36th Conference on Environmental Information Processing Technologies

Program Chairs: Scott Jacobs , NOAA/NWS/NCEP ; Tiffany C. Vance , NOAA
Reviewers: Randy Bass , AWRP ; Michael Bonadonna , NOAA ; Eugene Burger , NOAA/ERL/PMEL ; J. E. Burks , CIRA ; Margaret Caulfield , NOAA/NESDIS (Retired) ; Steven R. Chiswell , Savannah River National Laboratory ; Scott Collis , Argonne National Laboratory ; Stephen Early , Booz Allen Hamilton ; Michael Grogan , The Weather Company/IBM ; Maxwell Grover , Valparaiso University ; Kurt Hondl , NOAA/NSSL ; Michael Istok , NOAA/NWS ; C. Sim James , Office of the Federal Coordinator for Meteorology ; J. T. Johnson , DTN ; S. S. Lindstrom , Univ. of Wisconsin–Madison/CIMSS ; Ian Lisk , Met Office ; Matthew S. Mayernik , NCAR ; Nazila Merati , Merati and Associates ; Daniel P. Pisut , Esri ; Baudouin Raoult , ECMWF ; William Roberts , OAR ; Jack Settelmaier , NOAA/NWS ; Amanda Anderson , NCAR ; Timothy S. Sliwinski , Texas Tech Univ. ; Kevin Tyle , Univ. at Albany/SUNY ; Daniel Vignoles , NCEP ; Melissa A. Wagner , Arizona State Univ. ; Mark B. Yeary , Univ. of Oklahoma ; David John Gagne II , NCAR ; Benjamin C. Trabing , Colorado State Univ. ; Jennifer Mahoney , NOAA/OAR/ESRL/GSD ; Mohan K. Ramamurthy , UCAR

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Monday, 13 January 2020

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8:30 AM-10:00 AM: Monday, 13 January 2020


Session 1A
Services Update for Weather Agencies. Part I
Location: 157C (Boston Convention and Exhibition Center)
Host: 36th Conference on Environmental Information Processing Technologies
Cochairs: Randall Bass, FAA; Scott Jacobs, NOAA/NWS
8:30 AM
1A.1
Epic: Leveraging Cloud Computing to Enable a Community Model Development Program for Numerical Weather Prediction (Core Science Keynote)
Neil A. Jacobs, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Washington, DC

9:00 AM
1A.2
National Weather Service Update
Louis W. Uccellini, NOAA/NWS, Silver Spring, MD

9:15 AM
1A.3
Meteorological Service of Canada: Update
Diane Campbell, EC, Gatineau, Canada

9:30 AM
1A.4
UK Met Office—Pulling through Science and Technology Improvements into User Benefits
Andrew Stephen Kirkman, UKMO, Exeter, UK

9:45 AM
1A.5
Federal Aviation Administration Service Update
William H. Bauman III, FAA, Washington, DC


Session 1B
Weather and Roads—Linking Road Weather Research, Information, and Technologies to Benefit Society. Part I
Location: 209 (Boston Convention and Exhibition Center)
Host: 36th Conference on Environmental Information Processing Technologies
Cochairs: Amanda R. Siems-Anderson, NCAR; Stephen Early, IBM/The Weather Company
8:30 AM
1B.1
Road Weather Management: Past, Present, and Future
David Johnson, FHWA, Washington, DC; and R. Alfelor and B. Boyce

8:45 AM
1B.2
Toward Zero Deaths: Making the Traveling Public Safer through a Partnership between the National Weather Service and the Idaho Transportation Department
Vernon Preston, NWS, Pocatello, ID; and A. DeSmet

9:00 AM
1B.3
The Pathfinder Project: Road Weather Collaboration and Successes from the First Two Seasons of Pathfinder in the State of Minnesota
Shawn DeVinny, NWS, Chanhassen, MN

9:15 AM
1B.4
Deploying an Interagency Debris Flow Decision Matrix for the Ferguson Burn Scar across Yosemite National Park and California Highway 140
Kristian Mattarochia, NWS, Hanford, CA

9:30 AM
1B.5
Enhancing Collaboration and the Prediction of Tule Fog between the California Department of Transportation, California Highway Patrol, and NWS Hanford
Kristian Mattarochia, NWS, Hanford, CA

9:45 AM
1B.6
Current Status of Clarus Functionality in the NWS’s Meteorological Assimilation Data Ingest System (MADIS)
Leon Benjamin, CIRES/Univ. of Colorado, Boulder, CO; and G. Pratt

10:00 AM-10:30 AM: Monday, 13 January 2020


AM Coffee Break (Monday)

10:30 AM-12:00 PM: Monday, 13 January 2020


Joint Session 2
How Artificial Intelligence at Scale Will Link Weather and Climate Data to Society
Location: 157AB (Boston Convention and Exhibition Center)
Hosts: (Joint between the 10th Symposium on Advances in Modeling and Analysis Using Python; the 19th Conference on Artificial Intelligence for Environmental Science; the 36th Conference on Environmental Information Processing Technologies; and the Sixth Symposium on High Performance Computing for Weather, Water, and Climate )
Cochairs: David John Gagne II, NCAR; Scott Collis, Argonne National Laboratory
10:30 AM
J2.1
How Python Can Help Us to Create the Physical Data Scientists of the Future (Core Science Keynote)
Amy McGovern, Univ. of Oklahoma, Norman, OK

11:00 AM
J2.2
Cloud Nowcasting on Satellite Images: A Novel Dataset and Experimental Comparisons
Andreas Holm Nielsen, Aarhus Univ., Aarhus, Denmark; and A. Wagner, A. Iosifidis, and H. Karstoft

11:15 AM
J2.4
Geocaching with Geohashing—Scaling Weather APIs with Python and Spark for Big Data Machine Learning
Alexander Kalmikov, QuantumBlack, a McKinsey Company, Cambridge, MA; and Y. Zhu, L. Zhang, and J. Annor

J2.3
A Deep Neural Network Deriving Cloud Properties from Satellite Remote Sensing

11:45 AM
J2.5
Frameworks for Gaining Insight and Machine Learning on Large Climate and Weather Datasets
Robert Jackson, Argonne National Laboratory, Argonne, IL; and S. Collis, I. Foster, B. Blaiszik, and S. Fiore


Session 2A
Services Update for Weather Agencies. Part II
Location: 157C (Boston Convention and Exhibition Center)
Host: 36th Conference on Environmental Information Processing Technologies
Cochairs: Randall Bass, FAA; Scott Jacobs, NOAA/NWS
10:30 AM
2A.1
Naval Meteorology and Oceanography 2020 AMS Update
John Okon, Naval Meteorology and Oceanography Command, Stennis Space Center, MS

10:45 AM
2A.2
U.S. Air Force Weather Operations Update
Ralph O. Stoffler, U.S. Air Force, Washington, DC; and M. Farrar

11:00 AM
2A.3
An Update on Global Satellite-Based Precipitation Products and Services at NASA GES DISC
Zhong Liu, NASA GES DISC/CSISS, George Mason Univ., Greenbelt, MD; and A. Savtchenko, B. Deshong, M. Greene, F. Fang, I. V. Gerasimov, C. F. Loeser, S. Shen, P. Huwe, J. Su, C. L. Shie, R. Albayrak, J. Acker, A. W. Li, G. D. Lei, J. Alfred, D. Ostrenga, W. Teng, J. Wei, and D. Meyer

