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2016 ARM/ASR PI Meeting Agenda

 

Monday, 2 May 2016

Time Title
9:00 AM - 12:00 PM DOE Laboratory Projects & Science Focus Areas [Invitation Only]
ARM Infrastructure Management Board (IMB) [Invitation Only]
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM Lunch Break
1:00 PM - 3:00 PM Breakout Session 1
Eastern North Atlantic: combining modeling and observations (Wood)
Presentations:
Low CCN concentration events over the ENA: seasonality, meteorology and drivers Robert Wood
Using ARM observations from the Azores to better understand the biases of low cloud and its surface cloud radiative effect in CAM5 Xue Zheng
Effect of Environment on MBL Cloud-Drizzle Process Peng Wu
Aerosol and Cloud Experiments in Eastern North Atlantic (ACE-ENA) Jian Wang
Response of Marine Boundary Layer Cloud Properties to Aerosol Perturbations Associated with Meteorological Conditions from the 19-month AMF-Azores Campaign Jianjun Liu
Cloud phase group (de Boer)
Presentations:
Overview of previous group case study Gijs de Boer
Cloud Phase and Climate Andrew Gettelman
Polarimetric radar analysis using Oliktok Ka/W-band SACR2: Mixed-ice particles in Arctic mixed-phase clouds Mariko Oue
Aerosol, Cloud Type, Life Cycle Dependent Liquid-Ice Mass Partition Jing Yang
Use of Tethered Balloons and UAV’s to Measure Microphysics and Radiation in Polar Mixed-Phase Clouds Paul Lawson
New particle formation (Smith)
3:00 PM - 3:30 PM Break
3:30 PM - 5:30 PM Breakout Session 2
Simulating radar observables from model microphysics: progress and applications (Collis)
Presentations:
The Development and Applications of a Polarimetric Radar Forward Operator to Improve Microphysical Parameterizations and Study Deep Convective Storms Jeffrey Snyder
ARM Cloud Radar Simulator for GCMs: Latest Update and Applications Shaocheng Xie
CR-SIM 2.0: Latest upgrades and applications Pavlos Kollias
ARM data and compute capabilities for PIs and users (Palanisamy)
Presentations:
ARM Data System Research Account at the Data Management Facility Nicole Keck
Compute Requirements for Radar VAPS Scott Collis
Use case: Run AERIOE operationally at 20 second resolution for 5 sites Giri Prakash
ARM Data Center Computing and Storage Resources Rob Records
ARM Data and Computing Capabilities for PIs and Users Giri Prakash
Secondary organic aerosol (Shilling)
Advances in aerosol and cloud retrievals from spectral radiometers (Riihimaki)
Presentations:
Introduction and Update on MFRSR 1625 nm Channel Laura Riihimaki
New VAP Data Quality Efforts Supporting MFRSR, Spectral Shortwave Justin Monroe
An Update on the AERIoe Retrieval Algorithm Dave Turner
Analysis of shortwave spectrometry of cloudy atmospheres during MAGIC Alexander Marshak
Spectral Irradiance and Optical Depth Retrievals from the Rotating Shadowband Spectroradiometer (RSS) Joseph Michalsky
SWS, SASZe, and SASHe Measurements: Update on SWS and SAS data quality and products Connor Flynn
CSPHOT Cloud Retrievals Richard Wagener
7:00 PM - 9:00 PM Evening Breakout 1
Entrainment (Krueger)
AOS harmonization (Flynn)
ARM Data Quality: what you need to know (Kehoe)
Presentations:
ARM Data Quality: What you need to know Kenneth Kehoe
GoAmazon 2014/15 – Clouds, precipitation, and organized convection (Machado/Feng)
Presentations:
On the controls of daytime precipitation in the Amazonian dry season Virendra Ghate
Cloud and Precipitation During GoAmazon: The Effect of Aerosol, Surface and Thermodynamics Luiz Machado
GoAmazon Forcing Data Development: Methods, Issues, and Applications Shuaiqi Tang
Challenges in simulating convective clouds in cloudpermitting model and how could GoAmazon observations help Zhe Feng

