Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences

2008 Posters

Posters are organized around CIRES Divisions. Presenters are listed in italics. CIRES Visiting Fellows will also present posters at the Rendezvous. All poster presentations are the property of their respective authors. Please contact the authors for permission to use images, information, or ideas. For poster presenter information, see here.

Poster Session I (9:55-11:40)

Weather and Climate Dynamics Division

Connections between space and atmospheric weather: A coupled model of Integrated Dynamics through Earth’s Atmosphere (IDEA) [ abstract ]

Coupling between the Magnetosphere and Upper Atmosphere [ abstract ]

Description and application of a state-of-the-art coupled multi-scale air quality and weather prediction model (WRF/Chem) [ abstract ]

Different Strengths of the Bipolar See-saw During Glacial and Interglacial times [ abstract ]

Event-Based Streamflow Simulation using the TREX Distributed Model [ abstract ]

GOES-R Algorithm Working Group: Space Weather Team [ abstract ]

High-Resolution Airborne Polarimetric Microwave Imaging of Snow Cover During the NASA Cold Lands Processes Experiment (CLPX) [ abstract ]

How important is air-sea coupling in ENSO and MJO evolution? [ abstract ]

The impact of stratospheric ozone hole recovery on Antarctic climate [ abstract | poster ]

Interannual variability of the North American Monsoon: Large-scale conditions and small-scale effects [ abstract ]

Near-term space weather products transition [ abstract ]

New ways to discretize the atmosphere for numerical weather prediction [ abstract ]

Ongoing development and testing of a generalized cloud analysis package within the Gridpoint Statistical Interpolation for initializing the Rapid Refresh mesoscale prediction system [ abstract ]

Plans for remote sensing of Arctic cloud and boundary-layer structure during ASCOS P [ abstract | poster ]

Probabilistic Evaluations of a Cloud System Resolving Model Using ARM Observations [ abstract | poster ]

Relationship between decadal precipitation anomalies in the Southwestern U.S. and global SSTs: Insights from the IPCC multi-model ensemble [ abstract ]

Remote Sensing of Water Vapor, Cloud Liquid, and Temperature during RHUBC by Microwave nd Millimeter Wave Radiometers [ abstract ]

Response of hydrologic cycle over the continental US to ENSO forcing: A comparsion between observations and model simulations [ abstract ]

The Role of ENSO in Regulating its Background State [ abstract ]

Simultaneous estimation of cloud and rainfall parameters frequencies [ abstract | poster ]

A Southern Hemisphere Footprint in the American Midwest [ abstract ]

Space Weather Products from the GOES-R Magnetometer [ abstract ]

Thermal expansion effects on F-region height changes during geomagnetic storms [ abstract ]

Uncertainties in raindrop size distributions retrieved from profiling radars using ensemble statistics [ abstract | poster ]

Variability of graupel and ice crystal aggregates observed in tropical oceanic convection by aircraft during TRMM KWAJEX [ abstract ]

A Workflow Management System for Automating Weather and Climate Simulations [ abstract ]

Environmental Chemistry Division

Albedo measurements and optical sizing for single aerosol particles [ no abstract ]

Carbon Dioxide Assisted Nebulization with a Bubble Dryer© (CAN-BD) Processing of Pharmaceuticals for Inhalable Needle-Free Delivery [ abstract ]

Coherent Doppler Lidar Applications for Air Quality: Focus on Houston, TX [ abstract ]

A Community Software Tool for Quality Control and Analysis of Data from the Aerodyne Time-of-Flight Aerosol Mass Spectrometers (ToF-AMS) [ abstract ]

Development of a UAS Ozone Instrument: From Ozone Classic to Ozone Lite [ abstract ]

Evaluation of NOx emissions in the western U.S. using WRF-Chem model simulations and satellite observations [ abstract ]

Laboratory Investigation of the Relative Humidity Dependence of Light Extinction by Mixed Organic/Sulfate Particles [ abstract | poster ]

Observational Evaluation of Mobile Source Emissions [ abstract ]

Ozone and Aerosol Profiles from a Shipborne Lidar [ abstract ]

Ozone Flux and Production Downwind of Houston and Dallas [ abstract | poster ]

Photoprocessing of Pyruvic Acid in the Earth’s atmosphere [ abstract ]

PIT-MS Measurements of VOCs at a suburban ground site (T1) in Mexico City during the MILAGRO 2006 campaign: Emission Ratios and Source Apportionment [ abstract ]

Sensitive, in-situ detection of nitrogen oxides, NO_2 , NO_3 and N_2 O_5 ; Design, performance and instrument validation [ abstract ]

Source Apportionment of Aerosol Mass Spectrometer Data in Pittsburgh, Mexico Cit and Riverside Using Positive Matrix Factorization (PMF).

