Atmospheric Sciences



AERONET and Sun Photometry: Retrievals, Calibration, and Applications
Primary Convener:  Prof. Sheng Hsiang Wang, National Central University, Department of Atmospheric Sciences, Taoyuan, Taiwan
Conveners:  Pawan Gupta, NASA GSFC, Greenbelt, United States, Philippe Goloub, Laboratoire d'Optique Atmosphérique, UMR 8518, CNRS, University of Lille, Lille, France and Carlos Toledano, Universidad de Valladolid, Grupo de Optica Atmosferica, Valladolid, Spain


AI and High Resolution Weather Forecasting
Primary Convener:  Dr. Sridhara Nayak, PhD, Organization Not Listed, Research and Development Center, Osaka, Japan
Convener:  Mohan Kumar Das, Hydro-Climate and Ocean Centre (HCO), Dhaka, Bangladesh


AI and Machine Learning for Improved Subseasonal-to-Seasonal-to-Decadal (S2S2D) Forecasts
Primary Convener:  Mark A Olsen, NOAA, Oceanic and Atmospheric Research/Weather Program Office, Silver Spring, United States
Conveners:  Nachiketa Acharya, Pennsylvania State University, Center for Earth System Modeling, Analysis, and Data (ESMAD), University Park, United States, Marybeth Arcodia, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, United States, Christine Bassett, University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, AL, United States and Johnna Infanti, Climate Prediction Center College Park, College Park, MD, United States
Student/Early Career Convener:  Margaret Orr Hoeflich, NOAA Office of Oceanic and Atmospheric Research, Weather Program Office, Silver Spring, United States


AI-Driven Climate Intelligence: From Variability and Extremes to Cross-Sector Impacts on Health and Beyond
Primary Convener:  Venkata Ratnam Jayanthi, JAMSTEC Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology, Kanagawa, Japan
Conveners:  Donald D Lucas, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, CA, United States and Swadhin K Behera, VAiG, JAMSTEC, Application Laboratory, Yokohama, Japan


AI-Driven Innovations in Earth and Atmospheric Sciences
Primary Convener:  Ziming Chen, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, United States
Conveners:  Jianfeng Li, Pacific Northwest National Lab, Richland, United States, Dasa Gu, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Division of Environment and Sustainability, Hong Kong, China and Ye Liu, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, WA, United States
Student/Early Career Convener:  Ziming Chen, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, United States


Across the Air-Sea Interface of the Tropical North Atlantic
Primary Convener:  Cassandra Gaston, University of Miami, Miami, FL, United States
Conveners:  Jason Dunion, University of Miami and NOAA/AOML/HRD, Miami, United States and Helene Gloeckner, Max Planck Institute for Meteorology, Hamburg, Germany
Student/Early Career Convener:  Emily Melvin, University of Notre Dame, Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering & Earth Sciences, Notre Dame, United States


Advanced AI/ML for high-impact weather prediction and observation
Primary Convener:  Jiaxi Hu, Atmospheric Sciences Research Center, University at Albany, State University of New York, Albany, United States
Conveners:  Yixin Wen, University of Florida, Department of Geography, Ft Walton Beach, FL, United States, Xiaoming Shi, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong, China and Hui Su, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Clear Water Bay, Hong Kong


Advances in Atmospheric Chemistry Driven by Laboratory Studies
Primary Convener:  Frank Winiberg, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, United States
Conveners:  Christopher M Kenseth, University of Washington, Department of Atmospheric and Climate Science, Seattle, United States, Dr. Rebecca Caravan, Chemical Sciences and Engineering Division, Argonne National Laboratory, Lemont, IL, United States, Carl Percival, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, United States and Yue Zhang, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Department of Environmental Sciences and Engineering, Chapel Hill, United States
Student/Early Career Convener:  Christopher M Kenseth, University of Washington, Department of Atmospheric and Climate Science, Seattle, United States


Advances in Cloud and Precipitation Processes: Integrating Observations, Modeling, and Theory
Primary Convener:  Dr. Yongjie Huang, PhD, University of Oklahoma Norman Campus, Center for Analysis and Prediction of Storms (CAPS) & School of Meteorology, Norman, United States
Conveners:  Greg M McFarquhar, Cooperative Institute for Severe and High-Impact Weather Research and Operations, University of Oklahoma, Norman, United States, Fan Yang, Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, NY, United States and Yi Huang, The University of Melbourne, School of Geography, Earth and Atmospheric Sciences and ARC Centre of Excellence for Climate Extremes, Melbourne, Australia


Advances in Data Assimilation: From Physics-Based Methods to AI-Driven Approaches
Primary Convener:  Isaac Moradi, University of Maryland College Park, College Park, United States; NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Global Modeling and Assimilation Office (GMAO), Greenbelt, United States
Conveners:  Daryl T Kleist, National Centers For Environmental Prediction-Environmental Modeling Center, College Park, United States and Steven J Greybush, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, United States


Advances in Fundamental Understanding of Atmospheric Convection: From Cloud Microphysics to Large-Scale Organization
Primary Convener:  Qiu Yang, Peking University, Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences, Physics School, Beijing, China
Conveners:  Mitchell W Moncrieff, National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, United States, Zhe Feng, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, WA, United States and Bolei Yang, Nanjing University, Nanjing-Helsinki Institute in Atmospheric and Earth System Sciences, Nanjing, China
Student/Early Career Convener:  Heng Quan, Princeton University, Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences Program, Princeton, NJ, United States


Advances in Global Aerosol Modeling: Representation, Assimilation, and Prediction
Primary Convener:  Sampa Das, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Atmospheric Chemistry and Dynamics Laboratory (Code 614), Greenbelt, United States; University of Maryland College Park, College Park, United States
Conveners:  Allison Collow, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, United States; University of Maryland Baltimore County, GESTAR II, Baltimore, United States, Caterina Mogno, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Atmospheric Chemistry and Dynamics Laboratory, Greenbelt, United States; University of Maryland Baltimore County, GESTAR-II, Baltimore, MD, United States, Barry Baker, NOAA Air Resources Laboratory, College Park, United States and Jeffrey S. Reid, Naval Research Laboratory, Marine Meteorology Division, Monterey, United States
Student/Early Career Convener:  Caterina Mogno, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Atmospheric Chemistry and Dynamics Laboratory, Greenbelt, United States; University of Maryland Baltimore County, GESTAR-II, Baltimore, MD, United States


Advances in Methods and Technologies for Emission Monitoring and Exposure Assessment to Hazardous Air Pollutants
Primary Convener:  Olga Pikelnaya, South Coast Air Quality Management District, Diamond Bar, CA, United States
Conveners:  Tara Irene Yacovitch, Aerodyne Research, Inc., Billerica, United States, Jochen Stutz, University of California Los Angeles, Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences, Los Angeles, CA, United States and Andrea Polidori, Bay Area Air Quality Management District, San Francisco, United States
Student/Early Career Convener:  Yifan Yu, South Coast Air Quality Management District, Diamond Bar, United States


Advances in Next-Generation Hindcasting, Nowcasting, and Forecasting of Atmospheric Pollutants
Primary Convener:  Dr. Mengze Li, National University of Singapore, Singapore, Singapore
Conveners:  Prabir Kumar Patra, JAMSTEC Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology, Yokohama, Japan and Robert B Jackson, Stanford University, Earth System Science, Stanford, CA, United States
Student/Early Career Convener:  Chenghao Wang, University of Oklahoma, School of Meteorology; Department of Geography and Environmental Sustainability, Norman, OK, United States


