| Monday, 11 September 2000 |
| 5:00 PM-7:00 PM, Monday
Conference Registration |
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| Tuesday, 12 September 2000 |
| 7:15 AM-5:30 PM, Tuesday
Conference Registration |
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| 8:20 AM-8:30 AM, Tuesday
Welcome Remarks |
Organizer: David A. Sankey, FAA, Washington, DC
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| 8:30 AM-9:00 AM, Tuesday
Keynote Address |
Organizer: Speaker: Maj. General Roy Bridges, NASA Kennedy Space Center, FL, Presentation Title: Future Changes in American Space Program-Challenges to Meteorological Support
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| 9:00 AM-11:00 AM, Tuesday
Session 1 Program Overview |
Organizers: David A. Sankey, FAA, Washington, DC; Stephen D. Pearson, NASA/MSFC, Huntsville, AL
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| 9:00 AM | 1.1 | The Modernization of Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) Weather Systems—An Update
Cheryl G. Souders, FAA, Washington, DC; and R. C. Showalter |
| 9:20 AM | 1.2 | Global challenges and opportunities in aeronautical meteorology
Neil D. Gordon, WMO, Geneva, Switzerland and MetService, Wellington, New Zealand |
| 9:40 AM | 1.3 | Operations of the National Weather Service Spaceflight Meteorology Group
Frank C. Brody, NOAA/NWS, Houston, TX |
| 10:00 AM | | Coffee Break
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| 10:20 AM | 1.4 | Activities of the Federal Aviation Administration's Aviation Weather Research Program
David A. Sankey, FAA, Washington, DC; and G. J. Kulesa, D. J. Pace, W. L. Fellner, J. E. Sheets, and P. J. Kirchoffer |
| 10:40 AM | 1.5 | The Role of ITWS in the National Airspace System (NAS) Modernization
Cheryl G. Souders, FAA, Washington, DC; and R. C. Showalter |
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| 11:00 AM-3:10 PM, Tuesday
Session 2 Aviation Accidents and Case Studies |
Organizer: Wayne R. Sand, Aviation Weather Consulting, Boulder, CO
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|  | 2.1 | A Baseline of Turbulence Impacts on Commercial Air Carrier Operations
Charles G. (Lin) Lindsey, Northwest Research Associates, Inc., Bellevue, WA |
| 11:00 AM | 2.2 | A case study from the 1999 Collaborative Convective Forecast Product project
Paul C. Fike, NOAA/NWS/NCEP/Aviation Weather Center, Kansas City, MO |
| 11:20 AM | 2.3 | Case study verification of RUC/MAPS fog and visibility forecasts
Tatiana G. Smirnova, CIRES/Univ. of Colorado and NOAA/FSL, Boulder, CO; and S. G. Benjamin and J. M. Brown |
| 11:40 AM | | Lunch Break
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| 1:10 PM | 2.4 | Commercial Aircraft Encounters with Thunderstorms in the Memphis Terminal Airspace
Dale A. Rhoda, MIT Lincoln Laboratory, Lexington, MA; and B. G. Boorman, E. A. Bouchard, M. A. Isaminger, and M. L. Pawlak |
| 1:30 PM | 2.5 | The 11 August 1999 Salt Lake City tornado
Steven V. Vasiloff, NOAA/NSSL, Norman, OK; and L. B. Dunn |
| 1:50 PM | 2.6 | Dynamics of an unforecast clear air turbulence outbreak over the upper midwest United States
John A. Knox, Valparaiso University, Valparaiso, IN; and E. V. Jansen |
| 2:10 PM | 2.7 | The Crash of USAir Flight 1016, Preparing the Weather Case for Trial
Michael R. Smith, WeatherData, Inc., Wichita, KS; and S. P. Pryor and E. Prater |
| 2:30 PM | 2.8 | Meteorology surrounding the Roselawn accident
Wayne R. Sand, Aviation Weather Consulting, Boulder, CO; and C. J. Biter |
| 2:50 PM | | Coffee Break
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| 1:00 PM-1:20 PM, Tuesday
Daily Weather Briefings |
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| 3:30 PM-5:30 PM, Tuesday
Session 3 Aviation Operations Support |
Organizer: Cheryl G. Sounders, FAA, Washington, DC
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| 3:30 PM | 3.1 | Display of Advanced Weather Products for En Route Air Traffic Controllers
James P. Kelley, The MITRE Corporation, McLean, VA |
| 3:50 PM | 3.2 | Demonstration on the usability of the 1999 Terminal Convective Weather Forecast (TCWF) product for Air Traffic Control managers
Starr F. McGettigan, FAA, Atlantic City, NJ; and C. B. Fidalgo and T. C. Carty |
| 4:10 PM | 3.3 | Airline Operations Center Usage of FAA Terminal Weather Information Products
James E. Evans, MIT Lincoln Laboratory, Lexington, MA |
| 4:30 PM | 3.4 | An interactive gridded aviation weather database: results of a pilot project
Richard Verret, MSC, Dorval, PQ, Canada; and M. F. Turcotte, V. Souvanlasy, M. Baltazar, and M. Ouellet |
