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3rd NCAR Community Workshop on GIS in Weather, Climate and Impacts
October 27-29, 2008
NCAR Mesa Lab
Boulder, Colorado
Workshop Program
| Monday, October 27, 2008 |
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Activity |
| 7:45 |
Shuttles from the Hotel to the Mesa Lab |
| 8:00 |
Registration, Coffee and Light Breakfast (outside of ML Main Seminar Room) |
| 8:30 |
Welcome and charge Olga Wilhelmi (NCAR)
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| 8:45 |
Workshop kick off presentation Paty Romero Lankao (NCAR)
PDF |
| 9:00 |
Climate and Society: GIS applications, datasets and integrative assessments
Johannes Feddema (University of Kansas)
Developing Information Systems for Simulating Anthropogenic Impacts in Earth System Models
Abstract | PDF
Brian O'Neill (NCAR)
Spatially explicit global population projections
Abstract
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Alex de Sherbinin (CIESIN)
Socioeconomic data for climate
change impacts, vulnerability and
adaptation assessment
Abstract | PDF
Soren Scott (National Drought Mitigation Center)
An overview of drought-related GIS datasets and applications at the National Drought Mitigation Center
Abstract | PDF
Workshop discussion |
| 10:30 |
Coffee Break (outside of ML Main Seminar Room) |
| 10:45 |
Weather and society: GIS applications, methods and models
Scott Shipley (George Mason University)
Beyond Visualization – Using Virtual Globes to Explore, Analyze and Manage Atmospheric and Climatic Information
Abstract | PDF
Jennifer Boehnert (NCAR)
Using GIS and ensemble NWP output for infrastructure impacts forecasts
Abstract | PDF
Steve Linger (Los Alamos National Lab)
Modeling weather impacts on national infrastructures: Our experience using GIS to integrate models and information
Abstract | PDF
Viviane Silva (NOAA CPC)
The NOAA/Climate Prediction Center GIS Project
Abstract | PDF
Workshop discussion |
| 12:15 |
Lunch (ML Cafeteria on your own) |
| 1:30 |
Weather and climate data and GIS: advances in and future of interoperability and multidimensional data representation
Ted Habermann (NOAA NGDC)
Interoperable Understanding
Abstract | PDF
Tiffany Vance (Oregon State University/NOAA NMFS)
Moving beyond data visualization for just visual impact - coupling environmental models, particle tracking and spatial analyses using multidimensional GIS
Abstract | PDF
Ben Domenico (Unidata)
GALEON : Using Standard Interfaces for Interoperability Among Stovepipe Data Systems in the Earth Sciences
Abstract | PDF
Raymond Sluiter and Wim de Cerff (KNMI, The Netherlands)
Atmospheric Data Access for the Geospatial User Community (ADAGUC)
Abstract | PDF
Workshop discussion |
| 3:00 |
Coffee Break (outside of ML Main Seminar Room) |
| 3:20 |
Working Groups: Spatial data needs
WG 1: Climate data needs for spatial societal applications (e.g., impacts, vulnerability, adaptation)
Discussion leader: Lawrence Buja (NCAR)
WG 2: Weather data needs for spatial societal applications (e.g., impacts, vulnerability, preparedness and response)
Discussion leader: Ben Domenico (Unidata)
WG 3: Spatial societal data needs for earth system and integrative assessments modeling
Discussion leader: Olga Wilhelmi (NCAR) |
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| 5:00 |
Poster Session and Reception (ML Cafeteria) |
| 7:00 |
Shuttles return to the Hotel |
| Tuesday, October 28, 2008 |
| Time |
Activity |
| 7:45 |
Shuttles from the Hotel to the Mesa Lab |
| 8:00 |
Coffee and Light Breakfast (outside of ML Main Seminar Room) |
| 8:20 |
Current Status and Promises for Earth and Space Science Informatics
Peter Fox (NCAR)
Abstract | PDF |
| 8:45 |
Reports from Working Groups |
