NCCS and Partners Presenting in the Virtual 2022
American Meteorological Society Annual Meeting


Researchers from NASA Goddard Space Flight Center’s NASA Center for Climate Simulation (NCCS) and Earth Sciences Division (ESD) and a variety of academic and research partner organizations are presenting in the 102nd American Meteorological Society (AMS) Annual Meeting, being held virtually 23–27 January 2022.

Between the NASA exhibit and AMS Program, these researchers are giving more than 40 presentations describing advances spanning Earth science, computational science, and high-performance computing.


NASA Exhibit

For AMS this year, NASA is hosting a Virtual Science Exhibit that includes a Science Theater with on-demand presentations from NASA scientists, fun and engaging demos in the Learning Area, dataset access from the Science Data room, and more.

The NASA AMS exhibit will be open 24–27 January 2022 and available to the public. Register free of charge here.

NCCS-related exhibit presentations are as follows:

Title Presenter Location
NASA’s Earth Information System: A Cloud-Based Open Science Platform for Integrated Earth Science and Applications Alexey Shiklomanov, NASA Goddard Science Theater
How to Use the NCCS GIS Portal Jim Shute, NCCS Learning Area

AMS Program

As in past years, the 2022 AMS Program offers oral presentations and posters across multiple conferences and symposia. In the table below, follow the title links for co-authors, abstracts, and other information.

Note: All presentation times are in Eastern Standard Time (EST).

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Monday, 24 January 2022 Tuesday, 25 January 2022
Wednesday, 26 January 2022 Wednesday, 27 January 2022


Monday, 24 January 2022
Time Title Presenter Format
2:30 PM –
2:45 PM		 3.1 - The OSSE Framework at the NASA Global Modeling and Assimilation Office (GMAO) Isaac Moradi,
NASA Goddard		 Oral
3:00 PM –
3:15 PM		 J3A.3 - Asymmetry in Subseasonal Surface Air Temperature Forecast Error with Respect to Soil Moisture Initialization Randal D. Koster,
NASA Goddard		 Oral
4:45 PM –
6:00 PM		 Panel Discussion 3 - Challenges Facing High-Performance Computing Centers Supporting Weather, Water, and Climate Laura Carriere,
NCCS		 Panel
5:00 PM –
5:15 PM 		J4B.2 - Causality Analyses of Infiltration Differences and Their Impacts on the Ensemble Uncertainties in Terrestrial Water and Energy Budgets Shugong Wang,
NASA Goddard		 Oral

Tuesday, 25 January 2022
Time Title Presenter Format
9:30 AM –
10:00 AM		 5B.1 - The Vertical Distribution of Aerosols and Their Optical Properties in GEOS during CAMP2Ex (Invited Presentation) Allison Collow,
NASA Goddard		 Oral
9:45 AM –
10:00 AM		 5B.2 - Assimilation of Passive Microwave Snow Depths Improves Simulation of Rapid Snowmelt Events in the Mississippi River Basin Melissa Wrzesien,
NASA Goddard 		Oral
10:15 AM –
10:30 AM		 5.4 - Sub-City-Scale Hourly Air Quality Forecasting Methods Combining Models, Satellites, and In Situ Data Carl Malings,
NASA Goddard		 Oral
10:30 AM –
10:45 AM		 5B.5 - The Effect of Spatial Resolution and Forest Density on the Estimation of Snow Water Equivalent Rhae Sung Kim,
NASA Goddard		 Oral
10:30 AM –
10:45 AM		 5B.5 - Soil Moisture Impacts on TS Bill (2015) and the Brown Ocean Effect Jinwoong Yoo,
NASA Goddard		 Oral
12:45 PM –
1:00 PM		 6A.4 - Effect of Mineral Composition upon Dust Optical Properties and Direct Radiative Forcing Vincenzo Obiso,
NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies (GISS)		 Oral
3:15 PM –
3:30 PM		 7ii.4 - Update on JCSDA’s Impact of Observing Systems Project Francois Vandenberghe,
Joint Center for Satellite Data Assimilation (JCSDA) 		Oral
4:45 PM –
5:00 PM		 8i.1 - The Investigation of Commercial Radio Occultation Measurements in the GEOS Atmospheric Data Assimilation System Will McCarty,
NASA Goddard 		Oral
5:45 PM –
6:00 PM		 8.5 - Dynamical and Trace Gas Responses of the Quasi-Biennial Oscillation to Historical and Future Climate Change Clara Orbe,
NASA GISS 		Oral
5:45 PM –
6:00 PM		 8B.5 - Impact of Typhoons on the Upper-Troposphere and Lower-Stratosphere Composition Qing Liang,
NASA Goddard		 Oral
5:45 PM –
6:00 PM		 8ii.5 - JEDI-GEOS: A Pathway to Operations at NASA/GMAO Ronald Gelaro,
NASA Goddard		 Oral
6:00 PM –
7:30 PM 		259 - Irrigation Estimation Constrained by Remotely Sensed Vegetation and Soil Moisture Wanshu Nie,
NASA Goddard 		Poster
6:00 PM –
7:30 PM		 268 - Investigation of Urban Effect on Precipitation: A Modeling Study over Houston Zhining Tao,
NASA Goddard		 Poster
6:00 PM –
7:30 PM 		305 - Impact of Amazon Fires on Forest Productivity Huisheng Bian,
NASA Goddard		 Poster
6:00 PM –
7:30 PM 		404 - An Observation Impact Tool for JEDI: Implementation and Preliminary Results Fabio Diniz,
JCSDA		 Poster

