Program: 34th Conference on Environmental Information Processing Technologies (98th American Meteorological Society Annual Meeting)

Program Chairs: Nazila Merati , Merati and Associates ; Scott Jacobs , NOAA/NWS/NCEP ; Tiffany C. Vance , NOAA

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Sunday, 7 January 2018

12:00 PM-4:00 PM: Sunday, 7 January 2018

WeatherFest

Location: Exhibit Hall 1 (ACC) (Austin, Texas)

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

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

Session 1A

Quasi-Operational Products You Can Use Now, Part I

Location: Room 17A (ACC) (Austin, Texas)

Host: 34th Conference on Environmental Information Processing Technologies

Cochairs: Jennifer Luppens Mahoney, NOAA/ESRL/GSD; Kevin Kelleher, ESRL; Tiffany C. Vance, NOAA

8:45 AM

1A.1

Hazard Services: Progress Report

Tracy Lee Hansen, NOAA/OAR/ESRL/GSD, Boulder, CO; and C. Golden, Y. Guo, N. Hardin, T. J. LeFebvre, J. L. Mahoney, K. L. Manross, S. Murphy, D. Nietfeld, E. Polster, J. E. Ramer, G. J. Wade, J. Wakefield, S. Williams, and S. Zhuo

Recorded Presentation

9:00 AM

1A.2

Hazard Services: Utilizing Recommenders to Create Hazardous Information

Nathan Hardin, CIRA, Boulder, CO; and D. Nietfeld, T. L. Hansen, and Y. Guo

Recorded Presentation

9:15 AM

1A.3

Evaluation of a Machine-Learning Model for the Prediction of Heavy and Extreme Rainfall

Russ S. Schumacher, Colorado State Univ., Fort Collins, CO; and G. R. Herman, D. R. Stovern, S. Perfater, and B. Albright

Recorded Presentation

9:30 AM

1A.4

Advances in Using Random Forests to Forecast Heavy Precipitation and Flash Floods

Gregory R. Herman, Colorado State Univ., Fort Collins, CO; and R. S. Schumacher

Recorded Presentation

9:45 AM

1A.5

The Weather Archived and Visualization Environment (WAVE)

Bill Rasch, NOAA/NWS, Sacramento, CA; and T. Wilson, J. Q. Stewart, R. Walsh, and D. Nietfeld

Recorded Presentation

Session 1B

Services Update

Location: Room 10AB (ACC) (Austin, Texas)

Host: 34th Conference on Environmental Information Processing Technologies

Cochairs: Randall Bass, FAA; Scott Jacobs, NOAA/NWS

8:45 AM

1B.1

U.S. Air Force Weather Service Update

Ralph O. Stoffler, U.S. Air Force, Washington, DC

Recorded Presentation

9:00 AM

1B.2

Navy Update—Commander Naval Meteorology and Oceanography Command/Oceanographer of the Navy

John Okon, Naval Meteorology and Oceanography Command and Oceanographer of the Navy, Stennis Space Center, MS; and D. McCarren

Recorded Presentation

9:15 AM

1B.3

FAA Update

M. Pat Murphy, FAA, Washington, DC

Recorded Presentation

9:30 AM

1B.4

NWS Update

Louis Uccellini, NOAA National Weather Service (NWS), Silver Spring, MD

Recorded Presentation

9:45 AM

Discussion

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

Coffee Break

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

Session 2A

Quasi-Operational Products You Can Use Now, Part II

Location: Room 17A (ACC) (Austin, Texas)

Host: 34th Conference on Environmental Information Processing Technologies

Cochairs: Jennifer Luppens Mahoney, NOAA/ESRL/GSD; Kevin Kelleher, ESRL; Tiffany C. Vance, NOAA

10:30 AM

2A.1

The FX-CAVE System Demonstration for the National Interagency Fire Weather Program

Evan Polster, CIRA/Colorado State Univ., Boulder, CO; and W. Roberts, P. Schultz, and E. D. Delgado

Recorded Presentation

10:45 AM

2A.2

Investigating the Use and Integration of Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) Imagery in the Damage Survey Process within 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 J. R. Bell, J. B. Nicoll, R. Gens, A. L. Molthan, and F. J. Meyer

Recorded Presentation

11:00 AM

2A.3

Testing and Enhancement of the Rapidly Updating Real Time Mesoscale Analysis (RU-RTMA) and Work toward a Three-Dimensional RU-RTMA

Stephen S. Weygandt, NOAA/ESRL, Boulder, CO; and M. Hu, C. Hartsough, G. Ge, T. T. Ladwig, C. R. Alexander, J. M. Brown, and S. Benjamin

Recorded Presentation

11:15 AM

2A.4

INSITE: IDSS for Aviation Weather

Melissa A. Petty, NOAA/ESRL/GSD and CIRA, Boulder, CO; and A. Terborg, P. Hamer, G. J. Layne, M. S. Wandishin, M. Rabellino, and M. Turpin

Recorded Presentation

11:30 AM

2A.5

Quasi-Operational Functionality in MADIS

Greg Pratt, OAR, Boulder, CO; and L. A. Benjamin

Recorded Presentation

11:45 AM

Discussion

Session 2B

Disseminating Earth Science and Climate Information for Better Decision Making, Part I

Location: Room 10AB (ACC) (Austin, Texas)

Host: 34th Conference on Environmental Information Processing Technologies

Cochairs: Eugene Burger, NOAA/ERL/PMEL; Tiffany C. Vance, NOAA; Alex Coletti, SM Resources Corp.

10:30 AM

2B.1

Making Data Available on the Cloud for Decision Support Applications through NOAA's Big Data Project

Edward J. Kearns, NOAA, Asheville, NC; and S. Glass, O. Brown, J. Brannock, A. Simonson, and J. O'Neil

Recorded Presentation

10:45 AM

2B.2

Supporting Climate Services in Europe: The Copernicus Climate Data Store

Cedric Bergeron, ECMWF, Reading, UK; and B. Raoult and A. Lopez-Alos

Recorded Presentation

11:00 AM

2B.3

Transitioning an Early Warning System for Harmful Algal Blooms on Pacific Northwest Beaches to Operations

Vera Trainer, NOAA, Seattle, WA; and N. Banas, R. McCabe, B. M. Hickey, P. MacCready, B. Bormann, M. Hunter, R. Kudela, M. Suddleson, C. Alex, and T. C. Vance

Recorded Presentation

11:15 AM

2B.4

Using Real-Time Data Notification Services for Decision Support Systems

Chris Galli, Univ. of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT; and J. D. Horel

Recorded Presentation

11:30 AM

2B.5

Adding a Black Scholes Routine to Quantitative Risk Assessment Decision Support Systems

Alessandro Coletti, SMRC, Sterling, VA; and T. DeFelice, A. De Nicola, M. L. Villani, and G. Vicoli