Tuesday, 3 May 2016

Time Title
8:30 AM - 10:30 AM Plenary Session
Welcome & programmatic updates, DOE program managers
Presentations:
DOE ARM Updates Sally McFarlane
10:30 AM - 11:00 AM Break
11:00 AM - 12:30 PM Plenary Session
10:30 AM - 10:50 AM ARM Technical Director Update Jim Mather, PNNL
10:50 AM - 11:05 AM ARM User Executive Committee (UEC) Dave Turner, NOAA NSSL
11:05 AM - 11:20 AM Aerosol Measurement Group Allison McComiskey, NOAA
11:20 AM - 11:40 AM GoAmazon 2014/15 Scot Martin, Harvard
11:40 AM - 12:00 PM Airborne observations of greenhouse gases in the North Slope of Alaska during ACME-V campaign Sebastian Biraud, LBNL
12:00 PM - 12:30 PM ARM LES Pilot Project - LASSO modeling & measurements update Bill Gustafson, PNNL
12:30 PM - 1:30 PM Working Lunch & Tutorials
1:30 PM - 3:45 PM Plenary Session
1:30 PM - 1:40 PM Introduction & comments on DOE Early Career Award program Sharlene Weatherwax, Associate Director, Office Biological and Environmental Research
1:40 PM - 2:00 PM DOE Early Career Award Talk - Effects of cloud superparameterization at the land-atmosphere interface Michael Pritchard, University of California, Irvine
2:00 PM - 2:20 PM MAGICal Results on Marine Clouds Ernie Lewis, BNL
2:20 PM - 2:35 PM Radar Updates Nitin Bharadwaj, PNNL
2:35 PM - 2:55 PM Vertical Velocity Adam Varble, University of Utah
2:55 PM - 3:10 PM Aerosol Life Cycle Working Group Updates Jian Wang, BNL
3:10 PM - 3:25 PM Cloud-Aerosol-Precipitation Interactions Working Group Updates Steve Ghan, PNNL & Rob Wood, University of Washington
3:25 PM - 3:40 PM Cloud Life Cycle Working Group Updates Tony Del Genio, NASA GISS
3:45 PM - 5:15 PM Poster Session 1
Absorbing aerosol
Convective organization and regime transitions
Deep convective clouds, including aerosol interactions
Secondary organic aerosol
Warm low clouds, including aerosol interactions
5:15 PM - 6:30 PM Poster Session 2
GoAmazon – clouds and aerosol in Amazonia
High latitude clouds and aerosols
Radiation
7:30 PM - 9:00 PM Evening Breakout 2
The Cloud, Aerosol, and Complex Terrain Interactions (CACTI) ARM field campaign (Varble)
Presentations:
The Cloud, Aerosol, and Complex Terrain Interactions (CACTI) ARM Field Campaign Adam Varble
Remote sensing of Electrification, Lightning, And Mesoscale/microscale Processes with Adaptive Ground Observations (RELAMPAGO) Linkages to CACTI Steve Nesbitt
MARCUS: Measurements of Aerosols, Radiation and Clouds over the Southern oceans (McFarquhar)
Presentations:
MARCUS Overview Greg McFarquhar
MARCUS ice nucleation measurements Paul DeMott
CAUSES: Clouds Above the United States and Errors at the Surface (Morcrette)
Presentations:
Diagnosis of the Warm Bias Exhibited in CMIP5 AMIP Climate Simulations over ARM SGP site Chengzhu Zhang
GoAmazon 2014/15 - Aerosol & atmospheric chemistry (Martin)
UAS & tethered balloons (Schmid/Ivey)
Presentations:
UAS Implementation Plan Beat Schmid
UAS Capability Update Beat Schmid
Recent Efforts to use Small Unmanned Aircraft in Studying the Arctic Atmosphere: An Overview of COALA and ERASMUS Gijs de Boer
Inaugural Campaigns for ARM Research using Unmanned Systems (ICARUS) Gijs de Boer
Oliktok Pt, AK Tethered Balloon Capabilities Update Darielle Dexheimer
UAS Requirements at SGP Nicki Hickmon