11:15 AM
2A.4
Integrated Dissemination Program—The Data Platform for a Weather-Ready Nation
Jeffrey A. Lupfer, NetApp, Vienna, VA; and C. L. Klemmer

11:30 AM
2A.5
Improving the Local Climate Analysis Tool by Incorporating User Input
Marina Timofeyeva, NOAA/NWS, Silver Spring, MD; and J. C. Meyers, J. Kennedy, M. E. Churma, M. Coulman, J. Fox, and D. Michelson

11:45 AM
2A.6
Update on Numerical Weather Prediction Efforts within the 16th Weather Squadron
Evan Kuchera, 557th Weather Wing, Offutt AFB, NE


Session 2B
Weather and Roads: Linking Road Weather Research, Information, and Technologies to Benefit Society. Part II
Location: 209 (Boston Convention and Exhibition Center)
Host: 36th Conference on Environmental Information Processing Technologies
Cochairs: Amanda R. Siems-Anderson, NCAR; Stephen Early, IBM/The Weather Company
10:30 AM
2B.1
New Test Results: Automated Vehicles during Adverse Weather
Brenda Boyce, Booz Allen Hamilton, Alexander, AR; and D. Johnson and R. Alfelor

10:45 AM
2B.2
Effects of Precipitation Type on Crash Relative Risk Estimates in Kansas
Dana M. Tobin, The Pennsylvania State Univ., Univ. Park, PA; and M. R. Kumjian and A. W. Black

11:00 AM
2B.3
Machine Learning to Predict Vehicular Crash Severity from Weather Conditions
Curtis L. Walker, National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, CO; and S. E. Haupt, T. C. McCandless, and A. R. Siems-Anderson

11:15 AM
2B.4
Road Surface Temperature Validation of the Global Weather Corp. Road Weather Forecasts
Danny Cheresnick, Global Weather Corporation, Boulder, CO; and J. Thompson and B. Gail

11:30 AM
2B.5
Evaluation of the High-Resolution Rapid Refresh Model for Forecasting Roadway Surface Temperatures
W. Logan Downing, Purdue Univ., West Lafayette, IN; and H. Li, J. Desai, M. Liu, D. M. Bullock, and M. E. Baldwin

11:45 AM
2B.6
Are We Ready to Weather Urban Air Mobility (UAM)?
Colleen Reiche, Booz Allen Hamilton, Washington, DC

12:00 PM-2:00 PM: Monday, 13 January 2020


Lunch Break (Monday)

2:00 PM-4:00 PM: Monday, 13 January 2020


Session 3A
Quasi-Operational Products You Can Use Now—The View from The Dry and Wet Side
Location: 157C (Boston Convention and Exhibition Center)
Host: 36th Conference on Environmental Information Processing Technologies
Cochairs: Tiffany C. Vance, NOAA; Jennifer Mahoney, NOAA/OAR/ESRL/GSD
2:00 PM
3A.1
Quasi-Operational Functionality in MADIS
Leon Benjamin, CIRES/Univ. of Colorado, Boulder, CO; and G. Pratt

2:15 PM
3A.2
Testing and Refinement of a Three-Dimensional Real-Time Mesoscale Analysis (3D-RTMA) for Severe Weather, Aviation, Operational Forecasting, and Other Nowcast Applications
Steve Weygandt, NOAA/ESRL/GSD, Boulder, CO; and G. Ge, M. Hu, J. Carley, C. Alexander, T. T. Ladwig, G. Zhao, E. Colon, C. Hartsough, M. Pondeca, and S. Levine

2:30 PM
3A.3
High-Resolution QPE Products from the Experimental MRMS System
Jian Zhang, NOAA/NSSL, Norman, OK; and K. W. Howard, S. B. Cocks, S. M. Martinaitis, L. Tang, A. P. Osborne, M. Simpson, W. Hanft, C. Langston, B. T. Kaney, K. Cooper, A. Arthur, and J. Brogden

2:45 PM
3A.4
High-Resolution Real-Time Forecasting of Smoke and Visibility for the CONUS and Alaska: The HRRR-Smoke System
E. P. James, Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences, Boulder, CO; and R. Ahmadov, G. Grell, C. Alexander, S. Benjamin, S. McKeen, M. M. Bela, K. Y. Wong, G. Pereira, S. R. Freitas, I. A. Csiszar, M. Tsidulko, S. Kondragunta, and C. Xu

3:00 PM
3A.5
Development and Application of Global Aerosol Forecasts Using the Online Coupled GEFS–Aerosol Model
Georg A. Grell, NOAA/ESRL/GSD, Boulder, CO; and L. Zhang, S. A. McKeen, R. Montuoro, P. Bhattacharjee, S. Kondragunta, L. Pan, J. K. Henderson, G. J. Frost, X. Zhang, J. T. McQueen, R. Ahmadov, F. Li, J. Wang, B. Baker, and R. Saylor

3:15 PM
3A.6
Real-Time Subseasonal Forecast with SubX
Shan Sun, Earth System Research Laboratory, Boulder, CO; and K. Pegion

3:30 PM
3A.7
Adaptation of METplus Wrappers at GSD for Ensemble Verification
Jeff A. Hamilton, CIRES, Boulder, CO; and M. B. Smith, R. Pierce, V. Hagerty, B. Strong, and D. D. Turner

3:45 PM
3A.8
The Weather Archive and Visualization Environment (WAVE) Project
Jonathan Joyce, CIRES, Boulder, CO; NOAA, Boulder, CO; and J. Stewart, B. Rasch, J. S. Smith, R. Walsh, T. H. Wilson, and D. Nietfeld


Session 3B
International Hazards—What's the Risk?
Location: 209 (Boston Convention and Exhibition Center)
Host: 36th Conference on Environmental Information Processing Technologies
Cochairs: Ian Lisk, Met Office; Baudouin Raoult, ECMWF
2:00 PM
3B.1
Building Effective Warning Systems: The Role of Partnerships in Bridging the Five Valleys of Death
Brian W. Golding, Met Office, Exeter, UK

2:15 PM
3B.2
How Improvements to Ensemble Prediction Could Help the Development of Risk- or Impact-Based Forecasting
Jennifer M. A. Rourke, ECMWF, Reading, UK

2:30 PM
3B.3
Hail Storm Risk Assessment Using Space-Borne Remote Sensing Observations and Reanalysis Data
B. Scarino, SSAI, Hampton, VA; and K. M. Bedka, C. J. Schultz, D. J. Cecil, J. R. Bell, H. J. Punge, G. Saville, P. Salio, L. Vidal, L. Machado, K. Khlopenkov, K. F. Itterly, S. Bang, and D. A. Spangenberg

2:45 PM
3B.4
Day–Night Monitoring of Volcanic SO2 and Ash for Aviation Avoidance at Northern Polar Latitudes: Enhancing Direct Readout Capabilities from EOS, SNPP, and NOAA-20
N. A. Krotkov, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD; and C. Li, C. Seftor, K. Brentzel, V. Realmuto, M. Stuefer, D. J. Schneider, J. Tamminen, S. Hassinen, T. Ryyppö, E. Petrescu, and J. J. Murray

