| Sunday, 9 January 2000 |
| 7:30 AM-9:00 AM, Sunday
Short Course Registration |
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| 9:00 AM-6:30 PM, Sunday
Conference Registration |
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| Monday, 10 January 2000 |
| 7:30 AM, Monday
Conference Registration Continues through Friday, 14 January |
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| 9:00 AM-11:30 AM, Monday
Session 1 New observing systems or sensors |
Organizer: Frederick Zbar, NOAA/NWS, Silver Spring, MD
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| 9:00 AM | 1.1 | Ground-Based GPS Meteorology at the NOAA Forecast Systems Laboratory
Seth I. Gutman, NOAA/FSL, Boulder, CO; and K. L. Holub |
| 9:15 AM | 1.2 | Development of the U.S. Climate Reference Network
Richard R. Heim Jr., NOAA/NESDIS/NCDC, Asheville, NC; and C. E. Duchon, C. B. Baker, R. J. Leffler, A. H. Horvitz, D. Mannarano, and G. Schaefer |
| 9:30 AM | 1.3 | Field trials of Glidersonde and Remotely-piloted vehicle sounding systems
Kenneth A. Howard, NOAA/NSSL, Norman, OK; and M. W. Douglas, D. Egle, and N. Renno |
| 9:45 AM | 1.4 | Texas Tech Mobile Boundry Layer Observation systems: past successes, current plans and future goals
Mark R. Conder, Texas Tech University, Lubbock, TX; and R. E. Peterson, A. L. Doggett, and J. L. Schroeder |
| 10:00 AM | | Coffee Break
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| 10:30 AM | 1.5 | Evaluation of Aircraft (ACARS) data as a substitute for Radiosonde data: Climate Perspective
C. Bruce Baker, NOAA/NESDIS/NCDC, Asheville, NC; and R. E. Eskridge |
| 10:45 AM | 1.6 | A highly mobile system for near real time mesaurement, analysis, and prediction over mesoscale areas
J. Cogan, Army Research Laboratory, White Sands Missile Range, NM; and S. Kirby |
| 11:00 AM | 1.7 | Overview of NWS Radiosonde System Replacement
Richard D. Thomas, NOAA/NWS, Silver Spring, MD; and C. A. Bower |
| 11:15 AM | 1.8 | Water vapor measurements from commercial aircraft: progress and plans
Rex J. Fleming, NOAA/ETL and UCAR, Boulder, CO |
|  | 1.9 | A comparison of humidity measurements from ACARS-equipped aircraft and rawinsondes
Barry Schwartz, NOAA/FSL, Boulder, CO; and S. Benjamin and R. Fleming |
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| 11:45 AM-1:15 PM, Monday
Lunch Break |
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| 1:30 PM-5:15 PM, Monday
Session 2 Advances in use of observational data |
Organizer: Edward Zipser, Univ. of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT
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| 1:30 PM | 2.1 | Integrating Multi-frequency HF Doppler Radar Estimates of Wind Direction with Other Meteorological Observations to Obtain Surface Wind Patterns over Coastal Ocean Areas
Francis L. Ludwig, Environmental Fluid Mechanics Laboratory, Stanford, CA; and J. F. Vesecky and C. C. Teague |
| 1:45 PM | 2.2 | A Blended Satellite - In situ Land Surface Temperature Product
Alan Basist, NOAA/NESDIS/NCDC, Asheville, NC; and C. Williams, T. Peterson, and N. Grody |
| 2:00 PM | 2.3 | A Technique for Improving the Discrimination between Precipitation Types using the ASOS Present Weather Sensor
Charles G. Wade, NCAR, Boulder, CO |
| 2:15 PM | 2.4 | Commercial aircraft provided weather data
John Cunning, NOAA/FSL, Boulder, CO |
| 2:30 PM | 2.5 | Use of regional Precipitation forecasts for local applications
Frédéric Rossel, USDA/ARS, El Reno, OK; and J. Garbrecht |
