Session 16B Presidential Conference

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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)

Monday, 29 January 2024

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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2
Learning from Weather Modification in the Era of Growing Interest in Climate Intervention
Location: 314 (The Baltimore Convention Center)
Hosts: (Joint between the 24th Conference on Planned and Inadvertent Weather Modification; the Presidential Conference; the 37th Conference on Climate Variability and Change; and the First Symposium on Cloud Physics )
Chairs: Sarah A. Tessendorf; Sarah Doherty, Univ. of Washington
Panelists: Robert Wood; Isabelle Steinke, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology; Robert M. Rauber, Univ. of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign
10:45 AM
Panel Discussion
Sarah A. Tessendorf, NCAR, Boulder, CO; and S. Doherty

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2
Tackling Wicked Geopolitical Problems: How International  Partnerships Can Facilitate Natural Hazards Mitigation
Location: 307 (The Baltimore Convention Center)
Hosts: (Joint between the Ninth Symposium on US-International Partnerships; and the Presidential Conference )
Moderator: Bob Goldhammer, International Association of Emergency Managers
Speakers: Kristie L. Ebi, University of Washington; Sally H. Potter, PhD, Massey University; Andrew Slaten; Dorothy Koch, DOE Office of Science
10:45 AM
Introductory Remarks
Richard D. Clark, 2022 AMS President, Professor of Meteorology, Emeritus, Millersville, PA

11:00 AM
Kristie Ebi

11:15 AM
Sally Potter

11:30 AM
Andrew Slaten

11:45 AM
Dorothy Koch

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2B
Expanding and Enhancing Climate Services for Climate Resilience
Location: Ballroom I (The Baltimore Convention Center)
Host: Presidential Conference
Cochairs: Julian Reyes; Kristen Averyt
Moderators: Julian Reyes; Kristen Averyt
Panelists: Jainey Bavishi, NOAA; Michelle Hawkins, NASA; Alexis Pelosi, HUD; Kevin Werner, FEMA
10:45 AM
Panel Discussion

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2C
Observations and Modeling Strategies Necessary to Address Climate Uncertainty
Location: Ballroom III/ IV (The Baltimore Convention Center)
Host: Presidential Conference
Moderators: Tom Hamill; Matthew Harrison, GFDL/NOAA
Panelists: Lesley E. Ott, GMAO; Dr. Sarah Kapnick, GFDL/NOAA; Brian J. Soden; Michael Pritchard, University of California Irvine
10:45 AM
Panel Discussion

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J2A
Climate Change, Extreme Weather, and Public Health
Location: Ballroom II (The Baltimore Convention Center)
Hosts: (Joint between the Presidential Conference; the 15th Conference on Environment and Health; and the 19th Symposium on Societal Applications: Policy, Research and Practice )
Chairs: Hunter Jones; Vijay Limaye
Cochairs: Jane W. Baldwin; Jennifer Vanos, Arizona State Univ.
11:00 AM
J2A.3
Climatic/Weather Influences on Annual Caseload and Seasonal Timing of West Nile Virus
Stanley G. Benjamin, NOAA Global Systems Laboratory, Boulder, CO; CIRES, Boulder, CO; and R. D. Harp, K. Holcomb, B. W. Green, H. Jones, M. A. Johansson, R. Nett, C. B. Beard, and J. M. Trtanj

11:15 AM
J2A.5
Mitigating the Public Health Impacts of Prolonged Wildfire Smoke Exposure: Determinants of Portable Air Cleaner Use in Rural Washington State Communities
Kathleen Moloney, Univ. of Washington, Seattle, WA; and T. Busch Isaksen, E. Walker, G. Bratman, and N. A. Errett

11:30 AM
J2A.6
A Smoke Heatmap Overlay for Wildfires to Inform Risk and Track Associated Symptoms
Elizabeth J. Tarquin, BS, International Business and Marketing, Georgetown University, CASE Consultants International, Asheville, NC; and E. Klos
Manuscript (2.7 MB)

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 )

