Fall 2010 ASR Working Group Meeting, Boulder, Colorado
Thursday, October 14
Thursday, October 14
| 1:30 p.m.–1:45 p.m. | Welcome Del Genio/Shupe |
| 1:45 p.m.–2:00 p.m. | Department of Energy (DOE) Comments Alapaty/Williamson |
| 2:00 p.m.–2:15 p.m. | Intro to Cloud Lifecycle Working Group (CLWG) Science Del Genio/Shupe |
| 2:15 p.m.–3:00 p.m. | Clouds in General Circulation Models (GCM) Rich Neale |
| 3:00 p.m.–3:15 p.m. | Coffee break |
| 3:30 p.m.–4:00 p.m. | Synoptic classification and cloud structure Tom Ackerman |
| 4:00 p.m.–4:30 p.m. | American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA)/Infrastructure status Voyles/Mather |
| 4:30 p.m.–5:00 p.m. | Scanning W-Band (95 GHz) ARM Cloud Radar (SWACR) observations at the Azores and Southern Great Plains (SGP) – Lessons learned and their application to future SACR sampling strategies and products Albrecht/Kollias |
| 5:00 p.m.–5:30 p.m. | Discussion of goals for meeting and charge to breakouts Del Genio/Shupe |
| 5:30 p.m.–7:00 p.m. | Dinner break |
| 7:00 p.m.–8:30 p.m. | Evening Breakout: Midlatitude Continental Convective Clouds Experiment (MC3E) Breakout Facilitator: Jensen |
Friday, October 15
| 8:00 a.m.–10:00 a.m. | Breakout #1: Deep Convection Facilitator: Krueger |
| 8:00 a.m.–10:00 a.m. | Breakout #2: Low Clouds and Boundary Layer Facilitator: Klein |
| 8:00 a.m.–10:00 a.m. | Breakout #3: Cloud Properties Data Products Facilitator: Xie |
| 10:00 a.m.–10:30 p.m. | Coffee break |
| 10:30 p.m.–12:00 p.m. | Breakout #1 (cont.): Deep Convection Facilitator: Krueger |
| 10:30 a.m.–12:00 p.m. | Breakout #2 (cont.): Low Clouds and Boundary Layer Facilitator: Klein |
| 10:30 a.m.–10:00 a.m. | Breakout #4: Cirrus/High Clouds Facilitator: Comstock |
| 12:00 p.m.–1:30 p.m. | Lunch |
| 1:30 p.m.–3:30 p.m. | Breakout #1 (cont.): Deep Convection Facilitator: Krueger |
| 1:30 p.m.–3:30 p.m. | Breakout #4 (cont.): Cirrus/High Clouds Facilitator: Comstock |
| 1:30 p.m.–3:30 p.m. | Breakout #5: Radar Focus Group Facilitator: Kevin Widener |
| 3:30 p.m.–4:00 p.m. | Coffee break |
| 4:00 p.m.–4:30 p.m. | Breakout summaries 5 min from each breakout Facilitator |
| 4:30 p.m.–5:00 p.m. | Focus Group discussion Del Genio/Shupe |
| 5:00 p.m.–5:30 p.m. | Value-Added Product (VAP) prioritization Del Genio/Shupe |
| 5:30 p.m.–5:45 p.m. | Meeting Structure Del Genio/Shupe |
| Adjourn |
Breakout Session #1: Deep Convection
Friday, October 15 (morning)
| 8:00 a.m. | ACRF MJO Investigation Experiment (AMIE)/ Dynamics of the MJO (DYNAMO)/ Cooperative Indian Ocean Experiment on Intraseasonal Variability in Year 2011 (CINDY2011): Field campaigns for study of the MJO Long |
| 8:15 a.m. | Cloud vertical structure associated with the Madden-Julian Oscillation (MJO) life cycle at Manus Deng/McFarlane |
| 8:30 a.m. | Moist thermodynamics of MJO in a high resolution regional model Hagos/Leung |
| 8:45 a.m. | Cold pool properties from Oklahoma Mesonet Data Krueger/Lesage |
| 9:00 a.m. | Estimating large-scale convection over the SGP from a no-microphysics Weather Research and Forecasting (WRF) simulation Segele/Leslie/Lamb |
| 9:15 a.m. | Nested simulations of two winter storms in the Southern Plains: Comparison with ARM observations White/Leslie/Lamb |
| 9:30 a.m. | Discussion |
| 10:00 a.m. | Coffee break |
Breakout Session #1: Deep Convection
Friday, October
15 (morning)
| 10:30 a.m. | Gravity waves and their role in the formation and organization of clouds during Tropical Warm Pool International Cloud Experiment (TWP-ICE) Reeder/Nguyen/Lane/Jakob/Heymsfield |
| 10:45 a.m. | Vertical air motion in convective and stratiform rain from profiling radars during TWP-ICE Williams |
| 11:00 a.m. | Evaluating TWP-ICE cloud-resolving simulations with radar and satellite data Varble, et al. |
| 11:15 a.m. | Tropical diurnal cycle of TOE radiative fluzes within large-scale circulation regimes Taylor |
| 11:30 a.m. | Investigating the relationship between large-scale and convective states in the tropics Davies/Jakob |
| 11:45 a.m. | Discussion |
| 12:00 p.m. | Lunch |
Breakout Session #1: Deep Convection
Friday, October 15 (afternoon)
| 1:30 p.m. | A unified convection scheme for NCAR Community Atmosphere Model (CAM5) with an organized plume ensemble Mapes/Neale/Park |
| 1:45 p.m. | Update of convection microphysics parameterization Zhang/Song |
| 2:00 p.m. | Microphysics parameterization changes based on observational studies Dudhia/Heymsfield/Schmitt |
| 2:15 p.m. | Linear response functions of cumulus ensemble: a direct way to evaluate cumulus parameterizations Kuang |
