Program: 10th Conference on Satellite Meteorology and Oceanography (80th AMS Annual Meeting)

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Sunday, 9 January 2000

7:30 AM-9:00 AM: Sunday, 9 January 2000

Short Course Registration

9:00 AM-6:00 PM: Sunday, 9 January 2000

Conference Registration

7:00 PM-8:30 PM: Sunday, 9 January 2000

Welcoming Reception

Monday, 10 January 2000

7:30 AM-7:30 AM: Monday, 10 January 2000

Conference Registration continues through Friday, 14 Janauary

9:00 AM-10:00 AM: Monday, 10 January 2000

Session 1

OPERATIONAL APPLICATIONS OF SATELLITE OBSERVATIONS: Part 1(Invited Oral Presentations)

Host: 10th Conference on Satellite Meteorology and Oceanography

Organizers: Thomas F. Lee, NRL; Godelieve Deblonde, AES

9:00 AM

1.1

Realization of a dream, beginning of a challenge: operational satellite meteorology and oceanography

James F. W. Purdom, NOAA/NESDIS/ORA, Camp Springs, MD

9:15 AM

1.2

Satellite Meteorology Training for the Operational Weather Services - Moving To Distance Training

Anthony Mostek, NOAA/NWS and UCAR/COMET, Boulder, CO

9:30 AM

1.3

US Navy Satellite Meteorology Applications - R&D to Applications

Jeffrey D. Hawkins, NRL, Monterey, CA; and T. F. Lee and K. L. Richardson

9:45 AM

1.4

Discussion

10:00 AM-10:30 AM: Monday, 10 January 2000

Coffee Break

10:00 AM-12:00 PM: Monday, 10 January 2000

Poster Session 1

Operational Applications of Satellite Observations: Part II

Host: 10th Conference on Satellite Meteorology and Oceanography

Organizers: Thomas F. Lee, NRL; Godelieve Deblonde, AES

P1.1

Stratospheric Impact of 1DVariation Assimilation of TOVS/ATOVS Data

Laurie Ann Rokke, NASA/GSFC, Goddard, MD; and J. Joiner

P1.2

Temporal Variations of Water Vapor Concentrations from the Goes-8 Sounder

Benjamin Ruston, CIRA/Colorado State Univ., Fort Collins, CO; and T. H. Vonder Haar

P1.3

A 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

P1.4

Extending the use of ATOVS radiances over the land

Stephen J. English, UK Met Office, Bracknell, Berks., United Kingdom; and C. Poulsen

P1.5

Prediction 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

P1.6

Error 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

P1.7

Wind vector fields derived from GOES rapid scan imagery

Christopher S. Velden, CIMSS/Univ. of Wisconsin, Madison, WI; and D. Stettner and J. Daniels

P1.8

Recent 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

P1.9

Polar Satellite Sensor Training for the Operational Weather Services

Patrick Dills, UCAR/COMET, Boulder, CO; and A. Mostek, S. Wang, and P. Taylor

P1.10

Integrated 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

P1.11

The Use of AWIPS to Display and Analyze Satellite Data

Kevin J. Schrab, NOAA/NWS, Salt Lake City, UT

P1.12

Operational 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

P1.13

A 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

P1.14

Updated NWS AWIPS Requirements for GOES/POES Satellite Products

Donald G. Gray, NOAA/NESDIS, Suitland, MD; and J. J. Gurka and P. M. Taylor

P1.15

A Rapid Transmittance Procedure for Use in Numerical Models

Larry M. McMillin, NOAA/NESDIS, Camp Springs, MD; and T. J. Kleespies

P1.16

A GOES-10/8 imager visible channel cross calibration procedure

Byron Raines, Raytheon Information Technology and Scientific Services, Lanham, MD; and D. Tarpley

P1.17

A Fast Radiative Transfer Model for Satellite Radiance Data Assimilation

Thomas J. Kleespies, NOAA/NESDIS, Camp Springs, MD

P1.18

Latitudinal 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

P1.19

Crucial Forecasts for Space Shuttle Missions

Steven J. Sokol, Spaceflight Meteorology Group, Houston, TX

P1.20

The Record Meso-Snowfall Event of 1997 in Jackson, Mississippi

Paul J. Croft, Jackson State Univ., Jackson, MS; and A. E. Gerard

12:00 PM-12:00 PM: Monday, 10 January 2000

Lunch Break

1:30 PM-2:15 PM: Monday, 10 January 2000

Session 2

OPERATIONAL APPLICATIONS OF SATELLITE OBSERVATIONS: Part III ( Invited Oral Presentations)

