10th Conference on Satellite Meteorology and Oceanography (Expanded View)

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Sunday, 9 January 2000
7:30 AM-9:00 AM, Sunday
Short Course Registration
 
9:00 AM-6:00 PM, Sunday
Conference Registration
 
7:00 PM-8:30 PM, Sunday
1 Welcoming Reception
 
Monday, 10 January 2000
7:30 AM, Monday
Conference Registration continues through Friday, 14 Janauary
 
9:00 AM-10:00 AM, Monday
Session 1 OPERATIONAL APPLICATIONS OF SATELLITE OBSERVATIONS: Part 1(Invited Oral Presentations)
Organizers: Thomas F. Lee, NRL, Monterey, CA; Godelieve Deblonde, AES, Dorval, PQ Canada
9:00 AM1.1Realization of a dream, beginning of a challenge: operational satellite meteorology and oceanography  
James F. W. Purdom, NOAA/NESDIS/ORA, Camp Springs, MD
9:15 AM1.2Satellite Meteorology Training for the Operational Weather Services - Moving To Distance Training  
Anthony Mostek, NOAA/NWS and UCAR/COMET, Boulder, CO
9:30 AM1.3US Navy Satellite Meteorology Applications - R&D to Applications  
Jeffrey D. Hawkins, NRL, Monterey, CA; and T. F. Lee and K. L. Richardson
9:45 AMDiscussion  
 
10:00 AM-10:30 AM, Monday
Coffee Break
 
10:00 AM-12:00 PM, Monday
Poster Session 1 Operational Applications of Satellite Observations: Part II
Organizers: Thomas F. Lee, NRL, Monterey, CA; Godelieve Deblonde, AES, Dorval, PQ Canada
 P1.1Stratospheric Impact of 1DVariation Assimilation of TOVS/ATOVS Data  
Laurie Ann Rokke, NASA/GSFC, Goddard, MD; and J. Joiner
 P1.2Temporal Variations of Water Vapor Concentrations from the Goes-8 Sounder  
Benjamin Ruston, CIRA/Colorado State Univ., Fort Collins, CO; and T. H. Vonder Haar
 P1.3A numerical study of the effect of GOES-8 sounder data on the prediction of Hurricane Felix  
Xiaolei Zou, Florida State Univ., Tallahassee, FL; and Q. Xiao, G. D. Modica, and A. E. Lipton
 P1.4Extending the use of ATOVS radiances over the land  
Stephen J. English, UK Met Office, Bracknell, Berks., United Kingdom; and C. Poulsen
 P1.5Prediction of a NORPEX Oceanic cyclone: Impact of initial conditions incorporating GMS water vapor winds and Total Ozone Mapping Spectrometer (TOMS) data  
Qingnong Xiao, Florida State Univ., Tallahassee, FL; and X. Zou, M. Shapiro, C. S. Velden, and M. Pondeca
 P1.6Error characteristics of satellite derived water vapor winds as compared to ECMWF model analyses  
P. Anil Rao, USRA and NASA/GSFC, Greenbelt, MD; and Z. -. X. Pu, S. A. Braun, and C. S. Velden
 P1.7Wind vector fields derived from GOES rapid scan imagery  
Christopher S. Velden, CIMSS/Univ. of Wisconsin, Madison, WI; and D. Stettner and J. Daniels
 P1.8Recent Advances to the Operational GOES Wind Processing System at NOAA/NESDIS  
Jaime Daniels, NOAA/NESDIS, Camp Springs, MD; and W. Bresky, C. S. Velden, and A. Irving
 P1.9Polar Satellite Sensor Training for the Operational Weather Services  
Patrick Dills, UCAR/COMET, Boulder, CO; and A. Mostek, S. Wang, and P. Taylor
 P1.10Integrated Sensor Training in the National Weather Service AWIPS Era  
Brian Motta, CIRA/Colorado State Univ., Fort Collins, CO; and D. Bikos, B. Zajac, S. Bachmeier, T. Whittaker, and A. Mostek
 P1.11The Use of AWIPS to Display and Analyze Satellite Data  
Kevin J. Schrab, NOAA/NWS, Salt Lake City, UT
 P1.12Operational satellite data processing at Fleet Numerical Meteorology and Oceanography Center  
C. James Cornelius Jr., FNMOC, Monterey, CA; and J. L. Haferman and C. E. Skupniewicz
 P1.13A Near-Real-time Full Resolution Globally Merged IR Data Set and Its Applications  
John E. Janowiak, NOAA/NWS/NCEP/CPC, Camp Springs, MD; and R. J. Joyce and Y. Yarosh
 P1.14Updated NWS AWIPS Requirements for GOES/POES Satellite Products  
Donald G. Gray, NOAA/NESDIS, Suitland, MD; and J. J. Gurka and P. M. Taylor
 P1.15A Rapid Transmittance Procedure for Use in Numerical Models  
Larry M. McMillin, NOAA/NESDIS, Camp Springs, MD; and T. J. Kleespies
 P1.16A GOES-10/8 imager visible channel cross calibration procedure  
Byron Raines, Raytheon Information Technology and Scientific Services, Lanham, MD; and D. Tarpley
 P1.17A Fast Radiative Transfer Model for Satellite Radiance Data Assimilation  
Thomas J. Kleespies, NOAA/NESDIS, Camp Springs, MD
 P1.18Latitudinal and Seasonal Dependent Zenith Angle Corrections for Geostationary Satellite IR Brightness Temperatures  
Robert J. Joyce, NOAA/NWS/NCEP/CPC, Camp Springs, MD; and J. E. Janowiak and G. Huffman
 P1.19Crucial Forecasts for Space Shuttle Missions  
Steven J. Sokol, Spaceflight Meteorology Group, Houston, TX
 P1.20The Record Meso-Snowfall Event of 1997 in Jackson, Mississippi  
Paul J. Croft, Jackson State Univ., Jackson, MS; and A. E. Gerard
 
1:30 PM-2:15 PM, Monday
Session 2 OPERATIONAL APPLICATIONS OF SATELLITE OBSERVATIONS: Part III ( Invited Oral Presentations)
1:30 PM2.1The direct assimilation of ATOVS radiances in a 3D-var assimilation system  
Stephen J. English, UK Met Office, Bracknell, Berks., United Kingdom; and R. J. Renshaw
1:45 PM2.2Analysis and Assimilation of Rainfall from Blended SSM/I, TRMM and Geostationary Satellite Data  
F. Joseph Turk, NRL, Monterey, CA; and G. Rohaly, J. Hawkins, E. A. Smith, A. Grose, F. S. Marzano, A. Mugnai, and V. Levizzani
2:00 PMDiscussion  
 
