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Sunday, 9 July 2006
	5:00 PM-7:00 PM, Sunday Conference Registration
Monday, 10 July 2006
	7:30 AM, Monday Registration Continues Through Friday, 14 July
	9:00 AM-10:00 AM, Monday, Ballroom AD Session 1 New Approaches to Radiation Measurement and Remote Sensing: I
Chair: Norman G. Loeb, Hampton Univ., Hampton, VA
9:00 AM 1.1 PRECISE MONITORING OF TERRESTRIAL AEROSOLS AND TOTAL SOLAR IRRADIANCE: INTRODUCING THE NASA GLORY MISSION   Michael I. Mishchenko, NASA/GISS, New York, NY; and L. D. Travis, B. Cairns, and J. Chowdhary 9:15 AM 1.2 Concept for a Climate Calibration Observatory: "NIST in orbit"   Bruce A. Wielicki, NASA/LARC, Hampton, VA; and J. G. Anderson, B. R. Barkstrom, J. J. Bates, J. Harder, J. E. Harries, C. McClain, M. G. Mlynczak, P. Pilewskie, K. J. Priestley, J. Rice, D. Siegel, T. Stone, T. R. Karl, K. E. Trenberth, F. Valero, and W. Wiscombe 9:30 AM 1.3 Far-infrared spectroscopy of the troposphere - FIRST   Martin G. Mlynczak, NASA/LARC, Hampton, VA; and D. Johnson, D. P. Kratz, X. Liu, H. Latvakoski, G. E. Bingham, and P. Yang 9:45 AM 1.4 DSCOVR, Earth Sciences from a New Perspective   Francisco P.J. Valero, SIO/Univ. of California, La Jolla, CA; and J. Herman and P. Minnis
	10:00 AM-10:30 AM, Monday Coffee Break
	10:30 AM-12:00 PM, Monday, Ballroom AD Session 2 Remote Sensing of Clouds and Aerosols I: Clouds from MODIS and MISR
Chair: James A. Coakley, Jr., Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR
10:30 AM 2.1 The operational MODIS cloud optical and microphysical retrieval product: Overview of the Collection 5 processing algorithm and preliminary Level-2 results   Steven Platnick, NASA/GSFC, Greenbelt, MD; and M. D. King, J. Riedi, G. T. Arnold, B. Wind, G. Wind, and P. Hubanks 10:45 AM 2.2 Spatial and temporal distribution of cloud properties observed by MODIS: Preliminary Level-3 results from the Collection 5 reprocessing   Michael D. King, NASA/GSFC, Greenbelt, MD; and S. Platnick, P. Hubanks, and R. Pincus 11:00 AM 2.3 Systematic comparisons of clouds as observed by MODIS and ISCCP   Robert Pincus, NOAA/ESRL, Boulder, CO; and C. P. Batstone and S. E. Platnick 11:15 AM 2.4 Retrieval of cloud phase and ice crystal habit from multi-angle satellite data   Sally A. McFarlane, PNNL, Richland, WA; and R. T. Marchand 11:30 AM 2.5 Impact of 3D cloud structure on satellite retrievals of cloud droplet sizes   Alexander Marshak, NASA/GSFC, Greenbelt, MD; and T. Varnai, S. Platnick, G. Wen, and R. F. Cahalan 11:45 AM 2.6 Estimation of cloud liquid water path and detection of rain using the vertical profile of cloud droplet size   Z. Li, Univ. of Maryland, College Park, MD; and R. Chen, F. L. Chang, R. Ferraro, and F. Weng
	12:00 PM-1:30 PM, Monday Lunch Break
	1:30 PM-3:00 PM, Monday, Hall of Ideas G-J Session 3 Remote Sensing of Clouds and Aerosols II: Three-Dimentional Effects
Chair: Alexander Marshak, NASA/GSFC, Greenbelt, MD
1:30 PM 3.1 Comparison of angular dependence of observed and simulated distributions of radiances over stratocumulus clouds   Mikhail Ovtchinnikov, PNNL, Richland, WA; and R. T. Marchand 1:45 PM 3.2 A study of the probability of clear line of sight (PCLoS) through cumulus clouds in the tropical western Pacific   Patrick Taylor, Florida State Univ., Tallahassee, FL; and R. G. Ellingson 2:00 PM 3.3 Remote sensing of real and artificial clouds with Meteosat Second Generation   Bernhard Mayer, Deutsches Zentrum fuer Luft- und Raumfahrt, Wessling, Germany; and T. Zinner and L. Bugliaro 2:15 PM 3.4 Reflectance Anisotropy Comparison of Marine Stratocumulus and Trade Cumulus Using MISR-MODIS Synergy   Lusheng Liang, Univ. of Illinois, Urbana, IL; and L. Di Girolamo and S. Platnick 2:30 PM 3.5 Multi-angular radiances of an isolated convective cloud: comparison between MISR measurement and Monte-Carlo simulation   Céline Cornet, Laboratoire d'Optique Atmosphérique, Université de Lille, France, Villeneuve d'Ascq, France; and R. Davies 2:45 PM 3.6 MODIS observations of 3D radiative effects occurring in clouds   Tamas Varnai, JCET/Univ. of Maryland Baltimore County, Baltimore, MD; and A. Marshak
	3:00 PM-3:30 PM, Monday Coffee Break
	3:30 PM-5:00 PM, Monday, Hall of Ideas G-J Session 4 The Earth's Radiation Budget I: General contributions
Chair: Bruce A. Wielicki, NASA Langley Research Center, Hampton, VA
3:30 PM 4.1 The Geostationary Earth Radiation Budget edition 1 data release   Steven Dewitte, Royal Meteorological Institute of Belgium, B-1180 Brussels, Belgium; and L. Gonzalez, N. Clerbaux, A. Ipe, and C. Bertrand 3:45 PM 4.2 Radiative Energy Budget in the Tropical Upper Troposphere and Lower Stratosphere: Cloud Impact   Qiang Fu, Univ. of Washington, Seattle, WA; and S. Fueglistaler 4.3 Long-term changes of the top-of-atmosphere radiation budget and tropical atmospheric circulation from satellite measurements and climate models   Christos M. Mitas, Univ. of Miami, Miami, FL; and A. Clement 4:00 PM 4.4 The radiative energy budget in the Multi-scale Modeling Framework: A comparison to ARM observations   Thomas Ackerman, PNNL, Richland, WA; and S. McFarlane and J. Mather 4:15 PM 4.5 A new solar irradiance reference spectrum   P. Pilewskie, Univ. of Colorado, Boulder, CO; and J. Harder and J. M. Fontenla 4:30 PM 4.6 An Assessment of Radiative Feedbacks in Coupled Ocean-Atmosphere Models   Brian Soden, NOAA/GFDL and Princeton Univ., Princeton, NJ; and I. M. Held
	5:00 PM, Monday Oral Sessions End for the Day
	5:00 PM, Monday, Grand Terrace Joint Poster Session 1 Indirect Effects Posters (Joint with 12th Conference on Atmospheric Radiation & 12th Conference on Cloud Physics)
CoChair: Timothy J. Garrett, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT
Poster JP1.2 has been moved. New paper number is 1.3A     JP1.3 Studies of aerosol indirect effects in stratocumulus using a mixed layer model   Robert Wood, Univ. of Washington, Seattle, WA   JP1.4 Synoptic scale analyses of the cloud microphysical properties using MODIS 5-kilometers sub-sampling radiance dataset   Takashi Y. Nakajima, Tokai Univ., Tokyo, Japan; and K. Suzuki   JP1.5 The effects of cloud morphology and sun-satellite angle on MODIS studies of cloud/aerosol interactions over Amazonia during the burning season   Brian L. Vant-Hull, Univ. of Maryland, College Park, MD; and Z. Li, L. A. Remer, A. Marshak, D. Rosenfeld, and T. Yuan   JP1.6 Simulation of aerosol effects on precipitation from green-ocean, smoky and pyro-clouds using a spectral microphysics cloud model with a precise calculation of supersaturation and diffusion growth   Nir Benmoshe, The Hebrew Univ. of Jerusalem, Jerusalem, Israel; and A. Pokrovsky and A. P. Khain   JP1.7 Evaluation of the aerosol indirect effect using satellite, chemical transport model, and aircraft data from ICARTT   Lance Avey, Univ. of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT; and T. J. Garrett and A. Stohl   JP1.8 Comparative simulation between with bulk and with bin type cloud microphysical scheme on non-hydrostatic regional model   Takamichi Iguchi, Univ. of Tokyo, Chiba, Japan; and T. Nakajima, A. P. Khain, and T. Takemura   JP1.9 Optimal Air Pollution Control Strategies with Application to the Power Generation Sector   M. Ba-Shammakh, Univ. of