12:15 PM-1:15 PM: Monday, 29 January 2024

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3
An Intergenerational Conversation about Education, Training, and Mentorship
Location: 301 (The Baltimore Convention Center)
Hosts: (Joint between the Town Hall Meetings; the Convergence Science: Indigenous Weather, Water and Climate Knowledge Systems, Practices and Communities; and the Presidential Conference )
Chair: Merv Tano, International Institute for Indigenous Resource Management
Organizer: Julie Maldonado, Livelihoods Knowledge Exchange Network/Rising Voices
Panelists: Merv Tano, International Institute for Indigenous Resource Management; Daniel Wildcat, NCAR; Ava Hamilton, UCAR Rising Voices; Jasmine Neosh; Kaleb Proctor; Tyler Moore, Haskell Indian Nations University
12:15 PM
Panel Discussion
Julie Maldonado, Lowlander Center, Many, LA

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

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J3
Cloud and Precipitation Responses to Aerosol Pollution, Weather Modification, and Climate Intervention I: Winter Orographic Clouds
Location: 314 (The Baltimore Convention Center)
Hosts: (Joint between the 24th Conference on Planned and Inadvertent Weather Modification; the 16th Symposium on Aerosol Cloud Climate Interactions; the First Symposium on Cloud Physics; and the Presidential Conference )
Chair: Sarah A. Tessendorf
CoChair: Robert M. Rauber
1:45 PM
J3.1
2:15 PM
J3.2
Observed Microphysical Evolution of a Seeded Cloud during SNOWIE
Jeffrey R. French, Univ. of Wyoming, Laramie, WY; and C. Hohman, L. Xue, PhD, S. Chen, S. A. Tessendorf, K. Friedrich, and Z. Xie

2:30 PM
J3.3
Investigating Seeded Orographic Cloud Microphysics during SNOWIE Using WRF-WxMod
Christopher Hohman, Univ. of Wyoming, Laramie, WY; and J. R. French, L. Xue, PhD, S. Chen, S. A. Tessendorf, K. Friedrich, and Z. Xie

2:45 PM
J3.4
Assessing Glaciogenic Seeding Impacts in Australia’s Snowy Mountains: An Ensemble Modeling Approach
Sisi Chen, NCAR, Boulder, CO; and L. Xue, PhD, S. A. Tessendorf, T. Chubb, A. Peace, S. Kenyon, J. Speirs, and J. K. Wolff

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

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J4
Cloud and Precipitation Responses to Aerosol Pollution, Weather Modification, and Climate Intervention II: Marine Clouds
Location: 314 (The Baltimore Convention Center)
Hosts: (Joint between the 24th Conference on Planned and Inadvertent Weather Modification; the 16th Symposium on Aerosol Cloud Climate Interactions; the First Symposium on Cloud Physics; and the Presidential Conference )
Chair: Sarah Doherty, Univ. of Washington
CoChair: Bruce A. Boe
4:45 PM
J4.2
First Field Experiment of Marine Cloud Brightening Proves and Expands the Concept
Daniel Rosenfeld, The Hebrew Univ. of Jerusalem, Jerusalem, JM, Israel; and D. Harrison, R. Braga, D. Hernandez, and C. Medcraft

5:00 PM
J4.4
Building a Comprehensive Library of Cloud-Resolving Simulations to Study Marine Cloud Brightening across a Spectrum of Environmental Conditions
Ehsan Erfani, DRI, Reno, NV; and R. Wood, P. Blossey, S. Doherty, R. Eastman, and L. A. McMichael

5:30 PM
J4.5
Using Feedback Control to Regulate Global Mean Temperature with Marine Cloud Brightening in CESM2
Walker Raymond Lee, NCAR, Boulder, CO; and J. C. C. Chen, J. H. Richter, D. MacMartin, and B. Kravitz

5:45 PM
J4.6
Radiative Responses of Marine Stratocumulus Clouds to Cloud Drop Number Concentration Perturbation in the E3SM
Kyoung Ock Choi, Univ. of Washington, Seattle, WA; and P. J. Rasch, R. Wood, S. Doherty, H. Hirasawa, M. Wu, H. Wan, H. N. Wang, and H. K. A. Singh

