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Saturday, 8 February 2003
	7:30 AM-9:00 AM, Saturday Short Course Registration
	9:00 AM-5:00 PM, Saturday Conference Registration* (Joint between the 19th Conference on IIPS, the Impacts of Water Variability: Benefits and Challenges, the Observing and Understanding the Variability of Water in Weather and Climate, the 17TH Conference on Hydrology, the 14th Symposium on Global Change and Climate Variations, the 12th Conference on Interactions of the Sea and Atmosphere, the 12th Symposium on Meteorological Observations and Instrumentation, the 12th Symposium on Education, the 12th Conference on Satellite Meteorology and Oceanography, the 7th Symposium on IOS: The Water Cycle, the 5th Conference on Atmospheric Chemistry: Gases, Aerosols, and Clouds, the 3rd Conference on Artificial Intelligence Applications to the Environmental Science, and the Symposium on the F-Scale and Severe-Weather Damage Assessment)
Sunday, 9 February 2003
	7:30 AM-9:00 AM, Sunday Short Course Registration
	9:00 AM-6:00 PM, Sunday Conference Registration
Monday, 10 February 2003
	7:30 AM-5:30 PM, Monday Conference Registration (continues through Thursday, 13 February)
	9:00 AM-2:30 PM, Monday Session 1 Generic AI Methods and Applications
Organizer: Vladimir Krasnopolsky, EMC/NCEP/NOAA/NWS (SAIC), Camp Springs, MD
9:00 AM 1.1 Paper moved to poster session 1, New paper number p1.7   9:01 AM 1.1a GENETIC ALGORITHMS AND THEIR APPLICATIONS IN ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE   Sue Ellen Haupt, Utah State University, Logan, UT; and R. L. Haupt 9:45 AM 1.2 Neural networks for nonlinear post-processing of model output   Caren Marzban, CAPS/Univ. of Oklahoma, Norman, OK and Univ. of Washington, Seattle, WA 10:30 AM Coffee Break in poster session room   10:45 AM 1.3 New formulations for estimating models from data   Vladimir Cherkassky, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN 11:30 AM 1.4 Strengths and limitations of artificial neural networks in the context of numerical weather prediction   Frédéric Chevallier, ECMWF, Reading, Berkshire, United Kingdom 12:15 PM Lunch Break   1:45 PM 1.5 Support Vector Machines and their applications   Dennis DeCoste, JPL, Pasadena, CA
	2:30 PM, Monday Formal Poster Viewing with Coffee Break
	2:30 PM-4:00 PM, Monday Joint Poster Session 1 Operational Applications and Artificial Intelligence (Joint between 12th Conference on Satellite Meteorology and Oceanography and Third Conference on Artificial Intelligence Applications to Environmental Science)
Organizer: John V. Zapotocny, Air Force Weather Agency, Offutt AFB, NE
JP1.1 Real-time multi-satellite precipitation estimation and assimilation   Mohan L. Nirala, NASA/GSFC, Greenbelt, MD; and P. Houser   JP1.2 Validation of an Operational Global Precipitation Analysis at Short Time Scales   F. Joseph Turk, NRL, Monterey, CA; and E. E. Ebert, H. J. Oh, B. -. J. Sohn, V. Levizzani, E. A. Smith, and R. Ferraro   JP1.3 Validation of a microwave-based tropical rainfall potential (TRaP) for landfalling tropical cyclones   Michael A. Turk, NOAA/NESDIS, Washington, DC; and S. J. Kusselson, R. R. Ferraro, P. Pellegrino, S. Kidder, and J. Yang   JP1.4 Improvements in Real-Time Statistical Tropical Cyclone Intensity Forecasts Using Satellite Data   Mark DeMaria, NOAA/NESDIS, Ft. Collins, CO; and M. Mainelli, L. K. Shay, J. A. Knaff, and J. P. Kossin   JP1.5 A demonstration of real-time transmission and display of GOES imagery aboard the NOAA P-3 aircraft during the 2002 hurricane season   John A. Knaff, CIRA/Colorado State Univ., Fort Collins, CO; and