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2013 NOAA ESRL GLOBAL MONITORING ANNUAL CONFERENCE
David Skaggs Research Center, Room GC-402
325 Broadway, Boulder, Colorado 80305
May 21 and May 22, 2013
Tuesday, May 21, 2013 AGENDA
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• 07:30 Registration Opens in GC-402 - lunch orders and posters collected at registration table
• 07:30 - 08:15 Morning Snacks - Coffee, tea, fruit, bagels and donuts served
| Session 1 | • Welcome, Keynote Address and Introductory Papers — Chaired by Russ Schnell | Slides |
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| 08:15 - 08:25 | Welcome and Conference Overview James H. Butler (Director, NOAA/Earth System Research Laboratory/GMD, Boulder, CO) |
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| 08:25 - 08:35 | The Earth System Research Laboratory Alexander E. MacDonald (Director, NOAA/Earth System Research Laboratory, Boulder, CO) |
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| 08:35 - 08:40 | Introduction of Keynote Speaker James H. Butler (Director, NOAA/Earth System Research Laboratory/GMD, Boulder, CO) |
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| 08:40 - 09:10 | Greenhouse Gases, Climate Change and
Sustainability: Why Ignorance Is Not Bliss Jim White (Institute of Arctic and Alpine Research (INSTAAR), University of Colorado, Boulder, CO) |
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| 09:10 - 09:30 | The End of Cheap Fossil Fuels Pieter Tans (NOAA Earth System Research Laboratory, Boulder, CO) |
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| 09:30 - 09:45 | Global Ocean Carbon Uptake: Magnitude,
Variability and Trends Rik Wanninkhof (NOAA Atlantic Oceanographic and Meteorological Laboratory, Miami, FL) |
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| 09:45 - 10:00 | Achievements and Prospects of the China
Meteorological Administration / NOAA Bilateral Cooperation on GreenHouse Gases (GHGs) Lingxi Zhou (China Meteorological Administration, Chinese Academy of Meteorological Sciences, Beijing, China) |
• 10:00 - 10:30 Morning Break
• 12:00 - 13:00Catered Lunch Service - Outreach Classroom GB-124 (pre-payment of $12.00 required at registration table)
| Session 3 | • Carbon Cycle 2 — Chaired by Arlyn Andrews | Slides |
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| 13:00 - 13:15 | Tracking Changing Arctic Methane
Emissions Ed Dlugokencky (NOAA Earth System Research Laboratory, Boulder, CO) |
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| 13:15 - 13:30 | Understanding and Quantifying CO2
and CH4 Greenhouse Gas Fluxes on the Regional Scale: The Project CarboCount CH Dominik Brunner (EMPA, Laboratory for Air Pollution/Environmental Technology, Duebendorf, Switzerland) |
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| 13:30 - 13:45 | Updated Estimates of California’s Urban
and Rural Methane Emissions Marc L. Fischer (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA) |
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| 13:45 - 14:00 | Measuring CO2 and CH4
Emissions from Indianapolis: Preliminary Results from an Urban Atmospheric Inversion System Kenneth J. Davis (Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA) |
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| 14:00 - 14:15 | Methane Emission Flux from Indianapolis, IN:
Identification and Contribution of Sources to the Total Citywide Emission Maria Obiminda L. Cambaliza (Purdue University, Department of Chemistry, West Lafayette, IN) |
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| 14:15 - 14:30 | Estimation of CO2 Emissions from
Gas Flares Using Data Collected by the Suomi National Polar-orbiting Partnership (SNPP) Visible Infrared
Imaging Radiometer Suite (VIIRS) Chris Elvidge (NOAA National Geophysical Data Center, Boulder, CO) |
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| 14:30 - 14:45 | Gateway Pages to a Multi-institution,
Geographically Distributed, Network of Data Sets for Atmospheric Trace Species T.J. Blasing (Carbon Dioxide Information Analysis Center, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, TN) |
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| 14:45 - 15:00 | Measuring Carbon Dioxide from Space:
Prospects for the NASA Orbiting Carbon Observatory-2 (OCO-2) David Crisp (Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA) |
• 15:00 - 15:30 Afternoon Break
• 17:00 - 20:00Poster Session (DSRC Cafeteria) with appetizers and refreshments
Wednesday, May 22, 2013 AGENDA
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• 07:00 - 08:00 Registration and Morning Snacks - Coffee, tea, fruit, bagels and donuts served
| Session 5 | • Ozone and High Altitude Water Vapor — Chaired by Sam Oltmans | Slides |
