92nd American Meteorological Society Annual Meeting (January 22-26, 2012)

Second Symposium on Advances in Modeling and Analysis Using Python

Second Symposium on Advances in Modeling and Analysis Using Python

Program Chair: Johnny Wei-Bing Lin , North Park Univ.

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Saturday, 21 January 2012

7:30 AM-10:00 AM: Saturday, 21 January 2012


Registration for Student Conference and Short Course
Location: New Orleans Convention Center

Sunday, 22 January 2012

7:30 AM-9:00 AM: Sunday, 22 January 2012


Short Course Registration
Location: New Orleans Convention Center

9:00 AM-6:00 PM: Sunday, 22 January 2012


Registration Open for Annual Meeting
Location: New Orleans Convention Center

12:00 PM-4:00 PM: Sunday, 22 January 2012


WeatherFest

4:00 PM-5:00 PM: Sunday, 22 January 2012


92nd Annual Review and Fellows Awards

5:30 PM-7:00 PM: Sunday, 22 January 2012


Welcome Reception Honoring the Newly Elected Fellows

Monday, 23 January 2012

7:30 AM-5:30 PM: Monday, 23 January 2012


Registration Continues Through January 25

9:00 AM-10:30 AM: Monday, 23 January 2012

Recording files available
Session 1
12th Presidential Forum: Technology In Research and Operations—How We Got Here and Where We’Re Going
Location: La Nouvelle B-C (New Orleans Convention Center )
Hosts: (Joint between the Seventh Symposium on Policy and Socio-Economic Research; the 17th Conference on Air Pollution Meteorology with the A&WMA; the 12th Presidential Forum: Technology in Research and Operations—How We Got Here and Where We’re Going; the 26th Conference on Hydrology; the Special Symposium on Technological Advances: Impacts on Hurricane Research and Forecast Improvements; the Second Symposium on Advances in Modeling and Analysis Using Python; the 10th History Symposium; the 28th Conference on Interactive Information Processing Systems (IIPS); the 21st Symposium on Education; the Eighth Annual Symposium on Future Operational Environmental Satellite Systems; the 24th Conference on Climate Variability and Change; the 16th Symposium on Integrated Observing and Assimilation Systems for the Atmosphere, Oceans, and Land Surface (IOAS-AOLS); the 21st Conference on Probability and Statistics in the Atmospheric Sciences; the 14th Conference on Atmospheric Chemistry; the Fourth Symposium on Aerosol-Cloud-Climate Interactions; the Third Aviation, Range and Aerospace Meteorology Special Symposium on Weather-Air Traffic Management Integration; the 10th Symposium on the Coastal Environment; the 10th Conference on Artificial Intelligence Applications to Environmental Science; the 16th Symposium on Meteorological Observation and Instrumentation; the 18th Conference on Satellite Meteorology, Oceanography and Climatology/ First Joint AMS-Asia Satellite Meteorology Conference; the Ninth Conference on Space Weather; the Second Conference on Transition of Research to Operations: Successes, Plans, and Challenges; the Third Symposium on Environment and Health; and the Third Conference on Weather, Climate, and the New Energy Economy )
  9:00 AM
Scientific research and operational environmental services are profoundly affected by the introduction and application of new technologies and it seems as though these advances are now accelerating, challenging our community to constantly become better at what we do and to serve society in new and more powerful ways. We welcome two highly distinguished keynote speakers for our Presidential Forum and each will address the theme of our 92nd Annual Meeting from his and her uniquely personal perspectives.

  9:15 AM
Welcoming remarks and introductions by Jonathan T. Malay, AMS President
  9:45 AM
Technology for a Weather-Ready Nation
Kathryn Sullivan, NOAA, Washington, DC
  10:10 AM
President Malay will then be joined by Mr. George J. Komar, Director, NASA Earth Science Technology Office, Science Mission Directorate, and they will briefly discuss their thoughts about changes in the AMS community’s technological capabilities and in society twenty years and more into the future. They will then engage with the audience in an interactive dialog which should be an exciting and stimulating exercise of envisioning our future.