2:15 PM, Monday
Session 3 Discussion: STATUS OF OPERATIONAL SATELLITE PROGRAMS (NOAA and DMSP)
 
3:00 PM-3:30 PM, Monday
1 Coffee Break
 
3:00 PM-5:00 PM, Monday
Poster Session 2 OPERATIONAL APPLICATIONS OF SATELLITE OBSERVATIONS: Part IV
 P2.1Progress in applying GOES derived data in local data assimilation  
Daniel L. Birkenheuer, NOAA/FSL, Boulder, CO
 P2.2Validation of GOES Sounder Moisture Profiles: Comparisons with In-situ and Remote Observations  
Wayne F. Feltz, CIMSS/Univ. of Wisconsin, Madison, WI; and T. J. Schmit, J. Jung, and J. P. Nelson III
 P2.3Variational Assimilation of Humidity Using SSM/I and SSM/T-2 Brightness Temperatures  
Godelieve Deblonde, AES, Dorval, PQ, Canada
 P2.4Validation of a derived product image for upper-tropospheric extratropical specific humidity  
Anthony J. Wimmers, Univ. of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA; and J. L. Moody
 P2.5CPC/FEWS Rainfall Estimates over West Africa  
Rosalyn F. MacCracken, NOAA/NWS/NCEP/CPC, Camp Springs, MD; and W. M. Thiaw and D. T. Bolvin
 P2.6Using satellite rain estimates to update heavy rainfall warnings in Hungary  
Cecilia M. I. R. Girz, NOAA/FSL, Boulder, CO; and E. I. Tollerud, A. Takacs, and S. Kertesz
 P2.7Possibilities and Limitations for QPF using Linear-and Nonlinear-Based Nowcasting with Time-Sequenced Geosynchronous Satellite Imagery  
Andy Grose, Florida State Univ., Tallahassee, FL; and E. A. Smith, H. S. Chung, M. Ou, B. J. Sohn, and F. J. Turk
P2.8Numerical Study of the Initiation Over Mountainous Area of a Squall Line Associated with an Easterly Wave  
Aida Diongue, Meteo-France, CNRM, Toulouse, Cedex, France; and J. -. P. Lafore and J. -. L. Redelsperger
 P2.9A Study of Heavy Precipitation and Associated Thunderstorm Activity Over the West Coast of Gulf of Mexico using GOAS 8 Soundings and Images  
Remata S. Reddy, Jackson State Univ., Jackson, MS; and R. L. Miller
 P2.10Rainrate estimation using the GMS-5 IR data and verification  
Young C. Kwon, Korea Meteorological Administration, Seoul, Dongjak-Gu, Korea; and M. H. Ahn, B. J. Sohn, H. -. S. Chung, and H. S. Park
 P2.11Satellite-Based inputs for Quantitative Precipitation Forecasting Over the United States Mid-Atlantic Region  
George Tsakraklides, Penn State Univ., University Park, PA; and J. L. Evans
 P2.12Verification of the Operational GOES Infrared Rainfall Estimation Technique over the Upper Midwest  
Dan A. Baumgardt, NOAA/NWS, La Crosse, WI; and G. R. Lussky and A. M. Elfessi
 P2.13Assimilation of cloud-top pressure derived from GOES sounder data into MAPS/RUC  
Dongsoo Kim, CIRES/Univ. of Colorado and NOAA/FSL, Boulder, CO; and S. G. Benjamin
 P2.14High Resolution Cloud Analysis and Forecast System  
Michael P. Plonski, AER Inc., Cambridge, MA, Rolling Hills Estates, CA; and G. Gustafson, B. L. Shaw, B. H. Thomas, and M. Wonsick
 P2.15Preliminary results from Polar–Orbiting Satellite Data Assimilation into LAPS with Applications to Mesoscale Modeling of the San Francisco Bay Area  
David A. Bennett, Lockheed Martin Missiles & Space, Sunnyvale, CA; and K. D. Hutchison, S. C. Albers, and R. D. Bornstein
 P2.16A Subjective Comparison of Cloud Base and Top Height Estimations from Satellite and NWP Analysis Data for a Fall New England Case Study  
Frank H. Ruggiero, Air Force Research Lab., Hanscom AFB, MA; and A. Jackson and R. P. d'Entremont
 P2.17Hourly global cloud property retrievals from DMSP, TIROS, and geostationary EO sensors  
Gary Gustafson, AER Inc., Cambridge, MA; and R. P. d'Entremont and M. Hoefer
 P2.18Cloud base height estimates from combining a satellite cloud classification with surface reports  
John M. Forsythe, CIRA/Colorado State Univ., Fort Collins, CO; and T. H. Vonder Haar and D. L. Reinke
 P2.19Modeling direct irradiance from GOES visible channel using generalized cloud indices  
Pierre Ineichen, Univ. of Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland; and R. R. Perez, M. Kmiecik, and D. Renne
 P2.20Operational Assimilation of GOES Data into a Mesoscale Model  
William Lapenta, GHCC/NASA, Huntsville, AL; and R. Suggs, R. McNider, G. Jedlovec, and S. Dembek
 P2.21Evaluation of Skin Temperatures Retrieved From GOES-8  
Ronnie J. Suggs, NASA/MSFC, Huntsville, AL; and G. J. Jedlovec, W. M. Lapenta, and S. L. Haines
 P2.22Altimetry Data Processing at the Naval Oceanographic Office—An Overview  
Scott C. Klingenberger, Naval Oceanographic Office, Stennis Space Center, MS; and D. A. May and A. J. Bratcher
 P2.23Operational Multi-Channel Sea Surface Temperature Production at the Naval Oceanographic Office  
Bruce D. Mckenzie, Naval Oceanographic Office, Stennis Space Center, MS; and D. A. May and D. S. Olszewski
P2.24Impact of ERS-2 and SEAWINDS scatterometer data on the Navy Operational Global Atmospheric Prediction System (NOGAPS)  
Charles E. Skupniewicz, FNMOC, Monterey, CA; and J. S. Goerss and T. F. Hogan
 P2.25GOES sea surface temperature products in NOAA/NESDIS  
Eileen Maturi, NOAA/NESDIS, Camp Springs, MD; and X. Li and X. Wu
 P2.26Preliminary Study of Deriving Sea Surface Temperature from future GOES  
Xiangqian Wu, CIMSS/Univ. of Wisconsin, Madison, WI; and W. P. Menzel
 P2.27Alaska SAR Applications Demonstration Project  
Pablo Clemente-Colón, NOAA/NESDIS, Camp Springs, MD; and W. G. Pichel, K. S. Friedman, X. Li, C. C. Wackerman, R. C. Beal, F. M. Monaldo, E. Malaret, W. Y. Tseng, and R. E. Meiggs
 
