2002 Annual

Brian Motta, CIRA/Colorado State Univ., Fort Collins, CO; and D. Bikos, B. Zajac, S. Bachmeier, T. Whittaker, B. Grant, J. LaDue, N. Junker, K. Schrab, D. Baumgardt, R. Grumm, P. Wolf, J. Weaver, R. Zehr, and A. Mostek

http://www.cira.colostate.edu/visit

Poster PDF (32.6 kB)

JP1.4

Work-station Eta model forecasts on AWIPS

Alan M. Cope, NOAA/NWS, Mount Holly, NJ

JP1.5

A local application to produce radar rainfall accumulation estimates for multiple Z-R relationships

Paul Jendrowski, NOAA/NWS, Honolulu, HI

JP1.6

Lightning Training from the Virtual Institute for Satellite Integration Training: 1999�2001

Bard Zajac, CIRA/Colorado State Univ., Fort Collins, CO; and J. F. Weaver and D. E. Bikos

http://www.cira.colostate.edu/ramm/visit/lightning_on-line_resources.html

Poster PDF (112.1 kB)

JP1.7

Application of the PSU-NCAR MM5 to Forecast Operations over the Texas Coastal Bend

Waylon G. Collins, NOAA/NWS, Corpus Christi, TX

JP1.8

AWIPS Aviation Workstation Program Documentation (Version 3.2)

Paul Kirkwood, NOAA/NWS, Fort Worth, TX; and D. Hotz

Poster PDF (282.2 kB)

JP1.9

Bringing Training to the Forecasters Using VISITview�Review of Program Since 1999

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

Poster PDF (205.9 kB)

JP1.10

Crossing platforms: PCs and AWIPS using the Python programming language

C. Michael Callahan, NOAA/NWS, Louisville, KY

Poster PDF (2.8 MB)

JP1.11

FOUS_Extractor: An AWIPS Application Producing Data Similar to the FRH Bulletins

John M. Margraf, NOAA/NWS, Sterling, VA

Poster PDF (120.9 kB)

MON 14 JAN

Mon 14 Jan

Sessions end for the day

MON 14 JAN

Registration continues through Thursday, 17 January

Welcoming Remarks

Joint Session 1

AWIPS�A Historical Perspective (Joint Session with AWIPS and IIPS)

Sponsors: (Joint between the Interactive Symposium on AWIPS; and the 18th International Conference on IIPS )

Organizers: Richard K. Thigpen, NOAA/NWS; Ward R. Seguin, NOAA/NWS

Papers:

9:30 AM

J1.1

The Advanced Weather Interactive Processing System: A History

Mary Glackin, NOAA/NESDIS, Silver Spring, MD

9:45 AM

J1.2

The early days of AWIPS: a personal reflection

Elbert W. (Joe) Friday, Jr., National Research Council, Washington, DC

10:00 AM

J1.3

AWIPS�An End-to-End Look

Ward R. Seguin, NOAA/NWS, Silver Spring, MD

10:15 AM

J1.0A

Welcome/Introductory Remarks

Ken Carey, U.S. Air Force, Fairfax, VA; and W. R. Seguin and R. K. Thigpen

1

Advances in GPS Based Observing

Sponsor: Sixth Symposium on Integrated Observing Systems

Organizer: Randolph H. Ware, UCAR

Papers:

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

Poster PDF (193.6 kB)

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

1

Advances in instrumentation for aerosol and trace gas measurements

Sponsor: Fourth Conference on Atmospheric Chemistry

Organizer: Nancy A. Marley, ANL

Papers:

9:30 AM

1.1

Historical Overview of the Development of Chemiluminescence Detection and its application to air pollutants

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

Poster PDF (156.5 kB)

9:45 AM

1.2

Mathematical formulation and consideration for converting CMAQ modal particulate matter results into size-resolved quantities

Weimin Jiang, National Research Council of Canada, Ottawa, ON, Canada; and D. Yin

Poster PDF (76.2 kB)

10:00 AM

1.3

Time-resolved Field Study of Chlorine Depletion from Individual Sea Salt Particles

Alexander Laskin, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, WA; and D. J. Gaspar, M. J. Iedema, J. P. Cowin, and W. R. Wiley

10:15 AM

1.3a

Coffee Break in Poster Session Room

1

Opening Session: Climate Observations and Climate Change Detection

Sponsor: 13th Symposium on Global Change and Climate Variations

Organizer: David R. Easterling, NOAA/NESDIS/NCDC

Papers:

9:30 AM

1.1

Components of a Climate Observing System

Kevin E. Trenberth, NCAR, Boulder, CO

Poster PDF (71.8 kB)

10:00 AM

1.2

Accounting for Effects of Volcanoes and ENSO in Comparisons of Modeled and Observed Temperature Trends

B. D. Santer, LLNL, Livermore, CA; and T. M. L. Wigley, C. Doutriaux, J. S. Boyle, J. E. Hansen, P. D. Jones, G. A. Meehl, E. Roeckner, S. Sengupta, and K. E. Taylor

10:15 AM

1.3

A New Technique to Estimate the Diurnal and Seasonal Cycles of Climatic Trends, With Applications to Temperature and Sea Ice

Konstantin Y. Vinnikov, University of Maryland, College Park, MD; and A. Robock, D. J. Cavalieri, and C. L. Parkinson

10:30 AM

1.4

A General Bayesian Approach to Climate Change Detection and Attribution Using ECHAM3-LSG Scenario Runs and NCEP/NCAR Reanalysis Observations

Seung-Ki Min, METRI, Seoul, Korea; and A. Hense, H. Paeth, W. T. Kwon, and J. H. Oh

Poster PDF (433.8 kB)

10:45 AM

1.5

Climate variations and its impact on trend detection

Julian X. L. Wang, NOAA/ARL, Silver Spring, MD; and K. C. Mo

11:00 AM

1.6

Northern Hemisphere Snow Cover Extent and Global Warming: Observed and Simulated Variations

Konstantin Y. Vinnikov, University of Maryland, College Park, MD; and A. Robock, D. A. Robinson, R. L. Armstrong, D. J. Cavalieri, C. L. Parkinson, R. J. Stouffer, T. L. Delworth, K. W. Dixon, A. J. Broccoli, J. M. Gregory, G. M. Flato, N. C. Grody, B. H. Ramsay, P. Romanov, and A. N. Basist

11:15 AM

1.7

Evidences of Dominant Atmospheric Circulation Variability in the Context of Global Warming

Xiangdong Zhang, Univ. of Alaska, Fairbanks, AK; and J. Zhu

Poster PDF (103.5 kB)

11:30 AM

1.3a

Coffee Break in Poster Session Room

Joint Session 2

Weather Derivatives & Weather Risk Management (Joint with 3rd Symposium on Environmental Applications and the 16th Conference on Probability and Statistics in the Atmospheric Sciences)

Sponsors: (Joint between the Third Symposium on Environmental Applications; and the 16th Conference on Probability and Statistics in the Atmospheric Sciences )

Organizer: Robert S. Dischel, Weather Market Observer

Papers:

9:30 AM

J2.1

The ideal meteorologist

Ravi V. Nathan, Aquila Inc., Kansas City, MO

10:00 AM

J2.2

Forecasting for profits

Frank M. Caifa, Swiss RE New Markets, New York, NY

Poster PDF (201.3 kB)

10:30 AM

J2.3

Help Wanted: Meteorologists to fix drought in precipitation contracts

Robert S. Dischel, Weather Market Observer, New York, NY

Poster PDF (101.3 kB)

10:45 AM

J2.4

Skillful seasonal degree-day forecasts and their utility in the weather derivatives market

Jeffrey A. Shorter, Weather Services International, Corp., Billerica, MA; and T. M. Crawford, R. J. Boucher, and J. P. Burbridge

Poster PDF (55.8 kB)

11:00 AM

J2.5

Can a Meteorologist Beat the Weather Market?

Lee E. Branscome, Environmental Dynamics Research, Inc., Palm Beach Gardens, FL

11:15 AM

J2.6

Weather Risk Assessment at the Dawn of Ensemble Numerical Weather Prediction

John L. Keller, Applied Insurance Research, Inc., Boston, MA

Poster PDF (1.4 MB)

11:30 AM

J2.2a

Coffee Break in Poster Session Room

1

K-12 Educational Initiatives

Sponsor: 11th Symposium on Education

Organizers: Kathleen A. Murphy, Ladue Middle School; Howard A. Friedman, NOAA/AOML

Papers:

9:30 AM

1.1

Overview of EPA's Sunwise School Program

Jason P. Samenow, EPA, Washington, DC

Poster PDF (92.1 kB)

9:45 AM

1.2

Water in the Earth System (WES): Moving toward national implementation

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

Poster PDF (19.8 kB)

10:00 AM

1.3

Using Wild Weather to improve science literacy in students in grades 4-8. A model for educational outreach

Gregory F. Aloia, Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton, FL; and A. Aloia

10:15 AM

1.4

Partnerships Help Save Lives

Ron Gird, NOAA/NWS, Silver Spring, MD; and R. Lopes

10:30 AM

1.5

Northern New England Science Teacher Mentoring Project�An ally for AMS Education Initiatives

Lawrence E. Greenleaf, AMS/AERA, Belfast, ME

10:45 AM

1.6

Meteorology Education Through Nature Centers

Sue Ellen Haupt, Utah State University, Logan, Utah; and J. J. Barta

Poster PDF (44.3 kB)

11:00 AM

1.7

Global Change and Remote Sensing Summer Teacher Workshop and Observation Program

Kevin P. Czajkowski, University of Toledo, Toledo, OH; and T. Benko and J. Struble

http://www.utoledogis.org/education/student_obs/index.html

Poster PDF (58.3 kB)

11:15 AM

1.8

DataStreme: a distance-learning teacher enhancement model that works!

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

Poster PDF (19.0 kB)

11:30 AM

1.4a

Coffee Break in Poster Session Room

1

State of the Science

Sponsor: The Atlas Symposium

Organizers: Joanne Simpson, NASA/GSFC; Arthur R. Jameson, RJH Scientific, Inc.

Papers:

9:30 AM

1.1

Extratropical Cyclones

Keith A. Browning, University of Reading, Reading, UK

10:00 AM

1.2

Tropical Cyclones

Frank D. Marks Jr., NOAA/AOML/HRD, Miami, FL

10:30 AM

1.3

Forcing and Organization of Convective Systems

David P. Jorgensen, NOAA/NSSL, Boulder, CO; and T. M. Weckwerth

11:00 AM

1.4

Mobile radar oberservations of severe convective storms

Howard B. Bluestein, Unviersity of Oklahoma, Norman, OK; and R. M. Wakimoto

11:30 AM

1.5

Waves and Turbulence

Kenneth S. Gage, NOAA/AL, Boulder, CO; and E. E. Gossard

12:00 PM

1.2a

Coffee Break in Poster Session Room

12:30 PM

1.5a

Lunch Break

1

Weather Service Updates

Sponsor: 18th International Conference on IIPS

Organizers: Elbert W. (Joe) Friday, National Research Council; Jimmie Smith, MeteoQuest, Inc.

Papers:

9:30 AM

1.1

NWS Update

Jack Kelly Jr., NOAA/NWS, Silver Spring, MD

10:00 AM

1.2

Air Force Weather Update

David Johnson, USAF, Washington, DC

10:30 AM

1.3

U.S. Navy Weather/Oceanographic Services Update

Thomas Quinton Donaldson V, Naval Meteorology and Oceanography Command, Stennis Space Center, MS

11:00 AM

1.4

European Center for Medium Range Weather Forecasts (ECMWF) Update

David Burridge, ECMWF, Reading, Berks., United Kingdom

11:30 AM

1.5

Commercial Weather Services Update

Maria Pirone, WSI Corp, Billerica, MA

12:00 PM

1.0a

Conference Introductory Remarks. Terry C. Tarbell, RS Information System, Inc., McLean, VA

12:15 PM

1.1a

Coffee Break in Poster Session Room

12:45 PM

1.3a

Lunch Break

2:15 PM

1.0b

Session Introductory Remarks. Joe Friday, National Research Council, Washington, DC and Jimmie Smith, MeteoQuest, Inc., Bedford, NH

1

Effective Assimilation of the Vast Observational Datasets Becoming Available

Sponsor: Symposium on Observations, Data Assimilation, and Probabilistic Prediction

Organizer: Robert Atlas, NASA/DAO

Papers:

9:30 AM

1.1

ECMWF Status and Future Research Directions in Data Assimilation and Ensemble Prediction (Invited Presentation)

Anthony Hollingsworth, ECMWF, Reading, Berks., United Kingdom

10:00 AM

1.2

Recent developments in Data Assimilation at NCEP and Joint Center (Invited Presentation)

Stephen J. Lord, NOAA/NWS/NCEP/EMC, Camp Springs, MD

10:30 AM

1.3

Assimilation and evaluation of satellite data at the DAO

Lars Peter Riishojgaard, NASA/GSFC, Greenbelt, MD

10:45 AM

1.4

The developing infrastructure for hyperspectral data assimilation at the University of Wisconsin-Madison

John R. Mecikalski, CIMSS/Univ. of Wisconsin, Madison, WI; and D. Posselt

11:00 AM

1.5

The Australian east coast sub-tropical storm of March 8�9, 2001: synoptic analysis and data assimilation experiments at landfall

Lance M. Leslie, University of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW, Australia; and J. LeMarshall, M. S. Speer, and R. F. Abbey

1.6

On the Strategies for the 4D-Var Assimilation of TOMS Ozone Observation into Atmospheric Models

11:30 AM

1.7

Some experiments with a simple dynamical covariance evolution scheme for the assimilation of atmospheric moisture observations

Dick P. Dee, NASA/GSFC, Greenbelt, MD

Poster PDF (22.8 kB)

1.8

Using ADAS Cloud Analysis to Initialize COAMPS Cloud Fields

11:45 AM

1.9

Atmospheric Radiative Transfer Adjoint Models for the Regional Atmospheric Modeling and Data Assimilation System (RAMDAS)

Thomas J. Greenwald, CIRA/Colorado State Univ., Fort Collins, CO; and T. Vukicevic

Poster PDF (144.8 kB)

1.10

Analysis of the singular vectors of the full-physics FSU Global Spectral Model

12:15 PM

1.11

Sea Surface Pressure Fields From NASA�s Seawinds Scatterometer and their Impact on NWP

Shannon R. Davis, COAPS/Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL; and M. A. Bourassa, R. Atlas, J. Ardizzone, E. Brin, J. J. O'Brien, and D. F. Zierden

Poster PDF (177.5 kB)

12:30 PM

1.12

Recent Developments in DAO's Finite-volume Data Assimilation System

Arlindo M. da Silva, NASA//GSFC/DAO, Greenbelt, MD; and S. J. Lin, D. Dee, J. Joiner, D. Frank, and P. Norris

12:45 PM

1.2a

Coffee Break in Poster Session Room

1:15 PM

1.6a

Lunch Break

2:45 PM

1.12a

Coffee Break in Poster Session Room

1

forecast evaluation

Sponsor: 16th Conference on Probability and Statistics in the Atmospheric Sciences

Organizer: Laurence W. Wilson, Enviornment Canada

Papers:

9:30 AM

1.1

Summary of Short Course on Verification of Climate Forecasts

To be determined,

10:00 AM

1.2

Transformed skill scores

Tressa L. Fowler, NCAR, Boulder, CO; and R. G. Bullock and B. G. Brown

Poster PDF (273.0 kB)

10:15 AM

1.3

Additional Measures of Skill for Probabilistic Forecasts

F. Wesley Wilson, NCAR, Boulder, CO

Poster PDF (35.0 kB)

1.4

Determining the accuracy of small-scale information in forecast fields

10:30 AM

1.5

Using Verification Techniques to Evaluate Differences Among Convective Forecasts

Jennifer Luppens Mahoney, NOAA/FSL, Boulder, CO; and B. G. Brown, J. E. Hart, and C. Fischer

Poster PDF (154.7 kB)

10:45 AM

1.6

Improved approaches for measuring the quality of convective weather forecasts

Barbara G. Brown, NCAR, Boulder, CO; and J. L. Mahoney, C. A. Davis, R. Bullock, and C. K. Mueller

Poster PDF (183.8 kB)

11:00 AM

1.7

Relative economical value of CMC seasonal forecasts

Normand Gagnon, MSC, Dorval, PQ; and R. Verret

Poster PDF (55.7 kB)

11:15 AM

1.8

Diagnostic Verification of the IRI Net Assessment Forecasts, 1997�2000

Daneil S. Wilks, Cornell Univ., Ithaca, NY; and C. M. Godfrey

11:30 AM

1.9

Workstation ETA Verification Efforts at the Lower Mississippi River Forecast Center

Steven A. Listemaa, NOAA/NWS, Slidell, LA

Poster PDF (1.4 MB)

11:45 AM

1.10

A Methodology for Determining River Forecasting Skill using Monthly Cumulative Distribution Functions of Mean Daily Flow

Noreen O. Schwein, NOAA/NWS, Kansas City, MO

12:00 PM

1.11

A Statistical Evaluation of Mainstem Forecasting Errors for the Missouri and Mississippi Rivers

Lee W. Larson, NOAA/NWS (retired), Prairie Village, KS; and N. O. Schwein

12:15 PM

1.12

On the verification of ensemble precipitation products

John. C. Schaake, NOAA/NWS, Silver Spring, MD; and E. Welles and M. Mullusky

1.13

Evaluating verification procedures for ensemble precipitation predictions

12:30 PM

1.14

Statistical comparison of forecast meteorology with observations using the Regional Atmospheric Modeling System

Robert L. Buckley, Savannah River Technology Center, Aiken, SC; and A. H. Weber and J. H. Weber

Poster PDF (525.7 kB)

12:45 PM

1.0a

Welcoming Remarks

1:00 PM

1.2a

Coffee Break in Poster Session Room

1:30 PM

1.7a

Lunch Break

3:00 PM

1.14a

Coffee Break in Poster Session Room

Joint Session 1

land-atmosphere interactions: Part I (Joint with the 16th Conference on Hydrology and the 13th Symposium on Global Change and Climate Variations)

Sponsors: (Joint between the 16th Conference on Hydrology; and the 13th Symposium on Global Change and Climate Variations )

Organizer: Dag Lohmann, NOAA/NWS/NCEP

Papers:

9:30 AM

J1.1

Reducing near-surface cool/moist biases over snowpack and early spring wet soils in NCEP Eta model forecasts via land surface model upgrades

Kenneth E. Mitchell, NOAA/NWS/NCEP/EMC, Camp Springs, MD; and M. B. Ek, D. Lohmann, V. Koren, J. Schaake, Q. Duan, P. Grunmann, G. Gayno, Y. Lin, E. Rogers, D. Tarpley, and C. Peters-Lidard

Poster PDF (575.6 kB)

9:45 AM

J1.2

Regional spectral model simulation for Brazil with soil moisture correction

Shyh-Chin Chen, Univ. of California, San Diego, CA; and J. O. Roads

Poster PDF (107.1 kB)

10:00 AM

J1.3

Evaluation of LDAS land surface models with observed forcing and hydrology

Lifeng Luo, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ; and A. Robock, K. E. Mitchell, P. R. Houser, J. C. Schaake, E. F. Wood, D. P. Lettenmaier, R. T. Pinker, and D. Tarpley

10:15 AM

J1.4

Evaluation of streamflow and snowpack simulations in the land surface models of the Land Data Assimilation System (LDAS) Project

Dag Lohmann, NOAA/NWS/NCEP/EMC, Camp Springs, MD; and K. E. Mitchell, P. R. Houser, J. C. Schaake, E. F. Wood, D. Tarpley, R. W. Higgins, R. T. Pinker, A. Robock, D. P. Lettenmaier, B. Cosgrove, Q. Duan, J. Sheffield, and L. Luo

10:30 AM

J1.5

Forcing a global, offline land surface modeling system with observation-based fields

Matthew Rodell, NASA/GSFC, Greenbelt, MD; and P. R. Houser, U. Jambor, J. Gottschalck, J. Radakovich, K. Arsenault, C. -. J. Meng, and K. E. Mitchell

Poster PDF (3.6 MB)

10:45 AM

J1.6

GCM Simulation of the Large-scale North American Monsoon including Water Vapor Tracer Diagnostics

Michael G. Bosilovich, NASA/GSFC, Greenbelt, MD; and G. K. Walker, S. D. Schubert, and Y. Sud

J1.7

Influence of land use on the regional climate of southwest Australia

11:00 AM

J1.8

Land-Atmosphere Interactions at the Norman Mesonet Site

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

11:15 AM

J1.9

Land-atmosphere feedback across eastern Oklahoma following the MCS events of August 1994

Derek S. Arndt, Oklahoma Climatological Survey, University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK; and K. C. Crawford

Poster PDF (189.9 kB)

11:30 AM

J1.10

The Impact of Oklahoma�s Winter Wheat Crop on the Mesoscale Environment

Renee A. McPherson, Oklahoma Climatological Survey, Univ. of Oklahoma, Norman, OK

Poster PDF (2.8 MB)

11:45 AM

J1.11

Spatial and temporal correlations among Oklahoma Mesonet and OASIS surface-layer measurements

Jerald A. Brotzge, CAPS/Univ. of Oklahoma, Norman, OK; and S. J. Richardson

12:00 PM

J1.12

Simulation of Fine-Scale Soil Moisture Variations at the Walnut River Watershed in Kansas

Yiwen Xu, ANL, Argonne, IL; and M. L. Wesely

J1.13

A Multiple-Layer Canopy Model: Solving the Exchanges Between Size-Structured Vegetation and Atmosphere

12:15 PM

J1.14

Impact of land use/land cover change on U. S. climate

Somnath Baidyaroy, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ; and C. P. Weaver and S. W. Pacala

12:30 PM

J1.15

Impact of remotely sensed leaf area index on a Global Land Data Assimilation System

Jon C. Gottschalck, Univ. of Maryland Baltimore County and NASA/GSFC, Greenbelt, MD; and P. R. Houser and X. Zeng

Poster PDF (119.2 kB)

12:45 PM

J1.16

Hydrological Land Surface Response in a Tropical and a Midlatitudinal Regime

Dev dutta S. Niyogi, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC; and Y. Xue and S. Raman

Poster PDF (49.4 kB)

1:00 PM

J1.17

The Role of Vegetation in the Mountainous Regions of the Central Himalayas

Osman Yildiz, Penn State Univ., University Park, PA; and A. P. Barros

Poster PDF (39.2 kB)

1:15 PM

J1.18

The impact of hydrological processes before and after a bushfire in a watershed in southeastern Australia

Milton S. Speer, Bureau of Meteorology, Sydney, NSW, Australia; and L. M. Leslie, S. Liu, R. P. Morison, and L. Qi

1:30 PM

J1.19

A New Method for Estimating Evaporation from Large Reservoirs

Edgar L Andreas, U.S. Army Cold Regions Research and Engineering Laboratory, Hanover, NH; and S. F. Daly, G. G. Koenig, and M. E. Nelson

1:45 PM

J1.20

Impacts of Soil Water Freezing Point on Soil Freeze-Thaw Cycles and Runoff: A Study Using the Community Land Model (CLM)

Zong-Liang Yang, University of Texas, Austin, TX; and G. Y. Niu

2:00 PM

J1.21

Southern Iceland discharge and regional climate-North Atlantic atmospheric circulation relationships 1973�1992

Glenn R. McGregor, Univ. of Birmingham, Birmingham, United Kingdom; and D. M. Lawler and I. D. Phillips

2:15 PM

J1.22

An evaluation of downscaling predicted precipitation in a coupled modeling system

Keeley R. Costigan, LANL, Los Alamos, NM; and C. D. Tomkins, E. P. Springer, C. L. Winter, J. R. Stalker, and D. L. Langley

Poster PDF (209.0 kB)

2:30 PM

J1.4a

Coffee Break in Poster Session Room

3:00 PM

J1.9a

Lunch Break

4:30 PM

J1.16a

Coffee Break in the Poster Session Room

Joint Session 3

Advancements/applications in Meteorology, Hydrology, Oceanography and Climatology: Part 1 (Joint with AWIPS and IIPS)

Sponsors: (Joint between the 18th International Conference on IIPS; and the Interactive Symposium on AWIPS )

Organizers: Robert G. Borchers, SAIC; Fred P. Lewis, Meteostar; Daniel McCarthy, SPC; Dan Nietfeld, NOAA/NWSFO; Neil Stuart, NOAA/NWSFO; Larry Brazil, Riverside Technologies

Papers:

9:30 AM

J3.1

Early detection of tropical cyclones using SeaWinds-derived vorticity for the 2001 hurricane season

Ryan J. Sharp, COAPS, Florida State Univ., Tallahassee, FL; and M. A. Bourassa, J. J. O'Brien, K. B. Katsaros, and E. B. Forde

Poster PDF (256.9 kB)

9:45 AM

J3.2

GIS for expanding the application potential of TRMM data

Nathan Pollack, NASA/GSFC, Greenbelt, MD; and W. Teng, G. Serafino, and L. Chiu

Poster PDF (25.7 kB)

10:00 AM

J3.3

The Earth System Grid II: Turning Climate Datasets into Community Resources

Ian Foster, ANL, Argonne, IL; and E. Alpert, A. Chervenak, B. Drach, C. Kesselman, V. Nefedova, D. Middleton, A. Shoshani, A. Sims, and D. Williams

http://www.earthsystemgrid.org

Poster PDF (26.4 kB)

10:15 AM

J3.4

The Oklahoma Mesonet: A mesoscale tool for drought recognition and monitoring

Howard L. Johnson, Oklahoma Climatological Survey, Norman, OK; and D. S. Arndt, G. D. McManus, and M. A. Shafer

Poster PDF (115.5 kB)

10:30 AM

J3.5

A Report on Plans for a Teragrid

Robert Wilhelmson, Univ. of Illinois, Urbana and National Center for Supercomputing Applications, Champaign, IL; and D. Reed

http://redrock.ncsa.uiuc.edu/AOS/home_pubs.html

Poster PDF (42.4 kB)

10:45 AM

J3.6

Implementation Status of the Nicaragua River Forecast System

James A. McNitt, Computer Sciences Corp., Lanham, MD

11:00 AM

J3.7

SAFIR Total Lightning detection technology

Philippe Richard, Vaisala Inc., Woburn, MA; and W. Geitz, S. Chansky, and T. Laine

J3.8

Modeling the snow distribution along a treeline shelterbelt in the Northern Plains using weather radar, Geographic Information Systems, and field measurements

11:15 AM

J3.9

The AWIPS Build 5.2.2 MAPS Surface Assimilation System (MSAS)

Patricia A. Miller, NOAA/FSL, Boulder, CO; and M. F. Barth

11:30 AM

J3.10

AWIPS for Satellite-Derived Hydrometeorological Applications

Roderick A. Scofield, NOAA/NESDIS, Camp Springs, MD; and R. J. Kuligowski, S. Qiu, and C. Davenport

11:45 AM

J3.11

Importation of Supplemental Satellite Data into AWIPS in the NWS Western Region

Kevin J. Schrab, NOAA/NWS, Salt Lake City, UT

http://www.wrh.noaa.gov/conf/awipssymposiumj3-11.pdf

Poster PDF (728.9 kB)

12:00 PM

J3.12

How Scientific Services Division of the NWS/Western Region (WR) has Adapted AWIPS for Operations in the West

Andy Edman, NOAA/NWS, Salt Lake City, UT; and K. J. Schrab

Poster PDF (975.9 kB)

12:15 PM

J3.13

Fire Weather Forecasting Applications on AWIPS

John Dragomir, NOAA/NWS, Anchorage, AK; and J. Kemper

Poster PDF (47.7 kB)

12:30 PM

J3.14

The Teller, Alaska Snow Event of October 31, 2000

Eric L. Stevens, NOAA/NWS, Fairbanks, AK

12:45 PM

J3.15

NMAP development status and plans

Mary L. desJardins, NOAA/NWS/NCEP, Camp Springs, MD; and S. Schotz, S. Jacobs, D. Plummer, D. Kidwell, and E. Safford

Poster PDF (23.1 kB)

1:00 PM

J3.16

Prospects for Faster and Denser WSR-88D Scanning Strategies

Randy M. Steadham, NOAA/Radar Operations Center, Norman, OK; and R. A. Brown and V. T. Wood

1:15 PM

J3.17

Using AWIPS and VORTEX findings to forecast qualitative probability of significant tornadoes

Wes Browning, NOAA/NWSFO, Springfield, MO

Poster PDF (89.6 kB)

1:30 PM

J3.18

Integration of new data sets into AWIPS for use in an operational forecast environment

Jeffrey S. Tongue, NOAA/NWS, Upton, NY; and J. S. Watson and M. E. Tauber

Poster PDF (394.0 kB)

1:45 PM

J3.19

Transfer of FSL's AWIPS technology to the Central Weather Bureau of Taiwan

Fanthune J. Moeng, NOAA/FSL, Boulder, CO; and M. Cheng

Poster PDF (200.4 kB)

2:00 PM

J3.20

Effective Use of AWIPS Warning Systems at NWS Tampa Bay, Florida

Barry S. Goldsmith, NOAA/NWS, Ruskin, FL; and R. F. Morales

Poster PDF (922.1 kB)

2:15 PM

J3.21

Enhancing the AWIPS baseline meteorological fields via the Volume Browser

Dan A. Baumgardt, NOAA/NWS, La Crosse, WI

http://www.crh.noaa.gov/arx/vb/index.htm

Poster PDF (12.7 kB)

2:30 PM

J3.22

The PCMDI Climate Data Analysis Tools (CDAT)�an open system approach to the implementation of a model diagnosis infrastructure

Michael Fiorino, LLNL, Livermore, CA; and D. Williams

Poster PDF (169.2 kB)

2:45 PM

J3.4a

Coffee Break in Poster Session Room

3:15 PM

J3.9a

Lunch Break

4:45 PM

J3.15a

Coffee Break in Poster Session Room

2

Advances in Ocean Observing

Sponsor: Sixth Symposium on Integrated Observing Systems

Organizer: Michael J. McPhaden, NOAA/PMEL

Papers:

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

Poster PDF (353.9 kB)

Joint Session 4

The Future of AWIPS (Joint Session with AWIPS and IIPS)

Sponsors: (Joint between the Interactive Symposium on AWIPS; and the 18th International Conference on IIPS )

Organizer: Ward R. Seguin, NOAA/NWS

Papers:

11:00 AM

J4.1

AWIPS�A Look to the Future

John L. Hayes, NOAA/NWS, Silver Spring, MD

11:15 AM

J4.2

AWIPS Requirements Definition: Beyond Build 5

Jamie V. Kousky, NOAA/NWS, Silver Spring, MD; and E. L. Atkins, D. R. Helms, and A. H. Kells

11:30 AM

J4.3

Assessing AWIPS Performance

Timothy Hopkins, NOAA/NWS, Silver Spring, MD; and W. R. Seguin, E. Hiner, D. Rhine, and L. Dominy

11:45 AM

J4.4

Migrating AWIPS to Linux

Charles Piercy, NOAA/NWS, Silver Spring, MD; and W. R. Seguin, E. Hiner, W. Carrigg, U. H. Grote, and C. Bullock

2

Air pollution impacts on the biosphere and carbon cycles

Sponsor: Fourth Conference on Atmospheric Chemistry

Organizer: Marvin L. Wesely, ANL

Papers:

11:00 AM

2.1

A Continental USA Climatology of Sulfate, Nitrate, and Ammonium Scavenging Ratios

Bruce B. Hicks, NOAA/OAR/ARL, Silver Spring, MD

11:15 AM

2.2

A New Approach for the Prediction of kOH: Dimethyl ether and Dimethoxymethane

Douglas S. Burns, ENSCO, Inc., Melbourne, FL; and M. G. Cory, K. Runge, and S. Willoughby

11:30 AM

2.3

A Study of Isoprene Emissions in Relation to Ozone Formation in the Eastern United States

Yiwen Xu, ANL, Argonne, IL; and M. L. Wesely and T. E. Pierce

11:45 AM

2.4

Modeling global atmospheric cycling of mercury

Ashu Dastoor, MSC, Dorval, PQ, Canada

12:00 PM

2.4a

Lunch Break

2

Interannual Variability I: Modeling Studies

Sponsor: 13th Symposium on Global Change and Climate Variations

Organizer: Chet Ropelewski, Columbia Univ.

