ACD ASR 2003 ASP ASR 2003 ATD ASR 2003 CGD ASR 2003 ESIG ASR 2003 HAO ASR 2003 RAP ASR 2003 MMM ASR 2003 SCD ASR 2003 Go to NCAR Go to UCAR Go to NSF Go to NCAR's ASR 2002

 

Education and Outreach

Education & Outreach including
K-12 / College world



Andrew Crook teaches weather science to St. Louis School students.


Education Activities

Staff Name
Teaching Appointment
Department
Institution
Roelof Bruintjes Honorary Professor Climatology Research Group Univ. of Witwatersrand
(South Africa)
David Gochis Guest Lecturer

Program in Atmospheric & Oceanic Sciences

 Univ. of Colorado, Boulder
Kent Goodrich Professor of Mathematics

Mathematics

 Univ. of Colorado, Boulder
Roy Rasmussen Affiliate Faculty Program in Atmospheric & Oceanic Sciences Univ. of Colorado, Boulder
J. Vivekanandan Adjunct Professor Electrical Engineering Univ. of Washington
J. Vivekanandan Adjunct Professor Civil & Environmental Engineering Univ. of Connecticut

Tom Warner

 Research Professor

Program in Atmospheric & Oceanic Sciences

 Univ. of Colorado
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Staff Name
Advising on Graduate Research
Department
Institution
Roelof Bruintjes Kristy Ross Climatology Research Group Univ. of Witwatersrand (South Africa)
Roelof Bruintjes Abdulla Al Mandoos Climatology Research Group Univ. of Witwatersrand (South Africa)
Roelof Bruintjes Abdulla Al Mangoosh Climatology Research Group Univ. of Witwatersrand (South Africa)
Fei Chen Jeff Fung, Ph.D Center of Coastal and Atmospheric Sciences Hong Kong Univ. of Science & Techology
Fei Chen Becky Eager, M.S. Dept. of Marine, Each and Atmospheric Sciences North Carolina State University
Fei Chen Ethan Gutmann Dept. of Geology University of Colorado
David Gochis Edgar Uribe, Ph.D Hydrology and Water Resources Univ. of Arizona
David Gochis Kazungu Maitaria, Ph.D Hydrology and Water Resources Univ. of Arizona
Kent Goodrich Kristy Davis, M.S. Mathematics Univ. of Colorado, Boulder
Roy Rasmussen Robert Tardif, Ph.D Program in Atmospheric & Oceanic Sciences Univ. of Colorado, Boulder
David Yates Joseph Alfieri, M.S. Dept. of Geography University of Colorado
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Staff Name
Thesis Committee
Department
Institution
Roelof Bruintjes Kristy Ross Climatology Research Group Univ. of Witwatersrand (South Africa)
Roelof Bruintjes Abdulla Al Mandoos Climatology Research Group Univ. of Witwatersrand (South Africa)
Roelof Bruintjes Abdulla Al Mangoosh Climatology Research Group Univ. of Witwatersrand (South Africa)
Fei Chen Jeff Fung, Ph.D Center of Coastal and Atmospheric Sciences Hong Kong Univ. of Science & Techology
Fei Chen Becky Eager, M.S. Dept. of Marine, Each and Atmospheric Sciences North Carolina State University
Fei Chen Ethan Gutmann Dept. of Geology University of Colorado
Kent Goodrich Emily Silverman, Ph.D Mathematics Univ. of Colorado, Boulder
Kent Goodrich John Schmacher Mathematics Univ. of Colorado, Boulder
Roy Rasmussen Robert Tardif, Ph.D Program in Atmospheric & Oceanic Sciences Univ. of Colorado, Boulder
J. Vivekanandan Marios Anagnostou, Ph.D Dept. of Civil & Environmental Engineering Univ. of Connecticut
Tom Warner Jamie Wolff, M.S. Program in Atmospheric & Oceanic Sciences University of Colorado
Tom Warner Eric Thaler, Ph.D Program in Atmospheric & Oceanic Sciences University of Colorado
Tom Warner Robert Tardif, Ph.D Program in Atmospheric & Oceanic Sciences University of Colorado
Tom Warner Thomas Hopson, Ph.D Program in Atmospheric & Oceanic Sciences University of Colorado
Wes Wilson Aaron Daley, M.S. Meteorology California State Univ. at San Jose

