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Poster Session 1

Educational Outreach Activities and Public Awareness Activities on Weather, Climate and the Oceans

Host: Ninth Symposium on Education

Organizers: Marianne C. Hayes, Devers Elementary School; Kathleen A. Murphy, Ladue School District

P1.1

District Eleven Weather Study Program: Current Status and Future Plans

Steven J. Richards, Northeast Bronx Weather Station, Bronx, NY

P1.2

The Earth Observatory: NASA's New Web Environment for Learning About Earth

David D. Herring, NASA/GSFC, Greenbelt, MD; and S. M. Graham, K. A. Ward, R. B. Simmon, and S. A. Stockman

P1.3

What Can Classroom Teachers Learn From Research Scientists? A Maury Project Experience

Michael J. Passow, White Plains Middle School, White Plains, NY; and C. Small, D. Witter, R. Newton, M. Visbeck, R. L. Bond, and J. Ortiz

P1.4

An Inside Look at the Earth System: A Senior Capstone Earth System Science Course

Julie A. Eardley, Florida Institute of Technology, Melbourne, FL; and M. R. Witiw

P1.5

State standards and assessment tests, positive and negative implications for AMS Education initiatives

Lawrence E. Greenleaf, AMS/AERA, Belfast Area High School, Belfast, ME

P1.6

Modeling weather in the classroom

Steve M. Carlson, Hermiston Public Schools, Portland, OR

P1.7

Everyday Weather, Project Atmosphere and DataStreme, "reaching out to the educational system and community!"

Steve M. Carlson, AMS/AERA, Hermiston Public Schools, Portland, OR

P1.8

The teaching of Atmospheric Sciences at Barry University

Arturo E. Rodriguez, Barry Univ., Miami Shores, FL

P1.9

The DataStreme project: an update on the K-12 teacher enhancement program

Robert S. Weinbeck, SUNY, Brockport, NY; and I. W. Geer, E. J. Hopkins, J. M. Moran, J. A. Brey, and B. A. Blair

P1.10

Teaching Datastreme by using cyber campus sites

Frankie C. Vann, Lakewood High School, Salemburg, NC

P1.11

Student Evaluations of the Oklahoma Weather Center REU program: 1995, 1998, and 1999

Mark H. Palmer, Univ of Oklahoma/CAPS, Norman, OK; and S. Stevenson and D. Zaras

P1.12

The Idaho Environmental Monitoring Program

Gennaro H. Crescenti, NOAA/ARL, Idaho Falls, ID; and K. L. Clawson, B. R. Reese, D. W. Walker, W. J. Behymer, and A. Jensen

P1.13

"Project AIR: Atmospheric Science Curriculum Modules for Middle and High School"

John D. Pickle, AER, Inc., Cambridge, MA; and A. M. Boursiquot, G. Abegg, R. McFall, R. Audet, M. Bartlett, B. Bobrowsky, T. Vaughn, H. Dimmick, and H. Sevian

P1.14

Middle-schoolers as Citizen Scientists with a Satellite Connection

Ruth Bombaugh, Cleveland State Univ., Cleveland, OH

P1.15

Using Public Education and Disaster Mitigation Campaigns to Develop a Disaster Resistant Community

Timothy W. Troutman, NOAA/NWS, Melbourne, FL; and D. M. Decker

P1.16

Developing Digital Library Resources Using UCAR's Geoscience Resource Discovery System (GRDS)

Mary R. Marlino, UCAR, Boulder, CO; and K. Ginger and B. Domenico

P1.17

AERA's and Air Quality: Modern Municipal Challenges

Faye McCollum, AMS/AERA, Muscogee County Public Schools, Columbus, GA

P1.18

Project Atmosphere/AERA Connections: An International Expansion Of Meteorological and Oceanographic Education

Faye McCollum, AMS/AERA, Muscogee County Public Schools, Columbus, GA

P1.19

"Real weather" educators' conference: A successful formula for a 3-day weather workshop

Steve LaDochy, California State Univ., Los Angeles, CA.; and M. R. Hayden, G. K. Lee, and F. Sotnick

P1.20

AMBER: Student Experiences and Products for Operational Use

Michelle Webb, Jackson State Univ., Jackson, MS; and P. J. Croft and A. E. Gerard

P1.21

Enhancing Content Knowledge Retention in Introductory Meteorology Courses: Recommendations for Large-Lecture Classes

Donna J. Charlevoix, Univ. of Illinois, Urbana, IL; and R. T. Stofflett

P1.22

The NWS Training and Education Program: Meeting User Requirements and Ensuring Proficiency

LeRoy Spayd, NOAA/NWS, Silver Spring, MD

P1.23

Maury Project Modules Help Meet the National and Pennsylvania Science Standards

George W. Rumpp, Colonial Middle School, Plymouth Meeting, PA

P1.24

Integration of the Maury Modules and Data-Streme with Earth and Space and Physical Science Curricula

Phyllis E. Rumpp, Bala Cynwyd Middle School, Bala Cynwyd, PA

P1.25

Meteorological education of young people and information for the general public in Europe

Werner Wehry, Meteorological Institute, Free University Berlin, Berlin, Germany

P1.26

Earthworks: Earth System Science for Secondary Teachers

Susan M. Buhr, CIRES/Univ. of Colorado, Boulder, CO; and A. Weaver and H. Spetzler

P1.27

Online forecasting exercises in introductory meteorology courses: learning from our mistakes

Jonathan D. W. Kahl, Univ. of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, WI; and P. J. Samson and K. L. Swanson

P1.28

A Weather Degree Program for the New Millennium!

Richard Bagby, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, Daytona Beach, FL; and C. Herbster, D. Schaum, J. Ernst, W. Golding, and B. Muller

P1.29

The River of Maury

James Backus, AMS/Maury, Brookfield, CT

P1.30

PROJECT MAURY-COASTAL UPWELLING AND LEO-15 Rutgers University

William Blanchard, AMS/Maury, Neptune, NJ

P1.31

The Maury Project: A Teacher Enhancement Program in Oceanography in Australia and the US

Debra Brice, AMS/Maury, Vista, CA

P1.32

Tornado Outbreak in Arkansas-An Instructional Unit

Rene Carson, AMS/AERA, Little Rock, AR

P1.33

OCEANOGRAPHY IN THE MIDDLE OF THE CONTINENT

Craig Croone, AMS/Maury, Northfield, MN

P1.34

STATE STARDARDS AND ASSESSMENT TESTS, POSITIVE AND NEGATIVE IMPLICATIONS FOR AMS EDUCATION INITIATIVES

Don Curry, AMS/Maury, Las Vegas, NV

P1.35

MAURY PROJECT PEER TRAINING IN CENTRAL ARKANSAS

Monica Davis, AMS/Maury, North Little Rock, AR

P1.36

ENHANCING K-12 SCIENCE EDUCATION THROUGH SCHOOL BASED FORECAST METEOROLOGY

Donald Davis, AMS/AERA, Walpole, NH

P1.37

OCEANOGRAPHY AS A CONTEXT FOR REACHING STATE, NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL GOALS IN SCIENCE EDUCATION

Michelle Dumas, AMS/Maury, Portland, OR

P1.38

BRINGING SEVERE WEATHER PREPAREDNESS TO THE FORT BRAGG COMMUNITY

Marianne Hayes, AMS/AERA, Fort Bragg, NC

P1.39

NEAR AND FAR SCIENCES IN ILLINOIS-A PROFESSIONAL ENHANCEMENT

Susan Henke, AMS/AERA, Calumet City, IL

P1.40

NETWORKING IN NEW YORK: OUR NUMBERS ARE GROWING

Carol Hildreth, AMS/AERA, Mechanicsville, NY

P1.41

DATASTREME: WEATHER EDUCATION FROM THE AMS TO THE CLASSROOM

Hector Ibarra, AMS/AERA, Iowa City, IA

P1.42

THE MAURY PROJECT-OCEANOGRAPHY TRAINING FOR CLASSROOM TEACHERS

Beth Jewell, AMS/Maury, Centreville, VA

P1.43

GETTING CERES ABOUT THE WEATHER!

Ann Kelly, AMS/AERA, St. Louis, MO

P1.44

IMPROVING STATE SCIENCE TEST SCORES THROUGH WEATHER EDUCATION

Thomas Kelly, AMS/AERA, Grandville, MI

P1.45

THE IMPACT OF PRE-COLLEGE DISTANCE LEARNING COURSES ON STATE SCIENCE STANDARDS

Jayne Koester, AMS/AERA, Stevensville, MD

P1.46

DATASTREME PROJECT-BRIDGING THE GAP BETWEEN SCHOOL AND COMMUNITY

Mark Mettert, AMS/AERA, Ft. Wayne, NJ

P1.47

DEVELOPING INTERNATIONAL COLLABORATIVE EDUCATION PROGRAMS

John Moore, AMS/AERA, Blackwood, NJ

P1.48

AP ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE: THE METEOROLOGICAL AND OCEANOGRAPHIC CONNECTION

JoAnn Mulvany, AMS/AERA, Mechanicsville, VA

P1.49

DATASTREME TEACHERS

Judy Reeves, AMS/AERA, Daphne, AL

P1.50

STUDENTS RESEARCHING REAL SCIENCE AND THE NATURE OF SCIENCE (USING TWO-WAY COMMUNICATION AND THE INTERNET)

Scott Schoneberg, AMS/Pre-College, Des Moines, IA

P1.51

THE ROLE OF METEOROLOGY AND OCEANOGRAPHY IN EDUCATIONAL REFORM IN KENTUCKY

Phyllis Shuttleworth, AMS/Maury, Paint Lick, KY

P1.52

ALBUQUERQUE DATASTREME: CONNECTING TEACHERS WITH LOCAL NWS METEOROLOGISTS AND TELEVISION WEATHERCASTERS

Jim Smith, AMS/AERA, Sandia Park, NM

P1.53

REAL WEATHER IN THE REAL WORLD

Claire Waites, AMS/AERA, Daphne, AL

P1.54

TEACHERS LEARNING INQUIRY-BASED SCIENCE THROUGH THE MAURY PROJECT

Barbara Walton-Faria, AMS/Maury, Middletown, RI

P1.55

KANSAS DATASTREME

Samuel Wine, AMS/AERA, Madison, KS

P1.56

STORM TRACKING: THE MINNESOTA CONNECTION

Craig Wolter, AMS/AERA, Windom, MN

P1.57

DATASTREME IN NORTHEAST FLORIDA

Kevin Fulp, AMS/AERA, Jacksonville, FL

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Session 1

BWM Survey results (Invited Presentations)

Host: Ninth Symposium on Education

Organizers: Benjamin Watkins, NOAA/NESDIS/SSD; Howard A. Friedman, NOAA/AMOL/HRD

8:15 AM

1.1

Survey Results of Society Membership: Demographics. The Face of Our Profession at the Threshold of the New Millennium

Mishelle Michaels, WHDH-NBC, Boston, MA

8:30 AM

1.2

Addressing issues that society members face in their place of employment

James Marshall Shepherd, NASA/GSFC, Greenbelt, MD

8:45 AM

1.3

WOMEN'S TRENDS: The changing status of women in the profession/society

Sim D. Aberson, NOAA/AOML/HRD, Miami, FL

9:00 AM

1.4

An Examination of the AMS/Industry Minority Scholarship Program

Kathryn M. Ginger, UCAR, Boulder, CO; and S. Armstrong and B. Abrams

9:15 AM

1.5

PIPELINE: What does the future hold for the society and the profession as we access those in the educational pipeline?

Howard A. Friedman, NOAA/AOML/HRD, Miami, FL; and F. Horsfall and G. Jenkins

9:30 AM

1.6

The Society Speaks: Anecdotal Information from the Survey

Kathleen A. Murphy, AMS/AERA, St. Louis, MO

9:45 AM

1.0a

Welcoming Remarks

10:00 AM

1.6a

Coffee Break

Session 1

Interdisciplinary Applications (Parallel with Sessions 2 & 3)

Host: 16th International Conference on Interactive Information and Processing Systems (IIPS) for Meteorology, Oceanography, and Hydrology

Organizers: Larry Denton, Denton & Associates; Terry Tarbell, Litton/PRC

8:30 AM

1.1

Introduction and Overview

Floyd Hauth, IIPS Program Chairperson, USAF (retired), Osceola Mills, PA

8:45 AM

1.2

The Killer Tornado Outbreak of 3 May 1999: Applications of OK-FIRST in Rural Communities

Kenneth C. Crawford, Oklahoma Climatological Survey (OCS), Univ. of Oklahoma, Norman, OK; and D. A. Morris

9:00 AM

1.3

Managing weather-related diversions through automated detection

Gary W. Lucas, Sonalysts, Inc., Waterford, CT; and K. A. Lucas

9:15 AM

1.4

The Stand Alone Weather Sensors (SAWS) system: An FAA program for replacement and backup of critical weather observations at Service Level "C" airports and Flight Service Stations

Matoka W. Forbes, FAA, Washington, DC; and D. Strawbridge, T. A. Seliga, M. Guidry, and D. Bryan

9:30 AM

1.5

TACMET - A Commercial, Versatile Automated Weather Observation System for Demanding Tactical Military Needs

Selwyn L. Alpert, Vaisala, Inc., Helsinki, Finland and, Woburn, MA; and H. Kokko

9:45 AM

1.6

Scalability and Modularity of Weather/Aviation IIPS

P. Joshua Rovero, Sonalysts, Inc., Waterford, CT

10:00 AM

1.7

Using filtering theory to predict lightning strikes

Scott J. Brunza, Sonalysts, Inc., Waterford, CT; and C. R. Coleman Jr. and J. M. Jakacky Jr.

10:15 AM

1.8

Forecast Utilization Of Video Camera Technology

Brian McInerney, NOAA/NWSFO, Salt Lake City, UT; and A. Horvitz

1.9

NOAA PORTS and Coastal Forecasting

1.10

Digital libraries in the atmospheric sciences: a practical academic perspective

10:30 AM

1.11

Enhancing the Grid Analysis & Display System (GrADS) to read HDF-EOS data

Don K. Hooper, CIRES/Univ. of Colorado and NOAA/CDC, Boulder, CO

10:45 AM

1.12

Exploiting technology for education and research

Thomas M. Whittaker, CIMSS, Univ. of Wisconsin, Madison, WI; and S. Ackerman

11:00 AM

1.13

Integrated sensor training professional development series: A New Teletraining Approach

Anthony J. Mostek, NOAA/NWS, Boulder, CO; and S. Bachmeier, T. Whittaker, D. Bikos, B. Motta, and B. Zajac

11:15 AM

1.6A

Coffee Break

11:45 AM

1.10A

Utilizing LDAD's Emergency Manager Decision Support System for Emergency Response Activities

Deborah A. Miller, NOAA/FSL, Boulder, CO; and M. Kelsch, G. M. Levy, and L. J. Angus

12:00 PM

1.13A

Lunch Break

Session 1

Natural hazard mitigation strategies

Host: Second Symposium on Environmental Applications

Organizer: William H. Hooke, NOAA/OAR

8:30 AM

1.1

Mitigation of Natural Disasters: WMO's Contributions to Societal Needs in the New Millennium

Godwin O. P. Obasi, WMO, Geneva, Switzerland

9:00 AM

1.2

Collaborations Between Meteorologists and Emergency Managers: Hurricanes

Jerry D. Jarrell, NOAA/NHC/TPC, Miami, FL

9:15 AM

1.3

Collaborations Between Meteorologists and Emergency Managers: Hurricanes

Lacy Suiter, FEMA, Washington, DC

9:30 AM

1.4

Collaborations Between Meteorologists and Emergency Managers: The Oklahoma Tornado of 3 May 1999. Part 1: The Historical Foundation

Kenneth C. Crawford, Oklahoma Climatological Survey, Univ. of Oklahoma, Norman, OK; and D. A. Morris

9:45 AM

1.5

Collaborations Between Meteorologists and Emergency Managers: The Oklahoma Tornado of 3 May 1999. Part 2: Rural Applications of Modern Weather Information During a Disaster

Dale A. Morris, Oklahoma Climatological Survey, Univ. of Oklahoma, Norman, OK; and M. Honigsberg, J. Lewis, and B. Springfield

10:00 AM

1.6

Collaborations Between Meteorologists and Emergency Managers: Seasonal/Interannual

Ants Leetmaa, NOAA, Washington, DC

10:15 AM

1.7

Collaborations Between Meteorologists and Emergency Managers: Seasonal/Interannual

Richard Andrews, EQE International, Oakland, CA

10:30 AM

1.8

Panel Discussion: Trends in Hazard Mitigation. Robert Ryan, WRC-TV (Changing Private Sector Roles), Brent Woodworth, IBM Corp. (Business Recovery Systems), and Nancy Maynard, NASA (Links to Climate Change)

11:30 AM

1.9

OK-FIRST: An Innovative Information-Support System for Public-Safety Agencies

Dale A. Morris, Oklahoma Climatological Survey, Univ. of Oklahoma, Norman, OK; and K. C. Crawford, H. L. Johnson, R. A. McPherson, M. A. Shafer, and J. M. Wolfinbarger

11:45 AM

1.10

Applying Environmental Data to Aid Decision Making During Hazardous Weather Events

Kevin A. Kloesel, Oklahoma Climatological Survey, Univ. of Oklahoma, Norman, OK; and K. C. Crawford, R. A. McPherson, D. A. Morris, R. Jesuroga, and C. Subramaniam

12:00 PM

1.11

An independent evaluation of the OK-FIRST decision-support system

Thomas E. James, Univ. of Oklahoma, Norman, OK; and P. O. Long and M. A. Shafer

12:15 PM

1.12

Midwestern Ice Storms: Frequency, Amounts, and Associated Weather

James R. Angel, ISWS, Champaign, IL; and R. Fisher

12:30 PM

1.13

Distance criteria for safe operations when lightning is present

Tamara L. Parsons, Air Force Institute of Technology, Wright Patterson AFB, OH; and G. R. Huffines and C. C. Cox

12:45 PM

1.5A

Coffee Break

1:15 PM

1.8A

Lunch Break

2:45 PM

1.13A

Coffee Break

Session 1

Introductory Remarks

Host: 11th Joint Conference on the Applications of Air Pollution Meteorology with the Air and Waste Management Association

Organizer: Jeffrey C. Weil, CIRES/Univ. of Colorado

Session 1

Modeling and data assimilation

Host: 11th Conference on the Middle Atmosphere

Organizer: M. Joan Alexander, Colorado Research Associates

8:55 AM

1.1

Development of an isentropic coordinate model of the middle atmosphere

Joon-Hee Jung, Univ. of California, Los Angeles, CA; and C. S. Konor and A. Arakawa

9:10 AM

1.2

A numerical simulation study of the major stratospheric warming and subsequent flow recovery during the winter of 1979

Joon-Hee Jung, Univ. of California, Los Angeles, CA; and C. S. Konor and C. R. Mechoso

9:25 AM

1.3

The spectrum of middle atmospheric motions predicted by three-dimensional general circulation models

John N. Koshyk, Univ. of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada; and K. Hamilton

9:40 AM

1.4

More experiences with a middle atmosphere GCM

Theodore G. Shepherd, Univ. of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada

9:55 AM

1.5

Three dimensional model simulations of constituent transport in the lowermost stratosphere

Anne R. Douglass, NASA/GSFC, Greenbelt, MD; and S. E. Strahan, C. H. Jackman, and R. B. Rood

1.6

Analysis of low ozone in the 1997 Southern Hemisphere

10:25 AM

1.7

A comparison of ozone transport and chemistry models using the GEOS ozone assimilation system

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

10:40 AM

1.8

Improvements in stratospheric data assimilation

Lawrence Coy, General Sciences Corp, Greenbelt, MD; and A. R. Douglass, R. B. Rood, S. E. Strahan, J. E. Nielsen, and S. D. Steenrod

10:55 AM

1.9

Assimilation of ozone data in the context of observation system simulation experiments

Paul-Antoine Michelangeli, Environment Canada, Dorval, PQ, Canada; and S. Pellerin, S. Edouard, G. Brunet, J. McConnell, J. Kaminski, and J. Hahn

1.10

Assimilation of satellite data in 3-D CTMs using sub-optimal Kalman filter

11:30 AM

1.4A

Coffee Break

11:25 AM

1.0a

Welcoming Remarks

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

Session 2

Dispersion in the stable boundary layer

Host: 11th Joint Conference on the Applications of Air Pollution Meteorology with the Air and Waste Management Association

Organizer: Ric Cederwall, LLNL

9:00 AM

2.1

Diffusion in the stable boundary layer (Invited Presentation)

Larry Mahrt, Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR

9:30 AM

2.2

Turbulence Structure and Implications for Dispersion: Insights from Large-Eddy Simulations

Ron Calhoun, LLNL, Livermore, CA; and R. Cederwall and R. Street

9:45 AM

2.3

A method for overcoming MOS limitations during diabatic extremes

Christopher A. Biltoft, West Desert Test Center, Dugway, UT

Session 1

Fuzzy Set Applications

Host: Second Conference on Artificial Intelligence

Organizer: William R. Burrows, AES

9:00 AM

1.1

Introduction to Fuzzy Sets. (Invited Presentation)

Michael Hadjimichael, NRL, Monterey, CA

10:00 AM

1.2

Coffee Break

10:30 AM

1.3

Analog forecasting of ceiling and visibility using fuzzy sets

Bjarne K. Hansen, AES, Dartmouth, NS, Canada

10:45 AM

1.4

A Procedure for Neuro-Fuzzy Dynamic-Statistical Data Modeling With Predictor Selection

William R. Burrows, AES, Downsview, ON, Canada; and J. Montpetit

1.5

Fuzzy logic approach for description of meteorological impacts on urban air pollution species: A Hong Kong case study

1.6

Land surface energy exchange simulation based on combined fuzzy sets and neural network approach

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

Session 1

Agency Research Programs in the 21st Century

Host: 11th Symposium on Global Change Studies

Organizer: Thomas R. Karl, NOAA/NCDC

9:00 AM

1.1

Status, progress, and plans for the USGCRP

Robert W. Corell, National Science Foundation, Arlington, VA

9:30 AM

1.2

Status, progress, and future plans for NOAA's Global Change related programs

J. Michael Hall, NOAA, Office of Global Programs, Silver Spring, MD

10:00 AM

1.3

NASA's Studies of Global Change: Progress,Opportunities, and Challenges

Jack A. Kaye, NASA, Office of Earth Systems, Washington, DC

10:30 AM

1.4

Status, progress, and future plans for DOE's Global Change related programs

Aristides A. Patrinos, U.S. Department of Energy, Germantown, MD

11:00 AM

1.5

EPA's Global Change Research Program: Assessing the potential consequences of global change on the United States

Joel D. Scheraga, Environmental Protection Agency, Washington, DC

11:30 AM

1.2a

Coffee Break

12:00 PM

1.5a

Lunch Break

Session 1

Tropospheric aerosols-chemistry and radiative properties

Host: Symposium on Atmospheric Chemistry Issues in the 21st Century

Organizers: Lawrence Kleinman, Brookhaven National Lab.; Jerome Fast, PNNL

9:00 AM

1.1

Residence Times of Fine Tropospheric Aerosols as Determined by ²¹⁰Pb Progeny

Nancy A. Marley, ANL, Argonne, IL; and J. S. Gaffney, P. J. Drayton, M. M. Cunningham, C. Mielcarek, R. Ravelo, and C. Wagner

9:15 AM

1.2

Size-resolved and Chemically resolved Aerosol-Chemical Transport Model of the Global Troposphere

Marco A. Rodriguez, Univ. of California, Irvine, CA; and D. Dabdub

9:30 AM

1.3

Attenuation of solar UV radiation by aerosols during air pollution episodes

S. Kondragunta, NOAA/NESDIS, Camp Springs, MD; and P. M. Udelhofen, K. L. Schere, S. J. Roselle, and B. Holben

9:45 AM

1.4

A model study on the sulfate aerosol distribution in a deep convective cloud

Chieko Kittaka, Univ. of Wisconsin, Madison, WI; and P. K. Wang

10:00 AM

1.5

Unique chlorine-containing compounds from the reaction of atomic chlorine with 1,3-butadiene in air at room temperature

Weihong Wang, Univ. of California, Irvine, CA; and B. J. Finlayson-Pitts

10:15 AM

1.6

The uptake of SO₂ on synthetic sea salt facilitated by aqueous surface reaction

Michael E. Gebel, Univ. of California, Irvine, CA; and J. A. Ganske and B. J. Finlayson-Pitts

10:30 AM

1.7

Experimental modeling of tropospheric nucleation in a laminar flow tube reactor

Vladimir Mikheev, PNNL, Richland, WA; and N. Laulainen, V. Pervukhin, and S. E. Barlow

10:45 AM

1.8

A global chemistry-transport model simulation of tropospheric sulfur cycle

Bryan Hannegan, Univ. of California, Irvine, CA; and H. Bian and M. J. Prather

11:00 AM

1.9

Laboratory and modeling studies of the chemical mechanism for Cl₂ production from the reaction of ozone with NaCl aerosol

Matthew J. Lakin, Univ. of California, Irvine, CA; and E. M. Knipping, K. L. Foster, D. Dabdub, and B. J. Finlayson-Pitts

11:30 AM

1.3A

Coffee Break

11:15 AM

1.0a

Welcoming Remarks

12:00 PM

1.9a

Lunch Break

Session 1

Invited Presentations

Host: Symposium on The Mystery of Severe Storms: A Tribute to the Work of T. Theodore Fujita

Organizers: Gregory S. Forbes, The Weather Channel; Roger M. Wakimoto, Univ. of California

9:00 AM

1.1

Bow Echoes

Morrris Weisman, NCAR, Boulder, CO

9:45 AM

1.2

Mesoscale Analysis Techniques

Melvyn A. Shapiro, NCAR, Boulder, CO

10:30 AM

1.3

Surface Mesohighs and Mesolows

Richard H. Johnson, Colorado State Univ., Ft. Collins, CO

11:15 AM

1.4

Tornadoes and Photogrammetry

Gregory S. Forbes, The Weather Channel, Atlanta, GA; and H. B. Bluestein

12:00 PM

1.5

Damage Surveys and F-Scale Assessments

James R. McDonald, Texas Tech Univ., Lubbock, TX

12:45 PM

1.6

Cloud Tracking with Satellite Imagery

W. Paul Menzel, NOAA/NESDIS/ORA, Madison, WI

1:30 PM

1.7

Microbursts, Downbursts, and Aviation Safety

James W. Wilson, NCAR, Boulder, CO

2:15 PM

1.0a

Introductory Remarks by Gregory S. Forbes, The Weather Channel, Atlanta, GA; and Roger M. Wakimoto, Univ. of California, Los Angeles, CA

2:30 PM

1.1a

Coffee Break

3:00 PM

1.3a

Lunch Break

4:30 PM

1.5a

Coffee Break

Session 1

Data, Modeling and Analysis in Hydrometeorology

Host: 15th Conference on Hydrology

Organizers: Kenneth E. Mitchell, NOAA/NWS/NCEP; Alan Robock, Rutgers Univ.

9:00 AM

1.2

Problems with land surface parameterization schemes in their representation of the lower boundary condition of water fluxes

Dag Lohmann, NOAA/NWS/NCEP, Camp Springs, MD

9:15 AM

1.3

Short-Term Retrospective Land Data Assimilation Schemes

Paul. R. Houser, NASA/GSFC, Greenbelt, MD; and B. A. Cosgrove, J. K. Entin, D. P. Lettenmaier, G. M. O'Donnell, K. E. Mitchell, C. Marshall, D. Lohmann, J. C. Schaake, Q. Duan, E. F. Wood, and F. Habets

9:30 AM

1.4

LDAS Retrospective Analyses: A hydrological perspective

G. M. O'Donnell, Univ. of Washington, Seattle, WA; and D. P. Lettenmaier and E. F. Wood

9:45 AM

1.5

Using the Soil Hydrology Model to initialize soil moisture profiles for numerical prediction models

Todd M. Crawford, NOAA/ERL/NSSL, Norman, OK; and D. J. Stensrud and T. N. Carlson

10:00 AM

1.6

Soil Moisture Observations for LDAS Evaluation

Alan Robock, Rutgers Univ., New Brunswick, NJ; and L. Luo and K. Vinnikov

10:15 AM

1.7

Precipitation recycling in the NASA GEOS Data Assimilation System

Michael G. Bosilovich, NASA/USRA, Greenbelt, MD; and S. Schubert, A. Molod, and L. L. Takacs

1.8

Regional Climate Model simulations over the Central United States

10:45 AM

1.9

Satellite Retrieval Algorithm for Atmospheric Water Budget Over Gulf of Mexico-Caribbean Sea Basin

Pablo Santos, NOAA/NWS, Jacksonville, FL; and E. A. Smith

11:00 AM

1.10

Snow-climate interaction in NCAR CCM3

Zong-Liang Yang, Univ. of Arizona, Tucson, AZ; and G. Y. Niu

11:15 AM

1.11

Influence functions analysis of climate model errors during El Nino episodes

Alice M. Grimm, Federal Univ. of Parana, Curitiba, Brazil and International Research Institution for Climate Prediction, Paliusades, NY; and C. F. Ropelewski and A. D. Moura

11:30 AM

1.12

Time-Space variability of remote sensing and model predictions of skin temperature

Joshua Rhoads, Univ. of Maryland, College Park, MD; and R. Dubayah, G. M. O'Donnell, and D. P. Lettenmaier

11:45 AM

1.13

Variational Method for Assimilating GOES-Retrieved LSTs into SVATS Model for Soil Moisture Initialization

David A. Faysash, Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL; and E. A. Smith

12:00 PM

1.14

Simulations of precipitation over the upper Rio Grande Basin

Keeley R. Costigan, LANL, Los Alamos, NM; and J. E. Bossert and D. L. Langley

12:15 PM

1.15

Validation of long-term precipitation and evolved soil moisture and temperature fields in MAPS

Tatiana G. Smirnova, CIRES/Univ. of Colorado and NOAA/ERL/FSL, Boulder, CO; and S. G. Benjamin, J. M. Brown, B. Schwartz, and D. Kim

12:30 PM

1.16

The proper role of automatic methods in parameter estimation

Douglas P. Boyle, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ; and H. Terri, H. V. Gupta, S. Sorooshian, and M. B. Smith

12:45 PM

1.17

Improvements in Landuse Specification in MM5/PLACE

David J. Stensrud, NOAA/NSSL, Norman, OK; and T. M. Crawford, F. Mora, and J. W. Merchant

1:00 PM

1.18

Impact of SGP97 remotely-sensed soil moisture data on coupled land-surface/atmosphere model (MM5-SHEELS) simulations

Wenje Hwu, Univ. of Texas, Austin, TX; and J. S. Famiglietti, W. L. Crosson, and W. M. Lapenta

1:15 PM

1.19

Impact of improved snow canopy and frozen soils on mesoscale simulations of the wintertime boundary layer

Stephane Belair, AES, Dorval, PQ, Canada; and J. Mailhot and N. Brunet

1:30 PM

1.20

ENSO Impacts over Northeastern Argentina

Norberto O. García, Universidad Nacional del Litoral, Santa Fe, Argentina; and M. D. V. Venencio

1:45 PM

1.21

Enhancing the Simplified Biosphere Model (SSIB) to Estimate Carbon Fluxes of Terrestrial Ecosystems for Regional Climate Studies

Xiwu Zhan, University of Maryland, College Park, MD; and Y. Xue and G. J. Collatz

2:00 PM

1.22

Using Data Assimilation of TRMM Passive Microwave Observations to Improve Land Surface Modeling

Jared K. Entin, Raytheon ITSS and NASA/GSFC, Greenbelt, MD; and P. R. Houser, B. A. Cosgrove, B. Choudhury, and J. Wang

2:15 PM

1.23

Implementing and testing of a new snow scheme SAST in Simplified Simple Biosphere Model (SSiB)

Yongkang Xue, Uniersity of Maryland, College Park, MD; and S. Sun and Y. Jiao

2:30 PM

1.24

The distribution of wintertime precipitation over the midwest during the 1997-98 El Nino and 1998-99 La Nina

Dayton G. Vincent, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN; and J. Adolphson, S. Lashley, J. Giovinnettone, and A. Lese

2:45 PM

1.4A

Coffee Break

3:15 PM

1.10A

Lunch Break

4:45 PM

1.16A

Coffee Break

5:15 PM

1.24a

Sessions end for the day

Session 1

Opening Session

Host: Symposium on Lidar Atmospheric Monitoring

Organizer: Kenneth Sassen, University of Utah

9:20 AM

1.1

Toward a Remote Sensing-Based Climate Observing System: Fallacies, Fantasies and Facts

Graeme Stephens, Colorado State Univeristy, Fort Collins, CO

9:50 AM

1.0a

Opening Remarks

Kenneth Sassen, Univ. of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT

Coffee Break

1

Coffee Break

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

Session 3

Dispersion in the convective boundary layer

Host: 11th Joint Conference on the Applications of Air Pollution Meteorology with the Air and Waste Management Association

Organizer: H. J. S. Fernando, Arizona State Univ.