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 )

Tuesday, 30 January 2024

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 )

10:45 AM-12:00 PM: Tuesday, 30 January 2024

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6A
From Changing Temperatures to Changing Extreme Events: Advances in Attribution Science
Location: Ballroom III/ IV (The Baltimore Convention Center)
Host: Presidential Conference
Chair: Bernadette Woods Placky
Panelists: Friederike Otto, Oxford University; Kristie L. Ebi, University of Washington; Stephanie C. Herring, NOAA's National Centers for Environmental Information (NCEI)
10:45 AM
A Brief History of Climate Fingerprinting
Benjamin David Santer, Univ. of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA

11:00 AM
Panel Discussion

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Session 6B
Navigating the Changing World: Empowering Guides for Equity and Resiliency in Workforce Development in the Weather–Water–Climate Enterprise
Location: 307 (The Baltimore Convention Center)
Host: Presidential Conference
Cochairs: Andrea A. Lopez Lang; Vernon Morris, Arizona State University
Moderators: Andrea A. Lopez Lang; Vernon Morris, Arizona State University
Panelists: Krizia Negrón-Hernández, WFO Melbourne; Alicia C. Wasula; David B. Parsons, Univ. of Oklahoma; Anjuli S. Bamzai, Ph.D., NSF
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6C
Advancing and Innovating Equitable Climate Solutions: Baltimore’s Social–Environmental Collaborative
Location: Ballroom II (The Baltimore Convention Center)
Host: Presidential Conference
Chair: Gaige Hunter Kerr
Panelists: Gerald Geernaert, DOE; Benjamin F. Zaitchik; Doris Minor-Terrell, New Broadway East Neighborhood CDC; Kelly Cross, Old Goucher Neighborhood Association; Ava Richardson, Baltimore City Office of Sustainability
10:45 AM
Panel Discussion


Session 6D
Growing Together to Strengthen the Voice of the Global Climate–Weather–Ocean Scientific Community
Location: Ballroom I (The Baltimore Convention Center)
Host: Presidential Conference
Chair: Brad Colman, The Bayer Corporation
Panelists: Brandon Jones, AGU President-Elect; Trammell Crow; Lori Arguelles; Liz Bentley, IFMS & Royal Meteorological Society; Jonathan Arthur, AGI; Joel N. Myers
Speakers: Brad Colman, The Bayer Corporation; Stella Kafka; Trammell Crow; Dan Russell
10:45 AM
Welcome and thoughts on the Role of Societies in Communicating Climate Change
Brad Colman, AMS President, Seattle, WA

10:50 AM
Introduction to the American Meteorological Society-EarthX Collaboration: Growing Together
Stella Kafka, AMS, Boston, MA

10:55 AM
EarthX-The World's Leading Forum and Connector for Sustainability
Trammell Crow, EarthXTV

11:05 AM
How the American Meteorological Society and EarthXTV, EarthXNews Will Collaborate to Strengthen the Voice of the Global Climate-Weather-Ocean Scientific Community
Dan Russell, EarthXTV

11:15 AM
Roundtable Discussion: The Powerful Impacts of Scientific Societies Joining Forces with Global Media Organizations to Combat Climate Change
Stella Kafka, AMS, Boston, MA; and B. Jones, T. Crow, L. Arguelles, L. Bentley, J. Arthur, and J. N. Myers

11:30 AM
Q&A from the Audience

11:40 AM
Media: Signing of the Science-Media Pledge

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 )

12:15 PM-1:15 PM: Tuesday, 30 January 2024

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Facilitating a Culture Change in Geosciences: Role of Professional Societies
Location: Ballroom I (The Baltimore Convention Center)
Hosts: (Joint between the Town Hall Meetings; and the Presidential Conference )
Organizer: Mona Behl, University of Georgia
Cochairs: Melissa A. Burt; Justin T. Ballard
Panelists: Brad Colman, The Bayer Corporation; Brandon Jones, AGU President-Elect; Christopher Bailey; Dena Smith-Nufio, SACNAS Board Member
12:15 PM
Panel Discussion