9:00 AM-11:00 AM: Monday, 23 January 2012


Spouses' Coffee

10:30 AM-11:00 AM: Monday, 23 January 2012


Coffee Break

11:00 AM-12:00 PM: Monday, 23 January 2012

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Session 1
Data and Time Series Analysis I
Location: Room 346/347 (New Orleans Convention Center )
Host: Second Symposium on Advances in Modeling and Analysis Using Python
Chair: Johnny Wei-Bing Lin, North Park Univ.
  11:00 AM
1.1
Web Based Visualization Tool for Climate Data Using Python
Hannah Aizenman, City College of New York , New York, NY; and M. Grossberg, D. Jones, N. Barnes, J. Smerdon, K. Anchukaitis, and J. E. Geay
Manuscript (588.0 kB)

  11:30 AM
1.3
A System for Storing and Analyzing a Massive Climatological Database of Modeled Air Mass Trajectories
Daniel Pryden, Sonoma Technology, Inc., Petaluma, CA; and S. Raffuse, T. Dedecko, and N. K. Larkin
  11:45 AM
1.4
Lessons From Deploying the USHCN Pairwise Homogenization Algorithm in Python
Daniel Alexander Rothenberg, MIT, Cambridge, MA; and N. Barnes

12:00 PM-1:30 PM: Monday, 23 January 2012


Lunch Break

1:30 PM-2:30 PM: Monday, 23 January 2012

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Session 2
Data and Time Series Analysis II
Location: Room 346/347 (New Orleans Convention Center )
Host: Second Symposium on Advances in Modeling and Analysis Using Python
Chair: Dean Williams, LLNL
  1:30 PM
2.1
Using Python as Platform for a Unified Geophysical Data Processing Tool
Ted W. Sammis, New Mexico State Univ., Las Cruces, NM; and M. Funk and S. Engle
  1:45 PM
2.2
Py-ART: The Python ARM Radar Toolkit
Scott Collis, ANL, Argonne, IL; and K. North and S. E. Giangrande
  2:00 PM
2.3
A Python Implementation of the New Thermodynamic Equation of State for Seawater
Filipe Pires Fernandes, SMAST, New Bedford, MA; and B. Ådlandsvik
  2:15 PM
2.4
Examples of Mosaic Data Processing in Parallel Using CDAT
Alexander Pletzer, Tech-X Corp., Boulder, CO; and D. Kindig, S. Vadlamani, C. Doutriaux, J. Painter, and D. Williams

2:30 PM-4:00 PM: Monday, 23 January 2012


Formal Poster Viewing with Coffee Break

4:00 PM-5:30 PM: Monday, 23 January 2012

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Session 3
Model Output and Intercomparison and Data Analysis
Location: Room 346/347 (New Orleans Convention Center )
Host: Second Symposium on Advances in Modeling and Analysis Using Python
Chair: Charles Doutriaux, LLNL
  4:00 PM
3.1
Building a Framework for Weather Model Diagnosis (invited)
Krishna M. AchutaRao, Indian Institute of Technology Delhi, New Delhi, India; and T. Arulalan
  4:30 PM
3.2
Using the Model Evaluation Tools (MET) with Python
Michael E. Baldwin, Purdue Univ., West Lafayette, IN; and S. L. Harrell
 
3.3
An Overview of PyGrADS with Applications to Model Validation and Web-Based Analysis Tools (invited)

 
3.4
Using the Climate Data Analysis Toolkit (CDAT) to Compare Probable Maximum Precipitation in CMIP5 Models

5:30 PM-7:30 PM: Monday, 23 January 2012


Reception and Exhibits Opening

Tuesday, 24 January 2012

8:30 AM-9:45 AM: Tuesday, 24 January 2012

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Session 4
Software Infrastructure and Engineering
Location: Room 346/347 (New Orleans Convention Center )
Host: Second Symposium on Advances in Modeling and Analysis Using Python
Chair: Mary Haley, NCAR
  8:30 AM
4.1
Python: The Key to Graphical Forecast Editor's Success (invited)
Thomas J. LeFebvre, NOAA/ESRL, Boulder, CO; and T. L. Hansen, M. Romberg, and M. Mathewson
  9:00 AM
4.2
The Climate Code Foundation: Making Climate Software Better (invited)
Nick Barnes, Climate Code Foundation, Sheffield, United Kingdom
  9:30 AM
4.3
Building Climate Data-Driven Information Tools Using Python
David Sathiaraj, Southern Regional Climate Center, Baton Rouge, LA; and J. James, Y. Luo, and J. Yoo