| 4:50 PM | 3.5 | Recent Enhancements and Plans for the Aviation Digital Data Service (ADDS)
Lynn A. Sherretz, NOAA/FSL, Boulder, CO; and G. Thompson and P. Kennedy |
| 5:10 PM | 3.6 | Creating An Aviation "Centre Of Expertise"
Steve Ricketts, MSC, Edmonton, AB, Canada |
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| 5:30 PM-8:00 PM, Tuesday
Welcome Reception (Cash Bar)/Viewing of Posters from both the Ninth Conference on Aviation, Range, & Aerospace Meteorology and 20th Conference on Severe Local Storms) |
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| 5:30 PM, Tuesday
Oral Sessions end for the day |
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| 5:30 PM-7:00 PM, Tuesday
Poster Session 1 Aviation Range and Aerospace Meteorology: Formal Viewing |
Organizers: Wayne R. Sand, Aviation Weather Consulting, Boulder, CO; William W. Vaughan, Univ. of Alabama, Huntsville, AL
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| | P1.1 | Key Parameters in Forecasting IFR Conditions: Two Case Studies
D. A. Braaten, University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS; and I. Jirak, D. F. Tucker, C. Pan, and P. A. Browning |
| | P1.2 | On the use of MM5 in an aviation weather forecast system
James F. Bresch, NCAR, Boulder, CO; and J. G. Powers, K. W. Manning, and J. G. Michalakes |
| | P1.3 | Evaluation of the National Convective Weather Forecast Product
Dan Megenhardt, NCAR, Boulder, CO; and C. K. Mueller, N. Rehak, and G. Cunning |
| | P1.4 | Comparison of Three Wind Measuring Systems for Flight Test
Edward H. Teets Jr., NASA Dryden Flight Research Center, Edwards, CA; and P. O. Harvey |
| | P1.5 | On the use of neural networks and conditional climatology to predict peak wind speed at Cape Canaveral's Atlas launch pad
Kenneth P. Cloys, Air Force Institute of Technology, 28th Operational Weather Squadron, Shaw Air Force Base, SC; and M. K. Walters, L. K. Coleman, and W. P. Roeder |
| | P1.6 | Verification of short range thunderstorm forecasts using radar data to assess their benefit to the aviation community
D. J. Hoad, UK Met Office, Bracknell, Berks., United Kingdom |
| | P1.7 | Verification of Upper Air Forecasts for the Space Shuttle and the X38 Flight Tests
Dan G. Bellue, NOAA/NWS/Spaceflight Meteorology Group, Houston, TX |
| | P1.8 | Graphical Area Forecast (GFA) Breaking the Text Barrier in the New Millennium
Daniel Chretien, MSC, Dorval, PQ, Canada; and M. Crowe |
| | P1.9 | A Comparison Between Sounding Data and Model Data Used for Aviation Weather Hazards
Jeffrey E. Passner, U.S. Army Research Laboratory, White Sands Missile Range, NM |
| | P1.10 | A Meteorological Analysis of the American Airlines Flight 1420 Accident
Erik A. Proseus, MIT Lincoln Laboratory, Lexington, MA |
| | P1.11 | An investigation of clear air versus in cloud turbulence
Donna F. Tucker, University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS; and D. M. Crnkovich, D. W. McCann, and D. A. Braaten |
| | P1.12 | Current work of the Aviation Applications Research Group at The UK Met Office
S. James, UK Met Office, Bracknell, Berks., United Kingdom; and C. Bysouth, T. Scott, D. J. Hoad, and R. Lunnon |
| | P1.13 | Fog Forecast for the Kimpo International Airport of Korea
Jiyoung Kim, Meteorological Research Institute/KMA, Seoul, Korea; and S. N. Oh, Y. Chun, J. C. Choi, and H. K. Min |
| | P1.14 | Global climatology of clear air turbulence activity deduced from a numerical model index
Gary P. Ellrod, NOAA/NESDIS, Camp Springs, MD |
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| Wednesday, 13 September 2000 |
| 8:00 AM-3:50 PM, Wednesday
Session 3 Aviation Operations Support (Continued)(Parallel with Session 4) |
Organizers: James H. Henderson, NOAA/NWS/Aviation Weather Center, Kansas City, MO; Miro Lehky, Air Transport Association, Washington, DC
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| 8:00 AM | 3.7 | Taftools: Development of Objective TAF guidance at CMC
Pierre Bourgouin, Canadian Meteorological Centre, Dorval, PQ, Canada; and R. Verret, L. Wilson, and J. Montpetit |
| | 3.8 | Providing Flight Information Service to aircraft in Alaska: Architectural considerations for extending the service to the lower 48 states
Rob Strain, The MITRE Corporation, McLean, VA |
| 8:20 AM | 3.9 | The Advanced Operational Aviation Weather System (AOAWS) in Taiwan
Chin-Piao Pu, Civil Aeronautics Administration, Taipei, Taiwan; and T. A. Wang |
| 8:40 AM | 3.10 | Use of a mixed-phase microphysics scheme in the operational NCEP Rapid Update Cycle