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

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J7
Cloud and Precipitation Responses to Aerosol Pollution, Weather Modification, and Climate Intervention III: Cirrus and Deep Convective Clouds
Location: 314 (The Baltimore Convention Center)
Hosts: (Joint between the 24th Conference on Planned and Inadvertent Weather Modification; the First Symposium on Cloud Physics; the 16th Symposium on Aerosol Cloud Climate Interactions; and the Presidential Conference )
Chair: Michael S. Diamond, University of Washington, Seattle
CoChair: Sisi Chen, University of Pecs
2:00 PM
J7.2
Improving Simulations of Cirrus Cloud Thinning by Utilizing Satellite Retrievals
Ehsan Erfani, DRI, Reno, NV; and D. L. Mitchell and J. F. Mejia

2:15 PM
J7.3
Probing Cirrus Cloud Thinning at a Process Level Using Cloud Chamber Experiments and Numerical Simulations
Isabelle Steinke, TU Delft, Delft, Netherlands; and T. Leisner and T. Schorr

2:30 PM
J7.4
Shipping Lane Lightning Declines Following Fuel Sulfur Regulation
Christopher J Wright, Univ. of Washington, Seattle, WA; and J. A. Thornton, L. Jaegle, R. Jones II, D. Rosenfeld, and R. H. Holzworth

2:45 PM
J7.5
Selective Simulating Seeding of Hailstorms - a Summertime Case Study Over Switzerland
Nikolaos Papaevangelou, ETH Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland; and U. Lohmann and D. Villanueva Ortiz

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PDJ7A
Expediting Climate Innovations in a Rapidly Changing World
Location: Ballroom II (The Baltimore Convention Center)
Hosts: (Joint between the 12th Symposium on the Weather, Water, and Climate Enterprise; the Presidential Conference; and the Forum on Climate Linked Economics )
Chair: Kristen Schepel, NOAA/GFDL
Moderator: Wayne MacKenzie, NOAA
Panelists: Richard W. Spinrad, NESDIS; Kathi Vidal, US Patent and Trademark Office
1:45 PM
Panel Discussion

Wednesday, 31 January 2024

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

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Session 9B
Winter Weather in a Warming World I
Location: 350 (The Baltimore Convention Center)
Hosts: (Joint between the 37th Conference on Climate Variability and Change; and the Presidential Conference )
Cochairs: Esther D. Mullens, University of Florida; Jason C. Furtado
8:30 AM
9B.1
Strong Stratospheric Wave Events Precede North American Cold Extremes (Invited Presentation)
Xiuyuan Ding, Univ. of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA; and G. Chen

8:45 AM
9B.2
Sunshine to Shivers: The Characteristics and Evolution of Wintertime Temperature Whiplash in the Southern Plains
Katie Giannakopoulos, University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK; and J. C. Furtado

9:00 AM
9B.3
Changes in Winter Temperatures, Chilling Hours, and Projected Impacts to Tree Fruit in the Midwest United States
Trent Ford, Illinois State Water Survey, Champaign, IL; and L. Chen, E. Wahle, D. Todey, and L. Nowatzke

9:15 AM
9B.4
Future Changes in U.S. Extratropical Cyclones and their Associated Mean and Extreme Precipitation, Snowfall, and Surface Winds.
Rachel R. McCrary, NCAR, Fort Collins, CO; and M. Bukovsky, L. Kessenich, C. M. Zarzycki, and S. McGinnis

9:30 AM
9B.5
Investigating the Occurrence of Blizzard Events over the Contiguous United States Using Observations and Climate Projections
Liang Chen, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Lincoln, NE; and A. Browne and T. S. Kauzlarich

9:45 AM
9B.6
Future Extreme Winter Windstorms in the Northeastern US: A Storyline-Based Pseudo-Global Warming Approach
Xin Zhou, Cornell Univ., Ithaca, NY; and R. J. Barthelmie, J. J. Coburn, F. Letson, and S. C. Pryor

