Session 9 Fifth Symposium on Building a Weather-Ready Nation: Enhancing Our Nation’s Readiness, Responsiveness, and Resilience to High Impact Weather Events

Program Chairs: Douglas Hilderbrand , NOAA/NWS ; Dave Jones , StormCenter Communications, Inc. ; Jennifer Sprague , NOAA/NWS ; Kenneth Carey , Earth Resources Technology, Inc.

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Monday, 23 January 2017

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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

Recording files available
1
How We Got Here: The Movement to Blend Myriad Human-based Academic Traditions into the Atmospheric Sciences
Location: 615 (Washington State Convention Center )
Hosts: (Joint between the Fifth Symposium on Building a Weather-Ready Nation: Enhancing Our Nation’s Readiness, Responsiveness, and Resilience to High Impact Weather Events; the Special Symposium on Individual, Social, and Cultural Observations in Weather and Climate Contexts; and the 12th Symposium on Societal Applications: Policy, Research and Practice )
Moderators: Kimberly E. Klockow, NOAA/OAR/Office of Weather and Air Quality; Russ S. Schumacher, Colorado State Univ.
Panelists: James Bergman, Michigan State University; Eve Gruntfest, Resilient Communities Research Institute; Rebecca E. Morss, NCAR; Jennifer Sprague, NOAA/NWS
11:00 AM
Panelist
James Bergman, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI
Recorded Presentation

Handout (53.8 kB)

11:15 AM
Panelist
Eve Gruntfest, NCAR, Boulder, CO
Recorded Presentation

Handout (8.1 MB)

11:30 AM
Panelist
Rebecca E. Morss, NCAR, Boulder, CO

11:45 AM
Panelist
Jennifer Sprague, NOAA/NWS, Silver Spring, MD

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


Lunch Break

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

Recording files available
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
L1.1
Developing Climate Risk Information for Cities: Key Findings from UCCRN ARC3.2
Cynthia Rosenzweig, NASA, New York City, NY
Recorded Presentation

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

Recording files available
2
Observations of Forecasting
Location: 615 (Washington State Convention Center )
Hosts: (Joint between the Special Symposium on Individual, Social, and Cultural Observations in Weather and Climate Contexts; the 12th Symposium on Societal Applications: Policy, Research and Practice; and the Fifth Symposium on Building a Weather-Ready Nation: Enhancing Our Nation’s Readiness, Responsiveness, and Resilience to High Impact Weather Events )
Moderator: Daniel Nietfeld, NOAA/OAR/ESRL
Panelists: Phaedra Daipha, Rutgers University; Jack R. Friedman, Univ. of Oklahoma; Daphne LaDue, CIMMS/Univ. of Oklahoma; Richard Smith, NWS Norman
1:30 PM
Panelist
Phaedra Daipha, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ
Recorded Presentation

1:45 PM
Panelist
Jack R. Friedman, Univ. of Oklahoma, Norman, OK
Recorded Presentation

2:00 PM
Panelist
Daphne LaDue, CIMMS/Univ. of Oklahoma, Norman, OK
Recorded Presentation

2:15 PM
Panelist
Richard Smith, NWS Norman, Norman, OK
Recorded Presentation

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


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

Themed Joint Poster Session 1
Summaries of Research Findings from Across the Many Academic Traditions That Contribute to Observation-based Knowledge of Human Dimensions of Weather, Water, and Climate
Location: 4E (Washington State Convention Center )
Hosts: (Joint between the Special Symposium on Individual, Social, and Cultural Observations in Weather and Climate Contexts; the 12th Symposium on Societal Applications: Policy, Research and Practice; and the Fifth Symposium on Building a Weather-Ready Nation: Enhancing Our Nation’s Readiness, Responsiveness, and Resilience to High Impact Weather Events )
1
The Great Lakes Adaptation Data Suite: Providing a Coherent Collection of Climate Data for the Great Lakes Region
Omar C. Gates, Univ. of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI; and K. Channell, D. Brown, W. Baule, D. J. Schwab, C. Riseng, and A. Gronewold

2
The National Weather Service: A Culture of Prediction?
Christina C. Crowe, NOAA/NWS, Silver Spring, MD; and K. Werner, J. E. Ten Hoeve III, and A. Bleistein


Themed Joint Poster Session 2
Descriptions of New and Promising Approaches for Acquiring or Analyzing Observations of Individuals, Societies, or Cultures
Location: 4E (Washington State Convention Center )
Hosts: (Joint between the Special Symposium on Individual, Social, and Cultural Observations in Weather and Climate Contexts; the 12th Symposium on Societal Applications: Policy, Research and Practice; and the Fifth Symposium on Building a Weather-Ready Nation: Enhancing Our Nation’s Readiness, Responsiveness, and Resilience to High Impact Weather Events )
3
The Treaty of Waitangi and Research
Harvey Stern, Univ. of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia; and J. Deverell
Manuscript (1.2 MB)

