Program: 3rd Conference on Artificial Intelligence Applications to the Environmental Science (83rd Annual)

3rd Conference on Artificial Intelligence Applications to the Environmental Science

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Saturday, 8 February 2003

12:00 AM-12:00 AM: Saturday, 8 February 2003

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7:30 AM-9:00 AM: Saturday, 8 February 2003

Short Course Registration

9:00 AM-5:00 PM: Saturday, 8 February 2003

Conference Registration*

Sunday, 9 February 2003

12:00 AM-12:00 AM: Sunday, 9 February 2003

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7:30 AM-9:00 AM: Sunday, 9 February 2003

Short Course Registration

9:00 AM-6:00 PM: Sunday, 9 February 2003

Conference Registration

Monday, 10 February 2003

12:00 AM-12:00 AM: Monday, 10 February 2003

MON FEB 10

7:30 AM-5:30 PM: Monday, 10 February 2003

Conference Registration (continues through Thursday, 13 February)

9:00 AM-2:30 PM: Monday, 10 February 2003

Generic AI Methods and Applications

Sponsor: 3rd Conference on Artificial Intelligence Applications to the Environmental Science

Organizer: Vladimir Krasnopolsky, EMC/NCEP/NOAA/NWS (SAIC)

Papers:

9:00 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

9:45 AM

1.3

New formulations for estimating models from data

Vladimir Cherkassky, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN

10:30 AM

1.4

Strengths and limitations of artificial neural networks in the context of numerical weather prediction

Frédéric Chevallier, ECMWF, Reading, Berkshire, United Kingdom

11:15 AM

1.5

Support Vector Machines and their applications

Dennis DeCoste, JPL, Pasadena, CA

12:00 PM

1.1a

GENETIC ALGORITHMS AND THEIR APPLICATIONS IN ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE

Sue Ellen Haupt, Utah State University, Logan, UT; and R. L. Haupt

Poster PDF (62.0 kB)

12:44 PM

1.2a

Coffee Break in poster session room

12:59 PM

1.4a

Lunch Break

2:30 PM-2:30 PM: Monday, 10 February 2003

Formal Poster Viewing with Coffee Break

2:30 PM-4:00 PM: Monday, 10 February 2003

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)

Sponsors: (Joint between the 3rd Conference on Artificial Intelligence Applications to the Environmental Science; and the 12th Conference on Satellite Meteorology and Oceanography )

Organizer: John V. Zapotocny, Air Force Weather Agency

Papers:

JP1.1

Real-time multi-satellite precipitation estimation and assimilation

Mohan L. Nirala, NASA/GSFC, Greenbelt, MD; and P. Houser

Poster PDF (537.5 kB)

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

Poster PDF (497.0 kB)

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

http://ftp://gdas1.wwb.noaa.gov/pub/volcano/Kusselson/AMSSatelliteFeb2003.ppt

Poster PDF (69.2 kB)

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

Poster PDF (164.1 kB)

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

Poster PDF (1.3 MB)

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

Poster PDF (628.7 kB)

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

Poster PDF (436.6 kB)

JP1.8

Using GOES Satellite Products to Enhance National Weather Service Warning Operations

Samuel L. Lashley, NOAA/NWS, Syracuse, IN

http://www.crh.noaa.gov/iwx/sllsatposter/preprint.html

Poster PDF (1.3 MB)

JP1.9

Experimental satellite products usage on AWIPS

Kevin J. Schrab, NOAA/NWS, Salt Lake City, UT

http://www.wrh.noaa.gov/conf/ams-sat12

Poster PDF (2.7 MB)

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

Poster PDF (340.2 kB)

JP1.11

Precision Aviation Forecasting in a Datasparse Coastal Regime

JP1.12

Aerosol monitoring over the U.S. from GOES-8

Kenneth R. Knapp, CIRA and NOAA/NESDIS/ORA, Camp Springs, MD

http://orbit-net.nesdis.noaa.gov/crad3/gasp/RealTime.html

Poster PDF (51.6 kB)

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

Poster PDF (501.6 kB)

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

http://eosdb.ssec.wisc.edu/modisdirect/

Poster PDF (1.1 MB)

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

http://poes.nesdis.noaa.gov

Poster PDF (1.8 MB)

JP1.16

Theater snow depth estimates for Department of Defense applications

Paul J. McCrone, Air Force Weather Agency, Offutt AFB, NE

Poster PDF (596.5 kB)

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

Poster PDF (208.4 kB)

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

Poster PDF (2.1 MB)

JP1.20

Using the NCAR Auto-NowCast System to Nowcast Oceanic Convection

Cathy Kessinger, NCAR, Boulder, CO; and R. Roberts and R. Bankert

http://www.rap.ucar.edu/staff/kessinge/Sat03_Kessinger.pdf

Poster PDF (158.9 kB)

JP1.21

Using supervised learning for specific meteorological satellite applications

Richard L. Bankert, NRL, Monterey, CA; and J. D. Hawkins

Poster PDF (1.9 MB)

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

http://www.stat.wisc.edu/~wahba/trindex.html

Poster PDF (67.1 kB)

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

Poster PDF (690.1 kB)

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

Poster PDF (673.9 kB)

4:00 PM-5:00 PM: Monday, 10 February 2003

Joint Session 1

Artificial Intelligence (Joint between 12th Conference on Satellite Meteorology and Oceanography and Third Conference on Artificial Intelligence Applications to Environmental Science)

Sponsors: (Joint between the 12th Conference on Satellite Meteorology and Oceanography; and the 3rd Conference on Artificial Intelligence Applications to the Environmental Science )

