CIRES highlights at AMS 2025
Scientists present weather, water, and climate science in New Orleans, Louisiana

The American Meteorological Society (AMS) Annual Meeting 2025 is almost here! Every year, CIRES scientists and colleagues present important work about weather, water, and climate science. Here is a short selection of talks and posters.
Clear skies for takeoff: Visibility and ceiling climatology of Alaska
- Presenter: Leah Shipley (RECCS)
- Time: 6:30 - 8:30 pm CST
- Location: Hall C (New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)
Air-ice-ocean coupling during cyclone events in the Central Arctic
- Presenter: Ola Perrson (NOAA PSL)
- Time: 8:30 - 8:45 am CST
- Location: 212 (New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)
- Presenter: James Correia (NWS WPC)
- Time: 8:45 - 9:00 am CST
- Location: 210 (New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)
Distributions and correlations of volatile organic compounds (VOCs) during AEROMMA 2023
- Presenter: Victoria Treadaway (NOAA CSL)
- Time: 9:00 - 9:15 am CST
- Location: 229 (New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)
Unified workflow tools as a framework for UFS applications (Invited Presentation)
- Presenter: Christina Holt (NOAA GSL)
- Time: 9:15 - 9:30 am CST
- Location: 238 (New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)
Stratospheric evolution and impact of the 2022 Hunga Tonga eruption (Invited Presentation)
- Presenter: Yunqian Zhu (NOAA CSL)
- Time: 10:45 - 11:00 am CST
- Location: 226 (New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)
- Presenter: Nell Schafer (NOAA CSL)
- Time: 11:45 am - 12:00 pm CST
- Location: 232 (New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)
- Presenter: Nathan Malarich (NOAA CSL)
- Time: 2:45 - 3:00 pm CST
- Location: 232 (New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)
Sensitivity of the February 2021 U.S. cold-air outbreak to tropopause polar vortex intensity
- Presenter: Tomer Burg (NWS WPC)
- Time: 3:00 - 4:30 pm CST
- Location: Hall C (New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)
- Presenter: Ilana Pollack (NOAA CSL)
- Time: 3:00 - 4:30 pm CST
- Location: Hall C (New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)
The AWIPS Tsunami Operations Messaging Service (ATOMS): A modernization in tsunami threat messaging
- Presenter: Suneng Zhuo (NOAA GSL)
- Time: 3:00 - 4:30 pm CST
- Location: Hall C (New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)
- Panelists include Crystal Stiles (NIDIS)
- Time: 4:30 - 6:00 pm CST
- Location: Great Hall C (First Floor, New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)
The NOAA Global Aerosol ReAnalysis (NARA)
- Presenter: Bo Huang (NOAA GSL)
- Time: 8:45 - 9:00 am CST
- Location: 203 (New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)
The Weather Prediction Center’s new Atmospheric River Experiment: Results and future plans
- Presenter: Tomer Burg (NWS WPC)
- Time: 9:45 - 10:00 am CST
- Location: 206 (New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)
- Moderators include Christina Kumler (NOAA GSL)
- Time: 10:45 am - 12:00 pm CST
- Location: La Nouvelle C (Second Floor, New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)
Seasonal predictability of vapor pressure deficit in the contiguous United States
- Presenter: Melissa Breeden (NOAA PSL)
- Time: 2:00 - 2:15 pm CST
- Location: 202 (New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)
Data Lens: A new data literacy campaign using Visual Thinking Strategies and NOAA's SOS Explorer
- Presenter: Hilary Peddicord (CEEE)
- Time: 3:00 - 3:40 pm CST
- Location: Hall C (New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)
A lightweight unmanned aerial system-borne remote sensing payload for wildfires — NightFOX
- Presenter: Joey Taylor (NOAA CSL)
- Time: 3:00 - 4:30 pm CST
- Location: Hall C (New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)
- Presenter: Gilbert Compo (NOAA PSL)
- Time: 5:30 - 5:45 pm CST
- Location: 202 (New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)
A modern, sector-specific approach to drought early warning
- Presenter: Amanda Sheffield (NIDIS)
- Time: 5:30 - 5:45 pm CST
- Location: 345 (New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)
In-situ observations of HONO and other reactive nitrogen from on-road vehicles
- Presenter: Christopher Jernigan (NOAA CSL)
- Time: 3:00 - 4:30 pm CST
- Location: Hall C (New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)
Quantifying NOx emissions in the Colorado Front Range during AMMBEC
- Presenter: Clara Lietzke (CU Boulder CHEM)
- Time: 3:00 - 4:30 pm CST
- Location: Hall C (New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center):
- Presenter: Sierra Liotta (CU Boulder ATOC)
- Time: 3:00 - 4:30 pm CST
- Location: Hall C (New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)
- Presenter: Craig Hartsough (NOAA GSL)
- Time: 3:50 - 4:30 pm CST
- Location: Hall C (New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)
- Presenter: Xuanyu Chen (NOAA PSL)
- Time: 4:30 - 4:45 pm CST
- Location: 212 (New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)
Apportioning sources of nitrogenous emissions in California’s Central Valley (Invited Presentation)
- Presenter: Illana Pollack (NOAA CSL)
- Time: 4:45 - 5:00 pm CST
- Location: 229 (New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)
Impact of model physics development for WFIP3 on offshore wind forecasts during low-level Jet events
- Presenter: Bianca Adler (NOAA PSL)
- Time: 5:00 - 5:15 pm CST
- Location: 217 (New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)
- Presenter: Brian Carroll (NOAA CSL)
- Time: 9:15 - 9:30 am CST
- Location: 229 (New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)
The role of the tropical Atlantic in tropical Pacific climate variability
- Presenter: Antonietta Capotondi (NOAA PSL)
- Time: 9:45 - 10:00 am CST
- Location: 243 (New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)
- Presenter: Xia Sun (NOAA GSL)
- Time: 9:45 - 10:00 am CST
- Location: 217 (New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)
Challenges and opportunities in forecasting Arctic mixed-phase clouds (Invited Presentation)
- Presenter: Amy Solomon (NOAA PSL)
- Time: 10:45 - 11:15 am CST
- Location: 224 (New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)
No news is good news? A look at the reliability of implied fair conditions in aviation weather
- Presenter: Laura Melling (NOAA GSL)
- Time: 11:15 - 11:30 am CST
- Location: 207 (New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)
Panel discussion: Good use and practices for AI in environmental science
- Cochairs include Christina Kumler (NOAA GSL)
- Time: 1:45 - 3:00 pm CST
- Location: 245 (New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)
- Presenter: Xuanyu Chen (NOAA PSL)
- Time: 3:00 - 4:30 pm CST
- Location: Hall C (New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)
Diagnosing moisture anomalies at the drought-wildfire nexus: the Marshall (CO) and Caldor (CA) Fires
- Presenter: Mike Hobbins (NOAA PSL)
- Time: 3:00 - 4:30 pm CST
- Location: Hall C (New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)
- Presenter: Brandi McCarty (NOAA CSL)
- Time: 3:00 - 4:30 pm CST
- Location: Hall C (New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)