March 14-18 | Daytona Beach, Florida | Hilton Daytona Beach/Ocean Walk Village
Meeting Highlights
The fifteenth annual ARM Science Team Meeting was held at the Hilton in Daytona Beach, Florida. Almost 300 participants from 10 countries traveled to this year’s meeting. Dr. Wanda Ferrell, ARM Program Manager, opened the plenary session on March 15 with statements regarding the Program’s accomplishments since the 2004 Science Team Meeting. In particular, Dr. Ferrell highlighted the completion of the ARM Mobile Facility, a successful infrastructure review, and the award of funding to nine new principal investigators. She also delivered the happy news of a proposed increase to the ARM science budget for 2006—the first increase in 10 years:
“An increase in the science budget is a reflection of the positive view that the Office of Science and the Office of Management and Budget have for the ARM Program,” said Dr. Ferrell.
Following Dr. Ferrell’s address, Dr. Tom Ackerman, ARM Chief Scientist, recapped his 6-year tenure with the ARM Program by comparing his first state-of-ARM presentation to that of 2005.
Meeting Agenda
Monday, March 14
| Time | Activity |
|---|---|
| 12:00 noon | Registration |
| 1:00 p.m.-3:00 p.m. | ARM Instantaneous Radiative Flux Working Group Meeting |
| 1:00 p.m.-5:00 p.m. | Mixed-Phase Arctic Cloud Experiment (M-PACE) |
| 3:15 p.m.-5:00 p.m. | Broadband Heating Rate Profile (BBHRP) |
| 3:15 p.m.-5:00 p.m. | Unmanned Aerospace Vehicle (UAV) Program |
| 1:00 p.m.-5:00 p.m. | Poster Setup |
| 6:00 p.m.-8:00 p.m. | No-host Social |
| 6:30 p.m.-7:30 p.m. | Tom Ackerman Recognition |
Tuesday, March 15
| Time | Activity |
|---|---|
| 7:15 a.m.-8:30 a.m. | Registration |
| 8:30 a.m.-10:15 a.m. | Morning Plenary: State of ARM |
| 8:30 a.m. – 8:45 a.m.Wanda Ferrell: Science Director Presentation
8:45 a.m. – 9:15 a.m. Tom Ackerman: State of ARM 9:15 a.m. – 9:45 a.m. Greg McFarquhar: Cloud Properties Working Group Report 9:45 a.m. – 10:15 a.m. Tony DelGenio: Cloud Parameterization and Modeling Working Group Report |
|
| 10:15 a.m.-10:45 a.m. | Break |
| 10:45 a.m. – 12:30 p.m. | State of ARM Plenary Continues |
| 10:45 a.m. – 11:30 a.m.Hans Verlinde: M-PACE Overview
11:30 a.m. – 12:00 p.m. Jim Mather: Tropical Warm Pool – International Cloud Experiment (TWP-ICE) Plans 12:00 p.m. – 12:30 p.m. Mark Miller: ARM Mobile Facility (AMF) Plans |
|
| 12:30 p.m.-2:00 p.m. | Lunch |
| 2:00 p.m.-3:45 p.m. | Formal Poster Presentations |
| 2:00 p.m.John Dykema: Confronting Models with ARM Data: A Statistical Comparison of Southern Great Plains Atmospheric Emitted Radiance Interferometer (AERI) Radiance Spectra and Global Climate Model (GCM) Output
2:15 p.m. Zena Kogan: Analysis of Scale Dependence of Stratiform Clouds Variability Based on Millimeter-Wave Radar Data 2:30 p.m. Roger Marchand: A Bootstrap Technique for Testing the Relationship Between Local-Scale Radar Occurrence and Large-Scale Atmospheric Fields 2:45 p.m. Mark Miller: Influence of Atmospheric Stability on the Cloud Drop Effective Radius Sensing Determined by Ground-Based Remote Sensing 3:00 p.m. Michele Nordeen: Comparison of Surface and Satellite-Derived Cloud and Radiation Properties at the ARM Southern Great Plains and Tropical Western Pacific Sites 3:15 p.m. Ewan O’Connor: An Objective Scheme for Deriving Cloud Parameters from ARM Observations and Evaluating the Performance of Operational Numerical Weather Prediction (NWP) Models 3:30 p.m. Paquita Zuidema: A New Look at Tropical Middle-Troposphere Clouds |
|
| 3:45 p.m.-4:00 p.m. | Break |
| 4:00 p.m.- 7:00 p.m. | Poster Session A |
| 5:30 p.m.-7:00 p.m. | Poster Session Refreshments |
| 7:00 p.m.-9:00 p.m. | Randy Peppler: Data Quality Meeting |
Wednesday, March 16
| Time | Activity |
|---|---|
| 7:15 a.m.-8:30 a.m. | Registration |
