| Saturday, 12 January 2002 |
| 7:30 AM-9:00 AM, Saturday
Short Course/Workshop/Special Conferences Registration (Joint between the 11th Symposium on Education, the Interactive Symposium on AWIPS, the Sixth Symposium on Integrated Observing Systems, the 13th Symposium on Global Change and Climate Variations, the 16th Conference on Hydrology, the 16th Conference on Probability and Statistics in the Atmospheric Sciences, the 18th International Conference on IIPS, the Fourth Conference on Atmospheric Chemistry, the Symposium on Observations, Data Assimilation, and Probabilistic Prediction, the The Atlas Symposium, and the Third Symposium on Environmental Applications) |
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| Sunday, 13 January 2002 |
| 7:30 AM-9:00 AM, Sunday
Short Course/Workshop/Special Conferences Registration (Joint between the 11th Symposium on Education, the Interactive Symposium on AWIPS, the Sixth Symposium on Integrated Observing Systems, the 13th Symposium on Global Change and Climate Variations, the 16th Conference on Hydrology, the 16th Conference on Probability and Statistics in the Atmospheric Sciences, the 18th International Conference on IIPS, the Fourth Conference on Atmospheric Chemistry, the Symposium on Observations, Data Assimilation, and Probabilistic Prediction, the The Atlas Symposium, and the Third Symposium on Environmental Applications) |
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| 9:00 AM, Sunday
CONFERENCE REGISTRATION |
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| Monday, 14 January 2002 |
| 12:00 AM, Monday
Sessions end for the day (Joint between the 11th Symposium on Education, the Interactive Symposium on AWIPS, the Sixth Symposium on Integrated Observing Systems, the 13th Symposium on Global Change and Climate Variations, the 16th Conference on Hydrology, the 16th Conference on Probability and Statistics in the Atmospheric Sciences, the 18th International Conference on IIPS, the Symposium on Observations, Data Assimilation, and Probabilistic Prediction, and the Third Symposium on Environmental Applications) |
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| 7:30 AM, Monday
Registration continues through Thursday, 17 January (Joint between the 11th Symposium on Education, the Interactive Symposium on AWIPS, the Sixth Symposium on Integrated Observing Systems, the 13th Symposium on Global Change and Climate Variations, the 16th Conference on Hydrology, the 16th Conference on Probability and Statistics in the Atmospheric Sciences, the 18th International Conference on IIPS, the Fourth Conference on Atmospheric Chemistry, the Symposium on Observations, Data Assimilation, and Probabilistic Prediction, the The Atlas Symposium, and the Third Symposium on Environmental Applications) |
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| 9:00 AM, Monday
Welcoming Remarks |
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| 9:30 AM-10:30 AM, Monday
Session 1 Advances in GPS Based Observing |
Organizer: Randolph H. Ware, UCAR, Boulder, CO
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| 9:30 AM | 1.1 | Evaluation of experimental data from the GAINS balloon GPS surface reflection instrument 
George G. Ganoe, NASA/LRC, Hampton, VA; and T. A. Johnson |
| 9:45 AM | 1.2 | On the operational use of slant-path GPS measurements
Seth I. Gutman, NOAA/FSL, Boulder, CO |
| 10:00 AM | 1.3 | Implementation of the National Weather Service's Radiosonde Replacement System
Joseph Facundo, NOAA/NWS, Silver Spring, MD; and W. Blackmore |
| 10:15 AM | 1.4 | Improving management of the NWS upper-air network
William Blackmore, NOAA/NWS, Silver Spring, MD; and J. Facundo |
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| 10:30 AM-11:00 AM, Monday
