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2010 NOAA ESRL GLOBAL MONITORING ANNUAL CONFERENCE

David Skaggs Research Center, Room GC-402
325 Broadway, Boulder, Colorado 80305
May 18 and May 19, 2010

Tuesday, May 18, 2010 AGENDA

(Only presenter's name is given; see abstract for complete author listing.)
(Click on presentation title to view abstract.)

• 07:00 Conference Registration Opens – lunch order fee and posters collected at registration table.

• 07:30-08:15 Morning Breakfast – Coffee, tea, fruit, bagels & donuts served

Session 1	• Introduction and Carbon Cycle Gases Session 1 - Chaired by Russ Schnell	Slides
08:15-08:30	Welcome   J.H. Butler (NOAA/ESRL)
08:30-08:45	Have you Seen the Economic Recession in the Atmospheric CO2 Record?   P. Tans (NOAA/ESRL)
08:45-09:00	New Results from the NOAA ESRL Collaborative Tall Tower Network for Monitoring Carbon Dioxide and Related Gases   A. Andrews (NOAA/ESRL)
09:00-09:15	Indianapolis Flux Project (INFLUX): Development, Improvement, and Assessment of Methods to Quantify Greenhouse Gas Emissions at the Urban Scale   P.Shepson (Purdue University)
09:15-09:30	Detecting Saturation in the Ocean Carbon Sink   A. Jacobson (University of Colorado/CIRES)
09:30-09:45	Annual Migrations of North American Centroids of Carbon Emissions from Fossil Fuels – What Do They Reveal about Causes and Future Trends?   J. Gregg (University of Maryland)

• 09:45-10:15 Morning Break

Session 2	• Carbon Cycle Gases Session 2 - Chaired by Pieter Tans	Slides
10:15-10:30	A Long-Term Perspective on Recent Increases in Atmospheric CH4 Abundance   E. Dlugokencky (NOAA/ESRL)
10:30-10:45	Global Atmospheric Methane and Ethane: Updated Mixing Ratios and Trends (1984-2009)   I.Simpson (University of California, Irvine)
10:45-11:00	A 20th Century Atmospheric History of Ethane and Implications for the Methane Budget   K.Verhulst (University of California, Irvine)
11:00-11:15	Seasonal Variations in CH4 and N2O Emissions from Central California   M. Fischer (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory)
11:15-11:30	Measurement and Parameterization of Sea-Air Trace Gas Transfer Using Micrometeorological Techniques: A Decade of Progress   J. Hare (University of Colorado/CIRES)
11:30-11:45	13C/12C Isotopic Constraints on Inter-Continental Transport of Fossil Fuel CO2 & Black Carbon (BC) Aerosols   L. Huang (Environment Canada)

• 11:45-13:00 Catered Lunch Service – Outreach Classroom GB-124 (pre-payment of $10.00 required at registration table)

Session 3	• Carbon Cycle Gases Session 3 - Chaired by Arlyn Andrews	Slides
13:00-13:15	Radiocarbon (14C) Traces the Fossil and Biogenic Components of Total CO2   J. Miller (University of Colorado/CIRES)
13:15-13:30	Inter-Annual Variability of CO and CH4 Observations Interpreted by a Global Lagrangian Transport Model   J. Klausen (Empa, Switzerland)
13:30-13:45	Atmospheric CO2 Observations from Space (ACOS): Preliminary Results from Greenhouse Gas Observing Satellite (GOSAT) Data Analysis   D. Crisp (JPL, California Institue of Technology)
13:45-14:00	7.5 Years of Atmospheric Infrared Sounder (AIRS) Mid-Tropospheric CO2 - Validations and applications   E. Olsen (JPL, California Institute of Technology)
14:00-14:15	A Sixteen-Year Record of Global Natural Gas Flaring Derived from Satellite Data   C. Elvidge (NOAA/National Geophysical Data Center)
14:15-14:30	Atmospheric Observations of Carbon Monoxide (CO) and Fossil Fuel CO2 Emissions from a Medium Sized City: Sacramento, California, USA   J. Turnbull (NOAA/ESRL)