Papers:

11:00 AM

2.1

Interannal and Decadal Relationships between the Indian Ocean Zonal Mode and ENSO: A Coupled CGM Study

Jin-Yi Yu, University of California, Los Angeles, CA

11:15 AM

2.2

The Control of the Warm-pool SST over the Magnitude of El Nino Warming

De-Zheng Sun, NOAA/ERL/CDC and CIRES, Boulder, CO

Poster PDF (700.9 kB)

11:30 AM

2.3

Generation and Air-Sea Coupling Mechanisms of Tropical Instability Waves

Jin-Yi Yu, University of California, Los Angeles, CA; and W. T. Liu

11:45 AM

2.4

Monthly mean extratropical atmospheric circulation response to El Nino SST

Hui Wang, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA; and R. Fu

12:00 PM

2.5

Tropical forcing of North Pacific decadal variability explored using a GCM ensemble

Joel R. Norris, SIO/Univ. Of California, La Jolla, CA; and T. A. Beitzel

12:15 PM

2.6

Multidecadal Variations of ENSO Teleconnection in the NCAR CCM3

Qi Hu, University of Nebraska, Lincoln, NE; and S. Feng

12:30 PM

2.7

Changes of Probability associated with El Nino

Prashant D. Sardeshmukh, NOAA/ERL/CDC, Boulder, CO; and G. P. Compo and C. Penland

2.8

Observed and Simulated Seesaw between Aleutian and Icelandic Lows and its Interdecadal Modulation

12:45 PM

2.9

An integrated approach to coupled climate modeling based on geodesic grids and quasi-Lagrangian vertical coordinates

Todd D. Ringler, Colostate State University, Fort Collins, CO; and D. A. Randall

1:00 PM

2.10

Seasonal Cycles of Surface Radiation Budget and Climate Classes

Anne Wilber, AS&M, Hampton, VA; and G. L. Smith and P. W. Stackhouse

1:15 PM

2.4a

Lunch Break

3

Boundary layer nighttime chemical processes

Sponsor: Fourth Conference on Atmospheric Chemistry

Organizer: Rickey C. Petty, DOE

Papers:

1:30 PM

3.1

Links between boundary layer ozone depletion events and atmospheric dynamics in the high Arctic

Court Strong, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA; and J. D. Fuentes, R. E. Davis, and J. W. Bottenheim

1:45 PM

3.2

On the mechanism of high ozone episode occurrence at a rural site

Huiting Mao, University of New Hampshire, Durham, NH; and R. W. Talbot

Poster PDF (207.1 kB)

2:00 PM

3.3

The Influence of Nocturnal Boundary Layer Structure on Nighttime Atmospheric Chemistry during PROPHET 2001

Mark A. R. Lilly, Department of Environmental Sciences, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA; and A. J. Wimmers, J. L. Moody, M. A. Carroll, P. B. Shepson, S. B. Bertman, V. L. Young, H. Westberg, P. D. Giacopelli, M. Marchewka, M. Pippin, S. Pressley, M. J. Mitchell, M. L. L'Heureux, E. C. Fortner, S. M. Hengel, M. K. Bartek, C. A. Gilbert, and B. J. Nucifore

2:15 PM

3.4

Vertical mixing and chemistry over an arid urban site: First results from skyscraper observations made during the Phoenix Sunrise Campaign

Carl M. Berkowitz, PNNL, Richland, WA; and J. Stutz, C. W. Spicer, J. C. Doran, J. D. Fast, and S. Wang

Poster PDF (166.8 kB)

Poster Session 1

Integrated Observing Systems Poster Session

Sponsor: Sixth Symposium on Integrated Observing Systems

Papers:

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. Renn�

Poster PDF (293.9 kB)

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

Poster PDF (1.3 MB)

P1.4

Mt. Washington Icing Sensors Project (MWISP) cloud particle habit analysis

Christopher W. Blackey, Plymouth State College, Plymouth, NH; and E. J. Rozak Jr., W. G. Schmitz, J. P. Koermer, and C. C. Ryerson

Poster PDF (131.1 kB)

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

Poster PDF (503.3 kB)

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

Poster PDF (90.2 kB)

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

Poster PDF (251.9 kB)

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

Poster PDF (23.0 kB)

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

Poster PDF (227.7 kB)

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

Poster PDF (129.7 kB)

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

http://www.emc.ncep.noaa.gov/research/osse/ams2002/prepmm.ios6.pdf

Poster PDF (201.2 kB)

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. Renn�, National Renewable Energy Laboratory, Golden, CO; and T. Stoffel, M. Anderberg, and P. Gray-Hann

Poster PDF (250.7 kB)

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

Poster PDF (43.0 kB)

P1.17

Commercial simultaneous dual polarization radar

James L. Alford, Enterprise Electronics Corporation, Enterprise, AL; and J. J. Stagliano Jr. and J. Helvin

Poster PDF (48.0 kB)

P1.18

Atmospheric attenuation, a review

James J. Stagliano Jr., Enterprise Electronics Corporation, Enterprise, AL; and J. Helvin, J. L. Alford, and D. Nelson

Poster PDF (70.9 kB)

P1.19

Issues surrounding linearity specification constriction

James L. Alford, Enterprise Electronics Corporation, Enterprise, AL; and J. J. Stagliano Jr. and J. Helvin

Poster PDF (55.8 kB)

Joint Session 5

Visualization: D3D Overview and Operational Use (Joint with AWIPS and IIPS)

Sponsors: (Joint between the Interactive Symposium on AWIPS; and the 18th International Conference on IIPS )

Organizers: Edward J. Szoke, NOAA/ERL/FSL; James Johnson, NOAA/NWS

Papers:

1:30 PM

J5.1

D3D: Overview, Update and Future Plans

Edward J. Szoke, NOAA/FSL, Boulder, CO; and U. H. Grote, P. T. McCaslin, and P. A. McDonald

http://d3d.fsl.noaa.gov

Poster PDF (697.3 kB)

1:45 PM

J5.2

Applying D3D in an operational environment

John W. Cannon, NOAA/NWSFO, Gray, ME; and J. C. Hayes and J. S. Watson

Poster PDF (23.0 kB)

2:00 PM

J5.3

Numerical model visualization using the FSL D3D: A paradigm shift for operational forecasters

James R. Johnson, NOAA/NWS, Dodge City, KS

2:15 PM

J5.4

The use of D3D when examining Tropical Cyclones

Andrew I. Watson, NOAA/NWS, Tallahassee, FL; and J. D. Fournier, T. P. Lericos, and E. J. Szoke

2:30 PM

J5.5

Operational Applications of Three Dimensional Air Parcel Trajectories using AWIPS D3D

David B. Barjenbruch, NOAA/NWSFO and CIRA/Colorado State Univ., Boulder, CO; and E. Thaler and E. J. Szoke

Poster PDF (476.5 kB)

2:45 PM

J5.6

Technical Considerations For the Installation and Use of D3D in an AWIPS Environment

Philip A. McDonald, NOAA/FSL, Boulder, CO; and P. T. McCaslin, E. J. Szoke, and U. H. Grote

Poster PDF (29.6 kB)

3:00 PM

J5.7

Integrating Science and Visualization with AWIPS for Effective Severe Weather Forecast and Warning Operations

Josh Korotky, NOAA/NWSFO, Pittsburgh, PA

Poster PDF (1.9 MB)

3:15 PM

J5.6a

Coffee Break in Poster Session Room

2

Emerging Technologies

Sponsor: The Atlas Symposium

Organizer: Peter H. Hildbrand, NASA/GSFC

Papers:

1:30 PM

2.1

The Assimilation of Radar Data for Weather Prediction

Juanzhen Sun, NCAR, Boulder, CO; and J. W. Wilson

2:00 PM

2.2

Innovative Signal Utilization and Processing

Fr�d�ric Fabry, McGill University, Montreal, PQ, Canada; and J. Keeler

2:30 PM

2.3

Global and Local Precipitation Measurements by radar

V. Chandrasekar, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO; and R. Meneghini and I. Zawadzki

3:00 PM

2.4

Cloud Microphysical Properties, Processes and Rainfall Estimation Opportunities

D. Rosenfeld; and C. Ulbirch

3:30 PM

2.3a

Coffee Break in Poster Session Room

Joint Session 4

Climate and Weather Services for Weather Risk Management (Joint with 3rd Symposium on Environmental Applications and the 16th Conference on Probability and Statistics in the Atmospheric Sciences)

Sponsors: (Joint between the Third Symposium on Environmental Applications; and the 16th Conference on Probability and Statistics in the Atmospheric Sciences )

Organizer: Robert Leffler, NOAA/NWS

Papers:

1:30 PM

J4.1

Weather risk management challenges and NWS climate and observing system solutions

Robert E. Livezey, NOAA/NWS, Silver Spring, MD

2:00 PM

J4.2

NOAA's surface weather observing networks

Thomas R. Karl, NOAA/NESDIS/NCDC, Asheville, NC; and W. M. Faas

2:30 PM

J4.3

United States Climate Normals for the 1971�2000 Period: Product Descriptions and Applications

Timothy W. Owen, NOAA/NESDIS/NCDC, Asheville, NC; and T. Whitehurst

Poster PDF (191.0 kB)

2:45 PM

J4.4

Cooperative Observer Program (COOP) Modernization

Andrew H. Horvitz, NOAA/NWS, Silver Spring, MD; and R. J. Leffler

J4.5

Paper moved to the 18th Conference on IIPS, Poster Session P1, New paper Number P1.28

2:59 PM

J4.6

Paper moved to Session 5, new paper number 5.8A

3:00 PM

J4.7

Structuring climate services through stakeholder-driven assessment

Barbara J. Morehouse, Institute for the Study of Planet Earth, Tucson, AZ; and G. M. Garfin, M. Vasquez Leon, H. Hartmann, T. Pagano, K. Kolivras, F. Ni, T. Finan, D. M. Liverman, A. Comrie, R. Bales, S. Sorooshian, M. K. Hughes, J. T. Overpeck, D. Austin, and D. Hadley

3:15 PM

J4.0a

Benefits and Costs of Weather and Climate Services

John W. Zillman, Bureau of Meteorology, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

3:45 PM

J4.2a

Coffee Break in Poster Session Room

2

Outreach programs pertaining to physical oceanography and air-sea interaction

Sponsor: 11th Symposium on Education

Organizers: Janice D. McDonnell, Rutgers University; David R. Smith, U.S. Naval Academy

Papers:

1:30 PM

2.1

Bringing the ocean to the K-12 Classroom using a Coastal Ocean Observation Laboratory and a National Estuarine Research Reserve

Janice D. McDonnell, Institute of Marine & Coastal Sciences, New Brunswick, NJ; and M. P. De Luca

1:45 PM

2.2

Consortium of Oceanographic Activities for Students and Teachers (COAST)

Sharon H. Walker, University of Southern Mississippi and J. L. Scott Marine Education Center & Aquarium, Biloxi, MS; and M. A. Lach and R. D. Brook

2:00 PM

2.3

Partnerships in marine science education

Sarah Schoedinger, Consortium for Oceanographic Research & Education, Washington, DC; and A. Lorenzen

http://www.COREocean.org

Poster PDF (13.6 kB)

2:15 PM

2.4

The NOPP Year of the Ocean Drifter Program

Doug Wilson, NOAA/AOML, Miami, FL

Poster PDF (364.8 kB)

2.5

Why you should care about the mud at the bottom of the sea

2:45 PM

2.6

The NEPTUNE Project: An Interactive Earth-Ocean Observatory at the Scale of a Tectonic Plate

John Delaney, Univ. of Washington, Seattle, WA

3:00 PM

2.7

The Maury Project: A partnership to promote educational outreach on the physical foundations of oceanography

David R. Smith, U.S. Naval Academy, Annapolis, MD; and I. W. Geer and D. E. McManus

Poster PDF (17.6 kB)

3:15 PM

2.8

Project Oceanography: Enhancing Middle School Science Education Nationwide Via Instructional Television

Paula G. Coble, University of South Florida, St. Petersburg, FL; and T. Greely, M. Hewitt, and C. Leard

http://www.marine.usf.edu/pjocean

Poster PDF (1.1 MB)

3:30 PM

2.9

Innovative partnering for ocean and atmospheric science outreach: Cruise ships, radio shows and more

Ellen J. Prager, Univ. of Miami/RSMAS, Miami, FL

3:45 PM

2.10

The Anegada Climate Tracers Study: A small climate change study in an unlikely place with potentially big payoffs

Roy A. Watlington, University of the Virgin Islands, Charlotte Amalie, St. Thomas, US Virgin Islands; and W. D. Wilson

4:00 PM

2.11

Oceanworld: Bringing the Ocean to the Classroom

Robert Stewart, Texas A&M Univ., College Station, TX; and M. A. Hammer and R. James

http://oceanworld.tamu.edu/index.html

Poster PDF (45.8 kB)

4:15 PM

2.6b

Coffee Break in Poster Session Room

2

IIPS Applications in Satellites and Satellite Programs

Sponsor: 18th International Conference on IIPS

Organizers: Gerald J. Dittberner, NOAA/NESDIS; David Santek, Univ. of Wisconsin

Papers:

1:30 PM

2.1

An Overview of the Initial Joint Polar-orbiting System (IJPS) and its Impact on the NOAA/NESDIS POES Program

Diane Holmes, Mitretek Systems, Inc., Falls Church, VA; and S. L. Bunin and H. J. Silva

Poster PDF (32.7 kB)

1:45 PM

2.2

An Overview of the NOAA/NESDIS Product Processing Plans for the Initial Joint Polar System Era

Stacy L. Bunin, Mitretek Systems, Inc., Falls Church, VA; and D. Holmes and P. M. Taylor

Poster PDF (24.7 kB)

2:00 PM

2.3

NOAA's GOES Satellite Program - Status and Plans

Gerald J. Dittberner, NOAA/NESDIS, Suitland, MD

2:15 PM

2.4

NOAA Polar Instrument Data Generation for Level 1B Users

Arlington R. Morgan, Computer Sciences Corp., Suitland, MD; and E. D. Harrod

Poster PDF (22.9 kB)

2:30 PM

2.5

Recent Developments in QuikSCAT Near-Real-Time Processing at NOAA/NESDIS

Jeffrey M. Augenbaum, Computer Sciences Corp., Suitland, MD; and R. W. Luczak and G. Legg

Poster PDF (321.7 kB)

2:45 PM

2.6

Evolution of NANOOK, the NOAA/NESDIS Near-real-time MODIS processing system

Paul D. Haggerty, Science and Technology Corp., Suitland, MD; and K. Sprietzer, G. Legg, and R. Luczak

http://www.osdpd.noaa.gov/MODIS

Poster PDF (159.1 kB)

3:00 PM

2.7

Validation of a neural network based MODIS global cloud mask using ground-based instruments

Todd Berendes, Univ. of Alabama, Huntsville, AL; and D. A. Berendes, R. M. Welch, E. E. Clothiaux, E. G. Dutton, P. Minnett, and T. Uttal

Poster PDF (193.4 kB)

3:15 PM

2.8

Propagation and lifetime characteristics of thunderstorm anvil clouds over Florida

David A. Short, ENSCO, Inc., Cocoa Beach, FL; and J. E. Sardonia, W. C. Lambert, and M. M. Wheeler

Poster PDF (28.3 kB)

3:30 PM

2.9

The GOES Active Archive�A new way to browse and access

Axel Graumann, NOAA/NESDIS/NCDC, Asheville, NC; and B. Watkins and J. A. Jensen

Poster PDF (110.2 kB)

2.10

The use of an HDF-EOS-based parallel data-computing environment for cross-sensor satellite data merger and technology transition

4:00 PM

2.11

Extracting the Maximum from Geographic Metadata at the NASA Langley ASDC

John O. Olson, NASA/LRC, Hampton, VA; and K. D. Rowe and F. Y. Wang

http://eosweb.larc.nasa.gov

Poster PDF (11.3 kB)

4:14 PM

2.12

Paper has been moved to Poster Session P1, New Paper Number P1.25

4:15 PM

2.13

GES DAAC improved methods and tools for accessing MODIS data

Dimitar Ouzounov, NASA/GSFC, Greenbelt, MD; and S. Ahmad, P. Eaton, J. Koziana, G. Leptoukh, A. Savtchenko, G. Serafino, A. K. Sharma, M. Skider, J. Qu, and B. Zhou

Poster PDF (20.1 kB)

4:30 PM

2.14

Development of scatterometer-derived research-quality surface pressure fields for the Southern Ocean

Kyle A. Hilburn, COAPS, Florida State Univ., Tallahassee, FL; and M. A. Bourassa and J. J. O'Brien

http://www.coaps.fsu.edu/~hilburn/18IIPS/index.html

Poster PDF (120.7 kB)

4:45 PM

2.6a

Coffee Break in Poster Session Room

3

Observed Climate Change I: Paleo and Instrumental Records

Sponsor: 13th Symposium on Global Change and Climate Variations

Organizer: Dian Seidel, NOAA/ARL

Papers:

1:30 PM

3.1

The carbon dioxide theory of climate change: emergence, eclipse, and reemergence, ca. 1850�1950

James R. Fleming, Colby College, Waterville, ME

http://www.colby.edu/sci.tech/controversy/pages/historical.htm

Poster PDF (10.5 kB)

1:45 PM

3.2

400 Years of California Central Valley precipitation reconstructed from blue oaks

Kelly T. Redmond, DRI, Reno, NV; and D. W. Stahle, M. D. Therrell, D. R. Cayan, and M. D. Dettinger

2:00 PM

3.3

Analogs of 20th century moisture anomalies in the central and western USA, 1500-1978

Falko K. Fye, University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, AR; and D. W. Stahle and E. R. Cook

2:15 PM

3.4

Describing global climate variability and change using simple indices

David J. Karoly, Monash University, Clayton, Vic, Australia; and K. Braganza

Poster PDF (14.8 kB)

2:30 PM

3.5

The 1930s Drought in the U.S. Great Plains: New Perspectives and a Look at Land Surface Responses

Henry F. Diaz, NOAA/ERL/CDC, Boulder, CO; and R. S. Webb, J. K. Eischeid, and S. Forman

Poster PDF (297.0 kB)

2:45 PM

3.6

The Climate of 2001 in Historical Perspective

Jay H. Lawrimore, NOAA/NESDIS/NCDC, Asheville, NC; and K. L. Gleason, R. Heim, S. Stephens, and D. Chappas

3:00 PM

3.7

Warming phases in long-term Spanish Temperature Change

Manola Brunet, University Rovira i Virgili, Tarragona, Spain; and E. Aguilar, O. Saladi�, J. Sigr�, and D. L�pez

3:15 PM

3.8

Global temperature change and its uncertainties since 1861

Christopher K. Folland, Met Office, Bracknell, Berks., United Kingdom; and N. A. Rayner, D. E. Parker, I. Macadam, D. M. H. Sexton, S. J. Brown, T. M. Smith, S. S. P. Shen, P. D. Jones, R. N. Jones, and N. Nicholls

3:30 PM

3.9

109-year record of surface temperatures in N. Alabama

John R. Christy, University of Alabama in Huntsville, Huntsville, AL

Poster PDF (353.6 kB)

3:45 PM

3.10

Observed High-Latitude Temperature Changes in the Northern Hemisphere

David R. Easterling, NOAA/NESDIS/NCDC, Asheville, NC; and P. D. Jones, C. M. Eakin, T. C. Peterson, J. Lawrimore, P. Y. Groisman, and M. MacCraken

4:00 PM

3.11

The Climate Change in the Western Arctic During the Last Two Decades

Muyin Wang, JISAO/Univ. of Washington, Seattle, WA; and J. E. Overland and N. Bond

Poster PDF (180.5 kB)

4:15 PM

3.12

Trend analysis of the 20th century snowfall record for Minnesota

Martha D. Shulski, University of Minnesota, St. Paul, MN; and M. W. Seeley

4:30 PM

3.13

The impact of global warming on ENSO seen in Southern Oscillation Index

Zhaohua Wu, COLA, Calverton, MD

4:45 PM

3.14

How are Decade-Scale Precipitation Variations Reflected in the Daily Precipitation Record?

Jurgen D. Garbrecht, USDA/ARS, El Reno, OK; and J. Schneider and X. C. Zhang

5:00 PM

3.6a

Coffee Break in Poster Session Room

4

Development of real-time and near real-time air quality modeling that uses integration of measurement on urban and regional scales

Sponsor: Fourth Conference on Atmospheric Chemistry

Organizer: Peter Lunn, DOE

Papers:

2:30 PM

4.1

AIRPACT: A Real-Time Air Quality Forecast System for the Pacific Northwest

Joe Vaughan, Washington State University; and B. K. Lamb, R. Wilson, C. Bowman, C. Figueroa-Kaminsky, S. Otterson, M. Boyer, C. Mass, and M. Albright

http://airpact.ce.wsu.edu

Poster PDF (317.8 kB)

2:45 PM

4.2

An Experimental Air Quality Forecast Modeling System (AQFMS) for the Northeast United States: A Demonstration Study

C. Cai, SUNY, Albany, NY; and C. Hogrefe, J. Biswas, S. T. Rao, N. L. Seaman, A. Gibbs, G. Kallos, P. Katsafados, C. Walcek, J. Chang, and K. L. Demerjian

Poster PDF (978.8 kB)

3:00 PM

4.3

Measurements of nonmethane hydrocarbons in three U.S. cities

Paul V. Doskey, ANL, Argonne, IL; and V. R. Kotamarthi

Poster PDF (58.8 kB)

3:15 PM

4.4

Real-time Winter Dispersion Modelling Based on PM_2.5 Mass for the Greater Montreal Area in Canada.

Jacques Rousseau, EC-MSC-Quebec region, Ville Saint-Laurent, PQ, Canada; and M. Benjamin and A. Germain

3:30 PM

4.2A

Coffee Break in Poster Session Room

Coffee Break in Exhibit Hall

2

Topics in Probability and Statistics for the Atmospheric Sciences

Sponsor: 16th Conference on Probability and Statistics in the Atmospheric Sciences

Organizer: G. Louis Smith, Virginia Polytech Institute and State Univ.

Papers:

3:30 PM

2.1

Randomness of Radiances from Broken Cloud Fields

G. Louis Smith, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, and NASA/LRC, Hampton, VA

Poster PDF (29.1 kB)

3:45 PM

2.2

Spurious Relations Among Rainfall Parameters Arising from Inadequate Sampling and Fitting

A. R. Jameson, RJH Scientific, Inc., Arlington, VA; and A. B. Kostinski

Poster PDF (196.8 kB)

4:00 PM

2.3

Temporal spectra of Earth radiation budget components

Takmeng Wong, NASA/LRC, Hampton, VA; and G. L. Smith

Poster PDF (361.1 kB)

4:15 PM

2.4

Determiniation of Model Valid Prediction Period using the Backward Fokker-Planck Equation

Peter C. Chu, NPS, Monterey, CA; and L. M. Ivanov and C. W. Fan

4:30 PM

2.5

Periods and its prediction in the coming 10 years in china

Fengying Wei, Chinese Academy of Meteorology Sciences, Beijing, China

Joint Session 2

Climate Model Diagnostics: Tools (Joint with the 18th Conference IIPS and 13th Symposium on Global Change and Climate Variations)

Sponsors: (Joint between the 13th Symposium on Global Change and Climate Variations; and the 18th International Conference on IIPS )

Organizer: Dean Williams, LLNL

Papers:

3:30 PM

J2.1

Climate data analysis tool: an open software system approach

Dean N. Williams, LLNL, Livermore, CA; and R. S. Drach, P. F. Dubois, C. Doutriaux, C. J. O'Connor, K. M. AchutaRao, and M. Fiorino

Poster PDF (99.0 kB)

4:00 PM

J2.2

The Live Access Server: a tool for Web access to in-situ data collections, too

Steven Hankin, NOAA/PMEL, Seattle, WA; and J. Sirott, J. Callahan, K. O'Brien, and A. Manke

Poster PDF (21.4 kB)

4:15 PM

J2.3

The NOAA Operational Model Archive and Distribution System (NOMADS)

Glenn K. Rutledge, NOAA/NESDIS/NCDC, Asheville, NC; and J. Alpert, R. Stouffer, B. Domenico, L. Buja, D. N. Williams, B. Doty, M. Kafatos, and S. Hankin

Poster PDF (37.6 kB)

4:30 PM

J2.4

ARCAS (ACACIA Regional Climate-data Access System)�a web access system for climate model data access, visualization and comparison

T. M. L. Wigley, NCAR, Boulder, CO; and D. Brown, J. Callahan, S. Hankin, C. Hakkarinen, M. de Koningh, D. Middleton-link, and J. Sirott

J2.5

An Overview of the Live Access Server

4:45 PM

J2.6

A suite of web pages for analyzing climate signals in large datasets

Catherine A. Smith, NOAA/CIRES, Univ. of Colorado, Boulder, CO; and J. A. Collins and R. H. Schweitzer

http://

Poster PDF (62.3 kB)

4

Regional Climate Modeling

Sponsor: 13th Symposium on Global Change and Climate Variations

Organizer: L. Ruby Leung, PNNL

Papers:

3:30 PM

4.1

Enhanced Climatic Warming over the Tibetan Plateau Due to Double CO2: A Model Study

Baode Chen, University of Maryland Baltimore County, Baltimore, MD; and W. C. Chao and X. Liu

Poster PDF (100.7 kB)

3:45 PM

4.2

Evaluation by the SUNYA ReCM of the impact of PNA on the winter climate of northeastern United States

Michael Notaro, SUNY, Albany, NY; and W. C. Wang

4.3

The potential influence of river and wetland co2 fluxes on regional carbon balance in the Tapajos region, Para, Brazil

4:15 PM

4.4

On PIRCS models' consistency of dynamics with precipitation

Zaitao Pan IV, Iowa State University, Ames, IA; and R. Arritt, E. Takle, W. Gutowski, C. Anderson, F. Otieno, and E. al

4:30 PM

4.5

Regional climate simulation of the anomalous events of 1998 using a stretched-grid GCM with multiple areas of interest

Michael S. Fox-Rabinovitz, University of Maryland and NASA/GSFC, College Park, MD; and L. L. Takacs and R. C. Govindaraju

Poster PDF (9.0 kB)

4:45 PM

4.6

Investigation of Middle Eastern climate using a regional climate model

Jason Evans, Yale University, New Haven, CT; and R. Oglesby, K. Maasch, and R. Smith

http://www.yale.edu/ceo/Projects/swap.html

Poster PDF (91.7 kB)

5:00 PM

4.7

Reanalyses and GCM driven nested model sensitivity studies for South America

Anji Seth, International Research Institute for Climate Prediction, Columbia University, Palisades, NY; and M. Rojas

Poster Session 1

Effective Assimilation of the Vast Observational Datasets Becoming Available

Sponsor: Symposium on Observations, Data Assimilation, and Probabilistic Prediction

Papers:

P1.1

Utility of including precipitable water data for tropical wave wind regression analysis

P1.2

Multivariate assimilation of SST, sea level and currents for tropical Pacific Ocean

Eric Hackert, University of Maryland, College Park, MD; and J. Ballabrera and A. Busalacchi

P1.3

Using 4d-Var to assimilate satellite data into MM5 Hurricane Floyd simulations

Sharanya J. Majumdar, Univ. of Miami/RSMAS, Miami, FL; and S. S. Chen, J. Tenerelli, and R. Foster

P1.4

Improving the incorporation of polar satellite passive microwave precipitation estimates into the NCEP Global Data Assimilation System

Robert J. Kuligowski, NOAA/ORA, Camp Springs, MD; and R. Treadon, W. Chen, and R. R. Ferraro

P1.5

MADIS: The Meteorological Assimilation Data Ingest System

Michael F. Barth, NOAA/ERL/FSL, Boulder, CO; and P. A. Miller and A. E. MacDonald

P1.6

Upper-Level Wind Retrievals Using the Satellite Surface Wind and Temperature Soundings

Cheng-Zhi Zou, NOAA/ORA, Camp Springs, MD

P1.7

The impact of Assimilating ACARS data on the performance of a real-time FDDA weather analysis and forecasting system

Rong-Shyang Sheu, NCAR, Boulder, CO; and Y. Liu, S. Low-Nam, and L. Carson

Poster PDF (104.5 kB)

P1.8

Dynamic Adjustment within an Idealized Numerically-Simulated Bow Echo: Implications for Data Assimilation

Ernani L. Nascimento, CAPS/Univ. of Oklahoma, Norman, OK; and K. K. Droegemeier

Poster PDF (246.5 kB)

P1.9

Assimilation of IRS-P4 (Oceansat-I) Meteorological Data in the NCMRWF Data Assimilation System

Rupa Kamineni, Indian Institute of Technology, New Delhi, India; and K. Sarat chandra, R. Riffat, P. Rajendra, and M. Uma

P1.10

GEOS-Terra Data Assimilation System Data at the Goddard Earth Sciences DISC/DAAC

Sunmi Cho, NASA/GSFC, Greenbelt, MD; and C. Phelps, J. Qin, and G. Serafino

P1.11

New Approach Of Dynamic Data Modeling and Its Application to Precipitation Forecasting

XiaoJing Jia, Chinese Academy of Meteorological Sciences, Beijing, China

P1.12

1D Variational assimilation of cloud- and land-affected TOVS/ATOVS level 1b data and preparation for AIRS

Joanna Joiner, NASA/GSFC, Greenbelt, MD; and A. da Silva and D. Frank

P1.13

Impact of covariance modeling and data selection on assimilated ozone

Ivanka Stajner, NASA/GSFC and GSC/SAIC, Greenbelt, MD; and R. Rood and N. Winslow

http://dao.gsfc.nasa.gov/pages/ozone_assim.html

Poster PDF (75.9 kB)

P1.14

Vertical relative humidity profile estimation from VIRS and TMI on board TRMM

Toshiro Inoue, MRI/JMA, Tsukuba, Ibaraki, Japan

Joint Session 6

Visualization: Interactive Software for Visualizing Web-Based Meteorological Data (Joint with AWIPS and IIPS)

Sponsors: (Joint between the Interactive Symposium on AWIPS; and the 18th International Conference on IIPS )

Organizers: Randy Ashby, Raytheon ITSS; Robert Borchers, SAIC

Papers:

3:45 PM

J6.1

Interactive, web-based three-dimensional visualizations of operational mesoscale weather models

Lloyd A. Treinish, IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center, Yorktown Heights, NY

http://www.research.ibm.com/weather

Poster PDF (2.8 MB)

4:00 PM

J6.2

VisAD for collaborative visualization of data distributed on clusters

William L. Hibbard, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI

http://www.ssec.wisc.edu/~billh/visad.html

Poster PDF (16.8 kB)

4:15 PM

J6.3

Development of an SQL database with real-time Java maps for the NJ WxNet

David A. Robinson, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ; and C. Duvall, K. Sharma, and C. Shmukler

Poster PDF (50.8 kB)

4:30 PM

J6.4

NCEP meteorological model graphics on the internet

Brent A. Gordon, NOAA/NWS/NCEP, Camp Springs, MD; and L. Sager, R. Romero, and Z. Szabo

http://www.ncep.noaa.gov/NCO/PMB/nwprod/analysis/

Poster PDF (9.3 kB)

4:45 PM

J6.5

WeatherScope: Interactive software for visualizing web-based meteorological data sets

J. Michael Wolfinbarger, Oklahoma Climatological Survey, Univ. of Oklahoma, Norman, OK; and J. R. Greenfield, T. B. Stanley, and R. A. Young

5:00 PM

J6.5a

Open Discussion

3

Educational Innovations

Sponsor: The Atlas Symposium

Papers:

4:00 PM

3.1

Educational Innovations in Radar Meteorology

Steven A. Rutledge, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO

5

Tropospheric aerosols-chemistry and radiative properties

Sponsor: Fourth Conference on Atmospheric Chemistry

Papers:

4:00 PM

5.1

A new study to submit global "chemical weather charts" of sulfur dioxide

Jiqing Tan, Meteorological Research Institute, Japan Meteorological Agency, Tsukuba, Ibaraki, Japan; and M. Chiba

4:15 PM

5.2

Analysis of Gulf Coast Moisture, Aerosols and Weather Regimes

Ronnie Guyton, Jackson State University, Jackson, MS; and P. Croft

4:30 PM

5.3

Evaluation of Models-3/CMAQ performance during a winter high particulate matter episode in February 1998

Mariusz Pagowski, MSC, Downsview, ON, Canada; and A. Chtcherbakov, R. Bloxam, S. Wong, X. Lin, J. Sloan, and S. Soldatenko

Poster PDF (363.2 kB)

4:45 PM

5.4

Transport of Aerosol Particles by Deep Convective Process and Its Contribution to the Formation of Junge Layer

Pao K. Wang, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI

Poster PDF (48.3 kB)

2

Local Modeling

Sponsor: Interactive Symposium on AWIPS

Organizers: Patrick T. Welsh, NOAA/NWS; John A. McGinley, NOAA/OAR/FSL

Papers:

4:00 PM

2.1

Local Data Analysis on AWIPS at NWS Melbourne, FL

Peter F. Blottman, NOAA/NWS, Melbourne, FL; and S. M. Spratt, D. W. Sharp, K. R. Waters, and B. N. Meisner

4:15 PM

2.2

Running the MM5 in an AWIPS Environment

Eric Lenning, NOAA/NWS, St. Charles, MO; and R. Przybylinski and J. A. Nelson Jr.

http://www.crh.noaa.gov/lsx/science/mm5.htm

Poster PDF (50.5 kB)

4:30 PM

2.3

Verification of Local Modeling at the National Weather Service Forecast Office in Miami, FL and Ingest of Local Data into LAPS and MSAS in AWIPS

Pablo Santos, NOAA/NWS, Miami, FL; and R. Pfost

4:45 PM

2.4

A completely integrated, cost-effective, local data assimilation and forecasting system to support space launch range operations

Brent L. Shaw, NOAA/FSL, Boulder, CO; and S. C. Albers, J. A. McGinley, L. S. Wharton, T. L. Wilfong, C. L. Crosiar, and D. E. Harms

http://laps.fsl.noaa.gov

Poster PDF (61.8 kB)

5:00 PM

2.4a

Open Discussion

Poster Session 1

Poster Session

Sponsor: First AMS Student Conference and Career Fair

Papers:

P1.1

Challenging and Modifying the Historical view of the West African Monsoon using TRMM Satellite Data

Segayle C. Walford, Penn State Univ., University Park, PA; and G. Jenkins

P1.2

Interaction of high- and low-frequency oscillations from a tropical cyclogenesis perspective

Colin K. Kennedy, U.S. Naval Academy, Annapolis, MD

P1.3

A comparison of 1998 and 1999 rainfall estimates using gauge and satellite data for West and Central Africa

Andrea M. Sealy, Howard Univ., Washington, DC; and G. S. Jenkins

P1.4

Analysis of the 2001 North American Monsoon and Pacific Tropical Storm Season Impacts on Arizona and New Mexico

Roxanne Linsley, NASA Space Grant Intern, Univ. of Arizona, Tucson, AZ

P1.5

The CCSM Simulation of West African Climate: Performance in Simulating Factors Affecting the Development of African Easterly Waves

Evan M. Blaisdell, Penn State Univ., University Park, PA; and G. S. Jenkins

P1.6

Relationship of ice content to hurricane intensity examined using TRMM/TMI data sets

Jefferson H. Wood, Florida State Univ., Tallahassee, FL

P1.7

DAILY CYCLES OF LOW LEVEL WINDS OVER THE ISLAND OF NAURU IN THE EQUATORIAL WESTERN PACIFIC

Ernesto Munoz, UCAR/SOARS-NOAA/AL, Boulder, CO and Universidad Metropolitana, San Juan, Puerto Rico

P1.8

Stability of the Thermohaline Circulation�a Model Study

Valerio Lucarini, MIT, Cambridge, MA

P1.9

Evaluating the potential impact of the assimilation of satellite-derived products on two mesoscale forecasts during PACJET

Katherine M. La Casse, Univ. of Wisconsin, Madison, WI; and M. C. Morgan

P1.10

Using ensemble forecasting to estimate the background error covariance for data assimilation

Kate Musgrave, UCAR/SOARS and Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO

P1.11

Construction of an ensemble of forecasts using adjoint-derived sensitivities

Daryl T. Kleist, Univ. of Wisconsin, Madison, WI; and M. C. Morgan and G. A. Postel

P1.12

Evaluations of turbulence algorithms from the forecasters' perspective: Winter 2001

Jamie Thomas Braid, NCAR, Boulder, CO; and J. L. Mahoney, T. L. Fowler, and B. G. Brown

P1.13

A comparison of the Stedman's Heat Index and WBGT Index

Steven D Hacker, U. S. Naval Academy, Annapolis, MD

P1.14

Development of a risk assessment framework for climate scenario construction

P1.15

Synoptic Climatology for the Mt. Washington Region:1955-1999, and its relation

John Hopkins Gillman, Plymouth State College, Plymouth, NH; and B. D'Agostino

P1.16

Do ENSO and PDO impact rainfall in Baja California, Mexico? A look at precipitation variability along this vast peninsular landscape

Tamara S. Wilson, Univ. of Arizona, Tucson, AZ

P1.17

A Comparison of the Weather in U.S. Cities During the 1982�83 and 1997�98 El Ni�o's

Heather L. Honnette, U. S. Naval Academy, Annapolis, MD

P1.18

The variability of cirrus clouds derived from 4 years of ARM data; relationships to the large-scale meteorology

Erik N. Vernon, Univ. of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT; and G. G. Mace

P1.19

Remote Estimates of Surface Energy Fluxes on the 30-m Spatial Scale

John R. Mecikalski, CIMSS/Univ. of Wisconsin, Madison, WI; and R. D. Torn, J. M. Norman, M. C. Anderson, S. J. Richardson, and J. A. Brotzge

P1.20

Estimating snowfall rates using polarimetric radar data

Yarice Rodriguez, UCAR/SOARS and Purdue Univ., West Lafayette, IN

P1.21

Ozone and Water Vapor: Analyzing their Relationship within the Mesosphere

Erik Ulysses Noble, UCAR/SOARS and Penn State Univ., University Park, PA

P1.22

The Atmospheric Phenomena of a mid-fall Blizzard

Jennifer L. Hanson, Univ. of North Dakota, Grand Forks, ND; and F. G. Martin, M. R. Estrem, D. L. Jacklitch, A. D. Kleinsasser, and J. E. Randall

P1.23

The impact of land-atmosphere interactions on the Benson, MN tornado of 11 June 2001

Daniel Cheresnick, CIMMS/Univ. of Oklahoma, Norman, OK; and J. Basara

P1.24

The relationship between radar reflectivity and lightning activity at initial stages of convective storms

Maribel Martinez, UCAR/SOARS, Boulder, CO and Texas Tech University, Lubbock, TX

P1.25

The Relationship Of Large-Scale Surface Boundaries To Convective Initiation And Strong And Violent Tornado Occurrence

David M. Bolen, Univ. of Northern Colorado, Greeley, CO

P1.26

Measurements of meteorological variables and trace gas concentrations during NE-OPS 2001 using a tethered atmospheric observing system.

Richard Walker Jr., Millersville Univ., Millersville, PA; and A. J. Terry, S. L. Atkins, M. L. Theis, E. D. Carre, and J. M. Barbush

P1.27

Studies of Volatile Organic Compounds in Ambient Air in New York City

Mohamed Bangura, Medgar Evers College, City University of New York, Brooklyn, NY; and J. Dick

P1.28

SuomiNet GPS Installation at Plymouth State College

Sean J. Clarke, Plymouth State College, Plymouth, NH; and D. W. Brown

P1.29

Using GPS to verify Local Model water vapour field

Guergana Petrova Guerova, Institute of Applied Physics, Univ. of Bern, Bern, Switzerland

P1.30

Nutrient cycling in mangrove ecosytems

Meagan Eagle, Stanford Univ., Stanford, CA; and A. Paytan and M. Young

P1.31

Deforestation and its hydrological impact on the Rio Minho River watershed, (Jamaica, West Indies)

Michael A. Edwards, Medgar Evers College, City University of New York, Brooklyn, NY

P1.32

MWISP Cloud Particle Habit Analysis

Christopher W. Blackey, Plymouth State College, Plymouth, NH; and E. J. Rozak Jr.

