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Argonne at AMS 2025
Argonne National Laboratory researchers will present at the 105th American Meteorological Society Annual Meeting in New Orleans, Saturday, January 11, through Thursday, January 16, 2025.
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The AMS (American Meteorological Society) Annual Meeting is a professional event that brings together experts in atmospheric sciences to share research, discuss advancements in weather, climate, and environmental science, and foster collaboration across various meteorological disciplines.

Agenda items featuring Argonne research can be found below and are color-coded for easier reading. Registration is required to attend any session.

Saturday, January 11

Session 4I - Conversations with Professionals - Matthew Tuftedal

2:20-4:10 p.m.

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Sunday, January 12

***FEATURED STUDENT SESSIONS***

S235 - Influence of Micronet Locations on Hyperlocal Precipitation Measurements in Chicagoland

6:30-8:30 p.m.

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S90 – Extracting Planetary Boundary Layer Heights in Smoky Conditions Over Chicago

6:30-8:30 p.m.

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Monday, January 13

1.3 - Evaluation of Radiative Flux Datasets over the Great Lakes Region for Climate Model Validation Applications

9:00-9:15 a.m.

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1B.5 - FAIR Skies Ahead: Citable and Reproducible Geoscience Educational and Research Workflows with Project Pythia

9:30-9:45 a.m.

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PD 2A - Bridging Scale Gap and Increasing Resilience in Communities

10:45 a.m.-12:00 p.m.

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2B.4 - Leveraging FAIR Principles for Efficient Management of Meteorological Radar Data

11:30-11:45 a.m.

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41 – The National Virtual Climate Laboratory

3:00-4:30 p.m.

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74 – Deriving Height Information Using LiDAR Data for Chicago: A High School Student’s Journey to Urban Climate Research

3:00-4:30 p.m.

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92 - Mobile CH4 Measurement and Inversion & An Interactive Visualization Platform

3:00-4:30 p.m.

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111 – Recent Field Successes of the SSEC Portable Atmospheric Research Center

3:00-4:30 p.m.

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173 - Investigation of isobaric mixing as a mechanism for boundary-layer cloud formation

3:00-4:30 p.m.

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J4A.2 - Quantifying Aerosol Effects on Convective Updraft Velocities in the Amazon using Causal Inference

4:45-5:00 p.m.

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4.3 – Sensitivity of Regional WRF-Chem Air Quality and Climate Simulations to Biomass Burning Emission Datasets: a Case Study of the Impact of Canadian Wildfire to the US

5:00-5:15 p.m.

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4B.3 - ICAMS Common Model Architecture Implementation Team

5:00-5:15 p.m.

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4.5 – Developing Community Connections while Profiling the Urban Atmosphere during Urban Canyons 2024

5:30-5:45 p.m.

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4B.5 – ICAMS Content Standards Implementation Team

5:30-5:45 p.m.

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4.6 – Initial Measurements from Chicago’s First Long-Term Urban Flux Site

5:45-6:00 p.m.

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J4.6 - Floating Wind in a Changing Climate: Linking Metocean Conditions, Control, Reliability, and Grid using Scientific ML

6:00-6:15 p.m.

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Tuesday, January 14

5.1 - Improved Tropical Variability of Clouds and Precipitation in the E3SM Atmosphere Model with New Physics Parameterizations (Invited Presentation)

8:30-8:45 a.m.

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5.4 - Co-analysis of Tree and Building Heights for Enhanced Urban Climate Modeling

9:00-9:15 a.m.

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J5.5 – Boundary Layer Height Retrievals in Wildfire Smoke Over Chicago Using a Multi-Instrument Approach

9:30-9:45 a.m.

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5.6 – Impact of the Multi-Layer Urban Schemes on the Feedback between Heat Waves and Urban Air Quality in the Chicago Metropolitan Area

9:30-9:45 a.m.

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14.3 - OMEGA: The Ocean Model for E3SM Global Applications: A New High Performance Computing Code for Exascale Architectures

11:15-11:30 a.m.

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7.1 – Predicting the Wind Field at the Wake of Buildings: Insights from High-Fidelity Simulations and Turbulence Structure Based Low-Order Modeling

1:45-2:00 p.m.

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E43 - 16ENERGY An Adaptive System for Detecting Rotor Layer Turbulence Using Edge Computing

3:00-3:40 p.m.

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333 - Impacts of Anthropogenic Climate Change and Urbanization on Derechos – Contrasting Results between Two Case Studies

3:00-4:30 p.m.

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338 - Attribution of 2024 Houston Derecho to Anthropogenic Climate Change and Urbanization

3:00-4:30 p.m.

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434 - Summer Convective Precipitation Changes over the Great Lakes Region under a Warming Scenario

3:00-4:30 p.m.

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520 - Large Scale Control of Seasons with Extreme Tropical Cyclone Activity in the North Atlantic

3:00-4:30 p.m.

