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TENTH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ONINTERACTIVE INFORMATION AND

PROCESSING SYSTEMS FOR METEOROLOGY,OCEANOGRAPHY, AND HYDROLOGY

January 23-28, 1994 Nashville, Tennessee

Sponsored by

American Meteorological Society

Cosponsored by

World Meteorological OrganizationAssociation of American Geographers

American Water Resources AssociationJoint Oceanographic Institutions

Front Cover: Display of real-time analyses from the Local Analysis and Prediction System (LAPS), developed at the NOAAForecast Systems Laboratory (FSL) in Boulder, Colorado. This figure shows the 1200 UTC analyses, depicting a storm thatmoved through the Colorado area on the morning of 12 November 1993. Clockwise from upper left: an overhead view ofthe LAPS domain, showing the surface equivalent potential temperature (colors and contours in *K) and surface wind field(arrows); a side view of the LAPS fractional cloud cover analysis (isosurface of values above 0.5) and the initial locationof 'bubbles" at 500 mb (colored from blue to red indicate slowest to fastest wind speeds); trajectories of the bubbles afterseveral time steps, showing the 500 mb circulation at 1200 UTC; and a view from southeast of the domain of the 500 mblow center a few time steps later, showing that air parcels in that region have trajectories which would remain within theLAPS domain, while other parcels farther from the low have already passed out of the area.

This figure was created by Paula McCaslin and Craig Hartsough, scientists in FSL's Science Division.

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10TH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON INTERACTIVE INFORMATION AND PROCESSING SYSTEMS (IIPS)FOR METEOROLOGY, OCEANOGRAPHY, AND HYDROLOGY

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SESSION 1A.1: VISUALIZATION AND HUMAN FACTORS

1A.1 PAPER WITHDRAWN

1A.2 PAPER WITHDRAWN

I 1 A.3 KHOROS 2.0: A CHANGE IN THE BASIC PARADIGM BETWEEN USERS AND DATA ANALYSISAND VISUALIZATION. John J. Bates, NOAA/Environmental Research Laboratory (ERL); and C. E.Cormack and W. W. Sullivan, Cooperative Inst. for Research In The Environmental Sciences(CIRES)/Univ. of Colorado, Boulder, CO; and J. Rasure and D. Koechner, Univ. of New Mexico,Albuquerque, New Mexico

5 1 A.4 THE GLOBAL GROUND - TRUTH MONITORING SYSTEM. Tom Van Sant, The GeoSphere Project,Santa Monica, CA; and R. Gird, NOAA/National Weather Service (NWS), Washington, DC

7 1A.5 AN INTERACTIVE DOPPLER RADAR AND WEATHER DETECTION ALGORITHM DISPLAYSYSTEM. Sarah S. Sanger, NOAA/National Severe Storms Laboratory (NSSL), Norman, OK

II 1 A.6 A GRAPHICAL USER INTERFACE SYSTEM FOR REAL-TIME AND POST-PROCESSING DISPLAYAND ANALYSIS OF AIRCRAFT MEASUREMENTS. Gary Horton, National Center for AtmosphericResearch (NCAR), Boulder, CO

17 1A.7 VISUALIZATIONS OF THE WAM THIRD-GENERATION WAVE MODEL. Paul A. Wittmann and R.M. Clancy, Fleet Numerical Oceanography Center (FLENUMOCEANCEN); and C. Kunitani, CrayResearch, Inc., Monterey, CA

23 1A.8 AN INTEGRATED APPROACH TO GRAPHICAL FORECAST EDITING. Joseph S. Wakefield andM. A. Mathewson, NOAA/Forecast Systems Laborator (FSL), Boulder, CO

27 1 A.9 THE METPRO WORKSTATION VERSION 3.0. John Stout, T. Donaldson, and M. Mazzella, GeneralSciences Corp., Laurel, MD

32 1A.10 A HUMAN-COMPUTER INTERFACE FOR MANAGING COMPLEX COMPUTATIONAL TASKS.Steven S. Fine, S. Chall, and D. Hwang, MCNC - Information Technologies, Research Triangle Park,NC

37 1 A.11 METEOROLOGICAL APPLICATIONS TOOLS FOR GENERATING IMAGES FROM GRIDDED DATAON THE SATELLITE DATA HANDLING SYSTEM AT AFGWC. John V. Zapotocny, Air Force GlobalWeather Central, Offutt AFB and Sterling Software, Bellevue, NE

39 1A.12 ENHANCED AVIS. Ernest R. Talpey, TASC, Reading, MA

44 1 A.13 XLIGHT: AN INTERACTIVE LIGHTNING ANALYSIS AND DISPLAY SYSTEM. Matthew S. Gilmore,A. H. Perez, R. E. Orville, and L. J. Wicker, Texas A&M Univ., College Station, TX

48 1A.14 YNOT - AN ALGORITHM DEVELOPMENT TOOL FOR SPATIAL DATA ANALYSIS ANDVISUALIZATION. Mitchell S. Baltuch, UCAR, Boulder, CO

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53 1A.15 INVESTIGATIONS OF Tcl/Tk IN BUILDING A GRAPHICAL USER INTERFACE FOR MclDAS-X.Thomas Yoksas, UCAR, Boulder, CO; and S. Gorski and D. Santek, Univ. of Wisconsin, Madison,Wl

58 1A.16 USER INPUT IN SCIENTIFIC APPLICATIONS. Anne R. Messenger, CIRES/Univ. of Colorado,

Boulder, CO

SESSION 1B: DATA ACCESS

62 1B.1 FUTURE ON-LINE DATA ACCESS AT NOAA'S NATIONAL CLIMATIC DATA CENTER. Wayne M.Faas and R. J. Snodgrass, NOAA/National Climatic Data Center (NCDC), Asheville, NC

