2004 Annual Meeting Agenda

2004 ANNUAL MEETING OF THE NOAA CLIMATE MONITORING AND DIAGNOSTICS LABORATORY

Boulder, Colorado
May 26 and May 27

David Skaggs Research Building, Room GC 401
325 Broadway

Directions from Denver International Airport

AGENDA

Wednesday, May 26

TIME TOPIC
   
0830-0835 Welcome and Introduction - D. Hofmann
0835-0920 Keynote Addres: The NOAA Climate Research Program - C.J. (Chet) Koblinsky (NOAA Office of Climate Programs, Director)
   
  Session 1: Global Observations - R. Schnell
   
0920-0940 Recent Trends in the Growth Rate of Atmospheric Carbon Dioxide – P.P. Tans (CMDL)
0940-1000 On the Relation Between Atmospheric Carbonyl Sulfide and Carbon Dioxide – S.A. Montzka (CMDL)
1000-1020 Effects of Cloud Scavenging on Aerosol Single-Scattering Albedo – J.A. Ogren (CMDL)
   
1020-1040 Break
   
  Session 2: Global Observations (Continued) - E. Dutton
   
1040-1100 Potential Decadal Variations in Surface Solar Irradiance – E.G. Dutton (CMDL)
1100-1120 Trends in Tropospheric Ozone – S.J. Oltmans (CMDL)
1120-1140 New CMDL International Programs – R.C. Schnell (CMDL)
1140-1200 Variation in the Global Direct Radiative Climate Forcing by Well-Mixed Greenhouse Gases Over the Past 25 Years – D.J. Hofmann (CMDL)
   
1200-1300 Lunch
   
  Session 3: Carbon Cycle Greenhouse Gases – P.P. Tans
   
1300-1320 Influences on the Growth Rate of Atmospheric Methane – E.J. Dlugokencky (CMDL)
1320-1340 Global Warming Feedbacks from Methane Bubbling Along Expanding North Siberian Lake Margins – K.M. Walter (Institute of Arctic Biology)
1340-1400 The CMDL Cooperative Global Air Sampling Network: Expansion and Recent Results – T.J. Conway. (CMDL)
   
1400-1420 Break
   
  Session 4: Carbon Cycle Greenhouse Gases (Continued) – P.P. Tans
   
1420-1440 Measurements of CO2 Mixing Ratio In and Above the PBL Over the Forest Area in Siberia – T. Machida (NIES, Japan)
1440-1500 Accuracy of CO2 Emissions Estimates for the United States – T.J. Blasing (Oak Ridge Nat. Lab.)
1500-1520 Estimating Monthly Gridscale CO2 Fluxes Using a Geostatistical Inverse Modeling Approach –
A.M. Michalak (UCAR Postdoctoral Fellow)
1520-1540 Regional CO2 Flux Estimates for North America – W. Peters (CIRES, CMDL)
   
1540-1545 Award Presentation
   
1600-1830 Poster Session (Room GB-124)

Thursday, May 27

TIME TOPIC
  Session 5: Ozone and Water Vapor – S.J. Oltmans
   
0830-0850 GTN-P Monitoring Network: Detection of a 3°C Permafrost Warming in Northern Alaska During the 1990s – G.D. Clow (U.S. Geological Survey)
0850-0910 Southern Hemisphere Additional Ozonesondes (SHADOZ): Data Quality and Characteristics of Tropical Ozone Behavior – S.J. Oltmans (CMDL)
0910-0930 Boundary-Layer Ozone Production at South Pole, Antarctica – D. Helmig (University of Colorado, INSTAAR, PAOS)
0930-0950 Accuracy and Performance Requirements for Frostpoint Hygrometers in Trend Detection and Network Operations – H. Vömel (CIRES, CMDL)
   
0950-1020 Break
   
  Session 6: Aerosols and Radiation – J.A. Ogren
   
1020-1040 Correlated Trends in Western Arctic Snow Cover and Sea Ice Distribution – R.S. Stone
(CIRES, CMDL)
1040-1100 Observation of Enhanced Water Vapor in the Asian Dust Layer and Its Effect on the Atmospheric
Radiative Heating and Cooling Rates – S.-W. Kim (Seoul National Univ.)
1100-1120 Dynamics of Mercury in the Barrow Springtime Polar Environment – S.B. Brooks (NOAA ATD,
Oak Ridge, TN)
1120-1140 Tests of Long-Term Stability in IMPROVE Trend Measurements – W.H. White (Crocker Nuclear Lab., University of California, Davis)
   
1140-1300 Lunch
   
  Session 7: Global Observations and Related Topics – E.G. Dutton and R.C. Schnell
   
1300-1320 Using Trajectories as an Air Transport Database for Studies of Atmospheric Monitoring – J. Zeng
(NIES, Japan)
1320-1340 Mt. Kenya GAW Station Setup and Initial Results – J.K. Rotich (Kenya Meteorological Dept.)
1340-1400 Station Report: GEOSummit, the Greenland Environmental Observatory – J.F. Burkhart
(GEOSummit, University of California, Merced)
1400-1420 Transcontinental Observations into the Chemistry of the Atmosphere (TROICA): Main Results
and Prospects – N.F. Elansky (A.M. Obukhov Institute of Atmospheric Physics, Russia)
1420-1440 Quality Assurance/Science Activity Centre Germany as Part of WMO/GAW: Overview on Structure and Responsibilities – K. Mannschreck (UFS Schneefernerhaus, Germany)
   
1440-1500 Break
   
  Session 8: Halocarbons and N2O – J.H. Butler
   
1500-1520 Monthly Regional Estimates of the Global N2O Surface Flux from 1997-2001 – A. Hirsch
(CIRES, CMDL)
1520-1540 Improvements in N2O Calibration of Secondary Compressed Gas Standards – B.D. Hall (CMDL)
1540-1600 A Significant and Substantial Decrease in Tropospheric Organic Bromine – J.H. Butler (CMDL)
1600-1620 Persistent Emissions of Halocarbons in the United States of America and Canada – D.F. Hurst
(CIRES, CMDL)
1620-1640 Development of In Situ Gas Chromatograph – Mass Selective Detector for the Purpose of Measuring Long-Range Pollution Transport from Asia – J.L. Neu (NRC Fellow)