NCICS at AGU 2020

The 2020 edition of the Fall Meeting of the American Geophysical Union (AGU) will be a different experience for everyone, as the event will be held online rather than in person due to the COVID-19 pandemic. While the online format presents challenges and limitations, it also greatly expands the potential audience. We invite AGU attendees to check out the many sessions, presentations, posters, and eLightning posters involving NCICS staff listed below.

Pre-recorded oral presentations and posters are available for viewing on demand. The oral presentation and eLightning poster sessions include brief live Q&A sessions at the times listed below (all times EST). Use the links below to access a session. You can browse the full AGU program at https://agu.confex.com/agu/fm20/webprogram/meeting.html. Our colleagues at the National Centers for Environmental Information also have a web story with a listing of all NCEI-associated sessions, which includes all of the sessions involving NCICS staff.

Monday, December 7

• Filling in Spatio-Temporal Gaps in the GOES-R Land Surface Temperature Product
  Poster, All Day
  Anand Inamdar and Ronald Leeper


• Comparisons of In Situ Ground Observations and Satellite Measurements of Soil Moisture Standardized Using a Consistent Method
  Presentation, 7:08–7:12 AM
  Ronald Leeper

Tuesday, December 8

• More Weather or More Water: What is Driving Increases in Extreme Precipitation?
  Poster, All Day
  Laura Stevens, Scott Stevens, Kenneth Kunkel


• Towards Developing Community Guidelines for Sharing and Reuse of Digital Data Quality Information
  Presentation, 11:42–11:46 PM
  Ge Peng, Sarah Champion

Thursday, December 10

• Survey of Programs Related to Climate Science Fields at America’s HBCUs
  Presentation 10:16–10:20 AM
  Linda Copley, Tom Maycock

Friday, December 11

• Environmental, Socioeconomic, and Climatic Changes in Northern Eurasia II
  Poster Session, All Day
  Pavel Groisman


• Long-term Changes of Streamflow and Heat Transport of two Largest Arctic Rivers of European Russia, Severnaya Dvina and Pechora
  Poster, All Day
  Pavel Groisman


• Qualitative Basis for Adaptation of Siberia to Climate Change Impact
  Poster, All Day
  Pavel Groisman


• Environmental, Socioeconomic, and Climatic Changes in Northern Eurasia I
  Session, 1:30–2:30 PM
  Pavel Groisman


• Looking Forward to 30 Years since the Disintegration of the USSR: Environmental and Socio-Economic Consequences of Fundamental Institutional Change amidst Changing Climates (Invited)
  Presentation, 1:46–1:50 PM
  Pavel Groisman


• Accessibility Considerations in Climate Communication: Efforts and Lessons Learned from the Fourth National Climate Assessment
  eLightning Poster, 7:01–7:04 PM
  Laura Stevens, Katharine Johnson, Tom Maycock, Jessicca (Griffin) Allen, Andrea McCarrick, Brooke Stewart

Monday, December 14

• Incorporating Climate Change into Intensity-Duration-Frequency Value for the United States
  Presentation, 7:04–7:08 AM
  Kenneth Kunkel, Liqiang Sun, Jim Biard (formerly of NCICS), Scott Stevens, Laura Stevens, Sarah Champion


• Advances in NCEI’s U.S. Hourly Precipitation Dataset for Assessing Extremes in Urban Areas
  Presentation, 1:16–1:20 PM
  Scott Stevens, Ronald Leeper

Tuesday, December 15

• Confronting Microphysical Uncertainty with BOSS
  Poster, All Day
  Olivier Prat


• An Assessment of a Gridded Gauge-Based Precipitation Estimates (nClimGrid) with National Centers for Environmental Prediction (NCEP) Stage IV Radar-Based Precipitation Estimates
  Presentation, 10:28–10:32 AM
  Olivier Prat

Wednesday, December 16

• Evaluation of Cold-Season Precipitation Estimates Derived from Gridded Daily Satellite Precipitation Products
  Poster, All Day
  Olivier Prat, Ronald Leeper


• How Does the MJO Affect Extreme Rainfall Around the Tropics?
  Presentation, 7:10–7:14 AM
  Carl Schreck


• NOAA Big Data Program—Transforming Access to NOAA Data
  Presentation, 2:51–2:54 PM
  Jenny Dissen, Otis Brown, Jonathan Brannock

Thursday, December 17

• Quality Climate Data for All: How the National Climate Assessment Connects Users to Actionable Climate Information
  eLightning Poster, 7:06–7:09 AM
  Sarah Champion


• Towards a Strategy on Ocean Data and Information Stewardship for the UN Decade of Ocean Science for Sustainable Development
  Presentation, 7:33–7:36 AM
  Ge Peng


• Moving Beyond the Standard: A Transdisciplinary Virtual Event for Early-Career Scientists
  Session, 10:00 AM – 4:00 PM
  Yuhan Douglas Rao


• An Honest Conversation about Failure
  Session, 11:10 AM–12:10 PM
  Yuhan Douglas Rao


• Creating and Sustaining Just, Equitable, Diverse, and Inclusive Spaces as an Early Career Researcher
  Session, 2:55–3:55 PM
  Yuhan Douglas Rao