12th infernational conference on interactive …

12TH INFERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ONINTERACTIVE INFORMATION AND PROCESSING

SYSTEMS (UPS) FOR METEOROLOGY,OCEANOGRAPHY, AND HYDROLOGY

JANUARY 28-FEBRUARY 2,1996 ATLANTA, GEORGIA

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iii FOREWORD

AUTHOR INDEX

SESSION 1A: WEATHER INFORMATION PROCESSING FOR THE 1996 OLYMPICS

1 1A.1 THE OLYMPIC WEATHER SUPPORT SYSTEM. Lans P. Rothfusz, National Oceanic andAtmospheric Administation (NOAA)/National Weather Service (NWS), Peachtree City, GA; and J. T.Johnson, L C. Safford, M. R. McGlaughlin, and S. K. Rinard

7 1A.2 WEATHER INFORMATION DISPLAY, ANALYSIS AND PRODUCT GENERATION TOOLS USEDIN SUPPORT OF THE 1996 SUMMER OLYMPIC GAMES: DAILY FORECASTS. Lans P. Rothfusz,NOAA/National Weather Service Forecast Office (NWSFO), Peachtree City, GA; and J. Noffsinger,M. Peroutka, S. Schotz, and J. T. Johnson

13 1A.3 WEATHER INFORMATION DISPLAY, ANALYSIS AND PRODUCT GENERATION TOOLS USEDFOR SUPPORT OF THE 1996 SUMMER OLYMPIC GAMES: MESOSCALE ANALYSIS TOOLS.J. T. Johnson, National Severe Storms Lab. (NSSL)/NWS, Norman, OK; and G. DiMego, D. Molenar,L. P. Rothfusz, J. S. Snook, and P. A. Stamus

17 1A.4 WEATHER INFORMATION DISPLAY, ANALYSIS AND PRODUCT GENERATION TOOLS USEDFOR SUPPORT OF THE 1996 SUMMER OLYMPIC GAMES: WARNING TOOLS. J. T. Johnson,NOAA/NSSL, Norman, OK; and M. D. Eilts and L. P. Rothfusz

22 1 A.5 TRAINING FORECASTERS ON THE USE OF NEW WEATHER TECHNOLOGY IN SUPPORT OFTHE 1996 SUMMER OLYMPIC GAMES. Lans P. Rothfusz, NOAA/NWSFO, Ft. Worth, TX; andJ. T. Johnson, and S. K. Rinard

26 1A.6 MEETING WEATHER INFORMATION NEEDS OF THE 1996 SUMMER OLYMPIC GAMES:STRATEGIES, EXPERIENCES, AND OBSERVATIONS. Melvin R. McLaughlin, NOAA/NWSFO,Peachtree City, GA; and C. Garza, Jr., S. K. Rinard, and L P. Rothfusz

32 1 A.7 LOCAL DOMAIN FORECASTING SUPPORT TO THE 1996 ATLANTA OLYMPIC GAMES. John S.Snook, NOAA/FSL, Boulder, CO

36 1 A.8 PROVIDING WEATHER SUPPORT TO THE 1996 SUMMER OLYMPIC GAMES WITH THE LOCALANALYSIS AND PREDICTION SYSTEM (LAPS). Peter A. Stamus, NOAA/FSL, Boulder. CO

40 1A.9 THE INTEGRATION OF DIVERSE ENVIRONMENTAL DATA COLLECTION SYSTEMS USED INSUPPORT OF THE 1996 OLYMPIC GAMES. Carlos Garza, NWSFO, Peachtree City, GA; and G.Hoogenboom

43 1 A.10 NUMERICAL MODEL GUIDANCE FOR ATLANTA FROM A SUITE OF Eta MODEL RUNS AT THENATIONAL CENTERS FOR ENVIRONMENTAL PREDICTION (NCEP). Thomas Black,Environmental Modeling Center, NCEP, Camp Springs, MD; and G. DiMego, E. Rogers, and G.Vandenberghe

SESSION 1B: UPS IN THE ALASKAN REGION

47 1B.1 DEVELOPMENT EFFORTS AND OPERATIONS OF RISC BASED LAPTOPS FOR REMOTELOCATIONS. H. Lee Kelley, NOAA/NWS, Anchorage, AK; and J. Dragomir and W. L. Sparkman

1B.2 PAPER WITHDRAWN

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51 1B.3 DISTRIBUTION OF WEATHER SERVICE DATA IN TODAY'S COMPUTING ENVIRONMENT.William L. Sparkman, NOAA/NWS, Anchorage, AK

55 1B.4 DECISION ASSISTANCE TOOLS, ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE TECHNIQUES, AND ARONET.Douglas Christopherson, NOAA/NWSFO, Fairbanks, AK

59 1B.5 INTERACTIVE COMPUTER GENERATION OF FORECAST AND WARNINGS ON ARONET. JohnLingaas, NOAA/NWSFO, Fairbanks, AK; and K. Gilkey, and D. Christopherson

64 1 B.6 ARONET DECISION ASSISTANCE TOOLS: USING ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE TO FORECASTAIR POLLUTION FOR THE FAIRBANKS NORTH STAR BOROUGH. James Brader,NOAA/NWSFO, Fairbanks, AK; and J. Lingaas and D. Christopherson

70 1B.7 THE ALASKA REGION OPERATIONS NETWORK (ARONET): THE PAST, THE PRESENT, ANDTHE FUTURE. Kraig Gilkey, NOAA/NWSFO, Fairbanks, AK; and D. Christopherson

76 1 B.8 ELECTRONIC DOCUMENT DISTRIBUTION, ON-LINE HELP, AND USER DOCUMENTATION ON

ARONET. Douglas Christopherson, NOAA/NWSFO, Fairbanks, AK

SESSION 2: IIPS IN EUROPE

81 2.1 COMPRESSION OF WEATHER FORECAST DATA. Dietmar Saupe, Univ. Freiburg, Freiburg,Germany; and H. Hartenstein and W. Wergen

