| Saturday, 13 January 2001 |
| 7:30 AM-9:00 AM, Saturday
1 Workshop Registration |
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| Sunday, 14 January 2001 |
| 9:00 AM-6:00 PM, Sunday
Conference Registration |
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| Monday, 15 January 2001 |
| 8:30 AM-5:15 PM, Monday
Session 1 IIPS advancements/applications in Forecasting and Observation System Technologies, Climatology, Oceanography, and Hydrology (Parallel with Session 2, 3, J1, & J2) |
Organizers: Floyd F. Hauth, USAF (Retired), Osceola Mills, PA; Terry Tarbell, Litton/PRC, McLean, VA; Larry Denton
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| 8:30 AM | | Introductory Remarks by IIPS Conference Cochairmen. Floyd Hauth & Terry Tarbell
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| 8:45 AM | 1.1B | National Weather Service Cooperative Observer Program (CO-OP) Annual Report
Robert J. Leffler, NOAA/NWS, Silver Spring, MD; and A. H. Horvitz and R. E. Livezey |
| 9:00 AM | 1.2 | SAWS (Stand Alone Weather Sensors), the FAA's Newest Weather Station
Timothy E. Parker, Coastal Environmental Systems, Seattle, WA; and G. L. Stringer, D. M. Ellefson, and P. A. Lau |
| 9:15 AM | 1.3 | Design and Installation Of The Fog Prediction System In The Antarctic
Gary L. Stringer, Coastal Environmental Systems, Seattle, WA; and S. J. Newell |
| 9:30 AM | 1.4 | D3D: A potential 3D visualization tool for the National Weather Service
Edward J. Szoke, NOAA/ERL/FSL, Boulder, CO; and U. H. Grote, P. C. Kucera, P. T. McCaslin, P. A. McDonald, and W. F. Roberts |
| 9:45 AM | 1.5 | Coach: Initial results from an operational performance support system at the Tulsa WFO
Steven E. Nelson, NOAA/NWS, Tulsa, OK; and L. P. Rothfusz |
| 10:00 AM | | Coffee Break
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| 10:30 AM | 1.6 | Effects of using different Stage III techniques on radar-derived rainfall accumulations
Keith Stellman, NOAA/NWS, Slidell, LA; and J. Graschel |
| 10:45 AM | 1.7 | GIS ANALYSIS OF POSITION ERRORS IN CURRENT HYDROMETEOROLOGICAL PRACTICE
Scott T. Shipley, Raytheon Technical Services Company, Lanham, MD; and H. Kilcoyne |
| 11:00 AM | 1.8 | Application of the Product Availability Monitoring System (PAMS) to the Radar Product Central Collection/Distribution Service (RPCCDS) Demonstration
Mary D. Buckingham, NOAA/NWS, Silver Spring, MD; and K. B. Nguyen |
| 11:15 AM | 1.9 | Using a GIS to Estimate the Spatial Variation of Precipitation Due to Topography
Tamara G. Creech, NOAA/NCDC, Asheville, NC; and A. L. McNab |
| 11:30 AM | 1.10 | Developing local Quantitative Precipitation Forecast (QPF) using neural networks
Keith M. Stellman, NOAA/NWS, Slidell, LA; and J. Kuhn and J. Graschel |
| 11:45 AM | 1.11 | Distributed Atmospheric Mesoscale Prediction System (DAMPS)
John P. Garthner, FNMOC, Monterey, CA |
| 12:00 PM | | Lunch Break
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| 1:30 PM | 1.12 | Injecting Meteorology into the GFE Suite
Thomas J. LeFebvre, NOAA/ERL/FSL, Boulder, CO; and M. Mathewson, T. Hansen, and M. Romberg |
| 1:45 PM | 1.13 | Forecast Methodology using the GFE Suite
Tracy Hansen, NOAA/ERL/FSL, Boulder, CO; and M. Mathewson, T. J. LeFebvre, and M. Romberg |
| 2:00 PM | 1.14 | MM5 Performance on an IBM SP: SMP and MPP Comparisons
Keith H. North, IBM, Omaha, NE; and J. Tuccillo and J. D. Benson |
| 2:15 PM | 1.15 | Integrating Multiple Transport and Diffusion Codes Into A Unified Software Architecture
Charles Drutman, Litton-TASC, Inc., Reading, MA; and P. S. Dailey and R. Fauth |
| 2:30 PM | 1.16 | Weather Support to USAF Airborne Laser
Michael W. Johnson, USAF, Kirtland AFB, NM |
| 2:45 PM | 1.17 | Integrating Weather Modeling Capabilities for the Air Force Weather Agency: Community Coordinated Modeling Center (CCMC)
Stephen L. Flagg, TRW, Inc., Bellevue, NE; and K. M. Starr and M. D. Kaufman |
| 3:00 PM | | Coffee Break
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|  | 1.18 | Weather Impact Decision Aids for Tactical Military Planning
Jeffrey S. Morrison, Litton-TASC, Reading, MA; and M. J. Gouveia and P. Tattelman |
| 3:30 PM | 1.19 | Customizing Global/Theater Weather Analysis and Prediction System Data Sets
Chris Franks, Harris Corp, Bellevue, NE |
| 3:44 PM | 1.20 | Arctic Theme Page: Access to widely distributed Arctic data and information
Nancy N. Soreide, NOAA/OAR/PMEL, Seattle, WA; and J. E. Overland and J. Calder |
| 3:59 PM | 1.21 | An Environmental Tailoring System for the Modeling and Simulation Community
Peter S. Dailey, Litton-TASC, Inc., Reading, MA; and R. A. Reynolds |
| 4:14 PM | 1.22 | Site Planning, Monitoring, and Analysis of Hazardous Material Releases in the Atmosphere Using the OMEGA Modeling System and EDGE Visualization Environment
Steven G. Hoffert, Autometric, Inc., Springfield, VA; and T. J. Dunn |
| | 1.23 | Integration of Real Time Mesoscale NWP with NWS Operational Forecasting
Peter S. Dailey, Litton-TASC, Inc., Reading, MA; and S. Cunningham |
| 4:29 PM | 1.24 | Developing Case Studies for AWIPS
Dolores Kiessling, UCAR/COMET, Boulder, CO |
| 4:43 PM | 1.25 | Case study playback functionality in AWIPS
Elizabeth M. Page, NOAA/NWS, Boulder, CO; and D. L. Davis and M. Magsig |
| 4:58 PM | 1.26 | Porting AWIPS to Linux
Darien L. Davis, NOAA/ERL/FSL, Boulder, CO; and U. H. Grote |
