Workshops & Meetings | Conferences

Listed below are the technical presentations as given at their respective conference, workshop or meeting. Those papers that were personally presented by Dr. Mecikalski, either as an oral presentation or in a poster, are so indicated in bold-face print. Invited talks are so indicated.

Workshops & Meetings

Attended as TRMM-funded PI the Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission (TRMM) Science Team Meeting, Greenbelt Marriott, Greenbelt, MD, 30 October-2 November 2000, Presented Poster: "Evaluating Cumulus Momentum Transport using TRMM Precipitation Radar".

Invited to Speak at the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR), Atmospheric Technology Division (ATD) Seminar, Boulder, CO, 8 May 2001. Presented the Paper: "Using, and Believing, Remotely-Sensed Measurements of Water Vapor, Energy and Momentum.".

Organized/Hosted the First UW-CIMSS MURI Workshop at University of Wisconsin-Madison, 30-31 August 2001. Attended by representatives from the Office of Naval Research, the Naval Research Laboratory, the University of Hawaii at Monoa, and the University of Colorado-Boulder. Provided technical presentations on numerical weather prediction in support of hyperspectral data assimilation, and the use of hyperspectral data in atmospheric stability determination.

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Invited to Attend the Workshop on Turbulence Detection and Aviation Safety, NASA Langley Research Center, Norfolk, Virginia, 24 June 2001. Hosted by John Murray (NASA Langley). Presented "Methods for Assessing Atmospheric Turbulence using Hyperspectral Data".

Invited to the Convective Momentum Transport Workshop, 8th Assembly of the International Association of Meteorlogy and Atmospheric Sciences (IAMAS), Innsbruck, Austria, 13 July 2001. Abstract: "Convective Momentum Fluxes Evaluated from Remotely-Sensed Data".

Attended as TRMM-funded PI the Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission (TRMM) Science Team Meeting, Fort Collins, MD, 30 October-2 November 2001, Presented Poster: "Evaluating Cumulus Momentum Fluxes using Profiling Doppler and TRMM Precipitation Radars".

CIMSS Representative at JCSDA Meeting. Acted as representative of CIMSS at Joint Center for Satellite Data Assimilation (JCSDA) in Camp Springs, MD; 18 March 2002. Outlined ongoing research at CIMSS that is relevant to JCSDA objectives.

Presented at the Oceanic Weather Product Development Team's 3rd Science Meeting, Naval Research Laboratory, Monterey, CA, 18-19 April 2002. Talk Title: "Satellite Analysis Techniques for Evaluating Convective Initiation".
Presented at the 6th International Winds Workshop, Madison, WI, 7-10 May 2002. Talk Title: "Using Cloud-Motion Winds to Understand Kinematic Processes of Deep Convection: Anvil-level Outflow and Momentum Transport".

Organized/Hosted the Second UW-CIMSS MURI Workshop: "Workshop on Hyperspectral Meteorological Science of UW MURI and Beyond" at University of Wisconsin-Madison, 14-15 May 2002. Attended by representatives from the Office of Naval Research, the Naval Research Laboratory, the University of Hawaii at Monoa, the University of Colorado-Boulder, the University of Alabama-Huntsville, Texas A & M University, NASA, and NOAA. Provided technical presentations on numerical weather prediction in support of hyperspectral data assimilation, and the use of hyperspectral data in turbulence and stability determination.

Participated in International H2O Project (IHOP_2002) Field Experiment. Participated in IHOP_2002-related planning and field deployment activities for UW-CIMSS.

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Attended as TRMM-funded PI the Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission (TRMM) International Science Meeting, Honolulu, HI, 22-26 July 2002, Presented Poster: "A method for estimating convective momentum fluxes from radar data: An application to TRMM PR and TMI".

Sponsored and mentored 2002 NASA SHARP PLUS Program high school student (Casey Katerndahl) at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, CIMSS from 24 June-2 August 2002.

Presented at the 1st International H2O Project (IHOP_2002) Convective Initiation Workshop, University of Maryland-Baltimore Campus, Baltimore, MD, 30 September-1 October 2002. Presented research plans and maintained collaborations on new convective initiation research within the IHOP_2002 project.