85 2.2 MODERNISATION OF METEOROLOGICAL INFORMATION AND VISUALISATION SYSTEM ATFINNISH METEOROLOGICAL INSTITUTE. Juha Kilpinen, Finnish Meteorological Inst., Helsinki,Finland; and P. Kukkonen, T. Kuoremaki, K. Niemela, V. Nyfors, P. Pirinen, and L. Winberg

87 2.3 CLIMATE DATA PROCESSING AT THE HADLEY CENTRE. Simon Tett, Hadley Ctr. for ClimatePrediction and Research, Bracknell, Berks., UK; and J. Gregory, T. Johns, and M. Carter

91 2.4 EXPERIENCES WITH THE GERMAN WEATHER RADAR NETWORKING. Arnold Meyer, GermanWeather Service, Offenbach, Germany

93 2.5 RESEARCH AND OPERATIONAL USE OF METVIEW AT ECMWF AND INPE. Jens Daabeck,ECMWF, Reading, Berks., UK; and B. Raoult, B. Norris, and G. Camara

95 2.6 OBS 2000, MESAN, AND RIPP; DIFFERENT DEVELOPMENT PROJECTS FOR INCREASEDEFFICIENCY AND AUTOMATIZATION OF THE PRODUCTION PROCESS IN SWEDEN. StefanNilsson, Swedish Meteorological and Hydrological Inst. (SMHI), Norrkoping, Sweden; and E. Liljas

101 2.7 MILMET: THE SWEDISH ARMED FORCES WEATHER SYSTEM. AN OVERVIEW. Mark F.Mihelic, GTE Government Systems, Baltimore, MD

105 2.8 MILMET SYSTEM CONFIGURATION. Linda Ehrlich, GTE Government Systems, Thousand Oaks,CA

2.9 A METEOROLOGICAL OBSERVATION MEASURING SYSTEM. Larry J. Gendernalik, GTEGovernment Systems, Thousand Oaks, CA


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108 2.10 SWEDISH ADDITIONS AND EXPERIENCES WITH THE MILMET SYSTEM. Ingemar Carlsson,Swedish Armed Forces Headquarters, Stockholm, Sweden

110 2.11 INTERACTIVE GRAPHICS IN AN OPERATIONAL ENVIRONMENT. Alan M. Radford, UK Met.Office, Bracknell, Berks., UK

113 2.12 VLF-BASED WIND FINDING WITHOUT OMEGA. Juhana Jaatinen, Vaisala Oy, Helsinki, Finland

118 2.13 A NEW HIGH-ALTITUDE LIDAR CEILOMETER FOR 75,000 FT. MEASUREMENT. Tero Kahkonen,Vaisala Oy, Helsinki, Finland; and J. Lonnqvist

121 2.14 SYNERGIE AS A STRATEGIC PROGRAM FOR METEO-FRANCE. Patrick Benichou, Meteo-France, Toulouse, France; and C. Berthou and M. F. Voidrot

125 2.15 ORGANIZATION AND DISTRIBUTION OF THE SHORTRANGE DATABASE WITH NEONS.Heinrich Mueller, Swiss Meteorological Inst., Zurich, Switzerland

SESSION 3: VISUALIZATION AND HUMAN FACTORS (Parallel with Session 2)

127 3.1 INTEGRATING Vis5D AS A VISUALIZATION MODULE WITH OTHER SYSTEMS. William LHibbard, Univ. of Wisconsin, Madison, Wl; and B. Paul

130 3.2 DEVELOPMENT OF SOPHISTICATED TECHNIQUES BY AIR FORCE GLOBAL WEATHERCENTRAL (AFGWC) PRODUCT IMPROVEMENT BRANCH (DOA) TO VISUALIZEMETEOROLOGICAL INFORMATION TO AFGWC CUSTOMERS. Jeffrey A. Doran, Air Force GlobalWeather Central (AFGWC), Offutt AFB, NE; and S. A. Rugg, J. B. Knowles, M. W. Miller, T. C. Skill,T. J. Burke, J. F. Langhorne, and G. R. Brooks

3.3 VISUALIZATION OF AVIATION-IMPACT VARIABLES. Kevin J. Brundage, NOAA/ EnvironmentalResearch Lab. (ERL)/FSL, Boulder, CO; and S. G. Benjamin

135 3.4 VISUALIZATION OF STORM AND TORNADO DEVELOPMENT FOR AN OMNIMAX FILM AND FORTHE CAVE. Robert Wilhelmson, Univ. of Illinois, Urbana, IL; and M. Arrott, L Wicker, D. Wojtowicz,C. Shaw, B. Lee, B. Jewett, M. Bajuk, M. McNeill, J. Terstriep, and V. Jaswal

139 3.5 REMOTE AND LOCAL VISUALIZATION AND ANALYSIS WITH THE FERRET PROGRAM. SteveHankin, NOAA/Pacific Marine Environmental Lab (PMEL), Seattle, WA; and D. E. Harrison, J.Osborne, J. Davison, and K. O'Brien

145 3.6 WEATHER ANALYSIS AND DISPLAY SYSTEM. W. M. Purcell, Environment Canada, Winnipeg,MB, Canada

149 3.7 IMPROVED SPACE-TIME VISUALIZATION AND ANALYSIS FOR DISPARATE EARTH-SYSTEMDATA. Mike Botts, Univ. of Alabama, Huntsville, AL; and R. Phillips

155 3.8 THE MclDAS-OS2 PM DISPLAY. John M. Benson, Univ. of Wisconsin, Madison, Wl; and T. M.Whittaker

