| Monday, April 25 | ||
| 5:00 pm - ???? | Ice Breaker (cash bar) | University House (short walk from BoM offices) |
| Tuesday, April 26 | ||
| Opening, Welcome | Chair: Nicole Hyett | |
| 9:00 AM | Acknowledgment of country | |
| Dr. Rob Vertessy | BoM Director, greetings and welcome | |
| 9:30 AM | Nicole Hyatt | Meeting logistics |
| 9:45 AM | Chuck Long | BSRN Greetings and meeting charge (show of hands for WG attendance) |
| 10:00 AM | Tim Oakley | Welcome on behalf of Director GCOS and give an update on the status of GCOS |
| 10:20 AM | Nozomu Ohkawara | Status and implementation plan of BSRN in GCOS |
| 10:40 AM | Gert König-Langlo | Current state of the WRMC |
| 11:00 AM | Break (30 minutes) | Poster Group 1 put up posters |
| New Sites Proposals 1 | Chair: Chuck Long | |
| 11:30 AM | Stefan Kinne (Hauke Schulz) | Barbados proposal as a BSRN site |
| 11:50 AM | Carlo Wang | New BSRN sites in Southeast Asia: from high elevation (2862 m) to sea-level |
| 12:10 PM | Benjamin Duck | Solar and Meteorological monitoring in Newcastle, Australia (new site proposal) |
| 12:30 PM | Lunch | |
| New Sites Proposals 2 | Chair: Chuck Long | |
| 2:00 PM | Béatrice Morel | A suntracker at La Réunion Island (20.8°S; 55.5°E) for monitoring surface solar radiation under tropical maritime climate conditions: towards a new BSRN site? |
| 2:20 PM | Karthik Ramanathan | A proposal to bring 4 SRRA stations of India into the BSRN network |
| 2:40 PM | Vasilii Kustov | Ice camp "Cape Baranova" (79N, 101E) - possible candidate to BSRN |
| 3:00 PM | Break (30 minutes) | |
| 3:30 PM | Poster Session 1 | |
| 4:00 PM | Jörg Schulz | Overview of GDAP |
| 5:30 PM | Adjourn | |
| Wednesday, April 27 | ||
| Instrumentation Issues | Chair: Gert König-Langlo | |
| 9:00 AM | Aron Habte, Manajit Sengupta | Comparison of Calibration Methods and Resulting Solar Irradiance Measurement Differences |
| 9:15 AM | Michael Milner | Zenith angle bias in Pyranometer calibration |
| 9:30 AM | Nicole Hyett | An evaluation of the Delta-T SPN1 as a sunshine meteri |
| 9:45 AM | Natalia Kouremeti | Fourth Filter Radiometer Comparison (FRC-IV) |
| 10:00 AM | Ursula Weiser | The Austrian radiation monitoring network ARAD - best practice and added value |
| 10:15 AM | Michael Milner | Pyrheliometer Alignment Testing |
| 10:30 AM | Break (30 minutes) | Poster Group 1 take down posters |
| Instrumentation Issues (Cont.) | Chair: Laurent Vuilleumier | |
| 11:00 PM | Aron Habte, Manajit Sengupta | Quantifying Spectral Error in Thermopile Radiometers |
| 11:15 AM | Ibrahim Reda | Measuring Broadband IR Irradiance in the Direct Solar Beam |
| 11:30 PM | Ian Dollery | Pyrgeometer Uncertainty calculations |
| 11:45 AM | John Augustine | Recovering LW irradiance tainted with bad thermistor data |
| 12:00 AM | Klaus Behrens | Long term stability of two Eppley and two Kipp & Zonen pyrgeometers |
| 12:15 PM | Julian Gröbner | Brief summary of the IPgCpyrgeometer comparison held during the IPC last fall |
| 12:30 AM | Stephan Nyeki | The World Infrared Standard Group (WISG) of longwave radiometers: How can/should updated calibrations be transferred to BSRN records? |
| 12:45 PM | Lunch | Poster Group 2 put up posters |
| 2:00 PM | Poster Session 2 | |
| 4:00 PM | Adjourn | |
