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Special Symposiums
Call for Papers
Aviation, Range and Aerospace Meteorology Special Symposium on Weather- Air Traffic Management Integration, 13 January 2009, Phoenix, Arizona
A 1-day Special Symposium on Weather- Air Traffic Management (Wx-ATM) Integration, sponsored by the American Meteorological Society, and organized by the AMS Committee on Aviation, Range and Aerospace Meteorology, will be held 13 January 2009, as part of the 89th AMS Annual Meeting in Phoenix, Arizona. Preliminary programs, registration, hotel, and general information will be posted on the AMS Web site (http://www.ametsoc.org/meet/annual/) in late-September 2008.
“Wx-ATM Integration” refers to translating traditional and space weather information into impact measures, such as capacity or flow rates, and automatically or semi-automatically incorporating that data into traffic flow decision support tools to improve the system capacity and safety in the face of weather hazards. Today, most National Airspace System (NAS) decision tools use weather manually (e.g., as traffic display overlays or on separate displays). Human users must manually translate the weather information into air traffic impacts and then mentally visualize possible ATM options. The vision is that weather forecasts will instead be translated into air traffic impact forecasts which in turn will be used to automatically generate specific options for ATM actions in the Next Generation Air Transportation System (NextGen).
In a recent report, the FAA Research, Engineering and Development Advisory Committee (REDAC) Weather – ATM Integration Working Group (WAIWG) estimated that perhaps two thirds of convective weather-related air traffic delay is potentially avoidable and recommended a cross cutting Wx-ATM research program involving public and private sector air traffic management and aviation weather experts. The WAIWG suggested that a risk management approach to ATM, with adaptive, incremental decision making based on automatically translating weather forecasts into air traffic impacts, presents a major new opportunity for reducing weather related delays in the NAS. Unfortunately, no major crosscutting research program yet exists in this area, but such a program will be essential for reducing the recent dramatic increase in US aviation weather delays.
The Aviation, Range and Aerospace Meteorology committee seeks interdisciplinary papers describing research in the area of Weather-Air Traffic Management Integration. Papers describing “foundational research” (e.g., focusing on identification of usable regions of airspace and characterization of the capacity impact of adverse weather; translation of forecast uncertainty into capacity impact uncertainty; use of probabilistic weather impact information in ATM decision making, accounting for space weather impacts on high altitude and polar routes, etc.) and/or the practical application of ATM-weather integration approaches are encouraged. Preference will be given to work that involves crosscutting public – private sector research, government inter-agency participation and/or that addresses real-world applications that can make a difference in NAS operations within the near-term phase of NextGen, e.g., by the year 2015.
The $90 abstract fee will now include the submission of your abstract, the posting of your extended abstract, and the uploading and recording of your presentation which will be archived on the AMS Web site. We will no longer be producing a CD-ROM, allowing us to extend the deadline date for extended abstracts.
Please submit your abstract electronically via the Web by the revised date of 8 August 2008 (refer to the AMS Web page at http://www.ametsoc.org/meet/online_submit.html.) An abstract fee of $90 (payable by credit card or purchase order) is charged at the time of submission (refundable only if abstract is not accepted).
Authors of accepted presentations will be notified (via e-mail) by late-September 2008. All extended abstracts are to be submitted electronically and will be available on-line via the Web, Instructions for formatting extended abstracts will be posted on the AMS Web site. Manuscripts (up to 3MB) must be submitted electronically by 7 January 2009. All abstracts, extended abstracts and presentations will be available on the AMS Web site at no cost.
For additional information please contact the program chairpersons, Dr. Marilyn M. Wolfson, Assistant Group Leader, Weather Sensing, MIT Lincoln Laboratory (e-mail: wolfson@ll.mit.edu, tel: 781-981-7439) or David Pace, HQ FAA Aviation Weather Policy and Requirements Group, (e-mail: david.pace@faa.gov, tel: 202-385-7183. (4/08; r9/08)
Call for Papers
Special Symposium on Measurements in the Urban Environment and Observations, 11–15 January 2009, Phoenix, Arizona
The AMS Committee on Measurements will convene a special session on Measurements in the Urban Environment and Observations Joint with the Committee Boundary Layer Measurements at the Annual AMS meeting that will be held 11–15 January 2009 in Phoenix, Arizona. Preliminary programs, registration, hotel, and general information will be posted on the AMS Web site (http://www.ametsoc.org/meet/annual/) in late-September 2008.
Papers for this special symposium are solicited on new techniques, new instrumentation and new or existing observing networks that use remote sensing or in-situ methodologies that examine the monitoring of the urban environment.