160 3.9 RAMSDIS IN DIGITAL SATELLITE DATA TRAINING AND ANALYSIS. Debra Molenar,NOAA/NESDIS and Colorado State Univ./CIRA, Ft. Collins, CO; and K. J. Schrab, J. F. W. Purdom,and H. Gosden

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SESSION 4: IIPS AT THE FORECAST SYSTEMS LABORATORY (Parallel with Joint Session J1)

164 4.1 FROM WORKSTATIONS TO MPPs: SOFTWARE FOR PORTABLE PARALLELIZATION OF NWPMODELS. Leslie Hart, NOAA/ERL/FSL, Boulder, CO; and T. Henderson and B. Rodriguez

170 4.2 MASSIVELY PARALLEL PROCESSING TECHNOLOGY IN A QUASI-OPERATIONALENVIRONMENT. Thomas Henderson, NOAA/ERL/FSL, Boulder, CO; and L Hart and B. Rodriguez

176 4.3 USING NUMERICAL MODEL OUTPUT TO PROVIDE INITIAL FORECASTS OF SURFACEWEATHER FOR THE AFPS. Stuart K. Wier, NOAA/ERL/FSL, Boulder, CO; and J. S. Wakefield

180 4.4 THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE WFO-ADVANCED HYDROMETEOROLOGICAL WORKSTATION.Susan Williams, NOAA/ERL/FSL, Boulder, CO; and D. Davis

186 4.5 IMPLEMENTATION OF THE DATA ACQUISITION COMPONENT OF THE WFO-ADVANCED 2-DDISPLAY (D2D). G. Joanne Edwards, NOAA/ERL/FSL, Boulder, CO

190 4.6 WFO-ADVANCED: AN AWIPS-LIKE PROTOTYPE FORECASTER WORKSTATION. A. E.MacDonald, NOAA/ERL/FSL, Boulder, CO; and J. S. Wakefield

194 4.7 USING THE AWIPS FORECAST PREPARATION SYSTEM (AFPS). Mark A. Mathewson,NOAA/ERL/FSL. Boulder, CO

198 4.8 1995 REAL-TIME FORECAST EXERCISE FOR WFO-ADVANCED. William F. Roberts, NOAA/FSL,Boulder, CO; and P. C. Kucera, C. M. Lusk, D. C. Walker, and L. E. Johnson

202 4.9 USING RISC-BASED ARCHITECTURE AND DISTRIBUTED NETWORK DESIGN IN THEDEVELOPMENT OF THE WFO-ADVANCED WORKSTATION. U. Herbert Grate, NOAA/FSL,Boulder, CO; and R. Kahn

207 4.10 ADDING A SURVEILLANCE SUBSYSTEM TO THE EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT DECISIONSUPPORT (EMDS) SYSTEM. Chandran Subramaniam, NOAA/FSL, Boulder. CO

213 4.11 MERGING GTS AND NCDC RADIOSONDE DATA AT THE FORECAST SYSTEMSLABAORATORY. Mark W. Govett, NOAA/FSL, Boulder, CO

216 4.12 LOCAL DATA ANALYSIS AND THE MESOSCALE MODEL ON THE WFO-ADVANCEDWORKSTATION. Paul Schultz, NOAA/FSL, Boulder, CO

220 4.13 MANAGING REAL-TIME METEOROLOGICAL DATA PROCESSING AT FSL, THE NIMBUSPROCESS MANAGER - TWO YEARS LATER. Richard L. Minton, NOAA/FSL, Boulder. CO

SESSION 5: NWS MODERNIZATION WORKSHOP: MODERNIZATION UPDATE AND FUTUREDIRECTIONS

5.1 INTRODUCTION. Elbert (Joe) Friday, Jr., NOAA/NWS, Silver Spring, MD

5.2 ASOS - AVIATION DEMONSTRATION AND FUTURE PLANS AND ENHANCEMENTS. VickieNadolski, NOAA/NWS, Silver Spring, MD

5.3 ASOS CLIMATE CONTINUITY STUDY. Thomas B. McKee, Colorado State Univ., Ft. Collins, CO

5.4 GOES ASSESSMENT. Ronald S. Gird, NOAA/NWS, Silver Spring, MD

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5.5 NEXRAD OPERATIONAL ASSESSMENT. James Belville, NOAA/NWS, Silver Spring, MD

5.6 NEXRAD ENHANCEMENTS. Donald W. Burgess, NOAA/NWS, Silver Spring, MD

5.7 AWIPS DEVELOPMENT AND IMPLEMENTATION. Mary M. Glackin, NOAA/NWS, Silver Spring,MD

5.8 INITIAL AWIPS OPERATIONAL EXPERIENCES. Jim Lee, NOAA, Taunton, MA

SESSION 6: NWS MODERNIZATION WORKSHOP: SCIENCE ISSUES IN MODERNIZING SERVICES

6.1 SESSION OVERVIEW. Louis W. Uccellini, NOAA/ NWS/Office of Meteorology, Silver Spring, MD

6.2 QUANTITATIVE PRECIPITATION FORECASTING. Thomas M. Graziano, NOAA/NWS, SilverSpring, MD

6.3 RIVER AND FLOOD FORECASTING. George Smith, NOAA/NWS, Silver Spring, MD

6.4 DIRECTIONS IN MODELING AND FUTURE NUMERICAL GUIDANCE PRODUCTS. Geoff DiMego,NOAA/NWS, Camp Springs, MD

6.5 NORTH AMERICAN OBSERVING SYSTEM (NAOS). Frederick S. Zbar, NOAA/NWS/Office ofMeteorology, Silver Spring, MD

SESSION 7: U.S. NATIONAL SYSTEMS WORKSHOP

7.1 FLEET NUMERICAL METEOROLOGY AND OCEANOGRAPHY CENTER AS A NATIONAL CENTEROF EXPERTISE IN AIR/OCEAN MODELING. R. J. Plante, Fleet Numerical Meteorology andOceanography Ctr. (FNMOC), Monterey CA, and C. D. Thormeyer