67 1B.2 ASOS DATA CONTINUITY. Rex J. Snodgrass and R. S. Cram, NOAA/National EnvironmentalSatellite Data Information Service (NESDIS)/NCDC, Asheville, NC

73 1 B.3 ACCESS AND USE OF DIGITAL DATA FROM LARGE HISTORICAL ARCHIVES. Otis F. Graf, IBMFederal Systems Co., Houston, TX; and S. Worley, NCAR, Boulder, CO

79 1B.4 HYDROLOGICAL DATA COLLECTION AND DISSEMINATION SYSTEM IN JAPAN (FRICSSYSTEM). Takumi Nishihara and Y. Tsutsumi, Foundation of River & Basin IntegratedCommunications (FRICS System), Tokyo, Japan

85 1B.5 DEVELOPMENT OF PERSONAL TERMINALS FOR THE FRICS SYSTEM. Takumi Nishihara, T.Aoshima, and Y. Nikaidou, FRICS, Tokyo, Japan

91 1 B.6 INFORMATION MODELING FOR METEOROLOGICAL DATABASES AND SERVICES. J. A. McNitt,Integrated Performance Decisions, Arlington, VA

97 1 B.7 THE USE OFTHE HIERARCHICAL DATA FORMAT (HDF) WITH SPECIAL SENSOR MIRCOWAVEIMAGER (SSM/I) DATA. Robert N. Trapnell, Jr., New Technology Inc.; and D. M. Hardin, Univ. ofAlabama, Huntsville, AL

103 1B.9 DATA ACCESS USING REMOTE-NFS. Donald R. Mock and R.H. Beeler, NOAA/ERL, Boulder, CO

107 1B.10 INGESTING AND PROCESSING FREQUENTLY ARRIVING AND LARGE DATA SETS IN THEWORKSTATION ENVIRONMENT. MarySue Schultz and B. Inyan, NOAA/FSL, Boulder, CO

111 1B.11 A DATA MANAGEMENT SYSTEM FOR THE KUWAIT OIL WELL FIRE MEASUREMENTPROGRAM. Julie A. Haggerty, S. P. Carley, A. D. Michaelis, and D. B. Johnson, NCAR, Boulder,CO

116 1B.12 THE ROLE OF INTERACTIVE MEDIA IN THE NAVY'S ATMOSPHERIC CLIMATOLOGYPROGRAM. Dennis B. Ruth, US Navy; and B. L. Wallace, Naval Oceanography CommandDetachment, Asheville, NC

1B.13 PAPER WITHDRAWN

1B.14 PAPER WITHDRAWN

120 1B.15 SHARING OKLAHOMA MESONET DATA VIA PUBLIC DISPLAY TERMINALS. Timothy W. Hughes,M. A. Shafer, and W. G. McPherson, Jr., Oklahoma Climatological (OCS), Norman, OK


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125 1B.16 A DATASET DESCRIPTION LANGUAGE. James G. Welsh, CIRES/Univ. of Colorado; and D. R.Mock and S. D. Woodruff, NOAA/ERL, Boulder, CO

128 1B.17 DESIGNING NETCDF FILE FORMAT GUIDELINES TO MAXIMIZE SOFTWARE TOOLINTEROPERABILITY: A CASE STUDY. Susan E. Lynds, CIRES/Univ. of Colorado, Boulder, CO

131 1B.18 THE UNIDATA LDM: PROGRAMS AND PROTOCOLS FOR FLEXIBLE PROCESSING OF DATAPRODUCTS. Glenn P. Davis and R. K. Rew, UCAR, Boulder, CO

137 1B.19 INTERACTIVE DISPLAY OF OKLAHOMA MESONET DATA FOR PUBLIC SERVICE AGENCIES.Dale A. Morris, OCS, Norman, OK

1B.20 THE ENVIRONMENTAL DATA GRAPHICS AND EVALUATION (EDGE) SYSTEM: VERSION 4.Charles Brown, K. Sief and J. Caldwell, Hughes/STX Corp., Lanham, MD; and M. Chalfant and D.Clark, NOAA/NESDIS, Washington, DC

143 1B.21 OPERATIONAL APPLICATIONS AT NESDIS USING THE ENVIRONMENTAL DATA GRAPHICSAND EVALUATION (EDGE) SYSTEM. Anthony L. Reale, NOAA/NESDIS, Washington, DC; H. J.Bloom, Hughes STX Corp., Lanham; and D. R. Donahue, SMSRC Corp., Bowie, MD

148 1B.22 AN ARCHIVE OF DIGITAL DATA FROM THE DEFENSE METEOROLOGICAL SATELLITEPROGRAM (DMSP). Herbert W. Kroehl, NOAA/National Geophysical Data Center (NGDC); G. R.Scharfen, CIRES/Univ. of Colorado, Boulder, CO; E. S. Arrance, USAF Air Weather Service, LosAngeles, CA; and S. J. Goodman, NASA/Marshall Space Flight Center (MSFC), Huntsville, AL

154 1B.23 A USER SERVICES CAPABILITY FOR THE DEFENSE METEOROLOGICAL SATELLITEPROGRAM (DMSP) DIGITAL DATA ARCHIVE. Greg R. Scharfen and K. W. Knowles, CIRES/Univ.of Colorado; and H. W. Kroehl, NOAA/NGDC, Boulder, CO

1 B.24 COMPUMOD: THE RETRIEVAL AND PROCESSING OF REAL-TIME DATA USING A PC-BASEDGRAPHICAL USER INTERFACE. Ian McLaurin, Environment Canada; and J. Cadham,CadhamHayes Systems, Inc., Ottawa, Canada

