98th American Meteorological Society Annual Meeting

Registration for Short Courses and Student Conference

Location: Atrium Lobby (Austin, Texas)

Student Conference Breakfast

Location: EFG Foyer (ACC) (Austin, Texas)

Session 1

Welcoming Remarks

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

Host: 17th Annual Student Conference

9:00 AM

Welcome from the Student Conference Planning Commitee

Aryeh J. Drager, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO; and S. M. Hitchcock and E. R. Nielsen

Recorded Presentation

9:20 AM

Welcome from AMS Acting President

Roger Wakimoto, Univ. of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA

Recorded Presentation

9:35 AM

Address from the Edward Lorenz Teaching Excellence Award Winner

Susan van den Heever, Colorado State Univ., Fort Collins, CO

Recorded Presentation

9:50 AM

Usable Science: Connecting science to action

Susan K. Avery, CIRES/Univ. of Colorado, Boulder, CO

Recorded Presentation

Student Conference AM Break

Location: EFG Foyer (ACC) (Austin, Texas)

Session 2A

Breakout Panel Session: Public Sector

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

Host: 17th Annual Student Conference

Chair: Kristy C. Carter, Iowa State University

Speakers: Charlie Woodrum, NWS; Daniel Nietfeld, NOAA/OAR/ESRL; Pamela L. Heinselman, NOAA/NSSL; Nicholas L. Hampshire, NOAA/NWS; Katherine Ertell, FEMA

10:25 AM

2A - Breakout Panel Session: Public Sector

Session 2B

Breakout Panel Session: Media

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

Host: 17th Annual Student Conference

Chair: Matthew D. Flournoy, Univ. of Oklahoma

Speakers: Keli Pirtle, NOAA; Mariel Ruiz, THV11; Robert Henson, Weather Underground; Janice Huff, WNBC

10:25 AM

2B - Breakout Panel Session: Media

Session 2C

Breakout Panel Session: Academia and Research

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

Host: 17th Annual Student Conference

Chair: Aaron Alexander, University of California

Speakers: Vernon Morris, Howard University; Robin Tanamachi, Purdue Univ.; Courtney Schumacher, Texas A&M Univ.; Julio T. Bacmeister, NCAR; David D. Turner, NOAA/ESRL

10:25 AM

2C - Breakout Panel Session: Academia and Research

Recorded Presentation

Session 2D

Breakout Panel Session: Private Sector

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

Host: 17th Annual Student Conference

Chair: Ajay Raghavendra, University at Albany, State University of New York

Speakers: Sara Tucker, Ball Aerospace and Technologies Corporation; B. David Dillahunt, Southwest Airlines Co.; Anthony R. Lupo, Univ. of Missouri; Rebecca DePodwin, Accu Weather; Andrew Murray, OpenSnow

10:25 AM

2D - Breakout Panel Session: Private Sector

Session 3A

Breakout Panel Session: Public Sector

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

Host: 17th Annual Student Conference

Chair: Kristy C. Carter, Iowa State University

Speakers: Charlie Woodrum, NWS; Daniel Nietfeld, NOAA/OAR/ESRL; Nicholas L. Hampshire, NOAA/NWS; Pamela L. Heinselman, NOAA/NSSL; Katherine Ertell, FEMA

11:15 AM

3A - Breakout Panel Session: Public Sector

Session 3B

Breakout Panel Session: Media

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

Host: 17th Annual Student Conference

Chair: Matthew D. Flournoy, Univ. of Oklahoma

Speakers: Keli Pirtle, NOAA; Mariel Ruiz, THV11; Robert Henson, Weather Underground; Janice Huff, WNBC

11:15 AM

3B - Breakout Panel Session: Media

Recorded Presentation

Session 3C

Breakout Panel Session: Academia and Research

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

Host: 17th Annual Student Conference

Chair: Aaron Alexander, Univ. of California

Speakers: Vernon Morris, Howard University; Courtney Schumacher, Texas A&M Univ.; Robin Tanamachi, Purdue Univ.; Julio T. Bacmeister, NCAR; David D. Turner, NOAA/ESRL

11:15 AM

3C - Breakout Panel Session: Academia and Research

Recorded Presentation

Session 3D

Breakout Panel Session: Private Sector

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

Host: 17th Annual Student Conference

Chair: Ajay Raghavendra, University at Albany, State University of New York

Speakers: Sara Tucker, Ball Aerospace and Technologies Corporation; B. David Dillahunt, Southwest Airlines Co.; Anthony R. Lupo, Univ. of Missouri; Rebecca DePodwin, Accu Weather; Andrew Murray, OpenSnow

11:15 AM

3D - Breakout Panel Session: Private Sector

Student Conference Luncheon

Location: Exhibit Hall 5 (ACC) (Austin, Texas)

Session 4

Introduction to Conversations with Professionals

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

Host: 17th Annual Student Conference

Cochairs: Gaige Hunter Kerr, Johns Hopkins Univ.; Minh Duc Phan, East Carolina Univ.

1:00 PM

Introduction to Conversations with Professionals

Recorded Presentation

Session 5A

Conversations with Professionals

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

Host: 17th Annual Student Conference

Cochairs: Gaige Hunter Kerr, Johns Hopkins Univ.; Minh Duc Phan, East Carolina Univ.

Speaker: Stephen Bennett, Riskpulse

1:35 PM

5A - Conversations with Professionals

Session 5B

Conversations with Professionals

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

Host: 17th Annual Student Conference

Chair: Minh Duc Phan, East Carolina Univ.

CoChair: Gaige Hunter Kerr, Johns Hopkins Univ.

Speaker: Jamison Hawkins, Lockheed Martin

1:35 PM

5B - Conversations with Professionals

Session 5C

Conversations with Professionals

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

Host: 17th Annual Student Conference

Cochairs: Gaige Hunter Kerr, Johns Hopkins Univ.; Minh Duc Phan, East Carolina Univ.

Speaker: Cesunica Ivey, Univ. of Nevada

1:35 PM

5C - Conversations with Professionals

Session 5D

Conversations with Professionals

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

Host: 17th Annual Student Conference

Cochairs: Gaige Hunter Kerr, Johns Hopkins Univ.; Minh Duc Phan, East Carolina Univ.

Speaker: Karen Kosiba, Center for Severe Weather Research

1:35 PM

5D - Conversations with Professionals

Session 5E

Conversations with Professionals

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

Host: 17th Annual Student Conference

Cochairs: Gaige Hunter Kerr, Johns Hopkins Univ.; Minh Duc Phan, East Carolina Univ.

Speaker: Michael C. Morgan, University of Wisconsin

1:35 PM

5E - Conversations with Professionals

Session 5F

Conversations with Professionals

Location: Room 19AB (ACC) (Austin, Texas)

Host: 17th Annual Student Conference

Cochairs: Gaige Hunter Kerr, Johns Hopkins Univ.; Minh Duc Phan, East Carolina Univ.

Speaker: Andrew T. Pirring, INNOVIM, LLC

1:35 PM

5F - Conversations with Professionals

Session 5G

Conversations with Professionals

Location: Room 12A (ACC) (Austin, Texas)

Host: 17th Annual Student Conference

Cochairs: Gaige Hunter Kerr, Johns Hopkins Univ.; Minh Duc Phan, East Carolina Univ.

Speaker: Alan Sealls, President, National Weather Association, WKRG-TV

1:35 PM

5G - Conversations with Professionals

Session 5H

Conversations with Professionals

Location: Room 12B (ACC) (Austin, Texas)

Host: 17th Annual Student Conference

Cochairs: Gaige Hunter Kerr, Johns Hopkins Univ.; Minh Duc Phan, East Carolina Univ.

Speaker: Robert Tournay, 16th Weather Squadron

1:35 PM

5H - Conversations with Professionals

Session 5I

Conversation with Professionals

Location: Room 13AB (ACC) (Austin, Texas)

Host: 17th Annual Student Conference

Cochairs: Gaige Hunter Kerr, Johns Hopkins Univ.; Minh Duc Phan, East Carolina Univ.

Speaker: Kevin W. Van Leer, Risk Management Solutions, Inc

1:35 PM

5I - Conversation with Professionals

Session 5J

Conversations with Professionals

Location: Room 14 (ACC) (Austin, Texas)

Host: 17th Annual Student Conference

Cochairs: Gaige Hunter Kerr, Johns Hopkins Univ.; Minh Duc Phan, East Carolina Univ.

Speaker: Andrea Bleistein, NOAA/NWS

1:35 PM

5J - Conversations with Professionals

Session 5K

Conversations with Professionals

Location: Room 15 (ACC) (Austin, Texas)

Host: 17th Annual Student Conference

Cochairs: Gaige Hunter Kerr, Johns Hopkins Univ.; Minh Duc Phan, East Carolina Univ.

Speaker: Danielle Wood, MIT

1:35 PM

5K - Conversations with Professionals

Session 6A

Graduate Student Panel (Rotations 1,2)

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

Host: 17th Annual Student Conference

Speakers: Sean W. Freeman, Colorado State Univ.; Nicholas S. Grondin, Louisiana State Univ.; Makenzie Krocak, Cooperative Institute for Mesoscale Meteorological Studies

1:35 PM

Graduate Student Panel (Rotations 1,2)

Session 6B

Graduate Student Panel (Rotations 3,4,5)

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

Host: 17th Annual Student Conference

Speakers: Ajay Raghavendra, University at Albany, State University of New York; Zoey Rosen, Colorado State University; Kristy C. Carter, Iowa State University; Aaron K. Scott, University of North Dakota

1:35 PM

Graduate Student Panel (Rotations 3,4,5)

Session 7

Graduate School Admissions Panel

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

Host: 17th Annual Student Conference

Speakers: Sharan Majumdar, Univ. of Miami/RSMAS; Jeffrey L Collett Jr., Colorado State University; Christie Upchurch, University of Oklahoma

1:35 PM

Graduate School Admissions Panel

Student Conference PM Break

Location: EFG Foyer (ACC) (Austin, Texas)

Session 8A

Integrated Warning Team I: Introduction to Emergency Management (Part 1)

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

Host: 17th Annual Student Conference

Chair: W. Massey Bartolini, Univ. at Albany, SUNY

Speakers: Tanja E. Fransen, NOAA/NWS; Eric Frank, Clark Regional Emergency Services Agency; Nate Johnson, NBC Owned Television Stations Group; Kevin Kloesel, University of Oklahoma

4:00 PM

Integrated Warning Team I: Introduction to Emergency Management (Part 1)

4:15 PM

Concluding Remarks

Recorded Presentation

Session 8B

Resume Workshop, Part I

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

Host: 17th Annual Student Conference

Chair: Elizabeth Lennartson, University of Iowa

Speakers: Kerry Kidwell-Slak, Society of Physics Students; Cesunica Ivey, Univ. of Nevada; Richard Smith, NOAA/NWS; Stephen Bennett, Riskpulse; Tim Ryan, KVUE

4:00 PM

Resume Workshop, Part I

Recorded Presentation

AMS Career Fair

Location: Exhibit Hall 5 (ACC) (Austin, Texas)

Scout Event

Location: Room 4ABC (ACC) (Austin, Texas)

AMS Information Desk

Location: Austin, Texas

Registration

Location: Atrium Lobby (Austin, Texas)

Student Conference Breakfast

Location: EFG Foyer (ACC) (Austin, Texas)

Meet President Roger M. Wakimoto and Presidential Forum Speaker Richard Alley

Location: EFG Foyer (ACC) (Austin, Texas)

Session 9

Extreme Weather Events

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

Host: 17th Annual Student Conference

Chair: Aaron K. Scott, University of North Dakota

9:00 AM

Messaging Challenges with Harvey: Forecasting a Prolonged Record Event

Daniel Reilly, NWS, Dickinson, TX

Recorded Presentation

9:15 AM

Atmospheric Rivers and their Influence on US Precipitation Extremes

Jason Cordeira, Plymouth State University, Plymouth, NH

Recorded Presentation

Session 1

Welcome and Networking with Your Peers

Location: Room 12A (ACC) (Austin, Texas)

Host: Sixth AMS Conference for Early Career Professionals

Cochairs: Christopher J. Schultz, NASA MSFC; Irene Sans, WFTV/ClimaData

Student Conference AM Break 1

Session 10A

Navigating Graduate School

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

Host: 17th Annual Student Conference

9:45 AM

Living the Simple Life: The Career-Life Balance

Dana Veron, Univ. of Delaware, Newark, DE

Recorded Presentation

10:00 AM

A Fork in the Graduate School Road: MS or PhD?

David J. Stensrud, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA

Recorded Presentation

10:15 AM

Perspective on Finding Graduate School Funding

Kristen Lani Rasmussen, Colorado State Univ, Fort Collins, CO

Recorded Presentation

10:30 AM

Q&A

Session 10B

Building Professional Relationships

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

Host: 17th Annual Student Conference

9:45 AM

Shhh, Quiet: An Introvert's Guide to Networking

Lorena Medina Luna, NCAR, Boulder, CO

10:00 AM

Going Beyond Just Being 'Social' in the Era of Social Media

Jamie Rhome, NOAA/NHC, Miami, FL

Recorded Presentation

10:15 AM

Getting The Mentor and Mentoring That You Want

Melissa Burt, Colorado State Univ., Fort Collins, CA

Recorded Presentation

10:30 AM

Q & A

Joint Session 1

Essential Skills for Effective Science Communication

Location: Room 12A (ACC) (Austin, Texas)

Hosts: (Joint between the 17th Annual Student Conference; and the Sixth AMS Conference for Early Career Professionals )

Cochairs: Cody Kirkpatrick, Indiana University; Ryan J. Kramer, University of Miami

9:45 AM

Introductory Remarks with Co-Chairs

Cody Kirkpatrick, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN; and R. J. Kramer

Recorded Presentation

9:50 AM

Keynote Address

Kerry H. Cook, The Univ. of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX

Recorded Presentation

Joint Session 2A

Presentation Styles for All Situations

Location: Room 12A (ACC) (Austin, Texas)

Hosts: (Joint between the 17th Annual Student Conference; and the Sixth AMS Conference for Early Career Professionals )

Speaker: Betsy Weatherhead, University of Colorado, Boulder

Joint Session 2B

The Choices One Must Make When Writing Effectively

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

Hosts: (Joint between the 17th Annual Student Conference; and the Sixth AMS Conference for Early Career Professionals )

Speaker: Michael Ventrice, The Weather Company/IBM

Joint Session 2C

You've Got an Audience, Now Keep Your Audience!

Location: Room 19AB (ACC) (Austin, Texas)

Hosts: (Joint between the 17th Annual Student Conference; and the Sixth AMS Conference for Early Career Professionals )

Speaker: James Caron, Macquarie Group, Sugarland, TX

Student Conference AM Break 2

Session 11A

Tools of the Trade

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

Host: 17th Annual Student Conference

Cochairs: Sean W. Freeman, Colorado State Univ.; C. Todd Rhodes, Coastal Carolina Univ.

10:50 AM

Session Introduction

Sean W. Freeman, Colorado State Univ., Fort Collins, CO; and C. T. Rhodes

Recorded Presentation

10:52 AM

Python

Brian E. J. Rose, SUNY, Albany, NY

Recorded Presentation

11:00 AM

Matlab

James M. Kurdzo, MIT Lincoln Laboratory, Lexington, MA

Recorded Presentation

11:08 AM

GIS

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

Recorded Presentation

11:16 AM

Web Development

Lori K. Brown, IMSG, College Park, MD

Recorded Presentation

11:24 AM

WRF

Simona Seastrand, PEMDAS Technologies and Innovations, Inc., Fairfax Station, VA

Recorded Presentation

11:32 AM

NCL

William Capehart, South Dakota School of Mines and Technology, Rapid City, SD

Recorded Presentation

11:40 AM

Q &A

Recorded Presentation

Session 11B

Social Media and Communication

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

Host: 17th Annual Student Conference

Chair: Makenzie Krocak, Cooperative Institute for Mesoscale Meteorological Studies

Speakers: Ed Maibach, George Mason Univ.; Jeannette Sutton, Univ. of Kentucky; Keli Pirtle, NOAA; Richard Smith, NOAA/NWS

Student Conference AM Break 3

Conference for Early Career Professionals Lunch Break (On Your Own)

Session 12

Keynote Speaker

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

Host: 17th Annual Student Conference

Chair: Erik R. Nielsen, Colorado State Univ.

Speaker: Katharine Hayhoe, Texas Tech Univ.

Speaker Ready Room

Location: Room 11AB (ACC) (Austin, Texas)

WeatherFest

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

Session

Closing Remarks and Poster Session Announcements

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

Host: 17th Annual Student Conference

Student Conference Lunch Break (On Your Own)

Session 3

Panel Discussion: Implicit Bias in the Sciences: Communication Strategies

Location: Room 12A (ACC) (Austin, Texas)

Host: Sixth AMS Conference for Early Career Professionals

Chair: Matt Rogers, Commodity Weather Group, LLC

Panelists: Lawrence Locker, Commodity Weather Group, LLC; Karen Naufel, Commodity Weather Group, LLC; Joy Losee, University of Florida; Gregory Webster, University of Florida

Session 4

Conflict Resolution In the Workplace

Location: Room 12A (ACC) (Austin, Texas)

Host: Sixth AMS Conference for Early Career Professionals

Chair: Matthew E. Anderson, NOAA/NWS

Facilitators: Kim J. Runk, NOAA/NWS Operations Proving Ground; Susan A. Jasko, California University of Pennsylvania

Session 5

Panel Discussion: Future State of Jobs in the Sciences

Location: Room 12A (ACC) (Austin, Texas)

Host: Sixth AMS Conference for Early Career Professionals

Chair: Bradford Johnson, The Univ. of Georgia

Moderator: Marshall Shepherd, Univ. of Georgia

Panelists: Andrea Bleistein, NOAA/NWS; Matt Lanza, Cheniere Energy; Kerrin A. Jeromin, WPEC-TV CBS12; Elisabeth A. Cohen, NOAA/Boulder Labs and Operations

Session 13A

Integrated Warning Team II: In Their Rainboots Workshop

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

Host: 17th Annual Student Conference

Chair: W. Massey Bartolini, Univ. at Albany, SUNY

Session 13B

Resume Workshop II: Resume and CV Review

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

Host: 17th Annual Student Conference

Chair: Elizabeth Lennartson, University of Iowa

Session 13C

Broadcast Tape Swap

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

Host: 17th Annual Student Conference

Cochairs: C. Todd Rhodes, Coastal Carolina Univ.; Nicholas S. Grondin, Louisiana State Univ.

Panelists: Janice Huff, WNBC; Mariel Ruiz, THV11; Alan Sealls, President, National Weather Association, WKRG-TV

Session 13D

Writing Workshop

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

Host: 17th Annual Student Conference

Chair: Zoey Rosen, Colorado State University

Speakers: Alex Garcia, KABB-TV; H. Michael Mogil, How The Weatherworks; Matthew Bolton, How The Weatherworks; Margaret Benner, Weatherwise Magazine; Jeff Rosenfeld, American Meteorological Society

Newcomer's Welcome and Informational Exchange

Location: Room 19AB (ACC) (Austin, Texas)

Session 6

Presidential Coffee Break and Networking with AMS Professionals

Location: Room 12A (ACC) (Austin, Texas)

Host: Sixth AMS Conference for Early Career Professionals

Cochairs: Christopher J. Schultz, NASA MSFC; Matt Rogers, Commodity Weather Group, LLC

Keynote: Roger, M. Wakimoto, University of California, Los Angeles

- Dr. Roger Wakimoto AMS President

Recorded Presentation

- Steve Root - President AWCIA

Presidential Forum

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

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

98th Annual Review, New Fellows, Featured Awards and Business Meeting

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

AMS Career Fair

Location: Exhibit Hall 5 (ACC) (Austin, Texas)

Student Conference Poster Session

Location: Exhibit Hall 5 (ACC) (Austin, Texas)

Poster Session

Atmospheric Chemistry, Aerosols, and Air Quality

Location: Exhibit Hall 5 (ACC) (Austin, Texas)

Host: 17th Annual Student Conference

S1

Assessing Spatiotemporal Variability in NO₂ and O₃ Along the Korean Peninsula Using Remote Sensing and Ground-Based Observations

Chi Yan Rachel Li, New York City College of Technology, Brooklyn, NY; and O. Parker and M. Tzortziou

S2

Investigations into Ozone Concentrations Via Mobile Measurements during High Ozone Events As a Part of the 2017 Lake Michigan Ozone Study

Kyle Geib, University of Wisconsin, Eau Claire, WI; and M. McIlquham, M. Sanchez, M. Dai, W. Blouin, and P. Cleary

S3

Preliminary AERI Data Analysis for Lake Michigan Ozone Study

Jack Bruno, Space Science Engineering Center, Madison, WI

S4

Validation of Ozonesondes in the 2017 El Paso Ozone Transport Field Study and the San Antonio Field Study

Ana Quevedo, Saint Edwards Univ., Austin, TX; and D. DuBois, J. H. Flynn III, A. Kotsakis, M. Medina, G. A. Morris, M. Spychala, C. Valles, and P. J. Walter

S5

Investigating Elevated Concentrations of Dimethyl Sulfide in the Coachella Valley

Charley Fite, University of North Carolina, Charlotte, NC; and S. Hughes and D. R. Blake

S6

Odor and Emissions Analysis of Air from Marijuana Growing Facilities

Riley E Lewis, New College of Florida, Sarasota, FL; and B. T. Jobson and M. Wen

S7

An Evaluation of Aerosol Optical Depth Using Stellar Photometry.

Megan Rennie, University of Nevada, Reno, NV; and W. P. Arnott

S8

The Role of Deep Convection in Assessing the Vertical Transport of CO2 in Mesoscale Models

Tyler Leicht, Cornell Univ., Ithaca, NY; and S. Feng and T. Lauvaux

S9

Weather and Air Quality Forecasts and Observations for the OWLETS Campaign

Lindsey Rodio, NASA/LaRC, Hampton, VA; and M. Pippin, T. Berkoff, E. Gargulinski, P. Sanchez, J. Schroeder, B. Farris, T. Knepp, and J. Madigan

S10

Evaluation of AIRPACT Air Quality Forecasts Against Ground-based Remote Sensing Observations

John M Perkins IV, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ; and Y. Lee

S11

Formaldehyde as an Air Toxic: Indoor and Outdoor Exposure and Risk

Allison Eames, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC; and M. Wen, Y. Huangfu, and T. B. Jobson

S12

Frequency and Characteristics of Volcanic Ash Resuspension and Dust Events in Iceland

Mary K. Butwin, University of Iceland, Reykjavik, Iceland; and S. von Löwis, M. A. Pfeffer, and Þ. Þorsteinsson

S13

Raman Microspectroscopy: Surveying Phytoplankton Bloom Emissions and Their Effect on Seeding Clouds

Kiana McFadden, Jackson State University, Jackson, MS; and J. A. Mirrielees, E. Wilbourn, A. Whitesell, D. C. O. Thornton, and S. Brooks

S14

A Closer Look at the Abundance of Oxygenated VOCs in the Colorado Front Range during Spring and Summer 2015

Daniel Rodriguez, Colorado College, Colorado Springs, CO; and A. Abeleira, J. Lindaas, I. Pollack, D. K. Farmer, L. Gratz, and E. V. Fischer

S15

Mean Streets: An Analysis on Street Level Pollution in NYC

Granville Parker, NSF, Brooklyn, NY

S16

Do Synoptic Weather Patterns Have an Effect on Boundary Layer Depths?

Kylie T. Hoffman, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC; and S. Pal, K. J. Davis, and R. M. Pauly

S17

Emissions of Water Vapor from Indianapolis and Washington, D.C. in Winter

Kristan Morgan, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN; and O. Salmon, P. B. Shepson, X. Ren, A. B. Marquardt Collow, M. A. Miller, A. G. Carlton, M. O. L. Cambaliza, A. Heimburger, J. D. Fuentes, B. H. Stirm, R. Grundman II, and R. R. Dickerson

S18

Synoptical Analysis of Aerosols from Biomass Burning and their Impacts on Severe Hail Events in the Contiguous United States

Joseph E. Trujillo, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX; and S. E. Truesdale

S19

The Linkage of Atmospheric Rivers and Air Quality over Northern California

Monica Lynn Fox, San Jose State University, San Jose, CA; and J. M. Ryoo and S. Chiao

S20

Connection between Upstream Atmosphere and Cloud Formation at Whiteface Mountain

Matthew J Brewer, SUNY, Albany, NY

S21

Classifying Atmospheric Aerosols using Raman Spectroscopy

Tyler Ryan Richman, CICS, College Park, MD; and D. C. Doughty III

S22

Assessment of Optical Properties Variation and Discrimination of Aerosol and Cloud with a Multiple-Wavelength Elastic-Raman Lidar in New York City

Anjeza Arapi, CREST, New York, NY; and Y. Wu, F. Moshary, A. Fernandez, and M. Arend

S23

Analysis of an Inverse Gaussian Plume Modeling Method for Estimating Methane Emissions from Underground Pipeline Leaks

Matthew Steven Roetcisoender, Washington State University, Pullman, WA

Poster Session

Climate

Location: Exhibit Hall 5 (ACC) (Austin, Texas)

Host: 17th Annual Student Conference

S24

Analysis of Daily Timescale Surface Temperature Variability in the Community Atmosphere Model

Pedro A Brea, University of Texas, Richardson, TX; and I. R. Simpson and K. A. McKinnon

S25

The Role of 20th Century Tropical Sea Surface Temperatures on Antarctic Atmospheric Circulation Variability

Michael Garberoglio, Ohio University, Athens, OH; and R. L. Fogt

S26

Analyzing the Frequency of High Amplitude Wave Patterns and Their Relationship with Extreme Weather Events in the United States

Jennifer Shepard, Metropolitan State University, Denver, CO; and S. K. Bokn and K. Schuenemann

S27

Historical multi-model analysis of solid precipitation in the Great Lakes region

Karlie A. Wells, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI; and A. L. Steiner

S28

Climatology of Extreme Precipitation in the Midwestern U.S.

Paul Campion, Loyola University, Chicago, IL; and P. Jing

S29

Trends of Extreme Precipitation Events in Contiguous US

Christian K. Landry, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX; and C. J. Schwartz and J. W. Nielsen-Gammon

S30

Evaluation of CMIP5 Precipitation Trends Across Multiple Scales

Eric Molten, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO; and K. D. Musgrave and C. D. Kummerow

S31

Assessment of Precipitation in CMIP5 Models Using TRMM Data

Taylor Aydell Sr., Univ. of Louisiana, Monroe, LA; and M. Etten-Bohm and C. Schumacher

S32

The Changes of North America Mean and Extreme Snowfall Observed Since 1950 and Their Future Projection Under a 1.5ºC Global Warming Scenario

Benjamin O. Johnson, Texas A&M Univ., College Station, TX; and Y. Xu

S33

Observing and Analyzing Variations of Daily Precipitation: The Impact of the El Niño/Southern Oscillation on Kiritimati Island

Ebone Smith, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg, VA; and L. M. Hartten, X. W. Quan, and A. Reiser

S34

A Synoptic Climatology of Frozen Precipitation Events in Central and Eastern North Carolina

Mohin A. Patel, San Jose State University, San Jose, CA

S35

Understanding the Cloud-dynamics Interactions in the Southern Oceans and Tropics by Using Legacy Satellites

Xuechang Liu, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN

S36

Changes in Tropospheric Stability and the Frequency of Moist Convection in the Northern Hemisphere Extratropics

Glenn Liu, CUNY Hunter College, New York, NY; and R. Korty

S37

Atmospheric River Activity in a 4xCO2Climate Simulation

Jessica Solomon, Humboldt State Univ., Arcata, CA; and S. W. Powell, J. W. Whitaker, and E. D. Maloney

S38

Variability of Precipitable Water Content in the Atacama Desert

Tomas J Aguilar, US Naval Academy, Annapolis, MD; and B. S. Barrett and J. C. Marin

S39

Measuring the Atlantic Multidecadal Oscillation

S40

Evaluation of Intra-seasonal Variability of the Asian Monsoon in GFDL's Latest Climate Model

Bridgette Befort, University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS; and Y. Ming and S. Clark

S41

On the Linkage Between Asian Summer Monsoon and Tropopause Folds

Yutian Wu, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN; and G. Chen, L. M. Taylor, and P. Zhang

S42

An Evaluation and Analysis of a New Monthly Atmospheric Pressure Dataset for Antarctica Since 1957

Logan N Clark, Ohio University, Athens, OH; and R. L. Fogt

S43

Downscaled Tropical Cyclones in Paleoclimate Simulations: Intermodel Variability

Quinton Anthony Lawton, Texas A&M Univ., College Station, TX; and R. Korty

S44

Examining the Impact of Climate Change on Stratosphere-Troposphere Exchange

Jordan Benjamin, MIT, Cambridge, MA; and M. Abalos and A. de la Camara

S45

Climate Influence on Susquehanna River Streamflow Dynamics

Matthew V. Koszuta, Northland College, Ashland, WI; and C. Spence and K. Keller

Handout (5.3 MB)

S46

Decadal Wind Chill Temperature Trends for Canada and the United States

Andrew Westgate, Lyndon State College, Lyndonville, VT

S47

Trends of Extreme Wind Chill Temperature across Canada and the United States

Haley Okun, Hobart & William Smith Colleges, Geneva, NY

S48

Dynamic and Thermodynamic Mechanisms for the Onset of the Southeastern United States Convective Season

Hannah Wells, East Carolina Univ., Greenville, NC; and T. Rickenbach and R. Ferreira

S49

The Regional Variability of the Hadley Circulation and its Relation to Precipitation and Atmospheric Dynamics

Sarah M Szymborski, University of Illinois at Urbana, Urbana, IL

S50

Fourier Analysis of Monthly Differences in Temperature Trends in Observation data sets and Climate Models

Alexa Zabaske, Saint. Cloud State University, Clearwater, MN; and J. Nielsen-Gammon

Poster Session

Local Meteorology and Fire Weather

Location: Exhibit Hall 5 (ACC) (Austin, Texas)

Host: 17th Annual Student Conference

S51

Using 311 Data as a Proxy For Weather Impacts

Xuebin Zou, NOAA, New York, NY

S52

Long term Hindcasting of Surface Water Temperatures for the Highland Lakes on the Lower Colorado River in Texas

Myles Savage, Lower Colorado River Authority, Austin, TX; and R. Anderson and B. Rose

S53

Using Multiple Metrics to Analyze Trends and Sensitivity of Climate Variability in New York City

Jiehao Huang, NOAA CREST, Brooklyn, NY; and J. Booth and K. L. Towey

S54

New York Hydro-Meteorological Testbed (NY-uHMT): Data Processing and Visualization

Amarou Bah, City College, New York, NY

S55

'Assessment of the Heat Island Effect Using remote Sensing'

Kevin Geronimo, CUNY New York City College of Technology, Brooklyn, NY; and C. Groome and C. A. Lopez

S56

An Analysis of the Miami Urban Heat Island and its Potential Influence on Precipitation Distribution in South Florida

Nicholas J. Kedzuf, RSMAS, Miami, FL

Manuscript (1.0 MB)

S57

Examining Beaver Island Wetland Ecosystems Using Dynamically Downscaled WRF Simulations

Cody Michael Converse, Central Michigan University, Wyoming, MI; and D. B. Kluver

S58

Comparison between the National Digital Forecast Database and Observed Heat Index Across the Southeastern United States

Lexia Christine Williams, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC; and A. Hiatt and A. Sims

S59

Statistical Prediction of Waterspout Probability

Taylor Adams, Valparaiso Univ., Valparaiso, IN; and A. Devanas

S60

Forecasting for High School Athletics

Matt Rice, Apex High School, Cary, NC

S61

Assessing Drought Conditions of the Navajo Nation Reservation using Remote Sensing Data

Krystal N. Sanchez Castaneda, San Jose State University, San Jose, CA; and C. Schmidt and A. McCullum

S62

A Re-Evaluation of Critical Fire Weather Criteria in the Southeastern United States

David W. Stang, OU School of Meteorology, Norman, OK

S63

Sensitivities of the Atmospheric Response to a Wildland Fire using a Cloud-Resolving Model

Marshall Stageberg, Michigan State University, Lansing, MI; and A. F. Srock and J. J. Charney

S64

Simulating Meteorological Conditions in Forest Gaps using a Coupled Fire-Atmosphere Model

Marshall Stageberg, Michigan State University, Lansing, MI; and J. J. Charney, S. Zhong, S. E. Arcand, M. Kulseth, M. T. Kiefer, and W. E. Heilman

S65

Atmospheric Pressure Fluctuations in Natural and Wind-Farm Boundary Layers

Aaron J. Mehner, Valparaiso University, Valparaiso, IN; and D. A. Rajewski, S. Purdy, and E. S. Takle

S66

Quantifying Wind Turbine Wake Effects on the Downwind Environment in Different Boundary Layer Conditions by Analyzing LIDAR and Surface Flux Spectra

Patrick D. Murphy, Univ. of Colorado, Boulder, CO; and J. K. Lundquist

Poster Session

Mesoscale Meteorology, Lightning, and Radar

Location: Exhibit Hall 5 (ACC) (Austin, Texas)

Host: 17th Annual Student Conference

S67

Impacts of Aerosols on Deep Convective Storms

Joseph W. G. Moody, Univ. of Northern Colorado, Fort Collins, CO

S68

Difficulties with Classifying and Analyzing the Low Level Jet in a Convection Allowing Ensemble

Emily N. Tinney, NWC REU, Norman, OK; and J. Correia Jr.

