J16A 20th Annual Symposium on Operational Environmental Satellite Systems

Program Chairs: Gary B. McWilliams , EUMETSAT ; Satya Kalluri , NOAA/STAR

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Tuesday, 23 January 2024

1:00 PM-2:00 PM: Tuesday, 23 January 2024

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Virtual Poster Slam Session #1
Hosts: (Joint between the Virtual Posters; the 26th Conference on Satellite Meteorology, Oceanography, and Climatology; the 24th Conference on Aviation, Range, and Aerospace Meteorology; the 23rd Conference on Artificial Intelligence for Environmental Science; the 20th Annual Symposium on Operational Environmental Satellite Systems; the 14th Conference on Transition of Research to Operations; and the Sixth Special Symposium on Tropical Meteorology and Tropical Cyclones )
Cochairs: Gary B. McWilliams, EUMETSAT; Kyle A. Hilburn; Chanh Q Kieu; Robert G. Nystrom; James G. Yoe, NOAA/NWS/NCEP/Joint Center for Satellite Data Assimilation
V5
14R2O Establishing JEDI-Based MOM6 3DVAR Ocean Data Assimilation Capability for the Regional Hurricane Analysis and Forecast System
Lewis James Gramer, University of Miami, Miami, FL; NOAA-AOML, Miami, FL; and Y. Li, H. S. Kim, H. kang, K. Bhargava, M. Aristizabal, J. D. Steffen, PhD, B. Li, B. Thomas, B. Liu, T. Sluka, G. Vernieres, Z. Zhang, and A. Mehra

V6
23AI Spatial-temporal Convolution Neural Networks for Tropical Cyclone Detection from Geostationary Satellite Images
TRAN HUY Hoang, University of Engineering and Technology, Vietnam National University, Hanoi, Viet Nam; Viettel Group, Hanoi, Viet Nam; and L. Q. DAO, L. V. Hung, M. V. KHIEM, B. Q. Hung, T. D. Du, L. R. Hole, and K. H. Mai

V7
23AI The Retrieval of Surface Pressure and Wind Speed over Ocean using NOAA-20 ATMS Measurements through a U-Net Machine Learning Algorithm
YONG-KEUN LEE, ESSIC/UMD, Ellicott City, MD; and Z. Liang, Q. Liu, C. Grassotti, and L. Lin

Handout (1.1 MB)

V9
24ARAM A Historical Review on Aviation Turbulence in Our Changing Climate
Nicholas D. Amundsen, Federal Aviation Administration, Washington, DC; and T. J. Flowe

Handout (2.0 MB)

V10
24ARAM Statistical Analysis of Aviation Turbulence in the Middle–Upper Troposphere over Japan
Yoshiaki Miyamoto, Keio University, Fujisawa, Kanagawa, Japan; and A. Matsumoto and S. Ito

Handout (1.6 MB)

V11
6TROPICAL Effect of polydisperse spray on hurricane and severe storm dynamics
Yevgenii Rastigejev, North Carolina A&T State Univ., Greensboro, NC; and S. A. Suslov

Handout (4.5 MB)

V13
6TROPICAL Analysis of Trends in Tropical Cyclone Rapid Intensification Frequency with the Aid of a Machine Learning Model
Kuilin Zhu, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China; and H. Su

V14
6TROPICAL Role of midlatitude baroclinic condition in heavy rainfall events directly induced by tropical cyclones over the East Asia.
Eun Jeong CHA, KMA, Seoul, South korea; and C. Park, S. W. Son, Y. M. CHA, and H. C. LEE
Manuscript (4.0 MB)

Handout (6.8 MB)

V15
V16A
6TROPICAL TRACKING MESOSCALE CONVECTIVE SYSTEM CORES, OVER NORTHERN SOUTH AMERICA, USING OVERLAPPING TECHNIQUE
GERARDO DE JESUS MONTOYA GAVIRIA II, universidad nacional de Colombia, BOGOTA, D.C., CUN, Colombia
Manuscript (1.9 MB)

Handout (652.5 kB)

V17
26SATMET Global Biomass Burning Emissions Product for Operational Air Quality Forecasting
Xiaoyang Zhang, South Dakota State Univ., Brookings, SD; South Dakota State Univ., Brookings, SD; and F. Li, Y. Ye, and S. Kondragunta

Sunday, 28 January 2024

4:00 PM-5:15 PM: Sunday, 28 January 2024

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Presidential Forum: Climate Science as Service to Society
Location: Ballroom III/ IV (The Baltimore Convention Center)
Hosts: (Joint between the Networking and Events; the Convergence Science: Indigenous Weather, Water and Climate Knowledge Systems, Practices and Communities; the Town Hall Meetings; the 12th AMS Conference for Early Career Professionals; the Presidential Conference; the Daniel Keyser Symposium; the Kuo-Nan Liou Symposium; the 40th Conference on Environmental Information Processing Technologies; the 38th Conference on Hydrology; the 37th Conference on Climate Variability and Change; the 33rd Conference on Education; the 28th Conference on Applied Climatology; the 28th Conference on Integrated Observing and Assimilation Systems for the Atmosphere, Ocean, and Land Surface; the 28th Conference on Probability and Statistics; the 27th Conference of Atmospheric Science Librarians International; the 26th Conference on Atmospheric Chemistry; the 26th Conference on Satellite Meteorology, Oceanography, and Climatology; the 24th Conference on Aviation, Range, and Aerospace Meteorology; the 24th Symposium on Meteorological Observation and Instrumentation; the 24th Conference on Planned and Inadvertent Weather Modification; the 23rd Conference on Artificial Intelligence for Environmental Science; the 23rd Joint Conference on the Applications of Air Pollution Meteorology with the A&WMA; the 22nd Symposium on the Coastal Environment; the 22nd History Symposium; the 21st Conference on Space Weather; the 20th Annual Symposium on Operational Environmental Satellite Systems; the 19th Symposium on Societal Applications: Policy, Research and Practice; the 16th Symposium on Aerosol Cloud Climate Interactions; the 15th Conference on Environment and Health; the 15th Conference on Weather, Water, Climate, and the New Energy Economy; the 14th Conference on Transition of Research to Operations; the 14th Symposium on Advances in Modeling and Analysis Using the Programming Languages of Open Science; the 12th Symposium on the Weather, Water, and Climate Enterprise; the 12th Symposium on Building a Weather-Ready Nation; the 12th AMS Symposium on the Joint Center for Satellite Data Assimilation; the 12th Symposium on the Madden-Julian Oscillation and Sub-Seasonal Monsoon Variability; the 10th Symposium on High Performance Computing for Weather, Water, and Climate; the Ninth Symposium on US-International Partnerships; the Sixth Special Symposium on Tropical Meteorology and Tropical Cyclones; the Fifth Symposium on Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion; the Third Symposium on Community Modeling and Innovation; the Second Symposium on Environmental Security; the Second Symposium on the Future of Weather, Forecasting, and Practice; the First Symposium on Cloud Physics; the Estimating Wind Speeds of Tornadoes and Other Windstorms; the Polar Meteorology and Oceanography Special Symposium; the Forum on Climate Linked Economics; and the 20th Conference on Major Weather Impacts )
Moderator: Kerry A. Emanuel, MIT
Panelists: Bob Inglis, republicEn.org; Monica P. Medina, Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS)

6:30 PM-8:30 PM: Sunday, 28 January 2024


AMS Career Resource & Graduate School Fair
Location: Hall D (The Baltimore Convention Center)
Hosts: (Joint between the Networking and Events; the 23rd Annual Student Conference; the 12th AMS Conference for Early Career Professionals; the Daniel Keyser Symposium; the Kuo-Nan Liou Symposium; the 40th Conference on Environmental Information Processing Technologies; the 38th Conference on Hydrology; the 37th Conference on Climate Variability and Change; the 33rd Conference on Education; the 28th Conference on Applied Climatology; the 28th Conference on Integrated Observing and Assimilation Systems for the Atmosphere, Ocean, and Land Surface; the 28th Conference on Probability and Statistics; the 27th Conference of Atmospheric Science Librarians International; the 26th Conference on Atmospheric Chemistry; the 26th Conference on Satellite Meteorology, Oceanography, and Climatology; the 24th Conference on Aviation, Range, and Aerospace Meteorology; the 24th Symposium on Meteorological Observation and Instrumentation; the 24th Conference on Planned and Inadvertent Weather Modification; the 23rd Conference on Artificial Intelligence for Environmental Science; the 23rd Joint Conference on the Applications of Air Pollution Meteorology with the A&WMA; the 22nd Symposium on the Coastal Environment; the 22nd History Symposium; the 21st Conference on Space Weather; the 20th Annual Symposium on Operational Environmental Satellite Systems; the 19th Symposium on Societal Applications: Policy, Research and Practice; the 16th Symposium on Aerosol Cloud Climate Interactions; the 15th Conference on Environment and Health; the 15th Conference on Weather, Water, Climate, and the New Energy Economy; the 14th Conference on Transition of Research to Operations; the 14th Symposium on Advances in Modeling and Analysis Using the Programming Languages of Open Science; the 12th Symposium on the Weather, Water, and Climate Enterprise; the 12th Symposium on Building a Weather-Ready Nation; the 12th AMS Symposium on the Joint Center for Satellite Data Assimilation; the 12th Symposium on the Madden-Julian Oscillation and Sub-Seasonal Monsoon Variability; the 10th Symposium on High Performance Computing for Weather, Water, and Climate; the Ninth Symposium on US-International Partnerships; the Sixth Special Symposium on Tropical Meteorology and Tropical Cyclones; the Fifth Symposium on Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion; the Third Symposium on Community Modeling and Innovation; the Second Symposium on Environmental Security; the Second Symposium on the Future of Weather, Forecasting, and Practice; the First Symposium on Cloud Physics; the Estimating Wind Speeds of Tornadoes and Other Windstorms; the Polar Meteorology and Oceanography Special Symposium; the Forum on Climate Linked Economics; and the 20th Conference on Major Weather Impacts )

Annual Meeting Welcome Reception
Location: Hall E (The Baltimore Convention Center)
Hosts: (Joint between the Networking and Events; the 23rd Annual Student Conference; the Convergence Science: Indigenous Weather, Water and Climate Knowledge Systems, Practices and Communities; the 12th AMS Conference for Early Career Professionals; the Daniel Keyser Symposium; the Kuo-Nan Liou Symposium; the 40th Conference on Environmental Information Processing Technologies; the 38th Conference on Hydrology; the 37th Conference on Climate Variability and Change; the 33rd Conference on Education; the 28th Conference on Applied Climatology; the 28th Conference on Integrated Observing and Assimilation Systems for the Atmosphere, Ocean, and Land Surface; the 28th Conference on Probability and Statistics; the 27th Conference of Atmospheric Science Librarians International; the 26th Conference on Atmospheric Chemistry; the 26th Conference on Satellite Meteorology, Oceanography, and Climatology; the 24th Conference on Aviation, Range, and Aerospace Meteorology; the 24th Symposium on Meteorological Observation and Instrumentation; the 24th Conference on Planned and Inadvertent Weather Modification; the 23rd Conference on Artificial Intelligence for Environmental Science; the 23rd Joint Conference on the Applications of Air Pollution Meteorology with the A&WMA; the 22nd Symposium on the Coastal Environment; the 22nd History Symposium; the 21st Conference on Space Weather; the 20th Annual Symposium on Operational Environmental Satellite Systems; the 19th Symposium on Societal Applications: Policy, Research and Practice; the 16th Symposium on Aerosol Cloud Climate Interactions; the 15th Conference on Environment and Health; the 15th Conference on Weather, Water, Climate, and the New Energy Economy; the 14th Conference on Transition of Research to Operations; the 14th Symposium on Advances in Modeling and Analysis Using the Programming Languages of Open Science; the 12th Symposium on the Weather, Water, and Climate Enterprise; the 12th Symposium on Building a Weather-Ready Nation; the 12th AMS Symposium on the Joint Center for Satellite Data Assimilation; the 12th Symposium on the Madden-Julian Oscillation and Sub-Seasonal Monsoon Variability; the 10th Symposium on High Performance Computing for Weather, Water, and Climate; the Ninth Symposium on US-International Partnerships; the Sixth Special Symposium on Tropical Meteorology and Tropical Cyclones; the Fifth Symposium on Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion; the Third Symposium on Community Modeling and Innovation; the Second Symposium on Environmental Security; the Second Symposium on the Future of Weather, Forecasting, and Practice; the First Symposium on Cloud Physics; the Estimating Wind Speeds of Tornadoes and Other Windstorms; the Polar Meteorology and Oceanography Special Symposium; the Forum on Climate Linked Economics; and the 20th Conference on Major Weather Impacts )

Monday, 29 January 2024

8:30 AM-10:00 AM: Monday, 29 January 2024

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Session 1
DoD Weather Satellite Systems
Location: 309 (The Baltimore Convention Center)
Host: 20th Annual Symposium on Operational Environmental Satellite Systems
Cochairs: Ye Hong; Robert S. Wacker
8:30 AM
1.1
Space Systems Command's Focus on Environmental Monitoring
Col. Daniel Visosky, Senior Material Leader, US Space Force, Space Systems Command, Environmental and Tactical Surveillance Delta, Los Angeles Space Force Base, CA

8:45 AM
1.2
Weather System Follow-On - Microwave (WSF-M) Mission Overview
Quinn Remund, Ball Aerospace, Erie, CO; and J. Hahnke, T. Sheridan, D. Whalen, D. Draper, G. Moroney, D. Newell, R. Brewster, B. Woods, and B. Reed

9:00 AM
1.3
Blossom Point Tracking Facility: WSF-M Automated Ground Operations
Shannon Nicole Gilbert, NRL Blossom Point, Welcome, MD; and G. Porter

9:30 AM
1.5
EWS Rapid Revisit Optical Cloud Imager Testing & Calibration
Erich E. Hoover, Orion Space Solutions, Louisville, CO; and S. Jensen, M. R. Schoeberl, H. bloom, B. R. Johnson, K. M. Smith, and D. Moyer

9:45 AM
1.6
The STP-H8 COWVR and TEMPEST-H8 Sensors: Two Years of On-orbit Operations
Spencer Farrar, The Aerospace Corporation, Merritt Island, FL; The Aerospace Corporation, El Segundo, CA; and S. T. Brown, S. Swadley, S. K. Biswas, E. Simon, M. G. Morris, K. M. Smith, G. Poe, D. B. Kunkee, and H. Christophersen

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J1A
Advances in Cubesats and Smallsats for Observations and Measurements of Earth’s Atmosphere Thermodynamic Structure and Processes, Winds, and Water Cycle Processes, and to Improve Climate Monitoring, Weather Forecasting, or Space Weather Prediction
Location: 320 (The Baltimore Convention Center)
Hosts: (Joint between the 14th Conference on Transition of Research to Operations; the 20th Annual Symposium on Operational Environmental Satellite Systems; and the 26th Conference on Satellite Meteorology, Oceanography, and Climatology )
Cochairs: Martin Yapur, 1970; Amber Elizabeth Emory, NASA
Welcoming Remarks

8:30 AM
J1A.1
Assessing TROPICS Pathfinder's Precipitation Retrieval Performance Through the NOAA Microwave Integrated Retrieval System (MiRS)
John Xun Yang, Univ. of Maryland, College Park, College Park, MD; and Y. K. Lee, S. Liu, C. Grassotti, Q. Liu, K. Garrett, W. J. Blackwell, R. V. Leslie, T. J. Greenwald, and S. A. Braun

8:45 AM
J1A.2
Enabling Enhanced Temporal Resolution of Observations and Retrievals of Water Vapor, Clouds and Precipitation: Recent Scientific Results from the Temporal Experiment for Storms and Tropical Systems (TEMPEST) Missions
Steven C. Reising, Colorado State Univ., Fort Collins, CO; and C. D. Kummerow, V. Chandrasekar, C. Radhakrishnan, C. P. Kuo, S. T. Brown, and R. Schulte

9:00 AM
J1A.3
Results of the Compact Ocean Wind Vector Radiometer Demonstration Mission: A Small-Sat Conical Microwave Imager
Shannon Brown, JPL, Pasadena, CA; and A. Kitiyakara, M. G. Morris, S. Swadley, S. Farrar, and E. Simon