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
Bridging Weather and Climate: Advancing on All Fronts
Location: Ballroom II (The Baltimore Convention Center)
Host: Presidential Conference
Chair: Brad Colman, The Bayer Corporation
Moderator: Ethan D. Gutmann
Speakers: Michael Pritchard, University of California Irvine; Kathleen Pegion; Dale R. Durran
11:00 AM
11:15 AM
11:30 AM
Discussion

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Session 10A
Flash Drought Monitoring, Predictability, and Impacts in a Changing Climate I
Location: 318/319 (The Baltimore Convention Center)
Hosts: (Joint between the 38th Conference on Hydrology; and the Presidential Conference )
Chair: Andrew J. Hoell, NOAA Physical Sciences Laboratory
Cochairs: Mike Hobbins; Hailan Wang, GMAO; Jason A Otkin; Jordan I. Christian, University of Oklahoma
10:45 AM
10A.1
Accelerating Resilience to Flash Drought through Dialogue Between Researchers and Practitioners: 2nd National Flash Drought Workshop
Molly Woloszyn, CIRES, Boulder, CO; and M. Skumanich, S. Reeves, J. Lisonbee, and M. Muth

Handout (7.5 MB)

11:00 AM
10A.2
The Drought Dilemma: Understanding Rapid Drought Development and its Potential Impacts to U.S. Winter Wheat Agriculture in the Southern Great Plains
Benjamin Jacob Fellman, School of Meteorology, University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK; and J. B. Basara, J. I. Christian, and M. R. Tye

11:15 AM
10A.3
Impact of Vegetation Assimilation on Flash Drought Characteristics Across the Continental United States
Ali Fallahmaraghi, University of Massachusetts Lowell, Lowell, MA; and M. Barlow, L. Agel, J. Kim, J. S. Mankin, D. M. Mocko, and C. B. Skinner

11:45 AM
10A.5
Advancing Flash Drought Understanding through the Soil Moisture Volatility Index (SMVI)
Mahmoud Osman, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD; and B. F. Zaitchik

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10C
The Fifth National Climate Assessment: Centering Science and People
Location: Ballroom I (The Baltimore Convention Center)
Hosts: (Joint between the Presidential Conference; the 12th Symposium on the Weather, Water, and Climate Enterprise; and the 19th Symposium on Societal Applications: Policy, Research and Practice )
Chair: Allison Crimmins, United States Global Change Research Program/OSTP
Cochairs: Christopher Avery; Aaron Grade; Allyza Lustig, U.S. Global Change Research Program
10:45 AM
J10.1
Downscaled Climate Model Data for the Fifth U.S. National Climate Assessment
Kenneth E. Kunkel, North Carolina State Univ., Asheville, NC; and D. R. Easterling, L. Kunkel, and X. Sun

11:00 AM
J10.2
Art x Climate: A Project of the Fifth National Climate Assessment
Allyza Lustig, U.S. Global Change Research Program/ICF, Washington, DC; and A. Crimmins

11:15 AM
J10.3
Building the Fifth National Climate Assessment through Process, People, and Purpose
Christopher Avery, U.S. Global Change Research Program, Washington, DC; ICF, Fairfax, VA; and A. Crimmins

11:30 AM
J10.4
Informing Future Climate Assessments by Understanding Data Gaps for Regions Outside of the Contiguous United States (OCONUS)
Samantha Basile, U.S. Global Change Research Program / ICF, Reston, VA; and A. Grade, C. Avery, and A. Crimmins

11:45 AM
J10.5
The Physical Sciences Update in the Fifth National Climate Assessment
Benjamin D Hamlington, JPL, Pasadena, CA; and L. R. Leung, K. Marvel, W. Su, A. Terando, R. Delgado, R. R. Joseph, G. Tselioudis, S. Aarons, L. M. Bruhwiler, A. Chatterjee, B. Cook, C. Deser, M. Garcia, A. Hall, Z. Hausfather, K. Hayhoe, D. A. Hence, A. J. Hoell, F. M. Hoffman, E. Jewett, S. A. Klein, V. Naik, A. G. Pendergrass, A. Robel, D. Singh, C. Tebaldi, A. Tripati, P. Ullrich, R. Vose, and M. F. Wehner

