Agenda

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Wednesday, May 19^th, 2010 AGENDA

(Only presenter's name is given; please refer to abstract for complete author listing)

• 07:00 Conference Registration Opens – lunch order fee collected at registration table.

• 07:30-08:15 Morning Breakfast – Coffee, tea, fruit, bagels & donuts served

• Session 5 - Keynote and Setting the Stage - Chaired by James Butler		Slides
08:15-08:45	Observations and Monitoring: The Challenge of Science to Services   T.R. Karl (NOAA/Climate Service and National Climatic Data Center)
08:45-09:00	Keynote Questions and Answers   T.R. Karl
09:00-09:15	Recent Increases in Global HFC-23 Emissions and the Contribution of HFCs and HCFCs to Radiative Forcing   S. Montzka (NOAA/ESRL)
09:15-09:30	Top-Down Validation of European Halocarbon Emission Inventories   S. Reimann (EMPA, Switzerland)
09:30-09:45	Integrating Observations & Inventories to Improve Emission Estimates: a Framework for Global Synthesis   R. Duren (JPL, California Institute of Technology)

•09:45-10:15 Morning Break

• Session 6 - Atmospheric Radiation - Chaired by Ellsworth Dutton		Slides
10:15-10:30	Radiance Calibrated Night Lights Products That Reveal Unsaturated Urban Cores and Gas Flares   D. Ziskin (University of Colorado/CIRES)
10:30-10:45	Downscaling of Advanced Microwave Scanning Radiometer (AMSR-E) Soil Moisture Using Thermal Sensors and a Physically-Based Model   C. Hsu (University of Colorado/CIRES)
10:45-11:00	Decadal Variations in Surface Radiation Budget Observations: An Unexpected Trend for the U.S.   E. Dutton (NOAA/ESRL)
11:00-11:15	A Ten-Month Comparison of All-Weather Pyrheliometers   J. Michalsky (NOAA/ESRL)
11:15-11:30	A Characterization of Arctic Aerosols as Derived from Airborne Observations and Their Influences on the Surface Radiation Budget   R. Stone (University of Colorado/CIRES)
11:30-11:40	Assessing the ‘Full Spectral’ Potential Radiative Impact of Arctic Aerosols: Dust, Smoke, Haze   G. Anderson (NOAA/ESRL)

• 11:45-13:00 Catered Lunch Service – Outreach Classroom GB-124 (pre-payment of $10.00 required at registration table)

• Session 7 - Aerosols - Chaired by John Ogren		Slides
13:00-13:15	Detection of Aerosol Growth Rate Using a Mass Balance Model Constrained by Water Isotopes Measurements at Mauna Loa   A. Bailey (University of Colorado/CIRES)
13:15-13:30	Inclusion of Aerosol Impacts on Medium Range Forecasts of Weather and Air Quality in the Flow-Following Finite Volume Icosahedral Model (FIM) Global Model   G. Grell (University of Colorado/CIRES)
13:30-13:45	Results from Initial-Year Aerosol Optical Property Measurements at the New NOAA ESRL Collaborative Aerosol Monitoring Station in Boone, North Carolina (NC)   J. Sherman (Appalachian State University)
13:45-14:00	Updated Aerosol Climatology for Cape Point, South Africa   C. Labuschagne (South Africa Weather Service)
14:00-14:15	The NOAA ESRL Airborne Aerosol Observatory: Climatology and Seasonal Variation of Aerosol Properties Over Central Illinois   P. Sheridan (NOAA/ESRL)
14:15-14:30	Climate Services, WMO and GAW Observations   L. Jalkanen (WMO, Switzerland)

• 14:30-15:00 Afternoon Break

• Session 8 - Ozone and Water Vapor - Chaired by Sam Oltmans		Slides
15:00-15:15	Enhanced Ozone Over Western North America from Biomass Burning in Eurasia During April 2008 as Seen in Surface and Profile Observations   S. Oltmans (NOAA/ESRL)
15:15-15:30	Ozone Profile Trends from Ground-Based and Satellite Data   I. Petropavlovskikh (University of Colorado/CIRES)
15:30-15:45	Using the Relationship Between Mean 500-Millibar (Mb) Heights and Mean Surface Ozone Concentrations in Colorado to Decompose Ozone Times Series and Evaluate the Impacts of Changes in Precursor Emissions   P. Reddy (Colorado Dept. of Public Health & Environment)
15:45-16:00	Profiles of the Water Vapor Isotope Composition for Determining Regional Water Sources and Trace Gas Exchange in the Boundary Layer   D. Noone (University of Colorado/CIRES)
16:00-16:15	The Complementarities of NDACC and GRUAN in Establishing Measurement Requirements for Water Vapor Trends Detection   M. Kurylo (NASA/Goddard)
16:15-16:30	The “Boulder Record”: 30 Years of Water Vapor Vertical Profiles Over Boulder, Colorado   D. Hurst (University of Colorado/CIRES)
16:30-16:45	Laboratory Evaluation of the Effect of Nitric Acid on Chilled Mirror Hygrometer Measurements in the Upper Troposphere (UT)/Lower troposphere (LS)   T. Thornberry (University of Colorado/CIRES)

• Closing Remarks: Dr. James H. Butler (NOAA/ESRL)