John M. Brown, NOAA/FSL, Boulder, CO; and T. G. Smirnova, S. G. Benjamin, R. Rasmussen, G. Thompson, and K. Manning |
| 9:00 AM | 3.11 | Weather Sensing and Data Fusion to Improve Safety and Reduce Delays at Major West Coast Airports
James E. Evans, MIT Lincoln Laboratory, Lexington, MA; and T. J. Dasey, R. E. Cole, and D. A. Rhoda |
| 9:20 AM | 3.12 | Proposed Improvements to the ASOS Sky Condition Algorithm
Joseph V. Fiore Jr., Raytheon Information Technology and Scientific Services, Sterling, VA |
| 9:40 AM | | Coffee Break
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| 10:00 AM | 3.13 | A Study of Time-To-Fly Estimates for RUC and ITWS Winds
Rodney E. Cole, MIT, Lexington, MA; and S. K. Kim |
| 10:20 AM | 3.14 | An Improved Terminal Winds Analysis Technique
Rodney E. Cole, MIT, Lexington, MA |
| 10:40 AM | 3.15 | Automated Aircraft Meteorological Data Reporting
Charles H. Sprinkle, NOAA/NWS, Silver Spring, MD; and N. D. Gordon |
| 11:00 AM | 3.16 | CGen: Enabling AWC forecasters to generate convective SIGMETs via AWIPS
Dennis M. Rodgers, NOAA/OAR/FSL, Boulder, CO; and G. Pratt and J. Frimel |
| 11:20 AM | 3.17 | Medium Intensity Airport Weather System (MIAWS)
Gregory W. Rappa, MIT Lincoln Laboratory, Lexington, MA; and W. Heath, E. Mann, and A. Matlin |
| 11:40 AM | | Lunch Break
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| 1:10 PM | 3.18 | National Convective Weather Forecast airline dispatcher assessment
Danny L. Sims, FAA, Atlantic City, NJ; and C. B. Fidalgo and T. C. Carty |
| 1:30 PM | 3.19 | Encoding of Graphical Images for Aviation Use
Chris Moody, The MITRE Corporation, McLean, VA; and J. Giovino |
| 1:50 PM | 3.20 | Analysis of the Integrated Terminal Weather System (ITWS) 5-NM Product Suite
Mark A. Isaminger, MIT Lincoln Laboratory, Lexington, MA; and E. A. Proseus |
| 2:10 PM | 3.21 | Delay Reduction at Newark International Airport using Terminal Weather Information Systems
Shawn S. Allan, MIT Lincoln Laboratory, Lexington, MA; and S. G. Gaddy |
| 2:30 PM | | Coffee Break
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| 2:50 PM | 3.22 | Distribution of Integrated Terminal Weather System (ITWS) Products Using Web Technology
Steve Maloney, MIT Lincoln Laboratory, Lexington, MA |
| 3:10 PM | 3.23 | Extending the Integrated Terminal Weather System (ITWS) to Address Urgent Terminal Area Weather Needs
James E. Evans, MIT Lincoln Laboratory, Lexington, MA; and M. M. Wolfson |
| 3:30 PM | 3.24 | Traffic Flow Management (TFM) Weather Rerouting Decision Support
Joseph E. Sherry, The MITRE Corp., McLean, VA; and C. G. Ball and S. M. Zobell |
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| 8:00 AM-4:30 PM, Wednesday
Session 4 Aviation Icing (Parallel with Session 3) |
Organizers: Marcia K. Politovich, NCAR, Boulder, CO; Andrew L. Reehorst, NASA, Cleveland, OH
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| 8:00 AM | 4.1 | Good News From the FAA's InFlight Icing Product Development Team
Marcia K. Politovich, NCAR, Boulder, CO; and B. G. Brown |
| 8:20 AM | 4.2 | Freezing Drizzle and Supercooled Large Droplet (SLD) Formation in Stably Stratified Layer Clouds: Results from Detailed Microphysical Simulations and Implications for Aircraft Icing
Roy M. Rasmussen, NCAR, Boulder, CO; and I. Geresdi, G. Thompson, K. Manning, and E. Karplus |
| 8:40 AM | 4.3 | Environments associated with large droplet, small droplet, mixed-phase icing, and glaciated conditions aloft
Ben C. Bernstein, NCAR, Boulder, CO; and F. McDonough |
| 9:00 AM | 4.4 | Aircraft Icing Detection Using S-band Polarization Radar Measurements
S. M. Ellis, NCAR, Boulder, CO; and J. Vivekanandan, E. A. Brandes, J. L. Stith, and R. J. Keeler |
| 9:20 AM | 4.5 | Application of a mixed-phase microphysics scheme to predict aircraft icing
Gregory Thompson, NCAR, Boulder, CO; and B. C. Bernstein and R. M. Rasmussen |
| 9:40 AM | 4.6 | An icing product derived from operational satellite data
William L. Smith Jr., Analytical Services and Materials, Inc., Hampton, VA; and P. Minnis and D. F. Young |
| 10:00 AM | | Coffee Break
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| 10:20 AM | 4.7 | Pilot information requirements for improved in-flight icing decisions
Laurence N. Vigeant-Langlois, MIT, Cambridge, MA; and R. J. Hansman |
| 10:40 AM | 4.8 | Simulations and Observations Implicating Mesoscale Gravity Waves in Producing an Environment which is Conducive to Aircraft Icing
Michael L. Kaplan, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC; and A. J. Riordan, Y. -. L. Lin, A. W. Huffman, K. M. Lux, and K. T. Waight |
