Fifth Conference on Weather, Climate, and the New Energy Economy
Fifth Conference on Weather, Climate, and the New Energy Economy
Program Chairs:
Reviewer:
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Saturday, 1 February 2014
7:30 AM-10:00 AM: Saturday, 1 February 2014
Registration for Student Conference and Short Courses
Sunday, 2 February 2014
7:30 AM-9:00 AM: Sunday, 2 February 2014
Registration for Short Courses and Conference for Early Career Professionals
9:00 AM-6:00 PM: Sunday, 2 February 2014
Registration Open for Annual Meeting
12:00 PM-4:00 PM: Sunday, 2 February 2014
WeatherFest
4:00 PM-5:30 PM: Sunday, 2 February 2014
94th Annual Review, New Fellows, and Featured Awards
Location: Room C302 (The Georgia World Congress Center )
Monday, 3 February 2014
7:30 AM-5:30 PM: Monday, 3 February 2014
Registration Continues through February 5
9:00 AM-10:30 AM: Monday, 3 February 2014
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Plenary Session
1
14th Presidential Forum: Extreme Weather, Climate, and the Built Environment: New Perspectives, Opportunities, and Tools
Location: Thomas Murphy Ballroom (The Georgia World Congress Center )
Hosts: (Joint
between the Second Symposium on Prediction of the Madden-Julian Oscillation: Impacts on Weather and Climate Extremes;
the 14th Presidential Forum;
the Second Symposium on the Joint Center for Satellite Data Assimilation;
the Superstorm Sandy and the Built Environment: New Perspectives, Opportunities, and Tools;
the Stanley A. Changnon Symposium;
the Edward S. Epstein Symposium;
the 30th Conference on Environmental Information Processing Technologies;
the 28th Conference on Hydrology;
the 26th Conference on Climate Variability and Change;
the 26th Conference on Weather Analysis and Forecasting / 22nd Conference on Numerical Weather Prediction;
the 23rd Symposium on Education;
the 22nd Conference on Probability and Statistics in the Atmospheric Sciences;
the 18th Joint Conference on the Applications of Air Pollution Meteorology with the A&WMA;
the 18th Conference on Integrated Observing and Assimilation Systems for the Atmosphere, Oceans, and Land Surface (IOAS-AOLS);
the 16th Conference on Atmospheric Chemistry;
the 12th Conference on Artificial and Computational Intelligence and its Applications to the Environmental Sciences;
the 12th History Symposium;
the 12th Symposium on the Coastal Environment;
the 11th Conference on Space Weather;
the 11th Symposium on the Urban Environment;
the Tenth Annual Symposium on New Generation Operational Environmental Satellite Systems;
the Ninth Symposium on Policy and Socio-Economic Research;
the Sixth Symposium on Aerosol-Cloud-Climate Interactions;
the Fifth Conference on Weather, Climate, and the New Energy Economy;
the Fifth Conference on Environment and Health;
the Fourth Aviation, Range, and Aerospace Meteorology Special Symposium;
the Fourth Conference on Transition of Research to Operations;
the Fourth Symposium on Advances in Modeling and Analysis Using Python;
the Second Symposium on the Weather and Climate Enterprise;
the Second Symposium on Building a Weather-Ready Nation: Enhancing Our Nation’s Readiness, Responsiveness, and Resilience to High Impact Weather Events;
and the Special Symposium on Severe Local Storms: The Current State of the Science and Understanding Impacts
)
Moderator:
Panelists:
Speaker:
9:00 AM
Welcoming Remarks
9:25 AM
Panel Discussion
10:25 AM
Concluding Remarks
9:00 AM-11:00 AM: Monday, 3 February 2014
Spouses' Coffee
10:30 AM-11:00 AM: Monday, 3 February 2014
Coffee Break
11:00 AM-12:00 PM: Monday, 3 February 2014
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Session
1
Energy Applications for Weather/Climate Data Part I
Location: Room C114 (The Georgia World Congress Center )
Host: Fifth Conference on Weather, Climate, and the New Energy Economy
Cochairs:
12:00 PM-1:30 PM: Monday, 3 February 2014
Lunch Break
1:30 PM-2:30 PM: Monday, 3 February 2014
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Session
2
Energy Applications Weather/Climate Data Part II
Location: Room C114 (The Georgia World Congress Center )
Host: Fifth Conference on Weather, Climate, and the New Energy Economy
Chair:
2:30 PM-4:00 PM: Monday, 3 February 2014
Poster Session
1
Poster Session
Location: Hall C3 (The Georgia World Congress Center )
Host: Fifth Conference on Weather, Climate, and the New Energy Economy
