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Saturday, 5 January 2019

7:30 AM-9:00 AM: Saturday, 5 January 2019


Student Conference Registration
Location: North 100 Level Prefunction (Phoenix Convention Center - West and North Buildings)

7:30 AM-8:00 PM: Saturday, 5 January 2019


AMS Information Desk (Saturday)
Location: North 100 Level Prefunction (Phoenix Convention Center - West and North Buildings)

Registration for Short Courses and Student Conference
Location: North Lower Level Prefunction (Phoenix Convention Center - West and North Buildings)

8:00 AM-9:00 AM: Saturday, 5 January 2019


Student Conference Breakfast
Location: North 100 Level Prefunction (Phoenix Convention Center - West and North Buildings)

8:00 AM-5:30 PM: Saturday, 5 January 2019


18th Annual Student Conference
Location: Hall 4 (Phoenix Convention Center - West and North Buildings)

8:30 AM-5:30 PM: Saturday, 5 January 2019


Session
A Beginner's Course to Using Python in Climate and Meteorology
Location: Room 221AB (Phoenix Convention Center)
Host: Short Course
Instructor: Johnny Lin, North Park University
Organizer: Johnny Lin, North Park University

9:00 AM-10:10 AM: Saturday, 5 January 2019

Recording files available
Session
Session 1 - Welcoming Remarks
Location: North Ballroom 120CD (Phoenix Convention Center - West and North Buildings)
Host: 18th Annual Student Conference
9:00 AM
Welcome from the Student Conference Planning Committee
Makenzie Krocak, Univ. of Oklahoma, Norman, OK; and G. H. Kerr and M. D. Flournoy
9:20 AM
Advice from Someone Who Has (Almost) Seen It All
Roger M. Wakimoto, Univ. of California, Los Angeles, CA
9:35 AM
Taking a Ride on the Academic Roller Coaster
Jennifer Collins, Univ. of South Florida, Tampa, FL
9:50 AM
New Shoes, New Perspective
Kevin R. Petty, Vaisala Inc., Louisville, CO

10:10 AM-10:25 AM: Saturday, 5 January 2019


Morning Break
Location: North Ballroom CD Foyer (Phoenix Convention Center - West and North Buildings)

10:25 AM-11:10 AM: Saturday, 5 January 2019

Recording files available
Session
Session 2A: Breakout Session - Public Sector
Location: North 121BC (Phoenix Convention Center - West and North Buildings)
Host: 18th Annual Student Conference
Chair: Nicholas S. Grondin, Louisiana State Univ.
Speakers: Taylor Trogdon, NOAA/NWS; Maureen Sanders, Texas Water Development Board; Ashton Robinson Cook, NOAA/NWS SPC; Curtis L. Walker, Univ. of Nebraska
Sanders

Robinson Cook

Walker

Recording files available
Session
Session 2B: Breakout Session - Media
Location: North 122BC (Phoenix Convention Center - West and North Buildings)
Host: 18th Annual Student Conference
Chair: Taylor Pechacek, Mississippi State Univ.
Speakers: Alex Garcia, KABB-TV; Kerrin Jeromin, WeatherNation; Jason Samenow, The Washington Post, Capital Weather Gang
Jeromin

Samenow

Recording files available
Session
Session 2C: Breakout Session - Academia and Research
Location: North 124A (Phoenix Convention Center - West and North Buildings)
Host: 18th Annual Student Conference
Chair: Tyler M. Fenske, Univ. of Miami
Speakers: Kristen Averyt, Desert Research Institute; Sonia M. Kreidenweis, Colorado State Univ.; David M. Hondula, Arizona State Univ.; Ian Faloona, Univ. of California, Davis
Kreidenweis

Hondula

Faloona

Recording files available
Session
Session 2D: Breakout Session - Private Sector
Location: North Ballroom 120CD (Phoenix Convention Center - West and North Buildings)
Host: 18th Annual Student Conference
Chair: Ajay Raghavendra, University at Albany, State University of New York
Speakers: Michael J. Ventrice, The Weather Company/IBM; Jean E. Vieux, Vieux & Associates, Inc.; Nicholas Troiano, Mars Inc.; Shunondo Basu, National Renewable Energy Laboratory
Vieux

Troiano

Basu

11:15 AM-12:00 PM: Saturday, 5 January 2019

Recording files available
Session
Session 3A: Breakout Session - Public Sector
Location: North 121BC (Phoenix Convention Center - West and North Buildings)
Host: 18th Annual Student Conference
Chair: Nicholas S. Grondin, Louisiana State Univ.
Speakers: Taylor Trogdon, NOAA/NWS; Maureen Sanders, Texas Water Development Board; Ashton Robinson Cook, NOAA/NWS SPC; Curtis L. Walker, Univ. of Nebraska
Sanders

Robinson Cook

Walker

Recording files available
Session
Session 3B: Breakout Session - Media
Location: North 122BC (Phoenix Convention Center - West and North Buildings)
Host: 18th Annual Student Conference
Chair: Taylor Pechacek, Mississippi State Univ.
Speakers: Alex Garcia, KABB-TV; Kerrin Jeromin, WeatherNation; Jason Samenow, The Washington Post, Capital Weather Gang
Samenow

Recording files available
Session
Session 3C: Breakout Session - Academia and Research
Location: North 124A (Phoenix Convention Center - West and North Buildings)
Host: 18th Annual Student Conference
Chair: Tyler M. Fenske, Univ. of Miami
Speakers: Kristen Averyt, CIRES/Univ. of Colorado; Sonia M. Kreidenweis, Colorado State Univ.; David M. Hondula, Arizona State Univ.; Ian Faloona, Univ. of California, Davis
Kreidenweis

Hondula

Faloona

Recording files available
Session
Session 3D: Breakout Session - Private Sector
Location: North Ballroom 120CD (Phoenix Convention Center - West and North Buildings)
Host: 18th Annual Student Conference
Chair: Ajay Raghavendra, University at Albany, State University of New York
Speakers: Michael J. Ventrice, The Weather Company/IBM; Jean E. Vieux, Vieux & Associates, Inc.; Nicholas Troiano, Mars Inc.; Shunondo Basu, National Renewable Energy Laboratory
Vieux

Troiano

Basu

1:00 PM-1:30 PM: Saturday, 5 January 2019

Recording files available
Session
Session 4: Intro to Conversations with Professionals
Location: North Ballroom 120CD (Phoenix Convention Center - West and North Buildings)
Host: 18th Annual Student Conference
Chair: Margaret M. Orr, University of Georgia

1:35 PM-3:45 PM: Saturday, 5 January 2019


Session
Session 5A - Conversations with Professionals
Location: North Ballroom 120CD (Phoenix Convention Center - West and North Buildings)
Host: 18th Annual Student Conference
Speaker: Shawn Milrad, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University
1:35 PM
Milrad


Session
Session 5B - Conversations with Professionals
Location: North Ballroom 120CD (Phoenix Convention Center - West and North Buildings)
Host: 18th Annual Student Conference
Speaker: Morgan Barry, NOAA/NWS
Barry


Session
Session 5C - Conversations with Professionals
Location: North 121BC (Phoenix Convention Center - West and North Buildings)
Host: 18th Annual Student Conference
Speaker: Bethany Johns, American Institute of Physics
Johns


Session
Session 5D - Conversations with Professionals
Location: North 121BC (Phoenix Convention Center - West and North Buildings)
Host: 18th Annual Student Conference
Speaker: Timothy Hall, The Aerospace Corporation
Hall


Session
Session 5E - Conversations with Professionals
Location: North 122BC (Phoenix Convention Center - West and North Buildings)
Host: 18th Annual Student Conference
Speaker: Brad Colman, The Climate Corporation
Colman


Session
Session 5F - Conversations with Professionals
Location: North 122BC (Phoenix Convention Center - West and North Buildings)
Host: 18th Annual Student Conference
Speaker: Gina Eosco, NOAA/OAR/OWAQ
Eosco


Session
Session 5G - Conversations with Professionals
Location: North 123 (Phoenix Convention Center - West and North Buildings)
Host: 18th Annual Student Conference
Speaker: Michael M. French, Stony Brook Univ., SUNY
French


Session
Session 5H - Conversations with Professionals
Location: North 124A (Phoenix Convention Center - West and North Buildings)
Host: 18th Annual Student Conference
Speaker: Paul E. Roundy, SUNY
Roundy


Session
Session 5I - Conversations with Professionals
Location: North 125AB (Phoenix Convention Center - West and North Buildings)
Host: 18th Annual Student Conference
Speakers: Kevin Petty, Vaisala; Curtis L. Walker, Univ. of Nebraska; Paul A. Pisano, U.S. Department of Transportation/Federal Highway Administration
Petty

Pisano


Session
Session 5J - Conversations with Professionals
Location: North 124B (Phoenix Convention Center - West and North Buildings)
Host: 18th Annual Student Conference
Speaker: Alex Garcia, KABB-TV
Garcia


Session
Session 5K - Conversations with Professionals
Location: North 127ABC (Phoenix Convention Center - West and North Buildings)
Host: 18th Annual Student Conference
Speakers: Renee A. Leduc Clarke, Narayan Strategy; Alexander E. MacDonald, Spire Global, Inc.; Larry E. Brazil, Riverside Technology, Inc.; Timothy Canty, Univ. of Maryland; Richard Clark, Millersville Univ.
Leduc Clarke

MacDonald

Brazil

Canty


Session
Session 5L - Conversations with Professionals
Location: North 126A (Phoenix Convention Center - West and North Buildings)
Host: 18th Annual Student Conference
Speakers: Lt Col Stephen Maile, Davis-Monthan AFB; Maj. Mike Coyne; Maj. Audra Carpenter, Davis-Monthan AFB; Timothy Villaran, Davis-Monthan AFB
Maile

Coyne

Carpenter

Villaran


Session
Session 5M - Conversations with Professionals
Location: North 128AB (Phoenix Convention Center - West and North Buildings)
Host: 18th Annual Student Conference
Speaker: Adam P Roser, NWSFO
Roser


Session
Session 5N - Conversations with Professionals
Location: North 126BC (Phoenix Convention Center - West and North Buildings)
Host: 18th Annual Student Conference
Speakers: Ryan Rickert, USAF RESERVES; Jeremy Dehart, HURRICANE HUNTERS
Rickert

Dehart


Session
Session 6 - Graduate Student Panel
Location: North 126BC (Phoenix Convention Center - West and North Buildings)
Host: 18th Annual Student Conference
Speakers: G. Aaron Alexander, Univ. of California; Margaret M. Orr, Univ. of Delaware; Addison Alford, University of Oklahoma; Ryann Ashley Wakefield, Univ. of Oklahoma; Meredith A. Fish, SIO/Univ. of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA; Tyler M. Fenske, Univ. of Miami
Alexander

Orr

Alford

Wakefield

Fish

Fenske


Session
Session 7 - Graduate School Admissions Panel
Location: North 128AB (Phoenix Convention Center - West and North Buildings)
Host: 18th Annual Student Conference
Speakers: Jeffrey Basara, Univ. of Oklahoma; Sonia M. Kreidenweis, Colorado State Univ.; Benjamin R. Lintner, Rutgers Univ.
Basara

Kreidenweis

Lintner

3:45 PM-4:00 PM: Saturday, 5 January 2019


Afternoon Break
Location: North Ballroom CD Foyer (Phoenix Convention Center - West and North Buildings)

4:00 PM-5:00 PM: Saturday, 5 January 2019


Session
Session 8 - Breakout Session: Expand Your Horizons
Host: 18th Annual Student Conference
Breakout Session: Expand Your Horizons


Session
Session 8A - Integrated Warning Team I: Introduction to Emergency Management (Part 1)
Location: North 121BC (Phoenix Convention Center - West and North Buildings)
Host: 18th Annual Student Conference
Chair: W. Massey Bartolini, Univ. at Albany, SUNY
Speakers: Matt Moreland, NOAA/NWS; Marty Senterfitt, Florida Keys Emergency Management
Moreland

Senterfitt


Session
Session 8B - Resume Workshop 1
Location: North 122BC (Phoenix Convention Center - West and North Buildings)
Host: 18th Annual Student Conference
Chair: G. Aaron Alexander, Univ. of California
Speaker: Kerry Kidwell, American Institute of Physics (AIP)
Kidwell

Recording files available
Session
Session 8C - Mastering Your Doctorate
Location: North 124A (Phoenix Convention Center - West and North Buildings)
Host: 18th Annual Student Conference
Chair: Addison Alford, University of Oklahoma
Speakers: Dereka Carroll-Smith, Jackson State University; Shawn Milrad, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University; Yvette Richardson, Pennsylvania State Univ.
Carroll-Smith

4:45 PM-5:00 PM: Saturday, 5 January 2019


Session
Day 1 Closing Remarks
Location: North Ballroom 120CD (Phoenix Convention Center - West and North Buildings)
Host: 18th Annual Student Conference

5:30 PM-7:30 PM: Saturday, 5 January 2019


AMS Career Fair
Location: Hall 4 (Phoenix Convention Center - West and North Buildings)

Resource Fair and Graduate School Reception
Location: Hall 5-6 (Phoenix Convention Center - West and North Buildings)

Sunday, 6 January 2019

7:00 AM-12:00 PM: Sunday, 6 January 2019


CANCELLED: Scout Event
Location: Hall 1 (Phoenix Convention Center - West and North Buildings)

7:00 AM-8:30 PM: Sunday, 6 January 2019


Registration (Sunday)
Location: North Lower Level Prefunction (Phoenix Convention Center - West and North Buildings)

7:30 AM-8:30 PM: Sunday, 6 January 2019


AMS Information Desk (Sunday)
Location: North 100 Level Prefunction (Phoenix Convention Center - West and North Buildings)

8:00 AM-9:00 AM: Sunday, 6 January 2019


Breakfast.  Meet the AMS President, Roger Wakitmoto, and the Presidential Forum Speakers
Location: North Ballroom Prefunction (Phoenix Convention Center - West and North Buildings)

8:00 AM-12:00 PM: Sunday, 6 January 2019


Session
Introducing the Community Earth System Model (CESM2) Via an Interactive Hands-on Tutorial Using the Cloud.
Location: North 225AB (Phoenix Convention Center - West and North Buildings)
Host: Short Course
Instructor: Cecile Hannay, NCAR
Organizer: Isla R. Simpson, National Center for Atmospheric Research

Session
Weather and Phased Array Radar Polarimetry
Location: North 224B (Phoenix Convention Center - West and North Buildings)
Host: Short Course
Instructors: Guifu Zhang, NOAA; Richard Doviak, NOAA/OAR/NSSL
Organizer: Guifu Zhang, University of Oklahoma

8:00 AM-3:45 PM: Sunday, 6 January 2019


Session
Applying JPSS Data Products to Better Forecast Challenging Weather Events
Location: Room 222C (Phoenix Convention Center)
Host: Short Course
Instructors: Mitchell Goldberg, JPSS; Nadia Smith, Science and Technology Corporation; Jorel Torres, CIRA/Colorado State Univ.; Kathleen I. Strabala, Univ. of Wisconsin/CIMSS; Eric Stevens, Univ. of Alaska; Lihang Zhou, NOAA; Evan Ellicott, University of Maryland; Ivan A. Csiszar, NOAA/NESDIS; Daniel Nietfeld, NOAA/OAR/ESRL
Organizer: Gary McWilliams, NESDIS JPSS Program Office/Science and Technology Corporation

Session
Diversity, Equity & Inclusion for Geoscientists
Location: North 226C (Phoenix Convention Center - West and North Buildings)
Host: Short Course
Instructors: Joshua Young, UCAR; Kristen Luna Aponte, UCAR; Julie S. Malmberg, UCAR
Organizer: Carolyn Brinkworth, UCAR

Session
GOES-R Series: Forecasting Applications
Location: Room 222AB (Phoenix Convention Center)
Host: Short Course
Organizer: Janel R. Thomas, Science and Technology Corporation

8:30 AM-9:00 AM: Sunday, 6 January 2019


Meet President Roger M. Wakimoto and Presidential Forum Speakers
Location: North Ballroom Prefunction (Phoenix Convention Center - West and North Buildings)

Meet President Roger M. Wakimoto and Presidential Forum Speakers
Location: North 124B (Phoenix Convention Center - West and North Buildings)

8:30 AM-3:45 PM: Sunday, 6 January 2019


Session
AMS Short Course on Python for Synoptic Meteorology Using Metpy
Location: Room 221C (Phoenix Convention Center)
Host: Short Course
Instructors: Ryan M. May, UCAR/Unidata; J. R. Leeman, UCAR/Unidata; Kevin H. Goebbert, Valparaiso Univ.
Organizer: Ryan M. May, UCAR/Unidata

Session
Machine Learning in Python for Environmental Science Problems
Location: Room 223 (Phoenix Convention Center)
Host: Short Course
Instructors: David John Gagne II, NCAR; Ryan A. Lagerquist, CIMMS; Gregory R. Herman, Colorado State Univ.; Sheri Mickelson, NCAR
Organizer: David John Gagne II, NCAR

9:00 AM-9:45 AM: Sunday, 6 January 2019


Session 1
Welcome and Networking With Your Peers
Location: North 124B (Phoenix Convention Center - West and North Buildings)
Host: Seventh Early Career Professionals Conference
Cochairs: Jared Rennie, North Carolina Institute for Climate Studies; Elizabeth McGiffin, KTVL-TV CBS10; Irene Sans, WFTV/ClimaData
Speaker: Raquell Holmes, Improv Science
Holmes

Recording files available
Session
Session 9 - Extreme Weather Events
Location: North Ballroom 120CD (Phoenix Convention Center - West and North Buildings)
Host: 18th Annual Student Conference
Chair: Meredith A. Fish, SIO/Univ. of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA
Fish

9:00 AM
The role of meteorology in post-wildfire debris flow hazards -- Nina Oakley
9:15 AM
Chasing the World's Most Intense Thunderstorms: Proyecto RELAMPAGO-CACTI Argentina 2018 -- Steve Nesbitt

9:00 AM-3:45 PM: Sunday, 6 January 2019


Seventh Conference for Early Career Professionals
Location: North 124B (Phoenix Convention Center - West and North Buildings)

9:00 AM-5:00 PM: Sunday, 6 January 2019


18th Annual Student Conference
Location: Hall 4 (Phoenix Convention Center - West and North Buildings)

9:55 AM-10:45 AM: Sunday, 6 January 2019


Session
Session 10 - Breakout Session: Contribute to the Field
Host: 18th Annual Student Conference
9:55 AM
Breakout Session: Contribute to the Field

Recording files available
Session
Session 10A - "Applying Yourself" and Other Advice for Future Grad Students
Location: North 121BC (Phoenix Convention Center - West and North Buildings)
Host: 18th Annual Student Conference
Chair: Ryann Ashley Wakefield, Univ. of Oklahoma
Applying Yourself" and Other Advice for Future Grad Students

9:55 AM
One does not simply...get into graduate school -- Jason Cordeira
10:10 AM
Preparing to Succeed in Graduate School -- Tom Galarneau
10:25 AM
Preparation for Graduate School: Evaluation of Myself from Current Point of View -- Naoko Sakaeda
Recording files available
Session
Session 10B - The Social Sphere: Public Policy in the Weather Sector
Location: North 122BC (Phoenix Convention Center - West and North Buildings)
Host: 18th Annual Student Conference
Chair: G. Aaron Alexander, Univ. of California
9:55 AM
Introduction -- Aaron Alexander
The Social Sphere: Public Policy in the Weather Sector

9:55 AM-11:45 AM: Sunday, 6 January 2019

Recording files available
Panel Discussion 1
Outside the Box Skill Sets
Location: North 124B (Phoenix Convention Center - West and North Buildings)
Hosts: (Joint between the Seventh Early Career Professionals Conference; and the 18th Annual Student Conference )
Cochairs: J. Cody Kirkpatrick, Indiana Univ.; Aaron Scott, University of North Dakota
Keynote: Gina Eosco, NOAA/OAR/OWAQ
Panelists: Gretchen Mullendore, University of North Dakota; Jessica Mackaro, Vaisala Inc.; James Correia Jr., Univ. of Oklahoma/CIMMS and NOAA/NWS/SPC
9:55 AM
9:55 AM
Mullendore, Mackaro, Correia

10:00 AM-4:00 PM: Sunday, 6 January 2019


Guest Welcome Desk
Location: North 100 Level Prefunction (Phoenix Convention Center - West and North Buildings)

10:45 AM-11:55 AM: Sunday, 6 January 2019


Morning Break
Location: North Ballroom CD Foyer (Phoenix Convention Center - West and North Buildings)

10:55 AM-11:50 AM: Sunday, 6 January 2019


Session
Session 11 - Breakout Session: Strengthen Your Skill Set
Host: 18th Annual Student Conference
Breakout Session: Strengthen Your Skill Set

Recording files available
Session
Session 11A - Tools of the Trade
Location: North Ballroom 120CD (Phoenix Convention Center - West and North Buildings)
Host: 18th Annual Student Conference
Chair: C. Todd Rhodes, Coastal Carolina Univ.
Tools of the Trade

10:55 AM
Introduction -- Todd Rhodes

11:10 AM
Linux -- Pete Prokrandt
11:25 AM
Python -- Ryan May
11:40 AM
NCL -- Mike Coniglio
Recording files available
Session
Session 11B - The Atmosphere of Science Communication
Location: North 121BC (Phoenix Convention Center - West and North Buildings)
Host: 18th Annual Student Conference
Chair: Zoey Rosen, Colorado State University
The Atmosphere of Science Communication

10:55 AM
Translating Social Science Research Into Application -- Gina Eosco

11:10 AM
Bridging Knowledge and Practice: Applying Extension Approaches to Weather and Climate Decision-Making -- Jessica Whitehead
11:25 AM
Direct and indirect paths to improving weather forecast communication -- Julie Demuth

11:45 AM-1:00 PM: Sunday, 6 January 2019


Session 2
Lunch: Roadmap to CCM
Location: North 127ABC (Phoenix Convention Center - West and North Buildings)
Host: Seventh Early Career Professionals Conference
Cochairs: Samuel Larsen, Xcel Energy; Morgan Brown Yarker, Yarker Consulting; Robert Mulloy, Shell Trading Gas and Power
Lunch: Roadmap to CCM
Samuel Larsen, Xcel Energy, Arvada, CO

11:50 AM-12:00 PM: Sunday, 6 January 2019


Break
Location: North Ballroom CD Foyer (Phoenix Convention Center - West and North Buildings)

12:00 PM-12:30 PM: Sunday, 6 January 2019

Recording files available
Session
Session 12 - Keynote
Location: North Ballroom 120CD (Phoenix Convention Center - West and North Buildings)
Host: 18th Annual Student Conference
Cochairs: Makenzie Krocak, Cooperative Institute for Mesoscale Meteorological Studies; Gaige Hunter Kerr, Johns Hopkins Univ.; Matthew D. Flournoy, Univ. of Oklahoma
Speaker: Ada Monzón, WIPR-TV

12:00 PM-3:45 PM: Sunday, 6 January 2019


Speaker Ready Room (Sunday)
Location: North 121A (Phoenix Convention Center - West and North Buildings)

12:00 PM-8:30 PM: Sunday, 6 January 2019


Poster Hall (Sunday)
Location: Hall 4 (Phoenix Convention Center - West and North Buildings)

12:30 PM-12:35 PM: Sunday, 6 January 2019


Closing Remarks and Poster Sessions Announcements
Location: North Ballroom 120CD (Phoenix Convention Center - West and North Buildings)

12:35 PM-2:00 PM: Sunday, 6 January 2019


Student Conference Lunch Break (On Your Own)

1:00 PM-2:00 PM: Sunday, 6 January 2019

Recording files available
Panel Discussion 2
Mental Health in Meteorology
Location: North 124B (Phoenix Convention Center - West and North Buildings)
Host: Seventh Early Career Professionals Conference
Cochairs: Dakota Smith, Weather Nation; Rebecca DePodwin, AccuWeather, Inc.
Panelists: Shawn Milrad, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University; Faith Groff, Colorado State University; Rebecca Moulton, FEMA; Matt Lanza, Cheniere Energy
Milrad, Groff, Moulton, Lanza

1:00 PM-2:30 PM: Sunday, 6 January 2019


CANCELLED Weather-Ready Nation Ambassador Roundtable
Location: North 227A-C (Phoenix Convention Center - West and North Buildings)
Host: Town Hall Meetings
Organizer: Douglas Hilderbrand, NOAA/NWS
Facilitator: Douglas Hilderbrand, NOAA/NWS

2:00 PM-3:00 PM: Sunday, 6 January 2019


Panel Discussion 3
Non-Traditional Jobs
Location: North 124B (Phoenix Convention Center - West and North Buildings)
Host: Seventh Early Career Professionals Conference
Cochairs: Matt Rogers, Commodity Weather Group, LLC; Bill Burkey, ERM
Panelists: Chris Melhauser, NOAA; Dennis O'Donnell, AvMet Applications, Inc.; Jessica Mackaro, Vaisala; Jillian Whitaker, Commodity Weather Group, LLC
Melhauser, O'Donnell, Mackaro, Whitaker

2:00 PM-3:30 PM: Sunday, 6 January 2019

Recording files available
Session
Session 13A - Integrated Warning Team II: In Their Rainboots
Location: North 121BC (Phoenix Convention Center - West and North Buildings)
Host: 18th Annual Student Conference
Chair: W. Massey Bartolini, Univ. at Albany, SUNY
Speakers: Marty Senterfitt, Florida Keys Emergency Management; Loni Eazell, Los Angeles County County Public Works; Jayme Laber, NOAA/NWS; Mike Stavish, NOAA/NWS; Megan Syner, NOAA/NWS; Barry Goldsmith, NOAA/NWS; Butch Renders; Bruce Monson; Brent Olson; Kirsten Vandeventer; Glenn Jones; Adam Roser, MILLERSVILLE UNIV; Jeral Estupinian, WFO MIAMI
Senterfitt

Eazell

Laber

Stavish

Syner

Goldsmith

Renders

Monson

Olson

Vandeventer

Jones

Roser

Estupinian

2:00 PM
Integrated Warning Team Exercise -- Massey Bartolini

2:00 PM-3:45 PM: Sunday, 6 January 2019


Session
Session 13 - Interactive Sessions
Host: 18th Annual Student Conference

Session
Session 13B - Resume Workshop II: Resume/CV Review
Location: North 122BC (Phoenix Convention Center - West and North Buildings)
Host: 18th Annual Student Conference
Chair: G. Aaron Alexander, Univ. of California
Resume Workshop II: Resume/CV Review


Session
Session 13C - Broadcast Tape Swap
Location: North 124A (Phoenix Convention Center - West and North Buildings)
Host: 18th Annual Student Conference
Chair: Nicholas S. Grondin, Louisiana State Univ.
Broadcast Tape Swap

2:30 PM-3:30 PM: Sunday, 6 January 2019


Newcomer's Welcome and Information Exchange
Location: North 127ABC (Phoenix Convention Center - West and North Buildings)

3:00 PM-3:45 PM: Sunday, 6 January 2019


Presidential Coffee Break and Networking with AMS Professionals
Location: North 124B (Phoenix Convention Center - West and North Buildings)
Cochairs: Jordan Bell, NASA SPoRT; Jared Rennie, North Carolina Institute for Climate Studies
Speaker: Christopher Strager, CICS/North Carolina State University

4:00 PM-5:00 PM: Sunday, 6 January 2019


Plenary Session
Presidential Forum: Building Resilience to Extreme Political Weather: Advice for Unpredictable Times
Location: North Ballroom 120CD (Phoenix Convention Center - West and North Buildings)
Hosts: (Joint between the Presidential Forum and Annual Meeting Welcome; the Seventh Symposium on the Madden-Julian Oscillation and Sub-Seasonal Monsoon Variability; the 16th Conference on Space Weather; the 17th History Symposium; the 20th Conference on Middle Atmosphere; the 22nd Atmospheric Science Librarians International Conference; the 24th Conference on Applied Climatology; the 28th Symposium on Education; the 35th Conference on Environmental Information Processing Technologies; the 23rd Conference on Integrated Observing and Assimilation Systems for the Atmosphere, Oceans, and Land Surface (IOAS-AOLS); the 17th Symposium on the Coastal Environment; the 10th Conference on Weather, Climate, and the New Energy Economy; the Ninth Symposium on Advances in Modeling and Analysis Using Python; the Seventh Symposium on Building a Weather-Ready Nation; the Fifth Symposium on High Performance Computing for Weather, Water, and Climate; the Phased Array Radar Symposium; the Special Symposium on Meteorological Observations and Instrumentation; the Ninth Conference on the Meteorological Application of Lightning Data; the Ninth Symposium on Lidar Atmospheric Applications; the 10th Conference on Environment and Health; the 18th Conference on Artificial and Computational Intelligence and its Applications to the Environmental Sciences; the 19th Conference on Aviation, Range, and Aerospace Meteorology; the 32nd Conference on Climate Variability and Change; the 33rd Conference on Hydrology; the Richard Anthes Symposium; the Special Symposium on Mesoscale Meteorological Extremes: Understanding, Prediction, and Projection; the Second Conference on Earth Observing SmallSats; the Seventh AMS Symposium on the Joint Center for Satellite Data Assimilation; the Ninth Conference on Transition of Research to Operations; the Seventh Symposium on the Weather, Water, and Climate Enterprise; the 11th Symposium on Aerosol–Cloud–Climate Interactions; the 14th Symposium on Societal Applications: Policy, Research and Practice; the 21st Conference on Atmospheric Chemistry; the Fourth Symposium on US-International Partnerships; and the Events )
Moderator: Michael Henry, American Institute of Physics
Presider: Roger Wakimoto, Univ. of California, Los Angeles
Speakers: Dan Kahan, American Institute of Physics; David Goldston, MIT
4:00 PM
Presidential Forum: Building Resilience to Extreme Political Weather: Advice for Unpredictable Times

4:00 PM-6:30 PM: Sunday, 6 January 2019


Presidential Forum and Annual Meeting Welcome
Location: North Ballroom 120CD (Phoenix Convention Center - West and North Buildings)

5:00 PM-6:00 PM: Sunday, 6 January 2019


Plenary Session
Annual Meeting Welcome
Location: North Ballroom 120CD (Phoenix Convention Center - West and North Buildings)
Hosts: (Joint between the Presidential Forum and Annual Meeting Welcome; the Fourth Symposium on US-International Partnerships; the Ninth Conference on the Meteorological Application of Lightning Data; the 16th Conference on Space Weather; the 17th History Symposium; the 20th Conference on Middle Atmosphere; the 22nd Atmospheric Science Librarians International Conference; the 24th Conference on Applied Climatology; the 28th Symposium on Education; the Ninth Symposium on Lidar Atmospheric Applications; the 21st Conference on Atmospheric Chemistry; the 14th Symposium on Societal Applications: Policy, Research and Practice; the 11th Symposium on Aerosol–Cloud–Climate Interactions; the Seventh Symposium on the Weather, Water, and Climate Enterprise; the Ninth Conference on Transition of Research to Operations; the Seventh AMS Symposium on the Joint Center for Satellite Data Assimilation; the Second Conference on Earth Observing SmallSats; the Special Symposium on Mesoscale Meteorological Extremes: Understanding, Prediction, and Projection; and the Events )
Moderator: Roger Wakimoto, Univ. of California, Los Angeles
After the Presidential Forum, please join AMS President Roger Wakimoto for his review of major events from the past year. Each of the AMS Commissioners will give a brief report highlighting the key elements of the many programs and initiatives that are a success owing to the efforts of hundreds of volunteers in the Society. Join us as we introduce and honor the newly elected AMS Fellows and present several featured awards. Jenni Evans will then present her goals and vision for her upcoming year as AMS President.

5:00 PM-6:15 PM: Sunday, 6 January 2019

6:30 PM-7:30 PM: Sunday, 6 January 2019


Welcome Reception Honoring Newly Elected Fellows and Featured Award Winners
Location: North Ballroom (Phoenix Convention Center - West and North Buildings)

6:30 PM-8:30 PM: Sunday, 6 January 2019


AMS Career Fair
Location: Hall 5-6 (Phoenix Convention Center - West and North Buildings)

Student Conference Poster Session
Location: Hall 4 (Phoenix Convention Center - West and North Buildings)

Poster Session
AI and Machine Learning
Location: Hall 4 (Phoenix Convention Center - West and North Buildings)
Host: 18th Annual Student Conference
S1
The Comparison between Rainfall of Typhoon Mangkhut and its Weibo Distribution
Xinyue Li, NO.2 High School of East China Normal University, Shanghai, China
Manuscript (134.3 kB)

S2
Spatiotemporal Topic Modeling and Sentiment Analysis of Global Climate Change Related Tweets
Biraj Dahal, Clemson University, Myrtle Beach, SC; and S. Kumar

S3
A Comparison of Machine Learning Techniques for Convective Morphology Classification from Radar Imagery
Jonathan E. Thielen, Iowa State Univ., Ames, IA; and W. A. Gallus Jr. and A. M. Haberlie

S4
Verification of Hail Forecasts Produced by Machine Learning Algorithms
Sarah McCorkle, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN; and N. Snook and A. McGovern

S5
Classification and Predictive Modeling of Oceanography Data Using Data Mining Techniques
Cassandra Chang, College of William and Mary, Los Angeles, CA; and S. abuomar

S6
Machine Learning Methods to Simulate Wind Energy Availability using New York State Mesonet Data
Aleks Siemenn, Univ. at Albany, SUNY, Albany, NY; and J. M. Covert, R. Perez, and J. M. Freedman


Poster Session
Applied/Operational Meteorology
Location: Hall 4 (Phoenix Convention Center - West and North Buildings)
Host: 18th Annual Student Conference
S7
Text is Data: Making Use of Archived NOAA Text Products
Eric Allen, University of Delaware, Newark, DE

S8
NWS Tornado Warnings: A Regional Analysis
Ronald Kennedy Jr., University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK; and H. E. Brooks and J. Correia Jr.

S9
Evaluating WRF Simulations for Use in an Outage Prediction Model
Trevor Campbell, Plymouth State University, Plymouth, NH; and L. McCarthy and E. G. Hoffman

S10
S11
Developing a Power Outage Prediction Model (OPM) for New Hampshire
Lauren E. McCarthy, Plymouth State University, Plymouth, NH


Poster Session
Atmospheric Chemistry, Aerosols, and Air Quality
Location: Hall 4 (Phoenix Convention Center - West and North Buildings)
Host: 18th Annual Student Conference
S13
Understanding Coastal Ozone Pollution through Atmospheric Soundings and Mobile Measurements
Lance Nino, Cornell Univ., Ithaca, NY; and J. T. Sullivan, R. K. Sakai, A. Flores, J. Dreessen, S. Flynn, T. Berkoff, R. Delgado, and R. M. Stauffer

S14
Evaluating Satellite Detected Tropospheric Ozone Trends above Europe with Ozonesondes
Mia S. Murray, NOAA, Boulder, CO; and O. R. Cooper and A. Gaudel

S15
LISTOS 2018: How Land-Water Interactions Affect Ozone Transport in the Long Island Sound Area
Brennan Stutsrim, SUNY University at Albany, Albany, NY; and E. Joseph, J. Schwab, J. M. Schwab, C. R. Conover, J. Zhang, B. Shrestha, and Y. C. Lin

S16
Determining the sources of high ozone during the 2017 LASIC field campaign using HYSPLIT modeling
Ivan L. Fontanez, University of Puerto Rico at Mayaguez, Mayagüez, PR, Puerto Rico; and G. S. Jenkins
Manuscript (383.3 kB)

S17
Ozone at the Earth’s Surface in the New England Region
Shawn Telesford, New York City College of Technology, Brooklyn, NY; and M. Arend, D. James, and M. Campmier

S18
Investigating the Relationship Between Reactive Nitrogen Species and Ozone in the Wintertime Atmosphere
Julia Goldblatt, University of Washington, Seattle, WA; and J. A. Thornton

S20
Ammonia Measurements From the NSF/NCAR C-130 Research Aircraft Using a TILDAS Spectrometer with Active Passivation During the WE-CAN Campaign
Emily Drew Wein, Colorado State University, Ft. Collins, CO; and I. Pollack, J. Lindaas, and E. V. Fischer

S21
Assessing the Atmospheric Deposition of Phosphorus to the Great Lakes
Sarah Hutchinson, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI; and A. Steiner
Manuscript (27.6 kB)

S22
The Impact of the Bay Breeze on Ammonium Nitrate Formation in the Baltimore-Metropolitan Area
Katherine Ball, University of Maryland, Baltimore County, Baltimore, MD; and N. Balasus, M. Battaglia, C. J. Hennigan, and R. Delgado

S23
Developing an air quality impact index for Camden, New Jersey based on physical and social indicators
Marcel Briguglio, Rowan University, Glassboro, NJ; and M. R. Cangialosi, A. Kalogiratou, and M. Karimi

S24
Quantifying Methane Fluxes over Water in Northeastern PA
Alejandro Manuel Ayala, The Pennsylvania State University, State College, PA; and K. J. Davis and L. Dennis

S26
Nitrogen Trichloride Detection in Indoor Pool Air using Proton Transfer Reaction Mass Spectrometry
Anna Feerick, University of Maryland Baltimore County, Baldwin, MD; and Y. Huangfu and B. T. Jobson

S30
Evaluation of Urban Methane Emissions along the Eastern United States
Chaveli S Miles, Colgate University, Hamilton, NY; and G. Plant, S. Gvakharia, E. Kort, and C. Sweeney

S31
Temporal Variability in Ambient Mercury Concentrations in the Colorado Front Range
Story Schwantes, Colorado College, Colorado Springs, CO

S32
Characterization of Mineral Dust using XRD and Infrared Spectroscopy
Mohammad Reza Sadrian, University of Nevada, Reno, Reno, NV; and W. Calvin and J. Engelbrecht

S33
Aqueous Secondary Organic Aerosol Formation from Acetylene Oxidation in Simulated Clouds
Kristen Lauren Axon, Valparaiso University, Valparaiso, IN; and D. R. Collins, C. Milan, and C. Renaud

S34
Impacts of Phytoplankton Blooms on Sea Spray Aerosol
Claudia M. Althoen, NOAA, Seattle, WA
Manuscript (294.5 kB)

S35
The Efficiency of Ice Nucleating Particle Release Through Sea Spray Aerosols in Various Bubble Sizes
Ruby J Nelson, Univ. of Massachusetts Amherst, Amherst, MA; and K. A. Moore, T. C. J. Hill, P. J. DeMott, and S. M. Kreidenweis

S36
Investigating the Acidity and Liquid Water Content of Atmospheric Particles on the Chesapeake Bay during the OWLETS-2 Campaign
Nicholas Balasus, University of Maryland, Baltimore County, Baltimore, MD; and M. Battaglia, K. Ball, R. Delgado, and C. J. Hennigan
Manuscript (109.8 kB)

S37
Modeling Primary Marine Organic Aerosols
Stephanie Lin, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY; and A. S. Darmenov

S38
Bias Correction for the AIRPACT-5 Model
Nicole June, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA; and J. Vaughan, Y. Lee, and B. Lamb

S39
Applying the Virtual Tall Towers Approach to CO2 Data in the Amazon Basin.
Molly Elizabeth Huber, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY

S40
Application of Atmospheric Transport Models to Implement an Operational Volcanic Hazards Platform for the Caribbean
Sanola Sandiford, Caribbean Institute for Meteorology and Hydrology, St. James, Barbados

S43
Nephelometer Implementation in Microphysical Retrievals of Aerosol Properties
Julianna Posey, University of Maryland, Baltimore County, Baltimore, MD; and R. Delgado

S44
Sources of Pollution and Interrelationships Between Aerosol and Precipitation Chemistry at a California Coastal Site
Hossein Dadashazar, The Univ. of Arizona, Tucson, AZ; and A. Sorooshian and L. Ma

S45
Characterization of Liquid Smoke by Size Distribution and Kappa Values
Alexa Ann Otto, University of North Dakota, Grand Forks, ND; and D. Delene and W. Cantrell

S46
Characterizing 185 nm Irradiance and Alternative Attenuation Methods in Oxidation Flow Reactors
Jake P. Rowe, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA; and A. T. Lambe and W. H. Brune

S47
Influence of Metal Surfaces on the Efficiency of Ice Nucleation
Alexander W Rau, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Lincoln, NE

S48
S49
Wet versus Dry Atomization for Sucrose
Kayla Brown, University of Maryland College Park, College Park, MD; and P. Razafindrambinina and A. Asa-Awuku

S50
Imaginary Refractive Index Spectrum of Hematite: A Novel Determination Using a Nano-Particle Colloid
Megan Rennie, University of Nevada, Reno, NV; and H. Moosmüller

S51
Aerosol and Cloud Interactions over South America During the Next Century
Charley Fite, University of North Carolina at Charlotte, Charlotte, NC

S52
Monitoring Cloud Water Chemistry (including Organics) at Whiteface Mountain
Christopher Lawrence, SUNY, Albany, NY; and S. M. Lance, J. Schwab, D. Kelting, E. Yerger, H. Favreau, P. Casson, and R. Brandt

S53
Volcanic Aerosol Impacts on Big Island Precipitation Development
Tianqi Zuo, Univ. of Hawai'i at Mānoa, Honolulu, HI

S54

Poster Session
Aviation
Location: Hall 4 (Phoenix Convention Center - West and North Buildings)
Host: 18th Annual Student Conference
S56
Abrupt Changes in Wind Conditions at the Memphis International Airport
Nicholas E. Johnson, University of Alabama in Huntsville, Huntsville, AL; and L. D. Carey

S57
Leading-edge Vortices Over Swept-back Wings
William Lambert, Roanoke College, Salem, VA; and M. Stanek, R. Gurka, and E. Hackett


Poster Session
Boundary Layer Meteorology
Location: Hall 4 (Phoenix Convention Center - West and North Buildings)
Host: 18th Annual Student Conference
S58
Spatial Variability in Greenhouse Gas Concentrations over Three Regions in the Eastern US
Marcel Briguglio, Rowan University, Glassboro, NJ; and S. Pal and K. J. Davis

S59
Diurnal and Seasonal Patterns of Carbon Dioxide and its Vertical Structure in the Atmosphere
Morgan Clark, Ohio State University, Columbus, OH; and S. Crowell, E. A. Pillar-Little, P. B. Chilson, X. M. Hu, X. Xiao, J. Basara, and P. Klein

S60
Foliage Canopy Influences on Diurnal Temperatures
Adrianna Kremer, SUNY Brockport, Patchogue, NY

S61
The Influence of Urban Form and Vegetation on Near-Source Dispersion in a Realistic Urban Canopy
Briana M Lynch, University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK; and R. Stoll, A. Christen, W. Mahaffee, and S. T. Salesky

S62
Analysis of Precipitation Characteristics in Marine Boundary Layer Cellular Convective Clouds in the Eastern North Atlantic
Diana K. Apoznanski, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA; and M. P. Jensen, M. J. Bartholomew, V. Ghate, S. E. Giangrande, and K. L. Johnson
Manuscript (70.9 kB)

S63
Large-eddy simulations of a neutral boundary layer: Sensitivity to grid spacing and implications for modeling the lower boundary condition
Aaron Wang, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA; and Y. Pan and P. Markowski


Poster Session
Climate
Location: Hall 4 (Phoenix Convention Center - West and North Buildings)
Host: 18th Annual Student Conference
S66
Surface Heat Flux over Tropical Oceans in AMIP Simulations
Xin Zhou, Florida Institute of Technology, Melbourne, FL; and P. Ray

S68
Simulations of the Optical Properties of Dirty Snow
Jamin Stagg, University of Minnesota-Morris, Morris, MN; and S. Boyd

Handout (1.7 MB)

S69
The Madden-Julian Oscillation moist static energy budget in CMIP5 models
Shannon Bohman, Stony Brook Univ., Stony Brook, NY; and C. DeMott and D. A. Randall

S71
Alteration of hydrological and energy fluxes due to afforestation
Heather Dulaney, Virginia Tech, Williamsburg, VA; and C. E. Forest, J. D. Fuentes, and A. Meija

S72
The Dependence of Indonesia's Precipitation Response to Anthropogenic Aerosols on Emission Location
Flor Vanessa Maciel, UC Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, CA; and G. G. Persad

S77
Heat Fluxes by Planetary-scale Stationary and Transient Eddies before Sudden Stratospheric Warming
Joshua Smith, Morgan State University, Baltimore, MD; and V. Limpasuvan and C. T. Rhodes

S80
Improvements to the NCEI Climate Extremes Index
Emily L. Pauline, Univ. of Georgia, Athens, GA

S83
Trends in Record Breaking Temperatures in Germany
Emily Fletcher, NSF, Lincoln, NE; and C. M. Rowe

S84
Large Scale Observational and Model Analysis of the Unusual 2015-2016 El Niño Event: Implications for California Precipitation
Chelsea E. Snide, University at Albany, Albany, NY; and D. M. Straus and E. T. Swenson
Manuscript (79.6 kB)

S85
Modeling Unsustainable Growth: A multi-cohort dynamic population model and new formula for two-way coupling with climate models
Greta Katherine Easthom, Univ. of Maryland, College Park, College Park, MD; and S. Motesharrei
Manuscript (74.7 kB)

S86
European Urban Heat Islands in a Changing Climate
Alaina Froh, University of Maryland, College Park, MD; and J. Henrikson

S87
Effects of Arctic Sea Ice Loss on Extreme Cold and Blizzard Events in the Mid-Latitudes
Ashton McCormack Collins, Susquehanna University, Selinsgrove, PA

S88
Future Changes in Stratospheric Ozone Intrusions in CESM
Jordan Benjamin, MIT, Cambridge, MA; and A. H. Butler and J. R. Albers

S89
WRF Simulations of the Onset of the 2009 Convective Season in the Southeastern United States
Mary Ruth Brown, East Carolina University, Greenville, NC; and R. Ferreira and T. M. Rickenbach
Manuscript (32.9 kB)

S90
The Influence of Interacting Modes of Climate Variability on North American Precipitation and Temperature
Allison Serakos, University of Minnesota, St. Paul, MN; and P. Snyder and S. Liess

S91
Characterizing and Seasonally Forecasting Damaging Climatic Events Across the Snake River American Viticultural Area
Charles Becker, Boise State University, Boise, ID; and A. N. Flores, D. Wilkins, and N. Glenn

S93
Ocean Impacts on Australian Interannual to Decadal Precipitation Variability
Zachary Johnson, Utah State University, Logan, UT; and Y. Chikamoto, J. J. Luo, and T. Mochizuki


Poster Session
Cloud Physics
Location: Hall 4 (Phoenix Convention Center - West and North Buildings)
Host: 18th Annual Student Conference
S95
Trees, Aerosols, and Clouds
Colby J Fronk, Rochester Institute of Technology, Rochester, NY; and G. Pokrifka, J. Y. Harrington, and J. D. Fuentes
Manuscript (688.6 kB)

Handout (1.4 MB)

S96
Bacteria in Thunderstorm Anvils
Harrison P. Rademacher, Univ. of North Dakota, Grand Forks, ND; and D. J. Delene and A. D. Kennedy

S97
Aerosol-Induced Invigoration Effects in Deep Convection
Amy Yu, Univ. of California, Davis, Davis, CA; and A. L. Igel

S99
The Relative Impact of Ice Fall Speeds and Microphysics Parameterization Complexity on Supercell Evolution
Nicholas Falk, University of California Davis, Davis, CA; and M. R. Igel and A. L. Igel
Manuscript (887.9 kB)

S100
Do Clouds Feel Drag? Insights into Atmospheric Convection
Brett A. McKim, University of California, Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA; and N. Jeevanjee, D. Lecoanet, N. Tarshish, and L. Donner

S101
A Study of Cloud Holes in Stratocumulus Clouds
Ching An Yang, San Jose State University, SAN JOSE, CA; and M. Diao

S104
Microphysical Influences on Ensemble Members in the December 15-16, 2013 OWLeS Case
Jessica P Blair, University at Albany, Albany, NY; and K. Sulia, J. P. Chen, and L. C. Gaudet

S105
Microphysical impact of cloud seeding on wintertime orographic clouds observed during SNOWIE
Melinda Hatt, University of Wyoming, Laramie, WY; and J. R. French

S106
Effects of Air Turbulence on Snowfall
Kristie L Smith, University of Wyoming, Laramie, WY; and A. J. Petersen, Z. Lebo, and F. Coletti


Poster Session
Communication and Education
Location: Hall 4 (Phoenix Convention Center - West and North Buildings)
Host: 18th Annual Student Conference
S107
Addressing the Issue of Completion Rate Among Atmospheric Science Undergraduates
Logan Saucer, Florida International Univ., Miami, FL

Handout (11.1 MB)

S108
Education through the Science On a Sphere.
Matthew B. Hamel, Millersville Univ., Millersville, Pennsylvania, PA

S109
From Weather Wizard to Cloud Man: Education and Outreach with a Fun Approach
Zachary Krauss, Cornell Chapter of the American Meteorological Society, Ithaca, NY

S110
Aspects of Broadcast Meteorology Unique to Students at the University of Oklahoma
Jenna G Warner, The Oklahoma Weather Lab, Norman, OK; and N. M. Rhodes

S111
Bridging the Gap Between Student and Public Education of Climate Forecasting
Leah Hill, Souther Climate Impacts Planning Program, Norman, OK; and J. Cuellar

S112
Color Vision Deficiencies and Weather Communication: A Universally-Accessible, Proof-of-Concept Color Table for Use in Weather Data Displays
Matthew J. Bolton, Saint Leo Univ., Saint Leo, FL; and W. G. Blumberg, H. M. Mogil, and L. K. Ault

S113
'An Analysis of Social Media Usage During Weather Warnings'
Sarah E. Kleinert, Millersville University, Mechanicsburg, PA


Poster Session
Data Assimilation and Numerical Weather Prediction
Location: Hall 4 (Phoenix Convention Center - West and North Buildings)
Host: 18th Annual Student Conference
S114
Building a Multiple Regression Model to Predict Severe Thunderstorms in Upstate New York
Michael Hosek, Hamilton College, Clinton, NY; and B. Kardas, B. Collett, and G. Jones
Manuscript (278.7 kB)

S115
S117
A WRF Sensitivity Study on Optimizing Precipitation Forecasting in an Operational Context
Richard Garmong, University of Georgia, Athens, GA; and P. Miller and J. A. Knox

S118
Analog Forecast Model
Shayna Fever, Univ. of Illinois, Urbana, IL; and E. R. Snodgrass

S120
Evaluating Urban WRF-Solar for Photovoltaic Power Forecasts in New York City
Harold Gamarro, City College of New York, New York, NY; and J. E. Gonzalez and L. Ortiz

S121
Measurement Network Design within the CarbonTracker-Lagrange Inverse Modelling Framework
Isaac Arseneau, Valparaiso University, Valparaiso, IN; and A. Andrews

S122
The Impact of Global Hawk Dropsonde Data Assimilated in both global and regional weather forecast models on 3 Tropical Cyclones during 2017
Miguel Cortez Jr., Univ. of Texas at El Paso, El Paso, TX; and A. C. Kren, L. Cucurull, and R. M. Fitzgerald

S124
The Effectiveness of a Raspberry Pi Cluster to Perform WRF Simulations for Enhancing Computational Resources within the Valparaiso University Meteorology Program
Maxwell Grover, Valparaiso University, Valparaiso, IN; and I. Arseneau, E. Foust, T. Wade, and K. H. Goebbert


Poster Session
Ecosystems and Agriculture
Location: Hall 4 (Phoenix Convention Center - West and North Buildings)
Host: 18th Annual Student Conference
S125
The Dionysus Project: Classifying and Monitoring Vineyards with Satellite Remote Sensing & Image Analysis
Nicole Flores, The New York City College of Technology, Brooklyn, NY; and E. Perez-Flores

S126
Using GIS to show Drought Impacts on North American Agricultural Commodities
Bryan Petersen, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Lincoln, NE; and B. Fuchs, M. J. Hayes, M. D. Brusberg, and D. J. Bathke

S128
Influence of Extreme Weather Disasters on Maize across the Globe during the last several decades
Benjamin Colin Pascal, NOAA, Mount Vernon, NY; and E. Najafi and I. Pal

S129
Using Biochar to Reduce Composting Odor
Jillian C Denison, Rochester Institute of Technology, Rochester, NY; and N. Khosravi and B. T. Jobson

S130
Cook Agronomy Farm Snow Coverage Data Analysis
Isabell Strawn, Washington State University, Pullman, WA; and E. S. Russell and S. Pressley


Poster Session
Extreme Weather Events
Location: Hall 4 (Phoenix Convention Center - West and North Buildings)
Host: 18th Annual Student Conference
S133
A Tale of a Flash Flood: WRF Modeling of Record Rainfall and Flash Flooding in Arizona
Nathaniel J. Bochenek, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical Univ., Prescott, AZ; and D. Ivanova

S134
Open Your Eye to 2018 Super Typhoons in the Western Pacific
Kathryn Lanyon, Berry College, Mount Berry, GA; and J. Sutton

S136
Effect of Extreme Weather Disasters on Global Rice Production
Thierno A Barry, NSF-REU, New York, NY; and E. Najafi and I. Pal

S137
Comparison of GFS and NAM Weather Numerical Prediction Models in Predicting Tornado Outbreaks
Michelle Rose Spencer, Metropolitan State University of Denver, Denver, CO

S138
Heat Wave occurrences over Senegal during Spring :Regionalization and Synoptic Patterns.
Marie Jeanne G. Sambou, Université Cheikh Anta Diop/LPAO-SF, Dakar, Senegal; and S. Janicot, B. Pohl, D. Badiane, A. L. DIENG, and A. T. Gaye


Poster Session
Fire Weather
Location: Hall 4 (Phoenix Convention Center - West and North Buildings)
Host: 18th Annual Student Conference
S139
Tundra Fires in Alaska: A Weather Perspective
James White, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH; and R. Thoman and J. E. Walsh

S140
Can Thunderstorm Forecasts Predict Lightning Ignited Wildfires?
Caitlin M. Ford, University of South Alabama, Mobile, AL; and E. M. Stoppkotte and N. J. Nauslar
Manuscript (186.2 kB)

S141
Climatological Analysis of Historical Southeastern Wildfire
Parker Wade Henry, University of Georgia, Athens, GA

S142
Diablo Winds: Wildfire Impacts, Definition, and Evolution
Brandon T. McClung, UW - University of Washington, Seattle, WA

S143
Verification Analysis of Red Flag Warnings in the Reno, Nevada County Warning Area
Julianna Glinskas, LeTourneau University, Longview, TX; and B. Brong
Manuscript (215.0 kB)


Poster Session
GIS
Location: Hall 4 (Phoenix Convention Center - West and North Buildings)
Host: 18th Annual Student Conference
S144
Mapping and Visualizing Socio-Economic and Environmental Data for the Rio Grande Basin
Jack Dimpsey III, University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK; and J. R. Ziolkowska and R. Reyes

Handout (4.1 MB)

S145
Power Perception: Visibility Analysis in 3D Dynamic Visualization of Landscape Features at Hampton Plantation
Reagan Belk, Mississippi State University, Starkville, MS; and S. Bergeron

S146
A 3D Reconstruction of the South Santee River Flow as Part of the Hampton Plantation Virtual Landscape Project
Poushai Ghosh, Millersville University of Pennsylvania, Upper Darby, PA; and S. Bergeron

S147
Impacts of Land Surface Heterogeneity on Thermodynamic Variables Collected from Unmanned Aircraft Systems: Results from the 2018 LAPSE-RATE Field Campaign
Racine Swick, Oklahoma State University, Stillwater, OK; and A. E. Frazier, B. L. Hemingway, V. Natalie, and J. D. Jacob

S148
Visualization of NOAA Aircraft Data for Hurricane Irma using ArcGIS
Sofia de Solo, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, Daytona Beach, FL; and J. Zawislak, H. Holbach, and I. Sears

S149
Using GIS to Display and Analyze Houston Lightning Mapping Array Data During Hurricane Harvey
Justin D Fierova, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX; and J. R. Spotts and T. Logan


Poster Session
Hydrometeorology
Location: Hall 4 (Phoenix Convention Center - West and North Buildings)
Host: 18th Annual Student Conference
S150
Streamflow Associated with Northeast Tropical Cyclones and Dry Antecedent Conditions in the Connecticut River Watershed
Margo S. Andrews, College of DuPage, Glen Ellyn, IL; and E. M. Fernández and L. B. Avilés

S151
Exploration of USCRN Soil Moisture Observations Across the United States
Anie Shahnazarian, University of Maryland, Baltimore County, Linthicum Heights, MD

S152
Streamflow Associated with Northeast Tropical Cyclones in the Connecticut River Watershed: Wet Antecedent Conditions and Hurricane Irene
Elena M. Fernández, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY; and M. S. Andrews and L. B. Avilés

S154
S155
Freezing Levels and Atmospheric Rivers over the California Feather River Watershed
Julie Cunningham, Plymouth State University, Plymouth, NH

S157
Measuring Greenhouse Gas Fluxes Due to Ebullition in a Freshwater Estuarine Wetland
Taylor L Stephen, University of Maryland, Baltimore County, Baltimore, MD; and J. A. Villa and G. Bohrer

S158
Idealized Modeling of the Impact of Coastal Sea Level on River Flooding
Langston Todd Wood, South Carolina State University, Elgin, SC; and H. Zhang Sr. and S. Bao


Poster Session
Lightning
Location: Hall 4 (Phoenix Convention Center - West and North Buildings)
Host: 18th Annual Student Conference
S159
Using Sferics Detection to Investigate Storm Development & Lightning Safety
Mariama Feaster, Jackson State University, Jackson, MS; and T. Logan

S161

Poster Session
Local Meteorology
Location: Hall 4 (Phoenix Convention Center - West and North Buildings)
Host: 18th Annual Student Conference
S162
Signals in the Urban Soils.
Fatimata Dia, NSF, BRONX, NY

S164
Local-scale water level differences and meteorological drivers in Annapolis, MD
George Davis, U.S. Naval Academy, Annapolis, MD; and A. R. Davies and J. P. Smith

S165
An Analysis of Thunderstorm Intensity Trends in the Mississippi Delta Region
Nabindra Gyawali, University Of Louisiana Monroe, Monroe, LA

S166
Identifying Sea and Bay Breeze Driven Convection and Common Locations for Initiation in Mobile County, Alabama
Samantha Elizabeth Darring, University Of South Alabama, Mobile, AL; and S. Kimball

S167
Variability of the Urban Heat Island in Raleigh, NC
Ronak N. Patel, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC; and S. E. Yuter and M. A. Miller

S168
The Effect of Ground Terrain on Sacramento Valley Supercells
Ameya S Naik, Mira Loma High School, Sacramento, CA

S169
The Response of Chlorophyll to Mesoscale Eddies in the Eastern South China Sea
Jin Liu, Zhejiang University, Zhoushan, China; and Y. Yuan, Y. Wang, and J. Dai

S170
Analyzing the Diurnal Cycle of Urban Land Surface Temperature using Satellite Remote Sensing and in-situ Application
Makini Valentine, New York City College of Technology, Brooklyn, NY; and J. Ginchereau, C. A. Beale, H. Norouzi, and R. Blake

S171
Air Mass Typing of Precipitation Events in the Northeastern Lower Peninsula of Michigan
Kayla Lemke, Central Michigan University, Mount Pleasant, MI; and D. B. Kluver


Poster Session
Mesoscale Meteorology
Location: Hall 4 (Phoenix Convention Center - West and North Buildings)
Host: 18th Annual Student Conference
S172
Examining Terrain Effects on the 31 May 1998 Mechanicville, New York Supercell and Tornado
Luke Justin LeBel, SUNY, Albany, NY; and B. Tang and R. Lazear

S173
Analyzing the Role of a Long-Lived Mesoscale Convective Vortex in Mesoscale Ensemble Analyses of the 24 August 2016 Indiana-Ohio-Ontatio Tornado Outbreak
John Cole, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN; and M. Asel, S. Harrel, D. T. Dawson II, and M. E. Baldwin

S174
Cold pool Observations Linking Depth and the Environment (COLDE)
Stephanie Marie Eilts, University of Illinois, Urbana, IL; and R. Trapp

S175
Topographical Influences on a Subtropical South American Mesoscale Convective System
Christiaan Patterson, University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK; and Z. S. Bruick and K. L. Rasmussen

S176
The Effects of the Black Hills on Linear Mesoscale Convective Systems
Krystal Kossen, South Dakota School of Mines & Technology, Rapid City, SD; and A. J. French

S178
A Comparison of Tornadic and False Alarm Convective Cells in the Outer Rainbands of Hurricane Harvey
Rebekah Cheatham, University of South Alabama, Mobile, AL; and C. J. Nowotarski and M. Brown

S179
Effects of changing land use on simulated convective systems in the Florida panhandle
Francesca M. Lappin, Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL; and H. E. Fuelberg

S180
WUDAPT Land Use Classification of Spokane, WA for Urban WRF Model
Alexander Schmies, Washington State Univeristy, Pullman, WA; and A. C. Fernandez and Y. Lee
Manuscript (208.8 kB)

S181
Motion Characteristics of Propagating Cloud-Eroding Boundaries in the Subtropical Southeast Atlantic
Lindsay Hochstatter, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC

S182
Analyzing Cold Pool Depths in Thunderstorms During Summer Months of 2018
Alexandra V Escobar, Univ. of Illinois, Urbana, IL


Poster Session
Mountain Meteorology
Location: Hall 4 (Phoenix Convention Center - West and North Buildings)
Host: 18th Annual Student Conference
S183
How Often Vertical Air Mass Transitions Occur in Association with Ridges on Mount Washington During 2017-2018 Winter
Anna Smith, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY; and C. Connolly and E. P. Kelsey

S184
How Often Vertical Air Mass Transitions Occur in Association with Ridges on Mount Washington During the 2017-2018 Fall Season
Charlotte Connolly, Ohio University, Springfield, OH; and A. Smith and E. P. Kelsey
Manuscript (1.9 MB)

S185
Collecting, Quantifying, and Characterizing Surface Convective Energy Fluxes on Mount Washington Summit
Sarah Thunberg, Mount Washington Observatory, North Conway, NH; and G. S. Mooers

S186
North Atlantic Oscillation Impact on Mount Washington Summit Weather
Simon G. Wachholz, Mount Washington Observatory, North Conway, NH

S187
Analysis of the Froude Number during a Cold Air Damming Scenario in the Appalachian Region
Grant Carlton, Millersville University, Millersville, PA; and B. Rinaldi, M. Dellandre, and N. Kriston


Poster Session
Observations and Instrumentation
Location: Hall 4 (Phoenix Convention Center - West and North Buildings)
Host: 18th Annual Student Conference
S188
Development at the University of North Dakota of a Digital Thermosonde Instrument for the Study of Atmospheric Optical Turbulence
Blake Sorenson, Univ. of North Dakota, Grand Forks, ND; and D. Delene, M. Mullins, and K. Foerster

S189
Testing Advancements in InterMet Radiosonde Communications and Performance
Lance Belobrajdic, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX; and J. E. Marble, K. Tucker, L. Blind-Doskocil, R. Eldridge, E. Sherman, and D. T. Conlee

S190
Spectroscopically Based Measurements of Atmospheric Nitrogen Dioxide (NO2): Improvements to a Broadband Cavity Enhanced Spectrometer
Maurice Roots, Hampton University, Hampton, VA; and S. S. Brown, M. Robinson, C. Womack, and R. Washenfelder

S192
Undergraduate Research Training on New Remote Sensors for Air Quality and Meteorological Monitoring
Kyle Ehmann, Millersville University, Millersville, PA; and D. Seavey and R. D. Clark

S193
An Inter-Model Comparison of Gridded Meteorological Datasets in Montana
Colin Brust, University of Montana, Missoula, MT; and K. Jencso, M. Sweet, and K. Bocinsky

S194
Validation of Mobile Mesonet Pressure Observations
Ivy C MacDaniel, Austin Peay State University, Clarksville, TN; and S. E. Fredrickson and S. Waugh

S195
Analysis of Solar Insolation and Solar Energy Production at an Oklahoma Mesonet Site
Zuleydian Roche-Rivera, National Weather Center REU Program, Norman, OK; and C. Fiebrich and K. A. Brewster
Manuscript (60.8 kB)

S196
Merging Satellite-Based Precipitation Estimates and Rain Gauge Measurements over Saudi Arabia
Raied Alharbi Sr., University of California, Irvine, CA; and K. Hsu and S. S. Sorooshian

S197
Evaluation of National Weather Service Radar Hail Detection Outputs
Corrine N. DeCiampa, University of North Carolina at Charlotte, Charlotte, NC; and I. M. Giammanco

S198
Sedimentary Organic Matter Dynamics at a High-Energy Beach
Desirae vess, Columbia College, Gray Court, SC; and A. Hannides

S199
HF Radar and Near-Shore Buoy Ocean Wave Measurement
Siena Dante, NOAA, New York, NY

S200
Unique Observations of a Meso-Low during Florida Sea-Breeze Convection, as seen from various Mobile Platforms
Shealynn Cloutier Bisbee, Embry Riddle Aeronautical Univeristy, Daytona Beach, FL; and S. M. Milrad


Poster Session
Polar Meteorology
Location: Hall 4 (Phoenix Convention Center - West and North Buildings)
Host: 18th Annual Student Conference
S201
Validating Antarctic Pressure Reconstructions Using Historical Expedition Data
Connor P. Belak, Ohio Univ., Athens, OH; and R. L. Fogt

S202
S203
Impacts of Extreme Blocking over Greenland
Erin McDonnell, U.S. Naval Academy, Annapolis, MD; and M. Henry, G. R. Henderson, and B. S. Barrett

S205
Improving the GEOS-Chem Model to Better Predict Ozone Concentrations in the Arctic.
Kaitlyn Confer, Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL; and C. Holmes


Poster Session
Probability and Statistics
Location: Hall 4 (Phoenix Convention Center - West and North Buildings)
Host: 18th Annual Student Conference

Poster Session
Radar Meteorology
Location: Hall 4 (Phoenix Convention Center - West and North Buildings)
Host: 18th Annual Student Conference
S206
'High Spatiotemporal Resolution Observations of the Dissipation of a Violent Tornado on 9 May 2016 Near Sulphur, Oklahoma'
Katherine E. McKeown, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY; and M. M. French, H. B. Bluestein, and Z. B. Wienhoff

S207
Generation of Z-R Relationships for the Island of Barbados
Kashawn K. S. Hall, Caribbean Insitute for Meteorology and Hydrology, Saint James, Barbados; and S. A. Boyce

S208
Investigating Humidity Gradient Detection Using Bragg Scatter
Breecia L. Crawford, East Central University, Ada, OK; and A. D. Byrd and J. E. Ruyle

S209
Distribution and Characteristics of Deep Convective Clouds using CloudSat and CALIPSO
Samantha Nebylitsa, SUNY, Stony Brook, NY; and A. D. Rapp

S210
A Comprehensive Analysis of Tornadic Debris Signatures Associated with Significant Tornadoes from 2010-2017
Samuel W. Emmerson, University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK; and S. E. Nelson
Manuscript (630.9 kB)


Poster Session
Satellite Meteorology
Location: Hall 4 (Phoenix Convention Center - West and North Buildings)
Host: 18th Annual Student Conference
S211
'Analysis of Freeze and Thaw Dates in High Mountain Asia using Satellite Remote Sensing'
Khaing Hsu Wai, NOAA, New York, NY; and J. Chiu, T. Lakhankar, and N. Krakauer

S212
Determining the Ability to Use Direct Broadcast System (DBS) Data to Forecast Severe Weather
Anthony DiNorscia, Hampton University, Hampton, VA; and W. L. Smith Sr. and J. W. C. McNabb

S213
Investigating LEO Sounder Retrieval Product Variations at GEO Temporal and Spatial Resolution
James F Anheuser, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI; and E. Weisz and P. Menzel

S214
Analysis of Tornado Damage Tracks from April 27, 2011 in West-Central Alabama Using Hyperspectral Imagery
Maxwell Grover, Valparaiso University, Valparaiso, IN; and B. Liang and A. C. Czarnetzki

S215
Observing Hail Swaths Using the GOES-16 Advanced Baseline Imager
Dillon V. Blount, Univ. of South Alabama, Mobile, AL; and P. N. Schumacher and K. Gallo

S216
Stratospheric Air Intrusions and Rapid Cyclogenesis over the North Pacific: Case Studies Winter 2017-2018
Deirdre Dolan, University of Maryland, College Park, New Market, MD; and M. J. Folmer, L. J. Phillips, and J. M. Sienkiewicz

S217
Geolocation Correction of Satellite Precipitation Estimates Using a Radar-Gauge Product
Edgar Gomez, NYCCT NSF CREST, Brooklyn, NY; and A. Rodriguez and K. Tesfagiorgis


Poster Session
Social Science
Location: Hall 4 (Phoenix Convention Center - West and North Buildings)
Host: 18th Annual Student Conference
S218
Reliance on Information Sources during Hurricane Irma: a Survey of Pinellas County, Florida
Robert van der Drift, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC; and J. Collins and R. Ersing

S219
S221
Surveying the Tropical Cyclone Forecast/Advisory (TCM) with NWS Partners
Ayesha Wilkinson, NCAS, Howard University, Washington, D.C.; and J. L. Schauer


Poster Session
Space Weather
Location: Hall 4 (Phoenix Convention Center - West and North Buildings)
Host: 18th Annual Student Conference
S223
Geomagnetic Indexes, Overlapping Magnetic Cycles, and Prediction: What is Solar Minimum?
Mia Mancuso, New York Univ., Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates; and S. McIntosh

S224
Analysis of Citizen Science Aurora Data Collected by Aurorasaurus in 2017
Sara Housseal, Millersville University, Millersville, PA


Poster Session
Synoptic Meteorology
Location: Hall 4 (Phoenix Convention Center - West and North Buildings)
Host: 18th Annual Student Conference
S225
Temporal and Spatial Frequency of Warm-Season Stationary Fronts in the United States
Peyton K. Capute, Univ. at Albany, SUNY, Albany, NY; and J. O. Piersante, N. D. Metz, and E. G. Hoffman

S226
Temporal Distribution of Flooding WWAs Associated With Warm-Season Stationary Fronts East of the Rockies
Shelby Turner, North East Partnership for Atmospheric and Related Sciences, Villa Grove, IL

S227
A Climatology of Atmospheric Rivers in the Northeastern United States
Anna Kaminski, University of Wisconsin Milwaukee, Milwaukee, WI; and M. Duncan, N. D. Metz, and J. M. Cordeira

S228
A Climatology of Integrated Water Vapor Transport in the Northeast and its Relationship to Atmospheric Rivers
Megan Duncan, Plymouth State Univ., Plymouth, NH; and A. Kaminski, N. D. Metz, and J. M. Cordeira

S229
Climatology of False Springs in Western Michigan's Fruit Growing Region
Woodrow Ferris Unruh, Central Michigan University, Mount Pleasant, MI

S230
North Pacific Precursors to a Multi-Day Severe Weather Outbreak over the United States
Darby Johnson, Hobart and William Smith Colleges, Geneva, NY; and N. D. Metz, H. M. Archambault, and L. Bosart

S231
Mid-South Tornado Pattern Classification, Synoptic Scale
Anna Wanless, NOAA, Silver Spring, MD


Poster Session
Tropical Meteorology
Location: Hall 4 (Phoenix Convention Center - West and North Buildings)
Host: 18th Annual Student Conference
S233
Isolating the Thermodynamic Response of Tropical Convection to Column Moisture
Hrag Najarian, University California Davis, Davis, CA; and M. R. Igel
Manuscript (254.2 kB)

S234
Variations in Pacific Tropical Cyclone Sizes and Precipitation in a GCM
Brandon K. Cohen, Univ. of Louisiana Monroe, Monroe, LA; and R. Korty

S236
Changes in the Tropical Cyclone Steering Flow Along the U.S. Southeast and Gulf Coasts
Rafal Ogorek, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI; and S. K. Miller and D. W. Titley

S237
Sources of Variability in the Timing of the Rainy Season over Monsoonal Regions
James Goodnight, Texas A&M University, Raleigh, NC; and R. Bombardi

S238
Thermodynamic and Kinematic Properties of Isolated Convective Cells in the Rainband Region of Atlantic Tropical Cyclones
Peyton Barlow, Univ. of South Alabama, Mobile, AL; and S. Sangster and W. D. Terwey

S239
Developing and non-developing African easterly waves and large-scale environment over the eastern Atlantic
Bantwale Diress Enyew, North Carolina A&T State Univ., Greensboro, NC

S241
Annapolis’s Hurricane History: A Study of The Sensitivity of Impacts (flooding, wind) to Storm Intensity and Approach Vector
Lindsey R Wan, U.S. Naval Academy, Annapolis, MD; and B. S. Barrett and A. R. Davies

S242
Impacts of Sea Surface Temperature Gradients on Rapid Weakening in the Eastern North Pacific
B. Matthew Holliday, Mississippi State Univ., Mississippi State, MS; and K. M. Wood

S243
The Impact of High-Resolution Terrain Data in WRF Simulations of Hurricane Maria (2017)
Nathalie G. Rivera-Torres, University of Puerto Rico at Mayagüez, Mayagüez, PR; and F. Judt and J. Done

S244
Impacts of sea surface temperatures on 2017 hurricanes
María Morales, University of Puerto Rico at Mayaguez, Mayaguez, PR, United States Minor Outlying Islands; and X. Chen and F. Zhang
Manuscript (75.9 kB)

S245
Influence of the Madden-Julian Oscillation on the Gulf Stream
Keely Martin, U.S. Naval Academy, Annapolis, MD; and B. S. Barrett and A. R. Davies

S246
Orographic Influences on Tropical Cyclone Tracks in the Vicinity of Taiwan
Jared Milano, SUNY, Albany, NY; and M. J. Yang
Manuscript (80.3 kB)

Handout (1.6 MB)

S247
Constraints in Dvorak Windspeed Estimates: How Quickly Can Tropical Cyclones Intensify?
Samuel Sangster, Univ. of South Alabama, Mobile, AL; and C. Landsea

S248
The Phenomenal Intensification of Hurricane Maria (2017)
Shanice Whitehall, Caribbean Institute of Meteorology and Hydrology (CIMH), Bridgetown, Barbados; and C. Brathwaite, K. A. Caesar, M. Mayers-Als, R. Chewitt, and A. Sealy

S249
A Detailed Dataset of Surface Winds Over Puerto Rico from a WRF Simulation of Hurricane Maria (2017)
Jimmy Yun Ge, Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science, Miami, FL

S250
Case Study of a Long-Lived African Easterly Wave Leading to a Hurricane in the Eastern Pacific
Clay Alexander Chaney, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC; and M. Rehnberg

S251
Tropical Cyclones in the NASA GEOS-5 Model and MERRA-2 Reanalysis
Zoe Aarons, Bowdoin College, Brunswick, ME; and S. J. Camargo, J. D. O. Strong, and H. Murakami


Poster Session
Winter Weather
Location: Hall 4 (Phoenix Convention Center - West and North Buildings)
Host: 18th Annual Student Conference
S252
'Composite Analysis of Snow-Water Equivalence Ratios in Great Plains Mid-Latitude Winter Cyclones'
Patrick T. Beaty, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Lincoln, NE; and M. R. Anderson

S253
A Case Study Analysis of Heavy Snowfall Events and Road Weather Implications in 2018 in Nebraska
Nancy Barnhardt, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Lincoln, NE; and M. R. Anderson

S254
Environmental Controls on Banded Versus Cellular Organization of Mesoscale Snow Squalls in Western South Dakota
Leanna Bender, South Dakota School of Mines and Technology, Rapid City, SD; and A. J. French

S255
Characteristics of the Best and Worst HRRR Forecasts for Banded Snow Over the Past 3 Winters
Alex R. Smith, Central Michigan Univ., Bartlett, IL; and M. A. Baxter and J. T. Radford

S257
Analysis of Thundersnow Mixed-phase Regions in the New England Nor’Easters of March 2018
Adam C Batz, Central Michigan University, St Johns, MI; and D. B. Kluver

S258
Analyzing the Evolution of Winter Storm Environments
Emily D. Lenhardt, Univ. of Oklahoma, Norman, OK; and E. R. Martin

S259
High-resolution Spatial and Temporal Observations of Generating Cells and Velocity Waves in Colorado Snowstorms
Daniel M. Hueholt, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC; and S. Yuter, M. A. Miller, and P. C. Kennedy

S260
Influence of Atmospheric Stability on PM2.5 Concentration in three Geographical Regions in the Northern Hemisphere
Thishan Dharshana Karandana Gamalathge, University of Nevada-Reno, Reno, NV; and M. Green

7:00 PM-9:30 PM: Sunday, 6 January 2019

8:00 PM-10:00 PM: Sunday, 6 January 2019


CoRioLis Reception
Location: Sheraton Hotel

8:30 PM-10:00 PM: Sunday, 6 January 2019


Colour of Weather Networking Reception
Location: Sheraton Hotel

9:00 PM-11:00 PM: Sunday, 6 January 2019


Early Career Professional Reception
Location: Encanto B (Sheraton Hotel )

Early Career Professionals Reception
Location: Encanto B (Sheraton Hotel )
Cochairs: Rebecca DePodwin, AccuWeather, Inc.; Morgan Brown Yarker, Yarker Consulting; Jared Rennie, North Carolina Institute for Climate Studies

Monday, 7 January 2019

7:30 AM-6:00 PM: Monday, 7 January 2019


AMS Information Desk (Monday)
Location: North 100 Level Prefunction (Phoenix Convention Center - West and North Buildings)

Quiet Room (Monday)
Location: West 206 (Phoenix Convention Center - West and North Buildings)

Registration (Monday)
Location: North Lower Level Prefunction (Phoenix Convention Center - West and North Buildings)

Speaker Ready Room (Monday)
Location: North 121A (Phoenix Convention Center - West and North Buildings)

8:00 AM-9:00 AM: Monday, 7 January 2019


Guest Welcome Desk
Location: Meeting room foyers (Phoenix Convention Center - West and North Buildings)

8:30 AM-9:00 AM: Monday, 7 January 2019


Session 1
Opening Remarks
Location: North 129A (Phoenix Convention Center - West and North Buildings)
Host: 10th Conference on Weather, Climate, and the New Energy Economy

8:30 AM-10:00 AM: Monday, 7 January 2019

Recording files available
Session 1
2018 Hurricane, Cyclone, and Typhoon Season: Session I
Location: North Ballroom 120CD (Phoenix Convention Center - West and North Buildings)
Host: 15IMPACTS: Major Weather Events and Impacts of 2018
Cochairs: Klaus Wolter, CIRES, Univ. of Colorado Boulder; Tanja E. Fransen, NOAA/NWS; Thomas Bedard, AccuWeather Enterprise Solutions; Owen H. Shieh, Joint Typhoon Warning Center
8:30 AM
1.1
2018 Supertyphoons: A Comparison of Precipitation Estimates across the Western Pacific
Jessica Sutton, Berry College, Mount Berry, GA; and V. Lakshmi and K. Lanyon
9:15 AM
1.3
Recording files available
Session 1
AI Techniques Applied to Environmental Science
Location: North 124B (Phoenix Convention Center - West and North Buildings)
Host: 18th Conference on Artificial and Computational Intelligence and its Applications to the Environmental Sciences
Chair: Carlos F. Gaitan, ClimateAI
8:30 AM
1.1
Machine Learning Classification to Inform the Search Space Extension Variant for the Analog Ensemble Technique
Laura Clemente-Harding, Engineer Research and Development Center, Alexandria, VA; and W. Hu, G. S. Young, G. Cervone, S. Haupt, and L. Delle Monache

9:00 AM
1.4
Lightning Nowcasting with Multisource Data: A Deep Learning Approach
Kanghui Zhou, National Meteorological Center of China, Beijing, China
9:15 AM
1.5
Recording files available
Session 1
Adapting to Climate Challenges: Reports from the American Southwest
Location: North 228AB (Phoenix Convention Center - West and North Buildings)
Host: 10th Conference on Environment and Health
Cochairs: David M. Hondula, Arizona State Univ.; Sheila Steinberg, Arizona State Univ.
8:45 AM
1.2
Nature's Cooling Systems: Community Built Heat Action Planning
Melissa Guardaro, Arizona State Univ., Tempe, AZ; and D. M. Hondula, M. Messerschmidt, and N. Grimm
9:00 AM
1.3
Adapting to Climate Extremes in Arizona: Utilizing a Monitoring and Evaluation Framework to Implement and Improve Climate and Health Interventions
Matthew C. Roach, Arizona Department of Health Services, Phoenix, AZ; and D. M. Hondula, H. Brown, E. Barrett, D. Carr, C. Hill, and V. Berisha
9:15 AM
1.4
A Path to Building Partnerships for Addressing the Effects of Climate Change on Community Health
Jessica Bell, Maricopa County Department of Public Health, Phoenix, AZ; and K. Goodin, V. Berisha, and J. White
9:30 AM
1.5
Heatready Phoenix: A Comprehensive Framework for Addressing Extreme Heat
Michael Hammett, City of Phoenix, Phoenix, AZ; and D. M. Hondula, P. M. Chakalian, M. Guardaro, M. Hartman, L. C. Kurtz, K. Peters, R. Quay, C. Redman, C. Stotler, K. Waller, and A. Zafaranlou
9:45 AM
1.6A
Hot Spots for Heat Resilience in Border Cities
Gregg M. Garfin, The Univ. of Arizona, Tucson, AZ; and S. LeRoy, P. Juarez-Carrillo, J. Vanos, A. Monteblanco, and H. Jones
Recording files available
Joint Session 1
Advances in CubeSats and SmallSats to Improve Earth Science, Weather Forecasting, Space Weather Prediction, Hydrology Studies, or Climate Monitoring—Part I
Location: North 230 (Phoenix Convention Center - West and North Buildings)
Hosts: (Joint between the Ninth Conference on Transition of Research to Operations; the Second Conference on Earth Observing SmallSats; and the 15th Annual Symposium on New Generation Operational Environmental Satellite Systems )
Cochairs: Martin Yapur, NOAA/NESDIS/Office of Projects, Planning and Analysis; Robert Bauer, NASA Earth Science Technology Office
8:30 AM
J1.1
NASA CYGNSS Mission Science Highlights
Derek J. Posselt, JPL, Pasadena, CA; and C. S. Ruf, R. Atlas, N. L. Baker, D. Burrage, J. A. Crespo, J. T. Johnson, T. J. Lang, M. Moghaddam, E. D. Maloney, D. McKague, M. Morris, Z. Pu, E. M. Riley Dellaripa, and D. E. Waliser
9:00 AM
J1.3
RainCube, the First Spaceborne Precipitation Radar in a 6U CubeSat: From Concept to Mission
Simone Tanelli, JPL, Pasadena, CA; and E. Peral, T. Imken, S. Statham, J. Sauder, D. Price, N. Chahat, S. S. Joshi, and A. Williams
9:15 AM
J1.4
Status of the CubeSat Radiometer Radio Frequency Interference Technology Validation (CubeRRT) Mission
Chris Ball, Ohio State Univ., Columbus, OH; and C. C. Chen, C. McKelvey, G. Smith, M. Andrews, A. O'Brien, L. Garry, J. Johnson, S. Misra, R. Jarnot, S. Brown, R. Bendig, C. Felten, J. Kocz, D. Bradley, P. Mohammed, J. Lucey, K. Horgan, Q. Bonds, C. Duran-Aviles, M. Solly, M. Fritts, J. R. Piepmeier, M. Pallas, E. Krauss, and D. Laczkowski
9:30 AM
J1.5
Temporal Experiment for Storms and Tropical Systems Technology Demonstration (TEMPEST-D) 6U CubeSat Mission: Initial Results and Potential for Earth Science
Steven C. Reising, Colorado State Univ., Fort Collins, CO; and T. C. Gaier, S. T. Brown, S. Padmanabhan, C. Kummerow, V. Chandrasekar, C. Heneghan, B. H. Lim, W. Berg, R. Schulte, C. Radhakrishnan, and M. Pallas
9:45 AM
J1.6
Tropospheric Water and Cloud ICE (TWICE) 6U CubeSat Instrument to Enable Observations of Cloud Ice Particle Size and Water Vapor Sounding in the Upper Troposphere and Lower Stratosphere
Steven C. Reising, Colorado State Univ., Fort Collins, CO; and M. Ogut, Y. Goncharenko, B. Kilmer, P. Kangaslahti, E. Schlecht, X. Bosch-Lluis, J. Jiang, A. Skalare, R. Cofield, N. Chahat, S. Padmanabhan, S. T. Brown, W. Deal, A. Zamora, K. Leong, S. Shih, and G. Mei

Recording files available
Session 1
Advancing Observations, Data Assimilation, and Modeling for Improved Prediction
Location: North 131AB (Phoenix Convention Center - West and North Buildings)
Host: 23rd Conference on Integrated Observing and Assimilation Systems for the Atmosphere, Oceans, and Land Surface (IOAS-AOLS)
Cochairs: Sharan Majumdar, University of Miami; Ross Hoffman, AOML
9:00 AM
1.3
Big Data Assimilation: Past 5 Years and Perspectives for the Future
Takemasa Miyoshi, RIKEN, Kobe, Japan; and S. Otsuka, T. Honda, G. Y. Lien, Y. Maejima, Y. Yoshizaki, H. Seko, H. Tomita, S. Satoh, T. Ushio, T. V. Martsinkevich, B. Gerofi, and Y. Ishikawa
9:15 AM
1.4
9:30 AM
1.5
Coupled Ocean–Atmosphere Assimilation for NWP at ECMWF
Philip Browne, ECMWF, Reading, United Kingdom; and P. de Rosnay

Session 1
CANCELED: National and International Efforts and Partnerships Such as Community Global Modeling: Next Generation Global Prediction System (NGGPS) and Beyond. Improvements, Key Components: Part I
Location: North 232C (Phoenix Convention Center - West and North Buildings)
Host: Ninth Conference on Transition of Research to Operations
Cochairs: Vijay Tallapragada, NOAA/NWS/NCEP/EMC; Hendrik Tolman, NOAA/NWS/NCEP/EMC
8:30 AM
1.1
The Next Generation Global Prediction System (NGGPS) Program Update
Fred Toepfer, NOAA/Office of Science and Technology Integration, Silver Spring, MD; and H. L. Tolman, I. Stajner, and V. Tallapragada

9:15 AM
1.3
NGGPS FV3GFS Development for Q2FY19 Operational Implementation
Fanglin Yang, NOAA, College Park, MD; and V. Tallapragada

9:30 AM
1.5
Microphysics Schemes in FV3GFS
Ruiyu Sun, NOAA/NWS/NCEP/EMC and IMSG, College Park, MD; and F. Yang, V. Tallapragada, A. Cheng, J. S. Kain, G. Thompson, and S. Moorthi

Recording files available
Session 1
Coupled Forecasting of Extreme Weather and Coastal Flood Events: Part I
Location: North 130 (Phoenix Convention Center - West and North Buildings)
Host: 17th Symposium on the Coastal Environment
Cochairs: Ali Abdolali, UCAR/NOAA/NWS/NCEP/EMC; Saeed Moghimi, UCAR
8:30 AM
1.1
Coupling the National Water Model to the Coastal Ocean for Predicting Water Hazards
Brian Blanton, Univ. of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC; and R. Luettich, C. Dawson, and J. G. Fleming
8:45 AM
1.2
Impact of Sea Level Variation on Coastal River Flooding Caused By Extreme Rainfalls
Hongyuan Zhang Sr., Coastal Carolina Univ., Myrtle Beach, SC; and S. Bao

9:15 AM
1.4
Coupling Physical Hazard and Evacuation/Sheltering Models: Overview and Application to Hurricane Matthew with and without Inland Flooding Considerations
Randall L. Kolar, Univ. of Oklahoma, Norman, OK; and K. M. Dresback, R. Davidson, B. Blanton, B. A. Colle, T. Wachtendorf, L. Nozick, H. Vergara, Y. Hong, K. Yang, S. DeYoung, and N. Leonardo

9:30 AM
1.5
Coupling 3D Ocean Baroclinicity into 2D Depth-Integrated Coastal Ocean Models
William Pringle, Univ. of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, IN; and J. Westerink
9:45 AM
1.6
Coupling Current, Waves, and Wind Stress over the Gulf Stream
Qi Shi, Michigan Tech Univ., Houghton, MI; and M. A. Bourassa
Recording files available
Session 1
Economic Engines: Economic Value of Earth Observation Powered by Economists and Earth Scientists—Your Data Are Worth More Than You May Ever Realize
Location: North 222AB (Phoenix Convention Center - West and North Buildings)
Host: Seventh Symposium on the Weather, Water, and Climate Enterprise
Chair: Michael Fox, Raytheon
8:30 AM
1.1
Economic Forcing of Convective Precipitation
Atanacio Luna, Pluvinergy, Las Vegas, NV
8:45 AM
1.2
9:15 AM
1.4
Assessing the Consequence of Enterprise Risk upon the NOAA Services for Risk Management
Matthew L. Austin, NOAA/NESDIS/OPPA/Technology, Planning and Integration for Observations, Silver Spring, MD; and D. Helms

9:30 AM
1.6
Just Add Weather: Effective Use of Weather Intelligence in a Business Context
David Gold, IBM, Houston, TX; and S. Wysmuller, R. D'Arienzo, and C. Reese
9:45 AM
Bethany Mabee
Recording files available
Joint Panel Discussion 1
Emerging Needs, Opportunities, and Careers in Climate Information Services: Key Sector Perspectives
Location: North 221C (Phoenix Convention Center - West and North Buildings)
Hosts: (Joint between the Seventh Symposium on the Weather, Water, and Climate Enterprise; and the 28th Symposium on Education )
Moderator: Marjorie McGuirk, CASE Consultants International
Panelists: Rolf Olsen, American Society of Civil Engineers; Ladd Keith, American Planning Association; Mohammed Mahmoud, Water Utility Climate Alliance; Alberto Troccoli, World Energy and Meteorology Council; Michelle McClure, Northwest Fisheries Science Center
Olsen, Keith, Mahmoud, Troccoli, McClure
Marjorie McGuirk, CASE Consultants International, Asheville, NC
Recording files available
Panel Discussion 1
Federal Agency Budgets for Weather, Water, and Climate: A Guide to Current Proposals and Recent Shifts
Location: North 226C (Phoenix Convention Center - West and North Buildings)
Host: 14th Symposium on Societal Applications: Policy, Research and Practice
Moderators: Paul Higgins, AMS Policy Program; Michael Henry, American Institute of Physics
Panelists: Paul Higgins, AMS Policy Program; Michael Henry, American Institute of Physics; Kei Koizumi, AAAS; Michael Clark, Executive Office of the President; Blaise Sheridan, Senate Appropriations Subcommittee on Commerce, Justice, Science, and Related Agencies; Robert F. Bonner, Minority Staff, House Committee on Appropriations
8:30 AM
Introductory Remarks
9:00 AM
Discussion

Recording files available
Session 1
History of NOAA, NWS, and Related Topics
Location: North 222C (Phoenix Convention Center - West and North Buildings)
Host: 17th History Symposium
Chair: William Henneberg, Commodity Weather Group, LLC
8:30 AM
1.1
The National Weather Service at 150: The Legacy Projects
Gregory Romano, NWS, Silver Spring, MD

8:45 AM
1.2
The NOAA Climate and Global Change Program
Kenneth Mooney, NOAA, Silver Spring, MD; and J. Huang

Handout (12.3 MB)

9:00 AM
1.3
The Development and Success of NCEP's Global Forecast System
Environmental Modeling Center, EMC, College Park, MD; and K. Campana, P. Caplan, D. J. Halperin, B. Lapenta, S. Lilly, Y. Lin, A. B. Penny, S. Saha, V. Tallapragada, G. H. White, J. S. Woollen, and F. Yang
Manuscript (2.7 MB)

Handout (909.2 kB)

9:15 AM
1.4
A 10-Year History of Improving Gridded Forecasting in the National Weather Service (NWS) Central Region
Andrew Just, NWS, Kansas City, MO; and J. R. Wiedenfeld and C. Greif

Recording files available
Session 1
Lidar Applications in Focused Field Campaigns such as PECAN, PERDIGAO, CPEX, NAAMES, OWLETS, etc.
Location: West 211A (Phoenix Convention Center - West and North Buildings)
Host: Ninth Symposium on Lidar Atmospheric Applications
Cochairs: John E. Yorks, NASA; Catharine E. Bunn, Montana State Univ.
8:30 AM
1.1
Planning for LOTOS: A New Lower Tropospheric Observing System
Tammy M. Weckwerth, NCAR, Boulder, CO; and S. P. Oncley, B. B. Stephens, W. O. J. Brown, A. Rockwell, W. C. Lee, T. Hock, and V. Grubišić
8:45 AM
1.2
Observing PBL Structures around Storms with Airborne Raman Lidar
Zhien Wang, Univ. of Colorado, Boulder, CO; and L. Guo and B. Geerts
9:00 AM
1.3
9:15 AM
1.4
Spatial Heterogeneity in the Convective Boundary Layer Depth Observed during HI-SCALE
Rob Newsom, PNNL, Richland, WA; and K. Sakaguchi, L. K. Berg, and J. D. Fast
9:30 AM
1.5
Lidar and Aircraft Profiling of Ozone above the Central San Joaquin Valley during the California Baseline Ozone Transport Study (CABOTS)
A.O. Langford, NOAA/ESRL/Chemical Sciences Division, Boulder, CO; and R. J. Alvarez II, G. Kirgis, C. J. Senff, D. Caputi, S. A. Conley, I. Faloona, L. T. Iraci, J. E. Marrero, M. E. McNamara, J. M. Ryoo, E. L. Yates, and S. Baidar

9:45 AM
1.6
SAVANT: A Field Campaign for the Stable Boundary Layer
April L. Hiscox, Univ. of South Carolina, Columbia, SC; and J. Wang, D. A. R. Kristovich, E. G. Patton, J. Sun, W. O. Brown, N. J. Sokol, A. R. Desai, G. W. Petty, and C. J. Nappo
Recording files available
Session 1
Lightning Observations for Tropical Environments and Severe Weather
Location: North 225AB (Phoenix Convention Center - West and North Buildings)
Host: Ninth Conference on the Meteorological Application of Lightning Data
Chair: Geoffrey T. Stano, NASA/SPoRT/ENSCO, Inc.
8:30 AM
1.1
Investigating the Diurnal Cycle of Lightning in Tropical Cyclones
Kristen L. Corbosiero, Univ. at Albany, SUNY, Albany, NY; and S. N. Stevenson and S. D. Ditchek
9:15 AM
1.4
Incorporating GLM Lightning Observations at the National Hurricane Center
Stephanie N. Stevenson, CIRA/NHC, Miami, FL; and M. DeMaria
9:30 AM
1.5
The Probability of Severe Weather in Storms in Which Most Cloud-to-Ground Flashes Lower Positive Charge
D. R. MacGorman, NOAA/OAR/NSSL, Norman, OK; and A. Eddy, C. R. Homeyer, E. Williams, and K. M. Calhoun
9:45 AM
1.6
How Did Updraft Variations in the Geary Supercell Influence Local Electrification?
Vanna C. Chmielewski, NSSL, Norman, OK; and D. R. MacGorman, M. I. Biggerstaff, D. P. Betten, and C. L. Ziegler
Recording files available
Session 1
MJO/BSISO and Convection over the Maritime Continent
Location: North 232AB (Phoenix Convention Center - West and North Buildings)
Host: Seventh Symposium on the Madden-Julian Oscillation and Sub-Seasonal Monsoon Variability
Cochairs: Scott W. Powell, Colorado State Univ.; Maria Flatau, NRL
8:45 AM
1.2
Role of the Diurnal Cycle of Land Convection in the Barrier Effect on the MJO by the Maritime Continent
Chidong Zhang, Univ. of Miami and NOAA/PMEL, Seattle, WA; and J. Ling

9:00 AM
1.3
The Diurnal Cycle of Column Water Vapor over Sumatra
Giuseppe Torri, Univ. of Hawai'i at Mānoa, Honolulu, HI; and D. K. Adams and Z. Kuang

9:30 AM
1.5
The Relationship between the Boreal Summertime Madden–Julian Oscillation and Tropical Deep Convection
Benjamin A. Toms, Colorado State Univ., Fort Collins, CO; and S. C. van den Heever, E. Riley Dellaripa, S. M. Saleeby, and E. D. Maloney
Recording files available
Themed Joint Session 1
Mind the Gap: Preparing Students for Careers in the Private Sector
Location: North 229AB (Phoenix Convention Center - West and North Buildings)
Hosts: (Joint between the 28th Symposium on Education; the Seventh Symposium on the Weather, Water, and Climate Enterprise; and the 10th Conference on Weather, Climate, and the New Energy Economy )
Cochairs: Andrea L. Lang, University at Albany, SUNY; Lawrence Gloeckler III, Riskpulse
Panelists: Joshua Darr, JLT Re; Robert W. Carver, Loon, LLC; Heidi Centola, Board of Enterprise Economic Development; Paul J. Roebber, Univ. of Wisconsin; Amanda Adams, NSF; Jason C. Furtado, Univ. of Oklahoma
Darr, Carver, Centola, Roebber, Adams, Furtado
Andrea L. Lang, University at Albany, SUNY, Albany, NY
Recording files available
Session 1
Space Weather and Society: Education and Communication
Location: North 227A-C (Phoenix Convention Center - West and North Buildings)
Host: 16th Conference on Space Weather
Chair: Elsayed Talaat, NOAA/NESDIS
8:30 AM
1.1
VIIRS–Aurora–SatCam Citizen Science Project
William Straka, Univ. of Wisconsin–Madison, Madison, WI; and M. Mooney, L. Gumley, D. Parker, and B. Flynn
8:45 AM
1.2
Space Weather Certification Program
Michael Cook, Space Weather Operations Center and Apogee Engineering, Omaha, NE; and T. Skov and R. Clark
9:00 AM
1.3
9:30 AM
1.4
Training the Next Generation of Space Weather Professionals through Coordinated Educational Efforts between Government and Academia
Teresa Nieves-Chinchilla, NASA GSFC, Greenbelt, MD; and A. Chulaki, R. M. Robinson, M. Kuznetsova, and Y. Collado-Vega
9:45 AM
1.5
Graduate, Undergraduate, and Professional Education in Space Weather at the University of Colorado Boulder
Steven Cranmer, Univ. of Colorado Boulder, Boulder, CO; and T. E. Berger, C. Raftery, and J. P. Thayer
Recording files available
Session 1
Special Session on JPSS Series Satellite System—Part I
Location: North 231AB (Phoenix Convention Center - West and North Buildings)
Host: 15th Annual Symposium on New Generation Operational Environmental Satellite Systems
CoChair: Nadia Smith, Science and Technology Corporation
8:30 AM
1.1
The Evolution of Joint Polar Satellite System: How Polar Satellites Transformed Weather Forecasting
Mitchell D. Goldberg, NOAA/NESDIS/JPSS, Lanham, MD; and A. Layns, B. Sjoberg, and S. S. Nandi
9:00 AM
1.2
The Promise of JPSS
Dave Jones, StormCenter Communications, Inc., Halethorpe, MD
9:15 AM
1.3
Monitoring the Kilauea Eruption with Next Generation Meteorological Satellites
Michael J. Pavolonis, NOAA, Madison, WI; and J. Sieglaff and J. L. Cintineo

9:30 AM
1.4
Maturity of Sensor Data Records from NOAA-20 (JPSS-1)
Satya Kalluri, NOAA/NESDIS/STAR, College Park, MD; and C. T. Beck, C. Cao, Q. Liu, and L. Zhou

9:45 AM
1.5
CSPP LEO: Open Source Polar Orbiter Satellite Software in Support of Environmental Decision-Makers
Kathleen I. Strabala, Univ. of Wisconsin/CIMSS, Madison, WI; and L. E. Gumley, A. Huang, S. Mindock, J. Davies, G. Cureton, N. Bearson, G. Martin, R. Garcia, and J. Braun
10:00 AM
Advanced Planning and System Architectures for Next Generation Weather Enterprise, Ground Architecture -- Scott Kern
10:15 AM
Wildfire smoke in Metropolitan areas -- Amy Huff
Recording files available
Session 1
State-of-the-Art Physical Science Aspects of Mesoscale Extreme Events—Part I
Location: North 221AB (Phoenix Convention Center - West and North Buildings)
Host: Special Symposium on Mesoscale Meteorological Extremes: Understanding, Prediction, and Projection
Cochairs: Thomas Galarneau, The Univ. of Arizona; Gretchen Mullendore, Univ. of North Dakota
Introductory Remarks
Thomas Galarneau, The Univ. of Arizona, Tucson, AZ; and G. Mullendore

9:00 AM
1.2A
Sensitivity of High-Impact Extratropical Cyclones to Mesoscale Water Vapor Structure
James D. Doyle, NRL, Monterey, CA; and C. A. Reynolds and C. M. Amerault
9:15 AM
1.3
9:30 AM
1.4
Recording files available
Session 1
The ORACLES, CLARIFY, AEROCLO-Sa, and LASIC Field Campaigns in the Southeast Atlantic—Part I
Location: North 223 (Phoenix Convention Center - West and North Buildings)
Host: 11th Symposium on Aerosol–Cloud–Climate Interactions
Cochairs: Paquita Zuidema, Univ. of Miami/RSMAS; Robert Wood, Univ. of Washington; Jim Haywood, Met Office; Paola Formenti, Laboratoire Interuniversitaire des Systemes Atmospheriques
8:30 AM
1.1
The Aerosols, Radiation and Clouds in Southern Africa (AEROCLO-sA) Field Campaign in Namibia: Objectives, Research Highlights, and Way Forward (Invited Presentation)
Paola Formenti, Laboratoire Interuniversitaire des Systemes Atmospheriques, Creteil, France; and B. D'Anna, C. Flamant, M. Mallet, S. Piketh, K. Schepanski, and F. Waquet
8:45 AM
1.2
Clarify-2017: Aerosol-Direct Radiative Forcing Measurements and Modeling from the Microscale to the Continental Scale
Jim Haywood, Met Office/Univ. of Exeter, Exeter, United Kingdom; and B. T. Johnson, P. Francis, J. Langridge, K. Szpek, C. Fox, M. Cotterell, A. Jones, F. Peers, N. Davies, J. Taylor, and H. Coe
9:15 AM
1.4
Biomass Burning Plumes in the Vicinity of the California Coast: Airborne Characterization of Physicochemical Properties and Spatiotemporal Features
Ali Hossein Mardi, The Univ. of Arizona, Tucson, AZ; and H. Dadashazar, A. MacDonald, R. Braun, E. C. Crosbie, P. Xian, M. M. Coggon, M. A. Fenn, R. A. Ferrare, J. W. Hair, R. K. Woods, H. H. Jonsson, R. Flagan, J. H. Seinfeld, and A. Sorooshian
9:30 AM
1.5
The Influence of Biomass Burning Aerosols on Stratocumulus Clouds over the Southeast Atlantic
Sampa Das, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center/NASA Postdoctoral Program–Universities Space Research Association, Greenbelt, MD; and D. Harshvardhan and P. R. Colarco
9:45 AM
1.6
WRF Simulations of Episodes of Stratocumulus Clearing over the Southeast Atlantic
Laura M. Tomkins, Univ. of Kansas, Lawrence, KS; and D. B. Mechem, S. E. Yuter, M. A. Miller, and S. R. Rhodes
Recording files available
Session 1
Transport and Mixing in the Upper Troposphere and Stratosphere—Part I
Location: West 212A (Phoenix Convention Center - West and North Buildings)
Host: 20th Conference on Middle Atmosphere
Cochairs: Eric A. Ray, CIRES; Rei Ueyama, NASA
8:30 AM
1.1
8:45 AM
1.2
The Impact of Boreal Summer ENSO Events on Tropical Lower Stratospheric Ozone
Olga V. Tweedy, USRA/NASA Postdoctoral Program, Greenbelt, MD; and D. Waugh, W. J. Randel, M. Abalos, L. D. Oman, and D. E. Kinnison
9:00 AM
1.3
Future Changes in Stratospheric Ozone Intrusions
Jordan Benjamin, MIT, Cambridge, MA; and A. H. Butler and J. R. Albers
9:15 AM
1.4
Ozone Depleting Substances: Key Drivers of Past and Future BDC Trends
Marta Abalos, Univ. Complutense, Madrid, Spain; and L. Polvani and L. Wang
9:30 AM
1.5
Modeling Clouds and Water Vapor in the Upper Tropical Troposphere
Mark R. Schoeberl, Science and Technology Corporation, Columbia, MD; and D. Barahona, H. B. Selkirk, E. J. Jensen, R. Ueyama, L. Pfister, A. E. Dessler, T. Wang, and H. Ye

9:45 AM
1.6
Impact of Convectively Detrained Ice Crystals on the Tropical Upper Troposphere and Lower Stratosphere
Rei Ueyama, NASA, Moffett Field, CA; and E. J. Jensen, L. Pfister, and M. R. Schoeberl
Recording files available
Session 1
Weather Guidance to Support Unmanned Aerial System (UAS) Operations
Location: North 224B (Phoenix Convention Center - West and North Buildings)
Host: 19th Conference on Aviation, Range, and Aerospace Meteorology
Cochairs: Cecilia Miner, n/a; Jenny Stewart, Univ. of the Incarnate Word
8:30 AM
1.1
9:00 AM
1.2
Are We Ready to Weather Urban Air Mobility (UAM)?
Colleen Reiche, Booz Allen Hamilton, Washington, DC; and F. Brody, C. McGillen, and N. Mendonca
9:15 AM
1.3
Making UAS Weather Intelligent with AERO
Eric Babyak, NextGen Federal Systems, LLC, Morgantown, WV; and C. Desai
9:30 AM
1.4
Targeted Weather Forecasts for Small Unmanned Aircraft Systems
Christopher A. Roseman, Univ. of Colorado Boulder, Boulder, CO; and B. Argrow and J. O. Pinto
9:45 AM
1.5
Recording files available
Session 1
Working With Large Datasets Using Python
Location: North 129B (Phoenix Convention Center - West and North Buildings)
Host: Ninth Symposium on Advances in Modeling and Analysis Using Python
Chair: Scott Collis, Argonne National Laboratory
8:30 AM
Welcoming Remarks
Scott Collis, Argonne National Laboratory, Argonne, IL
9:15 AM
1.2
Integrated Cloud and High-Performance Computing Platform for Interactive Analysis of ARM Data
Spencer Hills, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, TN; and J. Kumar, Z. Price, and A. Clodfelter
9:30 AM
1.3
Simplified Forecast-Model-Run-Collection Use and Analysis Using PyFerret
Karl Smith, Pacific Marine Environmental Laboratory, Seattle, WA; and A. Manke

9:45 AM
1.4
Objective Analysis of Scanning Radar Observations in Python
Zachary Sherman, Argonne National Laboratory, Lemont, IL; and S. Collis, R. Jackson, A. Medendorp, M. Oue, P. Kollias, R. A. Warren, and J. S. Soderholm
Recording files available
Session 1A
Atmospheric Rivers—Part I
Location: North 121BC (Phoenix Convention Center - West and North Buildings)
Host: 32nd Conference on Climate Variability and Change
Chair: Samson Hagos, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
8:30 AM
1A.1
Tracking Atmospheric Rivers Globally: Spatial Distributions and Life Cycle Evolutions
Bin Guan, Univ. of California, Pasadena, Pasadena, CA; and D. E. Waliser

8:45 AM
1A.2
Atmospheric Rivers Life Cycles: Climatology and Interannual Variability
Yang Zhou, Stony Brook University, SUNY, Stony Brook, NY; and H. Kim
9:00 AM
1A.3
9:15 AM
1A.4
Observed Water Vapor Budget in an Atmospheric River over the Northeast Pacific
Joel R. Norris, SIO/Univ. of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA; and F. M. Ralph, R. Demirdjian, and F. Cannon
9:30 AM
1A.5
What Makes an Atmospheric River Dusty?
Kara Voss, SIO/Univ. of California, La Jolla, CA; and A. Evan, L. Campbell, K. A. Prather, and F. M. Ralph
9:45 AM
1A.6
The Relationship between Extratropical Cyclone Strength and Atmospheric River Intensity and Position
Zhenhai Zhang, SIO/Univ. of California, La Jolla, CA; and F. M. Ralph and M. Zheng
Recording files available
Session 1A
Hydrometeorological Extremes I
Location: North 127ABC (Phoenix Convention Center - West and North Buildings)
Host: 33rd Conference on Hydrology
Cochairs: Konstantinos Andreadis, JPL; Eleonora Demaria, USDA–ARS; Daniel Rodriguez, Instituto Alberto Luiz Coimbra de Pós-Graduação e Pesquisa de Engenharia, Univ. Federal do Rio de Janeiro; John McHenry, Baron Advanced Meteorological Systems
9:00 AM
1A.3
Methods for Calculating a Standardized Streamflow Index Using the Drought Risk Atlas
Curtis J. Riganti, National Drought Mitigation Center, Lincoln, NE; and B. Fuchs and M. Svoboda

9:15 AM
1A.4
An Overview of Current Research on Rapidly Intensifying Flash Droughts
Jason A. Otkin, Univ. of Wisconsin–Madison, Madison, WI; and M. Svoboda, T. Ford, J. Basara, J. I. Christian, E. D. Hunt, M. C. Anderson, and C. Hain
9:30 AM
1A.5
Regional Characteristics of Flash Droughts across the United States
Jordan I. Christian, Univ. of Oklahoma, Norman, OK; and J. B. Basara, J. A. Otkin, and E. D. Hunt
9:45 AM
1A.6
Environmental Contributors to the Development, Expansion, and Intensification of the 2012 Central United States Flash Drought
Jeffrey B. Basara, Univ. of Oklahoma, Norman, OK; and J. I. Christian, J. Otkin, R. A. Wakefield, E. D. Hunt, R. Bajgain, and X. Xiao
Recording files available
Session 1A
Regional Air Quality—Part I
Location: North 124A (Phoenix Convention Center - West and North Buildings)
Host: 21st Conference on Atmospheric Chemistry
Chair: Jeffrey L. Collett Jr., Colorado State Univ.
CoChair: Leiming Zhang, ECCC
8:30 AM
1A.1
Modeling Atmospheric Transport of Perfluorinated Alkyl Substances from Chemours Facilities Using CALPUFF View
Anjelica V.P. Moreno, The Ohio State Univ., Columbus, OH; and A. A. May and J. L. Thé
8:45 AM
1A.2
Preliminary Measurements of Aerosol Concentration and Composition in Palapye, Botswana
William Lassman, Colorado State Univ., Fort Collins, CO; and J. R. Pierce, E. Bangs, G. Mengistu Tsidu, J. Sherman, J. L. Collett Jr., and S. Bililign
9:00 AM
1A.3
Characterization of Aerosol Composition, Aerosol Acidity and Organic Acid Partitioning at an Agriculture-Intensive Rural Southeastern U.S. Site
Theodora Nah, City Univ. of Hong Kong, Kowloon, Hong Kong; and H. Guo, A. P. Sullivan, Y. Chen, D. J. Tanner, A. Nenes, A. G. Russell, N. L. Ng, L. G. Huey, and R. J. Weber
9:15 AM
1A.4
Evaluation and Improvement of Dry Deposition Algorithms
Leiming Zhang, ECCC, Toronto, Canada; and Z. Wu and Z. He
9:30 AM
1A.5
Simulation of Ammonia Concentration Profiles and Fluxes in and above a Deciduous Forest Canopy in the Southern Appalachians
RIck Saylor, NOAA/OAR/ARL/ATDD, Oak Ridge, TN; and Z. Wu, J. T. Walker, X. Chen, D. B. Schwede, and A. C. Oishi

9:45 AM
1A.6
Estimating Sources, Sinks, and Fluxes of Reactive Nitrogen and Sulfur within a Forest Canopy Using Eulerian and Lagrangian Inverse Models
Zhiyong Wu, EPA, Research Triangle Park, NC; and J. T. Walker, X. Chen, A. C. Oishi, and T. Duman

Recording files available
Session 1A
Resilience, Communication, and Decision Support for Extreme Events—Part I
Location: North 131C (Phoenix Convention Center - West and North Buildings)
Host: 35th Conference on Environmental Information Processing Technologies
Cochairs: Larry E. Brazil, Riverside Technology, Inc.; George Smith, Riverside Technology, Inc.
Paper 1A.1 has been moved. New paper number is 2.2A.

