Program: Symposium on Lidar Atmospheric Monitoring (80th AMS Annual Meeting)

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Sunday, 9 January 2000

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7:30 AM-9:00 AM: Sunday, 9 January 2000

Short Course Registration

9:00 AM-6:00 PM: Sunday, 9 January 2000

Conference Registration

Monday, 10 January 2000

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7:30 AM-5:30 PM: Monday, 10 January 2000

Conference Registration continues through Friday, 14 January

9:20 AM-10:00 AM: Monday, 10 January 2000

Session 1

Opening Session

Host: Symposium on Lidar Atmospheric Monitoring

Organizer: Kenneth Sassen, University of Utah

9:20 AM

1.1

Toward a Remote Sensing-Based Climate Observing System: Fallacies, Fantasies and Facts

Graeme Stephens, Colorado State Univeristy, Fort Collins, CO

9:50 AM

1.0a

Opening Remarks

Kenneth Sassen, Univ. of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT

10:00 AM-10:30 AM: Monday, 10 January 2000

Coffee Break

10:30 AM-12:00 PM: Monday, 10 January 2000

Session 2

Tropospheric Chemistry: Water Vapor, Ozone, and Aerosols

Host: Symposium on Lidar Atmospheric Monitoring

Organizer: Volker G. Wulfmeyer, NCAR

10:30 AM

2.1

Raman 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 AM

2.2

Airborne 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 AM

2.3

Lidar observation of Mid-Latitude water vapor layers near the tropopause

John Wessel, The Aerospace Corp., El Segundo, CA; and R. Farley

11:45 AM

2.4

Raman 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, 10 January 2000

Lunch Break

1:30 PM-4:30 PM: Monday, 10 January 2000

Session 3

Aerosols of the Boundary Layer and Free Troposphere

Host: Symposium on Lidar Atmospheric Monitoring

Organizer: Luc R. Bissonnette, Defense Research Establishment Valcartier

1:30 PM

3.1

The JPL 15-year lidar backscatter archive: A retrospective

David M. Tratt, JPL, California Institute Technology, Pasadena, CA; and R. T. Menzies

2:00 PM

3.2

Six-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 PM

3.3

Lidar 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 PM

3.4

Lidar-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

3:30 PM

3.5

Lidar-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

3:45 PM

3.6

Urban aerosol detection with the Vaisala ceilometer

Vesa V. Tanner, Vaisala Oyj., Helsinki, Finland; and A. Piironen, J. Räsänen, and J. Lönnqvist

4:00 PM

3.3a

Coffee Break

4:30 PM-4:30 PM: Monday, 10 January 2000

Sessions end for the day

5:00 PM-7:00 PM: Monday, 10 January 2000

Formal Opening of Exhibits with Reception (Cash Bar)

7:30 PM-9:30 PM: Monday, 10 January 2000

Fujita Banquet

Tuesday, 11 January 2000

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8:00 AM-10:30 AM: Tuesday, 11 January 2000

Session 4

Clouds of the Troposphere

Host: Symposium on Lidar Atmospheric Monitoring

Organizer: Albert Ansmann, Institute for Tropospheric Research

8:00 AM

4.1

C. Martin R. Platt, Colorado State Univ., Fort Collins, CO

8:30 AM

4.2

Autonomous, 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 AM

4.3

The 12-Year Cirrus Cloud Lidar Dataset Supporting Project FIRE

Kenneth Sassen, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT

9:30 AM

4.4

Lidar 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 AM

4.5

Cloud 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 AM

4.5a

Coffee Break (Exhibit Hours 10:00 A.M.- 2:15 P.M.)

10:30 AM-11:15 AM: Tuesday, 11 January 2000

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, 11 January 2000

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-11:30 AM: Tuesday, 11 January 2000

Session 4 ends

12:15 PM-2:15 PM: Tuesday, 11 January 2000

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, 11 January 2000

Session 5

The Stratospheric Aerosol

Host: Symposium on Lidar Atmospheric Monitoring

Organizer: Richard A. Ferrare, NASA/LARC

2:15 PM

5.1

Stratospheric Aerosol Measurements over Mauna Loa Observatory, Hawaii

John E. Barnes, NOAA/CMDL, Boulder, CO; and D. J. Hofmann

2:45 PM

5.2

Long-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 PM

5.3

The 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, 11 January 2000

Coffee Break (Exhibit Hours 3:30-7:00 P.M.)

4:00 PM-5:00 PM: Tuesday, 11 January 2000

Session 6

The Mesospheric Environment, and Rare Clouds

Host: Symposium on Lidar Atmospheric Monitoring

Organizer: Allan I. Carswell, CRESTech

4:00 PM

6.1

Evidence 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 PM

6.2

Monitoring of noctilucent clouds by lidar

Jeffrey P. Thayer, SRI International, Menlo Park, CA

5:00 PM-5:00 PM: Tuesday, 11 January 2000

Oral Sessions end for the day

6:00 PM-7:30 PM: Tuesday, 11 January 2000

Poster Session 1

Poster Session

Host: Symposium on Lidar Atmospheric Monitoring

Organizer: Kenneth Sassen, University of Utah

P1.1

The Contribution of Ground-based Water Vapor Differential Absorption Lidar to Climate Research

Volker G. Wulfmeyer, NCAR and NOAA/ETL, Boulder, CO

P1.2

On the relationship between relative humidity and particle backscattering coefficient in the marine boundary Layer

Graham Feingold, NOAA/CIRA/ETL, Boulder, Colorado; and V. Wulfmeyer

P1.3

Ground-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

P1.4

A 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

P1.5

Micro 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

P1.6

Hurricane 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

P1.7

Directional visibility measurements with the Vaisala Ceilometer

Antti K. Piironen, Vaisala Oyj, Helsinki, Finland; and J. Rasanen and J. Lonnqvist

P1.8

Automated 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

P1.9

Cloud 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

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8:30 AM-11:00 AM: Wednesday, 12 January 2000

Session 7

Stratospheric Properties and Polar Clouds

Host: Symposium on Lidar Atmospheric Monitoring

Organizer: Jeffery P. Thayer, SRI International

8:30 AM

7.1

Lidar Studies of Stratospheric Clouds in the Antarctic and the Arctic

Leopoldo Stefanutti, IROE, Firenze, Italy; and V. Santacesaria

9:00 AM

7.2

Stratospheric 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 AM

7.3

Lidar 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 AM

7.4

Lidar 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

10:30 AM

7.3a

Coffee Break (Exhibit Hours 10:00 A.M.-1:30 P.M.)