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Education and Outreach
Teaching Appointments
Advising on Graduate Research
Member of Thesis Committee
Workshops and Colloquia
Seminars and Presentations
Education & Training - Professional
Education & Training - K-12 World
Mentoring
Field Campaigns
Educational Activities
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Teaching
Appointment
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Department
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Institution
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| Kent Goodrich | Mathematics Professor | Mathematics | Univ. of Colorado |
| Andrea Hahmann | Adjunct Asst. Research Professor | Atmospheric Sciences | Univ. of Arizona |
| Matt Pocernich | Adjunct Faculty | Mathematical & Computer Sciences | Metro State Univ. (Denver) |
| Tom Warner | Meteorology Professor | Program in Atmospheric & Oceanic Sciences | Univ. of Colorado |
| David Yates | Adjunct Research Professor | Civil & Environmental Engineering | Univ. of Colorado |
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Advising
on Graduate Research
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Department
|
Institution
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| Fei Chen | Jeff Fung Lo (Ph.D) | Center for Coastal & Atmospheric Research | Hong Kong Univ. of Science & Technology |
| Fei Chen | Ethan Gutmann (Ph.D) | Geology | Univ. of Colorado |
| David Gochis | Kazungu Maitaria (Ph.D) | Hydrology & Water Resources | Univ. of Arizona |
| David Gochis | Edgar Uribe | Hydrology & Water Resources | Univ. of Arizona |
| Kent Goodrich | Christen Davis (M.S.) | Mathematics | Univ. of Colorado |
| Joshua Hacker | Li Huang (Ph.D) | Earth & Ocean Sciences | Univ. of British Columbia |
| Andrea Hahmann | Ana L. Mosor (Ph.D) | Atmospheric Sciences | Univ. of Arizona |
| Tom Warner | Robert Tardif (Ph.D) | Program in Atmospheric & Oceanic Sciences | Univ. of Colorado |
| Tom Warner | Christian Sutton (Ph.D) | Program in Atmospheric & Oceanic Sciences | Univ. of Colorado |
| Tom Warner | Eric Thaler (Ph.D) | Applied Mathematics | Univ. of Colorado |
| Jim Wilson | Andrea Lima (Ph.D) | Meteorology | Universidate Estadual Paulista (Brazil) |
| David Yates | Joseph Alfieri, (M.S.) | Geography | Univ. of Colorado |
| David Yates | Alyssa McCluskey (Ph.D) | Civil & Environmental Engineering | Univ. of Colorado |
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Thesis
Committee
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Department
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Institution
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| Fei Chen | Andrew Schmit (M.S.) | Geology | Univ. of Colorado |
| Kent Goodrich | Robert Tardif (Ph.D) | Program in Atmospheric & Oceanic Sciences | Univ. of Colorado |
| Kent Goodrich | Yan Yin (Ph.D) | Electrical & Computer Engineering | Univ. of Colorado |
| Kent Goodrich | Jonas D'Andrea (M.S.) | Mathematics | Univ. of Colorado |
| Kent Goodrich | Preston Slaughter | Mathematics | Univ. of Colorado |
| Joshua Hacker | Li Huang (Ph.D) | Earth & Ocean Sciences | Univ. of British Columbia |
| Andrea Hahmann | Ana L. Mosor (Ph.D) | Atmospheric Sciences | Univ. of Arizona |
| Andrea Hahmann | Er Lu (Ph.D) | Atmospheric Sciences | Univ. of Arizona |
| Andrea Hahmann | Nadia Vinogradova (Ph.D) | Atmospheric Sciences | Univ. of Arizona |
| Andrea Hahmann | Carlos Minjarez-Sosa (M.S.) | Atmospheric Sciences | Univ. of Arizona |
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Tom Warner (Committee Chair) |
Robert Tardif (Ph.D) | Program in Atmospheric & Oceanic Sciences | Univ. of Colorado |
| Tom Warner (Committee Chair) | Christian Sutton (Ph.D) | Program in Atmospheric & Oceanic Sciences | Univ. of Colorado |
| Tom Warner (Committee Chair) | Eric Thaler (Ph.D) | Applied Mathematics | Univ. of Colorado |
| Jim Wilson | Hanna Murphy (Ph.D) | Meteorology | Univ. of Calif. - LA |
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Staff
Name
|
Title/Subject
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Dates
|
Sponsor