S69

Illustrating Predictability for Nocturnal Tornado Events in the Southeastern United States

Ryan C. Bunker, University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK; and A. E. Cohen, J. Hart, A. Gerard, and K. E. Klockow-McClain

S70

Patterns Associated with Cold Season Severe Weather and Tornado Events

Elissa A. Smith, Texas A&M University / NOAA, College Station, TX; and R. Grumm and C. Ross

S71

How Forecasters Anticipate Nocturnal, Cool-Season Southern Tornado Events

David P. Nowicki, NOAA, Oxford, MS; and A. Gerard, K. E. Klockow-McClain, A. E. Cohen, and J. Hart

S72

Case Study of Thunderstorm Rotation Patterns in a Tornadic and Non-Tornadic Supercell near Scranton, PA on Feb 25 2017

Michael Hosek, Hamilton College, Clinton, NY

S73

Observational and Numerical Identification of Downdraft Generated Surface Vertical Vorticity

Jacob Vancil, Texas Tech University, LUBBOCK, TX; and J. Dahl

S74

Statistical Comparison and Simulations of Supercells in Environments with Varying Significant Tornado Parameters

Erin A. Jones, Millersville University, Millersville, PA; and C. J. Nowotarski

S75

Severe Weather associated with Warm-Season Stationary Fronts East of the Rocky Mountains

Samuel Bartlett, Hobart and William Smith Colleges, Geneva, NY; and D. Johnson and N. D. Metz

S76

Tornadoes, Hail, and Wind associated with Warm-Season Stationary Fronts East of the Rocky Mountains

Darby Johnson, Hobart and William Smith Colleges, Geneva, NY; and S. Bartlett and N. D. Metz

S77

A Statistical Examination of Severe Tornadic and Nontornadic Quasi-Linear Convective Systems

Devin Chehak, Univ of Illinois, Urbana, IL; and J. W. Frame

S78

Quantitative Verification of Storm Prediction Center 1300 UTC Tornado Outlooks

Alex Erwin, University of Illinois, Urbana, IL; and J. W. Frame

S79

How Close Is The National Weather Service To 1-Hour Tornado Warnings?

Kayleen Torres, NOAA, Silver Spring,, MD

S80

Northern Alabama/Southern Middle Tennessee Severe Weather Environmental Climatology

Michael E Main, SUNY, Albany, NY

S81

An Evaluation of Significant Wind-Driven Hail Events across the United States

Zachary A. Hiris, Oswego State University, Oswego, NY; and M. A. Fowle

S82

Differentiating Plowable Hailstorms from Heavy Rain Events in the Colorado Springs Area

Joshua Lave, Metropolitan State University, Denver, CO

S83

Identifying Patterns in Lake Effect Snow Intensification over Lake Erie

Drew W. Koeritzer, NOAA/NWS, Cleveland, OH; and S. Jamison and R. LaPlante

S84

Airborne Radar Observations and Model Analysis of a Secondary Circulation within a Shallow Lake-Effect Snow Band

Philip T. Bergmaier, University of Wyoming, Laramie, WY; and B. Geerts and X. Chu

S85

Aircraft Icing in Alaska

Cameron Andrew Hoover, United States Air Force Academy, USAFA, CO

S86

Characteristics of Temperature Inversions in Wintry Mix Precipitation Events

Daniel M. Hueholt, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC; and S. Yuter, M. A. Miller, L. Lovell, and L. R. Allen

S87

A Twelve-Year Cold Air Damming Climatology of Northern New England

Briana Stewart, Plymouth State University, Plymouth, NH; and J. Cunningham and E. G. Hoffman

S88

On the Seasonality of Cold Air Pooling Dynamics across Scales

Ali Malek, Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR; and J. Jones

Handout (927.7 kB) Handout (941.3 kB)

S89

Meteorological Overview and Model Analysis of the Historic June 23rd, 2017 Mid-Michigan Flooding

Heather M. Richards, Central Michigan University, Greenville, MI

S90

Quantifying the Relationship Between Land-Sea Temperature Gradient and Sea Breezes on the United States Gulf Coast

Rebekah Cheatham, University of South Alabama, Mobile, AL; and S. Kimball

S91

The Relationship between Convective Sea-Breezes and Atmospheric Instability Parameters

Caroline Kolakoski, Univ. of South Alabama, Mobile, AL

S92

A Comparison of Multi-Radar/Multi-Sensor Quantitative Precipitation Estimates with Mid-Level Frontogenesis for Nocturnal Elevated Convection in the Corn Belt Region

S93

The TETRA-II Experiment to Observe Terrestrial Gamma Flashes at Ground Level – Analysis of Nearby Thunderstorm Activity and Comparison with Lightning Data

Deirdre Smith, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA

S94

Geostationary Lightning Mapper Comparison to Cloud Optical Depth in Various Storm Environments

Robert FitzGerald Garrett, Jackson State University, Jackson, MS; and C. Burnett

S95

Spectral Analysis of Intracloud Lightning

Kevin C Larson, Texas A&M Univ., College Station, TX; and E. A. Smith, C. J. Nowotarski, and R. E. Orville

S96

Correlations of Lightning Occurrence with Weather Parameters in Lancaster, Pennsylvania

Jan J van der Veken Jr., Millersville University, Millersville, PA; and A. J. DeCaria

S97

Determining Optimal Lightning Warning Radii for Kennedy Space Center

Kaitlyn Brown, United States Air Force Academy, USAF Academy, CO; and R. S. Wacker

S98

Use of Experimental Lightning Detector During Hurricane Harvey

Samantha Lane, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX; and T. Logan

S99

Analyzing the Use of Satellite Microwave Remote Sensing Data for Lightning Estimations in the Southeast United States

Stephanie P. Edwards, Univ. of North Carolina, Charlotte, NC; and B. I. Magi

S100

Debiasing Supercell Thunderstorm Density Distribution in the Great Plains

Madeline R. Diedrichsen, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Lincoln, NE; and A. Houston, C. Oppermann, and A. Torres

S101

Comparisons of Mid-Altitude Radial Convergence Signatures in Severe Storms from KDGX and KULM

Janae N Elkins, Jackson State University, Jackson, MS; and E. E. Carpenter, D. Lu, T. A. Murphy, and A. T. C. Hanks

S102

Investigation of Dendritic Growth/Aggregation Signatures in WSR-88D Dual-Polarization Radar

Marquette N. Rocque, University at Albany, Albany, NY; and K. R. Cook

S103

Weekly Cycle in NEXRAD Rain Rates

Ryan Sullivan, NSF, Norwood, MN

S104

GridRad: A New High-Resolution Four-Dimensional Gridded Radar Data Set

Tyler M. Fenske, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX; and K. P. Bowman, C. R. Homeyer, and J. W. Cooney

S105

Validation of a C-Band Snowfall Water Equivalent Algorithm with S-Band Radar over Lake Ontario

Brandon M Taylor, York University, Toronto, ON, Canada

Handout (2.9 MB)

Poster Session

Numerical Weather Prediction

Location: Exhibit Hall 5 (ACC) (Austin, Texas)

Host: 17th Annual Student Conference

S106

Examining the Diurnal Cycle of Precipitation in the NCEP Global Forecast System

Kevin Zolea, Kean Univ., Sayreville, NJ; and V. Tallapragada, M. P. Row, G. H. White, F. Yang, and T. A. Dorian

S107

Evaluating the Predictability of Summertime Precipitation in the Southeastern United States

Daniel James Lloveras, GFDL, Princeton, NJ; and X. Yang

S108

Simulation on the Afternoon Convective Precipitation Triggered by Soil Moisture over the Tibetan Plateau

Lan Luan, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN; and X. Meng, S. Lyu, P. W. Staten, B. Han, Z. Li, and L. Zhao

S109

Modeling the Effects of Soil Moisture on the 2016 New York Summer Drought

Marc J Alessi, Cornell Univ., Ithaca, NY; and A. DeGaetano and T. Ault

S110

An Evaluation of Numerical Weather Prediction Models in Forecasting Atmospheric Rivers

Kyle M. Nardi, Colorado State Univ., Fort Collins, CO; and E. A. Barnes

S111

Evaluating High-Resolution Guidance From Pre-Implementation Configurations

Cody H. Snell, University of Maryland, College Park, Mount Airy, MD; and D. T. Kleist and G. Manikin

S112

Analysis of Accurate and Inaccurate HRRR Forecasts for Heavy Banded Snowfall in the Central United States

S113

Correlation of Snow D/V Relationships to Mean Snow-Water Equivalent (SWE) Using a Gamma-based Mixture Model

Noah Brubaker, South Dakota School of Mines and Technology, Rapid City, SD; and A. Tokay and D. D. Kliche

S114

The Effects of Translation and Surface Roughness on Tornado Structure and Flow

Martin A Satrio, Advanced Radar Research Center, Norman, OK; and D. J. Bodine, A. Rinehart, and T. Maruyama

S115

Evaluating and Understanding the Simulated Global Monsoon in the GFDL AM4 Model

Baoqiang Xiang, NOAA/GFDL, UCAR, Princeton, NJ; and S. Lin

S116

Visualizing the Seasonal Shift of IPF Precipitation in the SE United States

Mary Ruth Brown, East Carolina University, Greenville, NC; and R. Nieto Ferreira and T. Rickenbach

S117

A Hazard Vulnerability Climatology for the state of Ohio from 1985-2014

Adam X Andresen, California University, California, PA

S118

The Truck Blowover Algorithm for the Pikalert® System

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

S119

Traffic Analysis

Harrys K Houngbedji, CUNY New York City College Of Technology, Bronx, NY; and D. Wilson

S120

Comparing Feature-Based vs Ensemble-Based Tools to Estimate and Communicate Weather Forecast Risk and Uncertainty

Sarah Zabawa, South Dakota School of Mines and Technology, Rapid City, SD; and W. Capehart

S121

Using Modified Bred Vector Ensembles to Improve Forecasting in Multi-Scale Dynamical Systems

Brent Giggins, University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia; and G. Gottwald

Poster Session

Observations and Instrumentation

Location: Exhibit Hall 5 (ACC) (Austin, Texas)

Host: 17th Annual Student Conference

S122

Convolution Neural Network to Classify Ice Crystal Habit

Javier A. Villegas, Univ. of Illinois at Urbana−Champaign, Urbana, IL; and J. Um and G. McFarquhar

S123

Snowflake Mixtures in Coastal Northeast United States Winter Storms

Levi Lovell, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC; and S. E. Yuter, M. A. Miller, and E. Scott

S124

An Observational Study of Snow Ratio Evolution in North American Midlatitude Cyclones

Judson W. Buescher, University of Nebraska, Lincoln, NE; and M. R. Anderson

S125

Qualitative Analysis of Ice Accumulation and Shedding on a Cable Stayed Bridge

Chandrasekar Venkatesh, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH; and S. E. Haji Agha Mohammad Zarbaf, A. Helmicki, V. hunt, D. Nims, and A. Abdelaal

S126

Assessment of Low Cloud Cover Changes in the Presence of Shortwave-Absorbing Smoke

Daniel James Lloveras, RSMAS, Miami, FL; and P. Zuidema

S127

Retrieving Cloud Optical Depth for Low Level Clouds using Mini Micro Pulsed LiDAR

Nigel J. Franklyn, New York City College of Technology, Brooklyn, NY; and V. Vladutescu

S128

Characteristics of Hail Events near the Sierras de Córdoba, Argentina

Jeremiah O. Piersante, Colorado State Univ., Fort Collins, CO; and D. A. Hence, S. Tessendorf, and R. M. Rasmussen

S129

Statistical Methods for Determination of Aircraft Static Pressure Defect

Timothy Keebler, Millersville Univ., Millersville., PA

S130

Energy Balance of Urban Turfgrass in a Semi-Arid environment

S131

Evaluating the Accuracy of Hourly Precipitation Data in the U.S.

Amanda Hendrix, Millersville Univ., Millersville, PA; and B. Hoggatt

S132

Spatial Patterns in Summer Precipitation Changes across Complex, Mountainous Terrain in the Northeastern United States

Celia G. Fisher, Lyndon State College, Lyndonville, VT; and J. Hecht and J. Hanrahan

S133

The Effectiveness of Using Limited Gauge Measurements for Bias Adjustment of Satellite-Based Precipitation Estimation over Saudi Arabia

Raied Alharbi Sr., University of California, Irvine, CA; and K. Hsu, S. Sorooshian, and D. Braithwaite

S134

Rain Gauge Analysis of Precipitation on Oahu

Kiefer A Hermann, University of Hawai'i at Manoa, Honolulu, HI; and A. D. Nugent

S135

An Atmospheric Hydraulic Jump in the Santa Barbara Channel

Timothy W Juliano, University of Wyoming, Laramie, WY

S136

Carbon Dioxide Flux Bias Correction Assessment in Eddy Covariance Towers Over Long Term Agricultural Sites

Victoria Dziekan, Washington State University, Pullman, WA; and E. S. Russell, S. N. Pressley, and B. K. Lamb

S137

Urbanova: Integration of Smart City Sensors and Air Quality Modeling in a Western US City

Jilliann Peery, Willamette Univ., Salem, OR; and B. K. Lamb, V. Walden, M. Grubbs, and P. O'Keefe

S138

Investigation of Low Altitude Ice Accretion Physics on Small Unmanned Aircraft

Alyssa Avery, Oklahoma State Univ., Stillwater, OK; and L. Bunting and J. Jacob

Manuscript (402.1 kB)

S139

Estimation and Evaluation of Atmospheric CT2 using Small Unmanned Aerial Systems

Morgan E. Schneider, Univ. of Oklahoma, Norman, OK; and P. B. Chilson

S140

Change in Wind Patterns Associated with a Total Solar Eclipse

Adam Houston, Univ. of Nebraska, Lincoln, NE; and W. M. Shanti

S141

Laboratory Measurements of the Size Distribution and Cloud Condensation Nuclei Spectrum Potential Ice Nuclei

Alexa Ann Otto, University of North Dakota, Grand Forks, ND; and D. Delene

S142

Temperature Variance along the Path of Totality, Solar Eclipse 2017

S143

Measuring Solar Coronal Magnetism during the Total Solar Eclipse of 2017

Keon Gibson, NCAR, Boulder, CO; and S. Sewell, S. Tomczyk, A. Boll, J. Burkepile, P. Judge, and B. Berkey

S144

Relating Delta T and Stability to Eclipse Occlusion Percentages in Oklahoma for 21 August 2017 Total Eclipse

Jack Dimpsey III, University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK; and G. Kendrick

Handout (1.0 MB)

S145

Great American Eclipse Weather Phenomena

Anthony V Papol, Brown Univ., Pendleton, OR

Poster Session

Social Science, Communication, and Education

Location: Exhibit Hall 5 (ACC) (Austin, Texas)

Host: 17th Annual Student Conference

S146

An Overview of NCEP: Products, Services, and Impacts

Mariama Feaster, Jackson State University, Jackson, MS; and G. Fisher

S147

Building a Weather-Ready Nation (WRN) through the Integration of Communication and Education

Amber J. Liggett, Millersville Univ., Beaver, PA; and M. Scarzello Fairbanks and K. Garrett

S148

Understanding the National Weather Service's Customers and Decision Support Needs for Climate Data, Products and Services

Mary Rose Mangan, NOAA/NWS, Silver Spring, MD; and J. E. Ten Hoeve III and V. Silva

S149

Using NWSChat to Strengthen the Integrated Warning Team: Operational Applications of External Event Integration

Robert MacDonald, Univ. of Oklahoma, Norman, OK

S150

From No-Notice Events to Crying Wolf: How Southeast U.S. Emergency Managers and First Responders Navigate Forecast Uncertainty

Rachael N. Cross, University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK; and D. LaDue, S. Ernst, and T. Kloss

S151

The Historic Tornadoes of 2011: A Case Study on Weather Preparedness

ena keys, NCAS, columbia, MD

S152

Biases and Heuristics in Tornado Warning Response

Alyssa Cannistraci, NOAA, Sykesville, MD; and K. E. Klockow-McClain and A. Gerard

S153

Future Flood Risk Perceptions Following Hurricane Matthew: A Study of Eastern North Carolinians

Samantha Connolly, East Carolina University, Greenville, NC

S154

Impact of Past Experiences with Tornadoes on Future Decisions in Nebraska

Emily Paltz, Univ. of Nebraska, Lincoln, NE; and M. Hayes and M. S. Van Den Broeke

S155

A Survey of the Effectiveness of Warnings by Media and Public Officials for Evacuation of Hurricane Harvey

Megan Montgomery, Metropolitan State University, Denver, CO

S156

An Assessment of High Impact Sub-Advisory (HISA) Snowfall Events and Efforts to Improve Forecast Communication

Jacob J. Petr, University of Nebraska, Lincoln, NE; and M. R. Anderson

S157

A Statistical Analysis Of Data Users Of The Oklahoma Mesonet

S158

The Penn State Campus Weather Service: An Unrivaled Combination of Forecasting and Broadcasting Experience for Students

Andy Moffitt, Campus Weather Service, State College, PA; and N. Bergren

S159

Making Weather, Water, and Climate Messages More Acceptable, Memorable, Sharable, and Actionable: Lessons from the Science of Science Communication.

Jessica Hubbard, George Mason Univ., Fairfax, VA; and E. Maibach

S160

Understanding and Communicating Local Climate Change

Jacob C. Muller, University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK; and D. W. Titley, S. K. Miller, and A. M. Walker

S161

Potential Applications of Low Power Amateur Radio Digital Modes in Meteorology

Lucero Marquez, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX; and Q. A. Lawton, T. M. Fenske, K. L. Squires, and D. T. Conlee

S162

Development of an Air Quality Sensor for Use in Teaching Introductory Environmental Engineering

Yoni Rodriguez, Washington State Univ., Pullman, WA; and K. Gubsch, M. Grubbs, P. O'Keeffe, and V. Walden

S163

The Oklahoma Weather Lab and the Southern Climate Impacts Planning Program: How This One of a Kind Partnership is Pioneering Public-Aimed Mid-Range Forecasts

Ty Dickinson, Univ. of Oklahoma, Norman, OK; and E. Lopez, S. Riley, M. Boone, and M. A. Shafer

Bridging the Climate Information Usability Gap: Participatory Action Research with Agricultural Communities of Northern New England

Poster Session

Synoptic Meteorology

Location: Exhibit Hall 5 (ACC) (Austin, Texas)

Host: 17th Annual Student Conference

S164

Comparing and Contrasting the Extreme Flood Index (EFI) Diagnostic Metric for Mid-Latitude Floods and Tropical Cyclones

Jonathon Klepatzki, Embry Riddle Aeronautical University, Daytona Beach, FL; and S. M. Milrad

S165

Climatology and Trends of Heatwaves in the Southeast United States

Shealynn Cloutier Bisbee, Embry Riddle Aeronautical Univeristy, Daytona Beach, FL; and S. M. Milrad

S166

A Climatology of Short-Wave Troughs in the Great Lakes Region and their Concurrence with Lake-Effect Snow

Peyton K. Capute, Hobart and William Smith Colleges, Geneva, NY; and Z. S. Bruick, M. M. Neureuter, E. Ott, M. Sessa, and N. D. Metz

S167

Influence of the Low-Level Jet on Marine Boundary Layer Winds During Cold Air Advection

Leland MacDonald, Texas A&M Univ., College Station, TX; and C. E. Barnes and S. P. Rowley

S168

Low Level Jet Making the Atmosphere Unstable Again

Christopher Rattray, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, MB, Canada; and D. B. Parsons and A. Shapiro

Manuscript (114.5 kB)

S169

Snow Band Movement and Rain Occurrence in Northeast U.S. Winter Storms

Luke R Allen, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC; and S. E. Yuter, L. M. Tomkins, and M. A. Miller

S170

Investigating Appalachian-Induced Fine-Scale Frontal Features during SEAR-MAR

Robert J. Capella, Millersville University, Millersville, PA; and E. L. Morehead

S171

The connection between Sea Ice Extent in the Barents-Kara Sea and the Frequency of the East Asian Cold Air Outbreaks

Dong Wan Kim, University of Illinois, Champaign, IL; and R. J. Trapp and Z. Wang

S172

A Climatology of Andean South American Cold Surges and their Continental Effect

Kevin C. Prince, Univ. of Wisconsin–Milwaukee, Milwaukee, WI

S173

California NWS Watches, Warnings, and Advisories and Landfalling Atmospheric Rivers during 2007–2016

Molly M. Neureuter, Hobart and William Smith Colleges, Geneva, NY; and L. Kelleher and J. M. Cordeira

S174

Likelihood of NWS Watches, Warnings, and Advisories in California on Days with Landfalling Atmospheric Rivers during 2007–2016

Liam Kelleher, Lyndon State College, Lyndonville, VT; and M. M. Neureuter and J. M. Cordeira

S175

A Case Study of Four Atmospheric River Events Over the Pacific West Coast

Isaac Arseneau, Valparaiso University, Valparaiso, IN; and W. Nuss

S176

The Influence of ENSO on the North Pacific Ocean through Daily Weather Changes

Keenan C. Eure, NCAR, Boulder, CO; and M. Newman and M. A. Alexander

Poster Session

Tropical Meteorology

Location: Exhibit Hall 5 (ACC) (Austin, Texas)

Host: 17th Annual Student Conference

S177

Multi-Doppler Radar Analysis of Hurricane Matthew’s Eyewall Replacement Cycle

Alex J DesRosiers, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL; and T. Y. Cha, M. M. Bell, and J. Martinez

S178

Multi-model Ensemble Track Clustering to Improve Tropical Cyclone Forecasting

Cole Evans, Valparaiso University, Valparaiso, IN; and A. Kowaleski and J. L. Evans

S179

Predictability of Atlantic Tropical Cyclone Activity on Sub-seasonal Time Scales

Kurt Hansen, RSMAS, Miami, FL; and S. Majumdar and B. Kirtman

S180

Aviation Weather Conditions Prior to Tropical Cyclone Landfalls

Alexander Paul Donato, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, Daytona Beach, FL; and D. R. Barry

S181

Analysis of Tropical Cyclone Intensity and Position Error Using the Dvorak Satellite Technique

Alex Tomoff, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA; and C. Landsea

S182

Assessing Storm Surge Parameters for Landfalling Tropical Storms Along the Northern Gulf of Mexico and the Atlantic Coast of the U.S.

Emma Thomas, University of Missouri, Columbia, MO; and R. Saravanan

S183

Using ASCAT Data to Determine Intensities of Developing Northwest Pacific Tropical Cyclones

Shelby O. Fatcheric, U.S. Air Force Academy, U.S. Air Force Academy, CO; and R. S. Wacker

S184

Hurricane Harvey and South Texas Tropical Cyclones

Jacob Hale, Texas A&M Univ., Corpus Christi, TX; and A. Kohutek, J. R. Hill, K. J. Nelson, and P. Tissot

S185

On the Ability of TAMUCC WRF to Forecast Hurricane Harvey: A Comparison of a Local WRF System and Observations from the Texas Coastal Bend

Steven Jones, TAMUCC Atmospheric Science Department, Corpus Christi, TX; and A. Romero, M. Riser, J. R. Hill, and K. J. Nelson

S185A

An Analysis of Storm Surge Swaths from Significant Gulf of Mexico Hurricanes

John A. Troutman, Louisiana State Univ., Baton Rouge, LA

S186

ADCIRC Model Verification of Tropical Cyclone Storm Surge in the Gulf of Mexico

Stephen Kreller, Louisiana State Univ., Baton Rouge, LA

S187

Best Pressure Level/Latitude Band to Track Tropical Easterly Waves Over Different Regions Using NCEP-NCAR Reanalysis Data

Sachin Thapa, Univ. of Louisiana, Monroe, LA; and K. D. Leppert II

S188

Visualizing Entrainment and Detrainment in a Large Eddy Simulation of Tropical Convection

Andrew Berrington, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada; and G. Oh, A. Martin, and T. Diefenbach

S189

A Numerical Study of the Eastward Propagation of the Madden-Julian Oscillation 2007-08 (MJO 2007-08) over New Guinea Mountains and the Associated Rainfall

S190

Analysis of the role of Quasi-Biennial Oscillation on MJO eastward propagation through the Maritime Continent

Casey R Densmore, US Naval Academy, Annapolis, MD; and B. S. Barrett, E. R. Sanabia, and P. Ray

S191

The Madden-Julian Oscillation (MJO) and its Teleconnections

Marybeth Arcodia, Univ. of Miami/RSMAS, Miami, FL

Poster Session

Water, Ecosystems, and Agriculture

Location: Exhibit Hall 5 (ACC) (Austin, Texas)

Host: 17th Annual Student Conference

S192

Controls on Evapotranspiration Rates in a Mangrove Forest Following Hurricane Wilma in the Everglades, FL

Marina Howarth, Smith College, Northampton, MA; and J. D. Fuentes, A. Mejia, S. Garcia, and T. Mahjabin

S193

Exploring Oceanographic and Meteorological Data through the Time of Hurricane Irene and Superstorm Sandy

Shannon Evans, NSF, Brooklyn, NY

S194

Behavior of Sea Spray Particles in Very High Wind Conditions

S195

Arctic Lake Classification from NASA ABoVE Digital Color Infrared Airborne Imagery

Ethan D Kyzivat, Brown University, Providence, RI; and L. C. Smith, S. Cooley, L. Pitcher, J. Arvesen, and T. M. Pavelsky

Handout (4.5 MB)

S195A

Analyzing the Impact of Synoptic Weather on the Surface Energy Budget of a Large Inland Water Body

Justin C. Bonds, NCAS, Chicago, IL; and R. Grysko, Z. Gao, and H. Liu

S196

Assessment of Lake Water Quality and Quantity Using Satellite Remote Sensing

Kameron Daniel, Student, CUNY, NY; and A. Suresh, S. Paredes, and T. Lakhankar

S197

Application of Remote Sensing Observations for the Detection of Lake Ice

Joel S. Chapman, New York City College of Technology, Brooklyn, NY; and M. Cinar and T. A. Miah

S198

Forecast Verification of the 2017 Flooding at Lake Oroville Using the National Water Model

Kimberly A. Brothers, Significant Opportunities in Atmospheric Research and Science, Boulder, CO; and L. K. Read and K. Sampson

S199

Mapping and Visualization of the Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill Using Satellite Imagery

Elizabeth Ferreira, NSF/CREST/REU, Brooklyn, NY

S200

Global Food Security Parameters Studies Using Satellite Remote Sensing

Timothy Medina, Research Experiences for Undergraduates, Brooklyn, NY; and S. Ganti-Agrawal, D. Joshi, and T. Lakhankar

S201

On the Relationship Between Soil Moisture, Soil Temperature, and Land Cover-Central Crops Research Station, Clayton, North Carolina, USA

Timothy Andrew Henderson, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC; and S. P. Heuser

S202

Trends in Irrigation and Streamflow in the National Climate Assessment-LDAS using the NASA Land Verification Toolkit software

Alex Robertson, Florida Institute of Technology, Melbourne, FL

S203

The Difference in Water Use Efficiency Between Corn and Soybean

Emily Marrs, Iowa State University, Ames, IA; and K. Togliatti and A. VanLoocke

S204

Effects of Climate and Social Change on Pasture Productivity and Area in the Alay Valley, Kyrgyzstan

Welcome Reception Honoring Newly Elected Fellows and Featured Award Winners

Location: EFG Foyer (ACC) (Austin, Texas)

Colour of Weather Reception

Location: 408 (Hilton) (Austin, Texas)

American Weather and Climate Industry Association (AWCIA) and Early Career Professionals Reception

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

CoRiolis Reception

Location: 602 (Hilton) (Austin, Texas)

How To Become a Better Presenter

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

Host: Side Panels

Organizer: Susan A. Jasko, California University of Pennsylvania

AMS Information Desk

Location: Austin, Texas

Registration

Location: Atrium Lobby (Austin, Texas)

Speaker Ready Room

Location: Room 11AB (ACC) (Austin, Texas)

Local Chapter Posters

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

Plenary Session 2

Welcoming Address

Location: Austin, Texas

Plenary Session

Welcome

Location: Room 3 (ACC) (Austin, Texas)

Host: 21st Atmospheric Science Librarians International Conference

Chair: Frederick Stoss, State Univ. of New York

Session 1

Opening Remarks and Core Science Keynote.

Location: Room 8 ABC (ACC) (Austin, Texas)

Host: Eighth Symposium on Advances in Modeling and Analysis Using Python

Chair: Scott Collis, Argonne National Laboratory

Speaker: Scott Collis, Argonne National Laboratory

8:45 AM

Welcoming Remarks

Recorded Presentation

9:00 AM

Scaling Scientific Python (Core Science Keynote) (Invited Presentation)

Matthew Rocklin, Continuum Analytics, Austin, TX

Recorded Presentation

Session 1A

Land Surface Conditions and Atmospheric Composition

Location: Room 9 C (ACC) (Austin, Texas)

Host: 20th Conference on Atmospheric Chemistry

Chair: Min Huang, George Mason Univ.

8:45 AM

1A.1

Interannual Variability of the Satellite-Observed and WRF-Modeled Soil Moisture in Connection with Dust Events

Min Huang, George Mason Univ., Fairfax, VA; and G. R. Carmichael

9:00 AM

1A.2

Vegetation Phenology Contributes to Seasonal Patterns of Isoprene above a Rain Forest in Central Amazonia

Dandan Wei, Pennsylvania State Univ., University Park, PA; and J. D. Fuentes, T. Gerken, M. Chamecki, A. M. Trowbridge, P. Stoy, G. G. Katul, G. Fisch, O. C. Acevedo, A. O. Manzi, C. von Randow, and R. M. N. Santos

Recorded Presentation

1A.3

Understanding and Modeling Tropical Grasslands Using Remotely Sensed Soil Moisture and Fluorescence

Session 1

Cloud-Radiation Interactions of Absorbing Aerosols—Part I

Location: Room 12A (ACC) (Austin, Texas)

Host: 10th Symposium on Aerosol-Cloud-Climate Interactions

Cochairs: Paquita Zuidema, Univ. of Miami/RSMAS; Yan Feng, Argonne National Laboratory

8:45 AM

1.1

Aerosol Absorption from Biomass Burning in the Near and Far Fields: Model Implications (Invited Presentation)

Arthur J. Sedlacek, Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, NY; and T. Onasch

Recorded Presentation

9:00 AM

1.2

Measurements of Radiation-Induced Condensational Growth of Cloud/Mist Droplets

Quinn Brewster, Univ. of Illinois, Urbana, IL; and E. McNichols

9:15 AM

1.3

The Impact of Radiation Absorbing Aerosols on the Intensity and Organization of Several Mesoscale Regimes (Invited Presentation)

Susan C. van den Heever, Colorado State Univ., Fort Collins, CO; and J. Bukowski, L. Grant, S. R. Herbener, S. Kawecki, P. J. Marinescu, J. M. Park, and S. M. Saleeby

Recorded Presentation

9:30 AM

1.4

Aerosol–Cloud–PBL Interactions and Impact on the Development of Convective Clouds and Air Quality due to Absorbing Aerosols

Zhanqing Li, Univ. of Maryland, College Park, College Park, MD

Recorded Presentation

Session 1

Emerging Technologies in Atmospheric Dispersion and Air Pollution Modeling

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

Host: 20th Joint Conference on the Applications of Air Pollution Meteorology with the A&WMA

Chair: Paul Bieringer, Aeris

8:45 AM

1.1

Development of the Next Generation Air Quality Modeling System

Jonathan E. Pleim, EPA, Research Triangle Park, NC; and R. C. Gilliam, D. Wong, H. Foroutan, J. A. Herwehe, O. R. Bullock Jr., G. A. Pouliot, C. Hogrefe, and L. Ran

Recorded Presentation

9:00 AM

1.2

The Copernicus Atmosphere Monitoring Service: Supporting Air Quality Applications Worldwide

Vincent-Henri Peuch, ECMWF, Reading, UK; and R. Engelen

Recorded Presentation

9:15 AM

1.3

Large-Eddy Simulation and Lagrangian Two-Particle Modeling of Mean and Fluctuating Concentrations in the Atmospheric Boundary Layer

Jeffrey Weil, NCAR, Boulder, CO; and P. P. Sullivan, E. G. Patton, and A. Wyszogrodski

Recorded Presentation

9:30 AM

1.4

Large-Eddy Simulation (LES) Based System for Producing Coupled Urban and Indoor Airborne Contaminant Transport and Dispersion Solutions

Paul Bieringer, Aeris, Louisville, CO; and A. J. Piña, G. Bieberbach Jr., H. J. J. Jonker, and M. Sohn

Recorded Presentation

Joint Session 4

Soil Dust I: Lofting, Transport, Characterization, and Interactions with Clouds and Climate

Location: Room 9AB (ACC) (Austin, Texas)

Hosts: (Joint between the 10th Symposium on Aerosol-Cloud-Climate Interactions; and the 20th Conference on Atmospheric Chemistry )

Cochairs: Ottmar Möhler, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology; Naruki Hiranuma, West Texas A&M Univ.

