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Saturday, 8 February 2003
	7:30 AM-9:00 AM, Saturday Short Course Registration
	9:00 AM-5:00 PM, Saturday Conference Registration* (Joint between the 19th Conference on IIPS, the Impacts of Water Variability: Benefits and Challenges, the Observing and Understanding the Variability of Water in Weather and Climate, the 17TH Conference on Hydrology, the 14th Symposium on Global Change and Climate Variations, the 12th Conference on Interactions of the Sea and Atmosphere, the 12th Symposium on Meteorological Observations and Instrumentation, the 12th Symposium on Education, the 12th Conference on Satellite Meteorology and Oceanography, the 7th Symposium on IOS: The Water Cycle, the 5th Conference on Atmospheric Chemistry: Gases, Aerosols, and Clouds, the 3rd Conference on Artificial Intelligence Applications to the Environmental Science, and the Symposium on the F-Scale and Severe-Weather Damage Assessment)
Sunday, 9 February 2003
	7:30 AM-9:00 AM, Sunday Short Course Registration
	9:00 AM-6:00 PM, Sunday Conference Registration
Monday, 10 February 2003
	7:30 AM-5:30 PM, Monday Conference Registration (continues through Thursday, 13 February)
	9:00 AM-9:15 AM, Monday Keynote Session In Memory of Dr Tim Crawford NOAA/ARL Idaho Falls
Organizer: Jerry H. Crescenti, NOAA/ERL/ARL, Idaho Falls, ID
9:00 AM In Memory of Dr. Timothy L. Crawford, NOAA Air Resources Laboratory Field Research Division, Idaho Falls, Idaho   Jerry H Crescenti, NOAA/ERL/ARL, Idaho Falls, ID
	9:15 AM-9:59 AM, Monday Session 1 Aircraft Measurements (This session is dedicated to Dr. Tim Crawford: NOAA/ARL Idaho Falls)
Organizer: Jerry H. Crescenti, NOAA/ERL/ARL, Idaho Falls, ID
9:15 AM 1.1 Aircraft Measurements of Turbulence: Length Scales, Spectra, Budgets, and the Prediction Problem   Owen R. Cote, Air Force Research Labortory, Hanscom AFB, MA; and J. R. Roadcap, D. E. Wroblewski, R. J. Dobosy, and T. L. Crawford 1.2 Aircraft-Measured Fluxes of N2O Using the Relaxed Eddy Accumulation Technique   J. I. MacPherson, Institute for Aerospace Research, National Research Council of Canada, Ottawa, ON, Canada; and R. L. Desjardins, E. Pattey, and D. J. Pennock 9:29 AM 1.3 Refractive turbulence in the upper troposhere and lower stratosphere: analysis of aircraft measurements using structure functions   Donald Wroblewski, Boston University, Boston, MA; and O. R. Cote, J. M. Hacker, T. L. Crawford, and R. J. Dobosy 9:44 AM 1.4 Airborne wind lidar to evaluate air/ocean exchanges at high wind speeds   G. David Emmitt, Simpson Weather Associates, Inc., Charlottesville, VA; and C. O'Handley
	10:15 AM-10:45 AM, Monday Coffee Break in Poster Session Room
	10:45 AM-11:15 AM, Monday Session 2 Aircraft Measurements Past and Present (This session is dedicated to Dr. Tim Crawford: NOAA/ARL Idaho Falls)
Organizer: Jeff Stith, NCAR, Boulder, CO
10:45 AM 2.1 Another look at the Sierra Wave Project: Fifty years later   Vanda Grubisic, DRI, Reno, NV; and J. Lewis 11:00 AM 2.2 Future environmental measurement opportunities with HIAPER, the new NSF/NCAR research platform   Krista Laursen, NCAR, Boulder, CO; and R. Friesen and D. Carlson
	11:15 AM, Monday Panel Discussion 1 Open Discussion on Aircraft Measurements: How far have we come?
