85th AMS Annual Meeting

: Fourth Conference on Artificial Intelligence Applications to Environmental Science

Fourth Conference on Artificial Intelligence Applications to Environmental Science

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Sunday, 9 January 2005

6:00 AM-6:00 AM: Sunday, 9 January 2005


SUN 9 JAN

7:30 AM-7:30 AM: Sunday, 9 January 2005


Short Course Registration

9:00 AM-5:40 PM: Sunday, 9 January 2005


Conference Registration

Monday, 10 January 2005

6:00 AM-6:00 AM: Monday, 10 January 2005


Mon 10 Jan

7:30 AM-7:30 AM: Monday, 10 January 2005


Registration continues through Thursday, 13 January

9:00 AM-11:15 AM: Monday, 10 January 2005


1
AI Techniques
Sponsor: Fourth Conference on Artificial Intelligence Applications to Environmental Science
Chair: Caren Marzban, CAPS/Univ. of Oklahoma, and Applied Physics Lab/University of Washington

Papers:
  9:00 AM
1.1
On Genetic Algorithms and Discrete Performance Measures
Caren Marzban, CAPS/Univ. of Oklahoma, Norman, OK and University of Washington, Seattle, WA; and S. E. Haupt

  9:15 AM
1.2
Validation of Receptor/ Dispersion Model Coupled with a Genetic Algorithm
Sue Ellen Haupt, Penn State University, State College, PA; and G. Young

  9:30 AM
1.3
Nonlinear principal predictor analysis using neural networks
Alex J. Cannon, MSC, Vancouver, BC, Canada; and W. W. Hsieh

  9:45 AM
1.4
Nonlinear complex principal component analysis
Sanjay S.P. Rattan, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada; and W. W. Hsieh

  10:00 AM
1.5
Techniques for tuning fuzzy logic algorithms
John K. Williams, NCAR, Boulder, CO; and G. Meymaris

 
1.6
Quantitative Analysis of the Benefit of Ontologies and Rich Metadata for Earth Science Data Discovery

  10:30 AM
1.7
Fingerprinting Significant Weather Events
Paul Knight, Penn State Univ., University Park, PA; and J. Ross, B. Root, G. Young, and R. Grumm

  10:45 AM
Welcoming Remarks
Caren Marzban, CAPS/Univ. of Oklahoma, Norman, OK and University of Washington, Seattle, WA

  11:00 AM
Coffee Break in Poster Session Room

  11:30 AM
Predicting Good Probabilities with Supervised Learning
Rich Caruana, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY; and A. Niculescu-Mizil

12:00 PM-1:30 PM: Monday, 10 January 2005


Lunch Break

1:30 PM-2:45 PM: Monday, 10 January 2005


2
General Interest AI Applications
Sponsor: Fourth Conference on Artificial Intelligence Applications to Environmental Science
Chair: Vladimir Krasnopolsky, EMC/NCEP/NOAA/NWS (SAIC) and ESSIC, University of Maryland

Papers:
 
2.1
Environmental Applications of Machine Learning: Modelling Population Dynamics and Habitat Suitability

  1:45 PM
2.2
Accurate and Fast Neural Network Emulations of the NCAR Community Atmospheric Model Radiation: Accuracy of Approximation and Computational Performance
Vladimir Krasnopolsky, EMC/NCEP/NOAA/NWS (SAIC) and ESSIC, University of Maryland, Camp Springs, MD; and M. S. Fox-Rabinovitz and D. Chalikov

  2:00 PM
2.3
Using Artificial Neural Networks for Predicting Storm Surge Propagation in North Sea and the Thames Estuary.
Daniel B. Prouty, University of Southampton, Southampton, United Kingdom; and P. E. Tissot and A. A. Anwar

  2:15 PM
2.4
Sea surface temperature patterns on the West Florida Shelf using Growing Hierarchical Self-Organizing Maps
Yonggang Liu, University of South Florida, St. Petersburg, FL; and R. H. Weisberg and R. He

http://ocg7.marine.usf.edu/~liu

  2:30 PM
Generation of Real-time Narrative Summaries for Real-time Water Levels and Meteorological Observations in PORTSŪ
Thomas Bethem, NOAA, Silver Spring, MD; and J. Burton, T. Caldwell, M. Evans, R. Kittredge, B. Lavoie, and J. Werner

  2:45 PM
Discussion

2:30 PM-4:00 PM: Monday, 10 January 2005


Formal Poster Viewing with Coffee Break

5:30 PM-5:30 PM: Monday, 10 January 2005


Sessions End for the day

5:30 PM-7:00 PM: Monday, 10 January 2005


FORMAL OPENING OF EXHIBITS WITH RECEPTION (CASH BAR)