Recorded Presentation

Handout (760.3 kB)

11:45 AM

2B.6

The Expert to Novice Spectrum: An Eye-Tracking Evaluation of How User Experience Shapes Interactions with a Climate Decision Support System

Lindsay C. Maudlin, North Carolina State Univ., Raleigh, NC; and K. S. McNeal, C. N. Davis, H. D. Aldridge, R. P. Boyles, and R. Atkins

Recorded Presentation

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

Lunch Break

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

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

2:00 PM-4:15 PM: Monday, 8 January 2018

Session 3A

International Applications: Making Environmental Hazard Science Useful, Usable, and Used

Location: Room 17A (ACC) (Austin, Texas)

Host: 34th Conference on Environmental Information Processing Technologies

Cochairs: Ian Lisk, Met Office; Baudouin Raoult, ECMWF

2:00 PM

3A.1

Strengthening Disaster Risk Reduction across the Americas

David S. Green, NASA Headquarters, Washington, DC; and J. J. Murray and T. M. Stough

Recorded Presentation

2:15 PM

3A.2

Hazard Impact Framework: Developing Multi-Hazard Impact Models

Rebecca Hemingway, Met Office, Exeter, UK; and J. Mooney, O. Gunawan, T. Aldridge, and I. Lisk

Recorded Presentation

2:30 PM

3A.3

The ARISTOTLE Multi-Hazard Expert Advice System for EU Disaster Response

Gavin Iley, UKMO, Exeter, UK; and G. Wotawa, D. Arnold, and A. Michelini

Recorded Presentation

2:45 PM

3A.4

Estimating Worldwide Wildfire Emissions in Near-Real-Time and Their Impact on Air Quality

Vincent-Henri Peuch, ECMWF, Reading, UK; and M. Parrington

Recorded Presentation

3:00 PM

3A.5

Discovery of Hidden Vulnerabilities in Critical Infrastructures

Alessandro Coletti, SMRC, Sterling, VA; and A. De Nicola, M. L. Villani, and G. Vicoli

Recorded Presentation Manuscript (803.3 kB)

3:15 PM

3A.6

Forecasting Flood Hazard on Real Time: Implementation of a New Surrogate Model for Hydrometeorological Events in an Andean Watershed

Maria Teresa Contreras, Univ. of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, IN; and C. Escauriaza, A. Taflanidis, and J. Westerink

Recorded Presentation

3:30 PM

3A.7

The Gap between Availability and Use of Remotely Sensed Climate and Weather Data

Andrew Kruczkiewicz, IRI/Red Cross Red Crescent Climate Centre, Palisades, NY

Recorded Presentation

3:45 PM

Discussion

Session 3B

Disseminating Earth Science and Climate Information for Better Decision Making, Part II

Location: Room 10AB (ACC) (Austin, Texas)

Host: 34th Conference on Environmental Information Processing Technologies

Cochairs: Eugene Burger, NOAA/ERL/PMEL; Tiffany C. Vance, NOAA; Alex Coletti, SM Resources Corp.

2:00 PM

3B.1

The 2017 Update on the Arctic Report Card

Eugene Burger, NOAA/ERL/PMEL, Seattle, WA; and J. A. Richter-Menge, J. E. Overland, and J. T. Mathis

2:15 PM

3B.2

Critical Review of NOAA’s Observation Requirements Process

Martin Yapur, NOAA/NESDIS/Office of Projects, Planning and Analysis, Silver Spring, MD; and L. McCulloch, M. LaJoie, T. V. Dinh, A. Mitchell, R. Reining, V. Ries, P. M. Taylor, L. O'Connor, D. Bludis, and A. Templeton

Recorded Presentation

2:30 PM

3B.3

RadarScope: The Next Ten Years

Mike Wolfinbarger, Weather Decision Technologies, Inc., Norman, OK

Recorded Presentation

2:45 PM

3B.4

CASA Alerts: Context-Aware Hyper-Local Severe Weather Alerting through X-Band Radars and Mobile Apps

Brenda J. Philips, Univ. of Massachusetts Amherst, Amherst, MA; and A. Bajaj, D. Westbrook, E. J. Lyons, M. Zink, A. Venkataramani, J. E. Trainor, C. E. League, and V. Chandrasekar

Recorded Presentation

3:00 PM

Break

3:15 PM

3B.5

Weather Services—Live, Virtual, Constructive: Environmental Characterization for the Military’s Modeling, Simulations, and Operational Training Infrastructure

Gordon Brooks, 557th Weather Wing, Offutt AFB, NE; and M. Touchton and R. Butler

Recorded Presentation

3:30 PM

3B.6

ESPDS Product Distribution and Access: A flexible data acquisition, data cataloging, data manipulation, and data delivery system for meteorological and other instrument data.

George Wilkinson, Solers, Greenbelt, MD; and R. Baker, M. Brogan, R. Niemann, D. M. Beall, S. Walsh, E. Richards, and T. Kowalski

Recorded Presentation

3:45 PM

3B.7

CCDP: A GIS- and Web-Based Climate Change Data Portal for Better Decision Making

Xander Wang, Univ. of Louisiana, Lafayette, LA; and G. Huang

4:00 PM

3B.8

An Intelligent System for Discovery and Communication of Extreme Events

Ibrahim Demir, Univ. of Iowa, Iowa City, IA; and Y. Sermet and W. F. Krajewski

Recorded Presentation

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

Formal Poster Viewing with Coffee Break

Location: Exhibit Hall 3 (ACC) (Austin, Texas)

Poster Session 1

Posters

Location: Exhibit Hall 3 (ACC) (Austin, Texas)

Host: 34th Conference on Environmental Information Processing Technologies

Cochairs: Kevin R. Tyle, SUNY; Scott S. Lindstrom, CIMSS/Univ. of Wisconsin

Application of a High Performance Computing Package to the R Script for Assessment of Climate Suitability for a Crop

Shinwoo Hyun, Seoul National Univ., Seoul, Korea, Republic of (South); and K. S. Kim

Development of a Library to Support Processing Regional Climate Scenario Data from Coordinated Regional Climate Downscaling Experiment

Byoung Hyun Yoo, Seoul National Univ., Seoul, Korea, Republic of (South); and K. S. Kim

Estimation of Evapotranspiration with a Dynamic Vegetation Approach Using the Noah Multiphysics Model and the CERES-Rice Model

Kwang Soo Kim, Seoul National Univ., Seoul, Korea, Republic of (South)

Atmospheric Blocking and Intercomparison of Objective Detection Methods: Flow Field Characteristics

Marielle C. Pinheiro, Univ. of California, Davis, CA; and P. Ullrich and R. Grotjahn

A Web Application for Managing Regional Crop Production: The West Texas Mesonet Agro-Climate Monitor