P1.33

Aircraft icing forecasts over regions of complex terrain

Rebecca Stanley, Plymouth State College, Plymouth, NH

P1.34

Strategies for Diversity: SOARS�A Case Study

Sarah A. Tessendorf, UCAR/SOARS and Colorado State Univ., Ft. Collins, CO; and T. L. Windham

P1.35

SuomiNet and IronNet: GPS at Millersville University

J. Cory Demko, Millersville Univ., Millersville, PA; and N. Aiello, J. Benvenuto, N. Slodysko, N. Kosar, and D. Cousins

1

Climate Services: Lessons for Research and Design

Sponsor: Third Symposium on Environmental Applications

Organizer: Roger S. Pulwarty, NOAA/OAR

Papers:

4:15 PM

1.1

Basic Issues in moving between research and practice: the OGP and other experiences

Roger S. Pulwarty, NOAA/OAR, Silver Spring, MD; and J. M. Hall

4:30 PM

1.2

Toward the Development of New NOAA Climate Services: Lessons from Research at the Climate Diagnostics Center on Science-Societal Interactions

Randall Dole, NOAA/CIRES/CDC, Boulder, CO

4:45 PM

1.3

Regional Climate Services: Research perspectives and mechanisms for communication

Jonathan T. Overpeck, Institute for the Study of Planet Earth, Univ. of Arizona, Tucson, AZ; and S. K. Avery and B. J. Morehouse

5:00 PM

1.4

A Regional Climate Services Core for the Western United States: An organizational perspective

Kelly T. Redmond, DRI, Reno, NV

Poster PDF (27.9 kB)

5:15 PM

1.5

Scales of science and knowledge interactions: The 2001 drought and longer-term changes in the Pacific Northwest

Edward L. Miles, University of Washington, Seattle, WA

Panel Discussion 1

Future of Radar Applications

Sponsor: The Atlas Symposium

Moderators: Richard J. Dovoak, NOAA/NSL; Paul L. Smith, South Dakota School of Mines and Technology

Panelists: Kelvin K. Droegemeier, Univ. of Oklahoma; Douglas E. Forsyth, NOAA/NSSL; John McCarthy, NRL; Marcia K. Politovich, NCAR; Richard E. Passarelli Jr., SIGMET, Inc.; Dusan Zrnic, NOAA/NSSL

Sessions end for the day

Symposium Ends

Formal Opening of Exhibits with Reception (Cash Bar)

Panel Discussion 1

U.S. Global Change Research Program: Future Prospects

Sponsor: 13th Symposium on Global Change and Climate Variations

Moderator: Robert W. Corell, AMS

Panelists: Ghassem Asrar, NASA; Margaret Leinen, NSF; Jerry Elwoods, U.S. Department of Energy; Janet Gamble, U.S. EPA; J. Michael Hall, NOAA/OGP

Papers:

7:00 PM

PD1.1

Recent Developments for NASA's Global Change Programs

Ghassem Asrar, NASA, Washington, DC

7:15 PM

PD1.2

USGCRP and the National Science Foundation

Margaret Leinen, NSF, Arlington, VA

7:30 PM

PD1.3

USGCRP and the U.S. Department of Energy

Jerry Elwood, U.S. Department of Energy, Germantown, MD

7:45 PM

PD1.4

Assessing the consequences of global change: An overview of EPA's Global Change Research Program

Janet Hurrell, U.S. EPA, Washington, DC

8:00 PM

PD1.5

The Role of Global Environmental Change Research in the 21st Century

J. Michael Hall, NOAA/OGP, Silver Spring, MD

8:15 PM

PD1.0A

An Introduction to the U.S. Global Change Research Program

Richard Moss, U.S. Global Change Research Program Office, Washington, DC

Atlas Symposium Banquet

TUE 15 JAN

Tue 15 Jan

Tues 15 Jan

TUE 15 JAN

Welcoming Remarks

Sponsor: A Half Century of Progress in Meteorology: The Richard Reed Symposium

Organizers: Richard H. Johnson, Colorado State University; Robert A. Houze, University of Washington

3

Interactive Forecast Preparation System�A Catalyst for Change

Sponsor: Interactive Symposium on AWIPS

Organizer: Harry R. Glahn, NOAA/NWS/OST/MDL

Papers:

8:30 AM

3.1

Interactive Forecast Preparation�the future has come

David P. Ruth, NOAA/NWS/Office of Science and Technology, Silver Spring, MD

Poster PDF (42.0 kB)

8:45 AM

3.2

Digital Forecast Technology: NWS Vision for New Products and Customer Partnerships

Greg Mandt, NOAA/NWS, Silver Spring, MD

9:00 AM

3.3

Changing the operational paradigm with Interactive Forecasting Preparation System�IFPS

Alan Rezek, NOAA/NWS, Charleston, WV

Poster PDF (355.7 kB)

9:15 AM

3.4

Rapid Prototyping Grid-Based Forecasting

John A. Jannuzzi, NOAA/NWS, Boise, Idaho

9:30 AM

3.4a

Open Discussion

2

observing systems forecast impact experiments

Sponsor: Symposium on Observations, Data Assimilation, and Probabilistic Prediction

Organizer: Anthony Hollingsworth, ECMWF

Papers:

8:30 AM

2.1

Observing Systems Forecast Impact Experiments at DAO

Robert Atlas, NASA/GSFC/DAO, Greenbelt, MD

Poster PDF (47.8 kB)

9:00 AM

2.2

The impact of five remotely sensed and five in-situ data types in the Eta Data Assimilation System

Tom H. Zapotocny, CIMSS/Univ. of Wisconsin, Madison, WI; and W. P. Menzel, J. P. Nelson III, and J. A. Jung

9:15 AM

2.3

Assimilation of HRDI Line-of-Sight Winds

Andrew V. Tangborn, NASA/GSFC, Greenbelt, MD; and R. Menard and D. Ortland

Poster PDF (265.8 kB)

9:30 AM

2.4

EFFECTIVE ROUTINE OBSERVATIONAL NETWORKS IN A T21L3 QG MODEL

Craig H. Bishop, UCAR, Monterey, CA; and C. A. Reynolds

9:45 AM

2.5

Paper has been moved to session 7, new paper number 7.8

3

Educational Activities at UCAR

Sponsor: 11th Symposium on Education

Organizers: Rajul Pandya, West Chester University; Roberta M. Johnson, UCAR

Papers:

8:30 AM

3.1

An overview of the education and outreach program at UCAR

Roberta M. Johnson, UCAR, Boulder, CO

Poster PDF (37.7 kB)

9:00 AM

3.2

Web Weather for Kids: Online inquiry and learning about dramatic weather phenomena for middle school students

Susan Q. Foster, UCAR, Boulder, CO; and K. Petty, T. Chace, L. Barker, and C. Calvin

Poster PDF (15.3 kB)

9:15 AM

3.3

The Roberts Forum: Capturing WEB-Based Hill Briefings for the Public

Cynthia E. Schmidt, UCAR, Boulder, CO

9:30 AM

3.4

Significant Opportunities in Atmospheric Research and Science: A model diversity program

Thomas L. Windham, UCAR, Boulder, CO; and S. Henderson

9:45 AM

3.5

Digital Libraries in the Classroom: Using the Digital Library for Earth System Education (DLESE) to Support Learning

Kathryn M. Ginger, UCAR, Boulder, CO; and M. R. Marlino

http://www.dlese.org

Poster PDF (23.0 kB)

1

Fronts and the Tropopause

Sponsor: A Half Century of Progress in Meteorology: The Richard Reed Symposium

Organizer: Frederick Sanders, SWE

Papers:

8:30 AM

1.1

From upper-tropospheric fronts to Dynamical Tropopause Perspective in Tropical Meteorology

Lance F. Bosart, SUNY, Albany, NY

9:00 AM

1.2

The development of concepts of the Tropopause and the exchange of the trace constituents between the stratosphere and Troposphere

Melvyn A. Shapiro, NOAA/OAR/ETL, Boulder, CO

9:30 AM

1.3

Frontogenesis

Brian Hoskins, Univ. of Reading, Reading, Berks., United Kingdom

10:00 AM

1.3A

Coffee Break

5

Climate Model Diagnostics: New Methods

Sponsor: 13th Symposium on Global Change and Climate Variations

Organizer: Gerald Potter, LLNL

Papers:

8:30 AM

5.1

Diagnostics of vertically integrated fluxes of energy.

Kevin E. Trenberth, NCAR, Boulder, CO; and D. P. Stepaniak

Poster PDF (344.2 kB)

9:00 AM

5.2

Contrasting of numerical uncertainties of climate models in simulating reversibility

Donald R. Johnson, University of Wisconsin, Madison,, WI; and T. K. Schaack, A. J. Lenzen, and T. H. Zapotocny

9:30 AM

5.3

Analyzing atmospheric general circulation models with a linearized single column model

John W. Bergman, CIRES/Univ. of Colorado, Boulder, CO; and P. D. Sardeshmukh

9:45 AM

5.4

Diagnosing the anthropogenically-forced signal in a coupled climate model

David W. Pierce, SIO/Univ. of California, San Diego, CA; and T. P. Barnett

10:00 AM

5.4a

Coffee Break in Poster Session Room

6

Field Studies - Urban and Regional Scale Oxidant and Aerosol Production

Sponsor: Fourth Conference on Atmospheric Chemistry

Organizer: Richard Shetter, NCAR

Papers:

8:30 AM

6.1

The Influence of Boundary Layer Structure on Rural Ozone Observed during PROPHET 2001 and 2001 Summer Intensives

Mark A. R. Lilly, Department of Environmental Sciences, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA; and J. L. Moody, A. J. Wimmers, M. A. Carroll, T. D. Thornberry, L. Yageman, M. L'Heureux, M. Mitchell, C. Seaman, and E. C. Fortner

Poster PDF (236.2 kB)

8:45 AM

6.2

Processes and parameters controlling motor vehicle ultrafine particle emissions: Numerical simulations and comparisons with observations

Fangqun Yu, SUNY, Albany, NY

http://www.albany.edu/~yfq/

Poster PDF (73.4 kB)

9:00 AM

6.3

PM2.5 measurements by different continuous instrumentsin Philadelphia

Alexander Polissar, Clarkson University, Potsdam, NY; and P. K. Hopke and W. E. Wilson

9:15 AM

6.4

The Phoenix 2001 field campaign: evolution of oxidants during the morning transition period

J. Christopher Doran, PNNL, Richland, WA; and C. M. Berkowitz and J. D. Fast

9:30 AM

6.5

Numerical simulation of air concentration and deposition of particles from a smelter plume with a Boundary layer model and comparison with the field study data

S. M. Daggupaty, MSC, Downsview, ON, Canada; and C. M. Banic, W. R. Leaitch, J. Ma, P. Cheung, and R. Tanabe

9:45 AM

6.6

Diurnal variation of NMHC at a downtown site in Nashville: Model and Measurements

V. Rao Kotamarthi, ANL, Argonne, IL; and P. V. Doskey, Y. Xu, M. L. Wesely, W. Lonneman, and K. Olszyna

10:00 AM

6.7

Boundary layer evolution and its effects on ground-level ozone concentrations

Georgios A. Athanassiadis, SUNY, Albany, NY; and S. T. Rao, J. Y. Ku, and R. D. Clark

10:15 AM

6.8

Effects of fast chemical reactions on estimated emission fluxes of NOx from soil

V. R. Kotamarthi, ANL, Argonne, IL; and M. L. Wesely

10:30 AM

6.6a

Coffee Break in Poster Session Room

3

Advances in Satellite Observing

Sponsor: Sixth Symposium on Integrated Observing Systems

Organizer: Mary M. Glackin, NOAA/NESDIS

Papers:

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

Poster PDF (137.3 kB)

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

http://www.emc.ncep.noaa.gov/research/osse/ams2002/prepsl.3.3.ios6.pdf

Poster PDF (112.4 kB)

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

Poster PDF (251.0 kB)

9:30 AM

3.5

An Improved adjacency effect Calculation in Radiation Transfer Models

Haiyan Liu, SUNY, Albany, NY; and V. Mohnen

Poster PDF (23.2 kB)

9:45 AM

3.6

Progress in Spaceborne Scatterometer and Science Application

W. Timothy Liu, NASA/JPL, Pasaden, CA

10:00 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

Poster PDF (2.5 MB)

10:15 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

Poster PDF (830.9 kB)

10:30 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

10:45 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

Poster PDF (623.9 kB)

11:00 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

Poster PDF (39.6 kB)

11:15 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

11:30 AM

3.6A

Coffee Break in Poster Session Room

6

Observed Climate Change II: Data and Extremes

Sponsor: 13th Symposium on Global Change and Climate Variations

Organizer: Jay Lawrimore, NOAA/NESDIS/NCDC

Papers:

8:30 AM

6.1

Estimating urbanization and land use effects on surface temperatures

Ming Cai, University of Maryland, College Park, MD; and E. Kalnay

8:45 AM

6.2

The FCC Integrated Surface Hourly Database, a New Resource of Global Climate Data

J. Neal Lott, NOAA/NESDIS/NCDC, Asheville, NC; and R. Baldwin

Poster PDF (88.2 kB)

9:00 AM

6.3

Evidence for a recent advance in the timing of a surface-air warming

Daria Scott, St. Cloud State University, Saint Cloud, MN; and T. J. Blasing and D. P. Kaiser

9:15 AM

6.4

Complete Global Radiosonde Instrument Metadata Inferred by Examining Multiple Temperature and Humidity Time Series

Steven R. Schroeder, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX

9:30 AM

6.5

Comparison of methods for adjusting inhomogeneous radiosonde temperature data

Melissa Free, NOAA/ARL, Silver Spring, MD

9:45 AM

6.6

Comparison of Lower-Tropospheric Temperatures at Low and High Elevation Radiosonde Sites

Dian J. Seidel, NOAA/ARL, Silver Spring, MD; and M. Free

10:00 AM

6.7

Recent climate change in the Caribbean

Thomas C. Peterson, NOAA/NESDIS/NCDC, Asheville, NC; and M. Tayloe

10:15 AM

6.8

Observed coherent changes in climatic extremes during 2nd half of the 20th century

Lisa Alexander, Met Office, Bracknell, Berks., United Kingdom; and P. Frich, P. Della-Marta, B. Gleason, M. Haylock, A. Klein Tank, and T. Peterson

10:30 AM

6.9

Variability and trends in short-duration extreme events in the U.S.

Kenneth E. Kunkel, ISWS, Champaign, IL; and K. Andsager and D. R. Easterling

10:45 AM

6.10

Trends and variability in winter cold and warm spells over Canada

Amir Shabbar, MSC, Environment Canada, Toronto, ON, Canada; and B. Bonsal

Poster PDF (521.3 kB)

11:00 AM

6.11

Very Heavy Precipitation over Land: Estimates Based on a New Global Daily Precipitation Data Set

Pavel Ya. Groisman, UCAR and NOAA/NESDIS/NCDC, Asheville, NC; and R. W. Knight and T. R. Karl

Poster PDF (729.1 kB)

11:15 AM

6.12

Hydro-climatic factors and socioeconomic impacts of the recent record drop in Laurentian Great Lakes water levels

Frank H. Quinn, NOAA/GLERL, Ann Arbor, MI; and R. A. Assel and C. E. Sellinger

11:30 AM

6.6a

Coffee Break in Poster Session Room

Joint Session 1

Ensemble forecasting and predicability (Joint with the Symposium on Observations, Data Assimilation, and Probabilistic Prediction and 16th Conference on Probability and Statistics in the Atmospheric Science)

Sponsors: (Joint between the Symposium on Observations, Data Assimilation, and Probabilistic Prediction; and the 16th Conference on Probability and Statistics in the Atmospheric Sciences )

Organizer: Michael Ghil, Univ. of Califorina

Papers:

8:30 AM

J1.1

Skill and Value of ECMWF ensembles (Invited Presentation)

David S. Richardson, ECMWF, Reading, Berks., United Kingdom

8:45 AM

J1.2

Multi-Model Superensemble Forecasts for Weather and Seasonal Climate (Invited Presentation)

T. N. Krishnamurti, Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL; and T. S. V. Vijaya Kumar, D. W. Shin, and E. Williford

9:00 AM

J1.3

Generating Initial Conditions for Ensemble Forecasts: Monte-Carlo vs. Dynamic Methods

Thomas M. Hamill, NOAA/CDC, Boulder, CO; and J. S. Whitaker and C. Snyder

Poster PDF (226.8 kB)

9:15 AM

J1.4

Advances in Short Range Ensemble Forecasting (SREF) at NCEP

M. Steven Tracton, NOAA/NWS/NCEP, Washington, DC; and J. Du

Poster PDF (1.2 MB)

9:30 AM

J1.5

Assessment of a multi-centre "poor man's" ensemble prediction system for short-range use

Kenneth R. Mylne, Met Office, Bracknell, Berks., United Kingdom; and K. B. Robertson

Poster PDF (114.6 kB)

9:45 AM

J1.6

The impact of horizontal resolution and ensemble size on probabilistic forecasts of precipitation by the ECMWF EPS

Steven L. Mullen, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ; and R. Buizza

10:00 AM

J1.7

Towards nonlinear probabilistic prediction

Joseph Tribbia, NCAR, Boulder, CO; and D. Baumhefner and R. Errico

10:15 AM

J1.8

Does increased model resolution enhance predictability?

Zoltan Toth, NOAA/NWS/NCEP, Washington, DC; and Y. Zhu, I. Szunyogh, M. Iredell, and R. Wobus

http://sgi62.wwb.noaa.gov:8080/ens/enshome.html

Poster PDF (448.2 kB)

10:30 AM

J1.9

Tangent linear and nonlinear growth of optimal perturbations

Carolyn A. Reynolds, NRL, Monterey, CA; and T. E. Rosmond

10:45 AM

J1.10

A comparison of breeding and ensemble transform Kalman filter ensemble forecast schemes

Xuguang Wang, Penn State University, University Park, PA; and C. H. Bishop

Poster PDF (2.7 MB)

11:00 AM

J1.11

Unstable cycles and disturbance growth in a quasi-geostrophic channel model

Roger M. Samelson, Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR

11:15 AM

J1.12

Ensemble-based "pre-emptive" forecasts

Sharanya J. Majumdar, Univ. of Miami/RSMAS, Miami, FL; and C. H. Bishop

Poster PDF (185.8 kB)

11:30 AM

J1.6a

Coffee Break in Poster Session Room

12:00 PM

J1.12a

Grand Poster Luncheon

Joint Session 3

Climate Variations and Forecasting (Joint with the 16th Conference Probability and Statistics and the 13th Symposium on Global Change and Climate Variations)

Sponsors: (Joint between the 16th Conference on Probability and Statistics in the Atmospheric Sciences; and the 13th Symposium on Global Change and Climate Variations )

Organizers: Rick Katz, NCAR; Bob Livezey, NOAA/NWS

Papers:

8:30 AM

J3.1

A new significance test for empirical orthogonal functions

M. S. Santhanam, IBM India Research Laboratory, New Delhi, India; and B. Aditya and G. A. Kumar

Poster PDF (834.4 kB)

8:45 AM

J3.2

The correlation structure of some simple indices of global climate variability and change

David J. Karoly, Monash University, Clayton, Vic., Australia; and K. Braganza

Poster PDF (16.2 kB)

9:00 AM

J3.3

Cloudiness trends in Canada

Ewa J. Milewska, MSC, Toronto, ON, Canada

Poster PDF (112.7 kB)

9:15 AM

J3.4

A linear approach to atmospheric predictability on the medium and extended range

Matthew Newman, NOAA/ERL/CDC, Boulder, CO; and P. D. Sardeshmukh and C. R. Winkler

9:30 AM

J3.5

Do weather or climate variables and their impacts have heavy-tailed distributions?

Richard W. Katz, NCAR, Boulder, CO

Poster PDF (120.9 kB)

9:45 AM

J3.6

A hazard model for tornado occurrence in the United States

Cathryn L. Meyer, Boston College, Boston, MA; and H. E. Brooks and M. P. Kay

Poster PDF (1.1 MB)

10:00 AM

J3.7

A new perspective on the climatology of tornadoes in the United States

Sara L. Bruening, Univ. of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, WI; and M. P. Kay and H. E. Brooks

Poster PDF (533.7 kB)

10:15 AM

J3.8

Determining Fog Type in the Los Angeles Basin Using Historic Surface Observation Data

Jeffrey A. Baars, Terabeam, Redmond, WA; and M. Witiw, A. Al-Habash, and J. Ramaprasad

Poster PDF (62.5 kB)

10:30 AM

J3.9

Fog in the Los Angeles Basin: Influence of the El Nino Southern Oscillation and the Pacific Decadal Oscillation

Michael R. Witiw, Terabeam, Redmond, WA; and J. A. Baars and J. Ramaprasad

10:45 AM

J3.10

Experimental forecasting of dry season �storminess� over Florida and the southeast United States from the ENSO signal using multiple linear regression techniques

Bartlett C. Hagemeyer, NOAA/NWS, Melbourne, FL; and R. A. Almeida

11:00 AM

J3.11

Predictability of anomalous storm tracks

Gilbert P. Compo, NOAA/CIRES/CDC, Boulder, CO; and P. D. Sardeshmukh and C. Penland

11:15 AM

J3.12

Seasonal forecasting of strong winds over Europe

J. P. Palutikof, Univ. of East Anglia, Norwich, United Kingdom; and T. Holt and T. J. Osborn

Poster PDF (218.5 kB)

11:30 AM

J3.13

A Space-Time Model for Seasonal Hurricane Prediction

Thomas H. Jagger, Florida State Univ., Tallahassee, FL; and X. Niu and J. B. Elsner

Poster PDF (96.8 kB)

11:45 AM

J3.14

Predictive United States' hurricane climate

James B. Elsner, Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL; and B. H. Bossak

http://garnet.acns.fsu.edu/~jelsner/HTML/Research/papers/predclim/predclim.html

Poster PDF (80.1 kB)

12:00 PM

J3.6a

Coffee Break in Poster Session Room

12:30 PM

J3.12a

Grand Poster Luncheon

2

Air Quality (Cosponsored by the AMS Board on Private Sector Meteorology)

Sponsor: Third Symposium on Environmental Applications

Organizer: Maria Pirone, WSI Corp.

Papers:

8:30 AM

2.1

Meteorological Assistance in Air Management: Present and Future

Gale Hoffnagle, TRC Environmental Corporation, Windsor, CT

8:45 AM

2.2

Progress in Regulatory Air Pollution Meteorology�A State's Air Program Perspective

Thomas G. Rogers, Florida Dept. of Environmental Protection, Tallahassee, FL

Poster PDF (15.6 kB)

9:00 AM

2.3

Monitoring Changes in the Wind

Tammy Eagan, Florida Dept. of Environmental Protection, Tallahassee, FL

Poster PDF (7.6 kB)

9:15 AM

2.4

Using Real-Time and Forecast Air Quality Data to Inform the Public

Richard A. Wayland, EPA, Research Triangle Park, NC

9:30 AM

2.5

AirAlert: An Air Quality Notification System for Real-time Data and Forecasts in Sacramento, CA

Timothy S. Dye, Sonoma Technology, Inc., Petaluma, CA; and C. B. Anderson and K. B. Shearer

9:45 AM

2.6

Operational Air Quality Forecasting in Atlantic Canada: An Overview

Michael C. Howe, MSC, Fredericton, NB, Canada; and C. Cote and D. Waugh

Poster PDF (1.8 MB)

10:00 AM

2.7

Application of RAMS/UAM system to air pollution episodes in the West Midlands, UK, during the PUMA campaign

Xiaoming Cai, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, United Kingdom; and G. R. McGregor, S. Baggott, and R. M. Harrison

Poster PDF (381.7 kB)

10:15 AM

2.8

Diurnal cycles of lower-tropospheric wind shear durint TexAQS-2000

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

10:30 AM

2.9

A daily trend of pollutant concentrations referred to as the representative day

T. Tirabassi, ISAO-CNR, Bologna, Italy

10:45 AM

2.10

Long-range Transport of African Mineral Aerosols to the Southeastern United States: Impact on the Environment of the Southeastern United States

Joseph M. Prospero, RSMAS/University of Miami, Miami, FL

11:00 AM

2.11

Air Quality and Wildland Fire

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

11:15 AM

2.12

The impact of wildfires on Central Florida's tourism industry

Danielle Courtenay, Orlando/Orange County Convention & Visitors Bureau, Orlando, FL

11:30 AM

2.13

Atmospheric Deposition of Nitrogen as a Contributor to Coastal Eutrophication: How Far Away it Comes

Robin L. Dennis, NOAA-ARL / USEPA-ORD NERL, Research Triangle Park, NC

11:45 AM

2.6a

Coffee Break

12:15 PM

2.12a

Grand Poster Luncheon

2:15 PM

2.13a

Panel Discussion on Air Quality

4

Distributed Data and Metadat Access

Sponsor: 18th International Conference on IIPS

Organizers: Nancy Soreide, NOAA/PMEL; Howard Diamond, NOAA/NESDIS

Papers:

8:30 AM

4.1

The Importance of Metadata Within NOAA and its Vital Link in Providing Access to Environmental Information

Howard J. Diamond, NOAA/NESDIS, Silver Spring, MD; and T. Habermann

Poster PDF (720.6 kB)

8:44 AM

4.2

Paper moved to Joint Session J7, new paper number J7.12

8:45 AM

4.3

Paper moved to Poster Session P1, New Paper Number P1.24

8:46 AM

4.4

A web based news distribution system using PHP and MySQL

Eugene F. Burger, JISAO/Univ. of Washington, Seattle, WA; and N. N. Soreide

Poster PDF (93.2 kB)

9:01 AM

4.5

THREDDS: a geophysical data/metadata framework

Ethan R. Davis, UCAR/Unidata, Boulder, CO; and J. Caron

Poster PDF (140.3 kB)

9:16 AM

4.6

DODS Aggregation and THREDDS Catalog Services

John Caron, UCAR, Boulder, CO

Poster PDF (98.8 kB)

9:31 AM

4.7

Creating Custom User Interfaces for the Live Access Server

Roland H. Schweitzer, NOAA/CDC and CIRES/Univ. of Colorado, Boulder, CO

http://www.cdc.noaa.gov/coads/las/

Poster PDF (53.5 kB)

9:46 AM

4.8

Customizing the Live Access Server

Joseph Sirott, Sirott and Associates, Seattle, WA; and J. Callahan and S. Hankin

10:01 AM

4.9

Using a LDAP Directory Server for Environmental Data Discovery

Donald W. Denbo, JISAO/Univ. of Washington, Seattle, WA

Poster PDF (72.9 kB)

10:16 AM

4.10

Automated scanning of observational datasets for the generation of formal metadata

Jason E. Fabritz, JISAO/Univ. of Washington and NOAA/PMEL, Seattle, WA; and D. W. Denbo

Poster PDF (77.0 kB)

10:31 AM

4.11

The Unaami Data Collection: Web access to time series quantifying Arctic change

Nancy N. Soreide, NOAA/OAR/PMEL, Seattle, WA; and J. E. Overland, W. H. Zhu, and M. E. Sullivan

Poster PDF (361.7 kB)

10:46 AM

4.12

Distributed Data Servers and Client Interfaces for the Climate Data Portal

Willa H. Zhu, JISAO/Univ. of Washington, Seattle, WA; and D. W. Denbo

Poster PDF (218.1 kB)

11:01 AM

4.13

A Climate Data Portal

Nancy N. Soreide, NOAA/OAR/PMEL, Seattle, WA; and C. L. Sun, B. J. Kilonsky, D. W. Denbo, W. H. Zhu, and J. R. Osborne

Poster PDF (704.9 kB)

11:16 AM

4.14

NdEdit: Interactive Data Selection Tool

John R. Osborne, OceanAtlas Software and NOAA/PMEL/OAR, Vashon Island, WA; and D. W. Denbo

Poster PDF (55.5 kB)

11:31 AM

4.15

A discussion on the use of streamline analysis to identify and forecast the location of, and the weather associated with, synoptic features

Phillip A. Zuzolo, Autometric Incorporated, A Boeing Company, Springfield, VA; and A. M. Powell Jr., J. R. Schultz, P. Fetz, M. L. Pearce, R. D. Blyth, S. G. Hoffert, and B. J. Zuzolo

11:46 AM

4.16

The Plan to access Real-Time and NWP Operational Model Data Sets using NOMADS

Jordan C. Alpert, NOAA/NWS/NCEP, Camp Springs,, MD; and G. Rutledge, J. Potter, R. Stouffer, L. Buja, B. Doty, S. Hankin, B. Domenico, and M. Kafatos

Poster PDF (57.7 kB)

12:01 PM

4.17

Online Analysis and Visualization of TRMM and Other Precipitation Data Sets

Zhong Liu, George Mason University, Fairfax, VA; and L. Chiu, H. Rui, W. Teng, and G. Serafino

Poster PDF (89.5 kB)

12:16 PM

4.2a

Utilizing the Weather Forecast Office Hydrologic Forecast System for Coastal Flood Operations

David R. Vallee, NOAA/NWSFO, Taunton, MA; and J. Notchey

Poster PDF (88.1 kB)

12:30 PM

4.7a

Coffee Break in Poster Session Room

1:00 PM

4.13a

Grand Poster Luncheon

Joint Session 7

Advancements/applications in Meteorology, Hydrology, Oceanography, and Climatology: Part II (Joint with AWIPS and IIPS)

Sponsors: (Joint between the 18th International Conference on IIPS; and the Interactive Symposium on AWIPS )

Organizers: George Smith, NOAA/NWS; Larry Brazil, Riverside Technologies

Papers:

8:30 AM

J7.1

Verification of NWS River Stage Forecasts

Edwin Welles, NOAA/NWS, Silver Spring, MD; and H. Herr

8:45 AM

J7.2

Evaluation of Alternative Potential Evapotranspiration Schemes for Use in National Weather Service River Forecast System

Qingyun Duan, NOAA/NWS, Silver Spring, MD; and M. Smith, J. Schaake, and V. Koren

9:00 AM

J7.3

Realtime integration of the SLOSH model and the NWS River Forecast System on the AWIPS platform

Eric Jones, NOAA/NWS, Slidell, LA

9:15 AM

J7.4

Integration of bias corrected, satellite-based estimates of precipitation into AWIPS at River Forecast Centers

Michael A. Fortune, NOAA/NWS, Silver Spring, MD; and J. P. Breidenbach and D. J. Seo

9:30 AM

J7.5

FLDVIEW: The NWS flood forecast mapping application

Neftali Cajina, NOAA/NWS, Silver Spring, MD; and J. Sylvestre, E. Henderson, M. Logan, and M. Richardson

Poster PDF (1.8 MB)

9:45 AM

J7.6

Overview and Status of the Hydrologic Forecast System in the National Weather Service Weather Forecast Offices

Mark J. Glaudemans, NOAA/NWS, Silver Spring, MD; and R. A. Erb, E. B. Wells, J. Zimmerman, J. J. Hill-Maxwell, and K. S. Mack

Poster PDF (32.8 kB)

10:00 AM

J7.7

Flash Flood Monitoring and Prediction Version 2.0: Continued AWIPS Modernization

M. Thomas Filiaggi, NOAA/NWS, Silver Spring, MD; and S. B. Smith, M. Churma, L. Xin, and M. Glaudemans

Poster PDF (233.2 kB)

10:15 AM

J7.8

An assessment of the use of AMBER in a semi-arid desert region

Melissa A. Goering, NOAA/NWS, Tucson, AZ; and P. Jendrowski

Poster PDF (255.2 kB)

10:30 AM

J7.9

Development of a Headwater Model Application for National Weather Service Weather Forecast Offices

Russell A. Erb, NOAA/NWS, Silver Spring, MD

10:44 AM

J7.10

Paper moved to Session 4, new paper number 4.2a

10:45 AM

J7.11

Moved to new paper number J7.13

10:46 AM

J7.12

International assessment of the adequacy of the global climate observing systems (Formerly Paper number 4.2)

Alan R. Thomas, Global Climate Observing System, Geneva, Switzerland

Poster PDF (14.7 kB)

11:01 AM

J7.13

The Impact of a Major Ice Storm on the Operations of the Oklahoma Mesonet

Christopher A. Fiebrich, Oklahoma Climatological Survey, Norman, OK; and D. L. Grimsley and S. J. Richardson

11:16 AM

J7.14

Redirection of Computer Resources to Enhance Severe Weather Operations in the Central Region: The Utilization of the DRT Linux PC as a Fifth AWIPS Workstation (Formerly Paper number P1.8)

Daniel D. Nietfeld, NOAA/NWS, Valley, NE; and R. Ewald

11:31 AM

J7.5a

Discussion

12:01 PM

J7.10a

Site Specific Hydrologic Modeling and Forecasting at National Weather Service Weather Forecast Offices

Larry E. Brazil, Riverside Technology, Inc., Fort Collins, CO; and M. Thiemann and G. F. Smith

Poster PDF (192.3 kB)

11:46 AM

J7.10a

Discussion

12:16 PM

J7.11a

An Update on the Status of the U.S. Global Climate Observing System (US-GCOS)Program

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

Poster PDF (44.5 kB)

12:31 PM

J7.5b

Coffee Break in Poster Session Room

1:01 PM

J7.10b

Grand Poster Luncheon

5

IIPS Applications in Radar

Sponsor: 18th International Conference on IIPS

Organizers: Robert Saffle, NOAA/NWS; Douglas E. Forsyth, NOAA/NSSL

Papers:

8:30 AM

5.1

NEXRAD Open Systems�Progress and Plans

Robert E. Saffle, NOAA/NWS, Silver Spring, MD; and M. J. Istok and L. D. Johnson

Poster PDF (64.7 kB)

8:45 AM

5.2

Aspects of The ORPG Software Development Process

Michael Jain, NOAA/NSSL, Norman, OK; and R. Adams, H. Burcham, E. Forren, G. Gookin, Z. Jing, A. Nawaz, D. Priegnitz, S. Smith, D. Suppes, and J. Thompson

9:00 AM

5.3

Experiences with the Early Deployment of the WSR-88D Open Radar Product Generator (ORPG)

J. Rex Reed, NOAA/NWS/OSF, Norman, OK; and G. Cate and R. Skov

Poster PDF (58.9 kB)

9:15 AM

5.4

Near Term Planned Mission Enhancements for the WSR-88D Open Radar Product Generator

John G. Simensky, NOAA/NWS, Silver Spring, MD; and R. Elvander, R. Saffle, and M. Istok

Poster PDF (77.1 kB)

9:30 AM

5.5

Use of NEXRAD ORPG Applications Developed for the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA)

Cheryl G. Souders, FAA, Washington, DC; and R. C. Showalter

9:45 AM

5.6

Analysis and Plans for Using FAA Radar Weather Data in the WSR-88D

Andrew D. Stern, Mitretek Systems, Inc., Falls Church, VA; and P. K. Pickard, W. M. Blanchard, M. J. Istok, B. Bumgarner, D. L. Estes, and S. Shema

Poster PDF (662.6 kB)

10:00 AM

5.7

The WSR-88D Common Operations and Development Environment�Status and Future Plans

Thomas J. Ganger, Mitretek Systems, Falls Church, VA; and M. J. Istok, S. Shema, and B. Bumgarner

http://

Poster PDF (26.9 kB)

10:15 AM

5.8

Developmental Utilities for the WSR-88D Common Operations and Development Environment

Andrew D. Stern, Mitretek Systems, Inc., Falls Church, VA; and T. J. Ganger, S. A. Dobbs, and M. J. Istok

Poster PDF (80.6 kB)

10:30 AM

5.9

Experiences using WSR-88D CODE as a Developmental Tool for Radar Algorithm Development

Michael J. Istok, NOAA/NWS, Silver Spring, MD; and A. D. Stern, T. J. Ganger, D. J. Smalley, D. J. Seo, and C. J. McAdie

Poster PDF (116.3 kB)

10:45 AM

5.10

The Open Radar Data Acquisition (ORDA) Design for the WSR-88D

Allen Zahrai, NOAA/NSSL, Norman, OK; and S. M. Torres, I. Ivic, and C. Curtis

Poster PDF (735.0 kB)

11:00 AM

5.11

Migration of WSR-88D Signal Processing Functionality to Open Systems

Sebastian M. Torres, CIMMS/Univ. of Oklahoma, Norman, OK; and A. Zahrai

Poster PDF (47.3 kB)

11:15 AM

5.12

Near Term Planned Mission Enhancements for the WSR-88D Open Radar Data Acquisition System

Michael J. Istok, NOAA/NWS, Silver Spring, MD; and A. Zahrai, R. Saffle, R. Rivera, D. Martindale, and R. Khanna

Poster PDF (19.2 kB)

11:30 AM

5.13

Evaluation of techniques to mitigate range and velocity ambiguities on the WSR-88D

D. S. Zrnic, NOAA/NSSL, Norman, OK; and R. D. Cook

Poster PDF (44.5 kB)

11:45 AM

5.14

Evaluation of a digital receiver for the research and development of WSR-88D

D. S. Zrnic, NOAA/NSSL, Norman, OK; and A. Zahrai

Poster PDF (57.1 kB)

12:00 PM

5.15

Joint Polarization Experiment (JPOLE) for the WSR-88D Radar: Progress and Plans

Terry J. Schuur, NOAA/NSSL and CIMMS, Norman, OK; and R. C. Elvander, J. G. Simensky, and R. A. Fulton

Poster PDF (57.4 kB)

12:15 PM

5.16

Status of the dual polarization upgrade on the NOAA'S research and development WSR-88D

Valery Melnikov, University of Oklahoma/CIMMS, Norman, OK; and D. S. Zrnic, R. J. Doviak, and J. K. Carter

12:30 PM

5.17

NEXRAD Data Quality: An Update on the AP Clutter Mitigation Scheme

Cathy Kessinger, NCAR, Boulder, CO; and S. Ellis and J. VanAndel

Poster PDF (171.2 kB)

5.18

Censoring for Overlaid Echo Leakages in Phase-Coded WSR-88D Data

12:46 PM

5.19

Compression of NEXRAD (WSR-88D) radar data using Burrows-Wheeler Algorithm

Steven D. Smith, NOAA/NWS, Norman, OK; and K. Kelleher and S. Lakshmivarahan

1:01 PM

5.20

Project CRAFT: A Test Bed for Demonstrating the Real Time Acquisition and Archival of WSR-88D Level II Data

Kelvin K. Droegemeier, CAPS/Univ. of Oklahoma, Norman, OK; and K. Kelleher, T. D. Crum, J. J. Levit, S. A. DelGreco, L. Miller, C. Sinclair, M. Benner, D. W. Fulker, and H. Edmon

Poster PDF (432.5 kB)

1:16 PM

5.21

The National Weather Radar Testbed (Phased-Array)

Douglas E. Forsyth, NOAA/NSSL, Norman, OK; and J. F. Kimpel, D. S. Zrnic, S. Sandgathe, R. Ferek, J. F. Heimmer, T. McNellis, J. E. Crain, A. M. Shapiro, J. D. Belville, and W. Benner

Poster PDF (64.1 kB)

1:31 PM

5.22

Demonstration of optimum processing of oversampled signals in range to improve Doppler spectral moment estimates

Igor Ivic, CIMMS/University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK; and D. S. Zrnic and S. M. Torres

Poster PDF (51.4 kB)

5.23

A Radar Processing Toolkit using Numeric Python

5.24

Operational EXPERIENCES WITH THE EARLY DEPLOYMENT OF THE WSR-88D OPEN RADAR PRODUCT GENERATOR (ORPG), NOAA/ROC, NORMAN, OK

2:16 PM

5.0a

Introductory Remarks

Robert E. Saffle, NOAA/NWS, Silver Spring, MD; and D. E. Forsyth

2:31 PM

5.5a

Coffee Break in Poster Session Room

3:01 PM

5.11a

Grand Poster Luncheon

5:00 PM

5.17a

Coffee Break in Exhibit Hall

5:28 PM

5.18a

Overview of Range and Velocity Ambiguity Mitigation using the SZ(8/64) Phase Code

Scott Ellis, NCAR, Boulder, CO; and G. Meymaris and C. Frush

5:43 PM

5.11b

Session 5: Continued (Chairpersons: Michael J. Istok, NOAA/NWS, Silver Spring, MD; and R. Jeffrey Keeler, NCAR, Boulder, CO

5:44 PM

5.17b

Exhibit Hours 3:00�7:30 p.m.

