| Sunday, 9 January 2000 |
| 7:30 AM-9:00 AM, Sunday
Short Course Registration |
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| 9:00 AM-6:00 PM, Sunday
Conference Registration |
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| 7:00 PM-8:30 PM, Sunday
1 Welcome Reception |
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| Monday, 10 January 2000 |
| 7:30 AM, Monday
1 Conference Registration Continues Through Friday, 14 January |
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| 8:30 AM-12:15 PM, Monday
Session 1 Interdisciplinary Applications (Parallel with Sessions 2 & 3) |
Organizers: Larry Denton, Denton & Associates, Queensbury, MD; Terry Tarbell, Litton/PRC, McLean, VA
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| 8:30 AM | 1.1 | Introduction and Overview
Floyd Hauth, IIPS Program Chairperson, USAF (retired), Osceola Mills, PA |
| 8:45 AM | 1.2 | The Killer Tornado Outbreak of 3 May 1999: Applications of OK-FIRST in Rural Communities
Kenneth C. Crawford, Oklahoma Climatological Survey (OCS), Univ. of Oklahoma, Norman, OK; and D. A. Morris |
| 9:00 AM | 1.3 | Managing weather-related diversions through automated detection
Gary W. Lucas, Sonalysts, Inc., Waterford, CT; and K. A. Lucas |
| 9:15 AM | 1.4 | The Stand Alone Weather Sensors (SAWS) system: An FAA program for replacement and backup of critical weather observations at Service Level "C" airports and Flight Service Stations
Matoka W. Forbes, FAA, Washington, DC; and D. Strawbridge, T. A. Seliga, M. Guidry, and D. Bryan |
| 9:30 AM | 1.5 | TACMET - A Commercial, Versatile Automated Weather Observation System for Demanding Tactical Military Needs
Selwyn L. Alpert, Vaisala, Inc., Helsinki, Finland and, Woburn, MA; and H. Kokko |
| 9:45 AM | 1.6 | Scalability and Modularity of Weather/Aviation IIPS
P. Joshua Rovero, Sonalysts, Inc., Waterford, CT |
| 10:00 AM | | Coffee Break
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| 10:30 AM | 1.7 | Using filtering theory to predict lightning strikes
Scott J. Brunza, Sonalysts, Inc., Waterford, CT; and C. R. Coleman and J. M. Jakacky |
| 10:45 AM | 1.8 | Forecast Utilization Of Video Camera Technology
Brian McInerney, NOAA/NWSFO, Salt Lake City, UT; and A. Horvitz |
|  | 1.9 | NOAA PORTS and Coastal Forecasting
Stephen Gill, NOAA/NOS, Silver Spring, MD; and F. Klein |
| | 1.10 | Digital libraries in the atmospheric sciences: a practical academic perspective
D. P. Wojtowicz, Univ. of Illinois, Urbana, IL; and R. B. Wilhelmson, M. K. Ramamurthy, and D. J. Bramer |
| 10:58 AM | 1.10A | Utilizing LDAD's Emergency Manager Decision Support System for Emergency Response Activities
Deborah A. Miller, NOAA/FSL, Boulder, CO; and M. Kelsch, G. M. Levy, and L. J. Angus |
| 11:13 AM | 1.11 | Enhancing the Grid Analysis & Display System (GrADS) to read HDF-EOS data
Don K. Hooper, CIRES/Univ. of Colorado and NOAA/CDC, Boulder, CO |
| 11:28 AM | 1.12 | Exploiting technology for education and research
Thomas M. Whittaker, CIMSS, Univ. of Wisconsin, Madison, WI; and S. Ackerman |
| 11:43 AM | 1.13 | Integrated sensor training professional development series: A New Teletraining Approach
Anthony J. Mostek, NOAA/NWS, Boulder, CO; and S. Bachmeier, T. Whittaker, D. Bikos, B. Motta, and B. Zajac |
| 11:58 AM | | Lunch Break
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| 10:30 AM-11:45 AM, Monday
Session 2 Post-analysis of Year 2000 issues and problems (Parallel with Sessions 1 & 3) |
Organizers: John Lincoln, Consultant, Berryville, VA; Howard Diamond, NOAA/NWS, Silver Spring, MD
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| 10:30 AM | 2.1 | Overview
John Lincoln, Consultant, Berryville, VA |
| 10:45 AM | 2.2 | Year 2000 (Y2K) Testing and Compliance in the National Weather Service - Lessons Learned
Howard J. Diamond, NOAA/NWS, Silver Spring, MD |
| 11:00 AM | 2.3 | Year 2000 (Y2K) Data Analysis and Contingency Planning to Ensure Continued International Weather Data Receipt at the National Weather Service into the New Millennium
Howard J. Diamond, NOAA/NWS, Silver Spring, MD |
| 11:15 AM | 2.4 | Y2K Testing and AWIPS: Lessons Learned
Michelle E. Drew, Litton/PRC, McLean, VA; and M. Tankersley |
| 11:30 AM | | Session 11 ends
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Session 3 Issues, technology, and applications of IIPS in Modeling and Simulation (Parallel with Sessions 1 & 2) |
Organizer: Commander Dale Liechty, U.S. Navy, Office Chief, Air and Space Natural Environment Modeling and Simulation Agent, Washington, DC
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| 10:30 AM | 3.1 | Invited Speaker: Air Force Directorate of Weather's Joint Role as the DoD Modeling and Simulation Executive Agent for Air and Space Natural Environment
F. P. Lewis |
| 11:00 AM | 3.2 | Invited Speaker: Department of Defense Modeling and Simulation: An Introduction to Facets of Environmental Support
Ronald D. Haynes, Dynamics Research Corp., Scott AFB, IL; and D. Lucas |
| 11:30 AM | 3.3 | Advanced Climate Modeling and Environmental Simulations (ACMES): Bringing DoD Climatological Support into the 21st Century
Matthew K. Doggett, Air Force Combat Climatology Center, Asheville, NC |
| 11:45 AM | 3.4 | The Incorporation of High Resolution Climatological Data into Environmental Tactical Decision Aids
