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Radiation and Climate (GRS)

Gordon Research Seminar

Understanding Climate Forcing, Feedback, and Response via Interactions Between Radiation, Clouds, Aerosol and Precipitation

July 25 - 26, 2015
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Bates College
2 Andrews Road
Lewiston, Maine, United States
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Conference Description

The Gordon Research Seminar on Radiation & Climate is a unique forum for graduate students, post-docs, and other scientists with comparable levels of experience and education to present and exchange new data and cutting edge ideas.

The focus of this meeting is on novel discussions of the pathways leading from climate forcing to feedback to response via process-level investigations of key climate components: radiation, clouds, aerosols, and precipitation. We encourage abstracts focusing on a range of topics, including but not limited to grand challenges in: convective-scale cloud and precipitation processes, radiative forcing and climate sensitivity constraints, large-scale responses, and observational and modeling analyses of Earth's energy balance, an exceptional selection of which will be featured in a "Best of GRS" session at the associated Gordon Research Conference.

Related Meeting

This GRS will be held in conjunction with the "Radiation and Climate" Gordon Research Conference (GRC). Those interested in attending both meetings must submit an application for the GRC in addition to an application for the GRS. Refer to the associated GRC program page for more information.

Conference Program

Saturday
2:00 pm - 5:00 pmArrival and Check-in
3:30 pm - 3:45 pmIntroductory Comments by GRC Site Staff / Welcome by the GRS Conference Chair
3:45 pm - 4:30 pmKeynote 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 pmVenkatachalam 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 pmDiscussion
4:30 pm - 6:00 pmPoster Session
6:00 pmDinner
7:30 pm - 9:30 pmConstraining Forcing Components
Discussion Leader: Philip Stier (University of Oxford, United Kingdom)
7:30 pm - 7:50 pmErik Larson (National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration / CIRES, USA)
"A Kernel Method for Calculating Radiative Forcing in Transient Climate Simulations"
7:50 pm - 8:00 pmDiscussion
8:00 pm - 8:20 pmEdward Gryspeerdt (Leipzig Institute for Meteorology, Germany)
"Cloud Fraction and Satellite-Derived Aerosol-Cloud Relationships"
8:20 pm - 8:30 pmDiscussion
8:30 pm - 8:50 pmTom Goren (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel)
"Transitions Between Closed and Open Marine Stratocumulus: Cloud Radiative Effect or Forcing?"
8:50 pm - 9:00 pmDiscussion
9:00 pm - 9:20 pmMinghui Diao (National Center for Atmospheric Research, USA)
"Airborne Observations of Ice Clouds from the Microscale to the Synoptic Scale"
9:20 pm - 9:30 pmDiscussion
Sunday
7:30 am - 8:30 amBreakfast
9:00 am - 11:00 amProcess-Based Understanding of Climate Feedbacks
Discussion Leader: Brian Soden (University of Miami, USA)
9:00 am - 9:20 amYing 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 amDiscussion
9:30 am - 9:50 amDaniel McCoy (University of Washington, USA)
"Understanding the Negative Shortwave Cloud Feedback in Midlatitude"
9:50 am - 10:00 amDiscussion
10:00 am - 10:20 amChristopher 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 amDiscussion
10:30 am - 10:50 amFarnaz Hosseinpour (Desert Research Institute, USA)
"Aerosol-Climate Interactions Through Atmospheric Wave Activities"
10:50 am - 11:00 amDiscussion
11:00 am - 12:30 pmPoster Session

Coffee will be served in the poster area from 11:00 am - 11:30 am
12:30 pmLunch
1:30 pm - 2:30 pmResponses in Clouds, Aerosols, Circulation, and Climate
Discussion Leader: Bjorn Stevens (Max-Planck-Institut fur Meteorologie, Germany)
1:30 pm - 1:50 pmRyan 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 pmDiscussion
2:00 pm - 2:20 pmRaphaela 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 pmDiscussion
2:30 pm - 3:00 pmEvaluation Period
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3:00 pmSeminar Concludes

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