Ninth Symposium on Advances in Modeling and Analysis Using Python

Program Chair: Scott Collis , Argonne National Laboratory
Reviewer: David John Gagne II , NCAR

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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 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
Recorded Presentation

8:45 AM
1.1
Connecting Machine Learning with Atmospheric Science (Invited Presentation)
Rachel Prudden, Met Office, Exeter, UK
Recorded Presentation

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
Recorded Presentation

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
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
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
Recorded Presentation

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
Recorded Presentation

11:30 AM
2.5
Rapidly Prototyping High-Performance Meteorological Data Systems Using Xarray and Numba
Daniel Rothenberg, ClimaCell Inc., Boston, MA
Recorded Presentation

2.1
Operational Applications of Historical Lightning Data Patterns to Predict Convection in Phoenix, Arizona

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


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

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

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.

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
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

290
Deriving a Quantitative Relationship between Model QPF and Probability of Precipitation (PoP)
Leslie R. Colin, NOAA/NWS, Boise, ID

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 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
Recorded Presentation

8:45 AM
4.2
SatPy: A Python Library for Weather Satellite Processing
David Hoese, Cooperative Institute for Meteorological Satellite Studies, Madison, WI
Recorded Presentation

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
Recorded Presentation

9:15 AM
4.4
The Big Climate Data Toolkit: A Modern Software Stack for Evaluations of High-Resolution Climate Datasets
Alexander Goodman, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA; and H. Lee
Recorded Presentation

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
Recorded Presentation

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
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-12:30 PM: Tuesday, 8 January 2019

Recording files available
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
10:30 AM
5.1
Visualization for Improving Algorithmic Measures of Morphometry or Budget Events
Brian Mapes, Univ. of Miami/RSMAS, Miami, FL
Recorded Presentation

10:45 AM
5.2
The Weather Analysis Display (WAND) Tool: Developing a Meteorological Data Display Tool for Situational Awareness during Day of Launch of Space Launch Vehicles Using Python
John M. Orcutt, Jacobs Space Exploration Group, Huntsville, AL; and P. W. White
Recorded Presentation Manuscript (2.8 MB)

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
Recorded Presentation

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
Recorded Presentation

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

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
Recorded Presentation

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
Recorded Presentation

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
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)

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
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)

672
Operational Global Weather Radar Products Generation Using Python and Docker Container
Jingyin Tang, IBM, Atlanta, GA

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 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.
8:30 AM
6.1
Putting the Fun in Function: How Python Makes Me a Better Scientist and Teacher (Invited Presentation)
Kimberly M. Wood, Mississippi State Univ., Mississippi State, MS
Recorded Presentation

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
Recorded Presentation

Handout (2.3 MB)

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
Recorded Presentation

9:30 AM
6.4
Creating Visualizations for the Science on a Sphere
Matthew B. Hamel, Millersville Univ., Millersville, Pennsylvania, PA
Recorded Presentation

9:45 AM
6.5
Pangeo: A Community Platform for Big Data Geoscience
Kevin Paul, UCAR, Boulder, CO
Recorded Presentation

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)

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)

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)

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

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

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)

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)

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
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
The Influence of Model Architecture on Multi-GPU Training of Adversarial Networks
Sarvesh Garimella, ACME AtronOmatic, LLC, Portland, OR
Recorded Presentation

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
Recorded Presentation

Handout (6.4 MB)

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
Recorded Presentation

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
Recorded Presentation

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)

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
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