Organizer: Jerry H Crescenti, NOAA/ERL/ARL, Idaho Falls, ID
	12:00 PM, Monday Lunch Break
	1:30 PM-2:30 PM, Monday Session 3 Improved Weather Measurement Systems
Organizer: Daniel E. Wolfe, NOAA/ETL, Boulder, CO
1:30 PM 3.1 The 21st Century’s Airport Weather Reporting System   Patrick L. Kelly, Coastal Environmental Systems, Seattle, WA; and G. L. Stringer, E. Tseo, D. M. Ellefson, M. Lydon, and D. Buckshnis 1:45 PM 3.2 The Development of the Canadian Aircraft Meteorological Data Relay (AMRAD) Program - An Update   Gilles Fournier, Environment Canada, Ottawa, ON, Canada 2:00 PM 3.3 Advances in tethered balloon sounding technology   Ronald A. Shellhorn, Vaisala, Boulder, CO 2:15 PM 3.4 A New Tall-Tower Meteorological Monitoring System   Matthew J. Parker, Westinghouse Savannah River Company, Aiken, SC
	2:30 PM, Monday Formal Poster Viewing with Coffee Break
	2:30 PM, Monday Poster Session 1 Posters
P1.1 A new reference radiosonde for precise upper air measurements   William H. Bauman III, Yankee Environmental Systems, Inc, Turners Falls, MA; and W. M. Stein and M. C. Beaubien   P1.2 The Importance of Recording Pre-launch Radiosonde Data   Kathryn Beierle, NCAR, Boulder, CO; and J. Wang and E. Chamberlain   P1.3 Developing a model for transitioning radiosondes in the NWS upper air network   Joseph Facundo, NOAA/NWS, Silver Spring, MD   P1.4 Intercomparison of three sounding techniques employed during the EPIC2001 field program   Allen J. Schanot, NCAR, Boulder, CO   P1.5 Flying into Typhoon Haiyan with UAV Aerosonde   Po-Hsiung Lin, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan; and C. S. Lee, T. C. Yen, and H. C. Lee   P1.6 Completing instrument metadata and adjusting biases in the radiosonde record to allow determination of global precipitable water trends   Steven R. Schroeder, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX   P1.7 The Impact of Nearby Structures and Trees on Sigma Theta Measurements   Thomas E. Bellinger, Illinois Department of Nuclear Safety, Springfield, IL   P1.8 A comparison of winds measured by a 915 MHz wind profiling radar and a Doppler lidar   William J. Shaw, PNNL, Richland, WA; and L. S. Darby and R. M. Banta   P1.9 Rainfall Estimates over South America   Galdino V. Mota, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT; and E. Zipser and B. Xi   P1.10 Observations of the meteorology of two Nevada basins   Stephen A. Cohn, NCAR, Boulder, CO; and J. Hallett, J. Lewis, and W. O. J. Brown   P1.11 The Oklahoma Mesonet's Skin Temperature Network   Chris Fiebrich, Oklahoma Climatological Survey, Norman, OK; and J. E. Martinez, J. L. Brotzge, and J. M. Basara   P1.12 A station density strategy for the United States Climate Reference Network (USCRN)   Michael J. Janis, Southeast Regional Climate Center, Columbia, SC; and K. G. Hubbard and K. T. Redmond   P1.13 Development of a climatological database for dryland agricultural research   H. Scott Oviatt, USDA/ARS, Pendleton, OR   P1.14 A comparison of fractional cloud cover determinations by a sky imager with visual estimations by trained National Weather Service observers   Gary B. Hodges, CIRES/Univ. of Colorado, Boulder, CO; and J. A. Augustine   P1.15 Adopting a statewide surface meteorological network for developing a hands-On