2019 GDAP Meeting
(By Invitation Only)

Jan 22 - 24, 2020 | Tucson, AZ, USA

Agenda

Wednesday 22 January 2020 (Sabino Room, Level 3)

• BSRN – Christian Lanconelli (30′)

11:00 – 11:30 Morning Break

11:30 – 12:30 Land Surface Radiation / Soil Mosture Closure and Budget (continued)

• ARM Facility Activities – Jim Mather (30′)
• Status update GEWEX Water Vapor Assessment – Marc Schröder (presented by Rémy Roca) (20′)

12:45 – 14:00 Lunch

14:00 – 15:30 Clouds and Precip 1

• Evalutation of modeled precipitation in oceanic extratropical cyclones using satellite observations – Catherine Naud (30′)
• Summary of the ICWG Cloud Climatology Assessments – Andy Heidinger (30′)
• Tracking the MCS. Gridded dataset and connection to IP – Rémy Roca (30′)

15:30 – 16:00 Afternoon break

16:00 – 16:30 The Toledo Meeting: Scope and Expectations – Chris Kummerow (30′)

16:30 – 17:30 Clouds and Precip (1) (continued)

• ISCCP-Next Gen: Summary of the 2019 meeting and status – Andy Heidinger (30′)
• ISCCP-Next Gen discussion on contour, evolution way forward – All (30′)

17:30 – 18:00 The SATM (1)

• Presentation and Objective – Graeme Stephens (10′)
• Brainstorm 1 – All (20′)

Thursday 23 January 2020 (Sabino Room, Level 3)

08:30 – 10:30 Energy budget, Earth Energy Imbalance and Closure (1)

• The water and energy budget activities of TIRA – Mike Bosilovitch (30′)
• Some elements of the EEI – Seji Kato (30′)
• Status of EEI observations – Tim Boyer and B Meyssignac (30′)
• Towards an EEI assessment – All (30′)

10:30 – 11:00 Morning Break

11:00 – 12:30 Energy budget, Earth Energy Imbalance and Closure (2)

• Revisiting the role of sea-ice decrease n Arctic amplification – Eui-Seok Chung (30′)
• Closure considerations – Tristan L’Ecuyer (30′)
• Towards a closure assessment ? – All (30′)

12:30 – 14:00 Lunch

14:00 – 16:00 Clouds and Precip (2) (continued)

• The next generation of GPCP (V3) – Ali Behrangi (30′)
• The status of the Glopal Precipitation Climatology Center (GPCC) – Udo Schneider (presented by Rémy Roca) (20′)
• Precipitation Assessment – Hiro Masunaga (20′)
• Link to IPWG assessment for Precipitation and focus on extremes – Rémy Roca (20′)
• A study of Warm rain process through newly retrieved MBL cloud and drizzle microphysical properties – Xiquan Dong (20′)
• Discussion: next steps for the precip assessment – All (10′)

16:00 – 16:30 Afternoon break

16:30 – 17:30 The SATM (2)

• Brainstorm 2 – All (60′)

Friday 24 January 2020 (Mesquite Boardroom, Level 3)

09:00 – 10:30 GASS talk to GDAP

• Introduction to the GASS Panel Activities – Xubin Zeng (30′)
• Possible collaboration – All (60′)

10:30 – 11:00 Morning Break

11:00 – 12:30 The Integrated Product

• The Soil moisture assessment and ISMN- Wouter Dorigo (remotely) (30′)
• Status report of the datasets and the Toledo Meeting – Chris Kummerow (30′)
• Towards a GDAP Project – All (30′)

12:30 – 13:30 Lunch