7.2 PROGRESS IN THE VISUALIZATION OF PRESENT AND PLANNED OPERATIONALMETEOROLOGICAL AND OCEANOGRAPHIC PREDICTION CAPABILITIES AT THE FLEETNUMERICAL METEOROLOGY AND OCEANOGRAPHY CENTER. C. D. Thormeyer, FleetNumerical Meteorology and Oceanography Center, Monterey, CA, and E. A. Starr, R. M. Clancy, andP. W. May

7.3 SYSTEM MODERNIZATION AND ENHANCEMENT PROGRAMS AT THE AIR FORCE GLOBALWEATHER CENTRAL. John V. Zapotocny, Headquarters, Air Force Global Weather Central, OffuttAFB, NE

7.4 THE NAVY'S METEOROLOGY AND OCEANOGRAPHY (METOC) INTEGRATED DATA DISPLAYSYSTEM (MIDDS). Kenneth M. Dropco, Naval Oceanographic Office, Stennis Space Center, MS

7.5 PAPER WITHDRAWN

7.6 DETECTION AND PREDICTION OF HAZARDOUS MESO-GAMA-SCALE LOCAL WIND SYSTEMUSING SINGLE WSR-88D DOPPLER RADAR DATA. Yoshi K. Sasaki, Weathernews, Inc. and Univ.of Oklahoma, Norman, OK ; and D. Burgess, M. Eilts, and X. Pan

7.7 CREATION OF AVIATION FORECASTS FROM A DIGITAL DATABASE. Mark G. Oberfield,NOAA/NWS Techniques Development Lab., Silver Spring, MD

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252 7.8 ENABLING NCEP AVIATION FORECASTERS TO EDIT GRIDS GENERATED BY THE AVIATIONGRIDDED FORECAST SYSTEM. Lynn Sherretz, NOAA/FSL , Boulder, CO; D. Rodgers and R.Olson

256 7.9 FORECASTING UPPER WINDS FOR THE SPACE SHUTTLE. Dan G. Bellue, NOAA/NWS,Houston, TX; and K. B. Batson and T. D. Oram

7.10 RAPID PROTOTYPING IN THE EVOLUTION OF AN OPERATIONAL FORECASTING SYSTEM ATJOHNSON SPACE CENTER. Doris A. Rotzoll, NOAA/NWS Spaceflight Meteorology Group,Houston, TX, and P. H. Lucas and M. J. Keehn

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SESSION 8: NWS MODERNIZATION WORKSHOP: APPLICATIONS IN THE MODERNIZED ERA (Jointwith Symposium on Environmental Applications Session J2) (Parallel with session 9)

8.1 THE IMPORTANCE OF THE NWS MODERNIZATION. Paul D. Try, Science and Technology Corp.,Washington, D.C.

8.2 IMPACTS ON INTERACTION WITH THE PRIVATE SECTORS. Peter R. Leavitt, Weather ServiceCorporation, Lexington, MA

8.3 THE IMPORTANCE OF THE MODERNIZATION. Michael R. Smith, WEATHERDATA, Inc., Witchita,KS

8.4 OPTIMUM RISK-BASED WATER RESOURCES MANAGEMENT IN THE ERA OF THE NWSMODERNIZATION. Stu Swartz, Potomac River Commission, Rockville, MD

8.5 USE OF NEW INSTRUMENTS IN THE NWS MODERNIZATION TO UNDERSTAND LINKAGES OFLAND-SURFACE PROCESS TO HYDROMETEOROLOGY. Raymond W. Arritt. Iowa State Univ.,Ames, IA

8.6 BENEFITS OF NWS MODERNIZATION TO IN-HOUSE FORECASTING FOR WEATHERSENSITIVE GAS AND ELECTRIC UTILITY OPERATIONS. Byron Marler, Pacific Gas and Electric,San Ramon, CA

8.7 UTILIZATION OF WEATHER FORECAST INFORMATION AND IMAGERY IN DAILY UTILITYOPERATIONS. Ronald N. Keener, Duke Power Co., Charlotte, NC

8.8 THE OPERATIONAL BENEFITS OF THE NWS MODERNIZATION ON A WEATHER INFORMATIONAND MARINE SERVICES COMPANY. Kevin Porreco, WNI OCEANROUTES, Sunnyvale, CA

261 8.9 NWS MODERNIZATION AFFECTS ON A PRIVATE SECTOR WEATHER CONSULTINGORGANIZATION. Richard C. Curtis, Surface Systems, Inc., St. Louis, MO

262 8.10 E-WEATHER: AN INNOVATIVE ELECTRONIC WEATHER SERVICE. J. M. Russo, SkyBit, Inc.,Troy, NY and J. W. Zack and K. T. Waight III

8.11 NWS MODERNIZATION AND UNIVERSITY COLLOCATION: OPPORTUNITIES AND ISSUES INAGRICULTURE. Leon F. Osbome, Univ. of North Dakota, Grand Forks, ND


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263 8.12 DOPPLER WEATHER RADAR VALUE ADDED PRODUCTS. R. Crane, Univ. of Oklahoma, Norman,Ok; and J. Lee, K. Nixon, and S. Cherukuri

8.13 "MODERNIZED" WEATHER DATA IN FORENSICS. William H. Haggard, Climatological ConsultingCorp., Asheville, NC

SESSION 9: U.S. NATIONAL SYSTEMS WORKSHOP

267 9.1 ATMOSPHERIC OBSERVING SYSTEM FOR NOAA: TECHNOLOGIES AND STRATEGIES. Hsiao-hua Burke, MIT Lincoln Lab., Lexington MA, and M. Czerwinski, A. Coster, and F. Toepfer

