33rd Conference on Weather Analysis and Forecasting (WAF)/29th Conference on Numerical Weather Prediction (NWP)

Program Chairs: Kimberly Wood , Mississippi State University ; Edward C. Wolff IV , University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign ; Katie Magee

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Tuesday, 7 January 2025

1:00 PM-2:00 PM: Tuesday, 7 January 2025


Virtual Poster Slam
Hosts: (Joint between the Events; the 13th Symposium on the Weather, Water, and Climate Enterprise; the 24th Conference on Artificial Intelligence for Environmental Science; the 17th Symposium on Aerosol Cloud Climate Interactions; the 24th Conference on Air-Sea Interaction; the 29th Conference of Applied Climatology; the 25th Conference on Aviation, Range, and Aerospace Meteorology; the 27th Conference on Atmospheric Chemistry; the Symposium on Careers in Operational Government Meteorology and Hydrology; the Second Symposium on Cloud Physics; the Fourth Symposium on Community Modeling and Innovation; the 23rd Symposium on the Coastal Environment; the 38th Conference on Climate Variability and Change; the Sixth Symposium on Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion; the New Orleans Forum on Climate Linked Economics; the 34th Conference on Education; the 41st Conference on Environmental Information Processing Technologies; the 16th Conference on Weather, Water, Climate, and the New Energy Economy; the First Conference on Fire Weather, Technology, and Risk; the 16th Conference on Environment and Health; the 23rd History Symposium; the 11th Symposium on High Performance Computing for Weather, Water, and Climate; the 39th Conference on Hydrology; the 21st Conference on Major Weather Impacts; the Tenth Symposium on US-International Partnerships; the 29th Conference on Integrated Observing and Assimilation Systems for the Atmosphere, Oceans, and Land Surface (IOAS-AOLS); the 13th Symposium on the Joint Center for Satellite Data Assimilation; the Heather Lazrus Symposium; the 13th Symposium on Lidar Atmospheric Applications; the 12th Conference on the Meteorological Application of Lightning Data; the Gerald A Meehl Symposium; the Fourth Symposium on Mesoscale Processes; the 13th Symposium on the Madden-Julian Oscillation and Sub-Seasonal Monsoon Variability; the 21st Annual Symposium on Operational Environmental Satellite Systems; the Presidential Conference; the 15th Symposium on Advances in Modeling and Analysis Using the Programming Languages of Open Science; the Symposium on Radar Research to Operations; the 15th Conference On Transition Of Research To Operations (15R2O); the Third Symposium on Environmental Security; the 25th Symposium on Meteorological Observation and Instrumentation; the 20th Symposium on Societal Applications: Policy, Research and Practice; the 22nd Conference on Space Weather; the 24th Annual Student Conference; the Seventh Special Symposium on Tropical Meteorology and Tropical Cyclones; the 33rd Conference on Weather Analysis and Forecasting (WAF)/29th Conference on Numerical Weather Prediction (NWP); the 13th Symposium on Building a Weather-Ready Nation: Enhancing Our Nation; and the Virtual Posters )

33rd Conference on Weather Analysis and Forecasting (WAF)/29th Conference on Numerical Weather Prediction (NWP) Virtual Posters
Hosts: (Joint between the The Waste Basket; and the 33rd Conference on Weather Analysis and Forecasting (WAF)/29th Conference on Numerical Weather Prediction (NWP) )
Recording files available
Virtual Poster Slam Session #4
Hosts: (Joint between the Virtual Posters; the 34th Conference on Education; the 24th Annual Student Conference; the 33rd Conference on Weather Analysis and Forecasting (WAF)/29th Conference on Numerical Weather Prediction (NWP); the Seventh Special Symposium on Tropical Meteorology and Tropical Cyclones; and the Gerald A Meehl Symposium )
Cochairs: Anthony C. Didlake Jr.; Suzana J. Camargo, PhD, Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, Columbia University
V51
24STUDENT How Cold Weather Events Influence Policymaking at the State Level
Jaida Johnson, Spelman College, Atlanta, GA; and J. L. Coates
Manuscript (347.8 kB)

V52
24STUDENT Understanding the Physical Structure of Communities for Improved Disaster Impact Predictions
Jooho Kim, Texas A&M University, Houston, TX; and R. Kanumuri

Handout (905.6 kB)

V53
24STUDENT The IOD Impact on Asia and North Atlantic Oscillation: The Dependence on Phases and its Multi-Decadal Modulation
Nazimur Rashid Chowdhury, The Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics, Trieste, Italy; and F. Kucharski

V54
24STUDENT Vigorous Self-Breeding of African Small Wildfires via Fire-Lightning Interaction in a Warming Climate
ming yin, Tsinghua Univeristy, Beijing, China; and Y. Han, Y. Wang, G. J. Zhang, and L. Wei

V55
24STUDENT The Interactions between Earthquake and Climate
Renxu Wang, High School Affiliated to Renmin University of China, Beijing, China

V56
24STUDENT Spatial and temporal attributions of Brazilian Soybean production to weather and climate events
Greici Joana Parisoto, University of Sao Paulo, Piracicaba, SP, Brazil; University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Lincoln, NE; and D. Avila, F. G. Pilau, and F. Munoz-Arriola

V58A
24STUDENT A Comparative Analysis of Tropospheric NO2: Evaluating TEMPO Satellite Data Against Airborne Measurements
Maya Niyogi, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD; and M. Landi, D. Sardana, A. Beyersdorf, A. G. Carlton, J. St. Clair, B. Henderson, and B. L. Lefer

V59
7TROPICAL Multi-Fluid Modeling of Energy and Momentum Exchange in Spray-Laden Hurricane Boundary Layer
Yevgenii Rastigejev, North Carolina A&T State Univ., Greensboro, NC; and S. A. Suslov

Handout (3.3 MB)

V60
7TROPICAL Global Trends in Duration and Volume of Rapid Intensification Events
Oscar Fernando Guzman Rey, Florida International Univ., Miami, FL; and H. Jiang and H. WILLOUGHBY

Handout (509.4 kB)

V61
7TROPICAL Use of an Agile Testing Framework to Analyze Alternative Physics in the Hurricane Analysis and Forecast System (HAFS)
Samuel G. Trahan, CIRES, Boulder, CO; DTC, Boulder, CO; NOAA/GSL, Boulder, CO; and M. K. Biswas, K. Newman, M. Zhang, M. J. Kavulich Jr., J. H. Gotway, B. Nelson, and J. Beck

V63
7TROPICAL An Introduction to the OMEGA-Tendency Equation: Its Application to Weather Analyses and Understanding of Hurricane Eye Dynamics
Kwan-yin Kong, Weather Prediction Center, College Park, MD; Weather Prediction Center, College Park, MD

V65
33WAF/29NWP UrbanTALES: Building Microscale Urban Flow Dataset to Inform Urban Canopy Parameterizations with Urban Flux Tower Observations
Jiachen Lu, UNSW, Sydney, Kingsfold, Australia; and N. Nazarian, A. Martilli, M. Lipson, M. A. Hart, and E. S. Krayenhoff

V66
33WAF/29NWP Evaluation of vertical resolution impacts on convection allowing regional forecast
Jili Dong, Lynker at NOAA/NWS/NCEP/EMC, College Park, MD; and E. A. Aligo, M. E. Pyle, F. Yang, J. R. Carley, K. C. Viner, M. Arencibia, and X. Zhang

Handout (2.7 MB)

V67
MEEHL External Forcing Modulates the Internal Variability of Tropospheric Temperature
Giuliana Pallotta, LLNL, Livermore, CA; and B. D. Santer

S84
24STUDENT Air Pollution and Plant Health: Exploring the Link Between Ozone Levels and Vegetation in Bangladesh.
Ashikul Islam Rony, Bangladesh University of Professionals, Dhaka, 13, Bangladesh; and M. Kamal, F. A. Piya, and T. J. Mowsumi, Masters

Handout (2.0 MB)

S85
24STUDENT Tracking Methane Emissions Over South Asia: Insights from Satellite Data With a Focus on Bangladesh
Tahrim Jannat Mowsumi, Masters, Ocean University of China, Qingdao, 37, China; and M. Kamal, A. I. Rony, and F. A. Piya

Handout (5.7 MB)

Saturday, 11 January 2025

7:30 PM-10:00 PM: Saturday, 11 January 2025


Twisters Screening - Hosted by the Student Conference
Location: Great Hall A (New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)
Hosts: (Joint between the Events; the 13th Symposium on the Weather, Water, and Climate Enterprise; the 24th Conference on Artificial Intelligence for Environmental Science; the 17th Symposium on Aerosol Cloud Climate Interactions; the 24th Conference on Air-Sea Interaction; the 29th Conference of Applied Climatology; the 25th Conference on Aviation, Range, and Aerospace Meteorology; the 27th Conference on Atmospheric Chemistry; the Symposium on Careers in Operational Government Meteorology and Hydrology; the Second Symposium on Cloud Physics; the Fourth Symposium on Community Modeling and Innovation; the 23rd Symposium on the Coastal Environment; the 38th Conference on Climate Variability and Change; the Sixth Symposium on Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion; the New Orleans Forum on Climate Linked Economics; the 34th Conference on Education; the 41st Conference on Environmental Information Processing Technologies; the 16th Conference on Weather, Water, Climate, and the New Energy Economy; the First Conference on Fire Weather, Technology, and Risk; the 16th Conference on Environment and Health; the 23rd History Symposium; the 11th Symposium on High Performance Computing for Weather, Water, and Climate; the 39th Conference on Hydrology; the 21st Conference on Major Weather Impacts; the Tenth Symposium on US-International Partnerships; the 29th Conference on Integrated Observing and Assimilation Systems for the Atmosphere, Oceans, and Land Surface (IOAS-AOLS); the 13th Symposium on the Joint Center for Satellite Data Assimilation; the Heather Lazrus Symposium; the 13th Symposium on Lidar Atmospheric Applications; the 12th Conference on the Meteorological Application of Lightning Data; the Gerald A Meehl Symposium; the Fourth Symposium on Mesoscale Processes; the 13th Symposium on the Madden-Julian Oscillation and Sub-Seasonal Monsoon Variability; the 21st Annual Symposium on Operational Environmental Satellite Systems; the Presidential Conference; the 15th Symposium on Advances in Modeling and Analysis Using the Programming Languages of Open Science; the Symposium on Radar Research to Operations; the 15th Conference On Transition Of Research To Operations (15R2O); the Third Symposium on Environmental Security; the 25th Symposium on Meteorological Observation and Instrumentation; the 20th Symposium on Societal Applications: Policy, Research and Practice; the 22nd Conference on Space Weather; the 24th Annual Student Conference; the Seventh Special Symposium on Tropical Meteorology and Tropical Cyclones; the 33rd Conference on Weather Analysis and Forecasting (WAF)/29th Conference on Numerical Weather Prediction (NWP); and the 13th Symposium on Building a Weather-Ready Nation: Enhancing Our Nation )
7:30 PM
Welcoming Remarks

Sunday, 12 January 2025

2:30 PM-3:30 PM: Sunday, 12 January 2025

Recording files available
Newcomers Welcome and Information Exchange
Location: 232 (New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)
Hosts: (Joint between the Events; the 13th Symposium on the Weather, Water, and Climate Enterprise; the 24th Conference on Artificial Intelligence for Environmental Science; the 24th Conference on Air-Sea Interaction; the 29th Conference of Applied Climatology; the 25th Conference on Aviation, Range, and Aerospace Meteorology; the 27th Conference on Atmospheric Chemistry; the Symposium on Careers in Operational Government Meteorology and Hydrology; the Second Symposium on Cloud Physics; the Fourth Symposium on Community Modeling and Innovation; the 23rd Symposium on the Coastal Environment; the 38th Conference on Climate Variability and Change; the Sixth Symposium on Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion; the New Orleans Forum on Climate Linked Economics; the 34th Conference on Education; the 41st Conference on Environmental Information Processing Technologies; the 16th Conference on Weather, Water, Climate, and the New Energy Economy; the First Conference on Fire Weather, Technology, and Risk; the 16th Conference on Environment and Health; the 23rd History Symposium; the 11th Symposium on High Performance Computing for Weather, Water, and Climate; the 39th Conference on Hydrology; the 21st Conference on Major Weather Impacts; the Tenth Symposium on US-International Partnerships; the 29th Conference on Integrated Observing and Assimilation Systems for the Atmosphere, Oceans, and Land Surface (IOAS-AOLS); the 13th Symposium on the Joint Center for Satellite Data Assimilation; the Heather Lazrus Symposium; the 13th Symposium on Lidar Atmospheric Applications; the 12th Conference on the Meteorological Application of Lightning Data; the Gerald A Meehl Symposium; the Fourth Symposium on Mesoscale Processes; the 13th Symposium on the Madden-Julian Oscillation and Sub-Seasonal Monsoon Variability; the 21st Annual Symposium on Operational Environmental Satellite Systems; the Presidential Conference; the 15th Symposium on Advances in Modeling and Analysis Using the Programming Languages of Open Science; the Symposium on Radar Research to Operations; the 15th Conference On Transition Of Research To Operations (15R2O); the Third Symposium on Environmental Security; the 25th Symposium on Meteorological Observation and Instrumentation; the 20th Symposium on Societal Applications: Policy, Research and Practice; the 22nd Conference on Space Weather; the 24th Annual Student Conference; the Seventh Special Symposium on Tropical Meteorology and Tropical Cyclones; the 33rd Conference on Weather Analysis and Forecasting (WAF)/29th Conference on Numerical Weather Prediction (NWP); and the 13th Symposium on Building a Weather-Ready Nation: Enhancing Our Nation )
2:30 PM
Welcoming Remarks

4:00 PM-5:15 PM: Sunday, 12 January 2025


Session
Presidential Forum: Physical, Social, Cultural, and Economic Impacts: The Gulf Coast as a Microcosm of Global Change
Location: Great Hall A (New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)
Hosts: (Joint between the Events; the 24th Conference on Artificial Intelligence for Environmental Science; the 17th Symposium on Aerosol Cloud Climate Interactions; the 24th Conference on Air-Sea Interaction; the 29th Conference of Applied Climatology; the 25th Conference on Aviation, Range, and Aerospace Meteorology; the 27th Conference on Atmospheric Chemistry; the Symposium on Careers in Operational Government Meteorology and Hydrology; the Second Symposium on Cloud Physics; the Fourth Symposium on Community Modeling and Innovation; the 23rd Symposium on the Coastal Environment; the 38th Conference on Climate Variability and Change; the Sixth Symposium on Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion; the New Orleans Forum on Climate Linked Economics; the 34th Conference on Education; the 41st Conference on Environmental Information Processing Technologies; the 16th Conference on Weather, Water, Climate, and the New Energy Economy; the First Conference on Fire Weather, Technology, and Risk; the 16th Conference on Environment and Health; the 23rd History Symposium; the 11th Symposium on High Performance Computing for Weather, Water, and Climate; the 39th Conference on Hydrology; the 21st Conference on Major Weather Impacts; the Tenth Symposium on US-International Partnerships; the 29th Conference on Integrated Observing and Assimilation Systems for the Atmosphere, Oceans, and Land Surface (IOAS-AOLS); the 13th Symposium on the Joint Center for Satellite Data Assimilation; the Heather Lazrus Symposium; the 13th Symposium on Lidar Atmospheric Applications; the 12th Conference on the Meteorological Application of Lightning Data; the Gerald A Meehl Symposium; the Fourth Symposium on Mesoscale Processes; the 13th Symposium on the Madden-Julian Oscillation and Sub-Seasonal Monsoon Variability; the 21st Annual Symposium on Operational Environmental Satellite Systems; the Presidential Conference; the 15th Symposium on Advances in Modeling and Analysis Using the Programming Languages of Open Science; the Symposium on Radar Research to Operations; the 15th Conference On Transition Of Research To Operations (15R2O); the Third Symposium on Environmental Security; the 25th Symposium on Meteorological Observation and Instrumentation; the 20th Symposium on Societal Applications: Policy, Research and Practice; the 22nd Conference on Space Weather; the 24th Annual Student Conference; the Seventh Special Symposium on Tropical Meteorology and Tropical Cyclones; the 33rd Conference on Weather Analysis and Forecasting (WAF)/29th Conference on Numerical Weather Prediction (NWP); and the 13th Symposium on Building a Weather-Ready Nation: Enhancing Our Nation )

5:30 PM-6:15 PM: Sunday, 12 January 2025


Annual Meeting Welcome and Annual Review
Location: Great Hall A (New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)
Hosts: (Joint between the Events; the Sixth Symposium on Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion; the 17th Symposium on Aerosol Cloud Climate Interactions; the 24th Conference on Air-Sea Interaction; the 24th Conference on Artificial Intelligence for Environmental Science; the 29th Conference of Applied Climatology; the 25th Conference on Aviation, Range, and Aerospace Meteorology; the 27th Conference on Atmospheric Chemistry; the Symposium on Careers in Operational Government Meteorology and Hydrology; the Second Symposium on Cloud Physics; the Fourth Symposium on Community Modeling and Innovation; the 23rd Symposium on the Coastal Environment; the 38th Conference on Climate Variability and Change; the New Orleans Forum on Climate Linked Economics; the 34th Conference on Education; the 41st Conference on Environmental Information Processing Technologies; the 16th Conference on Weather, Water, Climate, and the New Energy Economy; the First Conference on Fire Weather, Technology, and Risk; the 16th Conference on Environment and Health; the 23rd History Symposium; the 11th Symposium on High Performance Computing for Weather, Water, and Climate; the 39th Conference on Hydrology; the 21st Conference on Major Weather Impacts; the Tenth Symposium on US-International Partnerships; the 29th Conference on Integrated Observing and Assimilation Systems for the Atmosphere, Oceans, and Land Surface (IOAS-AOLS); the 13th Symposium on the Joint Center for Satellite Data Assimilation; the Heather Lazrus Symposium; the 13th Symposium on Lidar Atmospheric Applications; the 12th Conference on the Meteorological Application of Lightning Data; the Gerald A Meehl Symposium; the Fourth Symposium on Mesoscale Processes; the 13th Symposium on the Madden-Julian Oscillation and Sub-Seasonal Monsoon Variability; the 21st Annual Symposium on Operational Environmental Satellite Systems; the Presidential Conference; the 15th Symposium on Advances in Modeling and Analysis Using the Programming Languages of Open Science; the Symposium on Radar Research to Operations; the 15th Conference On Transition Of Research To Operations (15R2O); the Third Symposium on Environmental Security; the 25th Symposium on Meteorological Observation and Instrumentation; the 20th Symposium on Societal Applications: Policy, Research and Practice; the 22nd Conference on Space Weather; the 24th Annual Student Conference; the Seventh Special Symposium on Tropical Meteorology and Tropical Cyclones; the 33rd Conference on Weather Analysis and Forecasting (WAF)/29th Conference on Numerical Weather Prediction (NWP); the 13th Symposium on Building a Weather-Ready Nation: Enhancing Our Nation; and the 13th Symposium on the Weather, Water, and Climate Enterprise )

Monday, 13 January 2025

8:30 AM-10:00 AM: Monday, 13 January 2025

Recording files available
1B
Extreme Precipitation I
Location: 210 (New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)
Hosts: (Joint between the 39th Conference on Hydrology; and the 33rd Conference on Weather Analysis and Forecasting (WAF)/29th Conference on Numerical Weather Prediction (NWP) )
Chair: Kelly M. Mahoney
Cochairs: John W. Nielsen-Gammon, Texas A&M University; Sarah Marie Trojniak; Victor A. Gensini, PhD, CCM, CIMMS; Benjamin J. Moore, NOAA
9:00 AM
1B.3
An Evaluation of the Weather Prediction Center’s Quantitative Precipitation Forecasts for Extreme Precipitation Events between 2012-2023
Diana Rose Stovern, ESRL, Boulder, CO; and K. M. Mahoney, D. R. Novak, J. A. Nelson Jr., and B. S. Albright

9:15 AM
1B.4
A Climatology of the Hight Resolution Ensemble Forecast (HREF) Heavy Rainfall Probabilities
Sarah Marie Trojniak, CIRES-CIESRDS @ NOAA/NWS/WPC/HMT, College Park, MD; and J. Correia Jr., D. R. Stovern, J. L. Bytheway, and K. M. Mahoney

9:30 AM
1B.5
Ensemble Model Forecast Performance of HREF and REFS for 2024 Extreme Precipitation Cases
Amanda Back, NOAA GSL, Boulder, CO; and T. I. Alcott, D. Dowell, E. P. James, T. T. Ladwig, and S. Murdzek

9:45 AM
1B.6
Predicting Excessive Rainfall with Large and Small Ensembles: Does Adding Members Add Value?
Trevor Alcott, OAR, BOULDER, CO; and D. Dowell, A. Back, E. P. James, S. Murdzek, J. L. Bytheway, and K. M. Mahoney

Recording files available
J1A
Embracing Probabilistic Decision Support Services: How Operational Meteorology and Hydrology Will Change in the Next 10 Years
Location: 206 (New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)
Hosts: (Joint between the 33rd Conference on Weather Analysis and Forecasting (WAF)/29th Conference on Numerical Weather Prediction (NWP); and the Symposium on Careers in Operational Government Meteorology and Hydrology )
Cochairs: Derek Dornsife; Christine Kruse, NWSFO
8:30 AM
J1A.1
NWS Probabilistic Impact-based Decision Support Services - Delivering Science-based Probabilistic Forecast Information
Kathryn K. Gilbert, NWS, College Park, MD; and R. Bandy, J. S. Waldstreicher, G. Cooper, S. B. Smith, M. E. Jeglum, S. Perfater, A. Foster, K. Scharfenberg, J. S. Lee, M. J. Glaudemans, J. Brooks, G. Mann, A. Boxell, B. Smith, D. E. Levin, M. J. Moreland, D. C. Strom, K. E. Landry-Guyton, J. J. Brost, S. R. Baxter, B. De Rosa, and D. Nagele, PhD

8:45 AM
J1A.2
Probabilistic IDSS Training in the National Weather Service
Kevin A. Scharfenberg, NWS, Boulder, CO; NWS OCLO/FDTD, Boulder, CO; and J. Keeney, J. K. Jordan, J. S. Waldstreicher, D. E. Levin, and M. J. Moreland

9:00 AM
J1A.3
9:15 AM
J1A.4
9:30 AM
J1A.5
Recording files available
J1B
Mid-Latitude Cyclone and Heavy Rain Event Case Studies Using High-Res Models
Location: 207 (New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)
Hosts: (Joint between the 33rd Conference on Weather Analysis and Forecasting (WAF)/29th Conference on Numerical Weather Prediction (NWP); and the Fourth Symposium on Mesoscale Processes )
Cochairs: Andrew C. Winters; Troy Zaremba
8:30 AM
J1B.1
Can Observation Targeting Be a Wild Goose Chase? An Adjoint-Sensitivity Study of a U.S. East Coast Cyclone Forecast Bust
Daniel James Lloveras, National Research Council, Monterey, CA; and J. D. Doyle and D. R. Durran

9:00 AM
J1B.3
Microphysical Processes within a Heavy Mixed Precipitation Band in the 16–17 January 2022 Winter Storm
Kaitlyn R. Jesmonth, Univ. of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL; and S. W. Nesbitt, R. M. Rauber, M. R. Peters, C. Pettersen, and L. A. McMurdie

9:15 AM
J1B.4
Response of Simulated Extreme Precipitation to Thermodynamic Changes in Pseudo-Global Warming
Yusuke Hiraga, Tohoku University, Sendai, Miyagi, Japan; and R. Tahara

10:00 AM-10:45 AM: Monday, 13 January 2025


Coffee Break
Hosts: (Joint between the Events; the 17th Symposium on Aerosol Cloud Climate Interactions; the 24th Conference on Air-Sea Interaction; the 24th Conference on Artificial Intelligence for Environmental Science; the 29th Conference of Applied Climatology; the 25th Conference on Aviation, Range, and Aerospace Meteorology; the 27th Conference on Atmospheric Chemistry; the Symposium on Careers in Operational Government Meteorology and Hydrology; the Second Symposium on Cloud Physics; the Fourth Symposium on Community Modeling and Innovation; the 23rd Symposium on the Coastal Environment; the 38th Conference on Climate Variability and Change; the Sixth Symposium on Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion; the New Orleans Forum on Climate Linked Economics; the 34th Conference on Education; the 41st Conference on Environmental Information Processing Technologies; the 16th Conference on Weather, Water, Climate, and the New Energy Economy; the First Conference on Fire Weather, Technology, and Risk; the 16th Conference on Environment and Health; the 23rd History Symposium; the 11th Symposium on High Performance Computing for Weather, Water, and Climate; the 39th Conference on Hydrology; the 21st Conference on Major Weather Impacts; the Tenth Symposium on US-International Partnerships; the 29th Conference on Integrated Observing and Assimilation Systems for the Atmosphere, Oceans, and Land Surface (IOAS-AOLS); the 13th Symposium on the Joint Center for Satellite Data Assimilation; the Heather Lazrus Symposium; the 13th Symposium on Lidar Atmospheric Applications; the 12th Conference on the Meteorological Application of Lightning Data; the Gerald A Meehl Symposium; the Fourth Symposium on Mesoscale Processes; the 13th Symposium on the Madden-Julian Oscillation and Sub-Seasonal Monsoon Variability; the 21st Annual Symposium on Operational Environmental Satellite Systems; the Presidential Conference; the 15th Symposium on Advances in Modeling and Analysis Using the Programming Languages of Open Science; the Symposium on Radar Research to Operations; the 15th Conference On Transition Of Research To Operations (15R2O); the Third Symposium on Environmental Security; the 25th Symposium on Meteorological Observation and Instrumentation; the 20th Symposium on Societal Applications: Policy, Research and Practice; the 22nd Conference on Space Weather; the Seventh Special Symposium on Tropical Meteorology and Tropical Cyclones; the 33rd Conference on Weather Analysis and Forecasting (WAF)/29th Conference on Numerical Weather Prediction (NWP); the 13th Symposium on Building a Weather-Ready Nation: Enhancing Our Nation; and the 13th Symposium on the Weather, Water, and Climate Enterprise )

10:45 AM-12:00 PM: Monday, 13 January 2025

Recording files available
2B
Extreme Precipitation II
Location: 210 (New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)
Hosts: (Joint between the 39th Conference on Hydrology; and the 33rd Conference on Weather Analysis and Forecasting (WAF)/29th Conference on Numerical Weather Prediction (NWP) )
Chair: Kelly M. Mahoney
Cochairs: John W. Nielsen-Gammon, Texas A&M University; Sarah Marie Trojniak; Victor A. Gensini, PhD, CCM, CIMMS
10:45 AM
2B.1
Science Challenges for Constructing Future Projections of Heavy Rainfall Values in NOAA Atlas 15
Kenneth E. Kunkel, North Carolina State Univ., Asheville, NC; and X. Sun and L. Sun

11:00 AM
2B.2
Scaling Up: Future Intensity-Duration-Frequency Curves for Extreme Rainfall in North Carolina Using Downscaled Climate Projections
Alyssa L Griffin, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC; North Carolina State University, Londonderry, NH; and S. Larson, K. D. Dello, and J. H. Bowden

11:45 AM
2B.5
Seasonal Variations in Extreme Precipitation Trends Across the Northeast U.S.
Jordan Thirlwall, SUNY Oswego, Oswego, NY; and B. T. Jong and T. L. Delworth