John R. Hummel, ANL, Argonne, IL; and A. P. Campbell, M. L. Kehrer, G. R. Lurie, and K. L. Simunich |
| 12:00 PM | | Lunch Break
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| 1:30 PM | 3.5 | Cloud Impacts For Aggregate Military Simulations Using CSSM Statistics
Joel B. Mozer, U.S. Air Force Research Lab., Hanscomb AFB, MA; and G. P. Seeley, S. C. Gordon, and D. J. Smalley |
| 1:45 PM | 3.6 | The Integrated Ocean Project
Richard A. Allard, NRL, Stennis Space Center, MS; and K. Miles and M. D. Earle |
| 2:00 PM | 3.7 | Providing Physically Consistent Environmental Data In Support of DoD Modeling and Simulation
Gary B. McWilliams, DoD Modeling and Simulation Executive Agent for the Air and Space Natural Environment, Asheville, NC |
| 2:15 PM | 3.9 | The Synthetic Environment Data Representation and Interchange and Specification (SEDRIS)
Robert M. Cox, SAIC, Orlando, FL; and J. R. Schaefer |
| 2:30 PM | 3.10 | The Environmental Scenario Generator
Steve Lowe, SAIC, Virginia Beach, VA; and E. Kihn and R. Siquig |
| 2:45 PM | | Coffee Break
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| 3:15 PM | 3.11 | Joint Weather Impact System (JWIS) Architecture
Bruce Thompson, Air Force Weather, Washington, DC |
| 3:30 PM | 3.12 | Visualization Techniques for Applications of High-Resolution Numerical Weather Models
Lloyd A. Treinish, IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center, Yorktown Heights, NY; and Z. D. Christidis |
| 3:45 PM | 3.13 | Tools for tailoring the synthetic natural environment
Peter S. Dailey, Litton/TASC, Inc., Reading, MA; and T. A. Hutchinson and S. O. Ouzts |
| 4:00 PM | 3.14 | Nuclear, Biological, and Chemical Hazard Prediction Modeling: A New Approach
Richard B. Bensinger, Litton-TASC, Reading, MA; and J. A. Shorter |
| 4:15 PM | 3.15 | The Environmental WorkBench - An Interactive 3D Analysis and Visualization Tool for Meteorology and Environmental Applications
Dennis A Moon, SSESCO, Inc., Shoreview, MN; and W. A. Lyons |
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Session 4 Application of IIPS in Forecasting (Parallel with Session 3) |
Organizers: David Pace, SAIC, Washington, DC; Carl Thormeyer, FNMOC, Monterey, CA
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| 1:00 PM | 4.1 | Overview
David Pace, SAIC, Washington, DC |
| 1:15 PM | 4.2 | Applications of the Battlescale Forecast Model for the Army
Jeffrey E. Passner, U.S. Army Research Lab., White Sands Missile Range, NM; and R. E. Dumais and D. P. Sauter |
| 1:30 PM | 4.3 | Models, forecasters, and Interactive Forecast Preparation in the new millennium
David P. Ruth, NOAA/NWS/TDL, Silver Spring, MD |
| 1:45 PM | 4.4 | Generating watches, warnings, and advisories using Interactive Forecast Preparation
Kenneth S. Sperow, NOAA/NWS/TDL, Silver Spring, MD; and R. K. Meiggs, W. J. Goodman, and W. D. Jiang |
| 2:00 PM | 4.5 | Generating watch, warning, and advisory broadcast scripts for the NOAA Weather Radio using Interactive Forecast Preparation
Patrick V. Laybe, NOAA/NWS/TDL, Silver Spring, MD; and K. S. Sperow and R. K. Meiggs |
| 2:15 PM | 4.6 | Managing product improvement in the Interactive Forecast Preparation System
John L. Schattel Jr., NOAA/NWS/TDL, Silver Spring, MD; and R. K. Meiggs |
| 2:30 PM | 4.7 | Generating marine forecasts using Interactive Forecast Preparation
Matthew R. Peroutka, NOAA/NWS/TDL, Silver Spring, MD; and J. E. Calkins |
| 2:45 PM | 4.8 | The analysis and interpretation of three-dimensional lightning flash information
Martin J. Murphy, Global Atmospherics, Inc., Tucson, AZ; and K. L. Cummins and L. M. Maier |
| 3:00 PM | | Coffee Break
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| 3:15 PM | 4.9 | Final performance evaluation of the Automated Lightning Detection and Reporting System (ALDARS)
Kenneth A. Kraus, FAA, Washington, DC; and T. A. Seliga and J. R. Kranz |
| 3:30 PM | 4.10 | Development of Processing Software for the Global Theater Weather Analysis and Prediction System (GTWAPS)
Chris Franks, Harris Corp., Bellevue, NE; and C. F. Meier and R. T. Williams |
| 3:45 PM | 4.11 | Using Symmetric MultiProcessing (SMP) on a Massively Parallel Processing (MPP) system to Support Meso-Scale Weather Modeling for the Global Theater Weather Analysis and Prediction System (GTWAPS)
Keith H. North, IBM, Omaha, NE; and J. D. Benson, J. Tuccillo, and R. T. Williams |
| 4:00 PM | 4.12 | Status of the Global Theater Weather Analysis and Prediction System (GTWAPS)
Kevin M. Starr, TRW Inc., Bellevue, NE; and B. D. Morris and M. Adams |
| 4:15 PM | 4.13 | An examination of Battlescale Forecast Model Initializations over complex terrain
Werner E. Cook, Univ. of Oklahoma, Norman, OK; and J. S. Greene, W. S. Lyons, K. D. Sterling, P. A. Haines, and D. I. Knapp |
| 4:30 PM | 4.14 | Developing New Methods for Aviation Weather Forecast Production
Frederick J. Foss, NOAA/NWS/AWC, Kansas City, MO; and D. R. Frank, J. H. Henderson, and D. R. Rodenhuis |
| 4:45 PM | 4.15 | National Weather Service SAFESEAS - Update on A New Marine/Coastal Monitoring and Forecasting Capability for AWIPS
Paul A. Hirschberg, NOAA/NWS, Silver Spring, MD; and S. B. Smith and M. M. Mercer |
