Sessions Announced for 2026 AMS Annual Meeting

Published: 25 July 2025

Submit your abstracts by August 14, 2025

Sessions for the 2026 American Meteorological Society (AMS) Annual Meeting have been announced. If you are leading a session relevant to the Atmospheric Radiation Measurement (ARM) User Facility, please let us know. We are collecting this information to be shared with the ARM community.

The sessions below are being convened by your colleagues during the 106th AMS Annual Meeting taking place from January 25 to 29, 2026, in Houston, Texas, and online.

The abstract submission deadline for most conferences and symposia is 5 p.m. Eastern time August 14, 2025.

Scientific Sessions

• Advances in Airborne Instrumentation and Measurement Technology in the Atmospheric Sciences
  soliciting contributions that highlight instrumentation used during recent aerial field campaigns 

• Advances in Assessing Aerosol Impacts on Clouds Through AI and Advanced Statistical Techniques soliciting contributions that leverage artificial intelligence (AI)/machine learning and data-driven frameworks to investigate how aerosol perturbations modulate cloud microphysical, dynamical, and precipitation processes

• Advances in Numerical Modeling of Aerosol-Cloud Interactions: Moment-, Bin- and Particle-Resolved Methods and Beyond
  soliciting contributions that integrate model development with observational constraints—through validation, sensitivity analysis, or intercomparison

• Aerosol-Cloud Interactions in Deep Convective Clouds
  soliciting contributions from theoretical, observational, and modeling studies on various topics related to deep convective cloud-aerosol-environment interactions

• Aerosol-Cloud Interactions in Warm Clouds
  soliciting contributions on all topics related to aerosol-cloud interactions in shallow warm-phase clouds

• Aerosol-Cloud-Precipitation Interactions in Mixed-Phase Orographic and Layer Clouds
  soliciting contributions that use numerical modeling, in situ, and remote sensing observations from Southern and Arctic Ocean-focused field campaigns 

• Aerosol, Convection and Air Quality in the Coastal Urban Environment of
  Southeast Texas
  soliciting contributions that use data from the TRacking Aerosol Convection
  interactions ExpeRiment (TRACER)

• Aerosol-Earth System Interactions from Regional to Global Scale
  soliciting contributions that explore aerosol-earth system interactions

• Aerosols, Ice Particles, & Clouds
  soliciting contributions from studies on atmospheric ice particles, including primary and secondary ice production

• Aerosol-Radiation Interactions
  soliciting contributions that advance process-level understanding of aerosol-radiation interactions

• Arctic Radiation-Cloud-Aerosol-Surface Interactions
  soliciting contributions that use data from the MOSAiC expedition

• Bridging Experiments, Observations, and Models to Develop Process-Level Understanding of Mixed-Phase Clouds
  soliciting contributions from studies that bridge gaps between real-world observations, laboratory experiments, and model representations to better understand mixed-phase cloud processes

• Formation and Impacts of Aerosols and CCN: Experiment, Observation, and Modeling
  soliciting contributions on the chemical and physical processes that govern aerosol and cloud condensation nuclei (CCN) formation

• High-Latitude Mixed-Phase Cloud Processes
  soliciting contributions that use data from the Cold-Air Outbreaks in the Marine Boundary Layer Experiment (COMBLE) and the Measurements of Aerosols, Radiation, and Clouds over the Southern Ocean (MARCUS) field campaign

• Lessons Learned in Atmospheric Composition Field Campaigns
  soliciting contributions from TRACER

• Multi-instrument Observations of the Planetary Boundary Layer
  soliciting contributions on the challenges and opportunities in collecting and using planetary boundary layer measurements

• New and Emerging Measurement Methods in Cloud and Precipitation Research
  soliciting contributions that bridge observational gaps in cloud physics, uncover new cloud phenomena, bring new insights of cloud processes, improve cloud parameterization, or help model evaluation

• Parameterization of Cloud Microphysics Across Scales
  soliciting contributions on all aspects of representing microphysics across different scales of modeling

• Precipitation Processes and Observations for Atmospheric, Land Surface, and Hydrological Modeling
  soliciting contributions focused on precipitation observation and process understanding

• Remote Sensing of Precipitation at Regional, Continental, and Global Scales: Estimation, Evaluation, and Applications
  soliciting contributions that use quantitative precipitation estimate data obtained from radar instrumentation

• Warm-Phase Cloud Processes Across Scales
  soliciting contributions from recent field campaigns that test new parameterizations and/or computational techniques in the investigation of warm-phase cloud processes