2017

Poster Titles/ Authors and Abstracts

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Administration

ADM 1. Your Work Matters, CIRES communications group
Katy Human (CIRES), Robin Strelow (CIRES), Karin Vergoth (CIRES)

Center for Science and Technology Policy Research

CSTP 1. Mining social media for ecosystem observations: methods and examples from aquatic and terrestrial systems.
Jeremiah D. Osborne-Gowey (CIRES,Feather River Consulting, Oregon State University), Mary Z Fuka (EnPhysica LLC), Daniel R Fuka (Cornell University)

CSTP 2. Case-Study Examples of Offshore Wind Policy Outcomes: The Role of Science Coproduction
Marisa McNatt (CIRES,CSTPR/CU)

CSTP 3. Towards a Science and Technology Policy Fellowship Program for Colorado State Policymaking
Matthew L. Druckenmiller (CIRES,NSIDC), Maxwell T. Boykoff (CIRES,CSTPR)

Cryospheric and Polar Processes Division

CPP 1. Just How Green Were We? – An Assessment of NSIDC’s Green Data Center Five Years of Operation.
David Gallaher (NSIDC), Ronald Weaver (NSIDC)

CPP 2. Mid-latitude atmospheric response to Arctic autumn anomalous heating
Elizabeth Cassano (CIRES), John Cassano (CIRES)

CPP 3. Improving Understanding of Glacier Melt Contribution to High Asian River Discharge through Collaboration and Capacity Building with High Asian CHARIS Partner Institutions
M. J. Brodzik (NSIDC), B. Armstrong (Independant), R. L. Armstrong (NSIDC), A. Barrett (NSIDC), F. Fetterer (NSIDC), A. Hill (CU/INSTAAR), S.J.S. Khalsa (NSIDC), A. Racoviteanu (), B. Raup (NSIDC), K. Rittger (NSIDC), M. Williams (CU/INSTAAR), A. Wilson (CU/INSTAAR), Qinghua Ye (Institute of Tibetan Plateau Research, CAS), A. Khan (CU/INSTAAR)

CPP 4. Socioeconomic impact analysis of modified water flow in the Naryn river basin in Kyrgyzstan
C.K. Minbaeva (NSIDC)

CPP 5. Increasing desiccation of vegetation in Greenland?
Jeffery Thompson (NSIDC), Lora Koenig (NSIDC)

CPP 6. Investigating the impact of anthropogenic pollution on cloud properties at the North Slope of Alaska
Maximilian Maahn (CIRES,NOAA/PSD), Gijs de Boer (CIRES,NOAA/PSD), Jessie Creamean (CIRES,NOAA/PSD), Graham Feingold (NOAA/CSD), Greg McFarquhar (U Illinois), Wei Wu (NCAR/UCAR,U Illinois), Fan Mei (PNNL)

CPP 7. To Save a Collection – Collaborate
Hicks, Gloria (NSIDC), Merredyth, Athea (CUB Libraries)

CPP 8. Using Image Reconstruction to improve SMAP Radiometer Spatial Resolution
Molly A Hardman (CIRES), Mary J Brodzik (CIRES), David G Long (BYU)

CPP 9. Social Science at the National Snow and Ice Data Center
Betsy Sheffield (CIRES,NSIDC,ELOKA), Heidi McCann (CIRES,NSIDC,ELOKA), Colleen A. Strawhacker (CIRES,NSIDC,ELOKA), Peter L. Pulsifer (CIRES,NSIDC,ELOKA), Chris McNeave (CIRES,NSIDC,ELOKA)

CPP 10. New approaches to observation and modeling of fast-moving glaciers and ice streams
Ute Herzfeld (CIRES), Thomas Trantow (CIRES), Gavin Medley (CIRES), Alec Stiller (CIRES), Samuel Bennets (CIRES), Levi Kurlander (CIRES)

CPP 11. High Resolution Topography from Commercial Satellite Imagery, Petascale Computing and Open Source Software
Michael Willis (CIRES), Paul Morin (PGC/UMN), Claire Porter (PGC/UMN), Ian Howat (OSU), MJ Noh (OSU)

CPP 12. Extracting sea ice surface characteristics using spectral unmixing
Andrew P. Barrett (NSIDC), Julienne Stroeve (NSIDC)

CPP 13. Coldest Place on Earth: New MODIS and Landsat 8 Thermal Data and Detailed Time Series of Cold Events
Terry Haran (NSIDC), G. Garrett Campbell (NSIDC), Ted Scambos (NSIDC), Allen Pope (NSIDC)

CPP 14. Dissolved black carbon in the global cryosphere: concentrations and chemical signatures
Alia Lauren Khan (CIRES,NSIDC), Sasha Wagner (), Rudolf Jaffe (), Richard Armstrong (CIRES,NSIDC), Peng Xian (), Mark Williams (), Diane McKnight ()

CPP 15. Glacier melting contributes one third water increase of the inland lakes on the Tibetan Plateau
Qinghua Ye (ITPCAS), J. Graham Cogley2 (Department of Geography, Trent University), Chunqiao Song (University of California, Los Angeles), Lide Tian (ITPCAS)

CPP 16. GoLIVE: Global Near-real-time Land Ice Velocity data from Landsat 8 at NSIDC
Marin Klinger (NSIDC), Mark Fahnestock (University of Alaska Fairbanks), Ted Scambos (NSIDC), Alex Gardner (JPL), Twila Moon (NSIDC), Terry Haran (NSIDC), Greg Deemer (NSIDC)

CPP 17. Categorizing Surface Features on the Southwest Greenland Ice Sheet
Shane Grigsby (CIRES), Waleed Abdalati (CIRES), William Colgan (GEUS)

CPP 18. Comparison of ESSA satellite data and reanalysis products from the 1960’s.
G. Garrett Campbell (NSIDC), Tyler Thomas (NSIDC)