| 5:00 PM | 4.16 | The benefits of visual multi-source, multi-resolution data analysis and fusion
Alfred M. Powell Jr., Autometric, Inc., Springfield, VA; and P. A. Zuzolo |
| 5:15 PM | 4.17 | High Volume METOC Chart Production Using Beowulf Technology
Earl V. Ravid, FNMOC, Monterey, CA; and S. Lowder |
| 5:30 PM | | Session 4 ends
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| 5:00 PM-7:00 PM, Monday
1 Formal Opening of Exhibits with Reception (Cash Bar) |
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| 7:30 PM, Monday
1 Fujita Banquet |
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| Tuesday, 11 January 2000 |
| 8:00 AM-12:30 PM, Tuesday
Session 5 Unidata applications and extensions |
Organizers: Linda Miller, UCAR, Boulder, CO; John Merrill, Univ. of Rhode Island, Kingston, RI
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| 8:00 AM | 5.1 | Overview
Linda Miller, UCAR, Boulder, CO |
| 8:15 AM | 5.2 | Unidata: A Tale of Two Networks
David W. Fulker, UCAR, Boulder, CO |
| 8:30 AM | 5.3 | Using Realtime Unidata Products in the Verner Suomi Virtual Museum
Thomas M. Whittaker, CIMSS/Univ. of Wisconsin, Madison, WI; and S. Ackerman |
| 8:45 AM | 5.4 | Current Meteorological Data Acquisition Issues
Robert P. Kambic, Unidata/UCAR, Boulder, CO; and E. R. Davis, J. Weber, and T. Yoksas |
| 9:00 AM | 5.5 | The importance of Unidata support to Plymouth State College
James P. Koermer, Plymouth State College, Plymouth, NH |
| 9:15 AM | 5.6 | Satellite image analysis in support of atmospheric chemistry campaigns: Examples of Unidata's impact on interdisciplinary graduate research and education
Jennie L. Moody, Univ. of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA; and O. R. Cooper and A. J. Wimmers |
| 9:30 AM | 5.7 | Unidata's path for NOAAport data distribution
Steven R. Chiswell, Unidata/UCAR, Boulder, CO; and M. Schmidt |
| 9:45 AM | 5.8 | Penn State and weather analysis: The Unidata age
Arthur A. Person, Penn State Univ., University Park, PA; and G. S. Young |
| 10:00 AM | | Coffee Break (Exhibit Hours 10:00 am-2:15 pm)
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| 10:15 AM | 5.9 | Custom Meteorological Forecasts and Nowcasts in Support of Astronomical Operations at Mauna Kea in Support of Astronomical Operations at Mauna Kea
Steven Businger, Univ. of Hawaii, Honolulu, HI; and R. Knabb, D. Simons, and R. J. Wainscoat |
| 10:30 AM | 5.10 | Future directions for meteorological data distribution
John Caron, Unidata/UCAR, Boulder, CO; and E. Davis, D. Murray, and R. K. Rew |
| 10:45 AM | 5.11 | The NWS/COMET case study library in the new millennium
Elizabeth Mulvihill Page, NOAA/NWS, Boulder, CO; and D. Kiessling and J. Weber |
| 11:00 AM | 5.12 | Toward a geosciences computer laboratory
Edward E. Hindman, City College of New York, New York, NY; and S. D. Gedzelman, J. C. Steiner, R. M. Kahn, and S. J. Richards |
| 11:15 AM | 5.13 | An Example of Unidata's Future in New Sotfware: THE VisAD COMPENTENT ARCHITETURE FOR COLLABORATIVE DATA ANALYSIS AND VISUALIZATION
William Hibbard, Univ. of Wisconsin, Madison, WI |
| 11:30 AM | 5.14 | An Example of Unidat's Future in Collaborative Data Access: High-Resolution Doppler Radar Volumes in Real Time
Kelvin Droegemeier, Univ. of Oklahoma, Norman, OK |
| 11:45 AM | 5.15 | Future Directions for Unidata Applications
Russell K. Rew, UCAR, Boulder, CO; and J. L. Caron, S. R. Emmerson, and D. R. Murray |
| 12:00 PM | 5.16 | A GEMPAK script for estimating diabatic heating
Patrick S. Market, Univ. of Missouri, Columbia, MO; and J. T. Moore |
| 12:15 PM | | Conference Luncheon
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| 10:30 AM, Tuesday
1 Walter Orr Roberts Lecture in Interdisciplinary Science (Part of the President's Symposium on Environmental Applications). Title: Emerging Environmental Issues: A Global Perspective of Scope. Speaker: R. E. (Ted) Munn, Univ. of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada |
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| 11:15 AM-12:00 PM, Tuesday
1 Meteorology and the Environment - the WMO Perspective. John W. Zillman, Bureau of Meteorology, Melbourne, Vic., Australia |
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| 12:15 PM, Tuesday
1 Conference Luncheon - Speaker: D. James Baker, Underscretary of Commerce for Oceans and Atmosphere, NOAA Administrator, Washington, DC |
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| 2:15 PM-5:29 PM, Tuesday
Session 6 Technology and technique development at laboratories and in industries associated with meteorology, hydrology and oceanography (Parallel with Session 7) |
Organizers: Dan McMorrow, Johns Hopkins Univ., Laurel, MD; Robert Introne, Consultant, Nashua, NH
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| 2:15 PM | 6.1 | Overview
Dan McMorrow, Johns Hopkins Univ., Laurel, MD |
| 2:30 PM | 6.2 | Using Numerical Weather Modeling to Customize Synthetic Natural Environments
Robert A. Reynolds, Litton/TASC, Reading, MA; and T. A. Hutchinson and P. S. Dailey |
| 2:45 PM | 6.3 | A System For Development and Display of A Consensus of Model Data
Henry Margusity, AccuWeather, Inc, State College, PA; and M. A. Steinberg |
| | 6.4 | Interactive Java Graphics of Network-Distributed in-situ Data Sets in a Collaborative Tool Environment