5:00 PM-7:00 PM, Monday
1 Formal Opening of Exhibits with Reception (Cash Bar)
 
5:00 PM, Monday
1 Sessions end for the day
 
7:30 PM, Monday
1 Fujita Banquet
 
Tuesday, 11 January 2000
8:30 AM-10:00 AM, Tuesday
Session 4 NEW TECHNOLOGY (Invited Oral Presentations)
Organizers: Marie Colton, Office of Naval Research, Arlington, VA; Ronald Isaacs, AER Inc., Cambridge, MA
8:30 AM4.1Tropical cyclone wind retrievals using AMSU-A data from NOAA-15  
Mark DeMaria, NOAA/NESDIS and Colorado State Univ., Fort Collins, CO; and J. A. Knaff, S. Q. Kidder, and M. D. Goldberg
9:00 AM4.2Global Climate Monitoring with the EOS PM-Platform's Advanced Microwave Scanning Radiometer (AMSR-E)  
Roy Spencer, NASA/MSFC/GHCC, Huntsville, AL
9:30 AM4.3High Resolution Coastal Winds from SAR: Towards a Global Operational Concept  
Robert C. Beal, Johns Hopkins Univ., Laurel, MD
 
10:00 AM, Tuesday
1 Coffee Break (Exhibit Hours 10:00 am-2:15 pm)
 
10:30 AM-12:15 PM, Tuesday
Special President's Symposium on Environmental Applications
10:30 AMWALTER ORR ROBERTS LECTURE IN INTERDISCIPLINARY SCIENCE  
R. E. (Ted) Munn, Univ. of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada
11:15 AMMeteorology and the Environment - the WMO Perspective  
John Zillman, Bureau of Meteorology, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
 
12:15 PM-2:15 PM, Tuesday
Conference Luncheon. Speaker: D. James Baker, Undersecretary of Commerce for Oceans and Atmosphere, Administrator for NOAA, Sliver Spring, MD
 
2:15 PM, Tuesday
Session 5 Panel Discussion: Looking to the future in satellite remote sensing for meteorological and oceanographic applications
Organizer: Greg Withee, NOAA/NESDIS and Representatives from NASA, EUMETSAT, China, Japan and India, Washington, DC
 
3:30 PM-4:00 PM, Tuesday
Coffee Break (Exhibit Hours 3:30-7:30 p.m.)
 
4:00 PM-4:30 PM, Tuesday
Joint Session 1 Joint Session with 10th Conference on Satellite Meteorology and Oceanography & Second Conference on Artificial Intelligence (Invited Oral Presentation) (Joint between the Second Conference on Artificial Intelligence and the 10th Conference on Satellite Meteorology and Oceanography)
Organizer: Richard L. Bankert, NRL, Monterey, CA
4:00 PMJ1.1APPLYING AI TO ENVIRONMENTAL SATELLITE DATA - WHAT PROGRESS ARE WE MAKING AND WHAT MIGHT THE FUTURE HOLD?  
Paul M. Tag, NRL, Monterey, CA
 
4:30 PM-5:45 PM, Tuesday
Joint Poster Session 1 (Joint with 10th Conference on Satellite Meteorology and Oceanography and Second Conference on Artificial Intelligence)
Organizers: Richard L. Bankert, NRL, Monterey, CA; Marie Colton, Office of Naval Research, Arlington, VA; Ronald Issacs, AER, Inc., Cambridge, MA
 JP1.1Producing satellite retrievals for NWP model initialization using artificial neural networks  
Robert J. Kuligowski, Penn State Univ., University Park, PA; and A. P. Barros
 JP1.2Neural Network Multi-Parameter Algorithms to Retrieve Atmospheric and Oceanic Parameters from Satellite Data  
Vladimir Krasnopolsky, NOAA/NWS/NCEP, Camp Springs, MD; and W. Gemmill
 JP1.3Neural network retrieval of winds from combined surface and satellite observations  
Edward M. Measure, Army Research Laboratory, White Sands Missile Range, NM; and J. Cogan
 JP1.4Applying Knowledge Discovery from Databases (KDD) to Combined Satellite and High Resolution Numerical Model Data  
Paul M. Tag, NRL, Monterey, CA; and R. L. Bankert, M. Hadjimichael, A. P. Kuciauskas, W. T. Thompson, and K. L. Richardson
 JP1.5Operational use of a neural network cloud classifier for flood forecasting at the UK Met. Office  
George S. Pankiewicz, UK Met Office, Bracknell, Berks., United Kingdom; and C. E. Pierce and S. C. Watkin
 JP1.6Identifying and tracking storms in satellite images  
V Lakshmanan, NOAA/NSSL and Univ. of Oklahoma, Norman, OK; and R. Rabin and V. DeBrunner
 JP1.7Neural network classification of satellite imagery based on the presence of elementary classes  
Kwo-Sen Kuo, Univ. of Alabama, Huntsville, AL; and T. A. Berendes, D. A. Berendes, and R. M. Welch
 JP1.8Algorithm Development and Mining (ADaM) System for Earth Science Applications  
Rahul Ramachandran, Univ. of Alabama, Huntsville, AL; and H. Conover, S. Graves, and K. Keiser
 