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PD10B
Climate Intervention: Strategies and Urgency
Location: Ballroom III/ IV (The Baltimore Convention Center)
Host: Presidential Conference
Chair: James W. Hurrell, University at Albany, SUNY
Moderators: James W. Hurrell, Colorado State University; Sarah Doherty, Univ. of Washington
Panelists: Michael S. Diamond, University of Washington, Seattle; Daniele Visioni, Cornell University; Jessica Seddon; Greg Frost, NOAA; Marco Regis da Silva, Inter-American Institute for Global Change Research; Ines Camilloni, University of Bueno Aires Centro de Investigaciones del Mar y la Atmósfera
10:45 AM
Panel Discussion

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 )

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

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J12A
Artificial Intelligence for Actionable Insights and Applications in Climate Science
Location: 345/346 (The Baltimore Convention Center)
Hosts: (Joint between the 23rd Conference on Artificial Intelligence for Environmental Science; the 37th Conference on Climate Variability and Change; and the Presidential Conference )
Cochairs: Marybeth Arcodia, University of Miami RSMAS; Eleanor A. Middlemas, PhD; Zane Martin; Katie Dagon
4:30 PM
J12A.1
4:45 PM
J12A.2
A Data-Driven Approach to Identifying Key Regions of Change Associated with Future Climate Scenarios
Zachary Michael Labe, PhD, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ; and T. L. Delworth, N. Johnson, and W. Cooke

Handout (10.5 MB)

5:00 PM
J12A.3
Understanding Predictability of Extreme SEUS Precipitation Using Explainable Machine Learning
Kathleen Pegion, University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK; University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK; and E. J. Becker and B. Kirtman

5:15 PM
J12A.4
Physics-Informed Prediction of Arctic Sea Ice Drift
Heather Hunter, The Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, Laurel, MD; and M. R. Keller, P. Sicurello, and C. Piatko

5:30 PM
J12A.5
Assessing Global Human Impact and Climate Hazards with Landsat Data and Convolutional Neural Networks
Bryam Orihuela-Pinto, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO; and P. Keys, E. A. Barnes, and F. V. Davenport

5:45 PM
J12A.6
A Data-Driven Model of Urban Carbon Emissions at the Human Scale
Constantine Kontokosta, New York University, BROOKLYN, NY; and B. Bonczak

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 )

Thursday, 1 February 2024

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

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Session 13A
Applications of Artificial Intelligence for Improved Estimation and Prediction of Extreme Precipitation and/or Drought in Weather and Climate I
Location: 345/346 (The Baltimore Convention Center)
Hosts: (Joint between the 23rd Conference on Artificial Intelligence for Environmental Science; and the Presidential Conference )
Cochairs: Philippe E. Tissot; Alexandra Mazurek, Colorado State University
8:30 AM
13A.1
8:45 AM
13A.2
A Machine Learning Emulator for West African Monsoon Prediction
Charlotte Merchant, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ; and W. Yang and G. A. Vecchi

9:00 AM
13A.3
Enhancing Regional Quantitative Precipitation Forecasts Using Machine Learning in Western US Watersheds
Weiming Hu, Center for Western Weather and Water Extremes, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, UC San Diego, La Jolla, CA; James Madison University, Harrisonburg, VA; and M. Ghazvinian, PhD, A. Sengupta, M. Pan, and L. Delle Monache

9:15 AM
13A.4
Bias Correction of Global Blended Satellite Precipitation Products over Taiwan with Deep Learning
Liping Wang, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO; Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO; and H. Chen, Y. Chen, P. Xie, C. R. Chen, and J. Q. Stewart

9:30 AM
13A.5
Radar Based Quantitative Precipitation Estimation Using Deep Learning over the UAE region
EunYeol Kim, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO; and V. Chandrasekar, C. Radhakrishnan, L. Delle Monache, and D. Axisa

9:45 AM
13A.6
Evaluation of a Convolutional Neural Network to Predict Wintertime Orographic Precipitation Gradients of the Western CONUS
Savanna Wolvin, Univ. of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT; and C. Strong, S. Brewer, and J. Steenburgh

