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2011 Posters

Posters are organized around CIRES Divisions. Anyone interested in presenting for 2011 should complete the CIRES Science Rendezvous Poster Submission Form. Poster abstracts for previous years are listed on this site under Archives.

Weather and Climate Dynamics Division

(1) Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences (2) National Oceanic and Atmosperic Administration (3) Environment Canada (4) Pacific Northwest Laboratory [ abstract ]

CASE STUDY OF A HIGH WIND EVENT OFF THE COAST OF THE PRINCE OLAV MOUNTAINS, ANTARCTICA [ abstract ]

Maintenance of springtime Arctic mixed-phase stratocumulus in nested LES simulations [ abstract ]

Recent Enhancements to Real-Time Probabilistic Thunderstorm Guidance Products from a Time-Lagged Ensemble of High Resolution Rapid Refresh (HRRR) Forecasts [ abstract ]

High-Resolution Rapid Refresh (HRRR) case study testing and analysis to improve forecast performance [ abstract ]

Heavy Rains and Historic Flooding over Pakistan in Late July 2010: Synoptic Conditions and Physical Mechanisms [ abstract ]

Using Science On a Sphere to Extend Climate Change Education from the Scientific Community to Society [ abstract ]

Whole Atmosphere Data Assimilation and Forecast Experiments [ abstract ]

The Colorado Climate Preparedness Project: A Systematic Approach to Assessing Efforts Supporting State-Level Adaptation [ abstract ]

Modulations of the phase speed of convectively coupled Kelvin waves by the ITCZ [ abstract ]

W-band spaceborne radar observations of atmospheric river events [ abstract ]

Verification of Convection Forecasts from the Hourly Updated 3KM High-Resolution Rapid Refresh (HRRR) Model, the 13KM Rapid Refresh (RR) Model, and the Rapid Update Cycle (RUC) Model [ abstract ]

Evolution of Sierra Barrier Jets that occur simultaneously with atmospheric river events in a high resolution dynamical downscaling of the North American Regional Reanalysis [ abstract ]

Progress toward a NOAA-ESRL earth system model: coupling an atmosphere to an ocean [ abstract ]

High Resolution Spatial Modeling of Daily Precipitation in California – An Exploration of Applying a Stochastic Method to Link Physiographically Sensitive Mapping of Climatology to Atmospheric Rivers and Surface Air Temperature [ abstract ]

Data archived at the World Data Center for Paleoclimatology [ abstract ]

Physical Modeling of Atmospheric Neutral Density Climatology, Variability and Weather [ abstract ]

Relativistic electron loss due to ultralow frequency waves and enhanced outward radial diffusion [ abstract ]

Assimilative Modeling of Thermospheric Neutral Density [ abstract ]

Climate change in upper-ocean stratification as inferred from the IPCC-AR4 models [ abstract ]

Testing of a wind farm parameterization in the WRF-ARW as verified against tower and surface data. [ abstract ]

GOES-R Moments and Spacecraft Charging Algorithm and Application to Anomaly Studies [ abstract ]

Forecasting coherent thermospheric dynamic and electrodynamic response to sudden stratospheric warmings [ abstract ]

Assessment of gas transfer velocities derived using satellite inputs to the COARE gas transfer model [ abstract ]

Response of the coupled IT system to storm time ionospheric electrodynamics [ abstract ]

Estimating the height of the stratocumulus-topped marine boundary layer using wind profilers [ abstract ]

A multi-diagnostic intercomparison of tropical width and jet timeseries using meteorological reanalyses and satellite observations [ abstract ]

Comparative Study of the Ionospheric Behavior and IRI Performance for the Last Two Solar Minima [ abstract ]

Removing ENSO-related variations from the climate record [ abstract ]

Annual variability of boundary layer height and its correlation to other meteorological variables in California’s Central Valley [ abstract ]

Total: 30

Environmental Chemistry Division

Sources and characteristics of sub-micron aerosols in the San Joaquin Valley, CA [ abstract ]

The Community Initiative for Emissions Research and Applications [ abstract ]

Evaluation of the Industrial Point Source Emission Inventory for the Houston Ship Channel Area Using Ship-Based, High Time Resolution Measurements of Volatile Organic Compounds [ abstract ]