Organizer: William Meyers, UCAR

Papers:

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

Poster PDF (911.2 kB)

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

Poster PDF (251.0 kB)

5:30 PM-5:30 PM: Monday, 10 February 2003

Sessions End for the Day

5:30 PM-7:30 PM: Monday, 10 February 2003

Formal Opening of Exhibits with Reception (Cash Bar)

Tuesday, 11 February 2003

12:00 AM-12:00 AM: Tuesday, 11 February 2003

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8:30 AM-12:15 PM: Tuesday, 11 February 2003

Neural Networks

Sponsor: 3rd Conference on Artificial Intelligence Applications to the Environmental Science

Organizer: William Hsieh, University of British Columbia

Papers:

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

http://dnr.cbi.tamucc.edu/projects/NN

Poster PDF (472.5 kB)

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

Poster PDF (221.9 kB)

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

Poster PDF (261.5 kB)

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

10:00 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

10:15 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

10:30 AM

3.9

A Nonlinear Statistical Model of Turbulent air-sea Fluxes

Denis Bourras, JPL, Pasadena, CA; and G. Caniaux and G. Mungov

10:45 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

Poster PDF (400.0 kB)

11:00 AM

3.5a

Formal poster viewing with coffee break

9:45 AM-11:00 AM: Tuesday, 11 February 2003

Poster Session 1

All AI applications

Sponsor: 3rd Conference on Artificial Intelligence Applications to the Environmental Science

Organizer: Cathy Kessinger, UCAR

Papers:

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

http://

Poster PDF (404.6 kB)

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

Poster PDF (808.2 kB)

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

Poster PDF (539.2 kB)

P1.7

Genetic Algorithms in Geophysical Fluid Dynamics (Formerly Paper number 1.1)

Sue Ellen Haupt, Utah State University, Logan, UT

Poster PDF (107.2 kB)

P1.8

Neural Networks for spatial interpolation of meteorological data

Juan P. Rigol, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom

12:15 PM-12:15 PM: Tuesday, 11 February 2003

Lunch Break

2:15 PM-5:15 PM: Tuesday, 11 February 2003

All aspects of artificial intelligence applications to environmental sciences

Sponsor: 3rd Conference on Artificial Intelligence Applications to the Environmental Science

Organizer: Caren Marzban, Univ. of Oklahoma, Norman, OK and Univ. of Washington

Papers:

2:15 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

http://www.weather-climate.com/guarantee.html

Poster PDF (143.7 kB)

4.2

Nonlinear Diagnostics of Weather Regimes in the ECMWF Seasonal Forecasting Model

2:30 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

Poster PDF (1.2 MB)

2:45 PM

4.4

Fuzzy Case-Based Prediction of Cloud Ceiling and Visibility

Bjarne K. Hansen, Dalhousie University, Halifax, NS, Canada; and D. Riordan

http://chebucto.ca/~bjarne/wind

Poster PDF (92.7 kB)

3:00 PM

4.5

Simplified nonlinear principal component analysis

Beiwei Lu, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada; and W. W. Hsieh

Poster PDF (1.9 MB)

3:15 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

Poster PDF (181.3 kB)

3:30 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

Poster PDF (149.4 kB)

3:45 PM

4.8

Adaptive Data Fusion of Meteorological Forecast Modules

Shel Gerding, NCAR, Boulder, CO; and B. Myers

Poster PDF (313.7 kB)

4:00 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

Poster PDF (159.7 kB)

4:15 PM

4.0a

Multiagent Systems for Environmental Perception

Francesco Amigoni, Politecnico di Milano, Milano, Italy; and M. Somalvico

Poster PDF (54.6 kB)

4:45 PM

4.4a

Coffee Break in exhibit hall (exhibits open 1:30–6:30 p.m.

4:45 PM-4:45 PM: Tuesday, 11 February 2003

Conference Ends

5:00 PM-5:30 PM: Tuesday, 11 February 2003

Special Address. Conrad C. Lautenbacher, NOAA, Washington, DC

Wednesday, 12 February 2003

12:00 AM-12:00 AM: Wednesday, 12 February 2003

wed 12 feb

9:30 AM-10:00 AM: Wednesday, 12 February 2003

Coffee Break in the Ballroom Foyer, 2nd Level, Promenade

10:00 AM-12:00 PM: Wednesday, 12 February 2003

Presidential Forum: Administration Priorities in Climate Change Research and Technology

12:00 PM-12:00 PM: Wednesday, 12 February 2003

Lunch Break

1:30 PM-1:30 PM: Wednesday, 12 February 2003

Simpsons Symposium—A Tribute to Robert and Joanne Simpson

6:00 PM-7:30 PM: Wednesday, 12 February 2003

Reception (Cash Bar)

7:30 PM-9:30 PM: Wednesday, 12 February 2003

AMS Annual Awards Banquet

Thursday, 13 February 2003

12:00 AM-12:00 AM: Thursday, 13 February 2003

thur 13 feb

9:00 AM-9:00 AM: Thursday, 13 February 2003

Simpsons Symposium—A Tribute to Robert and Joanne Simpson

9:45 AM-9:45 AM: Thursday, 13 February 2003

Formal Poster Viewing with Coffee Break

5:30 PM-5:30 PM: Thursday, 13 February 2003

Closing Reception in Exhibit Hall (Cash Bar)

Conference Ends

6:00 PM-6:00 PM: Thursday, 13 February 2003

Simpsons Banquet

8:00 PM-10:00 PM: Thursday, 13 February 2003

Closing Event at the Long Beach Aquarium on the Pacific

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