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Monday, April 25 | ||
5:00 pm - ???? | Ice Breaker (cash bar) | University House (short walk from BoM offices) |
Tuesday, April 26 | ||
Opening, Welcome | Chair: Nicole Hyett | |
9:00 AM | Acknowledgment of country | |
Dr. Rob Vertessy | BoM Director, greetings and welcome | |
9:30 AM | Nicole Hyatt | Meeting logistics |
9:45 AM | Chuck Long | BSRN Greetings and meeting charge (show of hands for WG attendance) |
10:00 AM | Tim Oakley | Welcome on behalf of Director GCOS and give an update on the status of GCOS |
10:20 AM | Nozomu Ohkawara | Status and implementation plan of BSRN in GCOS |
10:40 AM | Gert König-Langlo | Current state of the WRMC |
11:00 AM | Break (30 minutes) | Poster Group 1 put up posters |
New Sites Proposals 1 | Chair: Chuck Long | |
11:30 AM | Stefan Kinne (Hauke Schulz) | Barbados proposal as a BSRN site |
11:50 AM | Carlo Wang | New BSRN sites in Southeast Asia: from high elevation (2862 m) to sea-level |
12:10 PM | Benjamin Duck | Solar and Meteorological monitoring in Newcastle, Australia (new site proposal) |
12:30 PM | Lunch | |
New Sites Proposals 2 | Chair: Chuck Long | |
2:00 PM | Béatrice Morel | A suntracker at La Réunion Island (20.8°S; 55.5°E) for monitoring surface solar radiation under tropical maritime climate conditions: towards a new BSRN site? |
2:20 PM | Karthik Ramanathan | A proposal to bring 4 SRRA stations of India into the BSRN network |
2:40 PM | Vasilii Kustov | Ice camp "Cape Baranova" (79N, 101E) - possible candidate to BSRN |
3:00 PM | Break (30 minutes) | |
3:30 PM | Poster Session 1 | |
4:00 PM | Jörg Schulz | Overview of GDAP |
5:30 PM | Adjourn | |
Wednesday, April 27 | ||
Instrumentation Issues | Chair: Gert König-Langlo | |
9:00 AM | Aron Habte, Manajit Sengupta | Comparison of Calibration Methods and Resulting Solar Irradiance Measurement Differences |
9:15 AM | Michael Milner | Zenith angle bias in Pyranometer calibration |
9:30 AM | Nicole Hyett | An evaluation of the Delta-T SPN1 as a sunshine meteri |
9:45 AM | Natalia Kouremeti | Fourth Filter Radiometer Comparison (FRC-IV) |
10:00 AM | Ursula Weiser | The Austrian radiation monitoring network ARAD - best practice and added value |
10:15 AM | Michael Milner | Pyrheliometer Alignment Testing |
10:30 AM | Break (30 minutes) | Poster Group 1 take down posters |
Instrumentation Issues (Cont.) | Chair: Laurent Vuilleumier | |
11:00 PM | Aron Habte, Manajit Sengupta | Quantifying Spectral Error in Thermopile Radiometers |
11:15 AM | Ibrahim Reda | Measuring Broadband IR Irradiance in the Direct Solar Beam |
11:30 PM | Ian Dollery | Pyrgeometer Uncertainty calculations |
11:45 AM | John Augustine | Recovering LW irradiance tainted with bad thermistor data |
12:00 AM | Klaus Behrens | Long term stability of two Eppley and two Kipp & Zonen pyrgeometers |
12:15 PM | Julian Gröbner | Brief summary of the IPgCpyrgeometer comparison held during the IPC last fall |
12:30 AM | Stephan Nyeki | The World Infrared Standard Group (WISG) of longwave radiometers: How can/should updated calibrations be transferred to BSRN records? |
12:45 PM | Lunch | Poster Group 2 put up posters |
2:00 PM | Poster Session 2 | |
4:00 PM | Adjourn | |
Thursday, April 28 | ||
9:00 am - 10:30 am | Working Group Breakouts | (Times TBD) |
Julian Gröbner | Infrared Working Group | |
Chuck Long | Cold Climate Issues Working Group | |
Julian Gröbner | Spectral Working Group | |
Nicole Hyett | Uncertainties Working Group | |
10:30 AM | Break (30 minutes) | |
11:00 am - 12:00 pm | Working Group Breakouts (Cont.) | |
Gert König-Langlo | Training: how to use the BSRN-Toolbox, PanPlot to handle BSRN data before submission and as user | |
12:00 PM | Lunch | |
Observations and Analysis | Chair: Joe Michalsky | |
1:30 PM | Chris Cox | Cloud Radiative Forcing from pan-Arctic BSRN stations: Applications for climate monitoring and seasonal-scale sea ice forecasting |
1:45 PM | Gert König-Langlo | Increasing CO2 cools Antarctica |
2:00 PM | Xiangao Xia | Parameterization of clear-sky surface irradiance and its implications for estimation of aerosol direct radiative effect and aerosol optical depth |
2:15 PM | Carlo Wang | Long-term measurements of solar radiation and aerosol radiative forcing at Mt. Lulin (2,862m) in East Asia |
2:30 PM | Frederick Denn | Determination of Aerosol Optical Depth, and the required Top Of Atmosphere Values, with a Multi-Filter Rotating Shadowband Radiometer, Over a Five Year Long Period |
2:45 PM | Stefan Kinne | AOD estimates from broadband BSRN data |
3:00 PM | Break (30 minutes) | |
Observations and Analysis (Cont.) | Chair: Julian Gröbner | |
3:30 PM | Joe Michalsky | Spectral Irradiance and Optical Depth Retrievals from the Rotating Shadowband Spectroradiometer (RSS) |
3:45 PM | Bryan Fabbri | 15 Year Climatology of BSRN Measurements made at Chesapeake Light (CLH) |
4:00 PM | Taiping Zhang | The Data from the BSRN Archive and Its Application in the NASA GEWEX SRB and POWER Projects |
4:15 PM | Godugunur Giridhar, Karthik Ramanathan | Indian Experiences on Solar Resource Assessment |
4:30 PM | Jordi Badosa | On the quality of solar irradiance measurements for photovoltaic module efficiency studies |
4:45 PM | Sergio Colle | Validation of the BLR diffuse model against BSRN FLO |
5:00 PM | Ben Liley | 25 years of spectral UV measurements at Lauder |
5:15 PM | Stephen Wilson | Inferring photolysis rates from solar radiation measurements at Cape Grim |
5:30 PM | Adjourn | |
Friday, April 29 | ||
Working Group Reports | Chair: Chuck Long | |
9:00 AM | Julian Gröbner | Infrared Working Group |
9:15 AM | Julian Gröbner | Spectral Working Group |
9:30 AM | Chris Cox | Cold Climate Issues Working Group |
9:45 AM | Nicole Hyett | Uncertainties Working Group |
10:00 AM | Joe Michalsky | Broadband Shortwave Working Group |
10:15 AM | Business and Discussions | Dicussion Lead: Chuck Long |
Chuck Long | Need chair for Broadband Shortwave WG? | |
Chuck Long | New sites discussion | |
Chuck Long | Delinquent data submissions discussion | |
Joe Michalsky | SGP IOP; comparison of the 3 instruments that are considered absolute, & WISG versus IRIS & ACP | |
If time: | Instrument specifications against a minimum requirement for BSRN site (WMO Req for Inst Purchase) | |
Minimum requirements for a BSRN site (Do we have enough just downwelling SW, ask for dn & up SW & LW?) | ||
1:00 PM | Adjourn |