SESSION 2A: IIPS IN EUROPE

160 2A.1 VISUALIZING DWD'S NUMERICAL OUTPUT FOR THE PUBLIC. H.-J. Koppert, DeutscherWetterdienst, Offenbach; and F. Schroder and G. Sakas, Fraum Hofer Inst. for Computer Graphics,Darmstadt, Germany

164 2A.2 THE ECMWF RE-ANALYSIS (ERA) PROJECT - PLANS AND CURRENT STATUS. J.K.Gibson,P. Kallberg, A. Nomura, and S. Uppala, European Center For Medium-Range Weather Forecasts(ECMWF), Reading, UK

168 2A.3 THE FINNISH METEOROLOGICAL INSTITUTE WORKSTATION: AN OPERATIONALMETEOROLOGIST'S VIEWPOINT. Seija Paasonen, Finnish Meteorological Inst., Helsinki, Finland

170 2A.4 HORACE: PROJECT STRUCTURE AND UPDATE. Patrick J. Stevens, UK Met Office, Bracknell,Berkshire, UK


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175 2A.5 INTRODUCTION OF METEOROLOGICAL WORKSTATIONS AT THE ROYAL NETHERLANDSMETEOROLOGICAL INSTITUTE (KNMI). C. Lemcke, Royal Netherlands Meteorological Inst., DeBilt, The Netherlands

178 2A.6 MIGRATION FROM A CENTRAL MAINFRAME COMPUTING SYSTEM TO A UNIX CLIENTSERVER NETWORK SYSTEM. Heinrich Mueller, Swiss Meteorological Inst., Zurich, Switzerland

182 2A.7 "METEO-FUZZY" AN EXPERT SYSTEM FOR FOG FORECASTING. Liviu Dragulanescu and O.Diaconu, National Inst. of Meteorology and Hydrology; and C. Stelescu, "Danemar s.r.l." Co.,Burcharest, Romania

186 2A.8 A LIMITED AREA NUMERICAL WEATHER PREDICTION SYSTEM FOR DEVELOPINGCOUNTRIES BASED ON NEW TECHNOLOGIES. J. K. Daniel Soderman, ICSC - World Lab., Erice,Italy

190 2A.9 METVIEW/ws - AN APPLICATION FOR DATA PROCESSING AND VISUALIZATION AT ECMWFAND INPE/CPTEC. Jens Daabeck, B. Norris, K. Petersen, E. Nishimura, and S. Lamy-Thepaut,ECMWF, Reading, UK; and G. Camara Neto, and R. Cartaxo Modesto de Souza, Inst. Nacional dePesquisas Espaciais (INPE), Sao Jose dos Campos, Brazil

194 2A.10a METEOROLOGICAL PC AND VIDEOTEXT APPLICATIONS AT METEO-FRANCE. A.Lasserre-Bigorry, C. Gaillard, and N. Marie, METEO-FRANCE, Toulouse, France

196 2A.10b OPERATIONAL WORKSTATIONS AT METEO-FRANCE: RECENT PROGRESS OF THESYNERGIE PROJECT. P. Benichou, M. F. Voidrot, and C. Berthou, METEO-FRANCE, Toulouse,France

200 2A.11 THE METEOROLOGICAL APPLICATION - AND PRESENTATION SYSTEM (MAP) OFDEUTSCHER WETTERDIENST (DWD). Wolfgang Kusch, H.-J. Koppert, and M. Pogoda, DeutscherWetterdienst, Offenback, Germany

SESSION 3A: INTERACTIVE INFORMATION SYSTEMS IN OPERATIONAL METEOROLOGY

204 3A.1 A COOPERATIVE INFORMATION PROCESSING PARTNERSHIP FOR THE 21ST CENTURY - THEGROWING NAVY-NOAA CENTER OF EXCELLENCE ON THE MONTEREY PENINSULA. Carl D.Thormeyer, FLENUMOCEANCEN; and W. G. Schramm, NOAA/National Ocean Service, Monterey,CA

208 3A.2 A COMPARISON OF THUNDERSTORM ENERGY INDICES COMPUTED ON DIFFERENTWORKSTATIONS. Travis M. Smith and D. W. Burgess, NOAA/WSR-88D Operational SupportFacility (OSF), Norman, OK

213 3A.3 DESIGN OF AN OPERATIONAL FORECASTING SYSTEM FOR LOCALIZED AND SEA BREEZETHUNDERSTORMS AT THE KENNEDY SPACE CENTER. Walter A. Lyons, C. J. Tremback, R. L.Walko, R. A. Pielke, and W. R. Cotton, ASTeR, Inc., Ft. Collins, CO

219 3A.4 VERIFICATION OF THE AIR FORCE GLOBAL WEATHER CENTRAL'S SHORT RANGE CLOUDFORECAST MODEL ON A WORKSTATION. Kevin P. Callahan, R. B. Kiess, and J. M. Lanicci, AirForce Global Weather Central, Offutt AFB, NE


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222 3A.5 AN ASSESSMENT OF TEMPERATURE, PRECIPITATION, AND RELATIVE HUMIDITY DATACONTINUITY WITH ASOS. Thomas B. McKee, N. J. Doesken, and J. Kleist, Colorado State Univ.,Ft. Collins, CO; N. L. Canfield, Univ. of Maryland, College Park; and M. S. Uhart, NOAA/NWS, SilverSpring, MD

226 3A.6 LOCKHEED METEOSTAR(™) ENVIRONMENTAL SYSTEMS. James L. Hatch, Lockheed Missiles& Space Co. Inc., Austin, TX

232 3A.7 MARINE FORECAST GUIDANCE FROM AN INTERACTIVE PROCESSING SYSTEM. Andrew R.Shashy and H. G. McRandal, Jr., NOAA/NMC; and J. G. Kinnard and W. S. Richardson,NOAA/Ocean Products Ctr., Camp Springs, MD