CPP 19. Arctic precipitation analysis from the Arctic System Reanalysis (ASR): 2000-2012
Tomoko Koyama (NSIDC), Julienne Stroeve (NSIDC,UCL)

CPP 20. Spatial variations in dust-on-snow impacts over the Upper Colorado River Basin from remotely sensed dust radiative forcing and a distributed process-based snowmelt model
Mark S. Raleigh (CIRES,NSIDC), Jeffrey S. Deems (CIRES,NSIDC), Karl Rittger (NSIDC), Richard Armstrong (NSIDC)

Ecosystem Science Division

ES 1. Exploring the VOC metabolome and its impacts on air and sea
Cleo L. Davie-Martin (Department of Microbiology, Oregon State University,Department of Environmental and Molecular Toxicology), Stephen J. Giovannoni (Department of Microbiology, Oregon State University), Joost de Gouw (CIRES), Michael A. Banks (Cooperative Institute for Marine Resources Studies, Oregon State University), Kimberly Halsey (Department of Microbiology, Oregon State University)

Education Outreach Program

EO 1. NOSB - Regional and Finals Hosted by CIRES in 2018
Amanda Morton (CIRES)

EO 2. Evaluating Federal Agency Web Portals Using the Quality of Relationship Metric
Susan Lynds (CIRES), Susan Sullivan (CIRES), Anne Gold (CIRES), Amanda Morton (CIRES)

EO 3. Attracting Students into Science: Insights from a Summer Student Research Program for Community College Students in Colorado
Lesley Smith (CIRES), Anne Gold (CIRES), Suzanne Anderson (INSTAAR), Jennifer Taylor (CIRES), Rebecca Batchelor (NCAR/UCAR)

EO 4. Engaging Diverse Secondary Students in Climate Science through Filmmaking in the Lens on Climate Change Program
Erin Leckey (CIRES), Anne Gold (CIRES), Megan Littrell-Baez (CIRES), Sarah Wise (ITS), Lesley Smith (CIRES), David Oonk (CIRES), Susan Lynds (CIRES), Karen Cozzetto (INSTAAR), Dick Alweis (Colorado Film School), Max Boykoff (CIRES), Beth Osnes (Theater), Rebecca Safran (Ecology & Evolutionary Biology), Valerie Williams (NCAR/UCAR)

EO 5. Increasing Student Learning about Climate Science – Are Polar Bears an Effective Emotional Hook?
Anne U. Gold (CIRES), Jennifer E. Kay (CIRES), Ariel Morrison (CIRES), Barbara McFerrin (CIRES)

EO 6. Working with the CIRES Education and Outreach Group
Susan M. Sullivan (CIRES), Anne Gold (CIRES), Erin Leckey (CIRES), Megan K. Littrell-Baez (CIRES), Susan Lynds (CIRES), Amanda Morton (CIRES), David Oonk (CIRES), Lesley Smith (CIRES), Jennifer Taylor (CIRES)

EO 7. Taking Climate Science Education to the Next Level
Jennifer Taylor (CIRES), Susan Sullivan (CIRES), William Penuel (CU Boulder School of Education), Katie Van Horne (CU Boulder School of Education), Cheryl Manning (Evergreen High School)

Environmental Chemistry Division

EC 1. The Impacts on Submicron Aerosol Properties Due to Inorganic Nitrate Partitioning
Benjamin A. Nault (CIRES,Dept. of Chemistry and Biochemistry, CU Boulder), Pedro Campuzano-Jost (CIRES,Dept. of Chemistry and Biochemistry, CU Boulder), Jason C. Schroder (CIRES,Dept. of Chemistry and Biochemistry, CU Boulder), Douglas A. Day (CIRES,Dept. of Chemistry and Biochemistry, CU Boulder), John D. Crounse (California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA), Michelle Kim (California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA), Eric Scheuer (University of New Hampshire, Durham, New Hampshire), Alex Teng (California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA), Jack Dibb (University of New Hampshire, Durham, New Hampshire), Paul O. Wennberg (California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA), Jose L. Jimenez (CIRES,Dept. of Chemistry and Biochemistry, CU Boulder)

EC 2. Multiphase Photochemistry of Pyruvic Acid
Allison E. Reed Harris (CIRES,University of Colorado, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry), Veronica Vaida (CIRES,University of Colorado, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry), Jean-Francois Doussin (), Mathieu Cazaunau (), Anne Monod (), Aline Gratien (), Rebecca J. Rapf (CIRES,University of Colorado, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry)

EC 3. Aerosols on a Cube: Development of a New Aerosol Model and Assimilation Framework for the Future NOAA Forecasting System.
Mariusz Pagowski et al. (pending) (CIRES,NOAA/ESRL,NOAA/GSD)

EC 4. Parameterization of aqSOA formation
Renee McVay (NOAA/CSD), Barbara Ervens (NOAA/CSD)

EC 5. Global Distribution of Newly Formed Particles from the NASA Atmospheric Tomography Mission
Christina Williamson (CIRES,NOAA/ESRL,NOAA/CSD), Agnieszka Kupc (NOAA/ESRL,NOAA/CSD,Aerosol and Environmental Physics, Faculty of Physics, University of Vienna, A-1090 Vienna, Austria), Frank Erdesz (CIRES,NOAA/ESRL,NOAA/CSD), Charles Brock (NOAA/ESRL,NOAA/CSD)

EC 6. Diagnosing ozone recovery using the O3-N2O relationship
Amy H. Butler (CIRES), Sean M. Davis (CIRES), Ru-Shan Gao (NOAA/CSD), Amanda Maycock (), Robert W. Portmann (NOAA/CSD), Eric Ray (CIRES), Karen H. Rosenlof (NOAA/CSD), Troy Thornberry (NOAA/CSD), David W. Fahey (NOAA/CSD)

