2011 SORCE Science Meeting

Decadal Cycles in the Sun, Sun-like Stars,
and Earth's Climate System

Agenda

Science Program Speakers

(as of Sept. 21, 2011)

Monday, Sept. 12

Welcoming Reception

5:30 – 6:30 p.m. Canyon Patio, Sedona Hilton Resort

Tuesday, Sept. 13

Welcome and Introduction

8:30 – 9:10 a.m.
- Welcome/ SORCE Status
  Tom Woods, LASP, University of Colorado, Boulder
  [Presentation]
- GSFC/LASP Sun Climate Research Center (SCRC) Summary
  Robert Cahalan, NASA GSFC, Climate and Radiation Laboratory, Greenbelt, Maryland
  [Presentation]
- NASA Earth Science Division Status
  Ramesh Kakar, NASA Headquarters, Washington, DC
  [Presentation]

Session 1.

Solar Irradiance Cycles

Chair: Gary Rottman, LASP, Univ. of Colorado

9:10 – 9:50 a.m.
- Keynote: Yvonne Unruh, Imperial College, London, UK
  Modeling Spectral Solar Irradiance
  [abstract | presentation]
9:50 – 10:15 a.m.
- Matt DeLand (Invited), Science Systems and Applications Inc. (SSAI), Maryland
  Solar Cycle UV Irradiance Variations
  [abstract | presentation]
10:15 – 10:30 a.m.
- Jerry Harder, LASP, Univ. of Colorado-Boulder
  The Impact of Solar Spectral Irradiance Variability on Middle Atmospheric Ozone
  [abstract | presentation]
10:30 – 11:00 a.m.
- Break
11:00 – 11:25 a.m.
- Richard C. Willson (Invited), NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California
  LASP/TRF Diagnostic Test Results for the ACRIM3 Experiment and Their Implications for the Multi-Decadal TSI Database
  [abstract | presentation]
11:25 – 11:40 a.m.
- Greg Kopp, LASP, University of Colorado-Boulder
  Status of the Total Solar Irradiance Climate Data Record
  [abstract]
11:40 – 11:55 p.m.
- Erik Richard, LASP, University of Colorado-Boulder
  Future SSI Records for JPSS TSIS
  [abstract | presentation]
11:55 – 1:30 p.m.
- Buffet Lunch provided at the Sedona Hilton

Session 1 Cont. - Solar Irradiance Cycles

Chair: Greg Kopp, LASP, Univ. of Colorado

1:30 – 1:55 p.m.
- Werner Schmutz (Invited), PMOD/WRC, Davos, Switzerland
  PREMOS TSI Results
  [abstract | presentation]
1:55 – 2:10 p.m.
- Steven Dewitte, Royal Meteorological Institute of Belgium, Brussels
  First Results of the Sova-Picard TSI Instrument
  [abstract | presentation]
2:10 – 2:25 p.m.
- Claus Fröhlich, PMOD/WRC, Davos, Switzerland
  Reconstruction of TSI and Lyman-alpha back to 1913
  [abstract | presentation]
2:25 – 2:40 p.m.
- Judith Lean, NRL, Washington, DC
  Solar Irradiance Decadal Trends: Real Variability or Instrument Instability?
  [abstract | presentation]
2:40 – 3:15 p.m.
- Break
3:15 – 3:40 p.m.
- Thierry Dudok de Wit (Invited), CNRS and University of Orléans, France
  A Blind Source Separation Approach to the Solar Spectral Irradiance: What does the coherence of its variability tell us?
  [abstract | presentation]
3:40 – 3:55 p.m.
- Dora Preminger, San Fernando Observatory, California State University, Northridge
  The Effects of Active Regions on Solar Spectral Variability: Implications for the Sun's influence on climate
  [abstract | presentation]
3:55 – 4:10 p.m.
- Matthieu Kretzschmar, Royal Observatory of Belgium/CNRS, Univ. of Orleans, France
  Status and Last Results from the PROBA2/LYRA Solar Radiometer
  [abstract | presentation]
4:10 – 4:25 p.m.
- Jeff Morrill, NRL, Washington, DC
  Solar UV Spectral Irradiance Measured by SUSIM During Solar Cycle 22 and 23
  [abstract | presentation]
4:25 – 5:00 p.m.
- Gary Rottman (Invited), LASP, Univ. of Colorado-Boulder
  Solar Variability 1981 to 1989 as Measured by the Solar Mesosphere Explorer
  [abstract | presentation]

