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2014 NOAA ESRL GLOBAL MONITORING ANNUAL CONFERENCE
David Skaggs Research Center, Room GC-402
325 Broadway, Boulder, Colorado 80305
May 20 and May 21, 2014
Tuesday, May 20, 2014 AGENDA
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• 07:00 Registration Opens in GC-402 - lunch orders and posters collected at registration table
• 07:30 - 08:30 Morning Snacks - Coffee, tea, fruit, bagels and donuts served
Session 1 | • Welcome, Keynote Address & Highlights — Chaired by James Butler | Slides |
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08:30 - 08:45 | Welcome and Conference Overview
James H. Butler (NOAA Earth System Research Laboratory, Boulder, CO) |
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08:45 - 09:15 | Atmospheric Signatures of Changing Global Biogeochemistry
Ralph Keeling (Scripps Institution of Oceanography, La Jolla, CA) |
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09:15 - 09:30 | The Earth Is Round: Some Elements of a Sustainable Society
Pieter Tans (NOAA Earth System Research Laboratory, Boulder, CO) |
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09:30 - 09:45 | Continued Permafrost Warming on the Arctic Slope of Alaska, 2014 Update
Gary Clow (United States Geological Survey (USGS), Boulder, CO) |
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09:45 - 10:00 | International Arctic Systems for Observing the Atmosphere (IASOA) – A Portal for Discovery, a Platform for Pan-Arctic Collaboration
Sandra Starkweather (Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences (CIRES), University of Colorado, Boulder, CO) |
• 10:00 - 10:30 Morning Break
Session 2 | • Carbon Cycle & Greenhouse Gases - Measurements — Chaired by Arlyn Andrews | Slides |
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10:30 - 10:45 | Detection and Quantification of Urban Greenhouse Gas Emissions: Ground-based Results of the INdianapolis FLUX (INFLUX) Experiment
Natasha Miles (The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA) |
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10:45 - 11:00 | Partitioning of Urban Fossil Fuel CO2 Emissions by Source Sector: Results from the INdianapolis FLUX (INFLUX) Experiment
Jocelyn Turnbull (GNS Science, New Zealand, and Cooperative Institute for Reseach in Environmental Sciences (CIRES), University of Colorado, Boulder, CO) |
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11:00 - 11:15 | Amazon Basin-wide Fluxes of CO2 and CH4 from Aircraft Vertical Profiles
John B. Miller (Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences (CIRES), University of Colorado, Boulder, CO) |
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11:15 - 11:30 | Seasonality and Trends of Atmospheric Transport Events to Summit, Greenland Derived from Long-term Non-methane Hydrocarbon Observations
Chelsea Thompson (Institute of Arctic and Alpine Research (INSTAAR), University of Colorado, Boulder, CO) |
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11:30 - 11:45 | Historic European Non-CO2 Atmospheric Greenhouse Gas Records: Harmonization and Uncertainty Assessment
Samuel Hammer (University of Heidelberg, Institut für Umweltphysik, Heidelberg, Germany) |
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11:45 - 12:00 | A Half-century Record of State-by-State Changes in Fossil Fuel Carbon Emissions and Corresponding Isotope Ratios in the United States
T.J. Blasing (Independent Scholar, Knoxville, TN) |
- 12:00 - 13:00Catered Lunch - Outreach Classroom GB-124 (pre-payment of $12.00 at registration)
• 14:45 - 15:15 Afternoon Break
Session 4 | • Aerosols — Chaired by Elisabeth Andrews | Slides |
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15:15 - 15:30 | Comparison of Aerosol Absorption Optical Depth from Remote-sensing and In Situ Measurements
John A. Ogren (NOAA Earth System Research Laboratory, Boulder, CO) |
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15:30 - 15:45 | Constraining Global Models of Black Carbon (BC) Aerosol with Pole-to-Pole Observations
Joshua Schwarz (Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences (CIRES), University of Colorado, Boulder, CO) |
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15:45 - 16:00 | Can We Characterize Aerosol Type Using Aerosol Optical Properties?
