RAL at AMS 2026
We're excited to connect & share our research!
Conference
Jan. 25 to Jan. 29, 2026
12:00 am – 11:59 pm MST
Houston, Texas
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The 106th AMS Annual Meeting is here! The world’s largest yearly gathering for the weather, water, and climate community. We’re proud to continue our involvement and look forward to connecting with you! Check out our RAL lineup below and the full NSF NCAR and UCAR Schedule here.
Special Events
Career Resource and Graduate School Fair
- Saturday 17:30 - 19:30 NSF NCAR Table #T-39 Chris Castro, RAL Director
UCAR Town Hall
- Wednesday 18:15 -19:00 NCAR, Federal Appropriations, and Impacts on the WWCE Antonio Busalacchi, UCAR President
Main Exhibit Hall RAL at the NSF NCAR Booth #119
- Tuesday 12:00 - 14:00 NSF NCAR Convergence Science Program - Kim Fewless, Research Scientist & UCAR Presidential Leadership Fellow
- Wednesday 12:00 - 14:00 NSF NCAR's New Transportation Meteorology Applications Program - Scott Landolt, TMAP Program Director & Aviation weather researcher, sensor measurement expert, and postdoctoral advisor
RAL Presentations all week long!
Monday, 26 Jan 2026
- John Zack: Remembering a Lifetime of Contributions to Energy Meteorology, Jared Lee, 08:30-10:00 CST, 361D Co-Chair
- 1.4 - AI/ML regional downscaling models based on CONUS404 dataset, Lulin Xue, 09:00-09:15 CST, 351B Speaker
- Impact of Improved Land Surface Soil Organics Representation on Land-Atmosphere Interaction, Cenlin He, 11:00-11:15 CST, 320C Speaker
- Towards an Urban Digital Twin of Atmospheric Flow for Microscale Applications, Sue Ellen Haupt, 13:45-14:00 CST, 330A Speaker
- Joint Session J3 - Urban Air Pollution and Interaction with Meteorology I, Cenlin He, 13:45-15:00 CST, 342D Co-Chair
- Large eddy simulations of turbulence in a real canopy clearing typical of some range facilities, Eric Hendricks, 14:00-14:15 CST, 340B Speaker
- Comparison of AIFS with IFS, GFS, and HRRR over CONUS, Stefano Alessandrini, 14:00-14:15 CST, 361D Speaker
- Joint Session J4 - Urban Air Pollution and Interaction with Meteorology II, Cenlin He, 16:30-18:00 CST, 342D Co-Chair
- An FAA Terminal Area and Low Altitude Icing Research Update, Scott Landolt, 16:45-17:00 CST, 340B Speaker
- An Experimental Current Icing Product for Tactical Applications: Tactical CIP / Session 4 Aircraft Icing Detection and Mitigation, Daniel Adriaansen, 17:00-17:15 CST, 340B Speaker
- Expanding Verification Capabilities: New Advances in the METplus System, Forecast Verification, Evaluation, and Diagnostics II, Christina Kalb, 17:30-17:45 CST, 342F Speaker
Tuesday, 27 Jan 2026
- Session 7 Warm-Phase Cloud Processes Across Scales I, Sisi Chen, 13:45-15:00 CST, 371E Co-Chair
- Implementation of the MPAS Dynamical Core in the Unified Forecast System, Ligia Bernardet, 13:45-14:00 CST, 352A Speaker
- Investigating Renewable Energy Drought Potential over the U.S., Jared Lee, 14:00-14:15 CST, 361D Speaker
- Implementing Rooftop Snow Processes into an Urban Canopy Model for Heavy Snow Load Hazard Analysis, Tzu-Shun Lin, 15:00-16:30 CST, Hall B3 Poster
- Identifying, Understanding, and Resolving Model Biases, Kathryn Newman, 16:30-18:00 CST, 362C Chair