238 3A.8 TECHNIQUES FOR MANUAL INTERACTIVE EDITING OF THE NEXRAD RADAR CODEDMESSAGE. Alan M. Cope, NOAA/National Severe Storms Forecast Center (NSSFC), Kansas City,MO

242 3A.9 NOWCASTING OF VESSEL ICING ON A SHIPBOARD WORKSTATION. Thomas F. Lee, NavalResearch Lab. (NRL), Monterey, CA; and J. M. Reeves, U. S. Naval Academy, Annapolis, MD

247 3A.10 AN INTERCOMPARISON OF THE AREAL RAINFALL ESTIMATES OBTAINED THROUGH AWSR-88D RADAR, A NMC MODEL, A CLOUD MODEL, AND RAINGAGES IN MISSOURI.Gandikota V. Rao and J. V. Zarauz, Saint Louis Univ., St. Louis, MO

3A.11 AWIPS AND THE OPERATIONAL FORECASTER AND HYDROLOGIST. Terry C. Tarbell and LR. Johnson, PRC Inc., McLean, VA

3A.12 AUSTRALIAN INTEGRATED FORECASTING SYSTEM. Geoff Love, G. Holland, and B. Neal,Australian Bureau of Meteorology, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

SESSION 3B: SPECIAL SESSION ON THE EARTH OBSERVING SYSTEM DATA AND INFORMATIONSYSTEM

3B.1 EOSDIS - NASA'S EARTH SCIENCE DATA AND INFORMATION SYSTEM, AN OVERVIEW.Martha E. Maiden, NASA, Washington, DC

3B.2 EOS DATA AND INFORMATION SYSTEM: CURRENT STATUS OF DATA POLICY AND PRICING.Jeffrey L. Starr, Universities Space Research Association (USRA), Washington, DC

3B.3 DATA AVAILABILITY FROM EOSDIS. Mathew Schwaller, NASA/GSFC, Greenbelt, MD

3B.4 FOUR-DIMENSIONAL DATA ASSIMILATION SYSTEM FOR EARTH SCIENCE APPLICATIONS:OUTPUT AVAILABILITY. Richard Rood, NASA/GSFC, Greenbelt, MD

3B.5 THE EARTH OBSERVING SYSTEM DATA AND INFORMATION SYSTEM (EOSDIS) VERSION 0INFORMATION MANAGEMENT SYSTEM (IMS) CAPABILITY. Kenneth R. McDonald, NASA/GSFC,Greenbelt, MD

249 3B.6 QUERY SCENARIOS FOR INTERDISCIPLINARY SCIENTISTS INTERFACING WITH EOSDIS,VERSION 0 SERIES II. Sidney A. Wood and G. D. Emmitt, Simpson Weather Associates, Inc.,Charlottesville, VA; and K. R. McDonald, NASA/GSFC, Greenbelt, MD


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254 3B.7 AN OVERVIEW OF THE VERSION-0 GODDARD DISTRIBUTED ACTIVE ARCHIEVE CENTER.Paul Chan, B. Meeson, L. Olsen, and G. Serafino, NASA/GSFC, Greenbelt, MD

SESSION 4A: NWS MODERNIZATION WORKSHOP: NWS MODERNIZATION OVERVIEW

4A.1 MODERNIZATION NEWS AND SIGNIFICANT EVENTS. Elbert W. Friday, NOAA/NWS, SilverSpring, MD

4A.2 MODERNIZATION PROGRAM ACTIVITIES - A LONGER RANGE PERSPECTIVE. Lou Boezi,NOAA/NWS, Silver Spring, MD

4A.3 MODERNIZATION TRANSITION PROGRAM AND ITS CURRENT STATUS. Steve Short,NOAA/NWS, Silver Spring, MD

4A.4 FUTURE BENEFITS OF THE MODERNIZATION OF THE NATION'S WEATHER SERVICE. WarrenM. Washington, NCAR, Boulder, CO

SESSION 4B: SPECIALIZED SESSION ON THE NAVAL ENVIRONMENTAL OPERATIONALNOWCASTING SYSTEM

260 4B.1 AN OPERATIONAL IMPLEMENTATION OF THE NEONS DATABASE. Neil McLennan, AES,Vancouver B.C.; and D. Dueck, AES, Downsview Ontario, Canada

4B.2 A TAPE BASED DATA ARCHIVAL SYSTEM FOR NEONS. Scott Christensen, C. Stein, and T.Tsui,NRL, Monterey, CA

264 4B.3 A HYBRID MODEL FOR THE SHORT-TERM PREDICTION OF HYDROMETEORS. Roland E.Nagle, Computer Sciences Corp. Monterey, CA

268 4B.4 THE GLOBAL CLIMATE PERSPECTIVES SYSTEM: AN INTELLIGENT DATABASE SYSTEM FORTHE ANALYSIS OF ENVIRONMENTAL DATA. Thomas J. Carroll and C. B. Baker, NOAA/NCDC,Asheville, NC

278 4B.5 THE DEVELOPMENT OF AN INTEGRATED ENVIRONMENTAL DATA BASE FOR NAVYOPERATIONAL PRODUCTION COMPUTERS INTO THE 21ST CENTURY. James L. Copeland andR. J. Plante, FLENUMOCEANCEN, Monterey, CA

283 4B.6 NEONS AS A GATEWAY TO NEAR REAL-TIME OCEANOGRAPHIC AND ATMOSPHERIC DATA.William G. Schramm, NOAA/Ocean Applications Branch, Monterey, CA