Coffee Break in Poster Session Room |
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| 11:00 AM-12:00 PM, Monday
Session 2 Advances in Ocean Observing |
Organizer: Michael J. McPhaden, NOAA/PMEL, Seattle, WA
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| 11:00 AM | 2.1 | South China Sea Surface Elevation Variability Determined from TOPEX/POSEIDON Data
Peter C. Chu, NPS, Monterey, CA; and J. Wang and Y. Qi |
| 11:15 AM | 2.2 | Proposed Moored Array—Marine Application Project in the West Indian Ocean
Mark R. Jury, University of Zululand, KwaDlangezwa, KwaZulu/Natal, South Africa |
| 11:30 AM | 2.3 | Structure and Evolution of Frontal Rainfall in the South China Sea During the Onset of Asia Summer Monsoon
Jian-Jian Wang, JCET/Univ. of Maryland Baltimore County and NASA/GSFC, Greenbelt, MD |
| 11:45 AM | 2.4 | Integrating multiple sensors to study algal blooms in the Eastern Gulf of Mexico
Karen S. Friedman, NOAA/NESDIS, Camp Springs, MD; and W. G. Pichel, P. Clemente-Colon, and X. Li |
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| 12:00 PM-1:30 PM, Monday
Lunch Break |
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| 1:30 PM-3:30 PM, Monday
Poster Session 1 Integrated Observing Systems Poster Session |
| | P1.1 | Indications of Biases in Reporting Cloud Cover at Major Airports
Richard Perez, SUNY, Albany, NY; and J. A. Bonaventura-Sparagna, M. Kmiecik, R. George, and D. Renné |
| | P1.2 | MODIS Level 1B data from GES DAAC - advantages and challenges
Andrey Savtchenko, NASA/GSFC, Greenbelt, MD; and D. Ouzounov, J. Koziana, A. K. Sharma, G. Leptoukh, and G. Serafino |
| | P1.3 | Monitoring the ocean acoustically: A review and strategy for the future
Bruce M. Howe, Univ. of Washington, Seattle, WA; and B. D. Dushaw, W. H. Munk, and P. F. Worcester |
| | P1.4 | Mt. Washington Icing Sensors Project (MWISP) cloud particle habit analysis
Christopher W. Blackey, Plymouth State College, Plymouth, NH; and E. J. Rozak, W. G. Schmitz, J. P. Koermer, and C. C. Ryerson |
| | P1.5 | NOAA/ETL's Vertical-Profiling Cloud Radar and Radiometer Package
Brooks E. Martner, NOAA/ETL, Boulder, CO; and D. A. Hazen, K. P. Moran, T. Uttal, M. J. Post, and W. B. Madsen |
| | P1.6 | Polarimetric Investigation of Aerosol and Cirrus Cloud over the Ocean
Masayuki Sasaki, National Space Development Agency of Japan, Tokyo, Japan; and K. Masuda |
| | P1.7 | The NOAA Ron Brown's Shipboard Doppler Precipitation Radar
Michelle N. Ryan, NOAA/ETL, Boulder, CO; and M. J. Post, B. Martner, J. Novak, and L. Davis |
| | P1.8 | GPS-derived integrated precipitable water compared with AFWA MM5 moisture fields
Patricia A. Vollmer, Air Force Institute of Technology, Wright-Patterson AFB, OH; and G. R. Huffines |
| | P1.9 | A Multi-Frequency Ground-Based Radar Facility in South Florida for Small-Scale Precipitation Observations
Pavlos Kollias, Univ. of Miami/RSMAS, Miami, FL; and B. A. Albrecht |
| | P1.10 | An ASOS camera for cloud base winds
Charles L. Bristor, Certified Consulting Meteorologist, Falls Church, VA |
| | P1.11 | An Integrated Airborne Measurement System for the Determination of Atmospheric Turbulence and Ocean Surface Wave Field Properties
Gennaro H. Crescenti, NOAA/ERL/ARL, Idaho Falls, ID; and J. R. French, T. L. Crawford, and D. C. Vandemark |
| | P1.12 | Application of HARLIE measurements in mesoscale studies: Measurements of aerosol backscatter and winds
Belay B. Demoz, Univ. of Maryland Baltimore County and NASA/GSFC, Greenbelt, MD; and D. Miller and G. Schwemmer |
| | P1.13 | Calibration and error sensitivity tests for NPOESS/OSSE
Michiko Masutani, NOAA/NWS/NCEP/EMC, Camp Springs, MD; and J. C. Woollen, S. J. Lord, J. Terry, T. J. Kleespies, J. C. Derber, and R. Atlas |