Presented at the International H2O Project (IHOP_2002) Spring Science Workshop, NCAR, Boulder, Colorado, 24-26 March 2003. Presented research plans and maintained collaborations on convective initiation and land-sruface energy research within the IHOP_2002 project.

Invited to Speak as part of weekly Atmospheric Science Seminar at the National Space Science Technology Center (NSSTC), University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAH), Huntsville, AL, 18 December 2002. Presented the Talk: "From the Root Zone to the Tropopause: Remote Sensing Convective Initiation and Character.".

Organized/Hosted the Third UW-CIMSS MURI Workshop: "Workshop on Hyperspectral Meteorological Science of UW MURI and Beyond" at University of Wisconsin-Madison, 28-29 May 2002. Attended by representatives from the Office of Naval Research, the Naval Research Laboratory, the University of Hawaii at Monoa, the University of Colorado-Boulder, the University of Alabama-Huntsville, Texas A & M University, NASA, and NOAA. Provided technical presentations on numerical weather prediction in support of hyperspectral data assimilation, and the use of hyperspectral data in turbulence and stability determination.

Invited to Speak as part of weekly Atmospheric Science Seminar at the Pennsylvania State University, State College, PA, 12 June 2003. Presented the Talk: "The Validation of the ALEXI Model Toward the Production of Regional-Scale Land Surface Energy and Water Flux Maps over the IHOP_2002 Domain.".

Conferences ( back to top ) Mecikalski, J. R., 2001: Evaluating convective momentum fluxes using remotely sensed data. Preprints, Ninth Conf. on Mesoscale Processes, Amer. Meteor. Soc., Boston, MA, pp. 59-62.

Mecikalski, J. R., 2001: Motivating the use of remotely-sensed data sources for estimating convective momentum transports. Preprints, 11th Conf. on Satellite Meteorology and Oceanography, Amer. Meteor. Soc., Boston, MA, pp. 655-658.

Mecikalski, J. R., 2001: The value of realtime upper tropospheric inertial stability on tropical convection forecasting., Preprints, Ninth Conf. on Mesoscale Processes, Amer. Meteor. Soc., Boston, MA, pp. 420-421.

Mecikalski, J. R., 2002: Using cloud-motion winds to understand kinematic processes of deep convection: Anvil-level outflow and momentum transport. Proceedings, Sixth International Winds Workshop, Madison, WI, 7-10 May 2002, pp. 97-104.

Mecikalski, J. R., 2004: Inferring convective momentum fluxes within satellite data. Preprints, 26th Conf. on Hurricanes and Tropical Meteorology, Amer. Meteor. Soc., Boston, MA, Miama, FL.

Mecikalski, J. R., and E. C. Evenson, 1993: A comparison of composite hodographs of the Great Lakes regions and the western Great Plains. Preprints, 17th Conf. on Severe Local Storms, Amer. Meteor. Soc., Boston, MA, pp. 65-69.

Mecikalski, J. R., and G. J. Tripoli, 1994: Jet streaks and "local" Hadley cells. Preprints, Sixth Conf. on Mesoscale Processes, Amer. Meteor. Soc., Boston, MA, pp. 95-98.

Mecikalski, J. R., and G. J. Tripoli, 1997: The influence of inertial instability on convective momentum transport and alignment in numerically generated tropical plumes. Preprints, 22nd Conf. on Hurricanes and Tropical Meteorology, Amer. Meteor. Soc., Boston, MA, pp. 427-428.

Mecikalski, J. R., and G. J. Tripoli, 1998: The influence of inertial stability on the cumulus transport of momentum during a tropical plume event. Preprints, 19th Conf. on Severe Local Storms, Amer. Meteor. Soc., Boston, MA, pp. 663-666.

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Mecikalski, J. R., and G. J. Tripoli, 1999: The influence of inertial stability on the cumulus transport of momentum. Preprints, 23rd Conf. on Hurricanes and Tropical Meteorology, Amer. Meteor. Soc., Boston, MA, pp. 626-629.