Lauren Schmeisser (Universiteit van Amsterdam & NOAA Earth System Research Laboratory, Boulder, CO) |
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16:00 - 16:15 | A Small, Sensitive, Light-weight, and Disposable Aerosol Spectrometer for Balloon and Unmanned Aerial Vehicle Applications
Hagen Telg (Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences (CIRES), University of Colorado, Boulder, CO) |
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16:15 - 16:30 | Biomass Burning at Cape Grim: Using Modeling to Explore a Possible Urban Influence on Plume Photochemistry and Composition
Sarah J. Lawson (Commonwealth Scientific Industrial Research Organization (CSIRO), Marine and Atmospheric Research, Aspendale, Australia) |
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16:30 - 16:45 | Aerosols at Mauna Loa Observatory (MLO) – Spring 2001, Versus Spring and Fall, 2011
Thomas A. Cahill (University of California at Davis, Davis, CA) |
- 17:00 - 20:00Poster Session (DSRC Cafeteria) with appetizers and refreshments
Wednesday, May 21, 2014 AGENDA
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• 07:00 - 08:30 Registration & Morning Snacks - Coffee, tea, fruit, bagels and donuts served
Session 5 | • Ozone & Water Vapor — Chaired by Samuel Oltmans | Slides |
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08:30 - 08:45 | The Alpha Jet Atmospheric EXperiment (AJAX): Three Years of Airborne Ozone and Greenhouse Gas Measurements Over California and Nevada
Emma L. Yates (National Aeronautics & Space Administration (NASA) Ames Research Center, Atmospheric Science Branch, Moffett Field, CA) |
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08:45 - 09:00 | An Overview of the 2013 Las Vegas Ozone Study (LVOS)
Andrew Langford (NOAA Earth System Research Laboratory, Boulder, CO) |
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09:00 - 09:15 | Source Distribution of Elevated Ozone in the Northern Colorado Front Range
Detlev Helmig (Institute of Arctic and Alpine Research (INSTAAR), University of Colorado, Boulder, CO) |
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09:15 - 09:30 | Past Changes in the Vertical Distribution of Ozone: The SI2N Activity and Its Outcome
Karen H. Rosenlof (NOAA Earth System Research Laboratory, Boulder, CO) |
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09:30 - 09:45 | The Pandora Spectrometer System: O3 and Multiple Other Species Measured Using a Small, Inexpensive Package
Irina Petropavlovskikh (Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences (CIRES), University of Colorado, Boulder, CO) |
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09:45 - 10:00 | Observed Global and Regional Variation in Earth's Water Vapor: Focus on the Weather-climate Interface
John Forsythe (Colorado State University, Cooperative Institute for Research in the Atmosphere, Fort Collins, CO) |
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10:00 - 10:15 | Validation of Aura Microwave Limb Sounder Stratospheric Water Vapor Measurements by the NOAA Frost Point Hygrometer
Dale Hurst (Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences (CIRES), University of Colorado, Boulder, CO) |
• 10:15 - 10:45 Morning Break
Session 6 | • Radiation — Chaired by Kathleen Lantz | Slides |
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10:45 - 11:00 | The National Ecological Observatory Network (NEON): Overview and Strategies for Radiation Measurements Across the Continent
Jeffrey Taylor (National Ecological Observatory Network (NEON), Boulder, CO) |
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11:00 - 11:15 | Evidence for the Long-term Stability of the Eppley Model PIR for Measurements of Broadband Infrared Measurements
Joseph Michalsky (NOAA Earth System Research Laboratory, Boulder, CO) |
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11:15 - 11:30 | Results of Second Outdoor Comparison Between Absolute Cavity Pyrgeometer (ACP) and InfRared Integrating Sphere (IRIS) Radiometer at Physikalisch-Metorologisches Observatoruim Davos (PMOD)
Ibrahim Reda (National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL), Golden, CO) |
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11:30 - 11:45 | Radiative Forcing of a Small-scale Wildfire Smoke Plume at the Surface, Atmosphere, and Top of Atmosphere (TOA) from Surface and Satellite Observations
John A. Augustine (NOAA Earth System Research Laboratory, Boulder, CO) |
- 11:45 - 13:00Catered Lunch - Outreach Classroom GB-124 (pre-payment of $12.00 at registration)
• 14:30 - 15:00 Afternoon Break
- 16:45Closing Remarks - Dr. James Butler, Director (NOAA/ESRL Global Monitoring Division)
Poster Session Tuesday, May 20, 2014 AGENDA
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• Radiation | Slides | |
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P-8 | A Miniature Upward-looking Radiometer for Balloon and Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) Use
Ru-Shan Gao (NOAA Earth System Research Laboratory, Boulder, CO) |
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P-9 | Update of the Mauna Loa Clear-sky Atmospheric Solar Transmission 1958 – 2013
Kathleen Lantz (Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences (CIRES), University of Colorado, Boulder, CO) |
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P-10 | Brewer 131 Calibration at 4-corners New Mexico Environment Department Site: Measurement and Calibration Issues
Patrick Disterhoft (Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences (CIRES), University of Colorado, Boulder, CO) |
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P-11 | Improved Quality Assurance Procedures for the Antarctic and U.S. Ultraviolet Monitoring Program
Patrick Disterhoft (Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences (CIRES), University of Colorado, Boulder, CO) |
• Halocarbons | Slides | |
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P-12 | NOAA Global Monitoring Division SkyWisp
Fred L. Moore (Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences (CIRES), University of Colorado, Boulder, CO) |
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P-13 | Recent Results from the Airborne Tropical Tropopause EXperiment (ATTREX) Over the Western Tropical Pacific
Eric Hintsa (Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences (CIRES), University of Colorado, Boulder, CO) |
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P-14 | How Much Can We Learn About Nitrous Oxide Emissions from Background Sites and Simple Box Models?