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| 9:00 AM-12:00 PM, Monday
Session 2 Weather Services of the Future (Parallel with Session 1 & 3) |
Organizer: Elbert (Joe) W. Friday, National Academy of Sciences/National Research Council, Washington, DC
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| 9:00 AM | 2.1 | Invited Presentation: Vision of Future Weather Services
Richard Anthes, UCAR, Boulder, CO |
| 9:30 AM | 2.2 | Invited Presentation: NWS Future Services
John J. (Jack) Kelly Jr., NOAA/NWS, Silver Spring, MD |
| 10:00 AM | | Coffee Break
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| 10:30 AM | 2.3 | Invited Presentation: USAF Future Weather Services
Brig. General David Johnson, USAF/XOW, Washington, DC |
| 11:00 AM | 2.4 | Invited Presentation: U.S. Navy Future Weather/Oceanographic Services
Rear Admiral Thomas Quinton Donaldson V, Naval Meteorology and Oceanography Command, Bay St. Louis, MS |
| 11:30 AM | 2.5 | Activities of the Federal Aviation Administration's Aviation Weather Research Program
Gloria J. Kulesa, FAA, Washington, DC; and P. J. Kirchoffer, D. J. Pace, W. L. Fellner, J. E. Sheets, and V. S. Travers |
| 11:45 AM | 2.6 | The New England Weather Observation Network: A 21st Century Vision for Environmental Monitoring and Science Education in the New England States
James E. Lee, NOAA/NWSFO, Taunton, MA; and J. W. Cannon, J. A. Ronco, F. Colby, J. Schoof, P. Sisson, C. Mcgill, J. Edson, L. Dupigny-Giroux, N. T. Atkins, D. Taylor, B. Keim, H. Yang, C. Sawyer, M. Michaels, and J. S. Tongue |
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| 10:00 AM-10:30 AM, Monday
Coffee Break |
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| 10:30 AM-4:15 PM, Monday
Session 3 IIPS Applications in Radar (Parallel with Sessions 1, J1, and J2) |
Organizers: Robert Saffle, Paul Nipko, and Michael Istok, NOAA/NWS, Silver Spring, MD; Donald Burgess, NOAA/NSSL, Norman, OK
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| 10:30 AM | | Introductory Remarks. Robert Saffle, NOAA/NWS
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| 10:45 AM | 3.1B | NEXRAD Open Systems–Progress and Plans
Robert E. Saffle, NOAA/NWS, Silver Spring, MD; and M. J. Istok and L. D. Johnson |
| 11:00 AM | 3.2 | Status of WSR-88D Open Radar Product Generator Development and Deployment
J. Rex Reed, NOAA/NWS/OSF, Norman, OK; and G. Cate |
| 11:15 AM | 3.3 | 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 W. M. Blanchard, M. J. Istok, P. K. Pickard, S. Shema, S. M. Holt, and L. D. Johnson |
| 11:30 AM | 3.3A | (Formerly paper 3.14) Proof of concept development process for the NEXRAD Open RDA
Bill Bumgarner, BAE SYSTEMS, Washington, DC; and S. Shema |
| 11:45 AM | 3.4 | Weather Surveillance Radar—1988 Doppler (WSR-88D) Open Radar Data Acquisition (ORDA) Enhancements
Robert C. Elvander, NOAA/NWS, Silver Spring, MD; and S. M. Holt, B. Bumgarner, and R. Ice |
| 12:00 PM | | Lunch Break
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| 1:30 PM | 3.5 | Integrating New Algorithms into the WSR-88D: Algorithm Development in the pre-CODE Environment
Thomas J. Ganger, Mitretek Systems, Inc., McLean, VA; and A. D. Stern, R. E. Saffle, and M. J. Istok |
| 1:45 PM | 3.6 | CODE Design and Services for the WSR-88D ORPG: The Future of Radar Algorithm Development
Andrew D. Stern, Mitretek Systems, Inc., McLean, VA; and T. J. Ganger, R. E. Saffle, and M. J. Istok |
| 2:00 PM | 3.7 | WSR-88D Algorithm Development Techniques using Visual Programming
Andrew D. Stern, Mitretek Systems, Inc., McLean, VA; and T. J. Ganger, S. A. Dobbs, and R. E. Saffle |
| 2:15 PM | 3.8 | Performance Assessment of the SZ(8/64) Phase Code to Separate Weather Signals in a Research WSR-88D
Charles L. Frush, NCAR, Boulder, CO; and R. J. Doviak |
| 2:30 PM | 3.9 | The Radar Echo Classifier for the WSR-88D
Cathy Kessinger, NCAR, Boulder, CO; and J. VanAndel |
| 2:45 PM | 3.10 | Compensating reflectivity for clutter filter bias in the WSR-88D
S. M. Ellis, NCAR, Boulder, CO |
| 3:00 PM | | Coffee Break
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| 3:30 PM | 3.11 | New Data Compression Techniques for Radar and Satellite Data
Wei Yan, University of Science and Technology, Nanjing, Jiansu, China; and N. Ma and Q. Wang |
| 3:45 PM | 3.12 | Development of a WSR-88D based precipitation accumulation algorithm for quantitative precipitation estimates over northwest Oregon
Curtis L. Hartzell, U.S. Dept. of the Interior, Bureau of Reclamation, Denver, CO; and S. M. Hunter and E. W. Holroyd |
| | 3.13 | Evaluation of Digital Receiver Technology for the WSR-88D Receiver, Progress and Promise
Richard L. Ice, WSR-88D OSF, Norman, OK; and A. Zahrai |
| 4:00 PM | 3.13A | Project CRAFT: A Test Bed for Demonstrating the Real Time Acquisition and Archival of WSR-88D Base (Level II) Data
Kelvin Droegemeier, Univ. of Oklahoma, Norman, OK |
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| 1:15 PM-3:00 PM, Monday
Joint Session 1 Delivery of Scientific and Technical Information on the World Wide Web Pertaining to the Atmosphere, the Oceans and the Coastal Zone:Part I (Joint between 10 Symp on Education and 17 Conf on IIPS; Cosponsered by the Committee on Meteorology and Oceanography of the Coastal Zone) |
