• Agenda (English, revised on March 16)
• Agenda (French, revised on March 15)
• Abstracts
• Presentations - March 22
1. Welcome Remarks (Tsoi Yip)
2. What Does a Hognose and an Amaryllis Have in Common? (David Zaff)
3. An Investigation of the New Years 2010 Lake Effect Snow Event Using Sounding-Based Parameters (Justin Arnott)
4. Lake-Enhanced Snow: Role of Lake-scale Dynamics (Greg Mann)
5. Forecasting the Inland Extent of Lake-Effect Snow Bands (Michael Jurewicz)
6. Intense Northern Michigan Snowfall:8 March 2009 (John Boris)
7. Synoptic and Mesoscale Factors Contributing to a Heavy Snowfall Event Across Northern Illinois December 25 and 26 2009 (Nathan Marsili)
8. The NASA Short-term Prediction Research and Transition (SPoRT) Center: Opportunities for Collaboration in the Great Lakes Region (Andrew Molthan)
9. Operational Great Lakes Ice Charts and On-Line Climatology (Marie-France Gauthier)
10. Evaluation of Great Lakes Ice Model (GLIM) Real-time Ice Forecasts for Lake Erie during the 2009-2010 Ice Season (Robert LaPlante)
11. Comparing GEM 15km, GEMLAM 2.5km and RUC 13km Model Simulations of Mesoscale Features over Southern Ontario (David Sills)
12. Enhancing Local Model Studies with Initial Conditions from Satellites for Great Lakes Research (Jordan Gerth)
13. Some effects of the Great Lakes on air quality in southern Ontario due to land-water temperature differences (Frank Dempsey)
14. Frontogenesis Forcing and its Relation to Convective Initiation and Convective Initiation Failure in the Warm Season (Dan Miller)
15. Observations of Near-Surface Thermodynamic and Wind Shear Profiles on Significant Tornado Days (Dan Miller)
• Presentations - March 23
1. August 19, 2009 Northeastern Illinois and Northwest Indiana Severe Weather Outbreak: Part 1 (Mark Ratzer)
2. August 19, 2009 Northeastern Illinois and Northwest Indiana Severe Weather Outbreak: Part 2 (Andy Boxell)
3. August 20th 2009: The Day the Skies rained Tornadoes (Arnold Ashton)
4. Damage to residential construction in the August 20, 2009 tornadoes in Vaughan, Ontario (Gregory Kopp)
5. The August 20th 2009 Tornado Outbreak: Synoptic overview and the challenges of forecasting an extreme event (Arnold Ashton)
6. Examination of the low level polarimetric radar parameters associated with the Aug 20 2009 southern Ontario tornadic supercells (Mike Leduc)
7. The Effects of Lake Michigan on Mature Mesoscale Convective Systems (Nicholas Metz and Lance F. Bosart)
8. Boundary Interactions and the Development of a Rare Classic Supercell in Northern Indiana (Jeff Logsdon)
9. MCS Initiation and Development Along Land/Lake-Induced Thermodynamic Boundaries near the Great Lakes (Alan Srock)
10. Analysis of the May 8, 2009 Derecho and Mesoscale Convective Vortex (Edward Shimon)
11. A Cloud to Ground Lightning Climatology for the Lake Superior Region (Michael Dutter)
12. Investigating the Potential of Using Radar to Nowcast CG Lightning Initiation over Southern Ontario (Helen Yang)
13. A Rare, Devastating Severe Weather Event in Western New York State (Tom Niziol)
14. Improving Excessive Rainfall Forecasts at HPC by using the "Spatial Density" Approach to High Resolution Models (Michael Eckert)
15. Climatology of Heavy Rainfall over Upper Michigan (Jonathan Banitt)
• Presentations - March 24
1. Low Level Wind Shear at Pearson Airport (Yi (Emily) Zhou)
2. Comparing Lower and Middle Atmosphere Wind Measurements with Model Results (Matthew Corkum and Peter Taylor)
3. Decision Support Services: NWS Buffalo Operations following the Crash of Flight 3407 (Judith Levan)
4. Addressing the Nearshore Wave Forecasting Problem (Cory Behnke)
5. Ike and Ohio: The Perfect Storm (James Kosarik)
6. Forecasting at the Vancouver 2010 Winter Games (Arnold Ashton)