| 2:45 PM | 2.6 | A Procedure to Use Satellite Measurements to Determine Differences Between Radiosonde Types
Larry M. McMillin, NOAA/NESDIS, Camp Springs, MD; and S. S. Zhou |
| 3:00 PM | | Coffee Break
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| 3:30 PM | 2.7 | World Weather Watch Program (Invited Presentation)
Robert Landis and Dieter C. Schiessl, WMO, Geneva, Switzerland |
| 3:45 PM | 2.8 | Operational Ground-Based GPS Water Vapor Observing System Strategies
Seth Gutman, NOAA/FSL, Boulder, CO; and P. Fang, Y. Bock, M. Bevis, S. Businger, and K. Holub |
| 4:00 PM | 2.9 | On the use of slant observations from GPS to diagnose three dimensional water vapor using 3DVAR
Alexander E. MacDonald, NOAA/FSL, Boulder, CO; and Y. Xie |
| 4:15 PM | 2.10 | Development of a User-friendly, Interactive Web Guide to In Situ Observing System Metadata Using GIS Technology
Robert W. Reeves, NOAA/NWS, Silver Spring, MD; and J. R. Schultz |
| 4:30 PM | 2.11 | A Multi-dataset Analysis Of The Morphology Of Mesoscale Convective Vortices
Christopher A. Davis, NCAR, Boulder, CO; and S. B. Trier, J. D. Tuttle, R. E. Carbone, L. J. Miller, and R. Oye |
| 4:45 PM | 2.12 | A meteorological sensor data integration technique (Part I)
Gail-Tirrell Vaucher, Army Research Laboratory, White Sands Missle Range, NM; and E. Creegan, S. Elliott, D. Quintis, J. Yarbrough, and R. Brown |
| 5:00 PM | 2.13 | Thunderstorm days climatology of Brazil:1961 through 1970
Rosangela B. B. Gin, Univ. of Sao Paulo, Sao Paulo, Brazil; and R. L. Guedes |
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| 5:00 PM-7:00 PM, Monday
1 Formal Opening of Exhibits with Reception (Cash Bar) |
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| 5:15 PM, Monday
Sessions end for the day |
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| 7:30 PM-9:30 PM, Monday
Fujita Banquet |
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| Tuesday, 11 January 2000 |
| 8:00 AM-10:15 AM, Tuesday
Session 3 New Global Observing Systems |
Organizer: Randolph Ware, UCAR, Boulder, CO
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| 8:00 AM | 3.1 | Constellation Observing System for Meteorology, Ionosphere, and Climate–-COSMIC: An Overview
Ying-Hwa Kuo, UCAR, Boulder, CO; and C. Rocken, S. Sokolovskiy, E. R. Kursinski, D. Chu, and L. Lee |
| 8:15 AM | 3.2 | GAINS--An Observing System for the 21st Century
C. M. I. R. Girz, NOAA/FSL, Boulder, CO; and A. E. MacDonald, R. L. Anderson, T. Lachenmeier, F. Caracena, B. D. Jamison, and R. S. Collander |
| 8:30 AM | 3.3 | Monitoring marine weather systems using Quickscat and TRMM data
W. Timothy Liu, JPL and California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA; and W. Tang, A. Datta, and C. S. Hsu |
| 8:45 AM | 3.4 | Advanced infrared sounding instruments for the next generation of polar orbiting satellites
Mitchell D. Goldberg, NOAA/NESDIS/ORA, Washington, DC |
| 9:00 AM | 3.5 | Sensors for NOAA's Future Geostationary Satellites
Jamison S. Hawkins, NOAA/NESDIS, Suitland, MD |
| 9:15 AM | 3.6 | Routine, wide-scale offshore soundings within five years using second-generation Aerosondes
Tad McGeer, The Insitu Group, Bingen, WA; and J. Vagners |
| 9:30 AM | 3.7 | An aerosonde adaptive observing strategy for the North Pacific Ocean
Greg J. Holland, BMRC, Melbourne, Australia; and G. Tyrrell |
| 9:45 AM | 3.8 | Global Climate Observing in Support of Climate Conventions (Invited Presentation)
Alan Thomas, WMO, Geneva, Switzerland |
| 10:00 AM | | Coffee Break (Exhibit Hours 10:00 A.M.- 2:15 P.M.)