4:30 PM-5:45 PM, Tuesday
Poster Session 3 New Technology (Parallel with Joint Poster JP1)
Organizers: Marie Colton, Office of Naval Research, Arlington, VA; Ronald Isaacs, AER, Inc., Cambridge, MA
 P3.1Application of AMSU-A radiance fields and retrievals to the analysis of hurricanes  
Christopher S. Velden, CIMSS/Univ. of Wisconsin, Madison, WI; and K. F. Brueske
 P3.2Tropical cyclone analysis using AMSU data  
Stanley Q. Kidder, CIRA/Colorado State Univ., Fort Collins, CO; and M. D. Goldberg, R. M. Zehr, M. DeMaria, J. F. W. Purdom, C. S. Velden, N. C. Grody, and S. J. Kusselson
 P3.3The AMSU Hydrological Product Suite  
Norman C. Grody, NOAA/NESDIS, Camp Springs, MD
 P3.4The new NOAA AMSU hydrological product suite, part 1: tour of web site  
Douglas A. Moore, NOAA/NESDIS and QSS Group, Inc., Lanham, MD; and L. Zhao, J. Zhao, R. R. Ferraro, N. Grody, and F. Weng
 P3.5Validation of Noaa-15 AMSU-A Rain Rate Algorithms  
Limin Zhao, NOAA/NESDIS and QSS Group, Inc, Lanham, MD; and R. R. Ferraro and D. Moore
 P3.6The New NOAA AMSU Hydrological Product Suites: The Validation of AMSU TPW and CLW  
Jiang Zhao, QSS Group, Inc., Camp Springs, MD; and N. C. Grody, R. R. Ferraro, C. Zou, and F. Weng
 P3.7Validation of the 89 GHZ AMSU-B bias corrections based on collocated satellite measurements from AMSU-A  
Marc A. Kolodner, NASA/GSFC, Greenbelt, MD
 P3.8Effects of AMSU-A cross track asymmetry of brightness temperatures on retrieval of atmospheric and surface parameters  
Fuzhong Weng, NOAA/NESDIS, Camp Springs, MD; and R. R. Ferraro and N. C. Grody
 P3.9Anomalies in Digital Data from Satellite Radiometers  
Thomas J. Kleespies, NOAA/NESDIS, Camp Springs, MD; and L. M. McMillin
 P3.10Using Synthetic Aperture Radar In the Forecasting of Polar Mesoscale Cyclones  
Karen S Friedman, Caelum Research Corp., Camp Springs, MD; and P. Clemente-Colón, W. G. Pichel, T. D. Sikora, and G. Hufford
 P3.11Enhancement of directional ambiguity removal skill in scatterometer data processing using planetary boundary layer models  
Young-Joon Kim, JPL and Califonia Inst. of Technology, Pasadena, CA; and K. S. Pak, P. S. Callahan, R. S. Dunbar, and S. V. Hsiao
 P3.12Assimilation of scatterometer-derived winds into real-time tropical cyclone wind analyses  
Eric W. Uhlhorn, NOAA/AOML/HRD and RSMAS/Univ. of Miami, Miami, FL; and K. B. Katsaros and M. D. Powell
 P3.13Hybrid cloud clearing for EOS and NPOESS  
Hung-Lung Huang, CIMSS/Univ. of Wisconsin, Madison, WI; and H. J. Bloom and E. Kratz
 P3.14Optimal estimation of temperature profiles using a subset of IASI channels  
Jeffrey A. Lerner, Karl Franzens Univ. Graz, Graz, Styria, Austria; and E. Weisz and G. Kirchengast
 P3.15Theoretical Analysis of Possible Improvements in Precipitation Retrieval With TRMM-Type Satellite Carrying 2-Frequency Precipitation Radar  
Kwo-Sen Kuo, Univ. of Alabama and NASA/GHCC, Huntsville, AL; and E. A. Smith, E. Im, C. Kummerow, A. Mugnai, and K. Okamoto
 P3.16Preferential Development of Satellite Meteorological Sensors  
David J. Smalley, SenCom Corp., Bedford, MA; and J. B. Mozer
 P3.17Retrieval Simulation Studies From Advanced Operational Polar Orbiting High Resolution Infrared and Microwave Sounders  
Hal J. Bloom, Raytheon, Lanham, MD; and E. Kratz and H. L. Huang
 P3.18 Sounding Performance of a Wedge-filter Imager-Sounder in Geostationary Orbit  
Jeffery J. Puschell, Raytheon Santa Barbara Remote Sensing, Golete, CA; and H. L. Huang and H. M. Woolf
 P3.19An Inter-comparison of Neural Net, Regression, and Physical Inversion Approachs for Retrievals of Atmospheric Temperature and Moisture Profiles from a Combination of Advanced Microwave Sounding Unit (AMSU) and Microwave Humidity Sounder (MHS) Data  
Helene Rieu-Isaacs, AER, Inc., Cambridge, MA; and C. Lietzke, S. Boukabara, and J. L. Moncet
 P3.20Observing Weather over Oceans from SSM/I Using Neural Networks  
William H. Gemmill, NOAA/NCEP, Camp Springs, MD; and V. M. Krasnopolsky
 P3.21An assessment of combination strategies for passive microwave/infrared data integration  
Chris Kidd, Univ. of Birmingham, Edgbaston, Birmingham, United Kingdom; and M. Bryne and S. Heppenstall
 P3.22FY-1C polar orbiting meteorological satellite of China  
Wen-Jian Zhang, China Meteorological Administration, Beijing, China; and Y. J. Liu and Z. D. Yang
 
5:45 PM, Tuesday
Sessions end for the day
 
Wednesday, 12 January 2000
8:00 AM-9:30 AM, Wednesday
Session 6 A Tribute to Lewis Kaplan: Part I
Organizers: Eric Smith, NASA/MSFC/GHCC, Huntsville, AL; Mitch Goldberg, NOAA/NESDIS, Camp Springs, MD
8:00 AM6.1The Achievements of Lewis D. Kaplan  
Moustafa Chahine, JPL, Pasedena, CA
8:30 AM6.2Infrared Atmospheric Soundings from Space-Past, Present,and Future  
Bill Smith, NASA/LARC, Langley, VA
9:00 AM6.3Passive Microwave Sounders: A Historical Perspective  
Norman C. Grody, NOAA/NESDIS, Camp Springs, MD
 