8:30 AM
1A.1A
Targeted Dust Storm Warnings Implemented
Ken R. Waters, NWS Forecast Office, Phoenix, AZ; and A. Horvitz and K. Drozd

9:15 AM
1A.4
A Subseasonal Forecast Index Focused on the Risk of Extremes
Richard P James, Prescient Weather Ltd., State College, PA; and J. D. Ross, J. A. Dutton, and J. Dutton
9:30 AM
1A.5
NASA GES DISC’s Analytic Service for Extreme Weather Events from MERRA-2
Suhung Shen, NASA GSFC/GES DISC, Greenbelt, MD; and D. Ostrenga, E. Sherman, J. Wei, F. Fang, B. Vollmer, and D. Meyer
Recording files available
Session 1B
Climate Sensitivity
Location: North 122BC (Phoenix Convention Center - West and North Buildings)
Host: 32nd Conference on Climate Variability and Change
CoChair: Walter Robinson, North Carolina State Univ.
8:30 AM
1B.1
Potency of Greenhouse Molecules
William A. van Wijngaarden, York Univ., Toronto, Canada; and W. Happer
8:45 AM
1B.2
Investigating the Climate Sensitivity Differences between CESM1 and CESM2
Cecile Hannay, NCAR, Boulder, CO; and J. T. Bacmeister, R. B. Neale, A. Gettelman, and M. Zhang
9:00 AM
1B.3
Sensitivity of Regional Climate Models to GCM Equilibrium Climate Sensitivity
Linda O. Mearns, NCAR, Boulder, CO; and M. S. Bukovsky and T. Rendfrey
9:15 AM
1B.4
9:30 AM
1B.5
A New Approach to Air Temperature Analysis
Ana Žaknić-Ćatović, Univ. of Toronto, Scarborough, Toronto, Canada; and W. A. Gough

Handout (1.7 MB)

9:45 AM
1B.6
Diurnal Temperature Variability: An Observations–Climate Model Intercomparison
Jamin K. Rader, Univ. of Washington, Seattle, WA; and K. B. Karnauskas
Recording files available
Session 1B
Greenhouse Gases Oral—Part I
Location: North 126A (Phoenix Convention Center - West and North Buildings)
Host: 21st Conference on Atmospheric Chemistry
Chair: Abhishek Chatterjee, GSFC
Cochairs: Scott Denning, Colorado State Univ.; Berrien Moore III, National Weather Center/Univ. of Oklahoma; Sean Crowell, Univ. of Oklahoma
8:30 AM
1B.1
Measuring Boundary Layer CO2 with Unmanned Aerial System
Elinor R. Martin, Univ. of Oklahoma, Norman, OK; and E. Pillar-Little, P. B. Chilson, G. Britto Hupsel de Azevedo, and S. Baschky
8:45 AM
1B.2
Measurements of the Vertical Structure of Carbon Dioxide in the Atmospheric Boundary Layer and the Atmospheric Surface Layer Using UAS
Elizabeth A. Pillar-Little, Center for Autonomous Sampling and Sensing (CASS), Norman, OK; and G. Britto Huspel de Azevedo, S. Baschky, E. R. Martin, and P. B. Chilson
9:00 AM
1B.3
Frontal Gradients in CO2 as Seen from OCO-2
Sean Crowell, Univ. of Oklahoma, Norman, OK; and Q. Wang and X. M. Hu
9:15 AM
1B.4
CO2 Dynamical Downscaling in 2016 over the Contiguous United States Using WRF-VPRM, a Weather-Biosphere-Online-Coupled Model
Xiao-Ming Hu, Univ. of Oklahoma, Norman, OK; and Q. Wang, S. Crowell, Y. Zhang, M. Xue, X. Xiao, B. Moore III, J. Digangi, and K. J. Davis
9:30 AM
1B.5
Urban Land Cover Type Influences CO2 Fluxes within Phoenix, Arizona
Eli Rafael Pérez Ruiz, Arizona State Univ., Tempe, AZ; and E. R. Vivoni and N. Templeton
9:45 AM
1B.6
Using the Refined-Mesh Ocean-Land-Atmosphere-Model (OLAM) to Quantify Expected Carbon Dioxide Variations Across Urban Landscapes
Andrew Schuh, Colorado State Univ., Fort Collins, CO; and M. J. Otte, R. Walko, T. Oda, and L. Ott
Recording files available
Session 1B
Services Update
Location: North 132ABC (Phoenix Convention Center - West and North Buildings)
Host: 35th Conference on Environmental Information Processing Technologies
Cochairs: Randall Bass, FAA; Scott Jacobs, NOAA/NWS
8:30 AM
Opening Remarks

9:00 AM
1B.2
Transforming the Met Office for the Future
Andrew Stephen Kirkman, UKMO, Exeter, United Kingdom

9:15 AM
1B.3
9:30 AM
1B.4
Naval Meteorology and Oceanography Commander's Update
John Okon, Naval Meteorology and Oceanography Command and Oceanographer of the Navy, Stennis Space Center, MS
9:45 AM
1B.5
U.S. Air Force Weather Service Update
Ralph O. Stoffler, U.S. Air Force, Washington, DC
Recording files available
Session 1B
Snow Processes and Melt Detection through Remote Sensing, Modeling, and Data Assimilation
Location: North 126BC (Phoenix Convention Center - West and North Buildings)
Host: 33rd Conference on Hydrology
Cochairs: Elias J. Deeb, Cold Regions Research and Engineering Lab; Carrie Vuyovich, Cold Regions Research and Engineering Lab; John B. Eylander, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers
8:30 AM
1B.1
Snow–Vegetation Interactions and Artifacts in Coordinated Remote Sensing and Ground Observation Studies
Christopher A. Hiemstra, Cold Regions Research and Engineering Lab, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Fort Wainwright, AK; and L. Brucker, H. P. Marshall, and K. Elder
8:45 AM
1B.2
9:00 AM
1B.3
CREST-SAFE Field Experiment: Comparison and Validation Remote Sensing Observations of Snow Surfaces
Tarendra Lakhankar, NOAA-CREST, New York, NY; and P. Romanov and R. Khanbilvardi
9:30 AM
1B.5
Satellite Detection of Snowmelt Events for Improving Spring Flood Forecasts in the Red River of the North Basin
Ronny Schroeder, Univ. of New Hampshire, Durham, NH; and S. Kraatz, J. M. Jacobs, B. A. Connelly, and M. M. DeWeese
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Session 1C
Tropical Climate Variability and Change—Part I
Location: North 128AB (Phoenix Convention Center - West and North Buildings)
Host: 32nd Conference on Climate Variability and Change
CoChair: Robert Korty, Texas A&M Univ.
8:30 AM
1C.1
Recent Tropical Expansion: Natural Variability or Forced Response?
Kevin M. Grise, Univ. of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA; and S. M. Davis, I. R. Simpson, D. W. Waugh, Q. Fu, R. J. Allen, K. H. Rosenlof, C. C. Ummenhofer, K. B. Karnauskas, A. C. Maycock, X. W. Quan, T. Birner, and P. W. Staten
8:45 AM
1C.2
9:00 AM
1C.3
Response of Hadley Circulation to Warming and Sensitivity to Physical Parameters
Kathleen A. Schiro, JPL, Pasadena, CA; and H. Su, Y. Wang, B. Langenbrunner, J. Jiang, and J. D. Neelin
9:15 AM
1C.4
Changes in the Global Divergent Overturning Circulation, Including the Hadley, Walker, and Monsoon Circulations
Gilbert P. Compo, CIRES/Univ. of Colorado Boulder and NOAA/ESRL/Physical Sciences Division, Boulder, CO; and P. D. Sardeshmukh

9:30 AM
1C.5
Energy Budget Theory for Interannual Shifts of the South Pacific Convergence Zone
William Boos, Univ. of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, CA; and B. Lintner and R. Korty
9:45 AM
1C.6
Barrier Layers in E3SMv1 and Their Relationship with Atmosphere Model Biases
J. E. Jack Reeves Eyre, The Univ. of Arizona, Tucson, AZ; and X. Zeng and M. Brunke
Recording files available
2
The Other Uncertainty: Social, Political, and Cultural Forms of Uncertainty in Weather Contexts. Part I
Location: North 226AB (Phoenix Convention Center - West and North Buildings)
Hosts: (Joint between the 14th Symposium on Societal Applications: Policy, Research and Practice; the Seventh Symposium on the Weather, Water, and Climate Enterprise; and the Seventh Symposium on Building a Weather-Ready Nation )
Moderator: Heather Lazrus, NCAR
Panelists: Joe Trainor, University of Delaware; Robyn Wilson, The Ohio State University/Associate Professor of Risk Analysis and Decision Science; Melissa Bica, University of Colorado Boulder; Scott Knowles, Drexel University
8:30 AM
Introductory Remarks

9:45 AM
Panel Discussion

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Panel Discussion 4
Student and Early Career Discussion on Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion with Dr. Marcia McNutt.
Location: North 231C (Phoenix Convention Center - West and North Buildings)
Host: Seventh Early Career Professionals Conference
Cochairs: Susan A. Jasko, California University of Pennsylvania; Elizabeth McGiffin, KTVL-TV CBS10; Jared Rennie, North Carolina Institute for Climate Studies
Moderator: Susan A. Jasko, California University of Pennsylvania
Panelists: Marcia McNutt, President, National Academy of Sciences; Kevin Petty, Vaisala; Ankur R. Desai, Univ. of Wisconsin–Madison; Brooke Bingaman, NWS
McNutt, Petty, Desai, Bingaman

9:00 AM-10:00 AM: Monday, 7 January 2019

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Session 2
Department of Energy Projects
Location: North 129A (Phoenix Convention Center - West and North Buildings)
Host: 10th Conference on Weather, Climate, and the New Energy Economy
Cochairs: Justin Sharp, Sharply Focused LLC; David D. Turner, NOAA Earth System Research Laboratory
9:00 AM
2.1
The National Solar Radiation Data Base: Version 3 (1998−2017)
Manajit Sengupta, National Renewable Energy Laboratory, Golden, CO; and A. Habte, Y. Xie, A. Lopez, J. Shelby, M. J. Foster, and A. Heidinger
9:15 AM
2.2
Modeling of Spectral Irradiance in the POA Using GOES Satellite Data
Yu Xie, National Renewable Energy Laboratory, Golden, CO; and M. Sengupta
9:30 AM
2.3
A Turbulence Library for Asynchronous Coupling of Meso- and Microscale Models
Gökhan Sever, ANL, Argonne, IL; and R. Kotamarthi and Y. Feng
9:45 AM
2.4
Operational Probabilistic Tools for Solar Uncertainty
Aidan Tuohy, Electric Power Research Institute, Palo Alto, CA; and D. B. Kirk-Davidoff

9:00 AM-11:00 AM: Monday, 7 January 2019


Guest Coffee (Monday)
Location: Camelback A (Sheraton Hotel )

9:00 AM-7:30 PM: Monday, 7 January 2019


Poster Hall (Monday)
Location: Hall 4 (Phoenix Convention Center - West and North Buildings)

10:00 AM-10:30 AM: Monday, 7 January 2019


AM Coffee Break (Monday)
Location: Meeting room foyers (Phoenix Convention Center - West and North Buildings)

10:00 AM-6:00 PM: Monday, 7 January 2019


Member Services Desk (Monday)
Location: North Lower Level Prefunction (Phoenix Convention Center - West and North Buildings)

10:30 AM-11:00 AM: Monday, 7 January 2019

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Session 2
Transport and Mixing in the Upper Troposphere and Stratosphere—Part II
Location: West 212A (Phoenix Convention Center - West and North Buildings)
Host: 20th Conference on Middle Atmosphere
Cochairs: Eric A. Ray, CIRES; Rei Ueyama, NASA

10:30 AM-11:45 AM: Monday, 7 January 2019

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Session 1
Reducing Risk and Building Resilience through Collaborative and Interdisciplinary Agroecosystem Networks
Location: North 224A (Phoenix Convention Center - West and North Buildings)
Host: 24th Conference on Applied Climatology
Chair: Mark D. Brusberg, USDA
10:30 AM
Discussion

11:00 AM
1.3
San Diego County Ecosystems: Ecological Impacts of Climate Change on a Biodiveristy Hotspot
Megan Jennings, San Diego Sate Univ., San Diego, CA; and D. Cayan, J. Kalansky, A. Pairis, D. M. Lawson, A. D. Syphard, U. Abeysekera, R. E. S. Clemesha, K. Guirguis, A. Gershunov, J. M. Randall, E. D. Stein, and S. Vanderplank
11:15 AM
1.4
Identifying the Impact of 2016–17 Southern Great Plains Wildfires and Their Antecedent Conditions on Ecological Health and Recovery
Shelby Robertson, Grazinglands Research Laboratory, USDA, El Reno, OK; and D. P. Brown, J. Steiner, S. Teet, J. Wang, J. Wetter, X. Wu, and X. Xiao

11:30 AM
1.5
Assessing and Responding to the Impact of 2016–18 Wildfires on Agricultural Systems in the Southern Great Plains
David P. Brown, USDA, El Reno, OK; and L. Kos, M. O. Mattox, C. Pope, S. Pope, S. Robertson, M. A. Shafer, J. Steiner, S. Teet, J. Wang, J. Wetter, and X. Xiao

10:30 AM-12:00 PM: Monday, 7 January 2019


Session 1
Active Learning Demonstrations from the Atmospheric Sciences
Location: North 229AB (Phoenix Convention Center - West and North Buildings)
Host: 28th Symposium on Education
Cochairs: Daria B. Kluver, Central Michigan Univ.; Danny E. Mattox, Univ. of Oklahoma
10:30 AM
Introductory Remarks

1.1
Understanding the Vorticity Equation (or One Term) with a Pool Noodle
Teresa M. Bals-Elsholz, Valparaiso Univ., Valparaiso, IN

1.2
Bringing the Science of Climate Change to Elementary Students with Classroom Activities from Elementary GLOBE
Becca Hatheway, UCAR, Boulder, CO; and L. S. Gardiner, D. M. Stanitski, J. Taylor, T. R. Harte, and K. Zarlengo

1.4
Engaging in Atmospheric Sciences with the Fluid Earth Viewer (FEVer)
Aaron B. Wilson, The Ohio State Univ., Columbus, OH; and J. P. Nicolas and J. Cervenec

1.6
Engaging Students with Theory and Real-World Data to Enhance Learning through Worked Examples
Casey E. Davenport, Univ. of North Carolina at Charlotte, Charlotte, NC

1.7
An Example of Using Existing Local Data to Teach Basic Principles of Weather Observation and Prediction
Michael De Antonio, New Mexico State Univ., Las Cruces, NM; and D. DuBois, G. Lundeen, J. Laney, J. Gutierrez, J. Fuentes, and A. Arredondo

1.8
Active Learning in a Distance Meteorology Class: Sky Watching with 360 Video
Sean M. Holland, University of Alaska, Fairbanks, AK; and R. L. Collins

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Joint Session 1
Autonomous Systems for Environmental Sensing and Weather Support for Autonomous System Operations—Part II: The Application of Autonomous Observing Platforms to Enhance Our Understanding of the Atmosphere and Ocean
Location: North 132ABC (Phoenix Convention Center - West and North Buildings)
Hosts: (Joint between the 35th Conference on Environmental Information Processing Technologies; and the 19th Conference on Aviation, Range, and Aerospace Meteorology )
Cochairs: Melissa A. Wagner, Arizona State Univ.; Robert Doe, Univ. of Liverpool; Randall Bass, FAA; Scott S. Lindstrom, Univ. of Wisconsin
10:30 AM
J1.1
Spatial Structure of Thermodynamic Variables in the Atmospheric Boundary Layer
Benjamin L. Hemingway, Oklahoma State Univ., Stillwater, OK; and A. E. Frazier, B. R. Elbing, and J. D. Jacob
10:45 AM
J1.2
Development of UAV-Deployed Air-Launched Drifters (ALD) for Aboveground Thermodynamic Measurements in Supercells
Sara J Swenson, Univ. of Colorado Boulder, Boulder, CO; and B. Argrow, E. W. Frew, S. Borenstein, and J. M. Keeler
11:00 AM
J1.3
Tornado Pathway Dynamics Using UASs: The Influence of Topography on Tornadoes
Melissa A. Wagner, Arizona State Univ., Tempe, AZ; and R. K. Doe

11:15 AM
J1.4
11:30 AM
J1.5
Saildrone Data Handling: Workflow from Drone to Desktop
Eugene F Burger, PMEL, Seattle, WA; and D. Peacock, A. Manke, K. M. O'Brien, R. H. Schweitzer, N. D. Anderson, E. D. Cokelet, N. Lawrence-Slavas, C. Meinig, C. W. Mordy, M. F. Cronin, J. N. Cross, and D. Zhang
11:45 AM
J1.6
Hybrid Autonomous Underwater Vehicle and Unmanned Surface Vehicle Sampling for Harmful Algal Blooms (HABs)—Prototype and Results of a Field Trial
Tiffany C. Vance, NOAA, Silver Spring, MD; and J. Mickett, J. A. Newton, R. W. Osborne, V. L. Trainer, and N. Trenaman
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Session 1
Strengthening Economic Growth While Building Resilience to Extremes
Location: North 226C (Phoenix Convention Center - West and North Buildings)
Host: 14th Symposium on Societal Applications: Policy, Research and Practice
10:30 AM
1.1
10:45 AM
1.2
Growing Resilience: The Urban Agriculture Potential in Metro Phoenix
Nazli Uludere Aragon, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ; and M. Stuhlmacher, J. P. Smith, and M. Georgescu
11:15 AM
1.4
Achieving Success in Weather Insurance: A Value Network Analysis Approach
Helen Greatrex, International Research Institute for Climate and Society, Palisades, NY; and N. Naidoo, D. Dinh, R. Diro, and J. Hellin
11:45 AM
Discussion

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Joint Session 1
Thermal Extremes and Health: Understanding the Biometeorological Pathways from Exposure to Outcomes
Location: North 228AB (Phoenix Convention Center - West and North Buildings)
Hosts: (Joint between the 10th Conference on Environment and Health; the 24th Conference on Applied Climatology; and the 14th Symposium on Societal Applications: Policy, Research and Practice )
Cochairs: Kim Knowlton, Natural Resources Defense Council; Jennifer Vanos, Arizona State Univ.; Hunter Jones, NOAA
11:00 AM
Discussion

11:30 AM
J1.4
Pathways to Heat Vulnerability in Phoenix, AZ
Paul M. Chakalian, Arizona State Univ., Tempe, AZ; and M. K. Wright, L. E. Watkins, L. C. Kurtz, S. L. Harlan, and D. M. Hondula
11:45 AM
J1.5
The Tokyo 2020 Olympic Marathons: Spectator Thermal Comfort and Health in the Face of Extreme Heat
Jennifer Vanos, Arizona State Univ., Tempe, AZ; and R. D. Brown, A. Middel, M. Yokahari, E. Kosaka, and A. Iida
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Session 2
2018 Hurricane, Cyclone, and Typhoon Season: Session II
Location: North Ballroom 120CD (Phoenix Convention Center - West and North Buildings)
Host: 15IMPACTS: Major Weather Events and Impacts of 2018
Cochairs: Klaus Wolter, CIRES, Univ. of Colorado Boulder; Thomas Bedard, AccuWeather Enterprise Solutions; Tanja E. Fransen, NOAA/NWS; Owen H. Shieh, Joint Typhoon Warning Center
10:30 AM
2.1
NASA Earth Science Activities Supporting Analysis and Response to Hurricanes Florence and Michael
Andrew L. Molthan, MSFC, Huntsville, MD; and J. R. Bell, H. M. Goodman, R. T. Albertson, G. W. Bawden, D. Borges, B. Chapman, M. Glasscoe, D. S. Green, M. Jackson, D. Kirschbaum, J. Kirkendall, M. Jo, G. W. Layne, Y. Lou, B. Osmanoglu, N. Sardinha Pinto, M. Román, L. A. Schultz, J. Seepersad, R. M. Shrestha, J. C. Struve, N. P. Thomas, V. Thompson, T. Yao, and S. H. Yun
10:45 AM
2.2
2018 sUAS Operations into Tropical Cyclones
Joseph J. Cione, NOAA, Miami, FL; and G. H. Bryan, E. A. Kalina, A. Aksoy, K. E. Ryan, B. A. Dahl, G. deBoer, J. A. Zhang, E. J. Dumas Jr., and B. B. Baker

11:00 AM
2.3
Coastal Radar Observations and Impacts of Hurricanes Florence and Michael (2018)
Michael M. Bell, Colorado State Univ., Fort Collins, CO; and J. C. DeHart and T. Y. Cha
11:15 AM
2.4
Satellite and Ground-Based Precipitation Retrievals during Hurricane Landfalls
Pierre-Emmanuel Kirstetter, Univ. of Oklahoma, Norman, OK; and W. A. Petersen, J. Wang, G. J. Huffman, and D. B. Wolff

11:30 AM
2.5
11:45 AM
2.6
Historical Perspective on Rainfall from Hurricane Florence
Kenneth E. Kunkel, Cooperative Institute for Climate and Satellites, Asheville, NC
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Session 2
Coupled Forecasting of Extreme Weather and Coastal Flood Events: Part II
Location: North 130 (Phoenix Convention Center - West and North Buildings)
Host: 17th Symposium on the Coastal Environment
Cochairs: Allison L. Allen, NOAA/NWS; Michael J. DeFlorio, NASA
10:30 AM
2.1
The Consumer Option for an Alternative System To Allocate Losses (COASTAL ) Act
Nicole P. Kurkowski, NWS, Silver Spring, MD; and M. Bilder

10:45 AM
2.2
Hurricane Reanalysis and Reforecast with Operational HWRF for the COASTAL Act
Zaizhong Ma, IMSG and NOAA/NCEP/EMC, College Park, MD; and A. Mehra and V. Tallapragada

11:00 AM
2.3
The Wind Downscaling Modeling Framework for Coastal Wind and Water Damage Applications
Anil Kumar, NOAA Center for Weather and Climate Prediction, College Park, MD; and A. Mehra, G. DiMego, J. Kain, and A. Chawla
11:15 AM
2.4
On the Comparison of Implicit with Explicit Schemes in Wave Watch III
Ali Abdolali, UCAR/NOAA/NWS/NCEP/EMC, College Park, MD; and A. Roland, A. Van der Westhuysen, A. Chawla, S. Moghimi, and S. V. Vinogradov

11:45 AM
2.6
Compound Inland and Coastal Flood Inundation Studies Using the NUOPC/ESMF Framework
Saeed Moghimi, NOAA, Silver Spring, MD; and E. Myers, S. V. Vinogradov, L. Shi, A. Abdolali, A. Van der Westhuysen, Z. Ma, A. Chawla, H. Mashriqui, T. Flowers, and N. P. Kurkowski
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Session 2
Data Assimilation—Part I
Location: North 131AB (Phoenix Convention Center - West and North Buildings)
Host: 23rd Conference on Integrated Observing and Assimilation Systems for the Atmosphere, Oceans, and Land Surface (IOAS-AOLS)
Chair: Sharanya J. Majumdar, RSMAS
10:30 AM
2.1
Improving Assimilation of Radiance Observations by Implementing Model Space Localization in an Ensemble Kalman Filter
Jeffrey Whitaker, NOAA/Earth System Research Laboratory, Boulder, CO; and L. Lei and C. H. Bishop
10:45 AM
2.2
Assimilation of All-Weather Microwave Cloudy Radiances Using a Novel Bayesian Monte Carlo Technique into NASA GEOS-5
Isaac Moradi, NASA, Greenbelt, MD; and F. Evans, W. McCarty, and M. Fuentes

11:00 AM
2.3A
Ensemble Sensitivity-Based Subsetting Overview and Evaluation Activities at the 2018 NOAA HWT
Brian C. Ancell, Texas Tech Univ., Lubbock, TX; and A. A. Coleman and A. J. Hill
11:15 AM
2.4
Coupled Atmosphere–Land Surface Data Assimilation in ECCC's Medium-Range NWP Forecast Systems
Bernard Bilodeau, Environment and Climate Change Canada, Dorval, Canada; and M. Bani Shahabadi, M. Roch, M. L. Carrera, N. Gasset, M. Abrahamowicz, D. Charpentier, S. Bélair, P. L. Houtekamer, and M. Buehner
11:30 AM
2.5
Real-Time Global Ocean Forecasting with Navy Coupled Ocean Data Assimilation System at National Centers for Environmental Prediction
Shastri Paturi, EMC and IMSG, College Park, MD; and Z. D. Garraffo, I. Rivin, J. Cummings, and A. Mehra

11:45 AM
2.6
20th Century Reanalysis Version "3" (1846–2014) and Prospects for 200 Years of Reanalysis
Gilbert P. Compo, CIRES/Univ. of Colorado Boulder and NOAA/ESRL/Physical Sciences Division, Boulder, CO; and L. Slivinski, J. Whitaker, P. D. Sardeshmukh, B. S. Giese, P. Brohan, and R. Allan

Joint Panel Discussion 2
Emerging Needs, Opportunities, and Careers in Climate Information Services: Multidisciplinary and Transdisciplinary Programs—National and International Scale
Location: North 221C (Phoenix Convention Center - West and North Buildings)
Hosts: (Joint between the Seventh Symposium on the Weather, Water, and Climate Enterprise; and the 28th Symposium on Education )
Moderator: James Buizer, The Univ. of Arizona
Panelists: Lisa Goddard, IRI, The Earth Institute, Columbia Univ.; John Furlow, IRI, The Earth Institute, Columbia Univ.; Claudia Nierenberg, NOAA; David S. Green, NASA Headquarters; Peter Schultz, ICF; Naohisa Koide, The World Bank
Goddard, Furlow, Nierenberg, Tsirkunov, Green, Schultz
James Buizer, The Univ. of Arizona, Tucson, AZ

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Session 2
Extreme Space Weather Events throughout the Heliosphere
Location: North 227A-C (Phoenix Convention Center - West and North Buildings)
Host: 16th Conference on Space Weather
Chair: Alexander Engell, NextGen Federal Systems
11:15 AM
2.3
Space Weather Event of 10 September 2017: Observations at Mars
Christina O. Lee, Space Sciences Laboratory, Univ. of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, CA
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Session 2
General Topics on the History of Atmospheric and Related Sciences
Location: North 222C (Phoenix Convention Center - West and North Buildings)
Host: 17th History Symposium
Chair: Lourdes Avilés, Plymouth State University
11:00 AM
2.3
11:45 AM
2.6
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Session 2
Lidar Observations for Studies of Air Quality and Climate
Location: West 211A (Phoenix Convention Center - West and North Buildings)
Host: Ninth Symposium on Lidar Atmospheric Applications
Cochairs: Sara C. Tucker, Ball Aerospace; Brian J. Carroll, Univ. of Maryland, Baltimore County
10:30 AM
2.1A
High-Resolution Photon Time Tagging for Multifunctional Atmospheric Lidar Studies
Rory Barton-Grimley, Univ. of Colorado, Boulder, CO; and R. A. Stillwell and J. P. Thayer
10:45 AM
2.2
Removing the a Priori Effect from a Lidar Optimal Estimation Method Water Vapor and Temperature Retrieval
Ali Jalali, University of Western Ontario, London, ON, Canada; and S. Hicks-Jalali, R. J. Sica, A. Haefele, and T. von Clarmann
11:00 AM
2.3
Effect of Urban Areas on Mixing-Layer Height
Sunil Baidar, CIRES/Univ. of Colorado Boulder, Boulder, CO; and T. A. Bonin, A. Choukulkar, R. M. Hardesty, and A. Brewer
11:15 AM
2.4
Tropospheric Ozone Lidar Upgrade and Automation at JPL Table Mountain Facility
Fernando Chouza Keil, JPL, Wrightwood, CA; and T. Leblanc, M. Brewer, and P. Wang
11:30 AM
2.5
An Innovative Approach for Deriving CALIOP-Based Particulate Matter Concentrations Through a Bulk-Mass-Modeling-Based Method
Travis D. Toth, NASA Langley Research Center, Hampton, VA; and J. Zhang, J. S. Reid, and M. A. Vaughan

11:45 AM
2.6
Visualizing Healthy Clouds and Aerosol Plumes in Southeast Texas Using a Micropulse Lidar
Timothy Logan, Texas A&M Univ., College Station, TX; and S. Brooks, R. Li, and J. A. Mirrielees
Recording files available
Session 2
National and International Efforts and Partnerships Such as Community Global Modeling: Next Generation Global Prediction System (NGGPS) and Beyond. Improvements, Key Components and Statistical Techniques to Evaluate Global Models: Part II
Location: North 232C (Phoenix Convention Center - West and North Buildings)
Host: Ninth Conference on Transition of Research to Operations
Cochairs: Vijay Tallapragada, NOAA/NWS/NCEP/EMC; Thanh Vo Dinh, NOAA/NESDIS/Office of Projects, Planning and Analysis
10:30 AM
2.1
ECMWF-IFS and fvGFS Forecast Skill with the Same Initial Conditions
Linus Magnusson, ECMWF, Reading, UK; and J. H. Chen and S. J. Lin
10:45 AM
2.2A
Facilitating Development of Physical Parameterizations for NOAA's Unified Forecast System
Ligia Bernardet, NOAA/GSD, Univ. of Colorado/CIRES, and Developmental Testbed Center, Boulder, CO; and G. J. Firl, D. Heinzeller, L. Carson, M. Zhang, D. Stark, J. Schramm, L. Xue, and J. Dudhia

11:00 AM
2.3A
Neighborhood and Object-Based Probabilistic Verification of the OU MAP Ensemble from the 2018 Hazardous Weather Testbed Spring Forecasting Experiment
Aaron Johnson, Univ. of Oklahoma, Norman, OK; and X. Wang, Y. Wang, A. E. Reinhart, A. J. Clark, and I. L. Jirak

11:15 AM
2.4
11:30 AM
2.5
The 2018 DTC Community Workshop on Unified Forecast System Test Plan and Metrics for Model Validation and Verification: Meeting Results and Research to Operations Planning
Jason J. Levit, NOAA/NWS/NCEP/EMC, College Park, MD; and T. Jensen, L. Bernardet, I. Stajner, S. Morris, J. L. Kinter III, C. Alexander, and R. D. Torn
Recording files available
Session 2
Python in Operations and Research to Operations
Location: North 129B (Phoenix Convention Center - West and North Buildings)
Host: Ninth Symposium on Advances in Modeling and Analysis Using Python
Chair: Jingyin Tang, IBM
10:30 AM
2.6
CROW: A Common Toolchain for Developing Environmental Forecast Workflows in Research and Operational Environments
Samuel Trahan, NOAA/NWS/NCEP, College Park, MD; and K. L. Friedman, J. Kuang, K. R. Hammett, B. Liu, T. McGuinness, G. Vandenberghe, M. Iredell, and A. Chawla

10:45 AM
2.2
CROW-Driven ecFlow Workflow: A High-Reliability, Flexible Workflow System.
Lin Gan, Environmental Modeling Center, College Park, MD; and J. Kuang

11:00 AM
2.3
Migrating to Python-Based Product Generation Software at the High Plains Regional Climate Center
Warren E. Pettee, Univ. of Nebraska—Lincoln, Lincoln, NE; and N. A. Umphlett, W. Sorensen, and C. J. Stiles
11:15 AM
2.4
Extending the Capability of the Model Evaluation Tools Using Python
John E. Halley Gotway, NCAR, Boulder, CO; and T. L. Jensen, R. G. Bullock, T. Burek, M. Win-Gildenmeister, J. Prestopnik, G. P. McCabe Jr., J. Frimel, and M. P. Row
Recording files available
Session 2
Resilience, Communication, and Decision Support for Extreme Events—Part II
Location: North 131C (Phoenix Convention Center - West and North Buildings)
Host: 35th Conference on Environmental Information Processing Technologies
Cochairs: Larry E. Brazil, Riverside Technology, Inc.; George Smith, Riverside Technology, Inc.
10:30 AM
2.1
Using NOAA/NWS Storm Prediction Center Forecasts to Estimate Potential Societal Impacts from Severe Weather
Race Clark III, NOAA/NWS/Storm Prediction Center, Norman, OK; and P. T. Marsh, R. S. Schneider, and S. A. Erickson
Paper 2.2 has been moved. New paper number is 1A.1A

10:45 AM
2.2A
The Evolving Weather Service: Building Resilient Communities through Partner Relationships and Decision Support
Brooke Liu, Univ. of Maryland, College Park, MD; and A. Atwell Seate, I. Iles, and E. Herovic

11:15 AM
2.4
CBRNE Modeling for Critical Real-World Events: Complexity, Challenges & Needs
Yaítza Luna-Cruz, Defense Threat Reduction Agency Reachback, Fort Belvoir, VA; and J. Trigg Jr.
11:45 AM
2.6
Conveying Uncertainty through Graphical Forecasts
Jacob R., Beitlich, NOAA/NWS Forecast Office, Chanhassen, MN

Recording files available
Session 2
The ORACLES, CLARIFY, AEROCLO-Sa, and LASIC Field Campaigns in the Southeast Atlantic—Part II
Location: North 223 (Phoenix Convention Center - West and North Buildings)
Host: 11th Symposium on Aerosol–Cloud–Climate Interactions
Cochairs: Paquita Zuidema, Univ. of Miami/RSMAS; Robert Wood, Univ. of Washington; Jim Haywood, Met Office; Paola Formenti, Laboratoire Interuniversitaire des Systemes Atmospheriques
10:30 AM
2.1
10:45 AM
2.2
Total Organic Carbon Loss and Changes in Bulk Chemical Composition Seen in Vertically Stratified Aged African Biomass Burning Plumes over the Southeast Atlantic Ocean during ORACLES.
Amie Dobracki, Univ. of Hawai‘i at Mānoa, Honolulu, HI; and S. Freitag, S. Howell, J. Podolske, J. Redemann, P. E. Saide, A. J. Sedlacek, and P. Zuidema
11:00 AM
2.3
Characterization of Precipitation During the ORACLES 2016-17 Campaigns
Andrew M. Dzambo, Univ. of Wisconsin–Madison, Madison, WI; and T. S. L'Ecuyer, S. Tanelli, O. O. Sy, S. L. Durden, W. Chun, M. Lebsock, G. A. Sadowy, G. Dobrowalski, and E. A. McIlhattan
11:15 AM
2.4
Impact of Biomass Burning Aerosols on Marine Stratocumulus during ORACLES—Evidence of the Semidirect Effect?
Jennifer D. Small Griswold, Univ. of Hawai‘i at Mānoa, Honolulu, HI; and A. Heikkila
11:30 AM
2.5
11:45 AM
2.6
Vertical Distribution and Monthly Variations of Biomass Burning Aerosols as Observed by the Micropulse Lidar during LASIC
Alice Hsu, Washington Univ., St. Louis, MO; and P. Muradyan, Y. Feng, R. L. Coulter, R. Delgadillo, P. Zuidema, C. Ma, A. J. Sedlacek, and V. R. Kotamarthi
Recording files available
Session 2
Tropical Convective Dynamics
Location: North 232AB (Phoenix Convention Center - West and North Buildings)
Host: Seventh Symposium on the Madden-Julian Oscillation and Sub-Seasonal Monsoon Variability
Cochairs: Ángel F. Adames, Univ. of Michigan; Giuseppe Torri, Univ. of Hawai'i at Mānoa
10:30 AM
2.1
A Stochastic Transition Matrix Approach to Modeling of the Population Dynamics of Clouds
Samson Hagos, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, WA; and Z. Feng, R. A. Houze Jr., R. Plant, and A. Protat
10:45 AM
2.2
Controls on Deep-Convective Precipitation and the Dialogue with the Mesoscale
J. David Neelin, Univ. of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA; and F. Ahmed, K. A. Schiro, Y. H. Kuo, and C. Martinez-Villalobos
11:00 AM
2.3
Organization of Precipitation Clusters in a Simple Stochastic Model
Fiaz Ahmed, Univ. of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA; and J. D. Neelin
11:15 AM
2.4
Ertel Potential Vorticity Charging in the Tropical Atmosphere
Hing Ong, University at Albany, State University of New York, Albany, NY; and P. E. Roundy
11:30 AM
2.5
Representation of the Madden–Julian Oscillation in Model E2.1: Role of the Mean State and Air–Sea Interaction
Daehyun Kim, Univ. of Washington, Seattle, WA; and M. S. Ahn, A. D. Del Genio, J. Wu, and L. Nazarenko
11:45 AM
2.6
Index Intercomparison for MJO Event Termination
Brett Chrisler, Univ. of Kansas, Lawrence, KS; and J. P. Stachnik
Recording files available
Session 2
Understanding the Mechanisms, Predictability and Impacts of Connected Mesoscale Extremes
Location: North 221AB (Phoenix Convention Center - West and North Buildings)
Host: Special Symposium on Mesoscale Meteorological Extremes: Understanding, Prediction, and Projection
Cochairs: James Done, NCAR; Cindy Bruyère, NCAR
10:30 AM
2.1
11:00 AM
2.3
Scale-Interactive Processes in the Evolution of Multiepisode Tornado Outbreaks in the Southeastern U.S.
Manda B. Chasteen, CIMMS/Univ. of Oklahoma and NOAA/OAR/NSSL, Norman, OK; and S. E. Koch
11:15 AM
2.4
Historical Depiction and Future Projection of Weakly Forced Yet High-Impact Convective Storms in Central U.S.
Binod Pokharel, Utah State Univ., Logan, UT; and S. Y. Wang, R. Gillies, and J. D. D. Meyer
11:30 AM
2.5
Assessing the Connection between Atmospheric River Events and Exploring their Relation to Extratropical and Tropical Large-Scale Drivers
Meredith A. Fish, SIO/Univ. of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA; and A. M. Wilson, A. J. Miller, and F. M. Ralph
11:45 AM
2.6
Dynamics of and Precursors to California Megafloods, Present and Future
Daniel Swain, Univ. of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA; and X. Huang and B. Langenbrunner
Recording files available
Session 2A
AI Techniques for Decision Support, Part I
Location: North 124B (Phoenix Convention Center - West and North Buildings)
Host: 18th Conference on Artificial and Computational Intelligence and its Applications to the Environmental Sciences
Chair: Edwin Campos, Uptake Technologies
10:30 AM
2A.1
Avoiding AI Autopilot
Paul Roebber, University of Wisconsin−Milwaukee, Milwaukee, WI
10:45 AM
2A.2
Application of Machine Learning in NCAR’s Runway Friction and Closure Prediction System (RFCPS)
Ishita Srivastava, NCAR, Boulder, CO; and S. Linden, T. Brummet, G. Wiener, and W. Petzke
11:00 AM
2A.3
Using Deep Learning with Polarimetric Radar Data to Predict Hail Size
Kiel L. Ortega, CIMMS/University of Oklahoma and NOAA/OAR/NSSL, Norman, OK; and K. L. Elmore and J. C. Snyder
11:15 AM
2A.4
Applications of Biomimetic Image Processing to Storm Segmentation and Tracking
Patrick A. Campbell, University of Oklahoma/CIMMS and NOAA/NSSL, Norman, OK; and K. L. Ortega and T. M. Smith
11:30 AM
2A.5
An AI-Based System for Objective Tropical Cyclone Intensity Estimation
Jeffrey Miller, University of Alabama in Huntsville, Huntsville, AL; and M. Maskey, R. Ramachandran, I. Gurung, B. Freitag, D. Bollinger, R. Mestre, D. Silva, A. L. Molthan, C. R. Hain, and D. J. Cecil
11:45 AM
2A.6
How Forecast “Prototypes” Help Optimize Decisions (When Probability Forecasts Can’t)
John K. Williams, The Weather Company, An IBM Business, Andover, MA; and P. Neilley
Recording files available
Session 2A
Atmospheric Rivers—Part II
Location: North 121BC (Phoenix Convention Center - West and North Buildings)
Host: 32nd Conference on Climate Variability and Change
Chairs: Walter A. Robinson, North Carolina State Univ.; Bin Guan, JPL
10:30 AM
2A.1
The Gauging and Modeling of Rivers in the Sky
David A. Lavers, ECMWF, Reading, UK; and M. J. Rodwell, D. S. Richardson, F. M. Ralph, J. D. Doyle, C. A. Reynolds, V. Tallapragada, and F. Pappenberger
11:30 AM
2A.5
The Association between Atmospheric Rivers and Extreme Precipitation over the Eastern United States
Emily A. Slinskey, Portland State Univ., Portland, OR; and P. Loikith, D. E. Waliser, and B. Guan
11:45 AM
2A.6
Atmospheric Rivers and Insured Flood Losses in the Western United States
Thomas W. Corringham, SIO/Univ. of California, La Jolla, CA; and A. Gershunov, D. R. Cayan, and F. M. Ralph
Recording files available
Session 2A
Hydrometeorological Extremes II
Location: North 127ABC (Phoenix Convention Center - West and North Buildings)
Host: 33rd Conference on Hydrology
Cochairs: Konstantinos Andreadis, JPL; Eleonora Demaria, USDA–ARS; Daniel Rodriguez, Instituto Alberto Luiz Coimbra de Pós-Graduação e Pesquisa de Engenharia, Univ. Federal do Rio de Janeiro; John McHenry, Baron Advanced Meteorological Systems
10:45 AM
2A.2A
Changes in Heavy and Extreme Precipitation in Texas 1900-2015
Rebecca Paulsen Edwards, Southwestern Univ., Georgetown, TX; and J. Jordan
11:45 AM
2A.6
How Much Did It Really Rain During Harvey?
John W. Nielsen-Gammon, Texas A&M Univ., College Station, TX; and S. K. Bokn, B. R. Crow, D. M. Hultstrand, B. D. Kappel, D. B. McRoberts, T. W. Parzybok, A. R. Smith, and K. Ward
Recording files available
Session 2A
Regional Air Quality -Part II: Satellites and Severe Air Quality Episodes
Location: North 124A (Phoenix Convention Center - West and North Buildings)
Host: 21st Conference on Atmospheric Chemistry
Cochairs: Emily V. Fischer, Colorado State Univ.; Stuart A. McKeen, CIRES/Univ. of Colorado Boulder and NOAA/Earth System Research Laboratory/Chemical Sciences Division
10:30 AM
2A.1
The TEMPO Green Paper: Applications in Air Quality and Health, Agriculture, Forestry, and Economics
Kelly Chance, Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, Cambridge, MA; and X. Liu, R. Suleiman, G. Gonzalez Abad, P. Zoogman, H. wang, C. R. Nowlan, G. Huang, K. Sun, J. Al-Saadi, J. C. Antuña-Marrero, J. L. Carr, R. B. Chatfield, M. Chin, R. C. Cohen, D. Edwards, J. Fishman, D. E. Flittner, J. Herman, J. A. Geddes, D. J. Jacob, S. J. Janz, J. Joiner, J. Kim, N. A. Krotkov, B. L. Lefer, R. Martin, M. J. Newchurch, G. Pfister, K. E. Pickering, R. B. Pierce, A. Saiz-Lopez, W. R. Simpson, R. Spurr, J. Szykman, O. Torres, and J. Wang
10:45 AM
2A.2
From Aerosol Optical Depth from Space to Near-Surface Particulate Matter
Michael J. Garay, JPL, Pasadena, CA; and O. V. Kalashnikova, F. Xu, D. J. Diner, Y. Liu, H. Chang, M. Franklin, and J. Wang
11:00 AM
2A.3
Characterizing Tropospheric Trace Gas Retrievals from the Cross-track Infrared Sounder
Stuart A. McKeen, CIRES/Univ. of Colorado Boulder and NOAA/Earth System Research Laboratory/Chemical Sciences Division, Boulder, CO; and G. J. Frost, N. Smith, C. D. Barnet, R. Ahmadov, B. Pierce, T. B. Ryerson, J. S. Holloway, J. Peischl, I. Pollack, K. McKain, C. Sweeney, B. Daube, R. Commane, S. Wofsy, C. Thompson, and I. Bourgeois
11:15 AM
2A.4
Using Satellite Data to Aid Quantification and Attribution of Background Ozone Changes in the Western US
Jessica L. Neu, JPL, Pasadena, CA; and G. Osterman, D. Fu, S. Kulawik, K. Bowman, and T. Walker

11:30 AM
2A.5
Impact of Haboob Dust Storms on Air Quality in Phoenix, AZ
Pierre Herckes, Arizona State Univ., Tempe, AZ; and D. Napolitano, A. R. Marcotte, J. D. Eagar, and M. Fraser

Recording files available
Session 2A
Special Session on GOES Series Satellite System
Location: North 231AB (Phoenix Convention Center - West and North Buildings)
Host: 15th Annual Symposium on New Generation Operational Environmental Satellite Systems
Chair: Ryan Williams, Stellar Solutions, Inc.
10:30 AM
2A.1A
Monitoring Tropical Cyclones from Satellite: Improvements from 1966 to 2018
Timothy J. Schmit, NOAA/NESDIS/Center for Satellite Applications and Research, Madison, WI; and M. M. Gunshor, J. M. Daniels, D. T. Lindsey, J. J. Gerth, S. S. Lindstrom, and C. S. Velden
11:00 AM
2A.2AA
GOES-17 Advanced Baseline Imager (ABI) Performance Comparison to GOES-16
Paul C. Griffith, Harris, Fort Wayne, IN; and J. Van Naarden and D. Gall

11:15 AM
2A.3A
Direct Broadcast User Contributions to NOAA's GOES-R Series Satellite Data Operations
James McNitt, NESDIS, Silver Spring, MD; and S. Clevenstine and G. Martin
11:30 AM
2A.4A
Recent Developments in CSPP Geo Software for Direct Broadcast
Graeme Martin, Univ. of Wisconsin–Madison, Madison, WI; and L. Gumley, N. Bearson, J. Braun, G. Cureton, A. De Smet, T. Jasmin, S. Mindock, E. Schiffer, and K. Strabala
11:45 AM
2A.5A
The GOES Portfolio: Enabling Continuity of Science Products by Amalgamation
Matthew Seybold, NOAA/NESDIS/Office of Satellite and Product Operations, Suitland, MD; and E. Kline, W. M. MacKenzie Jr., K. W. Mozer, and R. Williams

Recording files available
Session 2B
Deep Learning for Environmental Datasets
Location: North 125AB (Phoenix Convention Center - West and North Buildings)
Host: 18th Conference on Artificial and Computational Intelligence and its Applications to the Environmental Sciences
Cochairs: David John Gagne II, NCAR; Amy McGovern, University of Oklahoma; Ryan A. Lagerquist, CIMMS
10:30 AM
2B.1
Exascale Deep Learning for Climate Science
Mr Prabhat, LBNL, Berkeley, CA; and T. Kurth, S. Treichler, J. Romero, M. Mudigonda, A. Mahesh, T. A. O'Brien, M. Fatica, M. Houston, K. Kashinath, M. Matheson, M. Shankar, M. F. Wehner, and W. D. Collins
11:00 AM
2B.2
Real-Time and Climatological Storm Classification through Deep Learning
G. Eli Jergensen, University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK; and A. McGovern, H. Obermeier, and T. Smith
11:15 AM
2B.3
Using Deep Learning to Estimate Tropical Cyclone Intensity from 89-GHz Band Microwave Satellite Imagery
Anthony Wimmers, CIMSS/University of Wisconsin−Madison, Madison, WI; and C. Velden and J. H. Cossuth

11:30 AM
2B.4
A Deep Learning−Based Correction to Radar Beam Blockage
Katherine Avery, University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK; and M. S. Veillette, C. J. Mattioli, and H. Iskenderian
11:45 AM
2B.5
Using Deep Learning for Advanced Remote Sensing of Clouds
Alexandria M. Russell, Northrop Grumann Corporation, McLean, VA; and M. Mason, B. D. Felton, and R. J. Alliss
Recording files available
Session 2B
Greenhouse Gases -Part II
Location: North 126A (Phoenix Convention Center - West and North Buildings)
Host: 21st Conference on Atmospheric Chemistry
Chair: Abhishek Chatterjee, GSFC
10:30 AM
2B.1
Quantifying contributions of land carbon fluxes variability and atmospheric transport variability to atmospheric CO2 variability
Eunjee Lee, USRA/NASA Goddard, Greenbelt, MD; and R. D. Koster, L. Ott, F. W. Zeng, S. Mahanama, T. Oda, B. Poulter, and B. Weir

10:45 AM
2B.2
On what scales can GOSAT flux inversions constrain anomalies in terrestrial ecosystems?
Brendan Byrne, JPL, Pasadena, CA; and D. B. A. Jones, K. Strong, S. Polavarapu, and A. B. Harper
11:00 AM
2B.3
11:15 AM
2B.4
Estimating Regional Greenhouse Gas Sources and Sinks through Ensemble-Based Simultaneous State and Parameter Estimation
Hans W. Chen, Pennsylvania State Univ., University Park, PA; and F. Zhang, T. Lauvaux, R. B. Alley, and K. J. Davis
11:45 AM
2B.6
Greenhouse Gas Observations from AIM-North
Ray Nassar, Environment and Climate Change Canada, Toronto, Canada; and C. McLinden, C. E. Sioris, J. Mendonca, D. Jones, F. Deng, S. Polavarapu, C. T. McElroy, C. Adams, C. Boisvenue, R. Cooney, G. Drolet, L. Garand, R. Girard, N. Jackson, M. Johnson, F. Kolonjari, R. Martin, C. MacDonald, C. E. Miller, N. O'Neill, Y. J. Rochon, W. R. Simpson, G. Singh, K. Strong, J. Tamminen, A. P. Trishchenko, H. van Mierlo, Z. Vaziri, K. A. Walker, and D. Wunch
Recording files available
Session 2B
Integrated Metrics and Benchmarking for Next-Generation Hydro/Land-Surface Modeling of the Water Cycle
Location: North 126BC (Phoenix Convention Center - West and North Buildings)
Host: 33rd Conference on Hydrology
Cochairs: Sujay Kumar, GSFC; David Gochis, NCAR; Martyn Clark, NCAR; Aubrey Dugger, NCAR
10:30 AM
2B.1
Using Information Flow Networks for Characterizing Process and Model Dynamics (Invited Presentation)
Praveen Kumar, Univ. of Illinois at Urbana−Champaign, Urbana, IL; and P. Jiang and A. Goodwell
10:45 AM
2B.2
Analysis of Systematic and Random Error Components in Soil Moisture Estimates from Land Surface Models and Satellite Retrievals
Mahdi Navari, NASA GSFC/Earth System Science Interdisciplinary Center/Univ. of Maryland, Greenbelt, MD; and S. V. Kumar, J. A. Santanello, C. D. Peters-Lidard, and M. Cosh
11:00 AM
2B.3
Comparing Operational NLDAS-2 and Experimental NLDAS-3 Soil Moisture with Observational Soil Moisture Data from In-Situ Networks and SMAP Remote Sensing
Ronnie Abolafia-Rosenzweig, CIRES, Boulder, CO; and B. Livneh, Y. Xia, D. Mocko, P. A. Dirmeyer, S. V. Kumar, C. D. Peters-Lidard, H. Wei, and J. Kain
11:30 AM
2B.5A
Systematic Land Model Evaluation in the NLDAS Science Testbed
Shugong Wang, NASA GSFC/SAIC, Greenbelt, MD; and D. Mocko, S. V. Kumar, J. Wegiel, and C. D. Peters-Lidard
11:45 AM
2B.6
Recording files available
Session 2B
Polar Climate Variability and Change—Part I
Location: North 122BC (Phoenix Convention Center - West and North Buildings)
Host: 32nd Conference on Climate Variability and Change
Chair: Zhenxia Long, Bedford Institute of Oceanography
10:30 AM
2B.1
Sudden Recent Antarctic Sea Ice Retreat, Connections to the Tropics, and Upper Ocean Regime Change around Antarctica
Gerald Meehl, NCAR, Boulder, CO; and J. Arblaster, C. Chung, M. M. Holland, A. DuVivier, L. Thompson, D. Yang, and C. M. Bitz
10:45 AM
2B.2
Arctic Amplification Is Caused by Sea-Ice Loss under Increasing CO2
Aiguo Dai, Univ. at Albany, SUNY, Albany, NY; and D. Luo, M. Song, and J. Liu
11:00 AM
2B.3
The Impacts of Springtime Cloud and Radiation Properties on Arctic Sea Ice Changes in CESM
Yiyi Huang, The Univ. of Arizona, Tucson, AZ; and D. A. Bailey, M. M. Holland, X. Dong, A. K. DuVivier, J. Kay, L. Landrum, and B. Xi
11:15 AM
2B.4
11:45 AM
2B.6
Rapidly Warming Arctic Sea Ice—Implication for the Arctic Amplification
B. J. Sohn, Seoul National Univ., Seoul, Korea, Republic of (South); and S. M. Lee

Recording files available
Session 2C
Tropical Climate Variability and Change—Part II
Location: North 128AB (Phoenix Convention Center - West and North Buildings)
Host: 32nd Conference on Climate Variability and Change
Cochairs: Kerry H. Cook, The Univ. of Texas at Austin; William Boos, Univ. of California, Berkeley
10:30 AM
2C.1
Delayed Retreat of the Monsoon over the Indochina Peninsula Linked to Surface Warming Trends
Yang Liu, Univ. of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China; and K. H. Cook and E. K. Vizy
10:45 AM
2C.2
Origins of East Asian Summer Monsoon Seasonality
John C. H. Chiang, Univ. of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, CA; and C. H. Wu, W. Kong, and D. S. Battisti

11:00 AM
2C.3
The Influence of CMIP5 Tropical SST Biases on Simulations of Regional Climate
Bradfield Lyon, Univ. of Maine, Orono, Orono, ME; and R. Seager and N. Vigaud
11:15 AM
2C.4
Seasonal Climatology and Dynamical Mechanisms of Rainfall in the Caribbean
Carlos J. Martinez, LDEO/Columbia Univ., Palisades, NY; and L. Goddard, Y. Kushnir, and M. Ting
11:45 AM
2C.6
Using High-Resolution Global Simulations to Study the Effects of Climate Change on the Spatiotemporal Characteristics of Tropical Cyclones
Ana P. Torres-Vazquez, North Carolina State Univ., Raleigh, NC; and A. C. Michaelis and G. M. Lackmann
Recording files available
Joint Session 3
Advances in CubeSats and SmallSats to Improve Earth Science, Weather Forecasting, Space Weather Prediction, Hydrology Studies, or Climate Monitoring—Part II
Location: North 230 (Phoenix Convention Center - West and North Buildings)
Hosts: (Joint between the Ninth Conference on Transition of Research to Operations; the 15th Annual Symposium on New Generation Operational Environmental Satellite Systems; and the Second Conference on Earth Observing SmallSats )
Cochairs: Robert Bauer, NASA Earth Science Technology Office; Stephen A. Mango, NOAA/NESDIS/Office of Projects, Planning and Analysis
11:00 AM
J3.3
Advances in Microwave Limb Sounding—An Update on the Compact AdaptableMicrowave Limb Sounder (CAMLS) Project
Nathaniel Livesey, JPL, Pasadena, CA; and G. Chattopadhyay, A. J. Tang, J. Kooi, R. Stachnik, and R. Jarnot

11:15 AM
J3.4
CubeSat-Based High-Resolution Hyperspectral Imagers for Atmospheric Trace Gas Monitoring
Steven P. Love, LANL, Los Alamos, NM; and L. A. Ott, J. P. Theiler, B. R. Foy, C. L. Safi, M. E. Dale, C. G. Peterson, A. A. Guthrie, N. Dallmann, K. G. Boyd, P. Stein, J. A. Wren, M. C. Proicou, and M. Dubey
11:30 AM
J3.5
Microwave Atmospheric Sounding CubeSats: From MicroMAS-2 to TROPICS and Beyond
William J. Blackwell, MIT Lincoln Laboratory, Lexington, MA; and R. V. Leslie, S. A. Braun, R. Bennartz, C. S. Velden, T. Greenwald, D. C. Herndon, M. DeMaria, G. Chirokova, R. Atlas, J. P. Dunion, F. D. Marks Jr., R. Rogers, H. Christophersen, B. Annane, and B. A. Dahl
11:45 AM
J3.6
Assimilation of Simulated TROPICS Radiance Observations in a Regional OSSE
Brittany A. Dahl, Cooperative Institute for Marine and Atmospheric Studies/Univ. of Miami and NOAA/AOML/HRD, Miami, FL; and H. Christophersen, W. J. Blackwell, S. A. Braun, R. Atlas, R. Bennartz, R. F. Rogers, F. D. Marks Jr., and J. P. Dunion
Recording files available
Joint Session 3
Lightning Monitoring at Aviation and Range Locations
Location: North 225AB (Phoenix Convention Center - West and North Buildings)
Hosts: (Joint between the Ninth Conference on the Meteorological Application of Lightning Data; and the 19th Conference on Aviation, Range, and Aerospace Meteorology )
Cochairs: Jennifer G. Wilson, NASA; Ryan K. Decker, NASA/MSFC
10:30 AM
J3.1
Results of Initial Feasibility Study on Tactical Support Information for Avoiding Aircraft Lightning Strikes
Eiichi Yoshikawa, Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency, Mitaka, Japan; and T. Ushio, T. Nishi, H. Oikawa, A. Senoguchi, and M. Kamogawa

10:45 AM
J3.2
Lightning Safety Guidance for Ramp Operations at Airports
Wiebke Deierling, NCAR, Boulder, CO; and A. Klein, M. Steiner, K. Ikeda, and R. Bass

11:00 AM
J3.3
A Climatology of the Lightning Launch Commit Criteria for the Eastern Range
William P. Roeder, 45th Weather Squadron, Patrick Air Force Base, FL; and J. D. Rapp
11:15 AM
J3.4
Evaluating GLM in the Aviation Weather Test Bed and Aviation Weather Center
Brian P. Pettegrew, CIRA/Colorado State Univ., Kansas City, MO; and S. Minnick and A. Terborg

11:30 AM
J3.5
Design of a Low-Cost, High-Speed Electric Field Mill for Continuous Electric Field Monitoring
Robert Marshall, Univ. of Colorado Boulder, Boulder, CO; and A. Antunes de Sa, A. Viets, A. Sousa, W. Deierling, and C. Myers
11:45 AM
J3.6
Lightning Prediction at Cape Canaveral AFS, FL, via the Application of Deep Learning to Surface Observations and Field Mill Data
Dominick V. Speranza, Air Force Institute of Technology, Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, OH; and A. J. Geyer
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Session 3
Solar Forecasting: Part I
Location: North 129A (Phoenix Convention Center - West and North Buildings)
Host: 10th Conference on Weather, Climate, and the New Energy Economy
Cochairs: Justin Sharp, Sharply Focused LLC; Jeffrey M. Freedman, Univ. at Albany, SUNY
11:00 AM
3.3
Forecasting Cloud Index with an Advection Model and Data Assimilation
Travis M. Harty, The Univ. of Arizona, Tucson, AZ; and M. Morzfeld, W. F. Holmgren, and A. T. Lorenzo
11:45 AM
3.6
Surface Temperature Anomalies and Solar Irradiance
Alexander Kubiniec, Atmospheric Sciences Research Center, Univ. at Albany, SUNY, Albany, NY
Recording files available
3
The Other Uncertainty: Social, Political, and Cultural Forms of Uncertainty in Weather Contexts. Part II
Location: North 226AB (Phoenix Convention Center - West and North Buildings)
Hosts: (Joint between the 14th Symposium on Societal Applications: Policy, Research and Practice; and the Seventh Symposium on the Weather, Water, and Climate Enterprise )
Moderator: Jennifer Henderson, CIRES
Panelists: Susan Joslyn, University of Washington; Robert Soden, University of Colorado Boulder; Tamara Marcus, NCAR; Keri Lubell, CDC; Jenniffer M. Santos-Hernandez, University of Puerto Rico
10:30 AM
Introductory Remarks

11:00 AM
Panel Discussion


Panel Discussion 5
The Early Career Leadership Academy: Beyond Leadership into Mentorship
Location: North 231C (Phoenix Convention Center - West and North Buildings)
Host: Seventh Early Career Professionals Conference
Cochairs: Bradford Johnson, Trivector Services, Inc./NOAA/OAR; Rebecca DePodwin, AccuWeather, Inc.; Jared Rennie, North Carolina Institute for Climate Studies
Panelists: Ashton Robinson Cook, NOAA/NWS SPC; Alan Sealls, President, National Weather Association, WKRG-TV; Kimberly M. Wood, Mississippi State Univ.; Chris Vagasky, Vaisala, Inc.
Robinson Cook, Sealls, Wood, Vagasky

Recording files available
Joint Panel Discussion 6
Engaging Public Works in Weather Communications and Response
Location: North 222AB (Phoenix Convention Center - West and North Buildings)
Hosts: (Joint between the Seventh Symposium on the Weather, Water, and Climate Enterprise; and the Seventh Symposium on Building a Weather-Ready Nation )
Chair: Tanja E. Fransen, NOAA/NWS
Moderators: Doug Hilderbrand, NOAA/NWS; Tanja E. Fransen, NOAA/NWS
Panelists: David Fabiano, APWA; Giao Pham, APWA; Pete Weaver, APWA; Tom Bedard, Accuweather; Loni Eazell, Los Angeles County County Public Works; Mark Jackson, NOAA/NWS
10:30 AM
Fabiano, Pham, Weaver, Bedard, Eazell, Jackson
Tanja E. Fransen, NOAA/NWS, Glasgow, MT
10:30 AM
Real-Time Data Sharing -- Dave Jones

11:00 AM-12:00 PM: Monday, 7 January 2019

Recording files available
Session 3
Impact of Deep Convection, Volcanic Eruptions, and Large Fires on Water Vapor, Aerosols, and Ozone in the Middle Atmosphere
Location: West 212A (Phoenix Convention Center - West and North Buildings)
Host: 20th Conference on Middle Atmosphere
Cochairs: Pengfei Yu, CIRES; Melody Avery, NASA
11:15 AM
3.2
Extreme Events in the 14 Year MLS Lower Stratospheric Water Vapor Record (Invited Presentation)
Michael J. Schwartz, JPL/California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA

12:00 PM-1:30 PM: Monday, 7 January 2019


Lunch Break (Monday)

12:15 PM-1:15 PM: Monday, 7 January 2019


CANCELED: NASA’s Earth Science Flight Program - Investments In And Planning For The Next-Generation Earth Observatories: Eric Ianson (NASA HQ)
Location: North 231AB (Phoenix Convention Center - West and North Buildings)
Host: Town Hall Meetings
Organizer: Robert Bauer, NASA Earth Science Technology Office
Facilitator: Stephen A. Mango, NOAA/NESDIS/Office of Projects, Planning and Analysis

CANCELLED: NOAA Leadership Town Hall
Location: North 127ABC (Phoenix Convention Center - West and North Buildings)
Host: Town Hall Meetings
Organizer: Timothy Gallaudet, NOAA

DOE’s Energy Exascale Earth System Model (E3SM): Atmospheric model capabilities and development plans
Location: North 222AB (Phoenix Convention Center - West and North Buildings)
Host: Town Hall Meetings
Organizer: Dorothy M Koch, DOE
Facilitators: Dorothy M Koch, DOE; Gerald Geernaert, DOE
Panelists: David C. Bader, LLNL; L. Ruby Leung, PNNL; Mark A. Taylor, Sandia National Laboratories

Upcoming NCEI Data Users Conference: An Agriculture Example
Location: North 226C (Phoenix Convention Center - West and North Buildings)
Host: Town Hall Meetings
Organizer: Annette Hollingshead, Global Science and Technology, Inc.
Facilitators: Michael J. Brewer, NOAA/NESDIS/National Centers for Environmental Information; Jenny Dissen, CICS-NC; Najimah Jones, Global Science & Technology, Inc.

12:15 PM-1:45 PM: Monday, 7 January 2019

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Presidential Town Hall with Marcia McNutt: Charting a Course for Evidence-Based Policy in the Face of “Extreme Events”
Location: North Ballroom 120CD (Phoenix Convention Center - West and North Buildings)
Hosts: (Joint between the Presidential Town Hall Meetings; the Events; the 35th Conference on Environmental Information Processing Technologies; the 23rd Conference on Integrated Observing and Assimilation Systems for the Atmosphere, Oceans, and Land Surface (IOAS-AOLS); the 17th Symposium on the Coastal Environment; the 10th Conference on Weather, Climate, and the New Energy Economy; the Ninth Symposium on Advances in Modeling and Analysis Using Python; the Seventh Symposium on Building a Weather-Ready Nation; and the Fifth Symposium on High Performance Computing for Weather, Water, and Climate )
Speaker: Marcia McNutt, President, National Academy of Sciences
12:15 PM
Presidential Town Hall with Marcia McNutt: Charting a course for Evidence-Based Policy in the Face of Extreme Events
Marcia McNutt, President, National Academy of Sciences, Washington, DC

12:45 PM-1:05 PM: Monday, 7 January 2019


Daily Weather Briefings (Monday)
Location: North 132ABC (Phoenix Convention Center - West and North Buildings)

2:00 PM-2:30 PM: Monday, 7 January 2019


Lecture 1
Tutorial: Effectively Communicating Scientific Data Using Open-Source Tools: The Old (Matplotlib), the New (Cartopy), and the Radical (Seaborn and Bokeh).
Location: North 129B (Phoenix Convention Center - West and North Buildings)
Host: Ninth Symposium on Advances in Modeling and Analysis Using Python
Lecturer: Hannah Aizenman, City College of New York

2:00 PM-2:45 PM: Monday, 7 January 2019

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Session 3B
Deep Learning for Environmental Datasets, Part II
Location: North 125AB (Phoenix Convention Center - West and North Buildings)
Host: 18th Conference on Artificial and Computational Intelligence and its Applications to the Environmental Sciences
Cochairs: David John Gagne II, NCAR; Amy McGovern, University of Oklahoma
2:00 PM
3B.1
Development and Interpretation of Deep Learning Models for Nowcasting Convective Hazards
Ryan A. Lagerquist, CIMMS, Norman, OK; and A. McGovern, C. R. Homeyer, C. K. Potvin, T. Sandmael, and T. M. Smith
2:15 PM
3B.2
Deep Neural Networks−Based Augmentation of Rainfall Data
Muhammed A. Sit, University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA; and B. C. Seo, W. F. Krajewski, and I. Demir

2:00 PM-3:00 PM: Monday, 7 January 2019


How to Become a Better Presenter
Location: North 231C (Phoenix Convention Center - West and North Buildings)
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Session 3
History of Practices, Observations, and Field Projects
Location: North 222C (Phoenix Convention Center - West and North Buildings)
Host: 17th History Symposium
Chair: Terry Nathan, Univ. of California, Davis
2:00 PM
3.1
TIROS-1 and the History of the First Decade of Weather Satellites
Gerald Dittberner, CIRA/Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO; and T. Vonder Haar

Session 3
How To Become a Better Presenter
Location: North 231C (Phoenix Convention Center - West and North Buildings)
Host: Seventh Early Career Professionals Conference
Facilitator: Susan A. Jasko, California University of Pennsylvania
How To Become a Better Presenter
Susan A. Jasko, California University of Pennsylvania, California, PA

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Session 3
Monsoon Variability
Location: North 232AB (Phoenix Convention Center - West and North Buildings)
Host: Seventh Symposium on the Madden-Julian Oscillation and Sub-Seasonal Monsoon Variability
Chair: Ángel F. Adames, Univ. of Michigan
2:00 PM
3.1
Air–Sea Interactions during Indian Ocean Monsoon Intraseasonal Oscillations
Jaynise M. Perez, Univ. of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, IN; and H. J. S. Fernando, E. D. Creegan, K. Woods, G. Black, A. V. Rydbeck, W. Hemantha, R. Krishnamurthy, J. E. Stailey, A. Tandon, and E. Shroyer
2:15 PM
3.2
The Formation and Growth of Monsoon Depressions within the South Asian Monsoon
Michael Diaz, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, CA; and W. Boos
2:30 PM
3.3A
Trends in Tropical Wave Activity from the 1980s to 2016
Ajay Raghavendra, University at Albany, State University of New York, Albany, NY; and P. E. Roundy and L. Zhou
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Session 3
Synoptic–Dynamic and Quantitative Attribution for Extreme Weather and Climate Events
Location: North 221AB (Phoenix Convention Center - West and North Buildings)
Host: Special Symposium on Mesoscale Meteorological Extremes: Understanding, Prediction, and Projection
Cochairs: Shih-Yu (Simon) Wang, Utah State Univ.; Emily Becker, NOAA
2:00 PM
3.1
2:15 PM
3.2
Attributing Extreme Déjà Vu Events: Hurricane Harvey and Louisiana Flood
Shih-Yu (Simon) Wang, Utah State Univ., Logan, UT; and L. Zhao, J. Yoon, P. J. Klotzbach, and R. Gillies
2:30 PM
3.3A
Long-Range Aerosol Transport via Rossby Wave Breaking during Atmospheric River Events on the Western U.S.
Catherine N Liu, San Jose State Univ., San Jose, CA; and J. M. Ryoo and S. Chiao

2:00 PM-3:15 PM: Monday, 7 January 2019

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Session 2
Reducing Risk and Building Resilience through Collaborative and Interdisciplinary Agroecosystem Networks. Part II
Location: North 224A (Phoenix Convention Center - West and North Buildings)
Host: 24th Conference on Applied Climatology
Chair: Mark D. Brusberg, USDA
2:00 PM
2.1
Utilizing Collaborative Networks to Advance Drought Science and Preparedness across the Nation
Molly Woloszyn, NOAA, Urbana, IL; and E. Weight, A. M. Sheffield, and B. A. A. Parker
2:15 PM
2.2
Rain Gauges for Range Monitoring: Codeveloping Tools and Best Practices for Ranch-Scale Drought Detection
Michael Crimmins, The Univ. of Arizona, Tucson, AZ; and M. McClaran, A. Hall, and A. Brischke
2:30 PM
2.3
Stronger Together: Leveraging Established Network Tools and Resources to Support Climate Change Adaptation
Dawn M. Browning, USDA, Las Cruces, NM; and E. Elias and T. M. Crimmins

2:45 PM
2.4
Building Extension Capacity around Climate: The North Central Climate Collaborative
Hans Schmitz, Purdue Extension, Mount Vernon, IN; and L. M. Edwards, T. Williams, P. Tomlinson, A. S. Mase, K. A. Gehl, and R. L. Power

2:00 PM-4:00 PM: Monday, 7 January 2019

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Session 1
Developing and Preparing Weather and Climate Models for Exascale
Location: North 123 (Phoenix Convention Center - West and North Buildings)
Host: Fifth Symposium on High Performance Computing for Weather, Water, and Climate
Cochairs: Marc Cotnoir, CSRA, Inc.; Mark W. Govett, NOAA/ESRL/GSD
2:00 PM
1.1
An Ocean–Atmosphere Simulation for Studying Air–Sea Interactions
Ehud Strobach, NASA GSFC, Greenbelt, MD; and A. Molod, A. Trayanov, W. M. Putman, C. Hill, J. M. Campin, G. Forget, D. Menemenlis, and P. Heimbach

2:15 PM
1.2
NEPTUNE Development for Next Generation HPC
John Michalakes, UCAR/NRL, Monterey, CA; and A. Reinecke
2:30 PM
1.3
Extreme-Scale Computing Strategy at ECMWF
Peter Bauer, ECMWF, Reading, United Kingdom
2:45 PM
1.4
Compare A-Grid and C-Grid Shallow-Water Model Solver on Icosahedral Grids
Yonggang G. Yu, CIRES, Boulder, CO; and M. W. Govett and N. Wang

3:00 PM
1.5
Z-Grid Dynamic Cores on Icosahedral Triangular Grids for Exascale Computing
Yuanfu Xie, Chinese Academy of Meteorological Sciences, Beijing, China
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Themed Joint Session 1
Role of the Stratosphere in Climate Variability, Change, and Prediction—Part I
Location: North 128AB (Phoenix Convention Center - West and North Buildings)
Hosts: (Joint between the 32nd Conference on Climate Variability and Change; and the 20th Conference on Middle Atmosphere )
Cochairs: Isla R. Simpson, NCAR; Andrea L. Lang, University at Albany, SUNY
2:15 PM
TJ1.2
The Predictability of Northern Hemisphere Stratospheric Final Warmings and Their Surface Impacts
Amy Butler, CIRES, Boulder, CO; and J. P. Sjoberg, A. Charlton-Perez, and D. I. V. Domeisen
2:30 PM
TJ1.3
2:45 PM
TJ1.4
Attribution of NAO Predictability beyond Two Weeks
Lantao Sun, CIRES/Univ. of Colorado Boulder, Boulder, CO; and J. Perlwitz, J. H. Richter, and M. Hoerling
3:00 PM
TJ1.5
3:15 PM
TJ1.6
Prediction of Northern Hemisphere Regional Surface Temperatures Using Stratospheric Ozone Information
Kane A. Stone, MIT, Cambridge, MA; and S. Solomon, D. E. Kinnison, C. F. Baggett, and E. A. Barnes
3:30 PM
TJ1.7
Role of Tropical Lower Stratospheric Cooling on Recent Tropical Tropospheric Change
Kunihiko Kodera, MRI, Tsukuba, Japan; and N. Eguchi, R. Ueyama, Y. Kuroda, B. Funatsu, C. Kobayashi, and C. Claud
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Session 2
Pre-College Education Initiatives
Location: North 229AB (Phoenix Convention Center - West and North Buildings)
Host: 28th Symposium on Education
Cochairs: Staci DeSchryver, Education; Peter Dorofy, Institute for Earth Observations
2:00 PM
2.1
When Air Masses Collide: An NGSS Middle School Weather Unit
Jeffrey Thomas, Central Connecticut State Univ., New Britain, CT
2:15 PM
2.2
Building an NGSS-ESS Community through Engagement with Webinars
Carla McAuliffe, TERC/NESTA, Tempe, AZ; and A. Awad and E. Robeck
2:30 PM
2.3
Modernizing AMS Project Atmosphere
Chad M. Kauffman, California Univ. of Pennsylvania, California, PA; and W. Abshire, E. W. Mills, and A. E. Stimach
2:45 PM
2.4
Acquire−Analyze−Apply (A3): A NASA GLOBE Mission Earth Project
John Moore, Institute for Earth Observations, Palmyra, NJ; and P. Dorofy, K. Czajkowski, and M. Jabot
3:00 PM
2.5
GLOBE Program Student Research Symposia
Richard Wagner, Metropolitan State Univ. of Denver, Denver, CO; and J. Bourgeault
3:30 PM
2.7
Maury Project: 25 Years Supporting Teacher Professional Development in Physical Oceanography
David R. Smith, American Meteorological Society, Washington, D.C.; and W. Abshire, D. E. McManus, C. M. Kauffman, A. E. Stimach, and E. W. Mills
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Joint Session 2
Research to Action: Use of Weather and Climate Information for Health Early Warning Systems
Location: North 228AB (Phoenix Convention Center - West and North Buildings)
Hosts: (Joint between the 10th Conference on Environment and Health; and the Ninth Conference on Transition of Research to Operations )
Cochairs: Hannah Nissan, IRI; Hunter Jones, NOAA
2:00 PM
J2.1
Decision Aid for Airborne Hazards Stems from Urban Atmospheric Research
Gail Vaucher, Army Research Laboratory, White Sands Missile Range, NM; and S. Roller

2:15 PM
J2.2
Development of Ahmedabad’s Air Information and Response (AIR) Plan to Protect Public Health
Vijay Limaye, Natural Resources Defense Council, New York, NY; and K. Knowlton, S. Sarkar, P. Ganguly, S. Pingle, P. Dutta, S. LM, A. Tiwari, B. Solanki, C. Shah, G. Raval, K. Kakkad, G. Beig, N. Parkhi, A. Jaiswal, and D. Mavalankar
2:30 PM
J2.3
2:45 PM
J2.4
3:00 PM
J2.5
Seasonal and Subseasonal Forecast Applications on Climate and Malaria in West Africa
Ibrahima Diouf, NOAA/NWS/NCEP, Climate Prediction Center, College Park, MD; and W. M. Thiaw
3:30 PM
J2.7
Assessing the Role of Meteorological Factors on Human Health in India and its Extended Range Prediction
Raju Mandal, IITM, Pune, India; and A. Sahai, S. Joseph, R. Chattopadhyay, R. Phani, and A. Dey
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Themed Joint Session 2
The Fourth National Climate Assessment Vol. II: Impacts, Risks, and Adaptation in the United States
Location: North 226C (Phoenix Convention Center - West and North Buildings)
Hosts: (Joint between the 14th Symposium on Societal Applications: Policy, Research and Practice; the 10th Conference on Environment and Health; the 24th Conference on Applied Climatology; and the Seventh Symposium on the Weather, Water, and Climate Enterprise )
Chair: John Balbus, National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences
2:15 PM
TJ2.2
The Fourth National Climate Assessment: Updating the Science of Climate Change
Donald J. Wuebbles, University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign, Urbana, IL
2:30 PM
TJ2.3
Reducing Risks of Economic Impacts Throughout Multiple U.S. Sectors and Regions: National Climate Assessment Vol II
Brenda Ekwurzel, Union of Concerned Scientists, Washington, D.C.; and J. Martinich, B. J. DeAngelo, D. Diaz, G. Franco, C. Frisch, J. McFarland, B. O'Neill, A. Light, D. R. Reidmiller, and C. Avery
2:45 PM
TJ2.4
Highlights from the Fourth National Climate Assessment: Human Health
John Balbus, National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, Bethesda, MD
3:00 PM
TJ2.5
3:45 PM
Discussion

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Session 3
2018 Hurricane, Cyclone, and Typhoon Season: Session III
Location: North Ballroom 120CD (Phoenix Convention Center - West and North Buildings)
Host: 15IMPACTS: Major Weather Events and Impacts of 2018
Cochairs: Klaus Wolter, CIRES, Univ. of Colorado Boulder; Owen H. Shieh, Joint Typhoon Warning Center; Tanja E. Fransen, NOAA/NWS; Thomas Bedard, AccuWeather Enterprise Solutions
2:30 PM
3.3
An Overview of Utility Company Emergency Preparedness during Two Significant Hurricanes
Robert W. Pasken, Saint Louis Univ., Saint Louis, MO; and R. Woodford, M. Lewis, M. Roark, and A. Margevich
2:45 PM
3.4
3:00 PM
3.5
A Storm of Information: Twitter Data from Hurricanes Florence and Michael
Adam M. Rainear, Univ. of Connecticut, Storrs, CT; and K. A. Lachlan and C. A. Palombo
3:30 PM
3.7
The Saffir–Simpson Scale: Simple, Straightforward, and Insufficient
Kyra Bryant, Tennessee State Univ., Nashville, TN; and A. Musinguzi and M. Akbar
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Session 3
Aerosol–Cloud Interactions in Shallow Warm Clouds
Location: North 223 (Phoenix Convention Center - West and North Buildings)
Host: 11th Symposium on Aerosol–Cloud–Climate Interactions
Cochairs: Alison D. Nugent, Univ. of Hawaii at Mānoa; Virendra Ghate, Argonne National Laboratory
2:00 PM
3.1
Dispersion Aerosol Indirect Effect from Turbulent Fluctuations: Insight from a Cloud Chamber Experiment
Kamal Kant Chandrakar, Michigan Technological Univ., Houghton, MI; and W. Cantrell, A. B. Kostinski, and R. A. Shaw
2:15 PM
3.2
Toward Satellite Inference of the Decoupling Degree and Cloud-Base Updrafts of Marine Stratocumulus
Youtong Zheng, Univ. of Maryland, College Park, College Park, MD; and D. Rosenfeld and Z. Li
2:30 PM
3.3
Drizzle and Turbulence in Open Cellular Marine Stratocumulus Clouds
Virendra Ghate, Argonne National Laboratory, Lemont, IL; and M. P. Cadeddu
2:45 PM
3.4
Effect of Boundary Layer Thermodynamic Structures on the Formation of Low-Level Clouds over Ocean and Land
Baike Xi, The Univ. of Arizona, Tucson, AZ; and X. Dong, X. Zheng, and P. Wu

3:00 PM
3.5
Height Dependence of Aerosol–Cloud Interactions and Important Implications for Developing Parameterizations
Yangang Liu, Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, NY; and J. Quan, X. Jia, J. Chen, and C. Lu

3:15 PM
3.6
Evidence of Invigoration in Warm Cloud Dynamics due to Precipitation Suppression
Tristan S. L'Ecuyer, Univ. of Wisconsin–Madison, Madison, WI; and A. R. Douglas
3:30 PM
3.7
Volcanic Aerosol Impacts on Big Island Precipitation
Tianqi Zuo, Univ. of Hawai'i at Mānoa, Honolulu, HI; and A. D. Nugent
3:45 PM
3.8
Opposite Effects of Bimodal CCN Spectra on Stratus and Cumuli
James G. Hudson, DRI, Reno, NV; and S. Noble


Session 3
CANCELED: Improving R2O & O2R in 0-18 Hour Forecast Range: Addressing Forecasters’ Needs—Introduction and Analysis and Nowcast Tools: Part I
Location: North 232C (Phoenix Convention Center - West and North Buildings)
Host: Ninth Conference on Transition of Research to Operations
Cochairs: Young-Joon Kim, NWS; Tara Jensen, NCAR and Developmental Testbed Center
3:15 PM
3.4
Multiple Radar/Multiple Sensor (MRMS) System:Next-Generation Optimization and Enhancement Project
Alan Gerard, NOAA/OAR/NSSL, Norman, OK; and K. W. Howard, J. Zhang, T. Smith, J. Brogden, and J. J. Gourley

3:30 PM
3.5
A Comparison of Multi- and Single-Core Convection-Allowing Ensembles
Benjamin T. Blake, IMSG and NOAA/NCEP/EMC, College Park, MD; and J. R. Carley, M. E. Pyle, G. S. Romine, E. Rogers, E. Aligo, J. J. Levit, and J. Kain

3:45 PM
3.6
The 3D-Real-Time Mesoscale Analysis (3D-RTMA) for Situational Awareness and Nowcast Applications: Testing, Refinement, and Plans for Transition to Operations
Steve Weygandt, NOAA/ESRL/GSD, Boulder, CO; and C. Alexander, G. Ge, M. Hu, T. T. Ladwig, C. Hartsough, J. R. Carley, G. Zhao, M. Pondeca, and R. Yang

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Session 3
Coupled Forecasting of Extreme Weather and Coastal Flood Events: Part III
Location: North 130 (Phoenix Convention Center - West and North Buildings)
Host: 17th Symposium on the Coastal Environment
Cochairs: Arthur J. Miller, SIO/Univ. of California, San Diego; Ali Abdolali, UCAR/NOAA/NWS/NCEP/EMC
2:00 PM
3.1
2:15 PM
3.2
Efficient Wave−Surge Coupling with SLOSH-Wave for Hispaniola
Dongming Yang, IMSG at NOAA/NWS/NCEP, College Park, MD; and A. J. Van der Westhuysen, J. R. Rhome, and C. L. Fritz

2:30 PM
3.3
Operational Implementation of a Coupled Version of SLOSH and Coastal Wave Modeling at the National Hurricane Center: Current Applications and Future Plans
Jamie R. Rhome, NOAA/NWS/NCEP/TPC/NHC, Miami, FL; and C. L. Fritz, E. Gibney, P. J. Manougian, A. J. Van der Westhuysen, N. P. Kurkowski, and D. Yang

2:45 PM
3.4
Optimization of Unstructured Grids for Coastal Ocean Hydrodynamical Models
Keith J. Roberts, Univ. of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, IN; and W. Pringle and J. Westerink
3:00 PM
3.5
Modeling Storm Surge with Subgrid Corrections Accounting for Unresolved Topography
Damrongsak Wirasaet, Univ. of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, IN; and A. B. Kennedy, D. Bolster, and J. C. Dietrich
3:30 PM
3.7
3:45 PM
3.8
Latest Development in the NWS’ Extratropical Storm Surge Model and Probabilistic Extratropical Storm Surge Model
Huiqing Liu, NOAA/NWS/Office of Scientific and Technical Information/Meteorological Development Laboratory/DSB, Silver Spring, MD; and K. Kang and A. A. Taylor

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Session 3
Data Assimilation—Part II: Ensemble Filtering Methods for Problems with Nonlinear Relations between Observations and State Variables
Location: North 131AB (Phoenix Convention Center - West and North Buildings)
Host: 23rd Conference on Integrated Observing and Assimilation Systems for the Atmosphere, Oceans, and Land Surface (IOAS-AOLS)
Chair: Chris Snyder, NCAR
2:45 PM
3.4
LETKF Perturbations by Ensemble Transform in a Cloud Resolving Model
Kazuo Saito, Atmosphere and Ocean Research Institute, The Univ. of Tokyo, Kashiwa, Japan; and L. Duc, S. Yokota, D. Hotta, and T. Matsunobu

3:00 PM
3.5
Regional Weather Prediction Using the Local Particle Filter
Jonathan Poterjoy, Univ. of Maryland, College Park, MD
3:15 PM
3.6
A Comparison of Two Variants of Localized Particle Filter
Jie Feng, School of Meteorology, Univ. of Oklahoma, Norman, OK; and X. Wang and J. Poterjoy


Joint Panel Discussion 3
Emerging Needs, Opportunities, and Careers in Climate Information Services: Academic Education and Training Programs
Location: North 221C (Phoenix Convention Center - West and North Buildings)
Hosts: (Joint between the Seventh Symposium on the Weather, Water, and Climate Enterprise; and the 28th Symposium on Education )
Moderator: Stephen E. Zebiak, IRI, Columbia Univ.
Panelists: Cynthia Thomson, 1200 Amsterdam Ave; Corey Gabriel, University of California, San Diego; Roberto J. Mera, North Carolina State University; Miriam Bertram, University of Washington; Abraham Henn, North Arizona University
2:00 PM
JPD3.1
Findings from Themed Joint Session Mind the Gap: Preparing Students for Careers in the Private Sector
Lawrence Gloeckler III, Riskpulse, Philadelphia, PA

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Session 3
Historical Perspectives on Lidar
Location: West 211A (Phoenix Convention Center - West and North Buildings)
Host: Ninth Symposium on Lidar Atmospheric Applications
Cochairs: James R. Campbell, NRL; Natalie Midzak, Millersville Univ.
2:00 PM
3.1
Lidar: A 50-Year Personal Retrospective
John A. Reagan, The Univ. of Arizona, Tucson, AZ
2:45 PM
3.2
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Session 3
Innovative Developmental and Operational Applications of NOAA’s Satellite Systems
Location: North 231AB (Phoenix Convention Center - West and North Buildings)
Host: 15th Annual Symposium on New Generation Operational Environmental Satellite Systems
CoChair: Steven Miller, CIRA/Colorado State Univ.
2:15 PM
3.2
2:30 PM
3.4A
Observing Hail Swaths Using the GOES-16 Advanced Baseline Imager
Dillon V. Blount, ; and P. N. Schumacher
2:45 PM
3.6
3:00 PM
3.7
Why Operational Meteorologists Need More Satellite Soundings
Nadia Smith, Science and Technology Corporation, Columbia, MD; and C. D. Barnet, E. Berndt, and M. Goldberg
3:15 PM
3.8
Generating Sounder Products at Imager Spatial and Temporal Resolution
W. Paul Menzel, Univ. of Wisconsin/CIMSS, Madison, WI; and E. Weisz, E. Borbas, and B. A. Baum
3:45 PM
3.5A
Stratospheric Air Intrusions and Rapid Cyclogenesis over the North Pacific
Deirdre E. Dolan, Univ. of Maryland, College Park, College Park, MD; and M. J. Folmer, L. J. Phillips, and J. M. Sienkiewicz
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Session 3
Latest Advances in Research on Icing and Other Winter Weather that Affects Aviation, Range, and Aerospace Operations
Location: North 224B (Phoenix Convention Center - West and North Buildings)
Host: 19th Conference on Aviation, Range, and Aerospace Meteorology
Cochairs: Judy E. Ghirardelli, NOAA/NWS/Meteorological Development Laboratory; Daniel Tripp, Univ. of Oklahoma
2:00 PM
3.1
In-Flight Icing Remote Detection by a Scanning Microwave Radiometer
Marian Klein, Boulder Environmental Sciences and Technology, Boulder, CO; and V. Irisov, A. Gasiewski, and E. R. Westwater
2:15 PM
3.2
Radar Reflectivity Threshold and NWP Temperatures as a Potential Aircraft Icing Product
Andrew A. Rosenow, CIMMS/Univ. of Oklahoma and NOAA/NSSL, Norman, OK; and H. D. Reeves and B. P. Pettegrew
2:30 PM
3.3
Advances in Ceilometer Data Processing—Detecting Atmospheric Icing in the Vertical Profile
Anne Hirsikko, Finnish Meteorological Institute, Helsinki, Finland; and K. Hämäläinen, A. Ruuskanen, A. Leskinen, M. Komppula, and E. O'Connor
2:45 PM
3.4
Development of New Icing Products for Supercooled Large Drop Conditions
Allyson Rugg, NCAR, Boulder, CO; and S. Tessendorf, D. R. Adriaansen, and J. A. Haggerty
3:15 PM
3.6
Investigating the Variability of Winter Precipitation Rates across an Airport Terminal Area
Justin Lentz, NCAR, Boulder, CO; and S. D. Landolt, S. DiVito, and A. Gaydos
3:30 PM
3.7
3:45 PM
3.8
ICICLE: Winter 2018–19 In-Cloud Icing and Large-Drop Experiment
Stephanie DiVito, FAA, Atlantic City International Airport, NJ; and B. C. Bernstein, J. T. Riley, T. Bond, D. L. Sims, S. D. Landolt, J. A. Haggerty, M. Wolde, and A. Korolev
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Themed Joint Session 3
The Other Uncertainty: Social, Political, and Cultural Forms of Uncertainty in Weather Contexts. Part III
Location: North 226AB (Phoenix Convention Center - West and North Buildings)
Hosts: (Joint between the 14th Symposium on Societal Applications: Policy, Research and Practice; and the Seventh Symposium on the Weather, Water, and Climate Enterprise )
Cochairs: Julie Demuth, NCAR; Jennifer A. Spinney, Univ. of Western Ontario
2:00 PM
TJ3.1
The Influence of Cultural Worldviews and Risk Perceptions on Severe Weather Preparation
Aimee Franklin, University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK; and J. Le, M. Brucks, and M. A. Shafer
2:15 PM
TJ3.2
2:45 PM
TJ3.4
Weathering Natural Disasters: Forecasting, Anticipation, and "Out-of-Model Uncertainties" in the Humanitarian Sector
Sara de Wit Jr., Institute for Science, Innovation and Society, Oxford, United Kingdom; and T. Pforr Jr.
3:00 PM
TJ3.5
Uncertainty and Consistency: Key Dimensions in Weather/Hazard Messaging
Susan A. Jasko, California University of Pennsylvania, California, PA; and L. Myers
3:15 PM
TJ3.6
Exploring Uncertainty in Vulnerability and Its Usability in Decision-Making
Olga Wilhelmi, NCAR, Boulder, CO; and P. Romero Lankao and I. Pichardo

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Session 3A
AI Techniques for Extreme Weather and Risk Assessment
Location: North 124B (Phoenix Convention Center - West and North Buildings)
Host: 18th Conference on Artificial and Computational Intelligence and its Applications to the Environmental Sciences
Chair: Carlos F. Gaitan, ClimateAI
2:00 PM
3A.1
Application of Artificial Intelligence in Lightning Detection and Nowcasting Using Polarimetric RADAR Data
Yunish Shrestha, University Of Oklahoma, Norman, OK; and Y. Zhang, R. J. Doviak, and P. W. Chan
2:15 PM
3A.2
Probabilistic Detection of Extreme Weather Using Deep Learning Methods
Ankur Mahesh, LBNL, Berkeley, CA; and T. A. O'Brien, W. D. Collins, M. Prabhat, K. Kashinath, and M. Mudigonda
2:30 PM
3A.3
An Updated Machine Learning Ensemble for Atlantic Tropical Cyclone Rapid Intensification Forecasting
Andrew Edward Mercer, Mississippi State University, Mississippi State, MS; and A. D. Grimes and K. M. Wood
3:00 PM
3A.5
Self-Organizing Maps for Tornadic Near-Storm Environments of the Southeastern United States
Alexandra Anderson-Frey, CIMMS, Norman, OK; and Y. P. Richardson, A. R. Dean, R. L. Thompson, and B. T. Smith
3:15 PM
3A.6
Improved Estimation of Hail Damage Integrating Radar and Ground Truth Data
Stan Biryukov, Understory Weather, Madison, WI; and K. Jero, E. Hewitt, and A. Kubicek
3:30 PM
3A.7
Recording files available
Session 3A
Clouds and Climate
Location: North 121BC (Phoenix Convention Center - West and North Buildings)
Host: 32nd Conference on Climate Variability and Change
Cochairs: James F. Booth, City Univ. of New York; Catherine M. Naud, Columbia Univ.
2:00 PM
3A.1
Observed and Modeled Cloud Responses to Interannual Climate Variability
Andrew Geiss, University of Washington, Seattle, WA; and R. T. Marchand
2:15 PM
3A.2
Boundary Layer Clouds in the Midlatitudes: Environmental Controls in Post-Cold Frontal Regions
Catherine Naud, Columbia Univ./NASA GISS, New York, NY; and J. F. Booth and F. Lamraoui
2:30 PM
3A.3
Examining the Fidelity of Cloud Optical Properties and Overlap Statistics through Comparisons of Radiative Transfer and Cloud Resolving Models against AIRS Observations
Tianhao Le, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA; and C. Li, V. Natraj, X. Zhang, A. J. Braverman, and Y. Yung
2:45 PM
3A.4
Exploring Radiative Influence on Extratropical Cyclone Development and Sensitivity
Gregory Tierney, North Carolina State Univ., Raleigh, NC; and D. J. Posselt and J. F. Booth
3:15 PM
3A.6
Examining Precipitation and Radiative Impacts of Convection in the Tropical Atlantic
Juliet A. Pilewskie, Univ. of Wisconsin–Madison, Madison, WI; and T. L'Ecuyer
3:30 PM
3A.7
Nonlinearity in the Climate Response to Greenhouse Gas and Aerosol Forcing
Zhaoyi Shen, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA; and Y. Ming
3:45 PM
3A.8
Band-by-Band Contributions to the Longwave Cloud Radiative Feedbacks
Xianglei Huang, Univ. of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI; and X. Chen and Q. Yue
Recording files available
Session 3A
Hydrometeorological Extremes III
Location: North 127ABC (Phoenix Convention Center - West and North Buildings)
Host: 33rd Conference on Hydrology
Cochairs: Konstantinos Andreadis, JPL; Eleonora Demaria, USDA–ARS; Daniel Rodriguez, Instituto Alberto Luiz Coimbra de Pós-Graduação e Pesquisa de Engenharia, Univ. Federal do Rio de Janeiro; John McHenry, Baron Advanced Meteorological Systems
2:00 PM
3A.1
Characteristics of Record Floods from Landfalling Tropical Cyclones over the CONUS
Maofeng Liu, Princeton Univ., Princeton, NJ; and L. Yang, J. A. Smith, and G. A. Vecchi

2:15 PM
3A.3
A Classification Index for Precipitation Events in Maricopa County, Arizona
Stephen D. Waters, Flood Control District of Maricopa County, Phoenix, AZ
2:30 PM
3A.2
2:45 PM
3A.4A
Predictability of U.S. Northern Great Plains Summertime Precipitation Extremes
Andrew Hoell, NOAA, Boulder, CO; and K. Wolter, F. Lehner, J. Perlwitz, and J. K. Eischeid
3:00 PM
3A.5
Analysis of Overlap between Hourly and Daily Precipitation Extremes
Nathan R. Kelly, Colorado State Univ., Fort Collins, CO; and R. S. Schumacher
3:15 PM
3A.6
Mesoscale and Synoptic Analysis of the Southern Great Plains 2015 Flash Pluvial
Sarah J. Wugofski, Univ. of Oklahoma, Norman, OK; and P. X. Flanagan and J. B. Basara
3:30 PM
3A.7A
Incorporation of Climate Change into Design Storms: The Challenges
Geneva M. E. Gray, North Carolina State Univ., Asheville, NC; and K. E. Kunkel and A. P. Ballinger
3:45 PM
3A.8A
Recording files available
Session 3A
Interagency Coordination within the Federal Weather Enterprise
Location: North 132ABC (Phoenix Convention Center - West and North Buildings)
Host: 35th Conference on Environmental Information Processing Technologies
Cochairs: William J. Schulz Jr., Office of Naval Research; C. Sim James, NOAA
2:15 PM
3A.2
NextGen Executive Weather Panel
John Egentowich, FAA, Washington, DC

2:30 PM
3A.3
National Earth System Prediction Capability: Coordinating Across Time Scales, across Agencies
Jessie C. Carman, OAR, Silver Spring, MD; and D. McCarren and B. Johnson

3:00 PM
3A.5
Comparing Satellite Architecture Studies Using Standard Taxonomy Approach
Justin Goldstein, NOAA/NESDIS/Office of Projects, Planning and Analysis, Silver Spring, MD; and D. Helms, J. Taylor, and M. Murphy
3:30 PM
3A.7
Adding Value to NDBC Weather Buoy Observations through Enhanced Data Management Practices
Karen Grissom, NDBC, Stennis Space Center, MS; and D. C. Petraitis, S. DiNapoli, C. Hall, and R. DiLorenzo

Recording files available
Session 3A
Regional Air Quality—Part III: Ozone and Air Quality Modeling
Location: North 124A (Phoenix Convention Center - West and North Buildings)
Host: 21st Conference on Atmospheric Chemistry
Cochairs: Leiming Zhang, ECCC; Jeffrey L. Collett Jr., Colorado State Univ.
2:00 PM
3A.1
A Framework to Improve Chemical Lateral Boundary Conditions in Support of NOAA’s Air Quality Forecast Capabilities
Zhining Tao, USRA, Greenbelt, MD; and Y. Tang, H. Bian, D. Tong, B. Baker, P. Lee, J. T. McQueen, and I. Stajner
2:30 PM
3A.3
Improvement of NOAA NAQFC ozone nighttime over-predictions through offline coupling system of FV3GFS/CMAQ
Jianping Huang, NOAA/NWS/NCEP/EMC, and IMSG, College Park, MD; and J. McQuen, P. Shafran, L. Pan, H. C. Huang, J. Kain, P. Lee, Y. Tang, I. Stajner, and J. Tirado-Delgado

2:45 PM
3A.4
Ozone Transport in the U.S. Mid-Atlantic
Mojtaba Moghani, Univ. of Delaware, Newark, DE; and C. L. Archer
3:15 PM
3A.6
Analysis of Regional Meteorology During the Ozone Episodes in the El Paso—Juarez Airshed in the Summer of 2017
Nakul Karle, Univ. of Texas at El Paso, El Paso, TX; and S. Mahmud, R. M. Fitzgerald, R. K. Sakai, W. R. Stockwell, B. B. Demoz, and V. R. Morris
3:30 PM
3A.7
Evaluation of a Lagrangian Air Quality Model against Various Observations and 3D Air Quality Models
Kai Fan, Washington State Univ., Pullman, WA; and B. K. Lamb, J. Avise, J. D. Fast, J. Vaughan, V. Walden, R. A. Zaveri, and Y. Lee
3:45 PM
3A.8
Long-Term Evaluation of the AIRPACT Air Quality Forecast Skill for the Pacific Northwest
Jordan A. Munson, Washington State Univ., Pullman, WA; and J. Vaughan, B. K. Lamb, and Y. Lee
Recording files available
Session 3B
Air Pollution in Asia: Sources, Transports, and Impacts on Health and Climate Oral—Part I
Location: North 126A (Phoenix Convention Center - West and North Buildings)
Host: 21st Conference on Atmospheric Chemistry
Chair: Yuan Wang, California Institute of Technology
Cochairs: Bin Zhao, Univ. of California, Los Angeles; Bryan Duncan, NASA GSFC
2:00 PM
3B.1
2:15 PM
3B.2
Quantifying Asian Power Plant CO2 Emissions from Space
Ray Nassar, Environment and Climate Change Canada, Toronto, Canada; and T. G. Hill, C. MacDonald, C. McCracken, C. McLinden, D. Wunch, D. B. A. Jones, and D. Crisp
2:30 PM
3B.3
Particulate Pollution in Southeast Asia: Its Impacts on Air Quality and Regional Climate
Chien Wang, MIT, Cambridge, MA; and H. H. Lee, B. Grandey, and L. K. Yeo
2:45 PM
3B.4
Decadal-Scale Assessment of the Impact of Household Fuel Use on PM2.5 exposure and Public Health in China
Bin Zhao, Univ. of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA; and H. Zheng, S. Wang, K. R. Smith, X. Lu, K. Aunan, Y. Gu, Y. Wang, K. N. Liou, and J. Hao
3:00 PM
3B.5
Modeling Particulate Matter and Ozone in the 18 Cities of Sichuan Basin, Southwestern China
Xue Qiao, Sichuan Univ., Chengdu, LA; and H. Guo, P. Wang, Y. Tang, Q. Ying, W. Deng, and H. Zhang
3:15 PM
3B.6
Investigation of Changing Seasonal Cycles of O3 over Japan from 1980 to 2015
Natsumi Kawano, National Institute for Environmental Studies, Ibaraki, Japan; and T. Nagashima and S. Sugata
3:30 PM
3B.7
Revisiting the Importance of Chemical Data Assimilation to Modeling East Asia Air Quality and Its Impact on Downwind Regions
Min Huang, George Mason Univ., Fairfax, VA; and J. H. Crawford, K. Bowman, M. Parrington, and G. Carmichael

4:00 PM
Estimating the Contribution of Local Primary Emissions to Particulate Pollution Using High-Density Station Observations -- Chuanfeng Zhao
Recording files available
Session 3B
International Hazards—What's the Risk?
Location: North 131C (Phoenix Convention Center - West and North Buildings)
Host: 35th Conference on Environmental Information Processing Technologies
Cochairs: Ian Lisk, Met Office; Baudouin Raoult, ECMWF; Rebecca Hemingway, Met Office
2:00 PM
3B.1
2:15 PM
3B.2
Impact-Based Forecasting and Warning: Weather Ready Nations in Central America
Rochelle Campbell, Hydrologic Research Center, San Diego, CA; and S. A. Tokar, D. P. Beardsley, R. Jubach, and C. Barrett
2:30 PM
3B.3
Impact-Based Forecasting and Assessment in the Caribbean
Shawn A. Boyce, Caribbean Insitute for Meteorology and Hydrology, Saint James, Barbados; and K. A. Caesar, R. A. Jeffries, and B. Spooner
3:00 PM
3B.5
Flexible Earth System Modelling on Multiple Grids
Willem Deconinck, ECMWF, Reading, United Kingdom; and P. Maciel and M. Diamantakis
3:15 PM
3B.6
A Flexible Interpolation Package to Support Existing and Future ECMWF Model Developments
Pedro Maciel, ECMWF, Reading, U.K.; and B. Raoult, S. Siemen, T. Quintino, and W. Deconinck
3:30 PM
3B.7
The Multi-Faceted ECMWF Approach to Forecasting Hazardous Weather
Tim D. Hewson, ECMWF, Reading, United Kingdom; and I. Tsonevsky, F. Prates, and E. Gascon
Recording files available
Session 3B
Multiprocesses Analysis, Modeling, and Product Application in Arid and Semiarid Regions
Location: North 126BC (Phoenix Convention Center - West and North Buildings)
Host: 33rd Conference on Hydrology
Cochairs: Yaohui Li, Institute of Arid Meteorology, China Meteorological Administration; Xing Yuan, Institute of Atmospheric Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences; Youlong Xia, NOAA/NWS/NCEP/EMC
2:30 PM
3B.3
Current Progress in Modeling Ecohydrological Processes over Drylands (Invited Presentation)
Zong-Liang Yang, Univ. of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX; and W. Y. Wu, H. Zheng, P. Lin, J. Liang, and L. Zhao
3:00 PM
3B.5
Studying Groundwater Sustainability Using the Western Land Data Assimilation System
Bailing Li, Univ. of Maryland, College Park, MD; and M. Rodell, C. D. Peters-Lidard, J. M. Erlingis, and S. V. Kumar
3:15 PM
3B.6
Exploring the Role of Antecedent Land Surface Conditions Associated with 2015 Wildfire Events in the Northwestern United States
Jonathan L. Case, ENSCO, Inc., Huntsville, AL; and C. J. Schultz, J. B. Wachter, A. T. White, C. R. Hain, and K. D. White
3:30 PM
3B.7
Study on Characteristics of Abrupt Alternation Events between Drought and Flood in Northern China
Yaohui Li, Institute of Arid Meteorology, China Meteorological Administration, Lanzhou, China; and Y. Li

3:45 PM
3B.8
Observed and Simulated Channel Network Infiltration Losses in the Semi-Arid Walnut Gulch Experimental Watershed, Arizona
Max Mitchell, Univ. of Arizona, Tucson, AZ; and P. Hazenberg, T. M. Lahmers, S. Burns, C. L. Castro, D. Gochis, D. C. Goodrich, H. V. Gupta, and Y. Korgaonkar
Recording files available
Session 3B
Polar Climate Variability and Change—Part II
Location: North 122BC (Phoenix Convention Center - West and North Buildings)
Host: 32nd Conference on Climate Variability and Change
Chair: Sergio A. Sejas, NASA Langley Research Center
2:00 PM
3B.1
Arctic Cloud and Atmospheric Regime Interactions: An Annual Cycle Perspective
Patrick Taylor, NASA LRC, Hampton, VA; and R. C. Boeke

2:15 PM
3B.2
Quantifying the Arctic Local Radiative Feedbacks Based on Observed Short-Term Climate Variations
Rudong Zhang, PNNL, Richland, WA; and H. Wang, Q. Fu, A. G. Pendergrass, and P. J. Rasch

2:30 PM
3B.3
Interannual Oscillations of Arctic Summertime TOA Fluxes
Dong L. Wu, NASA GSFC, Greenbelt, MD; and J. N. Lee

2:45 PM
3B.4
3:00 PM
3B.5
On the Role of Horizontal Temperature Advection for the Interdecadal Arctic Warming Trend
Joseph P. Clark, The Pennsylvania State Univ., University Park, PA; and S. B. Feldstein and S. Lee
3:15 PM
3B.6
High-Resolution Future Climate Change Simulation in Alaska Using a Pseudo–Global Warming Scenario
Andrew Newman, NCAR, Boulder, CO; and A. J. Monaghan, M. Clark, K. Ikeda, L. Xue, and J. R. Arnold
3:30 PM
3B.7
Exploring Rapid Climate Change in the Arctic with the Arctic System Reanalysis
Aaron B. Wilson, The Ohio State Univ., Columbus, OH; and D. H. Bromwich and L. S. Bai
3:45 PM
3B.8
Developing Capabilities for Analysis in the Arctic within the NOAA/NWS Local Climate Analysis Tool
Marina Timofeyeva, NOAA/NWS, Silver Spring, MD; and M. E. Churma, M. Coulman, F. Horsfall, and J. C. Meyers

Recording files available
Joint Session 4
Advances in CubeSats and SmallSats to Improve Earth Science, Weather Forecasting, Space Weather Prediction, Hydrology Studies, or Climate Monitoring—Part III
Location: North 230 (Phoenix Convention Center - West and North Buildings)
Hosts: (Joint between the Ninth Conference on Transition of Research to Operations; the 15th Annual Symposium on New Generation Operational Environmental Satellite Systems; and the Second Conference on Earth Observing SmallSats )
Cochairs: Margaret Caulfield; Thomas Pagano, JPL/California Institute of Technology
2:00 PM
J4.1
The Compact TIM (CTIM) Instrument
Dave Harber, Univ. of Colorado Boulder, Boulder, CO; and G. Drake, S. Van Dreser, K. Heuerman, J. Sprunck, C. Straatsma, I. Wanamaker, W. Zheng, G. Kopp, E. Richard, P. Pilewskie, N. Tomlin, M. Stephens, C. Yung, M. White, and J. Lehman
2:15 PM
J4.2
Maintaining Continuity of the Solar Spectral Irradiance Data Record in the 21st Century: On-Orbit Validation of Future Observational Strategies
Erik Richard, Univ. of Colorado Boulder, Boulder, CO; and D. Harber, G. Drake, O. Coddington, S. Beland, S. Mauceri, and P. Pilewskie

2:30 PM
J4.3
Modeling the 3-D Geomagnetic Field Using Satellite Scalar Field Observations
Morgan E. Schneider, Univ. of Oklahoma, Norman, OK; and P. Alken and A. Chulliat
2:45 PM
J4.4
ReCON: Regional Coastal Oceanography with Nanosatellites
Sean McCarthy, NRL, Stennis Space Center, MS; and M. Lewis, J. Jolliff, R. W. Gould, S. Ladner, and A. Lawson
3:00 PM
J4.5
Vicarious Calibration of Earth Observing Nanosatellite Sensors
Mark Lewis, NRL, Stennis Space Center, MS; and S. McCarthy, R. W. Gould, J. Jolliff, S. Ladner, A. Lawson, and P. Martinolich
3:15 PM
J4.6
Optimization of Future SmallSats Constellations through OSSE: A Test Case of Assessing the Value of Deploying EON-MW in High- and Low-Inclination Orbits
Yan Zhou, Univ. of Maryland, College Park, MD; and S. A. Boukabara, K. Ide, N. Shahroudi, T. Zhu, R. N. Hoffman, R. Atlas, and F. Iturbide-Sanchez
3:30 PM
J4.7
Deployable W-Band Antennas for CubeSats, NanoSats, and SmallSats
Tristen Hohman, Boulder Environmental Sciences and Technology, Boulder, CO; and J. Fay, C. Dunlap, and M. Klein
3:45 PM
J4.8
Microwave Radiometer Sensors for Economical Satellite Constellations
Marian Klein, Boulder Environmental Sciences and Technology, Boulder, CO; and C. Dunlap, Z. Wang, T. Hohman, and K. Ramsdale
Recording files available
Session 4
Solar Forecasting: Part II
Location: North 129A (Phoenix Convention Center - West and North Buildings)
Host: 10th Conference on Weather, Climate, and the New Energy Economy
Cochairs: Jeffrey M. Freedman, Univ. at Albany, SUNY; Robert D'Arienzo, IBM
2:00 PM
4.1
Enhancing WRF-Solar to Provide Probabilistic Cloud Optimized Day-Ahead Forecasts
Pedro A. Jimenez, NCAR, Boulder, CO; and M. Sengupta, Y. Xie, J. H. Kim, J. Dudhia, and B. Kosovic
2:15 PM
4.2
Advancing Solar Irradiance Nowcasts on Long Island: Blending WRF-Solar with Observations
Jared A. Lee, NCAR, Boulder, CO; and S. Dettling, S. E. Haupt, and T. Brummet
2:30 PM
4.3
Solar Radiation in Different Cloud Regimes Using WRF-Solar Simulations
Xin Zhou, Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, NY; and Y. Liu, W. Lin, S. Endo, and S. Yoo
3:00 PM
4.5
Improving Forecasts of Shallow Cumulus for Solar Energy Applications Using Single-Column Modeling and the LASSO Cases
Wayne M. Angevine, CIRES, Univ. of Colorado Boulder, and NOAA/ESRL, Boulder, CO; and J. B. Olson, J. Kenyon, W. I. Gustafson Jr., S. Endo, K. Suselj, D. D. Turner, G. Feingold, and I. Glenn
3:15 PM
4.6
Better Solar and Wind Forecasts from 2019−20 HRRR/RAP from Improved Clouds
Stan Benjamin, NOAA/ESRL, Boulder, CO; and J. B. Olson, C. R. Alexander, J. Kenyon, T. T. Ladwig, E. P. James, M. Hu, G. Grell, J. M. Brown, and D. D. Turner
3:30 PM
4.7
Probabilistic Solar Power Forecasts Using a Large Ensemble
Stephen D. Jascourt, Radiant Solutions, Gaithersburg, MD; and C. Cassidy, E. E. Wertz, and T. Hartman
3:45 PM
4.8
Open Source Evaluation Framework for Solar Forecasting
William F. Holmgren, The Univ. of Arizona, Tucson, AZ; and C. W. Hansen, A. Tuohy, J. Sharp, A. T. Lorenzo, and A. Golnas
Recording files available
Joint Panel Discussion 4
Weather Safety for Outdoor Events
Location: North 222AB (Phoenix Convention Center - West and North Buildings)
Hosts: (Joint between the Seventh Symposium on the Weather, Water, and Climate Enterprise; and the Ninth Conference on the Meteorological Application of Lightning Data )
Moderator: Kevin A. Kloesel, Univ. of Oklahoma
Panelists: April Messerly, West Virginia Univ./College Event Facilities; Joe Abernathy, St. Louis Cardinals/Stadium Managers; Jim Foerster, PGA Tour Support/Telvent DTN; Steve Adelman, Adelman Law Group, PLLC/Event Safety Alliance; Eric C. Bruning, Texas Tech Univ; Nate Johnson, NBC Owned Television Stations Group
Digby, Willrick, Messerly, Abernathy, Foerster, Karel, Bardou, Kimmel
Charlie Woodrum, NOAA/NWS, Shreveport, LA

2:30 PM-3:00 PM: Monday, 7 January 2019


Session 3
An Introduction to the Poster Presenters
Location: North 129B (Phoenix Convention Center - West and North Buildings)
Host: Ninth Symposium on Advances in Modeling and Analysis Using Python
Chair: Scott Collis, Argonne National Laboratory

2:45 PM-4:00 PM: Monday, 7 January 2019

Recording files available
Session 3B
AI Applications to Air Quality
Location: North 125AB (Phoenix Convention Center - West and North Buildings)
Host: 18th Conference on Artificial and Computational Intelligence and its Applications to the Environmental Sciences
Chair: Edwin Campos, Uptake Technologies
2:45 PM
3B.1
Application of Deep Neural Networks in Top-Down NOx Emissions Estimation
Hyun Cheol Kim, NOAA/OAR/ARL, College Park, MD; and B. Baker, T. Chai, C. Bae, S. You, B. U. Kim, and S. Kim
3:00 PM
3B.2
Gradient Boosting Machine Learning to Improve Satellite-Derived Column Water Vapor with Implications for Estimating Ground-Level Fine Particulate Air Pollution
Allan C. Just, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY; and R. B. Chatfield, A. Lyapustin, Y. Wang, M. Sorek-Hamer, J. Rush, and I. Kloog
3:15 PM
3B.3
3:30 PM
3B.4
Short-Term Forecasting of PM2.5 in High-Density City: A Spatio-Temporal Deep Learning Model Framework in Hong Kong
Meilan Wang, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong, Hong Kong; and K. H. Lau

3:45 PM
3B.5
Improved Lidar Data Classification, Using State-of-the-Art Machine Learning Techniques
Ghazal Farhani, The University of Western Ontario, London, ON, Canada; and R. J. Sica, M. Daley, A. Haefele, and D. Cecil

3:00 PM-3:30 PM: Monday, 7 January 2019


Lecture 2
Tutorial: Moving from Single Jobs to Many Nodes: Dask, X-Array, and Pangeo
Location: North 129B (Phoenix Convention Center - West and North Buildings)
Host: Ninth Symposium on Advances in Modeling and Analysis Using Python
Lecturer: Daniel Rothenberg, ClimaCell Inc.