8:45 AM

J4.1

Heterogeneous Ice Nucleation of Dusts: Overview of Results from the INUIT Project (Invited Presentation)

Joachim Curtius, Goethe Univ., Frankfurt, Germany; and S. Augustin-Bauditz, H. Bingemer, C. Budke, H. Clemen, K. Diehl, M. Ebert, S. Eriksen Hammer, F. Frank, J. Fröhlich-Nowoisky, S. Grawe, S. Hartmann, N. Hiranuma, K. Höhler, N. Hoffmann, L. B. Hande, C. Hoose, K. Kandler, A. Kiselev, R. Kohl, T. Koop, A. T. Kunert, T. Leisner, S. Mertes, O. Möhler, M. Niemand, U. Pöschl, B. Pummer, N. Reicher, I. Reichardt, D. Rose, Y. Rudich, T. Schiebel, J. Schneider, J. Schrod, I. Steinke, F. Stratmann, M. Szakall, R. Ullrich, B. Weber, D. Weber, S. Weinbruch, H. Wex, and P. Yordanova

Recorded Presentation

9:15 AM

J4.2

A Comprehensive Dataset on the Immersion Freezing Behavior of Cellulose Particles

Naruki Hiranuma, West Texas A&M Univ., Canyon, TX; and K. Adachi, D. Bell, F. Belosi, H. Beydoun, B. Bhaduri, H. Bingemer, C. Budke, F. Conen, K. Cory, J. Curtius, P. J. DeMott, O. Eppers, S. Grawe, S. Hartmann, N. Hoffmann, K. Höhler, D. Imre, E. Jantsch, K. Kandler, A. Kiselev, T. Koop, G. Kulkarni, A. Mayer, O. Möhler, M. Murakami, B. J. Murray, M. D. Petters, M. Piazza, M. Polen, N. Reicher, S. Robrecht, Y. Rudich, A. Saito, T. Schiebel, G. P. Schill, J. Schneider, M. Scott, L. Segev, E. Stopelli, R. C. Sullivan, K. J. Suski, M. Szakall, T. Tajiri, H. Taylor, H. Tekleab, Y. Tobo, D. Weber, H. Wex, T. F. Whale, C. Whiteside, K. Yamashita, A. Zelenyuk, and S. Zorn

Recorded Presentation

9:30 AM

J4.3

How the Emitted Size Distribution and Mixing State of Feldspar Affect the Ice Nucleating Particle Number Concentration in a Global Model

Jan P. Perlwitz, Climate, Aerosol, and Pollution Research, LLC, Bronx, NY; and A. M. Fridlind, D. A. Knopf, R. L. Miller, and C. Pérez García-Pando

Recorded Presentation

Session 1

AI Techniques Applied to Environmental Science: Part I

Location: Room 7 (ACC) (Austin, Texas)

Host: 17th Conf on Artificial and Computational Intelligence and its Applications to the Environmental Sciences

Chair: Edwin Campos, Uptake Technologies

8:45 AM

1.1

Real-Time and Climatological Storm Classification Using Machine Learning

Amy McGovern, University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK; and E. Jergensen, C. Karstens, H. Obermeier, and T. Smith

Recorded Presentation

9:00 AM

1.2

Real-Time and Climatological Storm Classification Using Support Vector Machines

Eli Jergensen, CIMMS/Univ. of Oklahoma, Norman, OK; and A. McGovern, C. Karstens, H. Obermeier, and T. Smith

Recorded Presentation

9:15 AM

1.3

Examining Atmospheric Drivers of Temperature, Clouds, and Radiation at Summit, Greenland, with Self-Organizing Maps

Michael Gallagher, CIRES/Univ. of Colorado, Boulder, CO; and M. Shupe and N. Miller

9:30 AM

1.4

Atmospheric Chemistry Modeling and Air Quality Forecasting Using a Regression Forest Model

Christoph A. Keller, NASA GMAO/USRA, Greenbelt, MD; and M. Evans

Recorded Presentation

9:45 AM

1.5

Reduced Order Modeling for Global Atmospheric Chemistry Simulation Data

Meghana Velegar, Univ. of Washington, Seattle, WA; and C. A. Keller and J. N. Kutz

Recorded Presentation

Handout (2.1 MB)

Session 1

Advances in Data Assimilation

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

Host: 22nd Conference on Integrated Observing and Assimilation Systems for the Atmosphere, Oceans, and Land Surface (IOAS-AOLS)

Chair: Robert Atlas, NOAA/AOML

8:45 AM

1.1

Data Assimilation Develoments at ECMWF (Invited Presentation)

Florence Rabier, Director General - European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts (ECMWF), Reading, Berkshire, U.K.; and S. English and H. Hersbach

Recorded Presentation

9:15 AM

1.2

Enhancing Data Assimilation of GPM Observations

Takemasa Miyoshi, RIKEN, Kobe, Japan; and S. Kotsuki, K. Terasaki, K. Kondo, G. Y. Lien, K. Kurosawa, M. Satoh, H. Tomita, and E. Kalnay

Recorded Presentation

9:30 AM

1.3

Adopting NCEP’s Hybrid 4DEnVar Data Assimilation System to the FV3GFS

Rahul Mahajan, EMC, College Park, MD; and D. T. Kleist, C. Thomas, J. S. Whitaker, and R. Treadon

Recorded Presentation

1.4

High-Resolution Ocean Prediction with the NCOM 4DVAR

Session 1

Assessing or Mitigating Weather Observation Uncertainty

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

Host: Sixth Aviation, Range, and Aerospace Meteorology Special Symposium

Cochairs: Michael Robinson, MITRE Corporation; Gordon Brooks, 557th Weather Wing

8:45 AM

1.1

The Role of Observation Uncertainty in the Verification of Global Forecasts of Convective Hazards

Laura Melling, CIRES, Boulder, CO; and A. Laing, M. S. Wandishin, and M. A. Petty

Recorded Presentation

9:00 AM

1.2

EDR/RMS-G Correlation Analysis

Michael J. Emanuel, FAA, Atlantic City, NJ; and G. Meymaris, L. Cornman, J. Sherry, and D. Mulally

Recorded Presentation

9:15 AM

1.3

The Geographical Distribution of Downburst Frequency Across Spaceport Florida

Tania M. Garza, Air Force Institute of Technology (AFIT), Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, OH; and O. A. Nava and W. P. Roeder

Recorded Presentation

9:30 AM

1.4

Resolving Gravity Waves with Himawari-8 and GOES-16 Imagery at the New Limit of Resolution and the Application to Aircraft-Scale Turbulence

Anthony Wimmers, CIMSS, Madison, WI; and S. M. Griffin, A. S. Bachmeier, J. Gerth, and S. Lindstrom

Recorded Presentation

9:45 AM

1.5

On the Interpolation of Three-Dimensional Radar Observations to Flight Levels

Heather D. Reeves, CIMMS/Univ. of Oklahoma and NOAA/NSSL, Norman, OK

Recorded Presentation

Session 1

BSISO and Monsoon Variability

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

Host: Sixth Symposium on the Madden-Julian Oscillation and Sub-Seasonal Monsoon Variability

Cochairs: Scott W. Powell, Colorado State Univ.; Da Yang, Univ. of California

8:45 AM

1.1

Observations and Modelling of the Boreal Summer Intraseasonal Oscillation during the Bay of Bengal Boundary-Layer Experiment (BoBBLE)

Nicholas P. Klingaman, National Centre for Atmospheric Science, Reading, UK; and S. C. Peatman, A. J. Matthews, and P. N. Vinayachandran

Recorded Presentation

9:00 AM

1.2

Coupled Simulations of the 2016 Summer BSISO Event over the Maritime Continent

Shuguang Wang, Columbia Univ., New York, NY; and A. H. Sobel, C. Y. Lee, J. Pullen, and J. Nie

9:15 AM

1.3

Physical Mechanisms Associated with the Propagation of the Madden–Julian Oscillation (MJO) and the Boreal Summer Intraseasonal Oscillation (BSISO)

Bradford S. Barrett, U.S. Naval Academy, Annapolis, MD; and C. R. Densmore, E. R. Sanabia, and P. Ray

Recorded Presentation

9:30 AM

1.4

Role of North Indian Ocean Air–Sea Interaction in Summer Monsoon Intraseasonal Oscillation

Lei Zhang, Univ. of Colorado, Boulder, CO; and W. Han, Y. Li, and E. D. Maloney

Recorded Presentation

9:45 AM

1.5

Investigating the Tropical Coastal Convection Systems Using Cloud Resolving Simulations and Satellite Observation

Wei-Ting Chen, National Taiwan Univ., Taipei, Taiwan; and C. M. Wu, W. M. Tsai, and P. J. Chen

Recorded Presentation

Session 1

Better Communication through Social Media

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

Host: Sixth Symposium on Building a Weather-Ready Nation: Enhancing Our Nation

Cochairs: Douglas Hilderbrand, NOAA/NWS; Jennifer Sprague, NOAA/NWS; Dave Jones, StormCenter Communications, Inc.

8:45 AM

1.1

Words Matter: Social Media Comes of Age as Disaster Strikes

Gregory Romano, NOAA/NWS, Silver Spring, MD

Recorded Presentation

9:00 AM

1.2

Using Video to Communicate Weather Hazards

Tim Brice, NOAA/NWS/Weather Forecast Office in El Paso, TX, Santa Teresa, NM; and J. Laney and C. Dennhardt

Recorded Presentation

Handout (3.2 MB)

9:15 AM

1.3

A Weather-Ready Nation Success Story in Social Media Engagement: #SafePlaceSelfie

Douglas Hilderbrand, NOAA/NWS, Silver Spring, MD; and T. Boucher, M. Barry, and C. Pieper

Recorded Presentation

9:30 AM

1.4

Name Our Storms: Improving Communication of Severe Weather in the UK

Dee Cotgrove, Met Office, Exeter, UK

Recorded Presentation

9:45 AM

1.5

Communicating Impactful Weather across the U.S./Mexico Border using Social Media

Jason Laney, NOAA/NWS/Weather Forecast Office in El Paso, TX, Santa Teresa, NM; and T. Brice and M. Pazos

Recorded Presentation

Handout (1.6 MB)

Joint Session 1

Bob's Legacy and TV Weather History

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

Hosts: (Joint between the Robert T. Ryan Symposium; and the 46th Conference on Broadcast Meteorology )

Chair: Joe Murgo, WTAJ-TV

8:45 AM

J1.1

One Amazing Career and the Growth of a Discipline: How Bob Ryan and Weathercasting Coevolved

Robert Henson, Weather Underground, Boulder, CO

Recorded Presentation

9:00 AM

J1.2

Creating the Nation's First TV Weather Website—WeatherNet4

Dave Jones, StormCenter Communications, Inc., Halethorpe, MD

Recorded Presentation

J1.3

Bob Ryan and the History of the Earth Networks Weather Network

9:15 AM

J1.3A

An Atmospheric Scientist's Guide To Communicating In the Media, Social Media, and Public Forums

Marshall Shepherd, Univ. of Georgia, Athens, GA

Recorded Presentation

9:30 AM

J1.4

Technological and Scientific Advances Applied to Broadcast Meteorology (1975–2017)

Jim Gandy, WLTX-TV, Columbia, SC

Recorded Presentation

9:45 AM

J1.5

Five Years of NASA Earth-Science Outreach with 2,000 TV Meteorologists

Joe Witte, JPL, Pasadena, CA

Recorded Presentation

Session 1

Community Global Modeling: Next Generation Global Prediction System (NGGPS) and beyond: Improvements in Global Models, Key Components of Global Models and Statistical Techniques to Evaluate Those Improvements—Part I

Location: Room 14 (ACC) (Austin, Texas)

Host: Eighth Conference on Transition of Research to Operations

Cochairs: Vijay Tallapragada, NOAA/NWS/NCEP/EMC; Betsy Weatherhead, NOAA/OAR/ESRL/GSD

8:45 AM

1.1

The Next Generation Global Prediction System (NGGPS) Program Update

Fred Toepfer, NOAA/Office of Science and Technology Integration, Silver Spring, MD; and H. Tolman, T. L. Schneider, I. Stajner, and S. Warren

Recorded Presentation

9:00 AM

1.2

Global Model Test Bed: Fostering Community Involvement in NOAA's Next-Generation Global Prediction System

Ligia Bernardet, NOAA/GSD, Univ. of Colorado/CIRES, and Developmental Testbed Center, Boulder, CO; and G. J. Firl, L. Nance, B. Kuo, V. Tallapragada, M. Farrar, F. Toepfer, and G. Grell

Recorded Presentation

9:15 AM

1.3

Next Generation Global Prediction System (NGGPS) Development and Operational Implementation Strategies at NCEP: Role of Community Research Transition to Operations

Vijay Tallapragada, NOAA/NWS/NCEP/EMC, College Park, MD

Recorded Presentation

9:30 AM

1.4

Implementation and Evaluation of the NOAA Next Generation Global Prediction System with FV3 Dynamical Core and Advanced Physics

Fanglin Yang, NOAA, College Park, MD; and V. Tallapragada

Recorded Presentation

9:45 AM

1.5

Integrating Unified Gravity Wave Physics Research into the Next Generation Global Prediction System for NCEP Research to Operations

Jordan C. Alpert, NOAA/NWS/NCEP, College Park, MD; and V. Yudin, T. Fuller-Rowell, and R. A. Akmaev

Recorded Presentation

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

Panel Discussion 1

Defining User Needs for Water Prediction Priority Products and Services Using Social Science

Location: Room 6B (ACC) (Austin, Texas)

Host: 13th Symposium on Societal Applications: Policy, Research and Practice

Moderator: Mary G. Mullusky, NOAA/NWS

Panelists: Peter Colohan, Executive Office of the President; Arleen O'Donnell, Eastern Research Group; Rachel Hogan Carr, NASA

8:45 AM

PD1.1

Defining User Needs for Water Prediction Priority Products and Services Using Social Science

Mary G. Mullusky, NOAA/NWS, Silver Spring, MD; and P. Colohan and A. O'Donnell

Recorded Presentation

Session 1

Ensemble and Multimodel Forecasting — Part I: Representation of Model Uncertainty

Location: Room 19AB (ACC) (Austin, Texas)

Host: 25th Conference on Probability and Statistics

Cochairs: Elizabeth A. Satterfield, NRL; Daniel Hodyss, NRL

8:45 AM

1.1

Evaluation of Stochastic Perturbed Parameterization Tendencies on Convective-Resolving Ensemble Forecasts of Heavy Rainfall Events in New York and Taiwan

Kevin Lupo, SUNY/Univ. at Albany, Albany, NY; and S. C. Yang and R. Torn

Recorded Presentation

9:00 AM

1.2

Introducing Land Surface Perturbations in the Global Ensemble Forecast System

Maria Gehne, CIRES/Univ. of Colorado and NOAA, Boulder, CO; and T. M. Hamill, G. Bates, W. Kolczynski Jr., and P. Pegion

Recorded Presentation

9:15 AM

1.3

Preliminary Testing of Stochastic Physics Schemes for the Next Global Ensemble Forecast System (GEFS) Implementation

Bing Fu, NCEP, College Park, MD; and X. Zhou, D. Hou, W. Kolczynski Jr., P. J. Pegion, and Y. Zhu

Recorded Presentation

9:30 AM

1.4

Parameterizing Model Uncertainty due to Unresolved Dynamics in Ensemble Forecasts (Invited Presentation)

Jeffrey Whitaker, NOAA/Earth System Research Laboratory, Boulder, CO

Recorded Presentation

Session 1

Historical Weather and Climate Events, Forecasting, and Public Communication and Impacts—Part I

Location: Room 2 (ACC) (Austin, Texas)

Host: 16th History Symposium

Chair: Lourdes B. Avilés, Plymouth State University

8:45 AM

1.1

An Unintended Case Study of the Side Effects of Sharing Historical Research with the General Public and Others: An 80th Anniversary Update to the Story of the Great New England Hurricane of 1938

Lourdes B. Avilés, Plymouth State University, Plymouth, NH

Recorded Presentation

9:00 AM

1.2

Modern Analysis of Precipitation Patterns Associated with the Great New England Hurricane

Lauren Carter, Plymouth State Univ., Plymouth, NH

Recorded Presentation

1.3

The Origin of the "Fujiwhara Effect": The Typhoons that Postponed the End of World War II

9:30 AM

1.4

Record High Plains Snow Events often after April 1

Richard Berler, KGNS TV, Laredo, TX

Recorded Presentation

9:45 AM

1.5

A Preliminary Study of Meteorological Drought Influences to Social Events over the Maritime Continent during the Last Millennium

Sandy Hardian Susanto Herho, Bandung Institute of Technology, Bandung, Indonesia; and M. R. Syahputra and R. Suwarman

Recorded Presentation Manuscript (4.8 MB)

Session 1

Hope is Not a Plan: Communication for Community Resilience

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

Host: Sixth Symposium on the Weather, Water, and Climate Enterprise

Chair: Thomas Bedard, National Disaster Preparedness Training Center

8:45 AM

1.1

Its the Relationship, Not the Weather

Rebecca Moulton, FEMA, Washington

Recorded Presentation

9:00 AM

1.2

Weather Alerts and Emergency Management—Are We Crying Wolf?

Eric Frank, Clark Regional Emergency Services Agency, Vancouver, WA

9:15 AM

1.3

Changing the Perception of Weather Information to Promote Being Storm Ready

Felix Nance, City of Hominy, Hominy, OK

Recorded Presentation

9:30 AM

1.4

Walmart: Preparedness, Response, and Recovery in Disasters in 2017

Lucas McDonald, Walmart, Bentonville, AR

Recorded Presentation

9:45 AM

1.5

Safe at Home: Communicating Weather Risk at Outdoor Venues

Kevin A. Kloesel, Univ. of Oklahoma, Norman, OK

Recorded Presentation

Session 1

Hydrometeorological Extremes for Hydrologic Design

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

Host: 32nd Conference on Hydrology

Cochairs: Kathleen D. Holman, Department of the Interior; Victoria Bahls, MetStat, Inc.; Charles D. McWilliams, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers

8:45 AM

1.1

Developing Updated PMP Estimates for the Third and Fifth Largest Reservoirs in the United States

Charles D. McWilliams, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Omaha, NE; and C. Pathak

Recorded Presentation

9:00 AM

1.2

Application of Reanalysis Datasets in Hydrologic Modeling for Dam Safety: A Novel Approach to Storm Transpositioning

Raymond Caldwell, MetStat, Inc., Fort Collins, CO; and T. W. Parzybok and M. Schaefer

Recorded Presentation

9:15 AM

1.3

Accounting for Uncertainties in NOAA Atlas 14 Precipitation Frequency Estimates

Sanja Perica, NOAA, Silver Spring, MD; and S. Pavlovic, M. St. Laurent, C. Trypaluk, D. Unruh, and O. Wilhite

9:30 AM

1.4

Precipitation Frequency Analysis over Complex Terrain Using the High-Resolution Rapid Refresh

Trevor Alcott, ESRL, Boulder, CO; and E. P. James, K. Mahoney, and R. Cifelli

Recorded Presentation

9:45 AM

1.5

Precipitation Frequency Analysis in Regions of Complex Topography

Kathleen Holman, Bureau of Reclamation, Denver, CO; and A. Verdin, D. P. Keeney, and J. Kanney

Handout (3.0 MB)

Session 1

Innovations in Climate and Health Education

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

Host: Ninth Conference on Environment and Health

Cochairs: Kim Knowlton, Natural Resources Defense Council; John Balbus, National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences

8:45 AM

1.1

Helping Healers Heal the World: Materials and Methods to Help Health Professionals Understand Climate and Health Connections

John Balbus, National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, Bethesda, MD; and C. Sorensen

Recorded Presentation

9:00 AM

1.2

Engaging GLOBE Students in Data Collection for Environment and Health

Julie S. Malmberg, UCAR, Boulder, CO; and J. Moore and R. Low

Recorded Presentation

9:15 AM

1.3

Global Climate and Health Education for Health Professionals

Kim Knowlton, Columbia Univ., New York, NY; and B. Shea and J. Shaman

Recorded Presentation

9:30 AM

1.4

Real-Time Climate Information for Decision-Making in Health for Africa

Wassila M. Thiaw, NOAA/NWS/NCEP, Climate Prediction Center, College Park, MD

Recorded Presentation

9:45 AM

Discussion

Session 1

Major Impacts of 2017 - Drought/Wildfire

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

Host: Major Weather Events and Impacts of 2017

Chair: Klaus Wolter, CIRES, Univ. of Colorado Boulder

8:45 AM

1.1

2017 US Northern Plains Drought

Laura Edwards, State of South Dakota, Aberdeen, SD; and T. E. Fransen and D. Kluck

Recorded Presentation

9:00 AM

1.2

The 2017 Wildfire Season: 420,002,017th year of biomass burning on Earth (Invited Presentation)

Timothy J. Brown, DRI, Reno, NV

Recorded Presentation

9:15 AM

1.3

Meteorological Observations and Review of the Gatlinburg Wildfire

Matthew E. Anderson, NOAA/NWS, Morristown, TN; and A. Pritchett

Recorded Presentation

9:30 AM

1.4

The 6 March 2017 Southern Great Plains Firestorm: Operational Preparedness and Fire Environment Perspectives

Barry R. Bowers, NOAA/NWS Forecast Office, Norman, OK; and T. T. Lindley, G. P. Murdoch, B. R. Smith, and D. Daily

Recorded Presentation

9:45 AM

1.5

Environmental and Social factors that led to the October 2017 Northern California Firestorm (Invited Presentation)

Timothy J. Brown, DRI, Reno, NV

Recorded Presentation

Session 1

New Projects and Opportunities for Renewable Energy Research

Location: Room 15 (ACC) (Austin, Texas)

Host: Ninth Conference on Weather, Climate, and the New Energy Economy

Chair: Jeff Freedman, SUNY

8:45 AM

1.1

Meteorology Research in DOE’s Atmosphere to Electrons (A2e) Program

Joel W. Cline, DOE, Washington, DC; and W. J. Shaw and S. Haupt

Recorded Presentation

9:00 AM

1.2

The U.S. DOE Mesoscale to Microscale Coupling Project: Extending Boundary Layer Flow Simulation to Complex Environments

Jeffrey D. Mirocha, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, CA; and S. E. Haupt

Recorded Presentation

1.3

The WindForS Complex Terrain Wind Energy Test Site in Southern Germany

9:15 AM

1.3A

IEA Wind Task 36 Forecasting

Gregor Giebel, DTU Technical Univ. of Denmark, Roskilde, Denmark; and J. W. Cline, C. Draxl, H. P. Frank, B. M. Hodge, G. Kariniotakis, J. W. Messner, C. Möhrlen, P. Pinson, and W. J. Shaw

Recorded Presentation

9:30 AM

1.4

Validation of a 14-year High-Resolution WRF Dataset for Wind Resource Assessment over Alaska

Jared A. Lee, NCAR, Boulder, CO; and L. Xue, A. J. Newman, A. J. Monaghan, P. Doubrawa, C. Draxl, L. Kilcher, and G. Scott

Recorded Presentation

9:45 AM

1.5

Five-Year Continental and Offshore Unified Wind and Solar Dataset from the Experimental HRRR Model: Preliminary Verification and Dataset Uses

Eric P. James, CIRES, Univ. of Colorado Boulder, and NOAA/ESRL/GSD, Boulder, CO; and S. G. Benjamin and M. Marquis

Recorded Presentation

Session 1

Observational Platforms for Space Weather—Part I

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

Host: 15th Conference on Space Weather

Chair: Robert M. Robinson, Inspace

8:45 AM

1.1

Fundmental Challenges in Space Weather of the Ionosphere Thermosphere System

Larry J. Paxton, Johns Hopkins Univ. Applied Physics Laboratory, Laurel, MD; and E. Miller

9:00 AM

1.2

The Space Weather Forecast Testbed (SWFT) as a Community Resource to Advance Understanding of Space Weather Forecast

Anthony J. Mannucci, JPL/California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA; and C. Wang, X. Meng, O. P. Verkhoglyadova, B. T. Tsurutani, G. Rosen, E. M. Lynch, and A. S. Sharma

Recorded Presentation

9:15 AM

1.3

Ionospheric Remote Sensing Using GPS Radio Occultation and Ultraviolet Photometry Aboard the ISS

Scott A. Budzien, NRL, Washington, DC; and A. W. Stephan, C. Coker, S. P. Powell, B. O'Hanlon, T. E. Humphreys, R. L. Bishop, J. Gross, and S. Chakrabarti

Recorded Presentation

9:30 AM

1.4

Space Weather Resources Available through the American Chain of Incoherent Scatter Radars

Anthea Coster, MIT, Westford, MA; and P. J. Erickson, R. Varney, E. Kendall, D. L. Hysell, M. Milla, and C. Brum

Recorded Presentation

9:45 AM

1.5

Airborne Platforms Providing Space Weather Measurements Help Decipher the Radiation Environment

W. Kent Tobiska, Space Environment Technologies, Pacific Palisades, CA

Recorded Presentation

Session 1

Transforming Communication through Co-Production of Knowledge

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

Host: 13th Symposium on Societal Applications: Policy, Research and Practice

Cochairs: Renee McPherson, Univ. of Oklahoma; Jennifer A. Spinney, Univ. of Western Ontario

8:45 AM

1.1

Public and Private Sector Roles in the Co-Production of Climate Decision Support Tools for Agriculture

Tonya Haigh, National Drought Mitigation Center, Lincoln, NE; and J. Klink and A. S. Mase

Recorded Presentation

9:00 AM

1.2

Identifying Users, Diagnosing Understandability Challenges, and Developing Prototype Solutions for NOAA Climate Prediction Center's Temperature and Precipitation Outlooks

Melissa A. Kenney, Univ. of Maryland, College Park, MD; and M. D. Gerst, A. E. Baer, A. Speciale, D. DeWitt, J. Gottschalck, and S. Handel

Recorded Presentation

9:15 AM

1.3

Assessing User Needs and Model Accuracy of Seasonal Climate Forecasts for Winter Wheat Producers in the Southern Great Plains

Toni Klemm, Univ. of Oklahoma, Norman, OK; and R. A. McPherson

Recorded Presentation

9:30 AM

1.4

Co-Production and Fragmentation: How Stakeholder Engagement Evolved in the Study of Drought and the Environment along the Rio Grande/Bravo

Jack R. Friedman, University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK; and S. Paladino

Recorded Presentation

9:45 AM

1.5

Bridging the Climate Information Usability Gap in Agricultural Communities

Alissa White, Univ. of Vermont, Burlington, VT

Recorded Presentation

Session 1

Using Alternative Presentation Formats to Inform Your Audience

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

Host: 27th Symposium on Education

Cochairs: Reginald Blake, New York City College of Technology, City Univ. of New York; Danny E. Mattox, University of Oklahoma

8:45 AM

1.1

Communicating New Satellite Technologies through the Use of Blogs

Scott Lindstrom, Univ. of Wisconsin, Madison, WI; and S. Bachmeier and T. J. Schmit

Recorded Presentation

9:00 AM

1.2

Thinking Globally: Enhancing Learning with NOAA Earth System Data Visualization Tools—SOS, SOSx, NOAA View

Elizabeth L. Russell, CIRES/Univ. of Colorado, Boulder, CO; and C. McDougall, H. Peddicord, and D. P. Pisut

Recorded Presentation

9:15 AM

1.3

A Textbook Case of Going Virtual

John A. Knox, The Univ. of Georgia, Athens, GA; and S. Ackerman and T. Whittaker

Recorded Presentation

9:30 AM

1.4

Updates to the "Modtran Infrared Light in the Atmosphere" Website

Douglas Pease, Univ. of Connecticut, Storrs, CT; and D. Archer

Recorded Presentation Manuscript (748.6 kB)

9:45 AM

1.5

Using Emerging Technologies to Reach Underserved Areas of the Community

Erik M. Heden, NOAA, Newport, NC

Recorded Presentation

Session 1A

Aerosols, Clouds, and Climate

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

Host: 31st Conference on Climate Variability and Change

Cochairs: Adam H. Sobel, Columbia Univ.; Geeta G. Persad, Carnegie Institution for Science

8:45 AM

1A.1

Aerosol Impact on Seasonal Prediction Using FIM-Chem-iHYCOM Coupled Model

Shan Sun, CIRES/Univ. of Colorado Boulder and NOAA/ESRL, Boulder, CO; and G. Grell and L. Zhang

9:00 AM

1A.2

Constraining Aerosol Forcing from the Land Surface Temperature Record

Zhaoyi Shen, Princeton Univ., Princeton, NJ; and Y. Ming and I. M. Held

Recorded Presentation

9:15 AM

1A.3

The Influence of Emission Location on the Magnitude and Spatial Distribution of Aerosols' Climate Effects

Geeta G. Persad, Carnegie Institution for Science, Stanford, CA; and K. Caldeira

Recorded Presentation

9:30 AM

1A.4

Regional Fingerprints and Energy Budget Analysis of Southern Hemispheric Warming

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

Recorded Presentation

9:45 AM

1A.5

Aerosol vs. Greenhouse Gas Influences on Tropical Cyclone Potential Intensity and the Hydrologic Cycle

Adam H. Sobel, Columbia Univ., Palisades, NY; and S. J. Camargo, K. A. Emanuel, and M. Previdi

Recorded Presentation

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

Decadal–Multidecadal Variability (Predictability) in the Atlantic

Location: 616 AB (Hilton) (Austin, Texas)

Host: 31st Conference on Climate Variability and Change

Cochairs: R. Saravanan, Texas A&M Univ.; Pedro DiNezio, Univ. of Texas

8:45 AM

1B.1

Loosening the AMOC's Grip on the Atlantic Climate (Invited Presentation)

Amy Clement, Univ. of Miami, Miami, FL; and S. Lozier and M. Cane

Recorded Presentation

9:00 AM

1B.2

The Atlantic Multidecadal Variability: Mechanism, Predictability, and Associated Impact on Hurricane Activity (Invited Presentation)

Rong Zhang, NOAA/GFDL, Princeton, NJ

Recorded Presentation

9:15 AM

1B.3

Decadal Variability and Predictability of the North Atlantic Oscillation

Rosie Eade, Met Office, Exeter, United Kingdom; and A. A. Scaife, D. M. Smith, and H. L. Ren

Recorded Presentation

1B.4

Patterns of Atlantic Multidecadal Variability and Hurricane Intensity Change Along the U.S. Coast

9:30 AM

1B.4A

Multidecadal Changes of the South Atlantic Ocean Angola–Benguela Front

Edward K. Vizy, Univ. of Texas, Austin, TX; and K. H. Cook

9:45 AM

1B.5

Long-Range Dependence in Millennial-Scale Climate Models

James Franke, Univ. of Chicago, Chicago, IL; and M. L. Stein, M. Haugen, and E. Moyer

Recorded Presentation

Session 1B

Measurement and Modeling of Atmospheric Ammonia—Part I

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

Host: 20th Conference on Atmospheric Chemistry

Cochairs: J. X. Warner, Univ. of Maryland; Jeffrey L. Collett Jr., Colorado State Univ.