Advances in Radar Remote Sensing of Clouds and Precipitation: Observations, Data Processing, Weather and Water Model Applications
Primary Convener:  Haonan Chen, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO, United States
Conveners:  Lynn A. McMurdie, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, United States, V. Chandrasekar, Cooperative Institute for Research in the Atmosphere, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO, United States and Sounak Kumar Biswas, Colorado State University, CIRA, Fort Collins, United States


Advances in Translating Measured Methane Emissions into Greenhouse Gas Inventories for the Oil and Gas Supply Chains
Primary Convener:  Wennan Long, University of Pittsburgh, The Chemical and Petroleum Engineering, Pittsburgh, PA, United States
Conveners:  Haoming Ma, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, United States, Mohammad S Masnadi, University of Pittsburgh, Department of Chemical and Petroleum Engineering, Pittsburgh, United States and Arvind P Ravikumar, University of Texas at Austin, Petroleum and Geosystems Engineering, Austin, TX, United States


Advances in Weather Modification and Regional Hydroclimate Intervention
Primary Convener:  Youssef Wehbe, National Center of Meteorology, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates
Conveners:  Alya Al Mazrouei, UAE Research Program for Rain Enhancement Science, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, Raha Hakimdavar, Georgetown University, Washington, United States, Roelof Burger, North-West University, Unit for Environmental Sciences and Management, Mahikeng, South Africa and Ahmad AlKamali, University of Reading, Department of Meteorology, Reading, RG6, United Kingdom
Student/Early Career Convener:  Hamda Al Hosani, National Center of Meteorology, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates


Advances in the Integrated Global Observing System for Air Quality: Science and Societal Benefit
Primary Convener:  Katherine Travis, NASA Langley Research Center, Hampton, VA, United States
Conveners:  Katherine Emma Knowland, NASA, Washington, DC, United States, Hiroshi Tanimoto, National Institute for Environmental Studies (NIES), Tsukuba, Japan and Deborah Stein Zweers, Royal Netherlands Meteorological Institute, De Bilt, Netherlands
Student/Early Career Convener:  Jason Miech, Oak Ridge Associated Universities Inc., Oak Ridge, United States


Advances in wildland fire - atmosphere interactions
Primary Convener:  Tirtha Banerjee, University of California Irvine, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Irvine, CA, United States
Conveners:  Ajinkya Desai1, Janine Baijnath-Rodino2 and Alec Petersen1, (1)University of California Irvine, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Irvine, United States(2)University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, United States
Student/Early Career Conveners:  Ajinkya Desai1, Janine Baijnath-Rodino2 and Alec Petersen1, (1)University of California Irvine, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Irvine, United States(2)University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, United States


Advances of Remote Sensing Inversion
Primary Convener:  Oleg Dubovik, CNRS, Paris Cedex 16, France
Conveners:  Feng Xu, University of Oklahoma, School of Meteorology, Norman, OK, United States and Reed Espinosa, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, United States
Student/Early Career Convener:  Reed Espinosa, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, United States


Advancing Earth System Science Research using Global Navigation Satellite Systems Technology
Primary Convener:  Kuo-Nung Wang, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, United States
Conveners:  Kevin Nelson, PlanetIQ, Denver, United States and Feiqin Xie, Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi, Corpus Christi, TX, United States
Student/Early Career Convener:  Kevin Nelson, PlanetIQ, Denver, United States


Advancing Extreme Weather Prediction using AI/ML, NWP and hybrid Physics-AI Approaches
Primary Convener:  Marina Astitha, University of Connecticut, School of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Storrs-Mansfield, United States; University of Connecticut, Civil & Environmental Engineering, Groton, CT, United States
Conveners:  Tasnim Zaman, University of Connecticut, Eversource Energy Center, Storrs-Mansfield, United States, Yuhan Rao, North Carolina State University, North Carolina Institute for Climate Studies, Asheville, United States and Lulin Xue, NSF National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, United States
Student/Early Career Convener:  Tasnim Zaman, University of Connecticut, Eversource Energy Center, Storrs-Mansfield, United States


Advancing Precipitation Prediction with Physical Models and Artificial Intelligence
Primary Convener:  Xiaodong Chen, University of Oklahoma, School of Meteorology, Norman, United States
Conveners:  Tiantian Yang, University of Michigan Ann Arbor, Ann Arbor, United States, Ming Pan, Center for Western Weather and Water Extremes (CW3E), Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, United States, Kelly M Mahoney, Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences, Boulder, United States and Nana Liu, CIWRO/OU, NOAA/NSSL, Norman, United States


Advancing Research on Atmospheric Aerosols and Their Impacts on Clouds, Precipitation, Climate, Air Quality, and Health
Primary Convener:  Arman Pouyaei, Princeton University, Princeton, United States; First Street Technology, New York, United States
Conveners:  Jiwen Fan, Argonne National Laboratory, Argonne, United States, Xiaohan Sally Li, The University of Chicago, Department of Geophysical Sciences, Chicago, United States and Qianqian Song, University of Maryland Baltimore County, Baltimore, MD, United States


Advancing Understanding of Combustion Aerosols and Their Impacts on Earth's System
Primary Convener:  Zezhen Cheng, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Environmental Molecular Sciences Laboratory, Richland, WA, United States
Conveners:  Rajan Chakrabarty, Washington University in St Louis, Energy, Environmental and Chemical Engineering, St. Louis, United States, Dr. Douglas Stephen Hamilton, North Carolina State University, Marine, Earth, and Atmospheric Sciences, Raleigh, United States and Alla Zelenyuk, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, United States
Student/Early Career Convener:  Yaowei Li, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, United States


Advancing the Atmospheric Composition–Air Quality–Public Health Nexus Using Satellite Observations
Primary Convener:  Prof. Jing Wei, Peking University, Beijing, China
Conveners:  Zhao-Cheng Zeng, Peking University, School of Earth and Space Sciences, Beijing, China, Zhu Shupeng, Zhejiang University, Department of Atmospheric Sciences, Hangzhou, China, Chi Li, University of California, Berkeley, Chemistry, Berkeley, United States and Minghao Qiu, Stanford University, Stanford, United States
Student/Early Career Convener:  Yulong Fan, Peking University, Beijing, China


Advancing the Tropical Pacific Observing System through improved observing, modeling, and process understanding
Primary Convener:  Cheyenne Stienbarger, NOAA OAR, Global Ocean Monitoring and Observing Program, Silver Spring, United States
Conveners:  Lucia Upchurch, Atmospheric Chemistry Group & TPOS 2020 project, University of Washington/JISAO & NOAA/PMEL, Seattle, WA 98115, Seattle, WA, United States and Jose Algarin, NOAA Climate Program Office, Climate Variability and Predictability Program, Silver Spring, United States
Student/Early Career Convener:  Cheyenne Stienbarger, NOAA OAR, Global Ocean Monitoring and Observing Program, Silver Spring, United States