Steven A. Mauget, USDA, Lubbock, Texas

Drought.gov, the Website for the National Integrated Drought Information System (NIDIS)

Steve Ansari, NOAA/NESDIS/National Centers for Environmental Information, Asheville, NC; and N. McCraw, A. Stowell, and K. Bogan

Tuna and Data Standards: The Use of Rosetta in the Oceanographic In Situ Data Interoperability Project (OIIP)

Sean C. Arms, UCAR, Boulder, CO; and V. M. Tsontos, C. H. Lam, N. Quach, C. K. Thompson, F. Platt, and J. Roberts

Handout (5.7 MB)

Crowd-Sourced Environmental Sensing Using Mobile Devices on Land and Sea

Marc Shapiro, Creare LLC, Hanover, NH; and J. Bieszczad and D. R. Callender

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)

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

Fourth Annual Speed Networking Event for Students and Early Career Professionals

Location: Ballroom A (ACC) (Austin, Texas)

Tuesday, 9 January 2018

8:30 AM-10:00 AM: Tuesday, 9 January 2018

Themed Joint Session 1

Development and Communication of High-Resolution, Ensemble Forecast Information for Forecasting Extreme Weather

Location: Room 5ABC (ACC) (Austin, Texas)

Hosts: (Joint between the Sixth Symposium on the Weather, Water, and Climate Enterprise; the 34th Conference on Environmental Information Processing Technologies; and the 25th Conference on Probability and Statistics )

Chair: Jeffrey P. Craven, NOAA/NWS

8:30 AM

TJ1.1

Application of a Convection-Permitting Ensemble Prediction System in Southern China: Preliminary Results of QPF during SCMREX

Xubin ZHANG, Institute of Tropical and Marine Meteorology, CMA, Guangzhou, China

Recorded Presentation

8:45 AM

TJ1.2

Development of the High-Resolution Rapid Refresh Ensemble (HRRRE) toward an Operational Convective-Allowing Ensemble Data Assimilation and Forecast System

Therese T. Ladwig, NOAA/ESRL/GSD and CIRES/Univ. of Colorado, Boulder, CO; and D. C. Dowell, C. R. Alexander, M. Hu, J. Beck, I. Jankov, T. Alcott, B. D. Jamison, J. A. Hamilton, J. M. Brown, S. S. Weygandt, and S. G. Benjamin

Recorded Presentation

9:00 AM

TJ1.3

Incorporating Time of UH Occurrence in the Generation of Ensemble-Derived Tornado Probabilities

Burkely T. Gallo, CIMMS/NSSL, Norman, OK; and A. J. Clark, B. T. Smith, R. L. Thompson, I. L. Jirak, and S. R. Dembek

Recorded Presentation

9:15 AM

TJ1.4

NWS Forecasters’ Interpretations, Uses, and Needs Regarding High-Resolution, Ensemble-Based Guidance

Julie L. Demuth, NCAR, Boulder, CO; and R. E. Morss, I. Jankov, C. R. Alexander, T. Alcott, D. Nietfeld, and T. Jensen

Recorded Presentation

9:30 AM

TJ1.5

Thorough Probabilistic Verification of Storm Prediction Center Forecasts

Gregory R. Herman, Colorado State Univ., Fort Collins, CO; and E. R. Nielsen and R. S. Schumacher

Recorded Presentation

9:45 AM

Discussion

Session 4A

Data in, Information Out: Crowdsourcing and Other Tools for Data Gathering

Location: Room 17A (ACC) (Austin, Texas)

Host: 34th Conference on Environmental Information Processing Technologies

Cochairs: Eugene Burger, NOAA/ERL/PMEL; Tiffany C. Vance, NOAA; Jared Rennie, North Carolina Institute for Climate Studies

8:30 AM

4A.1

Drought Information Supported by Citizen Scientists (DISCS)

Andrew L. Molthan, NASA Langley Research Center, Hampton, VA; and M. Maskey, C. Hain, P. Meyer, U. Nair, C. Handyside, K. D. White, and M. Amin

Recorded Presentation

8:45 AM

4A.2

Low-Cost Crowdsourcing Sensor Package for Drought-Related Decision Making

Chris Phillips, Univ. of Alabama in Huntsville, Huntsville, AL; and U. Nair and C. Handyside

Recorded Presentation

9:00 AM

4A.3

Leveraging Smart Home-Based Meteorological Sensors and Systems

Jay Titlow, WeatherFlow Inc., Poquoson, VA

Recorded Presentation

9:15 AM

4A.4

Using Less Conventional Observations to Identify Model Physics Errors in a CONUS-wide Ensemble

Alexander Gallagher, SUNY, Albany, NY; and R. G. Fovell

Recorded Presentation

9:30 AM

4A.5

A New Generation Crowdsourcing Innovative Platform: Climate Intelligent Prediction and Analysis System (CIPAS2.0)

Guofu Wang, BCC, Beijing, China; and P. Shao and C. Sun

Recorded Presentation

9:45 AM

Discussion

Session 4B

Weather and Roads—from Observations to Actionable Information, Part I

Location: Room 10AB (ACC) (Austin, Texas)

Host: 34th Conference on Environmental Information Processing Technologies

Cochairs: Paul A. Pisano, U.S. Department of Transportation/Federal Highway Administration; Brenda C. Boyce, Booz Allen Hamilton

8:30 AM

4B.1

The Future of Transportation and Weather Needs

Ben Ellis, Jaguar Land Rover North America, LLC, Portland, OR

9:00 AM

4B.2

Testing and Implementation of Mobile Road Condition Information to Serve the Transportation System

Virve Karsisto, Finnish Meteorological Institute, Helsinki, Finland; and P. Nurmi

Recorded Presentation

9:15 AM

4B.3

The Truck Blowover Algorithm for the Pikalert^®System

Brittany Welch, Univ. of Illinois, Urbana, IL; and A. Anderson, S. Linden, and W. Petzke

Recorded Presentation

9:30 AM

4B.4

Elements for Predicting Road Conditions

Brenda C. Boyce, Booz Allen Hamilton, Alexander, AR; and P. A. Pisano and G. Guevara

Recorded Presentation

9:45 AM

4B.5

Scaling and Simplifying Snow Removal Operations without Costly Custom Hardware Implementations

Peter Shashkin, EastBanc Technologies, Washington, DC

Recorded Presentation

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

Coffee . Break

10:30 AM-12:00 PM: Tuesday, 9 January 2018

Session 5A

Software Engineering and Cyberinfrastructure

Location: Room 17A (ACC) (Austin, Texas)

Host: 34th Conference on Environmental Information Processing Technologies

Cochairs: Brenda C. Boyce, Booz Allen Hamilton; Aashish Chaudhary, Kitware; William F. Roberts, OAR

