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23rd CERES-II Science Team Meeting – May 2015
Meeting Minutes / Presentations
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Objectives
Major Objectives for the Meeting:
Review status of CERES Instruments and Data Products:
Status of CERES
CERES Terra, Aqua and S-NPP SW/LW/TOTAL Channel Calibration Update
CERES FM6 and RBI Update
MODIS & VIIRS Cloud Algorithm & Validation Status
ADM, SOFA, SARB and TISA Working Group Reports
FLASHFLUX Update
EBAF Update
Data Management Team Update: Terra/Aqua/S-NPP
Atmospheric Sciences Data Center (ASDC) Update
CERES Communication Activities
Invited Presentations Session:
On the creation & improvement of key ancillary datasets used to generate CERES Earth radiation budget climate data records.
Aerosol retrievals from MODIS & VIIRS
GMAO reanalysis data
Contributed Science Reports:
Each report is 20 min including time for questions.
Meeting Agenda
Tuesday, May 5
NASA Langley Research Center, Hampton, VA
CERES Technical Session
8:00 am
Registration at Badge and Pass Office
8:55 am
Welcome/Meeting Logistics
Norm Loeb (NASA LaRC)
9:00 am
State of CERES
Norm Loeb (NASA LaRC)
9:30 am
CERES FM1-FM6 Instrument Update
CERES FM1-FM6 Instrument Update
Kory Priestley (NASA LaRC)
Susan Thomas (SSAI)
10:15 am
Break
10:45 am
CERES Clouds Working Group Report
Patrick Minnis (NASA LaRC)
11:15 am
CERES Angular Distribution Model (ADM) Working Group Report
Wenying Su (NASA LaRC)
11:45 pm
Status of the SOFA Validation and TSI Measurements
David Kratz (NASA LaRC)
12:05 pm
Lunch
1:35 pm
Surface Atmosphere Radiation Budget (SARB) Working Group Update
Seiji Kato (NASA LaRC)
2:05 pm
Time Interpolation and Spatial Averaging (TISA) Working Group Report
David Doelling (NASA LaRC)
2:35 pm
CERES Fast Longwave and Shortwave Fluxes (FLASHFLUX) Update
Paul Stackhouse (NASA LaRC)
2:55 pm
CERES Energy Balanced and Filled (EBAF) Edition4 Plans
Norm Loeb (NASA LaRC)
3:15 pm
Break
3:45 pm
CERES Data Management Team (DMT) Working Group Report
Jonathan Gleason (NASA LaRC)
4:15 pm
Atmospheric Sciences Data Center (ASDC) Update
John Kusterer (NASA LaRC)
4:35 pm
CERES Education and Outreach Overview
Sarah Crecelius (SSAI)
4:55 pm
Adjourn
Wednesday, May 6
NASA Langley Research Center, Hampton, VA
Contributed Science Presentations
8:30 pm
Correction of directional effects of incident radiation on ocean surface
emissivity for CERES longwave irradiance computations
S.-H. Ham
(Oak Ridge Assoc. Univ.)
8:50 am
A global database of spectral surface emissivity for the entire longwave spectrum: development, validation, and application
Xianglei Huang
9:10 am
Diurnal differences in OLR climatologies and anomaly time series
J. Lee
9:30 am
A study of GERB shortwave calibration evolution: a cross-comparison study with CERES
R. Parfitt
9:50 am
ERBS tilted nonscanner update
Takmeng Wong (NASA LaRC)
10:10 am
Break
10:40 am
Using CERES data to constrain climate sensitivity
Andrew Dessler
11:00 am
Constraining climate model ensemble projections using radiation process-oriented performance metrics
Noel Baker (Oak Ridge Assoc. Univ.)
11:20 am
The role of DYNAMO observations in improving GMAO reanalysis and CERES-like surface atmosphere radiation estimation
H. Wang
11:40 am
Evaluation of MERRA using CERES EBAF
Laura Hinkelman (U. Washington)
12:00 pm
Lunch
Invited Science Presentations
1:30 pm
Introduction
Norm Loeb (NASA LaRC)
1:40 pm
Creating a consistent aerosol optical depth record from MODIS and VIIRS
Robert Levy (NASA GSFC)
2:25 pm
Status of GMAO Reanalysis and Future Plans
M. Bosilovich
3:10 pm
Break
3:40 pm
Day-night differences in AIRS version-6 water vapor
J. Lee
3:55 pm
MERRA-2/AIRS/MODIS Temperature/Humidity Comparisons
Seiji Kato (NASA LaRC)
Fred Rose (SSAI)
4:15 pm
Discussion and Next Steps
Contributed Science Presentations
4:35 pm
SARB aerosol datasets-assimilation of Terra MODIS, Aqua MODIS and NPP VIIRS MODIS-Like AOD
David Fillmore (Tech-X Corp.)
4:55 pm
Global warming, tropical expansion and ENSO in OLR–a QC benchmark exercise
Hai-Tien Lee (U. Maryland)
5:15 pm
On the sensitivity of the diurnal cycle in the Amazon to convective intensity
Kyle Itterly (SSAI)
5:35 pm
Adjourn
Thursday, May 7
NASA Langley Research Center, Hampton, VA
Contributed Science Presentations (cont’d)
8:30 am
A New Parameterization of Ice Cloud Radiative Properties
P. Yang/Minnis
8:50 am
New global estimates of cloud ice and liquid water path from MODIS using a profiling method
W.L. Smith, Jr. (NASA LaRC)
9:10 am
Build 3D Cloud Properties with A-Train C3M Data
Sunny Sun-Mack (SSAI)
9:30 am
The capabilities of lidar datasets for radiative heating rate and flux calculations
Tyler Thorsen (U. Washington)
9:50 am
A CERES-Consistent Cloud Property Climate Data Record Using AVHRR Data: Version 1 Delivery Results
Kris Bedka (NASA LaRC)
10:10 am
Break
10:40 am
A Radiation Closure Study of Arctic Cloud Properties
X. Dong
11:00 am
The influence of sea ice on Arctic low cloud properties and radiative effects
Patrick Taylor (NASA LaRC)
11:20 am
Evaluation of the Arctic Radiation Budget in CMIP5 Models
Robyn Boeke (SSAI)
11:40 am
Preliminary ARISE Comparisons (not presented)
J. Corbett
12:00 am
Adjourn