| 8:30 a.m.-10:45 a.m. | Morning Plenary |
| 8:30 a.m. – 9:15 a.m.Bill Collins: Radiative Forcing by Well-Mixed Greenhouse Gases – Estimates from Global Climate Models in the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change
(IPCC) AR4 9:15 a.m. – 10:00 a.m. Jerry Harrington: Arctic Mixed-Phase Clouds and Ice Nuclei – A Delicate Balance 10:00 a.m. – 10:45 a.m. Michael Tjernström: So What is So Special About Arctic Clouds? |
|
| 10:45 a.m.-11:15 a.m. | Break |
| 11:15 a.m. – 12:30 p.m. | Morning Plenary Continues |
| 11:15 a.m. – 11:50 a.m.Peter Lamb: The West African Monsoon System and African Monsoon Multidisciplinary Analysis (AMMA)
11:50 a.m. – 12:30 p.m. Tony Slingo: The RADAGAST Project: Radiative Atmospheric Divergence Using the ARM Mobile Facility, Geostationary Earth Radiation Budget (GERB) Data, and AMMA Stations |
|
| 12:30 p.m.-2:00 p.m. | Lunch |
| 2:00 p.m.-3:45 p.m. | Afternoon Breakout Sessions |
| 2:00 p.m.-3:00 p.m.ARM Orientation for New Investigators
Diffuse Intensive Operational Period (IOP) Data Results and the Future 2007 Southern Great Plains (SGP) Cloud Experiment 2:00 p.m.-3:45 p.m. TWP-ICE Planning 3:00 p.m.-3:45 p.m. Clouds with Low Optical [Water] Depths (CLOWD) Working Group AMMA-AMF Discussions |
|
| 3:45 p.m.-4:00 p.m. | Break |
| 4:00 p.m.-7:00 p.m. | Poster Session B |
| 5:30 p.m.-7:00 p.m. | Poster Session Refreshments |
| 7:00 p.m.-9:00 p.m. | Joint Meeting of Working Group Steering Committees (Invitation Only) |
Thursday, March 17
| Time | Activity |
|---|---|
| 7:15 a.m.-8:20 a.m. | Registration Poster Display Ends: All Posters Must Be Removed by 10:00 a.m. Today |
| 8:20 a.m.-10:20 a.m. | Invited ARM Principal Investigator Reports Moderators: Tom Ackerman and Wanda Ferrell |
| 8:20 a.m.Christopher Doran: A Study of Factors Affecting the Cloud and Radiation Environments at Coastal and Inland Sites at the North Slope of Alaska
8:40 a.m. Robert Cahalan: Advances in Three-Dimensional Atmospheric Radiation: I3RC Toolbox, Interactive Aerosol Retrieval, and Cloud Inhomogeneity Parameterization 9:00 a.m. Peter Daum: Studies of Cloud Microphysical and Optical Properties 9:20 a.m. Anthony Davis: Three-Dimensional Radiative Transfer Simplified, with Cloud Modeling and Remote Sensing in Mind 9:40 a.m. Guosheng Liu: Determination of Large-Scale Cloud Ice Water Path and Profile by Combining Satellite High-Frequency Microwave Radiometer and Surface Cloud Radar Data 10:00 a.m. Dan Lubin: Determination of the Arctic Aerosol Direct and Indirect Radiative Effects from Six Years of ARM Data |
|
| 10:20 a.m.-10:50 a.m. | Break |
| 10:50 a.m.-12:30 p.m. | Invited ARM Principal Investigator Reports Continue |
| 10:50 a.m.Qilong Min: Cloud-Radiation Interactions and Photon Path Length Distribution
11:10 a.m. Robert Pincus: Accounting for Unresolved Spatial Variability in Large Scale Models: Development and Evaluation of a Statistical Cloud Parameterization 11:30 a.m. Beat Schmid: How Well Can We Measure the Vertical Profile of Tropospheric Aerosol Extinction? 11:50 a.m. Guang Zhang: From ARM Observations to GCM Improvement: An Example of Convection Parameterization Development for the NCAR Model CAM3 12:10 p.m. Judy Curry: Development of New Microphysical Parameterizations: Applications to Arctic and Tropical Clouds |
|
| 12:30 p.m.-1:30 p.m. | Lunch |
| 12:30 p.m.-1:30 p.m. | Raymond McCord: Data Systems Orientation |
| 1:30 p.m.-5:00 p.m. | Cloud Properties Working Group Meeting |
| 1:30 p.m.-5:00 p.m. | Cloud Parameterization and Modeling Working Group Meeting |
| 1:30 p.m.-5:00 p.m. | Aerosol Working Group Meeting |
| 5:00 p.m.-8:30 p.m. | Science Team Executive Committee (STEC) Meeting (Invitation Only) |
Friday, March 18
| Time | Activity |
|---|---|
| 8:30 a.m.-12:59 p.m. | STEC Meeting (Invitation Only) |