Handout (544.9 kB)

4
Photographic Observations of Oklahoma's Deadliest Tornadoes
Ashley Allen, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA

5
Understanding Risk Communications with Vulnerable Populations: Designing Focus Groups Research Using Data From Multiple Sources
Jen Henderson, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg, VA; and H. Lazrus, O. Wilhelmi, R. E. Morss, and A. Dietrich

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

Recording files available
3
Observations of Communication
Location: 615 (Washington State Convention Center )
Hosts: (Joint between the Special Symposium on Individual, Social, and Cultural Observations in Weather and Climate Contexts; the 12th Symposium on Societal Applications: Policy, Research and Practice; and the Fifth Symposium on Building a Weather-Ready Nation: Enhancing Our Nation’s Readiness, Responsiveness, and Resilience to High Impact Weather Events )
Moderator: Gina M. Eosco, Eastern Reseach Group
Panelists: Jennifer Henderson, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University; Rachel Hogan Carr, Nurture Nature Center; Susan Joslyn, University of Washington; Brenda J. Philips, Univ. of Massachusetts; Kate Starbird, University of Washington; Ed Maibach, George Mason Univ.
4:00 PM
Panelist
Jennifer Henderson, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg, VA
Recorded Presentation

4:15 PM
Panelist
Rachel Hogan Carr, Nurture Nature Center, Easton, PA
Recorded Presentation

4:30 PM
Panelist
Susan Joslyn, University of Washington, Seattle, WA
Recorded Presentation

4:45 PM
Panelist
Brenda J. Philips, Univ. of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA
Recorded Presentation

5:00 PM
Panelist
Kate Starbird, University of Washington, Seattle, WA

5:15 PM
Panelist
Ed Maibach, George Mason Univ., Fairfax, VA
Recorded Presentation

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


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

Tuesday, 24 January 2017

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8:30 AM-10:00 AM: Tuesday, 24 January 2017

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4
Observations of Communities
Location: 615 (Washington State Convention Center )
Hosts: (Joint between the Special Symposium on Individual, Social, and Cultural Observations in Weather and Climate Contexts; the 12th Symposium on Societal Applications: Policy, Research and Practice; and the Fifth Symposium on Building a Weather-Ready Nation: Enhancing Our Nation’s Readiness, Responsiveness, and Resilience to High Impact Weather Events )
Moderator: Randy A. Peppler, CIMMS/Univ. of Oklahoma
Panelists: Michael Egnoto, University of Maryland; Heather Lazrus, NCAR; Scott Miles, University of Washington; Olga Wilhelmi, NCAR
8:30 AM
Panelist
Michael Egnoto, University of Maryland, College Park, MD

8:45 AM
Panelist
Heather Lazrus, NCAR, Boulder, CO
Recorded Presentation

9:00 AM
Panelist
Scott Miles, University of Washington, Seattle, WA
Recorded Presentation

9:15 AM
Panelist
Olga Wilhelmi, NCAR, Boulder, CO
Recorded Presentation

9:30 AM
Discussant - Randy Peppler

10:00 AM-10:30 AM: Tuesday, 24 January 2017


Coffee Break
Location: 4AB (Washington State Convention Center )

10:30 AM-12:00 PM: Tuesday, 24 January 2017

Recording files available
5
Where We Go From Here: Observational Needs to Support a Thriving Weather and Climate Enterprise
Location: 615 (Washington State Convention Center )
Hosts: (Joint between the Special Symposium on Individual, Social, and Cultural Observations in Weather and Climate Contexts; the 12th Symposium on Societal Applications: Policy, Research and Practice; and the Fifth Symposium on Building a Weather-Ready Nation: Enhancing Our Nation’s Readiness, Responsiveness, and Resilience to High Impact Weather Events )
Moderators: Kimberly E. Klockow, NOAA/OAR/Office of Weather and Air Quality; Russ S. Schumacher, Colorado State Univ.
Panelists: Ann Bostrom, University of Washington; William Hooke, AMS Policy Program; Lans Rothfusz, NSSL; Susan Joslyn, University of Washington
Speaker: Desiree Matel-Anderson, Field Innovation Team
10:30 AM
Panelist
Ann Bostrom, University of Washington, Seattle, WA
Recorded Presentation

10:45 AM
Panelist
William Hooke, AMS Policy Program, Washington, DC

11:00 AM
Panelist
Lans Rothfusz, NSSL, Norman, OK
Recorded Presentation

11:15 AM
Panelist
Susan Joslyn, University of Washington, Seattle, WA

11:30 AM
Speaker
Desiree Matel-Anderson, Field Innovation Team, Heber City, UT
Recorded Presentation

