Abstracts have been collated into a Bureau of Meteorology Research Report which is now available for download.
Workshop Opening | ||
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08:15 - 08:45 | Arrival tea and coffee | |
08:45 - 09:00 | Housekeeping | |
09:00 - 09:15 | Welcome to Country | |
09:15 - 09:30 | Opening Address | |
Seamless Forecasting, Chaired by Oscar Alves | ||
09:30 - 10:00 | Sean Milton Met Office | Keynote: Seamless model development for future weather and climate services |
10:00 - 10:15 | Matt Hawcroft University of Southern Queensland | The benefits of increased model resolution, coupling and improved physics to forecast skill: a case study in Northern Queensland |
10:15 - 10:30 | Gilbert Brunet Bureau of Meteorology | On the Resonances and Teleconnections of the North Atlantic and Madden-Julian Oscillations |
10:30 - 10:45 | Chantal Donnelly Bureau of Meteorology | Towards Seamless National Water Services - Past to Future |
Break (10:45 - 11:15) | ||
Applications, Chaired by Kate Vinot | ||
11:15 - 11:45 | Jan Flynn Woodside | Keynote: Offshore industry future needs |
11:45 - 12:00 | Urs Baeumer Queensland Transport and Main Roads | Rainfall radar and hydrology - A lot of potential, but does it deliver? |
12:00 - 12:15 | Tim Wells Country Fire Authority | Using Bureau of Meteorology services to predict bushfire: an end-user perspective |
12:15 - 12:30 | Ben Jones Australian Energy Market Operator | Application of climate data and knowledge to the electricity sector |
12:30 - 12:45 | Rob Vertessy University of Melbourne | Water Security in the Murray Darling Basin: The role of climate change |
Lunch (12:45 - 13:45) | ||
Observations, Chaired by Bryan Hodge | ||
13:45 - 14:15 | Scott Carpentier Bureau of Meteorology | Keynote: What we've learned from observing Antarctic weather and climate |
14:15 - 14:30 | Jane Warne Bureau of Meteorology | Why It Matters In A Non-Normal World |
14:30 - 14:45 | Marit Kragt University of Western Australia | Farmers Use Of Weather And Forecast Information In The Western Australian Wheatbelt |
14:45 - 15:00 | Mark Broomhall Geoscience Australia | Analysis Ready Data validation and the wonderful world of drones |
15:00 - 15:15 | Yi Huang University of Melbourne | Validation of Cloud Properties Derived from Himawari-8 Geostationary Satellite: Advancement and Challenges |
Break (15:15 - 15:45) | ||
High Performance Computing, Chaired by Tony Hirst | ||
15:45 - 16:15 | Ilene Carpenter Cray Inc. | Keynote: Shasta for Modeling, Simulation, Analytics and AI for Weather and Climate |
16:15 - 16:30 | Ben Evans National Computational Infrastructure | What's next for our climate and weather research infrastructure? |
16:30 - 16:45 | Wendy Sharples Bureau of Meteorology | Life in a post exascale world |
16:45 - 17:00 | Bruce Arthur Bureau of Meteorology | Upcoming HPC Upgrade And HPC Services Roadmap |
Close | ||
Icebreaker (17:30 - 19:30) |
Nowcasting, Chaired by Leon Majewski | ||
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09:00 - 09:30 | Sujay Kumar NASA | Keynote: Remote sensing and data assimilation for the characterisation of terrestrial water cycle |
09:30 - 09:45 | Alan Seed Bureau of Meteorology | STEPS: Radar rainfall nowcasts for decision support in an age of uncertainty |
09:45 - 10:00 | Rashmi Mittal Weatherzone | Lightning Nowcasting at Weatherzone - A current and future perspective |
10:00 - 10:30 | Kevin Tory Bureau of Meteorology | Keynote: Real-time use of the PyroCb Firepower Threshold for predicting pyrocumulonimbus development |
Break (10:30 - 11:00) | ||
Short-range Forecasting, Chaired by Susan Rennie | ||
11:00 - 11:30 | Jaoa de Souza MetOcean Solutions | Keynote: Present and future of ocean forecast in New Zealand - New perspective under the Moana Project |
11:30 - 11:45 | Gary Dietachmayer Bureau of Meteorology | Developments in ACCESS-C and CE |