N. Wang, M. DeMaria, R. M. Zehr, J. S. Griffin, and F. D. Marks   JP1.6 Status and development of GOES Wind Products at NOAA/NESDIS   Jaime M. Daniels, NOAA/NESDIS/ORA, Camp Springs, MD; and C. Velden, G. A. Dengel, D. R. Stettner, and W. Bresky   JP1.7 Operational satellite-derived tropospheric winds for DoD models and applications   Charles E. Skupniewicz, FNMOC, Monterey, CA; and C. S. Velden, G. Dengel, C. D. Schuett, and R. Pauley   JP1.8 Using GOES Satellite Products to Enhance National Weather Service Warning Operations   Samuel L. Lashley, NOAA/NWS, Syracuse, IN   JP1.9 Experimental satellite products usage on AWIPS   Kevin J. Schrab, NOAA/NWS, Salt Lake City, UT   JP1.10 Utilizing the Web to enhance availability and utilization of Polar-orbiting Operational Environmental Satellite (POES) Data and Products   Diane Holmes, Mitretek Systems, Inc., Falls Church, VA; and S. L. Bunin and T. Schott JP1.11 Precision Aviation Forecasting in a Datasparse Coastal Regime   Dennis E. Dudley, MSC, Kelowna, BC, Canada; and W. J. Woolverton, R. W. Klock, and K. A. Johnson   JP1.12 Aerosol monitoring over the U.S. from GOES-8   Kenneth R. Knapp, CIRA and NOAA/NESDIS/ORA, Camp Springs, MD   JP1.13 A Near-Real Time AIRS Processing, Distribution, and Visualization System   Walter Wolf, QSS Group Inc., Lanham, MD; and L. Zhou, M. Goldberg, Y. Qu, and M. Divakarla   JP1.14 MODIS/AIRS instrument direct broadcast products and applications   Kathleen I. Strabala, CIMSS/Univ. of Wisconsin, Madison, WI; and L. E. Gumley, T. Rink, H. L. Huang, and R. Dengel   JP1.15 Advanced-TOVS (ATOVS) sounding products from NOAA polar orbiting environmental satellites   Anthony L. Reale, NOAA/NESDIS, Washington, DC; and M. W. Chalfant, A. S. Allegrino, F. H. Tilley, M. P. Ferguson, and M. E. Pettey   JP1.16 Theater snow depth estimates for Department of Defense applications   Paul J. McCrone, Air Force Weather Agency, Offutt AFB, NE   JP1.17 An intelligent NN system for quality controlled retrieving the wind speed from SSM/I measurements   Vladimir M. Krasnopolsky, SAIC and NOAA/NWS/NCEP, Camp Springs, MD   JP1.18 Satellite estimates of ocean surface latent heat flux   Charles Jones, University of California, Santa Barbara, CA; and P. Peterson, C. Gautier, and W. T. Liu   JP1.19 Processing realtime satellite information to nowcast convective initiation and its characteristics   John R. Mecikalski, CIMSS/Univ. of Wisconsin, Madison, WI; and R. D. Roberts, C. J. Kessinger, K. M. Bedka, B. L. DeWolf, and S. M. Thomas   JP1.20 Using the NCAR Auto-NowCast System to Nowcast Oceanic Convection   Cathy Kessinger, NCAR, Boulder, CO; and R. Roberts and R. Bankert   JP1.21 Using supervised learning for specific meteorological satellite applications   Richard L. Bankert, NRL, Monterey, CA; and J. D. Hawkins   JP1.22 Cloud classification of satellite radiance data by Multicategory Support Vector Machines   Yoonkyung Lee, Ohio State Univ., Columbus, OH; and G. Wahba and S. A. Ackerman   JP1.23 Comparison Between Bayesian Techniques and Self-Organizing Feature Map for TMI Measurement Classification: Application to Rain Rate Retrieval   C. Mallet, CETP, Velizy, France; and N. Viltard and C. Klapisz   JP1.24 Future Architectures for Operational Forecasting: Two-way Interacting SensorWeb and Model/Assimilation System   Mark Steiner, NASA/GSFC, Greenbelt, MD; and M. Seablom, S. Neeck, G. McConaughy, M. Clausen, M. Kalb, and R. Muller
	4:00 PM-5:00 PM, Monday Joint Session 1 Artificial Intelligence (Joint between 12th Conference on Satellite Meteorology and Oceanography and Third Conference on Artificial Intelligence Applications to Environmental Science)
