Grove School of Engineering, Steinman Hall, City College of New York, NY, NY
Sponsors: GEWEX, NASA, NOAA, EUMETSAT, JMA, INPE
Agenda
0800 Breakfast
0830 Welcome [Khanbilvardi, Tevisan, van Oevelen]
0910 Robert Schiffer “ISCCP Overview”
0940 William Rossow “ISCCP So Far”
1000 Break (Group Photo)
Clouds-Radiation [Chair: J. Schmetz]
1030 Claudia Stubenrauch “What did we achieve from global cloud satellite observations?'”
1100 Paul Stackhouse “Estimating long-term surface radiation fluxes using ISCCP cloud: improvements from the H-series products”
1115 Ehrhard Raschke “Influence of clouds on the radiation budget of the atmosphere and at its boundaries estimated with satellite-based and model data sets”
1130 Jerome Riedi “Contribution of POLDER to the observation of clouds, water vapor and the Earth radiation budget: An overview”
1145 Patrick Taylor “Synoptic variability of cloud and TOA radiative flux diurnal cycles”
1200 Lunch
Clouds-Radiation [Chair: B.J. Sohn]
1400 Lazaros Oreopoulos “What new have we learned about cloud radiative effects and feedbacks in the last decade?”
1430 Rachel Pinker “Shortwave and Longwave Radiative Fluxes from ISCCP in Support of MeaSUREs”
1445 Rainer Hollmann “Optimal-estimation-based multi-sensor consistent cloud property datasets derived from AVHRR, MODIS, and AATSR”
1500 Discussion of Cloud-Radiation Issues
1530 Break
Clouds-Precipitation [Chair: G. Stephens]
1600 Chris Kummerow “ISCCP cloud clusters, TRMM rain clusters, and tropical water and energy budgets”
1630 Robert Houze “Global variability of intense convection”
1700 BJ Sohn Characteristic features of warm-type rain producing heavy rainfall over the Korean peninsula inferred from TRMM measurements”
1715 Zhibo Zhang “Effects of cloud horizontal inhomogeneity and drizzle on remote sensing of cloud droplet effective radius: Case studies based on large-eddy simulations”
1730 Jon Petch “The role of cloud processes in weather and climate: Past, current and future activates of GEWEX GASS (Global Atmospheric System Studies)”
1745 Discussion of Cloud-Precipitation Issues
1815 Adjourn
1815 Icebreaker
0800 Breakfast
Cloud and Related Observations [Chair: M. Maiden]
0830 Jay Mace “The vertical distribution of hydrometeors within ISCCP weather states derived from CALIPSO-CloudSat data”
0845 Sergey Gulev “Probability distributions of the fractional cover from satellite and in-situ observations and NWP”
0900 Brian Mapes “Cloud clusters on the globe: Toward a form-function relationship”
0915 Juergen Fischer “Evaluation of level-2 and level-3 cloud products from the AATSR-MERIS cloud property retrieval FAME-C”
0930 Thomas.Vonder Haar “22 – year reanalysis and extension of global water vapor (over both land and ocean): NVAP – M”
1000 Break
Cloud Microphysics – Liquid [Chair: S. Klein]
1030 Teriyuki Nakajima “What did we learn about the microphysics of water clouds from satellite remote sensing?”
1100 Andi Walther “Benefits of adding a water channel to the ISCCP Channel-Set”
1115 Lydie Lavanant “Accounting for cloud microphysical properties in the simulation of hyperspectral IR cloudy observations”
1130 Martin Stengel “Global cloud observations based on three decades of AVHRR measurements”
1200 Lunch
Cloud Microphysics – Ice [Chair: C. Kummerow]
1400 Corinna Hoose “Combining laboratory, model and remote sensing studies to advance our understanding of aerosol impacts on mixed-phase clouds”
1430 Zhien Wang “Ice Generation in middle-level clouds and their relationships with aerosols, dynamics, and thermodynamics”
1445 Michal Segal-Rosenheimer “Natural pollution events and their role in enhancing ice cloud formation”
1500 David Winker “Recent advances in retrieving cloud properties from CALIPSO active and passive measurements”
1515 Anthony Davis “What if we traded in the aerosol-friendly (single-backscattering) lidar equation for a more cloud-friendly (multiple-scattering) one?”