| 2:30 p.m. | Pushing cumulus parameterization to higher resolution – What are the limits? Jones/Randall |
| 2:45 p.m. | Reducing the biases in simulated radar reflectivities from a bulk microphysics scheme: tropical convective systems Tao/Iang/Zeng/Houze |
| 3:00 p.m. | Discussion |
| 3:30 p.m. | Coffee break – return to plenary |
Breakout Session #2: Low Clouds Boundary Layer
Friday, October 15 (morning)
| 8:00 a.m. | Preliminary analysis of uncertainties in current low warm retrievals over ARM sites C. Zhao |
| 8:15 a.m. | Cloud and drizzle observations at the Azores Luke/Kollias/Remillard/Szyrmer |
| 8:30 a.m. | Model evaluation with Climate Modeling Best Estimate (CMBE) and CloudNet products: Low clouds and drizzle Ahlgrimm/Forbes |
| 8:45 a.m. | Impact of mesoscale organizations and precipitation on the development of continental stratocumulus Zhu/Zhu/Albrecht/Ghate |
| 9:00 a.m. | Coupling boundary-layer turbulence and shallow cumuli in Weather Research and Forecasting (WRF) Berg/Gustafson/Kassianov |
| 9:15 a.m. | The difference between thin and thick fair-weather shallow cumulus inferred from observations over Southern Great Plains Zhang/Klein |
| 9:30 a.m. | Discussion |
| 10:00 a.m. | Coffee break |
Breakout Session #2: Low Clouds and Boundary Layer
Friday, October 15 (morning)
| 10:30 a.m. | Water vapor turbulence profiles in convective boundary layers Turner/Berg |
| 10:45 a.m. | A ground-based remote sensing approach to determine cumulus entrainment Wagner/Turner/Berg |
| 11:00 a.m. | Water-ice partition in Arctic mixed-phase clouds M.Zhao/Wang |
| 11:15 a.m. | Dynamic-microphysical interaction in Arctic mixed-phase clouds Komurco/Harrington |
| 11:30 a.m. | Discussion |
| 12:00 p.m. | Lunch |
Breakout Session #3: Cloud Retrievals and Data Products
Friday, October 15 (morning)
| 8:00 a.m. | Update on Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) data products Xie |
| 8:15 a.m. | Cloud Life Cycle Working Group Value-added products Jensen |
| 8:30 a.m. | An outline of the conventional and Bayesian approaches to uncertainty quantification and an application example on cloud fraction data Shen/Velado/Somerville/Kooperman |
| 8:45 a.m. | A 10-year climatology of cloud fraction and vertical distribution derived from both surface and geostationary operational environmental satellite (GOES) observations of the DOE ARM SGP site Xi |
| 9:00 a.m. | Retrievals and consistency checks of cloud variables from the AMF-China campaign Zhao/Li |
| 9:15 a.m. | Advective tendencies and Q1,Q2 in the new National Centers for Environmental Prediction (NCEP) Climate Forecast System Reanalysis (CFSR) product at the ARM sites and their comparison with ARM intensive operational period (IOP) analyses Zhang |
| 9:30 a.m. | The Meteorological Similarity Comparison Method (MSCM): A new tool for satellite model testing and development Long |
| 9:45 a.m. | Discussion |
| 10:00 a.m. | Coffee break |
Breakout Session #4: Cirrus/High Clouds
Friday, October 15 (morning)
| 10:30 a.m. | Cirrus clouds at ARM Tropical Western Pacific (TWP) sites: Ground-based lidar versus Cloud-Aerosol Lidar and Infrared Pathfinder Satellite Observation (CALIPSO) satellite observations Thorsen/Fu/Comstock |
| 10:45 a.m. | Sizing particles in thick ice clouds using differential Doppler velocity measurements Matrosov |
| 11:00 a.m. | Improving lidar-radar measurements of ice crystal precipitation using Doppler spectra Eloranta |
| 11:15 a.m. | The impacts of varying shapes and concentrations of small ice crystals on the bulk scattering properties of tropical cirrus McFarquhar |
| 11:30 a.m. | Discussion |
| 12:00 p.m. | Lunch |
Breakout Session #4: Cirrus/High Clouds
Friday, October 15 (afternoon)
| 1:30 p.m. | Preliminary results from the Small Particles in Cirrus (SPartiCus) Campaign Lawson |
| 1:45 p.m. | Analysis of cirrus cloud particle size distributions measured during Sparticus Schwartz/Mace |
| 2:00 p.m. | Representing the ice fall speed in climate models using measurements from recent field campaigns Vellor/Mitchell |
| 2:15 p.m. | Understanding effective diameter and its application to terrestrial radiation in ice clouds Mitchell/Baker/Lawson |
| 2:30 p.m. | Discussion |
| 3:30 p.m. | Coffee break |
Breakout Session #5: Radar Focus Group
Friday, October 15 (afternoon)
| 1:30 p.m. | Recovery Act Radar Update Widener |
| 1:45 p.m. | Scanning strategies for ARM’s radars Bharadwaj |
| 2:00 p.m. | Precipitation radar products Collis |
| 2:15 p.m. | Cloud radar products Johnson |
| 2:30 p.m. | Discussion |
| 3:30 p.m. | Coffee break |