22nd CERES-I Science Team Meeting – September 2000

September 20-22, 2000
Huntsville, AL

Meeting Summary

Cess, Robert	Algorithm-development Strategies for Retrieving the Downwelling Longwave Flux at the Earth’s Surface
Cess, Robert	CERES Scientific Investigations
Chambers, Lin	The CERES S’COOL Project: An Update
Chambers, Lin	Informing CERES Optical Depth Retrieval with Data from Other Sources
Charlock, Thomas	Aerosol Effect on Residual Clear-sky Insolation Discrepancy
Charlock, Thomas	Report from SARB Working Group
Clerbaux, Nicolas	Comparison of GERB/SEVIRI and CERES Scene Identification
Donner, Leo	The Effects of Convective Shields and Cumulus-Scale Vertical Velocities on the General Circulation
Dutton, Ells	CMDL and BSRN Surface-based Irradiance Update (SARB & S-O Working Group)
Friedman, Michael	Progress Report: Retrieval of Cloud Properties and Aerosol Direct Radiative Forcing
Geier, Erika	Data Management
Haeffelin, Martial	Calibration and Thermal Offset of Pyranometers
Han, Qingyuan	Strategies of Monitoring Aerosol Indirect Effect from Space
Killough, Brian	An Empirical Angular Distribution Model for the Calculation of Top-of-Atmosphere Radiative Fluxes in the Presence of Biomass Burning Aerosols
Kratz, David	Validation of the Clouds and the Earth’s Radiant Energy System (CERES) Surface Radiation Budget Algorithms
Lin, Bing	Estimations of Column Cloud Water Amount Over Arctic Regions Using Ground-based Thermal Microwave and Infrared Measurements
Loeb, Norman	ADM Working Group Agenda
Loeb, Norman	Validation of CERES Unfiltering Algorithm
Loeb, Norman	Angular Distribution Modeling (ADM) Group
Minnis, Patrick	CERES Cloud Algorithm Changes
Priestley, Kory	Instrument Working Group/TRMM Terra Aqua Status
Randall, David	Globally, and in the tropics in particular, how much precipitation falls from convection, and how much from stratiform clouds?
Robertson, Pete	Differences Between TOVS Path-A and Broadband Depictions of Tropical-Mean OLR Variability
Rutan, David	CERES, ARM Validation Experiment (CAVE)
Rutledge, Kenneth	CERES Ocean Validation Experiment (COVE) Site Characterization Using First Year Results
Smith, Nitchie	Longwave and Window ADMs for Overcast and Clear Sky Scenes
Stowe, Larry	Consistency Checks of SSF-ED1 Output and Progress Towards a Third Generation Retrieval Algorithm
Su, Wenying	Outgoing Longwave Radiation of the Tibetan Plateau
Viollier, Michel	SW Time Interpolation: Correction with Climatological Diurnal Albedo Variation, Application to ScaRaB and March 2000 CERES/Terra Data Inter-annual Comparisons
Wielicki, Bruce	EOS/CERES Program Status
Yang, Shi-Keng	Interdecadal Trend of LWCF from NCEP/NCAR Reanalyses
Young, David	Temporal Interpolation using Geostationary Data: An Update