97th AMS Annual Meeting | 22–26 January 2017 | Seattle, WA
Short Courses
Short Courses enable you to increase your skills and knowledge in your chosen area of expertise or learn about another. Short courses take place Saturday and Sunday, 21-22 January 2017, prior to the Annual Meeting. Click on a course name to learn more.
- A Beginner's Course to Using Python in Climate and Meteorology
- 21-22 January 2017, Seattle, WA ROOM: Skagit 5
This course provides a gentle introduction to Python for the atmospheric scientist, specialized to the needs of the field.
- Cloud-based Data Exploration and Machine Learning on environmental datasets
- 22 January 2017, Seattle, WA Location: Conf Cntr: Skagit 3
The growing availability of cloud-based computational power has made possible new data exploration and machine learning techniques. This course will present steps of a data exploration and implementation of machine learning techniques using recently developed cloud based tools.
- GOES-R Preview for all GOES Users
- 22 January 2017, Seattle, WA ROOM: Skagit 4
Please join us for this short course designed to introduce users to the new capabilities made possible by NOAA’s next generation GOES-R Series Advanced Baseline Imager (ABI), Geostationary Lightning Mapper (GLM), and Space Weather instruments, for improved environmental intelligence, forecasts, and warnings.
- Experiencing JPSS Capabilities
- 21 January 2017, Seattle, WA ROOM: Skagit 4
This short course applied the new generation JPSS capabilities to a variety of operational forecasting scenarios. Participants had an opportunity at hands-on experiences using Suomi National Polar-orbiting Partnership (NPP) data.
- Meteorological Observations, Instrumentation, and Data Assimilation
- 22 January 2017, Seattle, WA ROOM: Skagit 2
Please join us for this short course designed to introduce and discuss all aspects of setting up and operating a meteorological mesoscale network. Well over a dozen states have some form of a mesonet already in place, providing critical real-time weather information to a variety of sectors, including emergency management, agriculture, utilities, and transportation among others.
- Interacting with Radar Data in The Cloud
- 22 January 2017, Seattle, WA Held at Amazon in Seattle (nearby the conference center)
This one-day course will break down the barrier by combining the knowledge of scientists at Argonne National Laboratory (who lead the Python-ARM Radar Toolkit project) and experts at Amazon.
- Environmental Security (CANCELLED)
- THIS SHORT COURSE HAS BEEN CANCELLED
- GIS Tutorial for Atmospheric Sciences (CANCELLED)
- THIS SHORT COURSE HAS BEEN CANCELLED
Short Course Registration
All short course/workshop attendees must register and wear a badge/ribbon. Short course/workshop registration is not included in the 97th Annual Meeting registration, and short course/workshop registration does not include registration for the 97th AMS Annual Meeting.