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2025 AGU Presentations Featuring ARM Data

American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting

December 15-19, 2025
New Orleans, Louisiana

15 December 2025

Presentation Type	Session ID and Presentation Title	Presenters	Time and Location
Impactful Science: Methods and Metrics I Poster			08:30
Poster	SY11B-0542. Open Science Summer Schools: ARM’s Newest Capability	Maxwell Grover¹ , Scott M Collis², Joseph Robert O'Brien¹, Michelle Prichard³, Katie Dorsey³, Rolanda Jundt³, Dawn Stringer³ and Kristina Palmer³, (1)Argonne National Laboratory, Argonne, IL, United States, (2)Argonne National Laboratory, Lemont, IL, United States, (3)Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, United States	08:30 NOLA CC

16 December 2025

Presentation Type	Session ID and Presentation Title	Presenters	Time and Location
Observation and Model Studies of Cloud Properties and Associated Processes I Poster			08:30
Poster	Aerosol Influences on Cloud Water: Insights From ARM EPCAPE Observations With Explainable Machine Learning	Haipeng Zhang , University of Maryland Baltimore County, Baltimore, MD, United States, Yunyan Zhang, Lawrence Livermore Nat Labs, Livermore, United States, Zhanqing Li, University of Maryland, Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Science, Earth System Science Interdisciplinary, College Park, United States and Youtong Zheng, University of Houston, Houston, United States	08:30 NOLA CC
Advances in Cloud and Precipitation Processes: Integrating Observations, Modeling, and Theory III Poster			08:30
Poster	CCN Budgets and Coalescence Processing in Lagrangian Simulations of Marine Clouds Observed Over the Eastern North Atlantic	Zachary J. Horning , University of Kansas, Atmospheric Science, Lawrence, KS, United States and David B Mechem, University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS, United States	08:30 NOLA CC
Atmospheric Convection: Processes, Dynamics, and Links to Weather and Climate I Poster			08:30
Poster	A21D-2054. Local Environmental Controls on the Early Stages of Convective Cloud Development Over the Southeast U.S	Nicolas Leitmann-Niimi¹ , Gregory Elsaesser¹, Scott Giangrande², Jingbo Wu³, John Robert Mecikalski⁴, Xu Liu⁵, Wan Wu⁵, Bill Irion⁶, Dr. Shawn Serbin, BA, MS, PhD⁷, Chongai Kuang⁸ and John M Peters⁹, (1)Columbia University/NASA GISS, New York, United States, (2)Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, United States, (3)Columbia University, New York City, United States, (4)University of Alabama in Huntsville, Huntsville, AL, United States, (5)NASA Langley Research Center, Hampton, VA, United States, (6)Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, United States, (7)Brookhaven National Laboratory, Environmental Science and Technologies Department, Upton, United States, (8)Brookhaven National Laboratory, Environmental Science and Technologies Department, Upton, NY, United States, (9)Pennsylvania State University, Department of Meteorology and Atmospheric Science, University Park, United States	08:30 NOLA CC
Poster	A21D-2053. Investigating how Different Large-Scale Environmental Conditions impact the Shallow-to-Deep Transition of Convection	Nathanael Zhixin Wong¹ , Anurup Naskar¹ and Sara Shamekh², (1)New York University, CAOS, Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, New York, United States, (2)New York University, Center for Atmosphere Ocean Science, Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, New York, United States	08:30 NOLA CC
NASA’s Investigation of Convective Updrafts (INCUS) Mission: Observing the Drivers of Severe Weather from Space Poster			08:30
Poster	A21E-2074. TIME-SLICE-AL: A Leveraged Asset Field Campaign for Quantifying Convective Mass Flux using Delta-T Techniques with Adaptive Sampling	Sean William Freeman^1,2 , Pavlos Kollias^3,4, Patrick N Gatlin⁵, Edward P Luke⁴, Ethan Ebbert⁶, Corey G Amiot⁷, Christopher Kwinta⁶, Bernat P Treserras⁸, Brenda Dolan⁹, Kristen Rasmussen⁹, Walter Arthur Petersen¹⁰, Courtney Schumacher¹¹ and Susan C van den Heever⁹, (1)University of Alabama in Huntsville, Atmospheric and Earth Science, Huntsville, United States, (2)University of Alabama in Huntsville, Earth Systems Science Center, Huntsville, United States, (3)Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY, United States, (4)Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, United States, (5)NASA Marshall Space Flight Center, Huntsville, AL, United States, (6)University of Alabama in Huntsville, Department of Atmospheric and Earth Science, Huntsville, United States, (7)University of Alabama in Huntsville, Department of Atmospheric and Earth Science, Huntsville, AL, United States, (8)McGill University, Montreal, Canada, (9)Colorado State University, Department of Atmospheric Science, Fort Collins, United States, (10)NASA MSFC, Science Research and Projects Office, Huntsville, AL, United States, (11)Texas A&M University, Atmospheric Sciences, College Station, United States	08:30 NOLA CC
African Hydrology: Bridging Data, Models, and Innovation for Sustainable Solutions II Poster			14:15
Poster	Supporting Advancements in Lake Malawi Water Resources Management	Rachel Hoops¹ , Andrew Gronewold², Anna Gossard³, Mexford Mulumpwa⁴, Lucy Mtilatila⁵, Geoffrey Chavula⁶, Evance Chaima⁷, Lameck Fiwa⁷, James Chitete⁸, Dwight Kambuku⁹, Toney Nyasulu⁹, Kondwani Andreah⁹, Rodrick Kumkwezu⁸, Mussa Ching'amba⁹, Sibande Chawezi⁸ and Mexford Mulumpwa : Associate Aquatic Ecology and Fisheries Expert , (1)University of Michigan, School of Environment and Sustainability, Ann Arbor, United States, (2)University of Michigan, School for Environment and Sustainability, Ann Arbor, United States, (3)University of Michigan Ann Arbor, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Ann Arbor, United States, (4)University of Agriculture and Natural Resources, Department of Aquaculture and Fisheries Sciences, Lilongwe, Malawi, (5)Department of Climate Change and Meteorological Services, Department of Climate Change and Meteorological Services, Lilongwe, Malawi, (6)Malawi University of Business and Applied Sciences, Department of Civil Engineering, Blantyre, Malawi, (7)Lilongwe University of Agriculture and Natural Resources, Department of Agricultural Engineering, Lilongwe, Malawi, (8)Department of water resources, Department of water resources, Lilongwe, Malawi, (9)National Water Resources Authority, Department of water resources, Lilongwe, Malawi	14:15 NOLA CC
Tethered Aerosystems for Atmospheric Research and Remote Sensing Poster			14:15
Poster	A23L-2308. Distributed Temperature Sensing on a Tethered Balloon System	Gabrielle Whitson¹ , Darielle Dexheimer², Taylor Settecerri², Jessica Lien², Casey Longbottom² and Carlos Ruiz², (1)Sandia National Laboratories, Albuquerque, NM, United States, (2)Sandia National Laboratories, Albuquerque, United States	14:15 NOLA CC
Observation and Model Studies of Cloud Properties and Associated Processes II Oral			16:15
Oral	A24F-04. Assessing the Role of Isobaric Mixing in Boundary-Layer Cloud Formation	Jaemin Yeom¹ , Nithin Allwayin², Virendra P Ghate³, Katia Lamer⁴, Fan Mei, PhD⁵ and Raymond A Shaw¹, (1)Michigan Technological University, Houghton, MI, United States, (2)Michigan Technological University, Houghton, United States, (3)Argonne National Laboratory, Argonne, IL, United States, (4)Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, United States, (5)Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, WA, United States	16:45 NOLA CC
Oral	A24F-05. LASSO-ENA LES Library of Shallow Maritime Clouds with Spectral-Bin Microphysics and Aerosol Sensitivity Comparisons for the Azores	William I Gustafson Jr¹ , Scott Giangrande², Satoshi Endo³, John Rausch², Heng Xiao⁴ and Damao Zhang¹, (1)Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, United States, (2)Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, United States, (3)Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, NY, United States, (4)Pacific Northwest Natl Lab, Richland, United States	16:55 NOLA CC
Oral	A24F-09. Aerosols and Deep Convection in the Amazon Basin: A Spectrum of Possible Updraft Responses	Christian P Lackner¹ , Dié WANG¹ and Siddhant Gupta², (1)Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, NY, United States, (2)University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, Atmospheric Sciences, Urbana, United States	17:35 NOLA CC
Discoveries and Emerging Topics in the Atmospheric Biome II Oral			16:15
Oral Invited	GH24A-07. Bioaerosols in the Earth System: Research Gaps and Frontiers	Allison C Aiken , Los Alamos National Laboratory, Earth and Environmental Science Division, Los Alamos, NM, United States, Sonia M Kreidenweis, Colorado State University, Department of Atmospheric Science, Fort Collins, United States, Kathleen C Weathers, Cary Institute of Ecosystem Studies, Millbrook, NY, United States and Bioaerosol Workshop Participants	17:30 NOLA CC
Understanding and Modeling of Mesoscale and Severe Local Convective Storm Processes II Oral			16:15
Oral	A24G-05. Leveraging realistic large-eddy simulations to better understand the dynamics driving downdrafts in deep convection	Jake Mulholland¹ , James Marquis², Enoch Jo³, Zhe Feng², Adam Varble², John M Peters⁴, Hugh Morrison⁵, Christopher John Nowotarski⁶, Erik Nielsen⁶ and Gregory Elsaesser⁷, (1)University at Albany State University of New York, Atmospheric and Environmental Sciences, Albany, United States, (2)Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, WA, United States, (3)Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, United States, (4)Pennsylvania State University, Department of Meteorology and Atmospheric Science, University Park, United States, (5)NSF NCAR, MMM Laboratory, Boulder, United States, (6)Texas A&M University, Atmospheric Sciences, College Station, United States, (7)Columbia University/NASA GISS, New York, United States	17:00 NOLA CC
Open Earth System Science Data and Artificial Intelligence (AI)/Machine Learning (ML) Advance Scientific Discovery II Oral			16:15
Oral	IN24A-04. Revolutionizing Atmospheric Data Discovery and Access Through AI-Driven Innovations at the ARM Data Center	Chirag Shah¹ , Wade Darnell¹, Austin Aguilar¹, Hannah Collier¹, Eric Enright¹, Dustin Rapp¹, Vasile Garbulet¹, Franklin Parry¹, Zachary Medley¹, Felipe Almeida², Michael Giansiracusa¹ and Giri Prakash¹, (1)Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Environmental Sciences Division, Oak Ridge, United States, (2)Universidade de São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil	16:50 NOLA CC

17 December 2025

Presentation Type	Session ID and Presentation Title	Presenters	Time and Location
Tyndall History of Global Environmental Change Lecture Presented by Zhanqing Li			14:15
Oral Invited	GC33B-01. Global Environmental and Climate Changes: Intertwined Relationships Shaped by Aerosols and Implications for Our Well-being	Zhanqing Li , Univ of Maryland College Park, AOSC, College Park, United States	14:30 NOLA CC
Advances in Remote Sensing, AI, and Modeling for Hydrology and the Terrestrial Water Cycle I Poster			14:15
Poster	H33N-1483. Radiance-Based Evaluation of Land Surface Temperature in the HydroBlocks Land Surface Model	Jiaxuan Cai and Nathaniel W. Chaney , Duke University, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Durham, United States	14:15 NOLA CC
The Living Atmosphere: Advances in Monitoring, Modeling, and Sampling of Airborne Bioaerosols I Oral			16:15
Oral	A34D-07. Springtime Pollen Rupture and Atmospheric Vertical Transport in the Southeastern US	Tamanna Subba , Brookhaven National Laboratory, Environmental Science and Technologies Department, Upton, United States, Allison L Steiner, University of Michigan Ann Arbor, Department of Climate and Space Sciences and Engineering, Ann Arbor, United States, Maria A Zawadowicz, Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, NY, United States, Ashish Singh, Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, United States and Chongai Kuang, Brookhaven National Laboratory, Environmental Science and Technologies Department, Upton, NY, United States	17:15 NOLA CC

18 December 2025

Presentation Type	Session ID and Presentation Title	Presenters	Time and Location
Atmospheric Research Supported by Uncrewed Aerial Systems and Tethered Balloon Systems I Oral			08:30
Oral	A41C-04. Vertically-Resolved Measurements of Newly Formed Particles at the DOE ARM Bankhead National Forest Site in Northwestern Alabama	Chongai Kuang¹ , Scott Giangrande², Dr. Shawn Serbin, BA, MS, PhD³, Gabrielle Whitson⁴, Carlos Ruiz⁵, Casey Longbottom⁵ and Darielle Dexheimer⁵, (1)Brookhaven National Laboratory, Environmental Science and Technologies Department, Upton, NY, United States, (2)Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, United States, (3)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Biospheric Sciences Laboratory, Greenbelt, United States, (4)Sandia National Laboratories, Albuquerque, NM, United States, (5)Sandia National Laboratories, Albuquerque, United States	09:05 NOLA CC
Boundary Layer Clouds and Earth System Coupling Poster			08:30
Poster	A41K-2163. Convective Cloud Transitions over Bankhead National Forest: Results from Continuous LES Study	Girish Nigamanth Raghunathan¹ , David Colantonio² and Thijs Heus¹, (1)Cleveland State University, Solon, OH, United States, (2)Cleveland State University, Cleveland, United States	08:30 NOLA CC
Boundary Layer Processes and Turbulence I Poster			08:30
Poster	A41L-2185. Multivariate Estimation of Vertical Profiles to Better Understand the Shallow-to-Deep Transition of Convection in the Bankhead National Forest	Anurup Naskar¹ , Nathanael Zhixin Wong¹ and Sara Shamekh², (1)New York University, CAOS, Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, New York, United States, (2)New York University, Center for Atmosphere Ocean Science, Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, New York, United States	08:30 NOLA CC
AI-Driven Innovations in Earth and Atmospheric Sciences I Poster			14:15
Poster	Evaluation of Spaceborne Lidar Estimates of Backscatter and Depolarization Ratio Using Machine Learning Denoising Methods	Amanda Cresanti¹ , John E Yorks², Patrick A Selmer³, Kenneth Edward Christian², Natalia Roldan-Henao⁴, Natalie Midzak⁵ and Zhanqing Li⁶, (1)University of Maryland College Park, College Park, MD, United States, (2)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, United States, (3)SSAI/NASA GSFC, Greenbelt, United States, (4)University of Maryland College Park, College Park, United States, (5)NASA NPP, Greenbelt, United States, (6)University of Maryland, Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Science, Earth System Science Interdisciplinary, College Park, United States	14:15 NOLA CC
Poster	Geophysical Retrievals in an Artificial Intelligence (AI) Framework	Virendra P Ghate¹ , Nesar Ramchandra², Michael Buehlmann², Azton Wells² and Salman Habib², (1)Argonne National Laboratory, Argonne, IL, United States, (2)Argonne National Laboratory, Argonne, United States	14:15 NOLA CC
Advancing Understanding of Terrestrial-Atmospheric Interfaces: Linking Trace Gases, VOCs, and Aerosol Processes Across Scales I Oral			14:15
Oral	A43E-03. Vertically Resolved Distributions/Chemical Speciation of Anthropogenic, Biogenic, and Biomass Burning Organic Aerosols at the Southern Great Plains	Shan Gu¹ , Lindsay Yee¹, Gregory W Vandergrift², Swarup China³, Darielle Dexheimer⁴ and Allen H Goldstein⁵, (1)University of California Berkeley, Department of Environmental Science, Policy, & Management, Berkeley, CA, United States, (2)Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, United States, (3)Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Environmental Molecular Sciences Laboratory, Richland, United States, (4)Sandia National Laboratories, Albuquerque, United States, (5)University of California Berkeley, Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering, Berkeley, CA, United States	14:40 NOLA CC
Oral	A43E-05. Aerosol Sources and Processes: Insight from a Hot and Humid Summer in Texas	Allison C Aiken¹ , Katherine Benedict², James Lee^2,3, Kyle Gorkowski³, Ryan Nilsson Farley⁴, Aaron Meyer³, Spencer Jordan⁵, Abu Sayeed Md Shawon⁶ and Manvendra Krishna Dubey², (1)Los Alamos National Laboratory, Earth and Environmental Science Division, Los Alamos, NM, United States, (2)Los Alamos National Laboratory, Earth and Environmental Science Division, Los Alamos, United States, (3)Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, United States, (4)University of California Davis, Department of Environmental Toxicology, Davis, United States, (5)Colorado State University, Fort Collins, United States, (6)Michigan Technological University, Houghton, United States	15:00 NOLA CC
Advances in Remote Sensing Inversion and Radiative Transfer Modeling I Oral			14:15
Oral Invited	A43B-01. Remote Sensing of Aerosol and Ambient Surface Pollutants from Space with Advanced AI Models	Zhanqing Li , University of Maryland College Park, Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences, College Park, MD, United States and Jing Wei, University of Maryland College Park, College Park, United States	14:16 NOLA CC

19 December 2025

Presentation Type	Session ID and Presentation Title	Presenters	Time and Location
Constellation of Low Earth Orbit and Geostationary Satellites for Atmospheric Composition and Air Quality II Poster			08:30
Poster	Enhancing Cloud Detection for Environmental Hyperspectral Geostationary Satellites (TEMPO and GEMS) Using Unified Physics-Informed Machine Learning	Jing Wei , University of Maryland College Park, College Park, MD, United States, Kai Yang, UMCP & NASA, Rockville, United States and Zhanqing Li, Univ of Maryland College Park, AOSC, College Park, United States	08:30 NOLA CC
Atmospheric Research Supported by Uncrewed Aerial Systems and Tethered Balloon Systems II Poster			08:30
Poster	A51N-0916. Air Mass-Driven Variability in CCN Activation: Insights from ARM TBS and UAS Operations	Fan Mei, PhD¹ , Jian Wang², Jing Li³, Israel Silber⁴, Jerome Fast⁴, Gourihar Kulkarni¹, Mikhail S Pekour¹, Qi Zhang⁵, Christopher Niedek⁶, Susanne Glienke⁴, Darielle Dexheimer⁷, Beat Schmid¹, Jason M Tomlinson⁸ and Hardeep Mehta⁴, (1)Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, WA, United States, (2)Brookhaven Natl Lab, Upton, United States, (3)Washington University in St Louis, Environmental, and Chemical Engineering, St. Louis, United States, (4)Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, United States, (5)University of California Davis, Department of Environmental Toxicology, Davis, United States, (6)University of California Davis, Department of Environmental Toxicology, Davis, CA, United States, (7)Sandia National Laboratories, Albuquerque, United States, (8)Pacific Northwest National Lab, Richland, WA, United States	08:30 NOLA CC