31st Conference on Environmental Information Processing Technologies

Program Chair: Nazila Merati , ClipCard
Reviewers: M. D. Eilts , Weather Decision Technologies, Inc. ; Erik Andersson , ECMWF ; Gerald Dittberner , Harris Corporation ; Ian Lisk , UK Met Office ; Jennifer Brooks , RTI ; John R. Lincoln , US Navy/WMO (Ret.) and Consultant ; Ken R. Waters , NOAA/NWS ; Kevin Kelleher , NOAA/NSSL ; James P. Koermer , Plymouth State University ; Kurt D. Hondl , NOAA/NSSL ; Lori Armstrong , Esri ; Larry E. Brazil , Riverside Technology, Inc. ; Michael J. Istok , NOAA/NWS ; Nancy N. Soreide , NOAA/PMEL ; Patrick Marsh , SPC/NWS/NOAA ; Paul Pisano , Federal Highway Administration ; Ralph Patterson , NarwhalMet ; Randall Bass , FAA ; Valliappa Lakshmanan , CIMMS/Univ. of Oklahoma and NOAA/NSSL ; Scott Jacobs , NOAA/NWS/NCEP ; Thomas M. Whittaker , SSEC/CIMSS/Univ. of Wisconsin ; William Roberts , OAR ; Mark B. Yeary , University of Oklahoma ; Johnny Wei-Bing Lin , University of Washington ; John Pereira , NOAA/NESDIS ; George D. Emmitt , Simpson Weather Associates ; Alex Coletti , Syneren Technologies Corp ; Mohan K. Ramamurthy , Unidata/UCAR ; William H. Bauman III , ENSCO, Inc. ; Matthew S. Mayernik , NCAR ; Robert E. Saffle , Noblis, Inc. ; Kimberly E. Klockow , NOAA ; Kevin Johnston , FAA

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Saturday, 3 January 2015

7:30 AM-10:00 AM: Saturday, 3 January 2015


Registration for Student Conference and Short Courses
Location: Lobby of Exhibit Hall 5 (Phoenix Convention Center - West and North Buildings)

Sunday, 4 January 2015

7:30 AM-9:00 AM: Sunday, 4 January 2015


Registration for Short Courses and Conference for Early Career Professionals
Location: Lobby of Exhibit Hall 5 (Phoenix Convention Center - West and North Buildings)

9:00 AM-6:00 PM: Sunday, 4 January 2015


Registration Open for Annual Meeting
Location: Lobby of Exhibit Hall 5 (Phoenix Convention Center - West and North Buildings)

12:00 PM-4:00 PM: Sunday, 4 January 2015


WeatherFest
Location: Hall 1 (Phoenix Convention Center - West and North Buildings)

3:00 PM-4:00 PM: Sunday, 4 January 2015


Newcomer’s Welcome and Informational Exchange
Location: 127ABC (Phoenix Convention Center - West and North Buildings)

4:00 PM-5:30 PM: Sunday, 4 January 2015


95th Annual Review, New Fellows, and Featured Awards
Location: 122BC (Phoenix Convention Center - West and North Buildings)

5:45 PM-8:00 PM: Sunday, 4 January 2015


Fellows Reception
Location: North Ballroom Foyer (Phoenix Convention Center - West and North Buildings)

Monday, 5 January 2015

7:30 AM-6:00 PM: Monday, 5 January 2015


Registration Continues through January 7
Location: Lobby of Exhibit Hall 5 (Phoenix Convention Center - West and North Buildings)

9:00 AM-10:30 AM: Monday, 5 January 2015

Recording files available
Plenary Session 1
15th Presidential Forum: Will Weather Change Forever—Anticipating Meteorology in 2040
Location: North Ballroom CD (Phoenix Convention Center - West and North Buildings)
Hosts: (Joint between the Major Weather Events and Societal Impacts of 2014; the Eugenia Kalnay Symposium; the Harry R. Glahn Symposium; the 31st Conference on Environmental Information Processing Technologies; the 29th Conference on Hydrology; the 27th Conference on Climate Variability and Change; the 24th Symposium on Education; the 20th Conference on Satellite Meteorology and Oceanography; the 20th Conference on Planned and Inadvertent Weather Modification; the 19th Conference on Integrated Observing and Assimilation Systems for the Atmosphere, Oceans, and Land Surface (IOAS-AOLS); the 19th Conference on Air-Sea Interaction; the 18th Conference on Middle Atmosphere; the 17th Conference on Atmospheric Chemistry; the 17th Conference on Aviation, Range, and Aerospace Meteorology; the 13th Conference on Artificial Intelligence; the 13th Symposium on the Coastal Environment; the 13th History Symposium; the 12th Conference on Space Weather; the 11th Annual Symposium on New Generation Operational Environmental Satellite Systems; the 10th Symposium on Societal Applications: Policy, Research and Practice; the Eighth Annual CCM Forum: Certified Consulting Meteorologists; the Seventh Symposium on Lidar Atmospheric Applications; the Seventh Conference on the Meteorological Applications of Lightning Data; the Seventh Symposium on Aerosol-Cloud-Climate Interactions; the Sixth Conference on Weather, Climate, and the New Energy Economy; the Sixth Conference on Environment and Health; the Fifth Conference on Transition of Research to Operations; the Fifth Symposium on Advances in Modeling and Analysis Using Python; the Third Annual Conference for Early Career Professionals; the Third Symposium on the Weather and Climate Enterprise; the Third Symposium on Building a Weather-Ready Nation: Enhancing Our Nation’s Readiness, Responsiveness, and Resilience to High Impact Weather Events; the Third Symposium on the Joint Center for Satellite Data Assimilation; the Third Symposium on Prediction of the Madden-Julian Oscillation: Processes, Prediction and Impact; the First Symposium on High Performance Computing for Weather, Water, and Climate; the Special Symposium on Model Postprocessing and Downscaling; the Special Symposium on the South Asia Monsoon; the Air Pollution Meteorology and Human Health Symposium; and the 15th Presidential Forum )
Program Chair: Kathryn Sullivan, NOAA
Moderator: Kimberly E. Klockow, NOAA
Keynote: Kathryn Sullivan, NOAA
Panelists: Bernadette Woods Placky, Climate Central; Mac Devine, IBM Cloud Services Division; Kathryn Sullivan, NOAA; Curtis L. Walker, University of Nebraska

Twenty five years hence, meteorology will be much different and expand far beyond the traditional weather forecast. Personal sensors will monitor weather nearly everywhere. Advanced computing will allow us to forecast at perhaps minute scales and kilometer resolutions, customized for each particular user. Post-mobile devices will enable instantaneous use of the information – even in remote areas of today’s developing nations. Transportation will be safer, businesses will operate more efficiently, events will automatically schedule around anticipated weather, and much more. Operational weather forecasts will be interlaced with new environmental elements that impact economic, health, energy, and security decisions. Many aspects of our daily lives will change forever. Climate change’s possibilities add a critical dimension to community resiliency. Should global weather patterns be altered, forecasting could become more challenging than today. The recent release of the fifth IPCC synthesis report has brought focus to this particular issue. Dr. Kathryn Sullivan, NOAA Administrator, will lead the session with a keynote on her vision for the meteorology enterprise in the year 2040. Following her keynote, the panelists - representing different demographics and perspectives - will then provide their vision, accompanied by a moderated discussion among the panelists.
  9:00 AM
William B (Bill) Gail: Introductory remarks
  9:08 AM
Kimberly E. Klockow: Moderator welcoming remarks
  9:16 AM
Dr. Kathryn Sullivan: AMS 2015 Annual Meeting Presidential Forum Keynote
  9:24 AM
Curtis Walker: Will Weather Change Forever – Anticipating Meteorology in 2040
  9:32 AM
Bernadette Woods Placky: Will Weather Change Forever? Anticipating Meteorology in 2040
  9:40 AM
Mac Devine: The Perfect Storm Intensifies - The Convergence of BigData, Cloud and the Internet of Things is Now at Full Strength