Organizers: Carl D. Thormeyer, FNMOC, Monterey, CA; Paul H. Ruscher, Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL; Henry Robinson, NOAA/NWS, Silver Srping, MD
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| 1:15 PM | J1.1 | Application of the NWS/COMET® Case Study Library to Development of Web-based Training
Elizabeth M. Page, NOAA/NWS, Boulder, CO; and P. O'Reilly, J. Weber, and D. Kiessling |
| 1:30 PM | J1.2 | Weather for the common man (or woman): a web course for the masses
Debbie M. Schaum, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, Daytona Beach, FL; and R. C. Bagby |
| 1:45 PM | J1.3 | Webcasts: A Method for Rapidly Delivering Expertise and Training
Wendy Schreiber-Abshire, UCAR/COMET, Boulder, CO; and P. Parrish, J. Lamos, and G. Byrd |
| 2:00 PM | J1.4 | Using the Web to support teaching introductory classes in meteorology
Steve A Ackerman, CIMSS/Univ. of Wisconsin, Madison, WI; and T. Whittaker |
| 2:15 PM | J1.5 | How the Maury Project Supports Teaching and Learning about Marine and Coastal Environments
David R. Smith, United States Naval Academy, Annapolis, MD; and I. W. Geer and D. E. McManus |
| 2:30 PM | J1.6 | Using VISITview for real-time collaborations
Thomas M. Whittaker, SSEC/CIMSS/Univ. of Wisconsin, Madison, WI; and B. Grant, S. Bachmeier, T. Mostek, B. Motta, K. Schrab, and G. Wade |
| 2:45 PM | J1.7 | Navy Weather and Ocean charts available to Educators via the open Internet for use in classroom training
Carl D. Thormeyer, FNMOC, Monterey, CA |
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| 3:00 PM-3:30 PM, Monday
Coffee Break |
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| 3:30 PM-4:45 PM, Monday
Joint Session 2 Delivery of Scientific and Technical Information on the World Wide Web Pertaining to the Atmosphere, the Oceans and the Coastal Zone: Part II (Joint between 10 Education and 17 IIPS; Cosponsered by the Committee on Meteorology and Oceanography of the Coastal Zone) |
Organizers: Paul H. Ruscher, Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL; Carl D. Thormeyer, FNMOC, Monterey, CA; Henry Robinson, NOAA/NWS, Silver Spring, MD
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| | J2.1 | AMS Educational Intitiatives Foster Internet Resource on the World Wide Web
George W. Rumpp, Colonial School District, Plymouth Meeting, PA; and P. E. Rumpp |
| 3:30 PM | J2.2 | Water in the Earth System (WES): A Report on First Year Activities
Ira W. Geer, AMS, Washington, DC; and D. R. Smith, J. M. Moran, and R. S. Weinbeck |
| 3:45 PM | J2.3 | Improving hydrologic literacy and the web
Jim Washburne, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ; and G. Woodard, J. Luft, and K. Carpenter |
| 4:00 PM | J2.4 | Integrating GLOBE Student Data Observations at NCDC in Climate Monitoring Activities
Thomas F. Ross, NOAA/NESDIS/NCDC, Asheville, NC; and K. C. Chhak and W. M. Faas |
| 4:15 PM | J2.5 | A Digital Library for Earth System Education
Mary R. Marlino, UCAR, Boulder, CO; and C. Manduca, D. Mogk, K. Ginger, D. Fulker, and T. Sumner |
| 4:30 PM | J2.6 | The Technology Behind a Virtual Exploratorium: A Resource for Discovery-Based Learning in the Geosciences
Daniel J. Bramer, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL; and K. Hay, M. R. Marlino, D. Middleton, R. Pandya, M. Ramamurthy, T. Scheitlin, and B. Wilhelmson |
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| 5:00 PM, Monday
Oral Sessions end for the day |
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| 5:30 PM-7:30 PM, Monday
Formal Opening of Exhibits with Reception (Cash Bar) |
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| Tuesday, 16 January 2001 |
| 8:00 AM-5:28 PM, Tuesday
Session 4 Distributed Data Access (Parallel with Sessions 5 & 6) |
Organizers: Nancy Soreide, NOAA/PMEL, Seattle, WA; Howard Diamond, NOAA/NESDIS, Silver Spring, MD; Linda Miller, UCAR, Boulder, CO
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| 8:00 AM | | Introductory Remarks. Nancy Soreide, NOAA/PMEL
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| 8:15 AM | 4.1B | The Global Observing System Information Center (GOSIC)
J. R. Wilson, Univ. of Delaware, Lewes, DE |
| 8:30 AM | 4.2 | Issues in International Information Policy
Martin Yerg, NOAA/NWS, Silver Spring, MD; and P. Weiss and G. Tallia |
| 8:45 AM | 4.3 | Canadian Geospatial Data Infrastructure (CGDI) Access Services
T. Fisher, Canada Centre for Remote Sensing, Ottawa, ON, Canada |
| 9:00 AM | 4.4 | The Federal Geographic Data Committee Metadata Clearinghouse
John Moeller, U.S. Geological Survey, Reston, VA; and D. Niebert |
| 9:15 AM | 4.5 | GeoData Alliance
John Moeller, U.S. Geological Survey, Reston, VA |
| | 4.6 | Digital Earth Initiative
Mark Reichardt, U.S. Geological Survey, Reston, VA |
| 9:30 AM | 4.7 | National Atlas: Distributed National Assets
Jay Donnelly, U.S. Geological Survey, Reston, VA |
| 9:44 AM | 4.8 | The National Environmental Data Index (NEDI): A Web Portal on Federal Environmental Information Resources
Howard J. Diamond, NOAA/NESDIS, Silver Spring, MD; and C. Miller |
| 9:59 AM | | Coffee Break
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| 10:29 AM | 4.9 | The Infrastructure Applications Supporting the Integrated Natural Environment Authoritative Respresentation Program Process (INE ARP)
Steven J. Lowe, SAIC, Hampton, VA; and R. A. Siquig and E. A. Kihn |