| 11:00 AM | 4.9 | Percent Power Increase–a simple way to quantify an icing hazard
Donald W. McCann, NOAA/NWS/NCEP/Aviation Weather Center, Kansas City, MO; and P. R. Kennedy |
| 11:20 AM | 4.10 | Regional icing algorithm performance analysis
Tressa L. Kane, NCAR, Boulder, CO; and B. G. Brown and B. C. Bernstein |
| 11:40 AM | 4.11 | Mixed-phase Inflight Icing Conditions
Marcia K. Politovich, NCAR, Boulder, CO; and J. T. Riley |
| 12:00 PM | | Lunch Break
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| 1:30 PM | 4.12 | A research aircraft verification of the Integrated Icing Diagnostic Algorithm (IIDA)
Ben C. Bernstein, NCAR, Boulder, CO; and F. McDonough, M. K. Politovich, and B. G. Brown |
| 1:50 PM | 4.13 | An aircraft flight test program in natural icing conditions: part 1—forecasting for the desired meteorological conditions
Wayne R. Sand, Aviation Weather Consulting, Boulder, CO; and C. J. Biter |
| 2:10 PM | 4.14 | An aircraft flight test program in natural icing conditions: part 2–correspondence between the forecast icing conditions, the actual icing conditions and the type and amount of ice accreted on the aircraft
Ralph Sorrells, Mitsubishi Heavy Industries America Inc., Dallas, TX; and W. R. Sand and C. J. Biter |
| 2:30 PM | 4.15 | A climatography of freezing rain, freezing drizzle, and ice pellets across North America
John V. Cortinas Jr., University of Oklahoma/CIMMS and NOAA/NSSL, Norman, OK; and C. C. Robbins, B. C. Bernstein, and J. W. Strapp |
| 2:50 PM | | Coffee Break
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| 3:10 PM | 4.16 | Integrated Icing Diagnostic Algorithm assessment at regional airlines
Danny L. Sims, FAA, Atlantic City, NJ; and C. B. Fidalgo and T. C. Carty |
| 3:30 PM | 4.17 | Freezing Drizzle Identification from the Automated Surface Observing System (ASOS): Field Evaluation of a Proposed Multi-Sensor Algorithm
Allan C. Ramsay, Raytheon Information Technology and Scientific Services, Sterling, VA; and J. Dover |
| 3:50 PM | 4.18 | Integrated Icing Diagnostic Algorithm Meteorological Evaluation
Jeffrey A. Weinrich, System Resources Corp. and FAA, Atlantic City, NJ; and T. C. Carty, D. L. Sims, and V. S. Passetti |
| 4:10 PM | 4.19 | Surface Ice Accretion Rates from the Automated Surface Observing System (ASOS): An Issue for Deicing Holdover Times
Allan C. Ramsay, Raytheon Information Technology and Scientific Services, Sterling, VA |
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| 1:00 PM-1:20 PM, Wednesday
Daily Weather Briefings |
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| 4:30 PM, Wednesday
Sessions end for the day |
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| 5:00 PM, Wednesday
Meet at Front Entrance of the Radisson Hotel to board bus for Universal Studios (for banquet) |
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| Thursday, 14 September 2000 |
| 8:00 AM-5:49 PM, Thursday
Session 5 Forecasting and Evaluation/Verification (Parallel with Sessions 6 & 7) |
Organizers: Dewey E. Harms, 45th Weather Squadron, Patrick AFB, FL; David R. Rodenhuis, NOAA/NWS/Aviation Weather Center, Kansas City, MO; Mark T. Surmeier, Headquarters Air Force Weather Agency, Offutt AFB, NE
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| 8:00 AM | 5.1 | Forecast Aids to Lessen the Impact of Marine Stratus on San Francisco International Airport
F. Wesley Wilson, MIT Lincoln Laboratory, Lexington, MA; and D. A. Clark |
| 8:20 AM | 5.2 | Preliminary evaluation of a First Guess ceiling forecast at Space Shuttle landing sites
Timothy D. Oram, Spaceflight Meteorology Group, Houston, TX |
| 8:40 AM | 5.3 | Steps to Improve Ceiling and Visibility Forecasts for Aviation
James J. Gurka, NOAA/NESDIS, Suitland, MD; and F. R. Mosher |
| 9:00 AM | 5.4 | A Fuzzy Logic System for the Analysis and Prediction of Cloud Ceiling and Visibility
Kevin R. Petty, NCAR, Boulder, CO; and A. B. Carmichael, G. M. Wiener, M. A. Petty, and M. N. Limber |
| 9:20 AM | 5.5 | Evaluation of Ceiling and Visibility Prediction: Preliminary Results over California using the Navy's Coupled Ocean/Atmosphere Mesoscale Prediction System (COAMPS)
Daniel A. Geiszler, SAIC, Monterey, CA; and J. Cook, P. Tag, W. Thompson, R. Bankert, and J. Schmidt |
| 9:40 AM | 5.6 | AWIPS era real time TAF, FWC, and LAMP ceiling and visibility verification program at WFO Tulsa
James M. Frederick, NOAA/NWS, Tulsa, OK; and S. A. Amburn |
| 10:00 AM | | Coffee Break
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| 10:20 AM | 5.7 | TAF Verification: Performance Measurement or Quality Improvement?