12:00 PM-1:30 PM: Tuesday, 24 January 2017


Lunch Break

1:30 PM-2:30 PM: Tuesday, 24 January 2017

Recording files available
Session 1
Core Weather-Ready Nation Activities
Location: 615 (Washington State Convention Center )
Host: Fifth Symposium on Building a Weather-Ready Nation: Enhancing Our Nation’s Readiness, Responsiveness, and Resilience to High Impact Weather Events
Cochairs: Douglas Hilderbrand, NOAA/NWS; Dave Jones, StormCenter Communications, Inc.; Jennifer Sprague, NOAA/NWS
1:30 PM
1.1
The Science Base for Effective, Actionable Guidance for the Public
Jacqueline Snelling, FEMA, Washington, DC
Recorded Presentation

1:45 PM
1.2
Vision of a Future NWS based on the NWS Operations and Workforce Analysis Project
Katherine LaBelle, NWS, Silver Spring, MD
Recorded Presentation

2:00 PM
1.3
NWS Central Region: Our Evolution Toward a Weather Ready Nation
Christopher S. Strager, NWS, Kansas City, MO; and M. J. Hudson and J. P. Craven

2:15 PM
1.4
Some Issues to Consider as Forecasts Evolve Over Time
Harold E. Brooks, NOAA, Norman, OK
Recorded Presentation

2:30 PM-4:00 PM: Tuesday, 24 January 2017


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

Poster Session 1
Successes of Weather-Ready Nation
Location: 4E (Washington State Convention Center )
Host: Fifth Symposium on Building a Weather-Ready Nation: Enhancing Our Nation’s Readiness, Responsiveness, and Resilience to High Impact Weather Events
Winter Weather Information Dissemination through Naming Winter Storms

882
Media's Role in Building a Weather-Ready Nation: Deployment of the First Network of TV Station-Owned High-Frequency S-Band & Mobile X-Band Weather Radar Systems in the US
Richard Stedronsky, Enterprise Electronics Corporation, Enterprise, AL

Handout (23.8 MB)

883
Tools to Enable Forecasters to Communicate Winter Storm Impacts across the Sierra and Western Nevada
Brian Brong, NWS, Reno, NV

884
An Investigation of NWS Warning Outbreaks for Severe Convective Events
Zachary S. Bruick, Valparaiso Univ., Valparaiso, IN; and C. Karstens

885
Spot Weather Forecasts: Improving Utilization, Communication, and Perceptions of Accuracy in Sophisticated User Groups
Tamara Wall, Western Regional Climate Center, Reno, NV; and T. J. Brown and N. J. Nauslar

886
An Analysis of Users' Trust in Long-Range Weather Forecasting for Southwestern California Before and After the 2015-2016 El Niño
James J. Taeger, NWS, San Diego, CA

887
Integrating Faith-Based Leaders into Hazardous Weather Communications for Highly Vulnerable Neighborhoods in the Rio Grande Valley of Texas
Barry S. Goldsmith, NOAA/NWSFO, Brownsville, TX; and M. M. Torres, L. Wasserman, and W. Donner
Manuscript (755.9 kB)

Handout (3.0 MB)

888
WMO's Emergency Response Activities (ERA) Programme and Its Practice
Xu Tang, WMO, Geneva, Switzerland

Vulnerabilities of Residents in Multi-Storied, Multi-Unit Housing Structures to Tornadoes with Emphasis on the Need for Building Weather-Ready Communities in Urban Settings

889
Making America's Most Visited National Park a Safer Place through Weather Awareness

890
Planning for Decision Support Services for Special Events Assessment Rating (SEAR) Level 1 Events
Matt Solum, NWS, Salt Lake City, UT; and S. Carpenter, R. Gass, L. Johnson, K. Venzke, and L. Waite

891
Forecasting Precipitation Return Intervals: Rethinking How We Communicate High-Impact Precipitation Events
Tom Dang, NWS, Sacramento, CA

Handout (3.3 MB)

Poster 892 has been moved. New paper number is 9.1A

893
The Impact of Hurricanes on Education
Christopher D'Ambrosio, Episcopal Academy, Wayne, PA

Handout (3.7 MB)

Increasing National Weather Service Fire Weather Support to Wildland Fire Initial Attack Teams

894
NOAA Collaboration in the Florida Keys
Kennard B. Kasper, NOAA/NWSFO, Key West, FL; and C. Rothwell
Manuscript (679.4 kB)

Handout (4.2 MB)

895
West Central Florida Warm Season Waterspouts
Charles H. Paxton, NOAA/NWS, Ruskin, FL; and B. A. Mroczka, A. McKaughan, and C. Kryston

