Agenda (Revised 05-11-2011)

Tuesday, May 17, 2011 AGENDA

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• 07:00 Registration Opens in GC-402 – lunch orders and posters collected at registration table
• 07:30 - 08:15 Morning Snacks – Coffee, tea, fruit, bagels & donuts served

• Session 1	Introduction, Keynote Address, and Setting the Stage — Chaired by Russ Schnell
08:15 - 08:30	Welcome   Jim Butler (NOAA Earth System Research Laboratory, Boulder, CO)
08:30 - 09:00	Keynote Address - Outlook for Long-Term Fossil-Fuel Emissions   David Rutledge (California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA)
09:00 - 09:15	CO2 Emissions, Climate Change, and Human Development   Pieter Tans (NOAA Earth System Research Laboratory, Boulder, CO)
09:15 - 09:30	A New Global Greenhouse Gas Observation Initiative   Bob Marshall (Earth Networks, Inc., Germantown, MD)
09:30 - 09:45	How Observations of Atmospheric O2 Concentration Can Inform Our Understanding of Land and Ocean Processes in a Time of Global Change   Ralph F. Keeling (Scripps Institution of Oceanography (SIO), University of California at San Diego, La Jolla, CA)

• 09:45 - 10:15Morning Break

• Session 2	Halocarbons & Other Trace Species — Chaired by James Elkins
10:15 - 10:30	Observational Constraints on U.S. Emissions of Climate-Active and Ozone-Depleting Trace Gases from NOAA Air Sampling Networks   Steve Montzka (NOAA Earth System Research Laboratory, Boulder, CO)
10:30 - 10:45	Review of Comprehensive Pole-to-Pole Airborne Survey of Greenhouse Gases   James W. Elkins (NOAA Earth System Research Laboratory, Boulder, CO)
10:45 - 11:00	National Institute for Environmental Studies (NIES) Monitoring of Atmospheric Halocarbons   Yoko Yokouchi (National Institute for Environmental Studies, Tsukuba, Ibaraki, Japan)
11:00 - 11:15	Highlights from the UC-Irvine Global Monitoring Program (1978-2010)   I.J. Simpson (University of California at Irvine, Irvine, CA)
11:15 - 11:30	Urban Ambient Mixing Ratios of Hydrochlorofluorocarbons in China   Xuekun Fang (State Key Joint Laboratory for Environmental Simulation and Pollution Control, College of Environmental Sciences and Engineering, Peking University, Beijing, China)
11:30 - 11:45	Long-Term Monitoring of Volatile Organic Compounds (VOCs) in the Free Troposphere Above the UK   Shalini Punjabi (Department of Chemistry, University of York, York, United Kingdom)

• 11:45 - 13:00Catered Lunch Service – Outreach Classroom GB-124 (pre-payment of $10.00 required at registration table)

• Session 3	Aerosols & Atmospheric Radiation — Chaired by John Ogren
13:00 - 13:15	Lidar Remote Sensing of Stratospheric Aerosols and Comparison with Simulations from Whole Atmosphere Community Climate Model (WACCM)/Community Aerosol and Radiation Model for Atmospheres (CARMA)   Ryan Neely (Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO)
13:15 - 13:30	Recent Observed Variations in Background Aerosol Optical Depth and Associated Direct Radiative Forcing Estimates   E.G. Dutton (NOAA Earth System Research Laboratory, Boulder, CO)
13:30 - 13:45	Radiative Forcing Efficiency of the Fourmile Canyon Fire Smoke Plume - A Near-Perfect Ad Hoc Experiment   John A. Augustine (NOAA Earth System Research Laboratory, Boulder, CO)
13:45 - 14:00	Organic Compositions of Baseline Marine Aerosol at Cape Grim, Australia   Melita Keywood (Commonwealth Scientific & Industrial Research Organization, Marine and Atmospheric Research, Aspendale VIC, Australia)
14:00 - 14:15	Empirical Estimates of Cloud Condensation Nuclei (CCN) from Field Observations   Anne Jefferson (Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO)
14:15 - 14:30	Decadal Trends in Observed Analytical Uncertainties for IMPROVE Elemental Data   Warren H. White (Crocker Nuclear Laboratory, University of California at Davis, Davis, CA)

• 14:30 - 15:00Afternoon Break

• Session 4	Ozone & Water Vapor — Chaired by Irina Petropavlovskikh
15:00 - 15:15	Update on Stratospheric Water Changes   Karen Rosenlof (NOAA Earth System Research Laboratory, Boulder, CO)
15:15 - 15:30	Ozonesondes Show Record Low Stratospheric Ozone in the Arctic in 2011   B. J. Johnson (NOAA Earth System Research Laboratory, Boulder, CO)
15:30 - 15:45	Twenty-Five Years of Ozone Soundings at South Pole:  An Assessment of Changing Loss Rates   Birgit Hassler (Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO)
15:45 - 16:00	Measurement of Western U.S. Baseline Ozone from the Surface to the Tropopause and Assessment of Downwind Impact Regions   Owen Cooper (Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO)
16:00 - 16:15	Variability in the Distribution of Ozone Over Land and Marine Regions in the Indian Region   S. Lal (Physical Research Laboratory, Ahmedabad, India)
16:15 - 16:30	Long-Term Observations from 1982 to 2009 of Ozone in the Southern Ocean Marine Boundary Layer from Cape Grim, Tasmania 41°S   Melita Keywood (Commonwealth Scientific & Industrial Research Organization, Marine and Atmospheric Research, Aspendale VIC, Australia)
16:30 - 16:45	Science Highlights at the Cape Verde Atmospheric Observatory (CVAO)   K.A. Read (National Centre for Atmospheric Science, University of York, York, United Kingdom)

• 17:00 - 20:00Poster Session (DSRC Cafeteria) with appetizers & refreshments