| | P1.14 | Comparison of MM5 convective precipitation forecasts with cloud-to-ground lightning information in the CONUS Intermountain West
Michael K. Walters, Air Force Insititute of Technology, Wright-Patterson AFB, OH; and G. R. Huffines |
| | P1.15 | Current Solar Radiation Measurement and Modeling in the United States
David S. Renné, National Renewable Energy Laboratory, Golden, CO; and T. Stoffel, M. Anderberg, and P. Gray-Hann |
| | P1.16 | Measurement issues concerning ZDR offset
James J. Stagliano Jr., Enterprise Electronics Corporation, Enterprise, AL; and J. Helvin, J. L. Alford, and D. Nelson |
| | P1.17 | Commercial simultaneous dual polarization radar
James L. Alford, Enterprise Electronics Corporation, Enterprise, AL; and J. J. Stagliano and J. Helvin |
| | P1.18 | Atmospheric attenuation, a review
James J. Stagliano Jr., Enterprise Electronics Corporation, Enterprise, AL; and J. Helvin, J. L. Alford, and D. Nelson |
| | P1.19 | Issues surrounding linearity specification constriction
James L. Alford, Enterprise Electronics Corporation, Enterprise, AL; and J. J. Stagliano and J. Helvin |
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| 3:00 PM-3:30 PM, Monday
Coffee Break in Exhibit Hall |
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| 5:30 PM-7:30 PM, Monday
Formal Opening of Exhibits with Reception (Cash Bar) |
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| 5:30 PM, Monday
Sessions end for the day (Joint between the Interactive Symposium on AWIPS and the Sixth Symposium on Integrated Observing Systems) |
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| Tuesday, 15 January 2002 |
| 8:30 AM-12:00 PM, Tuesday
Session 3 Advances in Satellite Observing |
Organizer: Mary M. Glackin, NOAA/NESDIS, Silver Spring, MD
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| 8:30 AM | 3.1 | The National Polar-orbiting Operational Environmental Satellite System—Future U.S. Environmental Observing System
Craig S. Nelson, NOAA/NPOESS/Integrated Program Office, Silver Spring, MD; and J. D. Cunningham |
| 8:45 AM | 3.2 | The Conical Microwave Imager/Sounder (CMIS): Next-Generation Conical-Scanning Microwave Radiometer for NPOESS
James J. Jewell, U.S. Air Force and NOAA/NPOESS/Integrated Program Office, Silver Spring, MD; and N. Chauhan and D. B. Kunkee |
| 9:00 AM | 3.3 | Impact Assesment of a Doppler Wind Lidar for NPOESS/OSSE
Stephen J. Lord, NOAA/NWS/NCEP/EMC, Camp Springs, MD; and M. Masutani, J. C. Woollen, J. C. Derber, G. D. Emmitt, S. A. Wood, S. Greco, R. Atlas, J. Terry, and T. J. Kleespies |
| 9:15 AM | 3.4 | Studies on snowfall retrievals from satellite high frequency microwave observations
Guosheng Liu, Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL; and M. Katsumata |
| 9:30 AM | 3.5 | An Improved adjacency effect Calculation in Radiation Transfer Models
Haiyan Liu, SUNY, Albany, NY; and V. Mohnen |
| 9:45 AM | 3.6 | Progress in Spaceborne Scatterometer and Science Application
W. Timothy Liu, NASA/JPL, Pasaden, CA |
| 10:00 AM | | Coffee Break in Poster Session Room
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| 10:30 AM | 3.7 | Catalina Eddy captured by NASA QuikSCAT satellite
Hua Hu, NASA/JPL and California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA; and W. T. Liu and B. W. Styles |
| 10:45 AM | 3.8 | Imaging the sea surface imprints of atmospheric vortex streets by space-borne synthetic aperture radar
Xiaofeng Li, NOAA, Camp Springs, MD; and P. Clemente-Colon, W. Pichel, P. Vachon, and K. Freidman |
| 11:00 AM | 3.9 | Deriving Winds from MODIS Data in the Polar Regions
David A. Santek, CIMSS/Univ. of Wisconsin, Madison, WI; and J. R. Key, W. P. Menzel, C. S. Velden, and J. Heinzelman |