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Workshops and Colloquia

Staff Name
Title/Subject
Dates
Sponsor
Bruce Carmichael Weather/ATM DSS Workshop Series (Co-Leader) May, 2003 NCAR, MIT/LL, Mitre, NASA/Ames
Bruce Carmichael Friends/Partners in Aviation Weather (Program Chairman) 3 Oct. 2003 NBAA
Dan Breed 3rd WRF/LSM workshop 17-18 June 2003 Water Cycle Initiative
Paul Herzegh Oceanic Weather: 4th Science Meeting 15-16 July 2003 FAA, NCAR
Cathy Kessinger Radar Development & Applications Workshop 23-25 April 2003 NCAR ATD
Cathy Kessinger Intelligent Systems Workshop 5-6 May 2003 NCAR RAP
Tenny Lindholm AOPA Expo & Friends/Partners of Aviation Weather 21-25 Oct. 2002 AOPA
Tenny Lindholm AWRP Program Review/NASA Weather Accident Prevention Review 18-21 Nov. 2002 FAA, NASA
Tenny Lindholm RTCA Special Committee 195 Plenary 2-4 Dec. 2002; 3-5 Feb. 2003; 12-14 Aug. 2003 FAA/Industry
Tenny Lindholm (co-chair) Turbulence Joint Safety Implementation Team 7-9 Jan. 2003 FAA/Industry
Tenny Lindholm Air Traffic Management/Decision Support Systems Workshop 13-15 Jan. 2003; 3-5 June 2003 FAA/Industry/ATM R&D Community
Tenny Lindholm AWRP Program Review 21-24 April 2003 FAA
Tenny Lindholm Oceanic Weather Science Workshop 15-16 July 2003 RAP
Bill Mahoney Winter Road Maintenance Training Program 4-5 Dec. 2002 RAP
Marcia Politovich FAA Intl. Icing Conference (Organizing Committee) June, 2003 FAA
Marcia Politovich Gov't. Remote Sensing Coordination Workshop Sept., 2003 FAA/NASA/CRREL
Jenny Sun Colloquium on data assimiliation for Atmospheric and Climate system Prediction 7-18 July 2003 NCAR/ASP
J. Vivekanandan Radar Development Applications Workshop 23-25 Apr. 2003 NCAR
Guifu Zhang Single Antenna Interferometry (correlation) Technique to Measure Wind 22 April 2003 NCAR Radar Workshop