Donald W. Denbo, NOAA, Seattle, WA; and C. R. Windsor |
| 3:00 PM | 6.5 | Software Development for Surface Water Quality Modeling
M. Lahlou, Tetra Tech, Inc., Fairfax, VA; and J. Hamrick, Z. Ji, J. Ouyang, M. Morton, J. Shen, and W. D. Tate |
| 3:15 PM | | Coffee Break (Exhibit Hours 3:30-7:00 pm)
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| 3:45 PM | 6.6 | Target Acquisition Weather Software (TAWS)
Jeffrey S. Morrison, Litton/TASC, Reading, MA; and R. B. Bensinger, C. V. Gilbert, M. J. Gouveia, R. B. Turkington, J. L. Wylie, and P. Tattelman |
| | 6.7 | Time motion of forecasters using interactive workstations
Frederick R. Mosher, NOAA/NCEP/AWC, Kansas City, MO |
| 3:59 PM | 6.7A | Preliminary Evaluations of Using Lightning Data to Improve Oceanic Convective Forecasting for Aviation
Alan Nierow, FAA, Washington, DC; and R. C. Showalter, F. Mosher, J. Jalickee, and K. Cummins |
| 4:14 PM | 6.8 | An integrated meteorological monitoring and display system for emergency response
Matthew J. Parker, Westinghouse Savannah River Co., Aiken, SC; and C. H. Hunter, L. C. Heavner, G. L. Snyder, and R. A. Mueller |
| 4:29 PM | 6.9 | Collaborative Virtual Environments As A Visual Analysis Tool
Cathy M. Lascara, Old Dominion Univ., Norfolk, VA; and G. Wheless |
| 4:44 PM | 6.10 | GIS Applications in Climate and Meteorology
Scott T. Shipley, Raytheon Systems Company, Lanham, MD |
| 4:59 PM | 6.11 | Getting critical weather and flood information to end-users: a comparison of the Integrated Weather Effects Decision Aid (IWEDA) and the Local Data Acquisition and Dissemination (LDAD) systems
Christopher R. Adams, CIRA/Colorado State Univ., Fort Collins, CO; and K. E. Eis |
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Session 7 European Applications: Observing systems, communications systems, analysis and forecasting systems, dissemination systems to special services needed to serve the surface transportation industry (including transportation management centers and traffic flow control) (Parallel with Session 6) |
Organizers: Horst Boettger, ECMWF, Reading, Berks. United Kingdom; John Lincoln, Consultant, Berryville, VA
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| 2:15 PM | 7.1 | Overview
Horst Bottger, ECMWF, Reading, Berks., United Kingdom |
| 2:30 PM | 7.2 | Horace - The expanding role of wake-up calls
Alan M. Radford, UK Met Office, Bracknell, Berks., United Kingdom |
| 2:45 PM | 7.3 | Operational Forecasting Use of Objective Analysis Techniques
Philip H. Dominy, UK Met Office, Bracknell, Berks., United Kingdom |
| 3:00 PM | 7.4 | Tasks supervision at ECMWF
Baudouin Raoult, ECMWF, Reading, Berks., United Kingdom |
| 3:15 PM | 7.5 | Web based interface to the ECMWF archive
Baudouin Raoult, ECMWF, Reading, Berks., United Kingdom |
| 3:30 PM | | Coffee Break (Exhibit Hours 3:30-7:00 pm)
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| 4:00 PM | 7.6 | Meteosat image and Grid data analysis system
Janusz M. Jasinski, Military Univ. of Technology, Warsaw, Poland; and K. Kroszczynski and I. A. Winnicki |
| 4:15 PM | 7.7 | Finite element method in Hermitian spaces in the analysis of irregular atmospheric processes
Ireneusz A. Winnicki, Military Univ. of Technology, Warsaw, Poland; and J. M. Jasinski |
| 4:30 PM | 7.8 | Use of NT Based Systems By the UK Met Office and Its Customers
W. H. Moores, UK Met Office, Bracknell, Berks., United Kingdom; and P. Hayes |
| 4:45 PM | 7.9 | Forecasts of strong wind and in-cloud icing for the Danish Great Belt bridge
Anna Hilden, Danish Meteorological Inst., Copenhagen, Denmark |
| 5:00 PM | 7.10 | The EuroROSE Project
Heinz Gunther, GKSS Research Centre, Geesthacht, Germany; and K. Reichert, K. -. W. Gurgel, G. Evensen, L. Wyatt, J. Guddal, and J. C. Nieto-Borge |
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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 |
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| 8:00 AM-12:30 PM, Wednesday
Session 8 Modernization activities of government and commercial weather services (Parallel with Sessions J1 &9) |
Organizer: Elbert W. (Joe) Friday, Jr., National Research Council, Washington, DC
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| 8:00 AM | 8.1 | Overview
Elbert W. (Joe) Friday Jr., National Research Council, Washington, DC |
| 8:15 AM | 8.2 | Invited Presentation
John J. (Jack) Kelly, NOAA/NWS, Silver Spring, MD |
| 8:45 AM | 8.3 | Invited Presentation
Fred P. Lewis, USAF, Pentagon, Washington, DC |
| 9:15 AM | 8.4 | Invited Presentation
Kenneth E. Barbor, Naval Meteorology and Oceanography Command, Stennis Space Center, MS |
| 9:45 AM | 8.5 | The World Area Forecast System: A Personal and Historic Prospective
Charles H. Sprinkle, NOAA/NWS, Silver Spring, MD |
| 10:00 AM | | Coffee Break (Exhibit Hours 10:00 am-1:30 pm)
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| 10:30 AM | 8.6 | Application Programs that Relate to WWW
Robert Landis, WMO, Geneva, Switzerland |
| 10:45 AM | 8.7 | An interactive information and processing system to assist the military with command and control decision making
David P. Sauter, Army Research Lab., White Sands Missile Range, NM |
| 11:00 AM | 8.8 | FAA aviation weather research program in support of National Aviation Weather Initiatives