Recording files available
J2A
Embracing Probabilistic Decision Support Services: Cases From the Field
Location: 206 (New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)
Hosts: (Joint between the 33rd Conference on Weather Analysis and Forecasting (WAF)/29th Conference on Numerical Weather Prediction (NWP); and the Symposium on Careers in Operational Government Meteorology and Hydrology )
Cochairs: Christine Kruse, NWSFO; Derek Dornsife
10:45 AM
J2A.1
Spatial Clustering of Low Probability Events: Implications for Decision Support Services
Philip N. Schumacher, NWS Sioux Falls, Sioux Falls, SD; and C. Vaughn

11:00 AM
J2A.2
11:15 AM
Discussion

11:45 AM
Poster Preview
Katie Magee, Washington DC, DC; and K. Wood and E. C. Wolff IV

Recording files available
J2B
Numerical Weather Prediction Modeling of Severe Weather
Location: 207 (New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)
Hosts: (Joint between the 33rd Conference on Weather Analysis and Forecasting (WAF)/29th Conference on Numerical Weather Prediction (NWP); and the Fourth Symposium on Mesoscale Processes )
CoChair: Keenan Eure, CIRA/CSU and NOAA/OAR/GSL
10:45 AM
J2B.1
The Numerical Prediction of Severe Convective Storms: Advances in Research and Applications, Remaining Challenges, and Outlook for the Future
Jidong Gao, National Severe Storms Laboratory, Norman, OK; and P. Heinselman, M. Xue, L. J. Wicker, N. Yussouf, D. J. Stensrud, and K. Droegemeier

11:00 AM
J2B.2
Climatology and Trends in the Relationship between United States Tornadoes and Extratropical Cyclones
Lauren Ann Kiefer, Purdue Univ., West Lafayette, IN; and D. R. Chavas, M. Gore, C. M. Zarzycki, and D. T. Dawson II

11:15 AM
J2B.3
Numerical Investigation of Effects of Terrain on Tornadic Winds By Using Coupled CM1 and CFD Simulation
JIAMIN DANG, Missouri University of Science and Technology, ROLLA, MO; and J. B. Houser, PhD and G. Yan

11:30 AM
J2B.4
Investigating the Effects of Surface Roughness on Tornadoes using High-Resolution Numerical Modeling
Jana B. Houser, PhD, The Ohio State Univ., 154 North Oval Mall, OH; and J. DANG and G. Yan

11:45 AM
J2B.5
The Numerical Study of the Tornado-Like Vortex Event in Oahu Island on 8 June 2003
Chih-Ying Chen, Academia Sinica, Taiwan, Taipei, TPQ, Taiwan; Academia Sinica, Taiwan, Taipei, Taiwan; and F. Hsiao, Y. L. Chen, and C. Y. Lin

12:00 PM-1:45 PM: Monday, 13 January 2025


Lunch Break
Hosts: (Joint between the Events; the 13th Symposium on the Weather, Water, and Climate Enterprise; the 24th Conference on Artificial Intelligence for Environmental Science; the 17th Symposium on Aerosol Cloud Climate Interactions; the 24th Conference on Air-Sea Interaction; the 29th Conference of Applied Climatology; the 25th Conference on Aviation, Range, and Aerospace Meteorology; the 27th Conference on Atmospheric Chemistry; the Symposium on Careers in Operational Government Meteorology and Hydrology; the Second Symposium on Cloud Physics; the Fourth Symposium on Community Modeling and Innovation; the 23rd Symposium on the Coastal Environment; the 38th Conference on Climate Variability and Change; the Sixth Symposium on Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion; the New Orleans Forum on Climate Linked Economics; the 34th Conference on Education; the 41st Conference on Environmental Information Processing Technologies; the 16th Conference on Weather, Water, Climate, and the New Energy Economy; the First Conference on Fire Weather, Technology, and Risk; the 16th Conference on Environment and Health; the 23rd History Symposium; the 11th Symposium on High Performance Computing for Weather, Water, and Climate; the 39th Conference on Hydrology; the 21st Conference on Major Weather Impacts; the Tenth Symposium on US-International Partnerships; the 29th Conference on Integrated Observing and Assimilation Systems for the Atmosphere, Oceans, and Land Surface (IOAS-AOLS); the 13th Symposium on the Joint Center for Satellite Data Assimilation; the Heather Lazrus Symposium; the 13th Symposium on Lidar Atmospheric Applications; the 12th Conference on the Meteorological Application of Lightning Data; the Gerald A Meehl Symposium; the Fourth Symposium on Mesoscale Processes; the 13th Symposium on the Madden-Julian Oscillation and Sub-Seasonal Monsoon Variability; the 21st Annual Symposium on Operational Environmental Satellite Systems; the Presidential Conference; the 15th Symposium on Advances in Modeling and Analysis Using the Programming Languages of Open Science; the Symposium on Radar Research to Operations; the 15th Conference On Transition Of Research To Operations (15R2O); the Third Symposium on Environmental Security; the 25th Symposium on Meteorological Observation and Instrumentation; the 20th Symposium on Societal Applications: Policy, Research and Practice; the 22nd Conference on Space Weather; the Seventh Special Symposium on Tropical Meteorology and Tropical Cyclones; the 33rd Conference on Weather Analysis and Forecasting (WAF)/29th Conference on Numerical Weather Prediction (NWP); and the 13th Symposium on Building a Weather-Ready Nation: Enhancing Our Nation )

12:45 PM-1:05 PM: Monday, 13 January 2025


Daily Weather Briefings
Location: 229 (New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)
Hosts: (Joint between the Events; the 24th Conference on Air-Sea Interaction; the 24th Conference on Artificial Intelligence for Environmental Science; the 29th Conference of Applied Climatology; the 25th Conference on Aviation, Range, and Aerospace Meteorology; the 27th Conference on Atmospheric Chemistry; the Symposium on Careers in Operational Government Meteorology and Hydrology; the Second Symposium on Cloud Physics; the Fourth Symposium on Community Modeling and Innovation; the 23rd Symposium on the Coastal Environment; the 38th Conference on Climate Variability and Change; the Sixth Symposium on Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion; the New Orleans Forum on Climate Linked Economics; the 34th Conference on Education; the 41st Conference on Environmental Information Processing Technologies; the 16th Conference on Weather, Water, Climate, and the New Energy Economy; the First Conference on Fire Weather, Technology, and Risk; the 16th Conference on Environment and Health; the 23rd History Symposium; the 11th Symposium on High Performance Computing for Weather, Water, and Climate; the 39th Conference on Hydrology; the 21st Conference on Major Weather Impacts; the Tenth Symposium on US-International Partnerships; the 29th Conference on Integrated Observing and Assimilation Systems for the Atmosphere, Oceans, and Land Surface (IOAS-AOLS); the 13th Symposium on the Joint Center for Satellite Data Assimilation; the Heather Lazrus Symposium; the 13th Symposium on Lidar Atmospheric Applications; the 12th Conference on the Meteorological Application of Lightning Data; the Gerald A Meehl Symposium; the Fourth Symposium on Mesoscale Processes; the 13th Symposium on the Madden-Julian Oscillation and Sub-Seasonal Monsoon Variability; the 21st Annual Symposium on Operational Environmental Satellite Systems; the Presidential Conference; the 15th Symposium on Advances in Modeling and Analysis Using the Programming Languages of Open Science; the Symposium on Radar Research to Operations; the 15th Conference On Transition Of Research To Operations (15R2O); the Third Symposium on Environmental Security; the 25th Symposium on Meteorological Observation and Instrumentation; the 20th Symposium on Societal Applications: Policy, Research and Practice; the 22nd Conference on Space Weather; the Seventh Special Symposium on Tropical Meteorology and Tropical Cyclones; the 33rd Conference on Weather Analysis and Forecasting (WAF)/29th Conference on Numerical Weather Prediction (NWP); the 13th Symposium on Building a Weather-Ready Nation: Enhancing Our Nation; and the 13th Symposium on the Weather, Water, and Climate Enterprise )

1:45 PM-3:00 PM: Monday, 13 January 2025

Recording files available
J3A
Numbers to People: Connecting Numerical Weather Predictions and Societal Applications
Location: 206 (New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)
Hosts: (Joint between the 33rd Conference on Weather Analysis and Forecasting (WAF)/29th Conference on Numerical Weather Prediction (NWP); and the 20th Symposium on Societal Applications: Policy, Research and Practice )
Cochairs: Edward C. Wolff IV, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign; Chris White
1:45 PM
J3A.1
Testing Visual Synthesis of Probabilistic Forecast Information: Results from a Field Survey of Emergency Management Officials
Madison Gordon, NWS, Fort Worth, TX; and T. M. Ryan, M. Krocak, J. Ripberger, and A. C. Wanless

2:00 PM
J3A.2
Exploiting Ensembles NWP Forecasts at the Met Office: From Science to Products and Services
Rosa Barciela, UKMO, Exeter, DEV, United kingdom; and D. N. Walters, PhD, MSc, MPhys, FRMetS, K. R. Mylne, S. Willington, H. A. Titley, K. Williams, C. Piccolo, P. Sachon, A. Skea, and M. Gray

2:15 PM
J3A.3
FLEE: A Natural-Human Model To Explore How Hurricane Forecast Errors Affect Evacuations
Austin Reed Harris, NCAR, Boulder, CO; and R. E. Morss, C. A. Davis, P. J. Roebber, and J. Boehnert

2:30 PM
J3A.4
Communicating Hazard Risk as Possibility, not Probability
John Robert Lawson, Utah State University, Vernal, UT
Manuscript (1.5 MB)

2:45 PM
J3A.5
Recording files available
J3B
Using Field-Campaign Observations to Understand Atmospheric Processes
Location: 207 (New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)
Hosts: (Joint between the 33rd Conference on Weather Analysis and Forecasting (WAF)/29th Conference on Numerical Weather Prediction (NWP); and the Fourth Symposium on Mesoscale Processes )
Cochairs: Daniel James Lloveras; Sam Dahl, Univ. of Arizona
1:45 PM
J3B.1
Near-surface Atmospheric Variability in Pre- and Post-convective Environments as Observed by Small Uncrewed Aerial Systems
Christine A. Neumaier, Colorado State Univ., Fort Collins, CO; and L. D. Grant, S. C. van den Heever, J. Bukowski, S. W. Freeman, B. D. Ascher, T. W. Barbero, C. Davis, J. A. Escobedo, N. M. Falk, B. K. Heffernan, G. R. Leung, A. C. Mazurek, M. Nieto-Caballero, E. A. Sherman, D. S. Veloso-Aguila, P. J. DeMott, S. M. Kreidenweis, R. J. Perkins, and E. A. Stone

2:00 PM
J3B.2
Using In-situ Observations to Compare Environmental Characteristics between Different Tornado Events in the Southeast
Rachel L. Miller, CIWRO - Cooperative Institute of, Norman, OK; and M. D. Flournoy, L. E. Pounds, and M. C. Coniglio

2:15 PM
J3B.3
Analysis of Southeast US Tornadic and Non-tornadic Environments of Varying Storm Modes using Observed Soundings from the VORTEX-SE, Meso18-19, and PERiLS Field Campaigns
Lauren E. Pounds, Univ. of Oklahoma, Norman, OK; and M. D. Flournoy, R. L. Miller, M. C. Coniglio, and A. Wade

2:30 PM
J3B.4
Processes Governing Precipitation Variability in Winter Extratropical Cyclones: Results from the Recent IMPACTS Field Campaign
Lynn McMurdie, Univ. of Washington, Seattle, WA; and J. Finlon, A. DeLaFrance, and V. Garcia

2:45 PM
J3B.5
Characterizing Variations of Cloud Microphysical Properties with Respect to Position in Snowbands and Small-Scale Vertical Motion: A Case Study of 23 January 2023 Storm during IMPACTS
Jonathan Connor Douglas, The University of Oklahoma/CIWRO, Norman, OK; and G. M. McFarquhar, D. J. Delene, K. L. Thornhill, G. M. Heymsfield, and C. N. Helms

3:00 PM-3:40 PM: Monday, 13 January 2025


Monday ePosters
Location: Hall C (New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)
Hosts: (Joint between the Events; the 13th AMS Conference for Early Career Professionals; the Heather Lazrus Symposium; the Gerald A Meehl Symposium; the 41st Conference on Environmental Information Processing Technologies; the 39th Conference on Hydrology; the 38th Conference on Climate Variability and Change; the 34th Conference on Education; the 33rd Conference on Weather Analysis and Forecasting (WAF)/29th Conference on Numerical Weather Prediction (NWP); the 29th Conference of Applied Climatology; the 29th Conference on Integrated Observing and Assimilation Systems for the Atmosphere, Oceans, and Land Surface (IOAS-AOLS); the 27th Conference on Atmospheric Chemistry; the 25th Symposium on Meteorological Observation and Instrumentation; the 25th Conference on Aviation, Range, and Aerospace Meteorology; the 24th Conference on Air-Sea Interaction; the 24th Conference on Artificial Intelligence for Environmental Science; the 23rd Symposium on the Coastal Environment; the 23rd History Symposium; the 22nd Conference on Space Weather; the 21st Conference on Major Weather Impacts; the 21st Annual Symposium on Operational Environmental Satellite Systems; the 20th Symposium on Societal Applications: Policy, Research and Practice; the 17th Symposium on Aerosol Cloud Climate Interactions; the 16th Conference on Environment and Health; the 16th Conference on Weather, Water, Climate, and the New Energy Economy; the 15th Conference On Transition Of Research To Operations (15R2O); the 15th Symposium on Advances in Modeling and Analysis Using the Programming Languages of Open Science; the 13th Symposium on Building a Weather-Ready Nation: Enhancing Our Nation; the 13th Symposium on the Joint Center for Satellite Data Assimilation; the 13th Symposium on Lidar Atmospheric Applications; the 13th Symposium on the Madden-Julian Oscillation and Sub-Seasonal Monsoon Variability; the 11th Symposium on High Performance Computing for Weather, Water, and Climate; the 13th Symposium on the Weather, Water, and Climate Enterprise; the 12th Conference on the Meteorological Application of Lightning Data; the Tenth Symposium on US-International Partnerships; the Seventh Special Symposium on Tropical Meteorology and Tropical Cyclones; the Sixth Symposium on Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion; the Fourth Symposium on Community Modeling and Innovation; the Fourth Symposium on Mesoscale Processes; the Third Symposium on Environmental Security; the Second Symposium on Cloud Physics; the First Conference on Fire Weather, Technology, and Risk; the Symposium on Radar Research to Operations; the Symposium on Careers in Operational Government Meteorology and Hydrology; and the New Orleans Forum on Climate Linked Economics )
E1
21OESS NOAA-21 Products Update and Enterprise Product Operations in NESDIS Common Cloud Framework
Shuang Qiu, NESDIS, College Park, MD; and J. D. Evans and Z. Cheng

E4
20Society Diurnal and Seasonal Patterns of Convective Weather Hazards across Tennessee and Their Likelihood of Causing Harm
Kelsey N Ellis, Univ. of Tennessee, Knoxville, Knoxville, TN; and C. Hannel, J. First, and D. A. Herrera

E5
33WAF/29NWP Lessons from a Dynamic and Statistical Analysis of Giant Hail Environments in NE Italy
Francesco De Martin, University of Bologna, Bologna, BO, Italy; and A. Manzato, N. Carlon, M. Setvák, and M. M. Miglietta
Manuscript (245.3 kB)

E7
17Aerosol Winter Orographic Cloud Seeding in SNOWIE: Insights from Ensemble Simulation
Sisi Chen, NCAR, Boulder, CO; and Z. Xie, Y. Zhang, L. Xue, PhD, C. Hohman, S. A. Tessendorf, K. Friedrich, J. R. French, B. N. Geerts, T. J. Zaremba, J. K. Wolff, R. M. Rauber, C. Weeks, N. Dawson, and S. Parkinson

E8
16Energy On the Prediction of Future Energy Demands in New York State
Kaiden Patrick Sookdar, SUNY Albany, Albany, NY; and H. Gamarro, J. E. González-Cruz, T. L. Nguyen, R. Kadavil, and H. Hooshyar

E9
15R2O GREMLIN use at the National Weather Service office in Pago Pago, American Samoa
Scott S. Lindstrom, CIMSS, Madison, WI; and E. LUTU-McMOORE, T. Meredith, J. LaPlante, K. A. Hilburn, E. Jacobsen, L. Cronce, B. Rapp, L. Byerle, and J. K. Zajic

E10
39Hydro Linking Groundwater and Land Surface Processes with the Coupled NASA Land Information System and ParFlow Framework
Fadji Zaouna Maina, USRA, Greenbelt, MD; and D. Rosen, P. Abbaszadeh, C. Yang, S. V. Kumar, PhD, M. Rodell, and R. M. Maxwell

E11
25SMOI The Impact of Urban Heat Island on Precipitation Patterns in the Greater Washington D.C. Region
Neil Crosby, NCAS, College Park, MD; NCAS, Grovetown, GA; and K. L. Pryor and R. K. K. Sakai

E12
17Aerosol On the Prediction of Aerosol-Cloud Interactions within a Data-driven Framework
XIANGYU Li, PNNL, Richland, WA; and H. N. Wang, T. Chakraborty, A. Sorooshian, L. Ziemba, C. Voigt, and K. L. Thornhill

E13
7Tropical Attributing the Impacts of Future Ocean Warming Over the Gulf of Mexico on Landfalling Hurricanes Over the Texas Coast
SHANRU TIAN, University of Texas at Arlington, ARLINGTON, TX; Univ. of Texas at Arlington, Arlington, TX; and Y. Zhang and L. Lu

E14
24AI Downscaling Model Guidance to Support the Gridded Forecast Process in Areas of Complex Terrain in OCONUS
Kirana Olympia Bergstrom, CIRES, Boulder, CO; and E. M. Petrescu and J. Q. Stewart

E16
16Health Mapping the Health Impacts of Urban Heat on Local Populations in the Arid Negev Region of Israel
David Pearlmutter, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Midreshet Ben Gurion, Israel; and M. Eshkoli Pincu

3:00 PM-4:30 PM: Monday, 13 January 2025


Coffee Break
Hosts: (Joint between the Events; the 17th Symposium on Aerosol Cloud Climate Interactions; the 24th Conference on Air-Sea Interaction; the 24th Conference on Artificial Intelligence for Environmental Science; the 29th Conference of Applied Climatology; the 25th Conference on Aviation, Range, and Aerospace Meteorology; the 27th Conference on Atmospheric Chemistry; the Symposium on Careers in Operational Government Meteorology and Hydrology; the Second Symposium on Cloud Physics; the Fourth Symposium on Community Modeling and Innovation; the 23rd Symposium on the Coastal Environment; the 38th Conference on Climate Variability and Change; the Sixth Symposium on Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion; the New Orleans Forum on Climate Linked Economics; the 34th Conference on Education; the 41st Conference on Environmental Information Processing Technologies; the 16th Conference on Weather, Water, Climate, and the New Energy Economy; the First Conference on Fire Weather, Technology, and Risk; the 16th Conference on Environment and Health; the 23rd History Symposium; the 11th Symposium on High Performance Computing for Weather, Water, and Climate; the 39th Conference on Hydrology; the 21st Conference on Major Weather Impacts; the Tenth Symposium on US-International Partnerships; the 29th Conference on Integrated Observing and Assimilation Systems for the Atmosphere, Oceans, and Land Surface (IOAS-AOLS); the 13th Symposium on the Joint Center for Satellite Data Assimilation; the Heather Lazrus Symposium; the 13th Symposium on Lidar Atmospheric Applications; the 12th Conference on the Meteorological Application of Lightning Data; the Gerald A Meehl Symposium; the Fourth Symposium on Mesoscale Processes; the 13th Symposium on the Madden-Julian Oscillation and Sub-Seasonal Monsoon Variability; the 21st Annual Symposium on Operational Environmental Satellite Systems; the Presidential Conference; the 15th Symposium on Advances in Modeling and Analysis Using the Programming Languages of Open Science; the Symposium on Radar Research to Operations; the 15th Conference On Transition Of Research To Operations (15R2O); the Third Symposium on Environmental Security; the 25th Symposium on Meteorological Observation and Instrumentation; the 20th Symposium on Societal Applications: Policy, Research and Practice; the 22nd Conference on Space Weather; the Seventh Special Symposium on Tropical Meteorology and Tropical Cyclones; the 33rd Conference on Weather Analysis and Forecasting (WAF)/29th Conference on Numerical Weather Prediction (NWP); the 13th Symposium on Building a Weather-Ready Nation: Enhancing Our Nation; and the 13th Symposium on the Weather, Water, and Climate Enterprise )

Formal Poster Viewing and Coffee Break
Location: Hall C (New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)
Hosts: (Joint between the Events; the 24th Conference on Air-Sea Interaction; the 17th Symposium on Aerosol Cloud Climate Interactions; the 24th Conference on Artificial Intelligence for Environmental Science; the 29th Conference of Applied Climatology; the 25th Conference on Aviation, Range, and Aerospace Meteorology; the 27th Conference on Atmospheric Chemistry; the Symposium on Careers in Operational Government Meteorology and Hydrology; the Second Symposium on Cloud Physics; the Fourth Symposium on Community Modeling and Innovation; the 23rd Symposium on the Coastal Environment; the 38th Conference on Climate Variability and Change; the Sixth Symposium on Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion; the New Orleans Forum on Climate Linked Economics; the 34th Conference on Education; the 41st Conference on Environmental Information Processing Technologies; the 16th Conference on Weather, Water, Climate, and the New Energy Economy; the First Conference on Fire Weather, Technology, and Risk; the 16th Conference on Environment and Health; the 23rd History Symposium; the 11th Symposium on High Performance Computing for Weather, Water, and Climate; the 39th Conference on Hydrology; the 21st Conference on Major Weather Impacts; the Tenth Symposium on US-International Partnerships; the 29th Conference on Integrated Observing and Assimilation Systems for the Atmosphere, Oceans, and Land Surface (IOAS-AOLS); the 13th Symposium on the Joint Center for Satellite Data Assimilation; the Heather Lazrus Symposium; the 13th Symposium on Lidar Atmospheric Applications; the 12th Conference on the Meteorological Application of Lightning Data; the Gerald A Meehl Symposium; the Fourth Symposium on Mesoscale Processes; the 13th Symposium on the Madden-Julian Oscillation and Sub-Seasonal Monsoon Variability; the 21st Annual Symposium on Operational Environmental Satellite Systems; the Presidential Conference; the 15th Symposium on Advances in Modeling and Analysis Using the Programming Languages of Open Science; the Symposium on Radar Research to Operations; the 15th Conference On Transition Of Research To Operations (15R2O); the Third Symposium on Environmental Security; the 25th Symposium on Meteorological Observation and Instrumentation; the 20th Symposium on Societal Applications: Policy, Research and Practice; the 22nd Conference on Space Weather; the Seventh Special Symposium on Tropical Meteorology and Tropical Cyclones; the 33rd Conference on Weather Analysis and Forecasting (WAF)/29th Conference on Numerical Weather Prediction (NWP); the 13th Symposium on Building a Weather-Ready Nation: Enhancing Our Nation; and the 13th Symposium on the Weather, Water, and Climate Enterprise )

1
Embracing Probabilistic Decision Support Services: How Operational Meteorology and Hydrology Will Change in the Next 10 Years (Poster)
Location: Hall C (New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)
Hosts: (Joint between the 33rd Conference on Weather Analysis and Forecasting (WAF)/29th Conference on Numerical Weather Prediction (NWP); and the Symposium on Careers in Operational Government Meteorology and Hydrology )
48
WeatherMesh: Adapting Transformers for Weather Prediction
Anuj Shetty, WindBorne Systems, Stanford, CA; and J. Dean, J. Creus-Costa, H. Du, and C. Riedel


1
Forecast Verification Methods and Performance (Poster)
Location: Hall C (New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)
Host: 33rd Conference on Weather Analysis and Forecasting (WAF)/29th Conference on Numerical Weather Prediction (NWP)
49
Severe Weather Signals in Convective- Allowing Forecasts: Comparing MPAS and FV3 for the 2023 and 2023 Convective Seasons.
La Ditra Kelina Mason, NCAR, Boulder, CO; NCAR, Boulder, CO; and D. A. Ahijevych

50
Examining Boundary Layer Evolution during the Morning Transition using Observations and a Single-Column Model
Julia M. Simonson, CIRES, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO; NOAA/ESRL, Boulder, CO; Developmental Testbed Center, Boulder, CO; and W. M. Angevine, D. D. Turner, T. J. Wagner, T. Heus, T. E. Rosenberger, G. N. Raghunathan, and S. He

Handout (1.8 MB)

51
Utilizing Object-Based Identification to Verify UFS Snowfall Forecasts using Snow-to-Liquid Ratio Methods
Jilliann A. Dufort, CIWRO/NSSL, Norman, OK; Cooperative Institute for Severe and High-Impact Weather Research and Operations (CIWRO) at NOAA/OAR/NSSL, Norman, OK; and A. A. Rosenow and H. D. Reeves

52
The Houston Derecho: A HRRR Versus MPAS Case Study as Part of The NOAA Hazardous Weather Testbed Annual Spring Forecast Experiment
Marinna Stopa, UCAR, Boulder, CO; University of Florida, Gainesville, FL; and J. Beck, M. A. Harrold, and W. Mayfield

53
Comparative Performance of WRF and MPAS in Simulating Extreme Rainfall During Hurricane Ida in the New York Metropolitan Area
Jorge Bravo, PhD student, Stevens Institute of Technology, Hoboken, NJ; and M. Temimi and M. Abdelkader


1
Meso- to Subseasonal-Scale Meteorological Phenomena (Poster)
Location: Hall C (New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)
Host: 33rd Conference on Weather Analysis and Forecasting (WAF)/29th Conference on Numerical Weather Prediction (NWP)
56
A Survey of Thunderstorm and Tornado Occurrence in High-End Environments
Thomas J. Galarneau, NSSL, Norman, OK; and P. S. Skinner

57
Sensitivity of the February 2021 U.S. Cold-Air Outbreak to Tropopause Polar Vortex Intensity
Tomer Burg, CIRES @ NOAA/NWS/WPC/HMT, College Park, MD; and S. M. Cavallo

58
Diagnosing tornadic environments in the western coasts of North and South America
Julio C. Marin, Universidad de Valparaiso, Chile, Valparaiso, Valparaiso, Chile; Universidad de Valparaíso, Valparaíso, Chile; and F. Gutiérrez, V. A. Gensini, PhD, CCM, B. Barrett, M. Jacques-Coper, and D. Pozo

59
Cyclone Pathways and Intensification of Extreme Atmospheric Rivers in the Northeast U.S.
Hannah Beauprey Kostka, NSF, Oxford, CT; and N. D. Metz and J. Cordeira

Handout (5.4 MB)

60
Bow Echo Formation Mechanisms: An Analysis of 293 Events
Eliot Morrow, Iowa State University, Ames, IA; and W. A. Gallus

Handout (1011.4 kB)


1
Prediction of Mesoscale Processes and Extremes (Poster)
Location: Hall C (New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)
Hosts: (Joint between the 33rd Conference on Weather Analysis and Forecasting (WAF)/29th Conference on Numerical Weather Prediction (NWP); and the Fourth Symposium on Mesoscale Processes )
61
Ensemble-Approximated Model Predictive Control for Meteorological Applications
Kenta Kurosawa, Univ. of Maryland, College Park, MD

