35th Conference on Environmental Information Processing Technologies

Program Chairs: Scott Jacobs , NOAA/NWS/NCEP ; Tiffany C. Vance , NOAA
Reviewer: Elise Gowen , Atmospheric Science Librarians International

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Sunday, 6 January 2019

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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

Monday, 7 January 2019

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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 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

8:45 AM
1A.2
Challenges and Successes of the GOES-16 Hot Spot Notification Program in the NWS
James J. Taeger, NWS, San Diego, CA

9:00 AM
1A.3
Increasing Collaboration and the Prediction of Tule Fog Impacts between the California Department of Transportation, California Highway Patrol and NWS Hanford
Kristian Mattarochia, NWS, Hanford, CA

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
Recorded Presentation

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
Recorded Presentation

1A.6
The 2018 Arctic Report Card—A Decade of Reporting on the Arctic Environment

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
1B.1
National Weather Service Update

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
Federal Aviation Administration Services Update
Bill Bauman, FAA, Washington, DC
Recorded Presentation

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
Recorded Presentation

9:45 AM
1B.5
U.S. Air Force Weather Service Update
Ralph O. Stoffler, U.S. Air Force, Washington, DC
Recorded Presentation

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
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
Recorded Presentation

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
Recorded Presentation Manuscript (767.0 kB)

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
UASs Policy, Practice and Procedures Related to Tornado Hazard Site Investigations
Melissa A. Wagner, Arizona State Univ., Tempe, AZ; and R. K. Doe
Recorded Presentation

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
Recorded Presentation

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
Recorded Presentation

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
Recorded Presentation

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

11:00 AM
2.3
Multiple Severe Microbursts in the Las Vegas Valley and Impact-Based Decision Support Services Provided by NWS Las Vegas, NV during the Monsoon Season of 2018
Stanley Czyzyk, NOAA/NWS Forecast Office, Las Vegas, NV; and A. Boothe

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.
Recorded Presentation

11:30 AM
2.5
The Probability of an EF-5 Tornado Being an EF-5 Torando: A Quantified Comparison of Damage Indicator Availability
Doug Speheger, NOAA/NWS, Norman, OK

11:45 AM
2.6
Conveying Uncertainty through Graphical Forecasts
Jacob R., Beitlich, NOAA/NWS Forecast Office, Chanhassen, MN

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


Lunch Break (Monday)

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

Recording files available
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
Recorded Presentation

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)

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

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
2:00 PM
3A.1
WIGOS Transition — U.S. Challenges and Impacts as the International Community Transitions from Legacy WMO Identifiers to a WIGOS Identifiers for All Surface-Based Observing Platforms
Justin M. Reeves, FNMOC, Monterey, CA; and P. M. Pauley
Recorded Presentation

Handout (1.9 MB)

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

2:45 PM
3A.4
The Committee for Operational Environmental Satellites (COES): An Effective Avenue for Improved Federal Agency Coordination of Environmental Satellite Issues.
Ajay Mehta, NESDIS, Silver Spring, MD; and D. McCarren and M. Bonadonna
Recorded Presentation

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
Recorded Presentation

3:15 PM
3A.6
The National Space Weather Partnership (NSWP): Coordinating U.S. Government, Commercial, and Academic Efforts to Improve National Space Weather Capabilities
Michael F. Bonadonna, NOAA, Silver Spring, MD; and W. J. Murtagh

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

3:45 PM
3A.8
Expanding Emergency Communications Resources across NWS Western Region to Support Continuity of Operations and IDSS
Matt Solum, NWS, Salt Lake City, UT; and S. Carpenter

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
What Makes Warnings Work: Optimising Information Governance in HIWeather
Brian W. Golding, Met Office, Exeter, United Kingdom
Recorded Presentation

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
Recorded Presentation

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
Recorded Presentation

2:45 PM
3B.4
The UK Met Office Environmental Monitoring and Response Centre (EMARC)—Contributing Towards UK Resilience to Natural Hazards, and Responding to International-Scale Events
Gareth Powell, UKMO, Exeter, United Kingdom
Recorded Presentation Manuscript (161.9 kB)

