The 100-Hour Weather & Climate Livestream, Part 1 @wclivestream

The Weather & Climate Livestream The first part of our 💯-Hour Weather & Climate Livestream to Save America's Forecasts, featuring talks from the final hours of the NASA GISS lab (including the moment we were shut down), panel discussions with fired NOAA employees and former presidents of the National Weather Service, and many great keynotes:

Timestamps:
0:00:00 - Stream starting soon
0:05:00 - Welcome to the livestream!
0:10:25 - Beginning of the NASA GISS segment
0:12:20 - David Rind: The History of Climate Research at NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies (GISS)
0:41:59 - Marcus van Lier-Walqui: Quantifying the Impact and Value of Observations for Earth System Prediction
1:06:10 - Casey Ivanovich: Separating the Roles of Temperature and Humidity in Driving Heat Stress Conditions
1:31:17 - the stream gets shut down at NASA GISS ❗️
1:46:51 - Henri Drake: first part of Climate Modeling: Past and Present
1:56:35 - Chris Colose: Planetary Climates in ROCKE-3D
2:16:27 - Dorothy Peteet: Unlocking Secrets: Blue Carbon and the New York Estuary
2:34:11 - Kate Marvel: The World is Warming
3:04:58 - Panel discussion with fired NOAA staff
4:08:19 - Panel discussion with former National Weather Service presidents Joe Friday and Louis Uccellini
4:54:13 - Paul Markowski: Tornado Science
5:40:48 - Ben Santer: From 'discernable' to 'unequivocal': The arc of history in attribution science
6:17:38 - Bernadette Woods Placky: Climate Matters: Our Changing Weather
6:55:37 - Kerry Emanuel: Weather Extremes, Insurance, and a Hypothesis for Climate Inaction
7:44:58 - Andy Dessler: The science and history of the human influence on climate: and why you should believe it
8:24:37 - Ralph Keeling: A perspective on the global carbon cycle from 67 years of CO2 measurements
9:14:38 - Sarah Purkey: Measuring Ocean Temperature [Argo fans, won't want to miss this one!]

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The 100-Hour Weather & Climate Livestream, Part 1

The Weather & Climate Livestream 2025-06-17 | The first part of our 💯-Hour Weather & Climate Livestream to Save America's Forecasts, featuring talks from the final hours of the NASA GISS lab (including the moment we were shut down), panel discussions with fired NOAA employees and former presidents of the National Weather Service, and many great keynotes:

Timestamps:
0:00:00 - Stream starting soon
0:05:00 - Welcome to the livestream!
0:10:25 - Beginning of the NASA GISS segment
0:12:20 - David Rind: The History of Climate Research at NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies (GISS)
0:41:59 - Marcus van Lier-Walqui: Quantifying the Impact and Value of Observations for Earth System Prediction
1:06:10 - Casey Ivanovich: Separating the Roles of Temperature and Humidity in Driving Heat Stress Conditions
1:31:17 - the stream gets shut down at NASA GISS ❗️
1:46:51 - Henri Drake: first part of Climate Modeling: Past and Present
1:56:35 - Chris Colose: Planetary Climates in ROCKE-3D
2:16:27 - Dorothy Peteet: Unlocking Secrets: Blue Carbon and the New York Estuary
2:34:11 - Kate Marvel: The World is Warming
3:04:58 - Panel discussion with fired NOAA staff
4:08:19 - Panel discussion with former National Weather Service presidents Joe Friday and Louis Uccellini
4:54:13 - Paul Markowski: Tornado Science
5:40:48 - Ben Santer: From 'discernable' to 'unequivocal': The arc of history in attribution science
6:17:38 - Bernadette Woods Placky: Climate Matters: Our Changing Weather
6:55:37 - Kerry Emanuel: Weather Extremes, Insurance, and a Hypothesis for Climate Inaction
7:44:58 - Andy Dessler: The science and history of the human influence on climate: and why you should believe it
8:24:37 - Ralph Keeling: A perspective on the global carbon cycle from 67 years of CO2 measurements
9:14:38 - Sarah Purkey: Measuring Ocean Temperature [Argo fans, won't want to miss this one!]

