College of DuPage Severe Weather Symposium

Tentative Agenda

 

Thursday

Friday

Saturday

 

Convective Initiation Tornadogenesis and
Results from Vortex 2
Severe Weather
Forecasting

8AM

Breakfast
Weather Briefing
Breakfast
Weather Briefing

9AM

Neil Taylor
Preliminary results from the UNSTABLE 2008 Field Project in Alberta
Roger Edwards
On Forecasting Funnels
9:30AM Paul Markowski
The Theoretical Aspects of Tornadogenesis
 

10AM

Roger Edwards
Parameter Evaluation:  What You Need to Know

10:30AM

Break Break

11AM

Eric Rasmussen
Tornadogenesis: Unknowns
Al Pietrycha
Bridging Research to Operations; Non-supercell tornadoes

12PM

Registration Lunch Panel 3
Issues in Severe Weather Forecasting 

1PM

Adam Houston
Principles of Deep Convective Initiation
Symposium Ends

1:30PM

  Yvette Richardson
The VORTEX2 Field Project: Motivation, Strategies, and Highlights from Year 1
 

2PM

Morris Weismann
The Explicit Prediction of Convective Storms: What is possible?
 

2:30PM

  Dave Carlsen
A photogrammetric analysis of the Elie, Manitoba F5 tornado

3PM

Break Break

 

Mike Buban
The role of boundary layer circulations in convection initiation
Josh Wurman
Studies of Tornado Structure and Tornadogenesis with High Resolution DOW Radar

4PM

Roger Wakimoto
Water Vapor and the Initiation of Deep Convection 
 

4:30PM

  Panel 2
Issues in Severe Weather Warnings

5PM

Panel 1
Issues in Severe Weather Initiation
 

6PM

 Dinner Dinner Banquet

7PM

8PM

Chuck Doswell
The Science of Severe Convective Storms: Past, Present, and Future

 

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