• 14:30-15:00 Afternoon Break

Session 4	• Halocarbons & Other Trace Species - Chaired by James Elkins	Slides
15:00-15:15	CHF3 (HFC-23) Emission Trend Response to CHClF2 (HCFC-22) Production and Recent Emission Abatement Measures   B. Miller (University of Colorado/CIRES)
15:15-15:30	Measurements of Greenhouse Gases and Halogenated Compounds at Gosan (Jeju Island, Korea) for Understanding Emissions in East Asia   J. Kim (Seoul National University, South Korea)
15:30-15:45	A Study of Ambient Mercury in the Marine Free Troposphere   L. Krnavek (EPA)
15:45-16:00	Measurement of Volatile Organic Compounds (VOCs) in Marine Air at Cape Grim Using Proton Transfer Reaction Mass Spectrometry (PTR-MS)   S. Lawson (CSIRO, Australia)
16:00-16:15	Nonmethane Hydrocarbons at the NOAA ESRL Cooperate Network Flask Sampling Sites and Their Use for Site and Atmospheric Transport Evaluation   D. Helmig (University of Colorado/INSTAAR)
16:15-16:30	Unique Transport Diagnostics from Airborne In Situ Trace Gas Measurements   E. Ray (University of Colorado/CIRES)
16:30-16:45	Preliminary Results from the First Atmospheric Study on the NASA Global Hawk Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UAS)   J. Elkins (NOAA/ESRL)

• 17:00-20:00 Poster Session (DSRC Cafeteria) with appetizers & refreshments

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Wednesday, May 19, 2010 AGENDA

(Only presenter's name is given; see abstract for complete author listing.)
(Click on presentation title to view abstract.)

• 07:00 Conference Registration Opens – lunch order fee collected at registration table.

• 07:30-08:15 Morning Breakfast – Coffee, tea, fruit, bagels & donuts served

Session 5	• Keynote and Setting the Stage - Chaired by James Butler	Slides
08:15-08:45	Observations and Monitoring: The Challenge of Science to Services   T.R. Karl (NOAA/Climate Service and National Climatic Data Center)
08:45-09:00	Keynote Questions and Answers   T.R. Karl
09:00-09:15	Recent Increases in Global HFC-23 Emissions and the Contribution of HFCs and HCFCs to Radiative Forcing   S. Montzka (NOAA/ESRL)
09:15-09:30	Top-Down Validation of European Halocarbon Emission Inventories   S. Reimann (EMPA, Switzerland)
09:30-09:45	Integrating Observations & Inventories to Improve Emission Estimates: a Framework for Global Synthesis   R. Duren (JPL, California Institute of Technology)

• 09:45-10:15 Morning Break

Session 6	• Atmospheric Radiation - Chaired by Ellsworth Dutton	Slides
10:15-10:30	Radiance Calibrated Night Lights Products That Reveal Unsaturated Urban Cores and Gas Flares   D. Ziskin (University of Colorado/CIRES)
10:30-10:45	Downscaling of Advanced Microwave Scanning Radiometer (AMSR-E) Soil Moisture Using Thermal Sensors and a Physically-Based Model   C. Hsu (University of Colorado/CIRES)
10:45-11:00	Decadal Variations in Surface Radiation Budget Observations: An Unexpected Trend for the U.S.   E. Dutton (NOAA/ESRL)
11:00-11:15	A Ten-Month Comparison of All-Weather Pyrheliometers   J. Michalsky (NOAA/ESRL)
11:15-11:30	A Characterization of Arctic Aerosols as Derived from Airborne Observations and Their Influences on the Surface Radiation Budget   R. Stone (University of Colorado/CIRES)
11:30-11:40	Assessing the ‘Full Spectral’ Potential Radiative Impact of Arctic Aerosols: Dust, Smoke, Haze   G. Anderson (NOAA/ESRL)

• 11:45-13:00 Catered Lunch Service – Outreach Classroom GB-124 (pre-payment of $10.00 required at registration table)