10:30 AM

3.1

Timing of the morning transition to the convective boundary layer

Wayne M. Angevine, CIRES/Univ. of Colorado and NOAA/AL, Boulder, CO

10:45 AM

3.2

Vertical dispersion of a passive scalar in the convective boundary layer: new laboratory results

Mark F. Hibberd, CSIRO Atmospheric Research, Aspendale, Vic., Australia

11:00 AM

3.3

A multi-stream model for vertical mixing of a passive tracer in the convective boundary layer

Jongil Han, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC; and D. W. Byun

11:15 AM

3.4

Lagrangian modeling of dispersion in the convective boundary layer over a range of stability

J. C. Weil, CIRES/Univ. of Colorado, Boulder, CO; and P. P. Sullivan and C. H. Moeng

3.5

Large eddy simulation of near-source diffusion into the convective boundary layer in weak winds

11:31 AM

3.5A

Modeling Puff Diffusion in a Laboratory Convection Tank.

Robert E. Lawson Jr., NOAA/ARL/ASMD, Research Triangle Park, NC; and R. S. Thompson, S. G. Perry, and W. H. Snyder

Session 2

Post-analysis of Year 2000 issues and problems (Parallel with Sessions 1 & 3)

Host: 16th International Conference on Interactive Information and Processing Systems (IIPS) for Meteorology, Oceanography, and Hydrology

Organizers: John Lincoln, Consultant; Howard Diamond, NOAA/NWS

10:30 AM

2.1

Overview

John Lincoln, Consultant, Berryville, VA

10:45 AM

2.2

Year 2000 (Y2K) Testing and Compliance in the National Weather Service - Lessons Learned

Howard J. Diamond, NOAA/NWS, Silver Spring, MD

11:00 AM

2.3

Year 2000 (Y2K) Data Analysis and Contingency Planning to Ensure Continued International Weather Data Receipt at the National Weather Service into the New Millennium

Howard J. Diamond, NOAA/NWS, Silver Spring, MD

11:15 AM

2.4

Y2K Testing and AWIPS: Lessons Learned

Michelle E. Drew, Litton/PRC, McLean, VA; and M. Tankersley

11:30 AM

2.4A

Session 11 ends

Session 2

Tropospheric Chemistry: Water Vapor, Ozone, and Aerosols

Host: Symposium on Lidar Atmospheric Monitoring

Organizer: Volker G. Wulfmeyer, NCAR

10:30 AM

2.1

Raman lidar profiling of water vapor and aerosols over the ARM SGP site

Richard A. Ferrare, NASA/LARC, Hampton, VA; and D. D. Turner, L. A. Heilman, W. F. Feltz, R. A. Peppler, T. Tooman, and R. Halthore

11:00 AM

2.2

Airborne Lidar Water Vapor, Ozone, and Aerosol Measurements

Edward V. Browell, NASA/LARC, Hampton, VA; and S. Ismail, W. B. Grant, and R. A. Ferrare

11:30 AM

2.3

Lidar observation of Mid-Latitude water vapor layers near the tropopause

John Wessel, The Aerospace Corp., El Segundo, CA; and R. Farley

11:45 AM

2.4

Raman Lidar: Atmospheric applications

Belay B. Demoz, NASA/GSFC and Univ. of Maryland Baltimore County, Greenbelt, MD; and D. O. Starr, D. N. Whiteman, K. D. Evans, G. Schwemmer, R. Ferrare, and D. D. Turner

Session 2

K-12 Educational Initiatives

Host: Ninth Symposium on Education

Organizers: Kathleen A. Murphy, Ladue School District; Jon W. Zeitler, NOAA/NWS

10:30 AM

2.1

Getting Involved in K-12 Outreach: Professional Development Strategies for Research Scientists

Alexandra Weaver, CIRES/Univ. of Colorado, Boulder, CO; and S. M. Buhr and H. Spetzler

10:45 AM

2.2

Water in the Earth System (WES): An Online Distance-Learning Program for Precollege Teacher Enhancement and Leadership Training

Ira W. Geer, AMS, Washington, DC; and D. R. Smith, J. M. Moran, and R. S. Weinbeck

11:00 AM

2.3

Developing Collaborative International Teacher Enhancement Learning Communties

John D. Moore, Burlington County Institute of Technology, AMS/AERA, Medford, NJ; and K. Orr and R. P. Wanton

11:15 AM

2.4

Informal science education supporting weather broadcasters on-air with TRMM "Mini-Education Supplements"

J. Marshall Shepherd, NASA/GSFC, Greenbelt, MD; and C. Howell, W. Sisler, A. Nelson, S. Graham, D. Christopher, and L. Bridgett

11:30 AM

2.5

Education Through Weather Day-Camps

Dorri A. Breher, Weather Research Center/The Weather Museum, Houston, TX; and J. F. Hasling

11:45 AM

2.6

Lessons learned in the SCIAD program

Jeffrey E. Passner, U.S. Army Research Laboratory, White Sands Missile Range, New Mexico

12:00 PM

2.6a

Lunch Break

Session 1

Coupled Fire - Atmospheric Models

Host: Third Symposium on Fire and Forest Meteorology

Organizer: David W. Goens, NOAA/NWS

10:30 AM

1.1

Another Look at the Weather Factors Related to the 1949 Mann Gulch Fire

David W. Goens, NOAA/NWS, Missoula, MT; and W. R. Krumm

10:45 AM

1.2

Numerical simulation of a wildfire event

Mary Ann Jenkins, York Univ., Toronto, ON, Canada

11:00 AM

1.3

Coupled atmosphere-fire model dynamics of a fireline crossing a hill

Janice L. Coen, NCAR, Boulder, CO; and T. L. Clark

11:15 AM

1.4

New numerical approaches for coupled atmosphere-fire models

Jon M. Reisner, LANL, Los Alamos, NM; and D. A. Knoll, V. A. Mousseau, and R. R. Linn

11:30 AM

1.5

Studying Complex Wildfire Behavior Using FIRETEC

Rodman R. Linn, LANL, Los Alamos, NM; and J. E. Bossert, F. Harlow, J. M. Reisner, and S. Smith

11:45 AM

1.6

Coupled atmosphere-fire behavior model sensitivity to spatial fuels characterization

James E. Bossert, LANL, Los Alamos, NM; and R. R. Linn, J. M. Reisner, J. L. Winterkamp, P. Dennison, and D. Roberts

12:00 PM

1.0a

Conference Introduction: Dave W. Goens, NOAA/NWS, Missoula, MT and Sue A. Ferguson, USDA Forest Service, Pacific Northwest Research Station, Seattle, WA

12:15 PM

1.3a

Lunch Break

Session 3

Issues, technology, and applications of IIPS in Modeling and Simulation (Parallel with Sessions 1 & 2)

Host: 16th International Conference on Interactive Information and Processing Systems (IIPS) for Meteorology, Oceanography, and Hydrology

Organizer: Commander Dale Liechty, U.S. Navy, Office Chief, Air and Space Natural Environment Modeling and Simulation Agent

10:30 AM

3.1

Invited Speaker: Air Force Directorate of Weather's Joint Role as the DoD Modeling and Simulation Executive Agent for Air and Space Natural Environment

F. P. Lewis

11:00 AM

3.2

Invited Speaker: Department of Defense Modeling and Simulation: An Introduction to Facets of Environmental Support

Ronald D. Haynes, Dynamics Research Corp., Scott AFB, IL; and D. Lucas

11:30 AM

3.3

Advanced Climate Modeling and Environmental Simulations (ACMES): Bringing DoD Climatological Support into the 21st Century

Matthew K. Doggett, Air Force Combat Climatology Center, Asheville, NC

11:45 AM

3.4

The Incorporation of High Resolution Climatological Data into Environmental Tactical Decision Aids

John R. Hummel, ANL, Argonne, IL; and A. P. Campbell, M. L. Kehrer, G. R. Lurie, and K. L. Simunich

12:00 PM

3.5

Cloud Impacts For Aggregate Military Simulations Using CSSM Statistics

Joel B. Mozer, U.S. Air Force Research Lab., Hanscomb AFB, MA; and G. P. Seeley, S. C. Gordon, and D. J. Smalley

12:15 PM

3.6

The Integrated Ocean Project

Richard A. Allard, NRL, Stennis Space Center, MS; and K. Miles and M. D. Earle

12:30 PM

3.7

Providing Physically Consistent Environmental Data In Support of DoD Modeling and Simulation

Gary B. McWilliams, DoD Modeling and Simulation Executive Agent for the Air and Space Natural Environment, Asheville, NC

12:45 PM

3.9

The Synthetic Environment Data Representation and Interchange and Specification (SEDRIS)

Robert M. Cox, SAIC, Orlando, FL; and J. R. Schaefer

1:00 PM

3.10

The Environmental Scenario Generator

Steve Lowe, SAIC, Virginia Beach, VA; and E. Kihn and R. Siquig

1:15 PM

3.11

Joint Weather Impact System (JWIS) Architecture

Bruce Thompson, Air Force Weather, Washington, DC

1:30 PM

3.12

Visualization Techniques for Applications of High-Resolution Numerical Weather Models

Lloyd A. Treinish, IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center, Yorktown Heights, NY; and Z. D. Christidis

1:45 PM

3.13

Tools for tailoring the synthetic natural environment

Peter S. Dailey, Litton/TASC, Inc., Reading, MA; and T. A. Hutchinson and S. O. Ouzts

2:00 PM

3.14

Nuclear, Biological, and Chemical Hazard Prediction Modeling: A New Approach

Richard B. Bensinger, Litton-TASC, Reading, MA; and J. A. Shorter

2:15 PM

3.15

The Environmental WorkBench - An Interactive 3D Analysis and Visualization Tool for Meteorology and Environmental Applications

Dennis A Moon, SSESCO, Inc., Shoreview, MN; and W. A. Lyons

2:30 PM

3.4A

Lunch Break

4:00 PM

3.10A

Coffee Break

1

Lunch Break

1

Lunch Break

1

Lunch Break

1

Lunch Break

Session 4

Application of IIPS in Forecasting (Parallel with Session 3)

Host: 16th International Conference on Interactive Information and Processing Systems (IIPS) for Meteorology, Oceanography, and Hydrology

Organizers: David Pace, SAIC; Carl Thormeyer, FNMOC

1:00 PM

4.1

Overview

David Pace, SAIC, Washington, DC

1:15 PM

4.2

Applications of the Battlescale Forecast Model for the Army

Jeffrey E. Passner, U.S. Army Research Lab., White Sands Missile Range, NM; and R. E. Dumais Jr. and D. P. Sauter

1:30 PM

4.3

Models, forecasters, and Interactive Forecast Preparation in the new millennium

David P. Ruth, NOAA/NWS/TDL, Silver Spring, MD

1:45 PM

4.4

Generating watches, warnings, and advisories using Interactive Forecast Preparation

Kenneth S. Sperow, NOAA/NWS/TDL, Silver Spring, MD; and R. K. Meiggs, W. J. Goodman, and W. D. Jiang

2:00 PM

4.5

Generating watch, warning, and advisory broadcast scripts for the NOAA Weather Radio using Interactive Forecast Preparation

Patrick V. Laybe, NOAA/NWS/TDL, Silver Spring, MD; and K. S. Sperow and R. K. Meiggs

2:15 PM

4.6

Managing product improvement in the Interactive Forecast Preparation System

John L. Schattel Jr., NOAA/NWS/TDL, Silver Spring, MD; and R. K. Meiggs

2:30 PM

4.7

Generating marine forecasts using Interactive Forecast Preparation

Matthew R. Peroutka, NOAA/NWS/TDL, Silver Spring, MD; and J. E. Calkins

2:45 PM

4.8

The analysis and interpretation of three-dimensional lightning flash information

Martin J. Murphy, Global Atmospherics, Inc., Tucson, AZ; and K. L. Cummins and L. M. Maier

3:00 PM

4.9

Final performance evaluation of the Automated Lightning Detection and Reporting System (ALDARS)

Kenneth A. Kraus, FAA, Washington, DC; and T. A. Seliga and J. R. Kranz

3:15 PM

4.10

Development of Processing Software for the Global Theater Weather Analysis and Prediction System (GTWAPS)

Chris Franks, Harris Corp., Bellevue, NE; and C. F. Meier Jr. and R. T. Williams

3:30 PM

4.11

Using Symmetric MultiProcessing (SMP) on a Massively Parallel Processing (MPP) system to Support Meso-Scale Weather Modeling for the Global Theater Weather Analysis and Prediction System (GTWAPS)

Keith H. North, IBM, Omaha, NE; and J. D. Benson, J. Tuccillo, and R. T. Williams Jr.

3:45 PM

4.12

Status of the Global Theater Weather Analysis and Prediction System (GTWAPS)

Kevin M. Starr, TRW Inc., Bellevue, NE; and B. D. Morris and M. Adams

4:00 PM

4.13

An examination of Battlescale Forecast Model Initializations over complex terrain

Werner E. Cook, Univ. of Oklahoma, Norman, OK; and J. S. Greene, W. S. Lyons, K. D. Sterling, P. A. Haines, and D. I. Knapp

4:15 PM

4.14

Developing New Methods for Aviation Weather Forecast Production

Frederick J. Foss, NOAA/NWS/AWC, Kansas City, MO; and D. R. Frank, J. H. Henderson, and D. R. Rodenhuis

4:30 PM

4.15

National Weather Service SAFESEAS - Update on A New Marine/Coastal Monitoring and Forecasting Capability for AWIPS

Paul A. Hirschberg, NOAA/NWS, Silver Spring, MD; and S. B. Smith and M. M. Mercer

4:45 PM

4.16

The benefits of visual multi-source, multi-resolution data analysis and fusion

Alfred M. Powell Jr., Autometric, Inc., Springfield, VA; and P. A. Zuzolo

5:00 PM

4.17

High Volume METOC Chart Production Using Beowulf Technology

Earl V. Ravid, FNMOC, Monterey, CA; and S. Lowder

5:15 PM

4.8A

Coffee Break

5:30 PM

4.17A

Session 4 ends

Session 2

Applying Environmental Science to Societal Needs in the New Millennium

Host: 11th Conference on the Middle Atmosphere

Organizer: Linnea M. Avallone, University of Colorado

1:30 PM

2.1

The "Scientific Assessment of Ozone Depletion, 1998": A Summary and Perspective

Daniel L. Albritton, NOAA/Aeronomy Lab., Boulder, CO

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

Session 2

IPCC TAR: Long-term Climate Variability and Change: Part 1 (Parallel with Session 3)

Host: 11th Symposium on Global Change Studies

Organizer: Thomas R. Karl, NOAA/NCDC

1:30 PM

2.1

Impact of CO2-induced warming on hurricane intensities as simulated in a hurricane model with ocean coupling

Thomas R. Knutson, NOAA/GFDL, Princeton, NJ; and R. E. Tuleya, W. Shen, and I. Ginis

1:45 PM

2.2

Simulated climate change in the 20th and 21st centuries

Gerald A. Meehl, NCAR, Boulder, CO; and J. M. Arblaster

2:00 PM

2.3

Can a combination of internal climate variability and anthropogenic forcing account for the observed global warming of the early 20th century?

Thomas L. Delworth, NOAA/GFDL, Princeton, NJ; and T. R. Knutson

2:15 PM

2.4

Projections of Climate Forcing by Sulfate, Organic Aerosols, Dust, and Sea Salt: Results from the IPCC Model Intercomparison Workshop

Joyce E. Penner, Univ. of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI; and Y. Zhang

2:30 PM

2.5

Uncertainties in climate system properties and anthropogenic aerosol forcings based on climate change detection methods

Chris E. Forest, MIT, Cambridge, MA; and M. R. Allen, P. H. Stone, and A. P. Sokolov

2:45 PM

2.6

A regional climate change projection over East Asia

Seita Emori, National Institute for Environmental Studies, Tsukuba, Ibaraki, Japan; and T. Nozawa, A. Numaguti, and I. Uno

Session 3

Societal Impacts and Climate Assessments (Co-Sponsored by the Committee on Societal Impacts) (Parallel with Session 2)

Host: 11th Symposium on Global Change Studies

Organizer: David Easterling, NOAA/NCDC

1:30 PM

3.1

Long-term fluctuations in hail incidences in the United States

David Changnon, Northern Illinois University, DeKalb, IL; and S. A. Changnon

1:45 PM

3.2

Regional impacts and adaptation: new challenges for climate change reporting and synthesis

Stewart J. Cohen, Environment Canada, Vancouver, BC, Canada

2:00 PM

3.3

Development of an index to monitor extreme weather-climate impacts in the United States

Stanley A. Changnon, Changnon Climatologist, Mahomet, IL; and G. J. D. Hewings and R. A. Pielke Jr.

2:15 PM

3.4

Ten-year U.S. regional climate simulations for impact assessments

Zaitao Pan, Iowa State University, Ames, IA; and J. H. Christensen, R. W. Arritt, W. J. Gutowski Jr., and E. S. Takle

2:30 PM

3.5

Combining Paleoclimatic Evidence and GCMS by Means of Data Assimilation Through Upscaling and Nudging (Datun)

Hans von Storch, GKSS Research Centre, Geesthacht, Germany; and U. Cubasch, J. F. Gonzalez-Rouco, J. M. Jones, R. Voss, M. Widmann, and E. Zorita

2:45 PM

3.6

Overlooked issues in the U.S. national climate and IPCC assessments

Roger A. Pielke, Sr., Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO

Session 4A

Dispersion about buildings and obstacles (Parallel with Session 4B)

Host: 11th Joint Conference on the Applications of Air Pollution Meteorology with the Air and Waste Management Association

Organizer: Robert J. Paine, ENSR Corporation

1:30 PM

4A.1

Evaluation of PRIME and ISC3 versus wind tunnel observations

R. L. Petersen, Cermak Peterka Petersen, Inc., Fort Collins, CO; and B. C. Cochran and J. J. Carter

1:45 PM

4A.2

Mean flow and turbulence measurements around a 2-D array of buildings in a wind tunnel

Michael J. Brown, LANL, Los Alamos, NM; and R. E. Lawson Jr., D. S. DeCroix, and R. L. Lee

2:00 PM

4A.3

A CFD Model Intercomparison and Validation using High Resolution Wind Tunnel Data

William Scott Smith, LANL, Los Alamos, NM; and J. M. Reisner, D. S. Decroix, M. J. Brown, R. L. Lee, S. T. Chan, and D. E. Stevens

2:15 PM

4A.4

Flow patterns around a complex building

R. Calhoun, LLNL, Livermore, CA; and S. Chan, R. Lee, J. Leone, J. Shinn, and D. Stevens

2:30 PM

4A.5

Large-eddy and Gaussian simulations of downwind dispersion from large building HVAC exhaust

David S. DeCroix, LANL, Los Alamos, NM; and W. S. Smith, G. E. Streit, and M. J. Brown

2:45 PM

4A.6

An Experimental Investigation of Urban Street-Canyon Flows

Jong-Jin Baik, Kwangju Institute of Science and Technology, Kwangju, Korea, Republic of (South); and R. S. Park, H. Y. Chun, and J. J. Kim

Session 2

Artificial Neural Networks

Host: Second Conference on Artificial Intelligence

Organizer: Vladimir M. Krasnopolsky, SAIC

1:30 PM

2.1

Introduction to Artificial Neural Networks with Atmospheric and Oceanic Applications. (Invited Presentation)

Vladimir M. Krasnopolsky, SAIC, Camp Springs, MD

2:30 PM

2.2

Application of neural networks for efficient calculation of sea water density or salinity from the UNESCO equation of state

Vladimir M. Krasnopolsky, NOAA/NWS/NCEP, Camp Springs, MD; and D. Chalikov, L. C. Breaker, and D. B. Rao

2:45 PM

2.3

Spatially modelling temperature normals in the Rocky Mountains with kriging and cokriging estimators using ANN produced secondary information

Henry N. Hayhoe, Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada, Ottawa, ON, Canada; and D. R. Lapen

3:00 PM

2.4

Coffee Break

2.5

Calibration of Probabilistic, ensemble precipitation forecasts by an artificial neural network

3:45 PM

2.6

A neural network for hail size prediction

Caren Marzban, NOAA/NSSL and CIMMS/Univ. of Oklahoma, Norman, OK; and A. Witt

4:00 PM

2.7

Stochastic generation of multi-station daily temperatures using a neural network

Douglas A. Stewart, Environmental Dynamics Research, Inc., Lantana, FL

2.8

A neural network solution to forecasting launch pad winds at Kennedy Space Center

Session 3

Aerosols of the Boundary Layer and Free Troposphere

Host: Symposium on Lidar Atmospheric Monitoring

Organizer: Luc R. Bissonnette, Defense Research Establishment Valcartier

1:30 PM

3.1

The JPL 15-year lidar backscatter archive: A retrospective

David M. Tratt, JPL, California Institute Technology, Pasadena, CA; and R. T. Menzies

2:00 PM

3.2

Six-wavelength lidar observations of European and Asian aerosol plumes

Albert Ansmann, Institute for Tropospheric Research, Leipzig, Germany; and D. Althausen, U. Wandinger, D. Müller, F. Wagner, and K. Franke

2:30 PM

3.3

Lidar Network Observation of Asian Dust over Japan in the Springs of 1997-1999.

Toshiyuki Murayama, Tokyo University of Mercantile Marine, Koto, Tokyo, Japan; and N. Sugimoto, I. Matsui, Z. Lui, T. Sakai, T. Shibata, Y. Iwasaka, K. Iokibe, and R. Koga

3:00 PM

3.4

Lidar-radiometer study of boundary-layer aerosols and their contribution to long-term trends and changes in columnar aerosol optical depth at a tropical station

P. C. S. Devara, Indian Institute of Tropical Meteorology, Pune, Pashan, India; and R. E. Mahseknmar, K. K. Daui, S. K. Sahn, and S. M. Sunbawe

3:30 PM

3.5

Lidar-aided Estimates of the Vertical Structure of the Direct Shortwave Aerosol Radiative Forcing of Climate

Jens Redemann, Bay Area Environmental Research Institute, San Francisco, CA; and P. B. Russell

3:45 PM

3.6

Urban aerosol detection with the Vaisala ceilometer

Vesa V. Tanner, Vaisala Oyj., Helsinki, Finland; and A. Piironen, J. Räsänen, and J. Lönnqvist

4:00 PM

3.3a

Coffee Break

Session 3

Educational Applications for Satellite Meteorology and Oceanography (Invited Presentations)

Host: Ninth Symposium on Education

Organizers: Patricia A. Phoebus, NRL; Mohan K. Ramamurthy, Univ. of Illinois

1:30 PM

3.1

High Technology Presentation of Earth Science Stories in Schools and Museums

Arthur Frederick Hasler, NASA/GSFC, Greenbelt, MD

2:00 PM

3.2

Earth System Science Education in the New Millennium: Learning Modules and Peer Review

Donald R. Johnson, USRA, Columbia, MD; and M. Ruzek and M. Kalb

2:15 PM

3.3

Teaching With Environmental Satellite Technology

Nancy McIntyre, West Chester University, West Chester, PA

2:30 PM

3.4

Understanding Climate: Learning activities and resources for K-12

Theresa G. Schwerin, Institute for Global Environmental Strategies, Arlington, VA

2:45 PM

3.5

Studying the Earth's Environment from Space: A series of inquiry-based computer lab activities

Michael A. Alfultis, US Coast Guard Academy, New London, CT; and E. Smith

3:00 PM

3.6

Physical oceanography in the classroom: interactive and relevant

Susan A. Digby, JPL, Pasadena, CA; and T. Nolan

3:15 PM

3.7

Naval Oceanographic Office Support of National, State, and Local Satellite Oceanography Education Programs

Thomas L. Sandidge, Jr., Naval Oceanographic Office, Stennis Space Center, MS

3:30 PM

3.8

The CERES S'COOL project: Two years after first launch

Lin H. Chambers, NASA/LRC, Hampton, VA; and D. F. Young, C. J. Green, S. J. Haberer, and A. M. Racel

3:45 PM

3.9

Inquiry-Based Methods of Earth Science Instruction Using Weather Satellite Imagery

Paul H. Ruscher, Florida State Univ., Tallahassee, FL

4:00 PM

3.10

Exciting uses of satellite data for daily weather discussions, classroom weather education, and science projects

Roderick A. Scofield, NOAA/NWS/NESDIS/ORA, Camp Springs, MD; and R. Weldon

4:15 PM

3.11

Introductory to advanced interactive multimedia satellite meteorology: philosophy and examples

Timothy C. Spangler, COMET, Boulder, CO

4:30 PM

3.6a

Coffee Break

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

Session 4B

Transport and dispersion in coastal environments (Parallel with Session 4A)

Host: 11th Joint Conference on the Applications of Air Pollution Meteorology with the Air and Waste Management Association

Organizer: Ted Yamada, Yamada Science & Art Corporation

1:30 PM

4B.1

The Houston Heat Pump: Modulation of a land-sea breeze by an urban heat island

John W. Nielsen-Gammon, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX

1:45 PM

4B.2

Preliminary Meteorological analysis of a 1997 Southern California ozone study (SCOS'97) episode

R. Bornstein, San Jose State University, San Jose, CA; and D. Boucouvala

2:00 PM

4B.3

Use of a wind profiler network to determine air ventilation during high ozone episodes in the Los Angeles basin

Dominique Ruffieux, CIRES/Univ. of Colorado and NOAA/ERL/ETL, Boulder, CO; and A. B. White

2:15 PM

4B.4

High resolution MC2 Modelling: Lake Breeze, Severe Weather and Air Pollution

Xin Qiu, York University, Toronto, ON, Canada; and P. A. Taylor and F. Conway

2:30 PM

4B.5

Development and Evaluation of a New Algorithm for Estimating TIBL Height

R. L. Petersen, Cermak Peterka Petersen, Inc., Fort Collins, CO

2:45 PM

4B.6

The application of CALMET/CALPUFF to develop agricultural burning procedures on the island of Maui

Kit K. Wagner, Atmospheric Information Systems, Norman, OK; and V. Bigler-Engler

Session 2

Atmospheric and Fire Dynamics

Host: Third Symposium on Fire and Forest Meteorology

Organizer: Janice Coen, NCAR

2:00 PM

2.1

Collection and analysis of infrared observations of fire-atmosphere dynamics

Terry L. Clark, NCAR, Boulder, CO; and J. L. Coen, L. Radke, M. Reeder, and D. Packham

2:15 PM

2.2

The Turbulent Structure of a Wildland Fire

Thomas Y. Palmer, Consultant, Fallbrook, CA

2:30 PM

2.3

Incorporating smoldering into fire growth modelling

Kerry Anderson, Canadian Forest Service, Edmonton, AB, Canada

2:45 PM

2.4

Characteristics of cloud-to-ground lightning activity in the contiguous United States from 1995-1997

Bard A. Zajac, Colorado State Univ., CIRA, Fort Collins, CO; and S. A. Rutledge

Session 2

Urban air chemistry in complex terrain

Host: Symposium on Atmospheric Chemistry Issues in the 21st Century

Organizers: Carl Berkowitz, PNNL; John McHenry, North Carolina Supercomputering Center

2:00 PM

2.1

Measurements of nonmethane hydrocarbons in Phoenix, Arizona

P. V. Doskey, ANL, Argonne, IL; and V. R. Kotamarthi and J. Rudolph

2:15 PM

2.2

Measurements of the dry deposition velocity of PAN above grass

P. V. Doskey, ANL, Argonne, IL; and D. R. Cook, M. L. Wesely, and Y. Fukui

2:30 PM

2.3

Puerto Rico - 2002: Field Studies to Resolve Aerosol Processes

Jeffrey S. Gaffney, ANL, Argonne, IL; and N. A. Marley and R. Ravelo

2:45 PM

2.4

Phoenix, Arizona, Revisited: Indications of Aerosol Effects on O₃, NO₂, UV-B, and NO₃

Jeffrey S. Gaffney, ANL, Argonne, IL; and N. A. Marley, P. J. Drayton, M. M. Cunningham, J. C. Baird, J. Dintaman, and H. Hart

3:00 PM

2.5

Trace gas measurements in Phoenix, Arizona (1998)

L. J. Nunnermacker, Brookhaven National Lab., Upton, NY; and J. Weinstein-Lloyd, P. H. Daum, L. I. Kleinman, Y. N. Lee, S. R. Springston, P. J. Klotz, L. Newman, J. Hubbe, V. Morris, G. Neuroth, and P. Hyde

3:15 PM

2.6

Urban Measurements of Monohalogenated Alkanes in Southern California

Jason C. Low, Univ. of California, Irvine, CA; and N. Y. Wang and R. J. Cicerone

3:30 PM

2.4A

Coffee Break

Session 3

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

Host: 10th Conference on Satellite Meteorology and Oceanography

Session 3

Trace constituents and long-term variability

Host: 11th Conference on the Middle Atmosphere

Organizer: Mark P. Baldwin, Northwest Research Associates

2:15 PM

3.1

Data sets available for stratospheric studies

Nancy A. Ritchey, Computer Sciences Corporation, Hampton, VA; and W. P. Chu and K. Hoppel

2:30 PM

3.2

Variations in the stratospheric transport circulation 1991-1998 and effects on methane concentrations

M. Joan Alexander, Colorado Research Associates, Boulder, CO; and J. R. Holton and K. H. Rosenlof

2:45 PM

3.3

Mechanisms for the extra-tropical QBO phenomenon

Ka-Kit Tung, Univ. of Washington, Seattle, WA; and J. S. Kinnersley

3:00 PM

3.4

Stratospheric Temperature Trends from Small Rockets Between 1969-1995

F. J. Schmidlin, NASA/GSFC, Wallops Island, VA

3:15 PM

3.5

Model Analysis of Multi-Platform Measurements in the Stratosphere

Michael Y. Danilin, AER, Cambridge, MA; and M. K. W. Ko, M. L. Santee, Y. Sasano, and K. Jucks

3:30 PM

3.6

Increasing CO2 coupled with other anthropogenic perturbations: Effects on ozone and other trace gases

Joan E. Rosenfield, NASA/GSFC, Greenbelt, MD

3:45 PM

3.7

HRDI observations of the O₂(0,0) Atmospheric band nightglow: a seven-year climatology

Julie F. Kafkalidis, Univ. of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI; and G. M. Fall and P. B. Hays

4:00 PM

3.8

Evaluating spatial and temporal ozone distributions in the Pacific using Schools of the Pacific Climate and Rainfall Experiment observations

Michael D. Klatt, Univ. of Oklahoma, Norman, OK; and S. Postawko

4:15 PM

3.3A

Coffee Break

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Coffee Break

1

Coffee Break

1

Coffee Break

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

Session 3

Smoke Management and Air Quality

Host: Third Symposium on Fire and Forest Meteorology

Organizer: Sue A. Ferguson, USDA Forest Service, Pacific Northwest Research Station

3:30 PM

3.1

Definition and use of interpolated weather parameters for operational estimation and prediction of atmospheric stability

Richard Ammons, Idaho/Montana Smoke Management, Missoula, MT; and H. Thistle, P. Thornton, and S. Running

3:45 PM

3.2

Climatology of Biomass Smoke in Wildland Areas of the United States

Sue A. Ferguson, Forestry Sciences Laboratory, Seattle, WA

4:00 PM

3.3

Airflow and diffusion modeling for forested and urbanized areas

Ronald M. Cionco, US Army Research Lab., White Sands Missile Range, NM

4:15 PM

3.4

Development of a satellite-based fire and smoke analysis in NOAA/NESDIS

John Paquette, NOAA/NESDIS, Camp Springs, MD; and T. Renkevens and M. Ruminski

4:30 PM

3.5

Effect of Pollution from Central American Fires on Cloud-to-Ground Lightning in the Spring of 1998

Natalie D. Murray, Texas A&M Univ., College Station, TX; and R. E. Orville and G. R. Huffines

4:45 PM

3.0a

Session Introduction: Sue A. Ferguson, USDA Forest Services, Pacific Northwest Research Station, Seattle, WA

Session 2

Development and Applications of Warning Systems to Protect Human Health

Host: Second Symposium on Environmental Applications

Organizers: Laurence Kalkstein, Univ. of Delaware; Robert Livezey, NOAA/NCEP

3:30 PM

2.1

Climate Change: Vulnerability, Adaptation and Human Health

Rosina M. Bierbaum, Office of Science and Technology Policy, Washington, DC

4:00 PM

2.2

Evaluation of heat/health watch-warning systems: implications for practical development and application

Robert E. Livezey, NOAA/NWS/NCEP/CPC, Camp Springs, MD; and L. S. Kalkstein

4:15 PM

2.3

Observed Trends in Summertime Extreme Heat Events in the U.S. and China

Dian J. Gaffen, NOAA/ARL, Silver Spring, MD; and R. J. Ross and J. X. L. Wang

4:30 PM

2.4

The Showcase Projects on Heat/Health Warning Systems: International Collaboration Within the Climate Agenda

Paul D. Llanso, WMO, Geneva, Switzerland; and L. S. Kalkstein and S. C. Sheridan

4:45 PM

2.5

Philadelphia action plan to mitigate heat related death and illness

Lawrence Robinson, Philadelphia Dept. of Public Health, Philadelphia, PA; and J. H. Libby

5:00 PM

2.6

What really happened in Chicago in July, 1995?

