2003 ARM Science Team Meeting
March 31 - April 4 | Broomfield, Colorado | Omni Interlocken Resort
Meeting Highlights
The Thirteenth Annual ARM Science Team Meeting was held at the Omni Interlocken Resort in Broomfield, Colorado. A near-record attendance of more than 270 scientists and researchers, including 54 international scientists representing 20 foreign countries, participated in a series of plenary and poster sessions, and working group meetings.
During the opening plenary session, DOE's Office of Biological Environmental Research's Wanda Ferrell, ARM Science Director, thanked the scientists for their expertise and ingenuity, which contributed in fiscal year 2002 to improvements to climate model parameterizations as well as to site data systems, and which resulted in 158 publications in the fiscal year that featured ARM research. Tom Ackerman delivered a "State of ARM" presentation, which included a preview of a new ARM Science Plan to advance the scientific agenda of ARM for the ensuing 5 years.
Key Presentations
- "The U.S. Climate Change Science Program Strategic Plan" presented by Susan K. Avery, Director, Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences and Climate Change Science Program, (pdf, 1.05M).
- "ARM 2003" presented by Tom Ackerman, ARM Chief Scientist, (pdf, 1.7M).
Meeting Agenda
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Monday, March 31
Time Activity 12:00 noon Registration 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Aerosol Working Group Meeting 1 p.m.-2:30 p.m. BBHRP / Cloud Microphysics 2:30 p.m.-5 p.m Cloud / IRF Liquid Water Measurements 1 p.m.-5 p.m Poster Setup 6 p.m.-8 p.m. No-host Social -
Tuesday, April 1
Time Activity 7:15 a.m -8:30 a.m. Registration/Continental Breakfast ARM Program Review Moderators: Tom Ackerman and Bob Ellingson 8:30 a.m.-8:45 a.m. Wanda Ferrell: Program View of ARM 8:45 a.m.-9:45 a.m. Jim Mahoney: U.S. Climate Change Science Program Strategic Plan 9:45 a.m.-10:20 a.m. Tom Ackerman: State of ARM 10:20 a.m.-10:50 a.m. Break 10:50 a.m.-11:20 a.m. Rich Ferrare: Aerosol Experiment 11:20 a.m.-11:50 a.m. Bob Ellingson: UAV Experiment 11:50 a.m.-12:30 p.m. Working Group Summaries Greg McFarquhar: Cloud Properties Minghua Zhang and Tony Delgenio: Cloud Parameterization and Modeling 12:30 p.m.-2 p.m. Lunch 2 p.m.-3:45 p.m. Formal Poster Presentations Moderators: Tony Delgenio, Greg McFarquhar, and Minghua Zhang Comstock, J.M.: Evaluation of Tropical Cirrus
Cloud Properties and Dynamical Processes Derived from ECMWF Model Output
and Ground-Based Measurements Over Nauru IslandGordon, N.D.: Physical Characteristics of Sub-Grid
Scale CloudinessIziomon, M.G.: Investigation of Aerosol Semi-Direct
Effect at the ARM Southern Great PlainsKollias, P.: Six-Year Climatology of Continental
Stratus-Boundary Layer and Macroscopic Cloud CharacteristicsOreopoulos, L.: Treatments of Inhomogeneous Clouds
in a GCM Radiation Model (GRM)Shupe, M.D.: Mixed Phase Cloud Retrievals from Doppler Spectra Zhu, P.: A Simulation of Shallow Moist Convection
and Its Impact on the Atmospheric-Boundary Layer3:45 p.m.-4 p.m. Break 4 p.m.- 7 p.m. Poster Session A 5:30 p.m.-7 p.m. Poster Session Refreshments -
Wednesday, April 2
Time Activity 7:15 a.m.-8:30 a.m. Registration/Continental Breakfast Site Vision and Science Moderators: Peter Lamb, Chuck Long, and Hans Verlinde 8 a.m.-8:30 a.m. Hans Verlinde: NSA Vision 8:30 a.m.-9:30 a.m. Judy Curry: Aerosonde Experiments at the NSA
Site9 a.m.-9:30 a.m. Taneil Uttal: NOAA SEARCH Project 9:30 a.m.-10 a.m. Chuck Long: TWP Vision 10 a.m.-10:30 a.m. Break 10:30 a.m.-11 a.m. Chidong Zhang: Roles of Atmospheric Radiation
in the Large-Scale Circulation of the Equatorial Western Pacific11 a.m.-11:30 a.m. Richard Johnson: Multiscale Variability of Convection,
Clouds, and Water Vapor Over the Equatorial Western Pacific11:30 a.m.-12 p.m. Renee McPherson: Southern Great Plains Land-Atmosphere
Interaction: An Oklahoma Mesonet Perspective12 p.m.-12:30 p.m. James Shuttleworth: ARM and GEWEX Americas Prediction
Project (GAPP): Synergy, Success, and Opportunity12:30 p.m.-2 p.m. Lunch Breakout Sessions 2 p.m.-2:50 p.m. ARM Mobile Facility (AMF) Science Siting 2 p.m.-3:45 p.m. NSA Experiment 2:50 p.m.-3:45 p.m. UAV Science 3:45 p.m.-4 p.m. Break 4 p.m.-7 p.m. Poster Session B 5:30 p.m.-7 p.m. Poster Session Refreshments 7 p.m.-9 p.m. Joint Meeting of WG Steering Committees
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Thursday, April 3
Time Activity 7:15 a.m.-8:30 a.m. Continental Breakfast Poster Display Ends: All Posters Must Be Removed by 10 a.m. today 8:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m. ARM Principal Investigator Reports Moderators: Tom Ackerman and Wanda Ferrell Robert Cess: Testing the Impact of Clouds on
the Radiation Budgets of 19 Atmospheric Circulation ModelsJennifer Francis: Twenty Years of Surface Downward
Longwave Fluxes in the Arctic from TOVS DataEvgueni Kassianov: Radiative Transfer in Broken
Clouds: A Statistical ApproachSteven Krueger: Observed and Simulated Cloud
Types and Cloud Radiative Forcing for Case 3Gerald Mace: Investigation of the Coupling Between the Large-Scale Atmospheric State and Cloud Properties. Robert Pincus: Progress on a New Cloud Parameterization
That Accounts for Sub0Grid Scale Variability in WaterDave Randall: Further Tests of the Super-parameterization Kuan-Man Xu: The Use of Cloud-Resolving Models and ARM Data for Cloud Parameterization Development Minghua Zhang: Evaluation of Simulated Clouds
in the NCAR CAM2 Against Observations and Its Relevance to the Cloud-Climate
Feedback Problem10:30 a.m.-11 a.m. Break 12:30 p.m.-1:30 p.m. Lunch Data Systems Orientation 1:30 p.m.-5 p.m. Cloud Properties Working Group
Cloud Parameterization and Modeling Working Group
IRF Working Group6 p.m.-8:30 p.m. STEC Meeting -
Friday, April 4
Time Activity 8 a.m.-12:30 p.m. STEC Meeting (Agenda TBD)