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99th American Meteorological Society Annual Meeting

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Event Date
Sunday, January 6, 2019 at 7:00am - Thursday, January 10, 2019 at 5:30pm
Description

The AMS Annual Meeting is the world’s largest yearly gathering for the weather, water, and climate community. It brings together great minds from a diverse set of scientific disciplines – helping attendees make career-long professional contact and life-long friends while learning from the very top people in the atmospheric sciences.

Join fellow scientists, educators, students, and other professionals from across the weather, water, and climate community in Phoenix, Arizona from 6–10 January, 2019 to share, learn, and collaborate.

EESM Town Halls

DOE’s Energy Exascale Earth System Model (E3SM): Atmospheric Model Capabilities and Development Plans – Monday, 7 January 2019, 12:15 p.m. to 1:15 p.m., North 222AB

Developing Metrics, Analysis Tools, and Frameworks to Understand and Evaluate Extreme Events and their Impacts – Tuesday, 8 January 2019, 6:00 p.m. to 7:30 p.m., North 226C

AMS sessions led by EESM investigators and participants:

Session 1A: Atmospheric Rivers—Part I
Chaired by Samson Hagos, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory  
Monday, January 07, 2019, 08:30 a.m. to 10:00 a.m., North 121BC

Inez Fung Symposium, Session 2: Future Biosphere and Climate
Co-chaired by James Randerson, UC Irvine, and Abigail Swann, U Washington
Tuesday, January 08, 2019 10:30 a.m. to 12:00 p.m., West 212BC

Monday, January 7

Climate Sensitivity
Monday, January 7 Oral 1B.3. Sensitivity of Regional Climate Models to GCM Equilibrium Climate Sensitivity Linda O. Mearns 9:00am; North 122BC (Phoenix Convention Center - West and North Buildings)
Tropical Convective Dynamics
Monday, January 7 Oral 2.1. A stochastic transition matrix approach to modeling of the population dynamics of clouds Samson Hagos 10:30am; North 232AB (Phoenix Convention Center - West and North Buildings)
Monday, January 7 Oral 2.5. Representation of the Madden-Julian oscillation in Model E2.1 : role of the mean state and air-sea interaction Daehyun Kim 11:30am; North 232AB (Phoenix Convention Center - West and North Buildings)
Polar Climate Variability and Change - Part I
Monday, January 7 Oral 2B.1. Sudden Recent Antarctic Sea Ice Retreat, Connections to the Tropics, and Upper Ocean Regime Change Around Antarctica Gerald Meehl 10:30am; North 122BC (Phoenix Convention Center - West and North Buildings)
Monday, January 7 Oral 2B.2. Arctic Amplification Is Caused By Sea-Ice Loss Under Increasing CO2 Aiguo Dai 10:45am; North 122BC (Phoenix Convention Center - West and North Buildings)
Deep Learning for Environmental Datasets
Monday, January 7 Oral 2B.1. Exascale Deep Learning for Climate Science Mr Prabhat 10:30am; North 125AB (Phoenix Convention Center - West and North Buildings)
Understanding the Mechanisms, Predictability and Impacts of Connected Mesoscale Extremes
Monday, January 7 Oral 2.4. Historical depiction and future projection of weakly forced yet high-impact convective storms in central U.S. Binod Pokharel 11:15am; North 221AB (Phoenix Convention Center - West and North Buildings)
Monday, January 7 Oral 2.6. Dynamics of and precursors to California megafloods, present and future Daniel Swain 11:45am; North 221AB (Phoenix Convention Center - West and North Buildings)
Synoptic-Dynamic and Quantitative Attribution for Extreme Weather and Climate Events
Monday, January 7 Oral 3.2. Attributing extreme déjà vu events: Hurricane Harvey and Louisiana flood Shih-Yu Wang 2:15pm; North 221AB (Phoenix Convention Center - West and North Buildings)
AI Techniques for Extreme Weather and Risk Assessment
Monday, January 7 Oral 3A.2. Probabilistic Detection of Extreme Weather Using Deep Learning Methods Ankur Mahesh 2:15pm; North 124B (Phoenix Convention Center - West and North Buildings)
Hydrometeorological Extremes (Posters)
Monday, January 7 Poster 11. Large Scale Influences on Atmospheric River Induced Extreme Precipitation Events Impacting the Coast of the State of Washington Haiden Mersiovsky 4:00pm; Hall 4 (Phoenix Convention Center - West and North Buildings)