9.2 OVERVIEW OF THE NAOS PROGRAM. Frederick S. Zbar, NOAA/NWS, Silver Spring, MD; andJ. B. Cunning

9.3 TEST AND EVALUATION ACTIVITIES FOR NAOS. Thomas W. Schlatter, NOAA/FSL, Boulder, CO

* 9.4 SYSTEMS DESIGN ACTIVITIES FOR NAOS. John B. Jalickee, Advanced Development andDemonstration Lab., Silver Spring, MD

9.5 GOES - AN OVERVIEW OF THE GEOSYNCHRONOUS OPERATIONAL SATELLITE PROGRAM.Gerald J. Dittberner. NOAA/NESDIS, Suitland, MD

273 9.6 POST- ASSESSMENT OPERATIONAL UTILIZATION OF WIND PROFILER DATA. Rick D. Ewald,NOAA/NWS, Hastings, NE

278 9.7 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLIMATE DATA CONTINUITY PROJECT. Andrew H.Horvitz, NOAA/NWS, Silver Spring, MD

279 9.8 CLIMATE DATA CONTINUITY OF TEMPERATURE, HUMIDITY AND PRECIPITATION WITH ASOS.Thomas B. McKee, Colorado State Univ., Ft. Collins, CO; and N. J. Doesken, J. Kleist, and N. LCanfield

285 9.9 WIND CLIMATE DATA CONTINUITY STUDY- II. Thomas J. Lockhart, Meteorological StandardsInst., Fox Island, WA

9.10 PAPER WITHDRAWN

9.11 THE PROCESS FOR THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE NOAA NATIONAL WEATHER SYSTEMARCHITECTURE. William L. McMullen, The MITRE Corp., McLean, VA; and K. D. Whitlow, and R.Lavoie

289 9.12 CHARACTERIZATION OF THE NOAA NATIONAL WEATHER SYSTEM BASELINEARCHITECTURE. Kenneth D. Whitlow, The MITRE Corp., McLean, VA; and S. M. Holt, R. A. Lyons,and B.N. Paul

297 9.13 NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE'S NATIONAL TRANSITION DATABASE. Thomas E. Bercal,NOAA/NWS, Silver Spring, MD; and D. Fineran, R. W. Ashby, and E. Wilson

303 9.14 REENGINEERING OF WSR-88D RADAR PRODUCT GENERATION SOFTWARE. John D.Cappelletti, The Mitre Corp., McLean, VA; and J. C. Hutto, L. D. Johnson, M. G. McClimens, C. F.Schaefer

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311 9.15 DIVERSE USES OF NEONS, PUBLICALLY RELEASED SOFTWARE USED FORMETEOROLOGICAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL RELATED APPLICATIONS WORLDWIDE. AnnBriggs, Empress Software, Inc., Greenbelt, MD

ELECTRONIC POSTER SESSION P1

P1.1 A FACILITY FOR REAL-TIME SATELLITE AND METEOROLOGICAL DATA PROCESSING INSUPPORT OF ATMOSPHERIC REMOTE SENSING RESEARCH. Charles Ivaldi, Atmospheric andEnvironmental Research, Inc. (AER), Cambridge, MA; and J. Doherty, D. Hogan, and G. Gustafson

315 P1.2 THE USE OF COMPUTER BASED TUTORIALS AS A PART OF GOES-8 AND GOES-9 TRAINING.Roger S. Phillips, NOAA/NESDIS and Colorado State Univ./CIRA, Ft. Collins, CO; and J. F. W.Purdom

P1.3 UNIDATA INTERNET DATA DISTRIBUTION: A STATUS UPDATE. Ben Domenico, UnidataProgram Ctr., Boulder, CO

P1.4 MIGRATION OF A LEGACY WEATHER SYSTEM TO A DISTRIBUTED ENVIRONMENT. BryanBatson, Unisys Space Systems, Houston, TX; and B. Myers (Formerly paper 7.11)

SESSION 10: DATA ACQUISITION, MANAGEMENT AND DISSEMINATION

10.1 WEATHER SYSTEMS DESIGN FOR PUBLIC SAFETY OPERATIONS. G. Stanley Doore, SilverSpring, MD

318 10.2 DEVELOPMENT AND APPLICATION OF A NATIONAL TEXT-TO-VOICE SYSTEM TO RECORDWEATHER INFORMATION ONTO ENVIRONMENT CANADA'S WEATHER RADIO NETWORK ANDPUBLIC TELEPHONE ANSWERING DEVICES. Brian Bukoski, Environment Canada, Winnipeg, MB,Canada

10.3 UTILITY TO INVENTORY LEVEL II WSR-88D TAPES AND CONVERT TO HDF FORMAT. JoyceTichler, Brookhaven National Lab., Upton, NY; and L. Klinger, and T. Kwan

321 10.4 TOOL TO ASSESS CONTENTS OF ARM SURFACE METEOROLOGY NETWORK NETCDF FILES.Amanda Staudt, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA; and T. Kwan and J. Tichler

325 10.5 THE SOUTHWEST AGRICULTURAL WEATHER SERVICE CENTER: INFORMATION AND DATAMANAGEMENT. James A. Nelson, Jr., NOAA/NWS, Texas A&M Univ., College Station, TX; andJ. W. Zeitler, and S. A. Garrard

327 10.6 DATA SYSTEMS FOR SCIENCE INTEGRATION WITHIN THE ATMOSPHERIC RADIATIONMEASUREMENT PROGRAM. Deborah K. Gracio, Pacific Northwest Laboratory, Richland, WA; andL.D. Hatfield, K. R. Yates, J. W. Voyles, J. L. Tichler, R. T. Cederwall, M. J. Laufersweiler, M. J.Leach, and P. Singley

