Morning

• Short Course Registration

  7:30 AM-9:00 AM,
• Conference Registration

  9:00 AM-6:00 PM,

Morning

• Conference Registration continues through Friday, 14 Janauary

  7:30 AM,
• OPERATIONAL APPLICATIONS OF SATELLITE OBSERVATIONS: Part 1(Invited Oral Presentations)

  9:00 AM-10:00 AM,
• Coffee Break

  10:00 AM-10:30 AM,
• Operational Applications of Satellite Observations: Part II

  10:00 AM-12:00 PM,

Morning

• NEW TECHNOLOGY (Invited Oral Presentations)

  8:30 AM-10:00 AM,
• Coffee Break (Exhibit Hours 10:00 am-2:15 pm)

  10:00 AM,
• Special President's Symposium on Environmental Applications

  10:30 AM-12:15 PM,

Morning

• A Tribute to Lewis Kaplan: Part I

  8:00 AM-9:30 AM,
• At Tribute to Lewis Kaplan: Part II

  9:30 AM-11:15 AM,
• Coffee Break (Exhibit Hours 10:00 a.m.-1:30 p.m.)

  10:00 AM-10:30 AM,
• Remote Sensing Lecture. M. Patrick McCormick, Hampton Univ., Hampton, VA

  11:15 AM-12:00 PM,

Morning

• 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)

  8:30 AM-9:45 AM,
• Exhibit Hours

  9:00 AM-1:30 PM,
• Coffee Break

  10:00 AM,
• Climatology and Long-Term Satellite Data Studies: Part II (Joint with the 11th Symposium on Global Change Studies)

  10:00 AM-12:00 PM,

Morning

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

  8:30 AM-9:30 AM,
• Coffee Break

  10:00 AM-10:30 AM,
• Environmental Applications of Land and Oceanic Remote Sensing

  10:00 AM-12:00 PM,

Morning

• Short Course Registration

  7:30 AM-9:30 AM,
• Conference Registration

  9:00 AM,

Morning

• Conference Registration Continues through Friday, 14 January

  7:30 AM-6:00 PM,
• Modeling and data assimilation

  8:55 AM-12:00 PM,

Morning

• Dynamics, transport, and mixing

  8:30 AM-2:15 PM,

Morning

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

  10:00 AM,
• Remote Sensing Lecture Title: Remote Sensing from Space Using Occultation and Lidar Techniques Speaker: M. Patrick McCormick, Hampton Univ., Hampton, VA

  11:15 AM,

Morning

• Gravity waves

  8:30 AM-10:30 AM,
• Exhibit Hours

  9:00 AM-1:30 PM,
• Dynamical and chemical coupling between the troposphere and middle atmosphere

  10:45 AM-1:30 PM,

Morning

• Short Course Registration

  7:30 AM-9:00 AM,
• Conference Registration

  9:00 AM-6:00 PM,

Morning

• Registration continues though Friday, 14 January

  7:30 AM-5:30 PM,
• Introductory Remarks

  8:45 AM,
• Dispersion in the stable boundary layer

  9:00 AM-10:00 AM,
• Coffee Break

  10:00 AM-10:30 AM,
• Dispersion in the convective boundary layer

  10:30 AM-11:44 AM,

Morning

• Photochemical air quality models

  8:30 AM-10:00 AM,
• Coffee Break (Exhibit Hours 10:00 A.M.-2:15 P.M.)

  10:00 AM-10:30 AM,
• 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

  10:30 AM-11:15 AM,
• WMO PRESENTATION (Special President's Symposium on Environmental Applications). Title: Meteorology and the Environment - the WMO Perspective. Speaker: John W. Zillman, WMO, Geneva, Switzerland

  11:15 AM-12:15 PM,

Morning

• Advanced modeling techniques for dispersion on all scales

  8:30 AM-10:00 AM,
• Coffee Break (Exhibit Hours 10:00 A.M.-1:30 P.M.)