EC 7. Characterizing chemical properties of brown carbon aerosol generated at the Fire Sciences Laboratory
R. A. Washenfelder (CIRES,NOAA/CSD), C. W. Womack (NOAA/CSD,National Research Council), N. L. Wagner (CIRES,NOAA/CSD), G. Adler (CIRES,NOAA/CSD), A. Franchin (CIRES,NOAA/CSD), K. Lamb (CIRES,NOAA/CSD), A. M. Middlebrook (NOAA/CSD), K. M. Manfred (CIRES,NOAA/CSD), J. P. Schwarz (NOAA/CSD)

EC 8. Dust around the world: Mineral dust aerosol in the global free troposphere
Karl Froyd (CIRES,NOAA/CSD), Daniel Murphy (NOAA/CSD), Agnieszka Kupc (NOAA/CSD,University of Vienna), Christina Williamson (CIRES,NOAA/CSD), Charles Brock (NOAA/CSD), Pengfei Yu (CIRES,NOAA/CSD), Karen Rosenlof (NOAA/CSD)

EC 9. Understanding severe pollution events in the Great Salt Lake Basin and adjacent valleys
Alessandro Franchin (CIRES,NOAA/CSD), Ann Middlebrook (NOAA/CSD), Munkh Baasandorj (Utah Division of Air Quality/University of Utah), Steven Brown (NOAA/CSD), Dorothy Fibiger (CIRES,NOAA/CSD), Lexie Goldberger (University of Washington), Erin McDuffie (CIRES,NOAA/CSD), Alexander Moravek (University of Toronto), Jennifer Murphy (University of Toronto), Joel Thornton (University of Washington), Caroline Womack (CIRES,NOAA/CSD)

EC 10. The absorption budget of realistic biomass burning aerosol
Nick Wagner (CIRES,NOAA/CSD), Adler, G. (CIRES,NOAA/CSD), Franchin, A. (CIRES,NOAA/CSD), Lamb, K. (CIRES,NOAA/CSD), Manfred, K. M. (CIRES,NOAA/CSD), Middlebrook, A. M. (CIRES,NOAA/CSD), Schwarz, J. P. (NOAA/CSD), Selimovic, V. (University of Montana), Washenfelder, R. A. (CIRES,NOAA/CSD), Womack, C. (CIRES,NOAA/CSD), Yokelson, B. (University of Montana)

EC 12. Volatile Chemical Products Emerging as Largest Fossil-Source of Urban Organic Emissions
Brian McDonald (CIRES,NOAA/CSD)

EC 13. Separation of methane emissions from biogenic sources and natural gas based on CH4, C2H6 and NH3 column observations in the Colorado Front Range
Natalie Kille (CIRES), Randall Chiu (CIRES), Matthias Frey (KIT, Germany), Frank Hase (KIT, Germany), Mahesh Sha (KIT, Germany), Thomas Blumenstock (KIT, Germany), Rainer Volkamer (CIRES)

EC 14. Untangling the Causes of Variations in ClNO2 Yield from the WINTER Campaign
Dorothy L. Fibiger (CIRES,NOAA/CSD), Felipe Lopez-Hilfiker (U. Washington), Erin McDuffie (CIRES,NOAA/CSD), William P. Dube (CIRES,NOAA/CSD), Ben Lee (U. Washington), Jason Schroder (CIRES), Pedro Campuzano-Jost (CIRES), Hongyu Guo (Georgia Tech), Amy Sullivan (Colorado State), Jack Dibb (U. New Hampshire), Rodney Weber (Georgia Tech), Jose Jimenez (CIRES), Joel Thornton (U. Washington), Steven S. Brown (NOAA/CSD)

EC 15. The Wintertime Fate of N2O5: Insights from Observations and Box Modeling of the 2015 WINTER Aircraft Campaign
Erin E. McDuffie (CIRES,NOAA/ESRL,NOAA/CSD), Dorothy Fibiger (CIRES,NOAA/ESRL,NOAA/CSD), William P. Dube (CIRES,NOAA/ESRL,NOAA/CSD), Felipe Lopez-Hilfiker (University of Washington), Joel Thornton (University of Washington), Viral Shah (University of Washington), Lyatt Jaegle (University of Washington), Hongyu Guo (Georgia Institute of Technology), Rodney Weber (Georgia Institute of Technology ), Jack Dibb (University of New Hampshire), Pedro Campuzano-Jost (CIRES), Jason Schoder (CIRES), Jose Jimenez (CIRES), Steven Brown (NOAA/ESRL,NOAA/CSD)

EC 16. The Atmospheric Degradation of Methyl Isocyanate (CH3NCO), a Toxic Substance
Dimitrios K. Papanastasiou (CIRES,NOAA/CSD), François Bernard (CIRES,NOAA/CSD), James B. Burkholder (NOAA/CSD)

EC 17. Global ozone trends: First results from the Tropospheric Ozone Assessment Report (TOAR)
Audrey Gaudel (CIRES,NOAA/CSD), Owen Cooper (CIRES,NOAA/CSD), Gerard Ancellet (), Irina Petropavlovskikh (CIRES), Anne Thompson (NASA), Valerie Thouret (), Jacquelyn Witte ()

EC 18. Aerosol microphysical properties of the remote troposphere. Preliminary results from the first ATom airborne research experiment.
Agnieszka Kupc (CIRES,NOAA/CSD), Christina Williamson (CIRES,NOAA/CSD), Charles A. Brock (NOAA/CSD), Karl Froyd (CIRES,NOAA/CSD), Daniel Murphy (CIRES,NOAA/CSD), Matt S. Richardson (CIRES,NOAA/CSD), Maximilian Dollner (University of Vienna), Bernadett Weinzierl (University of Vienna)

