From Particles to Global Impacts: Bridging Scales Between Clouds, Radiation and Aerosols

July 20 - 21, 2019

Chairs Carolin Klinger and Elin A. McIlhattan

Bates College

2 Andrews Road

Lewiston, ME, US

Venue and Travel Information

Conference Description

The Gordon Research Seminar on Radiation and 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 2019 Gordon Research Seminar on Radiation and Climate is devoted to bridging scales in our field. This meeting will focus on advances in the measurements and modeling of aerosols, clouds, precipitation, and radiation at various temporal and spatial scales both from a process-level and from a climate perspective. We welcome abstracts addressing these topics from either a measurements or modeling point of view, as well as those emphasizing how the two can be combined to constrain current questions in climate change. Exceptional presentations will be featured in a "Selected Poster Presentations" 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 pm	Arrival and Check-in
3:30 pm - 3:45 pm	Introductory Comments by GRC Site Staff / Welcome from the GRS Chair
3:45 pm - 4:30 pm	Keynote Session: Building Bridges in the Complex Atmospheric System Discussion Leader: Maximilian Maahn (University of Colorado Boulder / NOAA Earth System Research Laboratory, USA)
3:45 pm - 4:15 pm	Graham Feingold (National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, USA) "Top-Down and Bottom-up Approaches to the Complex Atmospheric System"
4:15 pm - 4:30 pm	Discussion
4:30 pm - 6:00 pm	Poster Session
6:00 pm - 7:00 pm	Dinner
7:30 pm - 9:30 pm	Global Perspectives Discussion Leader: Patrick Taylor (National Aeronautics and Space Administration, USA)
7:30 pm - 7:50 pm	Shiv Priyam Raghuraman (Princeton University, USA) "Investigating Recent Changes in the Global Clear Sky Greenhouse Effect and Cloud Radiative Effect"
7:50 pm - 8:00 pm	Discussion
8:00 pm - 8:20 pm	Kristine Moseid (The Norwegian Meteorological Institute, Norway) "The History of Aerosol Forcing"
8:20 pm - 8:30 pm	Discussion
8:30 pm - 8:50 pm	Adeyemi Adebiyi (University of California, Los Angeles, USA) "Using Observational Constraints to Estimate the Missing Coarse Dust in Climate Models"
8:50 pm - 9:00 pm	Discussion
9:00 pm - 9:20 pm	Ryan Li (Yale University, USA) "A Reversed Iris Feedback: Insights from Climate Simulations with Temperature Sensitive Cloud-Rain Conversion"
9:20 pm - 9:30 pm	Discussion
Sunday
7:30 am - 8:30 am	Breakfast
9:00 am - 11:00 am	Particle to Cloud Scale Processes Discussion Leader: Allison McComiskey (Brookhaven National Laboratory, USA)
9:00 am - 9:20 am	Siddhant Gupta (University of Oklahoma, USA) "Importance of Above and Below Cloud Aerosols in Determining Cloud Properties in Stratocumulus over the South East Atlantic Ocean"
9:20 am - 9:30 am	Discussion
9:30 am - 9:50 am	Jake Gristey (CIRES, University of Colorado Boulder / Chemical Sciences Division, NOAA, USA) "Insights into the Processes Controlling Shallow Cumulus Short-Wave Cloud Radiative Effect at the Surface"
9:50 am - 10:00 am	Discussion
10:00 am - 10:20 am	Linda Forster (Jet Propulsion Laboratory, NASA, USA) "Remote Sensing of Ice Crystal Properties Using Observations of Halo Displays"
10:20 am - 10:30 am	Discussion
10:30 am - 10:50 am	Robert David (University of Oslo, Norway) "Clouds out of Pores: Redefining Deposition Nucleation"
10:50 am - 11:00 am	Discussion
11:00 am - 12:30 pm	Poster Session Coffee will be served in the poster area from 11:00 am - 11:30 am
12:30 pm - 1:30 pm	Lunch
1:30 pm - 2:30 pm	Bridging Scales in Observations and Models Discussion Leader: Sophia Schäfer (Deutscher Wetterdienst, Germany)
1:30 pm - 1:50 pm	Die Wang (Brookhaven National Laboratory, USA) "Updraft and Downdraft Core Kinematics of Mesoscale Convective Systems Through Observations and Idealized Simulations"
1:50 pm - 2:00 pm	Discussion
2:00 pm - 2:20 pm	Guy Dagan (University of Oxford, United Kingdom) "Identifying the Spatial Scales in Aerosol-Precipitation Interactions from a Water and Energy Budget Perspective"
2:20 pm - 2:30 pm	Discussion
2:30 pm - 3:00 pm	Evaluation Period Fill in GRS Evaluation Forms
3:00 pm	Seminar Concludes