8:45 AM

1B.1

The Atmospheric Chemistry and Canopy Exchange Simulation System for Ammonia (ACCESS-NH3): Formulation and Application to Measurements from a Deciduous Forest Canopy

Rick Saylor, NOAA, Oak Ridge, TN; and Z. Wu, J. T. Walker Jr., X. Chen, D. B. Schwede, and A. C. Oishi

Recorded Presentation

9:00 AM

1B.2

Modeling Atmospheric Ammonia in Summer Arctic

Wanmin Gong, EC, Downsview, Canada; and S. R. Beagley, C. Whaley, J. Zhang, G. Wentworth, and J. G. Murphy

Recorded Presentation

9:15 AM

1B.3

Quantifying Emissions of NH₃ and NO_x from Agricultural Sources and Biomass Burning Using SOF

N. Kille, Univ. of Colorado Boulder, Boulder, CO; and B. Dix and R. Volkamer

Recorded Presentation

9:30 AM

1B.4

A Comparison of Satellite-Retrieved, Modeled, and Measured NH₃/CO Ratios in Biomass Burning Plumes

Dale J. Allen, Univ. of Maryland, College Park, MD; and K. E. Pickering, J. X. Warner, L. D. Oman, S. A. Strode, R. R. Dickerson, and Z. Wei

Recorded Presentation

9:45 AM

1B.5

Source Apportionment, Spatiotemporal Variations of Atmospheric Ammonia in China: Focus on Severe Haze Episodes in Urban Beijing

Yuepeng Pan, AES, Beijing, China

10:00 AM

Evaluation of Ambient Ammonia Measurements using QC-Tildas - Ilana Pollack

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

Joint Session 2

Advancing the Use of Earth Observations to Benefit Global Food Security and Agriculture

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

Hosts: (Joint between the 32nd Conference on Hydrology; and the 13th Symposium on Societal Applications: Policy, Research and Practice )

Cochairs: Christa D. Peters-Lidard, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center; Danielle Wood, MIT; Margaret M. Hurwitz, Science Systems and Applications, Inc.; Bradley Doorn, NASA

8:45 AM

J2.1

Advancing the Use of Earth Observations to Benefit Global Food Security and Agriculture (Invited Presentation)

Debra Peters, U.S. Department of Agriculture, Las Cruces, NM; and A. Bartuska and R. Tetrault

9:00 AM

J2.2

Enhancing Famine Early Warning Systems with Improved Forecasts, Satellite Observations, and Hydrologic Simulations (Invited Presentation)

Chris C. Funk, USGS, Santa Barbara, CA; and J. P. Verdin, W. M. Thiaw, A. Hoell, S. Shukla, A. McNally, G. Galu, N. S. Novella, D. Korecha, K. R. Arsenault, M. Robjohn, J. Rowland, M. Budde, C. Peters-Lidard, T. Magadzire, E. Bekele, L. S. Harrison, P. Peterson, C. Pomposi, and G. Husak

Recorded Presentation

9:15 AM

J2.3

Riding the Wave of Combined Drought Indicators to Enhance Drought Early Warning for Decision Support

Mark D. Svoboda, National Drought Mitigation Center, Lincoln, NE; and B. Wardlow, B. Fuchs, C. Poulsen, J. Swigart, C. R. Hain, R. McDonnell, and C. M. U. Neale

Recorded Presentation

9:30 AM

J2.4

Prediction of Winter Wheat High Yield from Remote Sensing–Based Model: Application in the United States and Ukraine

Eric Vermote, NASA, Greenbelt, MD; and B. Franch, J. C. Roger, S. Skakun, I. Becker-Reshef, and C. O. Justice

Recorded Presentation

9:45 AM

J2.5

Assessment of Rice Hydroperiod and Irrigation Practices Using Multiscale Earth Observations to Support Food Security

Nathan Torbick, Applied Geosolutions, Durham, NH

Recorded Presentation

Joint Session 3

Special Session on JPSS

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

Hosts: (Joint between the 14th Annual Symposium on New Generation Operational Environmental Satellite Systems; the 22nd Conference on Satellite Meteorology and Oceanography; and the Sixth AMS Symposium on the Joint Center for Satellite Data Assimilation )

Cochairs: Mitchell Goldberg, NOAA/NESDIS/JPSSO; Ivan Csiszar, NOAA/NESDIS/JPSS

8:45 AM

J3.1

JPSS Operational and Research Applications: The Pathway from Observations to Applications to Information

Mitchell Goldberg, JPSS, Lanham, MD; and B. Sjoberg and A. Layns

Recorded Presentation

9:00 AM

J3.2

First VIIRS Imagery from JPSS-1

Donald W. Hillger, NOAA/NESDIS, Fort Collins, CO; and T. J. Kopp, C. J. Seaman, S. D. Miller, D. T. Lindsey, and J. Torres

Recorded Presentation

9:15 AM

J3.3

The JPSS CrIS Instrument and the Evolution of Space-Based Sounders

Ronald J. Glumb, Harris Corporation, Fort Wayne, IN; and L. Suwinski, S. Wells, R. Malloy, A. J. Glumb, and M. C. Colton

Recorded Presentation

9:30 AM

J3.4

An All-Weather, Multi-Platform Hyperspectral Retrieval System: The NOAA Unique Combined Atmospheric Processing System (NUCAPS); Recent Algorithm Enhancements Geared Toward Near–Real Time and Long-Term User Applications

Antonia Gambacorta, IMSG, College Park, MD; and N. Nalli, F. Iturbide-Sanchez, C. Tan, K. Zhang, X. Xiong, M. Wilson, B. Sun, C. D. Barnet, L. L. Strow, T. S. King, L. Soulliard, A. Wheeler, N. Smith, L. Zhou, T. Reale, A. Sharma, W. W. Wolf, and M. Goldberg

Recorded Presentation

9:45 AM

J3.5

NOAA's Microwave Integrated Retrieval System (MiRS): Recent Activity, Science Improvements, and First Look at JPSS-1/ATMS Results

Christopher Grassotti, STAR, College Park, MD; and S. Liu, J. Chen, and Q. Liu

Recorded Presentation

Joint Session 5

Advances in CubeSats and SmallSats to Improve Earth Science, Weather Forecasting, Space Weather Prediction, Hydrology Studies, or Climate Monitoring—Part I

Location: 615 AB (Hilton) (Austin, Texas)

Hosts: (Joint between the Eighth Conference on Transition of Research to Operations; the 14th Annual Symposium on New Generation Operational Environmental Satellite Systems; and the First Conference on Earth Observing SmallSats )

Cochairs: Robert Bauer, NASA Earth Science Technology Office; Margaret Caulfield

8:45 AM

J5.1

MISTiC Winds, a Micro-Satellite Constellation Approach to High-Resolution Observations of the Atmosphere Using Infrared Sounding and 3D Winds Measurements

K. R. Maschhoff, BAE Systems, Nashua, NH

Recorded Presentation

9:00 AM

J5.2

High-Resolution Tomography of Upper Tropospheric and Lower Stratospheric Water Vapor with Spaceborne Active Microwave Limb Sounding

Nathaniel Livesey, JPL, Pasadena, CA; and W. G. Read, A. J. Tang, G. Chattopadhyay, T. Reck, R. Stachnik, R. Jarnot, M. L. Santee, J. Kocz, C. Felten, J. Kooi, and S. Padmanabhan

9:15 AM

J5.3

RainCube, A Ka-band Precipitation Radar in a 6U CubeSat

Shivani S Joshi, JPL, Pasadena, CA; and E. Peral, S. Tanelli, J. Sauder, N. Chahat, D. Price, and S. Statham

Recorded Presentation

9:30 AM

J5.4

Enabling Global Observations of Clouds and Precipitation at Fine Spatiotemporal Scales from 6U-Class SmallSat Constellations: Temporal Experiment for Storms and Tropical Systems Technology Demonstration (TEMPEST-D)

Steven C. Reising, Colorado State Univ., Fort Collins, CO; and T. C. Gaier, S. Padmanabhan, C. D. Kummerow, B. H. Lim, C. Heneghan, V. Chandrasekar, W. Berg, S. T. Brown, J. Carvo, and M. Pallas

9:45 AM

J5.5

Simulation of Temporal Observations by the TEMPEST CubeSat over a Hailstorm in the Dallas–Fort Worth Area

Chandrasekar Radhakrishnan, Colorado State Univ., Fort Collins, CO; and C. V. Chandra and S. C. Reising

Session 7

Panel Discussion: Effective Resume Building

Location: Room 6A (ACC) (Austin, Texas)

Host: Sixth AMS Conference for Early Career Professionals

Chair: Bill Burkey, ERM

Panelists: J. Michael Coyne, NOAA/NWS; Joe Arellano, National Weather Service; Derek J. Posselt, JPL; Marshall Moss, AccuWeather, Inc; Ashley Schroat, Hewlett Packard Enterprises; Jose Suarez, Telemundo

Facilitator: Bill Burkey, ERM

Session 1

Intercomparison and Calibration of Instruments I

Location: Room 13AB (ACC) (Austin, Texas)

Host: 19th Symposium on Meteorological Observation and Instrumentation

Chair: C. Bruce Baker, NOAA/OAR/ARL/ATDD

8:45 AM

1.1

Updates on SNPP and JPSS-1 OMPS Sensor Data Records

Chunhui Pan, Earth System Science Interdisciplinary Center/Univ. of Maryland, College Park, College Park, MD; and F. Weng, C. T. Beck, D. Liang, and L. Zhou

Handout (1.3 MB)

9:00 AM

1.2

Quantification of the Intraseasonal to Interannual Variation of Total Precipitable Water Derived from Microwave Radiometers using COSMIC Radio Occultation from 2006 to 2016

Shu-peng Ho, UCAR, Boulder, CO; and L. Peng

Recorded Presentation

9:15 AM

1.3

Characterizing Radiosonde GPS with a Simulation for Pressure Calculation Verification

Evan Keeler, CyberData Technologies, Herndon, VA; and M. K. Lataille

Recorded Presentation

1.4

Comparison of Thermodynamic Variables Measured from a Mobile Platform with U-Tube and Gill Shields

1.5

Impact of High Ice Water Content on Airborne Measurements from the NSF/NCAR Gulfstream V Aircraft

Session 1

Model Physics Uncertainty

Location: Room 4ABC (ACC) (Austin, Texas)

Host: Third Symposium on Multi-scale Predictability: Data-model Integration and Uncertainty Quantification for Climate and Earth System Monitoring and Prediction

Cochairs: Fuqing Zhang, Pennsylvania State Univ.; Kerry A. Emanuel, MIT

8:45 AM

1.1

A Perspective on Radiative Transfer and Cloud Microphysics in Climate Models (Invited Presentation)

Kuo-Nan Liou, Univ. of California, Los Angeles, CA

Recorded Presentation

9:15 AM

1.2

Representation of Cloud Radiative Effects in Climate Sensitivity and Predictability (Invited Presentation)

Dennis L. Hartmann, Univ. of Washington, Seattle, WA

Recorded Presentation

9:45 AM

1.3

Mesoscale Convective Systems and Their Large-Scale Environment in a Hierarchy of Model Simulations (Invited Presentation)

L. Ruby Leung, PNNL, Richland, WA; and R. A. Houze Jr., Z. Feng, K. Sakaguchi, and Q. Yang

Recorded Presentation

Session 1

AMS Update

Location: Room 3 (ACC) (Austin, Texas)

Host: 21st Atmospheric Science Librarians International Conference

Chair: Jinny Nathans, American Meteorological Society

9:00 AM

1.1

AMS Publications: The Year in Review and Forecast for 2018

Kenneth F. Heideman, AMS, Director of Publications, Boston, MA

Recorded Presentation

9:15 AM

1.2

AMS Books Program

Sarah Jane Shangraw, AMS, Boston, MA

Recorded Presentation

9:30 AM

1.3

AMS Monographs: The Changing Publishing Landscape

Michael Friedman, AMS, Boston, MA

Spouse's Coffee

Location: 602 (Hilton) (Austin, Texas)

Session 2

Atmospheric Halogen Chemistry—Part I

Location: Room 9 C (ACC) (Austin, Texas)

Host: 20th Conference on Atmospheric Chemistry

Chair: Ross Salawitch, Univ. of Maryland

9:30 AM

2.1

Stratospheric Ozone Response to Future Volcanic Eruptions

J. Eric Klobas, Harvard Univ., Cambridge, MA; and D. M. Wilmouth, D. Weisenstein, J. G. Anderson, and R. J. Salawitch

Recorded Presentation

9:45 AM

2.2

Stratospheric Injection of Bromine from VSL Biogenic Sources Inferred from CONTRAST and ATTREX Observations

Pamela Wales, Univ. of Maryland, College Park, MD; and R. J. Salawitch, J. M. Nicely, D. C. Anderson, T. Canty, E. Atlas, S. Schauffler, V. Donets, R. A. Lueb, M. Navarro, D. Chen, L. G. Huey, D. Tanner, R. Volkamer, T. Koenig, S. Baidar, B. Dix, A. Weinheimer, G. M. Wolfe, T. Hanisco, S. Hall, K. Ullmann, A. Saiz-Lopez, R. P. Fernandez, D. Kinnison, J. F. Lamarque, S. Honomichl, and L. L. Pan

Recorded Presentation

Session 2

Working With Large and Complex Datasets.

Location: Room 8 ABC (ACC) (Austin, Texas)

Host: Eighth Symposium on Advances in Modeling and Analysis Using Python

Chair: Scott Collis, Argonne National Laboratory

9:30 AM

2.1

PySpark for "Big" Atmospheric Data Analysis

Anderson Banihirwe, Univ. of Arkansas, Little Rock, AR; and K. Paul and D. Del Vento

Recorded Presentation

9:45 AM

2.2

Analyzing Large Radar Datasets Using Python

Robert Jackson, ANL, Argonne, IL; and S. Collis, Z. Sherman, G. Palanisamy, S. Giangrande, J. Kumar, and J. C. Hardin

Recorded Presentation

Session 2

MGA Update

Location: Room 3 (ACC) (Austin, Texas)

Host: 21st Atmospheric Science Librarians International Conference

Chair: Paula McCoy, Managing Editor, Science and Taxonomy

9:45 AM

2.1

New MGA and ProQuest Content and Features

Paula McCoy, Managing Editor, Science and Taxonomy

Recorded Presentation

Plenary Session 3

CMAAP and Air Pollution Meteorology Award Ceremony

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

Host: 20th Joint Conference on the Applications of Air Pollution Meteorology with the A&WMA

Coffee Break

Member Services Desk

Location: Atrium Lobby (Austin, Texas)

Session 2

Historical Weather and Climate Events, Forecasting, and Public Communication and Impacts—Part II

Location: Room 2 (ACC) (Austin, Texas)

Host: 16th History Symposium

Chair: Lourdes B. Avilés, Plymouth State University

10:30 AM

2.1

Verifying the John P. Finley 19th Century Historical Tornado Database

Timothy W. Troutman, NOAA/NWSFO, Riverton, WY

Recorded Presentation Manuscript (139.5 kB)

10:45 AM

2.2

Lessons We Must Learn—Deadly Tornadoes in Central Texas

Lon Curtis, Private Meteorologist, Round Rock, TX

Recorded Presentation Manuscript (531.1 kB)

11:00 AM

2.3

Weather on the Flip Side: Looking back at One of the Weather Bureau’s Early PR Efforts

Sean Potter, Weatherwise Magazine, Washington, DC

Recorded Presentation

11:15 AM

2.4

Congress and Meteorologists: Miscommunicating about Weather Control in the Early Cold War

Kristine C. Harper, Florida State Univ., Tallahassee, FL

Recorded Presentation

11:30 AM

2.5

Significant Eras in the Development of Operational Long-Range Weather Prediction

Robert William Reeves, NWS, Silver Spring, MD

Recorded Presentation

Panel Discussion 1

Defining “Vulnerability”: When One Size Fits None

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

Host: Sixth Symposium on Building a Weather-Ready Nation: Enhancing Our Nation

Moderator: Trevor Boucher, NOAA/NWSFO

Panelists: Linda Wasserman, Texas Impact; Rachella Shephard, Educational Resource Center on Deafness; Alyssa V. Bates, CIMMS/Univ. of Oklahoma and NWS Warning Decision Training Division; Matthew Bolton, How The Weatherworks

Keynote Speaker Session 1

Opening Keynote Presentation

Location: Room 3 (ACC) (Austin, Texas)

Host: 21st Atmospheric Science Librarians International Conference

Keynote: Katherine Heyhoe, Texas Tech Univ.

10:30 AM

KS1.1

Program Outline and Keynote Introduction

10:45 AM

KS1.2

Climate Change in Changing Times

Katherine Heyhoe, Texas Tech Univ., Lubbock, TX

Recorded Presentation

11:15 AM

KS1.3

Keynote Q&A

Session 2

AI Techniques for Environmental Science and Extreme Weather

Location: Room 7 (ACC) (Austin, Texas)

Host: 17th Conf on Artificial and Computational Intelligence and its Applications to the Environmental Sciences

Chair: William W. Hsieh, Univ. of British Columbia

10:30 AM

2.1

Applying Image Recognition to Enhance Fisheries Management Capabilities

Tzofi Klinghoffer, The Univ. of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, AL; and C. R. Perez, R. Vincent, P. Perdikaris, and C. Chryssostomidis

Recorded Presentation

Handout (20.7 MB)

10:45 AM

2.2

Computational Linguistics and the Communication of Weather Forecasts

Harvey Stern, Univ. of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia

Recorded Presentation Manuscript (248.1 kB)

Handout (255.8 kB)

2.3

Hail Swath Location Correction through Convolutional Neural Networks

11:15 AM

2.4

Predicting 12-hour Storm Reports Using Random Forest Classification

David Harrison, CIMMS/Univ. of Oklahoma/NOAA/SPC, Norman, OK; and J. W. Rogers

Recorded Presentation

11:30 AM

2.5

Assessing Uncertainty in Deep Learning Techniques that Identify Atmospheric Rivers in Climate Simulations

Ankur Mahesh, LBNL, Berkeley, CA; and T. A. O'Brien, M. Prabhat, and W. Collins

Recorded Presentation

11:45 AM

2.6

SASSE: Object-Oriented Analysis, Classifying and Nowcasting of Convective Storms in Finland

Roope Tervo, Finnish Meteorological Institute, Helsinki, Finland; and J. Karjalainen, S. Oksman, and P. Rossi

Recorded Presentation

Session 2

Active Learning Demonstrations from the Atmospheric Sciences

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

Host: 27th Symposium on Education

Cochairs: Danny E. Mattox, University of Oklahoma; Daria B. Kluver, Central Michigan Univ.

2.1

A Team-Based Learning Approach to Teaching Meteorology: Putting Students’ Education in Their Hands

Jana B. Houser, Ohio Univ., Athens, OH

Recorded Presentation

2.2

Developing New Methods in Winter Weather Warning Education in the NWS

James G. LaDue, NOAA/NWS/Office of Chief Learning Officer/Warning Decision Training Division, Norman, OK; and S. Mullens, A. V. Bates, M. J. Sienkiewicz, C. S. Spannagle, B. N. Grant, J. J. Zeltwanger, M. A. Bohorquez, and D. D. Streu

Recorded Presentation

2.3

Active Learning in Forecast Uncertainty Communication: A Role-Playing Game Demonstration

Tsvetomir Ross-Lazarov, UCAR/COMET, Boulder, CO; and B. Guarente and A. M. Smith

Recorded Presentation

2.4

Kinesthetic Learning of Atmospheric Dynamics

Perry J. Samson, Univ. of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI; and M. Moldwin

Recorded Presentation

2.5

An Example of Model-Based Inquiry: Teaching about Climate and Weather Models during a Greenhouse Effect Activity

Morgan Brown Yarker, Yarker Consulting, Cedar Rapids, IA

Recorded Presentation

2.6

The Greenhouse Gas Game: Using Play to Learn Complex Concepts

Renee Minaya, UCAR, Boulder, CO; and T. Barnes, E. Carpenter, B. Hatheway, A. Lotko, M. Mueller, and J. Ristvey Jr.

2.7

Clear vs Cloudy: NASA Hands-On Activities Relating Student Cloud Observations to Earth's Energy Budget

2.8

Drones for Engineering in the Atmospheric Sciences

John Ristvey Jr., UCAR, Boulder, CO; and R. Russell

2.9

Satellites 101: Basic Image Analysis Based on Resolution

Victoria L. Gorman, Citizen Science Education Program, Medford, NJ

Session 2

Advancing Forecast Capabilities for Aviation, Range, and Aerospace Decision Support

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

Host: Sixth Aviation, Range, and Aerospace Meteorology Special Symposium

Cochairs: Judy Ghiradelli, NWS; Tammy J. Farrar, FAA

10:30 AM

2.1

Calibrated Probabilistic Forecasts of Aviation Hazards Using Multiple Global Ensembles

Ken Stone, NCAR, Boulder, CO; and J. O. Pinto, M. Steiner, M. Strahan, R. Bass, and C. P. Kalb

Recorded Presentation

10:45 AM

2.2

Guidance on Optimally Presenting Probabilistic Ceiling and Visibility Forecasts for the Aviation Community

Stephanie Avey, NWS/NCEP/AWC, Kansas City, MO; and S. Alvidrez, S. A. Lack, A. Cross, J. A. Kankiewicz, and R. Bastholm

Recorded Presentation

11:00 AM

2.3

The High-Resolution Ensemble Forecast (HREF) System and Applications for Aviation Forecasting

Matthew E. Pyle, NOAA/NWS/NCEP/EMC, College Park, MD; and G. S. Manikin

Recorded Presentation

11:15 AM

2.4

How Collaborative Working Led to the Development of Probabilistic Forecasting Informing Binary Operational Decisions at Europe's Busiest Airport, London Heathrow

Jason Louis Kelly, Met Office, Exeter, UK

Recorded Presentation

2.5

Probabilistic Guidance for Lightning Cessation Within Isolated Convection Near Cape Canaveral, Florida

11:30 AM

2.5A

Improving Decision Support for the MQ-1/MQ-9 and Boeing X-37 Using a Rapidly Updating 1-km Ensemble, a GOES-based Convection Initiation Algorithm, and Service-Based Ensemble Products

Evan Kuchera, USAF 16th Weather Squadron, Offutt Air Force Base, NE

Recorded Presentation

11:45 AM

2.6

Improvements in the Detection and Prediction of Volcanic Ash for Aviation at the Australian Bureau of Meteorology

Chris Lucas, BOM, Melbourne, Australia; and R. J. Potts, M. J. Zidikheri, R. A. Dare, M. Manickam, A. Wain, and A. Bear-Crozier

Recorded Presentation

Session 2

Climate Change and Health

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

Host: Ninth Conference on Environment and Health

Chair: Kristie L. Ebi, Univ. of Washington

10:30 AM

2.1

The Health Risks at 2.0°C Climate Warming Are Higher Than the Risks at 1.5°C of Warming

Kristie L. Ebi, Univ. of Washington, Seattle, WA; and P. Berry, T. Hasegawa, K. Hayes, A. J. Monaghan, and S. Paz

2.2

The Potential Impacts of 1.5° and 2.0°C Global Warming Scenarios on Human Exposure to the Virus Vector Mosquito Aedes aegypti

10:45 AM

2.4

Present-Day and Future Population Dynamics of the Dengue Vector Mosquito Aedes aegypti Using a Water Container Energy Balance Model

Daniel F. Steinhoff, NCAR, Boulder, CO; and A. J. Monaghan

Recorded Presentation

2.3

Integrating U.S. Population and Flooding Projections to Evaluate Future Exposure Risks to Vulnerable Populations

11:00 AM

2.5

Building the U.S. Climate and Health Science Plan: Redefining the Path Forward

Juli Trtanj, NOAA, Silver Spring, MD; and J. Balbus

Recorded Presentation

11:15 AM

Discussion

Session 2

Community Global Modeling: Next Generation Global Prediction System (NGGPS) and beyond: Improvements in Global Models, Key Components of Global Models and Statistical Techniques to Evaluate Those Improvements—Part II

Location: Room 14 (ACC) (Austin, Texas)

Host: Eighth Conference on Transition of Research to Operations

Cochairs: Vijay Tallapragada, NOAA/NWS/NCEP/EMC; Curtis Alexander, NOAA/ESRL/GSD

10:30 AM

2.1

OSSE with NGGPS to Evaluate and Improve the Usage of Arctic Observations. Preparation for YIOO and beyond.

Michiko Masutani, EMC, College Park, MD; and D. H. Bromwich, J. Tribbia, and R. Grumbine

10:45 AM

2.2

Evaluating FV3 with Thompson Microphysics for Convection-Permitting Forecasting over CONUS in the Hazardous Weather Testbed Spring Experiment

Timothy A. Supinie, CAPS/Univ. of Oklahoma, Norman, OK; and M. Xue, L. Harris, and S. J. Lin

Recorded Presentation

11:00 AM

2.3

Synergistic and Collaborative Development Strategies for FV3 Powered Next Generation Unified Global Modeling System

William M. Putman, NASA, Greenbelt, MD; and S. J. Lin, L. Harris, and V. Tallapragada

Recorded Presentation

11:15 AM

2.4

Development and Test of the Scale-Aware Grell–Freitas Convection Parameterization within the Next Generation Global Prediction System (NGGPS)

Georg A. Grell, NOAA, Boulder, CO; and S. R. Freitas, J. B. Olson, S. Sun, T. G. Smirnova, and H. Li

Recorded Presentation

11:30 AM

2.5

Comparison of Microphysics Schemes in FV3GFS

Ruiyu Sun, NOAA/NWS/NCEP/EMC and IMSG, College Park, MD; and A. Chen, F. Yang, S. Moorthi, and V. Tallapragada

11:45 AM

2.6

Partial Cloudiness in Microphysics Schemes

Ruiyu Sun, NOAA/NWS/NCEP/EMC and IMSG, College Park, MD; and G. Thompson and V. Tallapragada

Session 2

Current and Future Observing Systems

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

Host: 22nd Conference on Integrated Observing and Assimilation Systems for the Atmosphere, Oceans, and Land Surface (IOAS-AOLS)

Chair: Sharanya J. Majumdar, Univ. of Miami/RSMAS

10:30 AM

2.1

Planning for NOAA's Operational Satellites for 2030 and Beyond-Priority Objectives from the Space Platform Requirements Working Group (SPRWG) (Invited Presentation)

Richard A. Anthes, UCAR, Boulder, CO

Recorded Presentation

Handout (6.1 MB)

11:00 AM

2.2

Intra-Agency Engagement in NOAA's Force Architecture/ Fleet Recapitalization

Amanda Mitchell, Integrity Applications Inc., Silver Spring, MD; and G. Nixon, S. Garver, J. A. Hubbard, and J. W. Peter

Recorded Presentation

11:15 AM

2.3

Using a Spectrum of OSSEs of Varying Complexity to Support Satellite Mission Design

Derek J. Posselt, JPL, Pasadena, CA; and H. Su, L. Wu, H. Nguyen, W. McCarty, and R. Atlas

11:30 AM

2.4

Assessing the Impact of New GNSS Radio Occultation Measurements with an Ensemble of Data Assimilations Approach

S. B. Healy, ECMWF, Reading, U.K.; and A. Horanyi

Recorded Presentation

11:45 AM

2.5

The WMO Integrated Observing System (WIGOS) as an Example of Integrated Observing Network Design

Lars Peter Riishojgaard, WMO, Geneva, Switzerland

Recorded Presentation

Session 2

Dynamics and Physics of the MJO

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

Host: Sixth Symposium on the Madden-Julian Oscillation and Sub-Seasonal Monsoon Variability

Cochairs: Naoko Sakaeda, NOAA; Ángel F. Adames, GFDL

10:30 AM

2.1

Boundary-Layer Diabatic Processes, the Virtual Effect, and Convective Self-Aggregation

Da Yang, Univ. of California, Davis, CA

10:45 AM

2.2

Trio-Interacton Theory for Madden–Julian Oscillation

Bin Wang, Univ. of Hawaii, Honolulu, HI; and G. Chen and F. Liu

Recorded Presentation

11:00 AM

2.3

The Multiscale Impacts of Organized Convection in Global 2D Cloud Resolving Models

Noah D. Brenowitz, Univ. of Washington, Seattle, WA; and A. J. Majda

Recorded Presentation

11:15 AM

2.4

The Dynamics of Westerly Wind Bursts

Minmin Fu, Harvard Univ., Cambridge, MA; and E. Tziperman

Recorded Presentation

11:30 AM

2.5

Modeling the Interaction of the Madden–Julian Oscillation and the Quasi-Biennial Oscillation

Zane K Martin, Columbia Univ., New York, NY; and S. Wang, J. Nie, and A. H. Sobel

Recorded Presentation

Handout (4.3 MB)

11:45 AM

2.6

Extratropical and Circumnavigating Circulation Precursors to the Onset of Madden–Julian Oscillation Deep Convection over the Western Indian Ocean

Jennifer A. Gahtan, SUNY, Albany, NY; and P. E. Roundy

Recorded Presentation

Session 2

Ensemble and Multimodel Forecasting — Part II: Methods and Practice

Location: Room 19AB (ACC) (Austin, Texas)

Host: 25th Conference on Probability and Statistics

Cochairs: Judy E. Ghirardelli, NOAA/NWS/Meteorological Development Laboratory; Isidora Jankov, CIRA/Colorado State Univ.

2.1

Enforcing Calibration in Ensemble Postprocessing

10:45 AM

2.2

Obtaining Consistent Probabilistic Predictions through Statistical Post-Processing of Ensembles

Nina Schuhen, Norwegian Computing Center, Oslo, Norway; and T. L. Thorarinsdottir and F. Stordal

11:00 AM

2.3

A Smart Extension of the Search Space for Use with the Analog Ensemble Technique

Laura Clemente-Harding, Pennsylvania State Univ., State College, PA; and G. S. Young, G. Cervone, L. Delle Monache, and S. E. Haupt

Recorded Presentation

11:15 AM

2.4

Probabilistic Forecasting of Snowfall Amounts Using a Hybrid between a Parametric and an Analog Approach

Michael Scheuerer, Univ. of Colorado, Boulder, CO

Recorded Presentation

11:30 AM

2.5

Performance of the 2017 Real-Time HWRF-Based Ensemble and Combined HWRF/HMON/COAMPS-TC Multimodel Ensemble

Zhan Zhang, NOAA, College Park, MD; and W. Wang, L. Zhu, B. Liu, A. Mehra, and V. Tallapragada

Recorded Presentation

11:45 AM

2.6

Initial Verification of IMPROVER: The New Met Office Post-Processing System

Jonathan Flowerdew, UKMO, Exeter, UK; and R. Crocker and R. Harbord

Recorded Presentation

Panel Discussion 2

Federal Agency Budgets for Weather, Water, and Climate: A Guide to Current Proposals and Recent Shifts

Location: Room 6B (ACC) (Austin, Texas)

Host: 13th Symposium on Societal Applications: Policy, Research and Practice

Moderator: Paul Higgins, AMS Policy Program

Panelists: Michael Henry, American Institute of Physics; Jack D. Fellows, ORNL (Retired)

Session 2

Intercomparison and Calibration of Instruments II

Location: Room 13AB (ACC) (Austin, Texas)

Host: 19th Symposium on Meteorological Observation and Instrumentation

Chair: Alexandria McCombs, Univ. of South Carolina

10:30 AM

2.1

Errors and Adjustments for WMO-SPICE Tipping-Bucket Precipitation Gauges

John Kochendorfer, NOAA, Oak Ridge, TN; and M. E. Earle, A. Reverdin, R. Nitu, R. Rasmussen, Y. A. Roulet, S. Buisan, S. D. Landolt, and T. Laine

Recorded Presentation

10:45 AM

2.2

Intercomparison of New York State Mesonet Wind Data: Propeller Wind Monitor versus Sonic Anemometer

Junhong Wang, SUNY, Albany, NY; and N. Bain, N. Bassill, and J. A. Brotzge

Recorded Presentation

11:00 AM

2.3

Challenges and Solutions for Calibration of Rain Measurements from Novel Weather Stations

Shane Bussmann, Understory, Inc., Somerville, MA; and K. E. Willmot and A. Kubicek

Recorded Presentation

11:15 AM

2.4

Intercomparison of Three Generations of Infrared Gas Analyzers

Seth Laurence Kutikoff, Kansas State Univ., Manhattan, KS; and X. Lin, S. R. Evett, P. Gowda, P. D. Colaizzi, J. Moorhead, G. Marek, D. Brauer, and R. Aiken

Recorded Presentation

11:30 AM

2.5

A Comparison of Vertical Motion Estimates within Supercells during C³LOUD-Ex

Peter J. Marinescu, Colorado State Univ., Fort Collins, CO; and S. C. van den Heever, A. J. Drager, L. D. Grant, S. W. Freeman, P. C. Kennedy, and M. M. Bell

2.6

Evaluation of Some Candidates for Measuring the Reference Air Temperature Including Very Thin Thermocouples and Ground-Based Microwave Radiometer

Session 2

Major Weather Impacts of 2017 - Cool Season Events

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

Host: Major Weather Events and Impacts of 2017

Chair: Charles Woodrum, NWS

10:30 AM

2.1

The Fickle Winter of 2016-17 (Invited Presentation)

David Novak, NOAA/NWS/NCEP, College Park, MD

Recorded Presentation

10:45 AM

2.2

Impactful Rains in California and Snow, Ice, and Cold in Oregon in Early 2017

Lance F. Bosart, SUNY, Albany, NY; and T. Burg and A. M. Bentley

Recorded Presentation

11:00 AM

2.3

Observations of California’s Epic 2017 Water Year from Satellite and a 21^st Century Ground-based Observing Network

Allen B. White, NOAA, Boulder, CO; and P. J. Neiman, D. J. Gottas, G. A. Wick, M. Hughes, and L. S. Darby

Recorded Presentation

11:15 AM

2.4

Rockslides Result in 12-day Full Closure on US-101 Along North Coast of California During Late April 2017

Richard Lam, NWS, Eureka, CA

Recorded Presentation

11:30 AM

2.5

An Extreme early spring weather event across the Central Upper Peninsula of Michigan: Microburst to a foot of Snow

Jaclyn M. Ritzman, NWS, Negaunee, MI; and D. Beachler

Recorded Presentation

11:45 AM

2.6

Uncertainty and risk: An analysis of the March 13-14, 2017 snowstorm impacting the Mid Atlantic and Northeast United States

Denna Geppi, NOAA, Silver Spring, MD; and J. Jankot

Recorded Presentation

Session 2

Nationwide Network of Networks

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

Host: Sixth Symposium on the Weather, Water, and Climate Enterprise

Chair: John Horel, Univ. of Utah

10:30 AM

2.1

Community Consensus on Greatest Observational Needs: Results from a Survey of the 2017 AMS Annual Meeting Presenters (Invited Presentation)

Frederick H. Carr, Univ. of Oklahoma, Norman, OK; and T. W. Schlatter and S. M. Hitchcock

Recorded Presentation

11:00 AM

2.2

The Operational Value of National Mesonet Observations

Steve Woll, Synoptic Data

Recorded Presentation

11:15 AM

2.3

The DTN/Pioneer Ag Weather Network in 2018

James H. Block, DTN, Minneapolis, MN; and D. Austin

Recorded Presentation

Handout (1.5 MB)

11:30 AM

2.4

TexMesonet: Lessons from a Texas Statewide Mesonet

Kantave M. Greene, Texas Water Development Board, Austin, TX

Recorded Presentation

11:45 AM

2.5

CASA WX: How Users Are Benefiting from a Network of Networks Deployment in Dallas–Fort Worth

Apoorva Bajaj, Univ. of Massachusetts Amherst, Amherst, MA; and B. Philips, V. Chandrasekar, E. J. Lyons, H. Chen, F. Junyent, M. Zink, K. A. Brewster, and F. H. Carr

Recorded Presentation

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

Session 2

Paleoclimate Analysis and Projection

Location: Room 4ABC (ACC) (Austin, Texas)

Host: Third Symposium on Multi-scale Predictability: Data-model Integration and Uncertainty Quantification for Climate and Earth System Monitoring and Prediction

Chair: Fuqing Zhang, Pennsylvania State Univ.

