The
Pacific Northwest Weather Workshop will be held Friday and
Saturday,
7 & 8 March 2003, at the NOAA Western Regional Center
campus
at Sand Point in Seattle, Washington.This
annual conference,
sponsored
by the National Weather Service, University of Washington,
and
Puget Sound Chapter of the American Meteorological Society,
covers
recent developments in weather forecasting and observational
technologies,
major weather events of the past year, and topics
dealing
with Western U.S. meteorology.
Sessions
on northwest weather and related topics will include:new
technologies,
numerical weather prediction applications, local
weather
features, and general forecasting.In
addition, likely
special
sessions include: case studies of major Western U.S. weather
events,
updates on the local MM5 mesoscale modeling efforts, results
of
the PNW-2001 ozone study and the IMPROVE I/II microphysical field
experiment,
and implications of global warming on the Pacific
Northwest.
The
workshop format will include several invited presentations,
shorter
submitted talks, and panel discussions.Also,
a poster
session
will provide substantial time for interaction and discussion
among
the workshop attendees.These have
been very successful in the
past
and we encourage authors to consider the poster format.
Pre-registration
is required for all attendees. Visit our web site
at:
www.atmos.washington.edu/~cliff/PNW2003.html for latest
information
and on-line registration. Please submit abstracts for
oral
presentations and posters in text, Word or WordPerfect format -
no
PDF please. Include the title, author's name and author contact
information
and the abstract should include a short description of
the
presentation.Please send abstracts
to Maggie Querciagrossa at
Maggie.Querciagrossa@noaa.gov
by 1 January 2003 with cc's to the
Cliff
Mass, Brad Colman and Chris Hill at their e-mail addresses
below.Please
specify if you prefer poster or oral format.
For
more information contact Clifford Mass, Dept of Atmospheric
Sciences,
Box 351640, University of Washington, Seattle WA 98195
(206-685-0190,
cliff@atmos.washington.edu), or Brad Colman/Chris
Hill,
NWS Forecast Office, 7600 Sand Point Way NE, Seattle, WA 98115
(206.526.6095
x 224/222, brad.colman@noaa.gov or chris.hill@noaa.gov).