster PDF (107.2 kB)

 
P1.7
Cloud optical and microphysical properties derived from satellite data
Cristian Mitrescu, NRL, Monterey, CA; and S. D. Miller and R. H. Wade

Poster PDF (650.6 kB)

 
P1.9
Use of Markov chain Monte Carlo sampling methods to assess and improve variational MODIS cloud retrievals
Derek J. Posselt, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI; and T. S. L'Ecuyer and G. L. Stephens

Poster PDF (2.1 MB)

 
P1.10
Cloud detection and property retrieval across the day/night terminator
Gary B. Gustafson, AER, Lexington, MA; and R. P. D'Entremont

Poster PDF (475.6 kB)

 
P1.11
Arctic winter high spectral resolution cloud height retrievals
Robert Holz, CIMSS/Univ. of Wisconsin, Madison, WI; and S. A. Ackerman

Poster PDF (2.8 MB)

 
P1.12
Using time continuity for sounding retrieval from GOES data
Zhenglong Li, CIMSS/Univ. of Wisconsin, Madison, WI; and J. Li and W. P. Menzel

Poster PDF (2.1 MB)

 
P1.13
Synergy use of microwave and hyperspectral IR measurements for hurricane study
Xuebao Wu, CIMSS/Univ. of Wisconsin, Madison, WI; and J. Li, A. Huang, and P. Menzel

 
P1.14
Some aspects of AIRS sounding retrieval and their impact on IMAPP products
Pradeep Thapliyal, CIMSS/Univ. of Wisconsin, Madison, WI; and H. L. Huang and J. Li

 
P1.15
Over ocean atmospheric validation of AIRS derived temperature/moisture profiles
Wayne F. Feltz, CIMSS/Univ. of Wisconsin, Madison, WI; and J. Cychosz, R. O. Knuteson, K. Vinson, P. J. Minnett, and N. R. Nalli

Poster PDF (2.2 MB)

 
P1.16
Cloud-clearing for AIRS radiances using MODIS
Chian-Yi Liu, CIMSS/Univ. of Wisconsin, Madison, WI; and J. Li, H. L. Huang, and T. J. Schmit

Poster PDF (204.8 kB)

 
P1.17
Cloud Top Pressure from a Subset of AIRS Channels
Will McCarty, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD; and G. J. Jedlovec

Poster PDF (912.0 kB)

 
P1.18
Atmospheric profiles over land and ocean from AMSU
John M. Forsythe, CIRA/Colorado State Univ., Fort Collins, CO; and K. M. Donofrio, R. W. Kessler, A. S. Jones, C. L. Combs, P. Shott, and T. H. Vonder Haar

Poster PDF (651.2 kB)

 
P1.19
Rainfall estimation over the Taiwan Island from TRMM/TMI data
Wann-Jin Chen, Dept. of environmental information and engineering, Chung Cheng Institute of Technology/National Defense Univ., Tahsi, Taoyuan, Taiwan; and M. D. Tsai, G. R. Liu, J. C. Hu, and M. H. Chang

Poster PDF (1.3 MB)

 
P1.20
Over-ocean rainfall retrieval from TRMM/TMI data during the Typhoon season
Jen-Chi Hu, School of Defense Science, Chung Cheng Institute of Technology and NDU, Tahsi, Taoyuan, Taiwan; and W. J. Chen, G. R. Liu, M. D. Tsai, and M. H. Chang

Poster PDF (293.7 kB)

 
P1.21
New technique for cloud model controlled precipitation retrieval: Cloud Dynamics and Radiation Database (CDRD) data mining applications at global and regional scales
Joseph A. Hoch, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI; and C. M. Medaglia, A. V. Mehta, A. Mugnai, E. A. Smith, and G. J. Tripoli

Poster PDF (2.6 MB)

 
P1.22
Improvements of CMORPH resulting from limb adjustments and normalization of AMSU-B rainfall
Robert J. Joyce, Wyle Information Systems and NOAA/NWS/NCEP/CPC, Boca Raton, FL; and R. R. Ferraro

Poster PDF (169.8 kB)

 
P1.23
Histogram matching of ASMR-E and TMI brightness temperatures
Thomas A. Jones, University of Alabama, Huntsville, AL; and D. Cecil

Poster PDF (697.7 kB)

 
P1.24
Developing a Remotely Sensed Rainfall Retrieval Algorithm using Multi-Spectral Information
Cecilia Hernandez-Aldarondo, NOAA/Cooperative Remote Sensing Science and Technology Center, New York, NY; and S. Mahani and R. Khanbilvardi

 
P1.25
Integration of observations for detection of aircraft icing conditions during AIRS2: Comparisons of microphysical parameters
Ismail Gultepe, Environment Canada, Toronto, ON, Canada; and G. A. Isaac, P. Minnis, and J. K. Ayers

Poster PDF (456.9 kB)

 
P1.26
Estimation of ocean surface emissivity in AMSU channels: comparison with existing models
Jean-Luc Moncet, AER, Lexington, MA; and T. Meissner, J. Eluszkiewicz, P. Liang, and G. Uymin

 
P1.27
A land surface emissivity database for conically scanning microwave sensors
Jean-Luc Moncet, AER, Lexington, MA; and C. Grassotti, J. F. Galantowicz, A. Lipton, P. Liang, and R. Aschbrenner

Poster PDF (1.7 MB)

 
P1.28
Hyperspectral IR two-layer cloud fast forward model - LY2G
Xuanji Wang Sr., CIMSS/Univ. of Wisconsin, Madison, WI; and J. E. Davies, H. L. Huang, E. R. Olson, J. A. Otkin, P. Yang, H. Wei, J. Niu, and D. D. Turner

 
P1.29
Determination of Ice Water Path in Ice-Over-Water Cloud Systems Using Combined MODIS and AMSR-E Measurements
Jianping Huang, AS&M, Hampton, VA; and P. Minnis, B. Lin, Y. Yi, T. F. Fan, S. Sun-Mack, R. F. Arduini, and J. K. Ayers

Poster PDF (271.6 kB)

 
P1.30
A technique for computing hydrometeor effective radius in bins of a gamma distribution
Lewis Grasso, CIRA/Colorado State Univ., Fort Collins, CO; and M. Sengupta and D. T. Lindsey

Poster PDF (93.3 kB)

 
P1.32
Connecting the global hydrological and energy cycles: A new approach to measuring cloud ice mass from earth viewing satellites
Steven A. Ackerman, CIMSS/Univ. of Wisconsin, Madison, WI; and D. O. Starr, K. F. Evans, and H. E. Revercomb

 
P1.33
Comparisons of EOS MLS Cloud Ice Measurements with ECMWF analyses and GCM Simulations: Initial Results
Jui-Lin Li, JPL, Pasadena, CA; and D. E. Waliser, J. H. Jiang, W. G. Read, A. M. Tompkins, D. L. Wu, J. W. Waters, L. Donner, J. D. Chern, W. K. Tao, R. Atlas, K. N. Liou, Y. Gu, D. Genio, M. F. Khairoutdinov, and A. Gettelman

 
P1.34
Retrieving cirrus vertical cross sections of extinction, effective particle size, and ice-water content using GOES imager data
Robert P. D'Entremont, AER, Lexington, MA; and G. B. Gustafson and D. L. Mitchell

Poster PDF (921.0 kB)

 
P1.35
P1.35 moved to present in place of 2.2A.

 
P1.37
Possible thin cirrus cloud contamination of MODIS clear-sky pixels
Christopher Rogers Yost, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX; and P. Yang, S. L. Nasiri, and B. A. Baum

 
P1.38
P1.38 moved to present in place 2.3A.


Joint Poster Session 1
Urban Environment Posters (JOINT WITH 6th Symposium on the Urban Environment and FORUM ON MANAGING OUR PHYSICAL AND NATURAL RESOURCES)
Location: Exhibit Hall A2 (Georgia World Congress Center)
Hosts: (Joint between the Sixth Symposium on the Urban Environment; and the AMS Forum: Managing our Physical and Natural Resources: Successes and Challenges )
 
JP1.1
WBGT Forecasts for Preventing Heat Strokes in Japan
Michihiko Tonouchi, Japan Meteorological Business Support Center, Tokyo, Japan; and K. Murayama and M. Ono

Poster PDF (129.6 kB)

 
JP1.2
IMPLEMENTATION OF A NEW ROOFTOP RECIRCULATION PARAMETERIZATION INTO THE QUIC FAST RESPONSE URBAN WIND MODEL
Suhas U. Pol, LANL, Los Alamos, NM; and N. L. Bagal, B. Singh, M. J. Brown, and E. Pardyjak

Poster PDF (478.1 kB)

 
JP1.3
The numerical experiment of the energy and CO2 imbalance problem using LES
A. Inagaki, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Tokyo, Japan; and G. Steinfeld, S. Raasch, and M. Kanda

Poster PDF (1.2 MB)

 
JP1.5
The effects of an urban heat island on two small cities in New York
Christopher Thuman, Rutgers University-Newark, Clifton Park, NY

 
JP1.6
Numerical simulations of the urban boundary layer observed during Joint Urban 2003
Claude Pelletier, MSC, Dorval, QC, Canada; and J. Mailhot, S. Belair, and A. Lemonsu

 
JP1.7
Retrieval of aerosol optical depths, Angström exponent, and single scattering albedo in the UV at Atlanta, Georgia, USA
Jeral G. Estupiñán, Georgia Tech & The Weather Channel, Atlanta, GA; and M. H. Bergin

 
JP1.9
 
JP1.10
Numerical prediction of heat island mitigation effect on decrease in air temperature in Tokyo
Hidetoshi Tamura, Central Research Institute of Electric Power Industry, Abiko-shi, Chiba-ken, Japan; and K. Ishii, H. Yokoyama, T. Iwatsubo, H. Hirakuchi, H. Ando, T. Yamaguchi, T. Mikami, M. Ichino, and Y. Akiyama

Poster PDF (512.9 kB)

 
JP1.11
Mitigation of Thermal Environment by Cheonggye Stream Restoration in Seoul, Korea
Hae-Jung Koo, Meteorological Research Institute, Seoul, South Korea; and Y. H. Kim and J. C. Nam

Poster PDF (237.6 kB)

 
JP1.12
Local-scale heat storage estimation: results from suburban Oklahoma City
Valerie J. Anderson, Indiana Univ., Bloomington, IN; and C. S. B. Grimmond

 
JP1.13
Paper JP1.13 has been mover to Session 5, New Paper Number 5.9A


Poster Session 1
VAMOS Ocean-Cloud-Atmosphere-Land Studies (VOCALS)
Location: Exhibit Hall A2 (Georgia World Congress Center)
Host: 14th Conference on Interaction of the Sea and Atmosphere
Chair: Carlos R. Mechoso, Univ. of California
 
P1.1
Mesoscale stratocumulus cloud patterns around San Felix Island
David A. Painemal, Universidad de Chile, Santiago, Chile; and J. A. Rutllant and R. D. Garreaud

Poster PDF (241.3 kB)

 
P1.2
Monitoring the Air-Sea Interface under the Chile-Peru Stratus
Keir Colbo, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole, MA; and R. A. Weller

 
P1.3
Diurnal variability of the cloud field over the VOCALS domain from GOES imagery
Jose M. Galvez, Univ. of Oklahoma, Norman, OK; and R. Orozco and M. W. Douglas

Poster PDF (2.9 MB)

 
P1.4
Offshore transport episodes of anthropogenic sulfur in northern Chile: potential impact on the stratocumulus cloud deck
Nicolás Huneeus, Univ.of Lille, Villeneuve d'Ascq, France; and L. Gallardo and J. A. Rutllant

Poster PDF (232.9 kB)

 
P1.5
The sensitivity of Peruvian stratocumulus to the large-scale environment
Ingo Richter, Univ.of Caifornia, Los Angeles, CA; and C. R. Mechoso

 
P1.6
Impact of Estimates of Initial Ocean State on ENSO Forecasts
Gabriel Cazes-Boezio, Univ. of California, Los Angeles, CA; and D. Menemenlis and C. R. Mechoso


Poster Session 2
Coupled Ocean-Atmosphere Basin-Scale and Decadal Variability
Location: Exhibit Hall A2 (Georgia World Congress Center)
Host: 14th Conference on Interaction of the Sea and Atmosphere
Chair: Daniel J. Vimont, Univ. of Wisconsin
 
P2.1
Variability of monthly FSU wind stress and heat fluxes over the Atlantic Ocean
Paul J. Hughes, COAPS/ Florida State Univ., Tallahassee, FL; and M. A. Bourassa, J. J. O'Brien, and S. R. Smith

 
P2.2
Spatial Variability of Random Error and Biases in the FSU3 Winds
M. A. Bourassa, COAPS/Florida State Univ., Tallahassee, FL; and S. R. Smith

 
P2.3
The Impact of Ekman Transport on Air-Sea Interaction in the North Pacific during ENSO
Michael Alexander, NOAA/CIRES/CDC, Boulder, CO; and J. D. Scott

 
P2.4
Identification of El Niño's dynamical regime in the Climate Forecast System
Cecile Penland, NOAA/ERL/CDC, Boulder, CO; and S. Saha

 
P2.5
Spatial and Temporal Structure of ENSO in 20th Century Climate Simulations
Antonietta Capotondi, CIRES/Univ. of Colorado, Boulder, CO

 
P2.6
Seasonal characteristrics of air-sea coupled process and their implication on predictability
Kyung Emilia Jin, COLA, Calverton, MD; and I. S. Kang and J. L. Kinter III

 
P2.7
Coupled Air Sea Interaction in the South Pacific
Niklas Schneider, Univ. of Hawaii, Honolulu, HI

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)


Poster Session 1
Atmospheric Chemistry Posters
Location: Exhibit Hall A2 (Georgia World Congress Center)
Host: Eighth Conference on Atmospheric Chemistry
 
P1.1
Photopolarimetric measurements in the Atlanta metropolitan area, and their potential for improving characterization of absorbing aerosols
Bryan M. Karpowicz, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA; and I. N. Sokolik, R. J. Greenwald, R. Peltier, R. Weber, and M. Bergin

 
P1.2
Numerical Simulation of Long Distance Transportation of Volcano Ash from Pinatubo
Jiqing Tan Sr., Zhejiang Univ., Hangzhou, Zhejiang Provinc, China; and J. Xu Jr.

Poster PDF (350.3 kB)

 
P1.4
 
P1.5
Evaluating the sources characteristics of measured oxygenated volatile organic compounds using factor analysis
Changsub Shim, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA; and Y. Wang

 
P1.7
Case Study of the Late July 2005 Ground-Level Ozone Episode in North Carolina
Nicholas C. Witcraft, North Carolina Division of Air Quality, Raleigh, NC; and G. M. Bridgers, B. Do, P. O' Reilly, and L. Marufu

Poster PDF (1.6 MB)

 
P1.8
Atmospheric Composition Data Products from the EOS Aura MLS
Suraiya P. Ahmad, NASA/GSFC, Greenbelt, MD; and J. W. Waters, J. E. Johnson, I. V. Gerasimov, G. G. Leptoukh, and S. J. Kempler

Poster PDF (702.0 kB)

 
P1.9
Analysis of air pollutant transport to Class I Areas Using Multiple Satellite Products and In Situ Ground Based Measurements
Nikisa Jordan, JCET/Univ. of Maryland Baltimore County, Baltimore, MD; and K. J. McCann, R. M. Hoff, and J. Engel-Cox

Poster PDF (386.1 kB)

 
P1.11
A Web Based Tool for Visualization and Analysis of Atmospheric Composition Data
James E. Johnson, NASA/GSFC, Greenbelt, MD; and S. P. Ahmad, T. Zhu, I. Gerasimov, G. Leptoukh, and S. Kempler

Poster PDF (523.0 kB)


Poster Session 1
FAA Aviation Weather Research Program Posters
Location: Exhibit Hall A2 (Georgia World Congress Center)
Host: 12th Conference on Aviation Range and Aerospace Meteorology
 
P1.1
The WVSS-II: A commercial aircraft sensor for water vapor information
Rex J. Fleming, Global Aerospace,LLC, Boulder, CO; and R. D. May

 
P1.2
Activities of the AWRP Model Development & Enhancement PDT
Steven E. Koch, NOAA/FSL, Boulder, CO

 
P1.3
Inflight Icing PDT
Marcia K. Politovich, NCAR, Boulder, CO

 
P1.4
The Advanced Weather Radar and In-Flight Icing product development team winter weather polarimetric radar demonstration
Kimberly L. Elmore, CIMMS/Univ. of Oklahoma, Norman, OK; and M. K. Politovich

 
P1.5
Clear-air turbulence nowcasting and forecasting using in-situ turbulence measurements
Jennifer A. Abernethy, NCAR, Boulder, CO; and R. D. Sharman

Poster PDF (322.7 kB)

 
P1.6
Evaluating effectiveness of the FAA's CIT avoidance guidelines
John K. Williams, NCAR, Boulder, CO; and J. K. Wolff, A. Cotter, and R. D. Sharman

Poster PDF (973.6 kB)

 
P1.7
Aviation Forecasts PDT
Lynn Sherretz, NOAA/ESRL, Boulder, CO; and C. Wallace

 
P1.8
Single Radar Cartesian Grid and Adaptive Radar Mosaic System
Jian Zhang, CIMMS/Univ. of Oklahoma, Norman, OK; and K. Howard and S. Wang

 
P1.9
Gap-filling in 3D radar mosaic analysis using vertical profile of reflectivity
Jian Zhang, CIMMS/Univ. of Oklahoma, Norman, OK; and C. Langston and B. Clarke

 
P1.10
Synchronization of Multiple Radar Observations in 3D Radar Mosaic
Hongping Yang, Wuhan Institute of Heavy Rain, CMA, Wuhan, Hubei, China; and J. Zhang, C. Langston, and S. Wang

Poster PDF (2.9 MB)

 
P1.11
Winter Weather Research Product Development Team Update
Roy M. Rasmussen, NCAR, Boulder, CO; and F. Hage

 
P1.13
 
P1.15
 
P1.16
 
P1.17
Development of FAA National Ceiling and Visibility products: Challenges, strategies and progress
Paul Herzegh, NCAR, Boulder, CO; and G. Wiener, R. Bankert, S. Benjamin, R. Bateman, J. Cowie, M. Hadjimichael, M. Tryhane, and B. Weekley

Poster PDF (344.1 kB)

 
P1.18
 
P1.19
The FAA AWRP Oceanic Weather Program Development Team
Cathy Kessinger, UCAR, Boulder, CO; and P. Herzegh, G. Blackburn, R. Sharman, G. Wiener, B. Hendrickson, K. Levesque, J. Craig, T. Tsui, J. Hawkins, R. Bankert, E. R. Williams, M. F. Donovan, G. P. Ellrod, R. E. Kistler, and D. Fleming

Poster PDF (332.0 kB)

 
P1.20
The Identification and Verification of Hazardous Convective Cells Over Oceans Using Visible and Infrared Satellite Observations
Michael Donovan, MIT, Lexington, MA; and E. R. Williams, C. Kessinger, G. Blackburn, P. H. Herzegh, R. L. Bankert, S. D. Miller, and F. R. Mosher

Poster PDF (1.7 MB)

 
P1.21
A comparison of the Cloud Top Height Product (CTOP) and cloud-top heights derived from satellite, rawinsonde and radar
Lacey D. Holland, UCAR, Boulder, CO; and A. Takacs, B. Brown, E. Gilleland, R. Hueftle, and J. Wolff

Poster PDF (1.5 MB)

 
P1.22
Comparing the FAA Cloud Top Height product and the NESDIS/CIMSS Cloud Top Pressure product in oceanic regions
Sean Madine, NOAA/FSL/CIRA/Colorado State Univ., Boulder, CO; and M. P. Kay and J. Mahoney

Poster PDF (433.8 kB)

 
P1.23
A case study analysis of the Cloud-Top Height Product (CTOP) during the landfall of Hurricane Frances
Jamie K. Wolff, NCAR, Boulder, CO; and L. Holland, B. Brown, R. Hueftle, and A. Takacs

Poster PDF (917.8 kB)

 
P1.24
The FAA Aviation Weather Research Program's Quality Assessment Product Development Team
Jennifer Mahoney, NOAA Forecast Systems Laboratory, Boulder, CO; and B. G. Brown

 
P1.11A
FAA AWRP Convective Weather Product Development Team Poster
Marilyn Wolfson, MIT Lincoln Laboratory, Lexington, MA; and C. K. Mueller


Poster Session 1
IIPS Poster Session I
Location: Exhibit Hall A2 (Georgia World Congress Center)
Host: 22nd International Conference on Interactive Information Processing Systems for Meteorology, Oceanography, and Hydrology
Cochairs: Stephen M. Holt, Mitretek Systems; Scott T. Shipley, Raytheon Information Solutions
 
P1.2
Turbulence Remote Sensing Operational Demonstration System
Jaimi Yee, NCAR, Boulder, CO; and J. K. Williams, G. Blackburn, S. G. Carson, and J. A. Craig

Poster PDF (339.7 kB)

 
P1.4
The impact of abrupt land cover changes by savanna fire on northern Australian climate: A grid computing approach
Klaus Görgen, Monash Univ., Melbourne, Vic, Australia; and A. Lynch, C. Enticott, J. Beringer, D. Abramson, N. Tapper, A. G. Marshall, and P. Uotila

 
P1.5
Effective Retrieval Performed by DIMES with the Application of Lucene
Ruixin Yang, George Mason University, Fairfax, VA; and Y. Zhao and M. Kafatos
  3:30 PM
P1.6
WRFPortal: a Web-based Portal for the WRF model
Jeff S. Smith, CIRA/Colorado State Univ., Ft Collins, CO; and M. W. Govett

  3:45 PM
P1.7
Forecaster Usage Patterns of AWIPS D2D and GFESuite During 2005
Leigh K. Cheatwood, CIRA/Colorado State Univ., Boulder, CO; and W. F. Roberts

Poster PDF (1.7 MB)

 
P1.8
Giovanni: A System for Rapid Access, Visualization and Analysis of Earth Science Data Online
S. Shen, George Mason Univ. and NASA/GSFC, Greenbelt, MD; and H. Rui, Z. Liu, T. Zhu, L. Lu, S. Berrick, G. Leptoukh, W. Teng, J. Acker, J. Johnson, A. Savtchenko, I. Gerasimov, S. Kempler, and S. P. Ahmad

Poster PDF (550.5 kB)

 
P1.9
Kernel Density Estimates of Tornado Occurrence in the United States
Stephen Weinbeck, SUNY, Brockport, NY; and S. Trebes and J. Maliekal

 
P1.10
Exploring Climate Patterns Embedded in Global Climate Change Datasets
James Bothwell, Univ. of Oklahoma, Norman, OK; and M. Yuan

Poster PDF (393.8 kB)

 
P1.11
Developing a Global Agriculture Information System
Zhong Liu, NASA/GSFC Distributed Active Archive Center, Greenbelt, MD; and B. Teng, S. Kempler, H. Rui, and E. Ocampo

Poster PDF (953.4 kB)

 
P1.12
Poster P1.12 moved. New Paper number 6.3A


Poster Session 1
IOAS-AOLS Poster Session 1
Location: Exhibit Hall A2 (Georgia World Congress Center)
Host: 10th Symposium on Integrated Observing and Assimilation Systems for the Atmosphere, Oceans, and Land Surface (IOAS-AOLS)
 
P1.1
Utilizing Mobile Integrated Profiling System Data for Operational Forecasting
Holly M. Allen, Univ. of Alabama, Huntsville, AL; and J. R. Mecikalski, K. Knupp, and J. E. Burks

 
P1.2
Cloud & fog observation and Fog Dissipation Experiment at Daegwallyong site
Joo-Wan Cha, National Institute Meteorological Research/KMA, Seoul, South Korea; and K. H. Chang, J. Y. Jeong, H. Y. Yang, Y. H. Cho, and J. C. Nam

Poster PDF (1.1 MB)

 
P1.3
Sensor Averaging for the Determination of Daily Tmax and Tmin Temperature: Experiments with Model and Field Data
K. G. Hubbard, Univ. of Nebraska, Lincoln, NE; and X. Lin and C. B. Baker

 
P1.4
Recent results from Winter Storm Reconnaissance (WSR) programs
Yucheng Song, NOAA/NWS/NCEP/EMC, Camp Springs, MD; and Z. Toth

 
P1.5
Impact of Wind derived from Satellite on Ongoing Japanese long-term Reanalysis project (JRA-25)
Ryo Oyama, Japan Meteorological Agency, Kiyose-shi, Tokyo, Japan; and M. Sakamoto, M. Tokuno, N. Ohkawara, S. Kobayashi, T. Matsumoto, H. Koide, K. Onogi, and T. Ose

Poster PDF (2.9 MB)


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


Poster Session 1
Observed climate change
Location: Exhibit Hall A2 (Georgia World Congress Center)
Host: 18th Conference on Climate Variability and Change
 
P1.1
The role of the atmospheric circulation in very extensive summer sea ice in the Ross Sea, Antarctica in 2003
S. A. Harangozo, British Antarctic Survey, Cambridge, United Kingdom

Poster PDF (521.4 kB)

 
P1.2
Monitoring Ice Variability and Change through an Ice Reduction Date
Andrew Molthan, Univ. of Nebraska, Lincoln, NE; and M. R. Anderson and B. Jackson

 
P1.3
Variations in melt conditions in the Arctic through use of surface energy proxy
Bryan Jackson, Univ. of Nebraska, Lincoln, NE; and A. Molthan and M. R. Anderson

 
P1.4
The impact of an observationally based surface emissivity dataset on the simulation of Microwave Sounding Unit Temperatures
Justin J. Hnilo, North Carolina State University, Asheville, NC; and L. Litten, B. D. Santer, and J. R. Christy

 
P1.5
Kernel PCA Analysis for remote sensing data
John A. Tan, George Mason Univ., Fairfax, VA; and R. Yang and M. Kafatos

Poster PDF (393.9 kB)

 
P1.6
Diurnal cycles of the surface radiation budget data set
Pamela E. Mlynczak, SAIC, Hampton, VA; and G. L. Smith, P. W. Stackhouse Jr., and S. K. Gupta

Poster PDF (2.1 MB)

 
P1.7
Measurements of the Radiative Surface Forcing of Climate
W.F.J. Evans, North West Research Associates, Bellevue, WA; and E. Puckrin

Poster PDF (248.1 kB)

 
P1.8
Changes in the air-sea temperature difference of the North Atlantic for the past 50 years
Henry F. Diaz, NOAA/OAR/CDC, Boulder, CO; and R. J. Murnane and J. K. Eischeid

Poster PDF (1.1 MB)

 
P1.9
Seasonal and Diurnal Cycles in Climate Change and Variability
Konstantin Y. Vinnikov, Univ. of Maryland, College Park, MD; and N. C. Grody and A. Robock

 
P1.10
 
P1.11
North America climate extremes monitoring system
Jay Lawrimore, NOAA/NESDIS/NCDC, Asheville, NC; and R. Heim, T. C. Peterson, and N. S. Stroumentova

Poster PDF (170.3 kB)

 
P1.12
Assessment of US climate variations using the US Climate Extremes Index and the US Greenhouse Climate Response Index
David J. Karoly, Univ. of Oklahoma, Norman, OK; and A. Ruppert, D. R. Easterling, and J. H. Lawrimore

 
P1.13
Observational evidence of sensitivity of surface climate changes to land types and urbanization
Young-Kwon Lim, Florida State Univ., Tallahassee, FL; and M. Cai, E. Kalnay, and L. Zhou

 
P1.14
Statistical trend detection of a global change signal in regional climate over the U.S.
Airong Cai, Univ. of Illinois, Chicago, IL; and K. Hayhoe, G. C. Tiao, and D. J. Wuebbles

 
P1.15
Decadal Wind Trends at the Savannah River Site
Allen H. Weber, Savannah River National Laboratory (retired), North Augusta, SC; and R. L. Buckley and M. J. Parker

Poster PDF (350.9 kB)

 
P1.17
Long-term variations in global and tropical precipitation derived from the GPCP monthly product
Robert Adler, NASA/GSFC, Greenbelt, MD; and G. Gu and G. J. Huffman


Poster Session 1
Probability and Statistics
Location: Exhibit Hall A2 (Georgia World Congress Center)
Host: 18th Conference on Probability and Statistics in the Atmospheric Sciences
 
P1.1
Prediction for drought strength in North China
Wei Fengying, Chinese Academy of Meteorological Sciences, Beijing, China

 
P1.2
Extensions and alternative formulations of the ROC curve
Matthew S. Wandishin, Univ. of Arizona / NSSL, Tucson, AZ; and H. E. Brooks

 
P1.3
Examples of Bayesian probabilistic quantitative precipitation forecasts
Coire J. Maranzano, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA; and R. Krzysztofowicz

 
P1.4
An evaluation of the 10 years of seasonal climate outlooks issued for Wisconsin
Steven J. Meyer, University of Wisconsin, Green Bay, WI; and K. A. Hemauer, K. L. Karl, C. Sonnabend, and C. S. Spannagle

Poster PDF (229.5 kB)

 
P1.5
A closer look into Georgia's precipitation : Summarizing patterns and relationships
Raymond D. Mooring, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA

 
P1.6
The impact of weather sensitivity on the economic value of ensemble forecasts
Jing Yuan, Victoria University of Wellington, Wellington, New Zealand; and T. Simmers and J. McGregor

Poster PDF (526.5 kB)

 
P1.7

Formal Poster Viewing with Coffee Break (M2)

3:00 PM-3:15 PM: Monday, 30 January 2006


Coffee Break with formal poster viewing

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


Joint Session 1
Educational Outreach Activities for Space Weather (Joint with 15th Symposium on Education and 3rd Symposium on Space Weather)
Location: A402 (Georgia World Congress Center)
Hosts: (Joint between the 15th Symposium on Education; and the Third Symposium on Space Weather )
Cochairs: Genene Fisher, AMS Policy Program; David R. Smith, United States Naval Academy
  4:00 PM
J1.1
  4:15 PM
J1.2
Where and Why Does Space Weather Occur?
Patrick S. Market, University of Missouri, Columbia, MO; and D. J. Knipp
  4:30 PM
J1.3
Using NASA Space Data in K-12 Education
Arthur I. Poland, George Mason Univ., Fairfax, VA; and G. Colon and E. Felicite-Maurice
  5:00 PM
J1.4A
Space Weather Education on Windows to the Universe
Randy Russell, UCAR, Boulder, CO; and R. M. Johnson, S. Q. Foster, J. Bergman, E. Gardiner, J. Genyuk, and M. LaGrave

Session 2
Session B: Retail Industry
Location: A403 (Georgia World Congress Center)
Host: Fourth Annual User's Forum
Organizer: Gregory Wilson, Baron Services
  4:00 PM
2.1
Weather Impacts and Emergency Operations at Walmart
Jason Jackson, Walmart / Business Continuity & Emergency Ops., Bentonville, AR
  4:30 PM
2.2
Weather Effects and Information Needs at Home Depot
David Whatley, Home Depo Risk Mgt., Atlanta, GA

Session 3
Bayesian Probability Forecasting
Location: A304 (Georgia World Congress Center)
Host: 18th Conference on Probability and Statistics in the Atmospheric Sciences
Cochairs: Tilmann Gneiting, University of Washington; William M. Briggs, Weill Cornell Medical School
  4:00 PM
3.1
Bayesian Processor of Output: A New Technique for Probabilistic Weather Forecasting
Roman Krzysztofowicz, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA

  4:15 PM
3.2
Bayesian Processor of Output for Probabilistic Quantitative Precipitation Forecasting
Coire J. Maranzano, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA; and R. Krzysztofowicz

  4:30 PM
3.3
Forecasting U.S. hurricanes 6 months in advance
James B. Elsner, Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL; and T. H. Jagger and R. J. Murnane
  5:00 PM
3.5

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


Session 1
Hazards and disasters: Socioeconomic Impacts & the Decision making process: Part 1
Location: A311 (Georgia World Congress Center)
Host: AMS Forum: Environmental Risk and Impacts on Society: Successes and Challenges
Chair: Greg Forbes, The Weather Channel
  4:00 PM
1.1
Superstorms in the 1990's: Can seasons of superstorms be far behind?
Liam M. Cavanaugh, Univ. of Colorado, Boulder, CO; and M. H. Glantz, R. E. Morss, E. Gruntfest, and J. Tribbia
  4:15 PM
1.2
  4:30 PM
1.3
The Utility Of Surface Roughness Datasets in the Modeling of United States Hurricane Property Losses
Kimberly Mueller, Risk Management Solutions, Newark, CA; and C. Miller and A. Boissonade
  5:00 PM
1.5
The Role of Meso-γ-Scale Numerical Weather Prediction and Visualization for Weather-Sensitive Decision Making
Lloyd A. Treinish, IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center, Yorktown Heights, NY; and A. P. Praino

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


Session 3
Modeling and Measurements of Aerosol/Particulates
Location: A407 (Georgia World Congress Center)
Host: 14th Joint Conference on the Applications of Air Pollution Meteorology with the Air and Waste Management Assoc
Organizer: Daewon W. Byun, Univ. of Houston
  4:30 PM
3.3
  5:00 PM
3.5
Implication of Climate Change on Deposition of Sulfur and Nitrogen Compounds in U.S
KJ Liao, Texas A&M University-Kingsville, Kingsville, TX; and K. Manomaiphiboon, E. Tagaris, A. G. Russell, and L. R. Leung

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


Session 2
studies of coastal cities
Location: A316 (Georgia World Congress Center)
Host: Sixth Symposium on the Urban Environment
Organizer: Robert D. Bornstein, San Jose State University
  4:00 PM
2.1
MODIS land surface retrieval in San Juan, Puerto Rico during the ATLAS field campaign
Ana J. Picon, City College and the CUNY Graduate Center, New York, NY; and R. Vásquez Espinosa, J. E. Gonzalez, J. C. Luvall, and D. Rickman
  4:15 PM
2.2
A VALIDATION STUDY OF THE URBAN HEAT ISLAND IN THE TROPICAL COASTAL CITY OF SAN JUAN, PUERTO RICO
J.E. Gonzalez, Santa Clara Univ., Santa Clara, CA; and D. E. Comarazamy, J. Luvall, and D. Rickman
  4:30 PM
2.3
High-resolution modeling for NYC: coastal ocean and urbanization effects
Julie Pullen, NRL, Monterey, CA; and T. R. Holt, A. Blumberg, and B. A. Colle
  4:45 PM
2.4
The Helsinki Mesoscale Testbed
Walter F. Dabberdt, Vaisala. Inc., Boulder, CO; and E. Saltikoff, J. Koistinen, J. Poutiainen, and H. Turtiainen

  5:00 PM
2.5
Urban effects on the convergence and convection over Chennai, India
Matthew Simpson, North Carolina State Univ., Raleigh, NC; and S. Raman, U. C. Mohanty, and R. Suresh
  5:15 PM
2.6
Mesoscale weather features in NYC Revealed by CCNY lidar
Stanley David Gedzelman, The City College of New York, New York, NY; and H. Y. Glickman, B. Gross, E. E. Hindman, K. Y. Kong, S. Mahani, and F. Moshary

Session 3
Retrievals and Cloud Products: Part III
Location: A305 (Georgia World Congress Center)
Host: 14th Conference on Satellite Meteorology and Oceanography
Chair: Shaima L. Nasiri, Texas A&M Univ.
  4:00 PM
3.1
Clouds and Water Vapor from Aqua AIRS and Aura MLS Satellite Observations
Jonathon H. Jiang, JPL, Pasadena, CA; and D. E. Waliser, A. Eldering, J. L. Li, H. Su, W. G. Read, E. J. Fetzer, R. Fuller, and B. Kahn
  4:30 PM
3.2
Detection and characterization of thin cirrus using combined MISR and MODIS observations
Michael J. Garay, Univ. of California, Los Angeles, CA; and D. M. Mazzoni and R. Davies
  4:45 PM
3.3
Infrared cloud phase determination from MODIS and AIRS
Shaima L. Nasiri, Texas A&M Univ., College Station, TX; and B. Kahn
  5:00 PM
3.4
Radiometric properties of clouds retrieved by AIRS
Evan Fishbein, JPL, Pasadena, CA; and B. Kahn and E. J. Fetzer

  5:15 PM
3.5
Recent progress in the development of the Optimal Spectral Sampling (OSS) method
Jean-Luc Moncet, AER, Lexington, MA; and G. Uymin and K. Cady-Pereira

Session 3
The Role of Ocean–Atmosphere Interaction in Tropical Climate and Its Variation
Location: A309 (Georgia World Congress Center)
Host: 14th Conference on Interaction of the Sea and Atmosphere
Chair: Bin Wang, Univ. of Hawaii
  4:00 PM
3.1
  4:30 PM
3.3
  4:45 PM
3.4
  5:00 PM
3.5
The equatorial Atlantic variability in an Intermediate Coupled Model: Air-sea coupling versus remote ENSO forcing
Serena Illig, LEGOS/OMP, Toulouse, France; and B. Dewitte, D. Gushchina, N. Ayoub, and Y. Du Penhoat
  5:15 PM
3.6

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

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


Session 2A
Report on U.S. Climate Science Program
Location: A314 (Georgia World Congress Center)
Host: 18th Conference on Climate Variability and Change

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


Sessions end for the day (M)

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


Session
4th Annual User's Forum Wrap-Up and Adjourn
Location: A403 (Georgia World Congress Center)
Host: Fourth Annual User's Forum
  5:30 PM
Closing Comments
William P. Mahoney III, Chair, BEED, Boulder, CO

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-8:45 AM: Tuesday, 31 January 2006


Session 1
Symposium Introduction
Location: A404 (Georgia World Congress Center)
Host: Symposium on the Public/Private Sector Partnership
Cochairs: Neil A. Stuart, NOAA/NWS; Mary M. Cairns, Retired
  8:30 AM
1.1
Symposium Introduction: Stuart
Neil A. Stuart, NOAA/NWS, Wakefield, VA

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


Session 2
Air Quality and Climate Change
Location: A408 (Georgia World Congress Center)
Host: Eighth Conference on Atmospheric Chemistry
Chair: Vernon R. Morris, Howard University
  8:30 AM
2.1
  8:45 AM
2.2
Regional climate model downscaling of the U.S. climate and change
Xin-Zhong Liang, ISWS, Champaign, IL; and H. C. Huang, A. Williams, M. Caughey, K. E. Kunkel, D. J. Wuebbles, J. Zhu, J. Pan, M. Xu, and Z. Tao
  9:00 AM
2.3
Impacts of the long-range transport of global pollutants and precursors on the U.S. air quality in the present and future climate conditions
Ho–Chun Huang, ISWS, Champaign, IL; and K. O. Patten Jr., X. Z. Liang, A. Williams, M. Caughey, K. E. Kunkel, Z. Tao, D. J. Wuebbles, J. Zhu, J. Pan, M. Xu, and J. T. Lin

  9:15 AM
2.4
The influence of climate change on regional air quality in California 
Allison L. Steiner, Univ. of California, Berkeley, CA; and S. Tonse, R. C. Cohen, A. H. Goldstein, and R. A. Harley
  9:30 AM
2.5
Influence of global change on regional air quality in the Pacific Northwest region
Jack Chen, Washington State University, Pullman, WA; and J. Avise, B. Lamb, C. Wiedinmyer, A. Guenther, J. F. Lamarque, C. Mass, E. Salathe, S. O’Neill, N. Larkin, and D. McKenzie

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

Session 4
Climatology and Long-Term Satellite Studies: Part I
Location: A305 (Georgia World Congress Center)
Host: 14th Conference on Satellite Meteorology and Oceanography
Chair: Franklin R. Robertson, NASA/MSFC
  8:30 AM
4.1
Clues to changes in Arctic summer-minimum sea ice extent
Jennifer Francis, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ; and E. Hunter
  9:00 AM
4.2
A long-range forecast of Arctic summer sea-ice minimum extent
Sheldon D. Drobot, Colorado Center for Astrodynamics Research and Univ. of Colorado, Boulder, CO; and J. A. Maslanik and C. Fowler
  9:15 AM
4.3
Regional and Seasonal Variations in Marine Stratus Cloud Properties from MODIS observations
Michael P. Jensen, Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, NY; and V. Andrew D., W. D. Collins, G. J. Zhang, and E. Luke
  9:30 AM
4.4
Sea surface temperature climate analyses derived from aerosol bias-corrected satellite data
Nicholas R. Nalli, QSS Group, Inc., Camp Springs, MD; and R. W. Reynolds and M. D. Goldberg

Session 4
Marine Clouds and VOCALS II
Location: A309 (Georgia World Congress Center)
Host: 14th Conference on Interaction of the Sea and Atmosphere
Chair: Carlos R. Mechoso, Department of Atmospheric Sciences, UCLA
  8:30 AM
4.1
An explanation of actiniae cloud patterns
Ernest Agee, Purdue Univ., West Lafayette, IN
  8:45 AM
4.2
Tropical Dendritic Cumulus: An Observational Analysis
Stephen D. Nicholls, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ; and G. S. Young
  9:15 AM
4.4
Boundary layer, cloud, and drizzle variability in the southeast Pacific stratocumulus regime
Efthymios Serpetzoglou, Univ. of Miami/RSMAS, Miami, FL; and V. P. Ghate, B. A. Albrecht, P. Kollias, and C. Fairall
  9:30 AM
4.5
Links between the microphysics and macrophysics of low clouds over southeast Pacific Ocean (VOCALS Submission)
Robert Wood, Univ. of Washington, Seattle, WA; and K. Comstock, S. E. Yuter, C. S. Bretherton, P. Caldwell, C. W. Fairall, J. Tomlinson, and P. Zuidema
  9:45 AM
4.3A
Buoy observations of air-sea interactions in the VOCALS stratocumulus region
Keir Colbo, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole, MA; and R. A. Weller

Session 4
TAMDAR
Location: A301 (Georgia World Congress Center)
Host: 12th Conference on Aviation Range and Aerospace Meteorology
  8:30 AM
4.1
FAA–NASA collaboration on automated aircraft weather observations culminating in TAMDAR
Alfred Moosakhanian, FAA, Washington, DC; and S. Schmidt, E. R. Dash, T. S. Daniels, and P. Stough
  8:45 AM
4.2
Automated Weather Reports from Aircraft: TAMDAR and the U.S. AMDAR Fleet
William R. Moninger, NOAA/ESRL/GSD, Boulder, CO; and T. S. Daniels and R. D. Mamrosh
  9:00 AM
4.3
Aviation Applications of TAMDAR Aircraft Data Reports
Richard D. Mamrosh, NOAA/NWS, Green Bay, WI; and T. S. Daniels and W. R. Moninger
  9:30 AM
4.5
Impact of TAMDAR humidity, temperature, and wind observations in RUC parallel experiments
Stan Benjamin, NOAA/FSL, Boulder, CO; and W. Moninger, T. L. Smith, B. Jamison, and B. Schwartz

