School of Meteorology students, professors, and researchers present at AGU Annual Meeting

The annual American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting is being held this week in San Francisco, California. Many of our faculty members, students, and other staff have traveled to the conference, and quite a few will be presenting over their work:

Presentations

• Custom Autonomous Watercraft with Improved Transect Heading Accuracy to Ascertain Higher Quality Measurements with the Sontek River Surveyor S5
  William Doyle¹, Laura Veronica Alvarez², Matthew S Whitehead³, Gustavo Britto Hupsel de Azevedo⁴, Bryan Boone³ and Phillip Bruce Chilson⁵, (1)University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK, United States, (2)Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ, United States, (3)University of Oklahoma, Norman, United States, (4)University of Oklahoma Norman Campus, Norman, OK, United States, (5)University of Oklahoma, Meteorology, Norman, OK, United States
• Spatially-Temporally Resolved Sampling System for Carbon Dioxide Concentration in the Atmospheric Boundary Layer: A Low-cost UAS Approach
  Gustavo Britto Hupsel de Azevedo¹, Elizabeth A Pillar-Little², Antonio Segales² and Phillip Bruce Chilson², (1)University of Oklahoma Norman Campus, Norman, OK, United States, (2)University of Oklahoma, Meteorology, Norman, OK, United States
• The Dynamics of Nocturnal Mesoscale Convective Systems over the Great Plains and Their Potential Role in Forecast Failures in Global Numerical Weather Prediction Systems
  David b. Parsons, University of Oklahoma Norman Campus, Norman, OK, United States, Chris Rattray, University of Oklahoma, School of Meteorology, Norman, OK, United States and Samuel P. Lillo, University of Oklahoma Norman Campus, School of Meteorology, Norman, OK, United States
• Relative Contributions of Local and Non-Local Land-Atmosphere Feedbacks to the Development and Evolution of Flash Drought and Implications for Predictability
  Ryann Ashley Wakefield¹, Jeffrey B Basara² and Jordan I. Christian², (1)University of Oklahoma Norman Campus, Norman, OK, United States, (2)University of Oklahoma, School of Meteorology, Norman, OK, United States
• Peering inside the black box: Using deep learning to improve understanding of weather phenomena
  Amy McGovern, University of Oklahoma, Computer Science, Norman, United States, Ryan Lagerquist, University of Oklahoma, Norman, United States and David John Gagne II, National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, CO, United States
• Next-generation cloud radars: Applications of rapid-scan cloud radars for three-dimensional mapping of clouds
  David Joseph Bodine, University of Oklahoma Norman Campus, Norman, OK, United States, Jorge Salazar-Cerreno, University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK, United States, Jay McDaniel, University of Oklahoma Norman Campus, Norman, United States, Cameron R Homeyer, University of Oklahoma, School of Meteorology, Norman, OK, United States, Robert Dean Palmer, Univ Oklahoma, Norman, OK, United States, Pierre-Emmanuel Kirstetter, University of Oklahoma, School of Civil Engineering and Environmental Sciences and School of Meteorology, Norman, OK, United States, Mark B Yeary, University of Oklahoma Norman Campus, Advanced Radar Research Center, Norman, United States, Greg M McFarquhar, Cooperative Institute for Mesoscale Meteorological Studies, University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK, United States, Jeff Kelly, University of Oklahoma Norman Campus, Department of Zoology, Norman, OK, United States, Bradley M. Isom, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, WA, United States, Pavlos Kollias, McGill University, Montreal, QC, Canada and Matthew R Kumjian, Pennsylvania State University Main Campus, University Park, PA, United States
• Recent Development of Multiscale and Multi-resolution Data Assimilation in Hybrid 4DEnVar for Global Numerical Weather Prediction
  Xuguang Wang, University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK, United States
• The GeoCarb Mission
  Berrien Moore III, University of Oklahoma Norman Campus, Norman, OK, United States and Sean Crowell, University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK, United States
• Lightning Characteristics of Severe Local Storms from both Space-based and Ground-based Networks
  Kristin M Calhoun, National Severe Storms Lab, Norman, OK, United States and Kevin C. Thiel, University of Oklahoma Norman Campus, School of Meteorology, Norman, OK, United States
• Integrating Human Response into Air Pollution Studies I eLightning