  10:00 AM-10:30 AM,
• Advanced modeling techniques for dispersion on all scales: Continued (Parallel with Session 10)

  10:30 AM-11:44 AM,
• Transport and dispersion in complex terrain: Part I (Parallel with Session 9)

  10:30 AM-12:00 PM,

Morning

• Aerosols and Particulates

  8:30 AM-10:00 AM,
• Exhibit Hours 9:00 A.M.-1:30 P.M.

  9:00 AM,
• Coffee Break

  10:00 AM-10:30 AM,
• Aerosols and particulates: Continued (Parallel with Session 16)

  10:30 AM-11:30 AM,
• Meteorological Analysis and Forecasting of Ozone Episodes (Parallel with Session 15)

  10:30 AM-11:44 AM,

Morning

• Short Course Registration

  7:30 AM-9:00 AM,
• Conference Registration

  9:00 AM-6:00 PM,

Morning

• Conference Registration Continues through Friday, 14 January

  7:30 AM,
• Agency Research Programs in the 21st Century

  9:00 AM-1:30 PM,

Morning

• IPCC TAR: Long-term Climate Variability and Change: Part 2 (Parallel with Session 6)

  8:15 AM-10:00 AM,
• Policy Responses to the 1997/1998 El Nino: Implications for Forecast Value (Co-Sponsored by the Committee on Societal Impacts)(Parallel with Session 5)

  8:45 AM-10:00 AM,
• Coffee Break (Exhibit Hours 10:00 a.m.-2:15 p.m.)

  10:00 AM,
• WALTER ORR ROBERTS LECTURE IN INTERDISCIPLINARY SCIENCE (Special President's Symposium on Environmental Applications) Speaker: R. E. (Ted) Munn, Univ. of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada Title: Emerging Environmental Issues: A Global Perspective

  10:30 AM-11:15 AM,
• WMO PRESENTATION (Special President's Symposium on Environmental Applications) Title: Meteorology and the Environment-The WMO Perspective Speaker: John W. Zillman, WMO, Geneva, Switzerland

  11:15 AM-12:00 PM,

Morning

• Surface/Atmosphere Interactions: Invited Session (Joint with the 15th Conference on Hydrology and 11th Symposium on Global Change Studies)

  8:00 AM-4:59 PM,
• Advancing Our Understanding of Seasonal to Interannual Climate Variability: Part 1 (Parallel with Joint Session J1)

  8:15 AM-1:30 PM,

Morning

• IPCC TAR: Long-term Climate Variability and Change: Part 4 (Parallel with Sessions 12, JP3, and J4)

  8:00 AM-1:29 PM,
• Advancing Our Understanding of Seasonal to Interannual Climate Variability: Part 3 (Parallel with Sessions 11, 13, JP3, JP4, J5, and J6)

  8:00 AM-1:45 PM,
• 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)

  8:30 AM-9:45 AM,
• Climatology and Long-Term Satellite Data Studies: Part II (Joint with the 11th Symposium on Global Change Studies)

  10:00 AM-12:00 PM,

Morning

• Short Course Registration

  7:30 AM-9:00 AM,
• Conference Registration

  9:00 AM-6:00 PM,

Morning

• Conference Registration Continues through Friday, 14 January

  7:30 AM,
• Data, Modeling and Analysis in Hydrometeorology

  9:00 AM-5:15 PM,

Morning

• Data, Modeling and Analysis in Hydrometeorology Part II

  8:00 AM-5:45 PM,

Morning

• Surface/Atmosphere Interactions: Invited Session (Joint with the 15th Conference on Hydrology and 11th Symposium on Global Change Studies)

  8:00 AM-4:59 PM,
• Heavy Precipitation and Flash Flooding (Parallel with Joint Session J1)

  8:30 AM-2:30 PM,

Morning

• Terrestrial Biosphere Feedback to the Atmosphere at the Regional and Global Scales (Parallel with Session 5B)

