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2015 NOAA ESRL GLOBAL MONITORING ANNUAL CONFERENCE

David Skaggs Research Center, Room GC-402
325 Broadway, Boulder, Colorado 80305
May 19 and May 20, 2015

Tuesday, May 19, 2015 AGENDA

(Only presenter's name is given; please refer to abstract for complete author listing.)
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• 07:00 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 & Highlights — Chaired by James Butler	Slides
08:15 - 08:30	Welcome and Conference Overview   James H. Butler (NOAA Earth System Research Laboratory, Global Monitoring Division, Boulder, CO)
08:30 - 08:35	Introduction of Keynote Speaker   James H. Butler (NOAA Earth System Research Laboratory, Global Monitoring Division, Boulder, CO)
08:35 - 09:05	The Importance and Challenges of Communicating Climate Science   Jeffrey T. Kiehl (National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR), Boulder, CO)
09:05 - 09:25	Toward the Atmospheric Greenhouse Gas Observing System We Need   James Butler et al in place of Pieter Tans (NOAA Earth System Research Laboratory, Global Monitoring Division, Boulder, CO)
09:25 - 09:45	Cost-competitive Reduction of Carbon Emissions of Up to 80% from the U.S. Electric Sector by 2030   Alexander E. MacDonald (NOAA Earth System Research Laboratory, Boulder, CO)

• 9:45 - 10:15 Morning Break

Session 2	• Carbon Cycle & Greenhouse Gases - Large Scale Atmospheric Patterns — Chaired by Arlyn Andrews	Slides
10:15 - 10:30	Constraints on Air-sea Fluxes of Carbon and Heat from Measurements of Atmospheric Potential Oxygen    Laure Resplandy (University of California at San Diego, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, La Jolla, CA)
10:30 - 10:45	An Update on the Atmospheric Methane Growth Rate: Growth Surges During 2014   Edward J. Dlugokencky (NOAA Earth System Research Laboratory, Global Monitoring Division, Boulder, CO)
10:45 - 11:00	Carbon Monoxide Concentration and Isotope Measurements in New Zealand   Rowena Moss (National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research (NIWA), Wellington, New Zealand)
11:00 - 11:15	Global Methane Budget and Natural Gas Leakage Based on Long-term δ13CH4 Measurements and Updated Isotopic Source Signatures   Stefan Schwietzke (NOAA Earth System Research Laboratory, Global Monitoring Division, Boulder, CO)
11:15 - 11:30	Measurement of Volatile Organic Compounds Using Trigger Sampling in Southeast Asia During Biomass Burning Season   Chang-Feng Ou-Yang (National Central University, Department of Atmospheric Sciences, Chung-Li, Taiwan)
11:30 - 11:45	Quantitative Laser Spectroscopy for SI-Traceable Measurements of Greenhouse Gases   Joseph T. Hodges (National Institute of Standards and Technology, Gaithersburg, MD)
11:45 - 12:00	Arctic Methane: Can the Top-down and Bottom-up Views of its Budget Be Reconciled?   Lori Bruhwiler (NOAA Earth System Research Laboratory, Global Monitoring Division, Boulder, CO)

• 12:00 - 13:00Catered Lunch - Outreach Classroom GB-124 (pre-payment of $12.00 at registration)

Session 3	• Carbon Cycle & Greenhouse Gases - Global Observing Systems — Chaired by Andrew Jacobson	Slides
13:00 - 13:15	Early XCO2 Estimates from the NASA Orbiting Carbon Observatory-2 (OCO-2)   David Crisp (Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA)
13:15 - 13:30	Climatology of Spatiotemporal Variations of Tropospheric CO2 Observed by CONTRAIL-CME   Taku Umezawa (National Institute for Environmental Studies, Tsukuba-City, Ibaraki, Japan)
13:30 - 13:45	GOSAT Data Products Generated in Collaborative Effort with NOAA/GMD   T. Yokota (National Institute for Environmental Studies, Tsukuba-City, Ibaraki, Japan)
13:45 - 14:00	Long-Term Observations of NMHCs from the IAGOS-CARIBIC Flying Observatory    Angela K. Baker (Max Planck Institute for Chemistry, Mainz, Germany)
14:00 - 14:15	The Potential of 14CO2 Measurements to Constrain the North American Fossil Fuel CO2 Flux   Sourish Basu (NOAA Earth System Research Laboratory, Global Monitoring Division, Boulder, CO)
14:15 - 14:30	The Global Atmosphere Watch Reactive Gases Measurement Network   Detlev Helmig (Institute of Arctic and Alpine Research (INSTAAR), University of Colorado, Boulder, CO)