9:30 AM-11:15 AM, Wednesday
Poster Session 4 At Tribute to Lewis Kaplan: Part II
Organizers: Eric Smith, NASA/MSFC/GHCC, Huntsville, AL; Mitch Goldberg, NOAA/NESDIS, Camp Spring, MD
 P4.1Temperature profile retrieval from surface to mesopause by combining GNSS radio occultation and passive microwave limb sounder data  
Axel von Engeln, Univ. of Bremen, Bremen, Germany; and S. Bühler, G. Kirchengast, and K. Künzi
 P4.21DVAR analysis of temperature and humidity using GPS radio occultation data  
Paul Poli, Meteo-France, Toulouse, France and NASA/GSFC, Greenbelt, MD; and J. Joiner, R. Kursinski, and M. Kolodner
 P4.3Limb Adjustments of AMSU-A Observations  
Mitchell D. Goldberg, NOAA/NESDIS, Camp Springs, MD; and D. S. Crosby and L. Zhou
 P4.4Cloud Detection Techniques in NESDIS Advanced-TOVS Sounding Product Systems  
Michael P. Ferguson, Raytheon Information Technology and Scientific Services, Lanham, MD; and A. L. Reale
 P4.5Use of Radiosondes in NESDIS Advanced-TOVS (ATOVS) Soundings Products  
Franklin H. Tilley, Systems Engineering and Security, Inc., Greenbelt, MD; and M. E. Pettey, M. P. Ferguson, and A. L. Reale
 P4.6NESDIS Advanced-TOVS (ATOVS) Sounding Products  
Anthony L. Reale, NOAA/NESDIS, Washington, DC; and M. Chalfant and L. M. Wilson
 P4.7NESDIS Moisture Sounding Products from AMSU-B and SSM/T2  
Anthony L. Reale, NOAA/NESDIS, Washington, DC; and M. Chalfant and F. H. Tilley
 P4.81DVariational assimilation of TOVS/ATOVS level 1b data  
Joanna Joiner, NASA/GMAO, Greenbelt, MD; and L. Rokke
 P4.9The impact of withholding observations from TOMS or SBUV instruments on the GEOS ozone data assimilation system  
Ivanka Stajner, NASA/GSFC, Greenbelt, MD; and L. P. Riishojgaard and R. B. Rood
 P4.10Intercomparison of the Upper Tropospheric Retrievals from TOVS  
David L. Randel, CIRA/Colorado State Univ., Ft. Collins, CO; and T. H. Vonder Haar and R. J. Engelen
 P4.11A Multi-Month TOVS Case Study over Oklahoma  
Stephen Kirby, U. S. Army Research Lab., White Sands Missile Range, NM
 P4.12Comparisons of upper tropospheric water vapor retrievals from TOVS and METEOSAT  
Christelle Escoffier, NASA/GISS, New York, NY
 P4.13Applications of the unified retrieval technique: Land surface temperature  
Richard J. Lynch, AER, Inc., Cambridge, MA; and S. A. Boukabara, J. L. Moncet, and X. Liu
 P4.14Temperature Profile Retrieval from AMSU-A with the Aid of a priori Surface Type Information  
Barbara A. Burns, GenCorp Aerojet, Azusa, CA; and R. D. Dickey, G. R. Diak, and J. Mecikalski
 P4.15AMSU Temperature Profile Retrievals over Land Surfaces  
Christopher E. Lietzke, AER Inc., Cambridge, MA; and T. S. Zaccheo
 P4.16Microwave Remote Sensing Over Land: Application to SSM/I  
S. A. Boukabara, AER, Inc., Cambridge, MA; and J. -. L. Moncet, R. Lynch, and C. Prigent
 P4.17Amalgamation of geostationary and polar orbiting satellite sounder data for atmospheric profiling  
Jun Li, CIMSS/Univ. of Wisconsin, Madison, WI; and A. J. Schreiner, W. P. Menzel, T. J. Schmit, H. M. Woolf, and F. W. Nagle
 P4.18Intercalibration of the Meteosat-7 water vapor channel with SSM/T-2  
B. J. Sohn, Seoul National Univ., Seoul, South Korea; and J. Schmetz, S. Tjemkes, M. Koenig, H. Lutz, A. Arriaga, and E. S. Chung
 P4.19Simultaneous Retrieval of Atmospheric Profiles and Cloud Properties from High Resolution Fourier Transform Infrared spectra  
Xu Liu, AER Inc., Cambridge, MA; and J. L. Moncet and J. Hegarty
 P4.20Comparison of Different Non-linear Inversion Methods for the Retrieval of Atmospheric Profiles  
Xu Liu, AER, Inc., Cambridge, MA; and S. Zaccheo and J. L. Moncet
 
10:00 AM-10:30 AM, Wednesday
Coffee Break (Exhibit Hours 10:00 a.m.-1:30 p.m.)
 
11:15 AM-12:00 PM, Wednesday
1 Remote Sensing Lecture. M. Patrick McCormick, Hampton Univ., Hampton, VA
 
12:00 PM-1:30 PM, Wednesday
Lunch Break
 
1:30 PM-2:00 PM, Wednesday
Session 7 Retrieval of Atmospheric Profiles and Constituents: Part I (Invited Oral Presentations)
1:30 PM7.1TRMM and its connection to the Global Water Cycle  
Christian D. Kummerow, NASA/GSFC, Greenbelt, MD
 
2:00 PM-2:30 PM, Wednesday
Joint Session 2 Joint Session with the 11th Conference on the Middle Atmosphere and the 10th Conference on Satellite Meteorology (Invited Oral Presentation) (Joint between the 10th Conference on Satellite Meteorology and Oceanography and the 11th Conference on the Middle Atmosphere)
Organizer: Kenneth Bowman, Texas A&M Univ., College Station, TX
2:00 PMJ2.1Ozone profiling with UV and visible limb scatter data  
David E. Flittner, Univ. of Arizona, Tucson, AZ; and R. D. McPeters and B. M. Herman
 
2:30 PM, Wednesday
Joint Session 3 Panel Discussion on New Sounder and Imagers for NPOESS, METOP, SSMIS (Joint with 10th Conference on Satellite Meteorology and Oceanography & 11th Conference on Middle Atmosphere)
 
3:00 PM-3:30 PM, Wednesday
Coffee Break (Exhibit Hours 3:00-7:30 p.m.)
 
3:00 PM-5:00 PM, Wednesday
Joint Poster Session 2 Joint Poster Session (Joint with the 11th Conference on the Middle Atmosphere and the 10th Conference on Satellite Meteorology and Oceanography)
Organizer: Kenneth Bowman, Texas A&M Univ., College Station, TX
 JP2.1A data assimilation technique for determining tidal and zonal mean structure in the mesosphere and lower thermosphere from satellite measurements of wind and temperature  
David A. Ortland, NorthWest Research Associates, Bellevue, WA
 JP2.2How well can satellite retrievals resolve the vertical structure of planetary waves?  
Nili Harnik, MIT, Cambridge, MA; and R. S. Lindzen
 JP2.3Middle Atmosphere Temperature Profiles from SSMIS  
Barbara A. Burns, GenCorp Aerojet, Azusa, CA
 JP2.4Ozone Observations from Five Satellite Instruments in November 1994  
Gloria L. Manney, JPL, Pasadena, CA; and H. A. Michelsen, F. W. Irion, M. R. Gunson, R. M. Bevilacqua, N. J. Livesey, J. M. Russell III, and J. M. Zawodny
 JP2.5HNO3 measurements from MLS on the UARS and EOS CHEM satellites  
Michelle L. Santee, JPL, Pasadena, CA; and G. L. Manney, N. J. Livesey, J. W. Waters, F. W. Irion, M. R. Gunson, M. J. Filipiak, J. B. Kumer, and A. E. Roche
 JP2.6The use of ATOVS - AMSU data in NCEP stratospheric analyses  
Melvyn E. Gelman, NOAA/CPC, Camp Springs, MD; and A. J. Miller, C. S. Long, J. D. Wild, J. J. R. Lin, M. D. Goldberg, and A. L. Reale
 JP2.7An Intense Midwestern Cyclone: Fine-scale Comparison of Model Analysis with TOMS Total Ozone Data  
William A. Gallus Jr., Iowa State Univ., Ames, IA; and M. A. Olsen, J. L. Stanford, and J. M. Brown
 