Wednesday, Sept. 14

Session 2. Climate System Decadal Variability

Chair: Judith Lean, NRL, Washington, DC

8:10 – 8:35 a.m.
- Vikram Mehta (Invited), Center for Research on the Changing Earth System (CRCES), Maryland
  A Multi-Century History of Solar and Climate Variabilities at Decadal Timescales
  [abstract]
8:35 – 8:50 a.m.
- Alexander Ruzmaiken, NASA JPL, California Institute of Technology, California
  Decadal Variability of Tropical Pacific Temperature in Relation to Solar Cycles
  [abstract | presentation]
8:50 – 9:05 a.m.
- John McCormack, Naval Research Laboratory, Washington, DC
  Characterizing the Global Impacts of Solar Variability from the Ground to the Thermosphere Using Data Assimilations
  [abstract | presentation]
9:05 – 9:30 a.m.
- Mark Serreze (Invited), National Snow & Ice Data Center, CIRES, Univ. of Colorado, Boulder
  External Forcing, Internal Climate Variability and the Arctic's Rapidly Shrinking Sea Ice Cover
  [abstract | presentation]
9:30 – 9:45 a.m.
- Stergios Misios, Max Planck Institute for Meteorology, Germany
  Mechanisms Involved in the Amplification of the Solar Cycle Signal in the Tropical Pacific Ocean
  [abstract | presentation]
9:45 – 10:10 a.m.
- Break

Session 2 cont. Climate System Decadal Variability

Chair: Vikram Mehta, Center for Research on the Changing Earth System, Maryland

10:10 –10:50 a.m.
- Keynote: Karin Labitzke, Freie Universität Berlin, Germany
  On the QBO-Solar Relationship throughout the Year
  [abstract | presentation]
10:50 –11:05 a.m.
- Hua Lu, British Antarctic Survey, Cambridge, UK
  Non-linear and non-stationary Influences of Geomagnetic Activity on the Winter North Atlantic Oscillation
  [abstract | presentation]
11:05 - 11:30 a.m.
- Pat Hamill (Invited), San Jose State University, California
  Physical and Optical Properties of the Stratospheric Aerosol Layer
  [abstract | presentation]
11:30 – 11:45 a.m.
- Lon Hood, Lunar and Planetary Laboratory, University of Arizona, Tucson
  The Tropical Lower Stratospheric Response to 11-Year Solar Forcing: Dynamical Feedbacks from the Troposphere-Ocean Response
  [abstract | presentation]
11:45 – 12:00 p.m.
- Jae Lee, NASA JPL, California Institute of Technology, California
  Aura Microwave Limb Sounder Observations of the Polar Middle Atmosphere: Dynamics and Transport of CO and H2O
  [abstract | presentation]
12:00 – 12:15 p.m.
- Hiroko Miyahara, University of Tokyo, Japan
  Decadal Variations of Solar Magnetic Field, Heliosphere and the Cosmic Rays, and Their Impact on Climate Change
  [abstract | presentation]
12:15 – 12:30 p.m.
- King-Fai Li (for Shuhui Wang), NASA JPL, California Institute of Technology, California
  Atmospheric OH Response to the 11-year Solar Cycle -- Could the gap between model and observations be filled by SORCE data?
  [abstract | presentation]
12:30 – 1:45 p.m.
- Buffet Lunch provided at the Sedona Hilton

Session 3. Comparative Sun-Star Cycles

Chair: Marty Snow, LASP, University of Colorado

1:45 – 2:25 p.m.
- Keynote: Richard R. Radick, Air Force Research Lab., Natl. Solar Observatory, Sunspot, NM
  Cyclic Variations of Sun-like Stars
  [abstract | presentation]
2:25 – 2:40 p.m.
- Wes Lockwood, Lowell Observatory, Flagstaff, Arizona
  Solar Variability after Dark: Photometric Evidence from Stars and Planets
  [abstract | presentation]
2:40 – 3:05 p.m.
- Ben Brown (Invited), University of Wisconsin-Madison
  Modeling Sun-like Stars
  [abstract | presentation]
3:05 – 3:30 p.m.
- Travis Metcalfe (Invited), NCAR, Boulder, Colorado
  The HAO-NOAO-SMARTS Southern HK Project
  [abstract | presentation]
3:30 – 3:55 p.m.
- Tom Ayres (Invited), CASA, University of Colorado, Boulder
  What about the other Suns?
  [abstract | presentation]
3:55 – 5:30 p.m.
- Poster Session
  Brief Introduction and Reception