Aerosol Climate Intervention: From Fundamental Processes to Global Impacts
Primary Convener:  Xiaohan Sally Li, The University of Chicago, Department of Geophysical Sciences, Chicago, United States
Conveners:  Chloe Yuchao Gao, Fudan University, Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences, Shanghai, China, Minghuai Wang, Nanjing University, School of Atmospheric Sciences, Nanjing, China, Mingyi Wang, The University of Chicago, Department of Geophysical Sciences, Chicago, United States and Haruki Hirasawa, University of Washington, Department of Atmospheric and Climate Science, Seattle, United States


Aerosol, Cloud, Precipitation and Radiation Studies over High Latitudes
Primary Convener:  Greg M McFarquhar, Cooperative Institute for Severe and High-Impact Weather Research and Operations, University of Oklahoma, Norman, United States
Conveners:  Gerald G Mace, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT, United States, Manfred Wendisch, University of Leipzig, Leipzig Institute for Meteorology, Leipzig, Germany and Sebastian Schmidt, University of Colorado at Boulder, Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics, Boulder, United States; Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics, Boulder, United States


Agriculture, Air Quality, Nitrogen Cycle, and Climate Connections
Primary Convener:  Da Pan, Georgia Institute of Technology Main Campus, School of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Atlanta, United States
Conveners:  Ilana Pollack, CIRES, University of Colorado Boulder & NOAA Chemical Sciences Laboratory, Boulder, United States, Genevieve Plant, University of Michigan Ann Arbor, Climate and Space Sciences and Engineering, Ann Arbor, MI, United States and Amos P. K. Tai, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Faculty of Science, Hong Kong, Hong Kong
Student/Early Career Convener:  Matthew Davis, Colorado State University, Department of Atmospheric Science, Fort Collins, United States


Air Pollution and Meteorology Extremes: Trends, Mechanisms, and Impacts
Primary Convener:  Yuhan Wang, Stanford University, Stanford, United States
Conveners:  Makoto Kelp, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, United States, Hongliang Zhang, University of Shanghai for Science and Technology, Shanghai, China, Mary Angelique G Demetillo, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, United States and Mi Zhou, Princeton University, Princeton, United States


Air Pollution and Well-Being: Bridging Surface, Space, and Modeling Studies
Primary Convener:  Audrey Gaudel, NOAA Boulder, Boulder, CO, United States
Conveners:  Benjamin F Zaitchik, Johns Hopkins University, Earth and Planetary Sciences, Baltimore, MD, United States, Gaige Hunter Kerr, George Washington University, Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, Washington, DC, United States, Kathryn Goldfarb, University of Colorado at Boulder, Department of Anthropology, Boulder, United States and Archita Rana, Forschungszentrum Jülich, Jülich, Germany
Student/Early Career Convener:  Archita Rana, Forschungszentrum Jülich, Jülich, Germany


Atmospheric Aerosols and Their Interactions with Clouds, Radiation, and Climate
Primary Convener:  Bin Zhao, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China
Conveners:  Hong Liao, Nanjing University of Information Science & Technology, School of Environmental Science and Engineering, Nanjing, China, Chuanfeng Zhao, Beijing Normal University, College of Global Change and Earth System Science, Beijing, China and Minghui Diao, San Jose State University, Department of Meteorology and Climate Science, San Jose, CA, United States
Student/Early Career Convener:  Jingchuan Chen, Texas A&M University, Department of Atmospheric Sciences, College Station, United States


Atmospheric Chemistry General Session
Primary Convener:  Victoria P. Barber, University of California Los Angeles, Chemistry and Biochemistry, Los Angeles, CA, United States
Conveners:  Ross J Salawitch, University of Maryland College Park, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, College Park, United States and David M Wilmouth, Harvard University, Cambridge, United States


Atmospheric Chemistry and Multiphase Processes in Coastal Megacities
Primary Convener:  John E Mak, Stony Brook University, School of Marine and Atmospheric Sciences, Stony Brook, NY, United States
Conveners:  Annmarie G Carlton1, Delphine Farmer2 and Lauren Garofalo2, (1)University of California Irvine, Chemistry, Irvine, United States(2)Colorado State University, Department of Chemistry, Fort Collins, United States


Atmospheric Convection: Processes, Dynamics, and Links to Weather and the General Circulation
Primary Convener:  Giuseppe Torri, University of Hawaii at Manoa, Atmospheric Sciences, Honolulu, HI, United States
Conveners:  Yang Tian, National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, United States, Hanii Takahashi, Jet Propulsion Lab, Pasadena, CA, United States and Rachel L Storer, Everest Reinsurance, Los Angeles, United States
Student/Early Career Convener:  Cathrene Lagare, Tohoku University, Sendai, Japan


Atmospheric Dynamics of Wildfire Smoke in a Warming Climate: From Plume Rise and Pyroconvection to Long-Range Transport and Population Exposure
Primary Convener:  Yanrui Li, University Of Toronto Schools, Toronto, ON, Canada
Convener:  Jianxiong Sheng, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Center for Global Change Science, Cambridge, United States


Atmospheric Research Supported by Uncrewed Aerial Systems and Tethered Balloon Systems
Primary Convener:  Fan Mei, PhD, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, WA, United States and de Boer
Conveners:  Greg M McFarquhar, Cooperative Institute for Severe and High-Impact Weather Research and Operations, University of Oklahoma, Norman, United States, Gijs de Boer, Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, United States, Darielle Dexheimer, Sandia National Laboratories, Albuquerque, United States and de Boer


Atmospheric Rivers: Processes, Impacts, Observations, and Uncertainties
Primary Convener:  Kwesi Quagraine, Texas A&M University, Atmospheric Sciences, College Station, United States
Conveners:  Yang Zhou, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA, United States, Jeri Wilcox, Center for Western Weather and Water Extremes, San Diego, United States and Christine A Shields, NCAR, Boulder, CO, United States


Atmospheric chemistry in the fire plume
Primary Convener:  Yang Li, Baylor University, Environmental Science, Waco, TX, United States
Convener:  Rebecca R Buchholz, National Center for Atmospheric Research, Atmospheric Chemistry Observations & Modeling Laboratory, Boulder, United States


Atmospheric processes at the kilometer and sub-kilometer scale: implications for air quality, urban climate, weather, wildfires, and energy
Primary Convener:  Andrew Janiszeski, University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, IN, United States
Conveners:  Paola Crippa, University of Notre Dame, Civil and Environmental Engineering and Earth Sciences, Notre Dame, IN, United States, Branko Kosovic, Johns Hopkins University, Ralph O'Connor Sustainable Energy Institute, Baltimore, MD, United States, Paolo Giani, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Department of Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences, Cambridge, United States and Keer Zhang, Princeton University, High Meadows Environmental Institute, Princeton, United States


Biosphere–Atmosphere Interactions Across Scales: Emissions, Chemistry, and Responses to a Changing Earth
Primary Convener:  Hui Wang, University of California Irvine, Department of Earth System Science, Irvine, CA, United States
Conveners:  Qindan Zhu, Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, Cambridge, United States, Yingnan Zhang, University of California Irvine, Department of Earth System Science, Irvine, United States, Quazi Ziaur Rasool, NOAA Chemical Sciences Laboratory, Boulder, United States and Erin F. Katz, University of California Berkeley, Berkeley, United States


Boundary Layer Clouds Across Scales: Processes, Regimes, and Earth System Coupling
Primary Convener:  Dr. Hongwei Sun, University of Hawaii at Manoa, Honolulu, HI, United States
Conveners:  Xiaoli Zhou, Dalhousie University, Department of Physics and Atmospheric Science, Halifax, NS, Canada, Hailong Wang, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Atmospheric, Climate, and Earth Sciences Division, Richland, United States and Ewan Crosbie, Analytical Mechanics Associates, Hampton, United States