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| Bob Barron | Juneau Airport Winds System Operational Prototype Technical Interchange Meeting | 15-16 June 2004 | FAA, NCAR |
| Jennifer Boehnert | Atmospheric Data modeling Workshop | January 2004 | NCAR/NOAA/ESRI |
| Dan Breed | Radar Meteorology & Operations Workshop | 11 Feb 2004 | DWRS, NCAR |
| Dan Breed | Radar Processing, Analyses & Evaluation using TITAN Software Package | 30 Apr 2004 | WMA |
| Barb Brown | International Workshop on Forecast Verification (Montreal, Quebec, Canada)-Program Committee | 15-17 Sept 2004 | World Meteorological Organization, Meteorological Service of Canada |
| Fei Chen | Workshop on Urban Meteorology (Beijing, China) | 12-13 Oct 2003 | IUM/NCAR |
| Eric Gilleland | Summer Colloquia on Climate & Health | 21 July 2004 | NCAR, Assessment Initiative, NASA, CDC, WHO/Pan American Health Organization |
| Eric Gilleland | Verification of Quantitative Forecasts Using Baddeley's Delta Metric | September 2004 | WGNE/WWRP, WMO WCRP, MSC, NCAR |
| Eric Gilleland | Optimizing METAR Network Design to Remove Potential Bias in Verification of Cloud Ceiling Height & Visibility Forecasts | September 2004 | WGNE/WWRP, WMO WCRP, MSC, NCAR |
| Jason Knievel | WRF/MM5 Joint Workshop | 22-25 June 2004 | NCAR |
| Jason Knievel | BAMEX Workshop | 1-3 March 2004 | NCAR |
| Bill Mahoney | 6th Maintenance Decision Support System Stakeholder Meeting | 21-22 July 2004 | FHWA, NCAR |
| Bill Mahoney | Maintenance Decision Support System Technology Transfer Workshop | 22-23 July 2004 | FHWA, NCAR |
| Marcia Politovich | Government Remote Sensing Meeting | 25 August 2004 | FAA, NCAR, CRREL, NASA GRC |
| Daran Rife | USWRP Community Meeting on Real-Time and Restorative Mesoscale Objective Analysis: An Analysis of Record Summit | 29-30 June 2004 | USWRP |
| Daran Rife | USWRP Mesocale Workshop | 8-10 Dec 2003 | USWRP |
| David Yates | Climate Change & Water Resources | 15 Mar 2004 | AWWA Research Foundation |
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Staff
Name
|
Title
of Presentation
|
Date
|
Group
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| Bob Barron | JAWS Operational Prototype Displays | 15 June 2004 | NCAR & FAA staff |
| Bob Barron | JAWS Operational Prototype Composition & Capabilities of Alerts | 15 June 2004 | NCAR & FAA staff |
| Jennifer Boehnert | Developing an Atmospheric Data Model for GIS | 1 August 2004 | Unitdata |
| Dan Breed | Total Lightning - NMIMT LMA | 4 May 2004 | ATEC IPR |
| Dan Breed | Radar Characteristics of Precipitating Clouds in the UAE | 21 July 2004 | ICCP |
| Barb Brown | Verification | 14 May 2004 | NRL Visitors to NCAR |
| Barb Brown | Grid-Based Probabilistic CCFP | 18 May 2004 | Weather Applications Working Group, FAA Collaborative Decision Making Program |
| Barb Brown | Verification Overview | 19 July 2004 | Beijing Olympics FDP Advisory Workshop, Beijing |
| Barb Brown | Progress in Developing Object-Oriented Verification Approaches | 18 August 2004 | Weather Applications Working Group, FAA Collaborative Decision Making Program |
| Barb Brown | Spatial and Object-Oriented Forecast Verification | 15 Sept 2004 | International Verification Methods Workshop, Montreal, Canada |
| Barb Brown | Diagnostic Verification Measures Associated with Object-Oriented Verification Approaches | 15 Sept 2004 | International Verification Methods Workshop, Montreal, Canada |
| Barb Brown | WWRP/WGNE Joint Working Group on Forecast Verification | November 2004 | WMO Working Group on Numerical Experimentation; Salvador, Brazil |
| Barb Brown | Probabilistic convective nowcasts based on observations | 14 Jan 2004 | AMS Symposium on Forecasting the Weather and Climate of the Earth and Ocean; AMS Annual Meeting, Seattle, WA |
| Barb Brown | The Impact of Precipitation Frequency on Gauge-Site Monitoring Algorithms | 15 Jan 2004 | AMS 14th Conference on Applied Climatology; AMS Annual Meeting, Seattle, WA |
| Barb Brown | Object-Oriented Verification Approaches Diagnostic Approaches for Verification of Spatial Field Forecasts | October 2004 | RAP Retreat |
| Fei Chen | Recent Advance in the Development of a High-Resolution Land Data Assimilation System for Mesoscale NWP Models | 25 April 2004 | European Geosciences Union 1st General Assembly, Nice, France |