Thursday, Sept. 15

Session 4. Climate Sensitivity and Global Energy Imbalance

Chair: Robert Cahalan, NASA GSFC, Climate Radiation Lab., Greenbelt, Maryland

8:30 – 9:10 a.m.
- Keynote: Gerald North, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas
  Climate Sensitivity
  [abstract | presentation]
9:10 – 9:35 a.m.
- Brian Soden (Invited), Rosenstiel School for Marine and Atmos. Science, Univ. of Miami, Florida
  Understanding Climate Feedbacks Using Radiative Kernels
  [abstract | presentation]
9:35- 10:00 a.m.
- Andrew Dessler (Invited), Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas
  Observational Constraints on the Water Vapor and Cloud Feedbacks
  [abstract | presentation]
10:00 – 10:30 a.m.
- Break
10:30 – 11:10 a.m.
- Keynote: Kevin Trenberth, NCAR, Boulder, Colorado
  Tracking Earth Energy: From El Niño to Global Warming
  [abstract | presentation]
11:25 – 11:50 a.m.
- Seiji Kato (Invited), NASA Langley Research Center, Hampton, Virginia
  Interannual Variability of Top-of-Atmosphere Albedo Observed by CERES Instruments
  [abstract | presentation]
11:50 – 12:05 p.m.
- Peter Pilewskie (for Sebastian Schmidt), LASP, University of Colorado-Boulder
  The Spectral Radiative Effects of Inhomogeneous Clouds and Aerosols
  [abstract | presentation]
12: 05 – 1:30 p.m.
- Box Lunch provided at the Sedona Hilton

Session 5. Solar Rotational Variability

Chair: Tom Woods, LASP, University of Colorado-Boulder

1:30 – 1:45 p.m.
- Marty Snow, LASP, University of Colorado-Boulder
  Rotational Variability in the Ultraviolet Solar Spectral Irradiance
  [abstract | presentation]
1:45 – 2:00 p.m.
- Matthieu Kretzschmar, Royal Observatory of Belgium/CNRS, Univ. of Orleans, France
  Do We Understand Solar Irradiance Variations during Solar Rotations? A multi instrument study
  [abstract | presentation]
2:00 – 2:15 p.m.
- Bill Peterson, LASP, University of Colorado-Boulder
  Photoelectrons as a Tool to Evaluate Solar EUV and XUV Model Irradiance Spectra
  [abstract | presentation]
2:15 – 2:30 p.m.
- Hari Om Vats, Physical Research Laboratory, Ahmedabad, India
  Rotational Modulation on Total Solar Irradiance
  [abstract | presentation]
3:00 – 9:00 p.m.
- Lowell Observatory Fieldtrip / SORCE Science Meeting Dinner

Friday, Sept. 16

Session 6. Modeling and Forecasting Solar Cycles and Climate Impacts

Chair: Erik Richard, LASP, University of Colorado

8:00 – 8:40 a.m.
- Keynote: Kyle Swanson, University of Wisconsin – Madison
  Climate Regime Shifts
  [abstract | presentation]
8:40 – 8:55 a.m.
- Robert Cahalan, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
  Modeling Climate Response to Variations in Spectral Solar Irradiance
  [abstract | presentation]
8:55 – 9:20 a.m.
- Bill Swartz (Invited), Johns Hopkins University, Applied Physics Laboratory, Maryland
  Decadal Variability in the Atmosphere
  [abstract | presentation]
9:20 – 9:35 a.m.
- King-Fai Li, California Institute of Technology / Australian National University
  Modeling the 11-year Solar Cycle Response in Upper Atmosphere Hydroxyl Radicals
  [abstract | presentation]
9:35 – 9:50 a.m.
- Gary Chapman, San Fernando Observatory, California State University, Northridge
  Modeling TSI Variations from SORCE/TIM
  [abstract | presentation]
9:50 – 10:05 a.m.
- Nicola Scafetta, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina
  Heliospheric Oscillations and Their Implication for Climate Oscillations and Climate Forecast
  [abstract | presentation]
10:05 – 10:25 a.m.
- Break
10:25 – 10:50 a.m.
- Judith Lean (Invited), NRL, Washington, DC
  Forecasting Climate and Ozone Changes on Multi Decadal Time Scales
  [abstract | presentation]
10:50 – 11:05 a.m.
- Madhulika (Lika) Guhathakurta, NASA Headquarters, Washington DC
  Heliophysics Research in LWS/ILWS
  [presentation]
11:05 – 11:20 a.m.
- Ken Tapping, Herzberg Institute of Astrophysics, Penticton, BC, Canada
  The Next Generation in Solar Radio Monitoring
  [abstract | presentation]
11:20 – 11:35 a.m.
- Peter Pilewskie, LASP, Univ. of Colorado-Boulder
  Solar Spectral Irradiance and Climate
  [abstract]
10:35 – 11:50 a.m.
- Tom Woods, LASP, University of Colorado-Boulder
  Solar Irradiance Variations during Solar Cycle 24
  [abstract | presentation]
11:50 – 12:15 p.m.
- Meeting Summary / Discussion (led by Tom Woods)