3:00 PM
3B.5
NASA Earth Science Disasters Program: Transitional Earth Observation Applications from Hazard to Risk through Exposure and Vulnerability
John J. Murray, NASA Langley Research Center, Hampton, VA; and D. S. Green, D. Borges, S. N. McClain, and B. Helms

3:15 PM
3B.6
Putting International Science to Work for Resilience
D. S. Green, NASA Headquarters, Washington, DC; and S. N. McClain

3:30 PM
3B.7
Building Cloud-Based Data Services to Enable Earth Science Workflows across HPC Centres for Decision-Makers
Stephan Siemen, ECMWF, Reading, U.K.; and T. Quintino, J. Hawkes, J. Hanley, and M. Vuckovic

4:00 PM-6:00 PM: Monday, 13 January 2020


Formal Poster Viewing Reception (Mon)
Location: Hall B (Boston Convention and Exhibition Center)

Poster Session 1
EIPT Posters: Day 1
Location: Hall B (Boston Convention and Exhibition Center)
Host: 36th Conference on Environmental Information Processing Technologies
Cochairs: Kevin R. Tyle, Univ. at Albany, SUNY; S. S. Lindstrom, Univ. of Wisconsin–Madison/CIMSS
35A
Operational Meteorological Assimilation Data Ingest System (MADIS) Current Functionality and Planned Enhancements
Greg Pratt, OAR, Boulder, CO; and L. Benjamin

35
Interactive and Accessible Satellite Meteorology with WebGL
Clayton Suplinski, Univ. of Wisconsin–Madison Space Science and Engineering Center, Madison, WI; CIMSS, Madison, WI; and J. O. Robaidek

36
Development of Interactive Virtual Environment for Hydrometeorological Visualization and Analysis
Branden Spooner, Caribbean Institute for Meteorology and Hydrology, Bridgetown, Barbados; and D. Farrell, S. A. Boyce, and R. N. Walters

37
Dashboards for Real-Time Monitoring of Winter Operations Activities and After-Action Assessment
Jairaj C. Desai, Purdue Univ., West Lafayette, IN; Purdue Univ., West Lafayette, IN; and J. K. Mathew, W. Kim, M. Liu, H. Li, J. D. Brooks, and D. M. Bullock

38
Impacts of Snow Squalls on Pennsylvania Roadways
Michael Colbert, NOAA/NWS, State College, PA; and B. Watson, J. Ceru, M. L. Jurewicz Sr., and A. Andreson

39
The Pennsylvania Pathfinder Project
Matthew Steinbugl, NOAA/NWS, State College, PA

40
Characteristics of Microburst and Wind Shear in Recent Years at Incheon International Airport
Jae Won Lee, KMA, Incheon, Korea, Republic of (South); and S. K. KIM, K. Y. BYEN, and J. KIM
Manuscript (202.0 kB)

42
Using Total Lightning Data to Optimize Airport Shutdown Costs
Mark Hoekzema, Earth Networks, Germantown, MD; and M. Stock, J. Lapierre, M. Mehallow, and C. Merrill

43
Comparison of Infrasound Wind Filter Designs for Airport Deployments
Bhushan Parab, Univ. of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA; and D. Westbrook, S. Nelson, and D. Pepyne

Tuesday, 14 January 2020

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8:30 AM-10:00 AM: Tuesday, 14 January 2020


Session 4A
AWIPS System Updates. Part I
Location: 157C (Boston Convention and Exhibition Center)
Host: 36th Conference on Environmental Information Processing Technologies
Cochairs: William Roberts, OAR; J. E. Burks, CIRA; Maxwell Grover, Univ. of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign
8:30 AM
4A.1
AWIPS Program Update and Strategy
Ronla K. Henry-Reeves, NWS, Silver Spring, MD; and A. Wallace, E. Mandel, S. S. Schotz, and W. Sellers

9:00 AM
4A.2
The Evolution of NWS AWIPS
Ronla K. Henry-Reeves, NWS, Silver Spring, MD; and E. Mandel, S. Jacobs, S. S. Schotz, W. Sellers, and O. Nguyen

9:15 AM
4A.3
NWS Satellite Broadcast Services—Setting a New Direction
Scott Jacobs, NOAA/NWS, Silver Spring, MD; and P. Kirkwood, K. Conaty, J. Casamento, and P. Cragg

9:30 AM
4A.4
National Centers AWIPS Migration Status
Steve Schotz, NOAA/NWS, Silver Spring, MD; and S. Jacobs, D. Plummer, J. E. Calkins, J. Anderson, E. M. Guillot, L. Byrle, and J. Henry

9:45 AM
4A.5
National Weather Service Hazard Services—Field Deployment and Vision
Mark Armstrong, NWS, Silver Spring, MD


Session 4B
Interagency Coordination within the Federal Weather Enterprise
Location: 209 (Boston Convention and Exhibition Center)
Host: 36th Conference on Environmental Information Processing Technologies
Cochairs: C. Sim James, Office of the Federal Coordinator for Meteorology; Michael F. Bonadonna, Office of the Federal Coordinator for Meteorology
8:30 AM
4B.1
OFCM 101: Overview of the Office of the Federal Coordinator for Meteorological Services and Supporting Research
Michael F. Bonadonna, Office of the Federal Coordinator for Meteorology, Silver Spring, MD; and C. S. James

8:45 AM
4B.2
National Space Weather Coordination Activities: Forging a Partnership among U.S. Government, Commercial, and Academic Organizations to Improve National Space Weather Capabilities
Jaclyn R. Keshian, Office of Science and Technology Policy, Washington, DC; and M. F. Bonadonna

9:00 AM
4B.3
Overview of the Committee for Operational Processing Centers (COPC)
Carissa L. Klemmer, NCEP, College Park, MD

9:15 AM
4B.4
Federal Interagency Coordination for Research in the Arctic
Amy Holman, NOAA, Anchorage, AK; and S. Bowden and R. Crain

9:30 AM
4B.5
A Targeted Operational Aircraft Reconnaissance Program Strategy for Improved Prediction of Atmospheric Rivers and Winter Storms
Vijay Tallapragada, NOAA/NWS/NCEP/EMC, College Park, MD; and F. M. Ralph, P. G. Black, X. Wu, T. J. Elless, A. Mehra, and R. D. Torn

9:45 AM
4B.6
The Operational Transition from Winter Storms Reconnaissance (2014) to Winter Season Reconnaissance
Jack Parrish, NOAA Aircraft Operations Center, Lakeland, FL

10:00 AM-10:30 AM: Tuesday, 14 January 2020


AM Coffee Break (Tuesday)

10:30 AM-12:00 PM: Tuesday, 14 January 2020


Session 5A
AWIPS System Updates. Part II
Location: 157C (Boston Convention and Exhibition Center)
Host: 36th Conference on Environmental Information Processing Technologies
Cochairs: William F. Roberts, NOAA; J. E. Burks, CIRA; Maxwell Grover, Univ. of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign
10:30 AM
5A.1
Improving the Software Development Life Cycle for NWS AWIPS
Scott Jacobs, NOAA/NWS, Silver Spring, MD; and A. Rivera, K. P. Johnson, R. Peter, S. S. Schotz, E. Mandel, and W. Sellers