Vertical Aerosol Structure And Aerosol Mixed Layer Heights Determined With Scanning Shipborne Lidars During The TexAQS II Study [ abstract ]

Solid Earth Sciences Division

InSAR Measurements of Crustal Deformation Near Jakobshavn Isbrae, Greenland [ abstract ]

Listric earthquake faulting and triggering in the Mach/Shiragh/Quetta earthquakes 1931-5 [ abstract ]

Center for Science and Technology Policy

Linking knowledge with action in Indonesian agroforestry research and policy: Lessons for sustainable development [ abstract ]

Managing Climate Uncertainties [ abstract ]

Reforming conservation: Moving beyond persistent policy conflict In Greater Yellowstone [ no abstract ]

Poster Session II (14:45 – 16:30)

Cryospheric and Polar Processes

20th Century Russian Sea Ice Variability: Results from a New Digital Dataset [ abstract | poster ]

Analysis of Passive Microwave and Enhanced-Resolution Scatterometer Sea Ice Estimates [ abstract | poster ]

Arctic MUSCOX: Assessing the changing dynamics of the surface topography and supraglacial water on the Jakobshavn Glacier, Greenland [ abstract ]

Atmospheric Corrections for Improved Satellite Passive Microwave Retrievals over the Tibetan Plateau [ abstract | poster ]

Arctic Sea Ice in 2007: A Year to Remember [ abstract | poster ]

ELOKA: The Exchange for Local Observations and Knowledge of the Arctic [ abstract | poster ]

GLIMS: Progress in Mapping the World's Glaciers [ abstract | poster ]

Investigations into the Climate Impacts of Land Cover Change in the Community Climate System Model [ abstract ]

A New, High-Resolution Digital Elevation Model of West Antarctica Combining MODIS Imagery, ICESat, and Radar Altimetry [ abstract ]

Snow Cover Mapping at the Continental to Global Scale Using Combined Visible and Passive Microwave Satellite Data [ abstract ]

Snow, Soil Freeze/Thaw, and the Carbon Cycle [ abstract ]

Thirty years of data management for Earth observations at the National Snow and Ice Data Center (NSIDC) [ abstract | poster ]

Ecosystem Science Division

Produce of volatile organic compounds (VOCs) by soil microorganisms [ abstract ]

Environmental Observations, Modeling
and Forecasting Division

Angular Corrections to the Brewer Spectrophotometers of the U.S. EPA Neubrew Network Using the Direct-to-Diffuse UV Solar Irradiance Ratio (DDR) from Co-located Multi-filter Rotating Shadow Band Radiometer (UV-MFRSR) [ abstract ]

Applications of the High Resolution Doppler Lidar Measurements for Nighttime Atmospheric Boundary Layer Study and Wind-Energy Research [ abstract ]

Assessment Of The Sensitivity Of Tsunami Inundation Modeling To Gridding Methodologies Used In Building High-resolution Digital Elevation Models [ abstract ]

Cessna mounted multi-filter radiometers [ abstract ]

A GPS Network Database for Africa [ abstract ]

Gravity Wave Characteristics and Seasonal Variations in the 30-45 km at the South Pole and Rothera, Antarctica [ abstract ]

High Resolution in situ Profiling of the Boundary Layer with Tethered Blimps [ abstract ]

High Resolution Radiometric Soil Moisture Imaging during CLASIC 2007 [ abstract ]

Historical Natural Hazards Data in Google Earth [ abstract ]

Improvement In Climate Forcing From Montreal Protocol Gases [ abstract | poster ]

Measurements Of Wind And Turbulence Profiles With Scanning Doppler Lidar For Wind Energy Applications [ abstract ]

Measures of aerosol-cloud interactions and their uncertainties: A case study from the AMF Pt. Reyes deployment [ abstract ]

Modelling the Spatial and Temporal Variations in the Isotopic Composition of Precipitation with Statistical and Dynamical Methods [ abstract ]

MRI: Mobil Fe-Resonance/Rayleigh/Mie Doppler Lidar Principle, Design, and Analysise [ abstract ]

The NOAA Annual Greenhouse Gas Index (AGGI) [ abstract | poster ]

Observing System Monitoring Center: A Global Ocean Observing System For Climate [ abstract | poster ]

A quality control access, display, and reporting system for MADIS [ abstract | poster ]

Sixth Generation Lithospheric Magnetic Field Model, MF6 from CHAMP Satellite Magnetic Measurements [ abstract ]

Volumes of the world’s oceans from ETOPO2v2 [ abstract ]

TC4 campaign results: validating the Aura OMI total ozone data in tropics with the airborne CAFS and DIAL ozone measurements [ abstract | poster ]

Education Outreach Program

Developing the Essential Principals and Fundamental Concepts of Climate Literacy [ abstract ]

Highlights from CIRES Outreach [ abstract | poster ]