instrumentation course at North Carolina State University   Dev dutta S. Niyogi, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC; and V. K. Saxena   P1.16 Calibration issues using impact disdrometers for calibration of Doppler radar profilers   Wallace L. Clark, NOAA/AL, Boulder, CO; and K. S. Gage, D. A. Carter, C. R. Williams, P. E. Johnston, and A. Tokay   P1.17 Comprehensive Relationship between Atmospheric-Land Surface Interaction for Energy, Water Vapor fluxes over Tropical Asian Monsoon Environment   Toda Motomu, Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, Inashiki-gun, Ibaraki, Japan; and N. Ohte, Y. Kosugi, and T. Watanabe   P1.18 Operation of a Mobile Wind Profiler in Severe Clutter Environments   J. R. Jordan, ETL/NOAA, Boulder, CO; and J. L. Leach and D. E. Wolfe   P1.19 Multi-instrument wind comparisons from the EPIC 2001 field experiment   Michelle N. Ryan, Science & Technology Corporation, Boulder, CO; and D. E. Wolfe and J. Intrieri   P1.20 A new data acquisition system for the U.S. Army FM-CW radar: still a great way to see half-meter resolution   Scott A. McLaughlin, Applied Technologies, Inc., Longmont, CO   P1.21 Development and evaluation of an extensive calibration procedure for UV filter radiometers   Alexander Los, Kipp & Zonen BV, Delft, Netherlands   P1.22 A new automated method of MFRSR-based optical depth analysis   John A. Augustine, NOAA/ARL, Boulder, CO; and C. I. Medina   P1.23 Total wind—a new approach for airport wind field analysis   Juhani A Polvinen, Vaisala OYJ, Helsinki, Finland   P1.24 A Quick Deployment Airfield Automated Weather Display System   Timothy Edward Parker, Coastal Environmental Systems, Seattle, WA   P1.25 A rapid meteorological response capability for emergency management   Mark C. Beaubien, Yankee Environmental Systems, Inc, Turners Falls, MA; and W. H. Bauman and D. C. Sautter P1.26 Comparison of Wind Speed Data at Two Nearby Sites Using Different Measurement Systems   Eldewins M. Haynes, Duke Energy Corporation, Charlotte, NC   P1.27 RETRIVAL AND VALIDATION OF THE REFRACTIVE INDEX STRUCTURE FUNCTION FROM 50MHz RADAR DATA   Elizabeth A. Boll, AFRL, Kirtland AFB, NM; and R. J. Lefevre and S. A. Early
	4:00 PM-4:45 PM, Monday Session 4 Improved Weather Measurement Techniques
Organizer: Chuck Wade, NCAR/RAP, Boulder, CO
4:00 PM 4.1 A low-power electric-field meter with reciprocating shutter   Jody A. Swenson, Campbell Scientific, Inc., Logan, UT; and L. G. Byerley, W. H. Beasley, and I. G. Bogoev 4:15 PM 4.2 Fischer-Porter rain gauge upgrade   Eric Tseo, Coastal Environmental Systems, Seattle, WA 4:30 PM 4.3 New Vaisala RS92 GPS Radiosonde offers high level of performance and GPS wind data availability   Jaakko Hirvensalo, Vaisala, Helsinki, Finland; and J. Währn and H. Jauhianen
	4:45 PM, Monday Panel Discussion 2 Open Discussion on New/Improved Measurement Systems and Techniques
Organizer: Chuck Wade, NCAR, Boulder, CO
	5:30 PM, Monday Sessions End for the Day
	5:30 PM-7:30 PM, Monday Formal Opening of Exhibits with Reception (Cash Bar)
Tuesday, 11 February 2003
	8:30 AM-9:30 AM, Tuesday Session 5 Meteorological Measurement Networks I
Organizer: Kevin R. Durkee, South Coast Air Quality Management District, Diamond Bar, CA