10:45 AM
5A.2
A Cloud Environment for AWIPS Development, Testing, and Training: Update and Future Plans
Scott Jacobs, NOAA/NWS, Silver Spring, MD; and A. Rivera, K. S. Sperow, J. E. Burks, D. A. Morris, and W. Sellers

11:00 AM
5A.3
National Weather Service AWIPS Developer Training Course
J. E. Burks, CIRA, Huntsville, AL

11:15 AM
5A.4
New Approaches to AWIPS Configuration Training in the National Weather Service Using Hazard Services
Eric P. Jacobsen, CIMMS/Univ. of Oklahoma and NWS/OCLO/WDTD, Norman, OK; and M. A. Magsig and D. A. Morris

11:30 AM
5A.5
Advancing Advanced Weather Interactive Processing System (AWIPS) Capabilities and Methods at Center Weather Service Units (CWSUs) through Collaboration and Teamwork
David Tomalak Tomalak, NWS, Arvada, CO

11:45 AM
5A.6
Using AWIPS for Product Development at the Weather Prediction Center
Diana R. Stovern, CIRES, Boulder, CO; CIRES, College Park, MD; and J. A. Nelson Jr.


Session 5B
GIS and the Four Cs of Contextualize, Collaborate, Convey, and Cloud
Location: 209 (Boston Convention and Exhibition Center)
Host: 36th Conference on Environmental Information Processing Technologies
Cochairs: John B. Settelmaier, NOAA/NWS; Daniel P. Pisut, Esri
10:30 AM
5B.1
Contextualizing, Collaborating on, and Conveying NWS Information with Geographic Information Systems (GIS)
Kari L. Sheets, NWS, Bohemia, NY; and S. Gilbert, A. Hardy, N. Parikh, and D. Rinker

10:45 AM
5B.2
Blending GIS Tools to Generate Visualizations for Drought.Gov
Rocky G. Bilotta, ISciences and NOAA/NESDIS/National Centers for Environmental Information, Asheville, NC; and S. Ansari and A. M. Courtright

11:00 AM
5B.3
Communicating Risks and Impacts of Probabilistic Precipitation Forecasts and River Stage
Jennifer Boehnert, NCAR, Boulder, CO; and T. Hopson and E. Riddle

11:15 AM
5B.4
Leveraging Cloud-Based Data for Generating Multisensor Flood Maps in Myanmar
Amanda M. Weigel, Univ. of Alabama in Huntsville, Huntsville, AL; and K. Markert, F. Chisthie, T. Mayer, A. Haag, B. Bhandari, M. Kwant, W. van Verseveld, D. Saah, P. Towashiraporn, K. Phongsapan, and K. Matheswaran

11:30 AM
5B.5
Earth, Air, Fire, and Water: Integrating Visualization of Weather and Land Processes with Mapservices
Sam Batzli, Univ. of Wisconsin–Madison, Madison, WI; and D. Parker, R. Dengel, and N. Bearson

11:45 AM
5B.6
An Integrated GIS and Big Data Platform for Meteorological Disaster Risk Management and Its Application
Guofu Wang, BCC, Beijing, China; and Y. Li, S. Sun, W. Hou, and A. Feng

12:00 PM-1:30 PM: Tuesday, 14 January 2020


Lunch Break (Tuesday)

1:30 PM-2:30 PM: Tuesday, 14 January 2020


Session 6A
Cloud Computing for Environmental Data Processing and Display: Promise versus Practice. Part I
Location: 157C (Boston Convention and Exhibition Center)
Host: 36th Conference on Environmental Information Processing Technologies
Cochairs: Eugene Burger, NOAA/ERL/PMEL; Tiffany C. Vance, NOAA; Kevin R. Tyle, Univ. at Albany, SUNY
1:30 PM
6A.1
Cloud Promise versus Practice: Real-World Examples of High-Performance Data Management
Kirk Kern, Americas NetApp, Inc., Vienna, VA; and M. J. Schmitt

1:45 PM
6A.2
Effective Software Engineering for Application Development in the Cloud
Jebb Q. Stewart, NOAA, Boulder, CO

2:00 PM
6A.3
Migration to Cloud and Path to Modernization for the Joint Polar Satellite System Data Production System
J. M. Olson, Raytheon Intelligence, Information, and Services, Aurora, CO; and S. M. Kern, E. A. Greene, S. W. Miller, D. B. Han, and A. Drew

2:15 PM
6A.4
Environmental Data Processing on AWS
Zachary L. Flamig, Amazon Web Services, Chicago, IL; and J. Flasher and A. Pinheiro Privette


Session 6B
Visualization Techniques for Climatology and Meteorology with New Data. Part I
Location: 209 (Boston Convention and Exhibition Center)
Host: 36th Conference on Environmental Information Processing Technologies
Cochairs: J. T. Johnson, DTN; Steven R. Chiswell, Savannah River National Laboratory; S. S. Lindstrom, Univ. of Wisconsin–Madison/CIMSS; Daniel Vignoles, NCEP
1:30 PM
6B.1
Utilizing the NOAA Weather and Climate Toolkit to Create Compelling Visualizations
S. Ansari, NOAA/NESDIS/National Centers for Environmental Information, Asheville, NC

1:45 PM
6B.2
Localized Hourly Lightning Climatology Heatmaps: A Visual Tool for Evaluating Lightning Risk
Noel S. Keene, NWS, Medford, OR; and C. Z. Smith

2:00 PM
6B.3
Visual Comparator: An Interactive Tool for Dynamic Spatiotemporal Comparative Visualizations
Nihanth W. Cherukuru, NCAR, Boulder, CO; and T. Scheitlin

2:15 PM
6B.4
Exploring Satellite Observations in Virtual Reality
Patrick C. Meyers, Univ. of Maryland, College Park, College Park, MD; and M. Quick, D. Li, E. Lee, S. D. Rudlosky, B. Brawn-Cinani, and A. Varshney

2:30 PM-3:00 PM: Tuesday, 14 January 2020


PM Coffee Break (Tuesday)

3:00 PM-4:00 PM: Tuesday, 14 January 2020


Session 7A
Cloud Computing for Environmental Data Processing and Display: Promise versus Practice. Part II
Location: 157C (Boston Convention and Exhibition Center)
Host: 36th Conference on Environmental Information Processing Technologies
Cochairs: Eugene Burger, NOAA/ERL/PMEL; Tiffany C. Vance, NOAA; Kevin R. Tyle, Univ. at Albany, SUNY
3:00 PM
7A.1
DyNamo: Scalable Weather Workflow Processing in the Academic Multicloud
Eric Lyons, Univ. of Massachusetts Amherst, Amherst, MA; and M. Zink, A. Mandal, C. Wang, P. Ruth, C. Radhakrishnan, G. Papadimitriou, E. Deelman, K. Thareja, and I. Rodero