Waterloo, Waterloo, ON, Canada; and A. Elkamel, P. Douglas, and E. Croiset   JP1.10 Aerosol-cloud-radiation and surface flux interactions simulated in a large-eddy model   Hongli Jiang, NOAA/CIRA/ESRL, Boulder, CO; and G. Feingold   JP1.11 Aerosol Interactions with Cloud Dynamics   William R. Cotton, Colorado State Univ., Fort Collins, CO; and S. C. Van den Heever   JP1.12 Aerosol Indirect Effect on Long-lasting Mesoscale Convective Systems: A modeling study   Xiaowen Li, Univ. of Maryland, Baltimore County/GEST and NASA/GSFC, Greenbelt, MD; and W. K. Tao, A. Khain, and J. Simpson   JP1.13 Aerosol effects on cloud dynamics, microphysics and precipitation: numerical simulations with WRF with spectral (bin) microphysics   Barry H. Lynn, Columbia Univ. New York, NY and The Hebrew Univ. of Jerusalem, Jerusalem, Israel; and A. Khain   JP1.15 Aerosol-cloud interactions and the effects on orographic precipitation   Andreas Mühlbauer, ETH Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland; and U. Lohmann   JP1.17 Comparisons of climate model simulations of aerosol indirect forcing with in-situ and remote sensing observations   Eric M. Wilcox, NASA/GSFC, Greenbelt, MD; and Y. Sud and G. Walker   JP1.18 Broadband cloud susceptibility inferred from MODIS   Lazaros Oreopoulos, JCET/Univ. of Maryland Baltimore County, Greenbelt, MD; and S. Platnick   JP1.19 The aerosol indirect effects examined by numerically calculated aerosols and satellite derived clouds   Kazuaki Kawamoto, Research Institute for Humanity and Nature, Kyoto, Japan; and T. Hayasaka, I. Uno, and T. Ohara
	5:00 PM-7:00 PM, Monday Formal Poster Viewing
	5:00 PM-7:00 PM, Monday, Grand Terrace Poster Session 1 Radiation Poster Session I: Surface Properties and New Measurements
Chair: Timothy J. Garrett, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT
P1.1 Global surface albedo from CERES/Terra surface and atmospheric radiation budget (SARB) data product   David A. Rutan, AS&M, Hampton, VA; and T. P. Charlock, F. Rose, S. Kato, S. M. Zentz, and L. H. Coleman   P1.2 Detailed measurements of enhanced solar irradiation at the surface due to the presence of clouds   Andreas Macke, IFM-GEOMAR, Kiel, Germany; and C. Stick, N. Schade, and H. Sandmann   P1.3 Comparison of Radiosonde and RUC Model Mean Radiating Temperature of the Atmosphere   Zlatko R. Vukovic, Environment Canada, Toronto, ON, Canada; and J. W. Strapp   P1.4 Calibration for the solar channel using MODIS-derived BRDF parameters over Australian desert targets   Hyoung-Wook Chun, Seoul National Univ., Seoul, South Korea; and B. J. Sohn   P1.5 A coupled atmosphere-ocean radiative transfer system using the analytic four-stream approximation   Wei-Liang Lee, Univ. of California, Los Angeles, CA; and K. N. Liou   P1.6 A comparison of surface flux products from GEWEX Surface Radiation Budget with ECMWF ERA-40, NCEP/NCAR Reanalysis and CERES SRBAVG   J. Colleen Mikovitz, AS&M, Hampton, VA; and P. W. Stackhouse, S. K. Gupta, S. J. Cox, T. Zhang, L. M. Hinkelman, D. R. Doelling, and D. F. Keyes   P1.7 Water vapor products from Meteosat-8 SEVIRI: An information content analysis for climate purposes   Ralf Bennartz, Univ. of Wisconsin, Madison, WI; and M. Stengel, J. Schulz, J. Fischer, and R. Preusker   P1.8 SAWA experiment—evaluation of dust particles properties by means of lidar and sun-photometer synergic measurements   Aleksandra E. Kardas, Warsaw Univ., Warsaw, Poland; and K. M. Markowicz, K. Stelmaszczyk, G. Karasinski, S. P. Malinowski, and T. Stacewicz   P1.9 Radiative closure studies at the North Slope of Alaska ARM Climate Research Facility   J. Delamere, Atmospheric and Environmental Research, Inc, Lexington, MA; and S. A. Clough, D. D. Turner, E. J. Mlawer, K. Cady-Pereira, R. Knuteson, D. C. Tobin, H. E. Revercomb, and M. Shephard   P1.10 Fast Longwave and Shortwave Flux (FLASHFlux) Products from CERES and MODIS Measurements   Paul W. Stackhouse Jr., NASA/LaRC, Hampton, VA; and D. P. Kratz, G. R. McGarragh, S. K. Gupta, and E. B. Geier   P1.11 Evaluation of ground-based infrared and microwave spectral observations and calculations using six years of ARM data   David D. Turner, CIMSS/Univ. of Wisconsin, Madison, WI; and D. Tobin, R. O. Knuteson, H. E. Revercomb, S. A. Clough, E. J. Mlawer, K. Cady-Pereira, and J. Delamere   P1.12 Comparison and validation of MODIS infrared and near infrared total precipitable water products   Eva Borbas, Univ. of Wisconsin, Madison, WI; and S. W. Seemann, G. Stephenson, J. Li, and W. P. Menzel   P1.13 Column optical depth retrieval using surface reflectivity from GLAS   Dennis L. Hlavka, SSAI, Greenbelt, MD; and S. P. Palm, R. S. Lancaster, and J. Spinhirne   P1.14 Calibration of MTSAT-1R infrared channels using MODIS/Terra measurements   Hyojin Han, Seoul National Univ., Seoul, South Korea; and B. J. Sohn and H. S. Park   P1.15 Adaptation of ground-based radiometers for outgoing radiative flux measurements from Ultra Long Duration Balloons   Wenying Su, Hampton Univ., Hampton, VA; and E. G. Dutton, T. P. Charlock, and W. J. Wiscombe   P1.16 A new approach to measure low liquid water path using solar radiance in an infrared window   Jui-Yuan Christine Chiu, JCET/Univ. of Maryland, Baltimore County, Baltimore, MD; and W. J. Wiscombe, A. Marshak, and J. C. Liljegren   P1.17 USING PSEUDO-MONOCHROMATIC RADIANCE FOR THE RETRIEVAL OF ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE AND MOISTURE PROFILES   Y. Qu, ITT Industries, Fort Wayne, IN; and W. Smith and X. Liu   P1.18 Radiometric performance of the CERES Earth Radiation Budget climate record sensors on the EOS Aqua and Terra Spacecraft   Kory J. Priestley, NASA/LARC, Hampton, VA; and G. Matthews, S. Thomas, D. Cooper, D. Walikainen, P. Hess, Z. P. Szewczyk, and R. Wilson   P1.19 K-binning: A new approach to simulate narrow band satellite channels in layered atmospheres with varible gas absorption   Rene Preusker, Freie Universitaet Berlin, Berlin, Germany; and R. Bennartz   P1.20 Data Analysis of the Far Infrared Spectroscopy of the Troposphere Instrument   Xu Liu, NASA/LaRC, Hampton, VA; and M. Mlynczak, D. Johnson, D. Kratz, H. Latvakoski, and G. Bingham   P1.21 Calibration and performance assessment of the Far-Infrared Spectroscopy of the Troposphere sensor   David G. Johnson, NASA/LaRC, Hampton, VA; and M. G. Mlynczak, X. Liu, and D. P. Kratz   P1.22 A discrete-ordinates treatment of ocean surface roughness for a coupled radiative transfer code   Zhonghai Jin, AS&M, Inc./NASA LaRC, Hampton, VA; and T. Charlock and K. Rutledge
	5:00 PM-7:00 PM, Monday, Grand Terrace Poster Session 2 Radiation Poster Session II: Parameterizations & Cloud and Aerosol Interactions
Chair: Timothy J. Garrett, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT
P2.1 Radiative impacts of tropical thin cirrus clouds   Joonsuk Lee, Texas A&M Univ., College Station, TX; and P. Yang, A. E. Dessler, and B. C. Gao   P2.2 Modulation of the aerosol absorption and single-scattering albedo in Southwest Asia due to large scale and sea breeze circulations.   Joanna Remiszewska, Institute of Geophysics, Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw, Poland; and K. M. Markowicz, J. S. Reid, E. A. Reid, and M. Witek   P2.3 Comparison of SW radiances/fluxes from a model with coincident CERES/MODIS measurements   Zhonghai Jin, AS&M, Inc./NASA LaRC, Hampton, VA; and F. G. Rose, D. A. Rutan, and T. Charlock   P2.4 CERES Proto-Edition_3 radiative transfer :model tests and radiative closure over surface validations sites   Fred Rose, AS&M, Hampton, VA; and T. Charlock, Q. Fu, S. Kato, D. A. Rutan, and Z. Jin   P2.5 A modeling study of secondary organic aerosols using a general circulation model   Daisuke Goto, The Univ. of Tokyo, Kashiwa, Chiba, Japan; and T. Takemura and T. Nakajima   P2.6 Spectral Atmospheric Aerosol Absorption Coefficients   Robert W. Bergstrom, Bay Area Environmental Research Institute, Sonoma, CA; and P. Pilewskie, P. B. Russell, J. Redemann, and T. Bond   P2.7 SHDOMPPDA: A radiative transfer tool for cloudy sky data assimilation   K. Franklin Evans, Univ. of Colorado, Boulder, CO   P2.8 Multiple scaling method and its application to the calculation of radiative fluxes   Tsuneaki Suzuki, Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology, Yokohama, Kanagawa, Japan; and T. Nakajima and M. Tanaka   P2.9 Investigation of the sensitivity of ice cloud radiative properties to the parameterization scheme of ice crystal habit distributions in NCAR Community Atmosphere Model 3.0   Zhibo Zhang, Texas A&M Univ., College Station, TX; and P. Yang, A. Heymsfield, B. A. Baum, Y. X. Hu, and K. M. Xu   P2.10 Improvement of a radiation process for the non-hydrostatic model   Ryoji Nagasawa, Japan Meteorological Agency, Tokyo, Japan P2.11 Impacts of modifying unresolved cloud structure for radiative transfer in the CCCma GCM   Jason N.S. Cole, MSC, Downsview, ON, Canada; and H. W. Barker, K. von Salzen, and J. Li   P2.12 Application of different 3d radiative flux parameterizations in the global atmospheric circulation model ECHAM 5   Sebastian Wahl, IFM-GEOMAR, Kiel, Germany; and A. Macke   P2.13 A fast radiative transfer model for hyperspectral remote sensing   Zhibo Zhang, Texas A&M Univ., College Station, TX; and P. Yang, A. H. L. Huang, B. A. Baum, and D. Zhou   P2.14 A fast and accurate cloud overlap parameterization for microwave data assimilation   Chris O'Dell, Univ. of Wisconsin, Madison, WI; and R. Bennartz and P. Bauer   P2.15 A 3D vector radiative transfer computational package based on the Monte Carlo method   Peng-Wang Zhai, Texas A&M Univ., College Station, TX; and G. W. Kattawar and P. Yang   P2.16 Validation of numerical models using satellite data   Kyung Jung Moon, Yonsei Univ., Seoul, South Korea; and J. Kim and S. Y. Hong   P2.17 Retrieving surface insolation from narrowband satellite radiances under cloudy skies– A comparison of two different approaches   Hartwig Manfred Deneke, KNMI, 3732 GK De Bilt, Netherlands; and R. A. Roebeling, E. L. Wolters, and A. J. Feijt   P2.18 New calculations of the effect of scattering by hydrosols on the underwater polarization field—Application to marine animals' visual world   Amit Lerner, The Hebrew Univ. of Jerusalem, Jerusalem, Israel; and C. Erlick-Haspel, N. Shashar, and S. Sabbah   P2.19 Measurement-based estimation of aerosol radiative forcing: The spatial mean and the spatial gradient of radiative forcing   Toshihisa Matsui, Colorado State Univ., Fort Collins, CO; and R. Pielke   P2.20 Effective refractive indices of water and sulfate drops containing absorbing inclusions   Carynelisa Erlick-Haspel, Hebrew Univ. of Jerusalem, Jerusalem, Israel   P2.21 Impact of UK Met Office's shortwave scheme on CPTEC's global model   Julio C. S. Chagas, Centro de Previsão de Tempo e Estudos Climáticos, Cachoeira Paulista, São Paulo, Brazil; and H. D. M. J. Barbosa   P2.22 Impact of a new radiative transfer parameterization in forecast and climate mode.   Paul A. Vaillancourt, Meteorological Service of Canada, Dorval, QC, Canada; and D. Talbot, J. Li, B. Dugas, K. Winger, and M. Charon   P2.23 Evaluation of regional cloud climate simulations over Scandinavia using a ten-year NOAA AVHRR cloud climatology   Karl-Göran Karlsson, SMHI, Norrköping, Sweden; and U. Willén, K. Wyser, and C. G. Jones
Tuesday, 11 July 2006
	8:30 AM-10:00 AM, Tuesday, Hall of Ideas G-J Session 5 Observations and Modeling of the Surface Radiative Properties
Chair: William D. Collins, NCAR, Boulder, CO
8:30 AM 5.1 Insights from laboratory and airborne BRDF measurements for satellite remote sensing   Charles Gatebe, Univ. of Maryland Baltimore County, Baltimore, MD; and M. D. King, G. T. Georgiev, and J. Butler 8:45 AM 5.2 Canopy emissivity characterization from hyper spectral infrared obervations   Guido Masiello Sr., IMAA/CNR, Tito Scalo, Italy; and G. Grieco, C. Serio, and V. Cuomo 9:00 AM 5.3 Spectral bidirectional reflectance of Antarctic snow: Measurements and parameterization   Stephen R. Hudson, Univ. of Washington, Seattle, WA; and S. G. Warren, R. E. Brandt, T. C. Grenfell, and D. Six 9:15 AM 5.4 Meridional Ocean Radiation Experiment MORE: First Results   Andreas Macke, IFM-GEOMAR, Kiel, Germany; and J. Kalisch, A. Sinitsyn, and S. Gulev 9:30 AM 5.5 A parameterization of spectral and broadband ocean surface albedo   Zhonghai Jin, AS&M, Inc./NASA LaRC, Hampton, VA; and T. P. Charlock and C. K. Rutledge 9:45 AM 5.6 Clear-sky and surface narrowband albedo variations derived from VIRS and MODIS Data   Yan Chen, SAIC, Hampton, VA; and S. Sun-Mack, R. F. Arduini, and P. Minnis
	10:00 AM-10:30 AM, Tuesday Coffee Break
	10:30 AM-12:00 PM, Tuesday, Hall of Ideas G-J Session 6 Remote Sensing of Clouds and Aerosols III: Cloud Lidar and Radar
Chair: Xiquan Dong, University of North Dakota, Grand Forks, ND
10:30 AM 6.1 Global Aerosol Measurements from the Geoscience Laser Altimeter System Satellite Lidar   James D. Spinhirne, NASA/GSFC, Greenbelt, MD; and D. L. Hlavka, S. P. Palm, and W. D. Hart 10:45 AM 6.2 Global and polar cloud cover from the Geoscience Laser Altimeter System, observations and implications   William Dennis Hart, NASA/GSFC, Greenbelt, MD; and J. Spinhirne, S. P. Palm, and D. L. Hlavka 11:00 AM 6.3 Prospects for Advancing Global Aerosol and Cloud Measurements with CALIPSO   David M. Winker, NASA/LaRC, Hampton, VA; and C. Trepte 11:15 AM 6.4 ARCTIC OBSERVATIONS WITH THE UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN HIGH SPECTRAL RESOLUTION LIDAR   Edwin W. Eloranta, Univ. of Wisconsin, Madison, WI; and T. Uttal 11:30 AM 6.5 Use of a lidar forward model to perform global cloud fraction comparisons between the ICESat lidar and the ECMWF model   Jonathan M. Wilkinson, Univ. of Reading, Reading, Berks., United Kingdom; and R. J. Hogan, A. J. Illingworth, and A. Benedetti 11:45 AM 6.6 A variational cloud retrieval scheme combining radar, lidar and radiometer observations   Robin J. Hogan, Univ. of Reading, Reading, Berks., United Kingdom
	12:00 PM-1:30 PM, Tuesday Lunch Break
	1:30 PM-5:00 PM, Tuesday, Ballroom AD Joint Session 1 Indirect effects (Joint with 12th Conference on Atmospheric Radiation & 12th Conference on Cloud Physics)
Cochairs: Patrick Y. Chuang, University of California Santa Cruz Cloud and Aerosol Laboratory, Santa Cruz, CA; Andrew S. Ackerman, NASA/GISS, New York, NY