| 11:15 AM | 3.10 | First Forecast Products from the GOES-12 Solar X-ray Imager
Christopher C. Balch, NOAA Space Environment Center, Boulder, CO; and S. M. Hill, V. J. Pizzo, and D. C. Wilkinson |
| 11:30 AM | 3.11 | GOES Users' Conference Recommendations for the Advanced Baseline Imager and Sounder
James J. Gurka, NOAA/NESDIS, Suitland, MD; and G. J. Dittberner and T. J. Schmit |
| 11:45 AM | 3.12 | An Analysis of Pre-tornadic Low-level Moisture-Flux Convergence and the Utility of GOES and GIFTS Sounder Data
Ralph A. Petersen, NOAA/NWS/NCEP, Camp Springs, MD; and W. F. Feltz and H. L. Huang |
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| 12:00 PM-2:00 PM, Tuesday
Grand Poster Luncheon |
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| 2:00 PM-5:15 PM, Tuesday
Session 4 Assimilation and Analysis |
Organizer: Thomas W. Schlatter, NOAA/FSL, Boulder, CO
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|  | 4.1 | Integration of passive microwave rainfall products and infrared radiances for improved rainfall retrievals.
Chris Kidd, Univ. of Birmingham, Birmingham, United Kingdom |
| 2:00 PM | 4.2 | Quasi-global, near-real-time precipitation estimates based on the combination of IR and microwave data with TRMM calibration
George J Huffman, SSAI, Greenbelt, MD; and R. F. Adler, D. T. Bolvin, and E. J. Nelkin |
| 2:15 PM | 4.3 | A Comparison of GOES and AMSU Based Total Precipitable Water Retrievals
Jaime M. Daniels, NOAA/NESDIS/OAR, Camp Springs, MD; and R. Ferraro |
| 2:30 PM | 4.4 | Comparisons of cloud-to-ground lightning flash data with NEXRAD inferences on rainfall as functions of longitude and latitude
Thomas A. Seliga, Volpe National Transportation Systems Center, Cambridge, MA; and D. A. Hazen and C. Schauland |
| 2:45 PM | 4.5 | Computer Simulations of Global Networks of Stratospheric Satellites
Matthew K. Heun, Global Aerospace Corporation, Altadena, CA; and R. S. Schlaifer, K. Aaron, K. T. Nock, A. A. Pankine, N. E. Leonard, E. A. Belbruno, and P. Bhatta |
| 3:00 PM | 4.6 | Simulation of the observational network using an ensemble Kalman filter
P. L. Houtekamer, MSC, Dorval, PQ, Canada; and H. L. Mitchell and G. Pellerin |
| 3:15 PM | | Coffee Break in Exhibit Hall
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| 3:45 PM | 4.7 | On the Adjustment Terms for Soil Moisture Assimilation in Land Surface Schemes: Evaluation of an Inverse Technique using the MM5
Kiran Alapaty, MCNC-Environmental Programs, Research Triangle Park, NC; and D. D. S. Niyogi |
| 4:00 PM | 4.8 | Effect of Mesoscale Processes on Boundary Layer Structure and Precipitation Patterns: A Diagnostic Evaluation and Validation of MM5 with NC Econet Observations
Aaron P. Sims, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC; and D. D. S. Niyogi and S. Raman |
| 4:15 PM | 4.9 | Assimilation of Scatterometer and In Situ Winds for Regularly Gridded Products
Mark A. Bourassa, COAPS/Florida State Univ., Tallahassee, FL; and S. R. Smith and J. J. O'Brien |
| 4:30 PM | 4.10 | A Combined ScaRaB-ERBS Data Product
Kathryn A. Bush, SAIC, Hampton, VA; and G. L. Smith and T. Wong |
| 4:45 PM | 4.11 | A comprehensive database and analysis system for the North Carolina Environmental and Climate Observing Network (NC ECO Net)
Dev dutta S. Niyogi, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC; and R. Boyles, R. Ellis, S. Raman, A. Syed, and S. Sivagnyanam |
| 5:00 PM | 4.12 | Determining the distance lightning travels from a thunderstorm using ground based radar, the National Lightning Detection Network, and a 3-D lightning mapping system
Lee A. Nelson, Air Force Insititute of Technology, Wright-Patterson AFB, OH; and T. M. McNamara, D. R. Vollmer, and G. R. Huffines |
