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Sunday, 9 January 2000

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7:30 AM-9:00 AM: Sunday, 9 January 2000


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Short Course Registration

9:00 AM-6:00 PM: Sunday, 9 January 2000


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Conference Registration

Monday, 10 January 2000

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7:30 AM-5:30 PM: Monday, 10 January 2000


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Conference Registration continues through Friday, 14 January

9:00 AM-11:00 AM: Monday, 10 January 2000


Session 1
Fuzzy Set Applications
Host: Second Conference on Artificial Intelligence
Organizer: William R. Burrows, AES
9:00 AM
1.1
Introduction to Fuzzy Sets. (Invited Presentation)
Michael Hadjimichael, NRL, Monterey, CA

10:00 AM
1.2
Coffee Break

10:30 AM
1.3
Analog forecasting of ceiling and visibility using fuzzy sets
Bjarne K. Hansen, AES, Dartmouth, NS, Canada

10:45 AM
1.4
A Procedure for Neuro-Fuzzy Dynamic-Statistical Data Modeling With Predictor Selection
William R. Burrows, AES, Downsview, ON, Canada; and J. Montpetit

1.5
Fuzzy logic approach for description of meteorological impacts on urban air pollution species: A Hong Kong case study

1.6
Land surface energy exchange simulation based on combined fuzzy sets and neural network approach

11:30 AM-1:30 PM: Monday, 10 January 2000


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Lunch Break

1:30 PM-4:30 PM: Monday, 10 January 2000


Session 2
Artificial Neural Networks
Host: Second Conference on Artificial Intelligence
Organizer: Vladimir M. Krasnopolsky, SAIC
1:30 PM
2.1
Introduction to Artificial Neural Networks with Atmospheric and Oceanic Applications. (Invited Presentation)
Vladimir M. Krasnopolsky, SAIC, Camp Springs, MD

2:30 PM
2.2
Application of neural networks for efficient calculation of sea water density or salinity from the UNESCO equation of state
Vladimir M. Krasnopolsky, NOAA/NWS/NCEP, Camp Springs, MD; and D. Chalikov, L. C. Breaker, and D. B. Rao

2:45 PM
2.3
Spatially modelling temperature normals in the Rocky Mountains with kriging and cokriging estimators using ANN produced secondary information
Henry N. Hayhoe, Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada, Ottawa, ON, Canada; and D. R. Lapen

3:00 PM
2.4
Coffee Break

2.5
Calibration of Probabilistic, ensemble precipitation forecasts by an artificial neural network

3:45 PM
2.6
A neural network for hail size prediction
Caren Marzban, NOAA/NSSL and CIMMS/Univ. of Oklahoma, Norman, OK; and A. Witt

4:00 PM
2.7
Stochastic generation of multi-station daily temperatures using a neural network
Douglas A. Stewart, Environmental Dynamics Research, Inc., Lantana, FL

2.8
A neural network solution to forecasting launch pad winds at Kennedy Space Center

4:30 PM-4:30 PM: Monday, 10 January 2000


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Sessions end for the day

5:00 PM-7:00 PM: Monday, 10 January 2000


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Formal Opening of Exhibits with Reception (Cash Bar)

7:30 PM-7:30 PM: Monday, 10 January 2000


Fujita Banquet

Tuesday, 11 January 2000

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8:30 AM-9:44 AM: Tuesday, 11 January 2000


Session 3
Artificial Intelligence Applications
Host: Second Conference on Artificial Intelligence
Organizer: John Pickle, AER, Inc.
8:30 AM
3.1
Clustering Methodologies Applied To Short-Term Ensemble Forecasting
Ahmad A. Alhamed, University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK; and S. Lakshimivarahan

8:45 AM
3.2
The application of machine learning to forecast stratus burn-off
George A. Fenton III, LANL, Los Alamos, NM

3.3
A web-enabled expert system for quality control of data from an observing system

9:00 AM
3.4
Using trainable computing networks in the control of a physical system
Markus Huttunen, Finnish Environment Institute, Helsinki, Finland; and E. Ukkonen and B. Vehvilainen

9:15 AM
3.5
A new marine forecast text generator built on a graphical depiction database.
Norbert Driedger, AES, King City, ON, Canada; and B. Greaves, R. Paterson, and R. Trafford

9:30 AM
3.6
Autotext
Tomas Vavargard, Swedish Meteorological and Hydrological Institute, Malmo, Sweden

10:00 AM-10:30 AM: Tuesday, 11 January 2000


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Coffee Break (Exhibit Hours 10:00 A.M.-2:15 P.M.)