9:15 AM
J1A.4
Small Satellite DCS Use as an Operational Concept
Beau Backus, NOAA, Silver Spring, MD

9:30 AM
J1A.5
SToRM SAR, a Multi-static Precipitation Radar Hosted by Micro-satellites: an Update on Ground-based Risk-Reduction Field-test Results and Airborne Demonstration Plans
Kevin R. Maschhoff, BAE Systems, Nashua, NH; BAE Systems, Nashua, NH; and M. F. Ryba, C. P. Agostino, V. Chandrasekar, M. Lovato, and P. Kennedy

9:45 AM
J1A.6
Reprocessed Advanced Technology Microwave Sounder Data Records for Studying Atmospheric Water Vapor Trend
Quanhua (Mark) Liu, Quanhua Liu, College Park, MD; and C. Grassotti, N. Sun, H. Yang, S. Iacovazzi, X. Liang, Y. Zhou, Y. K. Lee, S. Liu, and J. Yang

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J1B
Exploiting Operational Satellites for Climate Data Record Generation and Analysis I
Location: 327 (The Baltimore Convention Center)
Hosts: (Joint between the 26th Conference on Satellite Meteorology, Oceanography, and Climatology; and the 20th Annual Symposium on Operational Environmental Satellite Systems )
Cochairs: Matt van den Heever, University of Colorado; Zhenglong Li, CIMSS/SSEC
8:30 AM
J1B.1
Atmospheric Winds – EUMETSAT Climate Data Records from Polar and Geostationary Satellite Data
Marie Doutriaux-Boucher, EUMETSAT, Darmstadt, Germany; and R. Huckle, A. Lattanzio, V. John, O. Sus, R. Borde, and J. Schulz

8:45 AM
J1B.2
Forty Years of ISCCP: The Past, Present, and Future of the International Satellite Cloud Climatology Project
Kenneth R. Knapp, National Centers for Environmental Information, Asheville, NC; and H. Semunegus, B. Adams, and W. Hankins

9:00 AM
J1B.3
Long-term Infrared Sounder-based Temperature and Humidity Profiles
Jessica L. Matthews, NOAA, Asheville, NC; and L. Shi, Y. Rao, D. J. Major, and A. K. Inamdar

9:15 AM
J1B.4
Extending NOAA AMSU/MHS Hydrological Bundle Climate Data Record (CDR) by Incorporating ATMS Observations
James G. Beauchamp, NOAA, College Park, MD; NCEI, Asheville, NC; Univ. of Maryland, College Park, College Park, MD; CICESS/ESSIC UMD, College Park, MD; NESDIS, College Park, MD; Univ. of Maryland, Ellicott city, MD; and Y. You, J. X. Yang, T. M. Smith, R. Ferraro, and B. R. Nelson

9:45 AM
J1B.6
The GOES Fundamental CDR: Toward a Global Geostationary Ring (GeoRing) CDR
Kenneth R. Knapp, NOAA, Asheville, NC; and J. L. Matthews, V. John, and A. Heidinger

10:00 AM-10:45 AM: Monday, 29 January 2024


Coffee Break [Main Terrace (BCC), Camden Lobby (BCC), Hall E (BCC)]
Location: The Baltimore Convention Center
Hosts: (Joint between the Networking and Events; the Convergence Science: Indigenous Weather, Water and Climate Knowledge Systems, Practices and Communities; the Town Hall Meetings; the 12th AMS Conference for Early Career Professionals; the Presidential Conference; the Daniel Keyser Symposium; the Kuo-Nan Liou Symposium; the 40th Conference on Environmental Information Processing Technologies; the 38th Conference on Hydrology; the 37th Conference on Climate Variability and Change; the 33rd Conference on Education; the 28th Conference on Applied Climatology; the 28th Conference on Integrated Observing and Assimilation Systems for the Atmosphere, Ocean, and Land Surface; the 28th Conference on Probability and Statistics; the 27th Conference of Atmospheric Science Librarians International; the 26th Conference on Atmospheric Chemistry; the 26th Conference on Satellite Meteorology, Oceanography, and Climatology; the 24th Conference on Aviation, Range, and Aerospace Meteorology; the 24th Symposium on Meteorological Observation and Instrumentation; the 24th Conference on Planned and Inadvertent Weather Modification; the 23rd Conference on Artificial Intelligence for Environmental Science; the 23rd Joint Conference on the Applications of Air Pollution Meteorology with the A&WMA; the 22nd Symposium on the Coastal Environment; the 22nd History Symposium; the 21st Conference on Space Weather; the 20th Annual Symposium on Operational Environmental Satellite Systems; the 19th Symposium on Societal Applications: Policy, Research and Practice; the 16th Symposium on Aerosol Cloud Climate Interactions; the 15th Conference on Environment and Health; the 15th Conference on Weather, Water, Climate, and the New Energy Economy; the 14th Conference on Transition of Research to Operations; the 14th Symposium on Advances in Modeling and Analysis Using the Programming Languages of Open Science; the 12th Symposium on the Weather, Water, and Climate Enterprise; the 12th Symposium on Building a Weather-Ready Nation; the 12th AMS Symposium on the Joint Center for Satellite Data Assimilation; the 12th Symposium on the Madden-Julian Oscillation and Sub-Seasonal Monsoon Variability; the 10th Symposium on High Performance Computing for Weather, Water, and Climate; the Ninth Symposium on US-International Partnerships; the Sixth Special Symposium on Tropical Meteorology and Tropical Cyclones; the Fifth Symposium on Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion; the Third Symposium on Community Modeling and Innovation; the Second Symposium on Environmental Security; the Second Symposium on the Future of Weather, Forecasting, and Practice; the First Symposium on Cloud Physics; the Estimating Wind Speeds of Tornadoes and Other Windstorms; the Polar Meteorology and Oceanography Special Symposium; the Forum on Climate Linked Economics; and the 20th Conference on Major Weather Impacts )

10:45 AM-12:00 PM: Monday, 29 January 2024

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Session 2
Next Generation Satellite Ground Architecture and Technological Advances
Location: 309 (The Baltimore Convention Center)
Host: 20th Annual Symposium on Operational Environmental Satellite Systems
Chair: Kathryn A. Shontz, NOAA
10:45 AM
2.1
Advancing NOAA’s Next-Generation Earth Observation and Data System Capabilities
Edward C. Grigsby, NOAA, NESDIS, Greenbelt, MD; and F. W. Gallagher III, M. Bonadonna, D. P. St. Jean, M. Yapur, D. Spencer, and A. Williams

11:00 AM
2.2
11:15 AM
2.3
NESDIS Development of Enterprise Common Services
Heather S. Kilcoyne, NOAA, Silver Spring, MD; and K. I. Watts

11:30 AM
2.4
Innovations and Technological Advances in Support of Cost-sustainability of NOAA’s Future Ground System Architectures
Michael Bonadonna, NESDIS, BOWIE, MD; and R. A. Saleh, Dr., P. J. Powers, and H. McLaughlin

11:45 AM
2.5
NCCF Ground Architecture in Support of Satellite Data
Pura Acevedo Perez, NESDIS, Silver Spring, MD; NESDIS, Lothian, MD; and C. OConnors

12:00 PM-1:45 PM: Monday, 29 January 2024


Lunch Break
Location: The Baltimore Convention Center
Hosts: (Joint between the Networking and Events; the Convergence Science: Indigenous Weather, Water and Climate Knowledge Systems, Practices and Communities; the Town Hall Meetings; the 12th AMS Conference for Early Career Professionals; the Presidential Conference; the Daniel Keyser Symposium; the Kuo-Nan Liou Symposium; the 40th Conference on Environmental Information Processing Technologies; the 38th Conference on Hydrology; the 37th Conference on Climate Variability and Change; the 33rd Conference on Education; the 28th Conference on Applied Climatology; the 28th Conference on Integrated Observing and Assimilation Systems for the Atmosphere, Ocean, and Land Surface; the 28th Conference on Probability and Statistics; the 27th Conference of Atmospheric Science Librarians International; the 26th Conference on Atmospheric Chemistry; the 26th Conference on Satellite Meteorology, Oceanography, and Climatology; the 24th Conference on Aviation, Range, and Aerospace Meteorology; the 24th Symposium on Meteorological Observation and Instrumentation; the 24th Conference on Planned and Inadvertent Weather Modification; the 23rd Conference on Artificial Intelligence for Environmental Science; the 23rd Joint Conference on the Applications of Air Pollution Meteorology with the A&WMA; the 22nd Symposium on the Coastal Environment; the 22nd History Symposium; the 21st Conference on Space Weather; the 20th Annual Symposium on Operational Environmental Satellite Systems; the 19th Symposium on Societal Applications: Policy, Research and Practice; the 16th Symposium on Aerosol Cloud Climate Interactions; the 15th Conference on Environment and Health; the 15th Conference on Weather, Water, Climate, and the New Energy Economy; the 14th Conference on Transition of Research to Operations; the 14th Symposium on Advances in Modeling and Analysis Using the Programming Languages of Open Science; the 12th Symposium on the Weather, Water, and Climate Enterprise; the 12th Symposium on Building a Weather-Ready Nation; the 12th AMS Symposium on the Joint Center for Satellite Data Assimilation; the 12th Symposium on the Madden-Julian Oscillation and Sub-Seasonal Monsoon Variability; the 10th Symposium on High Performance Computing for Weather, Water, and Climate; the Ninth Symposium on US-International Partnerships; the Sixth Special Symposium on Tropical Meteorology and Tropical Cyclones; the Fifth Symposium on Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion; the Third Symposium on Community Modeling and Innovation; the Second Symposium on Environmental Security; the Second Symposium on the Future of Weather, Forecasting, and Practice; the First Symposium on Cloud Physics; the Estimating Wind Speeds of Tornadoes and Other Windstorms; the Polar Meteorology and Oceanography Special Symposium; the Forum on Climate Linked Economics; and the 20th Conference on Major Weather Impacts )

1:45 PM-3:00 PM: Monday, 29 January 2024

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3A
Panel Discussion:  Next Generation Ground System Architecture for Weather Satellites
Location: Ballroom I (The Baltimore Convention Center)
Host: 20th Annual Symposium on Operational Environmental Satellite Systems
Cochairs: Heather Kilcoyne; Raad A Saleh, Dr.
Panelists: Michael Morgan, Assistant Secretary of Dept of Commerce for Environmental Observation; Kathleen Baynes, Earth Science Division, NASA HQ; Edward C. Grigsby; Paolo Ruti; Heather Kilcoyne; Raad A Saleh, Dr.
1:45 PM
3A.1
Next Generation Ground System Architecture for Weather Satellites
Raad A Saleh, Dr., NOAA, Madison, WI; and E. C. Grigsby

2:00 PM
3A.2
2:15 PM
Panel Discussion

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J3B
Next Generation Satellite Instruments to Monitor a Changing World
Location: 327 (The Baltimore Convention Center)
Hosts: (Joint between the 26th Conference on Satellite Meteorology, Oceanography, and Climatology; and the 20th Annual Symposium on Operational Environmental Satellite Systems )
Cochairs: Charles Powell; Sara C. Tucker, Ph.D., Ball Aerospace
1:45 PM
J3B.1
2:00 PM
J3B.2
Observing System Simulation Experiments to Determine the Impact of Spaceborne Differential Absorption Radar Measurements of Marine Surface Pressure on Numerical Weather Prediction
Nikki C Prive, Morgan State Univ., Greenbelt, MD; Morgan State Univ., Greenbelt, MD; and M. Walker McLinden, B. Lin, G. Heymsfield, S. Harrah, L. Li, and X. Cai

2:15 PM
J3B.3
ASDC Distribution and Services of TEMPO Data: Monitoring of North America's Air Quality from Space
Hazem Mahmoud, ADNET Systems, Inc., Bethesda, MD; and D. E. Kaufman, M. Tisdale, G. hayes-Crepps, W. Baskin, H. Patel, D. V. Wood, J. Tindell, W. Johnson, I. Garcia-Solera, S. Kizer, and J. Kusterer

2:30 PM
J3B.4
Modeling Wildfire Progression and Simulating Satellite Observations
Chaincy Kuo, Fireball Information Technologies, LLC, Reno, NV; and C. Schmidt, T. Ball, E. Wishnow, and C. R. Pennypacker

2:45 PM
J3B.5
Earth-observing Photonic Integrated Circuit (EPIC) Science Instrumentation
Máté Ádámkovics, Lockheed Martin, Palo Alto, CA; Lockheed Martin, Palo Alto, CA

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J3C
Using Artificial Intelligence to Analyze Satellite Earth Observations I
Location: 338 (The Baltimore Convention Center)
Hosts: (Joint between the 23rd Conference on Artificial Intelligence for Environmental Science; the 26th Conference on Satellite Meteorology, Oceanography, and Climatology; and the 20th Annual Symposium on Operational Environmental Satellite Systems )
Cochairs: Haonan Chen, Cooperative Institute for Research in the Atmosphere (CIRA); Jebb Q. Stewart, ESRL
1:45 PM
J3C.1
Neural Network Estimates of Cloud Water Content Profiles from Passive Satellite Imagery
Charles White, CIRA, Fort Collins, CO; and Y. J. Noh, J. M. Haynes, and I. Ebert-Uphoff

2:00 PM
J3C.2
3-D Nowcasting of Clouds Using Artificial Intelligence
David Ryglicki, MyRadar, Lakeland, FL; and A. T. Wimmers and S. Garimella

Handout (3.1 MB)

2:15 PM
J3C.3
Retrieving 3D Cloud Radar Reflectivity from MODIS Cloud Products Based on CGAN
Yubao Liu, NUIST, Nanjing, Jiangsu, China; Nanjing University of Information and Science Technology, Nanjing, Jiangsu, China; and F. Wang, Y. Zhou, Y. Qin, and H. Fan

2:30 PM
J3C.4
Continual Lifelong Learning for Precipitation Retrievals Using ABI and GLM Measurements on the GOES-R Series
Yifan Yang, CIRA, Fort Collins, CO; and H. Chen and M. R. Azimi-Sadjadi

2:45 PM
J3C.5
Detecting Above-Anvil Cirrus Plumes on a Pixel Scale Using Deep Learning
Amanda Burke, Univ. of Oklahoma, Norman, OK; and C. R. Homeyer and A. McGovern

3:00 PM-4:30 PM: Monday, 29 January 2024


Coffee Break & Formal Poster Viewing
Location: Hall E (The Baltimore Convention Center)
Hosts: (Joint between the Networking and Events; the Convergence Science: Indigenous Weather, Water and Climate Knowledge Systems, Practices and Communities; the 12th AMS Conference for Early Career Professionals; the Daniel Keyser Symposium; the Kuo-Nan Liou Symposium; the 40th Conference on Environmental Information Processing Technologies; the 38th Conference on Hydrology; the 37th Conference on Climate Variability and Change; the 33rd Conference on Education; the 28th Conference on Applied Climatology; the 28th Conference on Integrated Observing and Assimilation Systems for the Atmosphere, Ocean, and Land Surface; the 28th Conference on Probability and Statistics; the 27th Conference of Atmospheric Science Librarians International; the 26th Conference on Atmospheric Chemistry; the 26th Conference on Satellite Meteorology, Oceanography, and Climatology; the 24th Conference on Aviation, Range, and Aerospace Meteorology; the 24th Symposium on Meteorological Observation and Instrumentation; the 24th Conference on Planned and Inadvertent Weather Modification; the 23rd Conference on Artificial Intelligence for Environmental Science; the 23rd Joint Conference on the Applications of Air Pollution Meteorology with the A&WMA; the 22nd Symposium on the Coastal Environment; the 22nd History Symposium; the 21st Conference on Space Weather; the 20th Annual Symposium on Operational Environmental Satellite Systems; the 19th Symposium on Societal Applications: Policy, Research and Practice; the 16th Symposium on Aerosol Cloud Climate Interactions; the 15th Conference on Environment and Health; the 15th Conference on Weather, Water, Climate, and the New Energy Economy; the 14th Conference on Transition of Research to Operations; the 14th Symposium on Advances in Modeling and Analysis Using the Programming Languages of Open Science; the 12th Symposium on the Weather, Water, and Climate Enterprise; the 12th Symposium on Building a Weather-Ready Nation; the 12th AMS Symposium on the Joint Center for Satellite Data Assimilation; the 12th Symposium on the Madden-Julian Oscillation and Sub-Seasonal Monsoon Variability; the 10th Symposium on High Performance Computing for Weather, Water, and Climate; the Ninth Symposium on US-International Partnerships; the Sixth Special Symposium on Tropical Meteorology and Tropical Cyclones; the Fifth Symposium on Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion; the Third Symposium on Community Modeling and Innovation; the Second Symposium on Environmental Security; the Second Symposium on the Future of Weather, Forecasting, and Practice; the First Symposium on Cloud Physics; the Estimating Wind Speeds of Tornadoes and Other Windstorms; the Polar Meteorology and Oceanography Special Symposium; the Forum on Climate Linked Economics; and the 20th Conference on Major Weather Impacts )