| 10:44 AM | 4.10 | Generating Physically Consistent, Integrated Environmental Databases from Distributed Data and Modeling Resources
Steven J. Lowe, SAIC, Hampton, VA; and N. Alper, A. Nakajima, and K. Orcutt |
| 10:59 AM | 4.11 | The US GODAE Monterey Data Server
David Dimitriou, FNMOC, Monterey, CA |
| 11:14 AM | 4.12 | Supporting Interagency Collaboration through the Global Change Data and Information System (GCDIS): Distributed Systems
Lola Olsen, NASA/GSFC, Greenbelt, MD; and H. J. Diamond and W. Ferrell |
| 11:29 AM | 4.13 | Gateway to the Earth: Opening Natural Science to the World
Kenneth J. Lanfear, U.S. Geological Survey, Reston, VA |
| 11:44 AM | 4.14 | Portals of Discovery: Customized Gateways to Discovering Earth Science Data
Scott A Ritz, NASA Global Change Master Directory, Lanham, MD |
| 11:59 AM | 4.15 | The Information Management System of NASA's EOS Data and Information System
Robin Pfister, NASA/GSFC, Greenbelt, MD |
| 12:14 PM | | Conference Luncheon
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| 2:14 PM | 4.16 | NASA's EOS Data Gateway
Robin Pfister, NASA/GSFC, Greenbelt, MD; and K. McDonald |
| 2:29 PM | 4.17 | The Data and Information Access Link (DIAL)
Kenneth R. McDonald, NASA/GSFC, Greenbelt, MD; and R. Suresh and L. Di |
| 2:44 PM | 4.18 | The NASA GSFC Distributed Active Archive Center (DAAC): serving user needs for free access to EOS data, products and information
Gilberto A. Vicente, Raytheon ITSS and NASA/GSFC, Greenbelt, MD; and G. Serafino, W. Teng, H. Rui, L. Chiu, J. Bonk, P. Hrubiak, N. Pollack, R. Yang, and Z. Liu |
| 2:59 PM | 4.19 | The Unidata LDM System: Recent Improvements for Scalability
Russell K. Rew, UCAR, Boulder, CO; and A. Wilson |
| 3:14 PM | 4.20 | DODS, The Distributed Ocean Data System
Steve Hankin, NOAA/PMEL, Seattle, WA |
| 3:29 PM | | Coffee Break
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| 3:59 PM | 4.21 | Accessing Remote Data Servers through Java
Don Murray, UCAR, Boulder, CO; and T. Whittaker and J. Kelly |
| 4:14 PM | 4.22 | The Environmental Scenario Generator
Eric A. Kihn, NOAA/NGDC, Boulder, CO; and M. Zhizhin, S. J. Lowe, and R. A. Siquig |
| 4:29 PM | 4.23 | The Development and Demonstration of an Advanced Fisheries Management Information System
Allan R. Robinson, Harvard Univ., Cambridge, MA; and et al |
| 4:44 PM | 4.24 | A Climate Data Portal
Nancy N. Soreide, NOAA/OAR/PMEL, Seattle, WA; and C. L. Sun, B. J. Kilonsky, D. W. Denbo, and W. H. Zhu |
| 4:59 PM | 4.25 | Managing and Distributing Geospatial Dat at NOAA's National Data Centers (NNDC)
Ted Habermann, NOAA/NESDIS, Boulder, CO |
| | 4.26 | CONDUIT, the Second Generation
Linda I. Miller, UCAR, Boulder, CO; and S. R. Chiswell, P. A. Hirschberg, and A. C. Darling |
| 5:14 PM | 4.27 | UCAR's Real-Time and Restrospective Data Access Project
Tom Yoksas, UCAR, Boulder, CO; and S. Worley |
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| 8:00 AM-11:45 AM, Tuesday
Session 5 Special session on applications of IIPS in surface transportation (Parallel with Session 4) |
Organizer: Paul Pisano, Dept. of Transportation, Washington, DC
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| 8:00 AM | | Introductory Remarks. Paul Pisano, Dept. of Transportation
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| 8:15 AM | 5.1B | Weather Information for Surface Transportation (WIST): Establishing the National Needs and Requirements
Samuel P. Williamson, NOAA, Silver Spring, MD; and B. K. Tsugawa and C. A. Moren |
| 8:30 AM | 5.2 | The FHWA Road Weather Management Program for Decision Support
Gary G. Nelson, Mitretek Systems, Inc., Washington, DC; and P. Pisano |
| 8:45 AM | 5.3 | National Surface Transportation Weather Program: Partnering Initiative
David Mannarano, NOAA/NWS, Silver Spring, MD; and P. Pisano |
| 9:00 AM | 5.4 | Winter Road Maintenance Decision Support System (MDSS): Part I
George Blaisdale, CCREL, Hanover, NH |
| 9:15 AM | 5.5 | Winter Road Maintenance Decision Support System (MDSS): Part II
Richard A. Wagoner, NCAR, Boulder, CO |
| 9:30 AM | 5.6 | Application of Road Weather Information Systems in the western United States
John Horel, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT; and M. Splitt and S. Conger |
| | 5.7 | A GIS-Based Automated Weather Event Notification System for the Railroad Industry
Douglas P. Chenevert, DTN Weather Services, Burnsville, MN; and G. Liknes, J. Lystad, C. Reece, and K. Crowe |
| 9:45 AM | | Coffee Break
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| 10:15 AM | 5.8 | Invited Panel Discussion: Issues/Technologies in Weather Support for Surface Transportation. Moderator: Samuel Williamson
Greg Mandt, NOAA/NWS; and L. Yoshida, W. Mahoney, D. Grimes, W. Brown, and D. Jonas |
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| 10:00 AM-2:00 PM, Tuesday
Exhibit Hours |
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| 10:00 AM-2:00 PM, Tuesday
Exhibit Hours |
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| 12:15 PM, Tuesday
Annual Meeting Luncheon |
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| 2:15 PM-5:43 PM, Tuesday
Session 6 European and other international applications (Parallel with Session 4) |
Organizers: Horst Boettger, ECMWF, Reading, Berks. United Kingdom; John Lincoln, Consultant, Berryville, VA