Steven S. Whitman, Chicago Dept. of Public Health, Chicago, IL; and G. D. Good and N. D. Benbow

5:15 PM

2.7

Estimating wet bulb globe temperature using standard meteorological measurements

Charles H. Hunter, Westinghouse Savannah River Co., Aiken, SC; and C. O. Minyard

Session 4

U. S. National Assessment

Host: 11th Symposium on Global Change Studies

Organizer: Thomas R. Karl, NOAA/NCDC

3:30 PM

4.1

The U.S. National Assessment: An Overview

Thomas R. Karl, NOAA/NCDC, Asheville, NC

3:45 PM

4.2

Statistical and dynamical downscaling of global model output for U.S. National Assessment hydrological analyses

William J. Gutowski Jr., Iowa State University, Ames, IA; and R. Wilby, L. E. Hay, C. J. Anderson, R. W. Arritt, M. P. Clark, G. H. Leavesley, Z. Pan, R. Silva, and E. S. Takle

4:00 PM

4.3

The issue of spatial scale in integrated assessments: an example of agriculture in the Southeastern U.S

Linda O. Mearns, NCAR, Boulder, CO; and G. Carbone, W. Gao, L. McDaniel, E. Tsvetsinskaya, B. McCarl, and R. Adams

4:15 PM

4.4

Comparison of GCM-projected daily maximum and minimum temperature for the Great Lakes Region

Julie A. Winkler, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI; and J. A. Andresen, G. Guentchev, J. A. Picardy, and E. A. Waller

4:30 PM

4.5

A synoptic assessment of climate change model output: explaining the differences and similarities between the Canadian and Hadley Climate Models

Peter J. Sousounis, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI

4:45 PM

4.6

Gauging impacts of climate change on the Pacific Northwest using observed climate variations

Philip W. Mote, University of Washington, Seattle, WA; and A. Hamlet, N. Mantua, and E. Miles

5:00 PM

4.7

Assessment of Potential Effects of Climate Change on Heavy Lake-Effect Snowstorms Near Lake Erie

Kenneth E. Kunkel, ISWS, Champaign, IL; and N. E. Westcott and D. A. R. Kristovich

5:15 PM

4.8

Trends in spring snow cover retreat over the U.S. and the effect of observation time bias

Pavel Ya. Groisman, NOAA/NCDC, Asheville, NC; and B. Sun and R. R. Heim Jr.

Session 5

Meso-and regional-scale modeling

Host: 11th Joint Conference on the Applications of Air Pollution Meteorology with the Air and Waste Management Association

Organizer: Robert J. Kurzeja, Westinghouse Savannah River Co.

3:30 PM

5.0

Sessions end for the day

3:45 PM

5.1

A real-time atmospheric dispersion modeling system

John S. Nasstrom, LLNL, Livermore, CA; and G. Sugiyama, J. M. Leone Jr., and D. L. Ermak

4:00 PM

5.2

Mesoscale Modeling with MM5 for the PATH Study (Pollutants in the Atmosphere and their Transport over Hong Kong)

William L. Physick, CSIRO Atmospheric Research, Aspendale, Vic., Australia; and J. A. Noonan

4:15 PM

5.3

Application of the SARMAP air quality model (SAQM) to the modelling of air pollution in Hong Kong for the PATH study.

Martin E. Cope, CSIRO Atmospheric Research, Aspendale, Vic., Australia; and M. Burgers and M. Olliff

4:30 PM

5.4

Numerical simulation of meteorology for the July 26-30, 1990 ozone episode in the San Joaquin Valley

Saffet Tanrikulu, California Air Resources Board, Sacramento, CA; and K. Gurer and A. J. Ranzieri

4:45 PM

5.5

A Shallow Convection Scheme for 3-D Regional Scale Air-Quality Applications

Aijun Deng, Penn State Univ., University Park, PA; and N. Seaman and A. Lario-Gibbs

5.6

Sensitivity of a regional indicator to Models-3 results at two spatial resolutions

5:01 PM

5.7

Trans-Pacific Yellow Sand and Trace Gas Transport in April 1998

Itsushi Uno, Research Institute for Applied Mechanics/Kyushu Univ., Kasuga, Fukuoka, Japan; and S. Emori and S. Sugata

5.8

Global/regional numerical transport and transformation of mercury in the atmosphere

5:31 PM

5.6A

Reconstruction of Lead (Pb) Fluxes in Europe during 1955-1995 and Evaluation of Gasoline Lead-Content Regulations

Hans von Storch, Institute of Hydrophysics/GKSS Research Centre, Geesthacht, Germany; and M. Costa-Cabral, F. Feser, and C. Hagner

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Session 4

Application of Mesoscale Weather Modeling for Fire Management

Host: Third Symposium on Fire and Forest Meteorology

Organizer: Elizabeth Page, NOAA/NWS

8:00 AM

4.1

Operational use of mesoscale models in fire weather forecasting

Elizabeth Mulvihill Page, NOAA/NWS, Boulder, CO; and M. P. Meyers, M. Chamberlain, and R. McAnelly

8:15 AM

4.2

Numerical weather prediction for fire hazards on Oahu/Hawaii

Duane E. Stevens, Univ. of Hawaii, Honolulu, HI; and D. Funayama and F. M. Fujioka

8:30 AM

4.3

Development of an Objective Spot Forecasting Tool Using a Mesoscale Model

Scott L. Goodrick, Florida Division of Forestry, Tallahassee, FL

8:45 AM

4.4

Real-Time Mesoscale Model Forecasts for Fire and Smoke Management: An Update

Sue A. Ferguson, Forestry Sciences Laboratory, Seattle, WA

9:00 AM

4.5

Mesoscale numerical forecasting of wind changes in support of fire-fighting operations

Graham A. Mills, Bureau of Meteorology Research Centre, Melbourne, Vic., Australia

9:15 AM

4.6

Very high resolution model forecasts of fire weather for the January 1994 Fires

Lance M. Leslie, Univ. of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW, Australia; and M. S. Speer and R. Bunker

9:30 AM

4.7

Numerical modeling of the Santa Barbara Sundowner of 27 June, 1990

Chris MacFarland, Univ. of California, Santa Barbara, CA; and C. Jones and J. Michaelsen

9:45 AM

4.0a

Session Introduction: Elizabeth Page, NOAA/NWS, Boulder, CO

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.)

Session 3

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

Host: Second Symposium on Environmental Applications

Organizers: Laurence Kalkstein, Univ. of Delaware; Joel Scheraga, EPA

8:00 AM

3.1

Integrating assessment of human health and ecosystem health

Joel D. Scheraga, EPA, Washington, DC; and A. E. Grambsch

3.2

Title to be determined

8:30 AM

3.3

Predicting Hantaviral Disease Outbreaks in Southwestern United States

Gregory E. Glass, Johns Hopkins School of Public Health, Baltimore, MD

8:45 AM

3.4

Climate Tools For Public Health: A Synthesis Of Enso Experiment Research Findings

Juli Trtanj, NOAA, Office of Global Programs, Silver Spring, MD

9:00 AM

3.5

Using Environmental Information to Improve Air Quality

Darrell A. Winner, EPA, Washington, DC

9:15 AM

3.6

A Year-Round Comfort Index That Incorporates Multiple Meteorological Parameters

Daniel Kottlowski, AccuWeather, Inc., State College, PA; and M. A. Steinberg

9:30 AM

3.7

The New Summer Simmer Index - A Comfort Index for the New Millennium

John W. Pepi, Maynard, MA

9:45 AM

3.2A

A Physiologically-based Framework to Evaluate Possible Risk Factors for Heat-Related Illnesses

Kristie L. Ebi, EPRI, Palo Alto, CA; and N. Y. Chan, M. T. Stacey, and T. F. Wilson

10:00 AM

3.7A

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

Session 4

Clouds of the Troposphere

Host: Symposium on Lidar Atmospheric Monitoring

Organizer: Albert Ansmann, Institute for Tropospheric Research

8:00 AM

4.1

C. Martin R. Platt, Colorado State Univ., Fort Collins, CO

8:30 AM

4.2

Autonomous, full-time cloud profiling at ARM sites with Micro Pulse Lidar

James D. Spinhirne, NASA/GSFC, Greenbelt, MD; and J. R. Campbell, D. L. Hlavka, V. S. Scott, and C. J. Flynn

9:00 AM

4.3

The 12-Year Cirrus Cloud Lidar Dataset Supporting Project FIRE

Kenneth Sassen, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT

9:30 AM

4.4

Lidar monitoring of troposheric clouds and precipitation for the remote sensing of aircraft in-flight icing conditions

Luc R. Bissonnette, Defence Research Establishment Valcartier, Val-Bélair, PQ, Canada; and G. Roy

9:45 AM

4.5

Cloud and Liquid Water Phase Occurrence in the Arctic Atmosphere

Janet M. Intrieri, NOAA/ETL, Boulder, CO; and B. J. McCarty, W. L. Eberhard, and R. J. Alvarez

10:00 AM

4.5a

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

Session 5

Unidata applications and extensions

Host: 16th International Conference on Interactive Information and Processing Systems (IIPS) for Meteorology, Oceanography, and Hydrology

Organizers: Linda Miller, UCAR; John Merrill, Univ. of Rhode Island

8:00 AM

5.1

Overview

Linda Miller, UCAR, Boulder, CO

8:15 AM

5.2

Unidata: A Tale of Two Networks

David W. Fulker, UCAR, Boulder, CO

8:30 AM

5.3

Using Realtime Unidata Products in the Verner Suomi Virtual Museum

Thomas M. Whittaker, CIMSS/Univ. of Wisconsin, Madison, WI; and S. Ackerman

8:45 AM

5.4

Current Meteorological Data Acquisition Issues

Robert P. Kambic, Unidata/UCAR, Boulder, CO; and E. R. Davis, J. Weber, and T. Yoksas

9:00 AM

5.5

The importance of Unidata support to Plymouth State College

James P. Koermer, Plymouth State College, Plymouth, NH

9:15 AM

5.6

Satellite image analysis in support of atmospheric chemistry campaigns: Examples of Unidata's impact on interdisciplinary graduate research and education

Jennie L. Moody, Univ. of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA; and O. R. Cooper and A. J. Wimmers

9:30 AM

5.7

Unidata's path for NOAAport data distribution

Steven R. Chiswell, Unidata/UCAR, Boulder, CO; and M. Schmidt

9:45 AM

5.8

Penn State and weather analysis: The Unidata age

Arthur A. Person, Penn State Univ., University Park, PA; and G. S. Young

10:00 AM

5.9

Custom Meteorological Forecasts and Nowcasts in Support of Astronomical Operations at Mauna Kea in Support of Astronomical Operations at Mauna Kea

Steven Businger, Univ. of Hawaii, Honolulu, HI; and R. Knabb, D. Simons, and R. J. Wainscoat

10:15 AM

5.10

Future directions for meteorological data distribution

John Caron, Unidata/UCAR, Boulder, CO; and E. Davis, D. Murray, and R. K. Rew

10:30 AM

5.11

The NWS/COMET case study library in the new millennium

Elizabeth Mulvihill Page, NOAA/NWS, Boulder, CO; and D. Kiessling and J. Weber

10:45 AM

5.12

Toward a geosciences computer laboratory

Edward E. Hindman, City College of New York, New York, NY; and S. D. Gedzelman, J. C. Steiner, R. M. Kahn, and S. J. Richards

11:00 AM

5.13

An Example of Unidata's Future in New Sotfware: THE VisAD COMPENTENT ARCHITETURE FOR COLLABORATIVE DATA ANALYSIS AND VISUALIZATION

William Hibbard, Univ. of Wisconsin, Madison, WI

11:15 AM

5.14

An Example of Unidat's Future in Collaborative Data Access: High-Resolution Doppler Radar Volumes in Real Time

Kelvin Droegemeier, Univ. of Oklahoma, Norman, OK

11:30 AM

5.15

Future Directions for Unidata Applications

Russell K. Rew, UCAR, Boulder, CO; and J. L. Caron, S. R. Emmerson, and D. R. Murray

11:45 AM

5.16

A GEMPAK script for estimating diabatic heating

Patrick S. Market, Univ. of Missouri, Columbia, MO; and J. T. Moore

12:00 PM

5.8A

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

12:15 PM

5.16A

Conference Luncheon

Session 2

Data, Modeling and Analysis in Hydrometeorology Part II

Host: 15th Conference on Hydrology

Organizer: Christa Peters-Lidard, Georgia Tech

8:00 AM

2.1

Atmospheric flux computations in complex terrain

Paul L. Smith, South Dakota School of Mines and Technology, Rapid City, SD; and F. J. Kopp and H. D. Orville

8:15 AM

2.2

A multi-scale data set based on CASES-97 for studying land-surface heterogeneity and for validating land-surface models

Fei Chen, NCAR, Boulder, CO; and D. Yates, M. LeMone, H. Nagai, S. Onkley, and R. Grossman

8:30 AM

2.3

Use of cumulus parameterization and explicit microphysics for climate studies over the Rio Grande basin

James R. Stalker, LANL, Los Alamos, NM; and J. E. Bossert, K. R. Costigan, J. M. Reisner, and D. L. Langley

8:45 AM

2.4

Observed and Modeled Properties of the Atmospheric Boundary Layer During SGP97

Christa D. Peters-Lidard, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA; and L. H. Davis, J. N. McHenry, and F. Pan

9:00 AM

2.5

Project to Intercompare Regional Climate Simulations (PIRCS): Simulation of the 1993 flood over the central U.S

Raymond W. Arritt, Iowa State University, Ames, IA; and W. J. Gutowski Jr., E. S. Takle, Z. Pan, C. J. Anderson, and PIRCS Investigators

9:15 AM

2.6

Influence of surface characteristics on the development of cumulus cloud fields

U. S. Nair, Univ. of Alabama, Huntsville, AL; and R. M. Welch, R. O. Lawton, and R. A. Pielke Sr.

9:30 AM

2.7

A climatology and analysis of evaporative sources of rainfall over the Mississippi Basin

Paul A. Dirmeyer, COLA, Calverton, MD; and K. L. Brubaker, A. Sudradjat, F. Bernal, and B. Levy

9:45 AM

2.8

Retrospective analysis of water budget for the Mississippi River basin

John C. Schaake, NOAA/NWS, Silver Spring, MD; and Q. Duan and S. Cong

10:00 AM

2.9

Total water storage range of the Mississippi River basin

Qingyun Duan, NOAA/NWS, Silver Spring, MD; and J. C. Schaake, V. I. Koren, and S. Cong

10:15 AM

2.10

Variational data assimilation of soil moisture from remote sensing observations

Rolf H. Reichle, MIT, Cambridge, MA; and D. McLaughlin and D. Entekhabi

10:30 AM

2.11

Influence of Temporal Variability of Rainfall on Interception Loss

Ning Zeng, Univ. of California, Los Angeles, CA; and J. W. Shuttleworth and J. H. C. Gash

10:45 AM

2.12

Resonance and Low-Dimensional Modeling of the Low-Level Jet

William J. Martin, University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK; and A. Shapiro

11:00 AM

2.13

Atmospheric water vapor fluxes and budgets during wet and dry episodes over the central United States

Evgeney S. Yarosh, NOAA/NWS/NCEP, Camp Springs, MD; and C. F. Ropelewski

11:15 AM

2.14

Modeling Issues of Snow and Land-Ice in a General Circulation Model

C. Adam Schlosser, COLA, Calverton, MD; and P. A. Dirmeyer and L. Marx

11:30 AM

2.15

Systematic and random radar rainfall error and its impact on rainfall-runoff prediction accuracy

Tufa Dinku, University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT; and E. N. Anagnostou and M. Borga

11:45 AM

2.16

Use of Soil Property Data in the Derivation of Conceptual Rainfall-Runoff Model Parameters

Victor I. Koren, NOAA/NWS, Silver Spring, MD; and M. B. Smith, D. Wang, and Z. Zhang

12:00 PM

2.17

Statistical Comparison of Mean Areal Precipitation Estimates from WSR-88D, Operational and Historical Gage Networks

Dahong Wang, NOAA/NWS, Silver Spring, MD; and M. B. Smith, Z. Zhang, S. Reed, and V. I. Koren

12:15 PM

2.18

The Spatial and Temporal Variability of Soil Moisture Conditions at the Norman Mesonet Site: Comparison with Near-surface Atmospheric Conditions

Jeffrey B. Basara, Oklahoma Climatological Survey, University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK; and K. S. Humes and K. C. Crawford

12:30 PM

2.19

Streamflow Forecasting on Basins with Limited Hydrologic Data

Michael Thiemann, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ; and H. V. Gupta, S. Sorooshian, and M. W. Trosset

12:45 PM

2.20

Investigating Forecasts of Streamflow Utilizing Radar Data

Keith M. Stellman, Florida State Univ., Tallahassee, FL and NOAA/NWS, Slidell, LA; and H. Fuelberg, R. Garza, and M. Mullusky

1:00 PM

2.21

Use of the NWSRFS OPT3 for Calibration of the SAC-SMA Model

Terri S. Hogue, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ; and S. Sorooshian, H. V. Gupta, A. Holz, and D. T. Braatz

1:15 PM

2.9A

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

1:30 PM

2.14A

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

2:00 PM

2.9b

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

2:45 PM

2.9c

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

3:30 PM

2.9d

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

Session 5

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

Host: 11th Symposium on Global Change Studies

Organizer: Thomas C. Peterson, NOAA/NCDC

8:15 AM

5.1

Variations in the snow melt onset date derived from passive microwave data

Sheldon D. Drobot, Univ. of Nebraska, Lincoln, NE; and M. R. Anderson

8:30 AM

5.2

Spaceborne climate change monitoring by GNSS occultation sensors

Gottfried Kirchengast, Univ. of Graz, Graz, Austria; and A. K. Steiner, U. Foelsche, L. Kornblueh, E. Manzini, and L. Bengtsson

8:45 AM

5.3

Signature of recent climate change in frequencies of natural atmospheric circulation regimes

Susanna Corti, CINECA, Casalecchio di Reno, Bologna, Italy; and F. Molteni and T. N. Palmer

9:00 AM

5.4

Detection and Attribution of Anthropogenic Global Warming Using Northern Hemisphere Sea Ice Extent

Konstantin Y. Vinnikov, University of Maryland, College Park, MD; and A. Robock, R. J. Stouffer, J. E. Walsh, C. L. Parkinson, D. J. Cavalieri, J. F. B. Mitchell, D. Garrett, and V. F. Zakharov

9:15 AM

5.5

Global Warming Potentials Modified for Water Interference in the Atmosphere

W. F. J. Evans, Trent University, Peterborough, ON, Canada; and E. Puckrin and T. Ogawa

9:30 AM

5.6

On the Morphology of Cloud Absorption: Preferential Attenuation of Near Infrared Solar Radiation

L. C. McCormick, Trent Univ., Peterborough, ON, Canada; and E. Puckrin and W. F. J. Evans

9:45 AM

5.7

Estimating the roles of radiation and dynamics in the climate system's equilibrium response to enhanced greenhouse forcing

J. Ray Bates, Univ. of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark

Session 3

Artificial Intelligence Applications

Host: Second Conference on Artificial Intelligence

Organizer: John Pickle, AER, Inc.

8:30 AM

3.1

Clustering Methodologies Applied To Short-Term Ensemble Forecasting

Ahmad A. Alhamed, University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK; and S. Lakshimivarahan

8:45 AM

3.2

The application of machine learning to forecast stratus burn-off

George A. Fenton III, LANL, Los Alamos, NM

3.3

A web-enabled expert system for quality control of data from an observing system

9:00 AM

3.4

Using trainable computing networks in the control of a physical system

Markus Huttunen, Finnish Environment Institute, Helsinki, Finland; and E. Ukkonen and B. Vehvilainen

9:15 AM

3.5

A new marine forecast text generator built on a graphical depiction database.

Norbert Driedger, AES, King City, ON, Canada; and B. Greaves, R. Paterson, and R. Trafford

9:30 AM

3.6

Autotext

Tomas Vavargard, Swedish Meteorological and Hydrological Institute, Malmo, Sweden

Poster Session 1

Poster Session P1

Host: Symposium on The Mystery of Severe Storms: A Tribute to the Work of T. Theodore Fujita

P1.1

Climatology of California Severe Weather: Population Bias or Geographic/Climatic Influences?

Steve E. LaDochy, California State Univ., Los Angeles, CA; and J. N. Brown

P1.2

A tornado climatology of Wisconsin

Pamela Naber Knox, Valparaiso University, Valparaiso, IN; and D. G. Norgord

P1.3

On the importance of post-event surveys in assessing tornado occurrences

Charles A. Doswell III, NOAA/NSSL, Norman, OK; and G. J. Stumpf, D. A. Speheger, and M. Branick

P1.4

Doppler Radar Data Related to F-Scale for the May 3rd Oklahoma City Tornado

Donald W. Burgess, NOAA/NEXRAD Operational Support Facility, Norman, OK; and M. A. Magsig

P1.5

A Comparison of WSR-88D Radar Velocity Signatures to Tornado Damage for the April 16, 1998 Tornado Outbreak in Middle Tennessee

Timothy W. Troutman, NOAA/NWS, Melbourne, FL; and T. P. Marshall

P1.6

A New Look at the Super Outbreak of Tornadoes on 3-4 April 1974

John D. Locatelli, Univ. of Washington, Seattle, WA; and M. T. Stoelinga and P. V. Hobbs

P1.7

Computer Animations of Tornado Tracks, Radar Summaries, Synoptic Frontal Features and Model Simulations in the Super Tornado Outbreak of 3-4 April 1974

Mark Stoelinga, Univ. of Washington, Seattle, WA; and J. D. Locatelli and P. V. Hobbs

P1.8

An overview of RAMS tornado simulations

William R. Cotton, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO

P1.9

Influences on the formation of a modeled tornado-like vortex

Brian J. Gaudet, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO

P1.10

Axisymmetric Modelling of Tornado-Like Vortices with Adaptive Mesh Refinement

David S. Nolan, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO; and A. S. Almgren and J. B. Bell

P1.11

Cloud-to-ground lightning characteristics associated with tornadoes on 15 May 1998

Gary R. Huffines, Air Force Institute of Technology, Wright Patterson AFB, OH; and R. E. Orville

P1.12

Computerized Mesoanalysis of a Severe Sprite-Producing MCS

Walter A. Lyons, FMA Research, Inc., Fort Collins, CO

P1.13

Ted Fujita’s ‘unsung’ contributions as a forensic meteorology consultant

William H. Haggard, Climatological Consulting Corp., Asheville, NC

P1.14

High wind-producing convective systems over the Northern High Plains

Brian A. Klimowski, NOAA/NWS, Rapid City, SD; and J. Covert and M. R. Hjelmfelt

P1.15

Damaging Wind Gusts During the 10 November 1998 Squall Line over the Central US

Jeffrey Connors, Plymouth State College, Plymouth, NH; and D. Schultz

P1.16

An Evaluation of Two Microburst Prediction Indices and the Introduction of a New Index for Assessing Wet-Microburst Potential for the Central Florida Atlantic Coast in Support of the United States Space Program

Steven N. Dickerson, Air Force Institute of Technology, Wright-Patterson AFB, OH; and C. A. Miner and W. P. Roeder

P1.17

Early Microburst Simulations

Steven K. Krueger, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT

P1.18

Downburst at Parana: A numerical case study

Hallak Ricardo, Univ. of São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil; and T. Valentin da Costa

P1.19

The Super Outbreak, April 3-4, 1974: "Forecasting" the Event Using Today's Guidance

Daniel W. McCarthy, Storm Prediction Center, Norman, OK; and J. S. Kain and M. Baldwin

P1.20

Detailed WSR-88D Observations of a Cool Season Tornadic Bow Echo Event on 11 February 1999 over the Mid-Mississippi Valley Region: A Unique Tornado Event

Ron W. Przybylinski, Weather Forecast Office, St. Charles, MO; and G. K. Schmocker

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

Session 6

Photochemical air quality models

Host: 11th Joint Conference on the Applications of Air Pollution Meteorology with the Air and Waste Management Association

Organizer: A. Venkatram, University of California

8:30 AM

6.1

How meteorology affects ozone formation and why it matters (Invited Presentation)

Sanford Sillman, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI

9:00 AM

6.2

Monte Carlo Studies of Uncertainties in UAM-V Predictions for the July 1995 OTAG Period

Steven R. Hanna, George Mason University, Fairfax, VA; and Z. Lu, H. C. Frey, N. Wheeler, J. Vukovich, S. Arunachalam, M. Fernau, and D. A. Hansen

9:15 AM

6.3

The effect of vertical diffusivity on photochemical model estimates of tropospheric ozone

Robert E. Imhoff, Tennessee Valley Authority, Muscle Shoals, AL; and E. M. Bailey and S. F. Mueller

9:30 AM

6.4

Process-based analysis of the role of the Gulf breeze in simulating ozone concentrations along the Eastern Gulf Coast

Sharon G. Douglas, ICF Consulting, San Rafael, CA; and J. L. Haney and A. Alvarez

9:45 AM

6.5

Sensitivity of the regional ozone modeling results to different physical processes within a meteorological model

Jhumoor Biswas, SUNY, Albany, NY; and S. T. Rao, K. Zhang, and N. Seaman

Session 4

University Educational Initiatives

Host: Ninth Symposium on Education

Organizers: Paul J. Croft, Jackson State Univ.; David R. Smith, United States Naval Academy

8:30 AM

4.1

Improving Undergraduate Science Courses While Investing in Tomorrow’s Teachers

Douglas N Yarger, Iowa State Univ., Ames, IA; and C. Hargrave, L. Pease, and R. Thomas

8:45 AM

4.2

Incorporating Active Learning into Small Group Meetings in an Undergraduate Introductory Meteorology Course

Donna J. Charlevoix, Univ. of Illinois, Urbana, IL; and J. Walsh

9:00 AM

4.3

A Virtual Exploratorium to Support Inquiry-based Learning in Geoscience Courses

Rajul Pandya, West Chester Univ., West Chester, PA; and M. Marlino, R. Wilhelmson, M. Ramamurthy, K. Hay, D. Middleton, and D. Bramer

9:15 AM

4.4

Interactive modeling and visualization in undergraduate survey courses

Daniel J. Bramer, Univ. of Illinois, Urbana, IL; and M. K. Ramamurthy, R. B. Wilhelmson, and D. P. Wojtowicz

9:30 AM

4.5

Teaching geoscience courses collaboratively using compressed videoconferencing technology: An experiment conducted between the United States Air Force Academy and the United States Naval Academy

Brian E. Heckman, United States Air Force Academy, Colorado Springs, CO; and D. J. Whitford and D. T. Lawyer

10:00 AM

4.6

The use of WebCT as an online supplement during an on-campus introductory meteorology course at Millersville University

Christopher Dutton, Millersville Univ., Millersville, PA

9:45 AM

4.6

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

Session 4

Dynamics, transport, and mixing

Host: 11th Conference on the Middle Atmosphere

Organizers: Robert X. Black, Georgia Institute of Technology; Gloria Manney, JPL

8:30 AM

4.1

Planetary Wave Interactions in the Antarctic Stratosphere

Mark Harvey, Cooperative Research Centre for Southern Hemisphere Meteorology, Monash Univ., Clayton, Vic., Australia

8:45 AM

4.2

Observed evolution of vertical planetary wave structure in relation to the propagation characteristics of the basic state

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

9:00 AM

4.3

Saturation of vertically propagating Rossby waves

Constantine Giannitsis, MIT, Cambridge, MA; and R. S. Lindzen

9:15 AM

4.4

Westward Traveling Hemispheric Modes and Modes in a Continuous Spectrum of Atmospheric Oscillations

Boris E. Stepanov, Novosibirsk State Technical Univ., Novosibirsk, Russia

9:30 AM

4.5

A study of the nonlinear evolution of symmetric inertial instability and the resulting redistribution of mass and momentum

David A. Ortland, NorthWest Research Associates, Bellevue, WA; and T. J. Dunkerton

9:45 AM

4.6

Inertially Unstable Temperature Structures in the Middle Atmosphere: A Re-examination

John A. Knox, Valparaiso Univ., Valparaiso, IN

10:00 AM

4.6a

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

10:30 AM

4.6b

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

11:30 AM

4.6c

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

12:15 PM

4.6d

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

Session 6

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

Host: 11th Symposium on Global Change Studies

Organizer: Roger A. Pielke Jr., NCAR

8:45 AM

6.1

Winners and Losers: The Impacts of El Niño 1997-98

Stanley A. Changnon, Changnon Climatologist, Mahomet, IL

9:00 AM

6.2

Media Coverage of El Nino: The Rise of a Signal Event

Lee Wilkins, Univ. of Missouri, Columbia, MO

9:15 AM

6.3

Policy responses to the 1997/1998 El Niño: Implications for forecast value and the future of climate services

Roger A. Pielke, Jr., NCAR, Boulder, CO

9:30 AM

6.4

Who Used and Benefitted From the El Niño Forecasts?