Boundary Layer Processes and Turbulence
Primary Convener:  Khaled Ghannam, Northeastern University, Civil and Environmental Engineering Department, Boston, MA, United States
Conveners:  Mostafa Momen, University of Houston, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Houston, TX, United States, Tirtha Banerjee, University of California Irvine, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Irvine, CA, United States and Neda Yaghoobian, Florida State University, Mechanical Engineering, Tallahassee, FL, United States


Bridging the Gap from Climate to Extreme Weather: Theory, Modeling, and Observations
Primary Convener:  Funing Li, PhD, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, United States
Conveners:  Akintomide A Akinsanola, University of Illinois at Chicago, Earth and Environmental Science, Chicago, IL, United States, Suqin Duan, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, United States and Mingyu Park, Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology, Ulsan, Korea, Republic of (South)
Student/Early Career Convener:  Robert van der Drift, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, United States


Bridging the Gap: Integrating Multi-Platform Observations of Trace Gases in Earth’s Atmosphere
Primary Convener:  Saswati Das, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, United States
Conveners:  Tomohiro Oda, Universities Space Research Association, Earth from Space Institute, Washington, D.C., United States, Joshua Laughner, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, United States, Dr. Dustin Roten, Utah Valley University, Physics, Orem, UT, United States and Mukesh Rai, Baylor University, Waco, United States
Student/Early Career Convener:  Mukesh Rai, Baylor University, Waco, United States


Climate Forcing, Feedback, and Recovery in a State-Dependent System
Primary Convener:  Dr. Ivan Mitevski, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, United States
Conveners:  Jiang Zhu, NSF National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, United States and Jonah Bloch-Johnson, National Centre for Atmospheric Research, University of Reading, Reading, United Kingdom


Climate Sensitivity and Feedbacks: Advances and New Paradigms
Primary Convener:  Ivy Tan, University of Colorado Boulder, Department of Physics, Boulder, United States
Conveners:  Mark Richardson, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, United States, Li-Wei Chao, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, United States and Gregory V Cesana, NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies, New York, United States


Cloud Observations and Measurements from Remote Sensing Instruments
Primary Convener:  Dr. Nofel Lagrosas, Ph.D., Kyushu University, Civil Engineering Department, School of Engineering, Fukuoka, Japan
Conveners:  Jingjing Tian, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, United States and Prof. Sheng Hsiang Wang, National Central University, Department of Atmospheric Sciences, Taoyuan, Taiwan
Student/Early Career Convener:  Jingjing Tian, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, United States


Connecting Models, Observations, and Ecosystem Impacts in Montane Cloud Forests
Primary Convener:  Georgios Priftis, University of Alabama in Huntsville, Earth System Science Center, Huntsville, AL, United States
Conveners:  Lauren Lowman, Wake Forest University, Department of Engineering, Winston-Salem, NC, United States and Udaysankar Nair, University of Alabama in Huntsville, Department of Atmospheric and Earth Science, Huntsville, United States
Student/Early Career Convener:  David Carchipulla-Morales, Wake Forest University, Winston-Salem, NC, United States


Constellation of Low Earth Orbit and Geostationary Satellites for Atmospheric Composition and Air Quality
Primary Convener:  Monika Kopacz, NOAA, Silver Spring, United States
Conveners:  Masoud Ghahremanloo, Harvard & Smithsonian | Center for Astrophysics, Cambridge, United States and Timon Hummel, European Space Agency, Noordwijk, Netherlands


Constraining Greenhouse Gas Exchange Processes Using Remote Sensing and In Situ Observations
Primary Convener:  Abhishek Chatterjee, Schmidt Sciences, New York, United States
Conveners:  Andrew E Schuh, Colorado State University, CIRA, Fort Collins, CO, United States and Sourish Basu, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Global Modeling and Assimilation Office, Greenbelt, United States


Data-driven methods for quantifying atmospheric composition: Advances in computation and statistical learning
Primary Convener:  Zhen Qu, North Carolina State University Raleigh, Raleigh, NC, United States and samsilva@usc.edu
Conveners:  Sam Silva, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, United States, Daniel J. Varon, Harvard University, School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Cambridge, United States, Makoto Kelp, University of Washington Seattle Campus, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Seattle, United States and samsilva@usc.edu


Decadal Climate Variability in a Changing Earth System: Insights from Air-Sea Interaction, Mechanisms and Predictability
Primary Convener:  Jianping Li, Ocean University of China, Frontiers Science Center for Deep Ocean Multi-spheres and Earth System (DOMES)/Key Laboratory of Physical Oceanography/Academy of Future Ocean/College of Oceanic and Atmospheric Sciences/Center for Ocean Carbon Neutrality, Qingdao, China
Conveners:  Luo Dehai, Institute of Atmospheric Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China, Feili Li, Xiamen University, Xiamen, China and Qingquan Li, China Meteorological Administration, National Climate Center, Beijing, China
Student/Early Career Convener:  Xin Qi, Aerospace Information Technology University, School of Remote Sensing Science and Technology, Jinan, China


Decision-Relevant Understanding of Impactful Weather and Extremes
Primary Convener:  Abhishekh Kumar Srivastava, University of California Davis, Land, Air and Water Resources, Davis, CA, United States
Conveners:  Paul Ullrich, University of California Davis, Davis, United States, Michael F Wehner, Applied Mathematics and Computational Research Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, United States, Seung Hun Baek, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, United States and Raymond Sukhdeo, University of California Los Angeles, Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences, Los Angeles, United States
Student/Early Career Convener:  Raymond Sukhdeo, University of California Los Angeles, Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences, Los Angeles, United States


Developments in Urban Greenhouse Gas Emissions Quantification
Primary Convener:  Anna Karion, National Institute of Standards and Technology, Gaithersburg, United States
Conveners:  Lucy Hutyra, Boston University, Earth & Environment, Boston, MA, United States and Paul B Shepson, Stony Brook University, School of Marine and Atmospheric Sciences, Stony Brook, United States


Dust in a Changing Climate: From Small‐Scale Insights to Large‐Scale Understanding
Primary Convener:  Amato T Evan, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, CA, United States
Conveners:  Yan Yu, Peking University, Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences, School of Physics, Beijing, China and Carlos Pérez García-Pando, NASA/GISS, New York, United States
Student/Early Career Convener:  Qianqian Song, University of Maryland Baltimore County, Baltimore, MD, United States


Earth System Variability and Predictions on Subseasonal-to-Multidecadal Timescales
Primary Convener:  Yushi Morioka, JAMSTEC Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology, Kanagawa, Japan
Conveners:  Nathaniel C Johnson, NOAA GFDL, Honolulu, United States, Gokhan Danabasoglu, National Center for Atmospheric Research, Climate and Global Dynamics, Boulder, United States, Nagio Hirota, NIES National Institute of Environmental Studies, Ibaraki, Japan and Yoko Yamagami, JAMSTEC Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology, Kanagawa, Japan
Student/Early Career Convener:  Yoko Yamagami, JAMSTEC Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology, Kanagawa, Japan


