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21st CERES-II Science Team Meeting – April 2014
Meeting Minutes / Presentations
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Objectives
Major Objectives for the Meeting:
Review status of CERES Instruments and Data Products:
Status of NASA & CERES Project
CERES Terra, Aqua and SNPP SW/LW/TOTAL Channel Calibration Update
CERES FM6 and RBI Update
CERES SNPP SSF Edition-1: VIIRS Cloud Algorithm & Validation Status
CERES GEO Cloud Algorithm Status
CERES Edition-4 ADM Validation status
SOFA, SARB and TISA Working Group Reports
Data Management Team Update: Terra/Aqua/SNPP
Atmospheric Sciences Data Center (ASDC) Update
CERES Education Outreach
Invited Presentations Session:
Each presentation is 45 min.
Contributed Science Reports:
Each report is 20 min including time for questions.
Poster Presentation:
“Non-linear temperature response of clear sky OLR relative to surface emission in the water vapor window”.
J. Eliashiv (Scripps).
Meeting Agenda
Tuesday, April 22
NASA Langley Research Center, Hampton, VA
CERES Technical Session
8:00 am
Registration at Badge and Pass Office
8:55 am
Welcome/Meeting Logistics
Norm Loeb (NASA LaRC)
9:00 am
State of CERES
Norm Loeb (NASA LaRC)
9:30 am
CERES FM1-FM6 Instrument Update
Susan Thomas (SSAI)
10:15 am
Status of VIIRS On-orbit Calibration
Jack Xiong (NASA GSFC)
10:35 am
Break
11:00 am
CERES Clouds Working Group Report
Patrick Minnis (NASA LaRC)
11:30 am
Validation of the CERES Edition 4 Angular Distribution Models
Wenying Su (NASA LaRC)
12:00 pm
Lunch
1:30 pm
Status of the Shortwave Surface-Only Flux Algorithms
David Kratz (NASA LaRC)
1:50 pm
Five-Channel Geostationary Cloud Retrievals
Rabindra Palikonda (SSAI)
2:10 pm
Surface Atmosphere Radiation Budget (SARB) Working Group Update
Seiji Kato (NASA LaRC)
2:40 pm
TISA Working Group Report
David Doelling (NASA LaRC)
3:10 pm
Break
3:40 pm
CERES Data Management Team (DMT) Working Group Report
Jonathan Gleason (NASA LaRC)
4:10 pm
Atmospheric Sciences Data Center (ASDC) Update
Chris Harris (NASA LaRC)
4:30 pm
CERES Education and Outreach Overview
Sarah Crecelius (SSAI)
5:10 pm
Adjourn
6:45 pm
Dutch Treat Dinner:
Baci Italiano Ristorante. Peninsula Town Center, Kilgore Ave., Hampton
Wednesday, April 23
NASA Langley Research Center, Hampton, VA
8:30 am
CERES Working Group Breakout Sessions
Angular Modeling (Su et al.) [
1
2
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Surface to TOA Fluxes (Kato et al.) [
1
2
3
4
]
Cloud Properties (Minnis et al.) [
1
2
3
4
]
All
9:45 am
Break
Invited Science Presentations
10:15 am
Global Scale Energy Fluxes: Comparison of Observational Estimates and Model Simulations
Aaron Donohoe (U. Washington)
11:00 am
The Antarctic Atmospheric Energy Budget: Observation and Model Simulation
Michael Previdi (Columbia Univ.)
11:45 pm
Lunch
Contributed Science Presentations
1:30 pm
Creating “Intelligent” Climate Model Ensemble Averages Using a Process-Based Framework
Noel Baker (Oak Ridge Assoc. Univ.)
1:50 pm
Impact of Diurnal Cycle Simulation on the TOA Flux Mean State and Interannual Variability in CanAM4
Patrick Taylor (NASA LaRC)
2:10 pm
Comparisons of EBAF Ed2.8 TOA Fluxes with Reanalysis Data Products
Takmeng Wong (NASA LaRC)
2:30 pm
The CERES Flux-By-Cloudtype Simulator
Zachary Eitzen (SSAI)
2:50 pm
Break
3:20 pm
Improvement of Shortwave Radiation Budget by Three-Dimensional Scene Construction
S.-H. Ham (Oak Ridge Assoc. Univ.)
3:40 pm
Daily OLR CDR – Development and Evaluation
Hai-Tien Lee (U. Maryland)
4:00 pm
Aerosol Retrieval from SNPP/VIIRS: Analysis of Data Quality
Istvan Laszlo (NOAA)
4:20 pm
Edition4 Clear-Sky Shortwave Angular Distribution Models over Ocean
Lusheng Liang (SSAI)
4:40 pm
Strategies and Preliminary Results of Comparing FM5 with FM3/FM1
Peter Szewczyk (SSAI)
5:00 pm
Adjourn
Thursday, April 24
NASA Langley Research Center, Hampton, VA
Contributed Science Presentations (cont’d)
8:30 am
Updates on Extending the CERES Cloud Climate Record Using AVHRR, MODIS, and NASA A-Train Data
Kris Bedka (SSAI)
8:50 am
Impact of Drizzle to the MODIS MBL Cloud Microphysics Retrievals During MAGIC and AZORES IOPs
Baike Xi (U. North Dakota)
9:10 am
Comparisons of CERES Multilayer Cloud Properties with CALIPSO and CloudSat Data
Fu-Lung Chang (SSAI)
9:30 am
Empirical Methods to Improve Cloud Water Budget Estimates From Passive Satellite Measurements
W.L. Smith, Jr. (NASA LaRC)
9:50 am
Assessing the CMIP5 Model Simulations of Tropical Clouds and TOA Cloud Radiative Effects
Hailan Wang (NASA LaRC)
10:10 am
Break
10:40 am
FLASHFlux Update
Paul Stackhouse (NASA LaRC)
11:00 am
The Future of COVE: Operations and Instrumentation After DOE Renovations of the Chesapeake Lighthouse
Greg Schuster (NASA LaRC)
11:20 am
A-Train and Reanalysis Data: An Evaluation of the Artic Energy Budget
Mathew Christensen
(Colorado State Univ.)
11:40 am
Observing Recent Cloud and Radiation Budget Changes over Arctic Sea-Ice
Norm Loeb (NASA LaRC)
12:00 am
Adjourn