8:30 AM-10:00 AM: Tuesday, 31 January 2006


Session 1
Top Stories of 2005
Location: Thomas Murphy Ballroom 1 (Georgia World Congress Center)
Host: Impacts of 2005's Weather: Major Stories of the Year
Chair: Joseph T. Schaefer, NOAA/NWS/NCEP/SPC
  8:30 AM
1.1
Welcome and Introduction
Joseph T. Schaefer, NOAA/NWS/NCEP/SPC, Norman, OK
  8:40 AM
1.2
Top World Stories
Thomas R. Karl, NOAA/NCDC, Asheville, NC
  9:00 AM
1.3
Guatemala Hurricane Impacts
E. Hardie Sanchez-Bennett, Instituto Nacional de Sismolog, Guatemala City, Guatemala
  9:15 AM
1.4
African Drought, Locust, Famine
Douglas Lecomte, NOAA/NWS/NCEP/CPC, Camp Springs, MD
  9:30 AM
1.5
India Floods: 37' Rain in One Day in Bombay
Sanjiv Nair, Technology Bhavan, New Delhi, India
  9:45 AM
1.6
Worst Flooding in China in 100 Years
Jixin Xu, China Meteorology Bureau, Bejing, China


Joint Session 2
Distributed Earth Science Information Systems (Joint with 18th Conference on Climate Variability and Change and 22nd International Conference on Interactive Information processing Systems for Meteorology, Oceanography, and Hydrology)
Location: A312 (Georgia World Congress Center)
Hosts: (Joint between the 22nd International Conference on Interactive Information Processing Systems for Meteorology, Oceanography, and Hydrology; and the 18th Conference on Climate Variability and Change )
Cochairs: Nancy N. Soreide, NOAA/PMEL; Stephen M. Holt, Mitretek Systems
  8:30 AM
J2.1
Surface data integration at NOAA's National Climatic Data Center: data format, processing, QC, and product generation
Stephen A. Del Greco, NOAA/NESDIS/NCDC, Asheville, NC; and J. N. Lott, S. K. Hawkins, R. Baldwin, D. D. Anders, R. Ray, D. Dellinger, P. Jones, and F. Smith
  8:45 AM
J2.2
  9:00 AM
J2.3
Process Management and Improvement for CLASS System Development and Maintenance
Anita K. Konzak, NOAA/NESDIS, Suitland, MD; and R. G. Reynolds and C. Martinez
  9:15 AM
J2.4
MI3: the NCDC's master station history
Jeffrey D. Arnfield, NOAA/NESDIS/NCDC, Asheville, NC
  9:30 AM
J2.5
  9:45 AM
J2.6
BeringClimate: An Evolving View of Ecosystem Change in the Bering Sea
James E. Overland, NOAA/OAR/PMEL, Seattle, WA; and S. Rodionov and N. N. Soreide

8:30 AM-11:45 AM: Tuesday, 31 January 2006


Session 3
cities as agents of global change
Location: A315 (Georgia World Congress Center)
Host: Sixth Symposium on the Urban Environment
Organizers: Anthony James Brazel, Arizona State University; David J. Sailor, Portland State Univ.
  8:30 AM
3.1
MODELING URBAN HEAT ISLANDS IN CALIFORNIA CENTRAL VALLEY
Bereket Lebassi Habtezion, Santa Clara Univ., Santa Clara, CA; and J. E. González, D. Fabris, N. L. Miller, and C. Milesi
  8:45 AM
3.2
Analysing the Urban Moisture Excess (UME) in a Midlatitude City
Wilhelm Kuttler, Univ. of Duisburg-Essen, Essen, Germany; and J. Schonnefeld and A. Hesselschwerdt

  9:00 AM
3.3
Carbon dioxide fluxes in a suburban area of Baltimore, MD: 2002–2004
Ben Crawford, Indiana Univ., Bloomington, IN; and C. S. B. Grimmond, J. L. Hom, B. D. Offerle, D. Golub, and M. Patterson

  9:15 AM
3.5
Urban aerosol effects on convective storm characteristics
Susan C. Van den Heever, Colorado State Univ., Fort Collins, CO; and W. R. Cotton
  9:30 AM
3.6
  10:15 AM
3.9
The changing bioclimate of Las Vegas, NV
James A. Miller, Arizona State Univ., Tempe, AZ
  10:30 AM
3.5A
Formal Poster Viewing With Coffee Break

8:30 AM-12:15 PM: Tuesday, 31 January 2006


Joint Session 2
Low-level transport in urban and complex terrain (Joint with 14th Joint Conference on the Applications of Air Pollution Meteorolgy with the A&WMA and AMS Forum: Environmental Risks and Impacts on Society: Success and Challenges)
Location: A311 (Georgia World Congress Center)
Hosts: (Joint between the 14th Joint Conference on the Applications of Air Pollution Meteorology with the Air and Waste Management Assoc; and the AMS Forum: Environmental Risk and Impacts on Society: Successes and Challenges )
CoChair: Allen B. White, NOAA/ETL/CIRES/Univ. of Colorado
  8:30 AM
J2.1
A wind profiler trajectory tool for air quality transport applications
Allen B. White, NOAA/ETL/CIRES/Univ. of Colorado, Boulder, CO; and C. Senff, A. N. Keane, D. Ruffieux, and S. J. McDonnel
  9:00 AM
J2.3
Multiscale plume transport from collapse of the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001
Georgiy L. Stenchikov, Rutgers Univ., New Brunswick, NJ; and N. Lahoti, P. J. Lioy, P. G. Georgopoulos, D. Diner, and R. Kahn
  9:15 AM
J2.4
Meteorological Uncertainty Effects in Atmospheric Transport and Dispersion Modeling: A Demonstration
L. Joel Peltier, Penn State Univ., State College, PA; and S. E. Haupt, J. C. Wyngaard, D. R. Stauffer, A. Deng, and F. Kredensor
  9:30 AM
J2.5
High Fidelity Modeling of Urban Features
L. Joel Peltier, Applied Research Laboratory/Penn State Univ., State College, PA; and S. E. Haupt and J. C. Wyngaard
  9:45 AM
J2.6
An Intercomparison of Four Computational Fluid Dynamics Models: Transport and Dispersion Around Madison Square Garden
Fernando E. Camelli, George Mason Univ., Fairfax, VA; and W. J. Coirier, A. H. Huber, O. R. Hansen, S. Kim, S. R. Hanna, and M. J. Brown

  10:00 AM
J2.7
Comparison of WRF and MM5 Simulations for Air-Quality Applications
Sara A. Michelson, NOAA/ETL, Boulder, CO; and J. W. Bao
  10:15 AM
J2.8
  10:30 AM
J2.9
The Partnership for Environmental Research and Community Health (PERCH) Phase III, Part 1: Community-scale risk assessment in greater Pensacola, Florida
Rama Mohana R. Turaga, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA; and R. A. Gesser, M. E. Chang, A. G. Russell, and A. Bostrom

  11:00 AM
J2.5A
Formal Poster Viewing With Coffee Break


Session 3
Atmospheric Observations, In Situ and Remote, Including From Satellites: Advantages and Shortcomings Compared with Other Observing Systems; the Integrated Upper Air Observing System (IUAOS) for the U.S.
Location: A405 (Georgia World Congress Center)
Host: 10th Symposium on Integrated Observing and Assimilation Systems for the Atmosphere, Oceans, and Land Surface (IOAS-AOLS)
Organizers: Patricia M. Pauley, NRL; Krishna Kumar, NOAA/NWS/NCEP/EMC
  8:30 AM
3.1
Comparison of Column Integrated Water Vapor Measurements from Atmospheric InfraRed Sounder (AIRS) and Surface-based Global Positioning System Receivers
M. K. Rama Varma Raja, I. M. Systems Group, Inc., Kensington, MD; and S. I. Gutman, J. G. Yoe, L. M. McMillin, and J. Zhao
  8:45 AM
3.2
Comparison of AMSR-E Retrievals of Total Water Vapor over the Ocean with Ship based Measurements
Malgorzata Szczodrak, Univ. of Miami/RSMAS, Miami, FL; and P. J. Minnett and C. Gentemann
  9:30 AM
3.5
Comparison of aircraft and radiosonde temperature biases at NCEP
Bradley Ballish, NOAA/NWS/NCEP/EMC, Camp Springs, MD; and K. Kumar
  9:45 AM
3.6
Automated Atmospheric Observations from Military Aircraft
Patricia M. Pauley, NRL, Monterey, CA; and L. Phegley, G. N. Vogel, and C. B. Hunte
  10:00 AM
3.7
  10:15 AM
3.8
Estimation of vertical air motion from dropsonde and radiosonde data
Junhong Wang, NCAR, Boulder, CO; and H. Cole, K. Young, and W. O. Brown
  10:30 AM
3.9
  11:00 AM
3.5a
Formal Poster Viewing with Coffee Break (See Mon. schedule for poster listings)

  12:14 PM
3.5b
Exhibits Open


Session 3
University and Professional Education
Location: A402 (Georgia World Congress Center)
Host: 15th Symposium on Education
Cochairs: Diane M. Stanitski, Shippensburg Univ.; Donna J. Charlevoix, Univ. of Illinois
  8:30 AM
3.1
Evaluating learning and performance in the Warning Decision Training Branch's Distance Learning Operation Courses
Brandon Albert Miller, School of Earth and Atmopsheric Science, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA; and B. N. Grant and W. J. Gonzalez-Espada
  8:45 AM
3.2
  9:00 AM
3.3
  9:15 AM
3.4
Enhancing diversity in the geosciences through national dissemination of AMS Online Weather Studies and Online Ocean Studies at minority serving institutions
Ira W. Geer, AMS, Washington, DC; and E. W. Mills, J. M. Moran, R. S. Weinbeck, W. A. Porter, J. L. Harris, J. A. Brey, and W. R. Foniri
  9:30 AM
3.5
The Jackson State University Meteorology Program's Role In Undergraduate Atmospheric Science Training And Research
Quinton L. Williams, Jackson State Univ., Jackson, MS; and R. S. Reddy, L. White, H. P. Liu, M. M. Watts, and J. L. Shoemake
  9:45 AM
3.6
Tablet PC: an educational aid for lecture-based survey meteorology courses
Donna J. Charlevoix, Univ. of Illinois, Urbana, IL; and S. K. Jackman and T. E. Twine
  10:00 AM
3.7
Using an Active-Learning Quiz Series in an Introductory Meteorology College Course
Neil Laird, Hobart & William Smith Colleges, Geneva, NY; and L. A. Golson, K. E. Wood, and K. Feasel
  10:15 AM
3.8
  10:30 AM
3.9
Relative humidity: What do students know about it?
Sherman E. Fredrickson, NOAA/NSSL; and P. L. Heinselman, W. J. Gonzalez-Espada, and D. Zaras
  10:45 AM
3.10
Problem based learning: meteorological instrumentation
Paul J. Croft, Kean University, Union, NJ
  11:00 AM
3.5A
Formal Poster Viewing with Coffee Break


Session 5
Applications in Meteorology, Oceanography, Hydrology and Climatology
Location: A411 (Georgia World Congress Center)
Host: 22nd International Conference on Interactive Information Processing Systems for Meteorology, Oceanography, and Hydrology
Cochairs: Carl D. Thormeyer, FNMOC; Jim Cooper, Earth Satellite Corporation
  8:30 AM
5.1
FORECAST PERFORMANCE OF AN OPERATIONAL MESO-GAMMA-SCALE MODELLING SYSTEM FOR EXTRATROPICAL SYSTEMS
Anthony P. Praino, IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center, Yorktown Heights, NY; and L. A. Treinish
  8:45 AM
5.2
The NWS' Real-Time Mesoscale Analysis and Analysis of Record
Geoffrey DiMego, NOAA/NWS/NCEP/EMC, Camp Springs, MD; and B. Colman, J. Horel, M. Pondeca, L. Anderson, S. Benjamin, R. Aune, Y. Lin, B. Gockel, and G. Mandt
  9:00 AM
5.3
Interactive Forecast Visualization Tools for the U.S. Armed Forces
R. Bruce Telfeyan, Air Force Weather Agency, Offutt AFB, NE; and D. M. Rozema and I. Gotchel
  9:15 AM
5.4
Applying Portal Techniques to Ensemble Modeling of Convection
Brian F. Jewett, Univ. of Illinois, Urbana, IL; and R. Wilhelmson, J. Alameda, S. Hampton, and A. Rossi
  9:30 AM
5.5
Examples of the value of strong climatological signals in tropical cyclone forecasting
Bradford S. Barrett, U.S. Naval Academy, Annapolis, MD; and L. M. Leslie and B. Fiedler
  9:45 AM
5.6
  10:00 AM
5.7
  10:15 AM
5.8
  10:30 AM
5.9
Development of an operational northeast snowfall impact scale
Michael F. Squires, NOAA/NESDIS/NCDC, Asheville, NC; and J. H. Lawrimore
  10:45 AM
5.10
  11:00 AM
5.5A
Formal Poster Viewing with Coffee Break

8:30 AM-12:30 PM: Tuesday, 31 January 2006


Joint Session 3
Land-Atmosphere Interactions: Land Data, Land Cover, and Land Use Studies (Joint with 18th Conference on Climate Variability and Change and 20th Conference on Hydrology)
Location: A314 (Georgia World Congress Center)
Hosts: (Joint between the 18th Conference on Climate Variability and Change; and the 20th Conference on Hydrology )
Cochairs: Yongkang Xue, Univ. of California; Randal D. Koster, NASA/GSFC
  8:45 AM
J3.2
(INVITED) Land-atmosphere interactions on North American basins estimated from North American Regional Reanalysis products
Ernesto Hugo Berbery, Univ. of Maryland, College Park, MD; and Y. Luo, K. E. Mitchell, and A. K. Betts
  9:00 AM
J3.3
State of the ground: Climatology and changes during the past 65 years over Northern Eurasia for snow cover, dry, wet, and frozen ground conditions
Pavel Ya. Groisman, NOAA/NESDIS/NCDC, Asheville, NC; and R. W. Knight, V. N. Razuvaev, O. N. Bulygina, and T. R. Karl
  9:45 AM
J3.6
Deforestation and dry season rainfall in northern Mesoamerica: Implications for forest sustainability
Ronald M. Welch, Univ. of Alabama, Huntsville, AL; and D. K. Ray, R. O. Lawton, and U. S. Nair
  10:00 AM
J3.7
How important is land cover change for simulating future climates?
Johannes Feddema, Univ. of Kansas, Lawrence, KS; and L. O. Mearns, K. Oleson, G. Bonan, L. Buja, G. Meehl, and W. M. Washington
  10:45 AM
J3.10
Impact of land-use and land-cover changes on mineral dust emission in Central and East Asia
Kremena Darmenova, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA; and I. N. Sokolik
  11:00 AM
J3.5A
Formal Poster Viewing with Coffee Break

  12:15 PM
J3.9A
Potential impacts of aerosol-land-atmosphere interaction on the Indian
Dev Niyogi, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN; and H. I. Chang, L. Gu, S. Menon, and R. A. Pielke Sr.

Session 3
New space weather data sources, products, and developments with forecast models
Location: A406 (Georgia World Congress Center)
Host: Third Symposium on Space Weather
Chairs: Robert McCoy, Office of Naval Research; Joseph Kunches, NOAA/Space Environment Center
  8:45 AM
3.2
Space weather applications from the NOAA GOES satellites
Howard J. Singer, NOAA/NWS, Boulder, CO; and S. Hill, T. Onsager, R. Viereck, and D. Biesecker
  9:00 AM
3.3
Integrated frameworks for Earth and space weather simulation
Timothy L. Killeen, NCAR, Boulder, CO; and C. Deluca, T. Gombosi, C. Goodrich, G. Toth, Q. Stout, A. Sussman, and M. Hesse
  9:15 AM
3.4
The first Space Wx Forecast Models from the Center for Integrated Space Weather Modeling
Michael Gehmeyr, Univ. of Colorado, Boulder, CO; and C. N. Arge, L. Mayer, D. Odstrcil, M. J. Owens, H. S. Spence, D. Vassiliadis, and R. S. Weigel
  9:45 AM
3.6
A first-principles approach to forecasting solar eruptive events
C. Richard DeVore, NRL, Washington, DC; and S. K. Antiochos
  10:00 AM
3.7
Forecasting Interplanetary Space Weather for Operations
Craig D. Fry, Exploration Physics International, Inc., Huntsville, AL

  10:30 AM
3.9
NASA's Living with a Star Geospace Missions
Joseph M. Grebowsky, NASA, Greenbelt, MD; and D. G. Sibeck
  10:45 AM
3.10
Analysis of IMF fluctuations during solar energetic particle and magnetic storm events
Tak David Cheung, City Univ. of New York, Queensborough Community College, Bayside, NY; and D. E. Cotten, P. J. Marchese, and G. Tremberger Jr.
  11:00 AM
3.11
Optical Imaging Techniques of Ionospheric Weather
Jonathan Makela, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Urbana, IL
  11:15 AM
3.5A
Formal Poster Viewing with Coffee Break

8:30 AM-12:45 PM: Tuesday, 31 January 2006


Session 6
Challenges in Data Access, Distribution and Use
Location: A412 (Georgia World Congress Center)
Host: 22nd International Conference on Interactive Information Processing Systems for Meteorology, Oceanography, and Hydrology
Cochairs: Linda I. Miller, UCAR/Unidata; Thomas M. Whittaker, SSEC/CIMSS/Univ. of Wisconsin
  8:45 AM
6.2
NOAA's Plan for Information Management; A System of Systems That Act as One
Thomas C. Adang, NOAA, Silver Spring, MD; and D. McGuirk, E. Miller, and R. Mairs
  9:15 AM
6.4
The Unidata Internet Data Distribution (IDD) System: A Decade of Development
Tom Yoksas, UCAR, Boulder, CO; and S. Emmerson, S. Chiswell, M. Schmidt, and J. Stokes
  9:45 AM
6.6
NetCDF-4: software implementing an enhanced data model for the geosciences
Russell K. Rew, UCAR, Boulder, CO; and E. J. Hartnett and J. Caron
  10:00 AM
6.7
Integrated in-situ ocean data delivery for low and high bandwidth Internet connections
L. Charles Sun, National Oceanographic Data Center, Silver Spring, MD; and N. Soreide, J. R. Osborne, and J. Sirott
  10:15 AM
6.8
Gridded FX-Net Prototype Project for the Bureau of Land Managemant, National Interagency Fire Center
Sher Schranz, NOAA/ERL/FSL and CIRA/Colorado State Univ., Fort Collins, CO; and J. Stewart, N. Wang, and E. Polster
  10:30 AM
6.9
  10:45 AM
6.10
Antarctic Internet data distribution (Antarctic-IDD) system
Matthew A. Lazzara, Univ. of Wisconsin, Madison, WI; and G. Langbauer, K. W. Manning, R. Redinger, M. W. Seefeldt, R. Vehorn, and T. Yoksas
  11:15 AM
6.5A
CONDUIT and Level II Data Distribution: Leveraging that Works for Collaborative Projects
Linda I. Miller, UCAR/Unidata, Boulder, CO; and S. R. Chiswell, S. Emmerson, J. Weber, and T. Yoksas
  11:30 AM
6.5B
Formal Poster viewing with coffee break

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


Session 2
Public Sector
Location: A404 (Georgia World Congress Center)
Host: Symposium on the Public/Private Sector Partnership
Organizer: Lanz Rothfusz, NOAA/NWS
  8:45 AM
2.1
Partnerships to Improve Safety and Mobility on the Nation's Highways
Paul A. Pisano, Federal Highway Administration, Washington, DC

8:45 AM-11:45 AM: Tuesday, 31 January 2006


Session 4
Ensemble Forecasting
Location: A304 (Georgia World Congress Center)
Host: 18th Conference on Probability and Statistics in the Atmospheric Sciences
Cochairs: David R. Bright, NOAA/NWS/NCEP/SPC; Roman Krzysztofowicz, University of Virginia
  8:45 AM
4.1
The North American Ensemble Forecast System (NAEFS)
Zoltan Toth, NOAA/NWS/NCEP/EMC, Camp Springs, MD; and L. Lefaivre, G. Brunet, P. L. Houtekamer, Y. Zhu, R. Wobus, Y. Pelletier, R. Verret, L. Wilson, B. Cui, G. Pellerin, B. A. Gordon, D. Michaud, E. Olenic, D. Unger, and S. Beauregard
  9:00 AM
4.2
Recent changes in the NCEP Global Ensemble Forecast System
Yuejian Zhu, NOAA/NWS/NCEP/EMC, Camp Springs, MD; and Z. Toth, R. Wobus, and Q. Liu
  9:15 AM
4.3
Will Perturbing Soil Moisture Improve Warm-Season Ensemble Forecasts? A Proof of Concept
Thomas M. Hamill, NOAA/CIRES/CDC, Boulder, CO; and T. T. Warner and C. J. Sutton
  9:30 AM
4.4
Pre-emptive forecasts from an ensemble Kalman filter
Brian Etherton, University of North Carolina, Charlotte, NC
  9:45 AM
4.5
A Stochastic Parameterization Scheme within NCEP Global Ensemble Forecast System
Dingchen Hou, NOAA/NWS/NCEP/EMC and SAIC, Camp Springs, MD; and Z. Toth and Y. Zhu
  10:00 AM
4.6
An implementation of the Local Ensemble Transform Kalman Filter on the NCEP GFS
Istvan Szunyogh, University of Maryland, College Park, MD; and E. J. Kostelich and G. Gyarmati
  10:15 AM
4.7
An ensemble data assimilation scheme that has mixed Gaussian and non-Gaussian errors
Steven J. Fletcher, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO; and M. Zupanski
  10:30 AM
4.4A
Formal Poster Viewing with Coffee Break

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


Joint Poster Session 1
MARINE METEOROLOGICAL APPLICATIONS OF REAL AND SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR (Joint between the 14th Conference on Interaction of the Sea and Atmosphere and 14th Conference on Satellite Meteorology and Oceanography )
Location: Exhibit Hall A2 (Georgia World Congress Center)
Hosts: (Joint between the 14th Conference on Interaction of the Sea and Atmosphere; and the 14th Conference on Satellite Meteorology and Oceanography )
Cochairs: Jochen Horstmann, GKSS Research Center; Nathaniel S. Winstead, Johns Hopkins Univ.
 
JP1.1
Validation of QuikSCAT wind retrievals in tropical cyclone environments
Christopher C. Hennon, Univ. of North Carolina, Asheville, NC; and D. G. Long and F. J. Wentz

Poster PDF (158.6 kB)

 
JP1.2
Cyclogenesis and Tropical Transition in decaying frontal zones
Michelle L. Stewart, COAPS, Tallahassee, FL; and M. A. Bourassa

 
JP1.3
Near surface winds in the vicinity of SST gradients as observed by QuikSCAT
Joseph M. Sienkiewicz, NOAA/NWS/NCEP, Camp Springs, MD; and G. McFadden

 
JP1.5
 
JP1.6
High resolution rain retrieval from SeaWinds scatterometer data
David G. Long, Brigham Young Univ., Provo, UT

Poster PDF (694.3 kB)

 
JP1.7
Revealing the SeaWinds ocean vector winds under the rain using AMSR: Part II, the empirical approach
Bryan W. Stiles, JPL, Pasadena, CA; and J. N. Huddleston, S. M. Hristova-Veleva, R. S. Dunbar, M. H. Freilich, B. A. Vanhoff, S. H. Yueh, S. V. Hsiao, G. Neumann, P. S. Callahan, R. W. Gaston, and W. Y. Tsai

 
JP1.8
Revealing the SeaWinds ocean vector winds under the rain using AMSR. Part I: The physical approach
S. M. Hristova-Veleva, JPL, Pasadena, CA; and P. S. Callahan, R. S. Dunbar, S. H. Yueh, B. W. Stiles, J. N. Huddleston, S. V. Hsiao, G. Neumann, M. H. Freilich, B. A. Vanhoff, W. Y. Tsai, and R. W. Gaston

 
JP1.9
Using synthetic aperture radar to study coastal flows in the Gulf of Alaska
Nathaniel S. Winstead, Johns Hopkins Univ., Laurel, MD; and B. A. Colle, G. S. Young, N. A. Bond, F. M. Monaldo, and D. R. Thompson

 
JP1.10
A Novel Approach to Marine Wind Speed Assessment using Synthetic Aperture Radar
Todd D. Sikora, Millersville Univ., Millersville, PA; and G. Young and N. Winstead

Poster PDF (313.8 kB)

 
JP1.11
RAMS Simulated and SAR Observed Flow Interactions in the Lower Cook Inlet, Alaska
Haibo Liu, University of Alaska Anchorage, Anchorage, AK; and P. Olsson, K. Volz, and H. Yi

Poster PDF (2.3 MB)

 
JP1.12
Multi-sensor analysis of cold water along the Mid-Atlantic coast during midsummer 2003
Donglian Sun, George Mason Univ., Fairfax, VA; and M. Kafatos and R. Yang


Poster Session 2
Climatology and Long-Term Satellite Studies
Location: Exhibit Hall A2 (Georgia World Congress Center)
Host: 14th Conference on Satellite Meteorology and Oceanography
 
P2.1
 
P2.3
New Climate Products Available from DISCOVER
Deborah K. Smith, Remote Sensing Systems, Santa Rosa, CA; and K. Hilburn and F. J. Wentz

 
P2.4
A correction to the diurnal sampling bias in HIRS observations using GFDL climate model simulations
Darren L. Jackson, CIRES/Univ. of Colorado, Boulder, CO; and B. J. Soden

 
P2.5
Vertical structure and spatial-temporal evolution of the Madden-Julian Oscillation based on the Atmospheric Infrared Sounder data
Baijun Tian, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA; and D. E. Waliser, E. J. Fetzer, B. H. Lambrigtsen, and Y. Yung

 
P2.6
Understanding cloud formation mechanisms and cloud feedbacks
Yinghui Liu, CIMSS/Univ. of Wisconsin, Madison, WI; and J. R. Key and J. A. Francis

 
P2.7
Satellite-derived surface radiation fluxes at the ARM SGP and TWP Manus CART sites
Michele L. Nordeen, AS&M, Hampton, VA; and P. Minnis, D. R. Doelling, P. K. Chan, M. M. Khaiyer, D. Phan, J. K. Ayers, and R. Palikonda

Poster PDF (1.6 MB)

 
P2.8
Increase in global oceanic latent flux: results from remote sensing and NCEP reanalyses
Yukun Xing, George Mason University, Fairfax, VA; and L. Chiu

 
P2.11
A maturity model for satellite-derived climate data records
John J. Bates, NOAA/NESDIS/NCDC, Asheville, NC; and B. R. Barkstrom

Poster PDF (130.4 kB)

 
P2.12
Variation of Oceanic Rain Rate Parameters from SSM/I: Mode of Brightness Temperature Histogram
Roongroj Chokngamwong, George Mason University, Fairfax, VA; and L. S. Chiu

Poster PDF (755.5 kB)

 
P2.14
TRMM data reprocessing (version 6): improvements and new data products
William L. Teng, NASA/GSFC, Greenbelt, MD; and H. Rui, J. Bonk, L. Chiu, P. Hrubiak, Z. Liu, L. Lu, and G. Vicente

Poster PDF (320.8 kB)

 
P2.15
Satellite-Derived Precipitation Verification Activities Within the International Precipitation Working Group (IPWG)
F. Joseph Turk, NRL, Monterey, CA; and P. Bauer, E. Ebert, and P. A. Arkin

Poster PDF (75.5 kB)

 
P2.16
Intercalibration of passive microwave rain products
Kyle Hilburn, Remote Sensing Systems, Santa Rosa, CA; and D. K. Smith and F. J. Wentz

 
P2.17
Interannual variability of tropical rainfall as seen from TRMM V6
Franklin R. Robertson, NASA/MSFC, Huntsville, AL

 
P2.18
A satellite-based climatology of convective precipitation episodes over Africa
Arlene Laing, NCAR, Boulder, CO; and R. E. Carbone and V. Levizzani

 
P2.19
Transport of central American biomass burning smoke aerosols in 1979–2005
Jun Wang, University of Nebaska, Lincoln, NE; and S. Christopher, E. Prins, J. S. Reid, and X. Liu

 
P2.20
Satellite-derived cloud-track polar winds from 1982-2004
Richard Dworak, CIMSS/Univ. of Wisconsin, Madison, WI; and J. Key, D. Santek, and C. S. Velden

 
P2.21
Sea Ice Data Derived from Microwave Radiometer for Climate Monitoring
Takanori Matsumoto, Japan Meteorological Agency, Tokyo, Japan; and M. Ishii, Y. Fukuda, and S. Hirahara

Poster PDF (641.3 kB)

 
P2.22
Diurnal cycles in Arctic surface radiative fluxes in a blended satellite-climate reanalysis data set
Xuanji Wang Sr., CIMSS/Univ. of Wisconsin, Madison, WI; and J. R. Key, M. C. Serreze, and A. Slater

 
P2.23
Blended and gridded high resolution global sea surface wind speed and climatology from multiple satellites: 1987–present
Huai-Min Zhang, NOAA/NESDIS/NCDC, Asheville, NC; and R. W. Reynolds and J. J. Bates

Poster PDF (963.4 kB)

 
P2.25
Moisture correspondence between lower and upper troposphere over oceans using AIRS observations
Hengchun Ye, California State University, Los Angeles, CA; and E. J. Fetzer, S. Granger, S. Y. Lee, E. T. Olsen, and L. Chen

Poster PDF (1.2 MB)

 
P2.26
Dry bias in satellite-derived clear-sky water vapor and its contribution to longwave cloud radiative forcing
Byung-Ju Sohn, Seoul National University, Seoul, South Korea; and J. Schmetz, R. Stuhlmann, and J. Y. Lee

 
P2.27
Cloud variability and climate signatures in MODIS level-3 data
Brent Maddux, CIMSS/Univ. of Wisconsin, Madison, WI; and S. A. Ackerman

Poster PDF (1.1 MB)

 
P2.28
A pilot study of scientific data stewardship with global water vapor
T. H. Vonder Haar, CIRA/Colorado State Univ., Fort Collins, CO; and J. M. Forsythe and R. W. Kessler

Poster PDF (2.2 MB)

 
P2.29
A climatological study of ice cloud reflectivity
Daniel T. Lindsey, NOAA/NESDIS, Fort Collins, CO

Poster PDF (605.4 kB)


Poster Session 2
TAMDAR Posters
Location: Exhibit Hall A2 (Georgia World Congress Center)
Host: 12th Conference on Aviation Range and Aerospace Meteorology
 
P2.1
P2.1 moved to 2.4A in 10 IOAS-AOLS program

 
P2.2
Assessment of TAMDAR System Performance on Various Aircraft Types
Daniel J. Mulally, AirDat, LLC., Lakewood, CO; and C. M. Druse and P. Marinello

Poster PDF (604.9 kB)


Poster Session 3
Ceiling and Visibility—Winter Weather Posters
Location: A301 (Georgia World Congress Center)
Host: 12th Conference on Aviation Range and Aerospace Meteorology
 
P3.1
Marine Layer Stratus Study at Vandenberg AFB 16 August 2004 -17 September 2004
Leonard A. Wells, 30th Weather Squadron, Vandenberg AFB, CA

Poster PDF (1.2 MB)

 
P3.2
A study of rapidly developing low cloud ceilings in a stable atmosphere at the Florida Spaceport
Mark M. Wheeler, ENSCO, Inc., Cocoa Beach, FL; and J. L. Case and G. W. Baggett

Poster PDF (499.7 kB)

 
P3.6
A Characterization of NWP Ceiling and Visibility Forecasts for the Terminal Airspace
Paul E. Bieringer, MIT, Lexington, MA; and M. Donovan, F. Robasky, D. Clark, and J. Hurst

Poster PDF (1.3 MB)

 
P3.7
Visibility parameterization from microphysical observations for warm fog conditions and its application to the Canadian MC2 model
Ismail Gultepe, Environment Canada, Toronto, ON, Canada; and J. Milbrand and S. Bélair

Poster PDF (1.2 MB)

 
P3.8
Demonstration of the use of Runway Visual Range (RVR) visibility sensors for estimating snowfall rates throughout the airport domain
Thomas A. Seliga, Volpe National Transportation Systems Center, Cambridge, MA; and D. A. Hazen and S. Burnley

Poster PDF (385.5 kB)

 
P3.9
Impacts of the December 22, 2004 winter storm on FedEx's Memphis operation
Erik A. Proseus, FedEx Express, Memphis, TN; and T. K. Hansen

Poster PDF (889.9 kB)

 
P3.11
The regime in which the daylight visual range exceeds Allard's RVR
J. P. Pichamuthu, Sir M. Visvesvaraya Institute of Technology, Bangalore, Karnataka, India


Poster Session 3
The Role of Ocean-Atmosphere Interaction In Tropical Climate And Its Variations
Location: Exhibit Hall A2 (Georgia World Congress Center)
Host: 14th Conference on Interaction of the Sea and Atmosphere
Chair: Bin Wang, Univ. of Hawaii
 
P3.2
The role of ocean circulation in the surface budget of heat and freshwater in the Bay of Bengal
Sara Vieira, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA; and E. Di Lorenzo and P. Webster

 
P3.3
Local monsoon variability and rainwater harvesting
Raghu Murtugudde, ESSIC, Univ. of Maryland, College Park, MD; and P. Bhat

 
P3.4
The influence of Tropical Indian Ocean SST on the Indian summer monsoon
Annalisa Cherchi, National Institute of Geophysics and Volcanology, Bologna, Italy; and S. Gualdi, S. Behera, J. J. Luo, S. Masson, A. Navarra, and T. Yamagata

 
P3.5
Influence of local SSTAs and surface processes on the Sahel Rainfall
Marco Gaetani, IBIMET/CNR, Rome, Italy; and G. A. Dalu, V. Capecchi, and M. Baldi

Poster PDF (63.4 kB)

 
P3.6
VARIABILITY OF SURFACE TURBULENT FLUXES OVER THE INDIAN OCEAN
Robert F. Banks, COAPS, Tallahassee, FL; and M. A. Bourassa, P. Hughes, J. J. O'Brien, and S. R. Smith

Poster PDF (2.8 MB)

 
P3.7
The atmosphere heat budget over the tropical oceans
Alice Fan, Science Applications International Corporation, Hampton, VA; and B. Lin

Poster PDF (134.1 kB)


Poster Session 5
Low Altitude Wind Shear and Wake Vortices Posters
Location: Exhibit Hall A2 (Georgia World Congress Center)
Host: 12th Conference on Aviation Range and Aerospace Meteorology
 
P5.2
Low-altitude wind conditions on helios flight days at Kauai, HI
L. J. Ehernberger, NASA, Lancaster, CA

Poster PDF (78.9 kB)

 
P5.3
Evaluation of wind algorithms for reporting wind speed and gust for use in air traffic control towers
Thomas A. Seliga, Volpe National Transportation Systems Center, Cambridge, MA; and D. A. Hazen

Poster PDF (891.4 kB)

 
P5.4
Evaluation of Pulsed Lidar Wind Hazard Detection at Las Vegas International Airport
Christopher Keohan, FAA, Oklahoma City, OK; and K. Barr and S. M. Hannon
  9:45 AM
P5.5
Wind measurements with high-energy Doppler lidar
Grady J. Koch, NASA Langley Research Center, Hampton, VA; and M. J. Kavaya, B. Barnes, J. Y. Beyon, M. Petros, J. Yu, F. Amzajerdian, and U. N. Singh

Poster PDF (529.4 kB)

 
P5.8
High resolution numerical modelling of windshear episodes at the Hong Kong International Airport
K.C. Szeto, City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China; and P. W. Chan

Poster PDF (1.2 MB)

 
P5.9
Acoustic technology for aircraft wake vortex detection
Rebecca J. Rodenhiser, Worcester Polytechnic Institute, Worcester, MA; and W. W. Durgin and H. Johari

Poster PDF (2.0 MB)

 
P5.10
Validation of SODAR real-time sensing and visualisation of wake vortices
Stuart Bradley, Univ. of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand

Poster PDF (95.3 kB)

 
P5.11
Operational reliability and accuracy of SODARs in wing vortex characterization
Stuart Bradley, Univ. of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand; and S. Von Hünerbein and K. H. Underwood

Poster PDF (424.4 kB)


Poster Session 6
Polarimetric Radar Posters
Location: Exhibit Hall A2 (Georgia World Congress Center)
Host: 12th Conference on Aviation Range and Aerospace Meteorology
 
P6.1
Winter precipitation type classification with a polarimetric WSR-88D radar
Terry J. Schuur, Univ. of Oklahoma/CIMMS and NOAA/NSSL, Norman, OK; and A. V. Ryzhkov and S. Giangrande

Poster PDF (545.3 kB)

 
P6.2
Development and testing of a dual-pol-based surface precipitation type algorithm
Kevin A. Scharfenberg, NOAA/NWS Office of Climate, Water, and Weather Services, Norman, OK

Poster PDF (378.6 kB)

 
P6.3
Optimization of hydrometeor classification using multivariate statistical techniques
Pamela L. Heinselman, CIMMS/Univ. of Oklahoma, Norman, OK; and K. Elmore

 
P6.4
Polarimetric Prototype of the WSR-88D Radar Observations of Birds and Insect
Pengfei Zhang, CIMMS/Univ. of Oklahoma, Norman, OK; and A. V. Ryzhkov and D. Zrnic

Poster PDF (1022.9 kB)


Poster Session 7
Turbulence Posters
Location: Exhibit Hall A2 (Georgia World Congress Center)
Host: 12th Conference on Aviation Range and Aerospace Meteorology
 
P7.1
Turbulence in MCS anvils: observations and analyses from BAMEX
Randall S. Collander, NOAA/FSL, Boulder, CO; and E. Tollerud, B. Jamison, F. Caracena, C. Lu, and S. E. Koch

Poster PDF (1.8 MB)

 
P7.2
Case Study of Turbulence within a Frontal Boundary—WSR-88D and PIREP Investigation
Lee E. Branscome, Climatological Consulting Corporation, Palm Beach Gardens, FL; and M. N. Campbell

 
P7.3
Observations and high-resolution simulations of a severe turbulence and downslope windstorm event
James D. Doyle, NRL, Monterey, CA; and N. A. Bond and Q. Jiang

 
P7.4
The development of a vertical wind shear model for the lower stratosphere in support of the High Altitude Airship
George D. Modica, AER, Inc, Lexington, MA; and T. Nehrkorn and T. T. Myers

 
P7.5
The use of high resolution simulations to reproduce turbulence encounters
Robert D. Sharman, NCAR, Boulder, CO; and W. D. Hall, H. M. Hsu, T. L. Keller, and T. P. Lane

 
P7.7
Results of initial WRF-based turbulence and icing algorithm testing
Gordon R. Brooks, Air Force Weather Agency, Offutt AFB, NE; and A. M. McCawley

 
P7.8
Using in situ eddy dissipation rate (EDR) observations for turbulence forecast verification
Agnes Takacs, NCAR, Boulder, CO; and L. Holland, R. Hueftle, B. G. Brown, and A. Holmes

Poster PDF (606.4 kB)

 
P7.10

Poster Session 8
Satellite Applications and Volcanic Ash Detection Posters
Location: Exhibit Hall A2 (Georgia World Congress Center)
Host: 12th Conference on Aviation Range and Aerospace Meteorology
 
P8.1
Observing clear air turbulence indirectly in satellite imagery
Anthony Wimmers, CIMSS/Univ. of Wisconsin, Madison, WI; and W. F. Feltz

Poster PDF (971.5 kB)

 
P8.2
Satellite-based aviation weather applications for convection, visibility, turbulence, and volcanic ash
Wayne F. Feltz, CIMSS/Univ. of Wisconsin, Madison, WI; and K. Bedka, A. Wimmers, M. Pavolonis, S. Bedka, S. A. Ackerman, J. R. Mecikalski, J. J. Murray, and D. B. Johnson

 
P8.3
Statistical relationships between satellite-derived mesoscale atmospheric motion vectors, rawinsondes, and NOAA wind profiler network observations
Kristopher M. Bedka, CIMSS/Univ. of Wisconsin, Madison, WI; and W. F. Feltz, J. R. Mecikalski, R. A. Petersen, and C. S. Velden

Poster PDF (391.1 kB)

 
P8.4
The use of MODIS water vapro imagery, NWP model analysis, and pilot reports to diagnose turbulent mountain waves
Nathan Uhlenbrock, CIMSS/Univ. of Wisconsin, Madison, WI; and S. A. Ackerman, W. F. Feltz, R. D. Sharman, and J. R. Mecikalski

Poster PDF (1.8 MB)

 
P8.5
Improved satellite-based volcanic ash detection and height estimates
Michael J. Pavolonis, NOAA/NESDIS, Madison, WI; and W. F. Feltz and A. Heidinger

Poster PDF (695.2 kB)

 
P8.6
Volcanic ash cloud heights using the MODIS CO2-slicing algorithm
Michael Richards, Federal Aviation Administration; and S. A. Ackerman, M. J. Pavolonis, and W. F. Feltz

Poster PDF (708.0 kB)

 
P8.7
Development and testing of the Volcanic Ash Coordination Tool (VACT)
Dennis M. Rodgers, NOAA/FSL, Boulder, CO; and G. Pratt and J. M. Osiensky

 
P8.8
A global contrail climatology
Martin Stuefer, Univ. of Alaska, Fairbanks, AK; and G. Wendler

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


Joint Poster Session 1
Land-Atmosphere Interactions (Joint with 18th Conference on Climate Variability and Change and 20th Conference on Hydrology)
Location: Exhibit Hall A2 (Georgia World Congress Center)
Hosts: (Joint between the 18th Conference on Climate Variability and Change; and the 20th Conference on Hydrology )
 
JP1.1
Regional climate modelling of European summer climate variability over the period 1958–2001
Erich M. Fischer, ETH, Zurich, Switzerland; and S. I. Seneviratne, P. Vidale, D. Luethi, and C. Schaer

 
JP1.2
Soil temperature and moisture errors in Eta model analyses
Christopher M. Godfrey, Univ. of Oklahoma, Norman, OK; and D. J. Stensrud and L. M. Leslie

Poster PDF (780.4 kB)

 
JP1.3
Evaluation of interannual variability simulation over South America using a dynamic downscaling approach
Fernando H. De Sales, Univ. of California, Los Angeles, CA; and Y. Xue

 
JP1.4
Impacts of the satellite-derived leaf area index on GCM simulation of near-surface climate
Hyun-Suk Kang, Univ. of California, Los Angeles, CA; and Y. K. Xue and G. J. Collatz

 
JP1.5
Effects of Soil Moisture Variations on Boundary Layer Characteristics: Numerical Simulations using WRF
Ning Zhang, Jackson State Univ., Jackson, MS; and D. Lu and H. Liu

 
JP1.6
The Role of the CLM2 in Seasonal Dynamical Downscaling for Crop Model Application
Dong-Wook Shin, COAPS, Florida State Univ., Tallahassee, FL; and J. G. Bellow, S. Cocke, T. LaRow, and J. J. O'Brien

 
JP1.7
The impact of soil moisture initialization on seasonal precipitation in West Africa
Andrea M. Sealy, Howard Univ., Washington, DC; and E. Joseph and C. H. Lu

 
JP1.8
Hydroclimatological Predictions Based on Basin's Humidity Index
Hatim Sharif, Univ. of Texas, San Antonio, TX; and N. L. Miller

Poster PDF (207.9 kB)

 
JP1.9
High-resolution CRM simulations from IHOP: Land-atmosphere interactions
Stephen E. Lang, SSAI and NASA/GSFC, Greenbelt, MD; and X. Zeng, W. K. Tao, C. D. Peters-Lidard, J. L. Eastman, S. V. Kumar, and Y. Tian

 
JP1.10
Poster JP1.10 Moved. New Paper number J3.9A

 
JP1.11
 
JP1.12
 
JP1.13
A Soil Moisture Monitoring Network: The Oklahoma Mesonet Perspective
Bradley G. Illston, Univ. of Oklahoma, Norman, OK OK; and J. B. Basara, C. A. Fiebrich, R. L. Elliott, D. K. Fisher, E. D. Hunt, and J. R. Kilby

 
JP1.14
Advanced computing, data access and distribution technologies, and interoperable tools enable high resolution coupled land-atmosphere prediction
Sujay V. Kumar, UMBC/GEST, Greenbelt, MD; and C. D. Peters-Lidard, W. K. Tao, Y. Tian, J. Eastman, X. Zeng, S. E. Lang, and P. R. Houser

 
JP1.15
Biogeography of cloud forests: Use of satellite remote sensing and numerical modeling
U. S. Nair, University of Alabama, Huntsville, AL; and D. K. Ray, S. Asefi, R. M. Welch, and R. O. Lawton

 
JP1.16
Verification case studies within the 12km North American land data assimilation system (NLDASE) project
Charles J. Alonge, NASA/GSFC and SAIC, Greenbelt, MD; and B. A. Cosgrove

Poster PDF (1.9 MB)

 
JP1.17
Impact of green vegetation fraction on atmosphere/land-surface models
Vince C. K. Wong, NOAA/NWS/NCEP, Camp Springs, MD; and K. Mitchell and G. Gayno

 
JP1.18
The impact of wind speed on nighttime microscale temperature gradients
Matthew J. Haugland, Univ. of Oklahoma, Norman, OK

Poster PDF (315.2 kB)

 
JP1.19
Reduced atmospheric CH4 consumption by temperate forest soils under elevated CO2
Lindsay Dubbs, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC; and S. C. Whalen and E. N. Fischer

 
JP1.20
Lower Tropospheric Analysis of the Daily Cycle of the Wind for the East Coast of the Gulf of California during NAME 2004
Luna M. Rodriguez, Senior, Universidad de Puerto Rico- Recinto de Rio Piedras, Physics, San Juan, Puerti Rico; and L. M. Hartten

 
JP1.21
How the congo basin deforestation and the equatorial monsoonal circulation influences the regional hydroloical cycle
Willis O. Shem, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA; and R. E. Dickinson

Poster PDF (1013.2 kB)

 
JP1.22
Impact of lowland deforestation on South West Indian tropical wet forests: cloud cover and rainfall
Deepak K. Ray, Foretsry and Natural Resources, Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana; and R. M. Welch, U. S. Nair, R. O. Lawton, and R. A. Pielke Sr.

