NCICS at AMS 2026

Twenty-three NCICS staff are contributing to presentations, posters, and other activities at the 106th American Meteorological Society Annual Meeting, being held in Houston, Texas, January 25–29, 2026. See below for a list of participating staff (in boldface) and their sessions. All times are US Central, and all locations are at the George R. Brown Convention Center.

Monday, January 26

• 1A.2 – Extreme Precipitation Trends In the Context of Helene Rainfall
  Kenneth E. Kunkel (Presenter)
  Monday, January 26, 8:45–9:00, 332B 


• J1.2 – Role of NOAA Data in Retail Industry Approach to Preparedness and Resilience
  Jenny Dissen (Presenter), Cera Schrems
  Monday, 8:45–9:00, Grand Ballroom C 


• 1B.2 – AI-Readying the NOAA Workforce – Vision to Practice
  Rob Redmon (Presenter), Christopher Slocum, Yuhan (Douglas) Rao
  Monday, 9:00–9:15, 322A 


• 2A.4 – NOAA Atlas-15: Challenges in Estimating Future Projections of Heavy Rainfall Frequencies
  Kenneth E. Kunkel (Presenter), Xia Sun
  Monday, 11:30–11:45, 332B 


• J4.4 – Innovative Tools for Enhanced Climate Engagement
  Liz Cox (Presenter)
  Monday, 5:15–5:30, 351A 

Tuesday, January 27

• V15 – STUDENT – Comparative Analysis of ERA5 and nClimGrid Datasets on CONUS Surface Climate
  Paul Chen (Presenter), Han Tang, Xiangdong Zhang
  Tuesday, 1:00–2:00, Virtual Poster Slam Session #2


• V33 – HYDRO – Comparative Evaluation of LOCA2 and STAR-ESDM Downscaled Precipitation and Extremes over the Contiguous United States
  Liqiang Sun (Presenter), Keith William Dixon, Kenneth E. Kunkel, Xia Sun, David R. Easterling
  Tuesday, 1:00–2:00, Virtual Poster Slam Session #3


• 531 – The Critical Role of Data in Wildfire Preparedness: Engaging Communities and Stakeholders for Enhanced Resilience in Western North Carolina Post-Hurricane Helene
  Jenny Dissen, Liz Cox (Presenter), Greg Dobson, Steve Norman
  Tuesday, 3:00–4:30, Hall B3 


• J8.5 – NODD’s Evolving Ecosystem: Driving AI-Ready Environmental Intelligence Through User Engagement
  Jenny Dissen (Presenter), Adrienne Simonson, Katelyn Szura, Otis Brown, Jonathan Brannock
  Tuesday, 5:30–5:45, 372A 


• 8A.5 – Circulation Dynamics Driving Extreme Heatwaves
  Xiangdong Zhang (Presenter), Han Tang, Jing Zhang
  Tuesday, 5:30–5:45, 310C 

Wednesday, January 28

• Session 9 – Tools and Products for Real-time Monitoring of the Climate I
  Liz Cox, Allysa Rose Dallmann, Daniel Joseph Brouillette
  Wednesday, 8:30–10:00, 381A 


• 9.2 – Global Station-based Downscaling with STAR
  Carl J. Schreck (Presenter), Shuhai Li, Kyle Wodzicki, Jason Patla, Benjamin Fulk
  Wednesday, 8:45–9:00, 381A 


• 9B.5 – Exploring the Relationship between Vegetation Health and Soil Moisture Based Drought Indices
  Ronald D. Leeper (Presenter), Michael A. Palecki, Emma L. Scott, Howard J. Diamond
  Wednesday, 9:30–9:45, 332A 


• Session 10 – Tools and Products for Real-time Monitoring of the Climate II
  Liz Cox, Allysa Rose Dallmann, Daniel Joseph Brouillette
  Wednesday, 10:45–12:00, 381A 


• Town Hall Meeting – A Discussion on the “U.S. Climate Collection: Informing Assessment of Risks and Solutions” 
  Organizer: Gwendolyn Whittaker. Panelists: Melissa A Kenney, Kristen Averyt, Kenneth E. Kunkel. Facilitator: Walter Robinson  
  Wednesday, 12:15–1:15, 351B 


• Session 11 – Tools and Products for Real-Time Monitoring of the Climate III
  Cochairs: Liz Cox, Allysa Rose Dallmann, Daniel Joseph Brouillette
  Wednesday, 1:45–3:00, 381A 


• Joint Session 11 – Digital Twins for Cities: Advancing Urban Intelligence for Adaptation and Resilience
  Cochairs: Naveen Sudharsan, Dev Niyogi, Yuhan (Douglas) Rao, Xinyue Ye, Rao Kotamarthi
  Wednesday, 1:45–3:00, 371B 


• 11.2 – Evaluating Temperature Thresholds and the Changing Temperature Distribution from Global Datasets
  Donald J. Wuebbles (Presenter), Sudhansu Sekhar Rath, Kenneth E. Kunkel, David R. Easterling
  Wednesday, 2:00–2:15, 310C


• 11B.3 – Rapid Drought Change Relationships to Intra- and Interseasonal Modes of Variability Across Drought Indices
  Emma L. Scott (Presenter), Ronald D. Leeper
  Wednesday, 2:15–2:30, 332A 


• 616 – The Accumulated Climate Extremes Index: How Weird Was Your Year?
  Emma L. Scott (Presenter), Michael A. Palecki, Jacob Cacciamani, Howard J. Diamond
  Wednesday, 3:00–4:30, Hall B3 


