Sunday
2:00 pm - 9:00 pm
Arrival and Check-in
6:00 pm - 7:00 pm
Dinner
7:30 pm - 7:40 pm
Introductory Comments by GRC Staff / Welcome and Introduction from the Chairs
7:40 pm - 9:30 pm
Keynote Session: Radiation and Climate Research
7:40 pm - 7:50 pm
Introduction by Discussion Leader
7:50 pm - 8:30 pm
"Clouds, Radiation and Earth's Changing Water Cycle: Progress, Prospects and Looming Challenges"
8:30 pm - 8:40 pm
Discussion
8:40 pm - 9:20 pm
"How Transient Climate Sensitivity Depends on the Spatial Pattern of Radiative Forcing"
9:20 pm - 9:30 pm
Discussion
Monday
7:30 am - 8:30 am
Breakfast
8:30 am - 9:00 am
Group Photo
9:00 am - 12:30 pm
Radiation Budget and Imbalance
9:00 am - 9:10 am
Introduction by Discussion Leader
9:10 am - 9:50 am
"The Importance of High-Accuracy Hyperspectral Shortwave Measurements in Monitoring Earth’s Climate System"
9:50 am - 10:00 am
Discussion
10:00 am - 10:30 am
Coffee Break
10:30 am - 11:10 am
"Earth's Observed Hemispheric Albedo Symmetry: Fundamental Climate Constraint or Cosmic Coincidence?"
11:10 am - 11:20 am
Discussion
11:20 am - 12:00 pm
"Observing Earth Radiation at the Process Scale: the Role of Spatial and Spectral Structure"
12:00 pm - 12:10 pm
Discussion
12:10 pm - 12:30 pm
General Discussion
12:30 pm - 1:30 pm
Lunch
1:30 pm - 4:00 pm
Free Time
3:00 pm - 4:00 pm
The GRC Power Hour™
The GRC Power Hour™ is designed to address the interests and needs of all scientists and the challenges they face in their careers. Specifically, the program promotes meaningful conversations amongst colleagues of all career stages about barriers to career advancement and strategies to support the professional growth of all members of the community. The GRC Power Hour™ is open to all conference participants.
4:00 pm - 6:00 pm
Poster Session
6:00 pm - 7:00 pm
Dinner
7:30 pm - 9:30 pm
Radiative Transfer Beyond Plane-Parallel
7:30 pm - 7:40 pm
Introduction by Discussion Leader
7:40 pm - 8:20 pm
"Shedding Light on Solar Radiation Variability at Earth’s Surface"
8:20 pm - 8:30 pm
Discussion
8:30 pm - 9:10 pm
"Polarized Radiative Transfer from Ultraviolet to Thermal Infrared: A Markov Chain Solution and Its Application to Aerosol Remote Sensing"
9:10 pm - 9:20 pm
Discussion
9:20 pm - 9:30 pm
General Discussion
Tuesday
7:30 am - 8:30 am
Breakfast
9:00 am - 12:30 pm
Aerosols, Clouds and Their Interactions
9:00 am - 9:10 am
Introduction by Discussion Leader
9:10 am - 9:50 am
"RCEMIP-ACI: Aerosol-Cloud Interactions in a Multimodel Ensemble of Radiative-Convective Equilibrium Simulations"
9:50 am - 10:00 am
Discussion
10:00 am - 10:30 am
Coffee Break
10:30 am - 11:10 am
"A Multiscale Perspective on Aerosol-Cloud Interactions"
11:10 am - 11:20 am
Discussion
11:20 am - 12:00 pm
"Learning Cloud Processes Across Scales Using Physics-Informed Machine Learning"
12:00 pm - 12:10 pm
Discussion
12:10 pm - 12:30 pm
General Discussion
12:30 pm - 1:30 pm
Lunch
1:30 pm - 4:00 pm
Free Time
4:00 pm - 6:00 pm
Poster Session
6:00 pm - 7:00 pm
Dinner