Session 7	• Aerosols - Chaired by John Ogren	Slides
13:00-13:15	Detection of Aerosol Growth Rate Using a Mass Balance Model Constrained by Water Isotopes Measurements at Mauna Loa   A. Bailey (University of Colorado/CIRES)
13:15-13:30	Inclusion of Aerosol Impacts on Medium Range Forecasts of Weather and Air Quality in the Flow-Following Finite Volume Icosahedral Model (FIM) Global Model   G. Grell (University of Colorado/CIRES)
13:30-13:45	Results from Initial-Year Aerosol Optical Property Measurements at the New NOAA ESRL Collaborative Aerosol Monitoring Station in Boone, North Carolina (NC)   J. Sherman (Appalachian State University)
13:45-14:00	Updated Aerosol Climatology for Cape Point, South Africa   C. Labuschagne (South Africa Weather Service)
14:00-14:15	The NOAA ESRL Airborne Aerosol Observatory: Climatology and Seasonal Variation of Aerosol Properties Over Central Illinois   P. Sheridan (NOAA/ESRL)
14:15-14:30	Climate Services, WMO and GAW Observations   L. Jalkanen (WMO, Switzerland)

• 14:30-15:00 Afternoon Break

Session 8	• Ozone and Water Vapor - Chaired by Sam Oltmans	Slides
15:00-15:15	Enhanced Ozone Over Western North America from Biomass Burning in Eurasia During April 2008 as Seen in Surface and Profile Observations   S. Oltmans (NOAA/ESRL)
15:15-15:30	Ozone Profile Trends from Ground-Based and Satellite Data   I. Petropavlovskikh (University of Colorado/CIRES)
15:30-15:45	Using the Relationship Between Mean 500-Millibar (Mb) Heights and Mean Surface Ozone Concentrations in Colorado to Decompose Ozone Times Series and Evaluate the Impacts of Changes in Precursor Emissions   P. Reddy (Colorado Dept. of Public Health & Environment)
15:45-16:00	Profiles of the Water Vapor Isotope Composition for Determining Regional Water Sources and Trace Gas Exchange in the Boundary Layer   D. Noone (University of Colorado/CIRES)
16:00-16:15	The Complementarities of NDACC and GRUAN in Establishing Measurement Requirements for Water Vapor Trends Detection   M. Kurylo (NASA/Goddard)
16:15-16:30	The “Boulder Record”: 30 Years of Water Vapor Vertical Profiles Over Boulder, Colorado   D. Hurst (University of Colorado/CIRES)
16:30-16:45	Laboratory Evaluation of the Effect of Nitric Acid on Chilled Mirror Hygrometer Measurements in the Upper Troposphere (UT)/Lower troposphere (LS)   T. Thornberry (University of Colorado/CIRES)

• Closing Remarks: Dr. James H. Butler (NOAA/ESRL)

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Poster Session Tuesday, May 18, 2010 AGENDA