10:30 AM

2.1

Loooong Tails: Reducing Uncertainty in Projections of Sea Level (Core Science Keynote)

Richard B. Alley, Pennsylvania State Univ., University Park, PA

Recorded Presentation

11:00 AM

2.2

Tibetan Multiple Spheres Interactions, Dynamics, and Global Linkages: A Paleoclimate Perspective from the World's Highest Ice Fields (Invited Presentation)

Lonnie G Thompson, Ohio State Univ., Columbus, OH; and T. Yao, M. E. Davis, E. Mosley-Thompson, and S. E. Porter

Recorded Presentation

11:30 AM

2.3

Observations, Reanalysis, and Modeling of the Regional Climate and Water Cycle at the Earth’s Third Pole (Invited Presentation)

Deliang Chen, Univ. of Gothenburg, Gothenburg, Sweden

Manuscript (124.3 kB)

Session 2

Results from the Great American Solar Eclipse

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

Host: 15th Conference on Space Weather

Chair: Barbara Thompson, NASA

10:30 AM

2.1

Ionospheric Signatures of the 21 August 2017 Solar Eclipse

Anthea Coster, MIT, Westford, MA; and L. Goncharenko, S. Zhang, P. J. Erickson, J. Soohoo, E. Derome, J. Swoboda, G. Earle, L. Kordella, D. J. Knipp, and T. Bullet

Recorded Presentation

10:45 AM

2.2

The Far-Away Effects of Solar Eclipse

Larisa Goncharenko, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Westford, MA; and A. Coster, P. J. Erickson, and S. Zhang

Recorded Presentation

11:00 AM

2.3

Radiosoundings during the Great American Eclipse from Multiple United States Locations with Differing Eclipse Magnitudes

Chris Vagasky, Vaisala, Inc., Louisville, CO

Recorded Presentation

11:15 AM

2.4

Small Unmanned Aircraft System Flights during the 2017 Solar Eclipse

Edward J. Dumas Jr., NOAA and Oak Ridge Associated Universities, Oak Ridge, TN; and T. Lee, M. Buban, R. J. Dobosy, and B. B. Baker

Recorded Presentation

11:30 AM

2.5

Impact of Eclipse of 21 August 2017 on the Atmospheric Boundary Layer

Kevin R. Knupp, Univ. of Alabama, Huntsville, AL; and R. A. Wade and B. M. Lund

Recorded Presentation

11:45 AM

2.6

Initial Results of HamSCI Ham Radio 21 August 2017 Eclipse Ionospheric Experiments

Nathaniel A. Frissell, Ham Radio Science Citizen Investigation, Newark, NJ; and J. R. Ackermann, D. Bern, F. Ceglia, G. Earle, P. J. Erickson, A. Gerrard, R. Gerzoff, P. Gladstone, S. W. Gunning, J. D. Huba, J. D. Katz, E. Miller, M. Moses, S. E. Reyer, S. W. Rose, A. Shovkoplyas, H. W. Silver, P. Smith, J. S. Vega, M. L. West, and R. Williams

Recorded Presentation

Session 2

Specialized Applications: Emergency Response, Defense, and Air Transportation

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

Host: 20th Joint Conference on the Applications of Air Pollution Meteorology with the A&WMA

Chair: Ronald G. Meris, Defense Threat Reduction Agency

10:30 AM

2.1

How Emergency Response Decision-Makers Utilize the Hazard Estimates from Airborne Contaminant Modeling

Ronald Meris, Defense Threat Reduction Agency, Ft. Belvoir, VA

Recorded Presentation

10:45 AM

2.2

HPAC 6.4 Model Validation and Analysis: Assessing DTRA Reachback Real-World Cases

Yaítza Luna-Cruz, Defense Threat Reduction Agency Reachback, Fort Belvoir, VA; and S. Runyon

Recorded Presentation

11:00 AM

2.3

Incorporation of Visibility Estimates into the Sage Toolkit

Steven E. Peckham, U.S. Army, Hanover, NH; and D. Khona and M. Paquette

11:15 AM

2.4

Plume Rise from Aircraft Sources

Jeffrey Weil, NCAR, Boulder, CO; and S. Arunachalam

Recorded Presentation

2.5

CALPUFF Modeling of Accidental Releases

11:45 AM

2.6

Justifying Use of On-Site Meteorological Observations in Modeling Annual Integrated Impacts on Population within 50 Miles of a Coastal Nuclear Power Plant

Steven R. Hanna, Hanna Consultants, Kennebunkport, ME; and E. Hendrick

Recorded Presentation

Session 2

The Second Wind Forecast Improvement Project (WFIP2): Part I

Location: Room 15 (ACC) (Austin, Texas)

Host: Ninth Conference on Weather, Climate, and the New Energy Economy

Cochairs: Caroline Draxl, National Renewable Energy Laboratory; Yelena Pichugina, NOAA/ESRL/Chemical Sciences Division (CSD) and CIRES/Univ. of Colorado

10:30 AM

2.1

The Wind Forecast Improvement Prohect 2 (WFIP2): Overview and Preliminary Model Improvements

Melinda Marquis, NOAA, Boulder, CO; and J. Olson, J. Kenyon, M. D. Toy, Y. Pichugina, A. Choukulkar, T. A. Bonin, R. Banta, L. Bianco, I. V. Djalalova, K. McCaffrey, J. M. Wilczak, K. Lantz, C. N. Long, S. Redfern, J. McCaa, E. P. Grimit, J. W. Cline, W. Shaw, and J. Sharp

Recorded Presentation

10:45 AM

2.2

Improvements to Low-Level Wind Forecasts in Complex Terrain from WFIP2

Jaymes S. Kenyon, NOAA/ESRL and CIRES, Univ. of Colorado, Boulder, CO; and J. B. Olson, M. D. Toy, J. M. Brown, W. M. Angevine, M. Marquis, Y. Pichugina, A. Choukulkar, T. A. Bonin, R. Banta, L. Bianco, I. V. Djalalova, K. McCaffrey, J. M. Wilczak, K. Lantz, C. N. Long, S. Redfern, J. Sharp, J. McCaa, M. T. Stoelinga, E. P. Grimit, J. W. Cline, W. J. Shaw, J. K. Lundquist, K. A. Lundquist, B. Kosovic, P. A. Jimenez, L. K. Berg, and V. R. Kotamarthi

Recorded Presentation

11:00 AM

2.3

Identification and Analysis of Forecast Model Large Error Events During WFIP2

James Wilczak, NOAA/ESRL, Boulder, CO; and K. McCaffrey, I. V. Djalalova, L. Bianco, J. B. Olson, J. Kenyon, M. T. Stoelinga, J. Sharp, M. Pekour, D. Cook, G. Scott, R. Eckman, and S. Otarola-Bustos

Recorded Presentation

11:15 AM

2.4

Identification and Characterization of Cold Pool Events during WFIP2

Katherine McCaffrey, CIRES, Boulder, CO; and J. M. Wilczak, L. Bianco, I. V. Djalalova, R. Banta, T. A. Bonin, W. A. Brewer, A. Choukulkar, D. Cook, R. L. Coulter, H. J. S. Fernando, K. Friedrich, L. Leo, J. K. Lundquist, P. Muradyan, and Y. Pichugina

Recorded Presentation

11:30 AM

2.5

Sensitivity of Turbine Height Wind Speeds to Parameters in Planetary Boundary Layer and Surface Layer Schemes in WRF: Extension to Wintertime Conditions

Larry K. Berg, PNNL, Richland, WA; and Y. Liu, B. Yang, Y. Qian, P. L. Ma, and Z. Hou

Recorded Presentation

11:45 AM

2.6

Parametric and Initial Condition Sensitivity of Wind Ramp Events

Nicholas H. Smith, Texas Tech Univ., Lubbock, TX; and B. C. Ancell

Recorded Presentation

Session 2

Transforming Communication through Co-Production of Knowledge II

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

Host: 13th Symposium on Societal Applications: Policy, Research and Practice

Cochairs: Renee McPherson, Univ. of Oklahoma; Jennifer A. Spinney, Univ. of Western Ontario

10:30 AM

2.1

Engaging with Users of Climate Information and the Co-Production of Knowledge

Michael C. Kruk, Earth Resources Technology, Inc., Asheville, NC; and B. A. A. Parker, R. S. Vose, J. Marra, R. R. Heim Jr., K. Werner, and P. Malsale

Recorded Presentation

10:45 AM

2.2

Practical Tips to Establish an Actionable Science Portfolio

Gustavo A. Bisbal, Northwest Climate Science Center, Corvallis, OR

Recorded Presentation Manuscript (80.2 kB)

11:00 AM

2.3

Using Citizen Science to Support Drought-Related Decision-Making

Amanda Farris, Carolinas Integrated Sciences and Assessments, Columbia, SC; and K. Lackstrom

Recorded Presentation

11:15 AM

2.4

Communication across Worldviews: Utilizing Knowledge Coproduction on Hawaiʻi Island to Thrive through Climate Change While Preparing for the Future

Scott Laursen, Pacific Islands Climate Science Center, Hilo, HI; and S. Ziegler-Chong

Recorded Presentation

Handout (932.3 kB)

11:30 AM

2.5

Inclusive Co-Production and Communication for Effective Service Production within WISER (Weather and Climate Information Services for Africa)

Claire Scannell, UKMO, Exeter, UK; and B. Leathes

Recorded Presentation

2.6

Co-Produce In Transdisciplinarity

Session 2A

Drought Analysis and Prediction, Part I

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

Host: 32nd Conference on Hydrology

Cochairs: Michael Hobbins, CIRES; Mark D. Svoboda, National Drought Mitigation Center; Jason A. Otkin, Univ. of Wisconsin–Madison; Joshua K. Roundy, Univ. of Kansas

10:30 AM

2A.1

Impacts of Pixel Scale and Phenology on the Satellite-Based Evaporative Stress Index (Invited Presentation)

Martha C. Anderson, USDA-ARS, Beltsville, MD; and Y. Yang, F. Gao, C. Hain, J. A. Otkin, and Y. Yang

Recorded Presentation

10:45 AM

2A.2

Developing Integrative Soil Moisture Products to Improve Drought Monitoring and Forecasting in the United States (Invited Presentation)

Trent Ford, Southern Illinois Univ., Carbondale, IL; and S. M. Quiring, J. M. Lucido, and M. L. Strobel

Recorded Presentation

11:00 AM

2A.3

Drought Depiction in the Noah-MP (Multiphysics) Land Surface Model in the North American Land Data Assimilation System (NLDAS)

David M. Mocko, SAIC at NASA GSFC, Greenbelt, MD; and C. D. Peters-Lidard, S. Wang, S. V. Kumar, and Y. Xia

Recorded Presentation

11:15 AM

2A.4

The Evaporative Stress Index as an Indictor for Flash Drought Across the United States Using Reanalysis Datasets

Jordan I. Christian, Univ. of Oklahoma, Norman, OK; and J. B. Basara, J. A. Otkin, E. D. Hunt, and X. Xiao

Recorded Presentation

11:30 AM

2A.5

Monitoring Droughts and Floods through the Assimilation of GRACE and GRACE Follow-On Data

Matthew Rodell, NASA, Greenbelt, MD; and B. Li, H. Beaudoing, A. Getirana, S. V. Kumar, B. F. Zaitchik, S. V. Bettadpur, H. Save, B. Wardlow, and M. D. Svoboda

Recorded Presentation

11:45 AM

2A.6

Development of a Global Evaporative Stress Index Based on Thermal and Microwave LST toward Improved Monitoring of Agricultural Drought

Christopher Hain, NASA Marshall Space Flight Center, Huntsville, AL; and M. C. Anderson, J. A. Otkin, T. R. H. Holmes, F. Gao, and X. Zhan

Recorded Presentation

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 2A

Role of Water in Shaping Features of the Climate System

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

Host: 31st Conference on Climate Variability and Change

Cochairs: Jonathan E. Martin, Univ. of Wisconsin–Madison; Samuel N. Stechmann, Univ. of Wisconsin

10:30 AM

2A.1

Water Vapor Phase Changes and the Mesoscale Dynamics of Heavy Precipitation

Gary Lackmann, North Carolina State Univ., Raleigh, NC

Recorded Presentation

10:45 AM

2A.2

Assessing the Impacts of Climate Variability on Extratropical Cyclone Development and Strength

Gregory Tierney, North Carolina State Univ., Raleigh, NC; and D. J. Posselt and J. F. Booth

Recorded Presentation

11:00 AM

2A.3

Moist Baroclinic Instability over a Wide Range of Climates: From Periodic Waves to Diabatic Rossby Vortices

Paul A. O'Gorman, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA; and T. M. Merlis and M. S. Singh

Recorded Presentation

11:15 AM

2A.4

Precipitating Quasigeostrophic Equations and Potential Vorticity Inversion with Phase Changes

Leslie M. Smith, Univ. of Wisconsin, Madison, WI; and S. N. Stechmann

Recorded Presentation

11:30 AM

2A.5

The Influence of Microphysics Parameterizations on Medium-Range Forecasts of Hemispheric Waviness

Jessica R. Taheri, Univ. of Wisconsin, Madison, WI; and J. E. Martin

Recorded Presentation

11:45 AM

2A.6

The Sensitivity of the Water Vapor Budget to SSTs and Aerosols within Radiative Equilibrium Experiments

Susan C. van den Heever, Colorado State Univ., Fort Collins, CO; and L. D. Grant, S. R. Herbener, and S. M. Saleeby

Recorded Presentation

Session 2B

Decadal–Multidecadal Variability (Predictability) in the Pacific

Location: 616 AB (Hilton) (Austin, Texas)

Host: 31st Conference on Climate Variability and Change

Cochairs: R. Saravanan, Texas A&M Univ.; Pedro DiNezio, Univ. of Texas

10:30 AM

2B.1

Characterizing Pacific Ocean Regime Shifts

Matthew Newman, CIRES/Univ. of Colorado and NOAA/ESRL/Physical Sciences Division, Boulder, CO; and S. Kumar

10:45 AM

2B.2

The impact of Low-Level Cloud Feedback on Persistent Changes in Atmospheric Circulation in the Pacific

Robert Burgman, Florida International Univ., Miami, FL; and B. Kirtman, A. C. Clement, and H. Vazquez

11:00 AM

2B.3

Decadal Attribution of the Fast Warming and Global Warming Hiatus Periods in the ERA-Interim

Xiaoming Hu, Florida State Univ., Tallahassee, FL; and S. A. Sejas, M. Cai, P. C. Taylor, Y. Deng, and S. Yang

11:15 AM

2B.4

Role of Stochastic Atmospheric Forcing in Tropical Pacific Decadal Variability and ENSO Modulation

Tianyi Sun, The Univ. of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX; and Y. M. Okumura

Recorded Presentation

11:30 AM

2B.5

Climatology and ENSO variation of Outgoing Longwave Radiation as Depicted By TOVS, AIRS, CERES, and MERRA2

Jae N. Lee, JCET, Baltimore, MD; and J. Susskind, L. Iredell, and Y. K. Lim

11:45 AM

2B.6

Characterizing Pacific Decadal Variability Using Dynamical Systems Theory and Machine Learning

Nandini Ramesh, Columbia Univ., Palisades, NY; and M. A. Cane

Recorded Presentation

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

Session 2B

Precipitation Processes and Observations for Atmospheric, Land Surface, and Hydrological Modeling, Part I

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

Host: 32nd Conference on Hydrology

Cochairs: Emad Habib, Univ. of Louisiana; Yu Zhang, Univ. of Texas at Austin; Paul A. Kucera, UCAR

10:30 AM

2B.1

An Operational Passive Microwave Snowfall Rate Product and Its Application in Hydrology

Huan Meng, NOAA/NESDIS/Center for Satellite Applications and Research, College Park, MD; and J. Dong, C. Kongoli, R. R. Ferraro, B. Yan, L. Zhao, P. Xie, and R. Joyce

Recorded Presentation

10:45 AM

2B.2

Errors Analysis on Estimating Raindrop Size Distribution in a Mei-Yu Front Heavy Rainfall Process

Zhimin Zhou, Institute of Heavy Rain, China Meteorological Administration, Wuhan City, China; and Z. Fu

2B.3

Hydrometeorological Forcing Errors for a Real-Time Flood Forecast System in the Ohio River Valley

11:00 AM

2B.3A

Global-Scale Evaluation of 22 Precipitation Datasets Using Gauge Observations and Hydrological Modeling

Hylke Beck, Princeton Univ., Princeton, NJ; and N. Vergopolan, M. Pan, V. Levizzani, A. I. J. M. van Dijk, G. Weedon, L. Brocca, F. Pappenberger, G. J. Huffman, and E. F. Wood

Recorded Presentation

11:15 AM

2B.4

Multi-Radar Multi-Sensor (MRMS) QPE Products Update—2016/2017

Jian Zhang, NOAA/NSSL, Norman, OK; and K. W. Howard, L. Tang, S. M. Martinaitis, Y. Qi, S. B. Cocks, C. Langston, B. T. Kaney, and K. Cooper

11:30 AM

2B.5

Comparison of Ground-Based Observations for Detecting Falling Snow

Bailey Swick, St. Cloud State Univ., Thief River Falls, MN; and A. Tokay, D. A. Marks, J. L. Pippitt, D. B. Wolff, and W. Petersen

Recorded Presentation

11:45 AM

2B.6

Probabilistic Quantitative Precipitation Estimates with Ground- and Space-Based Radars

Pierre-Emmanuel Kirstetter, Univ. of Oklahoma, Norman, OK; and J. J. Gourley and J. Zhang

Recorded Presentation

Session 3

Model Data Fusion

Location: Room 8 ABC (ACC) (Austin, Texas)

Host: Eighth Symposium on Advances in Modeling and Analysis Using Python

Chair: Johnny Lin, Univ. of Washington

10:30 AM

3.1

MetPy Advancement and Community-Driven Development

Ryan M. May, UCAR/Unidata, Boulder, CO; and J. R. Leeman

Recorded Presentation

10:45 AM

3.2

The Pythonic Future of Postprocessing at ECMWF

Stephan Siemen, ECMWF, Reading, U.K.; and I. Russell and B. Raoult

Recorded Presentation

11:00 AM

3.3

FV3py: A Python-Based Integration Platform for FV3 Development

Xi Chen, NOAA/GFDL, Plainsboro, NJ

Recorded Presentation

11:15 AM

3.4

TINT—TINT Is Not TITAN. Easy-to-Use Tracking Code Based on TITAN—Details and Uses

Mark H. Picel, ANL, Argonne, IL; and S. Collis, B. Raut, S. Carani, R. Jackson, M. van Lier-Walqui, and A. M. Fridlind

Recorded Presentation

11:30 AM

3.5

From Storm Prediction Center: Science Support Branch Import Science, Research, and Operations

Race Clark III, CIMMS, Norman, OK; and D. Cleaver, J. Correia Jr., M. S. Elliott, C. Grunzke, R. M. Hepper, C. D. Karstens, J. Liang, N. J. Nauslar, B. Roberts, N. A. Wendt, and P. T. Marsh

Recorded Presentation

11:45 AM

3.6

Python for Radiance Diagnostics in the Global Forecast Dropout Prediction Tool

Andrew Eichmann, NOAA/NESDIS, College Park, MD; and K. Kumar and J. C. Alpert

Recorded Presentation

Session 3A

Atmospheric Halogen Chemistry—Part II

Location: Room 9 C (ACC) (Austin, Texas)

Host: 20th Conference on Atmospheric Chemistry

Chair: Ross Salawitch, Univ. of Maryland

10:30 AM

3A.1

Inorganic Bromine and Iodine over the Tropical Eastern and Western Pacific Ocean: Insights from Recent Aircraft Campaigns

R. Volkamer, Univ. of Colorado Boulder, Boulder, CO; and T. Koenig, B. Dix, and S. Baidar

Recorded Presentation

11:00 AM

3A.2

Modelling the Impact of Reactive Halogens on Tropospheric Ozone

Alfonso Saiz-Lopez, Institute of Physical Chemistry Rocasolano–Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas, Madrid, Spain

Recorded Presentation

11:30 AM

3A.3

The Montreal Protocol and the Pathway from CFCs to Climate-Friendly Compounds and Technologies

Paul A. Newman, NASA GSFC, Greenbelt, MD; and D. W. Fahey, E. L. Fleming, M. M. Hurwitz, F. Li, Q. Liang, S. A. Montzka, J. A. Pyle, B. Safari, and G. Velders

Session 3B

Measurement and Modeling of Atmospheric Ammonia—Part II

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

Host: 20th Conference on Atmospheric Chemistry

Cochairs: Jeff Collett, Colorado State Univ.; Xiaohong Liu, Univ. of Wyoming

10:30 AM

3B.1

Atmospheric Ammonia over China: Emission Estimates and Deposition Budget (Invited Presentation)

Lin Zhang, Peking Univ., Beijing, China; and Y. Chen and Y. Zhao

Recorded Presentation

10:45 AM

3B.2

Atmospheric NH₃ Dynamics in Relation to PM_2.5 Pollution in the North China Plain (Invited Presentation)

Xuejun Liu, China Agricultural Univ., Beijing, Beijing, China; and W. Xu, Y. Zhang, and A. Tang

11:00 AM

3B.3

The Underappreciated Role of Nonvolatile Cations on Aerosol Ammonium–Sulfate Molar Ratios

Rodney Weber, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA; and H. Guo and A. Nenes

Recorded Presentation

11:15 AM

3B.4

Increased Atmospheric Ammonia over the World’s Major Agricultural Areas Detected from Space

J. X. Warner, Univ. of Maryland, College Park, MD; and Z. Wei, R. R. Dickerson, L. L. Strow, Y. Wang, and Q. Liang

Recorded Presentation

11:30 AM

3B.5

New Cross-Track Infrared Sounder (CrIS) Satellite Observations of Ammonia: Retrievals, Validation, and Spatiotemporal Variability

Karen E. Cady-Pereira, AER, Lexington, MA; and M. W. Shephard

Recorded Presentation

11:45 AM

3B.6

Initial Applications of the New Cross-Track Infrared Sounder (CrIS) Satellite Observations of Ammonia

Mark W. Shephard, Environment Canada, Toronto, Canada; and S. K. Kharol, C. McLinden, C. E. Sioris, K. Cady-Pereira, E. Dammers, J. J. Siemons, L. Zhang, C. Whaley, J. Zhang, A. Segers, M. Schaap, J. M. O'Brien, P. A. Makar, and R. Vet

Recorded Presentation

Joint Session 6

Bob's Legacy Continued: Mentoring and AMS Involvement

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

Hosts: (Joint between the Robert T. Ryan Symposium; and the 46th Conference on Broadcast Meteorology )

Chair: Todd Glickman, MIT

J6.1

Paper J6.1 has been moved. New paper number J1.3A

10:30 AM

J6.2

Passing Knowledge of Meteorology from Generation to Generation

Joe Murgo, WTAJ-TV, Altoona, PA

10:45 AM

J6.3

Mentoring: An Integral Part of the Meteorological Profession

H. Michael Mogil, How The Weatherworks, Naples, FL

Recorded Presentation

11:00 AM

J6.4

The Roadmap: Become an AMS-Certified Broadcast Meteorologist

Irene Sans, WFTV/ClimaData, Orlando, FL; and E. McGiffin

Recorded Presentation

11:15 AM

J6.5

The AMS Board of Best Practices: Communicating Winter Weather Forecast Uncertainty

George Frederick Jr., Univ. of the Incarnate Word, Georgetown, TX; and G. J. Mulvey

Recorded Presentation

11:30 AM

J6.6

Yes, You Can Be a Station Scientist...Even When the Producer Says "No!"

Paul H. Gross, WDIV-TV, Detroit, MI

Recorded Presentation

11:45 AM

J6.7

The Great Idea I Stole from Bob Ryan, and Why You Should Steal It Too

Dan Satterfield, WBOC-TV-16, Salisbury, MD

Recorded Presentation

Joint Session 7

Communicating the Value of Satellite Data to the Public

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

Hosts: (Joint between the 14th Annual Symposium on New Generation Operational Environmental Satellite Systems; the 22nd Conference on Satellite Meteorology and Oceanography; the 13th Symposium on Societal Applications: Policy, Research and Practice; and the Sixth AMS Symposium on the Joint Center for Satellite Data Assimilation )

Cochairs: Kathryn Shontz, NOAA/NESDIS/OSAAP; Susan A. Jasko, California University of Pennsylvania

10:30 AM

J7.1

Communicating Value: A Mutual Exploration, an Ongoing Conversation—Not a Sales Pitch

William Hooke, Associate Executive Director of AMS, Washington, DC

Recorded Presentation Manuscript (177.3 kB)

11:00 AM

J7.2

Communicating the Value of the Satellite Data: Examples from NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information

Margarita Gregg, NOAA/NESDIS/NCEI, Asheville, NC; and K. Arzayus, M. J. Brewer, K. S. Casey, E. Kihn, K. V. Matthews, S. Mesick, J. L. Privette, N. A. Ritchey, M. Tanner, R. S. Vose, and M. Wohlgemuth

Recorded Presentation

11:15 AM

J7.3

Communicating the Impact of Polar-Orbiting Satellite Data on Numerical Weather Prediction to Stakeholders: Some Lessons Learned

James G. Yoe, NOAA/NWS/NCEP, College Park, MD; and S. A. Boukabara and S. Lord

Recorded Presentation

11:30 AM

J7.4

What Is a Satellite Measurement? Communicating Abstract Satellite Science Concepts to the World

Nadia Smith, Science and Technology Corporation, Columbia, MD; and K. Shontz and C. D. Barnet

Recorded Presentation Manuscript (122.5 kB)

Handout (3.4 MB)

11:45 AM

J7.5

Persuading Non-Technical Audiences to Support Investment in Earth Observations: Or, How to Think Like an Ancient Roman

Renata Lana, NOAA, Silver Spring, MD

Recorded Presentation

Joint Session 8

Impacts of Aerosol–Cloud Interaction on Radiation

Location: Room 12A (ACC) (Austin, Texas)

Hosts: (Joint between the 10th Symposium on Aerosol-Cloud-Climate Interactions; and the 20th Conference on Atmospheric Chemistry )

Cochairs: Jun Wang, Univ. of Iowa; Zhibo Zhang, Univ. of Maryland

10:30 AM

J8.1

Microphysical and Dynamical Cloud Regimes as Tools for Studying the Impacts of Aerosol–Cloud Interactions on Radiation

Lazaros Oreopoulos, NASA/GSFC, Greenbelt, MD; and N. Cho and D. Lee

10:45 AM

J8.2

Radiative and Cloud Responses to Absorbing Aerosols in a Global Climate Model (Invited Presentation)

Yan Feng, Argonne National Laboratory, Argonne, IL

Recorded Presentation

11:00 AM

J8.3

The Essential Interaction of Clouds and Sunlight: Need for More Accurate Modeling of Photochemistry and Solar Heating Rates

Michael J. Prather, Univ. of California, Irvine, CA; and J. Hsu

11:15 AM

J8.4

Effects of Biomass Smoke from Southern Africa on Stratocumulus over the Southeastern Atlantic based on Satellite Observations and WRF-Chem Model Simulations (Invited Presentation)

Xiaohong Liu, Univ. of Wyoming, Laramie, WY; and Z. Lu, Z. Zhang, C. Zhao, K. Meyer, C. Wu, C. Rajapakshe, Z. Yang, and J. E. Penner

Recorded Presentation

11:30 AM

J8.5

Modeling the Impact of New Particle Formation on Regional Cloud Radiative Forcing

Ryan C. Sullivan, Cornell Univ., Ithaca, NY; and P. Crippa, H. Matsui, R. Leung, C. Zhao, A. Thota, and S. C. Pryor

11:45 AM

J8.6

The Roles of Aerosols and Coupling State of Marine Stratocumulus in Determining Cloud Cover and Radiative Effects: Implications to Climate and Geoengineering

Daniel Rosenfeld, Hebrew Univ. of Jerusalem, Jerusalem, Israel; and D. Giguzin

Recorded Presentation

Session 8

Perspectives on Leadership for Early Career Professionals

Location: Room 6A (ACC) (Austin, Texas)

Host: Sixth AMS Conference for Early Career Professionals

Cochairs: Matthew C. Lacke, Jefferson County Department of Health; Mona Behl, The Univ. of Georgia; Jared Rennie, CICS/North Carolina State Univ.; Bradford Johnson, The Univ. of Georgia

Moderator: Matthew C. Lacke, Jefferson County Department of Health

Speakers: Dr. Sepideh Yalda, Millersville Univ.; Michelle D. Hawkins, NOAA/NWS; Mary Glackin, The Weather Company; Mike Clay

Joint Session 9

Soil Dust II: Lofting, Transport, Characterization, and Interactions with Clouds and Climate

Location: Room 9AB (ACC) (Austin, Texas)

Hosts: (Joint between the 10th Symposium on Aerosol-Cloud-Climate Interactions; and the 20th Conference on Atmospheric Chemistry )

Cochairs: Ottmar Möhler, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology; Naruki Hiranuma, West Texas A&M Univ.

10:30 AM

J9.1

Intercomparison of Ice Nucleation Measurements at a Mountaintop Field Observatory (Invited Presentation)

Sarah D. Brooks, Texas A&M Univ., College Station, TX; and S. S. Petters, D. J. Cziczo, P. J. DeMott, M. D. Petters, K. D. Froyd, M. A. Zawadowicz, A. G. Hallar, I. B. McCubbin, and F. Team

Recorded Presentation

11:00 AM

J9.2

Saharan Dust Signature Characterization during AEROSE 2015

Daniel Yeager, Howard Univ., Washington, DC; and V. R. Morris

Recorded Presentation

11:15 AM

J9.3

Frequency and Characteristics of Volcanic Ash and Dust Suspension Events in Iceland

Mary K. Butwin, Univ. of Iceland, Reykjavik, Iceland; and S. von Löwis, M. A. Pfeffer, and Þ. Þorsteinsson

Recorded Presentation

11:30 AM

J9.4

Southwestern New Mexico Thunderstorm Outflow Dust Events in 2017

David DuBois, New Mexico State Univ., Las Cruces, NM; and G. Lundeen and Z. Ghodsi Zadeh

Recorded Presentation

11:45 AM

J9.5

Comparison of Saharan Dust Surface Mass Observations and Lidar in Miami, FL, to the MERRA2 Reanalysis

Samantha Kramer, RSMAS, Miami, FL; and P. Zuidema, R. Delgadillo, A. da Silvia, C. Alvarez, L. Custals, A. Barkley, C. J. Gaston, and J. M. Prospero

Recorded Presentation

Joint Session 10

Advances in CubeSats and SmallSats to Improve Earth Science, Weather Forecasting, Space Weather Prediction, Hydrology Studies, or Climate Monitoring—Part II

Location: 615 AB (Hilton) (Austin, Texas)

Hosts: (Joint between the Eighth Conference on Transition of Research to Operations; the 14th Annual Symposium on New Generation Operational Environmental Satellite Systems; and the First Conference on Earth Observing SmallSats )

Cochairs: Stephen A. Mango, NOAA/NESDIS/Office of Projects, Planning, and Analysis Affiliate; Eric Fetzer, JPL/California Institute of Technology

10:30 AM

J10.1

The CubeSat Infrared Atmospheric Sounder (CIRAS) Technology Demonstration in Support of a Future Earth Observing Nanosatellite-Infrared (EON-IR) Atmospheric Sounder

Thomas Pagano, JPL, Pasadena, CA

Recorded Presentation

10:45 AM

J10.2

Implementation of CubeSat Solar Irradiance Measurements: CSIM Solar Spectral Irradiance Continuity and On-Orbit Validation

Erik Richard, Univ. of Colorado Boulder, Boulder, CO; and D. Harber, G. Drake, P. Pilewskie, and T. N. Woods

11:00 AM

J10.3

Applications of NASA TROPICS Data for Tropical Cyclone Analysis, Nowcasting, and Impact

Bradley T. Zavodsky, NASA/MSFC, Huntsville, AL; and J. P. Dunion, W. J. Blackwell, S. A. Braun, D. S. Green, C. S. Velden, R. Adler, J. H. Cossuth, J. J. Murray, and M. J. Brennan

Recorded Presentation

11:15 AM

J10.4

What Can IceCube 883-GHz Radiometer Offer for Future Satellite Cloud Observations?