20thOESS Poster Session I
Location: Hall E (The Baltimore Convention Center)
Host: 20th Annual Symposium on Operational Environmental Satellite Systems
Cochairs: Gary B. McWilliams, EUMETSAT; Michael L. Jamilkowski
171
Radio Occultation Data Buy Processing Status and Evaluation
Jan-Peter Weiss, UCAR, Boulder, CO; and J. J. Braun, I. Cherniak, R. Conroy, J. DiMartino, T. Hager, H. Huelsing, D. C. Hunt, J. Sjoberg, E. Lauer, W. Lopez, G. Romero, B. Royersmith, M. Sleziak-Sallee, S. V. Sokolovskiy, T. Vanhove, Q. Wu, J. Yao, I. Zakharenkova, and Z. Zeng

172
Utilizing CLAVR-x to Model Sensitivity of Cloud Products to Satellite Sensor Performance
Cameron Martus, The Aerospace Corporation, El Segundo, CA; and B. R. Johnson, P. Johnson, D. Moyer, and J. Thomas

173
Development of a NOAA Data Collection System (DCS) Forward Link Capability for GeoXO
Daniel Gillies, NOAA, Greenbelt, MD; and W. Dronen Jr., H. M. Garon, N. Holcomb, M. Sullivan, R. Pardee, N. Parker, and A. Krimchansky

175
NCCF Vision and Current Execution
Chris OConnors, NOAA, Burke, VA

177
NOAA NESDIS Ground Enterprise Concept of Operations (CONOPS)
Scott Turner, NESDIS, RESTON, VA; and R. Rangachar, M. Bonadonna, S. Marley, and M. Johnson

178
Intro to NESDIS Next Generation Ground Enterprise Architecture
Michael Bonadonna, NESDIS, BOWIE, MD; and H. McLaughlin and M. Johnson

179
Ocean Surface Wind Field Retrieval in Tropical Cyclones Using GNSS-R Delay Doppler Map Sequences
James L. Garrison, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN; Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN; and P. Bhattacharjee, K. Shi, and B. Annane

180
Ground-Based Validation of the NOAA-20 NUCAPS and OMPS Ozone Profiles for Use in Climate Records
Irina Petropavlovskikh, PhD, CIRES, Boulder, CO; and T. Zhu, M. G. Divakarla, K. L. Pryor, PhD, N. R. Nalli, L. E. Flynn, J. Wild, and K. Miyagawa

181
Phenomenology Imager and Nighttime Observer (PIANO): Low-light weather imagery from the ISS
Lynette Gelinas, The Aerospace Corporation, El Segundo, CA; and J. H. Hecht

182
Recent Updates to Spire’s GNSS Radio Occultation and Reflectometry Constellation for Operational Weather Data
Vu Nguyen, Spire Global, Inc., Boulder, CO; and P. Jales, M. Talpe, J. C. Cartwright, J. Mashburn, V. Freeman, S. Tomas, and T. Yuasa

4:30 PM-6:00 PM: Monday, 29 January 2024

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Session 4A
Enabling Mission Through Enterprise Common Services
Location: 309 (The Baltimore Convention Center)
Host: 20th Annual Symposium on Operational Environmental Satellite Systems
Cochairs: Kathryn A. Shontz, NOAA; Chris O'Connors, NOAA
4:30 PM
4A.1
NESDIS Enterprise Common Services
Heather S. Kilcoyne, NOAA, Silver Spring, MD

4:45 PM
4A.2
POES Extended Life - A Successful Partnership to Transition Government Satellite Operations (NOAA) to a Private Sector Service Provider (Parsons)
Thomas Heinrichs, NESDIS, Silver Spring, MD; and J. Gronert, J. Ward, K. McCarty, C. Raymo, C. Gliniak, M. Atkinson, and J. Chang

5:00 PM
4A.3
5:15 PM
4A.4
Multi-Mission Cloud-Native Product Processing for Diverse Constellations of Geostationary, Low-Earth Orbit, and Space Weather Instruments
Brad Brown-Bergtold, L3Harris Technologies, Inc., Melbourne, FL; and B. Brown-Bergtold, W. Bowles, and J. Faure

5:30 PM
4A.5
Transition to Operations Culture Change when Migrating to the Cloud
Kathryn A. Shontz, NOAA, Silver Spring, MD; and W. W. Wolf and M. Zweng

5:45 PM
4A.6
Responsive to Mission, Embracing Innovation, and Building Robust Operations: New Approaches to Scientific Product Development
Mike Ford, NOAA, Silver Spring, MD; and J. M. Garcia-Rivera, J. Kent, E. C. McCaskill, B. E. Reed, and K. St.Laurent

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J4B
Exploiting Operational Satellites for Climate Data Record Generation and Analysis II
Location: 327 (The Baltimore Convention Center)
Hosts: (Joint between the 20th Annual Symposium on Operational Environmental Satellite Systems; and the 26th Conference on Satellite Meteorology, Oceanography, and Climatology )
Cochairs: Kerry Meyer, GSFC; Robert Holz
4:30 PM
J4B.1
Pushing the Application Limit of Hyperspectral IR Sounder Remote Sensing for Frontiers of Weather and Climate Studies
Wan Wu, LRC, Hampton, VA; and X. Liu, X. Xiong, Q. Yang, L. lei, H. S. Jang, Q. Yue, S. Wong, D. K. Zhou, A. Larar, and L. Zhou

4:45 PM
J4B.2
Extending the NVAP Global Water Vapor Climate Data Record to 40 Years
John M. Forsythe, CIRA, Fort Collins, CO; and T. H. VonderHaar

5:00 PM
J4B.3
Evaluation of Total Precipitable Water Trends from MiRS Reprocessed SNPP ATMS Observations
Yan Zhou, CISESS, UMD, College Park, MD; and C. Grassotti, Y. K. Lee, S. Liu, J. Yang, and Q. Liu

5:15 PM
J4B.4
Improved GEO Derived Broadband Fluxes for the Edition 5 CERES SYN1Deg Data Product
Moguo Sun, Analytical Mechanics Associates, Inc,, Hampton, VA; NASA, Hampton, VA; and D. R. Doelling and L. T. Nguyen

5:30 PM
J4B.5
Towards Full-scale Reprocessing of GOES-R ABI L1b Products
David Pogorzala, GeoThinkTank LLC, Miami, FL; and F. Padula, E. Bacon, B. Tan, J. Dellomo, A. Pearlman, B. Efremova, G. Lin, and D. Lindsey

5:45 PM
J4B.6
Characterizing the S-NPP/JPSS ATMS Science Data Long-Term Inter-Sensor Bias
Ninghai Sun, Global Science and Technology, Inc., Greenbelt, MD; and F. Iturbide-Sanchez, Q. Liu, H. Yang, S. Iacovazzi, and B. Yan

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J4C
Using Artificial Intelligence to Analyze Satellite Earth Observations II
Location: 338 (The Baltimore Convention Center)
Hosts: (Joint between the 23rd Conference on Artificial Intelligence for Environmental Science; the 26th Conference on Satellite Meteorology, Oceanography, and Climatology; and the 20th Annual Symposium on Operational Environmental Satellite Systems )
Cochairs: Haonan Chen, Cooperative Institute for Research in the Atmosphere (CIRA); Jebb Q. Stewart, ESRL
4:45 PM
J4C.2
Super-Resolution of GOES-16 ABI Channels to a Common High Resolution with a Convolutional Neural Network
Charles White, CIRA, Fort Collins, CO; and I. Ebert-Uphoff, J. M. Haynes, and Y. J. Noh

5:00 PM
J4C.3
Bridging the Scale Gap: Machine Learning for Urban Heat Island Modeling and Mitigation
Firas Gerges, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ; and A. B. Dieng and E. Bou-Zeid

5:15 PM
J4C.5
5:45 PM
J4C.6
Estimating Near-Surface Marine Air Temperature Using High-resolution Infrared Radiation Sounder Data and In Situ Observations
Yuhan Rao, North Carolina State University, Asheville, NC; Cooperative Institute for Satellite Earth System Studies, Asheville, NC; and J. L. Matthews and L. Shi

6:00 PM-7:30 PM: Monday, 29 January 2024


Exhibit Hall Opening Reception
Location: Hall F/ Swing (The Baltimore Convention Center)
Hosts: (Joint between the Networking and Events; the Agency Updates; the Convergence Science: Indigenous Weather, Water and Climate Knowledge Systems, Practices and Communities; the Town Hall Meetings; the 12th AMS Conference for Early Career Professionals; the Presidential Conference; the Daniel Keyser Symposium; the Kuo-Nan Liou Symposium; the 40th Conference on Environmental Information Processing Technologies; the 38th Conference on Hydrology; the 37th Conference on Climate Variability and Change; the 33rd Conference on Education; the 28th Conference on Applied Climatology; the 28th Conference on Integrated Observing and Assimilation Systems for the Atmosphere, Ocean, and Land Surface; the 28th Conference on Probability and Statistics; the 27th Conference of Atmospheric Science Librarians International; the 26th Conference on Atmospheric Chemistry; the 26th Conference on Satellite Meteorology, Oceanography, and Climatology; the 24th Conference on Aviation, Range, and Aerospace Meteorology; the 24th Symposium on Meteorological Observation and Instrumentation; the 24th Conference on Planned and Inadvertent Weather Modification; the 23rd Conference on Artificial Intelligence for Environmental Science; the 23rd Joint Conference on the Applications of Air Pollution Meteorology with the A&WMA; the 22nd Symposium on the Coastal Environment; the 22nd History Symposium; the 21st Conference on Space Weather; the 20th Annual Symposium on Operational Environmental Satellite Systems; the 19th Symposium on Societal Applications: Policy, Research and Practice; the 16th Symposium on Aerosol Cloud Climate Interactions; the 15th Conference on Environment and Health; the 15th Conference on Weather, Water, Climate, and the New Energy Economy; the 14th Conference on Transition of Research to Operations; the 14th Symposium on Advances in Modeling and Analysis Using the Programming Languages of Open Science; the 12th Symposium on the Weather, Water, and Climate Enterprise; the 12th Symposium on Building a Weather-Ready Nation; the 12th AMS Symposium on the Joint Center for Satellite Data Assimilation; the 12th Symposium on the Madden-Julian Oscillation and Sub-Seasonal Monsoon Variability; the 10th Symposium on High Performance Computing for Weather, Water, and Climate; the Ninth Symposium on US-International Partnerships; the Sixth Special Symposium on Tropical Meteorology and Tropical Cyclones; the Fifth Symposium on Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion; the Third Symposium on Community Modeling and Innovation; the Second Symposium on Environmental Security; the Second Symposium on the Future of Weather, Forecasting, and Practice; the First Symposium on Cloud Physics; the Estimating Wind Speeds of Tornadoes and Other Windstorms; the Polar Meteorology and Oceanography Special Symposium; the Forum on Climate Linked Economics; and the 20th Conference on Major Weather Impacts )

7:00 PM-9:00 PM: Monday, 29 January 2024


ESWN Reception
Location: Pratt Street Ale House
Hosts: (Joint between the Networking and Events; the Convergence Science: Indigenous Weather, Water and Climate Knowledge Systems, Practices and Communities; the 12th AMS Conference for Early Career Professionals; the Daniel Keyser Symposium; the Kuo-Nan Liou Symposium; the 40th Conference on Environmental Information Processing Technologies; the 38th Conference on Hydrology; the 37th Conference on Climate Variability and Change; the 33rd Conference on Education; the 28th Conference on Applied Climatology; the 28th Conference on Integrated Observing and Assimilation Systems for the Atmosphere, Ocean, and Land Surface; the 28th Conference on Probability and Statistics; the 27th Conference of Atmospheric Science Librarians International; the 26th Conference on Atmospheric Chemistry; the 26th Conference on Satellite Meteorology, Oceanography, and Climatology; the 24th Conference on Aviation, Range, and Aerospace Meteorology; the 24th Symposium on Meteorological Observation and Instrumentation; the 24th Conference on Planned and Inadvertent Weather Modification; the 23rd Conference on Artificial Intelligence for Environmental Science; the 23rd Joint Conference on the Applications of Air Pollution Meteorology with the A&WMA; the 22nd Symposium on the Coastal Environment; the 22nd History Symposium; the 21st Conference on Space Weather; the 20th Annual Symposium on Operational Environmental Satellite Systems; the 19th Symposium on Societal Applications: Policy, Research and Practice; the 16th Symposium on Aerosol Cloud Climate Interactions; the 15th Conference on Environment and Health; the 15th Conference on Weather, Water, Climate, and the New Energy Economy; the 14th Conference on Transition of Research to Operations; the 14th Symposium on Advances in Modeling and Analysis Using the Programming Languages of Open Science; the 12th Symposium on the Weather, Water, and Climate Enterprise; the 12th Symposium on Building a Weather-Ready Nation; the 12th AMS Symposium on the Joint Center for Satellite Data Assimilation; the 12th Symposium on the Madden-Julian Oscillation and Sub-Seasonal Monsoon Variability; the 10th Symposium on High Performance Computing for Weather, Water, and Climate; the Ninth Symposium on US-International Partnerships; the Sixth Special Symposium on Tropical Meteorology and Tropical Cyclones; the Fifth Symposium on Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion; the Third Symposium on Community Modeling and Innovation; the Second Symposium on Environmental Security; the Second Symposium on the Future of Weather, Forecasting, and Practice; the First Symposium on Cloud Physics; the Estimating Wind Speeds of Tornadoes and Other Windstorms; the Polar Meteorology and Oceanography Special Symposium; the Forum on Climate Linked Economics; and the 20th Conference on Major Weather Impacts )

7:30 PM-10:00 PM: Monday, 29 January 2024


Coriolis (LGBTQ+ and Allies) Reception
Location: Pisces (Hyatt Regency Baltimore)
Hosts: (Joint between the Networking and Events; the Convergence Science: Indigenous Weather, Water and Climate Knowledge Systems, Practices and Communities; the 12th AMS Conference for Early Career Professionals; the Daniel Keyser Symposium; the Kuo-Nan Liou Symposium; the 40th Conference on Environmental Information Processing Technologies; the 38th Conference on Hydrology; the 37th Conference on Climate Variability and Change; the 33rd Conference on Education; the 28th Conference on Applied Climatology; the 28th Conference on Integrated Observing and Assimilation Systems for the Atmosphere, Ocean, and Land Surface; the 28th Conference on Probability and Statistics; the 27th Conference of Atmospheric Science Librarians International; the 26th Conference on Atmospheric Chemistry; the 26th Conference on Satellite Meteorology, Oceanography, and Climatology; the 24th Conference on Aviation, Range, and Aerospace Meteorology; the 24th Symposium on Meteorological Observation and Instrumentation; the 24th Conference on Planned and Inadvertent Weather Modification; the 23rd Conference on Artificial Intelligence for Environmental Science; the 23rd Joint Conference on the Applications of Air Pollution Meteorology with the A&WMA; the 22nd Symposium on the Coastal Environment; the 22nd History Symposium; the 21st Conference on Space Weather; the 20th Annual Symposium on Operational Environmental Satellite Systems; the 19th Symposium on Societal Applications: Policy, Research and Practice; the 16th Symposium on Aerosol Cloud Climate Interactions; the 15th Conference on Environment and Health; the 15th Conference on Weather, Water, Climate, and the New Energy Economy; the 14th Conference on Transition of Research to Operations; the 14th Symposium on Advances in Modeling and Analysis Using the Programming Languages of Open Science; the 12th Symposium on the Weather, Water, and Climate Enterprise; the 12th Symposium on Building a Weather-Ready Nation; the 12th AMS Symposium on the Joint Center for Satellite Data Assimilation; the 12th Symposium on the Madden-Julian Oscillation and Sub-Seasonal Monsoon Variability; the 10th Symposium on High Performance Computing for Weather, Water, and Climate; the Ninth Symposium on US-International Partnerships; the Sixth Special Symposium on Tropical Meteorology and Tropical Cyclones; the Fifth Symposium on Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion; the Third Symposium on Community Modeling and Innovation; the Second Symposium on Environmental Security; the Second Symposium on the Future of Weather, Forecasting, and Practice; the First Symposium on Cloud Physics; the Estimating Wind Speeds of Tornadoes and Other Windstorms; the Polar Meteorology and Oceanography Special Symposium; the Forum on Climate Linked Economics; and the 20th Conference on Major Weather Impacts )