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Seminars and Presentations

Staff Name
Name of Presentation
Date
Group presented to
Terri Betancourt NCAR GIS Demonstration Project Overview 25 Oct. 2002 NOAA, NESDIS
Terri Betancourt Engineering Details of NCAR's AutoNowcast System 3 Mar. 2003 Beijing Meteorological Bureau, China
Jennifer Boehnert Introduction to the Geodatabase 13 May 2003 NCAR
Jennifer Boehnert Introduction to ArcIMS 11 June 2003 NCAR
Jennifer Boehnert ArcSDE & the Geodatabase 22 July 2003 NCAR
Jennifer Boehnert Working with Raster data in ArcGIS 7 Oct. 2003 NCAR
Jennifer Boehnert Introduction to ArcGIS 25 Nov. 2003 ESIG
Dan Breed UAE Experimental Design 15 June 2003 Field project participants, UAE meteorologists, management people
Dan Breed Design and Overview of the Feasibility Study for Rainfall Enhancement in the United Arab Emirates 8 April 2003 WMO Weather Modification Conference
Dan Breed Rainfall and Air Chemistry Study in the United Arab Emirates 24 April 2003 Weather Modification Assoc. meeting
Dan Breed Overview and Results of Phase 1 of the UAE Feasibility Study 12 Aug. 2003 Omani meteorologists and management
Barb Brown Quality Assessment PDT Nov., 2002 FAA AWRP Program Management Review
Barb Brown Object Based Approach to Verification Jan., 2003 3rd Workshop on Aviation Weather for ATM (Boulder, CO)
Barb Brown Ideas for Operationally Relevant Verification Approaches Jan., 2003 Convective Forecast Verification Meeting (Boulder, CO)
Barb Brown Verification Issues Jan., 2003 Convective Forecast Verification Meeting (Boulder, CO)
Barb Brown Verification of Spatial Forecasts June, 2003 Canadian Meteorological & Oceanographic Society (Ottawa, Canada)
Barb Brown Development of an Object-Oriented Approach for Verification of QPFs Aug., 2003 USWRP Proposal Presentation, (NCAR, Boulder)
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Barb Brown WWRP/WGNE Joint Working Group on Forecast Verification Sept., 2003 WMO WWRP Science Steering Committee (Oslo)
Roelof Bruintjes Cloud Physics and Air Chemistry studies in the UAE 13 Nov. 2002 RAP Panel Review Meeting
Roelof Bruintjes Hygroscopic seeding with flares: Current status and recent progress 14 May 2003 NOAA/ETL Seminar
Roelof Bruintjes Similarities between the effects of hygroscopic seeding and anthropogenic pollution on clouds April, 2003 WMO Conf. on Weather Modification
Roelof Bruintjes Program for the Augmentation of rainfull in Coahuila: Overview and results April, 2003 WMO Conf. on Weather Modification
Roelof Bruintjes Review of hygroscopic seeding experiments (Invited) April, 2003 WMA Annual Meeting
Alain Caya The use of an Evaporation Scheme in a Boundary-Layer Model for Real-Time 4D-Var Radar Data Assimilation and Forecasting of Convergence Lines 6-12 Aug 2003 AMS 31st Conf. on Radar Meteorology (Seattle, Washington)
Bruce Carmichael Explicit modeling of gravity-wave breaking above deep convection 4-7 Nov. 2003 12th Conf. on Middle Atmosphere (San Antonio, TX)
Bruce Carmichael An investigation of turbulence generation mechanisms above deep convection 22 Nov. 2002 MMM/RAP Divisional Seminar
Bruce Carmichael Gravity wave breaking in a high-resolution model of deep convection 18 April 2003 Univ. of Washington Dept. of Atmospheric Sciences
Bruce Carmichael Numerical modeling of turbulence above the jet stream during SCATCAT 18 April 2003 University of Washington Dept. of Atmospheric Sciences
Janice Coen Wildland Fire Modeling 9 Oct. 2002 Wild Fire Collaboratory
Janice Coen Computational Science & Engineering Aspects of Wildland Fire Modeling 11 Feb. 2003 SIAM Conf. (San Diego, CA)
Janice Coen Coupled Atmosphere Fire Modeling, Analysis of Infrared Imagery & Wildland Fire Technology Transfer 13 Mar. 2003 Florida State University
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Andrew Crook Generation of Convection by Heated Terrain 6 Dec. 2002 Dynamics Seminar (NCAR, Boulder)
Andrew Crook Assimilation & Forecasting of Supercell Storms using 4DVar Data Assimilation 16 July 2003 Reading University, England
Eric Gilleland Statistical Models for Monitoring & Regulating Ground-level Ozone (Poster) 16-18 July 2003 1st Intl. Conf. on Environmental Statistics & Health
Paul Herzegh Progress of the FAA National Ceiling & Visibility Product Development Team 19 Nov. 2002 FAA Aviation Weather Research Program Public Forum
Paul Herzegh Development of Automated Analysis & Forecast Products for Adverse Ceiling & Visibility Conditions 12 Feb. 2003 19th AMS IIPS Conference
Paul Herzegh Observing the Structure of a Colorado Freezing Drizzle Event 23 Apr. 2003 FAA Aviation Weather Research Program Science Review
Paul Herzegh The Structure, Evolution & Cloud Process of a Colorado Upslope Storm as Shown by Profiling Radiometer, Radar & Tower Data 12 Aug. 2003 31st Conf. on Radar Meteorology
David Johnson TDWR and LLWAS Integration Options 4 Dec. 2002 Civil Aviation Authority of Singapore
Cathy Kessinger The NEXRAD Data Quality Optimization Program and TEP Data Quality Issues 8-9 Oct. 2002 NRL Radar Data Quality Workshop
Cathy Kessinger Update on NEXRAD Data Quality Optimization 18 Nov. 2002 Radar Operations Center Technical Interchange Meeting
Cathy Kessinger Navy Nowcasting Nov. 2002 NCAR RAP Advisory Panel Meeting
Cathy Kessinger Update on NEXRAD Data Quality Optimization 19 Nov. 2002 NEXRAD Technical Advisory Committee
Cathy Kessinger Oceanic Weather Convective Diagnosis & Forecasting 4 Dec. 2002 FAA Program Mgmt. Review Face Time
Cathy Kessinger Oceanic Weather Convective Diagnosis & Forecasting 21-23 April 2003 FAA Science Review
Cathy Kessinger Update on NEXRAD Data Quality Optimization 28 May 2003 NEXRAD Technical Advisory Committee
Cathy Kessinger Convective Diagnosis & Forecasting 15-16 July 2003 FAA Oceanic Weather PDT Meeting
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Cathy Kessinger The Radar Echo Classifier 30 July 2003 Representatives from the University of Oklahoma
Cathy Kessinger The AP Clutter Mitigation Scheme for the WSR-88D Aug. 2003 AMS Radar Meteorology Conf.
Cathy Kessinger The Radar Echo Classifier: A fuzzy logic algorithm for the WSR-88D Feb. 2003 AMS Conf. on Artificial Applications to the Environmental Sciences
Cathy Kessinger Using the NCAR Autonowcast System to nowcast oceanic convection Feb. 2003 AMS Satellite Meteorology Conf.
Cathy Kessinger Processing realtime satellite information to nowcast convective initiation and its characteristics Feb. 2003 AMS Satellite Meteorology Conf.
Cathy Kessinger Mitigating ground clutter contamination in the WSR-88D Feb. 2003 AMS Conf. on IIPS
Cathy Kessinger Using the SPY1/TEP to nowcast oceanic thunderstorms for naval operations Sept. 2003 BACIMO Conf.
Todd Lane Numerical modeling of thunderstorm-generated turbulence 7 Nov. 2002 Texas A&M University Dept. of Atmospheric Sciences
Todd Lane Convective weather research update 14-15 Jan. 2003 3rd Workshop on Aviation Weather for ATM (Boulder, CO)
Todd Lane A modeling investigation of cloud-induced turbulence 6-9 Jan. 2003 41st AIAA Aerospace Sciences Meeting & Exhibit (Reno, NV)
Todd Lane Explicit modeling of gravity-wave breaking above deep convection 4-7 Nov. 2002 12th Conf. on Middle Atmosphere (San Antonio, TX)
Todd Lane An investigation of turbulence generation mechanisms above deep convection 22 Nov. 2002 MMM/RAP Divisional Seminar
Todd Lane Gravity wave breaking in a high-resolution model of deep convection 18 Apr. 2003 Univ. of Washington Dept. of Atmospheric Sciences
Todd Lane Numerical modeling of turbulence above the jet stream during SCATCAT 27 June 2003 10th Conf. on Mesoscale Processes (Portland, OR)
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Tenny Lindholm Aviation Weather Research Program 6-8 Oct. 2002

