92nd American Meteorological Society Annual Meeting (January 22-26, 2012)

10th Conference on Artificial Intelligence Applications to Environmental Science

10th Conference on Artificial Intelligence Applications to Environmental Science

Program Chairs: Amy McGovern , Univ. of Oklahoma ; John K. Williams , NCAR

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Saturday, 21 January 2012

7:30 AM-10:00 AM: Saturday, 21 January 2012


Registration for Student Conference and Short Course
Location: New Orleans Convention Center

Sunday, 22 January 2012

7:30 AM-9:00 AM: Sunday, 22 January 2012


Short Course Registration
Location: New Orleans Convention Center

9:00 AM-6:00 PM: Sunday, 22 January 2012


Registration Open for Annual Meeting
Location: New Orleans Convention Center

12:00 PM-4:00 PM: Sunday, 22 January 2012


WeatherFest

4:00 PM-5:00 PM: Sunday, 22 January 2012


92nd Annual Review and Fellows Awards

5:30 PM-7:00 PM: Sunday, 22 January 2012


Welcome Reception Honoring the Newly Elected Fellows

Monday, 23 January 2012

7:30 AM-5:30 PM: Monday, 23 January 2012


Registration Continues Through January 25

9:00 AM-10:30 AM: Monday, 23 January 2012

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Session 1
12th Presidential Forum: Technology In Research and Operations—How We Got Here and Where We’Re Going
Location: La Nouvelle B-C (New Orleans Convention Center )
Hosts: (Joint between the Seventh Symposium on Policy and Socio-Economic Research; the 17th Conference on Air Pollution Meteorology with the A&WMA; the 12th Presidential Forum: Technology in Research and Operations—How We Got Here and Where We’re Going; the 26th Conference on Hydrology; the Special Symposium on Technological Advances: Impacts on Hurricane Research and Forecast Improvements; the Second Symposium on Advances in Modeling and Analysis Using Python; the 10th History Symposium; the 28th Conference on Interactive Information Processing Systems (IIPS); the 21st Symposium on Education; the Eighth Annual Symposium on Future Operational Environmental Satellite Systems; the 24th Conference on Climate Variability and Change; the 16th Symposium on Integrated Observing and Assimilation Systems for the Atmosphere, Oceans, and Land Surface (IOAS-AOLS); the 21st Conference on Probability and Statistics in the Atmospheric Sciences; the 14th Conference on Atmospheric Chemistry; the Fourth Symposium on Aerosol-Cloud-Climate Interactions; the Third Aviation, Range and Aerospace Meteorology Special Symposium on Weather-Air Traffic Management Integration; the 10th Symposium on the Coastal Environment; the 10th Conference on Artificial Intelligence Applications to Environmental Science; the 16th Symposium on Meteorological Observation and Instrumentation; the 18th Conference on Satellite Meteorology, Oceanography and Climatology/ First Joint AMS-Asia Satellite Meteorology Conference; the Ninth Conference on Space Weather; the Second Conference on Transition of Research to Operations: Successes, Plans, and Challenges; the Third Symposium on Environment and Health; and the Third Conference on Weather, Climate, and the New Energy Economy )
  9:00 AM
Scientific research and operational environmental services are profoundly affected by the introduction and application of new technologies and it seems as though these advances are now accelerating, challenging our community to constantly become better at what we do and to serve society in new and more powerful ways. We welcome two highly distinguished keynote speakers for our Presidential Forum and each will address the theme of our 92nd Annual Meeting from his and her uniquely personal perspectives.

  9:15 AM
Welcoming remarks and introductions by Jonathan T. Malay, AMS President
  9:45 AM
Technology for a Weather-Ready Nation
Kathryn Sullivan, NOAA, Washington, DC
  10:10 AM
President Malay will then be joined by Mr. George J. Komar, Director, NASA Earth Science Technology Office, Science Mission Directorate, and they will briefly discuss their thoughts about changes in the AMS community’s technological capabilities and in society twenty years and more into the future. They will then engage with the audience in an interactive dialog which should be an exciting and stimulating exercise of envisioning our future.