The $90 abstract fee will now include the submission of your abstract, the posting of your extended abstract, and the uploading and recording of your presentation which will be archived on the AMS Web site. We will no longer be producing a CD-ROM, allowing us to extend the deadline date for extended abstracts.
Please submit your abstract electronically via the Web by 1 August 2008 (refer to the AMS Web page at http://www.ametsoc.org/meet/online_submit.html.) An abstract fee of $90 (payable by credit card or purchase order) is charged at the time of submission (refundable only if abstract is not accepted).
Authors of accepted presentations will be notified (via e-mail) by late-September 2008. All extended abstracts are to be submitted electronically and will be available on-line via the Web, Instructions for formatting extended abstracts will be posted on the AMS Web site. Manuscripts (up to 3MB) must be submitted electronically by 7 January 2009. All abstracts, extended abstracts and presentations will be available on the AMS Web site at no cost.
For additional information please contact the program chairperson, Bruce Baker, NOAA, Global Climate Laboratory, 151 Patton Avenue, Asheville, NC (e-mail: bruce.baker@noaa.gov) (6/08; r7/08; r9/08)
Call for Papers
Special Symposium on Aerosol–Cloud–Climate Interactions, 13 January 2009, Phoenix, Arizona
The Special Symposium on Aerosol–Cloud–Climate Interactions, sponsored by the American Meteorological Society, and organized by the AMS Committee on Atmospheric Chemistry, will be held on 13 January 2009, as part of the 89th AMS Annual Meeting in Phoenix, Arizona. Hotel information will be posted to the AMS Web site (http://www.ametsoc.org/meet/annual/) in the spring; registration and general information will be posted starting over the summer; and the preliminary programs will be posted in late-September 2008.
The 2007 Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) assessment report highlights the scientific and societal importance for improved understanding on the aerosol–cloud-climate interactions to better assess the linkages between anthropogenic activities and climate. The special symposium will bring together experts in atmospheric chemistry, aerosols, radiation, clouds, and climate to exchange ideas on the subject of aerosol-cloud-climate interactions. The symposium will include invited and contributed oral and poster sessions. It will provide a forum to review current research status on this subject, identify research needs, define research priorities and new research approaches, and facilitate dialogue among atmospheric chemists, physicists, and meteorologists to tackle research challenges in aerosol–cloud-climate interactions. Featured invited keynote speakers include:
Prof. John Seinfeld, Caltech—Secondary Organic Aerosol and Climate
Prof. Daniel Rosenfeld, the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel—Aerosol Effects on Precipitation
Prof. Mark Jacobson, Stanford University—
Modeling of Cloud-Aerosol-Chemistry-Climate Interactions
Prof. Renyi Zhang, Texas A&M University, College Station—
The Impact of Asian Air Pollution on Pacific Storm Track
Dr. Wei-Kuo Tao, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center—
Assessment of Aerosol-Cloud Interaction using Cloud-Resolving Models
Papers are solicited in all aspects relevant to this topic including:
1. experimental and field studies on aerosol-cloud interactions,
2. modeling studies on aerosol-cloud interactions,
3. aerosol and cloud properties,
4. aerosol and cloud chemistry, microphysics,
5. cloud condensation nuclei (CCN),
6. aerosol direct and indirect radiative forcings,
7. secondary organic aerosols (SOA),
8. impacts of black carbon on climate,
9. other potential climatic effects of atmospheric aerosols.
Please submit your abstract electronically via the web by the revised date of 8 August 2008 (refer to the AMS web page at http://www.ametsoc.org/meet/online_submit.html). An abstract fee of $90 (payable by credit card or purchase order) is charged at the time of submission (refundable only if abstract is not accepted). The $90 abstract fee will include the submission of your abstract, the posting of your extended abstract, and the uploading and recording of your presentation which will be archived on the AMS web site. CD-ROM will no longer be produced.
Authors of accepted presentations will be notified (via e-mail) by late-September 2008. All extended abstracts are to be submitted electronically and will be available on-line via the web. Instructions for formatting extended abstracts will be posted on the AMS web site. Manuscripts (up to 3MB) must be submitted electronically by 7 January 2009. All abstracts, extended abstracts, and presentations will be available on the AMS web site at no cost.
For additional information please contact the chairpersons, Yang Zhang, Dept. of Marine, Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, North Carolina State University, Campus Box 8208, Raleigh, NC 27695-8208, (919) 515-9688, yang_zhang@ncsu.edu, and Brian Lamb, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Washington State University, Pullman, WA 99164-2910, (509) 335-5702, blamb@wsu.edu. (7/08; r8/08; r9/08)
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