 
JP1.23
The impact of a controlled burn on surface and atmospheric conditions on a tallgrass prairie
Amanda J. Schroeder, Oklahoma Climatological Survey, Norman, OK; and J. B. Basara

Poster PDF (607.6 kB)

 
JP1.24
Radiative scaling of the nocturnal boundary layer
Alan K. Betts, Atmospheric Research, Pittsford, VT

 
JP1.25
The effect of vegetation type on the seasonal and diurnal cycles of soil temperature
Thomas Atkins, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ; and A. Robock

 
JP1.26
Climate variability in a simple model of land-atmosphere interaction
Jiangfeng Wei, COLA, Calverton, MD; and R. E. Dickinson and N. Zeng

Poster PDF (204.6 kB)

 
JP1.27
The Effects of Frozen Soil on Snowmelt Runoff and Soil Water Storage
Guo-Yue Niu, University of Texas, Austin, TX; and Z. L. Yang

 
JP1.28
The influence of soil transport processes upon temperature and moisture profiles in a snowpack
Yi-Ching Chung, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI; and A. W. England

 
JP1.29
Modelling dust transport over Central Eastern Australia
Lance M. Leslie, University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK

 
JP1.30
A Physical Based Forest Fuel Moisture Scheme for High-Resolution Fire Modeling
Yongqiang Liu, Forestry Sciences Laboratory, USDA Forest Service, Athens, GA

 
JP1.31
Attribution of seasonal soil moisture prediction uncertainties
Zaitao Pan, St. Louis University, St. Louis, MO; and R. Horton, B. Tentinger, and M. Segal

 
JP1.32
Simulating water and energy fluxes using a coupled groundwater, surface water, land surface and regional climate model.
Reed M. Maxwell, LLNL, Livermore, CA; and S. J. Kollet, Q. Duan, and F. K. Chow

 
JP1.33
Poster JP1.33 Moved. New number J5.5A

 
JP1.34
The role of land surface schemes on land-atmosphere coupling strength in weather and climate models
Zhichang Guo, COLA, Calverton, MD; and P. A. Dirmeyer and R. D. Koster


Poster Session 1
NPOESS Posters
Location: Exhibit Hall A2 (Georgia World Congress Center)
Host: Second Symposium: Toward a Global Earth Observation System of Systems—Future National Operational Environmental Satellite Systems
 
P1.3
NPOESS Environmental Data Records
Mike Haas, NPOESS IPO, Silver Spring, MD

 
P1.4
NPOESS Space Segment
Terry Larson, NGST, Redondo Beach, CA

 
P1.5
The NPOESS Command, Control, and Communications Segment
Mark Sargent, Raytheon, Aurora, CO

 
P1.6
IDPS Architecture
Joseph Mulligan, NPOESS IPO/NOAA; and K. Grant

 
P1.7
The NPOESS Field Terminal Segment
James Jensen, Raytheon, Omaha, NE

 
P1.8
The NPOESS Sensor Family Tree
Julius Sanks, Northrop Grumman Information Technology, McLean, VA

 
P1.9
The NPOESS Sensor Family
Thomas Kolesar, NGST, Redondo Beach, CA

 
P1.10
OMPS - The Next Generation Sensor Suite for Global Ozone Monitoring
Scott C. Asbury, Ball Aerospace & Technologies, Corp, Boulder, CO; and J. Sneary, D. Back, Q. Remund, and J. Rodriguez

 
P1.11
The NPOESS Aerosol Polarimetry Sensor
Eric Shettle, NRL, Washington, DC; and M. I. Mishchenko and L. Travis

 
P1.12
Ozone and ozone-related data products from NPP and NPOESS
John Hornstein, NRL, Washington, DC; and L. E. Flynn, E. Hilsenrath, C. Seftor, J. Larsen, J. Lumpe, J. Bergman, S. A. Mango, K. St. Germain, and D. Gu

 
P1.14
Retrieval of Ozone, NO2 and Aerosol Vertical Profiles from Limb Scatter Measurements
Didier F. Rault, NASA Langley Research Center, Hampton, VA; and R. Loughman

 
P1.15
NPOESS Space Environmental Monitoring
William F. Denig, Air Force Research Laboratory, Hanscomb AFB, MA; and R. Viereck and M. Bonadonna

 
P1.16
NPOESS Solar Irradiance Monitoring for Climate Change
Rodney Viereck, NOAA/NWS/SWPC, Boulder, CO; and G. Kopp and J. Harder

 
P1.18
CLASS NPP/NPOESS Data Archive and Access Overview
Richard G. Reynolds, NOAA/NESDIS, Silver Spring, MD; and J. J. Bates, C. Cremidis, and C. Martinez

 
P1.20
NPOESS' Key to Low Data Latency: SafetyNet
David G. Lubar, Raytheon, Aurora, CO; and G. Cook and M. L. Jamilkowski


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


Poster Session 4
Future Aviation Weather Delivery Posters
Location: Exhibit Hall A2 (Georgia World Congress Center)
Host: 12th Conference on Aviation Range and Aerospace Meteorology
 
P4.1
Paper Being Presented as J3.7
John A. May, NOAA/NWS/NCEP/Aviation Weather Center, Kansas City, Missouri; and S. Albersheim

 
P4.4
Distance learning training for aviation forecasters: The impact of weather on air traffic management
Daniel K. Cobb Jr., NOAA/NWSFO, Grand Rapids, MI; and T. W. Dulong, V. C. Johnson, and C. A. West

Poster PDF (446.1 kB)

 
P4.5
DLAC2—Training Forecasters To Better Serve Our Aviation Customers
Gregory Byrd, UCAR/COMET, Boulder, CO; and C. Weiss

Poster PDF (38.5 kB)


Formal Poster Viewing with Coffee Break (T1)

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


Interviews with Speakers: Stephanie Kenitzer, AMS

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


Joint Session 2
Water Conservation in Deserts (Joint with 20th Conference on Hydrology and Forum on Managing our Physical and Natural Resources)
Location: A403 (Georgia World Congress Center)
Hosts: (Joint between the 20th Conference on Hydrology; and the AMS Forum: Managing our Physical and Natural Resources: Successes and Challenges )
Cochairs: Sue Grimmond, King’s College; Bart Nijssen, University of Washington
  11:15 AM
J2.2
Utility of Satellite Thermal Remote Sensing for Mapping Riparian and Upland Desert Water Use
Fuqin Li, USDA/ARS, Beltsville, MD; and M. C. Anderson, W. P. Kustas, R. L. Scott, and J. H. Prueger
  11:30 AM
J2.3
Improving US Bureau of Reclamation Water Supply, Demand Monitoring and Forecasting Using NASA Earth Data Products for the Carson and Truckee River Basins
Douglas P. Boyle, DRI, Reno, NV; and J. Huntingiton, D. Toll, S. Bowser, D. Frevert, R. Stodt, D. Clark, K. R. Arsenault, and A. Pinhero
  11:45 AM
J2.4
Improving Drought Monitoring and Prediction Using LIS and Satellite Products
Kristi R. Arsenault, George Mason University, Calverton, MD; and A. Pinheiro, R. Stodt, D. Toll, and P. R. Houser

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)


Session 3
Observed Climate Change in the Atmosphere and Oceans: Part 1
Location: A313 (Georgia World Congress Center)
Host: 18th Conference on Climate Variability and Change
Cochairs: Dian J. Seidel, NOAA/ARL; Christopher W. Landsea, NOAA/AOML/HRD
  11:00 AM
3.1
State of the climate for 2005
Jay Lawrimore, NOAA/NESDIS/NCDC, Asheville, NC; and R. Heim, D. H. Levinson, A. M. Waple, C. Tankersley, and S. Stephens
  11:15 AM
3.2
Is the tropopause a sensitive indicator of climate change?
Dian J. Seidel, NOAA/ARL, Silver Spring, MD; and W. J. Randel
  11:30 AM
3.3
  12:00 PM
3.5
A new lower tropospheric temperature dataset using microwave sounding unit measurements
Carl. A. Mears, Remote Sensing Systems, Santa Rosa, CA; and F. J. Wentz

Session 3
Private Sector
Location: A404 (Georgia World Congress Center)
Host: Symposium on the Public/Private Sector Partnership
Chair: Elliot Abrams, AccuWeather Inc
  11:00 AM
3.1
XM Satellite Marine Weather - The successful result of Stennis Space Center's technology cluster
Patrick J. Fitzpatrick, GeoResources Institute, Stennis Space Center, MS; and E. Valenti and Y. Li
  11:15 AM
3.2
Title to be announced
Christopher D. Bedford CCM, Sailing Weather Service, LLC, Watertown, MA
  11:30 AM
3.3
Title to be announced.
Jan Dutton, AWS Convergence Tech../WeatherBug Government and Professional Services, Gaithersburg, MD

  11:45 AM
3.4
Title to be Announced..
Steven Root, WeatherBank, Inc., Edmond, OK

  12:00 PM
3.5

Session 5
Air–Sea Turbulent Flux Parameterizations
Location: A309 (Georgia World Congress Center)
Host: 14th Conference on Interaction of the Sea and Atmosphere
Chair: Michael A. Brunke, Univ.of Arizona
  11:00 AM
5.1
Physics-based parameterization of air-sea momentum flux at high wind speeds and its impact on hurricane predictions
Il-Ju Moon, Cheju National University, Jujusi, South Korea; and I. Ginis, T. Hara, and B. Thomas
  11:15 AM
5.2
  11:30 AM
5.3
Critical re-evaluation of the bulk transfer coefficient for sensible heat over the ocean during unstable and neutral conditions
Ulf Högström, Uppsala Univ., Uppsala, Sweden; and A. S. Smedman, E. Sahlée, and C. Johansson

  11:45 AM
5.4
Bulk Exchange Coefficient for Humidity at Sea during Unstable and Neutral Conditions: A Re-evaluation based on new Field Data
Erik Sahlée, Uppsala Univ., Uppsala, Sweden; and A. S. Smedman, U. Högström, and A. Rutgersson


Session 5
Ceiling and Visibility—Winter Weather
Location: A301 (Georgia World Congress Center)
Host: 12th Conference on Aviation Range and Aerospace Meteorology
Organizers: David A. Clark, MIT; Roy Rasmussen, NCAR
  11:30 AM
5.3
Cloud and hydrometeor analysis using metar, radar, and satellite data within the RUC/Rapid-Refresh model
Stephen Weygandt, NOAA/FSL, Boulder, CO; and S. G. Benjamin, D. Dévényi, J. M. Brown, and P. Minnis
  11:45 AM
5.4
An exploration of blending techniques for use in production of automated forecasts of ceiling height and visibility
Matthew L. Tryhane, NCAR, Boulder, CO; and P. H. Herzegh, G. Wiener, J. Cowie, and B. Weekley

  12:00 PM
5.5
The impact of winter weather at the two major airports in Germany
Thomas Hauf, Univ. of Hannover, Hannover, Germany; and P. Röhner

Session 5
Climatology and Long-Term Satellite Studies: Part II
Location: A305 (Georgia World Congress Center)
Host: 14th Conference on Satellite Meteorology and Oceanography
Organizer: B. J. Sohn, Seoul National Univ.
  11:00 AM
5.1
Systematic Differences of Rainfall Estimates in TRMM 3G68
Tetsuo Nakazawa, MRI, Tsukuba, Ibaraki, Japan; and K. Rajendran
  11:30 AM
5.2
Challenges in Monitoring Climate Rainfall Variability and Trends
Wesley Berg, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO; and C. D. Kummerow
  11:45 AM
5.3
Observational and modelling studies of convective precipitation patterns in the Sahelian area
Samantha Melani, Institute of Biometeorology/National Research Council, Sesto Fiorentino, Italy; and M. Pasqui and A. Antonini
  12:00 PM
5.4
A combined atmospheric water data set for hydrology studies
Eric J. Fetzer, JPL, Pasadena, CA; and F. W. Irion, B. H. Lambrigtsen, W. G. Read, and D. E. Waliser

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


Exhbits Open (T)

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


Session 1
Meteorology: From Ben Franklin to Climate Change
Location: A310 (Georgia World Congress Center)
Host: Fourth Presidental History Symposium
  11:15 AM
1.1
Benjamin Franklin's Science
E. Philip Krider, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ

Joint Panel Discussion 3
Hurricane Impacts (Joint with the AMS Forum: Environmental Risks and Impacts on Society: Successes and Challenges and the Symposium on Impacts of 2005's Weather: Major Stories of the Year)
Location: Thomas Murphy Ballroom 1 (Georgia World Congress Center)
Hosts: (Joint between the Impacts of 2005's Weather: Major Stories of the Year; and the AMS Forum: Environmental Risk and Impacts on Society: Successes and Challenges )
Moderator: Christopher W. Landsea, NOAA/AOML/HRD
  11:15 AM
JPD3.1
  11:25 AM
JPD3.2
Hurricanes and Science Policy (Invited Presentation)
Amy Carroll, US House of Representatives, Washington, DC

  11:35 AM
JPD3.3
Health Effects of 2005 Hurricanes
Anna Marie, The Weather Channel, Atlanta, GA
  11:45 AM
JPD3.4
Impact on Marine Ecosystems and Fishing Industry
John Oliver, National Marine Fisheries Service, Silver Spring, MD
  11:55 AM
JPD3.5
Impact of the Nations Economy
Daniel Bachman, Office of Policy Development, Washington, DC
  12:05 PM
JPD3.900
Discussion

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


Panel Discussion 4
Panel Discussion on Weather and Climate Impacts (joint with Impact Weather 2005)
Location: Thomas Murphy Ballroom 2&3 (Georgia World Congress Center)
Host: AMS Forum: Environmental Risk and Impacts on Society: Successes and Challenges

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 )

12:15 PM-1:30 PM: Tuesday, 31 January 2006


Session 1
Session 1
Host: Sixth Presidental Forum: Success Stories: Partnerships in the Climate and Weather Enterprise That Have Worked....Lessons Learned
  12:15 PM
1.1
Opening Remarks
Walter A. Lyons, AMS President, FMA Research, Inc., Fort Collins, CO
  12:30 PM
1.2
NOAA
John J. Kelly, NOAA/NWS, Washington, DC

  12:40 PM
1.3
The National Lightning Detection Netwrok
Kenneth L. Cummins, Vaisala, Inc., Tucson, AZ
  12:50 PM
1.4
2002 Salt Lake City Winter Olympics
Tom Potter, Univ. of Utah and Salt Lake Organizing Committee, Salt Lake City, UT
  1:00 PM
1.5
The Emerging National Mesonet
Ken Crawford, Univ. of Oklahoma, Norman, OK and NOAA, Silver Spring, MD
  1:10 PM
1.6
Concluding Remarks
George L. Frederick Jr., Vaisala, Louisville, CO
  1:12 PM
1.5a
Comments and Discussion from the Floor

1:45 PM-2:15 PM: Tuesday, 31 January 2006


Joint Session 2
Symposium Welcome and Keynote (Joint with Second Symposium: Toward a Global Earth Observation System of Systems—Future National Operational Environmental Satellite Systems and 14th Conference on Satellite Meteorology and Oceanography)
Location: A302 (Georgia World Congress Center)
Hosts: (Joint between the Second Symposium: Toward a Global Earth Observation System of Systems—Future National Operational Environmental Satellite Systems; and the 14th Conference on Satellite Meteorology and Oceanography )
Organizer: Gerard D. Wittman, Raytheon Company
  1:45 PM
J2.1
Keynote Address.
Conrad C. Lautenbacher, NOAA, Washington, DC

1:45 PM-2:35 PM: Tuesday, 31 January 2006


Joint Panel Discussion 4
Weather, Energy, and the Economy (Joint with the AMS Forum: Environmental Risks and Impacts on Society: Successes and Challenges and the Symposium on Impacts of 2005's Weather: Major Stories of the Year)
Location: Thomas Murphy Ballroom 1 (Georgia World Congress Center)
Hosts: (Joint between the Impacts of 2005's Weather: Major Stories of the Year; and the AMS Forum: Environmental Risk and Impacts on Society: Successes and Challenges )
Moderator: Roger S. Pulwarty, NOAA-CIRES Climate Diagnostics Center
  1:45 PM
JPD4.1
Strong Space Weather in 2005
Joseph Kunches, NOAA/Space Environment Center, Boulder, CO
  1:55 PM
JPD4.2
  2:05 PM
JPD4.3
Petroleum & Natural Gas: Hurricane and Temperature Impacts
Paul Janish, Merrill Lynch Commodities, Inc., Houston, TX
  2:15 PM
JPD4.4
The Changing Landscape in Insurance
Jeffrey Rouch, Nationwide Insurance, Washington, DC
  2:25 PM
JPD4.900
Discussion

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


Session 1
Historical Perspectives on Understanding and Forecasting Severe Convective Storms
Location: A410 (Georgia World Congress Center)
Host: Symposium on the Challenges of Severe Convective Storms
Organizer: William A. Gallus Jr., Iowa State University
  1:45 PM
1.1
Historical overview of severe convective storms research
Charles A. Doswell III, CIMMS/Univ. of Oklahoma, Norman, OK
  2:15 PM
1.2
Historical overview of severe convective storms forecasting
Steven J. Weiss, Storm Prediction Center, Norman, OK
  2:45 PM
1.3
Discussion


Joint Session 2
Progress and Challenges Related to the Assimilation of Ionospheric Measurements into Space Weather Models (Joint between the 10th Symposium on Integrated Observing and Assimilation Systems for the Atmosphere, Oceans, and Land Surface (IOAS-AOLS) and the 3rd Symposium on Space Weather)
Location: A405 (Georgia World Congress Center)
Hosts: (Joint between the 10th Symposium on Integrated Observing and Assimilation Systems for the Atmosphere, Oceans, and Land Surface (IOAS-AOLS); and the Third Symposium on Space Weather )
Organizers: Robert McCoy, Office of Naval Research; Thomas W. Schlatter, CIRES/ESRL
  1:45 PM
J2.1
Exploring Ionospheric Modeling Methods: Towards a Global Ionospheric Monitor
Lukas Mandrake, JPL, Pasadena, CA; and A. Mannucci and B. D. Wilson
  2:15 PM
J2.3
A data assimilation model of the ionosphere
Robert W. Schunk, Utah State University, Logan, UT; and L. Scherliess, J. Sojka, D. Thompson, and L. Zhu
  2:30 PM
J2.4

Session 4
Academic Sector
Location: A404 (Georgia World Congress Center)
Host: Symposium on the Public/Private Sector Partnership
Chair: Rebecca E. Morss, NCAR
  2:00 PM
4.2
Mixing Politics and Science
Peter J. Webster, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA
  2:30 PM
4.4
Some Personal Memories of Developing Commercial Lightning Detection Systems
E. Philip Krider, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ

  2:45 PM
4.900
Discussion


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

Session 6
Space–Based Air–Sea Turbulent Fluxes
Location: A309 (Georgia World Congress Center)
Host: 14th Conference on Interaction of the Sea and Atmosphere
Chair: Mark A. Bourassa, COAPS/Florida State Univ.
  1:45 PM
6.1
Improved estimates of net air-sea Fluxes over the atlantic ocean
Abderrahim Bentamy, IFREMER, Plouzane, France; and H. L. Ayina, A. M. Nunez, K. Katsaros, and R. Pinker
  2:00 PM
6.2
Interannual variability of tropical ocean evaporation: a comparison of microwave satellite and assimilation results
Franklin R. Robertson, NASA/MSFC, Huntsville, AL; and G. A. Wick, D. L. Jackson, and M. G. Bosilovich

  2:30 PM
6.4
Satellite scatterometer-derived air-sea fluxes for numerical modeling of the upper ocean response to tropical cyclones
Steven L. Morey, COAPS, Tallahassee, FL; and M. A. Bourassa, D. S. Dukhovskoy, and J. J. O'Brien
  2:45 PM
6.5
Advances in higher resolution global ocean observing system: sea surface wind speed perspective
Huai-Min Zhang, NOAA/NESDIS/NCDC, Asheville, NC; and J. J. Bates and R. W. Reynolds

1:45 PM-4:30 PM: Tuesday, 31 January 2006


Joint Session 3
Mitigation of Urban Heat Islands (Joint with 6th Symposium on the Urban Environment and Forum on Managing our Physical and Natural Resources)
Location: A312 (Georgia World Congress Center)
Hosts: (Joint between the Sixth Symposium on the Urban Environment; and the AMS Forum: Managing our Physical and Natural Resources: Successes and Challenges )
CoChair: Sue Grimmond, Kings College
  1:45 PM
J3.1
Mitigation of urban heat islands - recent progress and future prospects
David J. Sailor, Portland State Univ., Portland, OR
  2:15 PM
J3.2
Mitigating New York City's Heat Island with Urban Forestry, Living Roofs, and Light Surfaces
Cynthia Rosenzweig, NASA/GISS, New York, NY; and W. Solecki, L. Parshall, S. Gaffin, B. Lynn, R. Goldberg, J. Cox, and S. Hodges
  2:30 PM
J3.3
Land cover influences on below-canopy temperatures in and near Baltimore, MD
Gordon Heisler, USDA FS, Syracuse, NY; and B. Tao, J. Walton, R. V. Pouyat, R. H. Grant, I. Yesilonis, D. Nowak, K. Belt, and Y. Wang
  3:15 PM
J3.6
The energetics of urban microclimates
Timothy M. Barzyk, Univ. of Chicago, Chicago, IL; and J. E. Frederick
  3:30 PM
J3.7
Heating and cooling degree days in Oklahoma City
Peter K. Hall Jr., Oklahoma Climatological Society, Norman, OK; and J. B. Basara
  3:45 PM
J3.8
Urban heat islands and environmental impact
Suryadevara Sachi Devi, Andhra Univ., Visakhapatnam, India
  4:00 PM
J3.4A
Coffee Break in Exhibit Hall


Session 4
Emission and Air Quality Measurements and Model Evaluations
Location: A407 (Georgia World Congress Center)
Host: 14th Joint Conference on the Applications of Air Pollution Meteorology with the Air and Waste Management Assoc
Chair: Sethu Raman, North Carolina State Univ.
  1:45 PM
4.1
A Monte Carlo study of uncertainties in benzene and 1,3-butadiene concentrations calculated by AERMOD and ISC in the Houston ship channel area
Steven R. Hanna, Hanna Consultants, Kennebunkport, ME; and R. J. Paine, D. W. Heinold, E. Kintigh, and D. Baker
  2:00 PM
4.2
Application of a Genetic Algorithm-Coupled Receptor/Dispersion Model to the Dipole Pride 26 Experiments
Christopher T. Allen, Penn State Univ., University Park, PA; and S. E. Haupt and G. S. Young
  2:15 PM
4.3
  2:30 PM
4.4
  2:45 PM
4.5
Development of a Remote Sensing Meteorological Network assimilated to a fine grid NWP model for the Nuclear Power Plants Security in Switzerland
Bertrand Calpini, MeteoSwiss, Payerne, Switzerland; and J. M. Bettems, O. Marchand, Y. A. Roulet, and D. Ruffieux
  3:00 PM
4.6
Air pollution takes a holiday: the July 4th effect
Farhan Akhtar, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA; and M. E. Chang
  3:15 PM
4.7
Comparison of simulated ozone generated with growth-and-control vs. uniformly-reduced emission inventories in California
Cristina L. Archer, Bay Area Air Quality Management District, San Francisco, CA; and P. T. Martien, S. T. Soong, and S. Tanrikulu
  3:30 PM
4.8
A Major Challenge in Meteorological Model Evaluation for Air-Quality Applications
Jian-Wen Bao, NOAA/ETL, Boulder, CO; and S. A. Michelson
  3:45 PM
4.9
A comparative assessment of ammonia emissions from water-holding structures at swine facilities with different technologies for animal waste treatment
S. Pal Arya, North Carolina State Univ., Raleigh, NC; and V. P. Aneja, I. Rumsey, and H. Semunegus

  4:00 PM
4.5A
Coffee Break in Exhibit Hall

1:45 PM-4:45 PM: Tuesday, 31 January 2006


Session 5
Use of Ensembles and Their Postprocesing in Prediction
Location: A304 (Georgia World Congress Center)
Host: 18th Conference on Probability and Statistics in the Atmospheric Sciences
Cochairs: Thomas M. Hamill, NOAA/CIRES/CDC; Steven A. Amburn, NOAA/NWS
  1:45 PM
5.1
The development of forecast confidence measures using NCEP ensembles and their real-time implementation within NWS web-based graphical forecasts
Andrew V. Durante, Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL; and R. E. Hart, A. I. Watson, R. H. Grumm, and W. Drag
  2:30 PM
5.4
  2:45 PM
5.5
Post processed short range ensemble forecasts of severe convective storms
David R. Bright, NOAA/NWS/NCEP/SPC, Norman, OK; and M. S. Wandishin
  3:00 PM
5.6
On producing probability forecasts
William M. Briggs, Weill Cornell Medical School, New York, NY; and R. Zaretzki

  3:15 PM
5.7
Ensemble based probabilistic tropical cyclone forecasts
Brian Etherton, University of North Carolina, Charlotte, NC
  3:30 PM
5.8
Comparison of ensemble-MOS methods in the Lorenz '96 setting
Daniel S. Wilks, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY

  3:45 PM
5.9
Combining spatial and ensemble information for probabilistic weather forecasting
Veronica J. Berrocal, University of Washington, Seattle, WA; and A. E. Raftery and T. Gneiting
  4:00 PM
5.10
A Bayesian approach to climate model evaluation and multi-model averaging
Seung-Ki Min, University of Bonn, Bonn, Germany; and A. Hense

  4:15 PM
5.5A
Coffee Break

1:45 PM-5:15 PM: Tuesday, 31 January 2006


Session 1
Global water and energy cycle observations, models, and analyses
Location: A403 (Georgia World Congress Center)
Host: 20th Conference on Hydrology
Cochairs: Bart Nijssen, University of Washington; Deborah K. Nykanen, Minnesota State University
  1:45 PM
1.1
Evaluation and applications of NCEP Stage II and Stage IV gage-corrected radar precipitation estimates over the Carolinas
Ryan Boyles, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC; and S. Raman, A. Sims, S. Schwab, K. Horgan, M. S. Brooks, and A. Frazier
  2:00 PM
1.2
Corrections to radar-estimated precipitation using observed rain
Eric C. Ware, Cornell Univ., Ithaca, NY; and D. S. Wilks and A. T. DeGaetano
  2:15 PM
1.3
Spatial and Temporal Characteristics of Extreme Rainstorms over the Central United States
Li-Chuan Chen, Cooperative Institute for Climate and Satellites/Earth System Science Interdisciplinary Center, College Park, MD; and A. Bradley
  2:30 PM
1.4
  2:45 PM
1.5
Global Water and Energy Cycles in MSC's New High-Resolution Medium-Range Weather Forecast Model
Stephane Belair, MSC, Dorval, PQ, Canada; and A. M. Leduc and F. Lemay

  3:00 PM
1.6
Evaluation and Climate Change Projections of the Global Hydrological Cycle in IPCC AR4 Model Simulations
Duane Edward Waliser, JPL, Pasadena,, CA; and S. Schubert, K. W. Seo, J. Bergengren, and E. G. Njoku
  3:30 PM
1.8
  3:45 PM
1.9
  4:15 PM
1.11
  4:30 PM
1.12
Analysis of diurnal Evaporative Fraction behavior
Pierre Gentine, MIT, Cambridge, MA; and D. Entekhabi, A. Chehbouni, B. Gilles, and D. Benoit
  4:45 PM
1.5A
Coffee Break in Exhibit Hall

1:45 PM-5:30 PM: Tuesday, 31 January 2006


Session 4
Observed Climate Change in the Atmosphere and Oceans: Part 2
Location: A314 (Georgia World Congress Center)
Host: 18th Conference on Climate Variability and Change
Chairs: Dian J. Seidel, NOAA/ARL; Christopher W. Landsea, NOAA/AOML/HRD
  1:45 PM
4.1
Maximum and minimum temperature trends for the globe: an update through 2004
Russell S. Vose, NOAA/NESDIS/NCDC, Asheville, NC; and D. R. Easterling and B. Gleason
  2:00 PM
4.2
  2:15 PM
4.3
  2:30 PM
4.4
Rehabilitating the Canadian Climate Reference Network
Yves Durocher, EC, Downsview, ON, Canada

  2:45 PM
4.5
  3:00 PM
4.6
  3:15 PM
4.7
Frequency, duration and intensity of tropical cyclonic storms in a warming environment
Peter J. Webster, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA; and G. J. Holland, J. A. Curry, and H. R. Chang
  3:30 PM
4.8
How unnatural are the observed Tropical SST trends over the last 50 years ?
Cecile Penland, NOAA/CIRES/CDC, Boulder, CO; and P. Sardeshmukh

  3:45 PM
4.9
  4:00 PM
4.10
Global “warming holes” and regional land surface-atmosphere interactions
Zaitao Pan, St. Louis Univ., St. Louis, MO; and M. Segal, W. Gutowski, E. S. Takle, and C. J. Anderson
  4:15 PM
4.11
Recent rainfall trends across tropical West Africa: Observations and potential causes
Andreas H. Fink, Univ. of Cologne, Cologne, Germany; and P. Susan and K. Simone
  4:30 PM
4.12
  4:45 PM
4.13
An algorithm to derive snowfall from snow depth observations
Alexandre Fischer, EC, Toronto, ON, Canada; and Y. Durocher
  5:00 PM
4.5A
Coffee Break in Exhibit Hall


Joint Session 4
Tools to Enhance Weather and Climate Data Use in the Classroom (Joint with 15th Symposium on Education and 22nd Conference on Interactive Information Processing Systems)
Location: A402 (Georgia World Congress Center)
Hosts: (Joint between the 15th Symposium on Education; and the 22nd International Conference on Interactive Information Processing Systems for Meteorology, Oceanography, and Hydrology )
Cochairs: Rajul E. Pandya, UCAR/SOARS; Thomas M. Whittaker, SSEC/CIMSS/Univ. of Wisconsin
  1:45 PM
J4.1
LEAD education initiatives
Sepideh Yalda, Millersville Univ., Millersville, PA; and R. D. Clark and E. Joseph
  2:00 PM
J4.2
Using ocean observing system data to promote ocean science literacy in the southeast U.S.
Mary C. Greganti, Univ. of Georgia, Savannah, GA; and J. R. Nelson and C. Simoniello
  2:15 PM
J4.3
NOAA's NowCOAST: A GIS-Web Mapping Portal to Discover and Display Real-Time Coastal Observations, Satellite Imagery and NOAA Forecasts
Michael Allard, Coast Survey Development Laboratory, National Ocean Service, NOAA, Silver Spring, MD; and M. Wengren and J. G. W. Kelley
  2:30 PM
J4.4
Tools for Exploring NASA Earth Observing System Climate Data in K-12 Classrooms
Erica J. Alston, NASA Langley Research Center, Hampton, VA; and L. H. Chambers, C. S. Phelps, P. C. Oots, and S. W. Moore
  2:45 PM
J4.5
The NCAR climate and global change professional development program
Dennis L. Ward, UCAR, Boulder, Colorado; and R. M. Johnson, S. Henderson, R. Russell, L. Gardiner, S. Gallagher, K. Meymaris, and J. Genyuk
  3:15 PM
J4.7
An earth science web site for Randolph High School
Christopher Duvall, Randolph High School, Randolph, NJ
  3:30 PM
J4.8
A modern, PC/Mac visualization tool for K-20 students
Renee A. McPherson, OCS/Univ. of Oklahoma, Norman, OK; and J. M. Wolfinbarger, J. B. Basara, A. D. Melvin, and D. S. Arndt
  4:00 PM
J4.10
A progress report on the Hands—on interdisciplinary laboratory program: an approach to strengthen the weather radar curriculum at the University of Oklahoma
M. Yeary, Univ. of Oklahoma, Norman, OK; and J. A. Dubois, T. Y. Yu, R. D. Palmer, M. Biggerstaff, L. D. Fink, and C. Ahern
  4:15 PM
J4.11
Curriculum Development in Atmospheric Instrumentation for Undergraduates
Melanie Wetzel, Desert Research Institute, Reno, NV; and W. P. Arnott
  4:30 PM
J4.12
  5:00 PM
J4.5A
Coffee Break in Exhibit Hall


Joint Session 5
Urban Turbulent Transport and Dispersion Processes (cosponsored by BL&T committee) (Joint with the 6th Symposium on the Urban Environment and the 14th Joint Conference on the Applications of Air Pollution Meteorology with the A&WMA)
Location: A316 (Georgia World Congress Center)
Hosts: (Joint between the Sixth Symposium on the Urban Environment; and the 14th Joint Conference on the Applications of Air Pollution Meteorology with the Air and Waste Management Assoc )
Organizers: Petra Klein, Univ. of Oklahoma; Rayford P. Hosker, NOAA/ATDD
  2:15 PM
J5.3
Detailing Single Building Stability and Air Flow Patterns (Phase II)
Gail-Tirrell Vaucher, Army Research Laboratory, WSMR, NM; and R. Cionco, M. Bustillos, S. D'Arcy, and R. Dumais
  2:30 PM
J5.4
Validation and Application of CFD Modeling for Predicting Traffic Induced Air Pollution in a Complex Urban Area
Hong Huang, Univ. of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan; and R. Ooka, S. Kato, T. Jiang, T. Takahashi, and T. Watanabe
  3:00 PM
J5.6
High-Resolution CFD Simulation Of Airflow and Tracer Dispersion In New York City
Martin J. Leach, LLNL, Livermore, CA; and S. T. Chan and J. K. Lundquist
  3:15 PM
J5.7
FEFLO CFD model study of flow and dispersion as influenced by tall buildings in New York City
Fernando E. Camelli, JISAO/Univ. of Washington, Fairfax, VA; and S. R. Hanna and R. Lohner
  3:30 PM
J5.8
FAST3D-CT validation results using MUST field and wind tunnel data
John P. Iselin, Univ. of Wisconsin, Platteville, WI; and G. Patnaik, B. Leitl, F. Harms, and T. R. Young

  3:45 PM
J5.9
Comparison of wind-tunnel and full-scale street-canyon data from Joint Urban 2003
Petra Klein, Univ. of Oklahoma, Norman, OK; and B. Leitl and M. Schatzmann

  4:00 PM
J5.10
Interaction of nocturnal low-level jets with urban geometries as seen in Joint URBAN 2003 data
Julie K. Lundquist, University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder, CO; and J. D. Mirocha
  4:15 PM
J5.11
A Study of Stability Conditions in an Urban Area
S. T. Chan, LLNL, Livermore, CA; and J. K. Lundquist
  4:45 PM
J5.13
An inter-comparison of diagnostic urban wind flow models based on the Röckle methodology using the Joint Urban 2003 field data
John R. Hannan, Defense Threat Reduction Agency, Ft. Belvoir, VA; and Y. Alexander, J. F. Bowers, M. J. Brown, R. Fry, D. Garvey, S. R. Hanna, T. Harris, H. Kaplan, J. Moussafir, J. C. Pace, Y. Wang, J. White, C. Williamson, and J. Commanay

  5:00 PM
J5.5A
Coffee Break in Exhibit Hall


Session 6
Current Issues and Topics in Aviation Weather
Location: A301 (Georgia World Congress Center)
Host: 12th Conference on Aviation Range and Aerospace Meteorology
Organizers: Kimberly L. Elmore, CIMMS/Univ. of Oklahoma; Christopher Keohan, FAA
  1:45 PM
6.1
Aviation Weather Hazard Detection with Polarimetric Radar
Edward A. Brandes, NCAR, Boulder, CO; and K. Ikeda, K. Elmore, A. V. Ryzhkov, and T. J. Schuur
  2:00 PM
6.2
Airport air quality: Impact of emissions from aircraft in ground run and flight
Angus Graham, Manchester Metropolitan Univ., Manchester, United Kingdom; and D. Raper
  2:15 PM
6.3
Observations and simulations of gravity waves and turbulence during the Atlantic THORPEX Regional Campaign
Robert D. Sharman, NCAR, Boulder, CO; and H. M. Hsu, W. D. Hall, M. A. Shapiro, T. P. Lane, and J. J. Murray

  2:30 PM
6.4
Improved clear air turbulence diagnostics based on adjustment dynamics
John A. Knox, Univ. of Georgia, Athens, GA; and G. P. Ellrod and P. D. Williams
  2:45 PM
6.5
  3:00 PM
6.6
Adding space weather to the mix of aviation weather services
Joseph Kunches, NOAA/Space Environment Center, Boulder, CO
  3:15 PM
6.7
Review of real-time wake vortex prediction models
Fred H. Proctor, NASA/LARC, Hampton, VA; and D. W. Hamilton

  3:30 PM
6.8
  3:45 PM
6.9
LOW ALTITUDE WIND SHEAR HAZARDS: GROUND BASED DETECTION AND COMMERCIAL AVIATION USER NEEDS
Thomas H. Fahey III, Northwest Airlines, Minneapolis, MN; and C. M. Shun, A. VanGerpen, J. Asano, and T. Nguyen
  4:00 PM
P5.4
Evaluation of Pulsed Lidar Wind Hazard Detection at Las Vegas International Airport
Christopher Keohan, FAA, Oklahoma City, OK; and K. Barr and S. M. Hannon
  4:15 PM
6.11
  4:30 PM
6.12
The Toronto Air France Flight 358 Incident
Paul Joe, MSC, Downsview, ON, Canada

  4:45 PM
6.13
The Advanced Satellite Aviation Weather Products (ASAP) initiative: Research and transition activities in convective, turbulence and volcanic ash forecasting
John R. Mecikalski, Univ. of Alabama, Huntsville, AL; and T. A. Berendes, W. F. Feltz, K. M. Bedka, S. J. Paech, J. J. Murray, and D. B. Johnson
  5:00 PM
6.6A
Coffee Break in Exhibit Hall