Emerging Air Pollutants: Emissions, Chemistry, and Air Quality Impacts
Primary Convener:  Ke Li, NUIST Nanjing University of Information Science and Technology, Nanjing, China
Conveners:  Bin Yuan, Jinan University, College of Environment and Climate, Guangzhou, China, Dr. XiaoPu Lyu, PhD, Hong Kong Baptist University, Kowloon Tong, Hong Kong and Matthew Coggon, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences/Chemical Sciences Division, Boulder, United States


Extreme Events in a Changing Climate: Impacts, Interactions, and Pathways to Resilience
Primary Convener:  Vivek Kumar Singh, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Grid Interactive Controls Group, Oak Ridge, TN, United States
Conveners:  Ankur Dixit, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, United States, Manmeet Singh, Western Kentucky University, Department of Earth, Environmental, and Atmospheric Sciences, Kentucky, United States and Bhartendu Pandey, PhD, Oak Ridge National Lab, Oak Ridge, United States


Extreme Events: Observations and Modeling
Primary Convener:  Dr. Sridhara Nayak, PhD, Organization Not Listed, Research and Development Center, Osaka, Japan
Convener:  Tetsuya Takemi, Disaster Prevention Research Institute, Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan


From Molecules to Climate: Process-Level Understanding of Aerosol and CCN Formation
Primary Convener:  Mingyi Wang, University of Chicago, Department of the Geophysical Sciences, Chicago, IL, United States
Conveners:  Xucheng He, University of Helsinki, Institute for Atmospheric and Earth System Research/Physics, Faculty of Science, Helsinki, Finland, Hamish Gordon, Carnegie Mellon University, Chemical Engineering, Pittsburgh, United States and Jeffrey R Pierce, Colorado State University, Department of Atmospheric Science, Fort Collins, United States


From Molecules to Impacts: Linking the Molecular Composition of Atmospheric Aerosol to Key Physicochemical Properties
Primary Convener:  Sergey Nizkorodov, University of California Irvine, Chemistry, Irvine, United States
Conveners:  Rachel E O'Brien, University of Michigan Ann Arbor, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Ann Arbor, United States and Alexander Laskin, Purdue University, Department of Chemistry, West Lafayette, IN, United States


From S2S Prediction to Anticipatory Action: AI Methods and User-Centric Climate Informatics
Primary Convener:  Giriraj Amarnath, International Water Management Institute, Silverton, South Africa
Conveners:  Balaji Rajagopalan, Univ Colorado, Civil, Environmental, and Architectural Engineering and Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences, Boulder, United States and Naga Manohar Velpuri, International Water Management Institute (IWMI), Colombo, Sri Lanka
Student/Early Career Convener:  Surya Kiran Guniganti, Indian Institute of Technology Hyderabad, Civil Engineering, Hydearbad, India


Frontiers and future of Biometeorology: Building on Dennis D Baldocchi’s “Physics wins, biology is how it’s done”
Primary Convener:  Tianxin Wang, University of California Berkeley, Department of Environmental Science, Policy, and Management, Berkeley, United States
Conveners:  Jose D. Fuentes, Penn State University, University Park, United States, Martha Anderson, USDA ARS, Hydrology and Remote Sensing Laboratory, Beltsville, United States and Patty Oikawa, California State University, East Bay, Hayward, United States
Student/Early Career Convener:  Ariane Arias Ortiz, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Department of Physics, Bellaterra, Spain


General Session: Aerosols and Clouds
Primary Convener:  Nirvan Bhattacharyya, Goethe University Frankfurt, Institute for Atmospheric and Environmental Sciences, Frankfurt, Germany
Convener:  Barsanti Kelley, NSF National Center for Atmospheric Research, Atmospheric Chemistry Observations and Modeling, Boulder, United States


General Session: Atmospheric Physics, Dynamics, and Climate
Primary Convener:  Dr. Husile Bai, Vanderbilt University, Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Nashville, United States
Convener:  Dr. Husile Bai, Vanderbilt University, Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Nashville, United States
Student/Early Career Convener:  Dr. Husile Bai, Vanderbilt University, Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Nashville, United States


Global Planetary Boundary Layer Observatory
Primary Convener:  Joao Teixeira, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States
Conveners:  Amin R Nehrir, NASA Langley Research Center, Hampton, United States, Courtney Schumacher, Texas A&M University, Atmospheric Sciences, College Station, United States and Dr. Shawn Serbin, BA, MS, PhD, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, United States


Greenhouse Gas Emissions from Inland Waters: Models, Observations, and Uncertainties
Primary Convener:  Dr. Dustin Roten, Utah Valley University, Physics, Orem, UT, United States
Convener:  Shea Tuberty, Appalachian State University, Boone, NC, United States


Ground-based networks for monitoring atmospheric chemical composition and meteorology
Primary Convener:  Misha Krassovski, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Environmental Sciences Division, Oak Ridge, TN, United States
Convener:  Kyle J Pearson, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Environmental Sciences Division, Oak Ridge, United States


Hemispheric Asymmetry and Vertical Discrepancies in Stratospheric Ozone Recovery : Bridging the Gap
Primary Convener:  Jae N. Lee, University of Maryland Baltimore County, Baltimore, United States
Convener:  Dong Liang Wu, Climate and Radiation Laboratory, NASA/GSFC, Greenbelt, United States


High-Resolution Earth System Modeling on Large Supercomputers
Primary Convener:  L. Ruby Leung, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, WA, United States
Conveners:  Gokhan Danabasoglu, National Center for Atmospheric Research, Climate and Global Dynamics, Boulder, United States and Colin Zarzycki, Pennsylvania State University Main Campus, Meteorology and Atmospheric Sciences, University Park, United States


Isotopes of the Atmospheric Components: Laboratory Investigation, Field Observation, Modeling, and Remote Sensing
Primary Convener:  Jiajue Chai, SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry, Syracuse, NY, United States
Conveners:  Wendell W Walters, University of South Carolina Columbia, Columbia, SC, United States and Jianghanyang Li, University of Colorado at Boulder, Institute of Arctic and Alpine Research, Boulder, United States
Student/Early Career Convener:  Heejeong Kim, Brown University, Department of Earth, Environmental and Planetary Sciences, and Institute at Brown for Environment and Society, Providence, RI, United States


Knowledge-Guided Machine Learning for Ecosystem and Earth Sciences
Primary Convener:  Licheng LIU, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, United States
Conveners:  Zhenong Jin, Peking University, The Institute of Ecology, College of Urban and Environmental Science, Beijing, China, Kaiyu Guan, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, Agroecosystem Sustainability Center, Institute for Sustainability, Energy, and Environment, Urbana, United States, Youmi Oh, NOAA Global Monitoring Laboratory, Boulder, United States and Vipin Kumar, University of Minnesota Twin Cities, Department of Computer Science & Engineering, Minneapolis, United States
Student/Early Career Convener:  Fenghui Yuan, University of Minnesota Twin Cities, Department of Soil, Water, and Climate, St. Paul, United States


Lagrangian particle dispersion models and their applications in quantifying emissions of atmospheric trace gases
Primary Convener:  Lei Hu, NOAA, Global Monitoring Laboratory, Boulder, United States
Conveners:  John C Lin, University of Utah, Department of Atmospheric Sciences, Salt Lake City, United States, Christopher Loughner, NOAA Air Resources Laboratory, College Park, United States and Matthew L Rigby, University of Bristol, School of Chemistry, Bristol, United Kingdom


