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Final Program 29 Oct 2018 (PDF) and Poster Abstracts (PDF)

Monday, 29 October 2018      
  12:00 Registration (outside of Pyle rooms 325-326)      
  12:30 OPENING      
    Welcome   Ralf Bennartz  
    Workshop Aims   Andy Heidinger  
    Organizational Matters   Maria Vasys  
  13:00 INTRODUCTION      
  13:00 Status and update on ICWG   Dong Wu  
    Agency reports (10 minutes each)      
     NOAA   Andrew Heidinger  
    —  EUMETSAT   Alessio Lattanzio  
    —  CMA   TBD  
    —  KMA   Ki-Hong Park  
    —  JMA   Haruma Ishida  
    —  NASA   Kerry Meyer  
    —  ESA   TBD  
    —  IMD   R. K. Giri  
           
  15:00 Coffee Break      
    SESSION 1: LINKS TO INTERNATIONAL ACTIVITIES      
  15:30 Link GSICS   Dave Doelling (WebEx)  
  15;45 Highlights of the 14th IWW and the CGMS-46   Steve Wanzong   
  16:00 Link IPWG   Benjamin Johnson  
  16:15 Link to ITWG   Liam Gumley  
  16:30 Discussion & Recommendations      
  17:00 Poster Reception (Pyle room 313)      
           
Tuesday, 30 October 2018      
    SESSION 2: CLOUD PARAMETER RETRIEVAL METHODS   CoChairs: Bryan Baum (a.m.) and Anja Hünerbein (p.m.)  
  08:30 Keynote : Progress and challenges in generating multi-instrument imager cloud data records: MODIS, VIIRS and AHI   Steve Platnick  
  09:00 Towards Continuity in IR Absorption Radiances  from MODIS and VIIRS   Bryan Baum  
  09:15 Advances Cloud Radiance Simulation using the Community Radiative Transfer Model   Benjamin Johnson  
  09:30 A practical way to detect and quantify the 3-D radiative effects in passive cloud property retrievals: theoretical basis and feasibility study   Zhibo Zhang  
  09:45 Tuning of the NWCSAF cloud mask algorithm for the future meteorological geostationary Satellite MTG   Gaëlle Kerdraon  
  10:00 Coffee Break      
  10:30 Current status of Geo-KOMPSAT-2A Cloud Detection Algorithm in NMSC/KMA   Hee-Ae Kim  
  10:45 Improvement of operational cloud products by Meteorological Satellite Center of Japan Meteorological Agency   Haruma Ishida  
  11:00 Cloud property retrieval from SEVIRI and METimage at EUMETSAT   Philip Watts  
  11:15 Cirrus clouds in the far infrared: some highlights from the FORUM mission Phase-A study   Tiziano Maestri  
  11:30 The characterization of ice cloud properties from Himawari-8/AHI measurements   Husi Letu  
  11:45 Lunch Break (on own)      
  13:00 Investigating the sensitivity of SEVIRI liquid cloud optical properties retrieval to illumination conditions using two MSG satellites   Nikos Benas  
  13:15 Cubesat mission for cloud heights and winds   Mike Kelly  
  13:30 The EarthCARE Multi Spectral Imager cloud products   Anja Hünerbein  
  13:45 Use of Sounder Cloud Products to Improve Imager Cloud Products and Derived Motion Vectors   Andrew Heidinger  
  14:00 CALIOP trained neural network cloud top pressure and height for imagers   Nina Håkansson  
  14:15 A fast cloud retrieval algorithm using GOME-2 measurements of the Oxygen B-band   Marine Desmons  
    POSTER SESSION   Chair: Ralf Bennartz  
  14:30 Poster presentations (1 slide, 1 minute)      
  15:00 Coffee Break      
  15:00 Poster session      
  18:30 End of day      
           
