17th History Symposium

Program Chair: Lourdes Avilés , Plymouth State University

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Sunday, 6 January 2019

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

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

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)

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

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

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-12:00 PM: Monday, 7 January 2019

Recording files available
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

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


Lunch Break (Monday)

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-3:00 PM: Monday, 7 January 2019


How to Become a Better Presenter
Location: North 231C (Phoenix Convention Center - West and North Buildings)
Recording files available
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

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

Recording files available
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

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


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

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)