Land–Ocean–Atmosphere Drivers of Hydroclimatic Extremes: Prediction and Early Warning in the South Asian Monsoon
Primary Convener:  Naman Rastogi, University of Colorado at Boulder, Civil, Environmental, and Architectural Engineering and Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences, Boulder, United States
Conveners:  Balaji Rajagopalan, Univ Colorado, Civil, Environmental, and Architectural Engineering and Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences, Boulder, United States and Manabendra Saharia, Indian Institute of Technology Delhi, Department of Civil Engineering, New Delhi, India
Student/Early Career Conveners:  Naman Rastogi, University of Colorado at Boulder, Civil, Environmental, and Architectural Engineering and Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences, Boulder, United States and Priyam Deka, Indian Institute of Technology Delhi, Department of Civil Engineering, New Delhi, India


Light-Absorbing Aerosols: Observations, Models, Processes, and Impacts
Primary Convener:  Dantong Liu, Zhejiang University, Department of Atmospheric Sciences, School of Earth Sciences, Hangzhou, China
Conveners:  Jiandong Wang, Nanjing University of Information Science and Technology, Nanjing, China, Dr. Joshua Peter Schwarz, PhD, NOAA, Chemical Sciences Laboratory, Boulder, United States and Xiaojian Zheng, Stanford University, California, United States


Low-cost Air Quality Sensors: Challenges, Opportunities, and Collaborative Strategies across the World
Primary Convener:  Audrey Gaudel, NOAA Boulder, Boulder, CO, United States
Conveners:  Kristen Okorn, Bay Area Environmental Research Institute, Moffett Field, California, United States, Zoe Chafe, C40 Cities, Berkeley, CA, United States, Sebastian Diez, Universidad del Desarrollo, Santiago, Chile and Nicole Cowell, Imperial College, London, United Kingdom


Mobile Air-Quality Laboratories: Applications, Lessons Learned, and Emerging Science
Primary Convener:  Jo Machesky, US Environmental Protection Agency Research Triangle Park, Office of Land and Emergency Management, Durham, United States
Conveners:  Christopher Jernigan, US Environmental Protection Agency Research Triangle Park, Office of Applied Science and Environmental Solutions, Durham, United States and Leif Jahn, US Environmental Protection Agency Research Triangle Park, Office of Land and Emergency Management, Durham, United States


Model Initialization and Subseasonal-to-Decadal Predictability: Methods, Mechanisms, and Extremes
Primary Convener:  Pengfei Shi, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, WA, United States
Conveners:  L. Ruby Leung, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, WA, United States, Brett M Raczka, National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, CO, United States and Peyman Abbaszadeh, Portland State University, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Portland, United States


Modeling and Untangling Atmosphere-Hydrology-Ecology Interactions
Primary Convener:  Wenli Zhao, Columbia University, Department of Earth and Environmental Engineering, New York, United States
Conveners:  Zeyu Xue, PhD, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, ASGC, Richland, United States, Wantong Li, Max Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry, Department Biogeochemical Integration, Jena, Germany, Shijie Jiang, Max Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry, Jena, Germany and Shuaiqi WU, Emory University, Atlanta, United States
Student/Early Career Convener:  Jianing Fang, Columbia University, Department of Earth and Environmental Engineering, New York, United States


Modeling, Data Assimilation, and Artificial Intelligence (AI) for Better Analyses and Forecasts of High-impact Weather Events
Primary Convener:  Guoqing Ge, CIRES, University of Colorado Boulder, Boulder, United States
Conveners:  Minghua Zheng, Center for Western Weather and Water Extremes (CW3E), Scripps Institution of Oceanography, UC San Diego, La Jolla, United States, Haiqin Li, Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences (CIRES), University of Colorado Boulder, Boulder, United States and Hristo Chipilski, Florida State University, Department of Scientific Computing, Tallahassee, United States


Models, In situ, and Remote sensing of Aerosols (MIRA)
Primary Convener:  Masanori Saito, University of Wyoming, Atmospheric Science, Laramie, WY, United States
Conveners:  Nobuhiro Moteki, Tokyo Metropolitan University, Tokyo, Japan, Jens Redemann, University of Oklahoma, School of Meteorology, Norman, United States and Vassilis Amiridis, National Observatory of Athens, Institute for Astronomy, Astrophysics, Space Applications and Remote Sensing, Athens, Greece
Student/Early Career Conveners:  Travis Toth, NASA Langley Research Center, Hampton, United States and Cheng Dang, University Corporation for Atmospheric Research, Joint Center for Satellite Data Assimilation, Boulder, United States


Multidecadal Change in the Middle Atmosphere and Geospace: The Next Frontier in Climate
Primary Convener:  Juan A. Añel, Universidade de Vigo, EPhysLab, Ourense, Spain and The ISSI #25-631 Team
Conveners:  Gunter Stober, Institute of Applied Physics & Oeschger Center for Climate Change Research, Microwave Physics, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland, Shunrong Zhang, MIT Haystack Observatory, Westford, MA, United States, Romina Nikoukar, Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, Laurel, MD, United States and The ISSI #25-631 Team
Student/Early Career Convener:  William Parker, The Aerospace Corporation, Los Angeles, United States and The ISSI #25-631 Team


Multiphase SOA Chemistry Across Wildfire, Urban, and Biogenic Sources: Bridging Molecular Processes to Water Cycle Prediction
Primary Convener:  ManishKumar Shrivastava, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, WA, United States
Conveners:  Manabu Shiraiwa, University of California Irvine, Department of Chemistry, Irvine, United States and Andreas Zuend, McGill University, Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences, Montreal, QC, Canada


New Compound Events and Emerging Risks: from Cyclones of Tropical Origin to the Impacts of an Ice-free Arctic
Primary Convener:  Alexander Baker, University of Reading, Department of Meteorology, Reading, RG6, United Kingdom
Conveners:  Gregor C Leckebusch, University of Birmingham, School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences, Birmingham, B15, United Kingdom, Hayley J Fowler, Newcastle University, School of Engineering, Newcastle, United Kingdom and Pier Luigi Vidale, University of Reading, Department of Meteorology, and National Centre for Atmospheric Science (NCAS), Reading, RG6, United Kingdom


Observation and model studies of cloud properties and associated processes
Primary Convener:  Chuanfeng Zhao, Peking University, Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences, Beijing, China
Conveners:  Peng Wu, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, WA, United States, Jonathan H. Jiang, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States and Kuan-Man Xu, NASA Langley Research Center, Hampton, VA, United States
Student/Early Career Convener:  Jingjing Tian, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, United States


Observations and Modeling for Renewable Energy Applications
Primary Convener:  Dongdong Wang, Peking University, Beijing, China and Kun Yang
Conveners:  Kun Yang, Department of Earth System Science, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China, Yuhao Nie, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Institute for Data, Systems, and Society, Cambridge, MA, United States and Kun Yang


Optical Remote Sensing of the Environment: From Single Scattering to Radiative Transfer and Retrievals
Primary Convener:  Pengwang Zhai, University of Maryland Baltimore County, Baltimore, MD, United States
Conveners:  Ping Yang, Texas A&M Univ, College Station, United States, Kerry Meyer, USRA-NASA/GSFC, Linthicum Heights, MD, United States and Robert C Levy, NASA/Goddard Space Flight Ctr, Greenbelt, United States