Steven R. Albersheim, DOT, Washington, DC |
| 11:15 AM | 8.9 | AWIPS Validation Efforts at COMET
Craig S. Hartsough, UCAR, Boulder, CO; and L. Neilley, S. Jesuroga, and G. Byrd |
| 11:30 AM | 8.10 | Generating automated monthly, seasonal and annual climatological summaries in the AWIPS era
Jason P. Tuell, Litton/PRC, McLean, VA; and D. T. Miller, D. E. Murphy, B. E. Reed, and D. J. Zipper |
| 11:45 AM | 8.11 | Development of a Data Architecture for the NWS Hydrologic Services Program
Geoffrey M. Bonnin, NOAA/NWS, Silver Spring, MD; and D. Urban |
| 12:00 PM | 8.12 | National Weather Service Requirements Process
Richard A. Lane, NOAA/NWS, Silver Spring, MD; and L. D. Johnson |
| 12:15 PM | | Session 8 ends
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Session 9 AWIPS (Parallel with Sessions J1 & 8) |
Organizer: Mary Glackin, NOAA/NESDIS, Silver Spring, MD
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| 10:30 AM | 9.1 | Update on Commissioning the Advanced Weather Interactive Processing System (AWIPS)
Joseph Facundo, NOAA/NWS, Silver Spring, MD |
| 10:45 AM | 9.2 | AWIPS Operational Test and Evaluation (OT&E) for Commissioning
Mary D. Buckingham, NOAA/NWS, Silver Spring, MD |
| 11:00 AM | 9.3 | The AFOS PIL Header to AWIPS WMO Header Translation Tool (PIL-to-WMO Translator)
Joseph Facundo, NOAA/NWS, Silver Spring, MD; and H. J. Diamond and D. Fineran |
| 11:15 AM | 9.4 | Product Usage Patterns at the AWIPS Build 4.2 OT&E Sites
Patrice C. Kucera, NOAA/FSL, Boulder, CO; and S. P. Longmore and W. F. Roberts |
| 11:30 AM | 9.5 | Products Availability Monitoring System (PAMS) An Indispensable Test and Evaluation Tool for AWIPS
Khien Ba Nguyen, NOAA/NWS, Silver Spring, MD; and J. Facundo |
| 11:45 AM | 9.6 | Application of Products Availability Monitoring System (PAMS) to AWIPS OT&E Testing
Khien Ba Nguyen, NOAA/NWS, Silver Spring, MD; and J. Facundo |
| 12:00 PM | 8.9 | AWIPS Validation Efforts at COMET
Craig S. Hartsough, UCAR, Boulder, CO; and L. Neilley, S. Jesuroga, and G. Byrd |
| 12:15 PM | 9.8 | Advanced Weather Interactive Processing System (AWIPS) in a National Center
JoAnna L. Green, NOAA/NCEP/AWC, Kansas City, MO |
| 12:30 PM | | Lunch Break
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| 1:30 PM | 9.9 | The Construction of an AWIPS Software Demonstration System for the NWS Spaceflight Meteorology Group
Mark John Keehn, NOAA/NWS, Houston, TX; and M. Magsig, J. Cowie, and D. Hines |
| 1:45 PM | 9.10 | AWIPS and International Use
Terry C. Tarbell, Litton/PRC, McLean, VA; and K. Ward, H. Pomeranz, and J. Shea |
| 2:00 PM | 8.10 | Generating automated monthly, seasonal and annual climatological summaries in the AWIPS era
Jason P. Tuell, Litton/PRC, McLean, VA; and D. T. Miller, D. E. Murphy, B. E. Reed, and D. J. Zipper |
| 2:15 PM | 9.12 | AWIPS Accelerated Deployment: A Success Story with Lessons Learned
Jack Hayes, Litton/PRC, McLean, VA; and S. Zareski, E. Moore, and D. Holloran |
| 2:30 PM | 9.13 | AWIPS and the Network Control Facility: Status and a Guide to Troubleshooting
Denis Meanor, Litton/PRC, McLean, VA; and D. Deitz and E. Moore |
| 2:45 PM | 9.14 | Evolving AWIPS to Meet NWS Requirements and to take Advantage of Advancing Science and Technology
Ward R. Seguin, NOAA/NWS, AWIPS Program Office, Silver Spring, MD |
| 3:00 PM | 9.15 | AWIPS Moving Into Operations Phase
Richard K. Thigpen, NOAA/NWS, Silver Spring, MD |
| 3:15 PM | | Coffee Break
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| 3:30 PM-5:30 PM, Wednesday
Session 10 Modernization: Observing Systems (Parallel with Session J1) |
Organizers: Howard Diamond, NOAA/NWS, Silver Spring, MD; M. Douglass Gifford, NOAA/NWS, Silver Spring, MD
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| 3:30 PM | 10.1 | Climate data continuity with ASOS rain observations
Thomas B. McKee, Colorado State Univ., Fort Collins, CO; and N. J. Doesken, J. Kleist, and N. L. Canfield |
| 3:45 PM | 10.2 | Quality control algorithms used in the Automated Surface Observing System
M. Douglas Gifford, NOAA/NWS, Silver Spring, MD; and R. N. Parry |
| 4:00 PM | 10.3 | A Status Report on ASOS Ceilometer Algorithm Development
Joseph V. Fiore Jr., Raytheon ITSS, Sterling, VA |
| 4:15 PM | 10.4 | Ceilometer Comparisons March 1998 - April 1999
David M. Giles, Raytheon ITSS, Sterling, VA |
| 4:30 PM | 10.5 | All-Weather Precipitation Accumulation Gauge Comparisons with Standard NWS 8-inch Manual Gauge
Lynn J. Winans, Raytheon ITSS, Sterling, VA; and B. Taubvurtzel |
| 4:45 PM | 10.6 | Paper transferred to Session 6, paper 6.7a
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| 5:00 PM | 10.7 | The Value of Wind Standards to Society
Thomas J. Lockhart, Meteorological Standards Institute, Fox Island, WA |
| 5:15 PM | | Session 10 ends
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| 5:00 PM-6:30 PM, Wednesday
Poster Session 1 Poster Session |
Organizer: Steve Holt, Mitretek Systems, McLean, VA
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| | P1.1 | An Interactive Web-based Data Analysis tool in support of the land data assimilation scheme (LDAS) Project
Brian A. Cosgrove, NASA/GSFC, Greenbelt, MD; and P. R. Houser and J. K. Entin |
