29th CERES-I Science Team Meeting – October 2003

November 17-18, 2003
Hampton, Virginia

Meeting Agenda

Portions of the original meeting were carried out in 3 telecons:

October 8, 2003 – GEOS 4.0.3 Decision Telecon
Comparative Evaluation of DAO and ECMWF for CERES Cloud Properties Retrievals P. Minnis
GEOS and ECMWF for CERES: An Analysis with SARB CRS Product F. Rose

October 15, 2003 – Instrument/ERBE-Like TOA Flux Telecon
CERES Instrument Cal/Val Report K. Priestley
CERES/Aqua Edition1 vs CERES/Terra Edition2 ERBE-like TOA Fluxes T. Wong

October 16, 2003 – Polar Clouds and Terra ADMs Telecon
Status of CERES Cloud Algorithms P. Minnis
TOA Radiative Flux Estimation From CERES/Terra Angular Distribution Models N. Loeb
Comparison of Nighttime DLF at Polar Sites D. Kratz

Major Objectives for the Meeting:

• First year of Terra beta SRBAVG: gridded 1 degree surface and TOA fluxes, clouds, aerosols, and early validation results
• Beta Terra CRS for several months: global surface, atmosphere, TOA fluxes
• Early CERES/GERB intercalibration and comparison results
• Co-I Science Reports

Monday, November 17, 2003

8:00	Coffee/Danish
8:30	Meeting Logistics, Welcome	Shannon Lynch Walker
8:40	State of U.S. CCSP/EOS/CERES/NPP/NPOESS	B. Wielicki
9:00	TRMM/Terra SRBAVG, SYN, AVG Status	D. Young, D. Doelling
9:45	TRMM/Terra CRS Results and Status	T. Charlock et al.
10:30	Break
10:45	CERES Data Management and Data Product Status	M. Little, E. Geier
11:00	Langley ASDC DAAC User Services	J. Koziana
11:15	S’COOL Update	Robert Sepulveda
11:30	GERB Status	J. Russell and J. Hanafin
12:00	GEOS-4 Status and Future Plans	M.-L. Wu
12:15	CERES/Aqua Edition1 vs CERES/Terra Edition2 ERBE-like TOA Fluxes	T. Wong
12:30	Lunch
Co-I Reports
1:45	Inter-comparison of March 2000 TRMM and Terra	L. Chambers, D. Young, D. Garber
2:05	Diurnal Cycles from CERES Aqua and Terra	M. Viollier, P. Raberanto, R. Kandel
2:25	Planetary Radiation Budgets	R. Kandel, M. Viollier
2:45	ERBE Radiative Fluxes and ISCCP Cloud Amounts/Heights	R. Cess, W. Lin, M. Zhang
3:05	2 Years of Terra cloud tests, ARM SGP and NSA Sites	X. Dong, B. Xi, P. Minnis, B. Wielicki, S. Sun-Mack, Y. Chen, J. Mace
3:25	Break
3:50	Assessment of the Partly Cloudy Pixel Scheme	J. Coakley, W. Tahn
4:20	Deep Convection/Mean Flow Interaction in 2 and 3-D	L. Donner, V. Phillips
4:40	New Results from the Super-Parameterization	D. Randall, M. Khairoutdinov
5:00	Interannual Atmospheric LW Cooling Over Tropical Oceans	A. Inamdar, V. Ramanathan
5:20	Adjourn
6:30	Dutch Treat Dinner. Commemorate the First CERES Science Team: 1989-2003

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Tuesday, November 18, 2003

8:00	Coffee/Danish
Co-I Reports Continued
8:30	Clear-sky TOA and Surface SW Observations and Calculations	Z. Jin, T. Charlock
8:50	Net Surface Flux over Tropical Oceans	B. Lin
9:10	Status of CERES SSF and NOAA/AVHRR aerosol products	A. Ignatov
9:30	Comparison and Validation of 2 aerosols on CERES SSF	T. Zhao, I. Laszlo
9:50	Deep Convective Cloud Calibration	D. Doelling
10:10	Break
10:30	CERES/GERB Comparisons	L. Smith, P. Szewczyk, P. Mlynczak
10:50	Computation of Domain-Averaged Irradiance Using Satellite-Derived Cloud Properties	S. Kato, F. Rose, T. Charlock
11:10	Recent Implementation of RRTM in NCEP GFS	S. Yang, A. Miller, Y. Hou, K. Campana
11:30	ERBE/ERBS Non-Scanner Measurement Precision 1984-1999	R. Lee
11:50	CERES Measurements of the Lunar Radiation Budget	R. Lee, L. Smith, S. Thomas, P. Szewczyk, D. Kratz, K. Priestley
12:10	Summary/Action Items
12:30	Adjourn