Wednesday, 4 May 2016

Time Title
8:30 AM - 10:30 AM Plenary Session – PI Poster Talks
8:30 AM - 12:00 AM A radar network approach to characterize shallow convection at the SGP megasite to support the LASSO activity Pavlos Kollias, Brookhaven National Laboratory & Stony Brook University
8:45 AM - 12:00 AM Characterizing the Turbulent Structure of the Convective Boundary Layer over the SGP Using ARM/ASR Observations and LES Model Output Thijs Heus, Cleveland State
9:00 AM - 12:00 AM Latent Heating, Microphysical and Aerosol Processes of MC3E Mesoscale Convective Systems Susan van den Heever, Colorado State University
9:15 AM - 12:00 AM Characterizing the Vertical Distribution of Aerosols Using Multiwavelength Lidar Data: Initial Results from the CHARMS Study at SGP Tyler Thorsen & Rich Ferrare, NASA Langley
9:30 AM - 12:00 AM The Aerosol Observing System Inlet Characterization Experiment Chongai Kuang, Brookhaven National Laboratory
9:45 AM - 12:00 AM Arctic Ocean and Prudhoe Bay Influences on Atmospheric Particle Chemical Mixing States on the North Slope of Alaska Kerri Pratt, University of Michigan
10:00 AM - 12:00 AM Tethered Balloon System Operations at ARM AMF3 Site at Oliktok Point, AK Darielle Dexheimer, Sandia National Laboratories
10:15 AM - 12:00 AM Direct Comparisons of Ice Microphysical Properties Simulated by the Community Atmosphere Model CAM5.4 with ARM SPartICus Observations Xiaohong Liu, University of Wyoming
10:30 AM - 11:00 AM Break
11:00 AM - 12:30 PM Plenary Session – PI Poster Talks
11:00 AM - 12:00 AM Determination of Water Vapor Continuum Coefficients in the Far-infrared from the RHUBC-II Campaign Eli Mlawer, AER Inc.
11:15 AM - 12:00 AM Evaluating Drizzle Formation Parameterization Using Ensemble Cloud Retrievals from the MAGIC Campaign Christine Chiu, University of Reading
11:30 AM - 12:00 AM Condensate Variability in Ice Clouds – a Life Cycle Effect? Maike Ahlgrimm, ECMWF
11:45 AM - 12:00 AM Why a GCM May Overestimate the Aerosol Cloud Lifetime Effect: a Comparison of CAM5 and CRM Using ARM Observations Cheng Zhou, University of Michigan
12:00 PM - 12:00 AM The Surprising Role of Semivolatile Organics in the Growth of Ultrafine Particles Rahul Zaveri, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
12:15 PM - 12:00 AM New optical experiments to clarify the role of particle morphology and chemical composition in the absorption enhancement of coated soot particles Lindsay Wolff, Boston College and Tim Onasch, Aerodyne Research
12:30 PM - 1:30 PM Working Lunch & Tutorials
1:30 PM - 3:30 PM Breakout Session 3
Radar data products for process studies and modeling applications (Jensen)
Presentations:
Scanning Cloud Radar Products – Beyond SACRCORR Katia Lamer
Radar Doppler Spectra Products -- Next steps for MicroARSCL Edward Luke
Ice nucleation (Liu)
Presentations:
The Dependence of Cirrus Cloud Formation Mechanism on Latitude, Season and Surface Type David Mitchell
Aerosol mixing state focus group (Riemer)
Presentations:
Mixing State Session Intro Nicole Riemer
3D-PartMC for mixing state modeling Matthew West
rBC removal using LII in the SP2 Allison Aiken
Arctic Aerosol Mixing State Characterization Kerri Pratt
Ice Nucleation Activity of Aged Diesel Soot Gourihar Kulkarni
