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Agenda

Session 1: Introduction and Science Highlights - Chair: Tom Pagano

Tom Pagano JPL

Welcome and AIRS Project Status

Claire Parkinson GSFC

Mous Chahine: A Remembrance

Joao Teixeira JPL

Science Plans

Eric Fetzer JPL

Introduction to V6 and V7

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Session 2: Climate Processes I - Chair: Eric Fetzer

Joan Alexander CORA

Convective gravity waves during the North American thunderstorm season

Abhay Devasthale SMHI

An overview of current and future research/development activities at the Swedish Meteorological and Hydrological Institute (SMHI) based on NASA Sounder Data

George Aumann JPL

On the surface temperature sensitivity of the reflected shortwave, outgoing longwave and net incident radiation under clear and all-sky conditions

Joel Susskind GSFC

The relationship between surface temperature anomaly time series and those of OLR, water vapor, and cloud cover as observed using nine years of AIRS Version-5 level-3 products

Bin Guan JPL

Extreme snowfall events linked to atmospheric rivers via satellite measurements

William Smith Hampton University

Climate variable trends derived from dual regression AIRS retrievals

Larrabee Strow UMBC

All Sky AIRS Trends using PDF's

Xianglei Huang University of Michigan

Band by band cloud radiative forcing in cloud feedbacks study and GCM Evaluations

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Session 3: Climate Model Evaluation & Invited Climate Modeling Presentations - Chair: Joao Teixeira

Joao Teixeira JPL

Satellite Observations for CMIP5/IPCC

Jerry Potter GSFC

A perspective on CMIP5: from the simple beginning of model intercomparison to an international efffort

Brian Medeiros NCAR

Evaluating CAM's clouds with satellite simulators

Claire Radley GFDL

Comparison of GFDL's atmospheric models with observations during El Nino events

Hui Su JPL

Process oriented quantitative assessment of IPCC AR5 model simulations of clouds and water vapor using A-Train observations

Baijun Tian JPL

Evaluating CMIP5 models using AIRS temperature and water vapor profiles

Amy Braverman JPL

Likelihood-based evaluation of CMIP5 decadal experiment runs and AIRS water vapor data

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Session 4: Climate Processes II - Chair: George Aumann

Sun Wong JPL

Local balance of water and energy budgets in remote sensing and reanalysis data

Calvin Liang NGAS

The Interannual variability of water vapor and temperature

Phuong Nguyen UMBC

Decadal AIRS global surface brightness temperature trends

Thomas Hearty GSFC

A Comparison of Climate Variability Observed by AIRS and MERRA

Hai-Tien Lee University of Maryland

HIRS OLR Climate Data Record - production and future plans

Fengying Sun NOAA

Estimation of outgoing longwave radiation from AIRS radiance observations

Xun Jiang University of Houston

Recycling rate of atmospheric moisture over the past two decades

Xun Jiang University of Houston

CO2 variations seen from eight years of AIRS Data

Benjamin Lintner Rutgers

Morphology and genesis of long-tailed tropospheric tracer anomaly probability distribution functions

Hui Su JPL

Relationship of environmental relative humidity with tropical cyclone intensity and intensification rate

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Session 5: Clouds and Aerosols - Chair: Brian Kahn

Christoforos Tsamalis LMD, France

Optical depth and altitude of dust aerosols from AIRS and IASI

Daniel Lubin Scripps

Antarctic cloud microphysical and radiative properties from satellite Mid-IR radiance data

Hongchun Jin Texas A&M University

Cloud thermodynamic phase determination with Atmospheric Infrared Sounder for version 6 release

Brian Kahn JPL

New AIRS Version 6 cloud products

Zhibo Zhang UMBC

An assessment of differences between cloud effective particle radius retrievals for marine water clouds from three MODIS spectral bands

Lazaros Oreopoulos GSFC

Employing recent satellite datasets for improved understanding of the cloud radiative effect and its representation in climate models

Mathias Schreier JPL

AIRS and MODIS synergy: towards an improved understanding of cloud properties and processes

Chenxi Wang Texas A & M

Retrieving ice cloud properties by using the AIRS and MODIS instruments

Jie Gong JPL

Upper level cloud structures inferred from AIRS angle dependant radiances

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Session 6: Atmospheric Composition - Chair: Edward Olsen