Kent A. Johnson, MSC, Kelowna, BC, Canada; and U. Gramann |
| 10:40 AM | 5.8 | An observations-based, statistical system for short-term probabilistic forecasts of aviation-sensitive weather parameters
Joby L. Hilliker, Penn State University, University Park, PA; and J. M. Fritsch |
| | 5.9 | A new method for estimating the lifetime of atmospheric features as a function of their vertical scale and its advantage over coherence analysis
Francis J. Merceret, NASA, Kennedy Space Center, FL; and A. Szpiro |
| 11:00 AM | 5.10 | Performance Support Delivery System for Use in Aviation and Range Weather Forecasting. (Fomerly paper 5.17)
Roger C. Whiton, SAIC, O'Fallon, IL; and L. K. Starlin, R. G. Borchers, and A. A. Guiffrida |
| 11:19 AM | 5.11 | Short term forecasting of snowbands using Doppler radar observations and a cloud-scale model
Mei Xu, NCAR, Boulder, CO; and J. Sun, N. A. Crook, and R. Rasmussen |
| 11:39 AM | 5.12 | FAA Terminal Convective Weather Forecast Algorithm Assessment
K. E. Theriault, MIT, Lexington, MA; and M. M. Wolfson, B. E. Forman, R. G. Hallowell, M. P. Moore, and R. J. Johnson |
| 11:59 AM | | Lunch Break
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| 1:29 PM | 5.13 | FAA Terminal Convective Weather Forecast benefits analysis
Jim S. Sunderlin, MCR Federal, McLean, VA; and G. Paull |
| 1:49 PM | 5.14 | Improvement of Terminal Area Forecasts
C. Pan, University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS; and I. Jirak, D. Tucker, D. A. Braaten, P. A. Browning, and D. Beusterien |
| 2:09 PM | 5.15 | Wind and Temperature Verification Statistics for the Operational Terminal Area PBL Prediction System at the Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport
J. J. Charney, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC; and M. L. Kaplan, Y. -. L. Lin, K. T. Waight, K. D. Pfeiffer, J. A. Thurman, and C. M. Hill |
| 2:29 PM | 5.16 | An evaluation of using lightning data to improve aviation oceanic convective forecasting for the Gulf of Mexico
Alan Nierow, FAA, Washington, DC; and R. C. Showalter |
| 2:49 PM | | Coffee Break
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| 3:09 PM | 5.17 | Verification of icing and turbulence forecasts: why some verification statistics can't be computed using PIREPs (Fomerly paper 5.10)
Barbara G. Brown, NCAR, Boulder, CO; and G. S. Young |
| 3:29 PM | 5.18 | A multiple scale precipitation tracking and forecast package
Janelle M. Janish, NOAA/NSSL and CIMMS/Univ. of Oklahoma, Norman, OK |
| 3:49 PM | 5.19 | Convective intercomparison exercise: Baseline statistical results
Jennifer Luppens Mahoney, NOAA/ERL/FSL, Boulder, CO; and B. G. Brown, C. Mueller, and J. E. Hart |
| 4:09 PM | 5.20 | Natural and triggered lightning forecasts for space shuttle landings
Tim Garner, NOAA/NWS, Houston, TX; and T. D. Oram |
| 4:29 PM | 5.21 | Development of an acoustic ray-trace model, high-resolution boundary-layer measurements, and meso-G scale forecasts driven by off-range, blast-noise management requirements
Charles A. Clough, U.S Army, Aberdeen Proving Ground, MD; and J. K. Luers and E. J. Hall |
| 4:49 PM | 5.22 | The 20-km version of the Rapid Update Cycle
Stanley G. Benjamin, NOAA/FSL, Boulder, CO; and J. M. Brown, G. A. Grell, K. J. Brundage, D. Devenyi, D. Kim, T. G. Smirnova, T. L. Smith, G. A. Manikin, B. E. Schwartz, and S. S. Weygandt |
| 5:09 PM | 5.23 | EMC support for aviation forecasting efforts using the Eta model
Geoffrey S. Manikin, NOAA/NWS/NCEP/EMC and SAIC/GSC, Camp Springs, MD; and T. L. Black and G. DiMego |
| 5:29 PM | 5.24 | A sensitivity and benchmark study of RAMS in the Eastern Range Dispersion Assessment System
Jonathan L. Case, NASA, Kennedy Space Center, and ENSCO, Inc., Cocoa Beach, FL; and J. Manobianco, A. V. Dianic, D. E. Harms, and P. N. Rosati |
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| 8:00 AM-10:00 AM, Thursday
Session 6 Space Vehicle Operations Support (Parallel with Session 5) |
Organizer: Billie F. Boyd, 45th Weather Squadron, Patrick AFB, FL
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| 8:00 AM | 6.1 | Weather Support To Range Safety For Forecasting Atmospheric Sonic Propagation
Billie F. Boyd, 45th Weather Squadron, Patrick AFB, FL; and D. E. Harms, P. N. Rosati, C. R. Parks, and K. B. Overbeck |
| 8:20 AM | 6.2 | Weather support to the NASA Deep Space Network
G. Wayne Baggett, NOAA/NWS/Spaceflight Meteorology Group, Houston, TX; and S. D. Slobin |
| 8:40 AM | 6.3 | Return-To-Launch-Site abort landing weather: impact upon launch availability