  8:30 AM-2:30 PM,
• TRMM Hydrology (Parallel with Sessions 5A)

  8:30 AM-4:45 PM,

Morning

• Short Course Registration

  7:30 AM-9:00 AM,
• Conference Registration

  9:00 AM-6:00 PM,

Morning

• Conference Registration Continues Through Friday, 14 January

  7:30 AM,
• Interdisciplinary Applications (Parallel with Sessions 2 & 3)

  8:30 AM-12:15 PM,
• Post-analysis of Year 2000 issues and problems (Parallel with Sessions 1 & 3)

  10:30 AM-11:45 AM,
• Issues, technology, and applications of IIPS in Modeling and Simulation (Parallel with Sessions 1 & 2)

  10:30 AM-4:30 PM,

Morning

• Unidata applications and extensions

  8:00 AM-12:30 PM,
• Walter Orr Roberts Lecture in Interdisciplinary Science (Part of the President's Symposium on Environmental Applications). Title: Emerging Environmental Issues: A Global Perspective of Scope. Speaker: R. E. (Ted) Munn, Univ. of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada

  10:30 AM,
• Meteorology and the Environment - the WMO Perspective. John W. Zillman, Bureau of Meteorology, Melbourne, Vic., Australia

  11:15 AM-12:00 PM,

Morning

• Modernization activities of government and commercial weather services (Parallel with Sessions J1 &9)

  8:00 AM-12:30 PM,
• Joint IIPS/IOS Session on Technology for Buoy Observing Systems

  8:00 AM-5:15 PM,
• AWIPS (Parallel with Sessions J1 & 8)

  10:30 AM-3:30 PM,

Morning

• Applications of IIPS Using Radar and Other Observation Platforms and Their Associated Data Processing Systems (Parallel with Sessions 12, 13, & 14)

  8:00 AM-12:15 PM,
• Applications of decision support tools in the use and leverage of the Internet (Parallel with Sessions 11 and 13)

  8:30 AM-12:15 PM,
• Applications of IIPS Using Satellites, Other Observation Platforms, and Their Associated Data Processing Systems (Parallel with Sessions 11 & 12)

  10:30 AM-5:15 PM,

Morning

• Applications of IIPS in Climatology

  8:00 AM-10:15 AM,
• Conference ends

  10:15 AM,

Morning

• Short Course Registration

  7:30 AM-9:00 AM,
• Conference Registration

  9:00 AM-6:30 PM,

Morning

• Conference Registration Continues through Friday, 14 January

  7:30 AM,
• New observing systems or sensors

  9:00 AM-11:30 AM,
• Lunch Break

  11:45 AM-1:15 PM,

Morning

• New Global Observing Systems

  8:00 AM-10:15 AM,
• 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

  10:30 AM-11:15 AM,
• WMO PRESENTATION (Special President's Symposium on Environmental Applications). Meteorology and the Environment - the WMO Perspective. Speaker: John W. Zillman, WMO, Geneva, Switzerland

  11:15 AM-12:15 PM,

Morning

• Joint IIPS/IOS Session on Technology for Buoy Observing Systems

  8:00 AM-5:15 PM,
• Testing and simulation of observing systems

  8:45 AM-9:30 AM,
• Adaptive observations

  9:30 AM-10:45 AM,
• Remote Sensing Lecture

  11:15 AM-12:00 PM,

Morning

• North American Atmospheric Observing System

  8:30 AM-9:30 AM,
• Exhibit Hours 9:00 A.M.-1:30 P.M.

