Session: Radiative properties of clouds (Joint Session with 12th Conference on Atmospheric Radiation & 12th Conference on Cloud Physics) (12th Conference on Atmospheric Radiation/12th Conference on Cloud Physics (10-14 July 2006))

Wednesday, 12 July 2006: 1:30 PM-5:00 PM

Ballroom AD (Monona Terrace Community and Convention Center)

Hosts: (Joint between the 12th Conference on Cloud Physics; and the 12th Conference on Atmospheric Radiation )

Cochairs:

K. Franklin Evans, Univ. of Colorado, Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences, Boulder, CO and Michael I. Mishchenko, NASA/GISS, New York, NY

Papers:

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

Recorded presentation

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

Recorded presentation

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

Recorded presentation

Presentation PDF (2.3 MB)

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

Recorded presentation

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

Recorded presentation

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

Recorded presentation

3:00 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

Recorded presentation

3:15 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

Recorded presentation

Presentation PDF (510.9 kB)

3:30 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

Recorded presentation

Presentation PDF (520.4 kB)

3:45 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

Recorded presentation

4:00 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

Recorded presentation

Presentation PDF (187.4 kB)

4:15 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

Presentation PDF (1.4 MB)