• 14:30 - 15:00 Afternoon Break

Session 4	• Radiation — Chaired by Allison McComiskey	Slides
15:00 - 15:15	The Baseline Surface Radiation Network: Surface Radiation Observations for Climate Research   Chuck Long (Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences (CIRES), University of Colorado, Boulder, CO)
15:15 - 15:30	Near Real-time Solar Irradiance and Aerosol Optical Depth from NOAA ISIS and SURFRAD Stations for Verification of Solar Forecasts for the Solar Forecast Improvement Project (SFIP)   Kathy O. Lantz (Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences (CIRES), University of Colorado, Boulder, CO)
15:30 - 15:45	Modification of VIIRS Sensor Data Record Operational Code for Consistency of Data Product Limits   Gabriel Moy (The Aerospace Corporation, El Segundo, CA)
15:45 - 16:00	Use of Solar Irradiance Measurements to Improve the Physical Parameterizations in the Rapid Refresh and High-Resolution Rapid Refresh Models   Jaymes Kenyon (Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences (CIRES), University of Colorado, Boulder, CO)
16:00 - 16:15	Surface-based Cloud Radiative Properties for Improved Understanding of Aerosol-cloud Interactions   Allison McComiskey (NOAA Earth System Research Laboratory, Global Monitoring Division, Boulder, CO)
16:15 - 16:30	Aerosol Effects on Cloud Cover as Determined by Ground- and Space-based Sensors   John A. Augustine (NOAA Earth System Research Laboratory, Global Monitoring Division, Boulder, CO)
16:30 - 16:45	Evidence of Clear-Sky Daylight Whitening: Are We Already Conducting Geoengineering?   Chuck Long (Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences (CIRES), University of Colorado, Boulder, CO)

• 17:00 - 20:00Poster Session (DSRC Cafeteria) with appetizers and refreshments

Wednesday, May 20, 2015 AGENDA

(Only presenter's name is given; please refer to abstract for complete author listing.)
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• 07:00 Registration Opens in GC-402 - lunch orders collected at registration table
• 07:30 - 08:15 Morning Snacks - coffee, tea, fruit, bagels and donuts served

Session 5	• Carbon Cycle & Greenhouse Gases - Regional Emissions Quantification — Chaired by Ed Dlugokencky	Slides
08:15 - 08:30	Detectability and Quantification of Atmospheric Boundary Layer Greenhouse Gas Dry Mole Fraction Enhancements from Urban Emissions:  Results from INFLUX   Natasha Miles (The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA)
08:30 - 08:45	Initial Atmospheric Fossil-fuel CO2 Estimates from the Los Angeles Megacity Project   John B. Miller (Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences (CIRES), University of Colorado, Boulder, CO)
08:45 - 09:00	Estimating Urban Carbon Dioxide Fluxes at High Spatial Resolution from In Situ Observations: First Results from the Berkeley Atmospheric CO2 Observation Network   Alexis A. Shusterman (University of California at Berkeley, Berkeley, CA)
09:00 - 09:15	Progress on Estimation of Global Gas Flaring With VIIRS Data   Mikhail Zhizhin (Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences (CIRES), University of Colorado, Boulder, CO)
09:15 - 09:30	Measuring Methane Emissions from Oil and Natural Gas Well Pads in the Barnett Shale Using the Mobile Flux Plane Technique   Chris Rella (Picarro Inc, Santa Clara, CA)
09:30 - 09:45	North American CO2 Fluxes, Inflow, and Uncertainties Estimated Using Atmospheric Measurements from the North American Carbon Program   Arlyn E. Andrews (NOAA Earth System Research Laboratory, Global Monitoring Division, Boulder, CO)
09:45 - 10:00	Update on Earth Networks Greenhouse Gas (GHG) Monitoring Network   Chris Sloop (Earth Networks, Inc., Germantown, MD)