8:30 AM 5.1 Measurement and modeling soil moisture in a statewide meteorological network in North Carolina   Dev dutta S. Niyogi, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC; and S. Raman, A. Syed, R. C. Gilliam, and R. P. Boyles 8:45 AM 5.2 A New Composite Observing System Strategy for Ground based GPS Meteorology   Seth I. Gutman, NOAA/FSL, Boulder, CO; and S. Sahm, J. Stewart, S. Benjamin, T. Smith, and B. Schwartz 9:00 AM 5.3 Simulations of Spatial and Temporal Variations of Electric Field at the Surface Beneath Thunderstorms (as would be measured by a network of electric-field meters)   Frank W. Gallagher III, University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK; and W. H. Beasley, A. R. Bansemer, L. G. Byerley, J. A. Swenson, and I. G. Bogoev 9:15 AM 5.4 United States Climate Reference Network (USCRN) precipitation intercomparison study   C. Bruce Baker, NOAA/NESDIS/NCDC, Asheville, NC; and M. Gifford
	9:45 AM-11:00 AM, Tuesday Formal Poster Viewing With Coffee Break
	11:00 AM-12:15 PM, Tuesday Session 6 Meteorological Networks Quality Control and Assurance
Organizer: Robert A. Baxter, T&B Systems, Inc., Valencia, CA
11:00 AM 6.1 Monitoring the Health of Observing Networks   Thomas C. Peterson, NOAA/NESDIS/NCDC, Asheville, NC; and H. Frederick and J. H. Lawrimore 11:15 AM 6.2 Automated Quality Control of Atmospheric Radiation Measurement Program (ARM) Data from the Southern Great Plains (SGP), North Slope Alaska (NSA), and Tropical Western Pacific (TWP) Cloud and Radiation Testbed (CART) Sites   Karen L. Sonntag, University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK; and A. R. Dean, C. M. Shafer, R. A. Peppler, and C. P. Bahrmann 11:30 AM 6.3 The feasability of field transformation functions for air humidity measurements   X. Lin, University of Nebraska, Lincoln, NE; and K. G. Hubbard and C. B. Baker 11:45 AM 6.4 Climate Reference Network Site Reconnaissance: Lessons Learned and Relearned   Kelly T. Redmond, DRI, Reno, NV; and M. J. Janis and K. G. Hubbard 12:00 PM 6.5 Quality assurance audit program for surface and upper air meteorological measurements in the South Coast Air Basin of California   Robert A. Baxter, T&B Systems, Inc., Valencia, CA; and D. L. Yoho and K. R. Durkee
	12:15 PM, Tuesday Lunch Break
	1:30 PM-2:15 PM, Tuesday Session 7 Meteorological Measurement Networks II
Organizers: John A. Augustine, NOAA/ARL, Boulder, CO; C. Bruce Baker, NOAA/NESDIS/NCDC, Asheville, NC
1:30 PM 7.1 Weather System Upgrades to Support Space Launch at the Eastern Range and Kennedy Space Center   D. E. Harms, 45th Weather Squadron, Patrick AFB, FL; and B. F. Boyd, F. C. Flinn, T. M. McNamara, J. T. Madura, T. L. Wilfong, and P. R. Conant 1:45 PM 7.2 The Representativeness of Skin Temperature Measurements at Oklahoma Mesonet Sites   Jeffrey B. Basara, Oklahoma Climatological Survey and Univ. of Oklahoma, Norman, OK; and D. R. Cheresnick and P. K. Hall 2:00 PM 7.3 Operations of the joint USDA/OCE/WAOB and MSU/DREC Agricultural Weather and Data Center   Thomas Puterbaugh, USDA/NRCS/WAOB, Washington, DC; and R. P. Motha, G. L. Schaefer, T. B. Freeland, H. C. Pringle, and H. L. Crowley
	2:15 PM, Tuesday Panel Discussion 3 Open Discussion on Meteorological Measurement Networks: Climate monitoring implications?
