Agenda   session structure (pdf / print version )

 

Location: IFM-GEOMAR

 

08:30 - 09:00    Andreas Macke: "Welcome & Logistics"

 

09:00 - 12:00    Past and Future of the I3RC (chaired by T. Varnai)

(all confirmed)

 

• Lazaros Oreopoulos: "Overview of I3RC phases I and II"
• Howard Barker: "ICRCCM-BBHRP project"
• Jean-Luc Widlowski: "RAMI project"
• Anthony Davis: "MUSCLE project, and beyond"
• Tamás Várnai: "Proposed lidar-like test cases"
• Guoyong Wen: "Proposed test cases based on satellite images"
• Robert Cahalan: "I3RC plans other than the test cases discussed by Wen and Várnai"

 

 

 

 

Location: Color Fantasy

 

15:00 - 18:30   Publicly available 3DRT codes (chaired by B. Mayer)

 

• Andreas Macke: "The publicly available Monte-Carlo radiative transfer codes at IFM-GEOMAR: Example applications from the UV to the Microwave" (confirmed)
• Ronald Scheirer: "5 years experience with the publicly available Monte Carlo code GRIMALDI" (confirmed)
• Hironobu Iwabuchi: " Variance reduction techniques" (confirmed)
• Robert Pincus: " The I3RC Community Monte Carlo Code" (tentative)
• Bernhard Mayer: "1D and 3D radiative transfer - a MYSTIC experience with libRadtran" (confirmed)
• Cory Davis: "Scattering RT calculations in a 3D spherical atmosphere at sub-mm wavelengths with ARTS" (confirmed)

 

 

 

 

Location: Color Fantasy

 

15:00 - 19:00    Structured cloud fields for RT (chaired by V. Venema)

 

• A.P. Siebesma, A. Los, S. de Roode H.J. Jonker and R. Neggers: "Realism of cloud structures in Large Eddy Simulations and its use for cloud and radiation parameterizations"  (confirmed)
• Albert Benassi: "A flexible generator of turbulent vector fields and first application"   (confirmed)
• Francesca Di Giuseppe: "A Fourier transform technique to generate cloud fields: Description and validation of the SITCOM model"  (confirmed)
• Victor Venema: "Surrogate fields"   (confirmed)
• Laura Hinkelman: "Cumulus clouds based on large-eddy simulation output" (confirmed)
• Tobias Zinner: "Deconvolution of high-resolution radiances"   (confirmed)

 

 

 

Location: IFM-GEOMAR

 

10:00 - 13:00   Approximations (chaired by A. Davis)

 

• Steve Platnick and Lazaros Oreopoulos: "Operational Global Passive Remote Sensing of Cloud Optical and Microphysical Properties: Current Capabilities and Issues" (confirmed)
• Alexander Kokhanovsky: "Gamma-weighting for unresolved variability, from fluxes through GCM cells to radiances in satellite pixels" (confirmed)
• Celine Cornet: "Neural networks in cloud remote sensing"  (confirmed)
• Igor Polonsky: "Adjoint perturbation theory for fluxes and radiances" (confirmed)
• Anthony Davis and Michael Hall: "Computational 3D diffusion targeting local heating/cooling rates" (confirmed)
• Grant Petty: "The "cloudlet" effective medium model for large-scale flux estimation"(confirmed)

 

 

 

Location: IFM-GEOMAR

 

15:00 - 18:00    3D Science: IPA vs. 3D (chaired by A. Macke)

 

• Howard Barker: "Global estimates of 3D effects and the sensitivity of a GCM to subgrid-scale cloud structure"   (confirmed)
• Laura Hinkelmann: "Solar radiative transport through anisotropic cumulus fields"  (confirmed)
• Larry Di Girolamo: "Synergistic use of MODIS and MISR to quantify the uncertainties in cloud microphysical properties over the globe"   (confirmed)
• Bill O'Hirok: "The sensitivity of cloud dynamics and boundary layer structure to 3-D radiative heating effects"  (confirmed)
• Sebastian Gimeno Garcia: "3D Radiative Transfer Effects and its Influence on Radiative Fluxes and Absorption"  (confirmed)
• Francesca Di Giuseppe and Robin Hogan: "Impact of cloud cover on solar radiative biases" (confirmed)
• Andreas Macke: "Enhanced absorption fo solar radiation by horizontal variability of cloud microphysics"  (confirmed)

 

18:00 - 20:00    poster session

 

 

 

Location: IFM-GEOMAR

 

9:00 - 12:00     3D effects seen from space, aircraft and ground observations (chaired by L. Oreopoulos)

 

• Bernard Pinty: "Capitalizing on 1D RT models to interpret remote sensing data from 3D structurally heterogeneous vegetation systems: on the use of effective state variables"   (confirmed)
• Alexander Marshak: "Dealing with 3D issues in cloud-vegetation interactions" (confirmed)
• Klaus Pfeilsticker: "Recent cloudy sky photon path pdf measurements from Heidelberg"   (confirmed)
• J. Vanderlei Martins: "3D cloud effects from an aircraft scanning radiometer" (confirmed)
• Roger Davies: "3D cloud effects as seen from MISR and progress towards retrieving large optical depths" (confirmed)
• Norman Loeb: "Influence of 3D Cloud Effects on Satellite-Derived Earth Radiation Budget Estimation"   (confirmed)
• Tamas Varnai: "3D effects in MODIS observations"  (confirmed)

 

 

12:00 - 13:00    Final Discussion (chaired by Sasha Marshak)

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