Joint Session 44 16th Symposium on the Coastal Environment

Program Chairs: Andre Van der Westhuysen , IMSG, and NOAA/NWS/NCEP ; Mona Behl , The Univ. of Georgia ; Michael DeFlorio , JPL

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Sunday, 7 January 2018

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4:00 PM-5:00 PM: Sunday, 7 January 2018


Plenary Session 1
18th Presidential Forum: Transforming Communication in the Weather, Water, and Climate Enterprise—Focusing on Challenges Facing Our Sciences
Location: Ballroom D (ACC) (Austin, Texas)
4:00 PM
PL1.1
Transforming Communication in the Environmental Sciences: Some Thoughts from a Reluctant Participant (Invited Presentation)
Richard B. Alley, Pennsylvania State Univ., University Park, PA

Monday, 8 January 2018

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8:30 AM-8:45 AM: Monday, 8 January 2018


Plenary Session 2
Welcoming Address
Location: Austin, Texas

8:45 AM-10:00 AM: Monday, 8 January 2018

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Session 1
Creating and Communicating Medium- to Long-Term Forecasts and Uncertainty in the Coastal Environment
Location: Room 12B (ACC) (Austin, Texas)
Host: 16th Symposium on the Coastal Environment
Cochairs: Nickitas Georgas, Stevens Institute of Technology; Chester Huang, Department of the Interior
8:45 AM
1.1
Forecasting Seasonal Sea Level Changes for Pacific Islands
Matthew J. Widlansky, Univ. of Hawaii, Honolulu, HI; and M. A. Merrifield, P. R. Thompson, H. Annamalai, and J. J. Marra
Recorded Presentation

9:00 AM
1.2
Development of the NWS’ Probabilistic Extratropical Storm Surge Model and Postprocessing Methodology
Huiqing Liu, NOAA/NWS/Office of Scientific and Technical Information/Meteorological Development Laboratory/DSB, Silver Spring, MD; and A. A. Taylor
Recorded Presentation Manuscript (1.1 MB)

9:15 AM
1.3
Probabilistic Track Generation for Hurricane Storm Surge Estimates
Jessica L Smith, Univ. of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC; and B. Blanton and R. Luettich

9:30 AM
1.4
Long-Range Forecasting of Marine Advection Fog along the U.S. Gulf Coast
Derek Ortt, StormGeo, Houston, TX; and C. Hebert and J. Basciani
Recorded Presentation

9:45 AM
1.5
NOAA’s High Tide Bulletin and the Prediction of High Tide Flooding
Gregory Dusek, NOAA, Silver Spring, MD; and W. Sweet and C. Barry
Recorded Presentation

10:00 AM-10:30 AM: Monday, 8 January 2018


Coffee Break

10:30 AM-12:00 PM: Monday, 8 January 2018

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Session 2
Novel Observational Techniques for the Coastal Environment
Location: Room 12B (ACC) (Austin, Texas)
Host: 16th Symposium on the Coastal Environment
Cochairs: Gregory Dusek, NOAA; Art Miller, Scripps Institution of Oceanography
10:30 AM
2.1
Significant Wave Height and Dynamic Water Level Analysis at NOAA Tide Gauges
Katie Kirk, NOAA, Silver Spring, MD; and G. Dusek and W. Sweet
Recorded Presentation

10:45 AM
2.2
Assimilation of Observed Water Levels into Storm Surge Model Predictions
Taylor Asher, Univ. of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC; and R. Luettich, J. G. Fleming, and B. Blanton
Recorded Presentation

11:00 AM
2.3
Managing 30 Years' of Continuous Coastal Data Collection via Water Data for Texas
Evan Turner, Texas Water Development Board, Austin, TX; and S. Negusse and C. Schoenbaechler
Recorded Presentation

11:15 AM
2.4
New Insights about Hypoxia in Oregon’s Coastal Ocean from over a Decade of Autonomous Underwater Glider Observations
John Barth, Oregon State Univ., Corvallis, OR
Recorded Presentation

2.5
The Application of Operational National Weather Service Precipitation Data to Shellfish Harvesting Management

11:45 AM
2.6
Remote Sensing of Coastal Environments Using Microwave Thermodynamic Profilers and Radar Wind Profilers
Kimberly A. Reed, Radiometrics Corporation, Boulder, CO; and L. Blanchette, T. Wilfong, and R. Ware