3

Advances and Applications in Surface Transportation Weather

Sponsor: 18th International Conference on IIPS

Organizer: Arthur Handman, Greater Hartford Transit District

Papers:

3.1

Use of the Integrated Terminal Weather System for emergency management in New York City: a case study of leveraged technology

8:45 AM

3.2

Using ensembles of numerical weather forecasts for road weather prediction

Paul Schultz, NOAA/FSL, Boulder, CO

Poster PDF (120.5 kB)

9:00 AM

3.3

A university curriculum in surface transportation meteorology

Leon F. Osborne Jr., University of North Dakota, Grand Forks, ND

Poster PDF (23.7 kB)

9:15 AM

3.4

The use of artificial intelligence methods in improved visibility forecasting for surface transportation

Ryan Knutsvig, University of North Dakota, Grand Forks, ND

Poster PDF (29.1 kB)

9:30 AM

3.5

An Automated Road Weather Prediction System for Road Maintenance Decision Support

Bill Myers, NCAR, Boulder, CO; and M. Petty and J. Cowie

Poster PDF (26.5 kB)

9:45 AM

3.6

Decision support systems as a bridge between meteorology and surface transportation maintenance operations

Leon F. Osborne Jr., University of North Dakota, Grand Forks, ND; and J. L. Horner and E. Ryen

Poster PDF (15.6 kB)

Joint Poster Session 1

Land Amosphere Interactions (Joint with the 16th Conference on Hydrology and the 13th Symposium on Global Change and Climate Variations)

Sponsors: (Joint between the 16th Conference on Hydrology; and the 13th Symposium on Global Change and Climate Variations )

Organizer: James A. Smith, Princeton Univ.

Papers:

JP1.1

Warm-season land-atmosphere interactions in the Nebraska Sand Hills

Clinton M. Rowe, University of Nebraska, Lincoln, NE; and M. R. Anderson

Poster PDF (358.7 kB)

JP1.2

Spatial-temporal variability of the groundwater level

Mar�a del Valle Venencio, Universidad Nacional del Litoral, Santa Fe, Argentina; and N. O. Garc�a

Poster PDF (27.8 kB)

JP1.3

Soil moisture-rainfall feedback on the North American Monsoon system

Jianjun Xu, New Mexico Institute of Mining & Technology, Socorro, NM; and E. E. Small

JP1.4

Quantifying Land-Atmosphere Interactions at the Norman Mesonet Site: A Sensitivity Analysis Using the Oregon State University 1-D PBL Model

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

JP1.5

Diurnal relationships between soil heat flux and net radiation over a range of surface conditions applied to land surface energy balance modeling

Joseph Anthony Santanello Jr., Boston University, Boston, MA; and M. A. Friedl

Poster PDF (53.6 kB)

JP1.6

Parameterization of Jarvis-Stewart model in a deciduous secondary Forest In Japan and comparison with European and Amazon forests

JP1.7

Modeling of evaporation from a forest floor and application to a basin

Koji Tamai, Forestry & Forest Products Research Institute, Kyoto, Japan

JP1.8

Estimation of Seasonal Changes in Soil Moisture Storage Based on Water Balance Calculations

Sonia I. Seneviratne, ETH, Zurich, Switzerland; and P. A. Viterbo, D. L�thi, and C. Sch�r

JP1.9

Diurnal cycles in river discharge: a key to understanding snowmelt, evapotranspiration, and infiltration

Jessica D. Lundquist, SIO/Univ. of California, La Jolla, CA

JP1.10

Assessment of implementing satellite-derived land cover data in the Eta model

Nicole P. Kurkowski, University of Oklahoma and NOAA/NSSL, Norman, OK; and D. J. Stensrud

Poster PDF (132.4 kB)

JP1.11

About of the 1970/71 climatic jump on the "Rio de la Plata" basin

Norberto O. Garc�a, Universidad Nacional del Litoral, Santa Fe, Argentina; and W. M. Vargas and M. D. V. Venencio

4

Interactive Forecast Preparation System�A Regional Perspective

Sponsor: Interactive Symposium on AWIPS

Organizer: Dean P. Gulezian, NOAA/NWS

Papers:

9:45 AM

4.1

NWS Eastern Region Interactive Forecast Preparation System (IFPS) implementation

I. Ross Dickman, NOAA/NWS, Bohemia, NY

Poster PDF (372.7 kB)

10:00 AM

4.2

Implementing the Interactive Forecast Preperation System in the Central Region of the National Weather Service

Jeffery D. Manion, NOAA/NWS, Kansas City, MO; and R. L. Livingston

Poster PDF (88.1 kB)

10:15 AM

4.3

IFPS Implementation in the Southern Region

Bill Proenza, NOAA/NWS, Fort Worth, TX; and S. Cooper and D. Smith

10:30 AM

4.4

Use of IFPS in Western Region, National Weather Service

Andy Edman, NOAA/NWS, Salt Lake City, UT; and K. J. Schrab

Poster PDF (781.0 kB)

10:45 AM

4.5

Interactive Forecast Preparation System Implementation Plans in Alaska

James E. Kemper, NOAA/NWS, Anchorage, AK

11:00 AM

4.6

IFPS Development and Implementation in the Pacific Region

Paul Jendrowski, NOAA/NWS, Honolulu, HI

11:15 AM

4.1a

Coffee Break in Poster Session Room

11:45 AM

4.6a

Open Discussion

Coffee Break in Poster Session Room

5

Climate Model Diagnostics: New Methods, Cont.

Sponsor: 13th Symposium on Global Change and Climate Variations

Organizer: Kevin Trenberth, NCAR

Papers:

10:30 AM

5.5

Long-Term Regional Climate Simulations Driven By Two Global Reanalyses and a GCM For The Western U.S

L. Ruby Leung, PNNL, Richland, WA; and X. Bian and Y. Qian

Poster PDF (252.0 kB)

10:45 AM

5.6

A dynamical feedback in the climate system: analysis of stability and sensitivity of an atmospheric GCM coupled to oceanic upper mixed layer

Vladimir A. Alexeev, Danish Center for Earth System Science, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark

5.7

The Effect of Tropical Dry Zones on the Sensitivity of the Tropical Climate

11:15 AM

5.8

Diagnostics of the Thermohaline Circulation in a Coupled Climate Model

Shan Sun, NASA/GISS, New York, NY; and R. Bleck

11:30 AM

5.9

Climate model diagnosis: evaluating a climate model as a NWP forecast model

James S. Boyle, LLNL, Livermore, CA; and G. L. Potter, M. Fiorino, and J. J. Hnilo

11:45 AM

5.10

Implied ocean heat transports in recent AGCM simulations: sensitivity to the surface energy budget

Peter Gleckler, LLNL, Livermore, CA; and K. E. Taylor

Poster PDF (344.3 kB)

Poster Session 2

Observing Systems Forecast Impact Experiments

Sponsor: Symposium on Observations, Data Assimilation, and Probabilistic Prediction

Papers:

P2.1

Assigning water vapor wind heights by weighting functions

William H. Raymond, CIMSS/Univ. of Wisconsin, Madison, WI; and G. S. Wade

P2.2

Data Assimilation and Weather Regimes in a Three-Level Quasi-Geostrophic Model

D. Kondrashov, University of California, Los Angeles, CA; and M. Ghil, K. Ide, and R. Todling

Poster PDF (360.6 kB)

P2.3

Mesoscale model forecast sensitivity to varying data assimilation methods

P2.4

AIRS Data Support at the GES-DISC/DAAC

Liguang Wu, NASA/GSFC, Greenbelt, MD; and J. Qin and G. Serafino

P2.5

A regional comparison of GPS atmospheric moisture measurements at Plymouth and Bartlett, New Hampshire

Derek W. Brown, Plymouth State College, Plymouth, NH; and S. J. Clarke and J. Zabransky Jr.

Poster PDF (169.6 kB)

P2.6

On Quality Control Procedures Being Adopted for TRMM LBA and KWAJEX Soundings Data Sets

Biswadev Roy, SSAI, Greenbelt, MD; and J. B. Halverson

Poster PDF (40.4 kB)

2

Stratospheric Dynamics

Sponsor: A Half Century of Progress in Meteorology: The Richard Reed Symposium

Organizer: John M. Wallace, Univ. of Washington

Papers:

10:30 AM

2.1

The role of the Quasi-biennial oscillation in Stratospheric Dehydration

James R. Holton, University of Washington, Seattle, WA

11:00 AM

2.2

Personal retrospective of the development of thoughts on mechanism of sudden stratospheric warmings

Taroh Matsuno, Frontier Research System for Global Change, Tokyo, Japan

11:30 AM

2.3

Richard J. Reed and Atmospheric Tides

Richard S. Lindzen, MIT, Cambridge, MA

7

Toward a National Road-Weather Observation System

Sponsor: 18th International Conference on IIPS

Organizer: Samuel Williamson, NOAA

Papers:

10:30 AM

7.1

A National Infostructure for Road Weather Information

Gary G. Nelson, Mitretek Systems, Inc., Washington, DC; and P. Pisano

10:45 AM

7.2

Application of Environmental Sensor Stations in the western United States

Michael Splitt, NOAA/CIRP and Univ. of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT; and J. Horel

Poster PDF (59.1 kB)

11:00 AM

7.3

An inter-comparison of RWIS data with AWOS and ASOS data in the state of Iowa

Dennis P. Todey, Iowa State University, Ames, IA; and D. E. Herzmann, W. A. Gallus, Jr., and B. R. Temeyer

http://mesonet.agron.iastate.edu

Poster PDF (228.5 kB)

11:15 AM

7.4

Contribution of nationwide differential GPS services to improved precipitation forecasts

Seth I. Gutman, NOAA/FSL, Boulder, CO

11:30 AM

7.5

Road-Weather: Improved Forecasts�NOAA's Environmental Technology Laboratory Looks Ahead

Daniel E. Wolfe, NOAA/ETL, Boulder, CO; and B. B. Stankov

11:45 AM

7.6

The State of DOT Perspective on the need for Integrated Surface Transportation Weather Observations

Mike Adams, Wisconsin Department of Transportation, Madison, WI

4

University Outreach Activities

Sponsor: 11th Symposium on Education

Organizers: Mohan K. Ramamurthy, Univ. of Illinois; Paul J. Croft, Jackson State University

Papers:

10:30 AM

4.1

Classroom Visualizations of Weather

Cecil S. Keen, Minnesota State Univ., Mankato, MN; and D. Christensen

http://www.mnsu.edu/weather

Poster PDF (495.7 kB)

10:45 AM

4.2

An Inquiry-based Learning Strategy from the Visual Geophysical Exploration Environment (VGEE)

Rajul Pandya, West Chester University, West Chester, PA; and D. Bramer, D. Elliott, K. E. Hay, M. Marlino, D. Middleton, M. Ramamurthy, T. Scheitlin, M. Weingroff, and R. Wilhelmson

Poster PDF (95.7 kB)

11:00 AM

4.3

Weather from W.A.L.T.E.R.� An Interactive CD for Weather Educators

Patrick Heinis, Minnesota State University, Mankato, Mankato, MN; and J. Kerber and C. Keen

http://www.mnsu.edu/weather

Poster PDF (660.3 kB)

11:15 AM

4.4

A Miami/Dade County Mesonet?

Paul H. Ruscher, Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL; and A. J. Gallard, M. Z. Hernandez, and W. R. Lusher

11:30 AM

4.5

An Assessment of Interactive Video teleconference Sessions between the United States Air Force Academy and the United States Naval Academy

David T. Lawyer, U. S. Air Force Academy, USAF Academy, CO; and D. J. Whitford, D. R. Smith, and B. E. Heckman

http://home.earthlink.net/~dala2

Poster PDF (30.5 kB)

11:45 AM

4.6

COMET�We're Not Just for Forecasters Anymore

Victoria C. Johnson, UCAR/COMET, Boulder, CO; and T. C. Spangler

Poster PDF (15.8 kB)

12:00 PM

4.7

Systems analysis of the earth: outline of a new program

Stanley David Gedzelman, The City College of New York, New York, NY; and E. E. Hindman

12:15 PM

4.8

A new M.S. in Professional Meteorology degree program at the University of Oklahoma

Frederick H. Carr, Univ. of Oklahoma, Norman, OK; and K. K. Droegemeier and J. F. Kimpel

12:30 PM

4.9

Research Experiences in Meteorology�Integration of Science, Mathematics, and Technology

Len G. Keshishian, SUNY, Oswego, NY; and A. Stamm, R. Ballentine, and S. Preston

12:45 PM

4.10

Initiating a New Partnership for the 21st Century: NOAA/NWS and JSU Promoting Diversity in Atmospheric Science through Research, Application, and in Partnership with the NWS (PDAS-RAP)

Paul J. Croft, Jackson State University, Jackson, MS; and A. E. Gerard, M. Watts, K. Coleman, A. Robinson-Cook, and R. Smart

Poster PDF (39.0 kB)

4.11

The Weather Communications Option

1:01 PM

4.12

Weather boot camp and other outrageous activities

Richard C. Bagby, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, Daytona Beach, FL; and D. M. Schaum, C. G. Herbster, and J. A. Ernst

Poster PDF (6.2 kB)

3:16 PM

4.11A

Incorporating elements of Project DataStreme into a university-level in-service course on natural disasters (Formerly Paper Number P1.25)

Steven B. Newman, Central Connecticut State University, New Britain, CT; and C. W. Dimmick and K. M. Larsen

Poster PDF (19.7 kB)

1:16 PM

4.6a

Grand Poster Luncheon

7

Northeast Oxidant and Particulate Study (NEOPS)

Sponsor: Fourth Conference on Atmospheric Chemistry

Organizers: Richard D. Clark, Millersville University; C. Russell Philbrick, Penn State University

Papers:

11:00 AM

7.1

Overview of the NARSTO-NE-OPS Program

C. Russell Philbrick, Penn State University, University Park, PA; and W. F. Ryan, R. D. Clark, B. G. Doddridge, R. R. Dickerson, P. Koutrakis, J. W. Munger, S. R. McDow, S. T. Rao, D. J. Eatough, P. K. Hopke, P. K. Dasgupta, and E. al

Poster PDF (466.6 kB)

11:15 AM

7.2

Northeast Oxidant and Particulate Study (NEOPS): Preliminary results from the Centerton, New Jersey, Field Site

Nancy A. Marley, ANL, Argonne, IL; and J. S. Gaffney

Poster PDF (1.6 MB)

11:30 AM

7.3

The relative role of local and regional-scale processes on ozone in Philadelphia

Jerome D. Fast, PNNL, Richland, WA

11:45 AM

7.4

The Regional Nature of Ozone and Fine Particulate Matter

Russell R Dickerson, The University of Maryland, College Park, MD; and A. Chen, B. G. Doddridge, R. D. Hudson, and B. Holben

12:00 PM

7.5

The effects of local and regional scale circulations on air pollutants during NARSTO-NE-OPS 1999�2001

Richard D. Clark, Millersville University of Pennsylvania, Millersville, PA; and C. R. Philbrick, W. F. Ryan, B. G. Doddridge, and J. W. Stehr

Poster PDF (1.1 MB)

12:15 PM

7.6

Relationships among surface observations of particle mass, number, composition, and gaseous precursors during the summer 1999 Philadelphia NE-OPS study

George A. Allen, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, MA; and P. Koutrakis

Poster PDF (111.9 kB)

12:30 PM

7.7

Raman Lidar Measurements of Airborne Particular Matter

Guangkun Li, Penn State University, University Park, PA; and C. R. Philbrick and G. A. Allen

Poster PDF (440.0 kB)

12:45 PM

7.8

Ozone production in the Philadelphia urban area during NE-OPS 99

Lawrence I. Kleinman, Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, NY; and P. H. Daum, F. Brechtel, Y. -. N. Lee, L. J. Nunnermacker, S. R. Springston, and J. Weinstein-Lloyd

Poster PDF (103.2 kB)

1:00 PM

7.9

Organic Composition of PM-2.5 in the Northeast Oxidant and Particulate Study Using a Low Cut-off Inertial Impactor

Stephen R. McDow, Drexel University, Philadelphia, PA; and L. Moeini-Nombel, M. H. Lee, I. G. Kavouras, G. A. Allen, and P. Koutrakis

1:15 PM

7.10

Meteorological aspects of the July 15�20, 1999 Northeast Oxidant and Particulate Study (NEOPS) pollution episode

William F. Ryan, Penn State Univ., University Park, PA; and C. R. Philbrick and R. D. Clark

7.11

Interpretation of NOy, O3, and CO Data from Northeast Oxidant and Particle Study

1:45 PM

7.12

Airborne measurements of chemistry and aerosol optical properties during NARSTO Northeast Oxidant and Particle Study

Bruce G Doddridge, University of Maryland, College Park, MD; and R. D. Clark and C. R. Philbrick

2:00 PM

7.13

A Comparative Study of Prognostic Meteorological and of Air Quality Model Predictions with NEOPS 1999 Observations

A. Chandrasekar, Rutgers University, Ozone Research Center, Piscataway, NJ; and Q. Sun and P. G. Georgopoulos

Poster PDF (204.3 kB)

2:15 PM

7.4a

Grand Poster Luncheon

4:15 PM

7.10a

Coffee Break in Exhibit Hall

Lunch Break

Grand Poster Luncheon

9

Internet APPLICATIONS FOR EDUCATION AND RESEARCH

Sponsor: 18th International Conference on IIPS

Organizers: Linda Miller, UCAR; Steve Ackerman, Univ. of Wisconsin

Papers:

1:55 PM

9.1

How the National SMETE Digital Library (NSDL) Will Influence Internet Applications for Education and Research (Invited Presentation)

David W. Fulker, UCAR, Boulder, CO

2:10 PM

9.2

MeteoForum: A Pilot Project for Advanced International Meteorological Training Centers (Invited Presentation)

Arlene G. Laing, University of South Florida, Tampa, FL; and L. I. Miller, T. C. Spangler, and D. Fulker

2:25 PM

9.3

THematic Real-time Environmental Distributed Data Services (THREDDS)

Ben Domenico, UCAR, Boulder, CO

Poster PDF (189.6 kB)

2:40 PM

9.4

Educational and research applications of the NSDL/AVC

Christopher M. Klaus, ANL, Argonne, IL; and T. McCollum, E. Vernon, K. Andrew, G. G. Mace, and C. P. Bahrmann

http://www.nsdl.arm.gov

Poster PDF (178.1 kB)

2:55 PM

9.5

Future Directions for Unidata: Encouraging Broader Community and Collaboration

Joanne K. Graham, UCAR/Unidata, Boulder, CO; and J. Hansen and S. M. Kehoe

Poster PDF (21.2 kB)

3:10 PM

9.6

Toward Real-Time Collection of Internet Data Distribution Statistics for Automated Topology and Performance Monitoring

Steven R. Chiswell, UCAR, Boulder, CO

http://www.unidata.ucar.edu/staff/chiz/latency/stats/

Poster PDF (12.5 kB)

3:25 PM

9.7

Exploring an alternative architecture for Unidata's Internet Data Distribution

Anne Wilson, UCAR, Boulder, Colorado; and R. K. Rew

Poster PDF (26.1 kB)

3:40 PM

9.8

The NWS/COMET Case Study Library as a resource for education, research and training

Jeff Weber, UCAR, Boulder, CO; and E. M. Page

http://www.joss.ucar.edu/cometCases/

Poster PDF (20.8 kB)

3:55 PM

9.9

Reviving the Synoptic Lab with Unique Digital Display Systems

David Wojtowicz, University of Illinois, Urbana, IL; and M. K. Ramamurthy, K. Mueller, and A. Tubbs

Poster PDF (124.6 kB)

4:10 PM

9.10

Leveraging the internet to enhance the skills of entry-level Meteorology majors

Kevin A. Kloesel, University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK; and M. J. Laufersweiler and B. Illston

Poster PDF (11.4 kB)

4:25 PM

9.11

Hurricane hunting: Using the Internet to integrate field experience and distance learning at USF

Arlene G. Laing, University of South Florida, Tampa, FL; and J. B. Halverson and R. E. Hood

4:40 PM

9.12

What's new with Applets for Learning...and why?

Steve Ackerman, CIMSS/Univ. of Wisconsin, Madison, WI; and T. Whittaker

4:55 PM

9.0a

Presentation of the Russell DeSouza Award

Linda Miller, UCAR, Boulder, CO

5:00 PM

9.6a

Coffee Break in Exhibit Hall

5:29 PM

9.6b

Exhibit Hours 3:00�7:30 p.m.

1

Horton Lecture

Sponsor: 16th Conference on Hydrology

Papers:

2:00 PM

1.1

What are the prospects for detecting climate change in the terrestrial hydrological cycle?

Eric F. Wood, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ

8

Further Advances in Transportation Weather

Sponsor: 18th International Conference on IIPS

Organizer: Gary Nelson, Mitretek Systems

Papers:

2:00 PM

8.1

Challenges associated with making quality, automated, highway-scale, winter weather predictions

Ben C. Bernstein, NCAR, Boulder, CO; and J. Wolff, M. Petty, W. Myers, and W. Mahoney

Poster PDF (40.5 kB)

2:15 PM

8.2

Weather Information for Surface Transportation (WIST): The National Needs and Requirements

Samuel P. Williamson, NOAA/OFCM, Silver Spring, MD; and F. Hauth and B. K. Tsugawa

2:30 PM

8.3

Developing an Interactive Mesonet for PennDOT

Paul G. Knight, Penn State University, University Park, PA; and B. B. Ayers

Poster PDF (36.5 kB)

2:45 PM

8.4

The integration of real-time and forecast weather data into the control decision system of a geothermally-heated bridge deck

Derek S. Arndt, Oklahoma Climatological Survey, Norman, OK; and S. C. Jenks, K. N. Pandit, J. R. Whiteley, and R. L. Elliott

Poster PDF (16.0 kB)

8.5

Visibility prediction in blowing snow for surface transportation

3:00 PM

8.6

Parameterization of frozen soil physics and frost heave for a numerical weather prediction model

Leon F. Osborne Jr., Univ. of North Dakota, Grand Forks, ND; and F. Martin

Poster PDF (52.6 kB)

Poster Session 1

Poster Session: 13th Symposium on Global Change and Climate Variations

Sponsor: 13th Symposium on Global Change and Climate Variations

Papers:

P1.1

Regional synoptic climatology study of the Mt. Washington area

John H. Gillman, Plymouth State College, Plymouth, NH; and B. J. D'Agostino, T. O. Markle, N. C. Witcraft, J. P. Koermer, and B. D. Keim

Poster PDF (131.7 kB)

P1.2

Satellite Observed Land Skin Temperature Variations: 1981-1998

Menglin Jin, University of Maryland, College Park, MD; and R. E. Dickinson and E. Kalnay

Poster PDF (65.4 kB)

P1.3

Satellite observations of long-term changes in tropical cloud and outgoing longwave radiation from 1985 to 1998

Pi-Huan Wang, Science and Technology Corporation, Hampton, VA; and B. A. Wielicki, T. Wong, P. Minnis, and L. B. Vann

P1.4

Sensitivity of the tropical atmospheric energy balance to ENSO-related SST changes: Comparison of climate model simulations to observed responses

Franklin R. Robertson, NASA/MSFC, Huntsville, AL; and D. Fitzjarrald, S. Marshall, R. Oglesby, and J. Roads

P1.5

Soil Moisture Profile Variability and its Potential Impact on Climate Spectra

Wanru Wu, Georgia Tech, Atlanta, GA; and R. E. Dickinson and M. A. Geller

P1.6

Simulation of the North American MOnsoon in Different Pacific SST Regimes Using RAMS

Christopher L. Castro, Colorado State University, Tucson, AZ; and R. A. Pielke, Sr. and G. E. Liston

P1.7

Spatial-temporal structure of the interannual variability of precipitation over "Rio de la Plata" basin

Carlos M. Krepper Sr., Universidad Nacional del Sur, Bahia Blanca, Argentina; and N. O. Garc�a

P1.8

The atmospheric response of the tropical western Pacific to the implementation of a new infrared radiation parameterization in a regional climate model

Johnny Seymore, Howard University, Washington, DC

P1.9

Trend and interannual variations in air temperature over the Iberian peninsula

C. Rodriguez-Puebla, University of Salamanca, Salamanca, Spain; and L. A. Garcia-Casado, M. D. Fr�as, J. Saenz, and J. Zubillaga

Poster PDF (625.1 kB)

P1.10

Using a parallel climate model to investigate hydrological feedbacks in the climate system

P1.11

Using CERES Data to Study Climate Change

Susan E. Sorlie, NASA/LRC, Hampton, VA

P1.12

Using weather generators and agroclimate indices for climate change impact assessments

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

Poster PDF (245.7 kB)

P1.13

Variability of severe winters in the Mexico basin during the XXth century

Ernesto J�uregui, National Univ. Mexico, Mexico City, Mexico; and E. Luyando and M. Casasola

Poster PDF (144.5 kB)

P1.14

Regional precipitation variations and atmospheric conditions over the Sand Hills region of Nebraska

Mark R. Anderson, University of Nebraska, Lincoln, NE; and C. M. Rowe and J. W. Kaiser

Poster PDF (855.7 kB)

P1.15

A comparison of the weather in U.S. cities during the 1982�83 and 1997�98 El Nino's

Heather L. Honnette, U.S. Naval Academy, Annapolis, MD; and D. R. Smith

Poster PDF (18.2 kB)

P1.16

A New Global Daily Temperature and Precipitation Data Set

Byron E. Gleason, NOAA/NESDIS/NCDC, Asheville, NC; and T. C. Peterson, P. Y. Groisman, D. R. Easterling, R. S. Vose, and D. S. Ezell

P1.17

An integrated assessment of land cover change, long-term climate variability, and land use in the Southern Aral Sea region

Elena Tsvetsinskaya, Boston University, Boston, MA; and E. V. Glushko and B. I. Vainberg

P1.18

Climate Data at NASA Goddard Earth Sciences DAAC

George N. Serafino, NASA/GSFC, Greenbelt, MD; and S. P. Ahmad

Poster PDF (110.2 kB)

P1.19

ENSO-Model response to observed estimates of stochastic forcing

P1.20

Impacts of ENSO on United States snowfall frequencies

Jillien M. Patten, Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL; and S. R. Smith and J. J. O'Brien

P1.21

Initiation of El Nino and its impact on paleo-climate

P1.22

Interactions of monsoons and subtropical anticyclones

Todd D. Ringler, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO; and D. A. Randall

P1.23

Investigation of Seasonal Sea-Ice Thickness Variability in the Ross Sea

Beth Schellenberg, University of Delaware, Newark, DE; and T. L. DeLiberty, C. A. Geiger, J. Silberman, and A. P. Worby

Poster PDF (208.8 kB)

P1.24

ISCCP Data Available for Climate Variability Research

Susan Haberer, NASA/LRC, Hampton, VA; and K. L. Morris and N. A. Ritchey

Poster PDF (112.8 kB)

P1.25

MODIS Cloud, Aerosol, and Water Vapor Products for Climate and Global Change Studies

Suraiya P. Ahmad, NASA/GSFC, Greenbelt, MD; and M. D. King, J. V. Koziana, G. G. Leptoukh, G. N. Serafino, and A. K. Sharma

Poster PDF (125.6 kB)

P1.26

On the Pacific Ocean regime shift

Catherine A. Stephens, NOAA/NODC, Silver Spring, Maryland; and S. Levitus, J. Antonov, and T. P. Boyer

P1.27

Overview of PCMDI's software system

Charles Doutriaux, PCMDI/LLNL, Livermore, CA; and D. N. Williams and PCMDI software team

P1.28

Data and products available at the Surface Reference Data Center

Michael D. Klatt, University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK; and M. L. Morrissey and J. S. Greene

P1.29

Urban effects on regional surface temperature series in South Korea

Youngeun Choi, METRI, Korea Meteorological Administration, Seoul, South Korea; and K. Y. Nam, W. -. T. Kwon, and I. C. Shin

Poster PDF (30.3 kB)

P1.30

Downscaled Regional Climate Simulations for the Mid-Atlantic States Using RAMS

Gonzalo Miguez-Macho, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ; and G. Stenchikov and A. Robock

Poster PDF (561.7 kB)

P1.31

Measuring and Modeling NO Emissions from Biosolid Amended Soils

Paul A. Roelle, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC; and V. P. Aneja

7

Climate Model Diagnostics: Variability

Sponsor: 13th Symposium on Global Change and Climate Variations

Organizer: Don Johnson, University of Wisconsin

Papers:

2:00 PM

7.1

Should we expect climate models to converge when we increase resolution?

Vicky Pope, Met Office, Bracknell, Berks., United Kingdom; and R. Stratton

2:30 PM

7.2

NAO Validation in Climate Models

Mark J. Rodwell, Met Office, Bracknell, Berks., United Kingdom

3:00 PM

7.3

Diagnosing the sensitivity of extratropical subseasonal variability to tropical forcing in different GCMs

Matthew Newman, NOAA/ERL/CDC, Boulder, CO; and C. R. Winkler and P. D. Sardeshmukh

3:15 PM

7.4

Evaluating GCMs using Diurnal Variability

Aiguo Dai, NCAR, Boulder, CO

Poster PDF (1.6 MB)

3

Numerical Prediction and Tropical Studies

Sponsor: A Half Century of Progress in Meteorology: The Richard Reed Symposium

Organizer: Richard Anthes, UCAR

Papers:

2:00 PM

3.1

Characteristics of African Easterly waves determined by Analses of Gate Observations and an Operational Global Model

Robert W. Burpee, Miami, FL

2:30 PM

3.2

Status and Prospects for Numerical Weather Prediction

Anthony Hollingsworth, ECMWF, Reading, Berks., United Kingdom; and P. A. Viterbo and A. J. Simmons

3:00 PM

3.3

A Life in the Global Atmosphere: Dick Reed and the World of International Science

John Perry, Alexandria, VA

3:30 PM

3.3A

Coffee Break

8

Interannual Variability II: Observational Studies

Sponsor: 13th Symposium on Global Change and Climate Variations

Organizer: C. Bruce Baker, NOAA/NESDIS/NCDC

Papers:

2:00 PM

8.1

Bias corrections for historic sea surface temperatures based on marine air temperatures

Thomas M. Smith, NOAA/NESDIS/NCDC, Asheville, NC; and R. W. Reynolds

2:15 PM

8.2

An Improved In Situ and Satellite SST Analysis

Richard W. Reynolds, NOAA/NESDIS/NCDC, Camp Springs, MD; and N. A. Rayner, T. M. Smith, D. C. Stokes, and W. Wang

Poster PDF (113.6 kB)

2:30 PM

8.3

Threshold sea surface temperature for initiation of convection

Hui Su, University of California, Los Angeles, CA; and J. D. Neelin and J. E. Meyerson

2:45 PM

8.4

Examining the effect of Concurrent SST anomalies on Caribbean Rainfall

Jacqueline M. Spence, University of the West Indies, Kingston, Jamaica; and M. A. Taylor

Poster PDF (66.8 kB)

8.5

The influence of Sahel rainfall on the summer circulation of the North Atlantic

3:15 PM

8.6

The recent increase in Atlantic hurricane activity: Causes and implications

Christopher W. Landsea, NOAA/AOML/HRD, Miami, FL; and S. B. Goldenberg, A. M. Mestas-Nunez, and W. M. Gray

3:30 PM

8.7

Analyzing and Understanding Climate Variability in the Caribbean Islands

Tannecia S. Stephenson, University of the West Indies, Kingtson, Jamaica; and A. A. Chen

Poster PDF (124.7 kB)

3:45 PM

8.8

Modulation of Seasonal Precipitation in northern Venezuela and Antecedent Rinfall to the Floods and Landslides of December 1999

Bradfield Lyon, International Research Institute for Climate Prediction, Columbia Univ., Palisades, NY

Poster PDF (168.4 kB)

4:00 PM

8.9

The Influence of the tropical Atlantic vs. the tropical Pacific on Caribbean Rainfall

Michael A. Taylor, University of the West Indies, Kingston, Jamaica; and D. B. Enfield and A. A. Chen

8.10

Significance of the Interannual Seesaw between the Aleutian and Icelandic Lows in the Interannual Variability over the Wintertime Northern Hemisphere

4:15 PM

8.11

Wet Versus Dry Periods in the Midwest During January 1998 (El Nino) and January 1999 (La Nina)

Dayton G. Vincent, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN; and J. Giovannettone, A. Lese, J. Adolphson, S. Lashley, S. O'Conner, B. O'Hara, T. Reaugh, and G. Lamberty

4:30 PM

8.12

Multi-scale variability of the river runoff system in East Asia and its long-term link to precipitation variability

Yongkang Xue, University of California, Los Angeles, CA; and S. -. F. Sun, K. -. M. W. Lau, and J. Ji

4:45 PM

8.6a

Coffee Break in Exhibit Hall

Joint Session 1

Ensemble Forecasting and Predictability: Continued (Joint with the Symposium on Observations, Data Assimilation, and Probabilistic Prediction and 16th Conference on Probability and Statistics)

Sponsors: (Joint between the Symposium on Observations, Data Assimilation, and Probabilistic Prediction; and the 16th Conference on Probability and Statistics in the Atmospheric Sciences )

Organizer: Brian Farrell, Harvard Univ.