Organizer: C. Bruce Baker, NOAA/NESDIS/NCDC, Asheville, NC
	3:30 PM-4:00 PM, Tuesday Coffee Break in Exhibit Hall (Exhibits open 1:30–6:30)
	3:30 PM-4:45 PM, Tuesday Session 8 Radiosonde Upper-Air Measurements
Organizer: Donald E. Lehrman, Technology & Business Systems, Santa Rosa, CA
3:30 PM 8.1 Corrected TOGA-COARE sounding humidity data: impact on climate and convection over the warm pool   Richard H. Johnson, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO; and P. E. Ciesielski 3:45 PM 8.2 Technique for verifying radiosonde solar radiation correction algorithm   James Fitzgibbons, NOAA/NWS, Silver Spring, MD; and J. Facundo 4:00 PM 8.3 FLIGHT TEMPERATURE COMPARISONS BETWEEN THE NASA THREE THERMISTOR REFERENCE RADIOSONDE AND THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE QUALIFIED GPS RADIOSONDES   Carl A. Bower Jr., NOAA/NWS, Silver Spring, MD; and J. J. Fitzgibbon 8.4 The radiation error of radiosonde thermistors determined from the ATM radiosonde   Francis J Schmidlin, NASA/GSFC/Wallops Flight Facility, Wallops Island, VA; and A. G. Schauer 4:15 PM 8.5 Progress in improving upper air moisture measurements over the UK   John Nash, Met Ofiice, Wokingham, Berks, United Kingdom; and T. Oakley and C. Gaffard 4:30 PM 8.6 Update on the implementation of the National Weather Service's Radiosonde Replacement System   Joseph Facundo, NOAA/NWS, Silver Spring, MD
	5:00 PM-5:30 PM, Tuesday Special Address. Conrad C. Lautenbacher, NOAA, Washington, DC
	5:00 PM, Tuesday Sessions End for the Day
Wednesday, 12 February 2003
	8:30 AM-9:30 AM, Wednesday Session 9 Remote Sensing Measurement Intercomparisons
Organizer: Allen B. White, NOAA/ETL, Boulder, CO
8:30 AM 9.1 Turbulence dissipation rate measured by 915 MHz wind profiling radars compared with in-situ tower and aircraft data   William J. Shaw, PNNL, Richland, WA; and M. A. LeMone 8:45 AM 9.2 Moisture comparisons using AIRS, GPS, and radiosondes   Larry M. McMillin, NOAA/NESDIS, Camp Springs, MD 9:00 AM 9.3 Comparisons of LDAR network height and density data with WSR-88D echo top and SCIT reflectivity data   Nicholas W. S. Demetriades, Vaisala-GAI Inc., Tucson, AZ; and R. L. Holle and M. J. Murphy 9:15 AM 9.4 Shipboard Wind Profiler Observations NOAA R/V Ronald H. Brown   Daniel E. Wolfe, NOAA/ERL/ETL, Boulder, CO; and M. Falls and M. Ryan
	9:30 AM-10:00 AM, Wednesday Coffee Break in the Ballroom Foyer, 2nd Level, Promenade
	10:00 AM-12:00 PM, Wednesday Presidential Forum: Administration Priorities in Climate Change Research and Technology
	12:00 PM, Wednesday Lunch Break
	1:30 PM, Wednesday Simpsons Symposium—A Tribute to Robert and Joanne Simpson
	1:30 PM-3:00 PM, Wednesday Session 10 Remote Sensing Measurements: Observations and Applications I
Organizer: Stephen A. Cohn, NCAR, Boulder, CO
1:30 PM 10.1 Ground based sky dome pictures generated by infrared spectrometric data   Thierry Besnard, LPEC/CNRS, Le Havre, Normandy, France; and D. Gillotay, F. Zanghi, L. Berger, and I. Labaye 1:45 PM 10.2 Application of wind profiles from UV Lidar in nowcasting for Mauna Kea Observatories   Steven Businger, University of Hawaii; and I. Dors, S. Turco, J. McHugh, J. Ryan, T. Cherubini, J. B. Moore, C. Nardell, and P. Hays 2:00 PM 10.3 Mobile Integrated Profiling System (MIPS) observations of boundary layer and water vapor variations around boundaries and storms   Kevin Knupp, University of Alabama, Huntsville, AL 2:15 PM 10.4 NCAR Integrated Sounding System Observations at IHOP   William O. J. Brown, NCAR, Boulder, CO; and J. O. Pinto, T. Y. Yu, D. B. Parsons, and T. Weckwerth 2:30 PM 10.5 Preliminary performance characteristics of a 28 m2 aperture—449 MHz wind profiling radar   Herb Winston, Vaisala Incorporated, Boulder, CO; and D. E. Wolfe 2:45 PM 10.6 A Low-powered S-band Precipitation Profiler for Hydrological Applications   Kenneth S. Gage, NOAA/AL, Boulder, CO; and W. L. Ecklund, W. L. Clark, D. A. Carter, C. R. Williams, and P. E. Johnston
	3:00 PM-3:30 PM, Wednesday Coffee Break in Exhibit Hall (Exhibits open 1:30–7:30P.M.)