Dong L. Wu, NASA GSFC, Greenbelt, MD

Recorded Presentation

11:30 AM

J10.5

Enabling Observations of Ice Cloud Particle Size and Humidity Profiles in the Upper Troposphere/Lower Stratosphere from the Tropospheric Water and Cloud ICE (TWICE) Millimeter and Sub-millimeter Wavelength Radiometer Instrument for 6U-Class Satellites

Steven C. Reising, Colorado State Univ., Fort Collins, CO; and P. Kangaslahti, E. Schlecht, J. Jiang, X. Bosch-Lluis, M. Ogut, Y. Goncharenko, B. Kilmer, R. Cofield, S. Padmanabhan, N. Chahat, S. T. Brown, W. Deal, A. Zamora, K. Leong, S. Shih, and G. Mei

11:45 AM

J10.6

Developing Vicarious Calibration for Smallsat Microwave Instruments using Lunar Radiation

Hu Yang, Univ. of Maryland, College Park, College Park, MD; and F. Weng

Recorded Presentation

Lunch Break

Beyond the Status Quo: Creating a Culture of Inclusion, Diversity, and Equity in Atmospheric Sciences and Related Fields (CANCELED)

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

Host: Town Hall Meetings

Organizer: Mona Behl, The Univ. of Georgia

NASA’s Earth Science Flight Program - Investments In And Planning For The Next-Generation Earth Observatories: Eric Ianson (NASA HQ)

Location: 615 AB (Hilton) (Austin, Texas)

Host: Town Hall Meetings

Organizer: Robert Bauer, NASA Earth Science Technology Office

NOAA and NASA Use of Commercial Space-based Weather and Earth Science Data

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

Host: Side Panels

Organizer: Kate S. Becker, NESDIS

12:15 PM

408.1

Karen St. Germain

Karen St. Germain, NOAA/NESDIS/OSAAP, Silver Spring, MD

12:30 PM

Sandra Cauffman

Sandra Cauffman, NASA, Washington, DC

Presidential Town Hall Meeting: The Devastating 2017 Hurricane Season: Opportunities, Challenges, and Future Directions for the Weather Enterprise

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

Host: Presidential Town Hall Meetings

Cochairs: Tanja E. Fransen, NOAA/NWS; Maureen McCann, Spectrum News 13; Zhuo Wang, Univ. of Illinois at Urbana−Champaign

Moderator: Marshall Shepherd, Univ. of Georgia

Introductory Remarks

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

Recorded Presentation

12:15 PM

Response, Recovery and Future Mitigation

Tony Robinson, FEMA Region 6, Denton, TX

Recorded Presentation

12:30 PM

Flooding Impacts from Hurricane Harvey

Jeff Lindner, Harris County Flood Control District, Houston, TX

Recorded Presentation

12:42 PM

Communication Challenges and Best Practices

John Toohey-Morales, WTVJ NBC-6, Miami, FL

Recorded Presentation

12:54 PM

Storm Surge Communication and Impacts

Jamie R. Rhome, NOAA/NWS/NCEP/TPC/NHC, Miami, FL

Recorded Presentation

1:06 PM

Impacts from 2017 Season in Puerto Rico

Ada Monzón, WIPR-TV, San Juan, PR

Recorded Presentation

1:18 PM

Connections to Climate and Future Research Opportunities

Kerry Emanuel, MIT, Cambridge, MA

Recorded Presentation

Session 3

WAS*IS in Action

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

Host: Sixth Symposium on the Weather, Water, and Climate Enterprise

Chair: Claudia Nierenberg, NOAA

2:00 PM

3.1

Developing a Science and Climate Change Communication Network for the Northeast Region of the National Park Service

Minh Duc Phan, East Carolina Univ., Greenville, NC; and A. Babson and E. Rogers

Recorded Presentation

Joint Session 11

More Topics in Communication

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

Hosts: (Joint between the Robert T. Ryan Symposium; and the 46th Conference on Broadcast Meteorology )

Chair: Cheryl Nelson, Cummins Inc. and WTKR-TV

J11.1

Paper J11.1 has been moved. New paper number J6.7

2:00 PM

J11.2

Use of Bayesian Statistics to Quantify Risk in Forensic Science: A Paradigm for Communicating Weather Risk?

Allan C. Eustis, National Institute of Standards and Technology, Gaithersburg, MD

2:15 PM

J11.3

Serving Your Viewers in the "Easy Information Age"

Erica A. Grow, WNBC-TV, New York, NY

Recorded Presentation

2:30 PM

J11.4

Climate Communication in a Red State

John Nielsen-Gammon, Texas A&M Univ., College Station, TX

Recorded Presentation

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

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

Joint Session 12

Core Science Keynotes

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

Hosts: (Joint between the 20th Conference on Atmospheric Chemistry; and the 10th Symposium on Aerosol-Cloud-Climate Interactions )

Cochairs: Jonathan Jiang, JPL; Ottmar Möhler, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology

2:00 PM

J12.1

Connecting Science with Stakeholders (Core Science Keynote) (Invited Presentation)

Tracey Holloway, Univ. of Wisconsin−Madison, Madison, WI

Recorded Presentation

2:30 PM

J12.2

Mixed-Phase Clouds and Climate—A Complicated Relationship (Core Science Keynote) (Invited Presentation)

Trude Storelvmo, Yale Univ., New Haven, CT

Recorded Presentation

Joint Session 14

Direct Broadcast Capabilities for Polar-Orbiting and Geostationary Satellites and Their Use in Support of Societal Needs

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

Hosts: (Joint between the 14th Annual Symposium on New Generation Operational Environmental Satellite Systems; the 22nd Conference on Satellite Meteorology and Oceanography; and the Sixth AMS Symposium on the Joint Center for Satellite Data Assimilation )

Cochairs: Satya Kalluri, NOAA/NESDIS/STAR; Kathleen Strabala, CIMSS

2:00 PM

J14.1

Operational Capabilities, Products, and Customers of the NOAA Direct Broadcast Real Time Network

Liam Gumley, CIMSS/Space Science and Engineering Center/Univ. of Wisconsin, Madison, WI

Recorded Presentation

2:15 PM

J14.2

JPSS Direct Broadcast Support to the University of Wisconsin–Madison, Cooperative Institute for Meteorological Satellite Studies, Community Satellite Processing Packages

Christie Best, NESDIS, Silver Spring, MD

Recorded Presentation

2:30 PM

J14.3

Status of the GOES-R Series GOES Rebroadcast

James McNitt, NESDIS, Silver Spring, MD; and M. Seybold

Recorded Presentation

2:45 PM

J14.4

CSPP Geo Software for Processing Direct Broadcast Data from a New Generation of Geostationary Satellites

Graeme Martin, Univ. of Wisconsin–Madison, Madison, WI; and L. Gumley, N. Bearson, J. Braun, G. Cureton, A. De Smet, R. Garcia, T. Jasmin, S. Mindock, E. Schiffer, and K. Strabala

Recorded Presentation

Session 3

AI Techniques for Decision Support

Location: Room 7 (ACC) (Austin, Texas)

Host: 17th Conf on Artificial and Computational Intelligence and its Applications to the Environmental Sciences

Chair: Edwin Campos, Uptake Technologies

2:00 PM

3.1

Using Machine Learning to Forecast Severe Thunderstorm Winds on a CONUS-Wide Grid

Ryan A. Lagerquist, CIMMS, Norman, OK; and A. McGovern, M. B. Richman, and T. Smith

Recorded Presentation

2:15 PM

3.2

Automatic Integrated Control of Lawn Irrigation with Rainwater Harvesting for Water Conservation and Stormwater Reduction

Fatemeh Habibi Ardekani, Univ. of Texas, Arlington, TX; and J. lee, S. Noh, and D. J. Seo

2:30 PM

3.3

A Decision Support Tool for Optimal Control of Planet Temperature Using Reinforcement Learning

Phuong D. Ngo, University of Tromsø (UiT), The Arctic Univ. of Norway, Tromsø, Norway; and M. Tejedor and F. Godtliebsen

2:45 PM

3.4

The Construction of an Earth Science Knowledge Network

Tsengdar Lee, NASA, Washington, DC; and J. Zhang and R. Ramachandran

Recorded Presentation

3:00 PM

3.5

Using Machine Learning to Predict Warm-Season Convection over Northeastern Colorado

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

Recorded Presentation

Session 3

History of Observations and Measurements

Location: Room 2 (ACC) (Austin, Texas)

Host: 16th History Symposium

Chair: Lourdes B. Avilés, Plymouth State University

2:00 PM

3.1

25 Years of NOAA-Supported Climate Field Experiments

Kenneth Mooney, NOAA, Silver Spring, MD; and W. Higgins, J. Huang, S. Lucas, J. Todd, and M. Patterson

Recorded Presentation

2:15 PM

3.2

The International Indian Ocean Expedition—An Indian Perspective

Joy Merwin Monteiro, Stockholm Univ., Stockholm, Sweden

Recorded Presentation

2:30 PM

3.3

History of Satellite Observations of East Pacific Atmospheric Rivers

Thomas Vonder Haar, Colorado State Univ., Fort Collins, CO; and J. M. Forsythe and C. J. Seaman

Recorded Presentation

2:45 PM

3.4

The Hundred Year Hunt for the Red Sprite

Walter A. Lyons, WeatherVideoHD.TV, Fort Collins, CO

Recorded Presentation

3:00 PM

3.5

Historical Developments in the Symbiotic Relationship between Photography and Lightning Research

Terrence R. Nathan, Univ. of California, Davis, Davis, CA

Recorded Presentation

Session 3B

Community Global Modeling: Next Generation Global Prediction System (NGGPS) and beyond: Improvements in Global Models, Key Components of Global Models and Statistical Techniques to Evaluate Those improvements—Part III

Location: Room 14 (ACC) (Austin, Texas)

Host: Eighth Conference on Transition of Research to Operations

Cochairs: Louis Cantrell Jr., NOAA/NESDIS/Office of Projects, Planning, and Analysis/Technology, Planning and Integration for Observation; Curtis Alexander, NOAA/ESRL/GSD

2:00 PM

3B.1

Research to Operations: Why Is the U.S. Not Realizing Its Potential?

Clifford F. Mass, Univ. of Washington, Seattle, WA

Recorded Presentation

2:15 PM

3B.2

Evaluating Performance and Improvements of the ECMWF Integrated Forecasting System

David S. Richardson, ECMWF, Reading, UK; and T. Haiden

Recorded Presentation

2:30 PM

3B.3

Evaluation of the FV3-powered Next Generation Unified Prediction System System for Medium-Range Weather Prediction

Shian-Jiann Lin, NOAA/GFDL, Pricenton, NJ; and L. Zhou, J. H. Chen, L. Harris, X. Chen, and S. Rees

Recorded Presentation

2:45 PM

3B.4

The New Dynamical Kernel of the Global Environmental Multiscale Model with Height-Based Vertical Coordinate

Syed Zahid Husain, Environment and Climate Change Canada, Dorval, Canada; and C. Girard

Recorded Presentation

3:00 PM

3B.5

Inter-model Storm-Scale Comparisons from the 2017 HWT Spring Forecasting Experiment

Corey K. Potvin, CIMMS, and NOAA/OAR/NSSL, Norman, OK; and J. R. Carley, A. J. Clark, L. J. Wicker, and J. S. Kain

Recorded Presentation

Joint Session 13

Joint Session with the AMS Board on the Urban Environment. Part I: Urban Flow and Dispersion Processes and Modeling

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 Board on the Urban Environment )

Chair: Jeffrey Weil, NCAR

2:00 PM

J13.1

Development and Evaluation of Improved Building Downwash Algorithms for Solid and Streamlined Structures

Ron L. Petersen, Cermak Peterka Petersen (CPP), Inc., Fort Collins, CO; and S. A. Guerra

Recorded Presentation

2:15 PM

J13.2

Urban Turbulence One-Dimensional Velocity Spectra from the JU2003 Observation

Sam Chang, U.S. Army Research Laboratory, Adelphi, MD

Recorded Presentation

2:30 PM

J13.3

Ventilation Potential in High-Rise Cities

Denise Hertwig, Univ. of Reading, Reading, UK; and S. Grimmond, H. Gough, J. Barlow, O. Coceal, and A. Robins

2:45 PM

J13.4

Tall Building Effects and Their Representation in Fast Urban Dispersion Models

Denise Hertwig, Univ. of Reading, Reading, UK; and L. Soulhac, V. Fuka, T. Auerswald, O. Coceal, P. Hayden, A. Robins, and Z. T. Xie

3:00 PM

J13.5

Blending Hardware and Software Innovations in Mobile Urban Sensing Technologies

Maider Llaguno-Munitxa, Princeton Univ., Princeton, NJ; and B. Bogosian, E. Bou-Zeid, A. Al Tair, D. Radcliff, Z. Chen, S. Fischer, Y. Ryu, J. Kim, and J. Bae

Recorded Presentation Manuscript (505.4 kB)

Session 3

International Perspectives and Observation

Location: Room 3 (ACC) (Austin, Texas)

Host: 21st Atmospheric Science Librarians International Conference

Chair: Frederick Stoss, State Univ. of New York

2:00 PM

3.1

Delivering Best Practices of ICT for Youth in Agricultural Development

Ratih Nawangwulan, Wageningen Univ. and Research Centre, Wageningen, Netherlands

Manuscript (265.2 kB)

2:30 PM

3.2

Importance of Weather Forecasting for Climate-Smart Agriculture

Kirit Shelat, National Council for Climate Change, Ahmedabad, India

3:00 PM

3.3

Water Conservation Irrigation Practices for More Produce out of Crops

Saripalli SuryaNarayan, Indian Institute of Bridge Engineers, Mumbai, India

Manuscript (1.5 MB)

Session 4

Data and Visualization Tools

Location: Room 8 ABC (ACC) (Austin, Texas)

Host: Eighth Symposium on Advances in Modeling and Analysis Using Python

Chair: Sheri Mickelson, NCAR

2:00 PM

4.1

Enipy, Python Tools for Working with Earth Networks Lightning Data

Michael Stock, Earth Networks, Germantown, MD; and J. Lapierre

Recorded Presentation

2:15 PM

4.2

A RESTful API for Python-Based Server-Side Analysis of High-Resolution Soil Moisture Downscaling Data

Mattheus P. Ueckermann, Creare LLC, Hanover, NH; and J. Bieszczad and D. R. Callender

Recorded Presentation

2:30 PM

4.3

Using Python to QA and QC Data from the ZiaMet Weather Station Network

Stan Engle, New Mexico State Univ., Las Cruces, NM; and D. DuBois

Recorded Presentation

2:45 PM

4.4

The Python-ARM Radar Toolkit: The Expected and Unexpected Uses of an Open Source Radar Toolkit

Zach Sherman, ANL, Argonne, IL; and S. Collis, R. Jackson, M. H. Picel, and J. Helmus

Recorded Presentation

3:00 PM

4.5

Working with Tabular Geospatial Data using Pandas & Geopandas

Hannah Aizenman, City College of New York, New York, NY

3:15 PM

4.6

Analyzing Soundings with MetPy and Siphon

Ryan M. May, UCAR/Unidata, Boulder, CO

Session 3

Observational Platforms for Space Weather—Part II

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

Host: 15th Conference on Space Weather

Chair: James F. Spann, NASA HQ

2:00 PM

3.1

Real-time geomagnetic monitoring for space–weather-related applications: Opportunities and challenges

Jeffrey J. Love, USGS, Denver, CO; and C. A. Finn

2:15 PM

3.2

Towards Operational Prediction of Medium- and Small-Scale Traveling Ionospheric Disturbances: A Navy Forecasting Prototype

Stephen D. Eckermann, NRL, Washington, DC; and D. Broutman, J. D. Doyle, Q. Jiang, J. Ma, and K. A. Zawdie

Recorded Presentation

2:30 PM

3.3

Small-Scale O⁺ Density Observations from WINCS/SWATS

Andrew Nicholas, ; and F. A. Herrero, K. Dymond, K. A. Zawdie, A. W. Stephan, and T. T. Finne

2:45 PM

3.4

Recent Ionosphere Collection Results from a 3U CubeSat GNSS-RO Constellation

Timothy Duly, Spire Global Inc., Boulder, CO; and D. Ector, V. Irisov, V. Nguyen, O. Nogues-Correig, L. Tan, and T. Yuasa

Recorded Presentation

3:00 PM

3.5

Multi-Site Tomographic Imaging and Characterization of Ionospheric Disturbances

Joseph Comberiate, Johns Hopkins Univ. Applied Physics Laboratory, Laurel, MD; and E. Miller, J. Noto, J. Fentzke, and J. Riccobono

3:15 PM

3.6

Converting the Ionosphere into a Laboratory without Walls—Active Ionospheric Research with HAARP

Robert P. McCoy, Univ. of Alaska, Fairbanks, AK; and C. Fallen and B. Bristow

Recorded Presentation

3:30 PM

3.8

Space-Based Sentinels for Measurement of Infrared Cooling in the Thermosphere for Improved Space Weather Forecasting

Martin G. Mlynczak, NASA Langley Research Center, Hampton, VA; and D. J. Knipp, L. A. Hunt, and D. Weimer

Recorded Presentation

3:45 PM

3.9

DORIS Observations from LEO for 3D Space Weather

David Rainwater, Univ. of Texas, Austin, TX

Recorded Presentation

Panel Discussion 1

The AMS Student Experience at the Washington Forum

Location: Room 6A (ACC) (Austin, Texas)

Host: Sixth Symposium on the Weather, Water, and Climate Enterprise

Cochairs: Heidi Centola, The Weather Company | IBM Watson & Cloud Platform; Thomas Fahy, Capitol Meteorologics

Moderator: Yaítza Luna-Cruz, Defense Threat Reduction Agency Reachback

Panelists: Cassandra Shivers, Howard Univ./NCAS; Amanda Hendrix, Millersville Univ.; Keenan C. Eure, Univ. of Maryland; Julio E. Ceniceros, Univ. of Texas at El Paso/NCASM

Session 2

Effective Communication and Partnership Techniques to Effect Change in Preparedness Behavior

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

Host: Sixth Symposium on Building a Weather-Ready Nation: Enhancing Our Nation

Cochairs: Douglas Hilderbrand, NOAA/NWS; Jennifer Sprague, NOAA/NWS; Dave Jones, StormCenter Communications, Inc.

2:00 PM

2.1

Building a Weather-Ready Nation Through Visual Storytelling

Corey Pieper, NWS, Fort Worth, TX

Recorded Presentation

2:15 PM

2.2

Research and Data-Driven Approaches to Motivate Preparedness Behavior

Jacqueline Snelling, FEMA, Washington, DC

2:30 PM

2.3

Extreme Weather Experience: Experiential Weather Edutainment

Erik Salna, Extreme Events Institute, Florida International Univ., Miami, FL

Recorded Presentation

2:45 PM

2.4

Building a Weather-Ready Nation through the Integration of Communication and Education

Amber J. Liggett, Millersville Univ., Beaver, PA; and M. Scarzello Fairbanks and K. Garrett

Recorded Presentation

3:00 PM

2.5

Community Resilience: Increasing Public Understanding of Risk and Vulnerability to Natural Hazards through Informal Education

Erik Salna, Extreme Events Institute, Florida International Univ., Miami, FL

Recorded Presentation

3:15 PM

2.6

Leveraging Podcast Medium to Enhance Absorption and Increase Preparedness Levels

Mark T. Jelinek, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA

Recorded Presentation

3:30 PM

2.7

Building the Weather-Ready Nation Ambassador Initiative in U.S. Territories

Charlie Woodrum, NWS, Honolulu, HI; and W. B. Aydlett, M. L. Aydlett, E. Lutu-McMoore, and J. Taifane

Recorded Presentation

3:45 PM

2.8

The "One Wyoming" Weather-Ready Nation Initiative

Tim Troutman, NWS, Riverton, WY; and C. Hahn

Manuscript (185.5 kB)

4:00 PM

2.9

Building a Weather Ready Nation: A New NWS Focus on Marine Ambassadors

Gregory Romano, NWS, Silver Spring, MD

Recorded Presentation

Session 3

Breaking the Mold: Leveraging New Data, Capabilities, and Practices in Support of Evolving Aviation, Range, and Aerospace Operations

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

Host: Sixth Aviation, Range, and Aerospace Meteorology Special Symposium

Cochairs: Cecilia Miner, NOAA/NWS; Bruce Telfeyan, 557 Weather Wing

3.1

Powering Aviation Nowcasting Models with New Data Source: Wireless Networks

2:00 PM

3.1A

Accuracy of New York Automated Wind Compression Tool

Victor Klimenko, AvMet Applications, Reston, VA; and M. Klopfenstein

Recorded Presentation

2:15 PM

3.2

Evaluating High-Resolution Model Data for Aviation Impacts due to Cloud and Visibility for the San Francisco International Airport

Steven A. Lack, NOAA/NWS/NCEP/Aviation Weather Center, Kansas City, MO; and A. Cross, D. Bentley, C. S. Bartholomew, P. Buchanan, I. A. Boutle, S. Avey, and S. Alvidrez

Recorded Presentation

2:30 PM

3.3

Advanced Weather Datasets for UAV Operations

Anuj Agrawal, Earth Networks, Germantown, MD

3.4

Multimodel-Based Clear-Air Turbulence Forecast Using Improved Ellrod−Knox Index

2:45 PM

3.4A

Assessment of Dual-Polarized Radar Coverage in the Terminal Airspaces of Commercial Airports

Jacqueline Waters, CIMMS/Univ. of Oklahoma and NOAA/NSSL, Norman, OK; and H. D. Reeves and A. Keys

Recorded Presentation

3:00 PM

3.5

Operational Unmanned Mission Execution Forecasts at Dugway Proving Ground

John Pace, Dugway Proving Ground, Dugway, UT; and E. N. Vernon

Recorded Presentation

3:15 PM

3.6

Quantifying the Relationship between Storm Size and Forecast Uncertainty for Enhanced Blending

James O. Pinto, NCAR/Research Applications Laboratory, Boulder, CO; and M. Steiner, K. Stone, and D. Albo

Recorded Presentation

3:30 PM

3.7

Integrating GOES-16 Satellite into Convective Porosity Determination at CWSU Houston

Roland Nunez, NWS/Center Weather Service Unit, Houston, TX; and E. Zappe

Recorded Presentation

3:45 PM

3.8

Optimizing Prediction of Lightning Initiation by Identifying Towers of Supercooled Water with Dual-Polarization Radar

Omar A. Nava, Air Force Institute of Technology, Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, OH; and W. P. Roeder

Recorded Presentation

3.9

Diagnosing Total Lightning Potential with Differential Reflectivity Anomalies

4:00 PM

3.9A

Gap-Filling Radar Observations of a Snow Squall at San Luis Valley Regional Airport

Andrew A. Rosenow, CIMMS/Univ. of Oklahoma and NOAA/NSSL, Norman, OK; and K. W. Howard and J. Meitín

Recorded Presentation

Session 3

Data Assimilation in Coupled Process Models

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

Host: 22nd Conference on Integrated Observing and Assimilation Systems for the Atmosphere, Oceans, and Land Surface (IOAS-AOLS)

Chair: Neil Barton, NRL

CoChair: Sue Chen, NRL

2:00 PM

3.1

Description and Verification of a U.S. Naval Research Lab’s Loosely Coupled Data Assimilation System for the Navy’s Earth System Model

Neil Barton, NRL, Monterey, CA; and E. J. Metzger, O. M. Smedstad, B. Ruston, A. Wallcraft, T. R. Whitcomb, J. Ridout, L. Zamudio, P. Posey, C. Reynolds, J. G. Richman, and M. W. Phelps

Recorded Presentation

2:15 PM

3.2

Sensitivity Analysis with a Coupled Ocean–Atmosphere Adjoint Model

Clark M. Amerault, NRL, Monterey, CA; and L. Xu

Recorded Presentation

2:30 PM

3.3

Land–Atmosphere Covariances for Coupled DA from Ground-Based Observations and NOAA's Next Generation Global Prediction System

Clara Draper, CIRES, Boulder, CO; and T. M. Hamill

Recorded Presentation

2:45 PM

3.4

Improving Arctic Sea Ice Prediction in the NCEP Climate Forecast System by Assimilating Satellite Sea Ice Concentration and Thickness

Jiping Liu, University at Albany, SUNY, Albany, NY; and Z. Chen

3:00 PM

3.5

First Steps Toward a Coupled Ocean–Atmosphere Data Assimilation System at the Canadian Meteorological Center

Sergey Skachko, EC, Dorval, QC, Canada; and J. M. Bélanger, M. Buehner, L. Garand, E. Lapalme, S. Laroche, M. Reszka, F. Roy, G. Smith, and D. Surcel-Colan

Recorded Presentation

3:15 PM

3.6

Relative Importance of Different Observation Types for Improving Arctic Sea Ice Modeling

Yongfei Zhang, Univ. of Washington, Seattle, WA; and C. M. Bitz, J. Anderson, N. Collins, J. Hendricks, T. Hoar, and K. Raeder

Recorded Presentation

3:30 PM

3.7

Is Soil Moisture a Major Factor That Affects Short-Range Near-Surface Weather Forecasts?

Zhaoxia Pu, Univ. of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT; and J. Liu and M. B. Ek

Recorded Presentation

3:45 PM

3.8

Improving Atmospheric Fluxes with Ocean Reanalysis

Jim Carton, Univ. of Maryland, College Park, College Park, MD; and G. Chepurin, L. Chen, and S. Grodsky

Recorded Presentation

Session 3

Data Assimilation, Reanalysis and Data–Model Integration

Location: Room 4ABC (ACC) (Austin, Texas)

Host: Third Symposium on Multi-scale Predictability: Data-model Integration and Uncertainty Quantification for Climate and Earth System Monitoring and Prediction

Chair: Kerry A. Emanuel, MIT

2:00 PM

3.1

Using the Data Assimilation Research Testbed for Climate System Applications (Invited Presentation)

Jeffrey Anderson, NCAR, Boulder, CO

Recorded Presentation

2:30 PM

3.2

Climate Reanalysis: Progress and Future Prospects (Invited Presentation)

Ronald Gelaro, NASA GSFC, Greenbelt, MD

Recorded Presentation

3:00 PM

3.3

Exploring Online Data Assimilation for Paleoclimate Reconstruction Using an Idealized OSSE Framework

Atsushi Okazaki, RIKEN, Kobe, Japan; and T. Miyoshi, K. Yoshimura, and F. Zhang

Recorded Presentation

3:15 PM

3.4

Earth System Modeling 2.0: A Blueprint for Models that Learn from Global Observations and Targeted High-Resolution Simulations (Invited Presentation)

Tapio Schneider, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA; and S. Lan, A. Stuart, and J. Teixeira

3:45 PM

3.5

Tests of Single-Column Model Physics Using RACORO Data and Bayesian Calibration

Charles Jackson, Univ. of Texas, Austin, TX; and A. M. Vogelmann and W. Lin

Recorded Presentation

4:00 PM

3.6

Ensemble-Based Simultaneous State and Parameter Estimation (ESSPE)—A Generalized Data Assimilation Software Infrastructure for Earth System Data–Model Integration and Uncertainty Quantification

Fuqing Zhang, Pennsylvania State Univ., State College, PA

Recorded Presentation

Session 3

Innovative Measurements

Location: Room 13AB (ACC) (Austin, Texas)

Host: 19th Symposium on Meteorological Observation and Instrumentation

Chair: Frank Defina, Vaisala

2:00 PM

3.1

A Novel Use of Multirotor sUAS to Sample Severe Convective Storms during the C³LOUD-Ex Field Campaign

Sean W. Freeman, Colorado State Univ., Fort Collins, CO; and J. Bukowski, S. M. Hitchcock, L. D. Grant, P. J. Marinescu, and S. C. van den Heever

Recorded Presentation

2:15 PM

3.2

Updates to the NCAR Dropsonde Sensor Module and Improvements to the Measurements of Tropospheric Pressure, Temperature, Humidity, and Wind Profiles

Holger Vömel, NCAR, Boulder, CO; and T. Hock, M. Goodstein, K. Young, and I. Suhr

Recorded Presentation

2:30 PM

3.3

A New Low-Cost Sensor for Determining Heat and Moisture Fluxes

Temple Lee, NOAA/ARL/ATDD and CIMMS, Oak Ridge, TN; and J. Kochendorfer, R. J. Dobosy, C. B. Baker, and M. Buban

Recorded Presentation

2:45 PM

3.4

A New Method for Ground-Based Sun Photometer Radiometric Calibration Using AERONET Data inside the Same City

Yuan Li, China Meteorological Administration, Beijing, China; and X. Li, H. Wang, W. Wang, Y. Wang, and H. Yan

Recorded Presentation

3:00 PM

3.5

Designing and Building Reliable, Low-Cost Lightning Detection Equipment

Timothy Logan, Texas A&M Univ., College Station, TX; and S. N. Lane, N. Raggo, and C. Perez

Recorded Presentation

3:15 PM

3.6

A Machine Learning System for Pressure-Based Wind Profiling—Proof-of-Concept Results

David L. Pepyne, Univ. of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA; and M. Zink, S. Ramkumar, L. Emerson, and C. Gao

3:30 PM

3.7

A New Technique for Determining Freezing Drizzle, Ice Pellets, and Frost from Archived ASOS Data

Scott D. Landolt, NCAR, Boulder, CO; and S. DiVito, J. Shepard, and A. J. Schwartz

3:45 PM

3.8

Evaluation of Radar Reflectivity Structures during Six High-Impact Midlatitude Wintertime Cyclone Simulations

Sebastian S. Harkema, The University of Alabama in Huntsville, Huntsville, AL; and S. D. Nicholls and A. E. Emory

Recorded Presentation

4:00 PM

3.9

Above-Ground Thermodynamic Observations in Convective Storms from Balloon-Borne Probes Acting as Pseudo-Lagrangian Drifters

Paul Markowski, Pennsylvania State Univ., Univ. Park, PA; and Y. P. Richardson and S. J. Richardson

Recorded Presentation

Session 3

Major Impacts of 2017 - Warm Season Events

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

Host: Major Weather Events and Impacts of 2017

Chair: Tanja E. Fransen, NOAA/NWS

2:00 PM

3.1

Global Weather and Climate Extremes of 2017 (Invited Presentation)

Klaus Wolter, CIRES, Univ. of Colorado Boulder, Boulder, CO

Recorded Presentation

3.2

An Extreme Hailstorm in Istanbul: July 27, 2017 Case

2:30 PM

3.3

Super Typhoon Hato — Observations, Forecasting and Warning

P. W. Chan, Hong Kong Observatory, Hong Kong, China; and T. C. Lee

Recorded Presentation

2:45 PM

3.4

Tropical Cyclone Debbie (2017): Evaluating Analytically- and Numerically-Driven Wind and Storm Tide Hazards and Impacts

Richard J Krupar III, Univ. of Maryland, College Park, MD; and M. S. Mason, T. Kloetzke, D. J. Smith, and D. Henderson

Recorded Presentation

3:00 PM

3.5

U.S. Billion-dollar Weather and Climate Disasters of 2017 - in Context

Adam B. Smith, NOAA/NCEI, Asheville, NC

3:15 PM

3.6

Comparison of Radar and Ground based Hail Observations During the May 8 Hail Storm in Denver, Colorado

V. Chandrasekar, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO; and S. K. Biswas, I. Arias, K. E. Willmot, S. Bussmann, and A. Kubicek

3:30 PM

3.7

The May 17,2017 Derecho in Iowa, Illinois and Wisconsin

David A. Imy, NSSL, Norman, OK; and A. J. Clark

Recorded Presentation

3:45 PM

3.8

The 2017 Tornado and Severe Weather Season (Invited Presentation)