| Fei Chen | Urban Land-Use Modeling for Numerical Weather Prediction Models | 18 May 2004 | The Second International Workshop on Next Generation NWP Model, Yonsei University, Seoul, Korea |
| Fei Chen | Mesoscale Land-Atmospheric Interactions: Modeling and Observation | 18 May 2004 | The Second International Workshop on Next Generation NWP Model, Yonsei University, Seoul, Korea |
| Fei Chen | Recent
Progress in Urban Land-Use Modeling for Community MM5 & WRF Model |
12 Oct 2004 | Joint
IUM/NCAR Workshop on Urban Meteorology, Beijing, China. |
| Fei Chen |
Effect of Surface Heterogeneity on the Evolution of PBL and Convection Initiation |
29 April 2004 | Laboraroire D’Aerologie, Université Paul Sabatier - Toulouse III, Toulouse, France |
| Fei Chen | Land Surface-Atmospheric Interactions & Their Impacts on Precipitation | 6 May 2004 | Laboratoire de Météorologie Dynamique, Le Centre national de la recherche scientifique (CNRS), Paris, France |
| Janice Coen | Infrared Imagery Applied For Insights Into Wildland Fire Dynamics | 17 Nov. 2003 | 5th Symposium Fire & Forest Meteorology/2nd Intl. Fire Ecology & Fire Management Congress (Orlando, FL) |
| Janice Coen | Simulation Of Wildfire Incidents Using Coupled Atmosphere-Fire Modeling | 17 Nov. 2003 | 5th Symposium Fire & Forest Meteorology/2nd Intl. Fire Ecology & Fire Management Congress (Orlando, FL) |
| Janice Coen | Tutorial on the NCAR Atmosphere-Fire Model | 15 Apr. 2004 | Univ. of Colorado, Denver |
| Janice Coen | Software Architecture & Model Execution. | 13 May 2004 | Univ. of Colorado, Denver |
| Janice Coen | Poster | 9-11 June 2004 | Information Technology Research 2004 Grantees Meeting |
| Janice Coen | Fire Behavior & Modeling | 4 Aug. 2004 | Wildland Fire Collaboratory In-Process Program Review (NCAR) |
| Janice Coen | Coupled Atmosphere-Wildland Fire Modeling: Developments, Challenges in Fire Spread Prediction, and Collaborative New Directions | 8 Sept. 2004 | NASA GSFC |
| Tressa Fowler | Verification of Ceiling & Visibility Forecast Products | May 2004 | NWS Forecasters |
| Tressa Fowler | Neighbor Comparisons of METAR & Ceiling & Visibility Measurements | January 2004 | AMS Conf. on Probability and Statistics |
| Tressa Fowler | Neighbor Comparisons of METAR & Ceiling & Visibility Measurements | June 2004 | Environmetrics Conference |
| Eric Gilleland | Optimizing METAR Network Design for Verification of Cloud Ceiling Height & Visibility Forecasts | 28 June - 1 July 2004 | TIES/ACCURACY Joint Annual Meeting (Portland, ME) |
| Eric Gilleland | The Extreme Value Tool Kit (extRemes): Weather & Climate Applications of Extreme Value Statistics | May 2004 | R User's Conference 2004 (Vienna, Austria) |
| Eric Gilleland | Improving Forecast Verification through Network Design | January 2004 | 17th Conf. on Probability & Statistics in the Atmospheric Sciences, 84th Annual Meeting of the AMS (Seattle, WA) |
| David Gochis | The Arid Lands Initiative: Review, Emergence and Directions in RAP Arid Lands Research | 22 Oct. 2003 | RAP Retreat |
| David Gochis | NAME Enhanced Observation Period. North American Monsoon Experiment (NAME) Science Working Group Meeting-5 | 5-6 Nov 2003 | Puerto Vallarta, Jalisco, Mexico |
| David Gochis | The Boulder Creek/St. Vrain Hydrological Observatory. Oral Presentation. | November 2003 | Annual Meeting of the Rocky Mountain Hydrological Research Center |
| David Gochis | Investigations into Hydrometerological Processes Under the North American Monsoon | 12 Nov 2003 | Advanced Study Program, Research Reviews |
| David Gochis | NAME: Status and Plans. A multi-millenia perspective on drought and implications for the future | November 2003 | CLIVAR/PAGES/IPCC Workshop (Tucson, AZ) |
| David Gochis | Assessment of Scale-Dependent Runoff Generation Mechanisms in TOPLATS and Noah-router | 8 Dec 2003 | Fall Meeting of the American Geophysical Union (San Francisco, CA) |
| David Gochis | Exploration of Subgrid Routing Responses in the Noah-router Land Surface Model | 15 Jan 2004 | Annual Meeting of the American Meteorological Society (Seattle, WA) |
