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2001 ARM Science Team Meeting

March 19 – 23 | Atlanta, Georgia | Sheraton Atlanta Hotel Convention Center

Sheraton Atlanta Hotel Convention Center was home for the 2001 ARM Science Team Meeting.

The eleventh ARM Science Team Meeting was held in Atlanta, Georgia. The Science Team Meetings were intended to provide opportunities to share scientific findings, focused technical exchanges, and collectively examine the implementation and operation of ARM.

Other agency programs attended to gain familiarity with ARM as a user facility and data clearinghouse.

Attendees participated in plenary sessions on all four days. Breakout sessions and workshops filled time along with poster sessions highlighting work across the breadth of ARM missions. Program leaders and principal investigators presented updates on research projects and proposals.

Session Papers

Key Presentations

  • “ARM 2001” presented by Tom Ackerman, ARM Chief Scientist, (pdf, 650K).
  • “An Integrated Column Description of the Atmosphere” presented by Tom Ackerman, Chief Scientist, (pdf, 4.4M).

Meeting Agenda

Monday, March 19

Time Activity
Noon Registration
1 – 5 p.m. Special Focus Groups

  • Aerosol Working Group
  • IRF Working Group
  • CPM Working Group
  • Cloud Properties Working Group
1 – 5 p.m. Poster Setup
6 – 8 p.m. Welcome and Registration – Sheraton Garden Court

Tuesday, March 20

Time Activity
7:15 – 8:30 a.m. Registration
8:30 a.m. Poster Setup Continues
Plenary Session – Chairs: Wanda Ferrell and Tom Ackerman
8:30 – 8:45 a.m. Wanda Ferrell – Introductory Remarks
8:45 – 9:45 a.m. Tom Ackerman – Status of the ARM Program
9:45 – 10:30 a.m. Bob Ellingson – Summary of the ARESE II Experiment
10:30 – 11:00 a.m. Break
11:00 – 11:45 a.m. Gerald Mace – Summary of the 2000 Cloud IOP
11:45 – 12:30 p.m. David Randall – Recent Activities of the CPM Working Group
2:00 – 3:35 p.m. Poster Presentations – Chairs: Minghua Zhang and Peter Lamb
2:00 p.m. AM Vogelmann: Observed Aerosol Radiative Forcings: Comparison for Natural and Anthropogenic Sources
2:15 p.m. Evans KF, SA McFarlane, and WJ Wiscombe: The Importance of Three-dimensional Solar Radiative Transfer in Small Cumulus Cloud Fields Derived from the Nauru MMCR and MWR
2:30 p.m. Kollias P, BA Albrecht, and BJ Dow: Sizes Fractional Coverage, and Radar Doppler Moments Profiles of Fair – Weather Cumulus Clouds at the TWP ARM Site
2:45 p.m. Comstock JM, TP Ackerman, and GG Mace: Cirrus Radiative Properties in the Tropical Western Pacific
3:00 p.m. Storvold R, K Stamnes, C Marty, BD Zak: Seasonal Variability in Cloud Cover, Cloud Base Height, and Cloud Liquid Water Content at the North Slope of Alaska and the Adjacent Arctic Ocean
3:15 p.m. Klein SA, A Tompkins, and R Pincus: A Parameterization of the Statistical Moments of Total Water for Large-scale Models
3:30 p.m. Morcrette J-J: Assessment of the ECMWF Model Cloud and Surface Radiation Fields at the ARM SGP Site
3:45 – 4:00 p.m. Break
4:00 – 7:00 p.m. Poster Session
5:30 – 7:00 p.m. Poster Session Refreshments
7:00 – 9:00 p.m. Data Quality Meeting

Wednesday, March 21

Time Activity
7:15 – 8:30 p.m. Registration
NASA TERRA Session – Chairs: Rich Ferrare and Bob Ellingson
8:15 – 9:00 a.m. Michael King: MODIS Overview
9:00 – 9:45 a.m. David Diner: MISR Overview
9:45 – 10:30 a.m. Bruce Wielicki: CERES Overview
10:30 – 11:00 a.m Break
11:00 – 11:45 a.m. Speaker to be determined: TRMM Overview
11:45 – 12:30 p.m. Tony Del Genio: Cloud – Radiation Parameterization in GCMs
2:00 – 3:45 p.m. Breakout Sessions

  • Diffuse Radiometry – Conveners: Chuck Long and Joe Michalsky
  • Water Vapor – Conveners: Hank Revercomb
  • Visualization – Conveners: Chris Klaus
  • Others as requested
3:30 – 4:00 p.m. Break
4:00 – 7:00 p.m. Poster Session
5:30 – 7:00 p.m. Poster Session Refreshments
7:00 p.m. Poster Display Ends. Remove all posters by 1:00 p.m. Thursday
7:00 – 9:00 p.m. Joint Working Group Steering Committee Meeting

Thursday, March 22

Time Activity
7:15 – 8:30 a.m. Principal Investigator Presentations – Chairs: Wanda Ferrell and Tom Ackerman
8:30 – 8:50 a.m. Tony Clough: Radiative Transfer for Clear and Cloudy Atmospheres: Spectral Modeling and Validation
8:50 – 9:10 a.m. Judy Curry: Towards Understanding and Parameterization of High Latitude Cloud and Radiation Processes
9:10 – 9:30 a.m. Chris Fairall: Shipboard Measurements of the Cloud – Radiative Properties in the Tropical Western Pacific: The Nauru99 Experiment
9:30 – 9:50 a.m. Steve Ghan: Development of a GCM Stratiform Cloud Parameterization
9:50 – 10:10 a.m. Joe Michalsky: Spectral and Broadband Rotating Shadowband Shortwave Radiometry and Analysis
10:10 – 10:30 a.m. Break
10:30 – 10:50 a.m. Dave Tobin: High Spectral Resolution FTIR Observations: Clear and Cloudy Sky Applications
10:50 – 11:10 a.m. Steve Schwartz: Shortwave Radiative Influences of Tropospheric Aerosols
11:10 – 11:30 a.m. Steve Sekelsky: Improved Cloud Radar Ice and Water Content Estimation
11:30 – 11:50 a.m. Prasad Varanasi: Laboratory Spectroscopy Related to the ARM Program
11:50 – 12:10 p.m. Ed Westwater: Microwave Radiometers and Radiosondes: Nauru99, NSA/AAO, and SHEBA
12:10 – 12:30 p.m. Warren Wiscombe: Modeling of Cloud Liquid Water Structure and the Resultant Shortwave Radiation Field Using ARM and Landsat Data
12:45 – 2:00 p.m. Training for new ARM data users (McCord and Cederwall)
2:00 p.m. Breakout Sessions

  • Data Integration for model Evaluation Meeting – Convener: Steve Krueger
  • Others as requested
3:30 – 4:00 p.m. Break

Friday, March 23

Time Activity
8:00 – 3:00 p.m. STEC Meeting

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