62
Environmental Analysis of the Farthest Northwest Severe Thunderstorm Warning Ever Issued
Robert Joseph Bianco, NWS, Fairbanks , AK; and J. Chriest
Manuscript (401.6 kB)

Handout (1.1 MB)

63
Operational WRF Ensemble Updates at the US Air Force’s 16th Weather Squadron
Burkely Twiest Gallo, U.S. Air Force, 557th Weather Wing, Offutt AFB, NE; and E. L. Kuchera, S. Rentschler, G. Creighton, A. J. Elliott, S. Childs, G. R. Brooks, J. Keane, and M. Vaughan

64
Development of Web-Based Forecast and Verification Tools at the WPC
Austin T. King, NOAA/NWS/WPC, College Park, MD; CIRES, Boulder, CO

3:50 PM-4:30 PM: Monday, 13 January 2025


Monday ePosters
Location: Hall C (New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)
Hosts: (Joint between the Events; the 13th AMS Conference for Early Career Professionals; the Heather Lazrus Symposium; the Gerald A Meehl Symposium; the 41st Conference on Environmental Information Processing Technologies; the 39th Conference on Hydrology; the 38th Conference on Climate Variability and Change; the 34th Conference on Education; the 33rd Conference on Weather Analysis and Forecasting (WAF)/29th Conference on Numerical Weather Prediction (NWP); the 29th Conference of Applied Climatology; the 29th Conference on Integrated Observing and Assimilation Systems for the Atmosphere, Oceans, and Land Surface (IOAS-AOLS); the 27th Conference on Atmospheric Chemistry; the 25th Symposium on Meteorological Observation and Instrumentation; the 25th Conference on Aviation, Range, and Aerospace Meteorology; the 24th Conference on Air-Sea Interaction; the 24th Conference on Artificial Intelligence for Environmental Science; the 23rd Symposium on the Coastal Environment; the 23rd History Symposium; the 22nd Conference on Space Weather; the 21st Conference on Major Weather Impacts; the 21st Annual Symposium on Operational Environmental Satellite Systems; the 20th Symposium on Societal Applications: Policy, Research and Practice; the 17th Symposium on Aerosol Cloud Climate Interactions; the 16th Conference on Environment and Health; the 16th Conference on Weather, Water, Climate, and the New Energy Economy; the 15th Conference On Transition Of Research To Operations (15R2O); the 15th Symposium on Advances in Modeling and Analysis Using the Programming Languages of Open Science; the 13th Symposium on Building a Weather-Ready Nation: Enhancing Our Nation; the 13th Symposium on the Joint Center for Satellite Data Assimilation; the 13th Symposium on Lidar Atmospheric Applications; the 13th Symposium on the Madden-Julian Oscillation and Sub-Seasonal Monsoon Variability; the 11th Symposium on High Performance Computing for Weather, Water, and Climate; the 13th Symposium on the Weather, Water, and Climate Enterprise; the 12th Conference on the Meteorological Application of Lightning Data; the Tenth Symposium on US-International Partnerships; the Seventh Special Symposium on Tropical Meteorology and Tropical Cyclones; the Sixth Symposium on Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion; the Fourth Symposium on Community Modeling and Innovation; the Fourth Symposium on Mesoscale Processes; the Third Symposium on Environmental Security; the Second Symposium on Cloud Physics; the First Conference on Fire Weather, Technology, and Risk; the Symposium on Radar Research to Operations; the Symposium on Careers in Operational Government Meteorology and Hydrology; and the New Orleans Forum on Climate Linked Economics )
E17
38CVC Validating Hydroclimate Signals Around Sudden Stratospheric Warmings
Jonathan Lee, Cornell University, Forest Hills, NY; and P. Hitchcock, Y. Dai, and F. Lehner

E18
34Education Extending the Science: Examples of Education and Community Engagement during NSF NCAR-Support Field Campaigns
Daniel Zietlow, NSF NCAR, Boulder, CO; and C. A. Wolff, E. B. McUmber, P. S. Tsai, J. A. Aquino, R. Haacker, and L. Medina Luna

E20
41EIPT NOAA Satellite Oceanographic Products Scientific Stewardship and Development at NEDSIS National Centers for Environmental Information (NCEI): Data Archival, Public Access and Production based on Machine Learning
Yongsheng Zhang, NESDIS/National Centers for Environmental Information (NCEI) and ESSIC/CISESS at University of Maryland College Park, Silver Spring, MD; and J. Frech and H. M. Zhang

E21
41EIPT Cloud-Based Time Series Analysis of Extremes: Use Cases and Applications
Suhung Shen, NASA GSFC GESDISC, Greenbelt, MD; and Z. Liu, A. Heath, L. Iredell, M. Hegde, and C. Smit

E23
41EIPT The Field Campaign Explorer (FCX): A Cloud-Based, Three-Dimensional Visualization System for Multiple, Coincident Datasets
Navaneeth Selvaraj, Global Hydrometeorology Resource Center DAAC, Huntsville, AL; and G. T. Stano, I. Sivasamy, W. Ellett, and S. Graves

E24
41EIPT Progress Towards Operational Implementation of Convective Warnings using Hazard Services at the National Weather Service
Emily Elizabeth-Janssen Schlie, CIRA, Alexandria, VA; and C. V. Dreisbach, C. Golden, Y. Guo, D. M. Kingfield, J. Ramer, and S. zhuo

E25
15R2O Impact of Aerosol Forcing on UFS-Based Seasonal-Length Predictions
Benjamin W. Green, CIRES, Boulder, CO; NOAA/OAR/Global Systems Laboratory, Boulder, CO; and S. Sun and W. Wang

E26
15R2O Enhancing Dataset Discovery and Usage Tracking in Earth Sciences: Integrating Knowledge Graphs and Large Language Models
Irina Gerasimov, NASA, Ellicott City, MD; NASA, Greenbelt, MD; ADNET, Bethesda, MD; and A. Mehrabian, J. Alfred, B. KC, A. Savtchenko, PhD, NASA/GSFC/ADNET, K. Gilbert, and J. Wei

E27
15R2O Improvements of Severe Weather Prediction - A Proxy of Next Generation Satellite Sounding Observations
William L. Smith Sr., CIMSS, Madison, WI; and A. DiNorscia, W. L. Smith Jr., S. S. Lindstrom, and A. Heidinger

Handout (3.3 MB)

E28
20Society Audience Perceptions of an Interactive Version of the SPC Convective Outlook
Zoey Rosen, Univ. of Oklahoma, Norman, OK; and S. R. Ernst, B. J. Fellman, M. Krocak, J. Ripberger, and C. Karstens

4:30 PM-6:00 PM: Monday, 13 January 2025

Recording files available
Session 4A
Forecasting and Nowcasting Severe Convective Storms
Location: 206 (New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)
Host: 33rd Conference on Weather Analysis and Forecasting (WAF)/29th Conference on Numerical Weather Prediction (NWP)
Cochairs: Kim Wood, Mississippi State University; Matthew R. Beitscher, MS, NOAA/NWS/NCEP/Aviation Weather Center
4:30 PM
4A.1
Evaluating Radar-Based Rotational Thresholds for Tornadoes in Small-scale Convective Cells
Matthew R. Kramar, NWS, Moon Township, PA; and B. LaSorsa, C. Belak, M. Brudy, T. Cermak, S. Hefferan, D. Hofmann, C. Ledbetter, C. Milcarek, K. Pallozzi, D. Shallenberger, and A. Snyder

4:45 PM
4A.2
Reflecting on a Decade of Formalized Tornado Emergencies
Edward C. Wolff IV, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL; and J. Goodnight, L. Blind-Doskocil, and J. E. Trujillo-Falcón

5:00 PM
4A.3
Remote Mesoanalysis Support - Revolutionizing Severe Weather Operations through Mutual Aid
Randy A Graham, NWS, NWS, Kansas City, MO; and J. M. Pittman

5:15 PM
4A.4
Revisiting Environment-Based Hail Size Classification: A Direct Comparison of Composite Indices and Environmental Parameters from SPC Mesoanalysis
Jacob Widanski, SPC, Norman, OK; Univ. of Oklahoma, Norman, OK; CIWRO/NSSL, Norman, OK; and C. Karstens, I. L. Jirak, N. A. Dahl, A. R. Dean, and J. Vancil

5:30 PM
4A.5
New York and New England Significant Hail Climatology and Environmental Analysis
Michael Everett Main, NWS, Albany, NY; NOAA, Albany, NY; and T. A. Wasula

Recording files available
J4B
Using Field-Campaign Observations to Evaluate and Improve Numerical Weather Prediction Models
Location: 207 (New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)
Hosts: (Joint between the 33rd Conference on Weather Analysis and Forecasting (WAF)/29th Conference on Numerical Weather Prediction (NWP); and the Fourth Symposium on Mesoscale Processes )
Cochairs: Daniel James Lloveras; Sam Dahl, Univ. of Arizona
4:30 PM
J4B.1
A Comparison of Observed and Simulated Precipitation Objects During the IMPACTS Campaign
Phillip Yeh, SUNY Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY; and B. A. Colle, J. Finlon, L. McMurdie, A. DeLaFrance, and V. Garcia

4:45 PM
J4B.2
Synoptic-Scale Predictability of a Near-Freezing Precipitation Event during the WINTRE-MIX Field Campaign
Clairisse Alison Reiher, University of Colorado Boulder, Boulder, CO; and A. C. Winters

5:00 PM
J4B.3
5:15 PM
J4B.4
An Idealized Study of QLCS-Supercell Mergers in High-Shear, Low-CAPE Environments
Joshua S. Ostaszewski, Texas Tech University, Lubbock, TX; and C. C. Weiss

5:30 PM
J4B.5
Verification of the WRF-ARW Eclipse Model Using Observations from the 14 October 2023 and 8 April 2024 Solar Eclipses
Genevieve I. Picciano, Plymouth State University, Plymouth, NH; and E. P. Kelsey

5:45 PM
J4B.6
Evaluating the Impact of Dropsonde Data from the 2023-2024 Atmospheric River Reconnaissance on NCEP Operational GFS Forecasts
Vijay S. Tallapragada, NOAA/NWS/Environmental Modeling Center, College Park, MD; and X. Wu, K. Wu, F. M. Ralph, and A. M. Wilson

6:00 PM-7:30 PM: Monday, 13 January 2025


Exhibit Hall Opening Reception
Location: Hall C (New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)
Hosts: (Joint between the Events; the 24th Conference on Air-Sea Interaction; the 24th Conference on Artificial Intelligence for Environmental Science; the 29th Conference of Applied Climatology; the 25th Conference on Aviation, Range, and Aerospace Meteorology; the 27th Conference on Atmospheric Chemistry; the Symposium on Careers in Operational Government Meteorology and Hydrology; the Second Symposium on Cloud Physics; the Fourth Symposium on Community Modeling and Innovation; the 23rd Symposium on the Coastal Environment; the 38th Conference on Climate Variability and Change; the Sixth Symposium on Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion; the New Orleans Forum on Climate Linked Economics; the 34th Conference on Education; the 41st Conference on Environmental Information Processing Technologies; the 16th Conference on Weather, Water, Climate, and the New Energy Economy; the First Conference on Fire Weather, Technology, and Risk; the 16th Conference on Environment and Health; the 23rd History Symposium; the 11th Symposium on High Performance Computing for Weather, Water, and Climate; the 39th Conference on Hydrology; the 21st Conference on Major Weather Impacts; the Tenth Symposium on US-International Partnerships; the 29th Conference on Integrated Observing and Assimilation Systems for the Atmosphere, Oceans, and Land Surface (IOAS-AOLS); the 13th Symposium on the Joint Center for Satellite Data Assimilation; the Heather Lazrus Symposium; the 13th Symposium on Lidar Atmospheric Applications; the 12th Conference on the Meteorological Application of Lightning Data; the Gerald A Meehl Symposium; the Fourth Symposium on Mesoscale Processes; the 13th Symposium on the Madden-Julian Oscillation and Sub-Seasonal Monsoon Variability; the 21st Annual Symposium on Operational Environmental Satellite Systems; the Presidential Conference; the 15th Symposium on Advances in Modeling and Analysis Using the Programming Languages of Open Science; the Symposium on Radar Research to Operations; the 15th Conference On Transition Of Research To Operations (15R2O); the Third Symposium on Environmental Security; the 25th Symposium on Meteorological Observation and Instrumentation; the 20th Symposium on Societal Applications: Policy, Research and Practice; the 22nd Conference on Space Weather; the Seventh Special Symposium on Tropical Meteorology and Tropical Cyclones; the 33rd Conference on Weather Analysis and Forecasting (WAF)/29th Conference on Numerical Weather Prediction (NWP); the 13th Symposium on Building a Weather-Ready Nation: Enhancing Our Nation; and the 13th Symposium on the Weather, Water, and Climate Enterprise )

8:00 PM-10:00 PM: Monday, 13 January 2025


11th Annual Speed Networking Event [11SPNE]
Location: Rivergate (New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)
Hosts: (Joint between the Events; the Sixth Symposium on Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion; the 24th Conference on Air-Sea Interaction; the 29th Conference of Applied Climatology; the 25th Conference on Aviation, Range, and Aerospace Meteorology; the 27th Conference on Atmospheric Chemistry; the Symposium on Careers in Operational Government Meteorology and Hydrology; the Second Symposium on Cloud Physics; the Fourth Symposium on Community Modeling and Innovation; the 23rd Symposium on the Coastal Environment; the 38th Conference on Climate Variability and Change; the New Orleans Forum on Climate Linked Economics; the 34th Conference on Education; the 41st Conference on Environmental Information Processing Technologies; the 16th Conference on Weather, Water, Climate, and the New Energy Economy; the First Conference on Fire Weather, Technology, and Risk; the 16th Conference on Environment and Health; the 23rd History Symposium; the 11th Symposium on High Performance Computing for Weather, Water, and Climate; the 39th Conference on Hydrology; the 21st Conference on Major Weather Impacts; the Tenth Symposium on US-International Partnerships; the 29th Conference on Integrated Observing and Assimilation Systems for the Atmosphere, Oceans, and Land Surface (IOAS-AOLS); the 13th Symposium on the Joint Center for Satellite Data Assimilation; the Heather Lazrus Symposium; the 13th Symposium on Lidar Atmospheric Applications; the 12th Conference on the Meteorological Application of Lightning Data; the Gerald A Meehl Symposium; the Fourth Symposium on Mesoscale Processes; the 13th Symposium on the Madden-Julian Oscillation and Sub-Seasonal Monsoon Variability; the 21st Annual Symposium on Operational Environmental Satellite Systems; the Presidential Conference; the 15th Symposium on Advances in Modeling and Analysis Using the Programming Languages of Open Science; the Symposium on Radar Research to Operations; the 15th Conference On Transition Of Research To Operations (15R2O); the Third Symposium on Environmental Security; the 25th Symposium on Meteorological Observation and Instrumentation; the 20th Symposium on Societal Applications: Policy, Research and Practice; the 22nd Conference on Space Weather; the 24th Annual Student Conference; the Seventh Special Symposium on Tropical Meteorology and Tropical Cyclones; the 33rd Conference on Weather Analysis and Forecasting (WAF)/29th Conference on Numerical Weather Prediction (NWP); the 13th Symposium on Building a Weather-Ready Nation: Enhancing Our Nation; and the 13th Symposium on the Weather, Water, and Climate Enterprise )

Twisters Screening - In partnership with the WRN Symposium
Location: Great Hall A (New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)
Hosts: (Joint between the Events; the 24th Conference on Artificial Intelligence for Environmental Science; the 17th Symposium on Aerosol Cloud Climate Interactions; the 24th Conference on Air-Sea Interaction; the 29th Conference of Applied Climatology; the 25th Conference on Aviation, Range, and Aerospace Meteorology; the 27th Conference on Atmospheric Chemistry; the Symposium on Careers in Operational Government Meteorology and Hydrology; the Second Symposium on Cloud Physics; the Fourth Symposium on Community Modeling and Innovation; the 23rd Symposium on the Coastal Environment; the 38th Conference on Climate Variability and Change; the Sixth Symposium on Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion; the New Orleans Forum on Climate Linked Economics; the 34th Conference on Education; the 41st Conference on Environmental Information Processing Technologies; the 16th Conference on Weather, Water, Climate, and the New Energy Economy; the First Conference on Fire Weather, Technology, and Risk; the 16th Conference on Environment and Health; the 23rd History Symposium; the 11th Symposium on High Performance Computing for Weather, Water, and Climate; the 39th Conference on Hydrology; the 21st Conference on Major Weather Impacts; the Tenth Symposium on US-International Partnerships; the 29th Conference on Integrated Observing and Assimilation Systems for the Atmosphere, Oceans, and Land Surface (IOAS-AOLS); the 13th Symposium on the Joint Center for Satellite Data Assimilation; the Heather Lazrus Symposium; the 13th Symposium on Lidar Atmospheric Applications; the 12th Conference on the Meteorological Application of Lightning Data; the Gerald A Meehl Symposium; the Fourth Symposium on Mesoscale Processes; the 13th Symposium on the Madden-Julian Oscillation and Sub-Seasonal Monsoon Variability; the 21st Annual Symposium on Operational Environmental Satellite Systems; the Presidential Conference; the 15th Symposium on Advances in Modeling and Analysis Using the Programming Languages of Open Science; the Symposium on Radar Research to Operations; the 15th Conference On Transition Of Research To Operations (15R2O); the Third Symposium on Environmental Security; the 25th Symposium on Meteorological Observation and Instrumentation; the 20th Symposium on Societal Applications: Policy, Research and Practice; the 22nd Conference on Space Weather; the 24th Annual Student Conference; the Seventh Special Symposium on Tropical Meteorology and Tropical Cyclones; the 33rd Conference on Weather Analysis and Forecasting (WAF)/29th Conference on Numerical Weather Prediction (NWP); and the 13th Symposium on Building a Weather-Ready Nation: Enhancing Our Nation )
8:00 PM
Welcoming Remarks

Tuesday, 14 January 2025

8:30 AM-10:00 AM: Tuesday, 14 January 2025

Recording files available
Session 5A
Probabilistic Forecasting for Precipitation
Location: 206 (New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)
Host: 33rd Conference on Weather Analysis and Forecasting (WAF)/29th Conference on Numerical Weather Prediction (NWP)
Cochairs: Diana Rose Stovern, CIRES; Michael Seaman
8:30 AM
5A.1
Machine Learning Based Improvement of Precipitation Type Forecasts
Prabal Das, Univ. of Texas at Arlington, Arlington, TX; and Y. Zhang, N. Acharya, B. Veenhuis, P. E. Shafer, and T. M. Hamill

9:00 AM
5A.3
Probabilistic Tracking of Heavy Precipitation Objects on Sub-Hourly Timescales
NOAH S BRAUER, CIRES, NOAA/NWS WPC, Boulder, CO; and M. R. Green, A. T. King, M. J. Erickson, and J. A. Nelson Jr.

9:15 AM
5A.4
An Experimental Deep Learning-based Postprocessing Scheme for Producing Probabilistic Quantitative Precipitation Forecasts
Yu Zhang, Univ. of Texas at Arlington, Arlington, TX; and X. Hu, M. Zhang, B. Veenhuis, P. E. Shafer, T. M. Hamill, and N. Acharya

9:30 AM
5A.5
Forecast Skill and Spread of Three Convection-Allowing Ensembles during the 2024 Spring Forecast Experiment
David Dowell, NOAA/GSL, Boulder, CO; and T. I. Alcott, J. Hamilton, T. T. Ladwig, and J. Dong

9:45 AM
5A.6
The Weather Prediction Center’s new Atmospheric River Experiment: Results and Future Plans
Tomer Burg, CIRES @ NOAA/NWS/WPC/HMT, College Park, MD; and J. Correia Jr., J. A. Nelson Jr., and B. S. Albright

Recording files available
Session 5B
Physics and Dynamics Development I
Location: 207 (New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)
Host: 33rd Conference on Weather Analysis and Forecasting (WAF)/29th Conference on Numerical Weather Prediction (NWP)
Cochairs: Kathryn M. Newman, Developmental Testbed Center (DTC); Katie Magee
8:30 AM
5B.1
Updates on Wave Coupling for the next Global Forecast System GFSv17
Jessica Meixner, NOAA, College Park, MD; and M. Masarik, S. Banihashemi, A. Salimi-Tarazouj, R. Martins Campos, and A. Mehra

8:45 AM
5B.2
Enhancing Land Surface Modeling: Upgrades for NOAA Unified Forecast System Global Forecast Applications
Helin Wei, NWS/NCEP/EMC, College Park, MD; and M. J. Barlage, W. Zheng, Z. Guo, Y. Xia, and F. Yang

9:15 AM
5B.4
Improving Stochastic Representations of Parameterized Physical Processes in Weather and Climate Models
Gilbert P. Compo, Univ. of Colorado CIRES, Boulder, CO; NOAA Physical Sciences Laboratory, Boulder, CO; and P. D. Sardeshmukh

9:30 AM
5B.5
A Study of Nonhydrostatic Equation Sets for Low- and High-Altitude Atmospheric Modeling
Kiran Jadhav, Naval Postgraduate School, Monterey, CA; and J. F. Kelly, F. Giraldo, and S. D. Eckermann

Recording files available
J5
Integration of Observational Data in Forecasting and Numerical Weather Prediction Simulations
Location: 348 (New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)
Hosts: (Joint between the 25th Symposium on Meteorological Observation and Instrumentation; and the 33rd Conference on Weather Analysis and Forecasting (WAF)/29th Conference on Numerical Weather Prediction (NWP) )
Chair: Michelle Rose Storm
CoChair: Temple R. Lee, NOAA ATDD and CIMMS
8:30 AM
J5.1
First Evaluation of HRRR Forecasts of Boundary Layer Thermodynamics across Contrasting
Sandip Pal, Texas Tech Univ., Lubbock, TX; and T. R. Lee

8:45 AM
J5.2
Assimilating 3D Cloud Radar Reflectivity Retrieved Based on MODIS for Typhoon Forecast
Yubao Liu, NUIST, School of Atmospheric Physics, N, Jiangsu, China; NUIST, School of Outstanding Weather Engneers, Nanjing, CO; and H. Zhang, Z. Huo, and Y. Qin

9:00 AM
J5.3
Systematic Evaluation of Assimilating Ground-Based Remote-Sensing Profiling Observations of the New York State Mesonet for Forecasting of Severe Weather Events in New York State
Junkyung Kay, NCAR, Boulder, CO; NCAR, Boulder, CO; and T. M. Weckwerth, J. O. Pinto, Phd, J. Wang, and M. B. Wilson

9:15 AM
J5.4
Analyzing the Impact of Assimilating UAS Measurements from Recent Field Experiments in NSSL's Warn-on-Forecast System
Jordan Lee Tweedie, MS in Meteorology, Cooperative Institute for Severe and High-Impact Weather Research and Operations (CIWRO), Norman, OK; and N. Yussouf, T. M. Bell, and Y. Wang

9:30 AM
J5.5
Evaluating the Impact of Vertical Profiling Mesonet Design on Rapidly Updating Convective Allowing Ensemble Forecasting
Joshua G. Gebauer, CIWRO, Norman, OK; NSSL, NORMAN, OK; and M. B. Ammon, J. A. Gibbs, and L. J. Wicker

9:45 AM
J5.6
Using OSSEs to Assess the Impact of Assimilating Observations from a Boundary Layer Profiling Network on the Modeling of Severe Convective Environments
Matthew Bradley Ammon, NSSL, Norman, OK; University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK; Cooperative Institute for Severe and High-Impact Weather Research and Operations (CIWRO), Norman, OK; OU/CIMMS and NOAA/OAR/NSSL, Norman, OK; and J. Gebauer

Recording files available
J5
Weather Analysis and Forecasting in Aviation, Range, and Aerospace Meteorology
Location: 354 (New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)
Hosts: (Joint between the 25th Conference on Aviation, Range, and Aerospace Meteorology; and the 33rd Conference on Weather Analysis and Forecasting (WAF)/29th Conference on Numerical Weather Prediction (NWP) )
Cochairs: Rick DiMaio, MS, Chatham High School; Kaitlyn R. Jesmonth, SUNY Oswego
8:30 AM
J5.1
A Comprehensive Dataset to Study and Predict Weather Impacts on Aviation
Gurvir Kaur Bawa, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, Daytona Beach, FL; and C. G. Herbster and R. S. Stansbury

8:45 AM
J5.2
Using Machine Learned Road Weather Observations to Verify A Gridded Snow Rate Product
Andrew A. Rosenow, PhD, CIWRO - Cooperative Institute for Severe and High-Impact Weather Research and Operations, Univ. of Okla., and NOAA/OAR/NSSL, Norman, OK; and C. Sutter, H. D. Reeves, K. J. Sulia, N. P. Bassill, and C. D. Thorncroft

9:00 AM
J5.3
Meteorological Observations From Aircraft and Satellites for Contrail Cirrus Evolution Observed in Flight Testing
Tim Rahmes, The Boeing Company, Seattle, WA; and J. P. Hoffman, A. J. Wimmers, G. Diskin, C. Gatebe, R. Miller, J. P. DiGangi, Y. Choi, S. Griffin, C. Tully, S. Baughcum, R. H. Moore, A. G. Guthrie, W. G. Griffin, and W. Feltz

9:15 AM
J5.4
An Investigation of Convective SIGMETs during the El Niño-Southern Oscillation and the Madden-Julian Oscillation
Sabrina N. Servey, NWS, Kansas City, MO; NOAA, Washington, DC, DC; Texas A&M University, College Station, TX; and L. M. Kanofsky, C. Negrete, and S. Campbell

9:30 AM
J5.5
Modeling Updates and Stakeholder Engagement at the US Air Force’s 16th Weather Squadron
Gordon R Brooks, United States Air Force, Offutt AFB, NE; and B. T. Gallo, E. L. Kuchera, J. Martinelli, and J. Smith

9:45 AM
J5.6
Comparison of High- Altitude WRF Simulations with AIRS Satellite Data
William Y. Cheng, NSF NCAR, Boulder, CO; and J. S. Shaw, J. C. Knievel, and R. S. Sheu