Session 7
INTERACTIVE PROCESSING SYSTEMS
Location: A411 (Georgia World Congress Center)
Host: 22nd International Conference on Interactive Information Processing Systems for Meteorology, Oceanography, and Hydrology
Cochairs: Ward R. Seguin, NOAA/OAR; William F. Roberts, NOAA
  1:45 PM
7.1
NOAA Information Systems
A. E. MacDonald, NOAA/ERL/FSL, Boulder, CO
  2:15 PM
7.2
AWIPS: Then and Now
Jason P. Tuell, NOAA/NWS, Silver Spring, MD; and D. W. R. Seguin, D. L. Davis, and C. S. Bullock
  2:30 PM
7.3
The Evolution of AWIPS
Jason P. Tuell, NOAA/NWS, Silver Spring, MD; and D. L. Davis, M. A. McInerney, R. K. Meiggs, S. Schotz, C. Wu, F. Zichy, and C. Woods
  2:45 PM
7.4
Plans for Exchanging Graphical Objects in AWIPS and NAWIPS
Steve Schotz, NOAA/NWS/NCEP, Camp Springs, MD; and D. L. Davis, M. McInerney, J. P. Tuell, R. K. Meiggs, and J. Gofus
  3:00 PM
7.5
  3:15 PM
7.6
Expanding the Power of AWIPS with Plugins
U. Herbert Grote, NOAA/OAR/FSL, Boulder, CO; and M. McInerney
  3:30 PM
7.7
Builds five and six of NOAA's NWS weather event simulator
M.A. Magsig, CIMMS/Univ. of Oklahoma and NWS/NWS, Norman, OK; and T. Decker and N. Mohammed Said
  3:45 PM
7.8
Understanding the Forecasting Process and Implications for Computing Tool Design
C. Ray Russell, Appalachian State Univ., Boone, NC; and G. D. Kreahling
  4:00 PM
7.9
Changing Demands for Aviation Weather Workstation
John A. May, NOAA/NWS/NCEP, Kansas City, Missouri; and K. L. Johnston
  4:15 PM
7.10
McIDAS-V and OpenADDE: The next generation of McIDAS
David A. Santek, CIMSS/Univ. of Wisconsin, Madison, WI; and T. Whittaker, B. Hibbard, G. Dengel, D. Parker, and T. Rink
  4:45 PM
7.12
The HazCollect Development Program
William F. Roberts, NOAA, Boulder, CO; and M. Schultz, H. L. White, L. Lehmann, J. Adkins, R. Dorsey, and M. Tankersley
  5:00 PM
7.4A
Coffee Break in Exhibit Hall

1:45 PM-5:45 PM: Tuesday, 31 January 2006


Session 4
Urban Boundary-Layer Structure and Development (Cosponsored by BL&T committee)
Location: A315 (Georgia World Congress Center)
Host: Sixth Symposium on the Urban Environment
Organizers: Martin J. Best, Met Office; Branko Kosovic, LLNL
  1:45 PM
4.1
Spatial Variability of Turbulence Characteristics in an Urban Roughness Sublayer
Giap Huynh, U.S. Army Research Laboratory, Adelphi, MD; and S. Chang, C. Klipp, C. Williamson, D. Garvey, and Y. Wang
  2:00 PM
4.2
Profiles of TKE and sensible heat and momentum fluxes in the roughness sub-layer of a city
Dennis Garvey, U.S. Army Research Laboratory, Adelphi, MD; and G. Huynh, C. Klipp, S. Chang, C. Williamson, and Y. Wang
  2:15 PM
4.3
An investigation of nocturnal low-level-jet generated gravity waves and turbulence over Oklahoma City during JU2003
Yansen Wang, U.S. Army Research Laboratory, Adelphi, MD; and C. Klipp, C. Williamson, G. Huynh, D. Garvey, and S. Chang
  2:30 PM
4.4
  2:45 PM
4.5
  3:00 PM
4.6
Predictability of boundary layer wind forecasts from four-dimensional variational data assimilation systems
Jeffrey H. Copeland, NCAR, Boulder, CO; and R. S. Sheu, J. Sun, and T. Warner

  3:30 PM
4.8
Urbanized MM5 Modeling of NYC sea breezes for emergency response activities
Erez Weinroth, San Jose State Univ., San Jose, CA; and R. Bornstein and H. Taha

  4:00 PM
4.10
Comparison of urban and rural boundary layer development during ISB52 from amdar and lidar data
Fay Davies, Univ. of Salford, Salford, United Kingdom; and D. R. Middleton and C. G. Collier
  4:15 PM
4.11
An overview of urban modeling at the Meteorological Service of Canada
Jocelyn Mailhot, MSC, Dorval, QC, Canada; and S. Bélair, A. Lemonsu, C. Pelletier, and M. Jean
  4:45 PM
4.13
Preliminary Results of the 2005 Montréal Urban Snow Experiment (MUSE-2005)
Frederic Chagnon, EC, Dorval, QC, Canada; and M. Benjamin, G. Morneau, B. Harvey, J. Mailhot, S. Bélair, and A. Lemonsu

  5:15 PM
4.5A
Coffee Break in Exhibit Hall


Joint Session 5
Land-Atmosphere Interactions: Coupled Model Development, Data Assimilation, Predictability, and Process Studies (Joint with 18th Conference on Climate Variability and Change and 20th Conference on Hydrology)
Location: A313 (Georgia World Congress Center)
Hosts: (Joint between the 18th Conference on Climate Variability and Change; and the 20th Conference on Hydrology )
Cochairs: Randal D. Koster, NASA/GSFC; Yongkang Xue, Univ. of California
  2:00 PM
J5.2
  2:30 PM
J5.4
  3:00 PM
J5.6
PILPS semi-arid experiment: preliminary results
Luis A. Bastidas, Utah State Univ., Logan, UT; and E. Rosero and B. Nijssen
  3:45 PM
J5.9
  4:00 PM
J5.10
Assessing the land-surface, boundary layer and cloud-field coupling in ERA-40
Alan K. Betts, Atmospheric Research, Pittsford, VT; and P. Viterbo
  4:30 PM
J5.12
Influence of variations in low-level moisture and soil moisture on the organization of summer convective systems in the US Midwest
Jimmy O. Adegoke, University of Missouri, Kansas City, MO; and S. Vezhapparambu, C. L. Castro, R. Pielke Sr., and A. M. Carleton
  4:45 PM
J5.13
Evaluation of the impact of land surface heterogeneity representations on mesoscale fluxes
Sujay V. Kumar, Univ. of Maryland Baltimore County/GEST, Greenbelt, MD; and C. D. Peters-Lidard, J. Eastman, Y. Tian, and P. R. Houser
  5:00 PM
J5.5A
Using GLDAS/LIS to derive global land climatology for the NOAA Climate Test Bed
Jesse Meng, University of Maryland Baltimore County, Camp Springs, MD; and K. Mitchell and H. Wei
  5:15 PM
J5.5B
Coffee Break in Exhibit Hall

1:45 PM-6:00 PM: Tuesday, 31 January 2006


Joint Session 3
Future Delivery of Aviation Weather Services (Joint With 12th Conference on Aviation Range and Aerospace Meteorology, 22nd International Conference on Interactive Information Processing Systems for Meteorology, Oceanography, and Hydrology, and Forum: Environmental Risk and Impacts on Society: Successes and Challenges)
Location: A311 (Georgia World Congress Center)
Hosts: (Joint between the 12th Conference on Aviation Range and Aerospace Meteorology; the 22nd International Conference on Interactive Information Processing Systems for Meteorology, Oceanography, and Hydrology; and the AMS Forum: Environmental Risk and Impacts on Society: Successes and Challenges )
Organizers: Timothy L. Wilfong Sr., ENSCO, Inc; David Pace, SAIC
  2:45 PM
J3.5
FLYSAFE - meteorological hazard nowcasting, driven by the needs of the pilot
R. W. Lunnon, Met Office, Exeter, United Kingdom; and T. Hauf, T. Gerz, and P. Josse
  3:00 PM
J3.6
  3:15 PM
J3.7
National Weather Service Graphical Hazards for Aviation
Jack May, NOAA/NWS, Kansas City, MO; and S. Albersheim
  3:45 PM
J3.9
Hub Forecast Prototype Test
Dave Rodenhuis, Air Traffic Organization/FAA, Herndon, VA; and D. Torbert
  4:00 PM
J3.10
Real Time Aviation Forecasting at WSI
Peter J. Sousounis, WSI Corporation, Andover, MA; and J. Menard
  4:15 PM
J3.11
Prototyping Tactical Decision Aids for the Aviation Forecast Preparation System
Michael Graf, NOAA/NWS, Silver Spring, MD; and M. Peroutka, T. Boyer, G. Trojan, M. Oberfield, and T. Amis
  5:00 PM
J3.4A
Discussion

  5:15 PM
P1.5
Effective Retrieval Performed by DIMES with the Application of Lucene
Ruixin Yang, George Mason University, Fairfax, VA; and Y. Zhao and M. Kafatos
  5:30 PM
J3.4B
Coffee Break in the Exhibit Hall

1:45 PM-5:30 PM: Tuesday, 31 January 2006


Session 8
GIS Applications
Location: A412 (Georgia World Congress Center)
Host: 22nd International Conference on Interactive Information Processing Systems for Meteorology, Oceanography, and Hydrology
Cochairs: Nancy N. Soreide, NOAA/PMEL; Scott T. Shipley, Raytheon Information Solutions
  1:45 PM
8.1
A standards-based, web services gateway to netCDF datasets
Ben Domenico, UCAR, Boulder, CO; and S. Nativi, J. Caron, L. Bigagli, and E. R. Davis
  2:00 PM
8.2
Utilizing Google Earth as a GIS platform for weather applications
Travis M. Smith, CIMMS/Univ. of Oklahoma and NOAA/NSSL, Norman, OK; and V. Lakshmanan
  2:15 PM
8.3
GeoModeler - using ArcEngine and Java to link a GIS front-end with a modeling back-end
Tiffany C. Vance, NOAA/National Marine Fisheries Service, Seattle, WA; and N. Merati, S. Mesick, and C. W. Moore
  2:30 PM
8.4
Multi-tiered Peer-to-Peer data distribution for spatially enabled data
Nazila Merati, JISAO, Seattle, WA; and J. Marshall and A. Matarese
  3:15 PM
8.7
  3:30 PM
8.8
The joint national oceanic and atmospheric administration's (NOAA) national weather service (NWS) and the united states geological survey (USGS) debris flow warning systems
Pedro J. Restrepo, NOAA/NWS, Silver Spring, MD; and R. Tibi, M. Schmidt, K. Werner, T. Carroll, D. Savage, S. Cannon, J. Bowers, J. Costa, J. Major, G. Wiecksorek, D. P. Jorgensen, J. Gourley, D. E. Kingsmill, and B. Martner
  3:45 PM
8.9
A discussion of geospatial character of roadway vegetation roughness
Damon M. Grabow, Univ. of North Dakota, Grand Forks, ND; and S. Kroeber
  4:15 PM
8.11
  4:30 PM
8.12
A powerful and easy-to-use weather display tool for PCs and Macs
J. Michael Wolfinbarger, Univ. of Oklahoma, Norman, OK; and J. R. Greenfield, T. A. Cannon, T. B. Stanley, N. L. Hickmon, and R. A. McPherson
  4:45 PM
8.13
Using GIS to improve real-time severe weather verification
Mike Rawles, NOAA, Glasgow, MT; and T. Fransen, J. Adolphson, and T. Salem
  5:00 PM
8.5A
Coffee Break in Exhibit Hall

2:00 PM-5:00 PM: Tuesday, 31 January 2006


Session 2
Meteorology: From Ben Franklin to Climate Change: Part II
Location: A310 (Georgia World Congress Center)
Host: Fourth Presidental History Symposium
  2:00 PM
2.1
Weather services as New Deal science policy hot spot
Kristine C. Harper, New Mexico Tech, Socorro, NM
  2:30 PM
2.2
Air Force African-American Meteorologists in WW II and Beyond
Gerald A. White Jr., Air Force Reserve Command, Warner Robins AFB, GA
  3:00 PM
2.3
Cold history: assessing NOAA's role in the Arctic
Ronald E. Doel, Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR; and K. C. Harper, S. Kromann, N. Merati, and T. C. Vance
  3:30 PM
2.4
International Polar Years—online and full text
Doria B. Grimes, NOAA Central Library, Silver Spring, MD; and A. Fiolek
  4:30 PM
2.2a
Coffee Break in the Exhibit Hall

2:15 PM-3:00 PM: Tuesday, 31 January 2006


Joint Session 3
NPOESS Overview (Joint with Second Symposium: Toward a Global Earth Observation System of Systems—Future National Operational Environmental Satellite Systems and 14th Conference on Satellite Meteorology and Oceanography )
Location: A302 (Georgia World Congress Center)
Hosts: (Joint between the Second Symposium: Toward a Global Earth Observation System of Systems—Future National Operational Environmental Satellite Systems; and the 14th Conference on Satellite Meteorology and Oceanography )
Organizer: Gerard D. Wittman, Raytheon Company

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


Coffee Break in Exhibit Hall (T2)

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


Session 5
Discussion of Policy and Issues
Location: A404 (Georgia World Congress Center)
Host: Symposium on the Public/Private Sector Partnership
Moderators: George L. Frederick Jr., AMS Commission on the Weather and Climate Enterprise and Vaisala Measurement Systems; Neil A. Stuart, NOAA/NWS; Mary M. Cairns, Office of the Federal Coordinator for Meteorology

3:30 PM-4:30 PM: Tuesday, 31 January 2006


Session 4
Field Experiments: Observational Results From Past Field Experiments; Potential Relevance of the Field Observations to Operational Prediction
Location: A405 (Georgia World Congress Center)
Host: 10th Symposium on Integrated Observing and Assimilation Systems for the Atmosphere, Oceans, and Land Surface (IOAS-AOLS)
Organizer: Kiran Alapaty, EPA
  3:45 PM
4.2
Rapid forcing of the surface and near-surface atmosphere
Edgar L. Andreas, U.S. Army Cold Regions Research and Engineering Laboratory, Hanover, NH; and C. A. Geiger, K. J. Claffey, G. Treviño, and C. C. Ryerson
  4:00 PM
4.3
Development of an operational integrated observing system for precipitation and boundary layer measurements
Kevin R. Knupp, Univ. of Alabama, Huntsville, AL; and W. A. Petersen, R. T. McNider, M. J. Newchurch, and J. T. Walters
  4:15 PM
4.4
Ultrasonic snow depth sensors for measuring snow in the U.S
Wendy Ann Brazenec, Colorado State Univ., Fort Collins, CO; and N. J. Doesken and S. R. Fassnacht

3:30 PM-4:45 PM: Tuesday, 31 January 2006


Session 2
U.S. Weather 2005
Location: Thomas Murphy Ballroom 1 (Georgia World Congress Center)
Host: Impacts of 2005's Weather: Major Stories of the Year
Chair: Bradley Colman, NOAA/NWS
  3:30 PM
2.1
California Debris Flow
Susan Cannon, USGS, San Diego, CA
  3:45 PM
2.2
  4:00 PM
2.3
Drought
Kelly Redmond, Western Regional Climate Center, Reno, NV
  4:15 PM
2.4
2005: A Strange Tornado Year
Joseph T. Schaefer, NOAA/NWS/NCEP/SPC, Norman, OK; and D. W. McCarthy and G. W. Carbin
  4:30 PM
2.5
Winter Weather
Paul J. Kocin, The Weather Channel, Atlanta, GA

Session 4
ALL ASPECTS OF SPACE WEATHER WITH A PREFERENCE FOR THOSE THAT ADDRESS "IMPACTS": Part 3
Location: A406 (Georgia World Congress Center)
Host: Third Symposium on Space Weather
Chairs: Joseph Kunches, NOAA/Space Environment Center; Marsha Korose, NorthropGrumman IT/TASC
  3:30 PM
4.1
The 1859 geomagnetic superstorm
James Green, NASA/GSFC, Greenbelt, MD; and S. Boardsen, S. Odenwald, and E. Cliver
  3:45 PM
4.2
  4:00 PM
4.3
The Disturbed Ionosphere and Effects on GPS and GNSS Systems
Paul M. Kintner Jr., Cornell University, Ithaca, NY; and B. Ledvina, J. Makela, A. Mannucci, and A. Saito
  4:15 PM
4.4
  4:30 PM
4.5
Space weather impacts on WAAS
Patricia Doherty, Boston College, Boston, MA

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


Session 1
NPOESS Risk Reduction
Location: A302 (Georgia World Congress Center)
Host: Second Symposium: Toward a Global Earth Observation System of Systems—Future National Operational Environmental Satellite Systems
Organizer: Frank Hinnant, NPOESS/IPO
Chair: Frank Hinnant, NPOESS/IPO
  3:45 PM
1.2
NPOESS Risk Reduction, NAST for CrIMSS
William Smith Sr., Hampton Univ., Hampton, VA; and D. K. Zhou, X. Liu, A. M. Larar, S. A. Mango, D. H. Staelin, H. E. Revercomb, and P. W. Rosenkranz
  4:45 PM
1.4
Risk reduction for NPOESS using heritage sensors: AIRS, HIRS, MSU, SSM/I, AMSU, and MODIS
John F. Le Marshall, Bureau of Meteorology, Docklands, Victoria, Australia; and J. Jung, S. Lord, J. Derber, M. Goldberg, W. Wolf, and S. Mango
  5:15 PM
1.5
NPOESS data exploitation (NDE) project
H. James Silva, NOAA/NESDIS, Silver Spring, MD

Session 2
Current Understanding of Supercell Tornadoes and Future Research Directions
Location: A410 (Georgia World Congress Center)
Host: Symposium on the Challenges of Severe Convective Storms
Organizer: Yvette P. Richardson, Penn State University
  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
2.4
Discussion


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

Session 6
Climatology and Long-Term Satellite Studies: Part III
Location: A305 (Georgia World Congress Center)
Host: 14th Conference on Satellite Meteorology and Oceanography
Chair: Jeffrey D. Hawkins, NRL
  3:30 PM
6.1
The Diurnal Cycle of Oceanic Precipitation in Models and Satellite Observations
John Janowiak, NOAA/CPC, Camp Springs, MD; and V. Kousky, R. Joyce, P. Xie, Y. Yarosh, and M. Chen
  4:15 PM
6.3
CERES Cloud Property Database from VIRS and MODIS
Sunny Sun-Mack, SAIC, Hampton, VA; and Y. Chen, Q. Trepte, P. Minnis, E. B. Geier, and P. W. Heck
  4:30 PM
6.4
MODIS view of tropical clouds and water vapor
Philip W. Mote, Northwest Research Associates, Bellevue, WA; and R. Frey
  4:45 PM
6.5
The 15-year ERBE data set upgraded
Kathryn A. Bush, SAIC, Hampton, VA; and G. L. Smith, T. Wong, and R. B. Lee III
  5:00 PM
6.6
MSU Recalibrations Using Simultaneous Nadir Overpasses For Climate Trend Studies
Cheng-Zhi Zou, NOAA/ORA, Camp Springs, MD; and M. D. Goldberg, Z. Cheng, N. Grody, J. Sullivan, C. Cao, and D. Tarpley
  5:15 PM
6.7

Session 7
In Situ Air–Sea Turbulent Flux Measurements
Location: A309 (Georgia World Congress Center)
Host: 14th Conference on Interaction of the Sea and Atmosphere
Chair: Elizabeth C. Kent, Southampton Oceanography Centre
  3:45 PM
7.2
Aircraft air-sea flux measurements in the Gulf of Tehuantepec
Carl A. Friehe, Univ. of California, Irvine, CA; and D. Khelif and W. K. Melville
  4:00 PM
7.3
Surface Turbulent Stress Derived from GPS Dropsondes
M. A. Bourassa, COAPS/Florida State Univ., Tallahassee, FL
  4:15 PM
7.4
Quadrant analysis of the scalar and momentum fluxes in the marine Atmospheric Surface Layer
George Katsouvas, Univ. of Athens, Athens, Greece; and C. G. Helmis and Q. Wang
  4:30 PM
7.5
The influence of waves and turbulence on the oceanic heat flux
Fabrice Veron, Univ. of Delaware, Newark, DE; and W. K. Melville
  4:45 PM
7.6
Atmospheric turbulent exchange of heat and matter during stable stratification over the sea
Ann-Sofi Smedman, Uppsala Univ., Uppsala, Sweden; and U. Högström and E. Sahlée
  5:00 PM
7.7
Modelling new processes controlling the turbulent fluxes over sea
Anna Rutgersson, Uppsala Univ., Uppsala, Sweden; and B. Carlsson and A. S. Smedman
  5:15 PM
7.8
High quality fluxes from ICOADS ship reports
David Inglis Berry, National Oceanography Centre, Southampton, Hampshire, United Kingdom; and E. C. Kent

4:30 PM-5:30 PM: Tuesday, 31 January 2006


Session 5
Ocean Observations: How Does a Paticular Observing System Compliment Other Systems and Contribute to a Viable Composite Observing System Appropriate for the Ocean Environment? What do the Observations Tell us about the Ocean Environment?
Location: A405 (Georgia World Congress Center)
Host: 10th Symposium on Integrated Observing and Assimilation Systems for the Atmosphere, Oceans, and Land Surface (IOAS-AOLS)
Organizer: Christopher N. K. Mooers, Univ. of Miami/RSMAS
  4:45 PM
5.2
Cross-validation of ocean observations and circulation models for the Florida Curent
Christopher N. K. Mooers, Univ. of Miami/RSMAS, Miami, FL; and I. Bang, C. Meinen, and D. S. Ko
  5:00 PM
5.3
IOOS backbone expansion efforts by NOAA's National Data Buoy Center
Don T. Conlee, NOAA/NWS/National Data Buoy Center, Stennis Space Center, MS; and P. F. Moersdorf and D. G. Henderson

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


Sessions end for the day (T)

Team NPOESS Reception

7:00 PM-8:00 PM: Tuesday, 31 January 2006


Joint Panel Discussion 5
2005 Gulf Coast Hurricanes: Where Do We Go from Here? (Joint with the AMS Forum: Environmental Risks and Impacts on Society: Successes and Challenges and the Symposium on Impacts of 2005's Weather: Major Stories of the Year)
Location: A305 (Georgia World Congress Center)
Hosts: (Joint between the Impacts of 2005's Weather: Major Stories of the Year; and the AMS Forum: Environmental Risk and Impacts on Society: Successes and Challenges )
Moderator: Gregory S. Forbes, The Weather Channel
  7:00 PM
JPD5.1
Preparedness
Shirley Laska, Center for Hazards Assessment, New Orleans, LA

  7:10 PM
JPD5.2
Mitigation of Flood Impacts
Lisa Jones, South Carolina Department of Natural Resources, State Association of Flood Plain Managers, Columbia, SC
  7:20 PM
JPD5.3
Mitigation of Structural Damage
Timothy P. Marshall, Haag Engineering Co., Houston, TX

  7:30 PM
JPD5.4
Media Coverage
Bob Breck, WVUE-TV, New Orleans, LA
  7:40 PM
JPD5.5
Policy and Preparedness (Invited Presentation)
Tom Jones, Senate Sub-Committee on Disaster Prevention and Prediction, Washington, DC

  8:10 PM
JPD5.900
Discussion

9:00 PM-9:00 PM: Tuesday, 31 January 2006


Joint Panel Discussion 6
Live Coverage of Hurricanes from a Meteorologists Perspective (Joint with the AMS Forum: Environmental Risks and Impacts on Society: Successes and Challenges and the Symposium on Impacts of 2005's Weather: Major Stories of the Year)
Location: A305 (Georgia World Congress Center)
Hosts: (Joint between the Impacts of 2005's Weather: Major Stories of the Year; and the AMS Forum: Environmental Risk and Impacts on Society: Successes and Challenges )
Moderator: Stuart Ostro, The Weather Channel
Panelists: James Cantore, The Weather Channel; Jeff Morrow, The Weather Channel; Stephanie Abrams, The Weather Channel

Wednesday, 1 February 2006

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


Wed 1 Feb

8:30 AM-8:30 AM: Wednesday, 1 February 2006


Registration and Coffee

8:30 AM-9:30 AM: Wednesday, 1 February 2006


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)
Location: A410 (Georgia World Congress Center)
Hosts: (Joint between the 18th Conference on Climate Variability and Change; the Symposium on the Challenges of Severe Convective Storms; and the AMS Forum: Environmental Risk and Impacts on Society: Successes and Challenges )
Chair: Paul M. Markowski, Penn State Univ.
  8:30 AM
J4.1

8:30 AM-10:00 AM: Wednesday, 1 February 2006


Session 7A
Aircraft Icing Workshop - Part 1. Aircraft Icing Issues: Freezing Drizzle & Icing Intensity
Location: A301 (Georgia World Congress Center)
Host: 12th Conference on Aviation Range and Aerospace Meteorology
Chairs: Marcia K. Politovich, NCAR; Gene Addy, NASA Glenn Research Center at Lewis Field
  8:30 AM
7A.1
FAR Appendix X
Eugene Hill, FAA, Renton, WA
  9:00 AM
7A.2
Freezing drizzle detection with WSR-88D radars
Kyoko Ikeda, NCAR, Boulder, CO; and R. M. Rasmussen and E. A. Brandes
  9:15 AM
7A.3
Origins and evolution of the icing intensity definitions for aircraft
Richard Jeck, FAA Technical Center, Atlantic City International Airport, NJ
  9:45 AM
7A.4
Icing effects on airfoils
Gene Addy, NASA Glenn Research Center at Lewis Field, Cleveland, OH

8:30 AM-10:10 AM: Wednesday, 1 February 2006


Session 1
A Closer Look at Hurricane and Severe Weather Coverage
Location: A402 (Georgia World Congress Center)
Host: Fifth Communications Workshop
  8:30 AM
1.1
The Media Frenzy at the National Hurricane Center
Max Mayfield, NOAA/NWS/NCEP/NHC, Miami, FL

  8:50 AM
1.2
Covering Hurricane Katrina from the Front Lines
Bob Breck, WVUE-TV, New Orleans, LA

  9:10 AM
1.3
Covering Severe Weather—the CNN Perspective
Greg Agvent, CNN, Atlanta, GA

  9:30 AM
1.4
Deploying Meteorologists into the Field
Terry Connelly, The Weather Channel, Atlanta, GA

  9:50 AM
1.0a
Opening/Introductions: Stephanie Keinitzer, AMS, Seattle, WA; and Peter Dykstra, CNN, Atlanta, GA

8:30 AM-10:30 AM: Wednesday, 1 February 2006


Session 2
NPOESS Preparatory Project (NPP)
Location: A302 (Georgia World Congress Center)
Host: Second Symposium: Toward a Global Earth Observation System of Systems—Future National Operational Environmental Satellite Systems
Organizer: Peter Wilczynski, NPOESS Integrated Program Office
Chair: Peter Wilczynski, NPOESS Integrated Program Office
  8:30 AM
2.1
NPOESS Preparatory Project (NPP) – Mission Status
Ken Schwer, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD; and P. Wilczynski
  8:45 AM
2.2
NPOESS Preparatory Project (NPP) Space Segment
Bill Anselm, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD
  9:00 AM
2.3
NPOESS Preparatory Project (NPP) Data Products
James Gleason, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD; and J. Privette and J. Butler
  9:30 AM
2.4
NPOESS Preparatory Project (NPP) Science Data Segment (SDS)
Robert J. Schweiss, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD
  10:00 AM
2.4A
Coffee Break

8:30 AM-11:30 AM: Wednesday, 1 February 2006


Session 9
Radar IIPS and Applications Part I
Location: A411 (Georgia World Congress Center)
Host: 22nd International Conference on Interactive Information Processing Systems for Meteorology, Oceanography, and Hydrology
Cochairs: Robert E. Saffle, Mitretek Systems; Douglas E. Forsyth, NOAA/NSSL; Timothy Crum, NOAA/NEXRAD Radar Operations Center; Robert G. Borchers, SAIC; Joel D. Martin, CAPS/Univ. of Oklahoma
  8:30 AM
9.1
NEXRAD product improvement—expanding science horizons
Robert E. Saffle, Mitretek Systems, Silver Spring, MD; and M. J. Istok and G. S. Cate
  8:45 AM
9.2
  9:15 AM
9.4
Initial Deployment of the Terminal Doppler Weather Radar Supplemental Product Generator for NWS Operations
Michael J. Istok, NOAA/NWS, Silver Spring, MD; and W. M. Blanchard, B. Klein, N. Shen, and A. D. Stern
  9:30 AM
9.5
RIDGE - Radar Integrated Display with Geospatial Elements. The NWS New Radar Webpage
Keith Stellman, NOAA/NWS, Shreveport, LA; and P. Kirkwood, J. M. Coyne, D. Cain, and S. Rae
  10:00 AM
9.7
High-resolution radar data and products over the Continental United States
Valliappa Lakshmanan, CIMMS/Univ. of Oklahoma, NOAA/NSSL, Norman, OK; and T. M. Smith, K. Cooper, J. J. Levit, G. J. Stumpf, and D. R. Bright
  10:15 AM
9.8
Application and issues of SZ phase coding for NEXRAD
J. C. Hubbert, NCAR, Boulder, CO; and G. Meymaris, S. Ellis, and M. Dixon
  10:45 AM
9.10
A validation of radar reflectivity quality control methods
Angela Fritz, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA; and V. Lakshmanan, T. M. Smith, E. Forren, and B. Clarke
  11:00 AM
9.3A
NEXRAD-ITR: Developing a framework for use of NEXRAD data in hydrology and hydrometeorology
Anton Kruger, The Univ. of Iowa, Iowa City, IA; and A. A. Bradley, W. F. Krajewski, R. E. Lawrence, J. A. Smith, M. L. Baeck, M. Steiner, M. K. Ramamurthy, J. Weber, S. A. Del Greco, F. M. V. Murthy, and D. Dhutia
  11:15 AM
9.6A
Coffee Break in Meeting Room Foyer

8:30 AM-12:00 PM: Wednesday, 1 February 2006


Joint Session 1
Photochemical Modeling and Monitoring (Joint between the 8th Conference on Atmospheric Chemistry and the 14th Joint Conference on the Applications of Air Pollution Meteorology with the A&WMA)
Location: A407 (Georgia World Congress Center)
Hosts: (Joint between the Eighth Conference on Atmospheric Chemistry; and the 14th Joint Conference on the Applications of Air Pollution Meteorology with the Air and Waste Management Assoc )
Chair: Yang Zhang, North Carolina State Univ.
  8:30 AM
J1.1
Probing into Regional O3 and PM Pollution: A 1-year CMAQ Simulation and Process Analysis over the United States
Yang Zhang, North Carolina State Univ., Raleigh, NC; and K. Vijayaraghavan, J. Huang, and M. Z. Jacobson
  8:45 AM
J1.2
Process Analysis of Different Synoptic Patterns of O3 Episodes in Hong Kong
Jianping Huang, North Carolina State Univ., Raleigh, NC; and J. C. H. Fung, Y. Zhang, K. H. Lau, and Y. Qin
  9:00 AM
J1.3
Results of Coupling the WRF-Chemistry model w/ the SMOKE Emissions Processing/Modeling System
John McHenry, Baron Advanced Meteorological Systems, Raleigh, NC; and C. J. Coats Jr. and J. Vukovich
  9:15 AM
J1.4
Comparison of WRF/CAMx and MM5/CAMx simulations for an ozone episode in California
Su-Tzai Soong, Bay Area Air Quality Management District, San Francisco, CA; and P. T. Martien, C. L. Archer, S. Tanrikulu, J. M. Wilczak, J. W. Bao, S. A. Michelson, Y. Jia, and C. A. Emery
  9:30 AM
J1.5
CAMx simulations of Middle-East ozone concentration-trends by use of RAMS and MM5 input
Shoukri Kasakseh, San Jose State Univ., San Jose, CA; and R. Bornstein and E. Weinroth
  10:15 AM
J1.8
Airborne measurements of ozone and reactive nitrogen compounds in Tampa, Florida during the Bay Regional Atmospheric Chemistry Experiment (BRACE)
Winston T. Luke, NOAA/ARL, Silver Spring, MD; and J. R. Arnold, T. B. Watson, R. L. Gunter, L. I. Kleinman, P. K. Dasgupta, and D. D. Riemer
  10:30 AM
J1.9
A tale of two summers (2004, 2005): Ozone soundings in the Mid-Atlantic region
Anne M. Thompson, Penn State Univ., University Park, PA; and E. Joseph, B. F. Taubman, J. C. Witte, J. B. Stone, R. B. Pierce, V. Davis, S. M. Michaels, and F. Schmidlin
  10:45 AM
J1.10
Ozone in Beijing area: observations in 2000
Feng Liu, Brandenburg Univ. of Technology, Cottbus, Germany; and H. Chen, F. Hu, and Y. Xu

  11:00 AM
J1.11
Ozone and nitric acid variability in the Upper Troposphere and Lower Stratosphere measured during the Polar Aura Validation Experiment
Melody A. Avery, NASA/LARC, Hampton, VA; and J. V. Plant, J. E. Dibb, E. Scheuer, E. V. Browell, J. W. Hair, T. J. McGee, L. Pfister, M. Schoeberl, and L. Lait
  11:15 AM
J1.12
A multi-scale observational and modeling approach to the characterization of upper tropospheric composition and Stratospheric-Tropospheric exchange during INTEX-A
Melody A. Avery, NASA Langley Research Center, Hampton, VA; and A. M. Thompson, E. V. Browell, B. Pierce, G. Diskin, G. Sachse, J. E. Dibb, and R. C. Cohen

  11:30 AM
J1.6A
Coffee Break in Meeting Room Foyer


Joint Session 4
Development of Tools to Assist Emergency Responders in the Case of Releases of Gases and Small Particles Within Urban Areas (Joint with 6th Symposium on the Urban Environment and Forum on Managing our Physical and Natural Resources)
Location: A312 (Georgia World Congress Center)
Hosts: (Joint between the Sixth Symposium on the Urban Environment; and the AMS Forum: Managing our Physical and Natural Resources: Successes and Challenges )
Cochairs: Steven R. Hanna, Harvard Univ.; James F. Bowers, U.S. Army Dugway Proving Ground
  8:30 AM
J4.1
Urban dispersion modeling for emergency response: status and issues
Steven R. Hanna, Harvard Univ., Boston, MA

  9:15 AM
J4.3
High-energy eye-safe aerosol lidar for use in urban areas
Shane D. Mayor, NCAR, Boulder, CO; and S. M. Spuler, B. Morley, C. L. Martin, E. Loew, S. Rauenbuehler, K. Schwenz, N. Chamberlin, P. Benda, P. Ponsardin, E. Hackney, C. Kletecka, K. Krubsack, R. Babnick, and S. Higdon

  9:30 AM
J4.4
Source inversion for contaminant plume dispersion in urban environments using building-resolving simulations
Fotini Katopodes Chow, Univ. of California, Berkeley, CA; and B. Kosovic and S. T. Chan
  9:45 AM
J4.5
Event Reconstruction for Atmospheric Releases Employing Urban Puff Model UDM with Stochastic Inversion Methodology
Stephanie Neuman, LLNL, Livermore, CA; and L. G. Glascoe, B. Kosovic, K. Dyer, J. Nitao, and W. Hanley
  10:00 AM
J4.6
The Oklahoma City Urban Micronet project: transitioning from vision to reality
Jeffrey Basara, Oklahoma Climatological Survey, Norman, OK; and B. G. Illston, P. Klein, and M. Yuan
  10:15 AM
J4.7
Adaptive Urban Dispersion Integrated Model
Andrew M. Wissink, LLNL, Livermore, CA; and B. Kosovic, K. Chand, M. Berger, B. Gunney, C. Kapfer, and F. K. Chow
  10:30 AM
J4.8
MAPIT: An airborne system for urban-scale environmental monitoring
Randolph J. Evans, Siemens Energy, Inc., Orlando, FL; and J. G. Dreher, J. Manobianco, and M. Adams
  10:45 AM
J4.9
Validation of a Data Assimilation Technique for an Urban Wind Model
T. M. Booth, Univ. of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT; and E. R. Pardyjak
  11:00 AM
J4.10
Modeling Turbulent Flow in Urban Areas
Donald A. Burrows, ITT Industries, Colorado Springs, CO; and E. Hendricks, S. Diehl, and R. Keith

  11:15 AM
J4.11
Use of modified Rams to simulate current and near future thermal environment of Chongqing, China
Hongbin Zhang, Univ. of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan; and K. Hanaki, T. Aramaki, and N. Sato
  11:30 AM
J4.5A
Coffee Break in Meeting Room Foyer


Joint Session 4
Marine Meteorological Applications of Real and Synthetic Aperture Radar (Joint between the 14th Conference on Interaction of the Sea and Atmosphere and the 14th Conference on Satellite Meteorology and Oceanography)
Location: A305 (Georgia World Congress Center)
Hosts: (Joint between the 14th Conference on Interaction of the Sea and Atmosphere; and the 14th Conference on Satellite Meteorology and Oceanography )
Cochairs: Jochen Horstmann, GKSS Research Center; Nathaniel S. Winstead, Johns Hopkins Univ.
  8:30 AM
J4.1
WindSat Wind Vector Retrievals in the Presence of Clouds
Zorana Jelenak, NOAA/NESDIS, Camp Springs, MD; and T. Mavor, L. N. Connor, and P. S. Chang
  9:00 AM
J4.3
Assessment of Enivsat ASAR wind speed retrieval performance
Frank M. Monaldo, APL/Johns Hopkins Univ., Laurel, MD; and D. R. Thompson
  9:15 AM
J4.4
Estimation of Surface Winds From SAR Using a Projection Algorithm
Christopher C. Wackerman, Advanced Information Systems, Ypsilanti, MI; and W. Pichel, X. Li, and P. Clemente_Colon
  9:30 AM
J4.5
Operational Wind Field Retrieval using C-band Synthetic Aperture Radars
Jochen Horstmann, GKSS Research Center, Geesthacht, Germany; and W. Koch
  9:45 AM
J4.6
Surface marine wind retrieval in non-precipitating regions
C. Harold Ritchie, MSC, Dorval, QC, Canada; and R. E. Danielson and M. Dowd
  10:00 AM
J4.7
Synthetic Aperture Radar Observations of Mesoscale Atmospheric Phenomena
George Young, Penn State Univ., University Park, PA; and N. S. Winstead, F. M. Monaldo, D. R. Thompson, and T. D. Sikora
  10:15 AM
J4.8
Wind energy applications of synthetic aperture radar
Merete B. Christiansen, Risø National Laboratory, Roskilde, Denmark; and C. B. Hasager
  10:30 AM
J4.9
Hurricane Watch: Operational analysis of hurricane characteristics using synthetic aperture radar
Hans C. Graber, Univ. of Miami, Miami, FL; and J. Horstmann, F. M. Monaldo, and S. Iris
  10:45 AM
J4.10
A Composite Study of SAR Wind Observations in Southeast Alaska
Carl F. Dierking, NOAA/NWS, Juneau, AK; and T. A. Ress and M. J. Foster
  11:00 AM
J4.11
  11:15 AM
J4.12
RADARSAT Derived Wind and Other Environmental Products for Maritime Operations
Paris Vachon, Defence R&D, Ottawa, ON, Canada; and B. G. Whitehouse and W. M. Renaud
  11:30 AM
J4.6A
Coffee Break in Meeting Room Foyer


Session 6
Assimilation of Observations (Ocean, Atmosphere, and Land Surface) into Models: Assimilation Methods; Minimization Techniques; Forward Models and Their Adjoints; Incorporation of Constraints; Error Statistics
Location: A405 (Georgia World Congress Center)
Host: 10th Symposium on Integrated Observing and Assimilation Systems for the Atmosphere, Oceans, and Land Surface (IOAS-AOLS)
Organizers: Thomas M. Hamill, Physical Sciences Division/ESRL/NOAA; Kayo Ide, University of California
  8:30 AM
6.1
Application of Local Ensemble Kalman Filter: perfect model experiments with NASA fvGCM model
Junjie Liu, University of Maryland, College Park, MD; and E. Klein, H. Li, I. Szunyogh, B. Hunt, E. Kalnay, E. J. Kostelich, and R. Todling
  8:45 AM
6.2
Estimation of model errors in the Local Ensemble Transform Kalman Filter
Hong Li, Shanghai Typhoon Institute, Shanghai, China, Shanghai, China; and E. Kalnay, T. Miyoshi, and C. M. Danforth
  9:00 AM
6.3
Paper 6.3 moved. New paper # 2.4A.