• 10:00 - 10:30 Morning Break

Session 6	• Ozone & Water Vapor — Chaired by Irina Petropavlovskikh	Slides
10:30 - 10:45	Is There Evidence of Convectively Injected Water Vapor in the Lowermost Stratosphere Over Boulder, Colorado?   Dale Hurst (Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences (CIRES), University of Colorado, Boulder, CO)
10:45 - 11:00	10 Years of Water Vapor and Ozone Soundings at Costa Rica   Holger Vömel (National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR), Boulder, CO)
11:00 - 11:15	Low Ozone in the Tropical Tropopause Layer (TTL) Over the Western Pacific   Eric J. Hintsa (Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences (CIRES), University of Colorado, Boulder, CO)
11:15 - 11:30	Comparison of Seasonal Cycles of Tropospheric Ozone from Three Chemistry-Climate Models (CCMs) with Measurements   David Parrish (Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences (CIRES), University of Colorado, Boulder, CO)
11:30 - 11:45	Sensitivity of Northern Hemispheric Tropospheric Ozone to Anthropogenic Emissions as Observed by Satellite Observations   John Worden (Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA)
11:45 - 12:00	Comparison of Global Tropospheric Ozone Precursors from Measurements and the MACCity Global Emissions Inventory   Birgit Hassler (Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences (CIRES), University of Colorado, Boulder, CO)

• 12:00 - 13:00Catered Lunch - Outreach Classroom GB-124 (pre-payment of $12.00 at registration)

Session 7	• Aerosols — Chaired by John Ogren	Slides
13:00 - 13:15	Characterizing Carbonaceous Aerosols Transported to the Canadian Arctic: Attribution of Emission Sources/Regions of the Black Carbon at Alert   Lin Huang (Environment Canada, Toronto, Ontario, Canada)
13:15 - 13:30	Multi-year Measurements of Aerosols at Storm Peak Laboratory, a Colorado Mountain Top Site   A. Gannet Hallar (Storm Peak Laboratory, Desert Research Institute, Steamboat Springs, CO)
13:30 - 13:45	Relative Humidity Effects on Aerosol Light Scattering in the Yangtze River Delta of China   Sun Junying (Key Laboratory of Atmospheric Chemistry of CMA, Institute of Atmospheric Composition, Chinese Academy of Meteorological Sciences, Beijing, China)
13:45 - 14:00	Southern Ocean Atmospheric Chemistry and Aerosols - from Cape Grim to the RV Investigator   Melita Keywood (Commonwealth Scientific Industrial Research Organization (CSIRO), Aspendale, Australia)
14:00 - 14:15	Aerosol Measurements at South Pole:  Impact of Local Contamination   Patrick Sheridan (NOAA Earth System Research Laboratory, Global Monitoring Division, Boulder, CO)
14:15 - 14:30	A New and Inexpensive Tool for Ozone, Aerosol, and AOD Vertical Profiling   Ru-Shan Gao (NOAA Earth System Research Laboratory, Chemical Sciences Division, Boulder, CO)

• 14:30 - 15:00 Afternoon Break

Session 8	• Halocarbons & Other Trace Gases — Chaired by Brad Hall	Slides
15:00 - 15:15	Fourth Generation Anthropogenic Halogenated Greenhouse Gases   Martin K. Vollmer (Empa, Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Science and Technology, Dübendorf, Switzerland)
15:15 - 15:30	Increases in Tropospheric Chlorine from Dichloromethane, a Gas Not Controlled by the Montreal Protocol   Steve Montzka (NOAA Earth System Research Laboratory, Global Monitoring Division, Boulder, CO)
15:30 - 15:45	Is the Growth Rate of Nitrous Oxide Increasing?   Brad D. Hall (NOAA Earth System Research Laboratory, Global Monitoring Division, Boulder, CO)
15:45 - 16:00	Satellite Observations of Peroxyacetyl Nitrate (PAN) in the Tropical Troposphere: New Insights Into the Seasonal and Inter-annual Variability of the Reactive Nitrogen Budget   Vivienne Payne (Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA)
16:00 - 16:15	NOx Time Series and NOy Speciation in the Tropical Marine Boundary Layer at the Cape Verde Atmospheric Observatory    Chris Reed (University of York, York, United Kingdom)
16:15 - 16:30	Ticosounding Turrialba – Profiles of Volcanic Sulfer Dioxide (SO2) in Costa Rica and Validation for OMI and OMPS   Henry B. Selkirk (Goddard Earth Science Technology and Research, Greenbelt, MD)
16:30 - 16:45	Highlights: Four Corners Methane Emissions Verification Study   Colm Sweeney (Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences (CIRES), University of Colorado, Boulder, CO)

