NCICS at AMS 2025

Twenty-three NCICS staff are contributing to presentations, posters, and other activities at the 105th American Meteorological Society Annual Meeting, being held in New Orleans January 12–16, 2025. See below for a list of participating staff and their sessions. Names of NCICS staffers are in bold. All times are US Central.

Monday, January 13

2B.1 – Science Challenges for Constructing Future Projections of Heavy Rainfall Values in NOAA Atlas 15

Kenneth E. Kunkel (Presenter), Xia Sun, Liqiang Sun

10:45–11 AM Monday

210 (New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)

3.2 – Providing Climate Projection Datasets for War Games

Carl J. Schreck (Presenter), Kyle Wodzicki, John Edward Uehling, Jason Patla, Benjamin Fulk

2–2:15 PM Monday

334 (New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)

3A.3 GOES Fundamental Climate Data Record: Historical GOES 8-15

Vrinda D. Desai (Presenter), Kenneth R. Knapp, Jessica L. Matthews, Anand K. Inamdar, Yuhan (Douglas) Rao

2:15–2:30 PM Monday

356 (New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)

4A.2 – Advancing Climate and Environmental Data Access: The Evolution of NOAA’s Open Data Dissemination Program

Jenny Dissen, Adrienne Simonson (Presenter), Keown, Katelyn Szura, Otis Brown, Jonathan Brannock, Denis Willett

4:45–5 PM Monday

355 (New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)

Tuesday, January 14

5A.1 – NOAA Open Data Dissemination (NODD) – Helping to Change the Landscape for Engineers

Jenny Dissen (Presenter), Adrienne Simonson (Presenter), Patrick Keown, Katelyn Szura, Otis Brown, Jonathan Brannock, Denis Willett

8:30–8:45 AM Tuesday

345 (New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)

7B.1 – Improving Industry Response to Climate Risk in the Industry Proving Grounds

Michael J. Brewer (Presenter), Russell Vose, Adam B. Smith, Jenny Dissen, Daniel P. Wunder, Katrina Hichman, George Smith, Derek S. Arndt

1:45–2 PM Tuesday

343 (New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)

7A.5 – Observations and Storm Characteristics of Maximum Liquid Equivalent Hourly Snowfall Rates in the Tropical Andes and Comparisons to other Regions

L. Baker Perry (Presenter), Anton Seimon, Kenneth E. Kunkel, Jim Steenburgh, Peter Veals, Brandt D. Maxwell,Sandra E. Yuter, Tom Matthews, Marcos Andrade, Matthew A. Miller, Maxwell Rado, Sandro Arias, Laura Ticona, Nilton Montoya

2:45–3 PM Tuesday

209 (New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)

317 – Extreme Precipitation Events Observed by the U.S. Climate Reference Network and the NOAA Hourly Precipitation Dataset

Emma L. Scott (Presenter), Ronald D. Leeper, Michael A. Palecki

3–4:30 PM Tuesday

Poster Session 2 (New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)

8A.3 – Extending the HIRS data record from NOAA’s low earth orbit (LEO) satellites

Anand K. Inamdar (Presenter), Lei Shi, Hai-Tien Lee, Darren L. Jackson

5–5:15 PM Tuesday

356 (New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)

8A.5 – Updates on NOAA’s Rapid Attribution Capability: The July 2024 California Heat Wave

Carl J. Schreck (Presenter),Zachary Michael Labe, David R. Easterling, Russell Vose, John Edward Uehling, Xiangdong Zhang, David A. Coates, Nathaniel Johnson, Joseph J. Barsugli

5:30–5:45 PM Tuesday

243 (New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)

Wednesday, January 15

9B.1 – Supply Chain, Transportation, and Climate Change Variability: Co-Developing Products with the Retail Sector through the Industry Proving Grounds

Jenny Dissen (Presenter), Allison Bashford, Margaret Coates, Michael J. Brewer, Daniel P. Wunder, Katrina Hichman

8:30–8:45 AM Wednesday

347 (New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)

9.4 – Writing Alt Text for Complex Scientific Figures: A Report from the National Climate Assessment

Mark Essig (Presenter), Katharine M. Johnson, April Dawn Lamb, Ciara Lemery, Andrea McCarrick, Thomas K. Maycock

9:15–9:30 AM Wednesday

208 (New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)

10B.4 – Future Projections of Heavy Rainfall Values in NOAA Atlas 15

Kenneth E. Kunkel (Presenter), Xia Sun, Liqiang Sun

11:30–11:45 AM Wednesday

341 (New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)

Panel Discussion 12 – Hurricane Helene and the Impacts in Western North Carolina, a perspective from our own AMS community

Jenny Dissen (Chair), Trisha D. Palmer, Deke Arndt, Jason Patla,  Suzanne Van Cooten, Tanja Fransen

4:30–6 PM Wednesday

La Nouvelle AB (New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)

Joint Session J12A – Climatological Observing Needs From the Ground Up: Advancements in Soil Moisture and Aerosol Measurements, Observations, Retrievals, and Applications/p>

Ronald D. Leeper (Chair), Sreenath Paleri

4:30–6 PM Wednesday

355 (New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)

J12A.1 – The Challenges of Estimating Plant Available Water

Ronald D. Leeper (Presenter)

4:30–4:45 PM Wednesday

355 (New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)

E76 – 21OESS Value Tree Assessment of Low Earth Orbit Observations for the Dynamic Arctic Region

Andrew Lomax (Presenter), Jeremy Goldstein, Jenny Dissen, Satya Kalluri, Katherine A Hawley, Chung-Yu Wu

3:50–4:30 PM Wednesday

Hall C (New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)

Thursday, January 16

13B.3 – NODD Enhances User Engagement and Data Accessibility of NOAA Low Earth Orbit (LEO Data)

Jenny Dissen, Adrienne Simonson (Presenter), Patrick Keown, Katelyn Szura, Otis Brown, Jonathan Brannock, Denis Willett

9–9:15 AM Thursday

357 (New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)

13C.4 – Monitoring Drought From Short-Term Soil Moisture Records: An Upper Missouri River Basin Case Study

Ronald D. Leeper (Presenter)

9:15–9:30 AM Thursday

221 (New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)

J14B.1 Recognizing Appalachia: Rural Engagement to Empower Climate Resilience in a Vital Yet Overlooked Region

Nicholas Shanahan (Presenter), Jared J. Rennie, Kyle Wodzick, Jenny Dissen

1:45–2 PM Thursday

345 (New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)

J14B.5 – Climate Related Actions, Choices and Ideas in Everyday Life from 115 AMS Members

Sekedoua Kouadio, Elizabeth Cox (Presenter)

2:45–3:00 PM Thursday

345 (New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)

1002 – A User First Approach: Applying NOAA’s Service Delivery Model through the Industry Proving Ground

Bridget Smith (Presenter), Margaret Coates, Michael J. Brewer, Adam B. Smith, Russell Vose, Jenny Dissen, Daniel P. Wunder, Katrina Hichman

3–4:30 PM Thursday

Hall C (New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)