Organic Gases, Aerosols, and Surface Chemistry: Sources, Transformations, and Human Exposure Across Outdoor and Indoor Environments
Primary Convener:  Pawel K Misztal, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, United States
Conveners:  Rachel E O'Brien, University of Michigan Ann Arbor, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Ann Arbor, United States and Yifang Zhu, University of California Los Angeles, Environmental Health Sciences, Los Angeles, CA, United States


Polar Climate Change and Variability: Mechanisms and Impacts in Observations and Models
Primary Convener:  Yu-Chiao Liang, National Taiwan University, Department of Atmospheric Sciences, Taipei, Taiwan
Conveners:  Lantao Sun, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, United States, Yutian Wu, Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, Palisades, NY, United States and Qinghua Ding, University of California, Santa Barbara, Geography and Earth Research Institute, Santa Barbara, United States
Student/Early Career Convener:  Lily Hahn, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, La Jolla, United States


Processes of (Sub) Cloud Scales: Modeling, Observations and Parameterizations
Primary Convener:  Chunsong Lu, NUIST Nanjing University of Information Science and Technology, Nanjing, China
Conveners:  Yangang Liu, Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, United States, Lulin Xue, NSF National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, United States and Alexei Korolev, Environment and Climate Change Canada, Toronto, Canada


Regional Earth System Modeling for Hydroclimate Extremes, Resilience, and Decision Support
Primary Convener:  Dr. Lingcheng Li, PhD, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, WA, United States
Conveners:  Zong-Liang Yang, University of Texas at Austin, Jackson School of Geosciences, Austin, TX, United States, Dr. Husile Bai, Vanderbilt University, Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Nashville, United States, Li Dan, Institute of Atmospheric Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China and Maribeth Kniffin, Bureau of Reclamation, Denver, United States


Remote Sensing of CH4 and CO2 from Space: The Expanding Observing System
Primary Convener:  Scot M Miller, Johns Hopkins University, Department of Environmental Health and Engineering, Baltimore, MD, United States
Conveners:  Christopher O'Dell, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, United States, Hannah Obermiller Nesser, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, United States and Vivienne Payne, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, United States


Remote Sensing: General Contributions
Primary Convener:  Saswati Das, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, United States
Conveners:  Gregory Osterman1, Peter Somkuti2, Jeongmin Yun1 and Hayoung Park2,3, (1)Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, United States(2)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, United States(3)University of Maryland College Park, Earth System Science Interdisciplinary Center, College Park, United States
Student/Early Career Convener:  Hayoung Park, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, United States; University of Maryland College Park, Earth System Science Interdisciplinary Center, College Park, United States


Representation of Aerosol–Cloud–Radiation Interactions in Earth System Models
Primary Convener:  Kanishk Gohil, National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, United States
Conveners:  Simone Tilmes, NSF National Center for Atmospheric Research, Atmospheric Chemistry Observations and Modeling Laboratory, Boulder, United States, Christina S McCluskey, University Corporation for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, United States, Chih-Chieh Chen, NCAR, Boulder, United States and Robert Wood, University of Washington, Department of Atmospheric and Climate Science, Seattle, United States


Scrubbing the Sky: Reimagining Air as a Resource
Primary Convener:  Todd Schaef, Organization Not Listed, Washington, DC, United States; Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Energy and Environment Directorate, Richland, United States
Conveners:  Daniel Pike, Rocky Mountain Institute, Basalt, United States, Will Kain, AVNOS, Bridgewater, United States and Greg Bohannon, 280 Earth, Dalles, United States
Student/Early Career Convener:  Harshvardhan Chopra, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Energy and Environment Directorate, Richland, United States


Solar Irradiance in the Past, Present, and Future for Geophysical Applications
Primary Convener:  Odele Coddington, Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics, Boulder, CO, United States
Conveners:  Janet L Machol, CU/CIRES-NOAA/NCEI, Boulder, United States, Mustapha Meftah, LATMOS Laboratoire Atmosphères, Milieux, Observations Spatiales, Guyancourt, France and Ping Zhu, Shenzhen University, Shenzhen, China


Sources of Predictability and Error in Subseasonal-to-Seasonal (S2S) Prediction
Primary Convener:  Christine Bassett, FedWriters, Fairfax, United States
Conveners:  Mark A Olsen, NASA GSFC, Greenbelt, MD, United States, Margaret Orr Hoeflich, Organization Not Listed, Washington, DC, United States, Jadwiga Richter, U. S. National Science Foundation National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, United States and Megan Devlan Fowler, University of California Irvine, Irvine, United States


Spaceborne constellation science for atmospheric clouds, convection, precipitation, aerosol and chemical species
Primary Convener:  Edward P Nowottnick, NASA Headquarters, Washington, DC, United States
Conveners:  Meloe S Kacenelenbogen, NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, United States and Derek J Posselt, University of California, Joint Institute for Regional Earth System Science and Engineering, Los Angeles, United States


Stratospheric Composition Monitoring and Emerging Threats in an Era of Observational Gaps
Primary Convener:  Corinne Hartin, SilverLining, Washington, United States
Convener:  Arlyn Andrews, SilverLining, Washington, DC, United States


Stratospheric Dynamics, Aerosol Processes, and Interactions with the Troposphere
Primary Convener:  Dr. Hongwei Sun, University of Hawaii at Manoa, Honolulu, HI, United States
Conveners:  Qiang Fu, University of Washington, Atmospheric and Climate Science, Seattle, United States, Amy H Butler, NOAA Chemical Sciences Laboratory, University of Colorado, Boulder, United States and Fangqun Yu, SUNY at Albany, Atmospheric Sciences Research Center, Albany, United States


Subseasonal to Seasonal Tropical Variability: Observations, Modeling, Processes, and Global Impacts
Primary Convener:  Kai Huang, National Center for Atmospheric Research, Climate and Global Dynamics, Boulder, CO, United States
Conveners:  Priyanka Yadav, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Global Modeling and Assimilation Office, Greenbelt, MD, United States; University of Maryland, Earth System Science Interdisciplinary Center, College Park, MD, United States, Danni Du, Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory, Princeton, United States; Princeton University, Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences, Princeton, United States and Chih-Chieh Chen, National Center for Atmospheric Research, Climate and Global Dynamics Laboratory, Boulder, United States
Student/Early Career Convener:  Danni Du, Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory, Princeton, United States; Princeton University, Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences, Princeton, United States


Targeting Methane Mitigation: Quantification of Anthropogenic Methane Sources at All Scales Through Atmospheric Measurements
Primary Convener:  James L France, Environmental Defense Fund & Royal Holloway University, London, United Kingdom
Conveners:  Mary Kang, McGill University, Department of Civil Engineering, Montreal, QC, Canada, James D. East, Harvard University, School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Cambridge, MA, United States and Alba Lorente, Environmental Defense Fund, Torremolinos, Malaga, SPAIN


Terrestrial-Atmospheric Processes Across Scales
Primary Convener:  Gavin Cornwell, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, WA, United States
Conveners:  Meghan Guagenti, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, WA, United States, Shreya Joshi, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, United States and Zezhen Cheng, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Environmental Molecular Sciences Laboratory, Richland, WA, United States