10:30 AM

5A.1

Improving Capacity Planning for Archiving Environmental Data

Michael E. Fotta, Global Science & Technology, Inc., Fairmont, WV

Recorded Presentation

10:45 AM

5A.2

Increasing Access to the Results of NSF-Funded Scientific Research at NCAR

Kate Young, NCAR, Boulder, CO; and L. Cully, J. Aquino, R. A. Rilling, J. Allison, M. Dye, M. B. Paulus, J. Jubera, and B. Baeuerle

Recorded Presentation

11:00 AM

5A.3

Standardizing Observation Data for the A2e WFIP2 Project

Matt C. Macduff, PNNL, Richland, WA; and C. Sivaraman

Recorded Presentation

11:15 AM

5A.4

Containing the Future

Zachary L. Flamig, Univ. of Chicago, Chicago, IL; and W. Wells and R. Grossman

Recorded Presentation

11:30 AM

5A.5

NOAA Virtual Lab (VLab) Services

Kenneth S. Sperow, CIRA NOAA/NWS, Arroyo Grande, CA; and J. E. Burks

Recorded Presentation

11:45 AM

5A.6

The Design and Implementation of an Internet of Things Cyberinfrastructure for the Study of Ecology of Lake George in the Jefferson Project

Anthony P. Praino, International Business Machines Corporation, New York, NY; and E. M. Dow

Recorded Presentation

Session 5B

Weather and Roads—from Observations to Actionable Information, Part II

Location: Room 10AB (ACC) (Austin, Texas)

Host: 34th Conference on Environmental Information Processing Technologies

Cochairs: Paul A. Pisano, U.S. Department of Transportation/Federal Highway Administration; Brenda C. Boyce, Booz Allen Hamilton

10:30 AM

5B.1

Convergence of Weather and Vehicles Technologies

Paul A. Pisano, U.S. Department of Transportation/Federal Highway Administration, Washington, DC; and G. Guevara, R. Alfelor, R. Murphy, and B. C. Boyce

Recorded Presentation

10:45 AM

5B.2

MDSS Assessment of Recommendations Study

Robert D. Hart, Iteris, Inc, Tucson, AZ; and B. W. Hershey and D. L. Huft

Recorded Presentation

11:00 AM

5B.3

A Road State Climatology from the Global Weather Corp. Road Weather Forecasts

Danny Cheresnick, Global Weather Corporation, Boulder, CO; and J. Thompson, B. Gail, B. Myers, and N. Rehak

Recorded Presentation

11:15 AM

5B.4

Developing a Winter Severity Index to Improve Safety and Mobility

Curtis L. Walker, Univ. of Nebraska, Lincoln, NE; and D. Steinkruger, P. Gholizadeh, B. Dao, S. Hasanzadeh, M. R. Anderson, and B. Esmaeili

Recorded Presentation

11:30 AM

5B.5

The Integration of Clarus into the NWS's MADIS

Leon A. Benjamin, CIRES, Boulder, CO; and G. Pratt

Recorded Presentation

11:45 AM

5B.6

Communicating Road Weather Impacts to the Traveling Public

Paul A. Pisano, U.S. Department of Transportation/Federal Highway Administration, Washington, DC; and G. Guevara, R. Alfelor, R. Murphy, and B. C. Boyce

Recorded Presentation

1:30 PM-3:45 PM: Tuesday, 9 January 2018

Session 6A

Visualization Techniques for Climatology and Meteorology

Location: Room 17A (ACC) (Austin, Texas)

Host: 34th Conference on Environmental Information Processing Technologies

Cochairs: Jared Rennie, North Carolina Institute for Climate Studies; J. T. Johnson, Weather Decision Technologies

1:30 PM

6A.1

SLIDER: A Satellite Imagery Looper Capable of Viewing Every Pixel of GOES-16 Imagery in Real Time over the Web

Kevin Micke, CIRA, Fort Collins, CO; and S. D. Miller, R. Brummer, S. Finley, N. Tourville, D. W. Hillger, D. A. Molenar, and D. T. Lindsey

Recorded Presentation

1:45 PM

6A.2

3D Modeling for Visual Analyses of Recent and Historical Weather and Water Patterns

Reuben Reyes, Univ. of Oklahoma, Norman, OK; and J. R. Ziolkowska

Recorded Presentation

Handout (3.9 MB)

2:00 PM

6A.3

Establishing a Visualization Framework for the NOAA Observing System Portfolio

Matthew L. Austin, NOAA/NESDIS, Silver Spring, MD; and L. O'Connor, S. J. Taijeron, and J. Goldstein

2:15 PM

6A.4

Using RealEarth^TM to Manage, Visualize, Interrogate, and Share Your Data Online and on the Go

David Parker, Univ. of Wisconsin–Madison, Madison, WI

Recorded Presentation

2:30 PM

6A.5

The New Trajectory Display in the UNIDATA's IDV

Yuan Ho, UCAR, Boulder, CO; and T. Rink

2:45 PM

Discussion

Session 6B

Cloud Computing

Location: Room 10AB (ACC) (Austin, Texas)

Host: 34th Conference on Environmental Information Processing Technologies

Cochairs: Tiffany C. Vance, NOAA; Eugene Burger, NOAA/ERL/PMEL

1:30 PM

6B.1

Scaling for Unknown Demand through the Use of Cloud Technology for the Eclipse of 2017

Jebb Stewart, NOAA/ESRL, Boulder and CIRA/Colorado State Univ., Fort Collins, CO; and S. McNeil, S. Johnston, and D. Hagerty

Recorded Presentation

1:45 PM

6B.2

Data-Proximate Computing, Analytics, and Visualization Using Cloud-Hosted Workflows and Data Services

Mohan K. Ramamurthy, UCAR, Boulder, CO

Recorded Presentation

2:00 PM

6B.3

A Cloud-Based Modeling Testbed for Coastal and Ocean Models

Tiffany C. Vance, NOAA, Silver Spring, MD; and P. MacCready, B. McKenna, J. A. Newton, D. Snowden, and V. Trainer

Recorded Presentation

2:15 PM

6B.4

A Multi-Cloud, Multi-University Mesoscale Ensemble Forecast, Analysis, and Evaluation System

Kevin R. Tyle, SUNY, Albany, NY; and R. S. Schumacher

Recorded Presentation

2:30 PM

6B.5

Deploying to the Cloud: Lessons Learned from the National Cattle Comfort Advisor

Michael D. Klatt, Univ. of Oklahoma, Norman, OK; and R. Jabrzemski and A. Sutherland

Recorded Presentation

2:45 PM

Discussion

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

Formal Poster Viewing with Coffee Break

Location: Exhibit Hall 3 (ACC) (Austin, Texas)

Poster Session 2

Posters

Location: Exhibit Hall 3 (ACC) (Austin, Texas)

