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Monday, March 26
Starting at 7:00 am	Registration/Continental Breakfast
9:00 am - 11:30 am	Morning Sessions 9:00 am - 10:30 am ARM Orientation for New and Current PIs Warren Wiscombe: Chief Scientist's Perspective (20 minutes) Raymond McCord: How to Get Data (20 minutes) Jim Liljegren: ARM Instruments (20 minutes) Questions and Answers (30 minutes)
11:30 am - 1:00 pm	Lunch
1:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Working Group Sessions (All working group meetings will be held during this time.) 1:00 pm - 4:00 pm Aerosol Working Group (AWG) Aerosols Indirect Effects (4:00 pm - 5:00 pm) 1:15 pm - 4:00 pm Cloud Modeling (CM) Working Group 1:30 pm - 3:00 pm Clouds with Low Optical [Water] Depths (CLOWD)—Invitation Only 3:00 pm - 5:00 pm Radiative Processes (RP) Working Group 3:00 pm - 5:30 pm Cloud Properties (CP) Working Group
1:00 pm - 6:00 pm	Poster Setup
5:30 pm - 7:30 pm	No-Host Social
7:00 pm - 8:00 pm	ARM Mobile Facility Deployment to China 2008 Zhanqing Li: A Pathway to a New Frontier of Aerosol-Climate Studies Graeme Stephens: A Key to Solve the Mystery of Inconsistencies in Remote Sensing of Hydrometers
Tuesday, March 27
7:15 am - 8:30 am	Registration/Continental Breakfast
8:00 am - 10:00 am	Morning Plenary Moderators: Bob Ellingson/Warren Wiscombe 8:00 am - 8:30 am Dr. Kiran Alapaty, DOE ARM Science Program Director: Opening Welcome Dr. Warren Wiscombe: ARM Chief Scientist Presentation Research Reports from the Cloud Properties Working Group 8:30 am - 8:50 am Eugene Clothiaux: Cloud Properties Working Group Activities for the Past (2006) and Future (2007) Years 8:50 am - 9:10 am Greg McFarquhar: In-situ Vertical Profiles of Arctic Mixed-Phase Cloud Properties 9:10 am - 9:30 am Matthew Shupe: Vertical Motions and Microphysics in Arctic Mixed-Phase Stratus 9:30 am - 9:50 am Ann Fridlind: Ice Formation in Mixed-Phase Stratocumulus: Mixed-Phase Arctic Cloud Experiment (M-PACE) Model Results and Future Measurement Needs 9:50 am - 10:00 am Questions/Wrap-up
10:00 am - 10:30 am	Break
10:30 am - Noon	Morning Plenary (Continued) Research Reports from the Cloud Modeling Working Group 10:30 am - 10:50 am Steve Klein: Cloud Modeling Working Group Report 10:50 am - 11:10 am Howard Barker: The Monte Carlo Independent Column Approximation (McICA): Up and Running in North America and Europe 11:10 am - 11:30 am Roel Neggers: The Role of ARM Data in Improving the European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts (ECMWF) Boundary Layer Scheme 11:30 am - 11:50 am Tony Del Genio: Convective Regimes in the Tropical Western Pacific 11:50 am - Noon Questions/Wrap-up
Noon - 1:30 pm	Lunch
1:30 pm - 3:00 pm	Breakout Sessions Tropical Warm Pool-International Cloud Experiment (TWP-ICE) NSA Indirect and Semi-indirect Aerosol Campaign (ISDAC) Shortwave Quality Measurement Experiment (QME) Planning ARM Radar Group Carbon Cycle Studies in CLASIC
3:00 pm - 3:30 pm	Break
3:30 pm - 5:00 pm	Breakout Sessions (Continued) Cloud LAnd Surface Interaction Campaign (CLASIC) Dave McLaughlin: Collaborative Adaptive Sensing of the Atmosphere (CASA) Mixed-Phase Arctic Cloud Experiment (M-PACE) Model Intercomparison NSA Radiative Heating in Under-explored Bands Campaign (RHUBC)
5:00 pm - 5:30 pm	Break
5:30 pm - 8:30 pm	Poster Session A Refreshments will be served.
