ESSIC was a visible participant at the 98th annual American Meteorological Society’s conference in early January in Austin, Texas. Center researchers and visiting ESSIC scientists participated in the following activities at the meeting:
Talks:
- Melissa Kenney – Identifying Users, Diagnosing Understandability Challenges, and Developing Prototype Solutions for NOAA Climate Prediction Center's Temperature and Precipitation Outlooks
 - Ralph Ferraro – In-Orbit References for Geostationary and Polar Satellites in Global Space-Based Inter-Calibration System
 - Chris Grassotti – Microwave Integrated Retrieval System (MiRS):Recent Activity, Science Improvements, and First Look at NOAA-20/ATMS” and “Microwave Integrated Retrieval System (MiRS) Land Surface Temperature: Comparison with In Situ Measurements from SURFRAD
 - Huan Meng and Ralph Ferraro – An Operational Passive Microwave Snowfall Rate Product and Its Application in Hydrology
 - Augustin Vintzileos – Excessive Heat Events and Health: Building Resilience based on Subseasonal-to-Seasonal Excessive Heat Outlook Systems
 - Xiaolei Zou – Connecting ATMS, AMSU and MSU Brightness Temperature Data Records through Mission Life-Cycle Reprocessing
 - Yan Zhou – Assessments of CubeSat CIRAS Impacts on Global NWP through OSSE
 
Posters:
- Ralph Ferraro, Huan Meng and Scott Rudlosky – CICS-MD Contributions to NOAA Satellite Water Cycle Products and Services
 - Katherine Lukens and Hugo Berbery – The Subseasonal-to-Seasonal (S2S) Predictability of Storm Tracks and Related Winter Weather in the NCEP Climate Forecast System
 - Pat Meyers, Hugo Berbery, Nai-Yu Wang, Jun Dong and Yalei You – CICS-MD Contributions to NOAA Satellite Water Cycle Products and Services
 - Thomas Smith – Caribbean Precipitation Trends during a Regional Sea Surface Temperature Warming Period, 1982–2014
 - Yalei You – Improving over Land Precipitation Retrieval with Brightness Temperature Temporal Variation
 - Xiaolei Zou and Lin Lin – Assessment of the Impact of ABI Radiance Assimilation NWP Skill
 - Yan Zhou, Narges Shahroudi and Kayo Ides – Assessments of CIRAS Impacts on NWP through the Community Global Observing System Simulation Experiment (OSSE) Package
 
Session Chairs:
- Huan Meng – Satellite Testbeds and Proving Ground Activities
 
								



