| Saturday, 13 January 2001 |
| 7:30 AM-9:00 AM, Saturday
1 Workshop Registration |
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| Sunday, 14 January 2001 |
| 7:30 AM-9:30 AM, Sunday
Short Course Registration |
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| 9:00 AM-6:00 PM, Sunday
Conference Registration |
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| Monday, 15 January 2001 |
| 7:30 AM, Monday
Session Registration continues through Thursday, 18 January |
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| 10:00 AM-10:30 AM, Monday
Coffee Break |
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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 |
| 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-3:00 PM, Tuesday
Session 1 Cloud Seeding Technology |
Organizer: Roland List, Univ. of Toronto, Toronto, ON Canada
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| 3:00 PM-4:43 PM, Tuesday
Session 2 Cloud seeding Technology for Severe Thunderstorms |
Organizer: Roland List, Univ. of Toronto, Toronto, ON Canada
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| 3:00 PM | 2.1 | Overview of state of the science in hail suppression (Invited Presentation)
Brant G. Foote, NCAR, Boulder, CO |
|  | 2.2 | HAIL SUPPRESSION PROGRAM IN LEÓN (PALA) FROM 1986 TO 1999: SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION OF THE HAIL PRECIPITATION IN SEEDING PERIODS AND PERIODS WITH NO SEEDING ACTIVITIES
Jose L. Sanchez, Universidad de León, León, Spain; and R. Fraile, A. Castro, M. T. de la Fuente, and L. López |
| 3:29 PM | | Exhibit Hours (3:30–7:00 p.m.)
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| 3:30 PM | | Coffee Break
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| 3:59 PM | 2.3 | An overview of the Mendoza hail suppression program 2000
Terry W. Krauss, Weather Modification Inc., Fargo, ND; and V. Makitov |
| 4:14 PM | 2.4 | Aircraft measured microstructure of severe hailstorms in Argentina from cloud base to -45oC
Daniel Rosenfeld, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Jerusalem, Israel; and W. L. Woodley and T. W. Krauss |
| | 2.5 | Towards a tornado suppression system
Valery N. Stasenko, Russian Federal Service for Hydrometeorology and Environmental Monitoring, Moscow, Russia; and M. T. Abshaev |
| 4:28 PM | | General Discussion
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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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| Wednesday, 17 January 2001 |
| 8:00 AM-9:30 AM, Wednesday
President's Symposium |
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| 10:00 AM, Wednesday
President's Symposium Continued |
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| 1:30 PM-3:15 PM, Wednesday
Session 3 Cloud Seeding Technology for Precipitation Enhancement |
Organizer: Thomas Henderson, Atmospherics Incorporated, Fresno, CA
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| 1:30 PM | 3.1 | Review of glaciogenic seeding experiments to enhance rainfall (Invited Presentaion)
Bernard A. Silverman, Englewood, CO |
| 2:00 PM | 3.2 | Ice Nucleus Aerosols: Compositional Influences on Activities and Rates of Ice Crystal Formation
William G. Finnegan, DRI, Reno, NV |
| 2:15 PM | 3.3 | Flexible Experimental Units and Cloud Stimulations in the Italian Rain Enhancement Project
Abele Nania, TECNAGRO, Rome, Italy |
| 2:30 PM | 3.4 | The feasibility of cloud seeding in the North Platte river basin headwaters to increase mountain snowfall
Jonnie G. Medina, U. S. Bureau of Reclamation, Denver, CO |
| 2:45 PM | | General Discussion
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| 3:00 PM | | Coffee Break
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| 3:30 PM-5:30 PM, Wednesday
Session 4 Review of recent hygroscopic seeding experiments and evaluation methods for seeding experiments |
Organizer: Fernando Garcia-Garcia, Centro de Ciencias de la Atmosfera-UNAM, Deleg. Coyoacan, DF Mexico
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| 3:30 PM | 4.1 | An independent statistical reevaluation of the South African hygroscopic flare seeding experiment
Bernard A. Silverman, Englewood, CO |
| 3:45 PM | 4.2 | Chalermprakiat Royal Rain-making Research Project
Warawut Khantiyanan, Bureau of Royal Rainmaking and Agricultural Aviation, Bangkok, Thailand; and W. Sukarnjanaset and N. Tantiplubthong |
| 4:00 PM | 4.3 | Results of the Thailand Warm Cloud Hygroscopic Particle Seeding Experiment
Bernard A. Silverman, Englewood, CO; and W. Sukarnjanaset |
| 4:15 PM | 4.4 | Overview and results from the Mexican hygroscopic seeding experiment
Roelof T. Bruintjes, NCAR, Boulder, CO; and D. W. Breed, V. Salazar, M. Dixon, T. Kane, B. G. Foote, and B. G. Brown |
| 4:30 PM | 4.5 | Statistical evaluation of a cloud seeding experiment in coahuila, mexico
Tressa L. Fowler, NCAR, Boulder, CO; and B. G. Brown and R. T. Bruintjes |
| 4:45 PM | 4.6 | Testing of Hygroscopic Flares for Particle Size Generation
Gregory L. Kok, NCAR, Boulder, CO; and R. T. Bruintjes |
| 5:00 PM | 4.7 | Report on WMO Workshop on Hygroscopic Seeding and Future Plans
Roelof T. Bruintjes, NCAR, Boulder, CO; and B. G. Foote |
| 5:15 PM | | General Discussion
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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 |
| 8:30 AM-10:00 AM, Thursday
Session 5 Physical evidence on the effects of weather modification programs including area and hydrology aspects, pollution effects on cloud microphysical parameters and processes |