337 10.7 THE REAL-TIME ENVIRONMENTAL INFORMATION NETWORK AND ANALYSIS SYSTEM:(REINAS). Wendell A. Nuss, Naval Postgraduate School (NPS), Monterey, CA; and P. E. Mantey,A. Pang, and D. D. E. Long

340 10.8 AUTOMATED QUALITY ASSURANCE OF DATA FROM THE OKLAHOMA MESONETWORK. MarkA. Shafer, Oklahoma Climatological Survey, Norman, OK; and T. W. Hughes

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10.9 FORECAST APPLICATIONS OF REMOTE VIDEO SYSTEMS. Jim Slipec, Environment Canada,Winnipeg, MB, Canada

10.10 NLDN'95: A COMBINED TOA/MDF TECHNOLOGY UPGRADE OF THE U.S. NATIONALLIGHTNING DETECTION NETWORK. Kenneth L Cummins, Global Atmospherics, Inc., Tucson, AZ;and E. A. Bardo, W. L Hiscox, R. B. Pyle, and A. E. Pifer

10.11 WEATHER INFORMATION MANAGEMENT SYSTEM (WIMS). Mike Barrowcliff, USDA ForestService, Boise, ID; and R. A Tucker

10.12 NOAA's LITTLE KNOWN SENSOR SYSTEM: GOES DATA COLLECTION. Marcia Weaks,NOAA(NESDIS; and M. Perkins, J. Henderson, and M. Nestlebush

SESSION 11: HYDROLOGIC FORECASTING AND SERVICES

11.1 A PATHWAY TOWARD IMPROVING HYDROLOGIC PREDICTIONS. Danny Fread, NOAA/NWS,Silver Spring, MD

11.2 HYDROLOGIC SERVICES IN THE MODERNIZED NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE. Albert N.Peterlin, NOAA/NWS/OH, Silver Spring, MD; and J. R. Zimmerman

11.3 MODERNIZED HYDROLOGIC FORECAST OPERATIONS AT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICEWEATHER FORECAST OFFICES. Dale R. Shelton, NWS/OH, Silver Spring, MD; and E. L. May

11.4 THE IMPLEMENTATION OF AN INTERACTIVE RIVER FORECAST SYSTEM FOR THE NATIONALWEATHER SERVICE. Donna Page, NOAA/NWS, Silver Spring, MD

11.5 ADVANCED PRODUCTS AND SERVICES FOR FLOOD AND DROUGHT MITIGATION ACTIVITIES.John J. Ingram, NWS/OH, Silver Spring, MD; and E. Welles and D. T. Braatz

11.6 THE NOAA HYDROLOGIC DATA SYSTEM. Geoffrey M. Bonnin, NWS/OH, Silver Spring, MD

11.7 RFC GATEWAY II. Barbara Stripling, NOAA/NWS, Silver Spring, MD

11.8 SNOTEL INTO THE YEAR 2000. Garry L Schaefer, U. S. Dept. Of Agriculture (USDA) NaturalResources Conservation Services., Portland, OR; and J. G. Werner

SESSION 12: IIPS ON THE WORLD WIDE WEB

12.1 AN ADVANCED ANTARCTIC DATA ARCHIVE AND ACCESS SYSTEM. Matthew A. Lazzara, Univ.of Wisconsin, Madison, Wl; and K. W. Bywaters, D. Santek, C. R. Stearns, and J. T. Young

12.2 AN INTERACTIVE WWW TOOL FOR COUPLING SATELLITE AND METEOROLOGICAL DATA INREAL TIME. Kenneth W. Bywaters, Univ. of Wisconsin, Madison, Wl; and E. M. Prins

12.3 Vis5D AS A MEDIUM FOR EXCHANGING DATA OVER THE WORLD WIDE WEB. William Hibbard,Univ. of Wisconsin, Madison, Wl; and B. Paul

12.4 THE IMPLEMENTATION OF A WWW INTERFACE TO THE CODIAC SYSTEM. Arthur W. Brazille,NOAA/ERL, Boulder, Co; and R. A. Murdock and J. J. Allison

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393 12.5 THE COOPERATIVE OCEAN-ATMOSPHERE RESEARCH DATA SERVICE (COARDS): A VIRTUALDATA CENTER ON THE WORLD WIDE WEB. Donald R. Mock, NOAA/ERL, Boulder, CO; and S.Hankin, C. B. Baker, J. Davison, and K. Searight

397 12.6 COMMUNICATING DISTRIBUTED SEARCH RESULTS TO DISTRIBUTED DATA SERVERS. JuliaCollins, Univ. of Colorado/CIRES, Boulder, CO

401 12.7 BUILDING A DATA SERVICE FOR THE NMC REANALYSIS: LESSONS LEARNED. Keith R.Searight, Univ. of Colorado/CIRES, Boulder, CO; and R. H. Schweitzer, T. S. Baltzer, and D. R. Mock

404 12.8 USE OF REVERSE ENGINEERING TO REUSE CODE FROM A GUI-BASED PACKAGE. T. S.Baltzer, Univ. of Colorado/CIRES, Boulder, CO

407 12.9 USING HARVEST TO CREATE A SEARCHABLE INTERFACE TO DISTRIBUTED DATAHOLDINGS. Roland H. Schweitzer, Univ. of Colorado/CIRES, Boulder, CO

410 12.10 ADDING NETCDF SUPPORT TO THE GRID ANALYSIS AND DISPLAY SYSTEM (GrADS).Don K. Hooper, Univ. of Colorado/CIRES; and K. R. Searight

