March 30 – April 3 | Louisville, Kentucky | Galt House, Louisville
Meeting Highlights
Held March 30 – April 3 at the Galt House in Louisville, Kentucky, the nineteenth Atmospheric Radiation Measurement (ARM) Program Science Team Meeting brought together ARM science researchers, ARM Climate Research Facility infrastructure members, and selected leading scientists. During the meeting, research progress and future direction for the ARM Climate Research Facility and science program was discussed.
Held annually since 1990, the ARM Science Team Meeting officially began on Tuesday with a plenary session, followed by a full schedule through Thursday of formal presentations by invited speakers and breakout sessions. Working group meetings and special focus meetings were held on Monday and Friday, including the ARM Chief Scientist’s Orientation for New and Current Principal Investigators. Poster session receptions were held on Tuesday and Wednesday evenings to review and discuss results emerging from cloud and radiation measurement and modeling research.
Presentations
Meeting Agenda
Monday, March 30
| Time |
Activity |
| Starting at 7:00 am |
Registration/Continental Breakfast
3rd floor of the Revue Tower |
| 9:00 am – 11:30 am |
Morning Sessions
ARM Orientation for New and Current PIs
- Warren Wiscombe: Chief Scientist’s Perspective (30 minutes)
- Jimmy Voyles: ARM Instruments (30 minutes)
- Jim Mather: Infrastructure (30 minutes)
- Raymond McCord: How to Get Data (30 minutes)
- Questions and Answers (30 minutes)
|
| 11:30 am – 1:00 pm |
Lunch Break |
| 1:00 pm – 6:00 pm |
Working Group Sessions
(All working group meetings will be held during this time.)
- 1:00 pm – 3:00 pm
Radiative Processes Working Group
- 1:00 pm – 3:00 pm
Aerosol Working Group
- 3:00 pm – 6:00 pm
Cloud Modeling Working Group
- 3:00 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 |
| 7:00 pm – 9:00 pm |
Breakout Session
- 7:00 pm – 9:00 pm
Vertical Velocity Focus Group
- 7:30 pm – 8:30 pm
Surface Heat Flux Study Group
|
Tuesday, March 31
| Time |
Activity |
| 7:15 am – 8:30 am |
Registration/Continental Breakfast |
| 8:00 am – 10:00 am |
Morning Plenary
Moderators: Bob Ellingson/Warren Wiscombe
- 8:00 am – 8:30 am
Dr. Kiran Alapaty, DOE ARM Science Program Director: Opening Welcome
Dr. Warren Wiscombe: ARM Chief Scientist Presentation
Research Reports from the Cloud Modeling Working Group
- 8:30 am – 8:50 am
Ann Fridlind: Cloud Modeling Working Group Report
- 8:50 am – 9:10 am
Tony Del Genio: The Role of Entrainment in the Transition from Shallow to Deep Convection
- 9:10 am – 9:30 am
Yanluan Lin: A New Ice Fall Speed Parameterization Considering Riming and Its Tests in the Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory (GFDL) Global Climate Model (GCM)
- 9:30 am – 9:50 am
Maike Alhgrimm: Evaluation of Shallow Convective Cloudiness Across European Centre for Medium-range Weather Forecasts (ECMWF) Model Cycles
- 9:50 am – 10:05 am
Jerome Fast: The Aerosol Modeling Testbed: A Community Tool to Objectively Evaluate Aerosol Process Modules
|
| 10:05 am – 10:30 am |
Break |
| 10:30 am – Noon |
Morning Plenary (Continued)
Research Reports from the Cloud Properties Working Group
- 10:30 am – 10:50 am
Matthew Shupe: Cloud Properties Working Group Report
- 10:50 am – 11:10 am
Jennifer Comstock: Cloud Properties and Radiative Heating Rates During the Tropical Warm Pool-International Cloud Experiment (TWP-ICE)
- 11:10 am – 11:30 am
Greg McFarquhar: Indirect and Semi-Direct Aerosol Campaign (ISDAC) Cloud Observations: A New Look at Arctic Clouds
- 11:30 am – 11:50 am
Pat Minnis: Advances in Satellite Cloud Retrievals for ARM
- 11:50 am – Noon
Questions/Wrap-up
|
| Noon – 1:00 pm |
Lunch Break |
| 1:00 pm – 3:00 pm |
Breakout Sessions
- ACRF Madden-Julian Oscillation (MJO) Investigation Experiment (AMIE)
- Indirect and Semi-Direct Aerosol Campaign (ISDAC)
- Precipitation Intensive Operational Period (IOP)/Modeling
- Small Particle in Cirrus (SPARTICUS) Planning
|
| 3:00 pm – 3:30 pm |
Break |
| 3:30 pm – 5:00 pm |
Breakout Sessions (Continued)
- SPARTICUS Planning (Continued)
- Routine AAF Clouds with Low Optical Water Depths Optical Observations (RACORO, SGP 2009)
