Report of the AMS Committee on Measurements
Prepared by Gennaro (Jerry) H. Crescenti, Chair
1. Committee Meetings Held:
The Committee on Measurements convened on Tuesday, January 11, 2000, from 3:00 – 5:00 p.m. in conjunction with the 80th Annual Meeting of the AMS. Gennaro H. Crescenti chaired the meeting. Members in attendance included:
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Robert A. Baxter (Parsons Engineering Science) |
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Gennaro H. Crescenti (NOAA / Air Resources Laboratory) |
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Donald E. Lehrman (Technology & Business Systems) |
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Scott J. Richardson (University of Oklahoma) |
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Allen B. White (NOAA / Environmental Technology Laboratory) |
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Daniel E. Wolfe (NOAA / Environmental Technology Laboratory) |
The focus of the meeting dealt with planning the Eleventh Symposium on Meteorological Observations and Instrumentation (SMOI) which will be held from January 15-18, 2001 during the 81st Annual Meeting of the AMS in Albuquerque, New Mexico. The SMOI will include twelve oral sessions:
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Calibration Methods, Quality Assurance and Quality Control Techniques |
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Sonic Anemometers and Extreme Wind Measurements |
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Surface Energy Fluxes |
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Radiosondes and Rawinsondes |
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Aircraft Platforms and Airborne Measurements |
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Meteorological Measurements in Harsh Environments |
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Quality Assurance and Quality Control for Meteorological Networks |
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Rainfall, Water Vapor and Precipitable Water |
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Radar Wind Profilers |
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Satellite Measurements of Earth’s Surface |
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Clouds and Visibility |
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Solar Radiation |
SMOI session chairs will be Robert A. Baxter, Christopher A. Biltoft, Stephen A. Cohn, Timothy L. Crawford, Gennaro H. Crescenti, John J. DeLuisi, Donald E. Lehrman, Matthew J. Parker, Scott J. Richardson, Allen B. White, and Daniel E. Wolfe.
The SMOI will include a poster session and will host the Remote Sensing Lecture entitled "Satellite Measurements of the Earth’s Radiation Budget: What Have We Learned About the Climate System?" by Robert Cess from the State University of New York at Stony Brook.
The Committee also discussed the development of the one-day AMS short course on the introduction to meteorological instrumentation and observation techniques. The short course will be held on January 14, 2001 in conjunction with the 81st Annual Meeting of the AMS in Albuquerque, New Mexico. Subject topics of the short course include:
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Wind Measurements |
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Temperature and Humidity Measurements |
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Variation in the Measurement of Temperature to Incoming Solar Radiation Using Aspirated and Non-Aspirated Shields |
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Introduction to Standards |
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Instrumented Towers |
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Hydrometeorological Measurements |
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Horror Stories from the Field |
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Hands-On Workshop: Instruments & Data Acquisition Systems |
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Air Quality Assessment |
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Quality Assurance and Quality Control Procedures |
The short course instructors will be C. Bruce Baker, Robert A. Baxter, Paul Fransioli, Scott J. Richardson, Yvette P. Richardson, Melanie Wetzel, and Daniel E. Wolfe.
2. AMS Scientific / Technical Meetings Arranged or Sponsored:
No scientific or technical meetings were arranged or sponsored by the Measurements Committee during 2000.
3. Proposed Future Scientific / Technical Meetings:
The Eleventh Symposium on Meteorological Observations and Instrumentation will be held from January 15-18, 2001 in conjunction with the 81st Annual Meeting of the AMS in Albuquerque, New Mexico. A one-day short course on the introduction to meteorological instrumentation and observation techniques will be held on January 14, 2001 in conjunction with the 81st Annual Meeting.
4. Notes on Other Committee Activities:
The Measurements Committee has provided a critical review of four Journal of Atmospheric and Oceanic Technology papers written by students for consideration of the Robert Leviton Award. The titles and authors of these papers are:
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Electrodynamic levitation system for studying individual cloud particles under upper-tropospheric conditions by R. A. Shaw, D. Lamb, and A. M. Moyle |
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High-resolution daytime cloud observations for northwestern Mexico from GOES-7 satellite observations by J. Garatuza-Payan, R. T. Pinker and W. J. Shuttleworth |
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Estimating the uncertainty in passive-microwave rain retrievals by D. Coppens, Z. S. Haddad, and E. Im |
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Sidelobe contamination in bistatic radars by R. de Elía and I. Zawadzki |
The committee recommended to the AMS Awards Committee to bestow the Robert Leviton Award to Raymond A. Shaw. The editorial staff of the Journal of Atmospheric and Oceanic Technology has once again been extremely helpful this year identifying student-written papers.
The Measurements Committee nominated Dr. Robert A. Weller of the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution for the Walter Orr Roberts Lecturer in Interdisciplinary Sciences. Unfortunately, no nominations for the Remote Sensing Lecturer were made this year.
5. Recommendations, Problems, Issues:
Nominations for new members of the Measurements Committee will be made by December 15, 2000.
NOTE: The period covered is January 1 to December 31, 2000