9:00 AM-11:00 AM: Monday, 23 January 2012


Spouses' Coffee

10:30 AM-11:00 AM: Monday, 23 January 2012


Coffee Break

11:00 AM-12:00 PM: Monday, 23 January 2012

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Themed Joint Session 1
Bridging the Gap Between Artificial Intelligence and Statistics in Applications to Environmental Science
Location: Room 238 (New Orleans Convention Center )
Hosts: (Joint between the 10th Conference on Artificial Intelligence Applications to Environmental Science; and the 21st Conference on Probability and Statistics in the Atmospheric Sciences )
Cochairs: Marina Timofeyeva, NOAA/NWS; Michael B. Richman, Univ. of Oklahoma; Michael E. Baldwin, CIMMS/Univ. of Oklahoma and NOAA/NSSL
  11:00 AM
Redefining Atmospheric Teleconnectivity Using Kernel Mmethods
Andrew E. Mercer, Mississippi State Univ., Mississippi State, MS; and M. B. Richman
  11:30 AM
A New Statistical Tool for NOAA Local Climate Studies
Marina Timofeyeva, NOAA/NWS, Silver Spring, MD; and A. Hollingshead and J. C. Meyers
  11:45 AM
The ICI-WARM Non-Proprietary Regional Frequency Analysis Tool Using the Method of L-Moments
Jason P. Giovannettone, US Army Corps of Engineers, Alexandria, VA; and M. J. Wright

12:00 PM-1:30 PM: Monday, 23 January 2012


Lunch Break

1:30 PM-2:30 PM: Monday, 23 January 2012

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Themed Joint Session 3
Artificial Intelligence Methods Applied to Satellite Remote Sensing Part I
Location: Room 242 (New Orleans Convention Center )
Hosts: (Joint between the 10th Conference on Artificial Intelligence Applications to Environmental Science; and the 18th Conference on Satellite Meteorology, Oceanography and Climatology/ First Joint AMS-Asia Satellite Meteorology Conference )
Chair: William W. Hsieh, Univ. of British Columbia
  1:30 PM
Neural Network Estimation of Atmospheric Profiles Using AIRS/AMSU Observations: Improved Uncertainty Assessments
William J. Blackwell, MIT Lincoln Laboratory, Lexington, MA; and C. F. Cull, A. Milstein, M. Pieper, and Z. Tao

2:30 PM-4:00 PM: Monday, 23 January 2012


Poster Session 1
Poster Session for Artificial Intelligence and Its Applications to Environmental Science
Location: Hall E (New Orleans Convention Center )
Host: 10th Conference on Artificial Intelligence Applications to Environmental Science
Organizer: Amy McGovern, Univ. of Oklahoma
 
272
Retraining the NSSL Quality Control Neural Network with Polarimetric Radar Data for Improved Non-Hydrometeor Echo Rejection
Jacob Carlin, University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK; and K. L. Manross and V. Lakshmanan

 
273
Smart Climatologies for Seasonal Predictions At a Regional Scale
Gael Descombes, NCAR, Boulder, Colorado; and J. Knievel, J. H. Copeland, and F. Vandenberghe


Formal Poster Viewing with Coffee Break

4:00 PM-5:30 PM: Monday, 23 January 2012

Recording files available
Themed Joint Session 4
Artificial Intelligence Methods Applied to Satellite Remote Sensing Part II
Location: Room 242 (New Orleans Convention Center )
Hosts: (Joint between the 10th Conference on Artificial Intelligence Applications to Environmental Science; and the 18th Conference on Satellite Meteorology, Oceanography and Climatology/ First Joint AMS-Asia Satellite Meteorology Conference )
Chair: William W. Hsieh, Univ. of British Columbia
  5:00 PM
Neuro-Variational Inversion Applied to Ocean Color Remote Sensing
Julien Brajard, LOCEAN/IPSL, Paris, France; and D. Diouf, H. S. Benavides Pinjosovsky, M. Crépon, R. Santer, and S. Thiria
  5:15 PM
Data Fusion of Satellite Observations and Model Data to Create Turbulence and Convection Nowcasts
John K. Williams, NCAR, Boulder, Colorado; and R. D. Sharman, C. J. Kessinger, D. A. Ahijevych, and J. R. Mecikalski

5:30 PM-7:30 PM: Monday, 23 January 2012


Reception and Exhibits Opening

Tuesday, 24 January 2012

8:45 AM-9:45 AM: Tuesday, 24 January 2012

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Session 1
Applications of AI in Numerical Weather Prediction
Location: Room 242 (New Orleans Convention Center )
Host: 10th Conference on Artificial Intelligence Applications to Environmental Science
Chair: Amy McGovern, Univ. of Oklahoma
  8:45 AM
1.1
Evaluating Methods for Down-Selecting NWP Multiphysics Ensembles for Wind Prediction
Jared A. Lee, NCAR, Boulder, CO; and S. E. Haupt, G. S. Young, W. C. Kolczynski Jr., and T. C. McCandless
  9:00 AM
1.2
Machine Learning Enhancement of Storm Scale Ensemble Precipitation Forecasts
David John Gagne II, Univ. of Oklahoma, Norman, OK; and A. McGovern and M. Xue
 