For the full 💯 hours, head to wclivestream.com/rewatch
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The 100-Hour Weather & Climate Livestream, Part 3

The Weather & Climate Livestream 2025-06-23 | The third part of our 💯-Hour Weather & Climate Livestream to Save America's Forecasts, featuring some excellent morning talks:

Timestamps:
0:00:00 - Stream restarting
0:04:21 - Stacy Porter: Using citizen science to engage students with their community: Air quality in a small, Midwestern city
0:27:55 - Allison Wing: Acceleration of hurricane development by cloud-radiative interactions
1:01:20 - Kirsten Findell: What about Land? Local, Regional, and Global Impacts of Land-Atmosphere Interactions
1:27:54 - Michela Biasutti: At the mercy of rainfall: drought and floods in monsoon regions
1:58:56 - Jacob Cohen: Marine Heatwave Forecasts: Towards operational forecasts of ocean extremes
2:31:52 - Paul Bierman: Millions of Years of Greenland Climate and Ice Sheet History Courtesy of the US Military
3:03:00 - Molly Robey: Intro to Meteorology at Loyola University Maryland
3:32:47 - Erin Dougherty: Precipitation and Flood Extremes: Present Characteristics and Future Changes
4:00:58 - Molly Robey: The US Weather Forecast
4:30:39 - Duncan Watson-Parris: Accelerating climate science with machine learning

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The 100-Hour Weather & Climate Livestream, Part 12

The Weather & Climate Livestream 2025-06-22 | To rewatch all 100 hours, head to wclivestream.com/rewatch

💯 hours of weather and climate science from Wednesday, May 28th until Sunday, June 1st, brought to you by 200+ US meteorologists and climate scientists whose research is at risk due to proposed budget cuts.

As you are tuning into our stream-a-thon, we encourage you to talk to your friends, family, and representatives about what you are learning! Visit wclivestream.com/act to help us #saveamericasforecasts

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All speakers are participating in their personal capacities (unless they state otherwise). Individual speakers are only responsible for their own speech, not that of other speakers participating in the livestream.

The 100-Hour Weather & Climate Livestream, Part 2

The Weather & Climate Livestream 2025-06-17 | The second part of our 💯-Hour Weather & Climate Livestream to Save America's Forecasts, featuring some excellent overnight talks:

Timestamps:
0:00:00 - Stream restarting
0:00:25 - Welcome to Part 2!
0:04:10 - Nina Oakley: Towards probabilistic postfire debris-flow hazard decision support
0:26:43 - Martin Wolf: It's Up In The Air
0:53:28 - John Horel: Flash Floods across Southwestern Utah during the Summer Monsoon (with a detour to discuss this year's drought)
1:23:15 - Matt Luongo: Using a model hierarchy to clarify ocean dynamics relevant to tropical Pacific climate change
1:56:02 - Ryan North: A Climatology of Lake Breezes at O'Hare International Airport
2:26:17 - Maggie Powell: Clouds and Climate
3:00:07 - Impromptu panel on REUs & Internships
3:26:17 - Katie Mills: Science belongs to everyone: open data, if you can keep it
3:56:15 - Victoria Boatwright: Storm impacts to biogeochemistry in estuaries & coasts
4:25:38 - Joel Thornton: Enhanced lightning over major oceanic shipping lanes
4:58:22 - Lily Zhang: What Drives Year-to-Year Variations in Western United States Summertime Temperature?
5:30:12 - Chris Osburn: Carbon saturation and weather in the coastal zone (C-SAW)
5:59:25 - Paul Staten: The Jet Stream
6:35:00 - Dan Chavas: Hurricanes and tornadoes: from hazard to home

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You use NOAA data daily

The Weather & Climate Livestream 2025-06-01 | Great reminder from AMS president-elect Alan Sealls on the impact of weather on our daily lives.

Cuts to NOAA impact the agency's ability to deliver accurate and timely information about weather and climate risks. Help us #SaveAmericasForecasts and catch the final hours of our Weather and Climate Livestream by visiting: wclivestream.com/watch

The 100-Hour Weather & Climate Livestream, Part 11

The Weather & Climate Livestream 2025-06-01 | To rewatch all 100 hours, head to wclivestream.com/rewatch

💯 hours of weather and climate science from Wednesday, May 28th until Sunday, June 1st, brought to you by 200+ US meteorologists and climate scientists whose research is at risk due to proposed budget cuts.

As you are tuning into our stream-a-thon, we encourage you to talk to your friends, family, and representatives about what you are learning! Visit wclivestream.com/act to help us #saveamericasforecasts

Our social media accounts are:
YouTube: @wclivestream
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Instagram: @wclivestream

Learn more on our website: wclivestream.com

All speakers are participating in their personal capacities (unless they state otherwise). Individual speakers are only responsible for their own speech, not that of other speakers participating in the livestream.

