April 8 – 12 | St. Petersburg, Florida | Hilton Hotel
Meeting Highlights
The twelfth annual ARM Science Team Meeting was held in St. Petersburg, Florida, at the Hilton Hotel. There were 286 attendees registered for the meeting; 54 of whom were international participants representing 20 different countries. During the ARM Program overview session, it was reported that ARM was alive and healthy after 12 years. The science was solid, and funding remained consistent. The preliminary science proposals the Department of Energy was receiving were very, very strong. The ARM Program was making substantial progress toward describing the Southern Great Plains atmospheric column.
Another fun fact reported at the meeting: 80% of ARM data users are non-ARM scientists. The ARM Data Archive averaged 450 users per month and the average data request in 2001 was 13 GB/day (2200 files/day).
Key Presentations
- “The Atmospheric Radiation Measurement (ARM) Program: A Laboratory for the Study of Clouds and Atmospheric Radiation” presented by Tom Ackerman, Chief Scientist, in China, (pdf, 3.4M).
- “The Atmospheric Radiation Measurement Program: Observing the Atmosphere with Ground-Based Remote Sensors” presented by Tom Ackerman, Chief Scientist, in Beijing, China, (pdf, 2.9M).
Meeting Agenda
Monday, April 8
| Time | Activity |
|---|---|
| 10:00 – 5:00 p.m. | Aerosol Working Group |
| 1:00 – 5:00 p.m. | Instantaneous Radiative Flux (IRF) Working Group |
| 1:00 – 5:00 p.m. | Cloud Properties Working Group |
| 1:00 – 5:00 p.m. | Poster Setup |
| 6:00 – 8:00 p.m. | No-host Social in Grand Ballroom Lobby |
Tuesday, April 9
| Time | Activity | |
|---|---|---|
| ARM Program Overview Session (Co-chairs: Ackerman and Ferrare) | ||
| 8:30 – 9:00 a.m. | Wanda Ferrell – DOE Perspective on ARM | |
| 9:00 – 9:15 a.m. | Jerry Elwood – DOE Perspective | |
| 9:15 – 9:45 a.m. | Tom Ackerman – State of ARM | |
| 9:45 – 10:40 a.m. | Nate Lewis – Report on the JASON Review of ARM | |
| 10:40 – 11 a.m. | Morning Break | |
| 11:00 – 11:30 a.m. | Rich Ferrare – Aerosol Intensive Operational Periods 2002 – 2003 | |
| 11:30 a.m. – 12 p.m. | Minghua Zhang – Report on Broadband Heating Rate Project | |
| Noon – 12:30 p.m. | Peter May – Overview of the New Darwin Site | |
| 12:30 – 2:00 p.m. | Lunch Break | |
| 12:45 – 1:45 p.m. | Stamnes and Zak (Conveners): North Slope of Alaska (NSA) Users Group Meeting | |
| Oral Poster Talks (Co-chairs: Ellingson and Lamb) | ||
| 2:00 – 3:45 p.m. | Kollias and Albrecht – Fair-Weather Cumuli Climatology at the Tropical Western Pacific ARM Site Ferrare, Turner, Clayton, Brasseur, Tooman, Goldsmith, Ogren, and Andrews – Raman Lidar Profiling of Aerosols and Water Vapor Over the Southern Great Plains Shupe, Uttal, and Matrosov – An Annual Cycle of Remotely-Derived Arctic Cloud Microphysics O’Hirok and Gautier – A Final Analysis of the Comparison Between Theoretical and Observed Estimates of Broadband Absorptance During the ARM Enhanced Shortwave Experiment (ARESE) II Mechem, Ovtchinnikov, Kogan, Davis, Cahalan, Takara, and Ellingson – Multi-Dimensional Longwave Forcing of Planetary Boundary Layer Stratocumulus in a Large Eddy Simulation Model Xie, Cederwall, Yio, and Zhang – Developing Continuous Single-Column Model/Cloud-Resolving Simulation Forcing Using Numerical Weather Prediction Products Constrained by ARM Observations Stephens, Gabriel, and Wood – Assessing Cloud Overlap Parameterizations of Global Climate Models Using ARM Data |
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| Poster Sessions | ||
| 4:00 – 7:00 p.m. | Poster Session A | |
| 7:00 – 9:00 p.m. | Peppler (Convener): Data Quality Update | |
Wednesday, April 10
| Time | Activity |
|---|---|
| Cloud Modeling and Parameterization (Co-Chairs: Mace, Randall, and Zhang) | |
