Session 1 |
| | Global Meteorological and Hydrological Services Update |
| | Organizers: Jimmie Smith, Meteoquest, Inc., Bedford, NH; Fredrick R. Branski, NOAA/NWS, Silver Spring, MD
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| 9:00 AM | 1.0a | Welcoming Remarks
Terry Tarbell, RS Information Systems, McLean, VA and Jimmie Smith, Meteoquest, Inc., Bedford, NH |
| 9:15 AM | 1.1 | Keynote Address: Global Hydrological Services (Invited Presentation)
Datius G. Rutashobya, WMO Commission for Hydrology, Dar Es Salaam, Tanzania |
| 9:45 AM | 1.2 | U.S. Navy Weather/Oceanographic Services Update (Invited Presentation)
Thomas Quinton Donaldson V, Naval Meteorology and Oceanography Command, Stennis Space Center, MS |
| 10:15 AM | | Coffee Break in Poster Session Room
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| 10:45 AM | 1.3 | U.S. Air Force Weather Update (Invited Presentation)
David Johnson, USAF, Washington, DC |
| 11:15 AM | 1.4 | National Weather Service (NWS) Update (Invited Presentation)
John J. (Jack) Kelly (Invited), NOAA/NWS, Silver Spring, MD |
| 11:30 AM | 1.5 | NWS Hydrological Services Update (Invited Presentation)
Greg Mandt, NOAA/NWS, Silver Spring, MD |
| 11:45 AM | 1.6 | NWS Science and Technology Infusion Plan (Invited Presentation)
Jack Hayes, NOAA/NWS, Silver Spring, MD; and P. A. Hirschberg |
| 12:00 PM | | Lunch Break
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| 1:30 PM | 1.7 | NOAA/NESDIS Update (Invited Presentation)
Gregory Withee, NOAA/NESDIS, Silver Spring, MD |
| 2:00 PM | 1.8 | Commercial Weather Services—A Report on the State of the Commercial Weather Sector in 2003 (Invited Presentation) 
James Block, Meteorlogix, Inc., Minneapolis, MN |
| 2:30 PM | | Formal Poster Viewing with Coffee Break
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| 4:00 PM | 1.9 | Global Weather Services Update (Invited Presentation)
John W. Zillman, WMO, Geneva, Switzerland |
| 4:30 PM | 1.10 | European Center for Medium Range Weather Forecasts Update (Invited Presentation)
David Burridge, Director THORPEX IPO (former Director ECMWF), Reading, United Kingdom |
|  | 1.11 | Canadian Private Weather Services Update (Invited Presentation)
Susan Woodbury, Canadian Meteorological and Oceanographic Society, Dartmouth, NS, Canada |