896
Temporal and Spatial Aspects of Emergency Manager Use of Prototype Probabilistic Hazard Information
Daphne LaDue, CAPS/Univ. of Oklahoma, Norman, OK; and C. D. Karstens, J. Correia Jr., J. E. Hocker, S. J. Sanders, M. A. Dovil, C. A. Shivers, A. Bean, T. Adams, and A. Gerard

Handout (26.7 MB)

897
Meeting the Weather-Ready Nation Challenge in Rural Nevada
Paul Frisbie, NWS, Elko, NV; and G. Barnhart, C. Ketchum, D. Kirkham, and B. Boyd

898
Reconstructing Evaporation over Lake Erie during the Historic November 2014 Lake Effect Snow Event
Lindsay E. Fitzpatrick, Cooperative Institute for Limnology and Ecosystems Research, Ann Arbor, MI; and A. Manome, A. Gronewold, E. J. Anderson, C. Spence, J. Chen, C. Shao, D. M. Wright, B. M. Lofgren, C. Xiao, D. J. Posselt, and D. J. Schwab

899
The Central Pennsylvania Integrated Weather Impacts Team: Leveraging Improved Preparedness and Response Today to Mitigate Tomorrow's Disasters
Sepideh Yalda, Millersville Univ., Millersville, PA; and M. Steinbugl, J. R. Scala, J. jumper, S. A. Jasko, P. jung, B. watson, C. evanego, R. H. Carr, M. A. Casteel, and W. gartner

900
It's Personal, Size Matters: How Determining the Size of a Hurricane can Better Prepare the Public and Determine the Risks Associated with a Storm
Athena Masson, University of Toronto, Scarborough, ON, Canada; and W. A. Gough

901
Inclusion of Satellite Remote Sensing Imagery in the NOAA/NWS Damage Assessment Toolkit (DAT)
Lori A. Schultz, Earth System Science Center/Univ. of Alabama/NASA Short-Term Prediction Research and Transition Center, Huntsville, AL; and A. L. Molthan, K. M. McGrath, J. E. Burks, J. R. Bell, and T. A. Cole

902
Uniting National Weather Service Aviation Offices: A Common Aviation Production Platform Vision
Joshua W. Scheck, NOAA, Bismarck, ND; and A. Cross, S. A. Lack, J. Bravender, D. Moore, and C. Sims

903
Enhancing NWC Hydrologic Model Calibrations with Data Visualization and Cloud-based Apps for Operational Flood Forecasters
Graeme Aggett, Lynker Technologies, Boulder, CO; and R. Spies, J. Nelson, and N. Swain

904
The Impact of a Violent Tornado in Norman, Oklahoma
Karen M. Montes-Berríos, National Weather Center REU Program, Norman, OK; and A. R. Cook, A. Cannon Davis, M. Shafer, and S. A. Erickson

905
Researching New Warning Systems Through Live Experimentation and Real-Time User Feedback
Brenda J. Philips, Univ. of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA; and V. Chandrasekar, J. E. Trainor, D. Westbrook, E. J. Lyons, and A. Bajaj

906
Evolving Tropical Impact-based Decision Support Services for Hawaii
Charlie Woodrum, NWS, Honolulu, HI; and C. J. Brenchley, J. Bravender, T. Evans, and V. DeJesus

Handout (2.2 MB)

907
The Climatology and Seasonal Forecasting of Santa Ana winds across Southern California
Tom Rolinski, USDA, Riverside, CA; and S. Capps, S. Chen, B. D'Agostino, and S. Vanderburg

908
NWS Consistency Analysis & Observations During Real-Time Data Sharing & Collaboration Sessions Using GeoCollaborate® During Tropical Storm/Hurricane Hermine in Aug-Sept 2016
Dave Jones, StormCenter Communications, Inc., Halethorpe, MD; and T. Moran

4:00 PM-5:30 PM: Tuesday, 24 January 2017

Recording files available
Session 2
Innovative Engagements with Communities to Drive Preparedness Actions
Location: 615 (Washington State Convention Center )
Host: Fifth Symposium on Building a Weather-Ready Nation: Enhancing Our Nation’s Readiness, Responsiveness, and Resilience to High Impact Weather Events
Cochairs: Douglas Hilderbrand, NOAA/NWS; Dave Jones, StormCenter Communications, Inc.; Jennifer Sprague, NOAA/NWS
4:00 PM
2.1
NWS' Hazard Simplification Project: An Update on the Effort to Simplify and Clarify Hazard Messaging
Eli Jacks, NOAA/NWS Forecast Services Division, Silver Spring, MD
Recorded Presentation

4:15 PM
2.2
Addressing the Weather Readiness Gap: Advancements in Severe Weather Information and Tools in America's Weather Industry
Jonathan Porter, AccuWeather, Inc, State College, PA
Recorded Presentation