Tim Garner, NOAA/NWS/Spaceflight Meteorology Group, Houston, TX |
| 9:00 AM | 6.4 | KSC ABFM 2000–A field program to facilitate safe relaxation of the lightning launch Commit criteria for America's space program
Francis J. Merceret, NASA, Kennedy Space Center, FL; and H. Christian |
| 9:20 AM | 6.5 | Hurricane Properties for KSC and Mid-Florida Coastal Sites
D. L. Johnson, NASA/MSFC, Huntsville, AL; and M. A. Rawlins |
| 9:40 AM | 6.6 | A Characterization of the Terrestrial Environment of Kodiak, Alaska for the Design Development, and Operation of Launch Vehicles
Michael A. Rawlins, Raytheon ITSS/MSFC Group, Huntsville, AL; and D. L. Johnson and G. W. Batts |
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| 10:20 AM-4:10 PM, Thursday
Session 7 Turbulence and Wind Shear (Parallel with Session 5) |
Organizers: L. J. Ehernberger, Jr., NASA Dryden Flight Reserach Center, Edwards, CA; William W. Vaughan, Univ. of Alabama, Huntsville, AL
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| 10:20 AM | 7.1 | Aircraft Encounters with Mountain Wave-Induced Clear Air Turbulence: Hindcasts and Operational Forecasts using an Improved Global Model
Stephen D. Eckermann, NRL, Washington, DC; and D. Broutman and J. T. Bacmeister |
| 10:40 AM | 7.2 | Clear Air Turbulence and Refractive Turbulence in Upper Troposphere and Lower Stratosphere
Owen R. Cote, Air Force Research Laboratory, Hanscom AFB, MA; and J. M. Hacker, T. L. Crawford, and R. J. Dobosy |
| 11:00 AM | 7.3 | Preliminary results of the NCAR Integrated Turbulence Forecasting Algorithm (ITFA) to forecast CAT
R. Sharman, NCAR, Boulder, CO; and B. G. Brown and S. Dettling |
| 11:20 AM | 7.4 | The turbulence algorithm intercomparison exercise: statistical verification results
Barbara G. Brown, NCAR, Boulder, CO; and J. L. Mahoney, J. Henderson, T. L. Kane, R. Bullock, and J. E. Hart |
| 11:40 AM | 7.5 | Integrated Turbulence Forecasting Algorithm Meteorological Evaluation
Victor S. Passetti, Basic Commerce and Industries, Inc. and FAA, Atlantic City, NJ; and D. L. Simms, T. C. Carty, and J. A. Weinrich |
| 12:00 PM | | Lunch Break
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| 1:30 PM | 7.6 | Observational and Numerical Simulation-Derived Factors That Characterize Turbulence Accident Environments
Michael L. Kaplan, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC; and Y. -. L. Lin, A. J. Riordan, K. M. Lux, and A. W. Huffman |
| 1:50 PM | 7.7 | A Windshear Hazard Index
Fred H. Proctor, NASA/LRC, Hampton, VA; and D. A. Hinton and R. L. Bowles |
| 2:10 PM | 7.8 | Vertical Wind Shear near Airports as an Aviation Hazard
Rodney E. Cole, MIT, Lexington, MA; and S. S. Allan and D. W. Miller |
| 2:30 PM | 7.9 | Developing a Mosaicked Gust Front Detection Algorithm for TRACONS with Multiple TDWRs
Justin D. Shaw, MIT Lincoln Laboratory, Lexington, MA; and B. A. Crowe and S. W. Troxel |
| 2:50 PM | | Coffee Break
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| 3:10 PM | 7.10 | Distribution of aviation weather hazard information: Low Altitude Wind Shear
Thomas H. Fahey, III, Northwest Airlines, Inc, St. Paul, MN; and J. Bernays, P. J. Biron, and R. E. Cole |
| 3:30 PM | 7.11 | Modeling of atmospheric effects on wake vortices
Robert E. Robins, Northwest Research Associates, Inc., Bellevue, WA; and D. P. Delisi |
| 3:50 PM | 7.12 | Numerical Simulation of Aircraft Trailing Vortices
Fred H. Proctor, NASA/LRC, Hampton, VA; and G. F. Switzer |
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| 1:00 PM-1:20 PM, Thursday
Daily Weather Briefings |
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| 6:00 PM, Thursday
Sessions end for the day |
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| Friday, 15 September 2000 |
| 8:00 AM-11:40 AM, Friday
Joint Session 1 Advances in Weather Radar Support for Severe Local Storms Research and Aviation (Joint between Ninth Aviation Conference and 20th Severe Local Storms Conference) |
Organizers: Robert E. Saffle, NOAA/NWS, Silver Spring, MD; Steve Shema, FAA, Washington, DC
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| 8:00 AM | J1.1 | NEXRAD Open Systems–Progress and Plans
Robert E. Saffle, NOAA/NWS, Silver Spring, MD; and L. D. Johnson |
| 8:20 AM | J1.2 | The NEXRAD enhancements product development team: A Program Update
J. William Conway, NOAA/NSSL and CIMMS/Univ. of Oklahoma, Norman, OK |
| 8:40 AM | J1.3 | Continued progress in the development of the WSR-88D OPUP
K. Hondl, NOAA/NSSL, Norman, OK; and E. Ciardi |