| David Gochis | Integrating hydrometeorological and hydroclimatological research and applications at NCAR | 5 March 2004 | RAP Division Seminar, Scientist I Interview |
| David Gochis | NAME Enhanced Observation Period | March 2004 | Annual Meeting of the Panel on the Variability of American Monsoon Systems (VAMOS)-7 (Guayquil, Ecuador) |
| David Gochis |
NAME Enhanced Observation Period |
April 2004 | North American Monsoon Experiment (NAME) Science Working Group Meeting-6 (Tucson, AZ) |
| David Gochis | Warm Season Precipitation Analyses from the NAME Event Raingauge Network (NERN) '02-'03 | April 2004 | North American Monsoon Experiment (NAME) Science Working Group Meeting-6 (Tucson, AZ) |
| David Gochis | Warm Season Precipitation Analyses from the NAME Event Raingauge Network (NERN) '02-'03 | May 2004 | Mountain Climate Sciences Symposium (Lake Tahoe, CA.) |
| David Gochis |
Warm Season Precipitation and NAME |
24-25 Aug 2004 | GEWEX Americas Prediction Project Annual Principal Investigators Meeting (Boulder, CO) |
|
Josuah Hacker
|
Assimilation of Fixed Screen-Height Observations in a Parameterized PBL | 25 May 2004 | Army High Performance Computing Research Center |
|
Josuah Hacker
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Phase & Amplitude in Ensemble Spread | 15 Jan 2004 | 20th Annual Weather & Forecasting/16th Annual Numerical Weather Prediction Conf.(AMS) |
| Cathy Kessinger | Current & Future Plans for the AP Mitigation Scheme | 12-15 Jan 2004 | AMS |
| Cathy Kessinger | AMS Short Course entitled "Applications of Fuzzy Logic Used at the NCAR Research Applications Program" | 11 Jan 2004 | AMS Members |
| Cathy Kessinger | Oceanic Weather Convection Diagnosis | 10-11 Feb 2004 | Oceanic Weather PDT & aviation users |
| Cathy Kessinger | Oceanic Weather Convection Diagnosis & Nowcasting | 2-3 March 2004 | Oceanic Weather PDT Members |
| Cathy Kessinger | NEXRAD Data Quality | 6-7 April 2004 | OS & T |
| Cathy Kessinger | An Overview of Research done at the Research Applications Program and at the Naval Research Laboratory | 13-14 May 2004 | Naval Research Laboratory |
| Cathy Kessinger | NEXRAD Data Quality Technical Interchange Meeting | 19-20 May 2004 | NOAA Radar Operations Center, NOAA Office of Hydrology |
| Jason Knievel | An Overview of the Pentagon Shield 2004 Field Campaign | 26 Aug 2004 | 5th Symposium on the Urban Environment, (Vancouver, BC) |
| Jason Knievel | Algorithms in the Pentagon Shield System | 30 June 2004 | Visitors to NCAR from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency |
| Jason Knievel | Recommendations for Diffusion in Idealized Squall Line Simulations by the WRF Model (poster with extended abstract) | 24 June 2004 | WRF/MM5 Joint Workshop, NCAR |
| Jason Knievel | Current Status of BAMEX Dropsonde Data | 1 March 2004 | BAMEX Workshop (Fairview Heights, IL) |
| Jason Knievel | The Diurnal Mode of Summer Rainfall Across the Conterminous United States in 10-km Simulations by the WRF Model. | 9 Feb 2004 | NWS employees visiting NCAR as part of the Public Visitors Program. |
| Jason Knievel | The Diurnal Mode of Summer Rainfall Across the Conterminous United States in 10-km Simulations by the WRF Model. | 14 Jan 2004 | 16th Conf. on Numerical Weather Prediction (Seattle, WA) |
| Jason Knievel | Are There Weather Holes? An objective analysis. | 12 Jan 2004 | 20th Conf. On Weather Analysis & Forecasting (Seattle, WA) |
| Jason Knievel | Diurnal Rainfall in the WRF Model | 9 Dec 2003 | Seoul National Univ. (Seoul, Korea) |
| Jason Knievel | The Realism of Rainfall Patterns in Preliminary Versions of the Weather Research & Forecasting (WRF) Model | 28 Oct 2003 | Graduate students visiting NCAR as part of the Public Visitors Program |
| Todd Lane | High Resolution Estimates of Gravity Wave Momentum Flux from a Cloud Resolving Model | 13 Jan 2004 | AGU Chapman Conf. On Gravity Wave Processes & Parameterization (Hawaii) |
| Todd Lane | High Resolution Modeling Studies of Gravity Waves & Tropopause Folds | 6 April 2004 | NCAR UTLS Model Development Meeting |
| Todd Lane | Observations & Numerical Simulations of Inertia-Gravity Waves & Shearing Instabilities | 1-6 Aug 2004 | SPARC General Assembly (Victoria, Canada) |