3:15 PM
7A.2
Cloud Native Data Processing and Visualizations Techniques for Earth Science Data
Ajinkya Kulkarni, Univ. of Alabama in Huntsville, Huntsville, AL; and H. Conover, A. Marouane, T. Berendes, B. Ellingson, G. T. Stano, and S. J. Graves

3:30 PM
7A.3
Distributing WDSS-II Data on Google Cloud
Valliappa Lakshmanan, Valliappa Lakshmanan, Bellevue, WA; and S. Glass, T. Smith, and A. Campbell

3:45 PM
7A.4
Cloud Computing Support for the Weather Research and Forecasting Model
Kelly K. Werner, NCAR, Boulder, CO; and J. G. Powers and D. Gill


Session 7B
Visualization Techniques for Climatology and Meteorology with New Data. Part II
Location: 209 (Boston Convention and Exhibition Center)
Host: 36th Conference on Environmental Information Processing Technologies
Cochairs: J. T. Johnson, DTN; Steven R. Chiswell, Savannah River National Laboratory; S. S. Lindstrom, Univ. of Wisconsin–Madison; Daniel Vignoles, NCEP
3:00 PM
7B.1
Web-Based GRIB2 Visualization Techniques at the Aviation Weather Testbed
Austin Cross, NOAA/NWS/NCEP/Aviation Weather Center, Kansas City, MO

3:15 PM
7B.2
Novel Web-Based Tools for the Visualization of High-Impact Weather Forecasts with Convection-Allowing Ensembles
Ryan A. Sobash, NCAR, Boulder, CO; and B. Roberts and P. S. Skinner

3:30 PM
7B.3
Incorporating and interpreting Drone Measurements for Decision-Based Applications
Steven R. Chiswell, Savannah River National Laboratory, Aiken, SC

4:00 PM-6:00 PM: Tuesday, 14 January 2020


Formal Poster Viewing Reception (Tues)
Location: Hall B (Boston Convention and Exhibition Center)

Poster Session 2
EIPT Posters: Day 2
Location: Hall B (Boston Convention and Exhibition Center)
Host: 36th Conference on Environmental Information Processing Technologies
Cochairs: Kevin R. Tyle, Univ. at Albany, SUNY; S. S. Lindstrom, Univ. of Wisconsin–Madison
531A
Improving Microburst Detection and Warning with Polarimetric Weather Radar
Qing Cao, Enterprise Electronics Corporation, Enterprise, AL; and M. Knight, A. V. Ryzhkov, and P. Zhang

531
Progress Toward Integrated Tools for NWS National Centers
Nathan Hardin, CIRA/Colorado State Univ. and NOAA/OAR/ESRL/GSD, Boulder, CO; and D. Nietfeld, D. M. Kingfield, J. M. Sienkiewicz, F. Achorn, and J. A. Nelson

532
Data Visualization for All! Videos for Unidata's Integrated Data Viewer
Jessica Michael Blunt, UCAR, Boulder, CO; Univ. of Oklahoma, Norman, OK; and Y. Ho

533
Completing the Meteorological Archive Missing Data at the Daily and Subdaily Time Scales
Isabella Osetinsky-Tzidaki, Israeli Consulting in Climatological Projects and Practices, Bat Yam, Israel; formerly affiliated with the Israel Meteorological Service (while working on this project), Bet Dagan, Israel

534
PODPAC: The Easy Way to Analyze Earth Science Data in the Cloud
Jerry Bieszczad, Creare LLC, Hanover, NH; and M. P. Ueckermann, M. Shapiro, D. R. Callender, D. Sullivan, and D. Entekhabi

535
Overview of the U.S. National Ice Center: History, Mission, Products, and Services
Kevin Berberich, U.S. National Ice Center, Suitland, MD; and H. Quilenderino and D. McCormick

537
CF Conventions for netCDF: Support for Data Access, Analysis, and Visualization
Ethan Davis, UCAR, Boulder, CO; and G. Castelao, D. Hassell, J. K. Hausman, A. Jelenak, D. Lee, and K. M. O'Brien

538
The Interleaved Ensemble Map
Samu Karanko, Foreca Ltd, Espoo, Finland; and J. Hyvätti and J. M. Tilli

539
Enhanced Marine Awareness through Real-Time Processing of Crowd-Sourced Mobile Device Observations
Marc Shapiro, Creare LLC, Hanover, NH; and J. Bieszczad, E. Desjardins, D. R. Callender, and B. A. Colle

Wednesday, 15 January 2020

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8:30 AM-10:00 AM: Wednesday, 15 January 2020


Session 8B
Radar Technologies and Applications. Part I
Location: 155 (Boston Convention and Exhibition Center)
Host: 36th 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
8B.1
An Update on the Advanced Technology Demonstrator at the National Severe Storms Laboratory
Sebastian M. Torres, CIMMS, Norman, OK; and C. D. Curtis, E. Forren, S. Gregg, I. R. Ivic, J. R. Mendoza, D. Schvartzman, C. Schwarz, D. Wasielewski, and A. Zahrai

8:45 AM
8B.2
Distributed Beams: A Technique to Reduce the Scan Time of an Active Rotating Phased-Array Radar System
David Schvartzman, CIMMS, Norman, OK; and S. M. Torres

9:00 AM
8B.3
Experimental Validation of the Multibeam Technique for Rapid-Scan, Meteorological Phased-Array Radar
Mark E. Weber, Cooperative Institute for Mesoscale Meteorological Studies, Norman, OK; and V. Melnikov, D. Zrnic, K. Hondl, R. R. Zellner, and B. Hudson

9:15 AM
8B.4
Weather Calibration Efforts on the Advanced Technology Demonstrator
Igor R. Ivic, Univ. of Oklahoma/NSSL, Norman, OK; and D. Schvartzman

9:30 AM
8B.5
Estimating the Value of Weather Radars in Reducing Flash Flood Casualties
John Y. N. Cho, MIT Lincoln Laboratory, Lexington, MA; and J. M. Kurdzo

9:45 AM
8B.6
NLFM Radar Waveform Generation Using a Neural Network Approach to Rapidly Predict Bezier Curve Shape
James M. Kurdzo, MIT Lincoln Laboratory, Lexington, MA; and J. Y. N. Cho, B. L. Cheong, and R. D. Palmer


Joint Session 32
Common Technology Review—Past, Present, and Future
Location: 157C (Boston Convention and Exhibition Center)
Hosts: (Joint between the 36th Conference on Environmental Information Processing Technologies; the 10th Symposium on Advances in Modeling and Analysis Using Python; the 10th Conference on Transition of Research to Operations; and the Sixth Symposium on High Performance Computing for Weather, Water, and Climate )
Cochairs: Nazila Merati, Merati and Associates; Scott Jacobs, NOAA/NWS; Timothy S. Sliwinski, Texas Tech Univ.; Scott Collis, Argonne National Laboratory; Margaret Caulfield, NOAA/NESDIS (Retired)
8:30 AM
J32.1
Aviation Weather—40 Years of Trying to Enhance Decision Support
Jeffrey S. Tongue, Suffolk County Community College, Brentwood, NY

8:45 AM
J32.2
Evolution of NWS Forecaster Environmental Information Processing Systems
Gregg Grosshans, NOAA, Norman, OK