David Changnon, Northern Illinois University, DeKalb, IL

9:45 AM

6.5

The Scientific Issues Arising from El Niño 1997-98

Stanley A. Changnon, Changnon Climatologist, Mahomet, IL

Session 3

Advances in instrumentation for aerosol and trace gas measurements

Host: Symposium on Atmospheric Chemistry Issues in the 21st Century

Organizers: Marvin Wesely, Argonne National Lab.; Nancy Marley, Argonne National Lab.

9:15 AM

3.1

Improved Instrumentation for Near-Real-Time Measurement of Reactive Hydrocarbons, NO₂, and Peroxycyl Nitrates

Paul J. Drayton, ANL, Argonne, IL; and C. A. Blazer, J. S. Gaffney, and N. A. Marley

9:30 AM

3.2

Real-time analysis of atmospheric aerosols using Aerosol time-of-flight mass spectrometry

Philip J. Silva, Univ. of California, Riverside, CA; and K. A. Prather

9:45 AM

3.3

Techniques for quantifying ambient HOCl using Atmospheric Pressure-Ionization Mass Spectrometry

Krishna L. Foster, Univ. of California, Irvine, CA; and T. E. Caldwell, T. Benter, S. Langer, J. C. Hemminger, and B. J. Finlayson-Pitts

10:00 AM

3.3A

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

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

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

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

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Exhibit Hours 10:00 A.M.-2:15 P.M.

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

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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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

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

Session 4

Special President's Session on Environmental Applications

Host: Second Symposium on Environmental Applications

Organizer: George Frederick, Radian Corporation

10:30 AM

4.1

Emerging Environmental Issues: A Global Perspective (Walter Orr Roberts Award Lecture)

R. E. Munn, Univ. of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada

11:15 AM

4.2

Meteorology and the Environment - The WMO Perspective

John W. Zillman, President, WMO, Geneva, Switzerland

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

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

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

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Meteorology and the Environment - the WMO Perspective. John W. Zillman, Bureau of Meteorology, Melbourne, Vic., Australia

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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1

Conference Luncheon - Speaker: D. James Baker, Underscretary of Commerce for Oceans and Atmosphere, NOAA Administrator, Washington, DC

1

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

1

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

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

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

1

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

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

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

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

1

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

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

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

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

Session 2

The May 3, 1999 Tornado Outbreak in Oklahoma and Kansas: What did we do well? What Have we Learned? What can we do better?

Host: Symposium on The Mystery of Severe Storms: A Tribute to the Work of T. Theodore Fujita

2:10 PM

2.1

An Overview of the Event

Donald Burgess, NOAA/NWS/OSF, Norman, OK

2:40 PM

2.2

The Forecasting Process

Steven J. Weiss, NOAA/SPC, Norman, OK

3:10 PM

2.3

The Warning Process

David L. Andra Jr., NOAA/NWSFO, Norman, OK

3:40 PM

2.4

A TV Meteorologists' Perspective

Gary England, KWTV, Norman, OK

4:10 PM

2.5

An Emergency Managers' Perspective

Gayland Kitch, Emergency Preparedness Manager, Moore, OK

4:40 PM

2.6

Societal Impacts

Harold E. Brooks, NOAA/NSSL, Norman, OK

5:10 PM

2.7

Storm Intercept and Mobile Radar Observations

Howard B. Bluestein, Univ. of Oklahoma, Norman, OK

5:40 PM

2.0a

Introductory Remarks with Session Overview

Morris Weisman, NCAR, Boulder, CO

5:45 PM

2.3a

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

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

Session 7

Instantaneous and accidental releases (Parallel with Session 6)

Host: 11th Joint Conference on the Applications of Air Pollution Meteorology with the Air and Waste Management Association

Organizer: R. L. Petersen, Cermak, Peterka Petersen, Inc.

2:15 PM

7.1

A Gaussian puff model for flashing aerosol releases: Comparison with GRADE data

R. I. Sykes, Titan Research and Technology, Princeton, NJ; and C. P. Cerasoli, C. D. Jones, and I. D. Roberts

2:30 PM

7.3

Application of a Prognostic Model Validation System to Real-Time Dispersion Modeling

John C. Pace, LLNL, Livermore, CA

2:45 PM

7.4

Evaluation of RAMS in the Eastern Range Dispersion Assessment System

Jonathan L. Case, NASA/Kennedy Space Center/Applied Meteorology Unit/ENSCO, Inc., Cocoa Beach, FL; and J. Manobianco, M. M. Wheeler, A. V. Dianic, C. R. Parks, and D. E. Harms

Session 6

Photochemical Air Quality Models: Continued (Parallel with Session 7)

Host: 11th Joint Conference on the Applications of Air Pollution Meteorology with the Air and Waste Management Association

2:15 PM

6.6

A Modeling Study to Assess the Impact of Local Point Source Emissions on Texas Regional Strategy

Shiang-Yuh Wu, AER, Inc., San Ramon, CA; and P. Pai and K. John

2:30 PM

6.7

Evaluating Meteorological input parameters for seasonal photochemical modeling on different time scales

Christian Hogrefe, SUNY, Albany, NY; and S. T. Rao

2:45 PM

6.8

Second-order Closure Integrated Puff (SCIPUFF) model with gas and aqueous phase chemistry and aerosols

Lynne Santos, Titan Corporation, Princeton, NJ; and R. I. Sykes, P. Karamchandani, C. Seigneur, F. Lurmann, R. Arndt, and N. Kumar

3:00 PM

6.9

Application of CALMET/CALGRID to Auckland, New Zealand

Neil R. Gimson, National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research, Wellington, New Zealand; and D. Z. Belberova

6.10

Unusual ground-level ozone observations in Canada's Rocky Mountain foothills

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Panel Discussion: Looking to the Future in Satellite Remote Sensing for Meteorological and Oceanographic Applications. Greg Withee, Washington, DC with participation by representatives from NASA, EUMETSAT, China, Japan and India

Session 5

The Stratospheric Aerosol

Host: Symposium on Lidar Atmospheric Monitoring

Organizer: Richard A. Ferrare, NASA/LARC

2:15 PM

5.1

Stratospheric Aerosol Measurements over Mauna Loa Observatory, Hawaii

John E. Barnes, NOAA/CMDL, Boulder, CO; and D. J. Hofmann

2:45 PM

5.2

Long-term observations of the mid-latude stratospheric aerosol by the Langley 48-inch Lidar

David C. Woods, NASA/LARC, Hampton, VA; and M. T. Osborn

3:15 PM

5.3

The missing Pinatubo aerosols: a global lidar-SAGE II comparison

Alan Robock, Rutgers Univ., New Brunswick, NJ; and J. C. Antuña and G. L. Stenchikov

Session 5

University Educational Initiatives: Part II

Host: Ninth Symposium on Education

Organizers: Paul J. Croft, Jackson State Univ.; David R. Smith, United States Naval Academy

2:15 PM

5.1

EarthStorm U: Encouraging the use of Oklahoma Mesonet and ARM Data in Undergraduate Education and Non-Science Major Courses

Andrea Dawn Melvin, Oklahoma Climatological Survey, Norman, OK; and K. Kloesel

2:30 PM

5.2

Using interactive severe weather activities to motivate student learning

William A. Gallus Jr., Iowa State Univ., Ames, IA; and D. N. Yarger and D. Herzmann

2:45 PM

5.3

Online Weather Studies: An Introductory College Level Distance-Learning Course

James A. Brey, Univ. of Wisconsin, Menasha, WI; and I. W. Geer, R. S. Weinbeck, J. M. Moran, M. M. Ficek, E. J. Hopkins, and B. A. Blair

3:00 PM

5.4

An Evaluation of UCAR's Remote Sensing Using Satellites Module

Kathryn M. Ginger, UCAR, Boulder, CO; and M. Marlino and T. Reeves

3:15 PM

5.5

The National Climatic Data Center's (NCDC) New Climate Monitoring Group Products, Reports and Analyses Applicable to the Study of Earth Science

Thomas F. Ross, NOAA/NESDIS/NCDC, Asheville, NC; and C. S. Godfrey and R. R. Heim Jr.

3:30 PM

5.6

Research and Education Collaborations between CAPS and Clark Atlanta University

Mark H. Palmer, Univ. of Oklahoma/CAPS, Norman, OK; and S. Stevenson

3:45 PM

5.6b

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

Session 5

Operational and Near Operational Forecast Techniques: Uses of New Technologies

Host: Third Symposium on Fire and Forest Meteorology

Organizer: Richard Ochoa, NOAA.NWS

2:15 PM

5.1

A Web-based Spot Forecast Request and Preparation System

Timothy W. Barker, NOAA/NWS, Missoula, MT; and M. Whitmore

2:30 PM

5.2

Evaluation and Utilization of Scripps ECPC Fire Weather Forecasts

Beth L. Hall, DRI, Reno, NV; and T. J. Brown and J. O. Roads

2:45 PM

5.3

Use of Model Soundings and Real-Time Radar Data to Predict Dry Microbursts

Steve Vasiloff, NOAA/ERL/NSSL and NWS, Salt Lake City, UT

3:00 PM

5.4

Forecasting dry thunderstorms as a part of the fire weather outlooks at the Storm Prediction Center

Phillip D. Bothwell, SPC, Norman, OK

3:15 PM

5.5

National fire weather outlooks issued by the Storm Prediction Center

Phillip D. Bothwell, SPC, Norman, OK; and G. W. Carbin

3:30 PM

5.0a

Session Introduction: Richard Ochoa, NOAA/NWS, Boise, ID

3:45 PM

5.4a

Coffee Break

4:15 PM

5.5a

Discussion

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.)

Session 4

Continued

Host: 11th Conference on the Middle Atmosphere

2:15 PM

4.7

Eddy dissipation rates derived from observations of propagating diurnal tides

Elsayed R. Talaat, APL, Laurel, MD; and R. S. Lieberman

2:30 PM

4.8

Seasonal evolution of ozone-methane correlations in the polar regions

David Sankey, Univ. of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada

2:45 PM

4.9

Variability of stratospheric ozone and aerosol in 1995 to 1997 derived from SAGE II and HALOE measurements

Cheng-Hsuan Lu, SUNY, Albany, NY; and G. K. Yue, G. L. Manney, and V. A. Mohnen

3:00 PM

4.10

Climatology of Wave Breaking and Mixing in the Northern Hemisphere Summer Stratosphere

Richard E. Wagner, Texas A&M Univ., College Station, TX; and K. P. Bowman

3:15 PM

4.11

Variability of the "tropical pipe" boundaries in the stratosphere

Jessica L. Neu, MIT, Cambridge, MA; and L. C. Sparling and R. A. Plumb

3:30 PM

4.12

Lobe Dynamics and Transport in the Stratosphere

Kenneth P. Bowman, Texas A&M Univ., College Station, TX

3:45 PM

4.13

Comparison of Arctic and Antarctic winter-to-summer transition in the stratosphere

Douglas R. Allen, Univ. of Chicago, Chicago, IL; and N. Nakamura

4:00 PM

4.14

Stratospheric aerosol transport out of the tropics observed by the High Resolution Doppler Imager

David A. Ortland, NorthWest Research Associates, Bellevue, WA

4:15 PM

4.11a

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

Session 6

Technology and technique development at laboratories and in industries associated with meteorology, hydrology and oceanography (Parallel with Session 7)

Host: 16th International Conference on Interactive Information and Processing Systems (IIPS) for Meteorology, Oceanography, and Hydrology

Organizers: Dan McMorrow, Johns Hopkins Univ.; Robert Introne, Consultant

2:15 PM

6.1

Overview

Dan McMorrow, Johns Hopkins Univ., Laurel, MD

2:30 PM

6.2

Using Numerical Weather Modeling to Customize Synthetic Natural Environments

Robert A. Reynolds, Litton/TASC, Reading, MA; and T. A. Hutchinson and P. S. Dailey

2:45 PM

6.3

A System For Development and Display of A Consensus of Model Data

Henry Margusity, AccuWeather, Inc, State College, PA; and M. A. Steinberg

6.4

Interactive Java Graphics of Network-Distributed in-situ Data Sets in a Collaborative Tool Environment

3:15 PM

6.5

Software Development for Surface Water Quality Modeling

M. Lahlou, Tetra Tech, Inc., Fairfax, VA; and J. Hamrick, Z. Ji, J. Ouyang, M. Morton, J. Shen, and W. D. Tate

3:30 PM

6.6

Target Acquisition Weather Software (TAWS)

Jeffrey S. Morrison, Litton/TASC, Reading, MA; and R. B. Bensinger, C. V. Gilbert, M. J. Gouveia, R. B. Turkington, J. L. Wylie, and P. Tattelman

6.7

Time motion of forecasters using interactive workstations

3:45 PM

6.8

An integrated meteorological monitoring and display system for emergency response

Matthew J. Parker, Westinghouse Savannah River Co., Aiken, SC; and C. H. Hunter, L. C. Heavner, G. L. Snyder, and R. A. Mueller

4:00 PM

6.9

Collaborative Virtual Environments As A Visual Analysis Tool

Cathy M. Lascara, Old Dominion Univ., Norfolk, VA; and G. Wheless

4:15 PM

6.10

GIS Applications in Climate and Meteorology

Scott T. Shipley, Raytheon Systems Company, Lanham, MD

4:30 PM

6.11

Getting critical weather and flood information to end-users: a comparison of the Integrated Weather Effects Decision Aid (IWEDA) and the Local Data Acquisition and Dissemination (LDAD) systems

Christopher R. Adams, CIRA/Colorado State Univ., Fort Collins, CO; and K. E. Eis

4:45 PM

6.5A

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

5:15 PM

6.7A

Preliminary Evaluations of Using Lightning Data to Improve Oceanic Convective Forecasting for Aviation

Alan Nierow, FAA, Washington, DC; and R. C. Showalter, F. Mosher, J. Jalickee, and K. Cummins

5:30 PM

6.11A

Session 6 ends

Session 5

Ecosystem and natural resource management

Host: Second Symposium on Environmental Applications

Organizer: David Matthews, DOI/U. S. Bureau of Reclamation

2:15 PM

5.1

Decision support systems for river system management in the Colorado and Rio Grande Basins

Terry Fulp, Bureau of Reclamation, Denver, CO; and S. Hansen, D. King, and D. Matthews

2:30 PM

5.2

The Modular Modeling System (MMS)—The Physical Process Modeling Component of a Database-Centered Decision Support System for Water and Ecosystem Management

George H. Leavesley, U.S. Geological Survey, Denver, CO; and S. L. Markstrom and R. J. Viger

2:45 PM

5.3

Agricultural Water Resources Decision Support System

Curtis L. Hartzell, U.S. Dept. of the Interior, Bureau of Reclamation, Denver, CO; and L. A. Brower, R. W. Stodt, and S. P. Meyer

3:00 PM

5.4

Evapotranspiration Toolbox for the Upper Rio Grande Water Operations Model

L. Albert Brower, U.S. Dept. of the Interior, Bureau of Reclamation, Denver, CO; and C. L. Hartzell and S. P. Meyer

3:15 PM

5.5

Ecosystem management in the Upper Colorado basin: can climate information help provide water for ecosystems?

Andrea J Ray, NOAA/CDC, Boulder, CO

3:30 PM

5.6

Air and water quality modeling system: application to the Los Angeles metropolitan area

Michael Brown, LANL, Los Alamos, NM; and S. Burian, T. McPherson, G. Streit, K. Costigan, and J. Turin

3:45 PM

5.7

A Proposed Solar-Terrestrial Coupling Mechanism for Inducing Weekly to Monthly Synoptic Changes and Decadal Climate Variations

Alfred M. Powell Jr., Autometric Inc., Springfield, VA; and P. A. Zuzolo

4:00 PM

5.8

The Effects of Daily and Interannual Climate Variability on Peanut Crop Production in Córdoba, Argentina

Marta G. Vinocur, Univ. of Rio Cuarto, Rio Cuarto, Cordoba, Argentina; and L. O. Mearns

4:15 PM

5.9

Spatial variation in growing season heat sums within northern hardwood forest canopy gaps

Brian E. Potter, USDA Forest Service, East Lansing, MI; and P. J. Croft

4:30 PM

5.10

Analysis and Modeling of Morro Bay, Califorina

Zhen-Gang Ji, Tetra Tech, Inc., Fairfax, VA; and M. R. Morton

4:45 PM

5.11

Satellite Analysis of Gulf Coast Atmospheric Moisture and Tropospheric Aerosols

Paul J. Croft, Jackson State Univ., Jackson, MS

5:00 PM

5.5A

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Session 7

European Applications: Observing systems, communications systems, analysis and forecasting systems, dissemination systems to special services needed to serve the surface transportation industry (including transportation management centers and traffic flow control) (Parallel with Session 6)

Host: 16th International Conference on Interactive Information and Processing Systems (IIPS) for Meteorology, Oceanography, and Hydrology

Organizers: Horst Boettger, ECMWF; John Lincoln, Consultant

2:15 PM

7.1

Overview

Horst Bottger, ECMWF, Reading, Berks., United Kingdom

2:30 PM

7.2

Horace - The expanding role of wake-up calls

Alan M. Radford, UK Met Office, Bracknell, Berks., United Kingdom

2:45 PM

7.3

Operational Forecasting Use of Objective Analysis Techniques

Philip H. Dominy, UK Met Office, Bracknell, Berks., United Kingdom

3:00 PM

7.4

Tasks supervision at ECMWF

Baudouin Raoult, ECMWF, Reading, Berks., United Kingdom

3:15 PM

7.5

Web based interface to the ECMWF archive

Baudouin Raoult, ECMWF, Reading, Berks., United Kingdom

3:30 PM

7.6

Meteosat image and Grid data analysis system

Janusz M. Jasinski, Military Univ. of Technology, Warsaw, Poland; and K. Kroszczynski and I. A. Winnicki

3:45 PM

7.7

Finite element method in Hermitian spaces in the analysis of irregular atmospheric processes

Ireneusz A. Winnicki, Military Univ. of Technology, Warsaw, Poland; and J. M. Jasinski

4:00 PM

7.8

Use of NT Based Systems By the UK Met Office and Its Customers

W. H. Moores, UK Met Office, Bracknell, Berks., United Kingdom; and P. Hayes

4:15 PM

7.9

Forecasts of strong wind and in-cloud icing for the Danish Great Belt bridge

Anna Hilden, Danish Meteorological Inst., Copenhagen, Denmark

4:30 PM

7.10

The EuroROSE Project

Heinz Gunther, GKSS Research Centre, Geesthacht, Germany; and K. Reichert, K. W. Gurgel, G. Evensen, L. Wyatt, J. Guddal, and J. C. Nieto-Borge

4:45 PM

7.5A

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

5:15 PM

7.10A

Session 7 ends

Session 7

Weather and Climate Extremes

Host: 11th Symposium on Global Change Studies

Organizer: Thomas R. Karl, NOAA/NCDC

2:15 PM

7.1

Climate Extremes: Introductory Remarks

Thomas R. Karl, NOAA/NCDC, Asheville, NC

2:30 PM

7.2

Observed Variability and Trends in Climate Extremes

David R. Easterling, NOAA/NCDC, Asheville, NC

3:00 PM

7.3

Extreme Weather and Climate Events in Projections of Future Climate Change

Gerald A. Meehl, NCAR, Boulder, CO

3:30 PM

7.4

Trends in Impacts of Weather and Climate Extremes

Roger A. Pielke Jr., NCAR, Boulder, CO

4:00 PM

7.5

Observations of Biotic Response in Wild Species to Current Climate Change

Camille Parmesan, University of Texas, Austin, TX

4:30 PM

7.6

Government Policies Pretaining to Weather and Climate Extremes

Stanley A. Changnon, ISWS, Champaign, IL

5:00 PM

7.3a

Coffee Break

Session 4

Stratospheric heterogeneous chemistry and stratosphere-troposphere exchange

Host: Symposium on Atmospheric Chemistry Issues in the 21st Century

Organizers: Kenneth Pickering, Univ. of Maryland; Jennie Moody, Univ. of Virginia

2:30 PM

4.1

A three-dimensional model for combined tropospheric and stratospheric sulfur cycle studies

Jane Dignon, LLNL, Livermore, CA; and C. S. Atherton, D. Bergmann, P. Connell, C. Chuang, D. Rotman, and J. Tannahill

2:45 PM

4.2

The importance of key processes on tropospheric chemistry: 3D global modeling results

Cynthia S. Atherton, LLNL, Livermore, CA; and D. Bergmann, P. S. Connell, J. Dignon, A. Franz, D. Rotman, J. Tannahill, and E. Browell

4.3

Linking Meteorological Processes using the TRMM data to biomass burning and tropospheric ozone in Central Africa

3:15 PM

4.4

Correlation between downward transport of ozone and Surface Ozone Over the Eastern U.S. During the Summer of 1991

Jerome D. Fast, PNNL, Richland, WA; and X. Bian and E. G. Chapman

3:30 PM

4.5

Trace gas signatures of the transport sectors within a typical North Atlantic cyclone - Results from the NARE-97 aircraft intensive

Owen R. Cooper, Univ. of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA; and J. L. Moody, D. D. Parrish, M. Trainer, and S. J. Oltmans

3:45 PM

4.6

EFFECTS OF N-PROPYL BROMIDE AND OTHER SHORT LIVED CHEMICALS ON STRATOSPHERIC OZONE

Donald J. Wuebbles, Univ. of Illinois, Urbana, IL; and K. O. Patten and M. T. Johnson

4:00 PM

4.4A

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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

Session 6

The Mesospheric Environment, and Rare Clouds

Host: Symposium on Lidar Atmospheric Monitoring

Organizer: Allan I. Carswell, CRESTech

4:00 PM

6.1

Evidence of response to external perturbations in nine years of lidar observed nightly mean temperatures in a midlatitude mesopause region

Chiao-Yao She, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO; and D. A. Krueger

4:30 PM

6.2

Monitoring of noctilucent clouds by lidar

Jeffrey P. Thayer, SRI International, Menlo Park, CA

Session 8A

The urban environment-meteorology, dispersion, and air quality (Parallel with Session 8B)

Host: 11th Joint Conference on the Applications of Air Pollution Meteorology with the Air and Waste Management Association

Organizer: Jerry D. Hill, Bechtel Corp.

4:00 PM

8A.1

The WMO Urban Environment Programme (Invited Presentation)

Frederic Delsol, WMO, Geneva, Switzerland

4:15 PM

8A.2

Aerodynamic parameters (z0, zd and raM) in urban areas

C. Sue B. Grimmond, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN; and T. R. Oke

4:30 PM

8A.3

Urban induced convergence zones and their effects on convective thunderstorms and air quality

Qinglu Lin, San Jose State University, San Jose, CA; and R. Bornstein

4:45 PM

8A.4

Use of ADMS-Urban to calculate high resolution air quality maps in urban areas

D. J. Carruthers, Cambridge Environmental Research Consultants, Cambridge, United Kingdom; and C. A. McHugh and S. G. Nixon

5:00 PM

8A.5

Modeling of Flow and Photochemistry in Complex Urban Environments

Rainer Stern, IVU Umwelt GmbH, Sexau, Germany; and R. Yamartino

5:15 PM

8A.6

Air Quality Modeling of PM and Air Toxics at Neighborhood Scales

Jason Ching, NOAA/ARL, Research Triangle Park, NC

5:30 PM

8A.7

The impact of data assimilation on modeling the inter-regional transport of smoke into the Sydney metropolitan area from prescribed burns

Milton S. Speer, Bureau of Meteorology, Sydney, Australia; and L. M. Leslie and R. Bunker

8A.8

An Air Emissions Inventory for Hong Kong

Session 8B

Deposition Modeling (Parallel with Session 8A)

Host: 11th Joint Conference on the Applications of Air Pollution Meteorology with the Air and Waste Management Association

Organizer: Steven Hanna, George Mason Univ.

4:00 PM

8B.1

An Experimental Study of The Emissions and Dry Deposition of Ammonia Over Natural Surfaces In Eastern North Carolina

S. Pal Arya, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC; and V. P. Aneja, B. T. Peterson, N. Agrawal, and D. Nelson

4:15 PM

8B.2

Modeling the Atmospheric Contribution of Nitrogen Compounds in Urban Stormwater Runoff

Steven J. Burian, LANL, Los Alamos, NM; and G. E. Streit, T. N. McPherson, M. J. Brown, and H. J. Turin

4:30 PM

8B.3

Modeling atmospheric deposition from a Cesium release in Spain using a stochastic transport model

Robert L. Buckley, Savannah River Technology Center, Aiken, SC

4:45 PM

8B.4

Computating Surface Concentration Fluxes of Trace Gases Using a Variational Method

Jianmin Ma, AES, Downsview, ON, Canada; and S. M. Daggupaty

5:00 PM

8B.5

Evaluation and comparison of dry deposition velocity calculations using two different methods of handling sub-grid land cover variation

Xiaohong Xu, University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT; and D. R. Miller

5:15 PM

8B.6

Numerical Simulation of Lead Deposition to the Great Lakes Using Sources from Canada and United States

S. M. Daggupaty, AES, Toronto, ON, Canada; and J. Ma

5:30 PM

8B.7

Gaseous deposition described with the Industrial Source Complex model

M. L. Wesely, ANL, Argonne, IL; and J. D. Shannon, P. V. Doskey, and J. S. Touma

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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

Poster Session 1

Poster Session

Host: Third Symposium on Fire and Forest Meteorology

P1.1

Micrometeorological changes to the boreal forest following wildfires: Airborne measurements during BOREAS

B. D. Amiro, Canadian Forest Service, Edmonton, AB, Canada; and J. I. MacPherson and R. L. Desjardins

P1.2

Applications of AWIPS in Fire Weather Forecasting

Jeanne L. Hoadley, NOAA/NWS, Missoula, MT

P1.3

On-scene real time fire weather forecasting: A new capability

David I. Knapp, US Army Research Laboratory, White Sands Missile Range, NM; and P. A. Haines, M. S. D'Arcy, and S. F. Kirby

P1.4

The Mann Gulch Fire and the Canadian Forest Fire Danger Rating System

Martin E. Alexander, Canadian Forest Service, Edmonton, AB, Canada

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Poster Session 1

Global Change

Host: 11th Symposium on Global Change Studies

P1.1

Data rescue at the National Climatic Data Center

Stephen R. Doty, Doty Data Services under contract with the Midwestern Regional Climate Center, Asheville, NC; and J. D. Elms

P1.2

Cloud Type Radiative Effects from the International Satellite Cloud Climatology Project

Ting Chen, Columbia University, New York, NY; and W. B. Rossow and Y. Zhang

P1.3

Investigation of the sensitivity of global oceans to continental runoff using the PCM parallel climate model

Marcia L. Branstetter, University of Texas, Austin, TX; and J. S. Famiglietti, A. P. Craig, and W. M. Washington

P1.4

Micrometeorological conditions at the Forest-Atmosphere Carbon Transfer and Storage (FACTS-II) Aspen FACE facility in northern Wisconsin

Warren E. Heilman, USDA Forest Service, East Lansing, MI; and R. M. Teclaw and J. E. Eenigenburg

P1.5

On the impacts of weather and climate variability and change in agricultural production and prices: cold surges and their impact on the coffee growing industry in Southern and southeastern Brazil

Jose A. Marengo, CPTEC/INPE, Cachoeira Paulista, SP, Brazil

P1.6

Carbon budget at tropical forest in the Amazon region

Gilberto Fisch, Centro Tecnico Aeroespacial, Sao Jose dos Campos, SP, Brazil; and R. Ferreira da Costa, A. R. Pereira, A. D. Culf, Y. Malhi, C. A. Nobre, and A. D. Nobre

P1.7

Multiple AGCM Hindcasts of 1969-1998

Kathryn P. Shah, Columbia Univ., New York, NY; and D. Rind

P1.8

The seasonal and interannual variability of Atlantic Basin hurricane activity

Grant Johnston, Univ. of Missouri, Columbia, MO; and A. R. Lupo

P1.9

A Study of the Effect of La Niña on the Weather of U.S. Cities

Susan F. Wood, U.S. Naval Academy, Annapolis, MD; and D. R. Smith and A. M. Siegrist

P1.10

A Study of the Effect of El Niño on the Weather of U.S. Cities

Susan F. Wood, U.S. Naval Academy, Annapolis, MD; and D. R. Smith and M. J. Ledridge

P1.11

Development of latitudinal land and sea temperature indices for climate monitoring

Jay H. Lawrimore, NOAA/NCDC, Asheville, NC; and A. Basist and R. G. Quayle

P1.12

Development of a new U.S. Climate Atlas

Marc S. Plantico, NOAA/NCDC, Asheville, NC; and L. A. Goss, C. Daly, and G. Taylor

P1.13

International Station Meteorological Summary (ISMCS) Windows, Version 1.0

M. Lawrence Nicodemus, NOAA/NCDC, Asheville, NC; and O. Brass

P1.14

Standard climatic Normals and supplemental Normals development

Greg Hammer, NOAA/NCDC, Asheville, NC; and R. Cram

P1.15

The impact of climate change on Peak Electicity Demand In the Great Lakes Region

George M. Albercook, Center for Environmental Policy, Economics and Science, Ann Arbor, MI; and A. Khotanzad

P1.16

Seasonal changes and yearly budgets of CH4 and CO2 fluxes at lotus field in Japan (Formerly Paper 9.14)

Yoshinobu Harazono, National Institute of Agro-Environmental Sciences, Tsukuba, Ibaraki, Japan; and A. Miyata, N. Ota, K. Takagi, and M. Komine

P1.17

Detection and correction of temperature inhomogeneities in the radiosonde data

Robert E. Eskridge, NOAA/NCDC, Asheville, NC; and J. Luers, A. Holbrooks, and D. Parker

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Poster Session 1

Data, Modeling and Analysis in Hydrometeorology

Host: 15th Conference on Hydrology

Organizer: James Smith, Princeton Univ.