James W. Elkins (NOAA Earth System Research Laboratory, Boulder, CO) |
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P-15 | Global Measurement of Nitrous Oxide and Its Stable Isotopes Using Cavity Ring-down Spectroscopy
Amy Steiker (Institute of Arctic and Alpine Research (INSTAAR), University of Colorado, Boulder, CO) |
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P-16 | Improvement and Additions to the Halocarbons & Other Atmospheric Trace Species Group (HATS) Combined Data Sets
Geoff Dutton (Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences (CIRES), University of Colorado, Boulder, CO) |
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P-17 | Atmosphere-based Estimates of Non-CO2 Greenhouse Gas Emissions for the U.S. Derived from 14CO2
Steve Montzka (NOAA Earth System Research Laboratory, Boulder, CO) |
• Oil & Gas Fields | Slides | |
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P-32 | Top-down Constraint on Hydrocarbon Emissions in the Denver-Julesburg Oil and Natural Gas Basin
Gabrielle Petron (Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences (CIRES), University of Colorado, Boulder, CO) |
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P-33 | Initial Results of a Natural Gas Methane Emissions Survey in California's Southern San Joaquin Valley
Marc L. Fischer (Lawrence Berkeley National Labortatory, Environmental Energy Technologies Division, Berkeley, CA) |
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P-34 | Effect of Oil and Gas Development on Atmospheric Levels of Hydrocarbons and Tropospheric Ozone
So-Yun Kim (Fairview High School, Boulder, CO) |
• Networks & Data Management | Slides | |
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P-35 | Bridging the Work of Field Scientists and the Needs of Data Re-users
Antonia Rosati (National Snow and Ice Data Center (NSIDC), Boulder, CO) |
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P-36 | The National Ecological Observatory Network (NEON): Overview and Strategies for Managing Thousands of Simultaneous Measurements Across the Continent
Jeffrey Taylor (National Ecological Observatory Network (NEON), Boulder, CO) |
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P-37 | The National Ecological Observatory Network (NEON) Mobile Deployment Platform (MDP): A Flexible Community Resource for Ecological Research
Michael SanClements (National Ecological Observatory Network (NEON), Boulder, CO) |
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P-38 | Global Emissions InitiAtive's (GEIA) Vision for Improved Emissions Information
Gregory J. Frost (Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences (CIRES), University of Colorado, Boulder, CO) |
• Aerosols | Slides | |
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P-39 | Monitoring Aerosol Optical Depth During the Arctic Night: Development of a Lunar Photometer for Use at the NOAA Barrow Observatory
James Wendell (NOAA Earth System Research Laboratory, Boulder, CO) |
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P-40 | Results of Aerosol Hygroscopicity During The Two-Column Aerosol Project (TCAP) Campaign in the Frame of the NOAA Network
John A. Ogren (NOAA Earth System Research Laboratory, Boulder, CO) |
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P-41 | Black Carbon in the Arctic: In the Arctic Report Card
Sangeeta Sharma (Environment Canada, Climate Research Division, Atmospheric Science Technology Directorate/Science & Technology Branch, Toronto, Ontario, Canada) |
• Ozone & Water Vapor | Slides | |
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P-42 | Observational Evidence for Incomplete Dehydration in the Tropical Tropopause Layer
Andrew Rollins (Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences (CIRES), University of Colorado, Boulder, CO) |
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P-43 | The Stratospheric Water and OzOne Satellite Homogenized (SWOOSH) Data Set
Sean Davis (Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences (CIRES), University of Colorado, Boulder, CO) |
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P-44 | Towards a Combined Infrared Atmospheric Sounding Instrument (IASI)/Tropospheric Emission Spectrometer (TES) Record of Ozone: Validation and First Results
Hilke Oetjen (Joint Institute for Regional Earth System Science and Engineering (JIFRESSE) UCLA/Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), Los Angeles, CA) |
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P-45 | South Pole Ozonesonde Measurements During the 2013 Ozone Hole
Bryan Johnson (NOAA Earth System Research Laboratory, Boulder, CO) |
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P-46 | The Implications of Background O3 Affecting the Setting and Attainment of the National Ambient Air Quality Standards (NAAQS) for Surface O3
Samuel J. Oltmans (Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences (CIRES), University of Colorado, Boulder, CO) |
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P-47 | Colorado Front Range Surface Ozone Characterization
Audra McClure-Begley (Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences (CIRES), University of Colorado, Boulder, CO) |