ISSAOS 2008 – Topics and Speakers0 Welcome0.1 / 0.2 Introduction - overview Brune / All

I.1 / I.2 / I.3

Aerosol fundamentals aerosol distributions, properties, sources sinks, processes – the aerosol lifecycle

Carslaw

II.1 / II.2 In situ measurements general aerosol measurement methodsaerosol composition measurements

Fuzzi

II.3 / II.4 In situ measurements - AMS introduction to the Aerosol Mass Spectrometer; using the AMS

Coe

III.1 / III.2 Secondary Organic Aerosols (SOA)

phase partitioning theory; biogeochemical cycles; laboratory studies of SOA

Donahue

IV.1 / IV.2 / IV.3

Aerosol and clouds cloud formation; aerosol effects; observations; precipitation formation; cloud modeling; Large Eddy Simulations of aerosol-cloud interactions

Feingold

V.1 / V.2 Satellite measurements of aerosols

aerosol remote sensing methods; global satellite measurements

Bhartia

V.3 / V.4 Lidar measurements of aerosols aerosol lidar theory; lidar measurements RiziVI.1 / VI.2 / VI.3

Climate fundamentals overview of climate; climate change; aerosols and climate

Ramaswamy

VII.1 / VII.2 Climate modeling fundamentals of climate modeling; aerosols in climate models

Menon

VIII.1 / VIII.2 Climate projections climate change feedbacksprojections –aerosol/climate change

Penner

IX.1 Summary and conclusions Brune

Climate is changing. To address this issue, the most important research in aerosols and climate is …

“All models are wrong, but some are useful.” – George E.P. Box

“All observations are useful, but some are wrong.” – ???

• Climate sensitivity• surface temperature• hydrologic cycle (e.g., precipitation)• clouds – dynamic and/or aerosol forcing?

• Climate science testing (testing on many spatial and time scales)• obs/models of patterns of change• obs/models of aerosol/cloud interactions• linking observations and models

• Earth simulation• including all processes• probabilistic forecasting / uncertainties• human – climate interactions

Thanks forpaticipating.

Director of the School Local Organizing Committee William H. Brune Guido Visconti, Piero Di Carlo, Domenico Cimini

Lecturers

P. K. Barthia, NASA, USA

William Brune (Director), Penn State University, USA

Ken Carslaw, University of Leeds, UK

Hugh Coe, University of Manchester, UK

Neil Donahue, Carnegie Mellon University, USA

Graham Feingold, NOAA ESRL, USA

Sandro Fuzzi, CNR ISAC, Italy

Surabi Menon, Lawrence Berkeley National Lab., USA

Joyce Penner, University of Michigan, USA

V. Ramaswamy, NOAA, USA

Vincenzo Rizi, University of L’Aquila, ITALY