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| 2:15 PM | | Introductory Remarks. John Lincoln, Consultant
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| 2:30 PM | 6.1B | Goals and Activities of the European Meteorological Society (EMS)
Rene Morin, EMS, Paris, France |
| 2:45 PM | 6.2 | Access to ECMWF archive and information
Horst Böttger, ECMWF, Reading, Berks., United Kingdom; and D. Marbouty, K. Fielding, and B. Raoult |
| 3:00 PM | 6.3 | METVIEW meteorological data visualisation and processing software at ECMWF
Jens Daabeck, ECMWF, Reading, Berks., United Kingdom; and G. Austad, R. Bonifacio, F. Ii, A. Jørgensen, V. Karhila, P. O'Sullivan, and B. Raoult |
| 3:15 PM | 6.4 | Semi-automation facilities on Horace
Alan M. Radford, UK Met Office, Bracknell, Berks., United Kingdom |
| 3:30 PM | | Coffee Break
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| 4:00 PM | 6.5 | Porting Horace to Linux
Mike Hobson, UK Met Office, Bracknell, Berks., United Kingdom |
| | 6.6 | Synergie Météo-France meteorological workstation improvements
Magali Stoll, Meteo-France, Toulouse, France; and M. F. Voidrot |
| | 6.7 | Operational use of Synergie for aeronautical forecasts
Marie-Françoise Voidrot, Meteo-France, Toulouse, France |
| 4:13 PM | 6.8 | Graphical Interaction on Gridded Fields: Integration in an operational forecaster's workstation
Dick Blaauboer, KNMI, De Bilt, Netherlands; and P. Heppner |
| 4:28 PM | 6.9 | The AURORA Nowcasting Platform-Extending the concept of a modifiable database for short range forecasting
Brian Greaves, MSC, King City, ON, Canada; and R. Trafford, N. Driedger, R. Paterson, D. M. L. Sills, D. Hudak, and N. Donaldson |
| 4:43 PM | 6.10 | AutoTAF—The design, development and implementation of an automated tool for the production of Terminal Aerodrome Forecasts
J. Godau, BOM, Melbourne, Vic., Australia; and C. Shepherdley, E. Tan, and G. J. Whiteley |
| 4:58 PM | 6.11 | Implementation of the National Weather Service River Forecast System in Nicaragua
James A. McNitt, NOAA/NWS and Computer Sciences Corp., Rockville, MD; and D. G. Lillie |
| 5:13 PM | 6.12 | Rainfall Quality Control–A purpose-built semi-automated, interactive graphical application
Gary T. Weymouth, BOM, Melbourne, Vic., Australia; and E. Ebert, A. E. Guymer, and D. Lang |
| 5:28 PM | 6.13 | Impact of Lost Russian RAOBs on Numerical Weather Prediction Skill
M. Steven Tracton, NOAA/NWS/NCEP, Camp Springs, MD; and R. Kistler and J. Giraytys |
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| 3:30 PM-7:00 PM, Tuesday
0a Exhibit Hours |
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| 5:30 PM-7:00 PM, Tuesday
Grand Poster Night |
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| 5:30 PM-7:30 PM, Tuesday
Poster Session 1 IIPS Poster Session: Formal Viewing |
Organizer: Steve Holt, Mitretek, Inc., McLean, VA
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| | P1.1 | Spectrum width Patterns
Valery M. Melnikov, CIMMS/Univ. of Oklahoma, Norman, OK; and R. J. Doviak |
| | P1.2 | The development and utilization of graphical forecasts at NWS Corpus Christi
Andrew R. Patrick, NOAA/NWS, Corpus Christi, TX; and J. M. Coyne |
| | P1.3 | Teletraining Using VISITview
Anthony Mostek, NOAA/NWS, Boulder, CO; and S. Bachmeier, T. Whittaker, D. Bikos, B. Motta, B. Grant, and J. LaDue |
| | P1.4 | The online FX-Net user manual
Donald M. Dumont, Plymouth State College, Plymouth, NH; and C. S. Lopresti and J. P. Koermer |
| | P1.5 | The use of acoustic wind profilers for Uninhabited Aerial Vehicle flight test activities
Casey J. Donohue, AS&M, Inc., Edwards, CA; and K. H. Underwood and D. G. Bellue |
| | P1.6 | Use of Oklahoma Mesonet and National Weather Service Data in the Development of Control Strategies for Winter-time Bridge Heating
Kala N. Pandit, Oklahoma State Univ., Stillwater, OK; and B. K. Callihan, D. S. Arndt, S. C. Jenks, J. R. Whiteley, and R. L. Elliott |
| | P1.7 | Weather Effects Predictions for Military Mission Planning
Christopher Plonka, TASC, Reading, MA |
| | P1.8 | New software to monitor satellite soundings at NOAA/NESDIS
Richard Kelley Jr., Computer Sciences Corporation, Suitland, MD |
| | P1.9 | A Fifteen Year Time Series of Longwave and Shortwave Radiation Measurements for Environmental and Climate Change Studies
T. Dale Bess, LRC, Hampton, VA; and T. Wong, G. L. Smith, and K. A. Bush |
| | P1.10 | A model for forecasting frost accumulation on bridge decks based on RWIS data
David S. Knollhoff, NOAA/NWS, Johnston, IA; and E. S. Takle, W. A. Gallus, D. Burkheimer, and D. McCauley |
| | P1.11 | A winter weather index to estimate maintenance costs in the Midwest
Bradley Temeyer, Iowa State University, Ames, IA; and W. A. Gallus, E. S. Takle, D. Burkheimer, and D. McCauley |
| | P1.12 | Analysis software for the Aerosonde robotic aircraft
Kendal McGuffie, University of Technology, Broadway, NSW, Australia; and J. R. Soddell and J. Becker |
| | P1.13 | HPVCI-Webpage Delivery of Operational Modeling
Paul J. Croft, Jackson State University, Jackson, MS; and R. Mahecha, J. Hafner, K. Greene, R. S. Reddy, and P. J. Fitzpatrick |
| | P1.14 | Immersadesk demonstrations: oceanographic and atmospheric models and in-situ data
Christopher W. Moore, JISAO/Univ. of Washington, Seattle, WA; and N. N. Soreide |