ADF Symposium; ADF, ALPA
Tenny Lindholm Oceanic Weather PDT 18-21 Nov. 2002 AWRP PMR/NASA WxAP Review; FAA, NASA
Tenny Lindholm Oceanic Weather PDT 9-13 Feb. 2003 AMS ARAM
Tenny Lindholm Volcanic Ash R&D Status 3 April 2003 ATA Met Committee
Tenny Lindholm Oceanic Weather 4 April 2003 ATS WG; FAA NASA
Tenny Lindholm Oceanic Weather Status 21-24 April 2003 AWRP PMR; FAA
Tenny Lindholm Turbulence Detection & Forecasting 10 July 2003 Southwest Airlines operations
Tenny Lindholm Volcanic Ash Research Program 6 Aug. 2003 Washington Volcanic Ash Advisory Center
Tenny Lindholm Turbulence & Icing Detection, in situ 22 Aug. 2003 American Airlines, DFW
Tenny Lindholm Turbulence Forecasting; Turbulence Detection; Icing Detection 26-29 Aug. 2003 ICAO METLINKSG
Yubao Liu Data impact experiments using NCAR/ATEC RTFDDA system Sept. 2003 BACIMO-2003 Conf., Monterey, CA
Bill Mahoney Winter Maintenance Decision Support System 1-3 June 2003 Canadian Meteorological & Oceanographic Society (CMOS)
Bill Mahoney Maintenance Decision Support System Project 17-18 June 2003 Federal Highway Administration Stakeholder Meeting
Bill Mahoney Transportation Security, Emergency Evacuation & Advanced Weather 12-16 Jan. 2003 Transportation Research Board
Bill Mahoney Surface Transportation Weather 12-16 Jan. 2003 Transportation Research Board
Bill Mahoney Surface Transportation Weather - Opportunities for Radar Data 11-12 Aug. 2003 AMS Radar Conf. (Seattle)
Bill Mahoney Maintenance Decision Support System Project Status 18-23 May 2003 Intelligent Transportation Society of America
Bill Mahoney Railroad Weather Opportunities 8-9 July 2003 Union Pacific Railroad
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Bill Mahoney Winter Maintenance Decision Support-Project Planning 25-27 Aug. 2003 Aurora Board, State D.O.T.s
Marcia Politovich In-Flight Icing Progress Nov., 2002 FAA Aviation Weather Program Management Review
Marcia Politovich Characteristics of Large Drop Icing Regions Jan., 2003 AIAA Aerospace Sciences Meeting
Marcia Politovich Science Review: In-Flight Icing April, 2003 FAA Aviation Weather Program Management Review
Marcia Politovich Current Icing Potential Product; Summary of Meteorological Breakout Session June, 2003 FAA Icing Conf.
Matt Pocernich Model output statistics using ensemble predictors 18-21 Sept. 2003 Workshop on Ensemble Weather Forecasting in the Short to Medium Range (Val-Morin, Montreal)
Roy Rasmussen Winter Weather Nowcasting (Invited) 11-12 Aug. 2003 AMS Radar Conf. (Seattle)
Roy Rasmussen Snow and Visibility Nov. 2002 Office of the Federal Coordinator
Daran Rife Predictability of Low-level Winds by Mesoscale Meteorological Models 20 June 2003 George Mason University
Rita Roberts Radar detection of convective weather and radar data quality issues 3 Mar. 2003 Sino-NCAR Convective Weather Nowcasting Workshop (Beijing, China)
Rita Roberts Specifics of the NCAR Auto-nowcaster (ANC) System 4 Mar. 2003 Sino-NCAR Convective Weather Nowcasting Workshop (Beijing, China)
Rita Roberts Poster and oral presentation on the 8 July 2001 Denver flashflood case 2-6 Sept. 2002 WWRP-sponsored Intl. Conf. on QPF (Reading, England)
Rita Roberts Presentation to IHOP CI workshop 30 Sept. - 1 Oct. 2002 NASA and Univ. of Maryland
Rita Roberts Two presentations given at FAA Science Meeting (via teleconference) 28-30 Oct. 2002 NCAR/RAP, MIT/LL
Rita Roberts Presentation on Autonowcaster 24 April 2002 Tom Filiaggi (NWS/MDL)
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Rita Roberts Presentation on 3-year plans using IHOP data 19 July 2002 Watercycle Strategic Initiative Steering Committee
Rita Roberts Presentation on Surface water vapor from S-Pol refractivity 6 Aug. 2002 IHOP Surface, Soil, and Vegetation (ABL) Workshop
Rita Roberts Presentation on RAP's IHOP research plans 13 Nov. 2002 RAP Advisory Committee
Rita Roberts Oral presentation 6-12 Aug. 2003 31st Conf. on Radar Meteorology
Rita Roberts Transitioning refractivity processing onto operational radars 28 Oct. 2003 Radar TAC committee
Rita Roberts Presentation on forecaster-computer nowcasting capability & integrating activities with the NWS NDFD & IFPS systems 16 Sept. 2003 NWS, FAA PDT leads at NCAR
Rita Roberts Informal presentation on proposed refractivity experiment 19 Sept. 2003 Mark Weber and Nathan Parker (MIT/LL) and Joe VanAndel (ATD)
Rita Roberts Lecture on Convection Initiation 4 Nov. 2003 NWS SOO's during COMET's Fall training
