30th Conference on Climate Variability and Change, 24th Conference on Probability and Statistics in the Atmospheric Sciences, and the 16th Conference on Artificial Intelligence and its Applications to the Environmental Sciences

Program Chairs: Dan C. Collins , NOAA/CPC ; Ed Boone , Virginia Commonwealth University ; Eric Gilleland , NCAR ; Nathaniel C. Johnson , Princeton Univ. ; Amy McGovern , Univ. of Oklahoma ; Brian Reich , North Carolina State University

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Thursday, 27 July 2017

5:00 PM-7:00 PM: Thursday, 27 July 2017


Registration Opens
Location: Constellation Foyer (Hyatt Regency Baltimore)

Friday, 28 July 2017

7:30 AM-5:00 PM: Friday, 28 July 2017


Registration
Location: Constellation Foyer (Hyatt Regency Baltimore)

8:30 AM-10:00 AM: Friday, 28 July 2017

Recording files available
Session 1A
Changes in Extreme Weather
Location: Constellation E (Hyatt Regency Baltimore)
Host: 30th Conference on Climate Variability and Change, 24th Conference on Probability and Statistics in the Atmospheric Sciences, and the 16th Conference on Artificial Intelligence and its Applications to the Environmental Sciences
Chair: Angel Muñoz, Princeton University
9:00 AM
1A.3
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Session 1B
Process-Oriented Model Evaluation and Prediction
Location: Constellation F (Hyatt Regency Baltimore)
Host: 30th Conference on Climate Variability and Change, 24th Conference on Probability and Statistics in the Atmospheric Sciences, and the 16th Conference on Artificial Intelligence and its Applications to the Environmental Sciences
Chair: Tara Jensen, NCAR/RAL and Developmental Testbed Center
8:45 AM
1B.2
Evaluation of Extra-Tropical Cyclones Using a Feature-Relative Method
Tara L. Jensen, NCAR/RAL, Boulder, CO; and J. Halley Gotway, P. A. Kucera, and B. A. Colle
9:30 AM
1B.5
The Effect of Model Parameters on the Spatial Structure of Forecast Fields
Caren Marzban, University of Washington, Seattle, WA; and R. Tardif, S. A. Sandgathe, C. Jones, X. Du, N. Li, N. Hryniw, N. Lederer, J. Doyle, and Y. Jin

10:00 AM-10:30 AM: Friday, 28 July 2017


Coffee Break
Location: Constellation Foyer (Hyatt Regency Baltimore)

10:30 AM-12:00 PM: Friday, 28 July 2017

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Session 2A
Extreme Value Analysis and Prediction
Location: Constellation E (Hyatt Regency Baltimore)
Host: 30th Conference on Climate Variability and Change, 24th Conference on Probability and Statistics in the Atmospheric Sciences, and the 16th Conference on Artificial Intelligence and its Applications to the Environmental Sciences
Chair: Eric Gilleland, NCAR
11:00 AM
2A.3
Modeling Precipitation Extremes using Log-Histospline
Whitney K. Huang, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN; and D. W. Nychka and H. Zhang
11:15 AM
2A.4
Attributing Extreme Fire Risk in Western Canada to Human Emissions
Megan C. Kirchmeier-Young, University of Victoria, Victoria, Canada; and F. W. Zwiers, N. P. Gillett, and A. J. Cannon
11:30 AM
2A.5A
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Session 2B
Subseasonal to Seasonal (S2S) Prediction and Predictability I: Subseasonal
Location: Constellation F (Hyatt Regency Baltimore)
Host: 30th Conference on Climate Variability and Change, 24th Conference on Probability and Statistics in the Atmospheric Sciences, and the 16th Conference on Artificial Intelligence and its Applications to the Environmental Sciences
Chair: Malaquias Pena, SAIC and EMC/NCEP/NOAA
10:30 AM
2B.1
The NOAA/MAPP Program Subseasonal to Seasonal Prediction Task Force
Heather M. Archambault, NOAA, Princeton, NJ; and D. Barrie and A. Mariotti
10:45 AM
2B.2
Experimental Sub-seasonal Prediction of North Atlantic Hurricanes using the GFDL HiRAM
Kun Gao, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ; and L. Harris, J. H. Chen, and S. J. Lin
11:00 AM
2B.3
Ensemble Perturbations for Subseasonal CFSv2 Forecasts
Malaquias Peña, NOAA/NWS/NCEP/EMC, College Park, CO; and S. Saha, D. T. Kleist, X. Wu, J. Woolen, H. V. D. Dool, and H. C. Lee
11:15 AM
2B.4A
Can Neural Networks aid the Week 3-4 forecasting challenge?
Kyle MacRitchie, Innovim, LLC and NOAA/CPC, College Park, MD; and D. C. Collins and J. Gottschalck
11:30 AM
2B.5
Forecasting North Pacific Height Anomalies with the MJO on S2S timescales
Kai-Chih Tseng, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO; and E. A. Barnes and E. Maloney