| Todd Lane | Introduction to Aviation Turbulence Research at NCAR | 23 July 2004 | Univ. of Wisconsin, CIMSS |
| Jeff Lazo | The Household Study of Forecast Use and Value | 23 April 2004 | NOAA Weather and Water Mission Goal Team Social Science Workshop |
| Jeff Lazo | Societal Impacts of Weather Information | 22 Jul 2004 | NOAA /DOC Staff and Budget Offices Social Science Workshop |
| Jeff Lazo | Overview of NCAR-USWRP Societal Impacts Program | 9 September 2004 | Briefing of D.L. Johnson - NWS |
| Jeff Lazo | The Economic Value of Weather Forecasts | 17 September 2004 | Verification Workshop, Montreal, CA |
| Jeff Lazo | The Household Study of Forecast Use and Value | 30 September 2004 | NOAA Boulder Labs Social Science Workshop |
| Bill Mahoney | MDSS Program Review | 15 Oct 2003 | FHWA, LL, CRREL, NOAA |
| Bill Mahoney | AMS Policy Forum - Highway Weather | 3-6 Nov 2003 | FHWA, State DOTs, Federal DOT, Congressional staff, commercial weather providers, AMS, ITSA |
| Bill Mahoney | Surface Transportation Weather Technologies | 15-17 DEC 2003 | Aurora Program Board (15 State Dots) |
| Bill Mahoney | MDSS Performance Assessment | 12 Jan 2004 | Transportation Research Board (TRB) |
| Bill Mahoney | MDSS Program Results & Plans | 14 Jan 2004 | AMS Annual Meeting |
| Bill Mahoney | Surface Transportation Weather Research & Development | 17 March 2004 | Congressional Staff |
| Bill Mahoney | MDSS Performance Assessment & Program Plans | 27 April 2004 | Intelligent Transportation Society of America (ITSA) |
| Bill Mahoney | Winter Road Maintenance Decision Support | 8 June 2004 | TRB 6th Intl. Symposium on Snow Removal & Ice Control |
| Bill Mahoney | Winter Maintenance Decision Support | 9 June 2004 | Pacific Northwest Snowfighters Conf. |
| Bill Mahoney | MDSS Program Status & Future Plans | 18 June 2004 | Standing Intl. Road Weather Commission (SIRWEC) Meeting |
| Bill Mahoney | MDSS Performance Results | 22 June 2004 | MDSS Stakeholder Meeting |
| Bill Mahoney | Tactical Decision Support for Road Weather | 23 June 2004 | Aurora Program Board (15 State Dots) |
| Bill Mahoney | Winter Maintenance Decision Support - Technology Update | 1 Sept 2004 | Surface Systems Inc. - Winter Weather Workshop |
| Bill Mahoney | Advancements in Road Weather | 15 Sept 2004 | Indiana State DOT Local Technology Assistance Conf. |
| Cory Morse | An Introduction to Tuning NIMA | 21 June 2004 | Vaisala |
| Niles Oien | Introduction to NCAR Software | 30 Oct 2003 | IPMET group in Brazil |
| Marcia Politovich | Benchmarking | 6 Oct 2004 | AMS Conf. On Aviation, Range & Aerospace Meteorology (Hyannis, MA) |
| Marcia Politovich | Life in RAP | Summer 2004 | NCAR Undergraduate Summer Session |
| Marcia Politovich | Inflight-Icing Challenges | 20-22 Oct 2004 | RAP Retreat |
| Daran Rife | New Insights Into the Predictability of Mesoscale Model-generated Forecast Winds As Input to Transport & Dispersion Models | 14 June 2004 | 8th Annual GMU Conf. On Transport and Dispersion Modeling |
| Daran Rife | Insights Into the Predictability of Near-Surface Wind Field Forecasts by Mesoscale Meteorological Models | 4 June 2004 | RAP Seminar Series |
| Daran Rife | Predictability of Low-level WindFields by Mesoscale Meteorological Models | 25 Feb 2004 | University of Utah |
| Rita Roberts | Convection Initiation & Future Capabilities | 4 Nov 2003 | NWS Scientific Operations Officers at COMET |
| Rita Roberts | NCAR Auto-Nowcaster system | 8 July 2004 | Dallas/Ft. Worth Weather Service Office Forecasters |
| Rita Roberts | IHOP results | 9 June 2004 | Watercycle Initiative External Review Panel |
| Rita Roberts | Assessment of the RUC10 Forecasts of Storm Initiation During IHOP | 9 Sept 2004 | European Radar Conf. (Visby, Sweden) |
| Jenny Sun | Mesoscale Needs for Advanced Modeling & Data Assimilation | Dec. 2003 | USWRP Workshop on Design & Development of Multifunctional Mesoscale Observing Networks in Support of Integrated Forecasting Systems. |
| Jenny Sun | Numerical Forecasting of Convective Storms: A Case Study of a Supercell Storm Observed during STEPS | June 2004 | NCAR/ASP GTP Symposium |
