Call for Papers: 36th Conference on Hurricanes and Tropical Meteorology

06-10 May 2024, Long Beach, CA

The 36th Conference on Hurricanes and Tropical Meteorology, sponsored by the American Meteorological Society (AMS) and organized by the AMS Committee on Tropical Meteorology and Tropical Cyclones, will be held 06-10 May 2024 at the Hyatt Regency Long Beach. Preliminary programs and registration details will be posted on the AMS website in mid-February 2024.  General information on hotel accommodations will soon be available on the AMS website.

Papers are solicited on all aspects of tropical meteorology and oceanography, including many topics submitted by the members of the community:

Topics related to Tropical Cyclones Research and Operations

• 50th Anniversary of the Dvorak Technique
• Application of Artificial Intelligence in Tropical Cyclones and Tropical Meteorology
• Innovative Observing Technologies to Advance Tropical Cyclone Operations and Research
• Linking Waves in the Tropics to High Impact Weather
• Observing, Modeling, and Forecasting of Tropical Cyclone Landfalls
• Radiative Feedback in Tropical Cyclones and Tropical Convection
• Rapid Intensification
• Tropical Cyclone Intensity Change in Moderate Vertical Wind Shear: Mechanisms, Observations, and Predictability
• Understanding the dynamics of tropical cyclone evolution in three dimensions

Topics related to specific mission/field campaigns

• NASA’s TROPICS Mission: Observing the Tropics with a Constellation of Smallsats
• NOAA’s Hurricane Forecast Improvement Program (HFIP)
• Space-Based Synthesis Aperture Radar (SAR) in Tropical Cyclone Intensity Analysis
• The 2021 and 2022 Convective Processes Experiment (CPEX) Field Campaigns: Untangling Interactions between Convection, Aerosols, and Winds in the Tropical North Atlantic

Topics related to tropical climate, convection, and their variability

• Climate Variability and Change in Tropics
• Effects of the Tibetan Plateau on climate and weather
• Linking Waves in the Tropics to High Impact Weather
• Modeling and Parameterization of Moist Convection Across Scales
• Recent Advances in Theory, Modeling, and Observations of Convectively Coupled Equatorial Waves
• The Air-Sea Transition Zone
• The Madden-Julian Oscillation
• Tropical-Extratropical Interactions

Topics related to communication, culture, and societal impacts

• Diversity, Inclusion, and Equity in Tropical Meteorology Community
• Societal Impacts and Risk Communication from Tropical Weather

Requests for other special sessions should be addressed to the program chairs (Pablo Santos at [email protected] and Naoko Sakaeda at [email protected]).

AMS policy limits participants to one oral presentation each (you may submit more than one abstract but please note any additional will be assigned as posters).  Please submit abstracts electronically via the Web no later than 29 November 2023. A fee of $120.00 (payable by credit card or purchase order) will be charged at the time of submission of each abstract (refundable only if abstract is not accepted).  When submitting your abstract, you can indicate whether you prefer a poster or an oral presentation. If you are a student, please also indicate if you would like to be considered for student awards. The availability of oral presentations, however, will depend on the number of submissions.

Authors of accepted presentations will be notified via e-mail by mid-February 2024. More information on student awards will also be made available around that time. Instructions for formatting extended abstracts will be posted on the AMS website. The non-student award extended abstracts (file size up to 10 MB) must be submitted electronically by 6 June 2024.  All abstracts, extended abstracts, and presentations (including the recordings of those who grant permission) will be made available on the AMS website.