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08:00 09:00 10:00 11:00 12:00 13:00 14:00 15:00 16:00 17:00 18:00 19:00 20:00	Workshop registration 8:15 - 8:45 (30min) Workshop registration Welcome 8:45 - 9:00 (15min) Welcome Technical Session - SCARAB The MT orbit: consequence for earth radiation studies The SCARAB instrument on board Megha-Tropiques Validation of the SCARAB radiance Validation of the SCARAB flux 9:00 - 10:30 (1h30) Technical Session - SCARAB 9:00 - 9:15 (15min) The MT orbit: consequence for earth radiation studies Michel Capderou 9:15 - 10:00 (45min) The SCARAB instrument on board Megha-Tropiques Michel Dejus 10:00 - 10:15 (15min) Validation of the SCARAB radiance Olivier Chomette 10:15 - 10:30 (15min) Validation of the SCARAB flux Patrick Raberanto Coffee break 10:30 - 11:00 (30min) Coffee break Technical Session - CERES State of CERES CERES FM6 & RBI Instrument Status CERES FM1-FM5 Instrument Status Lunch Cloud WG Report ADM WG Report SOFA WG Report Coffee break SARB WG Report TISA WG Report DMT & ASDC Reports 11:00 - 17:15 (6h15) Technical Session - CERES 11:00 - 11:30 (30min) State of CERES Norman Loeb 11:30 - 12:00 (30min) CERES FM6 & RBI Instrument Status Kory J. Priestley 12:00 - 12:30 (30min) CERES FM1-FM5 Instrument Status Susan Thomas 12:30 - 14:00 (1h30) Lunch 14:00 - 14:30 (30min) Cloud WG Report Patrick Minnis 14:30 - 14:50 (20min) ADM WG Report Wenying Su 14:50 - 15:10 (20min) SOFA WG Report David D. Kratz 15:10 - 15:45 (35min) Coffee break 15:45 - 16:15 (30min) SARB WG Report Seiji Kato 16:15 - 16:45 (30min) TISA WG Report David Doelling 16:45 - 17:15 (30min) DMT & ASDC Reports Jonathan Gleason	Technical Session - GERB GERB Project overview GERB Program and instrument status GERB operations report GERB calibration report Coffee break GGSPS status report ROLSS status report BARG/HR filled products and release Future plans and product development Wrap up 9:00 - 12:30 (3h30) Technical Session - GERB 9:00 - 9:15 (15min) GERB Project overview Helen Brindley 9:15 - 9:45 (30min) GERB Program and instrument status Jacqueline E. Russell 9:45 - 10:05 (20min) GERB operations report James Rufus 10:05 - 10:30 (25min) GERB calibration report Jacqueline E. Russell 10:30 - 11:00 (30min) Coffee break 11:00 - 11:15 (15min) GGSPS status report Andy Smith/Martin Bates 11:15 - 11:30 (15min) ROLSS status report Nicolas Clerbaux 11:30 - 11:50 (20min) BARG/HR filled products and release Edward Baudrez 11:50 - 12:15 (25min) Future plans and product development Helen Brindley 12:15 - 12:30 (15min) Wrap up Helen Brindley Lunch 12:30 - 14:00 (1h30) Lunch Invited presentations Sea level rise and the Earth energy imbalance Hemispheric (a)symmetries and implications for tropical climate Coffee break Overview of current climate radiation issues 14:00 - 16:45 (2h45) Invited presentations 14:00 - 14:45 (45min) Sea level rise and the Earth energy imbalance Benoit Meyssignac 14:45 - 15:30 (45min) Hemispheric (a)symmetries and implications for tropical climate Aiko Voigt 15:30 - 16:00 (30min) Coffee break 16:00 - 16:45 (45min) Overview of current climate radiation issues Graeme Stephens Contributed presentations About the observation of cloud change due to climate warming Overview of Arctic Radiation-IceBridge Sea and Ice Experiment (ARISE) Validation of CERES Ed4 Arctic cloud properties using ARM results 16:45 - 17:45 (1h) Contributed presentations 16:45 - 17:05 (20min) About the observation of cloud change due to climate warming Hélène Chepfer 17:05 - 17:25 (20min) Overview of Arctic Radiation-IceBridge Sea and Ice Experiment (ARISE) Bill Smith 17:25 - 17:45 (20min) Validation of CERES Ed4 Arctic cloud properties using ARM results Baike Xi Cocktail 18:00 - 20:00 (2h) Cocktail	Invited presentations From the west African monsoon up to planetary climate change: synergy amongst radiation budget measurements 9:00 - 9:45 (45min) Invited presentations 9:00 - 9:45 (45min) From the west African monsoon up to planetary climate change: synergy amongst radiation budget measurements Richard Allan Joint CERES/GERB/SCARAB session on syngergy between the missions Comparisons between CERES Aqua, S-NPP and ScaRaB CERES/ScaRaB/GERB comparisons