| Agnes Takacs | Verification of Oceanic Weather Diagnoses & Forecasts for Aviation Weather Elements | 15 Jan. 2004 | AMS Conference |
| Tom Warner | Mesoscale Measurements & Forecasting in Support of the New York Urban Atmospheric Observatory | 1 Feb. 2004 | NYC Urban Atmospheric Observatory Steering Committee |
| Tom Warner | Variational Assimilation of Doppler Radar & Lidar Data for Near-Real-time Input to WMD Hazard Models | 23 Jan. 2004 | DoD Technical Cooperation Panel 9 |
| Tom Warner | Very-High-Resolution Modeling of Land-Atmosphere Interaction in Arid Zones | 29 Mar. 2004 | SAHRA, Univ. of Arizona |
| Tom Warner | The Pentagon Shield Modeling System & Field Campaign | 25 May 2004 | DTRA Urban Dispersion Modeling Working Group |
| John Williams | Automated Scoring Algorithm Development and Implementation | 2 December 2003 | NASA-FAA-Industry Airborne Turbulence Detection Systems Certification Workshop #6 |
| John Williams | Automated Scoring Algorithm Task Closeout Review Meeting | 30 January 2004 | NASA AvSSP Turbulence Prediction and Warning Systems Team |
| John Williams | The NCAR Turbulence Detection Algorithm for WSR-88D Radars | 6 April 2004 | NWS Office of Science and Technology Briefing |
| John Williams | Progress in Development and Validation of the WSR-88D Turbulence Algorithm | 22 April 2004 | FAA Aviation Weather Research Program Turbulence PDT Science Review |
| John Williams | Dual-Wavelength Remote Detection of Cloud Liquid Water Content | 5 May 2004 | FAA Aviation Weather Research Program In-Flight Icing PDT Science Review |
|
John Williams
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Aviation Turbulence Research Activities at NCAR/RAP | 13 May 2004 | Naval Research Laboratory Briefing |
| Jim Wilson | Convective Initiation & Evolution Studies | June 2004 | IHOP Workshop (Toulouse, France) |
| Jim Wilson | Thunderstorm Nowcasting | August 2004 | Radar Weather Office (Tangu, China) |
| Jim Wilson | NCAR installations for IUM: Extrapolation, TITAN and VDRAS | August 2004 | Institute Urban Meteorology (Beijing, China) |
| Jim Wilson | NCAR installations for IUM: Extrapolation, TITAN and VDRAS |
September 2004 |
European Radar Conf. (Visby, Sweden) |
| Jim Wilson | Quantitative Precipitation Nowcasting | November 2003 | 6th Intl. Symposium on Hydrology Applications of Weather Radar (Melbourne, Australia) |
| Jim Wilson | Small Scale Precipitation Features & Nowcasting | November 2003 | Workshop on small scale precipitation features (Aukland, New Zealand) |
| Mei Xu | Nowcasting For Urban Areas By Variational Assimilation Of Doppler Radar And Lidar Radial Wind Data | 12 Jan 2004 | Symposium on Planning, Nowcasting, Forecasting for the Urban Zone |
| Mei XU | Assimilating Radar Data For Real-time Short-term Snowstorm Forecasting | 14 Jan 2004 | 16th Symposium on Numerical Weather Prediction (Seattle, WA) |
| Mei XU | Assimilating Radar Data For Real-time Snowstorm Forecasting | 28 April 2004 | FAA Facetime Meeting (Boulder, CO) |
| Mei XU | Winter Weather Forecasting | 13 May 2004 | Weather Channel visitors (Boulder, CO) |
| Mei XU | High Resolution Modeling & Radar Data Assimilation | 13 July 2004 | National Central University (Chungli, Taiwan) |
| Mei XU | Weather Support for Decision Making | 22 Sept 2004 | Air Traffic Control (Beijing, China) |
| Mei XU | High Resolution Modeling & Radar Data Assimilation | 24 Sept 2004 | Beijing University (Beijing, China) |
| David Yates | Global Change Impacts on Aquatic Ecosystem Services of the Sacramento Watershed | 24 Feb 2004 | RAP Science Seminar |
| Guifu Zhang | Modern Weather Radar Techniques: Polarimetry & Interferometry | 21 Apr. 2004 | Univ. of Oklahoma, School of Meteorology |
| Guifu Zhang | Raindrop Size Distribution Retrieval from polarization Radar Observations to improve Model Parameterization in NWP | 4 Oct. 2004 | CASA Workshop |
Education & Training - Professional
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Staff
Name
|
Title of Presentation |
Group
and date
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| Fei Chen | Land-Surface/Atmospheric Interaction & Diurnal Cycle of Boundary Layer | Invited Keynote Speaker for the Boundary Layer Symposium, COMET/UCAR, 24 June 2004 |