10:00 AM-10:45 AM: Tuesday, 14 January 2025


Coffee Break
Hosts: (Joint between the Events; the 17th Symposium on Aerosol Cloud Climate Interactions; the 24th Conference on Air-Sea Interaction; the 24th Conference on Artificial Intelligence for Environmental Science; the 29th Conference of Applied Climatology; the 25th Conference on Aviation, Range, and Aerospace Meteorology; the 27th Conference on Atmospheric Chemistry; the Symposium on Careers in Operational Government Meteorology and Hydrology; the Second Symposium on Cloud Physics; the Fourth Symposium on Community Modeling and Innovation; the 23rd Symposium on the Coastal Environment; the 38th Conference on Climate Variability and Change; the Sixth Symposium on Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion; the New Orleans Forum on Climate Linked Economics; the 34th Conference on Education; the 41st Conference on Environmental Information Processing Technologies; the 16th Conference on Weather, Water, Climate, and the New Energy Economy; the First Conference on Fire Weather, Technology, and Risk; the 16th Conference on Environment and Health; the 23rd History Symposium; the 11th Symposium on High Performance Computing for Weather, Water, and Climate; the 39th Conference on Hydrology; the 21st Conference on Major Weather Impacts; the Tenth Symposium on US-International Partnerships; the 29th Conference on Integrated Observing and Assimilation Systems for the Atmosphere, Oceans, and Land Surface (IOAS-AOLS); the 13th Symposium on the Joint Center for Satellite Data Assimilation; the Heather Lazrus Symposium; the 13th Symposium on Lidar Atmospheric Applications; the 12th Conference on the Meteorological Application of Lightning Data; the Gerald A Meehl Symposium; the Fourth Symposium on Mesoscale Processes; the 13th Symposium on the Madden-Julian Oscillation and Sub-Seasonal Monsoon Variability; the 21st Annual Symposium on Operational Environmental Satellite Systems; the Presidential Conference; the 15th Symposium on Advances in Modeling and Analysis Using the Programming Languages of Open Science; the Symposium on Radar Research to Operations; the 15th Conference On Transition Of Research To Operations (15R2O); the Third Symposium on Environmental Security; the 25th Symposium on Meteorological Observation and Instrumentation; the 20th Symposium on Societal Applications: Policy, Research and Practice; the 22nd Conference on Space Weather; the Seventh Special Symposium on Tropical Meteorology and Tropical Cyclones; the 33rd Conference on Weather Analysis and Forecasting (WAF)/29th Conference on Numerical Weather Prediction (NWP); the 13th Symposium on Building a Weather-Ready Nation: Enhancing Our Nation; and the 13th Symposium on the Weather, Water, and Climate Enterprise )

12:00 PM-1:45 PM: Tuesday, 14 January 2025


Lunch Break
Hosts: (Joint between the Events; the 13th Symposium on the Weather, Water, and Climate Enterprise; the 24th Conference on Artificial Intelligence for Environmental Science; the 17th Symposium on Aerosol Cloud Climate Interactions; the 24th Conference on Air-Sea Interaction; the 29th Conference of Applied Climatology; the 25th Conference on Aviation, Range, and Aerospace Meteorology; the 27th Conference on Atmospheric Chemistry; the Symposium on Careers in Operational Government Meteorology and Hydrology; the Second Symposium on Cloud Physics; the Fourth Symposium on Community Modeling and Innovation; the 23rd Symposium on the Coastal Environment; the 38th Conference on Climate Variability and Change; the Sixth Symposium on Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion; the New Orleans Forum on Climate Linked Economics; the 34th Conference on Education; the 41st Conference on Environmental Information Processing Technologies; the 16th Conference on Weather, Water, Climate, and the New Energy Economy; the First Conference on Fire Weather, Technology, and Risk; the 16th Conference on Environment and Health; the 23rd History Symposium; the 11th Symposium on High Performance Computing for Weather, Water, and Climate; the 39th Conference on Hydrology; the 21st Conference on Major Weather Impacts; the Tenth Symposium on US-International Partnerships; the 29th Conference on Integrated Observing and Assimilation Systems for the Atmosphere, Oceans, and Land Surface (IOAS-AOLS); the 13th Symposium on the Joint Center for Satellite Data Assimilation; the Heather Lazrus Symposium; the 13th Symposium on Lidar Atmospheric Applications; the 12th Conference on the Meteorological Application of Lightning Data; the Gerald A Meehl Symposium; the Fourth Symposium on Mesoscale Processes; the 13th Symposium on the Madden-Julian Oscillation and Sub-Seasonal Monsoon Variability; the 21st Annual Symposium on Operational Environmental Satellite Systems; the Presidential Conference; the 15th Symposium on Advances in Modeling and Analysis Using the Programming Languages of Open Science; the Symposium on Radar Research to Operations; the 15th Conference On Transition Of Research To Operations (15R2O); the Third Symposium on Environmental Security; the 25th Symposium on Meteorological Observation and Instrumentation; the 20th Symposium on Societal Applications: Policy, Research and Practice; the 22nd Conference on Space Weather; the Seventh Special Symposium on Tropical Meteorology and Tropical Cyclones; the 33rd Conference on Weather Analysis and Forecasting (WAF)/29th Conference on Numerical Weather Prediction (NWP); and the 13th Symposium on Building a Weather-Ready Nation: Enhancing Our Nation )

12:45 PM-1:05 PM: Tuesday, 14 January 2025


Daily Weather Briefings
Location: 229 (New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)
Hosts: (Joint between the Events; the 24th Conference on Air-Sea Interaction; the 24th Conference on Artificial Intelligence for Environmental Science; the 29th Conference of Applied Climatology; the 25th Conference on Aviation, Range, and Aerospace Meteorology; the 27th Conference on Atmospheric Chemistry; the Symposium on Careers in Operational Government Meteorology and Hydrology; the Second Symposium on Cloud Physics; the Fourth Symposium on Community Modeling and Innovation; the 23rd Symposium on the Coastal Environment; the 38th Conference on Climate Variability and Change; the Sixth Symposium on Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion; the New Orleans Forum on Climate Linked Economics; the 34th Conference on Education; the 41st Conference on Environmental Information Processing Technologies; the 16th Conference on Weather, Water, Climate, and the New Energy Economy; the First Conference on Fire Weather, Technology, and Risk; the 16th Conference on Environment and Health; the 23rd History Symposium; the 11th Symposium on High Performance Computing for Weather, Water, and Climate; the 39th Conference on Hydrology; the 21st Conference on Major Weather Impacts; the Tenth Symposium on US-International Partnerships; the 29th Conference on Integrated Observing and Assimilation Systems for the Atmosphere, Oceans, and Land Surface (IOAS-AOLS); the 13th Symposium on the Joint Center for Satellite Data Assimilation; the Heather Lazrus Symposium; the 13th Symposium on Lidar Atmospheric Applications; the 12th Conference on the Meteorological Application of Lightning Data; the Gerald A Meehl Symposium; the Fourth Symposium on Mesoscale Processes; the 13th Symposium on the Madden-Julian Oscillation and Sub-Seasonal Monsoon Variability; the 21st Annual Symposium on Operational Environmental Satellite Systems; the Presidential Conference; the 15th Symposium on Advances in Modeling and Analysis Using the Programming Languages of Open Science; the Symposium on Radar Research to Operations; the 15th Conference On Transition Of Research To Operations (15R2O); the Third Symposium on Environmental Security; the 25th Symposium on Meteorological Observation and Instrumentation; the 20th Symposium on Societal Applications: Policy, Research and Practice; the 22nd Conference on Space Weather; the Seventh Special Symposium on Tropical Meteorology and Tropical Cyclones; the 33rd Conference on Weather Analysis and Forecasting (WAF)/29th Conference on Numerical Weather Prediction (NWP); the 13th Symposium on Building a Weather-Ready Nation: Enhancing Our Nation; and the 13th Symposium on the Weather, Water, and Climate Enterprise )

1:45 PM-3:00 PM: Tuesday, 14 January 2025

Recording files available
Session 7A
Probabilistic Forecasting for Severe Weather
Location: 206 (New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)
Host: 33rd Conference on Weather Analysis and Forecasting (WAF)/29th Conference on Numerical Weather Prediction (NWP)
Cochairs: Victor A. Gensini, PhD, CCM, CIMMS; Alexander Kyle Mitchell, SUNY
1:45 PM
7A.1
An AI-Machine Learning Probabilities (AI-MLP) Forecast System for Hazardous Weather Prediction
Aaron J. Hill, Univ. of Oklahoma, School of Meteorology, Norman, OK; NSF AI Institute for Research on Trustworthy AI in Weather, Climate, and Coastal Oceanography (AI2ES), Norman, OK; and E. White and J. T. Radford

2:00 PM
7A.2
Machine Learning-Based Convective Hazard Guidance Using Convection-Allowing Ensembles at Medium-Range Lead-Times
Ryan A. Sobash, NCAR, Boulder, CO; and C. S. Schwartz, D. A. Ahijevych, L. M. Harris, K. Y. Cheng, M. Morin, and L. Zhou

2:15 PM
7A.3
Extended Range Machine-Learning Severe Weather Guidance Based on the Operational GEFS
Adam J. Clark, NSSL, Norman, OK; and K. A. Hoogewind, A. J. Hill, and E. Loken

2:30 PM
7A.4
Updating the Watch-to-Warning Paradigm: Research, Development, and Testing the Future of Communication of Hazardous Weather in the United States
Kristin M. Calhoun, OU/CIWRO & NOAA/OAR/NSSL, NORMAN, OK; and E. D. Loken, T. Sandmael, P. A. Campbell, R. B. Steeves, C. N. Satrio, M. K. Silcott, R. Martz, D. Hogg, T. J. Galarneau, P. S. Skinner, J. W. Monroe, J. G. Madden, K. L. Berry, and A. W. Lyza

2:45 PM
Poster Preview
Katie Magee, Washington DC, DC; and K. Wood and E. C. Wolff IV

Recording files available
Session 7B
Mesoscale Predictability and Cyclone Characteristics
Location: 207 (New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)
Host: 33rd Conference on Weather Analysis and Forecasting (WAF)/29th Conference on Numerical Weather Prediction (NWP)
Cochairs: Andrew C. Winters; Kaitlyn R. Jesmonth, SUNY Oswego
1:45 PM
7B.1
Multiple Tropical Cyclone-Baroclinic Trough Interactions over the North Atlantic Ocean during September 2023
Lance F. Bosart, Univ. at Albany, Albany, NY; and A. K. Mitchell and T. C. Leicht

2:00 PM
7B.2
When a Hurricane Falls Apart: Identifying Factors That Lead to Rapid Weakening
Kim Wood, The University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ; and A. Toms and A. S. Ortiz

2:15 PM
7B.3
Is the Tropical Cyclone Weakening or Transitioning? An Assessment of North Atlantic Extratropical Transition
Ander Sarai Ortiz, The University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ; and K. Wood

2:30 PM
7B.4
2:45 PM
7B.5
Investigating the Impact of Fine-Scale Gulf Stream SST Gradients on the Development of Bomb Cyclones in the Community Earth System Model 2
Jacob D. Hair, Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL; and R. Parfitt, R. C. Jnglin Wills, and J. Müller

3:00 PM-3:40 PM: Tuesday, 14 January 2025


Tuesday ePosters
Location: Hall C (New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)
Hosts: (Joint between the Events; the Heather Lazrus Symposium; the Gerald A Meehl Symposium; the 41st Conference on Environmental Information Processing Technologies; the 39th Conference on Hydrology; the 38th Conference on Climate Variability and Change; the 34th Conference on Education; the 33rd Conference on Weather Analysis and Forecasting (WAF)/29th Conference on Numerical Weather Prediction (NWP); the 29th Conference of Applied Climatology; the 29th Conference on Integrated Observing and Assimilation Systems for the Atmosphere, Oceans, and Land Surface (IOAS-AOLS); the 27th Conference on Atmospheric Chemistry; the 25th Symposium on Meteorological Observation and Instrumentation; the 25th Conference on Aviation, Range, and Aerospace Meteorology; the 24th Conference on Air-Sea Interaction; the 24th Conference on Artificial Intelligence for Environmental Science; the 23rd Symposium on the Coastal Environment; the 23rd History Symposium; the 22nd Conference on Space Weather; the 21st Conference on Major Weather Impacts; the 21st Annual Symposium on Operational Environmental Satellite Systems; the 20th Symposium on Societal Applications: Policy, Research and Practice; the 17th Symposium on Aerosol Cloud Climate Interactions; the 16th Conference on Environment and Health; the 16th Conference on Weather, Water, Climate, and the New Energy Economy; the 15th Conference On Transition Of Research To Operations (15R2O); the 15th Symposium on Advances in Modeling and Analysis Using the Programming Languages of Open Science; the 13th Symposium on Building a Weather-Ready Nation: Enhancing Our Nation; the 13th Symposium on the Joint Center for Satellite Data Assimilation; the 13th Symposium on Lidar Atmospheric Applications; the 13th Symposium on the Madden-Julian Oscillation and Sub-Seasonal Monsoon Variability; the 11th Symposium on High Performance Computing for Weather, Water, and Climate; the 13th Symposium on the Weather, Water, and Climate Enterprise; the 12th Conference on the Meteorological Application of Lightning Data; the Tenth Symposium on US-International Partnerships; the Seventh Special Symposium on Tropical Meteorology and Tropical Cyclones; the Sixth Symposium on Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion; the Fourth Symposium on Community Modeling and Innovation; the Fourth Symposium on Mesoscale Processes; the Third Symposium on Environmental Security; the Second Symposium on Cloud Physics; the First Conference on Fire Weather, Technology, and Risk; the Symposium on Radar Research to Operations; the Symposium on Careers in Operational Government Meteorology and Hydrology; and the New Orleans Forum on Climate Linked Economics )
E30
FireWx Forecasting Wildfire Emissions within NOAA's Rapid-Refresh Forecasting System Using a Modulated Persistence Approach
Johana Romero-Alvarez, CIRES/NOAA-GSL, Boulder, CO; and H. Li, J. Schnell, E. P. James, S. Bhimireddy, S. Kondragunta, X. Zhang, F. Li, C. Fite, R. Ahmadov, and C. Hartsough

E31
25SMOI Web Platforms for Visualizing Monthly and Daily Land Surface Anomalies
Kenny Yunhui Wu, University of Maryland, Sunnyvale, CA; and P. Yu and J. Peng

E32
7TROPICAL Typhoon Intensification and Nuclear Power Plant Vulnerability in Korea Under Climate Change
Ger Anne Marie Duran, Jeju National University, Jeju City, Jeju, South korea; and I. J. Moon and B. Joseph

E33
24AI Ensemble Uncertainty Visualization Development for Effective Communication of Cold-Stunning Event Threats
Jarett Thomas Woodall, Texas A&M University - Corpus Christi, Tiffin, OH; Texas A&M Univ.-Corpus Christi, Corpus Christi, TX; and M. C. White, P. E. Tissot, and C. Duff

E34
24AI Score based diffusion nowcasting of GOES imagery
Randy J. Chase, CIRA, Fort Collins, CO; and K. Haynes, J. M. Haynes, and I. Ebert-Uphoff

E35
13JCSDA Application of JEDI to produce a thirty-one year ¼-degree global daily sea level record
James A. Carton, Univ. of Maryland, College Park, MD; and L. Chen, T. Sluka, E. Leuliette, and D. A. Byrne

E36
41EIPT Data Quality Anomalies and Phenomena on the WSR-88D
Amy Daniel, National Weather Service, Norman, OK; and C. Payne

E37
2CLOUDPHYS Design of a Convection-Cloud Chamber for Exploring Condensational and Collisional Growth Processes Relevant to Precipitation Formation
Raymond A. Shaw, Michigan Technological Univ., Houghton, MI; and J. C. Anderson, Z. Bakri, J. Bench, G. Bewley, V. Blankenship, W. Cantrell, K. K. Chandrakar, PhD, H. Fahandezh sadi, R. Flagan, J. D. Fuentes, G. Gogos, R. Healey, K. Iyer, G. Kaufman, K. Kim, P. Kollias, S. K. Krueger, K. Lamer, E. Luke, C. Mazzoleni, A. McComiskey, C. Megaridis, A. Mukhopadhyay, D. Niedermeier, M. Oue, M. Ovchinnikov, A. Pal, I. Papailias, M. Rajagopal, Y. Ren, A. Salari, S. Schmalfuss, A. Sedlacek, J. E. Shilling, M. Shrivastava, S. P. Singh, F. Stratmann, Y. M. Sua, L. Thomas, S. V. Sulaiman, A. Wang, F. Yang, J. Yeom, M. A. Zawadowicz, J. Zhang, Z. Zhu, and C. Zuhlke

E38
34EDUCATION Data Lens: A new data literacy campaign using Visual Thinking Strategies and NOAA's SOS Explorer
HILARY PEDDICORD, CIRES/CU Boulder, Boulder, CO; and C. McDougall and K. Semmens

E39
7TROPICAL Reanalysis of the 1970s Atlantic Hurricane Database - Re-discovering "Missing" Tropical Storms and Hurricanes
Christopher W. Landsea, National Hurricane Center, Miami, FL; and S. Delgado, D. Jariwala, and A. Blonsky

E42
7TROPICAL Using Tropical Storm Value Chains to Better Meet End-User Needs
Melissa Johnson, The Aerospace Corporation, Edgewater, MD; and K. A. Hawley

E43
16ENERGY An Adaptive System for Detecting Rotor Layer Turbulence Using Edge Computing
Robert C. Jackson, Argonne National Laboratory, Argonne, IL; and P. Muradyan, B. Raut, S. Park, J. R. O'Brien, M. A. Grover, R. Newsom, R. Krishnamurthy, and R. Kotamarthi

3:00 PM-4:30 PM: Tuesday, 14 January 2025


Coffee Break
Hosts: (Joint between the Events; the 17th Symposium on Aerosol Cloud Climate Interactions; the 24th Conference on Air-Sea Interaction; the 24th Conference on Artificial Intelligence for Environmental Science; the 29th Conference of Applied Climatology; the 25th Conference on Aviation, Range, and Aerospace Meteorology; the 27th Conference on Atmospheric Chemistry; the Symposium on Careers in Operational Government Meteorology and Hydrology; the Second Symposium on Cloud Physics; the Fourth Symposium on Community Modeling and Innovation; the 23rd Symposium on the Coastal Environment; the 38th Conference on Climate Variability and Change; the Sixth Symposium on Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion; the New Orleans Forum on Climate Linked Economics; the 34th Conference on Education; the 41st Conference on Environmental Information Processing Technologies; the 16th Conference on Weather, Water, Climate, and the New Energy Economy; the First Conference on Fire Weather, Technology, and Risk; the 16th Conference on Environment and Health; the 23rd History Symposium; the 11th Symposium on High Performance Computing for Weather, Water, and Climate; the 39th Conference on Hydrology; the 21st Conference on Major Weather Impacts; the Tenth Symposium on US-International Partnerships; the 29th Conference on Integrated Observing and Assimilation Systems for the Atmosphere, Oceans, and Land Surface (IOAS-AOLS); the 13th Symposium on the Joint Center for Satellite Data Assimilation; the Heather Lazrus Symposium; the 13th Symposium on Lidar Atmospheric Applications; the 12th Conference on the Meteorological Application of Lightning Data; the Gerald A Meehl Symposium; the Fourth Symposium on Mesoscale Processes; the 13th Symposium on the Madden-Julian Oscillation and Sub-Seasonal Monsoon Variability; the 21st Annual Symposium on Operational Environmental Satellite Systems; the Presidential Conference; the 15th Symposium on Advances in Modeling and Analysis Using the Programming Languages of Open Science; the Symposium on Radar Research to Operations; the 15th Conference On Transition Of Research To Operations (15R2O); the Third Symposium on Environmental Security; the 25th Symposium on Meteorological Observation and Instrumentation; the 20th Symposium on Societal Applications: Policy, Research and Practice; the 22nd Conference on Space Weather; the Seventh Special Symposium on Tropical Meteorology and Tropical Cyclones; the 33rd Conference on Weather Analysis and Forecasting (WAF)/29th Conference on Numerical Weather Prediction (NWP); the 13th Symposium on Building a Weather-Ready Nation: Enhancing Our Nation; and the 13th Symposium on the Weather, Water, and Climate Enterprise )

Formal Poster Viewing and Coffee Break
Location: Hall C (New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)
Hosts: (Joint between the Events; the 24th Conference on Air-Sea Interaction; the 17th Symposium on Aerosol Cloud Climate Interactions; the 24th Conference on Artificial Intelligence for Environmental Science; the 29th Conference of Applied Climatology; the 25th Conference on Aviation, Range, and Aerospace Meteorology; the 27th Conference on Atmospheric Chemistry; the Symposium on Careers in Operational Government Meteorology and Hydrology; the Second Symposium on Cloud Physics; the Fourth Symposium on Community Modeling and Innovation; the 23rd Symposium on the Coastal Environment; the 38th Conference on Climate Variability and Change; the Sixth Symposium on Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion; the New Orleans Forum on Climate Linked Economics; the 34th Conference on Education; the 41st Conference on Environmental Information Processing Technologies; the 16th Conference on Weather, Water, Climate, and the New Energy Economy; the First Conference on Fire Weather, Technology, and Risk; the 16th Conference on Environment and Health; the 23rd History Symposium; the 11th Symposium on High Performance Computing for Weather, Water, and Climate; the 39th Conference on Hydrology; the 21st Conference on Major Weather Impacts; the Tenth Symposium on US-International Partnerships; the 29th Conference on Integrated Observing and Assimilation Systems for the Atmosphere, Oceans, and Land Surface (IOAS-AOLS); the 13th Symposium on the Joint Center for Satellite Data Assimilation; the Heather Lazrus Symposium; the 13th Symposium on Lidar Atmospheric Applications; the 12th Conference on the Meteorological Application of Lightning Data; the Gerald A Meehl Symposium; the Fourth Symposium on Mesoscale Processes; the 13th Symposium on the Madden-Julian Oscillation and Sub-Seasonal Monsoon Variability; the 21st Annual Symposium on Operational Environmental Satellite Systems; the Presidential Conference; the 15th Symposium on Advances in Modeling and Analysis Using the Programming Languages of Open Science; the Symposium on Radar Research to Operations; the 15th Conference On Transition Of Research To Operations (15R2O); the Third Symposium on Environmental Security; the 25th Symposium on Meteorological Observation and Instrumentation; the 20th Symposium on Societal Applications: Policy, Research and Practice; the 22nd Conference on Space Weather; the Seventh Special Symposium on Tropical Meteorology and Tropical Cyclones; the 33rd Conference on Weather Analysis and Forecasting (WAF)/29th Conference on Numerical Weather Prediction (NWP); the 13th Symposium on Building a Weather-Ready Nation: Enhancing Our Nation; and the 13th Symposium on the Weather, Water, and Climate Enterprise )

2
Extreme Precipitation (Poster)
Location: Hall C (New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)
Hosts: (Joint between the 39th Conference on Hydrology; and the 33rd Conference on Weather Analysis and Forecasting (WAF)/29th Conference on Numerical Weather Prediction (NWP) )
314
Meteorological Causes and Atmospheric Conditions Associated with Extreme Precipitation Events in Southeast Michigan
Deffi Munadiyat Putri, Univ. of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign, Urbana, IL; and F. Dominguez and B. Jewett

Handout (16.7 MB)

315
Evaluation of a High-Resolution Replay Dataset for Applications to Extreme Precipitation
Brett M. Basarab, CIRES, Boulder, CO; NOAA, BOULDER, CO; and K. M. Mahoney, S. Frolov, V. Kholodovsky, and J. L. Bytheway

316
Novel Updates to Tropical Storm Remnant Precipitation Frequency Estimates for Enhanced Dam Safety Decision-Making in the Tennessee Valley
Kyle Chudler, RTI International, Fort Collins, CO; and V. Sankovich Bahls, D. Martin, and M. Schaefer

317
Extreme Precipitation Events Observed by the U.S. Climate Reference Network and the NOAA Hourly Precipitation Dataset
Emma L. Scott, North Carolina Institute for Climate Studies, Asheville, NC; and R. D. Leeper and M. A. Palecki

Handout (2.0 MB)

318
Assessing the Characteristics of Extreme Rainfall Events in Climate Models
Emma Benedict, University of Georgia, Bainbridge, GA; Univ. of Georgia, Athens, GA; and G. J. Kooperman


2
Inclusive and Innovative Teaching Methods for Weather Analysis, Forecasting, and Numerical Weather Prediction (Poster)
Location: Hall C (New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)
Host: 33rd Conference on Weather Analysis and Forecasting (WAF)/29th Conference on Numerical Weather Prediction (NWP)
357
Building An Open, Flexible, Online Radar Meteorology Course
Robin Tanamachi, Purdue Univ., West Lafayette, IN; and A. Smith, A. Hirsch, E. W. Palmer, G. Takahashi, and J. White

Handout (1.4 MB)

358
Facilitating the Development of Hazard Services Recommenders
Edward Raven Vasquez, Cooperative Institute for Severe and High-Impact Weather Research and Operations, Norman, OK; Cooperative Institute for Severe and High-Impact Weather Research and Operations, Norman, OK; NWS, Norman, OK; and S. Boyd, L. E. J. Elizalde-Garcia, M. Lowe, and M. A. Magsig

Handout (1.4 MB)


2
New Ensemble Generation or Probabilistic Forecasting Techniques (Poster)
Location: Hall C (New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)
Host: 33rd Conference on Weather Analysis and Forecasting (WAF)/29th Conference on Numerical Weather Prediction (NWP)
359
Using Ensembles to Account for Uncertainty in Atmospheric Forcing in the Mississippi Bight
Cloe Mueller, Peraton Inc., John C. Stennis Space Center, MS; and C. Barron, J. Book, C. Olson, and B. Landry

360
The Creation of a Statistical Model to Probabilistically Predict the Occurrence of Pulse Severe Thunderstorms
Thomas Lorentz Gard, Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL; and H. E. Fuelberg


2
Other Topics in WAF/NWP (Poster)
Location: Hall C (New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)
Host: 33rd Conference on Weather Analysis and Forecasting (WAF)/29th Conference on Numerical Weather Prediction (NWP)
361
Application of a High-Resolution Terrain Dataset to the MPAS Mesh: An Interpolation Study
Kent H. Sparrow, US Army Corps of Engineers, New Orleans, LA; and S. LeGrand and T. Letcher

362
The third-year overview of Japan’s Moonshot Goal 8 R&D program for controlling and modifying the weather by 2050
Takemasa Miyoshi, RIKEN Center for Computational Science, Kobe, Japan; and T. Nakazawa, T. Sakajo, and K. Takatama

363
Evaluation of Global Reanalysis Strengths and Weakness using Surface Observations
Warren Lewis, North Carolina State Univ., Raleigh, NC; and S. E. Yuter and M. A. Miller

365
Spatial and Temporal Distributions of North American and U.S. Surface Fronts Using NOAA/NCEP WPC Surface Analyses
Eric G. Hoffman, Plymouth State Univ., Plymouth, NH; and S. M. Bartlett, N. D. Metz, and J. Cordeira

366
Evaluating the Three-Ingredients Method for Nowcasting QLCS Tornadoes
Alec Soileau, University of Louisiana Monroe, Monroe, LA; and E. E. Allen and T. A. Murphy

367
Evaluation of ERA5 and ERA5L Reanalysis Data in Alagoas, Brazil
Henrique MJ Barbosa, Univ. of Maryland, Baltimore County, Greenbelt, MD; and H. B. Gomes and K. Silva

368
Network Control Facility - Severe Weather Support
Robert Lehmann, RTX, Frederick, MD


2
Results from Recent Field Campaigns (Poster)
Location: Hall C (New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)
Hosts: (Joint between the 33rd Conference on Weather Analysis and Forecasting (WAF)/29th Conference on Numerical Weather Prediction (NWP); and the Fourth Symposium on Mesoscale Processes )
369
The Maritime to Inland Transitions Towards ENvironments for Convection Initiation (MITTEN-CI) Campaign
Jason M. Keeler, Central Michigan University, Mount Pleasant, MI; Central Michigan Univ., Mount Pleasant, MI; and D. A. R. Kristovich, J. Wang, C. C. Weiss, G. de Boer, B. M. Argrow, A. L. Houston, K. T. Brooks, C. J. Isenberger, E. C. Jilek, and J. Miller