A time series of GERB-CERES comparisons Coffee break MCS life cycle: TOA flux from SCARAB (and possibly from GERB) MCS life cycle: TOA, BOA flux and profile from CERES/MODIS/CLOUDSAT Open discussion 9:45 - 12:30 (2h45) Joint CERES/GERB/SCARAB session on syngergy between the missions 9:45 - 10:05 (20min) Comparisons between CERES Aqua, S-NPP and ScaRaB Wenying Su 10:05 - 10:25 (20min) CERES/ScaRaB/GERB comparisons Dave Doelling 10:25 - 10:45 (20min) A time series of GERB-CERES comparisons Jacqueline E. Russel (pp Rhys Parfitt) 10:45 - 11:10 (25min) Coffee break 11:10 - 11:30 (20min) MCS life cycle: TOA flux from SCARAB (and possibly from GERB) Rémy Roca 11:30 - 11:50 (20min) MCS life cycle: TOA, BOA flux and profile from CERES/MODIS/CLOUDSAT Dominique Bouniol 11:50 - 12:30 (40min) Open discussion All Lunch 12:30 - 14:00 (1h30) Lunch Contributed presentations The daytime cycle in dust aerosol direct radiative effects observed in the central Sahara during June 2011 Processes shaping the surface radiation budget in West Africa: observations versus CMIP5 models Clouds and aerosols radiative effects over West Africa, seasonal and meridional patterns 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 Diurnal cycle of clouds from geostationnary observations Coffee break Validation of ScaRaB/Megha-Tropiques Flux data from ISRO and its use in understanding monsoon clouds. The RMIB space odyssey from Total Solar Irradiance to the Sun-earth IMBAlance (SIMBA) 14:00 - 16:50 (2h50) Contributed presentations 14:00 - 14:20 (20min) The daytime cycle in dust aerosol direct radiative effects observed in the central Sahara during June 2011 Helen Brindley 14:20 - 14:40 (20min) Processes shaping the surface radiation budget in West Africa: observations versus CMIP5 models Françoise Guichard 14:40 - 15:00 (20min) Clouds and aerosols radiative effects over West Africa, seasonal and meridional patterns Olivier Geoffroy 15:00 - 15:20 (20min) 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 (20min) Diurnal cycle of clouds from geostationnary observations Geneviève Sèze 15:40 - 16:10 (30min) Coffee break 16:10 - 16:30 (20min) Validation of ScaRaB/Megha-Tropiques Flux data from ISRO and its use in understanding monsoon clouds. Veerappan Sathiyamoorthy 16:30 - 16:50 (20min) The RMIB space odyssey from Total Solar Irradiance to the Sun-earth IMBAlance (SIMBA) Steven dewitte	Contributed presentations Interannual variability in spectrally resolved TOA radiation diagnosed from 5 years of IASI observations Comparing the Relative Stability of CERES, MODIS and MISR Radiances The Climate Monitoring SAF top-of-atmosphere and surface radiation products and datasets Exploration of the Hemispheric Asymmetry in the Surface Energy Budget using CERES and Reanalysis Data Coffee break Long term monitoring of SCARAB using geophysical approach Scene classification from CERES radiances using the Random Forests method Development of the CERES > Flux-by-cloud type simulator On the use of Simulated Photon Paths to Co-register TOA Radiances in EarthCARE Radiative Closure Experiments 9:00 - 12:00 (3h) Contributed presentations 9:00 - 9:20 (20min) Interannual variability in spectrally resolved TOA radiation diagnosed from 5 years of IASI observations Helen Brindley 9:20 - 9:40 (20min) Comparing the Relative Stability of CERES, MODIS and MISR Radiances Joseph Corbett 9:40 - 10:00 (20min) The Climate Monitoring SAF top-of-atmosphere and surface radiation products and datasets Nicolas CLERBAUX 10:00 - 10:20 (20min) Exploration of the Hemispheric Asymmetry in the Surface Energy Budget using CERES and Reanalysis Data Norman Loeb 10:20 - 10:50 (30min) Coffee break 10:50 - 11:05 (15min) Long term monitoring of SCARAB using geophysical approach Rémy Roca 11:05 - 11:25 (20min) Scene classification from CERES radiances using the Random Forests method Bijoy Thampi 11:25 - 11:45 (20min) Development of the CERES > Flux-by-cloud type simulator Zachary Eitzen 11:45 - 12:05 (20min) On the use of Simulated Photon Paths to Co-register TOA Radiances in EarthCARE Radiative Closure Experiments Florian Tornow Adjourn 12:10 - 12:10 () Adjourn

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