Mecikalski, J. R., and G. J. Tripoli, 1999: The influence of inertial stability on the cumulus transport of momentum in organized tropical convection. Preprints, Eighth Conf. on Mesoscale Processes, Amer. Meteor. Soc., Boston, MA, pp. 67-72.

Mecikalski, J. R., and W. F. Feltz, 2000: Nowcasting the 3 May 1999 Oklahoma tornado outbreak using the AERI ground-based interferometer. Preprints, 20th Conf. Severe Local Storms, Amer. Meteor. Soc., Boston, MA, pp. 25-28.

Mecikalski, J. R., and C. S. Velden, 2001: The realtime value of combined upper tropospheric inertial stability and satellite- derived winds on tropical cyclone and convection forecasting. Preprints, 11th Conf. on Satellite Meteorology and Oceanography, Amer. Meteor. Soc., Boston, MA, pp. 312-313.

Mecikalski, J. R., and D. J. Posselt, 2002: The developing infrastructure for hyperspectral data assimilation at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Preprints. Symposium on Observations, Data Assimilation, and Probabilistic Prediction, Amer. Meteor. Soc., Boston, MA, pp 1-4.

Mecikalski, J. R., and C. S. Velden, 2002: Diagnosing tropical cyclones and deep convection using upper tropospheric inertial stability and cloud-motion wind vectors. Preprints, 25th Conf. on Hurricanes and Tropical Meteorology, San Diego, CA, Amer. Meteor. Soc., Boston, MA, pp. 65-66.

Mecikalski, J. R., and K. M. Bedka, 2004: Nowcasting convective initiation and thunderstorm characteristics through the use of realtime geostationary satellite information. Preprints, The 2004 EUMETSAT Meteorological Satellite Conf., Prague, Czech Republic, 31 May - 4 June 2004.

Mecikalski, J. R., J. B. Elsner, and R. G. Bann, 1989: Some aspects of forecasting lake-effect snowfall in eastern Wisconsin. Preprints, 12th Conf. Weather Analysis and Forecasting, Amer. Meteor. Soc., Boston, MA, pp. 364-367.

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Mecikalski, J. R., D. B. Johnson, and J. J. Murray, 2003: The Advanced Satellite Aviation-Weather Products (ASAP) initiative for diagnosing and nowcasting weather hazards for improved aviation safety. Preprints, 12th Conf. on Satellite Meteorology and Oceanography , Amer. Meteor. Soc., Boston, MA

Mecikalski, J. R., D. A. Baumgardt, G. J. Tripoli, and P. J. Pokrandt, 1993: A comprehensive analysis and numerical investigation of the 28 August 1990 Plainfield, Illinois tornado. Preprints, 17th Conf. on Severe Local Storms, Amer. Meteor. Soc., Boston, MA, pp. 168-172.

Mecikalski, J. R., G. R. Diak, M. C. Anderson, and J. M. Norman, 1998: Estimating surface energy flux on continental scales using an atmospheric land-exchange model and remotely sensed data. Preprints, 23rd Conf. on Agricultural and Forest Meteorology, Amer. Meteor. Soc., Boston, MA, pp. 382-383.

Mecikalski, J. R., G. R. Diak, M. C. Anderson, and J. M. Norman, 1999: Continental scale flux estimations using an atmospheric land-exchange model and remotely sensed data. Preprints, 14th Conf. on Hydrology, Amer. Meteor. Soc., Boston, MA, pp. 182-183.

Mecikalski, J. R., M. C. Anderson, J. A. Otkin, and J. M. Norman, 2004: Regional scale energy and water flux climatoloies as derived from remote sensing inputs and a land exchange model. Preprints, 18th Conf. on Hydrology, Amer. Meteor. Soc., Boston, MA, Seattle, WA

Mecikalski, J. R., R. D. Torn, J. M. Norman, M. C. Anderson, S. J. Richardson, and J. A. Brotzke, 2002: Remote estimates of surface energy fluxes on the 30-meter spatial scale. First American Meteorological Society's Student Conf. Special Poster Session, Orlando, FL, Amer. Meteor. Soc., Boston, MA