370
In-situ Measurement of Particles, Aerosols, Clouds and Turbulence (IMPACT) at FMI PAL-SOD
Eberhard Bodenschatz, Max Planck Institute for Dynamics and Self-Organization, Göttingen, Germany; Max Planck Institute for Dynamics and Self-Organization, Göttingen, NI, Germany; Cornell University, Ithaca; University of Goettingen, Goettingen, Germany; Max, Goettingen, Lowe Saxony, Germany; and D. Brus and G. Bagheri

371
Examining the Relationships Between Dynamics, Microphysics, and Rainfall Intensity in a Mei-Yu Front During PRECIP 2022
Sam Irvine, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA; and J. C. DeHart, T. W. Barbero, A. Nieves-Jiménez, and M. M. Bell

Handout (7.6 MB)

372
Evaluation of the 3DRTMA Through Independent Radar and Lidar Wind Profiles from the PERiLS Field Campaign (2022-23)
Ruifang Li, CIRES, Boulder, CO; CIRES at NOAA/ESRL/GSL, Boulder, CO; and T. T. Ladwig, D. Dowell, H. Wang, and G. Ge

Handout (5.3 MB)

373
Where Will You Go with GMAO? Customized Suborbital Campaign Support from NASA
Christine E. Bloecker, NASA, Greenbelt, MD; Science Systems and Applications, Inc., Lanham, MD; and G. Partyka

374
Evaluation of Precipitation Phase Algorithms in Southern New England
Connor Mahone, University of Maryland, Baltimore County, Baltimore, MD; and A. Tokay

376
Forecast Impact of Additional Radiosonde Ascents During the Year of Polar Prediction-Southern Hemisphere (YOPP-SH) Winter Campaign
David H. Bromwich, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH; and J. Powers, M. F. Litell, K. Manning, and S. H. Wang

Handout (2.0 MB)

3:50 PM-4:30 PM: Tuesday, 14 January 2025


Tuesday ePosters
Location: Hall C (New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)
Hosts: (Joint between the Events; the Heather Lazrus Symposium; the Gerald A Meehl Symposium; the 41st Conference on Environmental Information Processing Technologies; the 39th Conference on Hydrology; the 38th Conference on Climate Variability and Change; the 34th Conference on Education; the 33rd Conference on Weather Analysis and Forecasting (WAF)/29th Conference on Numerical Weather Prediction (NWP); the 29th Conference of Applied Climatology; the 29th Conference on Integrated Observing and Assimilation Systems for the Atmosphere, Oceans, and Land Surface (IOAS-AOLS); the 27th Conference on Atmospheric Chemistry; the 25th Symposium on Meteorological Observation and Instrumentation; the 25th Conference on Aviation, Range, and Aerospace Meteorology; the 24th Conference on Air-Sea Interaction; the 24th Conference on Artificial Intelligence for Environmental Science; the 23rd Symposium on the Coastal Environment; the 23rd History Symposium; the 22nd Conference on Space Weather; the 21st Conference on Major Weather Impacts; the 21st Annual Symposium on Operational Environmental Satellite Systems; the 20th Symposium on Societal Applications: Policy, Research and Practice; the 17th Symposium on Aerosol Cloud Climate Interactions; the 16th Conference on Environment and Health; the 16th Conference on Weather, Water, Climate, and the New Energy Economy; the 15th Conference On Transition Of Research To Operations (15R2O); the 15th Symposium on Advances in Modeling and Analysis Using the Programming Languages of Open Science; the 13th Symposium on Building a Weather-Ready Nation: Enhancing Our Nation; the 13th Symposium on the Joint Center for Satellite Data Assimilation; the 13th Symposium on Lidar Atmospheric Applications; the 13th Symposium on the Madden-Julian Oscillation and Sub-Seasonal Monsoon Variability; the 11th Symposium on High Performance Computing for Weather, Water, and Climate; the 13th Symposium on the Weather, Water, and Climate Enterprise; the 12th Conference on the Meteorological Application of Lightning Data; the Tenth Symposium on US-International Partnerships; the Seventh Special Symposium on Tropical Meteorology and Tropical Cyclones; the Sixth Symposium on Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion; the Fourth Symposium on Community Modeling and Innovation; the Fourth Symposium on Mesoscale Processes; the Third Symposium on Environmental Security; the Second Symposium on Cloud Physics; the First Conference on Fire Weather, Technology, and Risk; the Symposium on Radar Research to Operations; the Symposium on Careers in Operational Government Meteorology and Hydrology; and the New Orleans Forum on Climate Linked Economics )
E46
Radar Cell Mergers, Boundary Interactions, and Convective Systems in Cases of Significant Tornadoes and Hail
Cameron J. Nixon, CIWRO / SPC, Norman, OK; and J. T. Allen, M. Wilson, M. Bunkers, and M. Taszarek

E47
FireWx Wildfire Aerosol Concentrations and Their Impact on Severe Weather in North America: Historical Analysis and AI Predictions
Mayra Ivelisse Oyola-Merced, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI; and K. Wilson, S. Kluge, M. McKellar, P. A. Bartels, and D. S. Sproles

E51
24AI Hindcasting with Google DeepMind's GraphCast: A 45-Year Retrospective Analysis from 1979 to 2024
Naveen Sudharsan, PhD, The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX; and M. Singh, H. Kamath, A. Chavoshi, H. Dashtian, C. Dawson, Z. L. Yang, and D. Niyogi

E52
23Coastal Advancements in NOAA’s STOFS-3D-Atlantic: Enhancing Compound Flood Hazard Prediction for the Atlantic and Gulf Coasts
Fei Ye, Virginia Institute of Marine Science, Gloucester Point, VA; VIMS, Williamsburg, VA; and Y. J. Zhang, H. C. Yu, H. Yoo, L. Cui, Z. Yang, G. Seroka, S. Moghimi, and E. Myers

E54
12Lightning Evaluation of GLM in Southeast Texas via Ground-Sensor and High-Speed Raspberry Pi-Based Camera Network
Adam D Clark, Texas A&M University - College Station, Duncanville, TX; and D. Zhang

E55
12Lightning Creating a Combined Lightning Product for Operational Use in the Multi-Radar/Multi-Sensor System
Sarah M. Stough, The University of Oklahoma and NOAA/OAR National Severe Storms Laboratory, Norman, OK; and V. C. Chmielewski, K. M. Calhoun, and K. Thiel

E56
MeehlSymp Quasi-Stationary Planetary Scale Waves in Modern Climate Models
Curt Covey, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore , CA; and R. S. Lindzen, J. T. Fasullo, and K. Taylor

E58
34Education Data Fusion Techniques Applied to Training on NWS Operational Short-fuse Warnings
Daniel E. Bikos, CIRA, Fort Collins, CO; and J. G. LaDue, K. Christian, and J. Blair

4:30 PM-6:00 PM: Tuesday, 14 January 2025

Recording files available
Session 8B
Physics and Dynamics Development II
Location: 207 (New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)
Host: 33rd Conference on Weather Analysis and Forecasting (WAF)/29th Conference on Numerical Weather Prediction (NWP)
Cochairs: Louisa Bogar Nance; Man Zhang, CIRES
4:30 PM
8B.1
4:45 PM
8B.2
5:00 PM
8B.4
Modeling Frontal Low-Level Jets and Associated Extreme Wind Ramps
Harish Baki, University at Albany, Albany, NY; and S. Basu and G. lavidas

5:30 PM
8B.5
Diagnosing and Addressing Systematic Errors in the Navy’s NEPTUNE Prediction System
James D. Doyle, NRL, Monterey, CA; and A. Reinecke, M. Diaz, and M. Martini

Handout (3.8 MB)

5:45 PM
8B.6
The Value of Utilizing 1-km Horizontal Grid Spacing for the United States Air Force: Assessment of Storm Attributes within the Mesoscale Ensemble Prediction Suite
Christopher J. Melick, PhD, U.S. Air Force, Offutt AFB, NE; and B. T. Gallo, S. Childs, W. T. Sedlacek, and S. Rentschler

Recording files available
J8A
Inclusive and Innovative Teaching Methods for Weather Analysis, Forecasting, and Numerical Weather Prediction
Location: 206 (New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)
Hosts: (Joint between the 33rd Conference on Weather Analysis and Forecasting (WAF)/29th Conference on Numerical Weather Prediction (NWP); and the 34th Conference on Education )
Cochairs: Victoria Gorman, Medford Memorial Middle School, NJ; Stephanie E. Zick, Virginia Tech
4:30 PM
J8A.1
Experiential Learning: Teaching Forecasters to Communicate Hurricane Impacts Through a Simulation
James Russell, PhD, UCAR, Boulder, CO; and K. Payne and T. Ross-Lazarov

4:45 PM
J8A.2
Developing the Next Wave of Operational Meteorologists
Huntir Cramer, National Weather Service, Huntsville, AL; and K. Magee and V. Brasfield

5:15 PM
J8A.4
The SUNY Oswego Undergraduate Radar Curriculum Experience: A Summary of Successes and Recommendations for Future NSF-FARE Requests
Katelyn A. Barber, Valparaiso University, Valparaiso, IN; and Y. Wang, K. A. Kosiba, J. Wurman, J. R. O'Brien, S. M. Steiger, J. Aikins, O. Oluwale, and S. Kanbur

5:45 PM
J8A.6
Programming in Meteorology: Taking the Coding Out of Programming
Zachary J. Lebo, Univ. of Oklahoma, Pasadena, CA

6:00 PM-7:00 PM: Tuesday, 14 January 2025


Exhibit Hall Reception
Hosts: (Joint between the Events; the 24th Conference on Air-Sea Interaction; the 24th Conference on Artificial Intelligence for Environmental Science; the 29th Conference of Applied Climatology; the 25th Conference on Aviation, Range, and Aerospace Meteorology; the 27th Conference on Atmospheric Chemistry; the Symposium on Careers in Operational Government Meteorology and Hydrology; the Second Symposium on Cloud Physics; the Fourth Symposium on Community Modeling and Innovation; the 23rd Symposium on the Coastal Environment; the 38th Conference on Climate Variability and Change; the Sixth Symposium on Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion; the New Orleans Forum on Climate Linked Economics; the 34th Conference on Education; the 41st Conference on Environmental Information Processing Technologies; the 16th Conference on Weather, Water, Climate, and the New Energy Economy; the First Conference on Fire Weather, Technology, and Risk; the 16th Conference on Environment and Health; the 23rd History Symposium; the 11th Symposium on High Performance Computing for Weather, Water, and Climate; the 39th Conference on Hydrology; the 21st Conference on Major Weather Impacts; the Tenth Symposium on US-International Partnerships; the 29th Conference on Integrated Observing and Assimilation Systems for the Atmosphere, Oceans, and Land Surface (IOAS-AOLS); the 13th Symposium on the Joint Center for Satellite Data Assimilation; the Heather Lazrus Symposium; the 13th Symposium on Lidar Atmospheric Applications; the 12th Conference on the Meteorological Application of Lightning Data; the Gerald A Meehl Symposium; the Fourth Symposium on Mesoscale Processes; the 13th Symposium on the Madden-Julian Oscillation and Sub-Seasonal Monsoon Variability; the 21st Annual Symposium on Operational Environmental Satellite Systems; the Presidential Conference; the 15th Symposium on Advances in Modeling and Analysis Using the Programming Languages of Open Science; the Symposium on Radar Research to Operations; the 15th Conference On Transition Of Research To Operations (15R2O); the Third Symposium on Environmental Security; the 25th Symposium on Meteorological Observation and Instrumentation; the 20th Symposium on Societal Applications: Policy, Research and Practice; the 22nd Conference on Space Weather; the Seventh Special Symposium on Tropical Meteorology and Tropical Cyclones; the 33rd Conference on Weather Analysis and Forecasting (WAF)/29th Conference on Numerical Weather Prediction (NWP); the 13th Symposium on Building a Weather-Ready Nation: Enhancing Our Nation; and the 13th Symposium on the Weather, Water, and Climate Enterprise )

7:00 PM-11:00 PM: Tuesday, 14 January 2025


University Night Receptions
Location: Hilton Riverside
Hosts: (Joint between the Events; the 24th Conference on Artificial Intelligence for Environmental Science; the 17th Symposium on Aerosol Cloud Climate Interactions; the 24th Conference on Air-Sea Interaction; the 29th Conference of Applied Climatology; the 25th Conference on Aviation, Range, and Aerospace Meteorology; the 27th Conference on Atmospheric Chemistry; the Symposium on Careers in Operational Government Meteorology and Hydrology; the Second Symposium on Cloud Physics; the Fourth Symposium on Community Modeling and Innovation; the 23rd Symposium on the Coastal Environment; the 38th Conference on Climate Variability and Change; the Sixth Symposium on Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion; the New Orleans Forum on Climate Linked Economics; the 34th Conference on Education; the 41st Conference on Environmental Information Processing Technologies; the 16th Conference on Weather, Water, Climate, and the New Energy Economy; the First Conference on Fire Weather, Technology, and Risk; the 16th Conference on Environment and Health; the 23rd History Symposium; the 11th Symposium on High Performance Computing for Weather, Water, and Climate; the 39th Conference on Hydrology; the 21st Conference on Major Weather Impacts; the Tenth Symposium on US-International Partnerships; the 29th Conference on Integrated Observing and Assimilation Systems for the Atmosphere, Oceans, and Land Surface (IOAS-AOLS); the 13th Symposium on the Joint Center for Satellite Data Assimilation; the Heather Lazrus Symposium; the 13th Symposium on Lidar Atmospheric Applications; the 12th Conference on the Meteorological Application of Lightning Data; the Gerald A Meehl Symposium; the Fourth Symposium on Mesoscale Processes; the 13th Symposium on the Madden-Julian Oscillation and Sub-Seasonal Monsoon Variability; the 21st Annual Symposium on Operational Environmental Satellite Systems; the Presidential Conference; the 15th Symposium on Advances in Modeling and Analysis Using the Programming Languages of Open Science; the Symposium on Radar Research to Operations; the 15th Conference On Transition Of Research To Operations (15R2O); the Third Symposium on Environmental Security; the 25th Symposium on Meteorological Observation and Instrumentation; the 20th Symposium on Societal Applications: Policy, Research and Practice; the 22nd Conference on Space Weather; the 24th Annual Student Conference; the Seventh Special Symposium on Tropical Meteorology and Tropical Cyclones; the 33rd Conference on Weather Analysis and Forecasting (WAF)/29th Conference on Numerical Weather Prediction (NWP); and the 13th Symposium on Building a Weather-Ready Nation: Enhancing Our Nation )

Wednesday, 15 January 2025

8:30 AM-10:00 AM: Wednesday, 15 January 2025

Recording files available
Session 9A
Warn-on-Forecast System I: Verification
Location: 206 (New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)
Host: 33rd Conference on Weather Analysis and Forecasting (WAF)/29th Conference on Numerical Weather Prediction (NWP)
Cochairs: Jaret W. Rogers; Derek R. Stratman
8:30 AM
9A.1
Verification of short-term thunderstorm rotation forecasts in the 1-km Warn-on-Forecast System
Christopher A. Kerr, CIWRO/NSSL, Norman, OK; and P. S. Skinner, D. R. Stratman, H. E. Brooks, B. C. Matilla, Y. Wang, and N. Yussouf

8:45 AM
9A.2
Comparing Short-Term Thunderstorm Forecasts from the Warn-on-Forecast System (WoFS) and the High-Resolution Rapid Refresh (HRRR)
Patrick Skinner, Cooperative Institute for Severe and High-Impact Weather Research and Operations, Norman, OK; and D. R. Stratman, C. A. Kerr, B. C. Matilla, J. Martin, D. Dowell, T. A. Jones, M. L. Flora, J. E. Guerra, K. H. Knopfmeier, K. C. Britt, and N. Yussouf

9:00 AM
9A.3
Diagnosing MCS Forecast Errors in the Warn-on-Forecast System
Thomas J. Galarneau, NSSL, Norman, OK; and P. S. Skinner, M. L. Flora, and K. C. Britt

9:15 AM
9A.4
Storm Displacement Errors in the Warn-on-Forecast System
Derek R. Stratman, Cooperative Institute for Severe and High-Impact Weather Research and Operations (CIWRO), Norman, OK; and C. K. Potvin, P. S. Skinner, and B. M. Lemke

9:30 AM
9A.5
What is Truth? Assessing the Impact of Biased Target Variables on Machine Learning Models of Severe Hail
Montgomery L. Flora, CIWRO; NSSL, Norman, OK; and P. S. Skinner, C. K. Potvin, B. C. Matilla, and A. E. Reinhart

9:45 AM
9A.6
A Multi-Year Performance Evaluation of NSSL’s Warn-on-Forecast System Using Scorecards
Brian C. Matilla, Cooperative Institute for Severe and High-Impact Weather Research and Operations (CIWRO), NOAA NSSL, Norman, OK; and N. Yussouf, P. S. Skinner, K. H. Knopfmeier, J. Martin, and T. A. Jones

Recording files available
Session 9B
Major Updates from Modeling Centers
Location: 207 (New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)
Host: 33rd Conference on Weather Analysis and Forecasting (WAF)/29th Conference on Numerical Weather Prediction (NWP)
Cochairs: Clark Evans, UW-Milwaukee; Stephen W. Bieda III, PhD, NWS
8:30 AM
9B.1
The U. S. Navy Earth System Prediction Capability: Overview and Future Developments
Carolyn A. Reynolds, NRL, Monterey, CA; and R. Allard, C. Barron, J. Christophersen, W. Crawford, M. Flatau, D. Franklin, D. Hebert, G. Jacobs, M. A. Janiga, T. Jensen, D. D. Kuhl, F. Liu, J. McLay, E. J. Metzger, M. Phelps, A. Reinecke, J. Ridout, E. Rogers, C. Rowley, J. Shriver, G. J. Theurich, P. Thoppil, M. Ulate, T. Whitcomb, J. Zappala, and L. zamudio

Handout (6.9 MB)

8:45 AM
9B.2
Toward Global 6.5-km Weather Prediction and Storm-Resolving Simulation
Linjiong Zhou, GFDL, Princeton, NJ; and L. M. Harris, J. H. Chen, K. Gao, K. Y. Cheng, M. Tong, A. Kaltenbaugh, M. Morin, and L. Johnston

9:00 AM
9B.3
ECMWF Forecast Improvements and Plans in our 50th Anniversary Year
tony McNally, ECMWF, reading, United kingdom

9:15 AM
9B.4
Overview of the Next Global Forecast System GFSv17
Catherine A. Thomas, NCEP, College Park, MD; and J. Meixner, J. Han, H. Y. Chuang, R. Mahajan, J. Wang, M. J. Barlage, N. Barton, A. M. Bentley, L. G. Chen, B. Fu, Y. Mao, W. Meng, L. Stefanova, G. Vernieres, J. Wang, and H. Wei

9:30 AM
9B.5
Rapid Refresh Forecast System Development for Version 2
Curtis R. Alexander, NOAA, Boulder, CO; and M. E. Pyle, S. S. Weygandt, and J. R. Carley

Recording files available
J9A
Graphical Communication of Risk and Public Perception
Location: 345 (New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)
Hosts: (Joint between the 20th Symposium on Societal Applications: Policy, Research and Practice; and the 33rd Conference on Weather Analysis and Forecasting (WAF)/29th Conference on Numerical Weather Prediction (NWP) )
Cochairs: Jase E. Bernhardt, PhD, Hofstra University; Castle Williamsberg, NOAA/OAR Weather Program Office and University of Georgia
8:30 AM
J9A.1
Exploring Geospatial Tornado Risk Personalization with Sketch Mapping
Kathleen Sherman-Morris, Mississippi State University, Mississippi State, MS; and J. Senkbeil, C. Vaughn, B. Abubakari, and S. M. A. A. Ali

8:45 AM
J9A.2
Enhancing Hurricane Threats and Impacts Graphics: The Effect of Arrival Time Information on Non-Expert Risk Assessment and Interpretation
Barbara Millet, University of Miami, Coral Gables , FL; University of Miami, Miami, FL; and A. Cairo, S. D. Evans, S. J. Majumdar, Ph.D., B. McNoldy, R. E. Morss, and R. Prestley

9:00 AM
J9A.3
A Colorful Story: Taking Stock of the Colors Used by the NWS in Public-Facing Forecast Products
Abby Lee Bitterman, Institute for Public Policy Research and Analysis, Univ. of Oklahoma, Norman, OK; and Z. Rosen, J. Ripberger, M. Krocak, S. M. Melcher, A. M. Person, V. Dunham, and C. Black

9:15 AM
J9A.4
Understanding the Implications of Categorical vs. Continuous Graphical Depictions of Risk: Different Colors, Risk Conditions, and Risk Boundaries.
Jada Rosalyn Lamar, University of Georgia, Athens, GA; and C. A. Williamsberg and A. J. Grundstein

Handout (30.5 MB)

9:30 AM
J9A.5
Assessment of Perceived Risk by Residents in Response to the Updated National Hurricane Center “Cone of Uncertainty” Product
Patrick Merle, Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL; and E. Ray and B. D. Johnson

9:45 AM
J9A.6
Designed Choices: An In-depth Exploration of Color Use in NCEP Graphics
Zoey Rosen, Univ. of Oklahoma, Norman, OK; and A. L. Bitterman, M. Krocak, S. M. Melcher, V. Dunham, C. Black, J. Ripberger, and A. M. Person

10:00 AM-10:45 AM: Wednesday, 15 January 2025


Coffee Break
Hosts: (Joint between the Events; the 24th Conference on Air-Sea Interaction; the 17th Symposium on Aerosol Cloud Climate Interactions; the 24th Conference on Artificial Intelligence for Environmental Science; the 29th Conference of Applied Climatology; the 25th Conference on Aviation, Range, and Aerospace Meteorology; the 27th Conference on Atmospheric Chemistry; the Symposium on Careers in Operational Government Meteorology and Hydrology; the Second Symposium on Cloud Physics; the Fourth Symposium on Community Modeling and Innovation; the 23rd Symposium on the Coastal Environment; the 38th Conference on Climate Variability and Change; the Sixth Symposium on Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion; the New Orleans Forum on Climate Linked Economics; the 34th Conference on Education; the 41st Conference on Environmental Information Processing Technologies; the 16th Conference on Weather, Water, Climate, and the New Energy Economy; the First Conference on Fire Weather, Technology, and Risk; the 16th Conference on Environment and Health; the 23rd History Symposium; the 11th Symposium on High Performance Computing for Weather, Water, and Climate; the 39th Conference on Hydrology; the 21st Conference on Major Weather Impacts; the Tenth Symposium on US-International Partnerships; the 29th Conference on Integrated Observing and Assimilation Systems for the Atmosphere, Oceans, and Land Surface (IOAS-AOLS); the 13th Symposium on the Joint Center for Satellite Data Assimilation; the Heather Lazrus Symposium; the 13th Symposium on Lidar Atmospheric Applications; the 12th Conference on the Meteorological Application of Lightning Data; the Gerald A Meehl Symposium; the Fourth Symposium on Mesoscale Processes; the 13th Symposium on the Madden-Julian Oscillation and Sub-Seasonal Monsoon Variability; the 21st Annual Symposium on Operational Environmental Satellite Systems; the Presidential Conference; the 15th Symposium on Advances in Modeling and Analysis Using the Programming Languages of Open Science; the Symposium on Radar Research to Operations; the 15th Conference On Transition Of Research To Operations (15R2O); the Third Symposium on Environmental Security; the 25th Symposium on Meteorological Observation and Instrumentation; the 20th Symposium on Societal Applications: Policy, Research and Practice; the 22nd Conference on Space Weather; the Seventh Special Symposium on Tropical Meteorology and Tropical Cyclones; the 33rd Conference on Weather Analysis and Forecasting (WAF)/29th Conference on Numerical Weather Prediction (NWP); the 13th Symposium on Building a Weather-Ready Nation: Enhancing Our Nation; and the 13th Symposium on the Weather, Water, and Climate Enterprise )

10:45 AM-12:00 PM: Wednesday, 15 January 2025

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Session 10A
Warn-on-Forecast System II: Field Case Studies
Location: 206 (New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)
Host: 33rd Conference on Weather Analysis and Forecasting (WAF)/29th Conference on Numerical Weather Prediction (NWP)
Cochairs: Patrick C. Burke, NOAA - National Severe Storms Laboratory; Jaret W. Rogers
10:45 AM
10A.1
Evaluating the impact of WoFS-PHI on real-time severe weather forecasts during the 2024 Spring Forecasting Experiment
Eric D. Loken, Univ. of Oklahoma and Cooperative Institute for Severe and High-Impact Weather Research and Operations, Norman, OK; and R. Martz, M. K. Silcott, A. J. Clark, J. Martin, P. C. Burke, K. M. Calhoun, B. C. Matilla, T. J. Galarneau, P. Heinselman, T. Sandmael, and P. S. Skinner

11:00 AM
10A.2
Improving WoFS-PHI Watch-to-Warning Guidance with new Observational Data
Ryan Martz, University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK; Cooperative Institute for Severe and High-Impact Weather Research and Operations, Norman, OK; and E. D. Loken, A. J. Clark, K. M. Calhoun, T. Sandmael, C. N. Satrio, M. K. Silcott, J. Martin, P. C. Burke, P. S. Skinner, and P. Heinselman

11:30 AM
10A.4
Warn-On-Forecast in the Watch to Warning Gap
Daniel William Reese, NWS Topeka, Topeka, KS

11:45 AM
10A.5
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Session 10B
Statistical Post-Processing and its Translation Into Forecast Messaging
Location: 207 (New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)
Host: 33rd Conference on Weather Analysis and Forecasting (WAF)/29th Conference on Numerical Weather Prediction (NWP)
Cochairs: Austin A. Coleman; Joshua W. Scheck, NCEP
10:45 AM
10B.1
11:00 AM
10B.2
Plans for Version 5 of the National Blend of Models
Geoffrey S. Manikin, NWS/MDL, Silver Spring, MD; and D. E. Rudack, R. S. James, E. F. Engle, A. D. Schnapp, C. S. Buxton, M. N. Baker, S. D. Scallion, S. L. Levine, G. G. Leone, B. J. Haynes, S. M. Lower, and M. S. Antolik

11:45 AM
Poster Preview
Katie Magee, Washington DC, DC; and K. Wood and E. C. Wolff IV

