| | 5b.9 | Use of a neural network for a classification of wind regimes in the Central Victoria Land and their relative coupling with the synoptic description provided by the ECMWF model Paolo Grigioni, ENEA, Roma, Italy; and P. F. Coppola, A. Pellegrini, and M. Pietrella |
| 10:30 AM | 5b.10 | Katabatic winds in the McMurdo Dry Valleys, Antarctica Thomas H. Nylen, Portland State University, Portland, OR; and A. G. Fountain and P. T. Doran |
| 10:45 AM | 5b.11 | A simulation of an extreme katabatic wind event Hubert Gallée, Laboratoire d'étude des Transferts en Hydrologie et Environnement, Grenoble, France; and G. Wendler and O. Brasseur |
| 11:00 AM | 5b.12 | A ceiling and visibility prediction system suitable for Antarctic flight operations David A. Braaten, University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS; and D. F. Tucker |
| 11:15 AM | 5b.13 | A mesoscale model for operative forecast according to ICAO requirement for air navigation: simulation in the Area of Terra Nova Bay, Antarctica F. Fattori Speranza, National Program Research Antarctica ENEA, Roma, Italy; and P. Coppola, H. Gallée, P. Grigioni, and A. Pellegrini |
| 11:30 AM | 5b.14 | On the Performance of the AFWA version of the PSU/NCAR MM5 model for short-range forecasting in Alaska, the Western Arctic and North Pacific Jeffrey S. Tilley, University of Alaska, Fairbanks, AK; and J. Long, C. Weatherby, and E. L'Herault |
| 11:45 AM | 5b.15 | Climatology and Forecasting Hazaradous Weather in Canada's Northwest Territories and Nunavut Steve Ricketts, MSC, Edmonton, AB, Canada; and E. Hudson |
| 12:00 PM | 5b.16 | Numerical simulation of an Arctic ground blizzard Stephen J. Déry, McGill University, Montreal, PQ, Canada; and M. K. Yau |