4:30 PM
2.3
Evolving the National Weather Service Communications Strategy to Support Public and Partners Building a Weather-Ready Nation
Katie Garrett, NWS, Silver Spring, MD; and C. Pieper
Recorded Presentation

4:45 PM
2.4
Leveraging the WRN Ambassador Initiative with Vulnerable Stakeholders
Charlie Woodrum, NWS, Honolulu, HI; and J. Saari, T. Boucher, S. R. Pfaff, E. Bentley, and D. Hilderbrand
Recorded Presentation

Handout (3.7 MB)

5:00 PM
2.5
Houston Floods- How Are People Dying, and What Can We Do About It?
Jeffry Evans, NWS, League City, TX; and L. Wood
Recorded Presentation

5:15 PM
2.6
‘Weather Ready or Not': A Podcast Designed to Facilitate Two-way Communication of Weather Risk and Perception
Dakota C. Smith, Colorado State Univ., Fort Collins, CO
Recorded Presentation

Wednesday, 25 January 2017

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8:30 AM-10:00 AM: Wednesday, 25 January 2017

Recording files available
Session 3
Data Serving Decision Makers-Part l
Location: 615 (Washington State Convention Center )
Host: Fifth Symposium on Building a Weather-Ready Nation: Enhancing Our Nation’s Readiness, Responsiveness, and Resilience to High Impact Weather Events
Cochairs: Douglas Hilderbrand, NOAA/NWS; Dave Jones, StormCenter Communications, Inc.; Jennifer Sprague, NOAA/NWS
8:30 AM
3.1
Protecting Lives and Property Through Impact-Based Decision Support Services: Improving Customer Experience at NWS
Andrea Bleistein, NOAA/NWS, Silver Spring, MD
Recorded Presentation

8:45 AM
3.2
Impacts Catalog: Enhancing the National Weather Service's (NWS) Operational Landscape
Wendy Marie Thomas, NOAA/NWS, Silver Spring, MD
Recorded Presentation

9:00 AM
3.3
Data Driven Decision Making: Communicating Private Sector Needs to Federal Partners
Dave Jones, StormCenter Communications, Inc., Halethorpe, MD; and E. Robinson, T. Moran, and P. Frey

9:15 AM
3.4
Enhancing a Decision Support Tool for an Electric Utility
Renato Derech, Consolidated Edison Company of New York, New York, NY; and M. Berlinger, R. Vargas Jr., and B. J. Cerruti

3.5
Providing an Impact-Based Two Week Outlook to the State of Texas

9:45 AM
3.6
Advanced Weather Tactical Decision Aids: Improving Mission Success Through a Collaborative Common Operating Picture
Glenn Higgins, Northrop Grumman, Chantilly, VA; and K. Darmenova, B. MacCall, Y. Wang, B. P. Reen, R. E. Dumais Jr., G. Huynh, and D. I. Knapp
Recorded Presentation

10:00 AM-10:30 AM: Wednesday, 25 January 2017


Coffee Break
Location: 4AB (Washington State Convention Center )

10:30 AM-12:00 PM: Wednesday, 25 January 2017

Recording files available
Session 4
Data Serving Decision-Makers-Part ll
Location: 615 (Washington State Convention Center )
Host: Fifth Symposium on Building a Weather-Ready Nation: Enhancing Our Nation’s Readiness, Responsiveness, and Resilience to High Impact Weather Events
Cochairs: Douglas Hilderbrand, NOAA/NWS; Dave Jones, StormCenter Communications, Inc.; Jennifer Sprague, NOAA/NWS
10:30 AM
4.1
National Blend of Models: Early Results from a Field Demonstration
Michael Hudson, NOAA/NWS, Kansas City, MO; and M. A. Tew, L. Wilson, and M. Dion
Recorded Presentation

10:45 AM
4.2
Using Observations to Improve Resiliency to High Impact Tropical Cyclone Events
Mark D. Powell, Risk Management Solutions, Tallahassee, FL
Recorded Presentation

11:00 AM
4.3
Leveraging Innovation Through Collaboration: Enhancing Impact Based Decision Support Services for Marine Interests in and Around Tampa Bay, Florida
Marcus D. Austin, NOAA, Brandon, FL; and B. A. Mroczka, E. Jillson, T. P. Barron, and C. Urizar
Recorded Presentation

11:15 AM
4.4
Does NASA SMAP Improve the Accuracy of Power Outage Models?
D. Brent McRoberts, Texas A&M Univ., College Station, TX; and S. M. Quiring, B. Alvarado, and B. J. Toy
Recorded Presentation

11:30 AM
4.5
Analyzing P-Surge Exceedances to Improve Storm Surge Watches and Warnings
Cody W Yeary, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC
Recorded Presentation