Tuesday, January 8

Biosphere-atmosphere research, past, present, future
Tuesday, January 8 Oral 1.1. Reconciling top-down and bottom-up estimates of the terrestrial carbon sink James T. Randerson 8:30am; West 212BC (Phoenix Convention Center - West and North Buildings)
Future HPC directions for Weather, Water and Climate
Tuesday, January 8 Oral 2.3. Quantifying Weather and Climate Simulation Reproducibility in the Cloud T. J. Shepherd 9:00am; North 123 (Phoenix Convention Center - West and North Buildings)
Advances in Understanding Land-Atmosphere Interactions - Part II
Tuesday, January 8 Oral J2.1. Land-atmosphere coupling in an ensemble of regional climate simulations Rachel McCrary 10:30am; North 127ABC (Phoenix Convention Center - West and North Buildings)
Decadal–Multidecadal Climate Variability and Predictability—Part II
Tuesday, January 8 Oral 5A.4. Contributions of Internal Variability and External Forcing to the Recent Pacific Decadal Variations Aiguo Dai 11:15am; North 121BC (Phoenix Convention Center - West and North Buildings)
Tuesday, January 8 Poster 5A.5. Tropical Decadal Variability and the Rate of Arctic Sea Ice Retreat Gerald Meehl 11:30am; North 121BC (Phoenix Convention Center - West and North Buildings)
Tropical Cyclones: Subseasonal to Interannual Variability and Prediction
Tuesday, January 8 Oral J5.5. Shape of Atlantic tropical cyclone tracks and the Indian monsoon Patrick Kelly 11:30am; North 232AB (Phoenix Convention Center - West and North Buildings)
Global Climate and Earth-System Simulation and Prediction on Exascale Computers: Challenges and Opportunities
Tuesday, January 8 Oral 3.2. Exascale Programming Models for the Earth System Philip W. Jones 3:15pm; North 123 (Phoenix Convention Center - West and North Buildings)
Wind Forecasting
Tuesday, January 8 Oral 6.4. Sensitivity of Wind Turbine Array Downstream Effects to the Parameterization used in WRF T. J. Shepherd 3:45pm; North 129A (Phoenix Convention Center - West and North Buildings)
Inez Fung Symposium Posters
Tuesday, January 8 Poster 396. Model-data fusion for constraining the carbon cycle response to interannual climate variations Gretchen Keppel-Aleks 4:00pm; Hall 4 (Phoenix Convention Center - West and North Buildings)

Wednesday, January 9

Extreme Climate Events in the Middle Latitudes—Part II
Wednesday, January 9 Oral 9A.3. North America's winter circulation has changed, but for how long? Shih-Yu Wang 11:00am; North 121BC (Phoenix Convention Center - West and North Buildings)
Wednesday, January 9 Oral 9A.4. Future Snowmageddons? Projecting changes in extreme northeastern U.S. snowstorms with a large climate ensemble Colin Zarzycki 11:15am; North 121BC (Phoenix Convention Center - West and North Buildings)
Artificial Intelligence and Climate: Impact and Opportunities
Wednesday, January 9 Oral J6.1. Deep Learning recognizes climate and weather patterns and emulates complex processes critical to the modeling of Earth's climate Karthik Kashinath 1:30pm; North 124B (Phoenix Convention Center - West and North Buildings)
Wednesday, January 9 Oral J6.2. A Topology-Based Approach To Characterization and Detection of Weather Patterns in Climate Model Output: Application to Atmospheric Blocking Events Grzegorz Muszynski 1:45pm; North 124B (Phoenix Convention Center - West and North Buildings)
Extreme Climate Events in the Middle Latitudes—Part IV
Wednesday, January 9 11A.3. Robustness of Projected Trends in Warm Season Precipitation Extremes over the Central United States Raymond W. Arritt 3:30pm; North 121BC (Phoenix Convention Center - West and North Buildings)
Applications of Artificial Intelligence in the Coastal Environment
Wednesday, January 9 Oral J2.4. Probabilistic AR Detection for Understanding Western Coastal Hydroclimate Travis O'Brien 3:45pm; North 124B (Phoenix Convention Center - West and North Buildings)

Thursday, January 10

El Niño–Southern Oscillation (ENSO) Dynamics, Diversity, Prediction, and Impacts—Part I
Thursday, January 10 Oral 12C.2. Dynamics of ENSO Diversity Fei-Fei Jin 8:45am; North 129B (Phoenix Convention Center - West and North Buildings)
Thursday, January 10 12C.4. ENSO Asymmetry and Subsurface Nonlinear Dynamical Heating in Reanalysis and CMIP5 Climate Models Michiya Hayashi 9:15am; North 129B (Phoenix Convention Center - West and North Buildings)
Climate Extremes in the Tropical Americas: Past, Present, and Future
Thursday, January 10 Oral 14A.5. Remote Drying in the North Atlantic as a Common Response to Precessional Changes and CO2 Increase Over Land Patrick Kelly 2:30pm; North 121BC (Phoenix Convention Center - West and North Buildings)
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