3:00 PM-5:00 PM, Wednesday
Poster Session 5 Retrieval of Atmoshperic Profiles and Constituents: Part II
 P5.1Development of the PM-1 AMSR amd TMI land precipitation algorithms  
Jeffrey R. McCollum, NOAA/NESDIS, Camp Springs, MD; and R. R. Ferraro
 P5.2TRMM Field Campaigns: A coherent and accessible database to improve understanding of the microphysics and dynamics of tropical precipitation over ocean and land  
Edward J Zipser, Univ. of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT; and G. Heymsfield, C. Kummerow, J. Simpson, O. Thiele, S. Rutledge, M. A. F. Silva Dias, S. Yuter, R. A. Houze, and R. Kakar
 P5.3Investigating rain area delineation over land using data from TRMM  
Dominic R. Kniveton, Univ. of Leicester, Leicester, Leicestershire, United Kingdom; and P. Bauer, T. J. Bellerby, C. Kidd, D. A. Kilham, and M. C. Todd
 P5.4Rainfall retrievals using data from the Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission (TRMM)  
Chris Kidd, Univ. of Birmingham, Birmingham, United Kingdom
 P5.5An Improved Level-3 Oceanic Rainfall Retrieval Algorithm for TRMM  
Jun Huang, Texas A&M Univ., College Station, TX; and C. T. Bellows, D. H. Lee, and T. T. Wilheit
 P5.6A precipitation retrieval using TMI during the Baui Period of 1988  
Kazumasa Aonashi, MRI, Tsukuba-shi, Ibaraki-ken, Japan; and G. Liu
 P5.7Estimation of precipitation over tropical Africa using TRMM Rain Products and Meteosat Data  
Karim Ramage, LMD/CNRS, Palaiseau, France; and I. Jobard, T. Lebel, and M. Desbois
 P5.8Cloud physical and microwave radiative properties of tropical stratiform precipitation inferred from multichannel microwave radiances  
Grant W. Petty, Purdue Univ., West Lafayette, IN
 P5.9Precipitation characteristics of mesoscale convective systems in the tropical western Pacific inferred from satellite, radar reflectivity and a mesoscale numerical model  
Leila M. V. Carvalho, Univ. of São Paulo, Sao Paulo, SP, Brazil; and C. Jones and T. M. Rickenbach
 P5.10Using TRMM and SSM/I Measurements to Critique Microphysical Features of Mesoscale Model Simulation of Hurricane Bonnie (1998)  
Eric A. Smith, NASA/GHCC and Univ. of Alabama, Huntsville, AL; and S. Fiorino, G. Panegrossi, and G. J. Tripoli
 P5.11Determination of ice water path and mass median particle size using multichannel microwave measurements  
Guosheng Liu, Florida State Univ., Tallahassee, FL; and J. A. Curry
 P5.12Retrieval of cloud column susceptibilities of water clouds using satellite data  
Qingyuan Han, Univ. of Alabama, Huntsville, AL; and W. B. Rossow, J. Chou, and R. M. Welch
 P5.13The Development of Cloud Retrieval Algorithms Applied to GOES Digital Data  
Randall J. Alliss, Litton-TASC, Chantilly, VA; and M. E. Loftus, D. Apling, and J. Lefever
 P5.14An improved cloud detection algorithm for application to SST retrieval  
Gary B. Gustafson, AER, Inc., Cambridge, MA; and W. O. Gallery
 P5.15Retrieval of Cirrus Radiative and Spatial Properties Using Coincident AVHRR and HIRS Data  
Robert P. d'Entremont, AER, Inc., Cambridge, MA; and K. Cady-Pereira, G. B. Gustafson, and D. P. Wylie
 P5.16Retrieval of Geophysical Parameters from MODIS Measurements: Extension of a Two-Step Algorithm  
Xia Lin Ma, Univ. of Wisconsin/CIMSS, Madison, WI and Univ. of California, Santa Barbara, CA; and Z. Wan, W. P. Menzel, C. C. Moeller, L. E. Gumiley, and Y. Zhang
 P5.17Aerosol Optical Depth Retrievals over Land using the GOES-8/Imager Visible Channel  
Kenneth R. Knapp, CIRA/Colorado State Univ., Fort Collins, CO; and T. H. Vonder Haar
 P5.18Sensitivity analysis of cirrus height, temperature, and pressure retrievals using remotely sensed thermal infrared observations  
John B. Collins, AER, Inc., Cambridge, MA; and R. P. d'Entremont and G. B. Gustafson
 P5.19Modeling and analysis of MLS 203 and 186.5GHz radiances at 14-18km tangent heights  
Dong L Wu, JPL/California Inst. of Technology, Pasadena, CA
P5.20Diurnal variation of cloud derived from GOES-9 multi-IR-channel data  
Toshiro Inoue, MRI/JMA, Tsukuba, Ibaraki, Japan
 
5:00 PM, Wednesday
Sessions end for the day
 
6:00 PM, Wednesday
Reception (Cash Bar)
 
7:30 PM, Wednesday
AMS Annual Awards Banquet
7:30 PMTest-Delete  
 
Thursday, 13 January 2000
8:30 AM-9:45 AM, Thursday
Joint Session 4 Climatology and Long-Term Satellite Data Studies: Part I (Invited Oral Presentations) (Joint Session with 10th Conference on Satellite Meteorology and 11th Symposium on Global Change Studies)
Organizers: Tracy Diliberty, Univ. of Delaware, Newark, DE; Michael Goodman, NASA/MSFC, Huntsville, AL; David Easterling, NOAA/NCDC, Asheville, NC
8:30 AMJ4.1Can the current satellite systems observe a change in the Earth's hydrologic cycle?  
David L. Randel, CIRA/Colorado State Univ., Ft. Collins, CO
8:45 AMJ4.2The Global Precipitation Climatology Project (GPCP)—Status, Applications, and Future Plans  
Arnold Gruber, NOAA/NESDIS, Camp Springs, MD
9:00 AMJ4.3Overview of Regional To Global Scale Satellite Remote Sensing of Snow Cover  
Richard L. Armstrong, National Snow and Ice Data Center, Boulder, CO
9:15 AMJ4.4New Results from CERES/TRMM on Tropical Radiative Fluxes  
Bruce Wielicki, NASA/LARC, Langley, VA
9:30 AMDiscussion  
 