12:00 PM-1:30 PM: Wednesday, 15 January 2025


Women in Atmospheric Sciences Luncheon
Location: Great Hall D (New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)
Hosts: (Joint between the Events; the 13th Symposium on the Weather, Water, and Climate Enterprise; the 24th Conference on Artificial Intelligence for Environmental Science; the 17th Symposium on Aerosol Cloud Climate Interactions; the 24th Conference on Air-Sea Interaction; the 29th Conference of Applied Climatology; the 25th Conference on Aviation, Range, and Aerospace Meteorology; the 27th Conference on Atmospheric Chemistry; the Symposium on Careers in Operational Government Meteorology and Hydrology; the Second Symposium on Cloud Physics; the Fourth Symposium on Community Modeling and Innovation; the 23rd Symposium on the Coastal Environment; the 38th Conference on Climate Variability and Change; the Sixth Symposium on Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion; the New Orleans Forum on Climate Linked Economics; the 34th Conference on Education; the 41st Conference on Environmental Information Processing Technologies; the 16th Conference on Weather, Water, Climate, and the New Energy Economy; the First Conference on Fire Weather, Technology, and Risk; the 16th Conference on Environment and Health; the 23rd History Symposium; the 11th Symposium on High Performance Computing for Weather, Water, and Climate; the 39th Conference on Hydrology; the 21st Conference on Major Weather Impacts; the Tenth Symposium on US-International Partnerships; the 29th Conference on Integrated Observing and Assimilation Systems for the Atmosphere, Oceans, and Land Surface (IOAS-AOLS); the 13th Symposium on the Joint Center for Satellite Data Assimilation; the Heather Lazrus Symposium; the 13th Symposium on Lidar Atmospheric Applications; the 12th Conference on the Meteorological Application of Lightning Data; the Gerald A Meehl Symposium; the Fourth Symposium on Mesoscale Processes; the 13th Symposium on the Madden-Julian Oscillation and Sub-Seasonal Monsoon Variability; the 21st Annual Symposium on Operational Environmental Satellite Systems; the Presidential Conference; the 15th Symposium on Advances in Modeling and Analysis Using the Programming Languages of Open Science; the Symposium on Radar Research to Operations; the 15th Conference On Transition Of Research To Operations (15R2O); the Third Symposium on Environmental Security; the 25th Symposium on Meteorological Observation and Instrumentation; the 20th Symposium on Societal Applications: Policy, Research and Practice; the 22nd Conference on Space Weather; the 24th Annual Student Conference; the Seventh Special Symposium on Tropical Meteorology and Tropical Cyclones; the 33rd Conference on Weather Analysis and Forecasting (WAF)/29th Conference on Numerical Weather Prediction (NWP); and the 13th Symposium on Building a Weather-Ready Nation: Enhancing Our Nation )

12:00 PM-1:45 PM: Wednesday, 15 January 2025


Lunch Break
Hosts: (Joint between the Events; the 13th Symposium on the Weather, Water, and Climate Enterprise; the 24th Conference on Artificial Intelligence for Environmental Science; the 17th Symposium on Aerosol Cloud Climate Interactions; the 24th Conference on Air-Sea Interaction; the 29th Conference of Applied Climatology; the 25th Conference on Aviation, Range, and Aerospace Meteorology; the 27th Conference on Atmospheric Chemistry; the Symposium on Careers in Operational Government Meteorology and Hydrology; the Second Symposium on Cloud Physics; the Fourth Symposium on Community Modeling and Innovation; the 23rd Symposium on the Coastal Environment; the 38th Conference on Climate Variability and Change; the Sixth Symposium on Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion; the New Orleans Forum on Climate Linked Economics; the 34th Conference on Education; the 41st Conference on Environmental Information Processing Technologies; the 16th Conference on Weather, Water, Climate, and the New Energy Economy; the First Conference on Fire Weather, Technology, and Risk; the 16th Conference on Environment and Health; the 23rd History Symposium; the 11th Symposium on High Performance Computing for Weather, Water, and Climate; the 39th Conference on Hydrology; the 21st Conference on Major Weather Impacts; the Tenth Symposium on US-International Partnerships; the 29th Conference on Integrated Observing and Assimilation Systems for the Atmosphere, Oceans, and Land Surface (IOAS-AOLS); the 13th Symposium on the Joint Center for Satellite Data Assimilation; the Heather Lazrus Symposium; the 13th Symposium on Lidar Atmospheric Applications; the 12th Conference on the Meteorological Application of Lightning Data; the Gerald A Meehl Symposium; the Fourth Symposium on Mesoscale Processes; the 13th Symposium on the Madden-Julian Oscillation and Sub-Seasonal Monsoon Variability; the 21st Annual Symposium on Operational Environmental Satellite Systems; the Presidential Conference; the 15th Symposium on Advances in Modeling and Analysis Using the Programming Languages of Open Science; the Symposium on Radar Research to Operations; the 15th Conference On Transition Of Research To Operations (15R2O); the Third Symposium on Environmental Security; the 25th Symposium on Meteorological Observation and Instrumentation; the 20th Symposium on Societal Applications: Policy, Research and Practice; the 22nd Conference on Space Weather; the Seventh Special Symposium on Tropical Meteorology and Tropical Cyclones; the 33rd Conference on Weather Analysis and Forecasting (WAF)/29th Conference on Numerical Weather Prediction (NWP); and the 13th Symposium on Building a Weather-Ready Nation: Enhancing Our Nation )

12:45 PM-1:05 PM: Wednesday, 15 January 2025


Daily Weather Briefings
Location: 229 (New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)
Hosts: (Joint between the Events; the 24th Conference on Air-Sea Interaction; the 24th Conference on Artificial Intelligence for Environmental Science; the 29th Conference of Applied Climatology; the 25th Conference on Aviation, Range, and Aerospace Meteorology; the 27th Conference on Atmospheric Chemistry; the Symposium on Careers in Operational Government Meteorology and Hydrology; the Second Symposium on Cloud Physics; the Fourth Symposium on Community Modeling and Innovation; the 23rd Symposium on the Coastal Environment; the 38th Conference on Climate Variability and Change; the Sixth Symposium on Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion; the New Orleans Forum on Climate Linked Economics; the 34th Conference on Education; the 41st Conference on Environmental Information Processing Technologies; the 16th Conference on Weather, Water, Climate, and the New Energy Economy; the First Conference on Fire Weather, Technology, and Risk; the 16th Conference on Environment and Health; the 23rd History Symposium; the 11th Symposium on High Performance Computing for Weather, Water, and Climate; the 39th Conference on Hydrology; the 21st Conference on Major Weather Impacts; the Tenth Symposium on US-International Partnerships; the 29th Conference on Integrated Observing and Assimilation Systems for the Atmosphere, Oceans, and Land Surface (IOAS-AOLS); the 13th Symposium on the Joint Center for Satellite Data Assimilation; the Heather Lazrus Symposium; the 13th Symposium on Lidar Atmospheric Applications; the 12th Conference on the Meteorological Application of Lightning Data; the Gerald A Meehl Symposium; the Fourth Symposium on Mesoscale Processes; the 13th Symposium on the Madden-Julian Oscillation and Sub-Seasonal Monsoon Variability; the 21st Annual Symposium on Operational Environmental Satellite Systems; the Presidential Conference; the 15th Symposium on Advances in Modeling and Analysis Using the Programming Languages of Open Science; the Symposium on Radar Research to Operations; the 15th Conference On Transition Of Research To Operations (15R2O); the Third Symposium on Environmental Security; the 25th Symposium on Meteorological Observation and Instrumentation; the 20th Symposium on Societal Applications: Policy, Research and Practice; the 22nd Conference on Space Weather; the Seventh Special Symposium on Tropical Meteorology and Tropical Cyclones; the 33rd Conference on Weather Analysis and Forecasting (WAF)/29th Conference on Numerical Weather Prediction (NWP); the 13th Symposium on Building a Weather-Ready Nation: Enhancing Our Nation; and the 13th Symposium on the Weather, Water, and Climate Enterprise )

1:45 PM-3:00 PM: Wednesday, 15 January 2025

Recording files available
Session 11B
Advances facilitated by new observational platforms and capabilities
Location: 207 (New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)
Host: 33rd Conference on Weather Analysis and Forecasting (WAF)/29th Conference on Numerical Weather Prediction (NWP)
Cochairs: Poushali Ghosh, University of Wisconsin-Madison; Diana Rose Stovern, CIRES
1:45 PM
11B.1
Evaluation of National Digital Forecast Database Wet Bulb Globe Temperatures in North Carolina
Timothy W. Glotfelty, North Carolina State Climate Office, Raleigh, NC; and T. Boyer and J. H. Bowden

2:00 PM
11B.2
The Mobile Atmospheric Profiling Network (MAPNet): Current Measurement Capabilities and Future Directions
Kevin Knupp, Univ. of Alabama in Huntsville, Huntsville, AL; and R. A. Wade, P. Pangle, M. Starke, X. Chen, S. W. Freeman, and L. D. Carey

2:30 PM
11B.4
Impacts from Assimilating Large Volumes of GNSS Radio Occultation (RO) Observations during ROMEX in NASA’s Global Earth Observing System
Michael J. Murphy Jr., NASA/GMAO, Greenbelt, MD; Univ. of Maryland Baltimore County, Greenbelt, MD; and M. Chattopadhyay, A. El Akkraoui, R. Gelaro, R. A. Anthes, and J. Jin

2:45 PM
11B.5
Assimilation of TROPICS observations into NOAA HAFS model
Isaac Moradi, University of Maryland, College Park, MD; and S. Kalluri, F. Iturbide-Sanchez, and V. S. Tallapragada

Recording files available
J11A
R2O2R Activities and Testing
Location: 206 (New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)
Hosts: (Joint between the 33rd Conference on Weather Analysis and Forecasting (WAF)/29th Conference on Numerical Weather Prediction (NWP); and the 15th Conference On Transition Of Research To Operations (15R2O) )
Cochairs: Clark Evans, UW-Milwaukee; Stephanie J. Avey
2:15 PM
J11A.3
Development of Data Assimilation System for current and future Rapid Refresh Forecast System
Ming Hu, OAR, Boulder, CO; and S. Liu, G. Ge, T. lei, D. Dowell, D. E. Lippi, C. Zhou, X. Zhang, H. Lin, H. Liu, S. Pan, J. Hu, S. K. Degelia, R. Li, M. Oigawa, H. Wang, B. Allen, A. Back, C. R. Martin, PhD, T. T. Ladwig, J. R. Carley, C. R. Alexander, D. T. Kleist, S. S. Weygandt, and M. E. Pyle

2:45 PM
J11A.5
Evaluation of convection-allowing model ensemble members using a network of planetary boundary layer observations from the TRACER field campaign
Francesca Marie Lappin, University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK; and T. M. Bell, P. M. Klein, J. A. Gibbs, and K. H. Knopfmeier

Recording files available
J11A
Risk Communication Systems and Tools
Location: 345 (New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)
Hosts: (Joint between the 20th Symposium on Societal Applications: Policy, Research and Practice; and the 33rd Conference on Weather Analysis and Forecasting (WAF)/29th Conference on Numerical Weather Prediction (NWP) )
Chair: Aisha S Owusu
1:45 PM
J11A.1
Enhancing Weather Communication for Emergency Management: The New York State Weather Risk Communication Center
Allison L Finch, New York State Weather Risk Communication Center, Albany, NY

2:15 PM
J11A.3
Updating ProbCom: Adding to a Living Systematic Review of Probability Information Communication in Weather Forecasts
Lauren Alene Harvey, Institute for Public Policy Research and Analysis (IPPRA), Univ. of Oklahoma, Norman, OK; and A. L. Bitterman, T. Maciag, Z. Rosen, J. Ripberger, M. Krocak, and A. C. Wanless

2:30 PM
J11A.4
2:45 PM
J11A.5
Introducing Risk-Tiered Weather Alerting in Canada
Erik de Groot, ECCC, Montreal, QC, Canada

3:00 PM-3:40 PM: Wednesday, 15 January 2025


Wednesday ePosters
Location: Hall C (New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)
Hosts: (Joint between the Events; the Heather Lazrus Symposium; the Gerald A Meehl Symposium; the 41st Conference on Environmental Information Processing Technologies; the 39th Conference on Hydrology; the 38th Conference on Climate Variability and Change; the 34th Conference on Education; the 33rd Conference on Weather Analysis and Forecasting (WAF)/29th Conference on Numerical Weather Prediction (NWP); the 29th Conference of Applied Climatology; the 29th Conference on Integrated Observing and Assimilation Systems for the Atmosphere, Oceans, and Land Surface (IOAS-AOLS); the 27th Conference on Atmospheric Chemistry; the 25th Symposium on Meteorological Observation and Instrumentation; the 25th Conference on Aviation, Range, and Aerospace Meteorology; the 24th Conference on Air-Sea Interaction; the 24th Conference on Artificial Intelligence for Environmental Science; the 23rd Symposium on the Coastal Environment; the 23rd History Symposium; the 22nd Conference on Space Weather; the 21st Conference on Major Weather Impacts; the 21st Annual Symposium on Operational Environmental Satellite Systems; the 20th Symposium on Societal Applications: Policy, Research and Practice; the 17th Symposium on Aerosol Cloud Climate Interactions; the 16th Conference on Environment and Health; the 16th Conference on Weather, Water, Climate, and the New Energy Economy; the 15th Conference On Transition Of Research To Operations (15R2O); the 15th Symposium on Advances in Modeling and Analysis Using the Programming Languages of Open Science; the 13th Symposium on Building a Weather-Ready Nation: Enhancing Our Nation; the 13th Symposium on the Joint Center for Satellite Data Assimilation; the 13th Symposium on Lidar Atmospheric Applications; the 13th Symposium on the Madden-Julian Oscillation and Sub-Seasonal Monsoon Variability; the 11th Symposium on High Performance Computing for Weather, Water, and Climate; the 13th Symposium on the Weather, Water, and Climate Enterprise; the 12th Conference on the Meteorological Application of Lightning Data; the Tenth Symposium on US-International Partnerships; the Seventh Special Symposium on Tropical Meteorology and Tropical Cyclones; the Sixth Symposium on Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion; the Fourth Symposium on Community Modeling and Innovation; the Fourth Symposium on Mesoscale Processes; the Third Symposium on Environmental Security; the Second Symposium on Cloud Physics; the First Conference on Fire Weather, Technology, and Risk; the Symposium on Radar Research to Operations; the Symposium on Careers in Operational Government Meteorology and Hydrology; and the New Orleans Forum on Climate Linked Economics )
E59
39HYDRO Analysis of the Evolution of a Meiyu Frontal Rainstorm Based on Doppler Radar Data Assimilation
Hongli Li, Institute of Heavy Rain, China Meteorological Administration, Wuhan, China

E60
39HYDRO Analysis of Cold Season Precipitation Dynamics in Complex Terrain over the Upper Colorado River Basin
Sierra Liotta, University of Colorado Boulder, Boulder, CO; and K. Friedrich and J. Kay

E63
24AI Deciphering Heat Wave Mechanisms in Bangladesh: Integrating Meteorological Insights and Machine Learning Techniques
Saurav Dey Shuvo, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH; The Ohio State Univ., Columbus, OH; and S. S. Sultana

E64
24AI AI Training in Progress: Challenges and Achievements at Meteorological Service of Canada.
Miguel Tremblay, MSC, Montreal, QC, Canada; and S. Beauregard and A. Dacres

ePoster E66 is now Poster 189A

E69
1FIREWX Flint Hills Prescribed Burn Decision Support
Patrick H. Zahn, Sonoma Technology, Petaluma, CA; and J. J. Beamish, S. Irwin, K. Craig, D. Watson, and J. Prentice

E70
24AI All-weather VIIRS LST: Machine Learning Based Methodology and Experiment
Shuo Xu, University of Maryland, RIVERDALE, MD; and Y. Liu

E71
WAFNWP Dependence of Hurricane Forecasts on the Spectral Representation of Cumulus Convection
Anning Cheng, EMC, College Park, MD; EMC, College Park, MD; and F. Yang

E72
25SMOI A Modernized Cutdown/Letdown Mechanism for Mobile Balloon Launches.
Christopher Schneider, The University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK; University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK; NSSL, NORMAN, OK; and M. Stock, D. Kennedy, S. M. Waugh, and V. C. Chmielewski

E73
27ATCHEM Exploring Organic Acid Contributions to Cloud Water Chemistry and Aqueous Processing of Organics within Clouds: Insights from Whiteface Mountain Measurements
Archana Tripathy, SUNY Albany, ALBANY, NY; SUNY Albany, Albany, NY; Univ. at Albany, Boulder, CO; and C. E. Lawrence, S. S. Lombardo, P. Casson, R. Patel, L. Hammond, R. Brandt, S. McKim, J. Schlemmer, J. Schwab, H. Khwaja, M. Hussain, E. Yerger, P. Snyder, W. May, D. Kelting, and S. M. Lance

E74
38CVC Extreme Weather Events and School Closures: A Study of Climate Change Effects
Caitlin Finlayson, University of Mary Washington, Fredericksburg, VA

3:00 PM-4:30 PM: Wednesday, 15 January 2025


Coffee Break
Hosts: (Joint between the Events; the 24th Conference on Air-Sea Interaction; the 17th Symposium on Aerosol Cloud Climate Interactions; the 24th Conference on Artificial Intelligence for Environmental Science; the 29th Conference of Applied Climatology; the 25th Conference on Aviation, Range, and Aerospace Meteorology; the 27th Conference on Atmospheric Chemistry; the Symposium on Careers in Operational Government Meteorology and Hydrology; the Second Symposium on Cloud Physics; the Fourth Symposium on Community Modeling and Innovation; the 23rd Symposium on the Coastal Environment; the 38th Conference on Climate Variability and Change; the Sixth Symposium on Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion; the New Orleans Forum on Climate Linked Economics; the 34th Conference on Education; the 41st Conference on Environmental Information Processing Technologies; the 16th Conference on Weather, Water, Climate, and the New Energy Economy; the First Conference on Fire Weather, Technology, and Risk; the 16th Conference on Environment and Health; the 23rd History Symposium; the 11th Symposium on High Performance Computing for Weather, Water, and Climate; the 39th Conference on Hydrology; the 21st Conference on Major Weather Impacts; the Tenth Symposium on US-International Partnerships; the 29th Conference on Integrated Observing and Assimilation Systems for the Atmosphere, Oceans, and Land Surface (IOAS-AOLS); the 13th Symposium on the Joint Center for Satellite Data Assimilation; the Heather Lazrus Symposium; the 13th Symposium on Lidar Atmospheric Applications; the 12th Conference on the Meteorological Application of Lightning Data; the Gerald A Meehl Symposium; the Fourth Symposium on Mesoscale Processes; the 13th Symposium on the Madden-Julian Oscillation and Sub-Seasonal Monsoon Variability; the 21st Annual Symposium on Operational Environmental Satellite Systems; the Presidential Conference; the 15th Symposium on Advances in Modeling and Analysis Using the Programming Languages of Open Science; the Symposium on Radar Research to Operations; the 15th Conference On Transition Of Research To Operations (15R2O); the Third Symposium on Environmental Security; the 25th Symposium on Meteorological Observation and Instrumentation; the 20th Symposium on Societal Applications: Policy, Research and Practice; the 22nd Conference on Space Weather; the Seventh Special Symposium on Tropical Meteorology and Tropical Cyclones; the 33rd Conference on Weather Analysis and Forecasting (WAF)/29th Conference on Numerical Weather Prediction (NWP); the 13th Symposium on Building a Weather-Ready Nation: Enhancing Our Nation; and the 13th Symposium on the Weather, Water, and Climate Enterprise )

Formal Poster Viewing and Coffee Break
Location: Hall C (New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)
Hosts: (Joint between the Events; the 24th Conference on Air-Sea Interaction; the 17th Symposium on Aerosol Cloud Climate Interactions; the 24th Conference on Artificial Intelligence for Environmental Science; the 29th Conference of Applied Climatology; the 25th Conference on Aviation, Range, and Aerospace Meteorology; the 27th Conference on Atmospheric Chemistry; the Symposium on Careers in Operational Government Meteorology and Hydrology; the Second Symposium on Cloud Physics; the Fourth Symposium on Community Modeling and Innovation; the 23rd Symposium on the Coastal Environment; the 38th Conference on Climate Variability and Change; the Sixth Symposium on Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion; the New Orleans Forum on Climate Linked Economics; the 34th Conference on Education; the 41st Conference on Environmental Information Processing Technologies; the 16th Conference on Weather, Water, Climate, and the New Energy Economy; the First Conference on Fire Weather, Technology, and Risk; the 16th Conference on Environment and Health; the 23rd History Symposium; the 11th Symposium on High Performance Computing for Weather, Water, and Climate; the 39th Conference on Hydrology; the 21st Conference on Major Weather Impacts; the Tenth Symposium on US-International Partnerships; the 29th Conference on Integrated Observing and Assimilation Systems for the Atmosphere, Oceans, and Land Surface (IOAS-AOLS); the 13th Symposium on the Joint Center for Satellite Data Assimilation; the Heather Lazrus Symposium; the 13th Symposium on Lidar Atmospheric Applications; the 12th Conference on the Meteorological Application of Lightning Data; the Gerald A Meehl Symposium; the Fourth Symposium on Mesoscale Processes; the 13th Symposium on the Madden-Julian Oscillation and Sub-Seasonal Monsoon Variability; the 21st Annual Symposium on Operational Environmental Satellite Systems; the Presidential Conference; the 15th Symposium on Advances in Modeling and Analysis Using the Programming Languages of Open Science; the Symposium on Radar Research to Operations; the 15th Conference On Transition Of Research To Operations (15R2O); the Third Symposium on Environmental Security; the 25th Symposium on Meteorological Observation and Instrumentation; the 20th Symposium on Societal Applications: Policy, Research and Practice; the 22nd Conference on Space Weather; the Seventh Special Symposium on Tropical Meteorology and Tropical Cyclones; the 33rd Conference on Weather Analysis and Forecasting (WAF)/29th Conference on Numerical Weather Prediction (NWP); the 13th Symposium on Building a Weather-Ready Nation: Enhancing Our Nation; and the 13th Symposium on the Weather, Water, and Climate Enterprise )

3
Advances Facilitated by New Observational Platforms and Capabilities (Poster)
Location: Hall C (New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)
Host: 33rd Conference on Weather Analysis and Forecasting (WAF)/29th Conference on Numerical Weather Prediction (NWP)
644
Evaluating the Feasibility of the Windsond S1H2 in Severe-storm Environments, a Comparison against the Vaisala RS41-SGP
Madeline Diedrichsen, NSSL, Norman, OK; CIWRO, Norman, OK; Univ. of Oklahoma, Norman, OK; and M. C. Coniglio and S. M. Waugh


3
Forecasting Tools and Techniques Across Weather Scales (Poster)
Location: Hall C (New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)
Host: 33rd Conference on Weather Analysis and Forecasting (WAF)/29th Conference on Numerical Weather Prediction (NWP)
645
Validation of cool-season snowfall forecasts at a high-elevation site in Utah's Little Cottonwood Canyon
Michael David Pletcher, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT; Univ. of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT; and P. Veals, M. E. Wessler, D. Church, K. J. Harnos, J. Correia Jr., R. Chase, and J. Steenburgh

646
Transitioning the NWS Forecaster Warning Workflow to Hazard Services Convective
Lexy Elizalde-Garcia, M.S., Cooperative Institute for Severe and High-Impact Weather Research and Operations (CIWRO), Norman, OK; and M. A. Magsig and E. R. Vasquez

Handout (761.4 kB)

647
Heavy Precipitation Object Tracking and Forecast Tools
Matthew R Green, CIRES, Fort Collins, CO


3
Model Development and Applications (Poster)
Location: Hall C (New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)
Host: 33rd Conference on Weather Analysis and Forecasting (WAF)/29th Conference on Numerical Weather Prediction (NWP)
649
Improving the Representation of Moisture and Convective Instability in Baroclinic-Wave Channel Simulations
Daniel James Lloveras, Univ. of Washington, Seattle, WA; and D. R. Durran

651
Impact of the Rice Paddy Standing Water Layer on Micrometeorology: A Coupled WRF-Rice Paddy Model Study
Hee-Jeong Lim, Kyungpook National University, Daegu, South korea; and Y. H. Lee

652
Smooth Operator: Using Spectral Filtering Techniques to Modify Terrain in WRF-ARW
Nicolas Duboc, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada; and R. Stull, R. H. White, and G. West

653
Implementing the UFS Unified Gravity Wave Physics (UGWP) parameterization in MPAS-A
Michael D. Toy, CIRES, University of Colorado Boulder and NOAA Global Systems Laboratory, Boulder, CO; and J. Olson

654
A Revised Snow Scheme and Its Performance in the Next Seasonal Prediction System at JMA (CPS4)
Kenta Ochi, JMA, Tsukuba, Ibaraki, Japan; and Y. Adachi, J. Chiba, S. Hirahara, Y. Kubo, N. Ganeshi, and Y. Takaya

Handout (1.1 MB)

655
Orography-Induced Gravity Wave Drag Parameterizations in the NCEP GFS
Song You Hong, NOAA/Physical Sciences Laboratory, Boulder, CO; and J. W. Bao, S. A. Michelson, M. D. Toy, J. Han, F. Yang, M. S. Koo, and H. J. Choi

656
Identifying the Optimal WRF-ARW Configuration for the Amazon Rainforest
Chetan Gurung, Univ. of Maryland, Baltimore County, Baltimore, MD; and L. A. M. Viscardi, D. K. Adams, X. Li, and H. M. Barbosa

657

3
NWP and Urban Impacts
Location: Hall C (New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)
Host: 33rd Conference on Weather Analysis and Forecasting (WAF)/29th Conference on Numerical Weather Prediction (NWP)
659
Assessing the Performance of a Convection-Permitting Regional Hydroclimate Simulation in Urban Areas across the Continental United States
Liam Thompson, Univ. of Oklahoma, Norman, OK; Univ. of Oklahoma, Norman, OK; and C. Wang

Handout (10.7 MB)

660
Intercomparison of WRF Urban Configurations for Optimizing Long-Term High-Resolution Simulations in the Chicago Metro Area
Gonzalo Huidobro, University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, IN; and S. Wu, P. Li, A. Sharma, and A. F. Hamlet

661
Lifecycles of Coastal Urban Thunderstorms from a Modelling Perspective
Jean Carlos Pena, University at Albany SUNY, Albany, NY; and M. P. Jensen, S. Giangrande, M. Deng, H. Gamarro, P. Ramamurthy, and J. E. González-Cruz

663
meteoblue City Climate Model (mCCM): High-resolution Modeling for Urban Heatwave Management
Nico Bader, meteoblue AG, Basel, Switzerland; and N. Zurfluh, J. Shin, and S. Schlögl

664
Resolving the street-scale Urban Heat Island with a coupled WRF-LES-SLUCM atmospheric modeling system
Mahdad Talebpour, PhD, johns hopkins university, Cambridge, MA; and E. Bou-Zeid, C. Welty, B. F. Zaitchik, and D. Li


R2O2R Activities and Testing (Poster)
Location: Hall C (New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)
Hosts: (Joint between the 33rd Conference on Weather Analysis and Forecasting (WAF)/29th Conference on Numerical Weather Prediction (NWP); and the 15th Conference On Transition Of Research To Operations (15R2O) )

3:50 PM-4:30 PM: Wednesday, 15 January 2025


Wednesday ePosters
Location: Hall C (New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)
Hosts: (Joint between the Events; the Heather Lazrus Symposium; the Gerald A Meehl Symposium; the 41st Conference on Environmental Information Processing Technologies; the 39th Conference on Hydrology; the 38th Conference on Climate Variability and Change; the 34th Conference on Education; the 33rd Conference on Weather Analysis and Forecasting (WAF)/29th Conference on Numerical Weather Prediction (NWP); the 29th Conference of Applied Climatology; the 29th Conference on Integrated Observing and Assimilation Systems for the Atmosphere, Oceans, and Land Surface (IOAS-AOLS); the 27th Conference on Atmospheric Chemistry; the 25th Symposium on Meteorological Observation and Instrumentation; the 25th Conference on Aviation, Range, and Aerospace Meteorology; the 24th Conference on Air-Sea Interaction; the 24th Conference on Artificial Intelligence for Environmental Science; the 23rd Symposium on the Coastal Environment; the 23rd History Symposium; the 22nd Conference on Space Weather; the 21st Conference on Major Weather Impacts; the 21st Annual Symposium on Operational Environmental Satellite Systems; the 20th Symposium on Societal Applications: Policy, Research and Practice; the 17th Symposium on Aerosol Cloud Climate Interactions; the 16th Conference on Environment and Health; the 16th Conference on Weather, Water, Climate, and the New Energy Economy; the 15th Conference On Transition Of Research To Operations (15R2O); the 15th Symposium on Advances in Modeling and Analysis Using the Programming Languages of Open Science; the 13th Symposium on Building a Weather-Ready Nation: Enhancing Our Nation; the 13th Symposium on the Joint Center for Satellite Data Assimilation; the 13th Symposium on Lidar Atmospheric Applications; the 13th Symposium on the Madden-Julian Oscillation and Sub-Seasonal Monsoon Variability; the 11th Symposium on High Performance Computing for Weather, Water, and Climate; the 13th Symposium on the Weather, Water, and Climate Enterprise; the 12th Conference on the Meteorological Application of Lightning Data; the Tenth Symposium on US-International Partnerships; the Seventh Special Symposium on Tropical Meteorology and Tropical Cyclones; the Sixth Symposium on Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion; the Fourth Symposium on Community Modeling and Innovation; the Fourth Symposium on Mesoscale Processes; the Third Symposium on Environmental Security; the Second Symposium on Cloud Physics; the First Conference on Fire Weather, Technology, and Risk; the Symposium on Radar Research to Operations; the Symposium on Careers in Operational Government Meteorology and Hydrology; and the New Orleans Forum on Climate Linked Economics )
E76
21OESS Value Tree Assessment of Low Earth Orbit Observations for the Dynamic Arctic Region
Andrew Lomax, MS, JPSS, Lanham, MD; and J. P. Goldstein, J. Dissen, S. Kalluri, K. A. Hawley, and C. Y. Wu

E77
27AtChem Evaluation of a WRF-Chem-HYSPLIT modeling framework to simulate smoke-taint conditions in the western US.
Ana Carla Fernandez Valdes, Washington State University, Pullman, WA; and V. P. Walden, M. Vahidi Ghazvini, and J. Meng

E79
24Airsea Simulating Cloud Radiative Forcing with WRF During Arctic Winter Sea Ice Extremes
Valerie Elizabeth Gorden, University of Maryland, College Park, MD; and S. T. Strey

E82
FireWx Development and Application of an Hourly Wildfire Potential Index for Predicting Wildfire Activity
Craig Hartsough, CIRES at NOAA/GSL, Fort Collins, CO; and E. P. James, R. Ahmadov, J. Romero-Alvarez, J. Schnell, S. Bhimireddy, and S. S. Weygandt

E83
39Hydro Evolutionary Mechanism of Cloud Clusters Moving Eastward from the Qinghai Tibet Plateau
Xiaofang Wang, Institute of Heavy Rain, China Meteorological Administration,Wuhan, Wuhan, Hubei, China

E84
39Hydro Merging and Downscaling of Satellite and Model Soil Moisture over Taiwan
Chia-Jeng Chen, National Chung Hsing University, Taichung, Taiwan; and Y. R. Ciou

E85
39Hydro Drought Prediction over the U.S. Using a Statistical Model of Groundwater and Land-Atmosphere Stable States
Joshua K. Roundy, Univ. of Kansas, Lawrence, KS; and P. R. Makhasana, P. Lawston Parker, and J. A. Santanello Jr.

