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Agenda (Revised 05-16-2013)


Tuesday, May 21, 2013 AGENDA

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  • 07:30 Registration Opens in GC-402 - lunch orders and posters collected at registration table
  • 07:30 - 08:15 Morning Snacks - Coffee, tea, fruit, bagels and donuts served
• Session 1 Welcome, Keynote Address and Introductory PapersChaired by Russ Schnell
08:15 - 08:25 Welcome and Conference Overview
  James H. Butler (Director, NOAA/Earth System Research Laboratory/GMD, Boulder, CO)
08:25 - 08:35 The Earth System Research Laboratory
  Alexander E. MacDonald (Director, NOAA/Earth System Research Laboratory, Boulder, CO)
08:35 - 08:40 Introduction of Keynote Speaker
  James H. Butler (Director, NOAA/Earth System Research Laboratory/GMD, Boulder, CO)
08:40 - 09:10 Greenhouse Gases, Climate Change and Sustainability: Why Ignorance Is Not Bliss
  Jim White (Institute of Arctic and Alpine Research (INSTAAR), University of Colorado, Boulder, CO)
09:10 - 09:30 The End of Cheap Fossil Fuels
  Pieter Tans (NOAA Earth System Research Laboratory, Boulder, CO)
09:30 - 09:45 Global Ocean Carbon Uptake: Magnitude, Variability and Trends
  Rik Wanninkhof (NOAA Atlantic Oceanographic and Meteorological Laboratory, Miami, FL)
09:45 - 10:00 Achievements and Prospects of the China Meteorological Administration / NOAA Bilateral Cooperation on GreenHouse Gases (GHGs)
  Lingxi Zhou (China Meteorological Administration, Chinese Academy of Meteorological Sciences, Beijing, China)
  • 10:00 - 10:30 Morning Break
• Session 2 Carbon Cycle 1Chaired by John Miller
10:30 - 10:45 Three-dimensional Behaviors of Atmospheric CO2 Revealed by the Comprehensive Observation Network for Trace Gases by Airliner (CONTRAIL) Project
  Toshinobu Machida (National Institute for Environmental Studies, Tsukuba-City, Ibaraki, Japan)
10:45 - 11:00 Global Monitoring of Atmospheric Composition by In-service Aircraft for a Global Observing System (IAGOS)-CORE Aircraft: Current Achievements and Future Developments Including Involvement of U.S. Partners
  Andreas Petzold (Institute of Energy and Climate Research, IEK-8 Troposphere, Jülich, Germany)
11:00 - 11:15 Long-term Monitoring of Long-lived Greenhouse Gases (GHGs) and Short-lived Climate Pollutants in Asia and Oceania Using Voluntary Observing Ships
  Hiroshi Tanimoto (National Institute for Environmental Studies, Tsukuba-City, Ibaraki, Japan)
11:15 - 11:30 Revision of the Historical Atmospheric CO2 Record at Cape Grim and Expansion of the Atmospheric Observation Network in the Australian Region
  Marcel van der Schoot (Commonwealth Scientific Industrial Research Organization (CSIRO), Aspendale, Australia)
11:30 - 11:45 Power Plant and Megacity CO2 Observation from Greenhouse Gases Observing SATelllite (GOSAT)
  Tom Oda (Cooperative Institute for Research in the Atmosphere, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO)
11:45 - 12:00 Recent Analysis of the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) CO2 Primary Standards
  Brad Hall (NOAA Earth System Research Laboratory, Boulder, CO)
  • 12:00 - 13:00Catered Lunch Service - Outreach Classroom GB-124 (pre-payment of $12.00 required at registration table)
• Session 3 Carbon Cycle 2Chaired by Arlyn Andrews
13:00 - 13:15 Tracking Changing Arctic Methane Emissions
  Ed Dlugokencky (NOAA Earth System Research Laboratory, Boulder, CO)
13:15 - 13:30 Understanding and Quantifying CO2 and CH4 Greenhouse Gas Fluxes on the Regional Scale: The Project CarboCount CH
  Dominik Brunner (EMPA, Laboratory for Air Pollution/Environmental Technology, Duebendorf, Switzerland)
13:30 - 13:45 Updated Estimates of California’s Urban and Rural Methane Emissions
  Marc L. Fischer (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA)
13:45 - 14:00 Measuring CO2 and CH4 Emissions from Indianapolis: Preliminary Results from an Urban Atmospheric Inversion System
  Kenneth J. Davis (Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA)
14:00 - 14:15 Methane Emission Flux from Indianapolis, IN: Identification and Contribution of Sources to the Total Citywide Emission
  Maria Obiminda L. Cambaliza (Purdue University, Department of Chemistry, West Lafayette, IN)
14:15 - 14:30 Estimation of CO2 Emissions from Gas Flares Using Data Collected by the Suomi National Polar-orbiting Partnership (SNPP) Visible Infrared Imaging Radiometer Suite (VIIRS)
  Chris Elvidge (NOAA National Geophysical Data Center, Boulder, CO)
14:30 - 14:45 Gateway Pages to a Multi-institution, Geographically Distributed, Network of Data Sets for Atmospheric Trace Species
  T.J. Blasing (Carbon Dioxide Information Analysis Center, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, TN)
14:45 - 15:00 Measuring Carbon Dioxide from Space: Prospects for the NASA Orbiting Carbon Observatory-2 (OCO-2)
  David Crisp (Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA)
  • 15:00 - 15:30 Afternoon Break
• Session 4 AerosolsChaired by Patrick Sheridan
15:30 - 15:45 Recommendations for the Interpretation of "Black Carbon" Measurements
  John A. Ogren (NOAA Earth System Research Laboratory, Boulder, CO)
15:45 - 16:00 Updates to ESRL’s Flow-following Finite Volume Icosahedral Model (FIM)-Chem Global Modeling System and Comparison of Aerosol Optical Depth Forecasts with AErosol RObotic NETwork (AERONET) Observations
  Georg Grell (NOAA Earth System Research Laboratory, Boulder, CO)
16:00 - 16:15 Earth (and Lunar) Based Observations of Volcanic Emissions to the Stratosphere – An Update Through 2011
  Richard A. Keen (University of Colorado, Emeritus, Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences, Boulder, CO)
16:15 - 16:30 Recent Anthropogenic Increases in Sulfur Dioxide from Asia Have Minimal Impact on Stratospheric Aerosol
  Ryan R. Neely III (National Center for Atmospheric Research, Atmospheric Chemistry Division, Boulder, CO)
16:30 - 16:45 Initial Study of the Roles of Chemical Composition and Meteorology on Aerosol Radiative Effects in the Southeast U.S. - Results from a Regionally-representative Site
  Yong Zhou (Appalachian State University, Department of Chemistry, Boone, NC)
  • 17:00 - 20:00Poster Session (DSRC Cafeteria) with appetizers and refreshments