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Session 13A
Multiyear to Decadal Climate Variability: Mechanisms, Predictability and Prediction I
Location: Ballroom III/ IV (The Baltimore Convention Center)
Hosts: (Joint between the 37th Conference on Climate Variability and Change; and the Presidential Conference )
Cochairs: Antonietta Capotondi, NOAA/PSL; Matt Newman, CIRES; Weston Anderson, Columbia University; Youngji Joh
8:30 AM
13A.1
Interannual to Decadal Climate Predictions: Where Are We Now and What Have We Learned? (Invited Presentation)
Leon Hermanson, Met Office, Exeter, United kingdom; and D. Smith, N. Dunstone, A. A. Scaife, and M. Seabrook

8:50 AM
13A.2
ENSO Forecast Skill in a Changing Climate (Invited Presentation)
Jiale Lou, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ; and M. Newman, A. J. Hoell, and A. T. Wittenberg

9:25 AM
13A.4
Skillful Multiyear to Decadal Predictions of Sea Level in the North Atlantic Ocean and U.S. East Coast
Liping Zhang, GFDL, Princeton, NJ; and T. L. Delworth, X. Yang, and F. Zeng

Handout (5.3 MB)

9:40 AM
13A.5
The Most Predictable Component of a Linear Stochastic Model
Timothy DelSole, George Mason University, Fairfax, VA; and M. K. Tippett

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 )

10:45 AM-12:00 PM: Thursday, 1 February 2024

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14D
A Fireside Chat on the Administration's Priorities on Climate and Global Change
Location: Ballroom I (The Baltimore Convention Center)
Hosts: (Joint between the Presidential Conference; and the Forum on Climate Linked Economics )
Chair: Stephen B. Bennett
Moderator: Mark Papier
Speakers: Dr. Jane Lubchenco, American Meteorological Society; Allison Crimmins, United States Global Change Research Program/OSTP; Solomon Hsiang, EPA; Brad Colman, The Bayer Corporation; Stephen B. Bennett
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PD14A
Unearthing Truth: Combating Disinformation in the Earth Sciences through Education and Communication
Location: 307 (The Baltimore Convention Center)
Hosts: (Joint between the Presidential Conference; and the 33rd Conference on Education )
Cochairs: Shakila Merchant, Colorado State University; Staci M DeSchryver, Concord-Carlisle Regional High School; Lauren Gibson, NOAA
Moderator: Jillian Stanton
Panelists: Richard Spinrad, NOAA; Brenda Ekwurzel; Terris King II, Temple X Schools
10:45 AM
Panel Discussion

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PD14B
Transition to Carbon-Free Energy Generation
Location: Ballroom III/ IV (The Baltimore Convention Center)
Hosts: (Joint between the Presidential Conference; and the 15th Conference on Weather, Water, Climate, and the New Energy Economy )
Cochairs: Jared A. Lee, Ph.D., NSF NCAR; Nick P. Bassill, UAlbany; Jeffrey Michael Freedman; John Zack, MESO, Inc.
Panelists: Justin Sharp; Alexander MacDonald; Aidan Tuohy, Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI); Debbie Lew
10:45 AM
Panel Discussion

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PD14C
Fire and Water in a Changing Environment
Location: Ballroom II (The Baltimore Convention Center)
Host: Presidential Conference
Organizers: Aaron Piña, NASA Headquarters, Earth Science Division; Ethan D. Gutmann; Megan Johnson
Moderators: Aaron Piña, NASA Headquarters, Earth Science Division; Joseph J. Charney, USDA
Panelists: Ariane Pinson; Vanessa Marie Escobar; Melissa Yang Martin; Travis Yonts, US Bureau of Reclamation; Scott Goodrick, USDA; J. Kevin Hiers, DOD SERDP
10:45 AM
Panel Discussion

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 )