• 798 – Visualizing and Quantifying the Economic Value of NOAA Solar Data Across the Renewable Energy Value Chain
  Carolina Cardona (Presenter), Jenny Dissen, Aashish Malik
  Wednesday, 3:00–4:30, Hall B3 


• 618 – Bias Correcting GFDL-SPEAR for Use in Near-Future Global Climate Projections with Military Applications
  Alethia Kielbasa (Presenter), John Edward Uehling, Carl J. Schreck, Kyle Wodzicki, Benjamin Fulk, Jason Patla
  Wednesday, 3:00–4:30, Hall B3 


• 659 – Improving Density Altitude Projections for Aircraft Operations Using Statistical Downscaling
  Shuhai Li (Presenter), Carl Schreck, Kyle Wodzicki, Jason Patla, Benjamin Fulk
  Wednesday, 3:00–4:30, Hall B3 


• Poster Session 3 – 30th Conference on Applied Climatology
  Liz Cox, Allysa Rose Dallmann, Daniel Joseph Brouillette
  Wednesday, 3:00–4:30, Hall B3 


• 12.1 – Implementing VIIRS Global Area Coverage (VGAC): Bridging Climate Data Records with Modern Satellite Capabilities
  Kenneth R. Knapp (Presenter), Changyong Cao, Xi Shao, Yuhan (Douglas) Rao, Philip Casey, Viju John
  Wednesday, 4:30–4:45, 370D


• 12.2 – Towards the Creation of GOES Fundamental Climate Data Record
  Yuhan (Douglas) Rao (Presenter), Kenneth R. Knapp, Vrinda D Desai, Jessica L. Matthews, Aashish Malik, Anand K. Inamdar Wednesday, 4:45–5:00, 370D 

12.3 – Putting Helene in the Context with Long-term Satellite Data Records
Yuhan (Douglas) Rao (Presenter)
Wednesday, 5:00–5:15, 370D 
12A.3 – Bias Correction in Data Preparation and Its Implications for AI Model Performance
Yan Xie (Presenter), Amy McGovern, Ann Bostrom, Yuhan (Douglas) Rao
Wednesday, 5:00–5:15, 330A 

• 12.6 – Daily Optimum Interpolation Sea Surface Temperature (DOISST) Version 3: Improvements in Input Data, Preprocessing Methods, and Cloud Computing Capability
  Garrett Graham (Presenter), Alethia Kielbasa, Shuhai Li, Boyin Huang, Xungang Yin, Thomas Michael Smith, James Carton, Ligang Chen, Seonju Lee, Keneshia Hibbert
  Wednesday, 5:45–6:00, 370D 

Thursday, January 29

• Session 13 – Response of High-Impact Tropical Weather to a Warming Climate: Bridging Weather and Climate I
  Organizers and cochairs: Kelly M. Núñez Ocasio, Lulin Xue, Carl J. Schreck
  Thursday, 8:30–10:00, 352D 


• Session 13 – Satellite-Based Long-Term and Climatological Earth Observations II
  Cochairs: Yuhan (Douglas) Rao, Kenneth R. Knapp
  Thursday, 8:30–10:00, 370D 


• 13.2 – Extending the HIRS Data Record from the NOAA’s Low Earth Orbit (LEO) Satellites
  Anand K. Inamdar (Presenter), Lei Shi, Hai-Tien Lee, Darren L. Jackson, Jessica L. Matthews
  Thursday, 8:45–9:00, 370D 


• 13A.3 – From Industry Needs to New Data Products: Lessons Learned from Co-Developing Environmental Products with the Private Sector
  Bridget Smith (Presenter), Adriana Formby-Fernandez, Alexander Lamb, Bailey Donaldson, Margaret Coates, Allison Crimmins, Jenny Dissen, Russell Vose, Michael J. Brewer
  Thursday, 9:00–9:15, Grand Ballroom A 


• 13.5 – Observed Trends in Tropical Cyclone Intensities Using an Updated Homogeneous Dataset: ADT-HURSAT
  Carl J. Schreck (Presenter), Philip J. Klotzbach, Jennifer Gahtan, Kenneth R. Knapp
  Thursday, 9:30–9:45, 352D 


• 13A.6 – AI-Enhanced Data Stewardship and Intelligent Interaction for NOAA’s Environmental Data
  Stephanie C. Herring (Presenter), Rob Redmon, Yuhan (Douglas) Rao
  Thursday, 9:45–10:00, 330A 


• Session 14 – Response of High-Impact Tropical Weather to a Warming Climate: Bridging Weather and Climate II
  Organizers and cochairs: Carl J. Schreck, Lulin Xue, Kelly M. Núñez Ocasio
  Thursday, 10:45–12:00, 352D 


• Panel Discussion 14 – Navigating Climate Futures: Fast and Slow Thinking in Applied Climatology
  Cochairs:  Allysa Rose Dallmann, Daniel Joseph Brouillette. Moderators: Liz Cox, Jared J. Rennie. Panelists: Austin M. Pearson, Dev Niyogi, Kim Klockow McClain, Laura E. Stevens
  Thursday, 10:45–12:00, 381A 


• 882 – Evaluation of IMERG and CMORPH Satellite Precipitation Products with Respect to Extreme Precipitation from Subdaily to Multi-day Accumulation Scales against in-situ Reference Network
  David A. Coates, John Edward Uehling (Presenter), Olivier Prat
  Thursday, 3:00–4:30 PM, Hall B3 


• Poster Session – Response of High-Impact Tropical Weather to a Warming Climate: Bridging Weather and Climate
  Organizers and cochairs: Kelly M. Núñez Ocasio, Carl J. Schreck, Lulin Xue
  Thursday, 3:00–4:30, Hall B3