88th Annual Meeting (20-24 January 2008)

Joint Session 3: Bridging the Gap between Artificial Intelligence and Statistics in Applications to Environmental Science-I

Wednesday, 23 January 2008: 8:30 AM-10:00 AM
219 (Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)
Chairs:  Michael B. Richman, Univ. of Oklahoma and William M. Briggs, Weill Cornell Medical School
Papers:
  8:30 AM
Quantile Regression
Caren Marzban, University of Washington/APL, Seattle, WA

  9:00 AM
Improving Bayesian neural network predictions of N. American seasonal climate by correcting for extrapolations
Aiming Wu, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada; and W. W. Hsieh, A. J. Cannon, and A. Shabbar

  9:15 AM
Neural Network Compound Parameterization with a Quality Control of Larger Errors for Robust and Fast Calculation of Physical Processes in Numerical Environmental Models
Vladimir M. Krasnopolsky, NCEP/NWS/NOAA (SAIC), Camp Springs, MD; and M. S. Fox-Rabinovitz, H. L. Tolman, and A. A. Belochitski

  9:45 AM
Statistical modeling of tornadic and non-tornadic severe weather outbreaks
Andrew E. Mercer, CIMMS/Univ. of Oklahoma, Norman, OK; and C. M. Shafer, L. M. Leslie, M. B. Richman, and C. A. Doswell III