The 100-Hour Weather & Climate Livestream, Part 10

The Weather & Climate Livestream 2025-06-01 | The tenth part of our 💯-Hour Weather & Climate Livestream to Save America's Forecasts, featuring a Q&A with Daniel Swain (@WeatherWest), awesome keynotes from Kim Cobb, Britney Schmidt, John Morales, Kristina Dahl, and Zeke Hausfather, and many more great talks!

Timestamps:
0:00:00 - Stream restarting
0:03:06 - Jennifer Mackinnon - Stratified Ocean Dynamics of the Arctic (SODA)
0:31:09 - Phil Duffy - The science-based case for greater climate ambition
1:01:20 - Liz Moyer - Aircraft observations of high-altitude cirrus
1:34:46 - Kayla Mitchell - Naturally Mitigating Global Warming: the Vast Ocean Carbon Sink
1:59:03 - Gretchen Keppel-Aleks - Terrestrial carbon-climate feedbacks in a changing climate
2:27:00 - Dennis D Baldocchi - Breathing of the Biosphere
2:58:17 - Kim Cobb - Ancient Pacific corals document shifting extremes in a warming world
3:48:05 - Britney Schmidt - Seeing the Ice with New Eyes
4:32:01 - John Morales - Navigating Hurricane Season 2025
5:14:12 - Kristina Dahl - Muds, models, and the making of a climate story
5:55:31 - Daniel Swain - Live Q&A with the livestream chat!
6:40:05 - Zeke Hausfather - Why have the last few years been so anomalously hot, and is global warming accelerating?

For the full 💯 hours, head to wclivestream.com/rewatch
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We put floating robots in the ocean, and it only cost you 5¢

The Weather & Climate Livestream 2025-06-01 | Argo floats help us understand the ocean and better forecast the weather.They're a cheap but critical investment from the US public.

Learn more and watch us live at wclivestream.com/watch

The 100-Hour Weather & Climate Livestream, Part 9

The Weather & Climate Livestream 2025-05-31 | The ninth part of our 💯-Hour Weather & Climate Livestream to Save America's Forecasts, featuring a panel of international experts talking about US weather and climate science, and talks on clouds, glaciers, data, and more!

Timestamps:
0:00:00 - Stream restarting
0:04:08 - Virginia Schutte - Serving Science by Serving People
0:30:11 - Tony Broccoli - Coastal Storms and Storm Surge Flooding Along the U.S. East Coast
1:00:04 - Clare Singer - Disappearing clouds! Stratocumulus-cumulus transitions in future climates
1:30:30 - Ed Gerber - Revealing the statistics of extreme events hidden in short weather forecast data: A case study of Sudden Stratospheric Warmings
2:02:34 - Erin Pettit - Ice to Water: How Glaciers Impact US
2:32:02 - Paquita Zuidema - CAESAR: Cold-Air outbreak Experiment in the Sub-Arctic Region
3:00:14 - Panel of international climate experts w/ Bjorn Stevens, Tim Palmer, Susan Trumbore, Niki Gruber
4:01:32 - Jonathan Nash - The Physics of Glacier Ice Melt: Robotic systems to measure and predict how glaciers will respond to warming oceans
4:30:35 - Carlos Martinez - The Caribbean Seasonal Rainfall Cycle and the ingredients that shape it!
5:01:18 - Scott Powell - Observing and Modeling Tropical Cumulus and Cumulonimbus Clouds
5:31:41 - Marissa Saenger - Emulating Natural Temperature Variability for Regional Climate Impact Projections
6:02:02 - Abigale Wyatt - Ocean carbon dynamics & modeling
6:28:03 - Jared Rennie - SHOW ME THE DATA!!!
7:00:26 - Paulina Czarnecki - How Do We Know How Much the Sun Heats Earth's Atmosphere?
7:29:06 - Cecilia Bitz - Polar climate change: What's been happening and why you should care
7:58:00 - Galen McKinley - Ocean carbon and biogeochemistry

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Did you know you have NOAA in your pocket?

The Weather & Climate Livestream 2025-05-31 | Are you in the US? American Meteorological Society President Elect Alan Sealls talks about how even if you don't know NOAA, their research is helping you prepare for tomorrow's weather!