9:00 AM-11:00 AM: Tuesday, 24 January 2012


Spouses' Coffee

9:30 AM-6:00 PM: Tuesday, 24 January 2012


Exhibit Hours

9:45 AM-11:00 AM: Tuesday, 24 January 2012


Formal Poster Viewing with Coffee Break

11:00 AM-12:00 PM: Tuesday, 24 January 2012

Recording files available
Session 5
Visualization and Analysis
Location: Room 346/347 (New Orleans Convention Center )
Host: Second Symposium on Advances in Modeling and Analysis Using Python
Chair: David Brown, NCAR
  11:00 AM
5.1
PyFerret: The Next Generation of Ferret
Karl Smith, JISAO/Univ. of Washington, Seattle, WA; and A. C. Manke, S. Hankin, C. Doutriaux, and D. N. Williams
  11:15 AM
5.2
SHARPPY: A Python Implementation of the Skew-T/Hodograph Analysis and Research Program
Patrick T. Marsh, NOAA/NSSL & OU/CIMMS/SoM, Norman, OK; and J. A. Hart
  11:30 AM
5.3
Dynamic generation of contour images from DAP data sources using Python based web services
Andrew Charles, Bureau of Meteorology, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia; and R. de Wit
  11:45 AM
5.4

12:00 PM-1:30 PM: Tuesday, 24 January 2012


Lunch Break

1:30 PM-3:00 PM: Tuesday, 24 January 2012

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Panel Discussion 1
The Future of Python in the Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences
Location: Room 346/347 (New Orleans Convention Center )
Host: Second Symposium on Advances in Modeling and Analysis Using Python
Moderator: Johnny Wei-Bing Lin, North Park Univ.
Panelists: Nick Barnes, Climate Code Foundation; Mary Haley, NCAR; Travis Oliphant, Continuum Analytics, Inc.; Dean Williams, LLNL
Speaker: Travis Oliphant, Continuum Analytics, Inc.
  1:30 PM
Introduction by Session Chair
  1:45 PM
  2:45 PM
Panel Discussion

3:00 PM-3:30 PM: Tuesday, 24 January 2012


Coffee Break

Meet the President
Location: Room 242 (New Orleans Convention Center )

3:30 PM-5:30 PM: Tuesday, 24 January 2012

Recording files available
Themed Joint Session 10
Enhancing Operational Capabilities: Progress and Plans for R2O-Enabling Technologies Part I
Location: La Nouvelle A (New Orleans Convention Center )
Hosts: (Joint between the Second Conference on Transition of Research to Operations: Successes, Plans, and Challenges; the 28th Conference on Interactive Information Processing Systems (IIPS); and the Second Symposium on Advances in Modeling and Analysis Using Python )
Cochairs: George Komar, NASA/ESTO; John Pereira, NOAA/NESDIS; Gerald J. Dittberner, Harris Corporation
  3:30 PM
Introductory Remarks: George Komar, NASA Earth Science Technology Office

  3:45 PM
Doppler Lidar Technology for Space-Based Observations of Tropospheric Winds
R. Michael Hardesty, NOAA/ESRL, Boulder, CO; and W. Baker, B. Gentry, M. J. Kavaya, G. D. Emmitt, S. Mango, and L. P. Riishojgaard
  4:15 PM
High Altitude Imaging Wind and Airborne Profiler—Real-Time Data Goals and Challenges
Gerald M. Heymsfield, NASA/GSFC, Greenbelt, MD; and J. Carswell and L. Li
  4:30 PM
Wind Profiling with the Optical Autocovariance Wind Lidar: Results of Validation Testing
Sara C. Tucker, Ball Aerospace & Technologies Corp., Boulder, CO; and C. Grund, T. Delker, M. Adkins, B. Good, P. Kaptchen, and D. Gleeson
  4:45 PM
Impact of GPS Observations on New GOES-R Water Vapor Product Development and Testing
Seth I. Gutman, NOAA/ESRL, Boulder, CO; and D. L. Birkenheuer, K. Holub, and T. Koyama
  5:00 PM
COSMIC-2. Taking Global Navigation Satellite System Radio Occultation (GNSSRO) and Space Weather Sensing to the Next Level
David R. Ector, NOAA/NESDIS, Boulder, CO; and L. Cucurull, D. Mamula, P. Wilczynski, and P. R. Straus
  5:15 PM
Future Microwave Sounders in Research and Operations
Bjorn H. Lambrigtsen, JPL, Pasadena, CA; and T. Gaier, P. Kangaslahti, and A. Tanner