Host: 34th Conference on Environmental Information Processing Technologies

Cochairs: Kevin R. Tyle, SUNY; Scott S. Lindstrom, CIMSS/Univ. of Wisconsin

442

A Monthly Near-Real-Time Night Marine Air Temperature Dataset

Steve T. Stegall, Cooperative Institute for Climate and Satellites, Asheville, NC

443

ARM Data Quality Office: Fusion of Automated and Manual QA/QC Techniques

Adam Theisen, Atmospheric Radiation Measurement Data Quality Office/CIMMS/Univ. of Oklahoma, Norman, OK; and R. A. Peppler, K. E. Kehoe, J. W. Monroe, and J. King

444

EarthServer—ECMWF's Experiences of Using OGC Standards

Stephan Siemen, ECMWF, Reading, U.K.; and J. Wagemann, S. Lamy-Thepaut, and B. Raoult

445

Geoscience Digital Data Resource and Repository Service

Douglas Schuster, NCAR, Boulder, CO; and M. S. Mayernik and C. Y. Hou

446

The CPEX Data Portal: Data and Visualizations to Enable Science Investigations

Brian W. Knosp, JPL, Pasadena, CA; and P. P. Li, Q. A. Vu, S. M. Hristova-Veleva, F. J. Turk, and B. Lambrigtsen

447

Open-Source Application Streaming with Docker and Unidata's Cloudstream Technology Stack

Ward Fisher, UCAR, Boulder, CO

448

Weather Processing Workflow between Private/Public Cloud Environments

James Gundy, Harris Corporation, Melbourne, FL; and C. Smith

449

Weather Processing in Software Containers across Multiple HPC and Cloud Platforms

Brad Brown-Bergtold, Harris Corporation, Melbourne, FL; and J. Gundy, G. Kowalski, G. Peterson, and L. Crosby

6:30 PM-8:30 PM: Tuesday, 9 January 2018

Peter J. Webster Symposium Banquet

Location: Ballroom A (ACC) (Austin, Texas)

Wednesday, 10 January 2018

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

Session 7

AWIPS System Updates, Part I

Location: Room 17A (ACC) (Austin, Texas)

Host: 34th Conference on Environmental Information Processing Technologies

Moderator: Wendy Sellers, NOAA/NWS

8:30 AM

7.1

AWIPS Program - Status Update, Vision and Strategy

Ronla K. Henry, NOAA/NWS, Silver Spring, MD; and S. S. Schotz and J. Tatum

Recorded Presentation

7.2

AWIPS Program—Vision and Strategy

Ronla K. Henry, NOAA/NWS, Silver Spring, MD; and S. S. Schotz, E. Mandel, and S. Jacobs

9:00 AM

7.3

AWIPS Program—Collaborative Development Panel

Wendy Sellers, NOAA/NWS, Silver Spring, MD

Recorded Presentation

Panel Discussion

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

Coffee Break

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

Session 8

AWIPS System Updates, Part II

Location: Room 17A (ACC) (Austin, Texas)

Host: 34th Conference on Environmental Information Processing Technologies

Cochairs: William F. Roberts, OAR; Jason E. Burks, CIRA

10:30 AM

8.1

FDSE Progress Report

Thomas J. LeFebvre, NOAA/ESRL, Boulder, CO; and K. Manross and P. T. McCaslin

Recorded Presentation

10:45 AM

8.2

Progress Report on the Ensemble Tool in AWIPS II

Paul Schultz, CIRES/Univ. of Colorado, Boulder, CO; and E. Polster and X. Jing

Recorded Presentation

11:00 AM

8.3

AWIPS II Client-Side RGB Product Generation in the GOES-R Era

Kevin M. McGrath, NASA Short-Term Prediction Research and Transition Center, Huntsville, AL; and E. Berndt, C. M. Gravelle, L. A. Byerle, A. L. Molthan, and M. R. Smith

Recorded Presentation

11:15 AM

8.4

Extreme Precipitation Forecasting Tools in AWIPS

Diana R. Stovern, CIRES, Boulder, CO; and J. A. Nelson Jr., M. Klein, S. Czyzyk, K. Landry, and J. W. Zeitler

Recorded Presentation

11:30 AM

8.5

Development and Evaluation of Cloud-Based Weather Event Simulation Capabilities

Dale A. Morris, CIMMS/Univ. of Oklahoma and NWS/Office of the Chief Learning Officer/Warning Decision Training Division, Norman, OK; and A. B. Zwink, T. Pham, and E. P. Jacobsen

Recorded Presentation

11:45 AM

Discussion

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

Lunch Break

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

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-3:45 PM: Wednesday, 10 January 2018

Session 9

Mapping and GIS for Weather and Climate

Location: Room 17A (ACC) (Austin, Texas)

Host: 34th Conference on Environmental Information Processing Technologies

Cochairs: Jason E. Burks, CIRA; Gerald J. Creager, CIMMS/University of Oklahoma and NOAA/NSSL

1:30 PM

9.1

An Automated Tornado Damage Assessment Model: Providing Rapid Situational Awareness to the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA)

Madeline Jones, New Light Technologies, Inc., Washington, DC; and R. Pitts

Recorded Presentation

1:45 PM

9.2

Using GIS to Investigate Land–Atmosphere Interactions Involved in Tornadogenesis

Amanda M. Weigel, Univ. of Alabama, Huntsville, AL; and R. Griffin, K. Knupp, A. L. Molthan, and T. A. Coleman

Recorded Presentation

9.3

Using GIS to Estimate Uplift due to the Balcones Escarpment in Central Texas

2:00 PM

9.3A

RealEarth: Bringing Meteorological and Atmospheric Science Imagery and Data to GIS

Sam Batzli, CIMSS, Madison–Madison, WI; and D. Parker, N. Bearson, R. Dengel, T. Jasmin, and D. Santek

Recorded Presentation

2:15 PM

9.4A

Using the ArcGIS Platform To Display and Analyze Meteorological Data

Matthew J. Taraldsen, Esri, St. Paul, MN

Recorded Presentation

2:30 PM

9.5

Creating a Climatological Snowfall Map for the NWS Buffalo County Warning Area Using an Ordinary Least-Squares Regression of PRISM Data with Residual Correction Scheme

Jefferson Wood, NWS, Buffalo, NY

Recorded Presentation

2:45 PM

9.6A

Using GIS to Monitor Key National Weather Service Assets Impacting Service Delivery

Jack Settelmaier, NOAA/NWS, Fort Worth, TX; and G. R. Patrick

3:00 PM

Discussion

3:45 PM-5:30 PM: Wednesday, 10 January 2018

Formal Poster Viewing with Coffee Break

Location: Exhibit Hall 3 (ACC) (Austin, Texas)

Poster Session 3

Posters

Location: Exhibit Hall 3 (ACC) (Austin, Texas)