  9:00 AM,
• Symposium Ends

  10:00 AM,
• Coffee Break

  10:00 AM-10:30 AM,
• Bernhard Haurwitz Memorial Lecture

  11:15 AM-12:00 PM,

Morning

• Short Course Registration

  7:30 AM-9:00 AM,
• Conference Registration

  9:00 AM-6:00 PM,

Morning

• Conference Registration continues through Friday, 14 January

  7:30 AM-6:00 PM,
• BWM Survey results (Invited Presentations)

  8:15 AM-10:15 AM,
• K-12 Educational Initiatives

  10:30 AM-12:15 PM,

Morning

• University Educational Initiatives

  8:30 AM-10:15 AM,
• 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

  10:30 AM-11:15 AM,
• WMO Presentation (Special President's Symposium on Environmental Applications) Title: Meteorology and the Environment - the WMO Perspective. Speaker: John W. Zillman, WMO, Geneva, Switzerland

  11:15 AM-12:15 PM,

Morning

Morning

• Short Course Registration

  7:30 AM-9:00 AM,
• Conference Registration

  9:00 AM-6:00 PM,

Morning

• Conference Registration continues through Friday, 14 January

  7:30 AM-5:30 PM,
• Fuzzy Set Applications

  9:00 AM-11:00 AM,
• Lunch Break

  11:30 AM-1:30 PM,

Morning

• Artificial Intelligence Applications

  8:30 AM-9:44 AM,
• Coffee Break (Exhibit Hours 10:00 A.M.-2:15 P.M.)

  10:00 AM-10:30 AM,
• 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

  10:30 AM-11:15 AM,
• WMO PRESENTATION (Special President's Symposium on Environmental Applications). Title: Meteorology and the Environment - the WMO Perspective. Speaker: John W. Zillman, WMO, Geneva, Switzerland

  11:15 AM-12:15 PM,

Morning

Morning

• Short Course Registration

  7:30 AM-9:00 AM,
• Conference Registration

  9:00 AM-6:00 PM,

Morning

• Natural hazard mitigation strategies

  8:30 AM-3:30 PM,

Morning

• Human Health: Use of Environmental Data and Information for Societal Needs

  8:00 AM-10:29 AM,
• Special President's Session on Environmental Applications

  10:30 AM-12:00 PM,

Morning

• Economic & Societal Impacts of Wx

  8:15 AM-4:29 PM,

Morning

• Special Session

  8:30 AM-9:00 AM,
• Applied Climatology

  9:00 AM-11:00 AM,
• Exhibit Hours

  9:00 AM-1:30 PM,
• Insurance

  10:30 AM-1:30 PM,

Morning

• Energy use and design

  8:30 AM-10:00 AM,
• Symposium ends

  10:00 AM,

Morning

• Short Course Registration

  7:30 AM-9:00 AM,
• Conference Registration

  9:00 AM-6:00 PM,

Morning

• Conference Registration Continues through Friday, 14 January

  7:30 AM-5:00 PM,
• Tropospheric aerosols-chemistry and radiative properties

  9:00 AM-2:00 PM,

Morning

• Advances in instrumentation for aerosol and trace gas measurements

  9:15 AM-10:30 AM,
• Walter Orr Roberts Lecture in Interdisciplinary Sciences (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

  10:30 AM-11:15 AM,
• WMO PRESENTATION (Special President's Symposium on Environmental Applications) Title: Meteorology and the Environment-The WMO Perspective Speaker: John W. Zillman, WMO, Geneva, Switzerland

  11:15 AM-12:00 PM,

Morning

• Integration of measurement and modeling on urban and regional scales

  9:00 AM-11:00 AM,
• Remote Sensing Lecture Title: Remote Sensing from Space Using Occultation and Lidar Techniques Speaker: M. Patrick McCormick, Hampton Univ., Hampton, VA

  11:15 AM,

Morning

• Short Course Registration

  7:30 AM-9:00 AM,
• Conference Registration

  9:00 AM-6:00 PM,

Morning

• Conference Registration continues through Friday, 14 January

  7:30 AM-5:30 PM,
• Opening Session

  9:20 AM-10:00 AM,
• Coffee Break

  10:00 AM-10:30 AM,
• Tropospheric Chemistry: Water Vapor, Ozone, and Aerosols

  10:30 AM-12:00 PM,

Morning

• Clouds of the Troposphere

  8:00 AM-10:30 AM,
• 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

  10:30 AM-11:15 AM,
• WMO Presentation (Special President's Symposium on Environmental Applications). Title: Meteorology and the Environment - the WMO Perspective. Speaker: John W. Zillman, WMO, Geneva, Switzerland