7:30 PM-7:30 PM: Monday, 10 January 2005


Suki Manabe Symposium Banquet

Tuesday, 11 January 2005

6:00 AM-6:00 AM: Tuesday, 11 January 2005


TUE 11 JAN

8:30 AM-9:00 AM: Tuesday, 11 January 2005


Presentation of Interest - 'Global Precipitation Observation From Satellite Image Using Artificial Neural Networks' Soroosh Sorooshian, University of California, Irvine, Irvine, CA: Part of The Symposium on Living in the Coastal Zone

9:00 AM-11:30 AM: Tuesday, 11 January 2005


Joint Session 5
AI Applications with a Nowcasting Flavor (Joint between the Fourth Conference on Artificial Intelligence and the 21st International Conference on Interactive Information and Processing Systems (IIPS) for Meteorology, Oceanography, and Hydrology)
Sponsors: (Joint between the Fourth Conference on Artificial Intelligence Applications to Environmental Science; and the 21st International Conference on Interactive Information Processing Systems (IIPS) for Meteorology, Oceanography, and Hydrology )
Chair: V. Lakshmanan, CIMMS/Univ. of Oklahoma/NOAA/NSSL

Papers:
  9:00 AM
Feature selection of radar-derived tornado attributes with support vector machines
Michael B. Richman, University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK; and B. Santosa and T. B. Trafalis

 
J5.3
Short-term wind forecasting using off-site observations and numerical weather prediction

  9:45 AM
A neural network to retrieve upper level winds from ground based profilers
Young Yee, U.S. Army Research Laboratory, White Sands Missile Range, NM; and E. Creegan

  10:00 AM
  10:15 AM
A Real-Time Learning Technique to Predict Cloud-to-Ground Lightning
V. Lakshmanan, CIMMS/Univ. of Oklahoma and NOAA/NSSL, Norman, OK; and G. J. Stumpf

  10:30 AM
Formal Poster Viewing with Coffee Break

9:45 AM-9:45 AM: Tuesday, 11 January 2005


Poster Session 1
Poster
Sponsor: Fourth Conference on Artificial Intelligence Applications to Environmental Science

Papers:
 
Teaching Artificial Intelligence to Meteorology Undergraduates
George S. Young, Penn State University, University Park, PA; and S. E. Haupt

Poster PDF (173.6 kB)
 
Self-Organizing Nonlinear Output Map (SONO): An Artificial Neural Network Suitable for Cloud-Patch based Rainfall Estimation
Kuo-lin Hsu, University of California, Irvine, CA; and Y. Hong and S. Sorooshian

Poster PDF (247.6 kB)
 
Artificial Neural Network in Hydrologic Forecasting (Model Generalization Using Cross Validation)
Hamid Moradkhani, Portland State University, Portland, OR; and K. L. Hsu and S. Sorooshian

11:30 AM-1:30 PM: Tuesday, 11 January 2005


Exhibits Open

12:15 PM-12:15 PM: Tuesday, 11 January 2005


Lunch Break

1:30 PM-2:45 PM: Tuesday, 11 January 2005


Joint Session 6
AI in Studies with a Climate Component (Joint between the Fourth Conference on Artificial Intelligence and the 21st International Conference on Interactive Information and Processing Systems (IIPS) for Meteorology, Oceanography, and Hydrology)
Sponsors: (Joint between the Fourth Conference on Artificial Intelligence Applications to Environmental Science; and the 21st International Conference on Interactive Information Processing Systems (IIPS) for Meteorology, Oceanography, and Hydrology )
Chair: Antonello Pasini, CNR

Papers:
  1:30 PM
  1:45 PM
  2:00 PM
The Application of Support Vector Machines to the Analysis of Global Datasets from MISR
Michael J. Garay, UCLA, Los Angeles, CA; and D. M. Mazzoni, R. Davies, and D. Diner

3:00 PM-3:00 PM: Tuesday, 11 January 2005


Coffee Break in Exhibit Hall

3:00 PM-5:00 PM: Tuesday, 11 January 2005


Exhibits Open

5:30 PM-5:30 PM: Tuesday, 11 January 2005


Sessions end for the day

Wednesday, 12 January 2005

6:00 AM-6:00 AM: Wednesday, 12 January 2005


WED 12 JAN

10:00 AM-12:00 PM: Wednesday, 12 January 2005


Presidential Forum

5:30 PM-6:30 PM: Wednesday, 12 January 2005


Exhibits Open

7:30 PM-7:30 PM: Wednesday, 12 January 2005


AMS Annual Awards Banquet

Thursday, 13 January 2005

6:00 AM-6:00 AM: Thursday, 13 January 2005


THUR 13 JAN

5:30 PM-5:30 PM: Thursday, 13 January 2005


Conference Ends

6:00 PM-6:00 PM: Thursday, 13 January 2005


Ed Lorenz Symposium Banquet