| 9:00 AM | J1.4 | Progress in the Use of Weather data from Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) Radars in combination with the WSR-88D
Robert E. Saffle, NOAA/NWS, Silver Spring, MD; and M. Istok, S. Shema, S. M. Holt, and L. D. Johnson |
| 9:20 AM | J1.5 | The THOR Project Improved thunderstorm forecasts for aviation and the general public
Stephan B. Smith, NOAA/NWS, Silver Spring, MD |
| 9:40 AM | J1.6 | The utility of the TDWR data in weather forecast offices
J. T. Johnson, Weather Decision Technologies, Inc., Norman, OK; and D. J. Miller, M. D. Eilts, and R. E. Saffle |
| 10:00 AM | | Coffee Break
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| 10:20 AM | J1.7 | Operational Experience with Weather Products Generated through Joint Use of FAA and NWS Weather Radar Sensors
James E. Evans, MIT Lincoln Laboratory, Lexington, MA |
| 10:40 AM | J1.8 | FAA Weather Processors use the WSR-88D Data to improve Air Traffic Control Operations
Kevin Young, FAA, Washington, DC; and J. Peyrebrune and T. Lehane |
| 11:00 AM | J1.9 | FAA’s Weather and Radar Processor (WARP) Convective Storm Demonstration
Benn Deans, FAA, Washington, DC; and T. Hicks, R. Graff, and S. Walden |
| 11:20 AM | J1.10 | FAA Surveillance Radar Data as a complement to the WSR-88D network
Mark E. Weber, MIT Lincoln Laboratory, Lexington, MA |
| | J1.11 | The FAA's Medium Intensity Airport Weather System (MIAWS)
Steve Shema, FAA, Washington, DC; and B. Bumgarner and G. Rappa |
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| 9:00 AM-2:50 PM, Friday
Session 8 Sensors and Systems (Parallel with Joint Sessions J1 and J2) |
Organizers: John A. Ernst, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical Univ., Daytona Beach, FL; Lynn Sherretz, NOAA/FSL, Boulder, CO; Steve Holt, Mitretek Systems, McLean, VA
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| 9:00 AM | 8.1 | Automated Meteorological Profiling System (AMPS) Description
Robert P. Divers, Orbital Sciences Corp., Chandler, AZ; and P. Viens, K. Bzdusek, G. Herman, R. Hoover, and T. Mitchell |
| 9:20 AM | 8.2 | Characteristics of wind profiles derived from the GPS based Automated Meteorological Profiling System (AMPS)
Timothy L. Wilfong Sr., Science and Technology Corporation at the NOAA/ETL, Boulder, CO; and R. Walterscheid, M. W. Maier, C. L. Crosiar, M. S. Hinson, and R. Divers |
| 9:40 AM | 8.3 | Characteristics of thermodynamic profiles derived from the GPS based Automated Meteorological Profiling System (AMPS)
Michael W. Maier, Computer Sciences Raytheon, Patrick Air Force Base, FL; and J. McCann, H. Herring, G. Wilke, T. Wilfong, M. Hinson, and C. Crosair |
| 10:00 AM | | Coffee Break
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| 10:20 AM | 8.4 | A Comparison of the Automated Meteorological Profiling System High Resolution Flight Element to the Kennedy Space Center 50MHz Doppler Wind Profiler
Barry C. Roberts, NASA, Huntsville, AL; and F. B. Leahy |
| 10:40 AM | 8.5 | Characteristics of wind profiles derived from a stabilized balloon and differential GPS technology
Timothy L. Wilfong Sr., Science and Technology Corporation at the NOAA/ETL, Boulder, CO; and J. Barat, C. L. Crosiar, and R. Walterscheid |
| | 8.6 | An operational Local Data Integration System (LDIS) at NWS Melbourne
Scott M. Spratt, NOAA/NWS, Melbourne, FL; and P. F. Blottman, D. W. Sharp, A. J. Cristaldi, J. Case, and J. Manobianco |
| 11:00 AM | 8.7 | An Initial RUC cloud analysis assimilating GOES cloud-top data
Dongsoo Kim, NOAA/FSL, Boulder, CO; and S. G. Benjamin |
| 11:20 AM | 8.8 | Measurement of Hazardous Winter Storm Phenomena at the Portland OR International Airport
Bradley A. Crowe, MIT Lincoln Laboratory, Lexington, MA; and J. E. Evans and D. W. Miller |
| 11:40 AM | | Lunch Break
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| 1:10 PM | 8.9 | Retrieval of Cloud Microphysics During the Mt. Washington Icing Sensors Project (MWISP)
Charles C. Ryerson, U. S. Army Corps of Engineers Cold Regions Research and Engineering Laboratory, Hanover, NH; and G. G. Koenig and F. R. Scott |
| 1:30 PM | 8.10 | Verified Detection of Supercooled Large Droplets with Dual-Polarized, Millimeter-wave Radar
Roger F. Reinking, NOAA/ETL, Boulder, CO; and S. Y. Matrosov, C. C. Ryerson, R. A. Kropfli, and B. W. Bartram |
| 1:50 PM | 8.11 | A Technique for Improving the Detection of Drizzle and Freezing Drizzle on ASOS Automated Weather Observing Stations
Charles G. Wade, NCAR, Boulder, CO |