	3:30 PM-4:30 PM, Wednesday Session 11 Remote Sensing Measurements: Observations and Applications II
Organizer: Kenneth S. Gage, NOAA/AL, Boulder, CO
3:30 PM 11.1 Observations of temporal and spatial variability of ozone during the Texas Air Quality Study 2000   William J. Shaw, PNNL, Richland, WA; and E. G. Chapman 3:45 PM 11.2 Experimental extension of the measurement range of a boundary layer wind profiler to about 9 km   P. W. Chan, Hong Kong Observatory, Hong Kong, China; and K. K. Yeung 4:00 PM 11.3 Calibration of Scanning Radars Using Vertically Pointing Profilers and Surface Disdrometers   Christopher R. Williams, CIRES/Univ. of Colorado, Boulder, CO; and P. E. Johnston, W. L. Clark, K. S. Gage, D. A. Carter, and P. A. Kucera 4:15 PM 11.4 Remote Sensing of the Planetary Boundary Layer by GPS Occultations   George A. Hajj, JPL, Pasadena, CA; and C. O. Ao, E. R. Kursinski, B. A. Iijima, T. K. Meehan, and M. de la Torre Juarez
	4:30 PM, Wednesday Panel Discussion 4 Open Discussion Remote Sensing: New retrieval methods? Are we headed in the right direction?
Organizers: Stephen A. Cohn, NCAR, Boulder, CO; Daniel E. Wolfe, NOAA/ETL, Boulder, CO; Allen B. White, Environmental Technology Laboratory, Boulder, CO
	5:30 PM, Wednesday Sessions End for the Day
	6:00 PM-7:30 PM, Wednesday Reception (Cash Bar)
	7:30 PM-9:30 PM, Wednesday AMS Annual Awards Banquet
Thursday, 13 February 2003
	8:30 AM-12:15 PM, Thursday Joint Session 9 Satellite Measurements: Hydrological Impact and Land Surface Data Assimilation (Joint with the 17th Conference on Hydrology and the 12th Symposium on Meteorological Observations and Instrumentation
Organizer: Ana P. Barros, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA
8:30 AM J9.1 Use of Satellite Data Assimilation to Infer Land Surface Thermal Inertia   William M. Lapenta, NASA/MSFC, Huntsville, AL; and R. McNider, A. Pour Biazar, R. Suggs, G. Jedlovec, and S. Dembek 8:45 AM J9.2 Toward the real-time observation of hydrologic land surface fluxes from space: Data assimilation using the ensemble Kalman filter   Steven A. Margulis, MIT, Cambridge, MA; and D. Entekhabi, D. McLaughlin, and S. Dunne 9:00 AM J9.3 Integration of spaceborne precipitation and surface brightness temperature measurements using an Ensemble Kalman filter   Wade T. Crow, USDA/ARS, Beltsville, MD 9:15 AM J9.4 Assessing the impact of horizontal error correlations in forcing data   Rolf H. Reichle, NASA/GSFC, Greenbelt, MD; and R. D. Koster 9:30 AM J9.5 Modeling Multiyear Surface Evapotranspiration with Remote Sensing Data   Marvin L. Wesely, ANL, Argonne, IL; and J. Song 9:45 AM Formal Poster Viewing with Coffee Break   11:00 AM J9.6 Enhancing the validation of remote sensing data   Michael P. Crane, USGS, Sioux Falls, SD; and T. DeFelice 11:15 AM J9.7 Detection of water vapor profiles and thin moisture layers from atmospheric radio occultations   Manuel de la Torre Juárez, JPL/Caltech, Pasadena, CA; and P. M. Nilsson 11:30 AM J9.8 Comparison of SeaWinds scatterometer data with a hydrologic process