Organizer: William Meyers, UCAR, Boulder, CO
4:00 PM J1.1 Ozone Profile Retrieval from GOME Data using a Neural Network inverse Model   Martin D. Müller, Center for Solar Energy and Hydrogen Research (ZSW), Stuttgart, Germany; and A. K. Kaifel 4:30 PM J1.2 Use of a neuro-variational method to improve atmosphere and ocean parameter retrieval from ocean color sensor   Cedric Jamet, Univ. of Paris, Paris, France; and S. Thiria, C. Moulin, and M. Crepon
	5:30 PM, Monday Sessions End for the Day
	5:30 PM-7:30 PM, Monday Formal Opening of Exhibits with Reception (Cash Bar)
Tuesday, 11 February 2003
	8:30 AM-12:15 PM, Tuesday Session 3 Neural Networks
Organizer: William Hsieh, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, B.C. Canada
8:30 AM 3.1 Probabilistic tropical cyclogenesis prediction   Christopher C. Hennon, Ohio State University, Columbus, OH 8:45 AM 3.2 Optimization and Performance of a Neural Network Model Forecasting Water Levels for the Corpus Christi, Texas, Estuary   Philippe E. Tissot, Texas A&M University, Corpus Christi, TX; and P. R. Michaud and D. T. Cox 9:00 AM 3.3 NN for local meteorological forecasting   Reinaldo Bomfim Silveira, Instituto Nacional de Meteorologia, Brasilia, Brazil; and S. Sugahara 9:15 AM 3.4 Neural Networks Estimates Atmospheric Variables in the Caribbean Basin   Nazario Ramirez-Beltran, University of Puerto Rico, Mayaguez, Puerto Rico; and A. Winter, F. Chong Rengifo, A. Veneros, and N. R. Escalante 9:30 AM 3.5 Mixing height short range forecasting through neural network modeling applied to radon and meteorological data   Antonello Pasini, CNR, Rome, Italy; and F. Ameli and M. Loré 9:45 AM Formal poster viewing with coffee break   3.6 Combined usage of Neural Net technology and minimization procedure allows us to improve the retrieval accuracy and to obtain error estimates of concentrations of water constituents from MERIS data   Helmut Schiller, GKSS Research Center, Geesthacht, Germany; and R. Doerffer 11:00 AM 3.7 Classifying El Nino and La Nina events using the Kohonen maps   Zouhair Lachkar, Direction de la Meteorologie Nationale du Maroc, Casablanca, Morocco; and S. Thiria, F. Badran, J. P. Boulanger, and C. Menkes 11:15 AM 3.8 An adaptive nonlinear MOS scheme for precipitation forecasts using neural networks   Yuval, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada; and W. W. Hsieh 11:30 AM 3.9 A Nonlinear Statistical Model of Turbulent air-sea Fluxes   Denis Bourras, JPL, Pasadena, CA; and G. Caniaux and G. Mungov 11:45 AM 3.10 A Combination of Empirical Orthogonal Function and Neural Network Approaches for Parameterizing Nonlinear Interactions in Wind Wave Models   Vladimir M. Krasnopolsky, NOAA/NCEP/EMC, Camp Springs, MD; and H. L. Tolman and D. V. Chalikov
	9:45 AM-11:00 AM, Tuesday Poster Session 1 All AI applications
Organizer: Cathy Kessinger, UCAR, Boulder, CO
P1.1 A Hidden Markov Model Approach for Lithology Identification from Logs   Maria Padron, Institut National des Télécommunications, Evry, France; and S. Garcia-Salicetti, D. Barraez, B. Dorizzi, and S. Thyria   P1.2 Classifying TOA Ocean Color signals by using a Kohonen map methodology   Sylvie Thiria, University of Paris, Paris, France; and A. Niang, F. Badran, C. Moulin, and M. Crepon   P1.3 Determination of error in ARPS model surface temperature forecasts using statistical methods   Andrew A. Taylor, Univ. of Oklahoma, Norman, OK; and L. M. Leslie and K. K. Droegemeier   P1.4 Nonlinear Approach to Winter North Atlantic SLP Variability with the Help of Autoassociative Neural Network   Ladislav Metelka, Czech Hydrometeorological