Wednesday, 31 October 2018      
    SESSION 3: CLOUD PARAMETER RETRIEVAL EVALUATION   Chair: Jerome Riedi  
  08:30 Keynote : Cloud Masking in Passive Imagery:  Recent Advancements and Assessments Utilising CALIPSO-CALIOP Data   Karl Goran Karlsson  
  09:00 Indirect aerosol forcing estimates over southeast and northeast Atlantic marine stratiform clouds   Seethala Chellappan  
  09:15 Intercomparison of cloud retrievals from Himawari-8 over five issued areas   Hye-Sil Kim  
  09:30 Validation of cloud top height and microphysics retrieved from meteorological geostationary satellites using NWCSAF/GEO SW   Hervé Le Gléau  
  09:45 Performance of cloud amount of three satellite cloud climate date records over the Tibetan Plateau   Jian Liu  
  10:00 Coffee Break      
  10:30 Evaluating the MODIS C6 multilayer cloud detection and phase algorithms through comparisons with CALIOP and CloudSat   Benjamin Marchant  
  10:45 Evaluation of Satellite Imager Ice Cloud Retrievals using CALIPSO and CloudSat Data   William Smith  
  11:00 Global statistics of microphysical properties of cloud-top ice crystals   Bastiaan van Diedenhoven  
  11:15 Validation of Cloud Fraction Estimates from Passive Imagers Using CALIOP Observations with Attention to the Effects of Spatial Resolution   Chris Yost  
  11:30 Assessment of 3MI cloud retrieval algorithms by means of highly realistic synthetic test data   Jerome Riedì  
  11:45 Group Picture/Lunch break (on own)      
    BREAKOUT SESSIONS (Pyle Center Rooms 209, 220, 325-326, 335)      
  13:00 Breakout Session Topics: Retrieval Methods, Cloud Masking, Cloud Parameter Assessments, Microwave      
  15:00 Summary & Recommendations      
  15:30 Coffee Break      
    SESSION 4: CLOUD PARAMETER DATA FOR WEATHER APPLICATIONS   Chair: Andi Walther  
  16:00 Keynote: WMO SCOPE-Nowcasting: Activities of Relevance to the ICWG   Mike Pavalonis  
  16:30 Analysis of Severe Storms and Aircraft Engine Icing Conditions using Multispectral Geostationary Imager Data   Kristopher Bedka  
  16:45 Application of the GOES-R Series Cloud Mask to generate Clear Sky and All Sky Radiance Products for Data Assimilation   Sharon Nebuda  
  17:00 Joint Polar Satellite System (JPSS) Aviation Initiative   Jeffrey Weinrich  
  17:15 Cloud properties for irradiance retrievals   Marion Schroedter-Homscheldt  
  17:30 On the influence of spatial and temporal resolution for retrieving solar surface irradiance from METEOSAT SEVIRI   Hartwig Deneke  
  17:45 End of day      
           
Thursday, 1 November 2018      
    SESSION 5: CLOUD PARAMETER DATA FOR CLIMATE APPLICATIONS   Chair: Brian Kahn  
  08:30 Keynote : ESA Climate Change Initiative cloud property data sets   Caroline Poulsen  
  09:00 A 38 year record of UV cloud albedo from UV sensing instruments: inter-satellite calibration, trends and response in cloudiness during El Nino events   Clark Weaver  
  09:15 Cloud trends from 15 years of Atmospheric Infrared Sounder observations   Brian Kahn  
  09:30 Relative radiometric calibration – Addressing a key challenge for achieving continuity of NASA cloud climate data records from Aqua-MODIS to SNPP-VIIRS   Kerry Meyer  
  09:45        
  10:00 Coffee Break      
  10:30 PATMOS-x version 6.0: A new cloud climatology from 37 years of global AVHRR+HIRS data   Caroline Poulsen  
  10:45 Dissecting effects of orbital drift of polar-orbiting satellites on ccuracy and trends of cloud fraction climate data records   Jedrzej Bojanowski  
  11:00 An assessment of the impacts of cloud vertical heterogeneity on global ice cloud records from passive satellite retrievals   Chenxi Wang  
  11:15 Impacts of clouds in the generation of Climate Data Records at EUMETSAT from Meteosat within the Copernicus Climate Change Service (C3S)   Alessio Lattanzio  
  11:30 Global and regional estimates of warm cloud droplet number concentration based on 13 years of AQUA-MODIS observations   John Rausch  
  11:45 Lunch break (on own)      
    BREAKOUT SESSIONS  (Pyle Center Rooms 209, 220, 325-326, 335)      
  13:00 Breakout Session Topics: Severe Weather, Climate, Wind, International Links      
    Summary & Recommendations      
  15:30 Coffee Break      
    SESSION 6: MICROWAVE   Chair: Dong Wu  
  16:00 Keynote: Microwave remote sensing of liquid clouds   Tom Greenwald  
  16:30 CLIMCAPS: Use of the AIRS/AMSU and CrIS/ATMS continuity sounding product for cloud feedback studies   Chris Barnet  
  16:45 Combined MW and NIR remote sensing of clouds   Ralf Bennartz  
  17:00 The 183 GHz Channels for Long-Term Upper-Tropospheric Cloud Ice   Dong Wu  
  17:15 Floating Snow Diurnal Cycle Inferred from Global Precipitation Measurement Microwave Imager (GPM-GMI) using CloudSat as the Baseline   Jie Gong  
  17:30 Social Hour (Alumni Lounge)      
  18:00 Banquet (Alumni Lounge)      
           
Friday, 2 November 2018      
    FINAL DISCUSSION   Chairs: Andrew Heidinger and Dong Wu  
  08:30 Presentations of WG Algorithms      
  09:30 Presentations of WG Assessments      
    Coffee Break      
  10:30 Presentations of WG Weather Applications      
  11:30 Presentations of WG Climate applications      
           
  12:30 Final Plenary Discussion and Wrap-up      
  13:00 Departure      

Co-chairs
Andrew Heidinger, NOAA; and Rob Roebeling, EUMETSAT

CGMS rapporteur:
Dong Wu, NASA

Local organization:
Ralf Bennartz, UW-Madison and Vanderbilt University

CGMS Advisory Panel:
Kerry Meyer (NASA, USA), Stefan Bojinski (WMO, Switzerland), Sung-Rae Chung (KMA Korea), Lu Feng (CMA, China),
Andrew Heidinger (NOAA, USA), N. Puviarasan (IMD, India), Rob Roebeling (EUMETSAT, Germany),
Alexei Rublev (Roshydromet, Russia), and Mouri Koki (JMA, Japan)

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