Russell Schneider, NOAA/NCEP/SPC, Norman, OK; and P. Marsh

Recorded Presentation

4:00 PM

3.9

2017 Atlantic and Eastern Pacific Hurricane Season (Invited Presentation)

Lixion A. Avila, NWS/NHC, Miami, FL

Recorded Presentation

Session 3

Pre-College Education Initiatives

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

Host: 27th Symposium on Education

Cochairs: Peter Dorofy, Rowan University; Jeffrey A. Yuhas, Morristown-Beard School

2:00 PM

3.1

Encouraging Young Women to Pursue STEM Fields: GiRLS GLOW

Cynthia K. Palmer, NOAA/NWS, Shreveport, LA; and B. Hughes, L. Frantz-May, W. Parker, M. Valverde, and F. Bowser

Recorded Presentation

2:15 PM

3.2

Data in the Classroom: New Tools for Engaging Students with Data

Daniel P. Pisut, IMSG, Silver Spring, MD; and A. F. Dean

Recorded Presentation

2:30 PM

3.3

Engaging Students in Real-Time Geovisualizations through Augmented Reality: A NASA Mission Earth Project

John D. Moore, Institute for Earth Observations at Pamyra Cove, Laurel Springs, NJ; and K. Czajkowski and P. Dorofy

Recorded Presentation

2:45 PM

3.4

The Next Generation Science Standards: "The Cliff Notes"

Victoria L. Gorman, Citizen Science Education Program, Medford, NJ

Recorded Presentation

3:00 PM

Break

3:15 PM

3.5

The 242 Mile Connection: How a Raspberry Pi and Stratospheric Exploration Brought Us Together

Charles John Peachey, Concord Carlisle Weather Services, Walden Street, MA; and R. Carchia, M. Corcoran, R. Tone, and J. Winstanley

Recorded Presentation

3:30 PM

3.6

Filling the Data, Visualization, and Analytics Skills Gap for New College Entrants

Mark Hyer, Earth Networks, Germantown, MD

Recorded Presentation

3:45 PM

3.7

Modernization of the AMS DataStreme Project

Chad M. Kauffman, American Meteorological Society, Washington, DC; and W. Abshire, I. W. Geer, K. L. O'Neill, K. A. Nugnes, E. W. Mills, and A. E. Stimach

Recorded Presentation

4:00 PM

3.8

Connecting Students with Scientists: Using Research Data in the Middle School Classroom

Joanna Chierici, Melvin H. Kreps Middle School, East Windsor, NJ

Recorded Presentation

Session 3

The Second Wind Forecast Improvement Project (WFIP2): Part II

Location: Room 15 (ACC) (Austin, Texas)

Host: Ninth Conference on Weather, Climate, and the New Energy Economy

Cochairs: Katherine McCaffrey, CIRES; Melinda Marquis, NOAA

3.1

Recent Advances in Three-Dimensional PBL Parameterization to Improve Wind Forecasting over Complex Terrain

2:15 PM

3.2

Assessment of the WRF Wind Farm Parameterization for Easterly Wake Events during the Second Wind Forecast Improvement Project

Rochelle Worsnop, Univ. of Colorado, Boulder, CO; and J. K. Lundquist, B. Kosovic, P. A. Jimenez, Y. Pichugina, A. Choukulkar, T. A. Bonin, and B. J. McCarty

Recorded Presentation

2:30 PM

3.3

Boundary Layer Depth Variability Over Complex Terrain as Observed During the WFIP2

Paytsar Muradyan, Argonne National Laboratory, Argonne, IL; and R. Coulter, R. Kotamarthi, D. Cook, T. J. Martin, H. J. S. Fernando, L. Leo, and S. Otarola

2:45 PM

3.4

Comparison of Boundary Layer Heights in the Columba River Gorge and Basin form Wind Profiling Radars and Numerical Weather Prediction Models during WFIP2

Laura Bianco, CIRES, Boulder, CO; and I. V. Djalalova, J. M. Wilczak, K. McCaffrey, J. B. Olson, J. Kenyon, K. Lantz, and C. N. Long

Recorded Presentation

3:00 PM

3.5

Cloud Fraction and Cloud Base Measurements from Scanning Doppler Lidar during WFIP-2

Timothy A. Bonin, NOAA/CIRES, Boulder, CO; and C. N. Long, K. Lantz, A. Choukulkar, Y. Pichugina, B. J. McCarty, R. M. Banta, W. A. Brewer, and M. Marquis

Recorded Presentation

3:15 PM

3.6

Surface Solar Radiation Observations at Three Sites across the Columbia River Basin as Part of the Wind Forecasting Improvement Project (WFIP-2)

Kathleen Lantz, NOAA, Boulder, CO; and C. N. Long, A. McComiskey, A. Kumler, M. Marquis, J. B. Olson, J. Kenyon, G. B. Hodges, E. Hall, and J. Wendell

3:30 PM

3.7

Evaluating Model Skill at Predicting Recurrent Diurnal Summertime Wind Patterns in the Columbia River Basin during WFIP-2

Robert M. Banta, NOAA/ESRL, Boulder, CO; and Y. Pichugina, W. A. Brewer, A. Choukulkar, C. Bonfanti, B. J. McCarty, T. A. Bonin, S. P. Sandberg, J. B. Olson, J. Kenyon, S. Benjamin, K. Lantz, C. N. Long, A. McComiskey, L. Bianco, I. V. Djalalova, J. Wilczak, J. Sharp, D. Cook, R. Eckman, M. T. Stoelinga, J. McCaa, M. Marquis, W. J. Shaw, and J. W. Cline

Recorded Presentation

3:45 PM

3.8

Advancing NWP Wind Forecasts in Complex Terrain by Lidar Technology

Yelena Pichugina, NOAA/ESRL/Chemical Sciences Division (CSD) and CIRES/Univ. of Colorado, Boulder, CO; and R. Banta, T. A. Bonin, A. W. Brewer, A. Choukulkar, B. J. McCarty, J. W. Cline, H. J. S. Fernando, J. Kenyon, R. Krishnamurthy, M. Marquis, and J. B. Olson

Recorded Presentation

4:00 PM

3.9

WFIP2 Experiment: Wind Speed Ramp Events at 80 m above the Ground

Irina V. Djalalova, CIRES, Boulder, CO; and L. Bianco, J. Wilczak, J. B. Olson, J. Kenyon, E. Akish, M. T. Stoelinga, L. K. Berg, D. Cook, R. Coulter, R. Eckman, H. J. S. Fernando, E. P. Grimit, L. Leo, M. Marquis, P. Muradyan, S. Otarola, M. Pekour, G. Scott, and J. Sharp

Recorded Presentation

Session 3

Verification and Validation — Part I: Communicating Probabilistic Information and Predictive Skill

Location: Room 19AB (ACC) (Austin, Texas)

Host: 25th Conference on Probability and Statistics

Cochairs: William Campbell, NRL; Matthew S. Wandishin, NOAA/ESRL/GSD and CIRES/Univ. of Colorado

2:00 PM

3.1

Fostering Open Communication about Forecast Improvement (Invited Presentation)

Betsy Weatherhead, University of Colorado, Boulder, Boulder, CO

Recorded Presentation

2:30 PM

3.2

Unified Verification System

Ivanka Stajner, NOAA/NWS, Silver Spring, MD; and T. L. Jensen, G. Manikin, L. F. Bosart, B. Strong, M. Ek, and V. Tallapragada

Recorded Presentation

2:45 PM

3.3

Enhancing Community Collaborations through NWP Software Containers

John Halley Gotway, NCAR, Boulder, CO; and J. K. Wolff, K. R. Fossell, M. Harrold, T. L. Jensen, T. Burek, and J. Exby

Recorded Presentation

3:00 PM

Break

3:15 PM

3.4

An Overview of Verification in Support of GSD Model Development and the Evolution of Process-Oriented Analysis Tools

Jeffrey A. Hamilton, CIRES, Boulder, CO; and W. R. Moninger, K. Holub, M. B. Smith, R. Pierce, and B. Strong

Recorded Presentation

3:30 PM

3.5

Evaluation of Global Model Physics Advancements using a Hierarchical Framework

Man Zhang, CIRES/Univ. of Colorado and NOAA/ESRL, Boulder, CO; and M. Harrold, J. K. Wolff, G. J. Firl, L. Bernardet, J. K. Henderson, H. Jiang, and G. Grell

Recorded Presentation

3:45 PM

3.6

The Forecast Skill Card and the Diagonal Score

Zied Ben Bouallegue, ECMWF, Reading, UK; and T. Haiden and D. S. Richardson

Recorded Presentation

4:00 PM

3.7

Linearization of Air Temperatures on the Pacific Ocean on the Equatorial Line

César Diez Chirinos, Universidad Nacional de Ingenieria, Lima, Peru; and C. J. Solano Sr.

Recorded Presentation Manuscript (17.1 MB)

Handout (2.0 MB)

Session 3A

Advances in Satellite Observations for Earth Science and Observing Technologies—Part I

Location: 615 AB (Hilton) (Austin, Texas)

Host: Eighth Conference on Transition of Research to Operations

Cochairs: Bjorn H. Lambrigtsen, JPL/California Institute of Technology; Thomas Pagano, JPL/California Institute of Technology

2:00 PM

3A.1

Doppler Wind Lidar and the OAWL Instrument: Potential Contributions to the Future Global Winds Measurement Enterprise

Sara Tucker, Ball Aerospace and Technologies Corporation, Boulder, CO

Recorded Presentation

2:15 PM

3A.2

DopplerScatt Instrument Concept for Simultaneous Measurements of Ocean Surface Vector Winds and Currents

Dragana Perkovic-Martin, ; and T. Gal, R. Rodriguez Monje, F. Nicaise, E. Rodriguez, K. Srinivasan, B. W. Stiles, and A. G. Wineteer

Recorded Presentation

Handout (22.8 MB)

2:30 PM

3A.3

Observing Ice Clouds with Microwave-IR Polarimetric Radiometry: SWIRP Development

Dong L. Wu, NASA GSFC, Greenbelt, MD; and M. Vega, W. Deal, R. Chipman, and P. Yang

2:45 PM

3A.4

Compact Midwave Imaging System (CMIS) for Near-Real-Time Cloud Sensing

Michael A. Kelly, Applied Physics Laboratory/The Johns Hopkins Univ., Laurel, MD; and D. L. Wu, J. H. Yee, J. D. Boldt, A. C. Goldberg, J. P. Wilson, C. A. Hibbitts, and A. Heidinger

3:00 PM

3A.5

Value-Added Impact from Geostationary Hyperspectral Infrared Sounder on Nowcasting and Forecasting High-Impact Weather Events

Jun Li, CIMSS/Univ. of Wisconsin, Madison, WI; and T. J. Schmit

Recorded Presentation

3:15 PM

3A.6

Enabling Technology Transforms a Prototype GNSS Interferometric Reflectometry (GNSS-IR) System to Global Operation

Angelyn W. Moore, JPL, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA; and S. Hardman, C. Wong, S. Owen, D. Freeborn, K. M. Larson, and E. E. Small

Recorded Presentation

3:30 PM

3A.7

G-Band Differential Absorption Radar for Inside-Cloud Boundary Layer Humidity Retrieval

Ken Cooper, JPL, Pasadena, CA; and M. Lebsock

3:45 PM

3A.8

A Next Generation Strategy for Weather Forecasting: Extending Observation Into the Upper Atmosphere

L. L. Gordley, GATS, Inc., Newport News, VA; and B. T. Marshall, D. C. Fritts, R. Lachance, and J. Fisher

Recorded Presentation

4:00 PM

3A.9

Chasing the Shadows with the VIIRS Day/Night Band

Steven D. Miller, CIRA/Colorado State Univ., Fort Collins, CO; and W. C. Straka III, C. J. Seaman, C. L. Combs, A. K. Heidinger, A. Walther, and J. E. Solbrig

Recorded Presentation

Session 3A

Communicating Weather Information with a Focus on NWS Applications

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

Host: 13th Symposium on Societal Applications: Policy, Research and Practice

Chair: Richard Smith, NOAA/NWS

2:00 PM

3A.1

Baseline Measures of Reception, Comprehension, and Response to Severe Weather Forecasts and Warnings

Joseph T. Ripberger, University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK; and C. Silva and H. Jenkins-Smith

Recorded Presentation

2:15 PM

3A.2

WEA Transmission Bleed Over and Impact-Based Warnings

Valerie Sanders, WeatherCall Services, LLC, Parker, CO

Recorded Presentation

2:30 PM

3A.3

Social Media Communication across the Weather Continuum: Introducing the Social Media Engagement Model for the National Weather Service

Jeannette Sutton, Univ. of Kentucky, Lexington, KY; and M. Olson, R. Prestley, S. Renshaw, S. Vos, and C. T. Butts

Recorded Presentation

2:45 PM

3A.4

Improving Decision-Making Using Probabilistic Forecasting: A Case Study Using Experimental National Weather Service Snowfall Graphics

Linda Girardi, Eastern Research Group, Arlington, VA; and G. M. Eosco, J. Sharp, J. Sprague, and D. Soroka

Recorded Presentation

3:00 PM

Break

3:15 PM

3A.5

No Safe Place: Forecaster Challenges and Public Vulnerability During a Series of Tornadic Storms in the Southeastern United States

Jennifer Henderson, CIRES, Boulder, CO; and J. L. Demuth, H. Lazrus, R. E. Morss, and J. Vickery

Recorded Presentation

3:30 PM

3A.6

Messaging Public Safety Instruction within Tornado Warnings Issued during Hurricane Watch/Warning Situations

David W. Sharp, NOAA/NWS, Melbourne, FL; and V. Brown, L. Myers, and D. Arnold

Recorded Presentation

3:45 PM

3A.7

The Impact of NWS Weather Forecast Office Culture on Tornado Warning Performance

Stephan B. Smith, NOAA/NWS/Office of Science and Technology Integration, Silver Spring, MD

4:00 PM

3A.8

Human Factors Affecting Tornado Warning Decisions in National Weather Service Forecast Offices

Frank Alsheimer, NWSFO, West Columbia, SC; and T. Johnstone, D. Sharp, V. Brown, and L. Myers

Recorded Presentation

Session 3A

Drought Analysis and Prediction, Part II

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

Host: 32nd Conference on Hydrology

Cochairs: Michael Hobbins, CIRES; Mark D. Svoboda, National Drought Mitigation Center; Jason A. Otkin, Univ. of Wisconsin–Madison; Joshua K. Roundy, Univ. of Kansas

2:00 PM

3A.1

VegOut-GHA: A Seasonal Vegetation Outlook for the Greater Horn of Africa (Invited Presentation)

Tsegaye Tadesse, National Drought Mitigation Center, Univ. of Nebraska, Lincoln, NE; and Y. A. Bayissa, G. B. Demisse, and B. Wardlow

Recorded Presentation

2:15 PM

3A.2

How Well Do Models Reproduce the Ocean-Forced Teleconnections Associated with Droughts in Central-Southwest Asia and the Middle East?

Mathew Barlow, Univ. of Massachusetts, Lowell, MA; and A. Hoell and H. Wang

Recorded Presentation

2:30 PM

3A.3

Seasonal-Scale Drought Forecasting in Africa and the Middle East Using the NASA Land Information System (LIS)

Kristi R. Arsenault, NASA GSFC/SAIC, Greenbelt, MD; and S. Shukla, A. Hazra, C. D. Peters-Lidard, A. Getirana, S. Kumar, A. McNally, R. D. Koster, C. C. Funk, K. Bergaoui, R. McDonnell, J. B. Eylander, B. F. Zaitchik, H. S. Badr, and L. S. Harrison

2:45 PM

3A.4

Predicting Global Drought Conditions Using the North American Multi-Model Ensemble

Raymond B. Kiess, AWS, Asheville, NC; and J. P. Anthony, R. M. Randall, and R. D. Smith

Recorded Presentation

3:00 PM

3A.5

Establishing Relationships between Drought and Wildfire Danger Indices for Improved Wildfire Risk Management

Dan McEvoy, DRI, Reno, NV; and T. Wall, T. J. Brown, J. Huntington, M. Hobbins, and M. Svoboda

Recorded Presentation

3:15 PM

3A.6

Exploring the Relationship between Temporal and Spatial Dynamics of Drought Intensity and Dust Storm Point Sources in New Mexico, Texas, and Oklahoma

Iyasu G. Eibedingil, Univ. of Texas at El Paso, El Paso, TX; and J. E. Ceniceros, T. E. Gill, T. Kandakji, M. Dominguez Acosta, A. D. Garcia, J. A. Lee, and J. Li

3:30 PM

3A.7

Monitoring Drought along the Gulf of Mexico and the Southeastern Atlantic Ocean Using the Coastal Salinity Index

Paul Conrads, USGS, Columbia, SC; and L. Rouen, K. Lackstrom, and B. McCloskey

Recorded Presentation

3:45 PM

3A.8

Advancing Ecological Drought with a Focus on Preparedness and Innovative Uses of Drought Prediction

Shelley Crausbay, Conservation Science Partners, Fort Collins, CO; and A. E. Cravens, J. McEvoy, A. Ramirez, J. Bradford, and S. Munson

Recorded Presentation

4:00 PM

3A.9

Regional Drought Early Warning, Impacts, and Assessment for Water and Agriculture in the Rio Grande Basin, 2016–2017

David P. Brown, USDA, El Reno, OK; and T. K. Bernadt, D. DuBois, B. Fuchs, W. L. Hargrove, S. Hermitte, L. Kos, A. Kremen, M. A. Shafer, C. Steele, R. Steele, C. Turner, C. West, and C. Simpson

Recorded Presentation

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 3A

The Climate Science Special Report

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

Host: 31st Conference on Climate Variability and Change

Cochairs: David R. Easterling, NOAA/NESDIS/NCEI; Kenneth E. Kunkel, Cooperative Institute for Climate and Satellites

2:00 PM

3A.1

The Climate Science Special Report: An Overview (Invited Presentation)

Donald J. Wuebbles, University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign, Urbana, IL

Recorded Presentation

2:30 PM

3A.2

Twenty-First-Century Climate: Future Projections and the Potential for Surprise (Invited Presentation)

Katharine Hayhoe, Texas Tech Univ., Lubbock, TX

Recorded Presentation

2:45 PM

3A.3

The Climate Science Special Report: Science Informing Mitigation Issues (Invited Presentation)

Benjamin J. DeAngelo, NOAA, Silver Spring, MD

Recorded Presentation

3:00 PM

3A.4

The Fourth National Climate Assessment: A Tool for Informing Decisions (Invited Presentation)

Kristin Lewis, U.S. Global Change Research Program, Washington, DC; and D. R. Reidmiller, K. Reeves, and C. Avery

Recorded Presentation

3:15 PM

3A.5

Climate Science Special Report: Sea Level Rise (Invited Presentation)

William Sweet, NOAA, Silver Spring, MD

Recorded Presentation

3:30 PM

3A.6

Large-Scale Circulation and Climate Variability (Invited Presentation)

Judith Perlwitz, NOAA/ESRL/Physical Sciences Division, Boulder, CO; and J. P. Kossin, T. R. Knutson, and A. LeGrande

Recorded Presentation

3:45 PM

3A.7

Extremes and Attribution (Invited Presentation)

Russell Vose, NOAA/NESDIS/NCEI, Asheville, NC; and D. R. Easterling and K. E. Kunkel

Recorded Presentation

4:00 PM

3A.8

The Climate Science Special Report: Arctic Changes and their Effect on Alaska and the Rest of the United States (Invited Presentation)

Patrick C. Taylor, NASA, Hampton, VA; and J. Perlwitz, D. J. Wuebbles, and W. Maslowski

Recorded Presentation

Session 3B

Building Resilience to Weather and Climate Extremes Across Scales

Location: Room 6B (ACC) (Austin, Texas)

Host: 13th Symposium on Societal Applications: Policy, Research and Practice

Chair: Lisa Dilling, Center for Science and Technology Policy Research

2:00 PM

3B.1

A User Community Assessment of the U.S. Drought Monitor: Are We Making a Difference in Building Awareness and Resiliency to Drought?

Mark D. Svoboda, National Drought Mitigation Center, Lincoln, NE; and T. Haigh and C. McNutt

Recorded Presentation

2:15 PM

3B.2

Drought Response and Planning in South Carolina: Challenges and Opportunities for Building Resilience across Scales and Sectors

Kirsten Lackstrom, Carolinas Integrated Sciences and Assessments, Columbia, SC; and H. Mizzell and E. Altman

Recorded Presentation

2:30 PM

3B.3

The Role of Place-Based, Sustained Networks for Resilient Drought Management

Lisa Dilling, CIRES, Boulder, CO

Recorded Presentation

2:45 PM

3B.4

Understanding and Responding to Ecological Drought: Supporting the National Drought Resilience Partnership in Montana’s Upper Missouri Headwaters

Amanda E Cravens, USGS, Fort Collins, CO; and A. Schwend, T. Laidlaw, J. McEvoy, S. Crausbay, A. Ramirez, N. Raheem, M. Cross, K. Hall, and S. Carter

3:00 PM

Break

3:15 PM

3B.5

Engaging Emergency Managers and Planners on Resiliency Efforts in the Southern Plains

Leah Kos, Univ. of Oklahoma, Norman, OK; and R. E. Riley

Recorded Presentation

3:30 PM

3B.6

The Birth of a Resilience Organization: How the Mid-Atlantic RISA is Beginning to Increase Climate Resilience in the Chesapeake Bay Watershed

Neil Berg, RAND Corporation, Arlington, VA; and E. Thornton and D. Knopman

Recorded Presentation

3:45 PM

3B.7

Towards a National RISA Network:Components of a Full Coverage Network for Co-Production of Science and Decision-Making

Caitlin F. Simpson, NOAA, Silver Spring, MD; and C. Combest-Friedman

Recorded Presentation

4:00 PM

3B.8

Working with Decision-Makers to Improve Energy−Water System Resiliency in the Lower Hudson River Basin

Jack D. Fellows, ORNL (Retired), Oak Ridge, TN; and J. Pullen, J. E. Gonzalez, F. Saleh, V. Bhatt, and M. Schoonen

Recorded Presentation

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

Session 3B

ENSO Dynamics, Diversity, Prediction, and Impacts—Part I

Location: 616 AB (Hilton) (Austin, Texas)

Host: 31st Conference on Climate Variability and Change

Cochairs: R. Saravanan, Texas A&M Univ.; Gudrun Magnusdottir, Univ. of California

2:00 PM

3B.1

ENSO and the Response to Global Warming

Dennis L. Hartmann, Univ. of Washington, Seattle, WA; and T. Kohyama

Recorded Presentation

2:15 PM

3B.2

ENSO Teleconnections: How Well Do We Know Them And How Do We Evaluate Models Accordingly?

Clara Deser, NCAR, Boulder, CO; and M. A. Alexander

Recorded Presentation

2:30 PM

3B.3

A Two-Year Forecast for a 60–80% Chance of La Niña in 2017–18

Pedro DiNezio, Univ. of Texas, Austin, TX; and C. Deser, A. Karspeck, S. Yeager, Y. M. Okumura, G. Danabasoglu, N. Rosenbloom, J. Caron, and G. A. Meehl

Recorded Presentation

2:45 PM

3B.4

How Important are the Extratropics to ENSO Diversity and Predictability?

Kathy Pegion, George Mason Univ., Raleigh, NC

Recorded Presentation

3:00 PM

3B.5

Contrasting Impacts of Slow and Fast Wind Variations on ENSO

Antonietta Capotondi, NOAA/ESRL, Boulder, CO; and P. D. Sardeshmukh

Recorded Presentation

3:15 PM

3B.6

Influence of Westerly Wind Events Stochasticity on El Niño Amplitude: The case of 2014 vs. 2015.

Martin PUY, Institute for Geophysics, Univ. of Texas, Austin, TX; and J. Vialard, M. Lengaigne, E. Guilyardi, P. DiNezio, A. Voldoire, M. A. Balmaseda, G. Madec, C. Menkes, and M. J. McPhaden

Recorded Presentation

3:30 PM

3B.7

Trans-Pacific ENSO Teleconnections Pose a Correlated Risk to Global Agriculture

Weston Anderson, Columbia Univ., New York, NY; and R. Seager, M. A. Cane, and W. Baethgen

Recorded Presentation

3:45 PM

3B.8

A Tropical Ecological Forecasting Strategy for ENSO Based on a Global Modeling Framework

Forrest M. Hoffman, ORNL, Oak Ridge, TN; and M. Xu, N. O. Collier, P. Levine, and J. T. Randerson

Recorded Presentation

4:00 PM

3B.9

Pacific–Atlantic Interactions Heat Up: Evidence from El Niño and Mid-Latitude Blobs

Jin-Yi Yu, Univ. of California, Irvine, CA

Recorded Presentation

Session 3B

Precipitation Processes and Observations for Atmospheric, Land Surface, and Hydrological Modeling, Part II

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

Host: 32nd Conference on Hydrology

Cochairs: Emad Habib, Univ. of Louisiana; Yu Zhang, Univ. of Texas at Austin; Paul A. Kucera, UCAR

2:00 PM

3B.1

Evaluation of a Mesoscale Convective System in Variable-Resolution CESM

Ashley E. Payne, Univ. of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI; and C. Jablonowski

Recorded Presentation

2:15 PM

3B.2

Raindrop Breakup and Coalescence Diagnosed from Raindrop Size Distributions Retrieved from Vertically Pointing Doppler Radars

Christopher R. Williams, CIRES/Univ. of Colorado, Boulder, CO

Recorded Presentation

2:30 PM

3B.3

A Quick Summary of IMERG Versions and Features

George J. Huffman, NASA GSFC, Greenbelt, MD; and D. T. Bolvin, D. Braithwaite, K. Hsu, R. J. Joyce, C. Kidd, E. J. Nelkin, S. Sorooshian, J. Tan, and P. Xie

Recorded Presentation

2:45 PM

3B.4

Near-Global Covariability of Hourly Precipitation in Space and Time

Kevin E. Trenberth, NCAR, Boulder, CO; and Y. Zhang

Recorded Presentation

3:00 PM

3B.5

Evaluation of the Mountain Mapper Product Generated by the Multi-Radar Multi-Sensor System (MRMS) over the Russian River Basin Region in California

Sounak K. Biswas, Colorado State Univ., Fort Collins, CO; and V. Chandrasekar, R. Cifelli, and J. Bytheway

3:15 PM

3B.6

Characterizing Multiband Reflectivity Obtained from Spaceborne Radars Using Nonlinear Dimensionality Reduction with Raindrop Size Distribution Parameters

Kwo-Sen Kuo, Univ. of Maryland, College Park, College Park, MD; and S. Yatheendradas and A. Tokay

Recorded Presentation

3:30 PM

3B.7

Upgrading the United States Air Force Land Information System: Improvements to Global Precipitation Analysis

Eric M. Kemp, SSAI, Greenbelt, MD; and J. Wegiel, S. V. Kumar, J. Geiger, and C. D. Peters-Lidard

3:45 PM

3B.8

Global Near-Real-Time Precipitation by Optimally Merging Gauge, Satellite, and Atmospheric Model Data

Hylke Beck, Princeton Univ., Princeton, NJ; and M. Pan and E. F. Wood

Recorded Presentation

4:00 PM

3B.9

Dynamical Downscaling Improves Upon Gridded Precipitation Products in the Sierra Nevada, California

Mimi Hughes, CIRES, Boulder, CO; and J. D. Lundquist and B. Henn

Recorded Presentation

Joint Session 15

NASA Earth Observation Systems and Applications for Health and Air Quality Models and Decisions

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

Hosts: (Joint between the Ninth Conference on Environment and Health; and the Eighth Conference on Transition of Research to Operations )

Cochairs: Sue M. Estes, Univ. of Alabama in Huntsville; John A. Haynes, NASA

2:00 PM

J15.1

NASA Applications for Public Health and Air Quality Models and Decisions using Earth Observation Systems

Sue M. Estes, Univ. of Alabama in Huntsville, Huntsville, AL; and J. A. Haynes

Recorded Presentation

2:15 PM

J15.2

An Operational High Resolution Air Quality Modeling System Providing Smoke Impact Forecasts for Health Protection, Ecosystem Management, and Economic Development in the Southeast

M. Talat Odman, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA; and Y. Hu, A. G. Russell, S. L. Goodrick, and A. Vaidyanathan

Recorded Presentation

2:30 PM

J15.3

How Remote Sensing of Vibrios Influence Public Health Decisions: Lessons Learned from Bengal Delta and Haiti

Antar Jutla, West Virginia Univ., Morgantown, WV; and S. Aziz, A. Huq, and R. Colwell

2:45 PM

J15.4

Smoke Exposure and Associated Health Effects across Several Fire Seasons and Locations in the Western United States

Bonne Ford, Colorado State Univ., Fort Collins, CO; and K. O'Dell, R. Gan, J. Liu, W. Lassman, M. Burke, G. Pfister, A. Vaidyanathan, J. Volckens, S. Magzamen, E. V. Fischer, and J. R. Pierce

Recorded Presentation

3:00 PM

Break

3:15 PM

J15.5

Impact of Cloud Assimilation on Air Quality Simulations

Arastoo Pour Biazar, Univ. of Alabama in Huntsville, Huntsville, AL; and A. T. White, R. T. McNider, B. Dornblaser, P. Cheng, and Y. Wu

Recorded Presentation

3:30 PM

J15.6

An Operational System for Surveillance and Ecological Forecasting of West Nile Virus Outbreaks

Michael C. Wimberly, University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK; and J. K. Davis, G. Vincent, A. Hess, and M. B. Hildreth

Recorded Presentation

3:45 PM

J15.7

Chemical Data Assimilation to Improve Short-Term PM2.5 Predictions over the United States

Luca Delle Monache, NCAR, Boulder, CO; and R. Kumar, S. Alessandrini, P. E. Saide, J. Bresch, Z. Liu, G. Pfister, and D. P. Edwards

Recorded Presentation

4:00 PM

J15.8

Web-Based Decision-Support Tools for Invasive Mosquitoes and Zika Virus Transmission Risk

Christopher M. Barker, Univ. of California, Davis, CA; and M. Marcantonio, M. Donnelly, and F. Melton

Panel Discussion 2

Valuing Climate Information and Networks for Improved Planning and Preparedness

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

Host: Sixth Symposium on the Weather, Water, and Climate Enterprise

Moderator: Claudia Nierenberg, NOAA

Panelists: Jennifer Helgeson, National Institute of Standards and Technology; Monica Grasso, NOAA; Malgosia Madajewicz, Columbia University; August Martin, ERM: Environmental Resources Management

Joint Panel Discussion 2

Best Practices and Innovations in Social Media

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

Hosts: (Joint between the Robert T. Ryan Symposium; the 46th Conference on Broadcast Meteorology; and the Sixth AMS Conference for Early Career Professionals )

Moderator: Jason Samenow, Washington Post

Panelists: Rob Eicher, WHDH; Brad Panovich, WCNC-TV; Irene Sans, WFTV/ClimaData

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

Session 2

Cloud-Radiation Interactions of Absorbing Aerosols—Part II

Location: Room 12A (ACC) (Austin, Texas)

Host: 10th Symposium on Aerosol-Cloud-Climate Interactions

Cochairs: Paquita Zuidema, Univ. of Miami/RSMAS; Yan Feng, Argonne National Laboratory

3:15 PM

2.1

A First Summary of the Layered Atlantic Smoke Interactions with Clouds (LASIC) Campaign in the Remote Southeast Atlantic

Paquita Zuidema, Univ. of Miami/RSMAS, Miami, FL; and A. Adebiyi, A. C. Aiken, Y. Blanchard, V. Castro, J. Y. C. Chiu, B. Cunha, R. Delgadillo, C. J. Flynn, J. C. Hardin, B. M. Isom, P. Muradyan, K. Nitschke, L. Ramajiguru, L. D. Riihimaki, M. Ryczek, A. J. Sedlacek, S. Springston, J. Uin, J. Viegas, and J. Zhang

Recorded Presentation

3:30 PM

2.2

Airborne and Satellite Imager Retrievals of Clouds and Above-Cloud Absorbing Aerosols during Oracles

Kerry Meyer, NASA GSFC, Greenbelt, MD; and S. Platnick, G. T. Arnold, and J. Riédi

Recorded Presentation

3:45 PM

2.3

Above-Cloud Aerosol Properties from Multi-Spectral Satellite and Aircraft Measurements during the ORACLES Field Campaign

Ian Chang, Univ. of Alabama, Huntsville, AL; and S. A. Christopher, J. Redemann, and S. E. LeBlanc

Recorded Presentation

4:00 PM

2.4

Marine Stratocumulus Properties from the FPDR—PDI as a Function of Altitude and Aerosol during ORACLES Phase 1 and 2

Jennifer D. Small Griswold, Univ. of Hawai‘i at Mānoa, Honolulu, HI; and A. Heikkila and A. Dobracki