- Evaluating Wintertime Cloud Seeding Impacts in Colorado’s St. Vrain Watershed Using WRF-WxModⓇ Ensemble Simulations, Sisi Chen, 16:45-17:00 CST, 372E Speaker
- Overview of SNOWSCAPE: The Seeded and Natural Orographic Winter Storms and Catchment Processes Evaluation Project, Nicholas Dawson, 17:00-17:15 CST, 372E Speaker
- METplus in Action: Bridging Research and Operations for Model Verification, Michelle Harrold, 17:30-17:45 CST, 362C Speaker
Wednesday, 28 Jan 2026
- Solar, Storage, Energy System, and Seasonal Modeling, Jared Lee, 08:30-10:00 CST, 361D Co-Chair
- The Common Community Physics Package and Single Column Model: Recent Innovations and Future Plans, Dustin Swales, 09:15-09:30 CST, 352A Speaker
- Applying the Analog Ensemble for Space Weather Forecast Post-Processing, Stefano Alessandrini, 09:30-09:45 CST, 320C Speaker
- Clean Energy and Equitable Transportation Solutions, Jared Lee, 10:45-12:00 CST, 361D Co-Chair
- Assessing Electric and Autonomous Vehicle Operability in Adverse Weather with Large Eddy Simulations, Brittany Welch, 11:15-11:30 CST, 361D Speaker
- Session 11 - Weather and the Roads I, Brittany Welch, 13:45-15:00 CST, 372A Chair
- Advancing Community Adoption of MPAS through Testing and Evaluation, Will Mayfield, 15:00-16:30 CST, Hall B3 (GRB) Poster
- Session 12 - Weather and the Roads II, Brittany Welch, 16:30-16:00 CST, 372A Chair
- High-Resolution Urban Meteorology for Impacts Dataset Hourly for the Atlanta Metropolitan Region (HUMID-Atlanta), Tzu-Shun Lin, 16:30-16:45 CST, 362A Speaker
- Subseasonal Predictability of the 2015 Texas Flood-to-Drought weather whiplash, Zhe Zhang, 17:30-17:45 CST, 310C (George R. Brown Convention Center) Speaker
- MPAS-Based Stochastic Physics Development and Testing in Preparation for RRFSv2 and Transition to the UFS, Jeff Beck, 17:45-18:00 CST, 371A Speaker
Thursday, 29 Jan 2026
- Session 13 - Response of High-Impact Tropical Weather to a Warming Climate: Bridging Weather and Climate I, Lulin Xue, 08:30-10:00 CST, 352D Co-Chair
- Advancing GFS/SFS Physics Unification through A Single Column Model Framework, Man Zhang, 09:15-09:30 CST, 370A Speaker
- Session 14 - Response of High-Impact Tropical Weather to a Warming Climate: Bridging Weather and Climate II, Lulin Xue, 10:45-12:00 CST, 352D Co-Chair
- Session 14B - AI for Land Systems: Advancing Pure and Hybrid Approaches in Land Surface Modeling, Cenlin He, 10:45-12:00 CST, 322A Co-Chair
- When, Where, and How Much: Attributing Severe Convective Storm Losses for US Agriculture, Zhe Zhang, 11:45-12:00 CST, 360D (George R. Brown Convention Center) Speaker
- Artificial Intelligence for Urban Climate Research, Jared Lee, 13:45-15:00 CST, 322A Co-Chair
- Developmental Testbed Center: Informing Earth System Model Development Through Model Testing and Evaluation Solutions, Louisa Nance, 13:45-14:00 CST, 371A Speaker
- Advancing Hazards Forecasting and Decision Support through NOAA Testbeds and Proving Grounds III, Louisa Nance, 13:45-15:00 CST, 371A Co-Chair
- Predictability of Rapid Intensification in GFS, MPAS, and HAFS Forecasts During the 2024 and 2025 Atlantic Hurricane Seasons, Molly Smith, 14:15-14:30 CST, 362C Speaker
- Evaluating Deterministic and Ensemble HAFS Forecasts using METplus, Kathryn Newman, 14:30-14:45 CST, 362C Speaker