Natural Hazards



Earth Observations and Imagery Science to Assess and Forecast Risk and Resilience of Communities and Infrastructures dur to Climate Change
Primary Convener:  Bandana Kar, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, TN, United States
Convener:  Margaret T Glasscoe, JPL-Caltech, Pasadena, CA, United States
Primary Liaison:  ZhiQiang Chen, University of Missouri Kansas City, Kansas City, MO, United States


Advances in Fire Behavior Modeling
Primary Convener:  Neda Yaghoobian, Florida State University, Mechanical Engineering, Tallahassee, FL, United States
Conveners:  Bryan Quaife, Florida State University, Scientific Computing, Tallahassee, FL, United States, Michael Gollner, University of California, Berkeley, Mechanical Engineering, Berkeley, United States and Albert Simeoni, Worcester Polytechnic Institute, Worcester, United States
Primary Liaison:  Neda Yaghoobian, Florida State University, Mechanical Engineering, Tallahassee, FL, United States


Advances in Modeling of Rockslide and Flood Events with Special Reference to the 7 February 2021 Dhauli-Ganga Disaster in Uttarakhand, Western Himalaya
Primary Convener:  N Purnachandra Rao, National Geophysical Research Institute, Hyderabad, India and Neelima Satyam
Conveners:  Niels Hovius, GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences, Potsdam, Germany, Siddharth Chauhan Dr, Space Applications center, Ahemadabad, India, Neelima Satyam Devarakonda, IIT Indore, Civil Engineering, Indore, India and Neelima Satyam
Primary Liaison:  Neelima Satyam Devarakonda, IIT Indore, Civil Engineering, Indore, India and Neelima Satyam


Advances in modelling for natural hazards and risk
Primary Convener:  Giuseppe Bilotta, Istituto Nazionale di Geofisica e Vulcanologia (INGV), Sezione di Catania, Catania, Italy
Conveners:  Annalisa Cappello1, Vito Zago2 and Gaetana Ganci1, (1)National Institute of Geophysics and Volcanology, Rome, Italy(2)Northwestern University, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Evanston, United States
Primary Liaison:  Giuseppe Bilotta, National Institute of Geophysics and Volcanology, Rome, Italy


Advancing Earthquake Early Warning through Communication, Education, Outreach, and Social Science Worldwide
Primary Convener:  Danielle F Sumy, Incorporated Research Institutions for Seismology, Seattle, WA, United States
Conveners:  Jenny Crayne, Oregon Museum of Science and Industry, Portland, OR, United States and Robert M DeGroot, United States Geological Survey - Earthquake Science Center, ShakeAlert Project, Pasadena, CA, United States
Primary Liaison:  Danielle F Sumy, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, United States


Bridging the Gap Between Science and Practice to Improve Understanding of Natural Peril Risk For Risk Transfer and Risk Financing Applications
Primary Convener:  Colby K Fisher, Hydronos Labs LLC, Princeton, NJ, United States
Conveners:  Julio Enrique Herrera-Estrada, Descartes Labs, Inc., Applied Science, Los Alamos, NM, United States, Elinor Benami, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg, VA, United States and Michaela Dolk, Insurance Australia Group, Sydney, Australia
Primary Liaison:  Colby K Fisher, Hydronos Labs LLC, Princeton, NJ, United States


Characterization, Mitigation, Mission Designs, and Consequences of Asteroid Impacts on Earth
Primary Convener:  Souheil M Ezzedine, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, CA, United States
Conveners:  Mark Boslough, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM, United States and Brent Barbee, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States
Primary Liaison:  Brent Barbee, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States


Concurrent, Consecutive and Cascading Events: An Emerging Challenge for Risk Assessment and Management of Compound Natural and Natech Hazards
Primary Convener:  Antonia Sebastian, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Department of Geological Sciences, Chapel Hill, NC, United States and Marleen de Ruiter
Conveners:  Marleen Carolijn de Ruiter, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Amsterdam, Netherlands, Hamed Moftakhari, The University of Alabama, Center for Complex Hydrosystems Research, Tuscaloosa, AL, United States, Md Mamunur Rashid, University of Central Florida, Civil, Environmental, and Construction Engineering & National Center for Integrated Coastal Research, Orlando, FL, United States, Philip Ward, IVM - VU University Amsterdam, Amsterdam, Netherlands and Marleen de Ruiter
Primary Liaison:  Antonia Sebastian, Texas A&M University at Galveston, Marine Sciences, Galveston, TX, United States and Marleen de Ruiter


Defending Coastal Infrastructures Against Sea Level Rise and Tropical Storms
Primary Convener:  Zong-Liang Yang, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX, United States
Conveners:  Carey King, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX, United States and Lang Wang, Chinese University of Hong Kong, Institute of Environment, Energy and Sustainability, Hong Kong, Hong Kong
Primary Liaison:  Murat Erkoc, University of Miami, Industrial Engineering, Coral Gables, FL, United States


