Program Chair:
- Indicates paper has been withdrawn from meeting
- Indicates paper is an Award WinnerSunday, 6 January 2013
9:00 AM-6:00 PM: Sunday, 6 January 2013
Registration Open for Annual Meeting
Location: 4th Street Atrium (Austin Convention Center)
Monday, 7 January 2013
7:30 AM-5:30 PM: Monday, 7 January 2013
Registration Continues Through January 9
Location: 4th Street Atrium (Austin Convention Center)
8:30 AM-10:30 AM: Monday, 7 January 2013
Plenary Session
13th Presidential Forum: Taking Predictions to the Next Level: Expanding Beyond Today's Weather, Water, and Climate Forecasting and Projections
Location: Ballroom D (Austin Convention Center)
Hosts: (Joint
between the 13th Presidential Forum: Taking Predictions to the Next Level: Expanding Beyond Today;
the 27th Conference on Hydrology;
the 11th Symposium on the Coastal Environment;
the 17th Conference on Integrated Observing and Assimilation Systems for the Atmosphere, Oceans, and Land Surface (IOAS-AOLS);
the 11th Conference on Artificial and Computational Intelligence and its Applications to the Environmental Sciences;
the Symposium on Prediction of the Madden-Julian Oscillation;
the First Symposium on the Weather and Climate Enterprise;
the Eighth Symposium on Policy and Socio-economic Research;
the 16th Conference on Aviation, Range, and Aerospace Meteorology;
the First Symposium on Building a Weather-Ready Nation: Enhancing Our Nation’s Readiness, Responsiveness, and Resilience to High Impact Weather Events;
the Third Symposium on Advances in Modeling and Analysis Using Python;
the Sixth Symposium on Lidar Atmospheric Applications;
the Special Symposium on the Joint Center for Satellite Data Assimilation;
the Special Symposium on the Next Level of Predictions in Tropical Meteorology: Techniques, Usage, Support, and Impacts;
the 10th Conference on Space Weather;
the Symposium on the Role of Statistical Methods in Weather and Climate Prediction;
the Sixth Conference on the Meteorological Applications of Lightning Data;
the 11th History Symposium;
the 20th Conference on Applied Climatology;
the 29th Conference on Environmental Information Processing Technologies (formerly IIPS);
the Robert A. Duce Symposium;
the Third Conference on Transition of Research to Operations;
the Fourth Conference on Weather, Climate, and the New Energy Economy;
the 25th Conference on Climate Variability and Change;
and the Fourth Conference on Environment and Health
)
8:30 AM
Opening Remarks (by AMS President Dr. Louis Uccellini and Co-Chairs Troy Kimmel/Ken Carey will introduce Texas and Local Representatives)
8:35 AM
Warm Welcome to Austin!
8:45 AM
Introduction of Guest Speakers (by Dr. Louis Uccellini)
8:50 AM
"Predicting Weather and Climate: Scientific Progress and Future Opportunities" Dr. Alan Thorpe, European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts
9:10 AM
"River/Rainfall Forecast Fusion Cells" Major General Michael Walsh, US Army Corps of Engineers
10:25 AM
Closing Remarks (by Dr. Louis Uccellini)
10:30 AM-11:00 AM: Monday, 7 January 2013
Coffee Break
Location: Ballroom D Foyer (Austin Convention Center)
11:00 AM-12:00 PM: Monday, 7 January 2013
Themed Joint Session
1
Application of AI to the Climate System
Location: Room 18A (Austin Convention Center)
Hosts: (Joint
between the 11th Conference on Artificial and Computational Intelligence and its Applications to the Environmental Sciences;
and the 25th Conference on Climate Variability and Change
)
CoChair:
11:00 AM
TJ1.1
12:00 PM-1:30 PM: Monday, 7 January 2013
Lunch Break
1:30 PM-2:30 PM: Monday, 7 January 2013
Session
1
Applications of data mining/knowledge discovery and improved understanding of large environmental science datasets
Location: Room 18A (Austin Convention Center)
Host: 11th Conference on Artificial and Computational Intelligence and its Applications to the Environmental Sciences
Chair:
2:30 PM-4:00 PM: Monday, 7 January 2013
Formal Poster Viewing with Coffee Break
Location: Exhibit Hall 3 (Austin Convention Center)
Poster Session
1
AMS Committee on Artificial Intelligence Applications to Environmental Science: Poster session
Location: Exhibit Hall 3 (Austin Convention Center)
Host: 11th Conference on Artificial and Computational Intelligence and its Applications to the Environmental Sciences
Themed Joint Poster Session
Application of AI to the Climate System: Poster session
Location: Exhibit Hall 3 (Austin Convention Center)
Hosts: (Joint
between the 11th Conference on Artificial and Computational Intelligence and its Applications to the Environmental Sciences;