| Fei Chen | Challenge of Forecasting Urban Weather with Mesoscale NWP Models | Arizona State Univ., 28 June 2004 |
| Fei Chen | Land-Surface/Atmospheric Interaction & Diurnal Cycle of Boundary Layer | Invited Keynote Speaker for the Boundary Layer Symposium, COMET/UCAR, 11 August 2004 |
| Tara Jensen | Demonstration & Tutoring on use of RAOB Software | Dept. of Water Resources Studies Forecast Team (Abu Dhabi, UAE) 17-31 May 2004 |
| Tara Jensen | How to Read the Clouds & Find Updrafts While Flying Near Convection | Univ. of Witwatersrand/S. African Weather Bureau Pilots ( Abu Dhabi, UAE) 1-20 June 2004 |
| Tara Jensen | How to Use & Interpret the New Real-time Four Dimensional Data Assimilation Forecast System for the UAE | Dept. of Water Resources Studies Forecast team (Abu Dhabi, UAE) 15 July - 22 Aug. 2004 |
| Tenny Lindholm | Presentation on Oceanic Weather | Air Traffic Control Assoc. Convention 27-30 Oct 2003, Washington, DC |
| Tenny Lindholm | Briefing on Turbulence Downlink | MDCRS Management Group,13 Nov 2003 |
| Tenny Lindholm | Oceanic Weather Developments | Intl. Oceanic Airspace Conf. (250 participants representing 30 nations), Honolulu, 18 Nov 2003 |
| Tenny Lindholm | Conducted & briefed oceanic weather science/user workshop | Airline Pilots Assoc., Herndon, VA, 10 Feb 2004 |
| Tenny Lindholm | Briefing on AWRP research | NASA Aviation Safety & Security Program Workshop, Alexandria, 3 Mar 2004 |
| Tenny Lindholm | Briefing on turbulence research programs | Delta Airlines Management, Atlanta, 22 March 2004 |
| Tenny Lindholm | Briefing updates on progress of research-to-operations on all AWRP programs | United, American, Southwest, Recurring |
| Tenny Lindholm | Briefing on RAL research & product development | International Conf. On Volcanic Ash, Alexandria, 22 June 2004 |
| Tenny Lindholm | Safety seminars on aviation weather products & graphics | General aviation pilots at Centennial Airport, Oct 2003 & Mar 2004 |
| Bill Mahoney | MDSS Technology Transfer Program | MDSS Technology Transfer Workshop - 23 June 2004 |
| Marcia Politovich | Flight in SLD Conditions & On-Line Training | Public Use, directed to pilots - completed July 2004 |
| Daran Rife | User Requirements & Training | White Sands Missile Range - 19-20 Oct. 2004 |
| Daran Rife | User Requirements & Training | Aberdeen Proving Ground - 15-16 June 2004 |
| Daran Rife | User Requirements & Training | Electronic Proving Ground, Tucson Arizona - 12-14 April 2004 |
| Rita Roberts | Radar Observation of Severe Weather | Turkish Weather Service Forecasters (DMI) in Ankara, 16 Dec. 2003 |
| Rita Roberts | Use of Radar in Winter Storm Nowcasting | Turkish Weather Service Forecasters (DMI) in Ankara, 18 Dec. 2003 |
| Rita Roberts | Thunderstorm Nowcasting | Turkish Weather Service Forecasters (DMI) in Ankara, 18 Dec. 2003 |
| Rita Roberts | Laboratory Exercise on Thunderstorm Nowcasting | Turkish Weather Service Forecasters (DMI) in Ankara, 19 Dec. 2003 |
| Rita Roberts | Laboratory Exercise on Thunderstorm Nowcasting | NWS Scientific Operations Officers at COMET, 4 Nov. 2003 |
| Tom Saxen | ATEC Forecaster's Conf. Session on Auto-Nowcaster | Army Range Forecasters (at NCAR) 6-8 April 2004 |
| Tom Saxen | ATEC Forecaster's Conf. Session on Auto-Nowcaster | Army Range Forecasters (at NCAR) 8-10 June 2004 |
| Scott Swerdlin | Global Meteorology On Demand: Application for Rapidly Generating Fine-Scale Model Output Anywhere in the World | TTCP Technical Panel 9, 9 Feb. 2004 |
| Scott Swerdlin | Concept for Creating National-Scale Radar-Based Data Assimilation System | Homeland Security Advanced Research Projects Agency, 19 Feb. 2004 |
| Scott Swerdlin | Overview of Pentagon Shield Concept of Operations | Pentagon Force Protection Agency, 26 Mar. 2004 |
| Scott Swerdlin | NCAR's Homeland Security Program | NASA, 9 Apr. 2004 |
| Scott Swerdlin | Protecting Colorado's Critical Infrastructure From Terrorism | Colorado S&T organizations, sponsored by the Colorado Institute of Technology, 16 Apr. 2004 |
| Scott Swerdlin | Overview of 4DWX & Homeland Security Applications | Australian Bureau of Meteorology, 3 May 2004 |
