2002 Annual Meeting Agenda

2002 ANNUAL MEETING OF THE NOAA CLIMATE MONITORING AND DIAGNOSTICS LABORATORY

Boulder, Colorado
May 21 and 22

David Skaggs Research Building, Room GC 401
325 Broadway

AGENDA

Tuesday, May 21

TIME TOPIC
   
0850-0900 D. Hofmann - Welcome and Introduction
   
  Session 1 Observatory Topics - E. Dutton
(Presenter's name only is given, see abstract for complete author listing)
0900-0920 A New Baseline Observatory - Trinidad Head - R. Schnell (CMDL)
0920-0940 The WMO Global Atmosphere Watch - M. Profitt (WMO)
0940-1000 Australia-New Zealand SOLAS Planning: Proposed Experiments Including Those Off Cape Grim -
N. Tindale (Australia)
   
1000-1030 Break
   
  Session 2 Ozone - S. Oltmans
1030-1050 Effects of Total Ozone, Albedo and Clouds on Biologically Relevant UV Levels at Barrow - G. Bernhard (Biospherical Instruments Inc.)
1050-1110 Long-Term Trends in Ozone from Dobson and Satellite Data - J. Harris (CMDL)
1110-1130 Ozone Profiles Measured at South Pole Station During the 2001 Ozone Hole - B. Johnson (CMDL)
   
1130-1300 Lunch
   
  Session 3 Aerosols - J. Ogren
1300-1320 A 3-Year Record of Simultaneously Measured Aerosol Chemical and Optical Properties at Barrow, Alaska - P. Quinn (NOAA-PMEL)
1320-1340 The Complex Relationship Between Calcium and Nitrate in Asian Outflow - B. Huebert (Univ. of Hawaii)
1340-1400 Size and Compositionally Resolved Aerosols at Mauna Loa Observatory During ACE-Asia, Spring, 2001 -T. Cahill (Univ. of Calif.)
1400-1420 Carbon Isotope Measurements of Different Carbon Species (OC and EC) in Aerosols: Method Development and Application to Pacific 2001 Campaign (Preliminary Results) - L. Huang (Meteorological Service of Canada)
1420-1440 CMDL Aerosol Measurements at Trinidad Head, California - B. Andrews (CMDL)
 
1440-1500 Break
   
1500-1520 Aerosol Specification within MODTRAN: Suitability/Flexibility for NOAA Requirements - G. Anderson (CMDL)
1520-1540 Boundary Layer Aerosol Measurements with a CCD Camera Lidar - J. Barnes (CMDL-MLO)
1540-1600 Influences of Temperature, Wind, and Snow Cover on the Oxidation of Mercury at Barrow Observatory -
G. McConville (CMDL-BRW)
   
1600-1800 Poster Session

Wednesday, May 22

TIME TOPIC
  Session 4 Carbon Cycle - P. Tans
0830-0850 Has the Global Methane Burden Reached Steady State? - E.J. Dlugokencky (CMDL)
0850-0910 Global Average CO2: 370 ppm, and Rising - T. Conway (CMDL)
0910-0930 Contributions of Emissions from Biomass Burning in High Northern Latitudes to Interannual Variations in Atmospheric CO2, CH4, and CO - E.J. Hyer (Univ. of Maryland)
0930-0950 Constraining Methane Flux Estimates Using Atmospheric Observations of d13CH4 - S. Mikaloff Fletcher (CMDL)
   
0950-1010 Break
   
  Session 5 Halocarbons - J. Elkins
1010-1030 Halocarbon Production by Tomato Plants - D. King (CMDL)
1030-1050 Updated Trends for Halocarbons from Ground-Based Measurements - S. Montzka (CMDL)
1050-1110 U.S. and European Emissions of Montreal Protocol-Targeted Gases - D.H. Barnes (Harvard Univ.)
1110-1130 Establishing a Niwot Ridge Air Archive from HATS Calibration Standards - B. Hall (CMDL)
   
1130-1300 Lunch
   
  Session 5 Research Group Overviews - D. Hofmann
1300-1315 Introduction - D. Hofmann (CMDL)
1315-1345 Carbon Cycle Greenhouse Gases Overview - P. Tans (CMDL)
1345-1415 Observations of the Climate Forcing Properties of Aerosols - J. Ogren (CMDL)
1415-1445 CMDL Solar and Thermal Atmospheric Radiation (STAR) Project - E.G. Dutton (CMDL)
   
1445-1515 Break
   
1515-1545 Recent Research Developments in the Ozone and Water Vapor Group - S. Oltmans (CMDL)
1545-1615 An Overview of the Halocarbons and other Atmospheric Trace Species (HATS) Group - J. Elkins (CMDL)
1615-1715 Observatory Operations: Present and Future - R. Schnell (CMDL)
   
1730-1900 Director's Award Ceremony and BBQ Dinner (David Skaggs Research Center Cafeteria)