3:00 PM-4:00 PM: Monday, 7 January 2019

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Panel Discussion 1
Telling Lives in Meteorology: A Dialogue between Readers and Writers
Location: North 222C (Phoenix Convention Center - West and North Buildings)
Host: 17th History Symposium
Chair: Lourdes Avilés, Plymouth State University
Panelists: Roger D. Turner, Science History Institute; Jennifer Henderson, CIRES; Sean Potter, Certified Consulting Meteorologist; James Rodger Fleming, Colby College; Jonathan E. Martin, Univ. of Wisconsin–Madison
3:00 PM
PD1.1
Telling Lives in Meteorology: A Dialogue between Readers and Writers
Roger D. Turner, Science History Institute, Carlisle, PA; and J. Henderson, J. R. Fleming, and S. Potter
Recording files available
Session 4
State-of-the-Art Physical Science Aspects of Mesoscale Extreme Events—Part II
Location: North 221AB (Phoenix Convention Center - West and North Buildings)
Host: Special Symposium on Mesoscale Meteorological Extremes: Understanding, Prediction, and Projection
Cochairs: Thomas Galarneau, The Univ. of Arizona; Gretchen Mullendore, Univ. of North Dakota
3:00 PM
4.1
3:15 PM
4.2
Future Changes in Extreme Precipitation: Why Mountains Are Different
Dale Durran, Univ. of Washington, Seattle, WA; and X. Shi
3:30 PM
Lightning Round Student Poster Presentations and Concluding Remarks
Thomas Galarneau, The Univ. of Arizona, Tucson, AZ; and G. Mullendore
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Session 4
Tropical Waves
Location: North 232AB (Phoenix Convention Center - West and North Buildings)
Host: Seventh Symposium on the Madden-Julian Oscillation and Sub-Seasonal Monsoon Variability
Chair: Naoko Sakaeda, Univ. of Oklahoma
3:00 PM
4.1
On Misinterpretation of the Background Spectrum of Tropical OLR Anomalies
Paul E. Roundy, University at Albany, State University of New York, Albany, NY
3:15 PM
4.2
Need to Update the Tropical Wave/MJO Paradigm
Prashant D. Sardeshmukh, CIRES, Boulder, CO; and M. Newman

3:30 PM
4.3
African Easterly Wave–Mesoscale Convective Coupled Systems That Are Potential Candidates for Tropical Cyclogenesis
Kelly Marie Nunez Ocasio, The Pennsylvania State Univ., Univ. Park,, PA; and J. L. Evans
3:45 PM
4.4
Convectively Coupled Equatorial Waves in the Models of the MJOTF/GASS Global MJO Model Comparison Project
Alejandro Jaramillo, Univ. Nacional Autónoma de Mexico, Mexico City, Mexico; and D. K. Adams, A. I. Quintanar, G. N. Kiladis, and J. Dias

4:00 PM-6:00 PM: Monday, 7 January 2019


2019 NWA/AMS Research Operations Nexus (RON) Meetup-Honoring the Legacy of Ronald W. Przybylinski
Location: North Ballroom 120AB (Phoenix Convention Center - West and North Buildings)

Formal Poster Viewing Reception
Location: Hall 4 (Phoenix Convention Center - West and North Buildings)

Poster Session 1
9R2O Poster Viewing #1 - Exhibit Hall - Monday, 4:00–6:00
Location: Hall 4 (Phoenix Convention Center - West and North Buildings)
Host: Ninth Conference on Transition of Research to Operations
251
Precipitation and Cloud Water Paths on Land Surface Temperature Investigation
Ming Liu, NRL, Monterey, CA; and S. Yang and R. H. Langland

252
Application of Sea-Level Pressure and Wind Speeds Climatology in Marine Weather Forecast Operations
Alex Korner, NCEP, College Park, MD; and J. M. Sienkiewicz, F. Achorn, and L. J. Phillips

Poster 253 is now Paper 4B.6A.


Poster Session 1
Atmospheric Chemistry Poster Session I
Location: Hall 4 (Phoenix Convention Center - West and North Buildings)
Host: 21st Conference on Atmospheric Chemistry
Cochairs: Jeffrey L. Collett, Jr., Colorado State Univ.; Jonathan Jiang, JPL; Kenneth E. Pickering, Univ. of Maryland
147
Monitoring Volcanic Eruptions by OMI/OMPS, ASTER, and MERRA-2
Jian Zeng, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center/ADNET Systems, Greenbelt, MD; and L. M. Harriman, A. Savtchenko, D. Ostrenga, B. Vollmer, J. Wei, and J. Acker

148
Geological Leaks of Methane in Natural Gas Extraction
W.F.J. Evans, North West Research Associates, Redmond, WA; and P. W. J. Evans

150
Modeling Bi-Directional Fluxes of NH3 in a Forest Ecosystem Using SURFATM-NH3 Model: A Study with a Dataset from a Deciduous Montane Forest in the Southeastern U.S.
Nebila Lichiheb, NOAA, Oak Ridge, TN; and E. Personne, J. T. Walker Jr., Z. Wu, X. Chen, D. B. Schwede, and A. C. Oishi

151
Enhancements of Urban Ozone during Wildfire Events in the Pacific Northwest
Mahshid Etesamifard, Washington State Univ., Pullman, WA; and D. Jaffe, C. D. McClure, B. T. Jobson, Y. Lee, S. O’Neill, Y. Zou, J. Vaughan, and B. K. Lamb

152
Applying the CMAQ-Direct Decoupled Method to the Tri-Cities Ozone Precursor Study (T-COPS)
Mahshid Etesamifard, Washington State Univ., Pullman, WA; and J. Vaughan, T. B. Jobson, and B. Lamb

153
The Sensitivity of Southeast U.S. Ozone Abundance and Production to Dry Deposition
Colleen B. Baublitz, Columbia Univ., New York, NY; and A. M. Fiore, O. E. Clifton, J. Mao, J. Li, L. Horowitz, F. Paulot, and G. J. P. Correa

Poster 154 has been moved. New paper number is 17A.

17A
Influences on Air Quality in Georgetown, Texas
Rebecca Paulsen Edwards, Southwestern Univ., Georgetown, TX; and G. A. Morris

155
Height Dependent Entrainment Measurements Using Observations
Jeyavinoth Jeyaratnam, City College of New York, City Univ. of New York, New York, NY; and Z. J. Luo, H. Su, R. Stanfield, H. Takahashi, and J. H. Jiang

156
Evolution of Convectively Injected Water Vapor in the Lower Stratosphere During the SEAC4RS Campaign
Robert L. Herman, JPL, Pasadena, CA; and L. Wu, H. Su, J. Hegarty, A. Lambert, M. J. Schwartz, W. G. Read, and T. P. Bui

159
The Volatility and Effective Density of Ambient Ultrafine Particles in the Outskirt of an Urban City in Taiwan
Yu-Xin Chen, China Medical Univ., Taichung, Taiwan; and L. H. Young and T. C. Hsiao

160
GRIMs-Chem Two-Way Chemistry-Climate Coupled Model System with Aerosol Feedback in East Asia
Jaein Jeong, Seoul National Univ., Seoul, Korea, Republic of (South); and R. Park and S. Lee

163
Analysis of AERONET Remote Sensing and LARGE In-Situ Measurements of Aerosol Properties During the KORUS-AQ Campaign with Focus on Pollution Transport Events and the Influence of Cloud/Fog and High RH
Thomas Eck, USRA, Columbia, MD; and B. N. Holben, J. Kim, A. J. Beyersdorf, M. Choi, D. M. Giles, J. Schafer, A. Sinyuk, D. A. Peterson, I. Slutsker, A. Smirnov, M. Sorokin, J. Kraft, B. E. Anderson, K. L. Thornhill, and J. H. Crawford


Joint Poster Session 1
Big Data, Big Computing, Bigger Science
Location: Hall 4 (Phoenix Convention Center - West and North Buildings)
Hosts: (Joint between the Fifth Symposium on High Performance Computing for Weather, Water, and Climate; and the 18th Conference on Artificial and Computational Intelligence and its Applications to the Environmental Sciences )
Chair: Timothy S. Sliwinski, Texas Tech University
324
Community Data Management Systems for CMIP6
Denis Nadeau, LLNL, Livermore, CA; and C. Doutriaux, D. Williams, and T. Reshel

325
An Update on the Collaborative REAnalysis Technical Environment (CREATE)
Gerald L. Potter, NASA GSFC, Greenbelt, MD; and L. Carriere, J. Hertz, J. Peters, T. P. Maxwell, S. Strong, J. Shute, Y. Shen, and D. Duffy

326
Analyzing Big Data Produced by Mesoscale-Domain Large-Eddy Simulation
Song-Lak Kang, Gangneung-Wonju National Univ., Gangneung, Korea, Republic of (South)

327
Developing a Machine Learning–Based Hail Climatology Using the SHAVE and MYRORSS Databases
Skylar S. Williams, Oklahoma Univ./CIMMS and NOAA/OAR/NSSL, Norman, OK; and K. L. Ortega

Handout (12.3 MB)


Poster Session 1
Climate Variability and Change Posters—Part I
Location: Hall 4 (Phoenix Convention Center - West and North Buildings)
Host: 32nd Conference on Climate Variability and Change
Chairs: Robert Korty, Texas A&M Univ.; Walter Robinson, North Carolina State Univ.
61
An Examination of North Pacific Jet Regimes Conducive to Landfalling Atmospheric Rivers along the West Coast of North America
Eli Turasky, Univ. at Albany, SUNY, Albany, NY; and A. C. Winters, D. Keyser, and L. Bosart

62
Atmospheric Rivers and Precipitation Extremes under a Changing Climate
Jiali Wang, ANL, Lemont, IL; and Z. Zobel and R. Kotamarthi

64
Constraining Future Projections of Atmospheric Rivers Using a Multiobjective Model Evaluation Framework
Elias Massoud, NASA JPL, Pasadena, CA; and B. Guan, V. Espinoza, and D. E. Waliser

66
Quasigeostrophic Forcing during Landfalling Atmospheric Rivers over Northern and Southern California
Chad W. Hecht, SIO/Univ. of California, La Jolla, CA; and F. Cannon, J. M. Cordeira, and F. M. Ralph

67
Atmospheric River Research in Alaska
Aaron Jacobs, NOAA/NWS, Juneau, AK; and E. Holloway and A. Dixon

68
Extreme Surface Winds during Atmospheric Rivers: The Modulating Role of Near-Surface Stability
Terence Pagano, California State Univ., Los Angeles, CA; and D. E. Waliser, B. Guan, and H. Ye

69
Uncertainty Estimates of Atmospheric River-Induced Extreme Precipitation from Numerical Precision in a Regional Weather Model
Rachel Weihs, SIO/Univ. of California, La Jolla, CA; and C. Papadopoulos and F. M. Ralph

70
Experimental Subseasonal Forecasting of Atmospheric Rivers over the Western United States during Winter 2017–18 and 2018–19
Michael DeFlorio, JPL, Pasadena, CA; and D. E. Waliser, F. M. Ralph, J. Jones, M. L. Anderson, A. Goodman, B. Guan, A. Subramanian, Z. Zhang, A. Gershunov, and F. Vitart

71
Atmospheric Rivers in an Ever-Changing Climate
Ash E. Bray, The Univ. of Arizona, Tucson, AZ

72
The Structure and Evolution of Persistent West Coast Cool Season Ridge Regimes
Tyler Leicht, Univ. at Albany, SUNY, Albany, NY; and L. Bosart

73
Understanding Decadal Variability of Atmospheric Rivers
James Done, NCAR, Boulder, CO; and M. Ge

74
Intensive Climate Warming and Drought Trend during 1981–2018
Felix Kogan, NOAA/NESDIS, College Park, MD

75
Modeled Response of Midlatitude Cyclones to Projected Changes in North American Snow Cover
Ryan Clare, Univ. of Wisconsin–Madison, Madison, WI; and A. R. Desai, M. Notaro, J. Martin, and S. J. Vavrus

76
Climate Change and Global Warming Using Empirical Model
Remata S. Reddy, Jackson State Univ., Jackson, MS; and F. Tuluri, M. Fadavi, and W. L. Walters

78
Understanding the Dynamical Controlling Factors on Southern Ocean Clouds
Kevin M. Grise, Univ. of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA; and M. K. Kelleher

79
80
Characteristics of Rain and Cloud Liquid Water Path in Stratiform Precipitation Systems during MC3E
Jingjing Tian, The Univ. of Arizona, Tucson, AZ; and X. Dong, B. Xi, and C. R. Williams

81
Effect of Wind Shear in Marine Stratocumulus Drizzle Production
Peng Wu, The Univ. of Arizona, Tucson, AZ; and W. W. Grabowski, X. Dong, B. Xi, and L. Xue

82
Halo Identification Algorithm for Sky Images Produced in TSI Series
Sylke Boyd, Univ. of Minnesota, Morris, MN; and S. Sorenson, M. King, S. Richard, and M. Greenslit
Manuscript (1.2 MB)

Handout (1.1 MB)

84
Time Series Evaluation of the Current Collection of NASA MODIS Science Team Cloud Products
Steven Platnick, GSFC, Greenbelt, MD; and K. Meyer, N. Amarasinghe, G. Wind, S. A. Ackerman, R. E. Holz, and R. Frey

85
Impact of Convective Detrainment on Cloud Optical Properties
Laura Fowler, NCAR, Boulder, CO; and M. C. Barth

86
Angular Resolved Light Scattering as a Sensitive Tool to Infer Ice Crystal Complexity
Martin Schnaiter, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Karlsruhe, Germany; and E. Hesse and E. Järvinen

Handout (2.6 MB)

87
Recent Arctic Cyclone Climatology from the Regional Arctic System Model (RASM)
Elizabeth N. Cassano, CIRES, Boulder, CO; and J. J. Cassano and E. Valkonen

88
Quantifying the Impact of Atmospheric Blocking on the Mean State of the North Atlantic Sector of the Arctic
Gina R. Henderson, U.S. Naval Academy, Annapolis, MD; and B. S. Barrett, E. McDonnell, and M. Henry

89
A Spring Predictability Barrier for Arctic Sea Ice
David B. Bonan, Univ. of Washington, Seattle, WA; and M. Bushuk and M. Winton

91
Antarctic Iceberg Characterization and Variability from 60+ Years of Ship-Based Observations in the Southern Ocean
Yuri A. Romanov, P.P. Shirshov Institute of Oceanology, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia; and N. A. Romanova and P. Romanov

93
Enhanced 30-Year Global Snow and Ice Dataset and Climatology
Peter Romanov, City Univ. of New York, New York, NY

94
Springtime North Pacific Oscillation and Summer Sea Ice in the Beaufort Sea
Minghong Zhang, Bedford Institute of Oceanography, Dartmouth, NS, Canada; and W. Perrie and Z. Long

95
Determining Ocean Tide Influences on Antarctic Ice Shelf Circulation Using GFDL MOM6
Casey Brayton, Univ. of South Carolina–Columbia, Irmo, SC; and R. Hallberg


Poster Session 1
EIPT Posters—Part I
Location: Hall 4 (Phoenix Convention Center - West and North Buildings)
Host: 35th Conference on Environmental Information Processing Technologies
Cochairs: Kevin Tyle, Univ. at Albany/SUNY; Scott S. Lindstrom, Univ. of Wisconsin
1
The History of IIPS/EIPT: Where Did It All Begin?
Scott Jacobs, NOAA/NWS, Silver Spring, MD; and T. C. Vance and N. Merati

2
Monitoring the Processing and Delivery of Cloud and Aerosol Products for the Atmosphere SIPS
Jennifer Witt, Space Science and Engineering Center, Madison, WI; and L. Gumley, J. Braun, S. Dutcher, and B. Flynn

3
Using GeoJSON to Efficiently Deliver Geographic Information from the NWS National Forecast Chart
B. Matthew Holliday, Mississippi State Univ., Mississippi State, MS; and G. W. Carbin

4
The Extreme Precipitation Forecast Improvement Project: Helping Forecasters and the Public Improve Their Situational Awareness When Extreme Rainfall Is a Threat.
Diana R. Stovern, CIRES, Boulder, CO; and J. A. Nelson Jr., S. Czyzyk, J. W. Zeitler, E. Nipper, K. Landry, M. Klein, and D. Miller

6
DustWatch: A Highway Safety Project by Youth Citizen Scientists to Mitigate the Damages of Dust Storms
Jeffrey W. Tong, Atholton High School, Columbia, MD; and K. Liu, B. W. Tong, A. Xie, E. Nzokwe, and D. Zhang

7
Web-Based Tool for Rapid Burn Intensity Estimates Using VIIRS NDVI
Sam Batzli, CIMSS, Madison–Madison, WI; and D. Parker, N. Bearson, R. Dengel, K. Rowden, and I. Csiszar

9
Development of a GIS Tool to Assess Climate Suitability of Crops
Shinwoo Hyun, Seoul National Univ., Seoul, Korea, Republic of (South); and K. S. Kim


Poster Session 1
GOES-R/JPSS Poster Session—Part I
Location: Hall 4 (Phoenix Convention Center - West and North Buildings)
Host: 15th Annual Symposium on New Generation Operational Environmental Satellite Systems
223
Current Status of Cloud Properties from VIIRS on JPSS-1 for CERES
Sunny Sun-Mack, SSAI, Hampton, VA; and W. L. Smith Jr., P. Minnis, Y. Chen, G. Hong, F. L. Chang, Q. Z. Trepte, C. R. Yost, R. A. Smith, C. Chu, R. R. Brown, and E. C. Heckert

Handout (4.4 MB)

224
Comparison of the Geolocation Accuracy between ATMS on board JPSS-1 and SNPP
Jun Zhou, Univ. of Maryland, College Park, College Park, MD; and H. Yang, N. Sun, and J. X. Yang

225
NPP and N20 CrIS Full Spectral Resolution Detector Differences Derived from the NCEP Global Data Assimilation System
James A. Jung, Univ. of Wisconsin/CIMSS, College Park, MD; and A. Lim, W. McCarty, Y. Ling, and M. Goldberg
Manuscript (1012.8 kB)

Handout (1.6 MB)

226
Preliminary Case Study of Geostationary IR Sounding Data from FY-4A GIIRS
Jessica M. Gartzke, Univ. of Wisconsin/CIMSS, Madison, WI; and R. Knuteson, W. L. Smith Sr., E. Weisz, H. Revercomb, and P. Menzel
Manuscript (870.2 kB)

Handout (1.4 MB)

227
Analysis and Applications of Water Vapor–Derived Multispectral Composites for Geostationary Satellites
Emily B. Berndt, NASA/Marshall Space Flight Center, Huntsville, AL; and G. Jedlovec, K. K. Fuell, F. J. LaFontaine, and N. J. Elmer

Handout (2.0 MB)

229
An Algorithm for Estimating Heat Index, Based on GOES and MODIS Satellite Data
Nazario D. Ramirez-Beltran, Univ. of Puerto Rico, Mayaguez, Puerto Rico; and J. M. Castro, J. E. Gonzalez, and R. Pokhrel

230
Statistical Analysis of the Existence of Thundersnow and Snow-to-Liquid Ratios
Sebastian S. Harkema, The Univ. of Alabama in Huntsville, Huntsville, AL; and E. B. Berndt

231
Evaluation of GOES-16 RGB Imagery and Convective Products for Convective Heavy Rainfall Events
Eric M. Goldenstern, Valparaiso Univ., Valparaiso, IN; and M. J. Folmer, M. Klein, J. A. Nelson Jr., and A. Orrison

Poster 232 is now paper 3.5A

234
Helping to Prepare Users for the GOES-R Era: ABI Imagery and Products
Mathew M. Gunshor, Univ. of Wisconsin/CIMSS, Madison, WI; and J. J. Gerth, S. S. Lindstrom, S. C. Moeller, C. C. Schmidt, and T. J. Schmit

235
ABI Imagery: From Beta to Full Maturity
Mathew M. Gunshor, Univ. of Wisconsin/CIMSS, Madison, WI; and T. J. Schmit and J. P. Nelson III

236
Routine Validation of the STAR Multisatellite Processing System Framework
William Straka, Univ. of Wisconsin–Madison, Madison, WI; and W. W. Wolf, S. Sampson, R. Garcia, G. Martin, A. Li, E. Schiffer, M. Fan, and J. Daniels

237
Himawari Support in the CSPP-GEO Direct Broadcast Package
Geoff Cureton, Univ. of Wisconsin–Madison, Madison, WI

239
Comparison of Sea Ice Products from MiRS ATMS and VIIRS
Yong-Keun Lee, STAR, College Park, MD; and C. Grassotti, Q. Liu, S. Liu, and R. Honeyager

240
Assessing and Comparing JPSS ATMS against Suomi NPP ATMS
John Xun Yang, Univ. of Maryland, College Park, College Park, MD; and H. Yang

241
Radiometric Assessment for FY-3D HIRAS Provisional Sensor Data Records
Chunqiang Wu, China Meteorological Administration, Beijing, China; and C. Qi, X. Hu, H. Xu, L. Li, M. Gu, F. Zhou, T. Yang, C. Shao, Y. Lv, and M. Yuan

242
Toward Continuity in IR Absorption Radiances from HIRS and MODIS to VIIRS
Bryan A. Baum, Science and Technology Corporation, Madison, WI; and E. Weisz and P. Menzel

243
JPSS Products, Applications, and Training Resources
Jorel Torres, CIRA/Colorado State Univ., Fort Collins, CO; and B. H. Connell and S. D. Miller

244
GOES-17 Postlaunch Testing Summary and Results
Elizabeth M. Kline, Science and Technology Corporation, Greenbelt, MD; and M. Seybold, J. Fulbright, and D. Pogorzala

Handout (3.1 MB)


Poster Session 1
HPC Poster Session
Location: Hall 4 (Phoenix Convention Center - West and North Buildings)
Host: Fifth Symposium on High Performance Computing for Weather, Water, and Climate
Chair: Timothy S. Sliwinski, Texas Tech University
328
WRF Scaling, Performance Assessment, and Optimization
Akira Kyle, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA; and D. Del Vento, D. Patel, B. J. Vanderwende, and N. Sobhani


Poster Session 1
Ninth Symposium on Advances in Modeling and Analysis Using Python: Posters. Part I
Location: Hall 4 (Phoenix Convention Center - West and North Buildings)
Host: Ninth Symposium on Advances in Modeling and Analysis Using Python
287
CIRA Polar Orbiters Database Software (CPOD): Python Software to Make Searching Polar Orbiting Satellite Data Fast and Easy
Robert T. DeMaria, CIRA/Colorado State Univ., Fort Collins, CO; and G. Chirokova

288
Cross-Section Analysis in MetPy
Jonathan E. Thielen, Iowa State Univ., Ames, IA; and R. M. May and J. R. Leeman

289
MetPy 2019: Building a Software Package and Community
J. R. Leeman, UCAR/Unidata, Boulder, CO; and R. M. May


Poster Session 1
Poster I: Data Assimilation and OSSEs
Location: Hall 4 (Phoenix Convention Center - West and North Buildings)
Host: 23rd Conference on Integrated Observing and Assimilation Systems for the Atmosphere, Oceans, and Land Surface (IOAS-AOLS)
133
The Data Assimilation Research Testbed (DART): Ensemble Data Assimilation for NCAR Community Earth System Models
Jeffrey Anderson, NCAR, Boulder, CO; and N. Collins, M. El Gharamti, A. Fox, S. Ha, J. Hendricks, T. Hoar, J. Liang, J. McCreight, A. Mizzi, N. Pedatella, K. Raeder, A. Rafieeinasab, J. H. Richter, C. P. Riedel, G. Romine, and J. Tribbia

134
Identifying Information Needs to Improve NOAA Services for Blue Economy and Weather Research and Innovation Act Priorities
Joseph Conran, Riverside Technology, Inc., Silver Spring, MD; and A. Pratt, L. Cantrell Jr., B. Priest, D. Helms, and J. Goldstein

Handout (557.7 kB)

137
Assimilation of Polar Winds data in a HRRRAK-Like model
Jiang Zhu, Univ. of Alaska Fairbanks, Fairbanks, AK; and D. Morton, E. Stevens, M. Hu, T. Alcott, and J. C. pace

139
Assimilation of Refractivity from Clutter to Improve Forecasts of Atmospheric Electromagnetic Propagation Conditions near the Ocean Surface
Qingyun Zhao, NRL, Monterey, CA; and T. Holt, T. Haack, C. M. Amerault, L. Xu, N. D. Gordon, and T. Rogers

140
Assimilation of GPM Retrieved Surface Meteorology Variables with ICE-POP Case Studies
Xuanli Li, Univ. of Alabama, Huntsville, AL; and J. Srikishen, J. B. Roberts, W. A. Petersen, J. L. Case, and C. Hain

141
Improve Surface Temperature Assimilation in Complex Terrain Areas for the Three-Dimensional Real-Time Mesoscale Analysis (RTMA_3D)
Guoqing Ge, CIRES and NOAA/ESRL/GSD, Boulder, CO; and M. Hu, T. T. Ladwig, S. Weygandt, S. Benjamin, C. Alexander, J. Carley, and A. M. Gibbs

142
Improve GSI Analysis for Surface Observation in Complex Terrain Area through Hybrid Analysis with Climate HRRRE Ensemble Perturbations
Ming Hu, NOAA/ESRL/GSD and CIRES/Univ. of Colorado, Boulder, CO; and D. C. Dowell, S. Weygandt, C. R. Alexander, S. Benjamin, and J. R. Carley

143
An Examination of the Historical Observing System Simulation Experiment Methodology
Daniel P. Tyndall, NRL, Monterey, CA; and N. L. Baker and C. M. Amerault

144
Initial Validation of the New ECMWF Cubic Octahedral Nature Run (ECO1280)
Tanya R. Peevey, CIRES/Univ. of Colorado, Boulder, CO; and S. Malardel, P. Maciel, R. N. Hoffman, L. Cucurull, L. Isaksen, N. Wedi, and R. Atlas

Handout (14.4 MB)

145
Assimilation of Real and Simulated Conventional Observations into GFS 4DEnVar: An OSE/OSSE Assessment
Sean P.F. Casey, Cooperative Institute for Marine and Atmospheric Studies, Miami, FL; and L. Cucurull, R. Atlas, R. N. Hoffman, and R. Li

146

Poster Session 1
Poster Session
Location: Hall 4 (Phoenix Convention Center - West and North Buildings)
Host: 10th Conference on Weather, Climate, and the New Energy Economy
CoChair: Jennifer Newman, REsurety, Inc.
246A
Assessment of Medium-Range Model Forecasts over the CONUS during an Active MJO Phase
Sofia de Solo, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, Daytona Beach, FL; and E. Strobach and J. C. Alpert

246
The Correlation between Agricultural Commodities and Weather Patterns
Colleen Peterson, North Florida Chapter of AMS, Tallahassee, FL

247
Diagnosing and Predicting Thunderstorm-Induced Power Outages
Matthew D. Eastin, Univ. of North Carolina at Charlotte, Charlotte, NC; and R. Cucinotta

248
Benchmark Solar Power Forecasts
William F. Holmgren, The Univ. of Arizona, Tucson, AZ; and A. T. Lorenzo, C. W. Hansen, J. Sharp, and A. Tuohy

249
Diagnosing the Potential for Thunderstorm-Induced Power Outages with the Rapid Refresh Model
Rachel Cucinotta, Univ. of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC; and M. D. Eastin

250

Poster Session 1
Poster Session for Special Symposium on Mesoscale Meteorological Extremes: Understanding, Prediction, and Projection
Location: Hall 4 (Phoenix Convention Center - West and North Buildings)
Host: Special Symposium on Mesoscale Meteorological Extremes: Understanding, Prediction, and Projection
Cochairs: Thomas Galarneau, The Univ. of Arizona; Gretchen Mullendore, Univ. of North Dakota
329
Measuring Vertical Mass Flux in Convection: Lessons Learned from a Convection-Resolving Ensemble
Derek J. Posselt, JPL, Pasadena, CA; and S. C. van den Heever, Z. S. Haddad, G. L. Stephens, L. D. Grant, R. L. Storer, and O. O. Sy

331
Improved Projections through Dynamical Downscaling
Muge Komurcu, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA; and K. Emanuel, M. Huber, and R. P. Acosta

332
Ensemble Precipitation Forecasting with Adaptive Parameterization Selection
Tyler J. Wixtrom, Texas Tech Univ., Lubbock, TX; and B. C. Ancell

333
Discussion about the Conditional Symmetric Instability in Operational Application
LINA ZHANG, China Meteorological Administration, Beijing, China

334
Challenges Associated with Predicting High-Impact, Organized Convection in Weakly Forced Flow Regimes
Logan C. Dawson, IMSG and NOAA/NWS/NCEP/EMC, College Park, MD; and A. M. Bentley, T. A. Dorian, and G. S. Manikin

335
Stratocumulus Response to a SST Front in Kuroshio Extension: In Situ Observations and Mechanism
Su-Ping Zhang, Ocean Univ. of China, Qingdao, China; and Y. Wang, L. YI, H. K. Liu, and Q. Wang

336
Object-Oriented Composite Analysis of Warm-Sector Rainfall in North China
Jiaolan Fu, China Meteorological Administration, Beijing, China; and F. Zhang

337
Possible Link of Extreme Hourly Precipitation to Urbanization in Coastal South China
Yali Luo, Chinese Academy of Meteorological Sciences, Beijing, China; and M. Wu and F. Chen

338
Assessment of Monthly Rainfall Profile for Umudike, Abia State, Nigeria
Eric Olewuike, National Root Crops Research Institute, Abia State, Nigeria

Poster 340 has moved. New Paper Number is 3.3A.

341
A Diagnostic Method for Detecting Frontal Boundaries and Structures
Edward Strobach, NCEP/EMC, College Park, MD

342
The Role of Air–Sea Coupling in the Superstorm of 1993
Caitlyn A. Gillespie, Florida State Univ., Tallahassee, FL; and V. Misra and A. Bhardwaj

343
Diagnostic Analyses and Numerical Modeling of an Explosive Cyclone over the Northwestern Pacific on 11–13 January 2012
Guanlan Wang, National Meteorological Center, Beijing, China; and B. Sun, Y. Sun, P. Li, and G. Fu

344
Ensemble Experiments of Meso-Beta-Scale Vortex that Caused a Sudden Gusty Wind over the Sea
Eigo Tochimoto, The Univ. of Tokyo, Kashiwa, Japan; and S. Yokota, H. Niino, and W. Yanase

345
Cyclone Families, Atmospheric Rivers, and Hydrometeorological Extremes over the Eastern U.S.
Jason M. Cordeira, Plymouth State Univ., Plymouth, NH; and N. D. Metz, M. Fish, C. Hohman, and M. Duncan

347
Is there Scale Invariance in Atmospheric Vortices?
Huaqing Cai, U.S. Army Research Laboratory, White Sands Missile Range, NM

Poster 346 has moved. New Paper Number is 1.2A.

348
Predictability and Dynamics of the Record-Breaking Intensification of Hurricane Patricia (2015)
Robert G. Nystrom, The Pennsylvania State Univ., Univ. Park, PA; and F. Zhang

349
An Energetic Perspective of Hurricane Patricia (2015) as a Heat Engine through Isentropic Analysis
Robert G. Nystrom, The Pennsylvania State Univ., Univ. Park, PA; and F. Zhang, X. Chen, and O. Pauluis

350
Exploring Interbasin Correlations of Tropical Cyclones and Tropical Cyclone Losses
John K Hillier, Loughborough Univ., Loughborough, United Kingdom; and J. Done and H. Steptoe

351
A Climatology of Indirect Tropical Cyclone Interactions in the Atlantic Basin
Kevin C. Prince, Univ. of Wisconsin–Milwaukee, Milwaukee, WI; and C. Evans

352
Evaluating Impacts of Landfalling Tropical Cyclones Using a Hybrid WRF Cyclone Model
Cindy L. Bruyère, NCAR, Boulder, CO; and G. Holland, B. W. Buckley, A. Jaye, and J. Done

353
The Use of Helicity in Parametrization of Planetary Boundary Layer Structure: Case Study on Tropical Cyclone
Leiming Ma, Shanghai Central Meteorological Observatory, Shanghai, China

354
How Does Terrain Impact Upscale Convective Growth of Orogenic Deep Moist Convection?
Jake Mulholland, Univ. of Illinois, Urbana, IL; and R. J. Trapp and S. W. Nesbitt

355
358
Understanding Subtropical MCSs in Argentina Using WRF
Jeremiah Otero Piersante, Colorado State Univ., Fort Collins, CO; and K. L. Rasmussen, G. Romine, D. J. Gagne II, and A. Morales

359
Origin of Near-Surface Vertical Vorticity of Mesovortices in a Quasi-Linear Convective System
Christian H. Boyer, Texas Tech Univ., Lubbock, TX; and J. Dahl

80A
Statistical Analysis of Warm Season Ice Cloud Properties in Mesoscale Convective Systems over Great Plains
Jingjing Tian, The Univ. of Arizona, Tucson, AZ; and X. Dong and B. Xi

361
Sensitivity of MCS Outflow Characteristics to Low-Level Stability and Shear
Stacey M. Hitchcock, Colorado State Univ., Fort Collins, CO; and R. S. Schumacher and K. R. Haghi

362
Analysis of Backbuilding of a Simulated MCS in an Environment with a Low-Level Stable Layer
Stacey M. Hitchcock, Colorado State Univ., Fort Collins, CO; and R. S. Schumacher

363
Linked Gulf Coast and Florida Convective Storm Challenges during 16–20 May 2016
Lance F. Bosart, Univ. at Albany, SUNY, Albany, NY; and B. C. Wallace

364
Unmanned Aircraft Systems for Severe Local Storm Research and Forecasting
Adam L. Houston, Univ. of Nebraska−Lincoln, Lincoln, NE; and B. Argrow and E. W. Frew

365
Convection-Allowing Ensemble Analysis and Prediction of Tornadic Thunderstorms with Assimilation of GOES-R All-Sky Radiances and WSR-88D Radar Observations
Fuqing Zhang, The Pennsylvania State Univ., Univ. Park, PA; and Y. Zhang, D. J. Stensrud, and M. Minamide

366
Exploring the "Surprise" 24 August 2016 Indiana–Ohio–Ontario Tornado Outbreak with Meso- and Storm-Scale Ensemble Simulations
Daniel T. Dawson II, Purdue Univ., West Lafayette, IN; and M. E. Baldwin, L. J. Wicker, and K. H. Knopfmeier

368
Improving Forecasting of Tornadic Development in Convective Storms
Paul Zechiel, San Jose State Univ., San Jose, CA; and S. Chiao

369
Observed Bulk Hook Echo Drop-Size Distribution Evolution in Supercell Tornadogenesis
Kristofer S. Tuftedal, Stony Brook Univ., SUNY, Stony Brook, NY; and M. M. French, D. M. Kingfield, and J. C. Snyder

370
"Volatility of Tornadogenesis" in VORTEX2 Near- and Far-Field Environments
Matthew D. Flournoy, Univ. of Oklahoma, Norman, OK; and E. Rasmussen and M. C. Coniglio

371
Examination of Recent TORFF Events in and around Houston, Texas
Erik R. Nielsen, Colorado State Univ., Fort Collins, CO; and R. S. Schumacher

373
The Day of the Downbursts—May 23, 2017 Sealy and Beeville, TX
Jeffry S. Evans, NOAA/NWS/Weather Forecast Office, Dickinson, TX; and L. Wood and T. Johnstone

374
The Radar Signature of Fatal Convective Wind Events in Spring over South China
Haiyan Fei, China Meteorological Administration, Beijing, China

375
Statistical Analysis of Hail-Accumulating Thunderstorm Occurrence along the Colorado Front Range
Michaela Serpas, Colorado School of Mines, Golden, CO; and K. Friedrich and R. Wallace

377
Analysis of Hailstone Temporal and Spatial Variability over the Central United States
Jong-Hoon Jeong, PNNL, Richland, WA; and J. Fan and Y. Zhang

378
Banded Convection Activity Associated with Gravity Waves over Southern China
Yu Du, Sun Yat-sen Univ., Guangzhou, China; and F. Zhang

379
Lifecycle and Impacts of MCS Convectively Generated Low-Frequency Gravity Waves
Rebecca Adams-Selin, NOAA; and R. S. Schumacher

Handout (12.7 MB)

380
Analysis of Convectively Generated Gravity Waves in the 14–15 July 2015 Mesoscale Convective System during PECAN
Faith P. Groff, Colorado State Univ., Fort Collins, CO; and R. S. Schumacher and R. Adams-Selin

381
Shallow Foehn on the Northern Leeside of Tianshan Mountains and Its Influence on the Boundary Layer over Urumqi, China—A Climatological Study
Xia Li Sr., Institute of Desert Meteorology, Urumqi, China; and S. Zhong, L. Luo Sr., X. Xia, X. Yu, J. Jia, Y. Liu, K. Zhao, and Q. Ren

382
Diablo Winds: Extreme Wind Events over Central and Northern California
Clifford F. Mass, Univ. of Washington, Seattle, WA; and B. T. McClung

383
Sundowner Winds of Santa Barbara County
Brian P. Frei, NWS, New Brunswick, NJ; and T. Hall

384
A Mesoscale Simulation of a Mountain Wave Wind Event Associated with the Chimney Tops 2 Fire (2016)
Joseph J. Charney, USDA Forest Service, Lansing, MI; and R. P. Shadbolt and H. Fromm

389
A Tale of Two Potential Snow Squall Situations across Central New York
Michael L. Jurewicz Sr., NOAA/NWS Weather Forecast Office, Johnson City, NY


Poster Session 1
Posters on the Coastal Environment
Location: Hall 4 (Phoenix Convention Center - West and North Buildings)
Host: 17th Symposium on the Coastal Environment
192
Improving Flood Extent Mapping Using NASA Earth Observations and UAVSAR within Southern California
Neda Kasraee, NASA DEVELOP National Program−SSAI, Pasadena, CA; and M. Au, E. Higa, and B. Lee

193
Large-Scale Dynamics of California Coastal Jet
Valerie Bednarski, NPS, Monterey, CA; and W. Nuss

194
Large-Scale Factors Influencing the Extent and Location of Stratocumulus Clouds along the California Coast
Sarah Dahl, Univ. of California, Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA; and W. Nuss

195
Investigating and Forecasting the Erosion of the Marine Layer during Santa Ana Wind Episodes
Tom Rolinski, USDA Forest Service, Riverside, CA; and T. M. Salas

196
Toward the Implementation of the National Ocean Service’s Lake Michigan and Huron Operational Forecast System (LMHOFS)
Machuan Peng, NOAA, Silver Spring, MD; and A. Zhang, C. lindley, J. G. W. Kelly, Y. Chen, E. J. Anderson, and G. Lang

197
Impact of Interannual Climate Variability on Western Gulf of Mexico Landfalling Hurricanes
Richard W. Dixon, Texas State Univ., San Marcos, TX; and J. Herbert

198
Anticipating Significant Water Rise within the Indian River Lagoon
David W. Sharp, NOAA/National Weather Service, Melbourne, FL; and R. Lascody, P. Blottman, S. M. Lazarus, R. J. Weaver, J. Colvin, P. Taeb, B. P. Holman, and M. E. Splitt


Poster Session 1
Symposium on Education Posters: Monday
Location: Hall 4 (Phoenix Convention Center - West and North Buildings)
Host: 28th Symposium on Education
Cochairs: Reginald Blake, New York City College of Technology, City Univ. of New York; Jeffrey A. Yuhas, Morristown-Beard School
96
Emerging Needs for NWS Regional and Local Climate–Informed Decision Support Services
Marina Timofeyeva, NOAA/NWS, Silver Spring, MD; and F. Horsfall, J. C. Meyers, and V. Silva

97
Timeline of Climate Change Course Approval and Offering at UAPB
Miah Muhammad Adel, Univ. of Arkansas at Pine Bluff, Pine Bluff, AR

98
Ballooning for the Scientific Method: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Weather Balloon
Sean McGill, Univ. of South Carolina, Columbia, SC; and A. L. Hiscox

99
Middle School Measurements Leading to Investigation of Precipitation Patterns
J. R. Snider, Univ. of Wyoming, Laramie, WY; and J. Kropf, D. Bremer, M. Burkhart, K. Burkhart, B. Heesen, N. W. Snider, and S. fuller

Handout (2.6 MB)

100
Collaborative Research between Lake Nona High School and 45th Weather Squadron
Jessica D. Rapp, Lake Nona High School, Orlando, FL; and W. P. Roeder

101
Hands-On Learning about the Atmosphere in the New NGSS-Aligned GLOBE Weather Curriculum
Becca Hatheway, UCAR, Boulder, CO; and J. Ristvey Jr., L. Gardiner, R. Minaya, L. Mohan, L. H. Chambers, and T. Murphy

102
A Case for Entrepreneurial Meteorology
Antoinette Serrato, Yarker Consulting, Cedar Rapids, IA; and M. B. Yarker, M. D. S. Mesquita, and B. Mateika

103
Snowflake and Sand Photography: Doing Real Scientific Research in a High School Environment
Kimberly Magnotta, Morristown-Beard School, Morristown, NJ; and J. A. Yuhas

104
From Weather Wizard to Cloud Man: Education and Outreach with a Fun Approach
Zachary Krauss, Cornell Chapter of the American Meteorological Society, Ithaca, NY

105
A Place for Us: How a High School Weather Club Can Contribute to the Understanding of the Weather
Andrew Freund, Concord Carlisle High School, Concord, MA; and J. Chelton, S. Bigay, and J. Irza-Leggat

106
107
GOES-16/17 Virtual Science Fair
Margaret Mooney, CIMSS/Univ. of Wisconsin−Madison, Madison, WI; and T. J. Schmit

108
Education and Communication: Keys to Building a Weather-Ready Nation
Emily D. Lenhardt, Univ. of Oklahoma, Norman, OK; and M. Fairbanks

109
New York State Mesonet for Multidisciplinary and Data-Intensive STEM Teaching and Learning
Junhong (June) Wang, Univ. at Albany, SUNY, Albany, NY; and J. A. Brotzge

110
Poster 112 has been moved. New paper number 942A


Poster Session
7MJO Poster Session
Location: Hall 4 (Phoenix Convention Center - West and North Buildings)
Host: Seventh Symposium on the Madden-Julian Oscillation and Sub-Seasonal Monsoon Variability
296
Energetics of Convectively Coupled Tropical Phenomena
Brandon O. Wolding, NOAA, Boulder, CO; and J. Dias, G. N. Kiladis, and E. Maloney

298
Dynamics-Based Analysis of Waves in the Tropics
Zhaohua Wu, Florida State Univ., Tallahassee, FL; and J. Sun

300
The Kelvin and Mixed Rossby Gravity Waves on the Spherical Earth
Nathan Paldor, Hebrew Univ. of Jerusalem, Jerusalam, Israel; and I. fouxon, O. Shamir, and C. I. Garfinkel

301
Scaling for the Nontraditional Coriolis Term in Diabatic-Forced Dynamics
Hing Ong, University at Albany, State University of New York, Albany, NY; and P. E. Roundy

Handout (353.6 kB)

302
Intraseasonal SST Forcing of Atmospheric Convection in the Western Indian Ocean Using an Idealized Model
Adam V. Rydbeck, NRL, Stennis Space Center, MS; and T. Jensen, M. Flatau, and M. R. Igel

304
On the Role of Synoptic Eddies in MJO Initiation
Ahmed A. Shaaban, University at Albany, State University of New York, Albany, NY; and P. E. Roundy

305
Effects of Air–Sea Coupling on the Simulation of DYNAMO MJO Events
Rachel C. Zelinsky, RSMAS, Miami, FL; and B. Kirtman

307
Air–Sea Interaction over the Maritime Continent during the 2018 Boreal Summer Monsoon Simulated by Coupled Air–Sea–Wave COAMPS
Tommy Jensen, NRL, Stennis Space Center, MS; and A. V. Rydbeck, S. Chen, M. Flatau, C. Reynolds, and J. Pullen

308
Topographic Influence on African Easterly Wave Energetics and Convective Interactions
Kelly Marie Nunez Ocasio, The Pennsylvania State Univ., Univ. Park,, PA; and H. L. Hamilton and J. L. Evans

310
Indian Ocean Dipole Modoki (IODM) and Its Impacts on Three-Dimensional Heating Structure and Precipitation
Debanjana Das, Calcutta Univ., KOLKATA, VA, India; and D. M. Straus, S. Chaudhuri, and A. Roy Chowdhury

311
Ocean Feedbacks to the MJO in CMIP5 models
Charlotte A. DeMott, Colorado State Univ., Fort Collins, CO; and S. Bohman and D. A. Randall

312
Simulating Multiple Aggregates in a Small-Domain 3D Cloud-Resolving Model
Da Yang, Univ. of California, Davis, Davis, CA

313
Influence of the Equatorial Waves on the Subseasonal Western Pacific Monsoon Variability
Sue Chen, NRL, Monterey, CA; and M. K. Flatau and J. Schmidt

315
Propagation Characteristics of BSISO Indices
Shuguang Wang, Columbia Univ., New York, NY; and D. Ma, A. H. Sobel, and M. K. Tippett

316
The Role of the Free-Tropospheric Moisture for Convective Onset from Radio Occultation
Yi-Hung Kuo, Univ. of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA; and R. Padullés, J. Turk, M. de la Torre, C. O. Ao, and J. D. Neelin

317
Investigating the Dual-MJO Events of November 2011 in 30-Day Regional COAMPS Simulations. Part II: Surface Fluxes and Moisture Convergence
William A. Komaromi, NRL, Monterey, CA; and X. Hong, M. A. Janiga, C. A. Reynolds, J. A. Ridout, and J. D. Doyle

319
Intraseasonal Monsoon Variability during PISTON and MISO-BOB Campaigns
Maria Flatau, NRL, Monterey, CA; and S. Chen, E. Regan, A. V. Rydbeck, H. Wijesekera, and T. Jensen

320
Instability and Nonlinear Evolution of the MJO in a Model with Vertically Varying Convective Adjustment
H. Reed Ogrosky, Virginia Commonwealth Univ., Richmond, VA; and S. N. Stechmann and S. Hottovy

365A
MJO Affects the Monsoon Onset Timing over the Indian Region
Fuqing Zhang, The Pennsylvania State Univ., Univ. Park, PA; and S. Talaphadar and X. Chen

322
Role of Topography on the Diurnal Cycle in the Maritime Continent during the Passage of an MJO Event
Pallav Ray, Florida Institute of Technology, Melbourne, FL; and H. Tan and B. S. Barrett

323
Multiscale Interactions in MJO Structure and Evolution: DYNAMO Field Campaign Case Study Using a Coupled WRF Model
Xiaowen Li, Morgan State Univ., Greenbelt, MD; and S. D. Nicholls, T. Iguchi, and W. K. Tao


Poster Session
Artificial and Computational Intelligence and Its Applications to the Environmental Sciences Poster Session
Location: Hall 4 (Phoenix Convention Center - West and North Buildings)
Host: 18th Conference on Artificial and Computational Intelligence and its Applications to the Environmental Sciences
Chair: Philippe Tissot, Texas A&M University−Corpus Christi
176
One Problem: Two Methods? Factor Separation in the Atmospheric Sciences
Judah L. Cleveland, ORAU, Concord, NH; and J. A. Smith

Handout (1.4 MB)

177
Estimating Hourly PM2.5 Concentration from Satellite-Measured Top-of-Atmosphere Reflectance by Using a Machine Learning Algorithm
Jianjun Liu, Laboratory of Environmental Model and Data Optima, Laurel, MD; and F. Weng and Z. Li

178
A New Machine Learning−Based Cloud Phase Discrimination Algorithm Designed for Passive Infrared Satellite Sensors
Chenxi Wang, University Of Maryland, College Park, College Park, MD; and S. Platnick and K. Meyer

179
Radar Super-Resolution Using a Deep Convolutional Neural Network
Andrew Geiss, University of Washington, Seattle, WA; and J. C. Hardin

Handout (1.8 MB)

180
Estimating Tropical Cyclone Intensity in Passive Microwave Images Using Deep Learning Models
K. Ryder Fox, University of Miami, RSMAS, Miami, FL; and I. Gurung, J. J. Miller, M. Maskey, and A. L. Molthan

181
Toward an Enhanced Surface Classification Within MiRS Using a Deep Neural Network Approach
Ryan Honeyager, STAR, College Park, MD; and C. Grassotti, Y. K. Lee, S. Liu, and Q. Liu

183
Using Machine Learning Techniques to Construct a Climatology of Mesoscale Convective Systems in the United States
Alex M. Haberlie, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA; and W. S. Ashley

184
Using Machine Learning to Classify Lightning for Earth Networks Total Lightning Network (ENTLN)
Saiadithya Cumbulam Thangaraj, Earth Networks, Germantown, MD; and M. Stock, J. Lapierre, M. Hoekzema, Y. Zhu, C. Schumann, R. Sonnenfeld, and L. C. Vidal

185
Atmospheric River Forecast Model Bias Correction
William Chapman, SIO, Brea, CA

186
Exploring the Use of Machine Learning to Develop a Predictive Model for Future Fire Seasons
Andrew T. White, University of Alabama in Huntsville, Huntsville, AL; and C. R. Hain, C. J. Schultz, J. L. Case, and K. D. White

187
Machine Learning to Predict Multi-Aerosol Mixing State Metrics
Zhonghua Zheng, University of Illinois at Urbana−Champaign, Urbana, IL; and V. G. Anantharaj, J. Gasparik, J. H. Curtis, Y. Yao, M. P. Hughes, D. Schmidt, M. West, and N. Riemer

189
The Cloud-Based Future of ECMWF Data Services
Meghan Plumridge, ECMWF, Reading, United Kingdom

190
Spatio-Temporal Modeling for Regional Climate Model Evaluation: Eigenvector Filtering Versus Bayesian CAR
Meng Wang, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ; and Y. Kamarianakis, M. Georgescu, and M. Moustaoui

191
Machine Learning and Big Data Analytics in Support of Fleet Safety during Severe Weather
Steve Wysmuller, IBM, Armonk, NY; and J. Traiteur and C. Reese


Poster Session
Climate Tools: Showcase of New Climate Data Tools and Services
Location: Hall 4 (Phoenix Convention Center - West and North Buildings)
Host: 24th Conference on Applied Climatology
Chair: Trent Ford, Southern Illinois Univ.
115
Climate Science Storytelling: Crafting Better Public Messages about Your Work
Katy Vincent Matthews, NOAA/NESDIS/National Centers for Environmental Information, Asheville, NC; and G. Hammer, J. Fulford, S. Osborne, B. E. Mayes, D. S. Arndt, J. Crouch, and T. Maycock

116
ACIS-Based GIS Data Retrieval Portal Demonstration
Natalie A. Umphlett, Univ. of Nebraska—Lincoln, Lincoln, NE; and W. E. Pettee, W. Sorensen, and C. J. Stiles

117
Online Visualization and Analysis of NASA Satellite-Based Global and Regional Precipitation Products through Giovanni
Zhong Liu, George Mason Univ., and Center for Spatial Information Science, and Systems and NASA/GSFC/GES DISC, Greenbelt, MD; and J. Acker, W. Teng, J. Wei, and D. Meyer

119
Simple Planning Tool for Climate Hazards in Oklahoma and Arkansas
Rachel E. Riley, Univ. of Oklahoma, Norman, OK; and L. Kos

Handout (1.9 MB)

121
Improving upon Flash Flooding Forecasts for Two Major Great Lakes Cities
Beth L. Hall, Midwestern Regional Climate Center, Univ. of Illinois, Urbana–Champaign, Champaign, IL; and J. Weaver and P. J. Roebber

122
Advancing the Use of Gridded, Online Climate Information for Risk Management in the Horn of Africa
Oliver Kipkogei, Climate Prediction and Application Centre,  Intergovernmental Authority on Development, Nairobi, Kenya; and A. Siebert, P. Jordan, R. Cousin, A. Jama, and J. W. Hansen

123
What Do You Really Know about the U.S. Drought Monitor?
Deborah J. Bathke, Univ. of Nebraska—Lincoln, Lincoln, NE; and B. Fuchs, M. D. Svoboda, and T. K. Bernadt

124
Demonstration of the Drought Threat and Hazard Identification and Risk Assessment (THIRA) Application Toolkit
Crystal J. Stiles, Univ. of Nebraska—Lincoln, Lincoln, NE; and D. Bulling, D. J. Bathke, L. M. Pytlik-Zillig, T. Abdel-Monem, T. K. Bernadt, N. A. Wall, and E. Wickham

125
NOGGIn: NASA Open-Access Geogridding Infrastructure
Kwo-Sen Kuo, Univ. of Maryland, College Park, College Park, MD; and R. Wolfe, M. L. Rilee, A. Radov, and T. L. Clune

Handout (5.2 MB)

126
Tools to Help Visualize Climate Change, Locally
Bernadette Woods Placky, Climate Central, Princeton, NJ

127
Lessons Learned from Implementation of Customer Requirements Solution
Jenny Dissen, North Carolina State Univ., and North Carolina Institute for Climate Studies, Asheville, NC; and A. Hollingshead, N. Jones, M. J. Brewer, T. G. Houston, and A. Allegra

128
A Web-Based Tool to Forecast Wet-Bulb Globe Temperature for Populations Who Engage in Exertional Outdoor Activities
Darrian Bertrand, State Climate Office of North Carolina, Raleigh, NC; and C. E. Konrad, J. Clark, and A. R. Ward

Handout (2.6 MB)

129
Climate Data Integration for Agricultural Decision Support
Kelley DePolt, North Carolina State Univ., Raleigh, NC; and R. V. Ward

130
Identifying a Trend in Historical and Modeled Wet Bulb
Marc J Alessi, Cornell Univ., Ithaca, NY; and A. T. DeGaetano

131
Heat and Health in a Changing Climate: Building a Decision Support Tool for California Public Health Officials
Nik C. Steinberg, Four Twenty Seven, Berkeley, CA; and E. Mazzacurati, J. Turner, C. Gannon, R. Dickinson, M. Snyder, and B. Trasher

132
The California and Nevada Climate Trackers
Nina Oakley, Desert Research Institute, Reno, NV; and D. McEvoy, J. Chambers, and J. T. Abatzoglou


Poster Session
Hydrometeorological Extremes (Posters)
Location: Hall 4 (Phoenix Convention Center - West and North Buildings)
Host: 33rd Conference on Hydrology
Cochairs: Konstantinos Andreadis, Univ. of Massachusetts Amherst; Eleonora Demaria, USDA–ARS; Daniel Rodriguez, Instituto Alberto Luiz Coimbra de Pós-Graduação e Pesquisa de Engenharia, Univ. Federal do Rio de Janeiro; John McHenry, Baron Advanced Meteorological Systems
11A
Using WRF-Hydro v5.0 for Operational, Highly Localized Land Surface and Streamflow Predictions
Mukul Tewari, IBM Research, New York, NY; and C. D. Watson, L. A. Treinish, and H. Kolar

11
Large Scale Influences on Atmospheric River Induced Extreme Precipitation Events Impacting the Coast of the State of Washington
Haiden Mersiovsky, Florida State Univ., Tallahassee, FL; and A. Collow, M. Bosilovich, B. McClenny, and P. Ullrich

12
How the Recently Developed Atmospheric River Scale Can Improve NWS Forecasts and Services
Jonathan J. Rutz, NWS, Salt Lake City, UT; and C. Smallcomb and K. Mattarochia

14
Synoptic-Dynamic Analysis and Predictability of an Extreme Precipitation Event Affecting Ho Chi Minh City on 26 September 2016
Roderick van der Linden, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Karlsruhe, Germany; and A. H. Fink, M. V. Khiem, T. Phan-Van, and J. G. Pinto

15
Operational Utilization of FY-4 Satellite Data for Extreme Weather Monitoring
Xin Wang, Satellite Meteorological Center, China Meteorological Administration, Beijing, China

16
20
Comparison of Agricultural Stakeholder Survey Results and Drought Monitoring Datasets during the 2016 U.S. Northern Plains Flash Drought
Jason A. Otkin, Univ. of Wisconsin–Madison, Madison, WI; and T. Haigh, A. Mucia, M. C. Anderson, and C. R. Hain

21
An Analysis on the Association between Flash Flood Occurrences and Average Recurrence Intervals of Rainfall and Streamflow
Andres Arturo Vergara Arrieta, CIMSS, Norman, OK; and J. J. Gourley and H. Vergara

23
Radar QPE for Extreme Precipitation Using the Lontras S-Band Dual-Pol Radar in Santa Catarina, Brazil
Leonardo Calvetti, Universidade Federal de Pelotas, Pelotas, Brazil; and C. Beneti, C. Oliveira, D. L. Herdies, W. F. Coelho, and V. L. Santos

Handout (3.0 MB)

24
Determining How Much Rain Fell During Hurricane Harvey: A Perspective from the MRMS System
Steven M. Martinaitis, CIMMS/Univ. of Oklahoma and NOAA/NSSL, Norman, OK; and S. B. Cocks, A. P. Osborne, M. J. Simpson, J. Zhang, and K. W. Howard

25
Modeling Hydrological Extremes in the Colorado River Basin at Various Watershed Scales.
Kristen M. Whitney, Arizona State Univ., Tempe, AZ; and T. J. Bohn and E. R. Vivoni

Handout (9.8 MB)

26
Hydroclimatological Modeling of the Carcarañá River Basin in Argentina
Sujan Pal, Univ. of Illinois at Urbana−Champaign, Urbana, IL; and F. Dominguez, D. J. Gochis, and E. Demaria

28
Assessment of North American Monsoon Variability in the Lower Santa Cruz River Basin Using Dynamically Downscaled CMIP5 Projections
Patrick Bunn, Univ. of Arizona, Tucson, AZ; and C. L. Castro, H. I. Chang, L. Bearup, and E. Halper


Poster Session
Integrated Metrics and Benchmarking for Next-Generation Hydro/Land-Surface Modeling of the Water Cycle (Posters)
Location: Hall 4 (Phoenix Convention Center - West and North Buildings)
Host: 33rd Conference on Hydrology
Cochairs: Sujay Kumar, GSFC; David Gochis, NCAR; Martyn Clark, NCAR; Aubrey Dugger, NCAR
30
Towards a General Snow Thermal Conductivity Scheme in Land Models
Jing Tao, Univ. of Maryland, College Park, MD; and K. N. Musselman, M. Clark, R. Koster, R. H. Reichle, and B. A. Forman

31
Improving the Observability of Soil Moisture Estimates from Noah-MP Land Surface Model
Soni Yatheendradas, NASA GSFC and ESSIC, Univ. of Maryland, Greenbelt, MD; and S. V. Kumar, J. A. Santanello, P. Shellito, and J. Bolten

33
Enhancements to the WRF-Hydro Hydrologic Model Structure for Semi-Arid Environments
Timothy M. Lahmers, Univ. of Arizona, Tucson, AZ; and P. Hazenberg, H. V. Gupta, C. L. Castro, D. J. Gochis, A. L. Dugger, D. N. Yates, L. K. Read, L. Karsten, Y. H. Wang, R. J. Zamora, and B. Cosgrove

34
Demonstrating the Added Values of Suction Losses for Channel Infiltration in WRF-Hydro Hydrologic Model
Yuan-Heng Wang, Univ. of Arizona, Tucson, AZ; and P. Hazenberg, H. V. Gupta, C. L. Castro, T. M. Lahmers, C. L. Unkrich, and D. C. Goodrich

35
Hydrological Land Surface Data and Services at NASA GES DISC
Hualan Rui, NASA GSFC and Adnet Systems, Greenbelt, MD; and C. F. Loeser, W. Teng, G. D. Lei, and B. Vollmer

37
Developing Simultaneous Assessments of the Uncertainty and Accuracy of Precipitation and Terrestrial Water Budget Components over High Mountain Asia
Yeosang Yoon, NASA GSFC/SAIC, Greenbelt, MD; and S. V. Kumar, Y. Kwon, B. A. Forman, and B. F. Zaitchik


Poster Session
Multiprocesses Analysis, Modeling, and Product Application in Arid and Semiarid Regions (Posters)
Location: Hall 4 (Phoenix Convention Center - West and North Buildings)
Host: 33rd Conference on Hydrology
Cochairs: Yaohui Li, Institute of Arid Meteorology, China Meteorological Administration; Xing Yuan, Institute of Atmospheric Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences; Youlong Xia, NOAA/NWS/NCEP/EMC
38
Water Conservation in Terms of Leaf Water Use Efficiency of Maize
Huailin Zhou, Chinese Academy of Meteorological Sciences, Beijing, China; and G. Zhou

39
Evaluating the Utility of High-Resolution Radar Precipitation Forcing for Land Surface Modeling in the Western United States
Jessica M. Erlingis, Earth System Science Interdisciplinary Center, College Park, MD; and M. Rodell, C. D. Peters-Lidard, B. Li, S. V. Kumar, and D. Mocko

40
Beijing Intelligent Grid Temperature Objective Prediction Method (BJTM) and Verification of Forecast
Na He, Beijing Municipal Weather Forecast Center, Beijing, China; and Y. Dai, Z. Fu, Y. Kang, and C. Hao

41
Water Vapor Factors Affecting Drought Events in Northwest China
Yu Zhang, Institute of Arid Meteorology, China Meteorological Administration, Lanzhou, China

44
Evapotranspiration Partitioning and its Characteristics for Winter Wheat Based on the Concept of Underlying Water Use Efficiency in the Loess Tableland of China
Haixiang Zhou, Institute of Soil and Water Conservation, CAS, and Ministry of Water Resources, Xianyang, China; and W. Liu, X. Han, S. Li, L. Chu, X. Yuan, and Y. Zhu

45
Contrasting Responses of Four Steppe Grasses to Warming and Precipitation Variability
Xiaomin Lv, Chinese Academy of Meteorological Sciences, Beijing, China

46
Multi-Scale Land-Atmosphere Coupling and Its Influence on Subseasonal to Seasonal Drought Prediction over East Asia
Dingwen Zeng, Institute of Atmospheric Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China; and X. Yuan and Y. Li


Poster Session
Ninth Symposium on Lidar Atmospheric Applications Poster Session
Location: Hall 4 (Phoenix Convention Center - West and North Buildings)
Host: Ninth Symposium on Lidar Atmospheric Applications
164A
Meteorological Conditions Impacting Observations of Ship Emissions during OWLETS
Joe Robinson, University of Maryland, Baltimore County, Baltimore, MD; and A. Kotsakis, A. Reynolds, T. Knepp, G. Gronoff, T. Berkoff, and R. Swap

256
Transported Smoke from Africa over the Southeast Atlantic Ocean from CALIOP Version 4 Data: Signature of an Increase in Size of Smoke Particles
Jay Kar, SSAI, Hampton, VA; and M. A. Vaughan, J. L. Tackett, Z. Liu, A. Omar, S. Rodier, C. Trepte, and P. Lucker

257
Implementation of CALIOP 1064-nm Channel in the CALIPSO Layer Detection Algorithm
Brian Getzewich, SSAI, Hampton, VA; and M. Vaughan, K. P. Lee, R. Ryan, T. D. Murray, C. Trepte, and D. M. Winker

258
Comparing CALIPSO-Derived Estimates of Sea Surface Winds to Measurements and Models
Sharon Rodier, SSAI/NASA Langley Research Center, Hampton, VA; and M. A. Vaughan, A. Murray, and Y. Hu

259
Thin Cirrus Properties and Statistics from Airborne, Ground-Based, and Space-Based Lidars
John E. Yorks, NASA, Greenbelt, MD; and M. J. McGill, S. Ozog, M. A. Vaughan, M. A. Avery, J. R. Campbell, and J. Lewis Jr.

260
Methodology for PBL Retrieval Based on NASA MPLNET Datasets
Doug Keller Jr., Univ. of Alaska, Fairbanks, Fairbanks, AK; and G. J. Fochesatto, E. J. Welton, J. Lewis Jr., J. R. Campbell, and S. Stewart

261
Constrained Cirrus Cloud Properties from MPLNET Retrievals
Jasper Lewis Jr., JCET, Greenbelt, MD; and J. R. Campbell, S. Lolli, and E. J. Welton

262
The Doppler Aerosol Wind (DAWN) Lidar during CPEX 2017: Performance Assessment, Data Processing, and Data Products
G. D. Emmitt, Simpson Weather Associates, Charlottesville, VA; and S. Greco, M. Garstang, and M. J. Kavaya

Poster 263 has been moved to paper 5.4A.

264
Investigation of the Nocturnal Boundary Layer during the Land Atmosphere Feedback Experiment (LAFE) during August 2017
Aditya Choukulkar, Univ. of Colorado Boulder and NOAA/ESRL/Chemical Sciences Division, Boulder, CO; and T. A. Bonin, R. M. Banta, A. Behrendt, L. K. Berg, A. Brewer, R. M. Hardesty, R. K. Newsom, Y. Pichugina, F. Späth, C. J. Senff, D. D. Turner, T. J. Wagner, and V. Wulfmeyer

265
Lidar Observations of Water Vapor Transport via Low-level Jets in PECAN
Brian J. Carroll, Univ. of Maryland, Baltimore County, Baltimore, MD; and B. Demoz and R. Delgado

Poster 266 has been moved to paper 2.1, but will also, be presented as a poster.


Poster Session
Poster Session
Location: Hall 4 (Phoenix Convention Center - West and North Buildings)
Host: Seventh Symposium on the Weather, Water, and Climate Enterprise
291
Multisystem Seasonal Forecast Capability from the Copernicus Climate Change Service
Anca Brookshaw, ECMWF, Reading, UK; and E. Penabad Ramos, S. Johnson, T. N. Stockdale, L. Ferranti, D. Dee, and J. N. Thépaut

294
A Climatology of Snow to Liquid Ratios in Southeast Alaska
David E. Levin, NOAA/NWS, Juneau, AK


Poster Session
Poster Session Monday
Location: Hall 4 (Phoenix Convention Center - West and North Buildings)
Host: 20th Conference on Middle Atmosphere
164
Networked Ground-Based Pandora Observations of Enhanced Tropospheric Ozone Associated with Strong Midlatitude Cyclones
Joe Robinson, NASA, Greenbelt, MD; and A. Kotsakis, R. Swap, G. J. Labow, T. Knepp, V. S. Connors, M. Tzortziou, A. Reynolds, J. Herman, and J. Szykman

166
Understanding Enhanced Transport and Mixing of Arctic Ozone during SSW
Alvaro de la Camara, Complutense Univ. of Madrid, Madrid, Spain; and M. Abalos, P. Hitchcock, N. Calvo, and R. R. Garcia

167
Origin of the Upper-Tropospheric North American Monsoon Anticyclone
Leong Wai Siu, Texas A&M Univ., College Station, TX; and K. P. Bowman

171
Pyrocb Smoke Rises and Persists in the Global Stratosphere: Constraints on Injected Smoke Mass, Black Carbon Abundance, and Ozone Reaction Rates with Organic Coatings
Pengfei Yu, CIRES, Boulder, CO; and O. B. Toon, C. G. Bardeen, Y. Zhu, R. W. Portmann, T. Thornberry, S. M. Davis, E. Wolf, K. H. Rosenlof, D. A. Peterson, M. D. Fromm, and A. Robock

Poster 172 has been moved to TJ13.2A.

175
Extratropical Atmospheric Predictability from the Quasi‐Biennial Oscillation in Subseasonal Forecast Models
Chaim I. Garfinkel, Hebrew Univ. of Jerusalem, Jerusalem, Israel; and C. Schwartz, D. I. V. Domeisen, S. W. Son, A. H. Butler, and I. White

175A
The Downward Influence of Sudden Stratospheric Warmings: Insight Using an Idealized Moist GCM
Ian White, Hebrew Univ. of Jerusalem, Jerusalem, Israel; and C. I. Garfinkel, E. P. Gerber, and M. Jucker


Poster Session
Posters
Location: Hall 4 (Phoenix Convention Center - West and North Buildings)
Host: Ninth Conference on the Meteorological Application of Lightning Data
269
Initial Assessment of GLM Performance Using Vaisala’s GLD360 Dataset
Kenneth L. Cummins, The Univ. of Arizona, Tucson, AZ; and D. Zhang, W. J. Koshak, and R. Said

271
Cloud Electrification and Lightning Model in the COSMO Numerical Weather Prediction Model
Zbyněk Sokol, Institute of Atmospheric Physics CAS, Prague, Prague, Czech Republic; and J. Minářová

272
Lightning Characteristics of a Supercell Thunderstorm Observed by Tokyo LMA, X-Band Polarimetric Radars, and an X-Band Phased Array Weather Radar in Tokyo, Japan
Namiko Sakurai, National Research Institute for Earth Science and Disaster Resilience, Tsukuba, Japan; and S. Shimizu, K. Iwanami, T. Maesaka, K. Kieda, Y. Uji, P. Krehbiel, W. Rison, and D. Rodeheffer

273
Synthetic Radar by Combining Lightning and Satellite Data
Jeff Lapierre, Earth Networks, Germantown, MD; and M. Stock, S. Cumbulam Thangaraj, and M. Hoekzema

274
First Comparison of Electric Field Mill Measurements with Measurements of Ka-Band Doppler Polarimetric Cloud Profiler MIRA-35c at Milešovka Mountain (Central Europe)
Jana Minářová, Institute of Atmospheric Physics CAS, Prague, Prague, Czech Republic; and Z. Sokol, I. Kolmašová, P. Pešice, O. Santolík, and R. Lán

Handout (2.3 MB)

275
Comparison of Total Lightning Reflectivity Proxies and Weather Radar Reflectivity Data in Southern Brazil
William F. Coelho, UFPEL, Pelotas - RS, Brazil; and L. Calvetti, C. Beneti, and N. Rozin

276
User Resources and Support for the ISS LIS Science Data at NASA’s Global Hydrology Resource Center (GHRC)
Deborah K. Smith, Univ. of Alabama in Huntsville, Huntsville, AL; and L. Sinclair, S. G. Harrison, H. Conover, R. E. Kollmeyer, and J. Beck

Handout (963.7 kB)

277
Lightning Observations during the RELAMPAGO Field Campaign
Wiebke Deierling, Univ. of Colorado Boulder, Boulder, CO; and L. Carey, P. M. Bitzer, R. Marshall, A. Antunes de Sa, A. Sousa, J. Burchfield, B. L. Medina, and T. J. Lang

278
280
Near-Real-Time Lightning Data for Operations and Science Applications from the Lightning Imaging Sensor (LIS) on the International Space Station (ISS)
Richard J. Blakeslee, NASA/Marshall Space Flight Center, Huntsville, AL; and S. J. Goodman, G. T. Stano, S. G. Harrison, K. S. Virts, and D. E. Buechler

281
Lightning Impacts on College Football Games
Ronald L. Holle, Vaisala, Inc., Tucson, AZ; and K. W. Flanagan

Handout (508.3 kB)

282
Lightning Occurrence in the Six Most-Visited U.S. National Parks
Ronald L. Holle, Vaisala, Inc., Tucson, AZ; and W. A. Brooks

Handout (1.8 MB)

283
Lightning Occurrence in Six Southeast African Countries
Leonard Kalindekafe, School of Climate and Earth Sciences, Limbe, Malawi; and R. L. Holle, T. Kapichi, S. Gondwe, R. Said, and W. A. Brooks

Handout (916.3 kB)

284
Earth Networks Lightning Network Performance
Michael Stock, Earth Networks, Germantown, MD; and J. Lapierre, S. Cumbulam Thangaraj, and M. Hoekzema

285
Cloud-to-Ground Lightning Strikes to the Forest of Barro Colorado Island in Panama
Jeffrey C. Burchfield, Univ. of Alabama in Huntsville, Huntsville, AL; and P. M. Bitzer, E. M. Gora, and S. P. Yanoviak

286
Targeted Observation Experiments Using High Temporal Geostationary Sounder GIIRS On Board FY-4A: Typhoon Ambil Case
Wei Han, Chinese Meteorological Administration, Beijing, China; and Y. Liu, R. Yin, J. Li, and X. Shen


Poster Session
Remote Sensing and Water Prediction in the Decision Making Process (Posters)
Location: Hall 4 (Phoenix Convention Center - West and North Buildings)
Host: 33rd Conference on Hydrology
Cochairs: Tarendra Lakhankar, NOAA-CREST and City Univ. of New York; Angelica Gutiérrez-Magness, NOAA/NWS/Office of Water Prediction; Andrew L. Molthan, MSFC
47
Fully Coupled Atmospheric‐Hydrological Modeling at Watershed Scale: A Case Study with WRF-Hydro for Western Puerto Rico
Jonathan Muñoz-Barreto, Univ. of Puerto Rico at Mayaguez, Mayaguez, PR; and J. P. Valle-Rodriguez and T. Lakhankar

49
Russian River Watershed Hydrograph Separation Using Stable Water Isotopes to Inform Watershed Models and Reservoir Operations
Carolyn J Ellis, SIO, La Jolla, CA; and S. J. Turnbull, C. W. Downer, A. M. Wilson, and H. T. Mix

50
Global Patterns of Terrestrial Water Storage Anomalies from Year 2003 to 2015
Liling Chang, Univ. of Arizona, Tucson, AZ; and G. Y. Niu, H. V. Gupta, and C. L. L. Winter

51
Power Performance Analysis for a Small L-Band Total Power Radiometer
Daniel E. Mera Romo, Univ. of Puerto Rico at Mayaguez, Mayaguez, PR; and R. A. Rodriguez Solis and R. Lorenzo

Handout (862.1 kB)

52
Newer Version SMOPS Blended Soil Moisture and Its Potential Applications
Jifu Yin, NOAA/NESDIS/Center for Satellite Applications and Research, College Park, MD; and X. Zhan, J. Liu, N. Y. Wang, T. Vukicevic, R. R. Ferraro, and M. Goldberg


Poster Session
Snow Processes and Melt Detection through Remote Sensing, Modeling, and Data Assimilation (Poster)
Location: Hall 4 (Phoenix Convention Center - West and North Buildings)
Host: 33rd Conference on Hydrology
Cochairs: Elias J. Deeb, Cold Regions Research and Engineering Lab; Carrie Vuyovich, Cold Regions Research and Engineering Lab; John B. Eylander, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers
53
Characterization of North America Snow Water Equivalent Uncertainty via Ensemble-Based Land Surface Modeling
Rhae Sung Kim, NASA GSFC, Greenbelt, MD; and S. V. Kumar, C. Vuyovich, P. Houser, M. Durand, J. D. Lundquist, E. J. Kim, A. P. Baros, C. Derksen, B. A. Forman, C. Garnaud, and M. Sandells

54
Estimating Snow Properties with L-Band InSAR: Results from the NASA SnowEx Campaign (Invited Presentation)
Hans-Peter Marshall, Boise State Univ., Boise, ID; and E. J. Deeb and R. Forster
Manuscript (37.3 kB)

55
Spatio-Temporal Trends in Melt Onset in the Upper Indus Basin Using Enhanced-Resolution Passive Microwave Brightness Temperatures
Mary J. Brodzik, CIRES, Univ. of Colorado Boulder, Boulder, CO; and J. M. Ramage, M. T. Johnson, T. J. Troy, D. G. Long, and R. L. Armstrong

56
Comparison of an Earth Science Data Record Derived from MODIS Snow-Cover Maps with the NOAA–Rutgers Climate Data Record of Snow-Cover Extent
Dorothy K. Hall, Univ. of Maryland, College Park, MD; and D. A. Robinson, J. E. Woods III, N. E. DiGirolamo, T. W. Estilow, and G. A. Riggs

57
SnowView: A Satellite Data and Model Driven Decision Support Tool for Water Resource Management
Patrick D. Broxton, Univ. of Arizona, Tucson, AZ; and W. J. D. van Leeuwen and J. A. Biederman

58
Quantifying the Impact of Synoptic Weather Types on Snowpack Energy Flux in the Snowy Mountains, Australia
Andrew J. Schwartz, Univ. of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia; and H. A. McGowan and A. Theobald

59
Basin Scale Snowpack and Soil Moisture Variability Inference from Inter-Annual Tree-Ring Chronologies in the Sierra Nevada
Eylon Shamir, Hydrologic Research Center, San Diego, CA; and R. Campbell, K. Lepley, D. Meko, and R. Touchan


Poster Session
Space Weather Posters
Location: Hall 4 (Phoenix Convention Center - West and North Buildings)
Host: 16th Conference on Space Weather
Cochairs: Richard A. Behnke, Retired; Barbara Thompson, NASA
206
A Statistical Analysis of Density Perturbations in Relation to Solar X-Flare Events Isolated from Coronal Mass Ejections
Kelsey Doerksen, Univ. of Western Ontario, London, Canada; and L. Sagnières, F. Deleflie, C. Briand, and M. A. Sammuneh

Handout (958.2 kB)

207
EUV Diagnostics of Solar Eruptions in the Lower Corona
Barbara Thompson, NASA, Greenbelt, MD; and N. Nitta

209
The NOAA Coronal Mass Ejection Imager for Space Weather Forecasting
Kevin Tewey, NOAA/NESDIS/OPPA, Silver Spring, MD

212
Expanding Space Weather Awareness into the Developing Nations
Endawoke YIZENGAW, Boston College, Boston, MA; and K. M. Groves and P. Doherty

213
Using Artificial Neural Network Training for Space Weather Products
Yongliang Zhang, Applied Physics Laboratory, The Johns Hopkins Univ., Laurel, MD; and L. Paxton

214
A New Multifluid Magnetospheric Model
John P M Hale, NRL, Washington, DC

215
Ring Current Error Analysis Using Curlometry
Timothy Keebler, Millersville Univ., Millersville., PA; and M. Liemohn

216
Time-Dependent–3D Geomagnetic Cutoffs in an LFM Simulation with and without Electric Fields
Shawn Young, Air Force Research Laboratory, Kirtland AFB, NM; and J. Nazario, P. Olson, J. P. McCollough II, and B. Kress

Handout (3.9 MB)

217
Formation of Ionospheric Density Irregularities: Recent Advances in Observation and Theory
Roman A. Makarevich, Univ. of Alaska, Fairbanks, Fairbanks, AK; and V. V. Forsythe

218
New Insights on Connections between the Middle Atmosphere and Ionosphere: Ionospheric Changes during Sudden Stratospheric Warmings of 2016–18
Larisa Goncharenko, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Westford, MA; and V. L. Harvey and A. Coster

219
Identifying the Sources of the Variability in Thermospheric Mass Density
Martin McCandless, NOAA, Boulder, CO; and N. Maruyama, T. Fuller-Rowell, Z. Li, T. W. Fang, M. Fedrizzi, J. Schoonover, and R. Viereck

220
The Mesospheric Polar Vortex during Sudden Stratospheric Warmings
V. Lynn Harvey, Univ. of Colorado Boulder, Boulder, CO; and L. Goncharenko, C. E. Randall, E. Becker, and J. France

221
On the Variability of the Semidiurnal Solar and Lunar Tides of the Equatorial Electrojet during Sudden Stratospheric Warmings
Tarique Siddiqui, NCAR, Boulder, CO; and A. Maute, N. Pedatella, Y. Yamazaki, H. Luehr, and C. Stolle

222
A Demonstration of Using a Suite of Tropospheric Verification Tools to Evaluate Predictions of Ionospheric Total Electron Count
Tara Jensen, NCAR and Developmental Testbed Center, Boulder, CO; and N. Maruyama, T. Fuller-Rowell, D. Fuller-Rowell, L. Mays, L. Rastaetter, J. L. Vigh, and J. Halley Gotway


Poster Session
Topics in History of Atmospheric and Related Sciences
Location: Hall 4 (Phoenix Convention Center - West and North Buildings)
Host: 17th History Symposium
200
201
The Weather and Climate of Wormsloe Plantation, Savannah, GA: Hunting for 285 Years of Historical Weather Records
Pamela N. Knox, The Univ. of Georgia, Athens, GA; and J. A. Knox, E. L. Pauline, C. Scarborough, and H. Stuckey

6:00 PM-8:00 PM: Monday, 7 January 2019


Exhibits Opening and Reception
Location: Hall 5-6 (Phoenix Convention Center - West and North Buildings)

Ribbon Cutting, Opening Reception, and Corporate Patron Recognition
Location: Hall 5-6 (Phoenix Convention Center - West and North Buildings)

8:00 PM-10:00 PM: Monday, 7 January 2019


Fifth Annual Speed Networking Event for Students and Early Career Professionals
Location: North Ballroom 120AB (Phoenix Convention Center - West and North Buildings)

8:00 PM-10:30 PM: Monday, 7 January 2019


Fifth Annual Speed Networking Event for Students and Early Career Professionals
Location: North Ballroom 120AB (Phoenix Convention Center - West and North Buildings)

Tuesday, 8 January 2019

7:00 AM-8:15 AM: Tuesday, 8 January 2019


Developing NOAA's FY2019-2023 R&D Plan: Public Input Listening Session
Location: North 222AB (Phoenix Convention Center - West and North Buildings)
Host: Town Hall Meetings
Organizer: Gary C. Matlock, NOAA

NASA's Multi-Angle Imager for Aerosols (MAIA): Investigating the Health Effects of Particulate Air Pollution
Location: North 224A (Phoenix Convention Center - West and North Buildings)
Host: Town Hall Meetings
Organizer: Abigail Nastan, JPL
Panelists: Michael Garay, NASA/JPL/California Institute of Technology; Olga Kalashnikova, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology; Yang Liu, Emory Univ.; Sue M. Estes, Univ. of Alabama in Huntsville; Jeff Walter, NASA; Makhan Virdi, NASA

UN Decade of Ocean Science for Sustainable Development
Location: North 226C (Phoenix Convention Center - West and North Buildings)
Host: Town Hall Meetings
Organizer: Craig Mclean, NOAA/OAR
Panelists: David Grimes, MSC; Pavel Kabat, WMO; Martin Visbeck, IFM-GEOMAR

7:30 AM-6:00 PM: Tuesday, 8 January 2019


AMS Information Desk (Tuesday)
Location: North 100 Level Prefunction (Phoenix Convention Center - West and North Buildings)

Member Services Desk (Tuesday)
Location: North Lower Level Prefunction (Phoenix Convention Center - West and North Buildings)

Quiet Room (Tuesday)
Location: West 206 (Phoenix Convention Center - West and North Buildings)

Registration (Tuesday)
Location: North Lower Level Prefunction (Phoenix Convention Center - West and North Buildings)

Speaker Ready Room (Tuesday)
Location: North 121A (Phoenix Convention Center - West and North Buildings)

8:25 AM-10:00 AM: Tuesday, 8 January 2019

Recording files available
Session 1
Biosphere-Atmosphere Research, Past, Present, Future
Location: West 212BC (Phoenix Convention Center - West and North Buildings)
Host: Inez Fung Symposium
Cochairs: Natalie Mahowald, Cornell Univ.; Jung-Eun Lee, JPL
8:25 AM
Welcoming Remarks

8:30 AM
1.1
9:00 AM
1.3
Quantifying the Role That Terrestrial Ecosystems Play in Earth's Climate
Abigail L. S. Swann, Univ. of Washington, Seattle, WA; and M. M. Laguë and M. Kovenock
9:15 AM
1.4
The Mid-Latitude Carbon Sink, 1990-Present
David Schimel, JPL, Pasadena, CA; and B. B. Stephens
9:30 AM
1.5
The GeoCarb Mission
Berrien Moore III, National Weather Center/Univ. of Oklahoma, Norman, OK; and S. Crowell
9:45 AM
1.6
Journeying from Soil to Earth to the Pacific Islands (and Ocean)
Elisabeth A. Holland, Univ. of the South Pacific, Suva, Fiji

8:30 AM-9:15 AM: Tuesday, 8 January 2019

Recording files available
Session 1
New and Improved Data Assimilation Tools and Methods
Location: North 231C (Phoenix Convention Center - West and North Buildings)
Host: Seventh AMS Symposium on the Joint Center for Satellite Data Assimilation
Chair: Benjamin Johnson, UCAR
8:30 AM
1.1
Convergence Issues in the Estimation of Interchannel Correlated Observation Errors in Infrared Radiance Data
Pierre Gauthier, Université du Québec à Montréal (UQAM), Montréal, QC, Canada; and P. Du, S. Heilliette, and L. Garand
8:45 AM
1.2
A Fast Microwave Ocean Surface Emissivity and BRDF Model Based on Successive Machine Learning in Subphysical Spaces
Ming Chen, Univ. of Maryland, College Park, College Park, MD; and K. J. Garrett and T. Zhu

9:00 AM
1.3
Predicting Forecast Sensitivity: Observation Impact with Machine Learning
Francois Vandenberghe, JCSDA, Boulder, CO; and G. Bolmier, T. Auligné, R. B. Mahajan, and D. Holdaway

8:30 AM-9:30 AM: Tuesday, 8 January 2019

Recording files available
Session 2
Future HPC Directions for Weather, Water, and Climate
Location: North 123 (Phoenix Convention Center - West and North Buildings)
Host: Fifth Symposium on High Performance Computing for Weather, Water, and Climate
Cochairs: Gerry Creager, Oklahoma Univ./CIMMS, and NOAA/NSSL; Timothy S. Sliwinski, Texas Tech University
9:00 AM
2.3
Quantifying Weather and Climate Simulation Reproducibility in the Cloud
T. J. Shepherd, Cornell Univ., Ithaca, NY; and A. Brazier, B. Wineholt, R. J. Barthelmie, and S. C. Pryor
9:15 AM
2.4
Running Numerous WRF Simulations Simultaneously with High Throughput Computing
Ryan Clare, Univ. of Wisconsin–Madison, Madison, WI; and A. R. Desai

8:30 AM-9:45 AM: Tuesday, 8 January 2019

Recording files available
Session 3
Using Cloud Services to Enhance Data Access and Increase Resilience to Extreme Weather and Climate Events through Innovative Products and Services
Location: North 224A (Phoenix Convention Center - West and North Buildings)
Host: 24th Conference on Applied Climatology
Chair: Edward J. Kearns, NOAA/NESDIS/NCEI
8:30 AM
3.1
NOAA’s Data Strategy: Leveraging Data as a Strategic Asset
Jason Cooper, NOAA/NESDIS/NCDC, Asheville, NC; and M. L. Austin, N. Ritchey, E. J. Kearns, and K. Valentine

8:45 AM
3.2
NOAA's Weather and Climate Toolkit (CT)
Steve Ansari, NOAA/NESDIS/National Centers for Environmental Information, Asheville, NC

9:00 AM
3.3
Climate Engine: Cloud Computing and Visualization of Climate and Remote Sensing Data for Advanced Natural Resource Monitoring and Process Understanding
Justin Huntington, Desert Research Institute, Reno, NV; and K. Hegewisch, B. Daudert, C. Morton, J. T. Abatzoglou, D. McEvoy, and T. A. Erickson

9:30 AM
3.5
Nowcasting Lightning Events Using a Cloud-Based Deep Learning Approach
Valliappa Lakshmanan, Google, Kirkland, WA; and J. Hickey, C. Gazen, and S. Hoyer

8:30 AM-10:00 AM: Tuesday, 8 January 2019

Recording files available
Joint Session 1
Advances in Understanding Land–Atmosphere Interactions: Part I
Location: North 127ABC (Phoenix Convention Center - West and North Buildings)
Hosts: (Joint between the 33rd Conference on Hydrology; and the 32nd Conference on Climate Variability and Change )
Cochairs: Joseph A. Santanello, NASA GSFC; Paul A. Dirmeyer, COLA; Yunyan Zhang, LLNL; Dan Li, Boston Univ.
8:45 AM
J1.2
The Influence of Irrigated Soil Moisture on Modeled Land-Atmosphere Interactions and Simulated Flows in the San Joaquin Valley, California
G. Aaron Alexander, Univ. of California, Davis, CA; and H. A. Holmes, J. Trousdell, I. Faloona, and H. J. Oldroyd
9:00 AM
J1.3
Quantifying the Impact of Land Surface Initialization on Southern Great Plains Low-Level Jet Forecast Skill
Geng Xia, Univ. at Albany, SUNY, Albany, NY; and C. R. Ferguson, J. M. Freedman, and L. Bosart
9:30 AM
J1.5
Assimilation of SMAP Brightness Temperatures: An Investigation into the Source of Near-Surface Temperature Forecast Errors in ECCC's Short-Range NWP Forecasts
Marco L. Carrera, Environment and Climate Change Canada, Dorval, Canada; and B. Bilodeau, C. R. Hain, W. Crow, and S. Bélair

9:45 AM
J1.6
Recording files available
Session 1
From Prediction to Decision-Making and Communication
Location: North 222C (Phoenix Convention Center - West and North Buildings)
Host: Special Symposium on Catalyzing Innovation in Weather Science Internationally
Chair: Sarah Jones, DWD
9:00 AM
1.2A
Driving Innovation Together: The World Weather Research Programme
Paolo Ruti, WMO, Geneva, Switzerland; and S. C. Jones, T. Jung, B. W. Golding, D. Johnston, A. W. Robertson, F. Vitart, E. de Coning, J. Keller, M. Rixen, Q. Zhang, H. Goessling, K. Werner, and W. T. Yun
Recording files available
Session 1
Integrated Instruments and Observation Systems for All Applications
Location: West 211B (Phoenix Convention Center - West and North Buildings)
Host: Special Symposium on Meteorological Observations and Instrumentation
Chair: Scott Landolt, NCAR
8:45 AM
1.2
Monitoring and Understanding the Atmosphere in an Enclosed Environment
Jorge Arevalo, The Univ. of Arizona, Tucson, AZ; and X. Zeng, P. A. Troch, and M. Durcik
9:00 AM
1.3
Use of Unconventional Weather Radars on Airborne Platforms to Fill in Operational Radar Data Voids
Jonathan J. Gourley, NSSL, Norman, OK; and K. W. Howard, R. D. Palmer, P. E. Kirstetter, D. J. Bodine, B. L. Cheong, and C. Marshall

9:15 AM
1.4
Profiling Clouds and Precipitation at Four Frequencies Using an Integrated Suite of Three High-Altitude Down-Looking Radars
Gerald M. Heymsfield, NASA, Greenbelt, MD; and L. Li, M. McLinden, M. Grecu, and S. R. Guimond

9:30 AM
1.5
New York State Mesonet (NYSM): The Many Applications and Benefits from a Multiuse Statewide Observing Network
Jerald A. Brotzge, Univ. at Albany, SUNY, Albany, NY; and C. Thorncroft, E. Joseph, J. Wang, N. Bain, and S. Butt
9:45 AM
1.6
Analyzing Tornadic Debris Signatures by Integrating Aerial Imagery and Polarimetric Radar Data in GIS
Angela R. Burke, Univ. of Alabama in Huntsville, Huntsville, AL; and R. Wade, R. Griffin, A. W. Lyza, and D. M. Conrad
Recording files available
Session 1
Monsoons of the Americas: Variability and Predictability of Extreme Events
Location: North 232AB (Phoenix Convention Center - West and North Buildings)
Host: Tropical Cyclones and Extreme Monsoon Precipitation: Prediction, Impacts, and Communication
Chairs: William Boos, Univ. of California, Berkeley; Rodrigo Bombardi, Texas A&M Univ.; Francina Dominguez, Univ. of Illinois at Urbana−Champaign
8:30 AM
1.1
Multiscale Interactions in Determining the Hydrological Extremes in the American Monsoon Regions
Rong Fu, Univ. of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA; and P. Arias and S. Chakraborty
9:00 AM
1.3
South American Monsoon: Variability of Extreme Events and Subseasonal Prediction
Alice M. Grimm, Federal Univ. of Parana, Curitiba, Brazil

9:15 AM
1.4
Convective Events and Water Vapor Transport during the North American Monsoon GPS Hydrometeorological Network Experiment 2017
David K. Adams, Univ. Nacional Autónoma de Mexico, Mexico City, Mexico; and B. R. Lintner and M. I. Gonzalez
9:30 AM
1.5
Summertime Precipitation in the Lake Mead Watershed
Michael Dean Sierks, SIO, La Jolla, CA; and J. F. Kalansky and F. M. Ralph
9:45 AM
1.6
Recording files available
Session 1
Phased-Array Radar Observations and Applications: Field Experiment Results
Location: North 128AB (Phoenix Convention Center - West and North Buildings)
Host: Phased Array Radar Symposium
Chair: Scott Ellis, NCAR
9:00 AM
1.2
X-Band Phased-Array Weather-Radar Polarimetry Testbed: Bias Expectation and Preliminary Results
William Heberling, Univ. of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA; and S. J. Frasier, C. Wolsieffer, and M. Adam
9:15 AM
1.3
Observations of Severe Storms by a Low-Power, Polarimetric, Phased-Array Mobile Radar
Robin Tanamachi, Purdue Univ., West Lafayette, IN; and A. T. LaFleur, M. Sharma, S. J. Frasier, W. Heberling, and C. Wolsieffer
9:30 AM
1.4
System Description and Recent Observations from Front-X: A Dual-Polarization X-Band Phased-Array Radar
Alexander Morin, Colorado State Univ., Fort Collins, CO; and J. George and V. Chandrasekar
9:45 AM
1.5
Overview of the Atmospheric Imaging Radar and Seven Years of Phased-Array Radar Field Experiments
David J. Bodine, Univ. of Oklahoma, Norman, OK; and J. M. Kurdzo, C. B. Griffin, A. Mahre, J. Lujan Jr., R. D. Palmer, T. Y. Yu, and B. M. Isom
Recording files available
Session 1
Weather-Ready Nation Keynote Speakers
Location: North 221AB (Phoenix Convention Center - West and North Buildings)
Host: Seventh Symposium on Building a Weather-Ready Nation
Cochairs: Dave Jones, StormCenter Communications, Inc.; Jennifer Sprague, NOAA/NWS; Douglas Hilderbrand, NOAA/NWS
9:00 AM
1.3
NWS Support to South Carolina during Hurricanes Matthew, Irma, and Florence
John Quagliariello, NOAA/NWSFO, West Columbia, SC

9:15 AM
1.4
What in the World Was She Thinking?
Dave Jones, StormCenter Communications, Inc., Halethorpe, MD
Recording files available
Session 2
Lightning and Cloud Processes: Microphysics; Electrification; Thunderstorm Kinematics, Dynamics, and Lightning; and Chemistry
Location: North 225AB (Phoenix Convention Center - West and North Buildings)
Host: Ninth Conference on the Meteorological Application of Lightning Data
Chair: Jennifer G. Wilson, NASA
8:30 AM
2.1
Observations of Upward Lightning-Producing Storm in Oklahoma
Jessica C. S. Souza, Univ. of São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil; and E. C. Bruning, R. I. Albrecht, T. A. Warner, D. R. MacGorman, K. M. Kuhlman, and W. A. Lyons

8:45 AM
2.2
9:00 AM
2.3
Comparisons between Supercell Kinematics and Lightning Optical Energy Output from GLM
Dustin M. Conrad, Univ. of Alabama in Huntsville, Huntsville, AL; and C. J. Schultz and M. Quick
9:15 AM
2.4
Characterizing Lightning's Response to the Spatial Distribution of Updraft Microphysics
Sarah M. Stough, Univ. of Alabama in Huntsville, Huntsville, AL; and L. D. Carey, C. J. Schultz, and D. J. Cecil
9:30 AM
2.5
Observational Analysis of the Electrical and Kinematic Structure of a Tornadic Supercell
Milind Sharma, Purdue Univ., West Lafayette, IN; and R. Tanamachi, E. Bruning, K. M. Calhoun, H. B. Bluestein, J. B. Houser, J. C. Snyder, and Z. B. Wienhoff
9:45 AM
2.6
Recurrent Streamer Systems as a Means of Lightning Initiation
Alex Attanasio, New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology, Socorro, NM; and P. Krehbiel and C. Da Silva
Recording files available
Panel Discussion 2
The Student Experience at the AMS Washington Forum
Location: North 221C (Phoenix Convention Center - West and North Buildings)
Host: Seventh Symposium on the Weather, Water, and Climate Enterprise
Moderator: Renee A. Leduc Clarke, Narayan Strategy
Panelists: Sheila Ngu, Millersville University; Greta Katherine Easthom, Univ. of Maryland, College Park
Ngu, Easthom
Renee A. Leduc Clarke, Narayan Strategy, Washington, MA
Recording files available
Session 3
Effective Strategies for Increasing Minority Participation in the Atmospheric Sciences
Location: North 229AB (Phoenix Convention Center - West and North Buildings)
Host: 28th Symposium on Education
Cochairs: Reginald Blake, New York City College of Technology, City Univ. of New York; Janet Liou-Mark, New York City College of Technology, City Univ. of New York
8:30 AM
3.1
8:45 AM
3.2
Creating and Connecting Champions for Diversity in the Geosciences: Hearts of GOLD
P. Grady Dixon, Fort Hays State Univ., Hays, KS; and K. Quardokus Fisher, L. Myles, C. Brinkworth, E. Kaufman, and D. Simmons
9:15 AM
3.4
Engaging Underrepresented Students in Climate Science: An Internship to Remember
Emma Kuster, South Central Climate Adaptation Science Center, Univ. of Oklahoma, Norman, OK; and R. A. McPherson, J. Ansley, K. DeLong, V. Rivera-Monroy, and J. Zak

9:30 AM
3.5
Educating a Diverse Geosciences Workforce: The Role of HBCUs
Rakesh Malhotra, North Carolina Central Univ., Durham, NC; and G. Vlahovic

9:45 AM
3.6
Engaging Nongeoscience Minority STEM Undergraduates in Atmospheric Science Interdisciplinary Learning through a Geoscience Workforce Program
Reginald Blake, New York City College of Technology, City Univ. of New York, Brooklyn, NY; and J. Liou-Mark, H. Norouzi, and L. Yuen-Lau

Recording files available
Panel Discussion 3
Identifying and Assessing the Effects of Forecast and Warning Communication (In)Consistency on Different Recipients: Part I
Location: North 226AB (Phoenix Convention Center - West and North Buildings)
Host: 14th Symposium on Societal Applications: Policy, Research and Practice
Moderators: Randy A. Peppler, CIMMS/University of Oklahoma; Castle Williams, The University of Georgia; Kimberly E. Klockow-McClain, CIMMS
Panelists: Castle Williams, The University of Georgia; Delesha M. Carpenter, University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill; Paul K. J. Han, Maine Medical Center Research Institute; Susan Joslyn, University of Washington
8:30 AM
Introductory Remarks

8:45 AM
PD3.1
Identifying and Assessing the Effects of Forecast and Warning Communication (In)Consistency on Different Recipients
Castle Williams, The University of Georgia, Athens, GA; and D. M. Carpenter, P. K. J. Han, and S. Joslyn
9:00 AM
Panel Discussion

Recording files available
Joint Session 3
Maritime Environmental Extremes
Location: North 222AB (Phoenix Convention Center - West and North Buildings)
Hosts: (Joint between the Special Symposium on Mesoscale Meteorological Extremes: Understanding, Prediction, and Projection; and the 17th Symposium on the Coastal Environment )
Cochairs: Will Perrie, Bedford Institute of Oceanography; Alan Blumberg, Stevens Institute of Technology
8:30 AM
J3.1
The Impact of Climate Change on the Wave Climate in the Gulf of St. Lawrence
Lei Wang, Bedford Institute of Oceanography, Dartmouth, Canada; and W. Perrie, Z. Long, G. Zhang, B. Toulany, and M. Zhang
8:45 AM
J3.2
The Boundary Layer Character of Spring Sea Fog Inland Penetration over the Coastal Area of Qingdao
Li YI, Ocean Univ. of China, Qingdao, China; and S. P. Zhang and S. Song

9:00 AM
J3.3
Observations of Variations in Atmospheric Boundary Layer and Stratocumulus over a Mesoscale Warm Eddy in the Kuroshio Extension
Qian Wang, SIO/Univ. of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA; and S. P. Zhang, S. P. Xie, J. R. Norris, J. X. Sun, and Y. X. Jiang
9:30 AM
J3.5
9:45 AM
J3.6
Moderation of Extreme Heat along the Coasts of the Eastern United States
Colin Raymond, Columbia Univ., New York, NY; and J. S. Mankin
Recording files available
Joint Session 3
Understanding Linkages between Drought and Public Health: Can We Improve Drought Early Warning?
Location: North 228AB (Phoenix Convention Center - West and North Buildings)
Hosts: (Joint between the 10th Conference on Environment and Health; and the 24th Conference on Applied Climatology )
Cochairs: Amanda M. Sheffield, NOAA; Jesse Eugene Bell, North Carolina Institute for Climate Studies; Nicole A. Wall, Univ. of Nebraska−Lincoln
8:30 AM
J3.1
Preparing for the Health Effects of Drought: A Resource Guide for Public Health Professionals
Tesfaye Bayleyegn, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Chamblee, GA; and Z. Jeddy
8:45 AM
J3.2
Drought and Health Impacts in Arizona
Matthew Roach, Arizona Department of Health Services, Phoenix, AZ; and D. M. Hondula, H. Putnam, and M. Kretschmer
9:00 AM
J3.3
Assessment of Potential Health Impacts from Extreme and Exceptional Drought, 2012−16
Jennifer Shriber, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, GA; and J. E. Bell, Z. Jeddy, J. Rennie, and H. Strosnider
9:15 AM
J3.4
Sensitivity of Airborne Dust to Drought in the U.S. Southwest: What Are the Implications for Public Health under Future Climate Change?
Pattanun Achakulwisut, George Washington Univ., Washington, D.C.; and S. C. Anenberg, J. E. Neumann, S. L. Penn, A. Crimmins, N. Fann, J. Martinich, and L. J. Mickley
9:45 AM
J3.6
Drought Components Change in Bolivia and Its Societal Impacts as a Response to Climate Change
Azar Mohammad Abadi, Univ. of Nebraska−Lincoln, Lincoln, NE; and C. M. Rowe
Recording files available
Session 4
Latest Tools, Data, Model Results, and Techniques for Understanding, Predicting, and Mitigating the Impact of Turbulence in Aviation—Part I
Location: North 224B (Phoenix Convention Center - West and North Buildings)
Host: 19th Conference on Aviation, Range, and Aerospace Meteorology
Cochairs: Stanley B. Trier, NCAR; Emily Ranquist, Univ. of Colorado
8:30 AM
4.1
Relationships between Convection and Commercial Aircraft Turbulence Reports
Dana M. Mueller, NOAA/ESRL/GSD and CIRA, Boulder, CO; and K. R. Fenton Jr., M. S. Wandishin, and M. A. Petty
9:00 AM
4.2
New Capabilities of the Graphical Turbulence Guidance (GTG) Product
Wiebke Deierling, NCAR, Boulder, CO; and R. D. Sharman, D. Muñoz-Esparza, J. Pearson, and G. Meymaris

9:15 AM
4.3
Using In-Cloud Turbulence Observations to Improve Nowcasting and Forecasting of Convectively Induced Turbulence
Julia M. Pearson, NCAR, Boulder, CO; and W. Deierling, R. D. Sharman, and G. Meymaris
9:30 AM
4.4
Improvement of Nonconvective Aviation Turbulence Forecast in the World Area Forecast System (WAFS)
Jung-Hoon Kim, Colorado State Univ./CIRA, Fort Collins, CO; and R. D. Sharman, M. Strahan, and P. Buchanan
9:45 AM
4.5
Toward an ARPEGE-Based Aviation Turbulence Combined Diagnosis
Pierre Crispel, Météo-France, Toulouse, France; and C. Le Bot, O. Jaron, A. Er-Roundi, A. Drouin, and R. D. Sharman
Recording files available
Session 4
Major Weather Impacts of 2018: Global Events
Location: North Ballroom 120CD (Phoenix Convention Center - West and North Buildings)
Host: 15IMPACTS: Major Weather Events and Impacts of 2018
Cochairs: Klaus Wolter, CIRES, Univ. of Colorado Boulder; Thomas Bedard, AccuWeather Enterprise Solutions; Tanja E. Fransen, NOAA/NWS; Owen H. Shieh, Joint Typhoon Warning Center
8:30 AM
4.1
Global Weather and Climate Extremes of 2018 (Invited Presentation)
Klaus Wolter, CIRES, Univ. of Colorado Boulder, Boulder, CO
9:15 AM
4.3
Extreme Drought of 2018 in Central Europe: Evaluation and Predictability
Petr Stepanek, Global Change Research Center, Czech Academy of Sciences, Brno, Czech Republic; and M. Trnka, P. Zahradnicek, and P. Skalak
9:30 AM
4.4
The Odd One Out: The Story of a Tornado Outbreak in Southern Iceland
Elín B. Jónasdóttir, Icelandic Meteorological Office, Reykjavik, Iceland

Recording files available
Session 4
National and International Efforts in Space Weather: Growing Global Preparedness. Part II
Location: North 227A-C (Phoenix Convention Center - West and North Buildings)
Host: 16th Conference on Space Weather
Chair: Richard A. Behnke, Retired
8:30 AM
4.1
How to Inspire International Space Weather Research with Small Missions (Invited Presentation)
D. N. Baker, Univ. of Colorado Boulder, Boulder, CO; and A. Chandran

9:15 AM
4.3
Commercial Data Streams Can Help Mitigate National Space Weather Hazards
W. Kent Tobiska, Space Environment Technologies, Pacific Palisades, CA
9:30 AM
4.4
Global Solar Observations for Actionable Space Weather Forecasts
Neal Hurlburt, Lockheed Martin Solar and Astrophysics Laboratory, Palo Alto, CA
9:45 AM
4.5
The University of Colorado Space Weather Technology, Research, and Education Center (SWx-TREC)
Thomas E. Berger, Univ. of Colorado Boulder, Boulder, CO; and J. P. Thayer, D. Baker, C. Pankratz, S. Cranmer, and T. J. Fuller-Rowell
Recording files available
Session 4
Natural Aerosols: Deepening Our Understanding from Emissions through Impacts
Location: North 223 (Phoenix Convention Center - West and North Buildings)
Host: 11th Symposium on Aerosol–Cloud–Climate Interactions
Cochairs: Thomas E. Gill, Univ. of Texas at El Paso; Heather A. Holmes, Univ. of Nevada; Vernon R. Morris, Howard Univ.
8:30 AM
4.1
Forecasting Dust Emissions from Regional to Global Scale Using Satellite Data
Daniel Tong, George Mason Univ., Fairfax, VA; and B. Baker and R. Saylor
8:45 AM
4.2
9:00 AM
4.3
Area Estimates of Wind Friction Velocity Derived from Net Radiometers and MODIS Albedo
Nancy E. Parker, U.S. Army Engineer Research and Development Center, Hanover, NH; and N. P. Webb, A. Chappell, and S. L. LeGrand

9:15 AM
4.4
Updated Whitecap Database from WindSat Observations
Magdalena D. Anguelova, NRL, Washington, DC; and M. H. Bettenhausen, W. F. Johnston, and P. W. Gaiser

Handout (6.1 MB)

9:30 AM
4.5A
Recording files available
Session 4
New Python Tools in the Atmospheric and Oceanographic Sciences
Location: North 129B (Phoenix Convention Center - West and North Buildings)
Host: Ninth Symposium on Advances in Modeling and Analysis Using Python
Chair: Mary Haley, NCAR
8:30 AM
4.1
Bringing GEMPAK-like Syntax to Python with MetPy's Declarative Plotting Interface
Ryan M. May, UCAR/Unidata, Boulder, CO; and J. R. Leeman and K. H. Goebbert
8:45 AM
4.2
SatPy: A Python Library for Weather Satellite Processing
David Hoese, Cooperative Institute for Meteorological Satellite Studies, Madison, WI
9:00 AM
4.3
Extending ECMWF's Forecast Postprocessing Options by Offering a New Python Framework
Baudouin Raoult, ECMWF, Reading, U.K.; and I. Russell, F. Ii, S. Kertesz, S. Siemen, and A. Amici
9:15 AM
4.4
9:30 AM
4.5
PyDDA: A New Pythonic Multiple-Doppler Analysis Package
Robert Jackson, Argonne National Laboratory, Argonne, IL; and S. Collis, T. J. Lang, C. K. Potvin, and T. Munson
9:45 AM
4.6
Developing a Python-Based Algorithm to Identify and Track ZDR Arcs in Supercells
Matthew B. Wilson, Univ. of Nebraska—Lincoln, Lincoln, NE; and M. S. Van Den Broeke
Recording files available
Session 4
Observing System Simulation Experiments (OSSEs)—Part I
Location: North 131AB (Phoenix Convention Center - West and North Buildings)
Host: 23rd Conference on Integrated Observing and Assimilation Systems for the Atmosphere, Oceans, and Land Surface (IOAS-AOLS)
Chair: Derek J. Posselt, JPL
8:30 AM
4.1
The New ECMWF Cubic Octahedral (O1280) Nature Run
Ross N. Hoffman, NOAA/OAR/AOML, Miami, FL; and S. Malardel, P. Maciel, T. R. Peevey, P. T. Partain, S. Finley, R. Atlas, L. Isaksen, N. Wedi, L. Cucurull, and C. Kummerow
8:45 AM
4.2
Assessment and Validation of an Observing Systems Simulation Experiment (OSSE) System Using a Summary Assessment Metric (SAM) Inter-comparison of OSSE and Observing System Experiment (OSE) Results
Kayo Ide, Univ. of Maryland, College Park, MD; and S. A. Boukabara, R. N. Hoffman, Y. Zhou, N. Shahroudi, K. Garrett, K. Kumar, T. Zhu, and R. Atlas

Handout (6.8 MB)

9:00 AM
4.3
Utilizing Ensemble Forecast Sensitivity to Observation (EFSO) Metrics to Assess Simulated Observation Impacts
Sean P.F. Casey, Cooperative Institute for Marine and Atmospheric Studies, Miami, FL; and L. Cucurull, R. Atlas, R. N. Hoffman, T. C. Chen, and E. Kalnay
9:30 AM
4.5
Impact of Refractivity Profiles from a Proposed GNSS-RO Constellation on Tropical Cyclone Forecasts in a Global Modeling System
Michael J. Mueller, CIRES and NOAA/ESRL/GSD, Boulder, CO; and A. C. Kren, L. Cucurull, R. N. Hoffman, R. Atlas, and T. R. Peevey
Recording files available
Session 4
Remote Sensing and Water Prediction in the Decision Making Process
Location: North 126BC (Phoenix Convention Center - West and North Buildings)
Host: 33rd Conference on Hydrology
Cochairs: Tarendra Lakhankar, NOAA-CREST and City Univ. of New York; Angelica Gutiérrez-Magness, NOAA/NWS/Office of Water Prediction; Andrew L. Molthan, MSFC
8:30 AM
4.1
Towards a Better Understanding of the Hydrological Cycle Using Altimetry
Patrick Le Moigne, CNRM, Toulouse, France; and A. A. Boone, T. Guinaldo, C. Emery, S. Biancamaria, D. J. Leroux, S. Munier, and S. Ricci
9:00 AM
4.3
Satellite and Model Layer Precipitable Water Products to Support Forecasting of Heavy Precipitation Events
John M. Forsythe, CIRA/Colorado State Univ., Fort Collins, CO; and D. Bikos, S. Q. Kidder, A. S. Jones, E. J. Szoke, and S. J. Fletcher
9:15 AM
4.4
Mapping Flooding During Severe Weather Events Using Observations from CYGNSS
Clara Chew, UCAR, Boulder, CO; and L. Read, J. J. Braun, D. J. Gochis, W. S. Schreiner, and S. Gleason
9:30 AM
4.5
Monitoring Evapotranspiration from Remote Sensing Data for Ground Water Resources Evaluation
Albert Olioso, Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique, Avignon, France; and A. Allies, C. Ollivier, G. Boulet, J. Demarty, M. Weiss, M. Leblanc, N. Martin-StPaul, O. Marloie, G. Simioni, B. Cappelaere, and F. Huard

