| Sunday, 9 January 2005 |
| 7:30 AM, Sunday
Short Course Registration |
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| 9:00 AM-5:40 PM, Sunday
Conference Registration |
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| Monday, 10 January 2005 |
| 7:30 AM, Monday
Registration continues through Thursday, 13 January |
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| 9:00 AM-11:15 AM, Monday
Session 1 AI Techniques |
Chair: Caren Marzban, CAPS/Univ. of Oklahoma, and Applied Physics Lab/University of Washington, Seattle, WA
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| 9:00 AM | 1.0a | Welcoming Remarks
Caren Marzban, CAPS/Univ. of Oklahoma, Norman, OK and University of Washington, Seattle, WA |
| 9:15 AM | 1.1 | On Genetic Algorithms and Discrete Performance Measures  
Caren Marzban, CAPS/Univ. of Oklahoma, Norman, OK and University of Washington, Seattle, WA; and S. E. Haupt |
| 9:30 AM | 1.2 | Validation of Receptor/ Dispersion Model Coupled with a Genetic Algorithm
Sue Ellen Haupt, Penn State University, State College, PA; and G. Young |
| 9:45 AM | 1.3 | Nonlinear principal predictor analysis using neural networks
Alex J. Cannon, MSC, Vancouver, BC, Canada; and W. W. Hsieh |
| 10:00 AM | 1.4 | Nonlinear complex principal component analysis
Sanjay S.P. Rattan, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada; and W. W. Hsieh |
| 10:15 AM | | Coffee Break in Poster Session Room
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| 10:45 AM | 1.5 | Techniques for tuning fuzzy logic algorithms
John K. Williams, NCAR, Boulder, CO; and G. Meymaris |
|  | 1.6 | Quantitative Analysis of the Benefit of Ontologies and Rich Metadata for Earth Science Data Discovery
Carroll A. Hood, Raytheon, Aurora, CO; and L. D. Forsyth and L. Olsen |
| 11:00 AM | 1.6a | Predicting Good Probabilities with Supervised Learning
Rich Caruana, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY; and A. Niculescu-Mizil |
| 11:15 AM | 1.7 | Fingerprinting Significant Weather Events
Paul Knight, Penn State Univ., University Park, PA; and J. Ross, B. Root, G. Young, and R. Grumm |
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| 12:00 PM-1:30 PM, Monday
Lunch Break |
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| 1:30 PM-2:45 PM, Monday
Session 2 General Interest AI Applications |
Chair: Vladimir Krasnopolsky, EMC/NCEP/NOAA/NWS (SAIC) and ESSIC, University of Maryland, Camp Springs, MD
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| | 2.1 | Environmental Applications of Machine Learning: Modelling Population Dynamics and Habitat Suitability
Saso Dzeroski, Jozef Stefan Institute, Ljubljana, Slovenia |
| 1:30 PM | 2.1a | Generation of Real-time Narrative Summaries for Real-time Water Levels and Meteorological Observations in PORTSŪ
Thomas Bethem, NOAA, Silver Spring, MD; and J. Burton, T. Caldwell, M. Evans, R. Kittredge, B. Lavoie, and J. Werner |
| 1:45 PM | 2.2 | Accurate and Fast Neural Network Emulations of the NCAR Community Atmospheric Model Radiation: Accuracy of Approximation and Computational Performance
Vladimir Krasnopolsky, EMC/NCEP/NOAA/NWS (SAIC) and ESSIC, University of Maryland, Camp Springs, MD; and M. S. Fox-Rabinovitz and D. Chalikov |
| 2:00 PM | 2.3 | Using Artificial Neural Networks for Predicting Storm Surge Propagation in North Sea and the Thames Estuary.