8:00 PM-10:00 PM: Monday, 29 January 2024


10th Annual Speed Networking Event
Location: Key Ballroom 7-8 (Hilton Baltimore Inner Harbor)
Hosts: (Joint between the Networking and Events; the 26th Conference on Satellite Meteorology, Oceanography, and Climatology; the 20th Annual Symposium on Operational Environmental Satellite Systems; the 14th Conference on Transition of Research to Operations; and the 12th AMS Symposium on the Joint Center for Satellite Data Assimilation )

Tuesday, 30 January 2024

8:30 AM-10:00 AM: Tuesday, 30 January 2024

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Session 5B
Satellite Algorithm Development, Verification, Calibration, and Validation I
Location: 301 (The Baltimore Convention Center)
Host: 20th Annual Symposium on Operational Environmental Satellite Systems
Cochairs: Amy K. Huff; Rebekah Esmaili
8:30 AM
5B.1
The NOAA Operational VIIRS Active Fire Product: Recent Updates and Long-term Plans
Ivan A. Csiszar, NOAA/NESDIS/Center for Satellite Applications and Research, College Park, MD; and M. Pavolonis, W. Guo, M. Tsidulko, J. Brunner, and B. Marchant

8:45 AM
5B.2
NOAA-21 VIIRS Aerosol Detection Product Validation: Global High-Resolution Observations of Atmospheric Smoke and Blowing Dust
Amy K. Huff, IMSG at NOAA/NESDIS/Center for Satellite Applications and Research, College Park, MD; and P. Ciren and S. Kondragunta

9:00 AM
5B.3
A Pathway to Optimize GOES-R ABI Hot Spot Detection and Fire Monitoring Using ABI L1Beta Imagery
Monica Cook, GeoThinkTank LLC, Miami, FL; and F. Padula, E. Bacon, D. Pogorzala, A. J. Pearlman, M. Pavolonis, and D. Lindsey

9:15 AM
5B.3
Inter-Calibration of Geostationary Imager Infrared Bands Using a Hyperspectral Sounder on the Same Platform
DI DI, Nanjing University of Information Science and Technology, Nanjing, 32, China; CIMSS, Univ. of Wisconsin–Madison, Madison, WI; and Z. Li and J. Li

9:30 AM
5B.4
The impact of satellite zenith angle on atmospheric sounding information content
Zhenglong Li, CIMSS/SSEC, Univ. of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI; and W. Bai, B. Sun, N. R. Nalli, T. J. Schmit, J. Li, D. DI, and J. Li

9:45 AM
5B.5
NUCAPS Hyperspectral Infrared Atmospheric Sounding Products: Recent Algorithm Improvements and Product Updates for JPSS-CrIS and MetOp-IASI.
Murty G. Divakarla, IMSG, Rockville, MD; IMSG@NOAA/NESDIS/STAR, College Park, MD; and K. L. Pryor, T. Zhu, J. Warner, M. Kulko, N. R. Nalli, M. Wilson, and L. Soulliard

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J5A
National and International Program Overviews for Environmental Satellites (Invited)
Location: 309 (The Baltimore Convention Center)
Hosts: (Joint between the 20th Annual Symposium on Operational Environmental Satellite Systems; the 14th Conference on Transition of Research to Operations; the 12th AMS Symposium on the Joint Center for Satellite Data Assimilation; the Ninth Symposium on US-International Partnerships; and the 26th Conference on Satellite Meteorology, Oceanography, and Climatology )
Cochairs: Satya Kalluri, NOAA/STAR; Andrew Heidinger, STAR
8:30 AM
J5A.1
Coordinating NOAA's Next Generation Observation and Services System
Steve Volz, NOAA-Assistant Administrator for Satellite and Information Services (NESDIS), Silver Spring, MD

8:45 AM
J5A.2
An Update of NOAA’s Low Earth Orbiting Environmental Programs
Timothy Walsh, NOAA / NESDIS Office of LEO Observations, Greenbelt, MD

9:00 AM
J5A.3
9:15 AM
J5A.4
A seamless view from satellite to the ground segment.
Paolo Ruti, EUMETSAT, Darmstadt, HE, Germany; and P. Counet, B. R. Bojkov, J. Schulz, and J. Saalmueller

9:30 AM
J5A.5
Status of Himawari-8/9 and their Follow-on Satellite Himawari-10
Yasuhiko Sumida, JMA, Yokohama, Kanagawa, Japan; and K. Bessho

10:00 AM-10:45 AM: Tuesday, 30 January 2024


Coffee Break [Main Terrace (BCC), Camden Lobby (BCC), Hall E (BCC), Hall F (BCC)]
Location: The Baltimore Convention Center
Hosts: (Joint between the Networking and Events; the Convergence Science: Indigenous Weather, Water and Climate Knowledge Systems, Practices and Communities; the Town Hall Meetings; the 12th AMS Conference for Early Career Professionals; the Presidential Conference; the Daniel Keyser Symposium; the Kuo-Nan Liou Symposium; the 40th Conference on Environmental Information Processing Technologies; the 38th Conference on Hydrology; the 37th Conference on Climate Variability and Change; the 33rd Conference on Education; the 28th Conference on Applied Climatology; the 28th Conference on Integrated Observing and Assimilation Systems for the Atmosphere, Ocean, and Land Surface; the 28th Conference on Probability and Statistics; the 27th Conference of Atmospheric Science Librarians International; the 26th Conference on Atmospheric Chemistry; the 26th Conference on Satellite Meteorology, Oceanography, and Climatology; the 24th Conference on Aviation, Range, and Aerospace Meteorology; the 24th Symposium on Meteorological Observation and Instrumentation; the 24th Conference on Planned and Inadvertent Weather Modification; the 23rd Conference on Artificial Intelligence for Environmental Science; the 23rd Joint Conference on the Applications of Air Pollution Meteorology with the A&WMA; the 22nd Symposium on the Coastal Environment; the 22nd History Symposium; the 21st Conference on Space Weather; the 20th Annual Symposium on Operational Environmental Satellite Systems; the 19th Symposium on Societal Applications: Policy, Research and Practice; the 16th Symposium on Aerosol Cloud Climate Interactions; the 15th Conference on Environment and Health; the 15th Conference on Weather, Water, Climate, and the New Energy Economy; the 14th Conference on Transition of Research to Operations; the 14th Symposium on Advances in Modeling and Analysis Using the Programming Languages of Open Science; the 12th Symposium on the Weather, Water, and Climate Enterprise; the 12th Symposium on Building a Weather-Ready Nation; the 12th AMS Symposium on the Joint Center for Satellite Data Assimilation; the 12th Symposium on the Madden-Julian Oscillation and Sub-Seasonal Monsoon Variability; the 10th Symposium on High Performance Computing for Weather, Water, and Climate; the Ninth Symposium on US-International Partnerships; the Sixth Special Symposium on Tropical Meteorology and Tropical Cyclones; the Fifth Symposium on Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion; the Third Symposium on Community Modeling and Innovation; the Second Symposium on Environmental Security; the Second Symposium on the Future of Weather, Forecasting, and Practice; the First Symposium on Cloud Physics; the Estimating Wind Speeds of Tornadoes and Other Windstorms; the Polar Meteorology and Oceanography Special Symposium; the Forum on Climate Linked Economics; and the 20th Conference on Major Weather Impacts )

12:00 PM-1:45 PM: Tuesday, 30 January 2024


Lunch Break
Location: The Baltimore Convention Center
Hosts: (Joint between the Networking and Events; the Convergence Science: Indigenous Weather, Water and Climate Knowledge Systems, Practices and Communities; the Town Hall Meetings; the 12th AMS Conference for Early Career Professionals; the Presidential Conference; the Daniel Keyser Symposium; the Kuo-Nan Liou Symposium; the 40th Conference on Environmental Information Processing Technologies; the 38th Conference on Hydrology; the 37th Conference on Climate Variability and Change; the 33rd Conference on Education; the 28th Conference on Applied Climatology; the 28th Conference on Integrated Observing and Assimilation Systems for the Atmosphere, Ocean, and Land Surface; the 28th Conference on Probability and Statistics; the 27th Conference of Atmospheric Science Librarians International; the 26th Conference on Atmospheric Chemistry; the 26th Conference on Satellite Meteorology, Oceanography, and Climatology; the 24th Conference on Aviation, Range, and Aerospace Meteorology; the 24th Symposium on Meteorological Observation and Instrumentation; the 24th Conference on Planned and Inadvertent Weather Modification; the 23rd Conference on Artificial Intelligence for Environmental Science; the 23rd Joint Conference on the Applications of Air Pollution Meteorology with the A&WMA; the 22nd Symposium on the Coastal Environment; the 22nd History Symposium; the 21st Conference on Space Weather; the 20th Annual Symposium on Operational Environmental Satellite Systems; the 19th Symposium on Societal Applications: Policy, Research and Practice; the 16th Symposium on Aerosol Cloud Climate Interactions; the 15th Conference on Environment and Health; the 15th Conference on Weather, Water, Climate, and the New Energy Economy; the 14th Conference on Transition of Research to Operations; the 14th Symposium on Advances in Modeling and Analysis Using the Programming Languages of Open Science; the 12th Symposium on the Weather, Water, and Climate Enterprise; the 12th Symposium on Building a Weather-Ready Nation; the 12th AMS Symposium on the Joint Center for Satellite Data Assimilation; the 12th Symposium on the Madden-Julian Oscillation and Sub-Seasonal Monsoon Variability; the 10th Symposium on High Performance Computing for Weather, Water, and Climate; the Ninth Symposium on US-International Partnerships; the Sixth Special Symposium on Tropical Meteorology and Tropical Cyclones; the Fifth Symposium on Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion; the Third Symposium on Community Modeling and Innovation; the Second Symposium on Environmental Security; the Second Symposium on the Future of Weather, Forecasting, and Practice; the First Symposium on Cloud Physics; the Estimating Wind Speeds of Tornadoes and Other Windstorms; the Polar Meteorology and Oceanography Special Symposium; the Forum on Climate Linked Economics; and the 20th Conference on Major Weather Impacts )

1:45 PM-3:00 PM: Tuesday, 30 January 2024

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7A
Societal and Economic Benefits of GEO and LEO Satellites (Invited)
Location: 307 (The Baltimore Convention Center)
Host: 20th Annual Symposium on Operational Environmental Satellite Systems
Moderator: Dan Lindsey
Panelists: Jeffery E Adkins, NOAA; Jenny Dissen; Erin M. Lynch, NOAA; Jeffrey K. Lazo; Ash Morgan, Appalachian State University
1:45 PM
7A.1
2:00 PM
Panel Discussion

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Session 7B
Preparation, Training and Readiness for Use of Satellite Data and Products
Location: 301 (The Baltimore Convention Center)
Host: 20th Annual Symposium on Operational Environmental Satellite Systems
Cochairs: Sherrie Secunda Morris, American Meteorological Society; Jorel Torres, CIRA
1:45 PM
7B.1
Training events in 2023 for GOES-R and JPSS Satellite Imagery and Data
Rebekah Esmaili, Science and Technology Corp., Columbia, MD; and H. Gao, J. J. Gerth, A. K. Huff, J. Key, S. S. Lindstrom, Y. Liu, S. S. Morris, J. Patton, BS, MS in Meteorology, G. B. McWilliams, K. D. Obremski, J. Torres, J. Wang, M. Zhou, B. Acosta Diaz, B. H. Connell, and J. Galvez

2:00 PM
7B.2
JPSS: Training Resources and How to Access the Data Online
Jorel Torres, CIRA, Fort Collins, CO

2:30 PM
7B.4
The Online NOAA - BMKG Satellite-derived Flood Product Training Course 2023: A Way to Strengthening of Regional Capacity in IBF and Warning Services
Roro Purwanti, BMKG, Jl. Angkasa I No.2 Kemayoran, Jakarta Pusat, DKI Jakarta, Indonesia; and W. C. Straka III, R. Salman, I. Faalih, and D. Purnama

2:45 PM
7B.5
Overview of the NOAA Center for Earth System Sciences and Remote Sensing Technologies (CESSRST) and its Role in Building the Next Generation of NOAA’s Diverse Workforce.
Mitch Goldberg, City College of New York, New York, NY; NOAA CESSRST, New York, NY; and F. Moshary and F. Rockcliffe

3:00 PM-4:30 PM: Tuesday, 30 January 2024


Coffee Break & Formal Poster Viewing [Hall E (BCC) & Hall F (BCC)]
Location: Hall E (The Baltimore Convention Center)
Hosts: (Joint between the Networking and Events; the Convergence Science: Indigenous Weather, Water and Climate Knowledge Systems, Practices and Communities; the 12th AMS Conference for Early Career Professionals; the 40th Conference on Environmental Information Processing Technologies; the 38th Conference on Hydrology; the 37th Conference on Climate Variability and Change; the 33rd Conference on Education; the 28th Conference on Applied Climatology; the 28th Conference on Integrated Observing and Assimilation Systems for the Atmosphere, Ocean, and Land Surface; the 28th Conference on Probability and Statistics; the 27th Conference of Atmospheric Science Librarians International; the 26th Conference on Atmospheric Chemistry; the 26th Conference on Satellite Meteorology, Oceanography, and Climatology; the 24th Conference on Aviation, Range, and Aerospace Meteorology; the 24th Symposium on Meteorological Observation and Instrumentation; the 24th Conference on Planned and Inadvertent Weather Modification; the 23rd Conference on Artificial Intelligence for Environmental Science; the 23rd Joint Conference on the Applications of Air Pollution Meteorology with the A&WMA; the 22nd Symposium on the Coastal Environment; the 22nd History Symposium; the 21st Conference on Space Weather; the 20th Annual Symposium on Operational Environmental Satellite Systems; the 19th Symposium on Societal Applications: Policy, Research and Practice; the 16th Symposium on Aerosol Cloud Climate Interactions; the 15th Conference on Environment and Health; the 15th Conference on Weather, Water, Climate, and the New Energy Economy; the 14th Conference on Transition of Research to Operations; the 14th Symposium on Advances in Modeling and Analysis Using the Programming Languages of Open Science; the 12th Symposium on the Weather, Water, and Climate Enterprise; the 12th Symposium on Building a Weather-Ready Nation; the 12th AMS Symposium on the Joint Center for Satellite Data Assimilation; the 12th Symposium on the Madden-Julian Oscillation and Sub-Seasonal Monsoon Variability; the 10th Symposium on High Performance Computing for Weather, Water, and Climate; the Ninth Symposium on US-International Partnerships; the Sixth Special Symposium on Tropical Meteorology and Tropical Cyclones; the Fifth Symposium on Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion; the Third Symposium on Community Modeling and Innovation; the Second Symposium on Environmental Security; the Second Symposium on the Future of Weather, Forecasting, and Practice; the First Symposium on Cloud Physics; the Estimating Wind Speeds of Tornadoes and Other Windstorms; the Polar Meteorology and Oceanography Special Symposium; the Forum on Climate Linked Economics; and the 20th Conference on Major Weather Impacts )

20thOESS Poster Session II
Location: Hall E (The Baltimore Convention Center)
Host: 20th Annual Symposium on Operational Environmental Satellite Systems
Cochairs: Gary B. McWilliams, EUMETSAT; Raad A Saleh, Dr.
435
Towards Routine Radiance-Based Validation of VIIRS LST Using GDAS Profiles
Yuling Liu, CICS, College Park, MD; and Y. Yu and P. Yu

437
Progress towards a multi-sensor NASA Program of Record dataset (CLDPROP) for cloud properties from MODIS, VIIRS, and beyond
Kerry Meyer, GSFC, Greenbelt, MD; and S. Platnick, R. Holz, G. Wind, N. Amarasinghe, C. Peterson, S. Dutcher, and A. Heidinger

438
Reconciling Ozone Trend Differences Between NDACC/WMO Ground-based Stations and Satellite COH with Updated LOTUS Regression Model
Jeannette Wild, Earth Systems Science Interdisciplinary Center (ESSIC/UMD), NOAA/NESDIS/STAR, College Park, MD; and I. Petropavlovskikh, K. Abromitis, P. Effertz, K. Miyagawa, L. E. Flynn, E. Beach, R. Querel, W. Steinbrecht, and R. Van Malderen

439
Validating ABI and VIIRS Cloud Cover Layers with Surface and Space-borne Active Sensor Measurements
Brandon John Daub, CIRA, Fort Collins, CO; and Y. J. Noh, J. M. Haynes, M. S. Kulie, Y. Li, and W. Straka

440
NOAA-21 ATMS Geolocation Performance Post-Launch Validation
Siena Iacovazzi, Global Science and Technology, Inc., and NOAA/NESDIS/STAR, College Park, MD; and Q. Liu, H. Yang, and J. Zhou

441
Evaluation of the NASA MODIS-VIIRS Continuity Cloud Product’s Pixel-level Radiative Flux Datasets
Colten Peterson, Goddard Earth Science Technology and Research II, Baltimore, MD; GSFC, Greenbelt, MD; and K. Meyer, S. Platnick, G. Wind, and N. Amarasinghe

442
Geostationary Extended Observations Sounder Radiance Proxy Data Simulation
Zhenglong Li, CIMSS/SSEC, Univ. of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI; and T. J. Schmit, S. Moeller, D. DI, J. Li, P. Wang, A. Heidinger, and V. G. Anantharaj

443
Leveraging a Full Day of Observations from ABI on GOES-16/17 to Retrieve Aerosol Amount, Size, and Absorption
Reed Espinosa, NASA, Greenbelt, MD; and Y. R. Shi, R. C. Levy, A. Puthukkudy, and O. Dubovik

444
Updating the GOES ASOS Satellite Cloud Products for Better Data Maintenance
Stuti Deshpande, Global Science & Technology, Inc., Greenbelt, MD; NWS, Silver Spring, MD; and J. D. Evans, J. D. Manion, W. Martin, and A. K. Sharma

445
Provisional Validation of NOAA-21 NUCAPS Environmental Data Records (EDRs)
Nicholas R Nalli, IMSG, College Park, MD; and M. G. Divakarla, K. L. Pryor, T. Zhu, J. Warner, B. Sun, A. L. Reale, M. Kulko, and M. Wilson

446
Radiance Tuning and First Guess Regression Updates for NOAA-21 NUCAPS Augmentation
Tong Zhu, IMSG, Luarel, MD; IMSG at NOAA/NESDIS/STAR, College Park, MD; IMSG, Rockville, MD; and M. Kulko, M. G. Divakarla, K. L. Pryor, N. R. Nalli, J. Warner, and M. Wilson

447
A Comparison of the Clouds from AVHRR Extended (CLAVR-x) Cloud Phase Algorithm with CALIPSO Cloud Phase
David M. Loveless, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI; and M. J. Foster, M. S. Kulie, and S. T. Wanzong

Handout (1.6 MB)

448
Fifteen Years of Collocated Radiosonde and Satellite Observations from the NOAA Products Validation System (NPROVS)
Michael Pettey, I.M. Systems Group (IMSG), Rockville, MD; and B. Sun, C. Brown, C. Calderella, and A. L. Reale

449
Analysis of Satellite Data for Use in Grassland Fire Danger Indices
Britney R Wu, University of California, Berkeley, Cerritos, CA; and P. N. Schumacher and K. P. Gallo

451
Validation Status of NOAA-21 VIIRS Ice Products
Hong Zhang, CIMSS, Madison, WI; and R. J. Dworak, X. Wang, Y. Liu, and J. Key

Handout (828.2 kB)

4:30 PM-6:00 PM: Tuesday, 30 January 2024

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Session 8B
Satellite Algorithm Development, Verification, Calibration, and Validation II
Location: 301 (The Baltimore Convention Center)
Host: 20th Annual Symposium on Operational Environmental Satellite Systems
Cochairs: Ivan A. Csiszar; Raad A Saleh, Dr.
4:30 PM
8B.1
Case Studies of Smoke Aerosol Optical Depth Retrievals from GOES-16 and GOES-17
Sonia M. Kreidenweis, Colorado State Univ., Fort Collins, CO; and J. C. Chiu, Q. Bian, T. Johnson, I. Laszlo, M. Zhou, and H. Liu

4:45 PM
8B.2
Development of TEMPO Aerosol Detection Product
Pubu Ciren, IMSG, COLLEGE PARK, MD; IMSG at NOAA/NESDIS/Center for Satellite Applications and Research, College Park, MD; and S. Kondragunta

5:00 PM
8B.3
GeoXO ACX Aerosol Layer Height and Aerosol Optical Depth Retrieval Algorithm
Hai Zhang, NOAA, Woodstock, MD; and S. Kondragunta, Z. Lu, P. Ciren, J. Wang, and X. Chen

5:15 PM
8B.4
Link Day and Night: A Deep Learning Framework to Retrieve Global Nighttime Aerosol Optical Depth from VIIRS DNB
Meng Zhou, University of Iowa, Coralville, IA; and J. Wang, X. Chen, J. Gomes, R. C. Levy, and S. D. Miller

5:30 PM
8B.5
MethaneSAT On-Orbit Lunar Calibrations Planning
Maya Nasr, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA; and J. Franklin, J. Benmergui, and S. C. Wofsy

5:45 PM
8B.6
Machine Learning Enhanced Snowfall Rate Retrievals from Passive Microwave Sensors
Yongzhen Fan, CISESS/ESSIC UMD, College Park, MD; and H. Meng, J. Dong, C. Kongoli, Y. You, and R. Ferraro

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J8A
Applications of Radio Frequencies and Consequences of Interference for Weather, Water, and Climate Enterprise (Joint between the 20th Annual Symposium on Operational Environmental Satellite System and the Ninth Symposium on US-International Partnerships).
Location: 309 (The Baltimore Convention Center)
Hosts: (Joint between the 20th Annual Symposium on Operational Environmental Satellite Systems; and the 14th Conference on Transition of Research to Operations )
Cochairs: Renee A. Leduc, MPP, Narayan Strategy; David G. Lubar
4:30 PM
J8A.1
Identification, Impacts and Resolution of Radio Frequency Interference to a GOES Rebroadcast Receiver
Alec Casey, Environment and Climate Change Canada, Gatineau, QC, Canada; and A. Samanter, M. Arkett, and P. Leibiuk

4:45 PM
J8A.2
Weather Radars and Radio Frequencies Interference: Overview and Impact on Observations
V. Chandrasekar, Colorado State Univ., Fort Collins, CO; and M. Vaccarono

5:00 PM
J8A.3
Active Spectrum Management with Passive Bands
Beau Backus, NOAA, Silver Spring, MD

5:15 PM
J8A.4
Radio Frequency Resilient Passive Microwave Sensor
Marian Klein, Boulder Environmental Sciences and Technology, Boulder, CO

5:30 PM
J8A.5
SMAP Radiometer RFI Operations and Reporting
Priscilla Mohammed, Morgan State University, Greenbelt, MD; GSFC, Greenbelt, MD; and D. M. Levine, P. de Matthaeis, J. T. Higgins, and J. Piepmeier

5:45 PM
J8A.6
Standard for Remote Sensing Frequency Band Radio Frequency Interference (RFI) Impact Assessment
Beau Backus, NOAA, Silver Spring, MD; and P. de Matthaeis, R. O. Balague, R. Díez, R. Natsuaki, P. Mohammed, and S. J. Khalsa

6:00 PM-7:00 PM: Tuesday, 30 January 2024


Exhibit Hall Reception
Location: Hall F/ Swing (The Baltimore Convention Center)
Hosts: (Joint between the Networking and Events; the Convergence Science: Indigenous Weather, Water and Climate Knowledge Systems, Practices and Communities; the 12th AMS Conference for Early Career Professionals; the Daniel Keyser Symposium; the Kuo-Nan Liou Symposium; the 40th Conference on Environmental Information Processing Technologies; the 38th Conference on Hydrology; the 37th Conference on Climate Variability and Change; the 33rd Conference on Education; the 28th Conference on Applied Climatology; the 28th Conference on Integrated Observing and Assimilation Systems for the Atmosphere, Ocean, and Land Surface; the 28th Conference on Probability and Statistics; the 27th Conference of Atmospheric Science Librarians International; the 26th Conference on Atmospheric Chemistry; the 26th Conference on Satellite Meteorology, Oceanography, and Climatology; the 24th Conference on Aviation, Range, and Aerospace Meteorology; the 24th Symposium on Meteorological Observation and Instrumentation; the 24th Conference on Planned and Inadvertent Weather Modification; the 23rd Conference on Artificial Intelligence for Environmental Science; the 23rd Joint Conference on the Applications of Air Pollution Meteorology with the A&WMA; the 22nd Symposium on the Coastal Environment; the 22nd History Symposium; the 21st Conference on Space Weather; the 20th Annual Symposium on Operational Environmental Satellite Systems; the 19th Symposium on Societal Applications: Policy, Research and Practice; the 16th Symposium on Aerosol Cloud Climate Interactions; the 15th Conference on Environment and Health; the 15th Conference on Weather, Water, Climate, and the New Energy Economy; the 14th Conference on Transition of Research to Operations; the 14th Symposium on Advances in Modeling and Analysis Using the Programming Languages of Open Science; the 12th Symposium on the Weather, Water, and Climate Enterprise; the 12th Symposium on Building a Weather-Ready Nation; the 12th AMS Symposium on the Joint Center for Satellite Data Assimilation; the 12th Symposium on the Madden-Julian Oscillation and Sub-Seasonal Monsoon Variability; the 10th Symposium on High Performance Computing for Weather, Water, and Climate; the Ninth Symposium on US-International Partnerships; the Sixth Special Symposium on Tropical Meteorology and Tropical Cyclones; the Fifth Symposium on Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion; the Third Symposium on Community Modeling and Innovation; the Second Symposium on Environmental Security; the Second Symposium on the Future of Weather, Forecasting, and Practice; the First Symposium on Cloud Physics; the Estimating Wind Speeds of Tornadoes and Other Windstorms; the Polar Meteorology and Oceanography Special Symposium; the Forum on Climate Linked Economics; and the 20th Conference on Major Weather Impacts )

Wednesday, 31 January 2024

8:30 AM-10:00 AM: Wednesday, 31 January 2024

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Session 9A
Leveraging International Collaboration to Advance the Environmental Satellite Missions
Location: 309 (The Baltimore Convention Center)
Host: 20th Annual Symposium on Operational Environmental Satellite Systems
Cochairs: Natalia Donoho, Col USAF Ret and AMS Fellow; Mary Ann Kutny, Narayan Strategy
8:30 AM
9A.1
On the Need for Satellite Observations over the Arctic
Kenneth Holmlund, Private, Rossdorf, Germany

9:00 AM
9A.2
Arctic Observing Mission (AOM): Update on Pre-Formulation Study Progress and Partnerships
Ray Nassar, Environment and Climate Change Canada, Toronto, ON, Canada; and A. Casey, G. Gariepy, K. Yilmaz, M. Arkett, C. Sioris, C. McLinden, J. Mendonca, J. Aparicio, S. E. Qian, M. Haroun, I. Jean, K. McClelland, and A. Trishchenko

Handout (1.9 MB)

9:15 AM
9A.3
Can a LEO Architecture Fully Replace GEO Measurements for Low-Light Imagery and Hyperspectral IR Sounding?
Scott Schnee, The Aerospace Corporation, Greenbelt, MD; and F. W. Gallagher III, M. Bonadonna, N. George, M. Maier, K. Hanifen, S. Morgan, D. Christensen, M. Moore, and E. C. Grigsby

9:30 AM
9A.4
Nowcasting in Asia-Pacific: A United States Perspective
Jordan J. Gerth, NOAA, Silver Spring, MD

Handout (4.1 MB)

9:45 AM
9A.5
Overview of Himawari-10 Imager and Sounder
John Peter Van Naarden, L3Harris Technologies, Fort Wayne, IN; and D. Gall, R. Lancaster, and J. Holder

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Session 9B
Evaluation and Use of Commercial Data for Terrestrial and Space Weather Applications
Location: 316 (The Baltimore Convention Center)
Host: 20th Annual Symposium on Operational Environmental Satellite Systems
Cochairs: Patricia Ann Weir, AOML; Marc R Gasbarro
8:30 AM
9B.1
NOAA's Commercial Data Program Overview and Status
Patricia Ann Weir, NESDIS/SAE, Silver Spring , MD; and M. R. Gasbarro, G. Peltzer, M. McHugh, E. C. Grigsby, D. P. St. Jean, and M. Yapur

8:45 AM
9B.2
Radio Occultation Data Evaluation, Exploitation and Optimization at NOAA under the Commercial Weather Data Program (CWDP)
Lidia Cucurull, NOAA/OAR/QOSAP, Boulder, CO; and R. A. Anthes, B. R. Johnston, X. Li, C. P. Riedel, J. Sjoberg, and S. P. F. Casey

9:00 AM
9B.3
Investigating Spire GNSS RO Bending Angle Assimilation Impacts on HWRF Forecasts of Four 2022 Atlantic Hurricanes
William J. S. Miller, University of Maryland College Park, College Park, MD; NOAA, College Park, MD; and Y. Chen, S. P. Ho, and X. Shao

9:15 AM
9B.4
Commercial Space Weather Data Pilot GNSS Processing and Product Evaluation
Jan-Peter Weiss, UCAR, Boulder, CO; UCAR (Univ. Corporation for Atmospheric Research), Boulder, CO; and J. J. Braun, I. Cherniak, D. C. Hunt, M. Sleziak-Sallee, S. V. Sokolovskiy, T. Vanhove, and I. Zakharenkova

9:30 AM
9B.5
Effective Coverage and Refresh Considerations for Future Space Weather Radio Occultation Systems
Paul Straus, The Aerospace Corporation, Los Angeles, CA; and J. J. Cabrera-Guzman, P. A. Weir, M. R. Gasbarro, N. George, and M. McHugh

9:45 AM
9B.6
Mission Status and Calibration/Validation Updates for the Tomorrow.io Pathfinder Radar Satellites
Richard Roy, Agile Radar, West Berlin, NJ; and J. Carswell, M. Sanchez-Barbetty, S. J. Munchak, E. Nelson, and J. Springmann