Vidal Salazar Cloud Seeding, Past and Future Aug. 2003 Presentation in Saltillo Coahuila Mexico as part of a workshop in water resources
Vidal Salazar Review of Cloud Seeding programs and critical issues in climate 29 Jan. 2003 Guest Lecture for ATOC 4800/5000 Critical Issues in Climate and Policy, University of Colorado
Vidal Salazar Aerosol - Cloud interactions in the UAE 13 Feb. 2003 AMS Meeting (Long Beach, CA)
Vidal Salazar Numerical modeling of hygroscopic flares 9 April 2003 Roelof Bruintjes presented this paper written by Vidal Salazar at WMO Conf. (Casablanca, Moroco)
Hatim Sharif Hydrologic Modeling in the Southern Great Plains Nov. 2002 NCAR
Hatim Sharif Two-Dimensional Modeling of Flood Events in Denver, Colorado Dec. 2002 American Geophysical Union
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Hatim Sharif An investigation of scale & spatial variability using fully- and semi-distributed TOPLATS at the Whitewater Watershed, Kansas Feb. 2003 AMS
Hatim Sharif Comparison of Reflectivity and Precipitation Fields Estimated by Two Radar Systems Feb. 2003 AMS
Hatim Sharif An Evaluation of a 30-year Land Surface Model Simulation using Observational Forcing Feb. 2003 AMS
Hatim Sharif Flash Flood Nowcasting in an Urban Watershed Apr. 2003 American Geophysical Union
Hatim Sharif Radar-Rain Gauge Adjustment & its Sensitivity to the Method of Comparison Aug. 2003 AMS
Bob Sharman Improving the small scale turbulence structure for fluid dynamics computations 6 Jan. 2003 41st Aerospace Sciences Meeting & Exhibit (Reno, NV)
Bob Sharman Aircraft scale turbulence isotropy derived from measurements and simulations 6 Jan. 2003 41st Aerospace Sciences Meeting & Exhibit (Reno, NV)
Jenny Sun Assimilation of radar observations for short-term weather prediction 11 Dec. 2002 Korea Meteorological Administration (Seoul, Korea)
Jenny Sun Low-level wind retrieval for nowcasting 4 Mar. 2003 Sino-US Workshop on Convective Storm Nowcasting (Beijing, China) Invited
Jenny Sun Explicit thunderstorm nowcasting with a numerical model 4 Mar. 2003 Sino-US Workshop on Convective Storm Nowcasting (Beijing, China) Invited
Jenny Sun Initialization and Forecasting of a supercell thunderstorm using single-Doppler observations 3 Apr. 2003 MMM, RAP joint seminar
Jenny Sun Initialization and forecasting thunderstorms: a case study using STEPS data 5 Aug. 2003 31st Intl. Conf. on Radar Meteorology (Seattle, WA)
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Jenny Sun Convective-scale data assimilation 17 July 2003 Colloquium on data assimilation for atmospheric and climate system prediction (NCAR, Boulder)
Agnes Takacs Data for verification of diagnoses and forecasts of oceanic weather elements 23 April 2003 AWRP Science Review
Agnes Takacs Verification of diagnoses and forecasts of oceanic weather elements 18 Sept. 2003 National Weather Service visit to NCAR
Agnes Takacs Forecasters assessment of Mountain wave empirical forecasting algorithm: Summary of the results for the winter 2003 study 25 Sept. 2003 AWC Seminar
Agnes Takacs Preparing subjective evaluation of GTG for winter FY04 25 Sept. 2003 AWC Seminar
Claudia Tebaldi Probabilistic Assessment of Visual Clinate Change 11 Dec. 2002 Univ. of Colorado Applied Math Dept.
Claudia Tebaldi Bayesian Analysis of Multi-model Ensembles 24 Feb. 2003 Univ. of Washington, Statistics Dept.
Claudia Tebaldi Bayesian Analysis of Climate Change Projections 11 Apr. 2003 Joint ACU-EGS Meeting (Nice)
Claudia Tebaldi Improving numerical weather prediction using recent observations and spatial composition 21 Feb. 2003 Univ. of Washington, Statistics Dept.
Mei Xu Short term forecasting of snowbands using a mesoscale model
 23 Aprl. 2003 FAA
Mei Xu Radar data assimilation for real-time short term forecasting
of snowbands
 6 Aug. 2003 AMS 31st Radar Conf.
Mei Xu Winter weather nowcasting" (for Roy Rassmussen)
 16 Sept. 2003 at NCAR for NWS visitors
Mei Xu Short term forecasting of snowstorms using a mesoscale model
 18 Sept. 2003 at NCAR for NWS visitors
Mei Xu Short-term forecasting of winter storms using radar data and
numerical models
 25 Sept. 2003 Shanghai Institute for Typhoon Research
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Chuck Wade Using an Acoustic Sensor to Detect Ice Pellets and Hail on ASOS 9-13 Feb. 2003 AMS 83rd Annual Meeting (Long Beach, CA)
Tom Warner

