Lower Atmospheric Observing Facilities Workshop
Agenda Track
Agenda
| Monday 18 June | ||
| (Click on the titles to see presentation in PDF format) | ||
| 0800 | Brief Opening Remarks – L. Avallone, NSF; V. Grubišić, EOL | |
| 0815 | Current NSF/AGS Lower Atmospheric Observing Facilities and Services (25+5) | |
| Surface-based facilities (EOL, CSU, CSWR) | S. Cohn, EOL | |
| Aircraft (WYO, NPS/CIRPAS, NCAR) | A. Rodi, U. Wyoming | |
| Data Services | M. Daniels, EOL | |
| 0945 | Break (25 minutes) | |
| 1010 | Emerging Technologies/Platforms (12+3) | |
| A10 aircraft | H. Jonsson, NPS/CIRPAS | |
| COSMOS | M. Zreda, U. Arizona | |
| DIAL Thermodynamic Profiling | K. Repasky, MT State U. | |
| CASA | D. McLaughlin, U. Mass. | |
| HCR, HSRL | J. Vivekanandan, EOL | |
| 1125 | Atmospheric Chemistry Instrumentation(20+5) | A. Guenther, NCAR/ACD |
| 1150 | Other Agency Facilities (15+5) | |
| DOE ARM | Beat Schmid, Pacific NW Nat'l. Laboratory | |
| NOAA | Russ Schnell, NOAA ESRL | |
| 1230 | Buffet Lunch (payment required for NCAR and federal employees - *see more information) | |
| 1315 | Topical Lectures (30+5) | |
| Terrestrial Interface (ABL, Bio, Hydro, Urban) | D. Baldocchi, U. California, Berkeley | |
| Ocean Interface (Phys, Chem, Biochem) | R. Weller, Woods Hole Oceanographic Inst. | |
| FreeTroposphere Physics | C. Bretherton, U. Washington | |
| 1500 | Break (25 minutes) | |
| 1525 | Topical Lectures (30+5) | |
| UTLS | D. Hartman, U. Washington | |
| Tropical Free Waves | C. Zhang, U. Miami | |
| Cryosphere Interface | N. Mölders, U. Alaska | |
| 1710 | End Oral Presentations | |
| 1800 | Reception and Poster Session (food and refreshments will be served) | |
| 1930 | End Reception and Poster Session | |
| Tuesday, 19 June | ||
| Topical Breakout Sessions, Co-Chairpersons | ||
| Terrestrial Interface (ABL, Bio, Hydro, Urban) | ||
| Ana Barros, Duke U. | Helen Cleugh, CSIRO/CAWCR | |
| Ocean Interface (phys, chem, biochem) | ||
| Chris Fairall, NOAA ESRL | P. Sullivan, NCAR/MMM | |
| Cryosphere Interface, Polar Studies | ||
| Glen Liston, Colorado St. Univ. | Mark Serreze, Nat'l. Snow, Ice Data Cntr., CU | |
| Free Tropospheric Physics (cloud, precipitation, aerosol, radiation) | ||
| Alan Blyth, U. Leeds | Kimberly Prather, Scripps Inst. Oceanography | |
| Tropical Free Waves, Cyclones | ||
| Shuyi Chen, U. Miami, RSMAS | Stephan Tulich, U. Colorado/NOAA | |
| UTLS Region (phys, dynam, chem) | ||
| Marv Geller, Stoneybrook U. | Laura Pan, NCAR/ACD | |
| 0830 | Plenary "marching orders" | |
| 0845 | Breakout Sessions A - distillation of prominent science questions, experimental methodologies | |
| Break - As you wish - refreshments available 0945-1030 | ||
| 1110 | Brief Remarks | Roger Wakimoto, NCAR Director |
| 1115 | Summary Reports – Breakout Sessions A (5+2 minutes each.) | |
| 1200 | Buffet Lunch* (payment required for NCAR and federal employees) | |
| 1300 | Breakout Sessions B – priority objectives, observing facility gaps, applicable technologies | |
| Break - As you wish - refreshments available 0200-0245 | ||
| 1530 | Breakout B - Summary Reports | |
| 1615 | Plenary Discussion - explore common ground, low hanging fruit, trans-disciplinary requirements | |
| 1715 | Adjourn Open Sessions | |
| Wednesday 20 June | ||
| 0900 -1330 | Synthesis Committee Meeting (by invitation) | |
| The synthesis committee will engage in structured discussions for the following purposes: | ||
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Abstracts and Posters
| Abstract/Poster Title | Author(s) | Registrant/submitter |
| Toward and Autonomous Ground-based RF Facility to Monitor Snow and Ice in Remote Regions (View Poster) | Anna P. Barros | Barros, Ana |
| EOL Wind Profiler and Sounding Support of Climate Related Field Campaigns (View Poster) | Willam Brown, Stephen Cohn, Heather McIntyre | Brown, William |
| NCAR Atmospheric Chemistry Division measurements of CO, CO2, CH4, O3, NO, and NO2 in support of NSF/NCAR airborne platforms | Teresa Campos, Frank Flocke, Andrew Weinheimer, Geoffrey Tyndall, and Alex Guenther | Campos, Teresa |
| A Modular Profiling Network: From the Boundary Layer to the Tropopause (View Poster) | Stephen Cohn, William Brown, Brad Lindseth, Charlie Martin | Cohn, Stephen |
| Real-time data and communications services of NCAR's Earth Observing Laboratory (View Poster) | Christopher Webster, Michael Daniels, Greg Stossmeister | Daniels, Michael |
