Joint Session 6 Biennial AMS AI Contest

Monday, 11 January 2016: 4:00 PM-5:00 PM
Room 354 ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)
Hosts: (Joint between the 14th Conference on Artificial and Computational Intelligence and its Applications to the Environmental Sciences; and the 30th Conference on Hydrology )
Chair:
Carlos Felipe Gaitan, University of Oklahoma/NOAA-GFDL, South Central Climate Science Center, Princeton, NJ

The focus will be on estimating the probability of specific rainfall amounts given polarimetric radar observations. For more detail on the contest, see https://www.kaggle.com/c/how-much-did-it-rain.

Papers:
4:00 PM
J6.1
Feature Engineering on Rainfall Matrices
Mike Kim, Booz Allen Hamilton, VA

4:30 PM
J6.3
Hourly Rainfall Estimation using Gradient Boosted Decision Trees
Devin Anzelmo, University of California, CA

4:45 PM
J6.4
4th Place Solution for “How much Did it Rain? II” Kaggle Competition
Shize Su, University of Virginia, Charlottesville; and A. Jacobs

- Indicates paper has been withdrawn from meeting
- Indicates an Award Winner