NCICS at AGU 2021

NCICS staff are contributing to 17 sessions at the 2021 Fall Meeting of the American Geophysical Union. This will be a hybrid format meeting, with online participation from around the world along with in-person sessions taking place in New Orleans, LA. We invite AGU attendees to check out the sessions, presentations, posters, and eLightning posters listed below. The list includes the NCICS contributors to each session. All times are CST. Click the links for details on each session. 

Sunday, December 12

• Using Environmental Data on the Cloud With Open-Source Tools
  • Workshop, 8:00 AM to 12:00 PM
  • Yuhan (Douglas) Rao, Jenny Dissen

Monday, December 13

• NOAA’s Center for Artificial Intelligence: Progress Towards an AI Ready Agency and Workforce
  • Presentation, 10:18–10:23 AM
  • Yuhan (Douglas) Rao

• Operational Near-real Time Drought Monitoring Using Global Satellite Precipitation Products (CMORPH) and In-situ Datasets (NClimGrid)
  • Presentation, 2:30–2:35 PM
  • Olivier Prat, David Coates, Ronald Leeper

• Machine Learning-Based Feature Detection to Associate Precipitation Extremes with Synoptic Weather Events
  • Presentation, 3:01–3:06 PM
  • Kenneth Kunkel

Tuesday, December 14

• Student and Early-Career Voices at AGU
  • Panel, 11:15–12:15, PM
  • Yuhan (Douglas) Rao

• Learning about Microphysical Processes from Polarimetric Radar Observations with BOSS
  • Presentation, 1:23–1:28 PM
  • Olivier Prat

• Trends in Short-Duration Precipitation Extremes in the U.S.
  • Presentation, 2:40–2:45 PM
  • Ronald Leeper

• A Comparative Review of Drought Metrics for Public Health Research Applications
  • Poster, 4:00-6:00 PM
  • Ronald Leeper

Wednesday, December 15

• Promoting NOAA Workforce Proficiency on Artificial Intelligence through Open Science and Partnership
  • eLightning Poster, 8:03–8:06 AM
  • Yuhan (Douglas) Rao

• “What we wish we had learned in Graduate School” – a data management training roadmap for graduate students
  • eLightning Poster, 4:15–4:18 PM
  • Yuhan (Douglas) Rao

Thursday, December 16

• Enabling an Equitable Future with Open Science
  • Presentation, 12:55–1:05 PM
  • Yuhan (Douglas) Rao

• Historical Perspective on the 2021 Heat Waves in Western North America
  • Virtual Presentation, 2:09–2:12 PM
  • Kenneth Kunkel, David Coates, Carl Schreck

• Predictability of North Atlantic Subtropical High and its Impact on the Climate over the United States
  • Poster, 4:00–6:00 PM
  • Liqiang Sun, Kenneth Kunkel

Friday, December 17

• Development of a New Soil Moisture Index Using SMOS Satellite Soil Moisture Products: Case study in Southwestern Mongolia
  • Poster, 4:00–6:00 PM
  • Pavel Groisman

• Environmental, Socioeconomic, and Climatic Changes in Northern Eurasia I Oral
  • Session, 2:30–4:45 PM
  • Pavel Groisman

• Environmental, Socioeconomic, and Climatic Changes in Northern Eurasia II Poster
  • Poster Session, 4:00–6:00 PM
  • Pavel Groisman

• Northern Eurasia Future Initiative (NEFI): The Current Status
  • Poster, 4:00–6:00 PM
  • Pavel Groisman