Organizer: Melanie Wetzel, DRI/Univ. of Nevada, Reno, NV
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| 8:30 AM | 5.1 | Aircraft Documentation of Microphysical Seeding Signatures in Argentine Clouds
William L. Woodley, Woodley Weather Consultants, Littleton, CO; and D. Rosenfeld and T. W. Krauss |
| 8:45 AM | 5.2 | Satellite observations of the microstructure of natural and seeded severe hailstorms in Argentina and Alberta
Daniel Rosenfeld, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Jerusalem, Israel; and W. L. Woodley and T. W. Krauss |
| 9:00 AM | 5.3 | Microphysical characteristics of convective clouds in northern Mexico and impacts on hygroscopic seeding experiments
Daniel W. Breed, NCAR, Boulder, CO; and R. T. Bruintjes and V. Salazar |
| 9:15 AM | 5.4 | Calculations of the effect of seeding material from hygroscopic flares on the collision-coalescence process and the development of rainfall in clouds
Vidal Salazar, NCAR, Boulder, CO; and N. Hernández-Carrillo and R. T. Bruintjes |
| 9:30 AM | 5.5 | Hydrologic and other issues related to operational cloud seeding programs
David N. Yates, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO; and R. T. Bruintjes and P. Restrepo |
| 9:45 AM | | General Discussion
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| 10:30 AM-11:44 AM, Thursday
Session 6 Application of numerical models to weather modification topics |
Organizer: Roelof Bruintjes, NCAR, Boulder, CO
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| 10:30 AM | 6.1 | Application of a one-dimensional cloud and hail model to forecast maximum hailstone diameter for Mendoza, Argentina
Julian C. Brimelow, Weather Modification Inc., Red Deer, AB, Canada; and T. W. Krauss |
| 10:45 AM | 6.2 | Summer convective precipitation during monsoon flow against Mexico's Sierra Madres: effects of hygroscopic seeding
Janice L. Coen, NCAR, Boulder, CO; and R. T. Bruintjes |
| 11:00 AM | 6.3 | Targeting analysis of cloud seeding effects in the Santa Barbara cloud seeding program
Richard H. Stone, DRI, Reno, NV; and D. Gibbs |
| | 6.4 | Inadvertent modification of coastal cloudiness associated with surface temperature changes
William T. Thompson, NRL, Monterey, CA; and M. A. Wetzel |
| 11:14 AM | 6.5 | Paper 6.5 transferred to Session 9 new paper number 9.4
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| 11:15 AM | 6.5A | The Impact of Changing the Mean Hail Diameter on Simulated Supercell Storms
Susan C. van den Heever, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO; and W. R. Cotton |
| 11:29 AM | 6.6 | The use of statistics in weather experiments (Invited Presentation)
K. Ruben Gabriel, University of Rochester, Rochester, NY |
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| 12:00 PM-1:30 PM, Thursday
Lunch Break |
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| 1:30 PM-2:00 PM, Thursday
Session 7 Societal and economic effects of human-induced weather and climate impacts |
Organizer: K. Ruben Gabriel, Univ. of Rochester, Rochester, NY
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Session 8 Recent developments in understanding natural cloud processes and how they might be modified |
Organizer: Roelof Bruintjes, NCAR, Boulder, CO
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| 2:00 PM | 8.1 | Satellite-based insights into the detrimental impact of smoke and air pollution on precipitation (Invited Presentation)
Daniel Rosenfeld, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Jerusalem, Israel; and W. L. Woodley |
| 2:30 PM | 8.2 | Effects of smoke produced by forest fires on warm rain processes in clouds over Mexico and Indonesia
Nohemí Hernández-Carrillo, Centro de Ciencias de la Atmósfera - Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Del. Coyoacán, México, D.F., Mexico; and V. Salazar, F. García-García, and R. T. Bruintjes |
| 2:45 PM | | General Discussion
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| 3:00 PM-6:00 PM, Thursday
0b Exhibit Hours |
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| 3:00 PM-3:30 PM, Thursday
Coffee Break |
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| 3:00 PM-6:00 PM, Thursday
Exhibit Hours |
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| 3:30 PM-5:00 PM, Thursday
Session 9 Weather and climate modification within, near, and downwind of urban areas |
Organizer: Roland List, Univ. of Toronto, Toronto, ON Canada
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| 3:30 PM | 9.1 | Acidic cloud episodes in the Northern Colorado Rockies: Inadvertent weather modification?
Edward E. Hindman, City College, New York, NY |
| 3:45 PM | 9.2 | Lightning and Climate Modification Within, Near, and Downwind of Urban Areas
Richard E. Orville, CIAMS/Texas A&M Univ., College Station, TX; and G. R. Huffines |
| 4:00 PM | 9.3 | The Impact of a Medium-sized Town and University Campus on the Local Surface Temperature Distributions
Anthony R. Lupo, University of Missouri, Columbia, MO; and P. S. Market, F. A. Akyüz, A. M. Oehl, D. Keating, W. C. Maune, and J. E. Lam |
| 4:15 PM | 9.4 | METROMEX revisited (formerly paper number 6.5)
Christopher M. Rozoff, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO; and W. R. Cotton |
| 4:30 PM | | Genreal Discussion
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| 4:45 PM | | Closing Remarks
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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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