Palmetto Chapter AMS Mini-Technical Conference Thursday, March 24, 2011
9:00-9:20	Arrival, Refreshments, Ice Breaker
9:20-9:30	Welcome
9:30	Jim Gandy WLTX - News 19 Climate Matters
9:50	Greg Lamberty & Michael Cammarata NWS/CAE Flood Flash Flood Climatology for the NWS Columbia South Carolina Hydrologic Service Area (HSA) from 1993 through 2010
10:10	Blair Holloway NWS/GSP The Flash Flood Potential Index for the WFO Greenville-Spartanburg, SC County Warning Area
10:30	Erik Kabela and Greg Carbone University of South Carolina Downscaling Climate Change Information for Water Resource and Agricultural Interests in the Southeast United States
10:50 - 11:00	break
11:00	Michael Larsen College of Charleston Physics Within the Pixel - Rainfall Variability on Unresolved Scales
11:20	Anthony Petrolito NWS/CAE A Catalog of Severe Thunderstorm Signatures for the WFO Columbia SC County Warning Area
11:40	Patrick Moore NWS/GSP Radar Signatures Associated With the Upstate Tornadoes on 30 November 2010
12:00	Shawn Smith NWS/CAE A Central South Carolina Thundersnow Event: Storm Synopsis and Convective Forcing Analysis
12:20 - 1:15	lunch, business meeting, election of new officers
1:15	Dale Linvill Clemson University An Adventure in Time: Quality Control of the Clemson Weather Records
1:35	Steven Chiswell Savannah River National Laboratory Assessing Wind Farm Impact Potential on Radar Observations and the Development of Effective Mitigation Measures
1:55	Erik Kabela and Steven Chiswell Savannah River National Laboratory Automating Severe Weather Notification and Communication at the DOE’s Savannah River Site
2:15	Steven Naglic NWS/CAE An Investigation of a Case of Non-Tornadic Severe Thunderstorms with Hook Echoes
2:35 - 2:45	break
2:45	Allen Weber, R. J. Kurzeja, S. R. Chiswell, M. J. Parker, and R. L. Buckley Savannah River National Laboratory Meteorological Measurements on the WJBF-TV Tower in Beach Island, SC
3:05	David Werth, Robert Kurzeja, Matthew Parker, Robert Buckley Savannah River National Laboratory An Analysis of the Characteristics of the Neutral and Stable Nocturnal Boundary Layer as Related to Vertical Transport
3:25	Matthew Parker, Steven W. Walter, and Robert L. Buckley Savannah River National Laboratory The Detection and Modeling of Tracers of Opportunity
3:45	Steven Chiswell and Matt Parker Savannah River National Laboratory Using Ceilometer Backscatter from Aerosol to Analyze Boundary Layer Structure