10:30 AM-11:15 AM: Tuesday, 11 January 2000


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WALTER ORR ROBERTS LECTURE IN INTERDISCIPLINARY SCIENCE (Special President's Symposium on Environmental Applications). Title: Emerging Environmental Issues: A Global Perspective. Speaker: R. E. (Ted) Munn, Univ. of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada

11:15 AM-12:15 PM: Tuesday, 11 January 2000


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WMO PRESENTATION (Special President's Symposium on Environmental Applications). Title: Meteorology and the Environment - the WMO Perspective. Speaker: John W. Zillman, WMO, Geneva, Switzerland

12:15 PM-2:15 PM: Tuesday, 11 January 2000


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Conference Luncheon. Speaker: D. James Baker, Undersecretary of Commerce for Oceans and Atmosphere, Administrator for NOAA, Silver Spring, MD

2:15 PM-3:30 PM: Tuesday, 11 January 2000


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Panel Discussion: Looking to the Future in Satellite Remote Sensing for Meteorological and Oceanographic Applications. Greg Withee, Washington, DC with participation by representatives from NASA, EUMETSAT, China, Japan and India

3:30 PM-4:00 PM: Tuesday, 11 January 2000


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Coffee Break (Exhibit Hours 3:30-7:30 P.M.)

4:00 PM-4:30 PM: Tuesday, 11 January 2000


Joint Session 1
Joint Session with 10th Conference on Satellite Meteorology and Oceanography & Second Conference on Artificial Intelligence (Invited Oral Presentation)
Hosts: (Joint between the Second Conference on Artificial Intelligence; and the 10th Conference on Satellite Meteorology and Oceanography )
Organizer: Richard L. Bankert, NRL
4:00 PM
J1.1
APPLYING AI TO ENVIRONMENTAL SATELLITE DATA - WHAT PROGRESS ARE WE MAKING AND WHAT MIGHT THE FUTURE HOLD?
Paul M. Tag, NRL, Monterey, CA

4:30 PM-5:45 PM: Tuesday, 11 January 2000


Joint Poster Session 1
(Joint with 10th Conference on Satellite Meteorology and Oceanography and Second Conference on Artificial Intelligence)
Hosts: (Joint between the Second Conference on Artificial Intelligence; and the 10th Conference on Satellite Meteorology and Oceanography )
Organizers: Richard L. Bankert, NRL; Marie Colton, Office of Naval Research; Ronald Issacs, AER, Inc.
JP1.1
Producing satellite retrievals for NWP model initialization using artificial neural networks
Robert J. Kuligowski, Penn State Univ., University Park, PA; and A. P. Barros

JP1.2
Neural Network Multi-Parameter Algorithms to Retrieve Atmospheric and Oceanic Parameters from Satellite Data
Vladimir Krasnopolsky, NOAA/NWS/NCEP, Camp Springs, MD; and W. Gemmill

JP1.3
Neural network retrieval of winds from combined surface and satellite observations
Edward M. Measure, Army Research Laboratory, White Sands Missile Range, NM; and J. Cogan

JP1.4
Applying Knowledge Discovery from Databases (KDD) to Combined Satellite and High Resolution Numerical Model Data
Paul M. Tag, NRL, Monterey, CA; and R. L. Bankert, M. Hadjimichael, A. P. Kuciauskas, W. T. Thompson, and K. L. Richardson

JP1.5
Operational use of a neural network cloud classifier for flood forecasting at the UK Met. Office
George S. Pankiewicz, UK Met Office, Bracknell, Berks., United Kingdom; and C. E. Pierce and S. C. Watkin

JP1.6
Identifying and tracking storms in satellite images
V Lakshmanan, NOAA/NSSL and Univ. of Oklahoma, Norman, OK; and R. Rabin and V. DeBrunner

JP1.7
Neural network classification of satellite imagery based on the presence of elementary classes
Kwo-Sen Kuo, Univ. of Alabama, Huntsville, AL; and T. A. Berendes, D. A. Berendes, and R. M. Welch

JP1.8
Algorithm Development and Mining (ADaM) System for Earth Science Applications
Rahul Ramachandran, Univ. of Alabama, Huntsville, AL; and H. Conover, S. Graves, and K. Keiser

5:45 PM-5:45 PM: Tuesday, 11 January 2000


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Sessions end for the day

Wednesday, 12 January 2000

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6:00 PM-7:30 PM: Wednesday, 12 January 2000


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Reception (Cash Bar)

7:30 PM-9:30 PM: Wednesday, 12 January 2000


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AMS Annual Awards Banquet
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