Taught 10-week course on weather and forecasting for non-meteorologists at UCAR.

 

 Spring-Summer, 2003 UCAR
Tom Warner Four-Dimensional Meteorological Data Assimilation Methods 24 Sept. 2003 Dept. of Defense
Tom Warner Dispersion Modeling Using Real-Time Variational Assimilation of Radar & Lidar Radial Velocities 10 Sept. 2003 Dept. of Defense
Tom Warner Dispersion Modeling Using Real-Time Variational Assimilation of Radar & Lidar Radial Velocities 18 June 2003 Dept. of Defense & George Mason University
Rob Weingruber JADE Presentation August, 2003 RAP/NCAR
John Williams Remote Sensing of Turbulence with Ground-based Radars 20 Feb. 2003 FAA Turulence PDT Science Review Meeting
John Williams Progress in Development and Validation of WSR-88D Turbulence Algorithm 22 Apr. 2003 FAA AWRP Science Review Meeting
John Williams Retrieving Cloud Liquid Water Content from Dual-wavelength Radar Measurements 6 May 2003 RAP Intelligent Systems Workshop
John Williams Enhanced Dual-Wavelength Technique for Remote Detection of Cloud Liquid Water Content 6 Aug. 2003 AMS 31st Conf. on Radar Meteorology
John Williams Verification of an Airborne Radar Turbulence Detection Algorithm 7 Aug. 2003 AMS 31st Conf. on Radar Meteorology
John Williams NCAR's ATDS Automated Scoring Algorithm: Motivation, Design and Results 26 Aug. 2003 TPAWS Research & Technical Forum Meeting (NASA Langley)
Jamie Wolff Aviation Turbulence Research & Forecasting 25-26 March 2003 Aviation Weather Center
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Jamie Wolff Aviation Turbulence Research & Forecasting 21 Aug. 2003 Southwest Airlines
David Yates Global Change Impacts on Aquatic Ecosystem Services 1 Aug. 2003 Energy Modeling Forum, IX (Snowmass, CO)
Guifu Zhang Constrained Gamma Drop Size Distribution Model for Polarimetric Radar Rain Estimation:...... 6 Aug. 2003 31st Conf. on Radar Meteorology
Guifu Zhang Single Antenna Interferometry to Measure Wind 10 Aug. 2003 31st Conf. on Radar Meteorology