9:45 AM
4.6
Integrating Satellite Soil Moisture Retrievals for Hydrological Prediction Applications
Xiwu Zhan, NOAA/NESDIS, College Park, MD; and J. Liu, L. Zhao, J. Yin, L. Fang, N. Y. Wang, and T. Vokicevic
Recording files available
Session 4
Space-Based Lidar Including ESA's Aeolus, CALIPSO, CATS, and Multifunction Lidars to Address Observables in the Earth Science Decadal Survey. Part I
Location: West 211A (Phoenix Convention Center - West and North Buildings)
Host: Ninth Symposium on Lidar Atmospheric Applications
Cochairs: Sharon Rodier, SSAI; Travis Toth, NASA Langley Research Center
9:00 AM
4.2
CATS Cloud and Aerosol Data Products: New Features, Improvements, and Implications for the Future
John E. Yorks, NASA, Greenbelt, MD; and M. J. McGill, E. P. Nowottnick, P. Selmer, S. Rodier, M. A. Vaughan, R. M. Pauly, and S. Ozog
9:15 AM
4.3
Quantitative Assessment of Contrail and Anthropogenic Aerosol Radiative Effects and Their Implication to Meteorological Phenomena in the Mediterranean Basin
Simone Lolli, Consiglio Nazionale Delle Ricerche, Istituto di Metodologie per l’Analisi Ambientale, Potenza, Italy; and D. Dionisi, J. Campbell, E. J. Welton, M. Sicard, F. Madonna, T. C. Landi, J. Lewis Jr., and G. Pappalardo
9:30 AM
4.4
Validation of New Methods in Inferring Extinction and Lidar Ratio from Photon-Limited Lidar Observations
Willem J. Marais, CIMSS, Univ. of Wisconsin–Madison, Madison, WI; and R. E. Holz, E. W. Eloranta, and R. M. Willett
9:45 AM
4.5
ICESat-2 Lidar Measurements of the Polar Atmosphere
Stephen P. Palm, SSAI, Greenbelt, MD; and Y. Yang
Recording files available
Themed Joint Session 4
Stratospheric Ozone, Chemistry, and Climate—Part I
Location: West 212A (Phoenix Convention Center - West and North Buildings)
Hosts: (Joint between the 20th Conference on Middle Atmosphere; the 32nd Conference on Climate Variability and Change; and the 21st Conference on Atmospheric Chemistry )
Cochairs: John S. Daniel, NOAA; Amy Butler, CIRES
8:30 AM
TJ4.1A
Global Stratospheric Ozone: Past, Present, and Future (Invited Presentation)
Jessica L. Neu, JPL, Pasadena, CA; and P. Braesicke and W. S. Chapter 3 Team
9:00 AM
TJ4.2
Trends in Atmospheric Abundance and Inferred Emissions of Ozone-Depleting Substances (Invited Presentation)
Brad D. Hall, NOAA, Boulder, CO; and M. Rigby, A. Engel, R. Hossaini, M. Vollmer, R. P. Fernandez, and E. J. Hintsa
9:15 AM
TJ4.3A
9:45 AM
TJ4.4A
Ozone Change and Its Influence on Climate (Invited Presentation)
A. Yu. Karpechko, Finnish Meteorological Institute, Helsinki, Finland; and A. C. Maycock, M. Abalos, J. Arblaster, C. I. Garfinkel, H. Akiyoshi, K. H. Rosenlof, and M. Sigmond
Recording files available
Session 4A
AI Applied to Airborne or Spaceborne Earth Observation Datasets
Location: North 124B (Phoenix Convention Center - West and North Buildings)
Host: 18th Conference on Artificial and Computational Intelligence and its Applications to the Environmental Sciences
Cochairs: Michael J. Starek, Texas A&M University−Corpus Christi; Chuyen Nguyen, Texas A&M University−Corpus Christi
8:30 AM
4A.1
Development of Merged Cloud Forecasts from Satellite and Numerical Model Data
Jason Nachamkin, NRL, Monterey, CA; and M. Surratt, R. L. Bankert, Y. Jin, E. Hyer, and D. A. Peterson
9:00 AM
4A.3
Deep Learning Methods for Cyclogenesis, Extratropical, and Tropical Cyclone Regions of Interest (ROI) from Satellite Observations
Christina Bonfanti, NOAA/ESRL and CIRES, Boulder, CO; and J. Stewart, D. Hall, S. Maksimovic, M. W. Govett, L. Trailovic, and I. Jankov
9:15 AM
4A.4
Sematic Segmentation of Hyperspatial UAS Imagery for Land Cover Mapping Using Convolutional-Wavelet Neural Networks
Mohammad Pashaei, Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi, corpus christi, TX; and M. J. Starek
9:30 AM
4A.5
A Machine Learning-Trained ICVS VIIRS Clear-Sky Mask Algorithm Applicable for Multiple Satellites
Xingming Liang, ERT Inc., Laurel, MD; and B. Yan, N. Sun, A. Ignatov, and X. Zhou
9:45 AM
4A.6
Finding Ship Tracks with Machine Learning Algorithms in Remote Sensing Images
Tianle Yuan, GSFC, Greenbelt, MD; and C. Wang, K. Meyer, and S. Platnick
Recording files available
Session 4A
Data In, Information Out: Crowdsourcing Tools for Gathering and Distributing Climate, Weather, Marine, and Hydrological Data
Location: North 131C (Phoenix Convention Center - West and North Buildings)
Host: 35th Conference on Environmental Information Processing Technologies
Cochairs: Nazila Merati, ERT, Inc; Jared Rennie, CICS/North Carolina State Univ.; Kevin Tyle, Univ. at Albany/SUNY
8:45 AM
4A.2
An mPING-Based Hail Climatology
Kimberly L. Elmore, CIMMS/Univ. of Oklahoma and NOAA/NSSL, Norman, OK
9:00 AM
4A.3
Combining ASOS and mPING Observations for a Revised Winter Precipitation Climatology
Kimberly L. Elmore, CIMMS/Univ. of Oklahoma and NOAA/NSSL, Norman, OK; and M. E. Baldwin
9:15 AM
4A.4
The Curious Case of Sunrise Snow
Kimberly L. Elmore, CIMMS/Univ. of Oklahoma and NOAA/NSSL, Norman, OK; and M. E. Baldwin, A. Gerard, and H. D. Reeves
9:30 AM
4A.5
Crowdsourcing Observations with FMI Weather App
Ismo Sakari Karjalainen, FMI, Helsinki, Finland
9:45 AM
4A.6
Recording files available
Session 4A
Interactions between Atmospheric Convection and Composition—Part I
Location: North 124A (Phoenix Convention Center - West and North Buildings)
Host: 21st Conference on Atmospheric Chemistry
Cochairs: Hui Su, JPL; Kenneth Pickering, Univ. of Maryland; Gretchen Mullendore, Univ. of North Dakota
9:00 AM
4A.2
Coupling Free Radical Catalysis, Convective Injection into the Stratosphere, Climate Forcing, and Human Health
J.G. Anderson, Harvard Univ., Cambridge, MA; and C. Clapp, K. P. Bowman, C. R. Homeyer, D. Weisenstein, J. Smith, D. M. Wilmouth, and J. E. Klobas
9:45 AM
4A.5
Vertical Transport, Entrainment, and Scavenging Processes Affecting Trace Gases in Modeled and Observed SEAC4RS Case Studies
Gustavo Cuchiara, Univ. of Colorado Boulder, Boulder, CO; and M. C. Barth, A. Fried, C. R. Homeyer, M. M. Bela, and N. K. Heath

Recording files available
Session 4A
Traditional and Non-Traditional Observations for Predicting Extreme Events in Weather and Hydrology to Provide the Science-to-Operations-to-Societal Benefits
Location: North 230 (Phoenix Convention Center - West and North Buildings)
Host: Ninth Conference on Transition of Research to Operations
Cochairs: David Helms, NOAA/NESDIS/Office of Projects, Planning and Analysis; Jennifer B. Webster, NOAA/NESDIS/Office of Projects, Planning and Analysis
8:30 AM
4A.2
Overview of Efforts to Transition NOAA Hurricane Hunter Aircraft Data into Operations during the 2018 Hurricane Field Program—Intensity Forecast Experiment
Jonathan Zawislak, Univ. of Miami/Cooperative Institute for Marine and Atmospheric Studies and NOAA/AOML/HRD, Miami, FL; and R. F. Rogers, J. A. Sippel, P. D. Reasor, J. Gamache, S. D. Aberson, S. N. Stevenson, C. Mello, J. Dunion, M. J. Folmer, C. D. Barnet, F. D. Marks Jr., and S. T. Murillo
8:45 AM
4A.1
Real-Time NOAA WP-3D Tail-Doppler Radar in AWIPS-II: A Successful R2O Transition
Christopher Mello, NWS/NCEP, Miami, FL; and J. F. Gamache, S. N. Stevenson, and P. Reasor
9:00 AM
4A.3
Atmospheric River Reconnaissance
F. Martin Ralph, SIO/Univ. of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA
; and V. Tallapragada, J. D. Doyle, C. Davis, A. Subramanian, F. Pappenberger, F. Cannon, J. M. Cordeira, R. Demirdjian, T. J. Galarneau Jr., C. W. Hecht, J. F. Kalansky, B. K. Kawzenuk, D. A. Lavers, A. Lundry, J. Parrish, C. Reynolds, J. J. Rutz, and A. M. Wilson
9:15 AM
4A.4
Recording files available
Session 4A
Variability and Change in Jets and Storm Tracks—Part I
Location: North 121BC (Phoenix Convention Center - West and North Buildings)
Host: 32nd Conference on Climate Variability and Change
Chair: Walter Robinson, North Carolina State Univ.
8:30 AM
4A.1
Lower-Latitude Linkages to Two Intense Arctic Cyclones in Early June 2018
Lance F. Bosart, Univ. at Albany, SUNY, Albany, NY; and K. A. Biernat, D. Keyser, and S. M. Cavallo
8:45 AM
4A.2
A Predictability Study of a Polar Low Linked to a Tropopause Polar Vortex
Kevin A. Biernat, Univ. at Albany, SUNY, Albany, NY; and D. Keyser, L. F. Bosart, and S. M. Cavallo
9:00 AM
4A.3
The Forcing of the Preferred Positions of the Atlantic Eddy-Driven Jet: Importance of Orography and SSTs
Rachel H. White, Univ. of Washington, Seattle, WA; and A. Sheshadri and C. Hilgenbrink

9:15 AM
4A.4
Quantifying Storm-Track Variability and Impacts Using Accumulated Cyclone Track Activity
Edmund K. M. Chang, Stony Brook Univ., SUNY, Stony Brook, NY; and A. M. W. Yau

9:30 AM
4A.5
Storm Track Shifts Induced by Regional Stationary Wave Interference
Mingyu Park, The Pennsylvania State Univ., University Park, PA; and S. Lee
9:45 AM
4A.6
Blocking Identification Based on the Kinematic Vorticity Number and Its Link to the Point Vortex Model
Lisa Schielicke, Freie Universitaet Berlin, Berlin, Germany; and M. Hirt, A. Müller, P. Nevir, and J. Dahl
Recording files available
Session 4B
AI Techniques for Numerical Weather Prediction, Part I
Location: North 125AB (Phoenix Convention Center - West and North Buildings)
Host: 18th Conference on Artificial and Computational Intelligence and its Applications to the Environmental Sciences
Cochairs: Ryan A. Lagerquist, CIMMS; Edwin Campos, Uptake Technologies
8:30 AM
4B.1
Using Evolutionary Programming to Generate Improved Tropical Cyclone Intensity Forecasts
Jesse Schaffer, University of Wisconsin−Milwaukee, Milwaukee, WI; and P. Roebber and C. Evans
8:45 AM
4B.2
9:00 AM
4B.3
Real-Time Hail Prediction Using Machine Learning Algorithms and HREFv2
Amanda Burke, CAPS/University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK; and N. Snook, D. J. Gagne II, and A. McGovern
9:15 AM
4B.4
9:30 AM
4B.5A
Using Machine Learning to Improve Storm-Scale 1-h Probabilistic Low-Level Rotation Forecasts
Montgomery L. Flora, University of Oklahoma, CIMMS, NSSL/NOAA, Norman, OK; and C. K. Potvin, P. S. Skinner, and A. McGovern
9:45 AM
4B.6
Object Processing of High-Resolution Precipitation Forecasts Based on Intensity and Texture Segmentation
Yamina Hamidi, Météo-France, Toulouse, France; and L. Raynaud, L. Rottner, and P. Arbogast

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Session 4B
Air Pollution in Asia: Sources, Transports, and Impacts on Health and Climate—Part II
Location: North 126A (Phoenix Convention Center - West and North Buildings)
Host: 21st Conference on Atmospheric Chemistry
Cochairs: Yuan Wang, California Institute of Technology; Bin Zhao, Univ. of California, Los Angeles; Bryan Duncan, NASA GSFC
8:30 AM
4B.1
8:45 AM
4B.2
Understanding Gaseous and Particulate Air Pollutants in India
Yuan Wang, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA; and H. Guo, H. Zhang, J. H. Jiang, J. Wang, D. J. Diner, F. Xu, and Y. Yung

9:00 AM
4B.3
Air Pollution–Planetary Boundary Layer–Weather Interactions in Asia: Observation and Modeling Evidences
Aijun Ding, Nanjing Univ., Nanjing, China; and X. Huang, Z. Wang, K. Ding, and C. Fu

9:15 AM
4B.4
Meteorology Influencing Springtime Air Quality and Pollution Transport in Korea
David A. Peterson, NRL, Monterey, CA; and E. J. Hyer, S. O. Han, and J. H. Crawford
Recording files available
Session 4B
Decadal–Multidecadal Climate Variability and Predictability—Part I
Location: North 122BC (Phoenix Convention Center - West and North Buildings)
Host: 32nd Conference on Climate Variability and Change
Chair: Antonietta Capotondi, Univ. of Colorado Boulder
Cochairs: Robert Korty, Texas A&M Univ.; Walter Robinson, North Carolina State Univ.
9:00 AM
4B.3
9:15 AM
4B.4
Reconstruction and Attribution of Multidecadal Temperature Variability over the Common Era
R. A. Neukom, Univ. of Bern, Bern, Switzerland; and L. A. Barboza, J. Emile-Geay, M. P. Erb, J. Franke, L. Lücke, A. Schurer, F. Shi, V. Valler, S. Brönnimann, M. N. Evans, G. J. Hakim, W. He, B. J. Henley, D. S. Kaufman, F. C. Ljungqvist, N. P. McKay, S. J. Phipps, K. Rehfeld, L. von Gunten, J. Werner, and F. Zhu
9:45 AM
4B.6
An Observational Estimate of the Direct Atmospheric Response to the Arctic Sea Ice Loss
Claude Frankignoul, Sorbonne Université, UPMC, Paris, France; and A. Simon and G. Gastineau
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Session 4B
Improving R2O & O2R in 0-18 Hour Forecast Range: Addressing Forecasters’ Needs—Analysis and Nowcast Tools: Part II
Location: North 232C (Phoenix Convention Center - West and North Buildings)
Host: Ninth Conference on Transition of Research to Operations
Cochairs: Kim Runk, NOAA/NWS; Young-Joon Kim, NWS
8:30 AM
4B.2
Improvement of Aviation Turbulence Forecast in the NOAA’s Rapid Refresh Model Version 4 (RAPv4) with Hybrid Vertical Coordinate System
Jung-Hoon Kim, Colorado State Univ./CIRA, Fort Collins, CO; and R. D. Sharman, J. Brown, S. Benjamin, S. H. Park, J. Klemp, M. Strahan, and J. W. Scheck
9:00 AM
4B.4
Development, R2O, and O2R of the NOAA/CIMSS ProbSevere Model
John L. Cintineo, CIMSS, Madison, WI; and M. J. Pavolonis, J. Sieglaff, L. Cronce, and J. Brunner
9:30 AM
4B.6
Quantifying Stochastic Forcing at Convective Scales
David Randall, Colorado State Univ., Fort Collins, CO

9:45 AM
4B.6A
Near-Real Time Surface-Based CAPE from Merged Hyperspectral IR Satellite Sounder and Surface Meteorological Station Data
Callyn Bloch, Space Science and Engineering Center, Madison, WI; and R. Knuteson, A. Gambacorta, N. R. Nalli, J. M. Gartzke, and L. Zhou
Recording files available
Session 4B
Quasi-Operational Products You Can Use Now: The View from the Dry and Wet Sides—Part I
Location: North 132ABC (Phoenix Convention Center - West and North Buildings)
Host: 35th Conference on Environmental Information Processing Technologies
Cochairs: Tiffany C. Vance, NOAA; Kevin Kelleher, ESRL; Jennifer Luppens Mahoney, NOAA/ESRL/GSD
8:30 AM
4B.1
Realtime Subseasonal Forecast with SubX
Shan Sun, CIRES/Univ. of Colorado Boulder and NOAA/ESRL, Boulder, CO; and K. Pegion

8:45 AM
4B.2
Evaluation of a Prototype Version of the 3D-Real-Time Mesoscale Analysis (3D-RTMA) for Situational Awareness and Nowcast Applications
Stephen S. Weygandt, NOAA/ESRL, Boulder, CO; and C. R. Alexander, G. Ge, M. Hu, T. T. Ladwig, C. Hartsough, J. R. Carley, G. Zhao, M. Pondeca, and R. Yang
9:00 AM
4B.3
Rapidly-Updating High-Resolution Predictions of Smoke, Visibility, and Smoke-Weather Interactions Using Satellite Fire Products within the Rapid Refresh and High-Resolution Rapid Refresh Coupled with Smoke (RAP/HRRR-smoke)
Eric P. James, CIRES, Univ. of Colorado Boulder, and NOAA/ESRL/GSD, Boulder, CO; and R. Ahmadov, G. Grell, C. R. Alexander, K. Y. Wong, S. Albers, S. McKeen, G. Pereira, S. R. Freitas, I. A. Csiszar, M. Tsidulko, W. Straka, S. Kondragunta, and S. Benjamin
9:15 AM
4B.4
Online Inclusion of Chemical Component into NOAA’s Next Generation Global Prediction System (NGGPS)
Li Zhang, NOAA/ESRL/GSD and CIRES, Boulder, CO; and G. Grell, R. Montuoro, S. A. McKeen, R. Ahmadov, C. DeLuca, J. K. Henderson, and B. Jamison
9:30 AM
4B.5
INSITE: IDSS Tool for Aviation Weather
Melissa A. Petty, NOAA/ESRL/GSD and CIRA, Boulder, CO; and J. E. Hart, G. J. Layne, M. Rabellino, M. S. Wandishin, P. Hamer, and A. Terborg

Themed Joint Session 5
CANCELLED: National Weather Service Research, Reports, and Insights to Inform Social Sciences
Location: North 226C (Phoenix Convention Center - West and North Buildings)
Hosts: (Joint between the 14th Symposium on Societal Applications: Policy, Research and Practice; and the Seventh Symposium on Building a Weather-Ready Nation )
Cochairs: Gary S. Szatkowski, NWS (Retired); Adam M. Rainear, Univ. of Connecticut
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Session 5
Mitigating the Effects of Climate Change
Location: North 129A (Phoenix Convention Center - West and North Buildings)
Host: 10th Conference on Weather, Climate, and the New Energy Economy
Cochairs: Chris Coleman, ERCOT; Eric E. Wertz, Radiant Solutions
8:30 AM
5.1
High-Resolution Dynamic Downscaling of CMIP5 Model Data to Assess the Effects of Climate Change on Renewable Energy Distribution in New York State: Project Overview and Preliminary Results
Jeffrey M. Freedman, Univ. at Albany, SUNY, Albany, NY; and R. Perez, A. Dai, J. M. Covert, S. Chen, A. Stevens, J. Manobianco, D. B. Kirk-Davidoff, P. Beaucage, and A. Gothandaraman
8:45 AM
5.2
The Potential, Viability, and Co-Benefits of Developing Wind Energy to Mitigate Climate Change in the Caribbean
Lawrence Pologne, Caribbean Institute for Meteorology and Hydrology, St. James, Barbados; and L. A. Nurse and J. L. Charlery
9:00 AM
5.3
9:45 AM
5.6
Mitigating Climate Impacts on Society: Climate Services Toolkit Coordination, Development, and Implementation
Marina Timofeyeva, NOAA/NWS, Silver Spring, MD; and R. Pulwarty, P. Hechler, C. Van Meerbeeck, A. Trotman, A. F. Kamga, R. K. Kolli, M. Dilley, and J. P. Ceron

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Joint Session 9
National and International Program Overviews for Environmental Satellites (Invited)
Location: North 231AB (Phoenix Convention Center - West and North Buildings)
Hosts: (Joint between the 15th Annual Symposium on New Generation Operational Environmental Satellite Systems; the Ninth Conference on Transition of Research to Operations; and the Seventh AMS Symposium on the Joint Center for Satellite Data Assimilation )
Cochairs: Bill Sjoberg, GST/JPSS Program Office; Jamie Hawkins
8:30 AM
J9.1A
GOES-R Series Update
Tim Gasparrini, Lockheed Martin

9:00 AM
J9.4
Status of EUMETSAT's Satellite Programmes and Preparing for the Future
Kenneth Holmlund, Chief Scientist - European Organisation for Exploitation of Meteorological Satellites (EUMETSAT), Darmstadt, Germany; and B. Bojkov, P. Schluessel, J. Grandell, R. Munro, and D. Klaes
9:30 AM
J9.5
Status of the Korea Meteorological Administration (KMA) Program
Jong Seok Kim, KMA, Seoul, Korea, Republic of (South); and H. Park
9:45 AM
Fengyun Meteorological Satellites and Consideration on Calibration Issues
Peng Zhang, National Satellite Meteorological Center, China Meteorological Administration, Beijing, China

9:00 AM-11:00 AM: Tuesday, 8 January 2019


Guest Coffee (Tuesday)
Location: Hospitality Suite 428 (Sheraton Hotel )

9:00 AM-5:00 PM: Tuesday, 8 January 2019


Sedona Red Rocks Tours

9:00 AM-6:00 PM: Tuesday, 8 January 2019


Exhibit Hall (Tuesday)
Location: Hall 5-6 (Phoenix Convention Center - West and North Buildings)

Poster Hall (Tuesday)
Location: Hall 4 (Phoenix Convention Center - West and North Buildings)

9:15 AM-10:00 AM: Tuesday, 8 January 2019

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Session 2
Land, Ocean, Cryosphere, Air Quality, and Coupled Earth System Data Assimilation
Location: North 231C (Phoenix Convention Center - West and North Buildings)
Host: Seventh AMS Symposium on the Joint Center for Satellite Data Assimilation
Chair: Nancy L. Baker, NRL
9:15 AM
2.1
ECMWF EDA-SEKF Soil Moisture Analysis for Numerical Weather Prediction
Patricia de Rosnay, ECMWF, Reading, United Kingdom; and E. Hólm, N. Rodríguez-Fernández, D. Fairbairn, P. Browne, M. Bonavita, L. Isaksen, and S. English
9:45 AM
2.3
Toward a Near-Real-Time Surface Flux Update for Atmospheric Composition at ECMWF
Jerome Barre, ECMWF, Reading, United Kingdom; and M. Ades, A. Augusti-Panareda, N. Bousserez, R. Engelen, J. Flemming, A. Inness, Z. Kipling, S. Massart, M. Parrington, and V. H. Peuch

10:00 AM-10:30 AM: Tuesday, 8 January 2019


AM Coffee Break (Tuesday)
Location: Hall 5-6 (Phoenix Convention Center - West and North Buildings)

Meet President Roger M. Wakimoto (Tuesday)
Location: Hall 5-6 (Phoenix Convention Center - West and North Buildings)

10:30 AM-11:15 AM: Tuesday, 8 January 2019

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Session 3
Next-Generation Satellites and Sensors Data Assimilation. Part I
Location: North 231C (Phoenix Convention Center - West and North Buildings)
Host: Seventh AMS Symposium on the Joint Center for Satellite Data Assimilation
Chair: James G. Yoe, NOAA/NWS/NCEP/Joint Center for Satellite Data Assimilation
10:30 AM
3.1
Assimilation of ABI and GLM at High Temporal and Spatial Scales
Max Marchand, Cooperative Institute for Research in the Atmosphere, Fort Collins, CO; and K. Hilburn
10:45 AM
3.2
Assimilating Every-10-minute Himawari-8 Infrared Radiances to Improve Convective Predictability
Yohei Sawada, Meteorological Research Institute, Japan Meteorological Agency, Tsukuba, Japan; and K. Okamoto, M. Kunii, and T. Miyoshi

10:30 AM-11:45 AM: Tuesday, 8 January 2019

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Panel Discussion 1
Challenges Facing HPC Centers Supporting Weather, Water, and Climate
Location: North 123 (Phoenix Convention Center - West and North Buildings)
Host: Fifth Symposium on High Performance Computing for Weather, Water, and Climate
Chair: Marc Cotnoir, CSRA, Inc.
Panelists: Andrew Stephen Kirkman, UKMO; Peter Bauer, ECMWF; Michael Farrar, U.S. Air Force (USAF)
10:30 AM
Introductory Remarks

10:35 AM
Panel Discussion
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Session 5A
AI Techniques Applied to Environmental Science, Part II
Location: North 124B (Phoenix Convention Center - West and North Buildings)
Host: 18th Conference on Artificial and Computational Intelligence and its Applications to the Environmental Sciences
Cochairs: Michael J. Starek, Texas A&M University−Corpus Christi; Chuyen Nguyen, Texas A&M University−Corpus Christi
10:30 AM
5A.1
Assured Operations of the Environmental Information Enterprise
Stephen Marley, The Aerospace Corporation, Silver Spring, MD; and K. Collett, I. Guch, J. Neff, N. Perlongo, C. Sprague, and Y. C. Tung
10:45 AM
5A.2
Intraday Ground Horizontal Irradiance Forecasting Using LSTM
Xiuhong Chen, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI; and H. Shen, J. Lu, and X. Huang

11:15 AM
5A.5
Arabian Peninsula Extreme Rainfall Characteristics Using Self-Organizing Maps
Thang M. Luong, King Abdullah Univ. of Science and Technology, Thuwal, Saudi Arabia; and I. Hoteit

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Session 5B
AI Techniques for Numerical Weather Prediction, Part II
Location: North 125AB (Phoenix Convention Center - West and North Buildings)
Host: 18th Conference on Artificial and Computational Intelligence and its Applications to the Environmental Sciences
Cochairs: Ryan A. Lagerquist, CIMMS; Edwin Campos, Uptake Technologies
10:30 AM
5B.1
Surface Layer Flux Machine Learning Parameterizations
David John Gagne II, NCAR, Boulder, CO; and T. C. McCandless, T. Brummet, B. Kosovic, and S. E. Haupt
10:45 AM
5B.2
Downscaling Air Temperature Forecasts along Intricate Coastlines
Mathias Nipen, Norwegian Meteorological Institute, Oslo, Norway; and T. Nipen and I. A. Seierstad
11:00 AM
5B.3
Postprocessing HREFv2 Heavy Rainfall Forecasts Using Machine Learning
Eric D. Loken, CIMMS/University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK; and A. J. Clark and A. McGovern
11:30 AM
5B.5

10:30 AM-12:00 PM: Tuesday, 8 January 2019

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Joint Session 2
Advances in Understanding Land–Atmosphere Interactions: Part II
Location: North 127ABC (Phoenix Convention Center - West and North Buildings)
Hosts: (Joint between the 33rd Conference on Hydrology; and the 32nd Conference on Climate Variability and Change )
Cochairs: Joseph A. Santanello, NASA GSFC; Paul A. Dirmeyer, COLA; Yunyan Zhang, LLNL; Dan Li, Boston Univ.
10:30 AM
J2.1
Land-Atmosphere Coupling in an Ensemble of Regional Climate Simulations
Rachel McCrary, NCAR, Boulder, CO; and R. W. Arritt and M. S. Bukovsky
10:45 AM
J2.2
Assessment of the Sensitivity to the Thermal Roughness Length in Noah and Noah-MP Land Surface Model Using WRF in an Arid Region
Michael Weston, Khalifa Univ., Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates; and M. Temimi and V. K. Valappil

11:00 AM
J2.3
11:15 AM
J2.4
Impact of Land-Atmosphere Interactions on Mesoscale Arctic Forecasts
Xiaodong Hong, NRL, Monterey, CA; and J. D. Doyle, S. Wang, and J. Nachamkin
11:30 AM
J2.5
11:45 AM
J2.6
Terrestrial Moisture Recycling Estimates Derived from an Idealized Model Framework
Benjamin Lintner, Rutgers Univ., New Brunswick, NJ; and K. Findell, P. Keys, R. van der Ent, A. Berg, and J. P. Krasting
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Session 2
Extreme Heat and Human Health: Predicting the Hazard, Understanding the Impacts
Location: North 228AB (Phoenix Convention Center - West and North Buildings)
Host: 10th Conference on Environment and Health
Chair: Mary Wright, Arizona State Univ.
10:30 AM
2.1
10:45 AM
2.2
The Impact of Excessive Heat on Preterm Birth, North Carolina, 2011−15
Ashley R. Ward, NOAA, Chapel Hill, NC; and J. Clark, C. E. Konrad, and J. T. McLeod
11:00 AM
2.3
Heat Exposure during Outdoor Activities in the United States Varies Significantly by City, Demography, and Activity
Christopher G. Hoehne, Arizona State Univ., Tempe, AZ; and D. M. Hondula, M. Chester, D. Eisenman, A. Middel, A. Fraser, L. E. Watkins, K. Gerster, and J. Grotts
11:15 AM
2.4
Development of a Web-Based Tool to Forecast Wet-Bulb Globe Temperature for Populations Who Engage in Exertional Outdoor Activities
Charles E. Konrad, The Southeast Regional Climate Center, Chapel Hill, NC; and A. Ward, J. Clark, and D. Bertrand
11:45 AM
2.6
Real-Time Climate Information for Heat Health Early Warning for Africa
Wassila M. Thiaw, NOAA/NWS/NCEP/Climate Prediction Center, College Park, MD
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Session 2
Future Biosphere and Climate
Location: West 212BC (Phoenix Convention Center - West and North Buildings)
Host: Inez Fung Symposium
Cochairs: James T. Randerson, Univ. of California, Irvine; Abigail L. S. Swann, Univ. of Washington
10:30 AM
2.1
10:45 AM
2.2
11:15 AM
2.4
Climate Communication and Next-Generation Climate Models
T. N. Palmer, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom
11:30 AM
Panel Discussion

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Themed Joint Session 2
Impacts of Extreme Weather Events on the Energy Sector (Joint with Financial Weather Risk Committee)
Location: North 129A (Phoenix Convention Center - West and North Buildings)
Host: 10th Conference on Weather, Climate, and the New Energy Economy
Moderator: John Zack, MESO, Inc.
Panelists: Carl Ostridge, REsurety; Kimberly Roberts, JLT Re; Nick Keener, Duke Energy; Jon Davis, Riskpulse
10:30 AM
Impacts of Extreme Weather Events on the Energy Sector -- Jennifer Newman
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Session 2
Key Areas for Catalyzing Innovation
Location: North 222C (Phoenix Convention Center - West and North Buildings)
Host: Special Symposium on Catalyzing Innovation in Weather Science Internationally
Chair: Paolo M. Ruti, WMO
10:30 AM
2.1
Improvements and Challenges in High-Impact Weather Prediction
David J. Stensrud, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA
11:00 AM
2.2
Weather Science Innovation: Lessons Learnt from the Polar Prediction Project
Thomas Jung, Alfred-Wegener-Institute for Polar and Marine Research, Bremerhaven, Germany
11:30 AM
2.3
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Session 2
Low-Cost Sensor and Imagers, Evaluation and Calibration, Data Fusion, and Applications
Location: West 211B (Phoenix Convention Center - West and North Buildings)
Host: Special Symposium on Meteorological Observations and Instrumentation
Chair: Sean Arms, UCAR
10:30 AM
2.1
Calibration of Radiosonde Humidity Sensors Using a Humidity Generator Operating at Low Temperature and Low Pressure
Sang-Wook Lee, Korea Research Institute of Standards and Science, Daejeon, Korea, Republic of (South); and B. I. Choi, Y. G. Kim, S. B. Woo, and J. C. Kim
10:45 AM
2.2
Observing Sea Salt Aerosol Size Distribution with a Kite-Based Platform
Alison D. Nugent, Univ. of Hawaii at Mānoa, Honolulu, HI; and C. Taing, T. Jones, and J. B. Jensen
11:00 AM
2.3
Utility of a Low-Cost, Dense Sensor Network for the Study of Air Quality Impact upon Human Health in an Urban Area
Susan Alexander, Univ. of Alabama in Huntsville, Huntsville, AL; and A. Kaulfus, C. Phillips, and U. U. Nair
11:15 AM
2.4
Surface- and Satellite-Based Methods for Calibrating 915-MHz Wind Profilers
Leslie M. Hartten, CIRES/Univ. of Colorado Boulder, and NOAA/ESRL/PSD, Boulder, CO; and P. E. Johnston
11:45 AM
2.6
Evaluating the 22 June 2017 South Dakota Hail Damage Using KHawk UAS: Accuracy Quantification and Cross Validation with Satellite Imagery
Saket Gowravaram, University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS; and H. Chao, A. L. Molthan, L. A. Schultz, J. R. Bell, P. Tian, and H. Flanagan
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Session 2
Weather and Forecasting Applications for an Operational Phased-Array Radar
Location: North 128AB (Phoenix Convention Center - West and North Buildings)
Host: Phased Array Radar Symposium
Chair: James M. Kurdzo, MIT Lincoln Laboratory
11:00 AM
2.2
Impact of Phased-Array Radar on Storm-Scale NWP Modeling for Severe Weather Prediction
Nusrat Yussouf, CIMMS/NOAA/NSSL, Norman, OK; and Y. Jung, D. R. Stratman, T. A. Supinie, and B. J. Putnam
11:15 AM
2.3
How an Agile-Beam Polarimetric Phased-Array Radar Can Add to the Observing Capabilities of the NWS
Dusan S. Zrnic, NOAA/NSSL, Norman, OK; and S. E. Koch, R. D. Palmer, M. E. Weber, K. D. Hondl, G. M. McFarquhar, and M. H. Jain
11:30 AM
2.4
Comb Beam Transmission by Phased-Array Antenna for Troposphere-Adaptive Observation
Eiichi Yoshikawa, Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency, Mitaka, Japan; and T. Ushio

11:45 AM
2.5
Using the SPARC Simulator to Study Data Quality and Adaptive Scanning for SENSR
Christopher D. Curtis, Cooperative Institute for Mesoscale Meteorological Studies/Univ. of Oklahoma, Norman, OK; and J. B. Boettcher, F. Nai, D. Schvartzman, and S. M. Torres
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Session 3
Global Lightning Casualties
Location: North 225AB (Phoenix Convention Center - West and North Buildings)
Host: Ninth Conference on the Meteorological Application of Lightning Data
Chair: Larry D. Carey, Texas A&M University
10:30 AM
3.1
Myths and Beliefs on Lightning among Kenyan Communities
Ratemo Waya Michieka, Univ. of Nairobi, Nairobi, Kenya
10:45 AM
3.2
African Centres for Lightning and Electromagnetics Network (ACLENet): 2019 Progress Report
Mary Ann Cooper, African Centres for Lightning and Electromagnetics Network; Professor Emerita, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, River Forest, IL; and R. Tushemereirwe and R. L. Holle
11:00 AM
3.4
Public Education to Reduce Lightning Injuries and Deaths in Bangladesh
Munir Ahmed, TARA, Dhaka, Bangladesh; and A. K. M. S. Islam, M. A. Cooper, C. Gomes, and R. L. Holle
11:15 AM
3.5
A New Approximation to Assess Risk By Lightning in Colombia
Audrey Soley Cruz Bernal, Keraunos S.A.S, Bogotá, D.C., Colombia; and D. Aranguren, H. Torres, and H. Rojas

11:30 AM
3.6
U.S. Lightning Deaths since the Year 1000
Ronald L. Holle, Holle Meteorology & Photography, Oro Valley, AZ
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Session 3
Rhetoric and Understanding of Risk in Weather and Climate Contexts
Location: North 226C (Phoenix Convention Center - West and North Buildings)
Host: 14th Symposium on Societal Applications: Policy, Research and Practice
Chair: Kimberly E. Klockow-McClain, CIMMS
10:45 AM
3.2
Rhetoric and Climate Science: Organizational Influence on Public Policy Related to Hurricane Harvey
Joseph E. Trujillo, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX; and C. Conrad
11:00 AM
3.3
Clouded Judgment: Does Political Partisanship Influence Audience Perceptions of Weather Information?
Jeremy L. Shermak, The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX

11:15 AM
3.4
The Rhetorical Storm of Uncertainty in Severe Weather Communication
Zoey Rosen, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO; and J. L. Demuth
11:30 AM
3.5
Tornado Warning Reception, Comprehension, and Response across County Warning Areas in United States
Joseph T. Ripberger, University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK; and J. N. Allan, W. W. Wehde, M. Krocak, C. Silva, and H. Jenkins-Smith
11:45 AM
3.6A
Report from Ad Hoc Committee on Naming Winter Storms
Gary S. Szatkowski, NWS (Retired), Hainesport, NJ; and A. M. Rainear

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Panel Discussion 3
Spengler Session: The Future of the U.S. Weather Enterprise
Location: North 222AB (Phoenix Convention Center - West and North Buildings)
Host: Seventh Symposium on the Weather, Water, and Climate Enterprise
Moderators: Raymond J. Ban, Ban & Associates and Consultant; Lauren Everett, NRC
Panelists: Douglas Hilderbrand, NOAA/NWS; Bill Gail, Global Weather Corporation; Mary Glackin, THE WEATHER COMPANY/AN IBM BUSINESS; Everette Joseph, SUNY; Douglas Hilderbrand, NOAA/NWS
10:30 AM
Introductory Remarks
10:45 AM
Spengler Award Winner
Raymond J. Ban, Ban & Associates and Consultant, Marietta, GA

11:00 AM
Remarks (Mary Glackin & Bill Gail)

11:15 AM
Remarks (Everette Joseph & Doug Hilderbrand)

11:30 AM
Discussion

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Session 4
Hazards in the Coastal Marine Environment: Part I
Location: North 130 (Phoenix Convention Center - West and North Buildings)
Host: 17th Symposium on the Coastal Environment
Cochairs: Michael J. DeFlorio, NASA; C. H. (Chester) Huang, Department of Interior
10:30 AM
4.1
Improved Wind Dynamics for Coastal Forecasting
Julian C. R. Hunt, Univ. College London, London, United Kingdom; and S. G. Sajjadi, F. Drullion, and L. Kent
10:45 AM
4.2
Increasing Threat of Landfalling Typhoons in the Western North Pacific between 1974 and 2013
Shoude Guan, Institute of Oceanology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Qingdao, China
11:15 AM
4.4
The C-Fog Project: Toward Improving Coastal Fog Prediction
H.J.S. Fernando, Univ. of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, IN; and I. Gultepe, C. E. Dorman, E. Pardyjak, D. H. Richter, Q. Wang, S. Hoch, E. Creegan, S. Gabersek, R. Y. W. Chang, and T. Bullock
11:30 AM
4.5
C-FOG Field Campaign for Coastal Fog Observations
Ismail Gultepe, EC, Toronto, ON, Canada; and H. J. S. Fernando, E. Pardyjak, Q. Wang, C. M. Hocut, E. Creegan, D. D. Flagg, S. W. Hoch, C. E. Dorman, R. Chang, N. Scanland, S. Desjardins, T. Bullock, R. Yamaguchi, M. J. Pavolonis, R. Krishnamurthy, A. J. Heymsfield, S. Gabersek, W. Perrie, and P. Jinadasa

11:45 AM
4.6
ALGE3D Development as an Aqueous Emergency Response Model
Grace M. Maze, Savannah River National Laboratory, Aiken, SC

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Session 4
University Education Initiatives
Location: North 229AB (Phoenix Convention Center - West and North Buildings)
Host: 28th Symposium on Education
Cochairs: Reginald Blake, New York City College of Technology, City Univ. of New York; Jon M. Nese, The Pennsylvania State Univ.
10:30 AM
4.1
Recipe for Successful Meteorology Majors: Are Incoming Test Scores Indicative?
Craig Clark, Valparaiso Univ., Valparaiso, IN; and T. M. Bals-Elsholz, B. J. Wolf, K. Goebbert, and A. Stepanek
11:00 AM
4.3
11:15 AM
4.4
11:30 AM
4.5
The Central Texas Collaborative Air Quality Monitoring Experiment
Rebecca Paulsen Edwards, Southwestern Univ., Georgetown, TX
11:45 AM
4.6
Results From the UGA Sandbox: Lapse Rates and Lahars
John A. Knox, The Univ. of Georgia, Athens, GA; and N. Morgan, S. Bernardes, K. Cameron, N. Neel, A. Knight, and E. M. Sullivan

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Session 4A
Cloud Computing for Environmental Data Processing and Display: Promise vs. Practice—Part I
Location: North 131C (Phoenix Convention Center - West and North Buildings)
Host: 35th Conference on Environmental Information Processing Technologies
Cochairs: Eugene Burger, NOAA/ERL/PMEL; Tiffany C. Vance, NOAA; Kevin Tyle, Univ. at Albany/SUNY
10:30 AM
4A.1
10:45 AM
4A.2
The European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts Approach to Cloud Computing
Baudouin Raoult, ECMWF, Reading, U.K.; and F. Pappenberger and V. H. Peuch
11:00 AM
4A.3
Enterprise Data Management (EDM) and Enterprise Product Generation (EPG) Proving Ground in the Amazon Web Services (AWS) Cloud
Rich Baker, Solers, Greenbelt, MD; and P. MacHarrie, D. Moore, J. Reddy, S. Causey, J. Sobanski, S. Walsh, R. Niemann, and D. M. Beall
11:15 AM
4A.4
The Weather Archive and Visualization Environment (WAVE) Project
Jebb Q. Stewart, NOAA, Boulder, CO; and T. H. Wilson, B. Rasch, R. Walsh, and D. Nietfeld
11:45 AM
4A.6
Development and Application of MOAP in National Weather Monitoring, Forecast and Service
Zhengguang Hu, National Meteorological Center, CMA, Beijing, China; and F. Xue

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Session 4B
Quasi-Operational Products You Can Use Now: The View from the Dry and Wet Sides—Part II
Location: North 132ABC (Phoenix Convention Center - West and North Buildings)
Host: 35th Conference on Environmental Information Processing Technologies
Cochairs: Tiffany C. Vance, NOAA; Kevin Kelleher, ESRL; Jennifer Luppens Mahoney, NOAA/ESRL/GSD
10:30 AM
4B.1
FACETs: The 2018 Hazard Services–Probabilistic Hazard Information (HS-PHI) Experiments at the NOAA Hazardous Weather Testbed
Kevin L. Manross, CIRA/Colorado State Univ. and NOAA/OAR/ESRL/GSD, Boulder, CO; and T. L. Hansen, G. J. Stumpf, A. V. Bates, A. Gerard, C. Golden, Y. Guo, J. J. James, D. M. Kingfield, J. G. LaDue, C. Ling, T. C. Meyer, D. Nietfeld, H. Obermeier, L. P. Rothfusz, and S. Williams
10:45 AM
4B.2
Hazard Services: Progress Report for 2018
Tracy Lee Hansen, NOAA/OAR/ESRL/GSD, Boulder, CO; and C. Golden, S. Gui, Y. Guo, N. Hardin, D. M. Kingfield, T. J. LeFebvre, J. Mahoney, K. L. Manross, S. Murphy, D. Nietfeld, H. Obermeier, J. E. Ramer, G. J. Wade, J. Wakefield, R. Weingruber, S. Williams, and S. Zhuo
11:00 AM
4B.3
MRMS Version 12 QPE Products Update—2018/2019
Jian Zhang, NOAA/NSSL, Norman, OK; and K. W. Howard, S. M. Martinaitis, L. Tang, S. B. Cocks, A. P. Osborne, M. J. Simpson, C. Langston, B. Kaney, K. Cooper, A. Arthur, J. Brogden, and L. W. Hanft
11:15 AM
4B.4
TCdiag—A Visualization Tool for Tropical Cyclone Intensity Forecasting
Mike Fiorino, CIRES, Boulder, CO; and M. E. Kucas, J. Darlow, and O. H. Shieh
11:30 AM
4B.5
The Integrated Ocean Observing System Model Viewer: A Resource for Integrated Model Output
Kathleen E. Bailey, NOAA/National Ocean Service, Silver Spring, MD; and R. Fratantonio and K. Knee

11:45 AM
4B.6
Evaluation of NOAA Probabilistic Rip Current Forecast Model in the Nearshore Wave Prediction System (NWPS) for NWS WFO Pilot Beaches
Jung-Sun Im, NWS, Silver Spring, MD; and M. E. Churma, S. B. Smith, G. Dusek, P. Santos, A. J. Van der Westhuysen, R. Padilla-Hernandez, J. Kuhn, and D. Atkinson

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Session 5
Advances in Space Weather Research and Modeling. Part I
Location: North 227A-C (Phoenix Convention Center - West and North Buildings)
Host: 16th Conference on Space Weather
Cochairs: Valbona Kunkel, NOAA/NWS/EMC via IMSG; Robert M. Robinson, Inspace
11:00 AM
5.2
Designing a New Coronal Magnetic Energy Diagnostic
Marcel F Corchado-Albelo, Univ. of Puerto Rico at Mayagüez, Mayagüez, PR; and S. Gibson, K. Dalmasse, Y. Fan, and A. Malanushenko
11:15 AM
5.3
The Coronal and Solar Magnetism Observatory (CoSMO)
Scott McIntosh, NCAR, Boulder, CO; and S. Tomczyk
11:30 AM
5.4
Storm-Time Modeling of the ITM System with SAMI3/GITM/RCM (Invited Presentation)
Joseph D. Huba, Naval Research Laboratory, Washington, DC; and J. Krall, A. Ridley, and S. Sazykin
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Session 5
Flood Prediction, Analysis, Decision Support, and Management I
Location: North 126BC (Phoenix Convention Center - West and North Buildings)
Host: 33rd Conference on Hydrology
Cochairs: David Gochis, NCAR; Kristie J. Franz, Iowa State Univ.; John N. McHenry, Baron Advanced Meteorological Systems, LLC; Mike Hobbins, NOAA
11:15 AM
5.4
Targeted Calibrations to Optimize the NWS Research Distributed Hydrologic Model for Runoff Risk Advisory Forecasts
Deborah K. Nykanen, Minnesota State Univ., Mankato, MN; and A. R. Thorstensen, D. Goering, and M. M. DeWeese
11:30 AM
5.5
Evaluation of Hydrologic Predictions Based on Multi-Model and Multi-Precipitation Product Forcing
Bong-Chul Seo, Univ. of Iowa, Iowa City, IA; and F. Quintero and W. F. Krajewski
11:45 AM
5.6
Improving Snow Pack Analysis for Flood Forecasting and Early Warnings—Lessons Learned from the June 2013 Southern Alberta Flood
Anthony Liu, Environment and Climate Change Canada, Edmonton, AB, Canada; and C. Mooney, K. Szeto, J. M. Thériault, B. Kochtubajda, R. E. Stewart, S. Boodoo, R. Goodson, Y. Li, and J. W. Pomeroy
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Session 5
Latest Tools, Data, Model Results, and Techniques for Understanding, Predicting, and Mitigating the Impact of Turbulence in Aviation—Part II
Location: North 224B (Phoenix Convention Center - West and North Buildings)
Host: 19th Conference on Aviation, Range, and Aerospace Meteorology
Cochairs: Dana M. Mueller, NOAA/ESRL/GSD and CIRA; Elizabeth Venteicher, Valparaiso Univ.
10:30 AM
5.1
A Physical versus a Statistical Forecast Formulation for Clear Air Turbulence
Donald W. McCann, McCann Aviation Weather Research, Inc., Overland Park, KS
10:45 AM
5.2A
Predicting Aircraft Turbulence with a Deep Learning Model Applied to Geostationary Infrared Imagery
Anthony Wimmers, CIMSS/University of Wisconsin−Madison, Madison, WI; and S. M. Griffin and J. Gerth

11:15 AM
5.4
What Might a Probabilistic Forecast of Turbulence Look Like?
Matthew S. Wandishin, NOAA/ESRL/GSD and CIRES/Univ. of Colorado, Boulder, CO; and D. M. Mueller and M. A. Petty
11:30 AM
5.5
Numerical Simulation of Turbulence near the Surface When an Accident Occurred at Narita Airport
Junshi Ito, The Univ. of Tokyo, Kashiwa, Japan; and H. Niino and K. Yoshino

Session 5
Major Weather Impacts of 2018: Session II
Location: North Ballroom 120CD (Phoenix Convention Center - West and North Buildings)
Host: 15IMPACTS: Major Weather Events and Impacts of 2018
Cochairs: Klaus Wolter, CIRES, Univ. of Colorado Boulder; Tanja E. Fransen, NOAA/NWS; Thomas Bedard, AccuWeather Enterprise Solutions; Owen H. Shieh, Joint Typhoon Warning Center
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Session 5
Microphysics of Natural and Perturbed Clouds
Location: North 223 (Phoenix Convention Center - West and North Buildings)
Host: 11th Symposium on Aerosol–Cloud–Climate Interactions
Cochairs: Sarah A. Tessendorf, NCAR; Roy M. Rasmussen, NCAR
10:30 AM
5.1
Observations Pertaining to Ice Production in Natural and Seeded Wintertime Orographic Clouds (Invited Presentation)
Jeffrey French, Univ. of Wyoming, Laramie, WY; and M. Hatt, S. Tessendorf, K. Friedrich, R. M. Rauber, R. M. Rasmussen, B. Geerts, L. Xue, A. Majewski, D. Blestrud, M. L. Kunkel, and S. Parkinson
11:00 AM
5.2
Observational Study on the Impact of Silver Iodide on Cloud Formation and Evolution in Orographic Winter Storms
Katja Friedrich, Univ. of Colorado Boulder, Boulder, CO; and M. D. Cann, J. French, S. Tessendorf, R. M. Rauber, B. Geerts, R. Rasmussen, L. Xue, D. Blestrud, M. L. Kunkel, and S. Parkinson
11:15 AM
5.3
Separating Microphysical Impacts from Dynamic Feedbacks in a Winter Orographic Seeding Case from SNOWIE
Lulin Xue, NCAR, Boulder, CO; and N. Sarkadi, R. M. Rasmussen, S. A. Tessendorf, W. W. Grabowski, and I. Geresdi

11:30 AM
5.4
Perturbation of Clouds due to Contrail Formation
Pooja Verma, Ludwig Maximilian Univ. of Munich, Munich, Germany; and U. Burkhardt
11:45 AM
5.5
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Session 5
Observing System Simulation Experiments (OSSEs)—Part II
Location: North 131AB (Phoenix Convention Center - West and North Buildings)
Host: 23rd Conference on Integrated Observing and Assimilation Systems for the Atmosphere, Oceans, and Land Surface (IOAS-AOLS)
Chair: Ross Hoffman, AOML
10:30 AM
5.1
Quantitative Evaluation of Uncertainty in Water Vapor Atmospheric Motion Vectors and Implications for Data Assimilation and OSSEs
Derek J. Posselt, JPL, Pasadena, CA; and H. Su, L. Wu, H. Nguyen, K. Mueller, F. He, J. Teixeira, and W. McCarty
10:45 AM
5.2
Impacts of Future High Temporal Resolution Advanced Sounding Systems on Local Severe Storm Forecast—A Quick Regional OSSE Demonstration
Zhenglong Li, CIMSS/Univ. of Wisconsin, Madison, WI; and J. Li, P. Wang, A. Lim, J. Li, T. J. Schmit, F. W. Nagle, R. Atlas, R. N. Hoffman, S. A. Boukabara, W. J. Blackwell, and T. Pagano
11:00 AM
5.3
OSSE Assessment of Underwater Glider Arrays to Improve Ocean Model Initialization for Tropical Cyclone Prediction
G. R. Halliwell Jr., NOAA/AOML, Miami, FL; and G. Goni, M. F. Mehari, V. H. Kourafalou, M. Baringer, and R. Atlas

11:15 AM
5.4
The Impact of Assimilating Sea Surface Salinity Observations in a High Resolution Ocean Prediction System
Scott R. smith, NRL, Stennis Space Center, MS; and R. S. Schaefer, M. J. Carrier, J. M. D'Addezio, H. E. Ngodock, I. Souopgui, J. J. Osborne, and G. Jacobs
11:30 AM
5.5
Idealized Space-Based Doppler-Wind Lidar in a Hurricane OSSE
Lisa Bucci, Cooperative Institute for Marine and Atmospheric Studies, Miami, FL; and S. J. Majumdar, R. Atlas, S. Greco, and G. D. Emmitt
11:45 AM
5.6
Impact of TROPICS Retrievals on Tropical Cyclone Prediction in a Regional OSSE
Hui Christophersen, Cooperative Institute for Marine and Atmospheric Studies/Univ. of Miami and NOAA/AOML/HRD, Miami, FL; and W. Blackwell, S. A. Braun, R. Atlas, T. Greenwald, R. Bennartz, R. F. Rogers, F. Marks, J. P. Dunion, A. Aksoy, K. Ryan, and L. Bucci
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Session 5
Space-Based Lidar Including ESA's Aeolus, CALIPSO, CATS, and Multifunction Lidars to Address Observables in the Earth Science Decadal Survey. Part II
Location: West 211A (Phoenix Convention Center - West and North Buildings)
Host: Ninth Symposium on Lidar Atmospheric Applications
Cochairs: John E. Yorks, NASA; Mayra I. Oyola, NRL
11:00 AM
5.2A
A New Method to Retrieve the Diurnal Variability of PBLH from Backscatter Lidar under Different Thermodynamic Stabilites
Tianning Su, Univ. of Maryland, College Park, College Park, MD; and Z. Li and R. Kahn

11:15 AM
5.3
Evaluation of the New CALIOP Stratospheric Aerosol Subtypes
Jason L. Tackett, SSAI, Hampton, VA; and J. Kar, M. H. Kim, A. Omar, C. Trepte, M. A. Vaughan, and D. M. Winker
11:30 AM
5.4
CALIOP-Based Biomass Burning Smoke Plume Height
Amber Soja, National Institute of Aerospace/NASA Langley Research Center, Hampton, VA; and H. D. Choi, E. Gargulinski, C. Fite, M. M. Bela, T. D. Fairlie, G. Pouliot, K. Baker, and J. Wilkins
11:45 AM
5.5
OAWL: A Multifunction Doppler Lidar for Earth Science Atmospheric Wind and Aerosol Observations
Sara Tucker, Ball Aerospace and Technologies Corporation, Boulder, CO; and M. Hardesty and S. Baidar
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Joint Session 5
Tropical Cyclones: Subseasonal to Interannual Variability and Prediction
Location: North 232AB (Phoenix Convention Center - West and North Buildings)
Hosts: (Joint between the Tropical Cyclones and Extreme Monsoon Precipitation: Prediction, Impacts, and Communication; and the Seventh Symposium on the Madden-Julian Oscillation and Sub-Seasonal Monsoon Variability )
Chairs: C.-C. Wu, National Taiwan Univ.; Carl J. Schreck III, North Carolina State Univ.
10:30 AM
J5.1
Dependence of Intraseasonal Tropical Cyclone Prediction on the MJO in the S2S Dataset
Chia-Ying Lee, Columbia Univ., Palisades, NY; and S. J. Camargo, S. Wang, F. Vitart, A. H. Sobel, and M. K. Tippett
10:45 AM
J5.2A
Impact of Central American Orography on Simulation of Eastern North Pacific Hurricanes
Dan Fu, Texas A&M Univ., College Station, TX; and P. Chang, R. Saravanan, and C. M. Patricola
11:00 AM
J5.3
Extratropical Impacts on Tropical Cyclone Activity: A Global Perspective
Zhuo Wang, Univ. of Illinois at Urbana−Champaign, Urbana, IL; and G. Zhang

11:15 AM
J5.4
J5.5
Paper J5.5 has moved. New Paper Number is 4.6A.

11:30 AM
J5.5AA
Intraseasonal Variability of the Gulf Stream Current: Physical Mechanisms and Connections to Atmospheric Forcing
Bradford S. Barrett, U.S. Naval Academy, Annapolis, MD; and A. R. Davies and K. Martin
11:45 AM
J5.6
Multiyear Variability and Prediction of Atlantic Tropical Cyclones
Chuan-Chieh Chang, Univ. of Illinois at Urbana−Champaign, Urbana, IL; and Z. Wang

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Session 5A
Advances in Satellite Observations, Earth Science, and Observing Technologies that Can Complement the Heritage Observation Systems and Potentially Lead to Advances in Next Generation Observation Systems: Part I
Location: North 230 (Phoenix Convention Center - West and North Buildings)
Host: Ninth Conference on Transition of Research to Operations
Cochairs: Martin Yapur, NOAA/NESDIS/Office of Projects, Planning and Analysis; Eric Fetzer, JPL/California Institute of Technology
10:45 AM
5A.2
Status of the Vapor In-Cloud Profiling Radar
Matthew Lebsock, JPL, Pasadena, CA; and K. Cooper, L. F. Millan, R. Roy, J. siles, and R. monje
11:00 AM
5A.3
LWIR Spectro-Polarimeter for Cloud-Induced Polarization Measurements
Kira Ann Hart, Univ. of Arizona, Tucson, AZ; and R. Chipman, D. L. Wu, M. Vega, and A. Stohn
11:15 AM
5A.4
Stratospheric Aerosol Observations With a Cubesat-Scale Instrument
Matthew T. DeLand, SSAI, Lanham, MD; and P. Colarco, M. G. Kowalewski, L. Ramos-Izquierdo, and N. Gorkavyi
11:30 AM
5A.5
A Passive Contribution to a Future Global Wind Monitoring Capability
Michael A. Kelly, Applied Physics Laboratory/The Johns Hopkins Univ., Laurel, MD; and D. L. Wu, J. L. Carr, J. P. Wilson, I. Papusha, J. D. Boldt, and J. H. Yee

11:45 AM
5A.6
New Smallsat Launch Program Will Fly Advanced Microwave Sounder
Dylan Powell, Lockheed Martin, Greenbelt, MD; and J. Hawkins, R. Uberna, J. A. Simpson, and A. Gell
12:00 PM
Developing Meteorological Forecast Products in Near Real-Time from Hyper Spectral Sounder Radiances -- William L. Smith
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Session 5A
Decadal–Multidecadal Climate Variability and Predictability—Part II
Location: North 121BC (Phoenix Convention Center - West and North Buildings)
Host: 32nd Conference on Climate Variability and Change
Chair: Joseph Barsugli, CIRES
10:45 AM
5A.2
Decadal Modulation of ENSO: Is it Real?
Antonietta Capotondi, Univ. of Colorado Boulder, Boulder, CO; and P. D. Sardeshmukh
11:00 AM
5A.3
Tropical SSTs: The Boon and Bane of Climate Predictability around the Globe
Prashant D. Sardeshmukh, CIRES, Boulder, CO; and S. I. Shin, G. P. Compo, and C. McColl

11:30 AM
5A.5
Tropical Decadal Variability and the Rate of Arctic Sea Ice Retreat
Gerald Meehl, NCAR, Boulder, CO; and J. Arblaster, C. Chung, M. M. Holland, and C. Bitz
11:45 AM
5A.6
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Session 5A
Interactions between Atmospheric Convection and Composition—Part II
Location: North 124A (Phoenix Convention Center - West and North Buildings)
Host: 21st Conference on Atmospheric Chemistry
Cochairs: Hui Su, JPL; Kenneth Pickering, Univ. of Maryland; Gretchen Mullendore, Univ. of North Dakota
10:30 AM
5A.1
Lightning NOProduction in the Midlatitudes and Tropics as Determined Using OMI NORetrievals and WWLLN Stroke Data (Invited Presentation)
Dale J. Allen, Univ. of Maryland, College Park, MD; and K. E. Pickering, E. Bucsela, N. A. Krotkov, and R. H. Holzworth
10:45 AM
5A.2
Assessing the Impact of Lightning Assimilation and Lightning NOx on Air Quality for the 2016 CMAQ Annual Simulations over the Contiguous United States
Daiwen Kang, EPA, Research Triangle Park, NC; and R. Mathur, W. Appel, C. Hogrefe, G. Pouliot, D. Wong, B. S. Murphy, and S. J. Roselle

11:00 AM
5A.3
11:15 AM
5A.4
Determination of Best Tropopause Definition for Convective Transport
Emily M. Maddox, Univ. of North Dakota, Grand Forks, ND; and G. L. Mullendore
11:30 AM
5A.5
Impacts of Tropopause-Penetrating Convection on the Chemical Composition of the Upper Troposphere and Lower Stratosphere
Daniel Phoenix, Univ. of Oklahoma, Norman, OK; and C. R. Homeyer and M. C. Barth

11:45 AM
5A.6
Ground-Based Radar Retrievals of Convective Detrainment Heights
Mariusz Starzec, Univ. of North Dakota, Grand Forks, ND; and G. L. Mullendore and C. R. Homeyer
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Session 5B
Improving R2O & O2R in 0-18 Hour Forecast Range: Addressing Forecasters’ Needs—Short-Term Forecasting, Warning and Verification: Part I
Location: North 232C (Phoenix Convention Center - West and North Buildings)
Host: Ninth Conference on Transition of Research to Operations
Cochairs: Hendrik Tolman, NOAA/NWS/NCEP/EMC; Young-Joon Kim, NWS
10:30 AM
5B.1
The Evolving Role of the Mesoanalyst in Collaborative Severe Weather Forecasting and Communication
Kim J. Runk, NOAA/NWS Operations Proving Ground, Kansas City, MO; and A. E. Cohen, M. Foster, C. M. Gravelle, and K. C. Vigil
11:15 AM
5B.4
Improving R2O & O2R in the 0-6 Hour Forecast Range through Experimental Use of NSSL Experimental Warn-on-Forecast System for Ensembles (NEWS-e)
Pamela L. Heinselman, NOAA/NSSL, Norman, OK; and T. Lindley, K. J. Sanders, A. E. Cohen, M. T. Eckert, A. Orrison, K. A. Wilson, P. S. Skinner, J. J. Choate, and K. H. Knopfmeier
11:30 AM
5B.5
Neighborhood Verification of 1-h Probabilistic Low-Level Rotation Forecasts from the NSSL Experimental Warn-on-Forecast System.
Montgomery L. Flora, University of Oklahoma, CIMMS, NSSL/NOAA, Norman, OK; and P. S. Skinner and C. K. Potvin
11:45 AM
5B.6
Examining the Use of the NSSL Experimental Warn-on-Forecast System for Ensembles for the Prediction of Severe Storms through Short-Term Forecast Outlooks during the 2018 Spring Forecasting Experiment
Jessica J. Choate, CIMMS/Univ. of Oklahoma and NOAA/NSSL, Norman, OK; and P. S. Skinner, K. A. Wilson, E. Grimes, B. T. Gallo, P. L. Heinselman, and A. J. Clark
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Session 5B
Variability and Change in Jets and Storm Tracks—Part II
Location: North 122BC (Phoenix Convention Center - West and North Buildings)
Host: 32nd Conference on Climate Variability and Change
Chair: Walter Robinson, North Carolina State Univ.
10:45 AM
5B.2
Trends in the Northern Midlatitude Rossby Wave in a Future Climate
Heather S. Sussman, Univ. at Albany, SUNY, Albany, NY; and A. Raghavendra, P. E. Roundy, and A. Dai
11:00 AM
5B.3
11:15 AM
5B.4
Understanding the Zonal Circulation Response to Climate Forcing Using Feedback Analysis
Gang Chen, Univ. of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA; and C. Liu
11:30 AM
5B.5
Evaluating the Characteristics of Persistent Anomalies in a Warmer, Moister World
Gregory Tierney, North Carolina State Univ., Raleigh, NC; and G. M. Lackmann and W. A. Robinson
11:45 AM
5B.6
A Modified Persistent Anomaly Index Applied to High-Resolution Model Simulations of Present and Future Climates
Rebecca Lee Miller, North Carolina State Univ., Raleigh, NC; and A. Michaelis, G. Lackmann, and W. A. Robinson
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Joint Session 6
Communicating with Data Users and the Public: Bridging the Valley of Death
Location: North 231AB (Phoenix Convention Center - West and North Buildings)
Hosts: (Joint between the 15th Annual Symposium on New Generation Operational Environmental Satellite Systems; the 24th Conference on Applied Climatology; the 14th Symposium on Societal Applications: Policy, Research and Practice; and the Seventh Symposium on Building a Weather-Ready Nation )
CoChair: Helen Greatrex, IRI
10:30 AM
J6.1
10:45 AM
J6.2
POP Problem: Understanding Public Perception and Confusion
Jacob Ryan Reed, Univ. of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, AL; and J. C. Senkbeil
11:00 AM
J6.3
The Use of Temperature and Water Vapor Profiles for Tropical Cyclone Weather Applications: Recent Activities within the NOAA/JPSS Proving Ground Sounding Initiative
Christopher D. Barnet, Science and Technology Corporation, Columbia, MD; and N. Smith, M. J. Folmer, J. P. Dunion, J. Zawislak, A. Layns, and M. D. Goldberg
11:15 AM
J6.4A
Better Together: Integrating Communications in Climate Project Planning
Elisabeth Gawthrop, IRI, Palisades, NY

11:30 AM
J6.5A
Communication from an industry perspective: the case of Accuweather
Jonathan Porter, AccuWeather, Inc, State College, PA

12:00 PM
Beyond Promo: What Your Communications Specialist Can Do for You -- Elisabeth Gawthrop
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Themed Joint Session 6
Stratospheric Ozone, Chemistry, and Climate—Part II
Location: West 212A (Phoenix Convention Center - West and North Buildings)
Hosts: (Joint between the 20th Conference on Middle Atmosphere; and the 32nd Conference on Climate Variability and Change )
Cochairs: Paul A. Newman, NASA GSFC; Susan E. Strahan, NASA GSFC
10:30 AM
TJ6.1
Stratospheric Ozone–Induced Cloud Radiative Effects on Antarctic Sea Ice
Yongyun Hu, Peking Univ., Beijing, China; and Y. Xia, J. Liu, and Y. Huang
10:45 AM
TJ6.2
Influence of Artic Stratospheric Ozone on Surface Climate in CCMI models
Chaim I. Garfinkel, Hebrew Univ. of Jerusalem, Jerusalem, Israel; and O. Harrari
11:00 AM
TJ6.3
The Transient Impact of Ozone Depletion on the Southern Hemisphere Ocean: Sea Surface Temperature, Heat Content, and Carbon
William J. M. Seviour, The Johns Hopkins Univ., Baltimore, MD; and D. G. Ferreira, A. Gnanadesikan, Y. Kostov, J. Marshall, and D. W. Waugh
11:15 AM
TJ6.4
11:30 AM
TJ6.5A
Retrievals of Ozone Profiles over Greenland and Their Relationship to Sudden Stratospheric Warmings
Shima Bahramvash Shams, Washington State Univ., Pullman, WA; and V. Walden, A. H. Butler, J. W. Hannigan, D. D. Turner, and M. Palm

11:45 AM
TJ6.6
Stratospheric Ozone Recovery in Light of the Slowdown in the Decline of CFC-11
Eric A. Ray, CIRES, Boulder, CO; and S. A. Montzka, R. W. Portmann, P. Yu, J. S. Daniel, and G. S. Dutton
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Themed Joint Session 7
Meteorologist and Emergency Management Concerns: Public Health, Critical Incident Stress, and PTSD among Experts in Weather Disasters
Location: North 226AB (Phoenix Convention Center - West and North Buildings)
Hosts: (Joint between the 14th Symposium on Societal Applications: Policy, Research and Practice; the Seventh Symposium on Building a Weather-Ready Nation; and the 10th Conference on Environment and Health )
Chair: Rebecca DePodwin, AccuWeather, Inc.
Panelists: Rebecca DePodwin, AccuWeather, Inc.; Stephanie Vitanza, Garden of Hope Counseling; Dakota Smith, Weather Nation; Matt Lanza, Cheniere Energy; Melissa J. Wagner, Univ. of Oklahoma
10:30 AM
Introductory Remarks

10:45 AM
Panel Presentations
Richard Smith, NOAA/NWS, Norman, OK
11:00 AM
Discussion


Panel Discussion
CANCELLED: Economic Engines: Economic Value of Earth Observation Powered by Economists and Earth Scientists—Your Data Are Worth More Than You May Ever Realize -Part II
Location: North 221C (Phoenix Convention Center - West and North Buildings)
Host: Seventh Symposium on the Weather, Water, and Climate Enterprise
Moderator: Michael Fox, Raytheon
Panelists: Lawrence Friedl, NASA; Timothy Stryker, USGS Chief; Bethany Mabee, Resources for the Future; Stephen Marley, The Aerospace Corporation

10:30 AM-12:30 PM: Tuesday, 8 January 2019

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Session 5
Visualization and Data Discovery Using Python
Location: North 129B (Phoenix Convention Center - West and North Buildings)
Host: Ninth Symposium on Advances in Modeling and Analysis Using Python
Chair: Ryan M. May, UCAR/Unidata
11:00 AM
5.3
SIFT: A Python-Based User Interface for Visualizing Meteorological Satellite Imagery
Jordan Gerth, NOAA and Space Science and Engineering Center/Univ. of Wisconsin–Madison, Madison, WI; and R. Garcia, D. Hoese, S. S. Lindstrom, and T. J. Schmit
11:15 AM
5.4
The Usage of Python to Visualize an Experimental Cloud Equation
J.P. Kalb, Global Weather and Climate Center, Cupertino, CA

11:15 AM-12:00 PM: Tuesday, 8 January 2019

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Session 4
Next-Generation Satellites and Sensors Data Assimilation. Part II
Location: North 231C (Phoenix Convention Center - West and North Buildings)
Host: Seventh AMS Symposium on the Joint Center for Satellite Data Assimilation
Chair: Thomas Auligné, JCSDA, UCAR
11:15 AM
4.1
Evaluation of the Impact from CrIS Full Spectral Resolution, ABI, and Other Satellite Radiance Data on the RAP Hourly Updated Assimilation System
H. Lin, CIRA/Colorado State Univ. and NOAA/ESRL/GSD, Boulder, CO; and S. Weygandt, M. Hu, J. M. Brown, A. Back, C. R. Alexander, and S. Benjamin
11:30 AM
4.2
Assimilation of SAR Ice and Open-Water Retrievals in Sea Ice Numerical Prediction System
Alexander Komarov, Environment and Climate Change Canada, Ottawa, ON, Canada; and A. Caya, M. Buehner, and L. Pogson

11:45 AM
4.3
JEDI Interface to a Coupled Ocean Sea–Ice Model
Guillaume Vernieres, NOAA, College Park, MD

12:00 PM-1:30 PM: Tuesday, 8 January 2019


Lunch Break (Tuesday)

Women in Atmospheric Sciences Luncheon
Location: North Ballroom 120AB (Phoenix Convention Center - West and North Buildings)

12:15 PM-1:15 PM: Tuesday, 8 January 2019


Exceptional Undergraduate Presentations
Location: North 122BC (Phoenix Convention Center - West and North Buildings)
Recording files available
Building Resiliency to Extreme Weather Events through International Partnerships with the Application of Advanced Satellite Technology
Location: North 231AB (Phoenix Convention Center - West and North Buildings)
Hosts: (Joint between the Side Panels; the Ninth Conference on Transition of Research to Operations; the Seventh AMS Symposium on the Joint Center for Satellite Data Assimilation; and the 15th Annual Symposium on New Generation Operational Environmental Satellite Systems )
Organizer: Gary McWilliams, NESDIS JPSS Program Office/Science and Technology Corporation
Panelists: Louis W. Uccellini, Director, NOAA/NWS; Florence Rabier, Director General - European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts (ECMWF); Kenneth Holmlund, Chief Scientist - European Organisation for Exploitation of Meteorological Satellites (EUMETSAT); Naoyuki Hasegawa, Director General - Observation Department, Japan Meteorological Agency (JMA); Hoon Park, Director-General - National Meteorological Satellite Center, Korea Meteorological Administration (KMA)
Moderator: Lars Peter Riishojgaard, WMO
Facilitator: Stephen A. Mango, NOAA/NESDIS/Office of Projects, Planning and Analysis
Louis Uccellini Director, NOAA National Weather Service (NWS), Silver Spring, MD, USA

Florence Rabier Director General, European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts (ECMWF), Reading, Berkshire, U.K.
Kenneth Holmlund Chief Scientist, European Organisation for the Exploitation of Meteorological Satellites (EUMETSAT), Darmstadt, Germany
Naoyuki Hasegawa Director General, Observation Department, Japan Meteorological Agency (JMA), Tokyo, Japan
Hoon Park Director-General, National Meteorological Satellite Center, Korea Meteorological Administration (KMA), Jincheon, Republic of South Korea
12:15 PM
Bios -- Steve Mango
12:30 PM
Coming Next -- Steve Mango

CANCELED: Connecting the forecasting needs to solutions of the Analysis and Nowcast (0-18 Hour Forecast) through the requirements of the National Weather Service
Location: North 232C (Phoenix Convention Center - West and North Buildings)
Host: Town Hall Meetings
Organizers: Young-Joon Kim, NWS; Mark A. Tew, NWS
Facilitators: Young-Joon Kim, NWS; Hendrik L. Tolman, NOAA
Panelists: Bruce Smith, NWS; John J. Brost, NOAA/NWSFO; Curtis Alexander, NOAA/ESRL/GSD; Vijay Tallapragada, NOAA/NWS/NCEP/EMC

CANCELED: Presidential Town Hall with Jim Bridenstine
Location: North Ballroom 120CD (Phoenix Convention Center - West and North Buildings)
Hosts: (Joint between the Presidential Town Hall Meetings; and the Events )
Speaker: Jim Bridenstine, NASA Administrator

EarthCube: A Community-driven Cyberinfrastructure for the Geosciences – A Progress Report
Location: North 131C (Phoenix Convention Center - West and North Buildings)
Host: Town Hall Meetings
Organizer: Mohan K. Ramamurthy, UCAR

NCAR Strategic Plan Town Hall
Location: North 226C (Phoenix Convention Center - West and North Buildings)
Host: Town Hall Meetings
Organizers: Scott McIntosh, NCAR; Susan Chavez, National Center for Atmospheric Research; James Hurrell, NCAR

12:45 PM-1:05 PM: Tuesday, 8 January 2019


Daily Weather Briefings (Tuesday)
Location: North 132ABC (Phoenix Convention Center - West and North Buildings)

1:30 PM-2:30 PM: Tuesday, 8 January 2019

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Session 1
Operational SmallSats: Current Status and Near-Term Plans
Location: North 223 (Phoenix Convention Center - West and North Buildings)
Host: Second Conference on Earth Observing SmallSats
Chair: Philip Ardanuy, INNOVIM
1:30 PM
1.1
Calibration and Validation of the TEMPEST-D Radiometer
Wesley Berg, Colorado State Univ., Fort Collins, CO; and S. Brown, B. Lim, S. Padmanabhan, S. C. Reising, C. Kummerow, V. Chandrasekar, and T. Gaier
1:45 PM
1.2A
Achievement of Radio Occulation From Four GNSS Constellations
Alexander E. MacDonald, Spire Global, Inc., Boulder, CO
2:00 PM
1.3
Cloud Imaging and Environmental Monitoring Results from the CUbesat MULtispectral Observing System, CUMULOS
Dee W. Pack, The Aerospace Corporation, Los Angeles, CA; and J. Ostroy, C. M. Coffman, J. R. Santiago, and R. W. Russell
2:15 PM
1.4
Toward Resolving the Temporal Evolution of Precipitation Processes over the Ocean: On-Orbit Evaluation of the TEMPEST-D Microwave Radiometer
Shannon T. Brown, JPL, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA; and W. Berg, T. C. Gaier, B. Lim, S. Padmanabhan, S. C. Reising, and C. Venkatachalam
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Panel Discussion 1
Panel Discussion: The Next-Generation Operational Weather Radar Network
Location: North 128AB (Phoenix Convention Center - West and North Buildings)
Host: Phased Array Radar Symposium
1:30 PM
PD1.1
Panel Discussion: The Next-Generation Operational Weather Radar Network
Mark E. Weber, Cooperative Institute for Mesoscale Meteorological Studies, Norman, OK; and J. Pica, C. D. Curtis, I. R. Ivic, D. Conway, and J. Y. N. Cho
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Lecture 1
Walter Orr Roberts Lecture
Location: North 122BC (Phoenix Convention Center - West and North Buildings)
Hosts: (Joint between the 32nd Conference on Climate Variability and Change; and the Events )
1:30 PM
L1.1
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Session 2
Tropical Cyclones: Observations, Data Assimilation, and Forecasting I
Location: North 232AB (Phoenix Convention Center - West and North Buildings)
Host: Tropical Cyclones and Extreme Monsoon Precipitation: Prediction, Impacts, and Communication
Chairs: Mrinal K. Biswas, NCAR; Evan Kalina, NOAA/GSD, Univ. of Colorado/CIRES, and Developmental Testbed Center
1:30 PM
2.1A
Mobile Sampling of the North American Monsoon
Loren D. White, Jackson State Univ., Jackson, MS; and A. O. Tardy
1:45 PM
2.2
Adjoint Sensitivity Diagnosis of Hurricane Irma (2017) Intensity Change
Michael C. Morgan, Univ. of Wisconsin−Madison, Madison, WI; and Z. He

2:00 PM
2.3
On the Track Forecast Predictability and Intensity−Outflow Relationship of Hurricane Joaquin (2015)
William A. Komaromi, NRL, Monterey, CA; and C. B. Henson, J. D. Doyle, P. A. Reinecke, and J. R. Moskaitis
2:15 PM
2.4
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Joint Session 3
Advances in Understanding Land–Atmosphere Interactions III
Location: North 127ABC (Phoenix Convention Center - West and North Buildings)
Hosts: (Joint between the 33rd Conference on Hydrology; and the 32nd Conference on Climate Variability and Change )
Cochairs: Joseph A. Santanello, NASA GSFC; Paul A. Dirmeyer, COLA; Yunyan Zhang, LLNL; Dan Li, Boston Univ.
1:30 PM
J3.1A
Challenges in Representing Hydroclimatic Effects of Agriculture Management in Earth-System Models
Fei Chen, NCAR, Boulder, CO; and X. Xu, M. Barlage, D. J. Gochis, X. Liu, D. Niyogi, A. Mahalov, and L. Di
1:45 PM
J3.2
Complex Biophysical Climate Effects of Changing Temperate Forests
Gensuo Jia, CAS Institute of Atmospheric Physics, Beijing, China; and W. Ma

2:00 PM
J3.3
Isolating the Influence of Vegetation Variability of La Plata River Basin on the Climate of South America
Divyansh Chug, Univ. of Illinois at Urbana−Champaign, Urbana, IL; and F. Dominguez
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Session 3
Journey of a Climate Scientist
Location: West 212BC (Phoenix Convention Center - West and North Buildings)
Host: Inez Fung Symposium
CoChair: Junjie Liu, Univ. of California, Berkeley
1:45 PM
3.2
Inez Fung, Charney, and Me at MIT
Eugenia Kalnay, Univ. of Maryland, College Park, MD
2:00 PM
Panel Discussion
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Session 3
Probabilistic Predictions for Enhanced Resilience
Location: North 222C (Phoenix Convention Center - West and North Buildings)
Host: Special Symposium on Catalyzing Innovation in Weather Science Internationally
Chair: Brad Johnson, NOAA/OAR/Office of Weather and Air Quality
1:30 PM
3.1
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Session 3
Use of UAVs for Atmospheric Research Including Platforms, Instruments, Regulations, and Science
Location: West 211B (Phoenix Convention Center - West and North Buildings)
Host: Special Symposium on Meteorological Observations and Instrumentation
Cochairs: Duncan Axisa, NCAR; Bruce Baker, NOAA
1:30 PM
3.1
Bridging Spatiotemporal Gaps in Climate Science with NEON's Airborne Remote-Sensing Geoscience Observation Node (ARGON)
Joshua A. Roberti, National Ecological Observatory Network, Boulder, CO; and D. J. Durden, M. SanClements, T. Goulden, and J. Adler
1:45 PM
3.2
2:00 PM
3.3
Toward Obtaining Daily Vertical Profiles of In Situ Meteorological Measurements from Small Unmanned Aircraft Systems
Temple Lee, NOAA/ARL/ATDD and CIMMS, Oak Ridge, TN; and M. Buban, E. J. Dumas Jr., T. P. Meyers, and C. B. Baker
2:15 PM
3.4
Stormin’ the Atmosphere with Unmanned Aircraft Systems: Early Results From LAPSE-RATE and Lessons Learned
Phillip B. Chilson, Univ. of Oklahoma, Norman, OK; and L. K. Barbieri, S. Baschky, T. M. Bell, S. Borenstein, G. Britto Hupsel de Azevedo, M. Carney, G. de Boer, W. Doyle, B. R. Greene, A. L. Houston, S. T. Kanneganti, P. M. Klein, S. T. Kral, J. K. Lundquist, P. D. Murphy, E. A. Pillar-Little, C. T. Plunkett, A. R. Segales, D. Tripp, and B. Wolf
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Joint Session 4
Aerosols, Aeroallergens, and Health
Location: North 228AB (Phoenix Convention Center - West and North Buildings)
Hosts: (Joint between the 10th Conference on Environment and Health; and the 21st Conference on Atmospheric Chemistry )
Cochairs: Karin Ardon-Dryer, Texas Tech Univ.; Jeremy Hess, Emory Schools of Medicine and Public Health
1:30 PM
J4.1
Impacts of Air Quality on Asthma Outcomes across Senegal
Maggie Li, Univ. of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, CA; and G. S. Jenkins
1:45 PM
J4.2
Estimates of Present and Future Asthma Emergency Department Visits Associated with Exposure to Oak, Birch, and Grass Pollen in the United States
James E. Neumann, Industrial Economics, Inc., Cambridge, MA; and S. C. Anenberg, K. R. Weinberger, M. Amend, S. Gulati, A. Crimmins, H. Roman, N. Fann, and P. L. Kinney
2:00 PM
J4.3
Health Effect of Dust Storms in West Texas, based on Different Air Quality Levels at Different Meteorological Conditions
Karin Ardon-Dryer, Texas Tech Univ., Lubbock, TX; and M. Brown, M. Kelley, G. Berdine, J. Dennis, and Y. Shengping
2:15 PM
J4.4
GCM-Driven Projections of Future Pollen Emissions and Counts over the United States
Matthew Wozniak, Univ. of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI; and A. L. Steiner
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Session 4
Environmental Data and Information Exchange for Resilience
Location: North 226C (Phoenix Convention Center - West and North Buildings)
Host: 14th Symposium on Societal Applications: Policy, Research and Practice
Chair: Annette Hollingshead, Global Science and Technology, Inc.
1:30 PM
4.1
The Role of the Copernicus Climate Change Service in Supporting Adaptation to Climate Variability and Change
Carlo Buontempo, ECMWF, Shinfield Park, UK; and D. Dee, S. Almond, C. Bergeron, A. Brookshaw, F. Vamborg, and J. N. Thépaut
1:45 PM
4.2
The Value of Environmental Data from NOAA's National Centers for Environmental Information
Michael Brewer, NOAA/NESDIS/NCEI, Asheville, NC; and A. Hollingshead, N. Jones, J. Dissen, A. Rycerz, T. G. Houston, and K. V. Matthews
2:00 PM
4.3
The U.S.–India Partnership for Climate Resilience
David R. Easterling, NOAA/NESDIS/NCEI, Asheville, NC; and J. Dissen, K. E. Kunkel, and K. Hayhoe
2:15 PM
Discussion

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Joint Session 4
Extratropical Impacts Linked to MJO and Monsoon Variability
Location: North 129A (Phoenix Convention Center - West and North Buildings)
Hosts: (Joint between the 10th Conference on Weather, Climate, and the New Energy Economy; and the Seventh Symposium on the Madden-Julian Oscillation and Sub-Seasonal Monsoon Variability )
Cochairs: Lawrence Gloeckler III, Riskpulse; Nick Keener, Duke Energy
1:45 PM
J4.2
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Session 4
Stratospheric Ozone, Chemistry, and Climate—Part III
Location: West 212A (Phoenix Convention Center - West and North Buildings)
Host: 20th Conference on Middle Atmosphere
Cochairs: Jessica Neu, JPL; Karen H. Rosenlof, NOAA/ESRL
1:30 PM
4.1
On the Robustness of Recent Lower Stratospheric Ozone Trends in Specified Dynamics Model Simulations
Sean M. Davis, NOAA/ESRL, Boulder, CO; and N. A. Davis, K. H. Rosenlof, P. Yu, and R. W. Portmann
1:45 PM
4.2
The Importance of Early Winter Antarctic Ozone Levels to Ozone Recovery Trends
Susan E. Strahan, NASA GSFC, Greenbelt, MD; and A. R. Douglass, M. R. Damon, and L. D. Oman
2:00 PM
4.3
Water Vapor Increases after 2002 in the Stratosphere and Mesosphere Observed by SABER and MLS
Jia Yue, Hampton Univ., Hampton, VA; and J. M. Russell III, P. Rong, M. G. Mlynczak, Q. Gan, R. R. Garcia, D. L. Wu, and J. N. Lee
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Panel Discussion 4A
Outcomes from the Automated Vehicles and Meteorology Summit
Location: North 221C (Phoenix Convention Center - West and North Buildings)
Host: Seventh Symposium on the Weather, Water, and Climate Enterprise
Moderator: John Horel, Univ. of Utah
Panelists: William Mahoney, NCAR; Donald Berchoff, TruWeather Solutions; Graham Hine, Liquid Robotics
Mahoney, Berchoff, Hine
John Horel, Univ. of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT

1:30 PM
Moderator -- John Horel
1:45 PM
Panelist -- Graham Hine
2:00 PM
Panelist -- Donald Berchoff
2:15 PM
Panelist -- William Mahoney
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Panel Discussion 4B
The Global Weather Enterprise
Location: North 222AB (Phoenix Convention Center - West and North Buildings)
Host: Seventh Symposium on the Weather, Water, and Climate Enterprise
Moderator: Jack Hayes, Harris Corporation
Panelists: Neil A. Jacobs, NOAA; Peter Platzer, Spire Global, Inc.
1:30 PM
Introductory Remarks

1:45 PM
Jacobs

2:00 PM
Platzer

2:15 PM
Panel Discussion

2:30 PM
The Global Weather Enterprise Forum -- Alan Thorpe
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Session 5
All-Sky Radiance Assimilation
Location: North 231C (Phoenix Convention Center - West and North Buildings)
Host: Seventh AMS Symposium on the Joint Center for Satellite Data Assimilation
Chair: Ronald Gelaro, NASA GSFC
1:30 PM
5.1
Impact of GMI All-Sky Radiance Assimilation in the NASA GEOS Forecast System
Ronald Gelaro, NASA GSFC, Greenbelt, MD; and M. J. Kim and W. McCarty

1:45 PM
5.2
2:00 PM
5.3
All-Sky Assimilation of Microwave and Infrared Humidity Sounding Radiances at the Met Office
Stefano Migliorini, Met Office, Exeter, United Kingdom; and B. Candy and E. Pavelin
2:15 PM
5.4A
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Session 5
Case Studies
Location: North 130 (Phoenix Convention Center - West and North Buildings)
Host: 17th Symposium on the Coastal Environment
Cochairs: Arthur J. Miller, SIO/Univ. of California, San Diego; Allison L. Allen, NOAA/NWS
2:15 PM
5.4
Primary Study of Sea Fog Inland Penetration: Analysis of Two Sea Fog Cases over the Western Yellow Sea in Spring
Jian-Xiang Sun, Ocean Univ. of China, Qingdao, China; and S. P. Zhang, H. J. Huang, J. W. Liu, and Q. Wang

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Session 5
Innovative Teaching Strategies in University Instruction on Synoptic Meteorology
Location: North 229AB (Phoenix Convention Center - West and North Buildings)
Host: 28th Symposium on Education
Cochairs: Reginald Blake, New York City College of Technology, City Univ. of New York; Jon M. Nese, The Pennsylvania State Univ.
1:30 PM
5.1
A Showcase of Inquiry Labs for Synoptic Meteorology
Keah C. Schuenemann, Metropolitan State Univ. of Denver, Denver, CO; and J. Richling and E. Regan
1:45 PM
5.2
From GEMPAK to MetPy: An Updated Tool for Teaching Synoptic Meteorology (and Much More)
Kevin H. Goebbert, Valparaiso Univ., Valparaiso, IN; and R. M. May and J. R. Leeman
2:00 PM
5.3
Implementation of an Internship and Authentic Research Experience in Conjunction within the Synoptic Classroom
Adam T. Hirsch, Univ. of Missouri, Columbia, MO; and P. S. Market, J. Bongard, N. I. Fox, P. Sumrall, and C. Brown
2:15 PM
5.4
Enhancing Student Academic Writing Skills in Synoptic Meteorology Courses
Mario Majcen, California Univ. of Pennsylvania, California, PA
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Session 5
Issues with (In)Consistency in the Warning and Forecast Process: Part II
Location: North 226AB (Phoenix Convention Center - West and North Buildings)
Host: 14th Symposium on Societal Applications: Policy, Research and Practice
Cochairs: Castle Adam Williams, Univ. of Georgia; Gina M Eosco, NOAA
1:30 PM
5.1
Eye-Tracking the Storm: The Effect of Variation in Presentation of Visual Risk Information
Jeannette Sutton, University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY; and L. Fischer
2:00 PM
5.3
Red Flag Warnings: When, Why, and How Are They Used?
Tamara Wall, Desert Research Institute, Reno, NV; and L. Van Bussum, R. Heffernan, and H. Hockenberry
2:15 PM
Discussion


Session 5A
AWIPS System Updates—Part I
Location: North 132ABC (Phoenix Convention Center - West and North Buildings)
Host: 35th Conference on Environmental Information Processing Technologies
Cochairs: William F. Roberts, OAR; Jason E. Burks, CIRA
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Session 5B
Cloud Computing for Environmental Data Processing and Display: Promise vs Practice—Part II
Location: North 131C (Phoenix Convention Center - West and North Buildings)
Host: 35th Conference on Environmental Information Processing Technologies
Cochairs: Eugene Burger, NOAA/ERL/PMEL; Tiffany C. Vance, NOAA; Kevin Tyle, Univ. at Albany/SUNY
2:00 PM
5B.3
Implementation of a Scalable, Economical Cloud-Based Real-Time Radar Mosaicking System
Chris Porter, Weather Decision Technologies, Inc., Norman, OK; and N. A. Lock
2:15 PM
5B.4
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Session 6
Advances in Space Weather Research and Modeling. Part II
Location: North 227A-C (Phoenix Convention Center - West and North Buildings)
Host: 16th Conference on Space Weather
Cochairs: Valbona Kunkel, NOAA/NWS/EMC via IMSG; Robert M. Robinson, Inspace
1:30 PM
6.1
Analysis of Short-Term Ionospheric Variability Using WACCM-X
Amin Taziny, Binghamton Univ., State Univ. of New York, Binghamton, NY; and N. Pedatella, H. Liu, and A. Maute
1:45 PM
6.2
Parker Solar Probe: First Solar Encounter (Invited Presentation)
Nour E. Raouafi, Applied Physics Laboratory, The Johns Hopkins Univ., Laurel, MD; and R. B. Decker, S. D. Bale, R. A. Howard, J. C. Kasper, D. J. McComas, M. Velli, and A. Posner

2:15 PM
6.3
Impulsive Energy Transfer during Geomagnetic Storms
Lawrence J. Zanetti, Applied Physics Laboratory, The Johns Hopkins Univ., Laurel, MD
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Session 6
Cloud and Aerosol Lidar Observations for Model Parameterization and Process Study. Part I
Location: West 211A (Phoenix Convention Center - West and North Buildings)
Host: Ninth Symposium on Lidar Atmospheric Applications
Cochairs: Robert Stillwell, University of Colorado; Rory Barton-Grimley, NASA Langley Research Center
1:30 PM
6.1
Dust Aerosol Optical Properties for Applications to Lidar and Polarimetric Retrievals
Ping Yang, Texas A&M Univ., College Station, TX; and M. Saito, J. Ding, P. Stegmann, C. A. Hostetler, X. Liu, and C. Trepte
1:45 PM
6.2
Do Thin Cirrus Clouds Matter?
James R. Campbell, NRL, Monterey, CA; and S. Lolli, G. Liu, J. W. Marquis, J. Lewis Jr., A. Bucholtz, D. A. Peterson, E. K. Dolinar, M. I. Oyola, J. E. Yorks, S. Ozog, M. A. Vaughan, and E. J. Welton
2:00 PM
6.3
Comparing Modeled Cirrus Radiative Forcing Estimates from Constrained Lidar Extinction Retrievals to Direct Coincident Radiometer Measurements
Scott Ozog, University of Maryland, College Park, College Park, MD; and M. J. McGill, J. E. Yorks, J. R. Campbell, A. Bucholtz, and S. Woods

2:15 PM
6.4
HSRL measurements of Lidar ratios in the presence of oriented ice crystals
Edwin Eloranta, University of Wisconsin Madison, Madison, WI; and I. Razenkov and J. P. Garcia
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Session 6
Decadal–Multidecadal Climate Variability and Predictability—Part III
Location: North 121BC (Phoenix Convention Center - West and North Buildings)
Host: 32nd Conference on Climate Variability and Change
Chair: Isla R. Simpson, NCAR
1:45 PM
6.2A
Earth's Climate Variability over 6 Years from CrIS Brightness Temperature, OMPS Ozone, and CarbonTracker CO2
Ester Nikolla, CIMSS, Madison, WI; and R. O. Knuteson, M. Feltz, H. E. Revercomb, D. C. Tobin, and D. H. DeSlover
2:15 PM
6.4
How Well Do Observations Constrain the Sensitivity of the Upper Colorado River Basin Streamflow to Temperature and Precipitation Trends?
Joseph Barsugli, CIRES, Boulder, CO; and M. Hoerling, J. K. Eischeid, K. Wolter, and B. Livneh

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Session 6
Flood Prediction, Analysis, Decision Support, and Management II
Location: North 126BC (Phoenix Convention Center - West and North Buildings)
Host: 33rd Conference on Hydrology
Cochairs: David Gochis, NCAR; Kristie J. Franz, Iowa State Univ.; John N. McHenry, Baron Advanced Meteorological Systems, LLC; Mike Hobbins, NOAA
1:45 PM
6.2A
River Stages Are All Relative. Einstein Was Right!
David C Curtis, WEST Consultants., Folsom, CA; and S. Boettcher
2:00 PM
6.3A
Extended Evaluation of the National Water Model over Iowa
Marcela Rojas, Univ. of Iowa, Iowa City, IA; and F. Quintero and W. F. Krajewski
2:15 PM
6.4
Web-Based Mapping Solution for National Scale Flooding Analysis
Aurelien Hazart, Geosphere Environmental Technology, Tokyo, Japan; and K. Tada, A. W. Al-Hanbali, Y. Tawara, A. Iiyama, and H. Tosaka
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Session 6
Innovative Use of Observations and Other Weather Information, Including for Climatographies and in Machine Learning and Statistical Techniques—Part I
Location: North 224B (Phoenix Convention Center - West and North Buildings)
Host: 19th Conference on Aviation, Range, and Aerospace Meteorology
Cochairs: David P. Duda, SSAI; Eric James, NOAA/ESRL
1:30 PM
6.1
The Airbus Perlan II Mission: Forecasting and Modeling for the Argentinian Flights into the Stratosphere in a Piloted, Engineless Glider
James D. Means, WeatherExtreme Ltd., Incline Village, NV; and K. N. Shourd, J. Payne, W. Rogers, D. Gudgel, E. Enevoldson, and E. Austin
1:45 PM
6.2
Using Cameras as Weather Sensors—Deriving Weather Data from Images
Randall Bass, FAA, Washington, DC; and J. A. Colavito, G. Pokodner, M. Matthews, K. Kronfeld, and M. Pirone
2:00 PM
6.3
The Temporal and Spatial Expansion of LAMP: Going Out to 38 Hours and Covering New Domains
Judy E. Ghirardelli, NOAA/NWS/Meteorological Development Laboratory, Silver Spring, MD; and A. D. Schnapp, B. Glahn, F. Guarriello, P. E. Shafer, J. P. Charba, F. G. Samplatsky, and A. J. Kochenash

2:15 PM
6.4
Verifying the Impact of the FV3-GFS Upgrade on LAMP Statistical Guidance
Elizabeth Venteicher, Valparaiso Univ., Valparaiso, IN; and J. E. Ghirardelli and F. G. Samplatsky
Recording files available
Session 6
Major Weather Impacts of 2018: Session III
Location: North Ballroom 120CD (Phoenix Convention Center - West and North Buildings)
Host: 15IMPACTS: Major Weather Events and Impacts of 2018
Cochairs: Klaus Wolter, CIRES, Univ. of Colorado Boulder; Thomas Bedard, AccuWeather Enterprise Solutions; Tanja E. Fransen, NOAA/NWS; Owen H. Shieh, Joint Typhoon Warning Center
1:30 PM
6.1
The Decimation of a U.S. Rainfall Record
Terrence John Corrigan Jr., Univ. of Hawai‘i at Mānoa, Honolulu, HI; and T. Cherubini, S. Businger, K. Kodama, and P. S. Chu
1:45 PM
6.2
Synoptic Analysis of the Epic Rainstorm in Kauai on 14–16 April 2018
Thomas J. Galarneau Jr., The Univ. of Arizona, Tucson, AZ; and M. Powell and E. A. Betterton
2:00 PM
6.3
Western North Carolina Sets Record in May 2018 for Wettest Month
Ward Seguin, Riverside Technology inc., Etowah, NC; and G. Smith
Recording files available
Session 6
Observing Systems—Part I
Location: North 131AB (Phoenix Convention Center - West and North Buildings)
Host: 23rd Conference on Integrated Observing and Assimilation Systems for the Atmosphere, Oceans, and Land Surface (IOAS-AOLS)
Chair: Bachir Annane, Univ. of Miami and NOAA/AOML
2:15 PM
6.4
Reducing Representativeness Errors during Radio Occultation–Radiosonde Comparisons
Shay Gilpin, Univ. of Colorado Boulder, Boulder, CO; and T. Rieckh and R. A. Anthes
Recording files available
Session 6A
Advances in Satellite Observations, Earth Science, and Observing Technologies that Can Complement the Heritage Observation Systems and Potentially Lead to Advances in Next Generation Observation Systems: Part II
Location: North 230 (Phoenix Convention Center - West and North Buildings)
Host: Ninth Conference on Transition of Research to Operations
Cochairs: Margaret Caulfield; Stephen A. Mango, NOAA/NESDIS/Office of Projects, Planning and Analysis
1:30 PM
6A.1
Developing Meteorological Forecast Products in Near Real-Time from Hyper Spectral Sounder Radiances
William L. Smith Sr., Univ. of Wisconsin, Madison, WI; and E. Weisz, J. Gerth, A. DiNorscia, J. W. C. McNabb, M. Dutter, and J. Gagen

1:45 PM
6A.2
A New Architecture for Low Earth Temperature and Moisture Soundings
Frank W. Gallagher III, NESDIS, Silver Spring, MD; and K. St. Germain and M. W. Maier

2:00 PM
6A.3
NOAA's New Technology Maturation Program
Elsayed Talaat, NOAA/NESDIS, Sil, MD

Recording files available
Session 6B
Improving R2O & O2R in 0-18 Hour Forecast Range: Addressing Forecasters’ Needs—Short-Term Forecasting, Warning and Verification: Part II
Location: North 232C (Phoenix Convention Center - West and North Buildings)
Host: Ninth Conference on Transition of Research to Operations
Cochairs: Alan Gerard, NOAA/OAR/NSSL; Young-Joon Kim, NWS
1:30 PM
6B.1
Applications of METplus to NOAA Testbeds to Accelerate Improvements in Short-Term Forecasting of High Impact Events
Tara Jensen, NCAR and Developmental Testbed Center, Boulder, CO; and A. J. Clark, J. A. Nelson Jr., B. L. Twiest, J. L. Demuth, C. P. Kalb, D. R. Adriaansen, S. Perfater, B. Albright, B. Roberts, M. Erickson, and J. Halley Gotway
2:00 PM
6B.3
Verifying and Utilizing Seasonal Object Oriented Biases in Convection AllowingModels
Michael J. Erickson, Weather Prediction Center/CIRES, College Park, MD; and J. A. Nelson Jr.
Recording files available
Themed Joint Session 8
Too Hot to Handle: Multidisciplinary Perspectives on Extreme Heat as Disaster. Part I
Location: North 224A (Phoenix Convention Center - West and North Buildings)
Hosts: (Joint between the 24th Conference on Applied Climatology; and the 10th Conference on Environment and Health )
Cochairs: Liza C. Kurtz, Arizona State Univ.; Jane Wilson Baldwin, Princeton Univ.; Trent Ford, Southern Illinois Univ.
1:30 PM
TJ8.1
Public Perceptions of the Health Risks of Extreme Heat at the State, County, and Neighborhood Level
Peter D. Howe, Utah State Univ., Logan, UT; and J. R. Marlon and A. Leiserowitz
1:45 PM
TJ8.2
The Impact of Extreme Heat Events on Individuals over Age 65 and the Mitigation of Lives Lost and Affected
Elisabeth F. Callen, American Academy of Family Physicians, Leawood, KS; and N. Loskutova
2:00 PM
TJ8.3
It’s Not the heat, It’s the Vulnerability: Attribution of the 2016 spike in Heat-Associated Deaths in Maricopa County, Arizona
David M. Hondula, Arizona State Univ., Tempe, AZ; and H. Putnam, A. Urban, V. Berisha, M. C. Roach, and P. M. Iñiguez
2:15 PM
TJ8.4
The Global Heat Health Information Network (GHHIN): Supporting to Global Heat Health Disaster Risk Reduction
Hunter M. Jones, NOAA, Silver Spring, TX; and J. Shumake-Guillemot and J. Trtanj

Recording files available
Themed Joint Session 9
Core Science Keynote on Air Quality Extremes
Location: North 126A (Phoenix Convention Center - West and North Buildings)
Hosts: (Joint between the 21st Conference on Atmospheric Chemistry; and the 11th Symposium on Aerosol–Cloud–Climate Interactions )
Cochairs: Jonathan Jiang, JPL; Kenneth Pickering, Univ. of Maryland, College Park
Recording files available
Themed Joint Session 10
Big Data, Big Computing, Bigger Science: Earth Data for AI
Location: North 124B (Phoenix Convention Center - West and North Buildings)
Hosts: (Joint between the 18th Conference on Artificial and Computational Intelligence and its Applications to the Environmental Sciences; the Ninth Symposium on Advances in Modeling and Analysis Using Python; the Fifth Symposium on High Performance Computing for Weather, Water, and Climate; and the 32nd Conference on Climate Variability and Change )
Cochairs: Timothy S. Sliwinski, Texas Tech University; Surya Karthik Mukkavilli, University of New South Wales/CSIRO Australia/World Energy Meteorology Council UK/GroundObs Ltd.; Auroop Ganguly, Northeastern University; Scott Collis, Argonne National Laboratory; Gerald J. Creager, CIMMS/University of Oklahoma and NOAA/NSSL; Philippe Tissot, Texas A&M University−Corpus Christi
1:30 PM
TJ10.1
AI for Earth (Core Science Keynote)
Lucas Joppa, Microsoft, Redmond, WA
2:00 PM
TJ10.2
The Need for HPC for Deep Learning with Real-Time Satellite Observations
Jebb Q. Stewart, NOAA, Boulder, CO; and C. Bonfanti, I. Jankov, L. Trailovic, and M. W. Govett
2:15 PM
TJ10.3
Machine Learning Applications of the Earth Data Analytic Services (EDAS) Framework
Thomas P. Maxwell, NASA, Greenbelt, MD; and D. Duffy, G. L. Potter, and L. Carriere
Recording files available
Themed Joint Session 11
GOES-16/17 Geostationary Lightning Mapper (GLM) Sensor Performance, Data Products, and User Applications—Part I
Location: North 231AB (Phoenix Convention Center - West and North Buildings)
Hosts: (Joint between the 15th Annual Symposium on New Generation Operational Environmental Satellite Systems; and the Ninth Conference on the Meteorological Application of Lightning Data )
CoChair: Geoffrey T. Stano, NASA/SPoRT/ENSCO, Inc.
1:30 PM
TJ11.1
The First Stereo Views of Lightning from Space: Double the GLMs, Double the Fun
Clemens E. Tillier, Lockheed Martin, Palo Alto, CA; and S. F. Edgington, H. J. Christian Jr., and P. M. Bitzer
1:45 PM
TJ11.2
Geostationary Lightning Mapper Performance
Scott D. Rudlosky, NOAA/NESDIS/STAR, College Park, MD; and W. J. Koshak and P. Meyers
2:00 PM
TJ11.3
Cross-Referencing GLM and ISS-LIS with Ground-Based Lightning Networks
Katrina S. Virts, NASA, Huntsville, AL; and R. Blakeslee and W. J. Koshak
2:15 PM
TJ11.4
The Impact of GOES-16 GLM Lightning Observations on the RAP/HRRR Assimilation and Forecasts
Guoqing Ge, CIRES and NOAA/ESRL/GSD, Boulder, CO; and M. Hu, S. Weygandt, and C. Alexander

2:30 PM-3:00 PM: Tuesday, 8 January 2019


PM Coffee Break (Tuesday)
Location: Meeting room foyers (Phoenix Convention Center - West and North Buildings)

3:00 PM-4:00 PM: Tuesday, 8 January 2019

Recording files available
Panel Discussion 2
Environet: The ImageNet for Environmental Sciences
Location: North 124B (Phoenix Convention Center - West and North Buildings)
Host: 18th Conference on Artificial and Computational Intelligence and its Applications to the Environmental Sciences
Moderator: Surya Karthik Mukkavilli, GroundObs
Panelists: Lucas Joppa, Microsoft; Valliappa Lakshmanan, McGill University; Gregory Dudek, McGill University; Mr Prabhat, LBNL
3:00 PM
6.1
EnviroNet: ImageNet for Environment
Surya Karthik Mukkavilli, Groundobs, Montreal, Canada & London, United Kingdom; and A. Bara, D. J. Gagne II, P. Tissot, E. Campos, A. R. Ganguly, L. Joppa, D. Meger, and G. Dudek
Recording files available
Session 3
Emerging Surface, Airborne, and Spaceborne Phased-Array Radar Technologies
Location: North 128AB (Phoenix Convention Center - West and North Buildings)
Host: Phased Array Radar Symposium
Chair: Mark C. Leifer, Ball Aerospace
3:00 PM
3.1
A Summary of Recent Activities on the Airborne Phased-Array Radar (APAR) Development
Louis L. Lussier III, NCAR, Broomfield, CO; and G. H. Bryan, C. Burghart, C. A. Davis, M. Dixon, J. M. Emmett, V. Grubišić, A. Karboski, R. M. Lebron, W. C. Lee, E. Loew, M. Lord, K. W. Manning, J. A. Moore, J. Ranson, S. Rauenbuehler, J. Salazar, P. S. Tsai, J. Vivekanandan, C. A. Wolff, and K. Zrubek
3:30 PM
3.3
Element-Level Digital Array for Multifunction Phased-Array Radar
David Conway, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Lexington, MA
3:45 PM
3.4
A Ka-Band Active Electronically Scanned Array (AESA) Line Feed for Future Spaceborne Radar
Lihua Li, NASA GSFC, Greenbelt, MD; and P. Stenger, P. Racette, G. M. Heymsfield, M. Mclinden, M. E. Cooley, and T. Spence

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Session 3
Global Climate and Earth-System Simulation and Prediction on Exascale Computers: Challenges and Opportunities
Location: North 123 (Phoenix Convention Center - West and North Buildings)
Host: Fifth Symposium on High Performance Computing for Weather, Water, and Climate
Chair: Marc Cotnoir, CSRA, Inc.
3:15 PM
3.2
3:30 PM
3.3
GPU Performance of E3SM's Spectral Element Atmosphere Dynamical Core
Mark A. Taylor, Sandia National Laboratories, Albuquerque, NM
3:45 PM
3.4
E3SM Co-Design: Pathfinding and Evaluation of ARM Ecosystem
Sarat Sreepathi, ORNL, Oak Ridge, TN; and P. W. Jones and M. A. Taylor
Recording files available
Session 3
Tropical Cyclones: Observations, Data Assimilation, and Forecasting II
Location: North 232AB (Phoenix Convention Center - West and North Buildings)
Host: Tropical Cyclones and Extreme Monsoon Precipitation: Prediction, Impacts, and Communication
Chairs: Zhuo Wang, Univ. of Illinois at Urbana−Champaign; Peter Black, NOAA/AOML
3:00 PM
COAMPS-TC Performance and Future Plans
James Doyle, NRL, Monterey, CA; and J. Moskaitis, S. Chen, H. Jin, Y. Jin, W. A. Komaromi, A. Reinecke, and S. Wang
3:15 PM
3.2
3:30 PM
3.3
High-Resolution Nested fvGFS Tropical Cyclone Forecasts from the 2017 and 2018 Atlantic Hurricane Seasons
Andrew Hazelton, Univ. of Miami, Miami, FL; and X. Zhang and S. G. Gopalakrishnan
3:45 PM
3.4
Prediction of Extreme Precipitation Associated with Landfalling Tropical Cyclones using the Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory (GFDL) fvGFS Model
Kalen Fisher, NCAS-M Howard Univ., Washington, D.C.; and H. M. Archambault, M. J. Morin, S. L. Rees, and B. Stern

Recording files available
Joint Session 4
Advances in Understanding Land–Atmosphere Interactions IV
Location: North 127ABC (Phoenix Convention Center - West and North Buildings)
Hosts: (Joint between the 33rd Conference on Hydrology; and the 32nd Conference on Climate Variability and Change )
Cochairs: Joseph A. Santanello, NASA GSFC; Paul A. Dirmeyer, COLA; Yunyan Zhang, LLNL; Dan Li, Boston Univ.
3:00 PM
J4.1
Linking Land-Atmosphere-Cloud Interactions to Transitions from Shallow to Deep Convective Cloud over the Southern Great Plains (Invited Presentation)
Larry K. Berg, PNNL, Richland, WA; and J. D. Fast, W. I. Gustafson Jr., H. Xiao, S. L. Tai, Z. Feng, Y. Qian, and M. Huang

3:15 PM
J4.2
3:30 PM
J4.3A
Identifying a Soil Moisture-Rainfall Feedback in the 2016 New York Summer Drought
Marc J Alessi, Cornell Univ., Ithaca, NY; and A. T. DeGaetano and T. Ault

Panel Discussion 4
CANCELLED: Coffee Talk: A Social, Behavioral, and Economic Science Research and Operations Round Table Discussion
Location: North 226AB (Phoenix Convention Center - West and North Buildings)
Host: 14th Symposium on Societal Applications: Policy, Research and Practice
Moderators: Gina M Eosco, NOAA; Jennifer Sprague, NOAA/NWS
Panelists: Gina M Eosco, NOAA; Jennifer Sprague, NOAA/NWS; Gary C. Matlock, NOAA
3:00 PM
Introductory Remarks

3:15 PM
Panel Discussion


Session 4
Fostering Diverse Perspectives in Climate Science
Location: West 212BC (Phoenix Convention Center - West and North Buildings)
Host: Inez Fung Symposium
Cochairs: Scott Denning, Colorado State Univ.; Rong Fu, Univ. of California, Los Angeles
3:00 PM
Roger Wakimoto (AMS President)

3:15 PM
Questions and Panel Discussion: (Roger Wakimoto, Scott Denning, Dione Rossiter, Emily Fisher)

3:45 PM
4.1
Some Thoughts on Projecting Biosphere-Climate Interactions
Inez Fung, Univ. of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, CA

