CloudSat–CALIPSO Science Team Meeting

Many of our research group members attended the CloudSat/CALIPSO Science Team Meeting in Newport News, VA held in the first week of March. Amid reconnecting with colleagues and generating new collaborations, we presented much of the substantial work we have done with CloudSat and CALIPSO. We were also able to see some of the other great research accomplished with these satellites.

On Tuesday morning, Ethan presented "A View of Latent Heating in Warm Rain Systems from CloudSat" in the precipitation section, followed by Mark S. with "Precipitation Aggregation and the Local Atmospheric State," Norm with "Assessments of 2C-SNOW-PROFILE and Application to Orographic Precipitation," and Mark K. with "Global Snowfall Partitioning Studies Using CloudSat and A-Train Data." In the afternoon high-latitude processes session, Tristan, Elin, and Alex gave three consecutive presentations on "A New Estimate of the Influence of Clouds on Mass Balance of the Greenland Ice Sheet,", "Relationships between Snow, Super-cooled Water, and Surface Radiation in the Arctic," and "Assessing the Radiative Effects of Mixed-phase Clouds Using CloudSat and CALIPSO," respectively. During the second day of poster presentations, Kate presented her poster "Impact of Convection in the Tropical Atlantic Ocean on the Transport and Redistribution of Dust Aerosols" and Alyson presented her poster "Quantification and Separation of Cloud-aerosol-radiation Interactions in Warm Stratiform Clouds."