413 12.11 IICE: BRINGING INTERACTIVITY TO IMAGE-BASED WWW PRODUCTS. David Wojtowicz, Univ.of Illinois, Urbana, IL; and R. Wilhelmson and M. Ramamurthy

418 12.12 HORIZON: A DIGITAL LIBRARY PROJECT FOR EARTH AND SPACE DATA SERVING THEPUBLIC. Robert Wilhelmson, Univ. of Illinois, National Center for Supercomputing Applications(NCSA), Urbana, IL; and M. Folk, M. Ramamurthy, B. Shatz, M. Yeager, D. Crutcher, and M. Winslett

423 12.13 USE OF HTML AND WEB TOOLS IN ATMOSPHERIC SCIENCES RESEARCH. Brian F. Jewett,NCSA and Univ. of Illinois, Urbana, IL; and R. B. Wilhelmson

427 12.14 THE IMPACTS/BENEFITS OF A WORLD WIDE WEB WEATHER SERVER. James P. Koermer,Plymouth State College, Plymouth, NH

12.15 NOAAServer: A WWW-BASED NOAA INFORMATION DISCOVERY AND RETRIEVAL SYSTEM.Ernest Daddio, NOAA/NESDIS, Silver Spring, MD; and A. O'Donnell

431 12.16 FLORIDA WEATHER HISTORY INTERACTIVE RESOURCE LIBRARY (WHIRL). Bartlett C.Hagemeyer, NOAA/NWS, Melbourne, FL; and J. C. Carney

435 12.17 MAKING UNITED STATES CLIMATE DATA EASILY ACCESSIBLE. Catherine A. Smith, Univ. ofColorado/CIRES, Boulder, CO

SESSION 13: APPLICATIONS OF SATELLITE TECHNOLOGY

439 13.1 COMMAND SCHEDULING FOR SEAWIFS. Robert H. Woodward, General Sciences Corp. (GSC),Laurel, MD; and W. W. Gregg, and F. S. Patt

445 13.2 QUALITY CONTROL OF THE SeaWiFS ARCHIVE DATA PRODUCTS. Michael Darzi, GSC. Laurel,MD; and W. Robinson, E-n. Yeh, R. E. Eplee, J. K. Firestone, and C. R. McClain

451 13.3 SeaDAS: A PROCESSING PACKAGE FOR OCEAN COLOR SATELLITE IMAGERY. Gary Fu,GSC, Laurel, MD; and B. D. Schieber, K. J. Settle, M. Darzi, C. R. McClain and K. Arrigo

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457 13.4 A GOES, AVHRR, AND METEOSAT FRAME SYNCHRONIZER DESIGN IMPLEMENTED IN ASINGLE XILINX FPGA. Michael P. Hiatt, Colorado State UnivVCIRA, Ft. Collins, CO

462 13.5 GVAR IMAGE APPLICATION IN INTERACTIVE DATA LANGUAGE. Kelly Dean, Colorado StateUniv./CIRA, Ft. Collins, CO; and K. Eis and T. Vonder Haar

466 13.6 LOW MAINTENANCE PC-BASED 30 GB GOES-8 AND GOES-9 DATA ACCESS AND ARCHIVESYSTEM. Nan McClurg, Colorado State Univ./CIRA, Ft. Collins, CO; and D. Reinke, and M. Hiatt

469 13.7 NAVIGATION OF NOAA LEVEL II NEXRAD DATA FOR ALIGNMENT WITH MCIDAS GOESSATELLITE IMAGERY. Dale Reinke, Colorado State Univ./CIRA, Ft. Collins, CO; and J. F. W.Purdom, and T. Vonder Haar

472 13.8 GOES I-M DATA COLLECTION SOFTWARE AND ALGORITHMS. Duane Whitcomb, ColoradoState Univ./CIRA, Fort Collins, CO; and R. Gartner, K. Eis, and T. Vonder Haar

476 13.9 PROCESSING SYSTEM FOR TROPICAL CYCLONE MULTI-SENSOR SATELLITE DATA SETS.Maria J. Helveston, Mar, Inc., Diamondhead, MS; and J. D. Hawkins, D. A. May, G. Poe, and G.Sandlin

479 13.10 GENERATION OF SYNTHETIC DATA FOR TROPICAL CYCLONES. Roy Abraham K., Indian Inst.

of Technology, New Delhi, India; and U. C. Mohanty and S. K. Dash

SESSION 14: RESEARCH INFORMATION SYSTEMS IN THE ATMOSPHERIC SCIENCES

480 14.1 NOWCASTING AND THE FUTURE OF THE FORECAST PRODUCTION ASSISTANT. Eli Goldberg,

Environment Canada, King City, ON, Canada; and P. Joe, N. Donaldson, N. Driedger, B. Greaves,R. Paterson, and R. Trafford

484 14.2 CESNA: A CLIMATIC EXPERT SYSTEM FOR THE NORTH ATLANTIC. Sergei Rodionov, Univ. ofColorado, Boulder, CO; and J. H. Martin

488 14.3 A PROTOTYPE COMPUTER-AIDED METEOROLOGICAL ANALYSIS WORKSTATION FORUNDERGRADUATE INSTRUCTION. Robert T. Merrill, Univ. of Wisconsin, Madison, Wl

492 14.4 PROCESSING, INTEGRATING AND DISPLAYING DISPARATE DATA SOURCES FROM THESPRITES '95 FIELD PROGRAM. Walter A. Lyons, ASTeR, Inc., Fort Collins, CO; and T. E. Nelson

498 14.5 THE ARC/INFO GIS AS A WEATHER PROCESSING SYSTEM. Scott T. Shipley, Hughes STXCorp., Lanham, MD; and D. P. Beddoe

502 14.6 HPGEM: A SERIES OF GEMPAK SCRIPTS FOR FORECASTING HEAVY PRECIPITATION. DonnaF. Tucker, Univ. of Kansas, Lawrence, KS; and G. Phillips and P. Castleberry

