Session: <span>Disseminating Earth Science and Climate Information for Better Decision Making, Part</span> II (98th American Meteorological Society Annual Meeting)

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

Room 10AB (ACC) (Austin, Texas)

Host: 34th Conference on Environmental Information Processing Technologies

Cochairs:

Eugene Burger, NOAA/ERL/PMEL, NOAA Pmel, Seattle, WA; Tiffany C. Vance, NOAA, NOS/IOOS, Silver Spring, MD and Alex Coletti, SM Resources Corp., Ashburn, VA

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

Papers:

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