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| 08:00 - 08:15 | Southern Hemisphere Additional Ozonesondes
(SHADOZ): Recent Accomplishments and Upcoming Activities with NOAA/GMD Anne M. Thompson (Pennsylvania State University, Department of Meteorology, University Park, PA) |
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| 08:15 - 08:30 | Contributions of Atmospheric Dynamics and
Chemistry to Total Ozone Variability and Trends Across the United States: A Case Study Based on Long-term
Ground Based Data Sets Irina Petropavlovskikh (Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO) |
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| 08:30 - 08:45 | South Pole Ozonesonde and Dobson
Spectrophotometer Measurements in 2012 Bryan Johnson (NOAA Earth System Research Laboratory, Boulder, CO) |
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| 08:45 - 09:00 | Global Surface Ozone Trends, a Synthesis of
Recently Published Findings Owen R. Cooper (Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO) |
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| 09:00 - 09:15 | Changes in the Polar Vortex: Effects on
Antarctic Total Ozone Observations at Various Stations and Antarctic Surface Climate
Characteristics Birgit Hassler (Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO) |
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| 09:15 - 09:30 | Influences of the Asian Monsoon on Upper
Troposphere and Lower Stratosphere (UTLS) Water Vapor, Ozone and Ice Particles: New Results from Kunming,
China Dale Hurst (Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO) |
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| 09:30 - 09:45 | An Update on the Status of the Global Climate
Observing System (GCOS) Reference Upper Air Network (GRUAN) Greg Bodeker (Bodeker Scientific, Alexandra, New Zealand) |
• 09:45 - 10:15Morning Break
| Session 6 | • Halocarbons and Non-CO2 Greenhouse Gases — Chaired by James Elkins | Slides |
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| 10:15 - 10:30 | The InGOS Project: Setup and First
Results Alex T. Vermeulen (Energy Research Center (ECN) of the Netherlands, Petten, The Netherlands) |
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| 10:30 - 10:45 | Quantifying Sources of Methane Using Light
Alkanes in the Los Angeles Basin, California Jeff Peischl (Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO) |
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| 10:45 - 11:00 | Regional Emission Estimates of Selected
Anthropogenic Greenhouse Gases (HFC-134a, HCFC-22, and CH4) from California Lei Hu (NOAA Earth System Research Laboratory, Boulder, CO) |
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| 11:00 - 11:15 | 14C-based Emission Estimates for
Halocarbons and Other Greenhouse Gases Across the U.S. Steve Montzka (NOAA Earth System Research Laboratory, Boulder, CO) |
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| 11:15 - 11:30 | NOAA Global Monitoring Division HIAPER
Pole-to-Pole Oberservations (HIPPO) Data Past and Future: Transport and Chemistry in the
Troposphere Fred L. Moore (Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO) |
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| 11:30 - 11:45 | Non-Methane HydroCarbons (NMHCs) at the World
Meteorological Organization (WMO) - Global Atmophere Watch (GAW) Monte Cimone Station: Trends,
Seasonal Variation and Source Characterization Michela Maione (University of Urbino, Department of Basic Sciences and Foundations, Urbino, Italy) |
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| 11:45 - 12:00 | Atmospheric Lifetimes of CCl3F
(CFC-11) and NF3: Temperature Dependent Ultraviolet (UV) Absorption Cross Sections Max R. McGillen (Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO) |
• 12:00 - 13:00Catered Lunch Service - Outreach Classroom GB-124 (pre-payment of $12.00 required at registration table)
| Session 8 | • Gas and Oil Fields 1: Winter Ozone — Chaired by Russ Schnell | Slides |
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| 14:00 - 14:15 | Observations of Wintertime Ozone Production
in the Uintah Basin of Utah in 2013 Samuel Oltmans (Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO) |
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| 14:15 - 14:30 | Non-Methane Hydrocarbons During Winter Ozone
Production Events in the Uintah Basin Chelsea Stephens (Institute of Arctic and Alpine Research (INSTAAR), University of Colorado, Boulder, CO) |
• 14:30 - 14:45Afternoon Break
| Session 9 | • Gas and Oil Fields 2: Oil Field Winds and Methane — Chaired by Gabrielle Petron | Slides |
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| 14:45 - 15:00 | Emissions of CH4 from Natural Gas