9:00 AM
J32.3
Humans over the Forecast Loop at The Weather Company, an IBM Business
James Lidrbauch, The Weather Company, Andover, MA

9:15 AM
J32.4
Implementing Facets: Presenting the Most Recent Updates and Testing Results for Hazard Services-PHI
Kevin L. Manross, CIRA/Colorado State Univ. and NOAA/OAR/ESRL/GSD, Boulder, CO; and Y. Guo, G. J. Stumpf, T. C. Meyer, D. M. Kingfield, A. V. Bates, D. Nietfeld, and T. L. Hansen

9:30 AM
J32.5
Development of a Display Tool to Quality Control Weather Balloon Data for Space Launch Vehicles Using Python
Jessica Kaitlyn Headley, Jacobs Space Exploration Group, MSFC, AL; and C. M. Sayre Jr. and J. C. Brenton

9:45 AM
J32.6
ESPDS: Over 1 Billion Served—Three Years of Operations for the Environmental Satellite Processing and Distribution System
George Wilkinson, Solers, Greenbelt, MD; and R. Baker, D. M. Beall, R. Niemann, S. Walsh, M. Leach, T. Kowalski, and S. Causey

10:00 AM-10:30 AM: Wednesday, 15 January 2020


AM Coffee Break (Wednesday)

10:30 AM-12:00 PM: Wednesday, 15 January 2020


Session 9A
Application of Autonomous Observing Platforms to Enhance Our Understanding of the Atmosphere and Ocean: Observations, Impacts, Indicators, and Understanding Change
Location: 157C (Boston Convention and Exhibition Center)
Host: 36th Conference on Environmental Information Processing Technologies
Cochairs: Randall Bass, FAA; Michael Grogan, The Weather Company/IBM; Melissa A. Wagner, Arizona State Univ.
10:30 AM
9A.1
Using Airborne Lidar Data to Characterize Local Surface Features and Their Influence on Wind Observations
Alex Gallagher, Univ. at Albany, SUNY, Albany, NY; and R. G. Fovell

10:45 AM
9A.2
The Role of sUAS for Poststorm Damage Assessment in the National Weather Service: Past Successes, Current Initiatives, and Future Plans of the Eastern Region Drone Team
Michael B. Sporer, NOAA/NWS, Blacksburg, VA; and R. F. Morales Jr.

11:00 AM
9A.3
Hyperspatial Multispectral Analysis of Tornado Damage in the High Plains
Melissa A. Wagner, Arizona State Univ., Tempe, AZ; and R. K. Doe

11:15 AM
9A.4
Identification and Analysis of Microscale Hydrologic Impacts and Hazards Using Unmanned Aerial Systems
Jamie L. Dyer, Mississippi State Univ., Mississippi State, MS; and R. J. Moorhead II

11:30 AM
9A.5
Saildrone Data Handling: Workflow from Drone to Desktop
Eugene F. Burger, PMEL, Seattle, CA; and C. Meinig, C. W. Mordy, J. N. Cross, E. D. Cokelet, M. Cronin, D. Peacock, K. M. O'Brien, A. Manke, and N. Lawrence-Slavas

11:45 AM
9A.6
The DESIS Hyperspectral Sensor on the International Space Station: A Novel, Automatically Taskable Platform for Monitoring Ocean Plastics and Understanding Ocean Currents
Amanda O'Connor, Teledyne Brown Engineering, Huntsville, AL; and E. Esen


Session 9B
Radar Technologies and Applications. Part II
Location: 155 (Boston Convention and Exhibition Center)
Host: 36th 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
9B.1
A Comparison of Scan Speedup Strategies and Their Effect on Rapid-Scan Weather Radar Data Quality
Andrew Mahre, Univ. of Oklahoma, Norman, OK; and T. Y. Yu and D. J. Bodine

10:45 AM
9B.2
X-Band Phased-Array Weather-Radar Polarimetry Testbed: Tilted Aperture Bias Correction Results
William Heberling, Univ. of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA; and S. J. Frasier, C. Wolsieffer, and J. Adam

11:00 AM
9B.3
X-Band Radar Observations of the Angular Dependence of Specific Differential Phase above the Brightband
Joshua M. Hampton, Univ. of Leeds, Leeds, UK; and D. Dufton, L. Bennett, and R. R. Neely III

11:15 AM
9B.4
Using a Regression Filter to Mitigate Ground Clutter Echoes and Improve Signal Statistics
J. C. Hubbert, NCAR, Boulder, CO; and G. Meymaris, M. J. Dixon, and U. Romatschke

11:30 AM
9B.5
A Man-Portable Doppler Radar System for Short-Range Military Weather Detection
Timothy Maese, Basic Commerce and Industries, Inc., Moorestown, NJ

11:45 AM
9B.6
Portable Bistatic Weather Radar
Timothy Maese, Basic Commerce and Industries, Inc., Moorestown, NJ

12:00 PM-1:30 PM: Wednesday, 15 January 2020


Lunch Break (Wednesday)

1:30 PM-2:30 PM: Wednesday, 15 January 2020


Session 10A
Software Engineering and Cyberinfrastructure for Environmental Processing
Location: 157C (Boston Convention and Exhibition Center)
Host: 36th Conference on Environmental Information Processing Technologies
Cochairs: William Roberts, OAR; Steven R. Chiswell, Savannah River National Laboratory
1:30 PM
10A.1
The Public Release of Build-Script-Unified NCEP Libraries and Utilities on GitHub
Mark Iredell, EMC, College Park, MD; and H. Lei, D. Zhang, B. Vuong, G. Vandenberghe, and G. Gayno

1:45 PM
10A.2
Development of the NCEPLIBS Umbrella to Service the Operational Modeling and Community Research
Hang Lei, NOAA/NCEP/EMC and IMSG, College Park, MD; and M. Iredell, G. Vandenberghe, and A. Chawla

2:00 PM
10A.3
The Fishnet Approach of Data Quality Control at SRNL
Stephen Weinbeck, Savannah River National Laboratory, Aiken, SC; and E. Bell, J. T. Hamilton, A. Kail, A. Riveria-Giboyeaux, and C. H. Hunter

2:15 PM
10A.4
Data Ecosystem for the Joint ESA–NASA Multimission Algorithm and Analysis Platform
Kaylin Bugbee, Univ. of Alabama, Huntsville, AL; and A. Whitehurst, A. Kaulfus, J. Le Roux, A. Barciauskas, L. Duncanson, M. Lavalle, R. Ramachandran, and M. Maskey


Session 10B
Radar Technologies and Applications. Part III
Location: 155 (Boston Convention and Exhibition Center)
Host: 36th 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
10B.1
NEXRAD Radar Product Improvement—Update 2020
Michael J. Istok, NOAA/NWS, Silver Spring, MD

1:45 PM
10B.2
VAD Analysis with the Inclusion of the Deformation Term
Dusan Zrnic, NOAA/NSSL, Norman, OK; and R. M. Rabin, X. Qin, and K. Nai

2:00 PM
10B.3
The Impact of the Radar Differential Phase upon Transmission on the Polarimetric Variables
Valery Melnikov, CIMMS, Norman, OK