Formal Poster Viewing with Coffee Break
Location: Hall C3 (The Georgia World Congress Center )
4:00 PM-5:00 PM: Monday, 3 February 2014
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Session
3
High Density Weather Observing Networks Utilized in Wind/Solar Electric Generation
Location: Room C114 (The Georgia World Congress Center )
Host: Fifth Conference on Weather, Climate, and the New Energy Economy
Chair:
4:45 PM
3.4
5:00 PM-5:30 PM: Monday, 3 February 2014
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Session
4
Climate Data and Modeling Applied to Long-Term Renewable Energy Resource Development
Location: Room C114 (The Georgia World Congress Center )
Host: Fifth Conference on Weather, Climate, and the New Energy Economy
Chair:
5:30 PM-7:30 PM: Monday, 3 February 2014
Reception and Exhibits Opening
7:00 PM-8:00 PM: Monday, 3 February 2014
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Town Hall Meeting: Planning for the future: Extreme weather, changing climate, and energy sustainability in large urban areas
Location: Room C114 (The Georgia World Congress Center )
Panelists:
In 2012 there were 11 billion dollar weather and climate disasters in the United States according to the NCDC. Several of these disasters directly impacted major cities and urban areas. The high population density and increasing growth of large metropolitan areas makes stability and sustainability of energy of critical importance in the urban environment. An important factor in the stability and sustainability of energy in the urban environment is weather. Temperature extremes magnify energy demands in heavily populated areas, while storms like post-tropical storm Sandy present risks to the distribution grid. Extreme weather in a small geographic region can have large consequences for urban environments in terms of reliability and emergency management response . Cities are a great opportunity to increase weather dependent renewable energy production for reliability and for reduction of greenhouse gases. The climate is changing and weather extremes seem to be occurring more frequently. With this in mind, this town hall aims to discuss where do we go from here? This town hall meeting will be co-sponsored by the AMS Energy Committee and the AMS Board on the Urban Environment. Some of the possible questions for discussion are:
What are the meteorological and climate challenges of integrating more renewable energy generation in urban areas?
What are the evolving policies related to energy in the urban environment and are the aims of these policies realistic?
What research is needed by the meteorological and climate communities in order to promote energy sustainability , resiliency, and security in the urban environment?
What should urban areas be doing to adapt and mitigate the effects of extreme weather hazards and climate change?
Who should be leading the charge to make such changes – ie: private entities, local, state, federal governments, a collaboration?
For additional information, please contact Manda Adams (manda.adams@uncc.edu), Jorge Gonzalez (gonzalez@me.ccny.edu) orKevin Stenson (Kevin.Stenson@meteogroup.com).
Tuesday, 4 February 2014
8:30 AM-9:45 AM: Tuesday, 4 February 2014
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Session
5
Energy User experiences with Weather/Climate Data
Location: Room C114 (The Georgia World Congress Center )
Host: Fifth Conference on Weather, Climate, and the New Energy Economy
Cochairs:
9:00 AM-11:00 AM: Tuesday, 4 February 2014
Spouses' Coffee
9:45 AM-11:00 AM: Tuesday, 4 February 2014
Formal Poster Viewing with Coffee Break
Location: Hall C3 (The Georgia World Congress Center )
11:00 AM-11:45 AM: Tuesday, 4 February 2014
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Session
6
Extreme Weather Events and Their Impacts on the Energy Industry
Location: Room C114 (The Georgia World Congress Center )
Host: Fifth Conference on Weather, Climate, and the New Energy Economy
Chair:
12:00 PM-1:30 PM: Tuesday, 4 February 2014
Lunch Break
Stanley a. Changnon Luncheon
Location: Room B401 (The Georgia World Congress Center )
1:30 PM-3:00 PM: Tuesday, 4 February 2014
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Joint Session
1
Atmospheric Circulations Part I
Location: Room C114 (The Georgia World Congress Center )
Hosts: (Joint
between the Fifth Conference on Weather, Climate, and the New Energy Economy;