  11:15 AM-12:15 PM,
• Session 4 ends

  11:30 AM,

Morning

• Stratospheric Properties and Polar Clouds

  8:30 AM-11:00 AM,
• Lunch Break

  11:00 AM-1:30 PM,
• Remote Sensing Lecture

  11:15 AM-12:00 PM,

Morning

• Short Course Registration

  7:30 AM-9:00 AM,
• Conference Registration

  9:00 AM-6:00 PM,

Morning

• Conference Registration Continues through Friday, 14 January

  7:30 AM,
• Invited Presentations

  9:00 AM-5:00 PM,

Morning

• Poster Session P1

  8:30 AM-10:00 AM,
• Coffee Break (Exhibit Hours 10:00 a.m.-2:15 p.m.)

  10:00 AM,
• 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

  10:30 AM,
• WMO PRESENTATION (Special President's Symposium on Environmental Applications) Title: Meteorology and the Environment-The WMO Perspective Speaker: John W. Zillman, WMO, Geneva, Switzerland

  11:15 AM,

Morning

Morning

• Short Course Registration

  7:30 AM-9:00 AM,
• Conference Registration

  9:00 AM-6:00 PM,

Morning

• Conference Registration continues through Friday, 14 January

  7:30 AM-5:30 PM,

Morning

• Exhibit Hours 10:00 A.M.-2:15 P.M.

  10:00 AM,
• 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

  10:30 AM-11:15 AM,
• WMO PRESENTATION (Special President's Symposium on Environmental Applications). Title: Meteorology and the Environment - the WMO Perspective. Speaker: John W. Zillman, WMO, Geneva, Switzerland

  11:15 AM,

Morning

• Forecast, warning, and preparedness issues related to VORTEX

  8:00 AM-9:30 AM,
• Supercells and their environments

  9:30 AM-11:30 AM,
• Remote Sensing Lecture

  11:15 AM-12:00 PM,
• Lunch Break

  11:30 AM-1:30 PM,

Morning

• Observations of mesocyclones and tornadogenesis

  8:00 AM-10:00 AM,
• Exhibit Hours

  9:00 AM-1:30 PM,
• Coffee Break

  10:00 AM-10:30 AM,
• Observations and modeling of tornadoes

  10:30 AM-12:00 PM,

Morning

• Short Course Registration

  7:30 AM-9:00 AM,
• Conference Registration

  9:00 AM-6:00 PM,

Morning

• Registration Continues through Friday, 14 January

  7:30 AM-5:00 PM,
• Coffee Break

  10:00 AM,
• Coupled Fire - Atmospheric Models

  10:30 AM-2:00 PM,

Morning

• Application of Mesoscale Weather Modeling for Fire Management

  8:00 AM-10:00 AM,
• Coffee Break (Exhibit Hours 10:00 a.m.-2:15 p.m.)

  10:00 AM-10:30 AM,
• 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

  10:30 AM-11:15 AM,
• WMO PRESENTATION (Special President's Symposium on Environmental Applications) Title: Meteorology and the Environment-The WMO Perspective Speaker: John W. Zillman, WMO, Geneva, Switzerland

  11:15 AM-12:00 PM,

Morning

• Weather Data and Forecasts for Fire Behavior Applications

  8:00 AM-11:15 AM,
• Remote Sensing Lecture Title: Remote Sensing from Space Using Occultation and Lidar Techniques Speaker: M. Patrick McCormick, Hampton Univ., Hampton, VA

  11:15 AM-12:00 PM,