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| 3:00 PM-7:30 PM, Tuesday
Exhibit Hours (Joint between the 11th Symposium on Education, the Interactive Symposium on AWIPS, the Sixth Symposium on Integrated Observing Systems, the 13th Symposium on Global Change and Climate Variations, the 16th Conference on Hydrology, the 16th Conference on Probability and Statistics in the Atmospheric Sciences, the 18th International Conference on IIPS, the Fourth Conference on Atmospheric Chemistry, the Symposium on Observations, Data Assimilation, and Probabilistic Prediction, and the Third Symposium on Environmental Applications) |
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| 3:30 PM, Tuesday
Symposium ends (Joint between the 11th Symposium on Education, the Interactive Symposium on AWIPS, and the Sixth Symposium on Integrated Observing Systems) |
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| Wednesday, 16 January 2002 |
| 8:00 AM-9:30 AM, Wednesday
President's Symposium |
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| 9:30 AM-10:00 AM, Wednesday
Coffee Break in Foyer of Auditorium |
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| 10:00 AM-12:00 PM, Wednesday
President's Symposium (Continued) |
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| 12:00 PM-1:30 PM, Wednesday
Lunch Break |
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| 1:30 PM-4:59 PM, Wednesday
Session 5 Advances in Ground Based Remote Sensing |
Organizer: Albin J. Gasiewski, NOAA/ETL, Boulder, CO
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| 1:30 PM | 5.1 | Innovative Procedures for the Performance Auditing of Radar Wind and RASS Profilers
Robert A. Baxter, Parsons Engineering Science, Pasadena, CA |
| 1:45 PM | 5.2 | NCAR Integrated Sounding System Observations for VTMX
William O. J. Brown, NCAR, Boulder, CO; and S. A. Cohn, D. B. Parsons, and J. O. Pinto |
| 2:00 PM | 5.3 | Wind Shear and Turbulence Profiling with Meteorological Radar
William J. Martin, University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK; and A. Shapiro |
| 2:15 PM | 5.4 | A portable system for boundary layer measurement, analysis, and forecasting
James Cogan, U.S. Army Research Lab., White Sands Missle Range, NM; and E. Vidal, E. Measure, Y. Yee, and S. A. Luces |
| 2:30 PM | 5.5 | Diurnal variation in water vapor and liquid water profiles from a new microwave radiometer profiler
Junhong Wang, NCAR, Boulder, CO; and A. Dai, D. J. Carlson, R. H. Ware, and J. C. Liljegren |
| 2:45 PM | 5.6 | Early results from the Global Atmospherics, Inc. Dallas-Fort Worth Lightning Detection and Ranging (LDAR-II) research network
Nicholas W. S. Demetriades, Global Atmospherics, Inc., Tucson, AZ; and M. J. Murphy and K. L. Cummins |
| 3:00 PM | | Coffee Break in Exhibit Hall
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| 3:30 PM | 5.7 | Raman Lidar Techniques Applied to Meteorological Sensing
C. Russell Philbrick, Penn State University, University Park, PA |
| | 5.8 | Raman Lidar Measurements of Airborne Particular Matter in NARSTO-NE-OPS
Guangkun Li, Penn State University, University Park, PA; and C. R. Philbrick |
| 3:44 PM | 5.9 | Raman lidar measurement of water vapor mixing ratio and aerosols during a bore-front case
Belay Demoz, NASA/GSFC and Univ. of Maryland Baltimore County, Baltimore, MD; and K. Evans, P. DiGirolamo, D. Whiteman, and E. Aligo |
| 3:59 PM | 5.10 | High-resolution observations of the boundary layer using multiple-frequency range imaging
Tian-You Yu, NCAR, Boulder, CO; and W. O. J. Brown, S. A. Cohn, D. B. Parsons, M. B. Parlange, and M. Pahlow |
| 4:14 PM | 5.11 | High resolution oxygen A-band and water vapor band spectrometer: photon pathlength distributions
