1999 Workshop Program

8:00-8:30 Registration

8:30-8:45 Opening Remarks

• Jim Steenburgh, University of Utah
  
• Vickie Nadolski, Director, NWS Western Region
  
• Ed Zipser, Chair, University of Utah Department of Meteorology

8:45-10:00 Radar meteorology

• 8:45-9:00 Doppler-radar analysis of the 11 August 1999 Salt Lake City tornado. Steve Vasiloff, NOAA/NSSL and Larry Dunn, NWSFO, Salt Lake City.
  
• 9:00-9:15 The 3 September 1999 Tornado in the Uinta Basin. Jeff Colton and Chris Jones, NWSFO, Grand Junction.
  
• 9:15-9:30 A case for the use of negative elevation angles at mountaintop radar sites. Rodger A. Brown and Vincent T. Wood, NOAA/NSSL.
  
• 9:30-9:45 Operational Assessment of a Real-Time WSR-88D Snow Algorithm at NWSFO Reno. Steve Otteson, NWSFO, Reno.
  
• 9:45-10:00 Discussion/Poster Introductions

10:00-10:20 Break

10:20-12:05 Regional Data Assimilation

• 10:20-10:35 Data Assimilation Issues in Complex Terrain. John Horel, University of Utah.
  
• 10:35-11:05 The Rapid Update Cycle: Stan Benjamin, NOAA/FSL, Boulder, CO
  
• 11:05-11:30 The MAPS Surface Analysis System. Patricia Miller, NOAA/FSL, Boulder, CO.
  
• 11:30-11:45 Discussion

11:45-12:00 Special tribute to Len Snellman. Glenn Rasch, NWS Western Region

12:00-1:00 Lunch

1:00-2:15 Local Observation and Data Assimilation

• 1:00-1:30 The Local Analysis and Prediction System. Paul Schultz, NOAA/FSL, Boulder, CO.
  
• 1:30-1:45 Utah Mesonet. Mike Splitt, University of Utah
  
• 1:45-2:15 The University of Utah ADAS. Steve Lazarus and Carol Ciliberti, University of Utah.
  
• 2:15-2:30 Discussion

2:30-3:00 Break

3:00-4:45 Winter Storms and Operational Forecast Techniques

• 3:00-3:15 Evolution and predictability of a solitary snowband over the Great Salt Lake. Daryl Onton, University of Utah.
  
• 3:15-3:30 Lake-effect snowstorms in northern Utah with and without Lightning. David M. Schultz, NOAA/NSSL.
  
• 3:30-3:45 The 1998 Price snow-hole event. Larry Dunn and David Hogan, NWSFO, Salt Lake City.
  
• 3:45-4:00 Real-time mesoscale modeling at Dugway Proving Grounds. Al Astling and Scott Halvorson, Meteorology Division, US Army Dugway Proving Grounds, and Rong-Shyang Sheu, Research Applications Program, NCAR.
  
• 4:00-4:15 Implementation of a RAMS research capability over the Southwestern United States. James Sanders and Walter W. Schalk III, NOAA ARL/SORD, Las Vegas.
  
• 4:15-4:30 The July 8 Flash Flood in Las Vegas. Kim Runk, NWSFO, Las Vegas.
  
• 4:30-4:45 Technique for Analyzing Heavy Rain Events and Associated Stream Responses. Jonathan Slemmer, NWSFO, Oxnard.

4:45-5:00 Closing Discussion

Posters

• A flash flood event over eastern Washington. Joe Solomon, NWSFO, Pendleton.
  
• A TAF Vector Wind Verification Method. Les Colin, NWSFO, Boise.
  
• A Comparison of Mountain Wave Events West of the Continental Divide in the Colorado Rockies. Chris Jones and Jeff Colton, NWSFO, Grand Junction.
  
• The Intermountain Precipitation Experiment. Multiple authors from University of Utah, NOAA/NSSL, and Desert Research Institute.
  
• Summer-season diurnal circulations in the Tooele Valley of northern Utah. Jebb Stewart, University of Utah.
  
• Diurnal circulations of southern Idaho. Jebb Stewart, University of Utah.
  
• Mesoscale structure and evolution of a Great Basin Cyclone. Tom Blazek, University of Utah.
  
• Climatology of lake-effect snowstorms of the Great Salt Lake. Scott Halvorson and Jim Steenburgh, University of Utah.
  
• Basin-scale transport and mixing in the Peter Sinks of northern Utah. Craig Clements and John Horel, University of Utah.