Session 4A Data In, Information Out: Crowdsourcing Tools for Gathering and Distributing Climate, Weather, Marine, and Hydrological Data

Tuesday, 8 January 2019: 8:30 AM-10:00 AM
North 131C (Phoenix Convention Center - West and North Buildings)
Host: 35th Conference on Environmental Information Processing Technologies
Cochairs:
Nazila Merati, ERT, Inc, Silver Spring, MD; Jared Rennie, CICS/North Carolina State Univ., Asheville, GA and Kevin Tyle, Univ. at Albany/SUNY, Albany, NY

Session covers crowdsourcing within a variety of environments, including from stationary sources such as microclimate updates, images from user’s smartphones, and home wireless weather stations, as well as from vehicles on the roads, in the air, and on the water. It will also dive into the links between wireless communications, the proliferation of mobile technologies, cloud computing, and other data transformations. This session will also address the impacts of crowdsourced observations during extreme events for filling in missing data or model verification.

Papers:
8:45 AM
4A.2
An mPING-Based Hail Climatology
Kimberly L. Elmore, CIMMS/Univ. of Oklahoma and NOAA/NSSL, Norman, OK
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
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
9:30 AM
4A.5
Crowdsourcing Observations with FMI Weather App
Ismo Sakari Karjalainen, FMI, Helsinki, Finland
9:45 AM
4A.6
- Indicates paper has been withdrawn from meeting
- Indicates an Award Winner