| | P1.15 | Neural network based retrieval of wind and temperature Profiles from combined surface and satellite observations
Edward M. Measure, U.S. Army Research Lab., White Sands Missile Range, NM; and Y. Yee, M. Bleiweiss, and J. Cogan |
| | P1.16 | Earth Science Markup Language
Rahul Ramachandran, Univ. of Alabama, Huntsville, AL; and M. Alshayeb, B. Beaumont, H. Conover, S. Graves, N. Hanish, X. Li, S. Movva, A. McDowell, and M. Smith |
| | P1.17 | NEXRAD Product Improvement: Overview of NEXRAD Open System Plans
Robert E. Saffle, NOAA/NWS, Silver Spring, MD |
| | P1.18 | Integrated Meteorological Information for Aviation Users
Dimitar Ivanov, Air Traffic Services Authority, Sofia, Bulgaria; and A. Kolarov and A. Weipert |
| | P1.19 | Coastal Data Processing
Richard Barazotto, NOAA/National Ocean Service, Silver Spring, MD |
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| Wednesday, 17 January 2001 |
| 8:00 AM-9:30 AM, Wednesday
President's Symposium |
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| 9:30 AM-10:00 AM, Wednesday
Coffee Break |
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| 10:00 AM, Wednesday
President's Symposium Continued |
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| 1:30 PM-5:15 PM, Wednesday
Session 7 Distributed Data Access: Part II (Parallel with Sessions 8 & 9) |
Organizer: Richard K. Thigpen, NOAA/NWS, Silver Spring, MD
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| 1:30 PM | | Introductory Remarks. Richard Thigpen, NOAA/NWS
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| 1:45 PM | 7.1B | An Overview of the NWS Telecommunication Gateway
James Fenix, NOAA/NWS, Silver Spring, MD |
| 2:00 PM | 7.2 | Data and the NWS, an overview of NWS Telecommunication Gateway data management
Fredrick R. Branski, NOAA/NWS, Silver Spring, MD |
| 2:15 PM | 7.3 | NOAAPort Present and Future
Chuck Piercy, NOAA/NWS, Silver Spring, MD |
| 2:30 PM | 7.4 | NOAAPort Broadcast Technical Update
Leroy Klet, Litton/PRC, McLean, VA |
| 2:45 PM | 7.5 | Radar Products Central Collection/Distribution Service
Michael G. Carelli, NOAA/NWS, Silver Spring, MD |
| 3:00 PM | | Coffee Break
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| 3:30 PM | 7.6 | Acquisition, Archive and Dissemination Services for WSR-88D Level II Base Data at the National Climatic Data Center
Stephen A. Del Greco, NOAA/NCDC, Asheville, NC; and A. Hall and C. Towles |
| 3:45 PM | 7.7 | EMWIN system description and future plans
Santos Rodriguez Jr., NOAA/NWS, Silver Spring, MD |
| 4:00 PM | 7.8 | NOAA Weather Wire System
Doug Walls, NOAA/NWS, Silver Spring, MD |
| 4:15 PM | 7.9 | NWS communications identifiers, heading for the future!
Fredrick R. Branski, NOAA/NWS, Silver Spring, MD |
| 4:30 PM | 7.10 | The Overview of the NOAA Weather Radio System
Ken Putkovich, NOAA/NWS, Silver Spring, MD |
| 4:45 PM | 7.11 | Technology to Serve the Deaf via NOAA Weather Radio
Mike Campbell, NOAA/NWS, Flagstaff, AZ |
| 5:00 PM | 7.12 | Upcoming changes to NCEP numerical forecast products
John H. Ward, NOAA/NWS/NCEP, Camp Springs, MD |
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| 1:30 PM-4:15 PM, Wednesday
Session 8 IIPS Applications in Satellites (Parallel with Sessions 7 & 9) |
Organizers: Ron Gird, NOAA/NWS, Silver Spring, MD; Gerald Dittberner, NOAA/NESDIS
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| 1:30 PM | | Introductory Remarks. Ron Gird, NOAA/NWS
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| 1:45 PM | 8.1B | NOAA's Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite (GOES) Program–A Status Report
Gerald J. Dittberner, NOAA/NESDIS, Suitland, MD |
| 2:00 PM | 8.2 | GOES Image Enhancement Study–A Feasibility Test
Edward G. Howard, NOAA/DOC, Washington, DC; and G. Ellrod, D. G. Gray, and J. J. Gurka |
| 2:15 PM | 8.3 | GOES M Solar X-ray Image Availiability
Steven M. Hill, Dept. of Commerce, NOAA, Boulder, CO; and S. Barsness, L. D. Lewis, J. Vickroy, C. C. Balch, A. Muckle, V. J. Pizzo, D. C. Wilkinson, and A. T. McClinton |
| 2:30 PM | 8.4 | GOES N, The First of the Next Series–User Community Upgrades
Arthur T. McClinton Jr., Mitretek Systems, Inc., McLean, VA; and G. J. Dittberner |
| 2:45 PM | 8.5 | Hierarchical motion decomposition for Cloud-tracking
C. Kambhamettu, University of Delaware, Newark, DE; and K. Palaniappan and A. F. Hasler |
| 3:00 PM | | Coffee Break
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| 3:30 PM | 8.6 | QuikSCAT near-real-time data processing and product generation at NOAA/NESDIS
Jeffrey M. Augenbaum, Computer Sciences Corp., Suitland, MD; and R. W. Luczak and G. Legg |
| 3:45 PM | 8.7 | Overview of an HDF-EOS-based parallel data-computing environment for multisensor satellite data merger and scientific analysis
Andrew S. Jones, CIRA/Colorado State Univ., Fort Collins, CO; and T. H. Vonder Haar |
| 4:00 PM | 8.8 | Neural Networks for Retrieval of Atmospheric Temperature Profiles from GOES VAS Data
Samir Chettri, NASA/GSFC, Greenbelt, MD; and G. Shaffer, A. Lunsford, R. Shiri, C. Cheng, and I. Han |
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| 1:30 PM-4:15 PM, Wednesday
Session 9 Visualization (Parallel with Session 7 & 8) |
Organizer: Jimmie Smith, MeteoQuest Inc., Bedford, NH
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| 1:30 PM | | Introductory Remarks. Jimmie Smith, Meteoquest, Inc.