| Scott Swerdlin | Advance Numerical Weather Prediction Capabilities for the Army Test Ranges | Range Commander's Council Meteorology Group Annual Meeting, 16 Apr. 2004 |
| Scott Swerdlin | Homeland Security & Urban Scale Weather | The Weather Channel, 12 May 2004 |
| Scott Swerdlin | Description of Pentagon Shield Field Campaign | KOAA TV, Colorado Springs, 19 May 2004 |
| Scott Swerdlin | Modeling Urban Weather & Plume Transport & Dispersion | Dept. of Homeland Security Workshop on Bioaerosol Transport, 25 May 2004 |
| Scott Swerdlin | State of the Art in Tracking Airborne Hazards | International Test & Evaluation Workshop, 7 June 2004 |
| Scott Swerdlin | Applying Pentagon Shield Technology to Protecting the National Capitol Region | Dept. of Homeland Security and the Homeland Security Institute, 16 June 2004 |
| Scott Swerdlin | Difficulties in Modeling Plume Dispersion in Stable Atmospheric Conditions | US Air Force Academy, 28 June 2004 |
| Scott Swerdlin | Expanding Pentagon Shield to the Nation | Capitol Hill staffers, 9 July 2004 |
| Scott Swerdlin | Overview of Pentagon Shield Field Program | Annual Transport & Dispersion Conf., George Mason Univ., 13 July 2004 |
| Scott Swerdlin | Overview of NCAR's Urban Modeling Program | Lawrence Livermore National Laboratories, 20 July 2004 |
| Scott Swerdlin | Technical Information Exchange on Data Assimilation with NWP Models | IBM Watson Research Center, 21 July 2004 |
| Scott Swerdlin | Derivative 4DWX Science & Technology for Warfighter Support | Range Commander's Council Executive Group Annual Meeting, 10 Aug. 2004 |
| Scott Swerdlin | Things not Modeled Well in Supporting Warfighter | Air Force Connections Annual Conf., 25 Aug. 2004 |
| Scott Swerdlin | Critical Infrastructure Protection (UDMWG), & Concept of CBR Sensor Data Assimilation (SDEWG) | Urban Dispersion Modeling Working Group, and Sensor Data Fusion Working Group, 27 Sept. 2004 |
| John Williams | Introduction to Fuzzy Logic | Short Course on Artificial Intelligence Methods in Atmospheric & Oceanic Sciences, 84th AMS |
| Jim Wilson | Instructor, Radar Applications | WWRP Radar Workshop, Brasillia, Brazil - 2 weeks Nov. 2003 |
| Jim Wilson | Instructor, Radar Applications & Nowcasting | Turkey Meteorological Institute, Ankara, Turkey - 1 week Dec. 2003 |
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Education & Training - K-12/College World
|
Staff
Name
|
Title of Presentation |
Group
and date
|
| Dan Breed | Clouds & Weather | Two 8th grade science classes at Casey Middle School, 29 Jan. 2004 |
| Steve Carson | Science with Steve - meekly 1-hr science class | Rocky Mt. School for the Gifted-5th Grade, ongoing |
| Kyoko Ikeda | Clouds, Wind and Heat | Holiday activity camp sponsored by N.P.O. (an education outreach group for K-12) Tanukimura, Shizuoka, Japan 22-26 Dec. 2003 |
| Mei XU | Weather & the Atmosphere | Boulder Chinese Church High School Students, 15 Aug. 2004 |
|
Staff
Name
|
Description
|
| Barb Brown | Mentored Barbara Casati from the Univ of Reading, UK, on verification methods for spatial forecasts. |
| Andrew Crook | Research mentor for Anthony Didlake, (SOARS) |
| Tressa Fowler | Mentored Jr. High School student, J.P. Gallo, on probability, proportions, statistical graphics |
| Jason Knievel | Research mentor for Braxton Edwards, (SOARS) |
| Staff Name |
Project
Name and Location
|
Date |
Sponsor
|
| Dan Breed, Project Manager | Rainfall Enhancement Assessment Program, UAE | Summer 2004 | DWRS |
| David Gochis | North American Monsoon Experiment: Science Working Group, Field Documentation | Ongoing | NOAA-Office of Global Programs |
| David Gochis | North American Monsoon Experiment, 2004 Enhanced Observation Period - Mexico | 1 June - 15 Aug. 2004 | NOAA-Office of Global Programs |
| Bill Mahoney, Project Manager | MDSS Iowa Field Demonstration | Winter '03-'04 | FHWA |
| Marcia Politovich, Operations Director | WISP04 - Marshall, CO | Feb.-Mar. 2004 | FAA, NSF |
| Scott Swerdlin | Pentagon Shield | Apr.-May 2004 | Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) |
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