10:00 AM-10:45 AM: Wednesday, 31 January 2024


Coffee Break [Main Terrace (BCC), Camden Lobby (BCC), Hall E (BCC), Hall F (BCC)]
Location: The Baltimore Convention Center
Hosts: (Joint between the Networking and Events; the Convergence Science: Indigenous Weather, Water and Climate Knowledge Systems, Practices and Communities; the 12th AMS Conference for Early Career Professionals; the Presidential Conference; the Daniel Keyser Symposium; the Kuo-Nan Liou Symposium; the 40th Conference on Environmental Information Processing Technologies; the 38th Conference on Hydrology; the 37th Conference on Climate Variability and Change; the 33rd Conference on Education; the 28th Conference on Applied Climatology; the 28th Conference on Integrated Observing and Assimilation Systems for the Atmosphere, Ocean, and Land Surface; the 28th Conference on Probability and Statistics; the 27th Conference of Atmospheric Science Librarians International; the 26th Conference on Atmospheric Chemistry; the 26th Conference on Satellite Meteorology, Oceanography, and Climatology; the 24th Conference on Aviation, Range, and Aerospace Meteorology; the 24th Symposium on Meteorological Observation and Instrumentation; the 24th Conference on Planned and Inadvertent Weather Modification; the 23rd Conference on Artificial Intelligence for Environmental Science; the 23rd Joint Conference on the Applications of Air Pollution Meteorology with the A&WMA; the 22nd Symposium on the Coastal Environment; the 22nd History Symposium; the 21st Conference on Space Weather; the 20th Annual Symposium on Operational Environmental Satellite Systems; the 19th Symposium on Societal Applications: Policy, Research and Practice; the 16th Symposium on Aerosol Cloud Climate Interactions; the 15th Conference on Environment and Health; the 15th Conference on Weather, Water, Climate, and the New Energy Economy; the 14th Conference on Transition of Research to Operations; the 14th Symposium on Advances in Modeling and Analysis Using the Programming Languages of Open Science; the 12th Symposium on the Weather, Water, and Climate Enterprise; the 12th Symposium on Building a Weather-Ready Nation; the 12th AMS Symposium on the Joint Center for Satellite Data Assimilation; the 12th Symposium on the Madden-Julian Oscillation and Sub-Seasonal Monsoon Variability; the 10th Symposium on High Performance Computing for Weather, Water, and Climate; the Ninth Symposium on US-International Partnerships; the Sixth Special Symposium on Tropical Meteorology and Tropical Cyclones; the Fifth Symposium on Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion; the Third Symposium on Community Modeling and Innovation; the Second Symposium on Environmental Security; the Second Symposium on the Future of Weather, Forecasting, and Practice; the First Symposium on Cloud Physics; the Estimating Wind Speeds of Tornadoes and Other Windstorms; the Polar Meteorology and Oceanography Special Symposium; the Forum on Climate Linked Economics; and the 20th Conference on Major Weather Impacts )

10:45 AM-12:00 PM: Wednesday, 31 January 2024

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Session 10A
Informing Next Generation Space Architectures through Innovation and Partnerships
Location: 309 (The Baltimore Convention Center)
Hosts: (Joint between the 20th Annual Symposium on Operational Environmental Satellite Systems; and the Sixth Special Symposium on Tropical Meteorology and Tropical Cyclones )
Cochairs: Lin Lin, University of Maryland; Harshesh Patel
10:45 AM
10A.1
Lidar Compass: A Comparative Assessment Study of Doppler Wind Lidar Technologies
Sara C. Tucker, Ph.D., BAE Systems, BOULDER, CO; and M. Cowell, M. Hardesty, and S. Hristova-Veleva

11:00 AM
10A.2
Plan for Atmospheric Measurements with HALAS LiDAR Systems supporting the NOAA 3D Winds Measurement Campaign
Patrick Conry, Honeywell, Plymouth, MN; and T. J. Dobbins, M. D. Wiebold, and E. H. Horak

11:30 AM
10A.4
Hyperspectral Microwave Sounder In Orbit Demonstrator
Manju Belal, Spire Global UK Ltd., Harwell, Oxfordshire, United Kingdom; and M. Belal, K. Parow Souchon, J. Cappaert, and K. Bathmann

11:45 AM
10A.5
Metrology for Climate Action
Elizabeth C Weatherhead, Jupiter Intelligence, Lafayette, CO; and S. Lee, F. Madonna, B. Forgan, and R. Wielgosz

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J10B
Memorial Session for Vernon Dvorak (Joint with 26th Conference on Satellite Meteorology, Oceanography and Climatology)
Location: 342 (The Baltimore Convention Center)
Hosts: (Joint between the Sixth Special Symposium on Tropical Meteorology and Tropical Cyclones; the 26th Conference on Satellite Meteorology, Oceanography, and Climatology; the 20th Annual Symposium on Operational Environmental Satellite Systems; and the 12th AMS Symposium on the Joint Center for Satellite Data Assimilation )
Cochairs: Mark DeMaria, NHC; Gary B. McWilliams, EUMETSAT; Robert G. Nystrom
10:45 AM
J10B.1
A Tribute to Vernon F. Dvorak and the Dvorak Technique
John L. Beven II, NHC, Miami, FL; and M. J. Brennan

11:15 AM
J10B.2
From Vern's Vision to Computer Vision: The Evolution of Tropical Cyclone Intensity Estimation from Satellite Data
Derrick C. Herndon, CIMSS, Madison, WI; and C. S. Velden, J. D. Hawkins, T. L. Olander, A. T. Wimmers, and S. Griffin

11:45 AM
J10B.4
Unified Tropical Cyclone Database from Satellite Passive Microwave Measurements
Song Yang, NRL, Monterey, CA; and L. Schmidtz, M. Surratt, C. Camacho, and T. Whitcomb

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J10C
Satellite Instruments: Capturing Precipitation & Extreme Events
Location: 316 (The Baltimore Convention Center)
Hosts: (Joint between the 20th Annual Symposium on Operational Environmental Satellite Systems; the Sixth Special Symposium on Tropical Meteorology and Tropical Cyclones; and the 26th Conference on Satellite Meteorology, Oceanography, and Climatology )
Cochairs: Kathryn A. Shontz, NOAA; Ahmadd Allen Rashad Santos
10:45 AM
J10C.1
Global Precipitation Nowcasting at Tomorrow.io
Forest Cannon, Tomorrow.io, Boston, MA; Tomorrow.io, Boston, MA; and J. L'Heureux, E. Nelson, and S. J. Munchak

11:15 AM
J10C.3
Applications of the Water Vapor Channels on the GeoXO GXI
Andrew Heidinger, NOAA, Madison, WI; and J. M. Haynes, Z. Li, D. Lindsey, W. P. Menzel, T. J. Schmit, A. Walther, and E. Weisz
Manuscript (885.6 kB)

11:30 AM
J10C.4
Future Lightning Instruments for Weather and Climate Monitoring from Low-Earth Orbit
Patrick N. Gatlin, MSFC, HUNTSVILLE, AL; and M. Quick, T. J. Lang, P. Bitzer, T. D. Walker, W. J. Koshak, D. Mach, and J. Remington

11:45 AM
J10C.5
The Polarized Submillimeter Ice-Cloud Radiometer (PolSIR): Observing the Diurnal Cycle of Ice Clouds in the Tropics and Sub-Tropics
Ralf Bennartz, Vanderbilt Univ., Nashville, TN; and D. L. Wu, I. Adams, D. Barahona, E. B. Berndt, H. Brogniez, N. Ehsan, G. S. Elsaesser, J. Gong, B. T. Johnson, B. Karpowicz, R. Kroodsma, A. Merrelli, C. Pettersen, P. Racette, and A. D. Rapp

12:00 PM-1:45 PM: Wednesday, 31 January 2024


Lunch Break
Location: The Baltimore Convention Center
Hosts: (Joint between the Networking and Events; the Convergence Science: Indigenous Weather, Water and Climate Knowledge Systems, Practices and Communities; the Town Hall Meetings; the 12th AMS Conference for Early Career Professionals; the Presidential Conference; the Daniel Keyser Symposium; the Kuo-Nan Liou Symposium; the 40th Conference on Environmental Information Processing Technologies; the 38th Conference on Hydrology; the 37th Conference on Climate Variability and Change; the 33rd Conference on Education; the 28th Conference on Applied Climatology; the 28th Conference on Integrated Observing and Assimilation Systems for the Atmosphere, Ocean, and Land Surface; the 28th Conference on Probability and Statistics; the 27th Conference of Atmospheric Science Librarians International; the 26th Conference on Atmospheric Chemistry; the 26th Conference on Satellite Meteorology, Oceanography, and Climatology; the 24th Conference on Aviation, Range, and Aerospace Meteorology; the 24th Symposium on Meteorological Observation and Instrumentation; the 24th Conference on Planned and Inadvertent Weather Modification; the 23rd Conference on Artificial Intelligence for Environmental Science; the 23rd Joint Conference on the Applications of Air Pollution Meteorology with the A&WMA; the 22nd Symposium on the Coastal Environment; the 22nd History Symposium; the 21st Conference on Space Weather; the 20th Annual Symposium on Operational Environmental Satellite Systems; the 19th Symposium on Societal Applications: Policy, Research and Practice; the 16th Symposium on Aerosol Cloud Climate Interactions; the 15th Conference on Environment and Health; the 15th Conference on Weather, Water, Climate, and the New Energy Economy; the 14th Conference on Transition of Research to Operations; the 14th Symposium on Advances in Modeling and Analysis Using the Programming Languages of Open Science; the 12th Symposium on the Weather, Water, and Climate Enterprise; the 12th Symposium on Building a Weather-Ready Nation; the 12th AMS Symposium on the Joint Center for Satellite Data Assimilation; the 12th Symposium on the Madden-Julian Oscillation and Sub-Seasonal Monsoon Variability; the 10th Symposium on High Performance Computing for Weather, Water, and Climate; the Ninth Symposium on US-International Partnerships; the Sixth Special Symposium on Tropical Meteorology and Tropical Cyclones; the Fifth Symposium on Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion; the Third Symposium on Community Modeling and Innovation; the Second Symposium on Environmental Security; the Second Symposium on the Future of Weather, Forecasting, and Practice; the First Symposium on Cloud Physics; the Estimating Wind Speeds of Tornadoes and Other Windstorms; the Polar Meteorology and Oceanography Special Symposium; the Forum on Climate Linked Economics; and the 20th Conference on Major Weather Impacts )

1:45 PM-3:00 PM: Wednesday, 31 January 2024

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J11B
Satellite Products: Precipitation & Extreme Events
Location: 316 (The Baltimore Convention Center)
Hosts: (Joint between the 20th Annual Symposium on Operational Environmental Satellite Systems; and the 26th Conference on Satellite Meteorology, Oceanography, and Climatology )
Cochairs: Kathryn A. Shontz, NOAA; Anthony J. Wimmers, CIMMS
2:15 PM
J11B.3
Satellite-Based Observations of Air-Sea Interaction Impacts on Extratropical Cyclone and Atmospheric River Mesoscale Development
Juan A. Crespo, UCLA, Los Angeles, CA; JPL, Pasadena, CA; and C. M. Naud, R. Luna-Niño, and D. J. Posselt, PhD

2:30 PM
J11B.4
Estimating Tropical and Extratropical Storm Intensity and Structure from JPSS Microwave Temperature Retrievals - Current and Future Products
Galina Chirokova, CIRA, Fort Collins, CO; CIRA/CSU, Fort Collins, CO; and M. DeMaria, Y. Zhu, R. DeMaria, Z. Ruan, J. Knaff, C. Slocum, and S. N. Stevenson

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PD11A
NOAA's Low Earth Orbit Environmental Satellites Evolution  - Needs, Plans, Opportunities
Location: Ballroom I (The Baltimore Convention Center)
Host: 20th Annual Symposium on Operational Environmental Satellite Systems
Chair: Satya Kalluri, NOAA/STAR
Moderator: Satya Kalluri, NOAA/STAR
Panelists: Timothy Walsh; Vijay S. Tallapragada, NWS; Derek S. Arndt
1:45 PM
Panel Discussion

3:00 PM-4:30 PM: Wednesday, 31 January 2024


Coffee Break & Formal Poster Viewing [Hall E (BCC) & Hall F (BCC)]
Location: Hall E (The Baltimore Convention Center)
Hosts: (Joint between the Networking and Events; the Convergence Science: Indigenous Weather, Water and Climate Knowledge Systems, Practices and Communities; the 12th AMS Conference for Early Career Professionals; the Daniel Keyser Symposium; the Kuo-Nan Liou Symposium; the 40th Conference on Environmental Information Processing Technologies; the 38th Conference on Hydrology; the 37th Conference on Climate Variability and Change; the 33rd Conference on Education; the 28th Conference on Applied Climatology; the 28th Conference on Integrated Observing and Assimilation Systems for the Atmosphere, Ocean, and Land Surface; the 28th Conference on Probability and Statistics; the 27th Conference of Atmospheric Science Librarians International; the 26th Conference on Atmospheric Chemistry; the 26th Conference on Satellite Meteorology, Oceanography, and Climatology; the 24th Conference on Aviation, Range, and Aerospace Meteorology; the 24th Symposium on Meteorological Observation and Instrumentation; the 24th Conference on Planned and Inadvertent Weather Modification; the 23rd Conference on Artificial Intelligence for Environmental Science; the 23rd Joint Conference on the Applications of Air Pollution Meteorology with the A&WMA; the 22nd Symposium on the Coastal Environment; the 22nd History Symposium; the 21st Conference on Space Weather; the 20th Annual Symposium on Operational Environmental Satellite Systems; the 19th Symposium on Societal Applications: Policy, Research and Practice; the 16th Symposium on Aerosol Cloud Climate Interactions; the 15th Conference on Environment and Health; the 15th Conference on Weather, Water, Climate, and the New Energy Economy; the 14th Conference on Transition of Research to Operations; the 14th Symposium on Advances in Modeling and Analysis Using the Programming Languages of Open Science; the 12th Symposium on the Weather, Water, and Climate Enterprise; the 12th Symposium on Building a Weather-Ready Nation; the 12th AMS Symposium on the Joint Center for Satellite Data Assimilation; the 12th Symposium on the Madden-Julian Oscillation and Sub-Seasonal Monsoon Variability; the 10th Symposium on High Performance Computing for Weather, Water, and Climate; the Ninth Symposium on US-International Partnerships; the Sixth Special Symposium on Tropical Meteorology and Tropical Cyclones; the Fifth Symposium on Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion; the Third Symposium on Community Modeling and Innovation; the Second Symposium on Environmental Security; the Second Symposium on the Future of Weather, Forecasting, and Practice; the First Symposium on Cloud Physics; the Estimating Wind Speeds of Tornadoes and Other Windstorms; the Polar Meteorology and Oceanography Special Symposium; the Forum on Climate Linked Economics; and the 20th Conference on Major Weather Impacts )

20thOESS Poster Session III
Location: Hall E (The Baltimore Convention Center)
Host: 20th Annual Symposium on Operational Environmental Satellite Systems
Cochairs: Gary B. McWilliams, EUMETSAT; Stephen Anthony Mango
700
Can We Use Commercial RO Spire Data Collected from CubeSats for Climate and Weather Prediction Studies? Investigations from NESDIS/STAR
Shu-Peng Ho, NOAA, College Park, MD; and X. zhou, X. Shao, Y. Chen, X. Jing, W. Miller, P. A. Weir, and M. McHugh

701
CrIS On-Orbit Performance during NOAA-21 Commissioning Phase
Justin Robert Trice, L3Harris Technologies, Fort Wayne, IN; and R. Lancaster

Handout (2.5 MB)

702
Recent Updates to the NUCAPS CH4 and CO2 Products and Inter-comparison to Other Satellite Products
Juying Warner, University of Maryland, College Park, MD; and Z. Wei, M. G. Divakarla, K. L. Pryor, N. R. Nalli, T. Zhu, and M. Wilson

703
NOAA-21 Sensor and Environmental Data Records: Current Status of Product Maturity
Jeffrey A. Weinrich, IMSG, Rockville, MD; and I. C. Paluch, L. Zhou, M. G. Divakarla, and W. Li

704
Bayesian analysis of the detection performance of the Geostationary Lightning Mappers
Katrina S. Virts, University of Alabama in Huntsville, Huntsville, AL; and W. J. Koshak

705
Alternative Methods of Describing Satellite Revisit Rate
Scott Schnee, The Aerospace Corporation, Greenbelt, MD; and F. W. Gallagher III, M. Bonadonna, N. George, M. Maier, K. Hanifen, S. Morgan, and E. C. Grigsby

706
Quantifying the Relative Value of Potential NOAA Constellations to Inform Trade Studies
Lin Lin, NESDIS, Silver Spring, MD; and S. Schnee, R. N. Hoffman, S. L. Bunin, M. Bonadonna, F. W. Gallagher III, S. Marley, N. George, and E. C. Grigsby