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| 1:45 PM | 9.1B | Multiresolution Tiling for Interactive Viewing of Large Datasets
K. Palaniappan, University of Missouri, Columbia, MO; and J. B. Fraser |
| 2:00 PM | 9.2 | Using immersive virtual reality to study oceanographic and atmospheric models and in-situ data
Christopher W. Moore, JISAO/Univ. of Washington, Seattle, WA; and N. N. Soreide |
| 2:15 PM | 9.3 | Visual Data Fusion for Decision Support Applications of Numerical Weather Prediction
Lloyd A. Treinish, IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center, Yorktown Heights, NY |
| 2:30 PM | 9.4 | An Interactive Visual Computing Tool for Multi-Dimensional Scientific Analysis
Phillip A. Zuzolo, Autometric Inc., Springfield, VA; and S. G. Hoffert and A. M. Powell |
| 2:45 PM | 9.5 | HPVCI-The Big Picture
Paul J. Croft, Jackson State University, Jackson, MS; and P. J. Fitzpatrick and R. S. Reddy |
| 3:00 PM | | Coffee Break
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| 3:30 PM | 9.6 | Interactive Development of an Ice Cloud Properties Retrieval Algorithm for CIRRUS
David A. Santek, CIMSS/Univ. of Wisconsin, Madison, WI; and K. F. Evans and S. A. Ackerman |
| 3:45 PM | 9.7 | FX-NET as an weather visualization tool in undergraduate meteorological education
James P. Koermer, Plymouth State College, Plymouth, NH; and J. Zabransky, S. Madine, E. Polster, and N. Wang |
| 4:00 PM | 9.8 | Development of a GIS-Based Browser for High Spatio-Temporal Resolution Precipitation Data in the GCIP Domain
Brian R. Nelson, University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA; and W. F. Krajewski, A. Kruger, J. A. Smith, and M. L. Baeck |
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| 4:15 PM, Wednesday
Sessions end for the day |
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| 5:00 PM, Wednesday
Sessions end for the day |
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| 6:00 PM, Wednesday
Reception (Cash Bar) |
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| 7:30 PM-9:00 PM, Wednesday
AMS Annual Awards Banquet |
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| Thursday, 18 January 2001 |
| 8:00 AM-3:00 PM, Thursday
Session 10 Internet/Web Applications (Parallel with Sessions 11 & 12) |
Organizer: Donald Mock, NOAA/CDC, Boulder, CO
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| 8:00 AM | | Introductory Remarks. Donald Mock, NOAA/ERL/CDC
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| 8:15 AM | 10.1B | Community Software Design: The Unidata Java-Based MetApps Project
Don Murray, UCAR, Boulder, CO; and C. Murphy |
| 8:30 AM | 10.2 | Using Java Servlets and Java Server Pages to Distribute Climate Data
Roland H. Schweitzer, NOAA/CDC and CIRES/Univ. of Colorado, Boulder, CO |
| 8:45 AM | 10.3 | Interactive Graphics Toolkit for Java Applications and Web Applets
Donald W. Denbo, JISAO/University of Washington and NOAA/PMEL, Seattle, WA |
| 9:00 AM | 10.4 | EPIC Web Browser: On-line Access to Large Oceanographic and Meteorological In-situ Data Sets
Willa H. Zhu, JISAO/Univ. of Washington, Seattle, WA; and D. W. Denbo and N. N. Soreide |
| 9:15 AM | 10.5 | The Live Access Server and DODS: Web visualization and data fusion for distributed holdings
Steven C. Hankin, NOAA/PMEL, Seattle, WA; and J. Callahan and J. Sirott |
| 9:30 AM | 10.6 | Inside the Live Access Server
Joseph Sirott, NOAA/PMEL and JISAO/Univ. of Washington, Seattle, WA; and J. Callahan and S. Hankin |
| 9:45 AM | 10.7 | GrADS and DODS
Joseph Wielgosz, COLA, Calverton, MD; and B. E. Doty, J. Gallagher, and D. Holloway |
| 10:00 AM | | Coffee Break
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| 10:30 AM | 10.8 | A Public Key Infrastructure (PKI) approach to climate data delivery
Julia A. Collins, NOAA/OAR/CDC, Boulder, CO |
| 10:45 AM | 10.9 | Design of Modular XML documents
Thomas B. Passin, Mitretek Systems, Inc., McLean, VA |
| 11:00 AM | 10.10 | Utilizing XML to Facilitate Dynamic Content Generation: A Case Study
Stephen A. Drake, UCAR, Boulder, CO |
| 11:15 AM | 10.11 | Visualization of Meteorological and Related Data Using Plug-ins Based on TeX Technology
Michael Vulis, City College of New York, New York, NY; and S. A. Austin |
| 11:30 AM | 10.12 | CWxMAP—Customer-Driven Interactive METOC Charts via The WWW
Earl V. Ravid, FNMOC, Monterey, CA; and K. Saylor and K. W. Stroh |
| 11:45 AM | 10.13 | Network-based Visualization Using the Distributed Image SpreadSheet (DISS)
K. Palaniappan, University of Missouri, Columbia, MO; and A. F. Hasler, J. Fraser, and M. Manyin |
| 12:00 PM | | Lunch Break
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| 1:15 PM | 10.14 | Introduction to topic maps
Thomas B. Passin, Mitretek Systems, Inc., McLean, VA |
| 1:30 PM | 10.15 | Custom analysis of web server logs
Thomas B. Passin, Mitretek Systems, Inc., McLean, VA |
| 1:45 PM | 10.16 | Exploiting the Internet to Automate the Execution of Mesoscale Models
Stephen F. Kirby, U.S. Army Research Lab, White Sands Missile Range, NM; and Y. Yee, P. Haines, T. Henmi, and B. A. Malloy |
| 2:00 PM | 10.17 | Recent Training and Results from the Virtual Institute for Satellite Integration Training
Brian C. Motta, CIRA/Colorado State Univ., Fort Collins, CO; and D. Bikos, B. Zajac, S. Bachmeier, T. Whittaker, B. Grant, J. LaDue, A. Mostek, P. Wolf, J. Weaver, and R. Zehr |
| 2:15 PM | 10.18 | User Support and Operations Support Move to the Web
Ellen B. Brown, NOAA/NESDIS, Suitland, MD; and E. V. Tabor and R. Kelley |
| 2:30 PM | 10.19 | The Transition from an Information-Support System to a Decision-Support System for Public-Safety Agencies
Dale A. Morris, Oklahoma Climatological Survey/University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK; and K. A. Kloesel |
| 2:45 PM | 10.20 | TRMM Homepage for real-time data
Tetsuo Nakazawa, MRI, Tsukuba, Ibaraki, Japan; and M. Kachi |
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| 9:00 AM-10:00 AM, Thursday
Session 11 Coastal Data Management (Parallel with Session 10) |
Organizers: Fred Klein, Mitretek Systems, McLean, VA; John Ellis, NRL, Stennis Space Ctr., MS
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| 9:00 AM | 11.1 | The New National Coastal Data Development Center
Richard Barazotto, NOAA/NOS, Silver Spring, MD; and F. Klein |
| 9:15 AM | 11.2 | Supporting the Data Needs of the Coastal Community I—Harmful Algal Blooms
Cynthia L. Cooksey, NOAA/NOS, Charleston, SC |
| 9:30 AM | 11.3 | Supporting the Data Needs of the Coastal Community II—Hurricane Floyd Post-Event
Sharon LeDuc, U.S. EPA and NOAA/ARL, Research Triangle Park, NC |
| 9:45 AM | 11.4 | NCDDC Prototype Interoperability Architecture
John W. Ellis, NRL, Stennis Space Center, MS |
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| 10:00 AM, Thursday
Coffee Break |
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| 10:30 AM-4:30 PM, Thursday
Session 12 Data and Information Handling (Paralell with Sessions 10 & 13) |
Organizers: Dan McMorrow, Johns Hopkins Univ., Laurel, MD; Robert Introne, Consultant, Nashua, NH
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| 10:30 AM | | Introductory Remarks. Dan McMorrow, Johns Hopkins Univ.
