Unidata at the AMS Annual Meeting
Urban Weather and Climate: Now and the Future

Event Schedule

Unidata Booth Number: 616


Saturday, January 10, 2009
Student Conference
12:30-2:30 PM
Session: Conversations with Professionals—I

Sunday, January 11, 2009

6:00-7:00 PM
Welcome Reception
Exhibit Hall 5

Welcome Reception Honoring the Newly Elected Fellows Sunday, 11 January, 6:00–7:00 p.m.; Exhibit Hall 5 A Welcome Reception will be held immediately following the 89th Annual Review and Fellows Awards. The reception will be held in conjunction with the Student Conference and Local Chapter Poster Sessions. All are encouraged to attend. We are pleased to announce that Unidata director, Mohan Ramamurthy, will be honored as one of the newly-elected Fellows.

Monday, January 12, 2009
8:30-10:15
Presidential Forum
Room 120, ABC
Presidential Forum Ninth AMS Presidential Forum: Urban Weather and Climate—Now and the Future, Monday, 12 January, 8:30–10:15 a.m.; Room 120ABC

10:45-12:00
Conference on Coastal Atmospheric and Oceanic Prediction and Processes
Room 126A

Aggregating remotely-sensed data, observations and model results in a Geospatial Framework Eoin Howlett, Applied Science Associates, Inc., Narragansett, RI; and C. Beegle-Krause and M. Wholey
2:30-4:00
Poster Session 1
Educational Initiatives
2:30 PM-4:00 PM
Educational access to the United States Precision Lightning Network (USPLN) data Christopher G. Herbster, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, Daytona Beach, FL; and K. Rauenzahn

4:00-5:30
IIPS
Room 122BC

A Latin American Data Workshop to Promote Free and Open Sharing of Earth System Data and Foster Scientific Partnerships Tom Yoksas, UCAR, Boulder, CO; and M. Ramamurthy, E. Cutrim, C. Rocken, T. Whittaker, and W. G. D. Almeida

4:00-5:30
IIPS
Room 122BC

A New Tool for Tropical Cyclone Forecasting and Research Yuan Ho, Unidata/UCAR, Boulder, CO; and J. McWhirter, D. Murray, X. Liang, X. Lu, and Y. Yin
5:30-7:30
Presidential Forum
Hall 4
Opening of the Exhibit Hall with Reception

Tuesday, January 13, 2009
9:45-11:00
IIPS Poster Session
Observing the urban mesoscale envronment: The Citizen Weather Observing Program Gerald J. Creager, Texas A&M Univ., College Station, TX; and R. B. Chadwick, D. Helms, P. A. Miller, M. F. Barth, P. Gladstone, and S. S. Dimse
11:00-12:00
Recent Advances in Lightning Technology and Transfer to Operations II
Room 131A
An Overview of the United States Precision Lightning Network (USPLN) Peter P. Neilley, WSI, Corp, Andover, MA; and R. B. Bent
11:00-12:00
IIPS
Room 122BC
TIGGE Archive Access at NCAR Steven J. Worley, NCAR, Boulder, CO; and D. Schuster, D. Stepaniak, and H. Wilcox
1:30-3:00
Joint Session 10, Satellite Education and Public Outreach
Room 224AB
Satellite Training Activities at CIMSS: Helping to Prepare Forecasters for the GOES-R and NPOESS Era A. Scott Bachmeier, CIMSS, Madison, WI; and J. Gerth

1:30-3:00
IIPS
Room 121BC

The weather and climate toolkit Steve Ansari, NOAA/NESDIS/NCDC, Asheville, NC; and C. Hutchins, S. A. Del Greco, N. S. Stroumentova, and M. Phillips

3:30-5:30
IIPS
Room 122BC

IDV at 5: New features and future plans Don Murray, UCAR/Unidata, Boulder, CO; and J. McWhirter, Y. Ho, and T. M. Whittaker
3:30-5:00
Joint Session Between Education and IIPS
Room 125B
An interactive, integrated, instructional pathway to the LEAD science gateway Sepideh Yalda, Millersville Univ., Millersville, PA; and R. Clark, L. K. Davis, and E. N. Wiziecki
3:30-5:30
IIPS
Room 122BC
Earth system case studies for research and education Jeff Weber, UCAR/Unidata, Boulder, CO; and J. McWhirter

3:30-5:15
IIPS
Room 121BC

Using python client libraries to access remote servers via Web Coverage Services Ben Domenico, UCAR, Boulder, CO; and D. Lowe

Wednesday, January 14, 2009
8:30-9:45
IIPS
Room 121BC
NAWIPS Integration with AWIPS II Technology Infusion - Status Update Scott Jacobs, NOAA/NWS/NCEP, Camp Springs, MD; and D. Plummer, S. Gilbert, S. S. Schotz, J. P. Tuell, and R. K. Henry
2:30-4:00
Conference on Satellite Meteorology and Oceanography Symposium on Future Operational Environmental Satellite Systems- NPOESS and GOES-R
Climate (Joint between the 16th Conference on Satellite Meteorology and Oceanography and the Fifth Annual Symposium on Future Operational Environmental Satellite Systems- NPOESS and GOES-R)
2:30-4:00
IIPS, Poster Session II
Hall 5

LEAD-to-LEARN: A demonstration of an instructional pathway for undergraduate meteorology education using a science gateway Sepideh Yalda, Millersville Univ., Millersville, PA; and R. D. Clark, S. States, S. Cecelski, B. Kerschner, R. Junod, L. K. Davis, E. N. Wiziecki, T. Daley, and H. Gadde

4:00-5:30
Challenges in Data Access, Distribution, and Use
Room 121BC
Choices for Data Providers in a post-NetCDF-4 World Edward Hartnett, UCAR, Boulder, CO; and R. K. Rew
4:00 PM-5:30
Challenges in Data Access, Distribution, and Use
Room 121BC
A General Purpose System for Server-side Analysis of Earth Science Data Roland Schweitzer, Weathertop Consulting, LLC, College Station, TX; and K. M. O'Brien, J. Li, A. Manke, J. Malczyk, and S. Hankin

4:00-5:30
IIPS
Room 121BC

Using a friendly OPeNDAP client library to access HDF5 data MuQun Yang, The HDF Group, Champaign, IL; and H. K. Lee

Thursday, January 15, 2009

11:00 AM-12:15 PM,
IIPS and
13th Conference on Integrated Observing and Assimilation Systems for Atmosphere, Oceans, and Land Surface (IOAS-AOLS)
Room 122BC

Using THREDDS to “sew” observational data into the Observing System Monitoring Center Kevin M. O'Brien, JISAO/University of Washington, Seattle, WA; and S. Hankin, R. Schweitzer, T. Habermann, J. Cartwright, J. Larocque, K. Kern, and M. Little