506 14.7 MARKOVIAN ENTROPY FOR DAILY RAINFALL PATTERNS OVER TERAI ZONE OF WESTBENGAL. S. K. Mukhopadhyay, Bidhan Chandra Krishi Viswavidyalaya, Pundibari, Cooch Behar,West Bengal, India

SESSION 15: NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TELECOMMUNICATIONS GATEWAY

508 15.1 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TELECOMMUNICATION GATEWAY, AN OVERVIEW.F. Richard Zitzmann, NOAA/NWS, Silver Spring, MD

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513 15.2 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GATEWAY - A HISTORY IN COMMUNICATIONSTECHNOLOGY EVOLUTION. James L. R. Fenix, NOAA/NWS, Silver Spring, MD

517 15.3 THE ASOS OPERATIONS AND MONITORING CENTER - A UNIQUE VIEW OF ASOS. RichardK. Thigpen, NOAA/NWS, Silver Spring, MD; and members of the AOMC

520 15.4 AN OVERVIEW OF THE ASOS MAINTENANCE AND SUPPORT SYSTEM. Dennis H. Lojek,NOAA/NWS, Silver Spring, MD

524 15.5 OPERATION OF THE WORLD AREA FORECAST SYSTEM (WAFS). William E. Brockman,NOAA/NWS, Silver Spring, MD

528 15.6 THE AWIPS NETWORK CONTROL FACILITY - AN INTRODUCTION. Richard K. Thigpen,NOAA/NWS, Silver Spring, MD

531 15.7 THE GLOBAL ASPECTS OF DATA MANAGEMENT. Lloyd E. Irvin, NOAA/NWS, Silver Spring, MD;and J. L R. Fenix

533 15.8 IDAPAK: INTERACTIVE ANALYSIS OF OCEANOGRAPHIC AND METEOROLOGICAL DATA FORUNIX WORKSTATIONS. King-Sheng Tai, GSC, Laurel, MD; and C. R. McClain

JOINT SESSION J1: TECHNOLOGY FOR THE CLASSROOM (Joint with Fifth Symposium on Education)

J1 J1.1 A CONCEPT FOR GLOBAL CLIMATE CHANGE EDUCATION AND TRAINING. Adel F. Hanna.MCNC-NorthCarolina Supercomputing Ctr., Research Triangle Park, NC; and H. A. Karimi,K. Galluppi, J. Ambrosiano, S. Fine, and S. Thorpe

J7 J1.2 VISUALIZATION TECHNOLOGY IN THE ENVIRONMENTAL CURRICULA (VTEC):DEVELOPMENT AND IMPLEMENTATION IN THE DUKE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF THEENVIRONMENT. John N. McHenry, MCNC-North Carolina Supercomputing Center, ResearchTriangle Park, NC; and L. Lee, R. A. Kramer, J. T. Sigmon, and R. L. Dennis

J13 J1.3 INTEGRATION OF INTERACTIVE MULTIMEDIA INTO THE CURRICULUM OF THE UNITEDSTATES AIR FORCE METEOROLOGY TRACK: A TWO YEAR ASSESSMENT. Keith Blackwell,U.S. Air Force Academy, Colorado Springs, CO; and B. E. Heckman

J17 J1.4 USE OF COMPUTER TECHNOLOGY TO RESTRUCTURE AN INTRODUCTORY METEOROLOGYCOURSE. Douglas N. Yarger, Iowa State Univ., Ames, IA; and J. P. Boysen and M . Taber

J21 J1.5 MIDDLE ATLANTIC STUDENTS EXCHANGE PRECIPITATION DATA: DETERMINE COSTS FORSNOW REMOVAL. E. Abrams, Acuweather Inc., State College, PA; and T. P. Knorr, Sr. and J. Levin

J1.6 LIVE INTERACTION TELEVISION: A NEW MODEL FOR IN-SERVICE TRAINING. Perry J. Samson,Univ. of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Ml; and D. Gibson, J. Ferguson, and J. Masters

J22 J1.7 PEDAGOGICAL CONTRIBUTIONS OF EDUCATIONAL ENVIRONMENTS: THE TRADITIONALCLASSROOM, COMPUTER-BASED LEARNING , AND THE WORLD WIDE WEB. Brian E.Heckman, University Corporation for Atmospheric Research (UCAR)/ Cooperative Program forOperational Meteorological, Education and Training (COMET), Boulder, CO; and D. Owens

J1.8 USE OF THE WORLD WIDE WEB IN THE GLOBE (GLOBAL LEARNING AND OBSERVATIONSTO BENEFIT THE ENVIRONMENT) PROGRAM. Henry Schmidt, The GLOBE Program,Washington, DC

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J27 J1.9 CoVis GEOSCIENCES WEB SERVER: AN INTERNET-BASED RESOURCE FOR THE K-12COMMUNITY. Mohan Ramamurthy, Univ. of Illinois, Urbana, IL; and R. Wilhelmson, S. Hall,J. Plutchak, M. Sridhar, B. Fishman, D. Gordin, R. Pea, and L. Gomez

J1.10 TEACHING WITH THE NET: EXPERIENCES USING THE WEB IN AN INTRODUCTORY CLASSIN WEATHER AND CLIMATE. Steven A. Ackerman, Univ. of Wisconsin, Madison, Wl

J33 J1.11 USE OF THE INTERNET AS A PLATFORM FOR A COURSE ON GLOBAL CHANGE. Eugene S.Takle, Iowa State Univ., Ames, IA; and M. R. Taber

J35 J1.12 USING THE INTERNET AS A MULTIMEDIA TOOL IN THE CLASSROOM. Joanne Logan, Univ. ofTennessee, Knoxville, TN

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