1.3
Accurate and Fast Neural Network Emulations of Long and Sort Wave Radiation for the NCEP Global Forecast System Model

  9:15 AM
A Genetic Algorithm Variational Approach to Dynamic Assimilation
Sue Ellen Haupt, NCAR, Boulder, CO; and A. J. Annunzio and K. J. Schmehl
  9:30 AM
1.4
Spatiotemporal Data Mining of High Resolution Simulations of Tornadoes
Amy McGovern, Univ. of Oklahoma, Norman, OK; and R. Kimes, B. Pirtle, and R. A. Brown
 
1.5
An Artificial Neural Network to Predict Thunderstorms in South Texas

9:00 AM-11:00 AM: Tuesday, 24 January 2012


Spouses' Coffee

9:30 AM-6:00 PM: Tuesday, 24 January 2012


Exhibit Hours

9:45 AM-11:00 AM: Tuesday, 24 January 2012


Formal Poster Viewing with Coffee Break

11:00 AM-12:00 PM: Tuesday, 24 January 2012

Recording files available
Session 2
Applications of AI to Decision Support System Development
Location: Room 242 (New Orleans Convention Center )
Host: 10th Conference on Artificial Intelligence Applications to Environmental Science
Chair: John K. Williams, NCAR
  11:00 AM
2.1
Prediction and Correction of Convective Weather Impact Forecast Errors Using Regression Tree Ensembles
Richard Jordan, MIT Lincoln Laboratory, Lexington, MA; and R. DeLaura

  11:15 AM
2.2
Tree-Based Ensemble Methods for the Prediction of Aircraft Landing Times
Yan Glina, MIT Lincoln Laboratory, Lexington, MA; and R. Jordan and M. Ishutkina
Manuscript (583.9 kB)

  11:30 AM
2.3
Optimizing Weather Pattern Identification Via Unsupervised Neural Network Techniques
Jeffrey H. Copeland, NCAR, Boulder, CO; and R. Babarsky, F. Vandenberge, and W. Wu
  11:45 AM
2.4
International Application of the Maintenance Decision Support System (MDSS)
James Cowie, NCAR, Boulder, CO; and M. Chapman, S. Drobot, A. Dumont, and S. Linden

12:00 PM-1:30 PM: Tuesday, 24 January 2012


Lunch Break

3:00 PM-3:30 PM: Tuesday, 24 January 2012


Coffee Break

Meet the President
Location: Room 242 (New Orleans Convention Center )

3:30 PM-5:00 PM: Tuesday, 24 January 2012

Recording files available
Themed Joint Session 9
Fifth Annual AMS AI Forecasting Contest: Wind Power Prediction Contest
Location: Room 242 (New Orleans Convention Center )
Hosts: (Joint between the 10th Conference on Artificial Intelligence Applications to Environmental Science; the Third Conference on Weather, Climate, and the New Energy Economy; and the 21st Conference on Probability and Statistics in the Atmospheric Sciences )
Chair: Sue Ellen Haupt, NCAR
  3:30 PM
The Need for Wind Power Forecasting and Review of Current Methods
Sue Ellen Haupt, NCAR, Boulder, CO; and G. Wiener, W. P. Mahoney III, and J. M. Pearson
  3:45 PM
The AMS Wind Power Forecasting Contest
Julia M. Pearson, NCAR, Boulder, CO; and S. E. Haupt, G. Wiener, B. Lambi, J. K. Williams, and S. Linden

  4:15 PM
Combining Multiple Machine Learning Methods to Forecast Wind Power
Aranildo Rodrigues Lima Jr., Univ. of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada; and A. J. Cannon and W. W. Hsieh
  4:30 PM
Discussion of Broad Results

