41st CERES-II Science Team Meeting – October 2024

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
   • Data Management Team Update: Terra/Aqua/S-NPP/NOAA-20
   • Atmospheric Sciences Data Center (ASDC) Update
   
   
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	N. Loeb
9:30 am	CERES FM1-FM6 Instrument Update	M. Shankar
10:15 am	Break
10:45 am	CERES Clouds Working Group Report: presentation 1 presentation 2	Sun-Mack Painemal
11:15 am	CERES Angular Distribution Model (ADM) Working Group Report	L. Liang
11:45 am	Lunch
1:30 pm	Surface Atmospheric Radiation Budget (SARB) Working Group Update	S. Kato S. Ham
2:00 pm	Time Interpolation and Spatial Averaging (TISA) Working Group: Update	D. Doelling
2:30 pm	Break
3:00 pm	FLASHFlux Update	P. Stackhouse
3:30 pm	CERES Data Management Team (DMT) Working Group Report	K. Dejwakh
	Invited Science Presentations
4:00 pm	E3SM: Lessons from a stubborn model	C. Golaz
4:45 pm	Adjourn

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	Invited Science Presentations (Cont’d)
9:00 am	Climate forcing: where we’ve come from and where we’re going	P. Durack
9:45 am	Evaluation of cloud feedback components in observations and their representation in climate models	L.-W. Chao
10:30 am	Break
11:00 am	Implications of inter-dataset differences in sea surface warming for top-of-atmosphere radiation and feedbacks	M. Zelinka
11:45 pm	Lunch
	Contributed Science Presentations
1:30 pm	An update on obs4MIPs with a focus on improving the delivery of NASA products for ESM model evaluation	P. Gleckler
1:50 pm	WRF-Chem Study of the Aerosol-Cloud-Interactions over the Eastern North Atlantic	H.-H. Lee
2:10 pm	Daytime variation in aerosol indirect effect for warm boundary layer clouds in the ENA using cloud retrievals from Meteosat-11	S. Qiu
2:30 pm	Direct Observational Evidence from Space of the Effect of CO2 Increase on Longwave Spectral Radiances	J. Teixeira
2:50 pm	Can TROPICS observations improve estimates of long-term tropical tropospheric temperature warming?	S. Po-Chedley
3:10 pm	Break
3:40 pm	Libera Mission Status Update	P. Pilewski
4:00 pm	Libera Science Update and Split-SW research	M. Hakuba
4:20 pm	The surface albedo of sea ice in CMIP6 and the implications for the surface albedo feedback	P. Taylor
4:40 am	AI-based spatial and temporal correlation structure analysis of the Earth’s albedo using CERES EBAF data	D. Feldman
5:00 pm	Adjourn

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	Contributed Science Presentations (Cont’d)
9:00 am	Cloud-type Mean Cloud Properties of the Tropical Lands and Ocean and the Chimney Zones from 19-Year High-resolution CERES Satellite Data	K.-M. Xu
9:20 am	A new temperature-dependent THM ice particle database and analyzing ice cloud property retrieval results of an improved MC6 database	J. Coy
9:40 am	Understanding relationships between satellite, model, and ground-based surface temperature characterizations from overcast to clear conditions	B. Scarino
10:00 am	Trend of global mean net atmospheric shortwave and longwave irradiances derived from CERES and MODIS observations	S. Kato
10:20 am	Variability in Hemispheric Top-of-Atmosphere Fluxes Observed by CERES	N. Loeb
10:40 am	Adjourn