SESSION 5A: IIPS IN RESEARCH AND EDUCATION

285 5A.1 TAO SOFTWARE FOR REAL-TIME AND HISTORICAL TOGA-TAO DATA DISPLAY ANDANALYSIS. N. N. Soreide, D. C. McClurg, and M. J. McPhaden, NOAA/Pacific Marine EnvironmentalLaboratory (PMEL); W. H. Zhu, Univ. of Washington, Seattle; and D. W. Denbo, Battelle, PNL,Sequim, WA

291 5A.2 SIMULATING DAILY WEATHER DURING A YEAR AT A STATION: SYSTEM OVERVIEW OF THEINTERACTIVE SOFTWARE 'WESIM.' Richard L. Lehman, NOAA/NWS, Washington, DC


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293 5A.3 COMPUTER-BASED TRAINING DEVELOPED BY THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TRAININGCENTER AS CORRESPONDENCE TRAINING. James P. Kaplafka, NOAA/NWS, Kansas City, MO

5A.4 REAL-TIME GRAPHICAL MONITORING OF LABORATORY EXPERIMENTS. Fred V. Brock, OCS,Norman, OK

297 5A.5 UNIDATA SUPPORT OF GEMPAK AS AN EDUCATION AND RESEARCH TOOL. Margaret Bruehl,UCAR, Boulder, CO

303 5A.6 DEVICE-INDEPENDENT COLORMAPS: A CLIMATE RESEARCH DATA TOOLS CASE HISTORY.Julia A. Collins, CIRES/Univ. of Colorado, Boulder, CO

5A.7 BLUE SKIES - A NEW INTERACTIVE TEACHING TOOL AND CURRICULUM FOR K-12EDUCATION-TECHNOLOGY. Perry J. Samson, A. Steremberg, J. Ferguson, and J. Masters, Univ.of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Ml

5A.8 BLUE SKIES - A NEW INTERACTIVE TEACHING TOOL AND CURRICULUM FOR K-12EDUCATION-TECHNOLOGY - CLASSROOM DEMONSTRATION. Perry J. Samson, A.Steremberg, J. Ferguson, and J. Masters, Univ. of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Ml

SESSION 5B: NWS MODERNIZATION WORKSHOP: MODERNIZATION ISSUES AND STATUS I

5B.1 AWIPS MODERNIZATION ISSUES. Mark McCloy, NOAA/NWS/AWIPS Program, Silver Spring, MD

5B.2 WSR-88D MODERNIZATION ISSUES. Robert E. Brown, NOAA/NWS/NEXRAD Program, SilverSpring, MD

5B.3 ASOS MODERNIZATION ISSUES. Richard Reynolds, NOAA/NWS/ASOS Program, Silver Spring,MD

5B.4 GOES AND POLAR ORBITER MODERNIZATION ISSUES. Thomas McGunigal, NOAA/NWS/GOESProgram, Silver Spring, MD

SESSION 6A: NWS MODERNIZATION WORKSHOP: MODERNIZATION ISSUES AND STATUS II

6A.1 AWIPS TRANSITION INTO OPERATIONS. Denny Walts, NOAA/FSL, Boulder, CO

6A.2 WSR-88D TRANSITION INTO OPERATIONS. Donald Burgess, OSF, Norman, OK

6A.3 PROFILER TRANSITION INTO OPERATIONS. Russell B. Chadwick, NOAA/FSL, Boulder, CO

6A.4 ASOS TRANSITION INTO OPERATIONS. Mary Glacken, NOAA/NWS, Silver Spring, MD

6A.5 NESDIS/SATELLITE TRANSITION INTO OPERATION. Gary Davis, NOAA/NESDIS, Washington,DC

6A.6 AWIPS DEVELOPMENT FOR NMC AND TRANSITION INTO OPERATIONS. Anthony Mostek, M.desJardins, S. Schotz, and A. Wick, NOAA/NMC, Camp Springs, MD


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6B.1 A SOFTWARE ENVIRONMENT FOR EARTH SCIENCE COLLABORATION. Catherine Cormack,CIRES and NOAA/ERL/CMDL, Boulder, CO

6B.2 VIS-AD: A FLEXIBLE ENVIRONMENT FOR VISUAL ANALYSIS OF DATA FROM SATELLITES ANDOTHER COLLECTION SYSTEMS. William Hibbard, Univ. of Wisconsin, Madison, Wl

6B.3 THE INTERACTIVE IMAGE SPREADSHEET ENVIRONMENT FOR VISANALYSIS OF THEMISSION TO PLANET EARTH DATABASE. K. Palaniappan, NOAA/GSFC, Greenbelt, MD

6B.4 UPDATING THE INTERACTIVE FLASH FLOOD ANALYZER FOR THE GOES-I ERA. Nina Jackson,NOAA/NESDIS, Washington, DC

SESSION 7A: U. S. NATIONAL SYSTEMS WORKSHOP: DOPPLAR RADAR PROGRAMS ANDAPPLICATIONS

7A.1 DOPPLER RADAR STUDIES OF TROPICAL CYCLONES. Frank Marks, NOAA/Hurricane ResearchDivision (HRD), Miami, FL

7A.2 THE ELDORA AIRBORNE DOPPLER WEATHER RADAR PROGRAM. Peter H. Hildebrand, NCAR,Boulder, CO

7A.3 WIND PROFILING IN THE TROPICS. Kenneth Gage, NOAA/Aeronomy Lab (AL), Boulder, CO

7A.4 NEXRAD/AIR FORCE TACTICAL WEATHER RADAR DUAL USE OPPORTUNITY. Thomas Neff,The MITRE Corp., McLean, VA

SESSION 7B: NWS MODERNIZATION WORKSHOP: OPERATIONAL EXPERIENCES OF FUTUREMODERNIZATION SYSTEMS

7B.1 WARNING OPERATIONS AT A FUTURE WEATHER FORECAST OFFICE. William Bunting,NOAA/NWS, Pleasant Hill, MO