5:00 PM-6:00 PM: Tuesday, 24 January 2012

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Lecture L1
Bernhard Haurwitz Lecture
Location: Room 235/236 (New Orleans Convention Center )
Hosts: (Joint between the Fourth Symposium on Aerosol-Cloud-Climate Interactions; the Special Symposium on Technological Advances: Impacts on Hurricane Research and Forecast Improvements; the Second Symposium on Advances in Modeling and Analysis Using Python; the 26th Conference on Hydrology; the 28th Conference on Interactive Information Processing Systems (IIPS); the 24th Conference on Climate Variability and Change; the 16th Symposium on Integrated Observing and Assimilation Systems for the Atmosphere, Oceans, and Land Surface (IOAS-AOLS); the 21st Conference on Probability and Statistics in the Atmospheric Sciences; the 14th Conference on Atmospheric Chemistry; the Third Aviation, Range and Aerospace Meteorology Special Symposium on Weather-Air Traffic Management Integration; the 10th Symposium on the Coastal Environment; the 10th Conference on Artificial Intelligence Applications to Environmental Science; the Ninth Conference on Space Weather; and the Second Conference on Transition of Research to Operations: Successes, Plans, and Challenges )
  5:00 PM
On the role of cloud-radiative effects in tropical dynamics and climate change
Sandrine Bony-Lena, Laboratoire de Meteorologie Dynamique/Le Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Paris, France

7:00 PM-9:00 PM: Tuesday, 24 January 2012


Aksel Wiin-Nielsen Symposium Banquet

Wednesday, 25 January 2012

8:30 AM-10:00 AM: Wednesday, 25 January 2012

Recording files available
Themed Joint Session 12
The Use of AI Methods for Air Quality Applications
Location: Room 242 (New Orleans Convention Center )
Hosts: (Joint between the 10th Conference on Artificial Intelligence Applications to Environmental Science; and the 17th Conference on Air Pollution Meteorology with the A&WMA )
Chairs: Armando Pelliccioni, ISPESL; Andrew J. Annunzio, Penn State Univ.
  8:30 AM
Improved Characterization of Air Emission Sources Using Evolutionary Ensembles
Steven R. Chiswell, Savannah River National Laboratory, Aiken, SC; and R. Buckley and D. Werth
  8:45 AM
Optmisation of the AIR TURBULENCE PARAMETERS by Neural Network MODELING
Armando Pelliccioni, ISPESL, Monteporzio Catone, Italy; and C. Gariazzo
  9:15 AM
Source Term Estimation and Hazard Refinement Fusing Chemical, Biological and Meteorological Observations
Luna M. Rodriguez, NCAR, Boulder, CO; and P. Bieringer, J. Hurst, F. Vandenberghe, G. Bieberbach, and R. Cabell
  9:30 AM
Uncertainty Estimations for Source Term Variables to Improve Downwind Chemical-Biological Hazard Estimates
Luna M. Rodriguez, NCAR, Boulder, CO; and P. Bieringer, J. Hurst, and F. Vandenberghe
  9:45 AM
Development of a Multiple Criteria Decision Making (MCDM) Tool for Urban Form Optimization
Bhagirath Addepalli, Univ. of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT; and E. R. Pardyjak, P. Willemsen, and D. E. Johnson

9:00 AM-11:00 AM: Wednesday, 25 January 2012


Spouses' Coffee

10:00 AM-10:30 AM: Wednesday, 25 January 2012


Coffee Break

Meet the President
Location: Room 242 (New Orleans Convention Center )

10:00 AM-6:15 PM: Wednesday, 25 January 2012


Exhibit Hours

10:30 AM-12:00 PM: Wednesday, 25 January 2012

Recording files available
Themed Joint Session 14
Information Processing Using Machine Intelligence
Location: Room 242 (New Orleans Convention Center )
Hosts: (Joint between the 28th Conference on Interactive Information Processing Systems (IIPS); and the 10th Conference on Artificial Intelligence Applications to Environmental Science )
Chair: Lakshmanan Valliappa, CIMMS/NSSL
  10:30 AM
A Technique to Automatically Tune Auto-Nowcaster
Valliappa Lakshmanan, CIMMS/Univ. of Oklahoma and NOAA/NSSL, Norman, OK; and J. Crockett, K. Sperrow, M. B. Ba, and L. Xin
  10:45 AM
Direct Prediction of Sensor Data Using Weather Models
Brice Lambi, NCAR, Boulder, CO; and G. Weiner and J. Pearson
  11:00 AM
Visualizing Model Data Using A Fast Approximation of a Radiative Transfer Model
Valliappa Lakshmanan, CIMMS/Univ. of Oklahoma and NOAA/NSSL, Norman, OK; and R. Rabin, J. A. Otkin, J. S. Kain, and S. R. Dembek
  11:30 AM
Comparing the Performance of Several Machine Learning Methods in Environmental Problems
Aranildo Rodrigues Lima Jr., Univ. of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada; and A. J. Cannon and W. W. Hsieh
  11:45 AM
Comparison of Machine Learning Techniques for the Prediction of Thunderstorm Location
Philippe E. Tissot, Texas A&M Univ., Corpus Christi, TX; and W. G. Collins

