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Radiation & Climate
Gordon Research Seminar
Toward a Process-Level Understanding of Radiation, Cloud and Climate Interactions
July 6-7, 2013
Colby-Sawyer College
New London, NH
Chair:
Louise Nuijens

Associate Chair:
Michael S. Pritchard

Application Deadline
Applications for this meeting must be submitted by June 8, 2013. Please apply early, as some meetings become oversubscribed (full) before this deadline. If the meeting is oversubscribed, it will be stated here. Note: Applications for oversubscribed meetings will only be considered by the Conference Chair if more seats become available due to cancellations.

GRS Speaker Abstract Deadline: Although applications will be accepted until the date noted above, any applicants who wish to be considered for an oral presentation should submit their application by April 6, 2013. Please refer to the Application Instructions section below for more details (if available).
Related Meeting Information
The Radiation & Climate Gordon Research Seminar will be held in conjunction with the Radiation & Climate Gordon Research Conference. Those interested in attending both meetings must submit an application for the GRC in addition to an application for the GRS. Please refer to the Radiation & Climate GRC web page for more information.

Meeting Overview

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 to discuss recent efforts in understanding interactions between radiation, clouds and climate across a range of topics, that include, but are not limited to: radiation, convection, and large-scale dynamics; radiation at the Earth’s surface; and the role of clouds. We encourage abstracts that focus on a process-level understanding of these disciplines, and especially those that do so through a synthesis of observations and models.

Application Instructions

The meeting will feature approximately 10 talks and 2 poster sessions. All attendees are expected to actively participate in the GRS either by giving an oral presentation or presenting a poster. Therefore, all applications must include an abstract.

The Chairs will select speakers from abstracts submitted by April 6, 2013. Those applicants who are not chosen for talks and those who apply after the deadline to be considered for an oral presentation will be expected to present a poster. In order to participate, you must submit an application by the date indicated in the Application Deadline section above.


Contributors

SATURDAY
1:00 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 Lecture
Discussion Leader: Alexandra Jones (University of Illinois)
3:45 pm - 4:15 pmChris Bretherton (University of Washington)
"The frontiers of better understanding, observation and simulation of radiation, cloud and climate interactions"
4:15 pm - 4:30 pmDiscussion
4:30 pm - 6:00 pmPoster Session I
6:00 pmDinner
7:30 pm - 9:30 pmRadiation, cloud and climate interactions
Discussion Leader: Dargan Frierson (University of Washington)
7:30 pm - 7:50 pmAngeline Pendergrass (University of Washington)
"The atmospheric energy constraint on global-mean precipitation change"
7:50 pm - 8:00 pmDiscussion
8:00 pm - 8:20 pmClaire Radley (Princeton University)
"Cloud and radiation variability associated with El Nino"
8:20 pm - 8:30 pmDiscussion
8:30 pm - 8:50 pmFelix Pithan (Max-Planck Institute for Meteorology)
"Boundary-layer processes cause GCM biases in Arctic winter"
8:50 pm - 9:00 pmDiscussion
9:00 pm - 9:20 pmBryce Harrop (University of Washington)
"What determines cloud radiative forcing in a cloud resolving model?"
9:20 pm - 9:30 pmDiscussion
SUNDAY
7:30 am - 8:30 amBreakfast
9:00 am - 11:00 amExploiting observations to understand cloud processes
Discussion Leader: Thorsten Mauritsen (Max Planck Institute for Meteorology)
9:00 am - 9:20 amKristina Pistone (Scripps Institution of Oceanography)
"The effect of atmospheric properties and processes on aerosol indirect effects in a trade cumulus regime"
9:20 am - 9:30 amDiscussion
9:30 am - 9:50 amTBA
9:50 am - 10:00 amDiscussion
10:00 am - 10:20 amElizabeth Berry (University of Utah)
"Using A-Train satellite data to investigate the relationship between cloud ice water path and cloud radiative effects"
10:20 am - 10:30 amDiscussion
10:30 am - 10:50 amEd Gryspeerdt (University of Oxford)
"Links between satellite retrieved aerosol and precipitation properties"
10:50 am - 11:00 amDiscussion
11:00 am - 12:30 pmPoster Session II
Coffee will be served in the poster area from 11:00 am - 11:30 am
12:30 pmLunch
1:30 pm - 2:30 pmCloud feedbacks
Discussion Leader: Mark Zelinka (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory)
1:30 pm - 1:50 pmMatthew Igel (Colorado State University)
"An analysis of tropical, deep convective anvil-climate interactions using CloudSat"
1:50 pm - 2:00 pmDiscussion
2:00 pm - 2:20 pmThorsten Mauritsen (Max Planck Institute for Meteorology)
"What if the Earth had an adaptive infrared iris?"
2:20 pm - 2:30 pmDiscussion
2:30 pm - 3:00 pmEvaluation Period
Fill out GRS Evaluation Forms
3:00 pmGordon Research Seminar ends. For those attending the associated Gordon Research Conference, please check in at the GRC Office beginning at 4:00 pm.

Last Updated: May 14, 2013
 
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