NOAA/NESDIS Cooperative Research Program (CoRP)
Using Satellite Observations and Models to Understand and
Communicate Information on Climate Variability and Change
| Wednesday, 17 August 2011 | ||
| 9:00AM | Welcome, Logistics, Agenda | Otis Brown, NCSU/CICS-NC Director Scott Hausman, NCEI, Deputy Director |
| Session 1: Workforce Development Showcase | ||
| 9:20AM | Introduction to Workforce Development Showcase | Otis Brown, NCSU/ CICS-NC Director |
| 9:25AM | CI Post Doc Panel: From PhD to Employment | Jesse Bell, CICS-NC, Research Associate Jessica Matthews, CICS-NC, Post Doctoral Fellow Carl Schreck, CICS-NC, Post Doctoral Fellow Andrea Schumacher, CIRA, Research Associate Tom Smith, CICS-MD, Physical Scientist Raymond Fornes, NCSU, Emeritus Professor/ Associate Dean for Research |
| 10:45AM | Break (on your own) | |
| 11:00AM | Plenary: Crowdsourcing | Scott Hausman, NCEI, Deputy Director |
| 11:30AM | General Announcements | Otis Brown, NCSU/CICS-NC Director Jennifer Roshaven, CICS-NC Program Specialist |
| 11:45AM – 1:15PM | Lunch (on your own) | |
| Session 2: Cooperative Research Program | ||
| 1:15PM | Introduction to CoRP | Ingrid Guch, STAR/CoRP |
| 1:30PM | Plenary: Where Science Gains Value | Al Powell, STAR |
| 2:00PM | Plenary: Objective Determination of Feature Resolution in an SST Analysis | Richard Reynolds, CICS-NC |
| 2:30PM | Plenary: Land Surface Temperature Product Validation Using Climate Observation Networks | Pierre Guilllevic, CICS-NC |
| 3:00PM | Break and Poster Display Set-up | |
| Session 3: Poster Session | ||
| 3:20PM | Poster Introductions (One Minute Per Poster) | All Poster Presenters |
| 3:40PM | Poster Viewing | All |
| 4:40PM | Closing Comments | Otis Brown, NCSU/CICS-NC Director |
| 4:45PM | Adjourn | |
| Thursday, 18 August 2011 | ||
| 9:00AM | Welcome/Announcements | Otis Brown, CICS-NC Jennifer Roshaven, CICS-NC |
| 9:05AM | Plenary: Advancing Climate Prediction at NCEP: Evaluation and Application of CFS | Wayne Higgins, NOAA |
| Session 4: Invited Talks | ||
| 9:35AM | US Climate Reference Network Soil Moisture and Temperature | Jesse Bell, CICS-NC |
| 9:50AM | Tropical Montane Cloud Forests: Importance and Challenges in a Changing Environment | Daniel Comarazamy, CREST |
| 10:05AM | Deriving Precipitation Features in the Southeastern United States From Long-Term Remotely Sensed Data | Olivier Prat, CICS-NC |
| 10:20AM | A Satellite Rainfall Rate Estimation Algorithm | Pablo Mejias, CREST |
| 10:35AM | Break (on your own) | |
| 10:50AM | Another Look at Maximum Potential Intensity Estimates for Tropical Cyclones | Andrea Schumacher, CIRA |
| 11:05AM | The Madden–Julian Oscillation and Equatorial Waves in Upper Tropospheric Water Vapor | Carl Schreck, CICS-NC |
| 11:20AM | Ecoregional Analysis of Near Shore Sea-Surface Temperature in the North Pacific | Meredith Payne, CIOSS |
| 11:35AM | Coastal-Interior Ocean Flux Estimates From a High-Resolution Data Assimilative Model | Alexander Kurapov, CIOSS |
| 11:50AM | General Announcements | Ingrid Guch, NOAA Jennifer Roshaven, CICS-NC |
| 12:05PM-1:35PM | Lunch (on your own) | |
| 1:35PM | Improved Historical Reconstructions of SST and Marine Precipitation Variations | Thomas Smith, CICS-MD |
| 1:50PM | Assessment of NCEP GFS Cloud Fractions, Temperature, and Relative Humidity Against Satellite Retrievals | Hye Lim Yoo, CICS-MD |
| 2:05PM | An Overview of True-Color Imagery Products from Space: ATS-3 to GOES-R | Don Hillger, CIRA |
| 2:20PM | Response of Liquid Cloud Water Path to Loading of Various Aerosol Types over the Atlantic Ocean | Ousmane Sy Savane, CREST |
| 2:35PM | Improvement of Aerosol Retrieval Over Urban Scenes by Refining Surface Albedo Model | Ana Picón, CREST |
| 2:50PM | Break (on your own) | |
| 3:05PM | Plenary: Satellite Observations and Numerical Model Simulations of the Influence of Sea Surface Temperature on Surface Winds | Dudley Chelton, CIOSS |
| 3:35PM | Award Presentation, Symposium Summary and Wrap Up | Otis Brown, NCSU/ CICS-NC Director Ingrid Guch, NOAA |
| 3:50PM | NCDC Building Tour | Gregory Hammer, NCEI |
| 5:00PM | Adjourn | |