707
708
Time Series of GOES-16 Band 8 over San Juan, Puerto Rico
Alexa Ross, CIMSS, Madison, WI; and S. S. Lindstrom and V. C. Mayta

709
The Evolution of the NESDIS Integrated Product List
Janel R. Fry, NOAA, Silver Spring, MD; and J. Wieman, J. P. Kilgo, and L. Zhao

710
Continued Improvements for the JPSS OMPS Instrument Series
Tyler McCracken, PhD, Ball Aerospace, Boulder, CO; and T. Rogers, E. Saiki, D. House, T. Nichols, and M. Sandford

711
GES DISC Open Science for Satellite Data Users
Chris Battisto, ADNET, Bethesda, MD; NASA GSFC, Greenbelt, MD; and K. Morgan, A. Hunzinger, A. Alcott, and B. KC

712
Accelerating R2O Using SAFe in the NESDIS Common Cloud Framework
Jianbin Yang, NOAA, Silver Spring, MD; and K. L. Neely, M. Zweng, and W. W. Wolf

713
Honeywell HALAS LiDAR systems to increase frequency of high-altitude soundings
T. J. Dobbins, Honeywell, Plymouth, MN; and M. D. Wiebold and J. Pendlum

3:30 PM-4:00 PM: Wednesday, 31 January 2024


Session
SATELLITE USER ROUNDTABLE DISCUSSION
Location: Carroll (Hilton Baltimore Inner Harbor)
Hosts: (Joint between the 20th Annual Symposium on Operational Environmental Satellite Systems; and the 26th Conference on Satellite Meteorology, Oceanography, and Climatology )

4:30 PM-6:00 PM: Wednesday, 31 January 2024

Recording files available
Session 12A
Overview and Applications of the Next Generation LEO Satellite Series
Location: 309 (The Baltimore Convention Center)
Host: 20th Annual Symposium on Operational Environmental Satellite Systems
Cochairs: Lihang Zhou, NOAA; Amy Leibrand
5:15 PM
12A.4
Do soundings from hyperspectral sounder flying in the early morning benefit convective forecast?
Agnes Lim, CIMSS, Madison, WI; and C. Barnet, A. Huang, J. E. Davies, Z. Li, and M. Goldberg

5:30 PM
12A.5
Applying NUCAPS as a Predictive Tool to Mitigate Dangerous Firefighting Conditions
Arunas P. Kuciauskas, Retired, Marine Meteorology Division, Naval Research Laboratory, MONTEREY, CA; and D. A. Peterson, L. Wilson, A. A. Lambert, and J. R. Campbell

5:45 PM
12A.6
Developing an Approach to Socioeconomic Value of LEO Data
Jenny Dissen, NC Institute for Climate Studies / NOAA Open Data Dissemination, Asheville, NC; and A. Morgan, S. Kalluri, and A. Marvin

Recording files available
J12B
Use of Satellite Data in Precipitation and Extreme Event Forecasting
Location: 316 (The Baltimore Convention Center)
Hosts: (Joint between the 20th Annual Symposium on Operational Environmental Satellite Systems; and the 26th Conference on Satellite Meteorology, Oceanography, and Climatology )
Cochairs: Kathryn A. Shontz, NOAA; Zhaoxia Pu, University of Utah
4:30 PM
J12B.1
Evaluating storm events using GPM IMERG 30-minute near real-time precipitation estimates
Jessica R. P. Sutton, UMBC/GSFC, Greenbelt, MD; and D. B. Kirschbaum, T. A. Stanley, and E. Orland

4:45 PM
J12B.2
5:00 PM
J12B.3
Joint Assimilation of TROPICS and CYGNSS Satellite Data for Improved Numerical Prediction of Tropical Cyclones
Zhaoxia Pu, Univ. of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT; and C. Feng, W. J. Blackwell, and C. S. Ruf

5:15 PM
J12B.4
A High Resolution Tropical Mesoscale Convective System Reanalysis (TMeCSR; “tea-mixer”)
Man-Yau (Joseph) Chan, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH; and X. Chen and L. R. Leung

5:30 PM
J12B.5
5:45 PM
J12B.6
Results from the GPCP Version 3.2 Products
George J. Huffman, GSFC, Greenbelt, MD; and A. Behrangi, R. F. Adler, D. T. Bolvin, E. J. Nelkin, G. Gu, and M. R. Ehsani

6:00 PM-7:30 PM: Wednesday, 31 January 2024


Awards Reception and Ceremony
Location: Ballroom III/ IV (The Baltimore Convention Center)
Hosts: (Joint between the Networking and Events; the Convergence Science: Indigenous Weather, Water and Climate Knowledge Systems, Practices and Communities; the 12th AMS Conference for Early Career Professionals; the Presidential Conference; the Daniel Keyser Symposium; the Kuo-Nan Liou Symposium; the 40th Conference on Environmental Information Processing Technologies; the 38th Conference on Hydrology; the 37th Conference on Climate Variability and Change; the 33rd Conference on Education; the 28th Conference on Applied Climatology; the 28th Conference on Integrated Observing and Assimilation Systems for the Atmosphere, Ocean, and Land Surface; the 28th Conference on Probability and Statistics; the 27th Conference of Atmospheric Science Librarians International; the 26th Conference on Atmospheric Chemistry; the 26th Conference on Satellite Meteorology, Oceanography, and Climatology; the 24th Conference on Aviation, Range, and Aerospace Meteorology; the 24th Symposium on Meteorological Observation and Instrumentation; the 24th Conference on Planned and Inadvertent Weather Modification; the 23rd Conference on Artificial Intelligence for Environmental Science; the 23rd Joint Conference on the Applications of Air Pollution Meteorology with the A&WMA; the 22nd Symposium on the Coastal Environment; the 22nd History Symposium; the 21st Conference on Space Weather; the 20th Annual Symposium on Operational Environmental Satellite Systems; the 19th Symposium on Societal Applications: Policy, Research and Practice; the 16th Symposium on Aerosol Cloud Climate Interactions; the 15th Conference on Environment and Health; the 15th Conference on Weather, Water, Climate, and the New Energy Economy; the 14th Conference on Transition of Research to Operations; the 14th Symposium on Advances in Modeling and Analysis Using the Programming Languages of Open Science; the 12th Symposium on the Weather, Water, and Climate Enterprise; the 12th Symposium on Building a Weather-Ready Nation; the 12th AMS Symposium on the Joint Center for Satellite Data Assimilation; the 12th Symposium on the Madden-Julian Oscillation and Sub-Seasonal Monsoon Variability; the 10th Symposium on High Performance Computing for Weather, Water, and Climate; the Ninth Symposium on US-International Partnerships; the Sixth Special Symposium on Tropical Meteorology and Tropical Cyclones; the Fifth Symposium on Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion; the Third Symposium on Community Modeling and Innovation; the Second Symposium on Environmental Security; the Second Symposium on the Future of Weather, Forecasting, and Practice; the First Symposium on Cloud Physics; the Estimating Wind Speeds of Tornadoes and Other Windstorms; the Polar Meteorology and Oceanography Special Symposium; the Forum on Climate Linked Economics; and the 20th Conference on Major Weather Impacts )

7:30 PM-9:30 PM: Wednesday, 31 January 2024


Wednesday Night Live
Location: Key Ballroom Salon 1-8 (Hilton Baltimore Inner Harbor)
Hosts: (Joint between the Networking and Events; the Convergence Science: Indigenous Weather, Water and Climate Knowledge Systems, Practices and Communities; the 12th AMS Conference for Early Career Professionals; the Daniel Keyser Symposium; the Kuo-Nan Liou Symposium; the 40th Conference on Environmental Information Processing Technologies; the 38th Conference on Hydrology; the 37th Conference on Climate Variability and Change; the 33rd Conference on Education; the 28th Conference on Applied Climatology; the 28th Conference on Integrated Observing and Assimilation Systems for the Atmosphere, Ocean, and Land Surface; the 28th Conference on Probability and Statistics; the 27th Conference of Atmospheric Science Librarians International; the 26th Conference on Atmospheric Chemistry; the 26th Conference on Satellite Meteorology, Oceanography, and Climatology; the 24th Conference on Aviation, Range, and Aerospace Meteorology; the 24th Symposium on Meteorological Observation and Instrumentation; the 24th Conference on Planned and Inadvertent Weather Modification; the 23rd Conference on Artificial Intelligence for Environmental Science; the 23rd Joint Conference on the Applications of Air Pollution Meteorology with the A&WMA; the 22nd Symposium on the Coastal Environment; the 22nd History Symposium; the 21st Conference on Space Weather; the 20th Annual Symposium on Operational Environmental Satellite Systems; the 19th Symposium on Societal Applications: Policy, Research and Practice; the 16th Symposium on Aerosol Cloud Climate Interactions; the 15th Conference on Environment and Health; the 15th Conference on Weather, Water, Climate, and the New Energy Economy; the 14th Conference on Transition of Research to Operations; the 14th Symposium on Advances in Modeling and Analysis Using the Programming Languages of Open Science; the 12th Symposium on the Weather, Water, and Climate Enterprise; the 12th Symposium on Building a Weather-Ready Nation; the 12th AMS Symposium on the Joint Center for Satellite Data Assimilation; the 12th Symposium on the Madden-Julian Oscillation and Sub-Seasonal Monsoon Variability; the 10th Symposium on High Performance Computing for Weather, Water, and Climate; the Ninth Symposium on US-International Partnerships; the Sixth Special Symposium on Tropical Meteorology and Tropical Cyclones; the Fifth Symposium on Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion; the Third Symposium on Community Modeling and Innovation; the Second Symposium on Environmental Security; the Second Symposium on the Future of Weather, Forecasting, and Practice; the First Symposium on Cloud Physics; the Estimating Wind Speeds of Tornadoes and Other Windstorms; the Polar Meteorology and Oceanography Special Symposium; the Forum on Climate Linked Economics; and the 20th Conference on Major Weather Impacts )

Thursday, 1 February 2024

8:30 AM-10:00 AM: Thursday, 1 February 2024

Recording files available
Session 13
Overview and Applications of the Next Generation GEO Satellite Series
Location: 309 (The Baltimore Convention Center)
Host: 20th Annual Symposium on Operational Environmental Satellite Systems
Cochairs: Pamela C Sullivan; Andrew Heidinger, STAR
8:30 AM
13.1
Introduction to the GeoXO Imager
Daniel Gall, L3Harris Technologies, FORT WAYNE, IN

8:45 AM
13.2
NOAA’s Geostationary Extended Observations Sounder (GXS)
Timothy J. Schmit, NESDIS, Madison, WI; and Z. Li, D. Tobin, M. Gunshor, J. G. Yoe, and A. Heidinger

9:00 AM
13.3
Preparing Users for the Future: Strategic User Engagement for NOAA's GeoXO Program
Katherine A Hawley, NOAA, College Park, MD; and A. Heidinger, D. Lindsey, M. Seybold, M. McHugh, L. Byerle, and P. C. Sullivan

9:15 AM
13.4
Evaluating GXS Impact in the Context of International Coordination
Erica McGrath-Spangler, GMAO, Greenbelt, MD; GSFC, Greenbelt, MD; Morgan State Univ., Baltimore, MD; and N. Prive, B. Karpowicz, I. Moradi, and A. Heidinger

9:30 AM
13.5
The Sounding Capability from the Future Geostationary Extended Observations (GeoXO) Satellites
Jinlong Li, CIMSS/SSEC, Univ. of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI; and Z. Li, T. J. Schmit, A. Heidinger, L. Cucurull, and V. G. Anantharaj

9:45 AM
13.6
Infrared Hyperspectral Spectrometer Spectral Calibration
Monica M. Coakley, MIT Lincoln Laboratory, Lexington, MA; and O. R. McElhinney, K. A. Clouser, A. Krimchansky, A. Heidinger, D. Johnson, and P. C. Sullivan

Handout (987.7 kB)

10:00 AM-10:45 AM: Thursday, 1 February 2024


Exhibit Hall Breakfast
Location: Hall F/ Swing (The Baltimore Convention Center)
Hosts: (Joint between the Networking and Events; the Agency Updates; the Convergence Science: Indigenous Weather, Water and Climate Knowledge Systems, Practices and Communities; the Town Hall Meetings; the 12th AMS Conference for Early Career Professionals; the Presidential Conference; the Daniel Keyser Symposium; the Kuo-Nan Liou Symposium; the 40th Conference on Environmental Information Processing Technologies; the 38th Conference on Hydrology; the 37th Conference on Climate Variability and Change; the 33rd Conference on Education; the 28th Conference on Applied Climatology; the 28th Conference on Integrated Observing and Assimilation Systems for the Atmosphere, Ocean, and Land Surface; the 28th Conference on Probability and Statistics; the 27th Conference of Atmospheric Science Librarians International; the 26th Conference on Atmospheric Chemistry; the 26th Conference on Satellite Meteorology, Oceanography, and Climatology; the 24th Conference on Aviation, Range, and Aerospace Meteorology; the 24th Symposium on Meteorological Observation and Instrumentation; the 24th Conference on Planned and Inadvertent Weather Modification; the 23rd Conference on Artificial Intelligence for Environmental Science; the 23rd Joint Conference on the Applications of Air Pollution Meteorology with the A&WMA; the 22nd Symposium on the Coastal Environment; the 22nd History Symposium; the 21st Conference on Space Weather; the 20th Annual Symposium on Operational Environmental Satellite Systems; the 19th Symposium on Societal Applications: Policy, Research and Practice; the 16th Symposium on Aerosol Cloud Climate Interactions; the 15th Conference on Environment and Health; the 15th Conference on Weather, Water, Climate, and the New Energy Economy; the 14th Conference on Transition of Research to Operations; the 14th Symposium on Advances in Modeling and Analysis Using the Programming Languages of Open Science; the 12th Symposium on the Weather, Water, and Climate Enterprise; the 12th Symposium on Building a Weather-Ready Nation; the 12th AMS Symposium on the Joint Center for Satellite Data Assimilation; the 12th Symposium on the Madden-Julian Oscillation and Sub-Seasonal Monsoon Variability; the 10th Symposium on High Performance Computing for Weather, Water, and Climate; the Ninth Symposium on US-International Partnerships; the Sixth Special Symposium on Tropical Meteorology and Tropical Cyclones; the Fifth Symposium on Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion; the Third Symposium on Community Modeling and Innovation; the Second Symposium on Environmental Security; the Second Symposium on the Future of Weather, Forecasting, and Practice; the First Symposium on Cloud Physics; the Estimating Wind Speeds of Tornadoes and Other Windstorms; the Polar Meteorology and Oceanography Special Symposium; the Forum on Climate Linked Economics; and the 20th Conference on Major Weather Impacts )

12:00 PM-1:45 PM: Thursday, 1 February 2024


Lunch Break
Location: The Baltimore Convention Center
Hosts: (Joint between the Networking and Events; the Convergence Science: Indigenous Weather, Water and Climate Knowledge Systems, Practices and Communities; the Town Hall Meetings; the 12th AMS Conference for Early Career Professionals; the Presidential Conference; the Daniel Keyser Symposium; the Kuo-Nan Liou Symposium; the 40th Conference on Environmental Information Processing Technologies; the 38th Conference on Hydrology; the 37th Conference on Climate Variability and Change; the 33rd Conference on Education; the 28th Conference on Applied Climatology; the 28th Conference on Integrated Observing and Assimilation Systems for the Atmosphere, Ocean, and Land Surface; the 28th Conference on Probability and Statistics; the 27th Conference of Atmospheric Science Librarians International; the 26th Conference on Atmospheric Chemistry; the 26th Conference on Satellite Meteorology, Oceanography, and Climatology; the 24th Conference on Aviation, Range, and Aerospace Meteorology; the 24th Symposium on Meteorological Observation and Instrumentation; the 24th Conference on Planned and Inadvertent Weather Modification; the 23rd Conference on Artificial Intelligence for Environmental Science; the 23rd Joint Conference on the Applications of Air Pollution Meteorology with the A&WMA; the 22nd Symposium on the Coastal Environment; the 22nd History Symposium; the 21st Conference on Space Weather; the 20th Annual Symposium on Operational Environmental Satellite Systems; the 19th Symposium on Societal Applications: Policy, Research and Practice; the 16th Symposium on Aerosol Cloud Climate Interactions; the 15th Conference on Environment and Health; the 15th Conference on Weather, Water, Climate, and the New Energy Economy; the 14th Conference on Transition of Research to Operations; the 14th Symposium on Advances in Modeling and Analysis Using the Programming Languages of Open Science; the 12th Symposium on the Weather, Water, and Climate Enterprise; the 12th Symposium on Building a Weather-Ready Nation; the 12th AMS Symposium on the Joint Center for Satellite Data Assimilation; the 12th Symposium on the Madden-Julian Oscillation and Sub-Seasonal Monsoon Variability; the 10th Symposium on High Performance Computing for Weather, Water, and Climate; the Ninth Symposium on US-International Partnerships; the Sixth Special Symposium on Tropical Meteorology and Tropical Cyclones; the Fifth Symposium on Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion; the Third Symposium on Community Modeling and Innovation; the Second Symposium on Environmental Security; the Second Symposium on the Future of Weather, Forecasting, and Practice; the First Symposium on Cloud Physics; the Estimating Wind Speeds of Tornadoes and Other Windstorms; the Polar Meteorology and Oceanography Special Symposium; the Forum on Climate Linked Economics; and the 20th Conference on Major Weather Impacts )