The proposed budget under consideration by Congess completely elimates NOAA Research. Call your representatives at wclivestream.com/act and tell them to keep funding NOAA, and to save America's forecasts!

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I flew through a Category 5 hurricane

The Weather & Climate Livestream 2025-05-31 | Dr. Jeff Masters (co-founder of Weather Underground) tells the harrowing tale of hurricane hunting on the Weather & Climate Livestream.

To join us live, head to wclivestream.com/watch and to keep NOAA Research funded, call your reps at wclivestream.com/act

The 100-Hour Weather & Climate Livestream, Part 8

The Weather & Climate Livestream 2025-05-31 | The eighth part of our 💯-Hour Weather & Climate Livestream to Save America's Forecasts, featuring live rotating tank experiments and audience-request climate analysis, and talks on supercools clouds, dirt, and more!

Timestamps:
0:00:00 - Stream restarting
0:05:50 - Kezhou (Melody) Lu - Diverging hydrological sensitivity among tropical basins
0:35:50 - McKenzie Larson - What's up with this wind? It's actually downslope!
1:03:11 - Kara Hartig - Supercool Arctic Clouds
1:38:31 - Alyssa Stansfield - How is hurricane rainfall impacted by climate change?
2:05:20 - Michael Battalio - What we learn about Earth's climate from studying Mars's global dust storms and Titan's methane rain
2:31:23 - Ross J. Salawitch - What The Frack !?! Late Night Thoughts on Fracking and One Way Society Might Try to Mitigate Global Warming
3:02:35 - James Ryan - Precursors to Extreme Wintertime Cold in the Midwest United States
3:33:28 - Glen Chua - The atmospheric detergent: past and future drivers
4:04:56 - Henri Drake - Live climate analysis, based on audience requests!
5:02:37 - Ian Faloona - Dirt, Wind, and Fire: Air Pollution in the 21st century
5:49:03 - Susana Hancock - Why the Cryosphere
6:06:55 - Robert Shortt - Subsidence & GHG Fluxes in the California Delta
6:33:28 - Spencer Hill - Live rotating tank experiments!

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The 100-Hour Weather & Climate Livestream, Part 7

The Weather & Climate Livestream 2025-05-31 | The seventh part of our 💯-Hour Weather & Climate Livestream to Save America's Forecasts, featuring some amazing keynotes from Isaac Held, Jeff Masters, and Jen Kay!

Timestamps:
0:00:00 - Stream restarting
0:02:24 - Uma Bhatt: Actionable Climate Science in Alaska Relies on Collaboration Across Many Groups
0:27:40 - Robert Wood: Aggressive Aerosol Mitigation Policies Reduce Chances of Keeping Global Warming to Below 2ºC
0:54:50 - Lucas Randall Vargas Zeppetello: Will Heat Waves Get (Much) Worse Under Climate Change?
1:25:09 - Todd Emmenegger: The future of extreme precipitation and the importance of model diagnostics
1:55:21 - Hannah Joy-Warren: The Southern Ocean: what is it? why is it important? and what are phytoplankton doing there?
2:24:25 - Andrew Thaler: The OpenCTD: Low-Cost, Open-Source Oceanography for Science, Education, and Exploration
2:57:22 - Alex Chang: How Climate Change is Drying the Amazon Rainforest
3:29:32 - Martha Buckley: Why are sea surface temperatures in the subpolar North Atlantic predictable?
3:57:12 - Isaac Held: The changing distribution of precipitation as the climate warms
4:45:04 - Jeff Masters: Hunting Hugo: The Hurricane Hunters’ Wildest Ride
5:28:49 - Jen Kay: Advancing Polar Science as the World Warms

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The 100-Hour Weather & Climate Livestream, Part 6

The Weather & Climate Livestream 2025-05-30 | The sixth part of our 💯-Hour Weather & Climate Livestream to Save America's Forecasts, featuring some amazing talks on underwater robots, AI forecasting, wildfires, ice sheets, and more!