11:45 - 12:00 | Gary Brassington Bureau of Meteorology | Developments for global ocean-sea ice and sub-mesoscale resolving regional ocean forecasting |
12:00 - 12:15 | Aynul Kabir Bureau of Meteorology | Research and operational advances in short range hydrological forecasting in Australia |
12:15 - 12:30 | Stefan Zieger Bureau of Meteorology | Developments in AUSWAVE |
Lunch (12:30 - 13:30) | ||
Short-range Forecasting, Chaired by Michael Foley | ||
13:30 - 14:00 | Jeff Craven NOAA | Keynote: The National Blend of Models: a statistically post-processed multi-model ensemble |
14:00 - 14:15 | Anja Schubert Bureau of Meteorology | Guidance post processing present and future |
14:15 - 14:30 | Gary Weymouth Bureau of Meteorology | IMPROVER: a new probabilistic guidance post-processing system |
14:30 - 15:00 | Hans-Joachim Koppert DWD | Keynote: Automating the warning process at DWD - lessons learned |
Break (15:00 - 15:30) | ||
Short-range Forecasting, Chaired by Deryn Griffiths | ||
15:30 - 16:00 | Andy Just US National Weather Service | Keynote: A Streamlined Forecast Process utilizing ForecastBuilder and the Associated Culture Change |
16:00 - 16:15 | Michael Foley Bureau of Meteorology | Using Evidence to Streamline Forecast Production |
16:15 - 16:30 | Jenny Sturrock Bureau of Meteorology | Value-adding by operational meteorologists |
16:30 - 16:45 | James Crow Bureau of Meteorology | Improving client decision making |
16:45 - 17:00 | Matalena Tofa Macquarie University | Risk communication |
Close (17:00) |
Climate, Chaired by Christine Chung | ||
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09:00 - 09:30 | David Karoly CSIRO | Keynote: Plans for the next generation of national and regional climate projections for Australia |
09:30 - 09:45 | Chris Hewitt Met Office | Climate services in the UK Met Office - challenges and solutions |
09:45 - 10:00 | Ramona Dalla Pozza VIC Dept of Environment, Land, Water and Planning | Integrating climate projections into State Government decision-making |
10:00 - 10:15 | Tim Johnston Department of Environment and Energy | Coordination of Climate Science: next steps |
10:15 - 10:45 | Ailie Gallant Monash | Keynote: Improving climate change literacy through community and TV news |
Break (10:45 - 11:15) | ||
Impact Forecasting, Chaired by Diana Greenslade | ||
11:15 - 11:45 | Ian Turner UNSW Water Research Lab | Keynote: Beach Erosion Early Warning System (EWS): A New National Research Initiative |
11:45 - 12:00 | David Hanslow NSW Dept of Environment | Wave Overwash Warning at a Social Media Blackspot |
12:00 - 12:15 | Harald Richter Bureau of Meteorology | The impact of damaging winds on residential buildings |
12:15 - 12:30 | Carla Mooney Bureau of Meteorology | Future Warnings Policy |
Lunch (12:30 - 13:30) | ||
Machine Learning, Chaired by Justin Freeman | ||
13:30 - 14:00 | Will Dubyak United Services Automobile Association | Keynote: Meteorological Data and Machine Learning: A View from the Customer |
14:00 - 14:15 | Peter Steinle Bureau of Meteorology | Machine Learning and Environmental Modelling in an Exa-scale world |
14:15 - 14:30 | Warren Jin CSIRO Data 61 | Machine Learning Applications for Weather/Climate |
14:30 - 14:45 | Jeff Hansen University of Western Australia | Using machine learning to improve operational wave forecasts |
14:45 - 15:00 | Werner Scholz Xenon Systems | Deep Learning for physics-based simulations and applications to weather modelling |
Break (15:00 - 15:30) | ||
Machine Learning, Chaired by Leon Majewski | ||
15:30 - 16:00 | Ann Nicholson Monash | Keynote: Machine Learning at Monash University and potential applications in meteorology |
16:00 - 16:15 | Justin Freeman Bureau of Meteorology | Enhancing digital content with machine learning and augmented reality |
16:15 - 16:45 | Matthew Greensmith Amazon Web Services | Keynote: AWS Machine Learning: Where and when? |
Closing Remarks | ||
Close (17:00) |