Host: 10th Conference on Satellite Meteorology and Oceanography

1:30 PM

2.1

The 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 PM

2.2

Analysis 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 PM

2.3

Discussion

2:15 PM-2:15 PM: Monday, 10 January 2000

Session 3

Discussion: STATUS OF OPERATIONAL SATELLITE PROGRAMS (NOAA and DMSP)

Host: 10th Conference on Satellite Meteorology and Oceanography

3:00 PM-3:30 PM: Monday, 10 January 2000

Coffee Break

3:00 PM-5:00 PM: Monday, 10 January 2000

Poster Session 2

OPERATIONAL APPLICATIONS OF SATELLITE OBSERVATIONS: Part IV

Host: 10th Conference on Satellite Meteorology and Oceanography

P2.1

Progress in applying GOES derived data in local data assimilation

Daniel L. Birkenheuer, NOAA/FSL, Boulder, CO

P2.2

Validation 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

P2.3

Variational Assimilation of Humidity Using SSM/I and SSM/T-2 Brightness Temperatures

Godelieve Deblonde, AES, Dorval, PQ, Canada

P2.4

Validation of a derived product image for upper-tropospheric extratropical specific humidity

Anthony J. Wimmers, Univ. of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA; and J. L. Moody

P2.5

CPC/FEWS Rainfall Estimates over West Africa

Rosalyn F. MacCracken, NOAA/NWS/NCEP/CPC, Camp Springs, MD; and W. M. Thiaw and D. T. Bolvin

P2.6

Using 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

P2.7

Possibilities 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

P2.8

Numerical Study of the Initiation Over Mountainous Area of a Squall Line Associated with an Easterly Wave

P2.9

A 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

P2.10

Rainrate estimation using the GMS-5 IR data and verification

Young C. Kwon, Korea Meteorological Administration, Seoul, Dongjak-Gu, Korea, Republic of (South); and M. H. Ahn, B. J. Sohn, H. S. Chung, and H. S. Park

P2.11

Satellite-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

P2.12

Verification 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

P2.13

Assimilation 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

P2.14

High 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

P2.15

Preliminary 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

P2.16

A 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

P2.17

Hourly 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

P2.18

Cloud 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

P2.19

Modeling 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

P2.20

Operational Assimilation of GOES Data into a Mesoscale Model

William Lapenta, GHCC/NASA, Huntsville, AL; and R. Suggs, R. McNider, G. Jedlovec, and S. Dembek

P2.21

Evaluation 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

P2.22

Altimetry 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

P2.23

Operational 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

P2.24

Impact of ERS-2 and SEAWINDS scatterometer data on the Navy Operational Global Atmospheric Prediction System (NOGAPS)

P2.25

GOES sea surface temperature products in NOAA/NESDIS

Eileen Maturi, NOAA/NESDIS, Camp Springs, MD; and X. Li and X. Wu

P2.26

Preliminary Study of Deriving Sea Surface Temperature from future GOES

Xiangqian Wu, CIMSS/Univ. of Wisconsin, Madison, WI; and W. P. Menzel

P2.27

Alaska 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-5:00 PM: Monday, 10 January 2000

Sessions end for the day

5:00 PM-7:00 PM: Monday, 10 January 2000

Formal Opening of Exhibits with Reception (Cash Bar)

7:30 PM-7:30 PM: Monday, 10 January 2000

Fujita Banquet

Tuesday, 11 January 2000

8:30 AM-10:00 AM: Tuesday, 11 January 2000

Session 4

NEW TECHNOLOGY (Invited Oral Presentations)

Host: 10th Conference on Satellite Meteorology and Oceanography

Organizers: Marie Colton, Office of Naval Research; Ronald Isaacs, AER Inc.

8:30 AM

4.1

Tropical 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 AM

4.2

Global Climate Monitoring with the EOS PM-Platform's Advanced Microwave Scanning Radiometer (AMSR-E)

Roy Spencer, NASA/MSFC/GHCC, Huntsville, AL

9:30 AM

4.3

High Resolution Coastal Winds from SAR: Towards a Global Operational Concept

Robert C. Beal, Johns Hopkins Univ., Laurel, MD

10:00 AM-10:00 AM: Tuesday, 11 January 2000

Coffee Break (Exhibit Hours 10:00 am-2:15 pm)

10:30 AM-12:15 PM: Tuesday, 11 January 2000

Special President's Symposium on Environmental Applications

10:30 AM

WALTER ORR ROBERTS LECTURE IN INTERDISCIPLINARY SCIENCE

R. E. (Ted) Munn, Univ. of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada

11:15 AM

Meteorology and the Environment - the WMO Perspective

John Zillman, Bureau of Meteorology, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

12:15 PM-2:15 PM: Tuesday, 11 January 2000

Conference Luncheon. Speaker: D. James Baker, Undersecretary of Commerce for Oceans and Atmosphere, Administrator for NOAA, Sliver Spring, MD

2:15 PM-2:15 PM: Tuesday, 11 January 2000

Session 5

Panel Discussion: Looking to the future in satellite remote sensing for meteorological and oceanographic applications

Host: 10th Conference on Satellite Meteorology and Oceanography

Organizer: Greg Withee, NOAA/NESDIS and Representatives from NASA, EUMETSAT, China, Japan and India

3:30 PM-4:00 PM: Tuesday, 11 January 2000

Coffee Break (Exhibit Hours 3:30-7:30 p.m.)

4:00 PM-4:30 PM: Tuesday, 11 January 2000

Joint Session 1

Joint Session with 10th Conference on Satellite Meteorology and Oceanography & Second Conference on Artificial Intelligence (Invited Oral Presentation)

Hosts: (Joint between the Second Conference on Artificial Intelligence; and the 10th Conference on Satellite Meteorology and Oceanography )

Organizer: Richard L. Bankert, NRL

4:00 PM

J1.1

APPLYING 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, 11 January 2000

Joint Poster Session 1

(Joint with 10th Conference on Satellite Meteorology and Oceanography and Second Conference on Artificial Intelligence)

Hosts: (Joint between the Second Conference on Artificial Intelligence; and the 10th Conference on Satellite Meteorology and Oceanography )

Organizers: Richard L. Bankert, NRL; Marie Colton, Office of Naval Research; Ronald Issacs, AER, Inc.

JP1.1

Producing satellite retrievals for NWP model initialization using artificial neural networks

Robert J. Kuligowski, Penn State Univ., University Park, PA; and A. P. Barros

JP1.2

Neural Network Multi-Parameter Algorithms to Retrieve Atmospheric and Oceanic Parameters from Satellite Data

Vladimir Krasnopolsky, NOAA/NWS/NCEP, Camp Springs, MD; and W. Gemmill

JP1.3

Neural network retrieval of winds from combined surface and satellite observations

Edward M. Measure, Army Research Laboratory, White Sands Missile Range, NM; and J. Cogan

JP1.4

Applying 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

JP1.5

Operational 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

JP1.6

Identifying and tracking storms in satellite images

V Lakshmanan, NOAA/NSSL and Univ. of Oklahoma, Norman, OK; and R. Rabin and V. DeBrunner

JP1.7

Neural 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

JP1.8

Algorithm Development and Mining (ADaM) System for Earth Science Applications

Rahul Ramachandran, Univ. of Alabama, Huntsville, AL; and H. Conover, S. Graves, and K. Keiser

Poster Session 3

New Technology (Parallel with Joint Poster JP1)

Host: 10th Conference on Satellite Meteorology and Oceanography

Organizers: Marie Colton, Office of Naval Research; Ronald Isaacs, AER, Inc.

P3.1

Application 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

P3.2

Tropical 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

P3.3

The AMSU Hydrological Product Suite

Norman C. Grody, NOAA/NESDIS, Camp Springs, MD

P3.4

The 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

P3.5

Validation 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

P3.6

The 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

P3.7

Validation of the 89 GHZ AMSU-B bias corrections based on collocated satellite measurements from AMSU-A

Marc A. Kolodner, NASA/GSFC, Greenbelt, MD

P3.8

Effects 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

P3.9

Anomalies in Digital Data from Satellite Radiometers

Thomas J. Kleespies, NOAA/NESDIS, Camp Springs, MD; and L. M. McMillin

P3.10

Using 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

P3.11

Enhancement 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

P3.12

Assimilation 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

P3.13

Hybrid cloud clearing for EOS and NPOESS

Hung-Lung Huang, CIMSS/Univ. of Wisconsin, Madison, WI; and H. J. Bloom and E. Kratz

P3.14

Optimal 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

P3.15

Theoretical 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

P3.16

Preferential Development of Satellite Meteorological Sensors

David J. Smalley, SenCom Corp., Bedford, MA; and J. B. Mozer

P3.17

Retrieval 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

P3.19

An 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

P3.20

Observing Weather over Oceans from SSM/I Using Neural Networks

William H. Gemmill, NOAA/NCEP, Camp Springs, MD; and V. M. Krasnopolsky

P3.21

An 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

P3.22

FY-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-5:45 PM: Tuesday, 11 January 2000

Sessions end for the day

Wednesday, 12 January 2000

8:00 AM-9:30 AM: Wednesday, 12 January 2000

Session 6

A Tribute to Lewis Kaplan: Part I

Host: 10th Conference on Satellite Meteorology and Oceanography

Organizers: Eric Smith, NASA/MSFC/GHCC; Mitch Goldberg, NOAA/NESDIS

8:00 AM

6.1

The Achievements of Lewis D. Kaplan

Moustafa Chahine, JPL, Pasedena, CA

8:30 AM

6.2

Infrared Atmospheric Soundings from Space-Past, Present,and Future

Bill Smith, NASA/LARC, Langley, VA

9:00 AM

6.3

Passive Microwave Sounders: A Historical Perspective

Norman C. Grody, NOAA/NESDIS, Camp Springs, MD

9:30 AM-11:15 AM: Wednesday, 12 January 2000

Poster Session 4

At Tribute to Lewis Kaplan: Part II

Host: 10th Conference on Satellite Meteorology and Oceanography

Organizers: Eric Smith, NASA/MSFC/GHCC; Mitch Goldberg, NOAA/NESDIS

P4.1

Temperature 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

P4.2

1DVAR 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

P4.3

Limb Adjustments of AMSU-A Observations

Mitchell D. Goldberg, NOAA/NESDIS, Camp Springs, MD; and D. S. Crosby and L. Zhou

P4.4

Cloud Detection Techniques in NESDIS Advanced-TOVS Sounding Product Systems

Michael P. Ferguson, Raytheon Information Technology and Scientific Services, Lanham, MD; and A. L. Reale

P4.5

Use 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

P4.6

NESDIS Advanced-TOVS (ATOVS) Sounding Products

Anthony L. Reale, NOAA/NESDIS, Washington, DC; and M. Chalfant and L. M. Wilson

P4.7

NESDIS Moisture Sounding Products from AMSU-B and SSM/T2

Anthony L. Reale, NOAA/NESDIS, Washington, DC; and M. Chalfant and F. H. Tilley

P4.8

1DVariational assimilation of TOVS/ATOVS level 1b data

Joanna Joiner, NASA/GMAO, Greenbelt, MD; and L. Rokke

P4.9

The 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

P4.10

Intercomparison 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

P4.11

A Multi-Month TOVS Case Study over Oklahoma

Stephen Kirby, U. S. Army Research Lab., White Sands Missile Range, NM

P4.12

Comparisons of upper tropospheric water vapor retrievals from TOVS and METEOSAT

Christelle Escoffier, NASA/GISS, New York, NY

P4.13

Applications 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

P4.14

Temperature 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

P4.15

AMSU Temperature Profile Retrievals over Land Surfaces

Christopher E. Lietzke, AER Inc., Cambridge, MA; and T. S. Zaccheo

P4.16

Microwave Remote Sensing Over Land: Application to SSM/I

S. A. Boukabara, AER, Inc., Cambridge, MA; and J. L. Moncet, R. Lynch, and C. Prigent

P4.17

Amalgamation 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

P4.18

Intercalibration of the Meteosat-7 water vapor channel with SSM/T-2

B. J. Sohn, Seoul National Univ., Seoul, Korea, Republic of (South); and J. Schmetz, S. Tjemkes, M. Koenig, H. Lutz, A. Arriaga, and E. S. Chung

P4.19

Simultaneous 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

P4.20

Comparison 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, 12 January 2000

Coffee Break (Exhibit Hours 10:00 a.m.-1:30 p.m.)

11:15 AM-12:00 PM: Wednesday, 12 January 2000

Remote Sensing Lecture. M. Patrick McCormick, Hampton Univ., Hampton, VA

12:00 PM-1:30 PM: Wednesday, 12 January 2000

Lunch Break

1:30 PM-2:00 PM: Wednesday, 12 January 2000

Session 7

Retrieval of Atmospheric Profiles and Constituents: Part I (Invited Oral Presentations)

Host: 10th Conference on Satellite Meteorology and Oceanography

1:30 PM

7.1

TRMM and its connection to the Global Water Cycle

Christian D. Kummerow, NASA/GSFC, Greenbelt, MD

2:00 PM-2:30 PM: Wednesday, 12 January 2000

Joint Session 2

Joint Session with the 11th Conference on the Middle Atmosphere and the 10th Conference on Satellite Meteorology (Invited Oral Presentation)

Hosts: (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.

2:00 PM

J2.1

Ozone 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-2:30 PM: Wednesday, 12 January 2000

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)

Hosts: (Joint between the 10th Conference on Satellite Meteorology and Oceanography; and the 11th Conference on the Middle Atmosphere )

3:00 PM-3:30 PM: Wednesday, 12 January 2000

Coffee Break (Exhibit Hours 3:00-7:30 p.m.)

3:00 PM-5:00 PM: Wednesday, 12 January 2000

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)

Hosts: (Joint between the 11th Conference on the Middle Atmosphere; and the 10th Conference on Satellite Meteorology and Oceanography )

Organizer: Kenneth Bowman, Texas A&M Univ.

JP2.1

A 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

JP2.2

How well can satellite retrievals resolve the vertical structure of planetary waves?

Nili Harnik, MIT, Cambridge, MA; and R. S. Lindzen

JP2.3

Middle Atmosphere Temperature Profiles from SSMIS

Barbara A. Burns, GenCorp Aerojet, Azusa, CA

JP2.4

Ozone 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

JP2.5

HNO3 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

JP2.6

The 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

JP2.7

An 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

Poster Session 5

Retrieval of Atmoshperic Profiles and Constituents: Part II

Host: 10th Conference on Satellite Meteorology and Oceanography

P5.1

Development of the PM-1 AMSR amd TMI land precipitation algorithms

Jeffrey R. McCollum, NOAA/NESDIS, Camp Springs, MD; and R. R. Ferraro

P5.2

TRMM 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 Jr., and R. Kakar

P5.3

Investigating 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

P5.4

Rainfall retrievals using data from the Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission (TRMM)

Chris Kidd, Univ. of Birmingham, Birmingham, United Kingdom

P5.5

An 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

P5.6

A precipitation retrieval using TMI during the Baui Period of 1988

Kazumasa Aonashi, MRI, Tsukuba-shi, Ibaraki-ken, Japan; and G. Liu

P5.7

Estimation 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

P5.8

Cloud physical and microwave radiative properties of tropical stratiform precipitation inferred from multichannel microwave radiances

Grant W. Petty, Purdue Univ., West Lafayette, IN

P5.9

Precipitation 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

P5.10

Using 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

P5.11

Determination of ice water path and mass median particle size using multichannel microwave measurements

Guosheng Liu, Florida State Univ., Tallahassee, FL; and J. A. Curry

P5.12

Retrieval 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

P5.13

The 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

P5.14

An improved cloud detection algorithm for application to SST retrieval

Gary B. Gustafson, AER, Inc., Cambridge, MA; and W. O. Gallery

P5.15

Retrieval 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

P5.16

Retrieval 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

P5.17

Aerosol 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

P5.18

Sensitivity 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

P5.19

Modeling and analysis of MLS 203 and 186.5GHz radiances at 14-18km tangent heights

Dong L Wu, JPL/California Inst. of Technology, Pasadena, CA

P5.20

Diurnal variation of cloud derived from GOES-9 multi-IR-channel data

5:00 PM-5:00 PM: Wednesday, 12 January 2000

Sessions end for the day

6:00 PM-6:00 PM: Wednesday, 12 January 2000

Reception (Cash Bar)

7:30 PM-7:30 PM: Wednesday, 12 January 2000

AMS Annual Awards Banquet

Thursday, 13 January 2000

8:30 AM-9:45 AM: Thursday, 13 January 2000

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)

Hosts: (Joint between the 10th Conference on Satellite Meteorology and Oceanography; and the 11th Symposium on Global Change Studies )

Organizers: Tracy Diliberty, Univ. of Delaware; Michael Goodman, NASA/MSFC; David Easterling, NOAA/NCDC

8:30 AM

J4.1

Can 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 AM

J4.2

The Global Precipitation Climatology Project (GPCP)—Status, Applications, and Future Plans

Arnold Gruber, NOAA/NESDIS, Camp Springs, MD

9:00 AM

J4.3

Overview of Regional To Global Scale Satellite Remote Sensing of Snow Cover

Richard L. Armstrong, National Snow and Ice Data Center, Boulder, CO

9:15 AM

J4.4

New Results from CERES/TRMM on Tropical Radiative Fluxes

Bruce Wielicki, NASA/LARC, Langley, VA

9:30 AM

J4.5

Discussion

9:00 AM-1:30 PM: Thursday, 13 January 2000

Exhibit Hours

10:00 AM-10:00 AM: Thursday, 13 January 2000

Coffee Break

10:00 AM-12:00 PM: Thursday, 13 January 2000

Joint Poster Session 3

Climatology and Long-Term Satellite Data Studies: Part II (Joint with the 11th Symposium on Global Change Studies)

Hosts: (Joint between the 10th Conference on Satellite Meteorology and Oceanography; and the 11th Symposium on Global Change Studies )

Organizers: Tracy DeLiberty, Univ. of Delaware; Michael Goodman, NASA/MSFC/GHCC

JP3.0

Student Poster Contest

JP3.1

GPCP 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

JP3.2

A 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

JP3.3

TRMM-based merged precipitation analyses

Robert F. Adler, NASA/GSFC, Greenbelt, MD; and G. Huffman, D. T. Bolvin, E. Nelkin, and S. Curtis

JP3.4

SSM/I-derived global rainfall statistics and their application

Qihang Li, NOAA/NESDIS, Camp Springs, MD; and R. R. Ferraro

JP3.5

Evaluation 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

JP3.6

Optimal Scales for Comparing Satellite and Rain-Gauge Rainfall Estimates for Verification Purposes

Thomas L. Bell, NASA/GSFC, Greenbelt, MD; and P. K. Kundu

JP3.7

Interannual 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

JP3.8

Variability of Convective Precipitation from TRMM Microwave Imager (TMI)

Ye Hong, Caelum Research Corp., Rockville, MD; and C. D. Kummerow and W. S. Olson

JP3.9

Differences in satellite estimates of precipitation over the tropical East Pacific

Wesley Berg, CIRES/Univ. of Colorado, Boulder, CO

JP3.10

Large-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

JP3.11

Evaluation 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

JP3.12

A 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

JP3.13

Identifying 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

JP3.14

Observing the diurnal characteristics of marine stratocumulus drizzle using the TRMM microwave imager

Thomas J. Greenwald, CIRA/Colorado State Univ., Fort Collins, CO

JP3.15

Typical 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

JP3.16

High-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

JP3.17

STUDY OF DYNAMIC CHARACTERISTICS OF SQUALL LINES OVER THE SAHEL AND THEIR INTERACTION WITH THE ATMOSPHERE ENVIRONMENT

12:00 PM-1:30 PM: Thursday, 13 January 2000

Lunch Break

1:30 PM-2:00 PM: Thursday, 13 January 2000

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)

Hosts: (Joint between the 10th Conference on Satellite Meteorology and Oceanography; and the 11th Symposium on Global Change Studies )

1:30 PM

J5.1

Calculating 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-2:00 PM: Thursday, 13 January 2000

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)

Hosts: (Joint between the 10th Conference on Satellite Meteorology and Oceanography; and the 11th Symposium on Global Change Studies )

3:00 PM-3:30 PM: Thursday, 13 January 2000

Coffee Break

3:00 PM-5:00 PM: Thursday, 13 January 2000

Joint Poster Session 4

Climatology and Long-Term Satellite Data Studies: Part IV (Joint 1th Symposium on Global Change Studies)

Hosts: (Joint between the 10th Conference on Satellite Meteorology and Oceanography; and the 11th Symposium on Global Change Studies )

JP4.1

Calibration of the geostationary satellite water vapor channels

Francois-Marie Breon, CIRES and NOAA/ETL, Boulder, CO; and J. J. Bates and W. Rossow

