Fifth Symposium on Advances in Modeling and Analysis Using Python

Program Chair: Johnny Wei-Bing Lin , University of Washington
Reviewers: David Brown , NCAR ; Hannah Aizenman , City College of New York ; Aashish Chaudhary , Kitware ; Scott Collis , ANL ; Charles Doutriaux , LLNL ; Mary Haley , NCAR ; Alexander Pletzer , Tech-X Corp. ; Jonathan Rocher , Enthought Inc ; Dean Williams , LLNL

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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)

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)

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 1
Python for the Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences
Location: 129B (Phoenix Convention Center - West and North Buildings)
Host: Fifth Symposium on Advances in Modeling and Analysis Using Python
Chair: Johnny Wei-Bing Lin, University of Washington

Provides a summary of recent advances in the use of Python in the atmospheric and oceanic sciences. The first talk is the Core Science Keynote for the Python Symposium.
  11:00 AM
1.1
The Rising Tide of Python (Core Science Lecture)
Kevin H. Goebbert, Valparaiso Univ., Valparaiso, IN
  11:45 AM
1.3
Modernizing the Operational Workflow and Automation of the NCEP Hurricane Weather Research and Forecast (HWRF) Modeling System using Python and Rocoto
Samuel Trahan, NCEP EMC / IMSG, College Park, MD; and T. Brown, S. Hsiao, B. Thomas, C. Holt, L. Bernardet, V. Tallapragada, H. L. Tolman, C. C. Magee, B. Kyger, and W. Lapenta

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
Session 2
Modeling, Analysis, and Learning
Location: 129B (Phoenix Convention Center - West and North Buildings)
Host: Fifth Symposium on Advances in Modeling and Analysis Using Python
Chair: Scott Collis, ANL
  1:30 PM
2.1
  1:45 PM
2.2
PyGeode: A python package for analyzing large gridded datasets
Peter Hitchcock, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom; and M. Neish
  2:15 PM
Each poster presenter, in order by their poster number is provided with an opportunity to give a brief intro of their poster presentation that will be given during the formal poster viewing following the session

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
Advances in Using Python in the Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences
Host: Fifth Symposium on Advances in Modeling and Analysis Using Python
Chair: Mary Haley, NCAR

This session covers the breadth of recent advances in using Python for data analysis, visualization, workflow integration, modeling, and teaching.
 
394
Toolbox for Evaluating Ensembles Using an Information Gain Measure
Hannah Aizenman, City College of New York, New York, NY; and M. Grossberg, I. Gladkova, and N. Krakauer

Handout (1.7 MB)

 
395
GeoJS: Web Geospatial Visualization Library for Climate and Geospatial Datasets
Aashish Chaudhary, Kitware, Clifton Park, NY; and C. Harris and J. D. Beezley

 
396
Parallel-UVCDAT / Python for Diurnal Cycle Analysis
Curt Covey, LLNL, Livermore, CA; and C. Doutriaux and D. Williams

 
398
Accessing NetCDF4 Data in Python
Ward Fisher, UCAR/NCAR, Boulder, CO

 
399
Dataflow of a Multiple Instrument On-Demand Processing Engine with Python and DPLKit
Joseph P. Garcia, Univ. of Wisconsin, Madison, WI; and E. Eloranta and R. K. Garcia

 
400
Ensemble Model Visualization and Decision Support Tools with Python
Steven J. Greybush, Penn State Univ., University Park, PA; and R. H. Grumm

 
401
Examples of Python-based Ensemble Displays for Decision Support
Richard Grumm, NOAA/NWSFO, State College, PA; and S. J. Greybush

 
402
SHARPpy: Fueling the Python Cult
Kelton T. Halbert, University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK; and W. G. Blumberg and P. Marsh
Manuscript (607.2 kB)

Handout (38.6 MB)

 
403
 
404
Cartopy and Tephi: Open source Python packages for visualising geospatial and thermodynamic data
Bill Little, Met Office, Exeter, United Kingdom; and R. Hattersley

Handout (3.0 MB)

 
405
Iris and pyugrid: Consistent access to structured and unstructured grids
Bill Little, Met Office, Exeter, United Kingdom; and R. Hattersley

Handout (2.0 MB)

 
Poster 406 will now be presented as 3.4A

 
408
Using Python as an Integrated Software Platform for the PACRAIN Program
Michael D. Klatt, University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK; and J. S. Greene and M. L. Morrissey

Handout (660.8 kB)

 
409
Computation, Analysis and Visualization of In-Situ and Remote Sensing Data using Python
Jared Rennie, Cooperative Institute for Climate and Satellites/North Carolina State University, Asheville, NC; and A. Buddenberg, K. Gassert, R. D. Leeper, L. E. Stevens, and S. E. Stevens

Handout (3.5 MB)

 
410
Accessing McIDAS ADDE Satellite Data Servers in Python
Jerrold O. Robaidek, CIMSS/Univ. of Wisconsin, Madison, WI; and R. Garcia, D. A. Santek, D. Parker, and D. Stettner

 
411
A Python-Based Plotter for Model-Derived Polarimetric Radar Variables
Timothy A. Supinie, CAPS/Univ. of Oklahoma, Norman, OK; and D. T. Dawson II and Y. Jung

 
412
Pyodec: Streamline and standardize methods for decoding non-structured data files
Joseph S. Young, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT

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

Recording files available
Session 3
Data and Visualization
Location: 129B (Phoenix Convention Center - West and North Buildings)
Host: Fifth Symposium on Advances in Modeling and Analysis Using Python
Chair: Aashish Chaudhary, Kitware
  4:00 PM
3.1
Making "biggish" dense data easy to use
Bill Little, Met Office, Exeter, United Kingdom; and R. Hattersley
  4:15 PM
3.2
  4:30 PM
3.3
  4:45 PM
3.4A
Designing and implementing radar algorithms in Python
Jonathan Helmus, ANL, Argonne, IL; and K. North, S. E. Giangrande, and S. Collis
  5:15 PM
3.6
Python for 4-D Visualization of Air Quality Data
Cesunica Ivey, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA; and S. Pearse, A. Norton, M. C. Barth, G. Pfister, and F. Flocke

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


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

Thursday, 8 January 2015

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
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