| 9:15 |
Bridging the waters: Coupling quantitative and qualitative data in a GIS
Tim Nyerges (University of Washington)
Bridging Perspectives by Coupling Data for Environmental Decision Support
Abstract | PDF
Sharon Harlan, Darren Ruddell and Susanne Grossman-Clarke (Arizona State University)
Assessing Heat-Related Discomfort and Coping in Urban Neighborhoods
Abstract | PDF
Julie Demuth (NCAR)
Exploring Variations in People's Sources, Perceptions, and Uses of Weather Forecast Information
Abstract | PDF
Marc Armstrong (University of Iowa)
Some Challenges in Using Individual-Level Data in GIS-based Research
Abstract | PDF
Workshop discussion |
| 10:45 |
Coffee Break (outside ML Main Seminar room) |
| 11:00 |
Societal risk, vulnerability and adaptive capacity: GIS applications
Deborah Thomas (University of Colorado-Denver)
A Robust Vulnerability GIS Approach
Abstract | PDF
Isabelle Ruin (NCAR)
How to get there? The use of cognitive mapping and GIS to assess motorists' flash
flood risk perception on daily itineraries
Abstract | PDF
Olga Wilhelmi (NCAR)
Intra-Urban Spatial Patterns of Societal Risk and Vulnerability to Extreme Heat
Abstract | PDF
John del Corral (International Research Institute for Climate and Society)
Spatial Averaging Over GIS Features of Time Dependent Climate Data to Evaluate Societal Risk
Abstract | PDF
Workshop Discussion |
| 12:00 |
Group Photo outside ML |
| 12:15 |
Lunch (ML Cafeteria on your own) |
| 1:30 |
Working Groups: Methodologies for integration of natural and social science data (both quantitative and qualitative) for weather hazards preparedness and climate change adaptation.
Weather (hazards preparedness)
W-WG1 Discussion leader - Mary Hayden (NCAR)
W-WG2 Discussion leader - Olga Wilhelmi (NCAR)
Climate (regional impacts assessments and adaptation) -
C-WG1 Discussion leader - Stephan Sain (NCAR)
C-WG2 Discussion leader - Paty Romero Lankao (NCAR)
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| 3:10 |
Coffee Break (ML Cafeteria) |
| 3:30 |
| Tour of NCAR Visualization Lab, computing facilities and ML science exhibits |
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| 5:00 |
Shuttles leave from Mesa Lab to the Hotel (dinner on your own or group dinner at a local restaurant) |
| Wednesday, October 29, 2008 |
| Time |
Activity |
| 7:45 |
Shuttles from the Hotel to the Mesa Lab |
| 8:00 |
Coffee and Light Breakfast (outside of ML Main Seminar Room) |
| 8:20 |
Reports from Working Groups |
| 9:00 |
Panel: Addressing data challenges in spatial interdisciplinary research
Peter Fox (NCAR)
Marc Armstrong (University of Iowa)
Johannes Feddema (University of Kansas)
Ted Habermann (NGDC NOAA)
Mary Hayden (NCAR)
Workshop discussion |
| 10:30 |
Coffee Break (outside of ML Main Seminar Room) |
| 10:45 |
Panel:
Linking social and physical sciences with GIS: Research directions
Tim Nyerges (University of Washington)
Josh Foster (Center for Clean Air Policy, Urban Leaders Adaptation Initiative)
Rebecca Morss (NCAR)
Sarah Ruth (NSF)
Workshop discussion |
| 12:00 |
Next steps, wrap up and closing - Olga Wilhelmi, Jennifer Boehnert |
| 12:15 |
Workshop Adjourns / Lunch |
| 1:15 |
Shuttles to the hotel and Center Green campus |
| 1:30 |
Optional GIS training course (UCAR Center Green Campus)
1:30-1:50 Introduction to GIS, ArcGIS, and working with netCDF in ArcGIS lecture Jennifer Boehnert
1:50-2:15 ArcGIS exercise
2:15- 2:45 Datum, projections and map accuracy lecture Rick Koehler
2:45-3:15 Introduction to climate modeling and CCSM lecture Gary Strand
3:15-4:00 Temperature Anomaly - climate change exercise
4:00-4:30 Open discussion and questions |
| 4:45 |
| Shuttle returns to the hotel |
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