Host: 34th Conference on Environmental Information Processing Technologies

Cochairs: Kevin R. Tyle, SUNY; Scott S. Lindstrom, CIMSS/Univ. of Wisconsin

854

A Contemporary Approach to Streaming Weather Data to Better Support Nowcasting

James L. Carr, Carr Astronautics, Greenbelt, MD; and R. Horne and D. Dixon-Peugh

855

An Innovative System to Generate and Present GOES-16 Images over the Web

Lori K. Brown, IMSG, College Park, MD; and B. Keffer and M. Jochum

856

Comparisons of Solid-State C-Band vs. Klystron S-Band Weather Radar Observations over the Southeastern United States

Richard Stedronsky, Enterprise Electronics Corporation, Enterprise, AL; and Q. Cao

857

Development of Scanning Strategies to Meet Operational Needs of the Multimission Phased Array Radar

Andrew Mahre, Univ. of Oklahoma, Norman, OK; and T. Y. Yu and D. J. Bodine

858

Identifying User-Defined Weather Events of Significance through Data Mining

Paula McCaslin, NOAA, Boulder, CO; and T. J. LeFebvre

859

Operational MADIS (Meteorological Assimilation Data Ingest System) Current Functionality and Planned Enhancements

Greg Pratt, OAR, Boulder, CO; and L. A. Benjamin

860

Modeling Radar QPE Performance based on SENSR Network Design Possibilities

James M. Kurdzo, MIT Lincoln Laboratory, Lexington, MA; and J. Y. N. Cho and E. F. Clemons

861

Information Integration: A Tool for Visualizing and Integrating Cloud Properties, Satellite Imagery, Ground Site Observations, and Satellite Ground Tracks

Thad L. Chee, SSAI, Hampton, VA; and L. Nguyen, W. L. Smith Jr., D. A. Spangenberg, R. Palikonda, K. M. Bedka, P. Minnis, M. M. Thieman, and M. L. Nordeen

862

Towards a Cloud Computing Environment for Global Near Real-Time Satellite Cloud Processing for GMAO GEOS-5 Data Assimilation

Louis Nguyen, NASA, Hampton, VA; and T. L. Chee, R. Palikonda, W. L. Smith Jr., D. A. Spangenberg, K. M. Bedka, A. A. Vakhnin, and J. Walter

7:00 PM-9:00 PM: Wednesday, 10 January 2018

98th AMS Awards Banquet

Location: Ballroom D (ACC) (Austin, Texas)

Thursday, 11 January 2018

8:30 AM-9:30 AM: Thursday, 11 January 2018

Themed Joint Session 9

Communication of Next-Generation Satellite Information

Location: Room 17A (ACC) (Austin, Texas)

Hosts: (Joint between the 34th Conference on Environmental Information Processing Technologies; and the Sixth AMS Symposium on the Joint Center for Satellite Data Assimilation )

Chair: Randall Bass, FAA

8:30 AM

TJ9.1

NASA MSFC GOES-16 Receiving Station and Data Visualization

Kevin M. McGrath, NASA Short-Term Prediction Research and Transition Center, Huntsville, AL; and P. Meyer, G. Jedlovec, and E. Berndt

Recorded Presentation

8:45 AM

TJ9.2

Using the Satellite Information Familiarization Tool (SIFT) to Train on New Multi-Spectral Geostationary Satellite Sensors

Scott S. Lindstrom, CIMSS/Univ. of Wisconsin, Madison, WI; and J. J. Gerth, R. K. Garcia, and D. Hoese

Recorded Presentation

9:00 AM

TJ9.3

GOES-16 Image Service and Applications from NOAA

Daniel P. Pisut, IMSG, Silver Spring, MD; and T. Loomis and V. Goel

Recorded Presentation

9:15 AM

TJ9.4

On-Demand Analytics Products from GOES16 Data: An API to Deliver Webservices, Image Products, and Derivative Products

Amanda O'Connor, Harris Geospatial, Broomfield, CO; and W. Jiang

Recorded Presentation

Session 10

Radar Technologies and Applications, Part I

Location: Room 17B (ACC) (Austin, Texas)

Host: 34th Conference on Environmental Information Processing Technologies

Cochairs: Mark B. Yeary, Univ. of Oklahoma; Kurt D. Hondl, NOAA/NSSL; Michael J. Istok, NOAA/NWS

8:30 AM

10.1

NOAA's Spectrum Efficient National Surveillance Radar (SENSR) Research Program

Mark E. Weber, Cooperative Institute for Mesoscale Meteorological Studies, Norman, OK; and K. D. Hondl, M. J. Istok, and R. E. Saffle

Recorded Presentation

8:45 AM

10.2

Development of a Dual Polarization S-Band Phased Array Radar for Meteorological Research

Kurt D. Hondl, NOAA/NSSL, Norman, OK

Recorded Presentation

9:00 AM

10.3

Sensitivity of Calibration Parameters for Polarimetric Phased Array Weather Radar

Dusan S. Zrnic, NOAA/NSSL, Norman, OK; and D. Mirkovic

Recorded Presentation

9:15 AM

10.4

Raytheon X-Band Polarimetric Phased-Array Radar: Progress Update

David L. Pepyne, Univ. of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA; and E. J. Knapp, N. P. Miller, and M. D. Dubois

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

Exhibit Hall Breakfast

Location: Exhibit Hall 4 (ACC) (Austin, Texas)

10:30 AM-12:00 PM: Thursday, 11 January 2018

Session 11A

Adding Value to Weather and Water Forecasts through Communication via APIs and Web Services

Location: Room 17A (ACC) (Austin, Texas)

Host: 34th Conference on Environmental Information Processing Technologies

Cochairs: Larry E. Brazil, Riverside Technology, Inc.; George Smith, Riverside Technology, Inc.

