45th CERES-II Science Team Meeting – October 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	State of CERES	N. Loeb
9:30 am	CERES FM1-FM6 Instrument Update	M. Shankar
10:00 am	Break
10:30 am	CERES Clouds Working Group Report	Smith/Painemal
11:00 am	CERES Angular Distribution Model (ADM) Working Group Report	L. Liang
11:30 am	Surface Atmospheric Radiation Budget (SARB) Working Group Update	S. Kato / S. Ham
12:00 pm	Lunch
1:30 pm	CESM3/CAM7 CERESMIP Simulations	D. Fillmore
1:50 pm	Time Interpolation and Spatial Averaging (TISA) Working Group: Update	D. Doelling
2:20 pm	FLASHFlux Update	P. Stackhouse
2:50 pm	Break
3:20 pm	Improving Near-Real-Time CERES Surface Solar Radiative Flux Estimates with Machine Learning	K. Xu
3:40 pm	CERES Data Management Team (DMT) Working Group Report	K. Dejwakh
4:10 pm	Adjourn

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	Contributed Science Presentations
9:00 am	The Hazy Role of Aerosols in the Earth’s Energy Imbalance Trend	Ø. Hodnebrog
9:20 am	Using CERES observations to constrain climate models	G. Myhre
9:40 am	Update on the evaluation of the BroadBand Radiometer (BBR) products on EarthCARE	N. Clerbeaux
10:00 am	CLARREO Pathfinder: Mission Status	R. Bhatt
10:20 am	Break
	Invited Science Presentations
10:40 am	Recent Temperature and Energy Imbalance Trends Point to Higher Estimates of Future Warming	G. Gyuleva
11:25 am	Ocean energy imbalance in ECCO and its relation to CERES	G. Forget
12:10 pm	Lunch
	Invited Science Presentations (Cont’d)
1:30 pm	The Polar Radiant Energy in the Far-InfraRed Experiment (PREFIRE): Status and Highlights After Two Years in Orbit	T. L’Ecuyer
	Contributed Science Presentations (Cont’d)
2:15 pm	Complementing CERES Observations of Earth’s Energy Imbalance with UVSQ-SAT and INSPIRE-SAT Small-Satellite Missions	M. Meftah
2:35 pm	Libera Mission Status Update	D. Harber
2:55 pm	A Cloud System View of the Changing Planetary Energy Budget	N. Cho
3:20 pm	Break
3:40 pm	Forcing, Feedback, or Adjustment? Untangling Earth’s Energy Budget with Observations	S. Vann Loon
4:00 pm	A story about summer onset over the central Arctic as seen from the A-Train era	X. Huang
4:20 pm	Adjourn

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	Contributed Science Presentations (Cont’d)
9:00 am	On the Use of Geostationary Imagers as Transfer Radiometers to Inter-calibrate CERES Broadband Radiometers	D. Doelling
9:20 am	SPOT: A Smallsat Mission for High-Resolution Monitoring of Anthropogenic Sulfur Emissions	C. Golja
9:40 am	Libera Earth-Target Simulations	J. Gristey
10:00 am	CERES-Like Global and Regional Top-of-Atmosphere Radiative Fluxes Using Machine Learning Techniques	B. Thampi
10:20 am	Set 1 for Cloudy Sky	M. Zagoni
10:40 am	Break
10:20 am	Inferring Cloud Radiative Response from CERES FluxByCldTyp	N. Loeb
11:00 am	Adjourn