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| 10:45 AM | 12.1B | Managing national datasets for AWIPS
Frances B. Curnow, NOAA/NWS, Silver Spring, MD; and J. S. Wakefield |
| 11:00 AM | 12.2 | Product Availability Monitoring System (PAMS) Use During the AWIPS Commissioning Process
Khien Ba Nguyen, NOAA/NWS, Silver Spring, MD; and J. Facundo |
| 11:15 AM | 12.3 | The NOAA MODIS/Near-Real-Time System
Paul D. Haggerty, Science and Technology Corp., Suitland, MD; and K. Sprietzer, G. Legg, and R. W. Luczak |
| 11:30 AM | 12.4 | Use of the AWIPS Commissioning Homepage as a Productivity Tool
Joseph Facundo, NOAA/NWS, Silver Spring, MD |
| 11:45 AM | 12.5 | Final Update on AWIPS Commissioning/Legacy System Decommissioning
Joseph Facundo, NOAA/NWS, Silver Spring, MD |
| 12:00 PM | | Lunch Break
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| 1:30 PM | 12.6 | GeoWeather™ Solutions Comes of Age: A GIS/Weather Decision Support System and its Value to Decision Makers
Hank Pomeranz, Litton PRC, McLean, VA |
| 1:45 PM | 12.7 | EPIC Database Management Using MySQL
Willa H. Zhu, JISAO/Univ. of Washington and NOAA/PMEL, Seattle, WA; and D. W. Denbo |
| 2:00 PM | 12.8 | An Interactive Hazard Mapping System
Zhong Liu, George Mason Univ., Fairfax, VA and NASA/GSFC, Greenbelt, MD; and L. Chiu, W. Teng, G. Serafino, R. Yang, and R. Hui |
| 2:15 PM | 12.9 | A flexible system to manage and query NOAA station history information
Jeffrey D. Arnfield, NOAA/NCDC, Asheville, NC |
| 2:30 PM | 12.10 | ncBrowse: A Graphical netCDF File Browser
Donald W. Denbo, JISAO/Univ. of Washington and NOAA/PMEL, Seattle, WA |
| 2:45 PM | 12.11 | Recent Advances in Product Availability Monitoring System (PAMS)
Khien B. Nguyen, NOAA/NWS, Silver Spring, MD; and M. D. Buckingham |
| 3:00 PM | | Coffee Break
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| 3:30 PM | 12.12 | Integration of NOS and TCOON data into AWIPS Observations
Andrew R. Patrick, NOAA/NWS, Corpus Christi, TX |
| 3:45 PM | 12.13 | Implementing the NOAA "Center of Data" concept at the Climate Diagnostics Center
Donald R. Mock, NOAA/CDC, Boulder, CO |
| 4:00 PM | 12.14 | Recent Updates and OT&E Results for the Alphanumeric Backup Replacement System (ANBURS)
Khien B. Nguyen, NOAA/NWS, Silver Spring, MD; and G. E. Griffin, D. M. Glotfelty, and T. L. Ellis |
| 4:15 PM | 12.15 | Evolving data requirements for research and education
Steven R. Chiswell, UCAR, Boulder, CO |
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| 12:00 PM-1:30 PM, Thursday
Lunch Break |
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| 3:00 PM-6:00 PM, Thursday
0b Exhibit Hours |
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| 3:00 PM-6:00 PM, Thursday
Exhibit Hours |
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| 3:30 PM-5:15 PM, Thursday
Session 13 Updates in modernized weather/climate services (Parallel with Session 12) |
Organizers: Mary Glackin, NOAA/NESDIS, Silver Spring, MD; Robert Landis, NOAA/NWS, Silver Spring, MD
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| 3:30 PM | | Introductory Remarks. Mary Glackin, NOAA/NESDIS
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| 3:45 PM | 13.1B | Visibility variability at Seattle, WA and Portland, OR: Insights into the impacts of Runway Visual Range (RVR) measurements on aviation operations
Thomas A. Seliga, Volpe National Transportation Systems Center, Cambridge, MA; and D. A. Hazen, L. Jacobs, and D. B. Lawrence |
| 4:00 PM | 13.2 | Radar environmental observations and Internet data handling for naval operations using the Lockheed Martin Tactical Environmental Processor
Timothy Maese, Lockheed Martin, Moorestown, NJ; and J. Melody, T. W. Hodge, G. Young, D. Thomson, and L. T. Rogers |
| | 13.3 | Generating Local Storm Reports and Storm Data Summaries in the AWIPS era
Dave T. Miller, Litton PRC, McLean, VA; and D. E. Murphy and J. Deng |
| 4:15 PM | 13.3A | Performance Support Delivery System for Use in Military, Civil, and Commercial Forecaster/User Weather Training and Performance Improvement
Anthony A. Guiffrida, SAIC, Satellite Beach, FL |
| 4:30 PM | 13.4 | Status of the U.S. National Global Climate Observing System (GCOS) Program
Howard J. Diamond, NOAA/NESDIS, Silver Spring, MD |
| 4:44 PM | 13.5 | Temperature Data Continuity In The ASOS (Automated Surface Observing System) Era–Determining Station Averages
Nolan J. Doesken, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO; and C. A. Davey and T. B. McKee |
| 4:59 PM | 13.6 | HAILTRAK: Radar-based real-time assessment of hail damage for the insurance industry
John F. Henz, Henz Meteorological Services, Littleton, CO |
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| 5:00 PM-6:00 PM, Thursday
Closing Reception in Exhibit Hall (Cash Bar) |
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| 5:00 PM, Thursday
Conference ends |
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| 6:30 PM, Thursday
Closing Keynote Address |
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| 7:30 PM-9:30 PM, Thursday
Fiesta |
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