Joint Session 2 Second Symposium on US-International Partnerships

Program Chairs: Stephen E. Zebiak , International Research Institute for climate prediction, Columbia University ; Renee A. Leduc Clarke , Narayan Strategy ; Michael Ferrari , The Weather Company

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Monday, 23 January 2017

10:30 AM-11:00 AM: Monday, 23 January 2017


Coffee Break (6th Floor Foyer)
Location: Washington State Convention Center

11:00 AM-12:00 PM: Monday, 23 January 2017

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Joint Session 3
International Applications: Sharing Environmental Big Data, Part I
Location: 611 (Washington State Convention Center )
Hosts: (Joint between the 33rd Conference on Environmental Information Processing Technologies; and the Second Symposium on US-International Partnerships )
Cochairs: Baudouin Raoult, ECMWF; Ian Lisk, UKMO
11:00 AM
J3.1
11:15 AM
J3.2
The JASMIN Data Analysis Facility for the Environmental Sciences Community and the Role of Data-as-a-Service
Philip J Kershaw, NCEO, Didcot, United Kingdom; and M. J. Pritchard, M. K. J. Pryor, J. Churchill, and B. N. Lawrence
11:30 AM
J3.3
SmartMet Server – Providing MetOcean Data
Roope Tervo, Finnish Meteorological Institute, Helsinki, Finland; and M. Heiskanen
11:45 AM
J3.4

12:00 PM-1:30 PM: Monday, 23 January 2017


Lunch Break

1:30 PM-2:00 PM: Monday, 23 January 2017

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Lecture 1
Walter Orr Roberts Lecture
Location: Conference Center: Tahoma 2 (Washington State Convention Center )
Hosts: (Joint between the 33rd Conference on Environmental Information Processing Technologies; the 31st Conference on Hydrology; the 29th Conference on Climate Variability and Change; the 28th Conference on Weather Analysis and Forecasting / 24th Conference on Numerical Weather Prediction; the 26th Symposium on Education; the 21st Conference on Integrated Observing and Assimilation Systems for the Atmosphere, Oceans, and Land Surface; the 19th Conference on Atmospheric Chemistry; the 18th Conference on Aviation, Range, and Aerospace Meteorology; the 15th Conference on Artificial and Computational Intelligence and its Applications to the Environmental Sciences; the 15th Symposium on the Coastal Environment; the 14th Conference on Polar Meteorology and Oceanography; the 14th Conference on Space Weather; the 13th Annual Symposium on New Generation Operational Environmental Satellite Systems; the Major Weather Impacts of 2016; the 12th Symposium on Societal Applications: Policy, Research and Practice; the Ninth Symposium on Aerosol–Cloud–Climate Interactions; the Eighth Conference on Weather, Climate, Water and the New Energy Economy; the Eighth Conference on Environment and Health; the Eighth Symposium on Lidar Atmospheric Applications; the Eighth Conference on the Meteorological Application of Lightning Data; the Seventh Conference on Transition of Research to Operations; the Seventh Symposium on Advances in Modeling and Analysis Using Python; the Fifth Symposium on the Weather, Water, and Climate Enterprise; the Fifth Symposium on Building a Weather-Ready Nation: Enhancing Our Nation’s Readiness, Responsiveness, and Resilience to High Impact Weather Events; the Fifth Symposium on Prediction of the Madden-Julian Oscillation: Processes, Prediction and Impact; the Second Symposium on US-International Partnerships; and the 13th Symposium of the Urban Environment )
Speaker: Cynthia Rosenzweig, NASA

1:30 PM-2:30 PM: Monday, 23 January 2017

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Joint Session 5
International Applications: Sharing Environmental Big Data, Part II
Location: 611 (Washington State Convention Center )
Hosts: (Joint between the 33rd Conference on Environmental Information Processing Technologies; and the Second Symposium on US-International Partnerships )
Cochairs: Baudouin Raoult, ECMWF; Ian Lisk, UKMO
1:45 PM
J5.2
Serving Users with Sentinel Data
Oystein Godøy, Norwegian Meteorological Institute, Oslo, Norway; and N. Budewitz and L. A. Breivik