9:00 AM-11:00 AM: Monday, 5 January 2015


Spouses' Coffee

10:30 AM-11:00 AM: Monday, 5 January 2015


Coffee Break
Location: North Ballroom Foyer (Phoenix Convention Center - West and North Buildings)

11:00 AM-12:00 PM: Monday, 5 January 2015

Recording files available
Session 1A
International Applications for the Monitoring and Prediction of Weather Hazards including Volcanic Ash - Part I
Location: 132AB (Phoenix Convention Center - West and North Buildings)
Host: 31st Conference on Environmental Information Processing Technologies
Cochairs: Ian Lisk, UK Met Office; John R. Lincoln, US Navy/WMO (Ret.) and Consultant; Erik Andersson, ECMWF
  11:30 AM
1A.3
Toward an Integrated Solution to Mitigate the Impact of Volcanic Ash to Aviation
John J. Murray, NASA/LaRC, Hampton, VA; and T. D. Fairlie, J. P. Vernier, M. J. Pavolonis, J. Seiglaff, F. Prata, F. Dezitter, D. Pieri, J. Lekki, and N. A. Krotkov
  11:45 AM
1A.4
R&D to support volcanic ash dispersion forecsting for aviation
Barbara J.B. Stunder, NOAA/OAR/ARL, College Park, MD; and A. Crawford, S. Albersheim, and M. J. Pavolonis
Recording files available
Session 1B
Open Data Standards and Sharing
Location: 131C (Phoenix Convention Center - West and North Buildings)
Host: 31st Conference on Environmental Information Processing Technologies
Cochairs: Gerald Dittberner, Harris Corporation; Mohan K. Ramamurthy, Unidata/UCAR
  11:00 AM
Introductory Remarks

  11:15 AM
1B.1
Application of CF Metadata Conventions to GOES-R Weather Products
Randy Horne, Excalbur Laboratories, Inc., Melbourne, FL; and E. J. Kennelly, G. Meehan, A. Rao, and A. Weiner
  11:45 AM
1B.3
Making OGC standards work – interoperability testing between meteorological systems
Stephan Siemen, ECMWF, Reading, Berks., United Kingdom; and C. Little and M. F. Voidrot

12:00 PM-1:30 PM: Monday, 5 January 2015


Lunch Break

12:45 PM-1:05 PM: Monday, 5 January 2015


Daily Weather Briefings
Location: 132AB (Phoenix Convention Center - West and North Buildings)

1:30 PM-2:30 PM: Monday, 5 January 2015

Recording files available
Joint Session 1
Weather Observing Systems Via Airborne Platforms
Location: 131C (Phoenix Convention Center - West and North Buildings)
Hosts: (Joint between the 31st Conference on Environmental Information Processing Technologies; and the 17th Conference on Aviation, Range, and Aerospace Meteorology )
Cochairs: Randall Bass, FAA; William H. Bauman III, ENSCO, Inc.
  1:30 PM
J1.1
Detection of High Ice Water Content (HIWC) Conditions: Assessment of a Nowcasting Tool Using Data from the HAIC-HIWC International Field Campaign
Julie A. Haggerty, NCAR, Boulder, CO; and J. L. Black, G. P. McCabe Jr., G. Cunning, J. W. Strapp, A. Grandin, R. J. Potts, and T. Ratvasky
  2:15 PM
J1.3
in situ turbulence observations from commercial aircraft
R. D. Sharman, NCAR, Boulder, CO; and J. M. Pearson, G. Meymaris, L. B. Cornman, and T. J. Farrar

Recording files available
Session 2
International Applications for the Monitoring and Prediction of Weather Hazards including Volcanic Ash - Part II
Location: 132AB (Phoenix Convention Center - West and North Buildings)
Host: 31st Conference on Environmental Information Processing Technologies
Cochairs: John R. Lincoln, US Navy/WMO (Ret.) and Consultant; Ian Lisk, UK Met Office; Erik Andersson, ECMWF
  1:30 PM
2.1
European modelling and analysis of atmospheric composition (including volcanic emissions)
Richard Engelen, ECMWF, Reading, Berkshire, United Kingdom; and B. Raoult, J. Flemming, and E. Andersson
  2:00 PM
2.3
Impact of Volcanic Ash on European Air Traffic: Simulated Eruption of Volcano Stromboli
Ruzica Vujasinovic, DLR = German Aerospace Center, Braunschweig, Germany; and T. Luckova, A. Lau, and M. Schultz

  2:15 PM
2.4
The U.S. Interagency Volcanic Hazards Sciences and Services Coordination Group
John J. Murray, NASA/LaRC, Hampton, VA; and C. Miner, R. Tatusuko, M. Strahan, C. Mandeville, M. Guffanti, C. R. Holliday, G. Swanson, J. Kibler, M. J. Pavolonis, B. J. B. Stunder, J. M. Osiensky, D. Moore, L. G. Mastin, T. Murray, D. Schneider, and C. Neal

2:30 PM-4:00 PM: Monday, 5 January 2015


Formal Poster Viewing with Coffee Break
Location: Hall 4 (Phoenix Convention Center - West and North Buildings)

Poster Session 1
Poster Session - Part I
Host: 31st Conference on Environmental Information Processing Technologies
Cochairs: Nancy N. Soreide, NOAA/PMEL; Jennifer Luppens Mahoney, NOAA/ESRL/GSD; Scott Jacobs, NOAA/NWS/NCEP

Monday and Tuesday Poster Session for EIPT Conference focusing on topics covered during the first two days of sessions.
 
1
 
2
Application of Radionuclide Signatures to Short Duration/Pulse Atmospheric Releases
Steven R. Chiswell, Savannah River National Laboratory, Aiken, SC; and R. Kurzeja, R. Buckley, and D. Werth

 
3
Improving Weather and Emergency Management Messaging: The Tulsa Weather Message Experiment
Kenneth Galluppi, Arizona State University, Mesa, AZ; and S. Piltz, K. Nuckles, B. E. Montz, J. Correia Jr., and R. Riley
Manuscript (2.3 MB)

Handout (7.6 MB)

 
4
NOAA Meteorological Assimilation Data Ingest System (MADIS) Current Operational Status and Future Plans
Greg Pratt, NOAA/ESRL/GSD, Boulder, CO; and L. Benjamin, T. Kent, G. Padmanabhan, L. K. Cheatwood, M. Vrencur, T. McClung, S. Pritchett, L. J. Cano, S. Jacobs, C. Shelton, D. Saunders, and P. Jones

 
5
Sensitivity Analysis of Hurricane Evacuation Casualties and Costs in Florida
Michael Lowe, Pennsylvania State Univ., Harrisburg, PA; and J. L. Evans and G. S. Young

 
6
AWIPS-2 Activities at COMET
Timothy Alberta, UCAR/COMET, Boulder, CO; and R. Bubon, J. Rener, M. Kelsch, D. Keissling, and E. M. Page

 
7
The Spatial and Temporal Variability of Rain Microphysics
Katie E. Voitik, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO; and J. Hardin and V. Chandrasekar

