RAL at AMS 102nd Annual Meeting
#AMS2022: Environmental Security

6:00 am – 5:00 pm MST
The 2022 AMS Annual Meeting will be held virtually 23–27 January 2022. The Student Conference remains hybrid, in Houston, Texas at the George R. Brown Convention Center. The theme of the AMS 102nd Annual Meeting is Environmental Security: weather, water and climate for a more secure world.
RAL is thrilled to continue our participation - We hope you can join us! #AMS2022
Monday, 24 Jan 2022
Health Security: Understanding the Connections between Weather, Water, Climate, and Health Security, Olga Wilhelmi, 08:30-10:00 CST, Grand Ballroom B Panelist
Trade-off Studies of Probabilistic Forecasting Methods for Upper-Level Aviation Turbulence, Hyeyum (Hailey) Shin, 09:00-09:15 CST, 371BC Speaker
Hygroscopic Seeding Effects of Giant Aerosol Particles Simulated By the Lagrangian-Particle-Based Direct Numerical Simulation, Sisi Chen, 09:00-09:15 CST, Speaker
Community Evaluation through a Unified Verification, Validation, and Diagnostics Framework: METplus, Tara Jensen, 10:45-11:00 CST, 371EF Speaker
Wildland Fire and Weather, Jared Lee, 13:30-15:00 CST, Virtual Co-Chair
Weather and Roads, Amanda Siems-Anderson, 13:30-15:00 CST, Co-Chair
Statistics and Machine Learning for Climate Science. Part I, Christina Kalb, 13:30-15:00 CST, Co-Chair
Development of a Roadway Flood Severity Index, Curtis Walker, 14:00-14:15 CST, Virtual Speaker
A Computationally Efficient Method for Updating Fuel Inputs for Wildfire Behavior Models Using Sentinel-2 Imagery and Random For, Amy DeCastro, 14:15-14:30 CST, Virtual Speaker
Global Weather Notification: A Real-Time, Ground-Based, Weather Notification System for Pilots, Jason Craig, 14:30-14:45 CST, 371BC Speaker
Session 4B Special Session on the UFS-R2O Project: Advancing NOAA’s Unified Forecast System (UFS) as a Collaborative Community-B, Jamie Wolff, 15:45-17:00 CST, 352A Co-Chair
Machine Learning Applications in the Energy Sector, Sue Ellen Haupt, 15:45-16:00 CST, 361ABC Chair
Initial Benchmarking of Forecast Performance for the Rapid Refresh Forecast System (RRFS), Michael Kavulich, 15:45-16:00 CST, Speaker
Leveraging Machine Learning to Blend Multiple Near-Term Renewable Energy Forecast Products, Thomas Brummet, 16:15-16:30 CST, Virtual Speaker
Numerical Evaluation of Wintertime Cloud Seeding over the Snowy Mountains of Australia Using WRF-WxMod, Sisi Chen, 16:15-16:30 CST, Speaker
Kevin Trenberth Symposium Monday Poster Session, Yongxin Zhang, 17:00-18:30 CST, Virtual Poster
Tuesday, 25 Jan 2022
Classifying Synoptic-Scale Weather Conditions during the ICICLE Field Campaign Using ERA5, Dan Adriaansen, 09:00-09:15 CST, 371BC Speaker
Investigating the Mechanisms Contributing to Convective Initiation over the Al Hajar Mountains Using 1-km WRF Simulations, Jared Lee, 09:45-10:00 CST, Virtual Speaker
Offshore Wind. Part II, Jared Lee, 10:45-12:00 CST, Virtual Co-Chair
The Environmental Conditions Conducive to Generating Cells Observed during SNOWIE, Sarah Tessendorf, 10:45-11:00 CST, 322A Speaker
Current Icing Product (CIP) and Forecast Icing Product (FIP) Version 2.0, Dan Adriaansen, 11:00-11:15 CST, 371BC Speaker
Offshore Sensitivities across Scales: A NYSERDA Case Study, Patrick Hawbecker, 11:00-11:15 CST, Virtual / 361ABC Speaker
Predictions of High-Impact Weather Using Machine Learning. Part I: Operational Forecasting Applications, Christopher Rozoff, 13:30-15:00 CST, Virtual Co-Chair
Graphical Turbulence Guidance Nowcast (GTGN) Case Analysis, Julia Pearson, 13:30-13:45 CST, Speaker
Streamflow Extremes over the CONUS during 1979–2019 in the National Water Model Simulations Driven by the WRF-Downscaled CONUS40, Yongxin Zhang, 14:00-14:15 CST, Virtual Speaker
NYSolarCast: Forecasting Solar Power for New York State, Jared Lee, 14:15-14:30 CST, Virtual Speaker
