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The workshop presentations are in PDF format and are linked from their titles on the workshop agenda, below. For further information on these research topics, please contact the individual authors. Presentations that were given, but not listed on the agenda, are linked at the bottom of this page. Enjoy!

Also: Workshop notes taken by Will Cantrell are available in PDF format.

AGENDA

ICE INITIATION WORKSHOP, June 7 and 8, 2004

WHERE: NCAR Foothills Laboratory Bldg. 2, Auditorium

Monday 7 June

8:00 - 8:30 am

Registration and Continental Breakfast in Cafeteria Atrium

8:30 - 8:40 am

Welcome (Killeen/Winter)

8:40 - 8:50 am

Workshop Goals (Heymsfield)

Overview of Ice Nucleation

8:50 - 9:30 am

Ice observations in the atmosphere, 1949 - 2004 (Vali)

Recent Ice Observations (Vali)

9:30 - 10:00 am

Laboratory results and future needs (DeMott)

10:00 - 10:15 am

BREAK (room 1002)

10:15 - 10:45 am

Ice formation processes in cloud-scale to global scale models and current needs (Cotton)

10:45 - 11:15 am

European Studies (Kaercher)

11:15 - 12:15 pm

Mixed-phase clouds (Isaac/Hallett)

12:15 - 1:30 pm

LUNCH (on your own)

Proposed Field Experiments

1:30 - 2:00 pm

Wave/Layer Clouds (Rogers)

2:00 - 2:30 pm

Convection (Stith)

Position Papers by Attendees (10 - 15 minute presentations by participants)

2:30 pm

Tinsley, "Contact ice nucleation near cloud tops due to electroscavenging"

2:40 pm

Liu, "A model look at heterogeneous ice nucleation on mineral dust

2:50 pm

Gultepe, "Ice crystal number concentration versus temperature relationships and models"

3:00 pm

Tsemekhman, "Toward understanding of homogeneous nucleation of ice"

3:10 - 3:30 pm

BREAK (room 1002)

3:30 pm

Jensen, "Large ice supersaturations measured in the tropical tropopause region"

3:40 pm

Sherwood, "Satellite retrievals relevant to cloud glaciation and electrification"

3:50 pm

Mayor, "Eye-safe depolarization lidar at 1/54 microns"

4:00 pm

Knight, "The use of radar in studying the first formation of precipitation in cumulus"

4:10 pm

Blyth, "UK Field campaign to study the initiation and development of ice in cumulus clouds"

4:20 pm

Lawson, "Ice formation and development in wave clouds"

4:30 pm

Woodley, "On the initiation and growth of ice in Argentine hailstorms"

4:40 - 5:00 pm

Other speakers as time allows

   

Tuesday 8 June

8:00 - 8:30 am

Continental breakfast in room 1002 (FL building 2)

8:30 - 9:00 am

NSF perspective - future field programs (Cooper)

9:00 - 9:30 am

DOE perspective - future field programs (Ackerman)

Presentations by participants (cont.)

9:30 am

Cziczo, "Single particle studies of atmospheric ice formation"

9:40 am

Sassen, "Arctic aerosol layers and ice nucleation"

9:50 am

Other speakers as time allows

10:00 - 10:20 am

BREAK (room 1002)

10:20 am

Korolev, "Lifetime of mixed phase clouds (theoretical consideration)"

10:30 am

Cantrell, "Ice nucleation by long chain alcohols"

10:40 am

Shaw, "Aspects of heterogeneous nucleation from laboratory studies"

10:50 am

Bailey, "The habit transition at -40 C and its effect on in situ observations"

11:00 am

Magee, "Ice crystal growth in a quadrupole levitation wind tunnel"

11:15 - 11:30 pm

Charge to break-out sessions (Heymsfield):

  1. Develop scientific plans for SOD
  2. Identify contributors to SOD
  3. What kind of lab/model/field programs are posssible and most productive?
  4. List likely participants and resources
  5. Draft Outline for each sub-group (lab/modeling/field)
  6. Other (field locations, synergy with international programs, w..)?

11:30 - 1:00 pm

LUNCH (on your own)

1:00 - 3:15 pm

Break-out session groups to include:

3:15 - 3:30 pm

BREAK (outside room 1002)

3:30 - 5:00 pm

Plenary (Heymsfield)

END OF WORKSHOP

Additional presentations that were given as time permitted: