Program: Fourth Symposium on Integrated Observing Systems (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-6:30 PM: Sunday, 9 January 2000

Conference Registration

Monday, 10 January 2000

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

Conference Registration Continues through Friday, 14 January

9:00 AM-11:30 AM: Monday, 10 January 2000

Session 1

New observing systems or sensors

Host: Fourth Symposium on Integrated Observing Systems

Organizer: Frederick Zbar, NOAA/NWS

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

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

10:15 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

10:30 AM

1.7

Overview of NWS Radiosonde System Replacement

Richard D. Thomas, NOAA/NWS, Silver Spring, MD; and C. A. Bower Jr.

10:45 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

11:15 AM

1.4A

Coffee Break

11:45 AM-1:15 PM: Monday, 10 January 2000

Lunch Break

1:30 PM-5:15 PM: Monday, 10 January 2000

Session 2

Advances in use of observational data

Host: Fourth Symposium on Integrated Observing Systems

Organizer: Edward Zipser, Univ. of Utah

1:30 PM

2.1

Integrating Multi-frequency HF Doppler Radar Estimates of Wind Direction with Other Meteorological Observations to Obtain Surface Wind Patterns over Coastal Ocean Areas

Francis L. Ludwig, Environmental Fluid Mechanics Laboratory, Stanford, CA; and J. F. Vesecky and C. C. Teague

1:45 PM

2.2

A Blended Satellite - In situ Land Surface Temperature Product

Alan Basist, NOAA/NESDIS/NCDC, Asheville, NC; and C. Williams, T. Peterson, and N. Grody

2:00 PM

2.3

A Technique for Improving the Discrimination between Precipitation Types using the ASOS Present Weather Sensor

Charles G. Wade, NCAR, Boulder, CO

2:15 PM

2.4

Commercial aircraft provided weather data

John Cunning, NOAA/FSL, Boulder, CO

2:30 PM

2.5

Use of regional Precipitation forecasts for local applications

Frédéric Rossel, USDA/ARS, El Reno, OK; and J. Garbrecht

2:45 PM

2.6

A Procedure to Use Satellite Measurements to Determine Differences Between Radiosonde Types

Larry M. McMillin, NOAA/NESDIS, Camp Springs, MD; and S. S. Zhou

3:00 PM

2.7

World Weather Watch Program (Invited Presentation)

Robert Landis and Dieter C. Schiessl, WMO, Geneva, Switzerland

3:15 PM

2.8

Operational Ground-Based GPS Water Vapor Observing System Strategies

Seth Gutman, NOAA/FSL, Boulder, CO; and P. Fang, Y. Bock, M. Bevis, S. Businger, and K. Holub

3:30 PM

2.9

On the use of slant observations from GPS to diagnose three dimensional water vapor using 3DVAR

Alexander E. MacDonald, NOAA/FSL, Boulder, CO; and Y. Xie

3:45 PM

2.10

Development of a User-friendly, Interactive Web Guide to In Situ Observing System Metadata Using GIS Technology

Robert W. Reeves, NOAA/NWS, Silver Spring, MD; and J. R. Schultz

4:00 PM

2.11

A Multi-dataset Analysis Of The Morphology Of Mesoscale Convective Vortices

Christopher A. Davis, NCAR, Boulder, CO; and S. B. Trier, J. D. Tuttle, R. E. Carbone, L. J. Miller, and R. Oye

4:15 PM

2.12

A meteorological sensor data integration technique (Part I)

Gail Vaucher, Army Research Laboratory, White Sands Missile Range, NM; and E. Creegan, S. Elliott, D. Quintis, J. Yarbrough, and R. Brown

4:30 PM

2.13

Thunderstorm days climatology of Brazil:1961 through 1970

Rosangela B. B. Gin, Univ. of Sao Paulo, Sao Paulo, Brazil; and R. L. Guedes

4:45 PM

2.6A

Coffee Break

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

Formal Opening of Exhibits with Reception (Cash Bar)

5:15 PM-5:15 PM: Monday, 10 January 2000

Sessions end for the day

7:30 PM-9:30 PM: Monday, 10 January 2000

Fujita Banquet

Tuesday, 11 January 2000

8:00 AM-10:15 AM: Tuesday, 11 January 2000

Session 3

New Global Observing Systems

Host: Fourth Symposium on Integrated Observing Systems

Organizer: Randolph Ware, UCAR

8:00 AM

3.1

Constellation Observing System for Meteorology, Ionosphere, and Climate–-COSMIC: An Overview

Ying-Hwa Kuo, UCAR, Boulder, CO; and C. Rocken, S. Sokolovskiy, E. R. Kursinski, D. Chu, and L. Lee

8:15 AM

3.2

GAINS--An Observing System for the 21st Century

C. M. I. R. Girz, NOAA/FSL, Boulder, CO; and A. E. MacDonald, R. L. Anderson, T. Lachenmeier, F. Caracena, B. D. Jamison, and R. S. Collander

8:30 AM

3.3

Monitoring marine weather systems using Quickscat and TRMM data

W. Timothy Liu, JPL and California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA; and W. Tang, A. Datta, and C. S. Hsu

8:45 AM

3.4

Advanced infrared sounding instruments for the next generation of polar orbiting satellites

Mitchell D. Goldberg, NOAA/NESDIS/Center for Satellite Applications and Research, Washington, DC

9:00 AM

3.5

Sensors for NOAA's Future Geostationary Satellites

Jamison S. Hawkins, NOAA/NESDIS, Suitland, MD

9:15 AM

3.6

Routine, wide-scale offshore soundings within five years using second-generation Aerosondes

Tad McGeer, The Insitu Group, Bingen, WA; and J. Vagners

9:30 AM

3.7

An aerosonde adaptive observing strategy for the North Pacific Ocean

Greg J. Holland, BMRC, Melbourne, Australia; and G. Tyrrell

9:45 AM

3.8

Global Climate Observing in Support of Climate Conventions (Invited Presentation)

Alan Thomas, WMO, Geneva, Switzerland

10:00 AM

3.8a

Coffee Break (Exhibit Hours 10:00 A.M.- 2:15 P.M.)

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

WALTER ORR ROBERTS LECTURE IN INTERDISCIPLINARY SCIENCE (Special President's Symposium on Environmental Applications). Title: Emerging Environmental Issues: A Global Perspective. Speaker: R. E. (Ted) Munn, Univ. of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada

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

WMO PRESENTATION (Special President's Symposium on Environmental Applications). Meteorology and the Environment - the WMO Perspective. Speaker: John W. Zillman, WMO, Geneva, Switzerland

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

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

2:15 PM-4:45 PM: Tuesday, 11 January 2000

Session 4

Assimilation

Host: Fourth Symposium on Integrated Observing Systems

Organizer: Thomas Schlatter, NOAA/OAR

2:15 PM

4.1

The Development of NCEP 4D-Var System: Experimental Results Compared to those of 3D-Var

X. Zou, Florida State Univ., Tallahassee, FL; and H. Liu, J. Derber, J. G. Sela, R. Treaton, and B. Wang

4.2

Ensemble retrospective assimilation for a global nonlinear shallow-water model

2:45 PM

4.3

Deterministic prediction of the error variance of a meteorological forecast

Lars Peter Riishojgaard, JCET/Univ. of Maryland Baltimore County, Baltimore, MD

3:00 PM

4.4

Estimation of analysis error covariances from observation residuals

Ricardo Todling, NASA/GSFC/DAO, Greenbelt, MD; and D. P. Dee

3:15 PM

4.5

Assimilation of SeaWinds scatterometer data in the GEOS data assimilation system

Robert Atlas, NASA/GSFC, Greenbelt, MD; and E. Brin, S. C. Bloom, J. Ardizzone, J. Terry, J. C. Jusem, and D. Bungato

3:30 PM

4.6

Design and validation of the GEOS ozone assimilation system

Ivanka Stajner, NASA/GSFC, Greenbelt, MD; and L. P. Riishojgaard and R. B. Rood

3:45 PM

4.7

Development of a prognostic forecast error variance model for data assimilation

Yong Li, NASA/GSFC, Greenbelt, MD; and S. E. Cohn, R. Todling, D. P. Dee, L. P. Riishojgaard, A. M. DaSilva, and Z. Toth

4:00 PM

4.8

Optimal Vorticity Forcing of Blocking Derived from A Variational Approach

Shaoqing Zhang, Florida State Univ., Tallahassee, FL; and J. E. Ahlquist

4:15 PM

4.9

Producing unbiased analyses in the presence of forecast bias

Ricardo Todling, NASA/GSFC, Greenbelt, MD; and D. P. Dee

4:30 PM

4.5A

Coffee Break (Exhibit Hours 3:30-7:00 P.M.)

5:00 PM-5:00 PM: Tuesday, 11 January 2000

Sessions end for the day

Wednesday, 12 January 2000

8:00 AM-5:15 PM: Wednesday, 12 January 2000

Joint Session 1

Joint IIPS/IOS Session on Technology for Buoy Observing Systems

Hosts: (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, OAR; Cathy Woody, NOAA/NDBC; Steve Holt, Mitretek

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

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.

10:15 AM

J1.10

The Environmental Sensors Presently Used by the National Data Buoy Center

Eduardo D. Michelena, NOAA/NDBC, Stennis Space Flight Center, MS

10:30 AM

J1.11

Long Term Water Level Measurements Using GPS on a Buoy

Gerald L. Mader, NOAA/NWSFO, Silver Spring, MD

10:45 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

11:00 AM

J1.13

New Interdisciplinary Technologies and Their Potential Utilization in Ocean Observing Systems

Tommy D. Dickey, Univ. of California, Santa Barbara, CA

11:15 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

11:30 AM

J1.15

Technology Development to Collect Ocean Optics Data At NDBC Weather Stations

Catherine E. Woody, NOAA/NBDC, Stennis space Center, MS

11:45 AM

J1.16

Measurement of Optical Variability of the Ocean from Autonomous Platforms

M. Lewis, Dalhousie Univ., Halifax, NS, Canada

12:00 PM

J1.17

PMEL Mooring Operations - Supporting Climate and Weather Forecasting

Hugh B. Milburn, NOAA/PMEL, Seattle, WA; and C. Meinig

12:15 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

12:30 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

12:45 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

1:00 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

1:15 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

1:30 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

1:45 PM

J1.24

Information Management Methodology for Profiling Float Observations

Robert L. Molinari, NOAA/AOML, Miami, FL

2:00 PM

J1.25

NOPP Drifter Project--Drifter Data in the K-12 Classroom

Sarah E. Schoedinger, Consortium for Oceanographic Research & Education, Washington, DC

2:15 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

2:30 PM

J1.27

Moving data and information from here to the future

William T. Turnbull, NOAA/HPCC, Silver Spring, MD

2:45 PM

J1.28

Collaborative virtual environments as a visual analysis tool

Cathy Lascara, Old Dominion Univ., Norfolk, va

3:00 PM

J1.29

Technology trends in distributed data access and visualization

Nancy N. Soreide, NOAA/PMEL, Seattle, WA

3:15 PM

J1.8A

Coffee Break (Exhibit Hours 10:00 am-1:30 pm)

3:45 PM

J1.14A

Lunch Break

4:45 PM

J1.22A

Coffee Break (Exhibit Hours 3:00-7:30 pm)

5:00 PM

J1.29A

Session J1 ends

8:45 AM-9:30 AM: Wednesday, 12 January 2000

Session 5

Testing and simulation of observing systems

Host: Fourth Symposium on Integrated Observing Systems

Organizer: Mike Fritsch, Penn State Univ.

8:45 AM

5.1

A Predictability study using geostationary satellite wind observations during NORPEX

Ronald Gelaro, NRL, Monterey, CA; and C. A. Reynolds, R. H. Langland, and G. D. Rohaly

9:00 AM

5.2

Verification of RUC2 Precipitation Forecasts using the NCEP Multisensor Analysis

Barry Schwartz, NOAA/FSL, Boulder, CO; and S. Benjamin

9:15 AM

5.3

Targeted observations at NCEP: toward an operational implementation

Zoltan Toth, NOAA/NWS/NCEP/EMC, Washington, DC; and I. Szunyogh, S. Majumdar, R. Morss, B. Etherton, C. Bishop, S. Lord, M. Ralph, O. Persson, and Z. X. Pu