EC 19. Remote tropical island mountaintop measurements of halogen radicals and OVOCs
Theodore K. Koenig (CIRES,Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of Colorado at Boulder, CO), Barbara Dix (CIRES,Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of Colorado at Boulder, CO), Rainer Volkamer (CIRES,Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of Colorado at Boulder, CO)

Environmental Observations, Modeling and Forecasting Division

EOMF 1. Solar coronal dimmings
Larisza Diana Krista (CIRES,NOAA/NCEI), Alysha Reinard (CIRES,NOAA/SWPC)

EOMF 2. RAP/HRRR model physics development
Joseph Olson (NOAA/GSD), James Kenyon (NOAA/GSD), Tanya Smirnova (NOAA/GSD), John Brown (NOAA/GSD), Stan Benjamin (NOAA/GSD), Georg Grell (NOAA/GSD), Wayne Angevine (NOAA/CSD)

EOMF 3. Surface ozone in the Northern Front Range and the influence of oil and gas development on ozone production during FRAPPE/DISCOVER-AQ
L C Cheadle (CIRES,NOAA/ESRL,NOAA/GMD), S J Oltmans (NOAA/ESRL,NOAA/GMD), G Petron (CIRES,NOAA/ESRL,NOAA/GMD), R C Schnell (NOAA/ESRL,NOAA/GMD), A McClure-Begley (CIRES,NOAA/ESRL,NOAA/GMD), E J Mattson (CDPHE), S C Herndon (Aerodyne Research Inc.), A M Thompson (NASA), D R Blake (UC Irvine)

EOMF 4. Understanding the Impact of Biomass Burning on Ozone Conditions in the Arctic
Audra McClure-Begley (CIRES,NOAA/GMD), Sara Crepinsek (CIRES,NOAA/PSD), Irina Petropavlovskikh (CIRES,NOAA/GMD), Anna Yudina (CIRES,NOAA/GMD), Taniel Uttal (NCAR/UCAR,NOAA/PSD), Simone Tilmes (NCAR/UCAR)

EOMF 5. Standardizing paleoclimate variables for data-intensive science
Samuel Lockshin (CIRES,NOAA/NCEI), Dr. Carrie Morrill (CIRES,NOAA/NCEI)

EOMF 6. Ozone vertical profile measurements in the northern Front Range of Colorado in July-August 2014 during FRAPPE and DISCOVER-AQ
Samuel J. Oltmans (NOAA/GMD), Lucy C. Cheadle (CIRES,NOAA/ESRL)

EOMF 7. Coastal and Marine Geophysics: Big Data and Big Benefits
Christopher Amante (CIRES), Charles Anderson (CIRES), Gina Brewer (CIRES), Barry Eakins (CIRES), Jennifer Jencks (NOAA/NCEI), Emily Rose (NOAA/NCEI), Kelly Stroker (CIRES), Aaron Sweeney (CIRES), Carrie Wall (CIRES), George Mungov (CIRES)

EOMF 8. Comparing Lidar-Measured and NWP Modeled Rotor-Layer Wind using Different Time-Averaging Periods and Model Interpolation Techniques
Christina Bonfanti (CIRES,NOAA/GSD), Yelena Pichugina (CIRES,NOAA/CSD), Brandi McCarty (CIRES,NOAA/CSD), Aditya Choukulkar (CIRES,NOAA/CSD), W.A. Brewer (NOAA/CSD), R. Banta (NOAA/CSD), T. Bonin (CIRES,NOAA/CSD), J. Olson (CIRES,NOAA/GSD), J. Kenyon (CIRES,NOAA/CSD), M. Marquis (NOAA/GSD), S. Baidar (CIRES,NOAA/CSD), S. Sandberg (NOAA/CSD), A. Weickmann (CIRES,NOAA/CSD)

EOMF 9. The impact of Southern Ocean heat uptake on the pace and pattern of greenhouse warming
William R. Frey (CIRES), Jennifer E. Kay (CIRES)

EOMF 10. The impact of different complexity in aerosol and chemistry modules on the aerosol predictions within a global online modeling system
Li Zhang (CIRES,NOAA/ESRL,NOAA/GSD), Georg, A. Grell (NOAA/ESRL,NOAA/GSD), Stuart A. McKeen (CIRES,NOAA/ESRL,NOAA/CSD), Ravan Ahmadov (CIRES,NOAA/ESRL,NOAA/GSD)

EOMF 11. Improving Wind Ramp Forecasts by the HRRR System via Statistical Postprocessing
Michael Scheuerer (CIRES), Rochelle Worsnop (University of Colorado, Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences), Thomas M. Hamill (NOAA/ESRL)

EOMF 12. A web-based collaborative tool for projecting future regional sea level rise
Jacob Larson (CIRES), R. Steven Nerem (CIRES,AES/CCAR), Dallas Masters (CIRES,AES/CCAR)

EOMF 13. Using linearized observation operator for ensemble perturbations in Ensemble Square Root Filter
Anna Shlyaeva (CIRES,NOAA/PSD), Jeff Whitaker (NOAA/PSD)

EOMF 14. First Results from the Solar Ultraviolet Imager on GOES-16
Jonathan Darnel (CIRES,NOAA/NCEI), Dan Seaton (CIRES,NOAA/NCEI)

EOMF 15. GOES-16 Space Weather Data: Products and Access
Margaret Tilton (CIRES), William Rowland (CIRES), Stefan Codrescu (CIRES), Daniel Seaton (CIRES), William Denig (NOAA/NCEI)

EOMF 16. Rainfall enhancement due to an SST front near coastal Taiwan observed during TiMREX
Michael D. Toy (CIRES,NOAA/ESRL,NOAA/GSD), Richard H. Johnson (Colorado State University)