2:15 PM
10B.4
Review of Operational Applications of Polarimetric Tornado Debris Signatures
David Bodine, Univ. of Oklahoma, Norman, OK; and C. B. Griffin, S. M. Torres, B. L. Cheong, R. D. Palmer, and C. Fulton

2:30 PM-3:00 PM: Wednesday, 15 January 2020


PM Coffee Break (Wednesday)

3:00 PM-4:00 PM: Wednesday, 15 January 2020


Session 11B
Radar Technologies and Applications. Part IV
Location: 155 (Boston Convention and Exhibition Center)
Host: 36th 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
11B.1
A New Ka-Band Image PAR Concept for 4D-Volume Rapid Scan for Cloud Observations
Jorge Salazar-Cerreno, Norman, OK; Univ. of Oklahoma, Norman, OK; and D. Bodine, J. McDaniel, C. R. Homeyer, R. D. Palmer, M. Yeary, P. E. Kirstetter, G. M. McFarquhar, J. F. Kelly, B. M. Isom, P. Kollias, M. R. Kumjian, and S. Tanelli

3:15 PM
11B.2
Dual-Polarization Radar Snow QPE in MRMS
Wolfgang Hanft, CIMMS/Univ. of Oklahoma and NOAA/NSSL, Norman, OK; and J. Zhang, P. Bukovcic, A. V. Ryzhkov, S. B. Cocks, S. M. Martinaitis, and K. W. Howard

3:30 PM
11B.3
Utilizing Dual-Polarization Instantaneous Precipitation Rate to Predict Flash Flooding
Aaron Reynolds, NWS, Buffalo, NY; and D. Church and K. Apffel

3:45 PM
11B.4
Drop-Size Distribution Retrieval With Dual-Frequency Dual-Polarization Radars
Yadong Wang, Southern Illinois Univ., Edwardsville, IL; Southern Illinois Univ., Edwardsville, IL; and L. Tang and P. L. Chang


Joint Session 49
FAIR and Open Data within the Atmospheric Sciences. Part I
Location: 157C (Boston Convention and Exhibition Center)
Hosts: (Joint between the 36th Conference on Environmental Information Processing Technologies; and the 23rd Conference of Atmospheric Science Librarians International )
Cochairs: Mohan Ramamurthy, UCAR; Matthew S. Mayernik, NCAR
3:00 PM
J49.1
Addressing FAIR Data Principles Sustainably
David W. Gallaher, Univ. of Colorado, Boulder, CO; and R. McAllister, C. Pankratz, J. Craft, G. Grant, and K. Schaefer

3:15 PM
J49.2
Advancing FAIR Data within NASA’s WDS Trusted Physical Oceanography Repository
David F. Moroni, JPL, Pasadena, CA; and E. M. Armstrong, J. C. Klose, and S. Vannan

3:30 PM
J49.3
Addressing FAIR Challenges in Serving the Bureau of Reclamation's Weather, Water, and Water-Related Data
Levi D. Brekke, U.S. Bureau of Reclamation, Denver, CO; and A. Odell, K. Nowak, S. Poulton, and J. Nagode

3:45 PM
J49.4
AMS 2019 Open Data Distributed on Amazon’s Cloud Service
Roope Tervo, Finnish Meteorological Institute, Helsinki, Finland; and M. Sofiev

4:00 PM-6:00 PM: Wednesday, 15 January 2020


Formal Poster Viewing Reception (Wed)

Poster Session 3
EIPT Posters: Day 3
Location: Hall B (Boston Convention and Exhibition Center)
Host: 36th Conference on Environmental Information Processing Technologies
Cochairs: Kevin R. Tyle, Univ. at Albany, SUNY; S. S. Lindstrom, Univ. of Wisconsin–Madison
1034
Applications of MRMS 1-h Swath Data and High-Resolution Hail Reports for Developing an MRMS-Based Hail Climatology
Danya Kay Meadows, OU/CIMMS and NOAA/OAR/NSSL, Norman, OK; and S. S. Williams and K. L. Ortega

1035
Implementing a Polarimetric Hail Size Algorithm for MRMS
Mya J. Sears, OU/CIMMS and NOAA/OAR/NSSL, Norman, OK; and K. L. Ortega and S. S. Williams

1036
Exploring MRMS Merger Options for Polarimetric Moments and Doppler Wind-Derived Products
Benjamin Price, OU/CIMMS and NOAA/OAR/NSSL, Norman, OK; and M. J. Sears, K. L. Ortega, and S. S. Williams

1037
MRMS Product Distributions for NWS Warning Polygons
Zoe A. Douglas, OU/CIMMS and NOAA/OAR/NSSL, Norman, OK; and K. L. Ortega and S. S. Williams

1038
Optimizing Radiation Patterns for Weather Observations through a Cylindrical Polarimetric Phased-Array Radar
MohammadHossein GolbonHaghighi, Advanced Radar Research Center, Moore, OK; and G. Zhang

1039
The Weather Company's Global Radar Mosaic Process
William M. Sheridan, The Weather Company, Andover, MA; and S. Honey and J. Tang

1040
A Serverless Architecture for NEXRAD Weather Radar Data Pipeline
Jingyin Tang, IBM, Atlanta, GA; and S. Honey and P. O'Neil

1041
Approaches for Compression of Dual-Polarization Weather Radar Data
Qiangyu Zeng, Chengdu Univ. of Information Technology, Chengdu,Sichuan, China; and J. He and Z. Shi

1042
A Web-Based Visualization Tool for FACETs
Rebecca B. Steeves, OU/CIMMS and NOAA/NSSL, Norman, OK; and P. A. Campbell and T. M. Smith

1043
Quantifying the Benefits of a Simulated Rapid-Scan Weather Radar for Severe Storm Observations
Andrew Mahre, Univ. of Oklahoma, Norman, OK; and T. Y. Yu and D. J. Bodine

1044
Implementation of a Far-Field Tower for Calibrating a Dual-Polarization Planar Phased-Array Radar
Daniel J. Wasielewski, NSSL, Norman, OK; and J. R. Mendoza, I. R. Ivic, and A. Zahrai

Thursday, 16 January 2020

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8:30 AM-9:30 AM: Thursday, 16 January 2020


Session 12B
Radar Technologies and Applications. Part V
Location: 155 (Boston Convention and Exhibition Center)
Host: 36th 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
12B.1
Airborne Phased-Array Radar (APAR) Trade Study Results
Mark L Yaklich, Ball Aerospace, Westminster, CO; and M. C. Leifer

8:45 AM
12B.2
Airborne Phased-Array Radar (APAR): The Next Generation of Airborne Polarimetric Doppler Weather Radar
Louis L. Lussier III, NCAR, Broomfield, CO; and W. C. Lee and V. Grubišić

9:00 AM
12B.3
Development and Preliminary Results of the Airborne Phased-Array Radar (APAR) Observation Simulator (AOS)
Scott Ellis, NCAR, Boulder, CO; and W. C. Lee, G. H. Bryan, K. W. Manning, T. Y. Cha, M. M. Bell, and L. L. Lussier III