Developmental Testbed Center: Current Status and Outlook for the Future, Louisa Nance, 15:45-16:00 CST, 352A Speaker
Case Studies from Implementation and Testing of Stochastic Physics Schemes within FV3-LAM, Will Mayfield, 16:15-16:30 CST, 352A Speaker
Leveraging Cloud and Container Technologies to Integrate Practical Numerical Weather Prediction (NWP) Experience into University, Jamie Wolff, 16:30-16:45 CST, Grand Ballroom C Speaker
Assessment of Cloud Representation Using the Common Community Physics Packaged (CCPP) Single Column Model (SCM), Tracy Hertneky, 16:45-17:00 CST, 342ABC Speaker
Sensitivity of the Weather Research Forecasting Hydrological Modeling System (WRF-Hydro) to Realtime Vegetation Forcing, Nicholas Lybarger, 17:00-18:30 CST, Virtual Poster
Wednesday, 26 Jan 2022
J9.6 - Toward the Use of 3D Radar Data within the Current Icing Product, Scott Ellis, 10:00-10:15 CST, Speaker
Wind and Solar Resource Assessment. Part II, Jared Lee, 10:45-12:00 CST, Virtual Co-Chair
Advances in Mesoscale-to-Microscale Model Coupling for Wind Energy Applications, Sue Ellen Haupt, 11:15-11:30 CST, 361ABC Speaker
The Enduring Importance of the Mesoscale as Operational Microscale Forecasting Grows More Practical, Jason Knievel, 11:30-11:45 CST, Virtual Speaker
The Impact of Assimilating Observations from a Fleet of Uncrewed Aircraft Systems (UASs) on Local Predictions of Winds and Turbu, James Pinto, 13:00-13:15 CST, Virtual Speaker
Mesoscale Convective Systems, Jason Knievel, 13:30-15:00 CST, Virtual Co-Chair
Development of Air Quality Products for Societal Applications Using a High-Resolution Chemical Reanalysis over the CONUS, Rajesh Kumar, 13:30-13:45 CST, Virtual Speaker
Session 11 - Radar Observations of Deep Convection around the World, Scott Ellis, 13:30-15:00 CST, Chair
Uncrewed Aircraft System (UAS) Data Assimilation Experiment for Improved Fog Prediction at a High-Traffic Airport, James Pinto, 13:45 CST, Virtual Speaker
Improving the Research-to-Operations and Operations-to-Research (R2O2R) Process for Earth System Model Development via Hierarchi, Michael Ek, 14:00-14:15 CST, 342DEF Speaker
Diagnosing the Wet-Bulb Globe Temperature from the Output of the Weather and Research and Forecast Model with Machine Learning ., William Cheng, 14:15-14:30 CST, Virtual Speaker
A Community Effort to Unify Verification and Validation Efforts: A Report on the DTC UFS Community Metrics Workshop, Tara Jensen, 14:30-14:45 CST, 342DEF Speaker
Direct Numerical Simulation of Ice Growth in Cloud-Top-Generating Cells, Sisi Chen, 16:15-16:30 CST, Speaker
Advances in METplus Verification for Subseasonal-to-Seasonal Model Evaluation, Christina Kalb, 16:15-16:30 CST, Speaker
Advancing a Space Weather Verification and Diagnostic System Using METplus, Tara Jensen, 16:30-16:45 CST, 310A Speaker
Cloud-Based Online Training Platform for WRF-HYDRO Model, Ishita Srivastava, 16:30-16:45 CST, Virtual Speaker
Thursday, 27 Jan 2022
Wildfire Pyrometeor Classifications Using Dual-Polarization S-Band Radar, David Serke, 08:45-09:00 CST, 342ABC Speaker
Future Changes to Extratropical Cyclones and Their Storm-Relative Precipitation and Snowfall over North America, Rachel McCrary, 13:30-13:45 CST, Virtual Speaker
Panel - International Dimensions of Environmental Security: Why care?, Bill Mahoney, 13:30-15:00 CST, Virtual Panelist
Panel Discussion 15 - Radar Research and Development for Operations: Research Aimed at Operations across the Development Life Cy, Scott Ellis, 13:30-15:00 CST, Co-Chair
Retrospective Evaluation of the Global Synthetic Weather Radar (GSWR) Product with the Enhanced Model Evaluation Tools (METplus), Michelle Harrold, 14:00-14:15 CST, 342ABC Speaker
Impact of the Alamosa Gap-Filling Radar on Streamflow and Snow Melt in the National Water Model, Joseph Grim, 17:00-18:30 CST, Virtual Poster