Wednesday, 26 January 2022
Time Title Presenter Format
9:45 AM –
10:00 AM 		9.2 - Multimodel Subseasonal Forecast Skill Assessment of Water Vapor Transport Associated with Atmospheric Rivers over the Western United States Zhenhai Zhang,
Scripps Institution of Oceanography 		Oral
9:45 AM –
10:00 AM		 9B.2 - Data Assimilation and Machine Learning: How Do They Mix? Grey Stephen Nearing, University of California, Davis Oral
10:00 AM –
10:30 AM		 9.2 - Role of Aerosol-Cloud-Radiation Interactions in Determining Multi-Decadal Trends of Solar Radiation Reaching the Surface (Core Science Keynote) Mian Chin,
NASA Goddard		 Oral
10:15 AM –
10:30 AM		 9A.4 - Tropospheric Age of Air: Influence of SF6 Emissions on Recent Surface Trends and Model Biases Clara Orbe,
NASA GISS 		Oral
10:30 AM –
10:45 AM		 9A.5 - Investigation of Dust AOD Trends over the Middle East Region Using Satellite Observations and Model Simulations Adriana Rocha Lima, NASA Goddard Oral
10:30 AM –
10:45 AM		 9A.5 - Testing the Sensitivity of Precipitation in Atmospheric Rivers to Surface Winds Using a GCM and CYGNSS Data James F. Booth,
City University of New York, City College and The Graduate Center 		Oral
10:30 AM –
10:45 AM		 9B.5 - Evaluation of the Impacts of Warming, Greening, and Irrigation on the Surface Albedo in High Mountain Asia Fadji Zaouna Maina, NASA Goddard Oral
10:45 AM –
11:00 AM		 9A.6 - Coupled Surface Hydrology and Data Assimilation: Applications of the Coupled LIS/WRF-Hydro System for Extreme Events and Hydrologic Prediction Timothy Lahmers,
NASA Goddard		 Oral
10:45 AM –
11:00 AM		 9B.6 - The Impact of Unprecedented Pantanal Fires from Record Drought and Human Land Management Captured through Land Data Assimilation Sujay V. Kumar,
NASA Goddard		 Oral
3:00 PM –
3:15 PM		 J11A.3 - Drivers of the Exceptional Warmth over Northern Asia during the Spring of 2020 Anthony M. DeAngelis, NASA Goddard Oral
5:00 PM –
5:15 PM		 12C.2 - Nonlinear Effects of Aerosols and Irrigation on the South Asian Summer Monsoon Veronika Redensek, University of Texas at Austin Oral
5:45 PM –
6:00 PM		 J12A.4 - The Turning Point of the Aerosol Era Susanne Bauer,
NASA GISS		 Oral
6:00 PM –
7:30 PM		 315 - Bridging the SAGE Data Gap: Toward a Climate Data Product with Ozone and Water Vapor Data from NASA SAGE and Aura Missions and NASA Reanalyses Katherine Emma Knowland, NASA Goddard Poster
6:00 PM –
7:30 PM		 512 - Interactive Biogenic Emissions and Drought Stress Effects on Biosphere–Atmosphere–Chemistry in NASA GISS ModelE Elizabeth Klovenski, University of Houston Poster
6:00 PM –
7:30 PM		 530 - Forecasting the Quasi-Biennial Oscillation Lawrence Coy,
NASA Goddard		 Poster

Thursday, 27 January 2022
Time Title Presenter Format
10:00 AM –
10:15 AM		 13.2 - Tropospheric Aerosols over the Western North Atlantic Ocean during the Winter and Summer Campaigns of ACTIVATE 2020: Sources, Transport, and Distribution Hongyu Liu,
National Institute of Aerospace 		Oral
11:45 AM –
12:15 PM		 6A.1 - A Review of the Treatment of Dust Optical Properties in Earth System Modeling (Invited Presentation) Peter R. Colarco,
NASA Goddard		 Oral
12:15 PM –
12:30 PM		 14B.3 - The Role of the Tropics in Producing the Exceptional Warmth over Eurasia and North America during January–March 2020 Siegfried Schubert,
NASA Goddard 		Oral
2:30 PM –
2:45 PM 		15A.1 - Aerosol Variability in the Upper Troposphere Determined by Deep Convective Transport and Removal Processes in Subseasonal-to-Seasonal Scales Mian Chin,
NASA Goddard 		Oral
3:15 PM –
3:30 PM		 J15.4 - Use of Three-Cornered Hat Error Estimates in MERRA-2 to Guide an Improved Reanalysis. Part I Richard A. Anthes, University Corporation for Atmospheric Research (UCAR) Oral
3:30 PM –
3:45 PM 		J15.5 - Use of Three-Cornered Hat Error Estimates in MERRA-2 to Guide an Improved Reanalysis. Part II Amal El Akkraoui,
NASA Goddard		 Oral
5:15 PM –
5:30 PM		 16B.3 - Testing a Global Landslide Forecast Model Based on Global Precipitation Forecasts Sana Khan,
NASA Goddard 		Oral
6:00 PM –
7:30 PM		 633 - An Overview of ARTMIP’s Tier 2 Reanalysis Intercomparison: Uncertainty in the Detection of Atmospheric Rivers and Their Associated Precipitation Allison Collow,
NASA Goddard 		Poster
6:00 PM –
7:30 PM 		735 - Impacts of Geostationary Infrared Sounders within NASA’s Observing System Simulation Experiment Framework Erica McGrath-Spangler, NASA Goddard Poster


Jarrett Cohen, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center