12:00 PM-2:00 PM: Monday, 8 January 2018


Lunch Break

2:00 PM-3:00 PM: Monday, 8 January 2018

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Lecture 1
2018 Haurwitz Lecture
Location: Salon K (Hilton) (Austin, Texas)
Cochairs: Ángel F. Adames, GFDL; Scott W. Powell, Colorado State Univ.
2:00 PM
L1.1
Some Observations of Normal Modes in the Atmosphere (Invited Presentation)
George N. Kiladis, ESRL, Boulder, CO
Recorded Presentation

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Session 3
Regional and Coastal Hydrodynamic Model Coupling—Part I
Location: Room 12B (ACC) (Austin, Texas)
Host: 16th Symposium on the Coastal Environment
Cochairs: Michael DeFlorio, JPL; Nickitas Georgas, Stevens Institute of Technology
2:00 PM
3.1
Comparison between Wave, Surge, and Inundation Models over Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands
Joannes Westerink, Univ. of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, IN; and A. Van der Westhuysen, C. Anselmi, R. Calzada, J. Gonzalez, J. M. Perez, J. R. Rhome, E. Rodriguez, and J. Smith
Recorded Presentation

2:15 PM
3.2
Improving Tidal Simulations in the NWS’ Extratropical Storm Surge Model along the Coasts of Alaska and the Gulf of Mexico
Huiqing Liu, NOAA/NWS/Office of Scientific and Technical Information/Meteorological Development Laboratory/DSB, Silver Spring, MD; and A. A. Taylor
Recorded Presentation

2:30 PM
3.3
Basin to Inlet Scale Unstructured Grid Hydrodynamic Circulation Modeling of the Indian Ocean, Western Pacific Ocean, and Adjacent Marginal Seas
Joannes Westerink, Univ. of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, IN; and W. Pringle, A. Suhardjo, D. Wirasaet, J. Meixner, S. Brus, and A. B. Kennedy
Recorded Presentation

2:45 PM
3.4
Exploring Coastal Hazards in Virginia and North Carolina via Reanalysis of 2011 Hurricane Irene with Future Sea Level Rise
Andrew L. Molthan, NASA Langley Research Center, Hampton, VA; and D. Loftis, J. R. Bell, J. Srikishen, D. Sun, D. Bekaert, S. Cohen, J. J. Murray, and D. S. Green
Recorded Presentation

3:00 PM-4:00 PM: Monday, 8 January 2018

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Session 4
Regional and Coastal Hydrodynamic Model Coupling—Part II
Location: Room 12B (ACC) (Austin, Texas)
Host: 16th Symposium on the Coastal Environment
Cochairs: Michael DeFlorio, JPL; Nickitas Georgas, Stevens Institute of Technology
3:00 PM
4.1
New Insights on Tsunami Genesis and Energy Source
Yuhe Tony Song, NASA, Pasadena, CA
Recorded Presentation

3:15 PM
4.2
Environmental Controls on Seasonal Carbon Dioxide Exchanges in a Salt Marsh of Virginia
Jesus Ruiz-Plancarte, Pennsylvania State Univ., University Park, PA; and J. D. Fuentes, P. D'Odorico, and K. J. McGlathery

3:30 PM
4.3
COASTAL Act Program
Nicole P. Kurkowski, NWS, Silver Spring, MD; and M. Bilder
Recorded Presentation

3:45 PM
4.4
Modeling of Storm-Induced Hurricane Inundation through a Comprehensive Flexible Coupling Framework.
Saeed Moghimi, NOAA, Silver Spring, MD; and A. Van der Westhuysen, A. Abdolali, Z. Ma, S. V. Vinogradov, J. Meixner, Y. Funakoshi, E. Myres, A. Chawla, A. Mehra, and F. Liu

4:15 PM-6:00 PM: Monday, 8 January 2018


Formal Poster Viewing with Coffee Break
Location: Exhibit Hall 3 (ACC) (Austin, Texas)

6:00 PM-8:00 PM: Monday, 8 January 2018


Exhibits Opening and Reception
Location: Exhibit Hall 4 (ACC) (Austin, Texas)

8:00 PM-10:00 PM: Monday, 8 January 2018


Ryan Symposium Reception
Location: The Reverbery at the Hilton (Austin, Texas)

Tuesday, 9 January 2018

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9:00 AM-10:00 AM: Tuesday, 9 January 2018