Wednesday, March 28
7:15 am - 8:30 am	Registration/Continental Breakfast
8:00 am - 10:00 am	Morning Plenary: Poster Presenters 8:00 am - 8:15 am Dong Huang: Determination of Cloud Liquid Water Distribution with 3-Dimensional (3-D) Cloud Tomography (Cloud Properties) 8:15 am - 8:30 am Ping Zhu: ARM Large-Eddy Simulation (LES) Testbed Prototype: Multi-Scale Weather Research Forecasting (WRF) Simulations of Boundary Layer Clouds (Modeling) 8:30 am - 8:45 am: Jean-Jacques Morcrette: Impact of a New Monte Carlo Independent Column Approximation (McICA) Radiation Package in the European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts (ECMWF) System 8:45 am - 9:00 am Brad Orr: An Overview of Accomplishments at the ARM Climate Research Facility (ACRF) SGP During 2006 (Infrastructure and Outreach) 9:00 am - 9:15 am Kevin Widener: ARM Cloud Radars—A Year in Review and a Look to the Future (Infrastructure and Outreach) 9:15 am - 9:30 am Catherine Naud: Cloud Thermodynamic Phase Profiles in Midlatitudes (Cloud Properties) 9:30 am - 9:45 am Elisabeth Cohen: Observations of Cirrus Evolution from Convective Outflow During the TWP-ICE (Cloud Properties) 9:45 am - 10:00 am Guosheng Liu: Large-Scale 3-D Cloud Ice Water Features Determined by Combining Satellite and Surface Measurements During TWP-ICE (Radiation)
10:00 am - 10:30 am	Break
10:30 am - Noon	Morning Plenary (Continued) 10:30 am - 10:45 am Courtney Schumacher: Heating Profiles Derived from Cm-Wavelength Radar During TWP-ICE (Field Campaigns) 10:45 am - 11:00 am Jim Liljegren: Development of a Neural-Network for the Retrieval of Precipitable Water Vapor and Liquid Water Path from Combined Measurements at 22.8 and 183.3 GHz (Instruments) 11:00 am - 11:15 am Dan Lubin: Magnitude of the Aerosol Shortwave Indirect Effect in Springtime Arctic Liquid Water Clouds (Radiation) 11:15 am - 11: 30 am Virendra Ghate: A New Technique for Studying Aerosol-Cloud Interactions in Marine Stratocumulus (Aerosols) 11:30 am - 11:45 am Scott Gianelli: Analysis of Bimodal Aerosol Size Distributions at SGP Using Rotating Shadowband Spectroradiometer (RSS) 105 and CIMEL Data (Aerosols) 11:45 am - Noon Evgueni Kassianov: Relationship Between Cumulus Cloud Fraction and Aerosol Optical Depth: A Five-Year Climatology at the ACRF SGP Site (Aerosols)
Noon - 1:00 pm	Lunch
12:30 pm - 1:30 pm	Tom Ackerman: Multiscale-Modeling Framework (MMF) Project Review—Invitation Only
1:00 pm - 5:30 pm	No Meetings - White Time, Poster Viewing
5:30 pm - 8:30 pm	Poster Session B Refreshments will be served.
Thursday, March 29
7:15 am - 8:30 am	Registration/Continental Breakfast
8:00 am - 10:00 am	Morning Plenary Invited Speakers on Active Remote Sensing from Space 8:30 am - 9:15 am Charles Trepte: CALIPSO Mission Overview 9:15 am - 10:00 am Graeme Stephens: Addressing Key Cloud-Precipitation-Climate Questions: Early Results From Cloudsat
10:00 am - 10:30 am	Break
10:30 am - Noon	Morning Plenary (Continued) 10:30 am - 11:15 am Tony Slingo: Results from the ARM Mobile Facility Deployment in Niamey and the RADAGAST Project 11:15 am - Noon Dave Donovan: The EarthCARE Simulator (ECSIM): A Unified Active and Passive Atmospheric Remote Sensing End-to-End Simulation System
Noon - 1:30 pm	Lunch
1:30 pm - 4:30 pm	Afternoon Breakout Sessions 1:30 pm - 3:00 pm Oxygen A-Band for ARM 1:30 pm - 3:30 pm Broadband Heating Rate Profile (BBHRP) 1:30 pm - 4:30 pm ARM Aerial Vehicles Program (AVP) 3:00 pm - 4:00 pm Infrared (IR) Loss Intensive Operational Period (IOP)
5:00 pm - 9:00 pm	Science Team Executive Committee (STEC) Meeting—Invitation Only
Friday, March 30
8:00 am - 12:30 pm	Science Team Executive Committee (STEC) Meeting (Continued)—Invitation Only

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