10:30 AM

11A.1

VISITView: 20 Years of Forecaster Training and Counting

Tommy Jasmin, Univ. of Wisconsin, Madison, WI; and S. S. Lindstrom, S. Bachmeier, and T. Whittaker

Recorded Presentation

10:45 AM

11A.2

Reclamation Information Sharing Environment (RISE): Expanding Public and Private Sector Access to Reclamation's Water and Water-Related Data

Levi D. Brekke, U.S. Bureau of Reclamation, Denver, CO; and A. Danner, J. Nagode, J. Rocha, S. Poulton, and A. Anderson

Recorded Presentation

11:00 AM

11A.3

Communicating Integrated Flood Inundation Information to Emergency Managers/First Responders, Public Sector Decision-Makers, Information Outlets, Communities, Citizens, and Researchers to Increase the Value of Observed Data and Model Forecasts for Flooding Events

George Smith, Riverside Technology, Inc., Fort Collins, CO

Recorded Presentation

11:15 AM

Discussion

Session 11B

Radar Technologies and Applications, Part II

Location: Room 17B (ACC) (Austin, Texas)

Host: 34th Conference on Environmental Information Processing Technologies

Cochairs: Mark B. Yeary, Univ. of Oklahoma; Kurt D. Hondl, NOAA/NSSL; Michael J. Istok, NOAA/NWS

10:30 AM

11B.1

Using Polarimetric Radar Data to Identify Potentially Hazardous Hail Accumulations

Aaron Ward, NWSFO, Amarillo, TX; and M. Kumjian, M. J. Bunkers, S. W. Bieda III, and R. J. Simpson

Recorded Presentation

10:45 AM

11B.2

A New Inanimate Class for the WSR-88D Hydrometeor Classification Algorithm

James M. Kurdzo, MIT Lincoln Laboratory, Lexington, MA; and B. J. Bennett, D. J. Smalley, E. R. Williams, and M. F. Donovan

Recorded Presentation

11:00 AM

11B.3

Toward a Radar-Based Surface Probabilistic Rain and Snow Segregation

Pauline Marcelline Jaunet, Meteo-France, Toulouse, France; and P. E. Kirstetter and J. J. Gourley

Recorded Presentation

11:15 AM

11B.4

Improving the Detection Probability of Low Clutter-to-Signal Ratio Ground Clutter Contamination in the WSR-88D

Scott Ellis, NCAR, Boulder, CO; and G. Meymaris, J. C. Hubbert, M. J. Dixon, G. T. McGehee, J. C. Krause, and R. L. Ice

Recorded Presentation Manuscript (7.5 MB)

11:30 AM

11B.5

Monitoring Radar Calibration Using Ground Clutter

Valery Melnikov, CIMMS/Univ. of Oklahoma, Norman, OK; and D. Zrnic, A. D. Free, R. Ice, and R. W. Macemon

Recorded Presentation

Handout (1.1 MB)

11:45 AM

11B.6

Differential Reflectivity Bias and Antenna Temperature

J. C. Hubbert, NCAR, Boulder, CO; and S. Ellis and M. Dixon

Recorded Presentation Manuscript (4.8 MB)

12:00 PM-1:30 PM: Thursday, 11 January 2018

David J. Raymond Symposium Luncheon

Location: Ballroom A (ACC) (Austin, Texas)

Lunch Break

1:30 PM-2:30 PM: Thursday, 11 January 2018

Lecture 3

Walter Orr Roberts Lecture

Location: Room 16AB (ACC) (Austin, Texas)

1:30 PM

L3.1

New Perspectives on the Role of Internal Variability in Regional Climate Change and Climate Model Evaluation (Invited Presentation)

Clara Deser, NCAR, Boulder, CO

Recorded Presentation

1:30 PM-3:00 PM: Thursday, 11 January 2018

Session 12

Radar Technologies and Applications, Part III

Location: Room 17B (ACC) (Austin, Texas)

Host: 34th Conference on Environmental Information Processing Technologies

Cochairs: Mark B. Yeary, Univ. of Oklahoma; Kurt D. Hondl, NOAA/NSSL; Michael J. Istok, NOAA/NWS

1:30 PM

12.1

Evaluation of NOAA/NSSL Multi-Radar Multi-Sensor Radar Echo Top Heights with the GPM Dual-Frequency Radar

Marc Mandement, CNRM, Toulouse Cedex 1, France; and P. E. Kirstetter, H. D. Reeves, J. J. Gourley, and D. M. Kingfield

Recorded Presentation

1:45 PM

12.2

Using Simulated Radar Data to Determine the Effects of Volume Coverage Patterns on MRMS Products

Anthony E. Reinhart, Univ. of Oklahoma/CIMMS & NOAA/OAR/NSSL, Norman, OK; and D. M. Kingfield, K. L. Ortega, and T. Smith

Recorded Presentation

2:00 PM

12.3

Simulated Radar Observations from WRF Simulations of Tornadic Supercells on 20 May 2013 and 31 May 2013

David J. Bodine, Univ. of Oklahoma, Norman, OK; and C. B. Griffin and K. L. Rasmussen

Recorded Presentation

2:15 PM

12.4

Analysis of the 16 May 2015 Tipton, Oklahoma, EF-3 Tornado at High Spatiotemporal Resolution Using the Atmospheric Imaging Radar

Andrew Mahre, Univ. of Oklahoma, Norman, OK; and J. M. Kurdzo, D. J. Bodine, C. B. Griffin, R. D. Palmer, and T. Y. Yu

Recorded Presentation

2:30 PM

12.5

High-Temporal Resolution Observations of the 27 May 2015 Canadian, Texas, Tornado Using the Atmospheric Imaging Radar

Casey B. Griffin, Univ. of Oklahoma, Norman, OK; and D. J. Bodine, J. M. Kurdzo, A. Mahre, and R. D. Palmer

Recorded Presentation

2:45 PM

12.6

Utilizing the Divergent Component of Doppler Velocity Shear to Examine Tornadic Supercells

Matthew C. Mahalik, CIMMS/Univ. of Oklahoma and NOAA/OAR/NSSL, Norman, OK; and K. L. Elmore

Recorded Presentation

3:00 PM-3:30 PM: Thursday, 11 January 2018

Coffee Break

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Sunday, 7 January 2018

12:00 PM-4:00 PM: Sunday, 7 January 2018

WeatherFest

Location: Exhibit Hall 1 (ACC) (Austin, Texas)

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

PL 1

Plenary Session 18th Presidential Forum: Transforming Communication in the Weather, Water, and Climate Enterprise—Focusing on Challenges Facing Our Sciences

Location: Ballroom D (ACC) (Austin, Texas)

Monday, 8 January 2018

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

PL 2

Plenary Session Welcoming Address

Location: Austin, Texas

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

Quasi-Operational Products You Can Use Now, Part I

Location: Room 17A (ACC) (Austin, Texas)

This session aims to bring attention to those applications, technologies, or techniques that are well advanced with respect to the Technology Readiness Level continuum.

Services Update

Location: Room 10AB (ACC) (Austin, Texas)

This session allows agencies with weather-related activities and missions to present the current state of their operations and development.

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

Coffee Break

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

Quasi-Operational Products You Can Use Now, Part II

Location: Room 17A (ACC) (Austin, Texas)

This session aims to bring attention to those applications, technologies, or techniques that are well advanced with respect to the Technology Readiness Level continuum.

Disseminating Earth Science and Climate Information for Better Decision Making, Part I

Location: Room 10AB (ACC) (Austin, Texas)

The presentations in this session discuss technologies used for distributing and communicating Earth science and climate products for supporting decision makers.

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

Lunch Break

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

L 1

Lecture 2018 Haurwitz Lecture

Location: Salon K (Hilton) (Austin, Texas)

2018 Haurwitz Lecture

2:00 PM-4:15 PM: Monday, 8 January 2018

International Applications: Making Environmental Hazard Science Useful, Usable, and Used

Location: Room 17A (ACC) (Austin, Texas)

Ensuring that environmental hazard impact information is based on the best science and is available and of value to those that need it is fundamentally important if societies are to be able to plan, prepare, respond, and recover from such disasters. This session welcomes presentations on how scientifically based environmental hazard information can be made useful, usable, and used.

Disseminating Earth Science and Climate Information for Better Decision Making, Part II

Location: Room 10AB (ACC) (Austin, Texas)

The presentations in this session discuss technologies used for distributing and communicating Earth science and climate products for supporting decision makers.

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

Formal Poster Viewing with Coffee Break

Location: Exhibit Hall 3 (ACC) (Austin, Texas)

P 1

Poster Session Posters

Location: Exhibit Hall 3 (ACC) (Austin, Texas)

Poster Submissions from All Topic Areas

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)

The Robert T. Ryan Symposium will conclude with a cocktail reception welcoming symposium attendees, along with Bob's numerous colleagues and former interns from across the weather enterprise. With a short program hosted by symposium co-chair and AMS Fellow Veronica Johnson of WJLA in Washington, D.C., this casual event will honor Bob for his distinguished career, achievements, and contributions to the American Meteorological Society.

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

Fourth Annual Speed Networking Event for Students and Early Career Professionals

Location: Ballroom A (ACC) (Austin, Texas)

The Speed Networking Event allows students and early professionals to network with mentors via ‘speed networking’, similar to ‘speed dating’, where the mentors (meteorology professionals) roam between tables at set intervals introducing the students and early professionals to a wide array of professions in the field of meteorology. The speed networking will be followed by a social with light hors d'oeuvres, proving a great time for open networking. This allows the students and the mentors of their selected discipline to have extended conversations after their speed-mentoring introductions.For additional information, please contact Elizabeth Nolan elizabeth.nolan@noaa.gov

Tuesday, 9 January 2018

8:30 AM-10:00 AM: Tuesday, 9 January 2018

TJ 1

Themed Joint Session Development and Communication of High-Resolution, Ensemble Forecast Information for Forecasting Extreme Weather

Location: Room 5ABC (ACC) (Austin, Texas)

Data in, Information Out: Crowdsourcing and Other Tools for Data Gathering

Location: Room 17A (ACC) (Austin, Texas)

This session explores crowdsourcing and related technologies for collecting and communicating climate, weather, and hydrological data sets.

Weather and Roads—from Observations to Actionable Information, Part I

Location: Room 10AB (ACC) (Austin, Texas)

This session explores the needs and uses of weather and road weather observations and how these observations can improve communication to the commuting or traveling public, as well as those who operate and maintain the transportation system.

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

Coffee . Break

10:30 AM-12:00 PM: Tuesday, 9 January 2018

Software Engineering and Cyberinfrastructure

Location: Room 17A (ACC) (Austin, Texas)

Presentations in this session will explore general software engineering best practices and technologies behind successful cyberinfrastructure implementations.

Weather and Roads—from Observations to Actionable Information, Part II

Location: Room 10AB (ACC) (Austin, Texas)

1:30 PM-3:45 PM: Tuesday, 9 January 2018

Visualization Techniques for Climatology and Meteorology

Location: Room 17A (ACC) (Austin, Texas)

For this session, we welcome contributions from research fields such as scientific visualization, information visualization, or visual analytics that are applicable to data sets from climatology, meteorology, or related disciplines.

Cloud Computing

Location: Room 10AB (ACC) (Austin, Texas)

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

Formal Poster Viewing with Coffee Break

Location: Exhibit Hall 3 (ACC) (Austin, Texas)

We encourage all attendees to take the opportunity to grab a snack and coffee and spend this extended afternoon break networking with colleagues and viewing the hundreds of posters on display in the poster hall. Poster displays are grouped by conference and change each day.

P 2

Poster Session Posters

Location: Exhibit Hall 3 (ACC) (Austin, Texas)

Poster Submissions from All Topic Areas

6:30 PM-8:30 PM: Tuesday, 9 January 2018

Peter J. Webster Symposium Banquet

Location: Ballroom A (ACC) (Austin, Texas)

Wednesday, 10 January 2018

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

AWIPS System Updates, Part I

Location: Room 17A (ACC) (Austin, Texas)

This session comprises oral presentations on the status of National WeatherService AWIPS II development, implementation, and use.

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

Coffee Break

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

AWIPS System Updates, Part II

Location: Room 17A (ACC) (Austin, Texas)

AWIPS

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

Lunch Break

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

L 2

Lecture 2018 Horton Lecture

Location: Room 18A (ACC) (Austin, Texas)

1:30 PM-3:45 PM: Wednesday, 10 January 2018

Mapping and GIS for Weather and Climate

Location: Room 17A (ACC) (Austin, Texas)

This session covers concepts and practices of mapping, modeling, and integrating atmospheric, hydrologic, and climatic data with GIS and related technologies, demonstrating the relevance of GIS to weather, hydrologic, and climate services.

3:45 PM-5:30 PM: Wednesday, 10 January 2018

Formal Poster Viewing with Coffee Break

Location: Exhibit Hall 3 (ACC) (Austin, Texas)

P 3

Poster Session Posters

Location: Exhibit Hall 3 (ACC) (Austin, Texas)

Poster Submissions from All Topic Areas

7:00 PM-9:00 PM: Wednesday, 10 January 2018

98th AMS Awards Banquet

Location: Ballroom D (ACC) (Austin, Texas)

Thursday, 11 January 2018

8:30 AM-9:30 AM: Thursday, 11 January 2018

TJ 9

Themed Joint Session Communication of Next-Generation Satellite Information

Location: Room 17A (ACC) (Austin, Texas)

Radar Technologies and Applications, Part I

Location: Room 17B (ACC) (Austin, Texas)

These sessions are devoted to current and next generation weather radars, with emphasis on radar meteorology science, weather radar applications, weather radar signal processing, weather radar prototype developments, and experimental weather radar data collections.

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

Exhibit Hall Breakfast

Location: Exhibit Hall 4 (ACC) (Austin, Texas)

10:30 AM-12:00 PM: Thursday, 11 January 2018

11A

Adding Value to Weather and Water Forecasts through Communication via APIs and Web Services

Location: Room 17A (ACC) (Austin, Texas)

This session will explore the business and user-centric APIs and web services associated with scientific inquiry, technological advances, societal implications, infrastructure planning, and public safety and awareness. This session will allow speakers to present user communication needs, potential APIs, and integrated decision support tools across the hydro-meteorological enterprise.

11B

Radar Technologies and Applications, Part II

Location: Room 17B (ACC) (Austin, Texas)