Institute, Hradec Kralove, Czech Republic   P1.5 Statistical Downscaling Technique using Artificial Neural Networks for localized precipitation forecasts over São Paulo region   María Cleofé Valverde Ramírez, INPE, São José dos Campos - São Paulo, Brazil; and H. de Campos Velho and N. J. Ferreira   P1.6 The Radar Echo Classifier: A Fuzzy Logic Algorithm for the WSR-88D   Cathy Kessinger, NCAR, Boulder, CO; and S. Ellis and J. Van Andel   P1.7 Genetic Algorithms in Geophysical Fluid Dynamics (Formerly Paper number 1.1)   Sue Ellen Haupt, Utah State University, Logan, UT   P1.8 Neural Networks for spatial interpolation of meteorological data   Juan P. Rigol, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom
	12:15 PM, Tuesday Lunch Break
	2:15 PM-5:15 PM, Tuesday Session 4 All aspects of artificial intelligence applications to environmental sciences
Organizer: Caren Marzban, Univ. of Oklahoma, Norman, OK and Univ. of Washington, Seattle, WA
2:15 PM 4.0a Multiagent Systems for Environmental Perception   Francesco Amigoni, Politecnico di Milano, Milano, Italy; and M. Somalvico 2:45 PM 4.1 Pricing a financial instrument to guarantee the accuracy of a weather forecast   Harvey Stern, Bureau of Meteorology, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia; and S. Dawkins 4.2 Nonlinear Diagnostics of Weather Regimes in the ECMWF Seasonal Forecasting Model   Thomas Jung, ECMWF, Reading, Berkshire, United Kingdom; and T. N. Palmer 2:59 PM 4.3 Fuzzy image processing applied to time series analysis   R. Andrew Weekley, NCAR, Boulder, CO; and R. K. Goodrich and L. B. Cornman 3:14 PM 4.4 Fuzzy Case-Based Prediction of Cloud Ceiling and Visibility   Bjarne K. Hansen, Dalhousie University, Halifax, NS, Canada; and D. Riordan 3:29 PM Coffee Break in exhibit hall (exhibits open 1:30–6:30 p.m.   3:59 PM 4.5 Simplified nonlinear principal component analysis   Beiwei Lu, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada; and W. W. Hsieh 4:14 PM 4.6 Development of an Events-Oriented Verification System Using data mining and Image Processing Algorithms   Michael E. Baldwin, CIMMS/Univ. of Oklahoma, Norman, OK; and S. Lakshmivarahan 4:29 PM 4.7 Application of knowledge discovery from databases to remote weather assessment   Michael Hadjimichael, NRL, Monterey, CA; and R. L. Bankert, A. P. Kuciauskas, K. L. Richardson, and G. N. Vogel 4:44 PM 4.8 Adaptive Data Fusion of Meteorological Forecast Modules   Shel Gerding, NCAR, Boulder, CO; and B. Myers 4:59 PM 4.9 A Fuzzy Logic System for Automated Short Term Aviation Weather Forecasts   Tom Hicks, Harris Corporation, Melbourne, FL; and T. Crawford and M. Wilson
	4:45 PM, Tuesday Conference Ends
	5:00 PM-5:30 PM, Tuesday Special Address. Conrad C. Lautenbacher, NOAA, Washington, DC
Wednesday, 12 February 2003
	9:30 AM-10:00 AM, Wednesday Coffee Break in the Ballroom Foyer, 2nd Level, Promenade
	10:00 AM-12:00 PM, Wednesday Presidential Forum: Administration Priorities in Climate Change Research and Technology
	12:00 PM, Wednesday Lunch Break
	1:30 PM, Wednesday Simpsons Symposium—A Tribute to Robert and Joanne Simpson
	6:00 PM-7:30 PM, Wednesday Reception (Cash Bar)
	7:30 PM-9:30 PM, Wednesday AMS Annual Awards Banquet
Thursday, 13 February 2003
	9:00 AM, Thursday Simpsons Symposium—A Tribute to Robert and Joanne Simpson
	9:45 AM, Thursday Formal Poster Viewing with Coffee Break
	5:30 PM, Thursday Closing Reception in Exhibit Hall (Cash Bar)
	5:30 PM, Thursday Conference Ends
	6:00 PM, Thursday Simpsons Banquet
	8:00 PM-10:00 PM, Thursday Closing Event at the Long Beach Aquarium on the Pacific

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