Papers:

2:00 PM

J1.13

Sequential Estimation of Regime Transitions (Invited Presentation)

Michael Ghil, University of California, Los Angeles, CA

2:15 PM

J1.14

Limited Area Predictability: What Skill additional to that of the Global Model can be achieved, and for how long?

Fedor Mesinger, NOAA/NWS/NCEP/EMC and UCAR, Camp Springs, MD; and K. Brill, H. Chuang, G. DiMego, and E. Rogers

J1.15

Uncertainty in meso-scale meteorological model output and its relation to ensemble forecast

2:30 PM

J1.16

Synoptic interpretation of adjoint-derived forecast sensitivities

Daryl T. Kleist, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI; and M. C. Morgan

http://helios.aos.wisc.edu

Poster PDF (1.1 MB)

2:45 PM

J1.17

Simplified Short Term Precipitation Ensemble Forecasts: Theory

Hank Herr, NOAA/NWS, Silver Spring, MD; and E. Welles, M. Mullusky, L. Wu, and J. Schaake

Poster PDF (700.2 kB)

3:00 PM

J1.18

How Well Can Ensemble Perturbations Explain Forecast Errors?

Mozheng Wei, NOAA/NWS/NCEP, UCAR Visiting Scientist, Camp Springs, MD; and Z. Toth

Poster PDF (808.5 kB)

3:15 PM

J1.19

Evaluation of a Mesoscale Short-Range Ensemble Forecasting System over the Pacific Northwest

Eric Grimit, University of Washington, Seattle, WA; and C. F. Mass

3:30 PM

J1.20

Ensemble canonical correlation prediction of seasonal precipitation over the United States: raising the bar for dynamical model forecasts

William K. M. Lau, NASA/GSFC, Greenbelt, MD; and K. M. Kim and S. S. P. Shen

3:45 PM

J1.21

Historical Seasonal Forecasts with a Simple GCM

Hai Lin, McGill University, Montreal, PQ, Canada; and J. Derome and G. Brunet

Poster PDF (254.4 kB)

4:00 PM

J1.22

Stochastic forecast models for nonlinear deterministic systems

Leonard A. Smith, Centre for the Analysis of Time Series, London, United Kingdom; and K. Judd

4:15 PM

J1.23

The value of perfection

James A. Hansen, MIT, Cambridge, MA; and L. A. Smith, J. von Hardenberg, and C. E. Forest

4:30 PM

J1.24

The Kalman-L�vy filtering: Sequential assimilation methodology for power law and L�vy law noises

Kayo Ide, University of California, Los Angeles, CA; and D. Sornette

Poster PDF (304.8 kB)

4:45 PM

J1.19A

Coffee Break in Exhibit Hall

4

Assimilation and Analysis

Sponsor: Sixth Symposium on Integrated Observing Systems

Organizer: Thomas W. Schlatter, NOAA/FSL

Papers:

4.1

Integration of passive microwave rainfall products and infrared radiances for improved rainfall retrievals.

2:15 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

2:30 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

2:45 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

Poster PDF (449.9 kB)

3:00 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

http://www.gaerospace.com/publicPages/projectPages/StratCon

Poster PDF (991.3 kB)

3:15 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

Poster PDF (81.0 kB)

3:30 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

3:45 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

Poster PDF (256.6 kB)

4:00 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

Poster PDF (294.5 kB)

4:15 PM

4.10

A Combined ScaRaB-ERBS Data Product

Kathryn A. Bush, SAIC, Hampton, VA; and G. L. Smith and T. Wong

Poster PDF (3.7 MB)

4:30 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

http://www.nc-climate.ncsu.edu

Poster PDF (302.2 kB)

4:45 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

5:00 PM

4.6A

Coffee Break in Exhibit Hall

5

Interactive Forecast Preparation System�Operational Employment

Sponsor: Interactive Symposium on AWIPS

Organizer: Carl S. Bullock, NOAA/FSL

Papers:

2:00 PM

5.1

Initializing Gridded Forecasts from Numerical Models

Tom J. LeFebvre, NOAA/FSL, Boulder, CO; and M. Romberg and T. Hansen

Poster PDF (42.3 kB)

2:15 PM

5.2

Tools for model interpretation in the Interactive Forecast Preparation System

Timothy R. Boyer, SAIC, Beltsville, MD; and D. P. Ruth

Poster PDF (95.4 kB)

2:30 PM

5.3

GFE methodology and extended capabilities

Charles H. Paxton, NOAA/NWSFO, Tampa Bay Area, FL; and T. L. Hansen

Poster PDF (36.9 kB)

2:45 PM

5.4

Generating digital forecast matrices from gridded forecasts in the Interactive Forecast Preparation System

Mark G. Oberfield, NOAA/NWS, Silver Spring, MD; and K. V. Pegion

Poster PDF (108.1 kB)

3:00 PM

5.5

Identifying local effects in gridded forecasts for the Interactive Forecast Preparation System

Matthew R. Peroutka, NOAA/NWS/Office of Science and Technology, Silver Spring, MD; and M. G. Oberfield, J. T. Davis, and R. Yu

Poster PDF (81.6 kB)

3:15 PM

5.6

Generating marine watches, warnings, and advisories using Interactive Forecast Preparation

Brian D. Papa, SAIC, Beltsville, MD; and M. A. McInerney, M. R. Peroutka, and J. L. Schattel Jr.

Poster PDF (102.1 kB)

3:30 PM

5.7

Derivation of Multiple Forecast Formats from a Gridded Forecast Database

Todd C. Dankers, NOAA/NWS, Boulder, CO; and J. Manion

Poster PDF (110.5 kB)

3:45 PM

5.8

Experiences with a Grid-based Forecasting Approach Using IFPS at the Tulsa WFO

Steven E. Nelson, NOAA/NWS, Peachtree City, GA; and E. Howieson and S. Amburn

http://www.nwstulsa.noaa.gov/pub/ifps_paper_AWIPS_Symposium.pdf

Poster PDF (2.7 MB)

4:00 PM

5.9

Implementation Challenges of IFPS at a Forecast Office with Complex Terrain

Jeffrey T. Davis, NOAA/NWSFO, Tucson, AZ; and P. Flatt and P. Wollack

Poster PDF (35.9 kB)

4:15 PM

5.10

Performing service backup with the Interactive Forecast Preparation System

Ronla K. Meiggs, NOAA/NWS/Office of Science and Technology, Silver Spring, MD; and B. D. Papa

Poster PDF (99.6 kB)

4:30 PM

5.11

Providing user support for the Interactive Forecast Preparation System

James E. Calkins, NOAA/NWS/Office of Science and Technology, Silver Spring, MD; and E. J. Mandel and R. K. Meiggs

Poster PDF (91.1 kB)

4:45 PM

5.6b

Coffee Break in Exhibit Hall

Joint Session 4

Land Atmposphere Interactions: Part II (Joint with the 16th Conference on Hydrology and the 13th Symposium on Global Change and Climate Variations)

Sponsors: (Joint between the 16th Conference on Hydrology; and the 13th Symposium on Global Change and Climate Variations )

Organizer: Christa Peters-Lidard, NASA/GSFC

Papers:

J4.1

Impact of surface conditions on the North American Monsoon simulations

3:15 PM

J4.2

Basin-scale hydrologic budgets from ERA-40 for the Mississippi, Mackenzie and Amazon rivers

Alan K. Betts, Atmospheric Research, Pittsford, VT; and P. A. Viterbo

3:30 PM

J4.3

Coupled climate-runoff simulations: a process study of current and a warmer climate in the Rhine basin

Jan Kleinn, ETH, Zurich, Switzerland; and C. Frei, J. Gurtz, P. L. Vidale, and C. Sch�r

Poster PDF (1.9 MB)

3:45 PM

J4.4

The Effects of Implementing TOPMODEL Concepts in the NOAH Model

C. D. Peters-Lidard, NASA/GSFC, Greenbelt, MD

Poster PDF (307.3 kB)

4:00 PM

J4.5

The effect of errors in snow assimilation on land surface modeling

Brian A. Cosgrove, SAIC and NASA/GSFC, Greenbelt, MD; and P. R. Houser

4:15 PM

J4.6

Modeling the impact of Irrigation on mid-summer Surface Energy Budget and the Convective Boundary Layer (CBL) in the U.S. High Plains

Jimmy O. Adegoke, CIRA/Colorado State Univ., Fort Collins, CO; and R. A. Pielke Sr., J. L. Eastman, R. Mahmood, and K. G. Hubbard

4:30 PM

J4.7

Evaluation of ETA Model Atmospheric Water Budget Components from MOdel Location Time Series (MOLTS)

Evgeney S. Yarosh, NOAA/NWS/NCEP/CPC, Camp Springs, MD; and R. W. Higgins

4:45 PM

J4.8

Influence of hydrologic memory on terrestrial impacts of ENSO

Praveen Kumar, Univ. of Illinois, Urbana, IL; and J. Chen

Poster PDF (2.3 MB)

5:00 PM

J4.2a

Coffee Break in the Exhibit Hall

Exhibit Hours

Coffee Break in Exhibit Hall

Symposium ends

Coffee Break in Exhibit Hall

9

Climate Model Diagnostics: Clouds and Radiation, Part I

Sponsor: 13th Symposium on Global Change and Climate Variations

Organizer: Gerald Potter, LLNL

Papers:

4:00 PM

9.1

Paper has been moved to Session 15, new paper number 15.7

4:01 PM

9.2

Cloud structure anomalies over the tropical Pacific during the 1997/98 El Nino

Robert D. Cess, SUNY, Stony Brook, NY; and M. H. Zhang, P. H. Wang, and B. A. Wielicki

4:30 PM

9.3

Characteristics of Cloud Radiative Forcing Over East Asia

Wei-Chyung Wang, SUNY, Albany, NY; and W. -. S. Kau, H. -. H. Hsu, and C. -. H. Tu

4:45 PM

9.4

Validating the Radiative and Dynamical Feedbacks in NCAR CCM3

Lianzeng Liang, State Key Laboratory of Atmospheric Sciences and Geophysical Fluid Dynamics, Beijing, China

5:00 PM

9.5

Study of Large Ensemble of Cloud Systems from EOS Satellite Observations for Cloud Model Evaluation

Kuan-Man Xu, NASA/LRC, Hampton, VA; and T. Wong, L. Parker, B. A. Wielicki, D. A. Randall, M. Branson, D. H. Wang, and B. Barkstrom

Poster PDF (35.8 kB)

Joint Session 2

Joint Session with the 16th Conference on Hydrology and the Symposium on Observations, Data Assimilation, and Probabilistic Prediction

Sponsors: (Joint between the Symposium on Observations, Data Assimilation, and Probabilistic Prediction; and the 16th Conference on Hydrology )

Organizer: To be announced

Papers:

4:00 PM

J2.1

Another Statistical Look at LDAS Soil Moisture Fields

John C. Schaake, NOAA/NWS, Silver Spring, MD; and Q. Duan, K. E. Mitchell, P. R. Houser, E. F. Wood, D. P. Lettenmaier, B. Cosgrove, D. Lohmann, R. Pinker, A. Roback, J. Sheffield, and D. Tarpley

4:15 PM

J2.2

NCEP Regional Reanalysis

Fedor Mesinger, NOAA/NWS/NCEP/EMC and UCAR, Camp Springs, MD; and G. DiMego, E. Kalnay, P. Shafran, E. Berbery, W. Collins, W. Ebisuzaki, R. W. Higgins, J. Huang, Y. Lin, K. E. Mitchell, D. Parrish, and E. Rogers

4:30 PM

J2.3

Evaluation of Colorado River Basin Ensemble Streamflow Predictions

Kristie J. Franz, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ; and H. C. Hartmann, S. Sorooshian, and R. Bales

4:45 PM

J2.4

Improving land surface modeling with data assimilation of TRMM data

Jared K. Entin, NASA/GSFC, Greenbelt, MD; and P. R. Houser, J. P. Walker, and E. Burke

5:00 PM

J2.5

Real-time and Retrospective Simulations of Sacramento Soil Moisture Accounting Model in LDAS

Qingyun Duan, NOAA/NWS, Silver Spring, MD; and D. Lohmann, J. C. Schaake, and K. E. Mitchell

5:15 PM

J2.6

A spatial data mining approach for verification and understanding of ensemble precipitation forecasting

Xuechao Yu, NOAA/NWS and CIMMS/Univ. of Oklahoma, Norman, OK; and M. Xue, L. Yang, and L. Gruenwald

3

Emerging role of data assimilation in the oceans, land surface, atmospheric chemistry, hydrology, and the water cycle: Part I

Sponsor: Symposium on Observations, Data Assimilation, and Probabilistic Prediction

Organizer: Franco Einaudi, NASA/GSFC

Papers:

4:00 PM

3.1

Recent experience with practical ocean data assimilation

Paola Malanotte-Rizzoli, MIT, Cambridge, MA; and C. Wunsch, D. Behringer, and M. M. Rienecker

Poster PDF (278.2 kB)

4:30 PM

3.2

Understanding the global water and energy cycle through assimilation of precipitation-related observations: Lessons from TRMM and prospects for GPM

Arthur Y. Hou, NASA/GSFC/DAO, Greenbelt, MD; and S. Q. Zhang, A. M. da Silva, and J. L. F. Li

4:45 PM

3.3

Assimilation of cloudy radiance measurements using Regional Atmospheric Modeling and Data Assimilation System at CIRA

Tomislava Vukicevic, Colorado State University, Ft. Collins, CO; and M. Zupanski, D. Zupanski, and T. Greenwald

5:00 PM

3.4

Data assimilation with a multiscale chemistry-transport forecast model

Blond Nadege, Laboratoire de Meteorologie Dynamique/CNRS, Palaiseau, France; and L. Bel and V. Robert

Poster PDF (401.1 kB)

5:15 PM

3.5

Middle atmosphere data assimilation with a climate model

Saroja Polavarapu, MSC, Downsview, ON, Canada; and S. Ren, Y. Rochon, and D. Sankey

Poster PDF (114.2 kB)

3

Water Quality (Cosponsored by the AMS Board on Private Sector Meteorology)

Sponsor: Third Symposium on Environmental Applications

Organizer: Jimmie Smith, MeteoQuest, Inc.

Papers:

4:00 PM

3.1

Climate, Water Quality and Health

Joan B. Rose, University of South Florida, St. Petersburg, FL

4:15 PM

3.2

History of Florida Droughts: An Emergency Management Perspective

Andrew Devanas, Florida Division of Emergency Management, Tallahassee, FL

4:30 PM

3.3

Impacts of fresh water diversions and concentrate discharge from a seawater desalination facility on water quality in Tampa Bay, Florida

Mark E. Luther, University of South Florida, St. Petersburg, FL

4:45 PM

3.4

Nutrient Fractionation in South Florida and implications for coastal waters and ecosystem restoration

Larry E. Brand, University of Miami, RSMAS, Miami, FL

5:00 PM

3.5

Panel Discussion on Water Quality

4

Polar Lows, Extrtropical Cyclones, and Mesoscale Flows

Sponsor: A Half Century of Progress in Meteorology: The Richard Reed Symposium

Organizer: Ron McPherson, AMS

Papers:

4:00 PM

4.1

Mesoscale Atmospheric Circulations

Clifford F. Mass, University of Washington, Seattle, WA

4:30 PM

4.2

Polar lows: A review

Erik Rasmussen, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark

5:00 PM

4.3

Modeling and Prediction of explosive Marine cyclogenesis

Ying-Hwa Kuo, UCAR, Boulder, CO; and M. A. Shapiro

Joint Session 5

Statistical Downscaling (Joint with the 16th Conference on Probability and Statistics and the 13th Symposium on Global Change and Climate Variations)

Sponsors: (Joint between the 16th Conference on Probability and Statistics in the Atmospheric Sciences; and the 13th Symposium on Global Change and Climate Variations )

Organizer: Simon J. Mason, SIO/Univ. of Califonia

Papers:

4:00 PM

J5.1

Sensitivity of Climate Change Estimates Using Statistical Downscaling to the Method and Predictors

Radan Huth, Institute of Atmospheric Physics, Prague, Czech Republic

4:15 PM

J5.2

Modeling stochastic structure of daily temperature as downscaling of GCM fields

Marina M. Timofeyeva, UCAR and NOAA/NWS, Silver Spring, MD; and R. G. Craig

4:30 PM

J5.3

A spatial time series framework for modeling daily precipitation at regional scales

Phaedon C. Kyriakidis, Univ. of California, Santa Barbara, CA; and N. L. Miller and J. Kim

Poster PDF (1.8 MB)

4:45 PM

J5.4

Regional climate change scenarios in Atlantic Canada utilizing statistical downscaling techniques: Preliminary Results

Gary S. Lines, MSC, Dartmouth, NS, Canada; and E. Barrow

5:00 PM

J5.5

North Atlantic Ocean Wave Climate Change Scenarios

Xiaolan L. Wang, MSC, Downsview, ON, Canada; and V. R. Swail

5:15 PM

J5.6

Possible climate change impacts on ozone in the Great Lakes Region: Some implications for respiratory illness

Peter J. Sousounis, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI; and C. P. J. Scott and M. L. Wilson

Poster PDF (265.6 kB)

8

Aircraft and remote sensing of atmospheric trace gases and aerosols

Sponsor: Fourth Conference on Atmospheric Chemistry

Papers:

4:45 PM

8.1

Observations of enhanced CO concentrations from biomass burning in Africa and South America as measured by Terra/MOPITT

David P. Edwards, NCAR, Boulder, CO; and J. L. Attie, J. F. Lamarque, J. C. Gille, and J. R. Drummond

5:00 PM

8.2

Urban and Rural Ozone Pollution over Southern Africa from Satellite and SHADOZ Sondes during SAFARI-2000 (September 2000)

Anne M. Thompson, NASA/GSFC, Greenbelt, MD; and J. C. Witte, A. Phahlane, G. J. R. Coetzee, J. R. Herman, R. D. Hudson, and A. D. Frolov

5:15 PM

8.3

Vertical mixing and chemistry over an arid urban site: first results from aircraft observations made during the Phoenix Sunrise Campaign

Carl M. Berkowitz, PNNL, Richland, WA; and S. Springston, J. C. Doran, and J. D. Fast

Poster PDF (64.8 kB)

Sessions End for the Day

Sessions End for the day

Sessions end for the day

Reed Symposium Banquet

Sponsor: A Half Century of Progress in Meteorology: The Richard Reed Symposium

WED 16 JAN

Wed 16 Jan

WED 16 JAN

President's Symposium

Coffee Break in Foyer of Auditorium

Coffee Break in Poster Session Room

President's Symposium (Continued)

Lunch Break

Town Hall Meeting: "The Role of the Operational Meteorologist - Public and Private Sector Perspectives"

Poster Session 1

Poster Session

Sponsor: 18th International Conference on IIPS

Organizer: Stephen M. Holt, Mitretek Systems

Papers:

P1.1

Visualizing NASA ASDCs Data using view_hdf & misr_view

Nichole Silvers, NASA/LRC, Hampton, VA

P1.2

Oceanographic research at PMEL using PC and UNIX based 3-D stereo visualization

Christopher W. Moore, JISAO/Univ. of Washington, Seattle, WA; and N. Soreide

Poster PDF (27.8 kB)

P1.3

NESDIS IPD model for developing production monitoring software

Richard Kelley, Computer Sciences Corporation, Suitland, MD

P1.4

NCDC's new climatological station history system

P1.5

NASA's Global Change Master Directory's New Distributed Metadata Database Attracts Large Influx of Data Descriptions

Scott A. Ritz, SSAI, Lanham, MD

P1.6

MODIS Radiances and Reflectances for Earth System Science Studies & Environmental Applications

Suraiya Ahmad, NASA/GSFC, Greenbelt, MD; and V. V. Salomonson, W. L. Barnes, X. Xiong, G. G. Leptoukh, and G. N. Serafino

Poster PDF (124.2 kB)

P1.7

One year of daily averaged longwave radiation measurements for environmental and climate change studies

T. Dale Bess, NASA/LRC, Hampton, VA; and T. Wong and G. L. Smith

Poster PDF (4.9 MB)

P1.8

Paper moved to Joint Session J7, new paper number J7.14

P1.9

Review of the Federal interagency process used to select the new Wind Chill Temperature (WCT) Index

Cynthia Ann Nelson, Office of the Federal Coordinator for Meteorological Services and Supporting Research, Silver Spring, MD; and M. Tew, G. Phetteplace, R. Schwerdt, A. Maarouf, R. Osczevski, M. Bluestein, J. Shaykewich, L. D. Smarsh, J. C. Derby, R. C. Petty, M. Berger, R. G. Quayle, W. R. Santee, E. Olenic, A. R. Lupo, and K. Browne

Poster PDF (51.0 kB)

P1.10

The properties of a strange attractor reconstructed from the time series of tropospheric mean temperature

Krzysztof Kroszczynski, Military University of Technology, Warsaw, Poland; and I. A. Winnicki

P1.11

Using AWIPS and ANBURS to Maintain Uninterrupted Alphanumeric Dataflow Between the NWS and the FAA

JoAnna L. Green, NOAA/NWS/NCEP, Kansas City, MO

P1.12

Integrating external surface observations into AWIPS using LDAD

Ron Holmes, NOAA/NWS, Binghamton, NY

Poster PDF (31.9 kB)

P1.13

Implementation of a new Wind Chill Temperature Index by the National Weather Service

Mark A. Tew, NOAA/NWS, Silver Spring, MD; and G. Battel and C. A. Nelson

Poster PDF (191.5 kB)

P1.14

A minimum variance approach to estimating wind direction statistics

Stephen L. Arnold, ENSCO, Inc., Vanderberg, CA

Poster PDF (136.2 kB)

P1.15

A New Convective Sounding Analysis Program for AWIPS

Matthew J. Bunkers, NOAA/NWSFO, Rapid City, SD

Poster PDF (132.3 kB)

P1.16

Applications of NOAA MODIS Near-Real-Time Data

Kristina C. Sprietzer, Science and Technology Corp., Suitland, MD; and P. Haggerty, G. Legg, and R. Luczak

http://www.osdpd.noaa.gov/MODIS

Poster PDF (12.6 kB)

P1.17

Are improvements to upper air observing systems needed?

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

P1.18

Atmospheric Radiation Measurement (ARM) Program Data Quality Inspection and Assessment Activities: A Streamlined Approach

Chad P. Bahrmann, CIMMS/Univ. of Oklahoma, Norman, OK; and R. A. Peppler, K. L. Sonntag, A. R. Dean, and S. T. Moore

P1.19

Characteristics and Trade-Offs of Doppler Lidar Global Wind Profiling

Michael J. Kavaya, NASA/LRC, Hampton, VA; and G. D. Emmitt

P1.20

Development for scientific analysis and visualization with the object-oriented language Ruby

Naoki Kawanabe, Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan; and T. Horinouchi, M. Shiotani, and T. Sakakima

Poster PDF (55.6 kB)

P1.21

Development of Gtooln4 netCDF Conventions and Processor�Self Descriptive File Format for Multi-dimensional Data

Eizi Toyoda, Japan Meteorological Agency, Tokyo, Japan; and M. Ishiwatari, S. I. Takehiro, K. Nakajima, and Y. Y. Hayashi

http://www.gfd-dennou.org/arch/gtool4/

Poster PDF (73.5 kB)

P1.22

Examples of Climate Applications of TRMM Data

Zhong Liu, NASA/GSFC, Greenbelt, MD; and L. Chiu, W. Teng, G. Serafino, and R. Yang

Poster PDF (135.1 kB)

P1.23

GIS Calibration and Validation of Satellite Systems

P1.24

Statistics of TRMM Data Archive and Distribution at the GES DAAC

Hualan Rui, NASA/GSFC, Greenbelt, MD; and B. Teng, L. Chiu, G. Serafino, P. Hrubiak, and J. Bonk

Poster PDF (62.5 kB)

P1.25

Anatomy of TRMM science data support at the GES DAAC

William Teng, NASA/GSFC, Greenbelt, MD; and G. Serafino, L. Chiu, H. Rui, J. Bonk, P. Hrubiak, R. Yang, S. Ahmad, Z. Liu, B. Zhang, N. Pollack, G. Vicente, A. K. Sharma, and L. Lu

Poster PDF (52.4 kB)

P1.26

A neural network approach to warm season rainfall forecasting in the Upper Midwest

Bradley R. Temeyer, Iowa State University, Ames, IA; and W. A. Gallus Jr. and C. G. Carmichael

P1.27

Mapping environmental indices for the Orlando, Florida metropolitan area (Formerly Environmental paper 5.8)

P1.28

Making an impact�the future of NWS forecasts

P1.29

Performance Support Delivery System for Use in Civil, Commercial, and Military Weather Training and Performance Improvement (Formerly Paper number 12.20)

Roger C. Whiton, SAIC, O'Fallon, IL; and L. K. Starlin, R. G. Borchers, and A. A. Guiffrida

P1.30

A Java Meteorological Data and Transport Model Visualization Tool (Formerly Paper Number 12.21)

Stephen Masters, ENSCO, Inc., Melbourne, FL; and M. Moore

Poster PDF (79.0 kB)

10

Oceanographic Applications and Coastal Data Management

Sponsor: 18th International Conference on IIPS

Organizers: Nancy Soreide, NOAA/PMEL; Stephen Holt, Mitretek Systems

Papers:

1:30 PM

10.1

COADS Data and Information Handling

Scott D. Woodruff, NOAA/CDC/OAR, Boulder, CO; and S. J. Worley and R. W. Reynolds

Poster PDF (125.2 kB)

1:45 PM

10.2

NVODS: data networking for an integrated ocean observing and prediction system

Steve Hankin, NOAA/PMEL, Seattle, WA; and P. Cornillon, J. Sirott, and J. Callahan

Poster PDF (27.8 kB)

2:00 PM

10.3

Fisheries Oceanography Collaboration Software

Donald W. Denbo, JISAO/Univ. of Washington, Seattle, WA

Poster PDF (105.5 kB)

2:15 PM

10.4

The UHSLC In-situ Sea Level Network

Bernard Kilonsky, Univ. of Hawaii, Honolulu, HI; and M. Merrifield

http://uhslc.soest.hawaii.edu

Poster PDF (30.4 kB)

2:30 PM

10.5

The New National Coastal Data Development Center: A Status Report

Joseph W. Stinus, NOAA/NESDIS, Stennis Space Center, MS; and F. Klein and A. Sheridan

Poster PDF (34.5 kB)

Joint Poster Session 1

Ensemble Forecasting and Other Topics in Probability and Statistics (Joint with the 16th Conference on Probability and Statistics in the Atmospheric Sciences and the Symposium onObservations, Data Assimilation,and Probabilistic Prediction)

Sponsors: (Joint between the Symposium on Observations, Data Assimilation, and Probabilistic Prediction; and the 16th Conference on Probability and Statistics in the Atmospheric Sciences )

Organizer: Dan Wilks, Cornell Univ.

Papers:

JP1.1

The advantages of using polygons for the verification of NWS warnings

Peter A. Browning, NOAA/NWSFO, Pleasant Hill, MO; and M. Mitchell

Poster PDF (85.4 kB)

JP1.2

10 Years of Daily Forecast Verification

Dan G. Bellue, NOAA/NWS, Johnson Space Center, Houston, TX

Poster PDF (109.7 kB)

JP1.3

Evaluation of seasonal climate outlooks for the United States

Gloria Forthun, Southeast Regional Climate Center, Columbia, SC; and S. Meyer

Poster PDF (18.8 kB)

JP1.4

Validation of NSIPP Tier-2 Seasonal Forecasts: what can we gain from improved SST forecasts?

Philip J. Pegion, NASA/GSFC, Greenbelt, MD; and S. D. Schubert and M. J. Suarez

Poster PDF (209.6 kB)

JP1.5

Using skill scores to assist assessment of the "Man-MOS-Met Mix" in probability of precipitation (PoP) forecasting

Preston W. Leftwich Jr., NOAA/NWS, Kansas City, MO

Poster PDF (394.5 kB)

JP1.6

Principal component analysis of month-to-month precipitation variability for NCDC California climatic divisions,(1895�6 through 2000�1 seasons)

Charles J. Fisk, U.S. Navy, Point Mugu, CA

Poster PDF (1.0 MB)

JP1.7

Automated, supervised synoptic map-pattern classification using recursive partitioning trees

Alex J. Cannon, MSC, Vancouver, BC, Canada; and P. H. Whitfield and E. R. Lord

Poster PDF (191.3 kB)

JP1.8

Summary statistics of precipitation and its anomalies for regions of Virginia from 1900 through 1999

T. Dale Bess, NASA/LRC, Hampton, VA

Poster PDF (54.2 kB)

JP1.9

data mining patterns in local heavy precipitation events

George A. Fenton, LANL, Los Alamos, NM

JP1.10

A Comparison Between Neural Network and Linear Regression Approaches to a Short-Range Quantitative Precipitation Forecasting Problem

Yerong Feng, China Meteorological Administration, Guangzhou, China; and D. Kitzmiller

JP1.11

Annual course of successive 30-days' overall, above normal, and below normal temperature persistence at one-day intervals for four U.S. stations with lengthy histories

Charles J. Fisk, U.S. Navy, Point Mugu, CA

Poster PDF (2.2 MB)

JP1.12

Retrospective Time Integration Scheme in Mesoscale Numerical Model

Xiao-Jing Jia, Chinese Academy of Meteorological Sciences, Beijing, China

JP1.13

A New Year-round Multivariable Comfort Index

Ken Reeves, AccuWeather, Inc., State College, PA; and M. Steinberg

JP1.14

PRIMARY AND SECONDARY MAXIMUM OF THE NUMBER OF ASTHMA ATTACKS ON THE TERRITORY OF THE CITY OF BITOLA-MACEDONIA

Blagojce Mickovski, NOAA/NWS, Bitola, Macedonia; and Z. Nakeski

JP1.15

Influence of environmental and model uncertainty on Lagrangian flow structures

Leonid Kuznetsov, Brown University, Providence, RI; and C. K. R. T. Jones, M. Toner, and A. D. Kirwan Jr.

JP1.16

Impact of improved initialization of mesoscale features on QPF skill in both 10km deterministic and ensemble forecasts

William A. Gallus Jr., Iowa State University, Ames, IA; and M. Segal and I. Jankov

JP1.17

Land surface forcing as an element in seasonal ensemble prediction

Loren D. White, Jackson State University, Jackson, MS

JP1.18

Use of adjoint-derived sensitivities in constructing an ensemble of forecasts

Daryl T. Kleist, Univ. of Wisconsin, Madison, WI; and M. C. Morgan and G. A. Postel

http://helios.aos.wisc.edu

Poster PDF (525.8 kB)

JP1.19

Simplified Short Term Precipitation Ensemble Forecasts: Application

Mary Mullusky, NOAA/NWS, Silver Spring, MD; and L. Wu, H. Herr, E. Welles, J. C. Schaake, J. Ostrowski, and N. Pryor

http://marfchp1.met.psu.edu/AHPS/juniata_river.htm

Poster PDF (234.0 kB)

JP1.20

Short Range Ensemble Forecasts (SREF) During IPEX

James A. Nelson Jr., NOAA/NWSFO, Salt Lake City, UT; and W. J. Steenburgh

JP1.21

A Comparison of Ensemble Based Data Assimilation Schemes

Brian J. Etherton, Penn State University, University Park, PA; and C. H. Bishop

JP1.22

Calibration of Probabilistic Quantitative Precipitation Forecasts Based on the NCEP Global Ensemble Forecasts

Yuejian Zhu, NOAA/NWS/NCEP/EMC, Camp Springs, MD; and Z. Toth

JP1.23

Dynamic selection from among an ensemble of lateral boundary conditions for limited-area models

JP1.24

Early warnings of severe weather from the ECMWF ensemble prediction system

Kenneth R. Mylne, Met Office, Bracknell, Berks., United Kingdom; and T. P. Legg

Poster PDF (118.5 kB)

JP1.25

Estimation of uncertainties in atmospheric data assimilation using singular vectors

Hyun Mee Kim, Univ. of Wisconsin, Madison, WI; and M. C. Morgan

Poster PDF (171.6 kB)

JP1.26

Comparing approaches to develop short term ensemble precipitation products for hydrologic forecasting

John C. Schaake, NOAA/NWS, Silver Spring, MD; and M. Mullusky, S. Perica, and E. Welles

JP1.27

Ensemble forecast bias and variance error correction

Richard Wobus, SAIC/GSC at NOAA/NWS/NCEP, Camp Springs, MD; and Z. Toth and Y. Zhu

JP1.28

Some methods of combining multi-model ensemble forecasts

Simon J. Mason, SIO/Univ. of California, La Jolla, CA

JP1.29

Effective Use of Regional Ensemble Data in Forecasting

Richard H. Grumm, NOAA/NWS, State College, PA; and R. Hart

Poster PDF (182.0 kB)

JP1.30

Linear and Nonlinear Perspectives of Forecast Error Estimate Using the First Passage Time (Formerly Paper 5.6 in the Observations Program)

Peter C. Chu, NPS, Monterey, CA; and L. M. Ivanov

Poster Session 1

Hydrologic Modeling and Flood Forecasting

Sponsor: 16th Conference on Hydrology

Organizer: James A. Smith, Princeton Univ.

Papers:

P1.1

The October 3-4 2000 Heavy Precipitation/Flash Flood Event Across South Florida

Pablo Santos, NOAA/NWS, Miami, FL; and G. Rader, Z. Brown, and D. P. Brown

P1.2

Quality analysis of historical precipitation data for use in calibrating hydrologic forecast models

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

P1.3

On the mechanisms determining the spatial variability of heavy precipitation in the Himalayas

Timothy Lang, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA; and A. P. Barros

P1.4

Using the new generation of flash flood warning tools

Robert S. Davis, NOAA/NWS, Pittsburg, PA

http://www.nws.noaa.gov/er/pit/rsd2002.htm

Poster PDF (203.4 kB)

P1.5

Modeling and Analysis of the Water Cycle: Seasonal and Event Variability at the Walnut River Watershed

Norman L. Miller, LBNL, Berkeley, CA; and M. A. Miller, E. P. Springer, M. L. Wesely, A. W. King, K. E. Bashford, M. S. Conrad, K. R. Costigan, D. J. DePaolo, I. Fung, S. Kemball-Cook, G. E. Klazura, B. M. Lesht, D. T. Troyan, M. V. Machavaram, M. Sultan, J. Song, and R. Washington-Allen

Poster PDF (14.5 kB)

P1.6

Analysis of various resolution issues in land surface modeling

Jared K. Entin, NASA/GSFC, Greenbelt, MD; and D. Toll and P. R. Houser

P1.7

Warm-seasonal soil moisture prediction using a coupled regional climate model

Zaitao Pan, Iowa State University, Ames, IA; and E. Takle, R. Horton, and M. Segal

P1.8

Assessing the Flash Flood Potential of a Complex Environment: The Redbank Creek Flash Flood of 19 July 1996

Robert Stonefield, NOAA/NWS, Pittsburgh, PA; and J. Korotky

Poster Session 2

Remote Sensing

Sponsor: 16th Conference on Hydrology

Organizer: James A. Smith, Princeton Univ.