Recording files available
Session 4
Innovative Measurements
Location: West 211B (Phoenix Convention Center - West and North Buildings)
Host: Special Symposium on Meteorological Observations and Instrumentation
Chair: Temple Lee, NOAA/ARL/ATDD and CIMMS
3:00 PM
4.1
Convective Boundary Layer Depth Estimation From S-Band Dual-Polarization Radar
John Banghoff, The Pennsylvania State Univ., University Park, PA; and D. J. Stensrud and M. R. Kumjian
3:15 PM
4.2
Unconventional Use of Phased Array Weather Surveillance Radar to Satisfy Observing Needs of the NWS
Dusan Zrnic, NOAA/NSSL, Norman, OK; and S. E. Koch, V. Melnikov, R. M. Rabin, and P. Zhang
3:30 PM
4.3
The Environmental Sky Imager-Radiometer (eSIR) and Its Application in Atmospheric Observation
Qilong Min, Univ. at Albany, SUNY, Albany, NY; and B. Yin, Z. Gao, and J. Wang
3:45 PM
4.4
Retrieving Heavy Precipitation from Polarimetric Radio Occultation Observations with a Least Squares Approach
Kuo-Nung Wang, SIO, La Jolla, CA; and C. O. Ao, R. Padullés, F. J. Turk, M. de la Torre Juárez, B. A. Iijima, D. Kuang, E. Cardellach, S. Oliveras, and J. S. Haase
Recording files available
Joint Session 5
Student Research Enabling or Demonstrating the Transition of Research to Operations
Location: North 232C (Phoenix Convention Center - West and North Buildings)
Hosts: (Joint between the Ninth Conference on Transition of Research to Operations; and the 15th Annual Symposium on New Generation Operational Environmental Satellite Systems )
Cochairs: Thanh Vo Dinh, NOAA/NESDIS/Office of Projects, Planning and Analysis; Lauraleen O'Connor, NOAA/NESDIS/Office of Projects, Planning and Analysis
3:00 PM
J5.1
Temporal and Spatial Frequency of Warm-Season Stationary Fronts in the Eastern and Central United States
Peyton K. Capute, Univ. at Albany, SUNY, Albany, NY; and J. O. Piersante, N. D. Metz, and E. G. Hoffman
3:15 PM
J5.2
Soil Moisture and Temperature Response Differences in Bare Soil and Perennial Grasses, Central North Carolina, USA
Timothy Andrew Henderson, State Climate Office of North Carolina, Raleigh, NC; and S. P. Heuser
3:30 PM
J5.3
HPAC 6.5 Model Validation: A Look into EPA Sensor Data Collected during the Lackawanna Steel Fire
Leann Anthony, Applied Research Associates (ARA), Alexandria, VA; and Y. Luna-Cruz and S. Runyon
Recording files available
Panel Discussion 5A
Improving Forecasts: Fostering an Enterprise-Wide Dialogue on the Best Path Forward
Location: North 222AB (Phoenix Convention Center - West and North Buildings)
Host: Seventh Symposium on the Weather, Water, and Climate Enterprise
Moderator: Dan Stillman, Harris Corporation
Panelists: Matt Lanza, Cheniere Energy; Ross N. Hoffman, ESSIC UMD; Thomas Auligné, Joint Center for Satellite Data Assimilation; Florence Rabier, Director General - European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts (ECMWF)
3:00 PM
Progress in Data Assimilation -- Thomas Auligne
3:00 PM
Latest Advancements in OSSEs -- Ross Hoffman
3:00 PM
Forecast Successes and Challenges -- Matt Lanza
3:00 PM
Panelist -- Florence Rabier
Recording files available
Panel Discussion 5B
Boundary Layer Observing Needs for the Agricultural Community
Location: North 221C (Phoenix Convention Center - West and North Buildings)
Host: Seventh Symposium on the Weather, Water, and Climate Enterprise
Moderator: John D. Horel, Univ. of Utah
Panelists: Jerald Brotzge, SUNY; Brad Colman, The Climate Corporation; James H. Block, DTN
3:00 PM
Moderator -- John Horel
3:00 PM
Panelist -- Jerald Brotzge
3:00 PM
Panelist -- James Block
3:00 PM
Panelist -- Bradley Colman
Recording files available
Session 6
Contributions to the Joint Effort for Data Assimilation Integation (JEDI)
Location: North 231C (Phoenix Convention Center - West and North Buildings)
Host: Seventh AMS Symposium on the Joint Center for Satellite Data Assimilation
Chair: Guillaume Vernieres, Joint Center for Satellite Data Assimilation, UCAR
3:00 PM
6.1
The Joint Effort for Data Assimilation Integration (JEDI)
Yannick Trémolet, Joint Center for Satellite Data Assimilation, Boulder, CO
3:15 PM
6.2
Preparations for Next-Generational "Exascale" Data Assimilation at the Met Office
Dale Barker, Met Office, Exeter, United Kingdom; and A. Lorenc, M. Wlasak, S. Sandbach, T. Auligné, Y. Trémolet, and C. Snyder
3:30 PM
6.3
Toward a Cloud Analysis and Forecasting System Leveraging JEDI
Chris Snyder, NCAR, Boulder, CO; and T. Auligné, D. Barker, Z. Liu, Y. Trémolet, and M. Wlasak
3:45 PM
6.4
FV3-JEDI: Progress toward Interfacing the GFS and GEOS Weather Forecast Models with JEDI
Daniel Holdaway, Joint Center for Satellite Data Assimilation, Boulder, CO; and Y. Trémolet
Recording files available
Session 6
Using Alternative Presentation Formats to Inform Your Audience
Location: North 229AB (Phoenix Convention Center - West and North Buildings)
Host: 28th Symposium on Education
CoChair: Danny E. Mattox, Univ. of Oklahoma
3:00 PM
6.1
Narrated Animations or Still Frame Figures: Do Both Formats Produce the Same Results?
Lindsay C. Maudlin, Auburn Univ., Auburn, AL; and K. S. McNeal, N. Soltis, and S. J. Hassol
3:30 PM
6.3
Using Time-Lapse Photography to Illustrate the Dynamic Atmosphere
Walker S. Ashley, Northern Illinois University, DeKalb, IL
Recording files available
Session 6
Wind Forecasting
Location: North 129A (Phoenix Convention Center - West and North Buildings)
Host: 10th Conference on Weather, Climate, and the New Energy Economy
Chair: Robert D'Arienzo, IBM
CoChair: James Wilczak, NOAA/ESRL/PSD
3:00 PM
6.1
Utilizing Climatological Analysis to Improve Forecasting of Offshore Wind Ramps
Dana E. Veron, Univ. of Delaware, Newark, DE; and J. F. Brodie, T. Miles, B. P. Frei, and E. Allen
3:15 PM
6.2
Mesoscale to Microscale Coupling for a Wind Ramp Case over Complex Terrain
Patrick Hawbecker, National Renewable Energy Laboratory, Boulder, CO; and M. J. Churchfield
3:30 PM
6.3
Improving Simulation of Turbulence in WRF-LES of Stable Condition Using Velocity Fluctuations
Raj Rai, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, WA; and L. K. Berg, B. Kravitz, B. Kosovic, J. D. Mirocha, B. Ennis, and S. E. Haupt

3:45 PM
6.4
Sensitivity of Wind Turbine Array Downstream Effects to the Parameterization used in WRF
T. J. Shepherd, Cornell Univ., Ithaca, NY; and P. Volker, R. J. Barthelmie, A. N. Hahmann, and S. C. Pryor
Recording files available
Session 6A
AWIPS System Updates—Part II
Location: North 132ABC (Phoenix Convention Center - West and North Buildings)
Host: 35th Conference on Environmental Information Processing Technologies
Cochairs: William F. Roberts, OAR; Jason E. Burks, CIRA
3:15 PM
6A.3
High-Resolution, X-Band Dual Polarization Radar Product Support in AWIPS 2
Apoorva Bajaj, Univ. of Massachusetts Amherst, Amherst, MA; and E. J. Lyons, D. L. Pepyne, N. Haffke, M. Fagan, M. Cornell, R. Phinney, J. Elkins, S. Ambrose, B. Philips, S. Nicholson, P. Kirkwood, and L. Bucklew
3:30 PM
6A.4
Unidata AWIPS System Update
Michael James, UCAR, Boulder, CO
3:45 PM
6A.2
Enhancements to the AWIPS Ensemble Tool for NWS National Centers
Paul Schultz, CIRES/Univ. of Colorado, Boulder, CO; and W. Roberts, D. Nietfeld, D. R. Stovern, E. Polster, and X. Jing

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Session 6B
Visualization Techniques for Climatology and Meteorology—Part I
Location: North 131C (Phoenix Convention Center - West and North Buildings)
Host: 35th Conference on Environmental Information Processing Technologies
Cochairs: Jared Rennie, CICS/North Carolina State Univ.; J. T. Johnson, Weather Decision Technologies; Scott Jacobs, NOAA/NWS
3:00 PM
6B.1
Designing an Augmented Reality App to Communicate and Engage Users in Real-Time Satellite Data
Peter Dorofy, Institute for Earth Observations, Palmyra, NJ; and J. Moore, E. Wiederhold, V. Casasanto, B. J. Billings, and J. Kenisky
3:30 PM
6B.3
Shouldn't This Be Easy? NOAA Open Source Software For Creating High Quality Satellite Images
David Hoese, Cooperative Institute for Meteorological Satellite Studies, Madison, WI; and K. Strabala
Recording files available
Session 7
Advances in Space Weather Research and Modeling. Part III
Location: North 227A-C (Phoenix Convention Center - West and North Buildings)
Host: 16th Conference on Space Weather
Cochairs: Valbona Kunkel, NOAA/NWS/EMC via IMSG; Robert M. Robinson, Inspace
3:00 PM
7.1
Predictability of Thermosphere–Ionosphere Conditions Following an Eruptive Solar Event
Anthony J. Mannucci, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA; and B. T. Tsurutani, O. P. Verkhoglyadova, X. Meng, R. McGranaghan, C. Wang, G. Rosen, S. Sharma, and J. S. Shim

3:15 PM
7.2
The GOLD Mission: Overview of the Early Observations and Their Validation
Richard W. Eastes, Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics, Univ. of Colorado Boulder, Boulder, CO; and W. E. McClintock, A. G. Burns, D. N. Anderson, L. Andersson, M. Codrescu, R. E. Daniell, S. L. England, J. S. Evans, J. D. Lumpe, C. Martinis, A. D. Richmond, D. W. Rusch, O. Siegmund, S. C. Solomon, T. Woods, S. A. Budzien, K. F. Dymond, F. G. Eparvier, and J. Overheide
3:30 PM
7.3
Global Ionosphere Model Validation Using HAARP and WSPR
Chris Fallen, Univ. of Alaska, Fairbanks, Fairbanks, AK
3:45 PM
7.4
Rayleigh Scatter Lidar for Characterizing the Near-Earth Space Environment
Leda Sox, Georgia Tech Research Institute, Atlanta, GA; and C. Valenta, V. B. Wickwar, J. P. Herron, J. Price, and W. K. Tobiska
Recording files available
Session 7
Cloud and Aerosol Lidar Observations for Model Parameterization and Process Study Part II
Location: West 211A (Phoenix Convention Center - West and North Buildings)
Host: Ninth Symposium on Lidar Atmospheric Applications
Cochairs: Tammy Weckwerth, NCAR; Scott Ozog, University of Maryland, College Park
3:00 PM
7.1
3:15 PM
7.2
IACS and MACS: High-Resolution Atmospheric Lidars for Model Verification
Christopher Valenta, Georgia Tech Research Institute, Atlanta, GA; and J. M. Stewart, R. James, and L. Sox

3:30 PM
7.3
A Compact Ceilometer for Boundary Layer Height and Ceiling Retrievals for the Ameriflux Network
David M. Sonnenfroh, Physical Sciences Inc., Andover, MA; and A. Sealey, R. Minelli, and J. Goodwin
Recording files available
Session 7
Data Assimilation—Part III
Location: North 131AB (Phoenix Convention Center - West and North Buildings)
Host: 23rd Conference on Integrated Observing and Assimilation Systems for the Atmosphere, Oceans, and Land Surface (IOAS-AOLS)
Chair: Jeffrey Anderson, NCAR
3:15 PM
7.2
The Impact of GOES-16 Derived Products on HWRF Analyses and Forecasts
Jinlong Li, CIMSS/Univ. of Wisconsin, Madison, WI; and J. Li, C. Velden, P. Wang, J. R. Lee, W. E. Lewis, D. Stettner, J. A. Sippel, and Z. Zhang
Recording files available
Session 7
Flood Prediction, Analysis, Decision Support, and Management III
Location: North 126BC (Phoenix Convention Center - West and North Buildings)
Host: 33rd Conference on Hydrology
Cochairs: David Gochis, NCAR; Kristie J. Franz, Iowa State Univ.; John N. McHenry, Baron Advanced Meteorological Systems, LLC; Mike Hobbins, NOAA
3:00 PM
7.1
Flood Inundation Mapping Impact on the Decision Making Process for Emergency Managers
Derek Giardino, NOAA/NWS, Fort Worth, TX; and F. Salas

3:15 PM
7.2A
3:30 PM
7.3A
Development of the Big Sioux River Flood Information System
Jason T. Love, RESPEC, Rapid City, SD; and P. P. Rausch, E. R. Walter, and S. Kenner
3:45 PM
7.4
Using Social Science to Understand User Needs for National Weather Service Water Prediction Map Services
Mary G. Mullusky, NOAA/NWS, Silver Spring, MD; and P. Colohan, K. E. Abshire, W. Flynn, A. O'Donnell, and B. Rosenberg

Recording files available
Session 7
Innovative Use of Observations and Other Weather Information, Including for Climatographies and in Machine Learning and Statistical Techniques—Part II
Location: North 224B (Phoenix Convention Center - West and North Buildings)
Host: 19th Conference on Aviation, Range, and Aerospace Meteorology
Chair: Jussi S. Ylhäisi, Finnish Meteorological Institute
3:00 PM
7.1
Global Synthetic Weather Radar Capability in Support of the U.S. Air Force
Haig Iskenderian, MIT Lincoln Laboratory, Lexington, MA; and M. S. Veillette, C. J. Mattioli, P. M. Lamey, E. P. Hassey, A. Banerjee, M. Worris, K. Cancio, S. Rajagopalan, H. Usmani, J. P. Dreher, N. Hock, and J. Radovan
3:15 PM
7.2
Changes in Northern Hemisphere Contrail Properties between 2006 and 2012 Determined from MODIS Imagery
David P. Duda, SSAI, Hampton, VA; and S. T. Bedka, D. Spangenberg, K. Khlopenkov, T. L. Chee, P. Minnis, and W. L. Smith Jr.
3:30 PM
7.3
A Filter for Using Mesonet Visibility Observations in Operations and Verification
Kenneth R. Fenton Jr., NOAA/ESRL/GSD and CIRA, Boulder, CO; and M. S. Wandishin and M. A. Petty
3:45 PM
7.4
The Spatial and Temporal Distribution of Commercial Aircraft Weather Observations Available for Assimilation into Numerical Weather Prediction Models
Eric P. James, CIRES, Univ. of Colorado Boulder, and NOAA/ESRL/GSD, Boulder, CO; and B. D. Jamison and S. Benjamin

Session 7
Major Weather Impacts of 2018: Session IV
Location: North Ballroom 120CD (Phoenix Convention Center - West and North Buildings)
Host: 15IMPACTS: Major Weather Events and Impacts of 2018
Cochairs: Klaus Wolter, CIRES, Univ. of Colorado Boulder; Thomas Bedard, AccuWeather Enterprise Solutions; Tanja E. Fransen, NOAA/NWS; Owen H. Shieh, Joint Typhoon Warning Center
3:45 PM
7.4
The 2018 Tornado and Severe Thunderstorm Season (Invited Presentation)
Russell S. Schneider, NOAA/NWS Storm Prediction Center, Norman, OK; and P. T. Marsh


Session 7
Technology, Techniques and Practices for Transition of Research to Operations in Weather and Climate
Location: North 230 (Phoenix Convention Center - West and North Buildings)
Host: Ninth Conference on Transition of Research to Operations
Cochairs: Adam Steckel, NOAA/NESDIS/Office of Projects, Planning and Analysis; Eric Miller, NOAA/NESDIS/Office of Projects, Planning and Analysis
3:15 PM
7.2
Accelerating Climate Research, Development, and Transition to Operations for Building a Weather-Ready Nation
Fiona Horsfall, NOAA/NWS, Silver Spring, MD; and M. Timofeyeva, D. DeWitt, and M. Halpert

Recording files available
Session 7A
Tropical Climate Variability and Change—Part III
Location: North 121BC (Phoenix Convention Center - West and North Buildings)
Host: 32nd Conference on Climate Variability and Change
Chair: Robert Korty, Texas A&M Univ.
3:00 PM
7A.1
3:15 PM
7A.2
Global and Tropical Precipitation—Trends and Intensity Changes over the Satellite Era
Robert Adler, Univ. of Maryland, College Park, College Park, MD; and G. Gu, J. J. Wang, and G. J. Huffman
3:30 PM
7A.3
The Potential to Enhance Tropical Atlantic Sector Rainfall Projections by Alleviating the Tropical Atlantic Sea Surface Temperature Bias
Mojib Latif, GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel, Kiel, Germany; and W. Park and J. Harlaß
Recording files available
Session 7B
Variability and Change in Jets and Storm Tracks—Part III
Location: North 122BC (Phoenix Convention Center - West and North Buildings)
Host: 32nd Conference on Climate Variability and Change
Chair: Walter Robinson, North Carolina State Univ.
3:00 PM
7B.1
Linkages between Tropopause Polar Vortices and the Great Arctic Cyclone of August 2012
Daniel Keyser, Univ. at Albany, SUNY, Albany, NY; and K. A. Biernat, L. F. Bosart, and S. M. Cavallo
Recording files available
Themed Joint Session 12
Too Hot to Handle: Multidisciplinary Perspectives on Extreme Heat as Disaster. Part II
Location: North 224A (Phoenix Convention Center - West and North Buildings)
Host: 24th Conference on Applied Climatology
Chair: Liza C. Kurtz, Arizona State Univ.
Cochairs: Trent Ford, Southern Illinois Univ.; Jane Wilson Baldwin, Descartes Labs
3:00 PM
TJ12.1
Assessing Historical Trends in Changing Lengths of Extreme Heat Seasons
Jonathan Weaver, Midwestern Regional Climate Center, Champaign, IL; and B. L. Hall
3:15 PM
TJ12.2
Identifying the Relationships between Mortality and Heat Stress Indices across North Carolina
Jordan J. Clark, Univ. of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC; and C. E. Konrad
3:30 PM
TJ12.3
Quantifying the Number of Heat-Related Deaths in the United States: An Estimate for 297 Populous Counties
Kate R. Weinberger, School of Public Health, Brown Univ., Providence, RI; and D. A. Harris, K. R. Spangler, A. Zanobetti, and G. A. Wellenius
Recording files available
Themed Joint Session 13
Role of the Stratosphere in Climate Variability, Change, and Prediction—Part II
Location: West 212A (Phoenix Convention Center - West and North Buildings)
Hosts: (Joint between the 20th Conference on Middle Atmosphere; and the 32nd Conference on Climate Variability and Change )
Cochairs: John R. Albers, Univ. of Colorado Boulder; Kane A. Stone, MIT
3:00 PM
TJ13.1A
Impact of Interactive Chemistry of Stratospheric Ozone on Surface Climate in Paleoclimate Simulations and Future Global Warming Projections
Shigeo Yoden, Kyoto Univ., Kyoto, Japan; and S. Noda, K. Kodera, Y. Adachi, M. Deushi, A. Kitoh, R. Mizuta, S. Murakami, and K. Yoshida
3:15 PM
TJ13.2A
Northern Hemisphere continental warming following the 1991 Mt Pinatubo eruption: forced response or just natural variability?
Lorenzo Polvani, Columbia University, New York, NY; and A. Banerjee and A. Schmidt

Paper TJ13.2 has been moved to Poster 175A.

3:30 PM
TJ13.3
Recording files available
Themed Joint Session 14
GOES-16/17 Geostationary Lightning Mapper (GLM) Sensor Performance, Data Products, and User Applications—Part II
Location: North 231AB (Phoenix Convention Center - West and North Buildings)
Hosts: (Joint between the 15th Annual Symposium on New Generation Operational Environmental Satellite Systems; and the Ninth Conference on the Meteorological Application of Lightning Data )
CoChair: Eric Bruning, Texas Tech Univ.
3:00 PM
TJ14.1
Operational Use, Analysis, and Applications of Geostationary Lightning Mapper Data in the Hazardous Weather Testbed
Kristin M. Calhoun, Univ. of Oklahoma/CIMMS and NOAA/NSSL, Norman, OK; and T. C. Meyer, E. C. Bruning, C. J. Schultz, G. T. Stano, P. A. Campbell, J. K. Zajic, and S. D. Rudlosky
3:15 PM
TJ14.2
Early Operational Applications of Geostationary Lightning Mapper Data for National Weather Service Operations
Christopher J. Stumpf, NOAA/NWSFO, Huntsville, AL; and K. D. White, C. M. Gravelle, and G. T. Stano
3:30 PM
TJ14.3
Characterization of Wildfire-Producing Storms Utilizing Satellite, Radar, and Lightning Datasets
Douglas Kahn, Univ. of Alabama in Huntsville, Huntsville, AL; and C. J. Schultz
Recording files available
Themed Joint Session 15
Hurricanes and Health: When Will We Stop “Learning Lessons” and Start Building Smarter?
Location: North 221AB (Phoenix Convention Center - West and North Buildings)
Hosts: (Joint between the Seventh Symposium on Building a Weather-Ready Nation; the 17th Symposium on the Coastal Environment; the 14th Symposium on Societal Applications: Policy, Research and Practice; the 10th Conference on Environment and Health; and the Tropical Cyclones and Extreme Monsoon Precipitation: Prediction, Impacts, and Communication )
Cochairs: John Balbus, National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences; Douglas Hilderbrand, NOAA/NWS; Alan Blumberg, Stevens Institute of Technology
3:00 PM
TJ15.1
Understanding Vulnerability and Adaptive Capacity to Hurricane Irma–Related Power Failures
Paul M. Chakalian, Arizona State Univ., Tempe, AZ; and D. M. Hondula and L. C. Kurtz
3:15 PM
TJ15.2
3:30 PM
TJ15.3
Words Matter!
H. Michael Mogil, How The Weatherworks, Naples, FL; and M. Bolton
3:45 PM
Discussion


Panel Discussion
Catalyzing Innovation in Weather Science Internationally
Location: North 222C (Phoenix Convention Center - West and North Buildings)
Host: Special Symposium on Catalyzing Innovation in Weather Science Internationally
Moderator: Michael Morgan, University of Wisconsin−Madison
Panelists: Ana P. Barros, Duke University; Peter Bauer, ECMWF; Jenni L. Evans, The Pennsylvania State University; Kimberly E. Klockow-McClain, CIMMS; Louis Uccellini, NOAA National Weather Service (NWS)

4:00 PM-6:00 PM: Tuesday, 8 January 2019


Book Talks @ Authors Corner (Tues)
Location: Hall 5-6 (Phoenix Convention Center - West and North Buildings)

Formal Poster Viewing Reception (Tues)
Location: Hall 4 (Phoenix Convention Center - West and North Buildings)

Poster Session 1
14th Symposium on Societal Applications: Policy, Research, and Practice Posters
Location: Hall 4 (Phoenix Convention Center - West and North Buildings)
Host: 14th Symposium on Societal Applications: Policy, Research and Practice
529A
Global Patterns of Crop Production Losses Associated with Droughts and Floods from 1984 to 2009
Wonsik Kim, Institute for Agro-Environmental Sciences/National Agriculture and Food Research Organization, Tsukuba, Japan; and T. Iizumi and M. Nishimori

Handout (4.6 MB)

612
Reducing or Preventing Global Warming with Incentive Structures
James L. Gamble III, PoliticalSheepdog.com, Gibson Island, MD

613
NCA-LDAS: Providing Data Products for Evaluating Hydrologic Trends across the Continental United States during the Satellite Era (1979–Present)
Michael F. Jasinski, NASA GSFC, Greenbelt, MD; and S. V. Kumar, J. S. Borak, D. Mocko, M. Rodell, C. D. Peters-Lidard, H. Rui, H. Beaudoing, B. Vollmer, K. R. Arsenault, J. Bolten, and N. Tangdamrongsub

614
Change That Lasts: A Grassroots Approach to Improving Organizational Culture in the National Weather Service
Elyse M. Hagner, NOAA/NWS, Silver Spring, MD; and J. E. Ten Hoeve III, J. N. Wagner, M. Knox, and P. Robertson

615
Multiscale Assessments of Droughts: A Case Study in Xinjiang, China
Junqiang Yao, Institute of Desert Meteorology, China Meteorological Administration, Urumqi, China

616
Exploring and Advancing Customer Engagement at NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information
Annette Hollingshead, Global Science and Technology, Inc., Asheville, NC; and M. J. Brewer, N. Jones, and J. Dissen

617
Developing a Framework of Multisector Drought Impacts State By State
Mary Noel, University of Nebraska–Lincoln, Lincoln, NE; and D. J. Bathke, T. Haigh, K. H. Smith, M. Svoboda, and M. Hayes

619
How Can You Trust What You Don’t Use?: Measuring Patterns of Individual’s Weather Information Source Reliance and Trust
Wesley W. Wehde, University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK; and J. T. Ripberger, J. N. Allan, C. Silva, and H. Jenkins-Smith

621
Investigating Mobile Home Residents, Tornadic Weather, and Vulnerability: A Review of Survey Data Focused on Social and Physical Resources and Responses to Tornadic Information
Michael Egnoto, Walter Reed Army Institute of Research, Silver Spring, MD; and K. D. Ash, S. M. Strader, W. S. Ashley, D. Rouche, C. Edwards, and K. E. Klockow-McClain

623A
Eco-hydrological modeling using field-based and Earth Observations to assess water use efficiency and support agricultural water resources management
Jean-Claude Roger, Univ. of Maryland, College Park, MD; and P. Guillevic, I. Becker-Reshef, V. Bandaru, A. Coffin, A. French, J. Hatfield, M. Humber, S. Skakun, B. Franch, M. Hansen, B. Thomas, E. Vermote, C. Justice, R. César Izaurralde, J. Dempewolf, C. Nakalembe, M. Cryder, J. Jeong, C. Di Bella, M. Eugenia Beget, S. Tumbo, B. Meyer, C. Adjorlolo, P. L. Frison, and C. Sanchez


Poster Session 1
Aerosol–Cloud–Climate Interactions Posters
Location: Hall 4 (Phoenix Convention Center - West and North Buildings)
Host: 11th Symposium on Aerosol–Cloud–Climate Interactions
624
Impacts of Phytoplankton Blooms on Sea Spray Aerosol I
Claudia M. Althoen, NOAA, Seattle, WA

625
Study of Aerosol Indirect Effect on Shallow Warm Clouds: Results from SEAC4RS and ORACLES Field Campaigns
Lan Gao, Univ. of Oklahoma, Norman, OK; and G. M. McFarquhar, J. Redemann, and E. M. Wilcox

626
Cloud Property Variations in the Cloudy-to-Clear Transition Zones—A Comparison of Shortwave Spectral Observations on Different ARM Sites
Weidong Yang, Goddard Earth Sciences Technology and Research/USRA, Greenbelt, MD; and A. Marshak

627
Aerosol Swelling: A Major Source of Error When Estimating the Aerosol First Indirect Effect
Jianjun Liu, Univ. of Maryland, College Park, College Park, MD; and Z. Li

628
Height-Resolved Measurements of Cloud Water Chemical Composition in Marine Stratocumulus Clouds
Alexander Bruce MacDonald, The Univ. of Arizona, Tucson, AZ; and H. Dadashazar, P. Y. Chuang, E. Crosbie, H. Wang, Z. Wang, H. H. Jonsson, R. Flagan, J. H. Seinfeld, and A. Sorooshian

629
Comparisons of Florida Thunderstorm Cirrus Clouds Using Concurrent Radar and Aircraft Measurements
Nicholas J. Gapp, Univ. of North Dakota, Grand Forks, ND; and J. Schmidt, D. Delene, P. Harasti, J. Hoover, and P. Jones

Handout (1.3 MB)

631
633
Model-Observational Intercomparisons of Aerosol and Cloud Properties during NASA ORACLES
Ian Chang, Univ. of Oklahoma, Norman, OK; and J. Redemann, Y. Shinozuka, S. E. LeBlanc, G. Ferrada, P. E. Saide, M. Mallet, and P. Zuidema

634
Progress on Microwave Radiometer-Based Whitecap Fraction and Sea Spray Aerosol Products
Michael H. Bettenhausen, NRL, Washington, DC; and M. D. Anguelova

635
Evaluating Land Surface Processes on Simulated Dust Emissions, Air Quality Impacts, and Aerosol–Radiation Interactions
Erica C. Burrows, Univ. of Alabama in Huntsville, Huntsville, AL; and A. Naeger, U. U. Nair, and C. R. Hain

636
Interference of Satellite Dust Detection by Water Vapor
Lewis D. Grasso, Cooperative Institute for Research in the Atmosphere/Colorado State Univ., Fort Collins, CO

637
The Efficiency of Ice Nucleating Particle Release through Sea Spray Aerosols and Various Bubble Sizes
Ruby J Nelson, Univ. of Massachusetts Amherst, Amherst, MA; and K. A. Moore, T. C. J. Hill, P. J. DeMott, and S. M. Kreidenweis

638
Fluorescent Biological Aerosol Particles of the Southern Ocean Boundary Layer and Their Potential Role for Ice Nucleation in Clouds
Martin Schnaiter, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Karlsruhe, Germany; and P. J. DeMott, T. C. J. Hill, and G. M. McFarquhar

Handout (2.7 MB)

639
Low-Level Cloud Microphysical Properties under Different Air Masses at the ARM SGP site
Xiaojian Zheng, The Univ. of Arizona, Tucson, AZ; and B. Xi, X. Dong, and T. Logan

640
Evaluation of Water Vapor Diffusion Equation Solving Schemes for Use in Forward Simulation of Cloud Doppler Radar Spectra of Drizzling Stratocumulus
Hyunho Lee, Center for Climate Systems Research/Columbia Univ., New York, NY; and A. M. Fridlind and A. S. Ackerman

Handout (700.2 kB)

641
Light Scattering from a Water-Coated Aerosol Particle
Miguel Cortez Jr., Univ. of Texas at El Paso, El Paso, TX; and D. R. M. Fitzgerald and A. Mcafee

643
Evaluation of the Impacts of Biomass Burning Emissions on the NASA GEOS Seasonal Climate Forecast
Karla Longo, USRA, Greenbelt, MD; and J. L. M. Freire, S. R. Freitas, A. Da Silva, and C. A. S. Coelho

644
Seasonal Influences of Aerosol Type on Low-Level Cloud Microphysical Properties under Different AirMasses at the ARM-SGP site
Timothy Logan, Texas A&M Univ., College Station, TX; and X. Zheng, B. Xi, and X. Dong

645
Subgrid Variations of the Cloud Water and Droplet Number Concentration over Tropical Ocean: Satellite Observations and Implications for Warm Rain Simulation in Climate Models
Zhibo Zhang, Univ. of Maryland, Baltimore County, Baltimore, MD; and H. Song, P. L. Ma, V. E. Larson, M. Wang, X. Dong, and J. Wang

646
Potential for Reactive-Oxygen Species (ROS) Production on Mineral Nanoparticles
James Kubicki, Univ. of Texas at El Paso, El Paso, TX

Poster 647 is now paper 4.5A

Poster 648 is now Paper 6.5A


Poster Session 1
Inez Fung Symposium Posters
Location: Hall 4 (Phoenix Convention Center - West and North Buildings)
Host: Inez Fung Symposium
390
Calculating Synoptic to Global Scale Spring Phenology
Mark D. Schwartz, Univ. of Wisconsin–Milwaukee, Milwaukee, WI

Handout (4.0 MB)

391
Integrating Fine-Scale Surface Flux Heterogeneity into Observations and Land Surface Models
Ankur R. Desai, Univ. of Wisconsin–Madison, Madison, WI; and G. W. Petty, P. Townsend, S. Metzger, M. D. Schwartz, K. Xu, and M. Mauder

393
Towards the Estimation of Biospheric Contributions to the Regional Carbon Cycle in the Eastern United States Using a Dynamic Global Vegetation Model
Shaun T. Howe, Univ. of Maryland, College Park, MD; and N. Zeng, C. R. Martin, S. Gourdji, I. Lopez-Coto, R. R. Dickerson, R. J. Salawitch, and J. R. Whetstone

394
Assessing the Potential Impact of Hydraulic Redistribution on Ecosystem Biogeochemical Cycles
Congsheng Fu, Univ. of Connecticut, Storrs, CT; and G. Wang and Z. Cardon

395
The Changing North American Carbon Cycle: Projections, Consequences and Research Priorities
Abhishek Chatterjee, USRA, Greenbelt, MD; and S. Cooley, D. N. Huntzinger, M. Mayes, and D. J. Moore

397
Snow Cover Amplification and Permafrost Response to Vegetation Greenness Variation in the Arctic Tundra
Yeonjoo Kim, Yonsei Univ., Seoul, Korea, Republic of (South); and Z. Wang, H. Seo, and J. Mao

398
Capturing the Connections between the Water, Energy, and Carbon Cycles with the NASA GEOS Earth Modeling System—Coupling Framework and Initial Experiments
Eunjee Lee, USRA/NASA Goddard, Greenbelt, MD; and R. D. Koster, L. Ott, F. W. Zeng, S. Mahanama, B. Poulter, B. Weir, and S. Pawson

399
Whither Diffuse? Synthesizing the Influence of Diffuse Light on the Biosphere
Allison L. Steiner, Univ. of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI

400
An Expedition to Close Global Carbon Budget: From a Few Surface Flasks to Millions of Satellite Observations and Beyond
Junjie Liu, Jet Propulsion Laboratory/California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA


Poster Session 1
Phased-Array Radar Symposium Poster Session
Location: Hall 4 (Phoenix Convention Center - West and North Buildings)
Host: Phased Array Radar Symposium
730
Airborne Polarimetric Doppler Weather Radar: Possible Beam-Forming Architectures
J. Vivekanandan, NCAR, Boulder, CO; and E. Loew, A. Karboski, and B. Hwang

731
Detection Performance of Meteorological Radars: Reflector and Phased-Array Antennas
Richard Ice, Centuria Corporation, Norman, OK; and A. E. Daniel

Handout (393.2 kB)

733
The NCAR/EOL 449-MHz Wind Profilers
John Sobtzak, NCAR, Boulder, CO; and W. O. J. Brown, A. Lee, T. Hock, and C. Martin

Handout (1.2 MB)

809A
Architecture for and Weather Products Resulting from the Netted Operation of the Raytheon LPR
David L. Pepyne, Univ. of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA; and E. J. Knapp, M. D. Dubois, and E. Peltier

736
High-Temporal-Resolution Observations of Tornadogenesis and Tornado Decay Using the Atmospheric Imaging Radar
Casey B. Griffin, Univ. of Oklahoma, Norman, OK; and D. J. Bodine, A. Mahre, J. M. Kurdzo, J. Lujan Jr., and R. D. Palmer

Handout (6.8 MB)

737
High-Temporal-Resolution Observations of Weak-Echo Reflectivity Bands and Momentum Surges in the 16 May 2017 Wheeler, Texas, Tornado
Casey B. Griffin, Univ. of Oklahoma, Norman, OK; and D. J. Bodine, J. Lujan Jr., and R. D. Palmer

Handout (6.8 MB)

738
Polarimetric Radar Observations with Multiparameter Phased-Array Radar (MP-PAWR) in the Tokyo Area
Tomoo Ushio, Tokyo Metropolitan Univ., Hino, Tokyo, Japan; and H. Kikuchi, T. Suezawa, and A. Onuki

739
30-s Cycle LETKF Assimilation of Dual-Phased Array Weather Radar Observations to Short-Range Convective Forecasts
James Taylor, RIKEN Center for Computational Science, Kobe, Japan; and G. Y. Lien, Y. Maejima, S. Satoh, and T. Miyoshi

740
Using the Atmospheric Imaging Radar to Study Vortex Dynamics and Debris Processes
Andrew Mahre, Univ. of Oklahoma, Norman, OK; and C. B. Griffin, D. J. Bodine, J. M. Kurdzo, R. D. Palmer, and T. Y. Yu

741
Digital Predistortion for Phased-Array Radar
Kyuil Hwang, NCAR, Boulder, CO; and E. Loew

Handout (662.4 kB)

787A
Calibration of a Dual-Polarization Planar Phased-Array Radar Using a Far-Field Tower
Daniel J. Wasielewski, NSSL, Norman, OK; and I. R. Ivic and J. R. Mendoza

743
Approaches for Compression of Phased-Array Weather Radar Data
Qiangyu Zeng, Chengdu Univ. of Information Technology, Chengdu, China; and J. He, S. Zhao, and H. Wang

744
Development of Multiple-Parameter Phased-Array Weather Radar
Tetsuya Kobayashi, Toshiba Infrastructure Systems and Solutions Corporation, Kawasaki, Japan; and F. Mizutani, M. Wada, A. Yamada, H. Goto, A. Watanabe, N. Takahashi, H. Hanado, and T. Ushio

745
Interference Elimination via Minimum Mean Square Error on Phased-Array Weather Radar Using Angular Imaging Technique
Taihei Uchida, Tokyo Metropolitan Univ., Tokyo, Japan; and E. Yoshikawa, H. Kikuchi, N. Takizawa, T. Mega, and T. Ushio

746
Bistatic Weather Radar System Analysis
David J. McLaughlin, Univ. of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA; and M. D. Dubois, E. J. Knapp, E. Peltier, and L. Sankey

747
Advancing Flash Flooding Early Warning Using a Proxy for PAR Observations
Yixin Wen, Univ. of Oklahoma, Norman, OK; and T. J. Schuur, H. Vergara, and C. M. Kuster


Poster Session 1
Seventh Symposium on the JCSDA Poster Session
Location: Hall 4 (Phoenix Convention Center - West and North Buildings)
Host: Seventh AMS Symposium on the Joint Center for Satellite Data Assimilation
679
Introducing CDAT, the CIRA Data Assimilation Testbed
Steven J. Fletcher, CIRA, Fort Collins, CO; and M. Goodliff, A. Kliewer, A. S. Jones, and J. Forsythe

680
Status of Satellite Data Assimilation in the NSSL Experimental Warn-on-Forecast System
Thomas A. Jones, Cooperative Institute for Mesoscale Meteorological Studies/Univ. of Oklahoma, and NOAA/OAR/NSSL, Norman, OK; and S. Mallick, K. H. Knopfmeier, D. C. Dowell, X. Wang, P. S. Skinner, P. Minnis, R. Palikonda, and W. L. Smith Jr.

681
Impact of Assimilating High-Density GOES-Derived Wind Vectors on Numerical Analyses of Severe Storm Environments on the U.S. Central Plains
James Marquis, Univ. of Colorado Boulder, Boulder, CO; and J. Wurman, K. L. Rasmussen, and R. Rabin

682
A Proactive Quality Control (PQC) Based on Ensemble Forecast Sensitivity to Observations
Tse-Chun Chen, Univ. of Maryland, College Park, College Park, MD; and E. Kalnay

684
The Impact of Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite-16 (GOES-16) Data on Tropical Cyclone Forecast
Jung-Rim Lee, Cooperative Institute for Meteorological Satellite Studies, Madison, WI; and J. Li, P. Wang, and J. Li

685
Using Multisensor Aerosol Optical Depth Retrievals to Improve Infrared Radiance Assimilation
Aaron Naeger, Univ. of Alabama in Huntsville, Huntsville, AL; and C. B. Blankenship, J. Srikishen, E. B. Berndt, and B. T. Zavodsky

686
GNSSRO Data Assimilation Development Activities at JCSDA
Francois Vandenberghe, JCSDA, Boulder, CO; and H. Shao, H. Zhang, S. Dutta, and J. G. Yoe

688
Impact of the Dynamic Observation Error of COSMIC RO Bending Angle Data on Tropical Cyclone Sinlaku (2008)
Hailing zhang, UCAR, Boulder, CO; and S. P. Ho, Y. H. Kuo, and F. Vandenberghe

689
Improving Radiance Data Assimilation over Land through Surface Emissivity Study
Hui Shao, UCAR, Boulder, CO; and B. Orescanin and K. Garret

690
Impact of All-Sky Microwave Radiance Assimilation of Megha-Tropiques SAPHIR Data on Short-Range Weather Forecasts
Phani Rama Sandeep Chinta, Indian Institute of Technology Madras, Chennai, India; and C. Balaji

692
Comparison of All-sky Radiance Assimilation with Different Cloud Control Variables for FV3GFS
Mingjing Tong, Engility Corporation at GFDL, Princeton, NJ; and Y. Zhu and L. Zhou

694
An Overview of the NAVGEM Global Hybrid 4D-Var System
Nancy L. Baker, NRL, Monterey, CA

695
Data Assimilation to Represent Unmodeled Anthropogenic Processes and Topographic Correction
Akhilesh S. Nair, Indian Insitute of Technology Bombay, Mumbai, India; and I. J

696
Accuracy and Bias in Global Ocean Reanalyses
Jim Carton, Univ. of Maryland, College Park, College Park, MD; and G. Chepurin and L. Chen

698
CRTM Support to GMAO, Validation, and Coefficient Generation
Isaac Moradi, NASA, Greenbelt, MD; and W. McCarty

699
Development of Advanced Radiative Transfer Capabilities for Polarimetric Remote Sensing
Jiachen Ding, Texas A&M Univ., College Station, TX; and P. Yang, M. D. King, S. Platnick, K. Meyer, P. Stegmann, and B. Johnson

700
Case Study of Using Satellite Altimetry to Improve the Simulation of Typhoon Storm Surge
Jingsong Yang, Second Institute of Oceanography, Hangzhou, China; and X. Li, G. Han, G. Zheng, and D. Chen

701
Polarized Radiative Transfer in the CRTM
Tom Greenwald, Univ. of Wisconsin–Madison, Madison, WI; and B. T. Johnson and R. Bennartz

702
CRTM Coefficient Generation to Support Current and Future Satellite Missions
Tong Zhu, NESDIS, College Park, MD; and M. Chen, K. Garrett, B. Yan, E. Bayler, Y. Chen, and Q. Liu

703
Upgrading the CRTM Hydrometeor Scattering Properties: Toward Fully Polarized Radiative Transfer
Patrick Stegmann, Joint Center for Satellite Data Assimilation, College Park, MD; and B. Johnson and E. Liu


Poster Session 1
Special SMOI Poster Session
Location: Hall 4 (Phoenix Convention Center - West and North Buildings)
Host: Special Symposium on Meteorological Observations and Instrumentation
761
Upper-Air Observations in Landfalling Hurricanes
Sean Waugh, NSSL, Norman, OK; and A. A. Alford and M. Biggerstaff

762
Unmanned Aircraft Observations of Terrain Impact on the Atmospheric Boundary Layer Evolution
Jamey Jacob, Oklahoma State Univ., Stillwater, OK; and V. Natalie, B. Hemingway, A. Frazier, and P. Chilson

763
Estimating Near-Surface Vertical Heat Fluxes over Agricultural Areas Using Weather Sensors on Unmanned Aerial Vehicles
Derek Rosseau, Mississippi State Univ., Mississippi State, MS; and J. Dyer and L. Wasson

764
Use of Drones in Operational Weather Service: Benefits and Roadblocks
Anne Hirsikko, Finnish Meteorological Institute, Helsinki, Finland; and A. Blanco, D. Brus, J. Gustafsson, J. Hirvonen, J. Jutila, K. Rikkonen, J. Siltakoski, and S. Suopajärvi

765
Estimating Vertical Heat Flux Profiles Using UAS and LIDAR Observations
Brian R. Greene, Univ. of Oklahoma, Norman, OK; and T. M. Bell, P. B. Chilson, E. Fedorovich, P. Klein, and J. B. Basara

767
Lower Atmosphere Process Studies at Elevation: A Remotely Piloted Aircraft Team Experiment (LAPSE-RATE)
Gijs de Boer, Univ. of Colorado Boulder, Boulder, CO; and A. L. Houston, J. D. Jacob, J. O. Pinto, B. Argrow, P. B. Chilson, C. Diehl, J. Elston, J. Intrieri, D. A. Lawrence, J. K. Lundquist, and S. Smith

768
Low-Cost Sensor and Imagers, Evaluation and Calibration, Data Fusion, and Applications
Priyanka deSouza, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA; and R. Kahn, J. A. Limbacher, E. A. Marais, F. Duarte, and C. Ratti

770
An Airborne Microwave Radiometer for Improved Thermodynamic Observations of the Atmosphere
Marian Klein, Boulder Environmental Sciences and Technology, Boulder, CO; and T. Hohman, C. Dunlap, Z. Wang, and K. Ramsdale

771
Modular Approach to Carbon Dioxide Sensor Integration across Rotary and Fixed Wing UAV
Gustavo Britto Hupsel de Azevedo, Univ. of Oklahoma, Norman, OK; and E. A. Pillar-Little, A. R. Segales, W. Doyle, S. Mazuera, and P. B. Chilson

773
Integration of Satellite Observations with Low-Cost Air Quality Monitors
Pawan Gupta, USRA, Greenbelt, MD; and R. Levy, P. Doraiswamy, O. Pikelnaya, B. Feenstra, A. Polidori, F. Kiros, and K. Mills

Handout (36.6 MB)

774
An Innovative Unmanned Aircraft System Design for Optimal Temperature, Humidity, Wind Speed, and Direction Measurements
Antonio R. Segales, Univ. of Oklahoma, Norman, OK; and B. R. Greene, W. Doyle, J. Martin, and P. B. Chilson

775
Observing System Simulation Experiment Studies on the Use of Small UAV for Boundary Layer Sampling
Andrew D. Moore, Univ. of Oklahoma, Norman, OK; and F. H. Carr and K. Brewster

776
A Low-Cost, Open-Source Snowflake Imager
Aaron D. Kennedy, Univ. of North Dakota, Grand Forks, ND

777
Temperature/Humidity Sensor Housing for Multirotor UAS
Ashraful Islam, Univ. of Nebraska−Lincoln, Lincoln, NE; and A. L. Houston, A. Shankar, and C. Detweiler

778
A Wireless Sensor Networks Software Framework for Research Scientists
Antonio Arredondo, New Mexico Climate Center, Las Cruces, NM; and E. Pontelli and D. DuBois

779
Development and Validation of a Low-Cost Monitor for Simultaneous Measurement of PM2.5 and Aerosol Optical Depth
Eric A. Wendt, Colorado State Univ., Fort Collins, CO; and J. R. Pierce, B. Ford, and J. Volckens

780
A Network of Autonomous Particle Spectrometers to Measure Spatiotemporal Variability in Particle Size Distributions in Intraurban Environments
Shiva T. Chenna, Colorado State Univ., Fort Collins, CO; and L. Lewane, D. Giardina, S. H. Jathar, G. R. McMeeking, and T. D. Gordon

781
The Development of Ultralight Radiosonde and Its Applications in Atmospheric Sciences
Po-Hsiung Lin, National Taiwan Univ., Taipe, Taiwan; and W. C. Huang

783
Confronting the Boundary Layer Data Gap: Evaluating New and Existing Methodologies of Probing the Lower Atmosphere
Tyler M. Bell, Univ. of Oklahoma, Norman, OK; and B. R. Greene, P. B. Chilson, P. Klein, M. Carney, D. D. Turner, J. K. Lundquist, P. D. Murphy, C. T. Plunkett, A. R. Segales, G. Britto Huspel de Azevedo, and W. Doyle

784
Design and Development of Low-Cost Differential Temperature Sensors for Estimation of Refractive INDEX Coefficient
Alex Clark, EngeniusMicro, Owens Crossroads, AL; and L. Smolin and S. Hill

785
Observing Urban CO2, Aerosol, and Other Emissions Using a Dense Network of Low-Cost, Near-Surface Monitors
Jinsol Kim, Univ. of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, CA; and A. A. Shusterman, A. J. Turner, C. Newman, P. J. Wooldridge, and R. C. Cohen

786
An Internet of Things Cyber-Infrastructure for the Study of Impacts to the Ecology of Lake George in the Jefferson Project
Anthony P. Praino, IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center, Yorktown Heights, NY; and E. Dow, G. Auger, M. R. Kelly, V. W. Moriarty, L. A. Treinish, and C. D. Watson

789
Performance Evaluation of Purple Air Low-Cost Sensors under Atmospheric Conditions
Karin Ardon-Dryer, Texas Tech Univ., Lubbock, TX; and N. Moghimi, J. Williams, and Y. Dryer

790
Estimation of 3D Wind Field and Vorticity with Higher Spatial Resolution Using Multicompact X-Band Weather Radars
Masahiro Minowa, Furuno Electric Co., LTD., Nishinomiya, Japan; and T. Takaki, K. Okawa, S. Oishi, and E. Nakakita

Handout (1.1 MB)

791
EMESH: A Low-Cost, High-Density Environmental Monitoring Network for Research and Applied Use
Chris Phillips, Univ. of Alabama in Huntsville, Huntsville, AL; and U. Nair, A. Kaulfus, R. Mahmood, E. Rappin, R. A. Pielke Sr., and J. A. Santanello Jr.

794
Utilizing Low-Cost Temperature Sensors for Analyzing and Mitigating Urban Heat Hazards
Andrew Grundstein, The Univ. of Georgia, Athens, GA; and Y. Yin, N. Hashemi, D. Mishra, L. Ramaswamy, and J. Dowd

795
Observations of the Marine Atmospheric Surface Layer Gradients during the CASPER-West Field Experiment
David G. Ortiz-Suslow, NPS, Monterey, CA; and D. P. Alappattu, J. Kalogiros, R. Yamaguchi, and Q. Wang

796
Correcting Air Temperature Measurements from a Radiation-Exposed Sensor
Douglas R Cobos, Washington State Univ., Pullman, WA; and C. Campbell, G. Campbell, and R. Campbell

797
798
Atmospheric Boundary Layer Measurements Using Suites of Low-Cost Actively and Passively Controlled Sondes
Jamey D. Jacob, Oklahoma State Univ., Stillwater, OK; and A. E. Frazier, B. L. Hemingway, V. Natalie, R. Allamraju, and A. Estep

799
Calibration, Sensitivity, and Doppler Spectra of the NCAR Airborne W-Band Radar
Ulrike Romatschke, NCAR, Boulder, CO; and J. Vivekanandan, M. Dixon, and P. S. Tsai

644A
Low-Cost Particle Counter Sensor Assessment of the July 2018 Saharan Dust Event in Texas
Timothy Logan, Texas A&M Univ., College Station, TX; and S. Brooks

801
Measurement of the Reference Surface Air Temperature from Brightness Temperature of Atmospheric Radiation
Akira Yamamoto, MRI, Tsukuba, Japan; and H. Ishimoto and S. Miyatake

Handout (4.4 MB)

802
New Initiatives in Support of the NSF/NCAR Airborne Research Instrumentation Testing Opportunity (ARISTO)
Louis L. Lussier III, NCAR, Broomfield, CO; and P. Romashkin, C. A. Wolff, J. Stith, and B. Baeuerle

804
Integrated Raman Lidar and Microwave Radiometer Retrieval of Atmospheric Water Vapor
Jeffrey John VanKerkhove, Univ. of Western Ontario, London, Canada; and A. Haefele and R. J. Sica

805
806
Analysis of Wet-Bulb Globe Temperature Calculations Using In Situ Observations
Timothy D Corrie III, Univ. of Northern Colorado, Greeley, CO; and G. J. Creager and B. G. Illston

808
Evaluation and Verification of an Experimental Low-Level VAD for Utilization as a High-Resolution Boundary Layer Profiler
Barrett Goudeau, Univ. of Alabama in Huntsville, Huntsville, AL; and K. R. Knupp

809
Infrasound-Based Wind Profiling
David L. Pepyne, Univ. of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA; and D. Westbrook, S. Ramkumar, and S. Nelson

811
A Multi-Institution Collaborative: Student Experience in Airborne Research in the Mid-Atlantic Region (SEAR-MAR)
Richard D. Clark, Millersville Univ., Millersville, PA; and T. D. Sikora, B. J. Billings, P. Markowski, K. J. Davis, M. A. Miller, B. B. Demoz, and Z. Zhang

812
Characterization of a New Laser Isotopologue Hygrometer for Measurements of Isotopes in Cloud Water
Bryan Rainwater, Univ. of Colorado Boulder, Boulder, CO; and A. Bailey, L. E. Christensen, R. L. Herman, and D. W. Toohey

Handout (3.7 MB)

813
Geometry-Related ATMS Signal Pattern Analyses
Haibing Sun, GAMA-1 TECH/STAR/NESDIS/NOAA, College Park, MD; and S. Sampson, P. Keehn, L. Soulliard, T. S. King, and W. W. Wolf

814
An Integrated Wind and Thermodynamic Profiling Instrumentation and Decision Support System: Concepts for the UAV Superhighways
Bill Conway, Weather Decision Support Systems, International, Norman, OK; and K. A. Reed, R. Ware, D. H. Berchoff, P. B. Chilson, C. Baird, and J. Baumgardner
Manuscript (3.9 MB)

816
WSR-88D Dual-Polarization Observations of the 2017 Thomas Fire in Southern California
Ian M. Giammanco, Univ. of North Carolina, Charlotte, NC; and B. Meizenzahl

817
Intercomparison between Polarimetric Radar, GOES-16 Satellite, and Lightning Indicators of Storm Severity in Supercells
Michael M. French, Stony Brook Univ., SUNY, Stony Brook, NY; and J. C. Snyder, K. M. Bedka, and K. M. Calhoun

818
Unique Research Opportunities with the Army Research Lab's Atmospheric Science Center Meteorological Sensor Array
Robb M. Randall, Army Research Lab, WSMR, NM; and C. M. Hocut, J. A. Smith, and B. T. MacCall

819
A Wireless Sensor Networks Software Framework for Research Scientists
Antonio Arredondo, New Mexico Climate Center, Las Cruces, NM; and E. Pontelli and D. DuBois

820
Tethered Lifting Systems as a Flexible Boundary Layer Platform for Ship-Based Measurements
Edward D. Creegan, U.S. Army Research Laboratory, White Sands Missile Range, NM


Poster Session 1
Weather-Ready Nation Posters
Location: Hall 4 (Phoenix Convention Center - West and North Buildings)
Host: Seventh Symposium on Building a Weather-Ready Nation
673
An Overview of the National Weather Service Central Region Tornado Warning Improvement Project
Jacob R., Beitlich, NOAA/NWS Forecast Office, Chanhassen, MN; and T. Funk, J. S. Schaumann, R. A. Wolf, A. W. Johnson, F. H. Glass, J. Stoppkotte, and R. A. Donavon

675
The Waiting Game: The Impact of Lead Time on Protective Action in Response to Tornadoes
Makenzie Krocak, Cooperative Institute for Mesoscale Meteorological Studies, Norman, OK; and J. T. Ripberger, H. Jenkins-Smith, and C. Silva

676
The Geographic Distribution of Extreme Weather and Climate Risk Perceptions in the United States
Jinan N. Allan, Univ. of Oklahoma, Norman, OK; and W. W. Wehde, J. T. Ripberger, C. Silva, and H. Jenkins-Smith

677
On Meteo-Tsunami Forecasting with the Alaska Tsunami Forecast Model, Forced by the High-Resolution Rapid Refresh Product
BOHYUN BAHNG, NOAA/NWS/NTWC, Palmer, AK; and D. Moore, T. Alcott, P. Huang, and M. Angove

678
Atlantic Basin Tropical Cyclones and Associated Risks of Mortality and Emergency Medicare Hospitalizations in the United States
Meilin Yan, Colorado State Univ., Fort Collins, CO; and A. Wilson, R. Peng, F. Dominici, Y. Wang, M. Z. Al-Hamdan, W. L. Crosson, A. B. Schumacher, S. D. Guikema, and G. B. Anderson


Poster Session 2
9R2O Poster Viewing #2 - Exhibit Hall - Tuesday, 4:00–6:00
Location: Hall 4 (Phoenix Convention Center - West and North Buildings)
Host: Ninth Conference on Transition of Research to Operations
666
A Subjective Evaluation of the Winter Storm Severity Index
Shannon R Shields, Florida State Univ., Tallahassee, FL; and J. Kastman and J. A. Nelson Jr.

667
Objective Verification of Storm-Scale FV3 Configurations in the Hazardous Weather Testbed
Adam J. Clark, NOAA/OAR/NSSL, Norman, OK; and I. L. Jirak, B. T. Gallo, L. J. Wicker, B. Roberts, Y. Wang, M. Xue, F. Kong, T. A. Supinie, K. Thomas, C. Zhang, L. Harris, and S. J. Lin

668
Overview of the 2018 Aviation Weather Testbed Winter and Summer Experiments
Steven A. Lack, NOAA/NWS/NCEP/Aviation Weather Center, Kansas City, MO; and A. Cross, K. J. Runk, and S. Alvidrez

Poster 669 will also be presented as Paper 2.3A


Poster Session 2
Climate Variability and Change Posters—Part II
Location: Hall 4 (Phoenix Convention Center - West and North Buildings)
Host: 32nd Conference on Climate Variability and Change
Chairs: Robert Korty, Texas A&M Univ.; Walter A. Robinson, North Carolina State Univ.
459
An Updated Analysis of Historical Precipitation Patterns over the Tropical Pacific Ocean
Joshua Jon Wimhurst, Univ. of Oklahoma, Norman, OK; and J. S. Greene

460
Temperature Variability over South America's Continental and Adjacent Seas: 1979–2017
Rosane Chaves, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte, Natal, Brazil
Manuscript (2.7 MB)

461
Variability of the Tropical Winter Climate
Diana Laura Espinosa Carballo, Institute of Meteorology of Cuba, Havana, Cuba

462
Size and Frequency of Tropical Deep Convective Clouds Observed from the PATMOS-x AVHRR Record
Charles H. White, Univ. of Wisconsin–Madison, Madison, WI; and A. Heidinger

463
Future Changes to Species' Range along the South American Coast Based on Statistically Downscaled SST Projections
Dakota Crane, Ohio State Univ., Columbus, OH; and A. Montenegro, B. Vianna, and T. Costa

465
The Effect of ENSO and Other Sources of Large-Scale Variability on Observed Bright Bands over Manus, Papua New Guinea
Leslie M. Hartten, CIRES/Univ. of Colorado Boulder, and NOAA/ESRL/PSD, Boulder, CO; and P. E. Johnston

Handout (706.7 kB)

466
Evaluation of Long-Term, Satellite-Based Rainfall Estimates in a Climatic Transition Zone in Equatorial Africa
Jeremy Diem, Georgia State Univ., Atlanta, GA; and B. Konecky, J. Salerno, and J. Hartter

468
Temperature Trends over South America: 1979–2017
Rosane Rodrigues Chaves, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte, Natal, Brazil
Manuscript (87.6 kB)

470
The Role of the Subtropical Jet in Dry Season Caribbean Rainstorms
Marshall Pfahler, Univ. at Albany, SUNY, Albany, NY; and L. Bosart

471
Testing Storm-Track Sensitivity to Resolution and Climate Change Using High-Resolution Global Simulations
Katie Boaggio, North Carolina State Univ., Raleigh, NC; and W. A. Robinson, R. Schiemann, A. C. Michaelis, and G. M. Lackmann

472
The Role of Upper-Level Coupling to the Great Plain’s Low-Level Jet Stream and Precipitation
D. Alex Burrows, Atmospheric Sciences Research Center, University at Albany, SUNY, Albany, NY; and C. R. Ferguson, M. A. Campbell, L. F. Bosart, and G. Xia

473
Change in the Relationship between Winter Monsoon and Jet Stream in East Asia across the 1998–99 Regime Shift
Se-Yong Song, Hanyang Univ., Ansan, Korea, Republic of (South); and S. W. Yeh

474
Climate Prediction Analysis Using an Ensemble of RegCM Experiments for Central-Eastern Europe
Judit Bartholy, Eotvos Lorand Univ., Budapest, Hungary; and R. Pongracz, I. Pieczka, and T. Kalmar

479
Meteorological Factors Related to Summertime Temperature Extremes in Regional Climate Models over Europe
Ondrej Lhotka, Institute of Atmospheric Physics & Global Change Research Institute, Czech Academy of Sciences, Prague/Brno, Czech Republic; and J. Kysely

480
Extreme Heat Events in Southern California between 2016 and 2018
Brandt D. Maxwell, NOAA/NWS, San Diego, CA

482
Changes in Precipitation Extremes with Climate Warming
Rachel Maya Robinson, North Carolina State Univ., Cary, NC; and G. M. Lackmann

483
Impact of Solar Activity on Correlation between Snow over the Tibetan Plateau and Summer Precipitation in China
Yan Song, China Meteorological Administration Training Centre, Beijing, China

484
Dynamic Urban Residents’ Exposure to Temperature Extremes in U.S. Cities
Leiqiu Hu, Univ. of Alabama in Huntsville, Huntsville, AL; and J. Yang

486
How Does Climate Change Increase the Severity of a Flood-Producing Rain Event in the U.S. Southeast?
James Michael Madden, North Carolina State Univ., Raleigh, NC; and C. Jung, W. A. Robinson, and G. M. Lackmann

488
Impacts of WRF Physical Parameterizations on Simulations of 2012 Summer Heat Wave Event in Missouri
Lili Zhu, Nanjing Univ. of Information Science and Technology, Nanjing, China; and F. Sun, T. Li, and K. Reed

489
Extreme Precipitation Events Associated with Tibetan Plateau Vortex
Zhiqiang Lin, Nanjing Univ., Nanjing, China; and W. Guo

490
Characteristics of Extreme Precipitation Events in High Mountain Asia as Inferred from High-Resolution Regional Climate Modeling
Collin Riley, Univ. of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT; and S. Rupper, W. J. Steenburgh, C. Strong, and A. Kochanski

494
Contradictions to IPCC's Climate Change Theory
Edwin X Berry, Climate Physics, LLC, Bigfork, MT
Manuscript (599.4 kB)

Handout (1.2 MB)


Poster Session 2
EIPT Posters—Part II
Location: Hall 4 (Phoenix Convention Center - West and North Buildings)
Host: 35th Conference on Environmental Information Processing Technologies
Cochairs: Kevin Tyle, Univ. at Albany/SUNY; Scott S. Lindstrom, Univ. of Wisconsin
401
Improving the Software Development Lifecycle for NWS AWIPS
Edward Mandel, NOAA/NWS, Silver Spring, MD; and A. Rivera, K. P. Johnson, R. Peter, S. Jacobs, S. Schotz, and W. Sellers

402
A Cloud Environment for AWIPS Development, Testing, and Training
Scott Jacobs, NOAA/NWS, Silver Spring, MD; and A. Rivera, K. S. Sperow, J. E. Burks, D. A. Morris, and W. Sellers

403
NOAA/Raytheon Network Control Facility—24x7x365 Support of AWIPS
Shevy Greene, Raytheon, Reston, VA; and R. K. Henry, W. Sellers, and J. Buchs

404
China Gridded Forecast System
Feng Xue, National Meteorological Center, China Meteorological Administration, Beijing, China

405
0–6 hour Weather Forecast Guidance at The Weather Company, an IBM Business
William M Sheridan, The Weather Company, an IBM Business, Andover, MA; and T. Hutchinson, S. Honey, and J. P. Koval

Handout (23.2 MB)

406
Development of a Probabilistic Subfreezing Road Temperature Nowcast Using Machine Learning
Shawn L Handler, CIMMS/Univ. of Oklahoma and NOAA/NSSL, Norman, OK; and H. D. Reeves

407
Customizing THREDDS Data Server Web Interfaces to Promote Data Discovery and Accessibility
Hailey A. Johnson, Univ. of Florida, Gainesville, FL; and S. C. Arms

Handout (1.1 MB)

409
NetCDF-CF: Supporting Earth System Science with Data Access, Analysis, and Visualization
Ethan R. Davis, UCAR/Unidata, Boulder, CO; and C. S. Zender, D. Arctur, K. M. O'Brien, A. Jelenak, D. Santek, M. J. Dixon, T. Whiteaker, K. Yang, J. Yu, J. C. Biard, and D. Hassell


Poster Session 2
GOES-R/JPSS Poster Session—Part II
Location: Hall 4 (Phoenix Convention Center - West and North Buildings)
Host: 15th Annual Symposium on New Generation Operational Environmental Satellite Systems
559
On the Application of Participatory Design for a Drought Recovery Website
Michael C. Kruk, Earth Resources Technology, Inc., Asheville, NC; and R. S. Vose

560
The Art and Beauty of GOES-16 Images
Frederick Mosher, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical Univ., Daytona Beach, FL; and C. Herbster
Manuscript (1.5 MB)

Handout (3.8 MB)

562
The New CERES FluxByCldTyp Data and Its Simulator: Algorithm, Validation, and Application
Moguo Sun, SSAI, Hampton, VA; and D. R. Doelling, Z. Eitzen, L. T. C. N. Nguyen, J. Wilkins, and P. E. Mlynczak

563
Observing Hail Swaths Using the GOES-16 Advanced Baseline Imager. Part II: Use in Detection and Verification
Philip N. Schumacher, NWS, Sioux Falls, SD; and D. V. Blount and K. Gallo

564
Observing Hail Swaths Using the GOES-16 Advanced Baseline Imager. Part I: Methodology
Dillon V. Blount, Univ. of South Alabama, Mobile, AL; and P. N. Schumacher and K. Gallo

565
NOAA Soil Moisture Operational Product System (SMOPS): Version 3.1 Updates and Validation
Jicheng Liu, NOAA/NESDIS, College Park, MD; and X. Zhan, L. Zhao, J. Yin, L. Fang, M. A. Schull, and A. Adeyeye

567
Risk Reduction Strategies in NOAA's New Space Architecture
Frank W. Gallagher III, NESDIS, Silver Spring, MD; and K. St. Germain and M. W. Maier

569
Toward Consistent Land Long-Term Climate Data Records from Large Field-of-View Polar-Orbiting Earth Observation Satellites
Eric Vermote, NASA, Greenbelt, MD; and J. C. Roger, B. Franch, C. O. Justice, I. Csiszar, S. Devadiga, and E. Masuoka

570
GOES-R Series 3.9-μm Channel Artificially Cold Pixels: Causes and Mitigation Strategies
David Pogorzala, Integrity Applications Incorporated, Chantilly, VA; and E. M. Kline, J. Fulbright, and M. Seybold

571
Blended VIIRS and AMSR2 Sea Ice Concentration
Richard Dworak, Univ. of Wisconsin/CIMSS, Madison, WI; and Y. Liu

572
Poster 573 will also be presented as paper 9A.4A

574
Toward Site Atmospheric State Best Estimate (SASBE) over Maryland Using Radiosonde and Remote Sensing Measurements
Ricardo K. Sakai, Howard Univ., Beltsville, MD; and A. Flores, B. B. Demoz, M. K. Lataille, M. Hicks, J. Fitzgibbon, B. Sun, T. Reale, N. Nalli, and H. J. Diamond

575
Validation of the GOES-R Fractional Snow Cover Product
Yinghui Liu, Univ. of Wisconsin/CIMSS, Madison, WI; and J. Key

576
Status and Validation of S-NPP and NOAA-20 VIIRS Ice Products
Yinghui Liu, Univ. of Wisconsin/CIMSS, Madison, WI; and J. Key, X. Wang, and R. Dworak

577
Cal/Val of ATMS Snowfall Rate Product for S-NPP and NOAA-20
Jun Dong, Univ. of Maryland, College Park, College Park, MD

578
Validation of Operational NOAA-20 OMPS Environmental Data Records
Zhihua Zhang, IMSG @NOAA/NESDIS/STAR, College Park, MD; and L. Flynn, J. Niu, and E. Beach

579
Algorithm Updates for Ground System Validation of GOES-16/17 Products
Paul A. Van Rompay, Atmospheric and Environmental Research, Inc., Greenbelt, MD; and E. J. Kennelly

Poster 581 has been moved. New paper number is 6.2A in the TCSYMP.


Poster Session 2
Ninth Symposium on Advances in Modeling and Analysis Using Python: Posters 2
Location: Hall 4 (Phoenix Convention Center - West and North Buildings)
Host: Ninth Symposium on Advances in Modeling and Analysis Using Python
670
Gridded Weather and Forecast Data Visualization with Bokeh
Antonio T. Lorenzo, The Univ. of Arizona, Tucson, AZ; and L. J. Boeman and W. F. Holmgren

671
PODPAC: A Python Library for Automatic Geospatial Data Harmonization and Seamless Transition to Cloud-Based Processing
Jerry Bieszczad, Creare LLC, Hanover, NH; and M. Shapiro, D. Entekhabi, D. R. Callender, J. Milloy, D. Sullivan, and M. P. Ueckermann

Handout (762.1 kB)


Poster Session 2
Poster II: Observing Systems: Observation Sensitivity and Impact Experiments
Location: Hall 4 (Phoenix Convention Center - West and North Buildings)
Host: 23rd Conference on Integrated Observing and Assimilation Systems for the Atmosphere, Oceans, and Land Surface (IOAS-AOLS)
(id=349554) Ensemble Sensitivity-Based Subsetting Overview and Evaluation Activities at the 2018 NOAA HWT . B. C. Ancell

509
Impact of GOES-16 Observations on Prediction of High-Impact Convective Weather
Ryan A. Sobash, NCAR, Boulder, CO; and G. S. Romine and J. Bresch

511
Evaluation of Additional Aircraft Data in the Current NCEP GSI System
Dagmar Merkova, IMSG and NOAA/NCEP/EMC, College Park, MD; and A. Collard, J. C. Derber, and C. M. Hill

Poster 510 has been moved. New paper number 3.3A

512
A Study on the Application of Mass Smartphone Barometer Data in a Severe Convective Weather in China
Tian Wang, Moji Weather, Beijing, China; and R. Li, L. Ding, and Q. Zhang

Handout (1.8 MB)

513
The Role of Buoy and Argo Observations in Two SST Analyses in the Global and Tropical Pacific Oceans
Boyin Huang, NOAA, Asheville, NC; and C. Liu, H. M. Zhang, L. Zhang, and G. Ren

514
Numerical Simulations of Hurricane Harvey with Data Assimilation and Cloud Initiation
Peter Saunders, Univ. of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT; and Z. Pu

515
Optimization of Tropical Cyclone Data Assimilation for Combined WSR-88D and Aircraft Observations
Tyler Young, NOAA, Key Biscayne, FL; and A. Aksoy and B. A. Dahl

516
Deriving CYGNSS Vector Winds and Their Impact on Regional Analyses of Tropical Cyclones in HWRF
S. Mark Leidner, Atmospheric and Environmental Research, Norman, OK; and B. Annane, R. N. Hoffman, and R. Atlas

517
Demonstration of Assimilation of CYGNSS Delay-Doppler Maps (DDMs) in a 2-Dimensional Variational Ocean Vector Wind Analysis
Feixiong Huang, Purdue Univ., West Lafayette, IN; and J. L. Garrison, S. M. Leidner, R. N. Hoffman, and H. Zhang

519
Using In Situ Measurements to Validate CYGNSS Wind Speed Observations
Xiaochun Wang, Univ. of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA; and Y. Hu, J. T. Johnson, Y. Yi, C. K. Shum, and D. Wang

Handout (710.2 kB)

520
Doppler Aerosol WiNd (DAWN) Lidar from CPEX 2017: Convective Process Studies and Comparisons with Other Wind Measurement Sensors and Numerical Models
Steven Greco, Simpson Weather Associates, Charlottesville, VA; and G. D. Emmitt, M. Garstang, S. A. Wood, and Z. Pu

521
Ocean Temperature Observations in Atlantic Tropical Cyclones (2011-2018): Analysis and Comparison of AXBT Observations to Ocean Climatologies
Shannon G. McAllister, U.S. Naval Academy, Annapolis, MD; and J. Drogowski, G. M. Roviramelendez, S. J. Sun, C. R. Densmore, E. R. Sanabia, and S. R. Jayne

522
Upper Ocean Response to Typhoon Indicated by Different SST Products
Jue Ning, Hohai Univ., Nanjing, China; and Q. Xu and T. Wang

523
ICOADS Drifting Buoy Data Recovery from BUFR and Its Impact on OISST and ERSST
Chunying Liu, NOAA/NCEI and ERT, Inc., Asheville, NC; and E. Freeman, E. C. Kent, B. Huang, H. M. Zhang, D. I. Berry, S. J. Worley, M. Ouellet, I. Gaboury, Z. Ji, and V. F. Banzon
Manuscript (3.7 MB)

524
Enabling an Operational Coupled Modelling and Observing System to Assess Water Quality in the Lake George, New York Watershed
Lloyd Treinish, IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center, Yorktown Heights, NY; and C. D. Watson, G. Auger, M. Tewari, E. M. Dow, M. Henderson, A. P. Praino, M. Kelly, V. W. Moriarty, M. Passow, A. C. Nogueira Jr., A. B. Buoro, and H. Kolar

Handout (14.8 MB)

525
A Comparison of the Interactive Multisensor Snow and Ice Mapping System with Automated Satellite-Based Snow Coverage Algorithms
Michael Lowe, NESDIS, Suitland, MD; and D. K. Hall, K. Nohe, S. M. Montalvo, D. P. McCormick, J. E. Woods III, and K. Berberich

526
2019 AMS Poster Abstract—A New Era in Snow and Ice Mapping at the U.S. National Ice Center—FINAL
Kevin Berberich, NOAA/NESDIS, Suitland, MD; and D. McCormick, J. E. Woods III, F. M. Monaldo, and L. Nagdimunov

527
Intercomparison of Gauge Performance during Harvey's Extreme Rains
Alex R. Smith, Central Michigan Univ., Bartlett, IL; and J. W. Nielsen-Gammon and D. B. McRoberts

528
Influence and Compensation Method of the Radiosonde Temperature Sensor according to Solar Radiation Change
Myeong-Seok Park, SJMNC Co., Ltd, Seoul, Korea, Republic of (South); and J. W. JANG and J. W. Lee

529
Characteristics of Relative Sampling Errors in Eddy Covariance Measurements and Their Application to Flux Measurement Aggregates
Wonsik Kim, Institute for Agro-Environmental Sciences/National Agriculture and Food Research Organization, Tsukuba, Japan; and H. H. Seo

Handout (721.9 kB)

530
Calibrating Water Vapour Lidars with Radiosonde Trajectories
Shannon Hicks-Jalali, Univ. of Western Ontario, London, Canada; and R. J. Sica, A. Haefele, and G. Martucci

531
533
An Examination of the Saharan Air Layer Using Radio Occultation
Hannah K. Huelsing, UCAR, Boulder, CO; and R. A. Anthes and J. Weiss

534
Evaluation of Aerosols in Numerical Weather Modeling for Emerging DoD Technologies and Climate Change Studies
Steven Fiorino, Air Force Institute, Wright Patterson AFB, OH; and J. Schmidt, S. Peckham, and K. Keefer

Handout (1.5 MB)

Poster 518 has been moved. New paper number is 9.2A


Poster Session 2
Symposium on Education Posters: Tuesday
Location: Hall 4 (Phoenix Convention Center - West and North Buildings)
Host: 28th Symposium on Education
Cochairs: Reginald Blake, New York City College of Technology, City Univ. of New York; Jeffrey A. Yuhas, Morristown-Beard School
495
Integrating Elements of the School of Ice into the AMS Climate Studies: A Case Study
Noriyuki Sato, California State Univ., Chico, Chico, CA

496
Increasing the Scientific Literacy of Introductory Atmospheric Science Students: Course Redesign and Assessment
Dawn Kopacz, Univ. of Nebraska−Lincoln, Lincoln, NE; and Z. Handlos

Handout (1.8 MB)

497
Meteorological Teaching Tools: Choctaw Weather Legends
Sarah E. Sawyer, Freelance Author, Durant, OK; and G. J. Mulvey

Handout (612.3 kB)

498
Building an Atmospheric Science Education Research Community: Past, Present, and Future
Dawn Kopacz, Univ. of Nebraska−Lincoln, Lincoln, NE; and L. C. Maudlin, S. Gill, Z. Handlos, W. J. Flynn, and A. T. Hirsch

499
Exploring Physics Parameterization Development Using an Operationally Based Single-Column Model
Grant J. Firl, NCAR, and Developmental Testbed Center, Boulder, CO; and D. Heinzeller, L. Xue, and L. Bernardet

500
Meet Dizzy the Distometer: Creating a Character and Telling His Story Using ESRI Story Maps to Increase Use of Global Precipitation Measurement Ground Validation Precipitation Data
Leigh Sinclair, Univ. of Alabama in Huntsville, Huntsville, AL; and T. Smith, R. E. Kollmeyer, L. Wang, D. K. Smith, H. Conover, and J. Beck

Handout (956.4 kB)

501
STEAM: Adding Art to Lessons about Weather and Climate
Michael J. Passow, Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory of Columbia Univ., Palisades, NY

502
The Humidity-Measurement Laboratory Plan for College Students
Yukimasa Tsubota, J. F. Oberlin Univ., Machida-shi, Tokyo, Japan

504
Communicating Climate Change Science to Rural Communities in Western Kentucky and Western Tennessee
Robert Mark Simpson, Univ. of Tennessee, Martin, Martin, TN; and R. Tewari, J. E. Mehlhorn, B. Parr, and N. Musunuru

505
A New Open Educational Resource for Intro-Level Atmospheric Science
Alison D. Nugent, Univ. of Hawaii at Mānoa, Honolulu, HI; and C. Karamperidou and J. D. S. Griswold

507
Adopting a Climate Change Course for a Majority Hispanic/Latino Serving Institution on the United States−Mexico Border
Amit U. Raysoni, The Univ. of Texas at Rio Grande Valley, Brownsville, TX; and C. Harrison


Poster Session 3
Poster Session 1: Extreme Heat
Location: Hall 4 (Phoenix Convention Center - West and North Buildings)
Host: 10th Conference on Environment and Health
650
Community Resilience in Maricopa County, Arizona, USA: The Analysis of Indoor Heat-Related Death and Urban Thermal Environment
Qunshan Zhao, Arizona State Univ., Tempe, AZ; and H. Fischer, W. Luo, P. Solis, and E. Wentz

651
Mapping Heat Vulnerability in Maricopa County, Arizona, with the HeatMappers Volunteer Science Program
Grace Valandra, Xavier College Preparatory, Phoenix, AZ; and H. Fischer, P. Solis, Q. Zhao, E. Wentz, and C. Higgins

652
ActivityLog−HeatMappers: A Novel Research Data Collection Tool for Logging Activities, Locations, and Environment Data
Ziqi Li, Arizona State Univ., Tempe, AZ; and Q. Zhao, H. Fischer, P. Solis, and E. Wentz

Handout (1.4 MB)

653
Impact of Trees on Urban Canyon Microclimate
Samuel Meltzer, Arizona State Univ., Tempe, AZ; and M. Georgescu, A. M. Broadbent, J. Vanos, and A. Middel

654
Impacts of Urban Tree Canopy and Water Features on the Thermal Environment
Lolya Alix McWest, Rutgers, The State Univ. of New Jersey, New Brunswick, NJ; and A. M. Broadbent, J. Vanos, M. Georgescu, and A. Middel

655
Developing Utility Assistance Community Resilience Networks in Maricopa County
Wei Luo, Arizona State Univ., Tempe, AZ; and Q. Zhao, H. Fischer, P. Solis, and E. Wentz

656
Utilizing NASA Earth Observations to Assess Urban Heat Island Reduction Strategies in Washoe County, Nevada
John Dialesandro, NASA DEVELOP Program−SSAI, Tempe, AZ; and M. Heck, J. Heslin, C. Lin, L. E. Watkins, D. M. Hondula, D. M. Hondula, and D. M. Hondula

657
Effects of Climate Change on Seasonal Morbidity and Mortality of Respiratory Diseases in Germany
Andreas Matzarakis, DWD, Freiburg, Germany; and I. Schlegel, S. Muthers, and H. G. Mücke

658
Reducing Heat Risks through Large Urban Parks: Direct and Indirect Benefits from a Tropical Case Study
Winston T. L. Chow, National Univ. of Singapore, Singapore, Singapore; and R. Oh, C. Kho, and S. L. Heng

659
Validation of North American Land Data Assimilation System Phase 2 (NLDAS-2) Air Temperature Forcing and Downscaled Data with New York State Station Observations
Maurice G. Estes Jr., Univ. of Alabama in Huntsville, Huntsville, AL; and T. Insaf, W. L. Crosson, M. Z. Al-Hamdan, and S. Johnson

660
Analysis of Temporal Changes in Years-of-Life-Lost Due to Heat in Urban Population of the Czech Republic
Aleš Urban, Institute of Atmospheric Physics, Academy of Science of the Czech Republic, Prague, Czech Republic; and H. Hanzlíková, J. Kysely, E. Plavcová, and P. Štěpánek

662
Analysis of the Urban Heat Island Effect on Land Surface Temperature in Richmond, VA
Matthew Hilding, The Univ. of Texas at El Paso, El Paso, TX; and H. M. Jones and M. Velez-Reyes

663
The Development and Potential Benefits of an Apparent Temperature Climatology
Lance Wood, NOAA, Dickinson, TX; and M. Keehn and S. Randall


Poster Session 8
ARAM Conference Posters—Part I
Location: Hall 4 (Phoenix Convention Center - West and North Buildings)
Host: 19th Conference on Aviation, Range, and Aerospace Meteorology
Cochairs: Thomas A. Guinn, Embry–Riddle Aeronatical Univ.; Matthew Tucker, National Air Traffic Controllers Association
542
Advances in Convective Hazard Predictions for Army Test and Evaluation Command (ATEC) Ranges
Cathy Kessinger, NCAR, Boulder, CO; and W. Deierling, D. Megenhardt, and S. Dettling

Handout (2.2 MB)

543
A Flow Constraint Technique for an Operationally Relevant Metric of Forecast Performance
Geary J. Layne, NOAA/ESRL/GSD, CIRES/Univ. of Colorado, Boulder, CO; and M. A. Petty

544
Mapping Precipitation Intensity to Radar Observations and Derivatives
Elizabeth M. Sims, National Weather Center, Norman, OK; and A. A. Rosenow and H. D. Reeves
Manuscript (461.9 kB)

545
Application of Optical Flow and Machine Learning Methods in Nowcasting and Early Warning of Strong Convective Weather
Yungang Chen, Beijing Piesat Information & Technology Limited, Beijing, China; and X. Xu, X. Zhang, and Y. WANG
Manuscript (82.6 kB)

546
Introduction to the Short-Term Aviation Weather Forecasting System in North China
Han Shen, Nanjing Univ., Nanjing, China; and Y. Huang, M. Chen, F. Wang, M. Huo, W. Zhang, and H. Yuan

547
A Random Forest Sensitivity Test Using Radar Signatures to Forecast Wet Downbursts at Spaceport Florida
Bruno L. Medina, Univ. of Alabama in Huntsville, Huntsville, AL; and C. G. Amiot, R. M. Mecikalski, L. D. Carey, W. P. Roeder, T. M. McNamara, and R. J. Blakeslee

551
Microscale Forecasting for Unmanned Aerial Systems
Jenny Stewart, Univ. of the Incarnate Word, Converse, TX; and S. Weiss-Lopez

552
Processing AROME Vertical Profiles with Machine Learning Methods to Diagnose Aeronautical Ceiling in TAF messages
Pierre Crispel, Météo-France, Toulouse, France; and P. M. Jaunet, S. Moisselin, and A. Drouin

Handout (2.8 MB)

553
Ceiling and Visibility Analysis for Alaska—Quality Evaluation and Product Updates
Tressa L. Fowler, NCAR, Boulder, CO; and J. Cowie, J. O. Pinto, D. Megenhardt, D. A. Wesley, R. D. Roberts, G. Cunning, and J. A. Colavito

Handout (5.0 MB)

556
Combining Satellite and Ground-Based Ceilometer Data over the U.S. to Improve Cloud Ceiling Estimates away from Surface Stations
Douglas A. Spangenberg, SSAI, Hampton, VA; and W. L. Smith Jr., K. Khlopenkov, and S. Sun-Mack

Handout (7.5 MB)

557
Comparison of Two Physical- and Statistical-Based Postprocessing Methods for High-Resolution NWP Visibility Forecasts over 13 North European Airports
Mari Nikkilä, Finnish Meteorological Institute, Kuopio, Finland; and J. S. Ylhäisi, S. Neiglick, and T. Koivunen

Handout (803.3 kB)

558
Analyzing Error in Balloon-Based Wind Measurements due to Spatial Separation Using the North American Regional Reanalysis
Nathan Curtis, NASA MSFC, Huntsville, AL; and F. B. Leahy and R. E. Barbre Jr.


Poster Session
Advances in Evaporation and Evaporative Demand (Posters)
Location: Hall 4 (Phoenix Convention Center - West and North Buildings)
Host: 33rd Conference on Hydrology
Cochairs: Martha C. Anderson, USDA-ARS; Christopher Hain, NASA Marshall Space Flight Center; Justin Huntington, Desert Research Institute
410
The Impact of Vegetation Dynamics on Surface Fluxes in the Noah‐MP Land Surface Model
Atefeh Hosseini, Univ. of Kansas, Lawrence, KS; and J. K. Roundy and N. Brunsell

413
Evapotranspiration in the Congo Basin Determined by a Remotely Sensed Water Balance
Michael W. Burnett, Stanford Univ., Stanford, CA; and A. G. Konings

414
Development of Evapotranspiration Climatology for Indiana
Sajad Jamshidi, Purdue Univ., West Lafayette, IN; and D. Niyogi

415
A Shootout between Forecast Reference Evapotranspiration (FRET) and ZiaMet Weather Station Data for Calculating Reference ET
Stanley Engle, New Mexico State Univ., Las Cruces, NM; and D. W. DuBois and J. Shoemake

416
A Framework for Mapping Global Evapotranspiration using 375-m VIIRS LST
Martha C. Anderson, USDA-ARS, Beltsville, MD; and C. R. Hain, M. A. Schull, and C. M. U. Neale


Joint Poster Session
Advances in Understanding Land–Atmosphere Interactions (Posters)
Location: Hall 4 (Phoenix Convention Center - West and North Buildings)
Hosts: (Joint between the 33rd Conference on Hydrology; and the 32nd Conference on Climate Variability and Change )
Cochairs: Joseph A. Santanello, NASA GSFC; Paul A. Dirmeyer, COLA; Yunyan Zhang, LLNL; Dan Li, Boston Univ.
422
A Large Eddy Simulation Study on the Transition of the Convective to Stable Boundary Layers
Song-Lak Kang, Gangneung-Wonju National Univ., Gangneung, Korea, Republic of (South)

423
The Hydroclimate Impacts of Human-Induced Soil Degradation
Sonali McDermid, New York Univ., New York, NY; and M. Puma, T. Hengl, B. Cook, and J. Sanderman

427
A Study on the Characteristics of the Coherent Structure of Turbulence in a Semi-Arid Area
Jianhua Zhao Sr., Lanzhou Institute of Arid Meteorology, China Meteorological Administration, Lanzhou, China

428
How Climate Change Is Intensifying U.S. Heatwaves during Droughts in CESM1
Linyin Cheng, Univ. of Arkansas, Fayetteville, AR; and M. Hoerling, Z. Liu, and J. Eischeid

429
Exploring Relationships between the Land Surface and Large-Scale Atmospheric Circulation Patterns over Southeastern South America
Carolina A. Bieri, Univ. of Illinois at Urbana−Champaign at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL; and D. Chug and F. Dominguez

Poster 430 will also be presented as 8B.2A

431
Observed Changes in West Virginia’s Land Use, Forest Species Composition, and Climate
Evan J. Kutta, West Virginia Univ., Morgantown, WV; and J. A. Hubbart

Handout (598.6 kB)

433
Impact of Coincidental Precipitation on the Accuracy of SMAP Soil Moisture Retrievals
Andreas Colliander, JPL, Pasadena, CA; and A. Berg, T. Jackson, M. H. Cosh, T. Caldwell, H. McNairn, J. Martinez-Fernandez, J. Walker, and S. H. Yueh


Poster Session
Flood Prediction, Analysis, Decision Support, and Management (Posters)
Location: Hall 4 (Phoenix Convention Center - West and North Buildings)
Host: 33rd Conference on Hydrology
Cochairs: David Gochis, NCAR; Kristie J. Franz, Iowa State Univ.; John N. McHenry, Baron Advanced Meteorological Systems, LLC; Mike Hobbins, NOAA
437
Evaluating the Impact of Soil Texture Parameter Estimation on National Water Water Model Soil Moisture Simulations
Robert J. Zamora, NOAA/OAR/ESRL, Boulder, CO; and F. Viterbo, M. Hughes, D. J. Gochis, R. Cifelli, and R. Webb

439
The Community WRF-Hydro Modeling System Version 5 Converging with the National Water Model: Enhancements & Education
Molly McAllister, NCAR, Boulder, CO; and D. J. Gochis, M. Barlage, A. Dugger, K. FizGerald, L. Karsten, J. McCreight, J. Mills, L. Pan, A. RafieeiNasab, L. Read, K. Sampson, D. Yates, W. Yu, and Y. Zhang

440
WRF Modeling of the 2014 Record Rainfall and Monsoon Flooding in Arizona
Dorothea Ivanova, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical Univ., Prescott, AZ; and J. White

444
Hydrometeorology and Hydroclimatology of Flash Floods in the Arid/Semi-Arid Southwestern US
Long Yang, Princeton Univ., Princeton, NJ; and J. Smith, M. L. Baeck, and E. Morin

445
Flash Flood Emergenices
Jon W. Zeitler, NWS, New Braunfels, TX; and A. Treadway and D. Herzmann

446
Accounting for Rainfall Spatial Variability in Flash Flood Prediction
Manabendra Saharia, NCAR, Boulder, CO; and P. E. Kirstetter, J. J. Gourley, and H. Vergara

449
Development of Forcing Engine for Operational Water Prediction System over Hawaii Islands
Linlin Pan, NCAR, Boulder, CO; and D. J. Gochis, K. FitzGerald, W. Yu, A. Dugger, Y. Zhang, A. Rafieeinasab, L. Karsten, D. Streubel, K. Kodama, and B. Cosgrove

450
Examining Hydroclimate Extremes Over the Columbia River Basin in a 50km Global Climate Model
Laura Queen, Univ. of Oregon, Eugene, OR; and S. Pascale and S. Kapnick

454
The SPoRT Land Information System as a Tool for Assessing Areal/River Flooding Threat
Kristopher D. White, NOAA, Huntsville, AL; and J. L. Case and C. R. Hain


Poster Session
Integrating Water and Energy Cycle Pathways to Better Understand Weather and Climate Extremes (Posters)
Location: Hall 4 (Phoenix Convention Center - West and North Buildings)
Host: 33rd Conference on Hydrology
Cochairs: Ryann Ashley Wakefield, Univ. of Oklahoma; Paul X. Flanagan, Univ. of Oklahoma; Jordan I. Christian, Univ. of Oklahoma; Jeffrey B. Basara, Univ. of Oklahoma
455
Climate Change Impacts on Runoff in the Upper Yangtze River Basin
Min Liu, Wuhan Regional Climate Center, Wuhan, China; and P. Qin, L. Du, H. Xu, L. Liu, and C. Xiao


Poster Session
Major Weather Impacts of 2018 Poster Session
Location: Hall 4 (Phoenix Convention Center - West and North Buildings)
Host: 15IMPACTS: Major Weather Events and Impacts of 2018
582
Observational Strategies toward Capturing Peak Wind Speeds in Landfalling Hurricanes
Marty Bell, WeatherFlow, Fort Collins, CO; and S. Woll, F. Masters, J. Schroeder, and T. McGee

583
3-km HFV3 Forecasts of High-Impact 2018 Atlantic and Pacific Hurricanes
Andrew Hazelton, Univ. of Miami/CIMAS, Miami, FL; and X. Zhang, S. Gopalakrishnan, and W. Ramstrom

584
The U.S. and Global Climate Conditions of 2018 in Historical Perspective
Jake Crouch, NOAA/NESDIS/National Centers for Environmental Information, Asheville, NC; and D. S. Arndt, A. Sanchez-Lugo, C. Fenimore, and R. R. Heim Jr.

587
Impact of Landfalling Hurricane on Rainfall and Flood: Prototyping Use of GTPAS on Near-Real-Time GOES-16 Data
Long Chiu, George Mason Univ., Fairfax, VA; and J. L. Kinter III, X. Hao, Q. Liu, Z. Chester, G. Stearn, and M. Aliani

588
590
Hurricane Categories Depending on Their Winds in Context of Warming Climate: Using a Right-Tail L-Probability Distribution Function
Wanli Wang, Wuhan Univ.,China Meteorological Administration, Wuhan Regional Climate Center,Yunnan Univ., wuhan, China
Manuscript (436.7 kB)

591
Supporting Policymakers with Assessments of Long-Term Risks and Adaptation Strategies for Recovery from Hurricane Michael Using the Island City on a Wedge
Robert L. Ceres Jr., The Pennsylvania State Univ., University Park, PA; and C. E. Forest and K. Keller

594
Guiding Hurricane Michael Recovery: Data from the U.S. Census Bureau and Census Data Tools
Andrew W. Hait, Department of Commerce, Washington, DC

Handout (2.4 MB) Handout (1.4 MB)

595
Rapid Inland Flood Situational Awareness Using Forecasted Precipitation Data
David R. Judi, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, WA; and C. L. Rakowski, X. Li, and Y. Feng

597
Hurricane Michael's Surface Wind Field at Landfall
Mark D. Powell, Risk Management Solutions, Tallahassee, FL

598
Anatomy of a Rare South Texas Snowstorm: 7–8 December 2017
Michael E. Buchanan, NWS, Corpus Christi, TX

Handout (7.7 MB)

602
Extremely Hot Summer of 2018 and Its Observed Impacts within the Urban Environment of the City of Prague
Pavel Zahradnicek, Global Change Research Institute, Czech Academy of Sciences , Brno, Czech Republic; and P. Skalak and P. Stepanek

603
Communication of Snow Events in South-Central Texas
Kristina Deleon, Univ. of the Incarnate Word, San Antonio, TX; and G. J. Mulvey and T. Springer

604
A Year in the Life of an Impact-Based Warning System
Elín B. Jónasdóttir, Icelandic Meteorological Office, Reykjavik, Iceland

605
Forecasting a 2018 Severe Rainstorm in Shanghai: The Role of Convection across the Gray Zone
Rui Wang, East China Normal Univ., Shanghai, China; and F. Qiao, X. Z. Liang, Q. Li, and H. Zhang

606
Developing Multiseasonal Analogs for Top Washington, D.C., Area Windstorms
Anthony Sagliani, Earth Networks, Germantown, MD

607
Multivariate Models to Estimate Hydrometeorological Extremes Risk
Salaheddine El Adlouni, Univ. de Moncton, Moncton, NB, Canada

608
The 2018 Extreme Heat Wave Characteristics over East Asia
Ki-Hong Min, Kyungpook National Univ., Daegu, Korea, Republic of (South); and J. Bae, D. H. Cha, and M. I. Lee

609
Forecasting Volcanic Air Pollution during the Historic 2018 Lower East Rift Zone Eruption of Kīlauea Volcano in Hawaii
Lacey Holland, Univ. of Hawai‘i at Mānoa, Honolulu, HI; and S. Businger, T. Elias, A. K. Pattantyus, and T. Cherubini

610
Optical Lightning Characteristics of 2018 Atlantic Hurricanes from the Geostationary Lightning Mapper
Kristin M. Calhoun, Univ. of Oklahoma/CIMMS and NOAA/NSSL, Norman, OK; and D. M. Kingfield, S. N. Stevenson, and A. Fierro


Poster Session
Poster Session Tuesday
Location: Hall 4 (Phoenix Convention Center - West and North Buildings)
Host: 20th Conference on Middle Atmosphere
537
Comparisons of Stratospheric Ozone Measurements from SAGE III-ISS and OMPS-LP
Steven N. Buckner, Hampton Univ., Hampton, VA; and L. E. Flynn, M. P. McCormick, J. Anderson, M. T. Hill, and D. S. Barnes

Poster 538 has been moved. New Paper Number is TJ6.5A

539
Trends in Lower Stratospheric Ozone from 1998–Present Based on Balloon-Borne In Situ Measurements
Dale Hurst, NOAA/ESRL, Boulder, CO; and B. Johnson, P. Cullis, S. M. Davis, K. H. Rosenlof, R. Querel, C. W. Sterling, E. Hall, and A. Jordan

540
Characterizing Error due to Non-Uniform Spatial and Temporal Sampling in the SWOOSH Merged Data Set and Implications for Understanding Long-Term Ozone and WV Variability
Ekaterina Lezine, Univ. of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC; and S. M. Davis, K. H. Rosenlof, and N. A. Davis

Poster 541 has moved. New Paper Number is TJ13.1A.


Poster Session
Reservoir Flood Operations and Forecasting during Extreme Events. (Posters)
Location: Hall 4 (Phoenix Convention Center - West and North Buildings)
Host: 33rd Conference on Hydrology
Cochairs: David Paul Keeney, Bureau of Reclamation; Miguel Rocha, Bureau of Reclamation; Katharine Dahm, U.S. Bureau of Reclamation

Poster Session
Tropical Cyclones and Extreme Monsoon Precipitation: Posters I
Location: Hall 4 (Phoenix Convention Center - West and North Buildings)
Host: Tropical Cyclones and Extreme Monsoon Precipitation: Prediction, Impacts, and Communication
704
A Recent Reversal in the Poleward Shift of Western North Pacific Tropical Cyclones
Yuan Sun, National Univ. of Defense Technology, Nanjing, China; and Y. Shen

706
Tornado-Scale Vortices in the Tropical Cyclone Boundary Layer: Numerical Simulation with WRF-LES Framework
Qingyuan Liu, Nanjing Univ. of Information Science and Technology, Nanjing, China; and L. Wu

707
The Basin-Scale HWRF: Developments and Evaluation of 2018 Real-Time Forecasts
Ghassan J. Alaka Jr., NOAA/AOML/HRD, Miami, FL; and J. Poterjoy, M. C. Ko, X. Zhang, S. Gopalakrishnan, F. D. Marks Jr., and R. St. Fleur

708
Impact of Adjoint-Derived Optimal Perturbations on Tropical Cyclone Intensity Forecasts
Zoe A. Brooke Zibton, Univ. of Wisconsin−Madison, Madison, WI; and M. C. Morgan and B. T. Hoover

712
Spatial and Temporal Variability of Tropical Cyclone Strikes on the Mexican Riviera: 1966−2017
Nicholas S. Grondin, Louisiana State Univ., Baton Rouge, LA; and B. D. Keim

713
Case Study of the 6–7 September Eyewall Replacement Cycle in Hurricane Irma (2017)
Christopher R Conover, Univ. at Albany, SUNY, Albany, NY; and K. L. Corbosiero

714
Seasonal Cycles in North Atlantic and Western Pacific Tropical Cyclone Maximum Intensity
Daniel Gilford, Rutgers, The State Univ. of New Jersey, New Brunswick, NJ; and S. Solomon, K. Emanuel, and D. Rothenberg

Handout (2.3 MB)

716
Seasonal Predictability of Rapid Intensification of North Atlantic Tropical Cyclones
Ching Ho Justin Ng, Princeton Univ., Princeton, NJ; and G. A. Vecchi

717
718
Identifying United States Hurricane Risk With Changing Climate
Emma L. Levin, GFDL, Princeton, NJ; and H. Murakami

719
Modulating Effects of Mesoscale Oceanic Eddies on Sea Surface Temperature Response to Tropical Cyclones
Zhanhong Ma, College of Meteorology and Oceanography, National University of Defense Technology, Nanjing, China; and L. Yu

721
Simulations of Tropical Cyclone Interannual Variability Using a High-Resolution Tropical Channel Model
Dan Fu, Texas A&M Univ., College Station, TX; and P. Chang, C. M. Patricola, and R. Saravanan

Poster 722 has moved. New Paper Number is J5.2A.

723
724
The Difference Reason of the Two Inactive Typhoon Periods in Fall in the South China Sea
Yuxing Yang, Institute of Oceanology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Qingdao, China; and J. Zheng

725
Analysis of the Land−Atmosphere Environment of Cyclone Kelvin over Northern Australia: A Possible "Brown Ocean" Case
Andrew Michael Thomas, The Univ. of Georgia, Athens, GA; and J. M. Shepherd and J. A. Santanello Jr.

726
The Patterns of Meteorological Fields to Identify Intraseasonal Precipitation Variability in Central America
Huikyo Lee, JPL, Pasadena, CA; and D. Groenen, C. R. Mechoso, and M. Garay

728
A Numerical Study on the Influence of Sumatra Island and Synoptic Features on Tropical Cyclone Formation in the Indian Ocean
Chung-Chieh Wang, National Taiwan Normal Univ., Taipei, Taiwan; and S. K. Ma and R. H. Johnson

729
Elliptical and Polygonal Eyes of Typhoons Induced by Island Topography
Toshihisa Itano, National Defense Academy, Yokosuka, Japan


Poster Session
World Weather Research Programme
Location: Hall 4 (Phoenix Convention Center - West and North Buildings)
Host: Special Symposium on Catalyzing Innovation in Weather Science Internationally
Poster 748 "Driving Innovation Together: The World Weather Research Programme"

749
Nowcasting and Forecasting High-Impact Weather: Current Status and Future Challenges
Sharanya J. Majumdar, RSMAS, Miami, FL; and J. Sun, J. Dudhia, B. W. Golding, K. Gouda, P. Joe, P. Steinle, B. Vincendon, and J. Wang

751
Advanced Prediction in the Arctic and Beyond: Half Way into the Applicate Project
Thomas Jung, Alfred-Wegener-Institute for Polar and Marine Research, Bremerhaven, Germany

752
ECMWF Activities Connected to Polar Prediction Project
Linus Magnusson, ECMWF, Reading, UK; and I. Sandu, J. J. Day, P. Bauer, M. Fuentes, R. Mladek, and G. Arduini

753
RAP for YOPP: The NOAA Rapid Refresh Model and Its Contribution to the Year of Polar Prediction
David D. Turner, NOAA, Boulder, CO; and S. Benjamin, E. James, C. Alexander, T. Ladwig, H. Lin, S. Weygandt, J. B. Olson, T. G. Smirnova, G. Grell, G. de Boer, J. Intrieri, A. Solomon, T. Uttal, C. J. Cox, and M. Maahn

754
Characterization of the Structure of Tropopause Polar Vortices through Atmospheric Infrared Sounder (AIRS) Retrievals
Ryan Pajela, University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK; and S. Cavallo and D. D. Turner

755
Evaluation of the Health-Impact Oriented Global Subseasonal Excessive Heat Outlook System during Summer of 2018
Augustin Vintzileos, University of Maryland, College Park, College Park, MD

756
Subseasonal Forecasts over the Caribbean, Central America, and Mexico and Verifications
Sarah Suzanne Niarum Diouf, NOAA/NWS/NCEP, Climate Prediction Center, College Park, MD; and W. M. Thiaw and E. Bekele

Handout (1.4 MB)

757
Assessing Seasonal Predictability Sources and Windows of High Predictability in the Climate Forecast System Version 2
Douglas E. Miller, University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign, Urbana, IL; and Z. Wang

759
Ensemble Size and Skill of the NCEP CFSv2
Malaquias Peña, University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT; and S. Saha and H. van den Dool

760
Catalyzing Innovations With Observations: Building What We Need, Not What We Have.
Betsy Weatherhead, University of Colorado, Boulder, Boulder, CO; and S. K. Avery

5:30 PM-7:30 PM: Tuesday, 8 January 2019

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Towards Planetary Intelligence: On the Synergistic Future of AI, Weather and Climate
Location: North 124B (Phoenix Convention Center - West and North Buildings)
Host: Side Panels
Organizer: Surya Karthik Mukkavilli, Groundobs
Chairs/Co-chairs: Surya Karthik Mukkavilli, Groundobs; Amy McGovern, University of Oklahoma; Philippe Tissot, Texas A & M University Corpus Christi
Panelists: Valliappa Lakshmanan, Google; Gregory Dudek, Samsung AI Center-Montreal; Vipin Kumar, University of Minnesota – Twin Cities; Lucas Joppa, Microsoft
5:30 PM
5:45 PM
Physics guided ML: Emerging AI opportunities for weather and climate
Vipin Kumar, University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK; and V. Lakshmanan, L. Joppa, G. Dudek, S. K. Mukkavilli, and A. McGovern

6:00 PM
EnviroNet: ImageNet analog for environment & global AI challenge
Gregory Dudek, Samsung AI Center-Montreal, Montreal, QC, Canada; and L. Joppa, V. Lakshmanan, V. Kumar, and S. K. Mukkavilli

6:15 PM
Climate Change & AI: Present and potential role of AI in assessment and response
Lucas Joppa, Microsoft, Redmond, WA; and V. Lakshmanan, V. Kumar, G. Dudek, S. K. Mukkavilli, and P. Tissot

6:00 PM-7:00 PM: Tuesday, 8 January 2019


CANCELLED: NASA Earth Science Division (ESD) Town Hall Session
Location: North 226AB (Phoenix Convention Center - West and North Buildings)
Host: Town Hall Meetings
Organizer: Jack A. Kaye, NASA, Science Mission Directorate
Panelists: Michael H. Freilich, NASA Earth Science Division, Science Mission Directorate; Sandra Cauffman, NASA; Eric Ianson, NASA; Lawrence Friedl, NASA; Pamela Millar, NASA; Patricia Jacobberger-Jellison, NASA, Science Mission Directorate

6:00 PM-7:30 PM: Tuesday, 8 January 2019


Developing Metrics, Analysis tools, and Frameworks to Understand and Evaluate Extreme Events and their Impacts
Location: North 226C (Phoenix Convention Center - West and North Buildings)
Host: Town Hall Meetings
Organizer: Renu Joseph, Department of Energy
Panelists: Ruby Leung, PNNL; Travis O'Brien, LBNL; Paul Ullrich, Univ. of California, Davis

6:00 PM-10:00 PM: Tuesday, 8 January 2019


University Night Receptions

6:30 PM-8:30 PM: Tuesday, 8 January 2019


Inez Fung Dinner
Location: West 213AB (Phoenix Convention Center - West and North Buildings)
Recording files available
Fung Symposium Banquet
Location: West 213AB (Phoenix Convention Center - West and North Buildings)
6:30 PM
Introduction
6:30 PM
Inez Fung: A Life Long Friend
Jagadish Shukla, George Mason Univ./COLA, Fairfax, VA

Wednesday, 9 January 2019

7:00 AM-8:15 AM: Wednesday, 9 January 2019


CANCELED: Improving Research to Operations across the Weather Enterprise
Location: North 226C (Phoenix Convention Center - West and North Buildings)
Host: Town Hall Meetings
Organizer: Craig Mclean, NOAA/OAR
Facilitator: Sarah Perfater, NOAA/OAR/OWAQ
Panelists: John Cortinas Jr., OAR; Gina Eosco, NOAA/OAR/OWAQ; Michael Ek, NCAR/RAL/JNT; Brian Gross, NOAA/NWS/NCEP; Christopher Ekstrom, Office of the Oceanographer; William Callahan, Earth Networks; Michael Farrar, U.S. Air Force (USAF)

CANCELLED: NOAA Satellites' Ongoing Commercial Sector Partnerships and Engagement
Location: North 226AB (Phoenix Convention Center - West and North Buildings)
Host: Town Hall Meetings
Organizer: Stephen M. Volz, NOAA

7:25 AM-6:00 PM: Wednesday, 9 January 2019


Quiet Room (Wednesday)
Location: West 206 (Phoenix Convention Center - West and North Buildings)

7:30 AM-6:00 PM: Wednesday, 9 January 2019


AMS Information Desk (Wed)
Location: North 100 Level Prefunction (Phoenix Convention Center - West and North Buildings)

Member Services Desk (Wed)
Location: North Lower Level Prefunction (Phoenix Convention Center - West and North Buildings)

Registration (Wed)
Location: North Lower Level Prefunction (Phoenix Convention Center - West and North Buildings)

Speaker Ready Room (Wed)
Location: North 121A (Phoenix Convention Center - West and North Buildings)

8:15 AM-8:30 AM: Wednesday, 9 January 2019

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Plenary Session 1
Introduction and Opening Remarks
Location: West 212BC (Phoenix Convention Center - West and North Buildings)
Host: Richard Anthes Symposium
Speakers: Antonio Busalacchi, University Corporation for Atmospheric Research (UCAR); Bill Kuo, UCAR
8:15 AM
Introductory Remarks
Antonio Busalacchi, University Corporation for Atmospheric Research (UCAR), Boulder, MA

8:30 AM
Welcoming Remarks
Ying-Hwa Kuo, UCAR, Boulder, CO

8:30 AM-9:00 AM: Wednesday, 9 January 2019


Session 1
Welcome Address and Introductions
Location: North 123 (Phoenix Convention Center - West and North Buildings)
Host: 22nd Atmospheric Science Librarians International Conference
Chair: Elise Gowen, Atmospheric Science Librarians International

8:30 AM-10:00 AM: Wednesday, 9 January 2019

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Session 1
Advancing Preparedness and Response to Drought through International Cooperation
Location: North 222C (Phoenix Convention Center - West and North Buildings)
Host: Fourth Symposium on US-International Partnerships
Chair: Mark D. Svoboda, National Drought Mitigation Center
8:30 AM
1.1
Evaluation of Regional Climate Services: Learning from Seasonal-Scale Examples across the Americas
Catherine Vaughan, International Research Institute for Climate and Society, Columbia Univ., Palisades, NY; and M. Muth and D. P. Brown
8:45 AM
1.2
New Projects on Iberoamerican Meteorological Cooperation
Jorge Tamayo, State Meteorological Agency of Spain (AEMET), Valencia, Spain
9:00 AM
1.3
Strategic Plan towards a Drought Information System for South America (SADIS)
Celeste Saulo, Servicio Meteorológico Nacional, Buenos Aires, Argentina; and J. Báez, G. Podesta, M. Skansi, V. Silva, R. Pulwarty, R. Stefanski, J. Camacho, and J. Peronto

9:15 AM
1.4
Advances in the Canadian Drought Monitor
Trevor Hadwen, Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada, Regina, Canada; and P. Cherneski and M. Magendrathajan
9:30 AM
1.5
A New Hydrometeorological Testbed in Northern Mexico for Improved Weather Forecasts and Climate Monitoring
Christopher L. Castro, The Univ. of Arizona, Tucson, AZ; and D. K. Adams, A. F. Arellano Jr., A. I. Quintanar, C. Ochoa-Moya, C. M. Minjarez-Sosa, J. C. Rodriguez, C. Lizarraga, E. R. Vivoni, E. Perez-Ruiz, A. Robles, C. B. Risanto, H. I. Chang, L. Mendoza-Fierro, and J. M. Moker Jr.
9:45 AM
1.6
Developing and Exploiting a New Global Reanalysis of Evaporative Demand for Global Food-Security Assessments and Drought Monitoring.
Mike Hobbins, NOAA, Boulder, CO; and C. Dewes, A. Hoell, H. Jayanthi, A. McNally, D. P. Sarmiento, S. Shukla, and J. P. Verdin
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Joint Session 1
Machine Learning Techniques for Atmospheric and Oceanic Prediction Models
Location: North 124B (Phoenix Convention Center - West and North Buildings)
Hosts: (Joint between the 18th Conference on Artificial and Computational Intelligence and its Applications to the Environmental Sciences; and the 17th Symposium on the Coastal Environment )
Cochairs: Christiane Jablonowski, University of Michigan; Amy McGovern, University of Oklahoma; Alan Blumberg, Stevens Institute of Technology
8:30 AM
J1.1
Testing the Potential of Machine Learning for Weather Prediction
Peter Dueben, ECMWF, Reading, United Kingdom; and P. Bauer
8:45 AM
J1.2
Evaluating Generative Adversarial Network Stochastic Parameterizations of the Lorenz '96 Model at Weather and Climate Time Scales
David John Gagne II, NCAR, Boulder, CO; and H. Christensen, A. Subramanian, and A. H. Monahan

9:00 AM
J1.3
Using Machine Learning to Emulate Critical Cloud Microphysical Processes
Chih-Chieh Chen, NCAR, Boulder, CO; and A. Gettelman, R. D. Loft, D. J. Gagne II, and N. Sobhani
9:15 AM
J1.4
Using Deep Learning as Cost-Effective Surrogate Models for GCM Radiative Transfer.
Anikesh Pal, ORNL, Oak Ridge, TN; and S. Mahajan and M. R. Norman
9:30 AM
J1.5
Can Machine Learning Provide A Shortcut To Fog Prediction
Yuchao Jiang, Weathernews America Inc., Norman, OK; and D. Makino and K. Sakamoto
Recording files available
Session 1
Operational Forecast Center Vision Updates. Part I
Location: North 128AB (Phoenix Convention Center - West and North Buildings)
Host: Global and Regional-Scale Models: Updates and Center Overviews
Chairs: Nusrat Yussouf, CIMMS/NOAA/NSSL; Rebecca Adams-Selin, NOAA
8:30 AM
1.1
ECMWF’s Vision and Activities in Earth System Assimilation and Modeling
Florence Rabier, Director General - European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts (ECMWF), Reading, Berkshire, U.K.
9:15 AM
1.3
Environment and Climate Change Canada NWP Systems: Highlights and Future Plans
Natacha B. Bernier, Environment and Climate Change Canada, Dorval, QC, Canada

9:45 AM
1.5
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Session 1
Tropical Cyclones and Mesoscale Meteorology
Location: West 212BC (Phoenix Convention Center - West and North Buildings)
Host: Richard Anthes Symposium
Chair: Greg Tripoli, Univ. of Wisconsin–Madison
9:15 AM
1.3
Tropical Cyclone Modeling: A Tribute to Rick Anthes (Invited Presentation)
Da-Lin Zhang, Chinese Academy of Meteorological Sciences/Univ. of Maryland, College Park, MD
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Session 4
Lightning and Weather Systems. Part I: Modeling and Interrelationships
Location: North 225AB (Phoenix Convention Center - West and North Buildings)
Host: Ninth Conference on the Meteorological Application of Lightning Data
Chair: Eric Bruning, Texas Tech Univ.
8:45 AM
4.2
Ensemble Lightning Forecasts and Validation over the Hindu-Kush Himalayan Region
Jonathan L. Case, ENSCO, Inc., Huntsville, AL; and P. N. Gatlin, J. Srikishen, G. Priftis, and E. W. McCaul Jr.
9:00 AM
4.3
A Preliminary Investigation of the High-Resolution Ensemble Forecast (HREF) for Generating Calibrated Probabilistic Thunderstorm Forecasts
David Harrison, CIMMS/Univ. of Oklahoma, and NOAA/NWS/NCEP/SPC, Norman, OK; and I. L. Jirak and N. J. Nauslar
9:15 AM
4.4
A Relationship between Lightning and Microphysics: An Application of GLM to Data Assimilation.
Carolina S. Araujo, INPE, Cachoeira Paulista, Brazil; and L. A. T. Machado, J. F. Ribaud, and E. P. Vendrasco
9:30 AM
4.5
Evolving Interrelationships of Lightning, Microphysics, and Kinematics in a Mesoscale Convective System Observed during DC3
Elizabeth DiGangi, CIMMS/Univ. of Oklahoma, Norman, OK; and D. R. MacGorman, C. Ziegler, A. A. Alford, and M. I. Biggerstaff
9:45 AM
4.6
The Climate Impact of Aerosols on the Lightning Flash Rate: Is It Detectable from Long-Term Measurements?
Zhanqing Li, Univ. of Maryland, College Park, College Park, MD; and Q. Wang and J. Guo
Recording files available
Session 4
Tropical Cyclones and Climate Change
Location: North 232AB (Phoenix Convention Center - West and North Buildings)
Host: Tropical Cyclones and Extreme Monsoon Precipitation: Prediction, Impacts, and Communication
Chairs: Zhuo Wang, Univ. of Illinois at Urbana−Champaign; Suzana J. Camargo, Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, Columbia Univ.
8:30 AM
4.1A
Tropical Cyclone Climatology and Hazard Estimations in a Warming Climate
Chia-Ying Lee, Columbia Univ., Palisades, NY; and M. K. Tippett, A. H. Sobel, and S. J. Camargo
8:45 AM
4.2
Diagnosing Potential Climate Change Impacts on Recent Major Hurricanes in Variable-Resolution CAM
Alyssa M. Stansfield, Stony Brook Univ., SUNY, Stony Brook, NY; and K. A. Reed, C. M. Zarzycki, and M. F. Wehner
9:00 AM
4.3
Dominant Effect of Relative Tropical Atlantic Warming on Major Hurricane Occurrence in the North Atlantic: 2017 and the Future
Hiroyuki Murakami, GFDL, Princeton, NJ; and E. L. Levin, T. L. Delworth, R. Gudgel, and P. C. Hsu
9:30 AM
4.5
Paper 4.6 has moved. New Paper Number is J5.5A.