5:00 PM-6:00 PM: Tuesday, 24 January 2012

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Lecture L1
Bernhard Haurwitz Lecture
Location: Room 235/236 (New Orleans Convention Center )
Hosts: (Joint between the Fourth Symposium on Aerosol-Cloud-Climate Interactions; the Special Symposium on Technological Advances: Impacts on Hurricane Research and Forecast Improvements; the Second Symposium on Advances in Modeling and Analysis Using Python; the 26th Conference on Hydrology; the 28th Conference on Interactive Information Processing Systems (IIPS); the 24th Conference on Climate Variability and Change; the 16th Symposium on Integrated Observing and Assimilation Systems for the Atmosphere, Oceans, and Land Surface (IOAS-AOLS); the 21st Conference on Probability and Statistics in the Atmospheric Sciences; the 14th Conference on Atmospheric Chemistry; the Third Aviation, Range and Aerospace Meteorology Special Symposium on Weather-Air Traffic Management Integration; the 10th Symposium on the Coastal Environment; the 10th Conference on Artificial Intelligence Applications to Environmental Science; the Ninth Conference on Space Weather; and the Second Conference on Transition of Research to Operations: Successes, Plans, and Challenges )
  5:00 PM
On the role of cloud-radiative effects in tropical dynamics and climate change
Sandrine Bony-Lena, Laboratoire de Meteorologie Dynamique/Le Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Paris, France

7:00 PM-9:00 PM: Tuesday, 24 January 2012


Aksel Wiin-Nielsen Symposium Banquet

Wednesday, 25 January 2012

8:30 AM-10:00 AM: Wednesday, 25 January 2012

Recording files available
Themed Joint Session 11
Enhancing Operational Capabilities: Progress and Plans for R2O-Enabling Technologies Part II
Location: La Nouvelle A (New Orleans Convention Center )
Hosts: (Joint between the Second Conference on Transition of Research to Operations: Successes, Plans, and Challenges; the 28th Conference on Interactive Information Processing Systems (IIPS); and the Second Symposium on Advances in Modeling and Analysis Using Python )
Cochairs: George Komar, NASA/ESTO; John Pereira, NOAA/NESDIS; Gerald J. Dittberner, Harris Corporation
  8:30 AM
The Multiangle SpectroPolarimetric Imager (MSPI) and Its Broadband Quarter Wave Retarder Challenge
Stacey R. Sueoka, Univ. of Arizona, Tucson, AZ; and D. J. Diner, R. Chipman, S. C. McClain, and C. Bradley
  8:45 AM
Development of An Internally-Calibrated Wide-Band Airborne Microwave Radiometer to Improve Coastal and Enable Over-Land Wet-Tropospheric Correction for SWOT
Steven C. Reising, Colorado State Univ., Fort Collins, CO; and P. Kangaslahti, S. T. Brown, D. E. Dawson, A. Lee, D. Albers, D. J. Hoppe, B. Khayatian, O. Montes, T. C. Gaier, A. B. Tanner, C. Parashare, S. Padmanabhan, X. Bosch-Lluis, K. Gilliam, and S. P. Nelson
  9:00 AM
An 8-40 GHz Wideband Instrument for Snow Measurements
Timothy E. Durham, Harris Corporation, Melbourne, FL
  9:30 AM
Weather and Terrain Integration for Mission Planning
Laura Clemente, Engineer Research and Development Center, Alexandria, VA
  9:45 AM
Better Mission Planning Through Terrain and Weather Integration
Susan Frankenstein, CRREL, Hanover, NH; and J. B. Eylander

9:00 AM-11:00 AM: Wednesday, 25 January 2012


Spouses' Coffee

10:00 AM-10:30 AM: Wednesday, 25 January 2012


Coffee Break

Meet the President
Location: Room 242 (New Orleans Convention Center )