| | P1.2 | view_hdf: Visualization and Analysis Software for HDF Files
Kam-Pui Lee, SAIC, Hampton, VA; and L. A. Hunt |
| | P1.3 | Integrating the Areal Mean Basin Estimated Rainfall (AMBER) and the Advanced Weather Interactive Processing System (AWIPS) into warning operations at NWSFO Pittsburgh during widespread flooding in southeast Ohio on 26-28 June 1998
Josh Korotky, NOAA/NWSFO, Coraopolis, PA; and R. S. Davis and C. Strager |
| | P1.4 | Windows NT Monitoring Software with e-mail notification and web reporting
Dale Reinke, CIRA/Colorado State Univ., Fort Collins, CO; and M. Hiatt and K. Eis |
| | P1.5 | The U.S. Department of Agriculture's AWIPS Link to NOAAPORT
Bradley R. Rippey, USDA, Washington, DC; and A. Peterlin and D. A. Deprey |
| | P1.6 | The Operational Production Process of the Horace System
David C. Marsh, UK Met Office, Bracknell, Berks., United Kingdom |
| | P1.7 | Creating first guess forecast products NASA Johnson Space Center: Applying LAPS and AWIPS Forecast Preparation System algorithms in McIDAS
Timothy D. Oram, NASA, Spaceflight Meteorology Group, Johnson Space Center, TX |
| | P1.9 | IMPACT OF THE PHENOMENON EL-NINO ON THE REGIME OF PRECIPITATION IN THE AREA OF THE MEDIUM AMAZON
David Mendes, CPTEC/INPE, Cachoeira Paulista, Sao Paulo, Brazil; and J. Cohen |
| | P1.10 | The Common Operations and Development Environment, Structure and System Services
Thomas J. Ganger, Mitretek Systems, McLean, VA; and R. E. Saffle |
| | P1.11 | NEXRAD Product Improvement:Overview of NEXRAD Open Systems Plans
Robert E. Saffle, NOAA/NWS, Silver Spring, MD |
| | P1.12 | Visual Programming for the WSR-88D Common Operations & Development Environment
Andrew D. Stern, Mitretek Systems, McLean, VA; and T. J. Ganger and R. E. Saffle |
| | P1.13 | Mesoscale Modeling Investigation of Convective Initiation on the Gulf Coast
Paul J. Croft, Jackson State Univ., Jackson, MS; and R. S. Reddy and P. J. Fitzpatrick |
| | P1.14 | Applications of Environment Canada's Text-to-Voice System
Brian Bukoski, Environment Canada, Winnipeg, MB, Canada |
| | P1.15 | The Polar Orbiting Satellite Sounding Evaluator
Michael E. Pettey, Raytheon Information Technology and Scientific Services, Lanham, MD; and C. E. Brown and M. C. Chalfant |
| | P1.16 | Upper Wind Forecasts for NASA's X-38 Flight Test Operations
Dan G. Bellue, NOAA/NWS, Johnson Space Center, TX; and C. Donohue |
| | P1.17 | Forecasting Timing of Sea Breeze-Induced Thunderstorms at Cape Canaveral Air Station
Thomas G. Renwick, Air Force Inst. of Technology, Wright-Patterson AFB, OH; and C. A. Miner and W. P. Roeder |
| | P1.18 | GOES Sounder Products - New Observations for Weather Forecasting
Donald G. Gray, NOAA/NESDIS, Suitland, MD |
| | P1.19 | Modeling of Atmospheric and Space Effects on Air Force C2 Operations
Robert J Raistrick, Air Force Research Lab., Hanscom AFB, MA |
| | P1.20 | Heading for the Future - National Weather Service Communications Identifiers
Fred Branski, NOAA/NWS, Silver Spring, MD |
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1 AMS Annual Awards Banquet |
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| Thursday, 13 January 2000 |
| 8:00 AM-12:15 PM, Thursday
Session 11 Applications of IIPS Using Radar and Other Observation Platforms and Their Associated Data Processing Systems (Parallel with Sessions 12, 13, & 14) |
Organizers: Robert Saffle, NOAA/NWS, Silver Spring, MD; Steve Shema, FAA, Washington, DC
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| 8:00 AM | 11.1 | Development of a WSR-88D based Snow Accumulation Algorithm for quantitative precipitation estimates over southwestern Oregon
Curtis L. Hartzell, U.S. Dept. of Interior, Denver, CO; and A. B. Super |
| 8:15 AM | 11.2 | Construction of hail swaths using NIDS data
Bradford R. Pugh, Univ. of Oklahoma, Norman, OK; and K. C. Crawford |
| 8:30 AM | 11.3 | 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 S. Shema, S. M. Holt, and L. D. Johnson |
| 8:45 AM | 11.4 | Development and Integration of new Hydrometeorological Algorithms into the WSR-88D using the Common Operations and Development Environment (CODE)
Thomas J. Ganger, Mitretek Systems, McLean, VA; and R. E. Saffle, A. D. Stern, B. T. Ulery, and A. White |
| 9:00 AM | 11.5 | The Use of CODE at the Operational Support Facility
Anderson White, NOAA/NWS, OSF, Norman, OK |
| 9:15 AM | 11.6 | Reusable Applications Software Components for the WSR-88D
Michael J. Istok, NOAA/NWS, Silver Spring, MD |
| 9:30 AM | 11.7 | NEXRAD Open Systems - Progress and Plans
Robert E. Saffle, NOAA/NWS, Silver Spring, MD; and L. D. Johnson |
| 9:45 AM | 11.8 | Overview of the Final ORPG Software Architecture
Michael Jain, NOAA/ERL/NSSL, Norman, OK; and Z. Jing |
| 10:00 AM | | Coffee Break
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| 10:30 AM | 11.9 | The Linear Buffer and its role in the WSR-88D Open System RPG
Zhongqi Jing, CIMMS/Univ. of Oklahoma and NOAA/NSSL, Norman, OK; and M. Jain |
| 10:45 AM | 11.10 | An Update and Lessons Learned Thus Far on the WSR-88D Operational Support Facility Implementation of Open Systems Architecture into the WSR-88D System
J. Rex Reed, NOAA/NWS/OSF, Norman, OK; and G. Cate |
| 11:00 AM | 11.11 | Mitigation of range/velocity ambiguities in the WSR-88D.