E86
39Hydro Enhancing Water Resource Management in the EEC (Thailand) Using WEAP
Vinitar Khettar, Geo-Informatics and Space Technology Development Agency (Public Organization): GISTDA, Lak Si, Bangkok, Thailand; and D. Phoomikiattisak, W. Chansury, J. Kruasilp, P. Faikratok, C. Charoenchim, and P. Petchprayoon

E88
2CloudPhys An Overview of the Cold Air outbreak Experiment in the Sub Arctic Region (CAESAR) campaign
Paquita Zuidema, University of Miami Rosenstiel School, Key Biscayne, FL; and B. Geerts, G. M. McFarquhar, A. Raudzens Bailey, J. J. Cassano, C. Costanza, J. D. Doyle, A. M. Dzambo, S. Ephraim, J. R. French, C. Grasmick, E. Järvinen, T. W. Juliano, M. D. Petters, R. J. Perkins, E. M. Rosky, J. R. Snider, G. Svensson, M. Tjernstrom, F. Tornow, P. R. veres, Y. Wang, S. Woods, and L. Xue, PhD

4:30 PM-6:00 PM: Wednesday, 15 January 2025

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Session 12A
Warning Communication and Public Threat Perception
Location: 345 (New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)
Hosts: (Joint between the 20th Symposium on Societal Applications: Policy, Research and Practice; and the 33rd Conference on Weather Analysis and Forecasting (WAF)/29th Conference on Numerical Weather Prediction (NWP) )
Cochairs: Cassandra Shivers-Williams; Michelle E. Saunders, Mississippi State University
4:45 PM
12A.2
Public Perceptions of Evolving Probabilistic Tornado Forecasts and Warnings
Christopher D. Wirz, NSF NCAR, Boulder, CO; and J. L. Demuth, R. Prestley, R. E. Morss, S. Joslyn, C. Qin, and S. Savelli

5:00 PM
12A.3
What’s that Warning?: Testing Public Responses to Alternative Convective Hazard Alerts
Sean Robert Ernst, Institute for Public Policy Research and Analysis, Norman OK, OK; and J. Ripberger, M. Krocak, and A. C. Wanless

5:15 PM
12A.4
What’s in a Message? Flood Warning Information Sharing Within Community Organizations
Elizabeth Doran, University of Vermont, Burlington, VT; and L. E. Taylor, J. Brown, A. J. Jefferson, B. Luukinen, C. Johns, S. DeBree, B. G. Southwell, and G. Van Houtven

5:30 PM
12A.5
National Weather Service Initiative Update: Community-Centric Warnings
Stephen W. Bieda III, PhD, NWS, Silver Spring, MD; and C. M. Gravelle, N. P. Kurkowski, S. B. Smith, and G. Cooper

5:45 PM
12A.6
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Session 12B
Model Evaluation
Location: 207 (New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)
Host: 33rd Conference on Weather Analysis and Forecasting (WAF)/29th Conference on Numerical Weather Prediction (NWP)
Cochairs: Tomer Burg, EMC/NCEP; Stephanie E. Zick, Virginia Tech
4:30 PM
12B.1
Development and Evaluation of a Time-Lagged Ensemble of WRF-Downscaled CFSv2 Forecasts for Extended-Range Forecasts in South Korea
Subin Ha, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Kowloon, Hong Kong; and E. S. Im and J. Hur

4:45 PM
12B.2
Evaluation of West-WRF with Noah-MP for Hydrometeorological Prediction in California
Samuel Dahl, The University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ; University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ; and X. Zeng, M. A. Brunke, D. F. Steinhoff, M. Simpson, and L. Delle Monache

5:00 PM
12B.3
Cloud/radiation deficiency in storm-scale NWP and application of reduced effective cloud droplet radius
Stanley G. Benjamin, NOAA Global Systems Laboratory, Boulder, CO; and E. P. James, D. D. Turner, K. A. Balmes, J. Sedlar, K. O. Lantz, A. Jensen, L. Riihimaki, and J. A. Augustine

5:15 PM
12B.4
Evolving the USAF’s Cloud Forecasting and Analysis Capabilities
Evan L. Kuchera, U.S. Air Force, 557th Weather Wing, Offutt AFB, NE; and S. I. Baker, J. Martinelli, B. T. Gallo, N. F. Wright, J. Luce, E. Hildebrand, J. R. Brown, M. Vaughan, M. Searls, W. T. Sedlacek, S. schulze, G. R. Brooks, and C. J. Melick, PhD

5:30 PM
12B.5
Verification of Marine Boundary Layer Forecasts in Atmospheric River Environments using Dropsonde Observations
Kevin M. Lupo, Center for Western Weather and Water Extremes, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, CA; and M. Simpson and F. M. Ralph

5:45 PM
12B.6
Benefits and Tradeoffs of Ensemble Resolution versus Ensemble Size for Orographic Precipitation Forecasts
Nora Rose Mascioli, SIO, San Diego, CA; and D. F. Steinhoff, M. Simpson, M. Ghazvinian, PhD, R. Weihs, C. Papadopoulos, and L. Delle Monache

Recording files available
J12
Artificial Intelligence, Numerical Weather Prediction, and High Performance Computing in a Data-driven Weather Future
Location: La Nouvelle C (New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)
Hosts: (Joint between the 11th Symposium on High Performance Computing for Weather, Water, and Climate; the 33rd Conference on Weather Analysis and Forecasting (WAF)/29th Conference on Numerical Weather Prediction (NWP); and the 24th Conference on Artificial Intelligence for Environmental Science )
Cochairs: Edward C. Wolff IV, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign; Timothy Sliwinski; Tiago Quintino, ECMWF
5:00 PM
J12.2
Dynamic Generative AI for Real-Time Data Assimilation in NWP on High-Performance Computing Platforms
Guannan Zhang, ORNL, Oak Ridge, TN; ORNL, Oak Ridge, TN; and F. Bao and H. G. Chipilski

5:15 PM
J12.3
Porting Noah-MP Model into Energy Research and Forecasting Model Using a Novel Large Language Model Paradigm
Akash Dhruv, ANL, Lemont, IL; and M. Buehlmann, A. Lattanzi, H. Gopalan, R. Kotamarthi, and A. Almgren

5:30 PM
J12.4
Scaling GPU-Accelerated AI Models for Advanced Numerical Weather Prediction
John Schreck, NSF NCAR, Boulder, CO; and N. Sobhani, B. Kirk, D. Howard, W. E. Chapman, Y. Sha, and D. J. Gagne II


J12A
NWA Research-Operations Nexus (RON) Meetup (In-Person)
Location: Rivergate (New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)
Hosts: (Joint between the 33rd Conference on Weather Analysis and Forecasting (WAF)/29th Conference on Numerical Weather Prediction (NWP); and the Symposium on Careers in Operational Government Meteorology and Hydrology )
Recording files available
J12B
NWA Research-Operations Nexus (RON) Meetup (Virtual)
Host: 33rd Conference on Weather Analysis and Forecasting (WAF)/29th Conference on Numerical Weather Prediction (NWP)
Chair: Keith Sherburn, NWS

6:00 PM-7:30 PM: Wednesday, 15 January 2025

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Awards Reception and Ceremony
Location: Great Hall A (New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)
Hosts: (Joint between the Events; the 17th Symposium on Aerosol Cloud Climate Interactions; the 24th Conference on Air-Sea Interaction; the 24th Conference on Artificial Intelligence for Environmental Science; the 29th Conference of Applied Climatology; the 25th Conference on Aviation, Range, and Aerospace Meteorology; the 27th Conference on Atmospheric Chemistry; the Symposium on Careers in Operational Government Meteorology and Hydrology; the Second Symposium on Cloud Physics; the Fourth Symposium on Community Modeling and Innovation; the 23rd Symposium on the Coastal Environment; the 38th Conference on Climate Variability and Change; the Sixth Symposium on Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion; the New Orleans Forum on Climate Linked Economics; the 34th Conference on Education; the 41st Conference on Environmental Information Processing Technologies; the 16th Conference on Weather, Water, Climate, and the New Energy Economy; the First Conference on Fire Weather, Technology, and Risk; the 16th Conference on Environment and Health; the 23rd History Symposium; the 11th Symposium on High Performance Computing for Weather, Water, and Climate; the 39th Conference on Hydrology; the 21st Conference on Major Weather Impacts; the Tenth Symposium on US-International Partnerships; the 29th Conference on Integrated Observing and Assimilation Systems for the Atmosphere, Oceans, and Land Surface (IOAS-AOLS); the 13th Symposium on the Joint Center for Satellite Data Assimilation; the Heather Lazrus Symposium; the 13th Symposium on Lidar Atmospheric Applications; the 12th Conference on the Meteorological Application of Lightning Data; the Gerald A Meehl Symposium; the Fourth Symposium on Mesoscale Processes; the 13th Symposium on the Madden-Julian Oscillation and Sub-Seasonal Monsoon Variability; the 21st Annual Symposium on Operational Environmental Satellite Systems; the Presidential Conference; the 15th Symposium on Advances in Modeling and Analysis Using the Programming Languages of Open Science; the Symposium on Radar Research to Operations; the 15th Conference On Transition Of Research To Operations (15R2O); the Third Symposium on Environmental Security; the 25th Symposium on Meteorological Observation and Instrumentation; the 20th Symposium on Societal Applications: Policy, Research and Practice; the 22nd Conference on Space Weather; the Seventh Special Symposium on Tropical Meteorology and Tropical Cyclones; the 33rd Conference on Weather Analysis and Forecasting (WAF)/29th Conference on Numerical Weather Prediction (NWP); the 13th Symposium on Building a Weather-Ready Nation: Enhancing Our Nation; and the 13th Symposium on the Weather, Water, and Climate Enterprise )

7:30 PM-9:30 PM: Wednesday, 15 January 2025


Wednesday Night Live
Location: Great Hall A (New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)
Hosts: (Joint between the Events; the 13th Symposium on the Weather, Water, and Climate Enterprise; the 24th Conference on Artificial Intelligence for Environmental Science; the 17th Symposium on Aerosol Cloud Climate Interactions; the 24th Conference on Air-Sea Interaction; the 29th Conference of Applied Climatology; the 25th Conference on Aviation, Range, and Aerospace Meteorology; the 27th Conference on Atmospheric Chemistry; the Symposium on Careers in Operational Government Meteorology and Hydrology; the Second Symposium on Cloud Physics; the Fourth Symposium on Community Modeling and Innovation; the 23rd Symposium on the Coastal Environment; the 38th Conference on Climate Variability and Change; the Sixth Symposium on Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion; the New Orleans Forum on Climate Linked Economics; the 34th Conference on Education; the 41st Conference on Environmental Information Processing Technologies; the 16th Conference on Weather, Water, Climate, and the New Energy Economy; the First Conference on Fire Weather, Technology, and Risk; the 16th Conference on Environment and Health; the 23rd History Symposium; the 11th Symposium on High Performance Computing for Weather, Water, and Climate; the 39th Conference on Hydrology; the 21st Conference on Major Weather Impacts; the Tenth Symposium on US-International Partnerships; the 29th Conference on Integrated Observing and Assimilation Systems for the Atmosphere, Oceans, and Land Surface (IOAS-AOLS); the 13th Symposium on the Joint Center for Satellite Data Assimilation; the Heather Lazrus Symposium; the 13th Symposium on Lidar Atmospheric Applications; the 12th Conference on the Meteorological Application of Lightning Data; the Gerald A Meehl Symposium; the Fourth Symposium on Mesoscale Processes; the 13th Symposium on the Madden-Julian Oscillation and Sub-Seasonal Monsoon Variability; the 21st Annual Symposium on Operational Environmental Satellite Systems; the Presidential Conference; the 15th Symposium on Advances in Modeling and Analysis Using the Programming Languages of Open Science; the Symposium on Radar Research to Operations; the 15th Conference On Transition Of Research To Operations (15R2O); the Third Symposium on Environmental Security; the 25th Symposium on Meteorological Observation and Instrumentation; the 20th Symposium on Societal Applications: Policy, Research and Practice; the 22nd Conference on Space Weather; the 24th Annual Student Conference; the Seventh Special Symposium on Tropical Meteorology and Tropical Cyclones; the 33rd Conference on Weather Analysis and Forecasting (WAF)/29th Conference on Numerical Weather Prediction (NWP); and the 13th Symposium on Building a Weather-Ready Nation: Enhancing Our Nation )

Thursday, 16 January 2025

8:30 AM-10:00 AM: Thursday, 16 January 2025

Recording files available
Session 13A
Winter Weather Forecasting: Snow-Liquid-Ratio and Freezing Rain
Location: 206 (New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)
Host: 33rd Conference on Weather Analysis and Forecasting (WAF)/29th Conference on Numerical Weather Prediction (NWP)
Cochairs: Austin A. Coleman; Stephen W. Bieda III, PhD, NWS
8:30 AM
13A.1
Predicting Snow-to-Liquid Ratio over the Western United States
Peter Veals, Univ. of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT; and M. D. Pletcher, J. Steenburgh, and A. J. Schwartz

8:45 AM
13A.2
Snow-to-liquid ratio prediction over the contiguous United States using machine learning
Michael David Pletcher, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT; and P. Veals, S. Hilberg, N. Newman, A. A. Rosenow, PhD, J. Steenburgh, and R. Chase

9:00 AM
13A.3
Snow-to-Liquid Ratios in the Upper Great Lakes: Regime Dependency and Nowcasting Applications
Kyla Wolski, NOAA, Silver Spring, MD; Univ. of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL; and M. S. Kulie, C. Pettersen, and S. W. Nesbitt

9:30 AM
13A.5
An Evaluation of Freezing Rain Local Storm Reports and Their Uses
Adam David Werkema, Cooperative Institute for Severe and High-Impact Weather Research and Operations (CIWRO) at NOAA/OAR/NSSL, Norman, OK; and H. D. Reeves

9:45 AM
13A.6
Evaluating Tools for Diagnosis and Nowcasting Precipitation Type and Freezing Rain: Results from the 3–4 February 2022 Winter Storm in the Hudson Valley
Justin R Minder, Univ. at Albany, Albany, NY; and B. Stutsrim, C. Speciale, T. A. Wasula, B. Filipiak, B. Shrestha, J. Wang, N. P. Bassill, H. D. Reeves, D. D. Tripp, D. Thompson, N. Stuart, and M. Evans

Recording files available
Session 13B
Overview of Forecast Verification
Location: 207 (New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)
Host: 33rd Conference on Weather Analysis and Forecasting (WAF)/29th Conference on Numerical Weather Prediction (NWP)
Cochairs: Michelle A. Harrold, NCAR; Joseph P. Koval
8:30 AM
13B.1
An Overview of the Environmental Modeling Center Verification System (EVS)
Jason J. Levit, NOAA/NWS/NCEP/EMC, College Park, MD; and A. Benjamin, A. M. Bentley, and T. L. Jensen

8:45 AM
13B.2
An Overview of Global Verification in the Environmental Modeling Center Verification System (EVS)
Alicia M. Bentley, NOAA/NWS/NCEP/Environmental Modeling Center, College Park, MD; and J. J. Levit, M. P. Row, S. R. Shields, S. Ardani, L. G. Chen, B. Zhou, H. C. Huang, Y. Mao, O. R. Ostwald, A. Vashisht, P. C. Shafran, and S. L. Melchior

9:00 AM
13B.3
Verification of Operational Global Ensemble Forecast System in the Short to Medium Range
L. Gwen Chen, EMC, College Park, MD; and A. M. Bentley, S. R. Shields, B. Zhou, S. L. Melchior, P. C. Shafran, A. Vashisht, and J. J. Levit

9:15 AM
13B.4
Verification of DWD MOSMIX and the meteoblue learning multimodel at more than 500 WMO stations worldwide
Thomas Eldridge, meteoblue AG, Basel, Switzerland; and S. Schlögl, N. Bader, C. Rempfer, K. G. Gutbrod, and N. Pierotti

9:30 AM
13B.5
Verification Diagrams Based on Forecast Value
Michael E. Baldwin, Cooperative Institute for Severe and High-Impact Weather Research and Operations (CIWRO/SPC), Norman, OK; and H. E. Brooks

Handout (461.1 kB)

9:45 AM
13B.6
Objective Verification of the Weather Prediction Center's Mesoscale Precipitation Discussions
Erica Bower, CIRES, Boulder, CO; NOAA/NWS/WPC, College Park, MD; and M. J. Erickson, J. A. Nelson Jr., M. Klein, and A. W. Orrison

10:00 AM-10:45 AM: Thursday, 16 January 2025


Coffee Break
Hosts: (Joint between the Events; the 24th Conference on Air-Sea Interaction; the 17th Symposium on Aerosol Cloud Climate Interactions; the 24th Conference on Artificial Intelligence for Environmental Science; the 29th Conference of Applied Climatology; the 25th Conference on Aviation, Range, and Aerospace Meteorology; the 27th Conference on Atmospheric Chemistry; the Symposium on Careers in Operational Government Meteorology and Hydrology; the Second Symposium on Cloud Physics; the Fourth Symposium on Community Modeling and Innovation; the 23rd Symposium on the Coastal Environment; the 38th Conference on Climate Variability and Change; the Sixth Symposium on Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion; the New Orleans Forum on Climate Linked Economics; the 34th Conference on Education; the 41st Conference on Environmental Information Processing Technologies; the 16th Conference on Weather, Water, Climate, and the New Energy Economy; the First Conference on Fire Weather, Technology, and Risk; the 16th Conference on Environment and Health; the 23rd History Symposium; the 11th Symposium on High Performance Computing for Weather, Water, and Climate; the 39th Conference on Hydrology; the 21st Conference on Major Weather Impacts; the Tenth Symposium on US-International Partnerships; the 29th Conference on Integrated Observing and Assimilation Systems for the Atmosphere, Oceans, and Land Surface (IOAS-AOLS); the 13th Symposium on the Joint Center for Satellite Data Assimilation; the Heather Lazrus Symposium; the 13th Symposium on Lidar Atmospheric Applications; the 12th Conference on the Meteorological Application of Lightning Data; the Gerald A Meehl Symposium; the Fourth Symposium on Mesoscale Processes; the 13th Symposium on the Madden-Julian Oscillation and Sub-Seasonal Monsoon Variability; the 21st Annual Symposium on Operational Environmental Satellite Systems; the Presidential Conference; the 15th Symposium on Advances in Modeling and Analysis Using the Programming Languages of Open Science; the Symposium on Radar Research to Operations; the 15th Conference On Transition Of Research To Operations (15R2O); the Third Symposium on Environmental Security; the 25th Symposium on Meteorological Observation and Instrumentation; the 20th Symposium on Societal Applications: Policy, Research and Practice; the 22nd Conference on Space Weather; the Seventh Special Symposium on Tropical Meteorology and Tropical Cyclones; the 33rd Conference on Weather Analysis and Forecasting (WAF)/29th Conference on Numerical Weather Prediction (NWP); the 13th Symposium on Building a Weather-Ready Nation: Enhancing Our Nation; and the 13th Symposium on the Weather, Water, and Climate Enterprise )

Exhibit Hall Breakfast
Location: Hall B (New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)
Hosts: (Joint between the Events; the 24th Conference on Air-Sea Interaction; the 24th Conference on Artificial Intelligence for Environmental Science; the 29th Conference of Applied Climatology; the 25th Conference on Aviation, Range, and Aerospace Meteorology; the 27th Conference on Atmospheric Chemistry; the Symposium on Careers in Operational Government Meteorology and Hydrology; the Second Symposium on Cloud Physics; the Fourth Symposium on Community Modeling and Innovation; the 23rd Symposium on the Coastal Environment; the 38th Conference on Climate Variability and Change; the Sixth Symposium on Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion; the New Orleans Forum on Climate Linked Economics; the 34th Conference on Education; the 41st Conference on Environmental Information Processing Technologies; the 16th Conference on Weather, Water, Climate, and the New Energy Economy; the First Conference on Fire Weather, Technology, and Risk; the 16th Conference on Environment and Health; the 23rd History Symposium; the 11th Symposium on High Performance Computing for Weather, Water, and Climate; the 39th Conference on Hydrology; the 21st Conference on Major Weather Impacts; the Tenth Symposium on US-International Partnerships; the 29th Conference on Integrated Observing and Assimilation Systems for the Atmosphere, Oceans, and Land Surface (IOAS-AOLS); the 13th Symposium on the Joint Center for Satellite Data Assimilation; the Heather Lazrus Symposium; the 13th Symposium on Lidar Atmospheric Applications; the 12th Conference on the Meteorological Application of Lightning Data; the Gerald A Meehl Symposium; the Fourth Symposium on Mesoscale Processes; the 13th Symposium on the Madden-Julian Oscillation and Sub-Seasonal Monsoon Variability; the 21st Annual Symposium on Operational Environmental Satellite Systems; the Presidential Conference; the 15th Symposium on Advances in Modeling and Analysis Using the Programming Languages of Open Science; the Symposium on Radar Research to Operations; the 15th Conference On Transition Of Research To Operations (15R2O); the Third Symposium on Environmental Security; the 25th Symposium on Meteorological Observation and Instrumentation; the 20th Symposium on Societal Applications: Policy, Research and Practice; the 22nd Conference on Space Weather; the Seventh Special Symposium on Tropical Meteorology and Tropical Cyclones; the 33rd Conference on Weather Analysis and Forecasting (WAF)/29th Conference on Numerical Weather Prediction (NWP); the 13th Symposium on Building a Weather-Ready Nation: Enhancing Our Nation; and the 13th Symposium on the Weather, Water, and Climate Enterprise )

10:45 AM-12:00 PM: Thursday, 16 January 2025

Recording files available
Session 14A
Cool Season Phenomena and Terrain Influences on S2S Predictability
Location: 206 (New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)
Host: 33rd Conference on Weather Analysis and Forecasting (WAF)/29th Conference on Numerical Weather Prediction (NWP)
Cochairs: Alexander Kyle Mitchell, SUNY; Michael Seaman
10:45 AM
14A.1
A Climatology of Strong Cold Frontal Passages along the Colorado Front Range
Zachary R Michael, Univ. of Colorado Boulder, Boulder, CO; and A. C. Winters

11:00 AM
14A.2
The Meteorology of Large Wildfires over Western Oregon and Washington
Clifford F. Mass, University of Washington, Seattle, WA; and D. Ovens, C. Randall, and N. Gilbert

11:15 AM
14A.3
Assessing the Impact of Surface Coupling and Observations on Arctic Cyclone Forecast Performance
Nuo Chen, University of Oklahoma, norman, OK; and R. Clancy, S. Cavallo, J. Anderson, and C. M. Bitz

11:30 AM
14A.4
The Influence of North Pacific Jet Stream Variability on Springtime Central U.S. Hydroclimate
Andrew C. Winters, Univ. of Colorado, Boulder, CO; and R. D. Torn

11:45 AM
14A.5
Subseasonal Predictability of North American Winter Weather Regimes
Jason C. Furtado, Univ. of Oklahoma, Norman, OK; and J. F. Quinting, O. T. Millin, and F. Mockert

Recording files available
Session 14B
Verification of Specific Phenomena
Location: 207 (New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)
Host: 33rd Conference on Weather Analysis and Forecasting (WAF)/29th Conference on Numerical Weather Prediction (NWP)
Cochairs: Stephanie E. Zick, Virginia Tech; Christina P. Kalb, NCAR
11:00 AM
14B.2
Object-Based Storm Tracking Method for Convection Allowing Model Verification
Jonathan David Goode, University of Alabama in Huntsville, Huntsville, AL; University of Alabama in Huntsville, Huntsville, AL; and S. W. Freeman

11:15 AM
14B.3
No News is Good News? A Look at the Reliability of Implied Fair Conditions in Aviation Weather
Laura Melling, CIRES, Boulder, CO; NOAA, Boulder, CO; and M. S. Wandishin and J. E. Hart