  9:01 AM
6.4
A new strategy for optimal drifter deployment using Lagrangian data assimilation method
Kayo Ide, University of California, Los Angeles, CA; and C. K. R. T. Jones and H. Salman

  9:16 AM
6.5
Development of a limited-area 4d-VAR assimilation at MSC
Luc Fillion, MSC, Dorval, PQ, Canada; and M. Tanguay, S. Pellerin, N. Ek, C. Page, and M. Desgagné

  9:31 AM
6.6
The characteristics of the initial state corrections obtained with the CMC key analysis errors algorithm: A dynamical perspective
Jean-Francois Caron, McGill University, Montreal, QC, Canada; and M. K. Yau, S. Laroche, and P. Zwack

  9:46 AM
6.7
The Joint Hurricane Testbed (JHT): Progress and Future Plans
Christopher W. Landsea, NOAA/AOML/HRD, Miami, FL; and J. G. Jiing, R. D. Knabb, S. T. Murillo, and W. R. Seguin

  10:01 AM
6.8
A comparison of 3D-Var and Ensemble Data Assimilation Methods Using the NCEP GFS
Thomas M. Hamill, NOAA-CIRES Climate Diagnostics Center, Boulder, CO; and J. S. Whitaker
  10:16 AM
6.9
Conditioned verification region selection in adaptive sampling
Brian Etherton, University of North Carolina, Charlotte, NC; and C. H. Bishop and S. J. Majumdar
  10:31 AM
6.10
Ensemble data assimilation applications to atmospheric and carbon cycle science
Dusanka Zupanski, CIRA/Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO; and S. A. Denning and M. Uliasz
  10:46 AM
6.11
Paper 6.11 Moved. New Paper # 6.3A

  10:47 AM
6.12
Multi-platform real-time sea surface temperature analysis for the initialization of short-term operational forecasts
Steven M. Lazarus, Florida Institute of Technology, Melbourne, FL; and C. G. Calvert, M. E. Splitt, D. W. Sharp, P. Blottman, S. M. Spratt, and P. Santos
  11:02 AM
6.3a
Comparison of ensemble-based and variational-based data assimilation schemes in a quasi-geostrophic model (Formerly Paper 6.11)
Shu-Chih Yang, Univ. of Maryland, College Park, MD; and M. Corazza, A. Carrassi, E. Kalnay, and T. Miyoshi
  11:16 AM
6.6a
Coffee Break in Meeting Room Foyer

  11:46 AM
6.11a
AMDAR optimization studies at the Earth System Research Laboratory / Global Systems Division (Formerly paper P2.1 from 12 ARAM)
William R. Moninger, NOAA/ESRL/GSD, Boulder, CO; and S. G. Benjamin, D. Dévényi, B. D. Jamison, B. Schwartz, T. L. Smith, and E. Szoke

8:30 AM-12:15 PM: Wednesday, 1 February 2006


Session 5
Urban Modeling Database Development
Location: A316 (Georgia World Congress Center)
Host: Sixth Symposium on the Urban Environment
Organizer: Jason K.S. Ching, NOAA
  8:30 AM
5.1
Prospectus on national database of high resolution buildings and other urban data for advanced model applications
Jason Ching, NOAA, Research Triangle Park, NC; and D. J. Williams, S. Burian, and R. Fry
  8:45 AM
5.2
Emerging urban databases for meteorological and dispersion modeling
Steven Burian, Univ. of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT; and M. Brown, T. N. McPherson, J. Hartman, W. Han, I. Jeyachandran, and J. Rush
  9:00 AM
5.3
Microscale Modeling Needs for Digitized Surface Feature Morphology—Urban and Rural
Ronald M. Cionco, US Army Research Laboratory, White Sands Missile Range, NM
  9:15 AM
5.4
Developing a global database for the CLM urban model
Johannes Feddema, Univ. of Kansas, Lawrence, KS; and K. Oleson and G. Bonan
  9:30 AM
5.5
A general methodology of urban cover classification for atmospheric modelling
Aude Lemonsu, EC, Dorval, QC, Canada; and A. Leroux, S. Belair, S. Trudel, and J. Mailhot
  9:45 AM
5.6
An anthropogenic heating database for major U.S. cities
David J. Sailor, Portland State Univ., Portland, OR; and M. Hart
  10:00 AM
5.7
A Day-Night Population Exchange Model for Better Exposure and Consequence Management Assessments
Timothy N. McPherson, LANL, Los Alamos, NM; and J. Rush, H. Khalsa, A. Ivey, and M. J. Brown
  10:15 AM
5.8
Coupling Geographic Information Systems and Urban Dispersion Model: An Example using ArcGIS and QUIC
Mang Lung Cheuk, Univ. of Oklahoma, Norman, OK; and M. Yuan and P. Klein

  10:45 AM
5.10
Meteorology and air quality modeling with advanced urban data and canopy parameterizations for Houston, TX
Jason Ching, NOAA/ERL/ARL, Research Triangle Park, NC; and R. Gilliam, S. Burian, S. Dupont, L. Reynolds, and R. Tang

  11:00 AM
5.11
  11:15 AM
5.6A
Coffee Break in Meeting Room Foyer

  11:45 AM
5.9a
Joint Urban 2003 Database/Web Design (Formerly Paper JP1.13)
Scott F. Halvorson, U.S. Army Dugway Proving Ground, Dugway, UT; and D. P. Storwold Jr. and E. N. Vernon

8:30 AM-5:00 PM: Wednesday, 1 February 2006


Session 5
Climate Modeling: Studies of climate change
Location: A313 (Georgia World Congress Center)
Host: 18th Conference on Climate Variability and Change
Chairs: G. L. Potter, LLNL; Dian J. Seidel, NOAA/ARL
  8:30 AM
5.1
New Climate Change Findings and Future Plans
Warren M. Washington, NCAR, Boulder, CO; and G. Meehl, J. Arblaster, and H. Teng
  8:45 AM
5.2
Future changes of El Nino
Gerald A. Meehl, NCAR, Boulder, CO; and H. Teng and G. Branstator
  9:00 AM
5.3
Climate change detection and attribution in the upper air
Stephen S. Leroy, Harvard Univ., Cambridge, MA; and J. G. Anderson and J. A. Dykema
  9:15 AM
5.4
The causes and uncertainty of future summer drying over Europe
Dave Rowell, Met Office Hadley Centre, Exeter, Devon, United Kingdom; and R. Jones
  9:30 AM
5.5
A comparison of model produced maximum and minimum temperature trends with observed trends for the 20th and 21st centuries
David R. Easterling, NOAA/NESDIS/NCDC, Asheville, NC; and B. E. Gleason, R. S. Vose, and R. Stouffer
  9:45 AM
5.6
Stratospheric trends in IPCC model simulations
Eugene Cordero, San Jose State Univ., San Jose, CA; and F. Snively
  10:00 AM
5.7
  10:30 AM
5.9
Assessment of Twentieth-century regional surface temperature trends using the GFDL CM2 coupled models
Thomas R. Knutson, NOAA/GFDL, Princeton, NJ; and T. L. Delworth, K. W. Dixon, I. M. Held, J. Lu, V. Ramaswamy, M. D. Schwarzkopf, G. Stenchikov, and R. J. Stouffer
  10:45 AM
5.10
An analysis of model tropospheric response to various forcings
Justin J. Hnilo, North Carolina State University, Asheville, NC; and J. R. Christy
  11:00 AM
5.11
Changes in synoptic weather patterns in the polar regions in the 20th and 21st centuries, Part 2: Antarctic
Amanda Lynch, Monash Univ., Melbourne, Vic, Australia; and P. Uotila and J. J. Cassano
  11:15 AM
5.12
Comparison of Satellite Observed and Model Simulated Sea Ice: Evaluation for the 4th IPCC Assessment
Konstantin Y. Vinnikov, Univ. of Maryland, College Park, MD; and D. J. Cavalieri and C. L. Parkinson
  11:30 AM
5.13
A global analysis of variability and trends of soil moisture
Zhichang Guo, COLA, Calverton, MD; and P. A. Dirmeyer
  11:45 AM
5.14
Paper 5.14 has been moved, New Number is Poster P3.20

  12:15 PM
5.16
Multi-model multi-signal climate change detection at regional scale
Xuebin Zhang, Meteorological Service of Canada, Downsview, Ontario, Canada; and F. W. Zwiers and P. Stott
  12:30 PM
5.17
  12:45 PM
5.18
  1:00 PM
5.19
  1:15 PM
5.6A
Coffee Break in Meeting Room Foyer

  1:45 PM
5.12A
Lunch Break (Cash and Carry will be available in the Exhibit Hall)

  3:15 PM
5.14A
Upper-air temperature changes in models and radiosonde observations
Melissa Free, NOAA/ARL, Silver Spring, MD; and J. Lanzante and D. J. Seidel

  3:30 PM
5.16A
Formal Poster Viewing with Coffee Break

8:30 AM-5:30 PM: Wednesday, 1 February 2006


Session 1
Policy Research in the Earth System Sciences
Location: A307 (Georgia World Congress Center)
Host: First Symposium on Policy Research
Organizers: William Hooke, AMS Policy Program; Genene Fisher, NOAA/NWS; Roger Pulwarty, NOAA/CIRES/CDC
  8:30 AM
1.1
In search of new options: characterizing and defining atmospheric science policy research
Genevieve E. Maricle, Arizona State Univ., Tempe, AZ; and L. Dilling and R. A. Pielke Jr.
  8:45 AM
1.2
Emerging issues in using space for managing the planet: policy, law, and economics
Ray A. Williamson, Space Policy Institute, George Washington University, Washington, DC; and H. R. Hertzfeld
  9:00 AM
1.3
  9:15 AM
1.4
  10:15 AM
1.8
Assessing science policies for climate research: New options for organizing research in support of decision making under uncertainty
Lisa Dilling, Center for Science and Technology Policy Research/Univ. of Colorado, Boulder, CO; and R. Pielke, Jr. and D. Sarewitz

  10:30 AM
1.9
Integrating atmospheric science into air quality planning: Challenges and opportunities
Daniel S. Cohan, Georgia Environmental Protection Division, Atlanta, GA
  10:45 AM
1.10
Indentifying a desirable air quality for Atlanta in 2050
Ed Weber, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA; and D. Noonan

  11:00 AM
1.11
Opportunities for policy research: A view from the House Science Committee
Johannes Loschnigg, U.S. House of Representatives, Committee on Science, Washington, DC

  11:15 AM
1.12
Organizational Communication and Decision Making in Hurricane Emergencies
Walter G. Peacock, Hazard Reduction & Recovery Center, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas; and M. K. Lindell and C. S. Prater
  11:30 AM
1.13
Hurricane Forecasting: The State of the Art
Hugh E. Willoughby, International Hurricane Center, Florida International University, Miami, FL; and E. Rappaport and F. D. Marks Jr.

  11:45 AM
1.14
Evacuation Decision Making and Behavioral Responses: Individual and Household
Hugh Gladwin, Florida International University, North Miami, FL; and N. Dash
  12:00 PM
1.15
Developing a Consensus Social Science Research Agenda for the Hurricane Forecast and Warning System
Walter G. Peacock, Hazard Reduction & Recovery Center, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas; and H. E. Willoughby, B. Morrow, H. Gladwin, and J. K. Lazo
  12:15 PM
1.16
The contribution of science to community based climate adaptation initiatives
Amanda Lynch, Monash University, Melbourne, Vic, Australia; and R. D. Brunner and J. A. Maslanik
  12:30 PM
1.17
Applying science policy research: The case of the carbon cycle science program
Lisa Dilling, Center for Science and Technology Policy Research/Univ. of Colorado, Boulder, CO; and G. E. Maricle and R. A. Pielke Jr.

  12:45 PM
1.18
Role of landscape changes in water consumption for water policy in humid environments
Richard T. McNider, University of Alabama, Huntsville, AL; and J. Christy, J. Cruise, R. Marcus, and A. Limaye
  1:15 PM
1.20
An integrated model for sustainable management of water resources in south Florida
Sajjad Ahmad, University of Miami, Coral Gables, FL; and G. Podesta, F. Miralles-Wilhelm, and R. Garcia-Martinez

  2:15 PM
1.11A
Lunch Break (Cash and Carry Available in the Exhibit Hall; Exhibit Hours 11:00 a.m.–6:00 p.m.)

  3:45 PM
1.15A
Poster Session

  1:45 PM
1.0a
Introductory Remarks

  2:00 PM
1.4a
Coffee Break in the Meeting Room Foyer

  5:30 PM
1.21a
Sessions end for the day

8:30 AM-12:30 PM: Wednesday, 1 February 2006


Session 10
Cyberinfrastructure, Internet and Grid Applications
Location: A412 (Georgia World Congress Center)
Host: 22nd International Conference on Interactive Information Processing Systems for Meteorology, Oceanography, and Hydrology
Cochairs: Nancy Soreide, NOAA/PMEL; Linda I. Miller, UCAR/Unidata
  8:30 AM
10.1
Real-time steering of mesoscale forecast models using objective techniques
Steven R. Chiswell, Savannah River National Laboratory, Aiken, SC; and B. Domenico and J. Weber
  8:45 AM
10.2
Toward dynamic adaptivity: steering the WRF model on the Unidata LEAD test bed
Tom Baltzer, UCAR, Boulder, CO; and S. R. Chiswell, B. Domenico, and M. K. Ramamurthy
  9:15 AM
10.4
Ontology-based Semantic Search Tool for Atmospheric Science
Rahul Ramachandran, Univ. of Alabama, Huntsville, AL; and S. Movva, S. Graves, and S. Tanner
  9:30 AM
10.5
PEA: Phenomena Extraction Algorithm
Rahul Ramachandran, Univ. of Alabama, Huntsville, AL; and X. Li, S. Graves, R. D. Clark, and D. Fitzgerald
  9:45 AM
10.6
Unidata's THREDDS data server
John Caron, UCAR, Boulder, CO; and E. R. Davis, Y. Ho, and R. P. Kambic
  10:00 AM
10.7
The USGODAE Monterey data server
Phil Sharfstein, FNMOC, Monterey, CA; and D. Dimitriou and S. Hankin
  10:15 AM
10.8
Compression and Relay Management System in Gridded FX-Net, System Architecture and Use of Wavelet Compression
Jebb Q. Stewart, CIRA/Colorado State Univ., Ft. Collins, and NOAA/ESRL, Boulder, CO; and E. Polster and N. Wang
  10:30 AM
10.9
Ensemble Broker Service Oriented Architecture for LEAD
Jay Alameda, National Center for Supercomputing Applications, Champaign, IL; and S. Hampton, B. F. Jewett, A. Rossi, and R. B. Wilhelmson
  10:45 AM
10.10
An architecture for the LEAD data repository
Doug Lindholm, UCAR, Boulder, CO; and A. Wilson and T. Baltzer
  11:00 AM
10.11
Data access and storage in the LEAD cyberinfrastructure
Anne Wilson, UCAR, Boulder, CO; and D. Lindholm and T. Baltzer
  11:15 AM
10.12
EarlyLEAD: A WRF ensemble demonstrating a data mining capability
Richard D. Clark, Millersville Univ., Millersville, PA; and D. Fitzgerald, T. Baltzer, E. Joseph, R. Ramachandran, and S. Chiao
  11:30 AM
10.13
10.13: Data Management Support for Adaptive Analysis and Prediction of the Atmosphere in LEAD
Beth Plale, Indiana Univ., Bloomington, IN; and R. Ramachandran and S. Tanner
  12:00 PM
10.6A
Coffee Break in Meeting Room Foyer

8:55 AM-8:55 AM: Wednesday, 1 February 2006


Welcome Address
Chair: Madeleine Needles, ALSI, Chair 2006

9:00 AM-10:00 AM: Wednesday, 1 February 2006


Session 6
Objective Forecasting of Atmospheric Phenomena
Location: A304 (Georgia World Congress Center)
Host: 18th Conference on Probability and Statistics in the Atmospheric Sciences
Cochairs: David Unger, NWS/NCEP/CPC; William R. Burrows, AES
  9:00 AM
6.1
  9:15 AM
6.2
Consensus Probabilistic Forecasting
William Myers, NCAR, Boulder, CO; and B. G. Brown and M. Pocernich
  9:30 AM
6.3
Insuring Temporal and Spatial Consistency in Short Range Statistical Weather Forecasts
Bob Glahn, NOAA/NWS, Silver Spring, MD; and J. R. Wiedenfeld
  9:45 AM
6.4
Utilizing Reanalysis Data in MOS or Perfect Prog
Caren Marzban, CAPS/Univ. of Oklahoma, Norman, OK and University of Washington, Seattle, WA; and S. A. Sandgathe and E. Kalnay

9:00 AM-10:30 AM: Wednesday, 1 February 2006


Session 1
Librarians and Information-Seeking Behavior
Location: A310 (Georgia World Congress Center)
Host: Ninth Atmospheric Science Librarians International Conference: Atmospheric Sciences Libraries and Their Importance for Patrons
Moderator: Madeleine Needles, Librarian, MIT Haystack Observatory
  9:00 AM
1.1
ALSI Roundtable Discussion: ALSI memebers will describe their libraries and unique collections.

  9:45 AM
1.2
What an Environmental Scan and Content Analysis tells us about the Current and Future Direction of Library and Information Studies Education (Invited Presentation)
Edwin-Michael Cortez, Director/Proffessor, Univ. of Tenn., School of Information Sciences, Knoxville, Tenn

  10:15 AM
1.2a
Break

9:30 AM-9:30 AM: Wednesday, 1 February 2006


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)
Location: A410 (Georgia World Congress Center)
Hosts: (Joint between the Symposium on the Challenges of Severe Convective Storms; the 18th Conference on Climate Variability and Change; and the AMS Forum: Environmental Risk and Impacts on Society: Successes and Challenges )
Moderator: Paul Markowski, Penn State University
Panelists: Pasha Groisman, NCDC; Thomas R. Karl, NOAA/NCDC; Harold E. Brooks, NOAA/NSSL; Robert J. Trapp, Purdue University

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


Coffee Break in Meeting Room Foyer (W1)

10:10 AM-10:40 AM: Wednesday, 1 February 2006


Coffee Break

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


Session 2
Video Analysis: The Good, The Bad, The Ugly
Location: A402 (Georgia World Congress Center)
Host: Fifth Communications Workshop
Chair: Peter Dykstra, CNN

10:30 AM-11:30 AM: Wednesday, 1 February 2006


Session 2
Horton Lecture
Location: A403 (Georgia World Congress Center)
Host: 20th Conference on Hydrology
  10:30 AM
2.1
Our Journey Towards Improved River Flow & Flood Forecasting
Soroosh Sorooshian, University of California, Irvine, CA

10:30 AM-12:00 PM: Wednesday, 1 February 2006


Session 3
NPP Calibration and Validation
Location: A302 (Georgia World Congress Center)
Host: Second Symposium: Toward a Global Earth Observation System of Systems—Future National Operational Environmental Satellite Systems
Organizer: Carl Hoffman, NPOESS Integrated Program Office
Chair: Carl Hoffman, NPOESS Integrated Program Office
  10:30 AM
3.1
NPP Preparatory Project Calibration/Validation: An Overview
Karen St. Germain, NPOESS IPO, Silver Spring, MD; and P. Lee and B. Guenther
  10:45 AM
3.2
NPOESS VIIRS Calibration Activities
Bruce Guenther, Univ. of Maryland, Greenbelt, MD; and F. J. DeLuccia, G. Grimm, E. Johnson, J. Young, and J. Xiong
  11:15 AM
3.3
  11:45 AM
3.4
Validation and Calibration Plans for the Ozone Mapping Suite (OMPS)
Lawrence E. Flynn, NOAA/NESDIS/ORA, Camp Springs, MD; and E. Hilsenrath, J. Hornstein, and C. Seftor

Session 3
The Dynamics, Prediction, and Detection of Severe Convective Windstorms, Nonsupercell tornadoes, and Hailstorms
Location: A410 (Georgia World Congress Center)
Host: Symposium on the Challenges of Severe Convective Storms
Organizer: Matthew D. Parker, North Carolina State Univ.
  11:00 AM
3.2
  11:30 AM
3.3
Hail detection and nowcasting
Dusan Zrnic, NOAA/NSSL, Norman, OK

Session 6
Climate Prediction on Seasonal to Interannual Timescales
Location: A314 (Georgia World Congress Center)
Host: 18th Conference on Climate Variability and Change
  10:30 AM
6.1
Value of climate forecasts in simple decision-making process
Barbara E. Mayes, NOAA/NWSFO, Davenport, IA; and R. E. Livezey
  10:45 AM
6.2
Teleconnections and climate in the Peruvian Andes
Elsa Nickl, Univ. of Delaware, Newark, DE; and C. Willmott
  11:00 AM
6.3
Prediction of Extratropical Storminess
Gilbert P. Compo, NOAA/CIRES/CDC, Boulder, CO; and P. D. Sardeshmukh, M. A. Alexander, and J. D. Scott
  11:15 AM
6.4
An examination of the bias in the NCEP GFS, CFS simulations associated with the marine stratus clouds
Pingping Xie, NOAA/NWS/NCEP, Camp Springs, MD; and W. Wang, W. Higgins, P. Arkin, M. Cronin, and R. A. Weller
  11:30 AM
6.5
Bred vectors and forecast error in the NASA coupled general circulation model
Shu-Chih Yang, Univ. of Maryland, College Park, MD; and E. Kalnay, M. Rienecker, M. Cai, and J. Ballabrera
  11:45 AM
6.6
Tier-one Seasonal Prediction with CES Coupled GCM
Jong-Seong Kug, KORDI, Ansan, South Korea; and I. S. Kang and D. H. Choi


Session 7
Climate Forecasting
Location: A304 (Georgia World Congress Center)
Host: 18th Conference on Probability and Statistics in the Atmospheric Sciences
Cochairs: James B. Elsner, Florida State University; Cécile Penland, NOAA/CIRES/CDC
  10:30 AM
7.1
  10:45 AM
7.2
Testing slow varying predictors in a Nearest Neighbor model for statistical prediction of South East Asian Monsoon
Viatcheslav V. Tatarskii, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA; and P. J. Webster

  11:15 AM
7.4
  11:30 AM
7.5
Fraser river extended streamflow prediction system
Stanley J. Woodcock, Riverside Technology, Inc., Fort Collins, CO; and M. Thiemann, L. E. Brazil, E. Vincent, and A. Pineda
  11:45 AM
7.6
A climatic model for predicting seasonal rainfall
Bernardo Barbosa da Silva, Federal University of Campina Grande, Campina Grande, PB, Brazil; and M. A. F. Ferreira, V. D. P. R. D. Silva, and F. D. A. S. D. Sousa

10:30 AM-1:15 PM: Wednesday, 1 February 2006


Session 7B
Aircraft Icing Workshop - Part 2. Perspectives on an Icing Case Study
Location: A301 (Georgia World Congress Center)
Host: 12th Conference on Aviation Range and Aerospace Meteorology
Chairs: Marcia K. Politovich, NCAR; Gene Addy, NASA Glenn Research Center at Lewis Field
  10:30 AM
7B.1
Airport Vicinity Icing and Snow Advisor: 11 November 2003 Case Study
George Isaac, Meteorological Service of Canada, Downsview, ON, Canada; and S. Cober, N. Donaldson, I. Gultepe, N. Driedger, D. Hudak, A. Glazer, J. Reid, P. Rodriguez, J. W. Strapp, and F. Fabry
  10:45 AM
7B.2
Retrievals of liquid water path based on AMSR-E observations during AIRS II
Merritt N. Deeter, NCAR, Boulder, CO; and J. Vivekanandan

  11:00 AM
7B.3
  11:30 AM
7B.5
WRF Simulations of the November 11, 2003 AIRS II field experiment
William Hall, NCAR, Boulder, CO; and P. R. Field, R. Rasmussen, and G. Thompson
  11:45 AM
7B.6
Performance of RUC13 and WRFRUC13 forecasts for the AIRS-2 11 November 2003 icing case
John M. Brown, NOAA/FSL, Boulder, CO; and T. G. Smirnova and S. G. Benjamin
  12:00 PM
7B.7
Assessment of the 11 November 2003 AIRS-II icing event by CIP
Ben C. Bernstein, NCAR, Boulder, CO; and F. McDonough, C. A. Wolff, and M. K. Politovich
  12:15 PM
7B.8
Comparison of Airborne W-band Radar and In-situ Cloud Data During AIRS II: Nov 11, 2003 Case
Mengistu Wolde, Institute for Aerospace Research/National Research Council of Canada, Ottawa, ON, Canada
  12:30 PM
7B.9
  12:45 PM
7B.10
T-probe for measurements of Mixed Phase
John Hallet, Desert Research Institute, Reno, Nv., Reno, NV
  1:00 PM
7B.0A
Session Overview
Gene Addy, NASA Glenn Research Center at Lewis Field, Cleveland, OH

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


Session 2
Digitization and Access
Location: A310 (Georgia World Congress Center)
Host: Ninth Atmospheric Science Librarians International Conference: Atmospheric Sciences Libraries and Their Importance for Patrons
Moderator: Evelyn Poole-Kober, NERL-ASMD Library, USEPA
  10:50 AM
2.2
Where's the Data? Finding Atmospheric Data Sets for Research
Gene Major, Global Change Master Directory, SSAI, Lanham, MD
  11:10 AM
2.3
NCDC Publications—Where and How?
Linda Preston, National Climatic Data Center, Asheville, NC
  11:30 AM
2.4
Alternative Resources for Meteorological Research
Linda Musser, Pennsylvania State University, State College, PA
  11:50 AM
2.5
Market Your Library with a BLOG
James LaMee, Reference Librarian, Belmont Abbey College, Belmont, NC

  12:10 PM
2.6
To BLOG or not to BLOG
Brian Voss, Librarian, NOAA Seattle Regional Library, Seattle, WA

  12:30 PM
2.6a
Lunch Break

10:40 AM-11:30 AM: Wednesday, 1 February 2006


Panel Discussion 1
Panel Discussion/Interactive Dialogue/Q&A
Location: A402 (Georgia World Congress Center)
Host: Fifth Communications Workshop
Moderator: Peter Dykstra, CNN
  10:40 AM
PD1.1
What is the role of the Media During Severe Weather Events? Does the Role Differ for the Local and National Media? Are the Media Covering the Right Story? Or Sending the Wrong Message? What Does the Science Community want to see Covered by the Media?

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


Exhibits Open (W)

12:00 PM-12:45 PM: Wednesday, 1 February 2006


Panel Discussion 1
Luncheon Panel—Implementing the Strategic Plan for the U.S. Integrated Earth Observation System (IEOS)
Location: A302 (Georgia World Congress Center)
Host: Second Symposium: Toward a Global Earth Observation System of Systems—Future National Operational Environmental Satellite Systems
Moderator: William Hooke, AMS
Panelists: Jay Feuquay, USGS; Gene Whitney, Office of Science and Technology Policy; Gregory Withee, NOAA/NESDIS; Ron Birk, NASA; John Lyon, EPA; Grant Aufderhaar, Department of Defense/Aerospace Corp.
  12:00 PM
PD1.1
  12:30 PM
PD1.3

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


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

Session 1
Session 1
Host: Town Hall Meeting on the US Role in THORPEX
  12:00 PM
1.1
Introduction
Richard D. Rosen, NOAA/OAR and Chair of US Executive Committee, Silver Springs, Maryland

  12:10 PM
1.2
Overview of the international program
David Burridge, ECMWF and Director, THORPEX International Exceutive Board, Reading, Berks., United Kingdom
  12:30 PM
1.3
Recent accomplishments and overview of proposed national regional activities
Richard D. Rosen, NOAA/OAR and Chair, US Executive Board, Silver Springs, Maryland; and D. Parsons
  12:50 PM
1.4
US Operational Prospeective
Louis W. Uccellini, NOAA/NWS/NCEP, Camp Springs, MD
  1:10 PM
1.4a
Open Discussion

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


Joint Session 5
Multi-media studies that address the effects of air pollution cycling in ecosystems (Joint between the 8th Conference on Atmospheric Chemistry and the AMS Forum on Managing our Physical and Natural Resources)
Location: A312 (Georgia World Congress Center)
Hosts: (Joint between the Eighth Conference on Atmospheric Chemistry; and the AMS Forum: Managing our Physical and Natural Resources: Successes and Challenges )
Chair: Steven R. Hanna, Harvard Univ.
  1:30 PM
J5.1
  2:15 PM
J5.3

Session 7
Land-Surface Observations, Including Urban Area: Surface Characteristics, Surface Fluxes and Their Effect on Boundary Layer Depth; Applications in Public Health, Transport Models, and Emergency Response: Part 1
Location: A405 (Georgia World Congress Center)
Host: 10th Symposium on Integrated Observing and Assimilation Systems for the Atmosphere, Oceans, and Land Surface (IOAS-AOLS)
Organizer: Matthew J. Haugland, Univ. of Oklahoma / Oklahoma Climatological Survey
  1:30 PM
7.1
The development of an operational quality assurance system for OASIS Super Site data at the Oklahoma Mesonet
Justin W. Monroe, Oklahoma Climatological Survey, University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK; and K. L. Nemunaitis-Monroe and J. B. Basara
  1:45 PM
7.2
  2:00 PM
7.3
Initialization of MM5/WRF simulations with ALEXI-derived volumetric soil moisture estimates
Christopher R. Hain, University of Alabama, Huntsville, Huntsville, AL; and J. R. Mecikalski, M. C. Anderson, and W. Lapenta
  2:15 PM
7.4
Integrating National Climatic Data Center (NCDC) archived datasets for air quality investigations
Marjorie McGuirk, NOAA/NESDIS/NCDC, Asheville, NC; and S. K. LeDuc

Session 8
Remote Sensing Applied to Air–Sea Interaction
Location: A309 (Georgia World Congress Center)
Host: 14th Conference on Interaction of the Sea and Atmosphere
Chair: Gary A. Wick, NOAA/ERL/ETL
  1:30 PM
8.1
Surface Wind Response to oceanic Fronts
Qingtao Song, Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR; and P. Cornillon and T. Hara
  1:45 PM
8.2
  2:00 PM
8.3
Friction Velocity Measurements using a Marine Radar
Jochen Horstmann, GKSS Research Center, Geesthacht, Germany; and H. Dankert
  2:15 PM
8.4
Momentum fluxes and turbulence structure of the marine Atmospheric Boundary Layer
Costas Helmis, Univ. of Athens, Athens, Greece; and G. Sgouros, C. Halios, and Q. Wang

1:30 PM-2:45 PM: Wednesday, 1 February 2006


Session 3
The Weather and Its Aftermath
Location: A310 (Georgia World Congress Center)
Host: Ninth Atmospheric Science Librarians International Conference: Atmospheric Sciences Libraries and Their Importance for Patrons
Moderator: Susan Tarbell, Librarian, Air Force Weather Technical Library
  1:30 PM
3.0
Break

  1:45 PM
3.1
Season on Edge: The Historic 2005 Atlantic Hurricane Season
Christopher C. Hennon, Univ. of North Carolina, Asheville, NC
  2:15 PM
3.2
Air Force Meteorologist in Afghanistan
Ann Gravier, USAF/AFCCC, Asheville, NC


Joint Session 6
GOES-R: Part I (Joint with Second Symposium: Toward a Global Earth Observation System of Systems—Future National Operational Environmental Satellite Systems and 14th Conference on Satellite Meteorology and Oceanography)
Location: A302 (Georgia World Congress Center)
Hosts: (Joint between the Second Symposium: Toward a Global Earth Observation System of Systems—Future National Operational Environmental Satellite Systems; and the 14th Conference on Satellite Meteorology and Oceanography )
Cochairs: Gary K. Davis, NOAA/NESDIS; James J. Gurka, NOAA/NESDIS
  1:30 PM
J6.1
Introduction to GOES-R
Gary K. Davis, NOAA/NESDIS, Silver Spring, MD
  1:45 PM
J6.2
GOES-R Program Overview
Michael Crison, NOAA/NESDIS, Silver Spring, MD
  2:00 PM
J6.3
The ABI (Advanced Baseline Imager) on GOES-R
Timothy J. Schmit, NOAA/NESDIS, Madison, WI; and W. P. Menzel, J. Gurka, and M. M. Gunshor
  2:15 PM
J6.4
Infrared measurements from the Hyperspectral Environmental Suite (HES) on GOES-R
W. Paul Menzel, NOAA/NESDIS, Madison, WI; and T. J. Schmit, J. J. Gurka, and J. Li
  2:30 PM
J6.5
GOES-R Coastal Waters Imaging and the COAST Risk Reduction Activities
Curtiss Davis, Oregon State Univ., Corvallis, OR; and M. Abbott

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


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)
Location: A410 (Georgia World Congress Center)
Hosts: (Joint between the Symposium on the Challenges of Severe Convective Storms; and the AMS Forum: Environmental Risk and Impacts on Society: Successes and Challenges )
Moderator: Erik N. Rasmussen, CIMMS/Univ. of Oklahoma
Panelists: Dennis McCarthy, NOAA; Michael Smith, Weather Data, Inc.; Charles A. Doswell III, CIMMS/Univ. of Oklahoma; David J. Stensrud, NOAA/NSSL; Michael A. Magsig, CIMMS/Univ. of Oklahoma and NOAA/NWS; Eve Gruntfest, NCAR
  1:30 PM
JPD2.1
  2:30 PM
JPD2.2
  3:30 PM
JPD2.3
Panel Discussion: Gruntfest
Eve Gruntfest, University of Colorado, Colorado Springs, CO

Session 3
Hydrologic applications of satellite data, including GRACE, AMSR-E, TRMM and MODIS
Location: A403 (Georgia World Congress Center)
Host: 20th Conference on Hydrology
Cochairs: Robert J. Kuligowski, NOAA/NESDIS; Matthew Rodell, NASA/GSFC
  1:30 PM
3.1
  1:45 PM
3.2
Global application of the Self-Calibrating Multivariate Precipitation Retrieval (SCaMPR)
Robert J. Kuligowski, NOAA/NESDIS, Camp Springs, MD; and S. Qiu and J. S. Im
  2:00 PM
3.3
Estimation of evaporative fraction and evapotranspiration from remotely sensed data using complementary relationship
Virginia Venturini, Universidad Nacional del Litoral, Santa Fe, Argentina; and S. Islam, G. Bisht, and L. Rodriguez
  2:15 PM
3.4
Improving hydrologic forecasting using spaceborne soil moisture retrievals
Wade T. Crow, USDA ARS, Beltsville, MD; and R. Bindlish and T. J. Jackson
  2:30 PM
3.5
Assimilation of global AMSR-E surface soil moisture into the NASA Catchment land surface model
Rolf H. Reichle, NASA/GSFC and Univ. of Maryland, Greenbelt, MD; and R. Koster and P. Liu
  2:45 PM
3.6
Integrating Remote Sensing and other Products into the Decision Support Systems of the United Nations World Food Programme
Zhong Liu, NASA/GSFC Distributed Active Archive Center, Greenbelt, MD; and L. Milich, B. Teng, H. Rui, and S. Kempler
  3:00 PM
3.4A
Formal Poster Viewing with Coffee break

1:30 PM-4:45 PM: Wednesday, 1 February 2006


Session 5
Regional/Meso Scale Dispersion and Air Quality
Location: A407 (Georgia World Congress Center)
Host: 14th Joint Conference on the Applications of Air Pollution Meteorology with the Air and Waste Management Assoc
Chair: James E. Bossert, LANL
  1:30 PM
5.1
Quantifying the sources of smog and regional haze in southeastern U.S.
M. Talat Odman, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA; and Y. Hu, A. G. Russell, and J. W. Boylan
  2:00 PM
5.3
Response of simulated sulfur in Models-3/CMAQ to alternate cloud parameterizations
Stephen F. Mueller, Tennessee Valley Authority, Muscle Shoals, AL; and T. M. Cook
  2:15 PM
5.4
On the air-pollution modelling and prediction in the Czech Republic
Tomas Halenka, Charles Univ., Prague, Czech Republic; and K. Eben, J. Brechler, J. Bednar, M. Belda, P. Jurus, E. Pelikan, and R. Cesari
  2:30 PM
5.5
Long range chemical transport over North America at mid-tropospheric levels
John Lewis, NOAA/NSSL and DRI, Norman, OK; and W. R. Stockwell, D. R. Koracin, J. Koracin, A. C. Goodrich, D. Sikorski, and R. Rabin
  3:00 PM
5.7
Development and evaluation of emission control strategies for Georgia using the CMAQ air quality model
James W. Boylan, Georgia Department of Natural Resources, Atlanta, GA; and A. Marmur, M. Khan, and D. Cohan

  3:45 PM
5.10
Cluster analysis of meteorological states to understand the weekend-weekday ozone response in the San Francisco, CA Bay Area
Scott Beaver, Bay Area Air Quality Management District, San Francisco, CA; and A. Palazoglu and S. Tanrikulu
  4:00 PM
5.4A
Formal Poster Viewing With Coffee Break

1:30 PM-5:00 PM: Wednesday, 1 February 2006


Session 12
Applications of Weather and Climate Data
Location: A412 (Georgia World Congress Center)
Host: 22nd International Conference on Interactive Information Processing Systems for Meteorology, Oceanography, and Hydrology
Cochairs: Carl D. Thormeyer, FNMOC; Jim Cooper, Earth Satellite Corporation
  1:30 PM
12.1
  1:45 PM
12.2
Verification of a Real-Time System to Estimate Weather Conditions at High Resolution in the United States
Joseph Koval, The Weather Channel, Atlanta, GA; and J. G. Estupiñán and J. Staudinger
  2:00 PM
12.3
Incorporating data-denial statistics into real-time quality control filtering of surface observations
Bruce Rose, The Weather Channel, Atlanta, GA; and N. McGillis, J. P. Koval, P. Neilley, and J. G. Estupiñán
  2:15 PM
12.4
Accessing NOAA daily temperature and precipitation extremes based on combined/threaded station records
Timothy W. Owen, NOAA/NESDIS/NCDC, Asheville, NC; and K. L. Eggleston, A. T. DeGaetano, and R. Leffler
  2:30 PM
12.5
Real time data monitoring at NCEP
Krishna V. Kumar, QSS Group, Inc., NCEP Central Operations, Camp Springs, MD; and B. Ballish and J. Stoudt
  2:45 PM
12.6
Development of weather and climate decision support tools for agricultural applications
Mark S. Brooks, North Carolina State Univ., Raleigh, NC; and B. Shew, A. P. Sims, A. Baker, R. Boyles, and S. Raman
  3:00 PM
12.7
An Innovative Approach to Weather-Based Decision-Support for Agricultural Models
Rafal Jabrzemski, University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK; and A. Sutherland
  3:15 PM
12.8
Disdrometer data use in analyzing blowing snow characteristics within the roadway environment
Benjamin Hershey, Univ. of North Dakota, Grand Forks, ND; and L. F. Osborne Jr.
  3:30 PM
12.4A
Formal Poster Viewing with Coffee Break

1:30 PM-5:15 PM: Wednesday, 1 February 2006


Session 11
Radar IIPS and Applications-Part II
Location: A411 (Georgia World Congress Center)
Host: 22nd International Conference on Interactive Information Processing Systems for Meteorology, Oceanography, and Hydrology
Cochairs: Robert E. Saffle, Mitretek Systems; Douglas E. Forsyth, NOAA/NSSL; Timothy Crum, NOAA/NEXRAD Radar Operations Center; Robert G. Borchers, SAIC; Joel D. Martin, CAPS/Univ. of Oklahoma
  1:30 PM
11.1
Status report on the National Weather Radar Testbed (Phased-Array)
Douglas E. Forsyth, NOAA/NSSL, Norman, OK; and J. F. Kimpel, D. S. Zrnic, R. Ferek, J. F. Heimmer, T. J. McNellis, J. E. Crain, A. M. Shapiro, R. J. Vogt, and W. Benner
  1:45 PM
11.2
The Radar Control Interface for the National Weather Radar Testbed
David Priegnitz, NOAA/NSSL and CIMMS/Univ. of Oklahoma, Norman, OK; and D. E. Forsyth
  2:00 PM
11.3
GIS Tools for Radar Siting and Analysis
Scott T. Shipley, Environmental Resource Technologies, Jessup, MD; and I. A. Graffman, R. E. Saffle, and J. Facundo
  2:15 PM
11.4
  2:30 PM
11.5
Paper 11.5 moved. New Poster number P2.15

  2:45 PM
11.6
Potentials and limitations of Radarsat SAR in estimating Snow Water Equivalent (SWE) in the Great Lakes region of the United States
Amir E Azar, NOAA/CREST, New York, NY; and R. Khanbilvardi, H. Ghedira, P. Romanov, J. C. Carlos, and P. G. Zikalala
  3:00 PM
11.7
Solid State Fractional Phased Array Addition To NWRT
Sheldon Katz, Lockheed Martin Corporation, Moorestown, New Jersey; and D. Lafrance, H. Urkowitz, D. Staiman, M. Campbell, and D. Forsyth
  3:15 PM
11.8
Radar Receiver Correction of Polarization
Harry Urkowitz, Lockheed Martin Corporation, Moorestown, NJ
  3:30 PM
11.4A
Formal Poster Viewing with Coffee Break

  5:00 PM
11.5A
Enhancements in Clutter/Precipitation Discrimination for the WSR-88D
S. M. Ellis, NCAR, Boulder, CO; and C. Kessinger, J. Van Andel, M. Dixon, and J. Hubbert

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


Joint Session 6
Urban Turbulent Transport And Dispersion Processes II (Cosponsored by BL&T committee) (Joint With The 6Th Symposium On The Urban Environment And The 14Th Joint Conference On The Applications Of Air Pollution Meteorology With The A&WMA
Location: A315 (Georgia World Congress Center)
Hosts: (Joint between the 14th Joint Conference on the Applications of Air Pollution Meteorology with the Air and Waste Management Assoc; and the Sixth Symposium on the Urban Environment )
Organizer: Petra Klein, Univ. of Oklahoma
Chair: Akula Venkatram, Univ. of California
  1:30 PM
J6.1
  1:45 PM
J6.2
Urban particle emission rates related to source characteristics and meteorology measured in and above the centre of the city of Manchester (UK)
Ian D. Longley, Univ. of Manchester, Manchester, United Kingdom; and M. W. Gallagher, M. J. Flynn, and H. Coe
  2:00 PM
J6.3
Evaluation of the QUIC Urban Dispersion Model using the Salt Lake City URBAN 2000 Tracer Experiment Data – IOP 10
Akshay A. Gowardhan, Univ. of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT; and M. J. Brown, M. D. Williams, and E. Pardyjak
  2:15 PM
J6.4
Near-building turbulent intensities, fluxes, and vortices
Ronald M. Cionco, US Army Research Laboratory, White Sands Missile Range, NM; and G. T. Vaucher, S. D'Arcy, and M. Bustillos
  2:30 PM
J6.5
The plane mixing layer analogy applied to turbulence in the urban roughness sublayer
Andreas Christen, Berlin Univ. of Technology, Berlin, Germany; and E. Van Gorsel and R. Vogt
  2:45 PM
J6.6
Thermal Effects on Flow and Reactive Pollutant Dispersion in an Urban Street Canyon
Jong-Jin Baik, Seoul National Univ., Seoul, South Korea; and Y. S. Kang and J. J. Kim
  3:00 PM
J6.7
  3:15 PM
J6.9
Turbulent organized structure over a reduced urban scale model
A. Inagaki, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Tokyo, Japan; and M. Kanda
  3:45 PM
J6.4A
Formal Poster Viewing With Coffee Break

  5:15 PM
J6.10A
An operational forecasting system for the New York City Metropolitan Area that provides urban-scale input to NARAC and HPAC
Thomas T. Warner, NCAR, Boulder, CO; and J. C. Knievel, J. K. Lundquist, R. N. Fry Jr., and J. R. Hannan

Session 7
Observed seasonal to interannual climate variability: Part II
Location: A314 (Georgia World Congress Center)
Host: 18th Conference on Climate Variability and Change
Chair: Leslie M. Hartten, CIRES/Univ. of Colorado and NOAA/AL
  1:45 PM
7.2
Interannual variability of arctic radiation balance in July
T. Dale Bess, NASA/LRC, Hampton, VA; and G. L. Smith
  2:15 PM
7.4
  2:30 PM
7.5
  2:45 PM
7.6
A diagnostic study of the southern Africa rainy season during the 1997–98 El Nino
Bradfield Lyon, International Research Institute for Climate Prediction, Columbia Univ., Palisades, NY; and S. J. Mason
  3:00 PM
7.7
Two distinctive ENSO cycles and associated extratropical atmospheric anomalies
Hui Wang, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA; and W. Li and R. Fu
  3:30 PM
7.9
  4:00 PM
7.4A
Formal Poster Viewing with Coffee Break


Session 8
Range and Aerospace
Location: A301 (Georgia World Congress Center)
Host: 12th Conference on Aviation Range and Aerospace Meteorology
Chairs: Karen Shelton-Mur, DOT; Todd M. McNamara, 45th Weather Squadron, USAF
  1:30 PM
8.1
Shuttle Weather Support From Design To Launch To Return To Flight
Dan G. Bellue, NOAA/NWS, Johnson Space Center, TX; and W. W. Vaughan, B. F. Boyd, J. T. Madura, T. Garner, K. A. Winters, J. Weems, and H. C. Herring
  1:45 PM
8.2
Current Activities of the Range Commanders Council Meteorology Group
Richard G. Henning, 46th Weather Squadron, Eglin AFB, FL; and B. C. Roberts
  2:00 PM
8.3
Natural and triggered lightning launch commit criteria
E. P. Krider, Univ. of Arizona, Tucson, AZ; and H. J. Christian, J. E. Dye, H. C. Koons, J. T. Madura, F. J. Merceret, W. D. Rust, R. L. Walterscheid, and J. C. Willett
  2:15 PM
8.4
The Scientific Basis for a Radar-Based Lightning Launch Commit Criterion for Anvil Clouds
J. E. Dye, NCAR, Boulder, CO; and M. Bateman, D. Mach, C. A. Grainger, H. J. Christian, H. C. Koons, E. P. Krider, F. J. Merceret, and J. C. Willett
  2:45 PM
8.6
Ensuring Environmental Safety for Space Launch
B. F. Boyd, 45th Weather Squadron, Patrick AFB, FL; and M. E. Fitzpatrick, C. R. Parks, P. N. Rosati, and R. W. Lamoreaux
  3:00 PM
8.7
Implementing the VAHIRR Launch Commit Criteria using existing radar products
Francis J. Merceret, NASA, Kennedy Space Center, FL; and M. McAleenan, T. M. McNamara, J. W. Weems, and W. P. Roeder
  3:15 PM
8.8
Commercially licensed launch site and reentry site operations
Stewart Jackson, DOT, Washington, DC; and K. Shelton-Mur
  3:30 PM
8.9
Triggered lightning risk assessment for reusable launch vehicles at the Southwest Regional and Oklahoma Spaceports
John C. Willett, Consultant, Garrett Park, MD; and E. P. Krider, G. S. Peng, F. S. Simmons, G. W. Law, K. Shelton-Mur, and R. W. Seibold
  4:00 PM
8.4A
Formal Poster Viewing with Coffee Break

1:45 PM-2:30 PM: Wednesday, 1 February 2006


Session 8
Extreme Weather and Climate
Location: A304 (Georgia World Congress Center)
Host: 18th Conference on Probability and Statistics in the Atmospheric Sciences
Cochairs: Richard W. Katz, NCAR; Daniel S. Wilks, Cornell University
  1:45 PM
8.1
Paper 8.1 moved. New paper number P1.7.