The Dynamics of the Large Scale Atmospheric Circulation: Jet Streams, Storm Tracks, Stationary Waves, and Monsoons
Primary Convener:  Lei Wang, Purdue University, Department of Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences, West Lafayette, IN, United States
Conveners:  Yi Zhang, New York University, Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, New York, United States, Joonsuk Kang, Columbia University, Department of Applied Physics and Applied Mathematics, New York, United States and Gang Chen, University of California Los Angeles, Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences, Los Angeles, CA, United States
Student/Early Career Conveners:  Yi Zhang, New York University, Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, New York, United States and Joonsuk Kang, Columbia University, Department of Applied Physics and Applied Mathematics, New York, United States


The Impact of Spaceflight on Earth’s Atmosphere
Primary Convener:  Daniel J Cziczo, University of Chicago, Geophysical Sciences, Chicago, United States
Conveners:  Eloise Ann Marais, University of Leicester, Department of Physics and Astronomy, Leicester, United Kingdom, Christopher Maloney, University of Colorado Boulder, Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences, Boulder, United States and Kostas Tsigaridis, Columbia University, New York, United States


The Influence of Anthropogenic and Natural Aerosols on Climate Change and Extreme Events
Primary Convener:  Yanda Zhang, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (Guangzhou), EOAS, Guangzhou, China
Conveners:  Geeta Persad, University of Texas at Austin, Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Austin, United States, Robert James Allen, University of California Riverside, Earth & Planetary Sciences, Riverside, United States and Shipeng Zhang, Nanjing University, Nanjing-Helsinki Institute in Atmospheric and Earth System Sciences, Nanjing, China


The Madden-Julian Oscillation and Convectively Coupled Waves in the Tropics: Observations, Theory, Modeling, and Prediction
Primary Convener:  Daisuke Takasuka, Tohoku University, Sendai, Japan
Conveners:  Juliana Dias, NOAA, Boulder, United States, Daehyun Kim, Seoul National University, School of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Seoul, South Korea and Da Yang, Stanford University, Stanford, United States


The Spectral Dimension of Shortwave and Longwave Radiation in the Earth System
Primary Convener:  Daniel Feldman, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA, United States
Conveners:  Jake Gristey, CIRES/NOAA/LASP, Boulder, United States, Shiv Priyam Raghuraman, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, Urbana, United States and Yolanda Shea, NASA, Hampton, United States


Tire Wear Particles and Associated Chemicals Across the Environment
Primary Convener:  Monica M Arienzo, Desert Research Institute Reno, Reno, NV, United States
Conveners:  Andrew B Gray, University of California Riverside, Environmental Science, Riverside, CA, United States, Meredith Evans Seeley, Virginia Institute of Marine Science, Gloucester Point, United States, McKenzie Skiles, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, United States and James Lofty, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Karlsruhe, Germany
Student/Early Career Convener:  Hannah Hapich, University of California Riverside, Riverside, United States


Toward Modifications of Extreme Weather
Primary Convener:  Kohei Takatama, JST, Tokyo, Japan
Conveners:  Takemasa Miyoshi, RIKEN Center for Computational Science, Kobe, Japan, Tetsuo Nakazawa, JST, Tokyo, Japan and Shu-Chih Yang, National Central University, Zhongli, Taiwan


Toward a Process-Level Understanding of Stratospheric Aerosol Injection.
Primary Convener:  Dr. Hongwei Sun, University of Hawaii at Manoa, Honolulu, HI, United States
Conveners:  Mingyi Wang, The University of Chicago, Department of Geophysical Sciences, Chicago, United States, Simone Tilmes, NSF National Center for Atmospheric Research, Atmospheric Chemistry Observations and Modeling Laboratory, Boulder, United States and Frank N Keutsch, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, United States


Transboundary Pollution and Resource Management: From Science to Action
Primary Convener:  Min Huang, University of Maryland College Park, College Park, MD, United States
Conveners:  Gregory R Carmichael, University of Iowa, Department of Chemical and Biochemical Engineering, Iowa City, United States and James H Crawford, NASA Langley Research Center, Hampton, VA, United States


Tropical Cyclones: Observations, Modeling and Predictability - Today and into the Future
Primary Convener:  Robert F Rogers, Asia Pacific-Typhoon Collaborative Research Center, Shanghai, China
Conveners:  Michael M Bell, Colorado State University, Department of Atmospheric Science, Fort Collins, United States, Rosimar Rios-Berrios, National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, United States and Zhuo Wang, University of Illinois, Urbana, United States


Understanding and Evaluating Process Representations in Weather and Climate Models
Primary Convener:  Weiwei Li, NSF NCAR, Boulder, United States
Conveners:  Kathryn Newman1, Wenyu Zhou2 and Michael B Ek1, (1)NSF NCAR, Boulder, United States(2)Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, United States


Understanding and Modeling of Mesoscale and Severe Local Convective Storm Processes
Primary Convener:  Zhe Feng, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, WA, United States
Conveners:  Huancui Hu, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (DOE), Richland, United States and Jiwen Fan, Argonne National Laboratory, Argonne, United States
Student/Early Career Convener:  Huancui Hu, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (DOE), Richland, United States


Understanding, Modeling, and Predicting Ocean-Atmosphere-Land Processes in the Maritime Continent and Indo-Pacific
Primary Convener:  Sandro W. Lubis, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, WA, United States
Conveners:  Ning Zhao, JAMESTEC, Tokyo, Japan, Mingyue Tang, University of Hawai'i at Mānoa, Atmospheric Sciences, Honolulu, United States and Mingting Li, Sun Yat-sen University, School of Atmospheric Sciences, Guangzhou, China
Student/Early Career Convener:  Wayne Yuan-Huai Tsai, University of Oklahoma Norman Campus, School of Meteorology, Norman, United States


Upper Troposphere, Stratosphere and Mesosphere: Chemistry, Dynamics, Transport, and Radiation.
Primary Convener:  Irina V Petropavlovskikh, Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences, Boulder, CO, United States
Conveners:  William John Randel, NSF National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, United States, Natalya A Kramarova, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, United States and Paul A Newman, University of Maryland Baltimore County, Baltimore, United States


Urban Morphology, Microclimate, and Boundary Layer effects on Atmospheric Processes and Air Quality.
Primary Convener:  Abiola S Lawal, University of Connecticut, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Groton, CT, United States
Convener:  Ziqi Gao, University of Virginia, Environmental Institute, Charlottesville, VA, United States


Verification of Anthropogenic Emissions and Their Role in the Earth System: Insights from Observations and Modeling
Primary Convener:  Minde An, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Center for Sustainability Science and Strategy, Cambridge, MA, United States
Conveners:  Luke Western, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Center for Sustainability Science and Strategy, Cambridge, United States, Youmi Oh, NOAA Global Monitoring Laboratory / Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences, University of Colorado Boulder, Boulder, United States and Dr. Aaron Davitt, WattTime, Oakland, United States; Climate TRACE, Denver, United States


Years of Precipitation: Coordinating Global Efforts on High-Impact Precipitation Systems through the World Climate Research Programme’s Global Precipitation Experiment
Primary Convener:  Robert Jeffrey Trapp, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, Department of Climate, Meteorology, and Atmospheric Sciences, Urbana, United States
Conveners:  Juliana Dias, NOAA, Boulder, United States, Jin Huang, NOAA, Camp Springs, MD, United States and Annalisa Cherchi, Istituto Nazionale di Geofisica e Vulcanologia, Bologna, Italy