| Thursday, April 28 | ||
| 9:00 am - 10:30 am | Working Group Breakouts | (Times TBD) |
| Julian Gröbner | Infrared Working Group | |
| Chuck Long | Cold Climate Issues Working Group | |
| Julian Gröbner | Spectral Working Group | |
| Nicole Hyett | Uncertainties Working Group | |
| 10:30 AM | Break (30 minutes) | |
| 11:00 am - 12:00 pm | Working Group Breakouts (Cont.) | |
| Gert König-Langlo | Training: how to use the BSRN-Toolbox, PanPlot to handle BSRN data before submission and as user | |
| 12:00 PM | Lunch | |
| Observations and Analysis | Chair: Joe Michalsky | |
| 1:30 PM | Chris Cox | Cloud Radiative Forcing from pan-Arctic BSRN stations: Applications for climate monitoring and seasonal-scale sea ice forecasting |
| 1:45 PM | Gert König-Langlo | Increasing CO2 cools Antarctica |
| 2:00 PM | Xiangao Xia | Parameterization of clear-sky surface irradiance and its implications for estimation of aerosol direct radiative effect and aerosol optical depth |
| 2:15 PM | Carlo Wang | Long-term measurements of solar radiation and aerosol radiative forcing at Mt. Lulin (2,862m) in East Asia |
| 2:30 PM | Frederick Denn | Determination of Aerosol Optical Depth, and the required Top Of Atmosphere Values, with a Multi-Filter Rotating Shadowband Radiometer, Over a Five Year Long Period |
| 2:45 PM | Stefan Kinne | AOD estimates from broadband BSRN data |
| 3:00 PM | Break (30 minutes) | |
| Observations and Analysis (Cont.) | Chair: Julian Gröbner | |
| 3:30 PM | Joe Michalsky | Spectral Irradiance and Optical Depth Retrievals from the Rotating Shadowband Spectroradiometer (RSS) |
| 3:45 PM | Bryan Fabbri | 15 Year Climatology of BSRN Measurements made at Chesapeake Light (CLH) |
| 4:00 PM | Taiping Zhang | The Data from the BSRN Archive and Its Application in the NASA GEWEX SRB and POWER Projects |
| 4:15 PM | Godugunur Giridhar, Karthik Ramanathan | Indian Experiences on Solar Resource Assessment |
| 4:30 PM | Jordi Badosa | On the quality of solar irradiance measurements for photovoltaic module efficiency studies |
| 4:45 PM | Sergio Colle | Validation of the BLR diffuse model against BSRN FLO |
| 5:00 PM | Ben Liley | 25 years of spectral UV measurements at Lauder |
| 5:15 PM | Stephen Wilson | Inferring photolysis rates from solar radiation measurements at Cape Grim |
| 5:30 PM | Adjourn | |
| Friday, April 29 | ||
| Working Group Reports | Chair: Chuck Long | |
| 9:00 AM | Julian Gröbner | Infrared Working Group |
| 9:15 AM | Julian Gröbner | Spectral Working Group |
| 9:30 AM | Chris Cox | Cold Climate Issues Working Group |
| 9:45 AM | Nicole Hyett | Uncertainties Working Group |
| 10:00 AM | Joe Michalsky | Broadband Shortwave Working Group |
| 10:15 AM | Business and Discussions | Dicussion Lead: Chuck Long |
| Chuck Long | Need chair for Broadband Shortwave WG? | |
| Chuck Long | New sites discussion | |
| Chuck Long | Delinquent data submissions discussion | |
| Joe Michalsky | SGP IOP; comparison of the 3 instruments that are considered absolute, & WISG versus IRIS & ACP | |
| If time: | Instrument specifications against a minimum requirement for BSRN site (WMO Req for Inst Purchase) | |
| Minimum requirements for a BSRN site (Do we have enough just downwelling SW, ask for dn & up SW & LW?) | ||
| 1:00 PM | Adjourn | |