44th CERES-II Science Team Meeting – May 2026

Meeting Minutes / Presentations

Meeting Agenda [PDF]

Objectives

Major Objectives for the Meeting:

1. Review status of CERES Instruments and Data Products:
   • Status of CERES
   • CERES FM1-FM6 Calibration Update
   • MODIS, VIIRS GEO Cloud Algorithm & Validation Status
   • ADM, SARB, TISA and FLASHFlux Working Group Reports
   • Data Management Team Update: Terra/Aqua/S-NPP/NOAA-20
   
   
2. Invited Presentations Session. Each presentation is 45 min including time for questions.
   
   
3. Contributed Science Reports. Each report is 20 min including time for questions.

Meeting Agenda

	CERES Technical Session
9:00 am	NASA HQ Update	D Considine
9:15 am	State of CERES	N. Loeb
9:45 am	CERES FM1-FM6 Instrument Update	M. Shankar
10:15 am	Break
10:45 am	CERES Clouds Working Group Report	B. Smith
11:15 am	CERES Angular Distribution Model (ADM) Working Group Report	L. Liang
11:45 am	Lunch
1:30 pm	Surface Atmospheric Radiation Budget (SARB) Working Group Update	S. Kato / S. Ham
2:00 pm	Time Interpolation and Spatial Averaging (TISA) Working Group: Update	D. Doelling
2:30 pm	FLASHFlux Update	P. Stackhouse
3:00 pm	Break
3:30 pm	CERES Data Management Team (DMT) Working Group Report	K. Dejwakh
4:00 pm	The GLOBE Clouds and Civil Air Patrol Collaboration for Aviation-Focused Missions	A. Autore
4:20 pm	Adjourn

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	Contributed Science Presentations
9:00 am	Southern Ocean clear-sky brightening from sea spray aerosol increase drives departure from hemispheric albedo symmetry	C. Singer
9:20 am	The Earth hemispheric albedo symmetry at 27-deg E	J. Zhang
9:40 am	Emerging low-cloud feedback and adjustment in global satellite observations	P. Ceppi
10:00 am	Interpretation of observed cloud radiative effect trends with the cloud radiative kernel framework	L. Oreopoulos
10:20 am	Break
10:50 am	A further look at the tropical clear-sky OLR trend in the last two decades	X. Huang
11:10 am	Sea ice survivability across the Arctic Ocean: Influencing factors and regional variability	P. Taylor
11:30 am	Earth Climate Observatory (ECO): Unveiling Earth’s energy imbalance to steer climate action	S. Dewitte
11:50 am	New CMIP7 forcing updates impact regional but not global Earth radiation budget trends	C. Fan
12:10 pm	Lunch
	Invited Science Presentations
1:30 pm	From Langley’s bolometer to DEMETER: A brief history and look to the future of earth radiation budget measurements	A. Jarnot
2:15 pm	Earth radiative budget as measured by Uvsq-Sat constellation since 2021	M. Meftah
3:00 pm	Break
	Contributed Science Presentations (Cont’d)
3:30 pm	Predicting trend errors in the presence of data gaps in climate data records	M. Richardson
3:50 pm	Improved ice crystal optical properties and radiative transfer simulation capabilities in support of satellite remote sensing	P. Yang
4:10 pm	Version 2 VIIRS/CrIS Fusion (FSNRAD) radiance product generation: Status and updates	E. Borbas
4:30 pm	Libera Mission Update	P. Pilewski
4:50 pm	Progress towards meeting Libera science objectives	M. Hakuba
5:10 pm	Adjourn

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	Contributed Science Presentations (Cont’d)
9:00 am	Regional radiative effects of wildfire smoke: Case studies from the CERES record	D. Fillmore
9:20 am	Aerosol Retrievals from MODIS and VIIRS	R. Levy
9:40 am	Algorithm development for CERES-like TISA radiative flux data product	B. Lin
10:00 am	Using CERES GEOscan mode measurements to place instruments on same radiometric scale	K. Itterly
10:20 am	Set 1 of CERES Data Products	M. Zagoni
10:40 am	Adjourn