P1.1

Interannual and Interdecadic Climatic Variability in Rio Iguazu basin

Eleonora M. C. Demaria, Universidad Nacional del Litoral, Santa Fe, Argentina; and N. O. García

P1.2

Evaluation of Advantages of the Continuous SAC-SMA Model over an Event API Model

Michael B. Smith, NOAA/NWS, Silver Spring, MD; and V. I. Koren, E. Welles, D. Wang, and Z. Zhang

P1.3

Improved river forecasting techniques: a one-dimensional unsteady flow model for the Red River of the North

Steven D. Buan, NOAA/NWS, Chanhassen, MN; and W. Pearson and J. C. Husaby

P1.4

About the relations between ENSO and rainfalls in the Southeast of South America

Norberto O. García, Universidad Nacional del Litoral, Santa Fe, Argentina; and M. A. Ghietto and M. L. Silber

P1.5

Anthropic Impacts over Hydrology of the "Río de la Plata" Basin

Norberto O. García, Universidad Nacional del Litoral, Santa Fe, Argentina

P1.6

About the Impacts of the ENSO over the Unconfined Aquifer in the "Pampa Humeda"(Argentina)

María del Valle Venencio, Universidad Nacional del Litoral, Santa Fe, Argentina; and N. O. García

P1.7

Pearson Type III Data Models for Precipitation Data: New Maximum Likelihood Approach

Richard L. Lehman, NOAA/NWS/NCEP, Silver Spring, MD

P1.8

Criteria to select basins for hydrologic model development and testing

John C. Schaake, NOAA/NWS, Silver Spring, MD; and Q. Duan, M. B. Smith, and V. I. Koren

P1.9

Comparison of WSR-88D derived rainfall estimates with gauge data in Lexington county, South Carolina

P1.10

Scale-invariance in space-time rainfall: Extension to climate scales

V. Venugopal, COLA, Calverton, MD; and P. A. Dirmeyer

P1.11

Artificial neural network hydrologic model for urban watersheds

Cláudia Cristina Santos, INPE, São José dos Campos, São Paulo, Brazil; and A. J. Pereira Filho

P1.12

Evapotranspiration rates at the Morgan Monroe State Forest AmeriFlux Site: A comparison of results from eddy covariance turbulent flux measurements and sap flow techniques

C. S. B. Grimmond, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN; and P. J. Hanson, H. P. Schmid, S. D. Wullschleger, and F. Cropley

P1.13

Analysis of the October 1998 Flood event along the Lower Guadalupe River

Andrew R. Patrick, NOAA/NWS, Corpus Christi, TX; and J. Arellano Jr., T. Huber, and J. Metz

P1.14

Comparing various methods for the regionalization of model parameters in the Sacramento Soil Moisture Accounting Model and Snow Accumulation and Ablation Model

Andrea Holz, NOAA/NWS, Chanhassen, MN; and B. Connelly, D. T. Braatz, T. S. Hogue, and D. P. Boyle

P1.15

Study of the Continuous Parametric Fields Theory applyed to variables without agregation

Daniel A. Rodriguez, Universidad Nacional del Litoral, Santa Fe, Argentina; and M. L. Silber

P1.16

Signals of tropical processes as seen in Southern California precipitation

P1.17

QPF verification at the model grid versus at the stations

Ligia R. Bernardet, NOAA/FSL, Boulder, CO

P1.18

Studies with the Biosphere-Atmosphere Transfer Scheme 10-layer soil model

Jean C. Morrill, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ; and R. E. Dickinson

P1.19

The CAPE climatology for continental United States: Sensitivity to perturbations in temperature and dewpoint

U. S. Nair, Univ. of Alabama, Huntsville, AL; and R. M. Welch and D. Berendes

P1.20

Evolution of warm-season heavy rain systems over the Great Plains during late-morning hours

Carl E. Hane, NOAA/NSSL, Norman, OK; and D. L. Andra, S. M. Hunter, R. M. Rabin, F. H. Carr, and J. C. Derby

P1.21

A new gas - exchange/assimilation surface evapotranspiration model (GEM) for mesoscale applications

Devdutta S. Niyogi, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC; and S. Raman and K. Alapaty

P1.22

Recent GCIP-sponsored advancements in coupled land-surface modeling and data assimilation in the NCEP Eta mesoscale model

Kenneth E. Mitchell, NOAA/NWS/NCEP, Camp Springs, MD; and Y. Lin, E. Rogers, C. Marshall, M. Ek, D. Lohmann, J. C. Schaake, D. Tarpley, P. Grunmann, G. Manikin, Q. Duan, and V. I. Koren

P1.23

The Use of Indirect Estimates of Soil Moisture to Initialize Coupled Models and its Impact on Land Surface/Atmosphere Interactions

William M. Lapenta, NASA/MSFC, Huntsville, AL; and W. L. Crosson and S. Dembek

P1.24

The Influence of Watershed-scale Dynamic Soil Moisture on Local PBL Evolution and Structure: Modeled versus Observed

Christa D. Peters-Lidard, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA; and J. N. McHenry

P1.25

Diagnosing Water Recycling/Water Exchange over Florida Peninsula with Coupled Mesoscale-SVATS Model

Harry J. Cooper, Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL; and E. A. Smith

P1.26

Improvements in Wintertime GOES SRB Retrievals for Hydrometeorological Modeling of Large Scale BOREAS Domain

Jiujing Gu, Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL; and E. A. Smith

P1.27

Does a climate model reproduce consistent ENSO precipitation signals in southern South America?

Alice M. Grimm, Federal University of Parana, Curitiba, Brazil and International Research Institute for Climate Prediction, Palisades, NY; and C. F. Ropelewski and S. Mason

P1.28

The response of streamflow to climate change over the conterminous U.S.: preliminary analyses using VEMAP Phase 2 model experiments

P1.29

An estimation method for regional sensible heat flux on vegetation using satellite infrared temperature

Dai Matsushima, Tohoku University, Sendai, Japan; and J. Kondo

P1.30

The Evaluation of Quantitative Precipitation Forecasts at WFO Reno, NV

Steven D. Goldstein, NOAA/NWS, Reno, NV

Poster Session 1

Poster Session

Host: Symposium on Lidar Atmospheric Monitoring

Organizer: Kenneth Sassen, University of Utah

P1.1

The Contribution of Ground-based Water Vapor Differential Absorption Lidar to Climate Research

Volker G. Wulfmeyer, NCAR and NOAA/ETL, Boulder, CO

P1.2

On the relationship between relative humidity and particle backscattering coefficient in the marine boundary Layer

Graham Feingold, NOAA/CIRA/ETL, Boulder, Colorado; and V. Wulfmeyer

P1.3

Ground-Based Multiple Remote Sensor Studies of Clouds at the Cloud and Radiation Testbed

Zhien Wang, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT; and K. Sassen

P1.4

A radiative climatology of midlatitude cirrus clouds: results from the analysis of 7 years of lidar and IR radiometer observations using the LIRAD method

Jennifer M. Barnett, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT; and K. Sassen

P1.5

Micro pulse lidar (MPL) application for tropospheric aerosol and cloud

I. H. Hwang, Science & Engineering Services, Inc., Burtonsville, MD; and M. K. Nam and H. S. Lee

P1.6

Hurricane water vapor, aerosol, and cloud distributions determined from airborne lidar measurements

Edward V. Browell, NASA/LARC, Hampton, VA; and S. Ismail and R. A. Ferrare

P1.7

Directional visibility measurements with the Vaisala Ceilometer

Antti K. Piironen, Vaisala Oyj, Helsinki, Finland; and J. Rasanen and J. Lonnqvist

P1.8

Automated aerosol retrieval algorithms for ARM Micro Pulse Lidars

James R. Campbell, SSAI, Lanham, MD; and D. L. Hlavka, J. D. Spinhirne, R. Ferrare, and D. D. Turner

P1.9

Cloud and Aerosol Retrieval for the 2001 GLAS Satellite Lidar Misson

William D. Hart, SSAI, Lanham, MD; and S. P. Palm and J. D. Spinhirne

1

Oral sessions end for the day

Session 1

Forecast, warning, and preparedness issues related to VORTEX

Host: Symposium on VORTEX: What We Have Learned-Where We Must Go

Organizer: Erik Rasmussen, NOAA/NSSL

8:00 AM

1.1

A retrospective look at VORTEX: Implications about forecasting

Charles A. Doswell III, NOAA/NSSL, Norman, OK

8:30 AM

1.2

Impacts of VORTEX on operational severe storm forecasting

Richard L. Thompson, NOAA/SPC, Norman, OK

9:00 AM

1.3

VORTEX and the public: Does what we do matter?

Harold E. Brooks, NOAA/NSSL, Norman, OK

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

Session 6

Weather Data and Forecasts for Fire Behavior Applications

Host: Third Symposium on Fire and Forest Meteorology

Organizer: Chris Gibson, NOAA/NWS

8:00 AM

6.1

Development of a seasonal fire severity forecast for the contiguous United States

John O. Roads, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, La Jolla, CA; and S. C. Chen, F. M. Fujioka, and R. E. Burgan

8:15 AM

6.2

Producing 1-km resolution atmospheric forecasts for a prototype gridded National Fire Danger Rating System

Timothy W. Barker, NOAA/NWS, Missoula, MT

8:30 AM

6.3

Verification and Assessment of Automated NFDRS Forecasts Based on Gridded Weather Forecasts and Satellite Derived Fuel Parameters

Larry S. Bradshaw, U.S. Forest Service, Missoula, MT; and T. W. Barker and R. E. Burgan

8:45 AM

6.4

A high resolution fire danger rating system for Hawaii

Francis M. Fujioka, USDA Forest Service, Riverside, CA; and D. R. Weise and R. E. Burgan

9:00 AM

6.5

The Northeast fire danger index system

Lawrence Bach, NOAA/NWS, Albany, NY; and A. Cacciola

9:15 AM

6.6

An Index for Assessing the Potential Escape of a Prescribed Burn

Timothy J. Brown, DRI, Reno, NV; and C. Fontana

9:30 AM

6.7

FireFamily Plus: Fire Weather and Fire Danger Climatology at your Fingertips

Larry S. Bradshaw, USDA Forest Service, Rocky Mountain Research Stations, Missoula, MT; and S. Brittain

9:45 AM

6.8

Model predicted spread rates for the Sydney January 1994 fires

Milton S. Speer, Bureau of Meteorology, Sydney, NSW, Australia; and L. M. Leslie, W. Catchpole, R. Bradstock, and R. Bunker

10:00 AM

6.0a

Session Introduction: Chris Gibson, NOAA/NWS, Salt Lake City, UT

10:15 AM

6.7a

Coffee Break

10:45 AM

6.8a

Discussion

Session 8

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

Host: 16th International Conference on Interactive Information and Processing Systems (IIPS) for Meteorology, Oceanography, and Hydrology

Organizer: Elbert W. (Joe) Friday Jr., National Research Council

8:00 AM

8.1

Overview

Elbert W. (Joe) Friday Jr., National Research Council, Washington, DC

8:15 AM

8.2

Invited Presentation

John J. (Jack) Kelly, NOAA/NWS, Silver Spring, MD

8:45 AM

8.3

Invited Presentation

Fred P. Lewis, USAF, Pentagon, Washington, DC

9:15 AM

8.4

Invited Presentation

Kenneth E. Barbor, Naval Meteorology and Oceanography Command, Stennis Space Center, MS

9:45 AM

8.5

The World Area Forecast System: A Personal and Historic Prospective

Charles H. Sprinkle, NOAA/NWS, Silver Spring, MD

10:00 AM

8.6

Application Programs that Relate to WWW

Robert Landis, WMO, Geneva, Switzerland

10:15 AM

8.7

An interactive information and processing system to assist the military with command and control decision making

David P. Sauter, Army Research Lab., White Sands Missile Range, NM

10:30 AM

8.8

FAA aviation weather research program in support of National Aviation Weather Initiatives

Steven R. Albersheim, DOT, Washington, DC

10:45 AM

8.9

AWIPS Validation Efforts at COMET

Craig S. Hartsough, UCAR, Boulder, CO; and L. Neilley, S. Jesuroga, and G. Byrd

11:00 AM

8.10

Generating automated monthly, seasonal and annual climatological summaries in the AWIPS era

Jason P. Tuell, Litton/PRC, McLean, VA; and D. T. Miller, D. E. Murphy, B. E. Reed, and D. J. Zipper

11:15 AM

8.11

Development of a Data Architecture for the NWS Hydrologic Services Program

Geoffrey M. Bonnin, NOAA/NWS, Silver Spring, MD; and D. Urban

11:30 AM

8.12

National Weather Service Requirements Process

Richard A. Lane, NOAA/NWS, Silver Spring, MD; and L. D. Johnson

11:45 AM

8.5A

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

12:15 PM

8.12A

Session 8 ends

Joint Session 1

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

Hosts: (Joint between the 15th Conference on Hydrology; and the 11th Symposium on Global Change Studies )

Organizer: Yongkang Xue, University of Maryland

8:00 AM

J1.1

Soil Dust Modeling-Feedbacks of Dust and Climate

Ina Tegen, Columbia Univ. and NASA/GISS, New York, NY; and R. Miller and J. Perlwitz

8:15 AM

J1.2

Incorporating vegetation as a dynamic element in the Hadley Centre GCM

Peter M. Cox, UK Met Office, Bracknell, Berks., United Kingdom

8:45 AM

J1.3

The roles of subgrid topography on land-atmosphere interactions

L. Ruby Leung, PNNL, Richland, WA; and M. S. Wigmosta

9:00 AM

J1.4

Investigating the Effect of Seasonal Crop Growth on the Climate of NCAR Regional Climate Model

Elena Tsvetsinskaya, NCAR, Boulder, CO; and L. O. Mearns and W. E. Easterling

J1.5

The importance of land surface processes for predicting climate change in the Asian monsoon area

9:15 AM

J1.6

A mechanism for the low-frequency variability of the Sahel rainfall

Guiling Wang, MIT, Cambridge, MA; and E. A. B. Eltahir

9:30 AM

J1.7

Role of natural vegetation dynamics in the Sahel drought

Guiling Wang, MIT, Cambridge, MA; and E. A. B. Eltahir

9:45 AM

J1.8

Modelling the impact of land surface degradation on the climate of tropical North Africa

Douglas B. Clark, Institute of Hydrology, Wallingford, United Kingdom; and Y. Xue

10:00 AM

J1.9

The effect of land surface processes on the 1991 Flood Over Yangtze-Huai River Valley as Simulated From Sunya Regional Climate Model

Wei Gong, SUNY, Albany, NY; and W. C. Wang and Y. Xue

10:15 AM

J1.10

Preliminary Results of the AMIP II Diagnostic Subproject 12: Implications for Modeling Coupled Atmosphere/Land Interactions

Thomas J. Phillips, LLNL, Livermore, CA

10:45 AM

J1.11

Climate Sensitivity to Land Surface Processes: An Evaluation of Three Land Surface Schemes Coupled to a Single GCM

Andrea N. Hahmann, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ

11:15 AM

J1.12

Land-atmosphere Interactions: Successes, Problems and Prospects

Y. C. Sud, NASA/GSFC, Greenbelt, MD; and D. M. Mocko

11:45 AM

J1.13

Simulations with the coupled Eta/SSiB Model over South America

Sin Chan Chou, INPE/CPTEC, Cachoeira Paulista, SP, Brazil; and C. A. S. Tanajura, Y. K. Xue, and C. A. Nobre

12:00 PM

J1.14

Simulation of land-ocean influences on the Indian monsoon in simulations of present-day climate and at doubled carbon dioxide concentrations

Lydia Dumenil Gates, Max-Planck-Institute for Meteorology, Hamburg, Germany

12:15 PM

J1.15

Impacts of deforestation and afforestation in the Mediterranean region as simulated by the MPI model

Lydia Dumenil Gates, Max-Planck-Institute for Meteorology, Hamburg, Germany; and S. Liess

12:30 PM

J1.16

Diurnal cycle the coupled Eta/SSiB Model for El Nino and La Nina conditions over South America

Clemente A. S. Tanajura, Laboratorio Nacional de Computacao Cientifica, Petropolis, RJ, Brazil; and S. C. Chou, Y. K. Xue, and C. A. Nobre

12:45 PM

J1.17

Climate drift in the coupled land-atmosphere system

Paul A. Dirmeyer, COLA, Calverton, MD

1:00 PM

J1.18

Timescales of soil moisture anomalies: results from two GCMs

Randal D. Koster, NASA/GSFC, Greenbelt, MD; and P. C. D. Milly, C. A. Schlosser, and M. J. Suarez

1:30 PM

J1.19

Impacts of Surface Processes over Land and Ocean on Summer Precipitation and Subtropical High

Guoxiong Wu, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China; and Y. Liu, H. Liu, P. Liu, and W. Li

1:45 PM

J1.20

Vegetation-climate interaction and Sahel climate variability

Ning Zeng, Univ. of California, Los Angeles, CA; and J. D. Neelin and W. K. M. Lau

2:00 PM

J1.21

Sensitivity of GCM simulations to land surface processes

Yongkang Xue, University of Maryland, College Park, MD; and H. H. Juang, S. Y. Hong, M. Kanamitsu, and Y. Sud

2:15 PM

J1.5A

GLOBAL CLIMATE EFFECTS OF HEATING ANOMALIES RESULTING FROM TROPICAL LANDCOVER CHANGE

Thomas N. Chase, CIRES/Univ. of Colorado, Boulder, CO; and R. A. Pielke Sr., M. Zhao, A. J. Pitman, T. G. F. Kittel, R. R. Nemani, and S. W. Running

2:30 PM

J1.7a

Coffee Break

3:00 PM

J1.11a

Lunch Break

4:30 PM

J1.16a

Coffee Break

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

Session 8

Advancing Our Understanding of Seasonal to Interannual Climate Variability: Part 1 (Parallel with Joint Session J1)

Host: 11th Symposium on Global Change Studies

Organizer: Henry F. Diaz, NOAA/ERL

8:15 AM

8.1

The World Climate Programme

Michael J. Coughlan, WMO, Geneva, Switzerland

8:30 AM

8.2

Astronomical Effects on the Winter Climate of the Midwest

John C. Freeman, Weather Research Center, Houston, TX; and J. F. Hasling

8:45 AM

8.3

The Little Summer Drought (Veranico) During the Rainy Season in the Amazon Basin. General Characteristics and Variability

Jose A. Marengo, CPTEC/INPE, Cachoiera Paulista, SP, Brazil; and D. Mendes and L. Calvetti

9:00 AM

8.4

Interdecadal and long-term variability of precipitation in the Brazilian Amazon basin

Jose A. Marengo, CPTEC/INPE, Cachoeira Paulista, SP, Brazil; and G. Sampaio, H. Camargo, C. Castro, and M. Sanches

9:15 AM

8.5

Impact of the phenomenon El-Niño on the regime of precipitation in the area of the medium amazon

David Mendes, CPTEC/INPE, Cachoeira Paulista, SP, Brazil; and J. Cohen

9:30 AM

8.6

Atmospheric characteristics of the Sahel summer rains and links to global SSTs

Wassila M. Thiaw, NOAA/NWS/NCEP, Camp Springs, MD; and G. D. Bell

9:45 AM

8.7

Variability of All India Monsoon Rainfall

R. Suseela Reddy, Jackson State University, Jackson, MS

10:00 AM

8.8

Pacific-East Asian teleconnections: how does ENSO affect East Asian climate?

Bin Wang, University of Hawaii, Honolulu, HI; and R. Wu and X. Fu

10:15 AM

8.9

The climatology and interannual variability of the North American Monsoon as revealed by the NCEP-NCAR Reanalysis

Christopher L. Castro, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO; and T. B. McKee and R. A. Pielke Sr.

10:30 AM

8.10

Dominant factors influencing the seasonal predictability of United States precipitation and surface air temperature

Wayne Higgins, NOAA/NWS/NCEP, Camp Springs, MD; and A. Leetmaa, Y. Xue, and A. Barnston

10:45 AM

8.11

Interannual Variations of Summer Precipitation and Temperature in the Central United States

Qi Hu, Univ. of Nebraska, Lincoln, NE; and J. W. Lee and C. J. Hays

11:00 AM

8.12

The current decade-scale precipitation fluctuation in the Southern Great Plains

Jurgen D. Garbrecht, USDA/ARS, El Reno, Oklahoma; and F. E. Rossel

11:15 AM

8.13

Impact of the Atlantic SST Anomalies on Russian Winter Snow Accumulation

Hengchun Ye, University of Idaho, Moscow, ID

11:30 AM

8.7a

Coffee Break

12:00 PM

8.13a

Lunch Break

Session 6

Economic & Societal Impacts of Wx

Host: Second Symposium on Environmental Applications

Organizer: R. Nick Keener, Duke Energy Corp.

8:15 AM

6.1

Prediction in Atmospheric Sciences

Roger A. Pielke Jr., NCAR, Boulder, CO

9:00 AM

6.2

A twentieth century history of flooding in the U.S. and what the future might hold

Frank Richards, NOAA/NWS, Silver Spring, MD

9:30 AM

6.3

Convective storms and their impact

Joseph T. Schaefer, NOAA/NWS/Storms Prediction Center, Norman, OK; and H. E. Brooks

10:00 AM

6.4

Using long range seasonal forecasts to improve prediction of Oklahoma wheat yield

Rebecca House, Univ. of Oklahoma, Norman, OK; and S. Greene, E. Cook, and E. Maxwell

10:30 AM

6.5

Impacts of Weather on Emergency Management Agencies

Armond T. Mascelli, American Red Cross National Headquarters, Falls Church, VA

11:00 AM

6.6

Seasonal climate forecasts and their value to society

David Changnon, Northern Illinois Univ., DeKalb, IL; and S. A. Changnon Jr.

11:15 AM

6.7

Assessing the Hail Risk to Crops and Property in the United States

Stanley A. Changnon Jr., Changnon Climatologist, Mahomet, IL

11:30 AM

6.8

Financial and operational implications of weather forecasts at an airline

Warren L. Qualley, American Airlines, Inc., Ft. Worth, TX

6.9

Impact of Weather on the Retail and Manufacturing Sectors

12:00 PM

6.10

New technologies for demonstrating environmental science impacts to society

Phillip A. Zuzolo, Autometric Incorporated, Springfield, VA; and A. M. Powell Jr.

12:15 PM

6.11

Early detection and warning of cloud-to-ground lightning at a point of interest

Martin J. Murphy, Global Atmospherics, Inc., Tucson, AZ; and K. L. Cummins

12:30 PM

6.12

Panel Discussion-The Widening Role of Private Sector Weather Services in Supporting the Needs of Industry and Society

William S. Weaving, Strategic Weather Services, Inc., Wayne, PA; and J. Myers, A. Eustis, P. Leavitt, and T. Anderson

2:00 PM

6.3A

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

2:30 PM

6.7A

Lunch Break

4:00 PM

6.11A

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

Session 9

Advanced modeling techniques for dispersion on all scales

Host: 11th Joint Conference on the Applications of Air Pollution Meteorology with the Air and Waste Management Association

Organizer: S. Pal Arya, North Carolina State Univ.

8:30 AM

9.1

Advances in short range dispersion modeling (Invited Presentation)

Akula Venkatram, Univ. of California, Riverside, CA

9:00 AM

9.2

Results of an Extensive Evaluation of the Kinematic Simulation Particle Model Using Tracer and Wind Tunnel Experiments

Robert J. Yamartino, Earth Tech, Inc., Concord, MA; and D. Strimaitis and A. Graff

9:15 AM

9.3

Application of Lagrangian particle technique to modeling atmospheric transport in different scales: from LES to RAMS to GCM

Marek Uliasz, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO

9:30 AM

9.4

Building and terrain effects in a mesoscale model

Ted Yamada, Yamada Science & Art Corporation, Santa Fe, NM

9:45 AM

9.5

Using receptor-oriented modelling techniques to determine agricultural emissions of greenhouse gases

Neil R. Gimson, National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research, Wellington, New Zealand; and M. Uliasz, G. Brailsford, T. Bromley, K. Lassey, and D. Wratt

Session 7

Stratospheric Properties and Polar Clouds

Host: Symposium on Lidar Atmospheric Monitoring

Organizer: Jeffery P. Thayer, SRI International

8:30 AM

7.1

Lidar Studies of Stratospheric Clouds in the Antarctic and the Arctic

Leopoldo Stefanutti, IROE, Firenze, Italy; and V. Santacesaria

9:00 AM

7.2

Stratospheric Changes Observed With Lidar

Philippe Keckhut, Service d'Aeronomie du CNRS, Verrieres-le-Buisson, France; and G. Megie, A. Hauchecorne, S. Godin, and C. David

9:30 AM

7.3

Lidar Studies of the Arctic Stratosphere (Invited Presentation)

A. I. Carswell, Center for Research in Earth and Space Technology and York Univ., Toronto, ON, Canada; and J. C. Bird, S. R. Pal, R. Berman, and T. Duck

10:00 AM

7.4

Lidar Measurements of Ozone and Temperature During the December 1998 Arctic Stratosphere Warming

John C. Bird, Center for Research in Earth and Space Technology, Toronto, ON, Canada; and R. Berman, S. R. Pal, A. I. Carswell, and G. L. Manney

10:30 AM

7.3a

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

Session 3

Heavy Precipitation and Flash Flooding (Parallel with Joint Session J1)

Host: 15th Conference on Hydrology

Organizers: Richard A. Fulton, NOAA/NWS; Roderick Scofield, NOAA/NESDIS

8:30 AM

3.1

Satellite based estimates of rain in hurricane Mitch

Arnold Gruber, NOAA/NESDIS, Camp Springs, MD; and R. Ferraro, G. Vicente, M. Ba, R. A. Scofield, Q. Li, and R. Weldon

8:45 AM

3.2

Using a high-resolution mesoscale coupled model to simulate the 1996 Buffalo Creek flash-flood event

Fei Chen, NCAR, Boudler, CO; and T. T. Warner, K. Manning, and D. Yates

9:00 AM

3.3

Potential vorticity patterns and their relationship to heavy precipitation in Mesoscale Convective Systems (MCSs)

Fernando Caracena, NOAA/FSL, Boulder, CO; and A. Marroquin and E. I. Tollerud

9:15 AM

3.4

Heavy precipitation associated with landfalling tropical storms

Lance F. Bosart, University at Albany/SUNY, Albany, NY; and E. H. Atallah

9:30 AM

3.5

WSR-88D quantitative precipitation estimates along the northern California coast during the 1998 El Niño

David E. Kingsmill, DRI, Reno, NV; and A. B. White and F. M. Ralph

9:45 AM

3.6

A prototype operational 0-1 hour radar-based flash flood potential algorithm

Richard A. Fulton, NOAA/NWS, Silver Spring, MD; and D. J. Seo

10:00 AM

3.7

Flash flood monitoring and prediction in AWIPS Build 5 and beyond

Stephan B. Smith, NOAA/NWS, Silver Spring, MD; and M. T. Filiaggi, M. Churma, J. Roe, M. Glaudemans, R. Erb, and L. Xin

10:15 AM

3.8

Detecting flash floods in small urban watersheds.

Robert S. Davis, NOAA/NWS, Pittsburgh, PA

10:30 AM

3.9

Hydrologic application of global emsemble precipitation forecasts

Sanja Perica, NOAA/NWS, Silver Spring, MD; and J. C. Schaake and D. J. Seo

10:45 AM

3.10

Mapping the course of satellite precipitation estimates for flash floods into the 21st century

Roderick A. Scofield, NOAA/NESDIS, Camp Springs, MD; and G. Vicente, C. Davenport, and S. Qiu

11:00 AM

3.11

The Hydrometeorological Prediction Center -- Its future role in Quantitative Precipitation Forecasting

James E. Hoke, NOAA/NWS/NCEP, Camp Springs, MD; and D. W. Reynolds, E. J. Danaher, and K. C. McCarthy

11:15 AM

3.12

The NWS National QPF Verification Program

Brett E. McDonald, NOAA/NWS and UCAR/COMET, Camp Springs, MD; and T. M. Graziano and C. K. Kluepfel

11:30 AM

3.13

Numerical simulations and forecasting potential for extreme rainfall events in the southern United States

John W. Nielsen-Gammon, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX; and J. Strack

11:45 AM

3.14

Satellite-based Estimates of Precipitation in Hydrological Forecasts

Michael A. Fortune, NOAA/NWS, Silver Spring, MD; and S. Tokar

12:30 PM

3.10A

Lunch Break

12:00 PM

3.6a

Coffee Break

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

Session 5

Integration of measurement and modeling on urban and regional scales

Host: Symposium on Atmospheric Chemistry Issues in the 21st Century

Organizers: Mark Jacobsen, Stanford Univ.; Jeff Gaffney, Argonne National Lab.

