11:00   Session B: Clouds and Climate Processes (Chair: Johnny Luo, Rapporteur: Hanii Takahashi)

11:00-11:15    Christian Jakob: Radiative-Convective Anti-Equilibrium — The Truth about the relationship of rainfall and radiation

11:15-11:30    Hui Su: “Iris Effect” in Observations and Models

11:30-11:45    Chris Kummerow: Tracking the Movement of Water and Energy from the GEWEX Integrated Product

11:45-12:00    Yi Huang: Cloud feedback during ENSO

12:00-12:15    Tom Ackerman: A Possible Strategy for the Use of Solar Climate Engineering

12:15-12:30    Discussion

12:30   Lunch

2:00     Session B: Clouds and Climate Processes (continued)

2:00-2:15        Mark Zelinka: Assessing the robustness and mechanisms of cloud responses to poleward jet shifts in observations and models

2:15-2:30        Ying Li: Two-way interactions between cloud radiative effects and the atmospheric circulation in the extratropics

2:30-2:45        Bernard Lipat, George Tselioudis, and Lorenzo Polvani: Midlatitude cloud shifts, their primary link to the Hadley cell, and their diverse radiative effect

2:45-3:00        Kevin Grise: Dynamic and thermodynamic controls on midlatitude clouds: What can the observed satellite record teach us?

3:00-3:15        Xianglei Huang: Spectral Decomposition of Cloud Radiative Effect and short-term Cloud Radiative Feedbacks

3:15-3:30        Discussion

3:30     Coffee Break

4:00     Session B: Clouds and Climate Processes (continued)

4:00-4:15        Leo Donner: Cloud Updrafts, Climate Forcing, and Climate Sensitivity

4:15-4:30        Katinka Bellomo: Observational and Model Estimates of Cloud Amount Feedback over the Indian and Pacific Oceans

4:30-4:45        Alejandro Bodas-Salcedo: Cloud liquid water path and radiative feedbacks over the Southern Ocean

4:45-5:00        Dave Winker: A Role for Active Sensors in Constraining Cloud Feedbacks

5:00-5:15        Claudia Stubenrauch: The role of upper tropospheric cloud systems in climate: building observational metrics for Process Evaluation Studies

5:15-5:30        Discussion

6:00     Symposium Reception (courtesy of the CUNY CREST Institute)

9:00     Session C: New Datasets and Retrieval Methods

(Chair: Claudia Stubenrauch, Rapporteur: June Wang)

9:00-9:15        Alisa Young: ISCCP H-Series Data production at NCEI

9:15-9:30        Yuanchong Zhang: The New Long-term, Global, 3-hourly, high-resolution ISCCP-FH Atmospheric Radiative   Transfer Flux Profile Product

9:30-9:45        Toshi Inoue: Cirrus cloud observed from Himawari-8

9:45-10:00      Kaori Sato: Cloud observations from the Arcs and EarthCARE project

10:00-10:15    Hajime Okamoto: From CloudSat-CALIPSO to EarthCARE and new ground-based instruments

10:15-10:30    Discussion

10:30   Coffee Break

11:00   Session C: New Datasets and Retrieval Methods (continued)

11:00-11:15    Steve Schwartz: Cloud radiative fraction: Determination by high resolution photography from the surface looking upward

11:15-11:30    Tamas Varnai: Deep space observations of oriented ice crystals and of the color of our planet

11:30-11:45    Andrew Lacis: Efficient computation of the radiative effects of fractional cloudiness in a climate GCM setting

11:45-12:00    Michael Mishchenko: Fluctuational QED theory of radiative transfer in clouds

12:00-12:15    Erhard Raschke: On the influence of ancillary information on estimates of the Earth’s radiation budget

12:15-12:30    Discussion

12:30   Lunch

2:00     Session D: Clouds, Radiation, and Microphysics

(Chair: George Tselioudis, Rapporteur: Bernard Lipat)

2:00-2:15        Paul Stackhouse: The Effect of Clouds on Surface Radiation: Contributions of Global ISCCP-based Surface Radiation Toward Establishing Relationships, Narrowing Uncertainties and Fostering Interdisciplinary Application

2:15-2:30        Carol Anne Clayson: Relationships between ocean-atmosphere surface heat and moisture fluxes, clouds, and weather regimes