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| 10:30 AM-11:15 AM, Tuesday
WALTER ORR ROBERTS LECTURE IN INTERDISCIPLINARY SCIENCE (Special President's Symposium on Environmental Applications). Title: Emerging Environmental Issues: A Global Perspective. Speaker: R. E. (Ted) Munn, Univ. of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada |
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| 11:15 AM-12:15 PM, Tuesday
WMO PRESENTATION (Special President's Symposium on Environmental Applications). Meteorology and the Environment - the WMO Perspective. Speaker: John W. Zillman, WMO, Geneva, Switzerland |
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| 12:15 PM-2:15 PM, Tuesday
Speaker: D. James Baker, Undersecretary of Commerce for Oceans and Atmosphere, Administrator for NOAA, Silver Spring, MD |
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| 2:15 PM-4:45 PM, Tuesday
Session 4 Assimilation |
Organizer: Thomas Schlatter, NOAA/OAR, Boulder, CO
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| 2:15 PM | 4.1 | The Development of NCEP 4D-Var System: Experimental Results Compared to those of 3D-Var
X. Zou, Florida State Univ., Tallahassee, FL; and H. Liu, J. Derber, J. G. Sela, R. Treaton, and B. Wang |
| | 4.2 | Ensemble retrospective assimilation for a global nonlinear shallow-water model
Yanqiu Zhu, NASA/GSFC, Greenbelt, MD; and R. Todling and S. E. Cohn |
| 2:30 PM | 4.3 | Deterministic prediction of the error variance of a meteorological forecast
Lars Peter Riishojgaard, JCET/Univ. of Maryland Baltimore County, Baltimore, MD |
| 2:45 PM | 4.4 | Estimation of analysis error covariances from observation residuals
Ricardo Todling, NASA/GSFC/DAO, Greenbelt, MD; and D. P. Dee |
| 3:00 PM | 4.5 | Assimilation of SeaWinds scatterometer data in the GEOS data assimilation system
Robert Atlas, NASA/GSFC, Greenbelt, MD; and E. Brin, S. C. Bloom, J. Ardizzone, J. Terry, J. C. Jusem, and D. Bungato |
| 3:15 PM | | Coffee Break (Exhibit Hours 3:30-7:00 P.M.)
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| 3:45 PM | 4.6 | Design and validation of the GEOS ozone assimilation system
Ivanka Stajner, NASA/GSFC, Greenbelt, MD; and L. P. Riishojgaard and R. B. Rood |
| 4:00 PM | 4.7 | Development of a prognostic forecast error variance model for data assimilation
Yong Li, NASA/GSFC, Greenbelt, MD; and S. E. Cohn, R. Todling, D. P. Dee, L. P. Riishojgaard, A. M. DaSilva, and Z. Toth |
| 4:15 PM | 4.8 | Optimal Vorticity Forcing of Blocking Derived from A Variational Approach
Shaoqing Zhang, Florida State Univ., Tallahassee, FL; and J. E. Ahlquist |
| 4:30 PM | 4.9 | Producing unbiased analyses in the presence of forecast bias
Ricardo Todling, NASA/GSFC, Greenbelt, MD; and D. P. Dee |
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| 5:00 PM, Tuesday
Sessions end for the day |
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| Wednesday, 12 January 2000 |
| 8:00 AM-5:15 PM, Wednesday
Joint Session 1 Joint IIPS/IOS Session on Technology for Buoy Observing Systems (Joint between the 16th International Conference on Interactive Information and Processing Systems (IIPS) for Meteorology, Oceanography, and Hydrology and the Fourth Symposium on Integrated Observing Systems) |