9:00 AM

5.1

A Regional Modeling Analysis of Reduced Nitrogen Cycling in the Eastern United States

Rohit Mathur, North Carolina Supercomputing Center, Research Triangle Park, NC; and R. L. Dennis

9:15 AM

5.2

Surface ozone concentrations and deposition to a deforested site in Rondonia, Brazil

Jeffrey M. Sigler, Univ. of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA; and R. C. Heitz, J. D. Fuentes, and M. Garstang

9:30 AM

5.3

On the dry deposition of submicron particles

M. L. Wesely, ANL, Argonne, IL

9:45 AM

5.4

The NCSC-PSU Numerical Air Quality Prediction Project: Initial Evaluation, Status, and Prospects

John N. McHenry, MCNC, North Carolina Supercomputing Center, Research Triangle Park, NC; and N. Seaman, C. Coats, D. Stauffer, A. Lario-Gibbs, J. Vukovich, E. Hayes, and N. Wheeler

10:00 AM

5.5

Ozone production in the Phoenix urban plume

Lawrence I. Kleinman, Brookhaven National Lab., Upton, NY; and P. H. Daum, P. J. Klotz, Y. N. Lee, L. J. Nunnermacker, S. R. Springston, J. Weinstein-Lloyd, and L. Newman

10:15 AM

5.6

Evolution of the boundary layer and thermally-driven circulations associated with the transport and mixing of ozone in Phoenix

Jerome D. Fast, PNNL, Richland, WA; and J. C. Doran and C. M. Berkowitz

10:30 AM

5.4A

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

Session 6

Adaptive observations

Host: Fourth Symposium on Integrated Observing Systems

Organizer: Steven Lord, NOAA/NWS

6.1

Impact of GOES/GMS North Pacific Wind Data on 0 to 5-day Northern Hemisphere Weather Forecasts

9:45 AM

6.2

Influence of assimilation schemes on the impact of adaptive observations

Thierry Bergot, Meteo-France, Toulouse, France

10:00 AM

6.3

The First Three Years of Operational Targeting with the NOAA G-IV

Sim D. Aberson, NOAA/AOML/HRD, Miami, FL

10:15 AM

6.4

Sensitivity to observations and targeted observations

Alex Doerenbecher, Meteo-France, Toulouse, France; and T. Bergot and F. Bouttier

10:30 AM

6.2A

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

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

Session 2

Supercells and their environments

Host: Symposium on VORTEX: What We Have Learned-Where We Must Go

Organizer: Erik Rasmussen, NOAA/NSSL

9:30 AM

2.1

Variability of "environmental" wind profiles and the role of boundaries during VORTEX

Paul Markowski, University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK

10:00 AM

2.2

Observations of Storm/environment Interactions

Albert E. Pietrycha, Texas Tech University, Lubbock, TX

10:30 AM

2.3

The Morphology of Supercell Storms on 2 June 1995: Intriguing Observations of Cloud-to-Ground Lightning Properties and Interactions with Pre-existing Mesoscale Boundaries

Matthew S. Gilmore, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX

11:00 AM

2.1a

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

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

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

Session 9

Advanced modeling techniques for dispersion on all scales: Continued (Parallel with Session 10)

Host: 11th Joint Conference on the Applications of Air Pollution Meteorology with the Air and Waste Management Association

Organizer: John S. Nasstrom, LLNL

10:30 AM

9.6

Refinement of Horizontal Diffusion in Photochemical Grid Models

Robert Yamartino, Earth Tech, Inc., Concord, MA

10:45 AM

9.7

Application of the UAM-VPM ozone/particulate modeling system to the Lower Fraser Valley-Vancouver, British Columbia

Hans P. Deuel, ICF Consulting, San Rafael, CA; and J. L. Haney

11:00 AM

9.8

A Technique for Assimilating Surface Data to Improve the Accuracy of Atmospheric Boundary Layer Simulations: A 1-D Model Study

Kiran Alapaty, MCNC-North Carolina Supercomputing Center, Research Triangle Park, NC; and N. Seaman and D. Niyogi

11:15 AM

9.9

Synoptic Scale Vertical Effluent Redistribution: A Comparison of Two Modeling Approaches

Stephen E. Masters, ENSCO, Inc., Melbourne, FL; and M. K. Atchison

9.10

Some improvement in k theory for turbulent diffusion

11:30 AM

9.10a

Canadian Forest Fires and their influence on Pollutant Concentrations in the United States during the Summer of 1995

Gerhard Wotawa, CIRES/Univ. of Colorado and NOAA/NCAR, Boulder, CO; and M. Trainer

Session 9

AWIPS (Parallel with Sessions J1 & 8)

Host: 16th International Conference on Interactive Information and Processing Systems (IIPS) for Meteorology, Oceanography, and Hydrology

Organizer: Mary Glackin, NOAA/NESDIS

10:30 AM

9.1

Update on Commissioning the Advanced Weather Interactive Processing System (AWIPS)

Joseph Facundo, NOAA/NWS, Silver Spring, MD

10:45 AM

9.2

AWIPS Operational Test and Evaluation (OT&E) for Commissioning

Mary D. Buckingham, NOAA/NWS, Silver Spring, MD

11:00 AM

9.3

The AFOS PIL Header to AWIPS WMO Header Translation Tool (PIL-to-WMO Translator)

Joseph Facundo, NOAA/NWS, Silver Spring, MD; and H. J. Diamond and D. Fineran

11:15 AM

9.4

Product Usage Patterns at the AWIPS Build 4.2 OT&E Sites

Patrice C. Kucera, NOAA/FSL, Boulder, CO; and S. P. Longmore and W. F. Roberts

11:30 AM

9.5

Products Availability Monitoring System (PAMS) An Indispensable Test and Evaluation Tool for AWIPS

Khien Ba Nguyen, NOAA/NWS, Silver Spring, MD; and J. Facundo

11:45 AM

9.6

Application of Products Availability Monitoring System (PAMS) to AWIPS OT&E Testing

Khien Ba Nguyen, NOAA/NWS, Silver Spring, MD; and J. Facundo

12:00 PM

8.9

AWIPS Validation Efforts at COMET

Craig S. Hartsough, UCAR, Boulder, CO; and L. Neilley, S. Jesuroga, and G. Byrd

12:15 PM

9.8

Advanced Weather Interactive Processing System (AWIPS) in a National Center

JoAnna L. Green, NOAA/NCEP/AWC, Kansas City, MO

12:30 PM

9.9

The Construction of an AWIPS Software Demonstration System for the NWS Spaceflight Meteorology Group

Mark John Keehn, NOAA/NWS, Houston, TX; and M. Magsig, J. Cowie, and D. Hines

12:45 PM

9.10

AWIPS and International Use

Terry C. Tarbell, Litton/PRC, McLean, VA; and K. Ward, H. Pomeranz, and J. Shea

1:00 PM

8.10

Generating automated monthly, seasonal and annual climatological summaries in the AWIPS era

Jason P. Tuell, Litton/PRC, McLean, VA; and D. T. Miller, D. E. Murphy, B. E. Reed, and D. J. Zipper

1:15 PM

9.12

AWIPS Accelerated Deployment: A Success Story with Lessons Learned

Jack Hayes, Litton/PRC, McLean, VA; and S. Zareski, E. Moore, and D. Holloran

1:30 PM

9.13

AWIPS and the Network Control Facility: Status and a Guide to Troubleshooting

Denis Meanor, Litton/PRC, McLean, VA; and D. Deitz and E. Moore

1:45 PM

9.14

Evolving AWIPS to Meet NWS Requirements and to take Advantage of Advancing Science and Technology

Ward R. Seguin, NOAA/NWS, AWIPS Program Office, Silver Spring, MD

2:00 PM

9.15

AWIPS Moving Into Operations Phase

Richard K. Thigpen, NOAA/NWS, Silver Spring, MD

2:15 PM

9.8A

Lunch Break

3:15 PM

9.15A

Coffee Break

Session 10

Transport and dispersion in complex terrain: Part I (Parallel with Session 9)

Host: 11th Joint Conference on the Applications of Air Pollution Meteorology with the Air and Waste Management Association

Organizer: R. Ian Sykes, Titan Corporation

10:30 AM

10.1

Morning Transition of Complex-Terrain Flows

H. J. S. Fernando, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ; and E. Pardyjak, G. Wang, J. Anderson, A. Ellis, and N. S. Berman

10:45 AM

10.2

The Transport of Atmospheric Pollutants in the Complex Terrain of the Phoenix Area

Dana L. Perry, Arizona State Univ., Tempe, AZ; and J. R. Anderson, P. R. Buseck, and H. J. S. Fernando

11:00 AM

10.3

A Field Study of Cold Pool Evolution

William J. Shaw, PNNL, Richland, WA; and C. D. Whiteman, J. M. Hubbe, and X. Bian

11:15 AM

10.4

Air pollutant transport and dispersion during a cold pool episode in the Mid Columbia Basin

Shiyuan Zhong, PNNL, Richland, WA; and C. D. Whiteman, W. J. Shaw, J. M. Hubbe, and X. Bian

11:30 AM

10.5

Gravity wave stress parameterization in a mesoscale sea breeze model

Carmen J. Nappo, NOAA/ARL, Oak Ridge, TN; and W. Physick

11:45 AM

10.6

The Mixing Layer Terrain Wind Adjustment Model (MILTWAM) for Airflow over Complex Terrain

Steven A. Stage, Innovative Emergency Management, Inc., Baton Rouge, LA; and Z. Wu, N. Mainkar, J. Weltman, and M. Myirski

1

Lunch Break

1

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

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

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

Remote Sensing Lecture

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

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1

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1

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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

Session 8

Winds and Turbulance

Host: Symposium on Lidar Atmospheric Monitoring

Organizer: Janet M. Intrieri, NOAA/NESDIS/ETL

1:30 PM

8.1

Mountain effects on the atmosphere investigated by Doppler lidar measurements

Robert M. Banta, NOAA/ETL, Boulder, CO

Session 3

Recent trends in storm-scale modeling

Host: Symposium on VORTEX: What We Have Learned-Where We Must Go

Organizer: Erik Rasmussen, NOAA/NSSL

1:30 PM

3.1

Problems in supercell-simulating cloud models and suggested remedies

Jerry M. Straka, University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK

2:00 PM

3.2

Severe storm modeling after VORTEX: Opportunities and obstacles

Louis J. Wicker, NOAA/NSSL, Norman, OK

Session 11

Transport and dispersion in complex terrain: Part II (Parallel with Session 12)

Host: 11th Joint Conference on the Applications of Air Pollution Meteorology with the Air and Waste Management Association

Organizer: Robert Yamartino, Consultant

1:30 PM

11.1

Numerical Investigation of the Cause of Shallow Summertime Mixing Depths in the San Joaquin Valley

Nelson Seaman, Penn State Univ., University Park, PA; and K. Alapaty

1:45 PM

11.2

A Tracer Dispersion Model Driven by Global-Scale Analyses and Mesoscale (MM5) Model Output and Its Validation with Tracer Experiment Data

Gerhard Wotawa, Univ. fur Bodenkultur Wein, Vienna, Austria; and A. Stohl

2:00 PM

11.3

Experiences in meteorological tower and acoustic sodar installation and operation for several complex terrain sites

Leo J. Gendron, ENSR Corp., Acton, MA; and A. Carpenito, P. Taverna, N. Mahoney, and R. J. Paine

2:15 PM

11.4

Experience in modeling applications using on-site tower and sodar data

Robert J. Paine, ENSR Corp., Acton, MA; and L. J. Gendron

Session 12

Concentration fluctuations (Parallel with Session 11)

Host: 11th Joint Conference on the Applications of Air Pollution Meteorology with the Air and Waste Management Association

Organizer: John S. Irwin, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency

1:30 PM

12.1

Comparisons of a puff trajectory model with real time tracer measurements

Kirk L. Clawson, NOAA/ARL, Idaho Falls, ID; and J. F. Sagendorf and R. G. Carter

12.2

On the use of one-particle models in the calculation of two-particle statistics of turbulent diffusion

1:45 PM

12.3

Concentration fluctuation studies of plume dispersion for different release heights in the convective boundary layer

B. Chowdhury, Univ. Of Kentucky, Lexington, KY; and T. T. H. Tsang

12.4

Predicting concentration fluctuations with a Puff-Particle Model, and its evaluation using draft ASTM Practice Z6849Z

2:15 PM

12.3a

Validation of HPAC with Porbabilistic Dispersion Trials

Thomas Mazzola, Logican Advanced Technology, Alexandria, VA; and D. Srinivasa and R. I. Sykes

Session 7

Role of observing systems in weather, climate, oceans, hydrology, chemistry, etc.

Host: Fourth Symposium on Integrated Observing Systems

Organizer: John Cunning, NOAA/OAR

1:30 PM

7.1

Automatic Monthly Detection of Maximum and Minimum Temperature Errors and Inhomogeneities in the NOAA/NWS Cooperative Observer Network

Matthew J. Menne, NOAA/NESDIS/NCDC, Asheville, NC; and C. E. Duchon

1:45 PM

7.2

Integration of weather radar and lightning detection system for severe weather monitoring at SIMEPAR

Cesar A. Beneti, SIMEPAR - Parana Meteorological System, Curitiba, Parana, Brazil; and R. Fricks and F. Sato

7.3

Ground-based GPS water vapor observations near a tornadic supercell

7.4

Characterization of Roughness Lengths at the Texas Tech Wind Engineering Research Field laboratory Using Gust Factor Analysis

2:30 PM

7.5

Applications of Advanced Microwave Sounding Unit to improving the Analysis of Atmospheric Wind Field in Tropical Cyclones

Fuzhong Weng, NOAA/NESDIS/ORA, Washington, DC; and T. Zhu and D. Zhang

7.6

A multi-dataset analysis of the morphology of mesoscale convective vortices

3:00 PM

7.7

The PIONEER project as an example of operational cost analysis

Hans von Storch, Institute of Hydrophysics/GKSS Research Center, Geesthacht, Germany

3:15 PM

7.6a

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

Session 7

Use of Forecasts for Fire Planning, Execution and Suppression

Host: Third Symposium on Fire and Forest Meteorology

Organizer: Francis M. Fujioka, USDA Forest Service, Pacific Southwest Research Station

1:30 PM

7.1

The September 2, 1998 Firestorm: Saving Lives Through Effective Communication

Mark Moede, NOAA/NWS, San Diego, CA; and P. Curran

1:45 PM

7.2

The North Central Nebraska Prairie Fire of 16 March 1999

John W. Stoppkotte, NOAA/NWS, North Platte, NE

2:00 PM

7.3

Providing meteorological information for controlled burns at the Savannah River Site

Robert L. Buckley, Savannah River Technology Center, Aiken, SC; and C. H. Hunter

2:15 PM

7.4

Long-range fire assessments: procedures, products, and applications

G. Thomas Zimmerman, USDA Forest Service, Albuquerque, NM; and M. Hilbruner, P. Werth, T. Sexton, and R. Bartlette

2:30 PM

7.5

Experimental daily NCEP Eta model smoke management forecasts

Matthew G. Fearon, DRI and Univ. of Nevada, Reno, NV; and T. J. Brown

2:45 PM

7.6

Prospects Of Long-Lead Seasonal Wildland Fire Predictions For Oahu, Hawaii

Pao-Shin Chu, Univ. of Hawaii, Honolulu, HI; and W. Yan and F. M. Fujioka

3:00 PM

7.7

The relationship between area burned by wildland fire in Canada and circulation anomalies in the mid-troposphere

Walter R. Skinner, AES, Toronto, ON, Canada; and B. J. Stocks, D. L. Martell, B. Bonsal, and A. Shabbar

3:15 PM

7.8

Pacific Sea Surface Temperatures and their relation to Area Burned in Canada

Mike D. Flannigan, Canadian Forest Service, Edmonton, AB, Canada; and B. Todd, M. Wotton, W. R. Skinner, B. J. Stocks, and D. L. Martell

3:30 PM

7.0a

Session Introduction: Francis M. Fujioka, USDA Forest Service, Pacific Southwest Research Station, Riverside, CA

3:45 PM

7.5a

Coffee Break

4:15 PM

7.8a

Discussion

4:30 PM

7.8b

Symposium Closing Remarks: Dave Goens and Sue Ferguson

Session 9

Advancing Our Understanding of Seasonal to Interannual Climate Variability: Part 2 (Parallel with Joint Session J1)

Host: 11th Symposium on Global Change Studies

Organizer: Mike Crowe, NOAA/NCDC

1:30 PM

9.1

Occurrence of extreme precipitation events in California and relationships with the Madden-Julian Oscillation

Charles Jones, University of California, Santa Barbara, CA

1:45 PM

9.2

The New 20-year Global Precipitation Climatology Project (GPCP) Merged Satellite and Raingauge Monthly Analysis

Robert Adler, NASA/GSFC, Greenbelt, MD; and G. Huffman, P. P. Xie, B. Rudolf, A. Gruber, M. O. A. with GPCP, and J. Janowiak

2:00 PM

9.3

Multi-year Variability of Tropospheric Water Vapor

Rebecca J. Ross, NOAA/ARL, Silver Spring, MD; and J. X. L. Wang

2:15 PM

9.4

Upper tropospheric water vapor observations and modeling-a summary of recent progress

John J. Bates, NOAA/ERL/ETL, Boulder, CO; and Z. Bergen and D. Jackson

2:30 PM

9.5

The sensitivity of ocean responses to wind forcing in the tropical Pacific

Xiaosu Xie, California Institute of Technology, Jet Propulsion Lab., Pasadena, CA; and W. T. Liu

2:45 PM

9.6

On the detection of the 1 to 2 week subtropical jets over the South Pacific during November 1986-April 1987

Ken-Chung Ko, National Kaohsiung Normal University, Kaohsiung, Taiwan

3:00 PM

9.7

World Weather Research Program

Frederic Delsol, WMO, Geneva, Switzerland

3:15 PM

9.8

Is El Nino changing?

D. E. Harrison, PMEL, Seattle, WA; and N. K. Larkin

3:30 PM

9.9

Localized North Pacific decadal variability

Mathew A. Barlow, Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, Palisades, NY

9.10

Climate assessment of Indo-Pacific Region during 1997-98

4:00 PM

9.11

Changes in Seasonal Mean Atmospheric Internal Variability Associated with ENSO

Arun Kumar, NOAA/NWS/NCEP, Camp Springs, MD; and A. Barnston, P. Peng, M. P. Hoerling, and L. Goddard

4:15 PM

9.12

The heat sources and sinks of the 1986-87 El Nino

De-Zheng Sun, NOAA/CDC, Boulder, CO

4:30 PM

9.13

The interannual variability of blocking on a global scale

Jason M. Wiedenmann, Univ. of Missouri, Columbia, MO; and A. R. Lupo

4:45 PM

9.14

Paper moved to Poster Session P1, Paper number P1.16

5:00 PM

9.6a

Coffee Break

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

Session 9

The Promise of Future Lidar Atmospheric Studies

Host: Symposium on Lidar Atmospheric Monitoring

Organizer: Kenneth Sassen, University of Utah

2:00 PM

9.1

Recent Advances and the Future Potential of Ground-based Lidar in Climate Research

Volker G. Wulfmeyer, NCAR and NOAA/ETL, Boulder, CO

2:30 PM

9.2

Spaceborne Lidar: A Bright Future

M. Patrick McCormick, Hampton Univ., Hampton, VA

Session 5

Integration of Measurement and modeling on urban and regional scales: Continued

Host: Symposium on Atmospheric Chemistry Issues in the 21st Century

2:00 PM

5.7

Regional-scale ozone transport in the vicinity of Phoenix during a spring field campaign

Jerome D. Fast, PNNL, Richland, WA; and E. G. Chapman

2:15 PM

5.8

Testing the ability of GATORM to predict the weather and air pollution during the SARMAP field study

Mark Z. Jacobson, Stanford Univ., Stanford, CA

2:30 PM

5.9

Ozone production efficiency and removal of NOx in power plants - a comparison of results from models and measurements

Sanford Sillman, Univ. of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI

2:45 PM

5.10

Parameterizations for lightning NOx in atmospheric models

Kenneth E. Pickering, Univ. of Maryland, College Park, MD; and D. J. Allen, A. J. DeCaria, and Y. Wang

3:00 PM

5.11

Interactions between CO, OH, and CH₄: Past and Future Scenarios

Joyce E. Penner, Univ. of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI; and A. Itoh and S. Sillman

3:15 PM

5.10a

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

3:45 PM

5.11a

Concluding Remarks

Session 7

Transportation [Including meteorological aspects of the Intelligent Transportation System (ITS)] (Parallel with Session 6)

Host: Second Symposium on Environmental Applications

Organizer: Douglas Jonas, Matrix Management Corp.

2:00 PM

7.1

The DoT ITS Program

Christine Johnson, DOT, Washington, DC

2:30 PM

7.2

Delivering surface transportation weather information: Borrowing from aviation weather experience

Gary G. Nelson, Mitretek Systems, Inc., Washington, DC; and R. A. Wagoner

2:45 PM

7.3

Development of Surface Transportation Weather Decision Support Requirements

Gary G. Nelson, Mitretek Systems, Washington, DC; and S. M. Holt and P. Pisano

3:00 PM

7.4

The social and economic impact of weather information: a case study of surface transportation industries

Christopher R. Adams, CIRA/Colorado State Univ., Fort Collins, CO; and D. J. Berri

3:15 PM

7.5

Societal value of improved precipitation forecasts: A case study in surface transportation

Thomas R. Stewart, SUNY, Albany, NY; and R. Nath, R. A. Pielke Jr., and M. W. Downton

3:30 PM

7.6

Contribution to a baseline understanding of the impact of weather on airline carrier operations

Thomas A. Seliga, Volpe National Transportation Systems Center, Cambridge, MA; and J. A. Shorter

3:45 PM

7.7

Challenges and opportunities for using weather information to support transportation

Michael A. Rossetti, Volpe National Transportation Systems Center, Cambridge, MA; and Thomas A Seliga, Volpe National Transportation System Center, Cambridge, MA and Basav Sen, Volpe National Transportation System Center, Cambridge, MA

4:00 PM

7.3A

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

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 )

Poster Session 1 Oral Briefing: (Each poster presenter will have one and one-half minutes for an oral introduction)

Organizer: Jeffrey C. Weil, CIRES/Univ. of Colorado

Session 4

Tornadic/non-tornadic supercell discrimination

Host: Symposium on VORTEX: What We Have Learned-Where We Must Go

Organizer: Erik Rasmussen, NOAA/NSSL

2:30 PM

4.1

Comparison Between Tornadic and Non-Tornadic Supercells

Roger M. Wakimoto, Univ. of California, Los Angeles, CA

3:00 PM

4.2

Some possible mechanisms for tornadogenesis failure in a supercell

David O. Blanchard, NOAA/NWS, Bellemont, AZ

3:30 PM

4.1a

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

Session 4

Hydrological and Hydrometeorological Impacts due to Climate Change (Parallel with Joint Session J1)

Host: 15th Conference on Hydrology

Organizers: Robert Oglesby, Purdue Univ.; Frank Quinn, NOAA/DOC/GLERL

2:30 PM

4.1

Interannual-to-interdecadal Variability of river flows in southeastern South America: Description and predictability

Andrew W. Robertson, Univ. of California, Los Angeles, CA; and C. R. Mechoso

2:45 PM

4.2

Diagnosing the role of atmosphere-land surface interactions during wet and dry seasons across the Americas

Robert J. Oglesby, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN; and S. Marshall, J. O. Roads, and F. R. Robertson

3:00 PM

4.3

WMO Hydrology Program

Arthur Askew, WMO, Geneva, Switzerland

3:15 PM

4.4

Mesoscale modeling of climate effects on mountain glaciers

Corinne M. Carter, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY; and K. H. Cook

3:30 PM

4.5

Physical processes governing the water budget of and the discharge from the Mackenzie Basin for the 1994/95 water year

Zuohao Cao, AES, Downsview, ON, Canada; and B. A. Proctor, H. Ritchie, M. Wang, R. E. Stewart, and G. S. Strong

3:45 PM

4.6

A comparison over the FIFE region of simulations from RSM, RegCM2, and MM5/BATS

Jason Evans, Australian National Univ., Canberra, Australia; and R. J. Oglesby, W. M. Lapenta, J. O. Roads, S. Marshall, and J. Taylor

4:00 PM

4.7

A comparative study of long term hydrologic forecasts: Deterministic vs. probabilistic

Dean T. Braatz, NOAA/NWS, Chanhassen, MN; and M. M. DeWeese and E. Welles

4:15 PM

4.8

The influence of potential greenhouse warming on Great Lakes hydrology, water levels, and water management

Frank H. Quinn, NOAA/GLERL, Ann Arbor, MI; and B. M. Lofgren

4:30 PM

4.9

Precipitation, soil, and evaporation validation of the Coupled Hydrosphere-Atmosphere Model

Brent M. Lofgren, NOAA/GLERL, Ann Arbor, MI

4:45 PM

4.10

Trends in Canadian Streamflow

Xuebin Zhang, AES, Downsview, ON, Canada; and K. D. Harvey, W. D. Hogg, and R. Yuzyk

5:00 PM

4.11

Hydrological Responses to Climate and Land-Cover Changes in A Mid-Sized Watershed

Qi Hu, Univ. of Nebraska, Lincoln, NE; and G. D. Willson

5:15 PM

4.2a

Coffee Break

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

Poster Session 1

(Formal Viewing with Coffee)

Host: 11th Joint Conference on the Applications of Air Pollution Meteorology with the Air and Waste Management Association

P1.1

Analysis of the Effects of ASOS Data on Air Dispersion Modeling

Dennis G. Atkinson, NOAA/ARL, Research Triangle Park, NC; and J. O. Paumier and R. W. Brode

P1.2

Industrial Source Complex (ISC) Modeling with ASOS Data

P1.3

Concentration fluctuations and plume dispersion within 100 m of an isolated source during stable conditions

Jeremy Avise, Montana Tech, Butte, MT; and H. Peterson and B. Lamb

P1.4

Concentration fluctuations and plume dispersion in the vicinity of an isolated building

Michael F. Dunleavy, Montana Tech, Butte, MT; and H. Peterson and B. Lamb

P1.5

A statistical comparison of four planetary boundary layer analysis algorithms

P1.6

CTSCREEN Scaling Factors for the Tropics

Herman Wong, Hawaii State Department of Health, Honolulu, HI

P1.7

Evolution in the Design of a Smart Balloon for Lagrangian Air Mass Tracking

Steven Businger, University of Hawaii, Honolulu, HI; and R. Johnson

P1.8

Air Dispersion Modeling via the Internet

P1.9

Spectral Transfer of Concentration Correlation with Photochemical Reaction for Inhomogeneous Turbulence in Planetary Boundary Layer

Sukaran Ram Patel, Universidade Federal da Paraíba, Campina Grande, PB, Brazil

P1.10

An overview of the Gulf Coast Ozone Study

Jay L. Haney, ICF Consulting, San Rafael, CA; and S. G. Douglas

P1.11

Development of an objective approach to episode selection for air quality modeling

Sharon G. Douglas, ICF Consulting, San Rafael, CA; and H. P. Deuel and A. B. Hudischewskyj

P1.12

Development, testing, and application of a homology mapping technique for the estimation of ozone concentrations in unmonitored areas

Sharon G. Douglas, ICF Consulting, San Rafael, CA; and R. K. Iwamiya and H. P. Deuel

P1.13

Paper moved to Session 5, Paper 5.6

P1.14

Midwest Subregional Modeling: 1-Hour Attainment Demonstration

P1.15

A texture analysis approach of selecting an optimum grid size

P1.16

Effect of the addition of an ultrafine (4-km) grid on ozone formation predicted by UAM-V

Robert E. Imhoff, Tennessee Valley Authority, Muscle Shoals, AL; and E. M. Bailey, S. F. Mueller, and L. L. Gautney Jr.

P1.17

Potential Ozone Formation Attributable to Rural Interstate Traffic

Steven L. Jones Jr., University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA; and J. D. Fuentes, P. A. Makar, and M. J. Demetsky

P1.18

Evaluation of the operational Swiss weather forecast model for air quality applications in the Po Basin south of the Alps

P1.19

A validation of large eddy simulation for complex urban environments

David Stevens, LLNL, Livermore, CA

P1.20

AERMOD VERSUS CTDMPLUS: A CASE STUDY

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

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Poster Session 1

Poster Session P1 (With Coffee Break - Exhibit Hours 3:00-7:30 p.m.)