Handout (2.2 MB)

3:00 PM
3B.5
Flexible Earth System Modelling on Multiple Grids
Willem Deconinck, ECMWF, Reading, United Kingdom; and P. Maciel and M. Diamantakis
Recorded Presentation

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
Recorded Presentation

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
Recorded Presentation

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
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

5
Operational MADIS (Meteorological Assimilation Data Ingest System) Current Functionality and Planned Improvments
Greg Pratt, OAR, Boulder, CO; and L. Benjamin

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

8
Informed Decisions for Extreme Events through GIS: Enabling Resilient Responses through Location-Based, Real-Time Hazard and Impact Information
Sean S. Miller, Kinetic Analysis Corporation, Silver Spring, MD; and J. P. Michael

Handout (12.3 MB)

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

10
Preparing for the Big One in the Pacific Northwest: What are Residents Really Doing?
Shelley Olds, UNAVCO, Boulder, CO

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)

Tuesday, 8 January 2019

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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)

8:30 AM-10:00 AM: Tuesday, 8 January 2019

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
8:30 AM
4A.1
WeatherCitizen: A Software Suite for the Collection, Assimilation, and Distribution of Traditional and Crowd Sourced Environmental Observations
Marc Shapiro, Creare LLC, Hanover, NH
Recorded Presentation Manuscript (385.7 kB)

Handout (13.4 MB)

8:45 AM
4A.2
An mPING-Based Hail Climatology
Kimberly L. Elmore, CIMMS/Univ. of Oklahoma and NOAA/NSSL, Norman, OK
Recorded Presentation

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
Recorded Presentation

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
Recorded Presentation

9:30 AM
4A.5
Crowdsourcing Observations with FMI Weather App
Ismo Sakari Karjalainen, FMI, Helsinki, Finland
Recorded Presentation

9:45 AM
4A.6
Crowdsourcing of Weather Data on Mobile App and Deep Learning
Lior Perez, Météo-France, Toulouse, France
Recorded Presentation

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
Recorded Presentation

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
Recorded Presentation

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
Recorded Presentation

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
Recorded Presentation

4B.6
Development of a Real-Time Conditional Probability of Tornado Intensity Product

9:45 AM
4B.6A
Operational MADIS (Meteorological Assimilation Data Ingest System) Current Functionality and Planned Improvements
Greg Pratt, NOAA/ESRL/GSD, Boulder, CO
Recorded Presentation

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)

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-12:00 PM: Tuesday, 8 January 2019

Recording files available
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
A Cloud-Based Science Gateway for Enabling Open and Reproducible Science
Mohan K. Ramamurthy, UCAR, Boulder, CO; and J. Chastang
Recorded Presentation

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
Recorded Presentation

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
Recorded Presentation

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
Recorded Presentation

11:30 AM
4A.5
High-Resolution Rapid Refresh Model Data Analytics Derived on the Open Science Grid to Assist Wildfire Weather Assessment
Brian Blaylock, Univ. of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT; and J. Horel and C. Galli
Recorded Presentation

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

Recording files available
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
Recorded Presentation

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
Recorded Presentation

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
Recorded Presentation

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
Recorded Presentation

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

Handout (1.2 MB)

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)

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


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
5A.1
AWIPS Program Update & Strategy

5A.2
National Centers AWIPS Migration Status

5A.3
NWS Hazard Services—Field Implementation and Vision

2:15 PM
5A.4
Exploring the Role of AWIPS Capabilities and Methods at Center Weather Service Units (CWSUs)
David Tomalak, NWS, Arvada, CO

Recording files available
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
1:30 PM
5B.1
Weather Looks Different When You're in the Cloud: A Modernization Success Story
John Shepley, Unisys, Reston, VA
Recorded Presentation

1:45 PM
5B.2
Access and Dissemination of Gridded Climate Observations and Model Projections Using the Applied Climate Information System (ACIS)
Arthur T. DeGaetano, Cornell Univ., Ithaca, NY; and W. A. Noon
Recorded Presentation

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
Recorded Presentation

2:15 PM
5B.4
Satellite Data Access and Processing in a Federation of Clouds
Michael Schick, EUMETSAT, Darmstadt, Germany
Recorded Presentation

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
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
6A.1
Edit Retention for the "ForecastBuilder" Process

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
Recorded Presentation

3:30 PM
6A.4
Unidata AWIPS System Update
Michael James, UCAR, Boulder, CO
Recorded Presentation

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

Recording files available
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
Recorded Presentation

3:15 PM
6B.2
Exciting New Features, Products, and Satellites Added to SLIDER Satellite Imagery Looper
Kevin Micke, CIRA, Fort Collins, CO
Recorded Presentation

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
Recorded Presentation

3:45 PM
6B.4
GOES and Himawari Imagery Visualization Using GPUs for Full Scale Animation: Deriving 4-d Training Data for AI
Amanda O'Connor, Harris Geospatial, Broomfield, CO; and B. Sather
Recorded Presentation

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 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)

408
Using Standard Tools to Package and Distribute Scientific Software C and Fortran Libraries: A Demonstration with the General Purpose Timing Library (GPTL)
Edward J. Hartnett, NOAA, Boulder, CO
Manuscript (147.8 kB)

Handout (243.5 kB)

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

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)

Wednesday, 9 January 2019

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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)

8:30 AM-10:00 AM: Wednesday, 9 January 2019

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
8:30 AM
7A.1
The Advanced Technology Demonstrator: An S-Band, Dual Polarization, Phased Array Radar at the National Weather Radar Testbed
Kurt D. Hondl, NOAA/NSSL, Norman, OK; and M. J. Emanuel
Recorded Presentation

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
Recorded Presentation

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
Recorded Presentation

9:30 AM
7A.5
Multifunction Phased Array Radar Advanced Technology Demonstrator Nearfield Test Results
Alex Morris, MIT, Lexington, MA
Recorded Presentation

9:45 AM
7A.6
Facets of Planar Polarimetric Phased Array Radar Use for Weather Observations
Igor R. Ivic, NSSL/Univ. of Oklahoma, Norman, OK
Recorded Presentation

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
Recorded Presentation

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
Recorded Presentation

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
3D Space Isentropic Analysis in the Unidata's IDV
Yuan Ho, UCAR, Boulder, CO; and H. Wu
Recorded Presentation

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
Recorded Presentation

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

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 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

10:45 AM
8A.2
Real-Time Digital Equalization: A First Step in the Calibration Process of Element Level Digital Beamforming
John Lake, Univ. of Oklahoma, ARRC, Norman, OK; and M. B. Yeary
Recorded Presentation

11:00 AM
8A.3
Polarimetric and Kinematic Analysis of Simultaneous Tornado Debris Signatures during the 10 May 2010 Tornado Outbreak
Casey B. Griffin, Univ. of Oklahoma, Norman, OK; and D. J. Bodine and R. D. Palmer
Recorded Presentation

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
Recorded Presentation

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
10:30 AM
8B.1
Integrating Complementary Visualizations within a Data Order Interface: The STORM Swath-Based Analysis Tool
Matthew Lammers, NASA/KBRwyle, Greenbelt, MD
Recorded Presentation

Handout (4.3 MB)

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
Societal Benefits of Visualization Tools and Data Access Methodologies of Varying Temporally Averaged Meteorological Data from a Mesoscale Network
Bradley G. Illston, Oklahoma Mesonet/Oklahoma Climatological Survey/Univ. of Oklahoma, Norman, OK
Recorded Presentation

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
Recorded Presentation

11:30 AM
8B.5
Three Dimensional Analysis of Dropsondes during Major Hurricane Irma to Examine Rapidly Decreasing Wind Speeds near the Surface of Dropsonde Profile
Ashley Lundry, 53rd Weather Reconnaissance Squadron, Biloxi, MS; and C. N. Pereda and K. Woods
Recorded Presentation

12:00 PM-1:30 PM: Wednesday, 9 January 2019


Lunch Break (Wed)