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Session 5
Case studies—Part I
Location: Room 12B (ACC) (Austin, Texas)
Host: 16th Symposium on the Coastal Environment
Cochairs: Mona Behl, The Univ. of Georgia; Chester Huang, Department of the Interior
9:00 AM
5.1
Comparative Verification of Water Level Guidance Forecasts for the Middle Texas Coast
Michael E. Buchanan, NWS, Corpus Christi, TX
Recorded Presentation

Handout (2.0 MB)

9:15 AM
5.2
The Impact of Weather Model Resolution on the Simulated Hydrodynamics of Lake George, NY, in June 2017
Campbell D. Watson, IBM Research, New York, NY; and G. Auger, J. P. Cipriani, E. Dow, M. Henderson, H. Kolar, and L. A. Treinish
Recorded Presentation

9:30 AM
5.3
Leveraging Statistical and Objective Analysis to Increase Predictability of Pacific Northwest Coastal Tornadoes
Evan Bentley, NWSFO, Portland, OR
Recorded Presentation

9:45 AM
5.4
A Coupled Storm Surge and Wind Wave Model for the Gulf of Alaska and the Bering Chukchi and Beaufort Seas
Brian Joyce, Notre Dame, South Bend, IN; and J. Westerink and A. J. Van der Westhuysen
Recorded Presentation

10:00 AM-10:30 AM: Tuesday, 9 January 2018


Coffee . Break

10:30 AM-11:30 AM: Tuesday, 9 January 2018

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Session 6
Case Studies—Part II
Location: Room 12B (ACC) (Austin, Texas)
Host: 16th Symposium on the Coastal Environment
Cochairs: Mona Behl, The Univ. of Georgia; Chester Huang, Department of the Interior
10:30 AM
6.1
A New NOAA Research Initiative to Advance the Seasonal Prediction of Living Marine Resources and Coastal High Water Levels
Mark A. Merrifield, Univ. of Hawaii at Manoa, Honolulu, HI; and A. Capotondi, M. Jacox, D. Barrie, A. Mariotti, H. M. Archambault, and R. B. Griffis
Recorded Presentation

10:45 AM
6.2
Improving Coastal Wind Forecasting in the Delaware Bay
Eric Allen, Univ. of Delaware, Newark, DE; and D. Veron
Recorded Presentation

11:00 AM
6.3
Evaluation and Challenges Using the Nearshore Wave Prediction System on Oahu, Hawaii, through the 2016–2017 Winter Season
Alex Gibbs, NOAA, Honolulu, HI; and A. Van der Westhuysen, S. Flampouris, P. Caldwell, P. Santos, and R. Padilla-Hernandez
Manuscript (657.3 kB)

11:15 AM
6.4
Influence of Anomalous Sea Surface Temperatures on Severe Thunderstorm Formation along the U.S. Gulf Coast
Matthew Haworth, StormGeo, Houston, TX; and N. Stanford and J. Basciani
Recorded Presentation

1:30 PM-2:30 PM: Tuesday, 9 January 2018

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Session 7
Flood Resilience: End-to-End Predictive Model Architectures, from Research to Operations to Applications and Services—Part I
Location: Room 12B (ACC) (Austin, Texas)
Host: 16th Symposium on the Coastal Environment
Cochairs: Nickitas Georgas, Stevens Institute of Technology; Chester Huang, Department of the Interior
1:30 PM
7.1
NOAA Storm Surge Strategy in Support of the Weather Act
Nicole P. Kurkowski, NWS, Silver Spring, MD; and J. Rhome
Recorded Presentation

1:45 PM
7.2
Real-Time Storm Surge Forecasting Systems Research, Design, and Development
Sergey V. Vinogradov, NOAA, Silver Spring, MD; and E. Myers, Y. Funakoshi, S. Moghimi, and J. Calzada-Morrero
Recorded Presentation

2:00 PM
7.3
An Integrated Scenario-Based Evacuation Framework: The Coupling of Meteorological–Hydrological–Hydrodynamic Models to an Evacuation Model
Kendra M. Dresback, Univ. of Oklahoma, Norman, OK; and R. L. Kolar, R. Davidson, B. Blanton, B. A. Colle, T. Wachtendorf, L. Nozick, H. Vergara, Y. Hong, K. Yang, S. DeYoung, and N. Leonardo

2:15 PM
7.4
Wind versus Water in Hurricanes: Observing and Modeling Multiple Concurrent Perils
Mark D. Powell, Risk Management Solutions, Tallahassee, FL
Recorded Presentation

