39th CERES-II Science Team Meeting –
October 2023

Meeting Minutes / Presentations

Meeting Agenda [PDF]

Objectives

Major Objectives for the Meeting:

1. Review status of CERES Instruments and Data Products:
   • Status of CERES
   • CERES FM1-FM6 Calibration Update
   • MODIS, VIIRS GEO Cloud Algorithm & Validation Status
   • ADM, SARB, TISA and FLASHFlux Working Group Reports
   • EBAF Update
   • Data Management Team Update: Terra/Aqua/S-NPP/NOAA-20
   
   
2. Invited Presentations Session. Each presentation is 45 min including time for questions.
   
   
3. Contributed Science Reports. Each report is 20 min including time for questions.

Meeting Agenda

	CERES Technical Session
9:00 am	State of CERES [Presentation Recording ]	N. Loeb
9:30 am	CERES FM1-FM6 Instrument Update [Presentation Recording ]	M. Shankar
10:15 am	CERES Clouds Working Group Report [Presentation Recording ]	B. Smith
10:45 am	Break
11:15 am	CERES Angular Distribution Model (ADM) Working Group Report [Presentation Recording ]	W. Su
11:45 pm	Surface Atmospheric Radiation Budget (SARB) Working Group Update part 1 [Presentation Recording ] part 2 [Presentation Recording ]	S. Kato S. Ham
12:05 am	Lunch
1:45 pm	Time Interpolation and Spatial Averaging (TISA) Working Group: Update [Presentation Recording ]	D. Doelling
2:15 pm	EBAF Surface Update [Presentation Recording ]	S. Kato
2:35 pm	FLASHFlux Update [Presentation Recording ]	P. Stackhouse
2:55 pm	CERES Data Management Team (DMT) Working Group Report [Presentation Recording ]	K. Dejwakh
3:25 pm	Break
	Contibuted Science Presentations
3:55 pm	Evaluation of the GERB-4 dataset: Jan 2018 – Feb 2023 [Presentation Recording ]	C. Clerbeaux
4:15 pm	Athena Sensorcraft Technology Demonstration Mission Update/path to launch [Presentation Recording ]	K. Priestley
4:35 pm	Documenting the Spectral Character of Earth’s Emission with PREFIRE [Presentation Recording ]	T. L’Ecuyer
4:55 pm	Libera Mission Status Update [Presentation Recording ]	P. Pilewski
5:15 pm	Adjourn

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	Invited Science Presentations
9:00 am	Elevating the Decomposition of Earth’s Radiation Budget Changes as a Tool for Climate Monitoring Presentation Recording ]	R. Kramer
9:45 am	Trends in CERES, MODIS and NASA ModelE: Which trends are caused by aerosols and/or cloud feedback? [Presentation Recording ]	S. Bauer
10:30 am	Global Warming in the Pipeline [Presentation Recording ]	J. Hansen
11:15 am	Break
	Contibuted Science Presentations
11:45 am	Sparse, Empirically Optimized Quadrature for Broadband Radiative Fluxes and Heating Rates [Presentation Recording ]	P. Czarnecki
12:05 pm	The Water Vapor Continuum Creates Nonlinearities in the Sensitivity of Mean Precipitation to Surface Temperature [Presentation Recording ]	S. Cohen
12:25 pm	Lunch
2:00 pm	Zonal cloud property trends during the satellite era and their radiative signatures [Presentation Recording ]	G. Tselioudis
2:20 pm	Cloud Zonal Trends Observed by CALIPSO-CloudSat and MODIS [Presentation Recording ]	S.-H. Ham
2:40 pm	Evaluation of stratocumulus and shallow cumulus clouds and feedbacks in CMIP6 and CMIP5 models [Presentation Recording ]	G. Cesana
3:00 pm	Cloud Radiative Effect anomalies associated with MODIS Regimes of Regimes [Presentation Recording ]	L. Oreopoulos
3:20 pm	Break
3:40 pm	Using Flux by Cloud Type Data to Study Convective Aggregation in the Tropics [Presentation Recording ]	K.-M. Xu
4:00 pm	Isolating the cloud response to sea ice loss: An observational estimate of the cloud-sea ice feedback [Presentation Recording ]	P. Taylor
4:20 pm	Enabling land surface applications with CERES radiative fluxes: A SERVIR perspective [Presentation Recording ]	B. Roberts
4:40 pm	The co-variations of tropical temperature and humidity across multiple timescales and their implication on the estimation of surface radiation budget [Presentation Recording ]	X. Huang
5:00 pm	Adjourn

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	Contributed Science Presentations
9:00 am	Validation of CERES CRS data product at Siple Dome, Antarctica	D. Rutan
9:20 am	Two-habit ice cloud model update and the scattering-angle dependence of retrieved ice cloud optical thicknesses	J. Coy
9:40 am	Dark Target/Deep Blue Aerosol Retrieval Merge for VIIRS SNPP and NOAA-20 [Presentation Recording ]	V. Sawyer
10:00 am	Global Evaluation of Reanalysis Surface Temperatures and Station Observations in All-sky Conditions for use in CERES [Presentation Recording ]	B. Scarino
10:20 am	Ice-Over-Water Cloud Identification and Properties in an Artificial Neural Network Approach [Presentation Recording ]	S. Sun-Mack
10:40 am	Break
11:10 am	CLARA-A3 data record released: 40 years of shortwave and longwave TOA fluxes [Presentation Recording ]	T. Akkermans
11:30 pm	CLAAS4 TOA product: a new climate data record from MSG data [Presentation Recording ]	M. Mountier
11:50 pm	Trends and variability in Earth’s Energy Imbalance	M. Hakuba
12:10 pm	The Libera Camera as a Tool for Rapid Angular Distribution Model Generation [Presentation Recording ]	J. Gristey
12:30 pm	Adjourn