- Tropical Warm Pool-International Cloud Experiment (TWP-ICE) Model Intercomparison
- Arctic Lower Troposphere Observed Structure (ALTOS)
|
| 5:00 pm – 5:30 pm |
Break |
| 5:00 pm – 5:30 pm |
Breakout Session
- 5:00 pm – 5:30 pm
Aerosol Observations/Modeling Discussions WRF-CHEM
|
| 5:30 pm – 8:30 pm |
Poster Session A
Refreshments will be served. |
Wednesday, April 1
| Time |
Activity |
| 7:15 am – 8:30 am |
Registration/Continental Breakfast |
| 8:00 am – 10:00 am |
Morning Plenary: Poster Presenters
- 8:00 am – 8:20 am
Terrance Critchlow: A Prototype for Value-Added Product (VAP) Development Using Workflow Technology
- 8:20 am – 8:40 am
Paquita Zuidema: Just How Dry are the Subtropics? On the Use of the ARM 183-GHz Radiometer for Characterizing Subtropical Stratocumulus Cloud Liquid Water Paths
- 8:40 am – 9:00 am
Virenda Ghate: Vertical Velocities in Continental Boundary Layer Stratocumulus Clouds
- 9:00 am – 9:20 am
Seoung-Soo Lee: Aerosol Effects on Liquid Water Path of Thin Stratocumulus Clouds
- 9:20 am – 9:40 am
Pete Lamb: Investigation of Southern Great Plains Atmospheric Moisture Budget for the Cloud Land Surface Interaction Campaign (CLASIC)
- 9:40 am – 10:00 am
Scott Collis: Updraft Characteristics of Convection During the Tropical Warm Pool-International Cloud Experiment (TWP-ICE) and Links to Microphysical Habits
|
| 10:00 am – 10:30 am |
Break |
| 10:30 am – Noon |
Morning Plenary (Continued)
- 10:30 am – 10:50 am
Hugh Morrison: A Novel Approach for Treating Ice Microphysics in Bulk and Bin Schemes: Application to the Tropical Warm Pool-International Cloud Experiment (TWP-ICE) Deep Convection
- 10:50 am – 11:10 am
Martial Haeffelin: Cirrus Cloud Radiative Forcing on Surface-level Shortwave and Longwave Irradiances at Regional and Global Scale
- 11:10 am – 11:30 am
Jay Mace: STORMVEX – The Storm Peak Lab Validation Experiment
- 11:30 am – 11:50 am
Valery Melnikov: Prospects of Cloud Volumes Imaging with the WSR-88D Radar
|
| Noon – 1:00 pm |
Lunch Break |
| 1:00 pm – 5:30 pm |
White Time, Poster Viewing
Special Session on Stimulus
- 2:00 pm – 3:00 pm
Dr. Warren Wiscombe: Impacts of the Stimulus Package for ARM Science Goals and for the Science Plan
- 3:00 pm – 4:00 pm
ARM Working Group Chairs: Creating Higher-Level Data Products from the New Stimulus Package Observations: Which Ones and With What Priority?
|
| 5:30 pm – 8:30 pm |
Poster Session B
Refreshments will be served. |
| 8:00 pm – 9:30 pm |
Breakout Session
- ARM Mobile Facility (AMF) China
|
Thursday, April 2
| Time |
Activity |
| 7:15 am – 8:30 am |
Registration/Continental Breakfast |
| 8:00 am – 10:15 am |
Morning Plenary: Invited Speakers
Retrospective and Prospective on ARM Mobile Facility Deployments
- 8:00 am – 8:45 am
Volker Wulfmeyer: The Convective and Orographically Induced Precipitation Study (COPS), Germany: Initiation of Convection and the Microphysical Properties of Clouds in Orographic Terrain
- 8:45 am – 9:30 am
Mark Miller: Radiative Atmospheric Divergence using AMF, GERB, and AMMA Stations (RADAGAST) Reprise: New Findings from West Africa
- 9:30 am – 10:15 am
Graham Feingold: Cloud, Radiation, and Drizzle Studies from the 2005 Pt. Reyes, California, Deployment
|
| 10:15 am – 10:45 am |
Break |
| 10:45 am – Noon |
Morning Plenary (Continued)
- 10:45 am – 11:20 am
Robert Wood: Clouds, Aerosol, and Precipitation in the Marine Boundary Layer: The AMF Azores Deployment 2009/2010
- 11:20 am – 11:55 am
Zhanqing Li: Aerosol and Climate Under the Hazy Condition of China
|
| Noon – 1:00 pm |
Lunch Break |
| 1:00 pm – 3:00 pm |
Breakout Sessions
- Radar Focus Group
- Clouds, Aerosol, and Precipitation in the Marine Boundary Layer: AMF Azores Deployment 2009/2010
- Scientific Applications of the Convective and Orographically Induced Precipitation Study (COPS) Data Set
- ARM-China: The Impact of Heavy Aerosols on Climate
|
| 3:00 pm – 3:30 pm |
Break |
| 3:30 pm – 5:00 pm |
Breakout Sessions (Continued)
- ARM-China: The Impact of Heavy Aerosols on Climate (Continued)
- Storm Peak Lab Validation Experiment (STORMVEX) Planning
|
Friday, April 3
| Time |
Activity |
| 8:00 am – 4:30 pm |
Science and Infrastructure Steering Committee (SISC) Meeting—Invitation Only |
