87th AMS Annual Meeting

Session 2: Lidar Networks, Automated Operations, And Long Term Climate Observations

Tuesday, 16 January 2007: 11:00 AM-3:15 PM
207B (Henry B. Gonzalez Convention Center)
Chairs:  Richard Ferrare, NASA/LRC
Cochairs:  Lucia Mona, CNR- IMAA
Papers:
  11:00 AM
2.1
A Decade of Raman Lidar Water Vapor, Aerosol, and Cloud Observations at the ARM Southern Great Plains Site
D.D. Turner, SSEC/Univ. of Wisconsin, Madison, WI; and R. A. Ferrare, J. E. M. Goldsmith, D. Petty, M. B. Clayton, L. A. Brasseur, T. Tooman, Z. Wang, and J. M. Comstock

  11:30 AM
2.2
EARLINET-ASOS: European Aerosol Research Lidar Network-Advanced Sustainable Observation System
Gelsomina Pappalardo, CNR/IMAA, Potenza, Italy; and J. Bösenberg, A. Amodeo, A. Ansmann, A. Apituley, L. A. Arboledas, D. Balis, C. Böckmann, A. Chaikovsky, A. Comeron, V. Freudenthaler, G. Hansen, V. Mitev, D. Nicolae, A. Papayannis, M. R. Perrone, A. Pietruczuk, M. Pujadas, J. P. Putaud, F. Ravetta, V. Rizi, V. Simeonov, N. Spinelli, D. Stoyanov, T. Trickl, and M. Wiegner

Poster PDF (60.0 kB)
  11:45 AM
2.3
Microphysical aerosol parameters from optical data
Christine Böckmann, Univ. of Potsdam, Potsdam, Brandenburg, Germany; and D. Müller

  12:00 PM
Lunch Break

  1:30 PM
2.4
4DVAR Assimilation of Lidar Data into Mesoscale Numerical Weather Prediction Models
Hans-Stefan Bauer, Univ. of Hohenheim, 70599 Stuttgart, Germany; and M. Grzeschik, F. Zus, A. Behrendt, and V. Wulfmeyer

  2:00 PM
2.5
Comparing water vapor vertical profiles using CNR - IMAA Raman lidar and CloudNET data
Lucia Mona, CNR/IMAA, Potenza, Italy; and A. Amodeo, G. Pappalardo, C. Cornacchia, F. Madonna, and E. O'Connor

Poster PDF (821.1 kB)
  2:15 PM
2.6
FAIR WEATHER CLIMATOLOGY REVEALED BY THE CCNY LIDAR
Stanley David Gedzelman, The City College of New York, New York, NY; and K. Y. Kong, F. Moshary, H. Y. Glickman, B. Gross, and L. Charles

Poster PDF (326.0 kB)
  2:30 PM
2.7
Detection and Retrieval of Thin Cirrus Properties Over Dark Water from MISR with Comparisons to Ground-based Lidar
Michael Garay, JPL/Univ. of California/Caltech, Pasadena, CA; and R. A. Kahn, J. M. Comstock, and E. J. Welton

  2:45 PM
2.8
Application of lidar and sun photometer measurements to aerosol radiative forcing calculations
Ferdinando De Tomasi, Univ. of Lecce, Lecce, Italy; and A. M. Tafuro, S. Kinne, and M. R. Perrone

Poster PDF (93.3 kB)
  3:00 PM
2.9
Airborne High Spectral Resolution Lidar Aerosol Measurements
Richard Ferrare, NASA/LRC, Hampton, VA; and C. A. Hostetler, J. W. Hair, A. L. Cook, and D. B. Harper