(Only presenter's name is given; see abstract for complete author listing.)
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• Carbon Cycle
P-1	Empirical Estimates of Interannual Changes in Air-Sea CO2 Fluxes   G. Park (NOAA Atlantic Oceanographic and Meteorological Laboratory)
P-2	AirCore:  An Innovative Atmospheric Sampling System   A. Karion (Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences, University of Colorado)
P-3	Comparison of Simulated and Observed 13CO2 at North American Sites   C. Alden (Institute of Arctic and Alpine Research, University of Colorado)
P-4	The Influence of Hydrological Changes on the 18O Content of Atmospheric CO2   N. Buenning (Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences, University of Colorado)
P-5	Modeling the Synoptic Atmospheric Interaction with Anthropogenic and Biospheric CO2 Emissions   D. Chan (Environment Canada, Canada)
P-6	A Simplified Estimate of Contribution to Change of CO2 Concentration by the Statistical Method   H.-C. Lim (Korea Global Atmosphere Watch Center, Climate Science Bureau, Korea)
P-7	Novel Analyzer for Real-Time N2O and CO Measurements in Air   R. Provencal (Los Gatos Research)
P-8	Quantifying Canada’s Natural and Anthropogenic Methane Budgets Using Atmospheric Observations & Modeling: Progress and Limitations   D. Worthy (Environment Canada, Canada)
P-9	Diagnosing the Bayesian Balance in Atmospheric Inversions   A.R. Jacobson (Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences, University of Colorado)
P-10	Evaluating CarbonTracker (CT) Performance During the North American Carbon Program Mid-Continent Intensive Campaign   G. Petron (Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences, University of Colorado)
P-11	Aura TES Measurements Related to the Carbon, Nitrogen and Water Cycles and Their Impact on Air Quality and Climate   J. Worden (Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology)
P-12	How Well Could Satellite Data Constrain Degree-Resolution Carbon Fluxes?   D.F. Baker (Cooperative Institute for Research in Atmospheres, Colorado State University)
P-13	Application of Extractive Fourier Transform Infrared Spectroscopy with Cryogenic Preconcentration: Preliminary Laboratory Results   P.I. Buckley (University of Alabama)
P-14	Spatial and Temporal Variations of Atmospheric Methane and Carbon Dioxide Observed in Environment Canada’s Greenhouse Gas (GHG) Measurement Network   E. Chan (Environment Canada, Canada)
P-15	Seasonal Variations in CH4 and N2O Emissions from Central California   M.L. Fischer (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory)
P-16	Temporal Variations in CO2 in Air in Pasadena, California   S. Newman (California Institute of Technology)
P-17	Records of Northern Hemisphere Atmospheric Carbon Monoxide Back to ~1950 AD from Greenland Firn Air   V.V. Petrenko (Institute of Arctic and Alpine Research, University of Colorado)
P-18	Using Tropospheric Emission Spectrometer CO2 Observations for Inverse Modeling Estimates of Carbon Fluxes   S. Kulawik (Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology)
P-19	Potential New Methods for Examining Regional Sources and Sinks of Carbon   E. Weatherhead (Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences, University of Colorado)
P-20	Creating a Global CO2 Grid from Nighttime Lights Imagery   T. Ghosh (Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences, University of Colorado)
P-21	Boundary Resolution of CO2 Using Infrared (IR) and Near Infrared (NIR) Measurements   D. Lafont (Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology)
P-22	The Atmospheric and Terrestrial Mobile Laboratory (ATML)   B. Zak (Sandia National Laboratories)

• Ozone
P-23	Instantaneous Radiative Kernels for Tropospheric Ozone: Satellite Observations and Model Evaluation   H.M. Worden (National Center for Atmospheric Research)
P-24	The Measurements of Humidity in the Atmosphere and Validation Experiments (MOHAVE) 2009 Campaign   M.J. Kurylo (Goddard Earth Science and Technology Center, University of Maryland)
P-25	Determination of Dobson Spectral Characteristics, a New Method   G. McConville (Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences, University of Colorado)
P-26	The Radiative Heating in Underexplored Bands Campaign (RHUBC):  Evaluating Water Vapor Spectroscopy   J. Delamere (Atmospheric and Environmental Research, Inc.)
P-27	On the Reproducibility and Stability of Water Vapor in Stainless Steel Gas Cylinders   B. Hall (NOAA Earth System Research Laboratory)
P-28	Balloon-Borne Ozonesonde Measurements at South Pole in 2009: Ozone Hole 7th Lowest in 24-Year Record   B.J. Johnson (NOAA Earth System Research Laboratory)
P-29	Some Results of Surface and Tropospheric Ozone Measurements in Mongolia   D. Oyunchimeg (Climate Change and Environmental Research Center, Institute of Meteorology and Hydrology, Mongolia)
P-30	Trace Gases Measurement Results of Russian-Mongolian Expedition in the Arid and Semi-Arid Region of Mongolia   D. Oyunchimeg (Climate Change and Environmental Research Center, Institute of Meteorology and Hydrology, Mongolia)
P-31	Influence of Transport by the Nocturnal Jet on Ozone Levels in Central Texas   L.C. Patrick (Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences, University of Colorado)
P-32	Ozone Depleting Substances, Emissions and Trends Derived by Long-Term Continuous Measurements at a European Site   M. Maione (Università di Urbino, Italy)