1:30 PM J1.1 Aerosol effects on the lifetime of shallow cumulus   Graham Feingold, NOAA Earth System Research Laboratory, Boulder, CO; and H. Jiang, H. Xue, A. Teller, and Z. Levin 1:45 PM J1.2 Indirect impact of atmospheric aerosols in idealized simulations of convective-radiative quasi-equilibrium   Wojciech W. Grabowski, NCAR, Boulder, CO 2:00 PM J1.3 Global impacts of anthropogenic aerosols on convective clouds and precipitation   Ulrike Lohmann, ETH, Zurich, Switzerland 2:15 PM J1.4 A Field Study on the Interaction of Aerosol with Mixed Phase cloud at Alpine Research Station Jungfraujoch in Switzerland   K.N. Bower, Univ. of Manchester, Manchester, United Kingdom; and T. W. Choularton, H. Coe, M. W. Gallagher, P. Connolly, M. J. Flynn, J. Crosier, E. Weingartner, U. Baltensperger, J. Duplissy, S. Sjogren, B. Verheggen, J. Cozic, M. Gysel, S. Walter, J. Curtius, S. Bormann, J. Scneider, M. Ebert, M. Kulmala, and W. Jaeschke 2:30 PM J1.5 A theoretical study of the impact of anthropogenic CCN on the dynamics of deep convective clouds in the EPIC region   D. Pozo, Centro de Ciencias de la Atmósfera, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM), México City (D.F.), México, Mexico City, Mexico; and G. B. Raga and D. Baumgardner 2:45 PM J1.6 A Study of the Impact of Aerosols on Marine Stratocumulus Clouds during the Second Aerosol Characterization Experiment (ACE-2)   Huan Guo, Univ. of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI; and J. E. Penner 3:00 PM Coffee Break   3:30 PM J1.7 The radiative fluxes of LES-simulated trade-wind Cumulus with varying aerosol concentrations   Paquita Zuidema, Univ. of Miami/RSMAS, Miami, FL; and H. Xue and G. Feingold 3:45 PM J1.8 The effect of aerosols on the cloud droplet size profile, thermodynamics, and precipitation   J. V. Martins, Univ. of Maryland Baltimore County/ NASA GSFC/Univ. of Sao Paulo, Greenbelt, MD; and A. Marshak, Y. Kaufman, and L. Remer 4:00 PM J1.9 Response of marine stratocumulus to haze pollution as deduced from MODIS observations of ship tracks   J. A. Coakley Jr., Oregon State Univ., Corvallis, OR; and M. S. Segrin, M. W. Christensen, and W. R. Tahnk 4:15 PM J1.10 Ground-based observation of pollution changing thermal emission from thin liquid clouds   Timothy J. Garrett, Univ. of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT; and C. Zhao 4:30 PM J1.11 Global and regional indirect effects of aerosols appeared in modeling and satellite remote sensing   Teruyuki Nakajima, Univ. of Tokyo, Kashiwa, Chiba, Japan; and T. Takemura, A. Higurashi, T. Y. Nakajima, and K. Suzuki 4:45 PM J1.12 Satellite Monitoring of the First Indirect Aerosol Effect: Retrieval of the Droplet Concentration of Water Clouds   Reinout Boers, KNMI, De Bilt, Netherlands; and J. R. Acarreta and J. L. Gras
	5:00 PM, Tuesday Sessions End for the Day
Wednesday, 12 July 2006
	8:30 AM-10:00 AM, Wednesday, Ballroom AD Session 7 Interaction of Radiation with Clouds and Aerosols
Chair: Seiji Kato, Hampton University, Hampton, VA
8:30 AM 7.1 Derivation of Component Aerosol Direct Radiative Forcing for the Clear Sky by Combining Satellite Measurement and Model Simulations   Tom X.-P. Zhao, CICS/ESSIC/UMCP & STAR/NESDIS/NOAA, Camp Springs, MD; and H. Yu, I. Laszlo, and M. Chin 8:45 AM 7.2 Aerosol and Cloud Radiative Forcing in China: Preliminary Results from the EAST-AIRE Project   Z. Li, Univ. of Maryland, College Park, MD; and M. Cribb, W. Mi, and X. Xia 9:00 AM 7.3 Recent Advances in Modeling of Interactions of Atmospheric Radiation with Mineral Dust   Irina N. Sokolik, Georgia Institude of Technology, Atlanta, GA; and S. Lafon 9:15 AM 7.4 Simulation of aerosol effects on climate system by aerosol climate model   Toshihiko Takemura, Kyushu Univ., Fukuoka, Japan 9:30 AM 7.5 3D Aerosol-Cloud Radiative Interaction in a Cumulus Field in Brazil   Guoyong Wen, GEST/Univ. of Maryland Baltimore County and NASA/GSFC, Greenbelt, MD; and A. Marshak, R. F. Cahalan, L. Remer, and R. Kleidman 9:45 AM 7.6 The effect of horizontal photon transport on the radiative effect of contrails   Robin J. Hogan, Univ. of Reading, Reading, Berks., United Kingdom; and A. Gounou
	10:00 AM-10:30 AM, Wednesday Coffee Break
	10:30 AM-12:00 PM, Wednesday, Ballroom AD Session 8 Remote Sensing of Clouds and Aerosols IV: Aerosols
Chair: Zhanqing Li, University of Maryland, College Park, MD
10:30 AM 8.1 Lidar aerosol retrievals from ICESat using a model-based constrained ratio approach   John A. Reagan, Univ. of Arizona, Tucson, AZ; and X. Wang, S. P. Palm, and J. Spinhirne 10:45 AM 8.2 Development of algorithms to retrieve aerosol optical properties from dual wavelength polarization lidar and application to the lidar data measured over the tropical Pacific Ocean   Tomoaki Nishizawa, MRI, Tsukuba, Japan; and H. Okamoto, T. Takemura, N. Sugimoto, I. Matsui, and A. Shimizu 11:00 AM 8.3 Modeling and ground-based observations of light absorbing aerosols and their effect on the degree of linear polarization   Bryan M. Karpowicz, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA; and I. N. Sokolik 11:15 AM 8.4 Probabilistic dust-cloud mask as a discrimination tool and a data confidence level indicator   Anton Darmenov, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA; and I. N. Sokolik 11:30 AM 8.5 The continuous monitoring of desert dust using an infrared-based dust detection and retrieval method   David P. Duda, National Institute of Aerospace, Hampton, VA; and P. Minnis, Q. Trepte, and S. Sun-Mack 11:45 AM 8.6 Aerosol type detection using satellite remote sensing over the South-East Asia   Jaehwa Lee, Yonsei Univ., Seoul, South Korea; and J. Kim and J. M. Yoon
	12:00 PM-1:30 PM, Wednesday Lunch Break
	1:30 PM-5:00 PM, Wednesday, Ballroom AD Joint Session 2 Radiative properties of clouds (Joint Session with 12th Conference on Atmospheric Radiation & 12th Conference on Cloud Physics)
Cochairs: K. Franklin Evans, Univ. of Colorado, Boulder, CO; Michael I. Mishchenko, NASA/GISS, New York, NY
1:30 PM J2.1 The 4D-clouds Project: Goals, Experiments, Data, and Results   K. Sebastian Schmidt, Colorado Univ., Boulder, CO; and V. Venema and C. Simmer 1:45 PM J2.2 Using observations of deep convective systems to constrain atmospheric column absorption in the optically thick limit   Xiquan Dong, Univ. of North Dakota, Grand Forks, ND; and B. Xi, B. A. Wielicki, Y. Hu, G. G. Mace, and S. Benson 2:00 PM J2.3 Overview of CERES cloud properties derived from VIRS and MODIS data   Patrick Minnis, NASA/LaRC, Hampton, VA; and E. Geier, B. A. Wielicki, S. Sun-Mack, Y. Chen, Q. Z. Trepte, X. Dong, D. R. Doelling, J. K. Ayers, and M. M. Khaiyer 2:15 PM J2.4 Effects of Ice Crystal Habit on the Radiative Properties and Forcing of Cirrus Clouds   Manfred Wendisch, Institute for Tropospheric Research, Leipzig, Germany; and P. Yang and P. Pilewskie 2:30 PM J2.5 Implications of the albedo continuum between hydrated intra-cloud aerosol and activated cloud droplets on aerosol radiative forcing in scattered-to-broken sky cover   Andrew S. Ackerman, NASA/GISS, New York, NY; and R. J. Charlson, T. L. Anderson, and Z. Liu 2:45 PM J2.6 Bulk Scattering Properties of Ice Clouds at Visible Through Far-Infrared Wavelengths   Bryan A. Baum, NASA/LaRC, Madison, WI; and P. Yang and A. J. Heymsfield 3:00 PM Coffee Break   3:30 PM J2.7 Consistency of cloud ice properties estimated from MODIS, AVHRR and SEVIRI   Andrew Heidinger, NOAA, Madison, WI; and