9:00 AM-1:30 PM, Thursday
Exhibit Hours
 
10:00 AM, Thursday
Coffee Break
 
10:00 AM-12:00 PM, Thursday
Joint Poster Session 3 Climatology and Long-Term Satellite Data Studies: Part II (Joint with the 11th Symposium on Global Change Studies)
Organizers: Tracy DeLiberty, Univ. of Delaware, Newark, DE; Michael Goodman, NASA/MSFC/GHCC, Huntsville, AL
 Student Poster Contest  
 JP3.1GPCP Global Pentad Precipitation Analysis: A 20-Year data Set Based on Gauge Observations and Satellite Estimates  
Pingping Xie, NOAA/CPC, Camp Springs, MD; and R. R. Ferraro, J. E. Janowiak, P. A. Arkin, G. J. Huffman, R. F. Adler, and A. Gruber
 JP3.2A global precipitation perspective on persistent extratropical flow anomalies  
George J. Huffman, NASA/GSFC and SSAI, Greenbelt, MD; and R. F. Adler and D. T. Bolvin
 JP3.3TRMM-based merged precipitation analyses  
Robert F. Adler, NASA/GSFC, Greenbelt, MD; and G. Huffman, D. T. Bolvin, E. Nelkin, and S. Curtis
 JP3.4SSM/I-derived global rainfall statistics and their application  
Qihang Li, NOAA/NESDIS, Camp Springs, MD; and R. R. Ferraro
 JP3.5Evaluation of the GPCP Rainfall Product via the Surface Reference Data Center  
J. Brad McGavock, Univ. of Oklahoma, Norman, OK; and J. S. Greene, B. A. Gibson, and M. L. Morrissey
 JP3.6Optimal Scales for Comparing Satellite and Rain-Gauge Rainfall Estimates for Verification Purposes  
Thomas L. Bell, NASA/GSFC, Greenbelt, MD; and P. K. Kundu
 JP3.7Interannual variability of tropical precipitation as represented in satellite-based data sets  
Franklin R. Robertson, NASA/MSFC/GHCC, Huntsville, AL; and D. Fitzjarrald, J. Roads, and E. McCaul
 JP3.8Variability of Convective Precipitation from TRMM Microwave Imager (TMI)  
Ye Hong, Caelum Research Corp., Rockville, MD; and C. D. Kummerow and W. S. Olson
 JP3.9Differences in satellite estimates of precipitation over the tropical East Pacific  
Wesley Berg, CIRES/Univ. of Colorado, Boulder, CO
 JP3.10Large-scale Precipitation and Latent Heating Distributions in the Tropics from SSM/I and TRMM TMI/PR  
William S. Olson, Univ. of Maryland Baltimore County, Baltimore, MD; and Y. Hong, S. Yang, Z. S. Haddad, C. D. Kummerow, and W. K. Tao
 JP3.11Evaluation of a new technique to combined microwave and infrared satellite data for estimation of small-scale rainfall over the global tropics and subtropics  
Martin C. Todd, Univ. of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom; and C. K. Kidd, D. R. Kniveton, T. J. Bellerby, and D. Kilham
 JP3.12A combined infrared and microwave technique for studying the diurnal variation of rainfall over Amazonia  
Andrew J. Negri, NASA/GSFC, Greenbelt, MD; and L. Xu, R. F. Adler, E. Anagnostou, and T. M. Rickenbach
 JP3.13Identifying the relationship of a satellite derived surface wetness with precipitation and river discharge  
Alan Basist, NOAA/NCDC, Asheville, NC; and C. Williams, A. Chang, R. R. Ferraro, N. Grody, and T. Ross
 JP3.14Observing the diurnal characteristics of marine stratocumulus drizzle using the TRMM microwave imager  
Thomas J. Greenwald, CIRA/Colorado State Univ., Fort Collins, CO
 JP3.15Typical evolution of cold cloud patterns associated with wet and dry spells over Central America during the wet season  
Malaquias Pena, CIMMS/Univ. of Oklahoma and NOAA/NSSL, Norman, OK; and M. W. Douglas
 JP3.16High-Resolution Space/Time Variations of Cloud Conditions from the CHANCES Data Set  
Thomas H. Vonder Haar, Science and Technology Corp. and CIRA/ Colorado State Univ., Fort Collins, CO; and M. A. Ringerud and D. L. Reinke
JP3.17STUDY OF DYNAMIC CHARACTERISTICS OF SQUALL LINES OVER THE SAHEL AND THEIR INTERACTION WITH THE ATMOSPHERE ENVIRONMENT  
Adamou Garba, Laboratoire de Physique de l'Atmosphère, Dakar Fann, Senegal; and S. Fongang and G. Jenkins
 
12:00 PM-1:30 PM, Thursday
Lunch Break
 
1:30 PM-2:00 PM, Thursday
Joint Session 5 Climatology and Long-Term Satellite Data Studies: Part III (Invited Oral Presentations) (Joint with 10th Conference on Satellite Meteorology and Oceanography and 11th Symposium on Climate Change Studies)
1:30 PMJ5.1Calculating global atmospheric temperatures from the MSU, A Never Ending Story?  
John R. Christy, Univ. of Alabama, Huntsville, AL; and R. W. Spencer and W. D. Braswell
 
2:00 PM, Thursday
Joint Session 6 Panel Discussion: NRC sub-committee report "Reconciling Temperature Observations" (Joint with 10th Conference on Satellite Meteorology and Oceanography and 11th Symposium on Global Change Studies)
 