Papers:

P2.1

An Overview of NOAA/ETL's Scanning Ka-band Cloud Radar

Brooks E. Martner, NOAA/ETL, Boulder, CO; and B. W. Bartram, J. S. Gibson, W. C. Campbell, R. F. Reinking, and S. Y. Matrosov

Poster PDF (312.4 kB)

P2.2

Moisture advection and fresh water flux over oceans

Wenqing Tang, JPL, Pasadena, CA; and W. T. Liu

Poster PDF (779.0 kB)

P2.3

Rain and cloud observation by 95GHz cloud radar and 13.8GHz precipitation radar

Suginori Iwasaki, Frontier Observational Research System for Global Change, Yokohama, Japan; and H. Hanado, H. Horie, H. Kuroiwa, H. Kumagai, and H. Okamoto

Poster PDF (276.5 kB)

P2.4

Satellite Rainfall Estimation over South America: Evaluation of Two Major Events

Daniel A. Vila, Universidad de Buenos Aires, Ciudad de Buenos Aires, Argentina; and R. A. Scofield and J. C. Davenport

P2.5

Soil moisture mapping the southern U.S. with the TRMM microwave imager: pathfinder study

Thomas J. Jackson, USDA/ARS, Beltsville, MD; and R. Bindlish, E. F. Wood, and H. Gao

Poster PDF (436.8 kB)

Poster Session 3

Emerging role of data assimilation in the oceans, land surface, atmospheric chemistry, hydrology, and the water cycle

Sponsor: Symposium on Observations, Data Assimilation, and Probabilistic Prediction

Papers:

P3.1

An overview of a mesoscale 4DVAR data assimilation research model: RAMDAS

Tomislava Vukicevic, Colorado State University, Ft. Collins, CO; and M. Zupanski, D. Zupanski, T. Greenwald, A. Jones, T. H. Vonder Haar, D. Ojima, and R. Pielke

P3.2

Data assimilation in eddy-resolving ocean circulation models

Steve Meacham, NSF, Arlington, VA

P3.3

Monitoring of ozone observations through data assimilation

Ivanka Stajner, NASA/GSFC and SAIC/GSC, Greenbelt, MD; and R. Rood and N. Winslow

P3.4

Multivariate forecast error covariances for an ocean model estimated by Monte-Carlo simulation

Anna Borovikov, University of Maryland, College Park, MD; and M. M. Rienecker

Poster PDF (127.1 kB)

P3.5

An Empirical Assessment of Meteorological Factors Associated with Lightning Episodes in the Carolina Piedmont

Jamie K. Arnold, University of North Carolina, Charlotte, NC; and W. Martin

Poster PDF (39.1 kB)

P3.6

Surface Temperature Assimilation in the Global Land Data Assimilation System (GLDAS)

Michael G. Bosilovich, NASA/GSFC/DAO, Greenbelt, MD; and J. D. Radakovich, A. da Silva, and P. R. Houser

P3.7

Toward assimilation of cloud fields from radar data into mesoscale models

Angela Benedetti, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO; and T. Vukicevic and G. L. Stephens

P3.8

Tropospheric data assimilation of CO and O3

Richard Menard, MSC, Dorval, PQ, Canada; and J. Kaminski and J. McConnell

P3.9

Developing a blended continental snow cover dataset

David A. Robinson, Rutgers University, Piscataway, NJ

Poster PDF (14.3 kB)

P3.10

Impact of assimilation of surface winds on numerical prediction of tropical cyclones

Mukul Tewari, IBM, India Research Laboratory, New Delhi, India; and M. S. Santhanam and A. Sarkar

P3.11

Snow assimilation in a catchment-based land surface model using the extended Kalman Filter

Chaojiao Sun, University of Maryland Baltimore County and NASA/GSFC, Greenbelt, MD; and J. P. Walker and P. Houser

http://land.gsfc.nasa.gov/~csun/

Poster PDF (63.8 kB)

P3.12

Reduced-rank Kalman filters: I. Application to an idealized model of the wind-driven ocean circulation

Mark Buehner, MIT, Cambridge, MA; and P. Malanotte-Rizzoli

Poster PDF (119.4 kB)

4

Weather Hazard Assessments

Sponsor: Third Symposium on Environmental Applications

Organizer: Lee Branscome, Environmental Dynamics Research

Papers:

1:30 PM

4.1

The Fujita Scale: It's Abuse and the Cure

Daniel McCarthy, NOAA/SPC, Norman, OK; and J. Schaefer

1:45 PM

4.2

The Robustness of Tornado Hazard Estimates

Joseph T. Schaefer, NOAA/NWS/NCEP/SPC, Norman, OK; and R. S. Schneider and M. P. Kay

Poster PDF (317.2 kB)

2:00 PM

4.3

Fire Danger Assessment in Florida

Arlene G. Laing, University of South Florida, Tampa, FL; and C. H. Paxton

2:15 PM

4.4

Forecasting aircraft icing in complex terrain

Rebecca J. Stanley, Plymouth State College, Plymouth, NH; and J. P. Koermer, C. C. Ryerson, I. Gotchel, G. R. Brooks, C. E. Wallace, and D. Knapp

Poster PDF (364.2 kB)

2:30 PM

4.5

Facilitating the use of environmental information for space launch decisions

Billie F. Boyd, 45th Weather Squadron, U.S. Air Force, Patrick Air Force Base, FL; and D. E. Harms, M. S. Christie, D. J. Beberwyk, and J. W. Weems

Poster PDF (180.3 kB)

2:45 PM

4.6

Integrating Weather Information into an Integrated Transportation Management System

David R. Legates, University of Delaware, Newark, DE; and D. J. Leathers, J. H. Talley, T. L. DeLiberty, G. S. Donaldson, K. R. Nixon, A. P. Janke, and G. E. Quelch

Poster PDF (227.0 kB)

10

Climate Model Diagnostics: Clouds and Radiation, Part II

Sponsor: 13th Symposium on Global Change and Climate Variations

Organizer: Gerald Potter, LLNL

Papers:

1:30 PM

10.1

Direct radiative forcing due to absorbing aerosols

V.K. Saxena, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC; and J. -. S. Im

1:45 PM

10.2

Radiative Forcing of Tropical Anvil Clouds

Bing Lin, NASA/LRC, Hampton, VA; and B. A. Wielicki, L. H. Chambers, Y. Hu, and K. M. Xu

2:00 PM

10.3

Measurements of Radiative Forcing Beneath Clouds from Greenhouse Gas

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

Poster PDF (95.9 kB)

2:15 PM

10.4

A Simple Moist Model of the Hadley and Walker Circulation: Role of Cloud Radiative Forcing

Baijun Tian, SIO/Univ. of California, La Jolla, CA; and V. Ramanathan

2:30 PM

10.5

A cloud resolving model as a cloud parameterization in a GCM: Preliminary results

Marat F. Khairoutdinov, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO; and D. A. Randall

2:45 PM

10.6

Effects of multiple scattering and cloud inhomogeneity on IR radiative transfer

Everette Joseph, Howard University, Washington, DC; and Q. Min

11

Monsoons: Observational and Modeling Studies, Part I

Sponsor: 13th Symposium on Global Change and Climate Variations

Organizer: Henry F. Diaz, NOAA/CDC

Papers:

1:30 PM

11.1

On the Origin of Monsoons

Winston C. Chao, NASA/GSFC, Greenbelt, MD; and B. Chen

Poster PDF (170.8 kB)

1:45 PM

11.2

Monsoon predictability of ECMWF ensemble seasonal simulations

Cheng-Ta Chen, National Taiwan Normal University, Taipei, Taiwan

Poster PDF (235.8 kB)

2:00 PM

11.3

The interseasonal variability of Asian summer monsoon

P. L. S. Rao, IBM India Research Laboratory, New Delhi, India

2:15 PM

11.4

The Observed Relationship between Snow Cover, Soil Moisture, and the Asian Monsoon

Alan Robock, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ; and M. Mu, K. Y. Vinnikov, and D. A. Robinson

Poster PDF (202.5 kB)

2:30 PM

11.5

Projected Future Changes in South Asian Monsoon Climate

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

2:45 PM

11.6

Forced and Free Intra-Seasonal Variability Over the South Asian Monsoon Region Simulated by 10 AGCMs

Man Li C. Wu, NASA/GSFC, Greenbelt, MD; and S. D. Schubert, I. S. Kang, and D. Waliser

Joint Session 7

Joint session with the 13th Symposium on Global Change and Climate Variations and the Symposium on Observations, Data Assimilation, and Probabilistic Prediction

Sponsors: (Joint between the Symposium on Observations, Data Assimilation, and Probabilistic Prediction; and the 13th Symposium on Global Change and Climate Variations )

Organizer: William K. M. Lau, NASA/GSFC

Papers:

1:30 PM

J7.1

Potential Predictability of the Madden-Julian Oscillation

Duane E. Waliser, SUNY, Stony Brook, NY; and W. Stern, C. Jones, and W. K. M. Lau

Poster PDF (62.3 kB)

1:45 PM

J7.2

Persistent locally coupled anomalies in the ocean-atmosphere

Malaquias Pena, University of Maryland, College Park, MD; and E. Kalnay and M. Cai

Poster PDF (576.5 kB)

2:00 PM

J7.3

Inter-decadal storm track variations as seen in NCEP/NCAR reanalysis data and radiosonde observations

Nili Harnik, Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL; and E. K. M. Chang

2:15 PM

J7.4

Surface turbulent heat fluxes over the Atlantic Ocean synthesized from satellite measurements and NWP model analyses

Bomin Sun, WHOI, Woods Hole, MA; and L. Yu and R. A. Weller

http://

Poster PDF (228.8 kB)

2:30 PM

J7.5

Feasibility of reanalysis before the radiosonde era

Gilbert P. Compo, NOAA/CIRES/CDC, Boulder, CO; and J. S. Whitaker and P. D. Sardeshmukh

2:45 PM

J7.6

Long-lead wintertime potential predictability:an assessment from NCEP's climate model

Wilbur Y. Chen, NOAA/NWS/NCEP/CPC, Camp Springs, MD

Poster PDF (1.8 MB)

3:00 PM

J7.7

Design of the framework of high-resolution global atmospheric models

Bin Wang, Institute of Atmospheric Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China

3:15 PM

J7.7a

Coffee Break in Exhibit Hall

6

Locally Written Applications

Sponsor: Interactive Symposium on AWIPS

Organizers: Daniel Nietfeld, NOAA; Brian Klimowski, NOAA/NWS

Papers:

1:30 PM

6.1

AWIPS Local Application�LSR4AWIPS

Mark T. Mutchler, NOAA/NWS, North Platte, NE

Poster PDF (27.5 kB)

1:45 PM

6.2

AWIPS local application for visualizing WSR-88D PPS hybrid scan bin heights

Steven V. Vasiloff, NOAA/NSSL, Norman, Oklahoma

Poster PDF (1.4 MB)

2:00 PM

6.3

AWIPS Verify�public forecast verification for the AWIPS era

Kenneth R. Cook, NOAA/NWS, La Crosse, WI

http://www.crh.noaa.gov/arx/vfy/verification.htm

Poster PDF (12.9 kB)

2:15 PM

6.4

The Areal Mean Basin Estimated Rainfall (AMBER) flash flood algorithm as an AWIPS local application.

Paul Jendrowski, NOAA/NWS, Honolulu, HI

2:30 PM

6.5

Using �Storm Info Master� (SIM), Soover, Taftrack and other AWIPS applications locally developed at WFO Tulsa

James M. Frederick, NOAA/NWS, Tulsa, OK; and S. A. Amburn

2:45 PM

6.6

WIGFAN�a system to ingest and display internet data on AWIPS

Dan A. Baumgardt, NOAA/NWS, La Crosse, WI

http://www.crh.noaa.gov/arx/webgrab.htm

Poster PDF (41.2 kB)

3:00 PM

6.7

Practical Applications of Extrapolated dProg/dt in AWIPS

Leslie R. Colin, NOAA/NWSFO, Boise, ID

Poster PDF (17.9 kB)

3:15 PM

6.6a

Exhibit Hours 3:00�7:30 P.M

3:16 PM

6.7a

Open Discussion

3:31 PM

6.6b

Coffee Break in Poster Session Room

9

TEXAQS air Quality Study: Part I

Sponsor: Fourth Conference on Atmospheric Chemistry

Papers:

1:30 PM

9.1

An Overview of TexAQS 2000

Peter H. Daum, Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, NY

Poster PDF (9.8 kB)

1:45 PM

9.2

Air quality observations from an office tower during TexAQS2000

Chester W. Spicer, Battelle Columbus Operations, Columbus, OH; and R. Mangaraj, D. Joseph, C. M. Berkowitz, A. Laskin, J. P. Cowin, and J. Weinstein-Lloyd

Poster PDF (90.5 kB)

2:00 PM

9.3

Single Particle Laser Ablation Time-of-flight Mass Spectrometer: Maiden Voyage to Houston, TX

Alla Zelenyuk, Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, NY; and D. G. Imre and P. Imrich

2:15 PM

9.4

Ozone Production Efficiency at the Williams Tower

Carl M. Berkowitz, PNNL, Richland, WA; and R. A. Zaveri, C. W. Spicer, P. V. Doskey, and J. Weinstein-Lloyd

Poster PDF (226.4 kB)

2:30 PM

9.5

Size-segregated multi-elemental aerosol analysis at Williams Tower during Texas Air Quality 2000

Leonard A. Barrie, PNNL, Richland, WA; and R. S. Disselkamp, S. Shutthanandan, T. A. Cahill, and S. S. Cliff

Poster PDF (130.2 kB)

2:45 PM

9.6

Measurements of PANs at the La Porte Supersite during the TexAQS 2000 Houston Intensive Study.

James M. Roberts, NOAA Aeronomy Laboratory, Boulder, CO; and E. J. Williams, B. T. Jobson, P. C. Murphy, W. Kuster, P. D. Goldan, D. D. Riemer, E. C. Apel, and F. C. Fehsenfeld

3:00 PM

9.7

OH and HO₂ concentrations, production and loss rates at the La Porte site during TexAQS 2000

M. Martinez, Penn State Univ., University Park, PA; and H. Harder, P. DiCarlo, W. H. Brune, S. R. Hall, R. E. Shetter, E. J. Williams, W. Kuster, and B. T. Jobson

Poster PDF (54.3 kB)

3:15 PM

9.8

Implications of the substantial levels of Volatile Organic Compounds measured at La Porte, Texas during TEXAQS2000

William C. Kuster, NOAA/AL, Boulder, CO; and B. T. Jobson, D. D. Riemer, E. C. Apel, T. Karl, F. C. Fehsenfeld, P. D. Goldan, M. Trainer, S. A. McKeen, C. Wiedinmyer, M. Martinez, E. Williams, and J. M. Roberts

3:30 PM

9.6A

Coffee Break in Exhibit Hall

Joint Session 6

Surface/Atmosphere Interactions Part I: (Joint between 13th Symposium on Global Change and Climate Variations and 16th Conference on Hydrology)

Sponsors: (Joint between the 13th Symposium on Global Change and Climate Variations; and the 16th Conference on Hydrology )

Organizers: Yongkang Xue, Univ. of California; Randal D. Koster, NASA/GSFC

Papers:

1:30 PM

J6.1

A Retrospective and Outlook for GCIP/GAPP Contributions to Land Surface and Land-Atmosphere Modeling

Richard G. Lawford, NOAA/Office of Global Programs, Silver Spring, MD

Poster PDF (45.1 kB)

2:00 PM

J6.2

Soil Moisture and Snow Cover: Active or Passive Elements of Climate?

Robert J. Oglesby, NASA/MSFC/GHCC, Huntsville, AL; and S. Marshall, D. J. Erickson III, J. O. Roads, and F. R. Robertson

2:15 PM

J6.3

Evaluating the Impact of Realistic Land Conditions in Dynamical Seasonal Predictions

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

Poster PDF (238.5 kB)

J6.4

Does landsurface matter in weather and climate?

2:30 PM

J6.5

Investigation of deep soil temperature-atmosphere interaction in North America

Yongkang Xue, University of California, Los Angeles, CA; and L. Yi, M. Ruml, and R. Vasic

2:45 PM

J6.6

Preliminary Analysis of Coupled Land-Atmosphere Interactions in AMIP II Simulations

Thomas J. Phillips, LLNL, Livermore, CA; and P. Irannejad, A. Henderson-Sellers, K. McGuffie, E. Clayton, and S. Sharmeen

3:15 PM

J6.7

The impact of soil moisture initialization on seasonal precipitation forecasts

Randal D. Koster, NASA/GSFC, Greenbelt, MD; and M. J. Suarez and L. Tyahla

3:30 PM

J6.8

Integration of Remote Sensing and In-Situ Data for Global Land-Atmosphere Interaction Studies

Xubin Zeng, Univ. of Arizona, Tucson, AZ

3:45 PM

J6.9

Weekly to Monthly Predictability of the Early-Summer Precipitation in the LSA-East

Da-Lin Zhang, University of Maryland, College Park, MD; and W. Zheng and Y. Xue

Poster PDF (118.1 kB)

4:00 PM

J6.5a

Coffee Break in Exhibit Hall

4:15 PM

J6.5b

Exhibit Hours 3:00�7:30 p.m.

5

Advances in Ground Based Remote Sensing

Sponsor: Sixth Symposium on Integrated Observing Systems

Organizer: Albin J. Gasiewski, NOAA/ETL

Papers:

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

Poster PDF (485.8 kB)

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

http://www.atd.ucar.edu/sssf/projects/vtmx/

Poster PDF (265.2 kB)

2:00 PM

5.3

Wind Shear and Turbulence Profiling with Meteorological Radar

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

Poster PDF (64.8 kB)

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

Poster PDF (131.1 kB)

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

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

3:15 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

Poster PDF (245.5 kB)

3:30 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

Poster PDF (266.9 kB)

3:45 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

4:00 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

http://

Poster PDF (43.8 kB)

4:15 PM

5.13

Cloud Observing System derived characteristics of convection in the convective boundary layer

Richard S. Penc, Creighton University, Omaha, NE

4:30 PM

5.6A

Coffee Break in Exhibit Hall

11

European and other International Applications

Sponsor: 18th International Conference on IIPS

Organizers: Horst Boettger, ECMWF; John Lincoln, Consultant

Papers:

1:30 PM

11.1

A knowledge-based system to generate internet weather forecasts

Harvey Stern, Bureau of Meteorology, Melbourne, Vic., Australia

http://www.weather-climate.com/fc.html

Poster PDF (55.6 kB)

1:45 PM

11.2

Interactive workstation tools for applying synoptic- and small-scale graphical modifications to numerical model data

Dick Blaauboer, Royal Dutch Meteorological Institute/KNMI, De Bilt, Netherlands; and P. Heppner and C. Nygard

2:00 PM

11.3

MARS on the Web

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

Poster PDF (9.0 kB)

2:15 PM

11.4

ECMWF virtual MetOps room

Baudouin Raoult, ECMWF, Reading, Berks., United Kingdom; and C. Gibert

Poster PDF (15.8 kB)

2:30 PM

11.5

New forward scatter visibility sensor with unique window contamination compensation method

Tero K�hk�nen, Vaisala Oyj, Helsinki, Finland; and J. Ojanper�

2:45 PM

11.6

The new meteorological observation network in the Netherlands

Foeke Kuik, KNMI, De Bilt, Netherlands; and T. Haig

Poster PDF (861.5 kB)

3:00 PM

11.7

Multiple Instrument Sky Condition Algorithm

Pekka Ravila, Vaisala Oyj, Helsinki, Finland; and J. Heinonen and J. R�s�nen

3:15 PM

11.8

Porting the High Resolution Limited Area Forecast System (HLAFS) on shared and distributed memory hardware platforms for real-time operational weather forecasting in China

Zaphiris Christidis, IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center, Yorktown Heights, NY; and Z. Zhu

Poster PDF (52.3 kB)

3:30 PM

11.9

Future of the data holdings of the Meteorological Service of Canada

Tsoi-Ching Yip, MSC, Downsview, ON, Canada; and M. Minuk

Poster PDF (12.1 kB)

3:45 PM

11.10

Stratospheric Mountain Waves: Observations and Modeling for a Proposed Sailplane that Will Use These Waves to Reach 100,000 Feet

Elizabeth J. Carter, Firnspiegel, LLC, Kings Beach, CA; and E. H. Teets Jr.

http://www.firnspiegel.com/Perlan.html

Poster PDF (1.2 MB)

11.11

Software application to frontogenetic function fields and Q-vectors estimations

4:00 PM

11.12

Software application to frontogenetic function fields and Q-vectors estimations

Ireneusz Winnicki, Military University of Technology, Warsaw, Poland; and D. Chaladyniak and K. Kroszczynski

4:15 PM

11.13

Combined analysis of satellite images and GRID data to forecasting the frontogenesis and frontolysis areas

Dariusz Chaladyniak, Military University of Technology, Warsaw, Poland

4:30 PM

11.6a

Coffee Break in Exhibit Hall

4:59 PM

11.6b

Exhibit Hours 3:00�7:30 p.m.

Coffee Break

Coffee Break in the Exhibit Hall

Sessions end for the day

Exhibit Hours

13

Using ARM and Other Sources for Diagnostics

Sponsor: 13th Symposium on Global Change and Climate Variations

Organizer: Ric Cedarwall, LLNL

Papers:

3:30 PM

13.1

Examining model sensitivities to cloud microphysics using a single-column model, NCEP forecasts and ARM data

Sam F. Iacobellis, SIO/Univ. of California, La Jolla, CA; and R. C. J. Somerville

Poster PDF (193.3 kB)

4:00 PM

13.2

Variability in Tropical Broadband Radiation Budget: Observations versus Modeled Results

Takmeng Wong, NASA/LRC, Hampton, VA; and B. A. Wielicki, F. R. Robertson, J. Susskind, H. Jacobowitz, R. Allan, A. Slingo, D. A. Randall, B. J. Soden, C. T. Gordon, J. Kiehl, and S. K. Yang

4:15 PM

13.3

The variability of cirrus clouds derived from 4 years of ARM data; relationships to the large-scale meteorology

Erik N. Vernon, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT; and G. G. Mace

Poster PDF (197.6 kB)

4:30 PM

13.4

Convection and Large-scale Quasi-equilibrium in Midlatitude Continental Environment

Guang J. Zhang, SIO/Univ. of California, La Jolla, CA

13.5

Evaluation of the Entraining-Detraining Plume Model applied to the cumulus parameterization of the large-scale model

5

other methods for statistical analysis and probabilistic predictions

Sponsor: Symposium on Observations, Data Assimilation, and Probabilistic Prediction

Organizer: Zoltan Toth, NOAA/NWS/NCEP/EMC

Papers:

3:30 PM

5.1

Operational calibrated probability forecasts from the ECMWF ensemble prediction system - implementation and verification

Kenneth R. Mylne, Met Office, Bracknell, Berks., United Kingdom; and C. Woolcock, J. C. W. Denholm-Price, and R. J. Darvell

Poster PDF (139.9 kB)

3:45 PM

5.2

Inverse Modeling of a Multiplicative Stochastic System

Cecile Penland, NOAA/ERL/CDC, Boulder, CO

4:00 PM

5.3

Error growth in uncertain systems

Petros J. Ioannou, University of Athens, Athens, Greece; and B. F. Farrell

http://www.fas.harvard.edu/~epsas/dynamics/predictability/uncertain1.pdf

Poster PDF (207.0 kB)

4:15 PM

5.4

A High Resolution, Local Point Forecast Model

Ken Reeves, AccuWeather, Inc., State College, PA; and M. Steinberg

4:30 PM

5.5

End-to-end ensemble forecasting: Ensemble interpretation in forecasting and risk management

Mark S. Roulston, Pembroke College, Oxford, United Kingdom; and L. A. Smith

Poster PDF (196.6 kB)

4:44 PM

5.6

Paper has been moved to Joint Poster Session 1, new paper number JP1.30

4:45 PM

5.7

State estimation using reduced rank Kalman filters

Brian F. Farrell, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA; and P. J. Ioannou

http://www.fas.harvard.edu/~epsas/dynamics/predictability/storm_kalman_aug30.pdf

Poster PDF (222.0 kB)

5:00 PM

5.8

Predictability of linear stochastic dynamics

Michael K. Tippett, International Research Institute for Climate Prediction, Palisades, NY; and P. Chang

Poster PDF (122.1 kB)

2

heavy precipitation and flash flooding

Sponsor: 16th Conference on Hydrology

Organizer: Roderick A. Scofield, NOAA/NESDIS

Papers:

3:30 PM

2.1

COMET Flash Flood Cases: Summary of Characteristics

Matthew Kelsch, UCAR/COMET, Boulder, CO

Poster PDF (1.7 MB)

3:45 PM

2.2

Status and Outlook of Operational Satellite Precipitation Algorithms for Extreme Precipitation Events

Roderick A. Scofield, NOAA/NWS, Camp Springs, MD; and R. J. Kuligowski

4:00 PM

2.3

An identification of factors discriminating between significant and extreme heavy rainfall events

James T. Moore, Saint Louis University, St. Louis, MO; and C. E. Graves and S. Ng

4:15 PM

2.4

Climatology of environmental parameters that influence severe storm intensity and morphology

U. S. Nair, Univ. of Alabama, Huntsville, AL; and E. W. McCaul Jr. and R. M. Welch

Poster PDF (661.7 kB)

4:30 PM

2.5

Multisensor precipitation estimation for use by National Weather Service River Forecast Centers

Jay P. Breidenbach, NOAA/NWS, Silver Spring, MD; and D. J. Seo, P. Tilles, and M. Fortune

4:45 PM

2.6

How much rain reaches the surface? Lessons learned from very high-resolution observations in the Goodwin Creek watershed

Matthias Steiner, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ; and J. A. Smith, L. C. Sieck, S. J. Burges, and C. V. Alonso

Poster PDF (267.8 kB)

5:00 PM

2.7

A Review of the Summer 2000 Flooding in South Central Nebraska

Michael L. Moritz, NOAA/NWS, Hastings, NE

5:15 PM

2.8

Spatial and Temporal Organization of Convective Activity in the Himalayan region during the Asian Monsoon

Gwangseob Kim, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA; and A. P. Barros

Poster PDF (216.3 kB)

4

Emerging Role of Data Assimilation in the Oceans, Land Surface, Atmospheric Chemistry, Hydrology and the Water Cycle: Part II

Sponsor: Symposium on Observations, Data Assimilation, and Probabilistic Prediction

Organizer: Tony J. Busalacchi, Univ. of Maryland

Papers:

3:30 PM

4.1

The Global Land Data Assimilation System

Paul R. Houser, NASA/GSFC, Greenbelt, MD

4.2

Land Surface Data Assimilation and the Northern Gulf Coast Land/Sea Breeze

4:00 PM

4.3

Assimilation in Land Surface Hydrology: A General Theory

Venkataraman Lakshmi, University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC

Poster PDF (165.8 kB)

4:15 PM

4.4

Reduced-rank Kalman filters: II. Assimilation of Topex-Poseidon altimetry data into a realistic OGCM of the tropical Atlantic

Mark Buehner, MIT, Cambridge, MA; and P. Malanotte-Rizzoli, T. Inui, and A. Busalacchi

Poster PDF (509.2 kB)

4:30 PM

4.5

The importance of salinity in the assimilation of temperature observations in the tropical Pacific Ocean

Alberto Troccoli, NASA/GSFC, Greenbelt, MD; and M. M. Rienecker

http://janus.gsfc.nasa.gov/~troccoli

Poster PDF (92.8 kB)

4:45 PM

4.6

Advective pathways determined from a CUPOM of the Gulf of Mexico

M. Toner, University of Delaware, Newark, DE; and A. D. Kirwan, Jr., L. Kuznetsov, A. C. Poje, C. K. R. T. Jones, L. Kantha, and J. Choi

5:00 PM

4.7

Pacific and Indian Ocean circulation during 1993�2000: Assimilation of TOPEX/Poseidon data into a near global OGCM

I. Fukumori, JPL, Pasadena, CA; and T. Lee, B. Tang, B. Cheng, D. Menemenlis, Z. Xing, and L. -. L. Fu

5:15 PM

4.8

Aspects of the Extended and Ensemble Kalman filters for land data assimilation in the NASA Seasonal-to-Interannual Prediction Project

Rolf H. Reichle, NASA/GSFC and University of Maryland Baltimore County, Greenbelt, MD; and R. D. Koster, J. P. Walker, M. M. Rienecker, and P. R. Houser

Poster PDF (89.2 kB)

5

Energy Applications

Sponsor: Third Symposium on Environmental Applications

Organizer: Nick Keener, Duke Energy

Papers:

3:30 PM

5.1

Developing improved tools for electric utility peak load forecasting

David J. Sailor, Tulane University, New Orleans, LA; and P. B. Breslow

Poster PDF (112.8 kB)

3:45 PM

5.2

Re-Mapping of the wind energy resource in the Midwestern United States

Marc Schwartz, National Renewable Energy Laboratory, Golden, CO; and D. Elliott

4:00 PM

5.3

The use of climate data sets for wind energy resource mapping

Dennis L. Elliott, National Renewable Energy Laboratory, Golden, CO; and M. N. Schwartz

4:15 PM

5.4

Predicting the wind energy resource in the offshore seas of Europe

J. P. Palutikof, University of East Anglia, Norwich, United Kingdom; and J. A. Halliday, G. M. Watson, T. Holt, R. J. Barthelmie, J. P. Coelingh, L. Folkerts, and J. W. Cleijne

Poster PDF (250.8 kB)

4:30 PM

5.5

Using environmental data to attract development: the Oklahoma Wind Power Assessment Initiative

Timothy W. Hughes, Univ. of Oklahoma, Norman, OK; and M. Shafer, T. Simonsen, J. Traurig, N. Mirsky, S. J. Stadler, and P. G. Earls

http://www.seic.okstate.edu/owpai

Poster PDF (1.3 MB)

4:45 PM

5.6

Overview of the Surface Meteorology and Solar Energy (SSE) Project: An Innovative Web-based Data Set for the Renewable Energy Industry

Roberta C. DiPasquale, SAIC, Hampton, VA; and D. E. Brown, W. S. Chandler, C. H. Whitlock, and P. W. Stackhouse Jr.

5:00 PM

5.7

Development of an Architectural Data Set from Satellite Data

Charles H. Whitlock, SAIC, Hampton, VA; and D. E. Brown, W. S. Chandler, R. C. DiPasquale, and P. W. Stackhouse Jr.

5:14 PM

5.8

Paper moved to the 18th Conference on IIPS, Poster Session P1, new paper number P1.27

5:15 PM

5.8a

Coupling of mesoscale weather models to business operations in utilizing visual data fusion

Lloyd A. Treinish, IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center, Yorktown Heights, NY

http://www.research.ibm.com/weather

Poster PDF (2.9 MB)

12

Climate Change Modeling

Sponsor: 13th Symposium on Global Change and Climate Variations

Organizer: Brian Eder, EPA

Papers:

3:30 PM

12.1

Ensemble climate simulations including natural and anthropogenic forcings

Anthony J. Broccoli, NOAA/GFDL, Princeton, NJ; and T. L. Delworth, K. W. Dixon, T. R. Knutson, and R. J. Stouffer

3:45 PM

12.2

Solar Variability and Climate System Response in Ensemble Simulations of 20th Century Climate

Gerald A. Meehl, NCAR, Boulder, CO; and W. M. Washington, T. M. L. Wigley, J. M. Arblaster, and A. Dai

4:00 PM

12.3

Uncertainty Analysis of Global Climate Change Projections

Chris E. Forest, MIT, Cambridge, MA; and M. D. Webster, J. M. Reilly, A. P. Sokolov, P. H. Stone, H. D. Jacoby, and R. G. Prinn

Poster PDF (60.7 kB)

4:15 PM

12.4

Polar climate and sea ice in coupled NCAR GCMs and in recent observations

John W. Weatherly, Cold Regions Research and Engineering Lab, Hanover, NH

4:30 PM

12.5

North Atlantic Ocean response to future anthropogenic forcing in a coupled GCM

Aiguo Dai, NCAR, Boulder, CO; and G. A. Meehl, W. M. Washington, and W. G. Strand

Poster PDF (789.0 kB)

4:45 PM

12.6

Stationary Wave Responses to Climate Change in the GFDL GCM

Mingfang Ting, University of Illinois, Urbana, IL; and R. Joseph and P. J. Kushner

5:00 PM

12.7

On the mechanism of the enhanced greenhouse effect: a radiative and dynamical perspective

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

5:15 PM

12.8

A comparison of the behavior of different AOGCMs in transient climate change experiments

Andrei Sokolov, MIT, Cambridge, MA; and C. Forest and P. Stone

Poster Session 1

Atmospheric Chemistry and Texas Field Study

Sponsor: Fourth Conference on Atmospheric Chemistry

Papers:

P1.1

Aerosol effects on tropospheric photolysis frequencies in urban environments

R. E. Shetter, NCAR, Boulder, CO; and L. Cinquini, B. L. Lefer, S. R. Hall, S. Madronich, and J. Slusser

P1.2

Global Tropospheric Experiment: Tropospheric chemistry data spanning 18 years available from the NASA Langley Atmospheric Sciences Data Center

James M. Hoell Jr., SAIC, Hampton, VA

http://eosweb.larc.nasa.gov/PRODOCS/gte/table_gte.html

Poster PDF (164.7 kB)

P1.3

Chemical Genealogy of an Atmospheric Chemist: James N. Pitts, Jr., A Case Study

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

Poster PDF (159.5 kB)

P1.4

Measurements of Beryllium-7 and Ozone at Deer Park during the Texas 2000 Air Quality Study

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

Poster PDF (892.2 kB)

P1.5

Fossil-fueled power plants as a source of atmospheric carbon monoxide

D. K. Nicks Jr., NOAA/AL, Boulder, CO; and J. S. Holloway, T. B. Ryerson, R. W. Dissly, D. D. Parrish, G. J. Frost, M. Trainer, S. G. Donnelly, S. Schauffler, E. L. Atlas, G. Hubler, D. T. Sueper, and F. C. Fehsenfeld

P1.6

Comparing MM5 predicted radiative fluxes with observations taken during the TEXAQS 2000 air quality experiment

Robert J. Zamora, NOAA/ETL, Boulder, CO; and J. -. W. Bao, A. B. White, S. Solomon, and J. M. Wilczak

Poster PDF (95.4 kB)

P1.7

NMHC intercomparison study during the TexAQS 2000 summer field campaign

Eric C. Apel, NCAR, Boulder, CO; and S. Eisele, D. D. Riemer, P. Goldan, W. Kuster, J. Meagher, B. T. Jobson, W. Lonneman, D. Brymer, P. Liu, H. Parvez, C. Skelley, J. Rudolph, K. von Czapiewski, and P. V. Doskey

P1.8

Ozone production rates calculated using a steady state box model constrained by the observations collected aboard the Baylor University aircraft during TexAQS 2000

P1.9

Ozonesondes during TEXAQS 2000

Mike Newchurch, Univ. of Alabama, Huntsville, AL and NCAR, Boulder, CO; and M. Ayoub, S. Oltmans, B. Vasel, B. Johnson, and D. McNider

http://vortex.nsstc.uah.edu/atmchem/pub/pubs.html

Poster PDF (1.7 MB)

P1.10

Particulate Matter Modeling in the Houston-Galveston Area Using CIT

Kee-Youn Yoo, University of Houston, Houston, TX; and J. He, N. R. Amundson, and D. Dabdub

Poster PDF (27.2 kB)

P1.11

Representativeness of the meteorological and ozone conditions observed during TexAQS 2000 and the 1993 COAST (Coastal Oxidant Assessment for Southeast Texas)

Clinton MacDonald, Sonoma Technology, Inc., Petaluma, CA; and P. Roberts and T. Dye

P1.12

VOC/NOx ratios observed from different source types during TexAQS 2000 using data collected with the Baylor University Twin Otter aircraft

Clinton MacDonald, Sonoma Technology, Inc., Petaluma, CA; and J. Price, K. Rozacky, E. Gribbin, M. Buhr, P. Roberts, W. Lonnemann, B. Seila, S. Alvarez, M. Shauck, G. Zanin, and M. Suffern

P1.13

Statistical data analysis of continuous VOC measurements using PTR-MS

Thomas Karl, UCAR, Boulder, CO; and P. Hopke, B. Kuster, E. Williams, B. T. Jobson, and W. Lindinger

P1.14

Measurements of photochemical species at La Porte Airport during TEXAQS-2000

E. J. Williams, NOAA/AL and CIRES/Univ. of Colorado, Boulder, CO; and D. Hereid, P. C. Murphy, and F. C. Fehsenfeld

http://

Poster PDF (14.8 kB)

P1.15

A Comparison of Airborne VOC and PAN Measurements during TexAQS 2000

A. Wisthaler, University of Innsbruck, Innsbruck, Austria; and A. Hansel, R. Fall, P. D. Goldan, G. H�bler, F. C. Fehsenfeld, and F. Flocke

P1.16

A Fuzzy logic method for estimating the convective boundary layer mixing depth

Laura Bianco, University of L'Aquila, L'Aquila, Italy; and J. M. Wilczak

Poster PDF (179.5 kB)

P1.17

Atomic chlorine is an oxidant in Houston Texas

Daniel D. Riemer, University of Miami, Miami, FL; and E. C. Apel, J. Orlando, P. L. Tanaka, D. Allen, and J. Neece

Poster PDF (108.6 kB)

P1.18

Daily Variability in Tropospheric Ozone Profiles at TexAQS Within the Context of a US Tropospheric Ozone Climatology

Mohammed Ayoub, Univ. of Alabama, Huntsville, AL; and M. Newchurch, S. Oltmans, B. Vasel, B. Johnson, and D. McNider

Poster PDF (442.9 kB)

P1.19

Description and uncertainty analysis of the Baylor University aircraft trace gas observations collected during TexAQS 2000

Martin Buhr, Sonoma Technology, Inc., Petaluma, CA; and K. Rozacky, S. Alvarez, M. Shauck, G. Zanin, and M. Suffern

P1.20

Overview of the Baylor University aircraft measurement program and data analyses for TexAQS 2000

Martin Buhr, Sonoma Technology, Inc., Petaluma, CA; and P. Roberts, S. Alvarez, M. Shauck, M. Suffern, and G. Zanin

P1.21

Observations of recent new particle formation in Houston during TEXAQS-2000

Gintautas Buzorius, Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, New York; and F. Brechtel, A. Zelenyuk, D. Imre, and W. M. Angevine

Poster PDF (831.9 kB)

P1.22

Measurement of Hydroperoxides during the Texas 2000 Air Quality Study

Jun Zheng, State University of New York, Stony Brook, NY; and A. Alaouie, J. Weinstein-Lloyd, S. R. Springston, L. J. Nunnermacker, Y. N. Lee, F. Brechtel, L. Kleinman, and P. H. Daum

Poster PDF (895.1 kB)

P1.23

Real-time simultaneous prediction of air pollution and weather during the Houston 2000 Field experiment

Georg A. Grell, NOAA/ERL/FSL and CIRES/ Univ. of Colorado, Boulder, CO; and S. McKeen, J. Michalakes, J. W. Bao, M. Trainer, and E. Y. Hsie

Poster PDF (159.4 kB)

P1.24

The TEXAQS-2000 edited wind proifler dataset

Allen B. White, CIRES/Univ. of Colorado and NOAA/ETL, Boulder, CO; and D. E. White, W. M. Angevine, K. Knupp, R. Coulter, T. Martin, J. Hubbe, and D. White

Poster PDF (191.3 kB)

P1.25

Relationships between Particle Size and Composition, Photochemical Production of Secondary Aerosol, and New Particle Formation in Houston

P1.26

Aerosol Formation from Photooxidation of Diiodomethane (CH2I2)

P1.27

Assessment of chemically speciated aerosol mass loading measurements obtained with Aerodyne's Aerosol Mass Spectrometer during the TEXAQS00 study

Manjula R. Canagaratna, Aerodyne Research, Inc., Billerica, MA; and J. L. Jimenez, P. Silva, A. E. Delia, J. T. Jayne, K. Purvis, and D. R. Worsnop

P1.28

A comparison of meteorological observations with the output of a real-time weather-chemistry forecasting model during the Texas AQS 2000 field experiment

Jian-Wen Bao, NOAA/Environmental Technology Laboratory, Boulder, CO; and S. A. McKeen, G. A. Grell, M. Trainer, and E. Y. Hsie

Poster PDF (249.7 kB)

P1.29

Chemical Evolution of a Power-Plant Plume

Stephen R. Springston, Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, NY; and L. I. Kleinman, F. J. Brechtel, P. H. Daum, Y. -. N. Lee, L. J. Nunnermacker, and J. Weinstein-Lloyd

http://ftp://aerosol.das.bnl.gov/pub/Houston00

Poster PDF (60.8 kB)

P1.30

Uptake of Nitric Acid on Ice Representative of Cirrus Clouds at Tropspheric Temperatures

Margret Tolbert, CIRES/University of Colorado, Boulder, CO; and P. Hudson, J. Shilling, and O. B. Toon

P1.31

Multidomain Real-time Ozone Forecasting for Summer 2001, Preliminary Results for the NE U.S., Mid-South, and Texas

John McHenry, North Carolina Supercomputing Center, Durham, NC; and C. J. Coats, J. Vukovich, and T. Smith

7

Specialized Uses

Sponsor: Interactive Symposium on AWIPS

Organizers: Elizabeth M. Page, NOAA/NWS/OCWWS/Training Division; Larry Dunn, NOAA/NWS

Papers:

4:00 PM

7.1

FX-Net Use to Support the 2002 Olympic Winter Games and Fire Weather Incident Meterologists

Kevin J. Schrab, NOAA/NWS, Salt Lake City, UT; and A. Edman, J. Burks, R. Weatherly, and S. Madine

http://www.wrh.noaa.gov/conf/awipssymposiump7-1.pdf

Poster PDF (1.5 MB)

4:15 PM

7.2

AWIPS as a global meteorological analysis and display system

Mark J. Keehn, NWS/Spaceflight Meteorology Group and NASA/JSFC, Houston, Texas

http://www.srh.noaa.gov/smg/mark.html

Poster PDF (80.7 kB)

4:30 PM

7.3

Extending AWIPS to support remote Collaboration

U. Herb Grote, NOAA/FSL, Boulder, CO; and C. Golden

4:45 PM

7.4

Tailoring the Advanced Weather Interactive Processing System (AWIPS) for Space Launch Range Support

Darien Davis, NOAA/FSL, Boulder, CO; and T. Wilfong, B. Shaw, K. Winters, and W. Schmeiser

5:00 PM

7.5

FAS: AN AWIPS-LIKE PROTOTYPE FORECASTER WORKSTATION AT KOREA METEOROLOGICAL ADMINISTRATION.

