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Physical Sciences Laboratory researchers to present at the 2026 Annual Meeting of the American Meteorological Society
The American Meteorological Society (AMS)’s Annual Meeting brings together top meteorologists, atmospheric scientists, oceanographers, hydrologists, climatologists, and other professionals in the field of weather, water, and climate sciences. Several PSL researchers will present their science at the 106th AMS Annual Meeting from January 25 to 29, 2026, at the George R. Brown Convention Center in Houston, Texas.
A rundown of PSL presenters is below (All times Central Standard Time UTC-6 - events in order of date and time - schedule subject to change). A full searchable schedule of all AMS presentations is available on the AMS26 Online Program .
Please note: No PSL presentations on Sunday, January 25.
Monday, January 26
NOAA EAGLE: Research to Operations Pipeline for AI Weather Models at NOAA
Presenter: Sergey Frolov (PSL)
Presentation Type: Oral Session
8:30 AM – 8:45 AM, Room 330A
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Extreme Precipitation I
Co-Chair: Kelly Mahoney (PSL)
Presentation Type: Oral Session
8:30 AM – 10:00 AM, Room 332B
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Process-Based Evaluation of Machine Learning Ensemble Forecasts of Atmospheric Rivers
Presenter: Leif Swenson (PSL/CIRES)
Presentation Type: Oral Session
9:00 AM – 9:15 AM, Room 381A
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20 Years of the National Integrated Drought Information System
Presenter: Andrew Hoell (PSL)
Presentation Type: Oral Session
9:30 AM – 9:45 AM, Grand Ballroom C
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Extreme Precipitation II
Co-Chair: Kelly Mahoney (PSL)
Presentation Type: Oral Session
10:45 AM – 12:00 PM, Room 332B
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Ocean and Coupled Earth System Emulators: Challenges, Solutions and Opportunities
Presenter: Niraj Agarwal (PSL/CIRES)
Presentation Type: Oral Session
11:15 AM – 11:30 AM, Room 322A
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Town Hall Meeting - NOAA Research: Agency Update
Speaker: Kelly Mahoney (PSL)
Presentation Type: Town Hall
12:15 PM – 1:15 PM, Room 361A
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Extreme Precipitation III
Co-Chair: Kelly Mahoney (PSL)
Presentation Type: Oral Session
1:45 PM – 3:00 PM, Room 332B
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What Is Environmental Security and Why Is It Important? Perspectives from the Weather, Climate, Water and Environmental Science Communities
Moderator: Roger Pulwarty (PSL)
Presentation Type: Panel Discussion
1:45 PM – 3:00 PM, Room 352A
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Assessing Fitness-for-Purpose in Extreme Precipitation Datasets: Challenges, Approaches, and Emerging Best Practices
Presenter: Kelly Mahoney (PSL)
Presentation Type: Oral Session
2:00 PM – 2:15 PM, Room 332B
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Analysis of high-resolution, long period-of-record QPE using quality controlled hourly gauge data
Presenter: Janice Bytheway (PSL)
Presentation Type: Oral Session
2:15 PM – 3:30 PM, Room 332B
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Using Case Studies from the ARCSIX Campaign to Improve Simulations of Warm Arctic Mixed-phase Stratocumulus
Presenter: Amy Solomon (PSL/CIRES)
Presentation Type: Oral Session
2:45 PM – 3:00 PM, Room 371E
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Extreme Precipitation IV
Co-Chair: Kelly Mahoney (PSL)
Presentation Type: Oral Session
4:30 PM – 6:00 PM, Room 332B
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Improving Early Warning and Early Action Capabilities for Security-Related Extreme Events
Presenter: Roger Pulwarty (PSL)
Presentation Type: Oral Session
4:30 PM – 4:45 PM, Room 352A
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Tuesday, January 27
Extreme Precipitation IV
Co-Chair: Kelly Mahoney (PSL)
Presentation Type: Oral Session
8:30 AM – 10:00 AM, Room 332B
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Multidecadal Downscaling of Sea Surface Height for the U.S. Northeast, Southeast, and Gulf Coasts for High Tide Flooding Prediction
Presenter: Laura McGee (PSL)
Presentation Type: Oral Session
9:30 AM – 9:45 AM, Room 360D
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Just Add DA
Presenter: Sergey Frolov (PSL)
Presentation Type: Oral Session
9:45 AM – 10:00 AM, Room 330A
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Poster: Development and Evaluation of a Weakly-Coupled Scout Run for the Global Unified Forecast System (UFS) Reanalysis (1979–Present)
Presenter: Adam Schneider (PSL/CIRES)
Presentation Type: Poster Session