12:15 PM-1:15 PM: Thursday, 1 February 2024

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Impacts of Hydrological Extremes on Marginalized Communities
Location: Holiday 4 (Hilton Baltimore Inner Harbor)
Hosts: (Joint between the Town Hall Meetings; the Presidential Conference; and the 38th Conference on Hydrology )
Organizer: Alka Tiwari
CoChair: Meg Devlan Fowler
Panelists: Marccus Hendricks, Stormwater Infrastructure Resilience and Justice (SIRJ) Lab; Lara Fowler, Penn State; Dev Niyogi, University of Texas at Austin
Facilitators: Kelly M. Mahoney; Alka Tiwari
12:15 PM
Panel Discussion

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

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Session 15A
Applications of Artificial Intelligence for Improved Estimation and Prediction of Extreme Precipitation and/or Drought in Weather and Climate II
Location: 345/346 (The Baltimore Convention Center)
Hosts: (Joint between the 23rd Conference on Artificial Intelligence for Environmental Science; and the Presidential Conference )
Cochairs: Philippe E. Tissot; Jacob T. Radford
1:45 PM
15A.1
A Novel Quantile Regression Neural Network Scheme for Postprocessing Medium-range Ensemble Quantitative Precipitation Forecasts
Mohammadvaghef Ghazvinian, PhD, Center for Western Weather and Water Extremes, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, Univ. of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA; and S. Candido, L. Delle Monache, V. Afzali Gorooh, A. Sengupta, W. Hu, and M. M. Ralph

2:00 PM
15A.3
Comparison of Regression Algorithms in Multivariable Drought Modeling and Analysis
Maria Chzhen, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada

2:30 PM
15A.4
Diagnosing Extreme Precipitation from Atmospheric Fields with a UNet Architecture on a HEALPix Mesh
Raul Antonio Moreno, University of Washington, Seattle, WA; and N. A. Cresswell-Clay and D. R. Durran

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

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Session 16B
Incorporating Climate Change into Water Resources Decision Making: Hurdles, Progress, and Lessons Learned II
Location: 340 (The Baltimore Convention Center)
Hosts: (Joint between the 38th Conference on Hydrology; and the Presidential Conference )
Chair: David Paul Keeney
Cochairs: Miles Yaw, Bureau of Reclamation; Devan Mahadevan, Bureau of Reclamation; Kent Walker, Bureau of Reclamation
4:30 PM
16B.1
Changes in the Climate System Dominate Year-to-Year Variability in Flooding Across the Globe
Gabriele Villarini, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ; Princeton Univ., Princeton, NJ; and H. Kim, C. Wasko, and Y. Tramblay

4:45 PM
16B.2
Identifying extreme weather conditions over the CONUS in the mid-21st century by analyzing the NASA NEX-GDDP-CMIP6 downscale dataset
Mengye Chen, University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK; Univ. of Oklahoma, Norman, OK; and J. Zhang, J. Melillo, C. J. Vorosmarty, and Y. Hong

5:00 PM
16B.3
Challenges and successes with incorporating CMIP6 climate data into EPA’s CREAT
Geneva Marie Ely Gray, EPA, DC, DC; and J. S. Fries, N. D. B. Keyes, A. Ramming, A. Furneaux, and C. Baranowski

5:15 PM
16B.4
The Nexus Between Convective Allowing Modeling and Outreach in Facilitating Decision Making for High Impact Events in the North American Monsoon.
Eyad H. Atallah, UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA, Tucson, AZ; Univ. of Arizona, Tucson, AZ; and C. L. Castro, D. Girone, and T. Maio

5:30 PM
16B.5
Enhancing the Accessibility, Applicability, and Interactions of Satellite-Informed Hydrologic Projections Under Climate and Forest Changes for Water Managers
Kristen M. Whitney, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ; NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD; and E. R. Vivoni, D. D. White, Z. Wang, R. Quay, M. I. Mahmoud, and N. P. Templeton

5:45 PM
16B.6
Supporting At-Risk Aquatic Species Management with Hydrologic Projections
Catherine Anna Nikiel, ORISE/USGS Research Program Participant with the Southeast Climate Adaptation Science Center, Raleigh, NC; and J. LaFontaine