Monday, 3
November
0800-0830
0830-0935
Oral
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Registration
Welcome remarks & logistics
(SESSION MODERATOR: Deborah Vane )
Objectives and expectations of the meeting
(10 min)
Logistics (5 min)
NASA HQ perspectives and news (20 min):
Next ROSES AO, Decadal survey, etc
A-Train Symposium & future outlook for
constellations
Report from the Darmstadt Climate Symposium
Graeme Stephens (15 min)
Dave Winker (15 min)
0935-1030
Dave Winker
Graeme
Stephens
Jacques Pelon
Deborah Vane
David Considine
Graeme
Stephens
Dave Winker
CS/CP Project reports
(SESSION MODERATOR: Dave Winker)
Introduction: Future mission options for CloudSat
and CALIPSO (5 min)
Chip Trepte and
Deborah Vane
CALIPSO status and lifetime projection (15 min)
Chip Trepte
CloudSat status and lifetime projections and
mission options (15 min)
Mona
Witkowski
CPR status (15 min)
BREAK
Discussion – Future mission options for CloudSat
and CALIPSO (45 min)
Other Mission Project Reports (cont’d)
(SESSION MODERATOR: Jacques Pelon )
Simone Tanelli
Status of the EarthCARE mission (15 min)
Tobias Wehr
Status of the GPM mission & CAPPM (20 min)
Gail SkofronickJackson
Status of the Cloud-Aerosol Transport System
(CATS) Lidar (15 min)
John Yorks
3
1030-1045
1045-1130
1130-1220
1220-1245
1245-1400
42
Discussion - Collaborations with GPM,
EarthCARE, CATS, etc. Future cloud/aerosol
mission outlook. (25 min).
LUNCH
1
1400-1540
Radiation Budget and climate
(SESSION MODERATOR: Graeme Stephens)
Data product updates from CIRA and LaRC-DAAC
(20 min each)
Mark Vaughn
Phil Partain
30
Use of CALIPSO and CloudSat data to improve
surface radiation budget over polar regions
Seiji Kato
5
What Types of High Clouds Matter to the Tropical
Radiation Budget? A Focus on SE Asian Summer
Monsoon
Jay Mace
10
Cloud-Radiative Driving of the Madden-Julian
Oscillation as Seen by the A-Train
Tony del Genio
51
The Role of Clouds in the Swing from 2009-10 El
Niño to 2010-11 La Niña
BREAK
Radiation Budget and Climate (cont’d)
(SESSION MODERATOR: Graeme Stephens)
Five (5) 15-min talks:
Hui Su
47
Is losing our sea ice affecting our clouds? A story
about stability in the warming Arctic
Ariel Morrison
46
Climate Impacts of Polar Clouds – Progress and
Gaps
Jen Kay
27
Where and when will we observe cloud changes
due to climate warming?
Chepfer
32
Quantifying the Systematic Errors in the Vertical
Structure of Radiative Heating, Cloud Water and
Water Vapor in Contemporary GCMs using ATrain observations
Frank Li
33
A CloudSat and Numerical Model Based
Examination of Latent Heating in Extratropical
Cyclones
Derek Posselt
17
Four (4) 15-min talks:
1540-1600
1600-1715
1715-1730
Discussion – Radiation Budget and Climate
(15 min)
1730-1900
Poster Session I
No-Host bar
2
Tuesday, 4
November
0830-1000
Precipitation, Snow and Snowfall
(SESSION MODERATOR: Simone Tanelli)
six (6) 15-min talks:
1000-1030
1030-1100
1100-1200
ACTIVELY IMPROVING GLOBAL FORECASTS reducing systematic errors in the ECMWF NWP
model using CALIPSO/CloudSat
Richard Forbes
20
The Information Available in A-Train Data
Regarding Precipitation Processes in Warm
Maritime Cumulus
Jay Mace
11
A CloudSat-CALIPSO examination of clouds and
precipitation across cold fronts
Catherine Naud
16
A new method of defining the spatial distribution
of precipitation and its connection to the local
environment using CloudSat
Mark Smalley
19
Evaluations of CloudSat rain rate estimates using
NEXRAD weather radar measurements
Sergey
Matrosov
38
CloudSat perspective of global precipitation and
comparison with other observation and
reanalysis products
BREAK
Discussion – Future Grand Science Challenges
for this Community; Decadal Survey
Ali Behrangi
34
Graeme
Stephens
Dave Winker
Precipitation, Snow and Snowfall (cont’d)
(SESSION MODERATOR: Simone Tanelli)
Four (4) 15-min talks:
Evaluation of the warm rain process in global
models with CloudSat observations
Kenta Suzuki
37
A New Perspective of Global Snowfall Using
CloudSat Observations
Mark Kulie
2
Snowfall from CloudSat: Regional characteristics
and retrieval performance
Norm Wood
7
Retrieval of Snowfall Rate from Radar Reflectivity
Andy
Heymsfield
45
3
1200-1330
LUNCH
1330-1415
Precipitation, Snow and Snowfall (cont’d)
(SESSION MODERATOR: Tristan L’Ecuyer)
Three (3) 15-min talks:
1415-1430
1430-1500
1500-1630
1630-1645
1645-1900
Developing Global Snowfall Climatology by
Combining CloudSat and High-Frequency Passive
