Our scientists and staff head to the American Meteorological Society (AMS) Annual Meeting to participate in scores of events and presentations from January 12–16, 2020, at the Boston Convention and Exhibition Center. This AMS Annual Meeting is the organization’s 100th and concludes a year-long centennial celebration. The meeting is the world’s largest yearly gathering for the weather, water, and climate science community, with approximately 4,000 scientists, educators, students, and other professionals in attendance.
The theme for the meeting is “The AMS Past, Present and Future: Linking Information to Knowledge to Society.” The theme emphasizes the links created by research, applications, and technology for weather and government services, industry uses, risk management, education, policy development, communications, watch/warning responses, and more.
NCEI scientists and affiliates have contributed to nearly 60 sessions, presentations, and posters. Check out the schedule of highlights below to learn more about products and services that our scientists are featuring. Also, find information about conference activities by the Cooperative Institute for Satellite Earth System Studies (CISESS). You can also follow #AMS2020 and #NCEIatAMS on social media for more updates on the AMS Annual Meeting and our contributions to it. If you are at AMS, be sure to stop by the NOAA booth (#101) in the Exhibition Center.
NCEI and NESDIS Town Halls
On Tuesday, January 14, NCEI will hold a town hall, “NCEI 2019 Users’ Conference—Debrief and Path Forward,” from 12:15–1:15 PM ET in 153A of the Boston Convention and Exhibition Center. NCEI staff will discuss the outcomes of last year’s NCEI Users’ Conference, which brought together a variety of people and organizations that use NCEI data and products. The NCEI town hall will focus on conference outcomes, highlighting common themes and requirements raised by participants.
On Wednesday, January 15, NCEI Deputy Director Joe Pica will take part in the NOAA National Environmental Satellite, Data and Information Services (NESDIS) town hall. The topic will be “NOAA Satellites and the Future,” an overview of future commitments in maintaining continuity of core mission observations while leveraging new commercial and technological capability. Stephen Volz, NOAA Assistant Administrator for Satellite and Information Services, will lead the discussion from 12:15–1:15 PM ET in 155 of the Boston Convention and Exhibition Center.
Communicating Our Science
Every day, NCEI communicates our work publicly to share ideas, generate new ones, inform the public, and create an understanding and awareness of our sciences. And we do this with the goal of benefitting society in the midst of an ever-changing landscape of technology and knowledge. Our staff regularly speak at conferences and events, develop visual representations of scientific findings, write scores of papers and reports, and create web and social media content, all with the goal of making our data, information, and science more accessible to you.
For AMS, the topics we’ll discuss range from monitoring drought to the uses of artificial intelligence. Browse our AMS talks, posters, and presentations for opportunities to learn more about how we communicate our science.
NCEI Talks, Posters, and Presentations (All times are EST)
All rooms are located in the Boston Convention and Exhibition Center.
Sunday, January 12
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#ShareYourAMSStory, 9:50–10:45 AM, Room 255
Monday, January 13
- It’s Not the Heat, It’s the Humidity … and Wind and Solar. Developing and Validating Heat Exposure Products Using the United States Climate Reference Network, 9:15–9:30 AM, 153B
- Collaborative Drought Monitoring and Analysis: Examples from the NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, 10:30–10:45 AM, 153A
- Building Indigenous Resilience to Drought through Regional Collaborations in the Missouri River Basin, 11:00–11:15 AM, 153A
- Drought Social Media Doesn’t Have to Be Dry, 11:15–11:30 AM, 153A
- Matching Statistically Downscaled Climate Projections to Northeast U.S. Heat Application Sensitivities, 11:45 AM–12:00 PM, 153B
- Open, Public, Electronic and Necessary (OPEN) Government Data Act on Data Stewardship Planning for Federal Agencies, 12:15–1:15 PM, 156BC
- Development and Characterization of U.S. Drought Monitor Based Drought Events, 2:45–3:00 PM, 153A
- Model for Engagement: 2019 NCEI Users’ Conference, Poster #439, 4:00–6:00 PM, Hall B
- Development of a Heat Vulnerability Index for the Southeastern United States, Poster #406, 4:00–6:00 PM, Hall B
Tuesday, January 14
- We Hear User Requirements but Are We Listening?, 8:30–8:45 AM, 152
- The Future of Extreme Weather Financial Risk Management, Part I, 8:30–10:00 AM, 252B
