Tuesday, October 7, 2014

Time Event  
08:15 - 08:45 Workshop registration  
08:45 - 09:00 Welcome  
09:00 - 10:30 Technical Session - SCARAB  
09:00 - 09:15 The MT orbit: consequence for earth radiation studies - Michel Capderou  
09:15 - 10:00 The SCARAB instrument on board Megha-Tropiques - Michel Dejus  
10:00 - 10:15 Validation of the SCARAB radiance - Olivier Chomette  
10:15 - 10:30 Validation of the SCARAB flux - Patrick Raberanto  
10:30 - 11:00 Coffee break  
11:00 - 17:15 Technical Session - CERES  
11:00 - 11:30 State of CERES - Norman Loeb  
11:30 - 12:00 CERES FM6 & RBI Instrument Status - Kory J. Priestley  
12:00 - 12:30 CERES FM1-FM5 Instrument Status - Susan Thomas  
12:30 - 14:00 Lunch  
14:00 - 14:30 Cloud WG Report - Patrick Minnis  
14:30 - 14:50 ADM WG Report - Wenying Su  
14:50 - 15:10 SOFA WG Report - David D. Kratz  
15:10 - 15:45 Coffee break  
15:45 - 16:15 SARB WG Report - Seiji Kato  
16:15 - 16:45 TISA WG Report - David Doelling  
16:45 - 17:15 DMT & ASDC Reports - Jonathan Gleason  

Wednesday, October 8, 2014

Time Event  
09:00 - 12:30 Technical Session - GERB  
09:00 - 09:15 GERB Project overview - Helen Brindley  
09:15 - 09:45 GERB Program and instrument status - Jacqueline E. Russell  
09:45 - 10:05 GERB operations report - James Rufus  
10:05 - 10:30 GERB calibration report - Jacqueline E. Russell  
10:30 - 11:00 Coffee break  
11:00 - 11:15 GGSPS status report - Andy Smith/Martin Bates  
11:15 - 11:30 ROLSS status report - Nicolas Clerbaux  
11:30 - 11:50 BARG/HR filled products and release - Edward Baudrez  
11:50 - 12:15 Future plans and product development - Helen Brindley  
12:15 - 12:30 Wrap up - Helen Brindley  
12:30 - 14:00 Lunch  
14:00 - 16:45 Invited presentations  
14:00 - 14:45 Sea level rise and the Earth energy imbalance - Benoit Meyssignac  
14:45 - 15:30 Hemispheric (a)symmetries and implications for tropical climate - Aiko Voigt  
15:30 - 16:00 Coffee break  
16:00 - 16:45 Overview of current climate radiation issues - Graeme Stephens  
16:45 - 17:45 Contributed presentations  
16:45 - 17:05 About the observation of cloud change due to climate warming - Hélène Chepfer  
17:05 - 17:25 Overview of Arctic Radiation-IceBridge Sea and Ice Experiment (ARISE) - Bill Smith  
17:25 - 17:45 Validation of CERES Ed4 Arctic cloud properties using ARM results - Baike Xi  
18:00 - 20:00 Cocktail  

Thursday, October 9, 2014

Time Event  
09:00 - 09:45 Invited presentations  
09:00 - 09:45 From the west African monsoon up to planetary climate change: synergy amongst radiation budget measurements - Richard Allan  
09:45 - 12:30 Joint CERES/GERB/SCARAB session on syngergy between the missions  
09:45 - 10:05 Comparisons between CERES Aqua, S-NPP and ScaRaB - Wenying Su  
10:05 - 10:25 CERES/ScaRaB/GERB comparisons - Dave Doelling  
10:25 - 10:45 A time series of GERB-CERES comparisons - Jacqueline E. Russel (pp Rhys Parfitt)  
10:45 - 11:10 Coffee break  
11:10 - 11:30 MCS life cycle: TOA flux from SCARAB (and possibly from GERB) - Rémy Roca  
11:30 - 11:50 MCS life cycle: TOA, BOA flux and profile from CERES/MODIS/CLOUDSAT - Dominique Bouniol  
11:50 - 12:30 Open discussion - All  
12:30 - 14:00 Lunch  
14:00 - 16:50 Contributed presentations  
14:00 - 14:20 The daytime cycle in dust aerosol direct radiative effects observed in the central Sahara during June 2011 - Helen Brindley  
14:20 - 14:40 Processes shaping the surface radiation budget in West Africa: observations versus CMIP5 models - Françoise Guichard  
14:40 - 15:00 Clouds and aerosols radiative effects over West Africa, seasonal and meridional patterns - Olivier Geoffroy  
15:00 - 15:20 On the importance of aerosol composition for estimating incoming solar radiation: focus on the Western African stations of Dakar and Niamey during the dry season - Mamadou Drame  
15:20 - 15:40 Diurnal cycle of clouds from geostationnary observations - Geneviève Sèze  
15:40 - 16:10 Coffee break  
16:10 - 16:30 Validation of ScaRaB/Megha-Tropiques Flux data from ISRO and its use in understanding monsoon clouds. - Veerappan Sathiyamoorthy  
16:30 - 16:50 The RMIB space odyssey from Total Solar Irradiance to the Sun-earth IMBAlance (SIMBA) - Steven dewitte  

Friday, October 10, 2014

Time Event  
09:00 - 12:00 Contributed presentations  
09:00 - 09:20 Interannual variability in spectrally resolved TOA radiation diagnosed from 5 years of IASI observations - Helen Brindley  
09:20 - 09:40 Comparing the Relative Stability of CERES, MODIS and MISR Radiances - Joseph Corbett  
09:40 - 10:00 The Climate Monitoring SAF top-of-atmosphere and surface radiation products and datasets - Nicolas CLERBAUX  
10:00 - 10:20 Exploration of the Hemispheric Asymmetry in the Surface Energy Budget using CERES and Reanalysis Data - Norman Loeb  
10:20 - 10:50 Coffee break  
10:50 - 11:05 Long term monitoring of SCARAB using geophysical approach - Rémy Roca  
11:05 - 11:25 Scene classification from CERES radiances using the Random Forests method - Bijoy Thampi  
11:25 - 11:45 Development of the CERES > Flux-by-cloud type simulator - Zachary Eitzen  
11:45 - 12:05 On the use of Simulated Photon Paths to Co-register TOA Radiances in EarthCARE Radiative Closure Experiments - Florian Tornow  
12:10 - 12:10 Adjourn