Morphology of Diesel Soot Residuals from Supercooled Water Droplets & Ice Crystals Claudio Mazzoleni
Cloud-Processing of BrC and BC from Biomass Burning Claudio Mazzoleni
Special Issue: Morphology and Internal Mixing of Atmospheric Particles on Atmosphere – Open Access Journal MPDI Claudio Mazzoleni
Development of MOSAIC-mix Rahul Zaveri
Morphology and Chemical Mixing State of Black Carbon (BC) Particles During CARES Ryan Moffet
Measurements of Interfacial Properties of Aerosol Liquid Samples using Biphasic Microfluidics Cari Dutcher
Measuring Mass-Based Hygroscopicity of Atmospheric Particles through in situ Imaging Mary Gilles
Impacts of BC aerosol mixing state Joseph Ching
Handling particle complexity for simulation of aerosol indirect effects in large scale models Bob McGraw and Laura Fierce
Resuspension of Aerosol Particles from Evaporated Rain Drops to the Coarse Mode Hailong Wang
Evolution of Tar Balls Art Sedlacek
MAGIC (Lewis)
Presentations:
MAGIC Breakout Session Ernie Lewis
MBL Cloud Rain Rate Retrievals during MAGIC Ed Luke
(MARCUS): Measurements of Aerosols, Radiation and clouds over the Southern Oceans Greg McFarquhar
Comparison of Ship-Following Large-Eddy Simulations with Cloud and Boundary Layer Structure Observed in MAGIC Chris Bretherton
Using MAGIC Data to Constrain the Marine Boundary Layer CCN Budget in the Sc-Cu Transition Region Rob Wood
Spectrally-Invariant Properties of Clouds in Transition Zones during MAGIC Weidong Yang
Ship-Following SCM Forcing for MAGIC Leg 15A Maike Ahlgrimm
Aerosol Proxies and Their Co-Variability with Cloud Microphysics during MAGIC David Painemal
Instrument and measurement focus group for broadband radiometric measurements (Long)
Presentations:
Update on Broadband Irradiance VAPs Laura Riihimaki
Traceable Pyrgeometer Calibrations dooraghi
ARM Radiometer Ventilator Fan Upgrade Status, Single Radiometer Configuration, Radiometer Upgrade Evaluations Mark Kutchenreiter
ARM Radiometer Ventilator Fan Upgrade Status, Single Radiometer Configuration, and Radiometer Upgrade Evaluations Mark Kutchenreiter
Radiometer Heating and Ventillation: GNDRAD Chuck Long (for Mike Ritsche)
Traceable Pyrgeometer Calibrations Mike Dooraghi
3:30 PM - 5:00 PM Poster Session 1
ARM infrastructure
General topics
General topics – aerosol
General topics - clouds
5:00 PM - 6:30 PM Poster Session 2
ARM next generation – megasite and LES activities
Boundary layer structure, land-atmosphere interactions, & turbulence
Microphysics (cloud and aerosol)
Precipitation processes
7:30 PM - 9:00 PM Evening Breakout 3
Aerosol and Cloud Experiments in Eastern North Atlantic (ACE-ENA) (Wang)
Presentations:
Aerosol and Cloud Experiments in Eastern North Atlantic (ACE-ENA) Jian Wang
MOSAiC (Shupe)
Presentations:
MOSAiC Overview Matthew Shupe
Update on the LES ARM Symbiotic Simulation and Observation (LASSO) project (Gustafson)
Presentations:
LASSO Breakout Slides W. Gustafson, K.S. Lim, A. Vogelmann, & B. Krishna
Lidar applications (Newsom)
Presentations:
Lidar Applications Breakout Session Rob Newsom
Raman lidar status: Hardware John Goldsmith
HSRL Update 2016 Ed Eloranta
Using Raman Lidar to diagnose RHcrit Kwinten Van Weverberg
CHARMS: Consistent extinction/backscatter processing Tyler Thorsen