B. A. Baum and P. Yang 3:45 PM J2.8 Characteristics of water cloud optical property as simulated by a non-hydrostatic spectral microphysics cloud model   Kentaroh Suzuki, Univ. of Tokyo, Chiba, Japan; and T. Nakajima, T. Y. Nakajima, H. Masunaga, T. Matsui, and A. P. Khain 4:00 PM J2.9 The Impact of Controversial Small Ice Crystals on GCM Simulations   David L. Mitchell, DRI, Reno, NV; and P. Rasch, D. Ivanova, G. McFarquhar, and T. Nousiainen 4:15 PM J2.10 Broadband radiative closure studies in the Atmospheric Radiation Measurement (ARM) program   E. J. Mlawer, Atmospheric and Environmental Research, Inc, Lexington, MA; and M. A. Miller, T. R. Shippert, S. A. Clough, J. S. Delamere, D. D. Turner, K. Johnson, D. Troyan, M. Jensen, C. Long, C. Flynn, C. Sivaraman, D. A. Rutan, P. W. Heck, M. H. Zhang, S. Xie, R. T. Cederwall, and J. J. Michalsky 4:30 PM J2.11 Properties of water-only, mixed-phase, and ice-only clouds over the South Pole   Mark E. Ellison, Univ. of Idaho, Moscow, ID; and V. P. Walden, J. R. Campbell, and J. Spinhirne 4:45 PM J2.12 Constraining cirrus ice crystal size through observation of halos   Margaret B. Kimball, Univ. of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT; and T. J. Garrett
	4:59 PM, Wednesday Oral Sessions End for the Day
	5:00 PM-7:00 PM, Wednesday Formal Poster Viewing II
	5:00 PM-7:00 PM, Wednesday, Grand Terrace Joint Poster Session 2 Radiative Properties of Clouds (Joint with 12th Conference on Atmospheric Radiation & 12th Conference on Cloud Physics)
Chair: Charles N. Long, PNNL, Richland, WA
JP2.1 In-situ observations of vertical profiles of mixed-phase clouds during the Mixed Phase Arctic Cloud Experiment (MPACE): implications for climate studies   Greg McFarquhar, Univ. of Illinois, Urbana, IL; and G. Zhang, M. Poellot, G. Kok, A. J. Heymsfield, and J. Verlinde   JP2.2 Validation studies with and 3D radiative transfer in surrogate cloud fields   Victor Venema, Univ. of Bonn, Bonn, Germany; and S. Gimeno García, K. S. Schmidt, R. Scheirer, F. Di Giuseppe, M. Wendisch, and C. Simmer   JP2.3 The diurnal cycle of radiative fluxes using 3D stratocumulus cloud fields from Large-Eddy simulations   Stephan R. De Roode, Royal Netherlands Meteorological Institute, De Bilt, Netherlands; and A. Los   JP2.4 Retrieval of cloud optical properties from infrared hyper-spectral measurements: a new methodology based on a line-by-line multiple scattering code and measured particle size distributions   Tiziano Maestri, Space Science Engireering Center/ Univ. of Wisconsin, Madison, WI; and R. E. Holz and P. Antonelli   JP2.5 Solution by Pseudo-spectral time-domain method applied to Light scattering by hexagonal ice crystals   Guang Chen, Texas A&M Univ., College Station, TX; and P. Yang, G. W. Kattawar, and J. Q. Lu JP2.6 3.9 Micron Albedo Characteristics of Midlevel Mixed-Phase Clouds   J. Adam Kankiewicz, Colorado State Univ., Fort Collins, CO; and S. Q. Kidder, T. H. Vonder Haar, and D. T. Lindsey   JP2.7 Single-scattering Properties of Platonic solids with Size Parameters in the Geometric-Optics Regime   Zhibo Zhang, Texas A&M Univ., College Station, TX; and P. Yang, G. W. Kattawar, and W. Wiscombe   JP2.8 Scattering properties of complex ice crystal in cirrus cloud   Junshik Um, Univ. of Illinois, Urbana, IL; and G. M. McFarquhar   JP2.9 Properties of overlapping cirrus clouds as deduced from the GOES-12 imagery data   Fu-Lung Chang, National Institute of Aerospace, Hampton, VA; and P. Minnis, B. Lin, S. Sun-Mack, and M. Khaiyer   JP2.10 Polarization and Mueller matrix for multiple scattering by hexagonal ice crystals   Yu Xie, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX; and P. Yang, G. W. Kattawar, and I. Laszlo   JP2.11 Longwave derived cloud amounts compared with shortwave cloud amounts   Ezra E. Takara, Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL; and R. G. Ellingson   JP2.12 Indented and hollow ice crystals: representation by collections of independent spheres   Stephen G. Warren, University of Washington, Seattle, WA; and S. P. Neshyba and T. C. Grenfell   JP2.13 Utilization of equivalent spheres of equal volume and surface area for estimation of the asymmetry parameter from microphysical observations   Carl G. Schmitt, NCAR, Boulder, CO; and A. J. Heymsfield and H. Gerber   JP2.14 Comparison of cloud top height and optical depth histograms from ISCCP, MISR, and MODIS   Roger Marchand, PNNL, Richland, WA; and T. Ackerman, S. E. Platnick, and P. Hubanks   JP2.15 Analysis of three years of ice cloud properties over the tropics from MODIS   Ping Yang, Texas A&M Univ., College Station, TX; and G. Hong, B. C. Gao, B. A. Baum, M. D. King, and S. Platnick   JP2.16 Derivation and tests of the GCSS analytic longwave radiation formula   Kurt E. Kotenberg, Univ. of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, WI; and N. B. Wood and V. E. Larson   JP2.17 A study of cloud top microphysical characteristics in High Plains thunderstorms   William C. Straka III, Space Science and Engineering Center/Univ. of Wisconsin, Madison, WI; and D. T. Lindsey and A. K. Heidinger   JP2.18 A Parameterization of Infrared Radiative Properties of Cirrus/Contrails Containing Small Ice Particles   Qiang Fu, University of Washington, Seattle, WA; and S. Robinson, M. Danilin, and S. Baughcum
	5:00 PM-7:00 PM, Wednesday, Grand Terrace Poster Session 3 Radiation Poster Session III: Earth Radiation Budget
Chair: Charles N. Long, PNNL, Richland, WA
P3.1 The validation of the 5-year Terra-based monthly CERES radiative flux and cloud product   Dennis F. Keyes, AS&M, Hampton, VA; and D. R. Doelling, D. F. Young, F. G. Rose, D. A. Rutan, M. L. Nordeen, and J. S. Boghosian   P3.2 The sensitivity of OLR/DLR to atmospheric temperature and water vapor   Yi Huang, Princeton Univ., Princeton, NJ; and V. Ramaswamy   P3.3 Long-term validation and variability of the shortwave and longwave radiation data of the GEWEX Surface Radiation Budget (SRB) project   Taiping Zhang, AS&M, Hampton, VA; and P. W. Stackhouse, S. K. Gupta, S. J. Cox, J. C. Mikovitz, L. M. Hinkelman, M. Wild, and A. Ohmura   P3.4 Evaluating CERES Terra and Aqua longwave and window top-of-atmosphere flux uncertainties using direct integration test   Natividad Manalo-Smith, AS&M, Hampton, VA; and N. G. Loeb, K. Loukachine, and S. Kato   P3.5 Derivation of improved surface and TOA broadband fluxes using CERES-derived narrowband-to-broadband coefficients   Mandana M. Khaiyer, AS&M, Hampton, VA; and P. Minnis, D. R. Doelling, P. K. Chan, M. L. Nordeen, R. Palikonda, and H. Y. Yi   P3.6 CERES Synoptic Grided Diurnally Resolved Radiative Transfer   Fred Rose, AS&M, Hampton, VA; and T. P. Charlock, B. A. Wielicki, D. R. Doelling, and S. M. Zentz   P3.7 A study of regional and long-term variation of radiation budget using general circulation model   Makiko Mukai, Univ. of Tokyo, Kashiwa, Japan; and T. Nakajima   P3.8 Use of CERES PAPS observations over the Valencia Anchor Station to validate low spatial resolution remote sensing data and products.   