Microwave Observations
Guosheng Liu
44
Toward a Climatology of Blowing Snow through
Innovative use of CALIPSO and MODIS
Observations
Steve Palm
14
Properties and Longwave Radiative Impacts of
Antarctic Blowing Snow as Observed by CALIOP,
CERES and MODIS
Yuekui Yang
31
CALIPSO depolarization measurements of
Saharan dust during transatlantic transport
Alexander
Marshak
6
Combined active and passive A-Train aerosol
observations – preliminary comparisons with
AeroCom models and estimates of aerosol
radiative forcing
Jens Redemann
12
Use of combined A-Train satellite observations
for global aerosol typing in clear-sky and above
clouds
Meloe
Kacenelenbogen
8
CALIOP Aerosol Typing Evaluation Through
Comparison With A Global Mass Transport Model
James Campbell
18
Shortwave Direct Radiative Effect of Above Cloud
Aerosols Over Global Oceans Derived From 6
Years of CALIOP and MODIS Observations
Zhibo Zhang
28
Quantifying Trans-Atlantic Transport and
Deposition of African Dust with CALIPSO All-sky
Aerosol Measurements Over 2007-2013
Hongbin Yu
41
Discussion – Precipitation, Snow and Snowfall
(15-min)
BREAK
Aerosols
(SESSION MODERATOR: Chip Trepte)
Six (6) 15-min talks:
Discussion - Aerosols (15-min)
Poster Session II
No-Host bar
4
Wednesday, 5
November
0830-0845
0845-1015
First results from OCO-2
Clouds and Cloud-Aerosol
(SESSION MODERATOR: Sue van den Heever)
Six (6) 15-min talks:
David Crisp
MCMC-Based Assessment of a Combined RadarPassive Microwave Cloud Property Retrieval
Derek Posselt
4
Warm marine boundary layer cloud organization
by thermodynamic and dynamic states with NASA
A-train and MERRA reanalysis data
Brian Kahn
15
CloudSat-constrained cloud ice water path and
cloud top height retrievals from MHS 157 and
183.3 GHz radiances
Jie Gong
23
Factors related to the breakup of marine
stratocumulus, a lagrangian perspective using Atrain satellites
Ryan Eastman
24
Robert Wood
26
William Smith
1
Retrieve Stratiform Mixed-phase Cloud
Properties with Multi-sensor Measurements from
A-Train Satellites
Zhien Wang
29
Analyses of semi-transparent cirrus clouds using
combined retrievals of CALIPSO radiometer and
lidar measurements
Anne Garnier
25
Convection over the Maritime Continent: Insights
from CloudSat and TRMM
Robert Houze
35
Mesoscale Convective Systems as a Source of
Water Vapor in the Tropical Tropopause
Transition Layer as Shown by A-Train
Katrina Virts
36
Accounting for the temporal dimension in spaceborne cloud remote sensing: Example from a
recent study of convection vertical velocity using
A-Train data
Johnny Luo
49
Understanding geographical and seasonal
variability in cloud droplet concentration
A synergistic approach to improve the resolution
of cloud ice and liquid water content in cold
optically thick clouds from satellite data
1015-1045
1045-1230
BREAK
Clouds and Cloud-Aerosol
(SESSION MODERATOR: Sue van den Heever)
Seven (7) 15-min talks:
5
1230-1400
1400-1415
1415-1600
1600-1615
1615-1630
1630-1700
1700
MODIS dynamical and microphysical regimes as
viewed by CloudSat and CALIPSO
Lazaros
Oreopoulos
50
Aerosol Impacts on Convective Cloud Systems
Sue van den
Heever
22
How Robust Are the Aerosol-Cloud Relationships
that Derive from A-Train Observations?
Tristan
L’Ecuyer
21
Investigating the impacts of absorbing aerosols
overlying marine boundary layer clouds over the
southeast Atlantic Ocean: Aerosol-adjusted cloud
optical properties and aerosol direct radiative
forcing
Kerry Meyer
9
Ocean and Polarization observations from active
remote sensing: Current developments and
perspectives for atmospheric and ocean science
Damien Josset
39
Absorptive aerosols and clouds: Application of
the PNNL-MMF model and analysis of CloudsatCalipso, A- train, and Geosynchronous data
Steve Massie
40
A study of aerosol and cloud types using
CloudSat/CALIPSO data
Jonathan Jiang
43
CALIPSO observations on near-cloud aerosol
properties as a function of cloud fraction and
distance to clouds
Alexander
Marshak
48
Insights into the Role of Clouds in Modifying
Global Aerosol Direct Radiative Effects
Alex Matus
13
LUNCH
Discussion – Clouds and Cloud-Aerosol Part 1
(15–min)
Clouds and Cloud-Aerosol
(SESSION MODERATOR: Johnny Luo)
Seven (7) 15-min talks:
BREAK
Discussion – Clouds and Cloud-Aerosol Part 2
(15–min)
Final Discussion, Wrap up and plans for next
meeting.
(SESSION
MODERATORS:
PIs)
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