1530 Break
Clouds-Aerosols [Chair: J. Jiang]
1600 Bjorn Stevens “Aerosol controls on cloud intensive properties”
1630 Zhanqing Li “Impact of aerosols on deep convective clouds from satellite and ground observations”
1645 Rong Fu “Influence of aerosols on mesoscale convective systems inferred from ISCCP and A-Train datasets”
1700 Discussion of Cloud Microphysics – Aerosols Issues
1730 Adjourn
0800 Breakfast
Cloud Dynamics [Chair: J. Petch]
0830 Anthony Del Genio “Impacts of clouds on the General Circulation and climate variability”
0900 Steve Klein “Are climate model simulations of clouds improving? An evaluation using the ISCCP simulator.”
0915 Johnny Luo “Study of convective dynamics from satellite perspective”
0930 Tianle Yuan “The global occurrence and impact of low clouds overlapped by high clouds”
0945 Ademe Mekonnen “An investigation of tropical wave activity and its interaction with deep convection based on ISCCP products”
1000 Break
Cloud Dynamics [Chair: T. Kurino]
1030 Christian Jakob “What do clouds know about dynamics? — Stories from the ISCCP Universe and beyond”
1100 Catherine Naud “Southern hemisphere clouds: multi-platform observations versus GCMs in different atmospheric conditions”
1115 Hyelim Yoo “Diagnosis and improvement of cloud parametrization schemes in NCEP/GFS using multiple satellite products”
1130 Discussion of Cloud Dynamics Issues
1200 Lunch
Cloud Feedbacks [Chair: J. Schulz]
1400 Graeme Stephens “Net cloud feedbacks in the climate system – positive or negative?”
1430 Hui Su “Diagnosis of regime-dependent cloud simulation errors in CMIP5 models”
1445 Sandrine Bony “Organization of tropical convection : Observations and implications for climate and climate modelling”
1500 Joel Norris “Evidence in ISCCP for regional patterns of cloud response to climate change”
1515 Mark D. Zelinka & Stephen A. Klein “Insights into cloud feedbacks, rapid adjustments, and radiative biases in models using the ISCCP Simulator and Cloud Radiative Kernels”
1530 Break
Cloud feedbacks [Chair: J. Bates]
1600 George Tselioudis “Looking at cloud feedbacks through regime-based approaches”
1630 Kevin Grise “The ozone hole indirect effect: Cloud-radiative feedbacks accompanying the poleward shift of the eddy-driven jet in the southern hemisphere”
1645 Neil Gordon “Timescale invariance of low-cloud albedo feedbacks in models”
1700 Carol Anne Clayson “ISCCP-defined weather regimes and air-sea interaction”
1715 Discussion of Cloud Feedback Issues
1745 Adjourn
0800 Breakfast
Future Activities [Chair: R.A. Schiffer]
0830 Welcome [Small, Kummerow]
0850 Hal Maring: “NASA atmospheric composition satellite observations: Current and future”
0910 Jo Schmetz: “From Meteosat First Generation to the future Meteosat Third Generation: Advances in science and products”
0930 Toshiyuki Kurino “Expectations for the Japanese follow-on geostationary meteorological satellites HIMAWARI-8/9 “
0950 Teriyuki Nakajima “EarthCare”
1010 Break
1030 John Bates: “Thoughts on a coordinated and sustained Climate Observing System”
1050 William Rossow: “Next science goals”
1110 Discussion
1200 Adjourn
GEWEX NEWS
The 25th ISCCP Anniversary
23-25 July 2008
NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies
Agenda
Session 1 Background
1400-1445 Clouds and Climate [J. Hansen]
1445-1530 ISCCP Evolution (from Lake Balaton to GEWEX) [W. Rossow for R. Schiffer]
1530-1600 Break
Session 2 Lessons Learned
1600-1645 Producing Climate Data Records [J. Bates]
1645-1715 Radiance Calibration Challenges [C. Bishop]
1715-1745 ISCCP’s Contribution to Shaping the Work of Meteorological Satellite Operators [J. Schmetz]
1745-1815 Discussion of Making ISCCP “Operational”
1830 Adjourn
1900 RECEPTION AT 20 West 64th Street
Session 3 Cloud Properties from Remote Sensing
0830-0915 Invited Review [C. Stubenrauch]
0915-0945 Understanding the Differences between MODIS and ISCCP Retrievals of Cloud Properties [R. Pincus]
0945-1015 Improving Cloud Climatology Analysis Using Space Lidar Observations: , Comparison of SEVIRI with GLAS and CALIPSO, part1, part 2 [G. Seze]
1015-1030 Break
Session 4 Cloud Properties from Remote Sensing
1030-1100 Evaluation of Radiative Properties of Low and High Clouds in Different Regimes Using Satellite Measurements [B. Lin]
1100-1130 Exploring Midlatitude Storminess with ISCCP [M. Bauer]
1130-1200 A Near-Real Time Global Geostationary Satellite Cloud and Radiation Retrieval System [R. Palikonda]
1200-1330 Lunch
Session 5 Cloud Behavior from Remote Sensing
1330-1415 Invited Review [A. Del Genio]
1415-1445 What Comparing Data from Different Remote Sensors has told us about Cloud Behavior [D. Wylie]
1445-1515 The Convective System Life Cycle Observed from Remote Sensing [L. Machado]
1515-1530 Break
Session 6 Cloud Behavior from Remote Sensing
1530-1600 Seasonal Variation of Low Clouds over the Eastern Pacific: Observations and Model Results [M. Zhang]
1600-1630 Lagrangian Analysis of Satellite Data for Understanding Tropical Cirrus and Upper Tropospheric Humidity [Z. Luo]
1630-1700 Cloud-Aerosol Interactions in the General Circulation: Modeling and Observational Challenges [L. Donner]
1700-1730 Interaction of Tropical Deep Convection with the Large-Scale Circulation in the MJO [E. Tromeur]
1730-1800 Cloud Feedback [G. Tselioudis]
1815 Adjourn
Session 7 Clouds and the Radiation Budget
0830-0915 Invited Review[E. Raschke]
0915-0945 Significance of ISCCP to Realistic Estimates of Global Radiation Profiles [Y. Zhang]
0945-1015 ISCCP Cloud Effects on Radiative Fluxes [S. Kinne]
1015-1030 Break
Session 8 Clouds and the Hydrological Cycle
1030-1115 Invited Review [C. Kummerow]
1115-1145 Clouds, Rainforest and Terrestrial Hydrological Cycle in the Tropics [R. Fu]
1145-1215 Cloud Dynamics [W. Rossow]
1215-1330 Lunch
Session 9 Evaluating Atmospheric Models Using ISCCP Products
1330-1400 Evaluation of Cloud Regimes in GCMs [K. Williams]
1400-1430 Tropical and Subtropical Cloud Transitions: ISCCP and Climate Models [J. Teixeira]
1430-1500 From the ISCCP Simulator to COSP Simulator [S. Klein]
1500-1515 Break
Session 10 New Frontiers in Cloud Remote Sensing
1515-1600 Invited Review [G. Stephens]
1600-1630 An Initial CALIPSO Cloud Climatology [D. Winker]
1630-1700 EarthCare Mission [T. Wehr]
1700-1745 What Must be done to Finish the “Cloud-Climate” Job? [T. Vonder Haar]
1745-1815 Discussion of future cloud research
1830 Adjourn