12:00 PM-1:30 PM: Wednesday, 25 January 2012


Lunch Break
Location: Room 242 (New Orleans Convention Center )

1:30 PM-2:30 PM: Wednesday, 25 January 2012

Recording files available
Lecture L2
Robert E. Horton Lecture
Location: Room 350/351 (New Orleans Convention Center )
Hosts: (Joint between the 26th Conference on Hydrology; the Events; the Second Symposium on Advances in Modeling and Analysis Using Python; the 10th Conference on Artificial Intelligence Applications to Environmental Science; the 28th Conference on Interactive Information Processing Systems (IIPS); the Special Symposium on Technological Advances: Impacts on Hurricane Research and Forecast Improvements; the 24th Conference on Climate Variability and Change; the 16th Symposium on Integrated Observing and Assimilation Systems for the Atmosphere, Oceans, and Land Surface (IOAS-AOLS); the 21st Conference on Probability and Statistics in the Atmospheric Sciences; the 14th Conference on Atmospheric Chemistry; the Fourth Symposium on Aerosol-Cloud-Climate Interactions; the Third Aviation, Range and Aerospace Meteorology Special Symposium on Weather-Air Traffic Management Integration; the 10th Symposium on the Coastal Environment; the Special Symposium on the Tornado Disasters of 2011; and the Second Conference on Transition of Research to Operations: Successes, Plans, and Challenges )

2:30 PM-4:00 PM: Wednesday, 25 January 2012


Formal Poster Viewing with Coffee Break

4:00 PM-5:45 PM: Wednesday, 25 January 2012

Recording files available
Themed Joint Session 20
Data Mining, Prediction, and Predictability of the Climate System
Location: Room 242 (New Orleans Convention Center )
Hosts: (Joint between the 10th Conference on Artificial Intelligence Applications to Environmental Science; the 24th Conference on Climate Variability and Change; and the 21st Conference on Probability and Statistics in the Atmospheric Sciences )
Cochairs: Scott Sellars, Univ. of California; Alex J. Cannon, MSC
  4:00 PM
Validation of the CMIP5 Climate Models Using Network Analysis
Ilias Foudalis, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA; and A. Bracco and C. Dovrolis
 
TJ20.2
Finding Time-Periods of Abrupt Climate Change: A Data Mining Approach

  4:15 PM
Automated Tracking and Analysis of Convective Weather Systems Using the Binary Baddeley Image Metric
Benjamin R. J. Schwedler, Purdue Univ., West Lafayette, IN; and M. E. Baldwin
  4:30 PM
Parameter Sensitivity and Optmization in Climate Models
Annalisa Bracco, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA; and J. D. Neelin, H. Luo, J. C. McWilliams, and J. Meyerson
  5:00 PM
A Comparison of Nonlinear and Linear Statistical Downscaling for Future Climate
Carlos Felipe Gaitan, Univ. of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada; and W. W. Hsieh and A. J. Cannon
  5:15 PM
An Application of a Newly Developed Machine Learning Technique for Predicting Climate-Meningitis Seasonal Outlook Over West Africa
Isaac K. Tetteh, North Carolina State Univ., Raleigh, NC; and D. L. Gonzalez II, Z. Chen, N. F. Samatova, and F. H. M. Semazzi

5:30 PM-6:30 PM: Wednesday, 25 January 2012


Awards Banquet Reception in the Exhibit Hall

7:00 PM-10:00 PM: Wednesday, 25 January 2012


92nd AMS Awards Banquet

Thursday, 26 January 2012

9:00 AM-12:00 PM: Thursday, 26 January 2012


Exhibit Hours

9:45 AM-11:00 AM: Thursday, 26 January 2012


Formal Poster Viewing with Coffee Break

12:00 PM-1:30 PM: Thursday, 26 January 2012


Lunch Break

T. N. Krishnamurti Symposium Luncheon
Location: Room 345 (New Orleans Convention Center )

3:00 PM-3:05 PM: Thursday, 26 January 2012


Registration Closes

3:00 PM-3:30 PM: Thursday, 26 January 2012


Coffee Break

Meet the President

5:00 PM-5:05 PM: Thursday, 26 January 2012


AMS 92nd Annual Meeting Adjourns