2:30 PM-4:00 PM: Monday, 23 January 2017


Formal Poster Viewing with Coffee Break
Location: 4E (Washington State Convention Center )

4:00 PM-5:30 PM: Monday, 23 January 2017

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Session 3
Other Topics in US-International Partnerships
Location: Conference Center: Yakima 2 (Washington State Convention Center )
Host: Second Symposium on US-International Partnerships
Chair: Stephen E. Zebiak, International Research Institute for climate prediction, Columbia University
4:00 PM
3.1
Accelerating Implementation of the Global Framework for Climate Services: Developing a Climate Services Toolkit
Marina Timofeyeva, NOAA/NWS, Silver Spring, MD; and R. Pulwarty, P. Hechler, R. K. Kolli, M. Dilley, S. J. Mason, J. P. Ceron, A. Klein Tank, and C. Goodess
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Joint Session 7
International Applications: Global Initiatives for MultiHazard Impact Based Science to Services including Volcanic Ash
Location: 611 (Washington State Convention Center )
Hosts: (Joint between the 33rd Conference on Environmental Information Processing Technologies; the 18th Conference on Aviation, Range, and Aerospace Meteorology; and the Second Symposium on US-International Partnerships )
Cochairs: Ian Lisk, UKMO; Baudouin Raoult, ECMWF
4:00 PM
J7.1
Critical Infrastructures and Risk Assessment for Climate Change
Alex Coletti, SM Resources Corp., Ashburn, VA; and A. De Nicola, M. L. Villani, and T. DeFelice
4:30 PM
J7.3
Using Decision Theory to Classify Volcanic Ash Hazards
Luke M Western, University of Bristol, Bristol, United Kingdom; and M. Watson and P. Francis
4:45 PM
J7.4
Real Time Modeling of Volcanic Clouds and Applications to Air Traffic Flow Algorithms
Eric J. Hughes, University of Maryland, College Park, MD; and N. A. Krotkov, A. Da Silva, R. Hoffman, and T. Myers
5:00 PM
J7.5
New USGS Tools to Analyze and Forecast Volcanic Ash Hazards
Larry G. Mastin, USGS, Vancouver, WA; and H. F. Schwaiger, D. J. Schneider, M. J. Randall, R. P. Denlinger, and M. Guffanti
5:15 PM
J7.6
An Overview of RSTASH Performance in Detecting and Tracking Ash Clouds Using Polar and Geostationary Satellite Data
Francesco Marchese, Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, Tito Scalo, Italy; and N. Pergola, A. Falconieri, C. Filizzola, and V. Tramutoli

5:30 PM-7:30 PM: Monday, 23 January 2017


Reception and Exhibits Opening
Location: 4AB (Washington State Convention Center )

Tuesday, 24 January 2017

9:00 AM-10:00 AM: Tuesday, 24 January 2017

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Joint Session 1
Recent Progress in Meteorological Observing Systems in China: Applications in Monitoring, Analysis, and Forecasting-Part l
Location: Conference Center: Skagit 1 (Washington State Convention Center )
Hosts: (Joint between the Second Symposium on US-International Partnerships; and the Observation Symposium: Progress, Problems, and Prospects )
Cochairs: Mary-Ann Kutney; Charles Wooldbridge
9:00 AM
4.1
Chinese Fengyun Meteorological Satellites and their Contribution to NWP
Peng Zhang, National Satellite Meteorological Center, China Meteorological Administration, Beijing, China; and L. Chen
9:15 AM
4.2
The Water Cycle Observation Mission (WCOM): Overview
Jiancheng Shi, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China
9:45 AM
4.4

11:00 AM-11:45 AM: Tuesday, 24 January 2017

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Joint Session 2
Recent Progress in Meteorological Observing Systems in China: Applications in Monitoring, Analysis, and Forecasting-Part ll
Location: Conference Center: Skagit 1 (Washington State Convention Center )
Hosts: (Joint between the Second Symposium on US-International Partnerships; and the Observation Symposium: Progress, Problems, and Prospects )
Cochairs: Mary-Ann Kutney; Charles Wooldbridge
11:00 AM
5.1
11:15 AM
5.2
The Observation Suite Assimilated in the CMA NWP System
Xueshun Shen, China Meteorological Administration, Beijing, China