28th CERES-I Science Team Meeting – May 2003

May 6-8, 2003
Norfolk, Virginia

Meeting Summary

Major Objectives for the Meeting:

• Performance of the new SRBAVG products
• Early Results from Terra ADM development
• Cloud accuracy results from Terra and remaining challenges
• Terra Edition 2 instrument and ERBE-Like results with calibration refinement
• Aqua Instrument and ERBE-Like product status
• Performance of Terra surface fluxes (SSF Edition 1, and CRS Beta)
• Status of NPP, NPOESS, EOS Recompete

Tuesday, May 6, 2003

8:30	Meeting Logistics, Welcome	Shannon Lynch
8:40	Meeting Objectives, State of CCSP/EOS/CERES/NPOESS	B. Wielicki
9:15	Terra/Aqua Instrument Calibration Status	K. Priestley
10:00	Terra Edition 2 ERBE-Like TOA Flux Time Series	T. Wong
10:30	Break
11:00	TRMM/Terra SRBAVG, SYN, AVG Status	D. Young, D. Doelling
11:45	TRMM/Terra CRS Results and Status	T. Charlock, et al.
12:30	Lunch
2:00	Terra SSF Simple Surface Fluxes Validation	D. Kratz
2:30	Results from preliminary Terra ADMs	N. Loeb et al.
3:30	Break
4:00	Terra SSF Edition 1 MODIS Cloud Validation, early Aqua	P. Minnis et al.
4:45	CERES Data Management and Data Product Status	M. Little, E. Geier
5:00	Langley ASDC DAAC User Services	J. Koziana
5:15	S’COOL Update	L. Chambers, D. Young
5:30	Adjourn

Wednesday, May 7, 2003

Working Group Sessions
8:30	TOA Flux Working Group
	–  Longwave Anisotropy: A Solar Zenith Angle Perpective	Arvind V. Gambheer, D. Doelling, P. Minnis
	SARB Working Group
	–  Comparison of Helicopter and SARB/CRS Derived Surface Albedo at ARM SGP	D. Rutan, T. Charlock, F. Rose, J. Madigan, and K. Rutledge
	–  SARB CRS Aerosols	F. Rose
	–  Various SARB Issues in TRMM and Terra	T. Charlock
	Clouds Working Group
	–  Dawning of the Age of Aqua	Qingyuan Han
	–  Tow Sources of Uncertainty in Retrieval of Ice Cloud Properties	P. Minnis
Invited Presentations
10:30	GERB Status	G. Matthews
11:00	Cloud Systems: MOdels vs CERES Cloud/Flux Data	T. Wong, Z. Eitzen
11:45	Validation of LaRC-derived MODIS Cloud Properties Using the ARM SGP and NSA Measurements	X. Dong
12:15	Lunch
Co-I Reports
1:45	The July 16 Cirrus Anvil Case Study from Crystal FACE	J. Mace
2:05	Cloud Properties for Partly Cloudy Imager Pixels: Consistency Checks and Implications	J. Coakley, W. Tahnk
2:25	Cloud Ice Water Path and Vertical Structure/TRMM	B. Lin
2:45	Testing the Impact of Clouds on the Radiation Budgets of 18 General Circulation Models	R. Cess
3:05	Atmospheric longwave cooling over the tropical oceans: The role of continuum and the water vapor rotation and vibration-rotation bands inferred from CERES data	Inamdar, Ramanathan
3:25	Break
3:55	An AMIP Simulation Using the Current NCEP Model	S. K. Yang
4:25	CERES and MODIS Team Daytime Cloud Cover Estimates versus Surface Instruments at the NSA ARM site	T. A. Berendes, D. A. Berendes, R. M. Welch, T. Uttal, E. Clothiaux, and E. Dutton
4:45	Surface Longwave Radiation Climate	G. L. Smith, A. Wilbur, S. Gupta, P. Stackhouse
5:05	Adjourn

Thursday, May 8, 2003

Co-I Reports Cont’d
8:30	Multi-satellite combinations, SSF & SRBAVG Analyses	M. Viollier, P. Raberanto, R. Kandel
8:50	Presentation of the RMIB high resolution GERB products	N. Clerbaux, GERB
9:10	Direct Aerosol Forcing in All Sky Conditions	T. Charlock, F. Rose, L. Coleman
9:30	Aerosol retrievals from NOAA-KLM/AVHRR3 and EOS/MODIS: Building consistency	A. Ignatov
9:50	Terra SSF two aerosol products and Aeronet	X.-P. Zhao
10:10	Break
10:40	ERBE Digital Library	M. Ferebee
11:00	Discussion of CERES EOS Recompete Proposal	All
11:40	Summary/Action Items	B. Wielicki
12:00	Adjourn