9:45 AM
4.6A
Recording files available
Session 4B
Highlights of Operational Forecasting in the Era of a Robust Satellite Enterprise
Location: North 231C (Phoenix Convention Center - West and North Buildings)
Host: 15th Annual Symposium on New Generation Operational Environmental Satellite Systems
Cochairs: Bill Sjoberg, GST/JPSS Program Office; Aaron Letterly, Univ. of Wisconsin/CIMSS
8:30 AM
4B.1
Latest Status of National and International Low-Earth Orbiting (LEO) Satellites—NOAA Updates on Data Processing, Distribution, and Product Generation to Users
Jason Taylor, NOAA/NESDIS/Office of Satellite and Product Operations, College Park, MD; and C. Gliniak and C. Sisko
8:45 AM
Support for Burned Area Debris Flow Forecasting Using VIIRS NDVI
Sam Batzli, Univ. of Wisconsin, Madison, WI
9:15 AM
4B.4
Addressing Marine Weather Challenges Using the Next Generation of Weather Satellites
Michael J. Folmer, Univ. of Maryland College Park, College Park, MD; and C. Clark-Robertson, D. E. Dolan, J. M. Sienkiewicz, L. J. Phillips, J. D. Clark, S. D. Rudlosky, D. T. Lindsey, and M. Goldberg

9:30 AM
4B.5
Monitoring Wildfire Growth Using the JPSS Constellation
Daniel C. Cumpton, Raytheon Intelligence, Information, and Services, Aurora, CO; and C. van Poollen, K. M. Bergeron, E. Greene, and S. M. Kern
9:45 AM
4B.6
A Blended Ice Motion Product from VIIRS, AMSR2, and SAR
Aaron Letterly, Univ. of Wisconsin/CIMSS, Madison, WI; and J. R. Key and Y. Liu
Recording files available
Joint Session 5
Understanding the Impacts of Extreme Weather and Climate Anomalies on Infectious Disease Ecology and Implications for Forecasting Transmission Risk
Location: North 228AB (Phoenix Convention Center - West and North Buildings)
Hosts: (Joint between the 10th Conference on Environment and Health; and the 24th Conference on Applied Climatology )
Cochairs: Kacey Ernst, The Univ. of Arizona; Cory Morin, Univ. of Washington
8:30 AM
J5.1
Human Exposure to Urinary Schistosomiasis in Cross River State, Nigeria
Uguru Wisdom Ibor, Federal Univ. Lokoja, Lokoja, Nigeria

9:00 AM
J5.3
Coccidioidomycosis Climate Niche Model for Predicting Current and Future Endemic Regions in the United States through the 21st Century and Applications to Environmental Soil Sampling
Morgan E. Gorris, Univ. of California, Irvine, Irvine, CA; and K. K. Treseder, C. S. Zender, W. Clifford, A. Salamone, H. N. Oltean, and J. T. Randerson
9:15 AM
J5.4
Recording files available
Joint Session 5
Variability and Predictability of Climate on Subseasonal-to-Seasonal Time Scales—Part I
Location: North 121BC (Phoenix Convention Center - West and North Buildings)
Hosts: (Joint between the 32nd Conference on Climate Variability and Change; and the Seventh Symposium on the Madden-Julian Oscillation and Sub-Seasonal Monsoon Variability )
Chair: Naoko Sakaeda, Univ. of Oklahoma
8:30 AM
J5.1
8:45 AM
J5.2
9:00 AM
J5.3
MJO Predictive Skill and Impacts in the Navy Earth System Model
Matthew Adam Janiga, NRL, Monterey, CA; and C. J. Schreck III, J. Ridout, M. Flatau, N. Barton, W. A. Komaromi, and C. A. Reynolds
9:15 AM
J5.4
Variability in CFSv2 Hindcast Skill for the MJO and Equatorial Waves
Carl J. Schreck III, North Carolina State Univ., Asheville, NC; and M. A. Janiga and A. R. Aiyyer
9:45 AM
J5.6
Recording files available
Session 5
Waves and Circulation: Connections across Scales—Part I
Location: West 212A (Phoenix Convention Center - West and North Buildings)
Host: 20th Conference on Middle Atmosphere
Cochairs: Aditi Sheshadri, Stanford Univ.; M. Joan Alexander, NorthWest Research Associates
8:45 AM
5.2
Evaluation of a New Orographic Gravity Wave Drag Scheme for the Community Earth System Model (CESM)
Julio T. Bacmeister, NCAR, Boulder, CO; and M. J. Alexander, L. Holt, and A. Hertzog
9:00 AM
5.3
Satellite Estimates of Momentum Fluxes from High-Impact Gravity Wave Events in the Stratosphere and Their Effects on Circulation
Laura Holt, NorthWest Research Associates, Boulder, CO; and M. J. Alexander, N. Hindley, L. Coy, W. M. Putman, and L. Hoffmann
9:30 AM
5.5
9:45 AM
5.6A
Recording files available
Session 6
Aerosol–Cloud Interactions in Mixed-Phase Clouds—Part I
Location: North 223 (Phoenix Convention Center - West and North Buildings)
Host: 11th Symposium on Aerosol–Cloud–Climate Interactions
Cochairs: Yuan Wang, California Institute of Technology; Chuanfeng zhao, Beijing Normal Univ.
8:30 AM
6.1
Airborne, Ship-, and Ground-Based Observations of Clouds, Aerosols, and Precipitation from Recent Field Projects over the Southern Ocean
Greg M. McFarquhar, Cooperative Institute for Mesoscale Meteorological Studies, Norman, OK; and C. Bretherton, R. Marchand, A. Protat, P. J. DeMott, S. P. Alexander, S. R. Rintoul, G. Roberts, C. H. Twohy, D. W. Toohey, S. Siems, Y. Huang, R. Wood, R. M. Rauber, S. Lasher-Trapp, J. Jensen, J. L. Stith, J. Mace, J. UM, E. Järvinen, M. Schnaiter, A. Gettelman, K. J. Sanchez, C. McClusky, I. L. McCoy, K. A. Moore, T. C. J. Hill, and B. Rainwater

9:00 AM
6.3
Measurements of Aerosol Particle and Cloud Properties over the Southern Ocean
Cynthia H. Twohy, NorthWest Research Associates, Redmond, WA; and D. W. Toohey, P. J. DeMott, B. Rainwater, L. M. Russell, S. Lewis, R. Geiss, C. S. McCluskey, T. C. J. Hill, G. M. McFarquhar, C. S. Bretherton, R. Wood, G. Roberts, K. J. Sanchez, C. A. Wolff, and P. Romashkin
9:15 AM
6.4
Implication of the Impact of Saharan Dust on Atlantic Tropical Cyclones
Bowen Pan, Texas A&M Univ., College Station, TX; and Y. Wang, J. Hu, Y. Lin, J. S. Hsieh, T. Logan, Y. Yung, J. H. Jiang, and R. Zhang
9:30 AM
6.6
The Microphysical Properties of Convective Precipitation over the Tibetan Plateau by a Subkilometer Resolution Cloud-Resolving Simulation
Wenhua Gao, Chinese Academy of Meteorological Sciences, Beijing, China; and L. Liu, J. LI, and C. Lu
9:45 AM
6.5A
The Effects of Dust–Radiation–Cloud Interactions on the Development of an MCS over North Africa
Chu-Chun Huang, Univ. of California, Davis, Davis, CA; and S. Chen, K. Earl, T. Matsui, and Y. C. Lin
Recording files available
Session 6
Teaching, Training, Outreach, and Building Communities around Python
Location: North 129B (Phoenix Convention Center - West and North Buildings)
Host: Ninth Symposium on Advances in Modeling and Analysis Using Python
Chair: Daniel Rothenberg, ClimaCell Inc.
9:00 AM
6.2
Python as a Self-Teaching Tool: Insights into Gaussian Process Modeling Using Python Packages
Daniel Gilford, Rutgers, The State Univ. of New Jersey, New Brunswick, NJ
9:15 AM
6.3
Into the Deep End: Four Projects Using Python in the Atmospheric Sciences for Undergraduate Interns at Argonne National Laboratory
Scott Collis, Argonne National Laboratory, Argonne, IL; and S. Carani, J. Hemedinger, A. Medendorp, J. Porcaro, R. Jackson, M. H. Picel, and Z. Sherman
9:30 AM
6.4
Creating Visualizations for the Science on a Sphere
Matthew B. Hamel, Millersville Univ., Millersville, Pennsylvania, PA
Recording files available
Session 6
Warning Communication for Vulnerable Populations
Location: North 226AB (Phoenix Convention Center - West and North Buildings)
Host: 14th Symposium on Societal Applications: Policy, Research and Practice
Chair: Kathleen Sherman-Morris, Mississippi State University
8:30 AM
6.1
Tornado Warnings and the Blind/Low-Vision Community
Kathleen Sherman-Morris, Mississippi State University, Mississippi State, MS; and T. Pechacek
8:45 AM
6.2
9:00 AM
6.3
9:30 AM
6.5
Risk, Information, and Vulnerability for Evolving Tornado Threats
Julie L. Demuth, NCAR, Boulder, CO; and H. Lazrus, J. Henderson, J. Vickery, R. E. Morss, K. D. Ash, D. C. Smith, K. M. Anderson, and L. Palen
9:45 AM
Discussion

Recording files available
Session 6A
Atmospheric Chemistry Modeling and Observational Analysis—Part I
Location: North 124A (Phoenix Convention Center - West and North Buildings)
Host: 21st Conference on Atmospheric Chemistry
Chair: Richard Eckman, NASA
Cochairs: Kenneth Jucks, NASA; Michael J. Prather, Univ. of California, Irvine
8:45 AM
6A.2
Evaluation of the Spatial and Temporal Variations in Tropospheric Ozone Production Using Air Quality Models and Multiplatform Observations to Improve Ozone Control Strategies
Timothy Canty, Univ. of Maryland, College Park, MD; and A. M. Ring, D. J. Allen, H. He, S. Benish, X. Ren, R. J. Salawitch, and R. R. Dickerson

9:00 AM
6A.3
Global Simulation of Tropospheric Chemistry at 12.5 km Resolution: The NASA GEOS-5 Earth System Model with GEOS-Chem Chemistry
Lu Hu, Univ. of Montana, Missoula, MT; and C. A. Keller, M. S. Long, T. Sherwen, B. M. Auer, A. Da Silva, J. E. Nielsen, S. Pawson, M. A. Thompson, A. Trayanov, K. R. Travis, S. K. Grange, M. Evans, and D. J. Jacob
9:15 AM
6A.4
Observations of the Wave-One Ozone Maximum during the LASIC Field Campaign at Ascension Island
Gregory S. Jenkins, Pennsylvania State Univ., University Park, PA; and I. Fontanez
9:30 AM
6A.5
Sensitivity of Surface-Level Ozone to Temperature-Related Processes
Gaige Hunter Kerr, Johns Hopkins Univ., Baltimore, MD; and D. W. Waugh, S. D. Steenrod, and S. A. Strode
9:45 AM
6A.6
Tropospheric Ozone Derived from Suomi NPP OMPS Satellite Measurements
Jerry Ziemke, NASA GESTAR, Greenbelt, MD; and N. Kramarova, P. K. Bhartia, R. McPeters, G. J. Labow, and L. D. Oman
Recording files available
Panel Discussion 6A
Lessons Learned from the 2017 Hurricane Season in Emergency Preparedness
Location: North 222AB (Phoenix Convention Center - West and North Buildings)
Host: Seventh Symposium on the Weather, Water, and Climate Enterprise
Moderators: Tanja E. Fransen, NOAA/NWS; Matt Moreland, NOAA/NWS
Panelists: Lucas McDonald, Walmart; Ken Graham, NHC; Marty Senterfitt, Florida Keys Emergency Management; Steve Maloney, Federal Reserve; Rebecca Moulton, FEMA
McDonald, Graham, Senterfitt, Maloney, Moulton
Tanja E. Fransen, NOAA/NWS, Glasgow, MT

Panel Discussion 6B
Extreme Weather at Sea: Bringing 21st Century Weather Services to Mariners
Location: North 221C (Phoenix Convention Center - West and North Buildings)
Host: Seventh Symposium on the Weather, Water, and Climate Enterprise
Moderator: Allison L. Allen, NOAA/NWS
Panelists: Thomas J. Cuff, NOAA/NWS/Ocean Prediction Center; Christopher Landsea, NOAA/NWS/NCEP/National Hurricane Center; Kevin Berberich, National Ice Center; Joseph M. Sienkiewicz, NOAA/NWS/Ocean Prediction Center
Recording files available
Session 7
The Second Wind Forecast Improvement Project (WFIP2): Part I
Location: North 129A (Phoenix Convention Center - West and North Buildings)
Host: 10th Conference on Weather, Climate, and the New Energy Economy
Cochairs: Katherine McCaffrey, CIRES; Jerry Crescenti
8:30 AM
7.1
The Second Wind Forecast Improvement Project (WFIP2): An Overview of Progress
William J. Shaw, PNNL, Richland, WA; and J. Cline, C. Draxl, E. P. Grimit, J. K. Lundquist, J. McCaa, M. Marquis, J. B. Olson, J. Sharp, C. Sivaraman, and J. M. Wilczak
8:45 AM
7.2
Improved Understanding and Modeling of Key Atmospheric Phenomena during WFIP2: Cold Pools, Gap Flows, and Mountain Waves
James Wilczak, NOAA/ESRL/PSD, Boulder, CO; and K. McCaffrey, C. Draxl, R. M. Banta, J. B. Olson, M. T. Stoelinga, L. K. Berg, L. Bianco, A. Choukulkar, I. V. Djalalova, E. P. Grimit, D. L. Jackson, J. Kenyon, P. Muradyan, Y. Pichugina, J. Sharp, W. J. Shaw, and R. Worsnop
9:00 AM
7.3
Bulk Statistics of 80-m Wind Speeds of Reforecast Runs from HRRR and HRRRNEST Models during the Second Wind Forecast Improvement Project (WFIP2). Part I
Laura Bianco, CIRES, Boulder, CO; and I. V. Djalalova, J. M. Wilczak, J. B. Olson, J. S. Kenyon, L. K. Berg, A. Choukulkar, D. Cook, R. Eckman, H. J. S. Fernando, E. P. Grimit, J. K. Lundquist, M. T. Stoelinga, and S. Wharton
9:15 AM
7.4
Ramp Skill of Reforecast Runs from HRRR and HRRRNEST Models during the Second Wind Forecast Improvement Project (WFIP2). Part II
Irina V. Djalalova, CIRES, Boulder, CO; and L. Bianco, E. Akish, J. Wilczak, J. Olson, J. S. Kenyon, L. K. Berg, A. Choukulkar, D. Cook, R. M. Eckman, H. J. S. Fernando, E. P. Grimit, J. K. Lundquist, M. T. Stoelinga, and S. Wharton
9:30 AM
7.5
Evaluation of Model Error by Lidar Measurements during Various Atmospheric Phenomena Observed in Complex Terrain
Yelena Pichugina, CIRES, Univ. of Colorado Boulder, Boulder, CO; and R. M. Banta, T. A. Bonin, A. W. Brewer, A. Choukulkar, K. McCaffrey, H. J. S. Fernando, E. P. Grimit, J. Kenyon, M. Marquis, J. B. Olson, J. Sharp, M. T. Stoelinga, and J. M. Wilczak

9:45 AM
7.6
Boundary Layer Wind Jet Observed during the Second Wind Forecasting Improvement Project (WFIP-2)
Virendra Ghate, Argonne National Laboratory, Lemont, IL; and R. Kotamarthi, C. Draxl, J. Olson, J. Wilczak, L. K. Berg, H. J. S. Fernando, D. J. Gottas, R. Eckman, and B. Reese
Recording files available
Session 7A
Radar Technologies and Applications—Part I
Location: West 211B (Phoenix Convention Center - West and North Buildings)
Host: 35th Conference on Environmental Information Processing Technologies
Cochairs: Kurt D. Hondl, NOAA/NSSL; Michael J. Istok, NOAA/NWS; Mark B. Yeary, Univ. of Oklahoma
8:45 AM
7A.2
Assessment of the Benefits of Rapid Scanning for an MPAR/SENSR System
Andrew Mahre, Univ. of Oklahoma, Norman, OK; and T. Y. Yu and D. J. Bodine
9:00 AM
7A.3
QPE Performance Benefits for Radar Network Design
James M. Kurdzo, MIT Lincoln Laboratory, Lexington, MA; and E. F. Clemons, J. Y. N. Cho, and G. R. McGillick

9:15 AM
7A.4
Aperture Size Considerations for Future Operational Phased Array Weather Radar
Mark E. Weber, Cooperative Institute for Mesoscale Meteorological Studies, Norman, OK; and J. S. Herd
Recording files available
Session 7B
Visualization Techniques for Climatology and Meteorology—Part II
Location: North 132ABC (Phoenix Convention Center - West and North Buildings)
Host: 35th Conference on Environmental Information Processing Technologies
Cochairs: Jared Rennie, CICS/North Carolina State Univ.; J. T. Johnson, Weather Decision Technologies; Scott Jacobs, NOAA/NWS
8:30 AM
7B.1
Overview of Drought Visualization Techniques on Drought.gov
Steve Ansari, NOAA/NESDIS/National Centers for Environmental Information, Asheville, NC; and R. G. Bilotta, K. Bevington, N. McCraw, A. Stowell, and C. Stone
8:45 AM
7B.2
Overview of the GIS Processes for Drought.gov: Data Ingest, Processing, and Visualization on Drought.gov
Rocky G. Bilotta, ERT and NOAA/NESDIS/National Centers for Environmental Information, Asheville, NC; and S. Ansari
9:00 AM
7B.3
NASA GES DISC’s Customized Services for Climatology and Meteorology
Jennifer Wei, NASA GES DISC, Greenbelt, MD; and S. Shen, D. Ostrenga, J. Zeng, L. pham, A. Li, D. Meyer, and B. Vollmer

9:15 AM
7B.4
9:30 AM
7B.5
Visualization of Wind Parcel Trajectories Using McIDAS-V and IDV
thomas rink, Space Science and Engineering Center/CIMSS, Madison, WI
9:45 AM
7B.6
Exploring a Web-Based GRIB2 Visualization Capability at the Aviation Weather Testbed
Austin Cross, NOAA/NWS/NCEP/Aviation Weather Center, Kansas City, MO

Recording files available
Session 8
Extreme Climate Events in the Middle Latitudes—Part I
Location: North 122BC (Phoenix Convention Center - West and North Buildings)
Host: 32nd Conference on Climate Variability and Change
Chair: Paul Loikith, Portland State Univ.
8:45 AM
8.2
Evaluating Indices of Blocking Anticyclones in Terms of Their Relations with Surface Hot Extremes
Pak-Wah Chan, Harvard Univ., Cambridge, MA; and P. Hassanzadeh and Z. Kuang
Recording files available
Joint Session 8
Phoenix as a Sandbox for Studying Urban Climate in Arid Regions. Part I
Location: North 224A (Phoenix Convention Center - West and North Buildings)
Hosts: (Joint between the 24th Conference on Applied Climatology; and the 10th Conference on Environment and Health )
Cochairs: Peter Crank, Arizona State Univ.; Ariane Middel, Arizona State Univ.
8:30 AM
J8.1
Modeling the Direct Impacts of PV Systems on Surface Energy Balance and Climate in Phoenix
Ashley M. Broadbent, Arizona State Univ., Tempe, AZ; and S. Krayenhoff, J. Heusinger, and M. Georgescu
8:45 AM
J8.2
Heat Surveys in Hot Places: Predictors of Heat Illness Events in Phoenix, Arizona
Mary K. Wright, Arizona State Univ., Tempe, AZ; and D. M. Hondula, P. M. Chakalian, and K. L. Larson
9:15 AM
J8.4
Nature’s Cooling Systems: Modeling Neighborhood-Built Redevelopment and Greening
Peter Crank, Arizona State Univ., Tempe, AZ; and M. Messerschmidt and D. M. Hondula
9:30 AM
J8.5
9:45 AM
J8.6
Characterizing the Urban Climate of Kuwait: Urban Morphology and Thermal Variations
Saud AlKhaled, Arizona State Univ., Tempe, AZ; and P. Coseo, A. Brazel, and C. Cheng

Recording files available
Session 8
Space Weather As We Approach Solar Minimum. Part I
Location: North 227A-C (Phoenix Convention Center - West and North Buildings)
Host: 16th Conference on Space Weather
Chair: Barbara Thompson, NASA
9:15 AM
8.2
Extreme Space Weather Events in Solar Cycle 24
Nariaki Nitta, Lockheed Martin Advanced Technology Center, Palo Alto, CA; and T. Skov

9:30 AM
8.3A
U.S. Air Force Space Weather Federal Agency Perspective
Ralph O. Stoffler, U.S. Air Force, Washington, DC
Recording files available
Session 8
Wildfire, Smoke Plumes, Pollution, and Ozone: Causes, Impacts, and Predictability
Location: West 211A (Phoenix Convention Center - West and North Buildings)
Host: Ninth Symposium on Lidar Atmospheric Applications
Cochairs: Javier Fochesatto, Geophysical Institute, Univ. of Alaska, Fairbanks; Lin Ma, The Univ. of Arizona
8:30 AM
8.1
Local Recirculations and Implications on Planetary Boundary Layer Dynamics and Air Quality
Vanessa Caicedo, Univ. of Maryland, Baltimore County, Baltimore, MD; and R. Delgado, B. Demoz, R. Sakai, and J. Sullivan
8:45 AM
8.2
TOLNet Lidar Measurements for Air Quality Applications
Michael Newchurch, Univ. of Alabama in Huntsville, Huntsville, AL; and R. Alvarez, T. Berkoff, G. Chen, G. Gronoff, M. S. Johnson, G. Kirgis, S. Kuang, A. O. Langford, T. Leblanc, T. J. McGee, C. J. Senff, M. Shook, K. B. Strawbridge, J. T. Sullivan, and B. Wang
9:00 AM
8.3
Upper-Air Visibility Observations during a Severe Haze Pollution Period Based on Raman–Mie Lidar in Urban Beijing
Su Chen, School of Optics and Photonics, Beijing Institute of Technology, Beijing, China; and S. Chen, Y. Zhang, H. Chen, and P. Guo
9:30 AM
8.5
How Could Prescribed Fire Have Altered the Health Impacts of the 2016 Appalachian Wildfires?
Yongqiang Liu, USDA Forest Service, Athens, GA; and F. Zhao, B. Hornsby, and S. Goodrick

Recording files available
Session 8A
Advances in Evaporation and Evaporative Demand I
Location: North 127ABC (Phoenix Convention Center - West and North Buildings)
Host: 33rd Conference on Hydrology
Cochairs: Martha C. Anderson, USDA-ARS; Christopher Hain, NASA Marshall Space Flight Center; Justin Huntington, Desert Research Institute
8:30 AM
8A.1
8:45 AM
8A.2
Mapping Evapotranspiration Using Landsat, Sentinel-2, ECOSTRESS, and MODIS Remote Sensing Data
Andy Jia Ying Wong, Univ. of California, Davis, Davis, CA; and Y. Jin, E. R. Kent, K. T. Paw U, J. Fisher, G. Hulley, G. Rivera, C. M. Lee, K. Cawse-Nicholson, S. Hook, J. Medellín-Azuara, F. Gao, and J. Clay
9:00 AM
8A.3
An Evapotranspiration Data Product from NOAA GOES-16 and 17
Satya Kalluri, NOAA/NESDIS/STAR, College Park, MD; and L. Fang, M. A. Schull, X. Zhan, C. Hain, and M. C. Anderson
9:15 AM
8A.4
Response of ET of Irrigated Urban Landscapes to Coherent Changes in Summer Climate
Lawrence E. Hipps, Utah State Univ., Logan, UT; and M. D. Miksch

9:30 AM
8A.5A
On Transpiration Seasonality (Invited Presentation)
Inez Fung, Univ. of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, CA
9:45 AM
8A.6
Reference Evapotranspiration for Future Conditions of Atmospheric CO2 Concentration
Albert Olioso, Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique, Avignon, France; and F. Huard, L. Guilioni, and C. Baron
Recording files available
Session 8A
Research to Operations Progress in GNSS Radio Occultations for Numerical Weather Prediction and Ionospheric Studies: Part I
Location: North 230 (Phoenix Convention Center - West and North Buildings)
Host: Ninth Conference on Transition of Research to Operations
Cochairs: Richard Ullman, NOAA/NESDIS/Office of Projects, Planning and Analysis; Changyong Cao, NOAA/NESDIS/STAR/SMCD
8:30 AM
8A.1
NOAA Observing Architecture for GNSS Radio Occultation Observation
Richard E. Ullman, NOAA, Silver Spring, MD; and F. W. Gallagher III

9:00 AM
8A.2
Recent Advances in GNSS-RO Technology and Their Potential Impacts on Operational Weather Forecasting
Erin M. Lynch, NOAA/NESDIS/STAR/Satellite Meteorology and Climatology Division, College Park, MD; and C. Cao
9:15 AM
8A.3
GNSSRO Platforms Operational at NCEP—Present Status, Quality Assessment and Comparative Study with New GNSSRO Missions
Suryakanti Dutta, UCAR, Boulder, CO; and F. Vandenberghe, H. Shao, H. Zhang, and J. G. Yoe
9:30 AM
8A.4
Advance GNSSRO Data Assimilation and Support Transition(s) to Operations at JCSDA
Hui Shao, UCAR, Boulder, CO; and F. Vandenberghe, H. Zhang, S. Dutta, and J. G. Yoe
9:45 AM
8A.5
Spire Global Radio Occultation Data: Capabilities and First Results
Victoriya Forsythe, Geophysical Institute, Fairbanks, AK; and D. Hampton
Recording files available
Session 8B
Probabilistic Hydrometeorological Forecasting and Uncertainty Analysis I
Location: North 126BC (Phoenix Convention Center - West and North Buildings)
Host: 33rd Conference on Hydrology
Cochairs: Huiling Yuan, Nanjing Univ.; Kristie J. Franz, Iowa State Univ.; Shugong Wang, NASA GSFC/SAIC
8:30 AM
8B.2A
Forecast Informed Reservoir Operations Using Ensemble Streamflow Predictions for a Multi-Purpose Reservoir in Northern California
Chris J. Delaney, Sonoma County Water Agency, Santa Rosa, CA; and J. R. Mendoza, R. K. Hartman, and C. W. Hecht

Handout (2.6 MB)

8:45 AM
8B.2
Tools for use of Predictive Rainfall within Irrigation Decision Aids, Downscaling of Soil Moisture, and Non-Gaussian Data Assimilation for Agricultural/Military Applications and Analysis of Atmospheric River Events
Andrew S. Jones, CIRA/Colorado State Univ., Fort Collins, CO; and A. A. Andales, J. L. Chavez, C. McGovern, G. E. B. Smith, J. P. Deshon, J. D. Niemann, S. J. Fletcher, J. M. Forsythe, M. Goodliff, and A. Kliewer

9:00 AM
8B.3
Improving Heavy Rain Forecast by Using Strongly Constrained Radial Wind Analysis
Juxiang Peng, China Meteorological Administration, Wuhan, China; and Y. Xie
9:15 AM
8B.4
9:30 AM
8B.5
Convective System QPF Displacement Errors in HRRRE and Potential Use for Shifting QPF Fields to Improve Flood Forecasting
Benjamin M. Kiel, Iowa State Univ., Ames, IA; and W. A. Gallus Jr., K. J. Franz, and B. R. Carlberg
9:45 AM
8B.6
Improving Snowfall Accumulation Forecasting in Colorado
Leland MacDonald, Texas A&M Univ., College Station, TX; and P. T. Schlatter and K. Fredin
Recording files available
Session 8B
Testbeds (HWT) to Enable and Accelerate the Transition of Research to Operations to Decision Makers, End Users and to the Public in Weather, Water, or Climate Applications: Part I
Location: North 232C (Phoenix Convention Center - West and North Buildings)
Host: Ninth Conference on Transition of Research to Operations
Cochairs: Alan Gerard, NOAA/OAR/NSSL; Gina Eosco, NOAA/OAR/NSSL
8:30 AM
8B.1
Status Update on the NOAA's Joint Technology Transfer Initiative Research to Operations Program
Chandra R. Kondragunta, NOAA/OAR/Office of Weather and Air Quality, Silver Spring, MD; and J. Cortinas Jr. and H. L. Tolman

8:45 AM
8B.2
FACETs R2O: Collaborative Progress toward Operations
Alan Gerard, NOAA/OAR/NSSL, Norman, OK; and L. P. Rothfusz
9:00 AM
8B.3
Testing and Verifying Potential Severe Timing Forecasts in the Hazardous Weather Testbed
Makenzie Krocak, Cooperative Institute for Mesoscale Meteorological Studies, Norman, OK; and H. E. Brooks
9:15 AM
8B.4
Broadcast Meteorologist Decision Making in the 2018 Hazardous Weather Testbed Probabilistic Hazard Information Project
Holly Obermeier, NOAA/OAR/ESRL, Boulder, CO; and K. L. Nemunaitis-Berry, T. C. Meyer, P. A. Campbell, A. Gerard, C. Kolakoski, and K. E. Klockow-McClain
9:30 AM
8B.5
Broadcast Meteorologist Use of Social Media in the 2018 Hazardous Weather Testbed Probabilistic Hazard Information Project
Caroline Kolakoski, Univ. of South Alabama, Mobile, AL; and K. Berry, A. Gerard, H. Obermeier, J. T. Ripberger, P. A. Campbell, T. C. Meyer, and K. E. Klockow-McClain
Recording files available
Session 9
Cyclone Global Navigation Satellite System (CYGNSS) Observations and Applications—Part I
Location: North 131AB (Phoenix Convention Center - West and North Buildings)
Host: 23rd Conference on Integrated Observing and Assimilation Systems for the Atmosphere, Oceans, and Land Surface (IOAS-AOLS)
Chair: Christopher Ruf, Univ. of Michigan
8:30 AM
9.1
Cyclone Global Navigation Satellite System (CYGNSS): Status of Mission and Science Data Products
Christopher S. Ruf, Univ. of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI; and S. Gleason, D. McKague, D. J. Posselt, and M. Moghaddam
8:45 AM
9.2A
Validation of CYGNSS Surface Winds using In Situ Marine Observations in the Maritime Continent Region
Shakeel Asharaf, Joint Institute for Regional Earth System Science and Engineering, Pasadena, CA; and D. E. Waliser, C. Zhang, D. J. Posselt, and A. W. Putra

9:00 AM
9.3
Surface Heat Flux Analysis and Products for the CYGNSS Mission
Juan A. Crespo, JPL, Pasadena, CA; and D. J. Posselt
9:15 AM
9.4
Impact of CYGNSS Data Assimilation on Tropical Cyclone Forecasts in August 2017
Michael J. Mueller, CIRES and NOAA/ESRL/GSD, Boulder, CO; and B. Annane, A. C. Kren, and L. Cucurull
9:30 AM
9.5
9:45 AM
9.6
Next Generation Bi-Static Radar Receiver for Possible CYGNSS Follow-On Mission
Christopher S. Ruf, Univ. of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI; and R. B. Norris and A. O'Brien
Recording files available
Session 9
Understanding the Impact of Weather on Commercial Aviation—Part I
Location: North 224B (Phoenix Convention Center - West and North Buildings)
Host: 19th Conference on Aviation, Range, and Aerospace Meteorology
Cochairs: Richard H. Stone, RHS Consulting, Ltd.; Emily M. Sullivan, The Univ. of Georgia
8:30 AM
9.1
Weather Incidents & Accidents in Contemporary Commercial Aviation: A Forensic Meteorologist's Perspective
Kacie Shourd, WeatherExtreme Ltd., Incline Village, NV; and E. J. Austin, J. D. Means, and A. Austin
9:00 AM
9.2
Outstanding Weather Needs and Priorities for Trajectory-Based Air Traffic Operations
Michael Robinson, MITRE Corporation, McLean, VA; and M. Fronzak, R. Avjian, and J. Huhn
9:30 AM
9.4A
Wind LIDAR Applications for Aviation Safety
Jamison Hawkins, Lockheed Martin, Greenbelt, MD
Recording files available
Themed Joint Session 16
Between the Rock of Applied Needs and the Hard Place of Diminishing Resources: Rethinking Success in Provider–Partner Relationships
Location: North 226C (Phoenix Convention Center - West and North Buildings)
Hosts: (Joint between the 14th Symposium on Societal Applications: Policy, Research and Practice; and the 28th Symposium on Education )
Cochairs: Kathryn Shontz, NOAA/NESDIS/OSAAP; Susan A. Jasko, California University of Pennsylvania
9:00 AM
TJ16.3
Sustaining Collaborations and Knowledge Sharing: GLISA’s Engagement with Indigenous Tribes in the Great Lakes Region
Omar C. Gates, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI; and E. Chapman, R. Clark, A. Petersen, and F. J. Marsik
9:15 AM
TJ16.4
9:30 AM
TJ16.5
Communicating Climate Information to Broad, Binational Audiences: A Great Lakes Account
Kimberly Channell, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI; and W. Baule, J. Andresen, J. L. Jorns, M. Muth, S. Deland, F. Seglenieks, B. M. Lofgren, and J. Weaver

9:45 AM

8:45 AM-10:00 AM: Wednesday, 9 January 2019

Recording files available
Session 8
Data Assimilation—Part IV
Location: North 131C (Phoenix Convention Center - West and North Buildings)
Host: 23rd Conference on Integrated Observing and Assimilation Systems for the Atmosphere, Oceans, and Land Surface (IOAS-AOLS)
Chair: Daryl T. Kleist, NCEP
8:45 AM
8.1
An Optimal Linear Transformation for Data Assimilation
Chris Snyder, NCAR, Boulder, CO; and G. J. Hakim
9:00 AM
8.3
Development of a Hybrid 4DEnVar and Ensemble Kalman Filter Analysis and Forecast System for Convective scale NWP
Jidong Gao, NOAA/NSSL, Norman, OK; and Y. Yang, Y. Wang, K. H. Knopfmeier, S. Pan, P. S. Skinner, Q. Xu, and L. J. Wicker
9:15 AM
8.4
Assimilation of Satellite Altimeter Observations in a Free-Surface Ocean Model Using a 4DVAR Analysis System
Matthew J. Carrier, NRL, Stennis Space Center, MS; and H. E. Ngodock, I. Souopgui, J. M. D'Addezio, S. R. Smith, and J. Osborne

9:00 AM-10:00 AM: Wednesday, 9 January 2019


Session 2
Keynote Speaker
Location: North 123 (Phoenix Convention Center - West and North Buildings)
Host: 22nd Atmospheric Science Librarians International Conference
Chair: Jan Thomas, NOAA
9:00 AM
2.1
Rethinking the Climate Change Narrative
Peter Friederici, Northern Arizona Univ., Flagstaff, AZ

9:00 AM-11:00 AM: Wednesday, 9 January 2019


Guest Coffee (Wed)
Location: Hospitality Suite 428 (Sheraton Hotel )

9:00 AM-6:30 PM: Wednesday, 9 January 2019


Exhibit Hall (Wed)
Location: Hall 5-6 (Phoenix Convention Center - West and North Buildings)

Poster Hall (Wednesday)
Location: Hall 4 (Phoenix Convention Center - West and North Buildings)

9:30 AM-12:30 PM: Wednesday, 9 January 2019


Tree Planting Guest Volunteer Project

10:00 AM-10:30 AM: Wednesday, 9 January 2019


AM Coffee Break (Wed)
Location: Hall 5-6 (Phoenix Convention Center - West and North Buildings)

Meet President Roger M. Wakimoto (Wed)
Location: Hall 5-6 (Phoenix Convention Center - West and North Buildings)

10:30 AM-12:00 PM: Wednesday, 9 January 2019

Recording files available
Session 2
Assessing, Defining, and Communicating Predictability on the Subseasonal to Seasonal Time Scale
Location: North 222AB (Phoenix Convention Center - West and North Buildings)
Host: Seventh Symposium on the Weather, Water, and Climate Enterprise
Chair: Jessie C. Carman, OAR
11:00 AM
2.3
Deterministic and Probabilistic Forecast Skill with an Icosahedral, Vertically Quasi-Lagrangian Coupled Model
Shan Sun, NOAA/ESRL, Boulder, CO; and R. Bleck, B. W. Green, and S. G. Benjamin

11:15 AM
2.4
An Assessment of Subseasonal Forecast Capability through Global Ensemble
Yuejian Zhu, NCEP, College Park, MD; and W. Li, H. Guan, E. Sinsky, and X. Zhou

11:30 AM
2.5
Developing New Watershed-Based Climate Forecast Products for Water Managers
Andrew W. Wood, NCAR, Boulder, CO; and S. A. Baker and B. Rajagopalan
11:45 AM
2.6
Transforming Management of Climate Variability Risks with Seasonal and Subseasonal Probability Forecasts
John A. Dutton, ClimBiz Ltd and Prescient Weather Ltd., State College, PA; and R. P. James and J. D. Ross
Recording files available
Session 2
Global Model Development Updates
Location: North 128AB (Phoenix Convention Center - West and North Buildings)
Host: Global and Regional-Scale Models: Updates and Center Overviews
Chairs: Natacha B. Bernier, Environment and Climate Change Canada; Clark Evans, Univ. of Wisconsin–Milwaukee
10:30 AM
2.1
Update on the U.S. Navy’s Earth System Prediction Capability Effort
Carolyn A. Reynolds, NRL, Monterey, CA; and N. P. Barton, C. Bishop, M. K. Flatau, S. Frolov, M. A. Janiga, J. G. McLay, J. A. Ridout, B. Ruston, D. P. Eleuterio, P. Hogan, G. Jacobs, E. J. Metzger, E. Rogers, C. D. Rowley, and J. G. Richman
11:15 AM
2.4
The Navy’s Next-Generation NEPTUNE Modeling System
James D. Doyle, NRL, Monterey, CA; and P. A. Reinecke, K. C. Viner, D. D. Flagg, S. Gabersek, M. Martini, J. Michalakes, D. R. Ryglicki, and F. X. Giraldo
Paper 2.5 is now Poster 1106

Recording files available
Session 2
Numerical Weather Prediction
Location: West 212BC (Phoenix Convention Center - West and North Buildings)
Host: Richard Anthes Symposium
Chair: Shuyi Chen, Univ. of Washington
10:30 AM
Introduction -- Antonio Busalacchi
11:15 AM
2.2
Development and Applications of a Regional Climate Model Based on MM5 (Invited Presentation)
Dong-Kyou Lee, Seoul National Univ. and Numerical Modeling Center, Korea Meteorological Administration, Seoul, Korea, Republic of (South)
11:30 AM
2.3
12:00 PM
2.5
Recording files available
Session 3
Strengthening Atmospheric Library Services with Technology
Location: North 123 (Phoenix Convention Center - West and North Buildings)
Host: 22nd Atmospheric Science Librarians International Conference
Chair: Lisa Fish, University of Miami
10:45 AM
3.2
Tracking Translations in a Digital Age: A Mix of Old and New Tools?
Christine Sherratt, MIT Libraries, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA
11:00 AM
3.3
Interactive Library Web App for Interdisciplinary Libraries
Lory Jean D.L. Canillo, PAGASA, Manila, Philippines

11:15 AM
3.4
Virtual Forecast: Virtual and Augmented Reality Technology in the Atmospheric and Climate Sciences
Elise Gowen, Atmospheric Science Librarians International, State College, PA
11:30 AM
3.5
A Vision of the Library’s Role in Archiving Scholarly Artifacts (Invited Presentation)
Martin Klein, Los Alamos National Laboratory Research Library, Los Alamos, NM

11:45 AM
3.6
Questions and Discussion

Recording files available
Session 5
Lightning Detection Technology, Sensor Intercomparisons, and Applications
Location: North 225AB (Phoenix Convention Center - West and North Buildings)
Host: Ninth Conference on the Meteorological Application of Lightning Data
Chair: Michael Stock, Earth Networks
10:30 AM
5.1
11:00 AM
5.3
GLD360 Performance and Cloud-to-Ground Lightning Climatology
Ryan Said, Vaisala Inc., Louisville, CO; and M. J. Murphy and R. L. Holle
11:15 AM
5.4
Concurrent Satellite and Ground-Based Lightning Observations in the Northwestern Mediterranean Region from the Optical Lightning Imaging Sensor (LIS), Low-Frequency Meteorage, and Very High-Frequency SAETTA
Felix Erdmann, Laboratoire d'Aerologie, Univ. de Toulouse, CNRS, Toulouse, France; and E. Defer, O. Caumont, R. J. Blakeslee, S. Pedeboy, and S. Coquillat
11:30 AM
5.5
Huntsville, Alabama, Marx Meter Array 2: Upgrade and Capability
Yanan Zhu, Univ. of Alabama in Huntsville, Huntsville, AL; and P. M. Bitzer, M. F. Stewart, S. Podgorny, D. Corredor, J. Burchfield, K. Brunner, J. Ringhausen, S. I. Fairman, and S. Pendleton
11:45 AM
5.6
Lightning Channel Detection Using Radar and the North Georgia Lightning Mapping Array
John M. Trostel, Georgia Tech. Research Institute, Atlanta, GA; and E. F. Greneker, J. L. Losego, and M. R. Frank
Recording files available
Session 5
Phoenix as a Sandbox for Studying Urban Climate in Arid Regions. Part II
Location: North 224A (Phoenix Convention Center - West and North Buildings)
Host: 24th Conference on Applied Climatology
Cochairs: Peter Crank, Arizona State Univ.; Ariane Middel, Temple Univ.
10:45 AM
5.2
Modulation of Diurnal Cycle Ranges by Decadal Variability and Outer Urban Expansion
Mohamed Moustaoui, Arizona State Univ., Tempe, AZ; and M. Georgescu
11:00 AM
5.3
The Impact of Urbanization on North American Monsoon Precipitation in Phoenix, Arizona, within a Context of Modeled Severe Weather Events
Christopher L. Castro, The Univ. of Arizona, Tucson, AZ; and T. M. Luong, S. Grossman-Clarke, M. Jares, and H. I. Chang
11:15 AM
5.4
Design and Construction of a Hillslope-Scale Rainfall-Runoff Simulator in Phoenix, Arizona
Eric A. Escoto, Arizona State Univ., Tempe, AZ; and E. R. Vivoni, E. Kavazanjian, N. Hamdan, and C. Wilkes
11:30 AM
5.5
Characteristics of Dust Storms across South-Central Arizona
Jaret W. Rogers, NWSFO, Phoenix, AZ; and S. Meltzer and P. Iniguez
11:45 AM
5.6
Feasibility Study on Integrating Public Transport Vehicles for Heat Mapping Purposes
Jannik Heusinger, Arizona State Univ., Tempe, AZ; and D. J. Sailor and P. Crank
Recording files available
Session 5
Tropical cyclones: Coastal Impacts and Communication
Location: North 232AB (Phoenix Convention Center - West and North Buildings)
Host: Tropical Cyclones and Extreme Monsoon Precipitation: Prediction, Impacts, and Communication
Chairs: Chun-Chieh Wu, National Taiwan Univ.; Vijay Tallapragada, NOAA/NWS/NCEP/EMC
10:45 AM
5.2
Tropical Cyclone Hazard to Mumbai in the Recent Historical Climate
Adam H. Sobel, Columbia Univ., Palisades, NY; and C. Y. Lee, S. J. Camargo, H. Qureshi, K. Mandli, K. A. Emanuel, P. Mukhopadhyay, and M. Mahakur
11:00 AM
5.3
Comparing Flood-Producing Catastrophic Hurricanes in GEOS: A Study of Juan 1985 and Harvey 2017
Marangelly Fuentes, SSAI and NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD; and O. Reale, G. Partyka, L. L. Takacs, and E. McGrath-Spangler

11:30 AM
5.5
Use of a WRF-ADCIRC Ensemble to Explore Storm Surge Predictability Associated with Hurricane Irma (2017)
Alex M. Kowaleski, The Pennsylvania State Univ., University Park, PA; and R. E. Morss, D. A. Ahijevych, K. R. Fossell, and J. L. Evans
11:45 AM
5.6
A Rainfall Evaluation of Deterministic and Ensemble Basin-Scale HWRF
Mu-Chieh Ko, NOAA/AOML/HRD, Miami, FL; and F. D. Marks Jr., G. J. Alaka Jr., and S. G. Gopalakrishnan

Session 5A
CANCELLED: Advanced Planning and System Architectures for Next Generation Weather Enterprise, Space Architecture
Location: North 231AB (Phoenix Convention Center - West and North Buildings)
Host: 15th Annual Symposium on New Generation Operational Environmental Satellite Systems
Cochairs: Karen St. Germain, NOAA/NESDIS/OSAAP; Frank Gallagher, NOAA/NESDIS/OSAAP
Recording files available
Session 5B
Special Session on JPSS Series Satellite System—Part II
Location: North 231C (Phoenix Convention Center - West and North Buildings)
Host: 15th Annual Symposium on New Generation Operational Environmental Satellite Systems
Cochairs: Jason Taylor, NOAA/NESDIS/Office of Satellite and Product Operations; Scott Lindstrom, Univ. of Wisconsin/CIMSS
10:30 AM
5B.1
The JPSS Advocacy Channel
Scott S. Lindstrom, Univ. of Wisconsin/CIMSS, Madison, WI; and J. J. Gerth and W. C. Straka III
10:45 AM
5B.2
The Evolution of Gridded NUCAPS: Transition of Research to Operations
Nadia Smith, Science and Technology Corporation, Columbia, MD; and J. E. Burks, K. D. White, and E. Berndt
11:15 AM
5B.4
Observing Geophysical Phenomena from Polar-Orbiting Satellites Using the New JSTAR Mapper
Thomas Atkins, IMSG, College Park, MD; and R. C. Smith, C. Brown, L. K. Brown, and L. Zhou
11:30 AM
5B.5
Microwave Integrated Retrieval System (MiRS) and NOAA-20: Calibration/Validation and Science Developments One Year Post Launch
Christopher Grassotti, STAR, College Park, MD; and S. Liu, R. Honeyager, Y. K. Lee, and Q. Liu
11:45 AM
5B.6
Utilizing Joint Polar Satellite System (JPSS) Coverage to Monitor Meteorological Conditions in the Alaska Region
Ryan C. Smith, IMSG, College Park, MD; and T. Atkins, L. K. Brown, C. Brown, and L. Zhou
Recording files available
Session 6
Hazards in the Coastal Marine Environment: Part II
Location: North 130 (Phoenix Convention Center - West and North Buildings)
Host: 17th Symposium on the Coastal Environment
Cochairs: Michael J. DeFlorio, NASA; Saeed Moghimi, UCAR
10:45 AM
6.2
11:00 AM
6.3
National Ocean Service’s Operational Coastal Storm Surge Forecasting Updates
Sergey V. Vinogradov, NOAA, Silver Spring, MD; and E. Myers, Y. Funakoshi, S. Moghimi, and J. Calzada

11:30 AM
6.5
Enhancing Decision Support Services for Coastal Flooding in Alaska
Jonathan Chriest, NWS, Fairbanks, AK; and E. W. Plumb, K. Endres, and V. Proton
Recording files available
Session 6
New Directions for Satellite Data: Applications in Health, Air Quality, Environmental Management, and Public Outreach
Location: North 228AB (Phoenix Convention Center - West and North Buildings)
Host: 10th Conference on Environment and Health
Cochairs: Michael Newchurch, Univ. of Alabama in Huntsville; Tracey Holloway, Univ. of Wisconsin−Madison; Susan Alexander, Univ. of Alabama in Huntsville; Yang Liu, Emory Univ.
10:30 AM
6.1
Using Satellite-Derived Data to Estimate the Burden of Disease from Ambient Air Pollution in Cities Worldwide
Pattanun Achakulwisut, George Washington Univ., Washington, D.C.; and S. C. Anenberg, C. Kalman, and M. Brauer
10:45 AM
6.2
Novel Use of Satellite Data to Explore Relationships between Land Surface Conditions and Air Quality
Min Huang, George Mason Univ., Fairfax, VA; and J. H. Crawford, J. A. Santanello, and S. V. Kumar

11:00 AM
6.3
Estimating Daily PM2.5 Concentrations in New York City at 100-m Resolution Using MAIAC AOD: Lessons Learned on Integrating Nonregulatory Measurements in Exposure Models
Keyong Huang, Emory Univ., Atlanta, GA; and J. Bi, X. Meng, G. Geng, Y. Wang, A. Lyapustin, P. L. Kinney, K. J. Lane, and Y. Liu
11:15 AM
6.4
Assisting Bay Area Air Pollution Management of Surface PM2.5 by Using Satellite AOD Data
Minghui Diao, San Jose State University, San Jose, CA; and F. R. Freedman, M. Z. Al-Hamdan, and A. Venkatram
11:30 AM
6.5
Application of Satellite NO2 Retrievals to the Uncertainty Analysis of Sector-Specific NOx Emissions
Momei Qin, 311 Ferst Drive, Atlanta, GA; and M. T. Odman, Y. Hu, and A. G. Russell
11:45 AM
6.6
High-Temporal-Resolution Remote Sensing of Vegetation and Interactions with Air Quality
Peter Zoogman, Harvard Univ., Cambridge, MA; and M. Lin, C. Chan Miller, and K. Chance
Recording files available
Session 6
Waves and Circulation: Connections across Scales—Part II
Location: West 212A (Phoenix Convention Center - West and North Buildings)
Host: 20th Conference on Middle Atmosphere
Cochairs: Edwin P. Gerber, Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences; Laura Holt, NorthWest Research Associates
10:30 AM
6.1
Is the Tropospheric Wave Activity Anomalous before Sudden Stratospheric Warmings? (Invited Presentation)
Alvaro de la Camara, Complutense Univ. of Madrid, Madrid, Spain; and T. Birner and J. R. Albers
10:45 AM
6.2
The Tropopause Heat Flux prior to Two Northern Hemisphere SSWs in the High-Altitude Version of the Navy Global Environmental Model
Hannah E. Attard, NRL/National Research Council, Washington, DC; and J. McCormack, A. L. Lang, M. Flatau, K. Viner, and N. Barton
11:00 AM
6.3
11:15 AM
6.4
Using Principal Oscillation Patterns to Characterize Troposphere–Stratosphere Interactions
Aditi Sheshadri, Stanford Univ., Palo Alto, CA; and R. A. Plumb, E. A. Lindgren, and D. I. V. Domeisen
Recording files available
Session 7
A STEM Learning Community of Practice Network: Bringing STEM Advocates  and Educators Together to Share and Learn from their Experiences through Informal and Formal Education Programs
Location: North 229AB (Phoenix Convention Center - West and North Buildings)
Host: 28th Symposium on Education
Cochairs: Marlene Kaplan, NOAA Education; Shakila B. Merchant, CREST
10:30 AM
7.1
11:00 AM
7.3
AMS Early Career Leadership Academy
Mona Behl, The Univ. of Georgia, Athens, GA; and J. Rennie, A. R. Cook, M. C. Lacke, and M. Newberry Jr.
11:15 AM
7.4
11:30 AM
7.5
NOAA CCME Centerwide Competency Course: Student Training to Meet the Demands of an Interdisciplinary Workforce
Sharmini Pitter, Center for Coastal and Marine Ecosystems (CCME), Tallahassee, FL; and M. Smith, M. A. Dovil, R. Long, P. Gray-Ray, and B. Kelley
11:45 AM
7.6
Place-Based Research and Professional Experiential Learning Models through NOAA’s Investment
Shakila B. Merchant, NOAA Center for Earth System Sciences and Remote Sensing Technologies, New York, NY; and R. Khanbilvardi
Recording files available
Session 7
Aerosol–Cloud Interactions in Mixed-Phase Clouds—Part II
Location: North 223 (Phoenix Convention Center - West and North Buildings)
Host: 11th Symposium on Aerosol–Cloud–Climate Interactions
Cochairs: Yuan Wang, California Institute of Technology; Chuanfeng zhao, Beijing Normal Univ.
10:45 AM
7.2
Modeling Study for the Impacts of Aerosol and Its Embedded Environmental Conditions on Maritime/Continental Deep Convective Systems
Wei-Kuo Tao, NASA, Greenbelt, MD; and T. Iguchi, T. Matsui, S. E. Lang, S. Rutledge, B. A. Dolan, and J. I. Barnum

11:00 AM
7.3
Enlarging Rainfall Area of Tropical Cyclone By Atmospheric Aerosols
Chuanfeng zhao, Beijing Normal Univ., Beijing, China; and Y. Wang
11:15 AM
7.4
Mechanisms of Aerosol-Induced Invigoration in Deep Convective Storms
Adele L Igel, Univ. of California, Davis, Davis, CA; and A. Yu and S. C. van den Heever

11:45 AM
7.6
Invigoration of Deep Convection in Polluted Environments: Myth or Reality?
Wojciech W. Grabowski, NCAR, Boulder, CO; and I. Geresdi, N. Sarkadi, and L. Xue
Recording files available
Session 7
Exploring Effective Weather Communication
Location: North 226C (Phoenix Convention Center - West and North Buildings)
Host: 14th Symposium on Societal Applications: Policy, Research and Practice
Chair: Olga Wilhelmi, NCAR
10:45 AM
7.2
Surveying the TCM with NWS Partners
Ayesha Wilkinson, NCAS, Howard University, Washington, D.C.; and J. L. Schauer
11:00 AM
7.3
Satellite RGBs for NWS Forecasters with Color Vision Deficiency
Katie C. Vigil, CIMMS, Norman, OK; and E. B. Berndt, K. J. Runk, C. M. Gravelle, and M. J. Foster
11:15 AM
7.4
Communicating Probabilistic Weather Forecasts to Emergency Managers
Nadine Fleischhut, MPI, Berlin, Germany; and M. Goeber, S. M. Herzog, and R. Hertwig
11:45 AM
7.6A
Place Attachment, Climatology, and Tornado Risk Perception in Central Oklahoma
Victoria A. Johnson, University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK; and R. A. Peppler and K. E. Klockow-McClain
Recording files available
Panel Discussion 7
Implications of Real-Time Earth Observation Data for Risk Management
Location: North 221C (Phoenix Convention Center - West and North Buildings)
Host: Seventh Symposium on the Weather, Water, and Climate Enterprise
Moderator: Michael Hurowitz, Orbital Micro Systems, Inc.
Implications of Real-Time Earth Observation Data for Risk Management
Michael Hurowitz, Orbital Micro Systems, Inc., Denver, CO
Recording files available
Session 7A
Atmospheric Chemistry Modeling and Observational Analysis—Part II
Location: North 124A (Phoenix Convention Center - West and North Buildings)
Host: 21st Conference on Atmospheric Chemistry
Chair: Richard Eckman, NASA
Cochairs: Kenneth W. Jucks, NASA Headquarters; Michael J. Prather, Univ. of California, Irvine
11:00 AM
7A.3
Transpacific Transport of Dust and Pollution around Mid-Latitude Cyclones as Revealed by Fine-Resolution Satellite Observations and GEOS-5 Simulations
Hongbin Yu, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD; and Q. Tan, H. Bian, T. Yuan, and M. Chin

11:15 AM
7A.4
Development of the Joint NOAA-NASA Aerosol Reanalysis: Progress and Plans
Mariusz Pagowski, NOAA/ESRL/GSD, Boulder, CO; and A. M. Dasilva, S. Lu, and W. Shih-Wei
11:30 AM
7A.5
New Measurements of Size-Dependent Aerosol Chemistry in the Lower Stratosphere
Daniel Murphy, NOAA, Boulder, CO; and K. D. Froyd, G. P. Schill, C. A. Brock, A. Kupc, and C. J. Williamson

11:45 AM
7A.6
Multi-Angle Aerosol Remote Sensing: From Research Algorithm to Applications
Ralph Kahn, NASA GSFC, Greenbelt, MD; and J. A. Limbacher, V. J. B. Flower, M. D. Friberg, M. Petrenko, and M. val Martin

Recording files available
Session 8
The Second Wind Forecast Improvement Project (WFIP2): Part II
Location: North 129A (Phoenix Convention Center - West and North Buildings)
Host: 10th Conference on Weather, Climate, and the New Energy Economy
Cochairs: William J. Shaw, PNNL; Yelena L. Pichugina, NOAA
10:30 AM
8.1
Using Nacelle-Mounted Anemometer Measurements to Analyze a Complex Terrain Effect on Wind Flow Pattern
Brandi J. McCarty, CIRES, Univ. of Colorado Boulder, Boulder, CO; and Y. Pichugina, A. Choukulkar, T. A. Bonin, M. Marquis, and J. Sharp

10:45 AM
8.2
Observations of Wind Turbine Wake and Wind Plant Wake in the Columbia River Gorge Using a Scanning Doppler Lidar
Aditya Choukulkar, Univ. of Colorado Boulder and NOAA/ESRL/Chemical Sciences Division, Boulder, CO; and B. J. McCarty, Y. Pichugina, T. A. Bonin, R. Banta, S. P. Sandberg, A. M. Weickmann, and A. Brewer
11:00 AM
8.3
Simulating Scanning Lidar Data Using Spatiotemporally Resolved LES Data
Raj Rai, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, WA; and L. K. Berg, R. K. Newsom, and J. D. Mirocha

11:15 AM
8.4
Surface Energy Balance Closure at Different Temporal Scales in the WFIP2 HRRR Model
Katherine McCaffrey, CIRES, Boulder, CO; and A. A. Grachev, B. W. Blomquist, J. B. Olson, and J. M. Wilczak
11:30 AM
8.5
Evaluation of the Impact of Lateral Mixing in the New WRF 3D PBL Parameterization
Masih Eghdami, Duke Univ., Durham, NC; and P. A. Jimenez, B. Kosovic, and A. P. Barros
Recording files available
Session 8A
Radar Technologies and Applications—Part II
Location: West 211B (Phoenix Convention Center - West and North Buildings)
Host: 35th Conference on Environmental Information Processing Technologies
Cochairs: Kurt D. Hondl, NOAA/NSSL; Michael J. Istok, NOAA/NWS; Mark B. Yeary, Univ. of Oklahoma
10:30 AM
8A.1
NEXRAD Radar Product Improvement—Update 2019
Michael J. Istok, NOAA/NWS, Silver Spring, MD

11:00 AM
8A.3
11:15 AM
8A.4
Raytheon LPR Polarimetric Weather Data Processing System
David L. Pepyne, Univ. of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA; and E. J. Knapp and M. D. Dubois

11:30 AM
8A.5
Improving Hail Detection and Monitoring Using CASA X-Band Radars and Understory In-Situ Hail Sensors in Dallas–Fort Worth
Chandrasekar V. Chandra, Colorado State Univ., Fort Collins, CO; and C. Radhakrishnan, I. Arias, E. Lyons, A. Kubicek, and E. Hewitt

11:45 AM
8A.6
The “Horus” Radar—An All-Digital Polarimetric Phased Array Radar for Multi-Mission Surveillance
Robert D. Palmer, Advanced Radar Research Center/Univ. of Oklahoma, Norman, OK; and C. J. Fulton, J. Salazar, H. Sigmarsson, and M. Yeary
Recording files available
Session 8B
Visualization Techniques for Climatology and Meteorology—Part III
Location: North 132ABC (Phoenix Convention Center - West and North Buildings)
Host: 35th Conference on Environmental Information Processing Technologies
Cochairs: Jared Rennie, CICS/North Carolina State Univ.; J. T. Johnson, Weather Decision Technologies; Scott Jacobs, NOAA/NWS
10:45 AM
8B.2
Giovanni Current and Future—Analysis Ready, Cloud Ready
Angela Li, NASA GES DISC, Greenbelt, MD; and M. hegde, H. Zhang, C. Smit, L. pham, and D. Meyer

11:00 AM
8B.3
11:15 AM
8B.4
Using Virtual Reality Technology as a Tool in Disaster Risk Reduction
Branden Spooner, Caribbean Institute for Meteorology and Hydrology, Bridgetown, Barbados; and D. Farrell, S. A. Boyce, and G. Niles
Recording files available
Session 9
Space Weather As We Approach Solar Minimum. Part II
Location: North 227A-C (Phoenix Convention Center - West and North Buildings)
Host: 16th Conference on Space Weather
Chair: Christina O. Lee, Space Sciences Laboratory, Univ. of California, Berkeley
10:30 AM
9.1
Radiation and Plasma Hazards to Satellites in the Declining Solar Cycle (Invited Presentation)
Thomas Paul O'Brien III, The Aerospace Corporation, Chantilly, VA

Handout (1.3 MB)

11:00 AM
9.2
Overlapping Bands: Clashing Helicity
Scott McIntosh, NCAR, Boulder, CO; and R. J. Leamon
11:15 AM
9.3
Are Stealth CMEs a New Space Weather Forecasting Extreme?
Tamitha Skov, Aerospace Corporation, El Segundo, CA; and N. Nitta
12:00 PM
HAARP -- Reaching Out and Touching the Ionosphere -- Bob McCoy
Recording files available
Session 9A
Advances in Evaporation and Evaporative Demand II
Location: North 127ABC (Phoenix Convention Center - West and North Buildings)
Host: 33rd Conference on Hydrology
Cochairs: Martha C. Anderson, USDA-ARS; Christopher Hain, NASA Marshall Space Flight Center; Justin Huntington, Desert Research Institute
10:45 AM
9A.2AA
An Open-Source Modeling Suite for Monitoring Evapotranspiration at Regional and Field Scales
Mitchell Andrew Schull, CICS, College Park, MD; and C. R. Hain, M. C. Anderson, F. Gao, X. Zhan, and C. M. U. Neale
11:00 AM
9A.3
Two-Source Energy Balance Model (TSEB) with Internal LAI Estimation for Evapotranspiration Estimation Using sUAS High-Resolution Imagery over Vineyards
Mahyar Aboutalebi, Utah State Univ., Logan, UT; and H. Nieto, A. Torres-Rua, M. Mckee, W. P. Kustas, C. Coopmans, J. G. Alfieri, W. A. White, L. G. McKee, L. E. Hipps, and J. H. Prueger

11:15 AM
9A.4
Next Generation of Water Use Mapping Based on Merging Landsat and Sentinel-2 Satellite Data
Ramesh Singh, ASRC Federal InuTeq, Sioux Falls, SD; and G. B. Senay, M. Schauer, and Z. Wu

11:30 AM
9A.5
Satellite-Based Mapping of Field-Scale Stress Indicators for Crop Yield Forecasting: An Application across the Corn Belt, USA
Yang Yang, USDA-ARS, Beltsville, MD; and M. C. Anderson, F. Gao, B. Wardlow, C. Hain, J. A. Otkin, J. G. Alfieri, Y. Yang, L. Sun, and W. Dulaney

11:45 AM
9A.6
Direct Measurement of Lake Evaporation—A Texas Experiment
Andrew Weinberg, Texas Water Development Board, Austin, TX; and M. Vielleux and Y. Yang
12:00 PM
Developing and exploiting a new global reanalysis of evaporative demand for internation al food security assessments and drought monitoring
Mike Hobbins, NOAA, Boulder, CO
Recording files available
Session 9A
Extreme Climate Events in the Middle Latitudes—Part II
Location: North 121BC (Phoenix Convention Center - West and North Buildings)
Host: 32nd Conference on Climate Variability and Change
Chair: Arielle J. Catalano, Portland State Univ.
10:30 AM
9A.1
Historical Perspective on Hurricane Harvey Rainfall
Kenneth E. Kunkel, CICS-NC, Asheville, NC; and R. L. Smith
10:45 AM
9A.2
Understanding CWRF Ability to Simulate U.S. Extreme Precipitation Characteristics
Xin-Zhong Liang, Univ. of Maryland, College Park, College Park, MD; and C. Sun
11:00 AM
9A.3
North America's Winter Circulation has Changed, but for How Long?
Shih-Yu (Simon) Wang, Utah State Univ., Logan, UT; and J. H. Yoon and L. Wang
11:30 AM
9A.5
Identifying Northern Great Plains Blizzards in the Past, Present, and Future
Aaron D. Kennedy, Univ. of North Dakota, Grand Forks, ND; and A. Trellinger
11:45 AM
9A.6
Role of Pacific Sea Surface Temperatures in U.S. Great Plains Pluvial Years
Paul X. Flanagan, Univ. of Oklahoma, Norman, OK; and J. Basara, J. C. Furtado, E. R. Martin, and X. Xiao
Recording files available
Session 9A
Research to Operations Progress in GNSS Radio Occultations for Numerical Weather Prediction and Ionospheric Studies: Part II
Location: North 230 (Phoenix Convention Center - West and North Buildings)
Host: Ninth Conference on Transition of Research to Operations
Cochairs: Eric Fetzer, JPL/California Institute of Technology; Stephen A. Mango, NOAA/NESDIS/Office of Projects, Planning and Analysis
10:30 AM
9A.1
GNSS-RO Data Quality Assurance for Operational Weather Forecast Using the Integrated Calibration, Verification, and Validation System
Changyong Cao, NOAA/NESDIS/STAR/SMCD, College Park, DC; and E. M. Lynch, B. Zhang, T. Reale, and Y. Bai
11:00 AM
9A.2
Recent Results in the Validation and Monitoring of COSMIC Radio Occultation Performance
Bin Zhang, Univ. of Maryland, College Park, MD; and E. M. Lynch, C. Cao, X. Shao, and L. Lin
11:45 AM
9A.5
Measuring and Assessing GNSS Radio Occultation (GNSS-RO) Profiles from Balloon Platforms
Bryan Chan, Night Crew Labs, Woodside, CA; and A. Goel, T. Reid, C. Snyder, and P. Tarantino
Recording files available
Session 9B
Probabilistic Hydrometeorological Forecasting and Uncertainty Analysis II
Location: North 126BC (Phoenix Convention Center - West and North Buildings)
Host: 33rd Conference on Hydrology
Cochairs: Huiling Yuan, Nanjing Univ.; Kristie J. Franz, Iowa State Univ.; Shugong Wang, NASA GSFC/SAIC
10:30 AM
9B.1
10:45 AM
9B.2
Ensemble Streamflow Forecasts Using Spatially Shifted QPF
Kristie J. Franz, Iowa State Univ., Ames, IA; and B. R. Carlberg and W. A. Gallus Jr.
11:00 AM
9B.3A
The Forecast Informed Reservoir Operations Project for Lake Mendocino—Lessons Learned So Far (Invited Presentation)
Michael L. Anderson, California Department of Water Resources, Sacramento, CA; and F. M. Ralph, J. Jasperse, and C. Talbot
11:15 AM
9B.4
11:30 AM
9B.5
Hydrologic Ensemble Forecast at the Russian River Watershed
Ali Hamidi, SIO, La Jolla, CA; and L. Diaz, R. Weihs, F. Cannon, A. Martin, and F. M. Ralph
11:45 AM
9B.6
Probabilistic Urban Flood Forecasting System for Chinese Mega Cities Using Advanced Active Phased Array Radar
Dehua Zhu, Nanjing Univ. of Information Science and Technology, Nanjing, China; and Y. Xuan, X. Bao, Y. Chen, and D. Hu

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Session 9B
Testbeds (HWT) to Enable and Accelerate the Transition of Research to Operations to Decision Makers, End Users and to the Public in Weather, Water, or Climate Applications: Part II
Location: North 232C (Phoenix Convention Center - West and North Buildings)
Host: Ninth Conference on Transition of Research to Operations
Cochairs: Chandra Kondragunta, NOAA/OAR; Alan Gerard, NOAA/OAR/NSSL
10:30 AM
9B.1
Incorporating End Users in Hazardous Weather Testbed Experiments
Kodi Nemunaitis-Berry, CIMMS, Norman, OK; and H. Obermeier, K. M. Calhoun, T. C. Meyer, K. E. Klockow-McClain, and D. LaDue
10:45 AM
9B.2
Community Update on FACETs Social Science Research
Lans P. Rothfusz, NSSL, Norman, OK; and A. Gerard and K. E. Klockow-McClain
11:15 AM
9B.4
Testing of Scorecards for Convection Allowing Models during HWT 2018
Christina P. Kalb, NCAR, Boulder, CO; and T. Jensen, B. T. Gallo, A. J. Clark, B. Roberts, P. S. Skinner, and C. Alexander
11:30 AM
9B.5
Improving Forecast Guidance through the Joint Hurricane Testbed
Mark DeMaria, NOAA/NWS/NCEP, Miami, FL; and J. A. Sippel

11:45 AM
9B.6
Transitioning Research Innovations into the Operational Hurricane WRF model
Kathryn M. Newman, NCAR and Developmental Testbed Center, Boulder, CO; and E. A. Kalina, M. K. Biswas, E. D. Grell, J. Frimel, and L. Carson
Recording files available
Session 9B
Variability and Predictability of Climate on Subseasonal-to-Seasonal Time Scales—Part II
Location: North 122BC (Phoenix Convention Center - West and North Buildings)
Host: 32nd Conference on Climate Variability and Change
Chair: Isla R. Simpson, NCAR
10:30 AM
9B.1
Quantifying the Dependence of the Global Response to the Madden–Julian Oscillation on the Quasi-Biennial Oscillation
Benjamin A. Toms, Colorado State Univ., Fort Collins, CO; and E. A. Barnes, E. D. Maloney, and S. C. van den Heever
11:00 AM
9B.3
What Drives the North Atlantic Oscillation's Surface Air Temperature Anomaly Pattern?
Joseph P. Clark, The Pennsylvania State Univ., University Park, PA; and S. B. Feldstein
11:30 AM
9B.5
Understanding Positive Feedback between PNA and Synoptic Eddies by Eddy Structure Decomposition Method
Hong-Li Ren, Beijing Climate Center, China Meteorological Administration, Beijing, China; and F. Zhou
11:45 AM
9B.6
Recording files available
Session 10
Data Assimilation—Part V
Location: North 131C (Phoenix Convention Center - West and North Buildings)
Host: 23rd Conference on Integrated Observing and Assimilation Systems for the Atmosphere, Oceans, and Land Surface (IOAS-AOLS)
Chair: Sean Casey, University of Miami/CIMAS and NOAA/AOML/HRD
10:30 AM
10.1
An Ensemble Reanalysis with the Community Earth System Model 2.0
Kevin Raeder, NCAR, Boulder, CO; and J. Anderson, J. H. Richter, N. Pedatella, J. Tribbia, T. Hoar, N. Collins, and M. El Gharamti
10:45 AM
10.2
Hydrometeorology As an Inversion Problem: Can River Discharge Observations Improve the Atmosphere by Ensemble Data Assimilation?
Yohei Sawada, Meteorological Research Institute, Japan Meteorological Agency, Tsukuba, Japan; and T. Nakaegawa and T. Miyoshi
11:15 AM
10.4
The MIIDAPS Algorithm for Retrieval and Quality Control for Microwave and Infrared Observations: Applications in Data Assimilation
Erin Jones, Riverside Technology, Inc. and NOAA/NESDIS/STAR, College Park, MD; and E. Maddy, K. Garrett, and S. A. Boukabara

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Session 10
Understanding the Impact of Weather on Commercial Aviation—Part II
Location: North 224B (Phoenix Convention Center - West and North Buildings)
Host: 19th Conference on Aviation, Range, and Aerospace Meteorology
Cochairs: Le Jiang, IMSG; Stephanie Avey, NOAA
10:30 AM
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10:45 AM
10.2
Correlation between Observed Snowfall and Operational Efficiency at Major U.S. Airports
Benjamin David Dillahunt, Southwest Airlines Co., Dallas, TX; and M. Mathews
11:15 AM
10.4
Characterization of High Ice Water Content Conditions that Impact Air Data System Performance
Julie Haggerty, NCAR, Boulder, CO; and T. Ratvasky, A. Rugg, J. Jensen, J. W. Strapp, L. Lillie, and K. M. Bedka
11:45 AM
10.6A
JPSS Aviation Weather Initiative
Jeffrey Weinrich, JPSS Program Office/Global Science & Technology, Inc., Lanham, MD
Recording files available
Session 11
Cyclone Global Navigation Satellite System (CYGNSS) Observations and Applications—Part II
Location: North 131AB (Phoenix Convention Center - West and North Buildings)
Host: 23rd Conference on Integrated Observing and Assimilation Systems for the Atmosphere, Oceans, and Land Surface (IOAS-AOLS)
Chair: Zhaoxia Pu, Univ. of Utah
10:30 AM
11.1
Global Impacts of Assimilating CYGNSS Winds on Surface Wind Fields Using a 2-Dimensional Variational Analysis Method
S. Mark Leidner, Atmospheric and Environmental Research, Norman, OK; and S. J. Majumdar, J. Hegarty, and B. D. McNoldy
10:45 AM
11.2
Assimilation of CYGNSS Wind Data for Improving Tropical Convection Forecasts
Xuanli Li, Univ. of Alabama, Huntsville, AL; and T. J. Lang and J. R. Mecikalski
11:00 AM
11.3
11:15 AM
11.5
Impact of CYGNSS Data on Tropical Cyclone Analysis and Forecasts Using the Operational HWRF
Bachir Annane, Univ. of Miami and NOAA/AOML, Miami, FL; and B. D. McNoldy, S. M. Leidner, R. N. Hoffman, R. Atlas, and S. J. Majumdar
11:30 AM
11.6
Use of Kalman Filtering to Improve CYNSS Air-Sea Interaction Applications
J. Brent Roberts, NASA MSFC, Huntsville, AL; and T. J. Lang

11:45 AM
Q&A Discussion

Recording files available
Themed Joint Session 17
How Can AI/Stat Models be Interpreted Physically (Joint with the AMS Committee on Probability and Statistics)
Location: North 124B (Phoenix Convention Center - West and North Buildings)
Host: 18th Conference on Artificial and Computational Intelligence and its Applications to the Environmental Sciences
Cochairs: Philippe Tissot, Texas A&M University−Corpus Christi; Amy McGovern, University of Oklahoma; Elizabeth A. Satterfield, NRL
10:30 AM
TJ17.1
Making the Black Box More Transparent: Understanding the Physical Implications of Machine Learning (Core Science Keynote)
Amy McGovern, University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK; and D. J. Gagne II, R. A. Lagerquist, E. Jergensen, and K. L. Elmore
11:00 AM
TJ17.2
Physics-Informed Generative Learning to Emulate Unresolved Physics in Climate Models
Jinlong Wu, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA; and K. Kashinath, A. Albert, M. Prabhat, and H. Xiao
11:15 AM
TJ17.3
Neural Networks for Postprocessing Ensemble Weather Forecasts
Stephan Rasp, Ludwig-Maximilians-University, Munich, Germany; and S. Lerch
11:30 AM
TJ17.4
Some Conclusions on Applying Statistical Design of Experiments to Numerical Weather Prediction
Jeffrey A. Smith, U.S. Army Research Laboratory, White Sands Missile Range (WSMR), NM; and R. S. Penc, J. W. Raby, and J. L. Cleveland
11:45 AM
TJ17.5
Interpretable AI for Deep Learning−Based Meteorological Applications
Conner Sprague, The Aerospace Corporation, Chantilly, VA; and E. B. Wendoloski and I. Guch
Recording files available
Themed Joint Session 18
Vulnerability and Extreme Events
Location: North 226AB (Phoenix Convention Center - West and North Buildings)
Hosts: (Joint between the 14th Symposium on Societal Applications: Policy, Research and Practice; the Seventh Symposium on the Weather, Water, and Climate Enterprise; and the Seventh Symposium on Building a Weather-Ready Nation )
Cochairs: Aaron J. Piña, Aeris LLC; Rebecca Haacker, NCAR
10:30 AM
TJ18.1
Examining Vulnerability to Tornadoes Using Census Tract-Level Demographic Data and Tornado Damage Survey Paths
Charles M. Kuster, CIMMS/University of Oklahoma and NOAA/NSSL, Norman, OK; and J. T. Ripberger
11:15 AM
TJ18.4
Finescale Assessment of Mobile Home Tornado Vulnerability in the Central and Southeast United States
Walker S. Ashley, Northern Illinois University, DeKalb, IL; and S. M. Strader
11:30 AM
TJ18.5
A Psychological Analysis of Self-Protective Decision-Making during Natural Hazards
Cassandra A. Shivers-Williams, CIMMS, Norman, OK; and A. P. Cole Dixon and T. Adams
11:45 AM
TJ18.6A
Coffee Talk: A Social, Behavioral, and Economic Science Research and Operations Round Table Discussion
Gina M. Eosco, CNSP Support to NOAA/Office of Weather and Air Quality, Silver Spring, MD; and J. Cortinas Jr., J. Sprague, and D. Geppi
Recording files available
Themed Joint Session 19
Extreme Wildfire and Smoke Plumes: Causes, Impacts, and Predictability (Themed Joint Session)
Location: West 211A (Phoenix Convention Center - West and North Buildings)
Hosts: (Joint between the Ninth Symposium on Lidar Atmospheric Applications; the 21st Conference on Atmospheric Chemistry; and the 10th Conference on Environment and Health )
Cochairs: David A. Peterson, NRL; Michael Fromm, NRL; Shubhayu Saha, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
10:30 AM
TJ19.1
Airborne Doppler Radar Observations of PyroCu/Cb Plume Kinematics and Thermodynamics during the 2016 Pioneer Fire in Idaho
Bruno Rodriguez, San Jose State University, San José, CA; and D. E. Kingsmill, N. P. Lareau, and C. B. Clements
11:00 AM
TJ19.3
Wildfire-Driven Thunderstorms Cause a Volcano-Like Stratospheric Injection of Smoke
David A. Peterson, NRL, Monterey, CA; and J. R. Campbell, E. J. Hyer, M. D. Fromm, G. P. Kablick III, J. H. Cossuth, and M. T. DeLand
11:15 AM
TJ19.4
Long-Range Smoke Transport: Monitoring with the New European Automatic Lidar Network—E-PROFILE
Maxime Hervo, MeteoSwiss, Payerne, Switzerland; and A. Haefele, R. Ruefenacht, M. Turp, J. L. Lampin, M. Haeffelin, I. Mattis, E. Hopkin, S. Kotthaus, W. Thomas, A. Mortier, Q. Laffineur, M. J. de Haij, S. Itsvan, D. Martin, and P. Skrivankova
11:30 AM
TJ19.5A
11:45 AM
TJ19.6

12:00 PM-1:30 PM: Wednesday, 9 January 2019


Anthes Luncheon
Location: West 213AB (Phoenix Convention Center - West and North Buildings)

Lunch Break (Wed)
Recording files available
Richard Anthes Symposium Luncheon
Location: West 213AB (Phoenix Convention Center - West and North Buildings)
Opening Remarks—Bob Serafin, NCAR

Keynote Speech—Louis Uccellini, NOAA/NWS

12:15 PM-1:15 PM: Wednesday, 9 January 2019

Recording files available
AMS Publications: Moving Into the Next Century
Location: North 126BC (Phoenix Convention Center - West and North Buildings)
Host: Side Panels
Organizer: Michael Friedman, AMS
12:15 PM
Welcome
Michael Friedman, AMS, Boston, MA
12:30 PM
How Far We've Come
Keith Seitter, Executive Director, American Meteorological Society, Boston, MA
AMS Publications: Moving Into the Next Century
Michael Friedman, AMS, Boston, MA
1:00 PM
Library Perspective
Frederick Stoss, State Univ. of New York, Buffalo, NY


CANCELED: A Discussion on the Successes and Challenges of Communicating the Science and Data to Users
Location: North 231AB (Phoenix Convention Center - West and North Buildings)
Host: Town Hall Meetings
Organizer: Kathryn Shontz, NOAA/NESDIS/OSAAP
Facilitator: William Hooke, Associate Executive Director of AMS
Panelists: Christopher D. Barnet, NOAA/NESDIS; Elisabeth Gawthrop, IRI; Karen St. Germain, NOAA/NESDIS/OSAAP; Laura Myers, Univ. of Alabama; Kristopher D. White, NOAA

CANCELED: NOAA Model Development Forum
Location: North 230 (Phoenix Convention Center - West and North Buildings)
Host: Town Hall Meetings
Organizer: Hendrik Tolman, NOAA/NWS/NCEP

NOAA Big Data Project Updates
Location: North 222AB (Phoenix Convention Center - West and North Buildings)
Host: Town Hall Meetings
Organizer: Nazila Merati, ERT, Inc
Facilitator: Mohan K. Ramamurthy, UCAR
Panelists: Zachary Flaming, University of Chicago Center for Data Intensive Science; Joe Flasher, Amazon; Shane Glass, Google Inc.; Jonathon O'Neil, NOAA
Recording files available
Session
Presidential Town Hall with Bob Riddaway: Do Meteorological Societies Do Things That Others Cannot?
Location: North 122BC (Phoenix Convention Center - West and North Buildings)
Hosts: (Joint between the Presidential Town Hall Meetings; and the Events )
Speaker: Robert Riddaway, President, European Meteorological Society
12:15 PM
Presidential Town Hall with Bob Riddaway: Do Meteorological Societies Do Things That Others Cannot?
Robert Riddaway, President, European Meteorological Society

Statistics vs Machine Learning for Complex Problems: White, Black or Grey Boxes?
Location: North 224A (Phoenix Convention Center - West and North Buildings)
Hosts: (Joint between the Town Hall Meetings; and the 18th Conference on Artificial and Computational Intelligence and its Applications to the Environmental Sciences )
Organizer: Elizabeth A. Satterfield, NRL
Facilitator: Philippe E. Tissot, Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi
Panelists: Elana Fertig, Johns Hopkins University; David John Gagne II, NCAR; Sebastian Lerch, Heidelberg Institute for Theoretical Studies; Amy McGovern, University of Oklahoma; Elaine Yang, Jupiter

The AMS Hydrology Committee, the past, present and future
Location: North 127ABC (Phoenix Convention Center - West and North Buildings)
Host: Town Hall Meetings
Organizer: Joshua K. Roundy, Univ. of Kansas
Facilitator: Kristie J. Franz, Iowa State Univ.
Panelists: David J. Gochis, NCAR; John C. Schaake, Consultant; Christa D. Peters-Lidard, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center; Wade T. Crow, USDA; Mike Hobbins, NOAA; Dennis P. Lettenmaier, Univ. of California

United States Air Force Weather Capabilities Roadmap
Location: North 226AB (Phoenix Convention Center - West and North Buildings)
Host: Town Hall Meetings
Organizer: John P. Dreher, AWS

12:45 PM-1:05 PM: Wednesday, 9 January 2019


Daily Weather Briefings (Wed)
Location: North 132ABC (Phoenix Convention Center - West and North Buildings)

1:30 PM-2:00 PM: Wednesday, 9 January 2019

Recording files available
Session 3
GNSS Remote Sensing with Radio Occultation Technique
Location: West 212BC (Phoenix Convention Center - West and North Buildings)
Host: Richard Anthes Symposium
Chair: Sean B. Healy, ECMWF

1:30 PM-2:30 PM: Wednesday, 9 January 2019


Robert E. Horton Lecture
Recording files available
Lecture 1
2019 Horton Lecture
Location: North 127ABC (Phoenix Convention Center - West and North Buildings)
Hosts: (Joint between the 33rd Conference on Hydrology; and the Events )
1:30 PM
Integrated Approaches for Drought Monitoring and Early Warning in Data Scarce Regions
Justin Sheffield, Univ. of Southampton, Southhampton, United Kingdom
Recording files available
Panel Discussion 1
Connecting NESDIS/GOES-R to the NWS through the Operations Proving Ground
Location: North 231C (Phoenix Convention Center - West and North Buildings)
Host: 15th Annual Symposium on New Generation Operational Environmental Satellite Systems
Moderator: Matt Seybold, NOAA/NESDIS/OSPO
Panelists: Kathryn Mozer, NOAA/NESDIS/STAR; Kim J. Runk, NOAA/NWS Operations Proving Ground; Chad M. Gravelle, NOAA/NWS Operations Proving Ground; Elizabeth Kline, NOAA/NESDIS/GOES-R; Philip N. Schumacher, NWS
1:30 PM
PD1.1
Connecting NESDIS/GOES-R to the NWS through the Operations Proving Ground
Chad M. Gravelle, NOAA/NWS Operations Proving Ground, Kansas City, MO
Recording files available
Joint Session 1
Connections between Tropical Convection and the Stratosphere—Part I
Location: West 212A (Phoenix Convention Center - West and North Buildings)
Hosts: (Joint between the 20th Conference on Middle Atmosphere; and the Seventh Symposium on the Madden-Julian Oscillation and Sub-Seasonal Monsoon Variability )
Cochairs: Chaim I. Garfinkel, Hebrew Univ. of Jerusalem; Lon L. Hood, The Univ. of Arizona
1:30 PM
J1.1
Interannual and Intraseasonal Variations in Stratospheric Gravity Waves and Relationships to Tropical Convection (Invited Presentation)
M. Joan Alexander, NorthWest Research Associates, Boulder, CO; and C. Liu, J. Richter, J. T. Bacmeister, and A. Hertzog
2:00 PM
J1.3
Impact of the QBO on Prediction and Predictability of the MJO Convection
Shuguang Wang, Columbia Univ., New York, NY; and M. K. Tippett, A. H. Sobel, Z. K. Martin, and F. Vitart

2:15 PM
J1.4A

Panel Discussion 1
How to Build a Vibrant Community in the Age of Social Media: Should We Evangelize Open-Source Languages at the Risk of Alienating Potential Community Members?
Location: North 129B (Phoenix Convention Center - West and North Buildings)
Host: Ninth Symposium on Advances in Modeling and Analysis Using Python
Recording files available
Joint Session 2
Investigations of Air Quality within Coastal Environments. Part I
Location: West 211A (Phoenix Convention Center - West and North Buildings)
Hosts: (Joint between the Ninth Symposium on Lidar Atmospheric Applications; and the 21st Conference on Atmospheric Chemistry )
Cochairs: Lance Nino, Cornell Univ.; John T. Sullivan, NASA GSFC
1:30 PM
J2.1
Direct Observations of Pollution Gradients within the Chesapeake Bay Watershed: Overview of the Ozone Water–Land Environmental Transition Study-2 (OWLETS-2)
John T. Sullivan, NASA GSFC, Wallops Island, VA; and T. Berkoff, J. Dreessen, R. Delgado, G. Gronoff, L. Nino, B. J. Carroll, V. Caicedo, L. Judd, J. Al-Saadi, M. Tzortziou, V. R. Morris, S. F. J. De Wekker, C. Hennigan, R. K. Sakai, A. Flores, X. Ren, R. R. Dickerson, P. Stratton, W. Luke, P. Kelley, S. Flynn, R. A. Hannun, G. Sumnicht, L. Twigg, N. Dacic, J. Anderson, R. Swap, and T. J. McGee
1:45 PM
J2.2
Air Quality of Baltimore and New York City: A Conspiracy of Meteorology and Chemistry
Russell R. Dickerson, Univ. of Maryland, College Park, College Park, MD; and S. Benish, T. P. Canty, J. Dreessen, P. Miller, X. Ren, R. J. Salawitch, and P. Stratton

2:00 PM
J2.3
Air Quality during Heatwave Periods over Land and Water during the OWLETS-2 Campaign
Ricardo K. Sakai, Howard Univ., Beltsville, MD; and V. R. Morris, A. Flores, B. J. Carroll, V. Caicedo, R. Delgado, B. B. Demoz, O. Parker, M. Tzortziou, J. T. Sullivan, and J. Dreessen
2:15 PM
J2.4
Ozone Lidar Observations during the Long Island Sound Tropospheric Ozone Study
Timothy Berkoff, NASA Langley Research Center, Hampton, VA; and J. Sullivan, G. Gronoff, L. Nino, W. Carrion, L. Twigg, J. Sparrow, T. Knepp, D. Tully, M. Chaffee, P. Babich, L. Valin, and J. Szykman
Recording files available
Session 4
Atmospheric Data, Collections, and Research Services in Academic Libraries
Location: North 123 (Phoenix Convention Center - West and North Buildings)
Host: 22nd Atmospheric Science Librarians International Conference
Chair: Joyce Shaw, Univ. of Southern Mississippi
1:45 PM
4.2
Scaling Research Services for the New American University Library
Matthew Harp, Arizona State Univ., Tempe, AZ; and J. Kromer
2:00 PM
4.3
Librarians as Researchers and Academics
David Ehrensperger, Embry-Riddle, Prescott, AZ
2:15 PM
4.4
The Future of Print Collections at Arizona State University Library
Lorrie McAllister, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ; and S. Laster
Recording files available
Joint Session 4
Maritime Extreme Weather: Challenges and Opportunities
Location: North 221C (Phoenix Convention Center - West and North Buildings)
Hosts: (Joint between the Special Symposium on Mesoscale Meteorological Extremes: Understanding, Prediction, and Projection; the 17th Symposium on the Coastal Environment; and the Seventh Symposium on the Weather, Water, and Climate Enterprise )
Cochairs: Kathryn Gilbert, NCEP; Thomas J. Cuff, NOAA/NWS/Ocean Prediction Center; Mona Behl, The Univ. of Georgia
2:15 PM
J4.4
Crowdsourcing Marine Observations with mPING
Kimberly L. Elmore, CIMMS/Univ. of Oklahoma and NOAA/NSSL, Norman, OK; and K. Berry and A. Gerard
Recording files available
Joint Session 4
Whole Atmosphere Coupling during Extreme Events. Part I
Location: North 227A-C (Phoenix Convention Center - West and North Buildings)
Hosts: (Joint between the 16th Conference on Space Weather; and the 20th Conference on Middle Atmosphere )
Chair: Larisa Goncharenko, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
1:30 PM
J4.1
2:15 PM
J4.3
Comparison of Two Medium Energy Electron Datasets in WACCM (Invited Presentation)
Josh Pettit, Univ. of Colorado Boulder, Boulder, CO; and C. E. Randall, E. D. Peck, D. R. Marsh, X. Fang, and V. L. Harvey
Recording files available
Joint Session 6
Artificial Intelligence and Climate: Impact and Opportunities
Location: North 124B (Phoenix Convention Center - West and North Buildings)
Hosts: (Joint between the 18th Conference on Artificial and Computational Intelligence and its Applications to the Environmental Sciences; and the 32nd Conference on Climate Variability and Change )
Cochairs: Carlos F. Gaitan, ClimateAI; Philippe Tissot, Texas A&M University−Corpus Christi
1:30 PM
J6.1
Deep Learning Recognizes Climate and Weather Patterns and Emulates Complex Processes Critical to the Modeling of Earth's Climate
Karthik Kashinath, LBNL, Berkeley, CA; and M. Prabhat, M. Mudigonda, A. Mahesh, S. Kim, J. Wu, A. Albert, A. Rupe, A. Fernandez, T. A. O'Brien, M. F. Wehner, and W. D. Collins
1:45 PM
J6.2
2:00 PM
J6.3
Climate Science, Deep Learning, and Pattern Discovery: The Madden−Julian Oscillation as a Test Case
Benjamin A. Toms, Colorado State Univ., Fort Collins, CO; and K. Kashinath, M. Prabhat, and D. Yang
2:15 PM
J6.4
Early Predictions of Extreme Heat Events in the Eastern United States Using Machine Learning
Negin Sobhani, NCAR, Boulder, CO; and D. Del Vento and A. Fanfarillo


Session 6
CANCELED: Impact-Based Decision Support Services Best Practices
Location: North 221AB (Phoenix Convention Center - West and North Buildings)
Host: Seventh Symposium on Building a Weather-Ready Nation
Chair: Dave Jones, StormCenter Communications, Inc.
Paper 6.3 has been moved. New poster number is 5.4A


Session 6
CANCELLED: Advanced Planning and System Architectures for Next Generation Weather Enterprise, Ground Architecture
Location: North 231AB (Phoenix Convention Center - West and North Buildings)
Host: 15th Annual Symposium on New Generation Operational Environmental Satellite Systems
Cochairs: Frank Gallagher, NOAA/NESDIS/OSAAP; Ramesh Rangachar, NOAA/NESDIS/OSAAP The Aerospace Corporation
1:45 PM
Paper 6.2 is now paper 5B.3A

Recording files available
Session 6
Lightning and Weather Systems. Part II: Utility and Impact of Lightning Data in Operations, Part I
Location: North 225AB (Phoenix Convention Center - West and North Buildings)
Host: Ninth Conference on the Meteorological Application of Lightning Data
Chair: Elizabeth DiGangi, CIMMS/Univ. of Oklahoma
1:30 PM
6.1
Lightning Occurrence and Casualties Relative to Crop Cycles in Bangladesh
Ronald L. Holle, Vaisala, Inc., Tucson, AZ; and A. Dewan, R. Said, W. A. Brooks, M. F. Hossain, and M. Rafiuddin
1:45 PM
6.2
Can Thunderstorm Forecasts Predict Lightning-Ignited Wildfires?
Caitlin M. Ford, Univ. of South Alabama, Mobile, AL; and E. M. Stoppkotte and N. J. Nauslar
2:00 PM
6.3
Visualization and Communication of Probabilistic Lightning Hazard Information for a Broad Spectrum of End Users
Tiffany C. Meyer, CIMMS/Univ. of Oklahoma, and NOAA/NSSL, Norman, OK; and K. Berry, K. M. Calhoun, H. Obermeier, A. Campbell, J. Wolfe, and K. E. Klockow-McClain
2:15 PM
6.4
Early Assessment of the Geostationary Lightning Mapper
Geoffrey T. Stano, NASA/SPoRT/ENSCO, Inc., Huntsville, AL; and C. M. Gravelle, M. J. Foster, E. Bruning, S. D. Rudlosky, J. K. Zajic, L. A. Byerle, E. M. Guillot, K. M. Calhoun, B. Gockel, and K. J. Runk
Recording files available
Joint Session 6
NASA Earth Observation Systems and Applications for Health: Looking at Predicting Extreme Environmental Events and How it Affects Health
Location: North 228AB (Phoenix Convention Center - West and North Buildings)
Hosts: (Joint between the 10th Conference on Environment and Health; and the Ninth Conference on Transition of Research to Operations )
Cochairs: Sue M. Estes, Univ. of Alabama in Huntsville; John A. Haynes, NASA
2:00 PM
J6.3
Assessment of Ozone Production and Accumulation over Lake Michigan
Arastoo Pour Biazar, Univ. of Alabama in Huntsville, Huntsville, AL; and R. T. McNider, K. Doty, A. T. White, Y. Wu, M. Qin, M. T. Odman, S. McKeen, P. Lee, and E. Knipping

2:15 PM
J6.4
Toward Cholera-Free Nations: How NASA Satellites Help Track Pathogenic Vibrios
Antar Jutla, West Virginia Univ., Morgantown, WV; and R. Colwell
Recording files available
Session 6
Tropical Cyclones: Observations, Data Assimilation, and Forecasting III
Location: North 232AB (Phoenix Convention Center - West and North Buildings)
Host: Tropical Cyclones and Extreme Monsoon Precipitation: Prediction, Impacts, and Communication
Chairs: Scott Braun, NASA/GSFC; Robert G. Nystrom, The Pennsylvania State Univ.
1:30 PM
6.1
1:45 PM
6.2A
2:00 PM
6.3
Review of Recent Progress in Tropical Cyclone Track Forecasting
Fernando Prates, ECMWF, Reading, UK; and J. T. Heming, L. Magnusson, T. D. Hewson, and I. Tsonevsky
2:15 PM
6.4
Forecasting High-Impact Weather in Landfalling Tropical Cyclones Using a Warn-on-Forecast System
Thomas A. Jones, Cooperative Institute for Mesoscale Meteorological Studies/Univ. of Oklahoma, and NOAA/OAR/NSSL, Norman, OK; and P. S. Skinner, K. H. Knopfmeier, A. E. Reinhart, and D. C. Dowell
Recording files available
Joint Session 7
Significant Role of Calibration/Validation and High Performance Computing for the Transition of Research to Operations: Part I
Location: North 230 (Phoenix Convention Center - West and North Buildings)
Hosts: (Joint between the Ninth Conference on Transition of Research to Operations; and the Fifth Symposium on High Performance Computing for Weather, Water, and Climate )
Cochairs: Changyong Cao, NOAA/NESDIS/STAR/SMCD; Justin Goldstein, NOAA/NESDIS/Office of Projects, Planning and Analysis
1:30 PM
J7.1
Validation of Model Implementations Using MET
Tressa Fowler, NCAR, Boulder, CO; and M. Harrold, L. Nance, T. Jensen, J. Halley Gotway, and L. R. Blank
1:45 PM
J7.2
Excessive Rainfall Outlook Verification Product for WPC Forecasters
Michael J. Erickson, Weather Prediction Center/CIRES, College Park, MD; and B. Albright and J. A. Nelson Jr.
2:00 PM
J7.3
Enhancements to Storm Prediction Center Convective Outlooks
Christopher D. Karstens, NOAA/NWS/SPC, Norman, OK; and R. Clark III, I. L. Jirak, P. T. Marsh, R. Schneider, and S. J. Weiss
2:15 PM
J7.4A
Analyses of Kennedy Space Center Tropospheric Doppler Radar Wind Profiler Data for Space Launch System Program Certification
Robert E. Barbre Jr., Jacobs Space Exploration Group, Huntsville, AL; and J. C. Brenton, K. L. Burns, N. Curtis, R. K. Decker, L. L. Huddleston, F. B. Leahy, J. M. Orcutt, B. G. Overbey, B. C. Roberts, and P. W. White
Recording files available
Session 7B
Spectrum Management, Passive Sensing, and User Benefits
Location: North 231AB (Phoenix Convention Center - West and North Buildings)
Host: 15th Annual Symposium on New Generation Operational Environmental Satellite Systems
Cochairs: David Lubar, Aerospace Corporation; Jordan Gerth, NOAA and Space Science and Engineering Center/Univ. of Wisconsin–Madison
1:30 PM
7B.1
A Myriad of Proposed Radio Spectrum Changes—Collectively Can They Impact Operational Meteorology?
David G. Lubar, Aerospace Corporation, Colorado Springs, CO; and B. R. Castello, T. J. Fagan, and J. J. Crossin
1:45 PM
Q&A

2:00 PM
7B.4
User Benefits from New Generation Features of the GOES-R Products and Services
Michael L. Jamilkowski, Aerospace Corporation, Greenbelt, MD; and D. G. Lubar
Recording files available
Session 8
Aerosol–Cloud Interactions in Mixed-Phase Clouds—Part III
Location: North 223 (Phoenix Convention Center - West and North Buildings)
Host: 11th Symposium on Aerosol–Cloud–Climate Interactions
Cochairs: Yuan Wang, California Institute of Technology; Chuanfeng zhao, Beijing Normal Univ.
1:30 PM
8.1
Dust Glaciation Effects on Mixed-Phase Clouds with a Global Climate Model Constrained by Observations (Invited Presentation)
Xiaohong Liu, Univ. of Wyoming, Laramie, WY; and Z. Ke, M. Wu, Z. Wang, D. Zhang, and A. M. Vogelmann

Panel Discussion 8
CEF—Part I
Location: North 222AB (Phoenix Convention Center - West and North Buildings)
Host: Seventh Symposium on the Weather, Water, and Climate Enterprise
Moderator: Marie C. Colton, Harris
CEF—Part I
Marie C. Colton, Harris, Silver Spring, MD

Recording files available
Session 8
Earth Observations for Food Security and Agriculture: Down to Earth Support for Improved Decisions, Policy, and Action
Location: North 226C (Phoenix Convention Center - West and North Buildings)
Host: 14th Symposium on Societal Applications: Policy, Research and Practice
Chair: Stephanie Schollaert Uz, GSFC
1:30 PM
8.1
Using and Verifying Hyper Local Model Forecast Data for Operational Agricultural Decision-Making
Jared Oyler, BASF, Bellefonte, PA; and D. Lehning, J. Manobianco, and J. Pietrowicz
1:45 PM
8.2
Climate Impacts on China’s Regional Agricultural Production
You Wu, Nanjing University of Information Science and Technology, Nanjing, China

2:00 PM
8.3
Updating Regional Land-Use/Land-Cover Maps for Improved Hydrologic Modeling and Water Resource Management in the Lower Mekong Basin
Joseph Spruce, SSAI, Diamondhead, MS; and J. Bolten, I. Mohammed, R. Srinivasan, and V. Lakshmi

2:15 PM
8.4
Weather/Climate Data Collection for Large-Scale Phenotype Predictability in the Midwest
Francisco Munoz-Arriola, University of Nebraska–Lincoln, Lincoln, NE; and G. Lopez-Morfeo, D. Osornio Hernandez, D. Jarquin, L. A. Herrera Leon, and A. Amaranto
Recording files available
Session 8
Research Relevant to the Teaching and Learning of the Atmospheric Science
Location: North 229AB (Phoenix Convention Center - West and North Buildings)
Host: 28th Symposium on Education
Cochairs: Rebecca L. Batchelor, UCAR; Dawn Kopacz, Univ. of Nebraska−Lincoln
1:45 PM
8.2
Students of Purdue Observing Tornadic Thunderstorms for Research (SPOTTR): An Update
Robin Tanamachi, Purdue Univ., West Lafayette, IN; and D. T. Dawson II and L. Carleton Parker
2:00 PM
8.3
Involvement in and Perception of Education Research in the Discipline of Atmospheric Science
Swarndeep Gill, California Univ. of Pennsylvania, California, PA; and D. Kopacz, L. C. Maudlin, W. J. Flynn, Z. Handlos, and A. T. Hirsch
2:15 PM
8.4
Recording files available
Session 8A
Atmospheric Chemistry Modeling and Observational Analysis—Part III
Location: North 124A (Phoenix Convention Center - West and North Buildings)
Host: 21st Conference on Atmospheric Chemistry
Chair: Richard Eckman, NASA
Cochairs: Kenneth W. Jucks, NASA Headquarters; Michael J. Prather, Univ. of California, Irvine
1:30 PM
8A.1
Towards a Satellite–In Situ Hybrid Estimate for Organic Aerosol Abundance
Jin Liao, USRA and NASA GSFC, Greenbelt, MD; and T. Hanisco, G. M. Wolfe, J. St. Clair, J. L. Jimenez, P. Campuzano-Jost, B. A. Nault, A. Fried, E. A. Marais, G. Gonzalez Abad, K. Chance, H. Jethva, T. B. Ryerson, C. Warneke, and A. Wisthaler
1:45 PM
8A.2
The Effects of New Particle Formation by Products Associated with the Oxidation of Alpha-Pinene
Joyce E. Penner, Univ. of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI; and J. Zhu, F. Yu, and S. Sillman
2:00 PM
8A.3
Improving Aerosol Analysis and Forecast over the Arctic Region with OMI Assimilation
Jianglong Zhang, Univ. of North Dakota, Grand Forks, ND; and J. R. Campbell, E. J. Hyer, P. Xian, R. Spurr, and P. R. Colarco

Recording files available
Session 8B
Linking Meteorology, Turbulence, and Atmospheric Chemistry—Part I
Location: North 126A (Phoenix Convention Center - West and North Buildings)
Host: 21st Conference on Atmospheric Chemistry
Chair: Jose Fuentes, Penn State Univ.
1:30 PM
8B.1
Methods of Estimating Deposition Using Atmospheric Concentration Measurements: Using Synthetic Observations Downwind of a CAFO to Quantify Ammonia Deposition
William Lassman, Colorado State Univ., Fort Collins, CO; and A. Yalin, J. M. Ham, J. L. Collett Jr., and J. R. Pierce
1:45 PM
8B.2
The Elemental Importance of Microscale, Mesoscale, and Synoptic Meteorology in Atmospheric Chemistry Studies: Examples from California's San Joaquin Valley
Ian Faloona, Univ. of California, Davis, Davis, CA; and D. Caputi, J. Trousdell, Z. Hu, A. Alexander, H. J. Oldroyd, and S. A. Conley
2:00 PM
8B.3
Controls on the Canonical Shapes of Terpene Concentration Gradients within the Canopy Sublayer of an Amazon Rain Forest
Jose D. Fuentes, Pennsylvania State Univ., University Park, PA; and D. Wei, V. Monteiro, J. Ruiz-Plancarte, A. M. Trowbridge, T. Gerken, P. Stoy, M. Chamecki, O. C. Acevedo, G. G. Katul, W. R. Stockwell, A. Ghirardo, and J. P. Schnitzler
2:15 PM
8B.4
Recording files available
Session 9
Linking Physical Sciences, Operational Meteorology, and Social Science to Better Understand Societal Impacts
Location: North 226AB (Phoenix Convention Center - West and North Buildings)
Host: 14th Symposium on Societal Applications: Policy, Research and Practice
Cochairs: Danielle Nagele, Innovim, LLC; Kodi Berry, CIMMS/NSSL
1:30 PM
9.1
When Disciplines Collide: Integrating Social Science at the Center for Earth System Sciences and Remote Sensing Technologies
Valerie Were, NOAA Center for Earth System Sciences and Remote Sensing Technologies, New York, NY
1:45 PM
9.2
Training for Science that Matters: Integrating Social Sciences at the NOAA Center for Coastal and Marine Ecosystems
Phyllis Gray-Ray, NOAA Center for Coastal and Marine Ecosystems (CCME), Tallahassee, FL; and M. R. Smith, R. McLaughlin, H. J. Cho, M. Dovil, and S. E. Pitter
2:00 PM
9.3
2:15 PM
9.4
Demystifying Social and Behavioral Science Research to Application Transitions
Gina M. Eosco, CNSP Support to NOAA/Office of Weather and Air Quality, Silver Spring, MD; and J. Sprague, J. Cortinas Jr., and D. Geppi
Recording files available
Session 9
Wind Resource Assessment: Part I
Location: North 129A (Phoenix Convention Center - West and North Buildings)
Host: 10th Conference on Weather, Climate, and the New Energy Economy
Cochairs: Chris Coleman, ERCOT; Andrew Hastings-Black, Vaisala, Inc.
1:30 PM
9.1
Validation and Comparison of Mesoscale Model Setups for Offshore Wind Resource Assessment: A New Jersey Case Study
Andrew Kumler, National Renewable Energy Laboratory, Golden, CO; and M. Optis, P. J. Moriarty, J. F. Brodie, T. Miles, G. Scott, C. Draxl, and W. Musial

1:45 PM
9.2
Assessment of the Wind Energy Potential in Bangladesh
Jared A. Lee, NCAR, Boulder, CO; and M. Jacobson, T. Capozzola, C. Draxl, F. Vandenberghe, T. Jimenez, and S. E. Haupt
Recording files available
Session 9A
GIS and the Four C’s of Contextualize, Collaborate, Convey, and Cloud—Part I
Location: North 132ABC (Phoenix Convention Center - West and North Buildings)
Host: 35th Conference on Environmental Information Processing Technologies
Cochairs: Ken R. Waters, NWS Forecast Office; Jack Settelmaier, NOAA/NWS; Daniel P. Pisut, Esri
2:15 PM
9A.4
Past, Present and Future Challenges for NOAA's nowCOAST GIS Web Mapping Portal
John G. W. Kelley, NOAA/National Ocean Service, Durham, NH; and J. Greenlaw and J. G. Evans

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Session 9B
Radar Technologies and Applications—Part III
Location: West 211B (Phoenix Convention Center - West and North Buildings)
Host: 35th Conference on Environmental Information Processing Technologies
Cochairs: Kurt D. Hondl, NOAA/NSSL; Michael J. Istok, NOAA/NWS; Mark B. Yeary, Univ. of Oklahoma
1:30 PM
9B.1
Identifying Downburst Precursor Signatures in KDP
Charles M. Kuster, CIMMS/University of Oklahoma and NOAA/NSSL, Norman, OK; and B. R. Bowers, T. J. Schuur, J. Carlin, J. Brogden, and R. Toomey
1:45 PM
9B.2
Towards Improving the Clutter Mitigation Decision Algorithm in the WSR-88DP Radars
Scott Ellis, NCAR, Boulder, CO; and G. Meymaris, J. C. Hubbert, and M. J. Dixon
2:00 PM
9B.3
System ZDR of the WSR-88D: Hardware Issues and Temperature Dependence
Valery Melnikov, CIMMS/Univ. of Oklahoma, Norman, OK; and D. Zrnic, A. Free, R. Ice, and R. W. Macemon
Recording files available
Session 10
Testbeds (HMT) to Enable and Accelerate the Transition of Research to Operations to Decision Makers, End Users and to the Public in Weather, Water, or Climate Applications: Part I
Location: North 232C (Phoenix Convention Center - West and North Buildings)
Host: Ninth Conference on Transition of Research to Operations
Cochairs: Benjamin Albright, Systems Research Group, Inc.; Chandra Kondragunta, NOAA/OAR
1:45 PM
10.2
The Sixth Annual Flash Flood and Intense Rainfall Experiment: Synthesizing Atmospheric and Hydrologic Guidance for Short Range (6-24 Hour) Probabilistic Excessive Rainfall Forecasts
Benjamin Albright, Systems Research Group, Inc., College Park, MD; and S. Perfater, M. Erickson, M. Klein, and J. A. Nelson Jr.

