Session 2 New Python Tools in the Atmospheric and Oceanographic Sciences.

Monday, 13 January 2020: 2:00 PM-4:00 PM
157AB (Boston Convention and Exhibition Center)
Host: 10th Symposium on Advances in Modeling and Analysis Using Python
Chair:
Ryan M. May, UCAR, Unidata, Boulder, CO

Submissions are welcomed to new Python tools in the atmospheric and oceanographic sciences. Submissions must specifically either introduce new tools or present significant progress (feature additions) to existing tools. If submitters are wishing to present on tool use please submit to other sessions in the Python Symposium. 

Papers:
2:00 PM
2.1
GeoCAT: The NCL Pivot to Python
John clyne, NCAR, BOULDER, CO

2:15 PM
2.2
FEMA's Tornado Damage Assessment Model and Lessons Learned from the 2019 Lee County, Alabama EF4 Tornado
Madeline Jones, New Light Technologies, Inc, Washington, DC; and R. E. Kollmeyer

2:30 PM
2.3
Remote access of National Hurricane Center Storm Tracks and Storm Prediction Center Storm Reports with Siphon
Aodhan Sweeney, UCAR, Boulder, CO; and S. C. Arms, R. M. May, and Z. Bruick

2:45 PM
2.4
Atmospheric Data Community Toolkit (ACT): A Python Library for Working with Atmospheric Data.
Adam Theisen, Argonne National Laboratory, Lemont, IL; and S. Collis, R. Jackson, Z. Sherman, N. L. Hickmon, K. E. Kehoe, C. Godine, A. J. Sockol, A. King, and M. T. Giansiracusa

3:00 PM
2.5
The Supercell Polarimetric Observation Research Kit (SPORK): An Automated, Python-Based Algorithm for Examining Supercell Dual-Pol Signatures
Matthew B. Wilson, Univ. of Nebraska, Lincoln, NE; and N. R. Humrich and M. S. Van Den Broeke

3:15 PM
2.6
Use of Python to Streamline and Refactor the WRF-Hydro Forcing Engine for Community Use
Logan Karsten, NCAR, Boulder, CO; and D. Gochis, Y. Zhang, and R. Cabell

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