Mecikalski, J. R., K. M. Bedka, W. F. Feltz, D. D. Turner, T. M. Weckwerth, and R. D. Torn 2003: Inferring convectively- induced roll structures and convergence in the boundary layer using profiling instruments: An application to convective initiation during IHOP_2002. Preprints, Symposium on Observing and Understanding the Variability of Water in Weather and Climate, Amer. Meteor. Soc., Boston, MA

Mecikalski, J. R., R. D. Roberts, C. J. Kessinger, K. M. Bedka, B. L. DeWolf, and S. M. Thomas, 2003: Plans for processing realtime satellite information to nowcast convective initiation and its characteristics. Preprints, 12th Conf. on Satellite Meteorology and Oceanography and the Third Conference on Artificial Intelligence Applications to Environmental Science, Amer. Meteor. Soc., Boston, MA

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Mecikalski, J. R., M. C. Anderson, R. D. Torn, J. M. Norman, G. R. Diak, S. J. Richardson, and J. A. Brotzge, 2003: The Atmospheric Land EXchange (ALEXI): Regional scale flux validations, climatologies, and available soil water as derived from remote sensing inputs. Preprints, 12th Conf. on Satellite Meteorology and Oceanography , Amer. Meteor. Soc., Boston, MA

Mecikalski, J. R., C. Velden, M. Morgan, D. Kleist, D. Stettner, K. Goodstein, H.-M. Kim, and B. Baum, 2001: Assimilating satellite wind, moisture, and temperature for numerical forecast improvements during the PACific landfalling JETs (PACJET) experiment. Preprints, 14 Conf. on Numerical Weather Prediction, Amer. Meteor. Soc., Boston, MA, pp. 253-256.

Evenson, E. C., and J. R. Mecikalski, 1996: Preliminary evaluation of a PCGRIDDS macro in forecasting dry microbursts over the western United States. Preprints, 18th Conf. on Severe Local Storms, Amer. Meteor. Soc., Boston, MA, 659-662.

Knippertz, P., and J. R. Mecikalski, 2004: Re-examining tropical plumes and subtropical jet streaks. Preprints, 26th Conf. on Hurricanes and Tropical Meteorology, Amer. Meteor. Soc., Boston, MA, Miama, FL.

Bedka, K. M., J. R. Mecikalski, and W. F. Feltz, 2004: Analysis of convective clouds and turbulent boundary layers using hyperspectral data. Preprints, Symposium on Observing and Understanding the Variability of Water in Weather and Climate, Amer. Meteor. Soc., Boston, MA., Seattle, WA.

Rabin, R. M., Mecikalski, J. R., and K. M. Bedka, 2004: Nowcasting thunderstorm intensity from satellite: A review. Preprints, The 2004 EUMETSAT Meteorological Satellite Conf., Prague, Czech Republic, 31 May - 4 June 2004.

Diak, G. R., J. R. Mecikalski, M. C. Anderson, and W. L. Bland, 1998: Satellite estimates of terrestrial radiation for agricultural applications. Preprints, 23rd Conf. Agricultural and Forest Meteorology, Amer. Meteor. Soc., Boston, MA, pp. 1-2.

Rodgers, C., J. Mecikalski, C. Molling, J. Norman, C. Kucharik, and C. Morgan, 2000: Spatially distributed hydrologic-biophysical modeling: Applications in precision agriculture. Preprints, 24th Conf. on Agricultural and Forest Meteorology, Amer. Meteor. Soc., Boston, MA, pp. 86-87.

Diak, G. R., J. R. Mecikalski, M. C. Anderson, J. M. Norman, R. D. Torn, J. Hoss, S. J. Richardson, and J. A. Brotzge 2001: Realtime remote sensing-based modeling and in situ validation of land surface energy and water fluxes. Preprints, 11th Conf. on Satellite Meteorology and Oceanography, Amer. Meteor. Soc., Boston, MA, pp. 39-42.