9:15 AM
12B.4
Investigating the Impact of Radar Observation Height on Streamflow Modeling: The 31 May 2013 El Reno/Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, Flash Flood Case
James M. Kurdzo, MIT Lincoln Laboratory, Lexington, MA; and Y. Wen, C. M. Kuster, J. Y. N. Cho, and T. J. Schuur


Joint Session 56
FAIR and Open Data within the Atmospheric Sciences. Part II
Location: 157C (Boston Convention and Exhibition Center)
Hosts: (Joint between the 36th Conference on Environmental Information Processing Technologies; and the 23rd Conference of Atmospheric Science Librarians International )
Cochairs: Mohan K. Ramamurthy, UCAR; Matthew S. Mayernik, NCAR
8:30 AM
J56.1
From Observations to Models: Evolving NCEI’s Archive of and Access to NOAA’s Environmental Data
Monica A. Youngman, NOAA/NESDIS/National Centers for Environmental Information, Asheville, NC; and K. S. Casey, N. A. Ritchey, R. Baldwin, and S. Rutz

8:45 AM
J56.2
NCEI: Tackling the “R” in FAIR
Nancy A. Ritchey, NOAA/NESDIS/National Centers for Environmental Information, Asheville, NC; and J. Cooper, M. J. Brewer, D. Collins, and M. Youngman

9:00 AM
J56.3
Determining Best Practices for Archiving and Reproducibility of Model Data
Gretchen L. Mullendore, Univ. of North Dakota, Grand Forks, ND; and M. S. Mayernik and D. Schuster

9:15 AM
J56.4
Weather on the Web (WotW)
Peter J. Trevelyan, Met Office, Exeter, UK; and M. Burgoyne

9:30 AM-10:30 AM: Thursday, 16 January 2020


Exhibit Hall Breakfast
Location: Hall A (Boston Convention and Exhibition Center)

10:30 AM-12:00 PM: Thursday, 16 January 2020


Session 13B
Radar Technologies and Applications. Part VI
Location: 155 (Boston Convention and Exhibition Center)
Host: 36th 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
13B.1
An Architecture for Monitoring Humidity Using Cellular Network Signals
Robert Michael Barts, Wireless Research Center of North Carolina, Wake Forest, NC; and A. Ram, K. Takamizawa, S. Soora, M. E. Weber, D. Zrnic, A. Ryzhkov, D. Wasielewski, and K. Brewster

10:45 AM
13B.2
Emulating Arbitrary Tornado Debris Fluxes Using “SimRadar”
B. L. Cheong, Univ. of Oklahoma, Norman, OK; and D. J. Bodine, M. E. Schneider, R. N. Cross, C. J. Fulton, S. M. Torres, R. D. Palmer, and T. Maruyama

11:00 AM
13B.3
S-Band Radar Rainfall Estimation in Taiwan
Lin Tang, CIMMS/Univ. of Oklahoma, Norman, OK; and J. Zhang, Y. S. Tang, and P. L. Chang


Joint Session 63
FAIR and Open Data within the Atmospheric Sciences. Part III
Location: 157C (Boston Convention and Exhibition Center)
Hosts: (Joint between the 36th Conference on Environmental Information Processing Technologies; and the 23rd Conference of Atmospheric Science Librarians International )
Cochairs: Mohan K. Ramamurthy, UCAR; Matthew S. Mayernik, NCAR
10:30 AM
J63.1
The Copernicus Climate Data Store: ECMWF’s Approach to Providing Online Access to Climate Data and Tools
Baudouin Raoult, ECMWF, Reading, U.K.; and C. Bergeron, C. Buontempo, A. Alos-Lopez, E. Comyn-Platt, E. Damasio-Da-Costa, and I. Rozum

10:45 AM
J63.2
Managing Diverse Data Submissions within a Multirepository Ecosystem
Matthew S. Mayernik, NCAR, Boulder, CO; and D. Schuster

11:00 AM
J63.3
Construction of an Airborne Data Inventory for Improved Data Discoverability and Access
Deborah Smith, Univ. of Alabama in Huntsville, Huntsville, AL; and S. M. Wingo, C. Davis, K. Bugbee, and R. Ramachandran

11:15 AM
J63.4
Improving Algorithm Communication and Data Cognizance through Standardizing Documentation
Aaron Kaulfus, Univ. of Alabama in Huntsville, Huntsville, AL; and K. Bugbee, A. Harris, S. Bailey, R. Ramachandran, S. Harkins, and A. Barciauskas

11:30 AM
J63.5
Operating a Cloud-Native Data Center
Will Ellett, UAH, Huntsville, AL; and A. Kulkarni, A. Marouane, J. Simmons, G. T. Stano, and S. J. Graves

11:45 AM
J63.6
ARM Data: Metrics, Processing, and Metadata Management for Evaluation Data Products
Rachael N. Isphording, ORNL, Oak Ridge, TN; and M. R. Davis, R. T. Cederwall, R. Devarakonda, M. Broxson, and A. Singh

12:00 PM-1:30 PM: Thursday, 16 January 2020


Lunch Break (Thursday)

1:30 PM-3:00 PM: Thursday, 16 January 2020


Joint Session 68
Python Tools for Weather Analysis and Forecasting
Location: 258C (Boston Convention and Exhibition Center)
Hosts: (Joint between the 30th Conference on Weather Analysis and Forecasting (WAF)/26th Conference on Numerical Weather Prediction (NWP); the 10th Symposium on Advances in Modeling and Analysis Using Python; and the 36th Conference on Environmental Information Processing Technologies )
Cochairs: Benjamin C. Trabing, Colorado State Univ.; Maxwell Grover, Univ. of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
1:30 PM
J68.1
Evaluation of an Open-Source Radar-Based Nowcasting Tool in a Tropical Environment
Brandon Osborne, i3, Huntsville, AL

1:45 PM
J68.2
Visualizations to Facilitate Regression for CAMPS
Alison L. Reynolds, College of William and Mary, Williamsburg, VA; and E. Schlie, D. E. Rudack, S. R. Olson, and E. Engle

2:00 PM
J68.3
Leveraging Predictions from NOAA's Oceanographic Forecast Models to Increase Environmental Variability Awareness in Ocean Mapping
Giuseppe Masetti, Univ. of New Hampshire, Durham, NH; and L. A. Mayer, P. D. Johnson, and J. G. W. Kelley

2:15 PM
J68.4
Distributed Workflow for WRF Processes and Visualization Using WRF-Python and Dask
Robert C. Fritzen, Northern Illinois Univ., DeKalb, IL; and V. A. Gensini, S. Collis, and R. Jackson

2:30 PM
J68.5
Bringing WRF into MetPy (and the Rest of the Atmospheric Sciences Python Ecosystem)
Jonathan E. Thielen, Iowa State Univ., Ames, IA; and R. M. May

2:45 PM
J68.6
Reproducible Forecast Evaluation with the Solar Forecast Arbiter
Antonio T. Lorenzo, The Univ. of Arizona, Tucson, AZ; and W. F. Holmgren, C. W. Hansen, A. Tuohy, J. Sharp, L. J. Boeman, A. Wigington, D. Larson, Q. Wang, and A. Golnas

3:00 PM-3:30 PM: Thursday, 16 January 2020


PM Coffee Break (Thursday)
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