June 11, 2004 - FINAL AGENDA |
MODELING AND MEASURING AEROSOLS |
Monday June 14, 2004
Session I |
Overview |
| 8-9:00 am | Registration and Coffee |
| 9:00 am | Welcome and Logistics (Holt and Hoff) |
| 9:15 am | NOAA's Air Quality Program: Today and Tomorrow - Steve Fine, OAR/ARL |
| Session II | Measuring from the Ground Up |
| Chair: Ray Hoff, UMBC/CREST | |
| 10:00 am | The Regional East Atmospheric Lidar Mesonet: How can we apply this to the assessment of PM 2.5 ? - K. J. McCann, R. M. Hoff, J. Engel-Cox, R. Rogers and N. Jordan, UMBC/CREST |
| 10:20 am | Wild- F ires: Impact on US air quality, L. Mtetwa and M. P. McCormick , CREST/HU |
| 10:40 am | BREAK |
| 11:00 am | Overview of Aerosol Measurement Activities at Howard University, Vernon R. Morris, E. Joseph, R. Armstrong, Y. Detres, L. Roldan, N. Greene, J. White, and F. Mensah, NCAS/Howard University |
| 11:20 am | Aircraft Observations of Aerosol Optical Properties over the Mid-Atlantic Region, R. E. Dickerson, CICS/UMCP |
| 11:40 am | Optical Depth Comparison of the UMBC Elastic Lidar Facility (ELF) and the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) - R. Rogers, K. McCann, R. Hoff, P. Menzel, S. Ackerman, UMBC, NESDIS/ORA, CIMSS |
| Noon | Lunch |
| Session III | Measuring from the Top-Down |
| Chair: Fran Holt, NESDIS/ORA | |
| 1:30 pm | Operational Smoke and Volcanic Ash plume Monitoring in NESDIS Satellite Services Division - G. Stephens, D. McNamara, M. Ruminski, G. Swanson, T.Kasheta, J. Taylor, Z. Zhang and J. Guo NESDIS/OSDPD |
| 2:00 pm | GOES Aerosol and Smoke Product (GASP) - A. Prados, S. Kondrugunta, K. Knapp and D. Tarpley - NESDIS/ORA |
| 2:20 pm | Aerosol Property Retrievals from UV-MFRSR Solar Irradiance Measurements During MCMA-2003 - C. Goering, G. Stephens and J. Slusser, CIRA |
| 2:40 pm | |
| 3:00 pm | U.S. Air Quality: Multi-sensor Fusion for Air Quality Applications. N. S. Jordan, J. A. Engel-Cox, R. Rogers, K. McCann, and R. Hoff. UMBC/NOAA CREST. |
| 3:20 pm | Global and Regional Retrieval of Aerosol from MODIS, Robert Levy, Lorraine Remer, Yoram Kaufman, Allen Chu , Russ Dickerson, SSAI/GSFC/JCET/UMCP |
| 3:40 pm | Sizing and Ranging of Aerosol Distributions using combined Lidar and Skyradiometer (AERONET) observations. Ben Hermann, Marco Vargas, Fred Moshary, Barry Gross, and Sam Ahmed CUNY/CREST |
| 4:00 pm | Assemble into Discussion Groups |
| 5:00-7:00 pm | BBQ Dinner |
| 7-8:00 pm |
Tuesday June 15, 2004
Session IV |
Transcontinental and Long Range Transport -Where is it coming from and going to? |
| Chair: Elaine Prins, NESDIS /ORA | |
| 9:00 am | Applications of the GOES Wildfire ABBA in Biomass Burning Emissions Monitoring and Modeling - E. Prins, C. Schmidt, J. Feltz, J. Reid and D. Westphal, NESDIS/ORA and CIMSS |
| 9:40 am | Long Range transport Observation of Two Large Forest Fire Plumes to the Northeastern U.S. - R. Hoff, J. Engel-Cox, N. Krotkov, S. Palm, R. Rogers, K. McCann, L. Sparling, N. Jordan, O. Torres, J. Spinhirne – UMBC/CREST, Battelle Mem. Inst., GEST, GSFC |
| 10:00 am | Saharan Dust Observations in the Tropical North Atlantic during the 2004 Aerosol and Ocean Science Expedition (AEROSE) - Nicholas R. Nalli, P. Clemente-Colón, C. Barnet, M. Goldberg, W. Wolf (NOAA/NESDIS/ORA), P. Minnett and M. Szczodrak (UM/RSMAS), A. Jessup and R. Branch (UW/APL), V. Morris (HU/NCAS) |
| 10:20 am | Intercomparison of Radiation Measurements During AEROSE - E. Veronica Morales-Irizarry, UPRM/CREST |
| 10:40 am | BREAK |
| 11:00 am | Development and Applications of Sensitive Techniques for Quantifying Organic Tracers of Atmospheric Particulate Matter - Joel Baker and Bernard Crimmins, University of Maryland. |
| 11:20 am | Decoupling of Aerosol Reflectance from Ground Reflectance using MODIS and Hyperion Data - B. Gross, O. Ogunwuyt, F. Moshary, S. Ahmed, CUNY/CREST |
| 11:40 am | Dust and Sulfate Aerosols off U.S. East Coast Bias Remotely Sensed Ocean Color Measurements - S. Schollaert, CICS/ESSIC |
| Session V | What is the Composition of these aerosols? |
| Chair: Jeff Steiner, CREST- CUNY | |
| 1:00 pm | PM 2.5 Sourcing: A Multi-System Geochemical Approach for Improving Aerosol-Tracking Algorithm - J. Steiner, E. Rudolph, A. Katz, A. Alimova. CUNY/CREST |
| 1:20 pm | Using CPL Data to Derive Optical Properties of Aerosols for the CALIPSO Sa Selection Algorithm - A. Omar and T.Babalaeva, Hampton University/ CREST |
| 1:40 pm | IMPROVE - Bret Schictel and William Malm, CIRA/National Parks Service |
| 2:00 pm | A new pseudo-deterministic multivariate receptor model for accurate individual source apportionment using highly time-resolved ambient concentration measurements - J. M. Ondov, S. S. Park, J. P. Pancras, N. Poor UMCP, USF |
| 2:20 pm | Discussion groups |
| 4:00 pm | Visit to UMBC labs |
| 5:00 pm | Dinner on your own |
| Session VI | Climate impacts of aerosols |
| Chair: Russ Dickerson, University of Maryland | |
| 8:00 am | Aerosol Direct and Indirect Forcing - Vanderlei Martins JCET/UMBC and NASA GSFC |
| 8:40 am | AVHRR Observations of the Aerosol Indirect Effect for Summertime Stratiform Clouds in the Northeastern Atlantic -Mark A. Matheson, James A. Coakley. Jr., and William R. Tahnk. CEOS/Oregon State University |
| 9:00 am | A numerical investigation of aerosol direct SW radiative forcing - I. Laszlo, NOAA / NESDIS / ORA |
| 9:20 am | Transport of atmospheric dust from the Bodele Depression, Chad, Africa - Tamara L. Battle, CREST CUNY and UMBC |
| 9:40 am | BREAK |
| 10:00 am | Collaborative projects (report out of discussion groups) |
| Noon | Conference ends |