• 16:45Closing Remarks - Dr. James Butler, Director (NOAA/ESRL Global Monitoring Division)

Poster Session Tuesday, May 19, 2015 AGENDA

(Only presenter's name is given; please refer to abstract for complete author listing.)
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• Carbon Cycle & Greenhouse Gases - Global Observing Systems		Poster
P-1	Initial Validation and Bias Correction of OCO-2 Carbon Dioxide Retrievals   Chris O'Dell (Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO)
P-2	Aerosol First Guess Sensitivity in the Atmospheric CO2 Observations from Space (ACOS) XCO2 Retrieval Algorithm   Robert R. Nelson (Colorado State University, Department of Atmospheric Science, Fort Collins, CO)
P-3	Surface CO2 Fluxes Implied by 5 Years of ACOS V3.5 GOSAT XCO2 Retrievals, 2009-2014   David F. Baker (Cooperative Institute for Research in the Atmosphere (CIRA), Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO)
P-4	Uncertainties in Preliminary Estimates of CO2 and CH4 Trends   Molly Crotwell (Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences (CIRES), University of Colorado, Boulder, CO)
P-5	Atmospheric Carbon and Transport – America:  An Earth Venture Mission Dedicated to Improving the Accuracy, Precision and Resolution of Atmospheric Inverse Estimates of CO2 and CH4 Sources and Sinks   Kenneth J. Davis (The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA)
P-6	Influence of CO2 Observations on the Optimized CO2 Flux in the CarbonTracker Framework   Jinwoong Kim (Yonsei University, Department of Atmospheric Sciences, Seoul, South Korea)
P-7	Evaluating Planetary Boundary Layer Depths in CarbonTracker for a Region Around the Moody Tall Tower in Texas   Stephan F.J. De Wekker (University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA)
P-8	GEOS-Chem-CarbonTracker   Andrew E. Schuh (Cooperative Institute for Research in the Atmosphere (CIRA), Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO)

• Carbon Cycle & Greenhouse Gases - Regional Emissions Quantification		Poster
P-9	Results from the Multi-species Analysis of Discrete Air Samples Collected in the Denver-Julesburg Oil and Natural Gas Basin Between 2008 and 2014   Gabrielle Petron (Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences (CIRES), University of Colorado, Boulder, CO)
P-10	Fugitive Emissions from Unconventional Wells in Northeastern Pennsylvania: Tower Network Design   Zachary Barkley (The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA)
P-11	Wintertime Airborne Measurements of Greenhouse Gases and Criteria Pollutants in Washington D.C.   Olivia Salmon (Purdue University, Department of Chemistry, West Lafayette, IN)
P-12	Methane Observations in Alberta and Saskatchewan (Canada): Distinct Signals from Oil and Gas Activities.   M. Lopez (Environment Canada, Toronto, Ontario, Canada)
P-13	In-Situ Greenhouse Gas Measurements from Boreal Alaska   Anna Karion (Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences (CIRES), University of Colorado, Boulder, CO)
P-14	Sensitivity of Flux Accuracy to Setup of Fossil Fuel and Biogenic CO2 Inverse System in an Urban Environment   Kai Wu (The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA)
P-15	A Study of Carbon Monoxide Stable Isotopes at the Indianapolis Flux Project (INFLUX)   Isaac Vimont (Institute of Arctic and Alpine Research (INSTAAR), University of Colorado, Boulder, CO)
P-16	Urban Inversion of CO2 Emissions at High Resolution Over Indianapolis   Thomas Lauvaux (The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA)
P-17	Improving and Assessing Aircraft-based Greenhouse Gas Emission Rate Measurements for the City of Indianapolis (INFLUX Project)   Alexie Heimburger (Purdue University, Department of Chemistry, West Lafayette, IN)
P-18	Exploring Spatial and Temporal Gradients in Atmospheric CO2 and CO Using in Situ Observations in the Los Angeles Megacity   Kristal R. Verhulst (Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA)
P-19	Long-term Trends in Carbon Dioxide Enhancements in an Urban Region    Logan Mitchell (University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT)
P-20	Spatial and Temporal Observation of Urban Trace Gases and Pollutants from a Light Rail Vehicle Platform   Logan Mitchell (University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT)
P-21	An Emerging Greenhouse Gas Observational Network in the Intermountain West:  Observing Greenhouse Gas Mixing Ratios and Isotopes Across Rural to Urban Gradients   John C. Lin (University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT)
P-22	Bayesian Optimization of NEE and NEP in Oregon Using a Dense CO2 Observation Tower Network and the Community Land Model (CLM4.5)   Andres Schmidt (Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR)
P-23	Atmospheric Inversions and Satellite Data Reveal Recent Amazon Carbon Balance Variability Driven by Climate Anomalies   Caroline Alden (Stanford University, Stanford, CA)
P-24	Preliminary Studies of Carbon Isotopic Composition of Methane in the Marine Atmosphere Over the Arabian Coast.   D.K. Rao (Physical Research Laboratory, Ahmedabad, India)