Geohazards in Marine, Coastal, and Lacustrine Environments
Primary Convener:  Drake M Singleton, USGS Pacific Coastal and Marine Science Center Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, CA, United States
Conveners:  Jared Kluesner, USGS Pacific Coastal and Marine Science Center Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, CA, United States and Nora Nieminski, U.S. Geological Survey, Pacific Coastal and Marine Science Center Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, CA, United States
Primary Liaison:  Drake M Singleton, San Diego State University, Department of Geological Sciences, San Diego, CA, United States


Humanitarian Response and Disaster Risk Management in the Age of Climate Change: The Need for Geo-referenced Population and Infrastructure Data
Primary Convener:  Cascade Tuholske, Columbia University, Center for International Earth Science Information Network (CIESIN), The Earth Institute, Palisades, NY, United States
Conveners:  Maryam Rabiee, Sustainable Development Solutions Network (SDSN), Thematic Research Network on Data and Statistics (TReNDS), New York, NY, United States, Carolynne Hultquist, Center for International Earth Science Information Network, Columbia University, Palisades, NY, United States and Andrew Kruczkiewicz, Columbia University, International Research Institute for Climate and Society, Palisades, NY, United States
Primary Liaison:  Cascade Tuholske, Columbia University, Center for International Earth Science Information Network (CIESIN), The Earth Institute, Palisades, NY, United States


Integrated studies of geospheres coupling associated with pre-earthquake processes, geohazards, and space weather revealed with multi-sensor observations
Primary Convener:  Dimitar Ouzounov, Chapman University, Center of Excellence in Earth Systems Modeling & Observations, Orange, CA, United States
Conveners:  Tiger J.Y Liu, Institute of Space Science and Engineering, National Central University, Taoyuan City, Taiwan and Patrick T Taylor, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Code 61A, Greenbelt, MD, United States
Primary Liaison:  Livio Conti, Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare - Sezione Roma Tor Vergata, Rome, Italy


Interdisciplinary Tsunami Science
Primary Convener:  Maria Kazolea, Bordeaux-Sud-Ouest Inria Research Centre, Bordeaux, France
Conveners:  Patrick J Lynett, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, United States and Hiroaki Tsushima, Meteorological Research Institute (MRI), Japan Meteorological Agency, Tsukuba, Japan
Primary Liaison:  Maria Kazolea, Bordeaux-Sud-Ouest Inria Research Centre, Bordeaux, France


Landslides in rock: Advances in analysis and prediction of rock falls, rock slides, and rock avalanches
Primary Convener:  Brian D Collins, USGS Landslide Hazards Program, Moffett Field, CA, United States
Convener:  Greg M Stock, Yosemite National Park, El Portal, CA, United States
Primary Liaison:  Brian D Collins, USGS Landslide Hazards Program, Moffett Field, CA, United States


Remote Sensing: Monitoring, Prediction, and Hazard Mitigation of Hydroclimatic Extreme Events
Primary Convener:  Ali Mehran, University of North Georgia, Oakwood, GA, United States
Conveners:  Alireza Farahmand, NASA JPL, Los Angeles, CA, United States and Katayoun Mobasher, University of North Georgia, Oakwood, GA, United States
Primary Liaison:  Katayoun Mobasher, Gainesville State College, Oakwood, GA, United States


Risk, impact and communication of compound climate extremes
Primary Convener:  Jonghun Kam, POSTECH, Division of Environmental Science and Technology, Pohang, South Korea
Convener:  Xiaogang He, Institute of Industrial Science, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
Primary Liaison:  Jonghun Kam, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, United States


The Landslide Life Cycle: From Hazard Analysis to Risk Assessment
Primary Convener:  Ben Adam Leshchinsky, Oregon State University, Forest Engineering, Resources & Management, Corvallis, OR, United States
Conveners:  Lauren N Schaefer, USGS Geologic Hazards Science Center, Golden, CO, United States and Dalia Kirschbaum, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Hydrological Sciences Laboratory, Greenbelt, MD, United States
Primary Liaison:  Benjamin B Mirus, USGS Geologic Hazards Science Center, Golden, CO, United States


Volcanic hazards along the Pacific "Ring of Fire" and their socio-economic implications - an outlook for the 21st century
Primary Convener:  Su-Chin Chang, University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, Hong Kong
Conveners:  Jui-Pin Wang, National Central University, Jhongli, Taiwan, Kono Lemke, University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, Hong Kong and Christian Klose, Columbia University, Palisades, United States
Primary Liaison:  Su-Chin Chang, University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, Hong Kong


