4th CERES-II Science Team Meeting – November 2005

November 1-3, 2005
Hampton, VA

Meeting Agenda

Tuesday, November 1
08:30	Meeting Logistics, Welcome	Roy Chesson
08:40	State of U.S. CCSP/EOS/CERES/NPP/NPOESS NASA Roadmaps/Decadal Survey	B. Wielicki
09:15	Terra/Aqua Instrument Calibration: SW Revision 1	K. Priestley G. Matthews
10:00	Break
10:30	CERES/MODIS/MISR SW Trend Comparisons	N. Loeb
10:55	Aqua/Terra Cloud Properties [16.27 MB]	P. Minnis
11:25	CERES Aqua Angular Distribution Models	N. Loeb
12:10	Terra SSF Simple Surface Fluxes [48 MB]	D. Kratz/S. Gupta
12:30	Lunch
14:00	Terra/Aqua CRS Surface Flux Accuracy	T. Charlock/D. Rutan
14:30	Terra SRBAVG Ed2D: SW CERES/geo time interpolation	D. Doelling/D. Young
15:30	Break
15:40	FLASHFlux [15.52 MB]	P. Stackhouse D. Kratz
16:00	CERES Data Management Status	E. Geier/M. Little
16:20	LaRC ASDC DAAC Status and CERES Data Use	E. Kizer
16:35	S’COOL	L. Chambers
16:50	Global Net Radiation Error Budget	B. Wielicki
17:15	Adjourn
18:30	Dutch Treat Dinner

Wednesday, November 2
08:15	Working Group Sessions Angular Modeling (Loeb et al.) CERES/Aqua Instantaneous TOA Flux Consistency – Loukachine Terra-Aqua Radiance and Irradiance Comparisons – Kato Differences Between Terra/Aqua Crosstrack and RAP LW TOA Fluxes – Manalo-Smith The SSFM Dataset and Applications – Sun Surface to TOA Fluxes (Charlock, et al.) Long-Term Variations in Surface Solar Irradiance at Ground-Based Sites – Dutton Effect of Ocean Surface Roughness on Radiative Transfer in Atmosphere and Ocean – Jin Cloud Properties (Minnis et al.)	All
Invited Presentations
09:30	Inferring Radiation and Cloud from BSRN Surface Obs. [22.32 MB]	C. Long
10:15	Break
10:45	Advanced HSRL Lidar for Cloud and Aerosol	C. Hostetler R. Ferrare
Co-I Reports: Aerosol
11:30	Aerosol Direct Radiative Forcing Combining CERES and GOCART	T. Zhao et al.
11:50	AVHRR-like aerosol retrievals with SEVIRI for the GERB processing	Brindley/Ignatov
12:10	Lunch
Co-I Reports (Continued): Aerosol, Cloud, Surface Instrument Comparisons
13:30	Spectral Aerosol Forcing from MODIS/MISR & MATCH Assimilation [17.43 MB]	W. Collins
13:50	MODIS Cloud Mask with Prtly Cldy Pixels & CERES vs Ships	J. Coakley W. Tahnk/G. Guo
14:10	Joint PDFs for Marine Boundary Layer Cloud Objects	Z. Eitzen/K-M. Xu
14:30	Terra Global Surface Albedo: Web Release and Multi-year Analysis	D. Rutan et al. 3
14:50	Preliminary results of the modified along-track scan mode of CERES	M. Viollier
15:10	Break
15:30	FIRST – Experiment Performance and Science Results [10.14 MB]	M. Mlynzcak
15:50	Comparisons of CERES and AIRS window channel radiances [19.42 MB]	F. Miskolczi
16:10	GERB-CERES comparison: progress towards GERB data release	S. Dewitte
16:30	GERB-CERES intercalibration	M. Mlynczak G.L. Smith
16:50	Use of CERES data at Valencia Station [15.44 MB]	A. Velazquez
17:10	Adjourn
Thursday, November 3
Co-I Reports (Continued): Radiation Variability
08:30	Radiation Budget of Deep Convective Systems at ARM TWP & SGP	Dong et al.
08:50	ERBS Tropical Decadal Spatial Structure & Climate Models	A. Clement C. Mitas/B. Soden
09:10	2D Cloud Structure Change and Radiative Effects During the 1998 El Nino [13.55 MB]	M. Sun/R. Cess
09:30	Comparisons of HIRS OLR with ERBE and CERES	H-T. Lee
09:50	GEWEX Radiative Flux Assessment	P. Stackhouse, et al.
10:10	Break
Edition 3 Data Product Strawman
10:30	Instrument Level 1B data	K. Priestley
10:40	Cloud Properties	P. Minnis
10:50	ADMs	N. Loeb
11:00	SOFA	D. Kratz
11:10	SARB (CRS)
11:20	TISA (SFC, FSW, SRBAVG, SYN, AVG) [10.95 MB]	D. Doelling/D. Young
11:30	Strawman Schedule	B. Wielicki
11:40	Discussion/Priorities/Schedule	All
12:10	Action Items, Final Discussion	B. Wielicki
12:30	Adjourn