Recorded Presentation

Session 3

MJO Propagation through the Maritime Continent

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

Host: Sixth Symposium on the Madden-Julian Oscillation and Sub-Seasonal Monsoon Variability

Cochairs: Matthew Adam Janiga, UCAR; Noah D. Brenowitz, Univ. of Washington

3:15 PM

3.1

Modulation of the Diurnal Cycle of Convection over the Maritime Continent by the Madden–Julian Oscillation

Ajda Savarin, Univ. of Washington, Seattle, WA; and S. S. Chen

3:30 PM

3.2

Atmospheric Contributions to MJO Decay over the Maritime Continent

Charlotte A. DeMott, Colorado State Univ., Fort Collins, CO; and B. Wolding, E. D. Maloney, and D. A. Randall

3:45 PM

3.3

Simulations of MJO Propagation across the Maritime Continent: Impacts of SST Feedback

Jieshun Zhu, NOAA/NCEP, College Park, MD; and W. Wang and A. Kumar

4:00 PM

3.4

New Perspectives of the MJO from Tracking Its Precipitation

Chidong Zhang, PMEL, Seattle, WA; and J. LIng

Session 4

Research to Operations: Selected Student Presentations

Location: Room 14 (ACC) (Austin, Texas)

Host: Eighth Conference on Transition of Research to Operations

Cochairs: Martin Yapur, NOAA/NESDIS/Office of Projects, Planning and Analysis; Eric Fetzer, JPL/California Institute of Technology; Stephen A. Mango, NOAA/NESDIS/Office of Projects, Planning, and Analysis Affiliate

3:15 PM

4.1

A Cloud Analysis and Forecasting System (CAN) for the 2018 Winter Olympics

Yoonjin Lee, Colorado State Univ., Fort Collins, CO; and S. Albers, K. D. Ahn, C. D. Kummerow, Y. H. Lee, Z. Toth, and Y. Xie

Recorded Presentation

3:30 PM

4.2

Relating Multi-Radar/Multi-Sensor Products to Lightning and Thunderstorm Severity

Kevin Thiel, Ohio Univ., Athens, OH; and I. R. Lee and K. Scharfenberg

Recorded Presentation

3:45 PM

4.3

Developing and Testing Watch-Scale Forecast Products in the FACETs Paradigm

Makenzie Krocak, Cooperative Institute for Mesoscale Meteorological Studies, Norman, OK; and H. E. Brooks

Recorded Presentation

4:00 PM

4.4

Simultaneous Retrieval of Dust Aerosol Optical Depth and Particle Size Using Spaceborne Lidar

Jiachen Ding, Texas A&M Univ., College Station, TX; and P. Yang and R. E. Holz

Recorded Presentation

Joint Session 16

Joint Session with the AMS Board on the Urban Environment. Part II: Urban Air Pollution Monitoring and Modeling

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 Board on the Urban Environment )

Chair: Denise Hertwig, Univ. of Reading

3:15 PM

J16.1

Assessment of Smoke Plume Transport and Impact on Air Quality with a Synergistic Ground-Based and Satellite Observation in New York City

Yonghua Wu, City College, New York, NY; and A. Arapi, A. Diaz, B. Gross, and F. Moshary

Recorded Presentation

3:30 PM

J16.2

Trend Analysis of Historical Ambient Ozone, NOx, and VOC Data in San Antonio, Texas

Mark J. Estes, Texas Commission on Environmental Quality (TCEQ), Austin, TX; and D. Westenbarger, B. Dornblaser, J. Steets, and J. Price

3:45 PM

J16.3

Hazy Weather Index as a Predictor for Present and Future Indian Metropolitan Air Quality in a Multiyear WRF-Chem Simulation

Xiaokang Wu, Texas A&M Univ., College Station, TX; and Y. Xu, R. Kumar, and M. C. Barth

Recorded Presentation

4:00 PM

J16.4

Annual PM_2.5 State Implementation Plan Modeling for Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, Using a Hybrid Plume/Grid Approach

Bart Brashers, Ramboll Environ, Lynnwood, WA; and R. Morris, J. Maranche, and A. J. Sadar

Recorded Presentation

Joint Session 17

Satellite Testbeds and Proving Ground Activities

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

Hosts: (Joint between the 14th Annual Symposium on New Generation Operational Environmental Satellite Systems; the 22nd Conference on Satellite Meteorology and Oceanography; and the Sixth AMS Symposium on the Joint Center for Satellite Data Assimilation )

Cochairs: Donald W. Hillger, NOAA/NESDIS; Huan Meng, NOAA/NESDIS/Center for Satellite Applications and Research

3:15 PM

J17.1

Crossing the Goal Line: New Multispectral Imagery Used by Alaska Fire Service during the 2017 Wildfire Season

Eric Stevens, Univ. of Alaska, Fairbanks, AK

Recorded Presentation

3:30 PM

J17.2

Results from GOES-R and JPSS Proving Ground Demonstrations at the Hazardous Weather Testbed 2017 Summer Experiment

Michael A. Bowlan, CIMMS/Univ. of Oklahoma, Norman, OK

Recorded Presentation

3:45 PM

J17.3

NOAA’s Joint Polar Satellite System’s Proving Ground and Risk Reduction (PGRR) Program—PGRR Initiatives as the Foundation of the Communication Process between Users and Developers, Aiding in JPSS Products Transition to Operations

Bill Sjoberg, GST/JPSS Program Office, Lanham, MD

Recorded Presentation

4:00 PM

J17.4

GOES-16 and Himawari-8 Integration at the Satellite Proving Ground for Marine, Precipitation, and Satellite Analysis

Michael J. Folmer, CICS, College Park, MD; and J. M. Sienkiewicz, J. D. Clark, H. D. Cobb III, N. A. Ramos, J. A. Nelson Jr., A. Orrison, M. Klein, J. Kibler, S. D. Rudlosky, S. J. Goodman, and M. Goldberg

Recorded Presentation

Joint Session 18

Soil Dust III: Lofting, Transport, Characterization, and Interactions with Clouds and Climate

Location: Room 9AB (ACC) (Austin, Texas)

Hosts: (Joint between the 10th Symposium on Aerosol-Cloud-Climate Interactions; and the 20th Conference on Atmospheric Chemistry )

Cochairs: Ottmar Möhler, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology; Naruki Hiranuma, West Texas A&M Univ.

3:15 PM

J18.1

Dust-Infused Baroclinic Storm Clouds: The Evidence, Meteorology, and Some Implications

Michael D. Fromm, NRL, Washington, DC; and P. F. Caffrey and G. P. Kablick III

Recorded Presentation

3:30 PM

J18.2

Impact of Simulated Dust Lofting Methodologies on Sea Breezes along the Arabian Peninsula

Stephen M. Saleeby, Colorado State Univ., Fort Collins, CO; and S. C. van den Heever and J. Bukowski

Recorded Presentation

3:45 PM

J18.3

Disappearing Dust Plumes: Exploring the Roles of Water Vapor and Dust Properties in Detection from Satellite Observations

Sonia Kreidenweis, Colorado State Univ., Fort Collins, CO; and Q. Bian, L. Grasso, X. Xu, J. Bukowski, S. C. van den Heever, J. E. Solbrig, and S. Miller

4:00 PM

J18.4

Retrieving Dust Aerosols over Oceans from MODIS

Yaping Zhou, Morgan State Univ., Greenbelt, MD; and R. Levy, L. Remer, S. Mattoo, and R. Kleidman

Session 4

AI Applications to the Environment in Private Companies and Public−Private Partnerships

Location: Room 7 (ACC) (Austin, Texas)

Host: 17th Conf on Artificial and Computational Intelligence and its Applications to the Environmental Sciences

Chair: Sarvesh Garimella, ACME AtronOmatic, LLC

3:30 PM

4.1

Conditional Generative Adversarial Neural Networks for Radar Noise Postprocessing

Sarvesh Garimella, ACME AtronOmatic, LLC, Portland, OR

Recorded Presentation

3:45 PM

4.2

Cloud Classification of Cellphone Photos by Machine Learning

Kun Yue, Moji Weather, Beijing, China; and J. Zhuang and L. Ding

Recorded Presentation

Handout (31.4 MB)

Session 4

ASLI Book Awards

Location: Room 3 (ACC) (Austin, Texas)

Host: 21st Atmospheric Science Librarians International Conference

Chair: Jinny Nathans, American Meteorological Society

Session 4

Notable Women and Minority Figures in Atmospheric Science

Location: Room 2 (ACC) (Austin, Texas)

Host: 16th History Symposium

Chair: Lourdes B. Avilés, Plymouth State University

4.1

Taking Forecasting by Storm: The Archie Williams Story

3:45 PM

4.2

From Clouds to Waves: Joanne Simpson’s Feminist Fight in Meteorology

Carol A. Lipshultz, Colby College, Waterville, ME

Recorded Presentation

4:00 PM

4.3

Clouds, Hurricanes, and the Tropical Atmosphere: What We Are Learning about the Life and Work of Joanne Gerould/Starr/Malkus/Simpson

James Rodger Fleming, Colby College, Waterville, ME

Joint Session 19

Communication Then and Now

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

Hosts: (Joint between the Robert T. Ryan Symposium; and the 46th Conference on Broadcast Meteorology )

Chair: Elizabeth McGiffin, KY3

4:00 PM

J19.1

100 Years of Communicating Weather, Climate, and Environmental Information and Forecasts: 1950s–2050s

Robert Ryan, Consulting Meteorologist, McLean, VA

Recorded Presentation

Formal Poster Viewing with Coffee Break

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

Poster Session 1

20ATMChem Poster Session I

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

Host: 20th Conference on Atmospheric Chemistry

Chair: Jonathan Jiang, JPL

Cochairs: Jeff Collett, Colorado State Univ.; Kenneth Pickering, Univ. of Maryland

182

A Transport Pathway for Polluted Air from the Asian Summer Monsoon Anticyclone to the Global UTLS

Shawn Honomichl, NCAR, Boulder, CO; and L. L. Pan

183

Model Comparison of the Atmospheric Ammonia Modeling over Asia

Transboundary air pollution of nitrate in winter over East Asia: Important role of ammonia to decide the long-range transport type

184

Evaluation of Ambient Ammonia Measurements from a Research Aircraft Using a Fast-Response TILDAS Spectrometer with Active Passivation

Ilana Pollack, Colorado State Univ., Fort Collins, CO; and J. Lindaas, J. R. Roscioli, M. Agnese, and E. V. Fischer

Handout (2.6 MB)

185

Stable Isotopic Composition of NH₃ at Regional and Urban Scales: Source and Transport Implications

J. David Felix, Texas A&M Univ, Corpus Christi, TX; and A. Berner, E. M. Elliott, and E. A. D. Alvarez

186

Estimating the Added Value of Different Measurement Platforms toward Determining Atmospheric Ammonia Concentrations and Deposition Rates Downwind of a Feedlot

William Lassman, Colorado State Univ., Fort Collins, CO; and J. Ham, A. Yalin, and J. R. Pierce

187

Investigation of Hourly Concentration Ratios of Ammonia Gas and Particulate Ammonium Using an Online Ion Chromatography Analyzer

Greg M Beachley, EPA, Washington, DC; and J. Walker, M. Puchalski, and G. Lear

188

The Spatial and Temporal Distribution of Atmospheric Ammonia in Northern Colorado

Katherine B. Benedict, Colorado State Univ., Fort Collins, CO; and E. Bangs, Y. Li, Y. Shao, A. P. Sullivan, and J. L. Collett Jr.

189

Tropospheric and Stratospheric BrO Profiles from Mountaintops in the Remote Marine Atmosphere

Theodore K. Koenig, Univ. of Colorado Boulder, Boulder, CO; and B. Dix, F. Hendrick, N. Theys, M. Van Roozendael, J. Brioude, J. P. Cammas, and R. Volkamer

190

Bromine Conundrum over Tropical Oceans: A Missing BrO Sink in the Remote Marine Boundary Layer

R. Volkamer, Univ. of Colorado Boulder, Boulder, CO; and T. Koenig, B. Dix, R. Chiu, G. Tyndall, J. J. Orlando, E. C. Apel, S. Y. Wang, M. S. Long, and Y. Miyazaki

191

Aerosol Optical Properties with Polydisperse Size Distribution and Mixture Types during Smog and Asian Dust Events in Seoul, South Korea

Chang Hoon Jung, Kyungin Women's Univ., Incheon, Korea, Republic of (South); and J. Lee, J. Um, and Y. P. Kim

192

LaRC Modeling of Ozone Formation in San Antonio, Texas

Fangzhou Guo, Rice Univ., Houston, TX; and R. Griffin, A. Bui, B. Schulze, H. Wallace, J. H. Flynn III, M. Erickson, S. L. Alvarez, A. Kotsakis, S. Usenko, R. Sheesley, and S. Yoon

193

A Case Study of a Springtime Ozone Episode in the North China Plain

Sarah Benish, Univ. of Maryland, College Park, MD; and P. Stratton, X. Ren, H. He, and R. R. Dickerson

194

An Example of an Unusual Thunderstorm-Induced Rapid Increase in Ground-Level Ozone Concentrations 5 July 2017

Frank S. Dempsey, Locust Hill, Canada

Poster 195 is now paper 7.3A

196

Impact of Convection and Long-Range Transport on Short-Lived Halocarbons in the UT/LS

E. Atlas, Univ. of Miami, Miami, FL; and S. Schauffler, M. Navarro, R. Lueb, R. Hendershot, and R. Ueyama

Poster Session 1

8th Research to Operations (8R2O)—Poster Session

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

Host: Eighth Conference on Transition of Research to Operations

270

National SOO-DOH Projects Initiative

David T. Myrick, NOAA/NWS/Office of Science and Technology Integration, Silver Spring, MD

271

NWS Headquarters 1STOP Initiative

Tim McClung, NOAA, Silver Spring, MD

272

Best Practices for Severe Thunderstorm Detection with Limited Low-Level Radar Data

Kevin M. Wagner, NOAA/NWS Forecast Office, Corpus Christi, TX

273

Evaluating the Impact of Grell–Freitas Convective Parameterization into Tropical Cyclone Simulations Using FV3GFS

Keren Rosado, NCAS/ESRL/GSD, Boulder, CO; and G. A. Grell, L. R. Bernardet, and E. A. Kalina

274

Toward Accurate, Efficient, and Consistent Global Flux Simulations

Chia-Pang Kuo, Texas A&M Univ., College Station, TX; and P. Yang, X. Huang, D. Feldman, M. G. Flanner, C. Kuo, and E. Mlawer

275

Enhancing FAA/NWS Research-to-Operations to Support Global and Domestic Missions through the Unified Post Processor

Brian P. Pettegrew, CIRA/Colorado State Univ., Kansas City, MO; and D. L. Sims, H. Y. Chuang, J. W. Scheck, and M. Strahan

276

The COMET® Program's Training for Hydrometeorology and Hydro-Climate R2O

Matthew Kelsch, UCAR, Boulder, CO

277

Developing a Model to Transform a Subjective Weather Forecast Interpretation in a Risk Index to Improve the Reliability and the Resilience in a Distribution Energy Company

Gilca Palma, Climatempo, São Paulo, Brazil; and R. Yamamoto and G. T. Carvalho

278

On the Utility of Global Ensemble Forecast Systems for Tropical Cyclogenesis Forecasts

Alan Brammer, SUNY, Albany, NY; and C. Thorncroft and J. P. Dunion

279

Near-Real-Time CAPE Combining Hyperspectral IR Satellite Sounding and Surface Met Stations

Callyn Bloch, IMSG/NOAA/NESDIS/STAR, College Park, MD; and R. O. Knuteson and A. Gambacorta

Handout (3.7 MB)

280

A New Convective Index for Africa

Gabriel Donndelinger, U.S. Air Force/Department of Defense, Wright Patterson AFB, OH; and R. Tseng

Joint Poster Session 1

Advancing the Use of Earth Observations to Benefit Global Food Security and Agriculture

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

Hosts: (Joint between the 32nd Conference on Hydrology; and the 13th Symposium on Societal Applications: Policy, Research and Practice )

Cochairs: Christa D. Peters-Lidard, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center; Danielle Wood, MIT; Margaret M. Hurwitz, Science Systems and Applications, Inc.; Bradley Doorn, NASA

9

Views of the 2016 Northern Plains Flash Drought: Farmer Perspectives and Remote Sensing Data

Tonya Haigh, National Drought Mitigation Center, Lincoln, NE; and J. A. Otkin and A. Mucia

10

Seasonal-Scale Water Deficit Forecasting in Africa and the Middle East Using NASA’s Land Information System (LIS)

Christa D. Peters-Lidard, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD; and K. R. Arsenault, S. Shukla, A. Getirana, A. McNally, R. D. Koster, B. F. Zaitchik, H. S. Badr, J. M. Roningen, S. Kumar, and C. C. Funk

11

Examining the Value of Global Seasonal Reference Evapotranspiration Forecasts to Support FEWS NET's Food Insecurity Outlooks

Dan McEvoy, DRI, Reno, NV; and S. Shukla, M. Hobbins, G. Husak, J. Huntington, C. C. Funk, D. Macharia, and J. Verdin

12

A New Global Reference Evapotranspiration Reanalysis Forced by MERRA2: Opportunities for Famine Early Warning, Drought Attribution, and Improving Drought Monitoring

Michael Hobbins, CIRES, Boulder, CO; and C. Dewes, D. McEvoy, S. Shukla, L. S. Harrison, S. L. Blakeley, A. McNally, and J. P. Verdin

13

Changing Precipitation Patterns Challenges Food Security in the Indus Basin

Ashish Kondal, West Virginia Univ., Morgantown, WV; and M. Usmani, L. Lin, and A. Jutla

14

Toward a Solid Foundation of Using Remotely Sensed Solar-Induced Chlorophyll Fluorescence for Crop Monitoring and Yield Forecast

Ying Sun, Cornell Univ., Ithaca, NY; and Y. Chen, L. You, and Y. Liu

15

Combining Surface Climate and Satellite Vegetation Data to Understand Agricultural Productivity in China

You Wu, Nanjing University of Information Science and Technology, Nanjing, China; and X. Z. Liang

16

Developing Integrated Information Systems for Improved Management of the Water–Energy–Food (W–E–F) Nexus

Richard Lawford, Morgan State Univ., Baltimore, MD

17

A New Remote-Sensing Indicator for Measuring Degree of Crop Damage due to Natural Disasters

Liping Di, George Mason Univ., Fairfax, VA; and E. Yu and R. Shrestha

18

The Research on Disastrous Law of Drought and Flood in Hubei Province in China

Yue Zhou, Institute of Heavy Rain, China Meteorological Administration, Wuhan, China; and Y. Zhou and L. Ye

Poster Session 1

Aerosol–Cloud–Climate Interactions Posters I

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

Host: 10th Symposium on Aerosol-Cloud-Climate Interactions

Cochairs: Adele L. Igel, Univ. of California; Ottmar Moehler, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology

242

Impacts of Local Convective Processes on Rain Water Budgets in a Tropical Island

243

Aerosol Impacts on Deep Convective Storms

244

Examining the Distributions of Ozone, Water Vapor, and Chemical Tracers from the CONTRAST Campaign

Kathryn M. Steinmann, San Jose State Univ., San Jose, CA; and M. Diao

245

Laboratory Investigation on the Immersion Freezing Behavior of Arctic Aerosols Collected in Ny-Ålesund, Svalbard

Kimberly Cory, West Texas A&M Univ. (WTAMU), Canyon, TX; and D. Cappelletti, M. Mazzola, R. Udisti, and N. Hiranuma

Poster 246 has been moved. New paper number is 4.6A

247

Analyzing Hygroscopic Particle Growth of West Antarctic Boundary Layer Aerosols during AWARE

Jeramy L. Dedrick, Texas A&M Univ., College Station, TX; and J. Liu, L. M. Russell, G. Senum, J. Uin, C. Kuang, and D. Lubin

248

Evaluation of Arctic Clouds and Their Response to External Forcing in Climate Models

Yuan Wang, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA; and J. Jiang, Y. Ming, H. Su, and Y. Yung

249

Relationships between Ice Nucleation Process and Crystal Habit for Arctic Mixed-Phase Clouds—a Numerical Study

Tempei Hashino, Kyushu Univ., Kasuga, Japan; and G. de Boer, H. Okamoto, and G. J. Tripoli

250

Ice Nucleation Activity of Dust Particles Emitted from a Cattle Feeding Operation in the Texas Panhandle

Craig Whiteside, West Texas A&M Univ. (WTAMU), Canyon, TX; and B. W. Auvermann, J. Bush, C. Goodwin, R. McFarlin, and N. Hiranuma

251

Dust Forecasting: A Study of U.S. Air Force Numerical Weather Modeling Performance and Skill

Robert Tournay, 16th Weather Squadron, Offutt AFB, NE; and J. M. Hidalgo, W. T. Sedlacek, C. N. Chisler, G. Creighton, and E. Neemann

252

Subjective Mapping of Dust-Emission Sources by Using MODIS Imagery: Reproducibility Assessment

Sandra L. Jones, U.S. Army, Hanover, NH; and S. N. Sinclair

253

Is There a Relationship between the Immersion Freezing Activity and the Mineralogical Composition of Natural Dust Aerosols?

Ottmar Möhler, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Karlsruhe, Germany; and R. Ullrich, H. Bingemer, K. Höhler, N. Hoffmann, K. Kandler, T. Koop, A. Kiselev, N. Marsden, N. Reicher, Y. Rudich, T. Schiebel, M. Szakall, R. Wagner, D. Weber, and P. G. Weidler

254

Relative Contributions of Convective and Non-Convective Dust Lofting over the Arabian Peninsula

Jennifer Bukowski, Colorado State Univ., Fort Collins, CO; and S. C. van den Heever

255

Characterization of Marine Stratocumulus Clouds and Aerosol–Cloud Interactions during ORACLES

Ashley Heikkila, Univ. of Hawai‘i at Mānoa, Honolulu, HI; and J. D. S. Griswold, S. Howell, A. Dobracki, and M. Kacarab

256

Radiative Effects on the Growth of Cloud Droplets in a 3D LES Model

Xin Zhou, Stony Brook Univ., Stony Brook, NY; and Y. Liu, S. Endo, and S. Yoo

Poster Session 1

Drought Analysis and Prediction

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

Host: 32nd Conference on Hydrology

Cochairs: Michael Hobbins, CIRES; Mark D. Svoboda, National Drought Mitigation Center; Jason A. Otkin, Univ. of Wisconsin–Madison; Joshua K. Roundy, Univ. of Kansas

19

Do Floods Terminate a Drought?

Michael C. Kruk, Earth Resources Technology, Inc., Asheville, NC; and R. R. Heim Jr., D. McEvoy, and A. M. Sheffield

20

An Evaluation of Recent U.S. Drought Events Using a Newly Available Standardized Soil Moisture Dataset

Ronald D. Leeper, North Carolina State Univ., Asheville, NC

21

Combining GEFS with CHIRPS Precipitation Estimates to Bias Correct Precipitation Forecasts for Food Security Analysis

Martin Landsfeld, Univ. of California, Santa Barbara, CA; and C. C. Funk, L. S. Harrison, P. Peterson, S. Shukla, and G. Husak

22

Improving the Communication of Drought Conditions in Canada—Advancements in the Canadian Drought Monitor

Trevor Hadwen, Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada, Regina, Canada; and P. Cherneski, L. Richard, M. Magendrathajan, and M. McBurney

23

Recovery of Hydrological Conditions in California: A GIS Case Study

Zachary S. Bruick, Colorado State Univ., Fort Collins, CO; and J. Wei, A. Savtchenko, and W. Yang

24

Local Drought Management

Mark A. Shafer, Southern Climate Impacts Planning Program, Norman, OK

25

A New 34-Year Satellite-Based Monthly Tmax Climate Data Record, the Climate Hazards Infrared/MERRA2 Tmax with Stations: CHIMERRAS Tmax

Pete Peterson, Univ. of California, Climate Hazards Group, Santa Barbara, CA; and S. Peterson, A. Meiburg, C. C. Funk, J. Michaelsen, F. Davenport, G. Husak, S. Shukla, D. Pedreros, D. Macharia, N. Mata, K. Knapp, and T. Dinku

26

Subseasonal-to-Seasonal Climate Forecast Rodeo

Ken Nowak, U.S. Bureau of Reclamation, Denver, CO; and R. Cifelli and L. D. Brekke

27

Drivers of Atmospheric Evaporative Demand during African Droughts

Laura S. Harrison, Univ. of California, Santa Barbara, CA; and S. L. Blakeley, M. Hobbins, C. Dewes, C. C. Funk, S. Shukla, P. Peterson, and G. Husak

28

Generating Forecasts of Reservoir Storage Using Climate Information from Probability of Exceedance (POE) Plots of Seasonal Rainfall

D. Nelun Fernando, Texas Water Development Board, Austin, TX; and J. Zhu and S. Negusse

29

Satellite WRSI-Based Drought Vulnerability Functions and Agricultural Drought Risks Using Paired CHIRPS and Reference ET GRIDS in Senegal

Harikishan Jayanthi, USGS, Sioux Falls, SD; and G. Husak, C. C. Funk, J. P. Verdin, M. T. Hobbins, T. Magadzire, A. Adoum, and G. Galu

30

Assessing Meteorological Drought on Islands and Island Nations: The Case for Climate Observations in Territorial Islands of the United States

Mark D. Brusberg, USDA, Washington, DC; and B. Rippey, C. Olson, and C. Morton

31

Development of Prototype National Water Model Soil Moisture Products for Drought Monitoring

Mimi Hughes, CIRES, Boulder, CO; and R. J. Zamora, D. L. Jackson, R. Cifelli, R. S. Webb, D. DeWitt, and P. Colohan

32

GRACE-Assimilated Drought Indicators for Drought Monitor

Hualan Rui, NASA GSFC and Adnet Systems, Greenbelt, MD; and B. Vollmer, W. Teng, C. F. Loeser, H. Beaudoing, and M. Rodell

33

Prediction of Winter Wheat Yield Loss Caused By Dry-Hot Wind Based on Remote Sensing

Ying Li, China Meteorological Administration/Henan Key Laboratory of Agrometeorological Support and Applied Technique, Zhengzhou, China; and H. Chen, X. Wang, and H. Zhang

Manuscript (338.0 kB)

Handout (48.9 MB)

34

The Southeast Drought and Wildfires of 2016: How It Developed and What We Learned

Pamela N. Knox, The Univ. of Georgia, Athens, GA; and C. E. Konrad and C. E. Konrad

35

The Evolution of Drought Planning in Georgia Since 2000: A Cautionary Tale

Pamela N. Knox, The Univ. of Georgia, Athens, GA; and D. E. Stooksbury

36

Drought Information & Reporting (DRI): Mobile Application Use in Drought Condition Reporting

Zachery Maye, NWS, Memphis, TN; and M. Brown

Handout (4.6 MB)

37

Madden–Julian Oscillation and Summer Precipitation/Drought in the Canadian Prairies

Zhenhua Li, Univ. of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, Canada; and Y. Li, A. Manson, and B. R. Bonsal

38

Development of Multimodel Streamflow Forecasts for Various River Basins in Different Hydroclimatic Settings

Mohamed Elansary, Texas A&M, Kingsville, TX; and T. Sinha

Handout (2.0 MB)

Poster Session 1

GOES-R/JPSS Poster Session I

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

Host: 14th Annual Symposium on New Generation Operational Environmental Satellite Systems

Cochairs: Gary McWilliams, NESDIS JPSS Program Office/Science and Technology Corporation; Tim Schmit, NOAA/NESDIS/STAR

213

Using VIIRS Aerosol Products to Assess the Impact of Wildfire Emissions on Observed Air Quality in the Mid-Atlantic Region

Amy K. Huff, Pennsylvania State Univ., University Park, PA; and W. F. Ryan, S. Kondragunta, and H. Zhang

214

Comparison of Data from the North Georgia Lightning Mapping Array and the GOES-16 Global Lightning Mapper

John M. Trostel, Georgia Tech. Research Institute, Atlanta, GA; and J. L. Losego and M. R. Frank

215

CSPP SDR 3.0 Support for JPSS-1 and CrIS FS

Scott Mindock, Univ. of Wisconsin–Madison, Madison, WI; and G. Martin, R. Garcia, K. Strabala, L. Gumley, and A. Huang

216

SDI Grb Appliance: An Excellent Way to Process the GOES-R Grb Data Stream

Scott Mindock, Univ. of Wisconsin–Madison, Madison, WI; and J. Beavers and R. A. Kohrs

217

Using Satellite-Derived Precipitation Measurements to Assess Water Resources on the Navajo Indian Reservation

Ansley Long, Univ. of Georgia, Athens, GA; and J. M. Shepherd

218

Assessment of the Impact of ABI Radiance Assimilation NWP Skill

Xiaolei Zou, Univ. of Maryland, College Park, MD; and L. Lin, X. Zhuge, and Z. Qin

219

Advancing New Satellite Products into Operations: CIRA's NWS Proving Ground Plans

Ed Szoke, NOAA/ESRL/GSD and CIRA, Boulder, CO; and D. Bikos, B. H. Connell, S. D. Miller, R. Brummer, D. T. Lindsey, D. W. Hillger, D. A. Molenar, and C. J. Seaman

220

New Frontiers in GOES-R ABI Validation: A Feasibility Study for Using Near-Surface Unmanned Aircraft Systems

Aaron J. Pearlman, GeoThinkTank LLC, Washington, DC; and F. P. Padula, T. C. Liu, X. Shao, C. Cao, and S. J. Goodman

Poster 221 has been moved. New paper number is 6B.4A

222

GOES-16: Year One

Christopher C. Schmidt, Univ. of Wisconsin/CIMSS, Madison, WI

223

Himawari Support in the CSPP-GEO Direct Broadcast Package

Geoff Cureton, Univ. of Wisconsin–Madison, Madison, WI

224

JPSS Science Outreach: Building Awareness and Facilitating Public Understanding of NOAA's Joint Polar Satellite System's Proving Ground and Risk Reduction (PGRR) Program

Julie Price, JPSS, Lanham, MD; and M. Goldberg and B. Sjoberg

225

GOES-16 Sensor Data: NRL Ground Station Reception and GeoIPS^TMProcessing

Richard L. Bankert, NRL, Monterey, CA; and K. A. Richardson, M. L. Surratt, A. P. Kuciauskas, J. H. Cossuth, S. D. Miller, and J. E. Solbrig

226

Atlantic Ocean Hurricane Force Storms: Identifying Stratospheric Air Intrusions and the Effects of Hurricane Force Wind Events on the Iceberg Limit

Kristina Mazur, NCEP Student Internship Program, Ocean Prediction Center, College Park, MD; and M. J. Folmer, L. J. Phillips, J. M. Sienkiewicz, and E. Berndt

227

Anticipating Winter Weather with Next-Generation Satellite Sensors

Emily Berndt, MSFC, Huntsville, AL; and S. S. Harkema and M. J. Folmer

228

CSPP Geo GRB: Direct Broadcast Software for GOES-16

Nick Bearson, Univ. of Wisconsin–Madison, Madison, WI; and T. Jasmin, S. Mindock, J. Braun, and G. Martin

229

Joint Polar Satellite System Data Products and Applications

Bonnie Reed, JPSS, Suitland, MD; and A. Layns and M. J. Folmer

230

CICS-MD Contributions to NOAA Satellite Water Cycle Products and Services

Patrick C. Meyers, Univ. of Maryland, College Park, MD; and R. R. Ferraro, E. H. Berbery, N. Y. Wang, H. Meng, S. D. Rudlosky, J. Dong, and Y. You

231

From Polar Orbiters to GOES-16: The Evolution of Satellite Multispectral Composite Imagery and Applications at National Weather Service Forecast Offices

Kristopher D. White, NOAA, Huntsville, AL; and E. Berndt

232

ABI Imagery: From Concept to Operations

Mathew M. Gunshor, Univ. of Wisconsin/CIMSS, Madison, WI; and T. J. Schmit, J. M. Feltz, K. Bah, H. Zhang, and J. P. Nelson III

233

Validation of the SNPP CrIS Full-Resolution NUCAPS Trace Gas EDRs

Nicholas R. Nalli, IMSG, College Park, MD; and A. Gambacorta, C. Tan, F. Iturbide-Sanchez, C. D. Barnet, M. Wilson, X. Xiong, and Q. Liu

234

VISIT and SHyMet Training Activities at CIMSS

Scott S. Lindstrom, CIMSS/Univ. of Wisconsin, Madison, WI; and A. S. Bachmeier, J. J. Gerth, T. J. Schmit, M. M. Gunshor, D. Bikos, E. J. Szoke, and B. H. Connell

235

Retirement/Divestiture of Geostationary and Polar Orbiting Satellite Products

Ame Fox, NOAA, Silver Spring, MD; and C. Best, J. D. Sims, A. Layns, A. Hall, B. Hefner, and N. Ritchey

Manuscript (88.9 kB)

Handout (72.5 MB)

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