Symposium on Lidar Atmospheric Monitoring (Expanded View)

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Sunday, 9 January 2000
7:30 AM-9:00 AM, Sunday
Short Course Registration
 
9:00 AM-6:00 PM, Sunday
Conference Registration
 
Monday, 10 January 2000
7:30 AM-5:30 PM, Monday
1 Conference Registration continues through Friday, 14 January
 
9:20 AM-10:00 AM, Monday
Session 1 Opening Session
Organizer: Kenneth Sassen, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT
9:20 AM1.0aOpening Remarks  
Kenneth Sassen, Univ. of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT
9:30 AM1.1Toward a Remote Sensing-Based Climate Observing System: Fallacies, Fantasies and Facts  
Graeme Stephens, Colorado State Univeristy, Fort Collins, CO
 
10:00 AM-10:30 AM, Monday
1 Coffee Break
 
10:30 AM-12:00 PM, Monday
Session 2 Tropospheric Chemistry: Water Vapor, Ozone, and Aerosols
Organizer: Volker G. Wulfmeyer, NCAR, Boulder, CO
10:30 AM2.1Raman lidar profiling of water vapor and aerosols over the ARM SGP site  
Richard A. Ferrare, NASA/LARC, Hampton, VA; and D. D. Turner, L. A. Heilman, W. F. Feltz, R. A. Peppler, T. Tooman, and R. Halthore
11:00 AM2.2Airborne Lidar Water Vapor, Ozone, and Aerosol Measurements  
Edward V. Browell, NASA/LARC, Hampton, VA; and S. Ismail, W. B. Grant, and R. A. Ferrare
11:30 AM2.3Lidar observation of Mid-Latitude water vapor layers near the tropopause  
John Wessel, The Aerospace Corp., El Segundo, CA; and R. Farley
11:45 AM2.4Raman Lidar: Atmospheric applications  
Belay B. Demoz, NASA/GSFC and Univ. of Maryland Baltimore County, Greenbelt, MD; and D. O. Starr, D. N. Whiteman, K. D. Evans, G. Schwemmer, R. Ferrare, and D. D. Turner
 
12:00 PM-1:30 PM, Monday
1 Lunch Break
 
1:30 PM-4:30 PM, Monday
Session 3 Aerosols of the Boundary Layer and Free Troposphere
Organizer: Luc R. Bissonnette, Defense Research Establishment Valcartier, Val-Belair, PQ Canada
1:30 PM3.1The JPL 15-year lidar backscatter archive: A retrospective  
David M. Tratt, JPL, California Institute Technology, Pasadena, CA; and R. T. Menzies
2:00 PM3.2Six-wavelength lidar observations of European and Asian aerosol plumes  
Albert Ansmann, Institute for Tropospheric Research, Leipzig, Germany; and D. Althausen, U. Wandinger, D. Müller, F. Wagner, and K. Franke
2:30 PM3.3Lidar Network Observation of Asian Dust over Japan in the Springs of 1997-1999.  
Toshiyuki Murayama, Tokyo University of Mercantile Marine, Koto, Tokyo, Japan; and N. Sugimoto, I. Matsui, Z. Lui, T. Sakai, T. Shibata, Y. Iwasaka, K. Iokibe, and R. Koga
3:00 PMCoffee Break  
3:30 PM3.4Lidar-radiometer study of boundary-layer aerosols and their contribution to long-term trends and changes in columnar aerosol optical depth at a tropical station  
P. C. S. Devara, Indian Institute of Tropical Meteorology, Pune, Pashan, India; and R. E. Mahseknmar, K. K. Daui, S. K. Sahn, and S. M. Sunbawe
4:00 PM3.5Lidar-aided Estimates of the Vertical Structure of the Direct Shortwave Aerosol Radiative Forcing of Climate  
Jens Redemann, Bay Area Environmental Research Institute, San Francisco, CA; and P. B. Russell
4:15 PM3.6Urban aerosol detection with the Vaisala ceilometer  
Vesa V. Tanner, Vaisala Oyj., Helsinki, Finland; and A. Piironen, J. Räsänen, and J. Lönnqvist
 
4:30 PM, Monday
1 Sessions end for the day
 
5:00 PM-7:00 PM, Monday
1 Formal Opening of Exhibits with Reception (Cash Bar)
 
7:30 PM-9:30 PM, Monday
Fujita Banquet
 
Tuesday, 11 January 2000
8:00 AM-10:30 AM, Tuesday
Session 4 Clouds of the Troposphere
Organizer: Albert Ansmann, Institute for Tropospheric Research, Leipzig Germany
8:00 AM4.1ECLIPS and related observations - what we have learned and prospects for future observations  
C. Martin R. Platt, Colorado State Univ., Fort Collins, CO
8:30 AM4.2Autonomous, full-time cloud profiling at ARM sites with Micro Pulse Lidar  
James D. Spinhirne, NASA/GSFC, Greenbelt, MD; and J. R. Campbell, D. L. Hlavka, V. S. Scott, and C. J. Flynn
9:00 AM4.3The 12-Year Cirrus Cloud Lidar Dataset Supporting Project FIRE  
Kenneth Sassen, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT
9:30 AM4.4Lidar monitoring of troposheric clouds and precipitation for the remote sensing of aircraft in-flight icing conditions  
Luc R. Bissonnette, Defence Research Establishment Valcartier, Val-Bélair, PQ, Canada; and G. Roy
9:45 AM4.5Cloud and Liquid Water Phase Occurrence in the Arctic Atmosphere  
Janet M. Intrieri, NOAA/ETL, Boulder, CO; and B. J. McCarty, W. L. Eberhard, and R. J. Alvarez
10:00 AMCoffee Break (Exhibit Hours 10:00 A.M.- 2:15 P.M.)  
 
10:30 AM-11:15 AM, Tuesday
1 Walter Orr Roberts Lecture in Interdisciplinary Science (Special President's Symposium on Environmental Applications). Title: Emerging Environmental Issues: A Global Perspective. Speaker: R.E. (Ted) Munn, Univ. of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada
 
11:15 AM-12:15 PM, Tuesday
WMO Presentation (Special President's Symposium on Environmental Applications). Title: Meteorology and the Environment - the WMO Perspective. Speaker: John W. Zillman, WMO, Geneva, Switzerland
 
11:30 AM, Tuesday
1 Session 4 ends
 
12:15 PM-2:15 PM, Tuesday
1 Conference Luncheon Speaker: D. James Baker, Undersecretary of Commerce for Oceans and Atmosphere, Administrator for NOAA, Silver Spring, MD
 
2:15 PM-3:30 PM, Tuesday
Session 5 The Stratospheric Aerosol
Organizer: Richard A. Ferrare, NASA/LARC, Hampton, VA
2:15 PM5.1Stratospheric Aerosol Measurements over Mauna Loa Observatory, Hawaii  
John E. Barnes, NOAA/CMDL, Boulder, CO; and D. J. Hofmann
2:45 PM5.2Long-term observations of the mid-latude stratospheric aerosol by the Langley 48-inch Lidar  
David C. Woods, NASA/LARC, Hampton, VA; and M. T. Osborn
3:15 PM5.3The missing Pinatubo aerosols: a global lidar-SAGE II comparison  
Alan Robock, Rutgers Univ., New Brunswick, NJ; and J. C. Antuña and G. L. Stenchikov
 
3:30 PM-4:00 PM, Tuesday
1 Coffee Break (Exhibit Hours 3:30-7:00 P.M.)
 
4:00 PM-5:00 PM, Tuesday
Session 6 The Mesospheric Environment, and Rare Clouds
Organizer: Allan I. Carswell, CRESTech, Toronto, ON
4:00 PM6.1Evidence of response to external perturbations in nine years of lidar observed nightly mean temperatures in a midlatitude mesopause region  
Chiao-Yao She, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO; and D. A. Krueger
4:30 PM6.2Monitoring of noctilucent clouds by lidar  
Jeffrey P. Thayer, SRI International, Menlo Park, CA
 
5:00 PM, Tuesday
1 Oral Sessions end for the day
 
6:00 PM-7:30 PM, Tuesday
Poster Session 1 Poster Session
Organizer: Kenneth Sassen, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT
 P1.1The Contribution of Ground-based Water Vapor Differential Absorption Lidar to Climate Research  
Volker G. Wulfmeyer, NCAR and NOAA/ETL, Boulder, CO
 P1.2On the relationship between relative humidity and particle backscattering coefficient in the marine boundary Layer  
Graham Feingold, NOAA/CIRA/ETL, Boulder, Colorado; and V. Wulfmeyer
 P1.3Ground-Based Multiple Remote Sensor Studies of Clouds at the Cloud and Radiation Testbed  
Zhien Wang, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT; and K. Sassen
 P1.4A radiative climatology of midlatitude cirrus clouds: results from the analysis of 7 years of lidar and IR radiometer observations using the LIRAD method  
Jennifer M. Barnett, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT; and K. Sassen
 P1.5Micro pulse lidar (MPL) application for tropospheric aerosol and cloud  
I. H. Hwang, Science & Engineering Services, Inc., Burtonsville, MD; and M. K. Nam and H. S. Lee
 P1.6Hurricane water vapor, aerosol, and cloud distributions determined from airborne lidar measurements  
Edward V. Browell, NASA/LARC, Hampton, VA; and S. Ismail and R. A. Ferrare
 P1.7Directional visibility measurements with the Vaisala Ceilometer  
Antti K. Piironen, Vaisala Oyj, Helsinki, Finland; and J. Rasanen and J. Lonnqvist
 P1.8Automated aerosol retrieval algorithms for ARM Micro Pulse Lidars  
James R. Campbell, SSAI, Lanham, MD; and D. L. Hlavka, J. D. Spinhirne, R. Ferrare, and D. D. Turner
 P1.9Cloud and Aerosol Retrieval for the 2001 GLAS Satellite Lidar Misson  
William D. Hart, SSAI, Lanham, MD; and S. P. Palm and J. D. Spinhirne
 
Wednesday, 12 January 2000
8:30 AM-11:00 AM, Wednesday
Session 7 Stratospheric Properties and Polar Clouds
Organizer: Jeffery P. Thayer, SRI International, Menlo Park, CA
8:30 AM7.1Lidar Studies of Stratospheric Clouds in the Antarctic and the Arctic  
Leopoldo Stefanutti, IROE, Firenze, Italy; and V. Santacesaria
9:00 AM7.2Stratospheric Changes Observed With Lidar  
Philippe Keckhut, Service d'Aeronomie du CNRS, Verrieres-le-Buisson, France; and G. Megie, A. Hauchecorne, S. Godin, and C. David
9:30 AM7.3Lidar Studies of the Arctic Stratosphere (Invited Presentation)  
A. I. Carswell, Center for Research in Earth and Space Technology and York Univ., Toronto, ON, Canada; and J. C. Bird, S. R. Pal, R. Berman, and T. Duck
10:00 AMCoffee Break (Exhibit Hours 10:00 A.M.-1:30 P.M.)  
10:30 AM7.4Lidar Measurements of Ozone and Temperature During the December 1998 Arctic Stratosphere Warming  
John C. Bird, Center for Research in Earth and Space Technology, Toronto, ON, Canada; and R. Berman, S. R. Pal, A. I. Carswell, and G. L. Manney
 
11:00 AM-1:30 PM, Wednesday
1 Lunch Break
 
11:15 AM-12:00 PM, Wednesday
Remote Sensing Lecture
 
1:30 PM-2:00 PM, Wednesday
Session 8 Winds and Turbulance
Organizer: Janet M. Intrieri, NOAA/NESDIS/ETL, Boulder, CO
1:30 PM8.1Mountain effects on the atmosphere investigated by Doppler lidar measurements  
Robert M. Banta, NOAA/ETL, Boulder, CO
 
2:00 PM-3:00 PM, Wednesday
Session 9 The Promise of Future Lidar Atmospheric Studies
Organizer: Kenneth Sassen, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT
2:00 PM9.1Recent Advances and the Future Potential of Ground-based Lidar in Climate Research  
Volker G. Wulfmeyer, NCAR and NOAA/ETL, Boulder, CO
2:30 PM9.2Spaceborne Lidar: A Bright Future  
M. Patrick McCormick, Hampton Univ., Hampton, VA
 
3:00 PM, Wednesday
1 Symposium Ends
 
6:00 PM-7:30 PM, Wednesday
Reception (Cash Bar)
 
7:30 PM-9:30 PM, Wednesday
AMS Annual Awards Banquet
 

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