Host: 11th Conference on the Middle Atmosphere

Organizer: Kenneth P. Bowman, Texas A&M University

P1.1

Simple and Accurate Potential Temperature-Altitude Relationships for the Middle Atmosphere

John A. Knox, Valparaiso Univ., Valparaiso, IN

P1.2

Principal components of stratospheric circulation and trace constituents from UKMO analyses and HALOE observations

Timothy J. Dunkerton, Northwest Research Associates, Bellevue, WA

P1.3

Studies of stratospheric tropical-midlatitude transport using UARS data

Stacey K. McIlwaine, Univ. of Colorado, Boulder, CO; and L. M. Avallone

P1.4

Break up of the Arctic vortices: timing and mixing

Ping-Ping Rong, Johns Hopkins Univ., Baltimore, MD; and D. W. Waugh

P1.5

Observations and modeling of transport during the December 1998 stratospheric major warming

Gloria L. Manney, JPL, Pasadena, CA; and R. M. Bevilacqua, W. A. Lahoz, A. O'Neill, and J. M. Russell III

P1.6

TRENDS IN LOWER STRATOSPHERIC ZONAL WINDS, ROSSBY WAVE BREAKING BEHAVIOR, AND COLUMN OZONE AT NORTHERN MID-LATITUDES

L. L. Hood, Univ. of Arizona, Tucson, AZ; and S. Rossi and M. Beulen

Session 10

IPCC TAR: Long-term Climate Variability and Change: Part 3 (Parallel with Joint Session J1)

Host: 11th Symposium on Global Change Studies

Organizer: David Easterling, NOAA/NCDC

3:30 PM

10.1

Upper Air Temperature Variations and Change

John R. Christy, Univ. of Alabama, Huntsville, AL

3:45 PM

10.2

Multi-decadal Changes in the Vertical Temperature Structure of the Tropical Troposphere

Dian J. Gaffen, NOAA/ARL, Silver Spring, MD; and B. D. Santer, J. S. Boyle, J. R. Christy, N. E. Graham, and R. J. Ross

4:00 PM

10.3

Tropical atmospheric and oceanic temperature variations (1979)

John R. Christy, Univ. of Alabama, Huntsville, AL; and D. E. Parker, S. J. Brown, I. Macadam, and M. Stendel

4:15 PM

10.4

The Relationship Between Surface and the Lower Troposphere Anomalies

Alan Basist, NOAA/NCDC, Asheville, NC; and J. R. Christy

4:30 PM

10.6

Pan Evaporation Trends in Dry and Humid Regions of the U.S

Jay H. Lawrimore, NOAA/NCDC, Asheville, NC; and T. C. Peterson and P. Y. Groisman

4:45 PM

10.7

A centennial-scale climate-change anomaly over a small region

Harvey Stern, Bureau of Meteorology, Melbourne, Vic., Australia

5:00 PM

10.5a

Climate Model Projections of the 21st Century for the U.S. National Assessment

Benjamin S. Felzer, UCAR, Boulder, CO

Session 10

Modernization: Observing Systems (Parallel with Session J1)

Host: 16th International Conference on Interactive Information and Processing Systems (IIPS) for Meteorology, Oceanography, and Hydrology

Organizers: Howard Diamond, NOAA/NWS; M. Douglass Gifford, NOAA/NWS

3:30 PM

10.1

Climate data continuity with ASOS rain observations

Thomas B. McKee, Colorado State Univ., Fort Collins, CO; and N. J. Doesken, J. Kleist, and N. L. Canfield

3:45 PM

10.2

Quality control algorithms used in the Automated Surface Observing System

M. Douglas Gifford, NOAA/NWS, Silver Spring, MD; and R. N. Parry

4:00 PM

10.3

A Status Report on ASOS Ceilometer Algorithm Development

Joseph V. Fiore Jr., Raytheon ITSS, Sterling, VA

4:15 PM

10.4

Ceilometer Comparisons March 1998 - April 1999

David M. Giles, Raytheon ITSS, Sterling, VA

4:30 PM

10.5

All-Weather Precipitation Accumulation Gauge Comparisons with Standard NWS 8-inch Manual Gauge

Lynn J. Winans, Raytheon ITSS, Sterling, VA; and B. Taubvurtzel

4:45 PM

10.6

Paper transferred to Session 6, paper 6.7a

5:00 PM

10.7

The Value of Wind Standards to Society

Thomas J. Lockhart, Meteorological Standards Institute, Fox Island, WA

5:15 PM

10.7A

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Session 13

Transport and dispersion in complex terrain: Part III (Parallel with Session 14)

Host: 11th Joint Conference on the Applications of Air Pollution Meteorology with the Air and Waste Management Association

Organizer: Robert Yamartino, Consultant

4:00 PM

13.0

Session ends

4:15 PM

13.1

Operational Evaluation of an Improved Adaptive Puff Model (APM-2) Applied to the Complex Terrain around the As Pontes Power Plant in Northwestern Spain

Jose A. Souto, Centro de Supercomputacion de Galicia, Santiago de Compostela, Spain; and M. C. de Castro, F. L. Ludwig, J. J. Casares, and J. L. Bermudez

4:30 PM

13.2

Meteorological Processing for a Models-3 Application in the Lower Fraser Valley, British Columbia, Canada

Mariusz Pagowski, Rowan Williams Davies & Irwin, Inc., Guelph, ON, Canada; and M. LePage and W. Jiang

Session 14

Model Evaluation (Parallel with Session 13)

Host: 11th Joint Conference on the Applications of Air Pollution Meteorology with the Air and Waste Management Association

Organizer: John S. Irwin, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency

4:00 PM

14.1

Evaluation of CALPUFF, HPAC, and VLSTRACK with the Dipole Pride 26 Field Data

Joseph C. Chang, George Mason University, Fairfax, VA; and P. Franzese and S. R. Hanna

4:15 PM

14.2

AERMOD: Further Analysis of Evaluation Results

Robert J. Paine, ENSR Corporation, Acton, MA; and R. W. Brode

4:30 PM

14.3

Evaluation of AERMOD at a Rural Petroleum Refinery in Simple and Complex Terrain

Jeffrey A. Panek, BP-Amoco Corporation, Warrenville, IL; and R. L. Graw

4:45 PM

14.4

Evaluation of AERMOD model performance under building downwash conditions

Roger W. Brode, Pacific Environmental Services, Research Triangle Park, NC; and M. Jindal

14.5

Sensitivity of AERMOD concentration predictions to variations in several input parameters

Session 5

Current theories of tornadogenesis

Host: Symposium on VORTEX: What We Have Learned-Where We Must Go

Organizer: Erik Rasmussen, NOAA/NSSL

4:00 PM

5.1

Evidence for the role of barotropic processes in the rear flank downdraft in tornadogenesis

Jerry M. Straka, University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK; and E. N. Rasmussen

4:30 PM

5.2

Does the hook echo instigate tornadogenesis?

Robert P. Davies-Jones, NOAA/NSSL, Norman, OK

5:00 PM

5.3

On tornadogenesis failure

Jeff Trapp, NOAA/NSSL and NCAR/MMM, Boulder, CO

Symposium Ends

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Poster Session 1

Poster Session

Host: 16th International Conference on Interactive Information and Processing Systems (IIPS) for Meteorology, Oceanography, and Hydrology

Organizer: Steve Holt, Mitretek Systems

P1.1

An Interactive Web-based Data Analysis tool in support of the land data assimilation scheme (LDAS) Project

Brian A. Cosgrove, NASA/GSFC, Greenbelt, MD; and P. R. Houser and J. K. Entin

P1.2

view_hdf: Visualization and Analysis Software for HDF Files

Kam-Pui Lee, SAIC, Hampton, VA; and L. A. Hunt

P1.3

Integrating the Areal Mean Basin Estimated Rainfall (AMBER) and the Advanced Weather Interactive Processing System (AWIPS) into warning operations at NWSFO Pittsburgh during widespread flooding in southeast Ohio on 26-28 June 1998

Josh Korotky, NOAA/NWSFO, Coraopolis, PA; and R. S. Davis and C. Strager

P1.4

Windows NT Monitoring Software with e-mail notification and web reporting

Dale Reinke, CIRA/Colorado State Univ., Fort Collins, CO; and M. Hiatt and K. Eis

P1.5

The U.S. Department of Agriculture's AWIPS Link to NOAAPORT

Bradley R. Rippey, USDA, Washington, DC; and A. Peterlin and D. A. Deprey

P1.6

The Operational Production Process of the Horace System

David C. Marsh, UK Met Office, Bracknell, Berks., United Kingdom

P1.7

Creating first guess forecast products NASA Johnson Space Center: Applying LAPS and AWIPS Forecast Preparation System algorithms in McIDAS

Timothy D. Oram, NASA, Spaceflight Meteorology Group, Johnson Space Center, TX

P1.9

IMPACT OF THE PHENOMENON EL-NINO ON THE REGIME OF PRECIPITATION IN THE AREA OF THE MEDIUM AMAZON

David Mendes, CPTEC/INPE, Cachoeira Paulista, Sao Paulo, Brazil; and J. Cohen

P1.10

The Common Operations and Development Environment, Structure and System Services

Thomas J. Ganger, Mitretek Systems, McLean, VA; and R. E. Saffle

P1.11

NEXRAD Product Improvement:Overview of NEXRAD Open Systems Plans

Robert E. Saffle, NOAA/NWS, Silver Spring, MD

P1.12

Visual Programming for the WSR-88D Common Operations & Development Environment

Andrew D. Stern, Mitretek Systems, McLean, VA; and T. J. Ganger and R. E. Saffle

P1.13

Mesoscale Modeling Investigation of Convective Initiation on the Gulf Coast

Paul J. Croft, Jackson State Univ., Jackson, MS; and R. S. Reddy and P. J. Fitzpatrick

P1.14

Applications of Environment Canada's Text-to-Voice System

Brian Bukoski, Environment Canada, Winnipeg, MB, Canada

P1.15

The Polar Orbiting Satellite Sounding Evaluator

Michael E. Pettey, Raytheon Information Technology and Scientific Services, Lanham, MD; and C. E. Brown and M. C. Chalfant

P1.16

Upper Wind Forecasts for NASA's X-38 Flight Test Operations

Dan G. Bellue, NOAA/NWS, Johnson Space Center, TX; and C. Donohue

P1.17

Forecasting Timing of Sea Breeze-Induced Thunderstorms at Cape Canaveral Air Station

Thomas G. Renwick, Air Force Inst. of Technology, Wright-Patterson AFB, OH; and C. A. Miner and W. P. Roeder

P1.18

GOES Sounder Products - New Observations for Weather Forecasting

Donald G. Gray, NOAA/NESDIS, Suitland, MD

P1.19

Modeling of Atmospheric and Space Effects on Air Force C2 Operations

Robert J Raistrick, Air Force Research Lab., Hanscom AFB, MA

P1.20

Heading for the Future - National Weather Service Communications Identifiers

Fred Branski, NOAA/NWS, Silver Spring, MD

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Session 6

Observations of mesocyclones and tornadogenesis

Host: Symposium on VORTEX: What We Have Learned-Where We Must Go

Organizer: Erik Rasmussen, NOAA/NSSL

8:00 AM

6.1

Tornadogenesis, maintenance, and demise in the Dimmitt, TX storm

Erik Rasmussen, CIMMS/Univ. of Oklahoma and NOAA/NSSL, Boulder, CO; and J. Straka

8:30 AM

6.2

Cyclic Tornado Formation in the 8 June 1995 McLean, Texas Storm

David C. Dowell, Univ. of Oklahoma, Norman, OK

9:00 AM

6.3

Evolution of Low Level Mesocyclone Rotation: The 29 MAY 1994 Newcastle, Texas Storm During VORTEX

Conrad Ziegler, NOAA/NSSL/ERL, Norman, OK; and E. N. Rasmussen, T. R. Shepherd, A. I. Watson, and J. M. Straka

9:30 AM

6.4

Some surface observations in hook echoes obtained by a mobile mesonet

Paul Markowski, University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK; and J. Straka and E. Rasmussen

Session 11

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

Host: 16th International Conference on Interactive Information and Processing Systems (IIPS) for Meteorology, Oceanography, and Hydrology

Organizers: Robert Saffle, NOAA/NWS; Steve Shema, FAA

8:00 AM

11.1

Development of a WSR-88D based Snow Accumulation Algorithm for quantitative precipitation estimates over southwestern Oregon

Curtis L. Hartzell, U.S. Dept. of Interior, Denver, CO; and A. B. Super

8:15 AM

11.2

Construction of hail swaths using NIDS data

Bradford R. Pugh, Univ. of Oklahoma, Norman, OK; and K. C. Crawford

8:30 AM

11.3

Progress in the Use of Weather Data from Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) Radars in Combination With the WSR-88D

Robert E. Saffle, NOAA/NWS, Silver Spring, MD; and S. Shema, S. M. Holt, and L. D. Johnson

8:45 AM

11.4

Development and Integration of new Hydrometeorological Algorithms into the WSR-88D using the Common Operations and Development Environment (CODE)

Thomas J. Ganger, Mitretek Systems, McLean, VA; and R. E. Saffle, A. D. Stern, B. T. Ulery, and A. White

9:00 AM

11.5

The Use of CODE at the Operational Support Facility

Anderson White, NOAA/NWS, OSF, Norman, OK

9:15 AM

11.6

Reusable Applications Software Components for the WSR-88D

Michael J. Istok, NOAA/NWS, Silver Spring, MD

9:30 AM

11.7

NEXRAD Open Systems - Progress and Plans

Robert E. Saffle, NOAA/NWS, Silver Spring, MD; and L. D. Johnson

9:45 AM

11.8

Overview of the Final ORPG Software Architecture

Michael Jain, NOAA/ERL/NSSL, Norman, OK; and Z. Jing

10:00 AM

11.9

The Linear Buffer and its role in the WSR-88D Open System RPG

Zhongqi Jing, CIMMS/Univ. of Oklahoma and NOAA/NSSL, Norman, OK; and M. Jain

10:15 AM

11.10

An Update and Lessons Learned Thus Far on the WSR-88D Operational Support Facility Implementation of Open Systems Architecture into the WSR-88D System

J. Rex Reed, NOAA/NWS/OSF, Norman, OK; and G. Cate

10:30 AM

11.11

Mitigation of range/velocity ambiguities in the WSR-88D.

D. S. Zrnic, NOAA/NSSL, Norman, OK; and M. Sachidananda, R. J. Doviak, J. Keeler, and C. Frush

10:45 AM

11.12

On the Windfinding Accuracy of Loran-C, GPS and Radar

Juhana Jaatinen, Vaisala Oyj, Helsinki, Finland; and J. B. Elms

11:00 AM

11.13

Comparisons of observer reports of thunderstorms with similar reports derived from the National Lightning Detection Network Data

Thomas A. Seliga, Volpe National Transportation Systems Center, Cambridge, MA; and K. A. Kraus, J. Canniff, and D. A. Hazen

11:15 AM

11.14

A New Radar Display System

Michael A. Steinberg, AccuWeather, Inc., State College, PA; and H. Margusity and C. Canning

11:30 AM

11.8A

Coffee Break

12:00 PM

11.14A

Lunch Break

Session 11

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

Host: 11th Symposium on Global Change Studies

Organizer: Thomas C. Peterson, NOAA/NCDC

8:00 AM

11.1

Heavy rainfall and convective cloudiness changes as indicators of intensification of the hydrological cycle

Pavel Ya. Groisman, UCAR Project Scientist at NOAA/NCDC, Asheville, NC; and B. Sun

8:15 AM

11.2

Trends in temperature, humidity, and summertime extreme heat in China

Julian X. L. Wang, NOAA/ARL, Silver Spring, MD; and D. J. Gaffen

8:30 AM

11.3

A Preliminary Examination of Regional Climate Trends in Atlantic Canada

Cindy N. Vallis, Environment Canada, Dartmouth, NS, Canada; and N. Frigault

8:45 AM

11.4

Spatial and temporal characteristics of extreme temperatures over Canada

B. R. Bonsal, AES, Downsview, ON, Canada; and X. Zhang, L. A. Vincent, and W. D. Hogg

9:00 AM

11.5

Climate Change Indices Derived from Daily In Situ Data

Thomas C. Peterson, NOAA/NCDC, Asheville, NC; and P. Y. Groisman, B. E. Gleason, and D. R. Easterling

9:15 AM

11.6

Decreasing Cloudiness Over China: An Updated Analysis Examining Additional Variables

Dale P. Kaiser, ORNL, Oak Ridge, TN

9:30 AM

11.7

A quality assured comparison of the surface air temperature and ground surface temperature histories from two North American mid-continent boreholes

Paul E. Todhunter, University of North Dakota, Grand Forks, ND; and W. D. Gosnold, Jr.

11.8

Estimating the sensitivity to climate change of the water budget of a mountain basin using a version of the Thornthwaite model

9:45 AM

11.9

River discharge in a doubled carbon dioxide climate

Lydia Dumenil Gates, Max-Planck-Institute for Meteorology, Hamburg, Germany; and S. Hagemann

10:00 AM

11.10

Impact of a climate change on the hydrology of the French Rhône river

Pierre Etchevers V, Météo-France, Saint Martin d'Hères, France; and J. Noilhan, C. Golaz, E. Ledoux, E. Leblois, and C. Ottlé

10:15 AM

11.11

Influence of Sea Surface Temperature, Tropopheric Humidity and Lapse Rate on the Annual Cycle of Clear-Sky Greenhouse Effect

Hua Hu, JPL, Pasadena, CA; and W. T. Liu

10:30 AM

11.12

On the relation between complex and simple climate models

Arthur C. Petersen, Utrecht Univ., Utrecht, Netherlands

10:45 AM

11.13

Transient greenhouse gas and sulfate aerosol forcing of regional climate change for the continental United States

Eric E. Small, New Mexico Tech, Socorro, NM; and L. Mearns and F. Giorgi

11:00 AM

11.14

Changes in Northern Hemisphere storm tracks in the NCAR Climate System Model (CSM): Control run vs. doubled CO2

Michelle Shing-May Dunn, UCAR, Boulder, CO; and C. Torrence

11:15 AM

11.8a

Contribution of North Atlantic Intermediate and Deep water Masses to the Earth’s Heat Balance

Sydney Levitus, NODC/NOAA, Silver Spring, MD; and J. Antonov, T. P. Boyer, and C. Stephens

11:30 AM

11.14a

Lunch Break

1:00 PM

11.8b

Coffee Break

Session 12

Advancing Our Understanding of Seasonal to Interannual Climate Variability: Part 3 (Parallel with Sessions 11, 13, JP3, JP4, J5, and J6)

Host: 11th Symposium on Global Change Studies

Organizer: Alan Basist, NOAA/NCDC

8:00 AM

12.1

Evaluating the performance of short-term climate forecasts

Jeffrey A. Shorter, TASC, Inc., Reading, MA; and M. J. Gibbas, R. J. Boucher, J. D. Goldstein, and R. F. Brammer

8:15 AM

12.2

Interdecadal Changes in the Structure and Frequency of ENSO Mode

Soon-Il An, Univ. of Hawaii at Manoa, Honolulu, HI; and B. Wang and F. F. Jin

12.3

Factors controlling decadal variations in ENSO-teleconnections and seasonal climate predictions

8:45 AM

12.4

Teleconnections and local response to tropical SST anomalies

Hui Su, Univ. of California, Los Angeles, CA; and J. D. Neelin, C. Chou, and N. Zeng

9:00 AM

12.5

Forecast of tropical Pacific SST and Sea Level using Markov models

Yan Xue, NOAA/NWS/NCEP, Camp Springs, MD

9:15 AM

12.6

Understanding the annual cycle of equatorial Pacific as a result of ocean-atmosphere-land interactions

Xiouhua Fu, Univ. of Hawaii, Honolulu, HI; and B. Wang

9:30 AM

12.7

An assessment of the association between the Arctic Oscillation and Northern Hemisphere temperature

Anthony J. Broccoli, NOAA/GFDL, Princeton, NJ; and T. L. Delworth and N. C. Lau

9:45 AM

12.8

Anomaly Forcing in an Ensemble Regional Climate Model Simulation

Jan F. Dutton, Penn State Univ., University Park, PA; and E. J. Barron

10:00 AM

12.9

Assessment of the Utility of the Regional Climate Simulations in the Prediction of Drought

Ana P. Barros, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA; and G. S. Jenkins and R. Bindlish

10:15 AM

12.10

Regional climate simulation of the anomalous U.S. Climate events with a variable resolution stretched grid GCM

Michael S. Fox-Rabinovitz, University of Maryland, College Park, MD; and L. Takacs and M. J. Suarez

12.11

Examining interannual variability in West Africa from the NCEP reanalyses and the CCM3 for the period of 1979-1993

12.12

Climate variability and change, scale-interactions and precipitation processes in West Africa. Limitations and challenges of modeling efforts

12.13

Simulation of a squall line associated with an african easterly wave: sensitivity to the parameterization of convection

11:15 AM

12.14

Non-modal growth in ENSO and its interdecadal change

Yan Xue, NOAA/NWS/NCEP, Camp Springs, MD

11:30 AM

12.15

The SST Anomalies Dipole in the Extratropical Pacific and Its Relationships with the ENSO Cycle

Jin-Yi Yu, Univ. of California, Los Angeles, CA; and W. T. Liu and C. R. Mechoso

11:45 AM

12.16

Ocean-atmosphere-land feedbacks in an idealized monsoon

Chia Chou, Univ. of California, Los Angeles, CA; and J. D. Neelin, H. Su, and N. Zeng

12:00 PM

12.17

Effects of a stochastic convective parameterization on tropical intraseasonal variability

Johnny Wei-Bing Lin, Univ. of California, Los Angeles, CA; and J. D. Neelin

12:15 PM

12.18

A study of initializations for ENSO forecast models

Yan Xue, NOAA/NWS/NCEP, Camp Springs, MD; and A. Leetmaa and M. Cane

12:30 PM

12.19

Interannual variations in satellite observed top-of-atmosphere longwave clear-sky radiation and consistency with diagnostics from global climate models

Franklin R. Robertson, NASA/MSFC, Huntsville, AL; and W. D. Braswell and D. Fitzjarrald

12:45 PM

12.8a

Coffee Break

1:15 PM

12.14a

Lunch Break

Session 8A

Special Session

Host: Second Symposium on Environmental Applications

8:30 AM

8A.1

Cooperation Between WMO and Environmental Actors

Michel Jarraud, WMO, Geneva, Switzerland

Session 8

North American Atmospheric Observing System

Host: Fourth Symposium on Integrated Observing Systems

Organizer: Alexander MacDonald, NOAA/OAR

8.1

Invited Presentation

9:00 AM

8.2

What? Make Changes to the Upper Air Observing Program?

John B. Jalickee, NOAA/NWS, Silver Spring, MD; and W. Fellows and J. Giraytys

9:15 AM

8.3

Operational Potentials and Realities of MDCRS

Frederick Toepfer, NOAA/NWS, Silver Spring, MD; and W. Fellows and J. Giraytys

9:30 AM

8.4

Verification of RUC-2 forecasts for NAOS

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

9:45 AM

8.5

Progress in testing hypotheses for the North American Observing System (NAOS) Program

Thomas W. Schlatter, NOAA/FSL, Boulder, CO

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

Session 15

Aerosols and Particulates

Host: 11th Joint Conference on the Applications of Air Pollution Meteorology with the Air and Waste Management Association

Organizer: Jeffrey S. Gaffney, ANL

8:30 AM

15.1

Aerosol generation in the urban environment (Invited Presentation)

Spyros N. Pandis, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA

9:00 AM

15.2

Modeling of Mexico City aerosol air pollution

Laurie A. McNair, LANL, Los Alamos, NM; and E. Manteuffel and S. N. Pandis

9:15 AM

15.3

Examination of the Evolution of Urban Plumes using MAPS (Model for Aerosol Process Studies)

Susan K. Durlak, NCAR, Boulder, CO; and D. Baumgardner

9:30 AM

15.4

Characterization of fine particulate matter in a coastal urban airshed

Kuruvilla John, Texas A&M Univ., Kingsville, TX

9:45 AM

15.5

Recent air quality trends in the Great Smoky Mountains

Stephen F. Mueller, Tennessee Valley Authority, Muscle Shoals, AL

Session 5

Gravity waves

Host: 11th Conference on the Middle Atmosphere

Organizer: John N. Koshyk, Univ. of Toronto

8:30 AM

5.1

Evidence for inertia-gravity waves in HRDI mesospheric winds

Ruth S. Lieberman, Colorado Research Associates, Boulder, CO

8:45 AM

5.2

High resolution simulation of observed cases of stratospheric gravity wave breakdown

Daniel Marc Landau, Univ. of California, Los Angeles, CA; and M. G. Wurtele and L. J. Ehernberger

9:00 AM

5.3

Sources of gravity waves simulated by a high-resolution GCM

Kaoru Sato, Kyoto Univ., Kyoto, Japan; and M. Takahashi

9:15 AM

5.4

Gravity wave focusing in the middle atmosphere

Len Sonmor, Dalhousie Univ., Halifax, NS, Canada; and G. P. Klaassen

9:30 AM

5.5

Effects of varying tropospheric wind shear on the spectrum of gravity waves generated by tropical convection

Jadwiga H. Beres, Univ. of Washington, Seattle, WA; and M. J. Alexander and J. R. Holton

5.6

The stability of inertio-gravity waves

10:00 AM

5.7

A study of the interactions of tides and gravity waves

David A. Ortland, NorthWest Research Associates, Bellevue, WA; and M. J. Alexander

10:15 AM

5.6a

Coffee Break

Session 12

Applications of decision support tools in the use and leverage of the Internet (Parallel with Sessions 11 and 13)

Host: 16th International Conference on Interactive Information and Processing Systems (IIPS) for Meteorology, Oceanography, and Hydrology

Organizer: Don Mock, NOAA/CDC

8:30 AM

12.1

Overview

Donald Mock, NOAA/CDC, Boulder, CO

8:45 AM

12.2

The Internet As A Source of Weather Information

Daniel Kottlowski, AccuWeather, Inc., State College, PA; and J. Candor and J. Ferrell

9:00 AM

12.3

Leveraging the Internet to Aid Decision Making During Hazardous Weather Events

Kevin A. Kloesel, Oklahoma Climatological Survey, Norman, OK; and K. C. Crawford, R. McPherson, D. Morris, R. Jesuroga, and C. Subramaniam

9:15 AM

12.4

Use of a "Composer" form to speed the creation of online Satellite Meteorology Tutorials

Thomas F. Lee, NRL, Monterey, CA; and J. Kent

12.5

Wind Energy Forecasts from MAPS through an Internet Decision Support Tool

9:45 AM

12.6

Java Servlet Technology to Enhance Web Access to Real-time and Retrospective Environmental Data

Willa H. Zhu, JISAO/Univ. of Washington, Seattle, WA; and E. F. Burger

10:00 AM

12.7

Distributed Object Technology to Support Web Access of Heterogeneous Data and Information Sources

Willa H. Zhu, JISAO/Univ. of Washington, Seattle, WA; and L. C. Sun

10:15 AM

12.8

Working With Extensible Markup Language

Thomas B. Passin, Mitretek Systems, McLean, VA

10:30 AM

12.9

Using a Relational Database and the Extensible Markup Language to Store and Distribute Climate Metadata

Roland H. Schweitzer, NOAA/CDC and CIRES/Univ. of Colorado, Boulder, CO

10:45 AM

12.10

Transforming Extensible Markup Language Documents With XSLT

Thomas B. Passin, Mitretek Systems, McLean, VA

11:00 AM

12.11

VRML techniques and tours: 3D experiences of oceans and atmospheres

Christopher W. Moore, JISAO/Univ. of Washington, Seattle, WA; and N. N. Soreide, A. Hermann, C. Lascara, and G. Wheless

11:15 AM

12.12

Developing Collaborative Software to support the Aviation Weather Center’s Collaborative Convective Forecast Project

Donald R. Frank, Research and Data Systems Corp., Kansas City, MO; and F. J. Foss, W. E. Carle, and H. R. Hudson

11:30 AM

12.13

The Virtual Forecast System: A Prototype Large-Scale Interactive/Collaborative Environment

Andrew D. Stern, Mitretek Systems, McLean, VA; and T. R. Neff, S. L. Bunin, S. M. Holt, and R. J. Ramsey

11:45 AM

12.6A

Coffee Break

12:00 PM

12.13A

Lunch Break

Session 5a

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

Host: 15th Conference on Hydrology

Organizers: Hugo Berbery, Univ. of Maryland; Paul A. Dirmeyer, COLA

8:30 AM

5a.1

The importance of land-surface variability to climate variability

Paul A. Dirmeyer, COLA, Calverton, MD; and O. Reale and C. A. Schlosser

8:45 AM

5a.2

Land surface processes over GCIP Large Scale Areas

Ernesto Hugo Berbery, University of Maryland, College Park, MD; and W. Chen, R. T. Pinker, and K. E. Mitchell

9:00 AM

5a.3

Model Validation of Observed Secondary Circulation in FIFE-1989 IFC-5 Dataset Using Coupled Mesoscale-SVATS Modeling System

Eric A. Smith, NASA/GHCC, Huntsville, AL; and H. J. Cooper, D. A. Faysash, and G. J. Tripoli

9:15 AM

5a.4

Land cover-convective cloud interactions in the US Midwest

Jimmy O. Adegoke, Penn State Univ., University Park, PA; and A. M. Carleton

9:30 AM

5a.5

A new gas/Carbon Assimilation Surface Evapotranpiration Model (GEM) for Mesoscale Applications

Devdutta S. Niyogi, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC; and S. Raman and K. Alapaty

9:45 AM

5a.6

On the Parameterization of Convective Precipitation Generated by Land Cover Change/Land Use in Large-Scale Atmospheric Models

Christopher P. Weaver, Rutgers Univ., New Brunswick, NJ; and R. Avissar and Y. Liu

10:00 AM

5a.7

The simulation of complex land cover in regional climate studies

Diana L. Verseghy, AES, Downsview, ON, Canada

10:15 AM

5a.8

The Impacts of Land Cover Change/Land Use on Regional Hydrometeorology

Roni Avissar, Rutgers Univ., New Brunswick, NJ; and C. P. Weaver and S. Baidya Roy

10:30 AM

5a.9

Estimating root-zone moisture and evapotranspiration with AVHRR Data

Jie Song, Northern Illinois Univ., DeKalb, IL; and M. L. Wesely

10:45 AM

5a.10

Coupled atmosphere-land surface modeling over GAME-T region

Jian-Hua Joshua Qian, USRA, Greenbelt, MD; and W. K. Tao and W. K. M. Lau

11:00 AM

5a.11

Surface climate equilibrium over land

Alan K. Betts, Atmospheric Research, Pittsford, VT

5a.12

Using second order closure to obtain mesoscale and turbulent heat fluxes

11:30 AM

5a.13

Coupling Atmospheric, Ecologic, and Hydrologic Processes in a Regional Climate Model

Lixin Lu, Colorado State Univ., Fort Collins, CO; and R. A. Pielke Sr., G. E. Liston, W. J. Parton, D. Ojima, and M. Hartman

11:45 AM

5a.14

Preliminary Results of the OASIS Project

Jerald A. Brotzge, University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK; and S. J. Richardson and T. W. Horst

12:00 PM

5a.15

The Role of Vegetation-Climate Interaction and Interannual Variability in Shaping the African Savanna

Ning Zeng, Univ. of California, Los Angeles, CA; and J. D. Neelin

12:15 PM

5a.16

Surface Heat Balance Observation in the Western Tibet

Shigenori Haginoya, MRI, Tsukuba, Ibaraki, Japan; and H. Naoe

12:30 PM

5a.12A

Lunch Break

2:00 PM

5a.6a

Coffee Break

Session 5b

TRMM Hydrology (Parallel with Sessions 5A)

Host: 15th Conference on Hydrology

Organizers: Jose A. Fuentes, Univ. of Virginia; Michael Garstang, Univ. of Virginia

8:30 AM

5b.1

An overview of the WETAMC/LBA - January and February 1999

Maria A. F. Silva Dias, Univ. of São Paulo, Sao Paulo, Brazil; and A. J. Dolman, P. L. Silva Dias, S. Rutledge, E. Zipser, G. F. Fisch, P. Artaxo, A. O. Manzi, J. A. Marengo, C. A. Nobre, and P. Kabat

8:45 AM

5b.2

Linking surface-based processes to the deeper atmosphere at a Brazilian tropical deforested site

Jose D. Fuentes, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA; and R. C. Heitz, M. Garstang, J. M. Sigler, B. Ferrier, J. Halverson, A. K. Betts, G. F. Fisch, J. Tóta, and P. J. de Oliveira

9:00 AM

5b.3

Mesocale Reanalysis of the LLJ along the Andes during the WETAMC/LBA - TRMM: comparison with observations

Pedro L. Silva Dias, Univ. of São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil; and M. A. F. Silva Dias, J. A. Marengo, and M. W. Douglas

9:15 AM

5b.4

Measurements of solar and terrestrial radiation above and inside the Rebio-Jaru Amazonian forest during the LBA Wet Season Campaign

Antonio O. Manzi, INPE, Cachoeira Paulista, SP, Brazil; and R. G. Moura, L. D. Abreu Sá, and R. C. S. Alvalá

9:30 AM

5b.5

Wet season boundary layer dynamics over a deforested pasture site in Amazonia

Ryan C. Heitz, Univ. of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA; and J. M. Sigler, J. D. Fuentes, M. Garstang, and B. Ferrier

9:45 AM

5b.6

Atmospheric boundary layer growth during LBA/TRMM experiment

Gilberto F. Fisch, Centro Tecnico Aeroespacial, Sao Jose dos Campos, SP, Brazil; and J. Tota, L. Machado, B. Ferrier, M. A. F. Silva Dias, A. J. Dolman, J. Halverson, and J. D. Fuentes

10:00 AM

5b.7

On the circulation features of the low level jet episode of April 14-15 1999, during the TRMM-LBA

Jose A. Marengo, CPTEC/INPE, Cachoeira Paulista, SP, Brazil; and M. W. Douglas and P. L. Silva Dias

10:15 AM

5b.8

Flux-variance method estimation of scalar turbulent fluxes above Amazonian rain forest

Celso von Randow, CPTEC/INPE, Cachoeira Paulista, SP, Brazil; and L. D. Abreu Sá, G. S. S. D. Prasad, and A. O. Manzi

10:30 AM

5b.9

Convective systems in contrasting regimes during TRMM-LBA in Rondonia, Brazil

Thomas M. Rickenbach, Univ. of Maryland Baltimore County, Baltimore, MD; and R. C. Cifelli, J. Halverson, P. A. Kucera, and O. W. Thiele

10:45 AM

5b.10

Surface Rainfall Observations during TRMM-LBA Field Campaign

Ali Tokay, Univ. of Maryland Baltimore County and NASA/GSFC, Greenbelt, MD; and J. Sieveking, B. Fisher, J. Wang, and O. W. Thiele

11:00 AM

5b.11

Turbulent transport scales and breakdown coefficient statistics over a deforested tropical site

Alin Carsteanu, Universite du Quebec, Sainte-Foy, PQ, Canada; and J. D. Fuentes and R. C. Heitz

11:15 AM

5b.12

The Distribution and Structure of Precipitation in Hurricane Georges: Observations from TRMM, SSM/I, and GOES

Arlene G. Laing, University of South Florida, Tampa, FL

11:30 AM

5b.13

Measurement and Analysis of Orographic Precipitation in the Himalayas - First Results from the TRMM Hydrometeorological Network in Central Nepal

Ana P. Barros, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA; and J. Putkonen, D. W. Burbank, and A. T. C. Chang

11:45 AM

5b.14

Characterizing precipitation processes during 1998, 1999 in West and Central Africa from the TRMM data

Andrea Sealy, Penn State University, University Park, PA; and G. S. Jenkins and T. Holmes

12:00 PM

5b.15

Towards the use of TRMM PR measurements for the inter-calibration of the South African radar network

M. P. Mittermaier, Precipitation Research, South African Weather Bureau, Bethlehem, South Africa

5b.16

Comparisons of the atmospheric hydrologic processes depicted by the operational ECMWF analyses with the corresponding forecasts at medium range over tropical Africa

12:30 PM

5b.17

Characterization of Radar Rainfall Estimation Error due to Variations of Raindrop Size Distribution and Vertical Storm Structure

Emmanouil N. Anagnostou, University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT; and C. A. Morales and M. Steiner

12:45 PM

5b.18

Direct Validation Analysis of TRMM Precipitation Retrievals Based on TRMM Field Experiment Measurements

Fong-Chiau Chang, NASA/GHCC and Univ. of Alabama, Huntsville, AL; and E. A. Smith, J. A. Marengo, B. J. Sohn, and S. Yang

1:00 PM

5b.19

Improved precipitation forecasting of landfalling tropical cyclones by data assimilation of microphysical structures retrieved from TRMM

Gregory J. Tripoli, Univ. of Wisconsin, Madison, WI; and G. Panegrossi and E. A. Smith

1:15 PM

5b.20

An observationally based conceptual model of warm oceanic convective rain in the tropics

David Atlas, NASA/GSFC, Greenbelt, MD; and C. W. Ulbrich

1:30 PM

5b.21

Rainfall estimation using a combination of geosynchronous infrared and TRMM observations

Liming Xu, Univ. of Arizona, Tucson, AZ; and A. J. Negri, R. F. Adler, and E. N. Anagnostou

1:45 PM

5b.22

Initial radar echo development in different regimes of tropical contintental convection

Earle Williams, MIT, Cambridge, MA; and D. Rosenfeld, N. Madden, J. Gerlach, and L. Atkinson

2:00 PM

5b.23

Rainfall morphology in semi-tropical convergence zones

J. Marshall Shepherd, NASA/GSFC, Greenbelt, MD

2:15 PM

5b.24

Improved Algortithm to Estimate Convestive and Stratiform Rain From TRMM Microwave Radiometer Data

C. Prabhakara, NASA/GSFC, Greenbelt, MD; and R. Iacovazzi Jr.

5b.25

Validation of TRMM and other satellite estimates of rainfall over select regions of Africa

2:45 PM

5b.6a

Coffee Break

3:15 PM

5b.12a

Lunch Break

4:45 PM

5b.18a

Coffee Break

1

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1

Exhibit Hours 9:00 A.M.-1:30 P.M.