12:00 PM-1:30 PM: Friday, 28 July 2017


Lunch

1:30 PM-3:00 PM: Friday, 28 July 2017

Recording files available
Session 3A
Artificial Intelligence, Machine-Learning and Decision Making
Location: Constellation E (Hyatt Regency Baltimore)
Host: 30th Conference on Climate Variability and Change, 24th Conference on Probability and Statistics in the Atmospheric Sciences, and the 16th Conference on Artificial Intelligence and its Applications to the Environmental Sciences
Chair: Caren Marzban, University of Washington
1:30 PM
3A.1
Creating High-Resolution Convection Forecasts over Northeast Colorado Using Random Forests
Gregory R. Herman, Colorado State Univ., Fort Collins, CO; and R. S. Schumacher
1:45 PM
3A.2
Probabilistic Locally Extreme Precipitation Forecasting with Machine Learning
Gregory R. Herman, Colorado State Univ., Fort Collins, CO; and R. S. Schumacher

2:15 PM
3A.4
Downscaling Remotely-Sensed Soil Moisture Estimates using Machine Learning Techniques
Seyed Hamed Alemohammad, Columbia University, New York, NY; and J. Kolassa, C. Prigent, F. Aires, and P. Gentine
Paper 3A.8 has been moved. New paper number is 2B.4A.

1:30 PM-3:45 PM: Friday, 28 July 2017

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Session 3B
Ensemble and Multi-Model Ensemble Forecasting Methods
Location: Constellation F (Hyatt Regency Baltimore)
Host: 30th Conference on Climate Variability and Change, 24th Conference on Probability and Statistics in the Atmospheric Sciences, and the 16th Conference on Artificial Intelligence and its Applications to the Environmental Sciences
Cochairs: Dan C. Collins, NOAA/CPC; Nicolas Vigaud, IRI, Columbia Univ.
1:30 PM
3B.1
2:00 PM
3B.3
Adaptive Ensemble Climate Simulations
Alicia Sanchez Lorente, Barcelona Supercomputing Center, Barcelona, Spain; and A. Sanchez Lorente
2:15 PM
3B.4
2:45 PM
3B.6
Skillful Climate Forecasts of the Tropical Indo-Pacific using Model-based Analogs
Hui Ding, CIRES/Univ. of Colorado, and NOAA/ESRL, Boulder, CO; and M. Newman, M. Alexander, and A. Wittenberg

3:15 PM
3B.8

3:30 PM-5:00 PM: Friday, 28 July 2017


Poster Session 1
Formal Poster Viewing with Coffee Break
Location: Atrium (Hyatt Regency Baltimore)
Host: 30th Conference on Climate Variability and Change, 24th Conference on Probability and Statistics in the Atmospheric Sciences, and the 16th Conference on Artificial Intelligence and its Applications to the Environmental Sciences
1
Impact of Strong ENSO on Regional Tropical Cyclone Activity in a High-Resolution Climate Model in the North Pacific and North Atlantic Oceans
Lakshmi Krishnamurthy, Princeton University/GFDL, Princeton, NJ; and G. Vecchi, R. Msadek, H. Murakami, A. T. Wittenberg, and F. Zeng

2
Non-Gaussian Analysis of Observations from the Atmospheric Infrared Sounder
Sergio DeSouza-Machado, JCET/Univ. of Maryland, Baltimore, MD; and A. Tangborn, P. Sura, and L. L. Strow

6
A Comparative Study of Different Ways to Estimate Extreme Temperatures and Associated Uncertainties in a Non-Stationary Context Poster
Yasser Hamdi, Institute for Radiological Protection and Nuclear Safety, Hauts-de-seine, France

14
Benchmark Statistical Model for Seasonal Prediction of Temperature and Precipitation
Daniel Barandiaran, CPC, College Park, MD; and S. Baxter

15
Recent Advancements in Verification within the Developmental Testbed Center
Tara L. Jensen, NCAR/RAL, Boulder, CO; and J. Halley Gotway, R. Bullock, T. L. Fowler, and B. Brown

16
Research on the Hurricane Clustering over North Atlantic Basin
Xia Sun, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC; and W. Zhou and L. Xie

21
Study of Observed Precipitation and Temperature Extreme Indices over India
Rehana Shaik, International Institute of Information Technology, Hyderabad, India; and L. A. Herrera Leon, M. Khan, and F. Munoz-Arriola

22
Estimation of Regional Drought Index Considering the Climate and Land Surface Changes over a Large River Basin in India
Shaik Rehana, International Institute of Information Technology, Hyderabad, India

Saturday, 29 July 2017

7:30 AM-2:30 PM: Saturday, 29 July 2017


Registration
Location: Constellation Foyer (Hyatt Regency Baltimore)

