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Newsletter Communication, and Service The NWA: Connecting operational meteorologists in pursuit of excellence in weather forecasting, Newsletter communication, and service. AUGUST No. 12 – 8 2012 Exciting New NWA Member Benefit! The NWA is pleased to announce that on Sept. 12, we are launching a new weekly e-news brief, the NWA Weekly Update, Latest NWA News in partnership with our publishing company, MultiView. The NWA Weekly Update will be distributed to the inboxes of NWA NWA now accepting preregistration orders for 2012 annual meeting members only every Wednesday and will feature current NWA NWA Share Preregister now to attend, share and learn at the 37th NWA Annual Meeting from Oct. 6-11 news and compelling articles on operational meteorology, satellite in Madison, Wis. Online preregistration; exhibit; sponsorship and advertising opportunities; hotel and general meeting information are continually updated. Hotel room reservations are information, trends, forecast techniques and developments, filling up fast. The Hilton is now full and the Concourse has very few rooms left. The Best Western still has rooms available from Saturday through Wednesday. MORE weather research, and societal impact of weather events. Here’s an example of how the new brief will look to the right. Other News of Interest I invite you to take advantage of this member’s only benefit. Social media: A new horizon for forecasting Weatherwise Share One could argue that weather-related social media have existed at least since the dawn of Steve Harned the Internet, though not in the same forms as today. Today, social media offer a quick and easy way for the public to interact with meteorologists and other weather enthusiasts, Executive Director providing observations, discussion, images, and video in near real-time from their own locations. MORE NWA 37th Annual Meeting Information October 6–11 in Madison, Wisconsin Synthesizing Weather Information for Society: From Observations to Actions across our Communities Listing of Oral Presentations For information on exhibits, (All activities will be held in Monona Terrace unless otherwise noted) sponsorships, poster presentations and registration see: Saturday, October 6 Sunday, October 7 www.nwas.org/meetings/nwa2012/ 11 am NWA 10th Annual Scholarship 7 am Registration; information desk Authors, please inform the Program Golf Outing, Yahara Hills Golf opens (Closes at 6 pm) Committee at annualmeeting@ Course in Madison (See p. 5) nwas.org any corrections or changes Tee times at 11:30 am and 12:30 pm 8:30 am Broadcast Meteorology required in the listing of your Workshop: Ballroom A presentations or abstracts as soon as 1 pm Registration; information possible. Instructions for forwarding desk opens (Closes at 7 pm) 9 am Exhibits open: Hall of Ideas your PowerPoint slides via ftp for oral presentations will be forthcoming. 1 pm Exhibit room setup: Hall of 12 pm Fifth Annual Student Session: Ideas Ballroom C Continued page 2 INSIDE THIS EDITION ... Scholarship Golf Tournament 5 Professional Development 7 Annual Meeting Details 6 2012 Student Scholarships 8 New Members 7 Broadcast Meteorology Workshop: 4 pm NOAA Weather Radio in the Digital 8:30 pm Student DVD Critique - Michael Ballroom A Age ~ Bruce T. Jones, Midland Radio Goldberg, WSET-TV Lynchburg, Va., and Corporation NWA Broadcast Meteorology Workshop 8:30 am Welcoming Remarks ~ Chair Elizabeth Quoetone, NWA President 4:15 pm Operational Use of NEXRAD Dual-Polarimetric Radar Data ~ Chris Monday, October 8 8:35 am Opening Remarks ~ Nick Carr, Baron Services General Session: Ballroom AB Walker, The Weather Channel and NWA Broadcast Meteorology Committee Chair, 4:30 pm Enhancing Broadcaster’s 7 am Registration; information desk Atlanta, Ga., and Mike Goldberg, WSET- Severe Weather Presentations Using opens (Closes at 4 pm) TV Lynchburg, Va., and NWA Broadcast Dual-Polarization Radar Products, Part 1 9 am Exhibits open: Hall of Ideas Meteorology Workshop Chair ~ Ray Hawthorne, Weather Central 6 pm Icebreaker – Grand Terrace Welcome to Madison 8:45 am 4:45 pm Enhancing Broadcaster’s Severe Weather Presentations Using 7:45 am Welcome 9 am Weathercaster Effectiveness: The Role of Gesturing in Forecast Attention Dual-Polarization Radar Products, Part 2 ~ Mike Massaro, Weather Services 8 am Keynote Speaker ~ Tom Skilling, and Retention ~ Jay Trobec, Chief Chief Meteorologist, WGN, Chicago, Ill. Meteorologist, KELO-TV Sioux Falls, S.D. International 9:15 am Choose Your Words ~ Alan 5 pm Announcements/Dinner on own Session A1: Weather Analysis and Sealls, Chief Meteorologist, WKRG-TV Forecasting-NWP Mobile, Ala. 7 pm DVD Swap ~ Nick Walker, The Weather Channel and NWA Broadcast 8:45 am The Chicago Aviation Initiative: 9:30 am NEXRAD Data Dealiasing Meteorology Committee Chair; Miles