1:00 PM – 2:00 PM, Virtual
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The Future of the Weather Enterprise
Co-Chair: Diana Stovern (PSL)
Presentation Type: Joint Session
1:45 PM – 3:00 PM, Room 381A
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Poster: Southern California Drought Early Warning and Causal Mapping through the 2024-2025 Wildfire and Drought Season
Presenter: Andrew Hoell (PSL)
Presentation Type: Poster Session
3:00 PM – 4:30 PM, Hall B3
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Posters: Extreme Precipitation
Co-Chair: Kelly Mahoney (PSL)
Presentation Type: Poster Session
3:00 PM – 4:30 PM, Hall B3
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Poster: Improving the Performance of Seasonal Forecast System with Stochastic Physics
Presenter: Xiao-Wei Quan (PSL/CIRES)
Presentation Type: Poster Session
3:00 PM – 4:30 PM, Hall B3
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Poster: Interpretable AI-Analog Framework For Climate Prediction
Presenter: Kinya Toride (PSL/CIRES)
Presentation Type: Poster Session
3:00 PM – 4:30 PM, Hall B3
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Extreme Precipitation VI
Session Co-Chair: Kelly Mahoney (PSL)
Presentation Type: Oral Session
4:30 PM – 6:00 PM, Room 332B
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Identifying, Understanding, and Resolving Model Biases
Co-Chair: Jian-Wen Bao (PSL)
Presentation Type: Oral Session
5:45 PM – 6:00 PM, Room 362C
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Panel: Future of the Public-Private Partnership
Co-Moderator: Diana Stovern (PSL)
Presentation Type: Panel Discussion
4:30 PM – 6:30 PM, Room 381A
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Ensemble Sensitivity to Initial Perturbations and Stochastic Physics at Seasonal Leads in the UFS
Presenter: Philip Pegion (PSL)
Presentation Type: Oral Session
4:45 PM – 5:00 PM, Room 352A
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Innovations Toward Enhanced Ensemble Streamflow Predictions in NOAA’s HEFS and NextGen Frameworks
Presenter: Mimi Abel (PSL)
Presentation Type: Oral Session
5:15 PM – 5:30 PM, Room 332A
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Multi-Season Evaluation of the Marine Boundary Layer at the US Northeast Coast in the High-Resolution-Rapid-Refresh Model
Presenter: Bianca Adler (PSL/CIRES)
Presentation Type: Oral Session
5:30 PM – 5:45 PM, Room 352A
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On the Use of Observations to Address the Bias in the Representation of Atmosphere-Land Interaction
Presenter: Jian-Wen Bao (PSL)
Presentation Type: Oral Session
5:45 PM – 6:00 PM, Room 362C
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Wednesday, January 28
Advancements in Drought Monitoring and Analysis I
Co-Chair: Rachel Maya Robinson (PSL/CIRES)
Presentation Type: Oral Session
8:30 AM – 10:00 AM, Room 332A
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Extreme Precipitation VII
Co-Chair: Kelly Mahoney (PSL)
Presentation Type: Oral Session
8:30 AM – 10:00 AM, Room 332B
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Modal Interference Drives Madden-Julian Evolution and Predictability
Presenter: David Marsico (PSL/CIRES)
Presentation Type: Oral Session
9:15 AM – 9:30 AM, Room 352D
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Development of a Data Driven Global Weather Model with High Resolution over the US
Presenter: Tim Smith (PSL)
Presentation Type: Oral Session
9:15 AM – 9:30 AM, Room 330A
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Representation of Extreme Rainfall in NOAA’s Experimental MPAS Forecasts during the 2025 Warm Season
Presenter: Diana Stovern (PSL)
Presentation Type: Oral Session
9:30 AM – 9:45 AM, Room 332B
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Advancements in Drought Monitoring and Analysis II
Co-Chair: Rachel Maya Robinson (PSL/CIRES)
Presentation Type: Oral Session
10:45 AM – 12:00 PM, Room 332A
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Extreme Precipitation VIII
Session Co-Chair: Kelly Mahoney (PSL)
Presentation Type: Oral Session
10:45 AM – 12:00 PM, Room 332A
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Using Historical Burn-Permit Data to Characterize Local and Synoptic-Scale Weather Conditions for Prescribed Pile and Broadcast Burning in Northern California
Presenter: Rochelle Worsnop (PSL)
Presentation Type: Oral Session
11:00 AM – 11:15 AM, Room 361A
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Advancements in Drought Prediction and Analysis
Co-Chair: Andrew Hoell (PSL)
Presentation Type: Oral Session
1:45 PM – 3:00 PM, Room 332A
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Tropical Variability in GraphCast vs GFSv16: What does the Neural Network learn?