| The hills are alive: Earth surface dynamics and atmosphere interactions in the Biosphere 2 Landscape Evolution Observatory (View Poster) | Stephen DeLong, Peter Troch, Travis Huxman, Jon Pelletier, Jon Chorover, Greg Barron-Gafford, Katerina Dontsova, Ty Ferre, Guo-Yue Niu, Xubin Zeng | DeLong, Steve |
| Lightning Electric Current Measurement On-Board the Storm Penetrating Aircraft (View Poster) | Jay Ely, Truong Nguyen and George Szatkowski | Ely, Jay |
| Research Using High Vertical-Resolution Radiosonde Data (View Poster) | Marvin Geller, Peter Love | Geller, Marvin |
| Use of the NSF LAOF GISMOS instrument in the study of developing tropical cyclones | Jennifer Haase, Brian Murphy, Paytsar Muradyan, J.L. Garrison | Haase, Jennifer |
| Profiling the Antarctic Atmosphere Using the GPS Radio Occultation Technique from Stratospheric Balloons – Perspectives for a future addition to the LAOF | J.S. Haase, J. Maldonado Vargas, F. Rabier, P. Cocquerez, V. Guidard, P. Wyss, A. Johnson, B. Murphy | Haase, Jennifer |
| Recent Development in Airborne Radiometric Measurements from NCAR/NSF Aircraft (View Poster) | Julie Haggerty, Sam Hall, Anthony Bucholtz, and Michael Spowart | Haggerty, Julie |
| 22 Years of GPS Dropsonde Data for Climate Studies (View Poster) | Terry Hock, June Wang, Kate Young | Hock, Terry |
| CentNet - A deployable 100-station network for surface exchange research | Steven P. Oncley, S. Semmer, T.W. Horst, J. Militzer, G. Maclean, K. Knudson, C. Golubieski | Horst, Tom |
| The Front Range Observational Network Testbed (View Poster) | John Hubbert | Hubbert, John |
| Urban Flux and Other Micrometeorological Applications of the Picarro G2311-f Methane, Carbon Dioxide, and Water Vapor Analyzer (View Poster) | Gloria Jacobson, Chris Rella, Eric Crosson, Wade McGillis, Emma Yates, and Olaf Kolle | Jacobson, Gloria |
| The CSU-CHILL National Radar Facility (View Poster) | Steven A. Rutledge, V. Chandrasekar, V. N. Bringi, D. A. Brunkow, J. George, R. K. Bowie, and P. C. Kennedy | Kennedy, Pat |
| A New Aircraft-Towed Platform for Air-Sea Interaction Measurements | D. Khelif, C. Friehe, B. Bluth, J. Barge, T. Morse, D. Bierly, and Greg Kok | Khelif, Djamal |
| An Optical Fiber-Based Laser Velocimeter for Measuring Mean and Fluctuating Wind Components From an Aircraft | Scott M. Spuler, Donald H. Lenschow, Richard B. Friesen, William A. Cooper, Michael P. Spowart, and James Ranson | Lenschow, Don |
| Obsevations in support of coupled SST, deep convection and rainfall research (View Poster) | Yanping Li, Colorado State University; and R. E. Carbone, NCAR | Li, Yanping |
| Parameterization of Ice Fall Speeds in Climate Models (View Poster) | Sanderson et al | Mishra, Subhashree |
| Cryosphere interface | Nicole Mölders | Mölders, Nicole |
| Particle-size distribution measurement on the NSF Gulfstream V (View Poster) | John Ortega, James N. Smith, David C. Rogers, Steve Gabbard | Ortega, John |
| University of North Dakota Cessna Citation Research Aircraft (View Poster) | Michael Poellot, David Delene, Cedric Grainger | Poellot, Michael |
| An optical fiber-based laser velocimeter for measuring mean and fluctuating wind components from and aircraft | National Center for Atmospheric Research – Atmospheric Chemistry Division | Spuler, Scott |
| Resolving uncertainties in climate predictions by improving the treatment of small ice particles | Robert C. Jackson, Greg M. McFarquhar, Jeff Stith, David C. Rogers, William A. Cooper | Stith, Jeff |
| Climate applications of ground-based GPS measurements of water vapor (View Poster) | June Wang, Liangying Zhang, Aiguo Dai | Wang, June |
| Dust In the Wind: Marine Vibrio Bacteria Response to Aeolian Nutrients | Jason Westrich, Dale Griffin, Erin K. Lipp | Westrich, Jason |
| Arctic Project Support and Data Management Activities at NCAR's Earth Observing Laboratory (EOL) | Don W. Stott, Steven F. Williams, James A. Moore, Gregory J. Stossmeister and Michael D. Daniels | Williams, Steve |
| The Bering Sea Project Archive:Unifying the BEST and BSIERP Data Archives | Don Stott, Amanda Orin and James A. Moore | Williams, Steve |
| Review of recent DYNAMO field campaign | Chidong Zhang | Zhang, Chidong |
| Measuring area-average soil moisture using stationary and roving cosmic-ray probes | M. Zreda, X. Zeng, J. Shuttleworth, T. Franz, R. Rosolem, C. Zweck, T. Ferre | Zreda, Marek |