7:30 pm - 9:30 pm
Observational Constraints on Aerosol-Cloud Interactions
7:30 pm - 7:40 pm
Introduction by Discussion Leader
7:40 pm - 8:20 pm
"Natural Laboratories for the Study of Aerosol-Cloud-Precipitation Interaction Over the Pristine Midlatitude Oceans"
8:20 pm - 8:30 pm
Discussion
8:30 pm - 9:10 pm
"Early Observations and Cloud, Aerosol and Precipitation Retrievals From EarthCARE"
9:10 pm - 9:20 pm
Discussion
9:20 pm - 9:30 pm
General Discussion
Wednesday
7:30 am - 8:30 am
Breakfast
9:00 am - 12:30 pm
Cloud Dynamics Across Scales
9:00 am - 9:10 am
Introduction by Discussion Leader
9:10 am - 9:50 am
"Brewing the Perfect Storm: Updrafts, Downdrafts and Convective Dynamics"
9:50 am - 10:00 am
Discussion
10:00 am - 10:30 am
Coffee Break
10:30 am - 11:10 am
"Challenging the Aerosol-Convection Interactions Debate: From the Front Lines of TRACER"
11:10 am - 11:20 am
Discussion
11:20 am - 12:00 pm
"Organization of Tropical Convection: From Idealized Simulations to Field Observations"
12:00 pm - 12:10 pm
Discussion
12:10 pm - 12:30 pm
General Discussion
12:30 pm - 1:30 pm
Lunch
1:30 pm - 4:00 pm
Free Time
4:00 pm - 6:00 pm
Poster Session
6:00 pm - 7:00 pm
Dinner
7:30 pm - 9:30 pm
Early Career Investigator Presentations
7:30 pm - 7:40 pm
Introduction by Discussion Leader
7:40 pm - 7:55 pm
Late-Breaking Topic
7:55 pm - 8:00 pm
Discussion
8:00 pm - 8:15 pm
Late-Breaking Topic
8:15 pm - 8:20 pm
Discussion
8:20 pm - 8:35 pm
Late-Breaking Topic
8:35 pm - 8:40 pm
Discussion
8:40 pm - 8:55 pm
Late-Breaking Topic
8:55 pm - 9:00 pm
Discussion
9:00 pm - 9:15 pm
Late-Breaking Topic
9:15 pm - 9:20 pm
Discussion
9:20 pm - 9:30 pm
General Discussion
Thursday
7:30 am - 8:30 am
Breakfast
8:30 am - 9:00 am
Business Meeting
Nominations for the Next Vice Chair(s); Complete the GRC Evaluation Forms; Election of the Next Vice Chair(s)
9:00 am - 12:30 pm
Simulating the Climate System at km-Scales
9:00 am - 9:10 am
Introduction by Discussion Leader
9:10 am - 9:50 am
"Tying in Global Storm Resolving Models With Ground-based Observations"
9:50 am - 10:00 am
Discussion
10:00 am - 10:30 am
Coffee Break
10:30 am - 11:10 am
"Confronting Global KM-scale Modeling with EarthCARE"
11:10 am - 11:20 am
Discussion
11:20 am - 12:00 pm
"Developing the Earth System Model underpinning the Digital Twins of Destination Earth"
12:00 pm - 12:10 pm
Discussion
12:10 pm - 12:30 pm
General Discussion
12:30 pm - 1:30 pm
Lunch
1:30 pm - 4:00 pm
Free Time
4:00 pm - 6:00 pm
Poster Session
6:00 pm - 7:00 pm
Dinner
7:30 pm - 9:30 pm
Cloud Feedbacks and Climate Sensitivity
7:30 pm - 7:40 pm
Introduction by Discussion Leader
7:40 pm - 8:20 pm
"The Role of High Clouds for Climate Sensitivity and Circulation Sensitivity"
8:20 pm - 8:30 pm
Discussion
8:30 pm - 9:10 pm
"The Path to Cloud Nine: Effectively Observing and Modelling Cloud Radiative Feedbacks to Reduce Uncertainty in Climate Projections"
9:10 pm - 9:20 pm
Discussion
9:20 pm - 9:30 pm
General Discussion
Friday
7:30 am - 8:30 am
Breakfast
9:00 am
Departure