• Welcome/Opening Remarks

• Opening Remarks/Introduction

• Mr. William Craig Fugate
  Administrator of the Federal Emergency Management Agency, FEMA/DHS

• Ms. Monica Medina
  Principal Deputy Under Secretary of Commerce for Oceans and Atmosphere, NOAA/DOC

• Dr. Ramesh Kakar, NASA Weather Focus Area Lead and Program Manager for
  Atmospheric Dynamics

• Dr. Fred Lewis, Air Force Director of Weather

• Mr. William “Kim” Curry, Deputy Technical Director, Office of the Oceanographer and Navigator of the Navy
  [For RADM David Titley, Oceanographer and Navigator of the Navy]

• Dr. Jack Hayes, Director, National Weather Service, NOAA
  

• The Quietest Year in More than a Decade:
  An Overview of the 2009 Atlantic Hurricane Season

• Overview of the 2009 Eastern North Pacific Hurricane Season

• 2009 Atlantic and Eastern North Pacific Forecast Verification

• Central Pacific 2009 Hurricane Season Summary

• A Review of the Joint Typhoon Warning Center 2009 Tropical Cyclone Season

• 53rd Weather Reconnaissance Squadron Review of the 2009 Hurricane Season

• NOAA Aircraft Operations Center (AOC) 2009 Seasonal Summary and Future Plans
  
  

• Mr. X. William (Bill) Proenza
  Director, National Weather Service Southern Region
  

• Dr. Elizabeth Ritchie, Associate Professor, Department of Atmospheric Sciences, University of Arizona

• Dr. Frank Marks, Co-Chair, Working Group for Tropical Cyclone Research and Director, Hurricane Research Division, NOAA/AOML
• Mr. James Franklin, Branch Chief, Hurricane Specialists Unit NOAA/NWS/NHC
• Mr. Robert J. Falvey, Director, Joint Typhoon Warning Center
• Dr. Ronald Ferek, Co-Chair, Working Group for Tropical Cyclone Research and
  Program Officer, Marine Meteorology Program, ONR

Reference Material (Tables 1 and 2) for Session 2 (pdf - 41KB)

• Mr. Max Mayfield, Senior Executive Vice President of Governmental Relations, America’s Emergency Network and WPLG-TV Hurricane Specialist

• Mr. David Caldwell, Director, Office of Climate, Water and Weather Services
  NOAA/NWS

• Dr. Brenda Phillips, Senior Researcher, Center for the Study of Disasters and
  Extreme Events, Oklahoma State University

• Dr. Jeffrey Lazo, Director, Societal Impacts Program, NCAR

• Ms. Jenniffer Santos-Hernandez, Graduate Research Assistant, Department of
  Sociology and Criminal Justice, University of Delaware

• Mr. Walter S. Dickerson, President, Diversified Emergency Management
  Associates, LLC
  
  

• Airborne Doppler Analysis, Quality Control, and Transmission in 2009 and 2010

• Processing Wide Swath Radar Altimeter (WSRA) Data on the Fly

• SFMR Operation on the WC-130J during the 2009 Hurricane Season

• Differences in Stepped Frequency Microwave Radiometer Measurements - Resolutions and Remaining Issues

• An Airborne Portable Probe Receiver/Processor System for Operational Acquisition and Transmission of Expendable Ocean Observations from WC-130J Tropical Cyclone Flights
  
  

• HFIP: Detecting Tropical Cyclone Formation from Satellite Infrared Imagery

• Use of Reflected GPS to Map Wind Fields for Hurricane Genesis Applications

• Evaluation of the Tropical Cyclone SATellite Intensity CONsensus (SATCON)

• Preparing for Improved Monitoring of Tropical Cyclones in the GOES-R Proving Ground

• GeoSTAR – A Hurricane Observatory
  
  

• Systematically Merged Atlantic Regional Temperature and Salinity
  (SMARTS) Oceanic Climatology

• WISDOM System 2009 Proof of Concept Test Results

• NOAA Assessment of Unmanned Aircraft Systems for Hurricane Observations

• Mapping Hurricane Inland Storm Surge

• Results to Demonstrate the Measurement of Surface Level Pressure using a Differential Absorption Microwave Radar
  