Timestamps:
0:00:00 - Stream restarting
0:05:48 - Carly Phillips: The Science of Wildfires & Climate Change
0:33:52 - Lily Dove: Exploring our Blue Planet using Underwater Robots
1:06:16 - Allie Mazurek: Insights from AI forecasts of severe thunderstorm environments
1:32:21 - Adam Sokol: Zeroing in on Clouds & Climate
2:03:55 - Bart Geerts: Weather and Climate Research in Wyoming
2:32:00 - Alex Turner: Atmospheric methane: where did you come from, where did you go?
3:03:24 - Ann Fridlind: Machine-learning assisted design of future Earth-observing satellite missions
3:32:03 - Michael Diamond: What can we learn about clouds by tracking ship pollution from space
4:04:36 - Olivier Pauluis: Why it moves? The atmosphere as a heat engine
4:33:58 - Marie McGraw: Artificial Intelligence and Tropical Cyclone Forecasting
5:04:25 - Sean Sublette: Weathering the 21st Century
5:33:23 - Meghana Ranganathan: How ice sheets contribute to sea-level rise: a materials science perspective
6:27:53 - Nick Siler: How will climate change affect precipitation patterns in the western US?
6:49:29 - John M Wallace: Increasing incidence of wildfires in the boreal forests and the forests of North America
7:09:47 - Angie Pendergrass: Precipitation and how it is changing
7:37:15 - Shaina Sadai: The Global Impact of the Antractic Ice Sheet in a Warming World

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My FIRED manager had to fire ME

The Weather & Climate Livestream 2025-05-30 | Tom Di Liberto worked for NOAA as a contractor for 13 years and was fired only 13 days shy of completing his probationary period as a federal employee.

To see more, join us live at wclivestream.com/watch

We want you safe - Former NOAA worker

The Weather & Climate Livestream 2025-05-30 | Hear what a former NOAA employee has to say about the idea that voters in red states 'get what they voted for'

More essential, non-partisan science for 100 hours at wclivestream.com/watch

The 100-Hour Weather & Climate Livestream, Part 5

The Weather & Climate Livestream 2025-05-30 | The fifth part of our 💯-Hour Weather & Climate Livestream to Save America's Forecasts, featuring some great late-night talks:

Timestamps:
0:00:00 - Stream restarting
0:04:32 - Albany Blackburn: Orographic Precipitation
0:29:16 - Jeremy Rugenstein: The importance of understanding past climates
1:07:31 - Kay McMonigal: Sea surface temperature anomaly persistence depends on ocean complexity in a CESM2 model hierarchy
2:06:14 - Dave Gutzler: Seasonal Forecasts of Climate and Streamflow in Snow-fed Rivers
2:31:55 - Sara Murphy: Exploring the Formation of Accretion Products in the Atmosphere
3:03:53 - Noam Vogt-Vincent: Climate change and the future of our coral reefs
4:35:12 - Mariya Galochkina: Using climate patterns to forecast coral bleaching months in advance
5:06:22 - Peter Huybers: On rainfall having greater memory in observations than simulations
5:34:10 - Delta Merner: Climate Attribution Science

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The 100-Hour Weather & Climate Livestream, Part 4

The Weather & Climate Livestream 2025-05-30 | The fourth part of our 💯-Hour Weather & Climate Livestream to Save America's Forecasts, featuring some amazing keynotes:

Timestamps:
0:00:00 - Stream restarting
0:04:50 - Andrew Winters: The Jet Stream: The Atmosphere's Intercontinental Highway
0:32:21 - Richard Rood: Science-informed climate stories & scenarios
1:03:32 - Roger Creel: Past is prologue: seeing modern sea level rise through the lens of Earth history
1:32:47 - Shawn Wang: Understanding what causes megadroughts: A cast study of Southeast Asia
2:03:23 - Panel discussion with 2025 AMS President David Stensrud and AMS President Elect Alan Sealls
2:49:58 - Karen McKinnon: Heatwaves in a warming world
3:37:17 - Maria Molina: Machine Learning for Earth System Prediction and Predictability
4:34:40 - Amy McGovern: Trustworthy AI in Weather, Climate, and Coastal Oceanography
5:19:24 - Adam Sobel: Usable climate risk science: a public-private partnership
6:03:16 - Anand Gnanadesikan: How the Southern Ocean shapes our world
6:46:31 - Chris Vagasky: The low down on weather measurements up high

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Former head of the National Weather Service tells it like it is

The Weather & Climate Livestream 2025-05-29 | A few quotes from an interview during the livestream. We're still live at wclivestream.com/watch.

Former NWS Director, Joe Friday, on the Weather & Climate Livestream. Learn more about the funding cuts that made all FIVE former NWS Directors team up to #SaveAmericasForecasts by heading to wclivestream.com

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