Almudena Velazquez Blazquez, Climatology from Satellites Group, Dept. of Physics of the Earth and Thermodynamics, University of Valencia, Valencia, Spain; and S. Alonso, C. Domenech, J. Gimeno, J. Jorge Sanchez, A. Labajo, N. G. Loeb, D. Pino, A. Rius, A. Sanchis, G. L. Smith, Z. P. Szewczyk, R. Tarruella, J. Torrobella, and E. Lopez-Baeza   P3.9 Instantaneous Consistency of Top-of-Atmosphere Radiative Fluxes from CERES on Terra and Aqua Satellites   Konstantin Loukachine, SAIC, Hampton, VA; and N. G. Loeb, S. Kato, N. M. Smith, and W. Sun   P3.12 CERES edition 2 ²Rev 1² calibration adjustments to compensate for short wave spectral darkening of optics   Grant Matthews, NASA/LaRC, Hampton, VA; and K. J. Priestley   P3.13 Aerosol, cloud and radiation measurements from Earth observing satellites   Edward A. Kizer, SAIC, Hampton, VA; and N. A. Ritchey   P3.14 Quantification of a dry bias in radiosonde humidity profiles over Antarctica: Implications for calculations of outgoing longwave radiation   Penny Rowe, University of Idaho, Moscow, ID; and V. P. Walden and L. Miloshevich   P3.16 Surface radiation budget over tropical pacific: Interannual variability   Shashi K. Gupta, AS&M, Hampton, VA; and P. W. Stackhouse, J. C. Mikovitz, S. J. Cox, and T. Zhang   P3.17 Retrieving surface downwelling longwave radiation from satellite measurements: Improvement of the Zhou-Cess algorithm   Yaping Zhou, Univ. of Maryland Baltimore County, Greenbelt, MD; and D. P. Kratz, A. C. Wilber, S. K. Gupta, and R. D. Cess   P3.18 Evaluating shortwave GEWEX Surface Radiation Budget fluxes as a function of sky cover conditions   Laura M. Hinkelman, National Institute of Aerospace, Hampton, VA; and P. W. Stackhouse, S. J. Cox, C. N. Long, and J. Calbo   P3.19 Comparison of surface radiative forcing with tropopause radiative forcing by greenhouse gases   W.F.J. Evans, North West Research Associates, Bellevue, WA   P3.21 Annual cycle of cloud forcing of the surface radiation budget   Anne C. Wilber, AS&M, Hampton, Virginia; and G. L. Smith, S. K. Gupta, and P. W. Stackhouse   P3.22 Cloud albedo and height variations measured by MISR over the Terra mission   Roger Davies, Univ. of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand
	5:00 PM-7:00 PM, Wednesday, Grand Terrace Poster Session 4 Radiation Poster Session IV: Remote Sensing
Chair: Charles N. Long, PNNL, Richland, WA
P4.1 Use of AIRS and MODIS to retrieve ice cloud optical thickness and effective diameter   Christopher Rogers Yost, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX; and P. Yang, S. L. Nasiri, and B. A. Baum   P4.2 Tropical Ice Cloud Statistics from Aqua MODIS Observations   Kerry G. Meyer, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX; and P. Yang, G. North, and B. C. Gao   P4.3 Trends and variability of cloud liquid water path from satellite-based passive microwave observations   Chris O'Dell, Univ. of Wisconsin, Madison, WI; and R. Bennartz   P4.4 The sensitivity of spectral resolution far-infrared radiances to the microphysical and optical properties of ice clouds   Gang Hong, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX; and P. Yang, M. G. Mlynczak, D. P. Kratz, and Y. X. Hu   P4.5 The retrieval of water vapor path and liquid waterpath from the NOAA/AMSU data   Wei Zhou, Univ. of Wisconsin, Madison, WI; and R. Bennartz and H. L. Huang   P4.6 The retrieval of cloud height and emissivity from passive measurements: comparison of techniques   Michael J. Pavolonis, NOAA/NESDIS, Madison, WI; and A. K. Heidinger   P4.7 The retrieval of carbon dioxide above clouds - sensitivity studies   Rasmus Lindstrot, Univ. of Wisconsin, Madison, WI; and R. Bennartz, J. Fischer, C. O'Dell, R. Preusker, and J. Vidot   P4.8 The NPP Atmosphere Product Evaluation and Test Element (PEATE)   Liam E. Gumley, CIMSS/Univ. of Wisconsin, Madison, WI; and H. Revercomb, P. Antonelli, B. Baum, and R. Holz   P4.9 Synthesized solar spectral irradiance in the 3.7 µm band for Earth remote sensing applications   Steven Platnick, NASA/GSFC, Greenbelt, MD; and J. M. Fontenla   P4.10 Spectral versus Broadband Radiance relationships observed between MISR and CERES on the Terra Satellite   Wedad A. Abdou, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA; and R. Davies and N. G. Loeb   P4.11 Sensitivity of depolarized lidar signals to cloud and aerosol particle properties   Yu You, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX; and G. W. Kattawar, P. Yang, Y. Hu, and B. A. Baum   P4.12 Satellite-Derived Cloud Property Errors and Their Effect on Computed Domain-averaged Irradiances with a 1D Radiative Transfer Model   Seiji Kato, Hampton University, Hampton, VA; and L. M. Hinkelman and A. Cheng   P4.13 Satellite cloud microphysical retrieval validation using lidar and radar measurements   Robert Holz, CIMSS/Univ. of Wisconsin, Madison, WI; and L. E. Gumley, D. D. Turner, E. W. Eloranta, H. E. Revercomb, and B. A. Baum   P4.14 Retrieving microphysical properties of liquid water clouds from infrared and microwave observations using an optimal estimation framework   David D. Turner, CIMSS/Univ. of Wisconsin, Madison, WI   P4.15 Retrieval of aerosol optical properties and estimation of aerosol forcing based on multi-spectral sun photometer observations.   Krzysztof M. Markowicz, Warsaw University, Warsaw, Poland; and A. E. Kardas   P4.16 Quantitative assessment of one year of cloud phase determination from SEVIRI using ground-based cloud radar and lidar data   Erwin L.A. Wolters, KNMI, De Bilt, Netherlands; and R. A. Roebeling and A. J. Feijt   P4.17 Particulate matter (PM) retrieval from SeaWiFS measurements   Jerome Vidot, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI; and R. Santer and D. Ramon   P4.18 Observing ice water path and crystal size from space   Steven A. Ackerman, CIMSS/Univ. of Wisconsin, Madison, WI; and D. O. Starr, K. F. Evans, G. Skofronick-Jackson, H. E. Revercomb, J. Wang, B. J. Soden, T. L'Ecuyer, P. Norris, A. Da Silva, P. Racette, T. Greenwald, G. M. McFarquhar, and A. Heymsfield   P4.19 Multilayered Clouds Identification and Retrieval for CERES Using MODIS   Sunny Sun-Mack, SAIC, Hampton, VA; and P. Minnis, Y. Chen, Y. Yi, J. Huang, B. Lin, A. Fan, S. L. Gibson, and F. L. Chang   P4.20 Multi-resolution retrieval of fractional cloudiness for CERES using MODIS data   Louis Nguyen, NASA/LaRC, Hampton, VA; and P. Minnis, S. Sun-Mack, Y. Chen, Q. Trepte, M. L. Nordeen, and P. W. Heck   P4.21 Modeling the Angular Anisotropy in Radiance Observed by MISR over Polar Clouds and Surfaces   Michael Wilson, Univ. of Illinois, Urbana, IL; and L. Di Girolamo   P4.22 Methods to calculate Raman and fluorescent radiation emitted from irregular particles   Yu You, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX; and G. W. Kattawar, C. Li, and P. Yang   P4.23 Intercomparison of retrieved liquid water cloud properties at Pt. Reyes, California during MASRAD   David D. Turner, CIMSS/Univ. of Wisconsin, Madison, WI; and J. Y. C. Chiu, A. Marshak, Q. Min, M. Cadeddu, J. C. Liljegren, and M. A. Miller   P4.24 Influence of cloud geometrical thickness on the estimate of ice cloud optical thickness and effective particle size using satellite multispectral measurements   Gang Hong, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX; and P. Yang, A. Huang, B. A. Baum, Y. X. Hu, and S. Platnick   P4.25 Improvement of cloud's spectral reflection simulation using MODIS cloud products   Seung-Hee Ham, Seoul National Univ., Seoul, South