- Observed Climatological Relationships between Precipitable Water and Extreme Precipitation in the Contiguous United States, 9:00–9:15 AM, 253C
- Learning Does Not Stop After College: Continuing Education and Mentoring in Meteorology, 10:30 AM–12:00 PM, 258C
- AMS Early Career Leadership Academy, 10:30–10:45 AM, 258C
- Blending GIS Tools to Generate Visualizations for Drought.Gov, 10:45–11:00 AM, 209
- Deep Learning Semantic Segmentation for Climate Change Precipitation Analysis, 11:15–11:30 AM, 156BC
- U.S. Billion Dollar Weather and Climate Disasters over the Last 40 Years (1980–2019)—In Historical Context, 11:30–11:45 AM, 153B
- Town Hall Meeting: 2019 NCEI Users’ Conference—Debrief And Path Forward, 12:15–1:15 PM, 153A
- OneNOAA Services Delivery and Decision Support—A Practice Taking Shape, 12:40–1:00 PM, NOAA Booth 101
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals: Current Plans and Future Directions, 1:30–2:30 PM, 153A
- NOAA 1991–2020 U.S. Normals, 1:30–1:45 PM, 153A
- Utilizing the NOAA Weather and Climate Toolkit to Create Compelling Visualizations, 1:30–1:45 PM, 209
- ENSO Normals: A New U.S. Climate Normals Product Conditioned by ENSO Phase and Intensity and Accounting for Secular Trends, 1:45–2:00 PM, 153A
- Alternative Precipitation Normals Based on NEXRAD Quantitative Precipitation Estimates, 2:00–2:15 PM, 153A
- From NCL to Python: The Triumphs (and Struggles) of Upgrading a Tropical Monitoring Page for Air Force Operations, 3:00–3:15 PM, 157AB
- Application of NOAA's NCEI Climate and Weather Data to Economic Sectors, 3:00–3:15 PM, 152
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals: Current Plans and Future Directions—Panel Discussion, 3:00–4:00 PM, 153A
- Calibration/Validation Efforts for Magnetospheric Plasma Sensor—Low Energy, the New Plasma Instrument Onboard NOAA’s GOES-16/-17 Satellites, Poster #760, 4:00–6:00 PM, Hall B
- The U.S. and Global Climate Conditions for 2019, Poster #610, 4:00–6:00 PM, Hall B
- Extreme Precipitation Trends and Weather System Influences, Poster #589, 4:00–6:00 PM, Hall B
- Comparison of Van Allen Probes Energetic Electron Data with Corresponding GOES-15 Measurements: 2012–18, Poster #768, 4:00–6:00 PM, Hall B
Wednesday, January 15
- The Future of NOAA's Satellite Observing and Data Information Systems, 8:30–8:45 AM, 253B
- NESDIS Data Agnostic Cloud Computing Solution, 10:30–10:45 AM, 253B
- Decision Support at Regional Scales: Connecting Products and Technologies to User Needs Within a NOAA Services Framework, 10:30 AM–12:00 PM, 251
- The Past, Present, and Future of Satellite Climate Data Records, Part I, 10:30 AM–12:00 PM, 255
- Identifying the Climate Change Signal in Weather Events, Part 1, 10:30 AM–12:00 PM, 150
- NOAA Satellites and the Future, 12:15–1:15 PM, 155
- National Climate Services Partnership: A National Perspective, 1:30–1:45 PM, 153A
- Identifying the Climate Change Signal in Weather Events, Part 2, 1:30–2:30 PM, 150
- Attribution Studies of North Atlantic Hurricane Activity, 1:30–1:45 PM, 150
- The Past, Present, and Future of Satellite Climate Data Records, Part II, 1:30–2:30 PM, 255
- Integrating Decision Support and Service Delivery to Ensure Use-Inspired Products and Services, Part II, 1:30–2:30 PM, 252B
- User Engagement and Delivery Services: Collecting Requirements at Regional Scales, 1:30–1:45 PM, 252B
- Use-Inspired Science at NOAA's National Centers for Environmental Information: Incorporating User Feedback into Product Improvement, 1:45–2:00 PM, 252B
- GOES Ultraviolet Imager: Present Status and Unique Opportunities for the Future, 2:00-2:15 PM, 205A
- Applying User Experience (UX) Design to Improve the U.S. Drought Portal, 3:00–3:15 PM, 252B
- Operational Drought Data Processing Techniques in Support of Drought.Gov, 3:15–3:30 PM, 157AB
- Long-Term Trends in Precipitable Water over Northern Hemisphere Land, 3:15–3:30 PM, 150
- Heavy Precipitation and Flood Risk Under a Changing Climate, Part I, 3:00–4:00 PM, 253A
- NOAA's Artificial Intelligence (AI) Strategy, 3:30–3:45 PM, 156BC
- Integrating Decision Support and Service Delivery to Ensure Use-Inspired Products and Services, Part III, 3:00–4:00 PM, 252B
- An Event-Based Downscaling Approach to Modeling Extreme Cloudburst Precipitation Events, Poster #1091, 4:00–6:00 PM, Hall B
- Heavy Precipitation and Flood Risk under a Changing Climate, 4:00–6:00 PM, Hall B
Thursday, January 16
- From Observations to Models: Evolving NCEI’s Archive of and Access to NOAA’s Environmental Data, 8:30–8:45 AM, 157C
- Heavy Precipitation and Flood Risk Under a Changing Climate, Part II, 8:30–9:30 AM, 253A
- NCEI: Tackling the “R” in FAIR, 8:45–9:00 AM, 157C
- NCICS Journey in Developing a N.C. Climate Science Report, 8:45–9:00 AM, 152
- Evaluating Flash Drought Detection Utilizing In Situ Soil Moisture Observations, 2:00–2:15 PM, 253C
- Finescale Event-Based Modeling of Design Storms in the Urban Environment, 4:45–5:00 PM, 104B