  1:46 PM
8.2
  2:01 PM
8.3
Decision making under uncertainty with an application to wildfire risk
Karen L. Abt, USDA, Resarch Triangle Park, NC; and T. P. Holmes and R. J. Huggett Jr.

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


Joint Poster Session 2
Urban Environment Posters II (Joint With 6th Symposium on the Urban Environment and Forum on Managing Our Physical and Natural Resources)
Location: Exhibit Hall A2 (Georgia World Congress Center)
Hosts: (Joint between the Sixth Symposium on the Urban Environment; and the AMS Forum: Managing our Physical and Natural Resources: Successes and Challenges )
 
JP2.1
Introducing Building Architectural Aspects in the Urban Canopy Model
Mohammad Kholid Ridwan, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Tokyo, Japan; and T. Kawai and K. Manabu

Poster PDF (85.5 kB)

 
JP2.3
Evaluation of Seasonal Pattern of Energy, Water and Carbon Dioxide Fluxes Over Tokyo Bay
Ryoko Oda, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Tokyo, Japan; and R. Moriwaki and M. Kanda

Poster PDF (545.2 kB)

 
JP2.5
Evaluating conditional sampling strategies for trace-gas flux measurements in urban environments
Andreas Christen, Berlin Univ. of Technology, Berlin, Germany; and C. S. B. Grimmond, R. Moriwaki, D. E. Scherer, and R. Vogt

 
JP2.6
Elemental, ionic and organic composition of atmospheric aerosols in Chicago during summer time
Martina Schmeling, Loyola Univ., Chicago, IL; and T. Fosco, X. Ang, and D. Bolos

 
JP2.7
 
JP2.8
Continuous Observation of Globe Temperature and Simultaneous Observation by WBGT101
Michihiko Tonouchi, Japan Meteorological Business Support Center, Tokyo, Japan; and K. Murayama, H. Maruyama, and H. Suzuki

 
JP2.9
Comparisons of measurements made using two sodars in an urban environment
Larry K. Berg, PNNL, Richland, WA; and R. M. Reynolds, K. J. Allwine, and A. Blumberg

Poster PDF (365.3 kB)

 
JP2.10
Characteristics of Precipitation induced by Urbanization in Seoul, Korea
Yeon-Hee Kim, Meteorological Research Institute, Seoul, South Korea; and K. Hae-Jung and N. Jae-Cheol

 
JP2.11
CFD Modeling for Urban Area Contaminant Transport and Dispersion: Model Description and Data Requirements
William J. Coirier, CFD Research Corporation, Huntsville, AL; and S. Kim

Poster PDF (908.5 kB)

 
JP2.12
Case study of thermographic observations of surface materials' cooling rates and neighborhood design in suburban Phoenix, Arizona
Donna A. Hartz, Arizona State Univ., Scottsdale, AZ; and J. Golden, A. J. Brazel, B. C. Hedquist, and K. Kaloush


Poster Session 3
Environmental Applications
Location: Exhibit Hall A2 (Georgia World Congress Center)
Host: 14th Conference on Satellite Meteorology and Oceanography
 
P3.1
Production and preliminary evaluation of operational SST and aerosol products from NOAA-18 AVHRR/3
Alexander Ignatov, NOAA/NESDIS/ORA, Camp Springs, MD; and J. Sapper, A. Harris, W. G. Pichel, X. Li, and Y. Kihai

 
JP1.12
Multi-sensor analysis of cold water along the Mid-Atlantic coast during midsummer 2003
Donglian Sun, George Mason Univ., Fairfax, VA; and M. Kafatos and R. Yang

 
P3.3
Satellite based estimation of anthropogenic aerosol radiative forcing over tropical Indian Ocean
Falguni Patadia, Univ. of Alabama, Huntsville, AL; and S. Christopher and S. K. Satheesh

 
P3.4
Tire fire inquire
Lori A. Borg, Univ. of Wisconsin, Madison, WI; and M. S. Kulie, Z. Li, C. Y. Liu, B. Maddux, D. Tobin, T. J. Wagner, W. Zhou, and S. A. Ackerman

 
P3.5
Satellite derived aerosol optical depth products in support of UAE2
Arunas P. Kuciauskas, NRL, Monterey, CA; and S. D. Miller

 
P3.7
Explanation of variation in satellite observed aerosol indirect effect
Hongfei Shao, Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL; and G. Liu

 
P3.8
Detecting volcanic ash and blowing dust using GOES, MODIS, and AIRS imagery
Bernadette H. Connell, CIRA/Colorado State Univ., Ft. Collins, CO; and F. Prata

Poster PDF (385.9 kB)

 
P3.9
Characterization of dust storms sources in southwestern U. S and northwestern Mexico using remote sensing imagery
Nancy Ivette Rivera Rivera, Univ. of Texas, El Paso, TX; and M. Bleiweiss, J. L. Hand, T. E. Gill, and R. M. Fitzgerald

Poster PDF (1.5 MB)

 
P3.10
Air Quality, Population and Energy Usage over Global Mega cities
Pawan Gupta, Univ. of Alabama, Huntsville, AL; and S. A. Christopher

 
P3.11
Aerosol retrievals from MSG SEVIRI over ocean using AVHRR-like algorithm
Helen E. Brindley, Imperial College, London, United Kingdom; and A. Ignatov

 
P3.12
Aerosol optical depth retrievals from high-resolution commercial satellite imagery over areas of high surface reflectance
Dominick A. Vincent, NPS, Monterey, CA; and P. A. Durkee, K. E. Nielsen, J. Zhang, and J. S. Reid

Poster PDF (314.6 kB)

 
P3.14
Statistical comparison between satellite-derived mesoscale atmospheric motion vectors and NOAA wind profiler network observations
Kristopher M. Bedka, CIMSS/Univ. of Wisconsin, Madison, WI; and W. F. Feltz, J. R. Mecikalski, R. A. Petersen, and C. S. Velden

 
P3.15
Retrieval of Flux Properties Associated with Mesoscale Winds
Christopher P. Jewett, Univ. of Alabama, Huntsville, AL; and J. R. Mecikalski and K. M. Bedka

 
P3.16
A quantitative analysis of the enhanced-V feature
Jason C. Brunner, CIMSS/Univ. of Wisconsin, Madison, WI; and S. A. Ackerman, A. S. Bachmeier, and R. M. Rabin

Poster PDF (520.3 kB)

 
P3.17
Observations of orographic Cloud Base Heights from satellite and in-situ measurements at the Monteverde Cloud Mist Forest Reserve, Costa Rica
Jian Zeng, ERT associated with NOAA/NESDIS/STAR, Camp Springs, MD; and Q. Han, S. Asefi, R. M. Welch, R. O. Lawton, U. S. Nair, and D. K. Ray

Poster PDF (139.5 kB)

 
P3.18
Use of MODIS and GOES imagery to help delineate the distribution of cloud forests along the eastern Andean slopes
Michael W. Douglas, NOAA/NSSL, Norman, OK; and J. F. Mejia and T. Killeen

Poster PDF (1.7 MB)

 
P3.19
Observational and modeling studies of cloud and associated rainfall processes
Xiaofan Li, JCSDA and NOAA/NESDIS/ORA, Camp Springs, MD

Poster PDF (727.8 kB)

 
P3.20
NRL tropical cyclone R&D web resource augmentations
Jeffrey D. Hawkins, NRL, Monterey, CA; and J. F. Turk, T. F. Lee, K. Richardson, S. D. Miller, C. Sampson, J. E. Kent, and R. H. Wade

Poster PDF (541.6 kB)

 
P3.21
Detecting Tropical Cyclone Structural Change with the TRMM Precipitation Radar (PR) and Advanced Microwave Sounding Unit (AMSU)
Stephen R. Guimond, COAPS, Tallahassee, FL; and F. J. Turk, C. B. Blankenship, and J. D. Hawkins

Poster PDF (450.9 kB)

 
P3.22
 
P3.23
Day/night visible satellite images
Frederick R. Mosher, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, Daytona Beach, FL

Poster PDF (670.3 kB)

 
P3.25
Multi-Spectral Remotely Sensed Snowfall Rate Estimation
Yajaira Mejia, NOAA-CREST and City College of New York, New York, NY; and R. Khanvilbardi and S. Mahani

 
P3.26
Development of a Snowfall Retrieval Algorithm Using Data at High Microwave Frequencies
Yoo-Jeong Noh, Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL; and G. Liu and E. K. Seo

Poster PDF (470.3 kB)


Poster Session 4
Operational Products
Location: Exhibit Hall A2 (Georgia World Congress Center)
Host: 14th Conference on Satellite Meteorology and Oceanography
 
P4.1
Using multi-spectral satellite remote sensing techniques to nowcast nocturnal convection initiation
Wayne M. MacKenzie Jr., University of Alabama, Huntsville, AL; and J. R. Mecikalski and K. M. Bedka

 
P4.2
A hydrometeorological warning system for Mexico (HWS-Mex): A plan and its first stages of development
Jorge Sanchez-Sesma, Instituto Mexicano de Tecnologia del Agua, Jiutepec, Morelos, Mexico; and J. L. Perez-Lopez and M. A. Sosa Chiñas

 
P4.3
Statistical downscaling for GFS precipitation forecast over Sahel region based on Meteosat Second Generation rainfall estimates
Francesca Guarnieri, National Research Council, Firenze, Italy; and M. Pasqui, L. Genesio, S. Melani, and P. Vignaroli

 
P4.4
The current status of the NOAA/AMSU-based operational precipitation product
Ralph R. Ferraro, NOAA/NESDIS, College Park, MD; and C. Kongoli, P. Pellegrino, H. Meng, and F. Weng

 
P4.5
Application of the Hydro-Estimator rainfall algorithm over Hawaii
Robert J. Kuligowski, NOAA/NESDIS, Camp Springs, MD; and J. S. Im, J. C. Davenport, and R. A. Scofield

Poster PDF (243.9 kB)

 
P4.6
Calibration/Validation of NOAA-18 AMSU-A and MHS for the Microwave Surface and Precipitation Products System (MSPPS)
Huan Meng, QSS Group, Inc. Lanham, MD and NOAA/NESDIS/ORA, Camp Springs, MD; and L. Zhao, R. R. Ferraro, F. Weng, and Q. Liu

Poster PDF (232.5 kB)

 
P4.7
Recent Developments of Satellite Products on the FNMOC TC Web Page
Yiping Wang, FNMOC, Monterey, CA; and J. Tesmer, J. Lerner, and J. Vermeulen

Poster PDF (2.0 MB)

 
P4.8
Toward an objective satellite-based algorithm to provide real-time estimates of TC intensity using integrated multispectral (IR and MW) observations
Christopher Velden, CIMSS/Univ. of Wisconsin, Madison, WI; and J. P. Kossin, T. Olander, D. Herndon, A. Wimmers, R. Wacker, K. F. Brueske, B. Kabat, J. D. Hawkins, R. T. Edson, and M. DeMaria

Poster PDF (159.3 kB)

 
P4.9
A multi-platform satellite tropical cyclone wind analysis system
John A. Knaff, CIRA/Colorado State Univ., Ft. Collins, CO; and M. DeMaria

Poster PDF (1.2 MB)

 
P4.10
AVHRR/MODIS relative calibration bias estimates deduced from the SNO method: Uncertainties due to earth-scene inhomogeneities
Robert A. Iacovazzi Jr., Riverside Technology Inc., Fort Collins, CO; and C. Cao and P. Ciren

Poster PDF (379.5 kB)

 
P4.11
GOES sounder single field of view products
Jaime M. Daniels, NOAA/NESDIS, Camp Springs, MD; and G. E. Gray, G. S. Wade, T. J. Schmit, J. P. Nelson III, A. J. Schreiner, and C. Holland

Poster PDF (665.6 kB)

 
P4.12
The GOES Hybrid Microburst Index
Kenneth L. Pryor, NOAA/NESDIS, Camp Springs, MD

Poster PDF (770.3 kB)

 
P4.13
Recent innovations in deriving tropospheric winds from meteorological satellites
Christopher Velden, CIMSS/Univ. of Wisconsin, Madison, WI

 
P4.15
Polar Wind retrievals using the Advanced Microwave Sounding Unit
John F. Dostalek, CIRA, Ft. Collins, CO; and M. DeMaria

Poster PDF (141.9 kB)

 
P4.16
Satellite-derived wind, cloud, and surface products at Direct Broadcast sites in the Antarctic and Arctic
William Straka III, CIMSS/Univ. of Wisconsin, Madison, WI; and J. R. Key, M. A. Lazzara, D. Santek, L. E. Gumley, and K. I. Strabala

Poster PDF (315.8 kB)

 
P4.17
Polar cloud-detection algorithms for a real-time analysis and forecasting model
Robert P. D'Entremont, AER, Lexington, MA; and G. B. Gustafson

Poster PDF (1.1 MB)

 
P4.18
NASA-Langley web-based operational real-time cloud retrieval products from geostationary satellites
Rabindra Palikonda, AS&M, Hampton, VA; and D. Phan, M. M. Khaiyer, M. L. Nordeen, J. K. Ayers, D. A. Spangenberg, D. R. Doelling, Y. Yi, P. Minnis, L. Nguyen, Q. Trepte, and S. Sun-Mack

Poster PDF (1.5 MB)

 
P4.19
Integration of advanced satellite cloud products into an icing aircraft icing nowcasting system
Julie A. Haggerty, NCAR, Boulder, CO; and G. Cunning, B. Bernstein, M. Chapman, D. B. Johnson, M. Politovich, C. Wolff, P. Minnis, and R. Palikonda

Poster PDF (419.2 kB)

 
P4.20
Introducing the operational GOES imager Clear-Sky Brightness Temperature (CSBT) data products
Anthony J. Schreiner, CIMSS, Madison, WI; and J. A. Jung, T. J. Schmit, C. W. Holland, J. P. Nelson III, T. L. Olander, and W. P. Menzel

Poster PDF (311.6 kB)

 
P4.21
MISST – The Multi-sensor Improved Sea Surface Temperature for GODAE
Gary A. Wick, NOAA/ERL/ETL, Boulder, CO; and C. Gentemann, J. Cummings, and E. J. Bayler

 
P4.22
Geostationary Sea Surface Temperature Products (Current and Future)
Eileen Maturi, NOAA/NESDIS, Camp Springs, MD; and A. Harris, C. J. Merchant, X. Li, and R. Potash

Poster PDF (118.0 kB)

 
P4.23
An SST Satellite Match-up System
Dorlisa L. Hommel, Raytheon ITSS, Upper Marlboro, MD; and R. J. Sikorski

 
P4.24
A MODIS sea surface temperature composite product
Stephanie L. Haines, Univ. of Alabama, Huntsville, AL; and G. J. Jedlovec, S. M. Lazarus, and C. G. Calvert

Poster PDF (1.1 MB)

 
P4.25
Evaluation of the AMSU land surface temperature algorithm for skin and shelter-air temperature retrievals
Cezar E. Kongoli, QSS Group, Inc., Lanham, MD; and P. Pellegrino, F. Weng, C. Dean, and R. R. Ferraro

Poster PDF (294.3 kB)

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


Poster Session 1
Hydrologic applications of satellite data, including GRACE, AMSR-E, TRMM and MODIS
Location: Exhibit Hall A2 (Georgia World Congress Center)
Host: 20th Conference on Hydrology
Cochairs: Robert J. Kuligowski, NOAA/NESDIS; Matthew Rodell, NASA/GSFC
 
P1.1
Validation of ALEXI-derived volumetric soil moisture over the Continental United States.
Christopher R. Hain, Univ. of Alabama, Huntsville, AL; and J. R. Mecikalski and M. C. Anderson

 
P1.2
TRMM and Thailand Daily Gauge Rainfall Comparison
Roongroj Chokngamwong, George Mason Univ., Fairfax, VA; and L. S. Chiu

Poster PDF (356.2 kB)

 
P1.3
Statewide estimation of potential and reference evapotranspiration in Florida
John R. Mecikalski, University of Alabama in Huntsville, Huntsville, AL; and J. Jacobs, D. Sumner, and S. J. Paech

 
P1.4
Impact of new land boundary conditions from MODIS data on the climatology of land surface variables
Yuhong Tian, IMSG at NOAA/NESDIS; and R. Dickinson, L. Zhou, and M. Shaikh

 
P1.5
An Evaluation of Daily Disaggregated Precipitation from Monthly Gauge Analyses
Yelena S. Yarosh, Wyle Information Systems and NOAA/NWS/NCEP/CPC, Camp Springs, MD; and J. Janowiak


Poster Session 1
The Observation, Modeling, Theory, and Prediction of Severe Convective Storms and Their Attendant Hazards
Location: Exhibit Hall A2 (Georgia World Congress Center)
Host: Symposium on the Challenges of Severe Convective Storms
 
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

Poster PDF (191.0 kB)

 
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 Jr., 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

Poster PDF (234.3 kB)

 
P1.4
A quantitative analysis of the enhanced-V signature in relation to severe weather
Jason C. Brunner, CIMSS/Univ. of Wisconsin, Madison, WI; and S. A. Ackerman, A. S. Bachmeier, and R. M. Rabin

Poster PDF (557.6 kB)

 
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

Poster PDF (360.2 kB)

 
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

Poster PDF (46.4 kB)

 
P1.9
 
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., NCAR, Boulder, CO; and L. Bosart

Poster PDF (920.6 kB)

 
P1.12
Meteorological aspects of high-impact tornado outbreaks
Gregory S. Forbes, The Weather Channel, Atlanta, GA

Poster PDF (1.7 MB)

 
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

Poster PDF (1.2 MB)

 
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

Poster PDF (227.9 kB)

 
P1.16
Adiabatic lapse rates in tornadic environments
Matthew D. Parker, North Carolina State Univ., Raleigh, NC

Poster PDF (320.8 kB)

 
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 III 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 III

Poster PDF (1.4 MB)

 
P1.19
Reconstructing the frequency of tornado occurrence in the central United States
Matthew J. Menne, NOAA/NESDIS/NCDC, Asheville, NC

Poster PDF (298.9 kB)

 
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

Poster PDF (541.9 kB)

 
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

Poster PDF (379.8 kB)

 
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

Poster PDF (919.2 kB)

 
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

Poster PDF (374.5 kB)

 
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

Poster PDF (1.8 MB)

 
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

Poster PDF (136.1 kB)

 
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

Poster PDF (826.2 kB)

 
P1.31
An examination of three Derecho events during the first week of July 2003 concurrent with BAMEX
Nicholas D. Metz, Hobart and William Smith Colleges, Geneva, NY; and L. Bosart

Poster PDF (1.8 MB)

 
P1.32
An examination of the long-lived MCV of 10-13 June 2003
Thomas J. Galarneau Jr., NCAR, Boulder, CO; and L. Bosart

Poster PDF (1.2 MB)

 
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, Self Employed, Longmont, CO; and J. Basara and E. D. Mitchell

Poster PDF (2.8 MB)

 
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

Poster PDF (1.8 MB)

 
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


Poster Session 2
GOES-R Posters
Location: Exhibit Hall A2 (Georgia World Congress Center)
Host: Second Symposium: Toward a Global Earth Observation System of Systems—Future National Operational Environmental Satellite Systems
 
P2.1
Synergism of ABI and HES for Atmospheric and Cloud Products
Jun Li, CIMSS/Univ. of Wisconsin, Madison, WI; and C. Y. Liu, T. J. Schmit, J. J. Gurka, and W. P. Menzel

 
P2.2
GOES-R Lightning Mapper (GLM) Research and Applications Risk Reduction
Steven J. Goodman, NASA/MSFC, Huntsville, AL; and R. Blakeslee, D. Boccippio, H. Christian, W. Koshak, and W. A. Petersen


Poster Session 2
Hydrology Posters
Location: Exhibit Hall A2 (Georgia World Congress Center)
Host: 20th Conference on Hydrology
 
P2.1
Validation of Operational NESDIS Algorithms against NexRAD Stage IV and Hourly Rain Gauges
Kallol Ganguli, Co Operative Remote Sensing Science and Technology Centre (CREST), New York, NY; and D. S. Mahani and D. R. Khanbilvardi

 
P2.2
Flash Flood Guidance enhancement at the Middle Atlantic River Forecast Center
Kevin P. Hlywiak, NOAA/NWS, State College, PA; and D. H. Zanzalari, J. T. Ostrowski, D. A. Solano, P. R. Ahnert, and P. A. Jung

 
P2.4
Automated real-time operational rain gauge quality control tools in NWS hydrologic operations
Chandra R. Kondragunta, NOAA/NWS, Silver Spring, MD; and K. Shrestha

Poster PDF (438.8 kB)

 
P2.5
Study on Key Technologies of Flood Forecasting System in China
Lingli Wang, George Mason Univ., fairfax, va; and S. Zhang and J. Qu

 
P2.7
Streamflow characteristics and changes in Kolyma basin in Siberia
Ipshita Majhi, Univ. of Alaska, Fairbanks, AK; and D. Yang

Poster PDF (68.4 kB)

 
P2.8
The HydroMet Decision Support System: New applications in operational hydrology
J. William Conway, Weather Decision Technologies, Inc., Norman, OK; and C. Barrere and M. D. Eilts

Poster PDF (2.2 MB)

 
P2.9
The hydrological cycle over the Amazon: how well is it assimilated in ERA-40?
Katia D. Fernandes, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Georgia; and R. Fu

 
P2.10
Incorporating GIS data into a LIS environment for use with a predictive distributed runoff model for the country of Romania
Tom K. Burnet, Baron Advanced Meteorological Systems, Candler, NC; and J. McHenry

 
P2.11
Land surface data assimilation into an atmospheric forecast model using an ensemble Kalman filter approach
Andrew A. Taylor, Univ. of Oklahoma, Norman, OK; and L. M. Leslie and D. J. Stensrud

 
P2.12
Applying WSR-88 Radar Rainfall on Short Time Scales to Hydrological Modeling of a Small Basin in Florida
Harry J. Cooper, Florida State Univ., Tallahassee, FL; and H. E. Fuelberg, T. S. Wu, D. Gilbert, J. Mandrup-Poulsen, R. J. Lanier, A. I. Watson, and J. Sullivan

Poster PDF (83.1 kB)

 
P2.13
Evaluating winter season precipitation type in the Baltimore/Washington NWSFO region
Michelle Farver, Howard Univ., Washington, DC; and G. S. Jenkins

Poster PDF (102.3 kB)

 
P2.14
Soil Water Content Simulations Using a Simple Balance Model in the Wet Pampas
María I. Gassmann Sr., Dpto. de Cs. de la Atmósfera y los Océanos - Universidad de Buenos Aires, Ciudad de Buenos Aires, Argentina; and J. M. Gardiol and L. Serio Jr.

Poster PDF (185.3 kB)


Poster Session 2
IIPS Poster Session II
Location: Exhibit Hall A2 (Georgia World Congress Center)
Host: 22nd International Conference on Interactive Information Processing Systems for Meteorology, Oceanography, and Hydrology
Cochairs: Stephen M. Holt, Mitretek Systems; Scott T. Shipley, Raytheon Information Solutions
 
P2.1
A update on MADIS emphasizing observations added to support advances in transportation weather
Patricia A. Miller, NOAA/ERL/FSL, Boulder, CO; and M. F. Barth and L. A. Benjamin

 
P2.2
Preliminary evaluation of the GIFTS calibration algorithm using the GIPS
Robert O. Knuteson, CIMSS/Univ. of Wisconsin, Madison, WI; and R. Garcia, E. Olson, H. Revercomb, M. Smuga-Otto, and D. Tobin

Poster PDF (473.6 kB)

 
P2.3
Improving the Efficiency of Neural Network Retrieval of Soil Moisture from Active Microwave Data
Tarendra Lakhankar, NOAA/CREST and The City Univ. of New York, New York, NY; and H. Ghedira and R. Khanbilvardi

 
P2.4
The Atmospheric Composition Data and Information Services Center (ACDISC)
Irina Gerasimov, NASA/GSFC, Greenbelt, MD; and S. Kempler, G. Leptoukh, S. P. Ahmad, and J. E. Johnson

Poster PDF (1.6 MB)

 
P2.5
Use of Smart Tools in GFESuite to Forecast the North and Central Georgia Ice Storm of 28–30 January 2005
Steven E. Nelson, NOAA/NWSFO, Peachtree City, GA; and G. M. Beeley

Poster PDF (302.1 kB)

 
P2.6
Poster P2.6 moved. New paper number is 6.5A

 
P2.7
WSR-88D monitoring of shallow lake-effect snowstorms over and around Lake Ontario: Simulations of improvements using lower elevation angles
Rodger A. Brown, NOAA/NSSL, Norman, OK; and T. Niziol, N. Donaldson, P. Joe, and V. T. Wood

Poster PDF (2.2 MB)

 
P2.9
Poster P2.9 moved. New Paper number 11.5A

 
9.3A
NEXRAD-ITR: Developing a framework for use of NEXRAD data in hydrology and hydrometeorology
Anton Kruger, The Univ. of Iowa, Iowa City, IA; and A. A. Bradley, W. F. Krajewski, R. E. Lawrence, J. A. Smith, M. L. Baeck, M. Steiner, M. K. Ramamurthy, J. Weber, S. A. Del Greco, F. M. V. Murthy, and D. Dhutia
 
P2.11
New Features of the VCPExplorer: Simulated Precipitation
Kevin L. Manross, CIMMS/Univ. of Oklahoma and NOAA/NSSL, Norman, OK; and J. LaDue

Poster PDF (476.3 kB)

 
P2.12
Exploring Distributed Ocean Profile Datasets with Java OceanAtlas and Dapper
John R. Osborne, OceanAtlas Software and NOAA/PMEL, Seattle, WA; and J. Swift

 
P2.13
Dchart: A Remote Scripting Web Application for In-Situ OPeNDAP Data
Joe Sirott, Sirott and Associates, Seattle, WA

 
P2.14
Geostationary interferometer 24-hour simulated dataset for testing processing and calibration algorithms
Erik R. Olson, CIMSS/Univ. of Wisconsin, Madison, WI; and J. Otkin, R. Knuteson, M. Smuga-Otto, R. Garcia, W. Feltz, H. L. Huang, C. Velden, and L. Moy

Poster PDF (1.8 MB)

 
P2.15
Using a low-order model to characterize tornadoes in multiple-Doppler radar data
Corey K. Potvin, Univ. of Oklahoma, Norman, OK; and A. M. Shapiro, T. Y. Yu, and M. Xue

Poster PDF (194.1 kB)


Poster Session 2
IOAS - AOLS Poster Session 2
Location: Exhibit Hall A2 (Georgia World Congress Center)
Host: 10th Symposium on Integrated Observing and Assimilation Systems for the Atmosphere, Oceans, and Land Surface (IOAS-AOLS)
 
P2.2
Comparison of LST from AIRS and MODIS from the EOS Aqua platform
Robert O. Knuteson, CIMSS/Univ. of Wisconsin, Madison, WI; and J. Cychosz, S. C. Lee, H. Revercomb, D. Tobin, and K. Vinson

Poster PDF (298.5 kB)

 
P2.3
A physical method for evaluation of boundary layer height from lidar observations
Segayle Walford, Howard University, Washington, DC; and B. Demoz and E. Joseph

 
P2.4
A global infrared land surface emissivity database
Suzanne Wetzel Seemann, CIMSS/Univ. of Wisconsin, Madison, WI; and E. Borbas, R. O. Knuteson, H. L. Huang, and W. P. Menzel

 
P2.5
Experimental Cases of an Arctic System Reanalysis
Xingang Fan, Univ. of Alaska, Fairbanks, AK; and J. E. Walsh, J. R. Krieger, and J. S. Tilley

 
P2.6
Evaluation of the WVSS-II moisture sensor using co-located in-situ and remotely sensed observations
Ralph A. Petersen, CIMSS/Univ. of Wisconsin, Madison, WI; and W. F. Feltz, E. Olson, and S. Bedka

Poster PDF (144.8 kB)

 
P2.7
Monitoring of GLFE TAMDAR at the Canadian Meteorological Centre
Yulia Zaitseva, Canadian Meteorological Centre, Dorval, PQ, Canada; and G. Verner and R. Sarrazin

Poster PDF (414.0 kB)

 
P2.8
Assessing two different commercial aircraft-based sensing systems
Ralph A. Petersen, CIMSS/Univ. of Wisconsin, Madison, WI; and W. R. Moninger

Poster PDF (354.3 kB)

 
P2.9
Overview of the Great Lakes Fleet Experiment Supplemental PIREP Program
Jamie T. Braid, NCAR, Boulder, CO; and R. S. Collander, P. Boylan, W. R. Moninger, and B. G. Brown

 
P2.10
A Preliminary Comparison of TAMDAR Aircraft and NWS Radiosonde Sounding Data
Eugene S. Brusky, NOAA/NWS, Green Bay, WI; and S. Luchs

 
P2.11
Highlights of the TAMDAR AERIbago Validation Experiment (TAVE) in Memphis, Tennessee
Wayne F. Feltz, CIMSS/Univ. of Wisconsin, Madison, WI; and E. Olson, S. Bedka, K. Bedka, J. Short, and T. S. Daniels

Poster PDF (2.0 MB)

 
P2.12
TAMDAR thermodynamic and dynamic state validation using rawinsonde data from TAVE
Sarah Bedka, CIMSS/Univ. of Wisconsin, Madison, WI; and W. F. Feltz, E. R. Olson, R. A. Petersen, and K. M. Bedka

Poster PDF (150.8 kB)


Poster Session 2
Observed seasonal to interannual climate variability and climate applications
Location: Exhibit Hall A2 (Georgia World Congress Center)
Host: 18th Conference on Climate Variability and Change
 
P2.1
Relationships between Changes in Annual Frequency of Heavy Precipitation in Japan and ENSO
Hironori Higashi, National Research Institute for Earth Science and Disaster Prevention, Tsukuba, Ibaraki, Japan; and T. Matsuura

Poster PDF (254.0 kB)

 
P2.2
Development of nor'easters during El Niño years
Lynne M. Hoppe, United States Naval Academy, Annapolis, MD; and D. R. Smith

Poster PDF (2.2 MB)

 
P2.3
ENSO signal in wind roses across the southeast United States
Joanne C. Culin, Florida State Univ., Tallahassee, FL; and P. W. Leftwich Jr. and J. J. O'Brien

 
P2.6
Dynamics of the Eastern Pacific Intertropical Convergence Zone
Violeta E. Toma, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA; and P. J. Webster

 
P2.7
Empirical Study of Atmospheric Responses to the Tropical SST Forcing
Qigang Wu, Univ. of Oklahoma, Norman, OK; and D. J. Karoly

 
P2.8
The Daily Cycle in and below the Lower Troposphere Along the Gulf of California During the North American Monsoon
Leslie M. Hartten, CIRES/Univ. of Colorado and NOAA/AL, Boulder, CO; and C. W. King and R. J. Zamora

 
P2.10
Poster P2.10 has been moved, New number is Paper 1.5A

 
P2.12
 
P2.13
Development of climate monitoring indices for California
Laura M. Edwards, DRI, Reno, NV; and K. T. Redmond

 
P2.14
Detection of local climate change
Nazario D. Ramirez-Beltran, Univ. of Puerto Rico, Mayaguez, Puerto Rico, PR; and O. Julcas

Poster PDF (985.9 kB)

 
P2.16
Analysis of surface heating trends from 1994 to 2004 using Oklahoma Mesonet data
Scott E. Stevens, Oklahoma Climatological Survey, Norman, OK; and B. G. Illston and J. B. Basara

Poster PDF (245.9 kB)

 
P2.17
Trends and Variability in Long-term Precipitation over the Mississippi Region
R. Suseela Reddy, Jackson State Univ., Jackson, MS; and P. Chigbu and M. M. Watts

 
P2.19
Precipitation Estimation in Canada using Archival Climate Data
William A. Van Wijngaarden, York University, Toronto, ON, Canada

Poster PDF (291.7 kB)

 
P2.20
Characterization of land surface properties of active dust sources using MODIS and MISR data.
Drexel G. Waggoner, SRA International, Macon, GA; and D. I. N. Sokolik

 
P2.21
The 2003 Australian bushfires: A case study
L.M. Tryhorn, Monash Univ., Clayton, Victoria, Australia


Poster Session 9
Aircraft Icing Posters
Location: Exhibit Hall A2 (Georgia World Congress Center)
Host: 12th Conference on Aviation Range and Aerospace Meteorology
 
P9.1
Progress in the development of practical remote detection of icing conditions
Andrew L. Reehorst, NASA Glenn Research Center, Cleveland, OH; and M. K. Politovich, S. Zednik, G. A. Isaac, and S. Cober

Poster PDF (1.9 MB)

 
P9.2
Supercooled cloud scale length and correlative relationships
Charles C. Ryerson, EDRC/CRREL, Hanover, NH; and G. G. Koenig, C. L. Scott, and E. V. Phetteplace

Poster PDF (306.1 kB)

 
P9.3
Satellite cloud products for air weather safety applications in remote areas
P. Minnis, NASA Langley Research Center, Hampton, VA; and L. Nguyen, W. L. Smith, Jr., J. J. Murray, D. A. Spangenberg, R. Palikonda, and Q. Trepte

Poster PDF (2.3 MB)

 
P9.4
Comparison of NASA Icing Remote Sensing System and Balloonsonde Measurements at AIRS II
David J. Brinker, NASA Glenn Research Center, Cleveland, OH; and A. L. Reehorst

 
P9.5
The new CIP icing severity product
Ben C. Bernstein, NCAR, Boulder, CO; and F. McDonough, C. A. Wolff, M. K. Politovich, G. Cunning, S. Mueller, and S. Zednik

Poster PDF (2.0 MB)

 
P9.7
Parameterizating Convective Vertical Motions for Aircraft Icing Forecasts
Donald W. McCann, McCann Aviation Weather Research, Inc., Overland Park, KS

Poster PDF (205.1 kB)

 
P9.8
Point comparisons of research aircraft data to GOES-derived cloud products
Cory A. Wolff, NCAR, Boulder, CO; and J. A. Haggerty

Poster PDF (249.0 kB)


Formal Poster Viewing with Coffee Break (W2)

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


Poster Session 4
Modeling and Prediction of Air-Sea Interaction
Location: Exhibit Hall A2 (Georgia World Congress Center)
Host: 14th Conference on Interaction of the Sea and Atmosphere
Cochairs: Todd D. Sikora, Millersville Univ.; Niklas Schneider, IPRC/Univ. of Hawaii
 
P4.1
Predicting significant wave height off the northeast coast of the United States
Edgar L. Andreas, U.S. Army Cold Regions Research and Engineering Laboratory, Hanover, NH; and S. Wang

Poster PDF (228.1 kB)

 
P4.2
The feedback between entrainment flux and sea surface temperature
Jeremiah Brown, Florida State Univ., Tallahassee, FL; and C. A. Clayson

Poster PDF (163.9 kB)

 
P4.3
A Lagrangian turbulent transport model of evolving sea-spray droplets over water waves
James A. Mueller, Univ. of Delaware, Newark, DE; and F. Veron

Poster PDF (302.6 kB)

 
P4.4
Influences of sea spray and wave drag on midlatitude storm structure and intensity
Weiqing Zhang, Bedford Institute of Oceanography, Dartmouth, NS, Canada; and W. Perrie and W. Li

Poster PDF (407.3 kB)

 
P4.5
Synergism between a nonlinear PBL model and satellite wind data
R. A. Brown, Univ. of Washington, Seattle, WA; and J. Patoux and R. Foster

Poster PDF (958.1 kB)

 
P4.6
Numerical Prediction of Wind Waves and Related Air-Sea Fluxes
Leonel Romero, SIO/Univ. of California, La Jolla, CA; and J. M. Kleiss and W. K. Melville

 
P4.7
The contribution of wave breaking to air-sea interaction
Jessica M. Kleiss, SIO/Univ. of California, La Jolla, CA; and L. Romero and W. K. Melville

 
P4.8
A New Advection Scheme for Calculating the Long Distance Transport of Water Vapor
Jiqing Tan Sr., Zhejiang Univ., Zhejiang, China; and Y. YU and D. Qi

Poster PDF (125.3 kB)

2:30 PM-4:45 PM: Wednesday, 1 February 2006


Poster Session 1
Poster Session
Location: Exhibit Hall A2 (Georgia World Congress Center)
Host: 14th Joint Conference on the Applications of Air Pollution Meteorology with the Air and Waste Management Assoc
 
P1.1
Quantifying the Effect of Humidity on Aerosol Scattering with a Raman Lidar
Raymond Rogers, JCET/Univ. of Maryland, Baltimore, MD; and K. McCann and R. M. Hoff

Poster PDF (52.8 kB)

 
P1.2
Integrating real-time airborne Doppler Lidar wind and aerosol measurements with operational mesoscale and dispersion models
George D. Emmitt, Simpson Weather Associates, Charlottesville, VA; and S. A. Wood and S. Greco

Poster PDF (304.6 kB)

 
P1.4
Dust observations in El Paso, Texas during the 2005 North American Monsoon season
Karina Apodaca, Howard Univ., Washington, DC; and V. R. Morris

 
P1.6
Aerosol Index from TOMS and OMI Measurements
Suraiya P. Ahmad, NASA/GSFC, Greenbelt, MD; and O. Torres, P. K. Bhartia, G. G. Leptoukh, and S. J. Kempler

Poster PDF (585.9 kB)

 
P1.7
Analyzing aerosols over the U.S. in near real-time with MODIS
Anthony Wimmers, CIMSS/Univ. of Wisconsin, Madison, WI; and A. S. Bachmeier, S. Lindstrom, J. Robaidek, W. Bellon, K. Strabala, N. Kumar, and C. Kittaka

Poster PDF (289.9 kB)

 
P1.8
Surface layer counter-gradient motion in and around an urban area
Cheryl L. Klipp, U.S. Army Research Laboratory, Adelphi, MD; and Y. Wang, S. Chang, C. Williamson, G. Huynh, and D. Garvey

Poster PDF (1.9 MB)

 
P1.8
Sensitivity of WRF/Chem Predictions to Meteorological Schemes
Chris Misenis, North Carolina State Univ., Raleigh, NC; and X. Hu, S. Krishnan, Y. Zhang, and J. D. Fast

Poster PDF (166.3 kB)

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


Poster Session 10
Range and Aerospace Posters
Location: Exhibit Hall A2 (Georgia World Congress Center)
Host: 12th Conference on Aviation Range and Aerospace Meteorology
 
P10.1
Environmental impacts to responsive space launch at the Eastern and Western Ranges
Sheryl F. Thorp, Boston College/AFRL, Hanscom AFB, MA

 
P10.2
Recent Weather Support Improvement Initiatives by the 45th Weather Squadron
William P. Roeder, 45th Weather Squadron, Patrick AFB, FL; and J. Weems and W. H. Bauman III

Poster PDF (937.9 kB)

 
P10.3
Implementing the VAHIRR algorithm on the NEXRAD ORPG and AWIPS
Robert Gillen, ENSCO Inc., Cocoa Beach, FL; and F. J. Merceret and J. Miller

Poster PDF (164.3 kB)

 
P10.5
A weather decision aid for Unmanned Aerial Vehicle missions
David I. Knapp, U.S. Army Research Laboratory, White Sands Missile Range, NM; and J. Raby, E. Measure, R. C. Brown, and V. Gupta

Poster PDF (1.4 MB)

 
P10.6
A Worldwide Three-Dimensional Cloud Analysis System
Michael A. Kelly, Johns Hopkins Univ., Laurel, MD; and D. B. Holland, P. J. McEvaddy, and M. G. Taylor

 
P10.7
The atmospheric turbulence at the Alcantara Space Center, Brazil
Gilberto F. Fisch, Centro Tecnico Aeroespacial, Sao Jose dos Campos, SP, Brazil

 
P10.8
Spatial properties of wind differences in the lowest three kilometers of the atmosphere
Francis J. Merceret, NASA, Kennedy Space Center, FL; and J. G. Ward

Poster PDF (358.3 kB)

 
P10.9
An updated warm-season convective wind climatology for Cape Canaveral Air Force Station/Kennedy Space Center
Andrew N. Loconto, Plymouth State Univ., Plymouth, NH; and J. P. Koermer and W. P. Roeder

Poster PDF (550.2 kB)

2:45 PM-3:46 PM: Wednesday, 1 February 2006


Session 4
Anniversary Years
Location: A310 (Georgia World Congress Center)
Host: Ninth Atmospheric Science Librarians International Conference: Atmospheric Sciences Libraries and Their Importance for Patrons
Moderator: Maria A. Latyszewskyj, Environment Canada Library, Head
  3:05 PM
4.2
International Polar Year (IPY) - History of the IPY
Judie Triplehorn, Keith B. Mather Library, Geophysical Institue, International Arctic Research Center, Fairbanks, AK
  3:25 PM
4.3
Imaging Project and Bibliography of IPY Material
Doria B. Grimes, NOAA Central Library, Silver Spring, MD
  3:45 PM
4.3a
Exhibits Open until 7:30 p.m.

