Breen, Katherine (610.1/MSU), "Artificial Intelligence Enhancement for GEOS Products," co-authors: Donifan Barahona, Heike Kalesse-Los, and Johannes Rattenbacher.

Collow, Allison (610.1/UMBC), "Challenges with Modeling and Forecasting the June 2023 Smoke Transport Event in the Northeast United States," co-authors: Peter Colarco and Rob Levy.

Foley, Sean (616/MSU), "A Prototype Multi-view Stereo Method for Determining Cloud Structure with Multi-angle Imagery," co-authors: Kirk Knobelspiesse, Andrew Sayer (616/UMBC), and Chamara Rajapakshe.

Han, Mei (612/UMBC), "Observations of Supercooled Liquid Water Layers at the top of Snow-Producing Nimbostratus Clouds During the IMPACTS Campaign," co-authors: Scott Braun and Timothy Lang.

Huemmrich, Karl F. (618/UMBC), "Examining Tundra Greening from Ground-based to Satellite Observations," co-authors: Sergio Vargas, Craig Tweedie, Petya Campbell (618/UMBC), Robert Hollister, and Elizabeth Middleton.

Kim, Dongchul (614/UMBC), "Dust Source Attribution to the Global Land and Ocean Regions," co-authors: Mian Chin, Greg Schuster, Hongbin Yu, Toshihiko Takemura, Paolo Tuccella, Paul Ginoux, Xiaohong Liu, Yang Shi, Hitoshi Matsui, Kostas Tsigaridis, and Michael Schulz.

Kim, Hyokyung (612/MSU), "Effects of the Modified AutoSNOW database on DPR Estimates of Path Attenuation," co-authors: Robert Meneghini and Liang Liao (612/MSU).

Korkin, Sergey (613/UMBC), "The Paper-and-Code Bundle Concept in Atmospheric Radiation Science," co-authors: Andrew Sayer (616/UMBC), Amir Ibrahim, and Alexei Lyapustin.

Lewis, Jasper (612/UMBC), "Evaluating uncertainties in PBL height retrievals from space-based lidars compared to MPLNET," co-authors: Erica McGrath-Spangler (610.1/MSU), James Campbell, Erica Dolinar, Simone Lolli, Jason Lucas Tackett, Rob Koopman, Stephanie Rusli, Michael Sicarda, and Ellsworth Judd Welton. 

Malings, Carl (610.1/MSU), "Data Fusion with Uncertainty Quantification for Sub-City-Scale Air Quality Assessment and Forecasting," co-authors: K. Emma Knowland (610.1/MSU), Christoph Keller (610.1/MSU), Stephen Cohn, Callum Wayman, Nathan Pavlovic, Alan Chan, Justin Coughlin, Sean Wihera, Sean Khan, and John White.

Matus, Alex (613/UMBC), "New Approach for PM2.5 Retrievals using CATS Lidar and GEOS-5 Model Data Assimilation," co-authors: Ed Nowottnick and John Yorks.

Mukherjee, Lipi (613/UMBC), "Detection of Aerosol Layer Height and Optical Depth By Twilight VIS/NIR Radiometry," co-authors: Dong Wu, Bernhard Mayer, and Arve Kylling. 

Orland, Elijah (617/UMBC), "Linking Active Fire Properties to Post Fire Impacts on Vegetation, Streamflow, and Mass Wasting Hazards," co-authors: Douglas Morton, Melanie Follette-Cook, Tempest Diana McCabe, Yang Chen, Rebecca Scholten, and Alexey Shiklomanov.

Park, Seohui (618/MSU), "Hourly PM2.5 Short-term Forecasting at U.S. Embassy Locations using Machine Learning," co-authors: Alqamah Sayeed, Junhyeon Seo (618/MSU), and Pawan Gupta.

Richards, Nigel (614/UMBC), "Validation of OMPS LP Ozone Profile Retrievals Using Solar Occultation Satellite Measurements," co-authors: Natalya Kramarova, Robert Damadeo, Stacey Frith, Patrick Sheese, and Kaley Walker.

Tokay, Ali (612/UMBC), "Radar Snowfall Estimate in Southern New England," co-authors: Brian Inglis, David Wolff, Charles Helms, Diego Cerrai, Brian Filipiak, and Adrian Loftus.

Wales, Pamela (610.1/MSU), "Developing a continuous ozone record through the SAGE and Aura missions with NASA reanalysis products," co-authors: K. Emma Knowland (610.1/MSU), Krzysztof Wargan, Brad Weir (610.1/MSU), and Steven Pawson.

Yang, Eun-Gyeong (610.1/UMBC), "Global Planetary Boundary Layer Height Analysis and Monitoring for Multiple Observing Systems in the GEOS," co-authors: Yanqiu Zhu, Nathan Arnold, Manisha Ganeshan (613/MSU), Stephen Palm, Erica McGrath-Spangler (610.1/MSU), Jasper Lewis (612/UMBC), Haydee Salmun, Andrea Molod, Joseph Santanello, and Dong Wu.

"Southern Africa contributes approximately one-third of the global fire emissions, stemming mostly from the burning of grasslands and savannahs, with more smoldering combustion occurring in boreal summer and late fall. The large-scale circulation couples the African continent to the southern subtropical Atlantic Ocean, partly through a land heat low that elevates the smoke and drives upper-level winds westward. The biomass-burning aerosols can then interact with one of the largest marine low cloud decks on our planet, both through smoke's ability to absorb sunlight, and through more direct interactions with the cloud microphysics. Dedicated field campaigns within the last decade have revealed new insights into the nature of these interactions: smoke is more present in the boundary layer than initially thought, and absorbs more sunlight per particle than initially assumed. The seasonal cycle of the interactions is pronounced. Although climate models still struggle to represent the net radiative impact on climate, the models producing larger warming estimates are likely closer to the truth. I will use this talk to communicate current understanding of this region, highlighting these new findings and remaining questions."

"I mostly grew up in Champaign-Urbana, Illinois, graduating with a BS in Physics from there. In 1999 I graduated with a PhD from University of Colorado-Boulder from their Program in Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences. I spent three years thereafter at the NOAA lab in Boulder, where I started doing more field work, and in 2005 moved to the Rosenstiel School of University of Miami. I am now the Chair of their Department of Atmospheric Sciences. My research focuses on marine boundary-layer clouds."

Christopher Shuman (615/UMBC) and a fellow colleague contribute detailed data to the final topic, showing "air temperatures at Summit Station, Greenland, between June 1 - Sept 16 for 2012, 2019, 2021, 2022, and 2023, all years with melting or near-melting conditions at that site ... ," in addition to more information on temperatures throughout the years at the summit. 

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