7B.2 OPERATIONAL EXPERIENCES WITH THE WSR-88D. Donald Burgess, NOAA/OSF, Norman, OK

7B.3 RECENT DEVELOPMENTS IN THE NOAA WIND PROFILER DEMONSTRATION NETWORK. Dougvan de Kamp, NOAA/FSL, Boulder, CO

7B.4 ASOS OPERATIONS AND MONITORING CENTER (AOMC) DEVELOPMENTS. Richard Thigpen,NOAA/NWS, Silver Spring, MD

SESSION 8A: U.S. NATIONAL SYSTEMS: REMOTE SENSING PROGRAMS AND APPLICATIONS

8A.1 REMOTE SENSING PROGRAMS AT NOAA'S WAVE PROPAGATION LABORATORY (WPL).Steven F. Clifford and D. Beran, NOAA/ERL/WPL, Boulder, CO

8A.2 REMOTE SENSING PROGRAMS AT THE PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY. Dennis W.Thompson, Penn State Univ., University Park, PA

8A.3 NCAR REMOTE SENSING ACTIVITIES. Peter H. Hildebrand, NCAR, Boulder, CO


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8A.4 RADAR REMOTE SENSING ACTIVITIES AT CSU: LAND-BASED AND SHIP-BASED PROJECTS.Steven Rutledge, Colorado State Univ. Ft. Collins, CO

SESSION 8B: NWS MODERNIZATION PROGRAM: MODERNIZATION AND WATER RESOURCESAPPLICATIONS

8B.1 USE OF THE PUPIE FOR WATER CONTROL. Charles Sullivan, HQ USACE, Washington, DC

8B.2 CALIBRATING AN OROGRAPHIC PRECIPITATION MODEL USING A GIS AND A SCIENTIFICVISUALIZATION SYSTEM. William A. Battaglin and L. Hay, USGS, Lakewood, CO

8B.3 DEMONSTRATION OF THE NATIONAL WATER INFORMATION SYSTEM II. Thomas H. Yorke,USGS, Reston, VA

8B.4 INTERACTIVE MAPPING AND QUERY OF REALTIME DATA FROM A HYDROLOGIC ALERTNETWORK. Susan C. Lambert, USGS, Columbia SC

ELECTRONIC POSTER SESSION P1

P1.1 ENVISION: INTERACTIVE SOFTWARE FOR THE ANALYSIS AND DISPLAY OF LARGE DATASETS. Kenneth P. Bowman and S. Pathi, Texas A&M Univ, College Station, TX; and R. B.Wilhelmson, J. E. Walsh, and K. R. Searight, Univ. of Illinois, Urbana, IL

306 P1.2 INTERACTIVE PRESENTATION OF METEOROLOGICAL INFORMATION (XOBS). Dennis Schulzeand T. Dummel, Free Univ. of Berlin, Berlin, Germany

392 P1.3 REAL-TIME DATA RECEPTION AND PROCESSING FOR RESEARCH AND WEATHER SERVICEAT THE FREE UNIVERSITY OF BERLIN. Thomas Dummel and D. Schulze, Free Univ. of Berlin,Berlin, Germany

SESSION 9A: NWS MODERNIZATION WORKSHOP: MODERNIZATION TEST, EVALUATION, AND RISKREDUCTION ISSUES

9A.1 THE ROLE OF RISK REDUCTION ACTIVITIES IN NWS MODERNIZATION EFFORTS. GaryGrice,NOAA/NWS, Ft. Worth, TX

9A.2 TEST AND EVALUATION ACTIVITIES FOR THE WSR-88D AT THE OPERATIONAL SUPPORTFACILITY (OSF). Rex Reed, NOAA/OSF, Norman, OK

9A.3 THE USE OF DEVELOPMENT AND OPERATIONAL TEST AND EVALUATION TO VERIFY THEEFFECTIVENESS OF METEOROLOGICAL SYSTEMS. Robert Elvander, NOAA/NWS, Silver Spring,MD

9A.4 THE DEVELOPMENT AND OPERATIONAL TEST AND EVALUATION OF MODERNIZED RIVERFORECAST CENTER (RFC) HYDROMETEOROLOGIC APPLICATIONS. Thomas Adams,NOAA/NWS, Hydrologic Research Laboratory (HRL), Silver Spring, MD

310 9A.5 INNOVATIVE RISK MANAGEMENT FOR NEXRAD. Robert E. Brown, NOAA/NEXRAD, SilverSpring, MD; and H. M. Strong and D. Dunlop, The MITRE Corp., McLean, VA


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9B.1 A NATIONAL SYSTEM FOR EXTENDED STREAMFLOW PREDICTION. Michael Hudlow,NOAA/NWS, Silver Spring, MD

9B.2 TOWARDS A NATIONAL COASTAL FORECAST SYSTEM (CFS). Curt Mason, NOAA CoastalOcean Program, Washington, DC

9B.3 DEVELOPMENT OF AN INTERACTIVE WEATHER ANALYSIS AND DISPLAY SYSTEM TOSUPPORT AGRICULTURAL PLANNING. Leon F. Osborne, Jr. and B. C. Hahn, Univ. of NorthDakota, University Station, ND

9B.4 RASS TEMPERATURE MEASUREMENTS WITH WIND PROFILING RADARS. Richard Strauch,NOAA/ERL/WPL, Boulder, CO

SESSION 10A: NWS MODERNIZATION WORKSHOP: ADDITIONAL OPERATIONAL EXPERIENCES WITHSYSTEMS ASSOCIATED WITH THE MODERNIZATION

