Aerosol Workshop

AGENDA

Welcome, Context, Objectives

08:30 Bob Curran: Overview of Objectives
08:45 Jim Hansen: Workshop Strategy

Aerosol Distributions and Properties: Current Understanding

(Facilitator: John Seinfeld, Recorder: Joe Prospero)

09:00 Joyce Penner: Aerosol Climatology
09:20 Tica Novakov: Carbonaceous Aerosols
09:40 Peter Hobbs: Implications of TARFOX Data for Aerosol Climate Forcing
09:55 Ina Tegen: Soil-Dust Aerosols
10:10 John Ogren: Aerosol Single Scatter Albedo - Report on Leipzig Workshop
Break

Satellite Aerosol Retrievals

(Facilitator: Pat McCormick, Recorder: Ina Tegen)

10:45 Larry Stowe: AVHRR Decadal Aerosol Time Series (Pathfinder Project)
11:00 Phil Durkee: Combining AVHRR and GOES to Obtain Better Aerosol Data
11:15 Jay Herman: Quantitative Aerosol in TOMS UV Measurements
11:30 Terry Nakajima: Aerosol Optical Depth & Sizes from 2-Channel AVHRR & ADEOS/OCTS
11:45 Andy Lacis: SAGE Measurements of El Chichon and Pinatubo Aerosols
12:00 Cora Randall: POAM II Stratospheric Aerosol Data

Aerosol Effects on Clouds

(Facilitator: Steve Schwartz, Recorder: Tica Novakov)

1:30 Peter Hobbs: Overview
1:55 Yoram Kaufman: Effect of Smoke Aerosol on Microphysics of Continental Clouds
2:10 Qingyuan Han: Measuring Global Aerosol-Cloud Effects
2:25 Mitsuo Uematsu: Aerosol/Chemistry Measurements Between Japan and Vancouver
Break

Links Among Satellites, Modeling, in situ and Surface Data

(Facilitator: John Ogren, Recorder: Ralph Kahn)

3:00 Steve Schwartz: Aerosol Transport Models + Satellite Data
3:15 Steve Gahn: 3-D Global Modeling with Cloud-Aerosol Physics
3:30 Alan Robock: Pinatubo Radiative Forcing and Climate Response
3:45 V. Ramaswamy: GFDL Aerosol/Climate Simulations
4:00 Tony Clarke: Role of Aircraft and Surface Data
4:15 Doug Westphal: Regional Modeling with Data Assimilation

Potential of Satellites for Future Aerosol Data

(Facilitator: Bill Rossow, Recorder: Kuo-Nan Liou)

8:30 Yoram Kaufman: Quantitative Aerosol Data from MODIS
8:45 Ralph Kahn: Quantitative Aerosol Data from MISR
9:00 Michael Mishchenko: Quantitative Aerosol Data from EOSP
9:15 Pat McCormick: Quantitative Aerosol Data from Satellite Lidar
9:30 Didier Tanre: Quantitative Aerosol Data from Polder

Panel A

(Direct): Aerosol parameters needed for time-dependent aerosol climatology? What is feasible?

J. Penner (Facilitator), Y. Kaufman (Recorder), T. Nakajima, L. Stowe, I. Sokolik

Panel B

(Indirect): How to quantify aerosol indirect forcing (role of satellites? modeling/analysis?)

P. Hobbs (Facilitator), S. Ghan (Recorder), T. Novakov, S. Schwartz

Panel C

(Strategy): What initiative are we proposing, what science rationale, what promises?

J. Hansen (Facilitator), M. Prather (Recorder), A. Clarke, R. Kahn, V. Ramaswamy

Panel D

(Agency Plans)

R. Curran (NASA), J. Levy (NOAA), J.Moyers (NSF), R. Petty (DOE), R. Ferek (ONR)

Workshop Homepage * Agenda * Summary
Sessions: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6
Panels: A, B, C, D * Participants