2000 Workshop Program

8:00-8:30 Registration

8:30-8:45 Opening Remarks

8:45-10:00 Fire Weather

8:45-9:15 Fire Weather's Role in Decision Support for Wildland Fire Agencies. Neil Hitchcock, US Forest Service.
9:15-9:45 The Montana-North Idaho Fire Season 2000. David W. Goens, NWSFO, Misoula, MT.
9:45-10:00 Overview of National Weather Service (NWS) Field Support to the Summer 2000 Wildfires: NWS Incident Meteorologist (IMET) Operations. Chris Gibson, NWSFO, Salt Lake City, UT.
10:00-10:15 The SPC Fire Weather Outlooks. Phillip Bothwell, NOAA Storm Prediction Center, Norman, OK.
10:15-10:30 The Effects of Atmospheric Stability on Wildfire Behavior. Mary Ann Jenkins, York University, Toronto, Canada.
10:30-10:45 Discussion/Poster Introductions

10:45-11:15 Break

11:15-12:00 Applications of the MesoWest Networks

11:15-11:45 High Resolution Data Assimilation over the Western Region. Carol Ciliberti, John Horel, and Steven Lazarus, Univerisity of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT.
11:45-12:00 Four-Dimensional Data Assimilation in a Mesoscale Model using MesoWest Observations at Dugway Proving Ground. Al Astling and Scott Halvorson, West Desert Test Center, Dugway, UT, and Jennifer Cram, NCAR, Boulder, CO.

12:00-1:15 Lunch

1:15-2:15 The Intermountain Precipitation Experiment (IPEX)

1:15-1:35 Overview of the Intermountain Precipitation Experiment (IPEX) Field and Research Program. W. James Steenburgh, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT.
1:35-2:00 Preliminary Results from IPEX. David Schultz, NOAA/NSSL, Norman, OK.
2:00-2:15 Validation of Quantitative Precipitation Forecasts during IPEX. Linda Cheng, John Horel, and Mike Splitt, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT.
2:15-2:30 Short Range Ensemble Forecasts (SREF) during IPEX. James A. Nelson, NWSFO, Salt Lake City, UT.
2:30-2:45 Kinematic Aspects of Orographic Precipitation Processes during IPEX IOP-3. Justin A. Cox and W. James Steenburgh University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT, and Brian A. Colle, SUNY-Stony Brook, Stony Brook, NY.
2:45-3:00 Discussion

3:00-3:30 Break

3:30-4:45 Operational Forecast Issues

3:30-3:45 Radar Examination of a Short-lived Bow Echo in the Central Rocky Mountains. Jeffrey D. Colton, Christopher N. Jones, and James R. Pringle, NWSFO, Grand Junction, CO.
3:45-4:00 Correlating Thermodynamic Characteristics to Thunderstorm Downburst Events in the Great Basin. Daniel Mercer, NWSFO, Reno, NV.
4:00-4:15 Using AMBER for Flash Flood Forecasting in Utah. Lawrence Dunn, NWSFO, Salt Lake City, UT.
4:15-4:30 Assessment of WSR-88D Precipitation Estimates during the Winter of 1998-1999. Steve Vasiloff, NWS WR-SSD, Salt Lake City, UT.
4:30-4:45 The Martin Luther King Weekend (2000) Forecast Model Bust. Mark Struthwolf and Lawrence Dunn, NWSFO, Salt Lake City, UT.

4:45-5:00 Closing Discussion

Posters

Real-Time Mesoscale Modeling for the Mountain West Using a Beowulf Cluster. Daryl J. Onton, W. James Steenburgh, and Brian Haymore, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT.
A Case Study of a Flash Flood near Ridgway, Colorado. Brian A. Avery, Christopher N. Jones, Jeffrey D. Colton, and Michael P. Meyers, NWSFO, Grand Junction, CO.
Precipitation and Temperature Tendencies during El Nino and La Nina years at Salt Lake City, Cedar City, and Blanding, Utah. David Hogan, NWSFO, Salt Lake City, UT.
Topographic Distortion of a Cold Front over Central and Southern Idaho as Revealed by the MesoWest Networks. W. James Steenburgh and Thomas R. Blazek, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT.