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2026 AMS Presentations Featuring ARM Data
American Meteorological Society Annual Meeting
25-29 January 2026
Houston, TX
25 January 2026
| Presentation Type | Session ID and Presentation Title | Presenters | Time and Location |
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| Poster Session - Atmospheric Chemistry, Aerosols, and Air Quality | 19:00 | ||
| Oral | S80. Identifying Sea Breeze Impacts on Coastal Air Quality near Houston During TRACER |
Joshua Andrew Yoshioka , St. Edward's University, Austin, TX; and P. J. Walter, M. Deng, M. P. Jensen, J. H. Flynn III, and T. Griggs
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19:00 George R. Brown Convention Center |
| Poster Session - Mesoscale Processes | 19:00 | ||
| Oral | S218. Investigating Continental Mid-Latitude Cold Pools in Bankhead National Forest |
Angel Bright Chui , University of Washington, Seattle, WA; and A. Anderson-Frey and R. Wood
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19:00 George R. Brown Convention Center |
| Poster Session - Observations and Instrumentation | 19:00 | ||
| Oral | S226. Intercomparison of Radiosonde Measurements during the 2022 TRACER Campaign |
Zohaer Al Mahatab , St. Edward's University, Austin, TX; and P. J. Walter, M. P. Jensen, M. Sharma, and S. R. Bhauyan
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19:00 George R. Brown Convention Center |
| Poster Session - Applied Meteorology and Climatology | 19:00 | ||
| Oral | S25. Causal Inference of Meteorological Measurements during Precipitation Events Using CoURAGE. |
Alondra J. Alvarez , University of Puerto Rico, San Juan, PR, Puerto Rico; and S. Baugh and C. E. Forest
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19:00 George R. Brown Convention Center |
26 January 2026
| Presentation Type | Session ID and Presentation Title | Presenters | Time and Location |
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| Joint Session J1A - Advances in Numerical Modeling of Aerosol-Cloud Interactions: Moment-, Bin- and Particle-Resolved Methods and Beyond | 08:30 | ||
| Oral | J1A.2. Modeling Cloud Chamber Experiments and Field Measurements with the Particula Python Package |
Kyle Gorkowski , LANL, Los Alamos, NM; and S. Joshi, C. Mazzoleni, K. B. Benedict, J. Lee, R. Farley, A. G. Meyer, A. S. M. Shawon, M. Dubey, and A. C. Aiken, PhD
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08:45 George R. Brown Convention Center |
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Oral
Invited |
J1A.5. Inferring Microphysical Process Rates from in Situ Observations Using Physics-Informed Machine Learning (Invited Presentation) |
Kara D. Lamb , Columbia University, New York, NY; and J. Ko, G. Nicolaou, K. Frields, and T. Stephens
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09:30 George R. Brown Convention Center |
| Session 1 - Accelerating Science: Decreasing Time to Results through HPC, GPUs, and Performance Optimization | 08:30 | ||
| Oral | 1.2. Accelerating Multiphase Atmospheric Chemistry with Performance Portable Solvers in TChem-atm |
Samuel George Frederick II , University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL; and O. H. Diaz Ibarra, J. H. Curtis, Z. D'Aquino, M. West, and N. Riemer
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08:45 George R. Brown Convention Center |
| Session 1 - Multi-instrument Observations of the Planetary Boundary Layer I | 08:30 | ||
| Oral | 1.6. Atmospheric Turbulence Observations: Comparing DOE ARM Lidar, ArcticShark, and Tower Data Across Diverse Landscapes |
Raghavendra Krishnamurthy , PNNL, Richland, WA; and R. Newsom, J. Fast, M. Pekour, F. Mei, and B. Schmid
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09:45 George R. Brown Convention Center |
| Session 1B - Lessons Learned in Atmospheric Composition Field Campaigns I | 08:30 | ||
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Oral
Invited |
1B.1. What is CoURAGE Teaching us about Atmospheric Composition in Baltimore? (Invited Presentation) |
Benjamin A. Nault, Ph.D. , Johns Hopkins Univ. and Aerodyne Research Inc, Baltimore, MD; and P. F. DeCarlo, N. Ferdousi-Rokib, N. E. Prince, A. LaPorte, B. Demoz, A. Asa-Awuku, M. E. D. Roots, J. T. Sullivan, C. Hennigan, P. J. Walter, J. Zhang, J. Flynn, S. L. Alvarez, A. Ulinski, C. Kuang, D. Dexheimer, J. Dreessen, S. S. Brown, X. Ren, B. J. Carroll, C. Warneke, G. M. Wolfe, J. Dibb, L. Ziemba, J. P. DiGangi, G. S. Diskin, O. Mayol-Bracero, O. Enekwizu, M. A. Zawadowicz, A. Singh, J. Uin, A. Sedlacek, H. Powers, J. Viegas Silva, and K. J. Davis
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08:30 George R. Brown Convention Center |
| Session 2 - Phased Array Weather Radar II | 10:45 | ||
| Oral | 2.4. Adaptive Storm Targeting and Far-Field Calibrated Beam Pattern Measurements with a Metamaterials-Based, Electronic Scanning Weather Surveillance Radar |
Richard Roy , Agile Radar, West Berlin, NJ; and T. Maese, J. Carswell, J. Hunziker, E. Mazzola, and C. Cobb
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11:30 George R. Brown Convention Center |
| Session 2B - Lessons Learned in Atmospheric Composition Field Campaigns II | 10:45 | ||
| Oral | 2B.3. Agricultural Source Influences on Atmospheric Composition and Air Quality Along an Urban-Rural Gradient in the Baltimore Region |
Nahin Ferdousi-Rokib , Johns Hopkins Univ., Baltimore, MD; and D. Blomdahl, A. Pirone, A. Pettijohn, O. Rosenfeld, K. N. Steiner, A. Yassine, M. A. Zawadowicz, A. Asa-Awuku, C. Hennigan, B. A. Nault, Ph.D., and P. F. DeCarlo
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11:15 George R. Brown Convention Center |
| Session 3C - Land-Atmosphere Interactions in a Changing Climate III | 13:45 | ||
| Oral | 3C.3. Evaluating the Land-Atmosphere Feedbacks of the High-Resolution Rapid Refresh during the 2017 and 2024 Solar Eclipses |
Julia M. Simonson , NOAA/ESRL/GSL, Boulder, CO; CIRES, Univ. of Colorado, Boulder, CO; Developmental Testbed Center, Boulder, CO; and D. D. Turner, T. Heus, G. N. Raghunathan, T. J. Wagner, S. Kimball, and J. Kenyon
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14:15 George R. Brown Convention Center |
| Session 3A - Frontiers in Earth System Modeling I | 13:45 | ||
| Oral | 3A.5. Representing the Impact of Land Cover on the Atmosphere in the Community Earth System Model (CESM2) [Invited] |
Meg Devlan Fowler , NCAR, Boulder, CO; and A. Herrington, R. B. Neale, T. Waterman, D. M. Lawrence, F. Hay-Chapman, P. A. Dirmeyer, J. T. Bacmeister, and N. Chaney
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14:45 George R. Brown Convention Center |
| Session 3 - Mixed-Phase and Ice Clouds: Lab Studies, Field Studies and Parameterization | 13:45 | ||
| Oral | 3.4. Meteorological Controls on Arctic Mixed-Phase Cloud Properties: Evaluation of Climatological Data and MOSAiC Case Studies |
Andrew Michael Dzambo , Cooperative Institute for Severe and High Impact Weather and Research Operations, Norman, OK; and G. M. McFarquhar, H. Morrison, and K. K. Chandrakar, PhD
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14:30 George R. Brown Convention Center |
| Poster Session - Aerosols, Ice Particles, & Clouds Poster Session | 15:00 | ||
| Oral | 198. Characterizing the Ice Nucleation Potential of Particles in Bankhead National Forest: Investigating the Impacts of Bioaerosols |
Katie Samantha Chan , University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA; and N. N. Lata, P. Dawar, S. Williams, C. Longbottom, D. Dexheimer, and S. China
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15:00 George R. Brown Convention Center |
| Oral | 199. Natural and Artificial Sources of Ice-Nucleating Particles in a Mountain Region: Two-Year Observations During SAIL |
Ruichen Zhou , Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO; and D. Juergensen, K. R. Barry, K. Ayars, O. Dutton, P. J. DeMott, S. M. Kreidenweis, and R. J. Perkins
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15:00 George R. Brown Convention Center |
| Poster Session - Advances in Numerical Modeling of Aerosol-Cloud Interactions: Moment-, Bin- and Particle-Resolved Methods and Beyond Poster Session | 15:00 | ||
| Oral | 190. Aerosol Mixing State and Deposition Density as Drivers of Ice Crystal Diversity: Insights from Particle-Resolved Modeling |
Wenhan Tang , University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL; and J. Y. Harrington and N. Riemer
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15:00 George R. Brown Convention Center |
| Oral | 189. From κ to χ: Evaluating Hygroscopicity-Based Mixing State Estimates with a Particle-Resolved Model |
Yicen Liu , University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL; and J. Wang and N. Riemer
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15:00 George R. Brown Convention Center |
| Oral | 187. Prognostic Simulations of Arctic Mixed-Phase Stratus: Assessing Ice Crystal Budget Uncertainty by Freezing Parameterization Choice |
Yijia Sun , Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY; and A. M. Fridlind, I. Silber, N. Riemer, and D. A. Knopf
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15:00 George R. Brown Convention Center |
| Poster Session 1 - Cloud Physics Posters I | 15:00 | ||
| Oral | 227. Turbulence and Its Role in Ice Microphysics from Millimeter-Wavelength Radar Observations |
Jialin Yan , Stony Brook University, STONY BROOK, NY; and M. Oue, P. Kollias, G. G. Mace, L. McMurdie, C. Pettersen, and A. Rowe
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15:00 George R. Brown Convention Center |
| Session 4 - Parameterization of Cloud Microphysics across Scales I | 16:30 | ||
| Oral | 4.6. An Optimized Parameterization of Sub-Grid Scale Advection for Convection Permitting Models |
Samson M. Hagos , Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, WA; and Z. Feng, A. Varble, PhD, and S. L. Tai
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17:45 George R. Brown Convention Center |
| Session 4A - Observing and Modeling Human and Natural Impacts on Carbon Reservoirs II | 16:30 | ||
| Oral | 4A.1. Synoptic Scale Variability of Surface Layer CO₂ Exchange over the Southeast US. |
NANDITHA SUBHASH , Texas Tech Univ., Lubbock, TX; and S. Pal
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16:30 George R. Brown Convention Center |
| Joint Session J4B - Artificial Intelligence for Clouds, Aerosol, and Precipitation (CAP) | 16:30 | ||
| Oral | J4B.3. Generative Modeling of Aerosol State Representations |
Ehsan Saleh , University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL; and M. West and N. Riemer
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17:00 George R. Brown Convention Center |
| Session 4 - Multi-instrument Observations of the Planetary Boundary Layer II | 16:30 | ||
| Oral | 4.3. Seasonal Variations in Observations and Simulations of Bay Breeze Dynamics over Baltimore |
Nicholas E. Prince , The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA; and W. E. Foust, J. P. Horne, I. Horst, D. Zhang, E. Strobach, S. Pal, J. Dreessen, B. Demoz, B. F. Zaitchik, and K. J. Davis
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17:00 George R. Brown Convention Center |
| Oral | 4.4. Regional differences in boundary layer properties observed along a coast-urban-rural gradient |
Kenneth J. Davis , The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA; and N. E. Prince, T. Staresinic, C. Ross, S. R. Hill, B. J. Ahlswede, J. P. Horne, S. Pal, N. SUBHASH, E. J. Strobach, D. Zhang, R. C. Sullivan, D. W. Waugh, B. Demoz, S. Pandey, and M. E. D. Roots
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17:15 George R. Brown Convention Center |
| Oral | 4.5. The One-Stop Shop for Planetary Boundary Layer Analysis: the Atmospheric data Community Toolkit (ACT) |
Joseph Robert O'Brien , ANL, Lemont, IL; and A. Theisen, R. C. Jackson, B. Raut, PhD, M. A. Grover, P. Muradyan, S. M. Collis, and Z. Sherman
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17:30 George R. Brown Convention Center |
| Joint Session J4A - Aerosol–Earth System Interactions from Regional to Global Scales | 16:30 | ||
| Oral | J4A.2. Future Directions for Aerosol–Cloud–Precipitation Interaction Research in the Arctic from the QuIESCENT 2024 Workshop |
Gijs de Boer , Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, NY; and L. M. Zamora, G. Sotiropoulou, R. Calmer, J. C. Raut, I. Wadlow, Q. Coopman, and E. Gryspeerdt
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16:45 George R. Brown Convention Center |
27 January 2026
| Presentation Type | Session ID and Presentation Title | Presenters | Time and Location |
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| Session 5A - Agriculture-Atmosphere Interactions | 08:30 | ||
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Oral
Invited |
5A.5. Vertical Gradients in New Particle Formation and Growth: Influence of Agricultural Emissions and Implications for Cloud Droplet Number (Invited Presentation) |
Eleanor Browne , Univ. of Colorado Boulder, Boulder, CO; and B. Dobson, D. Katz, M. Alton, M. Muter, M. Lee, H. Stark, T. Subba, D. Worsnop, C. Kuang, and M. Canagaratna
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09:30 George R. Brown Convention Center |
| Session 5 - Parameterization of Cloud Microphysics across Scales II | 08:30 | ||
| Oral | 5.4. Bulk Microphysical Sources of Overproductive Precipitation in Simulated Cumulus Congestus |
McKenna W. Stanford , PNNL, Richland, WA; and A. Varble, PhD, Z. Feng, J. D. Fast, W. I. Gustafson Jr., PhD, and Z. Zhang
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09:15 George R. Brown Convention Center |
| Oral | 5.5. Systematic Cloud Microphysics Scheme Development with Machine Learning |
Kara D. Lamb , Columbia University, New York, NY; and C. E. Singer, K. Loftus, H. Morrison, M. Powell, J. Ko, J. Buch, A. Z. Hu, M. van Lier-Walqui, and P. Gentine
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09:30 George R. Brown Convention Center |
| Joint Session J5B - Aerosols, Ice Particles, & Clouds Session III | 08:30 | ||
| Oral | J5B.3. Mixing-State Impacts on Immersion Freezing: Insights from Particle-Resolved Modeling and Theory |
Wenhan Tang , University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL; and S. Arabas, J. H. Curtis, D. A. Knopf, M. West, and N. Riemer
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09:15 George R. Brown Convention Center |
| Joint Session J5A - Aerosol, Convection and Air Quality in the Coastal Urban Environment of Southeast Texas I | 08:30 | ||
| Oral | J5A.1. Insights from a Multi-Platform Tracking Dataset for Isolated Deep Convection over Houston, Texas |
Siddhant Gupta , ANL, Lemont, IL; and D. Wang, S. Giangrande, M. P. Jensen, A. Theisen, and N. L. Hickmon
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08:30 George R. Brown Convention Center |
| Oral | J5A.2. Exploring Attributes of Nascent Convective Clouds, Their Initiation Mechanisms, and Environments during TRACER |
Christopher J. Nowotarski , Texas A&M Univ., College Station, TX; and M. Sharma, A. D. Rapp, S. D. Brooks, B. Chen, and M. Self
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08:45 George R. Brown Convention Center |
| Oral | J5A.3. Relating the Presence and Frequency of Lightning in the TRACER Field Campaign to Aerosol and Meteorological Environments |
Samuel Thomas Gardner IV , Texas Tech University, Lubbock, TX; and E. C. Bruning, S. D. Brooks, K. N. Brunner, M. van Lier-Walqui, M. D. Petters, J. Wang, T. Logan, M. Sharma, A. D. Rapp, and C. J. Nowotarski
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09:00 George R. Brown Convention Center |
| Oral | J5A.4. Aerosol Impacts on Convective Cell Lifecycle in Model-Simulated and Radar-Observed TRACER Events |
Stephen M. Saleeby , Colorado State Univ., Fort Collins, CO; and M. Oue, S. C. Van Den Heever, and P. Kollias
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09:15 George R. Brown Convention Center |
| Oral | J5A.5. Meteorological and Aerosol Controls on Deep Convective Cell Properties over Houston during TRACER |
Yongjie Huang , CAPS, Norman, OK; and D. J. Mise, G. M. McFarquhar, M. Xue, A. V. Ryzhkov, J. C. Snyder, L. Xue, PhD, M. Oue, P. Kollias, M. P. Jensen, and M. Taszarek
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09:30 George R. Brown Convention Center |
| Oral | J5A.6. Aerosol-Cloud Interaction within Coastal Cumulus Congestus Clouds Observed during ESCAPE and TRACER |
Azusa Takeishi , NCAR, Boulder, CO; and Y. Tian, K. K. Chandrakar, PhD, and H. Morrison
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09:45 George R. Brown Convention Center |
| Session 7 - Warm-Phase Cloud Processes Across Scales I | 13:45 | ||
| Oral | 7.4. Why Is Height-Dependent Mixing Observed in Stratocumulus? |
Zeen Zhu , Brookhaven National Laboratory, Stony Brook, NY; and F. Yang, S. K. Krueger, and Y. Liu
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14:30 George R. Brown Convention Center |
| Session 7 - Emerging Sensors and Observing Technologies | 13:45 | ||
| Oral | 7.3. Direct Atmospheric Water Vapor Measurements with Open-path Dual-comb Spectroscopy on an Aircraft |
Luke Horstman , Honeywell Aerospace Technologies, Plymouth, MN; and K. Cossel, C. Fredrick, D. Ochoa-Mendoza, C. Parks, T. Rahmes, S. Vartak, B. Washburn, P. T. Conry, M. D. Wiebold, D. Deane, and C. Hoyt
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14:15 George R. Brown Convention Center |
| Session 7 - Fast and Slow, High and Low: Aerosol-Cloud-Climate Interactions across Scales (Core Science Keynote) | 13:45 | ||
| Oral | 7.1. Aerosol-Cloud-Interaction (ACI): A Journey from Shallow Boundary Layer Clouds to Deep Convective Clouds (Core Science Keynote) |
Zhanqing Li , Univ. of Maryland, College Park, MD
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13:45 George R. Brown Convention Center |
| Session 7 - Intercomparison, Calibration, and Uncertainties of Instrumentation I | 13:45 | ||
| Oral | 7.1. Baltimore Intercomparison of Weather Stations: Do you get what you pay for? |
Darryn W. Waugh , Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD; and S. Collins, B. F. Zaitchik, S. M. Collis, M. A. Grover, M. Tuftedal, A. Theisen, J. Kyrouac, and D. J. Sailor
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13:45 George R. Brown Convention Center |
| Poster Session - Cloud and Precipitation Responses to Aerosol Pollution, Weather Modification, and Climate Intervention Poster Session | 15:00 | ||
| Oral | 445. Influence of Surface Aerosol Injection on Stratocumulus-to-Cumulus Transition: Cloud-Surface Coupling and Background Aerosol Concentrations |
Haipeng Zhang , University of Maryland, College Park, MD; and Y. zheng and Z. Li
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15:00 George R. Brown Convention Center |
| Oral | 443. Linking the Lifecycle of Deep Convection with Cold Pool Outflow using SACR Observations During the TRACER Campaign |
Min Deng , DOE, Upton, NY; Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, NY; and M. P. Jensen, S. Giangrande, M. Graseck, and K. Johnson
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15:00 George R. Brown Convention Center |
| Poster Session 2 - Tuesday Formal Poster Viewing Session for 25AI (AI4DA, CAP, Coastal, and TMV) | 15:00 | ||
| Oral | 385. A Novel Segmentation Algorithm for the ARM User Facility All-Sky Imagers Using Machine Learning Applications |
Israel Silber , PNNL, Richland, WA; and D. Flynn, J. M. Comstock, E. Cromwell, and B. Ermold
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15:00 George R. Brown Convention Center |
| Poster Session 2 - Cloud Physics Posters II | 15:00 | ||
| Oral | 505. Classifying Thermodynamic Cloud Phase Using Machine Learning Models |
Damao Zhang , Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, WA; and L. Goldberger, M. Levin, A. Geiss, and M. D. Shupe
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15:00 George R. Brown Convention Center |
| Oral | 507. Intercomparison of Surface Drop Size Distributions and Polarimetric Radar Profiles at the ARM AMF3 Bankhead National Forest Site |
Bhupendra Raut, PhD , ANL, Darien, IL; and J. R. O'Brien, R. C. Jackson, M. Tuftedal, M. A. Grover, Z. Sherman, A. Theisen, Z. Zhu, D. Wang, M. N. Rocque, and S. M. Collis
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15:00 George R. Brown Convention Center |
| Poster Session - Aerosol, Convection and Air Quality in the Coastal Urban Environment of Southeast Texas Poster Session | 15:00 | ||
| Oral | 429. Exploratory Data Analysis of Temporal Patterns in Air Pollution and Meteorological Variability around Houston, Texas |
Mark Harvey , Texas Southern University, Houston, TX; and B. M. Prince Sr., D. Vrinceanu, M. P. Jensen, M. A. Zawadowicz, and C. Kuang
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15:00 George R. Brown Convention Center |
| Oral | 437. An Observational Exploration of Cold Pool Outflow and the Properties of Secondary Convection |
Aryca'Rae Williams , Texas Southern University, Houston, TX; and M. Jones, M. P. Jensen, M. Deng, P. J. Walter, A. Drager, D. Vrinceanu, B. M. Prince Sr., and M. Harvey
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15:00 George R. Brown Convention Center |
| Oral | 436. Linking Aerosol Morphology and Composition to Cloud-Relevant Properties Using a New Raman Microspectroscopy Method |
Taylor A. Pena , Texas A&M University, Bryan, TX; and Z. Lei, S. Thompson, B. Chen, B. Hendrickson, R. Li, A. D. Rapp, C. J. Nowotarski, and S. D. Brooks
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15:00 George R. Brown Convention Center |
| Oral | 434. Direct Radiative Forcing of Aerosols under Mesoscale Meteorological Influences in Southern Texas |
Tamanna Subba , Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, NY; and M. P. Jensen, M. Deng, S. Giangrande, A. Sedlacek, A. Singh, D. Wang, M. A. Zawadowicz, and C. Kuang
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15:00 George R. Brown Convention Center |
| Oral | 433. Cloud and Radiation Characteristics Associated with Sea-Breeze Boundaries in the Southeast Texas Region |
Michelle Jones , Texas Southern University, Houston, TX; and A. R. Williams, M. P. Jensen, A. Drager, M. Deng, D. Wang, P. J. Walter, N. Pszeniczny, D. Vrinceanu, B. M. Prince Sr., and M. Harvey
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15:00 George R. Brown Convention Center |
| Oral | 431. Impact of a Local Wildfire and Sea Breeze Front on Urban Aerosol and VOC Composition in Houston |
Nushrat Jahan Chowdhury , Baylor University, Waco, TX; Baylor University, Waco, TX; Baylor University, Waco, TX; and S. Shrestha, M. Mehra, M. Ramirez, J. Poudel, P. Sharma, J. H. Flynn III, Y. Wang, S. Yoon, S. Zhou, F. Guo, T. Griggs, D. Collins, Z. Zhu, C. Y. Chao, R. J. Griffin, J. R. Pierce, and R. J. Sheesley
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15:00 George R. Brown Convention Center |
| Oral | 430. Coastal Urban Thunderstorm Lifecycles from Radar Observations |
Jean Carlos Pena , University at Albany SUNY, Albany, NY; and J. E. González-Cruz, M. Swain, M. P. Jensen, M. Deng, S. Giangrande, and P. Ramamurthy
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15:00 George R. Brown Convention Center |
| Oral | 428. Sources and Ozone Forming Potential of VOCs at Industrial, Urban, and Forested Sites in Houston, TX |
Prakash Sharma , Baylor University, Waco, TX; and M. Mehra, S. Shrestha, S. yoon, Y. Wang, R. J. Griffin, D. Collins, J. H. Flynn III, and R. J. Sheesley
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15:00 George R. Brown Convention Center |
| Oral | 427. A Comparison of Model Analysis Gridpoint Soundings to Radiosonde Observations from the TRACER Field Campaign |
Camrynne Rose Ellis , Texas A&M University, College Station, TX; and C. J. Nowotarski, M. Sharma, and A. D. Rapp
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15:00 George R. Brown Convention Center |
| Oral | 425. Simulating the Impact of Biomass Burning Aerosols on a Sea-Breeze Storm Event during TRACER |
Lijun Zhao , Texas A&M Univ., College Station, TX; and Y. Wang, Y. Lin, T. Logan, and R. Zhang
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15:00 George R. Brown Convention Center |
| Oral | 424. Influence of Moisture Source on Aerosol and Isotope Characteristics in Houston Rainfall |
Lindsay White , Rice University, Houston, TX; and M. Sarkar, S. G. Dee, and J. Galewsky
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15:00 George R. Brown Convention Center |
| Oral | 423. Examining Errors in UAS Observations from Field Projects Using Comparisons with Traditional Observations and Models |
Nathaniel Breaux , Texas A&M University, College Station, TX; and D. D. Turner and S. Murdzek
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15:00 George R. Brown Convention Center |
| Oral | 426. A Climatology of Inland-Propagating Convection over the Texas Gulf Coast |
Malinda Sukithabhaya Bandara Millangoda , University of Houston, Houston, TX; and Y. Zheng Prof and Y. Wen
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15:00 George R. Brown Convention Center |
| Oral | 439. The TRacking Aerosol Convection interactions ExpeRiment (TRACER): Motivation, Measurements and Science |
Michael P. Jensen , DOE, Upton, NY
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15:00 George R. Brown Convention Center |
| Oral | 432. Vertical Mixing of Aerosol Properties during the TRACER field campaign - A Tethered Balloon Study |
Jayla Fontenette , Texas Southern University, Houston, TX; and B. Seymore, P. J. Walter, M. P. Jensen, A. Drager, M. Harvey, B. M. Prince Sr., and D. Vrinceanu
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15:00 George R. Brown Convention Center |
| Poster Session - Tropical Convection: Posters | 15:00 | ||
| Oral | 547. Causal Discovery Maps the Environmental Pathways to Tropical Convective Cloud Detrainment |
Dié Wang , Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, NY; and S. Lee, T. Zhang, C. P. Lackner, D. J. Kirshbaum, and M. P. Jensen
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15:00 George R. Brown Convention Center |
| Poster Session - Urban Climate Poster Session | 15:00 | ||
| Oral | 454. Controls on the Intra-urban variability of air temperature within Baltimore City |
Darryn W. Waugh , Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD; and L. Hersh, A. Eyni, I. Horst, B. F. Zaitchik, E. Foust, N. E. Prince, B. J. Ahlswede, and K. J. Davis
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15:00 George R. Brown Convention Center |
| Oral | 472. Extreme Precipitation and Urban-Scale Dynamics: Regional Insights from the CoURAGE Field Campaign |
Madhusmita Swain , SUNY, Albany, NY; and J. C. Pena, K. A. Potucek, E. Strobach, S. Pal, B. Demoz, K. J. Davis, J. Dreessen, M. P. Jensen, M. Deng, K. Lombardo, and J. E. González-Cruz
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15:00 George R. Brown Convention Center |
| Poster Session - Symposium on the Coastal Environment Posters | 15:00 | ||
| Oral | 395. Factors Affecting Aerosol Activation to Cloud Droplets and Aerosol Growth by Cloud Processing during the Eastern Pacific Cloud Aerosol Precipitation Experiment (EPCAPE) |
Lynn M Russell , Scripps Institution of Oceanography, LA JOLLA, CA; and A. S. Williams, V. Berta, C. Pelayo, J. L. Dedrick, S. Han, E. Ravichandran, M. D. Petters, L. Robinson, R. Chang, M. Wheeler, J. Wentzell, J. Liggio, I. Silber, D. Lubin, and M. A. Miller
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15:00 George R. Brown Convention Center |
| Poster Session - Fifth Symposium on Community Modeling and Innovation Tuesday Posters | 15:00 | ||
| Oral | 499. Performance of E3SM’s Global Storm-Resolving Model in Representing Deep Convection over Houston |
Raymond Kwaku Twumasi Oware , University of Houston, Houston, TX; and Y. Zheng Prof, P. A. Bogenschutz, Y. Zhang, H. Y. Ma, S. Xie, and C. Tao
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15:00 George R. Brown Convention Center |
| Joint Session J8A - Aerosol, Convection and Air Quality in the Coastal Urban Environment of Southeast Texas Session II | 16:30 | ||
| Oral | J8A.1. Summer Aerosol and Trace Gas Observations in Houston, Texas – Urban, Dust, and Organic Growth Aerosol Regimes and Sources |
Allison C Aiken, PhD , LANL, Los Alamos, NM; LANL, Lost Alamos, NM; and K. B. Benedict, J. Lee, K. Gorkowski, R. Farley, A. G. Meyer, S. Jordan, A. S. M. Shawon, and M. Dubey
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16:30 George R. Brown Convention Center |
| Oral | J8A.2. Disentangling Local and Regional Aerosol Regimes during the ARM TRACER Campaign Using in-situ Observations and Self-Organizing Maps |
Maria Anna Zawadowicz , Brookhaven National Lab, Upton, NY; and C. Kuang, T. Subba, A. Singh, J. Uin, R. Trojanowski, A. Sedlacek, O. Mayol-Bracero, and M. P. Jensen
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16:45 George R. Brown Convention Center |
| Oral | J8A.3. Ice-Nucleating Particles Around Houston and the Western U.S. Gulf Coast: Interactions of Saharan Dust and Urban Air Pollution |
Ryan Patnaude , NCAR, Boulder, CO; Colorado State Univ., Fort Collins, CO; and C. S. McCluskey, G. Roberts, T. C. J. Hill, P. J. DeMott, C. Hume, K. Ranjbar, M. Wolde, G. M. McFarquhar, P. Kollias, J. M. Creamean, and S. M. Kreidenweis
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17:00 George R. Brown Convention Center |
| Oral | J8A.4. Role of Insoluble Inclusions in Ice Nucleation of Inorganic–Organic Mixed Core–Shell Aerosols in Atmospheric Ice Nucleation |
Ziying (Nancy) Lei , University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN; and R. Conner, P. Stiles, T. A. Pena, S. Thompson, and S. D. Brooks
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17:15 George R. Brown Convention Center |
| Oral | J8A.5. Improved Understanding of Ozone Air Quality in Houston and Surrounding Waters through Integrated Modeling and Analysis of 2021-2023 TRACER-AQ Campaign Observations |
Yuxuan Wang , Univ. of Houston, Houston, TX; and S. Wasti, G. Roberts, T. Griggs, J. H. Flynn III, and P. J. Walter
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17:30 George R. Brown Convention Center |
| Oral | J8A.6. Instrument Emulation for Humidified Aerosol Measurement Integration and Mixing State Retrieval |
Kyle Gorkowski , LANL, Los Alamos, NM; LANL, Los Alamos, NM; and K. B. Benedict, J. Lee, R. Farley, A. G. Meyer, A. S. M. Shawon, M. Dubey, and A. C. Aiken, PhD
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17:45 George R. Brown Convention Center |
| Session 8 - Multi-instrument Observations of the Planetary Boundary Layer IV | 16:30 | ||
| Oral | 8.6. A Preliminary Analysis of Multi-Layered Ducts During Cyclogenesis: Evidence of Mean-Wave-Turbulence Interactions During the Coastal Urban Rural Atmospheric Gradient Experiment (CoURAGE) |
Edward Justin Strobach , University of Maryland, College Park, College Park, MD; University of Maryland, College Park, College Park, MD; and D. D. Turner, B. Demoz, S. Pandey, and K. J. Davis
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17:45 George R. Brown Convention Center |
| Session 8 - Warm-Phase Cloud Processes Across Scales II | 16:30 | ||
| Oral | 8.4. Do Raindrops Really Follow an Exponential Size Distribution? Evidence from Radar Observations and Process-based Modeling |
Kaitlyn Loftus , Columbia University, New York, NY; and C. R. Williams and M. van Lier-Walqui
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17:15 George R. Brown Convention Center |
| Oral | 8.5. Diagnosing Continental Cloud–PBL–Land Coupling: Remote Sensing, Mechanistic Understanding, and Model Implications |
Tianning Su , LLNL, Livermore, CA; and Y. Zhang and Z. Li
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17:30 George R. Brown Convention Center |
| Oral | 8.6. How Does Small-Scale Environmental Variability Affect Shallow Convection and Its Transition to Deep Convection? |
Heng Xiao , PNNL, Richland, WA; and A. Varble, PhD, M. Ovchinnikov, and J. D. Fast
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17:45 George R. Brown Convention Center |
| Session 8 - Coastal Meteorological Processes | 16:30 | ||
| Oral | 8.4. Sea Breeze Convection over the Texas Gulf Coast in DOE’s Global Storm-Resolving Model |
Youtong Zheng Prof , University of Houston, Houston, TX; and M. Zhang, H. Y. Ma, Y. Zhang, and R. K. T. Oware
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17:15 George R. Brown Convention Center |
| Session J8B - Cloud and Precipitation Responses to Aerosol Pollution, Weather Modification, and Climate Intervention | 16:30 | ||
| Oral | J8B.1. Using Synthetic Control to Assess the Climatological Significance of Cloud Seeding in the Western United States with a Structured Data Set of Reported Activities from 2000 – 2025 |
Kara D. Lamb , Columbia University, New York, NY; and J. Donohue
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16:30 George R. Brown Convention Center |
28 January 2026
| Presentation Type | Session ID and Presentation Title | Presenters | Time and Location |
|---|---|---|---|
| Session 9B - Regional Air Quality II | 08:30 | ||
| Oral | 9B.1. Low-level Clouds Increase Particulate Nitrate and Decrease Ozone in Coastal Southern California |
Abigail Song Williams , UC San Diego, La Jolla, CA; and S. Han, V. Berta, J. L. Dedrick, L. M. Russell, T. Campos, M. Wheeler, J. Liggio, L. Robinson, and R. Chang
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08:30 George R. Brown Convention Center |
| Joint Session J9A - Aerosol, Convection and Air Quality in the Coastal Urban Environment of Southeast Texas Session III | 08:30 | ||
| Oral | J9A.1. Pinned Clouds Over Industrial Heat Sources in Houston |
Rusen Oktem , University of California, Berkeley, CA; LBNL, Berkeley, CA; and S. Giangrande and D. M. Romps
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08:30 George R. Brown Convention Center |
| Oral | J9A.2. Downdrafts of Biomass Burning to Houston Enhanced By Local Convective Activity |
Rebecca Jacobs Sheesley , Baylor University, Waco, TX; and M. Ramirez, J. Poudel, T. Griggs, M. Mehra, S. Shrestha, Y. Li, L. Senkbeil, and J. Flynn
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08:45 George R. Brown Convention Center |
| Oral | J9A.3. Modelling Coastal Urban Thermodynamic Modifications of Convective Thunderstorms |
Jean Carlos Pena , University at Albany SUNY, Albany, NY; and P. Ramamurthy, M. P. Jensen, S. Giangrande, M. Swain, H. Gamarro, and J. E. González-Cruz
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09:00 George R. Brown Convention Center |
| Oral | J9A.4. Coastal Air Quality Observations during the TRACER IOP |
Paul J. Walter , St. Edward's University, Austin, TX; and M. Deng, M. P. Jensen, J. H. Flynn III, T. Griggs, and J. A. Yoshioka
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09:15 George R. Brown Convention Center |
| Oral | J9A.5. Single-Particle Insights into Bioaerosol Variability from Ground to Aloft During TRACER 2022 |
Nurun Nahar Lata , Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, WA; and A. Rahman, Q. Du, D. Dexheimer, A. L. Steiner, and S. China
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09:30 George R. Brown Convention Center |
| Oral | J9A.6. Using Lagrangian Analyses to Understand the Full Scope of Urban New Particle Formation During the Houston TRACER-MAP Campaign |
Hannah Grace Marti , Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO; and S. E. O'Donnell, C. Y. Chao, D. Collins, C. Davis, R. J. Griffin, F. Guo, N. A. June, S. Zhou, Z. Zhu, R. J. Sheesley, and J. R. Pierce
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09:45 George R. Brown Convention Center |
| Session 9A - Innovations in Meteorological Measurement: Remote Sensing, UAS, and Data Fusion I | 08:30 | ||
| Oral | 9A.1. WRF Single-Column Sensitivity to PBL Schemes and Moisture During the August 21st, 2017 Total Solar Eclipse |
Wesley Taylor , Millersville Univ., Thomasville, PA
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08:30 George R. Brown Convention Center |
| Session 9B - Innovative Technological Advances for Mesoscale Observing Systems | 08:30 | ||
| Oral | 9B.2A. Characterizing Urban–Suburban and Diurnal Transitions of Boundary Layer Structure over the Baltimore–Washington Metropolitan Area |
Zhifeng Yang , Howard University, Washington, DC; Howard Univ., Washington, DC; and R. K. Sakai, N. N. Karle, PhD, A. Flores, R. D. Rossi, J. R. Villanueva Medina, B. Demoz, and S. Chiao
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08:45 George R. Brown Convention Center |
| Session 10 - Fundamental Research and Applications of Weather Radar IV | 10:45 | ||
| Oral | 10.1. Observed Characteristics of Physical Processes Associated with the Propagation and Evolution of Severe, Cool-Season QLCSs as Determined from Multiple Ground-Based Remote Sensing Instruments |
Kevin Knupp , Univ. of Alabama in Huntsville, Huntsville, AL; and P. Pangle
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10:45 George R. Brown Convention Center |
| Oral | 10.4. Using ground-based radar to investigate false detections in satellite precipitation |
Jessica R. P. Sutton , Univ. of Maryland Baltimore County, Baltimore, MD; and T. A. Stanley and T. Gokhale
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11:30 George R. Brown Convention Center |
| Joint Session J10A - Aerosol-Cloud Interactions in Warm Clouds Session I | 10:45 | ||
| Oral | J10A.2. Use of an Explainable Machine Learning Model to Disentangle Aerosol-Cloud Interactions for Warm Clouds at Multiple ARM sites. |
Shujun Zhou , Univ. of Maryland, College Park, MD; and H. Zhang and Z. Li
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11:00 George R. Brown Convention Center |
| Oral | J10A.4. Distinctive Aerosol-Cloud-Precipitation Interactions in Marine Boundary Layer Clouds from the ACE-ENA and SOCRATES Aircraft Field Campaigns |
Xiquan Dong , ; and X. Zheng, B. Xi, T. Logan, and Y. Wang
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11:30 George R. Brown Convention Center |
| Session 11B - Aerosol-Radiation Interactions | 13:45 | ||
| Oral | 11B.2. Cloud Processing Alters Aerosol Mixing State and Optical Properties: A Particle-Resolved Approach |
Yu Yao , Cornell University, Ithaca, NY; and N. Riemer, J. H. Curtis, M. Dawson, Z. Zheng, and P. P. Ching
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14:00 George R. Brown Convention Center |
| Joint Session J11A - Aerosol-Cloud Interactions in Warm Clouds Session II | 13:45 | ||
| Oral | J11A.5. Dampening of the Precipitation Response to Aerosol Pollution from Turbulence in Cumulus Clouds |
Kamal Kant Chandrakar, PhD , NCAR, Boulder, CO; and H. Morrison
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14:45 George R. Brown Convention Center |
| Poster Session - 1st Symposium on Weather Radar - Poster Session - Wednesday, 28-Jan-2026 | 15:00 | ||
| Oral | 781. Evaluating Simulated River Breeze-Driven Convection in the Central Amazon Using Radar Echo Tracking |
Sheng-Lun Tai , PNNL, Richland, WA; and Z. Feng, A. Varble, PhD, E. Jo, J. Marquis, M. Christensen, Z. Yang, S. M. Hagos, and J. D. Fast
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15:00 George R. Brown Convention Center |
