8th CERES-II Science Team Meeting – November 2007

Meeting Minutes/Presentations

Objectives

Major Objectives for the Meeting:

Review status of CERES Instruments and Data Products:
- Status of NASA/U.S.CCSP/EOS/Senior Reviews and CERES on NPP and NPOESS for Edition3
- Terra and Aqua SW/LW/TOTAL channel calibration for Edition3
- Edition3 cloud algorithm development and validation
- SRBAVG production of monthly means and release of SRBAVG up to December 2005 for both Aqua and Terra.
- SYN and AVG: the level 3 gridded version of CRS data product
- CRS Edition2, including processing transition from SGI to IBM cluster
- GEWEX Radiative Flux Assessment
- GERB Status Update
- EOSDIS Evolution Activities at the Langley DAAC: transition from LATIS and SGI toward ANGE and commodity cluster computing
- Conversions of CERES production codes to cluster computing, production automation
CERES specific Co-I Reports. Each report is 20min including time for questions.

Meeting Agenda

Wednesday, November 14 Fairmont Empress Hotel Conference Center Victoria, B.C., Canada
09:00-12:00	Completion of Aerosol Indirect Effects Workshop
13:00	Meeting Logistics, Welcome	N. Loeb/B. Wielicki
13:10	State of U.S. CCSP/EOS/CERES/NPP/NPOESS Decadal Study/A-train/NASA RTO/ASIC	B. Wielicki
13:50	Terra and Aqua SW/LW/TOTAL channel calibration for Edition 3: Preliminary Results and Future Plans	K. Priestley/N. Loeb
15:00	Break
15:20	Edition 3 cloud algorithm development and validation using CALIPSO/CloudSat	P. Minnis
16:05	Recent Improvements in Surface-Only Flux Algorithm Calculations of Single Scanner Footprint Fluxes	D. Kratz/S. Gupta
16:35	Terra/Aqua CRS	T. Charlock
17:35	Adjourn
18:30	Dutch Treat Dinner: CANOE Brewpub, Restaurant & Marina (on Victorias downtown waterfront)
Thursday, November 15
08:00	Coffee/Danish
08:30	SRBAVG Products Validation/Status	D. Doelling
08:45	SYN and AVG Products	D. Doelling/F. Rose
09:00	S’COOL	L. Chambers/N. Loeb
09:15	CERES Data Management Status	E. Geier
09:30	ASDC Update: ANGe, Automation, CERES Data Usage	J. Closs
9:45	Future CERES Data Processing	M. Little
10:00	GERB Update	R. Bantges
10:20	Break
10:45	Working Group Sessions (Not all presentations are available)	All
	Angular Modeling: TOA Validation at Valencia	A.Velazquez
	Angular Modeling: Preliminary Ed3 and Ed2 TOA Flux Comparisons for IGBP Surface Types	Loeb/Manalo-Smith
	Angular Modeling: A Validation of the Permanent Snow ADMs Using Data from East Antarctica	Hudson/Warren
	Surface to TOA Fluxes	Charlock et al.
	Cloud Properties	Minnis et al.
12:00	Lunch
INVITED PRESENTATIONS
13:30	Why is Climate Sensitivity So Unpredictable?	G. Roe
14:15	The Energy Cycle in Atmospheric Models	G. Boer
15:00	Using CERES Data to Evaluate Clouds and Radiative Fluxes in the CCCma AGCM	J. Cole
15:45	Break
	Co-I Reports
16:00	Sensitivity simulations of boundary-layer cloud objects to modifications of ECMWF meteorological state data using a cloud-resolving model	K. Xu
16:20	Cloud overlap characteristics from CloudSat: Implications for radiative transfer calculations in global models	H. Barker
16:40	How to evaluate climate model simulations using surface-satellite Observations	X. Dong
17:20	Derivation of Component Aerosol Direct Radiative Forcing and the Validation	Tom Zhao
17:40	Adjourn
Friday, November 16
08:00	Coffee/Danish
	Co-I Reports: Continued.
08:30	Satellite retrievals of optical depth and effective radius in nocturnal stratocumulus clouds: results from Dycoms II field campaign	P. Austin
08:50	Comparison of single- and multi-channel AOD revisited	I. Laszlo
09:10	Status of MERRA/GEOS5	M.L. Wu
09:30	Earth Radiation Budget in NCEP Climate Forecast System Reanalysis and Reforecast	S.K. Yang
09:50	Variations in radiative properties of different types of clouds observed from CERES	B. Lin
10:10	Variability of Global Radiation Budget	S. Kato
10:30	Break
10:40	An Algorithm for Balancing the Budget	L. Smith
11:00	Current Status of the ERBS Nonscanner SW Data Record From 10/99 to 08/05	T. Wong
11:20	Retrievals of Multi-layered Cloud Properties	F.-L. Chang
11:40	Testing Snow Grain Size Retrieval in Comparison with MODIS/CERES radiances Over Antarctic Plateau	Z. Jin
12:00	Lunch
13:30	NRC Decadal Survey CLARREO Mission & Climate Calibration	B. Wielicki/D. Young
13:50	CALIPSO/CloudSat/CERES/MODIS Merged Data Product: Status	S. Kato
14:10	GEWEX Radiative Flux Assessment Update	T. Wong
14:30	Relations between geo artifacts in ISCCP cloud data and surface fluxes from the NASA/GEWEX SRB	L. Hinkelman
14:50	International collaboration on future earth radiation measurements and first GERB climate results	S. Dewitte
15:10	Action Items, Final Discussion	B. Wielicki/N. Loeb
15:20	Adjourn