Measurement of atmospheric ozone by cavity ring-down spectroscopy [ abstract ]

On the Role of Ice Formation Mechanisms and Habit Growth in the Maintenance of Mixed Phase Arctic Stratus [ abstract ]

IAGOS in the USA: An opportunity for commercial airlines to monitor air quality and greenhouse gases above the United States [ abstract ]

Atmospheric Chemistry of (E)- and (Z)-CF3CH=CHCF3: OH Reaction Rate Coefficients and Global Warming Potentials [ abstract ]

Cooling of entrained parcels in a large-eddy simulation [ abstract ]

Photochemistry of Nitryl Chloride (ClNO2): Temperature Dependent UV-VIS Absorption Spectra and Photolysis Quantum Yields of O(3P)at 193nm and 248nm [ abstract ]

Airborne Chemical Ionization Mass Spectrometry Measurements of Ammonia and Implications for Ammonium Nitrate Formation in California [ abstract ]

Latitudinal trends of chlorophyll concentration in the Mid-Pacific Ocean. [ abstract ]

Airborne measurements of aerosol extinction relative humidity enhancement [ abstract ]

Vertical Profiles of N2O5 and ClNO2 from the BAO tower in Erie, CO [ abstract ]

TEMPERATURE DEPENDENT RATE COEFFICIENTS FOR OH + BUTANOL REACTIONS IN THE GAS PHASE [ abstract ]

A case study for SOA formation by glyoxal processing in aqueous aerosol in Mexico City [ abstract ]

Nitrous acid measurements in urban Los Angeles using novel techniques [ abstract ]

Variability of Organic Aerosol Enhancement and Oxidation from Intense Photochemical Processing of Biomass Burning Smokes during FLAME-3 [ abstract ]

Ozone transport from the free troposphere into the Los Angeles basin [ abstract ]

Development of stable, immunogenic, and protective measles vaccines for needle-free administration [ abstract ]

Marine boundary layer observations and source studies on glyoxal and halogen oxides [ abstract ]

Top-down estimate of anthropogenic emission inventories in Houston using a 4D-VAR mesoscale inverse modeling technique [ abstract ]

Precipitating Cloud-System Response to Aerosol Perturbations [ abstract ]

Morphology and Chemistry of Organics at the Water-Air Interface [ abstract ]

Heterogeneous Interaction of N2O5 with HCl Doped H2SO4 under Stratospheric Conditions: ClNO2 and Cl2 Yields [ abstract ]

VOC Emissions from Biofuel Crops [ abstract ]

Profiling Instrument Shelter with Amenities (PISA). An Instrument Platform for Vertical Profile Boundary Layer Measurements. [ abstract ]

Measurements of weak absorptions by O3 and O3-H2O clusters using cavity enhanced spectroscopy [ abstract ]

Deliquescence, efflorescence and ice nucleating ability of NaCl / hydrated NaCl particles under upper tropospheric conditions [ abstract ]

Total: 28

Solid Earth Sciences Division

Glacial Isostatic Adjustment as a Source of Noise for the Interpretation of GRACE Data [ abstract ]

The Volcanic-Plutonic Connection at The Never Summer Igneous Complex, North-Central Colorado [ abstract ]

Predicting event-scale floodplain change with a coupled hydrodynamic (ANUGA) and sediment transport model: a case study of the Rio Puerco Arroyo, NM [ abstract ]

Waiter, there's an eclogite in my jelly sandwich [ abstract ]

Inversion of Rayleigh wave dispersion data to constrain lithospheric velocity and crustal thickness in the North American Cordillera [ abstract ]

USING A NATURAL EXPERIMENT TO UNDERSTAND GULLY EROSION RATES AND MECHANISMS [ abstract ]

Noise Analysis of Ocean-Bottom Seismic Experiment offshore of New Zealand [ abstract ]

Total: 7

Center for Science and Technology Policy

The Center for Science and Technology Policy Research [ abstract ]

Equatorial-PRIMO (Problems Related to Ionospheric Models and Observations) [ abstract ]

Dryness and Desperate Measures: A Political Ecology of Drought and Ranching in the Rocky Mountain West [ abstract ]

Cryospheric and Polar Processes Division

Parameter Transfer in a Conceptual Snow Model [ abstract ]

