AGENDA - First MAGIC Science Workshop

May 5-7, 2014

Brookhaven National Laboratory

 

 

Monday, May 5, Morning (Berkner Room B)

MAGIC Science Questions

 

08:15-09:15     Registration

 

09:15-09:30     Welcome and Introduction

Ernie Lewis, MAGIC Principal Investigator

Peter Daum, Former Chair, Environmental & Climate Sciences Department, BNL

Robert Tribble, Deputy Director for Science and Technology, BNL

 

09:30-10:30     Keynote Presentation

Chris Bretherton (U. Washington): "The Science of the Stratocumulus-to-Cumulus Transition"

 

10:30-10:45     Break

 

10:45-11:30     Ernie Lewis: "MAGIC Workshop and Beyond"

 

11:30-11:45     discussion

 

11:45-1:00       Lunch (Berkner Cafeteria)

 

Monday, May 5, Afternoon (Berkner Room B)

MAGIC Observations and Data - Chair: Dr. Allison McComiskey, CIRES/NOAA ESRL

Introduction, context, availability, and issues and concerns relating to MAGIC data sets:

What measurements are there? Why are they important? How do they relate to the science?

 

1:00-3:00         Presentations & Discussions

            Richard Wagener (BNL): "ECMWF Data Products for MAGIC"

            Maria Cadeddu (Argonne National Laboratory): "MWR and MWR3C Data during MAGIC"

            Michael Reynolds (RMR Co.): "Meteorology and Radiation Data from MAGIC"

            Mary Jane Bartholomew (BNL): "Parsivel Disdrometer Support for MAGIC"

 

3:00-3:15         Break

 

3:15-5:15         Presentations & Discussions

            Tami Toto (BNL): "MAGIC Ship Navigation and Inertial System Best Estimate ARM Value Added

                        Product (VAP)"

            Karen Johnson (BNL): "MAGIC Cloud Radars"

            David Troyan (BNL): "MAGIC Ship Motion Corrections for the ARM Radars"

            Gunnar Senum (BNL): "Aerosol Observation System (AOS) in the MAGICal Experiment"

 

5:15                 Adjourn

 

6:00                 Banquet @ Jason Vineyards, 1785 Main Road, Jamesport (included, courtesy of

                                    Brookhaven Science Associates)

Tuesday, May 6, Morning (Berkner Room B)

MAGIC Science – Chair: Dr. Andy Vogelmann, BNL

Science questions that have been, can be, or will be addressed with MAGIC data:

What am I doing? What can I offer/share? What do I need?

 

08:45-10:15     Presentations & Discussions

            Xiaoli Zhou (McGill Univ.): "Preliminary Analysis of Sc-Cu Transitions during MAGIC"

            David Painemal (NASA): "Satellite Observations during MAGIC"

            Michael Reynolds (RMR Co.): "Computing Fluxes by using TOGA COARE for MAGIC"

 

10:15-10:30     Break

 

10:30-11:30     Presentations & Discussions

            Alexander Marshak (NASA): "MAGIC Hyperspectral Observations for Studying Cloud Properties"

            Courtney Laughlin (Penn. State): "Retrieving Liquid Water Contents of Boundary-layer Clouds

Using Dual-frequency Cloud Radars"

 

11:30-11:45     Action items and charges

 

11:45-1:00       Lunch (Berkner Cafeteria)

 

 

Tuesday, May 6, Afternoon (Berkner Room B)

MAGIC Science (cont.) – Chair: Dr. Michael Jensen, BNL

 

1:00-3:00         Presentations & Discussions

            Peter Kalmus (JPL): "Closing the Boundary Layer Energy and Water Budgets with a Little

                        MAGIC"

            Rebecca Craig (U. Mich.): "Single-Particle Microscopy Analysis of Aerosol Particles for the

                        MAGIC Campaign"

            Eimear Dunne (Finnish Meteorological Institute): "AeroCom Marine Intercomparison"

            Ed Eloranta (U. Wisc.): "Drizzle measurements with the HSRL and KAZR: Sensitivity to

Assumptions"

 

3:00-3:30         Break

 

3:30-4:30         Presentations & Discussions

            Alexander Smirnov (NASA): "Marine Aerosol Network (MAN) and Aerosol Optical Depth

                        Measurements during MAGIC"

            Ernie Lewis (BNL): "Aerosol Properties during MAGIC"

 

4:30-5:00         Action items and charges

 

5:00                 Adjourn

 

7:00                 Dinner @ Bistro 72 in Hotel Indigo, Riverhead

 


 

Wednesday, May 7, Morning (Building 490, Large Conference Room)

Future Directions and Wrap Up – Chairs: Andy Vogelmann, Mike Jensen, & Ernie Lewis

 

08:30-8:45       Recap of discussions

 

8:45-10:00       Near-term analyses, prospective publications

 

10:00-10:15     Break

 

10:15-11:45     Future plans: field campaigns, model intercomparisons, etc.

 

11:45-12:00     Summary discussion, action items and charges

 

12:00               Adjourn