Thursday, 5 May 2016

Time Title
8:30 AM - 10:30 AM Breakout Session 4
Aerosol measurements: progress, issues, and needs (Mather)
Organization of convection (Hagos)
Presentations:
Summary of ASR Workshop on Convection Samson Hagos
New tools to bridge the gap between models and observations (Xie)
Presentations:
Tools for merging, downloading, and processing ARM data Laura Riihimaki
Creating data products to classify atmospheric state Laura Riihimaki
An ARM data-oriented metrics and diagnostics package for climate model evaluation Chengzhu Zhang
New Tools to Bridge the Gap between Models and Observations: Introduction Shaocheng Xie
CESD Modeling Testbeds for Cloud and Aerosol Research Shaocheng Xie
ARM Cloud Radar Simulator for GCMs Yuying Zhang
Update on radar-lidar simulators for CRM and LES models Pavlos Kollias
LES Data Bundles* and User Access Andrew Vogelmann
Py-ART the Python ARM Radar Toolkit Scott Collis
Aerosol effects on warm clouds (Ghan)
Presentations:
On Constraining Effective Radiative Forcing by Cloud-Aerosol Interactions in Climate Models Ghan
Quantifying Aerosol Influences on the Cloud Radiative Effect Graham Feingold
Why do GCMs overestimate the aerosol cloud lifetime effect? Cheng Zhou
Cloud Processing of Aerosol Jim Hudson
Going Beyond Conventional Aerosol-Cloud Interaction (ACI) Parameterization Paradigm: ACI Regime Yangang Liu
Coupling Spectral-bin Cloud Microphysics with the MOSAIC Aerosol Model: Simulation of Warm Clouds from VOCALS Jiwen Fan
10:30 AM - 10:45 AM Break
10:45 AM - 12:45 PM Breakout Session 5
Radar Doppler spectra: Recent progress in retrievals and model-observation intercomparison (Luke)
Presentations:
Use of Oliktok Ka/W-band SACR2 polarimetric and KAZR Doppler spectra measurements of Arctic ice precipitation clouds Mariko Oue
Introduction and status of radar Doppler spectra collection Edward Luke
Potential of higher moments of the radar Doppler spectrum for studying ice clouds Maximilian Maahn
Spectral algorithm to separate cloud and drizzle V. Chandrasekar
Evaluation of drizzle representation in LES models with bin microphysics Jasmine Rémillard
Diagnosing cloud radar miscalibration during CAP-MBL using higher order moments of the Doppler spectrum Edward Luke
Land-Atmosphere-Cloud-Interactions (Berg)
Presentations:
Liquid cloud forcing of NSA surface fluxes Matthew Shupe
Issues with ARM Surface Turbulent Fluxes Shaocheng Xie
Do locally-­generated convective cloud regimes have any preference over soil moisture conditions at SGP? Yunyan Zhang
Biomass burning aerosols: variability in absorption efficiency and radiative effects (Y. Feng)
Presentations:
Chemical composition and optical properties of wildland and agricultural biomass burning particles measured downwind during BBOP study Tim Onasch
Overview and uncertainties in large-scale modeling of Biomass Burning aerosols Yan Feng
Observations of vertical distribution of aerosols using airborne HSRL Richard Ferrare and Tyler Thorsen
Role of particle-scale composition diversity for black carbon absorption Nicole Riemer
Formation and characteristics of strongly absorbing tar balls Arthur Sedlacek
Ground-based aerosol optical measurements in biomass burning regions Allison McComiskey
Planning Layered Atlantic Smoke Interactions with Clouds (LASIC) AMF1 Deployment Paquita Zuidema
LASIC update I Amon Haruta
LASIC update II Stephen Springston
12:45 PM - 1:45 PM Working Lunch
1:45 PM - 4:00 PM Breakout Session 6
Radar science & operations (Bharadwaj/Kollias)
AMSG [Invitation only] (McComiskey/Sisterson)
1:45 PM - 4:00 PM Use of Tethered Balloons and UAV’s to Measure Microphysics and Radiation in Polar Mixed-Phase Clouds Paul Lawson

Friday, 6 May 2016

Time Title
8:30 PM - 12:30 PM Science and Infrastructure Steering Committee (SISC) [Invitation Only]