Production in the United States Using Aircraft-based Observations Colm Sweeney (Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO) |
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| 15:00 - 15:15 | Observing Boundary Layer Properties with
Doppler Lidar for Mass-balance Estimates of Greenhouse Gas Emissions R. Michael Hardesty (Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO) |
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| 15:15 - 15:30 | Using Laser-based Technology to Quantify
Fugitive Methane Emission Rates Quickly and Easily Tracy Tsai (Picarro Inc, Santa Clara, CA) |
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| 15:30 - 15:45 | Quantifying the Relative Contribution of
Natural Gas Fugitive Emissions to Total Methane Emissions in Colorado, Utah and Texas Using Mobile
δ13CH4 Analysis Chris W. Rella (Picarro Inc, Santa Clara, CA) |
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| 15:45 - 16:00 | Locating and Quantifying Methane Gas
Emissions Using Remotely Obtained Concentration Data from Aircraft Bill Hirst (Shell Global Solutions International B.V., The Hague, The Netherlands) |
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| 16:00 - 16:15 | Ground Measurements of Ethane to Methane
Ratios in the Dallas/Fort-Worth Area Tara Yacovitch (Aerodyne Research, Inc., Billerica, MA) |
• 16:15Closing Remarks - Dr. Russ Schnell (NOAA/Earth System Research Laboratory/GMD)
Poster Session Tuesday, May 21, 2013 AGENDA
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| • Gas and Oil Field Ozone and Effluents | |
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| P-1 | Emissions from Oil and Gas Operations and
Their Role in Ozone Production in the Uintah Basin, Utah Jeong-Hoo Park (Institute of Arctic and Alpine Research (INSTAAR), University of Colorado, Boulder, CO) |
| P-2 | Exceptionally Elevated Winter Photochemical
Ozone Production in the Uintah Basin, Utah Russell C. Schnell (NOAA Earth System Research Laboratory, Boulder, CO) |
| P-3 | Ozone Vertical Profiles and Buildup During
the 2013 Uintah Basin Winter Ozone Study Jason Evans (Institute of Arctic and Alpine Research (INSTAAR), University of Colorado, Boulder, CO) |
| P-4 | Emissions from Three Oil and Gas Facilities
Off the Gulf Coast of Mexico Scott Herndon (Aerodyne Research, Inc., Billerica, MA) |
| P-5 | Increased Surface Ozone with Relation to
Wildfires in the Western United States (U.S.) Audra McClure-Begley (Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO) |
| P-6 | Taking Science on the Road Jonathan Kofler (Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO) |
| P-7 | Addressing Science and Policy Needs with
Community Emissions Efforts Claire Granier (Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO) |
| • Chinese Atmospheric Watch Regional Measurements and Cape Verde CVAO | |
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| P-8 | The Current Status and Future of the China
Atmosphere Watch (CAW) Program of the China Meteorological Administration (CMA) Kejun Wu (China Meteorological Administration, Meteorological Observation Center, Beijing, China) |
| P-9 | Trend of Acid Rain Over China Since the
1990s Jie Tang (China Meteorological Administration, Meteorological Observation Center, Beijing, China) |
| P-10 | Science Highlights from the Cape Verde
Atmospheric Observatory (CVAO) Katie Read (University of York, National Centre for Atmospheric Science, York, United Kingdom) |
| • NOAA Earth information Services and "Elementa", a New Scientific Journal | |
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| P-11 | Interactive Visualization Using NOAA's Earth
Information Services and TerraViz Eric Hackathorn (NOAA Earth System Research Laboratory, Boulder, CO) |
| P-12 | Elementa: Science of the Anthropocene
– A New Nonprofit, Open-access Journal Publishing Scientific Research Specific to the Anthropocene in a
Multidisciplinary Format Detlev Helmig (Institute of Arctic and Alpine Research (INSTAAR), University of Colorado, Boulder, CO) |
| • Carbon Cycle - Methane, Carbon Monoxide, NMHCs and Isotopes | |
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| P-23 | Investigation of the Ethane-Methane
Relationship at the NOAA Global Cooperative Air Sampling Network Sites Angelica L. Hollister (Institute of Arctic and Alpine Research (INSTAAR), University of Colorado, Boulder, CO) |
| P-24 | Long-term Decline of Global Atmospheric
Ethane Concentrations and Implications for Methane Isobel J. Simpson (University of California at Irvine, Department of Chemistry, Irvine, CA) |
| P-25 | Tracking Variability in Methane Source
Signatures in the NOAA Global Cooperative Air Sampling Network Sylvia E. Michel (Institute of Arctic and Alpine Research (INSTAAR), University of Colorado, Boulder, CO) |