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:  Robert Cifelli, NOAA/ESRL Physical Sciences Laboratory, Boulder, CO, United States and V. Chandrasekar, Colorado State University, Electrical and Computer Engineering, Fort Collins, CO, United States
Primary Liaison:  Haonan Chen, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO, United States


Advances in wildland fire - atmosphere interactions
Primary Convener:  Tirtha Banerjee, University of California Irvine, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Irvine, CA, United States
Conveners:  Janine Baijnath-Rodino, University of California Irvine, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Irvine, CA, United States, Bruna R F Oliveira, Centre for Environmental and Marine Studies, Department of Environment and Planning, University of Aveiro, Aveiro, Portugal and William C Porter, University of California Riverside, Riverside, CA, United States
Primary Liaison:  Tirtha Banerjee, University of California Irvine, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Irvine, CA, United States


Air pollution detection, monitoring and analytics with human health.
Primary Convener:  Qian Liu, George Mason University Fairfax, Fairfax, VA, United States
Conveners:  Jingchao Yang, George Mason Univ., Fairfax, VA, United States, Manzhu Yu, George Mason University Fairfax, Fairfax, VA, United States and Yun Li, Curtin University, Perth, WA, Australia
Primary Liaison:  Qian Liu, Ocean University of China, Marine Chemistry, Qingdao, China


Atmosphere, Ocean, and Land Processes in the Maritime Continent and Indo-Pacific
Primary Convener:  Ning Zhao, JAMSTEC Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology, Kanagawa, Japan
Conveners:  Elizabeth Jennifer Thompson, NOAA PSL, Physical Sciences Lab, Boulder, CO, United States, Je-Yuan Hsu, National Taiwan University, Institute of Oceanography, Taipei, Taiwan and Sean William Freeman, Colorado State University, Department of Atmospheric Science, Fort Collins, CO, United States
Primary Liaison:  Ning Zhao, JAMESTEC, Tokyo, Japan


Atmospheric Research Supported by Uncrewed Aerial Systems
Primary Convener:  Fan Mei, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, WA, United States
Conveners:  Gijs de Boer, CIRES/University of Colorado/NOAA/PSL, Boulder, CO, United States, Greg M McFarquhar, Cooperative Institute for Mesoscale Meteorological Studies, University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK, United States and Beat Schmid, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, WA, United States
Primary Liaison:  Fan Mei, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, WA, United States


Climate change and extreme winter weather: insights from the US cold wave of February 2021.
Primary Convener:  Judah Levi Cohen, Atmospheric and Environmental Research Lexington, Lexington, MA, United States
Conveners:  Jennifer Francis, Senior Scientist, Falmoth, MA, United States; Woodwell Climate Research Center, Falmoth, United States, James Screen, University of Exeter, Exeter, EX4, United Kingdom and Jason Furtado, University of Oklahoma, School of Meteorology, Norman, OK, United States
Primary Liaison:  Jennifer Francis, Senior Scientist, Falmoth, MA, United States; Woodwell Climate Research Center, Falmoth, United States


Convective and Volcanic Clouds (CVC) and impact on aviation management
Primary Convener:  Riccardo Biondi, University of Padova, Padova, Italy
Conveners:  Tatjana Bolic, University of Westminster, London, United Kingdom, Nina Iren Kristiansen, Norwegian Institute for Air Research, Kjeller, Norway and Stefano Corradini, National Institute of Geophysics and Volcanology, Rome, Italy
Primary Liaison:  Stefano Corradini, National Institute of Geophysics and Volcanology, Rome, Italy


Extratropical and High-latitude Storm Tracks, Circulation Dynamics, and Extreme Events in the Context of Rapidly Changing Arctic and Antarctic Climate
Primary Convener:  Xiangdong Zhang, University of Alaska Fairbanks, Fairbanks, AK, United States
Conveners:  Kent Moore, Univ Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada and James E Overland, NOAA Seattle, Seattle, WA, United States
Primary Liaison:  Xiangdong Zhang, Univ Alaska, Fairbanks, AK, United States


Extreme Events: Observations and Modeling
Primary Convener:  Sridhara Nayak, Disaster Prevention Research Institute, Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan
Conveners:  Sridhara Nayak, Disaster Prevention Research Institute, Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan and Tetsuya Takemi, Disaster Prevention Research Institute, Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan
Primary Liaison:  Sridhara Nayak, Disaster Prevention Research Institute, Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan


Extreme Precipitation in Past, Present, and Future Climates
Primary Convener:  Markus Donat, Barcelona Supercomputing Center, Earth Sciences Department, Barcelona, Spain
Conveners:  Erich M Fischer, ETH Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland, Andreas F Prein, National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, CO, United States and Angie Pendergrass, Cornell University, Ithaca, United States
Primary Liaison:  Markus Donat, University of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW, Australia


