Selected Science Team Proposals – FY 1994


  • Dr. Thomas Ackerman, Penn State: "An Integrated Cloud Observational
    Modeling Investigation in Support of the ARM Program"
  • Dr. Michael Bradley, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory: "Representation
    of Anvis Cirrus in General Circulation Models: A New Parameterization Based
    on ARM Data"
  • Dr. Robert Cess, SUNY: "Science Team Participation in the ARM
    Program"
  • Dr. Shepard (Tony) Clough, AER, Inc.: "Radiative Transfer for
    Clear and Cloudy Atmospheres: Spectral Modeling and Validation"
  • Dr. William Cotton, Colorado State University: "Explicit Simulation
    and Parameterization of Mesoscale Convective Systems"
  • Dr. Richard L. Coulter, Argonne National Laboratory: "Area-Representative
    Estimates of Surface Heat Flux for CART Sites"
  • Dr. Judith Curry, University of Colorado: "Towards the Understanding
    and Parameterization of High Latitude Cloud and Radiation Processes"
  • Dr. Anthony D. Del Genio, NASA-Goddard: "Low Cloud Optical Thickness
    Feedback: ARM Data Analysis and Single Column Modeling"
  • Dr. J. Christopher Doran, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory: "The
    Treatment of Heterogeneous Surface Fluxes in Global Climate Models"
  • Dr. Wynn L. Eberhard, NOAA/WPL: "Additional Development of Remote
    Sensing Techniques for Observing Morphology, Microphysics, and Radiative
    Properties of Clouds and Tests Using a New Robust CO2 Lidar"
  • Dr. Robert Ellingson, University of Maryland: "A Study of Longwave
    Radiation Codes for Climate Studies: Validation with ARM Observations and
    Tests in General Circulation Models"
  • Dr. Catherine Gautier, University of California: "Cloud Effects
    on Radiation at the Top of the Atmosphere and Surface; Multifractal Heterogeneity"
  • Dr. Steven J. Ghan, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory: "An
    Analytical and Modeling Study of the Effects of the Low-Level Jet on Clouds
    and Radiation at the Southern Great Plains CART Site"
  • Dr. John Goldsmith, Sandia National Laboratories: "Measurements
    and Modeling of the Effect of Convective Clouds on the Upper Tropospheric
    Moisture Budget"
  • Dr. William Gray, Colorado State: "On the Fundamental Role of
    Day Versus Night Radiation Differences on the Diurnal Variability of Tropospheric
    Parameters"
  • Dr. Chris Grund, NOAA/ERL: "Evaluation of Improved Tropospheric
    Water Vapor Profiling Techniques Using Eye-Safe, Near-Turn-Key Differential
    Absorption Lidar"
  • Dr. Steven K. Krueger, University of Utah: "Development and Testing
    of a Life Cycle Model and a Parameterization of Thin Mid-Level Stratiform
    Clouds"
  • Dr. Andrew A. Lacis, NASA-Goddard: "Analysis of Cloud Radiative
    Forcing and Feedback in a Climate GCM"
  • Dr. Jean-Francois Louis, AER, Inc.: "Variational Single Column
    Data Assimilation for ARM"
  • Dr. Robert McIntosh, University of Mass.: "The Use of a Ground-Based
    Millimeter Wave Cloud Profiling Radar System (CPRS) to Measure Cloud Water
    and Ice"
  • Dr. S. Harvey Melfi, NASA-Goddard: "Scanning Raman Lidar to Measure
    Water Vapor and Aerosols for the Study of Atmospheric Radiative Transfer
    in the ARM Program"
  • Dr. Joseph Michalsky, SUNY: "Completion of Spectral Rotating Shadowband
    Radiometers and Analysis of ARM Spectral Shortwave Data"
  • Dr. David L. Mitchell, Desert Research Institute: "Improvement
    of the Microphysical and Radiation Components of the Regional Atmospheric
    Modeling System (RAMS)"
  • Dr. David Parsons, NCAR: "Development and Testing of an Integrated
    Data Assimilation/Sounding System (DASS) in Support of the DOE"
  • Dr. Joyce Penner, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory: "Cloud
    Parameterizations in Global Climate Models: The Role of Aerosols"
  • Dr. Veerabhadran Ramanathan, University of California: "ARM Tropical
    Pacific Experiment: Role of Cloud, Water Vaopor, and Convection Feedbacks
    in Coupled Ocean/Atmosphere System"
  • Dr. Henry Revercomb, University of Wisconsin: "High Spectral Resolution
    FTIR Observations for the ARM Program: Continued Development, Evaluation
    and Analysis"
  • Dr. Kenneth Sassen, University of Utah: "Cirrus Cloud Measurement
    Program for Improving Satellite and GCM Radiation Research"
  • Dr. Richard Somerville, Scripps: "Diagnostic Modeling of the ARM
    Experimental Configuration"
  • Dr. James Spinhirne, NASA GSFC: "Analysis of Cirrus and Aerosol
    Profilometer Data for Atmospheric Radiation Interpretation"
  • Dr. Graeme Stephens, Colorado State: "A Modeling and Remote Sensing
    Study of the Radiative Heating of Clouds in Support of ARM"
  • Dr. Owen B. Toon, NASA-Ames: "Modeling of Clouds and Radiation
    for Developing Parameterizations for General Circulation Models"
  • Dr. Wei-Chyung Wang, SUNY: "Treatment of Cloud Radiative Effects
    in General Circulation Models"

  • Dr. Peter J. Webster, University of Colorado: "Impact of Air-Sea
    Interaction on Tropical Cloud Lifecycles and Radiative Processes"
  • Dr. E. R. Westwater, NOAA/WPL: "Continued Development of an Integrated
    Sounding System in Support of the DOE/ARM Experimental Program"
  • Dr. C. David Whiteman, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory: "Radiometric
    Investigations of the Life Cycle of Clouds at CART Sites Using Tethered
    Balloon Irradiance Measurements"
  • Dr. George Young, Penn. State: "An Integrated Cumulus Ensemble/Turbulence
    Parameterization for General Circulation Models"