2:30-2:45        Anastasia Romanou and Rebecca Latto: Ocean carbon-climate states based on cluster analysis of air-sea carbon fluxes and ocean color satellite measurements

2:45-3:00        Hamid Norouzi: Surface Energy Balance Study and Temporal and Spatial Downscaling of Surface Temperature in Urban Area

3:00-3:15        Tristan L’Ecuyer: Revisiting the Role of Cloud Type in the Global Energy Budget

3:15-3:30        Discussion

3:30     Coffee Break

4:00     Session D: Clouds, Radiative budget, and Microphysical Scales (continued)

4:00-4:15        Stefan Kinne: Global distributions of aerosol optical properties

4:15-4:30        Jonathan Jiang: Impacts of Different Aerosol Types on Convective Cloud as Observed by CALIPSO/CloudSat Satellites

4:30-4:45        Zhanqing Li: Joint Impact of Aerosol-Radiation-Interaction (ARI) and Aerosol-Cloud-Interactions (ACI) on Convective Clouds, Lightning and Thunderstorms

4:45-5:00        Luiz Machado: Tropical Cloud Process and sensitivities to environmental conditions

5:00-5:15        Matt Igel: The Modeled and Observed Dependence of Precipitation Onset and Cloud Type on Layer-Moisture

5:15-5:30        Discussion

9:00     Session E: Clouds at Weather Scales

(Chair: Christian Jakob, Rapporteur: Jackson Tan)

9:00-9:15        Ademe Mekonnen: The Interaction Between Cloud Regimes and Easterly Wave Activity over Africa: Convective Transitions And Mechanisms

9:15-9:30        Brian Vant-Hull: Global Tracking of Meso-Scale Convective Systems

9:30-9:45        Greg Elsaesser: Fusing Multiple Satellite Datasets to Define and Understand Organized Convection

9:45-10:00      Tony Del Genio: Toward the Representation of the Convective Lifecycle in Climate Models

10:00-10:15    Mitch Moncrieff: Multiscale Coherent Structure Parameterization (MCSP) for Organized Tropical Convection

10:15-10:30    Discussion

10:30   Coffee Break

11:00   Session E: Clouds at Weather Scales (Continued)

11:00-11:15    Hanii Takahashi: Level of Neutral Buoyancy, Deep Convective Outflow and Convective Core: New Perspectives Based on 5-Years of CloudSat Data

11:15-11:30    Lazaros Oreopoulos: ISCCP Weather States and MODIS Cloud Regimes: Organizing passive cloud observations for understanding the nature of global cloudiness

11:30-11:45    Qiang Fu: Variability of Tropical Tropopause Layer Cirrus

11:45-12:00    Ulrich Schumann: Do cirrus clouds cool or warm the Earth surface?

12:00-12:30    Discussion

12:30   Lunch

2:00     Session E: Clouds at Weather Scales (Continued)

2:00-2:15        Brian Kahn: Low-latitude variability of ice cloud properties and cloud thermodynamic phase observed by the Atmospheric Infrared Sounder (AIRS)

2:15-2:30        Roger Marchand: An Overview of MISR Cloud-Top-Heights and Optical Depth Histograms

2:30-2:45        Zhien Wang: Global Cloud Type Distributions: ISCCP Cloud Type to CloudSat Type

2:45-3:00        Jackson Tan: Evaluating Rainfall Errors in Global Climate Models through Cloud Regimes

3:00-3:15        Steve Ackerman: Cloud detection from Satellites: What I learned from Bill Rossow

3:15-3:30        Discussion

3:30     Coffee Break

4:00     Session E: Clouds at Weather Scales (Continued)

4:00-4:15        Catherine Naud: A Climatology of Clouds and Precipitation in Extratropical Cyclones based on Satellite Observations

4:15-4:30        Jimmy Booth: Cloud and Water Vapor Conditions over the Ocean Western Boundary Currents during Winter

4:30-4:45        Junhong (June) Wang: Diurnal cycle of clouds from satellite data and climate models

4:45-5:00        Ulrika Willen: ENSO variability in multiple satellite observations and climate models

5:00-5:15        Kanhu Charan Pattnayak: Investigation of the Moisture Recycling Ratio over South America: A Modelling Approach using HadCM3

5:15-5:30        Discussion

5:30                Conference Recap

5:30-6:00        William Rossow: What’s Next?