Northeast Regional Operational Workshop
XV
Albany, New York
Wednesday, November
12, 2014
9:30 am
Welcoming Remarks
Raymond G. O’Keefe, Meteorologist In Charge Warren
R. Snyder, Science & Operations
Officer National Weather
Service, Albany, New York
9:40 am
Kyle Pallozzi
Department of Atmospheric and
Environmental Sciences
University at Albany,
State University of New
York, Albany, New York
10:05 am
Department of Atmospheric and
Environmental Sciences
University at Albany,
State University of New
York, Albany, New York
10:30 am
Using the Froude Number to Improve Orographic
Snow Forecasts in the Green Mountains
of Vermont
Michael Muccilli
NOAA /NWS Weather Forecast Office, Burlington, Vermont
10:55 am
Verification of Storm Prediction Center Winter Weather Mesoscale Discussions
Christopher McCray
Lyndon State College, Lyndonville, Vermont
11:20 am
The Icy Nightmare
Before Christmas
Robert Kuhn
Ontario Storm Prediction Centre, Environment
Canada, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
11:45 pm -
Lunch
1:45 pm
An Alternative Gridded
Verification Scheme: Zone-Based Snowfall Verification
Joseph P. Villani
NOAA/NWS/Weather Forecast Office, Albany, New York
2:10 pm
CSTAR Update:
New
Tools for More Efficient Use of Ensembles
in Operations
Brian A. Colle
School of Marine and Atmospheric Sciences, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, New York
2:35 pm
Enabling Advanced Weather Modelling and Data Assimilation for Utility Distribution Operations
Anthony P. Praino
IBM Thomas J. Watson Research
Center, Yorktown Heights, New
York
3:00 pm
Observed and Simulated Multi-bands in Northeast U.S. Winter
Storms
Sara A. Ganetis
School of Marine and Atmospheric Sciences, Stony Brook
University, Stony Brook, New
York
3:25 pm
Matthew J. Sienkiewicz
School of Marine and Atmospheric Sciences, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, New York
3:50 pm
- Break 4:15
pm
Michael Erickson
School of Marine and Atmospheric Sciences, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, New York
4:40 pm
A
Multiple Linear Regression Approach
for Storm Surge Predictions in the NY/NJ Bight
Keith J. Roberts
School of Marine and Atmospheric Sciences, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, New York
5:05 pm
The New England Blender
Project
Paul A. Sisson
NOAA/NWS, Weather Forecast Office, Burlington, Vermont
5:30pm
An Overview of the
National Blend of Global Models Project
Jeff S. Waldstreicher
NOAA/NWS Eastern Region Headquarters, Bohemia, New York
5:55 pm
– Closing Comments, Logistics
Warren R. Snyder
NOAA/NWS Weather Forecast Office, Albany ,
New York
6:00pm - Adjourn
Northeast Regional Operational Workshop
XV
Albany, New York
Thursday,
November
13, 2014 Session D
– Warm Season Topics/ Convection
8:30
am
An
Examination of the 22 May
2014 Duanesburg, New York,
Unexpected Tornadic Supercell
Brian Tang
Department of Atmospheric and
Environmental Sciences
UAlbany, State
University of New
York, Albany, New York
8:55 am
A
Radar-Scale Analysis of Three Tornadic Thunderstorms in the Albany County Warning Area
during 2014
Brian J. Frugis
NOAA/NWS Weather Forecast
Office, Albany, New
York
9:20 am
Michael Evans
NOAA/NWS Weather Forecast
Office, Binghamton, New York
9:45 am
Radar Characteristics of the
13 August 2014 Portland, Maine Flash
Flood Event
John
Cannon
NOAA/NWS Weather Forecast Office Gray, Maine
10:10 am –
Break 10:35 am
A Review of the
Historic Long Island Flooding
on 13 August 2014
David Stark
NOAA/NWS Weather Forecast Office, Upton, New York
11:00 am
Matthew Vaughan
Department of Atmospheric and
Environmental Sciences
UAlbany, State
University of New
York, Albany, New York
11:25 am
A Case
Study of the Revere, MA Tornado
of July
28, 2014
Matthew L. Doody
NOAA/NWS Weather Forecast Office, Taunton, Massachusetts
11:50 pm
Thomas A. Wasula
NOAA/NWS Weather Forecast Office, Albany, New York
12:15 pm -
Lunch
2:15 pm
Dan Petersen
NOAA/NWS National Centers for Environmental Prediction Weather Prediction
Center, College Park, Maryland
2:40 pm
Forecasting Surface Wind
Gusts in Positively Stable Environments
Brian LaSorsa
NOAA/NWS/National Weather Service, Weather Forecast Office, Sterling, Virginia
3:05 pm
J. Brotzge
Atmospheric Sciences Research Center, Albany, New
York
3:30 pm
Using Ensemble Models to Develop
a Long-Range Forecast and Decision
Making Tool
The Consolidated Edison Company of New
York, Inc. ,
New York, New York
3:55 pm
- Break 4:15 pm
Improving Decision Support Services
for the Tri-State Area
Nelson Vaz
NOAA/NWS Weather Forecast Office, Upton, New York
4:40 pm
Using NOAA-Atlas
14 Return Periods
to Aid in Flood Forecasting
Charles Ross
NOAA/NWS Weather Forecast office, State College, Pennsylvania
5:05 pm
Patterns of Historic River Flood Events in
the Mid-Atlantic Region
Richard H. Grumm
NOAA/NWS Weather Forecast Office, State College, Pennsylvania
5:30 pm
Ronald Horwood
NOAA/NWS Northeast River Forecast
Center, Taunton, Massachusetts
5:55 pm - Wrap Up Warren R. Snyder
6:10 pm Adjourn
7:00 pm
CSTAR Dinner at Buca
di Beppo Italian Restaurant 44 Wolf
Road, Colonie, New York
At the Nano South Conference
Center, Room 103, 255 Fuller
Road On the
Campus of the College of Nanoscale Science and Engineering State
University of New York, Albany , New York