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2006 ANNUAL REVIEW OF THE NOAA ESRL GLOBAL MONITORNING DIVISION
2006 GLOBAL MONITORING ANNUAL REVIEW NOAA ESRL GLOBAL MONITORING DIVISION

Boulder, Colorado
April 26 and April 27, 2006

David Skaggs Research Center, Room GC 401
325 Broadway, Boulder, CO 80305

AGENDA
(Presenter's name only is given; see abstract for complete author listing.)

Wednesday, April 26, 2006

0830-0845 Welcome and Introduction – D.J. Hofmann (ESRL/GMD)
0845-0920 Keynote Address: Earth System Analysis as a Driver for Enhanced Observations - Sandy McDonald (ESRL)
Session 1  Highlights and New Directions – R.C. Schnell
0920-0940 Annual Greenhouse Gas and Ozone Depleting Indices: New Products of NOAA Research – D.J. Hofmann (ESRL/GMD)
0940-1000 Acceleration of the Rate of Growth of Atmospheric Carbon Dioxide– P.P. Tans (ESRL/GMD)
1000-1020 Aerosol-Cloud Interactions as Observed by Remote Sensors and In-situ Aerosol Measurements – G. Feingold (ESRL/CSD)
1020-1040 Break
Session 2 Highlights and New Directions (continued) – J.H. Butler
1040-1100 Tropopause Folds: Results from the NOAA Unmanned Aircraft System (UAS) Demo and Network Observations – J.W. Elkins (ESRL/GMD)
1100-1120 Enhanced Understanding of Aerosol Climate-Forcing Properties through Global Monitoring – J.A. Ogren (ESRL/GMD)
1120-1140 GPS Water Vapor Observations at Mauna Loa Observatory in 2005– S.I. Gutman (ESRL/GSD)
1140-1200 Is the Tropospheric Ozone Entering the U.S. West Coast Changing? - Trinidad Head, California as a Site for Measuring Background Tropospheric Ozone – S.J. Oltmans (ESRL/GMD)
1200-1300 Lunch
Session 3 Carbon Cycle 1: Sources and Distributions – P.P. Tans
1300-1320 Preliminary Satellite Estimates of Annual Global Gas Flaring Volumes: 1992-2004 – C.D. Elvidge (NOAA/NGDC)
1320-1340 Climatic and Biospheric Effects of Changing Patterns of Fossil-fuel CO2 Emissions – T.J. Blasing (CDIAC)
1340-1400 Limitations of NOAA ESRL Measurements of Atmospheric CH4 for Source Attribution  – E.J. Dlugokencky (ESRL/GMD)
1400-1420 Global Observations of Carbon Monoxide, Methane, and Carbon Dioxide in the Free Troposphere Derived from the Atmospheric Infrared Sounder (AIRS) – C.D. Barnet (NOAA/NESDIS)
1420-1440  Break
Session 4 Carbon Cycle 2: Aircraft, Tower, and Carbonyl Sulfide – E.J. Dlugokencky
1440-1500 NOAA/ESRL Aircraft Network Update – C. Sweeney (CIRES/GMD)
1500-1520 A Revised Tall Tower Dataset for LEF, WKT and AMT for 2004-Present: Automated Data Processing and Quality Assurance Algorithms for Continuous CO2 and CO Measurements – A.E. Andrews (ESRL/GMD)
1520-1540 Seasonal Variations in Vertical Profiles of Carbonyl Sulfide, Halocarbons, and Benzene over North America – S.A. Montzka (ESRL/GMD)
1600-1830 Poster Session (Room GB-124)

Thursday, April 27, 2006

Session 5 Carbon Cycle 3 - Modeling and a New GC-MS System – A.E. Andrews
0830-0850 Estimating Biomass in a Combined SiB and CASA Model Using Data Assimilation – K..M. Schaefer (NRC/GMD)
0850-0910 Regional Scale Inverse Modeling of North American Carbon Fluxes – A.I. Hirsch (CIRES/GMD)
0910-0930 Terrestrial Carbon Fluxes for North America Estimated from NOAA-ESRL CO2 Observations  – W. Peters (CIRES/GMD)
0930-0950 The Medusa Automated Cryofocusing Gas Chromatograph–Mass Spectrometer System for the Measurement of Atmospheric Trace Gases – R.F. Weiss (Scripps)
0950-1010 Break
Session 6 Aerosols – A. Jefferson
1010-1030 CLidar Profiling of Aerosols at Mauna Loa Observatory – J.E. Barnes (ESRL/GMD/MLO)
1030-1050 Aerosol Light Scattering Measured by Nephelometry Compared to that Derived from Cavity Ring Down Aerosol Extinction Spectroscopy (CRD-AES) – P. Massoli.(CIRES/CSD)
Session 7 Radiation – A.C. McComiskey
1050-1110 Observed Multi-decadal Variations in Surface Irradiance (Radiation Budget) Records – E.G. Dutton (ESRL/GMD)
1110-1130 Broadband and Spectral Shortwave Radiation Model and Measurement Comparisons – J.J. Michalsky (ESRL/GMD)
1130-1150 An Aerosol Optical Depth Algorithm for the SURFRAD Network – J.A. Augustine (ESRL/GMD)
1150-1200 Logistics for Post Meeting Mixer – R.C. Schnell (ESRL/GMD)
1200-1300 Lunch
Session 8 Ozone and Halocarbons – S.J. Oltmans
1300-1320 Ozone Measurements in Australia – M.B. Tully (Bureau of Meteorology, Australia)
1320-1340 Constraining Estimates of Future Emissions of Ozone-Depleting Substances with Measurements – D.F. Hurst (CIRES/GMD)
1340-1400 Oceanic Distributions and Emissions of Short-lived Halocarbons – J.H. Butler (ESRL/GMD)
1400-1420 Break
Session 9 Water Vapor and Volatile Organic Compounds – J.W. Elkins
1420-1440 Two Years of Water Vapor Observations Using a New Cryogenic Frost Point Hygrometer (CFH) H. W. Vömel (CIRES/GMD)
1440-1500 PAN Measurements Across the Tropopause – F.L. Moore (CIRES/GMD)
1500-1520 The World Meteorological Organization Global Atmospheric Watch (WMO/GAW) Volatile Organic Compound (VOC) Network – D. Helmig (INSTAAR)
Session 10 Arctic – E. Andrews
1520-1540 Surface Energy Budget, Boundary Layer Structure and Synoptic/Orographic Influences at Arctic Climate Observatories for the Study of Environmental Arctic Change (SEARCH) – O. Persson (ESRL/PSD)
1540-1600 Forest Fire Smoke Screens Arctic Warming – R. Stone (CIRES/GMD)
1600-1620 NOAA Measurements at Summit, Greenland: Past, Present and Future – R. C. Schnell (ESRL/GMD)