2:00 PM
10.3
The NSSL Experimental Warn-on-Forecast System for Ensembles (NEWS-e) at 2018 NOAA Hydrometeorology Testbed
Nusrat Yussouf, OU/CIMMS and NOAA/OAR/NSSL, Norman, OK; and J. Hu, T. A. Jones, D. D. Turner, X. Wang, P. S. Skinner, K. H. Knopfmeier, J. J. Choate, G. J. Creager, P. L. Heinselman, K. A. Wilson, L. J. Wicker, A. E. Reinhart, D. C. Dowell, T. Alcott, and T. Ladwig
2:15 PM
10.4
CAPS Storm-Scale Ensemble Forecasts and Ensemble Consensus Techniques for the 2018 Hydrometeorology Testbed FFaIR Experiment
Keith A. Brewster, Univ. of Oklahoma, Norman, OK; and F. Kong, N. Snook, M. Xue, C. Zhang, and K. W. Thomas
Recording files available
Session 10A
Extreme Climate Events in the Middle Latitudes—Part III
Location: North 121BC (Phoenix Convention Center - West and North Buildings)
Host: 32nd Conference on Climate Variability and Change
Chair: Walter Robinson, North Carolina State Univ.
1:45 PM
10A.2
Recording files available
Session 10B
Variability and Predictability of Climate on Subseasonal-to-Seasonal Time Scales—Part III
Location: North 122BC (Phoenix Convention Center - West and North Buildings)
Host: 32nd Conference on Climate Variability and Change
Cochairs: Gudrun Magnusdottir, Univ. of California, Irvine; Isla R. Simpson, NCAR
1:30 PM
10B.1
Users Perspectives on S2S Forecast Products for Extreme Precipitation Events
Renee A. McPherson, South Central Climate Adaptation Science Center, Norman, OK; and P. Ćwik, H. Lazrus, E. Martin, E. Mullens, C. M. Kuster, and M. J. Wagner
1:45 PM
10B.2
Skillful Seasonal Prediction of Winter Blocking and Extreme Temperature Frequency
Douglas E. Miller, University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign, Urbana, IL; and Z. Wang
2:00 PM
10B.3
Diagnosing North Pacific Blocking Using a Linear Inverse Model
Melissa L. Breeden, Univ. of Wisconsin–Madison, Madison, WI; and B. T. Hoover and M. Newman
Recording files available
Session 11
Understanding, Predicting, and Observing Severe Convective Weather for Application to Aviation, Range, and Aerospace Operations
Location: North 224B (Phoenix Convention Center - West and North Buildings)
Host: 19th Conference on Aviation, Range, and Aerospace Meteorology
Cochairs: Colleen Reiche, Booz Allen Hamilton; Christopher A. Roseman, Univ. of Colorado Boulder
1:30 PM
11.1
Full-Lifecycle Nowcast of Thunderstorm in eIAWS®
Ruiyue Chen, IMSG, Rockville, MD; and M. Fang, C. Tan, Y. Weng, W. Guo, J. Cheng, S. Liu, L. Jiang, X. Yuan, C. Wei, and X. Li
1:45 PM
11.2
Infusion of New Blending Technology into the NextGen Weather Processor for Improved Short-Term Storm Forecasting
James O. Pinto, NCAR/Research Applications Laboratory, Boulder, CO; and K. Stone, A. Rugg, D. Albo, M. Steiner, D. Morse, H. Iskenderian, W. J. Dupree, and P. M. Lamey
2:00 PM
11.3
Improvements to Convective Wind Nowcasting at Cape Canaveral, Florida Using Subjective Dual-Polarization Radar Analyses
Corey G. Amiot, Univ. of Alabama in Huntsville, Huntsville, AL; and L. D. Carey, W. P. Roeder, T. M. McNamara, and R. J. Blakeslee
2:15 PM
11.4
Recording files available
Session 12
Numerical Analysis and Prediction Experiments Involving Observations: Data Impact and Observation Sensitivity Tests—Part I
Location: North 131AB (Phoenix Convention Center - West and North Buildings)
Host: 23rd Conference on Integrated Observing and Assimilation Systems for the Atmosphere, Oceans, and Land Surface (IOAS-AOLS)
Chair: Carolyn Reynolds, NRL
1:30 PM
12.1
Naval Research Laboratory Preliminary Results from AR RECON 2018
Carolyn A. Reynolds, NRL, Monterey, CA; and J. D. Doyle, N. L. Baker, R. Stone, P. P. Papin, R. Demirdjian, and F. M. Ralph
1:45 PM
12.2
Impact of Aircraft Observations on the Prediction of 2017 Atlantic Tropical Cyclones
Kelly Ryan, NOAA/AOML and Univ. of Miami, Miami, FL; and L. Bucci, J. Poterjoy, G. J. Alaka Jr., S. Murillo, and R. Atlas
2:00 PM
12.3
Advances in Wind Measurements and Their Impacts on Severe Weather Forecasting: Progress and Prospects
Zhaoxia Pu, Univ. of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT; and R. Atlas, G. D. Emmitt, and C. Velden
2:15 PM
Discussion

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Session 13
Observing the Boundary Layer from Space
Location: North 131C (Phoenix Convention Center - West and North Buildings)
Host: 23rd Conference on Integrated Observing and Assimilation Systems for the Atmosphere, Oceans, and Land Surface (IOAS-AOLS)
Chairs: Joao Teixeira, JPL; Matthew Lebsock, JPL/California Institute of Technology; Jae Lee
1:30 PM
13.1
Boundary Layer Thermodynamic Structure from Space
Joao Teixeira, JPL, Pasadena, CA

2:00 PM
13.3
Vertical Profiling of the Planetary Boundary Layer from GNSS Radio Occultations
Chi O. Ao, JPL/California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA; and K. N. Wang, T. L. Kubar, F. Xie, L. Adhikari, P. M. Kalmus, M. Lebsock, and J. Teixeira

2:00 PM-2:30 PM: Wednesday, 9 January 2019

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Session 4
Geoscience Education
Location: West 212BC (Phoenix Convention Center - West and North Buildings)
Host: Richard Anthes Symposium
Chair: Daniel Keyser, Univ. at Albany, SUNY

2:30 PM-3:00 PM: Wednesday, 9 January 2019


PM Coffee Break (Wed)
Location: Meeting room foyers (Phoenix Convention Center - West and North Buildings)

3:00 PM-4:00 PM: Wednesday, 9 January 2019

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Joint Session 1
Direct and Indirect Effects of Aerosols on Climate—Keynote Speakers
Location: North 223 (Phoenix Convention Center - West and North Buildings)
Hosts: (Joint between the 11th Symposium on Aerosol–Cloud–Climate Interactions; and the 21st Conference on Atmospheric Chemistry )
Cochairs: Adele L Igel, Univ. of California, Davis; Ottmar Möhler, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology; Jonathan Jiang, JPL; Kenneth Pickering, Univ. of Maryland, College Park
3:00 PM
J1.1
Climate Impact of Anthropogenic Aerosols on Large-Scale Cirrus Clouds
Joyce E. Penner, Univ. of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI; and C. Zhou and J. Zhu
Recording files available
Panel Discussion 1
Enterprise Cooperation Across the Sectors in Global Earth Observations—Advancing Diverse Partnerships
Location: North 222C (Phoenix Convention Center - West and North Buildings)
Host: Fourth Symposium on US-International Partnerships
Moderator: Renee A. Leduc Clarke, Narayan Strategy
Panelists: Antonio Busalacchi, University Corporation for Atmospheric Research (UCAR); Melanie Corcoran, Ursa Space
3:00 PM
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Panel Discussion 1
Panel Discussion on Rick Anthes' Contributions to Research, Education and Scientific Program Management
Location: West 212BC (Phoenix Convention Center - West and North Buildings)
Host: Richard Anthes Symposium
Moderator: John A. Dutton, ClimBiz Ltd and Prescient Weather Ltd.
Panelists: Robert T. Ryan, NBC4 TV (Retired); Eric DeWeaver, NSF; Jack D. Fellows, ORNL (Retired); Susan Anthes, University of Colorado (Retired); William B. Gail, Global Weather Corp.; John A. Dutton, ClimBiz Ltd and Prescient Weather Ltd.
3:00 PM
PD1.1
Panel Discussion

P.1.1
John A. Dutton

P.1.2
P.1.3
Jack Fellows
P1.4
Bill Gail

P.1.5
Eric DeWeaver

P1.6
Susie Anthes


Panel Discussion 1
Status of AI
Location: North 125AB (Phoenix Convention Center - West and North Buildings)
Host: 18th Conference on Artificial and Computational Intelligence and its Applications to the Environmental Sciences
Moderator: Carlos Gaitan, ClimateAI
Panelists: Sue Haupt, NCAR; Lucas Joppa, Microsoft; Karthik Kashinath, LBNL; Daniel Rothenberg, ClimaCell Inc.
Recording files available
Joint Session 2
Applications of Artificial Intelligence in the Coastal Environment
Location: North 124B (Phoenix Convention Center - West and North Buildings)
Hosts: (Joint between the 18th Conference on Artificial and Computational Intelligence and its Applications to the Environmental Sciences; and the 17th Symposium on the Coastal Environment )
Cochairs: Michael J. Starek, Texas A&M University−Corpus Christi; Philippe Tissot, Texas A&M University−Corpus Christi; Alan Blumberg, Stevens Institute of Technology
3:00 PM
J2.1
Building Custom Neural Net Models to Classify Coastal Imagery
Anthony Reisinger, Texas A&M University−Corpus Christi, Corpus Christi, TX; and A. Unruh, P. Tissot, and V. Lakshmanan
3:15 PM
J2.2
Assessment of Machine Learning Ensembles for Modeling DEM Uncertainty in Marshes with Terrestrial Laser Scanning
Chuyen Nguyen, Texas A&M University−Corpus Christi, Corpus Christi, TX; and M. J. Starek, P. Tissot, and X. Cai
3:30 PM
J2.3
Estimates of Spatial Variability of Digital Elevation Models from Ensemble Neural Networks
Xiaopeng Cai, Texas A&M Univ., Corpus Christi, TX; and P. Tissot, C. Nguyen, and M. J. Starek
3:45 PM
J2.4
Probabilistic AR Detection for Understanding Western Coastal Hydroclimate
Travis A. O'Brien, LBNL, Berkeley, CA; and A. Mahesh, M. D. Risser, C. J. Paciorek, M. F. Wehner, C. M. Patricola, J. P. O'Brien, M. Prabhat, and W. D. Collins
Recording files available
Joint Session 2
Connections between Tropical Convection and the Stratosphere—Part II
Location: West 212A (Phoenix Convention Center - West and North Buildings)
Hosts: (Joint between the 20th Conference on Middle Atmosphere; and the Seventh Symposium on the Madden-Julian Oscillation and Sub-Seasonal Monsoon Variability )
Cochairs: Malori Redman, The Univ. of Arizona; Shigeo Yoden, Kyoto Univ.
3:00 PM
J2.1
QBO–MJO Connections: Physical Mechanisms and Seasonality
Casey R Densmore, WHOI, Woods Hole, MA; and B. S. Barrett and E. R. Sanabia
3:15 PM
J2.2
Modeling the MJO–QBO Relationship in a Reforecast Model
Zane K Martin, Columbia Univ., New York, NY; and S. Wang, F. Vitart, and A. H. Sobel
3:45 PM
J2.4
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Session 4
Best Practices of Building and Being a Trusted Climate Communicator
Location: North 224A (Phoenix Convention Center - West and North Buildings)
Host: 24th Conference on Applied Climatology
Chair: Katy Vincent Matthews, NOAA/NESDIS/National Centers for Environmental Information
3:30 PM
4.2A
Assessing and Communicating Climate Variability and Its Impacts on DoD Operations
Raymond B. Kiess, AWS, Asheville, NC; and J. D. Jackson and B. D. Mundhenk
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Session 4
Common Community Physics Packages Updates
Location: North 128AB (Phoenix Convention Center - West and North Buildings)
Host: Global and Regional-Scale Models: Updates and Center Overviews
Chairs: Justin McLay, NRL; Daniel T. Dawson II, Purdue Univ.
3:00 PM
4.1
Community Infrastructure for Facilitating Improvement and Testing of Physical Parameterizations: The Common Community Physics Package (CCPP)
Dom Heinzeller, NOAA/ESRL/GSD, and Univ. of Colorado/CIRES, and Developmental Testbed Center, Boulder, CO; and G. J. Firl, L. Bernardet, L. Carson, M. Zhang, D. Stark, J. Schramm, L. Xue, J. Dudhia, and D. Gill
3:15 PM
4.2
Can Different NWP Dynamical Cores Share a Common Physics Package?
Alex Reinecke, NRL, Monterey, CA; and M. Martini, J. Doyle, and J. Michalakes

3:30 PM
4.3
Regional Weather Modeling for the Paso del Norte Region: A Sensitivity Study for Determining PBL
Suhail Mahmud, Univ. of Texas at El Paso, El Paso, TX; and N. Karle, R. M. Fitzgerald, W. R. Stockwell, and D. Lu
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Session 5
The Future of Libraries and Atmospheric Science Librarians International
Location: North 123 (Phoenix Convention Center - West and North Buildings)
Host: 22nd Atmospheric Science Librarians International Conference
Chair: Denise Wetzel, Florida State Univ.
3:00 PM
5.1
ASLI and Sustainability: Unexplored and Relevant
Frederick Stoss, State Univ. of New York, Buffalo, NY
3:30 PM
5.3
Celebrating 100 Years of AMS
Jinny Nathans, AMS, Boston, MA
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Joint Session 5
Whole Atmosphere Coupling during Extreme Events. Part II
Location: North 227A-C (Phoenix Convention Center - West and North Buildings)
Hosts: (Joint between the 16th Conference on Space Weather; and the 20th Conference on Middle Atmosphere )
Chair: V. Lynn Harvey, Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics, Univ. of Colorado Boulder
3:00 PM
J5.1
Whole Atmosphere Modeling of the Middle and Upper Atmosphere Variability during Sudden Stratospheric Warmings (Invited Presentation)
Nicholas Pedatella, NCAR, Boulder, CO; and H. L. Liu, D. R. Marsh, K. Raeder, J. Anderson, J. Chau, L. Goncharenko, and T. Siddiqui
3:30 PM
J5.2
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Session 7
Achieving the Weather Research and Forecast Act of 2017 through Tornado Warning Improvements and Extension
Location: North 221AB (Phoenix Convention Center - West and North Buildings)
Host: Seventh Symposium on Building a Weather-Ready Nation
Chair: Mike Hopkins, NOAA/OMAO
3:00 PM
7.1A
8–10-Day Ensemble Forecast Products: An Assessment of User Needs, Preferences, and Impacts on Decision-Making
Burrell E. Montz, East Carolina Univ., Greenville, NC; and R. H. Carr, K. Semmens, K. Maxfield, M. J. Bodner, J. A. Nelson Jr., S. A. Ganetis, and W. S. Lamberson
3:15 PM
7.3
Strengths and Limitations of NSSL's Experimental Warn-On-Forecast System for Ensembles in Forecasting Cyclic Mesocyclogenesis
Kelsey C. Britt, Cooperative Institute for Mesoscale Meteorological Studies/Univ. of Oklahoma, Norman, OK; and P. S. Skinner, P. L. Heinselman, and K. H. Knopfmeier
3:30 PM
7.4
Generating Calibrated Tornado Probabilities from NEWS-e Using Climatological Frequencies
Susan Beveridge, Ohio Univ., Bellville, OH; and P. S. Skinner, B. T. Gallo, K. H. Knopfmeier, B. T. Smith, and R. L. Thompson
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Joint Session 7
Economic Impacts of Extremes
Location: North 228AB (Phoenix Convention Center - West and North Buildings)
Hosts: (Joint between the 10th Conference on Environment and Health; and the 14th Symposium on Societal Applications: Policy, Research and Practice )
Chair: Shubhayu Saha, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
3:00 PM
J7.1
The Health Costs of Wisconsin’s 2012 Heat Wave
Vijay Limaye, Natural Resources Defense Council, New York, NY; and W. Max, J. Constible, and K. Knowlton
3:15 PM
J7.2
Degrees to Dollars: Health Costs Associated with Suboptimal Ambient Temperature Exposure
Yang Liu, Univ. of Minnesota, Twin Cities, Minneapolis, MN; and S. Saha, B. Hoppe, and M. Convertino

3:30 PM
J7.3
Assessing Mortality Risk from Forecast Flood Events in a Middle Income Country: The Case of Barbados
James E. Neumann, Industrial Economics, Inc., Cambridge, MA; and J. Willwerth and D. Williamson
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Session 7
Lightning and Weather Systems. Part II: Utility and Impact of Lightning Data in Operations, Part II
Location: North 225AB (Phoenix Convention Center - West and North Buildings)
Host: Ninth Conference on the Meteorological Application of Lightning Data
Chair: Elizabeth DiGangi, CIMMS/Univ. of Oklahoma
3:15 PM
7.2
Utilizing the Geostationary Lightning Mapper for Lightning Safety
Geoffrey T. Stano, ENSCO, Inc., Huntsville, AL; and M. R. Smith, C. J. Schultz, and A. LeRoy
3:30 PM
7.3
Utilizing the Geostationary Lightning Mapper Long-Flash Detection Capability for National Weather Service Decision Support Services
Chad M. Gravelle, NOAA/NWS Operations Proving Ground, Kansas City, MO; and G. T. Stano, B. C. Carcione, C. B. Elsenheimer, and N. McGinnis
3:45 PM
7.4
Characterization of Optical Energy Output in Thunderstorms to Enhance Severe Thunderstorm Identification
Christopher J. Schultz, NASA MSFC, Huntsville, AL; and L. D. Carey, N. Curtis, K. M. Calhoun, and D. E. Bruning
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Session 7
Tropical Cyclones: Observations, Data Assimilation, and Forecasting IV
Location: North 232AB (Phoenix Convention Center - West and North Buildings)
Host: Tropical Cyclones and Extreme Monsoon Precipitation: Prediction, Impacts, and Communication
Chairs: Thomas Galarneau, The Univ. of Arizona; Eric S. Blake, NOAA/NCEP/NHC
3:00 PM
7.1A
3:15 PM
7.2
High-Resolution Simulation of Hurricane Patricia (2015): Rapid Intensification
Yi Jin, NRL, Monterey, CA; and D. R. Ryglicki, H. Jin, J. D. Doyle, and D. Stern
3:30 PM
7.3
3:45 PM
7.4A
Impacts of Mesovortices on the Evolution of Hurricane Harvey (2017)
A. Addison Alford, Univ. of Oklahoma, Norman, OK; and M. I. Biggerstaff
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Session 7A
Special Topics—Part I
Location: North 231AB (Phoenix Convention Center - West and North Buildings)
Host: 15th Annual Symposium on New Generation Operational Environmental Satellite Systems
Chair: Andrew Royle, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
3:00 PM
7A.1
Modernization of the Weather Value Chain
Shawn W. Miller, Raytheon Intelligence, Information and Services, Aurora, CO
3:30 PM
7A.2A
Sky Cover during the 2017 Solar Eclipse
Jordan Gerth, NOAA and Space Science and Engineering Center/Univ. of Wisconsin–Madison, Madison, WI
3:45 PM
7A.3
GOES-R Series ABI Mesoscale Domain Sector Request Process for Research and International Users
Kathryn W. Mozer, NOAA/NESDIS/OSPO, Greenbelt, MD; and M. Seybold, M. J. Bettwy, E. M. Guillot, B. Gockel, and C. M. Gravelle
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Joint Session 8
Significant Role of Calibration/Validation and High Performance Computing for the Transition of Research to Operations: Part II
Location: North 230 (Phoenix Convention Center - West and North Buildings)
Hosts: (Joint between the Ninth Conference on Transition of Research to Operations; and the Fifth Symposium on High Performance Computing for Weather, Water, and Climate )
Cochairs: Joseph Conran, Riverside Technology, Inc.; Jennifer B. Webster, NOAA/NESDIS/Office of Projects, Planning and Analysis
3:15 PM
J8.3
Enhancing Community Collaborations through NWP Software Containers
Michael J. Kavulich Jr., NCAR, Boulder, CO; and J. H. Gotway, M. Harrold, J. K. Wolff, and K. Fossell
3:30 PM
J8.4A
"ecPoint"—A New Post-Processing Technique with Multiple Applications
Tim D. Hewson, ECMWF, Reading, United Kingdom; and F. M. Pillosu, I. Tsonevsky, and F. Prates

Panel Discussion 9
CEF—Part II
Location: North 222AB (Phoenix Convention Center - West and North Buildings)
Host: Seventh Symposium on the Weather, Water, and Climate Enterprise
Moderator: Marie C. Colton, Harris
3:00 PM
CEF—Part II
Marie C. Colton, Harris, Silver Spring, MD

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Session 9
Mentoring: The Benefits, Challenges, and Models
Location: North 229AB (Phoenix Convention Center - West and North Buildings)
Host: 28th Symposium on Education
Cochairs: Rebecca L. Batchelor, UCAR; Valerie Sloan, NCAR
3:00 PM
9.1
Welcoming Women into Science: Mentoring to Retain Undergraduate Women
Emily V. Fischer, Colorado State Univ., Fort Collins, CO; and B. Bloodhart, A. S. Adams, R. Barnes, M. A. Burt, S. M. Clinton, W. Du, E. S. Godfrey, H. Henderson, I. B. Pollack, and P. Hernandez
3:30 PM
9.3
Framework of Undergraduate Research Experience Participant Gains Linked to Mentoring
Shelley Pressley, Washington State Univ., Pullman, WA; and J. LeBeau
3:45 PM
9.4
Pair-Researching Helps Undergraduate Atmospheric Science Students
Neil F. Laird, Hobart and William Smith Colleges, Geneva, NY; and N. D. Metz
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Session 9A
Atmospheric Chemistry Modeling and Observational Analysis—Part IV
Location: North 124A (Phoenix Convention Center - West and North Buildings)
Host: 21st Conference on Atmospheric Chemistry
Chair: Richard Eckman, NASA
Cochairs: Kenneth W. Jucks, NASA Headquarters; Michael J. Prather, Univ. of California, Irvine
3:00 PM
9A.1
3:30 PM
9A.3
Evaluation of MERRA-2-Based Ozone Profile Simulations: Recent Successes and Ongoing Challenges
Ryan M. Stauffer, USRA at NASA GSFC, Greenbelt, MD; and A. M. Thompson, L. D. Oman, and S. E. Strahan
3:45 PM
9A.4
Northern Hemisphere Winter-Spring Ozone Variations during Past 30 Years Using Ozonesonde and the High-Resolution MERRA-2 GMI Simulation
Junhua Liu, NASA USRA, Greenbelt, MD; and J. Rodriguez, L. D. Oman, A. R. Douglass, M. A. Olsen, and L. Hu
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Session 9B
Linking Meteorology, Turbulence, and Atmospheric Chemistry—Part II
Location: North 126A (Phoenix Convention Center - West and North Buildings)
Host: 21st Conference on Atmospheric Chemistry
Chair: Jose Fuentes, Penn State Univ.
3:00 PM
9B.1
Unifying Regional and Global Atmospheric Composition Modeling for Operational Prediction at NCEP
Jeff McQueen, NOAA/NWS/NCEP/EMC, College Park, MD; and J. Huang, L. Pan, H. C. Huang, S. Lu, J. S. Kain, P. Lee, Y. Tang, D. Tong, I. Stajner, and J. Tirado-Delgado

3:15 PM
9B.2
Wind Direction Changes and Plume Behavior in Very Stable Conditions
Dennis Finn, NOAA/ARL, Idaho Falls, ID; and R. M. Eckman, R. Carter, J. Rich, Z. Gao, and H. Liu
Manuscript (461.5 kB)

3:30 PM
9B.3
Implication of Planetary Boundary Layer Variation and Meteorology on Air Quality in Mexico City during the Dry Season
Olabosipo O. Osibanjo, Univ. of Houston, Houston, TX; and B. Rappenglueck, A. Retama, and M. Jaimes Palomera
3:45 PM
9B.4
Aircraft-Estimated Emissions of Greenhouse Gases and Mean Vertical Wind
Dani Caputi, Univ. of California, Davis, Davis, CA; and I. Faloona and J. Trousdell
Recording files available
Session 10
Extreme Events, Climate Change, and Human Security
Location: North 226AB (Phoenix Convention Center - West and North Buildings)
Host: 14th Symposium on Societal Applications: Policy, Research and Practice
Chair: Walker S. Ashley, Northern Illinois University
3:00 PM
10.2
Climate-Induced Displacement: Where Social and Climate Sciences Intersect
Marjorie McGuirk, CASE Consultants International, Asheville, NC; and E. Shea, M. Prabhu, D. Ratliff, J. Dissen, and E. Gardiner

3:15 PM
10.3
Observations of Windblown Dust Transportation Hazards along I-10 Using a Network of Sensors
Jaylen Fuentes, New Mexico Climate Center/New Mexico State University, Las Cruces, NM; and D. DuBois, M. De Antonio, V. Etyemezian, G. Nikolich, J. Gutierrez, S. Engle, and O. Nayares
3:30 PM
10.4
Urbanization of Weather Forecast, Air Quality Prediction, and Climate Scenarios for Prague: Way to Support Decision-Making and to Mitigate the Risks
Tomas Halenka, Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic; and M. Belda, P. Huszar, J. Karlicky, and T. Novakova
3:45 PM
Panel Discussion

Recording files available
Session 10
Wind Resource Assessment: Part II
Location: North 129A (Phoenix Convention Center - West and North Buildings)
Host: 10th Conference on Weather, Climate, and the New Energy Economy
Cochairs: Jennifer Newman, REsurety, Inc.; Yelena L. Pichugina, CIRA
3:00 PM
10.1
Evaluation on the Trends of Global Wind Resource and Its Variability
Joseph C. Y. Lee, National Renewable Energy Laboratory, Golden, CO; and M. J. Fields and J. K. Lundquist
3:15 PM
10.2
Climatology of Wind Energy Variability for the Kuwait Region
Steven M. Naegele, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA; and T. C. McCandless, S. E. Haupt, G. S. Young, and S. J. Greybush
Recording files available
Session 10A
GIS and the Four C’s of Contextualize, Collaborate, Convey, and Cloud—Part II
Location: North 132ABC (Phoenix Convention Center - West and North Buildings)
Host: 35th Conference on Environmental Information Processing Technologies
Cochairs: Ken R. Waters, NWS Forecast Office; Jack Settelmaier, NOAA/NWS; Daniel P. Pisut, Esri
3:00 PM
10A.1
Real-Time Data Management and Visualization for Geostationary Lightning Mapper (GLM) in ArcGIS Platform
Lu Zhang, Esri, Vienna, VA; and S. Shrestha, K. M. McGrath, G. T. Stano, C. J. Schultz, and P. J. Meyer

3:15 PM
10A.2
Publishing GOES Satellite Data on a Geospatial Image Service
Rafael de Ameller, IMSG, Silver Spring, MD; and T. Loomis, V. Goel, T. Small, and J. Grieser
Recording files available
Session 10A
Integrating Water and Energy Cycle Pathways to Better Understand Weather and Climate Extremes
Location: North 127ABC (Phoenix Convention Center - West and North Buildings)
Host: 33rd Conference on Hydrology
Cochairs: Ryann Ashley Wakefield, Univ. of Oklahoma; Paul X. Flanagan, Univ. of Oklahoma; Jordan I. Christian, Univ. of Oklahoma; Jeffrey B. Basara, Univ. of Oklahoma
3:00 PM
10A.1
Land-Atmosphere Interactions over Southern South America and Their Links to Extreme Convective Systems (Invited Presentation)
Francina Dominguez, Univ. of Illinois at Urbana−Champaign, Urbana, IL; and Z. Yang and D. Chug
3:15 PM
10A.2
Measuring the Link Between Energy and Water: Latent Heat Flux in Heterogeneous Mountain Environments
Anna Ryken, Colorado School of Mines, Golden, CO; and D. Gochis and R. M. Maxwell
3:30 PM
10A.3

Session 10B
CANCELED Reservoir Flood Operations and Forecasting during Extreme Events
Location: North 126BC (Phoenix Convention Center - West and North Buildings)
Host: 33rd Conference on Hydrology
Cochairs: David Paul Keeney, Bureau of Reclamation; Miguel Rocha, Bureau of Reclamation; Katharine Dahm, U.S. Bureau of Reclamation
Recording files available
Session 10B
Radar Technologies and Applications—Part IV
Location: West 211B (Phoenix Convention Center - West and North Buildings)
Host: 35th Conference on Environmental Information Processing Technologies
Cochairs: Kurt D. Hondl, NOAA/NSSL; Michael J. Istok, NOAA/NWS; Mark B. Yeary, Univ. of Oklahoma
3:00 PM
10B.1
Tornado-Related Benefit Modeling for Weather Radar Networks
John Y. N. Cho, MIT Lincoln Laboratory, Lexington, MA; and J. M. Kurdzo
3:15 PM
10B.2
Macro- and Microphysical Characteristics of Rain Cells Observed during SOS-CHUVA in Campinas, Brazil
Micael A. Cecchini, São Paulo Univ., São Paulo, Brazil; and M. A. F. Silva Dias, L. A. T. Machado, C. A. Morales, and T. Biscaro
3:30 PM
10B.3
Ground Clutter Detection Using a Gaussian Mixture Model
Mohammad-Hossein Golbon-Haghighi, Univ. of Oklahoma, Norman, OK; and G. Zhang, R. Doviak, and R. L. Ice

3:45 PM
10B.4
A Fuzzy Logic Nowcasting Approach Using COTREC and Model Wind Field Vectors
Nicholas J Caban, Southern Illinois Univ., Edwardsville, IL; and Y. Wang and A. P. Osborne
Recording files available
Session 11
Testbeds (HMT) to Enable and Accelerate the Transition of Research to Operations to Decision Makers, End Users and to the Public in Weather, Water, or Climate Applications: Part II
Location: North 232C (Phoenix Convention Center - West and North Buildings)
Host: Ninth Conference on Transition of Research to Operations
Cochairs: Chandra Kondragunta, NOAA/OAR; Michael Erickson, NCEP
3:00 PM
11.1
Probabilistic Precipitation Forecasts and Hydrologic Modeling for Improving Flash Flood Warnings: The 2018 HMT-Hydro Experiment
Steven M. Martinaitis, CIMMS/Univ. of Oklahoma and NOAA/NSSL, Norman, OK; and J. J. Gourley, K. A. Wilson, N. Yussouf, H. Vergara-Arietta, P. L. Heinselman, and T. C. Meyer
3:15 PM
11.2
Comparative Evaluation of Merging and Local Bias Correction for Radar-Gauge QPE
Lin Tang, CIMMS/Univ. of Oklahoma, Norman, OK; and D. J. Seo, M. Nabatian, J. Zhang, K. W. Howard, and D. Kitzmiller
3:30 PM
11.3
Probabilistic Quantitative Precipitation Estimates with Ground-Based Radar Networks
Pierre-Emmanuel Kirstetter, Univ. of Oklahoma, Norman, OK; and J. Zhang and J. J. Gourley
3:45 PM
11.4
A New Approach to Snow Climatology with the Winter Storm Severity Index
Joshua Kastman, CIRES, Boulder, CO; and J. A. Nelson Jr. and M. Klein
Recording files available
Session 11A
Extreme Climate Events in the Middle Latitudes—Part IV
Location: North 121BC (Phoenix Convention Center - West and North Buildings)
Host: 32nd Conference on Climate Variability and Change
Chair: Xin-Zhong Liang, University of Maryland at College Park
3:00 PM
11A.1
3:15 PM
11A.2
Large-Scale Meteorological Patterns Associated with Precipitation Extremes over Portland, Oregon, in Climate Models
Christina Aragon, Portland State Univ., Portland, OR; and P. Loikith and A. J. Catalano
3:30 PM
11A.3
Robustness of Projected Trends in Warm Season Precipitation Extremes over the Central United States
Raymond W. Arritt, Iowa State Univ., Ames, IA; and M. S. Bukovsky, S. A. McGinnis, A. L. Caruthers, L. O. Mearns, and W. J. Gutowski

Recording files available
Session 11B
Variability and Predictability of Climate on Subseasonal-to-Seasonal Time Scales—Part IV
Location: North 122BC (Phoenix Convention Center - West and North Buildings)
Host: 32nd Conference on Climate Variability and Change
Cochairs: Gudrun Magnusdottir, Univ. of California, Irvine; Robert Korty, Texas A&M Univ.
3:15 PM
11B.2
Global Annual Precipitation Cycles and Variability
Erica Bower, National Weather Center Research Experience for Undergraduates, Norman, OK; and E. R. Martin
3:30 PM
11B.3
Bridging the Weather-to-Climate Prediction Gap: Progress by the NOAA S2S Prediction Task Force
Annarita Mariotti, NOAA, Silver Spring, MD; and E. A. Barnes, E. K. M. Chang, A. L. Lang, P. A. Dirmeyer, K. Pegion, and D. Barrie
Recording files available
Session 12
Achievements and Challenges in Predicting Ceiling and Visibility
Location: North 224B (Phoenix Convention Center - West and North Buildings)
Host: 19th Conference on Aviation, Range, and Aerospace Meteorology
Cochairs: Randall Bass, FAA; Melissa A. Petty, NOAA/ESRL/GSD and CIRA
3:00 PM
12.1
Use of SEVIRI Satellite Imagery for Fog Detection, Frequency Analysis, and Nowcast in the Desert of the UAE
Marouane Temimi, Khalifa Univ., Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates; and M. Weston, M. Almoosawi, J. Zhao, M. Vargas Godoy, V. K. Valappil, A. Aldababseh, and F. Karagulian

3:15 PM
12.2
Marine Fog Prediction at the Naval Research Laboratory—Factors Affecting the Model Skill
Sasa Gabersek, Naval Research Laboratory, Monterey, CA; and D. D. Flagg and J. D. Doyle
3:30 PM
12.3
Enhancing Ceiling and Visibility Capabilities in the Helicopter Emergency Medical Services (HEMS) Tool
Stephanie Avey, NOAA/NWS/NCEP/Aviation Weather Center, Kansas City, MO; and S. Alvidrez, S. A. Lack, A. Cross, R. Bastholm, and J. A. Colavito
3:45 PM
12.4
Transitioning Gridded LAMP Ceiling Height and Visibility Guidance to Alaska
Adam D. Schnapp, NOAA/NWS/Meteorological Development Laboratory and KBRwyle, Silver Spring, MD; and B. Glahn and J. E. Ghirardelli
Recording files available
Session 14
Numerical Analysis and Prediction Experiments Involving Observations: Data Impact and Observation Sensitivity Tests—Part II
Location: North 131AB (Phoenix Convention Center - West and North Buildings)
Host: 23rd Conference on Integrated Observing and Assimilation Systems for the Atmosphere, Oceans, and Land Surface (IOAS-AOLS)
Chair: Hui Christophersen, Univ. of Miami CIMAS and NOAA AOML
3:00 PM
14.1
Sensitivities of the NCEP Global Forecast System
Jih-Wang Aaron Wang, CIRES, Boulder, CO; and P. D. Sardeshmukh
3:15 PM
14.3
Impacts of Observation Errors of Hyperspectral Infrared Sounders under Partially Cloudy Regions for Hurricane Forecasts
Pei Wang, CIMSS/Univ. of Wisconsin, Madison, WI; and J. Li, A. Lim, Z. Li, J. Li, T. J. Schmit, and M. Goldberg
3:30 PM
14.4
Applications of EFSO for Improving NWP
Eugenia E. Kalnay, Univ. of Maryland, College Park, MD; and T. C. Chen
Recording files available
Session 15
Observing the Boundary Layer from Space—Part II
Location: North 131C (Phoenix Convention Center - West and North Buildings)
Host: 23rd Conference on Integrated Observing and Assimilation Systems for the Atmosphere, Oceans, and Land Surface (IOAS-AOLS)
Chairs: Joao Teixeira, JPL; Jae Lee
3:00 PM
15.1
Using Multiple Satellite Products to Infer the Role of the Planetary Boundary Layer on the Lifetime of Deep Convective Systems
Gregory S. Elsaesser, Columbia Univ. and NASA/GISS, New York, NY; and A. D. Del Genio, R. Roca, and T. Fiolleau
3:30 PM
15.3
Sensitivity of Infrared Radiances to Changes in Planetary Boundary Layer Water Vapor
Robert Chris Wilson, Joint Institute for Regional Earth System Science and Engineering, Pasadena, CA
3:45 PM
15.4
Infrared Sounding of the Boundary Layer: Moving beyond the Program of Record
Eric Fetzer, JPL/California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA; and T. Pagano

3:30 PM-4:30 PM: Wednesday, 9 January 2019

Recording files available
Joint Session 3
Investigations of Air Quality within Coastal Environments. Part II
Location: West 211A (Phoenix Convention Center - West and North Buildings)
Hosts: (Joint between the Ninth Symposium on Lidar Atmospheric Applications; and the 21st Conference on Atmospheric Chemistry )
Cochairs: Timothy Berkoff, NASA Langley Research Center; Sunil Baidar, CIRES/Univ. of Colorado Boulder
3:30 PM
J3.1
Characterization of the Synoptic and Mesoscale Meteorological Conditions during the OWLETS and OWLETS-2 Field Campaigns
Alexander Kotsakis, USRA, Greenbelt, MD; and F. dos Santos, J. Robinson, J. T. Sullivan, V. Caicedo, T. Berkoff, N. Dacic, L. A. Rodio, and R. Swap
3:45 PM
J3.2
Understanding Coastal Ozone Pollution through Sondes and Mobile Measurements
Lance Nino, Cornell Univ., Ithaca, NY; and J. T. Sullivan, R. K. Sakai, A. Flores, J. Dreessen, S. Flynn, T. Berkoff, R. Delgado, and R. M. Stauffer
4:00 PM
J3.3
Observation of a Ship Plume Using Coordinated Lidar/Pandora Observations
Guillaume Gronoff, NASA, Hampton, VA; and J. Robinson, T. Berkoff, R. Swap, B. Farris, J. Schroeder, H. S. Halliday, T. Knepp, E. Spinei, W. Carrion, E. Adcock, Z. Johns, D. Allen, and M. Pippin
4:15 PM
J3.4
Investigation of a Pollution Plume Observed by the NASA C-23 Sherpa Aircraft during the 2017 OWLETS Campaign
Megan Elizabeth Buzanowicz, NASA Langley Research Center, Hampton, VA; and L. A. Rodio, T. Berkoff, and G. Gronoff

4:00 PM-6:00 PM: Wednesday, 9 January 2019


Book Talks @ Authors Corner (Wed)
Location: Hall 5-6 (Phoenix Convention Center - West and North Buildings)

Formal Poster Viewing Reception (Wed)
Location: Hall 4 (Phoenix Convention Center - West and North Buildings)

Joint Poster Session 1
Maritime Extreme Weather: Challenges and Opportunities
Location: Hall 4 (Phoenix Convention Center - West and North Buildings)
Hosts: (Joint between the Special Symposium on Mesoscale Meteorological Extremes: Understanding, Prediction, and Projection; the Seventh Symposium on the Weather, Water, and Climate Enterprise; and the 17th Symposium on the Coastal Environment )
Cochairs: Kathryn K. Gilbert, NOAA/NWS; Thomas J. Cuff, NOAA/NWS/Ocean Prediction Center; Michael J. DeFlorio, NASA
1093
Spatial Analysis of Ship Traffic in the North Atlantic Ocean during Severe Weather from March 12–19, 2018
Nicole Ashley Casamassina, NCEP, College Park, MD; and J. M. Sienkiewicz and L. J. Phillips

1096

Poster Session 2
Atmospheric Chemistry Poster Session II
Location: Hall 4 (Phoenix Convention Center - West and North Buildings)
Host: 21st Conference on Atmospheric Chemistry
Cochairs: Jeffrey L. Collett, Jr., Colorado State Univ.; Jonathan Jiang, JPL; Kenneth E. Pickering, Univ. of Maryland
956
Source Term Estimation of Atmospheric Pollutants Using an Ensemble of Hybrid Single Particle Lagrangian Integrated Trajectory (HYSPLIT) Concentration Simulations
Casey L. Zoellick, Air Force Institute of Technology, Wright-Patterson AFB, OH; and H. R. Tseng, R. C. Tournay, and A. Suarez-Mullins

957
Quantifying Uncertainty of Ensemble Transport and Dispersion Simulations Using HYSPLIT
Daniel Bazemore, Air Force Institute of Technology, Wright Patterson AFB, OH; and H. R. Tseng, R. C. Tournay, and A. Suarez-Mullins

958
Investigation of Reactive Nitrogen Chemistry in Smoke Plumes Emitted from Western Wildfires
Hannah R. Munro, Univ. of New Hampshire, Durham, NH; and E. Scheuer, J. Chai, M. Hastings, E. Heim, W. Walters, and J. E. Dibb

959
Constraining Emission and Chemistry of Formic and Acetic Acids from Fire Smoke with WE-CAN Field Observations
Catherine Wielgasz, Univ. of Montana, Missoula, MT; and L. Hu, Q. Wang, W. Permar, and E. V. Fischer

960
Characterizing Aerosol Emissions from Wildfires in the Western US
Ezra J. T. Levin, Colorado State Univ., Fort Collins, CO; and K. R. Barry, K. A. Moore, J. Ortega, L. A. Garofalo, M. A. Pothier, P. J. DeMott, D. K. Farmer, S. M. Kreidenweis, and E. V. Fischer

961
First-Look Ammonia Measurements in Wildfire Smoke from the 2018 WE-CAN Field Campaign
Ilana B. Pollack, Colorado State Univ., Fort Collins, USA, Fort Collins, CO; and J. Lindaas, L. A. Garofalo, M. A. Pothier, W. Permar, L. Hu, D. K. Farmer, S. M. Kreidenweis, and E. V. Fischer

962
Submicron Aerosol Composition in Smoke Plumes from Wildfires in the Western United States as Determined from Aerosol Mass Spectrometry
Lauren A. Garofalo, Colorado State Univ., Fort Collins, CO; and M. A. Pothier, E. J. T. Levin, S. M. Kreidenweis, and D. K. Farmer

963
Influence of Smoke on O3 and PM in Houston, Texas
Daniel Jaffe, Univ. of Washington Bothell, Bothell, WA

965
Characterization of Air and Cloud Water Impacted By Wildfire Emissions during WE-CAN 2018
I-Ting Ku, Colorado State Univ., Fort Collins, CO; and A. P. Sullivan, Y. Zhou, V. Selimovic, E. V. Fischer, and J. L. Collett Jr.

966
The CU Airborne SOF Instrument: Spectral Retrieval and Data Validation for the 2018 BB-FLUX Campaign
Christopher F Lee, Univ. of Colorado Boulder, Boulder, CO; and N. Kille, K. Zarzana, B. J. Howard, P. Castellanos, T. L. Campos, J. W. Hannigan, I. Ortega, E. C. Apel, F. Flocke, I. B. Pollack, J. Lindaas, E. V. Fischer, and R. Volkamer

Handout (3.0 MB)

967
In Situ Measurements and Evaluation of Primary Radical Budgets within Wildfire Plumes during WE-CAN
Qiaoyun Peng, Univ. of Washington, Seattle, WA; and B. Palm, B. H. Lee, W. C. S. Team, E. V. Fischer, and J. A. Thornton

968
Characterization of Emissions of NO2 and Other Radical Sources from Biomass Burning
Kyle J Zarzana, Univ. of Colorado Boulder, Boulder, CO; and T. K. Koenig, B. J. Howard, N. Kille, C. F. Lee, C. Knote, T. L. Campos, M. Deng, L. D. Oolman, D. M. Plummer, A. J. Weinheimer, D. Thomson, and R. Volkamer

969
Fueled from Below: Linking Fire, Fuels and Weather to WE-CAN
Amber Soja, National Institute of Aerospace/NASA Langley Research Center, Hampton, VA; and A. Hudak, S. Prichard, S. Triplett, J. K. Hiers, R. D. Ottmar, and E. V. Fischer

970
Best Practices for Preventing Harassment in Atmospheric Science: Leveraging the WE-CAN Field-Campaign Network for Collaborative Change
Brittany Bloodhart, Colorado State Univ., Fort Collins, CO; and E. Fischer and K. L. Rasmussen

971
Global Seasonal Distributions of HCN and Acetonitrile
Rebecca S. Hornbrook, NCAR, Boulder, CO; and E. C. Asher, A. J. Hills, J. D. Crounse, M. J. Kim, A. P. Teng, P. O. Wennberg, B. Daube, R. Commane, S. C. Wofsy, K. McKain, C. Sweeney, E. A. Ray, S. Tilmes, F. Lacey, L. K. Emmons, J. F. Lamarque, and E. C. Apel

Handout (2.3 MB)

972
Inverse Modelling of Source-Specific Nitrogen Oxide Emissions Using Satellite Observations in the United States
Qiyang Yan, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA; and Y. Wang, D. Tong, C. Smeltzer, and R. Zhang

973
Formaldehyde Sources in the Remote Upper Troposphere
Jason St. Clair, JCET, Univ. of Maryland, Baltimore County, Baltimore, MD; and G. M. Wolfe, J. Liao, T. Hanisco, E. A. Ray, E. C. Apel, R. Hornbrook, A. Hills, D. R. Blake, B. Barletta, N. J. Blake, S. Meinardi, P. Wennberg, J. Crounse, M. Kim, H. Allen, W. Brune, D. O. Miller, A. Thames, S. Hall, K. Ullmann, T. B. Ryerson, C. Thompson, and J. Peischl

974
Developing Observable Proxies to Infer Hydroxyl Radical Spatiotemporal Variability
Colleen B. Baublitz, Columbia Univ., New York, NY; and A. M. Fiore, L. T. Murray, L. Valin, B. Duncan, M. B. Follette-Cook, G. M. Wolfe, J. M. Nicely, G. J. P. Correa, R. Commane, W. H. Brune, S. Hall, K. Ullmann, G. S. Diskin, T. F. Hanisco, J. St. Clair, T. B. Ryerson, C. Thompson, J. Peischl, I. Bourgeois, B. Daube, D. O. Miller, A. Thames, T. P. Bui, P. O. Wennberg, J. D. Crounse, H. Allen, and M. J. Kim

975
Measured and Modeled Ozone Distributions over the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans from ATom and Other Studies
Eric J. Hintsa, CIRES, Boulder, CO; and F. L. Moore, G. S. Dutton, B. D. Hall, A. McClure-Begley, J. D. Nance, J. W. Elkins, C. Thompson, J. Peischl, T. B. Ryerson, J. Liu, S. A. Strode, A. M. Fiore, L. T. Murray, and C. M. Flynn

976
Variability of Ozone over California during CABOTS 2016: Assessing the Role of Long-Range Transport and Local Emission Using Airborne Measurements and Models
Ju-Mee Ryoo, ARC, Moffett Field, CA; and L. T. Iraci, J. E. Marrero, E. L. Yates, W. J. Gore, and C. L. Parworth

977
TROPOMI Tropospheric Column NO2 and GOES-16 Geostationary Lightning Mapper Flashes: An Initial Investigation of Lightning NOx Production
Kenneth E. Pickering, Univ. of Maryland, College Park, MD; and D. J. Allen, E. Bucsela, J. P. Veefkind, D. Loyola, W. J. Koshak, and N. A. Krotkov

979
Modeling Impacts of Different Types of Aerosols on Convective Clouds and Circulations
Yuan Wang, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA; and J. Jiang, S. E. Bauer, and P. L. Ma

979A
Approximated Expression of the Mass Extinction Efficiency for Polydispersed Aerosols
Chang Hoon Jung, Kyungin Women's Univ., Incheon, Korea, Republic of (South); and J. UM, Y. J. Yoon, J. Lee, and Y. P. Kim

980
Inverse Modeling of CO2 Fluxes Using O-Buoys, a Multi-Year Dataset of Surface Observations from the Arctic Ocean
Kelly A. Graham, Florida State Univ., Tallahassee, FL; and C. Holmes, B. Byrne, D. Jones, W. R. Simpson, P. Matrai, F. Chavez, and D. K. Perovich

981
Modelling the Impact of Short-lived Climate Forcers on Arctic Climate
Knut von Salzen, Canadian Centre for Climate Modelling and Analysis, Victoria, BC, Canada; and D. A. Plummer, M. G. Flanner, M. Sand, K. Kupiainen, A. Stohl, and C. H. Whaley

982
Upper Tropospheric Tropical Ozone Variations and Trends: Satellite and Model Results
Lucien Froidevaux, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA; and D. E. Kinnison

983
Mapping the Oxidizing Capacity of the Global Remote Troposphere
Glenn M. Wolfe, GSFC, Greenbelt, MD; and T. F. Hanisco, J. M. Nicely, J. St. Clair, J. Liao, L. D. Oman, W. Brune, D. O. Miller, A. Thames, T. B. Ryerson, C. Thompson, J. Peischl, P. Wennberg, M. J. Kim, H. M. Allen, J. D. Crounse, S. Hall, K. Ullman, G. S. Diskin, T. P. Bui, C. S. Chang, and G. Gonzalez Abad


Poster Session 3
9R2O Poster Viewing #3 - Exhibit Hall - Wednesday, 4:00–6:00
Location: Hall 4 (Phoenix Convention Center - West and North Buildings)
Host: Ninth Conference on Transition of Research to Operations
1050
CITYZER—A Platform and an Ecosystem for Services Based on Environmental Data
Timo Nousiainen, Finnish Meteorological Institute, Helsinki, Finland; and L. johansson, A. M. Harri, J. Turpeinen, O. Ojanperä, T. Laiho, J. Niemi, K. Janka, and E. Viitala

1051
Characterization, Classification and Prediction of Forecast Dropouts in the NAVGEM Model
Elizabeth A. Satterfield, NRL, Monterey, CA; and J. McLay, J. Nachamkin, and K. J. Dougherty

1052
BUFR and GRIB2 Reformatting System at PPS
Yi Song, GSFC, Greenbelt, MD; and E. Stocker

1053
NOAA’s Climate Data Records—10 Years of Innovation
Daniel Wunder, Global Science & Technology Inc., Asheville, NC; and G. L. Ellingson and J. L. Privette

Handout (2.3 MB)

1054
Use of ASSISTT's Computing Cluster for R2O
Kurtis Pinkney, IMSG, College Park, MD; and E. C. McCaskill, M. Fan, V. Guadelupe-Cruz, E. Buzan, M. Walters, S. Sampson, and W. W. Wolf


Poster Session 3
Climate Variability and Change Posters—Part III
Location: Hall 4 (Phoenix Convention Center - West and North Buildings)
Host: 32nd Conference on Climate Variability and Change
Chairs: Robert Korty, Texas A&M Univ.; Walter A. Robinson, North Carolina State Univ.
889
Changes in Intense Rainfall Events and Drought across Africa in the 21st Century
Kerry H. Cook, The Univ. of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX; and F. Han and E. Vizy

890
Understanding the Diurnal Cycle of Summer Precipitation over Sub-Saharan West Africa
Edward Vizy, The Univ. of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX; and K. H. Cook

891
892
Subseasonal Predictions of the Ethiopian Belg Rains
Endalkachew Bekele, UCAR, Boulder, CO; and W. Thiaw

893
Intraseasonal Variability and Predictability over West Equatorial Africa during the Rainy Season
Pierre-Honore Kamsu-Tamo, UCAR-NOAA/NWS/NCEP, CPC, College Park, MD; and W. M. Thiaw and S. Janicot

894
Analysis of Drought Conditions and Their Impacts on Maize Yield
Omolola Mayowa Adisa, Univ. of Pretoria, Pretoria, South Africa; and J. O. Botai, A. M. Adeola, A. Hassen, and C. Botai

895
Analysis of the Representation of the Vertical Structure of the Saharan Air Layer over Northern Africa and the Eastern Atlantic Using MERRA-2
Jainn J. Shi, NASA GSFC, Morgan State Univ./GESTAR, Greenbelt, MD; and S. Braun, S. D. Nicholls, and M. Cordero-Fuentes

896
The Effects of Surface Longwave Spectral Emissivity on Atmospheric Circulation and Convection over the Sahara and Sahel Regions
Yi-Hsuan Chen, Univ. of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI; and X. Chen, X. Huang, and M. G. Flanner

898
Multiapproach Analysis of Urban Heat Island Effect in a Central-Eastern European Agglomeration
Rita Pongracz, Eotvos Lorand Univ., Budapest, Hungary; and J. Bartholy, H. Breuer, Z. Dezso, C. Dian, and J. Gondocs

899
The Role of Remote Forcing for the TEJ Variability over West Africa on Interannual to Multidecadal Time Scales
Alexander Lemburg, Max Planck Institute for Meteorology, Hamburg, Germany; and J. Bader

901
Using the Pseudo–Global Warming Method to Study the Interaction between Heat Waves and Urban Heat Islands in a Future Warmer Climate
Mukul Tewari, IBM Research, New York, NY; and J. Yang, H. Kusaka, F. Salamanca, C. D. Watson, and L. A. Treinish

902
A Multicohort Dynamic Population Model for Two-Way Coupling with Climate Models
Greta Katherine Easthom, Univ. of Maryland, College Park, College Park, MD; and S. Motesharrei

903
The Future of European Urban Heat Islands in a Changing Climate
Alaina Froh, Univ. of Maryland, Gaithersburg, MD

904
Using Global Climate Models to Project Monsoon and Future Extreme Weather Trends in the Pacific
Michael C. Kruk, Earth Resources Technology, Inc., Asheville, NC; and J. Marra, A. Shannon, R. Wegener, and A. Mackey

906
Spatial and Temporal Characteristics of the Central American Wind Jets
Yordan Arango Jiménez, National Univ. of Colombia, Medellín, Colombia; and Y. Cardona and C. D. Hoyos

907
High-Resolution Global Simulations Using the Model for Prediction Across Scales (MPAS) for Use in Climate Change Studies
Allison C. Michaelis, North Carolina State Univ., Raleigh, NC; and G. M. Lackmann and W. A. Robinson

908
909
Modeling the Climate and Land Cover Change Effects on Urban Water and Energy Dynamics in the Phoenix Metropolitan Area
Zhaocheng Wang, Arizona State Univ., Tempe, AZ; and T. J. Bohn and E. R. Vivoni

Handout (6.0 MB)

910
The Salience of Nonlinearities in the Boreal Winter Response to ENSO
Chaim I. Garfinkel, Hebrew Univ. of Jerusalem, Jerusalem, Israel

913
El Niño–Related Variations of Rainfall Characteristics over East Asia
Lishan Tseng, National Taiwan Normal Univ., Taipei, Taiwan; and P. Y. Liu, J. M. Wang, and S. Y. Ho

910B
916
An Observational Study of Northern Hemisphere Submonthly Retrograde Waves Using Reanalysis
Girish Nigamanth Raghunathan, Arizona State Univ., Tempe, AZ; and H. P. Huang

917
Intercomparison of Regional Climate Models for Summer Climate over the Philippines
Yoo-Bin Yhang, APEC Climate Center, Busan, Korea, Republic of (South); and C. M. Lim and W. Kim

918
Transitory Behaviors of June Rainfall Types over the Korean Peninsula
Hoyeon Shi, Seoul National Univ., Seoul, Korea, Republic of (South); and B. J. Sohn

919
Application of CFSv2 Hindcasts of Canadian Fire Weather Indices to Develop Outlooks for Fire Managers in Alaska
Akila Sampath, Geophysical Institute, Univ. of Alaska Fairbanks, Fairbanks, AK

920
Changes in North American Monsoon Precipitation in a Warmer Climate
Emily Fletcher, NSF, Lincoln, NE; and M. Natoli, B. Singh, and E. D. Maloney

921
Increasing Arabian Peninsula Summer Surface Air Temperature Response to Greenhouse Warming: The Role of Water Vapor Feedback
Muhammad Azhar Ehsan, The Abdus Salam International Center for Theoretical Physics (ICTP), Trieste, Italy; and F. Kucharski

923
Assessing the Quality of Seasonal Ensemble Forecasts
Anna Y. Borovikov, SSAI, Greenbelt, MD; and S. Schubert

924
Intra-annual Changes of the Circulation Variability Modes Dominating over the Northern Hemisphere Extratropics
Lucie Pokorna, Faculty of Science, Charles Univ., Prague, Czech Republic; and R. Huth

925
Cloud-System Resolving Model for Arabian Peninsula Winter Rainfall
Raju Attada, King Abdullah Univ. of Science and Technology (KAUST), Thuwal, Saudi Arabia; and H. P. Dasari, T. M. Luong, O. Knio, and I. Hoteit

926
QBWO of Asian Monsoon Rainfall in Late Summer and Autumn: Different Types of Structure and Propagation
Xin Yan, No. 135, Xingang Xi Road,, Guangzhou, China; and S. Yang, T. Wang, and S. Dong

928
The Relationship between Atmospheric Blocking and Precipitation Changes in Turkey between 1977 and 2016
Bahtiyar Efe, Istanbul Technical Univ., Istanbul, Turkey; and A. R. Lupo and A. Deniz

929A
Navigating Our Understanding of Future Greenland Ice Sheet Precipitation with CESM Simulations and CloudSat Observations
Michael A. Camron, Univ. of Colorado Boulder, Boulder, CO; and J. Lenaerts, J. Kay, and T. L'Ecuyer


Poster Session 3
EIPT Posters—Part III
Location: Hall 4 (Phoenix Convention Center - West and North Buildings)
Host: 35th Conference on Environmental Information Processing Technologies
Cochairs: Kevin Tyle, Univ. at Albany/SUNY; Scott S. Lindstrom, Univ. of Wisconsin
822
Advanced Capabilities of Star Algorithm Processing Framework (Sapf) Version 2.0
Alexander Ken, I.M. Systems Group, College Park, MD; and A. Russakoff, B. Helgans, T. S. King, and W. Wolf

Handout (507.3 kB)

823
Mitigation of Radio Frequency Pulse Interference on Dual-Pol Weather Radar
Qing Cao, Enterprise Electronics Corporation, Enterprise, AL; and M. Knight

824
Automated ZDR Calibration on EEC Dual-Pol Weather Radar System
Qing Cao, Enterprise Electronics Corporation, Enterprise, AL; and M. Knight

825
A Study on Oscillations in Low-Level Tornado Couplet Intensity
Andrew Mahre, Univ. of Oklahoma, Norman, OK; and C. B. Griffin, Z. B. Wienhoff, H. B. Bluestein, J. B. Houser, J. C. Snyder, and D. J. Bodine

826
An Improved Attenuation Correction Methodology for Polarimetric Weather Radar
Yabin Gou, Hangzhou Meteorological Bureau, Hangzhou, China; and H. Chen

827
Improving Quantitative Precipitation Estimation in Complex Terrain over the San Francisco Bay Area Using Gap-Filling Radar Network
Haonan Chen, Colorado State Univ. and NOAA/Earth System Research Laboratory, Fort Collins, CO; and R. Cifelli and V. Chandrasekar

828
A Novel Approach to Reducing Dealiasing Errors for Staggered Pulse Repetition Time Waveforms
David A. Warde, CIMMS/Univ. of Oklahoma and NOAA/OAR/NSSL, Norman, OK; and J. C. Krauss and W. D. Zittel
Manuscript (1.8 MB)

Handout (3.0 MB)

829
Forecasting Lightning Initiation Using Dual-Polarization Radar and Lightning Mapping Array in Southwest Utah
Daniel O. Katuzienski, Air Force Institute of Technology, Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, OH; and O. A. Nava, W. P. Roeder, and N. M. Holden

830
Classifying Bird and Insect Radar Echoes at S Band
Precious Jatau, OU CIMMS, Norman, OK; and V. Melnikov

Handout (2.1 MB)

831
A Bayesian Approach to Identify Non-hydrometeor Echoes Using Single-Polarization Radar Data
Lin Tang, CIMMS/Univ. of Oklahoma, Norman, OK; and Y. Wang

832
A Real Time Method to Diagnose and Mitigate Horizontal and Vertical Noise Degradation in the WSR-88D Network
Micheal J. Simpson, CIMMS/Univ. of Oklahoma and NOAA/NSSL, Norman, OK; and B. Kaney, L. Tang, N. Goldacker, S. B. Cocks, J. Zhang, and K. W. Howard

833
Dual Polarization Ground Clutter Filtering
Mohammad Hossein Golbon Haghighi, Univ. of Oklahoma, Norman, OK; and G. Zhang


Poster Session 3
GOES-R/JPSS Poster Session—Part III
Location: Hall 4 (Phoenix Convention Center - West and North Buildings)
Host: 15th Annual Symposium on New Generation Operational Environmental Satellite Systems
1011
Algorithm Scientific Software Integration and System Transition Team (ASSISTT) in Transition from Research to Operations
Priya R. Pillai, IMSG, College Park, MD; and H. Xie, E. McWilliams, K. Neely, J. Lindeman, K. Allen, A. Li, V. Jose, S. Sampson, and W. Wolf

1012
GOES-17 Advanced Baseline Imager Signal-to-Noise Performance and Impact on Downstream Products Using Optimized Sensor Configuration
Joel McCorkel, NASA GSFC, Greenbelt, MD; and B. Efremova, M. M. Coakley, A. Krimchansky, and D. T. Lindsey

1013
Lessons Learned in the First Year of Delivering GOES-16 Imagery to the Public
Lori Brown, NESDIS, College Park, MD; and B. Keffer, M. Jochum, D. Lindsey, and P. Keehn

1014
Early Results from the RELAMPAGO Lightning Mapping Array
Timothy J. Lang, NASA MSFC, Huntsville, AL; and R. J. Blakeslee, J. Burchfield, M. T. Wingo, L. Carey, S. J. Goodman, and W. Deierling

Handout (827.2 kB)

1015
An Analysis of the Lightning Jump Algorithm Using the GOES-16 Geostationary Lightning Mapper
Nathan Curtis, Univ. of Alabama in Huntsville, Huntsville, AL; and L. D. Carey and C. J. Schultz

1016
Applications of a Lightning Energy Metric Using Satellite Instrumentation and Monte Carlo Simulations
Kelcy N. Brunner, Univ. of Alabama in Huntsville, Huntsville, AL; and P. M. Bitzer

1017
Comparison of GOES-16 Geostationary Lightning Mapper Data to Lightning Mapping Array Data
Stephanie A. Weiss, Texas Tech Univ., Lubbock, TX; and E. C. Bruning

1018
A Radar Investigation of Storm Morphology and Precipitation Processes during Discrepancies between GOES-16 GLM and LMA Observed Lightning Flash Rates and Jumps
Lawrence D. Carey, Univ. of Alabama in Huntsville, Huntsville, AL; and N. Curtis, S. M. Stough, C. J. Schultz, and P. M. Bitzer

Handout (5.6 MB)

1019
Total Lightning Climatology in the Caribbean Region
Sen Chiao, San Jose State Univ., San Jose, CA; and D. Melendez, K. Sanchez, and A. Jordan

Handout (16.7 MB)

1020
The JPSS CrIS Instrument: First Year on Orbit
Ronald J. Glumb, Exelis, Inc., Fort Wayne, IN; and L. Suwinski, S. Wells, and R. Malloy

1021
CSPP SDR 3.1 Quality Level 1 Data from SNPP and J01
Scott Mindock, Univ. of Wisconsin–Madison, Madison, WI; and G. D. Martin, R. K. Garcia, L. E. Gumley, K. Strabala, and A. Huang

1022
JPSS ATMS On-Orbit SDR Data Product Status
Ninghai Sun, ERT, Inc., College Park, MD; and H. Yang and Q. Liu

1023
1024
Simplified Workflows for Visualizing, Analyzing, and Sharing JPSS Data
Daniel P. Pisut, Esri, Redlands, CA; and S. Shrestha

Poster 1024 will also be presented as paper 11B.3A

1025
Operational Status of GOES-16 and GOES-17 L2-Derived Products
Wayne M. MacKenzie Jr., NOAA/NESDIS, Greenbelt, MD; and J. Daniels, E. M. Kline, M. Seybold, K. W. Mozer, and T. Feroli

1026
Early Orbit Performance Evaluation of FY-3D MERSI-II and HIRAS Using GSICS  Methods
Xiuqing Hu, NSMC/China Meteorological Adiministration, Beijing, China

1027
An Image Striping Mitigation Strategy for GOES-16 and GOES-17 ABI Developed Using Desert Monitoring Special Collections
Monica J. Cook, GeoThinkTank LLC, Washington, DC; and F. P. Padula, A. J. Pearlman, D. Pogorzala, J. McCorkel, C. Cao, and D. T. Lindsey

1030
Developing an Aerosol Retrieval for Land, Ocean, and  Littoral Zones Using the Next Generation Geostationary Observations
Min Oo, Univ. of Wisconsin/CIMSS, Madison, WI; and R. Holz, A. Walther, A. Heidinger, R. Levy, and S. D. Miller

1031
In-Flight NOAA-20 OMPS Sensor Data Calibration
Chunhui Pan, Earth System Science Interdisciplinary Center/Univ. of Maryland, College Park, College Park, MD; and L. Zhou, C. Cao, L. Flynn, C. T. Beck, and X. Xiong

1032
ESPDS Product Distribution and Access—Making the Most of the ESPDS PDA User Portal
George Wilkinson, Solers, Greenbelt, MD; and R. Baker, T. Kowalski, D. M. Beall, R. Niemann, and S. Walsh

1033
Calibration for Tandem PAIR of ATMS Instruments Using Lunar Observations
Hu Yang, Univ. of Maryland, College Park, College Park, MD; and N. Sun and Q. Liu


Poster Session 3
Poster III: Observing the Atmospheric Boundary Layer
Location: Hall 4 (Phoenix Convention Center - West and North Buildings)
Host: 23rd Conference on Integrated Observing and Assimilation Systems for the Atmosphere, Oceans, and Land Surface (IOAS-AOLS)
990A
A Marine Boundary Layer Water Vapor Climatology Derived from Microwave and Near-Infrared Imagery
Luis F. Millan, JPL, Pasadena, CA; and M. Lebsock and J. Teixeira

945
Methods to Retrieve PBLH from Ground-Based and Space-Borne Lidars and Application to Air Pollution Studies
Tianning Su, Univ. of Maryland, College Park, College Park, MD; and Z. Li and R. Kahn

946
Improving Boundary Layer Profiling by Augmenting Space-Based Measurements with Ground-Based Interferometers
David M. Loveless, Univ. of Wisconsin–Madison, Madison, WI; and T. J. Wagner, R. O. Knuteson, and S. Ackerman

Handout (1.6 MB)

948
Planetary Boundary Layer Height from AIRS and MERRA-2 Products at NASA GES DISC, and Insights from Data Intercomparison
Feng Ding, NASA GSFC/GES DISC and ADNET Systems Inc., Greenbelt, MD; and L. Iredell, S. Shen, D. Ostrenga, M. Theobald, B. Vollmer, J. Wei, and D. Meyer

Handout (3.8 MB)

Poster 947 has been moved. New paper number 19.1A.

949
Evaluating Challenges of a PBL-Space Based Observing System in Polar Regions
Gilberto Javier Fochesatto, Univ. of Alaska Fairbanks, Fairbanks, AK; and N. Molders, C. O. Ao, A. J. Mannucci, T. Pagano, and J. Teixeira

950
Space Observations of Water and Carbon Balance at Ocean Surface
W. Timothy Liu, JPL, Pasadena, CA; and X. Xie

951
Stratocumulus Cloud Transitions in the Southeast Pacific from GOES Observations
Peter M. Kalmus, JPL, Pasadena, CA; and M. Lebsock and J. Teixeira

Poster 952 has been moved. New paper number 18.6A

953
The Features of the Summertime Deep Atmospheric Boundary Layer over the Taklimakan Desert and Its Influence on the Regional Circulation
Minzhong Wang, Urumqi Institute of Desert Meteorology, Chinese Meteorological Administration, Urumqi, China

954
Automated Detection of Sea Breeze Circulations: A Climatology of Sea Breeze-Initiated Precipitation
Daniel P. Moore, Univ. of Delaware, Newark, DE; and D. E. Veron

Handout (14.5 MB)

955
Effects of Elevation Errors on the Calculation of Station Pressure
Blake Sorenson, Naval Research Enterprise Internship Program/NRL, Monterey, CA; and P. M. Pauley

Handout (3.3 MB)


Poster Session 3
Symposium on Education Posters: Wednesday
Location: Hall 4 (Phoenix Convention Center - West and North Buildings)
Host: 28th Symposium on Education
Cochairs: Reginald Blake, New York City College of Technology, City Univ. of New York; Jeffrey A. Yuhas, Morristown-Beard School
930
UAS Faculty Learning Community for Meteorology, Aeronautics, and Air Traffic Management Education
Dorothea Ivanova, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical Univ., Prescott, AZ; and C. N. James, M. Sinclair, J. Luedtke, J. Perry, and T. Holt

931
Engaging a Diverse Community in STEM Courses at the Alamo Colleges District
John Strybos, Alamo Colleges–San Antonio College, Live Oak, Texas

Handout (33.9 MB)

933
Training and Supporting Minority STEM Majors through a Remote Sensing Research Program
Janet Liou-Mark, New York City College of Technology, City Univ. of New York, Brooklyn, NY; and R. Blake, C. Y. R. Li, L. Yuen-Lau, S. Merchant, and R. Khanbilvardi

934
The NOAA LMRCSC and Its Multifaceted Approaches to Facilitate Student Development and Diversity in the Marine Sciences
Victoria Young, Living Marine Resources Cooperative Science Center, Savannah State Univ., Savannah, GA; and D. L. Hoskins-Brown, P. Chigbu, M. A. Sexton, D. Gibson, R. Jagus, E. Babcock, J. Miller, S. Smith, and B. G. Stevens

Handout (2.6 MB) Handout (3.2 MB)

936
The AMS Education Program: Past, Present, and Future Efforts in Raising Scientific Literacy
Wendy Abshire, American Meteorological Society, Washington, D.C.; and E. W. Mills, B. A. Blair, and K. A. Nugnes

938
Radiosonde Roadshow: Teaching Meteorology to All Ages
Chris Vagasky, Vaisala, Inc., Louisville, CO

939
Promoting STEM Literacy and Diversity through the Center for Applied Atmospheric Research and Education (CAARE)
Mohammad Z. Al-Hamdan, Universities Space Research Association at NASA Marshall Space Flight Center (USRA at NASA/MSFC), Huntsville, AL; and S. Chiao, S. L. Palacios, W. L. Crosson, M. G. Barik, M. G. Estes Jr., R. Griffin, S. M. Estes, F. R. Freedman, C. Sack, and C. Kowalczak

Handout (2.3 MB)

940
Overview and Outcomes of the NOAA Center for Atmospheric Sciences Weather Camp Program
Vernon R. Morris, Howard Univ., Washington, D.C.; and J. A. Mansell-Butty, K. Thiero, and M. D. Walter

941
See It, Hear It, Touch It: Florida International University Informal STEM Education and Outreach
Erik Salna, Extreme Events Institute, Florida International Univ., Miami, FL

942A
Merging Coding and Geoscience to Engage Students
Shelley Olds, UNAVCO, Boulder, CO; and M. Mooney, A. Pallant, and B. Reid


Poster Session 7
Poster Session 2: Environment and Health
Location: Hall 4 (Phoenix Convention Center - West and North Buildings)
Host: 10th Conference on Environment and Health
1034A
Exploring Usefulness of Meteorology Data for Predicting Malaria Cases
Meena Sehgal, The Energy and Resources Institute (TERI),, Delhi, India; and R. Shukla and S. Ghosh

1034
1035
Investigating the Expanding Geographic Range of Coccidioides
Anastasia Litvintseva, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, GA

1036
Rising Dust Storm Activity in the Southwestern United States: Evidence from Long-Term Multiplatform Observations
Daniel Tong, George Mason Univ., Fairfax, VA; and B. Baker, J. Wang, T. E. Gill, R. S. Van Pelt, B. Wang, P. Ginoux, B. Pu, H. Lei, Z. Liu, D. Kim, and M. Chin

1037
Estimating Health Effects of Accidental Releases of Toxic Chemicals such as Chlorine and Ammonia
Steven R. Hanna, Hanna Consultants, Kennebunkport, ME; and G. Famini and G. Kaiser

Handout (1011.3 kB)

1039
Spatiotemporal Variability of NH3 across the Contiguous United States
Rui Wang, Princeton Univ., Princeton, NJ; and M. A. Zondlo, K. Sun, P. F. Coheur, L. Clarisse, and S. Whitburn

1040
Aerosols, Aeroallergens, and Health
Cheikh Mbengue, Air Quality Management Center (CGQA), Plateau, Senegal

1041
Integration of High-Resolution Wildfire Smoke Simulation and Satellite Observations and Its Application in Health Impact Assessment
Yufei Zou, Univ. of Washington, Seattle, WA; and S. M. O'Neill, N. K. Larkin, E. Alvarado, R. Solomon, Y. Liu, H. Shen, and M. T. Odman

1042
Application of Seasonal Climate Forecasts to Predictions of Regional Crime Anomalies in the United States
Ryan D. Harp, Univ. of Colorado Boulder, Boulder, CO; and K. B. Karnauskas

1043
Assessing the Capabilities of Smallsats Sensors Using an AI-Based OSSE/NowCasting Approach: Case of EON-MW, MicroMAS-2, TROPICS, TEMPEST-D, and CIRAS
Narges Shahroudi, Riverside Technology, Inc., and NOAA/NESDIS/STAR, College Park, MD; and E. Maddy, S. A. Boukabara, K. Ide, T. Zhu, and F. Iturbide-Sanchez

1044
Detecting Mineral Dust Aerosols: Aerosol Retrieval Continuity in Transition from MODIS to VIIRS
Burcu Kabatas, CIMSS/Space Science and Engineering Center/Univ. of Wisconsin−Madison, Madison, WI; and L. Gumley

1045
Fusing Regional Satellite-Derived PM2.5 and Near-Road Dispersion Modeling Fields for Community Scale Fine Particulate Exposure Assessment
Frank R. Freedman, San Jose State Univ., San Jose, CA; and M. Diao, M. Z. Al-Hamdan, M. G. Barik, S. Amini, and A. Venkatram

1048
Injury-Related Health Impacts of Flooding in Florida, 2005−15
Anisha Singh, Univ. of Tennessee, Knoxville, Knoxville, TN; and M. A. Jagger and K. Kintziger

1049
Drought Associations with All-Cause Mortality Rates in the United States
Katie Lynch, Emory Univ., Atlanta, GA; and J. E. Bell and M. Gribble


Poster Session 13
ARAM Conference Posters—Part II
Location: Hall 4 (Phoenix Convention Center - West and North Buildings)
Host: 19th Conference on Aviation, Range, and Aerospace Meteorology
Cochairs: Geary J. Layne, NOAA/ESRL/GSD, CIRES/Univ. of Colorado; Karen Eagle, NOAA
995
NARR-Based Climatology of Estimated Altimeter Error due to Nonstandard Temperatures
Thomas A. Guinn, Embry–Riddle Aeronatical Univ., Daytona Beach, FL; and C. G. Herbster and K. B. Lenninger
Manuscript (1.4 MB)

997
Forecasting Extreme Wet Bulb Globe Temperature (WBGT) with a Mesoscale Numerical Weather Prediction System
Jason C. Knievel, NCAR, Boulder, CO; and G. Roux, Y. Liu, and B. C. Thomas

998
Enhancements to the Global Weather Hazards Project
Cathy Kessinger, NCAR, Boulder, CO; and D. Megenhardt, J. Olivo, L. Lin, V. Hoang, M. Nayote, O. Matz, A. Ritter, D. Wolf, K. Sievers, R. Scheinhartz, and J. Cahall

Handout (1.3 MB)

999
Echo Age in the National Radar Mosaic: An Update on the Statistics of Echo Age and Its Effects on Interpretation of Hazards in the Aviation Sector
Heather D. Reeves, CIMMS/Univ. of Oklahoma and NOAA/NSSL, Norman, OK; and K. Cooper, R. Toomey, J. Brogden, and K. W. Howard

1000
Upcoming MRMS Hydrometeor Classification Products
Andrew A. Rosenow, CIMMS/Univ. of Oklahoma and NOAA/NSSL, Norman, OK; and S. L. Handler and H. D. Reeves

1001
Quality Assessment of the Real-Time Mesoscale Analysis (RTMA) for Aviation
Matthew T. Morris, Systems Research Group and NOAA/NCEP/EMC, College Park, MD; and J. R. Carley, E. Colón, M. Pondeca, S. Levine, and J. Derber

1002
The Impact of AMDAR Reporting over East China on Short-Term High-Resolution Regional NWP Application
Jing Cheng, IMSG, Rockville, MD; and S. Liu, Y. Weng, J. M. García-Rivera, Y. Li, B. Hu, C. Wei, and J. Le

1003
Comparison between TAF and MOS Focused on Wind Speed during Spring Season in 2017–2018
Jae Won Lee, KMA, Incheon, Korea, Republic of (South); and S. LEE and M. LEE
Manuscript (298.9 kB)

Handout (458.2 kB)

1004
TAF Initialization at Météo-France: The IniTAF Project
Thierry Kranitz, Météo-France, Noumea, New Caledonia; and P. Crispel, P. M. Jaunet, C. Delin, and A. Drouin

Handout (5.6 MB)

1005
Current and Future Improvements to the Graphical Forecasts for Aviation Tool
Daniel Vietor, NOAA/NWS/NCEP, Kansas City, MO; and S. A. Lack, S. Avey, B. P. Pettegrew, A. M. Terborg, S. Silberberg, T. P. Mahony, R. L. Solomon, C. Wallace, J. W. Scheck, D. Blondin, M. Strahan, L. Greenwood, and B. Lucas

1006
Weather Support for Collaborative Decision-Making on Aviation
Shun Liu, IMSG and NOAA/NWS/NCEP/EMC, College Park, MD; and Y. Weng, W. Guo, R. Chen, J. Cheng, M. Fang, M. Yao, L. Jiang, W. Zhang, A. Liang, W. Chen, P. guo, and H. Zhang

1008
Regional and Subregional Initiatives for Improved Weather Service Delivery to Aviation
Jaakko Nuottokari, Finnish Meteorological Institute, Helsinki, Finland

Handout (4.2 MB)

1009
Collaborative FAA/NWS Research-to-Operations Enhancements
Brian P. Pettegrew, CIRA/Colorado State Univ., Kansas City, MO; and D. L. Sims and J. W. Scheck


Poster Session
Advances In Monitoring and Analyzing Precipitation Extremes Using Remote Sensing (Posters)
Location: Hall 4 (Phoenix Convention Center - West and North Buildings)
Host: 33rd Conference on Hydrology
Cochairs: Helen Greatrex, International Research Institute for Climate and Society; Chris C. Funk, USGS/Earth Resources Observation Systems; Ross Maidment, Univ. of Reading
834A
837
Assessing fitness for purpose: a validation of Ghanaian satellite rainfall within the context of participatory agricultural services and index insurance.
Francis Torgbor, African Institute for Mathematical Sciences, Biriwa, Ghana; and H. Greatrex, P. Lamptey, and R. Stern

838
Effects of Drop Size Distribution Variability on QPE/QPF in the San Francisco Bay Area
Dalton Behringer, San Jose State Univ., San Jose, CA; and S. Chiao

840

Joint Poster Session
Drought Monitoring, Early Warning, and Projection in the 21st Century—Beyond PDSI (Posters)
Location: Hall 4 (Phoenix Convention Center - West and North Buildings)
Hosts: (Joint between the 33rd Conference on Hydrology; the 32nd Conference on Climate Variability and Change; and the 24th Conference on Applied Climatology )
Cochairs: Christa D. Peters-Lidard, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center; Pierre Gentine, Columbia Univ.; Michael Barlage, NCAR; Dennis P. Lettenmaier, Univ. of California; Daniel Barrie, NOAA
845
Root-Zone Soil Moisture Estimation Using In-Situ Measurements and Remote Sensing Data
Ning Zhang, Ohio State Univ., Columbus, OH; and S. M. Quiring

849
Impact of Climate Model “Downscaling” on Projected Water Resources in Arid Basins, Two Case Studies from Arizona
Eylon Shamir, Hydrologic Research Center, San Diego, CA; and E. Halper, T. Modrick, K. P. Georgakakos, H. I. Chang, T. Lahmers, and C. L. Castro

850
Using Remotely Sensed Precipitation Information and Vegetation Observations for Early Drought Detection and Near-Real Time Monitoring on a Global Scale
Olivier P. Prat, Cooperative Institute for Climate and Satellites/North Carolina State Univ., Asheville, NC; and R. D. Leeper, J. L. Matthews, B. R. Nelson, J. Adams, and S. Ansari

855
The 1983-2016 Climate Hazards Infrared, MERRA High Resolution Tmax with Stations (CHIRTSmax) Climate Data Record
Pete Peterson, Climate Hazards Group, Univ. of California, Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA; and C. C. Funk, S. Peterson, S. Shukla, F. Davenport, J. Michaelsen, M. Landsfeld, G. Husak, L. S. Harrison, J. Rowland, M. Budde, K. R. Knapp, S. E. Nicholson, and T. Dinku


Poster Session
Global and Regional Remote Sensing Precipitation Estimation, Evaluation, and Applications (Posters)
Location: Hall 4 (Phoenix Convention Center - West and North Buildings)
Host: 33rd Conference on Hydrology
Cochairs: Youcun Qi, Institute of Geographic Sciences and Natural Resources Research; Haonan Chen, Colorado State Univ.; V. Chandrasekar, Colorado State Univ.
857
Multitemporal Validation of IMERG Precipitation Estimates over South Korea
Jianxin Wang, NASA, Greenbelt, MD; and W. A. Petersen, D. B. Wolff, and G. H. Ryu

826A
Evaluation of Polarimetric Radar-Based Precipitation Estimates in Southern China
Qiulei Xia, Chengdu Univ. of Information Technology, Chengdu, China; and W. Zhang, H. Chen, and Z. Yao

827A
Representing Radar Rainfall Uncertainties in Complex Terrain Using A Bayesian Modelling Approach
Haonan Chen, NOAA/ESRL, Boulder, CO; and R. Cifelli, Y. Ma, and V. Chandrasekar

858
Comparison of Precipitation Phase Algorithms: A Ground Validation Study for GPM
Javier A. Villegas, Univ. of Illinois at Urbana−Champaign, Urbana, IL; and B. Swick and A. Tokay

859
Intercomparison of Rain Rates from NOAA's Microwave Integrated Retrieval System (MiRS) with Surface Gauge Observations over China during 2014-2017
Hao Hu, Chinese Academy of Meteorological Sciences, Beijing, China; and C. Grassotti, S. Liu, R. Honeyager, Y. K. Lee, and Q. Liu

860
Methods for Estimating Ground Precipitation of Heavy Rain from Radar Using Correlation Analysis
Takaaki Fukuhara, Railway Technical Research Institute, Kokubunji-City, Tokyo, Japan; and K. Takami and Y. Kamata

Handout (221.5 kB)

861
Comparison of Extremes in Stage IV, TRMM 3B42v7 and MERRA2 Observation Corrected Precipitation
Nathan R. Kelly, Colorado State Univ., Fort Collins, CO; and R. S. Schumacher


Poster Session
Ninth Symposium on Lidar Atmospheric Applications Poster Session
Location: Hall 4 (Phoenix Convention Center - West and North Buildings)
Host: Ninth Symposium on Lidar Atmospheric Applications
1055
Using Cluster-Derived Diurnal Ozone Groups to Validate Model Surface Ozone Predictions
Claudia Marie Bernier, Univ. of Houston, Houston, TX; and Y. Wang, J. McQueen, and M. Estes

1056
Investigating Plume Origins Detected by Lidar and Aircraft during a High-Ozone Event in the Chesapeake Bay Using HYSPLIT Backward Trajectories during the 2017 OWLETS Campaign
Lindsey A. Rodio, NASA Langley Research Center, Hampton, VA; and M. E. Buzanowicz, T. Berkoff, G. Gronoff, and T. P. Canty

1057
A New Cloud Ice Microphysical Parameterization Developed from CALIOP/CloudSat for Numerical Weather Prediction
Erica K Dolinar, NRL, Monterey, CA; and B. M. Karpowicz, J. R. Campbell, K. C. Viner, and X. Dong

1058
Automated Early Detection of Wildfires Using GOES-16 Satellite Imagery
Jane Wilson Baldwin, Princeton Univ., Princeton, NJ; and C. Beneke, R. Keisler, H. Zhou, C. Kontgis, and K. A. McKinnon

1059
Verifying Transport and Dispersion Model Output of Fires Using Radar Data
Jonathan M. Vogel, Applied Research Associates, Alexandria, VA

1060
Understanding Tropospheric Ozone from U.S. Wildfires: Observations and Modeling
Bo Wang, Univ. of Alabama in Huntsville, Huntsville, AL; and M. Newchurch, S. Kuang, A. P. Biazar, A. O. Langford, P. Tucker, and K. Pozsonyi

1062
Doppler Lidar Wind Measurements around Hurricane Maria during the 2017 NOAA Hurricane Reconnaissance Program
S. A. Wood, Simpson Weather Associates, Charlottesville, VA; and G. D. Emmitt and C. O'Handley

Poster 1063 is now TJS9.2A.

1064
Ad Hoc Ceilometer Evaluation Study: Mixing Layer Heights Network
Ruben Delgado, Univ. of Maryland, Baltimore County, Baltimore, MD; and V. Caicedo, J. Posey, I. Kironji, B. B. Demoz, J. Szykman, R. K. Sakai, D. Atkinson, M. Hicks, M. Woodman, and D. Krask

1065
Application of the Optimal Estimation Method (OEM) to Retrieve Temperature and Relative Humidity from Rotational Raman Lidar Backscatter Measurements
Shayamila Mahagammulla Gamage, Univ. of Western Ontario, London, ON, Canada; and A. Haefele and R. J. Sica

1066
Evaluation of a Compact DIAL for Atmospheric Water Vapor Profiling at the ARM SGP Site
Raisa Lehtinen, Vaisala Oyj, Helsinki, Finland; and C. Münkel, R. K. Newsom, R. Roininen, D. D. Turner, and T. Linna

1067
Size-resolved Characteristics of Particulate Elements in a Coastal Area: Source Identification, Influence of Wildfires, and Diurnal Variability
Lin Ma, The Univ. of Arizona, Tucson, AZ; and H. Dadashazar, R. Braun, A. MacDonald, M. A. Aghdam, L. C. Maudlin, and A. Sorooshian

Handout (986.3 kB)


Poster Session
Poster Session Wednesday
Location: Hall 4 (Phoenix Convention Center - West and North Buildings)
Host: 20th Conference on Middle Atmosphere
984
Rossby Wave Propagation into the Northern Hemisphere Stratosphere: The Role of Zonal Phase Speed
Daniela I. V. Domeisen, ETH, Zurich, Switzerland; and O. Martius and B. Jiménez-Esteve

Handout (690.5 kB)

985
The Role of Eddy–Eddy Interactions in Sudden Stratospheric Warming Formation
Erik Anders Lindgren, MIT, Cambridge, MA; and A. Sheshadri

910C
The Importance of Divergence and Vertical Extent of the Jet to the Growth Rates of Barotropic Instability in Realistic Mean Flows on a Sphere
Ofer Shamir, Hebrew Univ. of Jerusalem, Jerusalem, Israel; and N. Paldor and C. I. Garfinkel

987
Long-Term Ozone Variability and Trends from Reanalyses: Can It Be Done?
Krzysztof Wargan, Science Systems and Applications, Inc., Greenbelt, MD; and C. Orbe, N. Kramarova, and S. Pawson

910A
Extratropical Stratospheric Predictability from the MJO and ENSO in the S2S Models
Chaim I. Garfinkel, Hebrew Univ. of Jerusalem, Jerusalem, Israel; and C. Schwartz

990
Horizontal Winds, Potential Vorticity, and Stratopause Characteristics from a Mesospheric and Upper Stratospheric Unified Dataset
Luis F. Millan, JPL, Pasadena, CA; and M. Schwartz, G. L. Manney, and N. J. Livesey

Poster 991 has been moved. New paper number is 5.6A.

992
Summary and Highlights of the SPARC-Reanalysis Intercomparison Project
Masatomo Fujiwara, Hokkaido Univ., Sapporo, Japan; and G. L. Manney, L. J. Gray, J. Wright, J. Anstey, T. Birner, S. M. Davis, R. Dragani, E. P. Gerber, Y. Harada, V. L. Harvey, M. I. Hegglin, C. R. Homeyer, J. A. Knox, K. Krueger, A. Lambert, C. S. Long, B. Monge-Sanz, M. L. Santee, S. Tegtmeier, and K. Wargan

994
Advances in Spaceborne Observations of the Middle Atmosphere with the Microwave Limb Sounding Technique
Nathaniel Livesey, JPL, Pasadena, CA; and M. L. Santee, W. G. Read, A. Lambert, G. Chattopadhyay, J. Kooi, R. Stachnik, A. J. Tang, and R. Jarnot


Poster Session
Posters
Location: Hall 4 (Phoenix Convention Center - West and North Buildings)
Host: Global and Regional-Scale Models: Updates and Center Overviews
Poster 1099 has moved. New Paper Number is 2.5A.

1100
1101
1102
NEMS Mediator: Current Status and Ongoing Development
Bin Li, I.M. Systems Group at NOAA/NWS/NCEP/EMC, College Park, MD; and T. Craig, G. Theurich, R. Oehmke, F. Liu, P. Tripp, X. Wu, J. Wang, J. Meixner, J. Wang, D. Worthen, A. Chawla, M. D. Iredell, and C. DeLuca

1103
A Newly Developed APCC SCoPS and Its Prediction of East Asia Seasonal Climate Variability
Suryun Ham, APEC Climate Center, Busan, Korea, Republic of (South)

1104
Processes associated with Convection Initiation in the North American Mesoscale Forecast System, Version 3 (NAMv3)
Michael Colbert, NWS, State College, PA; and D. J. Stensrud, P. Markowski, and Y. Richardson


Poster Session
Precipitation Processes and Observations for Atmospheric, Land Surface, and Hydrological Modeling (Poster)
Location: Hall 4 (Phoenix Convention Center - West and North Buildings)
Host: 33rd Conference on Hydrology
Cochairs: Eleonora Demaria, USDA–ARS; Francina Dominguez, Univ. of Illinois at Urbana−Champaign; Joshua K. Roundy, Univ. of Kansas
864
Orographic Effects on Storm-Scale Structures in Short-Time Heavy Rainfall Events Under Weak Synoptic Backgrounds
Lei Lei, State Key Laboratory of Severe Weather, China Meteorological Administration, Beijing, China; and J. Sun Sr. and J. Cao

865
Improving Weather Radar Rainfall Estimates over the Mooi River Catchment, South Africa
RP Burger Sr., North-West Univ., Potchefstroom, South Africa; and S. Piketh and J. van Loggerenberg

866
A One Year Assessment of Four Radar-Based QPEs across the Continental US
Stephen B. Cocks, CIMMS/Univ. of Oklahoma and NOAA/NSSL, Norman, OK; and L. Tang, S. M. Martinaitis, J. Zhang, A. V. Ryzhkov, P. Zhang, and K. W. Howard

867
Development of Gridded Daily Ensemble Precipitation and Temperature Datasets for Alaska and the Yukon Territory
Andrew Newman, NCAR, Boulder, CO; and M. Clark, A. W. Wood, J. Cherry, and J. R. Arnold

869
Climate Change Impacts on Inflow and Hydropower Generation in Three Gorges Reservoir
Pengcheng Qin, Wuhan Regional Climate Center, Wuhan, China; and H. Xu, M. Liu, L. Du, L. Liu, and C. Xiao

872
A Detailed Evaluation of the MRMS Snow QPE
Wolfgang Hanft, CIMMS/Univ. of Oklahoma and NOAA/NSSL, Norman, OK; and J. Zhang and S. M. Martinaitis

873
Using Ensemble Precipitation Forcing to Communicate the Uncertainty of Hydrologic Event Occurrence at River Infrastructure
Sean Matus, Univ. of Illinois at Urbana−Champaign, Urbana, IL; and F. Dominguez, P. Kumar, and H. Howard

874
Statistical Analysis of USCRN Soil Moisture Observations across the United States
Anie Shahnazarian, University of Maryland, Baltimore County, Linthicum Heights, MD

876
877

Poster Session
Probabilistic Hydrometeorological Forecasting and Uncertainty Analysis. (Posters)
Location: Hall 4 (Phoenix Convention Center - West and North Buildings)
Host: 33rd Conference on Hydrology
Cochairs: Huiling Yuan, Nanjing Univ.; Kristie J. Franz, Iowa State Univ.; Shugong Wang, NASA GSFC/SAIC
881
A Simplified Bivariate Meta-Gaussian Model of Forecast-Observation Dependence Based on the Pseudo Precipitation
Mohammadvaghef Ghazvinian, Univ. of Texas at Arlington, Arlington, TX; and Y. Zhang and D. J. Seo

883
Evaluation of Precipitation Forecast Uncertainty During Extreme Atmospheric River Events
Liza Ivelisse Diaz-Isaac, SIO, La Jolla, CA; and A. Hamidi, R. Weihs, F. Cannon, A. Martin, and F. M. Ralph

885
An Approach to Create Probabilistic Streamflow Forecasts from HRRRE Probabilistic Quantitative Precipitation Forecasts
Andrew R. Goenner, Iowa State Univ., Ames, IA; and K. J. Franz and W. A. Gallus Jr.


Poster Session
Tropical Cyclones and Extreme Monsoon Precipitation: Posters II
Location: Hall 4 (Phoenix Convention Center - West and North Buildings)
Host: Tropical Cyclones and Extreme Monsoon Precipitation: Prediction, Impacts, and Communication
1069
Constraints in Dvorak Windspeed Estimates: How Quickly Can Hurricanes Intensify?
Samuel Sangster, Univ. of South Alabama, Mobile, AL; and C. Landsea

1070
An Evaluation of High-Resolution Simulation of Supertyphoon Nepartak (2016)
Hao Jin, NRL, Monterey, CA; and Y. Jin and J. D. Doyle

1071
Ideal Case Studies Using Coupled HWRF-HYCOM
Jili Dong, IMSG at NOAA/NWS/NCEP/EMC, College Park, MD; and H. S. Kim and A. Mehra

1072
Investigating Hurricane Convection in HWRF
Quinton Anthony Lawton, Texas A&M Univ., College Station, TX; and S. Abarca, B. Liu, A. Mehra, A. C. Didlake Jr., and R. Rogers

1073
A Gridded TCM to Support Forecast Operations at National Centers and Weather Forecast Offices (WFOs)
Dr. Pablo Santos Jr., NOAA/NWS, Miami, FL; and D. C. Mattocks, D. C. Forbes, and M. DeMaria

1076
Physical Mechanisms of Tropical Cyclone Intensification in Environments with Temporally Varying Vertical Wind Shear
Keenan C. Eure, The Pennsylvania State Univ., University Park, PA; and R. Rios-Berrios and C. A. Davis

1077
A High-Resolution Coupled Model Study of the Rapid Intensification of Hurricane Harvey 2017
Chuan-Yuan Hsu, Texas A&M Univ., College Station, TX; and D. Fu, J. Kurian, P. Chang, and R. Montuoro

1078
Characterization of Tropical Cyclone Intensity Using Microwave Imagery
Amanda M. Nelson, Air Force Institute of Technology, Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, OH; and O. A. Nava, M. E. Kucas, B. Kosar, and R. D. Loper

1080
The Role of Rainbands on the Storm Intensity Changes
Hua Leighton, NOAA, Miami, FL; and S. M. Hristova-Veleva and S. Gopalakrishnan

1082
Inhibition of Downdrafts by Stable Layers in Tropical Deep Convection
Charles N Helms, NASA/GSFC, Greenbelt, MD

Handout (4.7 MB)

1083
Impact of Cloud Microphysics on Intensification of Tropical Cyclone GONU Using a Convection-Permitting Numerical Model: Isentropic Analyses
Sourav Taraphdar, New York Univ. Abu Dhabi, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates; and O. Pauluis

1084
Effect of Tropical Cyclone Landfall Angle on Storm Surge Impacts
Alexandra N. Ramos, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ; and E. N. Curchitser and C. L. Bruyère

1086
A Flow-Dependent Horizontal Mixing Length Scale and Its Impact on Track Simulations of Harvey (2017) in HWRF
Weiguo Wang, IMSG at NOAA/NWS/NCEP/EMC, College Park, MD; and B. Liu, L. Zhu, Z. Zhang, A. Mehra, and V. Tallapragada

Poster 1087 has been moved to paper 2.1A.

1088
Model Simulation Analysis for Storm Surges in the Gulf of Mexico
Duanjun Lu, Jackson State Univ., Jackson, MS; and P. C. Yuan, H. R. Shih, T. Black, and D. Jania

1091
Evaluation of the MYNN PBL Scheme for Predicting Tropical Cyclones with HWRF Model
Mrinal K. Biswas, NCAR, Boulder, CO; and E. A. Kalina, K. M. Newman, E. Grell, R. G. Fovell, L. Carson, and J. Frimel

1092
Evaluation of the MYNN Planetary Boundary Layer Scheme in the Hurricane Weather Research and Forecast System (HWRF)
Evan A. Kalina, NOAA, Boulder, CO; and R. G. Fovell, M. K. Biswas, K. M. Newman, E. D. Grell, L. Carson, and J. Frimel

5:30 PM-6:30 PM: Wednesday, 9 January 2019


Awards Banquet Reception
Location: Hall 5-6 (Phoenix Convention Center - West and North Buildings)

7:00 PM-9:00 PM: Wednesday, 9 January 2019

7:00 PM-10:00 PM: Wednesday, 9 January 2019


99th AMS Awards Banquet
Location: North Ballroom (Phoenix Convention Center - West and North Buildings)

Thursday, 10 January 2019

7:30 AM-3:00 PM: Thursday, 10 January 2019


AMS Information Desk (Thurs)
Location: North 100 Level Prefunction (Phoenix Convention Center - West and North Buildings)

Member Services Desk (Thurs)
Location: North Lower Level Prefunction (Phoenix Convention Center - West and North Buildings)

Quiet Room (Thursday)
Location: West 206 (Phoenix Convention Center - West and North Buildings)

Registration (Thurs)
Location: North Lower Level Prefunction (Phoenix Convention Center - West and North Buildings)

7:30 AM-5:00 PM: Thursday, 10 January 2019


Speaker Ready Room (Thurs)
Location: North 121A (Phoenix Convention Center - West and North Buildings)

8:30 AM-9:30 AM: Thursday, 10 January 2019

Recording files available
Joint Panel Discussion 1
The Wizard Behind the Curtain?—The Important, Diverse, and Often Hidden Role of Spectrum Allocation for Current and Future Environmental Satellites and Water, Weather, and Climate
Location: North 231C (Phoenix Convention Center - West and North Buildings)
Hosts: (Joint between the 15th Annual Symposium on New Generation Operational Environmental Satellite Systems; and the 33rd Conference on Hydrology )
Moderator: Renee A. Leduc Clarke, Narayan Strategy
Panelists: Jordan J. Gerth, Univ. of Wisconsin- Madison/CIMSS; Sidharth Misra, JPL; Ron Marotto, Ventura County Watershed Protection District
8:30 AM
Panelist -- Ron Marotto
8:30 AM
Panelist -- Sidharth Misra
8:30 AM
Panelist -- Jordan Gerth
Recording files available
Session 2
Monsoonal Heavy Rain in East Asia—Part I
Location: North 222C (Phoenix Convention Center - West and North Buildings)
Host: Fourth Symposium on US-International Partnerships
Cochairs: Wen-Chau Lee, NCAR; Zhiyong Meng, Peking Univ.; Ben Jong-Dao Jou, National Taiwan Univ.; Dong-In Lee, Pukyong National Univ.; Kazuhisa Tsuboki, Nagoya Univ.
8:30 AM
2.1
9:00 AM
2.2
Impacts of Half a Degree Additional Warming on the Asian Summer Monsoon Rainfall
Donghyun Lee, Pohang Univ. of Science and Technology, Pohang, Korea, Republic of (South); and S. K. Min, E. M. Fischer, H. Shiogama, I. Bethke, L. Lierhammer, and J. F. Scinocca
9:15 AM
2.3
Dynamical Control of the Tibetan Plateau on the East Asian Summer Monsoon
Jun-Hyeok Son, Pusan National Univ., Busan, Korea, Republic of (South); and K. H. Seo

Recording files available
Joint Session 3
Connections between Tropical Convection and the Stratosphere—Part III
Location: West 212A (Phoenix Convention Center - West and North Buildings)
Hosts: (Joint between the 20th Conference on Middle Atmosphere; and the Seventh Symposium on the Madden-Julian Oscillation and Sub-Seasonal Monsoon Variability )
Cochairs: Casey R. Densmore, U.S. Naval Academy; Shuguang Wang, Columbia Univ.
9:15 AM
J3.4
Recording files available
Joint Session 4
Scalable Operational Artificial Intelligence Applications with Python
Location: North 221C (Phoenix Convention Center - West and North Buildings)
Hosts: (Joint between the Ninth Symposium on Advances in Modeling and Analysis Using Python; and the 18th Conference on Artificial and Computational Intelligence and its Applications to the Environmental Sciences )
Cochairs: David John Gagne II, NCAR; Scott Collis, Argonne National Laboratory; Daniel Rothenberg, ClimaCell Inc.; Sarvesh Garimella, ACME AtronOmatic, LLC
8:30 AM
J4.1
8:45 AM
J4.2
Exploring the Use of Artificial Intelligence (AI) to Optimize the Exploitation of Big Satellite Data in NWP and Nowcasting
Sid Ahmed Boukabara, NOAA/NESDIS, College Park, MD; and E. Maddy, N. Shahroudi, R. N. Hoffman, T. Connor, S. Upton, A. Karpovich, C. Sprague, and K. Kumar
9:00 AM
J4.3
Deep Learning for Improved Use of Satellite Observations
David Hall, NVIDIA Corporation, Lafayette, CO; and J. Q. Stewart, C. Bonfanti, M. W. Govett, S. Maksimovic, and L. Trailovic
9:15 AM
J4.4
Using Python and Machine Learning Techniques for High-Impact Weather Nowcasting in an Operational Center in Brazil
Cesar Beneti, Parana Meteorological System (SIMEPAR), Curitiba, Brazil; and N. Rozin, L. Calvetti, J. Ruviaro, and C. Oliveira
Recording files available
Session 5
Data Assimilation Updates
Location: North 128AB (Phoenix Convention Center - West and North Buildings)
Host: Global and Regional-Scale Models: Updates and Center Overviews
Chairs: Therese Ladwig, NOAA/ESRL/GSD; Ryan A. Sobash, NCAR
8:30 AM
5.1
Overview and Update on the Joint Effort for Data assimilation Integration (JEDI)
Yannick Trémolet, Joint Center for Satellite Data Assimilation, Boulder, CO
Recording files available
Session 8
Algorithm Development and New Science Innovation—Part I
Location: North 231AB (Phoenix Convention Center - West and North Buildings)
Host: 15th Annual Symposium on New Generation Operational Environmental Satellite Systems
Chair: John Forsythe, CIRA/Colorado State Univ.
8:30 AM
8.1
GOES-16 Mesoscale Rapid Scan in Southeastern Brazil: A Hailstorm Case Study
Luiz A. T. Machado, INPE, Cachoeira Paulista, Brazil; and B. Z. Ribeiro, J. H. H. Chinchay, R. G. Negri, T. S. Biscaro, J. F. Ribaud, W. M. MacKenzie Jr., and K. W. Mozer
8:45 AM
8.2
Development of the PCRTM-Based All-Sky, Single Field Retrieval Algorithm for Multiplatform, Long-Term Applications
Wan Wu, SSAI, Hampton, VA; and X. Liu, Q. Yang, D. K. Zhou, A. M. Larar, S. Kizer, M. Zhao, and L. Zhou

9:00 AM
8.3
GOES-16 Magnetometers Anomaly Solar-Angle-Based Characterization and Correction
Delano Carter, Thearality, Inc., Baltimore, MD; and D. Early, J. Kronenwetter, M. Grotenhuis, R. Schnurr, and M. Todirita
9:15 AM
8.4A
Towards continuity in IR absorption radiances from HIRS and MODIS to VIIRS
Bryan A. Baum, Science and Technology Corporation, Madison, WI
Recording files available
Session 8
Lightning and Weather Systems. Part III: Lightning Climatologies
Location: North 225AB (Phoenix Convention Center - West and North Buildings)
Host: Ninth Conference on the Meteorological Application of Lightning Data
Chair: Steven J. Goodman, TGA
8:30 AM
8.1
Climatological Properties of Reported Cloud-to-Ground Lightning for Alaska from Several Lightning Locating Systems
Jerome P. Charba, Meteorological Development Laboratory, Silver Spring, MD; and J. E. Ghirardelli, P. E. Shafer, F. G. Samplatsky, and A. J. Kochenash

8:45 AM
8.2
A U.S. Thunderstorm Climatology Based on 25 Years of NLDN Observations (1993−2017)
Thomas L. Koehler, United States Air Force Academy, USAF Academy, CO
9:00 AM
8.3
Lightning Climatology in India
Chad Merrill, Earth Networks; and M. Hoekzema, M. Stock, and J. Lapierre
9:15 AM
8.4
Lightning Climatology of the Lake Victoria Basin in East Africa
Steven J. Goodman, TGA, Owens Cross Roads, AL; and K. S. Virts
Recording files available
Session 8
Value of Partnerships in Building a Weather-Ready Nation
Location: North 221AB (Phoenix Convention Center - West and North Buildings)
Host: Seventh Symposium on Building a Weather-Ready Nation
Chair: Dave Jones, StormCenter Communications, Inc.
8:30 AM
8.1
Weather-Ready Nation: Care Model Development for Ambassadors
Amber J. Liggett, Millersville Univ., Beaver, PA; and G. Hanson, N. Rydell, and M. A. Petty
8:45 AM
8.2
Toward Agile Weather Forecast Product Development
Nadia Smith, Science and Technology Corporation, Columbia, MD; and K. D. White
Recording files available
Session 9
Aerosol–Cloud–Radiation Interactions and Impacts on Weather/Climate—Part I
Location: North 223 (Phoenix Convention Center - West and North Buildings)
Host: 11th Symposium on Aerosol–Cloud–Climate Interactions
Cochairs: Jun Wang, Univ. of Iowa; Zhibo Zhang, Univ. of Maryland, Baltimore County; Shaima L. Nasiri, DOE; Shuhua Chen, Univ. of California, Davis; Terry Nathan, Univ. of California, Davis
8:30 AM
9.1
Effects of Aerosols on Low-Level Cloud Properties over Land and Ocean Using Ground-Based Observations
Xiquan Dong, The Univ. of Arizona, Tucson, AZ; and B. Xi, P. Wu, X. Zheng, and T. Logan
9:00 AM
9.3
Satellite Observations of Cloud-Related Variations in Aerosol Properties
Tamas Varnai, Univ. of Maryland Baltimore County, Baltimore, MD; and A. Marshak, G. Wen, W. Yang, T. Eck, and R. Levy
9:15 AM
9.4
What Can We Learn about Aerosol–Cloud Interactions from Degassing Volcanic Eruptions? (Invited Presentation)
Jim Haywood, Met Office/Univ. of Exeter, Exeter, United Kingdom; and F. Malavelle, A. Jones, A. Jones, V. Toll, S. Carn, N. Bellouin, and A. Gettelman
Recording files available
Session 9
Sustained Atmospheric Lidar Observations for Weather and Air Quality Forecasting and Prediction
Location: West 211A (Phoenix Convention Center - West and North Buildings)
Host: Ninth Symposium on Lidar Atmospheric Applications
Cochairs: Sunil Baidar, CIRES/Univ. of Colorado Boulder; Lance Nino, Cornell Univ.
8:30 AM
9.1
Ground-Based Eye-Safe Networkable Micropulse Differential Absorption Lidar (DIAL) for Thermodynamic Profiling in the Lower Troposphere
Catharine E. Bunn, Montana State Univ., Bozeman, MT; and K. Repasky, S. M. Spuler, M. Hayman, and R. A. Stillwell
8:45 AM
9.2
Doppler Wind Lidar Estimations of Mixing Layer Dispersion in New York City during Heat Wave Conditions
Mark Joseph Campmier, City College, New York, NY; and Y. Wu, F. Moshary, D. James, D. A. Ligon, and M. Arend
9:15 AM
9.4
A Land-Based Mobile Wind Lidar for Boundary Layer Wind Measurements: Overview and Recent Analysis and Results
G. D. Emmitt, Simpson Weather Associates, Charlottesville, VA; and S. F. J. De Wekker, N. Babic, and S. Greco
Recording files available
Session 10A
Atmospheric Chemistry Modeling and Observational Analysis—Part V
Location: North 124A (Phoenix Convention Center - West and North Buildings)
Host: 21st Conference on Atmospheric Chemistry
Chair: Richard Eckman, NASA
Cochairs: Kenneth W. Jucks, NASA Headquarters; Michael J. Prather, Univ. of California, Irvine
8:30 AM
10A.1
Why Are There NH3 (g) in the Upper Troposphere?
Jun Wang, Univ. of Iowa, Iowa City, IA; and C. Ge, C. Zhu, J. Francisco, and X. Zeng
9:00 AM
10A.3
9:15 AM
10A.4
Prognostic Fire Emissions in the NASA GEOS Earth System Model
Melanie B. Follette-Cook, Morgan State Univ./GESTAR, Greenbelt, MD; and P. R. Colarco and F. W. Zeng

Recording files available
Session 10B
From Combustion to Composition: New Insights into Smoke Chemistry from WE-CAN, FIREX and Other Recent Efforts—Part I
Location: North 126A (Phoenix Convention Center - West and North Buildings)
Host: 21st Conference on Atmospheric Chemistry
Chair: Emily V. Fischer, Colorado State Univ.
CoChair: Lu Hu, Univ. of Montana
8:30 AM
10B.1
Introduction to the Western Wildfire Experiment for Cloud Chemistry, Aerosol Absorption and Nitrogen (WE-CAN)
Emily V. Fischer, Colorado State Univ., Fort Collins, CO; and J. L. Collett Jr., A. P. Sullivan, P. J. DeMott, S. C. van den Heever, R. S. Schumacher, S. M. Murphy, J. A. Thornton, L. Hu, F. Flocke, D. W. Toohey, C. H. Twohy, S. M. Kreidenweis, and D. K. Farmer
8:45 AM
10B.2
Observations of Major Carbon Species in Western US Wildfire Smoke Plumes during July and August, 2018
Teresa L. Campos, NCAR, Boulder, CO; and F. Flocke, M. Reeves, J. R. French, and A. Bailey

9:00 AM
10B.3
What Controls the Ratio of Primary Reduced and Oxidized Forms of Gas Phase Reactive Nitrogen in Young Wildfire Smoke?
Jakob Lindaas, Colorado State Univ., Fort Collins, CO; and I. B. Pollack, T. L. Campos, F. Flocke, A. J. Weinheimer, D. D. Montzka, G. S. Tyndall, J. R. Roscioli, M. Agnese, and E. V. Fischer

9:15 AM
10B.4
Characterization of Non-Methane Organic Gases in Wildfire Smoke by PTR-ToF-MS during the WE-CAN Field Campaign
Wade Permar, Univ. of Montana, Missoula, MT; and L. Hu, E. C. Apel, A. Hills, I. T. Ku, V. Selimovic, Y. Zhou, A. Hecobian, E. Bangs, J. L. Collett Jr., E. V. Fischer, and R. Yokelson

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Session 11
Big Data Analytics Providing Decision Support
Location: North 129A (Phoenix Convention Center - West and North Buildings)
Host: 10th Conference on Weather, Climate, and the New Energy Economy
Cochairs: Andrew Hastings-Black, Vaisala, Inc.; Sue Ellen Haupt, NCAR
8:30 AM
11.1
The Use of the High-Resolution Rapid Refresh (HRRR) Model in Dynamic Line Rating
Kenneth R. Fenton Jr., NOAA/ESRL/GSD and CIRA, Boulder, CO; and M. S. Wandishin, M. A. Petty, T. McJunkin, A. Abboud, J. P. Lehmer, and J. Gentle
8:45 AM
11.2
Identifying, Quantifying, and Analyzing Behind-the-Meter Renewables
Robert Haas, Radiant Solutions, Gaithersburg, MD; and E. E. Wertz, S. D. Jascourt, and T. Hartman
9:00 AM
11.3
9:15 AM
11.4
Development of a Wind Extremes Forecast System for Transmission Outage Prediction
Jeffrey M. Freedman, Univ. at Albany, SUNY, Albany, NY; and J. Zack, M. Berlinger, C. Cheng, and A. Siemenn
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Session 11
Managing for Uncertainty: A Typology for Drought Decisions
Location: North 226C (Phoenix Convention Center - West and North Buildings)
Host: 14th Symposium on Societal Applications: Policy, Research and Practice
Chair: Jennifer Henderson, CIRES
8:30 AM
11.1
Managing for Drought. Part I: Developing a Drought Decision-Making Typology to Identify Key Sources of Uncertainty
Adam K. Wilke, USGS, Fort Collins, CO; and A. E. Cravens, N. Burkardt, and J. R. Friedman
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Session 11A
Global and Regional Remote Sensing Precipitation Estimation, Evaluation, and Applications I
Location: North 126BC (Phoenix Convention Center - West and North Buildings)
Host: 33rd Conference on Hydrology
Cochairs: Youcun Qi, Institute of Geographic Sciences and Natural Resources Research; Haonan Chen, Colorado State Univ.; V. Chandrasekar, Colorado State Univ.
8:45 AM
11A.2
9:00 AM
11A.3
An Operational Satellite Snowfall Rate Product at NOAA/NESDIS
Huan Meng, NOAA/NESDIS/Center for Satellite Applications and Research, College Park, MD; and J. Dong, C. Kongoli, R. R. Ferraro, B. Yan, L. Zhao, P. Xie, and R. J. Joyce
9:15 AM
11A.4
Improving Coverage and Accuracy of Precipitation Estimates for NOAA and NWS through a Multi-Sensor Precipitation Scheme
Steven M. Martinaitis, CIMMS/Univ. of Oklahoma and NOAA/NSSL, Norman, OK; and A. P. Osborne, M. J. Simpson, C. Langston, J. Zhang, and K. W. Howard
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Session 11A
Software Engineering and Cyberinfrastructure for Environmental Processing—Part I
Location: North 132ABC (Phoenix Convention Center - West and North Buildings)
Host: 35th Conference on Environmental Information Processing Technologies
Cochairs: William F. Roberts, OAR; Aashish Chaudhary, Kitware; Scott Jacobs, NOAA/NWS
8:30 AM
11A.2
NOAA Virtual Lab (VLab) Services, an Update
Jason E. Burks, CIRA, Huntsville, AL; and K. S. Sperow and S. B. Smith
9:00 AM
11A.4
An Internet of Things Cyber-Infrastructure for the Study of Ecology of Lake George in the Jefferson Project
Anthony P. Praino, IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center, Yorktown Heights, NY; and E. Dow, M. Kelly, V. W. Moriarty, L. A. Treinish, and C. D. Watson
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Session 11B
Precipitation Processes and Observations for Atmospheric, Land Surface, and Hydrological Modeling I
Location: North 127ABC (Phoenix Convention Center - West and North Buildings)
Host: 33rd Conference on Hydrology
Cochairs: Eleonora Demaria, USDA–ARS; Francina Dominguez, Univ. of Illinois at Urbana−Champaign; Joshua K. Roundy, Univ. of Kansas
8:30 AM
11B.1
NCEP Unified Land Data Assimilation System (NULDAS): Surface Meteorological Forcing Generation
Youlong Xia, NCEP/EMC/IMSG, College Park, MD; and J. Meng, H. Wei, J. S. Kain, and M. Ek

