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42nd CERES-II Science Team Meeting – May 2025

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

  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

Tuesday, May 13

 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 /
A. Jarnot
10:15 amBreak
10:45 am CERES Clouds Working Group Report [Presentation Recording ] B. Smith
11:15 am CERES Angular Distribution Model (ADM) Working Group Report
[Presentation Recording ]
L. Liang
11:45 amLunch
1:30 pm Surface Atmospheric Radiation Budget (SARB) Working Group Update
[Presentation Recording ]
S. Kato / S. Ham
2:00 pm Update on the SARB Edition 5 Aerosol Dataset [Presentation Recording ] D. Fillmore
2:20 pm Time Interpolation and Spatial Averaging (TISA) Working Group: Update
[Presentation Recording ]
D. Doelling
2:50 pmBreak
3:20 pm FLASHFlux Update [Presentation Recording ] P. Stackhouse
3:50 pm CERES Data Management Team (DMT) Working Group Report [Presentation Recording ] K. Dejwakh
4:20 pm GLOBE Clouds: Engaging Citizen Scientists for 30 Years [Presentation Recording ] A. Autore
4:40 pmAdjourn

Wednesday, May 14

 Invited Science Presentations (Cont’d)
9:00 am Earth Climate Observatory (ECO): Phase 0 Study Status S. Dewitte
9:20 am CLARREO Pathfinder Mission: Status and Overview
[Presentation Recording ]
Y. Shea
9:40 am The EarthCARE BBR products and first comparison with CERES
[Presentation Recording ]
N. Clerbaux
10:00 am Developing a Value Assessment of Earth Radiation Budget Satellite Continuity [Presentation Recording ] R. Kramer
10:20 amBreak
10:50 am A close look at the tropical clear-sky OLR in the last two decades X. Huang
11:10 am Pacific variability signatures in TOA radiation [Presentation Recording ] B. Chtirkova
11:30 am The impact and variability of cloud types on Earth’s TOA energy balance in the tropics [Presentation Recording ] K.-M. Xu
11:50 am Assessing Radiation Biases in GFDL AM4 due to Prescribed SST/SIC Datasets: CERES Comparisons [Presentation Recording ] C. Fan
12:10 pmLunch
 Invited Science Presentations
1:30 pm Exploring the Spectral Dimension of Recent Changes in Earth’s Radiation Budget [Presentation Recording ] D. Paynter
2:15 pm Observational estimates of the pattern effect on climate sensitivity
[Presentation Recording ]
D. Thompson
3:00 pmBreak
 Contributed Science Presentations (Cont’d)
3:30 pm A different perspective on the role of clouds in the symmetry of hemispheric reflected solar radiation [Presentation Recording ] N. Cho
3:50 pm Emerging Hemispheric Trends in Earth Radiation [Presentation Recording ] N. Loeb
4:10 pm Spatial and Temporal Fusion of NOAA-20 VIIRS/CrIS and SNPP VIIRS data to fill in the missing SNPP FSNRAD radiances [Presentation Recording ] E. Weisz
4:30 pm NOAA OLR-Daily v2.0 and OLR-Monthly v3.0 CDR Products Upgrades
[Presentation Recording ]
H.-T. Lee
4:50 pmAdjourn

Thursday, May 15

 Contributed Science Presentations (Cont’d)
9:00 am The Component Summation Technique for Measuring Upwelling Longwave Irradiance in the Presence of an Obstruction [Presentation Recording ] B. Fabbri
9:20 am CERES-only Machine Learning Data Product Update [Presentation Recording ] T. Wong
9:40 am Ice Cloud Radiative Effect in Deep Convective Systems and Active-Passive Consistency of Retrievals Across Various Remote Sensing Instruments [Presentation Recording ] T. Coy
10:00 am Sensitivity of CERES Angular Distribution Models to ENSO Phase
[Presentation Recording ]
S. Sejas
10:20 am EBAF Ed4.2.1 Data vs. Theory [Presentation Recording ] M. Zagoni
10:40 amAdjourn