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2022 Earth Radiation Budget Workshop
(CERES/Libera/GERB/ScaRaB)

Meeting Minutes / Presentations

Meeting Agenda [PDF]

Meeting Agenda

Wednesday, October 12

 CERES Technical Session
8:55 am Welcome/Meeting Logistics B. Stevens
9:00 am State of CERES N. Loeb
9:20 am CERES FM1-FM6 Instrument Update K. Priestley
9:40 am CERES Clouds Working Group Report B. Smith
10:05 amBreak
10:25 am CERES Angular Distribution Model (ADM) Working Group Report Z. Eitzen
10:45 am Time Interpolation and Spatial Averaging (TISA) Working Group Report D. Doelling
11:05 am FLASHFlux and SOFA Working Group Status: Increasing Data Usage Through POWER-GIS Web Services P.C. Sawaengphokhai
11:25 pm EBAF Update (part 1)
EBAF Update (part 2)
N. Loeb
S. Kato
12:00 pmLunch
1:30 pm CERES Data Management Team (DMT) Working Group Report K. Dejwakh
 Libera Technical Session
1:50 pm Libera Overview and Mission Status Update P. Pilewskie
2:20 pm Libera Science Overview – Objectives, Methods and Applications M. Hakuba
2:50 pm Libera split-solar angular distribution model update: opportunities and challenges for the wide-field-of- view camera J. Gristey
3:20 pmBreak
 ScaRaB Technical Session
3:50 pm SCARAB on-board Megha-Tropiques: An End of Mission Review R. Roca
4:10 pmAdjourn

Thursday, October 13

 GERB Technical Session
8:55 am GERB project status Brindley/Russell
9:10 am GERB instrument and operations update Rufus/Russell
9:30 am RMIB GERB processing status update E. Baudrez
9:50 am GERB data and products update J. Russell
10:10 am TOA fluxes from MTG/FCI: first results on test data and preparation of the commissioning N. Clerbaux
10:30 amBreak
 Invited Presentation
11:00 am Using instantaneous radiative measurements to assess cloud properties J.-L. Dufresne
11:45 am Observational constraint on cloud feedbacks suggests moderate climate sensitivity B. Stevens
12:30 pmLunch
2:00 pm Strong cloud-circulation coupling explains weak trade cumulus feedback R. Vogel
2:45 pm Observing and modelling Earth’s albedo and its interhemispheric symmetry F. Bender
3:30 pmBreak
 Contributed Science Presentations
3:50 pm CERES products vs MOSAiC observations: Investigation of discrepancies C. Barrientos- Velasco
4:10 pm CERES Top-of-atmosphere and Surface fluxes in the Arctic: A comparison with ARISE and MOSAiC measurements P. Taylor
4:30 pm Application of Libera’s Near-IR “split shortwave” channel to test Earth system models W. Collins
4:50 pm Evolution of the GERB Obs4MIPs product and application to CMIP6 model evaluation H. Brindley
5:10 pm EarthCARE BBR Fluxes evaluation using test scenes A. Velazquez
5:30 pmAdjourn

Friday, October 14

 Science Presentations
8:30 am Neural Network Cloud Detection Over Antarctic During Nighttime for CERES Edition 5 S. Sun-Mack
8:50 am On the use of spectral observations in climate change studies: a review and an outlook X. Huang
9:10 am Regional implied heat transport from CERES data A. Bodas-Salcedo
9:30 am A thermodynamical view of the earth climate system S. Kato
9:50 am Morphological and radiative properties of mesoscale convective systems from satellite observations and high-resolution atmospheric model simulations from RCEMIP and DYAMOND R. Roca
10:10 amBreak
10:30 am Measurement of the Earth Energy Imbalance: requirements T. Mauritsen
10:50 am Measurement of the Earth Energy Imbalance: key challenges S. Dewitte
11:10 am DEMETER: Next-generation Earth Radiation Budget Configurable Sensorcraft A. Ashraf
11:30 am Hemispheric albedo asymmetries in CERES and CMIP T. Crueger
11:50 am The Role of Baroclinic Activity in Controlling Earth’s Albedo in the Present and Future Climates O. Hadas
12:10 pmLunch
1:40 pm Comparison between MODIS and CALIPSO- CloudSat cloud amounts and their trends depending on the cloud threshold S.-H. Ham
2:00 pm What are the drivers of brightening over the Western North Atlantic Ocean? M. Park
2:20 pm Observing and Modeling Earth’s Energy Flows, Ten Years Later M. Zagoni
2:40 pm Recent variations in EEI, SST, and clouds N. Loeb
3:00 pmAdjourn