D. S. Zrnic, NOAA/NSSL, Norman, OK; and M. Sachidananda, R. J. Doviak, J. Keeler, and C. Frush |
| 11:15 AM | 11.12 | On the Windfinding Accuracy of Loran-C, GPS and Radar
Juhana Jaatinen, Vaisala Oyj, Helsinki, Finland; and J. B. Elms |
| 11:30 AM | 11.13 | Comparisons of observer reports of thunderstorms with similar reports derived from the National Lightning Detection Network Data
Thomas A. Seliga, Volpe National Transportation Systems Center, Cambridge, MA; and K. A. Kraus, J. Canniff, and D. A. Hazen |
| 11:45 AM | 11.14 | A New Radar Display System
Michael A. Steinberg, AccuWeather, Inc., State College, PA; and H. Margusity and C. Canning |
| 12:00 PM | | Lunch Break
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Session 12 Applications of decision support tools in the use and leverage of the Internet (Parallel with Sessions 11 and 13) |
Organizer: Don Mock, NOAA/CDC, Boulder, CO
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| 8:30 AM | 12.1 | Overview
Donald Mock, NOAA/CDC, Boulder, CO |
| 8:45 AM | 12.2 | The Internet As A Source of Weather Information
Daniel Kottlowski, AccuWeather, Inc., State College, PA; and J. Candor and J. Ferrell |
| 9:00 AM | 12.3 | Leveraging the Internet to Aid Decision Making During Hazardous Weather Events
Kevin A. Kloesel, Oklahoma Climatological Survey, Norman, OK; and K. C. Crawford, R. McPherson, D. Morris, R. Jesuroga, and C. Subramaniam |
| 9:15 AM | 12.4 | Use of a "Composer" form to speed the creation of online Satellite Meteorology Tutorials
Thomas F. Lee, NRL, Monterey, CA; and J. Kent |
| | 12.5 | Wind Energy Forecasts from MAPS through an Internet Decision Support Tool
Kevin J. Brundage, CIRA and NOAA/FSL, Boulder, CO; and B. E. Schwartz, S. G. Benjamin, and M. N. Schwartz |
| 9:30 AM | 12.6 | Java Servlet Technology to Enhance Web Access to Real-time and Retrospective Environmental Data
Willa H. Zhu, JISAO/Univ. of Washington, Seattle, WA; and E. F. Burger |
| 9:45 AM | | Coffee Break
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| 10:00 AM | 12.7 | Distributed Object Technology to Support Web Access of Heterogeneous Data and Information Sources
Willa H. Zhu, JISAO/Univ. of Washington, Seattle, WA; and L. C. Sun |
| 10:15 AM | 12.8 | Working With Extensible Markup Language
Thomas B. Passin, Mitretek Systems, McLean, VA |
| 10:30 AM | 12.9 | Using a Relational Database and the Extensible Markup Language to Store and Distribute Climate Metadata
Roland H. Schweitzer, NOAA/CDC and CIRES/Univ. of Colorado, Boulder, CO |
| 10:45 AM | 12.10 | Transforming Extensible Markup Language Documents With XSLT
Thomas B. Passin, Mitretek Systems, McLean, VA |
| 11:00 AM | 12.11 | VRML techniques and tours: 3D experiences of oceans and atmospheres
Christopher W. Moore, JISAO/Univ. of Washington, Seattle, WA; and N. N. Soreide, A. Hermann, C. Lascara, and G. Wheless |
| 11:15 AM | 12.12 | Developing Collaborative Software to support the Aviation Weather Center’s Collaborative Convective Forecast Project
Donald R. Frank, Research and Data Systems Corp., Kansas City, MO; and F. J. Foss, W. E. Carle, and H. R. Hudson |
| 11:30 AM | 12.13 | The Virtual Forecast System: A Prototype Large-Scale Interactive/Collaborative Environment
Andrew D. Stern, Mitretek Systems, McLean, VA; and T. R. Neff, S. L. Bunin, S. M. Holt, and R. J. Ramsey |
| 11:45 AM | | Lunch Break
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| 10:30 AM-5:15 PM, Thursday
Session 13 Applications of IIPS Using Satellites, Other Observation Platforms, and Their Associated Data Processing Systems (Parallel with Sessions 11 & 12) |
Organizers: Ron Gird, NOAA/NWS, Silver Spring, MD; Ed Boselly, Solutions, Inc., St. Louis, MO
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| 10:30 AM | 13.1 | The NESDIS Satellite Product Overview Display
Stacy L. Bunin, Mitretek Systems, McLean, VA; and T. B. Passin, P. M. Taylor, and D. G. Gray |
| 10:45 AM | 13.2 | Plans for NOAA's Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite (GOES) System
Gerald J. Dittberner, NOAA/NESDIS, Suitland, MD |
| 11:00 AM | 13.3 | A Windows NT-Based GOES I-M Data Collection System
Duane Whitcomb, CIRA/Colorado State Univ., Ft. Collins, CO; and D. Reinke, M. Hiatt, and K. Eis |
| 11:15 AM | 13.4 | Updated NWS AWIPS Requirements for GOES/POES Satellite Products
Donald G. Gray, NOAA/NESDIS, Suitland, MD; and J. J. Gurka and P. M. Taylor |
| 11:29 AM | 13.5 | Paper transferred to Session 4, paper 4.17
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| 11:30 AM | 13.6 | NOAA Polar Program Plans for Continuous Satellite Coverage
Michael Mignogno, NOAA/NESDIS, Suitland, MD; and C. Nelson |