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


Sessions end for the day (W)

4:00 PM-5:15 PM: Wednesday, 1 February 2006


Session 4
Goes-R: Part II
Location: A302 (Georgia World Congress Center)
Host: Second Symposium: Toward a Global Earth Observation System of Systems—Future National Operational Environmental Satellite Systems
Cochairs: Gary K. Davis, NOAA/NESDIS; James J. Gurka, NOAA/NESDIS
  4:00 PM
4.2
User Readiness Issues for GOES-R
James Gurka, NOAA/NESDIS, Silver Spring, MD; and T. J. Schmit, A. Mosetek, and R. W. Reynolds
  4:15 PM
4.3
Serving Society with GOES-R Solar and Space Environment Data
Howard J. Singer, NOAA/NWS, Boulder, CO; and S. Hill, T. Onsager, R. Viereck, and D. Biesecker
  4:30 PM
4.4
GOES-R Data Dissemination
Timothy J. Schmit, NOAA/NESDIS, Madison, WI; and T. Walsh, R. W. Heymann, and J. Gurka
  4:45 PM
4.4A
Concluding Remarks


Session 8
LAND-SURFACE OBSERVATIONS, INCLUDING URBAN AREA: SURFACE CHARACTERISTICS, SURFACE FLUXES AND THEIR EFFECT ON BOUNDARY LAYER DEPTH; APPLICATIONS IN PUBLIC HEALTH, TRANSPORT MODELS, AND EMERGENCY RESPONSE: Part 2
Location: A405 (Georgia World Congress Center)
Host: 10th Symposium on Integrated Observing and Assimilation Systems for the Atmosphere, Oceans, and Land Surface (IOAS-AOLS)
Organizer: Marjorie McGuirk, NOAA/NESDIS/NCDC
  4:15 PM
8.2
Reprocessing of Historic Hydrometeorological Automated Data System (HADS) precipitation data
Dongsoo Kim, NOAA/NESDIS/NCDC, Asheville, NC; and B. R. Nelson and L. Cedrone
  4:30 PM
8.3
Influences of MODIS landuse data on a Gulf Coast sea breeze simulation
Valentine Anantharaj, Mississippi State University, Mississippi State, MS; and P. J. Fitzpatrick, Y. Li, R. King, and E. Johnson
  4:45 PM
8.4
An Albedo Dataset Derived from MODIS for Use in Climate Models Over Northern Africa and the Arabian Peninsula
Liming Zhou, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA; and R. E. Dickinson and Y. Tian

4:00 PM-5:30 PM: Wednesday, 1 February 2006


Joint Session 1
Calibration and Verification of Probabilistic Forecast Products (Joint between 12th Conference on Aviation, Range, and Aerospace Meteorology and the 18th Conference on Probability and Statistics)
Location: A304 (Georgia World Congress Center)
Hosts: (Joint between the 12th Conference on Aviation Range and Aerospace Meteorology; and the 18th Conference on Probability and Statistics in the Atmospheric Sciences )
Cochairs: Joseph T. Schaefer, NOAA/NWS/NCEP/SPC; Jennifer Mahoney, NOAA/FSL
  4:00 PM
J1.1
An evaluation of impacts of grid resolution on the verification of aviation weather forecasts
Michael B. Chapman, NCAR, Boulder, CO; and B. G. Brown and A. Takacs
  4:15 PM
J1.2
An approach for calibration of probabilistic forecasts with limited observational data
Barbara G. Brown, NCAR, Boulder, CO; and B. C. Bernstein

  4:30 PM
J1.3
Collaborative Convective Forecast Product (CCFP) Issuance Analysis
Stacey Seseske, CIRES/Univ. of Colorado, Boulder, CO; and J. E. Hart
  4:45 PM
J1.4
Quality Assessment of the National Ceiling and Visibility Analysis Product
Tressa L. Fowler, NCAR, Boulder, CO; and M. Pocernich, J. T. Braid, A. Holmes, and R. E. Bateman
  5:00 PM
J1.5
  5:15 PM
J1.6

Session 4
Numerical Modeling of Severe Convective Storms
Location: A410 (Georgia World Congress Center)
Host: Symposium on the Challenges of Severe Convective Storms
Organizer: David C. Dowell, CIMMS
  4:00 PM
4.1
The History of the Numerical Modeling of Severe Convective Storms
Robert B. Wilhelmson, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL
  4:30 PM
4.2
Severe local storms and computational science: What's next?
Louis J. Wicker, NOAA/NSSL, Norman, OK

  5:00 PM
4.3
Discussion


Joint Session 6
Air-Sea Exchange of Trace Gases (Joint between the 14th Conference on Interaction of the Sea and Atmosphere, the 8th Conference on Atmospheric Chemistry, and the AMS Forum on Managing our Physical and Natural Resources: Success and Challenges)
Location: A309 (Georgia World Congress Center)
Hosts: (Joint between the 14th Conference on Interaction of the Sea and Atmosphere; the Eighth Conference on Atmospheric Chemistry; and the AMS Forum: Managing our Physical and Natural Resources: Successes and Challenges )
Cochairs: Edgar L. Andreas, U.S. Army Cold Regions Research and Engineering Laboratory; Steven Hanna, Harvard Univ.
  4:30 PM
J6.2
Using DMS as a model gas for studying air sea gas exchange via eddy covariance
Barry J. Huebert, Univ. of Hawaii, Honolulu, HI; and B. W. Blomquist
  4:45 PM
J6.3
Water-side Turbulence Enhancement of Ozone Deposition to the Ocean
C. W. Fairall, NOAA/ETL, Boulder, CO; and D. Helmig, J. E. Hare, and L. Ganzveld
  5:00 PM
J6.4
Marine storm impacts on bubbles and air-sea exchange of gases
Weiqing Zhang, Bedford Institute of Oceanography, Dartmouth, NS, Canada; and W. Perrie and S. Vagle
  5:15 PM
J6.5

Session 7
Environmental Applications
Location: A305 (Georgia World Congress Center)
Host: 14th Conference on Satellite Meteorology and Oceanography
Chair: John V. Zapotocny, Air Force Weather Agency
  4:00 PM
7.1
Integration of Satellite, Modeled, and Ground Based Aerosol Data for use in Air Quality and Public Health Applications
Valerie Garcia, US EPA, Research Triangle Park, NC; and S. Kondragunta, R. M. Hoff, S. Tinkle, S. T. Rao, G. Thurston, D. Holland, J. Szykman, J. Engel-Cox, J. Al-Saadi, and L. A. Remer
  4:30 PM
7.2
Satellite derived products to enhance aviation nowcasting of convection, turbulence, and volcanic ash
Wayne F. Feltz, CIMSS/Univ. of Wisconsin, Madison, WI; and K. Bedka, A. Wimmers, M. Pavolonis, S. Bedka, S. A. Ackerman, J. R. Mecikalski, J. J. Murray, and D. B. Johnson
  4:45 PM
7.3
FORMOST-3/COSMIC mission to global earth weather monitoring, operation, and TACC/CDAAC post-processing
Bor-Han Wu, National Space Organization (NSPO), Hsin-Chu, Taiwan; and C. J. Fong, C. Y. Huang, Y. A. Liou, N. Yen, and P. Chen
  5:00 PM
7.4
The Role of Satellite-derived Cloud Climatologies in Deep-space to Ground Laser Communications
Gary S. Wojcik, Northrop Grumman TASC, Chantilly, VA; and H. L. Szymczak, R. J. Alliss, and M. L. Mason
  5:15 PM
7.5
Smoking Pyrocumulonimbus: observations from MODIS, MISR, AVHRR, DMSP, GOES and TOMS
Michael Fromm, NRL, Washington, DC; and R. Servranckx, S. D. Miller, J. Turk, and B. J. Stocks

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


Pre-AMS Banquet Reception in the Exhibit Hall

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


Reception in the Exhibit Hall (Cash Bar)

6:00 PM-6:00 PM: Wednesday, 1 February 2006


Annual Group Dinner

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

Thur 2 Feb

8:30 AM-9:30 AM: Thursday, 2 February 2006


Joint Session 7
DEVELOPMENT OF TOOLS TO ASSIST EMERGENCY RESPONDERS IN THE CASE OF RELEASES OF GASES AND SMALL PARTICLES WITHIN URBAN AREAS II (JOINT WITH 6th Symposium on the Urban Environment and FORUM ON MANAGING OUR PHYSICAL AND NATURAL RESOURCES)
Location: A312 (Georgia World Congress Center)
Hosts: (Joint between the Sixth Symposium on the Urban Environment; and the AMS Forum: Managing our Physical and Natural Resources: Successes and Challenges )
CoChair: Steven R. Hanna, Harvard Univ.
  8:30 AM
J7.1
Analysis of Joint Urban 2003 (JU2003) and Madison Square Garden 2005 (MSG05) meteorological and tracer data
Steven R. Hanna, Harvard Univ., Boston, MA; and J. White, Y. Zhou, and A. Kosheleva
  9:00 AM
J7.3
Interactive modeling and sensing in urban settings
James Cogan, Army Research Laboratory, White Sands Missile Range, NM; and R. Dumais, Y. Wang, and M. Torres
  9:15 AM
J7.4
Development and Application of CFD Simulations Supporting Urban Air Quality and Homeland Security
Alan H. Huber, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, North Carolina; and M. Freeman, R. Spencer, B. Bell, K. Kuehlert, and W. Schwarz

8:30 AM-9:45 AM: Thursday, 2 February 2006


Joint Session 3
Air Quality Forecasting (Joint with the 8th Conference on Atmospheric Chemistry and 14th Joint Conference on the Application of Air Pollution with the A&WMA)
Location: A408 (Georgia World Congress Center)
Hosts: (Joint between the 14th Joint Conference on the Applications of Air Pollution Meteorology with the Air and Waste Management Assoc; and the Eighth Conference on Atmospheric Chemistry )
Chair: Daewon W. Byun, Univ. of Houston
  8:30 AM
J3.1
The WRF_Chemistry Air Quality Model: Updates and Online/Offline Comparisons
Georg Grell, NOAA/ERL/FSL and CIRES/ Univ. of Colorado, Boulder, CO; and S. E. Peckham, S. A. McKeen, and W. C. Skamarock

  8:45 AM
J3.2
Evaluation of WRF-chemistry air quality simulations for NEAQS2004
Steven E. Peckham, CIRES/Univ. of Colorado and NOAA/FSL, Boulder, CO; and G. Grell, S. A. McKeen, and J. M. Wilczak

  9:00 AM
J3.3
Implementation and testing of a new aerosol module in WRF/chem
Xiaoming Hu, North Carolina State Univ., Raleigh, NC; and Y. Zhang
  9:15 AM
J3.4
Comparison of Two Transport Descriptors within a Hybrid Receptor Modeling System
John M. Shuford, ENSCO Inc., Melbourne, FL; and J. G. Eoll, S. L. Seely, W. G. Moore, and J. G. Dreher
  9:30 AM
J3.5
Ensemble Kalman filter data assimilation for improved chemical tracer forecasts in a 2-D sea breeze model (Foremerly J10.10)
Amy L. Stuart, Univ. of South Florida, Tampa, FL; and A. Aksoy, J. W. Nielsen-Gammon, and F. Zhang


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)
Location: A302 (Georgia World Congress Center)
Hosts: (Joint between the The Doug Lilly Symposium; and the Symposium on the Challenges of Severe Convective Storms )
Chair: Frederick H. Carr, Univ. of Oklahoma
  8:30 AM
J3.1
Welcoming Remarks


Session 8
Operational Products
Location: A305 (Georgia World Congress Center)
Host: 14th Conference on Satellite Meteorology and Oceanography
Chair: Gerald Dittberner, NOAA/NESDIS
  8:30 AM
8.1
A daily blended analysis for sea surface temperature
Richard W. Reynolds, NOAA/NESDIS/NCDC, Asheville, NC; and K. S. Casey, T. M. Smith, and D. B. Chelton
  9:00 AM
8.2
Retrieval of cloud phase over the Arctic using MODIS 6.7-12 micron data
Douglas Spangenberg, NASA Langley Research Center, Hampton, VA; and M. Shupe, M. R. Poellot, and P. Minnis
  9:15 AM
8.3
Nowcasting aircraft icing conditions using GOES-derived cloud products
Cory A. Wolff, NCAR, Boulder, CO; and B. C. Bernstein and F. McDonough
  9:30 AM
8.4
GOES single FOV total column ozone: Development and Initial Results
John A. Knox, University of Georgia, Athens, GA; and C. C. Schmidt

8:30 AM-11:30 AM: Thursday, 2 February 2006


Session 9
Advances in 0–6 Hour Forecasting for Aviation
Location: A301 (Georgia World Congress Center)
Host: 12th Conference on Aviation Range and Aerospace Meteorology
Cochairs: James W. Wilson, NCAR; Cindy K. Mueller, NCAR
  8:30 AM
9.1
From the 13km RUC to the Rapid Refresh
Stan Benjamin, NOAA/FSL, Boulder, CO; and D. Devenyi, T. Smirnova, S. Weygandt, J. M. Brown, S. Peckham, K. Brundage, T. L. Smith, G. Grell, and T. Schlatter
  9:00 AM
9.3
  9:30 AM
9.5
An analysis of Collaborative Convective Forecast Product performance for the 2005 convective season
Michael P. Kay, NOAA/FSL/CIRES/Univ. of Colorado, Boulder, CO; and J. L. Mahoney and J. E. Hart
  9:45 AM
9.6
  10:15 AM
9.5A
Formal Poster Viewing with Coffee Break

8:30 AM-12:00 PM: Thursday, 2 February 2006


Session 2
Economics and Weather: Methods and Applications
Location: A307 (Georgia World Congress Center)
Host: First Symposium on Policy Research
Organizers: William Hooke, AMS Policy Program; Genene Fisher, AMS Policy Program; Roger Pulwarty, NOAA-CIRES Climate Diagnostics Center
  8:30 AM
2.1
  8:45 AM
2.2
  9:00 AM
2.3
The overlap in scientist's and reinsurer's interests in assessing, modeling, and monitoring the impacts of extreme climate events
Richard J. Murnane, Bermuda Biological Station for Research, Garrett Park, MD; and H. F. Diaz
  9:15 AM
2.4
The Miami Hurricane Event Market (MAHEM): A Hurricane Futures Market
David Letson, Univ. of Miami/RSMAS, Miami, FL; and D. S. Nolan, D. Kelly, and F. Nelson
  9:30 AM
2.5
The Economic Value of Hurricane Forecasts: An Overview and Research Needs
David Letson, Univ. of Miami/RSMAS, Miami, FL; and J. K. Lazo and D. Sutter
  9:45 AM
2.6
Severe Weather and Bank Performance
B.T. Ewing, Texas Tech University, Lubbock, TX; and S. E. Hein and J. B. Kruse

  10:00 AM
2.7
U.S. Flood Damage: future expectations based upon historical trends
Erik Noble, Center for Science and Technology Policy Research, Boulder, CO
  10:15 AM
2.8
The Benefits and Cost of NEXRAD Weather Radar
Daniel Sutter, CIMMS/Univ. of Oklahoma, Norman, OK; and K. M. Simmons
  10:30 AM
2.9
Replicating Innovation: Successes and Challenges
Dale A. Morris, Oklahoma Climatological Survey, Norman, OK; and M. A. Shafer and D. S. Arndt
  10:45 AM
2.5A
Formal Poster Viewing with Coffee Break

8:30 AM-12:15 PM: Thursday, 2 February 2006


Joint Session 5
Related to Global Environmental Observing Systems Including Global Climate Observing System (GCOS), Global Ocean Observing System (GOOS), and Global Terrestrial Observing System (GTOS) (Joint between the 22nd Conference on IIPS, and the 10th Symposium on Integrated Observing and Assimilation Systems for the Atmosphere, Oceans, and Land Surface (IOAS-AOLS))
Location: A411 (Georgia World Congress Center)
Hosts: (Joint between the 22nd International Conference on Interactive Information Processing Systems for Meteorology, Oceanography, and Hydrology; and the 10th Symposium on Integrated Observing and Assimilation Systems for the Atmosphere, Oceans, and Land Surface (IOAS-AOLS) )
Cochairs: Howard J. Diamond, NOAA/NESDIS/NCDC; John R. Lincoln, US Navy/WMO (Ret.) and Consultant; A. E. MacDonald, NOAA/ERL/FSL; Thomas W. Schlatter, NOAA/ORL/FSL
  8:30 AM
J5.1
Global Climate Observing System Implementation: Progress and Challenges
David M. Goodrich, Global Climate Observing System Secretariat, Geneva, Switzerland
  9:00 AM
J5.3
Improving the GCOS Surface and Upper Air Networks
Richard K. Thigpen, GCOS Secretariat, Silver Spring, MD; and H. Diamond

  9:30 AM
J5.5
Update on the US Global Climate Observing System (GCOS) program
Howard J. Diamond, NOAA/NESDIS/NCDC, Silver Spring, MD; and R. S. Vose
  9:45 AM
J5.6
NOAA's contributions to the global ocean observing system for climate
Diane M. Stanitski, Shippensburg University, Shippensburg, PA; and M. Johnson
  10:00 AM
J5.7
Real-time oil platform ocean current data in the Gulf of Mexico: An IOOS industry partnership success story
Richard L. Crout, National Data Buoy Center, Stennis Space Center, MS; and D. Conlee, D. Gilhousen, R. Bouchard, M. Livingston, M. Garcia, C. Cooper, and R. Raye
  10:15 AM
J5.8
The Georgia Mesonet: Concepts and Systems to Demonstrate a New Cooperative Climate Network
Lans P. Rothfusz, NOAA/NWS, Peachtree City, GA; and K. Crawford, G. Hoogenboom, D. E. Stooksbury, and P. N. Knox
  10:30 AM
J5.9
COOP Modernization: NOAA's Environmental Real-time Observation Network in New England, the Southeast, and Addressing NIDIS in the West
Kenneth C. Crawford, Office of Science and Technology, National Weather Service Headquarters, Silver Spring, MD; and G. R. Essenberg
  10:45 AM
J5.10
  11:00 AM
J5.5A
Formal Poster Viewing with Coffee break (See Wed. schedule for poster listings)


Joint Session 8
Flood Warning Systems (Joint with 20th Conference on Hydrology and Forum on Managing our Physical and Natural Resources and Forum: Environmental Risk and Impacts on Society: Successes and Challenges)
Location: A403 (Georgia World Congress Center)
Hosts: (Joint between the 20th Conference on Hydrology; the AMS Forum: Managing our Physical and Natural Resources: Successes and Challenges; and the AMS Forum: Environmental Risk and Impacts on Society: Successes and Challenges )
Cochairs: Sue Grimmond, Kings College; Greg Forbes, The Weather Channel; Chandra R. Kondragunta, NOAA/NWS
  8:30 AM
J8.1
Flash Flood Forecasting in Urban Drainage Basins
James A. Smith, Princeton Univ., Princeton, NJ
  9:00 AM
J8.2
Flash flood warning operations during tropical rainfall in low relief terrain
Richard J. Lanier, NOAA/NWS, Tallahassee, FL; and J. D. Suk and D. S. Berkowitz
  9:30 AM
J8.4
  10:00 AM
J8.6
  10:15 AM
J8.7
Results of short fuse weather warning surveys in Austin, TX and Denver, CO
Lindsey R. Barnes, Univ. of Colorado, Colorado Springs, CO; and E. Gruntfest, C. Benight, M. H. Hayden, C. C. Jenkins, M. Q. Thurman, and E. Williams
  10:45 AM
J8.9
Flash Flood Disaster and Flash Flood Warning in China
Lingli Wang, George Mason Univ., fairfax, VA; and J. Qu
  11:00 AM
J8.4A
Formal Poster Viewing with Coffee Break


Session 9
Regional Scale Air–Sea Interaction
Location: A309 (Georgia World Congress Center)
Host: 14th Conference on Interaction of the Sea and Atmosphere
Cochairs: W.T. Liu, JPL/California Institute of Technology; Richard Justin Orford Small, Univ. of Hawaii; Larry W. O'Neill, NRL Monterey
  8:30 AM
9.1
Ocean-atmosphere interaction over Agulhas Extension meanders
W. Timothy Liu, JPL, Pasadena, CA; and X. Xie and P. P. Niiler
  8:45 AM
9.2
Upper-ocean response to small-scale wind forcing in the Agulhas Return Current
Larry W. O'Neill, NRL Monterey, Monterey, CA; and D. B. Chelton, R. Matano, and A. Fetter
  9:00 AM
9.3
Air-sea interaction over quasi-permanent meanders in the Gulf Stream
Richard Justin Orford Small, Univ. of Hawaii, Honolulu, HI HI; and S. P. Xie and Y. Wang
  9:15 AM
9.4
The role of Gulf Stream Warm Core Eddies on East Coast Winter Storms
Matthew P. Borkowski, North Carolina State Univ., Raleigh, NC; and S. Raman and G. M. Lackmann

  9:30 AM
9.5
Regional Ocean-Atmosphere Feedback in Eastern Equatorial Pacific
Hyodae Seo, IPRC, Univ. Hawaii, Honolulu, HI; and A. J. Miller and J. Roads
  9:45 AM
9.6
High-resolution simulation of eastern Pacific climate with a regional coupled model
Shang-Ping Xie, IPRC/SOEST, Univ. of Hawaii, Honolulu, HI; and Y. Wang, T. Miyama, H. Xu, S. de Szoeke, R. J. Small, and K. Richards

  10:00 AM
9.7
Atmospheric response to oceanic mesoscale variability
Raghu Murtugudde, ESSIC/Univ. of Maryland, College Park, MD; and H. Seo, M. Jochum, and A. Miller
  10:15 AM
9.8
Low-level cloud variability over the equatorial cold tongue
David K. Mansbach, SIO/Univ. Of California, La Jolla, CA; and J. R. Norris
  10:30 AM
9.9
Enhanced rainfall over warm ocean eddies in the eastern tropical Pacific
Hemantha W. Wijesekera, Oregon State Univ., Corvallis, OR; and C. A. Paulson
  10:45 AM
9.10
Coastal upwelling studies using a coupled ocean-atmosphere model
Natalie Perlin, Oregon State Univ., Corvallis, OR; and E. D. Skyllingstad, R. M. Samelson, and P. L. Barbour

  11:00 AM
9.5A
Formal Poster Viewing With Coffee Break


Session 13
Advances and Applications in Transportation Weather
Location: A412 (Georgia World Congress Center)
Host: 22nd International Conference on Interactive Information Processing Systems for Meteorology, Oceanography, and Hydrology
Cochairs: S. Edward Boselly, Weather Solutions Group; David Pace, FAA; Paul A. Pisano, Federal Highway Administration
  8:45 AM
13.2
  9:15 AM
13.4
FHWA's Clarus Initiative: Concept of Operations and Associated Research
Paul A. Pisano, Federal Highway Administration, Washington, DC; and J. S. Pol, L. C. Goodwin, and A. D. Stern
  9:30 AM
13.5
Ensemble member forecast spread and its implication for road weather forecasting
Jamie K. Wolff, NCAR, Boulder, CO; and S. Linden and W. P. Mahoney III
  9:45 AM
13.6
  10:15 AM
13.8
A blowing and drifting snow algorithm supporting winter road maintenance decision making
Leon F. Osborne Jr., Univ. of North Dakota, Grand Forks, ND
  10:30 AM
13.9
Implementation of RWIS in New Hampshire
Brendon Hoch, Plymouth State Univ., Plymouth, NH; and J. P. Koermer, W. L. Real, and S. W. Gray
  10:45 AM
13.10
Spring Load Restriction Modeling
Jennifer L. Hanson, Surface Transportation Weather Research Center, Grand Forks, ND

  11:00 AM
13.5A
Lunch Break (Cash & Carry available in the Exhibit Hall)

8:45 AM-9:00 AM: Thursday, 2 February 2006


Coffee

8:45 AM-12:30 PM: Thursday, 2 February 2006


Session 9
Statistical Climatology
Location: A304 (Georgia World Congress Center)
Host: 18th Conference on Probability and Statistics in the Atmospheric Sciences
Cochairs: Xuebin Zhang, EC; Elise V. Johnson, Iowa State Univ.
  8:45 AM
9.1
Resampling methods for meteorological and climatological data analysis
Alexander Gluhovsky, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN; and E. Agee
  9:00 AM
9.2
Evaluation of an innovation variance methodology for real-time data reduction of satellite data streams
Bradley T. Zavodsky, University of Alabama, Huntsville, AL; and S. M. Lazarus, R. Ramachandran, and X. Li
  9:45 AM
9.5
A new weather generator based on spectral properties of surface air temperatures
J.T. Schoof, Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL; and A. Arguez, J. Brolley, and J. J. O'Brien
  10:00 AM
9.6
  10:15 AM
9.7
  10:30 AM
9.8
Estimating precipitation normals for USCRN stations
Bomin Sun, STG, Inc., Asheville, NC; and T. C. Peterson
  10:45 AM
9.9
Diagnosing the Distribution of Seasonal Mean Precipitation
Gilbert P. Compo, NOAA/CIRES/CDC, Boulder, CO; and P. D. Sardeshmukh and C. A. Smith
  11:00 AM
9.10
Assessing the long-term representativeness of short wind records
Karsten Shein, NOAA/NESDIS/NCDC, Asheville, NC
  11:15 AM
9.5A
Formal Poster Viewing with Coffee Break

8:45 AM-4:30 PM: Thursday, 2 February 2006


Session 8
Incorporating climate information and forecasts into the decision making process in the water resource and energy sectors
Location: A313 (Georgia World Congress Center)
Host: 18th Conference on Climate Variability and Change
Chairs: Bradfield Lyon, International Research Institute for Climate Prediction, Columbia Univ.; Mathew A. Barlow, University of Massachusetts - Lowell
  8:45 AM
8.1
Design criteria for a national climate service: insights from a RISA program (INVITED PRESENTATION)
Edward L. Miles, JISAO/Univ. of Washington, Seattle, WA; and A. K. Snover and L. Whitely Binder
  10:45 AM
8.5
  11:15 AM
8.6
Critical climate controls and information needs for environmental assessment and adaptive management in the Grand Canyon region
Shaleen Jain, NOAA/CIRES and Univ. of Colorado, Boulder, CO; and R. S. Pulwarty, T. Melis, D. Topping, and J. K. Eischeid
  11:45 AM
8.7
  12:15 PM
8.8
Climate-informed decision tools for the water and energy sector (INVITED PRESENTATION)
Casey Brown, International Research Institute for Climate Prediction, Palisades, NY; and U. Lall and S. Arumugam
  12:45 PM
8.9
  1:15 PM
8.2A
Formal Poster Viewing with Coffee Break

  2:30 PM
8.4A
Lunch Break (Cash and Carry available in the Exhibit Hall)

  4:00 PM
8.7A
Coffee Break in Exhibit Hall and AMS IPOD Raffle

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


Panel Discussion 1
World Meteorological Organization (WMO) Products—Their Uses
Location: A310 (Georgia World Congress Center)
Host: Ninth Atmospheric Science Librarians International Conference: Atmospheric Sciences Libraries and Their Importance for Patrons
Moderator: Susan Tarbell, Librarian, Air Force Weather Technical Library
Panelists: Evelyn Poole-Kober, NERL-ASMD Library, USEPA; Maria Latyszewskyj, Librarian, Environment Canada; Linda Musser, Pennsylvania State University

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


Poster Session 5
Air-Sea Interaction In Tropical Cyclones and Intraseasonal Oscillations
Location: Exhibit Hall A2 (Georgia World Congress Center)
Host: 14th Conference on Interaction of the Sea and Atmosphere
Cochairs: Tim Li, Univ. of Hawaii; Duane Waliser, SUNY; Ralph C. Foster, APL/Univ. of Washington; Lynn Shay, Univ. of Miami
 
P5.1
Contribution of wind-forced coastally trapped waves to coastal sea level rise during a hurricane
Dmitry S. Dukhovskoy, COAPS/Florida State Univ., Tallahassee, FL; and S. L. Morey, M. A. Bourassa, and J. J. O'Brien

 
P5.2
Vorticity-Based Detection of Tropical Cyclogenesis
Michelle M. Hite, COAPS, Tallahassee, FL; and M. A. Bourassa and J. J. O'Brien

Poster PDF (1.2 MB)

 
P5.3
Relation between ENSO and tropical cyclones in the WNP simulated in a CGCM
Satoshi IIzuka, National Research Institute for Earth Science and Disaster Prevention, Tsukuba, Japan; and T. Matsuura, M. Fujita, and H. Fudeyasu

Poster PDF (748.0 kB)

 
P5.5
Forecasting Typhoon Chaba's (2004) intensity change using a coupled atmosphere-ocean-wave model
Jun Yoshino, Gifu Univ., Gifu, Japan; and T. Murakami, M. Hayashi, and T. Yasuda

Poster PDF (202.0 kB)

 
P5.7
Impact of air/sea interactions in simulating the transition phase of the intraseasonal oscillation
Paula A. Agudelo, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA; and J. A. Curry and C. A. Clayson

 
P5.8
Evaluation of extended intraseasonal forecasting using slow manifold modeling
Carlos D. Hoyos, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA; and P. J. Webster, F. Vitart, M. Miller, T. N. Palmer, and M. Hortal

 
P5.9
The Characteristics of Intraseasonal Oscillation Intensity
Liping Li, NASA/GISS, Fairfax, VA; and S. Yang, P. Wang, and Z. Guan

 
P5.11
Equilibrium Translation Model—A Key to Tropical Hurricane Development
Irakli G. Shekriladze, Georgian Technical Univ., Tbilisi, Georgia


Poster Session 5
Data Assimilation
Location: Exhibit Hall A2 (Georgia World Congress Center)
Host: 14th Conference on Satellite Meteorology and Oceanography
 
P5.2
A new 4D variational assimilation method of spaceborne data for moisture budget studies
Aurelie Bouchard, CETP, Velizy, France; and L. Yvon and V. Nicolas

Poster PDF (552.3 kB)

 
P5.3
Validation of Satellite-Derived Liquid Water Paths with Ground-Based Microwave Radiometers for Various Cloud Regimes
Mandana M. Khaiyer, AS&M, Hampton, VA; and P. Minnis, R. F. Arduini, R. Palikonda, M. L. Nordeen, and J. K. Ayers

Poster PDF (239.5 kB)

 
P5.4
Use of AIRS/AMSU retrieved soundings to improve prediction of Gulf moisture return
Shanna J. Sampson, Univ. of Oklahoma, Norman, OK; and K. A. Brewster, G. J. Jedlovec, and W. M. Lapenta

Poster PDF (77.3 kB)

 
P5.6
Microwave Variational Retrieval of Surface and Atmospheric Parameters: Application to AMSU/MHS and SSMI/S sensors
Sid Ahmed Boukabara, NOAA/NESDIS, Camp Springs, MD; and F. Weng and Q. Liu

 
P5.8
Error Analysis of Global Microwave Surface Emissivity over Land
Andrew S. Jones, CIRA/Colorado State Univ., Fort Collins, CO; and P. C. Shott, J. M. Forsythe, C. L. Combs, and T. H. Vonder Haar

 
P5.9
Evaluation of the Assumptions made in a Land Surface Data Assimilation Technique
Scott M. Mackaro, Metropolitan State College of Denver, Denver, CO

 
P5.10
A Simple 1DVAR Approach Toward Cloudy Infared Radiance Assimilation
Sylvain Heilliette, EC, Dorval, QC, Canada; and L. Garand

Poster PDF (154.3 kB)

 
P5.11
Atmospheric infrared sounder assimilation experiments using NCEP's GFS
James A. Jung, CIMSS/Univ. of Wisconsin, Madison, WI; and T. H. Zapotocny, J. F. LeMarshall, and R. Treadon

Poster PDF (1.5 MB)

 
P5.12
Assimilation of Atmospheric Infrared Sounder (AIRS) Data in a Regional Model
Shih-Hung Chou, NASA/MSFC, Huntsville, AL; and B. T. Zavodsky, W. M. Lapenta, and G. J. Jedlovec

Poster PDF (773.9 kB)

 
P5.13
Assimilation of AIRS hyperspectral radiances at MSC
Louis Garand, EC, Dorval, QC, Canada; and A. Beaulne and N. Wagneur

Poster PDF (64.9 kB)

 
P5.14
Recent MODIS data assimilation experiments in the NCEP GFS
Tom H. Zapotocny, CIMSS/Univ. of Wisconsin, Madison, WI; and J. A. Jung and J. F. LeMarshall

Poster PDF (995.7 kB)

 
P5.16
Study of observational error and targeted observation in observing system simulation experiments (OSSEs) for NPOESS
John S. Woollen, NOAA/NWS/NCEP/EMC, Camp Springs, MD; and M. Masutani and S. J. Lord

 
P5.18
Improving forecasts of tropical cyclogenesis and intensity change: the role of spaceborne Doppler radar
William E. Lewis, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI; and G. J. Tripoli

 
P5.19
Assimilation of GOES radiances to improve forecasting of mid-level, mixed-phase clouds
Curtis J. Seaman, CIRA/Colorado State Univ., Fort Collins, CO; and T. Vukicevic and T. Vonder Haar

 
P5.20
Direct use of satellite horizontal gradients in variational analysis
Daniel Birkenheuer, NOAA/ESRL, Boulder, CO

Poster PDF (271.0 kB)

 
P5.21
Comparison of RUC condensate analyses and forecasts with satellite-derived cloud properties
William L. Smith Jr., NASA LaRC, Hampton, VA; and P. Minnis and S. Benjamin

Poster PDF (2.2 MB)

 
P5.22
Reanalysis Impact on Quality Controls of Long-term Satellite Sounding Observation
Masami Sakamoto, Japan Meteorological Agency, Tokyo, Japan; and K. Okamoto, Y. Yoshizaki, H. Murata, S. Kobayashi, J. Tsutsui, S. Kadokura, K. Wada, and H. Hatsushika

Poster PDF (327.9 kB)


Poster Session 6
New and Future Sensors and Applications
Location: Exhibit Hall A2 (Georgia World Congress Center)
Host: 14th Conference on Satellite Meteorology and Oceanography
 
P6.1
Validation of GOES-N imager data and products during the GOES-N science test
Jaime M. Daniels, NOAA/NESDIS, Camp Springs, MD; and R. J. Kuligowski, R. A. Scofield, G. P. Ellrod, W. Bresky, J. C. Davenport, D. W. Hillger, T. J. Schmit, and A. J. Schreiner

Poster PDF (397.3 kB)

 
P6.2
The GOES-N Sounder Data and Products
Timothy J. Schmit, NOAA/NESDIS, Madison, WI; and G. S. Wade, M. M. Gunshor, J. P. Nelson, A. J. Schreiner, J. Li, J. M. Daniels, and D. W. Hillger

Poster PDF (553.2 kB)

 
P6.3
An overview of the GOES-N science test
Donald W. Hillger, NOAA/NEDSIS/ORA, Fort Collins, CO; and T. J. Schmit, D. T. Lindsey, J. A. Knaff, and J. M. Daniels

Poster PDF (234.0 kB)

 
P6.4
Synthetic GOES-R and NPOESS Imagery of Mesoscale Weather Events
Lewis Grasso, CIRA/Colorado State Univ., Fort Collins, CO; and M. Sengupta, J. F. Dostalek, and M. DeMaria

Poster PDF (106.5 kB)

 
P6.5
Lossless Compression Studies for NOAA GOES-R Hyperspectral Environmental Suite
Bormin Huang, CIMSS/Univ. of Wisconsin, Madison, WI; and A. Ahuja, Y. Sriraja, H. L. Huang, and M. Goldberg

Poster PDF (660.9 kB)

 
P6.6
GOES-R ABI new product development
Donald W. Hillger, NOAA/NEDSIS/ORA, Fort Collins, CO

Poster PDF (340.4 kB)

 
P6.7
Physical retrieval for precise satellite SST measurements—GOES-R Risk Reduction Study
Eileen Maturi, NOAA/NESDIS, Camp Springs, MD; and W. Smith Sr. and S. V. Kireev

Poster PDF (106.2 kB)

 
P6.8
Advanced Nowcasting Application for Next Generation GOES
T. Scott Zaccheo, AER, Inc, Lexington, MA; and R. P. d'Entremont, G. B. Gustafson, and D. B. Hogan

Poster PDF (1.6 MB)

 
P6.9
 
P6.10
Tropical cyclone applications of next-generation operational satellite soundings
Mark DeMaria, NOAA/NESDIS, Ft. Collins, CO; and D. W. Hillger, C. D. Barnet, and R. T. DeMaria

Poster PDF (238.8 kB)

 
P6.11
Statistical comparisons of model output with satellite observations: A severe weather case
Manajit Sengupta, CIRA, Ft. Collins, CO; and L. Grasso, D. T. Lindsey, and M. DeMaria

Poster PDF (250.4 kB)

 
P6.13
Intercalibration of the newest geostationary imagers via high spectral resolution AIRS data
Mathew M. Gunshor, CIMSS/Univ. of Wisconsin, Madison, WI; and T. J. Schmit, W. P. Menzel, and D. C. Tobin

Poster PDF (209.0 kB)

 
P6.14
Far-infrared spectroscopy of the troposphere (FIRST): Instrument description, performance, and results
Martin G. Mlynczak, NASA/LARC, Hampton, VA; and D. G. Johnson, H. Latvakoski, D. P. Kratz, M. Watson, K. Jucks, W. Traub, G. E. Bingham, S. Wellard, and C. Hyde

 
P6.15
Observed 3-D Structure of Atmospheric Temperature and Moisture Associated with the Madden-Julian Oscillation
Lihang Zhou, QSS Group Inc., Lanham, MD; and M. Goldberg, W. W. Wolf, and C. D. Barnet

Poster PDF (275.9 kB)

 
P6.16
Calibration and Validation for NOAA18 HIRS/4 Measurements
Likun Wang, Dell Perot System, Camp Spring, MD; and C. Cao and P. Ciren

Poster PDF (248.6 kB)

 
P6.17
Testing the CMIS core retrieval algorithm with AMSU data and comparison with NOAA and AMSR products
Ryan Aschbrenner, AER, Lexington, MA; and P. Liang, J. L. Moncet, S. A. Boukabara, and F. Weng

 
P6.18
SSMIS lower atmospheric sounding cal/val
Donald J. Boucher, The Aerospace Corporation, Los Angeles, CA; and R. W. Farley, A. A. Fote, Y. Hong, D. B. Kunkee, G. Poe, S. D. Swadley, B. H. Thomas, and J. E. Wessel

Poster PDF (1.8 MB)

 
P6.19
Scan Bias in Microwave Sounders—From AMSU to ATMS
Bjorn H. Lambrigtsen, JPL, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA

 
P6.20
Precipitation Signatures in SSMIS Imagery
F. Joseph Turk, NRL, Monterey, CA; and T. F. Lee, S. D. Miller, R. Ferraro, and F. Weng

Poster PDF (1.7 MB)

 
P6.22
Characterizing TRMM Multi-satellite Precipitation Analysis (MPA) quality at multiple time and space scales using surface data
George J. Huffman, NASA/GSFC and SSAI, Greenbelt, MD; and R. F. Adler, D. T. Bolvin, K. P. Bowman, E. J. Nelkin, and D. B. Wolff

 
P6.23
Calibration of DMSP F-16 Special Sensor Microwave Imager and Sounder
Banghua Yan Sr., University of Maryland/ESSIC, Camp Springs, MD; and F. Weng Sr. and T. Mo Sr.