EOMF 17. GMTB Test of Grell-Freitas Convective Scheme in the NOAA Environmental Modeling System (NEMS) – based Global Spectral Model (GSM)
Man Zhang (CIRES,NOAA/GSD,DTC), Michelle Harrold (NCAR/UCAR,DTC), Judy Henderson (NOAA/GSD,DTC), Jamie Wolff (NCAR/UCAR,DTC), Ligia Bernardet (CIRES,NOAA/GSD,DTC), Hongli Jiang (NOAA/GSD,CIRA), Grant Firl (NCAR/UCAR,DTC), Josh Hacker (NCAR/UCAR,DTC), Georg Grell (NOAA/GSD)

EOMF 18. Lidar observations of stratospheric gravity waves from 2011 to 2015 at McMurdo (77.84° S, 166.69° E), Antarctica
Jian Zhao (CIRES), Xinzhao Chu (CIRES), Cao Chen (CIRES), Xian Lu (CIRES), R. Michael Jones (CIRES)

EOMF 19. Considerable Contribution of the Montreal Protocol to Declining Greenhouse Gas Emissions from the United States
Lei Hu (CIRES), Steve Montzka (NOAA/ESRL), David Godwin (EPA), Arlyn Andrews (NOAA/ESRL), Ben Miller (CIRES), Kirk Thoning (NOAA/ESRL), John Miller (NOAA/ESRL), Scott Lehman (INSTARR, Univ. of Colorado), Colm Sweeney (NOAA/ESRL), Caroline Siso (CIRES), James Elkins (NOAA/ESRL), Brad Hall (NOAA/ESRL), Debra Mondeel (CIRES), David Nance (CIRES), Marc Fischer (DOE/LBNL), Pieter Tans (NOAA/ESRL)

EOMF 20. Global monitoring of marine nighttime lights activity
Mikhail Zhizhin (CIRES), Christopher Elvidge (NOAA/NCEI), Kimberly Baugh (CIRES), Feng Chi Hsu (CIRES), Tilottama Ghosh (CIRES)

EOMF 21. Validation of NWP forecast models using Doppler lidar wind measurements during the second Wind Forecast Improvement Project
Pichugina, Yelena (CIRES,NOAA/ESRL), Brewer, Alan (NOAA/ESRL), Banta, Robert (NOAA/ESRL), Choukulkar, Aditya (CIRES,NOAA/ESRL), Bonin, Timoty (CIRES,NOAA/ESRL), Olson, Joseph (CIRES,NOAA/ESRL), Kenyon, Jaymes (CIRES,NOAA/ESRL), Marquis, Melinda (NOAA/ESRL), Bonfanti, Christina (CIRES,NOAA/ESRL), McCarty, Brandi (CIRES,NOAA/ESRL), Baidar, Sunil (CIRES,NOAA/ESRL), Sandberg, Scott (NOAA/ESRL), Weickmann, Ann (CIRES,NOAA/ESRL)

EOMF 23. Analysis of 4D Var Data Assimilation Application Issues
Lidia Trailovic (CIRES), Brian Etherton (NOAA/GSD), Christopher Harrop (CIRES), Mark Govett (NOAA/GSD)

EOMF 24. Investigation of the Effect of Wind Farms on Local Wind Field Using Doppler Lidar and Nacelle-Mounted Anemometer Measurements
Brandi McCarty (CIRES,NOAA/CSD), Aditya Choukulkar (CIRES,NOAA/CSD), Yelena Pichugina (CIRES,NOAA/CSD), Timothy Bonin (CIRES,NOAA/CSD), W. Alan Brewer (CIRES,NOAA/CSD), Robert M. Banta (CIRES,NOAA/CSD), Christina Bonfanti (CIRES,NOAA/GSD), Scott P. Sandberg (CIRES,NOAA/CSD), Ann Weickmann (CIRES,NOAA/CSD), Joeseph Olsen (CIRES,NOAA/GSD), Jaymes Kenyon (CIRES,NOAA/GSD), Melinda Marquis (NOAA/GSD)

EOMF 25. Geospatial Web Services Providing Discovery and Access to Global Multibeam Bathymetric Data
Jesse Varner (CIRES), John Cartwright (NOAA/NCEI), Mike Sutherland (CIRES), Chris Amante (CIRES), Evan Robertson (CIRES)

EOMF 26. Advances in Techniques for Remotely Sensing Surface Water and Sediment Discharge
J. Toby Minear (CIRES), Justin Ball (CIRES)

EOMF 27. WFIP2 experiment: comparison of 80m wind speed measurements from different available instrumentations and two operational models.
Djalalova,I. (CIRES), Bianco, L. (CIRES), Wilczak, J. (NOAA/PSD), Olson, J. (NOAA/GSD), Kenion, J. (NOAA/GSD), Eckman, R. (), Lundquist, J. (), Brewer, A. (NOAA/CSD), Choukulkar, A. (NOAA/CSD), Wharton, S. ()

EOMF 28. Quantifying the uncertainty of high-resolution geomagnetic reference models
Manoj Nair (CIRES), Arnaud Chulliat (CIRES), Adam Woods (CIRES), Patrick Alken (CIRES), Brian Meyer (CIRES), Rick Saltus (CIRES), Benny Poedjono (Schlumberger)

EOMF 29. PRE-LAUNCH CALIBRATION AND PERFORMANCE OF THE POLARCUBE 3U TEMPERATURE SOUNDING RADIOMETER
Lavanya Periasamy (CET), Albin J. Gasiewski (CIRES,CET), Brian T. Sanders (CoSGC), David W. Gallaher (CIRES,NSIDC)

