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 |