Editorships

Staff Name
Description
Barb Brown Associate Editor, Weather & Forecasting
Roelof Bruintjes Associate Editor, Journal of Applied Meteorology
Marcia Politovich In Situ Instrumentation Editor, AMS Journal of Atmospheric & Oceanic Technology
Hatim Sharif Reviewer, Journal of Hydrologic Engineering
J. Vivekanandan Associate Editor, Radio Science


Awards and Honors

Staff Name
Description
Larry Cornman, Bob Sharman Awarded on the "Scientific American 50" list. The list, which recognizes
outstanding acts of leadership in technology, names project scientists Larry Cornman and Robert Sharman as research leaders in aerospace.
Greg Meymaris, Bob Sharman, John Williams “Turning Goals into Reality—Revolutionize Aviation” award, NASA, June 2003, as part of Aviation Safety Turbulence Prediction and Warning Systems (TPAWS) Team
Carol Park Presidential Award Recipient for 5 Years of Service to the SOARS mentoring program
Marcia Politovich AMS Fellow 2003
Jim Wilson Remote Sensing Lecture Award, January 2003 AMS Mtg.
Guifu Zhang Microwave Radar Technique for Retrieving Temperature (US Patent)

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Panels

Staff Name
Description
Barb Brown Chair, WMO WWRP/WGNE Joint Working Group on Forecast Verification
Barb Brown Member, Scientific Review Panel for NWS Methods Development Laboratory
Barb Brown Member, Weather Applications Working Group, FAA Collaborative Decision Making (CDM) program
Roelof Bruintjes Panel Member, Committee on the Status and Future Directions in US Weather Modification Research and Operations, National Research Council, National Academy of Sciences
Janice Coen Panel Member, National Resource Allocation Committee(NRAC)
Janice Coen Panel Member, Alliance Allocation Board (AAB)
Bill Mahoney Panel Member, Insurance Workshop, Symposium Wrapup Panel, Scientific, Representing NCAR's technology transfer program.
David Johnson Panel Member, Natural Hazards Pannel at the GOES Users Conference II. Made recommendations for instrument requirements for the next generation of GOES meteorological satellite.
Cathy Kessinger Panel Member, AMS Program Committee on Artificial Intelligence Applications in the Environmental Sciences
Marcia Politovich Committee Advisor, FAA In-Flight Icing Steering Committee
Marcia Politovich Panel Member, COMET Advisory Panel
Marcia Politovich Panel Member, NSF RICO Review Panel
Bob Sharman Chaired AIAA turbulence session at AMS Conf. in Reno, NV Jan., 2003
Jenny Sun Committee Member, AMS Committee on Radar Meteorology
Jim Wilson Panel Member, WWRP Working Group on Nowcasting
Jim Wilson Panel Member, NEXRAD Technical Advisory Committee
Jim Wilson Panel Member, AMS Radar Committee

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Education and Outreach (K-12 including college)

Staff Name
Name of Presentation
Date
Group presented to
Dan Breed Water and Clouds 19 Sept. 2003 Two First Grade classrooms at Montmorency School, Rock Falls, IL
Dan Breed Storms and Lightning 28 April 2003 Two 4-5 Grade classrooms at Mapleton Elementary School, Boulder
Dan Breed UAE Weather and Culture Nov. 2002 Two 7th Grade Social Studies classes at Casey Middle School, Boulder
Steve Carson Present weekly science lesson weekly topics are related to school curriculum Rocky Mountain School for the Gifted
Steve Carson Volunteer member of Rocky Mt. School Information Technology Committee doing linux and windows and network administration ongoing Rocky Mountain School for the Gifted
Jim Cowie Weather Talk 21 Feb. 2003 Hygiene Elementary School - 5th grade
Jim Cowie Weather Talk 9 May 2003 Hygiene Elementary School - 3rd grade
Andrew Crook Talk on Weather 11 Feb. 2003 St. Louis Primary
Andrew Crook Talk on Weather 3 Mar. 2003 Niwot Elementary
Tressa Fowler Florence Nightingale the statistician 6 Mar. 2003 Kohl Elementary
David Johnson Member, District Facilities Committee 1 Oct. 2002 - 28 Feb. 2003 Boulder Valley School District
Doug Lindholm Coached a Destination Imagination team offering my engineering experience towards creative problem solving/improv)

Each week during the school year.

(They made it past regionals and took 4th at the state competition, the highest showing of any team in the school's history.)