4.6
Advances in Hwind Real-Time Analysis From 2015 Events

12:00 PM-1:30 PM: Wednesday, 25 January 2017


Lunch Break

1:30 PM-2:30 PM: Wednesday, 25 January 2017

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Lecture 2
Horton Lecture
Location: 602 (Washington State Convention Center )
Hosts: (Joint between the 20th Conference of Atmospheric Science Librarians International; the Second Symposium on Multi-scale Atmospheric Predictability; the Observation Symposium: Progress, Problems, and Prospects; the 33rd Conference on Environmental Information Processing Technologies; 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 13th Symposium of the Urban Environment; 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 31st Conference on Hydrology; 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 AMS Symposium on the Joint Center for Satellite Data Assimilation; the Fifth Symposium on Prediction of the Madden-Julian Oscillation: Processes, Prediction and Impact; the Third Symposium on High Performance Computing for Weather, Water, and Climate; the Special Symposium on Greening the Built Environment; and the Events )
Organizer: John B. Eylander, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers
Lecturer: Hoshin V. Gupta, Univ. of Arizona
Cochairs: Michael Ek, NOAA; David J. Gochis, NCAR; John N. McHenry, Baron Advanced Meteorological Systems, LLC
1:30 PM
L2.1
Learning with Models & Data: A Maximum Entropy Approach (Invited Presentation)
Hoshin V. Gupta, Univ. of Arizona, Tucson, AZ
Recorded Presentation Manuscript (57.5 kB)

Handout (13.3 MB)

Recording files available
Session 5
Innovative Technologies to Engage Communities Toward Preparedness Actions
Location: 615 (Washington State Convention Center )
Host: Fifth Symposium on Building a Weather-Ready Nation: Enhancing Our Nation’s Readiness, Responsiveness, and Resilience to High Impact Weather Events
Cochairs: Douglas Hilderbrand, NOAA/NWS; Dave Jones, StormCenter Communications, Inc.; Jennifer Sprague, NOAA/NWS
1:30 PM
5.1
Saving Lives with Wireless Emergency Alerts: Major Improvements Coming
Michael Gerber, NOAA, Silver Spring, MD; and R. Bunge and H. L. White
Recorded Presentation

1:45 PM
5.2
“Living in the Land of Confusion-the Sequel”
Valerie Sanders, WeatherCall Services, LLC, Parker, CO
Recorded Presentation

2:00 PM
5.3
'Thinking Outside NOAA Weather Radio's Box'
Bruce Jones, Midland Radio Corporation, Kansas City, MO; and B. Thomas
Recorded Presentation

2:15 PM
5.4
Integrated Real-time Weather and Messaging Platform for Situational Awareness
Nicole L. Homeier, Understory, Inc., Somerville, MA; and A. Kubicek, E. Hewitt, K. E. Willmot, and R. S. Bussman
Recorded Presentation

2:30 PM-4:00 PM: Wednesday, 25 January 2017


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

Poster Session 2
Future Evolution of Weather-Ready Nation
Location: 4E (Washington State Convention Center )
Host: Fifth Symposium on Building a Weather-Ready Nation: Enhancing Our Nation’s Readiness, Responsiveness, and Resilience to High Impact Weather Events
1433
Organizational Excellence in the National Weather Service
Kevin Werner, NOAA/NMFS, Seattle, WA; and A. Bleistein, J. E. Ten Hoeve III, and C. C. Crowe

1434
Impact Based Decision Support and the Impacts Catalog
Matthew W. Davis, NOAA/NWS, Boulder, CO; and J. Crockett

Handout (477.9 kB)

1435
Providing NCEP Products to Decision Makers during High Impact Weather Events
Genene Fisher, NWS, College Park, MD

1436
Strategies to Evolve the National Weather Service
John E. Ten Hoeve III, NOAA/NWS, Silver Spring, MD; and K. Werner, A. Bleistein, and C. C. Crowe

1437
NWS Operational Use of NWPS: Then, Now, and the Future of Marine Forecasting

1438
Laying the Foundation to Building a Weather-Ready Nation
Philippe Draoui, NWS, silver spring, MD; and J. E. Ten Hoeve III, A. Bleistein, S. Cooper, M. Lovern, and W. Jeffress

4:00 PM-5:30 PM: Wednesday, 25 January 2017


Session 6
Panel Session on Messaging and Observations: A Way Toward More Effective and Unified Messaging
Location: 615 (Washington State Convention Center )
Host: Fifth Symposium on Building a Weather-Ready Nation: Enhancing Our Nation’s Readiness, Responsiveness, and Resilience to High Impact Weather Events
Cochairs: Douglas Hilderbrand, NOAA/NWS; Dave Jones, StormCenter Communications, Inc.; Jennifer Sprague, NOAA/NWS
4:00 PM
6.1
Messaging and Observations: A Way Toward More Effective and Unified Messaging
John J. Brost, NOAA/NWSFO, Tucson, AZ; and D. R. Vallee, J. Trobec, W. F. Bunting, K. Pirtle, G. W. Carbin, and R. Smith

