Science Centres: Atmosphere

Eleventh BSRN Scientific Review and Workshop
Queenstown, New Zealand, 13-16 April 2010

Draft – Agenda (22 March 2010)

13 April, Tuesday

Opening Session

08:30 – 08:45 Richard McKenzie and Ellsworth Dutton and – Meeting Opening and Logistics

08:45 – 09:15 Overview of New Zealand/NIWA Atmospheric Science Activities

09:15 – 09:30 Dawn Erlich – Overview of GEWEX Activities and Global Data Products

09:30 – 09:45 Richard Thigpen – An update from the GCOS Secretariat & report of station renovation activities  

09:45 – 10:00 Ellsworth Dutton – BSRN Review and Expectations for the Meeting

10:00 – 10:30 Break (poster set up)

Observatories – Status and Proposals (other status reports are in Posters)

10:30 – 10:50 Enio Pereria - Update of the Brazilian BSRN sites - New possibles sites in view

10:50 – 11:10 Nozumu OhKawara -- New BSRN stations in Japan

11:10 – 11:30 Bruce McArthur -- Special Observations associated with the Canadian BSRN

11:30 – 11:50 Tiaping Zhang. for F. Denn – Observations from the Chesapeake Lighthouse

11:50 – 12:00 Report from Spain and Discussion on Newly Proposed Sites and Site Needs

12:00 – 13:30 Lunch and Poster Viewing

Archive Activities and Data Quality Control

13:30 – 14:00 Gert König-Langlo – Status of the World Radiation Monitoring Center

14:00 -- 14:20 Anatoly Tsvetkov WRDC activities under the GAW program: Recent updates

14:20 – 14:40 Taiping Zhang – Quality Control and Processing of the BSRN Data & its Application in Validation of the NASA GEWEX SRB data & GEWEX-RFA Data

14:40 – 15:00 Discussion on BSRN Archiving Procedures and Practices

15:00 – 15:30 Break  (Posters)

Basic Observations – Analysis and Review

15:30 – 15:50 Martin Wild --Decadal changes in surface radiation fluxes

15:50 – 16:10 Stehan Wacker -- Trend analysis of downwelling longwave radiation from the BSRN site Payerne and from four stations of the Alpine Surface Radiation Budget (ASRB) Network,

16:10 – 16:30 Ben Liley - Aerosols and global dimming

16:30 – 17:00 Xiangao Xia -- Closer Looking at brightening and dimming in China

14 July, Wednesday

Instrument Special Reports

08:30 – 08:50 Julian Gröbner –Calibration Activities at the World Radiation Center, PMOD/WRC

08:50 – 09:40 Joe Michalsky -- An extensive variable weather comparison of pyrheliometers

09:40 – 10:00 Thomas Stoffel – Evaluation of Radiometers in full-time use at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory

10:00 – 10:30 Break

Working Group Reports

10:30 – 10:50 IR WG – Gorbner

10:50 – 11:30 AOD WG - Forgan

11:30 – 11:50 Spectral Observations WG - Michalsky

11:50 – 13:00 Lunch

13:00 – 13:20 Pyranometer WG Halliwell

13:20 – 13:40 Uncertainties WG – Forgan

13:40 – 14:00 Cold Regions WG - Long (new)

 14:00 – 14:20 Long Term Data Sets Issues and Analysis WG - Haeffelin (new)

14:20 – 15:15 Open discussion on WG needs and activities

15:15—15:45 Break

Clouds and Aerosols

15:45 – 16:05 Christoph Wehrli -- The GAW-PFR AOD network and its calibration

16:05 – 16:25 John Augustine -- Explaining the seasonal variation of Multifilter Rotating

Shadowband Radiometer in situ calibrations

16:25 – 16:45 Martial Haeffelin -- Cirrus effect on shortwave radiation incident upon the surface

16:45 – 17:05 C. Long -- Detection of the Occurrence and Impacts of Island Influence on Nauru

 ARM/BSRN Measurements

18:00 Group Dinner

15 April, Thursday

08:00 - 18:00 Lauder BSRN station and local field trip

16 April, Friday

Clouds and Aerosols (con’t)

08:30 – 08:50 NZ Christian Lanconelli -- Radiation regime and cloud characteristics of the East Antarctic Plateau; as derived from a 4-year record from Dome Concordia

UV, Albedo and Special Applications

08:50 – 09:10 Richard McKenzie – UVI information in

09:10 –0 9:30 Laurent Vuilleumier – Estimation of cloud effect on UV erythemal irradiance using SW irradiance data

9:30 -- 10:30 Break

10:30 – 10:50 Tom Stoffel -- Development of a solar irradiance measurement system for determining high resolution spatial & temporal variability for large photovoltaic installations

10:50 – 11:10 Gary Hodges -- Variability of spectral albedo at US-DOE Atmospheric Radiation Measurement Facility

11:10 – 11:35  Laurent Vuilleumier Evolution of surface reflectivity in Switzerlan between 1980 and 2008

11:35—12:00 Mikhail Alexandrov --The Glory of Radiation: Multi-angle polarized remote

sensing of surfaces, aerosols and clouds

11:40 – 13:30 Lunch and Poster Viewing

13:30 – 13:50 Alex Manes -- TBD

13:50 – 14:10 Sergio Colle -- TBD

14:10 – 14:30 open

14:30 – 15:15 Ellsworth Dutton – The State and Future of BSRN

15:15 – 17:00 Discussion, Recommendations, Wrap-up

Posters

(Note that posters will be on display all week and accessible all day and evenings)

Jordi Badosa--Ten years (1999-2009) of radiation measurments in Lauder, New Zealand (Provisional)

Jean-Phillipe Morel--The Global Dimming & the Brightening Periods at Carpentras

Martial Haeffelin--The Palaiseau BSRN station

Robert Albee--Obtaining energy budget measurements in the Arctic

Enio Pereira--Automatic classification of sky and cloud patterns

Tom Stoffel--NREL Pyrheliomter Comparisons

Vasily Kustov--Radiation measurements in the Russian Arctic and Arctic Basin.

Gary Hodges--Status & Updates of ASR (formerly ARM) BSRN sites

Gary Hodges--Status & Updates of SURFRAD BSRN sites

Klaus Behrens--Status of the Lindenberg BSRN station

Ormanda Niebergall--Radiation measurements at the Alert and Eureka BSRN stations

David Helliwell--Status of the Regina BSRN station

Mohamed Mimouni--Status of Radiation measure at BSRN station of Tamanrasset

Clement Akoshile--Shortwave (Global) Variation over a Solar Cycle in Ilorin, Nigeria in West Africa

Ain Kallis--Solar radiation measurements in Estonia

Laurent Vuilleumier--Status of the Payerne BSRN station

Christian Lanconelli--UV measurements in the centre of East Antarctic Plateau