Diak, G. R., J. R. Mecikalski, M. C. Anderson, J. M. Norman, R. L. DeWolf, and W. P. Kustas, 2003: Estimating the land-surface radiant, turbulent and conductive energy budgets using satellite systems and complementary synoptic data. Preprints, 12th Conf. on Satellite Meteorology and Oceanography, Amer. Meteor. Soc., Boston, MA

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Norman, J., M. Anderson, J. Mecikalski, R. Torn, and G. Diak, 2002: Evaluating water and energy budgets across the Mississippi River basin through remote sensing. Presented at the Mississippi River Climate and Hydrology Conf., 13-17 May 2002, New Orleans, LA, p. 31.

Feltz, W. F., D. Posselt, J. Mecikalski, G. Wade, and T. Schmit, 2003: 12 June 2002 rapid water vapor transitions during the IHOP field program. Preprints, Symposium on Observing and Understanding the Variability of Water in Weather and Climate, Amer. Meteor. Soc., Boston, MA

Norman, J. M., M. C. Anderson, G. R. Diak, J. R. Mecikalski, and W. P. Kustas, 1997: Regional estimates of surface fluxes using temperature differences from GOES thermal images. Proceedings Seventh International Symposium on Physical Measurements and Signatures in Remote Sensing, Courchevel, France, 7-11 April 1997, pp. 401-411.

Burns, B. A., R. D. Dickey, G. R. Diak, and J. Mecikalski, 2000: Temperature profile retrieval from AMSU-A with the aid of a priori surface type information. Preprints, 10th Conf. on Satellite Meteorology and Oceanography, Amer. Meteor. Soc., Boston, MA, pp. 279-280.

Posselt, D. J., D. D. Turner, R. Tanamachi, W. F. Feltz, J. R. Mecikalski, D. C. Tobin, R. O. Knuteson, and H. E. Revercomb, 2002: Comparison of a cloud resolving model with ARM data. Poster, 2002 ARM Science Team Meeting, St. Petersburg, FL, 8-12 April 2002.

Posselt, D. J., E. Olson, B. Osborne, W. F. Feltz, J. R. Mecikalski , R. Aune, R. O. Knuteson, H. E. Revercomb, and W. L. Smith, 2003: Simulation of an IHOP convective initiation case for GIFTS forward model and algorithm development. Preprints, 12th Conf. on Satellite Meteorology and Oceanography, Amer. Meteor. Soc., Boston, MA

Morgan, M. C., K. Lacasse, D. T. Kleist, H. M. Kim, J. M. McLay, D. J. Posselt, J. R. Mecikalski, C. S. Velden, and D. Stettner, 2001: Evaluating the potential impact of the assimilation of satellite derived products on mesoscale forecast of PACific landfalling JETs (PACJET) experiment IOP 10. Preprints, 11 Conf. on Satellite Meteorology and Oceanography, Amer. Meteor. Soc., Boston, MA, pp. 256-259.

Tobin, D., K. Baggett, R. Garcia, H. Woolf, A. Huang, B. Knuteson, J. Mecikalski, E. Olson, B. Osborne, D. Posselt, and H. Revercomb, 2001: Simulation of GIFTS data cubes. Preprints, 11 Conf. on Satellite Meteorology and Oceanography, Amer. Meteor. Soc., Boston, MA, pp. 563-565.

Anderson, M. C., J. M. Norman, W. P. Kustas, J. H. Prueger, C. M. U. Neale, I. MacPherson, J. R. Mecikalski, and G. R. Diak, 2003: Comparison of aircraft- and tower-measured fluxes acquired during SMACEX with predictions from a regional atmospheric-land exchange model. Preprints, 17th Conf. on Hydrology, Amer. Meteor. Soc., Boston, MA

Huang, H.-L. C. Velden, J. Li, E. Weisz, K. Baggett, J. E. Davies, J. Mecikalski, B. Huang, R. Dengel, S. A. Ackerman, E. R. Olson, R. O. Knuteson, D. Tobin, L. Moy, J. A. Otkin, D. J. Posselt, H. E. Revercomb, and W. L. Smith, 2004: Infrared hyperspectral sounding modeling and processing: An overview. Preprints, Eighth Symposium on Integrated Observing and Assimilation Systems for Atmosphere, Oceans, and Land Surface (IAOS-AOLS), Amer. Meteor. Soc., Boston, MA, Seattle, WA.

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