Physical Processes Linking Solar Radiation and Solar Variability with Global Climate Change
Thursday, December 4
Keynote Talks
Judith Lean, Chair
8:30 – 8:35 a.m. Welcome and Meeting Overview - Gary Rottman/Judith Lean
8:35 – 9:05 a.m. John Eddy
Current status of Sun-climate Connections and Possible Processes
9:05 – 9:35 a.m. V. Ramaswamy
Solar Variations and Global Climate Change
9:35 – 10:05 a.m. Jeffrey Hall
The Next Decade of Stellar Cycles Research
10:05-10:35 Break
1a. Solar Radiation – Status of Current Measurements
O. R. White, Chair
10:35 – 11:00 a.m. Gary Rottman
The SORCE Mission – January 25, 2003 to Today
11:00 – 11:20 a.m. Greg Kopp
Overview of the SORCE/TIM Results
11:20 – 11:40 a.m. Jerry Harder
The SORCE SIM Instrument: Progress Toward Spectral Irradiance
Time Series Throughout the 300-3000 nm Region
11:40 – 12:00 noon Bill McClintock
Solar Ultraviolet Spectral Irradiance: Early Results From the
SOLar STellar Irradiance Comparison Experiment II Aboard
the SORCE Spacecraft
12:00 – 12:20 p.m. Tom Woods
Solar Soft X-ray Variability During the SORCE Mission
12:20-1:30 p.m. Lunch (provided at The Lodge at Sonoma)
1b. Solar Radiation – Long-Term Records and Reconstructions
O. R. White, Chair
1:30 – 1:50 p.m. Claus Fröhlich
Total Solar Irradiance Variability From 1978 to Present
1:50 – 2:05 p.m. Steven Dewitte
The Construction of a Long-Term Total Solar Irradiance
Record and Its Uncertainties
2:05 – 2:20 p.m. Robert Lee
1984 – 2003, Earth Radiation Budget Satellite (ERBS) / Earth
Radiation Budget Experiment (ERBE) TSI Measurements
2:20 – 2:35 p.m. Richard Willson
ACRIM Composite Total Solar Irradiance Time Series
2:35 – 2:50 p.m. S. K. Solanki
Reconstructions of Solar Irradiance Variations: Influence of
Surface Magnetic Fields
2:50-3:20 p.m. Break
2. Long-Term Solar Variations
Hugh Hudson, Chair
3:20 – 3:45 p.m. Philip Goode
How Dim Can the Sun Be?
3:45 – 4:10 p.m. Mausumi Dikpati
The Solar Dynamo
4:10 – 4:35 p.m. Yi-Ming Wang
The Sun’s Large-Scale Magnetic Field and its Long-Term Variations
4:35 – 5:00 p.m. Leif Svalgaard
Long-term Variations in IMF, Solar Wind and EUV Irradiance Inferred
From Geomagnetic Activity
Posters
5:00 – 6:30 p.m.
7:00 p.m. Science Meeting Dinner
Stone Building, The Lodge at Sonoma
Friday, December 5
3a. Climate Change Processes Involving Solar Radiation in the Troposphere
Peter Pilewskie, Chair
8:30 – 8:55 a.m. Steven Platnick
An Overview of Solar Reflectance Remote Sensing Methods for
Earth Science Applications
8:55 – 9:20 a.m. Norm Loeb
Influence of Clouds and Aerosols on the Earth’s Radiation Budget Using
Clouds and the Earth’s Radiant Energy System (CERES) Measurements
9:20 – 9:45 a.m. Gerry Meehl
Coupled Ocean-Atmosphere Response to Solar Forcing in the Early 20th
Century Compared to Greenhouse Gas Forcing in the Late 20th Century
9:45 – 10:10 a.m. Sultan Hameed
Atmospheric Centers of Action as Bridges Between Solar Activity
Variations and Regional Climate Change
10:10-10:40 a.m. Break
10:40 – 11:05 a.m. Gerard Bond
Evidence for Sun-Climate Connections on Multi-Centennial to
Millennial Timescales
11:05 – 11:20 a.m. Caspar Ammann
Fingerprints of Solar Irradiance Changes During the Last Millennium:
Impact of Different Background Trends on the Detection in Transient
Climate Simulations
11:20 – 11:35 a.m. Kent Moore
Decadeal-to-Centennial Scale Climate Interactions Between
Solar Forcing and Internal Variability: 1700 – 2000
11:35 – 11:50 a.m. George Reid
Sea-Surface Temperatures and Solar Total Irradiance During the
Modern Minimum in Solar Activity (1875 – 1950)
11:50 – 12:05 p.m. Joan Feynman
Solar Influences on Surface Air Temperature During the Maunder Minimum
12:05-1:20 p.m. Lunch – Attendees on their own
4. Global Change Processes Involving Solar Radiation in the Stratosphere
Marv Geller, Chair
1:20 – 1:45 p.m. Richard Stolarski
Ultraviolet Radiation and Stratospheric Ozone
1:45 – 2:10 p.m. Murry Salby
