Monday, November 23, 2015
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Welcome/Research Priorities (Chair: Hugo Berbery)
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Fernando Miralles-Wilhelm |
CICS Research and Its Use by International Development Organizations |
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Mike Kalb |
STAR Cooperative Research: Just Where Do We Think We are Going? |
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Satya Kalluri |
STAR Cooperative Research Programs: Progress & Prospects |
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Hugo Berbery |
Research and Challenges at CICS-MD |
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Ralph Ferraro (I) |
Ever Wonder How Those Satellite Products are Used? |
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Session 1
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Scientific Support for JPSS/Data Assimilation (Chair: Yong Chen)
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Lihang Zhou (I) |
Overview of the Suomi-NPP Data Products’ Performance and Plans for JPSS-1 Calibration/Validation |
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Jingfeng Huang |
Validation and Expected Error Estimation of Suomi-NPP VIIRS Aerosol Optical Thickness and Angstrom Exponent with AERONET |
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Isaac Moradi |
Community Global OSSE Package (CGOP) |
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Sean Casey |
Geostationary Hyperspectral Infrared Constellation: Global Observing System Simulation Experiments for Five Geo-HSS Instruments |
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Tom Auligne (I) |
Lunch Keynote: Evolution and Advancement of Satellite Data Assimilation |
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Session 2
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Calibrations & Validation/VIIRS Retrievals (Chair: Jingfeng Huang)
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Fuzhong Weng (I) |
Overview of Suomi National Polar-Orbiting Partnership (SNPP) Satellite Instrument Calibration and Validation |
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Sherry Pan |
SNPP OMPS Radiometric Calibration |
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Yong Chen |
Evaluation of Different Calibration Approaches for JPSS CrIS |
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Slawomir Blonski |
VIIRS SDR Cal/Val: S-NPP Update and JPSS-1 Preparations |
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Jun Dong |
Satellite Microwave Snowfall Rate Retrieval Algorithm, Cal/Val and Application |
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Session 3
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Data Fusion and Algorithm Development (Chair: Huan Meng)
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Paul Di Giacomo (I) |
Satellite Remote Sensing of Coastal and Inland Water Quality: Toward a Global Water Quality Monitoring and Forecasting Service |
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Pat Meyers |
Lightning Enhancement of Satellite Precipitation Estimates |
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Likun Wang |
Scientific Benefits of Spatial Resolution for Next Generation Infrared Hyperspectral Sounder Instruments |
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Cezar Kongoli |
Satellite-Based Estimation of Snow Hydrologic and Surface Energy Balance Components |
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Tuesday, November 24, 2015
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Session 4
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Ocean Data Records/Data Assimilation (Chair: Michael Gerst)
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Margarita Gregg (I) |
An Introduction to the National Centers for Environmental Information |
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Daniel Tong |
Emission Data Assimilation to Support NAQFC Real-Time PM2.5Forecasting: A New NOAA Service |
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Eugenia Kalnay |
Using Data Assimilation to Improve the Model and the Observations |
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Xiaolei Zou |
Assessment of AHI Level-1 Data for HWRF Assimilation |
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Sheekela Baker - Yeboah |
Satellite Altimetry Sea Surface Height Variability and In Situ Observations Along An Eddy Corridor |
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Liqing Jiang |
Climatological Distribution of Aragonite and Calcite Saturation States in the Global Oceans |
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Session 5
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Climate Research and Modeling (Chair: Pat Meyers)
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Dave Dewitt (I) |
Challenges to Improving Weekly to Seasonal Climate Prediction |
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Katie Lukens |
Boreal Winter Storm Tracks and Related Precipitation in North America: A Potential Vorticity Perspective |
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Stephen Lord |
Analysis of an Observing System Experiment for the Joint Polar Satellite System (JPSS) |
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Steve Warren |
Next Generation Global Prediction System (NGGPS) |
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Li - Chuan Chen |
ENSO Precipitation and Temperature Forecasts in the North American Multi - Model Ensemble: Composite Analysis and Verification |
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Nagaraja Harshadeep |
Lunch Keynote: Developing modern platforms to effectively share, analyze, and use data for development |