More Than Meets the Eye ~ Mike Problems Impacting Television Coverage Muzio, KBAK-TV, Bakersfield, Calif., Bardou, NOAA/NWS/WFO Chicago/ of Severe Weather ~ Kevin B. Laws, and NWA Broadcast Seal of Approval Romeoville, Ill. NOAA/National Weather Service, Committee Chair Birmingham, Ala. 9 am Analysis of Satellite Signatures, Student Session: Ballroom C Pattern Recognition, and Eddy 9:45 am Connecting Warnings to Action: Dissipation Rate In Determining Preparing a More Informed Community ~ 12 pm Opening Remarks Potential Areas of Convectively Induced Josh Johnson, WSFA-TV, Montgomery, Turbulence ~ Rick Di Maio, Instructor Ala. 12:15 pm Government careers Lewis University Coffee break. Exhibits open. 10 am 12:45 pm Grad School/Academic 9:15 am Using Historical Analogs as Careers ~ Dr. Paul J. Roebber, Associate Medium-Range Guidance for Severe 10:30 am Severe Weather Workshop ~ Dean for Academic Affairs, School Weather Episodes ~Chad M. Gravelle, Greg Carbin, National Oceanic and UW-CIMSS/NWS Proving Ground Atmospheric Admininstration (NOAA)/ of Freshwater Sciences, Director of Innovative University of Wisconsin- Charles E. Graves, Jeffrey P. Craven, National Weather Service (NWS)/Storm Alan E. Gerard and John P. Gagan Prediction Center (SPC), Norman, Okla. Milwaukee Distingished Professor, UWM, Milwaukee, Wisc. Using Anomalies to Forecast 11:30 am A Review of Significant 9:30 am Weather Events Occurring in 2012 ~ 1:15 pm Private sector careers High-Impact Events ~ David L. Beachler, Greg Carbin, NOAA/NWS/SPC, Norman, NOAA/National Weather Service/ Okla. 1:45 pm Weather Ready Nation ~ Weather Forecast Office Chicago, Ill., Kenneth F. Carey, Senior Principal Richard H. Grumm 12 pm Lunch on your own Systems Engineer, Center for Sustainability: Earth, Energy, and 9:45 am Morning break 1:30 pm Social Media Workshop ~ Climate, Noblis, Falls Church, Va. Tiffany Sunday Session A2: Remote Sensing-Satellite 2:15 pm Social Media Workshop ~ Diane 3 pm Coffee break. Exhibits open. Cooper, Service Hydrologist, NWS Twin 10:15 am Keynote Speaker ~ Dr. Cities/Chanhassen, Minn. Kathryn Sullivan, Assistant Secretary 3:30 pm Framing the Picture: Historical of Commerce for Environmental Context of Weather Events ~ Michael Observation & Prediction / Deputy Timlin, Midwest Regional Climate Center 3:15 pm Speed Mentoring ~ Michael Page, Broadcast Meteorology Student, Administrator and Acting Chief Scientist, and Speed Mentoring Tiger Team DOC/NOAA, Washington, D.C. 3:45 pm A Quantitative and Qualitative Examination of Tornado Related Statistics Across the United States ~ 4:45 pm Dinner Alan Gerard, NOAA/NWS, Jackson, Miss. 6 pm Student Poster Session – Hall of Ideas 2 ~ AUGUST 2012 ~NWA Newsletter www.nwas.org 10:45 am NOAA Operational Satellites, 2:45 pm Afternoon break 5:15 pm Verification and Diagnoses Products, & Services: Current Status & of Ensemble Quantitative Precipitation Updates from SPSD User Services Session B4: Tropical & Marine Weather Forecast (QPF) Forecasts during Matthew Seybold, NOAA/NESDIS, Extreme Events in California during College Park, Md., Natalia Donoho and 3:15 pm CIMSS Tropical Cyclones Web the Hydrometeorology Testbed Winter Thomas Renkevens Page ~ Dave Stettner, CIMSS-SSEC- Exercises; Brian Etherton, NOAA/ESRL/ UW-Madison; Chris Velden and Tim GSD/FAB, Boulder, Colo.; Ed Tollerud 11 am Operational Uses of the ABI Olander and Tara Jensen (Advanced Baseline Imager) on the GOES-R Series ~ Timothy J. Schmit, 3:30 pm The June 30, 2011 Lake Session C6: Winter Weather NOAA/NESDIS/ASPB, Madison, WI Michigan Supercell - An Overview and Mathew M. Gunshor, Kaba Bah, James the Role of Terminal Doppler Radar Data 3:15 pm Environments Favorable for J. Gurka and Jason Otkin in Identifying Storm Scale Features ~ J. J. Extreme Snow Ratios across the Upper Wood, NOAA/NWS, Milwaukee/Sullivan, Mississippi River Valley Region ~ Andrew 11:15 am The GOES-R Proving Ground: Wis., Ricky Castro, NOAA/NWS, Just, NOAA/NWS, La Crosse, Wis.; User Input from the 2012 Demonstrations Chicago/Romeoville, Ill. Dan Baumgardt and Dave Schmidt and Future Plans ~ James Gurka, NOAA/ NESDIS/GOES-R, Steve Goodman, 3:45 pm Environmental Water Vapor 3:30 pm Boundary Layer Destabilization Timothy Schmit, Mark De Maria and and Tropical Cyclogenesis Forecasting ~ of Non-Typical Blizzard Events in the Anthony Mostek Derek Ortt, ImpactWeather, Inc. Central Plains ~ Jacob Beitlich, National Weather Service, Minneapolis, Minn.; 11:30 am WFO Charleston, SC Use of 4 pm Examining Trends in Satellite- Karl Jungbluth and Ken Podrazik GOES-R Simulated Satellite Data in Detected Overshooting Tops as a Forecast Operations ~ Frank Alsheimer, Potential Predictor of Tropical Cyclone 3:45 pm Climatology and Conceptual NOAA/NWS Charleston, S.C. Rapid Intensification ~ Sarah Monette,
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