9th CERES-II Science Team Meeting – May 2008

Meeting Minutes/Presentations

Tuesday, May 6
08:00	Coffee/Danish
08:30	Meeting Logistics, Welcome	Loeb/Wielicki
08:40	State of U.S. CCSP/EOS/CERES/NPP/NPOESS Decadal Study/A-train/NASA RTO/ASIC	B. Wielicki
09:20	Terra and Aqua SW/LW/TOTAL channel calibration for Edition 3	K. Priestley
10:20	Break
10:40	Edition 3 cloud algorithm development and validation	P. Minnis
11:25	Recent Improvements to the Surface Only Flux Algorithms (SOFA)	D. Kratz /S. Gupta
11:40	CRS Validation and Analysis	T. Charlock
12:10	Lunch
14:00	Time-Space Averaging Update	D. Doelling
14:40	ISCCP D2-Like CERES Data Products	M. Sun
15:00	Break
15:20	Adjusted CERES SRBAVG Dataset for Climate Modelers	N. Loeb
15:40	GERB Update	Bertrand/Russell
16:00	S’COOL	L. Chambers
16:20	CERES Data Production Update	Lisa Coleman
16:30	Status of the NASA Langley Atmospheric Science Data Center	John Kusterer
16:50	Adjourn
18:30	Dutch Treat Dinner: Red Star Tavern

Wednesday, May 7
08:00	Coffee/Danish
Working Group Sessions
08:30	Angular Modeling (Loeb et al.) Clear Sky Window Flux Anomalies For Aqua GERB Clear Sky SW ADMs Development: Progress Report	All
	Surface to TOA Fluxes (Charlock et al.)
	Cloud Properties (Minnis et al.) Discontinuity Line Study Subpixel cloudcover characterization
INVITED PRESENTATIONS
09:30	GEOS-5 Atmospheric Analyses for Climate Studies	M. Rienecker
10:10	Break
10:30	Interannual Variability in the Tropical Water and Energy Cycles	B. Soden
11:10	Using Satellite Data to Evaluate the Present-Day Simulation of Clouds, Precipitation, and Radiation in Climate Models	R. Pincus
11:50	Lunch
Co-I Reports
13:30	Gridded Cloud Object Data and Evaluation of ECMWF and ERA-40 Cloud Physical Properties	K.-M. Xu
13:50	The 1997-1998 El Nino: Evaluating a Variety of Methods to Test Climate Model Response	G. Potter
14:10	The Quest is On	B. Wielicki
14:30	Far-Infrared Spectroscopy of the Troposphere (FIRST): Results from two flights, a ground campaign, and a view to the future	M. Mlynczak
14:50	Band-By-Band Radiative Flux and Cloud Radiative Forcing: Derivation and Application in Climate Studies	X. Huang
15:10	Assessing Clear Sky OLR with CERES and AIRS	L. Moy
15:30	Break
15:50	Evaluation of MODIS and VIIRS Aerosol Optical Depth Retrievals: An update	I. Laszlo/H. Liu
16:10	The SURFRAD aerosol optical depth product and 10-year climatology	J. Augustine
16:30	Validation of CERES-MODIS Cirrus Cloud Properties Using ARM Retrievals	X. Dong
16:50	Adjourn

Thursday, May 8
08:00	Coffee/Danish
Co-I Reports: Continued.
08:30	Absolute Lunar Radiance Measurement Technique for CERES: Results and ERB Climate Stability Target Potential of the Moon	G. Matthews
08:50	2007 Arctic viewed from CERES and MODIS	S. Kato
09:10	Comparison of MOD04 and CALIPSO Cloud Mask and its Implication for the MOD04 Aerosol Product	W. Sun
09:20	Weak Correlation of Ice Cloud Water Content with Millimeter Radar Cross-section	W. Sun
09:30	Enhanced Cloud Algorithm From Collocated CALIPSO, CloudSat and MODIS	S. Sun-Mack
09:50	Break
10:10	Radiative Heating on the Atmosphere under Different Cloud Types Aerosol Retrieval	B. Lin
10:30	Improving CERES Upper Thin and Multi-layered Cloud Retrievals: Uncertainty and Error Reduction	F. Chang
10:50	GEWEX Radiative Flux Assessment Update	Hinkelman/Wong
11:30	Action Items, Final Discussion	Loeb/Wielicki
11:40	Adjourn