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Session 6
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Ecological Forecasting/Climate Change (Chair: Isaac Moradi)
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Christopher Brown (I) |
The Chesapeake Bay Ecological Prediction System |
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Group Talk: Peng Yu |
Production of Satellite Land Surface Temperature Dataset at STAR |
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Ariana Sutton - Grier |
Green is the New Black: Potential for Natural and Hybrid Infrastructure to Enhance Ecosystem and Community Resilience |
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Safa Motesharrei |
Local Cooling and Warming Effects of Forests Based on Satellite Observations |
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Alice Crawford (I) |
NOAA ARL: HYSPLIT and Satellite Observations, Volcanic Ash Forecasting and Other Applications |
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Session 7
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Earth System Monitoring from Satellites (Chair: Guojun Gu)
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Antonio Busalacchi (I) |
The Decadal Survey |
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Tom Zhao (I) |
NOAA Satellite Climate Data Records (CDRs) and Applications for Societal Benefit |
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Bin Zhang |
Using VIIRS SST towards improving Chesapeake Bay Operational Forecasting System with a 4D-Var Data Assimilation Method |
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Group Talk: Hu Yang |
Advanced Science Support for NPP/JPSS Satellite Program |
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Group Talk: Robert Adler |
Monitoring Global Precipitation Climate Diagnostics to Floods |
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Monday, November 23, 2015
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Poster Session * Still on display at ESSIC Building
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Fong Ngan |
Using WRF Meteorological Data for Dispersion Simulations of Controlled Tracer Experiments |
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Yong Chen* |
SI Traceable Algorithm for Characterizing Hyperspectral Infrared Sounder CrIS Noise |
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Zhuo Wang* |
Suomi NPP VIIRS Detector Dependent Relative Spectral Response Variation Effects using Line-by-Line Radiative Transfer Model Calculations |
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Xi Shao |
Spectral Degradation of Solar Diffuser on Suomi - NPP VIIRS due to Surface Roughness - induced Rayleigh Scattering |
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Li Ren |
Satellite Sea - Surface Salinity Data Consistency |
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Li Fang* |
Enhancing NCEP-NAM Weather Forecasts via Assimilating Real-Time Green Vegetation Fraction |
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Narges Shahroudi |
Preliminary Results of Geo - stationary Microwave Sounders Using the Community Global Observing System Simulation Experiment Package |
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Yan Zhou |
Geostationary HyperSpectral Sounder (Geo - HSS) Assimilation using the Community Global OSSE Package (CGOP) |
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Kenneth Pryor (new) |
The Influence of the Summer Monsoon on Severe Convective Windstorm Development |
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Rebekah Esmaili* |
Statistical Properties of Cloud Movement and Lifecycle Evolution from Satellite Observations |
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Christopher Grassotti |
Microwave Integrated Retrieval System (MiRS): Recent Science Improvements and Applications |
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Jicheng Liu* |
Comparison of Different Methods to Merge Satellite Soil Moisture Products from Different Sensors |
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Sheekela Baker - Yeboah |
Scientific Stewardship of VIIRS Ocean Satellite Data |
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Xinrong Ren |
Long - term Monitoring of Atmospheric Mercury Species at a Coastal Site in the Northern Gulf of Mexico |
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Manik Bali* |
GSICS Products and Deliverables |
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Alejandro Egido* |
Fully Focused SAR Altimetry – Theory and Applications |
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Zhengpeng Li* |
GOES Evapotranspiration and Drought (GET-D) Product System |
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Melissa Kenney |
A Prototype Indicators System for U.S. Climate Changes, Impacts, Vulnerabilities, and Responses |
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Ni Dai* |
ENSO-Related Precipitation Seasonal Evolution & Multidecadal Change in Reanalysis and CMIP5 Models |
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Yan Li |
The Role of Spatial Scale and Background Climate in the Latitudinal Temperature Response to Deforestation |
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Isaac Moradi |
Intercalibration and Validation of SAPHIR and ATMS Observations |
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Tianfeng Chai |
HYSPLIT Inverse Modeling |
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Michiko Masutani |
Observing System Simulation Experiment to Link Research and Operation |
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Michiko Masutani |
Simulation of IASI on Geostationary Satellite |
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