and the 25th Conference on Climate Variability and Change
)
CoChair:
4:00 PM-5:30 PM: Monday, 7 January 2013
Themed Joint Session
10
Medium-range, Sub-seasonal and Seasonal-scale Forecast Techniques and Modeling for Energy Demand Part I
Location: Room 6A (Austin Convention Center)
Hosts: (Joint
between the Fourth Conference on Weather, Climate, and the New Energy Economy;
the 25th Conference on Climate Variability and Change;
the 11th Conference on Artificial and Computational Intelligence and its Applications to the Environmental Sciences;
and the Symposium on Prediction of the Madden-Julian Oscillation
)
Cochairs:
5:30 PM-7:30 PM: Monday, 7 January 2013
Reception and Exhibits Opening
Location: Exhibit Hall 4 (Austin Convention Center)
Tuesday, 8 January 2013
8:30 AM-9:45 AM: Tuesday, 8 January 2013
Session
2
Applications of AI to environmental science problems
Location: Room 18A (Austin Convention Center)
Host: 11th Conference on Artificial and Computational Intelligence and its Applications to the Environmental Sciences
Chair:
9:45 AM-11:00 AM: Tuesday, 8 January 2013
Formal Poster Viewing with Coffee Break
Location: Exhibit Hall 3 (Austin Convention Center)
11:00 AM-12:00 PM: Tuesday, 8 January 2013
Themed Joint Session
21
Applying Machine Learning Techniques for Information Processing
Location: Room 11AB (Austin Convention Center)
Hosts: (Joint
between the 29th Conference on Environmental Information Processing Technologies (formerly IIPS);
and the 11th Conference on Artificial and Computational Intelligence and its Applications to the Environmental Sciences
)
Cochairs:
12:00 PM-1:30 PM: Tuesday, 8 January 2013
Lunch Break
3:00 PM-3:30 PM: Tuesday, 8 January 2013
Coffee Break
Location: Exhibit Hall 4 (Austin Convention Center)
Meet the President
Location: Room 1 (Austin Convention Center)
3:30 PM-5:30 PM: Tuesday, 8 January 2013
Themed Joint Session
27
Medium-range, Sub-seasonal and Seasonal-scale Forecast Techniques and Modeling for Energy Demand Part 2
Location: Room 6A (Austin Convention Center)
Hosts: (Joint
between the Fourth Conference on Weather, Climate, and the New Energy Economy;
the 25th Conference on Climate Variability and Change;
the Symposium on Prediction of the Madden-Julian Oscillation;
and the 11th Conference on Artificial and Computational Intelligence and its Applications to the Environmental Sciences
)
Cochairs:
Wednesday, 9 January 2013
10:00 AM-10:30 AM: Wednesday, 9 January 2013
Coffee Break
Location: Exhibit Hall 4 (Austin Convention Center)
Meet the President
Location: Room 1 (Austin Convention Center)
10:30 AM-12:00 PM: Wednesday, 9 January 2013
Session
3
Applications of AI in numerical weather prediction, probabilistic predictions, and uncertainty estimates
Location: Room 18A (Austin Convention Center)
Host: 11th Conference on Artificial and Computational Intelligence and its Applications to the Environmental Sciences
Chair:
11:15 AM
3.4
12:00 PM-1:30 PM: Wednesday, 9 January 2013
Lunch Break
1:30 PM-2:30 PM: Wednesday, 9 January 2013
Themed Joint Session
37
The Application of Artificial Intelligence in the Field of Aviation, Range, and Aerospace Meteorology
Location: Room 18A (Austin Convention Center)
Hosts: (Joint
between the 11th Conference on Artificial and Computational Intelligence and its Applications to the Environmental Sciences;
and the 16th Conference on Aviation, Range, and Aerospace Meteorology
)
Cochairs:
2:30 PM-4:00 PM: Wednesday, 9 January 2013
Formal Poster Viewing with Coffee Break
Location: Exhibit Hall 3 (Austin Convention Center)
4:00 PM-5:30 PM: Wednesday, 9 January 2013
3
Using Data Mining to Improve Our Understanding of the Connections between Health, the Environment, and Weather
Location: Room 18A (Austin Convention Center)
Hosts: (Joint
between the 11th Conference on Artificial and Computational Intelligence and its Applications to the Environmental Sciences;
the 29th Conference on Environmental Information Processing Technologies (formerly IIPS);
and the Fourth Conference on Environment and Health
)
Moderator:
Panelists:
4:00 PM
Data Mining for Climate and Health: A Federal Perspective by John Balbus
4:15 PM
Spiders, Bots and Mining... oh my! by Heather Basara
5:30 PM-6:30 PM: Wednesday, 9 January 2013
Awards Banquet Reception in the Exhibit Hall
Location: Exhibit Hall 4 (Austin Convention Center)
7:00 PM-10:00 PM: Wednesday, 9 January 2013
93rd AMS Awards Banquet
Location: Ballroom D (Austin Convention Center)
Thursday, 10 January 2013
3:00 PM-3:05 PM: Thursday, 10 January 2013
Registration Closes
5:00 PM-5:05 PM: Thursday, 10 January 2013
AMS 93rd Annual Meeting Adjourns