2:30 PM-3:30 PM: Tuesday, 9 January 2018

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Joint Session 33
Joint Session with the Committee on Coastal Environment: Air Pollution and Meteorology in Coastal Environments
Location: Salon G (Hilton) (Austin, Texas)
Hosts: (Joint between the 20th Joint Conference on the Applications of Air Pollution Meteorology with the A&WMA; and the 16th Symposium on the Coastal Environment )
Chair: Yaítza Luna-Cruz, Defense Threat Reduction Agency Reachback
2:30 PM
J33.1
Investigating the Effects Surface Characteristics Have on Mountainous Island Wind Regimes and the Resulting Aerosol Transport
Stacey Kawecki, Colorado State Univ., Fort Collins, CO; and S. van den Heever
Recorded Presentation

2:45 PM
J33.2
Probing Troposphere Ozone Variations during Stratospheric Intrusions Using MERRA-2, Potential Vorticity, and CABOTS Ozonesonde Measurements
Jodie E. Clark, San Jose State Univ., San Jose, CA; and S. Chiao and A. Eiserloh

3:00 PM
J33.3
Overview of the 2017 OWLETS: Summary of Observations and Initial Results
John T. Sullivan, NASA GSFC, Wallops Island, VA; and T. Berkoff, M. Pippin, T. Knepp, G. Gronoff, T. J. McGee, L. Twigg, J. Schroeder, W. Carrion, B. Farris, M. Kowalewski, L. Nino, E. Gargulinski, L. Rodio, P. Sanchez, A. Atwater, D. Davis, S. Janz, L. Judd, S. Pusede, G. M. Wolfe, R. M. Stauffer, J. H. Flynn III, J. Munyan, W. Moore, J. Dreessen, D. Salkovitz, T. Hanisco, D. Blake, N. Abuhassan, A. Cede, M. Tzortziou, B. Demoz, S. Tsay, B. Holben, R. Swap, J. Szykman, D. Allen, and J. Neilan
Recorded Presentation

3:15 PM
J33.4
Photochemical Modeling for the Gulf of Mexico Air Quality Study
Till Stoeckenius, Ramboll Environ, Novato, CA; and B. Brashers, T. Shah, J. Jung, B. Koo, and R. E. Morris

2:45 PM-3:45 PM: Tuesday, 9 January 2018

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Session 8
Flood Resilience: End-to-End Predictive Model Architectures, from Research to Operations to Applications and Services—Part II
Location: Room 12B (ACC) (Austin, Texas)
Host: 16th Symposium on the Coastal Environment
Cochairs: Chester Huang, Department of the Interior; Nickitas Georgas, Stevens Institute of Technology
2:45 PM
8.1
Enhancing NWS Extratropical Coastal Hazard and Impact Forecast Services for the Tristate Region
Nelson Vaz, NWS, Upton, NY
Recorded Presentation

3:00 PM
8.2
Next Generation of Coastal Ocean Operational Systems: Street-Scale Flood Forecasts for the Urban Ocean in the New York–New Jersey Metropolitan Region
Antoni Jordi, Stevens Institute of Technology, Hoboken, NJ; and N. Georgas, L. Yin, K. Ying, Z. Chen, Y. Wang, V. Ramaswamy, J. Schulte, F. Saleh, and A. F. Blumberg
Recorded Presentation

3:15 PM
8.3
Enhancing Coastal Water Level Forecasting to Support the Protection of Life and Property
Brian J. Miretzky, NOAA/NWS, Bohemia, NY; and L. Hogan, J. C. Elliott, J. Orrock, and R. Thompson
Recorded Presentation

3:30 PM
8.4
Assessment of Information Products for a Coupled Watershed–Coastal Flood Forecast Modeling System
Juliette Finzi Hart, USGS, Santa Cruz, CA; and L. Johnson, L. Herdman, J. Kim, R. Martyr-Koller, R. Cifelli, P. Barnard, L. Erickson, and V. Chandrasekar
Recorded Presentation

3:45 PM-5:30 PM: Tuesday, 9 January 2018


Formal Poster Viewing with Coffee Break
Location: Exhibit Hall 3 (ACC) (Austin, Texas)

Wednesday, 10 January 2018

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10:00 AM-10:30 AM: Wednesday, 10 January 2018