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-2:30 PM: Wednesday, 9 January 2019


Robert E. Horton Lecture
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
1:30 PM
9A.1
Deriving Climate Zones of the Contiguous United States with Spatial Machine Learning
Kevin A. Butler, Esri, Redlands, CA

1:45 PM
9A.2
Contextualizing, Collaborating on, and Conveying NWS Information with Geographic Information Systems (GIS)
Kari L. Sheets, NWS, Bohemia, NY

2:00 PM
9A.3
Analyzing and Communicating Risk Using Web GIS and Solution Templates
Daniel P. Pisut, Esri, Redlands, CA
Recorded Presentation

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

Recording files available
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
Recorded Presentation

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
Recorded Presentation

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
Recorded Presentation Manuscript (2.2 MB)

2:15 PM
9B.4
Using a Regression Clutter Filter to Improve Weather Radar Signal Statistics
John C. Hubbert, NCAR, Boulder, CO
Recorded Presentation

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

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
Recorded Presentation

10A.3
Using GIS to Provide Tropical Decision Support Services to the Lake Okeechobee Region

Handout (2.7 MB)

10A.4
NWS and the California Office of Emergency Services: Building a Weather-Ready Nation through GIS

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
Recorded Presentation

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
Recorded Presentation

Handout (1.4 MB)

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
Recorded Presentation

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)

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

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-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

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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
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
Recorded Presentation

8:45 AM
11A.3
Scaling a JupyterHub for Atmospheric Science Research and Education on the NSF Jetstream Cloud
Julien Chastang, UCAR, Boulder, CO
Recorded Presentation

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
Recorded Presentation

11A.1
Developing Weather Processing Systems—Why a Standard Framework?

Recording files available
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
8:30 AM
11B.1
Automated Vehicles and Meteorology Summit: Weather, Automated Vehicles and the Future
Bill Mahoney, NCAR, Boulder, CO
Recorded Presentation

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
Recorded Presentation

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
Recorded Presentation

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
Recorded Presentation

Recording files available
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
Recorded Presentation

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
Recorded Presentation

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
Recorded Presentation

Handout (4.9 MB)

9:15 AM
TJ22.4
Data Management Services Supported by NCAR’s Research Data Archive
Thomas A. Cram, NCAR, Boulder, CO; and D. Schuster
Recorded Presentation

Handout (9.9 MB)

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-12:00 PM: Thursday, 10 January 2019

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
Recorded Presentation

Handout (13.4 MB)

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
Recorded Presentation

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
Recorded Presentation

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
NetCDF-4 Performance Improvements Opening Complex Data Files
Edward J. Hartnett, NOAA, Boulder, CO
Recorded Presentation Manuscript (881.5 kB)

Handout (440.7 kB)

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
Recorded Presentation

12B.2
The Pathfinder Project: Road Weather Collaboration and Successes from the First Season of Pathfinder in the State of Minnesota

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
Recorded Presentation

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
Recorded Presentation

11:30 AM
12B.5
Current Status of Clarus Functionality in the NWS' Meteorological Assimilation Data Ingest System (MADIS)
Leon Benjamin, CIRES/Univ. of Colorado, Boulder, CO; and G. Pratt
Recorded Presentation

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
Recorded Presentation

12:00 PM
Ben Hershey
Recorded Presentation

12:00 PM-1:30 PM: Thursday, 10 January 2019


Lunch Break (Thurs)

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-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

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
1:30 PM
TJ23.1
Developing a Cross-Organizational Search and Discovery System at the National Center for Atmospheric Research
Matthew S. Mayernik, NCAR, Boulder, CO
Recorded Presentation

TJ23.2
Fit for Purpose: Assisting Users Data Discovery through the Application of the Data Stewardship Maturity Model

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
Recorded Presentation

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
Recorded Presentation

2:45 PM
TJ23.6
Enabling FAIR Data within AMS
Michael Friedman, AMS, Boston, MA
Recorded Presentation

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)

5:00 PM-5:30 PM: Thursday, 10 January 2019


99th AMS Annual Meeting Adjourns
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