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8.1 - An Improved BEP-BEM Based Urban Canopy Scheme Derived from High-Fidelity Simulations

4:30-4:45 p.m.

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8.2 - Integrating Urban Modeling Across Scales: A Structured Blueprint for Hybrid Urban Climate Modeling

4:45-5:00 p.m.

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8.3 – The Influence of the Chicago Metroplex on an Extreme Precipitation Event

5:00-5:15 p.m.

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J8A.4 - The SUNY Oswego Undergraduate Radar Curriculum Experience: A Summary of Successes and Recommendations for Future NSF-FARE Requests

5:15-5:30 p.m.

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Wednesday, January 15

9.2 - Uxarray: Extending Xarray to Support the Analysis of Native, Kilometer-Scale Unstructured Grids in Python

9:00-9:15 a.m.

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9C.3 - Surface Quantitative Precipitation Estimates (SQUIRE) from the X-Band Precipitation Radar during the Surface Atmosphere Integrated Field Laboratory (SAIL) Experiment

9:00-9:15 a.m.

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9.5 – Effective Visualization of Radar Data for Users Impacted by Color Vision Deficiency

9:30-9:45 a.m.

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10.4 – Assessing Sodar Performance in a High-Wind Coastal Environment: Insights from the Nantucket site at WFIP3

11:30-11:45 a.m.

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10.5 - ACTing on Atmospheric Data: Leveraging Open-Source Software for Field Campaigns and Beyond

11:45 a.m.-12:00 p.m.

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Session 11 – Core Science Keynote and Tools II

1:45-3:00 p.m.

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594 - Nature-Based Solutions: An Effective Approach for Flood Mitigation and Resilience over Urban Areas

3:00-4:30 p.m.

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789 - Performance of Recent Wind Assessment Datasets in Coastal Areas

3:00-4:30 p.m.

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791 - Hub-Height Wind Bias Off the Coast of Northern California Due to the Misrepresentation of Marine Stratocumulus Clouds in HRRR

3:00-4:30 p.m.

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794 - Uncertainty Quantification of Satellite-Based Thermodynamic Soundings across Mid-Atlantic Bight

3:00-4:30 p.m.

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795 – Model-Observational Comparison for the Third Wind Forecast Improvement Project

3:00-4:30 p.m.

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812 - tobac: Xarray Implementation and Nontraditional Uses for Object-Based Analysis of Clouds

3:00-4:30 p.m.

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819 - GPU/CPU Performance Results on Exascale Architectures for OMEGA: The Ocean Model for E3SM Global Applications

3:00-4:30 p.m.

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838 - Vertical Air Motion and Water Vapor Variability in Cumulus Topped Marine Boundary Layers

3:00-4:30 p.m.

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1033 – Evaluation of Derecho Wind Gusts in Convection-Permitting Climate Simulations using WSR-88D and HRRR wind data

3:00-4:30 p.m.

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J12B.1 - Observations of Aerosols, Clouds, and Radiation over the Amazon Rainforest while constraining the Large-Scale Synoptic Variability Using Self-Organizing Maps

4:30-4:45 p.m.

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12.2 - ARM Open Science Summer School 2024: Connecting State-of-the-Art Models with Diverse Field Campaign Observations with Open Science

4:45-5:00 p.m.

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J12.3 - Porting Noah-MP Model into Energy Research and Forecasting Model Using a Novel Large Language Model Paradigm

5:15-5:30 p.m.

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12.4 - The Project Pythia Hackathon: Developing Scientists’ Skills and Community in Open Source Development and Education

5:15-5:30 p.m.

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Thursday, January 16

13.1 - Characterizing Mechanisms Leading to Nocturnal Boundary Layer Turbulence during Clear Sky Conditions at Cape Cod

8:30-8:45 a.m.

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13.1 - Dynamically Downscaling Future Regional and Urban Heat Stress Extremes over the Great Lakes Region Using Pseudo Global Warming Simulations

8:30-8:45 a.m.

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13.2 – Compounding Effects of Lake and Urbanization on Summer Precipitation in the Greater Chicago Area

8:45-9:00 a.m.

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13B.4 – Novel Strategies for Radar Scanning and Convection Tracking to Study Isolated Deep Convection

9:15-9:30 a.m.

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14.2 – Building a GPU Accelerated Multi-RRM High-resolution Global Climate Model to Characterize Extreme Events over U.S. Pacific Ocean Islands

11:00-11:15 a.m.

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14B.2 - Machine learning (ML) enhanced cloud and aerosol representations in Energy Exascale Earth System Model (E3SM)

11:00-11:15 a.m.

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1006 - Effects of Future Urban Expansion and Climate Change on the Atmospheric Thermal Environment in the Chicago Metropolitan Area

3:00-4:30 p.m.

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