1:45 PM-3:00 PM: Thursday, 1 February 2024

Recording files available
15A
Satellite Data Products and Evaluation for Operational and Research Use I (Joint between the Second Symposium for Future of Weather, Forecasting, and Practice, the 20th Annual Symposium on Operational Environmental Satellite Systems, and the 26th Conference on Satellite Meteorology, Oceanography, and Climatology)
Location: 309 (The Baltimore Convention Center)
Hosts: (Joint between the 20th Annual Symposium on Operational Environmental Satellite Systems; and the 26th Conference on Satellite Meteorology, Oceanography, and Climatology )
Cochairs: Jordan J. Gerth, NOAA National Weather Service; Peter B. Roohr
1:45 PM
15A.1
Building NOAA's Next Generation Observation and Services System to Support the Future of Weather Forecasting
Steve Volz, NOAA-Assistant Administrator for Satellite and Information Services (NESDIS), Silver Spring, MD

2:00 PM
15A.2
Leveraging Earth Observation Data to Study Interdependence of Water, Energy, and Food Systems
Binita KC, GES DISC, Greenbelt, MD; and R. Shrestha and M. Sonwalkar

2:15 PM
15A.3
Satellite and Space Based Imagery Access and Analysis Tools for Methane Observations/Visualizations from Public Image Holdings
AManda S Oconnor, NV5 Geospatial Software, Broomfield, CO; and D. Atencio and A. Borsholm

2:30 PM
15A.4
Near-Realtime User Applications of CSPP Geo Software and the GeoSphere Website
Graeme D. Martin, CIMSS, Madison, WI; Univ. of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI; and L. E. Gumley, N. Bearson, J. Braun, G. Cureton, A. De Smet, R. Garcia, D. J. Hoese, T. Jasmin, S. S. Lindstrom, L. Pfantz, E. Schiffer, and K. Strabala

2:45 PM
15A.5
Analyzing Federal Agency Earth Observation Needs: NASA’s 2022 Satellite Needs Working Group Assessment
Katrina S. Virts, University of Alabama in Huntsville, Huntsville, AL; and J. Wood, G. Bawden, P. Olofsson, A. LeRoy, E. S. Raphael, and R. Ramachandran

Recording files available
Session 15B
New Concepts in Advanced Modeling of Earth System and Digital Twin Technology
Location: 316 (The Baltimore Convention Center)
Hosts: (Joint between the 20th Annual Symposium on Operational Environmental Satellite Systems; and the 23rd Conference on Artificial Intelligence for Environmental Science )
Cochairs: Beau Backus, NOAA; Ramesh Rangachar
1:45 PM
15B.1
Overview and Status of of the Digital Twin for Earth Observations Using Artificial Intelligence Broad Agency Announcement Activity
Ramesh Rangachar, The Aerospace Corporation, Silver Spring, MD; and L. Mayo, D. Spencer, B. Backus, H. Patel, S. L. Bunin, S. Wright, K. Hayes, and M. Johnson

2:00 PM
15B.2
Lessons Learned from Building an Earth Observation Digital Twin in One Year
Rebekah Esmaili, Science and Technology Corp., Columbia, MD; and K. Narasimhan, MSEE, M. R. Schoeberl, and Y. Wang

2:15 PM
15B.3
AI-Based Earth and Space Observing Digital Twin Prototype
Lynn Montgomery, Lockheed Martin Space, Boulder, CO; and P. Davis, G. Hoffmann, B. Ballance, J. Stone, J. Lance, M. Fingerhut, A. Linenfelser, T. Kaye, and M. Wear

2:30 PM
15B.4
2:45 PM
15B.5
NASA Earth System Digital Twins
Jacqueline Le Moigne, Earth Science Technology Office, Greenbelt, MD

3:00 PM-3:40 PM: Thursday, 1 February 2024


20th Annual Symposium on Operational Environmental Satellite Systems ePosters (Thursday)
Location: Hall E (The Baltimore Convention Center)
Host: 20th Annual Symposium on Operational Environmental Satellite Systems
E102
Assessment of BRDF Effects in Surface Reflectance between GOES-16 and GOES-18
Lei Ji, STAR, College Park, MD; and J. Peng, P. Yu, and Y. Yu

E103
CIMSS Support of GOES-R Series ABI Imagery and Calibration
Mathew Gunshor, CIMSS, Univ. of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI; and M. Suzuki, M. Maeder, J. P. Nelson III, A. S. Bachmeier, and T. J. Schmit

E104
CSPP Geo Direct Broadcast for ABI and AHI Level-2: Winds, Fog, and GOES-16/18 and Himawari-9 Support
Geoff Cureton, CIMSS, MADISON, WI; and A. De Smet, R. Garcia, E. Schiffer, K. Strabala, J. Braun, G. D. Martin, and L. E. Gumley

E105
GOES-R Series Ground System ABI Level 2 Products: Enterprise Algorithm Updates
Linda Hembeck, Science and Technology Corporation, GOES-R, Columbia, MD; and P. Van Rompay, C. Burnett, and T. Feroli

E107
Transition NOAA-21 Products to Operations
Shuang Qiu, NESDIS, College Park, MD; NESDIS, College Park, MD

E108
Products Migration to NESDIS Common Cloud Framework (NCCF)
Zhaohui Cheng, NOAA, College Park, MD

E109
Use of Commercial Satellite Imagery in National Environmental Satellite Data and Information Service (NESDIS) Products and Operations
Jessica Shallcross, NOAA, College Park, MD; and T. M. Renkevens, BS (Millersville), MS (Oklahoma) Meteorology

E110
NOAA’s International Satellite Training Experiences with Forecasters and Students
Sherrie Secunda Morris, Science and Technology Corp, Greenbelt, MD; and S. Goodman and D. Lindsey

3:00 PM-4:30 PM: Thursday, 1 February 2024


Coffee Break & Formal Poster Viewing
Location: Hall E (The Baltimore Convention Center)
Hosts: (Joint between the Networking and Events; the Convergence Science: Indigenous Weather, Water and Climate Knowledge Systems, Practices and Communities; the 12th AMS Conference for Early Career Professionals; the Daniel Keyser Symposium; the Kuo-Nan Liou Symposium; the 40th Conference on Environmental Information Processing Technologies; the 38th Conference on Hydrology; the 37th Conference on Climate Variability and Change; the 33rd Conference on Education; the 28th Conference on Applied Climatology; the 28th Conference on Integrated Observing and Assimilation Systems for the Atmosphere, Ocean, and Land Surface; the 28th Conference on Probability and Statistics; the 27th Conference of Atmospheric Science Librarians International; the 26th Conference on Atmospheric Chemistry; the 26th Conference on Satellite Meteorology, Oceanography, and Climatology; the 24th Conference on Aviation, Range, and Aerospace Meteorology; the 24th Symposium on Meteorological Observation and Instrumentation; the 24th Conference on Planned and Inadvertent Weather Modification; the 23rd Conference on Artificial Intelligence for Environmental Science; the 23rd Joint Conference on the Applications of Air Pollution Meteorology with the A&WMA; the 22nd Symposium on the Coastal Environment; the 22nd History Symposium; the 21st Conference on Space Weather; the 20th Annual Symposium on Operational Environmental Satellite Systems; the 19th Symposium on Societal Applications: Policy, Research and Practice; the 16th Symposium on Aerosol Cloud Climate Interactions; the 15th Conference on Environment and Health; the 15th Conference on Weather, Water, Climate, and the New Energy Economy; the 14th Conference on Transition of Research to Operations; the 14th Symposium on Advances in Modeling and Analysis Using the Programming Languages of Open Science; the 12th Symposium on the Weather, Water, and Climate Enterprise; the 12th Symposium on Building a Weather-Ready Nation; the 12th AMS Symposium on the Joint Center for Satellite Data Assimilation; the 12th Symposium on the Madden-Julian Oscillation and Sub-Seasonal Monsoon Variability; the 10th Symposium on High Performance Computing for Weather, Water, and Climate; the Ninth Symposium on US-International Partnerships; the Sixth Special Symposium on Tropical Meteorology and Tropical Cyclones; the Fifth Symposium on Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion; the Third Symposium on Community Modeling and Innovation; the Second Symposium on Environmental Security; the Second Symposium on the Future of Weather, Forecasting, and Practice; the First Symposium on Cloud Physics; the Estimating Wind Speeds of Tornadoes and Other Windstorms; the Polar Meteorology and Oceanography Special Symposium; the Forum on Climate Linked Economics; and the 20th Conference on Major Weather Impacts )

20thOESS Poster Session IV
Location: Hall E (The Baltimore Convention Center)
Host: 20th Annual Symposium on Operational Environmental Satellite Systems
Cochairs: Gary B. McWilliams, EUMETSAT; Michael L. Jamilkowski
920
Automated Tasking Tool for Optimal Placement of GOES-R ABI Mesoscale Sectors
Kyndra Buglione, NESDIS, Silver Spring, MD; and J. T. Hassel, J. A. Zajic, L. Byerle, K. Pitts, E. Oh, E. Maddox, and S. Aslam

921
An Earth System Approach for NOAA's Next-Generation Observation System Architecture
Stacy L. Bunin, Riverside Technology, inc., COLLEGE PARK, MD; and R. N. Hoffman, J. Locke, F. W. Gallagher III, M. Bonadonna, and L. Lin

Handout (563.9 kB)

923
An Initial Assessment of the GeoXO ACX Measurements Conditions and Scan Coverage
Boryana Efremova, GeoThinkTank LLC, Miami, FL; and E. Bacon, M. Cook, F. Padula, J. McCorkel, A. Heidinger, and J. Joiner

924
NOAA Product Portfolio Management: Amplifying Dynamic Responsiveness
E. Claire McCaskill, NOAA, Fairfax, VA; NOAA, Silver Spring, MD; and K. L. Neely, B. E. Reed, K. St.Laurent, J. M. Garcia-Rivera, and J. Kent

926
A Lookahead to GOES-R Algorithm Updates in 2024
Curtiss Burnett, Mitchell Vantage Systems (MVS) LLC, Lanham, MD; and T. Feroli, P. Van Rompay, L. Hembeck, H. N. Carrasco, and E. M. Kline

927
GOES-U Post-Launch Instrument and Product Test Plans
Jon Fulbright, Vantage Systems, Inc., Greenbelt, MD; and E. M. Kline, K. Pitts, and M. Seybold

928
The GOES-R Program Satellite Book Club
Kashaud Bowman, NESDIS Affiliate (KBR Inc), Chantilly, VA; and E. Maddox, T. Klintworth, E. Oh, L. A. Byerle, J. K. Zajic, and B. Rapp

929
TOWR-S Technical Outreach to Accelerate NWS Mission Use of GOES-R Satellite Data
Emily Maddox, KBR, Chantilly, VA; and E. Oh, K. Bowman, T. Klintworth, B. Rapp, J. K. Zajic, L. A. Byerle, M. Ikemeier, and S. Aslam

4:30 PM-6:00 PM: Thursday, 1 February 2024

Recording files available
Session 16B
Satellite Ground Studies, Demonstrations and Implementation
Location: 316 (The Baltimore Convention Center)
Host: 20th Annual Symposium on Operational Environmental Satellite Systems
Cochairs: Marian Klein; Preston Jacob Powers, NESDIS
4:30 PM
16B.1
NGES Technology Integration: Pilot Project and Proof of Concepts
Preston Jacob Powers, NESDIS, BOWIE, MD; and M. Bonadonna, H. McLaughlin, and M. Johnson

4:45 PM
16B.2
NESDIS Ground Enterprise Integration Roadmaps Abstract
Melissa Johnson, The Aerospace Corporation, Edgewater, MD; and M. Bonadonna, S. Turner, P. J. Powers, and H. McLaughlin

5:15 PM
16B.4
Deployable Antennas for Improved Spatial Resolution of Active and Passive Microwave Sensors Observations
Marian Klein, Boulder Environmental Sciences and Technology, Boulder, CO; and M. D. Krause, M. M. Eble, and A. C. Madrid

5:30 PM
16B.5
A Machine Learning System in GOES-R Ground System for Monitoring Satellite Health & Safety
Zhenping Li, ASRC Federal, Beltsville, MD; ASRC Federal, Beltsville, MD

5:45 PM
16B.6
Review of NGES Significant Results and Path Forward
Stephen Marley, The Aerospace Corporation, Silver Spring, MD; and M. Bonadonna, H. McLaughlin, and M. Johnson

Recording files available
J16A
Satellite Data Products and Evaluation for Operational and Research Use II (Joint between the Second Symposium for Future of Weather, Forecasting, and Practice, the 20th Annual Symposium on Operational Environmental Satellite Systems, and the 26th Conference on Satellite Meteorology, Oceanography, and Climatology)
Location: 309 (The Baltimore Convention Center)
Hosts: (Joint between the 20th Annual Symposium on Operational Environmental Satellite Systems; the 26th Conference on Satellite Meteorology, Oceanography, and Climatology; and the Second Symposium on the Future of Weather, Forecasting, and Practice )
Cochairs: Peter B. Roohr; James G. Yoe, NOAA/NWS/NCEP/Joint Center for Satellite Data Assimilation
4:30 PM
J16A.1
History and Lessons Learned from Experimental Satellite Product Evaluations
Dan Lindsey, NOAA/NESDIS, Fort Collins, CO; and M. DeMaria and S. Goodman

4:45 PM
J16A.2
Combining the Best of GOES-R ABI and JPSS VIIRS on Polar SLIDER
Curtis Seaman, Cooperative Institute for Research in the Atmosphere, Fort Collins, CO; and W. Line, K. Micke, Z. P. Amundson, and S. Finley

5:00 PM
J16A.3
Comparing LIS and GLD360 Lightning Observations in the western Pacific Ocean Basin
William Brandon Aydlett, NWS Guam, Barrigada; and S. Goodman and S. S. Lindstrom

Handout (5.5 MB)

5:15 PM
J16A.4
ProxyVis Geostationary Satellite Imagery: Current product Status and Future Development
Galina Chirokova, CIRA, Fort Collins, CO; CIRA/CSU, Fort Collins, CO; and R. T. DeMaria, A. Brammer, I. Ebert-Uphoff, M. DeMaria, S. N. Stevenson, J. Knaff, S. D. Miller, B. Zeschke, and R. Mazur

5:30 PM
J16A.5
Satellite Vegetation Health Products and their Applications: From AVHRR to VIIRS
Xiwu Zhan, NOAA Center for Weather and Climate Predictions, College Park, MD; and Y. LUO, W. Guo, I. A. Csiszar, and S. Kalluri

Handout (4.8 MB)

5:45 PM
J16A.6
Assessing the Impacts of Assimilating SMAP Soil Moisture Retrievals on WRF-Chem Simulations of Dust Storm Events
Jared A. Lee, Ph.D., NSF NCAR, Boulder, CO; and P. A. Jimenez, R. Kumar, and C. He