8:30 AM-10:00 AM: Saturday, 29 July 2017

Recording files available
Session 4A
Derived Forecasts, Decision Support and Climate Services
Location: Constellation E (Hyatt Regency Baltimore)
Host: 30th Conference on Climate Variability and Change, 24th Conference on Probability and Statistics in the Atmospheric Sciences, and the 16th Conference on Artificial Intelligence and its Applications to the Environmental Sciences
Chair: Matthew Peroutka, NOAA/NWS
9:00 AM
4A.3
Non-stationary Spatio-temporal Modeling of Traffic-related Pollutants in Near-Road Environments
Owais Gilani, Bucknell University, Lewisburg, PA; and V. J. Berrocal and S. A. Batterman
9:45 AM
4A.6
Translating Atmospheric Predictability to Hydrology in Flood Forecasts for South Asia
Thomas M. Hopson, NCAR, Boulder, CO; and E. Riddle, D. Broman, S. Priya, D. Collins, D. Rostkier-Edelstein, and W. Young
Recording files available
Session 4B
Forecast Verification
Location: Constellation F (Hyatt Regency Baltimore)
Host: 30th Conference on Climate Variability and Change, 24th Conference on Probability and Statistics in the Atmospheric Sciences, and the 16th Conference on Artificial Intelligence and its Applications to the Environmental Sciences
Chair: Ed Boone, Virginia Commonwealth University
8:30 AM
4B.1
Room for Improvement in Seasonal-to-Decadal Climate Prediction
Sang-Ik Shin, Univ. of Colorado/CIRES and NOAA/ESRL/Physical Sciences Division, Boulder, CO; and M. Newman

9:00 AM
4B.3
Update on MET+ Unified Verification Project
Tara L. Jensen, NCAR/RAL, Boulder, CO; and B. Strong, I. Stajner, F. Yang, G. Manikin, J. Halley Gotway, P. Shafran, and G. H. White
9:15 AM
4B.4
Spatial Forecast Verification and the Mesoscale Verification Intercomparison over Complex Terrain
Eric Gilleland, NCAR, Boulder, CO; and M. P. Mittermaier, M. Dorninger, B. Brown, B. Casati, E. Ebert, and L. J. Wilson

9:30 AM
4B.5
Examining Verification Methods for Evaluation of Cloud Predictions
Barbara Brown, NCAR, Boulder, CO; and T. L. Jensen, J. Halley Gotway, E. Gilleland, T. L. Fowler, R. G. Bullock, and K. Newman

10:00 AM-10:30 AM: Saturday, 29 July 2017


Coffee Break
Location: Constellation Foyer (Hyatt Regency Baltimore)

10:30 AM-12:00 PM: Saturday, 29 July 2017

Recording files available
Session 5A
Attribution in the Presence of Internal Climate Variability
Location: Constellation E (Hyatt Regency Baltimore)
Host: 30th Conference on Climate Variability and Change, 24th Conference on Probability and Statistics in the Atmospheric Sciences, and the 16th Conference on Artificial Intelligence and its Applications to the Environmental Sciences
Chair: Nathaniel C. Johnson, NOAA/CPC
11:45 AM
5A.6
Space-Only Fingerprinting
Timothy DelSole, George Mason Univ., Fairfax, VA; and X. Yan
Recording files available
Session 5B
Subseasonal to Seasonal (S2S) Prediction and Predictability II: Seasonal
Location: Constellation F (Hyatt Regency Baltimore)
Host: 30th Conference on Climate Variability and Change, 24th Conference on Probability and Statistics in the Atmospheric Sciences, and the 16th Conference on Artificial Intelligence and its Applications to the Environmental Sciences
Chair: Dan Collins, NOAA/CPC
10:30 AM
5B.1
Building Seasonal Predictions of Western United States Snowpack
Sarah Kapnick, GFDL, Princeton, NJ; and X. Yang, G. A. Vecchi, T. L. Delworth, R. Gudgel, S. Malyshev, P. C. D. Milly, E. Shevliakova, and S. Underwood
10:45 AM
5B.2
11:00 AM
5B.3
Seasonal Prediction Skill of Northern Extratropical Surface Temperature Driven by the Stratosphere
Liwei Jia, Innovim/NWS/NCEP/CPC, College Park, MD; and X. Yang, G. A. Vecchi, R. Gudgel, T. L. Delworth, S. Fueglistaler, P. Lin, A. A. Scaife, S. Underwood, and S. J. Lin
11:15 AM
5B.4
Enhancing Dynamical Seasonal Predictions through Objective Regionalization
Saleh Satti, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD; and B. F. Zaitchik, H. S. Badr, and T. Tadesse

12:00 PM-1:30 PM: Saturday, 29 July 2017


Lunch

1:30 PM-2:30 PM: Saturday, 29 July 2017

Recording files available
Session 6
Links Between Large-Scale Circulation and Local Weather
Location: Constellation E (Hyatt Regency Baltimore)
Host: 30th Conference on Climate Variability and Change, 24th Conference on Probability and Statistics in the Atmospheric Sciences, and the 16th Conference on Artificial Intelligence and its Applications to the Environmental Sciences
Chair: Nathaniel C. Johnson, NOAA/CPC
1:45 PM
6.2
A Cross-Timescale Diagnostic Framework for Coupled Circulation Models
Ángel G. Muñoz, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ; and X. Yang, G. A. Vecchi, A. W. Robertson, and W. F. Cooke

2:30 PM-2:35 PM: Saturday, 29 July 2017


Conference Adjourns