Organizers: Nancy Soreide, NOAA/PMEL, Seattle, WA; Cathy Woody, NOAA/NDBC; Steve Holt, Mitretek, McLean, VA
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| 8:00 AM | J1.1 | Overview of Ocean Based Buoys and Drifters: Present Applications and Future Needs
Nancy N. Soreide, NOAA/PMEL, Seattle, WA; and C. E. Woody and S. M. Holt |
| 8:15 AM | J1.2 | An Overview of National Data Buoy Center Products and Activities
Eric A. Meindl, NOAA/NDBC, Stennis Space Center, MS |
| 8:30 AM | J1.3 | TAO and PIRATA buoy networks in the tropical Pacific and Atlantic
H. Paul Freitag, NOAA/PMEL, Seattle, WA; and M. J. McPhaden |
| 8:45 AM | J1.4 | The Global Drifter Program
Mark S. Swenson, NOAA/AOML, Miami, FL |
| 9:00 AM | J1.5 | The Hawaii sea level observing system
Bernard J. Kilonsky, Univ. of Hawaii, Honolulu, HI; and M. Merrifield |
| 9:15 AM | J1.6 | The Scripps Institution of Oceanography Marine Observatory: A Platform for Real-Time Measurements of the Coastal Ocean and Atmosphere
Ian M. Brooks, SIO, La Jolla, CA; and D. P. Rogers and L. Regier |
| 9:30 AM | J1.7 | SEAKEYS 1999: Florida Keys Monitoring Initiative
J. C. Humphrey, Florida Inst. of Oceanography, Long Key, FL; and J. C. Ogden, S. L. Vargo, and J. Hendee |
| 9:45 AM | J1.8 | The Coastal Ocean Monitoring and Prediction System for West Florida
M. Luther, Univ. of South Florida, Saint Petersburg, FL |
| 10:00 AM | | Coffee Break (Exhibit Hours 10:00 am-1:30 pm)
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| 10:30 AM | J1.9 | The Texas Automated Buoy System
Norman L. Guinasso, Jr., Texas A&M Univ., College Station, TX; and F. J. Kelly, L. L. Lee, III, and R. D. Martin, Jr. |
| 10:45 AM | J1.10 | The Environmental Sensors Presently Used by the National Data Buoy Center
Eduardo D. Michelena, NOAA/NDBC, Stennis Space Flight Center, MS |
| 11:00 AM | J1.11 | Long Term Water Level Measurements Using GPS on a Buoy
Gerald L. Mader, NOAA/NWSFO, Silver Spring, MD |
| 11:15 AM | J1.12 | History of GPS Buoy Development at the Universtiy of Colorado
George H. Born, Univ. of Colorado, Boulder, CO; and D. G. Kubitschek, K. Key, and B. Haines |
| 11:30 AM | J1.13 | New Interdisciplinary Technologies and Their Potential Utilization in Ocean Observing Systems
Tommy D. Dickey, Univ. of California, Santa Barbara, CA |
| 11:45 AM | J1.14 | Advances in Buoy Technology for Wind/Wave Data Collection and Analysis
S. G. P. Skey, Axys Environmental Systems, Sidney, BC, Canada; and T. Vandall |
| 12:00 PM | | Lunch Break
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| 1:00 PM | J1.15 | Technology Development to Collect Ocean Optics Data At NDBC Weather Stations
Catherine E. Woody, NOAA/NBDC, Stennis space Center, MS |
| 1:15 PM | J1.16 | Measurement of Optical Variability of the Ocean from Autonomous Platforms
M. Lewis, Dalhousie Univ., Halifax, NS, Canada |
| 1:30 PM | J1.17 | PMEL Mooring Operations - Supporting Climate and Weather Forecasting
Hugh B. Milburn, NOAA/PMEL, Seattle, WA; and C. Meinig |
| 1:45 PM | J1.18 | Next Generation Ocean Observing Systems: Part 1 Platforms
James D. Irish, WHOI, Woods Hole, MA; and W. Paul and E. Mollo-Christensen |
| 2:00 PM | J1.19 | Next Generation Ocean Observing Systems: Part 2, Sensors/Data System/Sampling
James D. Irish, WHOI, Woods Hole, MA; and J. N. Shaumeyer and J. Borden |
