March 27-18 | Albuquerque, New Mexico | Hyatt Regency
Meeting Highlights
Just over 300 ARM scientists and ARM Climate Research Facility infrastructure staff took part in the sixteenth ARM Science Team meeting held in Albuquerque, New Mexico, on March 27-31, 2006. After an initial day of focused meetings among the ARM Working Groups, Dr. David Thomassen, Acting Associate Director of DOE’s Office of Biological and Environmental Research (BER), opened the meeting’s plenary session with remarks about the role of ARM within the DOE, and its reputation as a world-class research program. The weeklong meeting was devoted to invited presentations, plus in-depth evening sessions to review the 178 posters prepared by principal investigators and infrastructure staff for onsite discussions.
This annual gathering provides an opportunity for members of the ARM Science Team and ARM Facility staff to engage in focused technical exchanges to review scientific findings and results, as well as to discuss implementation and operation of the ARM Facility. The event also provides a forum for other agency programs to gain familiarity with the ARM Program, to share goals and objectives, and to suggest collaborations of mutual interest. Scientists representing 10 different countries, from the United States to Africa, Germany, and the Netherlands, attended this year’s meeting.
Proceedings
Meeting Agenda
Monday, March 27
| Time |
Activity |
| 8:00 a.m. |
Registration |
| 8:30 a.m. – 11:30 |
ARM Orientation for New and Current PIs |
| 11:30 am – 1:00 pm |
Lunch |
| 1:00 pm – 5:00 pm |
Working Group Sessions
(All working group meetings will be held during this time)
- 1:00 pm – 5:00 pm
Joint Meeting of Instantaneous Radiative Flux (IRF) and Clouds with Low Optical [Water] Depths [CLOWD] Working Groups
- 1:00 pm – 5:00 pm
Aerosol Working Group (AWG) and Aerosol Lidar Validation Experiment (ALIVE)
- 1:30 pm – 5:00 pm
Cloud Parameterization and Modeling (CPM) Working Group
- 1:30 pm – 5:00 pm
Cloud Properties Working Group
|
| 1:00 pm – 6:00 pm |
Poster Setup |
| 5:30 pm – 7:30 pm |
No-host Social |
Tuesday, March 28
| Time |
Activity |
| 7:15 a.m. – 8:30 a.m. |
Registration |
| 8:30 a.m. – 10:00 a.m. |
Morning Plenary |
|
8:30 a.m. – 8:45 a.m.
Moderators: Bob Ellingson/Warren Wiscombe
- Dr. Wanda Ferrell, DOE ARM Program Manager: Opening Welcome
- 8:00 am – 8:30 am
Dr. David Thomassen, Acting Associate Director of DOE’s Office of Biological and Environmental Research
- 8:30 am – 9:00 am
Warren Wiscombe: Chief Scientist Talk
- 9:00 am – 9:20 am
Bob Ellingson: Instantaneous Radiative Flux (IRF) Working Group Report
- 9:20 am – 9:40 am
Beat Schmid: Aerosol Working Group (AWG) Report
- 9:40 am – 10:00 am
Steve Ghan: Aerosol Indirect Effect Report
|
| 10:00 a.m.-10:30 a.m. |
Break |
| 10:45 a.m. – 12:30 p.m. |
Morning Plenary (Continued) |
|
Research Reports from the IRF Working Group
- 10:30 am – 10:45 am
Christine Chiu: Retrieving Cloud Optical Depth from Zenith Radiance Observations; Examples from Pt. Reyes ARM Mobile Facility
- 10:45 am – 11:00 am
Ed Westwater: Radiosonde and Radiometer Comparisons from the 2004 North Slope of Alaska Winter Radiometric Experiment
- 11:00 am – 11:15 am
Dave Turner: Clouds with Low Liquid Water Path: An Update from CLOWD
Research Reports from the AWG
- 11:15 am – 11:30 am
Richard Ferrare: Aerosol Properties over the ARM Southern Great Plains (SGP)—Measured versus Modeled
- 11:30 am – 11:45 am
John Ogren: New Insights into Aerosol Asymmetry Parameter
- 11:45 am – Noon
Graham Feingold: Remote Sensing of Aerosol Hygroscopicity and Aerosol-Cloud Interactions
|
| 12:00 p.m. – 1:30 p.m. |
Lunch |
| 1:30 p.m.-3:00 p.m. |
Breakout Sessions
- Aerosol Indirect Effects
- Mixed-Phase Arctic Cloud Experiment (MPACE)
- Broadband Heating Rate Profile (BBHRP)
|
| 3:00 pm – 3:30 pm |
Break |
| 3:30 pm – 5:00 pm |
Afternoon Plenary
- 3:30 pm – 4:00 pm
