33rd CERES-II Science Team Meeting – April 2020

Meeting Minutes / Presentations

Major Objectives for the Meeting:

Review status of CERES Instruments and Data Products:
- Status of CERES
- CERES FM1-FM6 Calibration Update
- MODIS, VIIRS GEO Cloud Algorithm & Validation Status
- ADM, SOFA, SARB and TISA Working Group Reports
- Data Management Team Update: Terra/Aqua/S-NPP/NOAA-20 – Atmospheric Sciences Data Center (ASDC) Update
- Outreach Update
Invited Presentations Session. Each presentation is 45 min including time for questions.
Contributed Science Reports. Each report is 20 min including time for questions.

Tuesday, April 28
	CERES Technical Session
10:00 am	State of CERES	Norm Loeb (NASA LaRC)
10:20 am	NASA HQ Update	David Considine (NASA HQ)
10:40 am	CERES FM1-FM6 Instrument Update	Mohan Shankar (NASA LaRC)
11:10 am	Break
11:30 am	CERES Clouds Working Group Report	Bill Smith (NASA LaRC)
12:00 pm	CERES Angular Distribution Model (ADM) Working Group Report	Wenying Su (NASA LaRC)
12:30 pm	Lunch
1:30 pm	Time Interpolation and Spatial Averaging (TISA) Working Group: Update	David Doelling (NASA LaRC)
2:00 pm	Surface Atmospheric Radiation Budget (SARB) Working Group Update	Seiji Kato (NASA LaRC)
2:30 pm	FLASHFLUX Update	Paul Stackhouse (NASA LaRC)
3:00 pm	Break
3:20 pm	EBAF Update	Norm Loeb (NASA LaRC)
3:35 pm	On Continuation of the Use of Daily TSI for CERES Processing	Shashi Gupta (NASA LaRC)
3:50 pm	CERES Data Management Team (DMT) Working Group Report	Kathleen Dejwakh (NASA LaRC)
4:15 pm	Atmospheric Sciences Data Center (ASDC) Update	Jeff Walter (NASA LaRC)
4:35 pm	The view of clouds from below and above with citizen science: The 2018 GLOBE Clouds Spring Data Challenge	Brant Dodson (SSAI)
4:55 pm	Adjourn

Wednesday, April 29
	Contributed Science Presentations
10:00 am	GERB project status and latest GERB/CERES comparisons	J. Russell
10:20 am	Observations of the pattern effect in the CERES data and comparisons to climate model simulations	A. Dessler
10:40 am	Cloud changes over the Pacific using A-train observations	S.-H. Ham
11:00 am	Seasonally dependent impact of cloud longwave scattering on the polar climate and energy cycle	X. Huang
11:20 am	Break
11:40 am	The Far-Infrared Outgoing Radiation Understanding and Monitoring (FORUM)	M. Mlynczak
12:00 pm	Libera and Continuity of the ERB Climate Data Record	P. Pilewskie
12:20 pm	Hyperspectral OLR Retrieval towards OLR CDR Production	H.-T. Lee
12:40 pm	Lunch
	Invited Science Presentations
1:40 pm	Cloud feedbacks – the peculiar trajectory of global warming	S. Fueglistaler
2:25 pm	Role of atmospheric dynamics shifts in cloud radiative effect variability, and the resulting climate feedbacks	G. Tselioudis
3:20 pm	Break
	Contributed Science Presentations
3:20 pm	Progress in simulating the optical properties of ice clouds and graupel/snow in support of the CERES Science Team	P. Yang
3:40 pm	Quantifying the Effects of Downward Longwave Radiation on Low Clouds	C. Macpherson
4:00 pm	Low-level cloud properties over southern ocean using multi-platform measurements	B. Xi
4:20 pm	Adjourn

Thursday, April 30
	Contributed Science Presentations
10:00 am	Status and Assessment of MODIS-like IR Absorption Channel Radiance Product for VIIRS based on VIIRS-CrIS Fusion	B. Baum
10:20 am	Dark-target aerosol algorithm: status of products from Terra, Aqua, and Suomi-NPP	R. Levy
10:40 am	Evaluation of satellite cloud retrievals against airborne observations in heterogeneous cloud fields and near the scan edge	D. Painemal
11:00 am	Assessment of MODIS and GOES-16 low-level cloud top height using CALIOP	Z. Li
11:20 am	Break
11:40 am	Solution for the Tower Effect on Upwelling Longwave Radiation at COVE “Hiatus”	B. Fabbri
12:00 pm	A Machine-Learning approach to the estimation of CERES TOA fluxes	B. Thampi
12:20 pm	Patterns in the CERES Global Mean Data, Part 4. From Schwarzschild (1906) to CERES (2019): Laws Behind the Rules (Patterns Explained)	M. Zagoni
12:40 pm	Adjourn