  Cesunica Elizabeth Ivey, University of California Riverside, Chemical and Environmental Engineering, Riverside, CA, United States, Sandra Marcela Loria Salazar, University of Oklahoma Norman Campus, School of Meteorology, Norman, OK, United States, Haofei Yu, University of Central Florida, Civil, Environmental and Construction Engineering, Orlando, FL, United States and Fernando Garcia Menendez, North Carolina State University, Civil, Construction, and Environmental Engineering, Raleigh, NC, United States
• Tutorial on Machine Learning and Deep Learning for the Environmental and Geosciences
  Karthik Kashinath¹, Ilene Carpenter², Jebb Stewart³, Adrian Albert¹, Arti Garg⁴, Benjamin A Toms⁵, Mr Prabhat¹, Ryan Lagerquist⁶, Anuj Karpatne⁷, David Hall⁸, Amy McGovern⁹, Lucas N Joppa¹⁰, Jason Hickey¹¹, Pierre Gentine¹², Mike S Pritchard¹³, Elizabeth A Barnes¹⁴, Christopher Stephen Bretherton¹⁵, Charles M Siegel¹⁶, Steven Farrell¹⁷ and Carlos Gaitan¹⁸, (1)Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA, United States(2)Cray Inc, Arvada, CO, United States(3)NOAA Earth System Research Laboratory and Cooperative Institute for Research in the Atmosphere, Boulder, CO, United States(4)Engineers & Scientists Acting Locally, Founder, Hayward, CA, United States(5)Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO, United States(6)University of Oklahoma, Norman, United States(7)University of Minnesota Twin Cities, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Minneapolis, MN, United States(8)NVIDIA, Lafayette, CO, United States(9)University of Oklahoma, Computer Science, Norman, United States(10)Microsoft Research, Cambridge, United Kingdom(11)Google, Mountain View, CA, United States(12)Department of Earth and Environmental Engineering, Columbia University, New York, NY, United States(13)University California Irvine, Department of Earth System Science, Irvine, CA, United States(14)Colorado State University Fort Collins, Fort Collins, CO, UNITED STATES(15)University of Washington Seattle Campus, Seattle, WA, United States(16)Cray Inc., Seattle, United States(17)Lawrence Berkeley National Lab, Berkeley, CA, United States(18)NOAA, Boulder, United States

Posters

• Custom Autonomous Watercraft with Improved Transect Heading Accuracy to Ascertain Higher Quality Measurements with the Sontek River Surveyor S5
  William Doyle¹, Laura Veronica Alvarez², Matthew S Whitehead³, Gustavo Britto Hupsel de Azevedo⁴, Bryan Boone³ and Phillip Bruce Chilson⁵, (1)University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK, United States, (2)Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ, United States, (3)University of Oklahoma, Norman, United States, (4)University of Oklahoma Norman Campus, Norman, OK, United States, (5)University of Oklahoma, Meteorology, Norman, OK, United States
• Spatially-Temporally Resolved Sampling System for Carbon Dioxide Concentration in the Atmospheric Boundary Layer: A Low-cost UAS Approach
  Gustavo Britto Hupsel de Azevedo¹, Elizabeth A Pillar-Little², Antonio Segales² and Phillip Bruce Chilson², (1)University of Oklahoma Norman Campus, Norman, OK, United States, (2)University of Oklahoma, Meteorology, Norman, OK, United States
• Extending a Flood Forecasting Framework to Enhance Its Capacity of Flood Inundation Mapping
  Xiangyu Luo, University of Oklahoma Norman Campus, Norman, OK, United States, Mengye Chen, The University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK, United States and Yang Hong, University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK, United States
• Remote Sensing Study of the Relationships Between Biomass Burning Aerosols and Marine Stratocumulus during ORACLES Campaign
  Lan Gao, University of Oklahoma Norman Campus, Cooperative Institute for Mesoscale Meteorological Studies, Norman, OK, United States, Ian Chang, University of Oklahoma, School of Meteorology, Norman, OK, United States, Greg M McFarquhar, Cooperative Institute for Mesoscale Meteorological Studies, University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK, United States, Jens Redemann, University of Oklahoma Norman Campus, School of Meteorology, Norman, OK, United States and Eric M Wilcox, Desert Research Institute Reno, Reno, NV, United States
• Pattern Classification and Impacts of Subseasonal to Seasonal Extreme Precipitation Events in the United States
  Melanie Schroers, University of Oklahoma Norman Campus, School of Meteorology, Norman, OK, United States, Elinor R Martin, University of Oklahoma, School of Meteorology, Norman, OK, United States and Gregory Jennrich, University of Oklahoma Norman Campus, Meteorology, Norman, OK, United States