EOMF 30. The Diurnal and Annual Variability of Mixing Layer Heights Measured by Doppler Lidar in Oregon and Indiana
Timothy Bonin (CIRES,NOAA/CSD), R. Michael Hardesty (CIRES,NOAA/CSD), W. Alan Brewer (NOAA/CSD), Scott Sandberg (NOAA/CSD), Ann Weickmann (CIRES,NOAA/CSD), Aditya Choukulkar (CIRES,NOAA/CSD), Yelena Pichugina (CIRES,NOAA/CSD), Robert Banta (NOAA/CSD)

EOMF 31. Homogenizing NOAA's Ozonesonde Data Set Improves Comparison with Satellite-Derived Vertical Ozone Profiles
Chance Sterling (CIRES,NOAA/GMD), Bryan Johnson (NOAA/GMD), Sam Oltmans (NOAA/GMD), Patrick Cullis (CIRES,NOAA/GMD), Allen Jordan (CIRES,NOAA/GMD), Emrys Hall (CIRES,NOAA/GMD), Daan Hubert (Royal Belgian Institue of Space Aeronomy)

EOMF 32. NOAA flask measurements of greenhouse and trace gases during the ACT-America campaign
Bianca Baier (CIRES,NOAA/GMD), Yonghoon Choi (NASA), Molly Crotwell (CIRES,NOAA/GMD), Ken Davis (PSU), Josh DiGangi (NASA), Alan Fried (INSTAAR), Jack Higgs (NOAA/GMD), Patricia Lang (NOAA/GMD), Ben Miller (CIRES,NOAA/GMD), Eric Moglia (CIRES,NOAA/GMD), Tim Newberger (CIRES,NOAA/GMD), John Nowak (NASA), Sandip Pal (PSU), Colm Sweeney (CIRES,NOAA/GMD)

EOMF 33. The AirCore Atmospheric Profiler: Observations and Developments
Jonathan Bent (CIRES,NOAA/GMD), Colm Sweeney (CIRES,NOAA/GMD), Pieter Tans (NOAA/GMD), Tim Newberger (CIRES,NOAA/GMD), Jack Higgs (NOAA/GMD), Sonja Wolter (CIRES,NOAA/GMD)

EOMF 34. Twenty-Five Years of Airborne Observations of Ozone-Depleting and Climate-Related Gases in the Upper Troposphere and Lower Stratosphere.
James W. Elkins (NOAA/GMD), Fred L. Moore (CIRES,NOAA/GMD), Eric J. Hintsa (CIRES,NOAA/GMD), J. David Nance (CIRES,NOAA/GMD), Geoffrey S. Dutton (CIRES,NOAA/GMD), Dale F. Hurst (CIRES,NOAA/GMD), Bradley D. Hall (NOAA/GMD), ()

EOMF 35. Estimating the Acceleration of Global Mean Sea Level from Satellite Altimetry
K. McMenamin (CIRES), Dr. R. S. Nerem (CIRES)

Solid Earth Sciences Division

SES 1. Landlab: plug-and-play numerical modeling of earth-surface dynamics
Gregory E. Tucker (CIRES,CSDMS), Katherine R. Barnhart (CIRES), Jordan M. Adams (Tulane University), Christina Bandaragoda (Univ of Washington), Nicole M Gasparini (Tulane University), Daniel E J Hobley (Cardiff Univ), Eric Hutton (CSDMS), Erkan Istanbulluoglu (Univ of Washington), Jennifer Knuth (n.io), Margaux Moucene (Tulane University), Sai Siddhartha Nudurupati (Univ of Washington)

SES 2. High-resolution crustal field models from the Earth Magnetic Anomaly Grid
Arnaud Chulliat (CIRES,NOAA/NCEI), Brian Meyer (CIRES,NOAA/NCEI), Rick Saltus (CIRES,NOAA/NCEI)

SES 3. The CrowdMag App – turning your smartphone into a travelling magnetic observatory
Manoj Nair (CIRES), Nir Boneh (CIRES), Rick Saltus (CIRES), Brian Meyer (CIRES), Arnaud Chulliat (CIRES), Patrick Alken (CIRES), Neesha Schnepf (CIRES), Adam Woods (CIRES), Rob Redmon (NOAA/NCEI)

SES 4. 3-D dynamics of debris flows quantified at sub-second intervals
Mylène Jacquemart (CIRES), Christoph Graf (Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research WSL), Felix Morsdorf (University of Zurich, Switzerland), Lorenz Meier (Geopraevent Ltd., Switzerland) 

Weather and Climate Dynamics Division

WCD 1. Alaskan clouds in a pan-Arctic context: Synthesizing knowledge from ground-based observations
Matthew D Shupe (CIRES), Ola Persson (CIRES), Amy Solomon (CIRES)

WCD 2. A Unified High-Resolution Wind and Solar Dataset from a Rapidly Updating Numerical Weather Prediction Model
Eric James (CIRES,NOAA/GSD), Stan Benjamin (NOAA/GSD), Melinda Marquis (NOAA/GSD)

WCD 3. Assessing the Capabilities and Limitations of Physics-Based Models in Capturing the Ionosphere and Thermosphere Storm-Time Response
Mariangel Fedrizzi (CIRES,NOAA/SWPC), Naomi Maruyama (CIRES,NOAA/SWPC), Timothy J. Fuller-Rowell (CIRES,NOAA/SWPC), Phil Richards (Department of Physics and Astronomy, George Mason University), Tzu-Wei Fang (CIRES,NOAA/SWPC), Mihail Codrescu (NOAA/SWPC), Anthea J. Coster (MIT Haystack Observatory)

WCD 4. ERASMUS: Campaign Summary and Highlights
Gijs de Boer (CIRES)