| 11:45 AM | 13.6A | National Polar-Orbiting Operational Environmental Satellite System (NPOESS) Interface Data Processing Segment (IDPS)
Reginald B. Lawrence, NOAA/NESDIS, Silver Spring, MD; and L. O'Connor |
| 12:00 PM | | Lunch Break
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| 1:30 PM | 13.7 | An Overview of NESDIS Polar-Orbiting Satellite Data Processing and NWS POES AWIPS Requirements
Pamela M. Taylor, NOAA/NESDIS, Suitland, MD |
| 1:45 PM | 13.8 | Interactive validation and tuning of satellite cloud property retrieval algorithms
Gary Gustafson, AER, Cambridge, MA; and D. Peduzzi, M. Plonski, and B. Shaw |
| 2:00 PM | 13.9 | Detection and Tracking of Vortices and Saddle Points from SST Data
Qing Yang, LBNL, Berkeley, CA; and B. Parvin |
| 2:15 PM | 13.10 | Real-Time Cloud Depiction Integration Into The Army's Battlefield Maneuver Control System
Ronald F. Fournier, TASC, Inc., Reading, MA; and R. B. Bensinger and J. J. Fox |
| | 13.11 | Interactive tools to support a prototype high-resolution cloud analysis and forecast system
Brent L. Shaw, The Aerospace Corp., Offutt AFB, NE; and D. C. Peduzzi, M. P. Plonski, and B. H. Thomas |
| 2:29 PM | 13.12 | MSIV: A tool for interactive visualization and analysis of multispectral satellite images
Robert P. d'Entremont, AER, Cambridge, MA; and J. B. Collins and J. T. Bunting |
| 2:44 PM | | Coffee Break
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| 3:29 PM | 13.13 | Worldwide Navy satellite meteorology applications via the Internet
Jeffrey D. Hawkins, NRL, Monterey, CA; and T. F. Lee, J. F. Turk, K. L. Richardson, C. Sampson, P. M. Tag, R. L. Bankert, and J. E. Kent |
| 3:44 PM | 13.14 | The National Weather Service operational requirements for the evolution of future NOAA operational geostationary satellites
James J. Gurka, NOAA/NWS, Silver Spring, MD; and J. N. Heil |
| 3:59 PM | 13.15 | Development of Interactive Cloud Height and Skew-T Diagram Algorithms for AWIPS
Larry J. Hinson, NOAA/NCEP/AWC, Kansas City, MO; and F. R. Mosher |
| 4:14 PM | 13.16 | Information System on Real-time Quickscat and TRMM Observations
Wenqing Tang, JPL, Pasadena, CA; and W. T. Liu |
| 4:29 PM | 13.17 | Weather interactive graphics in support of space launch
Michael S. Gremillion, 45th Weather Squadron, Patrick Air Force Base, FL; and J. W. Weems, B. F. Boyd, D. E. Harms, and E. D. Priselac |
| 4:44 PM | 13.18 | The NOAA/NESDIS Hazard Mapping System
Stephen D. Ambrose, NOAA/NESDIS, Washington, DC; and G. Stephens |
| 4:59 PM | | Session 13 ends
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| Friday, 14 January 2000 |
| 8:00 AM-10:15 AM, Friday
Session 14 Applications of IIPS in Climatology |
Organizer: Jimmie Smith, MeteoQuest, Inc., Bedford, NH
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| 8:00 AM | 14.1 | Rapidly Expanding Uses of Climate Data and Information in Agriculture and Water Resources: Causes and Characteristics of New Applications
Stanley A. Changnon, ISWS, Champaign, IL; and K. E. Kunkel |
| 8:15 AM | 14.2 | Implementation of the NOAAPort Data Archive and Retrieval System (NDARS) at the National Climatic Data Center
Glenn K. Rutledge, NOAA/NCDC, Asheville, NC; and A. Stanley, E. Page, L. Spayd, and J. Brundage |
| 8:30 AM | 14.3 | The Climate Zone - an Australian interactive web-based system
Anne K. Brewster, Bureau of Meteorology, Melbourne, Vic., Australia; and A. Mavromatis and L. M. Hollis |
| 8:45 AM | 14.4 | The Midwestern Climate Center Climate Profiler: An Internet-Based System for Interpreting Climate Outlooks
Michael A. Palecki, ISWS, Champaign, IL; and J. R. Angel |
| 9:00 AM | 14.5 | Approaches to user authentication at a climate research Web site
Julia A. Collins, NOAA/CDC and CIRES/Univ. of Colorado, Boulder, CO |
| 9:15 AM | 14.6 | National Climate Extremes Committee's Evaluation of the Reported 1,140 Inch National Seasonal Snowfall Record at the Mount Baker, Washington Ski Area
Robert J. Leffler, NOAA/NWS, Silver Spring, MD; and A. H. Horvitz, M. Changery, R. Downs, K. T. Redmond, and G. Taylor |
| 9:30 AM | 14.7 | National Weather Service Cooperative Observer Program Initiatives
Robert J. Leffler, NOAA/NWS, Silver Spring, MD; and A. H. Horvitz |
| 9:45 AM | 14.8 | A Spatial Approach to Determining the Optimum Density of the National Weather Service Cooperative Observers Network
Stephen A. Del Greco, NOAA/NCDC, Asheville, NC; and D. Mannarano, R. Leffler, C. Nelson, and B. Rippey |
| 10:00 AM | 14.9 | An Evaluation of the Sensitivity of Local Climate Statistics Generated from the Output of a 3-D Mesoscale Atmospheric Model to Observed Data Availability
Glenn E. Van Knowe, MESO, Inc., Troy, NY; and J. W. Zack, S. Young, M. D. Bousquet, P. E. Price, and C. E. Graves |
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