Sea ice response to an extreme negative phase of the Arctic Oscillation during winter 2009/2010 [ abstract ]

Recent Changes in Tropospheric Water Vapour of the Arctic [ abstract ]

ELOKA - Archiving Local and Traditional Knowledge of the Arctic – Managing Data and Information in Partnership with Indigenous Communities and Earth Scientists [ abstract ]

Recovering 1960’S sea ice extent from Nimbus II Infrared and visible imagery data [ abstract ]

Arctic Ocean Tides from GRACE Satellite Accelerations [ abstract ]

Managing IceBridge airborne mission data at the National Snow and Ice Data Center [ abstract ]

Strength and Timing of the Permafrost Carbon Feedback [ abstract ]

Stable water isotopes on time scales from hours to decades at the new deep drilling site in NW Greenland - NEEM [ abstract ]

Using Surface Roughness Derived From ICESat, IceBridge and CASIE Data to Map Geophysical and Ice-Dynamic Provinces in Glaciers and Sea Ice [ abstract ]

A comparison of Ground-Based LiDAR, contact spectroscopy, FMCW radar, and manual snow pit profiles of a mountain snowpack [ abstract ]

Antarctic Data at the National Snow and Ice Data Center [ abstract ]

Operational Products Archived at the National Snow and Ice Data Center [ abstract ]

The Data Conservancy: An NSF DataNet Program Partnership [ abstract ]

ROCS @ NSIDC: A Growing Collection [ abstract ]

Studying surface dynamics of permafrost and active layer thickness from space using InSAR [ abstract ]

Total: 16

Ecosystem Science Division

EFFECTS OF LODGEPOLE PINE MORTALITY DUE TO MOUNTAIN PINE BEETLE INFESTATION ON STREAM CHEMISTRY [ abstract ]

Disturbance interactions and their impact on forest resilience mechanisms [ abstract ]

Ecological responses to nutrients in streams and rivers of the Colorado mountains and foothills [ abstract ]

Species distribution modeling under Climate Change: Case Studies from India [ abstract ]

Environmental Observations, Modeling and Forecasting Division

The Effect of Measured Ozone Profiles and Tropospheric Ozone on UV Photolysis Rate Coefficients in the Troposphere in Houston, TX [ abstract ]

Passive Radio Imaging for Applications in Water Resource Management, Glaciology, and Space Weather Monitoring [ abstract ]

Doppler-lidar-based wind-profile measurement system for offshore wind-energy and other marine-boundary-layer applications [ abstract ]

Ozone profile trends from ground-based and satellite data. [ abstract ]

First Results from UCATS during the GloPac 2010 Mission [ abstract ]

Quantitative Statistical Estimates of ENSO Response to Climate Change in the CCSM3.5 [ abstract ]

Trends of long-lived halocarbons, nitrous oxide and sulfur hexafluoride [ abstract ]

CU Airborne MAX-DOAS measurements over California during the CalNex and CARES field campaigns [ abstract ]

The magnetic fields generated by the tsunami of February 27, 2010 [ abstract ]

Classification of Sea Ice Video Imagery during AMISA 2008 [ abstract ]

Modern Data Center Services Supporting Science [ abstract ]

Deep-ocean Assessment and Reporting of Tsunami (DART®) Data available from the 27 February 2010 Chilean Earthquake [ abstract ]

The Scale Problem in Quantifying Aerosol Indirect Effects [ abstract ]

Mixing, Eddies, and all that: Ocean Parameterization Developments from 4m to 400km [ abstract ]

Quantifying digital elevation model (DEM) uncertainty introduced by various interpolation methods [ abstract ]

Companion structured and unstructured digital elevation model (DEM) development [ abstract ]

Gravity Wave Source and Propagation during the 2009 Stratospheric Sudden Warming [ abstract ]

When is geoengineering research “just research”? The role of research framing in light of the use of technology. [ abstract ]

Total: 18

Education Outreach Program

Highlights from the CIRES Education and Outreach Group [ abstract ]

Project EXTREMES- EXploration, Teaching and Research for Excellence in Middle and Elementary Science [ abstract ]

The Climate Literacy and Energy Awareness (CLEAN) collection of peer-reviewed high-quality digital teaching materials [ abstract ]