| Poster Session - Atmospheric Composition Modeling and Analysis Program (ACMAP) | 15:00 | ||
| Oral | 626. Towards a Better Understanding of the Role of Oxidants in Urban Air Quality and Atmospheric Oxidative Capacity in Houston |
Akinleye Folorunsho , Baylor Univ., Waco, TX; Baylor University, Waco, TX; and Y. Li
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15:00 George R. Brown Convention Center |
| Poster Session - 26th Symposium on Meteorological Observation and Instrumentation - Wednesday Posters | 15:00 | ||
| Oral | 657. Nocturnal Boundary Layer Dynamics And Aerosol Vertical Structure In High Altitude Mountain Valley |
Vanessa Caicedo , NOAA Global Monitoring Laboratory, Boulder, CO; and B. Adler, J. Sedlar, and L. riihimaki
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15:00 George R. Brown Convention Center |
| Oral | 650. Comparing Observed and Modeled Divergence Across Three Southern Great Plains Sites |
Danica Marr , Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University (ERAU), Daytona Beach, FL; and D. D. Turner
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15:00 George R. Brown Convention Center |
| Poster Session - Aerosol-Cloud Interactions in Warm Clouds Poster Session | 15:00 | ||
| Oral | 728. Impacts of Pollen on Aerosol Number Budget and Cloud Formation Processes |
Tamanna Subba , Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, NY; and A. L. Steiner, M. A. Zawadowicz, A. Singh, and C. Kuang
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15:00 George R. Brown Convention Center |
| Oral | 725. Aerosol and Cloud Interactions for Convective Clouds: Differentiating the Roles of Meteorology, Aerosol and Cloud-PBL Coupling |
Zhanqing Li , Univ. of Maryland, College Park, MD; and T. Su and N. Roldan-Henao
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15:00 George R. Brown Convention Center |
| Oral | 729. Contrasting CCN Activation Properties of Aerosol and Cloud Droplet Residuals Before, During and After Stratocumulus Cloud Passage at a Coastal Mountain Site. |
Elavarasi Ravichandran , University of California, Riverside, Riverside, CA; and S. Han, A. S. Williams, J. L. Dedrick, C. Pelayo, N. Maneenoi, L. Robinson, R. Chang, M. Wheeler, J. Wentzell, J. Liggio, L. M. Russell, and M. D. Petters
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15:00 George R. Brown Convention Center |
| Oral | 726. Evaluating Aerosol-Cloud-Precipitation Interactions in the Northeast Pacific Stratocumulus Deck Using E3SMv3 and EPCAPE Observations |
Xue Zheng , ; and P. Ghosh, Y. Zhang, H. Zhang, P. A. Bogenschutz, and S. Xie
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15:00 George R. Brown Convention Center |
| Session 12 - High-Latitude Mixed-Phase Cloud Processes | 16:30 | ||
| Oral | 12.4. A Radar View of Ice Microphysics and Turbulence in Arctic Mixed-phase Cloud System |
Jialin Yan , Stony Brook University, STONY BROOK, NY; and M. Oue, P. Kollias, E. Luke, and F. Yang
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17:30 George R. Brown Convention Center |
| Oral | 12.5. Clouds Radiative Effects at High Latitudes: Insights from Observations during the CAPE-k and COMBLE Field Campaigns |
Yongjie Huang , CAPS, Norman, OK; and G. M. McFarquhar and Z. Xia
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17:45 George R. Brown Convention Center |
| Session 12B - Regional Air Quality V | 16:30 | ||
| Oral | 12B.6. Summer 2025 Deployment of Five TOLNet SMOL (Small Mobile Ozone Lidar) Instruments in Support of Air Quality Studies and NASA TEMPO Validation and Science |
Thierry Leblanc , JPL, Wrightwood, CA; and F. Chouza, J. T. Sullivan, and M. E. D. Roots
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17:45 George R. Brown Convention Center |
| Session 12B - Aerosol-Cloud Interactions in Deep Convective Clouds Session I | 16:30 | ||
| Oral | 12B.3. Causes and Implications of Significant Correlations Between Continental Aerosols and Meteorology Affecting Convective Clouds |
Adam Varble, PhD , PNNL, Richland, WA; PNNL, Richland, WA; and J. D. Fast, Z. Feng, A. Geiss, E. Jo, G. Kulkarni, and J. Marquis
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17:15 George R. Brown Convention Center |
| Oral | 12B.4. Investigation of Aerosol-Cloud Interactions in Radar and Satellite Data from Houston, Texas, and Manus, Brazil |
Hannah C. Vagasky , AER, Lexington, MA; and E. Berry and J. Mascio
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17:30 George R. Brown Convention Center |
| Oral | 12B.5. Exploring the Interplay Between Cloud-Planetary Boundary Layer Coupling, Meteorology, and Aerosol Effects on Deep Convective Clouds |
Natalia Roldan-Henao , University of Maryland, College Park, MD; Univ. of Maryland, College Park, College Park, MD; and Z. Li, T. Su, J. Fan, and J. E. Yorks
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17:45 George R. Brown Convention Center |
| Session 12B - Advancing R2O and O2R in Weather Analysis and Forecast Systems: Technologies, Methodologies, and Approaches to Meet Evolving Forecasting Needs: Part IV of IV: Modeling and Data Assimilation | 16:30 | ||
| Oral | 12B.3. Evaluating the Kain-Fritsch Convective Parameterization Scheme Across Multiple Spatial Scales Using Observationally-Derived Trigger Function Variables |
David T. Haliczer , University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAH), Huntsville, AL; and J. R. Mecikalski
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17:00 George R. Brown Convention Center |
29 January 2026
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