Qilong Min, SUNY, Albany, NY; and L. Harrison, P. Kiedron, J. Berndt, E. Yager, and E. Joseph |
| 4:29 PM | 5.12 | Cloud liquid water path variation with temperature during SHEBA/FIRE-ACE
Alice Fan, SAIC, Hampton, VA; and B. Lin, P. Minnis, and D. Spangenberg |
| 4:44 PM | 5.13 | Cloud Observing System derived characteristics of convection in the convective boundary layer
Richard S. Penc, Creighton University, Omaha, NE |
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| 3:00 PM-7:30 PM, Wednesday
Exhibit Hours (Joint between the 11th Symposium on Education, the Sixth Symposium on Integrated Observing Systems, the 13th Symposium on Global Change and Climate Variations, the 16th Conference on Hydrology, the 16th Conference on Probability and Statistics in the Atmospheric Sciences, the 18th International Conference on IIPS, the Fourth Conference on Atmospheric Chemistry, the Interactive Symposium on AWIPS, the Symposium on Observations, Data Assimilation, and Probabilistic Prediction, and the Third Symposium on Environmental Applications) |
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| 5:30 PM, Wednesday
Sessions end for the day (Joint between the Interactive Symposium on AWIPS and the Sixth Symposium on Integrated Observing Systems) |
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| 6:00 PM, Wednesday
Reception (Cash Bar) |
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| Thursday, 17 January 2002 |
| 8:30 AM-2:30 PM, Thursday
Session 6 Advances in In-situ Sensing |
Organizer: Cecilia M. I. R. Girz, NOAA/FSL, Boulder, CO
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| 8:30 AM | 6.1 | Automating the observation of drizzle
Richard Lewis, NOAA/NWS, Sterling, VA; and B. Childs and A. C. Ramsay |
| 8:45 AM | 6.2 | Differences between rooftop and standard ground-based temperatures
Christopher A. Davey, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO; and N. J. Doesken, R. J. Leffler, and R. A. Pielke |
| 9:00 AM | 6.3 | Sunshine sensor testing for ASOS Product Improvement
Lynn J. Winans, SAIC, Sterling, VA |
| 9:15 AM | 6.4 | Evaluation of windshields for use in the Automated Surface Observing System (ASOS)
Jennifer Dover, SAIC, Sterling, VA; and L. J. Winans |
| 9:30 AM | 6.5 | Freezing Drizzle (FZDZ) Identification from the Automated Surface Observing System (ASOS): Status of the ASOS Multi-sensor FZDZ Algorithm
Allan C. Ramsay, SAIC, Sterling, VA |
| | 6.6 | Field Comparison of New Self-Powered Solar Radiation Shield and Naturally Ventilated Multi-Plate Radiation Shield
John D. Crosby, EnviroTech Sensors, Inc., Clarksville, MD |
| 9:45 AM | | Coffee Break in Poster Session Room
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| 10:15 AM | 6.7 | Results of the demonstration flight of the GAINS Prototype III balloon
Cecilia M. I. R. Girz, NOAA/FSL, Boulder, CO; and A. E. MacDonald, R. L. Anderson, T. Lachenmeier, B. D. Jamison, R. S. Collander, D. Latsch, R. A. Moody, J. Cooper, G. Ganoe, S. Katzberg, T. Johnson, B. Russ, and V. Zavorotny |
| 10:30 AM | 6.8 | Evaluation of balloon trajectory forecast routines for GAINS
Randall S. Collander, NOAA/FSL, Boulder, CO; and C. M. I. R. Girz |
| 10:45 AM | 6.9 | In-situ science from global networks of stratospheric satellites
Alexey A. Pankine, Global Aerospace Corporation, Altadena, CA; and E. Weinstock, M. K. Heun, and K. T. Nock |
| 11:00 AM | 6.10 | The Climate Reference Network
C. Bruce Baker, NOAA/NESDIS/NCDC, Asheville, NC |
| 11:15 AM | 6.11 | The Iowa Environmental Mesonet—combining observing systems into a single network
Dennis P. Todey, Iowa State University, Ames, IA; and D. E. Herzmann and E. S. Takle |
| 11:30 AM | 6.12 | Installation and operation of a customized wind reporting network at Reno/Tahoe International Airport, NV (RNO)