Korea; and B. J. Sohn   P4.26 Improved thin cirrus and terminator cloud detection in CERES cloud mask   Qing Trepte, SAIC, Hampton, VA; and P. Minnis, R. Palikonda, and D. A. Spangenberg   P4.27 Ice cloud microphysical properties and their relation to the dissipation process observed by ship-borne cloud radar   Kaori Sato, Tohoku University, Sendai, Miyagi, Japan; and H. Okamoto and T. Takemura   P4.28 Evaluation of satellite-derived cloud properties in preparation for data assimilation   William L. Smith Jr., NASA/LaRC, Hampton, VA; and P. Minnis, R. Palikonda, G. G. Mace, and T. Uttal   P4.29 Detection and retrieval of mineral dust aerosol using AERI during the UAE2 field campaign   Richard A. Hansell Jr., Univ. of California, Los Angeles, CA; and K. N. Liou, S. C. Ou, S. Tsay, Q. Ji, and J. S. Reid   P4.30 Comparison of polar cloud cover statistics between MODIS, AVHRR Pathfinder, and GLAS   Richard Frey, CIMSS/Univ. of Wisconsin, Madison, WI; and M. J. Pavlonis and J. Key   P4.31 Cloud vertical distribution and overlap statistics from ARM radar/lidar observations   Baike Xi, University of North Dakota, Grand Forks, ND; and X. Dong   P4.32 Cloud detection with MODIS: Capabilities and limitations   Steven A. Ackerman, CIMSS/Univ. of Wisconsin, Madison, WI; and R. A. Frey   P4.33 Analysis of cloud retrievals from MODIS and their impact on radiative fluxes over Canada in the context of application for the CloudSat mission   Alexander P. Trishchenko, Canada Centre for Remote Sensing, Ottawa, ON, Canada; and K. V. Khlopenkov and H. G. Leighton   P4.34 Analyses of MODIS retrieved cloud properties of cumulus clouds in Brazil   Guoyong Wen, Univ. of Maryland Baltimore County/NASA/GSFC, Greenbelt, MD; and A. Marshak, R. F. Cahalan, and W. Wiscombe   P4.35 An aerosol optical depth product for NOAA's SURFRAD network   John A. Augustine, NOAA/ESRL/GMD, Boulder, CO; and J. J. Michalsky and G. B. Hodges   P4.36 A comparison of satellite-derived cloud products with ground-based measurements   William Straka III, CIMSS/Univ. of Wisconsin, Madison, WI; and A. K. Heidinger   P4.37 Vertical Sizing of Cirrus Cloud Using 1.38μm Spectral Reflectance and MODIS Data   Xingjuan Wang, Univ. of California, Los Angeles, CA; and K. N. Liou, S. C. Ou, Y. Takano, and Y. Chen   P4.38 Validation of CERES Science Team-derived MODIS cloud properties using ground-based measurements at the DOE ARM SGP site   Baike Xi, University of North Dakota, Grand Forks, ND; and X. Dong, P. Minnis, S. Sun-Mack, and Y. Chen   P4.39 Using MODIS to study the sensitivity of global high cloud detection and property estimation to sensor resolution   W. Paul Menzel, NOAA/NESDIS, Madison, WI; and H. Zhang, R. Frey, and B. A. Baum   P4.40 Understanding the frequency distribution of BRF through 3-D radiative transfer simulations and its applications on satellite cloud detection   Yuekui Yang, Univ. of Illinois, Urbana, IL; and L. Di Girolamo   P4.41 Tropical cloud regimes from MODIS   Brent C. Maddux, CIMSS/Univ. of Wisconsin, Madison, WI; and S. A. Ackerman   P4.42 State of the global cloud system—A view from MODIS   Brent C. Maddux, CIMSS/Univ. of Wisconsin, Madison, WI; and L. A. Borg, S. A. Ackerman, and B. A. Baum   P4.43 Partly cloudy pixel retrievals of cloud properties and MOD06 cloud products for marine stratocumulus   J. A. Coakley Jr., Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR; and W. R. Tahnk and A. M. Schuetz   P4.44 Microwave remote sensing of lake-induced snowfall: Observation, modeling, and cloud microphysical implications   Mark S. Kulie, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI; and R. Bennartz   P4.45 Lidar data remote sensing of aerosols and anisotropic space-time generalizations of Corrsin-Obukov and Kolmogorov laws   Alexander Radkevich, McGill University, Montreal, QC, Canada; and S. Lovejoy, K. B. Strawbridge, and D. Schertzer   P4.46 Investigation of marine boundary layer cloud properties using MODIS Level-3 and AMSR-E Ocean Products   Lori A. Borg, Univ. of Wisconsin, Madison, WI; and R. Bennartz   P4.47 Interpretation of AIRS data in thin cirrus atmospheres based on a fast radiative transfer model and ARM data   Qing Yue, Univ. of California, Los Angeles, CA; and K. N. Liou, S. C. Ou, B. Kahn, G. Mace, and J. Comstock   P4.48 Improvement of the FRESCO O2 A-band cloud retrieval algorithm for GOME and SCIAMACHY   P. Wang, KNMI, De Blit, Netherlands; and P. Stammes and N. Fournier P4.49 Dust- Pollution Interactions Inferred from Sky Radiometer Measurements   Byung-Ju Sohn, Seoul National Univ., Seoul, South Korea; and T. Nakajima, H. W. Chun, and K. Aoki   P4.50 Detection of daylight arctic clouds using MISR and MODIS data   Tao Shi, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH; and E. E. Clothiaux, B. Yu, A. J. Braverman, and D. N. Groff   P4.51 Analysis of uncertainties in SEVIRI cloud property retrievals for climate monitoring   R.A. Roebeling, Royal Netherlands Meteorological Institute, De Bilt, Utrecht, Netherlands; and N. A. J. Schutgens and A. J. Feijt   P4.52 Analysis of cloud characteristic in Tropics, mid-latitude and polar regions using shipborne cloud radar and lidar   Hajime Okamoto, Tohoku University, Sendai, Miyagi, Japan; and K. Sato, S. Otake, M. Sensu, T. Nishizawa, T. Takemura, N. Sugimoto, T. Takano, Y. Ohno, and T. Nakajima   P4.53 An evaluation of single- and multi-channel aerosol optical depth retrievals applied to MODIS radiances   Istvan Laszlo, NOAA/NESDIS, Camp Springs, MD; and H. Liu and A. Ignatov
Thursday, 13 July 2006
	8:30 AM-10:00 AM, Thursday, Hall of Ideas G-J Session 11 Radiative Transfer Parameterizations and Theory
Chair: Lazaros Oreopoulos, JCET/Univ. of Maryland Baltimore County, Greenbelt, MD
8:30 AM 11.1 An evaluation method of the absorption process with a new radiation code for CCSR/NIES AGCM   Miho Sekiguchi, Univ. of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan; and T. Nakajima 8:45 AM 11.2 Two adaptive schemes for the radiative transfer parameterisation in the Lokal-Modell   Victor Venema, Univ. of Bonn, Bonn, Germany; and F. Ament, A. Schomburg, and C. Simmer 11.3 Towards an Assessment of Realism (Validity) of Short-Wave Radiation Transport Schemes in GCMs using Pathlength Statistics from Fine O2 A-Band Spectroscopy   Anthony B. Davis, LANL, Los Alamos, NM; and H. W. Barker, Q. Min, K. Pfeilsticker, and H. Boesch 9:00 AM 11.4 Assessing tools for 3-dimensional radiative transfer   Robert Pincus, NOAA/ESRL, Boulder, CO; and K. F. Evans 9:15 AM 11.5 Multiple Scattering in Thick Multifractal Clouds   Brian Watson, St. Lawrence University; and S. Lovejoy, Y. Grosdidier, and D. Schertzer 9:30 AM 11.6 A simulator for polarized active sensors: validation and examples of multiple scattering effects   Alessandro Battaglia, Univ. of Bonn, Bonn, Germany; and C. Simmer
	10:00 AM, Thursday Coffee Break
	10:30 AM-12:00 PM, Thursday, Hall of Ideas G-J Session 10 The Earth's Radiation Budget III: Surface fluxes
Chair: Thomas P. Ackerman, PNNL, Richland, WA
