ESSIC at AGU 2024

The following is a sample (not all-encompassing) of the ESSIC/CISESS talks, presentations, and posters given at the event. In some cases, co-authorship was cut for brevity. For the full information, please see AGU’s website.

Presentations & Talks:

• Lauren Zamora presented the following:
  • “Dust-driven cloud phase changes may impact summertime cooling over Arctic sea ice.”
  • “ESSIC’s involvement in the NASA ARCSIX field campaign”
• Andrew Feldman presented the following talks:
  • “Soil Moisture Profiles of Ecosystem Water Use Revealed With ECOSTRESS”
  • “Quantifying plant responses to changing rainfall frequency and intensity from field to global scales” in a session titled “Understanding Ecosystem Responses to Climate Change Across Different Spatial and Temporal Scales with Experiments, Remote Sensing, and Modeling II Oral”
  • “Plant response to pulse-drydown cycles and their role in the water cycle” in a session titled “The Global Water Cycle: Coupling and Exchanges of Mass and Energy Between the Ocean, Land, Cryosphere, and Atmosphere II Oral”.
• Zhuosen Wang co-authored the following presentations alongside NASA Black Marble Team Members Ranjay Shrestha and Virgina Kalb:
  • “Unlocking Nighttime Aerosol Insights: Gridded Aerosol Optical Thickness Data from NASA’s Black Marble, 3D Radiative Transfer Models, and AERONET retrievals”
  • Global Analysis of Artificial Nighttime Light Change
  • Earth observations for studying human-made emissions in areas of conflict and war: A case for Ukraine
  • Continuous Planetary-Scale Urban Infrastructure Monitoring from NASA Black Marble Nighttime Lights
  • Highlighting the Continued Development of Validation Protocols and Tools for Land Surface Radiation Products
• Kimberly Slinski presented “In Situ and Earth ObservationBased Monitoring and Forecasting of Surface Water Stress in Rangeland Areas of Africa”
• Young-Kwon Lim presented “MJO in NASA’s new S2S forecast model: MJO propagation associated with moist dynamics and coupling with stratosphere controlled by QBO”
• Lisa Milani presented the following:
  • “NASA GPM Mentorship Program – Educator Track”
  • “Global Snowfall in Satellite and Reanalysis Precipitation Products”
• Narges Shahroudi presented “Information Content Sensitivity Study from Passive Measurements: A Case Study from the WH2yMSIE Campaign”
• Stephen Windle presented, “Wind Retrievals of Atmospheric Motion Vectors and their Applications for Marine Boundary Layer Cloud Morphology”
• Alexander Kotsakis presented “The West-Coast & Heartland Hyperspectral Microwave Sensor Intensive Experiment (WH2YMSIE)”
• Woogyung Kim presented “Introducing new Deep Blue aerosol products”
• Santiago Gasso presented “Towards assimilation of Satellite Derived Aerosol Optical Centroid Height in the NASA’s Goddard Earth Observing System (GEOS) model: Case studies”
• Richard Cullather presented “Global ocean mass change derived from atmospheric reanalyses”
• Nikolay Balashov presented “Evaluation of GHGSat methane emission estimations of South Side Landfill in Indianapolis, Indiana” and “Estimating Methane Emissions in the Gulf of Mexico: Insights from SCOAPE-II”
• Isaac Moradi presented “Enhancing Assimilation of Microwave Observation in the NWP Models”
• Yu-na Lim presented “Optimizing the Precipitation Forcing Used to Produce Subseasonal Streamflow and Soil Moisture Forecasts”
• Isaac Moradi presented “Advancements in the Assimilation of Spaceborne Radar Observations”

Posters:

• Zhuosen Wang presented the following posters alongside NASA Black Marble Team Members Ranjay Shrestha and Virgina Kalb:
  • Twenty-Five Years of the MODIS BRDF, Albedo, and NBAR Products TEMPO at Night
  • Analyzing Electricity Distribution Patterns in Nepal Using Black Marble NTL and Hydropower Data
  • Unraveling the Impact of Hurricane-induced Power Outages on Vulnerable Communities
• Robert Adler presented “The Latest GPCP V3.2 Daily and Monthly Products: Assessment over the Oceans and Cold Regions, and the Plans Moving Forward.”
• Lisa Milani presented “Global Snowfall in Satellite and Reanalysis Precipitation Products”.
• Charles Helms presented two posters:
  • “Reprocessing 30 Years of Deep Convection Data from NASA Goddard’s High-altitude Airborne Radars”
  • “Using Airborne Radar to Generalize the Cyan Ring Signature to Higher Frequency Passive Microwave Channels”.
• Tasha Snow presented “PACE Data Hackweek: An open community keeping up with PACE” alongside colleagues
• Katherine Stover presented “Integrating Observations and Models for Food Security and Health Applications in a Coastal Region” alongside colleagues
• Joseph Finlon presented “Determining Cloud Particle Types During the IMPACTS Field Campaign Using Backscatter Lidar Data and a Clustering Approach” alongside colleagues
• Patrick Stegmann presented “Evaluation of a Preliminary Forward Operator for the AURORA Hyperspectral Microwave Sounder and Dynamics of GNSS and STL Receiver Clock Models
• Jaehwa Lee presented “MODIS Collection 7 Deep Blue Aerosol Products”

Other Submissions:

• Bailing Li (617/UMD),” Increases in frequency and severity of droughts in the northern highlatitude region as revealed by the GRACE/GRACE Follow On data”.
• Jinwoong Yoo, “Enhancing Hydroclimate Simulations with MODIS-Derived Burned Vegetation Cover in Land Surface Modeling” and “Revolutionizing Earth System Modeling with Generative AI: An Open-Source Framework for Accelerated Discovery”
• Melissa Wrzesien, “A Snow Observing Strategy to Integrate Observations and Modeling” with coauthors Carrie Vuyovich (617) and Sujay Kumar (617).
• Kimberly Slinski, “In Situ and Earth Observation-Based Monitoring and Forecasting of Surface Water Stress in Rangeland Areas of Africa.”
• Jessica Erlingis,“Assimilating Leaf Area Index to Improve Characterization of Extreme Events in the Land Agriculture Information System”.
• Justin Pflug, “Combining snow pillows and commercial satellite observations to simulate 3 m spring SWE evolution”.
• Melissa Wrzesien, “A Snow Observing Strategy to Integrate Observations and Modeling”.
• Kristen Whitney, “Advancing Water Resource Decision-Making Through Remote Sensing, Modeling, and Stakeholder Engagement”; and “Quantifying the Impact of Meteorological Dynamic Lapse Regimes on Snowpack in Land Surface Models”
• Tempest McCabe, “B11D-02: The Dual Role of Weather and Fire Suppression in Explaining Quebec’s 2023 Extreme Fire Season, and What it Means for Forecasting the Next Fire Season”
• Andrew Feldman, “B12A-04 Soil Moisture Profiles of Ecosystem Water Use Revealed With ECOSTRESS”
• Yoseline Angel, “GC41H-0027 Mapping Spring Phenology with Airborne and Satellite-based Flowering Spectroscopy”
• Anthony Campbell, “B14C-05 Enabling Coastal wetland monitoring across scales with lidar, imaging spectroscopy, and very high-resolution satellite imagery”

ESSIC scientists also chaired sessions:

• Bailing Li chaired the session: “Advancing land surface models for hydrological and environmental applications”.
• Jinwoong Yoo chaired the sessions: “Advancements in Remote Sensing, Hydrologic Modeling, Data Assimilation, and Machine Learning for Terrestrial Water Cycle III Oral”. and “Advancements in Remote Sensing, Hydrologic Modeling, Data Assimilation, and Machine Learning for Terrestrial Water Cycle VI Poster”.
• Lisa Milani chaired the Precipitation Technical Committee meeting and coorganized the Town Hall “Emerging Needs for Professional Development in Precipitation Sciences: Insights for Students and Early-Career Scientists”.