D. Strawbridge, FAA, Washington, DC; and J. Salidino, D. Bryan, C. Schauland, J. Jones, and D. Hedenberg |
| 11:45 AM | | Lunch Break
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| 1:15 PM | 6.13 | Multi-sensor system for the automatic determination of winds aloft at remote MET stations
Jeffrey M. Freedman, Atmospheric Information Services, Albany, NY; and M. Beaubien, D. Sautter, B. Bauman, and C. Holton |
| 1:30 PM | 6.14 | A comparison of ACARS WVSS and NWS radiosonde temperature and moisture data
Richard Mamrosh, NOAA/NWS, Green Bay, WI; and R. Baker and T. Jirikowic |
| 1:45 PM | 6.15 | Adopting an In-Situ Surface Meteorological Network for Developing a Meteorological Instrumentation Course at North Carolina State University
Dev dutta S. Niyogi, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC; and V. K. Saxena |
| 2:00 PM | 6.16 | Errors in Operational Aircraft Data
Patricia M. Pauley, NRL, Monterey, CA |
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| 1:30 PM-2:45 PM, Thursday
Joint Session 3 Joint session with the Sixth Symposium on Integrated Observing Systems and the Symposium on Observations, Data Assimilation, and Probabilistic Prediction (Joint between the Symposium on Observations, Data Assimilation, and Probabilistic Prediction and the Sixth Symposium on Integrated Observing Systems) |
Organizer: Kenneth Mylne, Met Office, Bracknell, Berks. United Kingdom
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| 1:30 PM | J3.1 | Automation of visual observations at KNMI; (i) Comparison of present weather
Wiel M. F. Wauben, KNMI, De Bilt, Netherlands |
| 1:45 PM | J3.2 | Automation of visual observations at KNMI; (ii) Comparison of automated cloud reports with routine visual observations
Wiel M. F. Wauben, KNMI, De Bilt, Netherlands |
| 2:00 PM | J3.3 | Determination of surface and atmospheric parameters under cloudy conditions from AIRS/AMSU/HSB data
Joel Susskind, NASA/GSFC, Greenbelt, MD; and C. Barnet and J. Blaisdell |
| 2:15 PM | J3.4 | Determining the “Optimum” Distribution of Cooperative Observer Network Stations to Support the National Weather Service Cooperative Observer Modernization Initiative
Stephen A. Del Greco, NOAA/NESDIS/NCDC, Asheville, NC; and D. Smith |
| 2:30 PM | J3.5 | The Effect of Averaging Surface Roughness Values on Coastal Winds for Different Mesocale Model Resolutions
Gueorgui V. Mostovoi, Mississippi State University, Stennis Space Center, MS; and P. J. Fitzpatrick, Y. Li, D. Herndon, N. Tran, and E. Valenti |
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| 3:00 PM-6:30 PM, Thursday
Exhibit Hours (Joint between the 11th Symposium on Education, the Interactive Symposium on AWIPS, the Sixth Symposium on Integrated Observing Systems, the 13th Symposium on Global Change and Climate Variations, the 16th Conference on Hydrology, the 16th Conference on Probability and Statistics in the Atmospheric Sciences, the 18th International Conference on IIPS, the Symposium on Observations, Data Assimilation, and Probabilistic Prediction, and the Third Symposium on Environmental Applications) |
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| 3:00 PM-3:30 PM, Thursday
Coffee Break in Exhibit Hall |
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| 5:00 PM, Thursday
Closing Event Begins |
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| 5:00 PM-6:15 PM, Thursday
Reception in Exhibit Hall (Cash Bar) |
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| 6:30 PM-7:30 PM, Thursday
Event Presentation |
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| 7:30 PM, Thursday
9 Tropical Party |
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