• Tropopause-Overshooting Convection – 21 Years of Ground-Based Radar Evaluation over the United States
  Cameron R Homeyer, University of Oklahoma Norman Campus, Norman, OK, United States and Tao Xian, University of Oklahoma, School of Meteorology, Norman, OK, United States
• Stratospheric Radar Observations of Convection and Precipitation
  Pierre-Emmanuel Kirstetter¹, Robert Dean Palmer², David Joseph Bodine³, Cameron R Homeyer⁴, Tian-You Yu⁵, Michael I Biggerstaff¹, Howard B Bluestein¹, Steven M Cavallo¹, Boon Leng Cheong¹, Youngsun Jung⁶, Jay McDaniel⁷, Naoko Sakaeda⁸, Jorge Salazar-Cerreno⁵, Xuguang Wang⁵, Mark B Yeary⁹, Jonathan J Gourley¹⁰, Kenneth Howard¹¹, Walter Arthur Petersen¹², Simone Tanelli¹³, Audrey Martini¹⁴ and Nicolas Viltard¹⁵, (1)University of Oklahoma Norman Campus, Norman, OK, United States, (2)Univ Oklahoma, Norman, OK, United States, (3)University of Oklahoma, Advanced Radar Research Center, Norman, OK, United States, (4)University of Oklahoma, School of Meteorology, Norman, OK, United States, (5)University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK, United States, (6)University of Oklahoma, Norman, Oklahoma, South Korea, (7)University of Oklahoma Norman Campus, Norman, United States, (8)University of Oklahoma Norman Campus, School of Meteorology, Norman, OK, United States, (9)University of Oklahoma Norman Campus, Advanced Radar Research Center, Norman, United States, (10)National Severe Storms Lab, Oklahoma City, OK, United States, (11)National Severe Storms Lab, Norman, OK, United States, (12)NASA MSFC, Science Research and Projects Office, Huntsville, AL, United States, (13)Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States, (14)University of Versailles Saint-Quentin en Yvelines, Versailles, France, (15)LATMOS Laboratoire Atmosphères, Milieux, Observations Spatiales, Paris Cedex 05, France
• Quantifying Precipitation Susceptibility in Marine Stratocumulus with Varying Aerosol Concentrations Above Clouds: Results from ORACLES
  Siddhant Gupta, University of Oklahoma Norman Campus, Norman, OK, United States, Greg M McFarquhar, Cooperative Institute for Mesoscale Meteorological Studies, University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK, United States, Michael Poellot, University of North Dakota, Grand Forks, ND, United States, Joseph R O’Brien, University of North Dakota, Grand Forks, United States, Andrew Dzambo, University of Wisconsin Madison, Madison, WI, United States and Simone Tanelli, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States
• Large-scale Water-related Land Cover Data Product for Risk Assessment of Zoonotic Infectious Disease Transmission Dynamics
  Xiangming Xiao, University of Oklahoma Norman Campus, Norman, OK, United States, Geli Zhang, China Agricultural University, College of Land Science and Technology, Beijing, China, Jinwei Dong, Institute of Geographic Sciences and Natural Resources Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China, Zhenhua Zou, University of Oklahoma, Department of Microbiology and Plant Biology, Center for Spatial Analysis, Norman, OK, United States, Xinxin WANG, Fudan University, Shanghai, China and Marius Gilbert, Universite Libre de Bruxelles, Brussels, Belgium
• Distributions of Condensation Nuclei, Cloud Condensation Nuclei and Cloud Properties over the Southern Ocean: First Results from MARCUS/MICRE
  Qing Niu, University of Oklahoma Norman Campus, Norman, OK, United States, Saisai Ding, Peking University, Beijing, China, Greg M McFarquhar, Cooperative Institute for Mesoscale Meteorological Studies, University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK, United States, Roger Marchand, University of Washington, Department of Atmospheric Sciences, Seattle, WA, United States, Adam K. Theisen, Argonne National Laboratory, Lemont, IL, United States and Ruhi Humphries, CSIRO Marine and Atmospheric Research, Aspendale, Australia
• Hot Pockets: Rethinking the National Weather Service Approach to Heat Hazards in the Louisville Urban Heat Island
  Kristine Chen¹, Joseph Sullivan² and Theodore Funk², (1)University of Oklahoma Norman Campus, School of Meteorology, Norman, OK, United States, (2)National Weather Service Louisville, Louisville, KY, United States
• Space-Based Precipitation Observations, Estimation, and Applications: A Centennial Perspective V Posters
  Pierre-Emmanuel Kirstetter, University of Oklahoma Norman Campus, Norman, OK, United States, Walter Arthur Petersen, NASA MSFC, Science Research and Projects Office, Huntsville, AL, United States, Gail Skofronick Jackson, NASA-GSFC, Greenbelt, MD, United States and George John Huffman, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States