| 2:15 PM | J1.20 | Next-Generation Ocean Observing Systems, Part 3: Two-way, high-speed, Low Earth Orbiting Satellite Communications
Jeffrey N. Shaumeyer, Wavix, Inc., Rockville, MD; and J. M. Borden and J. D. Irish |
| 2:30 PM | J1.21 | Internet Access to the GOES Data Collection System (DCS) with Buoy Applications
Craig A. Keeler, Mitretek Systems, McLean, VA; and A. McMath and K. Metcalf |
| 2:45 PM | J1.22 | A Cooperative Effort to Transmit Real-Time Marine Observations for Meteorologists
David B. Gilhousen, NOAA/NDBC, Stennis Space Center, MS; and H. E. Seim and P. Welsh |
| 3:00 PM | | Coffee Break (Exhibit Hours 3:00-7:30 pm)
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| 3:15 PM | J1.23 | All New Interactive Web Access to TAO Data using JavaScript
W. H. Zhu, JISAO, Univ. of Washington, Seattle, WA; and E. F. Burger, D. C. McClurg, D. W. Denbo, and N. N. Soreide |
| 3:30 PM | J1.24 | Information Management Methodology for Profiling Float Observations
Robert L. Molinari, NOAA/AOML, Miami, FL |
| 3:45 PM | J1.25 | NOPP Drifter Project--Drifter Data in the K-12 Classroom
Sarah E. Schoedinger, Consortium for Oceanographic Research & Education, Washington, DC |
| 4:00 PM | J1.26 | Interactive access to distributed in-situ data in a collaborative tool environment
Donald W. Denbo, NOAA/PMEL and JISAO/Univ.of Washington, Seattle, WA; and C. R. Windsor |
| 4:15 PM | J1.27 | Moving data and information from here to the future
William T. Turnbull, NOAA/HPCC, Silver Spring, MD |
| 4:30 PM | J1.28 | Collaborative virtual environments as a visual analysis tool
Cathy Lascara, Old Dominion Univ., Norfolk, va |
| 4:45 PM | J1.29 | Technology trends in distributed data access and visualization
Nancy N. Soreide, NOAA/PMEL, Seattle, WA |
| 5:00 PM | | Session J1 ends
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| 8:45 AM-9:30 AM, Wednesday
Session 5 Testing and simulation of observing systems |
Organizer: Mike Fritsch, Penn State Univ., State College, PA
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| 8:45 AM | 5.1 | A Predictability study using geostationary satellite wind observations during NORPEX
Ronald Gelaro, NRL, Monterey, CA; and C. A. Reynolds, R. H. Langland, and G. D. Rohaly |
| 9:00 AM | 5.2 | Verification of RUC2 Precipitation Forecasts using the NCEP Multisensor Analysis
Barry Schwartz, NOAA/FSL, Boulder, CO; and S. Benjamin |
| 9:15 AM | 5.3 | Targeted observations at NCEP: toward an operational implementation
Zoltan Toth, NOAA/NWS/NCEP/EMC, Washington, DC; and I. Szunyogh, S. Majumdar, R. Morss, B. Etherton, C. Bishop, S. Lord, M. Ralph, O. Persson, and Z. -. X. Pu |
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| 9:30 AM-10:45 AM, Wednesday
Session 6 Adaptive observations |
Organizer: Steven Lord, NOAA/NWS, Camp Springs, MD
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| | 6.1 | Impact of GOES/GMS North Pacific Wind Data on 0 to 5-day Northern Hemisphere Weather Forecasts
Rolf H. Langland, NRL, Monterey, CA; and R. Gelaro and G. Rohaly |
| 9:30 AM | 6.2 | Influence of assimilation schemes on the impact of adaptive observations
Thierry Bergot, Meteo-France, Toulouse, France |
| 9:45 AM | | Coffee Break (Exhibit Hours 10:00 A.M.-1:30 P.M.)