11:30 AM
14B.4
How Well are Atmospheric Rivers Captured in Medium-Range Machine Learning Weather Predictions?
Leif Mark Swenson, CIRES, Boulder, CO; and B. J. Moore and K. M. Mahoney

11:45 AM
14B.5
Influence of Atmospheric Errors on Weeks 2-4 California Current System Predictions
Maria Gehne, NOAA, Boulder, CO; and J. Dias, J. D. Scott, M. Jacox, A. Cluett, D. J. Amaya, and M. Alexander

12:00 PM-1:45 PM: Thursday, 16 January 2025


Lunch Break
Hosts: (Joint between the Events; the 13th Symposium on the Weather, Water, and Climate Enterprise; the 24th Conference on Artificial Intelligence for Environmental Science; the 17th Symposium on Aerosol Cloud Climate Interactions; the 24th Conference on Air-Sea Interaction; the 29th Conference of Applied Climatology; the 25th Conference on Aviation, Range, and Aerospace Meteorology; the 27th Conference on Atmospheric Chemistry; the Symposium on Careers in Operational Government Meteorology and Hydrology; the Second Symposium on Cloud Physics; the Fourth Symposium on Community Modeling and Innovation; the 23rd Symposium on the Coastal Environment; the 38th Conference on Climate Variability and Change; the Sixth Symposium on Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion; the New Orleans Forum on Climate Linked Economics; the 34th Conference on Education; the 41st Conference on Environmental Information Processing Technologies; the 16th Conference on Weather, Water, Climate, and the New Energy Economy; the First Conference on Fire Weather, Technology, and Risk; the 16th Conference on Environment and Health; the 23rd History Symposium; the 11th Symposium on High Performance Computing for Weather, Water, and Climate; the 39th Conference on Hydrology; the 21st Conference on Major Weather Impacts; the Tenth Symposium on US-International Partnerships; the 29th Conference on Integrated Observing and Assimilation Systems for the Atmosphere, Oceans, and Land Surface (IOAS-AOLS); the 13th Symposium on the Joint Center for Satellite Data Assimilation; the Heather Lazrus Symposium; the 13th Symposium on Lidar Atmospheric Applications; the 12th Conference on the Meteorological Application of Lightning Data; the Gerald A Meehl Symposium; the Fourth Symposium on Mesoscale Processes; the 13th Symposium on the Madden-Julian Oscillation and Sub-Seasonal Monsoon Variability; the 21st Annual Symposium on Operational Environmental Satellite Systems; the Presidential Conference; the 15th Symposium on Advances in Modeling and Analysis Using the Programming Languages of Open Science; the Symposium on Radar Research to Operations; the 15th Conference On Transition Of Research To Operations (15R2O); the Third Symposium on Environmental Security; the 25th Symposium on Meteorological Observation and Instrumentation; the 20th Symposium on Societal Applications: Policy, Research and Practice; the 22nd Conference on Space Weather; the Seventh Special Symposium on Tropical Meteorology and Tropical Cyclones; the 33rd Conference on Weather Analysis and Forecasting (WAF)/29th Conference on Numerical Weather Prediction (NWP); and the 13th Symposium on Building a Weather-Ready Nation: Enhancing Our Nation )

12:45 PM-1:05 PM: Thursday, 16 January 2025


Daily Weather Briefings
Location: 229 (New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)
Hosts: (Joint between the Events; the 24th Conference on Air-Sea Interaction; the 24th Conference on Artificial Intelligence for Environmental Science; the 29th Conference of Applied Climatology; the 25th Conference on Aviation, Range, and Aerospace Meteorology; the 27th Conference on Atmospheric Chemistry; the Symposium on Careers in Operational Government Meteorology and Hydrology; the Second Symposium on Cloud Physics; the Fourth Symposium on Community Modeling and Innovation; the 23rd Symposium on the Coastal Environment; the 38th Conference on Climate Variability and Change; the Sixth Symposium on Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion; the New Orleans Forum on Climate Linked Economics; the 34th Conference on Education; the 41st Conference on Environmental Information Processing Technologies; the 16th Conference on Weather, Water, Climate, and the New Energy Economy; the First Conference on Fire Weather, Technology, and Risk; the 16th Conference on Environment and Health; the 23rd History Symposium; the 11th Symposium on High Performance Computing for Weather, Water, and Climate; the 39th Conference on Hydrology; the 21st Conference on Major Weather Impacts; the Tenth Symposium on US-International Partnerships; the 29th Conference on Integrated Observing and Assimilation Systems for the Atmosphere, Oceans, and Land Surface (IOAS-AOLS); the 13th Symposium on the Joint Center for Satellite Data Assimilation; the Heather Lazrus Symposium; the 13th Symposium on Lidar Atmospheric Applications; the 12th Conference on the Meteorological Application of Lightning Data; the Gerald A Meehl Symposium; the Fourth Symposium on Mesoscale Processes; the 13th Symposium on the Madden-Julian Oscillation and Sub-Seasonal Monsoon Variability; the 21st Annual Symposium on Operational Environmental Satellite Systems; the Presidential Conference; the 15th Symposium on Advances in Modeling and Analysis Using the Programming Languages of Open Science; the Symposium on Radar Research to Operations; the 15th Conference On Transition Of Research To Operations (15R2O); the Third Symposium on Environmental Security; the 25th Symposium on Meteorological Observation and Instrumentation; the 20th Symposium on Societal Applications: Policy, Research and Practice; the 22nd Conference on Space Weather; the Seventh Special Symposium on Tropical Meteorology and Tropical Cyclones; the 33rd Conference on Weather Analysis and Forecasting (WAF)/29th Conference on Numerical Weather Prediction (NWP); the 13th Symposium on Building a Weather-Ready Nation: Enhancing Our Nation; and the 13th Symposium on the Weather, Water, and Climate Enterprise )

1:45 PM-3:00 PM: Thursday, 16 January 2025

Recording files available
Session 15A
Other Topics in Probabilistic Forecasting
Location: 206 (New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)
Host: 33rd Conference on Weather Analysis and Forecasting (WAF)/29th Conference on Numerical Weather Prediction (NWP)
Cochairs: Christine Kruse, NWSFO; Tomer Burg, EMC/NCEP
1:45 PM
15A.1
2:00 PM
15A.2
A High-resolution WRF Ensemble for Predicting Sea-breeze Convection during ESCAPE
Yishi Hu, University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK; and Z. J. Lebo

2:15 PM
15A.3
Towards the Exclusive Use of the Global Ensemble Prediction System for Global Forecasting in Canada
Jean-Francois Caron, Environment and Climate Change Canada, Dorval, QC, Canada; and M. Buehner and S. J. Baek

2:30 PM
15A.4
Model Uncertainty - MIP
Hannah Christensen, Univ. of Oxford, Oxford, OXF, United kingdom; and J. Beck, L. Bengtsson, L. Bernardet, J. Berner, M. B. Ek, E. Groot, F. H. Lambert, W. Lfarh, K. M. Newman, R. Roehrig, K. Singh, X. Sun, and K. Williams

2:45 PM
15A.5
Identifying Flavors of Lee Cyclogenesis over the Central U.S. Using Self-Organizing Maps
McKenzie Larson, University of Colorado Boulder, Boulder, CO; and A. C. Winters

Recording files available
Session 15B
Verification of Ensemble Systems
Location: 207 (New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)
Host: 33rd Conference on Weather Analysis and Forecasting (WAF)/29th Conference on Numerical Weather Prediction (NWP)
Cochairs: Will Mayfield, NCAR/RAL; Diana Rose Stovern, CIRES
1:45 PM
15B.1
Nature vs Nurture in Convective-Scale Ensemble Spread: Relative Influence of Inherited and Environmental Factors
Adam Gainford, University of Reading, Reading, Berkshire, United kingdom; and S. Gray, T. Frame, A. Porson, and M. Milan

2:00 PM
15B.2
What is the minimum ensemble size to reduce the uncertainty in the skill of West-WRF hydrometeorological forecasts over California?
Michael A. Brunke, The University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ; and W. D. Scheftic, L. W. Siu, X. Zeng, L. Delle Monache, M. Simpson, and D. F. Steinhoff

2:30 PM
15B.4
Understanding Medium-Range Convective Scale Precipitation Errors from the Model for Prediction Across Scales-Atmosphere
Eleanor Salm, University Corporation for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, CO; Univ. of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI; and M. W. Wong

2:45 PM
15B.5
Assessment of Time-Lagged, Medium-Range, High-Resolution Ensemble Forecasts of Extreme Precipitation Events
Anastasia Joy Tomanek, UCAR, Boulder, CO; Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO; and C. Schwartz

3:00 PM-3:40 PM: Thursday, 16 January 2025


Thursday ePosters
Location: Hall C (New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)
Hosts: (Joint between the Events; the Heather Lazrus Symposium; the Gerald A Meehl Symposium; the 41st Conference on Environmental Information Processing Technologies; the 39th Conference on Hydrology; the 38th Conference on Climate Variability and Change; the 34th Conference on Education; the 33rd Conference on Weather Analysis and Forecasting (WAF)/29th Conference on Numerical Weather Prediction (NWP); the 29th Conference of Applied Climatology; the 29th Conference on Integrated Observing and Assimilation Systems for the Atmosphere, Oceans, and Land Surface (IOAS-AOLS); the 27th Conference on Atmospheric Chemistry; the 25th Symposium on Meteorological Observation and Instrumentation; the 25th Conference on Aviation, Range, and Aerospace Meteorology; the 24th Conference on Air-Sea Interaction; the 24th Conference on Artificial Intelligence for Environmental Science; the 23rd Symposium on the Coastal Environment; the 23rd History Symposium; the 22nd Conference on Space Weather; the 21st Conference on Major Weather Impacts; the 21st Annual Symposium on Operational Environmental Satellite Systems; the 20th Symposium on Societal Applications: Policy, Research and Practice; the 17th Symposium on Aerosol Cloud Climate Interactions; the 16th Conference on Environment and Health; the 16th Conference on Weather, Water, Climate, and the New Energy Economy; the 15th Conference On Transition Of Research To Operations (15R2O); the 15th Symposium on Advances in Modeling and Analysis Using the Programming Languages of Open Science; the 13th Symposium on Building a Weather-Ready Nation: Enhancing Our Nation; the 13th Symposium on the Joint Center for Satellite Data Assimilation; the 13th Symposium on Lidar Atmospheric Applications; the 13th Symposium on the Madden-Julian Oscillation and Sub-Seasonal Monsoon Variability; the 11th Symposium on High Performance Computing for Weather, Water, and Climate; the 13th Symposium on the Weather, Water, and Climate Enterprise; the 12th Conference on the Meteorological Application of Lightning Data; the Tenth Symposium on US-International Partnerships; the Seventh Special Symposium on Tropical Meteorology and Tropical Cyclones; the Sixth Symposium on Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion; the Fourth Symposium on Community Modeling and Innovation; the Fourth Symposium on Mesoscale Processes; the Third Symposium on Environmental Security; the Second Symposium on Cloud Physics; the First Conference on Fire Weather, Technology, and Risk; the Symposium on Radar Research to Operations; the Symposium on Careers in Operational Government Meteorology and Hydrology; and the New Orleans Forum on Climate Linked Economics )
E3
7Tropical Observations, Analysis, and Implications from Tropical Cyclone Landfalls in a Near-Shore Environment
James Robert Howard Ph.D, Meteorologist, Ponchatoula, LA; and S. W. Mayberry, S. M. Wingo, S. F. Blair, C. Kelly, C. Cupp, and D. R. Jones

E89
1FIREWX Diagnosing Moisture Anomalies at the Drought-Wildfire Nexus: the Marshall (CO) and Caldor (CA) Fires.
Mike Hobbins, CIRES, Boulder, CO; Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences, Boulder, CO; and D. J. McEvoy

E90
41EIPT Polarimetric Radar Data Assimilation With a Parameterized Radar Operator Using MPAS-JEDI
Zhiquan Liu, NSF-NCAR, Lafayette, CO; and H. Xie, T. Sun, and R. Kong

E91
39HYDRO Investigation of Machine Learning Algorithms in Representing Global Flash Drought Patterns
Stuart Galen Edris, University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK; and A. McGovern, J. B. Basara, J. I. Christian, J. C. Furtado, H. O. Olayiwola, and X. Xiao

E92
17AEROSOL New particle formation from isoprene under upper-tropospheric conditions
Jiali Shen, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland; and D. Rusell, J. Kirkby, J. Curtius, and X. C. He

E94
34EDUCATION The Center for Inclusive Climate Communications: Towards A Global Resource for Education, Training, Research, and Service
Bruce N. Walker, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA; and A. S. Bower and I. Martincic

E97
21OESS WxNet: A Next Generation Space-Based Environmental Monitoring Constellation
John Fisher, Brandywine Photonics, West Chester, PA; and C. David, Z. Burns, D. B. Hogan, and J. Predina

E98
24AI Deep Learning based Postprocessing for Freezing Level Forecasting over FIRO Watersheds
Vesta Afzali Gorooh, SIO, La Jolla, CA; Center for Western Weather and Water Extremes, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, Univ. of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA; and S. Roj, A. Sengupta, M. Ghazvinian, PhD, J. L. Bano Medina, R. Weihs, D. Axisa, J. F. Kalansky, and L. Delle Monache

E101
24AI Deep Learning-Based Methods for Precipitation Bias Correction
Huiling Yuan, Nanjing Univ., Nanjing, Jiangsu, China; and Z. Zhang

E102
21OESS Delphi: An Infrared Projection System for Next Generation Weather Satellite Testing
Cordelia David, Brandywine Photonics, West Chester, PA; Brandywine Photonics, WEST CHESTER, PA; and J. Fisher

E104
FireWx Integration of the Freitas 1-D Model with NUCAPS for Assessing 2020 California Pyrocumulonimbus Events
Arunas P. Kuciauskas, Retired, Marine Meteorology Division, Naval Research Laboratory, MONTEREY, CA; and L. Wilson, D. V. V. Mallia, T. Wilmot, D. A. Peterson, and J. R. Campbell

3:00 PM-4:30 PM: Thursday, 16 January 2025


Coffee Break
Location: Hall B (New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)
Hosts: (Joint between the Events; the 24th Conference on Air-Sea Interaction; the 17th Symposium on Aerosol Cloud Climate Interactions; the 24th Conference on Artificial Intelligence for Environmental Science; the 29th Conference of Applied Climatology; the 25th Conference on Aviation, Range, and Aerospace Meteorology; the 27th Conference on Atmospheric Chemistry; the Symposium on Careers in Operational Government Meteorology and Hydrology; the Second Symposium on Cloud Physics; the Fourth Symposium on Community Modeling and Innovation; the 23rd Symposium on the Coastal Environment; the 38th Conference on Climate Variability and Change; the Sixth Symposium on Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion; the New Orleans Forum on Climate Linked Economics; the 34th Conference on Education; the 41st Conference on Environmental Information Processing Technologies; the 16th Conference on Weather, Water, Climate, and the New Energy Economy; the First Conference on Fire Weather, Technology, and Risk; the 16th Conference on Environment and Health; the 23rd History Symposium; the 11th Symposium on High Performance Computing for Weather, Water, and Climate; the 39th Conference on Hydrology; the 21st Conference on Major Weather Impacts; the Tenth Symposium on US-International Partnerships; the 29th Conference on Integrated Observing and Assimilation Systems for the Atmosphere, Oceans, and Land Surface (IOAS-AOLS); the 13th Symposium on the Joint Center for Satellite Data Assimilation; the Heather Lazrus Symposium; the 13th Symposium on Lidar Atmospheric Applications; the 12th Conference on the Meteorological Application of Lightning Data; the Gerald A Meehl Symposium; the Fourth Symposium on Mesoscale Processes; the 13th Symposium on the Madden-Julian Oscillation and Sub-Seasonal Monsoon Variability; the 21st Annual Symposium on Operational Environmental Satellite Systems; the Presidential Conference; the 15th Symposium on Advances in Modeling and Analysis Using the Programming Languages of Open Science; the Symposium on Radar Research to Operations; the 15th Conference On Transition Of Research To Operations (15R2O); the Third Symposium on Environmental Security; the 25th Symposium on Meteorological Observation and Instrumentation; the 20th Symposium on Societal Applications: Policy, Research and Practice; the 22nd Conference on Space Weather; the Seventh Special Symposium on Tropical Meteorology and Tropical Cyclones; the 33rd Conference on Weather Analysis and Forecasting (WAF)/29th Conference on Numerical Weather Prediction (NWP); the 13th Symposium on Building a Weather-Ready Nation: Enhancing Our Nation; and the 13th Symposium on the Weather, Water, and Climate Enterprise )

Formal Poster Viewing and Coffee Break
Location: Hall C (New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)
Hosts: (Joint between the Events; the 24th Conference on Air-Sea Interaction; the 17th Symposium on Aerosol Cloud Climate Interactions; the 24th Conference on Artificial Intelligence for Environmental Science; the 29th Conference of Applied Climatology; the 25th Conference on Aviation, Range, and Aerospace Meteorology; the 27th Conference on Atmospheric Chemistry; the Symposium on Careers in Operational Government Meteorology and Hydrology; the Second Symposium on Cloud Physics; the Fourth Symposium on Community Modeling and Innovation; the 23rd Symposium on the Coastal Environment; the 38th Conference on Climate Variability and Change; the Sixth Symposium on Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion; the New Orleans Forum on Climate Linked Economics; the 34th Conference on Education; the 41st Conference on Environmental Information Processing Technologies; the 16th Conference on Weather, Water, Climate, and the New Energy Economy; the First Conference on Fire Weather, Technology, and Risk; the 16th Conference on Environment and Health; the 23rd History Symposium; the 11th Symposium on High Performance Computing for Weather, Water, and Climate; the 39th Conference on Hydrology; the 21st Conference on Major Weather Impacts; the Tenth Symposium on US-International Partnerships; the 29th Conference on Integrated Observing and Assimilation Systems for the Atmosphere, Oceans, and Land Surface (IOAS-AOLS); the 13th Symposium on the Joint Center for Satellite Data Assimilation; the Heather Lazrus Symposium; the 13th Symposium on Lidar Atmospheric Applications; the 12th Conference on the Meteorological Application of Lightning Data; the Gerald A Meehl Symposium; the Fourth Symposium on Mesoscale Processes; the 13th Symposium on the Madden-Julian Oscillation and Sub-Seasonal Monsoon Variability; the 21st Annual Symposium on Operational Environmental Satellite Systems; the Presidential Conference; the 15th Symposium on Advances in Modeling and Analysis Using the Programming Languages of Open Science; the Symposium on Radar Research to Operations; the 15th Conference On Transition Of Research To Operations (15R2O); the Third Symposium on Environmental Security; the 25th Symposium on Meteorological Observation and Instrumentation; the 20th Symposium on Societal Applications: Policy, Research and Practice; the 22nd Conference on Space Weather; the Seventh Special Symposium on Tropical Meteorology and Tropical Cyclones; the 33rd Conference on Weather Analysis and Forecasting (WAF)/29th Conference on Numerical Weather Prediction (NWP); the 13th Symposium on Building a Weather-Ready Nation: Enhancing Our Nation; and the 13th Symposium on the Weather, Water, and Climate Enterprise )

1
Deep Learning Methods and Applications for Improving Weather Forecasts Poster Session
Location: Hall C (New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)
Hosts: (Joint between the 24th Conference on Artificial Intelligence for Environmental Science; and the 33rd Conference on Weather Analysis and Forecasting (WAF)/29th Conference on Numerical Weather Prediction (NWP) )
Cochairs: Kaitlyn R. Jesmonth, SUNY Oswego; Aaron J. Hill, Colorado State University; Huiling Yuan, Nanjing University; Haonan Chen, Cooperative Institute for Research in the Atmosphere (CIRA)
962
Two-Step Machine Learning Process for Precipitation Nowcasting over the UAE Region
EunYeol Kim, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO; and V. Chandrasekar and L. Delle Monache

963
Deep Learning for Estimating Local Near-surface Wind in Mountainous Areas
Takenobu Michioka, Kindai University, Higashiosaka, Osaka, Japan; and K. Kosaka, H. Kawamoto, H. Takimoto, and A. Sato

964
A Machine Learning Bias Correction of Large-Scale Environment of High-Impact Weather Systems Simulated by E3SM Atmosphere Model
Shixuan Zhang, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, WA; and L. R. Leung, B. Harrop, B. B. Sorensen, and T. Sapsis

965
An Analysis of Training Strategies for Adapting Deep Learning-Based Emulators to New Geographic Regions
Matthew Weiss, MIT Lincoln Laboratory, Lexington, MA; and M. S. Veillette

967
Increased Performance and Capability of AI-based Nowcasting for Free Space Optical Communication
Chad Wiley, Northrop Grumman Corporation, Fairfax, VA; and B. D. Felton, C. L. Comer, M. E. Craddock, and H. Kiley

968
Data-Driven Regional Weather Forecasting: A Comparative Study of FourCastNet and GraphCast
Ming Fan, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, TN; and H. G. Kang, W. Zhang, and J. M. Restrepo

969
Improved prediction of extreme ENSO events using an artificial neural network with weighted loss functions
Dong-Hoon KIM, Jeju National University, Jeju-si, 49, South korea; Jeju National University, Jeju-si, Jeju-do, Korea, Republic of (South); and I. J. Moon

970
Regional Data-driven Weather Modeling with a Global Stretched-grid
Ivar A Seierstad, MET Norway, OSLO, OSLO, Norway; and H. Haugen, M. S. Ingstad, T. N. Nipen, E. M. Nordhagen, A. F. Shafiq, P. Tedesco, J. Kristiansen, S. Lang, M. Alexe, J. Dramsch, B. Raoult, G. Mertes, and M. Chantry

Handout (2.9 MB)

971
Predicting Heat Extremes over the Contiguous United States using Deep Learning
Jahangir Ali, University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, AR; and L. Cheng

972
Physic-Informed AI for Wind Forecasting from Satellite Observations
Bûn-Kim Nicolas San, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Leganes, Madrid, Spain; and A. Moreno Soto, J. García-Heras, and M. Soler

973
Deep Learning for Short-Term Characterization of Tornado Intensity
Nathan Erickson, University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK; and A. McGovern and A. J. Hill

975
Convolutional Neural Networks for Predicting Orographic Precipitation Gradients: Outcomes from Leveraging Spatial Relationships
Savanna Wolvin, Univ. of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT; and C. Strong, S. Brewer, A. Warner, and A. James

976
Implementation of a FourCastNet v2 Ensemble System to Improve Consensus Weather Forecasting at The Weather Company
Joseph P. Koval, The Weather Company, Brookhaven, GA; and C. Guiang, T. M. Hamill, D. Foster, K. Kashinath, M. S. Pritchard, and M. Klain

3:50 PM-4:30 PM: Thursday, 16 January 2025


Thursday ePosters
Location: Hall C (New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)
Hosts: (Joint between the Events; the Heather Lazrus Symposium; the Gerald A Meehl Symposium; the 41st Conference on Environmental Information Processing Technologies; the 39th Conference on Hydrology; the 38th Conference on Climate Variability and Change; the 34th Conference on Education; the 33rd Conference on Weather Analysis and Forecasting (WAF)/29th Conference on Numerical Weather Prediction (NWP); the 29th Conference of Applied Climatology; the 29th Conference on Integrated Observing and Assimilation Systems for the Atmosphere, Oceans, and Land Surface (IOAS-AOLS); the 27th Conference on Atmospheric Chemistry; the 25th Symposium on Meteorological Observation and Instrumentation; the 25th Conference on Aviation, Range, and Aerospace Meteorology; the 24th Conference on Air-Sea Interaction; the 24th Conference on Artificial Intelligence for Environmental Science; the 23rd Symposium on the Coastal Environment; the 23rd History Symposium; the 22nd Conference on Space Weather; the 21st Conference on Major Weather Impacts; the 21st Annual Symposium on Operational Environmental Satellite Systems; the 20th Symposium on Societal Applications: Policy, Research and Practice; the 17th Symposium on Aerosol Cloud Climate Interactions; the 16th Conference on Environment and Health; the 16th Conference on Weather, Water, Climate, and the New Energy Economy; the 15th Conference On Transition Of Research To Operations (15R2O); the 15th Symposium on Advances in Modeling and Analysis Using the Programming Languages of Open Science; the 13th Symposium on Building a Weather-Ready Nation: Enhancing Our Nation; the 13th Symposium on the Joint Center for Satellite Data Assimilation; the 13th Symposium on Lidar Atmospheric Applications; the 13th Symposium on the Madden-Julian Oscillation and Sub-Seasonal Monsoon Variability; the 11th Symposium on High Performance Computing for Weather, Water, and Climate; the 13th Symposium on the Weather, Water, and Climate Enterprise; the 12th Conference on the Meteorological Application of Lightning Data; the Tenth Symposium on US-International Partnerships; the Seventh Special Symposium on Tropical Meteorology and Tropical Cyclones; the Sixth Symposium on Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion; the Fourth Symposium on Community Modeling and Innovation; the Fourth Symposium on Mesoscale Processes; the Third Symposium on Environmental Security; the Second Symposium on Cloud Physics; the First Conference on Fire Weather, Technology, and Risk; the Symposium on Radar Research to Operations; the Symposium on Careers in Operational Government Meteorology and Hydrology; and the New Orleans Forum on Climate Linked Economics )
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39Hydro Utilizing Satellite Imagery and Machine Learning to Quantify Drought Risk Index in Thailand’s Agricultural Regions
Woranut Chansury, Geo-Informatics and Space Technology Development Agency, Lak si, 10, Thailand; and V. Bonnlerd, P. Nueangjumnong, P. Petchprayoon, Y. Chaweewong, V. KHETTAR, S. Noikeaing, P. Rattanaburi, A. Yutthapan, and S. Rattanasupa

E106
27AtChem TEMPO CLDO4 cloud algorithm and product
Huiqun wang, Harvard-Smithsonian Center For Astrophysics; Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory, Cambridge, MA; and G. Gonzalez Abad, C. R. Nowlan, H. Chong, W. Hou, J. Park, X. Liu, K. Chance, J. Houck, D. E. Flittner, A. Vasilkov, E. S. Yang, J. Joiner, R. J. SPURR, W. Qin, Z. Fasnacht, and K. E. E. Knowland

E108
38CVC The Influence of the North Atlantic Subtropical High on Atmospheric Rivers over the Eastern United States
Julia E. Finkhauser, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and University, Blacksburg, VA

E111
21OESS GOES-19 ABI Imagery at UW-Madison
Mathew Gunshor, CIMSS, Univ. of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI; and T. J. Schmit and J. P. Nelson III

E112
21OESS Scaling Satellite Ground Systems Leveraging Artificial Intelligence
Carter Long, Cognitive Space, Houston, TX; and J. Edmiston, T. Fleming, and D. Garner
Manuscript (3.6 MB)

E113
21OESS NOAA/NESDIS/GEO Satellite Applications Training and User Engagement
Sherrie Secunda Morris, NOAA, Greenbelt, MD; and D. Lindsey, S. Goodman, S. Superczynski, and A. Latto

E115
13WRN Cleveland Public Library Microclimate Study Initiative
Suzi M Perez, Cleveland Public Library, Cleveland, OH

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13WRN Service Equity Conference at WFO Indianapolis: Taking Results and Applying Towards Improvement to Products and Services
David L. Beachler, NWS, Indianapolis, IN; NWS, Indianapolis, IN; and S. L. Lashley