9th BSRN Scientific
Review and Workshop, 2006 -
(all times – local, with
AM/PM inferred)
29 May, Monday 2006
Opening and Overviews
8:15 – 8:45
Registration and set up for first talks
8:45 – 8:50
Announcements – Klaus Behrens and Ellsworth Dutton
8:50 – 9:00 Opening remarks – Prof. Gerhard Adrian, German Weather Service
9:00 –
9:20
Franz Berger – Overview of Routine
Observational and Research Activities at Meteorological Observatory Lindenberg
- Richard-Aßmann-Observatory
9:20 – 9:35 Gilles Sommeria – Update on WCRP Developments
9:35 – 9:55
Peter van Oevelen – GEWEX Activities
9:55 –
10:05 Hans
Teunissen – Global
Climate Observing System (GCOS) -- Update for BSRN
9:50 –
10:20
Break
10:20 –
10:40 Ehrhard Raschke – The need for accurate ground-based radiation data for
establishing a reliable radiation climatology data base
10:40 – 11:00 Paul Stackhouse – GEWEX Radiative Flux Assessment: Surface Working Group Overview and Update
11:10–11:30
Klaus
Behrens – Report on the CIMO Expert Team on
Meteorological Radiation and Atmospheric Composition Measurements
11:30 – 12:00 Andreas Roesch – Status of BSRN Archive
Atsumu Ohmura
– Future
at ETHZ
12:00 - 1:15
Lunch
1:35 – 1:50 Ells Dutton – BSRN: Progress and Challenges for the Future
Field
Site Status and Proposed New Sites (15-minute overview talks)
1:50 – 2:05
Bella Espinar-Frias – Plataforma Solar de Almería Station (
2:05 – 2:20 Enio Pereira - New BSRN sites in
2:20 – 2:35 Ain Kallis - Solar UV Radiation Measurements in Estonia
2:35 – 2:50
Vito Vitale – Implementation of the BSRN station at Dome C
(Antarctica) and first measurements of radiation fluxes and AOD
2:50 – 3:05
Wouter Knap – A
potential new BSRN site near
3:05 – 3:20 Jiri Pokorny – CHMI - Solar Radiometry, History of Calibrations
3:05 – 3:45
Discussion
on proposed and desired stations, and other topics
3:45 – 5:30
Posters (Will be displayed
for the entire week)
30
May, Tuesday Applications – Satellites and Radiative Transfer
8:30 – 8:50 Taiping Zhang - Systematic Comparison of the BSRN Shortwave and Longwave Downward Radiation Fluxes with Their GEWEX SRB Counterparts
8:50 – 9:10
Rainer Hollman – Use of BSRN data for an operational CM-SAF surface
radiation budget validation and inter-comparison with ISCCP-FD and GEWEX SRB
9:10 – 9:30
Joe Michalsky – Clear Sky Broadband and Spectral SW Radiation
Model/Measurement Comparisons
9:30 – 9:50 Alexander
Los – Cloud-Free Radiative Closure for
Cabauw, The
9:50 – 10:10 Paul Stackhouse and Taiping Zhang – Shortwave Surface Flux Trends from Satellite and Surface Site Data--Preliminary Results from GEWEX RFA
10:10 – 10:30 Break
10:30 – 10:50
Rachel Pinker – Issues
Related to satellite Product Comparison and Importance of Ground Truth
Applications – Climate Observations and Models
10:50 – 11:10 Atsumu Ohmura – Surface Radiation and Energy Budget
11:10 – 11:30 Andreas Roesch – Computation of Monthly Means or the Problem with Poor Data Quality and Gaps
11:30 – 11:50 Xiangao Xia – Aerosol optical properties and aerosol direct radiative forcing in Xianghe
11:50 – 12:10 Anatoly Tsvetkov - Climatic Signals in
the Time Series of Global Radiation based on the World Radiation Data Centre and BSRN
Archives
12:10 – 1:30 Lunch
1:30 – 1:50 Martin Wild – Means and variations in surface radiation budgets as simulated in GCMs and observed at BSRN sites
1:50 – 2:10
Tadahiro Hayasaka – Quality control and long-term variation of ground solar
irradiance in
2:10 – 2:30 Rolf Philipona – Interpreting surface radiation and temperature trends in Europe
2:30 – 2:50 Chuck Long – Part I) Flux Analysis: On estimating continuous clear-sky upwelling SW and LW and
2:50 – 3:20 Break
3:40 - Posters and/or Tour of Lindenberg Facility
31 May, Wed. UV
8:30 – 8:50
Uwe Feister - Spectral solar irradiance measurements in the UV region
and cloud documentation at Lindenberg
8:50 – 9:10 Julian Groebner - Calibration of erythermal weighted broadband filter radiometers: News from COST 726
9:10 – 9:30 Laurent
Vuilleumier - Calibration
checks for UV erythemal broadband radiometers
9:30 – 9:50 Vera
Lyubansky - Intercomparison of the Solar UVB radiation for
9:50 – 10:10 Break
IR and Clouds
10:10 – 10:30 Julian Groebner - Responsibilities at the Infrared Calibration Centre--Angular Response of Pyregeometers
10:30 – 10:50 Daniela Nowak - Cloud effect on shortwave radiation on clouds in Payerne
10:50 – 11:10 Gert
Konig-Langlo - How to treat changes in PIR pyrgreomter
11:10 – 11:30 Martial Haeffelin - Radiative impact of clouds and aerosols based on multiple
instrument synergy at the SIRTA observatory
11: 30 – 11:50
Klaus Behrens – Stability of DWD
Infrared Standard Group and the relation to the BSRN routine measurements