Evidence of the Solar Cycle: The General Circulation of the Stratosphere
2:10 – 2:35 p.m. David Rind
Mechanisms of Solar Influence on the Troposphere via the Stratosphere
2:35 – 3:00 p.m. Robert Hudson
Deduction of Climate Variability From the Total Ozone Record, 1965-2000
3:00-3:15 p.m. Break
3:15 – 3:30 p.m. Marvin Geller
Solar-Induced Changes in Ozone
3:30 – 3:45 p.m. Al Powell
Ozone Heating Impacts on the Lower Atmosphere Hemispheric
Wave Pattern as a Mechanism for Climate Change
3:45 – 4:00 p.m. Lon Hood
Thermal Response of the Tropopause Region to Short-Term Solar
Ultraviolet Variations
4:00 – 4:15 p.m. Alexander Ruzmaikin
An Exploratory Model of Solar Influence on Stratospheric Dynamics
4:15-4:45 p.m. Break
Posters
4:45 – 7:00 p.m. Reception sponsored by BAER
Saturday, December 6
3b. Climate Change Processes Involving Solar Radiation in the Troposphere
(continued from Friday morning)
Judith Lean, Chair
8:30 – 8:55 a.m. Robert Cess
Climate Change During 1985-1999: Cloud Interactions Determined
From Satellite Measurements
8:55 – 9:20 a.m. Edward Cook
Solar Forcing and the Western US Bi-Decadal Drought Rhythm: An
Analysis Back to AD 800
5. Session Summaries and Discussion
9:20 – 9:35 a.m. Dick White
Solar Radiation Measurements and Reconstructions
9:35 – 9:50 a.m. Hugh Hudson
Long Term Solar Variability
9:50 – 10:05 a.m. Peter Pilewskie
Climate Change Processes Involving Solar Radiation in the Troposphere
10:05 – 10:20 a.m. Marv Geller
Global Change Processes Involving Solar Radiation in the Stratosphere
10:20-10:35 a.m. Break
6. Future Directions in Sun-Climate Research
Gary Rottman, Chair
10:35 – 10:50 a.m. Gerard Thuillier
The PICARD Mission
10:50 – 11:05 a.m. Marv Geller
CAWSES
11:05 – 11:20 a.m. Stan Solomon
Studies of Atmospheric Response to the Solar Cycle using the
NCAR Whole Atmosphere Community Climate Model
11:20 – 11:30 a.m. Tom Bogdan
11:30 – 11:45 a.m. Discussion - all
11:45 – 12:00 noon Closing Comments/Future Meetings – Gary Rottman/Judith Lean
Thursday- Friday, December 4-5
POSTERS (All Posters will be up both Thursday and Friday)
Paal Brekke
Solar Irradiance Measurements from SOHO
Helen Coffey
New Look for the Online Solar Databases at NGDC
Angie Cookson
First Total Solar Irradiance Model based on PSPT Data
Raffaella D’Auria
On the Influence of Solar Variability on Ion-Mediated Nucleation in the Atmosphere
Sean Davis
Modeling Solar Irradiance with the PSPT Solar Disk Observations and RISE Solar Spectrum Synthesis
Matt DeLand
Current and Future Solar Irradiance Measurements from SBUV/2 Instruments
Frank Eparvier
Comparisons of FUV Solar Irradiance Measurements by SORCE, TIMED-SEE, and UARS
Linton Floyd
Solar UV Center-to-Limb Variation of Active Regions
Juan Fontenla
Physical Synthesis of the Solar Radiance, a Tool for Understanding Spectral Irradiance
Peter Fox
Carbon I, Solar Activity and Secular Change?
Rajaram Kane
Dissimilarity in the Evolution of Solar EUV and Solar Radio Emission (2800 MHZ) During 1999-2002
Greg Kopp
Details of the SORCE/TIM On-Orbit Calibrations
P. G. Kovadlo
Some Characteristics of the Yearly Mean Variation of Scattered Solar Radiation During Clear Sky Conditions Over the CIS Territory
William McClintock
The Sun as Observed by SORCE SOLSTICE
Jeff Morrill
A Model of Solar Spectral Irradiance Between 200 and 400 nm
Chris Pankratz
SORCE Data Processing and Availability
Judit Pap
Total Solar Irradiance Measurements: Results and Future Requirements
Dora Preminger
Historical Reconstruction of Solar Activity
Byron Smiley
Pre-Launch and On-Orbit Prism Transmission Calibrations for SIM on SORCE
Marty Snow
Measuring In-Flight Degradation of SORCE SOLSTICE
Gerard Thuillier
The Solar Spectral Irradiance From 200 to 2400 nm as Measured During the ATLAS and EURECA Missions
Stephen Walton
Solar Feature Identification on PSPT Images
Guoyong Wen
Phase Space Reconstruction and Predictability of Spectral Solar Irradiance From SOLSTICE