Hai Nguyen JPL

Spatial interpolation of carbon dioxide using fixed rank kriging

Noel Cressie Ohio State University

Spatio-temporal smoothing of CO2 retrievals

Alexander Ruzmaikin JPL

The CO2 trends from AIRS L1 and L2 data

Jungie Liu JPL

Simultaneous assimilation of AIRS xCO2 and meteorology observations in a carbon climate model with EnKF

Larrabee Strow UMBC

Clear sky AIRS Trends

Edward Olsen JPL

Initial v6 mid-trop CO2 testing

Juying Warner UMBC

Impact of clouds on tropospheric CO variability

Jacquelyn Witte SSAI

Satellite monitoring of the 2010 Russian Wildfires: Capitalizing on NASA's EOS platform and A-Train constellation

Leonid Yurganov JCET, UMBC

First validation of AIRS, MOPITT and IASI CO total column over severe wildfires: implications for top-down emission estimates

Shawn (Xiaozhen) Xiong NOAA

Recent improvements on AIRS CH4 retrieval, validation and data analysis

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Session 7: Weather Forecasting - Chair: Chris Barnet

Nick Nalli NOAA

2011 AEROSE Ocean Validation Campaign Summary

Oreste Reale GSFC

AIRS impact on analysis and forecast of extreme precipitation events in the tropics with a global data assimiliation and forecast system

Eugenia Kalnay University of Maryland

AIRS forecast sensitivity impact and potential use to estimate surface fluxes

Lars Peter Riishojgaard JCSDA

Assimilation of water vapor radiances from hyperspectral IR sounders in the Joint Center for Satellite Data Assimilation

Ron Gelaro GSFC

Observation impact monitoring in the GEOS-5 atmospheric data assimilation system

Sid-Ahmed Boukabara NOAA

MIRS Algorithm: a comprehensive variational approach to remote sensing in all-weather, all-surfaces conditions

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Session 8: Sounder Workshop Recap and Planning Session - Chair: Tom Pagano

Roger Heymann NOAA

Summary of NWP center use of hyperspectral IR data in weather models

Eric Fetzer JPL

2010 NASA Sounder Workshop Recap

Bill Blackwell MIT

Nanosatellites for Earth Atmospheric Sounding: The MicroMAS Project

Joe Predina ITT

ITT Hyperspectral Advanced Baseline Sounder for GEO obit

George Aumann JPL

An infrared hyperspectral shortwave sounder with very high spatial resolution: requirements and potential science return

Bjorn Lambrigtsen JPL

Future microwave sounders

NASA Group Achievement Awards: GSFC AIRS Product Generation System Team (Tom Pagano)

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Session 9: AIRS Version 6 (V6) Product Testing & Validation - Chair: Bjorn Lambrigtsen

Steve Friedman JPL

V6 Schedule and Status

Evan Manning JPL

AIRS V6 Level-2 products

Joel Susskind GSFC

SRT evaluation of experiments run at JPL using the V6 and V6 AIRS only retrieval systems

Glynn Hulley JPL

AIRS V6 land surface temperature and emissivity assessment

Sun Wong JPL

Biases and skill scores of V5 and V6 AIRS temperature and water vapor using sonde data

Juying Warner UMBC

V6 CO Testing

Van Dang JPL

Testing and validation of AIRS V6 cloud top properties

Antonia Gambacorta NOAA

Some discussion on the properties of the current AIRS water vapor retrieval channel subset

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Session 10: Instrument Calibration - Chair: Denis Elliott

Denis Elliott JPL

AIRS/Aqua Operations Status / New AIRS Gain Table

George Aumann JPL

AIRS Calibration Updates

David Chapman UMBC

Noise reduction in gridded AIRS radiance products using the MODIS obscov algorithm

Likun Wang NOAA

Consistency assessment of Atmospheric Infrared Sounder and Infrared Atmospheric Sounding Interferometer radiances

Changyong Cao NOAA/NESDIS

Intercalibration of infared sounders to support climate applications

Fangfang Yu ERT, Inc.

Monitor and improve the GOES instrument calibration with AIRS and IASI: an application of GSICS

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Session 11: NPP Readiness - Chair: Bjorn Lambrigtsen

Chris Barnet NOAA

NPP CrIMSS EDR products: plans and validation

Murty Divakarla NOAA

Pre-launch to post-launch transition towards CrIMSS EDR Product Evaluation

Antonia Gambacorta NOAA

The operational channel selection for the Cross Track InfraRed Sounder: methodology and information content

Ed Kim GSFC

Initial activation status of ATMS

Joe Predina ITT

Activation plan for CrIS