and the Second Symposium on Prediction of the Madden-Julian Oscillation: Impacts on Weather and Climate Extremes
)
Chair:
3:00 PM-3:30 PM: Tuesday, 4 February 2014
Coffee Break
Meet the President
Location: Room C103 (The Georgia World Congress Center )
3:30 PM-4:00 PM: Tuesday, 4 February 2014
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Session
7
Medium-range, sub-seasonal and seasonal scale forecast techniques and modeling for energy demand
Location: Room C114 (The Georgia World Congress Center )
Host: Fifth Conference on Weather, Climate, and the New Energy Economy
Chair:
4:00 PM-5:30 PM: Tuesday, 4 February 2014
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Joint Session
2
Extreme Weather Events Part I
Location: Room C114 (The Georgia World Congress Center )
Hosts: (Joint
between the Fifth Conference on Weather, Climate, and the New Energy Economy;
and the Second Symposium on Prediction of the Madden-Julian Oscillation: Impacts on Weather and Climate Extremes
)
Chair:
4:45 PM
J2.4
5:00 PM-6:00 PM: Tuesday, 4 February 2014
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Session
1
Bernhard Haurwitz Memorial Lecture
Location: Room C106 (The Georgia World Congress Center )
Hosts: (Joint
between the 26th Conference on Climate Variability and Change;
the 14th Presidential Forum;
the Second Symposium on Prediction of the Madden-Julian Oscillation: Impacts on Weather and Climate Extremes;
the Second Symposium on the Joint Center for Satellite Data Assimilation;
the Stanley A. Changnon Symposium;
the 30th Conference on Environmental Information Processing Technologies;
the 28th Conference on Hydrology;
the 26th Conference on Weather Analysis and Forecasting / 22nd Conference on Numerical Weather Prediction;
the 23rd Symposium on Education;
the 22nd Conference on Probability and Statistics in the Atmospheric Sciences;
the 18th Joint Conference on the Applications of Air Pollution Meteorology with the A&WMA;
the 18th Conference on Integrated Observing and Assimilation Systems for the Atmosphere, Oceans, and Land Surface (IOAS-AOLS);
the 16th Conference on Atmospheric Chemistry;
the 12th Conference on Artificial and Computational Intelligence and its Applications to the Environmental Sciences;
the 12th History Symposium;
the 12th Symposium on the Coastal Environment;
the 11th Conference on Space Weather;
the 11th Symposium on the Urban Environment;
the Tenth Annual Symposium on New Generation Operational Environmental Satellite Systems;
the Ninth Symposium on Policy and Socio-Economic Research;
the Sixth Symposium on Aerosol-Cloud-Climate Interactions;
the Fifth Conference on Weather, Climate, and the New Energy Economy;
the Fifth Conference on Environment and Health;
the Fourth Aviation, Range, and Aerospace Meteorology Special Symposium;
the Fourth Conference on Transition of Research to Operations;
the Fourth Symposium on Advances in Modeling and Analysis Using Python;
the Second Symposium on the Weather and Climate Enterprise;
the Second Symposium on Building a Weather-Ready Nation: Enhancing Our Nation’s Readiness, Responsiveness, and Resilience to High Impact Weather Events;
the Major Weather Events and Societal Impacts of 2013;
and the Special Symposium on Severe Local Storms: The Current State of the Science and Understanding Impacts
)
Wednesday, 5 February 2014
8:30 AM-10:00 AM: Wednesday, 5 February 2014
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Joint Session
3
Applications of Artificial Intelligence Methods for Energy
Location: Room C204 (The Georgia World Congress Center )
Hosts: (Joint
between the 12th Conference on Artificial and Computational Intelligence and its Applications to the Environmental Sciences;
and the Fifth Conference on Weather, Climate, and the New Energy Economy
)
Cochairs:
9:15 AM
J3.4
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Joint Session
4
Atmospheric Circulations Part II
Location: Room C114 (The Georgia World Congress Center )
Hosts: (Joint
between the Fifth Conference on Weather, Climate, and the New Energy Economy;
and the Second Symposium on Prediction of the Madden-Julian Oscillation: Impacts on Weather and Climate Extremes
)
Cochairs:
9:00 AM-11:00 AM: Wednesday, 5 February 2014
Spouses' Coffee
10:00 AM-10:30 AM: Wednesday, 5 February 2014
Coffee Break
Meet the President
Location: Room C103 (The Georgia World Congress Center )
10:30 AM-12:00 PM: Wednesday, 5 February 2014
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Joint Session
5
Extreme Weather Events Part II
Location: Room C114 (The Georgia World Congress Center )
Hosts: (Joint
between the Fifth Conference on Weather, Climate, and the New Energy Economy;
and the Second Symposium on Prediction of the Madden-Julian Oscillation: Impacts on Weather and Climate Extremes
)
Cochairs:
12:00 PM-1:30 PM: Wednesday, 5 February 2014
Lunch Break
Women in the Atmospheric Sciences Luncheon: A Conversation about the Future
Location: Room C112 (The Georgia World Congress Center )
1:30 PM-2:30 PM: Wednesday, 5 February 2014
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Lecture
2
Horton Lecture
Location: Georgia Ballroom 1 (The Georgia World Congress Center )
Hosts: (Joint
between the 28th Conference on Hydrology;
the Second Symposium on Prediction of the Madden-Julian Oscillation: Impacts on Weather and Climate Extremes;
the Second Symposium on the Joint Center for Satellite Data Assimilation;
the Edward S. Epstein Symposium;
the 30th Conference on Environmental Information Processing Technologies;
the 26th Conference on Climate Variability and Change;
the 26th Conference on Weather Analysis and Forecasting / 22nd Conference on Numerical Weather Prediction;
the 23rd Symposium on Education;
the 22nd Conference on Probability and Statistics in the Atmospheric Sciences;
the 18th Joint Conference on the Applications of Air Pollution Meteorology with the A&WMA;
the 18th Conference on Integrated Observing and Assimilation Systems for the Atmosphere, Oceans, and Land Surface (IOAS-AOLS);
the 16th Conference on Atmospheric Chemistry;
the 12th Conference on Artificial and Computational Intelligence and its Applications to the Environmental Sciences;
the 12th History Symposium;
the 12th Symposium on the Coastal Environment;
the 11th Conference on Space Weather;
the 11th Symposium on the Urban Environment;
the Tenth Annual Symposium on New Generation Operational Environmental Satellite Systems;
the Ninth Symposium on Policy and Socio-Economic Research;
the Seventh Annual CCM Forum: Certified Consulting Meteorologists;
the Sixth Symposium on Aerosol-Cloud-Climate Interactions;
the Fifth Conference on Weather, Climate, and the New Energy Economy;
the Fifth Conference on Environment and Health;
the Fourth Aviation, Range, and Aerospace Meteorology Special Symposium;
the Fourth Conference on Transition of Research to Operations;
the Fourth Symposium on Advances in Modeling and Analysis Using Python;
the Second Symposium on the Weather and Climate Enterprise;
the Second Symposium on Building a Weather-Ready Nation: Enhancing Our Nation’s Readiness, Responsiveness, and Resilience to High Impact Weather Events;
and the Special Symposium on Severe Local Storms: The Current State of the Science and Understanding Impacts
)
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Joint Session
7
Global Teleconnections and the MJO
Location: Room C114 (The Georgia World Congress Center )
Hosts: (Joint
between the Second Symposium on Prediction of the Madden-Julian Oscillation: Impacts on Weather and Climate Extremes;
and the Fifth Conference on Weather, Climate, and the New Energy Economy
)
Cochairs:
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Joint Session
9
AI Solar Energy Prediction Contest
Location: Room C204 (The Georgia World Congress Center )
Hosts: (Joint
between the 12th Conference on Artificial and Computational Intelligence and its Applications to the Environmental Sciences;
the 22nd Conference on Probability and Statistics in the Atmospheric Sciences;
and the Fifth Conference on Weather, Climate, and the New Energy Economy
)
Cochairs:
1:30 PM
Introductory Remarks
2:30 PM-4:00 PM: Wednesday, 5 February 2014
Formal Poster Viewing with Coffee Break
Location: Hall C3 (The Georgia World Congress Center )
Poster Session
2
Poster Session
Location: Hall C3 (The Georgia World Congress Center )
Host: Fifth Conference on Weather, Climate, and the New Energy Economy
4:00 PM-4:45 PM: Wednesday, 5 February 2014
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Session
8
Software Applications Linking Weather to Energy Decision Support
Location: Room C114 (The Georgia World Congress Center )
Host: Fifth Conference on Weather, Climate, and the New Energy Economy
Cochairs:
4:45 PM-5:30 PM: Wednesday, 5 February 2014
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Session
9
Energy Applications Weather/Climate Data Part III
Location: Room C114 (The Georgia World Congress Center )
Host: Fifth Conference on Weather, Climate, and the New Energy Economy
Chair:
4:45 PM
9.1
5:00 PM-6:00 PM: Wednesday, 5 February 2014
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Lecture
3
Walter Orr Roberts Lecture
Location: Room C113 (The Georgia World Congress Center )
Hosts: (Joint
between the 16th Conference on Atmospheric Chemistry;
the Second Symposium on Prediction of the Madden-Julian Oscillation: Impacts on Weather and Climate Extremes;
the Second Symposium on the Joint Center for Satellite Data Assimilation;
the Stanley A. Changnon Symposium;
the Edward S. Epstein Symposium;
the 30th Conference on Environmental Information Processing Technologies;
the 28th Conference on Hydrology;
the 26th Conference on Climate Variability and Change;
the 26th Conference on Weather Analysis and Forecasting / 22nd Conference on Numerical Weather Prediction;
the 23rd Symposium on Education;
the 22nd Conference on Probability and Statistics in the Atmospheric Sciences;
the 18th Joint Conference on the Applications of Air Pollution Meteorology with the A&WMA;
the 18th Conference on Integrated Observing and Assimilation Systems for the Atmosphere, Oceans, and Land Surface (IOAS-AOLS);
the 12th Conference on Artificial and Computational Intelligence and its Applications to the Environmental Sciences;
the 12th History Symposium;
the 12th Symposium on the Coastal Environment;
the 11th Conference on Space Weather;
the 11th Symposium on the Urban Environment;
the Tenth Annual Symposium on New Generation Operational Environmental Satellite Systems;
the Ninth Symposium on Policy and Socio-Economic Research;
the Seventh Annual CCM Forum: Certified Consulting Meteorologists;
the Sixth Symposium on Aerosol-Cloud-Climate Interactions;
the Fifth Conference on Weather, Climate, and the New Energy Economy;
the Fifth Conference on Environment and Health;
the Fourth Aviation, Range, and Aerospace Meteorology Special Symposium;
the Fourth Conference on Transition of Research to Operations;
the Fourth Symposium on Advances in Modeling and Analysis Using Python;
the Second Symposium on the Weather and Climate Enterprise;
the Second Symposium on Building a Weather-Ready Nation: Enhancing Our Nation’s Readiness, Responsiveness, and Resilience to High Impact Weather Events;
and the Special Symposium on Severe Local Storms: The Current State of the Science and Understanding Impacts
)
5:30 PM-6:30 PM: Wednesday, 5 February 2014
Awards Banquet Reception in the Exhibit Hall
7:00 PM-10:00 PM: Wednesday, 5 February 2014
94th AMS Awards Banquet
Thursday, 6 February 2014
8:30 AM-10:00 AM: Thursday, 6 February 2014
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Session
10
Short-Range Forecast Modeling for Wind/Solar Electric Generation Part I
Location: Room C114 (The Georgia World Congress Center )
Host: Fifth Conference on Weather, Climate, and the New Energy Economy
Chair:
9:45 AM-11:00 AM: Thursday, 6 February 2014
Formal Poster Viewing with Coffee Break
Location: Hall C3 (The Georgia World Congress Center )
11:00 AM-12:00 PM: Thursday, 6 February 2014
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Session
11
Wind Forecast Improvement Project (WFIP)
Location: Room C114 (The Georgia World Congress Center )
Host: Fifth Conference on Weather, Climate, and the New Energy Economy
Chair:
12:00 PM-1:30 PM: Thursday, 6 February 2014
Lunch Break
1:30 PM-3:00 PM: Thursday, 6 February 2014
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Session
12
Renewable Energy Resource Variablity
Location: Room C114 (The Georgia World Congress Center )
Host: Fifth Conference on Weather, Climate, and the New Energy Economy
Chair:
3:00 PM-3:05 PM: Thursday, 6 February 2014
Registration Closes
3:00 PM-3:30 PM: Thursday, 6 February 2014
Coffee Break
Meet the President
Location: Room C103 (The Georgia World Congress Center )
3:30 PM-5:00 PM: Thursday, 6 February 2014
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Session
13
Short-Range Forecast Modeling for Wind/Solar Electric Generation Part II
Location: Room C114 (The Georgia World Congress Center )
Host: Fifth Conference on Weather, Climate, and the New Energy Economy
Chair:
5:00 PM-5:05 PM: Thursday, 6 February 2014
AMS 94th Annual Meeting Adjourns