 Stargate
Carol Park Class presentation on science and non-science careers at NCAR 11 Feb. 2003 St. Louis School, Louisville
Vidal Salazar Day of the Dead talk 7 Nov. 2002 Boulder Community Center
Bob Sharman Aviation Turbulence Research Activities 12 Feb. 2003 NCAR/RAP/National Assoc. of Science Writers
       

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Education & Training outside K-12 college world

Staff Name
Description
Terri Betancourt Providing T170 model data for ESRI International User conference demonstration.
Terri Betancourt NCAR representation at ESRI Intl. User Conference, San Diego, July 7-10, 2003 (NCAR booth and established Atmospheric Special Interest Group for GIS users).
Terri Betancourt Demonstration of Atmospheric Information Systems to ESRI GIS software development team, Redlands, CA, Feb. 13-14, 2003.
Dan Breed Lightning Data Center meetings (monthly), St. Anthony Hospital, Denver
Dan Breed Science Fair project guidance for 7th graders at Casey Middle School, Boulder (4 class periods), Dec. 2002
Dan Breed Judge for science fair at Rocky Mountain School for the Gifted and Talented, Boulder Jan. 2003
Dan Breed Judge for Boulder Valley Science Fair, 6 Feb. 2003
Barb Brown Provided tour and information for student visitor from BYSD high school science seminar program, Sept., 2003
David Gochis Writing and Communication Mentor for Lee Rossiter through SOARS
David Gochis Advise undergraduate student, James Foster, from Univ. of Colorado
Tressa Fowler Assist with science fair.
Tressa Fowler Worked RAP booth at NBAA.
Paul Herzegh Served as a member of NCAR's Science Advisory Committee for Scientific Exhibits & Displays. Contributed to the development of the new Climate Discovery exhibit at the NCAR Mesa Lab.
Tara Jensen Maintenance of the MM5 Real-Time Forecast Model for the UAE Rainfall Enhancement Assessment Program (7 part lecture series), Aug.-Sept. 2003, DWRS staff
Tara Jensen Aircraft Instrumentation (8 part tutorial series), June-July 2003, DWRS staff
David Johnson One-page flyer on Volcanic Ash Monitoring for Aviation for NASA (Apr. 2003)
Tenny Lindholm Lab demonstrations for 30 undergraduate meteorology students, 20 June 2003
   
Niles Oien Helped out at NCAR booth Memorial Day weekend, May 2003
Matt Pocernich Treasurer for the CO/WY Chapter of the American Statistical Assoc. Attended the Spring and Fall meetings here in Colorado. Attended the national Joint Statistical Meeting in San Francisco-including the Council of Chapters meetings.
Marcia Politovich Provided meteorological content for NASA Glen Research Center training module for pilots on supercooled large drop icing conditions.
Marcia Politovich SAE AC-9C In-Flight Icing subcommittee
Marcia Politovich Turning pizza into dense smoke.
Daran Rife On-site client visits at Army Test & Evaluation Command test ranges: Dugway Proving Grounds, 15-18 July 2003; Aberdeen Proving Ground, 25-28 June 2003; White Sands Missile Range 30 July-3 Aug. 2003
Rita Roberts Interviewed by the Weather Channel regarding tornadoes and Ted Fujita's work for their middle school teaching program. (10 Sept. 2002)
David Yates Global Climate Change & Society (GCCS): a summer research program for undergraduates sponsored by NSF (Univ. of Colorado) Summer, 2003
David Yates

Mentored two students: Christopher Bochicchio. "Synopsis of Works Pertaining to Paleo-stream flow in the Sacramento & Colorado Rivers"

Meghan Stock. "Restoration, Climate Change and Reality"

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Communicating NCAR science to the public

Staff Name
Description
Rose Lundeen, Rich Wagoner, Bill Mahoney, Brant Foote Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS) World Congress/Chicago Lakeside Center, 13-19 October 2002
Rose Lundeen, Bruce Carmichael, Rich Wagoner, Tenny Lindholm Air Traffic Controllers Association (ATCA) DC Marriott Wardman Park Hotel, 3-7 November 2002

Rose Lundeen, Rich Wagoner, Bill Mahoney

Transportation Research Board (TRB) DC Marriott Wardman Park Hotel, 12-16 January 2003
Bill Mahoney, Barb Brown, Joanne Dunnebecke, Rich Wagoner, Rose Lundeen, Rhonda McGaffic, Bruce Carmichael AMS/Long Beach Convention Center, 9-13 February 2003
Rose Lundeen, Rich Wagoner, Bill Mahoney ITS America/Minneapolis, 19-22 May 2003
Rose Lundeen, Brant Foote, Terri Betancourt, Hank Fisher, David Hahn, Scott Swerdlin ESRI Conference/San Diego, 6-11 June 2003
Jim Wilson, Bill Mahoney, et al. "Nature's Invisible Killer" - video presented on the Discover Channel featuring interviews with RAP staff on microburst research by Ted Fujito. 2 Oct. 2003

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