Jim Mather: Tropical Warm Pool International Cloud Experiment (TWP-ICE)
- 4:00 pm – 4:30 pm
Mark Miller: ARM Mobile Facility
- 4:30 pm – 5:00 pm
Eli Mlawer: Broadband Heating Rate Profile (BBHRP)
|
| 5:00 pm – 5:30 pm |
Break |
| 5:30 pm – 8:30 pm |
Poster Session A |
Wednesday, March 29
| Time |
Activity |
| 7:15 a.m.-8:30 a.m. |
Registration |
| 8:30 a.m.-10:00 a.m. |
Morning Plenary |
|
- 8:00 am – 8:15 am
Qing Yue: Interpretation of AIRS Data in Thin Cirrus Atmospheres Based on a Fast Radiative Transfer Model and ARM Data
- 8:15 am – 8:30 am
Ross Mitchell: Discrimination Between Thin Cirrus and Tropospheric Aerosol Using Multiple Measurements from Darwin ARCS
- 8:30 am – 8:45 am
Michael Jensen: Observations of Tropical Clouds from the Upgraded MMCR at Darwin and Comparisons with C-Pol and Satellite Observations
- 8:45 am – 9:00 am
John Haynes: Properties of Tropical Convection Observed by ARM Millimeter-Radars
- 9:00 am – 9:15 am
Sally McFarlane: Analysis of Tropical Radiative Heating Profiles in the Multi-Scale Modeling Framework: A Comparison to ARM Observations
- 9:15 am – 9:30 am
Roel Neggers (ECMWF postdoc & ARM fellow): A Dual Mass Flux Framework for Boundary Layer Convection
- 9:30 am – 9:45 am
Anne Jefferson: Preliminary Results of in-situ Measurements of Aerosol Optical and Water Uptake Properties from the ARM Mobile Facility in Niger
- 9:45 am – 10:00 am
Ken Kehoe: ARM Data Quality Office – Real-Time Assessment of Instrument Performance
|
| 10:00 a.m.-10:30 a.m. |
Break |
| 10:30 a.m. – 12:00 p.m. |
Morning Plenary Continued |
- 10:30 am – 10:45 am
Joseph Berry: Spatially Distributed CO2, Sensible, and Latent Heat Fluxes Over the Southern Great Plains
- 10:45 am – 11:00 am
Diana Petty: Atmospheric Radiation Measurement Program Raman Lidar at Southern Great Plains: Performance and New Measurement Capabilities
- 11:00 am – 11:15 am
Maria Cadeddu: Measurements and Retrievals from a New 183-GHz Water Vapor Radiometer in the Arctic
- 11:15 am – 11:30 am
Junshik Um: Determination of Thermodynamic Cloud Phase and Dominant Ice Crystal Habit from Radiance Measurements
- 11:30 am – 11:45 am
Paul DeMott: Ice Nuclei Variability and Ice Formation in Mixed-Phase Clouds
- 11:45 am – Noon
Ann Fridlind: Using Field Measurements and Numerical Simulations to Constrain Mechanisms of Ice Formation During the M-PACE IOP
|
| 12:00 p.m .- 1:00 p.m. |
Lunch |
| 1:00 pm – 5:30 pm |
No Meetings – White Time, Poster Viewing |
| 5:30 pm – 8:30 pm |
Poster Session B
|
Thursday, March 30
| Time |
Activity |
| 7:15 a.m.-8:20 a.m. |
Registration |
| 8:00 a.m.-10:00 a.m. |
Breakout Sessions (90-Minute Blocks) |
|
- 8:30 am – 10:00 am
Tropical Warm Pool International Cloud Experiment (TWP-ICE)
- 8:30 am – 10:00 am
ARM Mobile Facility
|
| 10:00 a.m.-10:30 a.m. |
Break |
| 10:30 a.m.-12:00 p.m. |
Breakout Sessions (Continued) |
|
- 10:30 am – Noon
Cloud Land Surface Interaction Campaign (CLASIC)
- 10:30 am – Noon
Atmospheric Radiation Measurement-Unmanned Aerospace Vehicle (ARM-UAV) Program
|
| 12:00 p.m.-1:30 p.m. |
Lunch |
| 1:30 p.m.-4:00 p.m. |
Afternoon Plenary |
|
- 1:30 pm – 2:00 pm
Venkatachalam Ramaswamy: Modeling of Radiative Forcing and Climate Change at GFDL: A Perspective
- 2:00 pm – 2:30 pm
Chris Bretherton: The Cloud Feedbacks Climate Process Team (CPT): Analyzing and Improving Cloud Process Parameterizations in Climate Models
- 2:30 pm – 3:00 pm
Pavlos Kollias: Future ARM Radar Systems Designed to Validate Aspects of Cloud Resolving Models
- 3:00 pm – 3:30 pm
Volker Wulfmeyer: The Convective and Orographically-induced Precipitation Study (COPS): A Unique Application of the ARM Mobile Facility
|
| 5:00 p.m.-9:00 p.m. |
Science Team Executive Committee (STEC) Meeting |
Friday, March 31
| Time |
Activity |
| 8:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m. |
Science Team Executive Committee (STEC) Meeting (Continued) |
