Annual
Review of the DoD Center
for Geosciences/Atmospheric Research
at
Colorado State University
January 21-22, 2004
CIRA/CSU, Fort Collins CO
(with video teleconferencing to ARL Adelphi and WSMR groups)
Research Theme Presentations by Project Leaders
Overview - Dr. Thomas Vonder Haar
Derivation of Battlespace Parameters - Dr. Stan Kidder
Cloud Structure, Dynamics & Climatology - Dr. Tom Vonder Haar and
Mr. Adam Kankiewicz
Boundary Layer Atmospheric Chemistry & Aerosols - Dr. Sonia Kreidenweis
N-Dimensional Data Assimilation & Fusion - Dr. Tomislava Vukicevic
Hydrometeorology - Dr. Andrew Jones
Poster Session 1
Laurent Labonnote, Sonia Kreidenweis, and Graeme Stephens: Multi-Sensor
Retrival of
Aerosol Properties
Russell J. Chibe and William R. Cotton: The Real-Time 3-D Simulation of a
Fog Event with a
Cloud-Resolving Mesoscale Forecast Model
Ben Ruston, Thomas Vonder Haar, and Nancy Baker: Characterizing
Microwave Land Emissivity
Timothy Nobis: Coupling the RAMS Mesoscale Model to an Urban
Parameterization Scheme
Don Reinke, John Forsythe, Adam Kankiewicz, and Thomas Vonder Haar:
Regional Cloud Products over the Middle East during the Iraqi Freedom
Campaign – Comparison with MODIS and CDFS II
Rob Newsom, David Ligon, Ron Calhoun, Edward Creegan, Rob Heap,
Marko Princevac: Sensitivity Analysis of Wind and Temperature Retrievals
from Coherent Doppler Lidar Data: Results from the first dual-Doppler
validation study
Adam Kankiewicz, Larry Carrey, Curtis Seaman, Capt. James Jones, John
Davis, and Thomas Vonder Haar: Highlights of 2003 CLEX-Based Research
(14 Oct 2001 CLEX-9 Case Study)
Stanley Kidder and Ken Eis: Thin Cirrus Detection and Characterization
Poster
Session 2
Andy Jones, Tomi Vukicevic, Phil Stephens, and Thomas Vonder Haar:
Deep Soil Moisture (10-100 cm) Satellite Data Assimilation Research
Milija Zupanski and Ken Eis: Ensemble Data Assimilation with the
Maximum Likelihood
Ensemble Filter
John Forsythe, Andy Jones, Stan Kidder and Thomas Vonder Haar:
Microwave
Retrievals Over Ocean and Land
David Raff, Jorge Ramirez: A Physical, Mechanistic and Fully Coupled
Hillslope Evolutionary Model
Tomi Vukicevic, Milija Zupanski, Dusanka Zupanski, Andy Jones, Ken Eis,
and Thomas Vonder Haar: 4DDA: High Resolution and Satellite Data
Assimilation
Ning
Wang: Wavelet Data Compression for Meteorological Data Sets
Pierre Julien, Rosalia Rojas-Sanchez, and Mark Velleux: Watershed
Transport and Fate of Sediments and Chemicals