Daniel B. Prouty, University of Southampton, Southampton, United Kingdom; and P. E. Tissot and A. A. Anwar |
| 2:15 PM | 2.4 | Sea surface temperature patterns on the West Florida Shelf using Growing Hierarchical Self-Organizing Maps
Yonggang Liu, University of South Florida, St. Petersburg, FL; and R. H. Weisberg and R. He |
| 2:30 PM | | Discussion
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| 2:30 PM-4:00 PM, Monday
Formal Poster Viewing with Coffee Break |
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| 5:30 PM, Monday
Sessions End for the day |
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| 5:30 PM-7:00 PM, Monday
FORMAL OPENING OF EXHIBITS WITH RECEPTION (CASH BAR) |
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| 7:30 PM, Monday
Suki Manabe Symposium Banquet |
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| Tuesday, 11 January 2005 |
| 8:30 AM-9:00 AM, Tuesday
Presentation of Interest - 'Global Precipitation Observation From Satellite Image Using Artificial Neural Networks' Soroosh Sorooshian, University of California, Irvine, Irvine, CA: Part of The Symposium on Living in the Coastal Zone |
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| 9:00 AM-11:30 AM, Tuesday
Joint Session 5 AI Applications with a Nowcasting Flavor (Joint between the Fourth Conference on Artificial Intelligence and the 21st International Conference on Interactive Information and Processing Systems (IIPS) for Meteorology, Oceanography, and Hydrology) |
Chair: V. Lakshmanan, CIMMS/Univ. of Oklahoma/NOAA/NSSL, Norman, OK
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| 9:00 AM | J5.1 | Feature selection of radar-derived tornado attributes with support vector machines
Michael B. Richman, University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK; and B. Santosa and T. B. Trafalis |
| 9:15 AM | J5.2 | A Neural Network for Detecting and Diagnosing Tornadic Circulations using the Mesocyclone Detection and Near Storm Environment Algorithms
V. Lakshmanan, CIMMS/Univ. of Oklahoma/NOAA/NSSL, Norman, OK; and G. J. Stumpf and A. Witt |
| | J5.3 | Short-term wind forecasting using off-site observations and numerical weather prediction
Kristin Larson, 3 Tier Environmental Forecast Group, Inc., Seattle, WA |
| 9:30 AM | J5.4 | A neural network to retrieve upper level winds from ground based profilers
Young Yee, U.S. Army Research Laboratory, White Sands Missile Range, NM; and E. Creegan |
| 9:45 AM | | Formal Poster Viewing with Coffee Break
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| 11:00 AM | J5.5 | Automated forecasting of ceiling and visibility for aviation: exploration of a data mining-based forecast method
Paul H. Herzegh, NCAR, Boulder, CO; and G. Wiener, R. Bateman, and B. Weekley |
| 11:15 AM | J5.6 | A Real-Time Learning Technique to Predict Cloud-to-Ground Lightning
V. Lakshmanan, CIMMS/Univ. of Oklahoma and NOAA/NSSL, Norman, OK; and G. J. Stumpf |
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| 9:45 AM, Tuesday
Poster Session 1 Poster |
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| 11:30 AM-1:30 PM, Tuesday
Exhibits Open |
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| 12:15 PM, Tuesday
Lunch Break |
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| 1:30 PM-2:45 PM, Tuesday
Joint Session 6 AI in Studies with a Climate Component (Joint between the Fourth Conference on Artificial Intelligence and the 21st International Conference on Interactive Information and Processing Systems (IIPS) for Meteorology, Oceanography, and Hydrology) |
Chair: Antonello Pasini, CNR, Rome Italy
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| 1:30 PM | J6.0 | Concluding Remarks and Discussion
Antonello Pasini, CNR, Rome, Italy |
| 1:45 PM | J6.1 | Distribution and variability of atmospheric temperature and water vapor derived from HIRS measurement
Lei Shi, NOAA/NESDIS/NCDC, Asheville, NC; and J. J. Bates |
| 2:00 PM | J6.2 | The Application of Support Vector Machines to the Analysis of Global Datasets from MISR
Michael J. Garay, UCLA, Los Angeles, CA; and D. M. Mazzoni, R. Davies, and D. Diner |
| 2:15 PM | J6.3 | Neural network modeling as a tool for climatic analyses of forcings/temperatures relationships at global and regional scales
Antonello Pasini, CNR, Rome, Italy; and F. Ameli |
| 2:30 PM | J6.4 | Artificial Neural Networks (ANNs) Application for the Occurrence Date Prediction of Each Phenological Stage in Wheat Using Climatic Data
Babak Safa, Sepahan Kara Co., Isfahan, Iran; and A. Liaghat |
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| 3:00 PM-5:00 PM, Tuesday
Exhibits Open |
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| 3:00 PM, Tuesday
Coffee Break in Exhibit Hall |
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| 5:30 PM, Tuesday
Sessions end for the day |
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| Wednesday, 12 January 2005 |
| 10:00 AM-12:00 PM, Wednesday
Presidential Forum |
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| 5:30 PM-6:30 PM, Wednesday
Exhibits Open |
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| 7:30 PM, Wednesday
AMS Annual Awards Banquet |
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| Thursday, 13 January 2005 |
| 5:30 PM, Thursday
Conference Ends |
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| 6:00 PM, Thursday
Ed Lorenz Symposium Banquet |
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