Extreme weather and climate in urban areas, their social impacts, and mitigation
Primary Convener:  Quang Van Doan, University of Tsukuba, Center for Computational Sciences, Tsukuba, Japan
Conveners:  Ashish Sharma, University of Notre Dame, Department of Civil Engineering, Environmental and Earth Sciences, Notre Dame, IN, United States, Fei Chen, NCAR/RAL, Boulder, CO, United States and Donald J Wuebbles, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, Department of Atmospheric Sciences, Urbana, IL, United States
Primary Liaison:  Quang Van Doan, University of Tsukuba, Center for Computational Sciences, Tsukuba, Japan


Extreme Weather Events: Forecast skill, Uncertainty Quantification and Impact Modeling
Primary Convener:  Marina Astitha, University of Connecticut, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Storrs, CT, United States
Conveners:  Marina Astitha, University of Connecticut, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Storrs, CT, United States, Forest Cannon, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, San Diego, CA, United States; University of California San Diego, La Jolla, CA, United States, Efthymios I Nikolopoulos, Florida Institute of Technology, Mechanical and Civil Engineering, Melbourne, United States and Alison Cobb, University of California San Diego, Scripps Institute of Oceanography, Center for Western Weather and Water Extremes, La Jolla, CA, United States
Primary Liaison:  Marina Astitha, University of Connecticut, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Storrs, CT, United States


Geostationary and Polar-orbiting Satellite Constellation for Air Quality and Atmospheric Composition
Primary Convener:  Shobha Kondragunta, NOAA College Park, College Park, MD, United States and None
Conveners:  Diego G Loyola, German Aerospace Center (DLR), Remote Sensing Technology Institute (IMF), Oberpfaffenhofen, Germany, Claus Zehner, European Space Research Institute, Frascati, Italy, James F Gleason, NASA Goddard SFC, Greenbelt, MD, United States and None
Primary Liaison:  Diego G Loyola, German Aerospace Center (DLR), Remote Sensing Technology Institute (IMF), Oberpfaffenhofen, Germany and None


Observation and model studies of cloud properties and associated processes
Primary Convener:  Chuanfeng Zhao, Beijing Normal University, College of Global Change and Earth System Science, Beijing, China
Conveners:  Jonathan H. Jiang, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States, Xiquan Dong, University of North Dakota, Grand Forks, ND, United States and Kuan-Man Xu, NASA Langley Research Center, Hampton, VA, United States
Primary Liaison:  Jonathan H. Jiang, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States


Process-based Testing and Evaluation of Weather and Climate Models
Primary Convener:  Weiwei Li, National Center for Atmospheric Research and Developmental Testbed Center, Boulder, CO, United States
Conveners:  Michael B Ek, National Center for Atmospheric Research and Developmental Testbed Center, Boulder, United States, Lulin Xue, National Center for Atmospheric Research, Developmental Testbed Center, Boulder, CO, United States and Stan Benjamin, NOAA Global Systems Laboratory, Boulder, CO, United States
Primary Liaison:  Weiwei Li, National Center for Atmospheric Research and Developmental Testbed Center, Boulder, CO, United States


Subseasonal to Seasonal Climate Prediction, Processes, and Services
Primary Convener:  Andrew William Robertson, International Research Institute for Climate and Society, Columbia University, Palisades, NY, United States
Conveners:  Arun Kumar, NOAA/NCEP, College Park, MD, United States, Kathleen Pegion, George Mason University, Fairfax, VA, United States and Zhuo Wang, University of Illinois, Urbana, IL, United States
Primary Liaison:  Andrew William Robertson, Columbia University, International Research Institute for Climate and Society, Palisades, NY, United States


The past and future of fire
Primary Convener:  Yang Li, Baylor University, Waco, TX, United States
Convener:  Pengfei Liu, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA, United States
Primary Liaison:  Yang Li, Baylor University, Waco, TX, United States


Tropical Cyclones: Observations, Modeling and Predictability
Primary Convener:  Zhuo Wang, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, Department of Atmospheric Sciences, Urbana, IL, United States and Scott Braun
Conveners:  Scott A Braun, NASA/GSFC, Greenbelt, MD, United States, Patrick Harr, Jupiter Intelligence, San Mateo, United States and Scott Braun
Primary Liaison:  Zhuo Wang, University of Illinois, Urbana, IL, United States and Scott Braun


Understanding and Modeling of Mesoscale and Severe Local Convective Storm Processes
Primary Convener:  Zhe Feng, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, WA, United States
Conveners:  Jiwen Fan, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, WA, United States, Rebecca Adams-Selin, Atmospheric and Environmental Research, Lexington, MA, United States and Kristen Lani Rasmussen, Colorado State University, Atmospheric Science, Fort Collins, CO, United States
Primary Liaison:  Jiwen Fan, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, WA, United States