10A.1 THE U.S. WEATHER RESEARCH PROGRAM: THE ROLE OF RESEARCH IN THEMODERNIZATION. C. M. Bhumralkar, NOAA/Oceanic and Atmospheric Research (OAR), SilverSpring, MD

10A.2 OPERATIONS IN THE MODERNIZED RIVER FORECAST CENTER (RFC). Dale Lillie,NOAA/NWS/River Forecast Center (RFC), Tulsa, OK

10A.3 OPERATIONS IN THE MODERNIZED WEATHER SERVICE FORECAST OFFICE. DennisMcCarthy, NOAA/NWS/Weather Service Forecast Office (WSFO), Norman, OK

10A.4 USE OF COMPLEMENTARY TECHNOLOGIES IN AN OPERATIONAL ENVIRONMENT. JamesBelville, NOAA/NWS/WSFO, Norman, OK

10A.5 A YEAR OF NIDS: LESSONS LEARNED. Todd S. Glickman, WSI Corporation, Billerica, MA

SESSION 10B: U.S. NATIONAL SYSTEMS WORKSHOP: AVIATION ORIENTED TECHNOLOGIES IN U.S.NATIONAL SYSTEMS

10B.1 AN OVERVIEW OF FAA-SPONSORED AVIATION WEATHER RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT.David Sankey, Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), Washington, DC

10B.2 THE FORECAST SYSTEMS LABORATORY'S ROLE IN THE AVIATION WEATHERDEVELOPMENT PROGRAM. Michael Kraus, NOAA/ERL, Boulder, CO

10B.3 NCAR'S ROLE IN THE AVIATION WEATHER DEVELOPMENT PROGRAM. John McCarthy andR. Wagner, NCAR, Boulder, CO

10B.4 EVOLUTION OF TERMINAL AVIATION WEATHER INFORMATION. James Evans, MIT LincolnLab., Lexington, MA

10B.5 NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WORK WITH NEW AVIATION PRODUCTS. Dorothy Haldeman,NOAA/NWS, Silver Spring, MD


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11 A.1 THE APPLICATION OF MODERNIZATION EQUIPMENT TO RESEARCH AND TECHNIQUEDEVELOPMENT. Leslie Lemon, Paramax System Corp., Great Neck, NY

11 A.2 CONSIDERATIONS OF ADVANCED ALGORITHMS, MESOSCALE MODELS, AND VISUALIZATIONTECHNIQUES WITHIN THE MODERNIZATION. Robert Saffle and H. Schmidt, NOAA/NWS, SilverSpring, MD

316 11 A.3 THE LOCAL DATA ACQUISITION AND DISSEMINATION (LDAD) FUNCTION OF AWIPS. JamesE. Lee, NOAA/NWS, Silver Spring, MD

11 A.4 OPEN SYSTEM OPPORTUNITIES IN THE NWS MODERNIZATION. Jeffrey Hmara, NOAA/SystemsEngineering Office, Silver Spring, MD; and T. Neff, The MITRE Corp., McLean, VA

11A.5 AWIPS LOCAL SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT AND ITS ROLE IN THE MODERNIZATION. TerryC. Tarbell and W. H. Yale, PRC Inc., McLean, VA

SESSION 11B: U.S. NATIONAL SYSTEMS WORKSHOP: NETWORK SYSTEMS AND THEIRAPPLICATIONS IN U.S. NATIONAL SYSTEMS

11B.1 THE OKLAHOMA MESONETWORK: VISION TO REALITY. Kenneth Crawford, Univ. of Oklahoma,Norman, OK

11 B.2 THE EVOLUTION OF LOCAL FLOOD WARNING SYSTEMS: THE DENVER EXPERIENCE ANDNETWORKING OF USER'S GROUPS. Kevin G. Stuart, Flood Plain Management Program, Denver,CO

11B.3 A PROTOTYPE FLASH FLOOD WARNING SYSTEM. Robert S. Davis, Pittsburgh WSFO,Coraopolis, PA

11B.4 SENSOR FUSION TECHNIQUES FOR PREDICTING THUNDERSTORM EVOLUTION USINGLIGHTNING AND RADAR NETWORKS. Steven J. Goodman, NASA/MSFC, Huntsville, AL

SESSION 12A: INTERACTIVE INFORMATION SYSTEM RESEARCH AT FORECAST SYSTEMSLABORATORY

320 12A.1 TRANSITIONING A REAL-TIME METEOROLOGICAL DATA INGEST, PROCESSING ANDDISTRIBUTION FACILITY TO AN OPEN SYSTEMS ENVIRONMENT. Peter A. Mandics and J. M.Brundage, NOAA/FSL, Boulder, CO

324 12A.2 A SURVEY OF DATA INGEST FOR THE FORECAST SYSTEMS LABORATORY. Darien L. Davisand G. J. Edwards, NOAA/FSL, Boulder, CO

330 12A.3 REAL-TIME ACQUISITION AND MANAGEMENT OF METEOROLOGICAL DATA - NEW SYSTEMSBEING DEVELOPED AT THE FORECAST SYSTEMS LABORATORY. Jeffrey Pedigo, Z. Chai, G.Duska, G. J. Edwards, R. Lipschutz, D. Osburn, A. Stanley, and G. Wahl, NOAA/FSL, Boulder, CO

336 12A.4 MANAGEMENT OF REAL-TIME METEOROLOGICAL DATA PROCESSING AT FSL. Richard L.Minton and J. M. Brundage, NOAA/FSL, Boulder, CO


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340 12A.5 MANAGING METEOROLOGICAL DATA IN AN OPEN SYSTEMS ENVIRONMENT AT THEFORECAST SYSTEMS LABORATORY. Joan M. Brundage and G. F. Pankow, NOAA/FSL, Boulder,CO

