DOE ARM CPMSG Workshop Agenda
October 15–16, 2024
Argonne National Laboratory
Note: Conference rooms 1404-1405 will be the general meeting room, 1406 for Breakout 1&3, 1407 for Breakout 2&4 (all in central time)
October 15, 2024 (Tuesday)
09:00 Welcome and goals of the workshop (Christine Chiu, Jim Mather)
09:15 Introductions of participants
09:30 Vision of cloud and precipitation science and measurements (Leo Donner)
10:15 Break
10:30 Programmatic view and vision of C&P science and measurements
11:00 Overview of core C&P data products (Damao Zhang)
11:30 Overview of core C&P measurements (Adam Theisen)
12:00 Lunch
13:00 Breakout sessions 1 & 2
16:00 Break
16:15 Plenary: Breakout summary and recommendations
16:55 Day 1 Adjourned
18:00 Dinner
October 16, 2024 (Wednesday)
08:30 Breakout sessions 3 & 4
11:30 Break
11:45 Plenary: Breakout summary and recommendations
12:25 Lunch
Plenary: Improving science impact of ARM C&P measurements
13:25 Introduction (Po-Lun Ma)
13:30 Using nonlinear casual discovery on ARM C&P measurements for process-level understanding (Peter Jan van Leeuwen)
13:45 Gaps and opportunities for increasing the impacts of LASSO on cloud and precipitation science (William Gustafson)
14:00 Role and opportunities for ARM cloud and precipitation measurements in high-resolution modeling: Examples from THREAD (Yunyan Zhang)
14:15 Discussions
14:50 Break
15:00 Discussion on priority (Session leads)
16:00 Writing assignments, timeline and possible manuscript
16:15 Day 2 adjourned
Day 1 Breakouts
13:00 Breakout 1 - Air velocity from bottom to top (Christopher Williams)
Introduction
13:05 Science requirements for process undnerstanding and parameterization developments/evaluations (Greg Elsaesser)
Measurement requirements including calibration, core processing and retrieval methods
13:35 Lidar (Virendra Ghate)
13:50 Cloud Radar (Israel Silber)
14:05 Radar Wind Profiler (Paytsar Muradyan)
14:20 Scanning Radar (Mariko Oue)
14:35 Break
14:50 Discussion
16:00 Break
13:00 Breakout 2 - Solid precipitation at surface (Adam Theisen)
Introduction
13:05 Essential observables and science requirements for studying precipitation processes and their impacts on energy and water cycle (Sergey Matrosov)
13:35 Overview of ARM's North Slope of Alaska and Mobile Facility solid precipitation measurements (Adam Theisen)
13:45 Assessment of NSA snow monitoring arrays (Matthew Sturm)
14:05 Analysis and products from precipitation imaging systems (Fraser King)
14:20 Break
14:30 Overview of retrieval methods and uncertainty
14:45 Advances in precipitation quantification using machine learning (Fraser King)
15:00 Discussion on accessibility and opportunity of surface solid precipitation
15:30 Short-term and long-term development goals
16:00 Break
Day 2 Breakouts
08:30 Breakout 3 - Ice-containing clouds (Israel Silber)
Introduction
Essential observables and science requirements for ice-containing clouds and their interactions with aerosols
08:35 From observational perspective (Greg McFarquhar)
09:00 From modeling perspective (Xue Zheng)
Ice microphysical properties
09:15 Overview of retrieval methods (Israel Silber)
09:35 Status of radar measurements and possible plans for science requirements (Ya-Chien Feng)
09:55 Break
10:05 Discussion
11:05 Next steps and recommendations
11:30 Break
08:30 Breakout 4 - Boundary layer clouds (Christine Chiu)
Introduction
Essential observables and science requirements for studying boundary layer clouds and their interactions with aerosols
08:35 From observational perspective (Tianle Yuan)
08:50 From modeling perspective (Po-Lun Ma)
Cloud droplet number concentration and precipitation below clouds
09:05 Overview of retrieval methods and uncertainty (Christine Chiu)
09:15 Status of radar and lidar measurements and possible plans for addressing the current issues
09:25 Discussion
10:05 Break
Surface liquid precipitation
10:15 Surface precipitation quantification using machine learning (Haonan Chen)
10:25 Status of ARM surface precipitation measurements (Zeen Zhu)
10:35 Discussion
11:05 Next steps and recommendations
11:30 Break