 
8
AN INTEGRATED MODELING AND OBSERVING SYSTEM FOR THE STUDY OF ECOLOGY OF LAKE GEORGE IN THE JEFFERSON PROJECT
Anthony Praino, IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center, Yorktown Heights, NY; and L. A. Treinish, H. Kolar, J. Cipriani, E. Dow, M. Kelly, F. Liu, F. O'Donncha, E. Ragnoli, M. Passow, and L. Villa Real

 
9
Characterizing the Detectability of Atmospheric Emission Signals
Robert L. Buckley, Savannah River National Laboratory, Aiken, SC; and D. W. Werth

Handout (4.0 MB)

 
10
Prototyping a Standard Mobile Urban Microclimate Platform
Benjamin L. Ruddell, Arizona State University, Mesa, AZ

4:00 PM-5:30 PM: Monday, 5 January 2015

Recording files available
Themed Joint Session 1
The Last Mile: Methods and Technologies for Delivering Custom Weather, Water, and Climate Information to Everyone in the World
Location: 124B (Phoenix Convention Center - West and North Buildings)
Hosts: (Joint between the 13th Conference on Artificial Intelligence; the 31st Conference on Environmental Information Processing Technologies; and the Special Symposium on Model Postprocessing and Downscaling )
Cochairs: V. Lakshmanan, CIMMS/Univ. of Oklahoma; Amy McGovern, Univ. of Oklahoma
  4:00 PM
TJ1.1
Scaling Machine Learning Models to Produce High Resolution Gridded Solar Power Forecasts
David John Gagne, NCAR, Boulder, CO; and S. E. Haupt, S. Linden, J. K. Williams, A. McGovern, G. Wiener, J. A. Lee, and T. C. McCandless
  4:15 PM
TJ1.2
Generation of Ensemble-Based Hazardous Weather Guidance Products from Rapidly Updating Models: The HRRR Convective Probabilistic Forecast (HCPF) and Related Post-Processing Work
Stephen S. Weygandt, NOAA/ESRL, Boulder, CO; and C. R. Alexander, J. A. Hamilton, S. Benjamin, E. P. James, T. G. Smirnova, M. Hu, and I. Jankov
  4:30 PM
TJ1.3
Big Data is Critical for the Weather Ready Nation
Nancy Grady, SAIC, Oak Ridge, TN; and J. O. Olson and T. M. Anselmo
  4:45 PM
TJ1.4
  5:00 PM
TJ1.5
Weather for the Road: a Mobile Solution
Philipe Tissot, Texas A&M University, Corpus Christi, TX; and D. Stephen and D. Fonseca
  5:15 PM
TJ1.6
Cloud-Based Numerical Weather Prediction for Near Real-time Forecasting and Disaster Response
Andrew L. Molthan, NASA/MSFC, Huntsville, AL; and J. L. Case, J. Venner, R. Schroeder, M. Checchi, B. T. Zavodsky, and R. O'Brien
Recording files available
Joint Session 2
Technology Advances – Weather Testbeds
Location: 131C (Phoenix Convention Center - West and North Buildings)
Hosts: (Joint between the 31st Conference on Environmental Information Processing Technologies; and the Fifth Conference on Transition of Research to Operations )
Cochairs: Randall Bass, FAA; John Pereira, NOAA/NESDIS
  4:15 PM
J2.2
Developing a Tropical Cyclone Genesis Forecast Tool using Global Model Output
Daniel J. Halperin, Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL; and R. E. Hart, H. E. Fuelberg, and J. Cossuth
  4:30 PM
J2.3
  5:15 PM
J2.6
The Inaugural Hazardous Weather Testbed – Hydrology (HWT-Hydro) Experiment
Race Clark III, CIMMS/Univ. of Oklahoma/NOAA/NSSL, Norman, OK; and J. Gourley, Z. L. Flamig, E. M. Argyle, B. R. Smith, S. M. Martinaitis, L. P. Rothfusz, and Y. Hong
Recording files available
Session 3
Mobile Apps for Weather
Location: 132AB (Phoenix Convention Center - West and North Buildings)
Host: 31st Conference on Environmental Information Processing Technologies
Cochairs: M. D. Eilts, Weather Decision Technologies, Inc.; George D. Emmitt, Simpson Weather Associates
  4:00 PM
3.1
Dissemination of Earth Remote Sensing Data for use in the NOAA/NWS Damage Assessment Toolkit
Andrew L. Molthan, NASA/MSFC, Huntsville, AL; and J. E. Burks, J. P. Camp, K. M. McGrath, and J. R. Bell
  4:15 PM
3.2
  4:30 PM
3.3
  4:45 PM
3.4
Seasonality Pro: Visualizing Real-Time Model Data on the iPad
Mike Piatek-Jimenez, Gaucho Software, LLC., Mount Pleasant, MI
  5:00 PM
3.5
RadarScope - Maintaining and Supporting a Professional Tool in a World of Consumer Apps
J. Michael Wolfinbarger, Weather Decision Technologies, Inc., Norman, OK; and J. R. Greenfield, R. A. Young, S. N. Blackburn, and R. Kimes
  5:15 PM
3.6
Using Mobile as an Early Warning Platform
Jim Anderson, Earth Networks, Germantown, MD; and A. Ali and D. Chai

5:30 PM-7:30 PM: Monday, 5 January 2015


Reception and Exhibits Opening
Location: Hall 5 (Phoenix Convention Center - West and North Buildings)

Tuesday, 6 January 2015

8:30 AM-9:45 AM: Tuesday, 6 January 2015

Recording files available
Session 4A
AWIPS System Updates - Part I
Location: 132AB (Phoenix Convention Center - West and North Buildings)
Host: 31st Conference on Environmental Information Processing Technologies
Cochairs: Scott Jacobs, NOAA/NWS/NCEP; William Roberts, OAR
  8:30 AM
4A.1
Evolution of AWIPS: AWIPS II Migration and Vision for the Next Decade
Ronla K. Henry, NOAA/NWS, Silver Spring, MD; and J. Tatum, E. Mandel, S. Garrard, S. S. Schotz, and M. B. Miller
  8:45 AM
4A.2
AWIPS II Extended – Extended Projects Overview and Status
Steve S. Schotz, NOAA/NWS, Silver Spring, MD; and R. K. Henry and M. B. Miller
  9:00 AM
4A.3
Hazard Services Progress Report -- An AWIPS II Extended Project to Improve the Ability to Communicate Hazard Information in a Digital World
Joseph Wakefield, OAR, Boulder, CO; and M. Churma, C. Golden, T. Hansen, K. Manross, M. Nash, J. Ramer, R. Rood, J. Sanchez, D. Schaffer, S. S. Schotz, and S. Williams
  9:15 AM
4A.4
The Ensemble Tool in AWIPS II
Paul Schultz, CIRES/Univ. of Colorado, Boulder, CO; and E. Polster, X. Jing, T. J. LeFebvre, and W. Roberts
  9:30 AM
4A.5
Forecast Decision Support Environment - A Progress Report
Thomas J. LeFebvre, NOAA/ESRL, Boulder, CO; and K. Manross and J. Kerr
Recording files available
Session 4B
Information Systems Technology for Generation, Communication, Interpretation and Exploitation of Satellite Data
Location: 131C (Phoenix Convention Center - West and North Buildings)
Host: 31st Conference on Environmental Information Processing Technologies
Cochairs: Randall Bass, FAA; Gerald Dittberner, Harris Corporation
  8:30 AM
Alexander Werbos
  8:45 AM
4B.1
Data Recipes: Toward Creating How-To Knowledge Base for Earth Science Data
Suhung Shen, NASA/GSFC, Greenbelt, MD; and C. Lynnes, J. Acker, and T. Beaty
  9:00 AM
4B.2
Using Progressive Resolution to Visualize large Satellite Image dataset
Yuan Ho, UCAR, Boulder, CO; and J. Chastang, T. Yoksas, and D. murray
  9:30 AM
4B.4
Reprocessing with the S-NPP Common Matchup Tool
Albert N. Danial, Northop Grumman, Redondo Beach, CA; and S. Jackson
  9:45 AM
4B.5
Approaching GOES-R Launch: Overview of Baseline Level 2 Products Generated from End-to-End Runs with Simulated Data
Paul A. Van Rompay, AER, Greenbelt, MD; and E. J. Kennelly, H. E. Snell, S. Kalluri, T. S. Zaccheo, and A. Weiner

9:00 AM-11:00 AM: Tuesday, 6 January 2015


Spouses' Coffee

9:45 AM-11:00 AM: Tuesday, 6 January 2015


Formal Poster Viewing with Coffee Break
Location: Hall 4 (Phoenix Convention Center - West and North Buildings)

11:00 AM-12:00 PM: Tuesday, 6 January 2015

Recording files available
Lecture 1
Bernhard Haurwitz Memorial Lecture
Location: 122BC (Phoenix Convention Center - West and North Buildings)
Hosts: (Joint between the 15th Presidential Forum; the Major Weather Events and Societal Impacts of 2014; the Eugenia Kalnay Symposium; the Harry R. Glahn Symposium; the 31st Conference on Environmental Information Processing Technologies; the 29th Conference on Hydrology; the 24th Symposium on Education; the 20th Conference on Satellite Meteorology and Oceanography; the 20th Conference on Planned and Inadvertent Weather Modification; the 19th Conference on Integrated Observing and Assimilation Systems for the Atmosphere, Oceans, and Land Surface (IOAS-AOLS); the 19th Conference on Air-Sea Interaction; the 27th Conference on Climate Variability and Change; the 18th Conference on Middle Atmosphere; the 17th Conference on Atmospheric Chemistry; the 17th Conference on Aviation, Range, and Aerospace Meteorology; the 13th Conference on Artificial Intelligence; the 13th Symposium on the Coastal Environment; the 13th History Symposium; the 12th Conference on Space Weather; the 11th Annual Symposium on New Generation Operational Environmental Satellite Systems; the 10th Symposium on Societal Applications: Policy, Research and Practice; the Seventh Symposium on Lidar Atmospheric Applications; the Seventh Conference on the Meteorological Applications of Lightning Data; the Seventh Symposium on Aerosol-Cloud-Climate Interactions; the Sixth Conference on Weather, Climate, and the New Energy Economy; the Sixth Conference on Environment and Health; the Fifth Conference on Transition of Research to Operations; the Third Symposium on the Weather and Climate Enterprise; the Third Symposium on Building a Weather-Ready Nation: Enhancing Our Nation’s Readiness, Responsiveness, and Resilience to High Impact Weather Events; the Third Symposium on the Joint Center for Satellite Data Assimilation; the Third Symposium on Prediction of the Madden-Julian Oscillation: Processes, Prediction and Impact; the First Symposium on High Performance Computing for Weather, Water, and Climate; and the Special Symposium on Model Postprocessing and Downscaling )
  11:00 AM
L1.1
Model Diagnoses of El Nino Teleconnections to the Global Atmosphere-Ocean System
Ngar-Cheung Lau, Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China
Recording files available
Session 5A
AWIPS System Updates - Part II
Location: 132AB (Phoenix Convention Center - West and North Buildings)
Host: 31st Conference on Environmental Information Processing Technologies
Cochairs: William Roberts, OAR; Scott Jacobs, NOAA/NWS/NCEP

Continuation of AWIPS session
  11:15 AM
5A.2
Update on LAPS in AWIPS II
Craig Hartsough, NOAA, Boulder, CO; and L. Wharton, P. McCaslin, K. Holub, Y. Xie, H. Jiang, S. Albers, and Z. Toth
  11:30 AM
5A.3
Recording files available
Joint Session 6
Economic Impacts and Value of Improved Forecast Information
Location: 131C (Phoenix Convention Center - West and North Buildings)
Hosts: (Joint between the 31st Conference on Environmental Information Processing Technologies; and the 10th Symposium on Societal Applications: Policy, Research and Practice )
Cochairs: Randall Bass, FAA; Kimberly E. Klockow, NOAA
  11:00 AM
J6.1
Tornadoes: A Costly Yet Complicated Risk for Midwest Metropolitan Areas
Megan E. Linkin, Swiss Re America Holding Corporation, Armonk, NY; and K. Orwig and D. N. Nelson
  11:15 AM
J6.2
  11:30 AM
J6.3
Assessment and Measurement of Impacts on Public Weather Service in China
Huiling Yuan, Nanjing University, Nanjing, Jiangsu, China; and M. Sun and Y. Wang

12:00 PM-1:30 PM: Tuesday, 6 January 2015


Harry R. Glahn Symposium Luncheon
Location: 213AB (Phoenix Convention Center - West and North Buildings)

Lunch Break

12:45 PM-1:05 PM: Tuesday, 6 January 2015


Daily Weather Briefings
Location: 132AB (Phoenix Convention Center - West and North Buildings)

1:30 PM-3:00 PM: Tuesday, 6 January 2015

Recording files available
Session 6A
Quasi-Operational Products you can use now
Location: 131C (Phoenix Convention Center - West and North Buildings)
Host: 31st Conference on Environmental Information Processing Technologies
Cochairs: Lakshmanan Valliappa, The Climate Corporation; Kevin Kelleher, NOAA/NSSL
  1:30 PM
6A.1
NOAA IDP-GIS: MOVING GIS INTO OPERATIONS
Tony LaVoi, NOAA, Chaarleston, SC; and K. Ward, K. Pelman, V. Silva, and N. Parikh
  1:45 PM
6A.2
The High-Resolution Rapid Refresh (HRRR): The Operational Implementation
Curtis R. Alexander, NOAA/ESRL/Global Systems Division and CIRES/Univ. of Colorado, Boulder, CO; and G. Manikin, S. Benjamin, S. S. Weygandt, G. DiMego, M. Hu, and T. G. Smirnova
  2:00 PM
6A.3
Rapid Refresh: NCEP operational upgrade and work toward version 3 and the North American Rapid Refresh Ensemble (NARRE)
Stephen S. Weygandt, NOAA/ESRL, Boulder, CO; and S. Benjamin, T. G. Smirnova, M. Hu, J. B. Olson, H. Lin, C. R. Alexander, G. Manikin, E. P. James, I. Jankov, J. Brown, and D. C. Dowell
  2:15 PM
6A.4
The Path to Achieving Operational Status for NOAA's Meteorological Assimilation Data Ingest System (MADIS)
Tim McClung, NOAA/NWS, Silver Spring, MD; and S. Pritchett, G. Pratt, L. Benjamin, T. Kent, G. Padmanabhan, L. K. Cheatwood, and M. Vrencur
  2:45 PM
6A.6
Applications of geodetic techniques to atmospheric and environmental studies
Shelley Olds, UNAVCO, Boulder, CO; and C. M. Puskas and J. J. Braun
Recording files available
Session 6B
RADAR - MPAR Program and Radar Research
Location: 132AB (Phoenix Convention Center - West and North Buildings)
Host: 31st Conference on Environmental Information Processing Technologies
Cochairs: Mark B. Yeary, University of Oklahoma; Michael J. Istok, NOAA/NWS; Kurt D. Hondl, NOAA/NSSL; Robert E. Saffle, Noblis, Inc.
  1:30 PM
6B.1
Multi-Function Phased Array Radar (MPAR) Program and Plans
Kurt D. Hondl, NOAA/NSSL, Norman, OK; and M. J. Emanuel and J. E. Stailey
  1:45 PM
6B.2
Cylindrical Polarimetric Phased Array Radar Demonstrator
Caleb Fulton, University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK; and J. Meier, R. Kelley, S. Karimkashi, M. McCord, I. Meier, G. Zhang, R. Palmer, A. Zahrai, D. Schmidt, R. J. Doviak, D. Zrnic, L. Bhowmik, and A. Byrd
  2:00 PM
6B.3
A Dual Polarization Phased Array Radar Demonstrator
Kurt D. Hondl, NOAA/NSSL, Norman, OK; and A. Zahrai, D. Zrnic, B. M. Isom, D. Conway, M. Fosberry, H. Thomas, M. Harger, A. Mankame, J. Cho, R. Kelley, J. B. Meier, and M. McCord
  2:15 PM
6B.4
  2:30 PM
6B.5
Adaptive Waveform Design Applications for a Multi-Sector MPAR
James M. Kurdzo, University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK; and R. Palmer, B. L. Cheong, R. Kelley, and C. Fulton

3:00 PM-3:30 PM: Tuesday, 6 January 2015


Coffee Break
Location: Hall 5 (Phoenix Convention Center - West and North Buildings)

Meet the President
Location: 126A (Phoenix Convention Center - West and North Buildings)

3:30 PM-5:30 PM: Tuesday, 6 January 2015

Recording files available
Joint Session 3
The Use of Social Media in Education, Outreach and Training
Location: 125AB (Phoenix Convention Center - West and North Buildings)
Hosts: (Joint between the 24th Symposium on Education; and the 31st Conference on Environmental Information Processing Technologies )
Cochairs: Margaret Mooney, CIMSS/Univ. of Wisconsin; Thomas M. Whittaker, SSEC/CIMSS/Univ. of Wisconsin
  3:30 PM
J3.1
Using Google Hangouts for Weather Education
Tim Brice, NOAA/NWS/Weather Forecast Office in El Paso, TX, Santa Teresa, NM; and M. Pazos
  3:45 PM
J3.2
Pictures are Worth 1,000 Shares: Connecting Social Media with Visual Data to Improve Communications Strategies
Daniel P. Pisut, I.M. Systems Group, Silver Spring, MD; and H. Samuelson, G. Jungbluth, and L. Saunders
  4:15 PM
J3.4
  4:30 PM
J3.5
The use of Blogs, Twitter and YouTube for outreach at CIMSS
Scott S. Lindstrom, CIMSS/Univ. of Wisconsin, Madison, WI; and A. S. Bachmeier
Recording files available
Session 7A
RADAR - Signal Processing for Next Generation Radars
Location: 132AB (Phoenix Convention Center - West and North Buildings)
Host: 31st Conference on Environmental Information Processing Technologies
Cochairs: Mark B. Yeary, University of Oklahoma; Kurt D. Hondl, NOAA/NSSL; Michael J. Istok, NOAA/NWS; Robert E. Saffle, Noblis, Inc.
  3:30 PM
7A.1A
Raytheon Polarimetric X-Band Phased Array Radar: Single and Netted Radar System
Anthony P. Hopf, Raytheon Company, Tewksbury, MA; and J. Bourgeois, P. Drake, and T. J. Flynn

  3:45 PM
7A.2
  4:00 PM
7A.3
Emulation of Polarimetric Weather Radar Signals from Tornadic Debris
Boon Leng Cheong, University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK; and D. J. Bodine, T. Maruyama, C. Fulton, S. M. Torres, and R. Palmer
  4:15 PM
7A.4
Adaptive Null-Forming for the Spy-1A at the National Weather Radar Testbed
John Lake, Univ. of Oklahoma, ARRC, Norman, OK; and C. D. Curtis and M. B. Yeary
  4:30 PM
7A.5
  4:45 PM
7A.6
Hybrid Scan and Joint Signal Processing for A High Efficient MPAR
Guifu Zhang, University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK; and D. Zrnic, L. Borowska, and Y. Al-Rashid
Recording files available
Session 7B
Road Weather Applications
Location: 131C (Phoenix Convention Center - West and North Buildings)
Host: 31st Conference on Environmental Information Processing Technologies
Cochairs: Paul Pisano, Federal Highway Administration; Ralph Patterson, NarwhalMet; James P. Koermer, Plymouth State University
  3:30 PM
7B.1
FHWA Road Weather Managment Program Integrated Mobile Observations (IMO) Project
Brenda C. Boyce, Booz Allen Hamilton, Washington, DC; and P. Pisano and G. N. Guevara
  3:45 PM
7B.2
Real-time Applications of Weather and Pavement Data Generated by Mobile Platforms
Paul, O.G. Heppner, Global Science & Technology, Inc., Greenbelt, MD
  4:00 PM
7B.3
Evaluation of MoPED Observations in Surface Analyses
John D. Horel, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT; and D. Xia and P. O. G. Heppner
  4:15 PM
7B.4
The Pathfinder Project: Collaborative Messaging for Traveler Information
Paul Pisano, Federal Highway Administration, Washington, DC; and D. Carpenter, K. Barjenbruch, L. Dunn, R. Patterson, and L. Sturges
  4:45 PM
7B.6
Development of an Index for Estimating Road Weather Severity Based on Energy
Michael E. Baldwin, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN; and K. Hoogewind, C. Miller, and D. Snyder
  5:00 PM
7B.7
Developing an Inexpensive Dust Detection and Alert System
Ken R. Waters, NOAA/NWS, Phoenix, AZ; and D. Leins

Wednesday, 7 January 2015

8:30 AM-10:00 AM: Wednesday, 7 January 2015

Recording files available
Session 8
APIs and Web Services for Accessing, Integrating and Using Weather, Water, Climate and Societal Information via Desktop and Mobile Platforms
Location: 131C (Phoenix Convention Center - West and North Buildings)
Host: 31st Conference on Environmental Information Processing Technologies
Cochairs: George Smith, Riverside Technology, inc.; Larry E. Brazil, Riverside Technology, Inc.
  8:45 AM
8.2
NOAA's Weather and Climate Toolkit
Stephen A. Del Greco, NOAA/NESDIS/NCDC, Asheville, NC; and S. Ansari
  9:15 AM
8.4
Weather and air traffic, together: INtegrated Support for Impacted air-Traffic Environments (INSITE)
Brian J. Etherton, NOAA/OAR/ESRL, Boulder, CO; and G. J. Layne, P. Hamer, M. Rabellino, M. S. Wandishin, and M. A. Petty
  9:30 AM
8.5
  9:45 AM
8.6
Increasing the Availability and Utility of Weather and Climate Data to Meet Decision Maker Needs
George Smith, Riverside Technology, inc., Fort Collins, CO; and W. Seguin, M. McDonald, and L. E. Brazil

9:00 AM-11:00 AM: Wednesday, 7 January 2015


Spouses' Coffee

10:00 AM-10:30 AM: Wednesday, 7 January 2015


Coffee Break
Location: Hall 5 (Phoenix Convention Center - West and North Buildings)

Meet the President
Location: 126A (Phoenix Convention Center - West and North Buildings)

10:30 AM-12:00 PM: Wednesday, 7 January 2015

Recording files available
Session 9
Services Update (invited)
Location: 132AB (Phoenix Convention Center - West and North Buildings)
Host: 31st Conference on Environmental Information Processing Technologies
Facilitator: William Roberts, OAR
Speakers: Louis W. Uccellini, Director, NOAA/NWS; Jonathan White, US Navy; Jack A. Kaye, NASA, Science Mission Directorate
  10:30 AM
Director NWS - Louis Uccellini
  10:45 AM
U.S. Navy - Jonathan White
  11:00 AM
NASA Earth Science - Jack Kaye
  11:15 AM
Welcoming Remarks

  11:20 AM
Discussion

  12:30 PM
Concluding Remarks

12:00 PM-1:15 PM: Wednesday, 7 January 2015


Town Hall Meeting: Core Science Talk – Multi-hazard Impact Science with an Emphasis on Natural Hazards
Location: 131C (Phoenix Convention Center - West and North Buildings)

The last few years has seen an increasing focus by the Met Office in the UK to provide Impact-based weather warnings in response to the public's, disaster management authorities' and Governments' needs to have a common, meaningful and understandable means of weather hazard communication. The UK's National Severe Weather Warning Service went impact-based in 2011 and a series of successfully communicated high impact flooding and wind storms events since then have provided ample evidence of the common language now being spoken between the scientists, planners and responders. The biggest challenge now is to further develop the underpinning science of weather hazard impact by integrating the mature science of weather forecasting with the developing science of hazard vulnerability and exposure. This necessarily requires an increasing dependency on other agencies and new databases, the development of interoperable science and visualisation frameworks and new and innovative means of monitoring and reporting hazard impact. The Natural Hazard Partnership, chaired by the Met Office, is leading the way in coordinating work in the UK to broaden the science to services pipeline into a range of multi-hazard impact assessments. This town hall talk looks to take us on the journey that is multi-hazard impact science into relevant and understandable assessments and warnings to the public, disaster management authorities and UK Governments. The second half of the town hall will feature an update and discussion of the Bárðarbunga volcanic activity and its impacts with updates from Sara Barsotti from the IMO and others.

12:00 PM-1:30 PM: Wednesday, 7 January 2015


Eugenia Kalnay Symposium Luncheon
Location: 229B (Phoenix Convention Center - West and North Buildings)
Speaker: Jagadish Shukla, George Mason Univ./COLA
  12:00 PM
B.1
Eugenia Kalnay: Scientist, Revolutionary, and a Concerned Citizen of the World
Jagadish Shukla, George Mason Univ./COLA, Fairfax, VA


Lunch Break

Women in the Atmospheric Sciences Luncheon
Location: 213AB (Phoenix Convention Center - West and North Buildings)

12:45 PM-1:05 PM: Wednesday, 7 January 2015


Daily Weather Briefings
Location: 132AB (Phoenix Convention Center - West and North Buildings)

1:30 PM-2:30 PM: Wednesday, 7 January 2015


Lecture 2
Horton Lecture
Location: 127ABC (Phoenix Convention Center - West and North Buildings)
Hosts: (Joint between the Eugenia Kalnay Symposium; the 31st Conference on Environmental Information Processing Technologies; the 27th Conference on Climate Variability and Change; the 24th Symposium on Education; the 20th Conference on Satellite Meteorology and Oceanography; the 20th Conference on Planned and Inadvertent Weather Modification; the 19th Conference on Integrated Observing and Assimilation Systems for the Atmosphere, Oceans, and Land Surface (IOAS-AOLS); the 19th Conference on Air-Sea Interaction; the 29th Conference on Hydrology; the 18th Conference on Middle Atmosphere; the 17th Conference on Atmospheric Chemistry; the 17th Conference on Aviation, Range, and Aerospace Meteorology; the 13th Conference on Artificial Intelligence; the 13th Symposium on the Coastal Environment; the 13th History Symposium; the 12th Conference on Space Weather; the 11th Annual Symposium on New Generation Operational Environmental Satellite Systems; the 10th Symposium on Societal Applications: Policy, Research and Practice; the Eighth Annual CCM Forum: Certified Consulting Meteorologists; the Seventh Symposium on Lidar Atmospheric Applications; the Seventh Conference on the Meteorological Applications of Lightning Data; the Seventh Symposium on Aerosol-Cloud-Climate Interactions; the Sixth Conference on Weather, Climate, and the New Energy Economy; the Sixth Conference on Environment and Health; the Fifth Conference on Transition of Research to Operations; the Third Symposium on the Weather and Climate Enterprise; the Third Symposium on Building a Weather-Ready Nation: Enhancing Our Nation’s Readiness, Responsiveness, and Resilience to High Impact Weather Events; the Third Symposium on the Joint Center for Satellite Data Assimilation; the Third Symposium on Prediction of the Madden-Julian Oscillation: Processes, Prediction and Impact; the First Symposium on High Performance Computing for Weather, Water, and Climate; and the Special Symposium on Model Postprocessing and Downscaling )
Chair: Michael B. Ek, NOAA/NWS/NCEP/EMC
Recording files available
Session 10
RADAR - Radar Meteorology Science & Applications
Location: 132AB (Phoenix Convention Center - West and North Buildings)
Host: 31st Conference on Environmental Information Processing Technologies
Cochairs: Mark B. Yeary, University of Oklahoma; Michael J. Istok, NOAA/NWS; Kurt D. Hondl, NOAA/NSSL; Robert E. Saffle, Noblis, Inc.
  1:30 PM
10.1
Real-time Dual-Doppler Wind Synthesis Applied to the Support of Research using Unmanned Aircraft Systems
Anthony E. Reinhart, Texas Tech University, Lubbock, TX; and C. C. Weiss, A. Houston, E. W. Frew, and B. Argrow
  1:45 PM
10.2

2:30 PM-4:00 PM: Wednesday, 7 January 2015


Formal Poster Viewing with Coffee Break
Location: Hall 4 (Phoenix Convention Center - West and North Buildings)

Poster Session 2
Poster Session - Part II
Host: 31st Conference on Environmental Information Processing Technologies
Cochairs: Scott Jacobs, NOAA/NWS/NCEP; Nancy N. Soreide, NOAA/PMEL; Jennifer Luppens Mahoney, NOAA/ESRL/GSD

Wednesday and Thursday Poster Session for EIPT Conference focusing on topics covered during the last two days of sessions.
 
500
 
501
Empowering Metview users through a new user interface
Stephan Siemen, ECMWF, Reading, Berks., United Kingdom; and I. Russell, S. Kertesz, and F. Ii

 
502
GISC Washington
Robert Bunge, NOAA/NWS, Silver Spring, MD; and W. Smith Jr., L. Y. Tai, and P. Gillis

Handout (1.5 MB)

 
504
Verification of the Bragg Scatter Method on the WSR-88D
Joshua G. Gebauer, National Weather Center Research Experience for Undergraduates, Norman, OK; and J. G. Cunningham, W. D. Zittel, and R. R. Lee

 
505
UNIDATA ACTIVITIES AT TEXAS A & M INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY
Arturo Diaz, Texas A&M International University, Laredo, TX; and K. Tobin

 
506
Role of Climate Change in Vulnerability Assessments
Alex Coletti, Syneren Technologies Corp, College Park, MD; and A. De Nicola and C. K. Ngan
Manuscript (396.3 kB)

 
507
Observational Capabilities of the FRONT Network: 21 May 2014 Case
Julie I. Barnum, Missouri State University, Springfield, MO; and S. Y. Murphy, P. Kennedy, and V. Chandrasekar

 
508
NOAA’s Integrated Dissemination Program
Michelle Mainelli, NOAA/NWS/NCEP, College Park, MD; and B. Kyger, L. Cano, C. Shelton, and S. Jacobs

 
920
Using the Firefly optimization method in the convective parametrization of the model BRAMS to simulate the diurnal cycle of precipitation in South America
Ariane F. dos Santos, National Institute for Space Research, Cachoeira Paulista, SP, Brazil; and .. S. R. Freitas, M. A. Gan, J. G. Z. de Mattos, H. F. de Campos Velho, and G. Grell

 
923
Raytheon X-Band Polarimetric Phased-Array Radar: Weather Data Processing, First Look
David L. Pepyne, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA; and J. Trabal, F. Lok, P. Drake, T. J. Flynn, J. Clark, and A. P. Hopf

4:00 PM-5:30 PM: Wednesday, 7 January 2015

Recording files available
Joint Panel Discussion 4
Making Climate Information Available to Decision Makers: Challenges, Risks, and Uncertainty
Location: 222A-C (Phoenix Convention Center - West and North Buildings)
Hosts: (Joint between the Third Symposium on the Weather and Climate Enterprise; the 31st Conference on Environmental Information Processing Technologies; and the 10th Symposium on Societal Applications: Policy, Research and Practice )
Moderators: Stephen Ambrose, NASA/GSFC; Karen Andersen, NCAR
Panelists: Sharon Hays, Computer Sciences Corporation; Dave Jones, StormCenter Communications, Inc.; Tsengdar Lee, NASA; Warren Washington, NCAR

Often climate models and data are complex and built for use by climate scientists, but what about the decision makers looking for climate information to make decisions? Creating information from climate data and models involves making the data easy to understand and useful to citizen scientists and non-scientists alike. How can climate experts provide outlooks on climate useful for decisions on policy, infrastructure, resources, and life and safety? Some issues related to providing this information include data/model uncertainty, sampling errors, spatial resolution, model downscaling, visualization, liability, and risk management, to name a few. This panel will discuss plans, strategies, challenges, perspectives, technologies, and the future of climate change information and services for society.
  4:00 PM
Stephen Ambrose Introduction
  4:15 PM
Sharon Hays Remarks
  4:30 PM
Dave Jones Remarks
  4:45 PM
Tsengdar Lee Remarks

  5:00 PM
Warren Washington
Recording files available
Session 11
RADAR - WSR-88D Program and Operational Radar Experiences
Location: 132AB (Phoenix Convention Center - West and North Buildings)
Host: 31st Conference on Environmental Information Processing Technologies
Cochairs: Mark B. Yeary, University of Oklahoma; Kurt D. Hondl, NOAA/NSSL; Michael J. Istok, NOAA/NWS; Robert E. Saffle, Noblis, Inc.
  4:00 PM
11.1
  4:15 PM
11.2
Geographical and Seasonal Availability of Light Rain, Dry Snow, and Bragg Scatter to Estimate WSR-88D ZDR System Bias
W. David Zittel, NOAA/NWS, Norman, OK; and R. R. Lee, L. M. Richardson, J. G. Cunningham, J. A. Schultz, and R. L. Ice
Manuscript (2.3 MB)

Handout (2.4 MB)

  4:30 PM
11.3
  4:45 PM
11.4
Polarimetric Weather Radar Calibration Using Solar Scans
Richard Ice, NOAA/NWS/ROC, Norman, OK; and A. K. Heck, J. G. Cunningham, W. D. Zittel, R. R. Lee, L. M. Richardson, and B. J. McGuire
  5:00 PM
11.5
Minimizing the impact of ground-clutter filtering along the zero-isodop in polarimetric Doppler weather radars
David A. Warde, CIMMS/Univ. of Oklahoma and NOAA/OAR/NSSL, Norman, OK; and S. M. Torres
  5:15 PM
11.6
Assessing Variable Importance in a Radar QC Algorithm
V. Lakshmanan, CIMMS/Univ. of Oklahoma, Norman, OK

5:30 PM-6:30 PM: Wednesday, 7 January 2015


Awards Banquet Reception in the Exhibit Hall
Location: Hall 5 (Phoenix Convention Center - West and North Buildings)

7:00 PM-10:00 PM: Wednesday, 7 January 2015


95th AMS Awards Banquet
Location: North Ballroom (Phoenix Convention Center - West and North Buildings)

Thursday, 8 January 2015

8:30 AM-9:45 AM: Thursday, 8 January 2015

Recording files available
Session 12A
Crowdsourcing Data and Data Portals - Part I
Location: 132AB (Phoenix Convention Center - West and North Buildings)
Host: 31st Conference on Environmental Information Processing Technologies
Cochairs: Ken R. Waters, NOAA/NWS; Nazila Merati, ClipCard
  8:45 AM
12A.2
A Photo Storm Report Mobile Application, Processing/Distribution System, and AWIPS-II Display Concept
Scott Longmore, CIRA/Colorado State Univ., Fort Collins, CO; and S. D. Miller, D. Bikos, D. T. Lindsey, E. Szoke, D. A. Molenar, D. W. Hillger, R. Brummer, and J. A. Knaff
  9:15 AM
12A.4
Crowdsourcing for Land Cover and Land Use Change Research and Applications
Udaysankar Nair, Univ. of Alabama, Huntsville, AL; and D. Thau
Recording files available
Session 12B
Software Engineering
Location: 130 (Phoenix Convention Center - West and North Buildings)
Host: 31st Conference on Environmental Information Processing Technologies
Cochairs: Jennifer Luppens Mahoney, NOAA/ESRL/GSD; William Roberts, OAR
  9:00 AM
12B.3
Toward an Integrated Development Environment for Atmospheric Sciences Codes
Jay Alameda, National Center for Supercomputing Applications, Champaign, IL; and J. L. Overbey

9:45 AM-11:00 AM: Thursday, 8 January 2015


Formal Poster Viewing with Coffee Break
Location: Hall 4 (Phoenix Convention Center - West and North Buildings)

11:00 AM-12:00 PM: Thursday, 8 January 2015


Lecture 3
Walter Orr Roberts Lecture
Location: 124A (Phoenix Convention Center - West and North Buildings)
Hosts: (Joint between the Major Weather Events and Societal Impacts of 2014; the 15th Presidential Forum; the Eugenia Kalnay Symposium; the Harry R. Glahn Symposium; the 31st Conference on Environmental Information Processing Technologies; the 29th Conference on Hydrology; the 27th Conference on Climate Variability and Change; the 24th Symposium on Education; the 20th Conference on Satellite Meteorology and Oceanography; the 20th Conference on Planned and Inadvertent Weather Modification; the 19th Conference on Integrated Observing and Assimilation Systems for the Atmosphere, Oceans, and Land Surface (IOAS-AOLS); the 19th Conference on Air-Sea Interaction; the 17th Conference on Atmospheric Chemistry; the 18th Conference on Middle Atmosphere; the 17th Conference on Aviation, Range, and Aerospace Meteorology; the 13th Conference on Artificial Intelligence; the 13th Symposium on the Coastal Environment; the 13th History Symposium; the 12th Conference on Space Weather; the 11th Annual Symposium on New Generation Operational Environmental Satellite Systems; the 10th Symposium on Societal Applications: Policy, Research and Practice; the Seventh Symposium on Lidar Atmospheric Applications; the Seventh Conference on the Meteorological Applications of Lightning Data; the Seventh Symposium on Aerosol-Cloud-Climate Interactions; the Sixth Conference on Weather, Climate, and the New Energy Economy; the Sixth Conference on Environment and Health; the Fifth Conference on Transition of Research to Operations; the Fifth Symposium on Advances in Modeling and Analysis Using Python; the Third Symposium on the Weather and Climate Enterprise; the Third Symposium on Building a Weather-Ready Nation: Enhancing Our Nation’s Readiness, Responsiveness, and Resilience to High Impact Weather Events; the Third Symposium on the Joint Center for Satellite Data Assimilation; the Third Symposium on Prediction of the Madden-Julian Oscillation: Processes, Prediction and Impact; the First Symposium on High Performance Computing for Weather, Water, and Climate; the Special Symposium on Model Postprocessing and Downscaling; and the Air Pollution Meteorology and Human Health Symposium )
  11:00 AM
L3.1
Recording files available
Joint Session 4
Data Stewardship: Ensuring the Value of Data from Real-Time to Posterity
Location: 130 (Phoenix Convention Center - West and North Buildings)
Hosts: (Joint between the 31st Conference on Environmental Information Processing Technologies; and the 18th Annual Conference of Atmospheric Science Librarians International (ASLI) )
Cochairs: Mohan K. Ramamurthy, Unidata/UCAR; Matthew S. Mayernik, NCAR
  11:00 AM
Open Discussion - Matthew Mayernik
  11:50 AM
J4.3
Using OGC's WCS2.0 to Extract Real Rime Metadata:-
Peter J. Trevelyan, Met Office, Exeter, United Kingdom; and R. Prudden
Recording files available
Session 13B
Crowdsourcing Data and Data Portals- Part II
Location: 132AB (Phoenix Convention Center - West and North Buildings)
Host: 31st Conference on Environmental Information Processing Technologies
Cochairs: Nazila Merati, ClipCard; Ken R. Waters, NOAA/NWS

Split session into two to accomodate Radar change
  11:00 AM
13B.1
  11:15 AM
13B.2
Improving Arctic reanalysis with citizen-science
Kevin R. Wood, JISAO/Univ. of Washington, Seattle, WA; and M. Mollan, P. Brohan, and N. N. Soreide
  11:30 AM
13B.3
Crowdsourcing Computations in the Cloud for Disaster Risk Management
John D. Evans, Global Science & Technology, Inc., Greenbelt, MD; and W. Hao and S. Chettri

12:00 PM-1:30 PM: Thursday, 8 January 2015


Lunch Break

12:45 PM-1:05 PM: Thursday, 8 January 2015


Daily Weather Briefings
Location: 132AB (Phoenix Convention Center - West and North Buildings)

1:30 PM-3:00 PM: Thursday, 8 January 2015

Recording files available
Session 14A
Disseminating Earth Science and Climate Information for Better Decision Making
Location: 132AB (Phoenix Convention Center - West and North Buildings)
Host: 31st Conference on Environmental Information Processing Technologies
Cochairs: Alex Coletti, Syneren Technologies Corp; Nancy N. Soreide, NOAA/PMEL
  1:45 PM
14A.2
Open and interoperable NWS geospatial data from NOAA IDP NextGen IT Web Services
Ryan L. Solomon, NOAA/NWS/NCEP, Kansas City, MO; and L. J. Cano, M. R. Peroutka, S. R. Olson, K. Mars, P. K. Pickard, C. MacDermaid, K. Ward, W. Marr, A. Braeckel, and B. R. J. Schwedler
  2:00 PM
14A.3
WISE: A Weather Visualization Tool for Operational Environments
Igor Oliveira, IBM Research, Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brazil; and R. Cerqueira, M. N. D. Santos, V. C. V. B. Segura, J. P. F. Ramirez, K. Mantripragada, and P. Jourdan
  2:15 PM
14A.4
Arctic Report Card: Update for 2014
Nancy N. Soreide, NOAA/PMEL, Seattle, WA; and M. Jeffries, J. A. Richter-Menge, and J. E. Overland

  2:30 PM
14A.5
A Novel Sounding Protocol for Lower Boundary Layer Characterization
C. Subramanian, VIT University, Vellore, Tamil Nadu, India; and A. Verma, A. Goenka, and S. Ghosh
Recording files available
Session 14B
Mapping and GIS for Weather and Climate
Location: 130 (Phoenix Convention Center - West and North Buildings)
Host: 31st Conference on Environmental Information Processing Technologies
Cochairs: Lori Armstrong, Esri; Ken R. Waters, NOAA/NWS
  1:30 PM
14B.1
GIS Efforts in NOAA - Past, Present and Future
Kari Sheets, NOAA/NWS, Silver Spring, MD; and K. Pelman, K. Ward, V. Silva, and N. Parikh
  2:00 PM
14B.3
Yucatán Hurricane Hazard Assessment: A GIS Methodology for Modeling Hurricane Hazards
Amanda M. Weigel, Univ. of Alabama, Huntsville, AL; and R. Griffin
  2:15 PM
14B.4
Experimental NWS Graphical Short-Fuse Warnings
Derek R. Deroche, NOAA/NWS, Kansas City, MO; and K. Scharfenberg, C. Pieper, and B. P. Walawender

3:00 PM-3:05 PM: Thursday, 8 January 2015


Registration Closes

3:00 PM-3:30 PM: Thursday, 8 January 2015


Coffee Break
Location: Meeting room foyers (Phoenix Convention Center - West and North Buildings)

Meet the President
Location: 126A (Phoenix Convention Center - West and North Buildings)

3:30 PM-5:00 PM: Thursday, 8 January 2015

Recording files available
Session 15A
Communication Technologies for Accessing and Distributing Climate, Weather and Hydrological Data
Location: 132AB (Phoenix Convention Center - West and North Buildings)
Host: 31st Conference on Environmental Information Processing Technologies
Cochairs: Alex Coletti, Syneren Technologies Corp; Nancy N. Soreide, NOAA/PMEL
  3:30 PM
NOAA IDP: An overview - Michelle Mainelli
  4:00 PM
15A.2
Recording files available
Session 15B
Visualization Techniques for Climatology and Meteorology
Location: 130 (Phoenix Convention Center - West and North Buildings)
Host: 31st Conference on Environmental Information Processing Technologies
Cochairs: Kathrin Häb, University of Kaiserslautern; Nazila Merati, ClipCard
  3:30 PM
15B.1
From SYNERGIE to SYNERGIE-Next : the french forecaster workstation
Jean Nicolau, METEO-FRANCE, TOULOUSE, France; and A. Lasserre, F. Marty, P. Salerno, H. Vandeputte, and L. Marchand
  3:45 PM
15B.2
  4:00 PM
15B.3
The Tracking Meteogram, an AWIPS II Tool for Time-Series Analysis
Jason E. Burks, NASA/MSFC, Huntsville, AL; and K. Sperow
  4:15 PM
15B.4
Visual analytics and microclimate analysis: A use case for a visualization tool developed for mobile measurements
Kathrin Häb, University of Kaiserslautern, Kaiserslautern, RLP, Germany; and A. Middel, B. L. Ruddell, and H. Hagen

5:00 PM-5:05 PM: Thursday, 8 January 2015


AMS 95th Annual Meeting Adjourns