5:30 PM-6:30 PM: Wednesday, 25 January 2017

Recording files available
Awards Banquet Reception
Location: 4AB (Washington State Convention Center )
5:30 PM
Awards Banquet Reception
Recorded Presentation

7:00 PM-10:00 PM: Wednesday, 25 January 2017

Recording files available
97th AMS Awards Banquet
Location: Ballroom 6ABCE (Washington State Convention Center )
7:00 PM
97th AMS Awards Banquet
Recorded Presentation

Thursday, 26 January 2017

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8:30 AM-9:30 AM: Thursday, 26 January 2017

Recording files available
Session 7
Advances in Decision-Making Practices
Location: 615 (Washington State Convention Center )
Host: Fifth Symposium on Building a Weather-Ready Nation: Enhancing Our Nation’s Readiness, Responsiveness, and Resilience to High Impact Weather Events
Cochairs: Douglas Hilderbrand, NOAA/NWS; Dave Jones, StormCenter Communications, Inc.; Jennifer Sprague, NOAA/NWS
8:30 AM
7.1
An Examination of the Impact of Probabilistic vs. Deterministic Information on the Decision-Making Practices of Emergency Managers: 2016 HWT Case Study
Cassandra A Shivers, Howard Univ., Washington, DC; and S. J. Sanders, T. Adams, D. LaDue, A. Gerard, and L. P. Rothfusz
Recorded Presentation

8:45 AM
7.2
Verification and Analysis of Probabilistic Hazards Information Guidance
David Harrison, CIMMS/Univ. of Oklahoma/NOAA/NSSL, Norman, OK; and C. Karstens and A. McGovern
Recorded Presentation

9:00 AM
7.3
A New Generation of NWS Warning-Decision Training: WDTD's Warning Operation Course and Seasonal Readiness
Gregory M. Schoor, NWS/AFSO/FSD, Norman, OK; and E. Mahoney
Recorded Presentation

9:15 AM
7.4
Cascadia Rising: A Look into Onsite Decision Support Services for Large Catastrophic Natural Disasters
Matt Solum, NWS, Salt Lake City, UT; and S. Carpenter, L. Waite, D. Bieger, A. Braun, J. Breidenbach, H. E. Buehner, C. Clarstrom, B. Gillies, D. Mercer, M. J. Paddock, E. Padian, V. Papol, G. Perry, R. Sandler, B. Schaaf, S. Van Horn, T. Wilde, and B. Wojcik
Recorded Presentation

9:30 AM-10:30 AM: Thursday, 26 January 2017


Exhibit Hall Breakfast
Location: 4AB (Washington State Convention Center )

10:30 AM-12:00 PM: Thursday, 26 January 2017

Recording files available
Joint Session 7
Advances in Social Science
Location: 615 (Washington State Convention Center )
Hosts: (Joint between the Fifth Symposium on Building a Weather-Ready Nation: Enhancing Our Nation’s Readiness, Responsiveness, and Resilience to High Impact Weather Events; and the 12th Symposium on Societal Applications: Policy, Research and Practice )
10:30 AM
J7.1
Factors Affecting General Public's Protective Behavior during May 2013 Tornado Outbreaks in Oklahoma
Seyed M. Miran, University of Akron, Akron, OH; and C. Ling and L. Rothfusz
Recorded Presentation

10:45 AM
J7.2
What's in a Word? Results from a Survey Gauging the Degree to Which “Watches,” “Warnings,” and “Advisories” Are Institutionalized into Organizational Decision-Making
Linda Girardi, Eastern Research Group, Arlington, VA
Recorded Presentation

11:00 AM
J7.3
Assessing the Influence of Impact Based Tornado Warnings on Shelter in Place Decisions
Mark A. Casteel, Penn State Univ., York Campus, York, PA
Recorded Presentation

J7.4
Development of a National Hurricane Center Product for the Arrival of Tropical-Storm-Force Winds

11:30 AM
J7.5
Major Risks, Uncertain Outcomes: Making Ensemble Forecasts Work for Multiple Audiences
Burrell E. Montz, East Carolina Univ., Greenville, NC; and R. H. Carr, K. Semmens, K. Maxfield, J. C. Elliott, P. R. Ahnert, and R. Shedd
Recorded Presentation

11:45 AM
J7.6
Use of Storm Prediction Center's Day 1 Convective Outlook among Emergency Managers and Broadcasters
Mark Lorie, Abt Associates, Boulder, CO; and C. Donovan
Recorded Presentation