 
P6.24
Air mass pre-classification to improve performance of physical retrievals for CMIS
Alan E. Lipton, AER, Inc., Lexington, MA; and K. J. Quinn and J. L. Moncet

 
P6.25
Co-location algorithms for satellite observations
Haibing Sun, NOAA/NESDIS, Camp Springs, MD; and W. Wolf, T. King, C. D. Barnet, and M. Goldberg

Poster PDF (147.0 kB)

 
P6.26
Information content analysis in support of a new Infrared Cloud Ice Radiometer for SIRICE
Tristan S. L'Ecuyer, Colorado State Univ., Fort Collins, CO; and T. Greenwald, S. Ackerman, and K. F. Evans

 
P6.27
CloudSat and MODIS Data Merging: The First Step toward the Implementation of the NASA A-Train Data Depot
Gilberto A. Vicente, NASA/GSFC, Greenbelt, MD; and P. Smith, S. Kempler, K. Tewari, R. Kummerer, and G. G. Leptoukh

Poster PDF (733.4 kB)

 
P6.28
Developments in ocean infrared emissivity/reflection modeling: comparisons against observations
Nicholas R. Nalli, QSS Group, Inc., Camp Springs, MD; and P. J. Minnett, P. Van Delst, C. D. Barnet, and M. D. Goldberg

Poster PDF (148.2 kB)

 
P6.29
Advanced radiative transfer model for real-time remote sensing applications
Richard J. Lynch, AER, Inc., Lexington, MA; and E. J. Kennelly, H. E. Snell, D. B. Hogan, and J. L. Moncet

Poster PDF (476.2 kB)


Poster Session 6
Regional Scale Air-Sea Interaction
Location: Exhibit Hall A2 (Georgia World Congress Center)
Host: 14th Conference on Interaction of the Sea and Atmosphere
Cochairs: Richard Justin Orford Small, NRL; W.T. Liu, JPL, California Institute of Technology; Larry W. O'Neill, NRL Monterey
 
P6.1
The marine atmospheric boundary layer over the eastern Pacific and its simulation in climate models
Michael A. Brunke, Univ.of Arizona, Tucson, AZ; and X. Zeng and M. Zhou

 
P6.2
Air-sea coupling in the eastern Pacific: a regional modeling study
S.P. de Szoeke, Univ. of Hawaii, Honolulu, HI; and R. J. Small and S. P. Xie

 
P6.3
In-situ observations of Kuroshio Extension's influence on the atmosphere
Shang-Ping Xie, Univ. of Hawaii, Honolulu, HI; and Y. Tanimoto, H. Tokigana, K. Kai, M. Nonaka, and H. Nakamura

 
P6.5
Sensitivity of East Coast winter storms to sea surface temperature gradients
Neil A. Jacobs, AirDat LLC, Morrisville, NC; and S. Raman and G. M. Lackmann

Poster PDF (2.6 MB)

 
P6.7
Interannual heat budget of the California Current region
Kathleen A. Edwards, Univ. of Washington, Seattle, WA; and K. A. Kelly

 
P6.8
Heat transport analyses of the tropical Atlantic ocean mixed layer using satellite based observations
Robert Helber, NRL, Stennis, MS; and F. Bonjean, R. H. Weisberg, E. S. Johnson, and L. Yu

 
P6.9
Guinea Gulf SST anomalies impact on Mediterranean 2003 summer: a numerical sensitivity analysis
Massimiliano Pasqui, NRC, Sesto Fiorentino, Italy; and M. Baldi, F. Cesarone, G. A. Dalu, and G. De Chiara

 
P6.10
Physical Mechanisms Associated With the Variability of Lake Victoria Basin Climate
Richard Anyah, North Carolina State Univ., Raleigh, NC; and F. Semazzi and L. Xie

Poster PDF (1.1 MB)

 
P6.11
A Framework for Coupled Modeling
Hao Jin, SAIC, Monterey, CA; and R. M. Hodur

Poster PDF (681.4 kB)

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


Poster Session 1
Doug Lilly Symposium Posters
Location: Exhibit Hall A2 (Georgia World Congress Center)
Host: The Doug Lilly Symposium
 
P1.1
Turbulence parameter space, budgets, scaling laws,and structure parameter models for stably stratified shear flows from aircraft measurements
Owen R. Coté, Air Force Research Laboratory, Hanscom AFB, MA; and D. Wroblewski, J. Hacker, R. J. Dobosy, and J. R. Roadcap

 
P1.2
Tornado intensification near the ground: suction vortices
Brian Fiedler, The Univ. of Oklahoma, Norman, Oklahoma

 
P1.3
 
P1.4
The application of WRF-Climate in the East Africa: the customization of buffer zones
Xuejin Zhang, North Carolina State Univ., Raleigh, NC; and L. Xie, F. H. M. Semazzi, and X. Z. Liang

 
P1.5
The application of the Extended-GBVTD method to derive the typhoon asymmetric structures
Yu-Chieng Liou, National Central Univ., Chung-Li, Taiwan; and T. C. C. Wang, W. C. Lee, and Y. J. Chang

 
P1.6
The "Relax to Balance" approximation for cumulus ensemble models
David J. Raymond, New Mexico Tech, Socorro, NM; and S. Sessions

 
P1.7
Stratified Flow over Topography: Wave Generation and Boundary Layer Separation
Bruce R. Sutherland, Univ. of Alberta, Edmonton, AB, Canada; and D. Aguilar

 
P1.8
Sierra Nevada mountain waves and rotors
Vanda Grubisic, DRI, Reno, NV; and B. J. Billings

 
P1.9
Potential of Infrasonic Observing Systems for Monitoring Mountain-Induced Turbulence
Alfred J. Bedard Jr., ETL, Boulder, CO; and R. T. Nishiyama and P. Stauffer

 
P1.10
Perfect prog statistical approach to prediction of Boulder downslope windstorms
Andrew Edward Mercer, Northern Gulf Institute, Mississippi State University, Mississippi State, MS; and M. B. Richman, H. B. Bluestein, and J. M. Brown

 
P1.11
LES study of interactions between drizzle and stratocumulus cloud dynamics
Yefim L. Kogan, CIMMS/Univ. of Oklahoma, Norman, OK

 
P1.12
IJK 2004. Ivan, Jeanne, and Karl: The Trough Triumvirate
Ryan Maue, Florida State Univ., Tallahassee, FL; and M. S. Peng, R. Langland, and C. A. Reynolds

 
P1.13
Hurricane Vortex Initialization with AMSU and AMSR-E Measurements
Tong Zhu, Colorado State Univ./CIRA at NOAA/NESDIS, Camp Springs, MD; and F. Weng, X. Zhang, and T. Li

 
P1.15
Exergetics of Deep Moist Convection
Peter R. Bannon, Penn State Univ., University Park, PA

 
P1.16
Examination of the the dynamics of drizzle-cells observed during DYCOMS-II
David Leon, Univ. of Wyoming, Laramie, WY; and G. Vali and J. R. Snider

 
P1.17
Environmental Factors Influencing Propagation of West African Squall Lines
Jon M. Schrage, Creighton Univ., Omaha, NE; and M. Sullivan

 
P1.18
Effects of surface friction on downslope wind and mountain waves
Wen-Yih Sun, Purdue Univ., West Lafayette, IN; and W. R. Hsu

 
P1.19
 
P1.20
Assimilation of simulated CASA radar data and prediction of varied convective storm types using ensemble square-root Kalman Filter
Elaine S. Godfrey, CAPS/Univ. of Oklahoma, Norman, OK; and M. Tong, M. Xue, and K. K. Droegemeier

 
P1.21
Assimilation of Radar Data for Thunderstorm Prediction with Ensemble Kalman Filter: A Real Case Study
Mingjing Tong, NOAA/NWS/NCEP, Camp Springs, MD; and M. Xue and M. Hu

 
P1.22
 
P1.23
An investigation of severe hailstorm activity under present and future climate conditions over the greater Sydney region
Lance M. Leslie, Univ. of Oklahoma, Norman, OK; and M. Leplastrier and B. W. Buckley

 
P1.24
 
P1.25
Turbulence generation by gravity waves within upper-level jet-front systems
Steven E. Koch, NOAA Research-Forecast Systems Laboratory, Boulder, CO; and C. Lu

 
P1.26
Simulations of the atmospheric boundary layer using subfilter-scale reconstruction and the dynamic Wong-Lilly SGS model
Fotini Katopodes Chow, Univ. of California, Berkeley, CA; and R. L. Street and M. Xue

 
P1.27
Large-eddy simulation of evaporatively driven entrainment into cloud-topped mixed layer
Takanobu Yamaguchi, Coloraso State Univ., Fort Collins, CO; and D. A. Randall

 
P1.28
Interpreting stratocumulus climatology using Lilly's mixed-layer theory
Yunyan Zhang, LLNL, Livermore, CA; and B. Stevens, B. Medeiros, and M. Ghil

 
P1.29
A Three-Dimension Variational Data Assimilation Method for A Nonhydorstatic Storm-scale Model with equation constraints
Jidong Gao, CAPS/Univ. of Oklahoma, Norman, OK; and M. Xue, K. Brewster, and K. K. Droegemeier


Poster Session 3
Climate Modeling and Diagnostic Studies
Location: Exhibit Hall A2 (Georgia World Congress Center)
Host: 18th Conference on Climate Variability and Change
 
P3.1
Evaluating a stochastic shortwave radiation routine using a single-column model
Dana E. Veron, Rutgers Univ., New Brunswick, NJ; and M. Foster and J. M. Secora

Poster PDF (329.9 kB)

 
P3.2
Estimating response to various forcings in an aquaplanet GCM
Vladimir Alexeev, Univ. of Alaska, Fairbanks, AK; and P. L. Langen

 
P3.3
Model Parameter Evaluation using Linear Inverse Modeling
John A. Dykema, Harvard Univ., Cambridge, MA; and B. F. Farrell, S. S. Leroy, and J. G. Anderson

 
P3.5
Phase transitions of barotropic flow on the sphere by the Bragg method
Rajinder Singh Mavi, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY; and C. Lim

Poster PDF (391.7 kB)

 
P3.6
The Australian summer monsoon—a model intercomparison study
Andrew G. Marshall, Monash Univ., Clayton, Victoria, Australia; and A. Lynch and K. Görgen

 
P3.7
Nature of Asian monsoon precipitation: Intraseasonal to interannual time-scales
Carlos D. Hoyos, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA; and P. J. Webster, R. A. Houze Jr., and C. Schumacher

 
P3.8
Nocturnal Stratiform Cloudiness during the West African monsoon
Jon M. Schrage, Creighton Univ., Omaha, NE; and S. Augustyn and A. H. Fink

Poster PDF (849.9 kB)

 
P3.9
Long-term seasonal rainfall predictions over the southeast U.S. using the FSU Global Spectral Model
Dawn C. Petraitis, Florida State University/COAPS, Tallahassee, FL; and T. E. LaRow and J. J. O'Brien

 
P3.11
Regional Impact of Climate Change on Water Resources over Eastern Mediterranean: Euphrates-Tigris Basin
Baris Onol, North Carolina State Univ., Raleigh, NC; and F. Semazzi

 
P3.12
Diagnostic analysis of the East Asian cold surges: Terrain effect
Jun Jian, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA; and P. Webster

 
P3.13
Cloud amount simulated by the coupled model MRI-CGCM2.3
Shoji Kusunoki, Meteorological Research Institute, Tsukuba, Ibaraki, Japan

 
P3.14
 
P3.15
Impact of land-use changes on water cycle properties in various scales using fully coupled CCSM2.0.1
Zhao Li, Geophysical Institute, UAF, Fairbanks, AK; and N. Mölders

 
P3.16
Effect of the Tibetan Plateau on the East Asian Monsoon Circulations: A Regional Climate Model Study
Jee-Hey Song, Yonsei Univ., Seoul, South Korea; and S. Y. Hong and Y. H. Byun

Poster PDF (804.9 kB)

 
P3.17
A Model Ensemble Assessment of the Enhancement of Arctic Warming by Sea Ice Retreat
Colin P. Murray, IARC, Fairbanks, AK; and J. E. Walsh

 
P3.18
Warm Season Precipitation Prediction over North American using the Eta Regional Climate Model
Rongqian Yang, NOAA/NWS/NCEP, Camp Springs, MD; and K. Mitchell

 
P3.19
Circulation-induced changes in Antarctic precipitation in the 20th and 21st centuries based on IPCC model data
Petteri Uotila, Monash University, Monash University, VIC, Australia; and A. Lynch, J. J. Cassano, and R. I. Cullather

 
P3.20
Distribution function of a spurious trend in finite-length dataset and detectability of the true trend
Seiya Nishizawa, Kobe Univ., Kobe, Japan; and S. Yoden and T. Nozawa

 
P3.21
The relation between global warming and poleward heat transport of climate models
Christelle Castet, Florida State Univ., Tallahassee, FL; and M. Cai


Poster Session 11
Advances in 0–6 Hour Forecasting for Aviation Posters
Location: Exhibit Hall A2 (Georgia World Congress Center)
Host: 12th Conference on Aviation Range and Aerospace Meteorology
 
P11.1
Enhancements of NCAR Auto-Nowcast System Using NRL, ASAP, MM5 and TAMDAR Data
Huaqing Cai, NCAR, Boulder, CO; and R. Roberts, C. Mueller, T. Saxen, D. Megenhardt, M. Xu, S. Trier, E. Nelson, D. Albo, N. rehak, S. Dettling, and N. Oien

Poster PDF (1011.3 kB)

 
P11.2
The Man-In-The-Loop (MITL) Nowcasting Demonstration: Forecaster input into gridded nowcast products
Rita Roberts, NCAR, Boulder, CO; and S. J. Fano, T. R. Saxen, C. K. Mueller, W. F. Bunting, K. Johnston, E. J. Nelson, D. Albo, H. Cai, S. B. Smith, M. Ba, and T. Amis

Poster PDF (549.1 kB)

 
P11.3
An Assessment of Automated Boundary and Front Detection to Support Convective Initiation Forecasts
Paul E. Bieringer, MIT, Lexington, MA; and B. Martin, J. Morgan, S. Winkler, J. Hurst, J. McGinley, Y. Xie, and S. Albers

Poster PDF (1.1 MB)

 
P11.4
Comparisons and verification of an automated thunderstorm potential index output to manual products
David I. Knapp, U.S. Army Research Laboratory, White Sands Missile Range, NM; and E. Barker, G. R. Brooks, and S. Rentschler

Poster PDF (203.3 kB)

 
P11.6
Short-term forecasting of summer and winter storms using a mesoscale model and radar data assimilation
Mei Xu, NCAR, Boulder, CO; and N. A. Crook, Y. Liu, and R. M. Rasmussen

 
P11.7
Fusing observation- and model-based probability forecasts for the short-term predictions of convection
James Pinto, NCAR, Boulder, CO; and C. Mueller, S. Weygandt, and D. Ahijevych

Poster PDF (215.5 kB)

 
P11.9
Aviation Advisory Climatologies
Jonathan W. Slemmer, NOAA/NWS/NCEP/Aviation Weather Center, Kansas City, MO

Poster PDF (2.1 MB)

 
P11.10
Short Term Deterministic and Probabilistic Forecasts: How are they Different? Which is Better?
Robert A. Boldi, MIT Lincoln Lab., Lexington, MA; and M. M. Wolfson and C. K. Mueller

 
P11.8A
A diagnostic approach for verification of nowcasts
Barbara Brown, NCAR, Boulder, CO; and R. Bullock, J. Halley Goway, J. Wolff, and C. Davis


Poster Session 12
Use of Weather Information in Decision Support Tools Posters
Location: Exhibit Hall A2 (Georgia World Congress Center)
Host: 12th Conference on Aviation Range and Aerospace Meteorology
 
P12.1
Real-time simulation demo of facet integrated with weather
Kapil Sheth, NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, CA CA

 
P12.2
RAPT/CIWS/ITWS demonstration
Rich DeLaura, MIT Lincoln Laboratory, Lexington, MA

 
P12.4
Strategic Probabilistic Weather scenario demonstration
Goli Davidson, Metron Aviation, Inc., Herndon, VA

 
P12.5
Description of URET Enhancements to Support Severe Weather Avoidance
Winfield S. Heagy, MITRE/CAASD, McLean, VA; and D. B. Kirk

Poster PDF (210.3 kB)

 
P12.6
An Exploratory Study of Modeling Enroute Pilot Convective Storm Flight Deviation Behavior
Rich DeLaura, MIT Lincoln Laboratory, Lexington, MA; and J. Evans

Poster PDF (967.7 kB)

 
P12.7
 
P12.8
 
P12.9
Convective Weather Implications for NASA Advanced Airspace Concept (AAC)
John Andrews, MIT, Lexington, MA; and J. Welch and E. Shank

 
P12.11
Quantifying Air Traffic Control Productivity Enhancement for Aviation Convective Weather Decision Support Systems
Michael Robinson, MIT Lincoln Laboratory, Lexington, MA; and J. E. Evans

Poster PDF (479.7 kB)


Formal Poster Viewing with Coffee Break (Th1)

10:15 AM-10:30 AM: Thursday, 2 February 2006


Break

10:30 AM-3:30 PM: Thursday, 2 February 2006


Session 6
AMS Publishing and Product Updates
Location: A310 (Georgia World Congress Center)
Host: Ninth Atmospheric Science Librarians International Conference: Atmospheric Sciences Libraries and Their Importance for Patrons
Organizer: Jinny Nathans, AMS
  10:30 AM
6.1
Welcome Address
Keith Seitter, Director, AMS, Boston, MA

  10:40 AM
6.2
AMS Publishing/BAMS Update
Kenneth F. Heideman, AMS, Boston, MA; and J. Rosenfeld
  11:00 AM
6.3
Meteorological and Geoastrophysical Abstracts
Michael Miyazaki, Cambridge Scientific Abstracts, Bethesda, MD
  11:20 AM
6.4
Vendor Updates
Alexa Dugan, Wiley Interscience, N/a
  12:00 PM
6.6
Introducing WEATHER
Richard Pettifer, Royal Meteorological Society, Reading, Berkshire, United Kingdom
  12:45 PM
6.4a
Lunch Break

  1:45 PM
6.5a
Break

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


Joint Session 9
Comparison and Evaluation of Urban Land Surface Schemes for Mesoscale Models II (Joint with 6th Symposium on the Urban Environment and Forum on Managing our Physical and Natural Resources
Location: A312 (Georgia World Congress Center)
Hosts: (Joint between the AMS Forum: Managing our Physical and Natural Resources: Successes and Challenges; and the Sixth Symposium on the Urban Environment )
CoChair: Steven Hanna, Harvard Univ.
  11:00 AM
J9.1
Evaluation of Urban Scale Contaminant Transport and Dispersion Modeling using Loosely Coupled CFD and Mesoscale Models
William J. Coirier, CFD Research Corporation, Huntsville, AL; and S. Kim, F. Chen, and M. Tuwari
  11:15 AM
J9.2
Outdoor Scale Model Experiments for the Evaluation of Urban Modeling Studies
Toru Kawai, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Tokyo, Japan; and M. Kanda, T. Asa, and K. Masahiko
  11:30 AM
J9.3

11:00 AM-12:15 PM: Thursday, 2 February 2006


Session 6
Urban Turbulent Transport And Dispersion Processes
Location: A407 (Georgia World Congress Center)
Host: 14th Joint Conference on the Applications of Air Pollution Meteorology with the Air and Waste Management Assoc
Organizer: Akula Venkatram, Univ. of California
  11:00 AM
6.1
The development and evaluation of dispersion models for urban areas using tracer experiments
Akula Venkatram, Univ. of California, Riverside, CA; and J. Yuan, D. Pankratz, and V. Isakov
  11:15 AM
6.2
Retention of tracer gas from instantaneous releases of SF6 in an urban environment
J. C. Doran, Richland, WA; and K. J. Allwine, K. L. Clawson, and R. G. Carter
  11:30 AM
6.3
Characterization of turbulence at Oklahoma City inflow conditions during JU2003
Richard F. Harwood, Purdue Univ., West Lafayette, IN; and A. Grenier, G. Patnaik, J. P. Boris, and C. S. B. Grimmond
  11:45 AM
6.4
Passive tracer dispersion over a regular array of cubes using CFD simulations
Jose Luis Santiago, CIEMAT, Madrid, Spain; and A. Martilli and F. Martin
  12:00 PM
6.5
The Influence of Obstacles on the Flow and Pollutant Dispersion in an Urban Environment
Mohamed Fathy Yassin, Tokyo Polytechnic Univ., Atsugi, Kanagawa, Japan; and M. Ohba and H. Tanaka

Session 9
Data Assimilation
Location: A305 (Georgia World Congress Center)
Host: 14th Conference on Satellite Meteorology and Oceanography
Chair: Robert Atlas, NOAA/AOML
  11:00 AM
9.1
One-dimensional variational assimilation of SSM/I observations in rainy atmospheres at the Meteorological Service of Canada
Godelieve Deblonde, AES, Dorval, PQ, Canada; and J. F. Mahfouf, B. Bilodeau, and D. Anselmo

  11:30 AM
9.2
Assimilation of Advanced InfraRed Sounder (AIRS) observations at JCSDA
John F. Le Marshall, Joint Center for Satellite Data Assimilation, Camp Springs, MD; and J. A. Jung, J. Derber, R. Treadon, M. Goldberg, W. Wolf, and T. H. Zapotocny
  11:45 AM
9.3
Mechanisms that propagate polar satellite-derived atmospheric motion vector information into lower latitudes
David A. Santek, CIMSS/Univ. of Wisconsin, Madison, WI; and J. A. Jung, T. H. Zapotocny, J. Key, and C. Velden
  12:00 PM
9.4
Evaluating the impact of satellite data density within an ensemble data assimilation approach
Dusanka Zupanski, CIRA/Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO; and L. Grasso, M. DeMaria, M. Sengupta, and M. Zupanski

11:00 AM-12:30 PM: Thursday, 2 February 2006


Session 1
Boundary Layer and Turbulence Studies
Location: A302 (Georgia World Congress Center)
Host: The Doug Lilly Symposium
Chair: Evgeni Fedorovich, University of Oklahoma

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


Exhibits Open (Th)

11:00 AM-4:30 PM: Thursday, 2 February 2006


Session 9
Climate Model Analysis and Improvement
Location: A314 (Georgia World Congress Center)
Host: 18th Conference on Climate Variability and Change
Cochairs: Sumant Nigam, Univ. of Maryland; Philip W. Mote, Univ. of Washington
  11:15 AM
9.2
The importance of tropical Pacific SST changes between the warm pool and the cold tongue
Prashant Sardeshmukh, NOAA/CIRES/CDC, Boulder, CO; and G. P. Compo

  11:45 AM
9.4
An Assessment of Future Caribbean Climate Changes using the BAU Scenario by Coupling a Global Circulation Model with a Regional Model
M.E. Angeles, Univ. of Puerto Rico, Mayaguez, PR; and J. E. Gonzalez, D. J. Erickson III, and J. Hernández
  12:15 PM
9.6
Assimilating precipitation to improve simulations of the North American summer circulation
Ana M. B. Nunes, SIO/Univ. of California, La Jolla, CA; and J. O. Roads and M. Kanamitsu
  12:30 PM
9.7
Dynamical amplification of polar warming
Ming Cai, Florida State Univ., Tallahassee, FL
  12:45 PM
9.8
The response of extratropical precipitation and moisture transport to increased CO2.
David J. Lorenz, Univ. of Wisconsin, Madison, WI; and E. DeWeaver

  1:00 PM
9.9
  1:15 PM
9.10
Potentially predictable components of African summer rainfall in SST-forced GCM simulations
Michael K. Tippett, Internation Research Institute for Climate Prediction, Palisades, NY; and A. Giannini
  1:30 PM
9.11
  1:45 PM
9.12
How and why to upgrade cloud microphysics in climate models
Sam F. Iacobellis, SIO/Univ. of California, La Jolla, CA; and R. C. J. Somerville
  2:15 PM
9.14
Future projection of precipitation extremes with 20km-mesh Atmospheric General Circulation Model
Kenji Kamiguchi, MRI, Tsukuba, Ibaraki, Japan; and A. Kitoh, T. Uchiyama, R. Mizuta, and A. Noda
  2:30 PM
9.15
Some considerations of climate feedback
J. Ray Bates, Univ. College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland

  2:45 PM
9.16
Difficulties in simulating the phase of diurnal water and energy cycles
A.C. Ruane, ECPC, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, UCSD, La Jolla, CA; and J. Roads and M. Kanamitsu
  3:00 PM
9.5A
Lunch Break (Cash and Carry available in Exhibit Hall)

  4:15 PM
9.11A
Coffee Break in the Exhibit Hall and AMS IPOD Raffle

11:30 AM-11:30 AM: Thursday, 2 February 2006


Panel Discussion 1
Panel Discussion on Advances in 0–6 Hour Forecasting for Aviation
Location: A301 (Georgia World Congress Center)
Host: 12th Conference on Aviation Range and Aerospace Meteorology
Moderator: Marilyn M. Wolfson, MIT
Panelists: Warren L. Qualley, Weathernews Americas, Inc.; Barbara Brown, NCAR; Jim Wilson, NCAR; James E. Evans, MIT; Stanley G. Benjamin, NOAA/ERL/FSL; Peter J. Sousounis, WSI Corporation; Jenny Sun, NCAR

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


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

1:30 PM-2:45 PM: Thursday, 2 February 2006


Session 2
Hazards and disasters: Socioeconomic Impacts & the Decision making process: Part 2
Location: A311 (Georgia World Congress Center)
Host: AMS Forum: Environmental Risk and Impacts on Society: Successes and Challenges
Chair: Greg Forbes, The Weather Channel
  1:45 PM
2.2
Local implementation and the decision process - a challenge
James Giraytys, SHENAIR Institute, James Madison Univ., Winchester, VA; and C. J. Brodrick
  2:00 PM
2.3
The Re-Invasion of Aedes aegypti in southern Arizona/northern Mexico
Mary H. Hayden, Univ. of Colorado, Colorado Springs, CO; and C. Uejio, C. R. Janes, and R. Moreno-Sanchez
  2:15 PM
2.4
Environmentally risky unseasonal warm and dry spells in the subtropics of Brazil
Prakki Satyamurty, INPE, São José dos Campos, SP, Brazil; and C. K. Padilha
  2:30 PM
2.5
Calculating drought hazard at the country-level in Asia
Mathew A. Barlow, Univ. of Massachusetts, Lowell, MA; and H. Cullen, B. Lyon, and O. Wilhelmi

Joint Session 8
Urban Turbulent Transport And Dispersion Processes III (Cosponsored by BL&T committee) (Joint With The 6Th Symposium On The Urban Environment And The 14Th Joint Conference On The Applications Of Air Pollution Meteorology With The A&WMA)
Location: A315 (Georgia World Congress Center)
Hosts: (Joint between the Sixth Symposium on the Urban Environment; and the 14th Joint Conference on the Applications of Air Pollution Meteorology with the Air and Waste Management Assoc )
Organizer: S. Pal Arya, North Carolina State Univ.
  1:30 PM
J8.1
Urban Flow and Dispersion Simulations with a Coupled CFD-MM5 Model
Seung-Bu Park, Seoul National Univ., Seoul, South Korea; and J. J. Baik and J. J. Kim
  1:45 PM
J8.2
Evaluation of the QUIC Pressure Solver using wind-tunnel data from single and multi-building experiments
Akshay A. Gowardhan, Univ. of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT; and M. J. Brown, D. S. Decroix, E. Pardyjak, and M. A. Nelson
  2:45 PM
J8.4A
Testing of a Far-wake Parameterization for a Fast Response Urban Wind Model
Balwinder Singh, LANL, Los Alamos, NM; and E. Pardyjak, M. J. Brown, and M. D. Williams

Session 10
New and Future Sensors and Applications: Part I
Location: A305 (Georgia World Congress Center)
Host: 14th Conference on Satellite Meteorology and Oceanography
Chair: Philip E. Ardanuy, Raytheon Information Technology and Scientific Services
  1:30 PM
10.1
The Origin of Sensors: Evolutionary Considerations for Next Generation Satellite Programs
Steven D. Miller, NRL, Monterey, CA; and F. J. Turk, T. F. Lee, J. D. Hawkins, C. S. Velden, C. C. Schmidt, E. M. Prins, and S. H. D. Haddock
  2:00 PM
10.2
  2:30 PM
10.4
GeoSTAR: A New Payload for GOES-R
Bjorn H. Lambrigtsen, JPL, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA; and W. Wilson, A. Tanner, P. Kangaslahti, S. Dinardo, S. Brown, J. Piepmeier, and C. Ruf

Session 14
Satellite IIPS and Applications
Location: A412 (Georgia World Congress Center)
Host: 22nd International Conference on Interactive Information Processing Systems for Meteorology, Oceanography, and Hydrology
Cochairs: Gerald Dittberner, NOAA/NESDIS; Thomas M. Whittaker, SSEC/CIMSS/Univ. of Wisconsin
  1:30 PM
14.1
NOAA Observation Requirements Process—Foundation of the NOAA Observing Systems Architecture (Formerly Paper 14.3)
Pamela M. Taylor, NOAA/NESDIS, Silver Spring, MD; and T. C. Adang, L. O'Connor, and K. F. Carey
  1:45 PM
14.2
NOAA FY08 Observing Systems Investment Analysis
Eric J. Miller, NOAA/NESDIS, Silver Spring, MD; and T. C. Adang, R. C. Reining, P. Salamone, and L. E. Key
  2:15 PM
14.4
  2:30 PM
14.5
Paper 14.5 has been moved. New Poster number is P2.14

1:30 PM-3:00 PM: Thursday, 2 February 2006


Session 2
Severe Storm Dynamics and Prediction
Location: A302 (Georgia World Congress Center)
Host: The Doug Lilly Symposium
Chair: Gregory Byrd, UCAR/COMET
  1:30 PM
2.1
Theoretical Aspects of Severe Local Storm Dynamics
Yvette P. Richardson, Penn State Univ., University Park, PA

1:30 PM-4:45 PM: Thursday, 2 February 2006


Joint Session 10
Recent advances in real-time forecasts of regional air pollution (Joint with AMS Forum on Managing our Physical and Natural Resources, 14th Joint Conference on the Applications of Air Pollution Meteorology with the A&WMA, and 8th Conference on Atmospheric Chemistry)
Location: A312 (Georgia World Congress Center)
Hosts: (Joint between the Eighth Conference on Atmospheric Chemistry; the 14th Joint Conference on the Applications of Air Pollution Meteorology with the Air and Waste Management Assoc; and the AMS Forum: Managing our Physical and Natural Resources: Successes and Challenges )
Cochairs: Steven R. Hanna, Harvard Univ.; S. Pal Arya, North Carolina State Univ.
  1:30 PM
J10.1
The emergence of numerical air quality forecasting models and their application
Kenneth Schere, NOAA/ERL/ARL, Research Triangle Park, NC; and V. S. Bouchet, G. A. Grell, J. N. McHenry, and S. A. McKeen
  2:00 PM
J10.2
  2:15 PM
J10.3
Supporting Real-Time Air Quality Forecasting using the SMOKE modeling system
Jeff Vukovich, Baron Advanced Meteorological Systems, LLC., Raleigh, NC; and D. T. Olerud, J. N. McHenry, C. J. Coats, and W. T. Smith
  2:30 PM
J10.4
Operational Evaluation of Houston-Galveston Area Air Quality Forecasts with two Different Meteorological Inputs
Meongdo Jang, Univ. of Houston, Houston, TX; and D. W. Byun, S. Kim, C. K. Song, H. J. In, and F. Y. Cheng
  2:45 PM
J10.5
Implementation and evaluation of a continental US air quality forecast system
Donald T. Olerud Jr., Baron Advanced Meteorological Systems, Raleigh, NC
  3:00 PM
J10.6
Expanding coverage of the NOAA-EPA Air Quality Forecast Capability
Paula Davidson, NOAA/NWS, Silver Spring, MD; and N. Seaman, J. McQueen, R. Mathur, R. A. Wayland, and K. Carey

  3:15 PM
J10.7
An operational numerical model haze forecasting system for the CONUS
Robert E. Imhoff, Baron Advanced Meteorological Systems, Candler, NC; and D. T. Olerud, R. L. Miller, J. Vukovich, and J. F. Fox
  3:30 PM
J10.8
AIRPACT-3: air quality forecasting for the Pacific and Inland Northwest U.S. and nearby British Columbia
Brian K. Lamb, Washington State Univ., Pullman, WA; and J. Vaughan, J. Avise, and J. Chen
  3:45 PM
J10.9
An ensemble smoke dispersion forecast system for management of agricultural field burning
Kyle M. Heitkamp, Washington State Univ., Pullman, WA; and J. Vaughan and B. K. Lamb
  4:00 PM
J10.10
J10.10 moved to J3.5

  4:15 PM
J10.5A
Coffee Break in Exhibit Hall and AMS iPod Raffle


Session 10
Use of Weather Information in Decision Support Tools
Location: A301 (Georgia World Congress Center)
Host: 12th Conference on Aviation Range and Aerospace Meteorology
Organizer: Steven M. Green, NASA
  1:45 PM
10.2
Weather Integration Concept of Operations for Transforming the National Airspace System
Cheryl G. Souders, FAA, Washington, DC; and S. McGettingan, E. R. Dash, and J. May
  2:00 PM
10.3
Improving Air Traffic Management During Thunderstorms
Mark E. Weber, MIT, Lexington, MA; and J. Evans, M. Wolfson, R. DeLaura, B. Moser, B. Martin, J. Welch, J. Andrews, and D. Bertsimas
  2:30 PM
10.5
Route Availability Planning Tool (RAPT): Operational Experience and Lessons Learned
Rich DeLaura, MIT, Lexington, MA; and R. Todd, R. Ferris, C. Gross, and N. Yaros
  2:45 PM
10.6
Integrating Improved Weather Forecast Data with TFM Decision Support Systems
Joe Hollenberg, The MITRE Corporation, McLean, VA; and M. W. Huberdeau and M. Kinker
  3:00 PM
10.7
Weather Forecast Requirements to Facilitate Fix-based Airport Ground Delay Programs
Robert Hoffman, Metron Aviation, Inc., Herndon, VA; and J. A. Krozel and R. Jakobovits
  3:15 PM
10.8
A Concept of Operations for an Interactive Weather Briefing
Dave Rodenhuis, Air Traffic Organization, FAA, Herndon, VA
  3:30 PM
10.9
Using probabilistic scenarios-based weather event forecasts for decision-based TFM
Goli Davidson, Metron Aviation, Inc., Herndon, VA; and D. J. Krozel, C. Mueller, and W. Chan --Pending
  3:45 PM
10.10
Probabilistic Airspace Congestion Management
Stephen M. Zobell, The MITRE Corporation, McLean, VA; and C. Wanke and L. Song
  4:15 PM
10.12
  4:30 PM
10.6A
Coffee Break in the Exhibit Hall and AMS iPod Raffle

1:30 PM-5:15 PM: Thursday, 2 February 2006


Session 4
Hydrologic Data Assimilation, Parameter Estimation, And Uncertainty
Location: A403 (Georgia World Congress Center)
Host: 20th Conference on Hydrology
Cochairs: Michael Bosilovich, NASA/GSFC; Hamid Moradkhani, Portland State University
  2:00 PM
4.3
Strategic plan for HEPEX
John. C. Schaake, NOAA/NWS, Silver Spring, MD; and E. F. Wood and R. Buizza
  2:30 PM
4.5
Non-Parametric Tools for Soil Moisture Mapping Using Active Microwave Data
Tarendra Lakhankar, NOAA-CREST, The City Univ. of New York, New York, NY; and H. Ghedira and R. Khanbilvardi
  2:45 PM
4.6
Multi-sensor precipitation reanalysis
Brian R. Nelson, NOAA/NESDIS/NCDC, Asheville, NC; and D. Kim, D. J. Seo, and J. Bates
  3:00 PM
4.7
A time series analysis to assess the effect of snowpack dynamics on SSM/I brightness temperatures for various land covers in Great Lakes area
Amir E Azar, NOAA-CREST, New York, NY; and R. Khanbilvardi, P. Romanov, H. Ghedira, D. Astanehasl, and P. G. Zikalala
  3:15 PM
4.8
Description and use of Florida State University's high resolution historical precipitation database
Dennis D. VanCleve Jr., Florida State Univ., Tallahassee, FL; and H. E. Fuelberg and J. L. Sullivan, Jr.
  3:30 PM
4.9
Comparison of Rain Gauge Measurements in Mid-Atlantic Region
Ali Tokay, JCET/Univ. of Maryland Baltimore County, NASA/GSFC, Greenbelt, MD; and P. G. Bashor
  3:45 PM
4.10
Hydros Soil Moisture Measurements in the Forecasting Systems of the Meteorological Service of Canada
Stephane Bélair, MSC, Dorval, Quebec, Canada; and G. Balsamo, J. F. Mahfouf, and G. Deblonde

  4:15 PM
4.12
A new look at the assimilation of satellite retrievals of land surface temperature into a land surface model
Rolf H. Reichle, NASA/GSFC and Univ. of Maryland, Greenbelt, MD; and S. Mahanama, R. D. Koster, J. D. Radakovich, and M. G. Bosilovich
  4:30 PM
4.13
Multi-Objective calibration of the SVAT scheme TERRA/LM
Klaus-Peter Johnsen, GKSS Research Centre, Geesthacht, Germany; and S. Huneke and H. T. Mengelkamp
  4:45 PM
4.6A
Coffee Break in Exhibit Hall and AMS IPOD Raffle

1:30 PM-5:30 PM: Thursday, 2 February 2006


Session 9
TAMDAR (Tropospheric Airborne Meteorological Data Reports): New System for Collecting Automated Aircraft Reports Primarily From Short-Hop Commercial Airlines; Impacts on Forecasts of TAMDAR Data
Location: A405 (Georgia World Congress Center)
Host: 10th Symposium on Integrated Observing and Assimilation Systems for the Atmosphere, Oceans, and Land Surface (IOAS-AOLS)
Organizer: Taumi S. Daniels, NASA/LRC
  1:30 PM
9.1
Tropospheric Airborne Meteorological Data Reporting (TAMDAR) Overview
Taumi S. Daniels, NASA, Hampton, VA; and W. R. Moninger and R. D. Mamrosh
  2:00 PM
9.3
  2:15 PM
9.4
Applications of TAMDAR Aircraft Data Reports in NWS Forecast Offices
Richard D. Mamrosh, NOAA/NWS, Green Bay, WI; and E. S. Brusky, J. K. Last, E. J. Szoke, W. R. Moninger, and T. S. Daniels
  3:00 PM
9.7
TAMDAR evaluation work at the Earth System Research Laboratory Global Systems Division: an overview
William R. Moninger, NOAA/ESRL/GSD, Boulder, CO; and M. F. Barth, S. G. Benjamin, R. S. Collander, L. Ewy, B. D. Jamison, R. C. Lipschutz, P. A. Miller, B. E. Schwartz, T. L. Smith, and E. Szoke
  3:15 PM
9.8
TAMDAR aircraft impact experiments with the Rapid Update Cycle
Stan Benjamin, NOAA/FSL, Boulder, CO; and W. Moninger, T. L. Smith, B. Jamison, and B. Schwartz
  3:30 PM
9.9
Impact of TAMDAR on RUC forecasts: case studies
Edward J. Szoke, NOAA/FSL and CIRA, Boulder, CO; and B. D. Jamison, W. R. Moninger, S. Benjamin, B. Schwartz, and T. L. Smith
  4:00 PM
9.11
  4:15 PM
9.12
TAMDAR icing data comparisons against RUC model fields
Scott D. Landolt, NCAR, Boulder, CO; and M. K. Politovich and B. C. Bernstein

  4:30 PM
9.13
Current Icing Potential (CIP) Algorithm with TAMDAR Data – A Verification Analysis
Jamie T. Braid, NCAR, Boulder, CO; and C. A. Wolff, A. Holmes, M. K. Politovich, and P. Boylan
  4:45 PM
9.14
Comparison of TAMDAR GLFE Icing Reports with NASA Advanced Satellite Aviation-weather Products (ASAP) In-flight Icing Parameters
Louis Nguyen, NASA/LRC, Hampton, VA; and J. J. Murray, P. Minnis, D. P. Garber, J. K. Ayers, D. A. Spangenberg, and M. L. Nordeen
  5:00 PM
9.6a
COFFEE BREAK IN THE EXHIBIT HALL AND AMS IPOD RAFFLE


Session 10
Air-Sea Interaction in Tropical Cyclones and Intraseasonal Oscillations
Location: A309 (Georgia World Congress Center)
Host: 14th Conference on Interaction of the Sea and Atmosphere
Cochairs: Tim Li, Univ. of Hawaii; Ralph C. Foster, Univ. of Washington; Lynn Shay, University of Miami; Duane Edward Waliser, JPL
  1:30 PM
10.1
Measurements of boundary layer depth in hurricanes
Susanne Lehner, Univ. of Miami/RSMAS, Miami, FL; and P. G. Black, W. Drennan, K. B. Katsaros, and P. Vachon
  1:45 PM
10.2
  2:00 PM
10.3
Multi scale roll structures in the atmospheric boundary layer
Otto Chkhetiani, Space Research Institute, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia; and V. Ponomarev and L. Shestakova
  2:45 PM
10.6
Coherent structures in turbulent convection: observations, theory and experiments
Nathan Kleeorin, Ben-Gurion Univ. of the Negev, Beer-Sheva, Israel; and A. Eidelman, T. Elperin, I. Rogachevskii, A. Markovich, and S. Zilitinkevich
  3:00 PM
10.7
Positive feedback regimes during tropical cyclone passage
Lynn K. (Nick) Shay, Univ. of Miami/RSMAS, Miami, FL
  3:15 PM
10.8
Subseasonal Organization of Ocean Chlorophyll: Prospects for Prediction Based on the Madden-Julian Oscillation
Duane Edward Waliser, JPL, Pasadena,, CA; and R. Murtugudde, P. Strutton, and J. L. Li
  3:30 PM
10.9
Sensitivity of the tropical intraseasonal oscillation prediction to boundary conditions
Xiouhua (Joshua) Fu, Univ. of Hawaii, Honolulu, HI; and B. Wang, D. E. Waliser, and L. Tao
  4:15 PM
10.12
Role of air-sea interaction on the Madden–Julian Oscillation using a coupled AGCM–slab ocean model
Andrew G. Marshall, Monash Univ., Clayton, Victoria, Australia; and O. Alves and H. H. Hendon
  4:30 PM
10.13
Transition between suppressed and active phases of intraseasonal oscillations in the Indo-Pacific Warm Pool
Paula A. Agudelo, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA; and J. A. Curry, C. D. Hoyos, and P. J. Webster
  4:45 PM
10.14
A Two-way Coupled Modeling Study of Atmosphere-Ocean Interactions during Hurricane Frances (2004)
Hao Jin, SAIC, Monterey, CA; and Y. Jin, R. M. Hodur, and J. Doyle
  5:00 PM
10.5A
Progress in Hurricane Boundary Layer Roll Theory
Ralph C. Foster, University of Washington, Seattle, WA
  5:15 PM
10.6A
Coffee Break in the Exhibit Hall and AMS iPod Raffle

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)

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


Session 7
ASLI Business Meeting
Location: A310 (Georgia World Congress Center)
Host: Ninth Atmospheric Science Librarians International Conference: Atmospheric Sciences Libraries and Their Importance for Patrons
Moderator: Madeleine Needles, Librarian, MIT Haystack Observatory

3:30 PM-5:30 PM: Thursday, 2 February 2006


Session 3
Mesoscale Dynamics and Modeling
Location: A302 (Georgia World Congress Center)
Host: The Doug Lilly Symposium
Chair: Kelvin Droegemeier, Univ. of Oklahoma
  3:30 PM
3.1
  4:00 PM
3.2
  4:30 PM
3.3
Could hurricanes develop from random convection in a warmer world?
David S. Nolan, Univ. of Miami/RSMAS, Miami, FL; and K. A. Emanuel and E. D. Rappin

Session 11
New and Future Sensors and Applications: Part II
Location: A305 (Georgia World Congress Center)
Host: 14th Conference on Satellite Meteorology and Oceanography
Chair: Jaime Daniels, NOAA
  4:00 PM
11.3
Toward an integrated system for the calibration/validation of multisensor radiances from operational satellites
Changyong Cao, NOAA/NESDIS/STAR, Camp Springs, MD; and F. Weng, M. Goldberg, X. Wu, and J. Sullivan
  4:15 PM
11.4
Weather forecasting applications using WindSat
Thomas F. Lee, NRL, Monterey, CA; and J. S. Goerss, J. D. Hawkins, F. J. Turk, and Z. Jelenak
  4:30 PM
11.5
WindSat Ocean Surface Wind Vector and Sea Surface Temperature Products
Michael H. Bettenhausen, NRL, Washington, DC; and P. W. Gaiser
  5:15 PM
11.1A
The Global Precipitation Measurement (GPM) Mission: An Overview
George J. Huffman, NASA/GSFC, Greenbelt, MD; and A. Y. Hou

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


Exhibit Close

4:45 PM-5:00 PM: Thursday, 2 February 2006


Panel Discussion 2
Decision Support Systems Panel Discussion
Location: A301 (Georgia World Congress Center)
Host: 12th Conference on Aviation Range and Aerospace Meteorology
  4:45 PM
PD2.1
ATM-Weather integration for the JPDO NGATS
Steven M. Green, NASA, Moffett Field, CA; and E. B. Wilhelm

5:00 PM-5:00 PM: Thursday, 2 February 2006


Sessions end for the day

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

Friday, 3 February 2006

12:00 AM-12:00 AM: Friday, 3 February 2006


FRI 3 Feb

8:00 AM-5:30 PM: Friday, 3 February 2006


Annual ASLI Field Trip—Visit libraries of CNN, Georgia Tech, and the EPA in Atlanta