10:00 AM-6:15 PM: Wednesday, 25 January 2012


Exhibit Hours

1:30 PM-2:30 PM: Wednesday, 25 January 2012

Recording files available
Lecture L2
Robert E. Horton Lecture
Location: Room 350/351 (New Orleans Convention Center )
Hosts: (Joint between the 26th Conference on Hydrology; the Events; the Second Symposium on Advances in Modeling and Analysis Using Python; the 10th Conference on Artificial Intelligence Applications to Environmental Science; the 28th Conference on Interactive Information Processing Systems (IIPS); the Special Symposium on Technological Advances: Impacts on Hurricane Research and Forecast Improvements; the 24th Conference on Climate Variability and Change; the 16th Symposium on Integrated Observing and Assimilation Systems for the Atmosphere, Oceans, and Land Surface (IOAS-AOLS); the 21st Conference on Probability and Statistics in the Atmospheric Sciences; the 14th Conference on Atmospheric Chemistry; the Fourth Symposium on Aerosol-Cloud-Climate Interactions; the Third Aviation, Range and Aerospace Meteorology Special Symposium on Weather-Air Traffic Management Integration; the 10th Symposium on the Coastal Environment; the Special Symposium on the Tornado Disasters of 2011; and the Second Conference on Transition of Research to Operations: Successes, Plans, and Challenges )

2:30 PM-4:00 PM: Wednesday, 25 January 2012


Formal Poster Viewing with Coffee Break

4:00 PM-5:30 PM: Wednesday, 25 January 2012

Recording files available
Themed Joint Session 19
Recent Advances in Data Management Technologies and Data Services
Location: Room 348/349 (New Orleans Convention Center )
Hosts: (Joint between the 28th Conference on Interactive Information Processing Systems (IIPS); the Second Conference on Transition of Research to Operations: Successes, Plans, and Challenges; and the Second Symposium on Advances in Modeling and Analysis Using Python )
Cochairs: Mohan K. Ramamurthy, Unidata/UCAR; Jeffrey L. Privette, NOAA/NESDIS/NCDC
  4:00 PM
Data Archival—Meeting the Needs of Future Generations
Heather B. Brown, NOAA/NESDIS/NCDC, Asheville, NC
  4:15 PM
From Sensor to Archive: Data Flow, Tools and Management of Observational Data at NCAR's Earth Observing Laboratory
Michael D. Daniels, NCAR, Boulder, CO; and C. Martin, G. Stossmeister, and S. Williams

  4:30 PM
Arctic to Archive: End-to-End Data Support Services for the NSF Arctic Program
Florence Fetterer, National Snow and Ice Data Center (NSIDC), Boulder, CO; and J. A. Moore, M. A. Parsons, M. C. Serreze, and S. Williams
  4:45 PM
Gridded Data Sub-Setting Services Through the NCAR Research Data Archive
Douglas Schuster, NCAR, Boulder, CO; and S. Worley, Z. Ji, R. Dattore, and D. Stepaniak
  5:00 PM
The TIGGE Model Validation Portal: An Improvement in Data Interoperability
Thomas A. Cram, NCAR, Boulder, CO; and D. Schuster, H. Wilcox, and S. Worley
  5:15 PM
The Polarimetric Radar Identification System (POLARIS): Leveraging Dual-Polarized Radar Data for Real-Time Operational Applications
Chris Porter, Weather Decision Technologies, Inc., Norman, OK; and B. C. Baranowski, B. Clarke, and B. Shaw

5:30 PM-6:30 PM: Wednesday, 25 January 2012


Awards Banquet Reception in the Exhibit Hall

7:00 PM-10:00 PM: Wednesday, 25 January 2012


92nd AMS Awards Banquet

Thursday, 26 January 2012

9:00 AM-12:00 PM: Thursday, 26 January 2012


Exhibit Hours

12:00 PM-1:30 PM: Thursday, 26 January 2012


T. N. Krishnamurti Symposium Luncheon
Location: Room 345 (New Orleans Convention Center )

3:00 PM-3:05 PM: Thursday, 26 January 2012


Registration Closes

5:00 PM-5:05 PM: Thursday, 26 January 2012


AMS 92nd Annual Meeting Adjourns