345 12A.6 TRANSITION OF COMPUTER SYSTEMS TO AN OPEN SYSTEMS ENVIRONMENT AT THEFORECAST SYSTEMS LABORATORY. Quin A. Wright, NOAA/FSL, Boulder, CO

349 12A.7 EVOLUTION OF THE FORECAST SYSTEMS LABORATORY REAL-TIME DATA NETWORK.Robert J. Clark, V. A. LeFebvre, H. S. Chesney, J. B. Janssen, and M. Moore, NOAA/FSL, Boulder,CO

354 12A.8 FX-ALPHA: A NEW FSL WORKSTATION. Carl S. Bullock and U. H. Grote, NOAA/FSL, Boulder,CO

SESSION 12B: ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE AND HIGH PERFORMANCE COMPUTING

358 12B.1 LINKING A HAZARDOUS SPILLS MODEL TO A GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEM (GIS).Randolph J. Evans and B. J. Provoncha, ENSCO, Inc. Melbourne, FL

362 12B.2 THE METEOROLOGICAL MONITORING SYSTEM (MMS). Randolph J. Evans, A.V. Dianic, and L.N. Moore, ENSCO, Inc., Melbourne, FL.

368 12B.3 THE PARALLELIZATION OF AN ATMOSPHERIC SIMULATION MODEL. Craig J. Tremback, R. L.Walko, and W. R. Cotton, Colorado State Univ., Ft. Collins, CO

372 12B.4 A GCM COMPARISON STUDY USING ENVISION. Keith R. Searight, X. Tao, W. L. Chapman, J.E. Walsh, and R. Wilhelmson, Univ. of Illinois, Urbana, IL; and K. P. Bowman, Texas A&M Univ.,College Station, TX

378 12B.5 INTERACTIVE CALCULATOR FOR USE WITH MULTI-DIMENSIONAL NETCDF FILES. Donald W.Denbo, Batelle, PNL, Sequim, WA

381 12B.6 APPLICATION OF NEURAL NETWORK TECHNIQUE FOR DETECTION OF SHIP TRACK FROMAVHRR CLOUD IMAGERY. Y. M. Fleming Lure, Y.-C. Rau, Y. S. Peter Chiou,, and H. Y. M. Yeh,Caelum Research Corp., Silver Spring, MD

385 12B.7 BROWSING AND LOSSLESS COMPRESSION OF AVHRR SATELLITE IMAGES WITH ANINTERPOLATIVE DECOMPOSITION TECHNIQUE. C. J. Joe Liou, Caelum Research Corp., SilverSpring, MD, and Penn State Univ, University Park, PA; Y. M. F. Lure and R. J. Stewart, CaelumResearch Corp, Silver Spring, MD

389 12B.8 THE ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE MODEL OUTPUT ANALYZER. Kimberly D. Strauss, Batelle, PNL,Sequim, WA

12B.9 VISANALYSIS OF THE MISSION TO PLANET EARTH DATABANKS. A. F. Hasler, K. Palaniappan,M. Manyin, NASA/GSFC, Greenbelt, MD

JOINT SESSION J1: NEW TECHNOLOGIES FOR THE CLASSROOM (Joint with 10th IIPS)

J1 J1.1 NCDC'S CD-ROM PRODUCTS AND ON-LINE SERVICES - A USEFUL TOOL FOR EDUCATORSPREPARING STUDENTS FOR THE 21 st CENTURY. Thomas F. Ross, NOAA/NCDC, Asheville, NC


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J40 J1.2 DISSEMINATION AND DISPLAY OF REAL-TIME MESONET DATA IN K-12 CLASSROOMS. ReneeA. McPherson and W. G. McPherson, Jr., Oklahoma Climatological Survey, Univ. of Oklahoma,Norman, OK

J5 J1.3 COMET: AN EDUCATION AND TRAINING PROGRAM FOR MESOSCALE METEOROLOGY.Timothy C. Spangler, B. E. Heckman, and V. C. Johnson, UCAR, Boulder, CO

J9 J1.4 BLUE-SKIES: A NEW INTERACTIVE TEACHING TOOL FOR K-12 EDUCATION. Perry J. Samson,A. Steremberg, J. Ferguson, M. Kamprath, J. Masters, M. Monan, and T. Mullen, Univ. of Michigan,Ann Arbor, Ml

J15 J1.5 UNIDATA INTERNET DATA DISTRIBUTION (IDD). Ben Domenico, S. Bates, and D. Fulker, UCAR,Boulder, CO

J21 J1.6 BURROWING INTO ON-LINE INFORMATION: THE PROMISE OF GOPHER AND OTHERINTERNET SERVERS. Sally Bates, UCAR, Boulder, CO

J30 J1.7 NETWORKED MULTIMEDIA SYSTEMS AND COLLABORATIVE VISUALIZATION. Mohan K.Ramamurthy, R. B. Wilhelmson, S. E. Hall, M. Sridhar, and J. G. Kemp, Univ. of Illinois, Urbana, IL

J34 J1.8 EXPERIENCE IN COMPUTER ASSISTED LEARNING IN A LARGE-LECTURE INTRODUCTORYMETEOROLOGY CLASS. Douglas N. Yarger and J. P. Boysen, Iowa State Univ., Ames, IA

J1.9 THE COMPUTER AS A LECTURE AID IN METEOROLOGY. Alistair B. Fraser, Penn State Univ.,University Park, PA

J1.10 COMPUTER-BASED LABORATORIES IN ATMOSPHERIC PHYSICS. T. P. Ackerman, W. H. Brune,D. Lamb, D. W. Thompson, and G. A. Young, Penn State Univ., University Park, PA

J38 J1.11 COMPUTER ASSISTED INSTRUCTION OF AN UNDERGRADUATE COURSE IN CLIMATECHANGE. John D. Horel, Univ. of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT

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