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| 10:15 AM | 6.3 | The First Three Years of Operational Targeting with the NOAA G-IV
Sim D. Aberson, NOAA/AOML/HRD, Miami, FL |
| 10:30 AM | 6.4 | Sensitivity to observations and targeted observations
Alex Doerenbecher, Meteo-France, Toulouse, France; and T. Bergot and F. Bouttier |
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| 11:15 AM-12:00 PM, Wednesday
Remote Sensing Lecture |
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| 12:00 PM-1:30 PM, Wednesday
Lunch Break |
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| 1:30 PM-3:45 PM, Wednesday
Session 7 Role of observing systems in weather, climate, oceans, hydrology, chemistry, etc. |
Organizer: John Cunning, NOAA/OAR, Boulder, CO
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| 1:30 PM | 7.1 | Automatic Monthly Detection of Maximum and Minimum Temperature Errors and Inhomogeneities in the NOAA/NWS Cooperative Observer Network
Matthew J. Menne, NOAA/NESDIS/NCDC, Asheville, NC; and C. E. Duchon |
| 1:45 PM | 7.2 | Integration of weather radar and lightning detection system for severe weather monitoring at SIMEPAR
Cesar A. Beneti, SIMEPAR - Parana Meteorological System, Curitiba, Parana, Brazil; and R. Fricks and F. Sato |
| | 7.3 | Ground-based GPS water vapor observations near a tornadic supercell
Nicole M. Radziwill, NOAA/FSL, Boulder, CO; and S. I. Gutman and K. L. Holub |
| | 7.4 | Characterization of Roughness Lengths at the Texas Tech Wind Engineering Research Field laboratory Using Gust Factor Analysis
Mark R. Conder, Texas Tech University, Lubbock, TX; and R. E. Peterson and D. A. Smith |
| 2:00 PM | 7.5 | Applications of Advanced Microwave Sounding Unit to improving the Analysis of Atmospheric Wind Field in Tropical Cyclones
Fuzhong Weng, NOAA/NESDIS/ORA, Washington, DC; and T. Zhu and D. Zhang |
| | 7.6 | A multi-dataset analysis of the morphology of mesoscale convective vortices
Christopher A. Davis, NCAR, Boulder, CO; and S. B. Trier, J. D. Tuttle, R. E. Carbone, L. J. Miller, and R. N. Oye |
| 2:15 PM | | Coffee Break (Exhibit Hours 3:00-7:30 P.M.)
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| 2:45 PM | 7.7 | The PIONEER project as an example of operational cost analysis
Hans von Storch, Institute of Hydrophysics/GKSS Research Center, Geesthacht, Germany |
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| 3:45 PM, Wednesday
1 Sessions end for the day |
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| 6:00 PM-7:30 PM, Wednesday
Reception (Cash Bar) |
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| 7:30 PM-9:30 PM, Wednesday
AMS Annual Awards Banquet |
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| Thursday, 13 January 2000 |
| 8:30 AM-9:30 AM, Thursday
Session 8 North American Atmospheric Observing System |
Organizer: Alexander MacDonald, NOAA/OAR, Boulder, CO
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| | 8.1 | Invited Presentation
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| 8:30 AM | 8.2 | What? Make Changes to the Upper Air Observing Program?
John B. Jalickee, NOAA/NWS, Silver Spring, MD; and W. Fellows and J. Giraytys |
| 8:45 AM | 8.3 | Operational Potentials and Realities of MDCRS
Frederick Toepfer, NOAA/NWS, Silver Spring, MD; and W. Fellows and J. Giraytys |
| 9:00 AM | 8.4 | Verification of RUC-2 forecasts for NAOS
Barry Schwartz, NOAA/FSL, Boulder, CO; and S. Benjamin and T. Schlatter |
| 9:15 AM | 8.5 | Progress in testing hypotheses for the North American Observing System (NAOS) Program
Thomas W. Schlatter, NOAA/FSL, Boulder, CO |
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| 9:00 AM, Thursday
1 Exhibit Hours 9:00 A.M.-1:30 P.M. |
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| 10:00 AM-10:30 AM, Thursday
1 Coffee Break |
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| 10:00 AM, Thursday
1 Symposium Ends |
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| 11:15 AM-12:00 PM, Thursday
Bernhard Haurwitz Memorial Lecture |
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