10:30 AM 10.1 The NASA/GEWEX Surface Radiation Budget project: overview and analysis   Stephen J. Cox, AS&M, Hampton, VA; and P. W. Stackhouse, S. K. Gupta, J. C. Mikovitz, T. Zhang, L. M. Hinkelman, M. Wild, and A. Ohmura 10:45 AM 10.2 Detection of global energy budget trends using satellite and surface sites: Is the current surface site distribution sufficient?   Laura M. Hinkelman, National Institute of Aerospace, Hampton, VA; and T. Zhang, E. C. Weatherhead, B. A. Wielicki, P. W. Stackhouse, J. C. Mikovitz, M. Wild, and A. Ohmura 11:00 AM 10.3 Long-term ground-based irradiance observations: An under-sampled survey of applications in climate research   Ellsworth G. Dutton, NOAA/ESRL/GMD, Boulder, CO 11:15 AM 10.4 Accuracy of ground-based infrared irradiance measurements in the NOAA/BSRN network   Joseph J. Michalsky, NOAA/ESRL/GMD, Boulder, CO; and E. G. Dutton, J. A. Augustine, C. R. Cornwall, and D. W. Nelson 11:30 AM 10.5 The global surface and atmosphere radiation budget: an assessment of accuracy with 5 years of calculations and observations   Thomas P. Charlock, NASA/LaRC, Hampton, VA; and F. G. Rose, D. A. Rutan, Z. Jin, and S. Kato 11:45 AM 10.6 Interannual Variability in Radiative Cloud Effects and Cloud Macrophysical Properties from Surface Measurements   Charles N. Long, PNNL, Richland, WA; and T. P. Ackerman, K. L. Gaustad, D. D. Turner, and J. C. Barnard
	12:00 PM-1:30 PM, Thursday Lunch Break
	1:30 PM-3:00 PM, Thursday, Ballroom AD Session 9 The Earth's Radiation Budget II: CERES
Chair: Ellsworth G. Dutton, NOAA/ESRL/GMD, Boulder, CO
1:30 PM 9.1 CERES radiation budget accuracy overview   Bruce A. Wielicki, NASA/LaRC, Hampton, VA; and T. P. Charlock, D. R. Doelling, D. P. Kratz, N. G. Loeb, P. Minnis, K. J. Priestley, and D. F. Young 1:45 PM 9.2 A Multi-Instrument Analysis of Global and Regional Variations in Top-of-Atmosphere Radiative Fluxes, Cloud and Aerosol Properties from 2000 - 2005   Norman G. Loeb, Hampton Univ., Hampton, VA; and B. A. Wielicki, W. Su, K. Loukachine, W. Sun, T. Wong, K. J. Priestley, G. Matthews, W. F. Miller, and R. Davies 2:00 PM 9.3 An updated report on the decadal variability of Earth Radiation Budget using the latest ERBE/ERBS WFOV Nonscanner data record   Takmeng Wong, NASA/LARC, Hampton, VA; and B. A. Wielicki, R. B. Lee, G. L. Smith, K. A. Bush, and J. K. Willis 2:15 PM 9.4 The newly released 5-year Terra-based monthly CERES radiative flux and cloud product   David R. Doelling, AS&M, Hampton, VA; and D. F. Young, B. A. Wielicki, T. Wong, and D. F. Keyes 2:30 PM 9.5 The influence of atmospheric moisture budget on the tropical deep convection and cloud radiative forcing   Bing Lin, NASA/LaRC, Hampton, VA; and B. A. Wielicki, P. Minnis, A. Fan, L. H. Chambers, K. M. Xu, and Y. Hu 2:45 PM 9.6 Seasonal and Inter-annual Variations of Top-of-Atmosphere Irradiance and Cloud Cover over Polar Regions Derived from CERES Data Set   Seiji Kato, Hampton University, Hampton, VA; and N. G. Loeb, P. Minnis, T. Charlock, D. A. Rutan, and E. E. Clothiaux
	3:00 PM-3:30 PM, Thursday Coffee Break
	3:30 PM-5:00 PM, Thursday, Ballroom AD Session 12 New Approaches to Radiation Measurement and Remote Sensing: II
Chair: Robert Pincus, NOAA/ESRL, Boulder, CO
3:30 PM 12.1 High resolution modeling of the far-infrared spectra of the Earth's atmosphere   David P. Kratz, NASA/LaRC, Hampton, VA; and M. G. Mlynczak, D. G. Johnson, and X. Liu 3:45 PM 12.2 NEXRAD-In-Space: the potential for spaceborne Doppler radar observations to improve forecasts of tropical cyclones   William E. Lewis, Univ. of Wisconsin, Madison, WI; and G. J. Tripoli 4:00 PM 12.3 Wide Angle Imaging Lidar: Validation for Clouds at Night and Advances Toward Aerosol and Daytime Capabilities   Igor N. Polonsky, LANL, Los Alamos, NM; and A. B. Davis and S. P. Love 4:15 PM 12.4 A novel approach to infer cloud optical depth from zenith radiance observations   Jui-Yuan Christine Chiu, Univ. of Maryland Baltimore County, Baltimore, MD; and A. Marshak, Y. Knyazikhin, W. Wiscombe, J. C. Barnard, and J. Schmelzer 4:30 PM 12.5 PASSIVE THERMAL RETRIEVALS OF ICE AND LIQUID WATER PATH, EFFECTIVE SIZE AND OPTICAL DEPTH and their dependence on particle and size distribution shape   David L. Mitchell, DRI, Reno, NV; and R. P. D'Entremont and D. H. DeSlover 4:45 PM 12.6 Analysis of the global Cloud Dynamics and Radiation Database (CDRD) cloud-scale parameter and radiation distributions   Joseph A. Hoch, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI; and C. M. Medaglia, M. Kulie, C. O'Dell, G. J. Tripoli, A. V. Mehta, and E. A. Smith
	5:00 PM, Thursday Sessions End for the Day
Friday, 14 July 2006
	8:30 AM-10:00 AM, Friday, Ballroom AD Session 13 The Earth's Radiation Budget IV: Data Synthesis
Chair: Steven A. Ackerman, CIMSS/Univ. of Wisconsin, Madison, WI
8:30 AM 13.1 Comparisons of GERB and CERES measurements   Pamela E. Mlynczak, SAIC, Hampton, VA; and G. L. Smith, Z. P. Szewczyk, J. E. Russell, J. E. Harries, S. Dewitte, and N. Clerbaux 8:45 AM 13.2 Comparison of CERES and MISR Top-of-Atmosphere Broadband Albedo   Wenbo Sun, Hampton Univ., Hampton, VA; and N. G. Loeb, R. Davies, K. Loukachine, and W. F. Miller 9:00 AM 13.3 Plane parallel biases of water clouds based on MODIS optical properties   Lazaros Oreopoulos, JCET/Univ. of Maryland Baltimore County, Greenbelt, MD; and R. F. Cahalan and S. Platnick 9:15 AM 13.4 Radiative flux profiles during TWP-ICE   James H. Mather, PNNL, Richland, WA; and S. A. McFarlane 9:30 AM 13.5 Assessment of shipboard measurements and space-based estimates of the surface radiation budget for the northeastern Pacific   J. A. Coakley Jr., Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR; and G. Guo 9:45 AM 13.6 A method for calibration of historical satellite sensors in the solar region using statistics of deep-convective cloud observations from MODIS, VIRS/TRMM and SEAWIFS   Alexander P. Trishchenko, Canada Centre for Remote Sensing, Ottawa, ON, Canada; and D. Pouliot, Y. Luo, K. V. Khlopenkov, and R. Latifovic
	10:00 AM-10:30 AM, Friday Coffee Break
	10:30 AM-12:00 PM, Friday, Hall of Ideas G-J Session 14 Remote Sensing of Clouds and Aerosols V: New Passive Techniques
Chair: William D. Collins, NCAR, Boulder, CO
10:30 AM 14.1 Cloud optical, microphysical and macrophysical retrieval from synergy between POLDER3/Parasol and MODIS/Aqua : Preliminary results   Jérôme Riédi, Laboratoire d’Optique Atmosphérique, USTL, Lille, France; and C. Oudard, J. M. Nicolas, F. Parol, and S. Platnick 10:45 AM 14.2 Retrieval of cloud geometrical properties using ADEOS-II/GLI   Makoto Kuji, Nara Women's University, Nara, Nara, Japan; and T. Nakajima 11:00 AM 14.3 Variability and trends in global cloud parameters from Oxygen A-band measurements by GOME and SCIAMACHY   P. Stammes, KNMI, De Bilt, Netherlands; and N. Fournier and P. Wang 11:15 AM 14.4 Cirrus cloud fields measured by the Atmospheric Infrared Sounder   B. Kahn, NASA/JPL, Pasadena, CA; and A. Eldering and K. N. Liou 11:30 AM 14.5 Relating radiance and irradiance: Using 2D cirrus cloud fields from remote sensing for a model-measurement comparison of spectral irradiance   K. Sebastian Schmidt, Colorado Univ., Boulder, CO; and P. Pilewskie, S. E. Platnick, P. Yang, and M. Wendisch 11:45 AM 14.6 Impact of Finite Resolution Measurement on Low Cloud Climatology Derived from Satellite Data   Guangyu Zhao, Univ. of Illinois, Urbana, IL; and L. Di Girolamo
	12:00 PM, Friday Conference Ends

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