Presenter: Maria Gehne (PSL/CIRES)
Presentation Type: Oral Session
2:30 PM – 2:45 PM, Room 330A
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Posters: Advancements in Drought Prediction and Analysis
Co-Chair: Andrew Hoell (PSL)
Presentation Type: Poster Session
3:00 PM – 4:30 PM, Hall B3
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Posters: Advancements in Drought Prediction and Analysis
Co-Chair: Rachel Maya Robinson (PSL/CIRES)
Presentation Type: Poster Session
3:00 PM – 4:30 PM, Hall B3
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Posters: Extreme Precipitation
Co-Chair: Kelly Mahoney (PSL)
Presentation Type: Poster Session
3:00 PM – 4:30 PM, Hall B3
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Advancements in Drought Monitoring and Analysis III
Co-Chair: Rachel Maya Robinson (PSL/CIRES)
Presentation Type: Oral Session
4:30 PM – 6:00 PM, Room 332A
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High-Latitude Mixed-Phase Cloud Processes
Co-Chair: Amy Solomon (PSL/CIRES)
Presentation Type: Oral Session
4:30 PM – 6:00 PM, Room 371E
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Remote Sensing of Precipitation at Regional, Continental, and Global Scales: Extimation, Evaluation, and Applications I
Co-Chair: Janice Bytheway (PSL)
Presentation Type: Oral Session
4:30 PM – 6:00 PM, Room 332B
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Thursday, January 29
Remote Sensing of Precipitation at Regional, Continental, and Global Scales: Extimation, Evaluation, and Applications II
Co-Chair: Janice Bytheway (PSL)
Presentation Type: Oral Session
8:00 AM – 10:00 AM, Room 332B
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NOAA’s S2S Applications: Stakeholder Needs, Modeling Systems and Analysis I
Co-Chair: Philip Pegion (PSL)
Presentation Type: Oral Session
8:30 AM – 10:00 AM, Room 370A
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The Second Time’s the Charm: Operationalizing the Evaporative Demand Drought Index at the NOAA-Climate Prediction Center
Presenter: Mike Hobbins (PSL/CIRES)
Presentation Type: Oral Session
8:45 AM – 9:00 AM, Room 372A
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An MJO test bed to support UFS global applications development
Presenter: Juliana Dias (PSL)
Presentation Type: Oral Session
9:00 AM – 9:15 AM, Room 370A
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The Relationship between Drought Related to the El Niño-Southern Oscillation and Wildfire Area Burned in Contiguous United States Geographic Area Coordination Centers
Presenter: Rachel Maya Robinson (PSL/CIRES)
Presentation Type: Oral Session
9:45 AM – 10:00 AM, Room 310C
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Incorporating sub-seasonal to seasonal (S2S) ensemble precipitation forecasts to improve S2S streamflow predictions in the United States
Presenter: Erin Towler (PSL)
Presentation Type: Oral Session
9:45 AM – 10:00 AM, Room 370A
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Evaluation of the Spatial Representation of Precipitation in Gridded Datasets
Presenter: Brett Basarab (PSL/CIRES)
Presentation Type: Oral Session
10:45 AM – 11:00 AM, Room 342D
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Advancing Snow Hydrology: Integrating Remote Sensing, Modeling, and Data Assimilation Across Scales I
Co-Chair: Engela Sthapit (PSL)
Presentation Type: Oral Session
10:45 AM – 12:00 PM, Room 332A
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Remote Sensing of Precipitation at Regional, Continental, and Global Scales: Extimation, Evaluation, and Applications III
Co-Chair: Janice Bytheway (PSL)
Presentation Type: Oral Session
10:45 AM – 12:00 PM, Room 332B
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Evaluating Statistical and Machine Learning Approaches to Improve Ensemble Forecasts of Meteorological Forcings for Hydrologic Models
Presenter: Andrew Polasky (PSL/CIRES)
Presentation Type: Oral Session
11:15 AM – 11:30 AM, Room 342D
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Advancing Snow Hydrology: Integrating Remote Sensing, Modeling, and Data Assimilation Across Scales II
Co-Chair: Engela Sthapit (PSL)
Presentation Type: Oral Session
1:45 PM – 3:00 PM, Room 332A
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Poster: Observationally Based Relations among the Water Cycle Parameters during Snowfall Events in the Upper Colorado River Basin
Presenter: Bianca Adler (PSL/CIRES)
Presentation Type: Oral Session
3:00 PM – 4:30 PM, Hall B3
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Poster: Advancing Snow Hydrology: Integrating Remote Sensing, Modeling, and Data Assimilation Across Scales
Presenter: Engela Sthapit (PSL)
Presentation Type: Oral Session
3:00 PM – 4:30 PM, Hall B3
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