Young-Sun Jung, Korea Meteorological Administration, Seoul, Korea; and D. I. Lee, S. J. Kim, S. K. Park, B. H. Lim, J. S. Chung, R. J. Kahn, P. C. Kucera, W. F. Roberts, H. H. Lee, and S. K. Chung

Poster PDF (186.7 kB)

5:15 PM

7.5a

Open Discussion

Sessions end for the day

Reception (Cash Bar)

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14

Monsoons: Observational and Modeling Studies, Part II

Sponsor: 13th Symposium on Global Change and Climate Variations

Organizer: Sharon Leduc, NOAA/NCDC

Papers:

14.1

The impact of SST anomalies on the interannual variability of the North American monsoon

8:31 AM

14.2

Frequency analysis of intraseasonal variations in the North American Monsoon System

Eileen A. Hall-McKim, CIRES/Univ. of Colorado, Boulder, CO; and A. Nolin, F. Lo, M. Serreze, and M. Clark

Poster PDF (57.8 kB)

8:45 AM

14.3

Diagnostics of the Summer Circulation Changes over North America at Seasonal and Interannual Time Scales

Renu Joseph, Univ. of Illinois, Urbana, IL; and M. Ting and H. Wang

9:00 AM

14.4

La Ni�a impact on summer monsoon in Brazil

Alice M. Grimm, Federal University of Paran�, Curitiba, Paran�, Brazil

Poster PDF (25.7 kB)

9:15 AM

14.5

Interannual variability of the West African monsoon in the NCEP SFM and reanalysis

Wassila M. Thiaw, NOAA/NWS/NCEP/CPC, Camp Springs, MD; and M. Kanamitsu and V. Kumar

9:30 AM

14.6

Contrasting characteristics of the 1993 and 1994 East Asian summer monsoon: Observation and simulation

Wen-Shung Kau, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan; and H. -. H. Hsu and R. -. T. Chen

Poster PDF (306.0 kB)

9:45 AM

14.7

Land-sea heating contrast in an idealized Asian summer monsoon

Chia Chou, Institute of Earth Sciences, Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan

10:00 AM

14.8

Spatio-temporal scales of Indian Ocean monsoonal cloud systems in geosynchronous satellite images and a general circulation model

Eric Wilcox, SIO/Univ. of California, La Jolla, CA; and V. Ramanathan

10:15 AM

14.8a

Coffee Break in Poster Sesssion Room

15

Climate Model Diagnostics: AMIP

Sponsor: 13th Symposium on Global Change and Climate Variations

Organizer: Curt Covey, LLNL

Papers:

8:30 AM

15.1

The Atmospheric model intercomparison project (AMIP): progress and plans

Peter J. Gleckler, LLNL, Livermore, CA; and K. E. Taylor

Poster PDF (140.7 kB)

9:00 AM

15.2

Coupled ocean-atmosphere vs. prescribed-SST simulations: effect of a "perfect ocean"

Curt Covey, LLNL, Livermore, CA; and K. M. AchutaRao, P. J. Gleckler, K. E. Taylor, and M. F. Wehner

http://www-pcmdi.llnl.gov/cmip

Poster PDF (17.9 kB)

9:15 AM

15.3

Summertime Intraseasonal Variability in the AMIP Simulations

Huang-Hsiung Hsu, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan; and W. -. S. Kau and J. -. L. Chu

Poster PDF (193.7 kB)

9:30 AM

15.4

Assessment of atmospheric angular momentum parameters in AMIP-2 simulations

David A. Salstein, AER, Lexington, MA; and R. D. Rosen, J. O. Dickey, and S. L. Marcus

9:45 AM

15.5

Tropospheric Temperature Sensitivity from the AMIP II Experiment

Justin Jay Hnilo, LLNL, Livermore, CA; and J. R. Christy

10:00 AM

15.6

Diagnostic analyses of short-term climate variability in NASA/GSFC general circulation models

Robert X. Black, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA; and D. P. Robinson

Poster PDF (6.6 kB)

10:15 AM

15.7

Predictable Skill and Its Associated Sea-Surface Temperature Variability in an Ensemble Climate Simulation

C. Adam Schlosser, COLA, Calverton, MD; and B. P. Kirtman

Poster PDF (83.3 kB)

10:30 AM

15.5a

Coffee Break in Poster Session Room

Joint Session 8

Education and Training - An AWIPS Enhancer (Joint Session with AWIPS and IIPS)

Sponsors: (Joint between the Interactive Symposium on AWIPS; and the 18th International Conference on IIPS )

Organizers: Timothy C. Spangler, UCAR; John Vogel, NWS Training Center

Papers:

8:30 AM

J8.1

Using near storm environment data in the warning decision-making process

Brad N. Grant, NOAA/NWS, Norman, OK; and P. Wolf

8:45 AM

J8.2

Using the Warning Event Simulator

John T. Ferree, NOAA/NWS, Norman, OK; and E. M. Quoetone and M. A. Magsig

Poster PDF (100.5 kB)

9:00 AM

J8.3

IFPS focal point training at the NWS Training Center

Samuel K Beckman Sr., NOAA/NWS, Kansas City, MO

9:15 AM

J8.4

Archiving of AWIPS data in National Weather Service offices

Elizabeth M. Page, NOAA/NWS, Boulder, CO; and R. J. Miller, M. A. Magsig, and T. Alberta

9:30 AM

J8.5

FX-Net as a tool for AWIPS education/training

James P. Koermer, Plymouth State College, Plymouth, NH; and J. Zabransky Jr., S. Madine, and R. Brummer

Poster PDF (74.2 kB)

9:45 AM

J8.6

Lightning Meteorology I: An Introductory Course on Forecasting with Lightning Data

Bard Zajac, CIRA/Colorado State Univ., Fort Collins, CO; and J. F. Weaver

Poster PDF (291.2 kB)

10:00 AM

J8.7

Using AWIPS emulation software in an undergraduate forecasting class

Alan C. Czarnetzki, University of Northern Iowa, Cedar Falls, IA

http://www.uni.edu/storm/

Poster PDF (54.1 kB)

10:15 AM

J8.8

Better understanding of QG Theory through the use of D3D

Andrew I. Watson, NOAA/NWS, Tallahassee, FL; and T. P. Lericos, J. D. Fournier, and E. J. Szoke

10:30 AM

J8.9

Retrospective and Prospective Views on How AWIPS Relates to Unidata

David Fulker, UCAR, Boulder, CO; and J. Merrill

Poster PDF (81.0 kB)

10:45 AM

J8.10

Development and implementation of the NWS warning environment simulator version 1.0

Michael A. Magsig, CIMMS/Univ. of Oklahoma, Norman, OK; and E. M. Page

Poster PDF (278.6 kB)

11:00 AM

J8.6a

Coffee Break in Poster Session Room

11:30 AM

J8.10a

Open Discussion

6

Applications in Health, Agriculture, and Forestry

Sponsor: Third Symposium on Environmental Applications

Organizer: Nick Keener, Duke Energy

Papers:

8:30 AM

6.1

Climate change impacts on Florida: The potential consequences of climate variability and change on human health

Arturo E. Rodriguez, Barry University, Miami, FL

8:45 AM

6.2

Modeling inactivation of B. anthracis by ultraviolet radiation, part I: data and analysis

Stephanie L. Seely, ENSCO Inc., Melbourne, FL; and J. M. Shuford

http://

Poster PDF (550.8 kB)

9:00 AM

6.3

Modeling inactivation of B. anthracis by ultraviolet radiation, part II: application to environmental scenarios

Stephanie L. Seely, ENSCO Inc., Melbourne, FL; and J. M. Shuford

Poster PDF (330.2 kB)

6.4

Modeling the inactivation of B. anthracis by ultraviolet radiation, Part III: SLAM transport model case studies

9:15 AM

6.5

PRIMARY AND SECONDARY MAXIMUM OF THE NUNBER OF ASTHMA ATTACKS ON THE TERRITORY OF THE CITY OF BITOLA-MACEDONIA

Blagojce Mickovski IV, CNRM, Bitola, Macedonia; and Z. Nakeski IV

9:30 AM

6.6

The effect of regional climate variability on outbreak of epidemics of bartonellosis in Peru

Jiayu Zhou, Univ. of Maryland, Baltimore County, Baltimore, MD; and W. K. -. M. Lau, L. W. Laughlin, P. M. Masuoka, R. C. Andre, and J. Chamberlain

Poster PDF (478.1 kB)

9:45 AM

6.7

A comparison of the Stedman's Heat Index and the WBGT Index

Steven D. Hacker, U.S. Naval Academy, Annapolis, MD; and D. R. Smith

Poster PDF (22.1 kB)

10:00 AM

6.8

Clinical trials for a new Canadian wind chill program

Pierre Tourigny, MSC, Toronto, ON, Canada; and J. Shaykewich

Poster PDF (23.7 kB)

10:15 AM

6.9

The linkage of regional climate models to crop models

Deborah E. Hanley, COAPS, Florida State Univ., Tallahassee, FL; and S. Jagtap, T. E. LaRow, J. W. Jones, S. Cocke, D. Zierden, and J. J. O'Brien

Poster PDF (162.0 kB)

10:30 AM

6.10

Assessing the impact of variability on wheat yields by using crop simulation models and weather generators conditioned on El Ni�o phases. A case study for Chile�s agricultural central valley

Francisco J. Meza, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY; and D. S. Wilks and S. J. Riha

10:45 AM

6.11

Integration of Weather and Climate Information into a Decision Making System for Citrus [DISC] through FAWN

J. David Martsolf, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL

11:00 AM

6.12

Monitoring the effects of extreme climate disturbances on forest health in the northeast U.S

Allan N. D. Auclair, RAND Environment, Arlington, VA; and W. E. Heilman and P. Busalacchi

http://createpdf.adobe.com/cgi-pickup.pl?LOC=en_US&CDS=3BB85E8C-1B68-5794&LID=NUCLAIR

Poster PDF (170.7 kB)

11:15 AM

6.13

Climate conditions favoring the maintenance of the central U.S. tall grass prairie

Kenneth E. Kunkel, ISWS, Champaign, IL; and S. A. Changnon

12:00 PM

6.13A

Lunch Break

11:30 AM

6.7a

Coffee Break in Poster Session Room

3

remote sensing of hydrologic processes

Sponsor: 16th Conference on Hydrology

Organizer: Venkat Lakshmi, Univ. of South Carolina

Papers:

8:30 AM

3.1

Improving western United States snow water equivalent (SWE) estimates from passive microwave sensors

Shanna T. L. Pitter, Iowa State Univ., Ames, IA; and A. W. Nolin

Poster PDF (96.1 kB)

8:45 AM

3.2

ACTIVE - PASSIVE REMOTE SENSING OF SOIL MOISTURE

Venkat Lakshmi, Univ. of South Carolina, Columbia, SC

Poster PDF (47.6 kB)

9:00 AM

3.3

Utility of remote sensing in modeling spatial patterns of evapotranspiration

William P. Kustas, USDA/ARS, Beltsville, MD; and R. Bindlish and A. N. French

3.4

The retrieval of surface soil moisture from passive microwave satellite data using a physical minimization method with modified polarization-ratio terms

9:15 AM

3.5

Measurement of near-surface soil moisture with continually-calibrated TDR instruments

Brian K. Hornbuckle, Univ. of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI; and A. W. England

http://www.eecs.umich.edu/grs

Poster PDF (4.1 MB)

9:30 AM

3.6

A coupled model of land surface CO2 and energy fluxes and its application to the SGP sites using remotely sensed data

Xiwu Zhan, Raytheon ITSS Corporation, Lanham, MD; and W. P. Kustas, A. N. French, T. J. Jackson, and T. J. Schmugge

9:45 AM

3.7

Disaggregation of microwave remote sensing data for estimating near-surface soil moisture using a Neural Network

William L. Crosson, National Space Science and Technology Center, Huntsville, AL; and C. A. Laymon, M. P. Schamschula, and A. Steward

http://www.caos.aamu.edu/HSCaRS/LinDANet/

Poster PDF (2.8 MB)

3.8

Seasonal Characteristics of the Gulf of Mexico-Caribbean Basin Water Budget during One Semiannual Cycle as Retrieved from Satellite

3.9

An evaluation of microwave rainfall climatologies from the Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission

10:02 AM

3.10

Error analysis of microwave land rainfall estimation algorithms

Jeffrey R. McCollum, Univ. of Maryland, College Park and NOAA/NESDIS, Camp Springs, MD; and R. R. Ferraro

10:17 AM

3.11

A Comparison of Total Precipitable Water Observations from Satellite and Reanalysis Climatologies

Ralph R. Ferraro, NOAA/NESDIS, Camp Spring, MD; and A. Gruber

10:32 AM

3.12

Global Estimates of the Diurnal Cycle of Rainfall from a Trmm-Calibrated Infrared Rainfall Algorithm

Liming Xu, Univ. of Arizona, Tucson, AZ and NASA/GSFC, Greenbelt, MD; and A. J. Negri and R. F. Adler

10:47 AM

3.13

Incorporating numerical weather prediction model parameters into the retrieval of precipitation from the Special Sensor Microwave/Imager

Robert J. Kuligowski, NOAA/NESDIS, Camp Springs, MD; and W. Chen, R. R. Ferraro, and R. Treadon

11:02 AM

3.14

Quantification of error in rainfall estimated from limited samples in space and time

Matthias Steiner, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ; and Y. Zhang, M. L. Baeck, J. A. Smith, and E. F. Wood

Poster PDF (130.2 kB)

11:17 AM

3.15

A real-time daily precipitation analysis over South Asia

Pingping Xie, NOAA/NWS/NCEP/CPC, Camp Springs, MD; and Y. Yarosh, T. Love, J. E. Janowiak, and P. A. Arkin

Poster PDF (723.1 kB)

11:32 AM

3.16

Inter-comparison of CHARM Data and WSR-88D Storm Integrated Rainfall

Gary J. Jedlovec, NASA/MSFC, Huntsville, AL; and P. J. Meyer and A. R. Guillory

Poster PDF (100.0 kB)

11:47 AM

3.17

Distribution of daily rain gauge observations over hourly intervals with the aid of satellite precipitation estimates

Michael A. Fortune, NOAA/NWS, Silver Spring, MD

12:02 PM

3.18

Investigation of a WSR-88D Z-R relation for snowfall in northern Utah

Steven V. Vasiloff, NOAA/NSSL, Norman, Oklahoma

Poster PDF (642.1 kB)

12:17 PM

3.7a

Coffee Break in Poster Session Room

12:45 PM

3.15a

Lunch Break

6

Advances in In-situ Sensing

Sponsor: Sixth Symposium on Integrated Observing Systems

Organizer: Cecilia M. I. R. Girz, NOAA/FSL

Papers:

8:30 AM

6.1

Automating the observation of drizzle

Richard Lewis, NOAA/NWS, Sterling, VA; and B. Childs and A. C. Ramsay

Poster PDF (100.6 kB)

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 Sr.

9:00 AM

6.3

Sunshine sensor testing for ASOS Product Improvement

Lynn J. Winans, SAIC, Sterling, VA

Poster PDF (2.1 MB)

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

Poster PDF (514.1 kB)

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

Poster PDF (255.7 kB)

6.6

Field Comparison of New Self-Powered Solar Radiation Shield and Naturally Ventilated Multi-Plate Radiation Shield

10:00 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

Poster PDF (3.3 MB)

10:15 AM

6.8

Evaluation of balloon trajectory forecast routines for GAINS

Randall S. Collander, NOAA/FSL, Boulder, CO; and C. M. I. R. Girz

Poster PDF (188.9 kB)

10:30 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

http://www.gaerospace.com/publicPages/projectPages/StratCon/index.html

Poster PDF (138.7 kB)

10:45 AM

6.10

The Climate Reference Network

C. Bruce Baker, NOAA/NESDIS/NCDC, Asheville, NC

Poster PDF (106.3 kB)

11:00 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

http://mesonet.agron.iastate.edu

Poster PDF (827.9 kB)

11:15 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

11:30 AM

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

11:45 AM

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

Poster PDF (968.6 kB)

12:00 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

http://www.nc-climate.ncsu.edu/agnet

Poster PDF (21.9 kB)

12:15 PM

6.16

Errors in Operational Aircraft Data

Patricia M. Pauley, NRL, Monterey, CA

12:30 PM

6.6A

Coffee Break in Poster Session Room

1:00 PM

6.12A

Lunch Break

3

weather forecasting

Sponsor: 16th Conference on Probability and Statistics in the Atmospheric Sciences

Organizer: Harry R. Glahn, NOAA/NWS

Papers:

8:30 AM

3.1

The new NWS MOS development and implementation systems

Harry R. Glahn, NOAA/NWS, Silver Spring, MD; and J. P. Dallavalle

8:45 AM

3.2

The new AVN/MRF MOS development and model changes: a volatile mix?

Mary C. Erickson, NOAA/NWS, Silver Spring, MD; and J. P. Dallavalle and K. L. Carroll

Poster PDF (169.1 kB)

9:00 AM

3.3

Progress in the development of the Canadian updateable model output statistics (UMOS) system

Laurence J. Wilson, MSC, Dorval, QC, Canada; and M. Vall�e

Poster PDF (1.1 MB)

9:15 AM

3.4

TAFTOOLS: Development of objective TAF guidance for Canada�Part One: Introduction and development of the very short-range module

Pierre Bourgouin, Canadian Meteorological Centre, Dorval, PQ, Canada; and J. Montpetit, R. Verret, and L. J. Wilson

Poster PDF (55.7 kB)

9:30 AM

3.5

TAFTOOLS: Development of objective TAF guidance for Canada Part two�Development of the short-range forecast module and results

Jacques Montpetit, MSC, Dorval, PQ, Canada; and P. Bourgouin, L. J. Wilson, and R. Verret

Poster PDF (436.5 kB)

9:45 AM

3.6

Ensemble, dynamic MOS

Peter P. Neilley, Weather Services International, Inc., Billerica, MA; and W. Myers and G. S. Young

Poster PDF (85.7 kB)

10:00 AM

3.7

Combining forecasts for superior prediction

Gregory S. Young, NCAR, Boulder, CO

Poster PDF (205.0 kB)

10:15 AM

3.8

Looking far back vs. looking around enough: operational weather forecasting by spatial composition of recent observations

Claudia Tebaldi, NCAR, Boulder, CO

Poster PDF (212.0 kB)

10:30 AM

3.9

Surface wind gust statistics at the Savannah River Site

Allen H. Weber, Savannah River Technology Center, Aiken, SC; and M. J. Parker and J. H. Weber

10:45 AM

3.10

Probabilistic early warning of cloud-to-ground lightning at an airport

Martin J. Murphy, Global Atmospherics, Inc., Tucson, AZ; and N. W. S. Demetriades and K. L. Cummins

11:00 AM

3.11

Statistical models for lightning prediction using Canadian Lightning Detection Network observations

William R. Burrows, AES, Downsview, ON, Canada

Poster PDF (81.6 kB)

11:15 AM

3.12

The value of cloud lightning in probabilistic thunderstorm warning

Martin J. Murphy, Global Atmospherics, Inc., Tucson, AZ; and N. W. S. Demetriades and K. L. Cummins

11:30 AM

3.13

Probabilistic Forecasts of Precipitation Type

John V. Cortinas Jr., University of Oklahoma/CIMMS, Norman, OK; and K. F. Brill and M. E. Baldwin

Poster PDF (55.1 kB)

11:45 AM

3.14

Topographic and synoptic influences on cold season severe weather events in California

Ivory J. Small, NOAA/NWS, San Diego, CA; and G. Martin, S. LaDochy, and J. N. Brown

Poster PDF (2.6 MB)

12:00 PM

3.15

The application of synoptic stratification to the statistical forecasting of rainfall and surface wind

Gregory J. Connor, Bureau of Meteorology, Townsville, Queensland, Australia

Poster PDF (39.5 kB)

12:15 PM

3.16

An Empirically Developed Forecast Model for the Surface Layer Stability Transition Period

Gail-Tirrell Vaucher, Army Research Laboratory, White Sands Missile Range, NM

Poster PDF (71.3 kB)

12:30 PM

3.17

Using Current-Generation Meteorological/Photochemical Modeling Systems for Real-Time Ozone Forecasting

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

Poster PDF (264.2 kB)

12:45 PM

3.18

A study of predictive models for forecasting hurricane activity over the Gulf of Mexico

R. Suseela Reddy, Jackson State University, Jackson, MS; and A. Pingili and R. L. Miller

1:00 PM

3.19

Analyzing the relationship between solar flux and hurricane strength to forecast hurricane development

Alfred M. Powell Jr., Autometric Inc, A Boeing Company, Springfield, VA; and P. A. Zuzolo, B. J. Zuzolo, and G. N. Greene

1:15 PM

3.6a

Coffee Break in Poster Session Room

1:45 PM

3.12a

Lunch Break

3:15 PM

3.19a

Coffee Break in Exhibit Hall

12

Forecasting system technologies

Sponsor: 18th International Conference on IIPS

Organizers: Carl Thormeyer, FNMOC; David Pace, FAA

Papers:

8:30 AM

12.1

How we get AWIPS to your door

Erin Lucks, Northrop Grumman Information Technology, McLean, VA; and M. Drew

Poster PDF (104.2 kB)

8:45 AM

12.2

Challenges and Sucesses While Implementing the AWIPS Interactive Forecast Preparation System at WFO Kansas City, MO

Lynn P. Maximuk, NOAA/NWS, Pleasant Hill, MO

Poster PDF (49.9 kB)

9:00 AM

12.3

NCF�An Inside Look

Richard D. Smedley, Jr., Northrop Grumman Information Technology, McLean, VA

Poster PDF (161.6 kB)

9:15 AM

12.4

AWIPS WAN Update

Hoi Y. Chong, Northrop Grumman Information Technology, McLean, VA

Poster PDF (346.6 kB)

12.5

AWIPS Satellite Broadcast Network Update

9:30 AM

12.6

Porting the AWIPS Communications Processor to Linux

LeRoy Klet, Northrop Grumman Information Technology, McLean, VA

Poster PDF (116.4 kB)

9:45 AM

12.7

NWS Technology Infusion Plan: A roadmap to 2025

John L. Hayes, NOAA/NWS, Silver Spring, MD

10:00 AM

12.8

Large Tiled Display Walls and Applications in Meteorology, Oceanography, and Hydrology

Robert Wilhelmson, National Center for Supercomputing Applications, Univ. of Illinois, Urbana, IL; and P. Baker, R. Stein, and R. Heiland

http://redrock.ncsa.uiuc.edu/AOS/home_pubs.html

Poster PDF (428.6 kB)

10:15 AM

12.9

The Next Thing In Television Weather Systems

Ken Reeves, AccuWeather, Inc., State College, PA; and M. Steinberg

10:30 AM

12.10

The Distributed Marine Environment Forecast System (DMEFS)

Pat J. Fitzpatrick, Mississippi State University, Stennis Space Center, MS; and A. Mehra, J. Corbin, J. McCaffrey, T. Haupt, P. Bangalore, G. Henley, R. Moorhead, J. van der Zwaag, and M. Bettencourt

Poster PDF (34.6 kB)

10:45 AM

12.11

A Java-based Meteorological Workstation

Hans-Joachim Koppert, Deutscher Wetterdienst, Offenbach, Germany

Poster PDF (66.3 kB)

11:00 AM

12.12

The Oklahoma Mesonetwork: Ten Years Later

Kenneth C. Crawford, Oklahoma Climatological Survey, Norman, OK; and R. A. McPherson and R. L. Elliott

Poster PDF (32.3 kB)

11:15 AM

12.13

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

11:30 AM

12.14

Future plans for the FAA's Weather and Radar Processor (WARP)

Jay Johnson, FAA, AUA-460, Washington, DC; and S. Walden, J. Stobie, and R. Graff

Poster PDF (135.9 kB)

11:45 AM

12.15

Visibility variability at the Chicago O�Hare Airport: Insights into the impacts of Runway Visual Range (RVR) measurements on aviation operations

David A. Hazen, Titan/System Resources Corp., Billerica, MA; and T. A. Seliga, L. G. Jacobs, and P. Narvett

http://www.allvidzhaze.com/work/ams/RVR/ord_cases.htm

Poster PDF (324.2 kB)

12:00 PM

12.16

EMERGENCY MANGERS WEATHER INFORMATION NETWORK (EMWIN) TRANSITION TO GOES N SERIES - A STATUS REPORT

William E. Brockman, NOAA/NWS, Silver Spring, MD; and H. L. White

12:15 PM

12.17

National Oceanic and Atmosperic Adminstration (NOAA) Implementation of Low-Rate Information Transmission (LRIT) Services

Frank Eng, Computer Sciences Corporation, Suitland, VA; and C. A. Vance

Poster PDF (11.4 kB)

12:30 PM

12.18

New Paradigm for Environmental Data Assimilation and Fusion

Reginald B. Lawrence, NOAA/NESDIS, Camp Springs, MD; and L. O'Connor

1:00 PM

12.19

Paper moved to Joint Session J7, new paper number J7.11A

1:01 PM

12.20

Paper Moved to Poster Session P1, Paper number P1.29

1:02 PM

12.21

Paper moved to Poster Session P1, new paper number P1.30

1:03 PM

12.22

Paper moved to Poster Session P1, new paper number P1.26

1:04 PM

12.7a

Coffee Break in the Poster Session Room

1:34 PM

12.13a

Lunch Break

3:04 PM

12.18a

Coffee Break in the Exhibit Hall

3:29 PM

12.18b

Exhibit Hours 3:00�6:15 p.m.

Joint Session 8

Surface/Atmosphere Interactions: Part I (Joint with 13th Symposium on Global Change and Climate Variations and 16th Conference on Hydrology)

Sponsors: (Joint between the 13th Symposium on Global Change and Climate Variations; and the 16th Conference on Hydrology )

Organizers: Yongkang Xue, University of California; Randall D. Koster, NASA/GSFC

Papers:

8:30 AM

J8.1

Biosphere-Atmosphere Interactions in Amazonia

Carlos A. Nobre, Brazilian Weather and Climate Forecasting Center, Cachoeira Paulista, Brazil

9:00 AM

J8.2

Interaction of natural and anthropogenic factors in Amazon rainfall

Raymond W. Arritt, Iowa State University, Ames, IA; and T. -. C. Chen and K. J. St. Croix

9:15 AM

J8.3

The Local and Global Effects of Amazon Deforestation

David Werth, Duke University, Durham, NC; and R. Avissar

9:30 AM

J8.4

Human influences on the global climate system�The first order effect of landuse change and landscape dynamics

Roger A. Pielke Sr., Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO; and T. N. Chase, J. L. Eastman, and M. Coughenour

10:00 AM

J8.5

Modeling the impact of the Amazon deforestation in South American climate with the Eta/SSiB model

Clemente A. S. Tanajura, Laboratorio Nacional de Computacao Cientifica, Petropolis, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil; and S. C. Chou and Y. Xue

10:15 AM

J8.6

Impact of Land-Use Management Practices in Florida on the Regional Climate of South Florida and the Everglades

Curtis H. Marshall Jr., Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO; and R. A. Pielke Sr., L. T. Steyaert, T. M. Cronin, D. A. Willard, J. W. Jones, T. J. Smith III, and J. R. Irons

Poster PDF (112.3 kB)

10:30 AM

J8.7

Influence of land use on the regional climate of southwest Australia

Deepak K. Ray, Foretsry and Natural Resources, Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana; and U. S. Nair, R. M. Welch, W. Su, and T. Kikuchi

Poster PDF (103.9 kB)

10:45 AM

J8.8

Sensitivity of great floods to radiatively forced climate change

P. C. D. Milly, USGS, Princeton, NJ; and R. T. Wetherald, T. L. Delworth, and K. A. Dunne

11:15 AM

J8.9

Uncertainty analysis of California streamflow using multiple climate change scenarios

Norman L. Miller, Univ. of Calfornia, Berkeley National Lab., Berkeley, CA; and K. E. Bashford

Poster PDF (1.0 MB)

11:30 AM

J8.10

Effects of mesoscale terrain on climate change signal in the western U.S

Jinwon Kim, University of California, Los Angeles, CA

11:45 AM

J8.11

Summer Dryness and Greenhouse Warming: A Process Study for the Midwestern United States

Sonia I. Seneviratne, ETH, Zurich, Switzerland; and J. S. Pal, E. A. B. Eltahir, and C. Sch�r

Poster PDF (93.0 kB)

12:00 PM

J8.12

Simulating Carbon and Energy Exchanges over the Amazonia using a photosynthesis model within SSiB

Dev dutta S. Niyogi, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC; and Y. Xue, X. Zhan, and G. J. Collatz

Poster PDF (434.8 kB)

12:15 PM

J8.13

Climate, carbon and the boreal ecosystem

Forrest G. Hall, NASA/GSFC, Beltsville, MD; and A. K. Betts, S. Frolking, R. Brown, J. Chen, S. Halldin, D. P. Lettenmaier, and J. Schafer

12:45 PM

J8.14

Impact of remotely sensed land surface variables on simulations of energy

Stephen D. Prince, University of Maryland, College Park, MD; and Y. Xue, J. S. Borak, S. O. Los, and A. C. Gleason

1:00 PM

J8.15

Improving the representation of arid regions of northern Africa and the Arabian peninsula in climate models by incorporating MODIS derived surface albedo

Elena Tsvetsinskaya, Boston University, Boston, MA; and C. Schaaf, F. Gao, A. Strahler, R. E. Dickinson, and X. Zeng

1:15 PM

J8.16

Importance of winds and soil moistures to the U.S. summertime drought of 1988: A GCM simulation study

David M. Mocko, NASA/GSFC, Greenbelt, MD; and Y. C. Sud

Poster PDF (767.4 kB)

1:45 PM

J8.17

Improving the Representation of Snow Processes in Global Climate Models

Zong-Liang Yang, University of Texas, Austin, TX; and G. Y. Niu

2:00 PM

J8.18

Modeling Crop Growth Using Modified NCAR LSM 1.0

Guo-Yue Niu, University of Arizona, Tucson,, AZ; and Z. L. Yang

2:15 PM

J8.4a

Coffee Break in Poster Session Room

2:45 PM

J8.9a

Lunch Break

4:15 PM

J8.14a

Coffee Break in Exhibit Hall

4:44 PM

J8.14b

Exhibit Hours 3:00�6:15 p.m.