• Halocarbons		Poster
P-25	Large and Small Unmanned Aircarft Systems (UAS) for Trace Gas Measurements in Climate Change Studies    Fred L. Moore (Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences (CIRES), University of Colorado, Boulder, CO)
P-26	A Prototype Instrument for Measuring SO2 Using Laser Induced Fluorescence    Andrew Rollins (Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences (CIRES), University of Colorado, Boulder, CO)
P-27	Recently Detected CFCs:  UV Absorption Spectra, Atmospheric Lifetimes, Global Warming and Ozone Depletion Potentials   Francois Bernard (Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences (CIRES), University of Colorado, Boulder, CO)
P-28	Assessing the Atmospheric Impact of CF3CClH2 (HCFC-133a):  Laboratory Measurements of OH Kinetics and UV and Infrared Absorption Spectra   Max R. McGillen (Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences (CIRES), University of Colorado, Boulder, CO)
P-29	The Very Short-lived Ozone Depleting Substance, CHBr3 (bromoform):  Revised UV Absorption Spectrum, Atmospheric Lifetime and Ozone Depletion Potential   Dimitrios K. Papanastasiou (Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences (CIRES), University of Colorado, Boulder, CO)
P-30	Carbon Tetrachloride Emissions from the U.S. During 2008 – 2012   Lei Hu (Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences (CIRES), University of Colorado, Boulder, CO)
P-31	Methyl Chloride as a Tracer of Tropical Tropospheric Air in the Lowermost Stratosphere Inferred from CARIBIC Passenger Aircraft Measurements   Taku Umezawa (Max Planck Institute for Chemistry, Mainz, Germany)
P-32	Characterizing the Niwot Ridge, Colorado C1 Site: Local and Regional Pollution   Geoffrey S. Dutton (Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences (CIRES), University of Colorado, Boulder, CO)

• Ozone & Water Vapor		Poster
P-33	Three Years of Stable Water Isotope Data at the Boulder Atmospheric Observatory Site: Insights Into Boundary Layer Moisture Dynamics and Atmosphere-land Surface Water Fluxes    Aleya Kaushik (Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences (CIRES), University of Colorado, Boulder, CO)
P-34	Water Vapor Isotope Ratio Measurements at NOAA/GMD Sites to Constrain the Isotope-enabled Community Earth System Model.   Jesse Nusbaumer (Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences (CIRES), University of Colorado, Boulder, CO)
P-35	Observations of TTL Water Vapor and Cirrus Properties from the NASA Global Hawk During the Airborne Tropical TRopopause EXperiment   Troy Thornberry (Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences (CIRES), University of Colorado, Boulder, CO)
P-36	Techniques for Analyzing a Long-Term Observational Dataset Using Global Water Vapor Data from the NVAP-M Blended TPW Dataset   Heather Q. Cronk (Cooperative Institute for Research in the Atmosphere (CIRA), Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO)
P-37	NOAA FPH Vs APicT During the AquaVIT-2 Water Vapor Intercomparison    Emrys Hall (Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences (CIRES), University of Colorado, Boulder, CO)
P-38	Ozone Soundings Restarted at NOAA/SHADOZ Site in Suva, Fiji   Patrick Cullis (Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences (CIRES), University of Colorado, Boulder, CO)
P-39	Southern Hemisphere Additional Ozonesondes (SHADOZ) Updates: 2014-2015   Patrick Cullis (Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences (CIRES), University of Colorado, Boulder, CO)
P-40	Homogenization of the Boulder, Colorado Ozonesonde Record: 1986-2014   Bryan J. Johnson (NOAA Earth System Research Laboratory, Global Monitoring Division, Boulder, CO)
P-41	Retrieving Vertical Ozone Profiles from Measurements of Spectral Global Irradiance   Germar Bernhard (Biospherical Instruments Inc, San Diego, CA)
P-42	Boulder Ozone Sonde Data Analyses for Multiple Tropopause Origins   Irina Petropavlovskikh (Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences (CIRES), University of Colorado, Boulder, CO)
P-43	Ozone Vertical Profiles Measured During The Front Range Air Pollution and Photochemistry Experiment (FRAPPE) from Tethered Ozonesondes in July-August 2014.   Chance W. Sterling (Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences (CIRES), University of Colorado, Boulder, CO)
P-44	Colorado Front Range Ozone Analysis   Audra McClure-Begley (Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences (CIRES), University of Colorado, Boulder, CO)
P-45	First Tropospheric Ozone Measurements at the Observatory of Huancayo, Peru   Luis Suarez-Salas (Laboratory of Atmospheric Microphysics and Radiation, Observatory of Huancayo, Instituto Geofisico del Peru, Huancayo, Peru)
P-46	Recent Stratospheric Water Vapor Variability as Revealed by SWOOSH, a New Merged Satellite Data Set   Sean Davis (Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences (CIRES), University of Colorado, Boulder, CO)