8:45 AM
11B.2A
9:00 AM
11B.3
9:15 AM
11B.4
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Session 11B
Weather and Roads: Incorporating Resiliency to Extreme Weather Events into the Surface Transportation System—Part I
Location: North 130 (Phoenix Convention Center - West and North Buildings)
Host: 35th Conference on Environmental Information Processing Technologies
Cochairs: Stephen Early, Vaisala Inc.; Brenda C. Boyce, Booz Allen Hamilton; Paul A. Pisano, U.S. Department of Transportation/Federal Highway Administration
8:45 AM
11B.2
Automated Vehicle Test Results during Inclement Weather
Brenda C. Boyce, Booz Allen Hamilton, Alexander, AR; and P. A. Pisano and G. Guevara
9:00 AM
11B.3
The Wyoming Department of Transportation Connected Vehicle Pilot Deployment
Amanda R. Siems-Anderson, NCAR, Boulder, CO; and G. Wiener, S. Linden, T. Brummet, W. Petzke, P. McCarthy, B. Welch, V. Garcia, A. Ragan, D. Gopalakrishna, and E. Hsu
9:15 AM
11B.4
Development of a Department of Transportation Winter Severity Index
Curtis L. Walker, National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, CO; and D. Steinkruger, M. R. Anderson, S. E. Haupt, A. R. S. Anderson, P. Gholizadeh, S. Hasanzadeh, B. Esmaeili, and B. Dao
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Session 12A
African Climate Variability and Change—Part I
Location: North 121BC (Phoenix Convention Center - West and North Buildings)
Host: 32nd Conference on Climate Variability and Change
Cochairs: Kerry H. Cook, The Univ. of Texas at Austin; Wassila Thiaw, CPC
8:30 AM
12A.1
A Systematic Comparison of Tropical Waves over Northern Africa
Andreas Schlueter, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Karlsruhe, Germany; and A. H. Fink, P. Knippertz, and P. Vogel
8:45 AM
12A.3
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Session 12A
Case Studies for Data Sampling, Product Production and Product Delivery to Users to Enable Transitions to Operations
Location: North 230 (Phoenix Convention Center - West and North Buildings)
Host: Ninth Conference on Transition of Research to Operations
Cochairs: Eric Miller, NOAA/NESDIS/Office of Projects, Planning and Analysis; Thanh Vo Dinh, NOAA/NESDIS/Office of Projects, Planning and Analysis
8:30 AM
12A.1
Transition of Environmental Sampling Research to Operational Collections
Steven R. Chiswell, Savannah River National Laboratory, Aiken, SC

8:45 AM
12A.2
9:00 AM
12A.3
Land Surface Temperature Products from JPSS and GOES-R and Its Readiness to Users
Yunyue Yu, NOAA/NESDIS, College Park, MD; and P. Yu, Y. Liu, H. Wang, I. Csiszar, L. Zhou, J. Daniels, and S. Kalluri

9:15 AM
12A.4
North American Land Data Assimilation System Version 2.5: Real-Time Evaluation and Operational Implementation at NCEP
Youlong Xia, NCEP/EMC/IMSG, College Park, MD; and J. Kain, J. Meng, H. Wei, M. Ek, D. M. Mocko, C. D. Peters-Lidard, L. C. Chen, and M. Chelliah

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Session 12B
Communicating Climate Change
Location: North 122BC (Phoenix Convention Center - West and North Buildings)
Host: 32nd Conference on Climate Variability and Change
Chair: Mike Nelson, KMGH-TV
8:45 AM
12B.2
Stability and Instability in Individual Beliefs about Climate Change
Hank Jenkins-Smith, Univ. of Oklahoma, Norman, OK; and J. T. Ripberger, C. Silva, and W. W. Wehde
9:00 AM
12B.3
Transforming Climate Data into Climate Information Products for Communication—The Copernicus Climate Change Service Experience
Freja Vamborg, ECMWF, Reading, UK; and P. Berrisford, C. Bergeron, C. Buontempo, D. Dee, H. Hersbach, I. Rozum, A. Simmons, and J. N. Thépaut
9:15 AM
12B.4
Statistical Downscaling over Illinois Using Self-Organizing Maps
Andrew Polasky, The Pennsylvania State Univ., University Park, PA; and H. L. Hamilton, J. L. Evans, and J. D. Fuentes
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Session 12B
Models and Data Assimilation to Enable and Accelerate the Transition of Research to Operations to Decision Makers, End Users and to the Public: Land/Ocean/Hydrological Modeling
Location: North 232C (Phoenix Convention Center - West and North Buildings)
Host: Ninth Conference on Transition of Research to Operations
Cochairs: Vijay Tallapragada, NOAA/NWS/NCEP/EMC; Fanglin Yang, NOAA/NWS/NCEP/EMC
9:00 AM
12B.3
Coordinating Improvements to Short-Term Forecasts of Ice, Water Temperature, Turbulent Heat Fluxes, and Lake-Effect Precipitation Forecasts with the Next-Generation NOAA Great Lakes Operational Forecast System (GLOFS)
Eric J. Anderson, NOAA/ERL/GLERL, Ann Arbor, MI; and A. Manome, J. G. W. Kelley, Y. Chen, G. E. Mann, G. Lang, L. E. Fitzpatrick, J. Kessler, P. Y. Chu, A. Gronewold, P. D. Blanken, C. Spence, J. Lenters, S. Benjamin, and C. Alexander

9:15 AM
12B.4
Real-Time Assimilation of Streamflow into the National Water Model Channel Routing Using Coupled WRF-Hydro and DART
Seong Jin Noh, Univ. of Texas at Arlington, Arlington, TX; and D. J. Seo, J. McCreight, A. RafieeiNasab, T. J. Hoar, M. El Gharamti, D. J. Gochis, B. Cosgrove, and T. Vukicevic

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Session 12C
El Niño–Southern Oscillation (ENSO) Dynamics, Diversity, Prediction, and Impacts—Part I
Location: North 129B (Phoenix Convention Center - West and North Buildings)
Host: 32nd Conference on Climate Variability and Change
Cochairs: Montana Etten-Bohm, Texas A&M University; Lidia Huaman Chuquihuaccha, Texas A&M University
8:30 AM
12C.1
Changes in ENSO Patterns Revealed from MERRA-2, TRMM/TMPA, and AIRS Data
Andrey Savtchenko, NASA GSFC, Greenbelt, MD; and G. J. Huffman, B. Vollmer, and D. Meyer
8:45 AM
12C.2
Dynamics of ENSO Diversity
Fei-Fei Jin, Univ. of Hawaii, Honolulu, HI
9:00 AM
12C.3
Cross-Equatorial Winds Control El Niño Diversity and Change
Shineng Hu, SIO/Univ. of California, La Jolla, CA; and A. Fedorov
9:15 AM
12C.4
ENSO Asymmetry and Subsurface Nonlinear Dynamical Heating in Reanalysis and CMIP5 Climate Models
Michiya Hayashi, Univ. of Hawaii, Honolulu, HI; and F. F. Jin

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Session 16
Field Experiments: Observational and Assimilation Results—Part I
Location: North 131AB (Phoenix Convention Center - West and North Buildings)
Host: 23rd Conference on Integrated Observing and Assimilation Systems for the Atmosphere, Oceans, and Land Surface (IOAS-AOLS)
Chair: Fuqing Zhang, The Pennsylvania State Univ.
8:30 AM
16.1
Microwave Soundings in the Presence of Precipitation in the CPEX Experiment
Bjorn H. Lambrigtsen, JPL/California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA; and M. Schreier

9:00 AM
16.3
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Session 17
Observing the Boundary Layer from Space—Part III
Location: North 131C (Phoenix Convention Center - West and North Buildings)
Host: 23rd Conference on Integrated Observing and Assimilation Systems for the Atmosphere, Oceans, and Land Surface (IOAS-AOLS)
Chairs: Matthew Lebsock, JPL/California Institute of Technology; Joseph A. Santanello, NASA GSFC
8:30 AM
17.1
Application of Water Vapor Lidar for Improved Understanding of Boundary Layer Processes
Amin R. Nehrir, NASA, Hampton, VA; and R. A. Ferrare, J. W. Hair, S. A. Kooi, R. Barton-Grimley, C. A. Hostetler, and D. M. Winker
8:45 AM
17.2
Boundary-Layer Humidity Sounding in Cloudy and Clear Skies Using Differential Absorption Radar
Richard Roy, JPL, Pasadena, CA; and M. Lebsock, L. F. Millan, R. Rodriguez Monje, and K. Cooper

9:00 AM
17.3
Simulations of Spaceborne Lidar Measurements of Boundary Layer Temperature and Water Vapor
David Whiteman, Howard Univ., Beltsville, MD; and P. DiGirolamo, A. Behrendt, V. Wulfmeyer, J. A. Santanello, P. R. Colarco, V. Buchard, and B. B. Demoz
9:15 AM
17.4
The Atmospheric Thermodynamics LidAr in Space—ATLAS
Paolo Di Girolamo, Univ. della Basilicata, Potenza, Italy; and A. Behrendt, V. Wulfmeyer, A. Comeron, P. Keckhut, A. Hauchecorne, E. Richard, F. Marenco, G. Vaughan, M. W. Rotach, R. Potthast, A. J. Geer, B. B. Demoz, J. A. Santanello, D. Whiteman, and D. D. Turner

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Themed Joint Session 22
Data Stewardship: Finding, Accessing, and Using Data Online. Part I
Location: North 123 (Phoenix Convention Center - West and North Buildings)
Hosts: (Joint between the 22nd Atmospheric Science Librarians International Conference; and the 35th Conference on Environmental Information Processing Technologies )
Cochairs: Matthew S. Mayernik, NCAR; Nazila Merati, Merati and Associates; Mohan Ramamurthy, University Corporation for Atmospheric Research
8:30 AM
TJ22.1
“What's in It for You?”: Preserving Data at NCEI
Valerie Toner, ERT Corporation (contractor for NOAA/NESDIS/NCEI), Asheville, NC; and N. A. Ritchey
8:45 AM
TJ22.2
The Copernicus Climate Data Store: ECMWF’s Approach to Providing Online Access to Climate Data and Tools
Cedric Bergeron, ECMWF, Reading, UK; and B. Raoult, A. Lopez-Alos, G. Biavati, E. Damasio-Da-Costa, K. Marsh, I. Rozum, J. N. Thépaut, and D. Dee
9:00 AM
TJ22.3
Operational Solutions for Increasing the Value and Usability of Earth Science Data via a Data Quality Framework
David F. Moroni, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA; and Y. Wei, H. Ramapriyan, D. Scott, R. Downs, Z. Liu, and G. Peng
9:15 AM
TJ22.4
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Joint Session J3
Space Weather Effects on High Flyers
Location: North 224B (Phoenix Convention Center - West and North Buildings)
Hosts: (Joint between the 19th Conference on Aviation, Range, and Aerospace Meteorology; and the 16th Conference on Space Weather )
Cochairs: Bill Bauman, FAA; Kelsey Doerksen, Univ. of Western Ontario
8:30 AM
JJ3.1
9:00 AM
JJ3.2
International Cooperation for Space Weather Service Delivery for Aviation
Jaakko Nuottokari, Finnish Meteorological Institute, Helsinki, Finland; and A. M. Harri, K. Kauristie, and K. Österberg
9:15 AM
JJ3.3
Space Radiation Intelligence System (SPRINTS)
Alexander Engell, NextGen Federal Systems, Havre de Grace, MD

9:00 AM-11:00 AM: Thursday, 10 January 2019


Meeting with Sustainable Cities Network of Arizona
Location: Estrella (Sheraton Hotel )

9:00 AM-12:00 PM: Thursday, 10 January 2019


Exhibit Hall (Thurs)
Location: Hall 5-6 (Phoenix Convention Center - West and North Buildings)

9:30 AM-10:30 AM: Thursday, 10 January 2019


Exhibit Hall Breakfast
Location: Hall 5-6 (Phoenix Convention Center - West and North Buildings)

10:00 AM-10:30 AM: Thursday, 10 January 2019


Meet President Roger M. Wakimoto (Thurs)
Location: Hall 5-6 (Phoenix Convention Center - West and North Buildings)

10:30 AM-11:30 AM: Thursday, 10 January 2019

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Session 6
AMS and MGA Updates
Location: North 123 (Phoenix Convention Center - West and North Buildings)
Host: 22nd Atmospheric Science Librarians International Conference
Chair: Jennifer Harbster, Univ. of California, Davis
10:30 AM
6.1
11:00 AM
6.3
AMS Books Program
Sarah Jane Shangraw, AMS, Boston, MA

11:15 AM
6.4
11:30 AM
100th Anniversary Monograph -- Keith Seitter

10:30 AM-11:45 AM: Thursday, 10 January 2019

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Session 9A
Calibration and Validation—Part I
Location: North 231AB (Phoenix Convention Center - West and North Buildings)
Host: 15th Annual Symposium on New Generation Operational Environmental Satellite Systems
CoChair: T. Scott Zaccheo, AER
10:30 AM
9A.1
Validating VIIRS Imagery from NOAA-20
Donald W. Hillger, NOAA/NESDIS, Fort Collins, CO; and T. J. Kopp, C. J. Seaman, S. D. Miller, D. A. Molenar, and J. Torres
10:45 AM
9A.2
Performance of NOAA-20 CrIS Sensor Data Record
Yong Chen, Earth System Science Interdisciplinary Center/Univ. of Maryland, College Park, College Park, MD; and L. Wang, C. Cao, and F. Iturbide-Sanchez
11:00 AM
9A.3
Cross-Calibration of Water Vapor Absorption Bands from International Geostationary Satellites for Consistency with IASI
Jun Li, CIMSS/Univ. of Wisconsin, Madison, WI; and Z. Li, M. Gunshor, S. C. Moeller, and W. McCarty
11:15 AM
9A.4A
Cross-Track Infrared Sounder (CrIS) Sensor Data Record Bias Monitoring in the STAR Integrated Calibration and Validation System (ICVS)
Jingfeng Huang, ERT Inc., NOAA/NESDIS/STAR, College Park, MD; and B. Yan, N. Sun, X. Jin, X. Liang, D. Liang, and W. Porter
11:30 AM
9A.5A
GOES-16 ABI L1b Product Maturity beyond Full Product Validation
Jon Fulbright, Arctic Slope Technical Services, Greenbelt, MD; and D. Pogorzala, E. M. Kline, and X. Wu

10:30 AM-12:00 PM: Thursday, 10 January 2019

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Joint Session 3
Machine Learning Applications in the Energy Sector (Joint with 18th Conference on Artificial and Computational Intelligence and its Applications to the Environmental Sciences)
Location: North 129A (Phoenix Convention Center - West and North Buildings)
Hosts: (Joint between the 10th Conference on Weather, Climate, and the New Energy Economy; and the 18th Conference on Artificial and Computational Intelligence and its Applications to the Environmental Sciences )
Cochairs: David John Gagne II, NCAR; Lawrence Gloeckler III, Riskpulse
11:30 AM
J3.4
The Relationship between GHI and Power in Kuwait
Thomas Brummet, NCAR, Boulder, CO; and G. Wiener and J. A. Lee
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Session 3
Monsoonal Heavy Rain in East Asia—Part II
Location: North 222C (Phoenix Convention Center - West and North Buildings)
Host: Fourth Symposium on US-International Partnerships
Cochairs: Wen-Chau Lee, NCAR; Zhiyong Meng, Peking Univ.; Ben Jong-Dao Jou, National Taiwan Univ.; Dong-In Lee, Pukyong National Univ.; Kazuhisa Tsuboki, Nagoya Univ.
11:45 AM
3.4
12:00 PM
PRECIP 2020: Science and Plans -- Michael Bell
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Session 6
Regional Model Development Updates
Location: North 128AB (Phoenix Convention Center - West and North Buildings)
Host: Global and Regional-Scale Models: Updates and Center Overviews
Chairs: Alicia M. Bentley, NOAA/NWS/EMC; Alexander O. Tardy
11:00 AM
6.3
Development on Movable Nest in FV3GFS
Xuejin Zhang, NOAA/AOML/HRD, Miami, FL; and A. Hazelton, Z. Liang, L. M. Harris, T. Black, S. J. Lin, S. Gopalakrishnan, A. Mehra, and F. D. Marks Jr.
11:15 AM
6.4
Fire Weather Products in the National Blend of Models v3.1
Carly Buxton, AceInfo Solutions, Silver Spring, MD; and R. Heffernan, D. T. Van Cleave, H. Hockenberry, D. E. Rudack, and R. S. James
11:30 AM
6.5
Private Observations Improve MET Norway’s Operational Weather Forecasts
Thomas Nipen, Norwegian Meteorological Institute, Oslo, Norway; and I. A. Seierstad, C. Lussana, and J. Kristiansen
11:45 AM
6.6
Calibration of ECMWF Precipitation Forecasts in a Dual-Resolution Ensemble
Estíbaliz Gascon, ECMWF, Reading, United Kingdom; and D. A. Lavers, D. S. Richardson, T. M. Hamill, M. Leutbecher, Z. B. Bouallegue, T. Jurlina, C. Prudhomme, and F. Pappenberger
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Session 7
Atmospheric Reanalyses and Long-Term Observational Datasets for Middle Atmospheric Studies
Location: West 212A (Phoenix Convention Center - West and North Buildings)
Host: 20th Conference on Middle Atmosphere
Cochairs: Krzysztof Wargan, Science Systems and Applications, Inc.; G.L. Manney, NorthWest Research Associates and New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology
11:00 AM
7.2
The Global Diabatic Circulation in Reanalyses: A Comparison to the Residual Circulation, Water Vapor, and Ozone
Marianna Linz, Univ. of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA; and M. Abalos, A. S. Glanville, D. E. Kinnison, A. Ming, and J. L. Neu
11:15 AM
7.3
Tale of the Tape: A Long-term Record of Vertical Transport in the Tropical Stratosphere Derived from Water Vapor Measurements
Ken Minschwaner, New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology, Socorro, NM; and S. M. Davis and K. H. Rosenlof
11:45 AM
7.5
Inconsistent Mesoscale Spectra in Models and Reanalyses
Jih-Wang Aaron Wang, CIRES, Boulder, CO; and P. D. Sardeshmukh
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Session 9
Impact-Based Decision Support Services Best Practices. Part II
Location: North 221AB (Phoenix Convention Center - West and North Buildings)
Host: Seventh Symposium on Building a Weather-Ready Nation
Chair: Dave Jones, StormCenter Communications, Inc.
11:00 AM
9.5
Detection and Tracking of Tornadic Storms in the Southeast with Arrays of Infrasound Sensors
Roger Waxler, Univ. of Mississippi, University, MS; and G. Frazier, C. Talmadge, K. R. Knupp, B. Goudreau, and C. Hetzer
11:15 AM
9.6
Updated Sources of Weather Deaths in Florida
William P. Roeder, 45th Weather Squadron, Patrick Air Force Base, FL; and J. D. Rapp
11:30 AM
Q & A Discussion

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Session 9B
National and International Education, Training, and User Readiness Activities for the New Generation Operational Environmental Satellite Systems
Location: North 231C (Phoenix Convention Center - West and North Buildings)
Host: 15th Annual Symposium on New Generation Operational Environmental Satellite Systems
CoChair: Patrick Dills, UCAR/COMET
10:30 AM
9B.3
COMET's MetEd Learning Resources for GOES-R+ and JPSS User Readiness
Patrick Dills, UCAR/COMET, Boulder, CO; and A. Stevermer and E. M. Page

10:45 AM
9B.4
GOES-R Series International Training Efforts in the Americas
Janel R. Thomas, Science and Technology Corporation, Greenbelt, MD; and S. S. Lindstrom, B. H. Connell, M. J. Folmer, A. Stevermer, E. Madsen, J. Peronto, M. Medina, N. Donoho, and S. J. Goodman
11:00 AM
9B.5
Strengthening National and International Training Activities by Utilizing Similarities and Differences
Bernadette H. Connell, CIRA/Colorado State Univ., Fort Collins, CO; and E. L. Dagg, L. Veeck, and K. A. Caesar
11:15 AM
9B.6
GEONETCast Americas: Overview and Methods for Accessing NOAA Satellite Data
Natalia Donoho, NOAA/NESDIS, Suitland, MD; and D. Souza, E. Madsen, and P. Seymour

11:30 AM
9B.7A
Torres
Jorel Torres, CIRA/Colorado State Univ., Fort Collins, CO

11:45 AM
GINA -- John Pace
12:00 PM
NWS Training Resources Available for JPSS Data Products -- Jorel Torres
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Session 10
Aerosol–Cloud-Radiation Interactions and Impacts on Weather/Climate—Part II
Location: North 223 (Phoenix Convention Center - West and North Buildings)
Host: 11th Symposium on Aerosol–Cloud–Climate Interactions
Cochairs: Jun Wang, Univ. of Iowa; Zhibo Zhang, Univ. of Maryland, Baltimore County; Shaima L. Nasiri, DOE; Shuhua Chen, Univ. of California, Davis; Terry Nathan, Univ. of California, Davis
10:45 AM
10.2
Simulations and Analysis of Aerosol–Cloud–Radiation Interactions over East China
Xiaoyan Ma, Nanjing Univ. of Information Science and Technology, Nanjing, China

11:00 AM
10.3
Research Highlights of the "Dynamics–Aerosol–Chemistry–Cloud Interactions (DACCIWA)” project in West Africa
Andreas H. Fink, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Karlsruhe, Germany; and P. Knippertz
11:30 AM
10.5
Real-Time Aerosol Forecast Evaluation Using the UKMO's Unified Model with the Coupled Large-Scale Aerosol Simulator for Studies in Climate Scheme
Christian S. Wohlwend, Northrop Grumman Mission Systems, Offutt AFB, NE; and B. J. Wickard, J. R. McCormick, and T. E. Nobis
11:45 AM
10.6
Aerosol Impact on Subseasonal to Seasonal Prediction Using FIM-Chem-iHYCOM Coupled Model
Shan Sun, CIRES/Univ. of Colorado Boulder and NOAA/ESRL, Boulder, CO; and S. A. McKeen, G. A. Grell, and L. Zhang

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Session 10
Lidar Observations for Data Assimilation and Model Verification
Location: West 211A (Phoenix Convention Center - West and North Buildings)
Host: Ninth Symposium on Lidar Atmospheric Applications
Cochairs: James R. Campbell, NRL; Erica K. Dolinar, Millersville Univ.
10:45 AM
10.2
New Retrieval Techniques Using the NASA CATS Lidar and GEOS AGCM: Applications for Extinction and PM2.5
Edward P. Nowottnick, USRA/GSFC, Greenbelt, MD; and A. M. da Silva Jr., J. E. Yorks, M. J. McGill, P. Selmer, S. P. Palm, R. M. Pauly, and S. Ozog
11:00 AM
10.3
Mobile Water Vapor Raman Lidar for Localized Heavy Rainfall Forecasting in Japan
Tetsu Sakai, Meteorological Research Institute, Tsukuba, Japan; and T. Nagai, S. Yoshida, T. Izumi, H. Seko, S. Yokota, and Y. Shoji
11:15 AM
10.4
Assimilation of Water Vapor Mixing Ratio Profiles into the WRFDA System with a New Forward Operator
Rohith Thundathil, Univ. of Hohenheim, Stuttgart, Germany; and T. Schwitalla, A. Behrendt, V. Wulfmeyer, D. Leuenberger, A. Haefele, M. Arpagaus, and G. Martucci
11:30 AM
10.5
Assimilation of Temperature and Humidity Profiles from a Raman Lidar into Convective-Scale NWP Models and the Impact on the Forecast
Alexander Haefele, Federal Office of Meteorology and Climatology, Payerne, Switzerland; and D. Leuenberger, G. Martucci, M. Arpagaus, R. Thundathil, T. Schwitalla, A. Behrendt, and V. Wulfmeyer
Recording files available
Session 11A
Atmospheric Chemistry Modeling and Observational Analysis—Part VI
Location: North 124A (Phoenix Convention Center - West and North Buildings)
Host: 21st Conference on Atmospheric Chemistry
Chair: Richard Eckman, NASA
Cochairs: Kenneth W. Jucks, NASA Headquarters; Michael J. Prather, Univ. of California, Irvine
10:30 AM
11A.1
Direct Space-Based Observation of Decadal Changes in NOx Emissions and Lifetime: Implications for Oxidative Capacity
Ronald C. Cohen, Univ. of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, CA; and J. L. Laughner and Q. Zhu
10:45 AM
11A.2
Distributions and Chemistry of NOx in the Remote Troposphere and the Validity of the Photo-Stationary State Approximation
Lee Thomas Murray, Univ. of Rochester, Rochester, NY; and C. Thompson, T. B. Ryerson, T. Sherwen, S. Wang, J. Peischl, S. Hall, K. Ullmann, K. D. Froyd, G. P. Schill, T. V. Bui, C. S. Chang, and I. Bourgeois
11:00 AM
11A.3
Inferring Fossil Fuel NOx and CO2 Emissions: Combining Bottom-Up Inventories with Improved OMI NO2 Data
Nickolay A. Krotkov, NASA GSFC, Greenbelt, MD; and L. N. Lamsal, A. Vasilkov, S. Marchenko, W. Qin, E. S. Yang, Z. Fasnacht, D. P. Haffner, W. H. Swartz, E. Bucsela, R. Spurr, D. Streets, Z. Lu, D. Goldberg, D. Griffin, C. McLinden, V. Fioletov, F. Liu, T. Oda, L. D. Oman, B. Duncan, and J. Joiner

11:15 AM
11A.4
Satellite (OMI) and Surface Observations Confirm Steady Decline of US NOx Emissions over the 2004-2017 Period
Rachel F. Silvern, Harvard Univ., Cambridge, MA; and D. J. Jacob, M. Sulprizio, L. J. Mickley, K. R. Travis, E. A. Marais, R. C. Cohen, J. L. Laughner, S. Choi, and J. Joiner
11:30 AM
11A.5
Global Measurements of Isoprene from the Cross-Track Infrared Sounder
Kelley C. Wells, Univ. of Minnesota, St. Paul, MN; and D. B. Millet, D. Fu, and V. Payne
11:45 AM
11A.6A
Variations in Global Tropospheric OH Over the Last Several Decades
Julie M. Nicely, Univ. of Maryland, College Park, MD; and T. P. Canty, M. Manyin, L. D. Oman, R. Salawitch, S. D. Steenrod, S. E. Strahan, and S. A. Strode
Recording files available
Session 11B
From Combustion to Composition: New Insights into Smoke Chemistry from WE-CAN, FIREX and Other Recent Efforts—Part II
Location: North 126A (Phoenix Convention Center - West and North Buildings)
Host: 21st Conference on Atmospheric Chemistry
Chair: Emily V. Fischer, Colorado State Univ.
CoChair: Lu Hu, Univ. of Montana
10:30 AM
11B.1
Chemical Composition and Evolution from Western Wildfires in 2018: Highlighting Results from the NCAR Trace Organic Gas Analyzer
Eric C. Apel, NCAR, Boulder, CO; and R. Hornbrook, A. Hills, E. Asher, L. K. Emmons, S. Wang, B. B. Palm, J. A. Thornton, W. Permar, L. Hu, A. P. Sullivan, I. T. Ku, Y. Zhou, V. Selimovic, J. L. Collett Jr., F. Flocke, and E. V. Fischer
10:45 AM
11B.2
Examination of Airborne-Based Smoke Marker Ratios from Wildfires in the Western U.S. during the WE-CAN Study
Amy P. Sullivan, Colorado State Univ., Fort Collins, CO; and E. V. Fischer and J. L. Collett Jr.

11:15 AM
11B.4
Ice Nucleating Particle Production from Wildfires
Kevin R. Barry, Colorado State Univ., Fort Collins, CO; and E. J. T. Levin, T. C. J. Hill, K. A. Moore, D. W. Toohey, S. M. Kreidenweis, E. V. Fischer, and P. J. DeMott
11:30 AM
11B.5A
Biomass Burning Plume Chemistry via Iodide-Adduct Chemical Ionization Mass Spectrometry: Secondary Organic Aerosol Formation and Reactive Nitrogen Evolution
Brett Palm, Univ. of Washington, Seattle, WA; and Q. Peng, B. H. Lee, W. C. S. Team, E. V. Fischer, and J. A. Thornton

11:45 AM
11B.6A
Rapid Production of Ozone and Sequestration of NOx in Fire Plumes Emitted from Large Forest Fires Observed during WECAN
Frank Flocke, NCAR, Boulder, CO; and E. Fischer, L. Hu, W. Permar, B. B. Palm, J. A. Thornton, A. Weinheimer, D. Montzka, E. C. Apel, R. Hornbrook, A. Hills, T. Campos, E. Kosciuch, S. Hall, K. Ullman, A. P. Sullivan, V. Selimovic, and I. T. Ku

Recording files available
Session 12A
Global and Regional Remote Sensing Precipitation Estimation, Evaluation, and Applications II
Location: North 126BC (Phoenix Convention Center - West and North Buildings)
Host: 33rd Conference on Hydrology
Cochairs: Youcun Qi, Institute of Geographic Sciences and Natural Resources Research; Haonan Chen, Colorado State Univ.; V. Chandrasekar, Colorado State Univ.
10:45 AM
12A.2
Evaluating the Gap-Filling Capabilities of Satellite and Model Precipitation Products within the Multi-Radar Multi-Sensor (MRMS) System
Andrew P. Osborne, CIMMS/Univ. of Oklahoma and NOAA/NSSL, Norman, OK; and J. Zhang, S. M. Martinaitis, and K. W. Howard
11:00 AM
12A.3
Disaggregation Techniques for Radar Precipitation Data and Rain Gauges Precipitation Data for the Wernersbach Catchment in Germany
Firas Aljanabi, Technische Universität Dresden, Tharandt, Germany; and C. Bernhofer

11:15 AM
12A.4
11:30 AM
12A.5
MiRS Rain Rate Retrievals from ATMS Onboard S-NPP and NOAA-20
Shuyan Liu, CIRA, College Park, MD; and C. Grassotti, Q. Liu, R. Honeyager, and Y. K. Lee

11:45 AM
12A.6
Recording files available
Session 12A
Software Engineering and Cyberinfrastructure for Environmental Processing—Part II
Location: North 132ABC (Phoenix Convention Center - West and North Buildings)
Host: 35th Conference on Environmental Information Processing Technologies
Cochairs: William F. Roberts, OAR; Aashish Chaudhary, Kitware; Scott Jacobs, NOAA/NWS
10:30 AM
12A.1
SmartMet Server—Providing MetOcean Data
Roope Tervo, Finnish Meteorological Institute, Helsinki, Finland; and M. Rauhala and M. Visa
10:45 AM
12A.2
Dynamic Interaction: Metadata in the ADB Verification System
Jeffrey A. Hamilton, CIRES, Boulder, CO; and M. B. Smith, R. Pierce, B. Strong, D. D. Turner, W. R. Moninger, and K. Holub
11:00 AM
12A.3
Development of GSD's Model Analysis Tool Suite (MATS)
Molly B. Smith, CIRES, Boulder, CO; and R. Pierce, J. A. Hamilton, K. Holub, B. Strong, and D. D. Turner
11:15 AM
12A.4
Development of NCEPLIBS Umbrella to Service the Operational Modeling and Community Research
Hang Lei, NOAA/NCEP/EMC and IMSG, College Park, MD; and M. D. Iredell and G. Vandenberghe

11:30 AM
12A.5
Recording files available
Session 12B
Precipitation Processes and Observations for Atmospheric, Land Surface, and Hydrological Modeling II
Location: North 127ABC (Phoenix Convention Center - West and North Buildings)
Host: 33rd Conference on Hydrology
Cochairs: Eleonora Demaria, USDA–ARS; Francina Dominguez, Univ. of Illinois at Urbana−Champaign; Joshua K. Roundy, Univ. of Kansas
10:30 AM
12B.1
Contribution of Extreme Convective Storms to Rainfall in South America: Perspectives from RELAMPAGO (Invited Presentation)
Kristen Lani Rasmussen, Colorado State Univ, Fort Collins, CO; and F. Dominguez and D. Gochis
11:00 AM
12B.3
Precipitation Variability between Afternoon Mixed Layer and Free Atmosphere Clouds in Semi-Arid Southeast Arizona
Pieter Hazenberg, Univ. of Arizona, Tucson, AZ; and E. L. Cropp, E. Demaria, D. C. Goodrich, J. J. Gourley, M. Kautz, W. A. Petersen, and R. Uijlenhoet
11:15 AM
12B.4
GPM Satellite Radar Observations of Precipitation Mechanisms in Atmospheric Rivers over the Northeast Pacific Ocean
Forest Cannon, SIO/Univ. of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA; and C. W. Hecht and F. M. Ralph
11:45 AM
12B.6
AQPI: Precipitation Forecasts over the San Francisco Bay Area from the High-Resolution Rapid Refresh Model during an Atmospheric River Event on 21-23 Mar 2018
Jason M. English, CIRES, Univ. of Colorado Boulder, Boulder, CO; and D. D. Turner, M. Marquis, E. P. James, T. Alcott, W. R. Moninger, and J. L. Bytheway
Recording files available
Session 12B
Weather and Roads: Incorporating Resiliency to Extreme Weather Events into the Surface Transportation System—Part II
Location: North 130 (Phoenix Convention Center - West and North Buildings)
Host: 35th Conference on Environmental Information Processing Technologies
Cochairs: Stephen Early, Vaisala Inc.; Brenda C. Boyce, Booz Allen Hamilton; Paul A. Pisano, U.S. Department of Transportation/Federal Highway Administration
10:30 AM
12B.1
Road Weather Initiatives that Enable Resilience to Extreme Weather
Paul A. Pisano, U.S. Department of Transportation/Federal Highway Administration, Washington, DC; and R. Alfelor, G. Guevara, and B. C. Boyce
11:00 AM
12B.3
State Departments of Transportation Perception of Winter Weather Forecasts and Impacts
Mark R. Anderson, Univ. of Nebraska–Lincoln, Lincoln, NE; and C. L. Walker, D. Steinkruger, S. Hasanzadeh, B. Esmaeili, and B. Dao
11:15 AM
12B.4
Updates to the Truck Blowover Algorithm for the Pikalert® System
Brittany Welch, Univ. of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT; and A. Anderson and T. Brummet
11:30 AM
12B.5
11:45 AM
12B.6
Expanded and Enhanced Road State Climatological Analyses from the Global Weather Corp. Road Weather Forecasts
Danny Cheresnick, Global Weather Corporation, Boulder, CO; and J. Thompson, B. Gail, B. Myers, and N. Rehak
12:00 PM
Ben Hershey
Recording files available
Session 13A
African Climate Variability and Change—Part II
Location: North 121BC (Phoenix Convention Center - West and North Buildings)
Host: 32nd Conference on Climate Variability and Change
Cochairs: Edward K. Vizy, The Univ. of Texas at Austin; Andreas H. Fink, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology
10:30 AM
13A.1
Seasonal Variability of Early and Late Onset Monsoon Seasons in the Sahel
Catherine Pomposi, UCSB Climate Hazards Group, Santa Barbara, CA; and S. Shukla and C. C. Funk

10:45 AM
13A.2
On the Equatorial East Africa Floods during the Spring 2018 Rainfall Season
Wassila M. Thiaw, NOAA/NWS/NCEP/Climate Prediction Center, College Park, MD
11:00 AM
13A.3
An Examination of Rainfall Trends in Equatorial Africa Using Newly Created Datasets
Sharon E. Nicholson, Florida State Univ., Tallahassee, FL; and D. Klotter

11:15 AM
13.4
Paper 13.4 is presenting at 11:45 as paper 13A.6A

11:30 AM
13A.5
A New and Flexible Rainy Season Definition: Validation for the Greater Horn of Africa and Application to Rainfall Trends
Larisa S. Seregina, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Karlsruhe, Germany; and A. H. Fink, R. van der Linden, N. Elagib, and J. G. Pinto
11:45 AM
13A.6A
Moving Beyond the East African Climate Paradox
Chris C. Funk, USGS/Earth Resources Observation Systems, Santa Barbara, CA; and S. E. Nicholson and A. Fink
Recording files available
Session 13A
Consideration, Best Practices and Private-Public Partnerships for the Transition of Research to Operations in the Weather, Water, and Climate Enterprises
Location: North 230 (Phoenix Convention Center - West and North Buildings)
Host: Ninth Conference on Transition of Research to Operations
Cochairs: DaNa Carlis, NOAA/OAR; David Helms, NOAA/NESDIS/Office of Projects, Planning, and Analysis
10:45 AM
13A.2
A Report on "Building a Weather Ready Nation by Transitioning Academic Research to NOAA Operations" Workshop
Chandra R. Kondragunta, NOAA/OAR/Office of Weather and Air Quality, Silver Spring, MD; and J. Cortinas Jr., H. L. Tolman, and B. Kuo

11:15 AM
13A.4
Improving NOAA’s Transition of Research and Development through Policy, Programming, and Performance Management Tools
Ian R Kroll, NOAA, Silver Spring, MD; and L. A. Newcomb, C. Moses, and G. C. Matlock

11:30 AM
13A.5
Preparing for FACETs: The Need for Inclusive National Weather Service Forecaster Training and Innovative Collaboration Tools
Alyssa V. Bates, CIMMS/Univ. of Oklahoma and NWS Warning Decision Training Division, Norman, OK; and J. G. LaDue, G. J. Stumpf, A. Gerard, T. L. Hansen, K. L. Manross, J. J. James, C. Ling, L. P. Rothfusz, T. C. Meyer, K. Berry, and D. M. Kingfield

11:45 AM
13A.6
Complimenting Optical Remote Sensing Data with Synthetic Aperture Radar Data to Investigate Severe Thunderstorm Damage to Vegetation
Jordan R. Bell, Univ. of Alabama—Huntsville, Huntsville, AL; and A. L. Molthan, L. A. Schultz, C. R. Hain, and F. J. Meyer
Recording files available
Session 13B
Cities and Megacities: Climate Variability, Change, and Extremes
Location: North 122BC (Phoenix Convention Center - West and North Buildings)
Host: 32nd Conference on Climate Variability and Change
Chairs: Margaret Hurwitz, Science Systems and Applications, Inc.; Shanna N. McClain, NASA
10:30 AM
13B.1A
The NASA–Rio de Janeiro Partnership: Enhancing Rio de Janeiro’s Climate Resilience and Environmental Monitoring
Margaret Hurwitz, Science Systems and Applications, Inc., Greenbelt, MD; and D. Kirschbaum and F. Mandarino

10:45 AM
13B.2A
High-Resolution Climate Simulations of the Arabian Peninsula for Regional Sustainability Studies
Muge Komurcu, MIT, Cambridge, MA; and C. A. Schlosser, I. S. Alshehri, T. Alshahrani, W. Alhayaza, and A. AlSaati

11:00 AM
13B.3
11:15 AM
13B.4
Simulating Personal Heat Exposure in Cities with the ICARUS Model
David M. Hondula, Arizona State Univ., Tempe, AZ; and M. Chester, A. Middel, A. Fraser, D. Eisenman, C. G. Hoehne, L. E. Watkins, K. Gerster, and J. Grotts
Recording files available
Session 13B
Models and Data Assimilation to Enable and Accelerate the Transition of Research to Operations to Decision Makers, End Users and to the Public: Advanced Modeling and Data Assimilation Development
Location: North 232C (Phoenix Convention Center - West and North Buildings)
Host: Ninth Conference on Transition of Research to Operations
Cochairs: Fanglin Yang, NOAA/NWS/NCEP/EMC; Daryl Kleist, NOAA/NWS/NCEP/EMC, College Park, MD USA
10:30 AM
13B.1
Global Environmental Multiscale Model with Height-Based Terrain-Following Vertical Coordinate for Improving Numerical Stability
Syed Zahid Husain, Environment and Climate Change Canada, Dorval, Canada; and C. Girard, A. Plante, A. Qaddouri, R. Aider, and S. Gaudreault
11:00 AM
13B.3
Nested Hyper-Resolution Modeling and Assimilation of Water Level Data Using WRF-Hydro, OpenDA and the Community Hydrologic Prediction System
Sunghee Kim, Univ. of Texas at Arlington, Arlington, TX; and S. Noh, D. J. Seo, E. Welles, E. Pelgrim, A. Weerts, B. Philip, E. Lyons, M. Smith, and E. Wells

11:15 AM
13B.4
R2O: Recent Development of Convective Scale Radar Data Assimilation and Ensemble Forecasting Capability to Improve NWS Operational Hazardous Weather Forecasts
Xuguang Wang, Univ. of Oklahoma, Norman, OK; and Y. Wang, A. Johnson, N. A. Gasperoni, D. C. Dowell, and J. R. Carley
11:30 AM
13B.5
Evaluating the Impact of Improvement in the Horizontal Diffusion Parameterization on Hurricane Prediction in the Operational HWRF Model
Jun Zhang, NOAA/AOML/HRD, Miami, FL; and F. Marks, R. Rogers, J. A. Sippel, X. Zhang, S. Gopalakrishnan, Z. Zhang, and V. Tallapragada
11:45 AM
13B.6
Research to Operations Activities of NASA's Short-Term Prediction Research and Transition (SPoRT) Center: Current and Future Missions and Capabilities
Christopher Hain, NASA Marshall Space Flight Center, Huntsville, AL; and E. Berndt, C. J. Schultz, A. L. Molthan, and B. T. Zavodsky
Recording files available
Session 13C
El Niño–Southern Oscillation (ENSO) Dynamics, Diversity, Prediction, and Impacts—Part II
Location: North 129B (Phoenix Convention Center - West and North Buildings)
Host: 32nd Conference on Climate Variability and Change
Chair: John Nielsen-Gammon, Texas A&M Univ.
10:30 AM
13C.1
Marine Heat Waves under Global Warming (Invited Presentation)
Thomas Froelicher, Univ. of Bern, Bern, Switzerland; and E. M. Fischer, N. Gruber, S. Striegel, and C. Laufkötter
10:45 AM
13C.2
Understanding and Predicting ENSO's Influence on the California Current System
Michael A. Alexander, NOAA/ESRL, Boulder, CO; and M. Jacox, J. D. Scott, and G. Hervieux

11:00 AM
13C.3
Optimal Precursors of U.S. West Coast Marine Warming
Antonietta Capotondi, Univ. of Colorado Boulder, Boulder, CO; and P. D. Sardeshmukh

11:15 AM
13C.4
ENSO Normals: A New Normals Product Conditioned by ENSO Phase and Intensity and Accounting for Secular Trends
Carl J. Schreck III, North Carolina State Univ., Asheville, NC; and A. Arguez, A. K. Inamdar, M. Palecki, and A. H. Young
11:30 AM
13C.5
CMIP5 Model-Analog Seasonal Forecast Skill: A Metric for Model Evaluation of ENSO
Hui Ding, CIRES/Univ. of Colorado Boulder, and NOAA/ESRL, Boulder, CO; and M. Newman, M. A. Alexander, and A. Wittenberg

11:45 AM
13C.6
Improving ENSO and Its Related SST Forecasts by Accounting for Annual Cycle Effects
Sang-Ik Shin, CIRES/Univ. of Colorado Boulder and NOAA/ESRL/Physical Sciences Division, Boulder, CO; and M. Newman, P. D. Sardeshmukh, C. Penland, and M. Alexander
12:00 PM
Skillful Climate Forecast of the Tropical Indo-Pacific SST Variations Using Model-Analogues -- Hui Ding
Recording files available
Session 14
Advancements in NWP Systems, Including Ensemble Prediction, Data Assimilation, and Validation
Location: North 224B (Phoenix Convention Center - West and North Buildings)
Host: 19th Conference on Aviation, Range, and Aerospace Meteorology
Cochairs: Alex Mahalov, Arizona State Univ.; Matt Fronzak, The MITRE Corporation
10:30 AM
14.1
Improving Probabilistic Forecasts of Aviation Weather Hazards
Ken Stone, NCAR, Boulder, CO; and J. O. Pinto, M. Strahan, R. Bass, M. Steiner, C. P. Kalb, C. J. Kessinger, J. Pearson, and J. A. Grim
10:45 AM
14.2
Numerical Forecasts of Deep Convection in a Tropical Mountainous Environment in Support of the Colombian Civil Aviation Authority (Aerocivil)
Tracy Hertneky, NCAR, Boulder, CO; and P. A. Kucera, L. Carson, K. Newman, J. Hacker, D. F. Steinhoff, W. Cheng, W. Wu, and M. J. Kavulich Jr.
11:00 AM
14.3
Incorporation of CAM Ensemble-Based Assimilation into the Deterministic HRRR for HRRRv4 and Work to Transition from the HRRR to an FV3-Based Rapid Refresh Forecast System (RRFS)
Stephen S. Weygandt, NOAA/ESRL, Boulder, CO; and C. R. Alexander, D. C. Dowell, J. Duda, T. T. Ladwig, E. P. James, M. Hu, T. G. Smirnova, J. S. Kenyon, J. B. Olson, I. Jankov, H. Lin, G. Ge, R. Ahmadov, J. M. Brown, and S. G. Benjamin
11:15 AM
14.4
A Preliminary Look at the Impacts of Assimilating UAS Data into High-Resolution WRF Simulations of the San Luis Valley
Anders A. Jensen, NCAR, Boulder, CO; and J. O. Pinto, P. A. Jimenez, P. B. Chilson, S. Smith, J. D. Jacob, A. Houston, D. A. Lawrence, and G. de Boer
11:30 AM
14.5
Radar Assimilation in the Kwajalein Atoll
Brian P Reen, U.S. Army Research Laboratory, Adelphi, MD; and H. Cai, J. W. Raby, M. O. Scott, and S. C. Ericson
Recording files available
Session 18
Field Experiments: Observational and Assimilation Results—Part II
Location: North 131AB (Phoenix Convention Center - West and North Buildings)
Host: 23rd Conference on Integrated Observing and Assimilation Systems for the Atmosphere, Oceans, and Land Surface (IOAS-AOLS)
Chair: Lisa Bucci, Univ. of Miami and NOAA/AOML
10:30 AM
18.1
Test and Demonstration of a New In Situ Atmospheric Observing System Using Low-Cost Drifting Sensors
John Manobianco, BASF, Bellefonte, PA; and M. Adams, J. C. Prather, M. Bolt, and T. Horton
10:45 AM
18.2
The Great Plains Irrigation Experiment—Grainex
Eric Rappin, Western Kentucky Univ., Bowling Green, KY; and R. Mahmood, U. S. Nair, R. A. Pielke Sr., C. Phillips, A. Kaulfus, W. O. Brown, S. P. Oncley, J. Wurman, K. Kosiba, J. A. Santanello, E. J. Kim, and R. Bindlish
11:00 AM
18.3
The Mid-Missouri Eclipse Meteorology Experiment (MMEME): Community Engagement in Observing Boundary Layer and Ecosystem Response to a Total Eclipse
Jeffrey D. Wood, Univ. of Missouri, Columbia, MO; and E. J. Sadler, N. I. Fox, S. T. Greer, L. Gu, P. Guinan, A. R. Lupo, P. S. Market, S. Rochette, A. Speck, and L. D. White
11:15 AM
18.4
CAZMEX 2017: Improving Monsoon Precipitation Forecasts in Northwest Mexico and Southwest United States
C. Bayu Risanto, The Univ. of Arizona, Tucson, AZ; and J. M. Moker Jr., C. L. Castro, A. F. Arellano Jr., D. K. Adams, and L. Mendoza-Fierro
11:30 AM
18.6A
Observations of the Atmospheric Boundary Layer from a Vertically Pointing, S-band, FMCW Radar in Northern Alabama, during VORTEX-Southeast (2016-2017)
Robin Tanamachi, Purdue Univ., West Lafayette, IN; and S. J. Frasier, J. Waldinger, A. T. LaFleur, and F. Rocadenbosch
Recording files available
Session 19
Observing the Boundary Layer from Space—Part IV
Location: North 131C (Phoenix Convention Center - West and North Buildings)
Host: 23rd Conference on Integrated Observing and Assimilation Systems for the Atmosphere, Oceans, and Land Surface (IOAS-AOLS)
Chairs: Matthew Lebsock, JPL/California Institute of Technology; Joao Teixeira, JPL
10:30 AM
19.1A
A Stereo Approach to High-Resolution Observations of the Planetary Boundary Layer
Michael A. Kelly, Applied Physics Laboratory/The Johns Hopkins Univ., Laurel, MD; and D. L. Wu, J. D. Boldt, J. P. Wilson, I. Papusha, A. C. Goldberg, F. Morgan, J. H. Yee, J. L. Carr, A. K. Heidinger, L. Mehr, and R. O. Stoffler

11:00 AM
19.3
Microwave Soundings in the Planetary Boundary Layer
Evan Fishbein, JPL, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA; and B. Lambrigtsen and M. Schreier

11:15 AM
19.4
Global Vector Winds, Wind Turbulence, and ABL Structure from the Coherent WIND-SP Instrument Concept
G. D. Emmitt, Simpson Weather Associates, Charlottesville, VA; and S. A. Wood and M. J. Kavaya
11:30 AM
19.5
Satellite Observations of Pollutants for Societal Needs: Towards a Next Generation Global Observing System
Dejian Fu, JPL, Pasadena, CA; and J. L. Neu, R. Chipman, D. J. Diner, A. Eldering, D. Wilson, W. Johnson, X. Liu, F. Xu, V. Natraj, J. Richter, and M. Choi

11:45 AM
19.6
Recording files available
Themed Joint Session 20
GOES-16/17 Geostationary Lightning Mapper (GLM) Sensor Performance, Data Products, and User Applications, Part III
Location: North 225AB (Phoenix Convention Center - West and North Buildings)
Hosts: (Joint between the Ninth Conference on the Meteorological Application of Lightning Data; and the 15th Annual Symposium on New Generation Operational Environmental Satellite Systems )
Chair: Kristin M. Calhoun, Univ. of Oklahoma/CIMMS and NOAA/NSSL
10:30 AM
TJ20.1
Documenting a 400+ km Long Mesoscale Lightning Flash in an MCS Trailing Stratiform Region Using GLM, NLDN, and OKLMA Data
Walter A. Lyons, WeatherVideoHD.TV, Fort Collins, CO; and E. C. Bruning, S. F. Edgington, C. E. Tillier, D. R. MacGorman, T. A. Warner, T. E. Nelson, J. C. S. Souza, and K. M. Calhoun
10:45 AM
TJ20.2
Ground- and Space-Based Observations of Horizontally Extensive Lightning Flashes
Daile Zhang, The Univ. of Arizona, Tucson, AZ; and K. L. Cummins and P. M. Bitzer
11:00 AM
TJ20.3
11:15 AM
TJ20.4
Do Forecasters Add Value to Machine Learning Algorithms of Cloud-to-Ground Lightning?
Cara Gregg, The Ohio State Univ., Columbus, OH; and T. C. Meyer and K. M. Calhoun
11:45 AM
TJ20.6
Classification of GLM Flashes Using Random Forest Method
Jacquelyn Ringhausen, Univ. of Alabama in Huntsville, Huntsville, AL; and P. M. Bitzer and C. J. Schultz

12:00 PM-1:30 PM: Thursday, 10 January 2019


Lunch Break (Thurs)

12:15 PM-1:15 PM: Thursday, 10 January 2019

Recording files available
Project Redefining Recognition: Research Assessment and Reward in the Earth, Space, and Environmental Sciences
Location: North 126BC (Phoenix Convention Center - West and North Buildings)
Host: Side Panels
Organizer: Michael Friedman, AMS
Facilitator: Bill Hooke, AMS Associate Executive Director
Project Redefining Recognition: Research Assessment and Reward in the Earth, Space, and Environmental Sciences
William Hooke, Associate Executive Director of AMS, Washington, DC

12:45 PM-1:05 PM: Thursday, 10 January 2019


Daily Weather Briefings (Thurs)
Location: North 132ABC (Phoenix Convention Center - West and North Buildings)

1:00 PM-1:30 PM: Thursday, 10 January 2019


ASLI Choice Book Awards
Location: North 123 (Phoenix Convention Center - West and North Buildings)

1:00 PM-4:00 PM: Thursday, 10 January 2019


Excursion

1:30 PM-2:30 PM: Thursday, 10 January 2019


Walter Orr Robert Lecture

1:30 PM-3:00 PM: Thursday, 10 January 2019

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Session 4
Monsoonal Heavy Rain in East Asia—Part III
Location: North 222C (Phoenix Convention Center - West and North Buildings)
Host: Fourth Symposium on US-International Partnerships
Cochairs: Wen-Chau Lee, NCAR; Zhiyong Meng, Peking Univ.; Ben Jong-Dao Jou, National Taiwan Univ.; Dong-In Lee, Pukyong National Univ.; Kazuhisa Tsuboki, Nagoya Univ.
1:30 PM
4.1
Night Time Heavy Rains in Northern Taiwan Associated with Meiyu Front
Ben Jong-Dao Jou, National Taiwan Univ., Taipei, Taiwan; and W. C. Lee and K. Yu
2:00 PM
4.2
2:30 PM
4.3
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Joint Session 7
Drought Monitoring, Early Warning, and Projection in the 21st Century—Beyond PDSI I
Location: North 126BC (Phoenix Convention Center - West and North Buildings)
Hosts: (Joint between the 33rd Conference on Hydrology; the 32nd Conference on Climate Variability and Change; and the 24th Conference on Applied Climatology )
Cochairs: Christa D. Peters-Lidard, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center; Pierre Gentine, Columbia Univ.; Michael Barlage, NCAR; Dennis P. Lettenmaier, Univ. of California; Daniel Barrie, NOAA
1:30 PM
J7.1A
Using the US Climate Reference Network to Improve Gridded Soil Moisture Products over the Conterminous US
Michael Buban, ARL, Oak Ridge, TN; and C. B. Baker, T. P. Meyers, and C. R. Hain
2:00 PM
J7.3
The Always Evolving United States Drought Monitor: Adapting Over Time
Brian Fuchs, National Drought Mitigation Center, Lincoln, NE; and M. Svoboda, D. J. Bathke, and C. J. Riganti
2:15 PM
J7.4
ADI: An Improved Index for Remote-Sensing-Based Monitoring of Agricultural Drought
Liping Di, George Mason Univ., Fairfax, VA; and L. Guo and L. Lin
2:30 PM
J7.5
Characterizing Snow Drought Conditions across the United States
Laurie S. Huning, Univ. of California, Irvine, Irvine, CA; and A. AghaKouchak

2:45 PM
J7.6
Employing Multiple Drought Indices for Global Decision Support
Justyn D. Jackson, USAF, Asheville, NC; and R. B. Kiess
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Session 7
Ensemble Development Updates
Location: North 128AB (Phoenix Convention Center - West and North Buildings)
Host: Global and Regional-Scale Models: Updates and Center Overviews
Chairs: Robert Banks, Delta Airlines, Inc.; Heather Reeves, CIMMS/OU/NSSL
1:30 PM
7.1
The Development of the Next-Generation NCEP Global Ensemble Forecast System (GEFS)
Yuejian Zhu, NCEP, College Park, MD; and X. Zhou and D. Hou

2:00 PM
7.3
Performance of the 2018 Real-Time HWRF-Based Ensemble Prediction System
Zhan Zhang, I.M. Systems Group at NOAA/NWS/NCEP/EMC, College Park, MD; and W. Wang, L. Zhu, B. Liu, A. Mehra, and V. Tallapragada

2:15 PM
7.4
A New Operational Global Ensemble from the U.S. Air Force
Evan Kuchera, USAF 16th Weather Squadron, Offutt Air Force Base, NE; and G. Creighton, J. Martinelli, S. Rentschler, and R. J. Craig
2:30 PM
7.5
Model Error Representation in the Canadian Regional Ensemble Prediction System
Leo Separovic, Environment and Climate Change Canada, Dorval, QC, Canada; and A. Zadra, M. Charron, N. Gagnon, S. Corvec, R. McTaggart-Cowan, and P. A. Vaillancourt
2:45 PM
7.6
The MetCoOp Ensemble Prediction System for Nordic Weather Conditions
Jørn Kristiansen, Norwegian Meteorological Institute, Oslo, Norway; and U. Andae, H. Körnich, S. Niemelä, M. Partio, and O. Vignes
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Session 8
Modeling, Predictability and Teleconnections of the Quasi-Biennial Oscillation
Location: West 212A (Phoenix Convention Center - West and North Buildings)
Host: 20th Conference on Middle Atmosphere
Cochairs: Sean M. Davis, NOAA/ESRL; Jadwiga Richter, NCAR
2:00 PM
8.3
QBO Signals in Chemical Constituents Simulated with WACCM
Rolando R. Garcia, NCAR, Boulder, CO; and J. Richter
2:15 PM
8.4
2:30 PM
8.5
Linking the Quasi-Biennial Oscillation and Projected Arctic Sea-Ice Loss to Stratospheric Variability in Early Winter
Zachary M. Labe, Univ. of California, Irvine, Irvine, CA; and Y. Peings and G. Magnusdottir
2:45 PM
8.6
Quasi-Biennial Oscillation in a Warming Climate
Jadwiga Richter, NCAR, Boulder, CO; and N. Butchart, J. Anstey, A. C. Bushell, Y. Kawatani, and S. M. Osprey
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Session 10A
Calibration and Validation—Part II
Location: North 231AB (Phoenix Convention Center - West and North Buildings)
Host: 15th Annual Symposium on New Generation Operational Environmental Satellite Systems
CoChair: Robert Knuteson, Univ. of Wisconsin/CIMSS
1:30 PM
10A.1
NUCAPS: The NOAA Unique Combined Atmospheric Processing System for the JPSS Series of Hyper Spectral Thermal Polar-Orbiting Sounders
Antonia Gambacorta, IMSG, College Park, MD; and N. R. Nalli, C. Tan, M. Wilson, J. X. Warner, and L. Zhou
1:45 PM
10A.2A
FengYun-3D HIRAS Overview and On-Orbit Performance
Chengli Qi, China Meteorological Administration, Beijing, China; and C. Wu, X. Hu, H. Xu, L. Li, M. Gu, F. Zhou, T. Yang, C. Shao, Y. Lv, and M. Yuan

2:00 PM
10A.3
Calibration and Validation of NUCAPS Infrared Surface Emissivity
Robert Knuteson, Univ. of Wisconsin/CIMSS, Madison, WI; and C. Bloch, J. M. Gartzke, E. Borbas, M. Feltz, A. Gambacorta, and L. Zhou
2:15 PM
10A.4
Calibration Validation of GOES-16 Advanced Baseline Imager (ABI) with the Airborne Scanning High-Resolution Interferometer Sounder (S-HIS)
Joe K. Taylor, Univ. of Wisconsin–Madison, Madison, WI; and D. C. Tobin, H. E. Revercomb, F. A. Best, R. K. Garcia, R. O. Knuteson, M. Feltz, F. P. Padula, and S. J. Goodman
2:30 PM
10A.5
Validation of NOAA Unique Combined Atmospheric Processing System (NUCAPS) Carbon Trace Gas EDRs
Nicholas R. Nalli, IMSG, College Park, MD; and A. Gambacorta, C. Tan, J. X. Warner, Z. Wei, F. Iturbide-Sanchez, and L. Zhou
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Session 10B
Nighttime Environmental Monitoring
Location: North 231C (Phoenix Convention Center - West and North Buildings)
Host: 15th Annual Symposium on New Generation Operational Environmental Satellite Systems
Cochairs: Steve Miller, CIRA/Colorado State Univ.; William Straka III, Univ. of Wisconsin/CIMSS
1:30 PM
10B.1
Return to the Dark Side: Visible Applications in Dark Environments, Revisited (VADER)
Steven D. Miller, CIRA, Fort Collins, CO; and W. Straka, C. J. Seaman, Y. J. Noh, L. D. Grasso, J. E. Solbrig, and C. Combs
1:45 PM
10B.2
Usage of the VIIRS Day–Night Band and Other Channels in Disaster Response and Monitoring
William Straka III, Univ. of Wisconsin/CIMSS, Madison, WI; and S. D. Miller, C. J. Seaman, M. Goldberg, and B. Sjoberg
2:00 PM
10B.3
Improvement of Nocturnal Cloud Base Height and Vertical Layer Retrievals in High Latitudes
Yoo-Jeong Noh, CIRA, Fort Collins, CO; and S. D. Miller, J. M. Haynes, J. M. Forsythe, C. J. Seaman, A. Heidinger, and Y. Li
2:15 PM
10B.4
Color Day–Night Visible GOES Satellite Images
Frederick Mosher, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical Univ., Daytona Beach, FL; and C. Herbster
2:30 PM
10B.5
Application of VIIRS DNB Data for Monitoring Surface PM2.5 and Fire: From Radiative Transfer Calculations to Case Studies
Jun Wang, Univ. of Iowa, Iowa City, IA; and S. Roudini, M. Zhou, X. Xu, E. J. Hyer, J. Zeng, and J. Leitch

2:45 PM
10B.6A
Polar Slider: Website for Viewing Global VIIRS Imagery
Curtis J. Seaman, CIRA, Fort Collins, CO

Session 11
Ice Nucleating Particles and Cold Clouds—Part I
Location: North 223 (Phoenix Convention Center - West and North Buildings)
Host: 11th Symposium on Aerosol–Cloud–Climate Interactions
Cochairs: Ottmar Möhler, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology; Eric Jensen, NASA Langley Research Center; Bernd Kärcher, NASA
1:30 PM
11.1
2:00 PM
11.2
The Impact of Synoptic Variability and Aviation Soot Emissions on Contrail Cirrus Radiative Forcing
Ulrike Burkhardt, DLR, Wessling, Germany; and A. Bier and L. Bock

2:15 PM
11.3
Evaluation of the Ice Nucleating Abilities of Various Aerosol Types through a Combination of Satellite Data and Cloud-Resolving Modeling
Bin Zhao, Univ. of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA; and Y. Wang, Y. Gu, K. N. Liou, and J. Jiang

2:30 PM
11.4
New Insights into the Ice Nucleation By Volcanic Ash Particles in Mixed-Phase Clouds
Nsikanabasi Silas Umo, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Eggenstein-Leopoldshafen, Germany; and R. Ullrich, E. Maters, K. Höhler, I. Steinke, R. Wagner, P. G. Weidler, H. Saathoff, G. Hoshyaripour, B. J. Murray, D. Dingwell, T. Leisner, and O. Möhler

2:45 PM
11.5
The Portable Ice Nucleation Experiment (PINE): A New Instrument for Semiautonomous Measurements of Atmospheric Ice Nucleating Particles
Larissa Lacher, Karlsruhe Institut of Technology, Karlsruhe, Germany; and F. Vogel, J. Nadolny, M. Adams, B. J. Murray, C. Boffo, T. Pfeuffer, and O. Möhler

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Session 12
General Topics in the Energy Sector
Location: North 129A (Phoenix Convention Center - West and North Buildings)
Host: 10th Conference on Weather, Climate, and the New Energy Economy
Cochairs: John Zack, AWS Truepower LLC; Jeffrey M. Freedman, Univ. at Albany, SUNY
1:30 PM
12.1
Evidence of Climate Change in Nigeria: An Assessment of Recent Extreme Events
Eric Ugochukwu Olewuike, National Root Crops Research Institute, Umuahia, Nigeria

1:45 PM
12.2
2:15 PM
12.4
Daytime Clear-Sky Radiative Cooling Potential Map of the Contiguous United States
Mengying Li, Univ. of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA; and C. F. M. Coimbra

2:45 PM
12.6
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Session 12A
Atmospheric Chemistry Modeling and Observational Analysis—Part VII
Location: North 124A (Phoenix Convention Center - West and North Buildings)
Host: 21st Conference on Atmospheric Chemistry
Chair: Richard Eckman, NASA
Cochairs: Kenneth W. Jucks, NASA Headquarters; Michael J. Prather, Univ. of California, Irvine
1:30 PM
12A.1
Long-Term Changes in Carbon Monoxide Abundance as Inferred from an Ensemble of Chemical Reanalyses
Avelino F. Arellano Jr., The Univ. of Arizona, Tucson, AZ; and B. Gaubert, K. Miyazaki, A. Inness, Z. Jiang, Y. Yin, and J. Flemming
1:45 PM
12A.2
2:00 PM
12A.3
Long-Term (2005-2017) Global SO2 Emissions Derived from Two OMI SO2 Retrievals: Discrepancy Analysis and Validations
Zhen Qu, Univ. of Colorado Boulder, Boulder, CO; and D. Henze, C. Li, N. Theys, Y. Wang, J. Wang, and W. Wang

2:15 PM
12A.4
Long-Term Global SOData Record from Aura/OMI: Latest Updates, Recent Applications, and Comparisons with TROPOMI
Can Li, Univ. of Maryland, College Park, MD; and N. A. Krotkov, J. Joiner, N. Theys, S. Carn, Y. Zhang, V. Fioletov, and C. McLinden
2:30 PM
12A.5
Modeling the Global Budget of Methyl Ethyl Ketone
Jared F Brewer, Colorado State Univ., Fort Collins, CO; and E. V. Fischer, A. R. Ravishankara, J. B. Burkholder, D. K. Papanastasiou, A. Mellouki, Y. Ren, E. C. Apel, and R. S. Hornbrook
2:45 PM
12A.6
Exploring the Synergistic Use of OMI NO2 Data with CO2 Data Collected from GOSAT and OCO-2: Current Status, Challenges and Implications for Upcoming Carbon Missions
Tomohiro Oda, USRA/NASA Goddard, Greenbelt, MD; and L. N. Lamsal, N. A. Krotkov, S. Maksyutov, D. Goldberg, Z. Lu, D. Streets, R. Pavlick, T. Kurosu, A. Eldering, T. Lauvaux, and B. Duncan

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Session 12B
From Combustion to Composition: New Insights into Smoke Chemistry from WE-CAN, FIREX and Other Recent Efforts—Part III
Location: North 126A (Phoenix Convention Center - West and North Buildings)
Host: 21st Conference on Atmospheric Chemistry
Chair: Emily V. Fischer, Colorado State Univ.
CoChair: Lu Hu, Univ. of Montana
1:30 PM
12B.1
Tracking Nitrogen Oxides, Nitrous Acid, and Nitric Acid, Particulate Nitrate and Ammonia from Wildfire
Jiajue Chai, Brown Univ., Providence, RI; and W. Walters, H. R. Munro, E. Heim, J. E. Dibb, and M. Hastings

1:45 PM
12B.2
Towards Quantifying Smoke Emissions from Wildfires: The BB-Flux Project
R. Volkamer, Univ. of Colorado Boulder, Boulder, CO; and N. Kille, K. Zarzana, T. Koenig, C. F. Lee, B. J. Howard, C. Knote, T. Campos, L. Oolman, D. M. Plummer, M. Deng, Z. Wang, R. Ahmadov, M. M. Bela, S. A. McKeen, and T. Goulden
2:00 PM
12B.3
Emission Fluxes from Biomass Burning during BB-FLUX Using the CU Airborne SOF Instrument
Natalie Kille, Univ. of Colorado Boulder, Boulder, CO; and C. F. Lee, D. Thomson, K. Zarzana, B. J. Howard, R. Ahmadov, M. M. Bela, S. A. McKeen, S. M. O'Neill, and R. Volkamer
2:30 PM
12B.5
Four Years of Airborne Measurements of Wildfire Emissions in California, with a Focus on the Evolution of Emissions during the Soberanes Megafire
Laura T. Iraci, NASA, Moffett Field, CA; and J. E. Marrero, C. L. Parworth, E. L. Yates, J. M. Ryoo, K. Baker, T. K. V. Nguyen, J. St. Clair, and T. F. Hansico

2:45 PM
12B.6
Potential Contribution of Hyperspectral and Polarimetric Remote Sensing for Fire Emission Characterization from the NASA ER-2 Aircraft
Olga Kalashnikova, JPL/California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA; and F. Xu, M. J. Garay, H. Lee, L. Kuai, G. Hulley, K. Bates, C. Kenseth, S. Kong, and J. H. Seinfeld

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Session 13
Precipitation Processes and Observations for Atmospheric, Land Surface, and Hydrological Modeling III
Location: North 127ABC (Phoenix Convention Center - West and North Buildings)
Host: 33rd Conference on Hydrology
Cochairs: Eleonora Demaria, USDA–ARS; Francina Dominguez, Univ. of Illinois at Urbana−Champaign; Joshua K. Roundy, Univ. of Kansas
1:30 PM
13.1
How Hard Can It Rain? (Invited Presentation)
James A. Smith, Princeton Univ., Princeton, NJ; and M. L. Baeck, L. Yang, Y. Su, M. Chaney, and R. S. Schumacher
1:45 PM
13.2
Unifying Rain Drop Size Distribution Normalization Methods Using a New Generalized Approach
Hugh Morrison, NCAR, Boulder, CO; and M. R. Kumjian, O. P. Prat, M. van Lier-Walqui, and C. Martinkus
2:00 PM
13.3
Inter-Comparisons of Radar-Based QPE Performance for Continental, Stratiform and Tropical Rain Regimes
Stephen B. Cocks, CIMMS/Univ. of Oklahoma and NOAA/NSSL, Norman, OK; and L. Tang, S. M. Martinaitis, J. Zhang, A. Ryzhkov, P. Zhang, and K. W. Howard
2:45 PM
13.6
A Parametric Rainfall Model, P-CLIPER: Development and Application for Coastal Flood Modeling
Kendra M. Dresback, Univ. of Oklahoma, Norman, OK; and K. M. Geoghegan, P. J. Fitzpatrick, and R. L. Kolar

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Session 14A
Climate Extremes in the Tropical Americas: Past, Present, and Future
Location: North 121BC (Phoenix Convention Center - West and North Buildings)
Host: 32nd Conference on Climate Variability and Change
Cochairs: Elinor R. Martin, Univ. of Oklahoma; Kristine DeLong, Louisiana State Univ.
1:45 PM
14A.2
Can We Trust Model Projections of Changes in Climate Extremes over the Tropical Americas?
Prashant D. Sardeshmukh, CIRES, Boulder, CO; and J. W. A. Wang, G. P. Compo, and C. McColl

2:15 PM
14A.4
2:45 PM
14A.6
Last Interglacial Sea Surface Temperature Variability in the Tropical Atlantic Warm Pool: A Comparison of Model and Coral-Based Reconstructions
Kristine DeLong, Louisiana State Univ., Baton Rouge, LA; and E. Martin, G. Ouellette Jr., N. Goodkin, F. Taylor, and C. C. Shen

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Session 14A
Special Case Studies for Research to Operations
Location: North 230 (Phoenix Convention Center - West and North Buildings)
Host: Ninth Conference on Transition of Research to Operations
Cochairs: Thanh Vo Dinh, NOAA/NESDIS/Office of Projects, Planning and Analysis; Adam Steckel, NOAA/NESDIS/Office of Projects, Planning and Analysis
1:30 PM
14A.1
A Case for Operational Utility in Non-Traditional NWP Output Fields
Gary M. Lackmann, North Carolina State Univ., Raleigh, NC
1:45 PM
14A.2
Exploration of Tropical Cyclone Rapid Intensification Using Hurricane GPROF and Impacts on Statistical-Dynamical Intensity Models
Kate D. Musgrave, CIRA/Colorado State Univ., Fort Collins, CO; and P. J. Brown and J. Knaff

2:15 PM
14A.4
Application of an Algorithm Change Process to the GOES-R Ground Segment
Ryan Williams, Stellar Solutions, Inc., Chantilly, VA; and W. M. MacKenzie Jr., R. Race, and T. Feroli
2:30 PM
14A.5
Social Scientific Research and Transition Activities for Probabilistic Hazard Information (PHI)
Kimberly E. Klockow-McClain, CIMMS, Norman, OK; and T. Adams, K. L. Nemunaitis-Berry, K. M. Calhoun, A. Gerard, J. J. James, D. LaDue, C. Ling, T. C. Meyer, H. Obermeier, S. J. Sanders, and C. A. Shivers-Williams

2:45 PM
14A.6
Assessing Options for Multi-Satellite Constellation Deployment for Maximum Societal Benefit
Louis Cantrell Jr., Profitable Weather, LLC, Fairfax, VA; and A. Pratt and D. Helms
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Session 14B
El Niño–Southern Oscillation (ENSO) Dynamics, Diversity, Prediction, and Impacts—Part III
Location: North 122BC (Phoenix Convention Center - West and North Buildings)
Host: 32nd Conference on Climate Variability and Change
Chair: Sarah Larson, North Carolina State Univ.
1:30 PM
14B.1
Magnitude and Symmetry of Divergent Heat Flux Anomalies Associated with the El Niño–Southern Oscillation
Evan J. Kutta, West Virginia Univ., Morgantown, WV; and J. A. Hubbart, T. P. Eichler, and A. R. Lupo
1:45 PM
14B.2
The South Pacific Meridional Mode as a Thermally Driven Source of ENSO Amplitude Modulation and Uncertainty
Sarah Larson, North Carolina State Univ., Raleigh, NC; and K. Pegion and B. Kirtman
2:15 PM
14B.4
Predictability of El Niño Duration in a Coupled General Circulation Model
Xian Wu, The Univ. of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX; and Y. M. Okumura and P. DiNezio
2:30 PM
14B.5
Impact of South Pacific Subtropical Dipole Mode on the Equatorial Pacific
Jian Zheng, Institute of Oceanology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Qingdao, China; and F. Wang and M. A. Alexander
2:45 PM
14B.6
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Session 14B
Models and Data Assimilation to Enable and Accelerate the Transition of Research to Operations to Decision Makers, End Users and to the Public in Weather, Water or Climate Applications: Testbeds
Location: North 232C (Phoenix Convention Center - West and North Buildings)
Host: Ninth Conference on Transition of Research to Operations
Cochairs: Daryl Kleist, NOAA/NWS/NCEP/EMC; Jennifer B. Webster, NOAA
1:30 PM
14B.1
An Overview of the 2018 Experimental Warning Program at the Hazardous Weather Testbed
Tiffany C. Meyer, CIMMS/Univ. of Oklahoma, and NOAA/NSSL, Norman, OK; and K. Berry, M. A. Bowlan, K. M. Calhoun, P. A. Campbell, A. Gerard, J. J. Gourley, T. L. Hansen, K. E. Klockow-McClain, S. M. Martinaitis, H. Obermeier, G. J. Stumpf, and J. Wolfe
1:45 PM
14B.2
Assessing the Impact of Stochastic Cloud Microphysics in High-Resolution Models Using GOES-16 Infrared Brightness Temperatures
Jason A. Otkin, Univ. of Wisconsin–Madison, Madison, WI; and S. M. Griffin, G. Thompson, M. E. Frediani, J. Berner, and F. Kong
2:00 PM
14B.3
Test of a Hybrid Data Assimilation Scheme for the Warn-on-Forecast Project During the HWT Spring Experiments in 2018
Yunheng Wang, CIMMS, Norman, OK; and J. Gao, P. S. Skinner, K. H. Knopfmeier, T. A. Jones, G. Creager, P. L. Heinselman, and L. J. Wicker
2:15 PM
14B.4
Forecast System Development Activities Toward a Convective-Scale Ensemble for NOAA
Glen Romine, NCAR, Boulder, CO; and R. A. Sobash, D. C. Dowell, C. Schwartz, M. Wong, C. Alexander, and J. R. Carley
2:30 PM
14B.5
Developmental Testbed Center: Facilitating R2O for Numerical Weather Prediction
Louisa Nance, NCAR and Developmental Testbed Center, Boulder, CO; and J. Beck, L. Bernardet, G. J. Firl, M. Hu, T. Jensen, E. Kalina, M. Marquis, K. M. Newman, J. Wolff, and C. Zhou
2:45 PM
14B.6
MetWatch Forecasters’ First Evaluations of NSSL’s Experimental Warn-on-Forecast System for Ensembles (NEWS-e)
Pamela L. Heinselman, NOAA/NSSL, Norman, OK; and K. A. Wilson, A. Orrison, N. Yussouf, and P. S. Skinner
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Session 14C
Land Use and Land Cover Change—Interactions with Climate
Location: North 129B (Phoenix Convention Center - West and North Buildings)
Host: 32nd Conference on Climate Variability and Change
Cochairs: Bradford Johnson, The Univ. of Georgia; Marcus Williams, USDA
1:45 PM
14C.2
A Global Gridded Land Use and Land Cover Change Dataset for the 21st Century Downscaled from GCAM Projections
Min Chen, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, College Park, MD; and C. Vernon, M. Huang, K. Calvin, and I. Kraucunas

2:00 PM
14C.3
Initial Development for Simulating Land Surface Change Impacts on Climate in the Northern Great Plains
Aaron K. Scott, Univ. of North Dakota, Grand Forks, ND; and A. D. Kennedy and J. Starr

2:30 PM
14C.5
2:45 PM
14C.6
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Session 15
Probabilistic and Deterministic Decision-Support Technology and Techniques—Part I
Location: North 224B (Phoenix Convention Center - West and North Buildings)
Host: 19th Conference on Aviation, Range, and Aerospace Meteorology
Cochairs: Bruce Carmichael, NCAR; Elizabeth M. Sims, Birmingham-Southern College
1:30 PM
15.1A
An Assessment of the Installation and Performance of the eIAWS™ Aviation Weather Forecast System in East China
Jose M. Garcia-Rivera, IMSG, Rockville, MD; and J. Cheng, R. Chen, W. Guo, Y. Weng, Q. Xing, Q. Shi, and L. Jiang
1:45 PM
15.2
Quantify Convective Weather Impact to Airspace Capacity for Improved Regional Air Traffic Flow Management
Le Jiang, IMSG, Rockville, MD; and M. A. Petty, G. J. Layne, W. Yang, J. M. Garcia-Rivera, J. Cheng, R. Chen, W. Guo, Y. Weng, S. Liu, J. Liu, X. Yuan, Q. Xing, Q. Shi, X. Xiang, W. Chen, F. C. Brody, T. H. Fahey III, G. Cameron, and J. Tymczyszyn
2:00 PM
15.3A
The Remote Oceanic Meteorology Information Operational (ROMIO) Demonstration
Cathy Kessinger, NCAR, Boulder, CO; and E. Frazier, T. A. Lindholm, B. Barron, J. Olivo, B. Watts, R. Stone, S. Abelman, A. Trani, M. DeRis, and C. Gill
2:15 PM
15.4
2:45 PM
15.6
Aviation Decision Support during High-Impact Weather Events via Hyperlocal Remote Sensing Observations
Kimberly A. Reed, Radiometrics Corporation, Boulder, CO; and W. Conway, P. T. Schlatter, J. Baumgardner, R. Ware, and T. Wilfong
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Session 20
Numerical Analysis and Prediction Experiments Involving Observations: Data Impact and Observation Sensitivity Tests—Part III
Location: North 131AB (Phoenix Convention Center - West and North Buildings)
Host: 23rd Conference on Integrated Observing and Assimilation Systems for the Atmosphere, Oceans, and Land Surface (IOAS-AOLS)
Chair: Jonathan Poterjoy, Univ. of Maryland
1:30 PM
20.1
Insights into Mesoscale and Storm-Scale Predictability Gained through Ensemble Sensitivity Analysis
Christopher C. Weiss, Texas Tech Univ., Lubbock, TX; and D. C. Dowell, N. Yussouf, and A. J. Hill
1:45 PM
20.2
2:00 PM
20.3
2:30 PM
20.5
HRRR Assimilation of Zdr Column Information from Polarimetric Radar Data and GOES Satellite-Derived Cloud-Top-Cooling Rate Information
Amanda Back, NOAA/ESRL/GSD and CIRA/Colorado State Univ., Boulder, CO; and S. S. Weygandt, T. Ladwig, D. C. Dowell, M. Hu, C. R. Alexander, T. L. Smith, S. Murdzek, and J. R. Mecikalski

2:45 PM
20.6
Assimilating Cloud Observations in the High Resolution Rapid Refresh (HRRR)
Therese T. Ladwig, NOAA/ESRL/GSD and CIRES/Univ. of Colorado, Boulder, CO; and M. Hu, C. Alexander, D. C. Dowell, S. Weygandt, S. Benjamin, and J. M. Brown
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Themed Joint Session 21
GOES-16/17 Geostationary Lightning Mapper (GLM) Sensor Performance, Data Products, and User Applications, Part IV
Location: North 225AB (Phoenix Convention Center - West and North Buildings)
Hosts: (Joint between the Ninth Conference on the Meteorological Application of Lightning Data; and the 15th Annual Symposium on New Generation Operational Environmental Satellite Systems )
Chair: Geoffrey T. Stano, NASA/SPoRT/ENSCO, Inc.
1:30 PM
TJ21.1
Design and Implementation of GLM Gridded Imagery for Operations and Research
Eric C. Bruning, Texas Tech Univ, Lubbock, TX; and C. E. Tillier, S. F. Edgington, J. K. Zajic, S. D. Rudlosky, K. M. Calhoun, C. M. Gravelle, and M. Foster
1:45 PM
TJ21.2
2:00 PM
TJ21.3
Evaluation of GOES-16 GLM to Lightning Mapping Arrays
Kyle Hilburn, CIRA, Fort Collins, CO; and B. Fuchs and S. A. Rutledge
2:15 PM
TJ21.4
Evaluation of the GOES-R Geostationary Lightning Mapper (GLM) Using Ground-Based Lightning Mapping Array (LMA) Observations
Ronald J. Thomas, New Mexico Tech., Socorro, NM; and P. R. Krehbiel, W. Rison, D. R. MacGorman, E. C. Bruning, and M. A. Stanley
2:30 PM
TJ21.5
Displaying Near-Real-Time Imagery from the Geostationary Lightning Mapper
Tyler Ryan Richman, CICS, College Park, MD; and S. D. Rudlosky and M. Peterson
2:45 PM
TJ21.6
Analysis of Geostationary Lightning Mapper Events Using VHF Broadband Interferometers
Mark A. Stanley, New Mexico Tech, Socorro, NM; and W. Rison, P. R. Krehbiel, R. J. Thomas, R. G. Sonnenfeld, D. P. Jensen, L. Contreras-Vidal, D. Rodeheffer, H. E. Edens, D. R. MacGorman, D. Kennedy, J. Belz, and R. Abbasi
Recording files available
Themed Joint Session 23
Data Stewardship: Finding, Accessing, and Using Data Online. Part II
Location: North 123 (Phoenix Convention Center - West and North Buildings)
Hosts: (Joint between the 22nd Atmospheric Science Librarians International Conference; and the 35th Conference on Environmental Information Processing Technologies )
Cochairs: Matthew S. Mayernik, NCAR; Nazila Merati, ERT, Inc; Mohan Ramamurthy, UCAR
2:00 PM
TJ23.3
An Update on GPM and TRMM Data Services at NASA GES DISC
Zhong Liu, George Mason Univ., and Center for Spatial Information Science, and Systems and NASA/GSFC/GES DISC, Greenbelt, MD; and B. Vollmer, A. Savtchenko, B. Deshong, D. Ostrenga, F. Fang, M. Greene, A. Albayrak, E. Sherman, J. Acker, A. W. Li, C. L. Shie, J. Wei, and D. Meyer
2:15 PM
TJ23.4
Addressing Flexibility, Performance, and Security Challenges in Developing the Bureau of Reclamation’s Information Sharing Environment (RISE)
Levi D. Brekke, U.S. Bureau of Reclamation, Denver, CO; and A. Danner, K. Nowak, S. Poulton, and J. Nagode

2:30 PM
TJ23.5
Weather on the Web
Peter J. Trevelyan, Met Office, Exeter, United Kingdom; and R. Carne
2:45 PM
TJ23.6
Enabling FAIR Data within AMS
Michael Friedman, AMS, Boston, MA

3:00 PM-3:30 PM: Thursday, 10 January 2019


PM Coffee Break (Thurs)
Location: Meeting room foyers (Phoenix Convention Center - West and North Buildings)

3:30 PM-4:00 PM: Thursday, 10 January 2019


Session 7
Panel Discussion: Current Trends and issues in Atmospheric Science Librarianship
Location: North 123 (Phoenix Convention Center - West and North Buildings)
Host: 22nd Atmospheric Science Librarians International Conference
Moderator: Frederick Stoss, State Univ. of New York
Panelists: Christine Reed, National Weather Center Library; Christine Sherratt, MIT Libraries, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Elise Gowen, Atmospheric Science Librarians International

3:30 PM-5:00 PM: Thursday, 10 January 2019

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Session 5
Monsoonal Heavy Rain in East Asia—Part IV
Location: North 222C (Phoenix Convention Center - West and North Buildings)
Host: Fourth Symposium on US-International Partnerships
Cochairs: Wen-Chau Lee, NCAR; Zhiyong Meng, Peking Univ.; Ben Jong-Dao Jou, National Taiwan Univ.; Dong-In Lee, Pukyong National Univ.; Kazuhisa Tsuboki, Nagoya Univ.
3:30 PM
5.1
Radar Nowcasting Blending with Numerical Weather Prediction for Orographic Rainfall Forecasting in Mountainous Areas
Dong-In Lee, Pukyong National Univ., Busan, Korea, Republic of (South); and Y. Kang, J. H. Jeong, and M. Kang

4:00 PM
5.2
Influence of the SST Variations on the Development of MCS over the Yellow Sea, Korea
Yunhee Kang, Pukyong National Univ., Busan, Korea, Republic of (South); and D. I. Lee, J. H. Jeong, and C. H. You

4:15 PM
5.3
Disentangling Impacts of Dynamic and Thermodynamic Components on Late Summer Rainfall Anomalies in East Asia
Kyung-Ja Ha, Pusan National Univ., Busan, Korea, Republic of (South); and H. Oh and A. Timmermann
4:30 PM
Discussion

Recording files available
Session 8
Postprocessing and Verification Updates
Location: North 128AB (Phoenix Convention Center - West and North Buildings)
Host: Global and Regional-Scale Models: Updates and Center Overviews
Chairs: Louisa Nance, NCAR and Developmental Testbed Center; Geoffrey Manikin, NOAA/NWS/EMC
3:30 PM
8.1
The Use of the METplus Verification Capability in Both Operations and Research Organizations
Tara Jensen, NCAR and Developmental Testbed Center, Boulder, CO; and J. Halley Gotway, J. J. Levit, M. P. Row, B. Strong, A. J. Clark, J. A. Nelson Jr., M. Marquis, and I. Stajner

3:45 PM
8.2
New Developments in Forecast Verification at ECMWF
Thomas Haiden, ECMWF, Reading, UK; and Z. B. Bouallegue, L. Magnusson, and F. Rabier
4:00 PM
8.3
Recent Trends in Skill for Some Leading Global NWP Centers
Ross N. Hoffman, NOAA/OAR/AOML, Miami, FL; and K. Kumar, S. A. Boukabara, K. Ide, F. Yang, and R. Atlas
4:30 PM
8.5
Progress Toward the Development and Evaluation of a State-of-the-Art Nonhydrostatic Regional Climate Model for Studying Lake–Atmosphere Interactions: Focus on Simulating Lake-Effect Snowstorms in the Great Lakes Basin
Michael Notaro, Univ. of Wisconsin–Madison, Madison, WI; and C. Cruz, E. M. Kemp, D. A. R. Kristovich, M. S. Kulie, C. D. Peters-Lidard, S. J. Vavrus, J. Wang, and Y. Zhong
4:45 PM
8.6
Preliminary Analysis for the East Asia Region Reanalysis (EARR) in 2015
Jianjun Xu, Guangdong Ocean University, Zhanjiang, China; and Y. Zhang and Q. Huang
Recording files available
Joint Session 9
Drought Monitoring, Early Warning, and Projection in the 21st Century—Beyond PDSI II
Location: North 126BC (Phoenix Convention Center - West and North Buildings)
Hosts: (Joint between the 33rd Conference on Hydrology; the 32nd Conference on Climate Variability and Change; and the 24th Conference on Applied Climatology )
Cochairs: Christa D. Peters-Lidard, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center; Pierre Gentine, Columbia Univ.; Michael Barlage, NCAR; Dennis P. Lettenmaier, Univ. of California; Daniel Barrie, NOAA
3:30 PM
J9.1A
Providing Crop-Specific Flash Drought Information
Peter Goble, Colorado State Univ., Fort Collins, CO; and R. S. Schumacher and R. Bolinger
3:45 PM
J9.2
Assimilation of Remotely Sensed Leaf Area Index Estimates Improves Drought Estimation
Sujay V. Kumar, NASA GSFC, Greenbelt, MD; and D. Mocko, S. Wang, and C. D. Peters-Lidard
4:15 PM
J9.4
Exploring the Sensitivity of US Drought Prediction Skill to Land Initial States
Chul-Su Shin, George Mason Univ., Fairfax, VA; and B. Huang, P. A. Dirmeyer, and A. Kumar

4:30 PM
J9.5
On the Dynamics of Social Response to the 2011-17 California Drought
Jonghun Kam, Univ. of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, AL; and K. Stowers and S. Y. Kim
4:45 PM
J9.6A
Tales of Two Products: What Can We Learn from NCEI's New Daily Grids and Area Averages of Temperature and Precipitation?
Imke Durre, NOAA/NESDIS/NCEI, Asheville, NC; and R. Vose and C. J. Schreck III

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Session 9
Future Observations of the Middle Atmosphere—Needs and Capabilities
Location: West 212A (Phoenix Convention Center - West and North Buildings)
Host: 20th Conference on Middle Atmosphere
Cochairs: Anne M. Thompson, NASA GSFC; Nathaniel Livesey, JPL; Paul A. Newman, NASA GSFC
4:15 PM
9.3
The Value of Homogenized Ozonesonde Networks: Twenty Years in the SHADOZ
Jacquelyn C. Witte, SSAI, Greenbelt, MD; and A. M. Thompson, B. Johnson, G. J. R. Coetzee, F. Posny, H. Voemel, S. Y. Ogino, M. Mohamad, R. Stubi, G. Romanens, F. R. da Silva, N. Komala, M. Fujiwara, A. Piters, M. Maata, F. Mani, and H. B. Selkirk
4:30 PM
9.4
Ozonesonde Quality Assurance: JOSIE-SHADOZ (2017) and SHALLOTS (2018)
Anne M. Thompson, NASA GSFC, Greenbelt, MD; and H. G. J. Smit, J. C. Witte, R. M. Stauffer, J. T. Sullivan, K. Wolff, G. B. Brothers, B. Johnson, R. K. Sakai, and T. Knepp
4:45 PM
9.5
Loon: A Balloon-Based Platform for Scientific Experiments in the Lower Stratosphere
Max Kamenetsky, Loon, LLC, Mountain View, CA; and R. W. Carver, A. Lonkar, and S. Candido

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Session 9
Lightning and Weather Systems. Part IV: Future Activities with Lightning Observations
Location: North 225AB (Phoenix Convention Center - West and North Buildings)
Host: Ninth Conference on the Meteorological Application of Lightning Data
Chair: Geoffrey T. Stano, NASA/SPoRT/ENSCO, Inc.
4:00 PM
9.3
Using FORTE Data as a Proxy for Upcoming Simultaneous Optical and Radio Frequency Measurements of Lightning Flashes from Geosynchronous Orbit
Michael Peterson, ISR-2: Space and Remote Sensing, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM; and T. Hamlin and T. E. Lavezzi-Light
4:15 PM
9.4
Modeling the Distribution of Lightning Strike Distances Outside a Preexisting Lightning Area
Dawn Sanderson, Air Force Institute of Technology, Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, OH
Recording files available
Session 11A
Algorithm Development and New Science Innovation—Part II
Location: North 231AB (Phoenix Convention Center - West and North Buildings)
Host: 15th Annual Symposium on New Generation Operational Environmental Satellite Systems
Cochairs: William Straka, Univ. of Wisconsin–Madison; Christopher C. Schmidt, Univ. of Wisconsin/CIMSS
3:30 PM
11A.1
Recent Enhancements of the NOAA VIIRS Active Fire Product Suite
Ivan A. Csiszar, NOAA/NESDIS, College Park, MD; and M. Tsidulko, W. Schroeder, R. Ahmadov, E. P. James, and G. Pereira

3:45 PM
11A.2
Cloud Geometric Thickness and Improved Cloud Boundary Detection with the GOES ABI
John M. Haynes, CIRA, Fort Collins, CO; and Y. J. Noh, S. D. Miller, A. Heidinger, and J. M. Forsythe
4:00 PM
11A.3
4:30 PM
11A.5
Is GOES-R Seeing "Hottish" Convective Towers in Hurricanes?
Christopher J. Slocum, CIRA, Fort Collins, CO; and J. Knaff
4:45 PM
11A.6
Improving, Validating, and Teaching ABI Fire Detection
Christopher C. Schmidt, Univ. of Wisconsin/CIMSS, Madison, WI
Recording files available
Session 11B
Special Topics—Part II
Location: North 231C (Phoenix Convention Center - West and North Buildings)
Host: 15th Annual Symposium on New Generation Operational Environmental Satellite Systems
Cochairs: Jeffrey Weinrich, JPSS Program Office/Global Science & Technology, Inc.; Chowdhury Nazmi, JPSS/NOAA/STC
3:30 PM
11B.1
Cloud Property Retrievals for CERES from Suomi NPP and JPSS-1 VIIRS to Continue a Long-Term Cloud and Radiation Climate Data Record
Patrick Minnis, SSAI, Hampton, VA; and W. L. Smith Jr., S. Sun-Mack, Q. Z. Trepte, G. Hong, C. R. Yost, Y. Chen, and P. W. Heck
4:00 PM
11B.2
Challenges and Progress in Extending the NASA EOS Imager Cloud Climate Data Record from MODIS to VIIRS
Kerry Meyer, NASA GSFC, Greenbelt, MD; and S. Platnick, R. E. Holz, S. A. Ackerman, A. K. Heidinger, N. Amarasinghe, G. Wind, C. Wang, B. Marchant, and R. Frey
4:15 PM
11B.5
Using the New Capabilities of GOES-R to Improve Blended, Multisensor Total Precipitable Water Products for Forecasters
John M. Forsythe, CIRA/Colorado State Univ., Fort Collins, CO; and S. Q. Kidder, A. S. Jones, D. Bikos, E. J. Szoke, and L. Grasso
4:30 PM
11B.6A
TIROS-1 and the History of the First Decade of Weather Satellites.
Gerald Dittberner, CIRA/Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO
Recording files available
Session 12
Ice Nucleating Particles and Cold Clouds—Part II
Location: North 223 (Phoenix Convention Center - West and North Buildings)
Host: 11th Symposium on Aerosol–Cloud–Climate Interactions
Cochairs: Ottmar Möhler, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology; Eric Jensen, NASA Langley Research Center; Bernd Kärcher, NASA
3:30 PM
12.1
Ice Nucleating Particles and Their Impacts on Clouds over the Southern Oceans (Invited Presentation)
Paul J. DeMott, Colorado State Univ., Fort Collins, CO; and K. A. Moore, C. S. McCluskey, A. M. Rauker, T. C. J. Hill, E. J. T. Levin, C. H. Twohy, D. W. Toohey, B. Rainwater, J. L. Stith, G. M. McFarquhar, R. Marchand, C. S. Bretherton, R. Wood, S. P. Alexander, A. Protat, A. Gettelman, Y. Huang, S. T. Siems, R. Humphries, J. Ward, M. Keywood, J. Mace, and S. M. Kreidenweis
4:00 PM
12.2
The Sensitivity of the INP Number from Different Mineral Species to Fundamental Dust Properties in a Global Model
Jan P. Perlwitz, Climate, Aerosol, and Pollution Research, LLC, Bronx, NY; and D. A. Knopf

4:15 PM
12.3
Diverse Springtime Variability in Ice Nucleating Particle Properties and Sources in an Alaskan Arctic Oil-Field Location
Nadia Kathryn Colombi, NOAA, Phoenix, AZ; and J. E. Ceniceros, T. Aydell Sr., J. M. Creamean, and G. de Boer
4:30 PM
12.4
Testing the Efficiency of Various Halophilic Archaea as Ice Nucleating Particles
Julio E. Ceniceros, Univ. of Texas at El Paso/NCASM, El Paso, TX; and J. M. Creamean, M. Rhodes, and L. Newman
4:45 PM
12.5
First Aerosol Filter—Based Ice Nucleating Particle Measurements in Hyytiälä during the Transition Period from Winter to Summer 2018
Ottmar Möhler, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Eggenstein-Leopoldshafen, Germany; and J. Kaufmann, K. Höhler, B. Bertozzi, L. Lacher, T. Leisner, T. Schorr, N. Umo, F. Vogel, P. J. DeMott, T. C. J. Hill, M. Adams, A. Harrison, G. Porter, B. J. Murray, Z. Brasseur, J. Duplissy, and T. Petäjä

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Session 13A
Atmospheric Chemistry Modeling and Observational Analysis—Part VIII
Location: North 124A (Phoenix Convention Center - West and North Buildings)
Host: 21st Conference on Atmospheric Chemistry
Chair: Richard Eckman, NASA
Cochairs: Kenneth W. Jucks, NASA Headquarters; Michael J. Prather, Univ. of California, Irvine
3:30 PM
13A.1
Chemical Reactivity of the Remote Troposphere Derived from Atmospheric Tomography Mission (ATom) Measurements
Michael J. Prather, Univ. of California, Irvine, Irvine, CA; and C. M. Flynn, E. C. Apel, D. R. Blake, N. J. Blake, R. Commane, J. Crounse, B. Daube, G. S. Diskin, J. W. Elkins, A. M. Fiore, T. F. Hanisco, E. J. Hintsa, L. W. Horowitz, M. Kim, J. F. Lamarque, K. McKain, F. L. Moore, L. T. Murray, J. Peischl, T. B. Ryerson, S. D. Steenrod, S. A. Strode, C. Thompson, S. C. Wofsy, and G. M. Wolfe
3:45 PM
13A.2
Using the NASA ATom Mission to Investigate the Peroxide Budget of the Global Remote Troposphere
Hannah M. Allen, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA; and J. D. Crounse, M. J. Kim, A. P. Teng, K. McKain, C. Sweeney, A. Thames, W. Brune, C. Thompson, J. Peischl, T. B. Ryerson, K. Ullmann, S. Hall, and P. O. Wennberg
4:00 PM
13A.3
Airborne Measurements of Oxygenated Volatile Organic Compounds (OVOCs) during ATom: Implications for a Currently Unaccounted Source in the Remote Troposphere
Siyuan Wang, NCAR, Boulder, CO; and E. C. Apel, J. F. Lamarque, R. Hornbrook, S. Tilmes, L. K. Emmons, R. Schwantes, J. L. Jimenez, P. Campuzano-Jost, T. B. Ryerson, C. Thompson, F. L. Moore, J. W. Elkins, J. Peischl, D. J. Tanner, L. G. Huey, K. McKain, C. Sweeney, A. Hills, S. Hall, K. Ullmann, C. A. Brock, B. Weinzierl, M. Dollner, E. A. Ray, A. Conley, F. M. Vitt, and S. Wofsy
4:15 PM
13A.4
Analysis of Convective Transport and Scavenging of Formaldehyde and Peroxides for Airmass Storms Observed during SEAC4RS Storms
Mary C. Barth, NCAR, Boulder, CO; and A. Fried, G. Cuchiara, P. Weibring, D. Richter, J. Walega, M. J. Kim, J. Crounse, J. St. Clair, P. Wennberg, and C. R. Homeyer
4:30 PM
13A.5
Systematic Analysis of DISCOVER-AQ Nitrogen Dioxide Observations for Improved Column-to-Surface Relationship Diagnosis
Lok N. Lamsal, NASA GSFC, Greenbelt, MD; and M. B. Follette-Cook, K. E. Pickering, S. Choi, W. H. Swartz, K. W. Appel, C. P. Loughner, D. J. Allen, and B. Duncan
4:45 PM
13A.6
Observations of Synoptic and Meso Scale Variability in Greenhouse Gases across Fronts in Four Seasons
Sandip Pal, Pennsylvania State Univ., University Park, PA; and K. J. Davis, T. Lauvaux, E. V. Browell, J. Digangi, B. J. Gaudet, N. L. Miles, M. D. Obland, S. J. Richardson, and D. R. Stauffer
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Session 13B
From Combustion to Composition: New Insights into Smoke Chemistry from WE-CAN, FIREX and Other Recent Efforts—Part IV
Location: North 126A (Phoenix Convention Center - West and North Buildings)
Host: 21st Conference on Atmospheric Chemistry
Chair: Emily V. Fischer, Colorado State Univ.
CoChair: Lu Hu, Univ. of Montana
3:30 PM
13B.1
Carbon-, Oxygen-, and Size-Resolved Model to Simulate the Microphysics, Chemistry, and Thermodynamics of Wildfire Organic Aerosol
Ali Akherati, Colorado State Univ., Fort Collins, CO; and S. H. Jathar, C. Cappa, and J. R. Pierce
3:45 PM
13B.2
Emissions, Transport, and Chemistry of Smoke from the Oct. 2017 Northern California Fires
Megan Marie Bela, NOAA, Boulder, CO; and S. A. McKeen, R. Volkamer, N. Kille, R. Ahmadov, R. B. Pierce, C. C. Schmidt, S. R. Freitas, G. Pereira, M. Trainer, W. M. Angevine, G. J. Frost, C. Wiedinmyer, S. M. O'Neill, X. Zhang, S. Kondragunta, A. Soja, and H. D. Choi

4:00 PM
13B.3
Investigating Biomass Burning Aerosol in North America
Therese (Tess) S. Carter, MIT, Cambridge, MA; and C. L. Heald
4:15 PM
13B.4
Impact of Wildfires on O3 and PM in the Western U.S
Daniel Jaffe, Univ. of Washington Bothell, Bothell, WA; and J. R. Laing, C. Buysse, H. Gao, C. D. McClure, A. Kaulfus, and U. Nair
4:30 PM
13B.5
Urban Air Quality during Smoke Events in the Western U.S.
Claire Buysse, Univ. of Washington Bothell, Bothell, WA; and D. Jaffe, A. Kaulfus, and U. Nair
4:45 PM
13B.6
Up in Smoke: Experimental Constraints on Foliage- and Soil-Derived Fe in Biomass Burning Aerosols
Alyssa M Sherry, Arizona State Univ., Tempe, AZ; and S. J. Romaniello, P. Herckes, and A. D. Anbar
Recording files available
Session 14
Advances In Monitoring and Analyzing Precipitation Extremes Using Remote Sensing
Location: North 127ABC (Phoenix Convention Center - West and North Buildings)
Host: 33rd Conference on Hydrology
Cochairs: Helen Greatrex, International Research Institute for Climate and Society; Chris C. Funk, USGS/Earth Resources Observation Systems; Ross Maidment, Univ. of Reading
3:30 PM
14.1A
Evaluation of satellite rainfall products over the Congo Basin
Sharon E. Nicholson, Florida State Univ., Tallahassee, FL

3:45 PM
14.2
Exploring Global Precipitation Extremes with CHIRPS v2.0 (Invited Presentation)
Pete Peterson, Univ. of California, Climate Hazards Group, Santa Barbara, CA; and C. C. Funk, R. Roca, L. S. Harrison, G. Husak, L. V. Alexander, C. Hillbruner, J. Rowland, and M. E. Budde
4:00 PM
14.3
Developments within the TAMSAT Group for long-term rainfall monitoring and agricultural early warning across Africa
Ross Maidment, Univ. of Reading, Reading, United Kingdom; and E. Black, M. Young, H. Greatrex, and D. Asfaw
4:15 PM
14.4
4:30 PM
14.5A
Validation of satellite- and gauge-based gridded rainfall products over Ghana (West Africa)
Winifred Atiah, Kwame Nkrumah Univ. of Science and Technology (KNUST), Kumasi, Ghana; and L. Amekudzi, A. H. Fink, M. Maranan, and J. Aryee
4:45 PM
14.6
Can we Create Global Precipitation Products on Demand?
Christian Kummerow, Colorado State Univ., Fort Collins, CO; and P. J. Brown
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Session 15
Special Studies and Topics Enabling Transitions of Research to Operations
Location: North 230 (Phoenix Convention Center - West and North Buildings)
Host: Ninth Conference on Transition of Research to Operations
Cochairs: Thanh Vo Dinh, NOAA/NESDIS/Office of Projects, Planning and Analysis; Justin Goldstein, NOAA/NESDIS/Office of Projects, Planning and Analysis
3:45 PM
15.2
4:00 PM
15.3
Transitioning a High-Resolution Weather Radar Proxy Capability Using the GOES-16 Satellite
Eric P. Hassey, MIT Lincoln Laboratory, Lexington, MA; and M. S. Veillette, C. J. Mattioli, H. Iskenderian, and P. M. Lamey
4:15 PM
15.4
NASA VIIRS-Like Cloud Property Algorithms for Next Generation Geostationary Imagers
Robert E. Holz, CIMSS, Madison, WI; and K. Meyer, S. Platnick, G. Wind, S. Ackerman, S. Dutcher, and R. Frey
4:30 PM
15.5
On-Orbit Absolute Calibration of the Advanced Technology Microwave Sounder
Hu Yang, Univ. of Maryland, College Park, College Park, MD; and N. Sun, R. V. Leslie, K. L. Anderson, J. Lyu, E. J. Kim, Q. Liu, C. Smith, and L. McCormick
4:45 PM
15.6
Provisional Validation of the NOAA-20 NOAA Unique Combined Atmospheric Processing System (NUCAPS)
Nicholas R. Nalli, IMSG, College Park, MD; and A. Gambacorta, C. Tan, T. Reale, B. Sun, F. Iturbide-Sanchez, J. X. Warner, C. Bloch, and L. Zhou
Recording files available
Session 15A
Climate Change: Past, Present, and Future
Location: North 121BC (Phoenix Convention Center - West and North Buildings)
Host: 32nd Conference on Climate Variability and Change
Chair: Huei-Ping Huang, Arizona State Univ.
3:45 PM
15A.2
Global Temperature Modes Shed Light on the Holocene Temperature Conundrum
Juergen Bader, Max Planck Institute for Meteorology, Hamburg, Germany

4:30 PM
15A.5
ERA5: State-of-the-Art Global Atmospheric Reanalysis at ECMWF
Hans Hersbach, ECMWF, Reading, U.K.; and W. Bell, P. Berrisford, D. Dee, A. Horanyi, C. Peubey, R. Radu, P. de Rosnay, J. Munoz Sabater, R. Dragani, D. Schepers, A. J. Simmons, C. Soci, and J. N. Thépaut
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Session 15B
El Niño–Southern Oscillation (ENSO) Dynamics, Diversity, Prediction, and Impacts—Part IV
Location: North 122BC (Phoenix Convention Center - West and North Buildings)
Host: 32nd Conference on Climate Variability and Change
Chair: John Nielsen-Gammon, Texas A&M Univ.
3:30 PM
15B.1
Seasonal Evolutions of ENSO Teleconnections and Impacts on North America
Bor-Ting Jong, LDEO, Palisades, NY; and M. Ting and R. Seager
3:45 PM
15B.2
Climatology of North Atlantic Tropical Cyclone Activity during Different ENSO Phases
Irenea Lodangco, Univ. of Oklahoma, Norman, OK; and L. Leslie

4:00 PM
15B.3
Understanding Connections of Tropics–Arctic Is Necessary to Explain ENSO Diversity
Sang-Wook Yeh, Hanyang Univ., Ansan, Korea, Republic of (South); and H. R. Kim

Handout (2.3 MB)

4:15 PM
15B.4
A Coupled Dynamic Index for ENSO Periodicity
Hong-Li Ren, Beijing Climate Center, China Meteorological Administration, Beijing, China; and B. Lu and F. F. Jin
4:30 PM
15B.5
Termination of Solar Cycles and Correlated Tropospheric Variability: El Niño 2019 and La Niña 2020
Robert J. Leamon, Univ. of Maryland, College Park, College Park, MD; and S. McIntosh
4:45 PM
15B.6
Understanding ENSO Complexity as a Result of ENSO Modes–Annual Cycle Interaction
Ruihuang Xie, Institute of Oceanology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Qingdao, China; and F. F. Jin
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Session 16
Probabilistic and Deterministic Decision-Support Technology and Techniques—Part II
Location: North 224B (Phoenix Convention Center - West and North Buildings)
Host: 19th Conference on Aviation, Range, and Aerospace Meteorology
Cochairs: Heather D. Reeves, CIMMS/Univ. of Oklahoma and NOAA/NSSL; Bruno L. Medina, Univ. of Alabama in Huntsville
3:30 PM
16.3
NCAR's Runway Friction and Closure Prediction System (RFCPS)
Seth Linden, NCAR, Boulder, CO; and G. Wiener, T. Brummet, W. Petzke, and I. Srivastava
3:45 PM
16.4
Launch Weather Decision Support System
Randolph 'Stick' Ware, Radiometrics, Boulder, CO; and K. A. Brewster, F. H. Carr, K. A. Reed, T. Wilfong, T. Brauer, D. H. Berchoff, J. A. Brotzge, W. Conway, W. J. Emery, G. Guillot, L. L. Huddleston, R. Kursinski, C. McCormick, and N. Rydell
4:00 PM
16.5
Enhancements to Convective Weather Avoidance Modeling Using Probabilistic Machine Learning
Christopher J. Mattioli, MIT Lincoln Laboratory, Lexington, MA; and M. Matthews, H. Iskenderian, and M. S. Veillette
Recording files available
Session 21
Observing Systems—Part II
Location: North 131AB (Phoenix Convention Center - West and North Buildings)
Host: 23rd Conference on Integrated Observing and Assimilation Systems for the Atmosphere, Oceans, and Land Surface (IOAS-AOLS)
Chair: John Manobianco, BASF
3:30 PM
21.1
The TAC to BUFR Migration—Current Status of BUFR Surface and Upper-Air Observations
Patricia M. Pauley, NRL, Monterey, CA; and D. P. Tyndall, J. M. Reeves, and R. L. Pauley
3:45 PM
21.2
A Comparison of Boundary Layer Wind Profiling Systems for Use with Space Launch Vehicles
John M. Orcutt, Jacobs Space Exploration Group, Huntsville, AL; and R. E. Barbre Jr., J. C. Brenton, R. N. Isphording, and P. W. White
4:00 PM
21.3
Comparisons of New York State Mesonet (NYSM) and ASOS Data: Implication to Users
Junhong (June) Wang, Univ. at Albany, SUNY, Albany, NY; and J. A. Brotzge
4:15 PM
21.4
Terrestrial Glints Seen from the Lagrangian Point: Clouds vs. Oceans
Alex B. Kostinski, Michigan Technological Univ., Houghton, MI; and T. Varnai and A. Marshak

4:30 PM
21.5
Sensing of Heavy Precipitation aboard the PAZ Satellite: Validation of Polarimetric Radio Occultation Precipitation Observations with GPM Constellation Products
Ramon Padullés, JPL, Pasadena, CA; and F. J. Turk, C. O. Ao, M. de la Torre Juárez, K. N. Wang, B. A. Iijima, E. Cardellach, S. Tomás, S. Oliveras, and A. Rius

4:00 PM-5:00 PM: Thursday, 10 January 2019


Session 8
ASLI Business Meeting
Location: North 123 (Phoenix Convention Center - West and North Buildings)
Host: 22nd Atmospheric Science Librarians International Conference

5:00 PM-5:30 PM: Thursday, 10 January 2019


99th AMS Annual Meeting Adjourns