• Halocarbons and Other Trace Species
P-33	Long-Lived Halocarbons and Other Atmospheric Trace Species Trends   G. Dutton (NOAA Earth System Research Laboratory)
P-34	HOCl and Cl2 in the Remote Marine Atmosphere   M. Lawler (Department of Earth System Science, University of California)
P-35	Abiotic and Biogeochemical Signals in the Seasonal Cycles of Atmospheric Nitrous Oxide   C. Nevison (Institute of Arctic and Alpine Research, University of Colorado)
P-36	Hydrocarbon and Terpene Gas Standards Research and Development to Assist in Atmospheric Measurements   J. Rhoderick (National Institute of Standards and Technology)

• Solar Radiation
P-37	Hyperspectral Infrared Imager (HyspIRI) - A Sensor Optimized for Tracking Earth Surface Processes for Climate Analysis   C. Elvidge (NOAA National Geophysical Data Center)
P-38	Variability of Spectral Albedo at Table Mountain, Colorado   G. Hodges (Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences, University of Colorado)
P-39	Explaining the Seasonal Variation of MultiFilter Rotating Shadowband Radiometer (MFRSR) in Situ Calibrations and Effects on Aerosol Optical Depth (AOD)   J.A. Augustine (NOAA Earth System Research Laboratory)
P-40	The Role of Ultraviolet (UV) Solar Radiation in Erythema and Vitamin D Synthesis   K. Lantz (Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences, University of Colorado)
P-41	The Current Configuration of an Automated Cleaning System Coupled With Modified Ventilation Design at the Kwajalein Baseline Surface Radiation Network (BSRN) Site in the Republic of the Marshall Islands   D. Nelson (NOAA Earth System Research Laboratory)
P-42	Photosynthetically Active Radiation (PAR) Attenuation in the Atmosphere in North China   J. Bai (Laboratory for Middle Atmosphere & Global Environment Observation (LAGEO), China)
P-43	The Antarctic Ultraviolet (UV) Monitoring Program:  A New NOAA ESRL Global Monitoring Division (GMD) Effort   P. Disterhoft (NOAA Earth System Research Laboratory)

• Aerosols
P-44	Climatology of Aerosol Radiative Properties in the Free Troposphere   E. Andrews (Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences, University of Colorado)
P-45	Lidar Observations of Aerosols Above American Samoa   J.E. Barnes (NOAA Earth System Research Laboratory, Mauna Loa Observatory)
P-46	Nighttime Aerosol Optical Properties Obtained from Lunar Photometry   T.A. Berkoff (Goddard Earth Science and Technology Center, University of Maryland)
P-47	Overview of the Physical and Radiative Properties of Atmospheric Particles at Cape San Juan, Puerto Rico (CPR) Station   O.L. Mayol-Bracero (Institute for Tropical Ecosystem Studies, University of Puerto Rico , Puerto Rico)
P-48	Impact of Ocean Ice Extent and Atmospheric Transport on Biogenic Aerosol Sulfur in the Arctic   S. Sharma (Environment Canada, Canada)

• Observatories, Cooperative Measurements and Global Databases
P-49	Development of Greenhouse Gas Observations Network Within Integrated Carbon Observing System (ICOS) - Finland   Y. Viisanen (Finnish Meteorological Institute, Finland)
P-50	Measurement System for Aerosol, Methane and Carbon Dioxide Concentrations and Fluxes at Tiksi Observatory in Northeast Siberia   T. Laurila (Finnish Meteorological Institute, Finland)
P-51	Year-Round Major Ion Measurements at Greenland Environmental Observatory, Summit (GEOSummit)   R. Bales (University of California at Merced)
P-52	The Global Ocean Observing System for Climate Studies   R. Lumpkin (NOAA Atlantic Oceanographic and Meteorological Laboratory)
P-53	Characterizing the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation   R. Lumpkin (NOAA Atlantic Oceanographic and Meteorological Laboratory)
P-54	Recovery Act-Funded Additions to the U.S. Department of Energy's Atmospheric Radiation Measurement Climate Research Facilities on the North Slope of Alaska   M. Ivey (Sandia National Laboratories)
P-55	The Global Atmosphere Watch (GAW) Station Information System - GAWSIS   J. Klausen (EMPA, Materials Science and Technology, Switzerland)
P-56	The Development of the Sir Crispin Tickell High-Altitude Global Climate Observatory in Mexico (MEX)   L.R. Acosta (Climate Institute)