  

• Performance of the Operational HWRF Model for 2009 Hurricane Season and Suggested Upgrades for 2010 Implementation

• Linking the HFIP Community with NCEP/EMC Operations

• Evaluation and Improvement of Ocean Model Parameterizations for NCEP Operations

• Coupled HWRF-HYCOM Parallel Run Results for the 2009 Hurricane Season

• Impacts of Land Effects and Improvements in Modeling Landfall Using HWRF

• Progress in Developing Coupled Tropical Cyclone-Wave-Ocean Models for Operational Implementations at NOAA and Navy

• Tropical Cyclone Prediction for HFIP with COAMPS-TC
  
  

• Impact of New Global Models and Ensemble Prediction Systems on Consensus TC Track Forecasts

• Implementation of the New Air-Sea Exchange Coefficients(Cd/Ch) to the Operational HWRF Model and Their Impact on Hurricane Intensity Forecast Skill

• The HWRFX Modeling System: Recent Developments in Hurricane Structure and Intensity Forecasting Research at AOML

• Simulation of Atlantic Warm Pool in the Hybrid-Coordinate Ocean Model (HYCOM)

• Sensitivity of the WRF-NMM Model to Physics Parameterizations at Various Vertical and Horizontal Resolutions

• The Tropical Cyclone Modeling Testbed (TCMT) and its Role in the Hurricane Forecast Improvement Project (HFIP)

• The Potential for Improved Tropical Cyclone Forecasts from High-Resolution Global Models--Results from the HFIP 2009 Summer Experiment
  
  

• NASA-GRIP Field Experiment

• IFEX 2010: NOAA’s Plans for Hurricane Field Program Operations for the 2010 Season

• Satellite and Model Database in Support of the NASA GRIP Field Campaign and for Improved Operational Hurricane Forecasting

• NOAA’s Storm Surge Roadmap: A Coordinated Approach for Transitioning Research to Operations

• The National Hurricane Center’s Storm Surge Program: A Status Update
  
  

• Improved Short-Term Atlantic Hurricane Intensity Forecasts Using Reconnaissance-Based Core Measurements

• On the Role of the Saharan Air Layer in the Suppression of Development of a Prominent African Wave Disturbance

• Can Aerosols Explain Hurricane Prediction Errors?

• The NHC Visiting Scientist Program

• Rapid Weakening of Non-Landfalling Atlantic Tropical Cyclones

• Using Geospatial Analysis Techniques to Investigate the Spatial Properties of Tropical Cyclone Rain Fields

• Improved Near Real-Time Hurricane Ocean Vector Winds Retrievals from QuikSCAT
  
  

Dr. Jim Goerss --2010

Dr. Mark DeMaria --2009
Mr. Robert Dumont--2008
Mr. Charles J. “Charlie” Neumann--2007
Dr. Joanne Simpson--2006
Dr. Frank D. Marks, Jr.--2005
53rd Weather Reconnaissance Squadron--2005 Special
NOAA's Aircraft Operations Center--2005 Special
Mr. Max Mayfield--2004
Mr. Chris Velden--2003
Prof. Russell Elsberry--2002

• The Joint Hurricane Testbed (JHT): 2010 Update

• Enhancements to the Operational SHIPS Rapid Intensification Index

• Progress and Plans for the Development of a Unified Dropsonde Quality Assurance and Visualization Capability

• ATCF Requirements, Intensity Consensus and Sea Heights Consistent with NHC Forecasts

• A New Secondary Eyewall Formation Index: Transition to Operations and Quantification of Associated Hurricane Intensity and Structure Changes

• Advanced Applications of Monte Carlo Wind Probability Model: A Year 1 Joint Hurricane Testbed Project Update

• The NESDIS Tropical Cyclone Formation Probability Product: An Overview of Past Performance and Future Plans
  
  

• WG/HWSOR: Action Item Review

Workshop Wrap-up

• Workshop: Assessment of the Tropical Cyclone R&D Activities in Contributing to the Operational Priorities of the Tropical Cyclone Forecasting Centers
  

• Workshop: Understanding Hurricane Response for Improved Stakeholder/User Reaction
  

• Final Wrap-up