• Aerosols		Poster
P-47	Measuring Aerosol Optical Depth (AOD) and Aerosol Profiles Simultaneously with a Camera Lidar   John Barnes (NOAA Earth System Research Laboratory, Global Monitoring Division, Boulder, CO)
P-48	Volcanic Aerosol Forcing of the Global Climate Derived from Lunar Eclipse Observations, 1979-2014   Richard A. Keen (University of Colorado, Emeritus, Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences, Boulder, CO)
P-49	A High-Efficiency Condensation Growth Sampler for Collecting Concentrated Aerosol Particles on a Solid Substrate and in Liquids   Pat Keady (Aerosol Devices Inc., Fort Collins, CO)

• Radiation		Poster
P-50	Pan-Arctic Surface Radiation Measurements for Analysis of Arctic Climate Change   Christopher J. Cox (Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences (CIRES), University of Colorado, Boulder, CO)
P-51	The Infrared Sky Imager: A New Instrument at the ARM Southern Great Plains Site   Dimitri Klebe (Denver Museum of Nature and Science, Denver, CO)
P-52	Update on the Calibration and System Upgrades of the NOAA GRAD UV Monitoring Networks   Patrick Disterhoft (NOAA Earth System Research Laboratory, Global Monitoring Division, Boulder, CO)

• Science, Service, & Stewardship - Special Section		Poster
P-53	The Tricks of the Climate Politicians – Translated   James H. Butler (NOAA Earth System Research Laboratory, Global Monitoring Division, Boulder, CO)
P-54	Global Monitoring Division Education    Kelsey Tayne (Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences (CIRES), University of Colorado, Boulder, CO)
P-55	Enabling Data Discovery and Data Re-use by Improving Software Usability   Antonia Rosati (National Snow and Ice Data Center (NSIDC), Boulder, CO)
P-56	GEIA’s Vision for Improved Emissions Information   Gregory Frost (NOAA Earth System Research Laboratory, Chemical Sciences Division, Boulder, CO)

• International Stations & Partners		Poster
P-57	Observations of Trace Gases and Methane at the Cape Verde Atmospheric Observatory: Evaluation of Methane “trend”   Chris Reed (University of York, York, United Kingdom)
P-58	Temperature Variability of AWS Sensors Operating at the Greenland Summit (2008–13)   Christopher A. Shuman (Joint Center for Earth Systems Technology (JCET), University of Maryland, Baltimore County (UMBC), Baltimore, MD)
P-59	Observation and Analysis of the Zero-curtain Effect in Tiksi (Siberia).   Elena Konopleva (NOAA Earth System Research Laboratory, Physical Sciences Division, Boulder, CO)
P-60	Inhomogeneity of Conductive Heat Fluxes Around the Tiksi Meteorological Tower   Sara Crepinsek (Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences (CIRES), University of Colorado, Boulder, CO)