• Aerosol, Cloud, Precipitation, and Radiation Studies over the Southern Ocean II Posters
  Greg M McFarquhar, University of Oklahoma, Cooperative Institute for Mesoscale Meteorological Studies and School of Meteorology, Norman, OK, United States, Athanasios Nenes, Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne, School of Architecture, Civil and Environmental Engineering (ENAC), Laboratory of Atmospheric Processes and their Impacts (LAPI), Lausanne, Switzerland, Roger Marchand, University of Washington, Department of Atmospheric Sciences, Seattle, WA, United States and Tom Lachlan-Cope, NERC British Antarctic Survey, Cambridge, United Kingdom
• Remote Sensing Study of the Relationships Between Biomass Burning Aerosols and Marine Stratocumulus during ORACLES Campaign
  Lan Gao, University of Oklahoma Norman Campus, Cooperative Institute for Mesoscale Meteorological Studies, Norman, OK, United States, Ian Chang, University of Oklahoma, School of Meteorology, Norman, OK, United States, Greg M McFarquhar, Cooperative Institute for Mesoscale Meteorological Studies, University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK, United States, Jens Redemann, University of Oklahoma Norman Campus, School of Meteorology, Norman, OK, United States and Eric M Wilcox, Desert Research Institute Reno, Reno, NV, United States
• Time-Varying Lightning, Updraft, and Microphysical Characteristics in a Supercell Storm and a Multicell Storm
  Elizabeth DiGangi, Cooperative Institute for Mesoscale Meteorological Studies, University of Oklahoma and NOAA/National Severe Storms Laboratory, Norman, OK, United States, Donald R MacGorman, NOAA/National Severe Storms Laboratory, Norman, OK, United States, Michael I Biggerstaff, University of Oklahoma Norman Campus, Norman, OK, United States, Conrad Ziegler, National Severe Storms Lab Norman, Norman, OK, United States, Austin A. Alford, University of Oklahoma Norman Campus, School of Meteorology, Norman, OK, United States and Daniel Betten, University of Oklahoma and NOAA/NSSL, Cooperative Institute for Mesoscale Meteorological Studies, Norman, OK, United States
• Use of Unmanned Systems in Atmospheric Science II Posters
  Fan Mei¹, Gijs de Boer², Greg M McFarquhar³ and Beat Schmid¹, (1)Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, WA, United States(2)University of Colorado at Boulder; IASC Atmosphere WG Member, Boulder, CO, United States(3)Cooperative Institute for Mesoscale Meteorological Studies, University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK, United States
• Understanding how Complex Terrain Impacts Tornado Dynamics using a Suite of High-Resolution Numerical Simulations
  Martin Satrio¹, David Joseph Bodine¹, Anthony Reinhart², Takashi Maruyama³ and Franklin Lombardo⁴, (1)University of Oklahoma, Advanced Radar Research Center, Norman, OK, United States, (2)OU/CIMMS and NOAA/OAR/NSSL, Norman, OK, United States, (3)Disaster Prevention Research Institute, Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan, (4)University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Urbana, IL, United States
• Investigation of Columnar/Ground-Level Intensive and Extensive Aerosol Properties, and the Role of Weather in Aerosol Pollution Concentrations in Reno, Nevada, USA from 2012-2019
  Sandra Marcela Loria Salazar, University of Oklahoma Norman Campus, School of Meteorology, Norman, OK, United States, William P Arnott, University of Nevada Reno, Reno, NV, United States, Andrew M Sayer, Universities Space Research Association Columbia, Columbia, MD, United States and Jens Redemann, NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, CA, United States
• Thunderstorm Electrification, Lightning Meteorology, and Advances in Instrumentation and Methods for Atmospheric Electricity Applications I Posters
  Kristin M Calhoun, NOAA / OAR / National Severe Storms Laboratory, Norman, OK, United States, Jeff L Lapierre, University of Virginia, Environmental Sciences, Charlottesville, VA, United States, Eric C Bruning, Texas Tech University, Department of Geosciences Atmospheric Science Group, Lubbock, TX, United States, Michael Stock, Earth Networks Inc., Germantown, MD, United States, Daile Zhang, University of Maryland College Park, College Park, MD, United States, Elizabeth DiGangi, University of Oklahoma and NOAA/NSSL, Cooperative Institute for Mesoscale Meteorological Studies, Norman, OK, United States and Sonja A Behnke, University of South Florida Tampa, Tampa, FL, United States

We send our best wishes to all of those presenting and attending the meeting this year.