Ninth Annual Workshop on Weather Prediction in the Intermountain West
Thursday November 7, 2002
Huntsman Cancer Institute
University of Utah
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7:30-8:15 AM registration
Session 1. Drought and Fire Weather
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8:15-8:30. Opening remarks
- 8:30-8:50. C. Gorski. NWS Western Region. Review of the 2002 Fire Weather
Season
- 8:50-9:00. J. Horel, M. Splitt, J. Pechmann, A. Reinecke. U/Utah. CIRP
Fire Weather Monitor
- 9:00-9:20. R. Julander. Utah Snow Survey. Current Status of the Drought
in Utah
Session 2. National Programs
- 9:20-9:45 P. Hirschberg. NWS Office of Science and Technology. NWS Science and Technology Infusion Plans
- 9:45-10:15 L. Uccellini. NWS/NCEP. National Centers for Environmental
Prediction Update
- 10:15-10:30. E. Rogers, T. Black, Z. Janjic, H. Chuang, G. DiMego. NCEP.
The NCEP Nonhydrostatic Mesoscale Model : Description and Performance over
the Western United States
- 10:30-10:45. A. Horvitz, NOAA/NWS/Office of Climate, Water, and Weather
Services. A Modernized Cooperative Observer Network
Session 3. Posters
- 10:45-10:50. Poster Introductions
- 10:50-11:45. Posters
- L. Byerle and J. Roman. U/Utah. Real-time forecasts with the Utah Global Model
- J. Holland, J. Vanderbilt, M. Eaton. BLM. Climate Monitoring and Research
on the Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument
- G. Merrill. U/Utah. Synoptic Scale Storm Tracks With Specific Density
Trends, Leading to Natural Avalanches on HW 210, Little Cottonwood Canyon, Utah
- D. Myrick, J. Horel, S. Lazarus. U/Utah. Anisotropic Weighting in Data Assimilation over Complex Terrain
- E. Pardyjak. U/Utah. Decay of Turbulence in the Atmospheric Surface Layer
During Evening Transition
- D. Pataki. U/Utah. Urban Trace-gas Emissions Study (UTES): Interactions
between canopy processes, anthropogenic emissions, and social institutions
in the Salt Lake Valley, Utah
- J. Pechmann, M. Splitt, J. Horel. U/Utah. Real-Time Archival of Surface Weather
Information
- M. Splitt, J. Horel, and J. Pechmann. U/Utah. The Distribution of Surface
Weather Observations in the Western United States
- K. A. Hart, W. J. Steenburgh, D. J. Onton, A. J. Siffert. U/Utah.
High-Density Model Output Statistics for the 2002 Olympic Games:
Evaluation and Comparison with Fine-Grid Model Output
- M. Struthwolf. SLC WFO. Verification of GFE Forecast Grids at WFO Salt
Lake City
- J. Wallmann. Elko WFO. The August 12, 2001 Northern Nevada Dry Lightning
Outbreak
- M. Wetzel, M. Meyers, R. Borys, A. Rossi, R. McAnnelly, W. Cotton, P.
Frisbie, D. Lowenthal, W. Brown, S. Cohn, D. Nadler. DRI. Verification of
Snowfall Forecasts in the Park Range of Colorado
11:45-12:30. Lunch
Session 4. Surface and Boundary Layer
- 12:30-12:50. B. Myers. UCAR. The Road Weather Forecast System
- 12:50-1:10. L. McKittrick. Montana State. Pavement/Terrain Temperature
Modeling
- 1:10-1:25. M. Splitt, J. Horel. U/Utah. Monitoring Road Weather Conditions
in the Western United States
- 1:25-1:50. J. Fast. Pacific Northwest Laboratory. Vertical Transport and
Mixing Experiment
- 1:50-2:05. E. Astling, S. Halvorson, J. White, D. Rife, and R. Sheu.
Dugway Proving Grounds. Evaluation of 4DWX Forecasts and Analyses over
Northern Utah
Session 5. Intermountain Precipitation Experiment
- 2:05-2:20. J. Shafer and W. J. Steenburgh. U/Utah. Synoptic and Mesoscale
Structure of a Wasatch Mountain Winter Storm
- 2:20-2:35. J. Cox, W. J. Steenburgh, D. Kingsmill. U/Utah. Dual-Doppler
Observed Kinematic Structure of a Wasatch Mountain Winter Storm
2:35-2:50. Break
- 2:50-3:05. D. Kingsmill, H. Cai, J. Cox, J. Steenburgh. DRI. Microphysical structure of orographic
precipitation along the Wasatch mountains during IPEX
- 3:05-3:20. D. M. Schultz and R. J. Trapp. NSSL. Microscale and
Precipitation Structure of a Squall Line and Associated Cold Front in
Northern Utah during IPEX
Session 6. Winter Snowfall
- 3:20-3:45. W. J. Steenburgh. U/Utah. Rethinking Conceptual Models of
Orographic Precipitation over the Intermountain West
- 3:45-4:00. A. Huggins, D. Kingsmill, D. Mitchell and H. Cai. Desert
Research Institute. Vertical Profiles of Reflectivity: Use in a WSR-88D
Precipitation Algorithm and Their Extension below WSR-88D Sampling Levels
- 4:00-4:15. G. Fricska. MSC Mountain Weather Centre. Variations in Winter
Precipitation Patterns Over Two Closely Situated Southwestern British
Columbia Coastal Mountain Passes.
- 4:15-4:30. D. M. Schultz, P. Roebber, E. Ware, S. Bruening, H. Brooks.
NSSL.The Challenges of Accurate Snowfall Density Forecasts: Implications
for Observing Strategies, Snowfall Predictions, and Future Research Efforts
- 4:30-4:45. Workshop Wrap-up