Wednesday
PM Excursion
1 June, Thursday Working Groups and Related Activities
8:30 – 8: 50 Tom Stoffel – Pyrheliometer thermal effects
8:50 – 9:00 Discussion on Direct Beam Measurements
9:00 – 9:30 Ken Rutledge - Oceans Working Group
9:30 – 9:40 Bruce Forgan - Transmission and Aerosol Optical Depth Working Group
9:40 – 10:10 Break
10: 10 – 10:40 Chuck Long - Clouds Properties Working Group
10:40 – 10:50
Laurent Vuilleumier – UV Working Group
10:50 – 11:20
Gunther Seckmeyer -
UV Research from the WMO and the NDACC (former NDSC)
11:20 – 11:50 Rachel Pinker - PAR Working
Group
11:50 – 12:10 Ells Dutton -- BSRN International Project Manager Requests and Suggestions to Site Scientists
12:10 – 1:10
Lunch
1:10 – 1:25
Bruce
Forgan – Spectral
measurements Working Group
1:25 – 1:40 Bruce
Forgan – Uncertainties
Working Group
1:40 – 2:10 Rolf Philipona - Pyranometer Thermal Offsets - (review of presentation made at last meeting)
2:10 - 2:30 Joe Michalsky - Pyrameter Working Group
2:30 - 2:45 Dutton/Michalsky/Philipona/Groebner –
Hibernated Pyrgeometer Working Group
2:45 – 3:00 Discussion
on Working Groups
3:00 – 3:15
Break
Aerosols /Water Vapor
3:15 – 3:25 Christoph Wehrli – Results of Filter Radiometer Comparison II in Davos, 2005
3:25 – 3:45
John
Augustine – An operational Aerosol Optical Depth Product from a
MFRSR network, SURFRAD/BSRN
3:45 – 4:05 Laurant Vuilleumier – Aerosol Optical Depth and Integrated Water Vapor column from solar photometry at Swiss Alpine sites
4:05 – 4:25 Mikhail Alexandrov – Characterization of absorbing aerosols and water vapor using MFRSR measurements
4:25 – 4:45 Michael Weller – Long-term observations of aerosol optical depths - a completion to BSRN
4:45 - 5:15 Bruce Forgan - Determination of longwave response of SW solar radiometer to correct for the thermal offsets
2 June, Fri AM
Calibration Methods and Measurement
Uncertainty
8:30 – 8:50 Dirk Engelbart – Lindenberg Observatory - WMO Reference Station for the Global
Water-Vapor Project GVaP
8:50 – 9:20 Bruce
Forgan – Determination of LW response of SW solar
radiometers to their thermal offset errors
9:20 – 9:40 Tom Stoffel – Pyranometer Thermal Offsets
9:40 – 9:50 David Halliwell – A Mix of Sun and Cloud: Field Calibrations of Pyranometers Using Natural Variations in Sky Conditions
9:50 – 10:10 Christian Ruckstuhl – Shortwave global irradiance uncertainty: Comparisons of state of the art instrumentation at the Payerne BSRN site
10:10 - 10:30 Break
Regional Topics
10:30 - 10:50 Frank Beyrich - Regional energy and water cycle components over a heterogeneous land surface – the Lindenberg contribution to
GEWEX-BALTEX and CEOP
10: 50 – 11:10 Ulrich Leiterer - GCOS Surface Network
11:10 – 12:00
General Discussion on BSRN Network Activities
12:00 –
1:00
Lunch
1:00 – 2:00
Workshop
wrap-up
2:00 –
Separate Working Group meetings as practical – establish work plans and
schedules for next 2 years.
Posters
Klaus Behrens – Status Report of the Lindenberg BSRN Station
Lamine Boulkelia – 10 Years of radiation measurements at Tamanrasset.
Martial Haeffelin
and Jean-Charles Dupont – CIR – A Range Cloud
Infrared Radiometer for Remote Sensing of Properties: Application for the BSRN Cloud
Community
M. Haeffelin and co-authors – Measurements and status at the SIRTA (Palaiseau, France) BSRN station.
Andresa
Herber – Aerosol Optical Depth Measurements as part of
the BSRN station Ny-Alesund,
Yvonne Hinssen and Wouter Knap – Pyranometric and Pyrheliometric Sunshine Duration
Gary Hodges – Status and Updates of the
U.S. SURFRAD BSRN sites
Gary Hodges – Status and Updates of the
ARM Data Submitted to BSRN
Wouter Knapp – Status of BSRN Cabauw
Gert Konig-Lango –
Status of the Two German Polar BSRN stations
Dave Longenecker et al – Status of NOAA baseline BSRN sites.
Jean-Philippe Morel – Comparison between the atmospheric irradiance measurements obtained at Carpentras from two pyrgeometers: a PIR and a CG4
Hiroshi Naganuma – Comparison of CG4 with PIR
Ormanda Niebergall,
David Halliwell, Bruce McArthur, and Ihab
Abboud – Status of Radiation Measurements in
Jean Olivieri – Photosynthesis is probably the
most important biological process on Earth
Ken Rutledge – Status of the
Tom Stoffel – Pyrgeometer Calibrations for the ARM Program: Updated Approach
Shawn Smith – Progress of the Shipboard Automated Meteorological and Oceanographic System (SAMOS) Initiative
U.Veismann, I.Ansko, A.Kallis and E.-M. Maasik – Solar UV
radiation measurements in
Laurent Vuilleumier – Status of
the Payerne (
Robert A. Weller – Surface
Radiation Observations in the
Hiroshi Naganuma – Status of BSRN Syowa, Japan
Hiroshi Naganuma – Status of Tateno, Japan
Rachel Pinker – Ilorin Station Visit Report