WCD 5. Arctic Autumn Air-Ice-Ocean Interactions Resulting from Recent Sea-ice Decline
Ola P. G. Persson (CIRES,NOAA/PSD), B. Blomquist (CIRES,NOAA/PSD), C. Fairall (NOAA/PSD), P. Guest (Naval Postgraduate School), S. Stammerjohn (INSTAAR), L. Rainville (Univ. of Washington), J. Thomson (Univ. of Washington), M. Smith (Univ. of Washington), (Univ. of Stockholm), A. Solomon (CIRES,NOAA/PSD)

WCD 6. Understanding sources of tropical rainfall forecast errors
Juliana Dias (CIRES), George Kiladis (NOAA/PSD), Maria Gehne ()

WCD 7. Microphysical Parameterizations for NWP: It’s All About the Sizes and Production Pathways of Hydrometeors
Sara A Michelson (CIRES,NOAA/PSD), Jian-Wen Bao (NOAA/PSD), Evelyn D Grell (CIRES,NOAA/PSD)

WCD 8. SOS Explorer -- Your Data Never Looked So Good!
Hilary Peddicord (CIRES,NOAA/GSD), Beth Russell (CIRES,NOAA/GSD), Jonathan Joyce (CIRES,NOAA/GSD), Eric Hackathorn (NOAA/GSD), Jeff Smith (NOAA/GSD,CIRA), John Schneider (NOAA/GSD)

WCD 9. Using Mass Spectrum Effective Variance to Describe the Breadth of Raindrop Size Distributions
Christopher R. Williams (CIRES,NOAA/PSD)

WCD 10. The Kiritimati Island and R/V Ronald H. Brown ENRR 2016 Datasets: Detailed Views of Local Responses to El Niño
Leslie M. Hartten (CIRES,NOAA/PSD), Scott Abbott (NOAA/PSD), Christopher J. Cox (CIRES,NOAA/PSD), Paul E. Johnston (CIRES,NOAA/PSD), H. Alex McColl (CIRES,NOAA/PSD,currently at Berthoud, CO 80513), Xiao-Wei Quan (CIRES,NOAA/PSD), Matthew G. Winterkorn (NVision Solutions, Diamondhead, MS 39525 and NOAA National Data Buoy Center, Stennis Space Center, MS 39529), Daniel E. Wolfe (CIRES,NOAA/PSD)

WCD 11. Skillful Climate Forecasts of the Tropical Indo-Pacific using Model-based Analogs
Hui Ding (CIRES), Matt Newman (CIRES), Mike Alexander (NOAA/ESRL,NOAA/PSD)

WCD 12. Evaluation of snow-level estimates from polarimetric WSR-88D measurements
Sergey Matrosov (CIRES,NOAA/PSD), Rob Cifelli (NOAA/PSD), Allen White (NOAA/PSD), Timothy Coleman (CIRES,NOAA/PSD)

WCD 13. The Asian Summer Monsoon – A Smokestack to the Northern Hemisphere Stratosphere
Pengfei Yu (CIRES,NOAA/CSD), Karen Rosenlof (NOAA/CSD), Shang Liu (CIRES,NOAA/CSD), Hagen Telg (CIRES,NOAA/CSD), Troy Thornberry (CIRES,NOAA/CSD), Andrew Rollins (CIRES,NOAA/CSD), Robert Portmann (NOAA/CSD), Z. Bai (Chinese Academy of Science), E. Ray (CIRES,NOAA/CSD), Y. Duan (Kunming Meteorological Bureau), Laura Pan (NCAR/UCAR), O. B. Toon (CU/LASP), Jianchun Bian (Chinese Academy of Science), Ru-shan Gao (NOAA/CSD)

WCD 14. High-resolution Model-based Investigation of Moisture Transport Into the Pacific Northwest During A Strong Atmospheric River Event
Michael J. Mueller (CIRES,NOAA/ESRL), Kelly Mahoney (NOAA/ESRL,NOAA/PSD), Mimi Hughes (CIRES,NOAA/ESRL,NOAA/PSD)

WCD 15. Intercomparison of two convective schemes in a global atmospheric model with Icosahedral grid
Haiqin Li (CIRES,NOAA/GSD), Georg A. Grell (NOAA/GSD)

WCD 16. Relative Importance of Mechanisms Governing Interannual Stratosphere to Troposphere Ozone Transport
John R. Albers (CIRES,NOAA/PSD), Judith Perlwitz (CIRES,NOAA/PSD), George N. Kiladis (NOAA/ESRL,NOAA/PSD), Amy H. Butler (CIRES,NOAA/CSD), Andrew O. Langford (NOAA/ESRL,NOAA/CSD), Juliana Dias (CIRES,NOAA/PSD)

WCD 17. A flexible decomposition of climate variability into regional components and teleconnections: Insights from a large initial condition ensemble
Vineel Yettella (CIRES,CU ATOC), Jeffrey B. Weiss (CU ATOC), Jennifer E. Kay (CIRES,CU ATOC), Angeline G. Pendergrass (NCAR)

WCD 18. Quantifying Uncertainty in the Twentieth Century Reanalysis Version 2c, and Improvements in Version 3
Laura C. Slivinski (CIRES,NOAA/PSD), Gilbert P. Compo (CIRES,NOAA/PSD), Jeffrey S. Whitaker (NOAA/PSD), Prashant D. Sardeshmukh (CIRES,NOAA/PSD)