10

TEXAQS air quality study: Part II

Sponsor: Fourth Conference on Atmospheric Chemistry

Papers:

8:30 AM

10.1

Chemical characterization of particulate matter at the La Porte site using an aerosol mass spectrometer

Douglas R. Worsnop, Aerodyne Research, Inc., Billerica, MA; and P. J. Silva, M. R. Canagaratna, P. Davidovits, J. L. Jimenez, A. E. Delia, and K. Purvis

Poster PDF (84.9 kB)

8:45 AM

10.2

Measurement of trace gases and PM2.5 mass and composition near the ground and at 254 m agl during TexAQS2000

Karsten Baumann, Georgia Tech, Atlanta, GA; and F. Ift, J. Z. Zhao, M. Bergin, and A. G. Russell

Poster PDF (696.3 kB)

9:00 AM

10.3

Efficiency of ozone production in the Houston plume

Lawrence I. Kleinman, Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, NY; and P. H. Daum, F. Brechtel, Y. -. N. Lee, L. J. Nunnermacker, S. R. Springston, and J. Weinstein-Lloyd

Poster PDF (854.8 kB)

9:15 AM

10.4

Anthropogenic source types and their relative effects on ozone production in Houston, TX

Thomas B. Ryerson, NOAA/AL, Boulder, CO; and M. Trainer, D. K. Nicks Jr., A. J. Neuman, R. W. Dissly, J. S. Holloway, R. O. Jakoubek, D. D. Parrish, G. J. Frost, C. Weidinmyer, D. T. Sueper, W. C. Kuster, P. D. Goldan, G. Huebler, W. M. Angevine, F. C. Fehsenfeld, S. G. Donnelly, S. Schauffler, E. Atlas, A. J. Weinheimer, F. Flocke, B. P. Wert, W. T. Potter, A. Fried, C. J. Senff, L. Darby, R. M. Banta, and R. J. Alvarez

9:30 AM

10.5

Ozone Precursors, Source Regions, and O₃ Formation during the TexAQS 2000 Study

Peter H. Daum, Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, NY; and L. I. Kleinman, F. Brechtel, Y. -. N. Lee, L. J. Nunnermacker, S. R. Springston, and J. Weinstein-Lloyd

Poster PDF (151.6 kB)

9:45 AM

10.6

PANs measured over Greater Houston during TexAQS 2000 and their implications for hydrocarbon precursors to ozone formation

A.J. Weinheimer, NCAR, Boulder, CO; and F. Flocke, E. L. Atlas, S. G. Donnelly, S. Schauffler, A. Fried, B. P. Wert, J. M. Roberts, M. Trainer, G. J. Frost, D. T. Sueper, C. Wiedinmyer, G. Hubler, T. B. Ryerson, D. K. Nicks Jr., W. C. Custer, P. D. Goldan, D. D. Parrish, and J. S. Holloway

10:00 AM

10.7

Reactive nitrogen emissions from point sources in Houston using visible spectroscopy measurements from aircraft

Susan Solomon, NOAA/AL, Boulder, CO; and M. L. Melamed, J. S. Daniel, A. O. Langford, and R. W. Portmann

Poster PDF (83.7 kB)

10:15 AM

10.8

Nitric Acid Formation in urban, power plant, and industrial plumes during the Texas Air Quality Study

J. A. Neuman, NOAA/AL, Boulder, CO; and R. W. Dissly, J. C. Holocek, T. B. Ryerson, D. K. Nicks, J. S. Holloway, G. Hubler, D. D. Parrish, D. T. Sueper, F. C. Fehsenfeld, F. Flocke, A. J. Weinheimer, and L. G. Huey

Poster PDF (32.2 kB)

10:30 AM

10.9

Airborne in-situ Observations of VOC and PAN over the Greater Houston Area during TexAQS 2000

A. Hansel,, University of Innsbruck, Innsbruck, Austria; and A. Wisthaler, R. Fall, P. D. Goldan, M. Trainer, T. B. Ryerson, D. D. Parrish, G. H�bler, J. Holloway, F. C. Fehsenfeld, F. Flocke, B. P. Wert, and A. Fried

10:45 AM

10.10

Trace gas observations from whole air samples collected aboard aircraft during TexAQS 2000

Elliot L. Atlas, NCAR, Boulder, CO; and S. G. Donnelly, S. Schauffler, V. Stroud, K. Johnson, R. Weaver, F. Flocke, E. C. Apel, G. Hubler, M. Trainer, D. Parrish, T. Ryerson, J. Holloway, D. Nicks, P. Goldan, B. Kuster, and D. Riemer

11:00 AM

10.11

The Relative Importance of Primary and Oxidized Hydrocarbons in the Houston Urban and Ship Channel Plumes

Paul D. Goldan, NOAA/AL, Boulder, Colorado; and W. C. Kuster, J. Holloway, G. Huebler, T. Ryerson, D. D. Parrish, D. Nicks, M. Trainer, C. Wiedinmyer, F. C. Fehsenfeld, S. G. Donnelly, S. Schauffler, E. Atlas, B. Wert, A. Fried, A. Hansel, and A. Wisthaler

11:15 AM

10.12

Particle Growth in urban and Industrial Plumes in Texas

Charles A. Brock, NOAA/AL and CIRES/Univ. of Colorado, Boulder, CO; and M. Trainer, T. B. Ryerson, J. A. Neuman, D. D. Parrish, J. S. Holloway, and J. C. Wilson

Poster PDF (2.0 MB)

11:30 AM

10.13

Aerosol Chemical Characterization on Board the DOE G1 Aircraft using a Particle-into-Liquid-Sampler during the TexAQS 2000 experiment

Yin-Nan Lee, Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, NY; and Z. Song, Y. Liu, P. Daum, R. Weber, D. Orsini, N. Laulainen, J. Hubbe, and V. Morris

Poster PDF (596.2 kB)

11:45 AM

10.14

Fast airborne formaldehyde measurements as an indicator of plume chemistry during TexAQS 2000

Bryan P Wert, NCAR, Boulder, CO; and A. Fried, M. Trainer, and T. Ryerson

12:00 PM

10.15

Contribution of NOx from various sources to ozone production observed with the Baylor University aircraft during TexAQS 2000

Martin Buhr, Sonoma Technology, Inc., Petaluma, CA; and C. MacDonald, P. Roberts, S. Alvarez, M. Shauck, G. Zanin, M. Suffern, W. Lonnemann, and B. Seila

12:15 PM

10.16

Three-dimensional distribution of and relationship between ozone and ozone precursors observed from the Baylor University aircraft during TexAQS 2000

Clinton MacDonald, Sonoma Technology, Inc., Petaluma, CA; and P. Roberts, M. Buhr, E. Gribbin, W. Lonnemann, and B. Seila

12:30 PM

10.17

3-D distribution of ozone during the major pollution event of 30 August 2000 during TexAQS 2000

Robert M. Banta, NOAA/ETL, Boulder, CO; and C. J. Senff, L. S. Darby, T. B. Ryerson, M. Trainer, and R. J. Alvarez II

Poster PDF (183.3 kB)

12:45 PM

10.18

Horizontal and vertical distribution of ozone in the Houston area during the 8/29�9/6/2000 pollution episode

Christoph J. Senff, NOAA/ETL and CIRES/University of Colorado, Boulder, CO; and R. M. Banta, L. S. Darby, R. J. Alvarez II, S. P. Sandberg, R. M. Hardesty, W. M. Angevine, T. B. Ryerson, and B. P. Wert

Poster PDF (191.9 kB)

1:00 PM

10.19

A Comparison of Photochemical Ozone Production in Four U.S. Urban Areas

David D. Parrish, NOAA/AL, Boulder, CO; and T. B. Ryerson, J. S. Holloway, D. K. Nicks Jr., R. W. Dissly, W. C. Kuster, P. D. Goldan, S. G. Donnelly, S. Schauffler, E. Atlas, D. T. Sueper, G. J. Frost, M. Trainer, G. H�bler, J. F. Meagher, and F. C. Fehsenfeld

1:15 PM

10.20

Secondary species as NOx-VOC indicators in Houston: results from photochemical models

Sanford Sillman, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI; and K. A. Duderstadt, K. A. Al-Wali, and X. Xu

1:30 PM

10.21

Houston ozone concentrations and the role of the large-scale sea breeze circulation

John W. Nielsen-Gammon, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX; and P. Breitenbach

1:45 PM

10.22

Mixing depth variability in the Houston area during TEXAQS2000

Wayne M. Angevine, CIRES/Univ. of Colorado, Boulder, CO; and A. B. White, K. Knupp, R. Coulter, T. Martin, J. C. Doran, and D. White

Poster PDF (1.5 MB)

2:00 PM

10.23

Relationship between mean wind direction and daily ozone trends at LaPorte, Texas

Lisa S. Darby, NOAA/ETL, Boulder, CO; and R. M. Banta, R. D. Marchbanks, C. J. Senff, and E. J. Williams

2:15 PM

10.24

Results from the NOAA, FSL photochemical forecast model: Comparisons to aircraft and surface data during TEXAQS-2000

Stuart A. McKeen, CIRES/Univ. of Colorado and NOAA/AL, Boulder, CO; and G. Grell, J. W. Bao, M. Trainer, and E. Y. Hsie

Poster PDF (136.7 kB)

2:30 PM

10.6A

Coffee Break in Poster Session Room

3:00 PM

10.12A

Lunch Break

4:30 PM

10.18A

Coffee Break in Exhibit Hall

Joint Session 9

Data and Information Handling (Joint with AWIPS and IIPS)

Sponsors: (Joint between the 18th International Conference on IIPS; and the Interactive Symposium on AWIPS )

Organizers: Linda Miller, UCAR; Dan McMorrow, Johns Hopkins Univ.; Fred Branski, NOAA/NWS

Papers:

8:30 AM

J9.1

The Ingest, Quality Control, and Processing of Hydrometeorological Data at National Weather Service Field Offices

Mark J. Glaudemans, NOAA/NWS, Silver Spring, MD; and J. M. Roe and P. S. Tilles

Poster PDF (30.4 kB)

8:45 AM

J9.2

The Hardware and Software Installation Process for the AWIPS Linux Workstation Demonstration

Charles Piercy, NOAA/NWS, Silver Spring, MD; and M. D. Buckingham, E. Hiner, W. F. Roberts, and P. C. Kucera

9:00 AM

J9.3

The AWIPS Linux Workstation Demonstration and Evaluation

Mary D. Buckingham, NOAA/NWS, Silver Spring, MD; and C. Piercy, J. J. Dinges, W. F. Roberts, and P. C. Kucera

9:15 AM

J9.4

The AWIPS Linux Communications Processor Replacement Evaluation

Khien Ba Nguyen, NOAA/NWS, Silver Spring, MD; and M. D. Buckingham

J9.5

Multicast data distribution on the AWIPS local area network

9:30 AM

J9.6

Utilization of LDM at the Storm Prediction Center

Gregory H. Grosshans, NOAA/NWS/NCEP/SPC, Norman, OK

Poster PDF (32.4 kB)

9:45 AM

J9.7

Investigation of Data Compression Techniques Applied to AWIPS Datasets

Ning Wang, CIRA/Colorado State Univ., Ft. Collins and NOAA/FSL, Boluder, CO; and S. Madine and R. Brummer

Poster PDF (135.1 kB)

10:00 AM

J9.8

Acessing Marine Data for AWIPS Applications at NWS Corpus Christi

Andrew R. Patrick, NOAA/NWS, Corpus Christi, TX

10:15 AM

J9.9

GRIB2, The WMO standard for transmission of gridded data�Current status and NWS plans

Harry R. Glahn, NOAA/NWS, Silver Spring, MD; and B. Lawrence

10:30 AM

J9.10

Station history database architectural techniques

Jeffrey Arnfield, NOAA/NCDC, Asheville, NC; and G. Shears

Poster PDF (118.8 kB)

10:45 AM

J9.11

ArcView applications in USDA crop weather analysis

Harlan D. Shannon, USDA, Washington, DC

Poster PDF (586.9 kB)

11:00 AM

J9.12

Meteorological Database Management System at the USDA

Brian P. Morris, USDA, Washington, DC

Poster PDF (186.0 kB)

11:15 AM

J9.13

Updating and enhancing the quality control system for solar radiation data processed by the MSC

L. Dale Boudreau, MSC, Downsview, ON, Canada; and T. H. Sopoco, H. Lau, and T. -. C. Yip

11:30 AM

J9.14

The quality assurance and dissemination of soil moisture data from the Oklahoma Mesonet

Gary D. McManus, Oklahoma Climatological Survey, Norman, OK; and J. M. Thomale and K. C. Crawford

Poster PDF (80.4 kB)

11:45 AM

J9.15

Breaking the Billion Zone Barrier�Simulation, Data Handling and Visualization: An Example

Robert Wilhelmson, Univ. of Illinois and National Center for Supercomputing Applications, Champaign, IL; and P. Woodward, S. Anderson, D. Porter, S. Peckham, and C. Shaw

http://redrock.ncsa.uiuc.edu/AOS/home_pubs.html

Poster PDF (24.2 kB)

12:00 PM

J9.16

Technological Advances at the Lower Mississippi River Forecast Center Using GIS Technology

Keith Stellman, NOAA/NWS, Slidell, LA; and D. Welch

12:15 PM

J9.17

Implementation of an online database at the Surface Reference Data Center

Michael D. Klatt, University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK; and M. L. Morrissey and J. S. Greene

Poster PDF (79.7 kB)

12:30 PM

J9.18

Object-oriented handling of numerical data for scientific analysis and visualization -- basic idea and implementation for Ruby

Takeshi Horinouchi, Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan; and N. Kawanabe

http://www.gfd-dennou.org/arch/ruby/

Poster PDF (17.4 kB)

12:45 PM

J9.19

Framework for a Java meteorological class hierarchy

Young Yee, Army Research Laboratory, White Sands Missile Range, NM

Poster PDF (32.9 kB)

1:00 PM

J9.7a

Coffee Break in Poster Session Room

1:30 PM

J9.13a

Lunch Break

3:00 PM

J9.19a

Coffee Break in Exhibit Hall

3:29 PM

J9.19b

Exhibit Hours 3:00�6:15 P.M

Joint Session 10

Application of Internet Technology to Managing Geosciences (Joint with AWIPS and IIPS)

Sponsors: (Joint between the Interactive Symposium on AWIPS; and the 18th International Conference on IIPS )

Organizer: Robert C. Landis, NOAA/NWS

Papers:

8:30 AM

J10.1

Wide Area Networks and the Geosciences in the 2000s

James A. Schiavone, AT&T, Middletown, NJ

8:45 AM

J10.2

NOAA Research scientific project and budget reporting over the Internet

Eugene F. Burger, JISAO/Univ. of Washington, Seattle, WA; and J. F. Fabritz and N. N. Soreide

Poster PDF (84.8 kB)

9:00 AM

J10.3

OK-FIRST: A 6-Year Retrospective

Dale A. Morris, Oklahoma Climatolgical Survey, University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK; and K. A. Kloesel and K. C. Crawford

http://okfirst.ocs.ou.edu

Poster PDF (78.2 kB)

9:15 AM

J10.4

OK-SAFE: Using wireless tools to disseminate critical weather information to emergency managers

Kevin A. Kloesel, Oklahoma Climatological Survey, University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK; and K. C. Crawford, D. A. Morris, J. M. Wolfinbarger, and S. Kulasekharan

Poster PDF (12.6 kB)

9:30 AM

J10.5

Using Java, XML and XSLT to create secure internal access to local NOAA Research science project and budget information

Jason E. Fabritz, Univ. of Washington/JISAO, NOAA/PMEL, Seattle, WA; and N. N. Soreide

Poster PDF (30.4 kB)

9:45 AM

J10.6

Operational implementation of the NRL tropical cyclone web page at FNMOC

Yiping Wang, FNMOC, Monterey, CA; and J. Tesmer, C. Skupniewicz, J. Vermeulen, J. Cornelius, and J. Haferman

10:00 AM

J10.6a

Coffee Break in Poster Session Room

6

Ensembles and data assimilation

Sponsor: Symposium on Observations, Data Assimilation, and Probabilistic Prediction

Organizer: Stephen Lord, NOAA/NWS/NCEP/EMC

Papers:

8:45 AM

6.1

Application of an ensemble Kalman filter with a dry multi-level primitive-equation model

Herschel L. Mitchell, MSC, Dorval, PQ, Canada; and P. L. Houtekamer and G. Pellerin

Poster PDF (90.4 kB)

9:00 AM

6.2

An Ensemble Kalman Smoother for Reanalysis

Jeffrey S. Whitaker, Physical Sciences Division/ESRL/NOAA, Boulder, CO; and G. P. Compo

Poster PDF (63.9 kB)

6.3

The use of synoptically dependent background error structures and a geostrophic co-ordinate transform in 3D variational data assimilation

9:15 AM

6.4

Use of the breeding technique in the estimation of the background covariance matrix for a quasi-geostrophic model

E. Kalnay, University of Maryland, College Park, MD; and M. Corazza, D. J. Patil, E. Ott, J. A. Yorke, B. R. Hunt, I. Szunyogh, and M. Cai

Poster PDF (906.1 kB)

9:30 AM

6.5

Multivariate Assimilation of Altimetry into an Ocean General Circulation Model with Diagnostic Sea-Surface Height Using the Ensemble Kalman Filter

Christian L. Keppenne, NASA/GSFC, Greenbelt, MD; and M. M. Rienecker

Poster PDF (186.0 kB)

9:45 AM

6.6

A local least squares framework for ensemble filtering

Jeffrey L. Anderson, NOAA/GFDL and NCAR, Boulder, CO

Poster PDF (19.9 kB)

10:00 AM

6.7

Spread-skill relationship in the Canadian ensemble prediction system

Richard Verret, MSC, Dorval, PQ, Canada; and F. Pithois, L. Lefaivre, P. Houtekamer, L. Wilson, G. Pellerin, and M. Klasa

Poster PDF (65.2 kB)

10:15 AM

6.8

Are Bred Vectors the same as Lyapunov vectors?

Eugenia Kalnay, University of Maryland, College Park, MD; and M. Corazza and M. Cai

Poster PDF (677.8 kB)

10:30 AM

6.9

Estimation of Analysis Error with the Physical-space Statistical Analysis System

Ricardo Todling, NASA/GMAO, Greenbelt, MD; and R. Yang, J. Guo, and S. E. Cohn

Poster PDF (707.4 kB)

10:45 AM

6.10

Capabilities of ensemble filters for data assimilation

Jeffrey L. Anderson, NOAA/GFDL and NCAR, Boulder, CO; and S. Zhang

11:00 AM

6.11

Tangent Linear and Adjoint of the Kain-Fritsch Moist-Convective Parameterization

Luc Fillion, MSC, Dorval, PQ, Canada; and S. B�lair

11:15 AM

6.12

Regional data assimilation using a stretched-grid approach and ensemble calculations

Michael S. Fox-Rabinovitz, University of Maryland and NASA/GSFC/DAO, College Park, MD; and L. L. Takacs and R. C. Govindaraju

http://

Poster PDF (10.3 kB)

11:30 AM

6.6a

Coffee Break in the Poster Session Room

12:00 PM

6.12a

Lunch Break

4

Heavy Precipitation and Flooding II

Sponsor: 16th Conference on Hydrology

Organizer: Roderick A. Scofield, NOAA/NESDIS

Papers:

9:00 AM

4.1

Towards the Implementation of a Fully Integrated Flood Model

Robert B. Wilhelmson, National Center for Supercomputing Applications, Univ. of Illinois, Urbana, IL; and F. Weirich, W. Hibbard, S. Peckham, M. Wilson, M. Sayeeduzamman, D. Christianson, and Y. Lai

http://redrock.ncsa.uiuc.edu/AOS/home_pubs.html

Poster PDF (11.3 kB)

9:15 AM

4.2

The WRF Simulation of the 1993 Central U.S. Heavy Rain: Sensitivity to Cloud Microphysics Representation

Xin-Zhong Liang, ISWS, Champaign and Univ. of Illinois, Urbana, IL; and K. E. Kunkel, R. Wilhelmson, J. Dudhia, and J. X. L. Wang

9:30 AM

4.3

Improving flood prediction using Kalman Filter, mesoscale atmospheric model forecasts and radar-based rainfall estimates

Ashutosh S. Limaye, USRA, Huntsville, AL; and K. Stellman

http://www.ghcc.msfc.nasa.gov/regional/limaye/ams2002_extended_abstract.html

Poster PDF (110.3 kB)

9:45 AM

4.4

An experiment in subjective Probabilistic Quantitative Precipitation Forecasting: Forecasts and verification during the ELBOW 2001 field study

Brian P. Murphy, MSC, Burlington, ON, Canada; and A. Ashton, P. King, and D. Sills

Poster PDF (306.5 kB)

10:00 AM

4.5

ODRAFLOOD�a flood forecasting system for the Odra drainage basin

Heinz-Theo Mengelkamp, GKSS Research Center Geesthacht, Geesthacht, Germany; and R. Backhaus, R. Ewertowski, M. Klein, H. Messal, and Z. Wozniak

Poster PDF (110.4 kB)

10:15 AM

4.6

Lake Champlain Watershed Forecasting

Edward J. Capone, NOAA/NWS, Taunton, MA; and T. W. Econopouly and R. C. Shedd

Poster PDF (709.1 kB)

10:30 AM

4.7

Modelling heavy precipitation and flooding events using the coupled atmospheric-hydrological model

Zuohao Cao, MSC, Burlington, ON, Canada; and B. P. Murphy, P. Pellerin, H. Ritchie, R. P. Ford, and P. J. Pilon

Poster PDF (4.9 MB)

10:45 AM

4.8

Numerical Prediction Experiment of a Watershed Modeling System

Guobiao Huang, University of Central Florida, Orlando, FL; and H. Wang and G. -. T. Yeh

Poster PDF (898.9 kB)

11:00 AM

4.9

Service Assessment for the 2001 Mississippi River spring flood in the NWS Davenport, Iowa, Hydrologic Service Area

Jeffrey A. Zogg, NOAA/NWS, Davenport, IA; and R. A. Wolf, A. C. Young, B. M. Astifan, and T. C. Nock

11:15 AM

4.4a

Coffee Break in Poster Session Room

Joint Session 11

Internet Opportunities for Environmental Information (Joint with AWIPS and IIPS)

Sponsors: (Joint between the Interactive Symposium on AWIPS; and the 18th International Conference on IIPS )

Organizer: Donald R. Mock, NOAA/OAR/CDC

Papers:

10:30 AM

J11.1

Technologies used for customized dynamic web access to a unique collection of Arctic change time series

Willa H. Zhu, JISAO/Univ. of Washington, Seattle, WA; and J. E. Overland

Poster PDF (671.6 kB)

10:45 AM

J11.2

Using an interactive Java-based environment to facilitate visualization comprehension

Daniel J. Bramer, University of Illinois, Urbana, IL; and T. Scheitlin, R. Deardorff, D. Elliott, K. Hay, M. Marlino, D. Middleton, R. Pandya, M. Ramamurthy, M. Weingroff, and R. Wilhelmson

Poster PDF (345.8 kB)

11:00 AM

J11.3

Techniques for self-maintaining Web sites

Julia A. Collins, NOAA/CIRES/CDC, Univ. of Colorado, Boulder, CO

Poster PDF (65.2 kB)

11:15 AM

J11.4

The NOAA Research Hot Items web site: up-to-date communications within the NOAA Research facilities

Nancy N. Soreide, NOAA/ERL/PMEL, Seattle, WA; and E. F. Burger

Poster PDF (382.6 kB)

11:30 AM

J11.4a

Open Discussion

12:00 PM

J11.4b

Lunch Break

16

Interannual Variability III: Observational Studies

Sponsor: 13th Symposium on Global Change and Climate Variations

Organizer: Richard W. Reynolds, NOAA/NESDIS/NCDC

Papers:

10:30 AM

16.1

The interannual variability in the tropical Indian Ocean and its decadal modulation

Bohua Huang, COLA, Calverton, MD; and J. Shukla

Poster PDF (463.6 kB)

10:45 AM

16.2

Ongoing drought in southwest Asia: The role of large-scale climate variability and the tropical oceans

Mathew A. Barlow, International /Research Institute, Columbia University, Palisades, NY; and H. Cullen and B. Lyon

11:00 AM

16.3

Relationships between ENSO and the statistics of precipitation extremes in Brazil

Wei Shi, NOAA/NWS/NCEP/CPC, Camp Springs, MD; and R. W. Higgins and E. Yarosh

11:15 AM

16.4

Observations of Atlantic Convergence Zones by QuikSCAT and TRMM

Xiaosu Xie, JPL, Pasadena, CA; and W. T. Liu

11:30 AM

16.5

Sensitivity of the tropical atmospheric energy balance to ENSO-related SST changes: How well can we quantify hydrologic and radiative responses?

Franklin R. Robertson, NASA/MSFC, Huntsville, AL; and D. Fitzjarrald and B. J. Sohn

11:45 AM

16.6

The Response of Tropical Precipitation to ENSO

Wesley Berg, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO; and C. Kummerow

Poster PDF (251.4 kB)

16.7

Relationships between climate variability and the statistics of winter precipitation extremes in the United States

16.8

Impact of snow variability on the remote response to ENSO over North America

12:02 PM

16.9

Interannual variability of snowfall events and snowfall-to-liquid water amounts in Southwest Missouri

Anthony R. Lupo, University of Missouri, Columbia, MO; and D. Albert, R. Hearst, C. Allmeyer, and P. S. Market

Poster PDF (35.4 kB)

12:16 PM

16.10

Interdecadal variations in the Northern Hemisphere storm tracks

Edmund K. M. Chang, Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL

16.11

The climatology and interannual variability of satellite-observed precipitation in the Pan American region

12:31 PM

16.12

Global oceanic precipitation from 1948 to the present: A reconstruction of historical gauge observations

Pingping Xie, NOAA/NWS/NCEP/CPC, Camp Springs, MD; and M. Chen, J. E. Janowiak, P. A. Arkin, and T. M. Smith

Poster PDF (1.4 MB)

12:46 PM

16.13

Decadal variability in tropical Pacific climate

James Carton, University of Maryland, College Park, MD; and K. C. Mo

Poster PDF (14.1 kB)

1:01 PM

16.14

An investigation of the varying extratropical circulation response to ENSO warm events in the South Pacific

S. A. Harangozo, British Antarctic Survey, Cambridge, United Kingdom

1:16 PM

16.15

Putting the 1997�98 El Nino in historical perspective

N. K. Larkin, JISAO/Univ. of Washington, Seattle, WA; and D. E. Harrison

1:31 PM

16.6a

Lunch Break

3:00 PM

16.15a

Coffee Break

17

Walter Orr Roberts Lecture

Sponsor: 13th Symposium on Global Change and Climate Variations

Papers:

11:00 AM

17.1

Changes in Tropical Ocean Circulation Related to Pacific Decadal Climate Variability

Michael J. McPhaden, NOAA/PMEL, Seattle, WA

Lunch Break

Joint Session 3

Joint session with the Sixth Symposium on Integrated Observing Systems and the Symposium on Observations, Data Assimilation, and Probabilistic Prediction

Sponsors: (Joint between the Symposium on Observations, Data Assimilation, and Probabilistic Prediction; and the Sixth Symposium on Integrated Observing Systems )

Organizer: Kenneth Mylne, Met Office

Papers:

1:30 PM

J3.1

Automation of visual observations at KNMI; (i) Comparison of present weather

Wiel M. F. Wauben, KNMI, De Bilt, Netherlands

Poster PDF (990.4 kB)

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

Poster PDF (727.6 kB)

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

Poster PDF (644.0 kB)

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

Poster PDF (5.5 MB)

7

strategies for adaptive observations

Sponsor: Symposium on Observations, Data Assimilation, and Probabilistic Prediction

Organizer: Herschell Mitchell, MSC

Papers:

1:30 PM

7.1

Adaptive observations at NCEP: Past, present, and future

Zoltan Toth, NOAA/NWS/NCEP/EMC, Camp Spring, MD; and I. Szunyogh, C. H. Bishop, S. J. Majumdar, R. Morss, J. Moskaitis, D. Reynolds, D. Weinbrenner, D. Michaud, N. Surgi, M. Ralph, J. Parrish, J. Talbot, J. Pavone, and S. J. Lord

http://sgi62.wwb.noaa.gov:8080/ens/enshome.html

Poster PDF (1.4 MB)

1:45 PM

7.2

Using Large Member Ensembles to Isolate Local Low Dimensionality of Atmospheric Dynamics

D. J. Patil, University of Maryland, College Park, MD; and I. Szunyogh, E. Kalnay, B. R. Hunt, E. Ott, and J. A. Yorke

Poster PDF (4.3 MB)

2:00 PM

7.3

On the dynamical basis of targeting weather observations

Istvan Szunyogh, University of Maryland, College Park, MD; and A. V. Zimin, D. J. Patil, B. R. Hunt, E. Kalnay, J. A. Yorke, and E. Ott

Poster PDF (2.1 MB)

2:15 PM

7.4

Singular vectors and observation targeting

Martin Leutbecher, CNRM, Toulouse, France; and T. N. Palmer and A. J. Thorpe

2:30 PM

7.5

Optimal Observations for Variational Data Assimilation

Armin G. Koehl, SIO/Univ. of California, La Jolla, CA; and D. Stammer

2:45 PM

7.6

Drifter launch strategies based on dynamic Lagrangian templates

M. Toner, University of Delaware, Newark, DE; and A. C. Poje, A. D. Kirwan, Jr., and C. K. R. T. Jones

3:00 PM

7.7

Quantifying the impact of observations using ensembles

Brian J. Etherton, University of Miami, Miami, FL; and S. J. Majumdar and C. H. Bishop

3:15 PM

7.8

The Role of Observing-System Representativeness Error in the Predictability of Extratropical Weather Events (Formerly paper number 2.5)

Melvyn A. Shapiro, NOAA/ETL, Boulder, CO; and M. Leutbecher

3:30 PM

7.8a

Symposium Ends

Joint Session 12

Using the Internet to Enhance Product Delivery and Decision Making (Joint with AWIPS and IIPS)

Sponsors: (Joint between the Interactive Symposium on AWIPS; and the 18th International Conference on IIPS )

Organizer: Alan E. Gerard, NOAA/NWS

Papers:

1:30 PM

J12.1

AWIPS Applications Used in a Web Based River and Flood Information Dissemination System

William Schneider, NOAA/NWS, Portland, OR; and A. Bryant

1:45 PM

J12.2

Disseminating forecasts in areas of complex terrain through a WEB based interface

Paul Flatt, NOAA/NWS, Tucson, AZ; and G. Sampson

Poster PDF (292.6 kB)

2:00 PM

J12.3

Applying AWIPS technology to the Prototyping and Aviation Collaboration Effort (PACE)

Dennis M. Rodgers, NOAA/ERL/FSL, Boulder, CO

Poster PDF (62.1 kB)

J12.4

Dissemination of Weather Graphics at NWS Corpus Christi

2:30 PM

J12.5

FX-Net National: A non-localized Internet-based meteorological workstation

Sean Madine, NOAA/FSL, and CIRA/Colorado State University, Boulder, CO; and N. Wang, E. Polster, J. Pyle, and R. Brummer

Poster PDF (108.7 kB)

2:45 PM

J12.6

Graphical weather products at the Newport/Morehead City NC National Weather Service (NWS) Forecast Office

Carin G. Goodall-Gosnell, NOAA/NWS, Moorehead, NC

http://www.nws.noaa.gov/er/mhx/cgg/j126.htm

Poster PDF (375.4 kB)

3:00 PM

J12.6a

Exhibit Hours 3:00�6:15 P.M

3:01 PM

J12.6b

Coffee Break in Exhibit Hall

3:30 PM

J12.6c

Open Discussion

4:00 PM

J12.6d

Concluding Remarks

13

Information Technology�Futures for Atmospheric and Oceanographic Sciences

Sponsor: 18th International Conference on IIPS

Organizers: David Blaskovich, IBM; Terry Tarbell, RS Information Systems

Papers:

1:30 PM

13.1

FUTURE REQUIREMENTS OF ADVANCED TECHNOLOGY BY ATMOSPHERIC AND OCEANOGRAPHIC SCIENCES

Anthony Hollingsworth, ECMWF, Reading, Berks., United Kingdom

1:45 PM

13.2

HIGH PERFORMANCE COMPUTING TECHNOLOGY AND ARCHITECTURES

Al Kellie, NCAR, Boulder, CO; and D. Huff

2:15 PM

13.3

HIGH VOLUME DATA SERVERS

Dominique Marbouty, ECMWF, Reading, Berks., United Kingdom; and W. Zwieflhofer

13.4

Software Tools

3:00 PM

13.5

Visualization

Lloyd A. Treinish, IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center, Yorktown Heights, NY

3:30 PM

13.6

Communications

Phil Luzbetak, SpaceCom Systems' Chicago International Teleport, Monee, IL

3:45 PM

13.2a

Web services for weather models

David Huff, FNMOC, Monterey, CA; and O. Kiselyov

4:00 PM

13.3a

Coffee Break in the Exhibit Hall

4:29 PM

13.3b

Exhibit Hours 3:00�6:15

Joint Session 9

Applications in Hydrology and Water Resource Management (Joint with the 16th Conference on Hydrology and the Third Symposium on Environmental Applications)

Sponsors: (Joint between the Third Symposium on Environmental Applications; and the 16th Conference on Hydrology )

Organizer: Nick Keener, Duke Energy

Papers:

1:30 PM

J9.1

A comparison of recent large-scale floods in the north-central U.S.: climatology, impacts, mitigation, and the value of improved predictions

Michael A. Palecki, ISWS, Champaign, IL

J9.2

A Reanalysis of the National Flood Loss Database

2:00 PM

J9.3

A qualitative comparison between the temporal variation of streamflow index and solar flux level

Phillip A. Zuzolo, Autometric Incorporated, A Boeing Company, Springfield, VA; and A. M. Powell Jr., B. J. Zuzolo, G. N. Greene, and S. G. Hoffert

2:15 PM

J9.4

Agricultural water resources decision support system and evapotranspiration toolbox

Curtis L. Hartzell, U.S. Bureau of Reclamation, Denver, CO; and L. A. Brower and S. Hansen

http://www.usbr.gov/rsmg/nexrad

Poster PDF (350.0 kB)

2:30 PM

J9.5

A Simple Approach to Increasing Usefulness of Forecasts

John D. Wiener, Univ. of Colorado, Boulder, CO

2:45 PM

J9.6

Application of a coupled atmospheric-hydrologic prediction system for hydropower operations

Pascal Storck, University of Washington, Seattle, WA; and K. J. Westrick, C. F. Mass, and W. Cheng

3:00 PM

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Use of Seasonal Climate Forecast for Water Resources Management in the Tennessee River

L. Ruby Leung, PNNL, Richland, WA; and M. S. Wigmosta and L. W. Vail

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Visual Flood Modeling of Dam Breaks

Steven G. Hoffert, Autometric Incorporated, A Boeing Company, Springfield, VA; and A. T. Perlik, P. A. Zuzolo, A. M. Powell Jr., R. W. Kennedy, B. Zuzolo, M. L. Pearce, and G. N. Greene

3:30 PM

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Intensive simulation periods (ISPs) to improve seasonal predictions of precipitation over south central Kansas and north central Oklahoma

James R. Stalker, LANL, Los Alamos, NM

3:45 PM

J9.10

Assessing the state of drought in the U.S

Karin L. Gleason, NOAA/NESDIS/NCDC, Asheville, NC; and R. R. Heim Jr., S. E. Stephens, and J. H. Lawrimore

4:00 PM

J9.11

The Development of a Drought Management Plan for Rhode Island: Including an Analysis of Local Drought Characteristics

Joseph W. Dellicarpini, NOAA/NWSFO, Taunton, MA; and D. R. Vallee and C. A. Farely

Poster PDF (99.2 kB)

4:15 PM

J9.12

A blueprint for the use of NOAA/CPC precipitation climate forecasts in agricultural applications

Jeanne M. Schneider, USDA/ARS, El Reno, OK; and J. D. Garbrecht

4:30 PM

J9.13

The Sierra Weather & Avalanche Center

Elizabeth J. Carter, Firnspiegel LLC, Kings Beach, California

http://www.firnspiegel.com/swac_home.html

Poster PDF (1.8 MB)

4:45 PM

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5:14 PM

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Coffee Break in Exhibit Hall

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Conference Ends

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16

Interannual Variability III: Observational Studies, cont.

Sponsor: 13th Symposium on Global Change and Climate Variations

Organizer: Thomas C. Peterson, NOAA/NCDC

Papers:

3:30 PM

16.16

Wind speed and direction analyses for a group of southeast surface stations

Allen H. Weber, Savannah River Technology Center, Aiken, SC; and R. L. Buckley, M. J. Parker, and M. E. Brown

3:45 PM

16.17

A Soil Moisture Analysis of the Drought of 1998 using the Oklahoma Mesonet

Brad G. Illston, Oklahoma Climatological Survey, University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK; and J. B. Basara and K. C. Crawford

4:00 PM

16.18

Intra- to multidecadal (IMD) climate variability over the continental United States: 1932�1999

Steven A. Mauget, USDA/ARS, Lubbock, TX; and D. R. Upchurch

4:15 PM

16.19

The Diurnal Cycle of Dew Point Across Oklahoma's Winter Wheat Belt

Matthew J. Haugland, University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK; and K. C. Crawford

Poster PDF (5.5 MB)

Conference Ends

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Conference Ends

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Symposium Ends

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