March 31 – April 4 | Broomfield, Colorado | Omni Interlocken Resort
Meeting Highlights
The thirteenth annual ARM Science Team Meeting was held at the Omni Interlocken Resort in Broomfield, Colorado. A near-record attendance of more than 270 scientists and researchers, including 54 international scientists representing 20 foreign countries, participated in a series of plenary and poster sessions, and working group meetings.
During the opening plenary session, DOE’s Office of Biological Environmental Research’s Wanda Ferrell, ARM Science Director, thanked the scientists for their expertise and ingenuity, which contributed in fiscal year 2002 to improvements to climate model parameterizations as well as to site data systems, and which resulted in 158 publications that featured ARM research. Tom Ackerman delivered a “State of ARM” presentation, which included a preview of a new ARM Science Plan to advance the scientific agenda of ARM for the ensuing 5 years.
Key Presentations
Meeting Agenda
Monday, March 31
| Time | Activity |
|---|---|
| Noon | Registration |
| 10:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m. | Aerosol Working Group Meeting |
| 1:00 – 2:30 p.m. | BBHRP / Cloud Microphysics |
| 2:30 – 5:00 p.m. | Cloud / IRF Liquid Water Measurements |
| 1:00 – 5:00 p.m. | Poster Setup |
| 6:00 – 8:00 p.m. | No-host Social |
Tuesday, April 1
| Time | Activity |
|---|---|
| 7:15 – 8:30 a.m. | Registration/Continental Breakfast |
| ARM Program Review | |
| Moderators: Tom Ackerman and Bob Ellingson | |
| 8:30 – 8:45 a.m. | Wanda Ferrell: Program View of ARM |
| 8:45 – 9:45 a.m. | Jim Mahoney: U.S. Climate Change Science Program Strategic Plan |
| 9:45 – 10:20 a.m. | Tom Ackerman: State of ARM |
| 10:20 – 10:50 a.m. | Break |
| 10:50 – 11:20 a.m. | Rich Ferrare: Aerosol Experiment |
| 11:20 – 11:50 a.m. | Bob Ellingson: UAV Experiment |
| 11:50 – 12:30 p.m. | Working Group Summaries |
| Greg McFarquhar: Cloud Properties | |
| Minghua Zhang and Tony Delgenio: Cloud Parameterization and Modeling | |
| 12:30 – 2:00 p.m. | Lunch |
| 2:00 – 3:45 p.m. | Formal Poster Presentations |
| Moderators: Tony Delgenio, Greg McFarquhar, and Minghua Zhang | |
| Comstock, J.M.: Evaluation of Tropical Cirrus Cloud Properties and Dynamical Processes Derived from ECMWF Model Output and Ground-Based Measurements Over Nauru Island |
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| Gordon, N.D.: Physical Characteristics of Sub-Grid Scale Cloudiness |
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| Iziomon, M.G.: Investigation of Aerosol Semi-Direct Effect at the ARM Southern Great Plains |
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| Kollias, P.: Six-Year Climatology of Continental Stratus-Boundary Layer and Macroscopic Cloud Characteristics |
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| Oreopoulos, L.: Treatments of Inhomogeneous Clouds in a GCM Radiation Model (GRM) |
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| Shupe, M.D.: Mixed Phase Cloud Retrievals from Doppler Spectra | |
| Zhu, P.: A Simulation of Shallow Moist Convection and Its Impact on the Atmospheric-Boundary Layer |
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| 3:45 – 4:00 p.m. | Break |
| 4:00 – 7:00 p.m. | Poster Session A |
| 5:30 – 7:00 p.m. | Poster Session Refreshments |
Wednesday, April 2
| Time | Activity |
|---|---|
| 7:15 – 8:30 a.m. | Registration/Continental Breakfast |
| Site Vision and Science | |
| Moderators: Peter Lamb, Chuck Long, and Hans Verlinde | |
| 8:00 – 8:30 a.m. | Hans Verlinde: NSA Vision |
| 8:30 – 9:30 a.m. | Judy Curry: Aerosonde Experiments at the NSA Site |
| 9:00 – 9:30 a.m. | Taneil Uttal: NOAA SEARCH Project |
| 9:30 – 10:00 a.m. | Chuck Long: TWP Vision |
| 10:00 – 10:30 a.m. | Break |
| 10:30 – 11:00 a.m. | Chidong Zhang: Roles of Atmospheric Radiation in the Large-Scale Circulation of the Equatorial Western Pacific |
| 11:00 – 11:30 a.m. | Richard Johnson: Multiscale Variability of Convection, Clouds, and Water Vapor Over the Equatorial Western Pacific |
| 11:30 – Noon | Renee McPherson: Southern Great Plains Land-Atmosphere Interaction: An Oklahoma Mesonet Perspective |
| Noon – 12:30 p.m. | James Shuttleworth: ARM and GEWEX Americas Prediction Project (GAPP): Synergy, Success, and Opportunity |
| 12:30 – 2:00 p.m. | Lunch |
| Breakout Sessions | |
| 2:00 – 2:50 p.m. | ARM Mobile Facility (AMF) Science Siting |
| 2:00 – 3:45 p.m. | NSA Experiment |
| 2:50 – 3:45 p.m. | UAV Science |
| 3:45 – 4:00 p.m. | Break |
| 4:00 -7:00 p.m. | Poster Session B |
| 5:30 – 7:00 p.m. | Poster Session Refreshments |
| 7:00 – 9:00 p.m. | Joint Meeting of WG Steering Committees
(Invitation Only) |
Thursday, April 3
| Time | Activity |
|---|---|
| 7:15 – 8:30 a.m. | Continental Breakfast |
| Poster Display Ends: All Posters Must Be Removed by 10 a.m. today | |
| 8:30 -12:30 p.m. | ARM Principal Investigator Reports |
| Moderators: Tom Ackerman and Wanda Ferrell | |
| Robert Cess: Testing the Impact of Clouds on the Radiation Budgets of 19 Atmospheric Circulation Models |
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| Jennifer Francis: Twenty Years of Surface Downward Longwave Fluxes in the Arctic from TOVS Data |
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| Evgueni Kassianov: Radiative Transfer in Broken Clouds: A Statistical Approach |
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| Steven Krueger: Observed and Simulated Cloud Types and Cloud Radiative Forcing for Case 3 |
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| Gerald Mace: Investigation of the Coupling Between the Large-Scale Atmospheric State and Cloud Properties. | |
| Robert Pincus: Progress on a New Cloud Parameterization That Accounts for Sub0Grid Scale Variability in Water |
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| Dave Randall: Further Tests of the Super-parameterization | |
| Kuan-Man Xu: The Use of Cloud-Resolving Models and ARM Data for Cloud Parameterization Development | |
| Minghua Zhang: Evaluation of Simulated Clouds in the NCAR CAM2 Against Observations and Its Relevance to the Cloud-Climate Feedback Problem |
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| 10:30 – 11:00 a.m. | Break |
| 12:30 – 1:30 p.m. | Lunch |
| Data Systems Orientation | |
| 1:30 – 5:00 p.m. | Cloud Properties Working Group
Cloud Parameterization and Modeling Working Group IRF Working Group |
| 6:00 – 8:30 p.m. | STEC Meeting |
Friday, April 4
| Time | Activity |
|---|---|
| 8:00 – 12:30 p.m. | STEC Meeting (Agenda TBD) |