| P-26 | A Multi-tower Measurement Network Estimate of
California’s Methane Emissions Marc L. Fischer (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA) |
| P-27 | Influences of Asian Continental Outflow on
the Trace Gas Levels at Dongsha Island in the South China Sea Chang-Feng Ou-Yang (National Central University, Department of Chemistry and Department of Atmospheric Sciences, Jhongli, Taiwan) |
| P-28 | Global Reanalysis of Reactive Gases in the
Monitoring Atmospheric Composition and Climate (MACC) Project: Validation with in Situ and Satellite
Observations Idir Bouarar (LATMOS, Université Pierre et Marie Curie and Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Paris, France) |
| P-29 | The World Meteorological Organization (WMO)
Central Calibration Laboratory for Carbon Monoxide Paul Novelli (NOAA Earth System Research Laboratory, Boulder, CO) |
| P-30 | Sensitivity Study of Impact of Isoprene
Emission Estimates on Modeled CO Concentration Katerina Zemankova (LATMOS, Université Pierre et Marie Curie and Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Paris, France) |
| P-31 | Climatology and Atmospheric Chemistry of
Non-Methane Hydrocarbon Emissions Over the North Atlantic Mauricio Muñoz (Institute of Arctic and Alpine Research (INSTAAR), University of Colorado, Boulder, CO) |
| P-32 | Recent Increase in Seasonal Amplitudes of
CO2 and δ13CO2 Over Canada and Their Implications Lin Huang (Environment Canada, Climate Research Division, Atmospheric Science Technology Directorate/STB, Toronto, Canada) |
| P-33 | Can We Use δ13C of
CO2 to Understand the Links Between the Water and Carbon Cycles and Climate? Caroline Alden (Institute of Arctic and Alpine Research (INSTAAR), University of Colorado, Boulder, CO) |
| • Halocarbons | |
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| P-34 | Validation of Satellite Ozone-depleting
Substance Measurements with Airborne Platforms J. David Nance (Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO) |
| P-35 | Recent Results from the Airborne Tropical
Tropopause Experiment (ATTREX) Eric J. Hintsa (Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO) |
| P-36 | An Updated Record of Long-lived
Halocarbons Geoffrey S. Dutton (Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO) |
| P-37 | Quarter Century of NOAA Airborne Observations
of Halocarbons and Other Atmospheric Trace Species James W. Elkins (NOAA Earth System Research Laboratory, Boulder, CO) |
| P-38 | A Novel Cryogenic Analyte Preconcentration
Module for Trace Gas and Isotopic Analyses Benjamin R. Miller (Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO) |
| P-39 | Atmospheric Chemistry of
Methyl-Perfluoro-Heptene-Ethers (MPHEs): OH Radical Reaction Rate Coefficients, Atmospheric Lifetimes and
Global Warming Potentials Aaron M. Jubb (Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO) |
| • Aerosols, Radiation and Water Vapor | |
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| P-40 | A 23-year Record of Twice-weekly Aerosol 1
Composition Measurements at Mauna Loa Observatory Nicole Hyslop (University of California at Davis, Crocker Nuclear Laboratory, Davis, CA) |
| P-41 | Gypsum Aerosol Downwind of White Sands,
NM Warren H. White (University of California at Davis, Crocker Nuclear Laboratory, Davis, CA) |
| P-42 | Laboratory Studies of Filter-based Aerosol
Light Absorption Measurements Patrick Sheridan (NOAA Earth System Research Laboratory, Boulder, CO) |
| P-43 | Short-term Variability of Aerosol Optical
Properties at NOAA’s Federated Aerosol Network Elisabeth Andrews (Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO) |
| P-44 | Atmospheric Research of The Atmosphere,
ClImate and Radiation in Extremadura (AIRE) Group at the University of Extremadura (Spain) Ana Alvarez Piedehierro (University of Extremadura, Department of Physics, Badajoz, Spain) |
| P-45 | A Characterization of Arctic Aerosols and
Their Forcing of the Surface Radiation Budget Robert S. Stone (Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO) |
| P-46 | Observations of Water Vapor and Total Water
in the Extremely Dry Tropical Tropopause Layer (TTL) from the NASA Global Hawk Andrew Rollins (Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO) |
| P-47 | Two Years of Continuous Water Vapor Isotope
Ratio Measurements at Mauna Loa: A New Glimpse Into Humidity Controls in the Subtropics Adriana Bailey (Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO) |
| • Additional Oil and Gas Effluents | |
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| P-48 | An Airborne Study of Methane Point Source
Dispersion and Mixed Layer Scaling Stephen Conley (University of California at Davis, Davis, CA) |