WCD 19. Global Model Test Bed: Fostering Community Involvement in NOAA’s Next-Generation Global Prediction System
Ligia Bernardet (CIRES,NOAA/ESRL,Developmental Testbed Center), J. Hacker (NCAR/UCAR,Developmental Testbed Center), T. Brown (CIRES,NOAA/ESRL,Developmental Testbed Center), L. Carson (NCAR/UCAR,Developmental Testbed Center), J. Dudhia (NCAR/UCAR,Developmental Testbed Center), G. Firl (NCAR/UCAR,Developmental Testbed Center), D. Gill (NCAR/UCAR,Developmental Testbed Center), M. Harrold (NCAR/UCAR,Developmental Testbed Center), J. Henderson (NOAA/ESRL,Developmental Testbed Center), H. Jiang (NOAA/ESRL,NOAA/NCEP,Developmental Testbed Center), L. Nance (NCAR/UCAR,Developmental Testbed Center), D. Stark (NCAR/UCAR,Developmental Testbed Center), J. Wolff (NCAR/UCAR,Developmental Testbed Center), M. Zhang (CIRES,NOAA/ESRL,Developmental Testbed Center), B. Kuo (NCAR/UCAR,Developmental Testbed Center), V. Tallapragada (NOAA/NCEP), F. Toepfer (NOAA/OSTI)

WCD 20. Development and Evaluation of the High-Resolution Rapid Refresh Ensemble (HRRRE)
Therese Ladwig (CIRES), David Dowell (NOAA/GSD), Curtis Alexander (NOAA/GSD), Ming Hu (CIRES), Jeff Beck (CIRA), Isidora Jankov (CIRA), Trevor Alcott (NOAA/GSD), Brian Jamison (CIRA), John Brown (NOAA/GSD), Steve Weygandt (NOAA/GSD), Stan Benjamin (NOAA/GSD)

WCD 21. Comparisons of boundary layer heights in the Columbia River gorge and basin from wind profiling radars and numerical weather prediction models
Laura Bianco (CIRES), Irina Djalalova (CIRES), James Wilczak (NOAA/ESRL), Katherine McCaffrey (CIRES), Joseph Olson (CIRES), Jaymes Kenyon (CIRES), Kathy Lantz (CIRES), Chuck Long (CIRES)

WCD 22. Turbulence Dissipation Rates in the Planetary Boundary Layer from Wind Profiling Radars and Mesoscale Numerical Weather Prediction Models during WFIP2
Katherine McCaffrey (CIRES,NOAA/PSD), Laura Bianco (CIRES,NOAA/PSD), James M Wilczak (NOAA/PSD), Joseph B Olson (CIRES,NOAA/GSD), Jaymes Kenyon (CIRES,NOAA/GSD)

WCD 23. Observations of the surface radiation budget and cloud radiative forcing from pan-Arctic land stations
Christopher J. Cox (CIRES,NOAA/PSD), Charles N. Long (CIRES,NOAA/GMD), Taneil Uttal (NOAA/PSD), Sandy Starkweather (CIRES), Sara M. Crepinsek (CIRES,NOAA/PSD), Marion Maturilli (Alfred Wegener Institute (AWI) Hemholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research), Nathaniel B. Miller (CIRES,NOAA/PSD), Elena A. Konopleva-Akish (Science and Technology Corporation (STC)), Vasily Y. Kustov (Arctic and Antarctic Research Institute (AARI)), Konrad Steffen (Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research (WSL)), Gijs de Boer (CIRES,NOAA/PSD), Allison McComiskey (NOAA/GMD), Robert S. Stone (Science and Technology Corporation (STC))

WCD 24. Error characteristics of a satellite-derived near-surface temperature and humidity data set using Global Hawk dropsonde data
Darren L. Jackson (CIRES), Gary A. Wick (NOAA/PSD)

WCD 25. Implications of Changing Temperatures on US Crime Rates
Ryan Harp (CIRES,CU ATOC), Dr. Kristopher Karnauskas (CIRES)

WCD 26. Hurricane Weather Research and Forecast system (HWRF) User and Developer Support
Evan Kalina (CIRES,NOAA/GSD,Developmental Testbed Center (DTC)), Kathryn Newman (NCAR/UCAR,Developmental Testbed Center (DTC)), Mrinal Biswas (NCAR/UCAR,Developmental Testbed Center (DTC)), Ligia Bernardet (CIRES,NOAA/GSD,Developmental Testbed Center (DTC)), James Frimel (NOAA/GSD,Developmental Testbed Center (DTC) and Cooperative Institute for Research in the Atmosphere (CIRA)), Laurie Carson (NCAR/UCAR,Developmental Testbed Center (DTC)), Evelyn Grell (CIRES,NOAA/PSD,Developmental Testbed Center (DTC))

WCD 27. Variability in AMOC strength modifies the Northern Hemisphere surface temperature response in the CESM Large Ensemble
Elizabeth Maroon (CIRES), Jennifer Kay (CIRES), Kristopher Karnauskas (CIRES)

WCD 28. An OSSE weather study to mitigate a gap in satellite data with targeted observations
Jason M. English (CIRES,NOAA/GSD), Andrew C. Kren (NOAA/GSD,CIRA), Tanya R. Peevey (CIRES,NOAA/GSD)

Western Water Assessment

WWA 1. Western Water Assessment
William Travis ( CU Geography Department), Ursula Rick (CIRES), Elizabeth McNie (CIRES), Jeff Lukas (CIRES), Seth Arens (CIRES), (CIRES)

WWA 2. Using stakeholder engagement to inform product development in the research to applications (R2A) pathway: examples from two products
Heather M. Yocum (CIRES,NOAA/PSD), Andrea J. Ray (NOAA/PSD)

WWA 3. Recent trends in snow and rain in Wyoming’s Wind River area
Candida F. Dewes (CIRES,NOAA/PSD), Imtiaz Rangwala (CIRES,NOAA/PSD)

WWA 4. Assessing drought risk under climate change in the US Great Plains via evaporative demand from downscaled GCM projections
Imtiaz Rangwala (CIRES,NOAA/PSD,WWA), Candida Dewes (CIRES,NOAA/PSD,WWA), Mike Hobbins (CIRES,NOAA/PSD,NIDIS), Joe Barsugli (CIRES,NOAA/PSD)