JP4.2

Passive microwave observations of water vapor profiles during two ENSO events

Clay B. Blankenship, Texas A&M Univ., College Station, TX; and T. T. Wilheit

JP4.3

Water vapor winds and their application to climate change studies

Gary J. Jedlovec, NASA/MSFC/GHCC, Huntsville, AL; and J. A. Lerner

JP4.4

Satellite-Derived Poleward Moisture Transport Over the Southern Oceans

Cheng-Zhi Zou, NOAA/NESDIS, Camp Springs, MD; and M. L. Van Woert

JP4.5

Characterization 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

JP4.6

A 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

JP4.7

Comparison 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

JP4.8

Diurnal 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

JP4.9

ERBE-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

JP4.10

ERBE Scene Identification as seen by ISCCP: Results from ScaRaB Data

Ting Chen, Columbia Univ., New York, NY; and W. B. Rossow

JP4.11

A 20-yr TOVS radiance Pathfinder data set for climate analysis

Darren L. Jackson, CIRES, Boulder, CO; and J. J. Bates

JP4.12

EOF Analysis of Zonally Averaged MSU Radiances (1979-1998)

Grant W. Petty, Purdue Univ., West Lafayette, IN

JP4.13

Reconciling Surface and Satellite Temperature Measurements

Brian Soden, NOAA/GFDL and Princeton Univ., Princeton, NJ

JP4.14

A 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

JP4.15

GOES-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

JP4.16

The 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

JP4.17

SUPPRESSED TROPICAL CYCLONE FORMATION IN NORTHWEST PACIFIC IN 1998

Tetsuo Nakazawa, MRI, Tsukuba, Ibaraki-ken, Japan

5:00 PM-5:00 PM: Thursday, 13 January 2000

Sessions end for the day

Friday, 14 January 2000

8:30 AM-9:30 AM: Friday, 14 January 2000

Session 8

Environmental Applications of Land and Oceanic Remote Sensing (Invited Oral Presentations)

Host: 10th Conference on Satellite Meteorology and Oceanography

8:30 AM

8.1

Satellite-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 AM

8.2

Satellite Derived Weather Products to Support Aviation

David Johnson, NCAR, Boulder, CO

9:00 AM

8.3

Satellite Monitoring of Volcanic Ash Clouds

William I. Rose, Michigan Technological Univ., Houghton, MI

9:15 AM

8.4

Discussion

10:00 AM-10:30 AM: Friday, 14 January 2000

Coffee Break

10:00 AM-12:00 PM: Friday, 14 January 2000

Poster Session 6

Environmental Applications of Land and Oceanic Remote Sensing

Host: 10th Conference on Satellite Meteorology and Oceanography

Organizers: Robert Bernstein, Seaspace Corp.; David Johnson, NCAR

P6.1

CERES 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

P6.2

GOES-8 ABBA wildfire detection and monitoring in North and Central America

P6.3

Diurnal variation of smoke optical thickness from GOES-8

Jianglong Zhang, Univ. of Alabama, Huntsville, AL; and S. A. Christopher

P6.4

Satellite Remote Sensing of Biomass Burning Aerosols Using Goes-8

Jianglong Zhang, Univ. of Alabama, Huntsville, AL; and S. A. Christopher

P6.5

Proposed Improvements to the Nighttime GOES Fog Product to Provide Ceiling and Visibility Information

Gary P. Ellrod, NOAA/NESDIS, Camp Springs, MD

P6.6

Four channel volcanic ash detection algorithm

Frederick R. Mosher, NOAA/NWS/NCEP/AWC, Kansas City, MO

P6.7

The NOAA Operational Significant Events Imagery Service

Stephen D. Ambrose, NOAA/NESDIS, Washington, DC; and R. Fennimore, G. Stephens, and J. F. Sotelo

P6.8

Contrasts 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

P6.9

Detection 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

P6.10

Investigation 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

P6.11

Multispectral automated snow identification and monitoring algorithm

Peter Romanov, NOAA/NESDIS, Camp Springs, MD; and G. Gutman and I. Csiszar

P6.12

Snow grain size determination from AVIRIS data over Arctic ocean

Wei Li, Univ. of Alaska, Fairbanks, AK; and X. Xiong, K. Stamnes, and B. Chen

P6.13

Orlando Florida's Urban Heat Island

Gregory J. Carbone, Univ. of South Carolina, Columbia, SC; and D. M. Yow

P6.14

Influence 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

P6.15

Concluding Remarks

12:00 PM-12:00 PM: Friday, 14 January 2000

Conference ends

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