Session 8

Applied Climatology

Host: Second Symposium on Environmental Applications

Organizer: David Easterling, NOAA/NCDC

9:00 AM

8.1

Modern Climatic Data Applications

Michael Crowe, NOAA/NCDC, Asheville, NC; and T. R. Karl

9:30 AM

8.2

Development of Regional Abnormality Climate Indices for Southern Quebec, Canada

Alain Bourque, Environment Canada, Montreal, PQ, Canada

9:45 AM

8.3

The National Climate Extremes Committee

Andrew Horvitz, NOAA/NWS, Silver Spring, MD; and R. Leffler, M. Changery, and G. Taylor

10:00 AM

8.4

Applications for the NOAAPort Data Archive and Retrieval System (NDARS) at the National Climatic Data Center

Glenn K. Rutledge, NOAA/NCDC, Asheville, NC; and A. Stanley, E. Page, L. Spayd, and J. Brundage

10:15 AM

8.5

Exploring the Use of Geographic Information System technology for quality control and climatological analysis of radar and rain gage data

Claude E. Duchon, University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK; and M. J. Menne

10:30 AM

8.3A

Coffee Break

1

Exhibit Hours

1

Exhibit Hours

1

Exhibit Hours

1

Symposium Ends

Coffee Break

1

Coffee Break

1

Coffee Break

1

Coffee Break

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

Session 15

Aerosols and particulates: Continued (Parallel with Session 16)

Host: 11th Joint Conference on the Applications of Air Pollution Meteorology with the Air and Waste Management Association

10:30 AM

15.0

Session ends

10:45 AM

15.6

Trends in deposition of acid particles and gases

Thomas F. Lavery, Environmental Sciences and Engineering, Inc., Gainsville, FL; and R. S. Goss and S. S. Isil

11:00 AM

15.7

Integrated assessment of regional dust transport from west Texas and New Mexico, spring 1999

Thomas E. Gill, Texas Tech University, Lubbock, TX; and D. L. Westphal, G. Stephens, and R. E. Peterson

11:15 AM

15.8

Bulk vs. size-resolved representations in modelling mass transfer and aqueous-phase chemistry in cloud droplets in regional air quality models

Wanmin Gong, AES, Downsview, ON, Canada

Session 16

Meteorological Analysis and Forecasting of Ozone Episodes (Parallel with Session 15)

Host: 11th Joint Conference on the Applications of Air Pollution Meteorology with the Air and Waste Management Association

Organizer: S. T. Rao, SUNY

10:30 AM

16.1

Development of an Analytical Technique to Relate Upper Air Meteorological Variables to High Ozone Occurrences in California From 1980 to 1998

Richard J Hackney, California Air Resources Board, Sacramento, CA; and S. Gouze

10:45 AM

16.2

Classification of Ozone Episodes in Central California

Robert E. Keislar, DRI, Reno, NV; and E. M. Fujita, S. Tanrikulu, D. Fairley, E. M. Shipp, J. MacIntosh, and W. D. Neff

11:00 AM

16.3

Spatial and Temporal Observations of the Planetary Boundary Layer During Ozone Episodes in the South Coast Air Basin

Clinton P. MacDonald, Sonoma Technology, Inc., Petaluma, CA; and T. S. Dye and P. T. Roberts

16.4

Analysis of Air Quality Data in the Lake Michigan Area

11:15 AM

16.5

A simplified scheme for predicting peak ozone concentrations in the central United States

Walter A. Lyons, FMA Research, Inc., Fort Collins, CO; and T. E. Lyons and C. S. Keen

11:30 AM

16.4a

Air Quality Forecasting For the Spare the Air Program in Sacramento, California: Summary of Four Years of Ozone Forecasting. (Formerly Paper 16.6)

Timothy S. Dye, Sonoma Technology, Inc., Petaluma, CA; and C. P. MacDonald and C. B. Anderson

Session 7

Observations and modeling of tornadoes

Host: Symposium on VORTEX: What We Have Learned-Where We Must Go

Organizer: Erik Rasmussen, NOAA/NSSL

10:30 AM

7.1

Observations of tornadoes using mobile Doppler radars

Howard B. Bluestein, Univ. of Oklahoma, Norman, Oklahoma

11:00 AM

7.2

Modeling the Region of Strongest Winds in a Tornado

W. Steve Lewellen, West Virginia Univ., Morgantown, WV; and D. C. Lewellen

11:30 AM

7.3

DOW Observations of tornado structure and evolution

Joshua Wurman, University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK

Session 9

Insurance

Host: Second Symposium on Environmental Applications

Organizer: Lee Branscome, Environmental Dynamics Research, Inc.

10:30 AM

9.1

Extreme Weather Events and the Insurance Industry: Opportunities and Challenges for the Atmospheric Sciences Community

John L. Keller, Applied Insurance Research, Inc., Boston, MA

11:00 AM

9.2

Climate Science and Insurance Risk: Making Academia-Industry Partnerships that Work

Anthony F. Michaels, Univ. of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA; and A. Close

11:30 AM

9.3

Regional climate variability & management of long-term weather risk

Lee E. Branscome, Environmental Dynamics Research, Inc., Palm Beach Gardens, FL

11:45 AM

9.4

Climatological risk of strong and violent tornadoes in the United States

Peggy R. Concannon, Northern Illinois Univ., Dekalb, IL; and H. E. Brooks and C. A. Doswell III

12:00 PM

9.4A

Lunch Break

Session 13

Applications of IIPS Using Satellites, Other Observation Platforms, and Their Associated Data Processing Systems (Parallel with Sessions 11 & 12)

Host: 16th International Conference on Interactive Information and Processing Systems (IIPS) for Meteorology, Oceanography, and Hydrology

Organizers: Ron Gird, NOAA/NWS; Ed Boselly, Solutions, Inc.

10:30 AM

13.1

The NESDIS Satellite Product Overview Display

Stacy L. Bunin, Mitretek Systems, McLean, VA; and T. B. Passin, P. M. Taylor, and D. G. Gray

10:45 AM

13.2

Plans for NOAA's Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite (GOES) System

Gerald J. Dittberner, NOAA/NESDIS, Suitland, MD

11:00 AM

13.3

A Windows NT-Based GOES I-M Data Collection System

Duane Whitcomb, CIRA/Colorado State Univ., Ft. Collins, CO; and D. Reinke, M. Hiatt, and K. Eis

11:15 AM

13.4

Updated NWS AWIPS Requirements for GOES/POES Satellite Products

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

11:29 AM

13.5

Paper transferred to Session 4, paper 4.17

11:30 AM

13.6

NOAA Polar Program Plans for Continuous Satellite Coverage

Michael Mignogno, NOAA/NESDIS, Suitland, MD; and C. Nelson

11:45 AM

13.7

An Overview of NESDIS Polar-Orbiting Satellite Data Processing and NWS POES AWIPS Requirements

Pamela M. Taylor, NOAA/NESDIS, Suitland, MD

12:00 PM

13.8

Interactive validation and tuning of satellite cloud property retrieval algorithms

Gary Gustafson, AER, Cambridge, MA; and D. Peduzzi, M. Plonski, and B. Shaw

12:15 PM

13.9

Detection and Tracking of Vortices and Saddle Points from SST Data

Qing Yang, LBNL, Berkeley, CA; and B. Parvin

12:30 PM

13.10

Real-Time Cloud Depiction Integration Into The Army's Battlefield Maneuver Control System

Ronald F. Fournier, TASC, Inc., Reading, MA; and R. B. Bensinger and J. J. Fox III

13.11

Interactive tools to support a prototype high-resolution cloud analysis and forecast system

12:45 PM

13.12

MSIV: A tool for interactive visualization and analysis of multispectral satellite images

Robert P. d'Entremont, AER, Cambridge, MA; and J. B. Collins and J. T. Bunting

1:00 PM

13.13

Worldwide Navy satellite meteorology applications via the Internet

Jeffrey D. Hawkins, NRL, Monterey, CA; and T. F. Lee, J. F. Turk, K. L. Richardson, C. Sampson, P. M. Tag, R. L. Bankert, and J. E. Kent

1:15 PM

13.14

The National Weather Service operational requirements for the evolution of future NOAA operational geostationary satellites

James J. Gurka, NOAA/NWS, Silver Spring, MD; and J. N. Heil

1:30 PM

13.15

Development of Interactive Cloud Height and Skew-T Diagram Algorithms for AWIPS

Larry J. Hinson, NOAA/NCEP/AWC, Kansas City, MO; and F. R. Mosher

1:45 PM

13.16

Information System on Real-time Quickscat and TRMM Observations

Wenqing Tang, JPL, Pasadena, CA; and W. T. Liu

2:00 PM

13.17

Weather interactive graphics in support of space launch

Michael S. Gremillion, 45th Weather Squadron, Patrick Air Force Base, FL; and J. W. Weems, B. F. Boyd, D. E. Harms, and E. D. Priselac

2:15 PM

13.18

The NOAA/NESDIS Hazard Mapping System

Stephen D. Ambrose, NOAA/NESDIS, Washington, DC; and G. Stephens

2:30 PM

13.6A

National Polar-Orbiting Operational Environmental Satellite System (NPOESS) Interface Data Processing Segment (IDPS)

Reginald B. Lawrence, NOAA/NESDIS, Silver Spring, MD; and L. O'Connor

2:45 PM

13.12A

Coffee Break

3:30 PM

13.18A

Session 13 ends

3:45 PM

13.6B

Lunch Break

Session 6

Dynamical and chemical coupling between the troposphere and middle atmosphere

Host: 11th Conference on the Middle Atmosphere

Organizer: Lawrence Coy, General Sciences Corp

10:45 AM

6.1

An Introduction to SOWER/Pacific

Fumio Hasebe, Ibaraki Univ., Mito, Ibaraki, Japan; and M. Shiotani, H. Voemel, N. Nishi, M. Fujiwara, M. Niwano, S. Oltmans, T. Ogawa, and K. Gage

11:00 AM

6.1a

Coffee Break

11:15 AM

6.1b

Bernard Haurwitz Memorial Lecture Title: Cloud Feedback in the Climate System: The Role of Marine Boundary Layer Clouds Speaker: Conway Leovy, Univ. of Washington, Seattle, WA

12:00 PM

6.1c

Lunch break

Bernhard Haurwitz Memorial Lecture

1

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1

Lunch Break

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

Session 17

Integrated modeling/measurement systems for emissions and air quality predictions (Parallel with Session 16)

Host: 11th Joint Conference on the Applications of Air Pollution Meteorology with the Air and Waste Management Association

Organizer: Christopher A. Bilthoft, West Desert Test Center

1:30 PM

17.1

New meteorological data resources suitable for the next generation of air quality models

Walter A. Lyons, FMA Research, Inc., Fort Collins, CO; and J. L. Eastman, T. E. Nelson, D. A. Moon, and C. S. Keen

1:45 PM

17.2

Sodar Based Wind Profiles As Model Inputs: Understanding the Role of Atmospheric Conditions in Assessing the Quality of the Data

Gennaro H. Crescenti, NOAA/ARL, Idaho Falls, ID; and R. A. Baxter

2:00 PM

17.3

Design for a comprehensive optical atmospheric monitoring system

Matthew J. Parker, Savannah River Technology Company, Aiken, SC; and C. Holton

17.4

Assimilation of total column CO observations from the MAPS instrument.

2:15 PM

17.5

Examining emissions policy issues with an integrated assessment model

Jack D. Shannon, ANL, Argonne, IL

2:30 PM

17.6

A modeling approach to design a mesoscale sampling campaign in order to estimate surface emissions

Marek Uliasz, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO; and A. S. Denning and N. Gimson

Session 6

Continued

Host: 11th Conference on the Middle Atmosphere

1:30 PM

6.2

Dynamic coupling of the middle atmosphere and troposphere: Potential vorticity inversions of the Arctic Oscillation

Robert X. Black, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA

1:45 PM

6.3

Downward Propagation of the Arctic Oscillation from the Stratosphere to the Troposphere

Mark P. Baldwin, Northwest Research Associates, Bellevue, WA; and T. J. Dunkerton

2:00 PM

6.4

The role of equatorial waves in stratosphere-troposphere exchange

Masatomo Fujiwara, Univ. of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan; and M. Takahashi

2:15 PM

6.5

Vertically propagating stratospheric waves associated with the Madden-Julian Oscillation

George N. Kiladis, NOAA/ERL/AL, Boulder, CO; and K. A. Harris and G. C. Reid

2:30 PM

6.6

The response to the tropical intraseasonal oscillation in the tropopause region

Philip W. Mote, Northwest Research Associates, Bellevue, WA; and H. L. Clark and T. J. Dunkerton

2:45 PM

6.7

On the latitudinal extent of upwelling caused by the extratropical wave pump

Jonathan Kinnersley, University of Washington, Seattle, WA; and K. K. Tung

3:00 PM

6.8

Re-examination of age-of-air in the middle atmosphere

Xun Zhu, Johns Hopkins Univ., Laurel, MD; and J. H. Yee and D. F. Strobel

Session 16

Meteorological analysis and forecasting of ozone episodes: Continued (Parallel with Session 17)

Host: 11th Joint Conference on the Applications of Air Pollution Meteorology with the Air and Waste Management Association

1:30 PM

16.0

Session Ends

1:45 PM

16.7

The NCSC-PSU Numerical Air Quality Prediction Project: Initial Evaluation, Status, and Prospects

John N. McHenry, MCNC-North Carolina Supercomputing Center, Research Triangle Park, NC; and N. Seaman, C. Coats, D. Stauffer, A. Lario-Gibbs, J. Vukovich, E. Hayes, and N. Wheeler

2:00 PM

16.8

Seasonal Smog Forecasting in New Brunswick, Canada

Michael C. Howe, Environment Canada, Fredericton, NB, Canada; and C. Cote and D. Waugh

2:15 PM

16.9

Meteorological potential of air pollution

Julian X. L. Wang, NOAA/ARL, Silver Spring, MD; and J. K. Angell

2:30 PM

16.10

Meteorological and photochemical modeling of ozone and carbon monoxide episodes for the Paso del Nortre Airshed. Part I: Mesoscale modeling.

Randolph J. Evans, ENSCO, Inc., Melbourne, FL; and M. K. Atchison, M. E. Capuano, C. A. Emery, M. A. Yocke, K. Costigan, C. Tremback, J. W. Yarbrough, R. Karp, and V. H. P. Figuero

2:45 PM

16.11

Meteorological and photochemical modeling of ozone and carbon monoxide episodes for the Paso Del Norte Airshed. Part II: Air quality modeling

Christopher A. Emery, Environ Corp., Novato, CA; and M. A. Yocke, R. J. Evans, M. Capuano, K. Costigan, J. W. Yarbrough, R. Karp, and V. H. Paramo Figuero

16.12

Comparing RAMS And MM5 Prognostics For Use in CAMx Ozone Forecasting

Session 10

Wx Derivatives

Host: Second Symposium on Environmental Applications

Organizer: Bob Dischel, WxPx.com

1:30 PM

10.1

The Challenge to Meteorologists in the Weather risk market

Bob Dischel, WxPx.com, New York, NY

2:00 PM

10.2

Reducing weather derivative risk

Aaron Studwell, Reliant Energy Wholesale Group, Houston, TX

2:15 PM

10.3

Weather Derivatives-Weather Impacts and the World of Finance

Jon B. Davis, Salomon Smith Barney, Chicago, IL

2:30 PM

10.4

Weather derivatives Data: Practical Considerations and Technical Solutions

David A. Portman, AER, Cambridge, MA

2:45 PM

10.5

Developing and Tracking climate indices for the weather derivatives market

Michael Crowe, NOAA/NCDC, Asheville, NC; and T. R. Karl

3:00 PM

10.6

Worldwide weather, water and climate data: the key drivers in past and future derivatives trading

Susan Zevin, NOAA/NESDIS, Silver Spring, MD; and A. C. Eustis

3:15 PM

10.7

Development of standardized data sets for weather derivatives

Richard J. Murnane, Bermuda Biological Station for Research, St. George's, Bermuda

3:30 PM

10.8

Weather Derivatives Pricing and the Market Forecast

Kevin D. Green, Castlebridge Weather Markets, Chicago, IL

3:45 PM

10.9

Panel Discussion: Critical Issues in the Weather Market

Bob Dischel, WxPx, New York, NY

4:00 PM

10.4A

Coffee Break

Session 13

IPCC TAR: Long-term Climate Variability and Change: Part 5 (Parallel with Sessions 12, JP4, and J5)

Host: 11th Symposium on Global Change Studies

Organizer: Thomas C. Peterson, NOAA/NCDC

1:30 PM

13.1

Effect of Optical Thickness Constraint on the Inference of Cloud Layer Overlap and Atmospheric Radiative Heating Profile from Satellite Observations

Ting Chen, Columbia University, New York, NY; and Y. Zhang and W. B. Rossow

1:45 PM

13.2

Simulations of aerosol indirect effect for IPCC emission scenarios

Catherine C. Chuang, LLNL, Livermore, CA; and J. E. Penner and Y. Zhang

2:00 PM

13.3

Cirrus cloud infrared scattering and absorption in a GCM radiative model

Everette Joseph, Howard University, Washington, DC

2:15 PM

13.4

Evaluation of cloud-radiation sensitivities to alternative cloud and convection schemes

Sam F. Iacobellis, SIO, La Jolla, CA; and R. C. J. Somerville and D. E. Lane

2:30 PM

13.5

Climate Simulation over Japan in Summer with an MRI regional climate model: Present Day and 2xCO2 Experiments

Kazuyo Adachi, MRI, Tsukuba, Ibaraki, Japan; and Y. Sato, H. Sasaki, A. Noda, and S. Yukimoto

2:45 PM

13.6

Validation of a stochastic radiative transfer model

Dana E. Lane, SIO, La Jolla, CA; and R. C. J. Somerville and S. F. Iacobellis

3:00 PM

13.7

Analysis of forcing methods for single-column models

Sam F. Iacobellis, SIO, La Jolla, CA; and R. C. J. Somerville and D. E. Lane

3:15 PM

13.8

On detecting the signature of regional aerosol radiative forcing in eastern China

Shaocai Yu, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC; and V. K. Saxena and Z. Zhao

3:30 PM

13.9

Evaluating the climatic response to changes in CO2 and solar luminosity

Zavareh Kothavala, Yale University, New Haven, CT; and R. J. Oglesby and B. Saltzman

3:45 PM

13.10

GCM experiments to test a proposed dynamical stabilizing mechanism in the climate system

Vladimir Alexeev, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark; and J. R. Bates

4:00 PM

13.11

Analysis of CGCM control runs from CMIP-II

Krishna AchutaRao, LLNL, Livermore, CA; and C. Covey

4:15 PM

13.12

Coupled ocean-atmosphere model experiments of future climate change based on IPCC SRES scenarios

Toru Nozawa, National Institute for Environmental Studies, Tsukuba, Ibaraki, Japan; and S. Emori, T. Takemura, T. Nakajima, A. Numaguti, A. Abe-Ouchi, and M. Kimoto

4:30 PM

13.6a

Coffee Break

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 )

1

Coffee Break

Conference Ends

Coffee Break

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

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Poster Session 2

TRMM Hydrology Poster

Host: 15th Conference on Hydrology

Organizers: Jose Fuentes, Univ. of Virginia; Michael Garstang, Univ. of Virginia

P2.1

January/February 1999 Mesoscale Reanalysis of the WETAMC/LBA-TRMM/Brazil campaign in Rondonia/Brazil

Pedro L. Silva Dias, Univ. of São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil; and M. A. F. Silva Dias, S. R. Freitas, E. Inazawa, J. A. Marengo, and F. Gilberto

P2.2

General aspects of the rebio-jaru Amazon forest micrometeorological tower LBA wet season campaign and preliminary results

Leonardo D. Abreu Sa, Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas Espaciais, Sao Jose dos Campos, SP, Brazil; and R. C. S. Alvala, E. Arai, P. R. A. Arlino, A. C. Barbosa, M. J. A. Bolzan, A. Bonfim Jr., W. E. Castro Jr., M. A. F. Silva Dias, G. S. S. Durga Prasad, R. Gielow, A. C. Lola da Costa, A. O. Manzi, J. L. Martins Nogueira, J. Melo, R. G. Moura, L. E. Rosa, L. Rossato, and C. von Randow

P2.3

Use of the inertial dissipation method for calculating hourly variability of the turbulent fluxes over Amazonian forest

Leonardo Deane Abreu Sa, Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas Espaciais, Sao Jose dos Campos, SP, Brazil; and E. P. M. Filho and S. S. D. P. Gannabathula

P2.4

Incorporating TRMM and other high-quality estimates into the One-Degree Daily (1DD) global precipitation product

George J. Huffman, NASA/GSFC and SSAI, Greenbelt, MD; and R. F. Adler and D. T. Bolvin

P2.5

Wavelet analysis of coherent structures above and within the Amazon Rain Forest

Sri Sesha Durga Prasad Gannabathula, Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas Espaciais, Sao Jose dos Campos, SP, Brazil; and W. E. Castro Jr., L. D. Abreu Sa, and K. P. R. Vittal Murty

P2.6

Nonextensivity in atmospheric surface layer turbulence

Mauricio Jose Alves Bolzan, Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas Espaciais, Sao Jose dos Campos, SP, Brazil; and L. D. Abreu Sa, F. M. Ramos, C. R. Neto, and R. R. Rosa

P2.7

An Empirical Study of TRMM-LBA Rainfall

Jianxin Wang, NASA/GSFC, Greenbelt, MD; and B. Fisher, A. Tokay, and J. Wang

P2.8

Boundary Layer Thermodynamics over Rondonia in the rainy season (LBA/TRMM)

Alan K. Betts, Atmospheric Research, Pittsford, VT; and J. D. Fuentes and M. Garstang

P2.9

Studies on the diurnal cycle of rainfall and its variations during the TRMM-LBA and Wet AMC.LBA campaigns during Austral Summer 1999

Jose A. Marengo, CPTEC/INPE, Cachoeira Paulista, SP, Brazil; and G. F. Fisch, I. Vendrame, P. Cervantes, and C. Morales

P2.10

Case study of multiple squall lines during the WETAMC/LBA and TRMM/Brazil: 7 Feb 1999

Maria A. F. Silva Dias, Univ. of São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil; and P. L. Silva Dias, S. Rutledge, E. Zipser, M. A. Lima, A. M. Gomes, M. Antonio, and G. F. Fisch

P2.11

Soil heat flux and temperature profiles under Amazonian rain forest during the wet season of 1999

Ralf Gielow, Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas Espaciais, Sao Jose dos Campos, SP, Brazil; and R. C. S. Alvala, H. R. da Rocha, H. C. Freitas, and O. M. R. Cabral

P2.12

The Clouds-Induced Bimodal Characteristics and Enhancements of Surface Irradiance as Observed over a Brazilian Grassland

Lianhong Gu, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA; and J. D. Fuentes, M. Garstang, R. C. Heitz, and J. M. Sigler

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Session 14

Applications of IIPS in Climatology

Host: 16th International Conference on Interactive Information and Processing Systems (IIPS) for Meteorology, Oceanography, and Hydrology

Organizer: Jimmie Smith, MeteoQuest, Inc.

8:00 AM

14.1

Rapidly Expanding Uses of Climate Data and Information in Agriculture and Water Resources: Causes and Characteristics of New Applications

Stanley A. Changnon, ISWS, Champaign, IL; and K. E. Kunkel

8:15 AM

14.2

Implementation of the NOAAPort Data Archive and Retrieval System (NDARS) at the National Climatic Data Center

Glenn K. Rutledge, NOAA/NCDC, Asheville, NC; and A. Stanley, E. Page, L. Spayd, and J. Brundage

8:30 AM

14.3

The Climate Zone - an Australian interactive web-based system

Anne K. Brewster, Bureau of Meteorology, Melbourne, Vic., Australia; and A. Mavromatis and L. M. Hollis

8:45 AM

14.4

The Midwestern Climate Center Climate Profiler: An Internet-Based System for Interpreting Climate Outlooks

Michael A. Palecki, ISWS, Champaign, IL; and J. R. Angel

9:00 AM

14.5

Approaches to user authentication at a climate research Web site

Julia A. Collins, NOAA/CDC and CIRES/Univ. of Colorado, Boulder, CO

9:15 AM

14.6

National Climate Extremes Committee's Evaluation of the Reported 1,140 Inch National Seasonal Snowfall Record at the Mount Baker, Washington Ski Area

Robert J. Leffler, NOAA/NWS, Silver Spring, MD; and A. H. Horvitz, M. Changery, R. Downs, K. T. Redmond, and G. Taylor

9:30 AM

14.7

National Weather Service Cooperative Observer Program Initiatives

Robert J. Leffler, NOAA/NWS, Silver Spring, MD; and A. H. Horvitz

9:45 AM

14.8

A Spatial Approach to Determining the Optimum Density of the National Weather Service Cooperative Observers Network

Stephen A. Del Greco, NOAA/NCDC, Asheville, NC; and D. Mannarano, R. Leffler, C. Nelson, and B. Rippey

10:00 AM

14.9

An Evaluation of the Sensitivity of Local Climate Statistics Generated from the Output of a 3-D Mesoscale Atmospheric Model to Observed Data Availability

Glenn E. Van Knowe, MESO, Inc., Troy, NY; and J. W. Zack, S. Young, M. D. Bousquet, P. E. Price, and C. E. Graves

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

Session 11

Energy use and design

Host: Second Symposium on Environmental Applications

Organizer: Robert Swanson, Climatological Consulting Corporation

8:30 AM

11.1

Future Electric Energy Sources and Production in the U.S

C. McGowian, EPRI, Palo Alto, CA

8:45 AM

11.2

The Use of Meteorological Information In Support of 21st Century Environmental Applications to Nuclear Energy

Carl A. Mazzola, Stone & Webster Engineering Corporation, Evans, GA

9:00 AM

11.3

Renewable Energy: The Status of Wind Energy at the Beginning of the New Decade

Edward F. McCarthy, Wind Economics & Technology, Inc., Martinez, CA

9:15 AM

11.4

Advances in Hydrologic Forecasting and their Impact on Water Management

Larry E. Brazil, Riverside Technology, Inc., Fort Collins, CO; and G. N. Day and D. J. Epstein

9:30 AM

11.5

Surface solar energy and meteorological data available for renewable energy use

John O. Olson, Computer Sciences Corporation, Hampton, VA; and C. Whitlock, A. Carlson, N. A. Ritchey, D. Brown, and W. Chandler

9:45 AM

11.6

A dynamical-statistical atmospheric modeling system designed to simulate wind-generated power production rates

John W. Zack, MESO, Inc., Troy, NY; and K. T. Waight, G. E. Van Knowe, and M. D. Bousquet

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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

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