| Monday, April 25 |
| 5:00 pm - ???? |
Ice Breaker (cash bar) |
University House (short walk from BoM offices) |
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| Tuesday, April 26 |
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Opening, Welcome |
Chair: Nicole Hyett |
| 9:00 AM |
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Acknowledgment of country |
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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 |
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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 |
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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) |
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| 3:30 PM |
Poster Session 1 |
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| 4:00 PM |
Jörg Schulz |
Overview of GDAP |
| 5:30 PM |
Adjourn |
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| Wednesday, April 27 |
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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 |
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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 |
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| 2:00 PM |
Poster Session 2 |
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| 4:00 PM |
Adjourn |
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| Thursday, April 28 |
| 9:00 am - 10:30 am |
Working Group Breakouts |
(Times TBD) |
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Julian Gröbner |
Infrared Working Group |
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Chuck Long |
Cold Climate Issues Working Group |
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Julian Gröbner |
Spectral Working Group |
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Nicole Hyett |
Uncertainties Working Group |
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| 10:30 AM |
Break (30 minutes) |
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| 11:00 am - 12:00 pm |
Working Group Breakouts (Cont.) |
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Gert König-Langlo |
Training: how to use the BSRN-Toolbox, PanPlot to handle BSRN data before submission and as user |
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| 12:00 PM |
Lunch |
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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) |
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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 |
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| Friday, April 29 |
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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 |
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| 10:15 AM |
Business and Discussions |
Dicussion Lead: Chuck Long |
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Chuck Long |
Need chair for Broadband Shortwave WG? |
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Chuck Long |
New sites discussion |
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Chuck Long |
Delinquent data submissions discussion |
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Joe Michalsky |
SGP IOP; comparison of the 3 instruments that are considered absolute, & WISG versus IRIS & ACP |
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Instrument specifications against a minimum requirement for BSRN site (WMO Req for Inst Purchase) |
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Minimum requirements for a BSRN site (Do we have enough just downwelling SW, ask for dn & up SW & LW?) |
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| 1:00 PM |
Adjourn |
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