12:00 PM-1:30 PM: Thursday, 26 January 2017


Lunch Break

1:30 PM-3:00 PM: Thursday, 26 January 2017

Recording files available
Session 8
Staying in Touch with Decision Makers
Location: 615 (Washington State Convention Center )
Host: Fifth Symposium on Building a Weather-Ready Nation: Enhancing Our Nation’s Readiness, Responsiveness, and Resilience to High Impact Weather Events
Cochairs: Douglas Hilderbrand, NOAA/NWS; Dave Jones, StormCenter Communications, Inc.; Jennifer Sprague, NOAA/NWS
1:30 PM
8.1
Proactive Strategies in Communicating National Level Impact Based Decision Support Services (IDSS) at the National Weather Service Operations Center in Silver Spring, MD
Kenneth R. Widelski, NOAA/NWS, Silver Spring, MD; and K. Struckmann, M. Sowko, and S. Goldstein
Recorded Presentation

1:45 PM
8.2
Evolution of the Impact-Based Decision Support Services Deployment Boot Camp: A Five Year Review and Look at the Future
Megan N Taylor, CIMMS, Kansas City, MO; and K. Runk and J. J. Zeltwanger
Recorded Presentation

2:00 PM
8.3
Our Concern, Needs, and Weather Vary: Geographic Centered Integrated Warning Teams
Erik M. Heden, NOAA, Newport, NC
Recorded Presentation

2:15 PM
8.4
Building Deep Relationships: How Trusted Partnerships Among South Texas Emergency Managers and the National Weather Service Prepared Communities Prior to Flooding in 2015
Barry S. Goldsmith, NOAA/NWSFO, Brownsville, TX; and J. Metz and J. O'Valle
Recorded Presentation

Handout (6.6 MB)

2:30 PM
8.5
Real-time Micronet Data for Decision Makers and Individuals
Alex Kubicek, Understory Weather, Somerville, MA; and N. Homeier, E. Hewitt, R. S. Bussman, and K. E. Willmot
Recorded Presentation

2:45 PM
8.6
Utilizing Social Media Campaigns to Enable Community Preparedness for Fire Weather Impacts
Edan L Weishahn, NWS, Reno, NV
Recorded Presentation

3:00 PM-3:30 PM: Thursday, 26 January 2017


Coffee Break
Location: Skybridge (Washington State Convention Center )

3:30 PM-5:00 PM: Thursday, 26 January 2017

Recording files available
Session 9
Best Practices of Impact-based Decision Support Services (IDSS)
Location: 615 (Washington State Convention Center )
Host: Fifth Symposium on Building a Weather-Ready Nation: Enhancing Our Nation’s Readiness, Responsiveness, and Resilience to High Impact Weather Events
Cochairs: Douglas Hilderbrand, NOAA/NWS; Dave Jones, StormCenter Communications, Inc.; Jennifer Sprague, NOAA/NWS
9.1
National Weather Service Damage Assessment Toolkit: Transitioning to Operations

3:30 PM
9.1A
Enriching Partnerships with Yosemite and Sequoia National Parks to Build a Weather Ready Nation
Christine Riley, NWS, Hanford, CA; and S. Rowe and K. Mattarochia
Recorded Presentation

3:45 PM
9.2
The NWS Climate Services Program: Moving Forward within the Restructured NWS
Fiona Horsfall, NOAA/NWS, Silver Spring, MD; and M. Timofeyeva, M. Hawkins, J. Zdrojewski, J. C. Meyers, and V. Silva
Recorded Presentation

4:00 PM
9.3
Managing the “Winter Blitz of 2015” in Southern New England
Stephanie L Dunten, NOAA/NWSFO, Taunton, MA; and J. W. Dellicarpini and F. M. Nocera
Recorded Presentation

4:15 PM
9.4
Common Operating Picture of Digital Services to NWS Core Partners in support of Impact-based Decision Support Services and a Weather-Ready Nation
Cammye Sims, NOAA/NWS, Silver Spring, MD; and T. L. Hansen, T. J. LeFebvre, and S. Pontius
Recorded Presentation

4:30 PM
9.5
Enhanced Impact Decision Support Services for Planning during the Historic 2015-16 El Nino Episode Across Southern California
Alexander O. Tardy, NOAA/NWS, San Diego, CA
Recorded Presentation

4:45 PM
9.6
Onsite Decision Support Services for Emergency Management and Aviation Officials Centered around Super Bowl 50
Matt Solum, NWS, Salt Lake City, UT; and L. Johnson, L. Waite, S. Carpenter, P. Cioffi, R. Gass, A. Helmetag, J. Jacques, N. Keene, M. Mehle, C. Outler, M. J. Paddock, J. Pullin, C. Riley, M. Syner, K. Venzke, R. Walbrun, G. Guillot, S. E. Kennedy, C. J. Brenchley, B. Bingaman, D. Weygand, B. Garcia, and S. Bodnar
Recorded Presentation

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