model for the assessment of snow melt dynamics   Venkataramana Rao Sridhar, University of Washington, Seattle, WA; and K. C. McDonald and D. P. Lettenmaier 11:45 AM J9.9 Assimilation of Near-surface Soil Moisture Into the Three Layer Variable Infiltration Capacity Land-surface Model   Laura M. Parada, University of California, Berkeley, CA; and X. Liang 12:00 PM J9.10 The Validation of a Land Data Assimilation System (LDAS) Using Oklahoma Mesonet Data   Kodi Lynn Nemunaitis, Oklahoma Climate Survey and University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK; and J. B. Basara
	9:00 AM, Thursday Simpsons Symposium—A Tribute to Robert and Joanne Simpson
	9:45 AM, Thursday Formal Poster Viewing with Coffee Break
	12:15 PM-1:30 PM, Thursday Lunch Break
	1:30 PM-2:45 PM, Thursday Session 14 Surface Hydrological Measurements
Organizer: Kenneth G. Wastrack, Tennessee Valley Authority, Muscle Shoals, AL
1:30 PM 14.1 Integration of humidity fluctuation sensors into the Lindenberg boundary layer measurement facilities: Experiences, problems, and future requirements   Ulrich Weisensee, German Weather Service, Tauche, Germany; and F. Beyrich and J. P. Leps 1:45 PM 14.2 Preliminary results from a field comparison of relative humidity sensors   K. G. Hubbard, University of Nebraska, Lincoln, NE; and X. Lin, K. Robbins, C. B. Baker, and R. Fontenot 2:00 PM 14.3 A new low maintenance dew point sensor for the National Weather Service Automated Surface Observing System   Jennifer M. Dover, NOAA/NWS, Sterling, VA; and B. Childs 2:15 PM 14.4 Detecting Ice Pellets, Snow Pellets and Hail on ASOS using an Acoustic Sensor   Charles G. Wade, NCAR, Boulder, CO 2:30 PM 14.5 Field Studies of a Vibrating-Wire Precipitation Gauge   Claude E. Duchon, University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK; and C. G. Wade and J. A. Cole
	3:00 PM, Thursday Coffee Break in Exhibit Hall (Exhibit Hall open 1:30-6:30 p.m.)
	3:30 PM-4:30 PM, Thursday Session 15 Surface Measurements
Organizer: Paul M. Fransioli, J3AQM, LLC, Las Vegas, NV
15.1 Comparison of Wind Speed Data at Two Nearby Sites Using Identical Measurement Systems   Eldewins M. Haynes, Duke Energy Corporation, Charlotte, NC 3:30 PM 15.2 A National Temperature Record at Loma, Montana   Andrew H. Horvitz, NOAA/NWS, Silver Spring, MD; and S. Stephens, M. Helfert, G. Goodge, K. T. Redmond, K. Pomeroy, and E. Kurdy 3:44 PM 15.3 Observations and conclusions from the surface layer stability transition experiments   Gail-Tirrell Vaucher, Army Research Laboratory, WSMR, NM 3:59 PM 15.4 How Meteorological Standards Can Help You   Paul M. Fransioli, J3AQM, LLC, Las Vegas, NV 4:14 PM 15.5 Visibility Sensor Accuracy: What's Realistic?   John D. Crosby, Enviro Tech Sensors Inc., Clarksville, MD
	4:45 PM, Thursday Conference Ends
	5:30 PM, Thursday Closing Reception in Exhibit Hall (Cash Bar)
	6:00 PM, Thursday Simpsons Banquet
	8:00 PM-10:00 PM, Thursday Closing Event at the Long Beach Aquarium on the Pacific

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