| 2:10 PM | 8.12 | Evaluation of Snow Forecasts Provided by the Weather Support to Deicing Decision Making (WSDDM) System
Steven V. Vasiloff, NOAA/NSSL, Salt Lake City, UT; and R. Rasmussen, M. Dixon, and F. Hage |
| 2:30 PM | 8.13 | Volume scan strategies for the WSR-74C in support of Space Launch
David A. Short, ENSCO, Inc., Cocoa Beach, FL; and M. S. Gremillion, C. S. Pinder, and W. P. Roeder |
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| 1:00 PM-1:20 PM, Friday
Daily Weather Briefings |
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| 1:30 PM-3:10 PM, Friday
Joint Session 2 Thunderstorm Impacts (Joint Session between Ninth Conference on Aviation, Range, & Aerospace Meteorology and the 20th Conference on Severe Local Storms) |
Organizer: Kevin Knupp, Univ. of Alabama, Huntsville, AL
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| 1:30 PM | J2.1 | Evaluation of the NCAR Thunderstorm Auto-Nowcast System
Cynthia K. Mueller, NCAR, Boulder, CO; and T. Saxen, R. Roberts, and J. Wilson |
| 1:50 PM | J2.2 | Exploring the Possibility of a Low Altitude Gravity Wave Encounter as the Cause of a General Aviation Accident near Norman Oklahoma on December 6, 1998
David W. Miller, MIT Lincoln Laboratory, Dallas Field Site, Dallas, TX |
| 2:10 PM | J2.3 | Global thunderstorm guidance forecasts from the AVN Model from the VVSTORM Algorithm
Donald W. McCann, NOAA/NWS/NCEP/Aviation Weather Center, Kansas City, MO |
| 2:30 PM | J2.4 | Use of a new Thunderstorm Potential Index for 12-hour forecasts using mesoscale model data
David I. Knapp, U.S. Army Research Laboratory, White Sands Missile Range, NM; and G. Brooks |
| 2:50 PM | J2.5 | Ensemble Cloud Model Applications to Thunderstorm Forecasting
Kimberly L. Elmore, NOAA/NSSL and CIMMS/Univ. of Oklahoma, Norman, OK; and D. J. Stensrud and K. C. Crawford |
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| 3:10 PM, Friday
Sessions end for the day |
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| Saturday, 16 September 2000 |
| 8:00 AM-11:40 AM, Saturday
Session 8 Sensors and Systems (Continued) |
Organizers: Lynn Sherretz, NOAA/FSL, Boulder, CO; Steve Holt, Mitretek Systems, McLean, VA
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| 8:00 AM | 8.14 | Multi-frequency and Polarization Radar-Based Detection of Liquid Droplets
J. Vivekanandan, NCAR, Boulder, CO; and G. Zhang and M. K. Politovich |
| 8:20 AM | 8.15 | Tracking Rocket Nominal Launch and Abort Plumes Using WSR-88D Doppler Radar
Carlton R. Parks, ACTA, Inc., Cape Canaveral, FL; and P. N. Rosati |
| 8:40 AM | 8.16 | The detection of convective turbulence using airborne Doppler radars
Larry B. Cornman, NCAR, Boulder, CO; and J. K. Williams and R. K. Goodrich |
| 9:00 AM | 8.17 | Operational Quality Control of 50-MHz DRWP Wind Profiles for Space-Lift Support
Michael E. Fitzpatrick, 45th Weather Squadron, Patrick AFB, FL; and R. S. Schumann, W. C. Lambert, F. J. Merceret, G. D. Wilke, and J. D. Chapman |
| 9:20 AM | 8.18 | Airborne Coherent Lidar for Advanced In-Flight Measurements (ACLAIM) — Flight Testing of the Lidar Sensor
David C. Soreide, Boeing Company, Seattle, WA; and R. K. Bogue, D. A. Bowdle, and S. M. Hannon |
| 9:40 AM | 8.19 | Laser Beam Ceilometer Comparisons March 1998–April 1999
David M. Giles, Raytheon Information Technology and Scientific Services, Sterling, VA |
| 10:00 AM | | Coffee Break
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| 10:20 AM | 8.20 | Evaluation of boundary layer remote sensors at airport environments
J. Allen Zak, Vigyan, Inc, Hampton, VA; and W. G. Rodgers |
| 10:40 AM | 8.21 | ITWS and ITWS/LLWAS-NE Runway Alert Performance at Dallas-Ft. Worth and Orlando
Mark A. Isaminger, MIT Lincoln Laboratory, Lexington, MA; and B. A. Crowe and E. A. Proseus |
| | 8.22 | Evaluation of the effectiveness of precipitation gauge wind shielding for real-time snow measurement
Jeffrey A. Cole, NCAR, Boulder, CO; and R. M. Rasmussen and C. Wade |
| 11:00 AM | 8.23 | A comparison of GOES-8 imagery with cloud-top penetrations by a research aircraft
Frank McDonough, NCAR, Boulder, CO; and B. C. Bernstein |
| 11:20 AM | 8.24 | Estimation of instrument cloud base conditions at night using GOES and surface temperature data
Gary P. Ellrod, NOAA/NESDIS, Camp Springs, MD |
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| 12:00 PM, Saturday
Conference ends |
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| 1:00 PM-1:20 PM, Saturday
Daily Weather Briefings |
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