ABOUT THE SPEAKERS - DAY 2: THURSDAY JUNE 9
**In alphabetical order
Dr. Alejandro BODAS - MET OFFICE HADLEY CENTRE
Thursday 9 – Session 4
Title: Supercooled liquid clouds qnd the Southern Ocean radiation
Dr Alejandro Bodas-Salcedo is a research scientist in the Met Office Hadley Centre. Before joining the Met Office, he completed a PhD in remote sensing at the University of Valencia, Spain. His work focuses on improving the representation of clouds and radiation in climate models, and on the development of new diagnostic techniques for the evaluation of numerical models. He has led the development of the Cloud Feedback Model Intercomparison Project (CFMIP) Observation Simulator Package (COSP), and he is co-chair of the COSP management committee.
Dr. Julien DELANOË - LATMOS
Thursday 9 – Session 5
Title: Radar-lidar synergy for cloud studies
Dr. Julien Delanoë is associate professor at the University of Versailles Saint Quentin en Yvelines in France. At the Laboratoire Atmosphères, Milieux, Observations Spatiales of the Institute Pierre Simon Laplace, he works on the optimal way to combine active and passive instruments and in-situ measurements to retrieve cloud properties and to better understand cloud processes. He also builds and develops remote sensing instruments. As a member of the EarthCare European mission advisory group, he is deeply involved in satellite mission.
Dr. Seiji KATO - NASA Langley Research Center
Thursday 9 – Session 4
Title: C3M and surface radiation budget
Dr. Kato is a physical scientist at NASA Langley Research Center in the Climate Directorate. His research interests involve radiative transfer theory and understanding how clouds and aerosols affect the Earth's radiative energy balance. His recent work on radiation budget includes estimating the global annual mean surface irradiance using NASA’s A-train data as well as analyzing the polar region’s radiation budget. His theoretical radiative transfer work includes assessing cloud retrieval errors through numerical simulations, developing an accurate treatment of gaseous absorptions in shortwave regions using k-distributions, and accounting for the horizontal inhomogeneity of clouds in the one-dimensional radiative transfer framework.
Dr. Kato is a Co-Investigator on the Clouds and Earth's Radiant Energy System (CERES) Science team, and leads the surface and atmosphere radiation budget working group. Dr. Kato also has contributed to the CERES project by developing snow angular distribution models, validating CERES angular distribution model-derived radiative fluxes, and validating modeled surface irradiances. In addition, He has led the effort developing merged CALIPSO, CloudSat, CERES, and MODIS products at NASA Langley. Dr. Kato is a member of the Climate Absolute Radiance and Refractivity Observatory (CLARREO) science definition team.
Prof. Tristan l'ECUYER - University of Wisconsin-Madison
Thursday 9 – Session 4
Title: C3M and surface radiation budget
Tristan L’Ecuyer is an assistant professor in the Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. His research centers on using satellite observations, in conjunction with ground-based instrumentation and numerical modeling to understanding interactions and feedbacks between components of the Earth's energy budget and water cycle.
Prof. L'Ecuyer has been a member of the CloudSat algorithm development team since the late 1990's and has been on the CloudSat/CALIPSO science team since their launch in 2006. His group is currently engaged in innovative analyses of these data and other datasets from NASA’s Afternoon Constellation (A-Train) satellites to quantify the worldwide distribution of light rain and falling snow, improve estimates of cloud and aerosol radiative effects, understand Arctic climate processes, and assess the mutual interactions of aerosols with precipitation.
Prof. Graeme STEPHENS - JPL / NASA
Thursday 9 – Session 5
Title: Overview of (A-Train) synergies
Professor Graeme Stephens completed his B.S. with honors from the University of Melbourne in 1973 and received his Ph.D. in 1977 from the same university. Currently, he is a Professor at the Department of Meteorology, University of Reading, UK, and Director of the Center for Climate Sciences, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology (USA).
Professor Stephens has made major research contributions in three related areas; atmospheric radiative transfer, remote sensing and cloud climate feedbacks. He has published over 200 peer-reviewed publications, a textbook on remote sensing, has a citation count of over 15000 and a H-index of 56 (Google Scholar).
His research on the interactions between solar and infrared radiation and the terrestrial atmosphere has led to clearer understanding of the energy budget of Earth and how it relates to the planets hydrological cycle. He has served as principal investigator the NASA CloudSat mission that has pioneered Earth observations of clouds and précipitation.