| 8:15 – 9:00 a.m. | Richard Moss – An Overview of the U.S. Global Change Research Program |
| 9:00 – 9:45 a.m. | Catherine Senior – Cloud Radiative Feedbacks |
| 9:45 – 10:30 a.m. | Jerry Potter and Dave Williamson – CCPP-ARM General Circulation Model (GCM) Analysis Tendency Errors (CAGATE) Overview |
| 10:30 – 11:00 a.m. | Morning Break |
| 11:00 – 11:30 a.m. | Dave Randall – Super Parameterizations |
| 11:30 – 12 p.m. | Steve Krueger – Evaluation of Cloud Parameterizations Using Cloud-Resolving Model Simulations and ARM Observations |
| Noon – 12:30 p.m. | Rob Pincus – Cloud Resolving Models as Scaffolding for Cloud Parameterizations in Large-scale Models |
| 12:30 – 2:00 p.m. | Lunch Break |
| Break-out Sessions | |
| 2:00 – 3:30 p.m. | Chuck Long (Convener): Anomalous Absorption Session |
| 2:00 – 3:30 p.m. | Dave Tobin (Convener): ARM-FIRE Water Vapor Experiment and Water Vapor Intensive Operational Period |
| 2:00 – 3:30 p.m. | Randall and Potter (Conveners): CCPP-ARM GCM Analysis Tendency Errors (CAGATE) Session |
| Poster Sessions | |
| 4:00 – 7:00 p.m. | Poster Session B |
| Evening Meetings | |
| 7:00 – 8:00 p.m. | Robert Cahalan (Convener): International Intercomparison of 3-dimensional Radiation Codes (I3RC) Planning Session |
| 7:00 – 9:00 p.m. | Joint Meeting of Working Group Steering Committees (Invitation only) |
| 7:00 – 10:00 p.m. | Wesely (Convener): Instrument Team Meeting |
Thursday, April 11
| Time | Activity |
|---|---|
| Invited PI talks (Co-chairs: Ferrell and Ackerman) | |
| 8:15 – 8:35 a.m. | Bruce Albrecht – Development and Evaluation of Boundary Layer Cloudiness Parameterizations Using ARM Observations |
| 8:35 – 8:55 a.m. | Eugene Clothiaux – Retrieval of Cloud Properties and Direct Testing of Cloud and Radiation Parameterizations Using ARM Observations |
| 8:55 – 9:15 a.m. | Catherine Gautier – Studies of Clouds and Aerosol Interaction with Radiation Using Radiative Transfer Modeling and Observations |
| 9:15 – 9:35 a.m. | Zhanqing Li – Remote Sensing and Understanding the Impact of Cloud and Aerosol on the Earth Solar Radiation Budget |
| 9:35 – 9:55 a.m. | Kuo-Nan Liou – Radiation Parameterization for Three-Dimensional Inhomogeneous Cirrus Clouds Applied to ARM Data and Climate Models |
| 9:55 – 10:15 a.m. | Greg McFarquhar – Improved parameterizations for cloud microphysics and radiation for mid-latitude and tropical clouds for use in single column models |
| 10:15 – 10:40 a.m. | Morning Break |
| 10:40 – 11:00 a.m. | Peter Pilewskie – Retrieval of Ice-Water Content Using Near-Infrared Remote Sensing |
| 11:00 – 11:20 a.m. | Hank Revercomb – High Spectral Resolution FTIR Observations for the ARM Program: Clear and Cloudy Sky Applications |
| 11:20 – 11:40 a.m. | Ken Sassen – Improved CART Data Products and GCM Parameterizations for Clouds |
| 11:40 a.m. – Noon | Brian Soden – Satellite Measurement of Upper Tropospheric Water Vapor: Applications for the ARM Program |
| Noon – 12:20 p.m. | Richard Somerville – Single-Column Modeling GCM Parameterization and ARM Data |
| 12:20 – 1:30 p.m. | Lunch Break |
| Lunch Meetings | |
| 12:45 – 2:00 p.m. | Data orientation meeting for new investigators |
| Afternoon Sessions | |
| 1:30 – 5:00 p.m. | Cloud Working Group |
| 1:30 – 5:00 p.m. | Cloud Parameterization and Modeling Working Group |
| 3:00 – 3:30 p.m. | Afternoon Break |
| 3:30 – 6:00 p.m. | Science Team Executive Committee Meeting (Session 1) |
| Special Activity | |
| 6:30 – 7:30 p.m. | Tour of Salvador Dal Museum |
| Evening Meetings | |
| 7:00 – 9:00 p.m. | Michalsky (Convener): Workshop on Improved Radiation Measurements |
Friday, April 12
| Time | Activity |
|---|---|
| 8:00 a.m. – Noon | Science Team Executive Committee Meeting (Session 2) |