Saturday |
2:00 pm - 5:00 pm | Arrival and Check-in |
3:30 pm - 3:45 pm | Introductory Comments by GRC Site Staff / Welcome by the GRS Conference Chair |
3:45 pm - 4:30 pm | Keynote Session: Understanding Climate Forcing, Feedback,
and Response via Interactions Between Radiation, Clouds, Aerosol and
Precipitation |
| Discussion Leader: Matthew Igel (University of Miami, USA) |
3:45 pm - 4:15 pm | Venkatachalam Ramaswamy (NOAA, Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory / Princeton University, USA) "The Multi-Faceted Scope of Aerosol-Radiation Interactions and Their Impacts on Circulation and Climate" |
4:15 pm - 4:30 pm | Discussion |
4:30 pm - 6:00 pm | Poster Session |
6:00 pm | Dinner |
7:30 pm - 9:30 pm | Constraining Forcing Components |
| Discussion Leader: Philip Stier (University of Oxford, United Kingdom) |
7:30 pm - 7:50 pm | Erik Larson (National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration / CIRES, USA) "A Kernel Method for Calculating Radiative Forcing in Transient Climate Simulations" |
7:50 pm - 8:00 pm | Discussion |
8:00 pm - 8:20 pm | Edward Gryspeerdt (Leipzig Institute for Meteorology, Germany) "Cloud Fraction and
Satellite-Derived Aerosol-Cloud Relationships" |
8:20 pm - 8:30 pm | Discussion |
8:30 pm - 8:50 pm | Tom Goren (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel) "Transitions Between
Closed and Open Marine Stratocumulus: Cloud Radiative Effect or Forcing?" |
8:50 pm - 9:00 pm | Discussion |
9:00 pm - 9:20 pm | Minghui Diao (National Center for Atmospheric Research, USA) "Airborne Observations
of Ice Clouds from the Microscale to the Synoptic Scale" |
9:20 pm - 9:30 pm | Discussion |
Sunday |
7:30 am - 8:30 am | Breakfast |
9:00 am - 11:00 am | Process-Based Understanding of Climate Feedbacks |
| Discussion Leader: Brian Soden (University of Miami, USA) |
9:00 am - 9:20 am | Ying Li (Colorado State University, USA) "Two Way Interactions Between Cloud Radiative Effects and Large-Scale Climate Variability over the Extratropics" |
9:20 am - 9:30 am | Discussion |
9:30 am - 9:50 am | Daniel McCoy (University of Washington, USA) "Understanding the Negative Shortwave Cloud Feedback in Midlatitude" |
9:50 am - 10:00 am | Discussion |
10:00 am - 10:20 am | Christopher Terai (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, USA) "Using Satellite Retrievals to Constrain the Low-Cloud Optical Depth Feedback in Climate Models" |
10:20 am - 10:30 am | Discussion |
10:30 am - 10:50 am | Farnaz Hosseinpour (Desert Research Institute, USA) "Aerosol-Climate
Interactions Through Atmospheric Wave Activities" |
10:50 am - 11:00 am | Discussion |
11:00 am - 12:30 pm | Poster Session |
| Coffee will be served in the poster area from 11:00 am - 11:30 am |
12:30 pm | Lunch |
1:30 pm - 2:30 pm | Responses in Clouds, Aerosols, Circulation, and Climate |
| Discussion Leader: Bjorn Stevens (Max-Planck-Institut fur Meteorologie, Germany) |
1:30 pm - 1:50 pm | Ryan Kramer (University of Miami / Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science, USA) "The Sensitivity of Global Mean Precipitation to Natural Versus Anthropogenic Climate Change" |
1:50 pm - 2:00 pm | Discussion |
2:00 pm - 2:20 pm | Raphaela Vogel (Max Planck Institute for Meteorology, Germany) "The Role of Precipitation and Organization in the Response of Shallow Trade-Wind Clouds to Warming" |
2:20 pm - 2:30 pm | Discussion |
2:30 pm - 3:00 pm | Evaluation Period |
| Fill in GRS Evaluation Forms |
3:00 pm | Seminar Concludes |