3:00 PM-3:30 PM, Thursday
Coffee Break
 
3:00 PM-5:00 PM, Thursday
Joint Poster Session 4 Climatology and Long-Term Satellite Data Studies: Part IV (Joint 1th Symposium on Global Change Studies)
 JP4.1Calibration of the geostationary satellite water vapor channels  
Francois-Marie Breon, CIRES and NOAA/ETL, Boulder, CO; and J. J. Bates and W. Rossow
 JP4.2Passive microwave observations of water vapor profiles during two ENSO events  
Clay B. Blankenship, Texas A&M Univ., College Station, TX; and T. T. Wilheit
 JP4.3Water vapor winds and their application to climate change studies  
Gary J. Jedlovec, NASA/MSFC/GHCC, Huntsville, AL; and J. A. Lerner
 JP4.4Satellite-Derived Poleward Moisture Transport Over the Southern Oceans  
Cheng-Zhi Zou, NOAA/NESDIS, Camp Springs, MD; and M. L. Van Woert
 JP4.5Characterization and Validation of the Heat Storage Variability from TOPEX/POSEIDON at Four Oceanographic Sites  
Paulo S. Polito, JPL, California Inst. of Technology, Pasadena, CA; and O. T. Sato and W. T. Liu
 JP4.6A Regional-Scale Assessment of Satellite-Derived Precipitable Water in the Amazon Basin  
Tracy L. DeLiberty, Univ. of Delaware, Newark, DE; and J. A. Callahan, A. R. Guillory, and G. J. Jedlovec
 JP4.7Comparison of Daily Total Precipitable Water from Satellite and Model Reanalysis Fields  
Gary J. Jedlovec, NASA/MSFC/GHCC, Huntsville, AL; and R. J. Suggs and S. Haines
 JP4.8Diurnal Variation of Outgoing Longwave Radiation: Preliminary Results Based on Harmonic Analysis of the ERBS Observations  
Pingping Xie, NOAA/CPC, Camp Springs, MD; and J. E. Janowiak, P. A. Arkin, and S. K. Yang
 JP4.9ERBE-like and ISCCP-like Outgoing Longwave Radiation from Scanner for Radiation Budget Project  
Ting Chen, Columbia Univ., New York, NY; and W. B. Rossow and Y. Zhang
 JP4.10ERBE Scene Identification as seen by ISCCP: Results from ScaRaB Data  
Ting Chen, Columbia Univ., New York, NY; and W. B. Rossow
 JP4.11A 20-yr TOVS radiance Pathfinder data set for climate analysis  
Darren L. Jackson, CIRES, Boulder, CO; and J. J. Bates
 JP4.12EOF Analysis of Zonally Averaged MSU Radiances (1979-1998)  
Grant W. Petty, Purdue Univ., West Lafayette, IN
 JP4.13Reconciling Surface and Satellite Temperature Measurements  
Brian Soden, NOAA/GFDL and Princeton Univ., Princeton, NJ
 JP4.14A New Look at the McCann Study of the Enhanced-V Signature  
Steven J. Caruso, Plymouth State College, Plymouth, NH; and R. Rabin, D. Zaras, and J. LaDue
 JP4.15GOES-8 Visible cloud frequency composites of the convectively active Sea Breeze under stratified synoptic flow over the Florida Panhandle  
Bernadette H. Connell, CIRA/Colorado State Univ., Fort Collins, CO; and K. J. Gould
 JP4.16The Use of Satellite Data in an Optimal Interpolation Assimilation Scheme  
Randall J. Alliss, Litton-TASC, Chantilly, VA; and M. E. Loftus, D. Apling, and J. Lefever
 JP4.17SUPPRESSED TROPICAL CYCLONE FORMATION IN NORTHWEST PACIFIC IN 1998  
Tetsuo Nakazawa, MRI, Tsukuba, Ibaraki-ken, Japan
 
5:00 PM, Thursday
Sessions end for the day
 
Friday, 14 January 2000
8:30 AM-9:30 AM, Friday
Session 8 Environmental Applications of Land and Oceanic Remote Sensing (Invited Oral Presentations)
8:30 AM8.1Satellite-Derived Fields of Land Surface Variables Used by the National Centers for Environmental Prediction Numerical Weather Prediction Models  
K. Gallo; and K. Mitchell, D. Tarpley, I. Csiszar, and G. Gutman
8:45 AM8.2Satellite Derived Weather Products to Support Aviation  
David Johnson, NCAR, Boulder, CO
9:00 AM8.3Satellite Monitoring of Volcanic Ash Clouds  
William I. Rose, Michigan Technological Univ., Houghton, MI
9:15 AMDiscussion  
 
10:00 AM-10:30 AM, Friday
Coffee Break
 
10:00 AM-12:00 PM, Friday
Poster Session 6 Environmental Applications of Land and Oceanic Remote Sensing
Organizers: Robert Bernstein, Seaspace Corp., San Diego, CA; David Johnson, NCAR, Boulder, CO
 P6.1CERES Instrument Data Products  
Linda A. Hunt, Computer Sciences Corp., Hampton, VA; and B. R. Barkstrom, B. A. Wielicki, S. A. Christopher, L. Stowe, A. Ignatov, and X. Zhao
P6.2GOES-8 ABBA wildfire detection and monitoring in North and Central America  
Elaine M. Prins, NOAA/NESDIS, Madison, WI; and M. Moreau and J. M. Feltz
 P6.3Diurnal variation of smoke optical thickness from GOES-8  
Jianglong Zhang, Univ. of Alabama, Huntsville, AL; and S. A. Christopher
 P6.4Satellite Remote Sensing of Biomass Burning Aerosols Using Goes-8  
Jianglong Zhang, Univ. of Alabama, Huntsville, AL; and S. A. Christopher
 P6.5Proposed Improvements to the Nighttime GOES Fog Product to Provide Ceiling and Visibility Information  
Gary P. Ellrod, NOAA/NESDIS, Camp Springs, MD
 P6.6Four channel volcanic ash detection algorithm  
Frederick R. Mosher, NOAA/NWS/NCEP/AWC, Kansas City, MO
 P6.7The NOAA Operational Significant Events Imagery Service  
Stephen D. Ambrose, NOAA/NESDIS, Washington, DC; and R. Fennimore, G. Stephens, and J. F. Sotelo
 P6.8Contrasts in Wet Season-Dry Season Carbon Fluxes Over Amazon Basin Based on SVATS Modeling and GOES-Retrieved SRB and Rainfall  
Eric A. Smith, NASA/GHCC and Univ. of Alabama, Huntsville, AL; and H. J. Cooper, J. Gu, J. Norman, and P. Silva Dias
 P6.9Detection of Unusual Atmospheric and Surface Features by Employing Principal Component Image Transformation of GOES Imagery  
Donald W. Hillger, CIRA/Colorado State Univ. and NOAA/NESDIS, Fort Collins, CO; and G. P. Ellrod
 P6.10Investigation of surface fluxes using ground observations and NOAA/AVHRR satellite measurements  
Judit Kerenyi, Hungarian Meteorological Service, Budapest, Hungary; and A. Merza, G. Gutman, and I. Csiszar
 P6.11Multispectral automated snow identification and monitoring algorithm  
Peter Romanov, NOAA/NESDIS, Camp Springs, MD; and G. Gutman and I. Csiszar
 P6.12Snow grain size determination from AVIRIS data over Arctic ocean  
Wei Li, Univ. of Alaska, Fairbanks, AK; and X. Xiong, K. Stamnes, and B. Chen
 P6.13Orlando Florida's Urban Heat Island  
Gregory J. Carbone, Univ. of South Carolina, Columbia, SC; and D. M. Yow
 P6.14Influence of landuse on cumulus cloud climatology in Central America  
U. S. Nair, Univ. of Alabama, Huntsville, AL; and R. M. Welch and R. O. Lawton
 Concluding Remarks  
 
12:00 PM, Friday
Conference ends
 

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