Coffee Break

10:30 AM-12:00 PM: Wednesday, 10 January 2018

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Joint Session 41
High-Performance Computing Applications in the Coastal Zone
Location: Room 12B (ACC) (Austin, Texas)
Hosts: (Joint between the 16th Symposium on the Coastal Environment; and the Fourth Symposium on High Performance Computing for Weather, Water, and Climate )
Cochairs: Gerry Creager, Oklahoma Univ./CIMMS, and NOAA/NSSL; Art Miller, NOAA
10:30 AM
J41.1
Using New Programming Models to Improve the Scalability and Performance of Near-Real-Time High-Resolution Coastal Modeling
Hartmut Kaiser, Louisiana State Univ., Baton Rouge, LA
Recorded Presentation

10:45 AM
J41.2
Performance Comparison of HPX versus MPI+X Threading Models for Finite-Element Models of Environmental Flows
Max Bremer, Univ. of Texas, Austin, TX; and C. Dawson, Z. D. Byerly, H. Kaiser, and C. Michoski
Recorded Presentation

11:00 AM
J41.3
Load Balancing for Coastal Modeling Applications using HPX and LibGeoDecomp on Intel's Knights Landing
Zachary D. Byerly, Louisiana State Univ., Baton Rouge, LA

11:15 AM
J41.4
Using a Sponge Layer as an Open-Ocean Boundary Treatment in Barotropic Tide and Storm-Surge Models
Damrongsak Wirasaet, Univ. of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, IN; and W. Pringle, J. Gonzalez, A. Suhardjo, and J. Westerink
Recorded Presentation

11:30 AM
J41.5
Wind Wave Modeling of Storm-Induced Hurricanes Using an Implicit Scheme in the WAVEWATCH III Model over Large-Scale Resolved Bathymetries
Ali Abdolali, UCAR/NOAA/NWS/NCEP/EMC, College Park, MD; and A. Roland, A. Van der Westhuysen, Z. Ma, and A. Chawla
Recorded Presentation

J41.6
Improving Nearshore Wave Guidance at the North American Great Lakes: Explicit and Fully Implicit integration of the Wave Action Balance Equation

12:00 PM-1:30 PM: Wednesday, 10 January 2018


Lunch Break

1:30 PM-2:30 PM: Wednesday, 10 January 2018

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Lecture 2
2018 Horton Lecture
Location: Room 18A (ACC) (Austin, Texas)
1:30 PM
L2.1
Rain Rates from Space: Past & Future (Invited Presentation)
Gerald R. North, Texas A&M Univ., College Station, TX
Recorded Presentation

1:30 PM-3:00 PM: Wednesday, 10 January 2018

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Joint Session 44
Applications of Artificial Intelligence in the Coastal Environment
Location: Room 12B (ACC) (Austin, Texas)
Hosts: (Joint between the 17th Conf on Artificial and Computational Intelligence and its Applications to the Environmental Sciences; and the 16th Symposium on the Coastal Environment )
Cochairs: Gregory Dusek, NOAA; Philippe Tissot, Texas A&M University−Corpus Christi
1:30 PM
J44.1
Using Machine Learning to Predict Storm Longevity in Real Time
Amy McGovern, University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK; and C. Karstens, D. Harrison, and T. Smith
Recorded Presentation

1:45 PM
J44.2
Nearshore Wave Prediction System Model Output Statistics (NWPS MOS): Improvement of NOAA Probabilistic Rip Current Forecast Model
Jung-Sun Im, NOAA/NWS/Meteorological Development Laboratory, Silver Spring, MD; and G. Dusek, S. B. Smith, and M. E. Churma
Recorded Presentation

Handout (2.9 MB)

2:00 PM
J44.3
Neural Network Surge Predictions: Design, Implementation, History, and Performance Comparison
Philipe Tissot, Texas A&M Univ., Corpus Christi, TX; and M. Buchanan and N. Durham
Recorded Presentation

2:15 PM
J44.4
Space−Time Cube and Cluster Representation of Evolving Landforms at Local and Regional Scales Using Lidar Time Series Data
Michael J. Starek, Texas A&M University−Corpus Christi, Corpus Christi, TX; and P. Tissot and C. Nguyen
Recorded Presentation

2:30 PM
J44.5
Unsupervised Clustering Method for Complexity Reduction of Airborne and Terrestrial 3D Point Cloud Data in Marshes
Chuyen Nguyen, Texas A&M Univ., Corpus Christi, TX; and M. J. Starek, P. Tissot, and J. Gibeaut
Recorded Presentation

2:45 PM
J44.6
Self-Organizing Map Clustering of Terrestrial Lidar Data within Marshes
Xiaopeng Cai, Texas A&M Univ., Corpus Christi, TX; and C. Nguyen, P. Tissot, and M. J. Starek
Recorded Presentation

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