A239
The Far-Infrared: Exploring the Final Frontier in Measuring Earth’s Climate and Energy Balance I

Wednesday, 16 December 2020: 10:00-11:00
Virtual
Primary Convener:  Martin G Mlynczak, NASA Langley Research Center, Hampton, VA, United States
Conveners:  Daniel Feldman, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA, United States, Xianglei Huang, University of Michigan Ann Arbor, Department of Climate and Space Sciences and Engineering, Ann Arbor, MI, United States and Hilke Oetjen, ESA-ESTEC, Noordwijk, Netherlands
Primary Liaison:  Martin G Mlynczak, NASA Langley Research Ctr, Hampton, VA, United States
Chairs:  Martin G Mlynczak, NASA Langley Research Ctr, Hampton, VA, United States and Xianglei Huang, University of Michigan Ann Arbor, Department of Climate and Space Sciences and Engineering, Ann Arbor, MI, United States
OSPA Liaison:  Daniel Feldman, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA, United States
10:00
Welcoming Remarks
10:04
A239-01
The Far-infrared Outgoing Radiation Understanding and Monitoring (FORUM) Mission (Invited) (697403)
Luca Palchetti, CNR-INO National Institute of Optics, Florence, Italy and the FORUM Team
10:08
Q&A
10:11
A239-02
The Thin Ice Clouds in Far IR Experiment (TICFIRE): A Potential Canadian Contribution to NASA A-CCP (734650)
Jean-Pierre Blanchet1, Yann Blanchard2, Pierre Gauthier3, Ludovick S.Pelletier1, Laurence Coursol3, Quentin Libois4, Yi Huang5, Adam E Bourassa6, Doug A Degenstein6, Kimberly Strong7 and Zen Mariani8, (1)University of Quebec at Montreal UQAM, Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, Montreal, QC, Canada, (2)Universitie de Sherbrooke, Sherbrooke, QC, Canada, (3)University of Quebec at Montreal UQAM, Montreal, QC, Canada, (4)Meteo-France, CNRS, CNRM, U. de Toulouse, Toulouse, France, (5)McGill University, Montreal, QC, Canada, (6)University of Saskatchewan, Department of Physics & Engineering Physics, Saskatoon, SK, Canada, (7)University of Toronto, Department of Physics, Toronto, ON, Canada, (8)University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada
10:15
Q&A
10:18
A239-03
The Polar Radiant Energy in the Far InfraRed Experiment (PREFIRE): Characterizing Far InfraRed Emission from Earth’s Polar Regions (737021)
Tristan S L'Ecuyer1, Brian Drouin2, Aronne J Merrelli3, Xianglei Huang4, Brian H Kahn5, Jennifer E Kay6, Nicole Schlegel7, Nathaniel Miller8, Colten Alexander Peterson9, Sharmila Padmanabhan10 and Boon Lim2, (1)University of Wisconsin Madison, Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences, Madison, WI, United States, (2)NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States, (3)University of Wisconsin Madison, Madison, WI, United States, (4)University of Michigan Ann Arbor, Department of Climate and Space Sciences and Engineering, Ann Arbor, MI, United States, (5)Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, United States, (6)University of Colorado at Boulder, Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences (CIRES), Boulder, CO, United States, (7)NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, United States, (8)Space Science and Engineering Center, Madison, WI, United States, (9)University of Michigan Ann Arbor, Ann Arbor, MI, United States, (10)Jet Propulsion Lab, Pasadena, CA, United States
10:22
Q&A
10:25
A239-04
A Test of Recent Bulk Optical Models to Represent the Radiative Properties of Cirrus Cloud Across the Mid- and Far-Infrared. (Invited) (674102)
Richard J Bantges1,2, Helen E Brindley1,2, Jonathan Murray3, Alan Last3, Cathryn Fox4, Stuart Fox4, Chawn Harlow4, Sebastian O'Shea5, Keith Bower5, Bryan A Baum6, Ping Yang7 and Juliet C Pickering3, (1)Imperial College London, Physics, London, SW7, United Kingdom, (2)NERC National Centre for Earth Observation, London, United Kingdom, (3)Imperial College London, Physics, London, United Kingdom, (4)Met Office, Exeter, United Kingdom, (5)University of Manchester, Manchester, United Kingdom, (6)University of Wisconsin Madison, Madison, WI, United States, (7)Texas A&M Univ, College Station, TX, United States
10:29
Q&A
10:32
A239-05
Far-IR Water Vapor Spectroscopy from Analysis of Field Campaign Measurements (739891)
Eli Jay Mlawer1, David D Turner2, Luca Palchetti3, Scott Paine4, Vivienne Payne5, Karen Cady-Pereira1, Matthew Alvarado6, Rick Pernak1, Jennifer Delamere7, Martin G Mlynczak8, Jeffrey C Mast9, Brian Drouin10 and Keeyoon Sung11, (1)Atmospheric and Environmental Research, Lexington, MA, United States, (2)NOAA, ESRL/GSD, Boulder, CO, United States, (3)CNR-INO National Institute of Optics, Florence, Italy, (4)Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, Cambridge, United States, (5)NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, United States, (6)AER, Lexington, United States, (7)University of Alaska Fairbanks, Geophysical Institute, Fairbanks, AK, United States, (8)NASA Langley Research Ctr, Hampton, VA, United States, (9)SSAI, Hampton, VA, United States, (10)NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States, (11)Jet Propulsion Lab./CalTech, Pasadena, CA, United States
10:36
Q&A
10:39
A239-06
Simulation of Arctic thin ice clouds with Canadian regional Climate Model version 6: Validation and comparison with ClouSat-CALIPSO retrieved data (775445)
Housseyni Sankare, Université du Québec à Montréal, Montréal, QC, Canada, Jean-Pierre Blanchet, University of Quebec at Montreal UQAM, Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, Montreal, QC, Canada and René Laprise, University of Quebec at Montreal UQAM, Montreal, QC, Canada
10:43
Q&A
10:46
A239-07
Retrieval of surface spectral emissivity in the polar regions: an optimal-estimation approach (678761)
Yan Xie and Xianglei Huang, University of Michigan Ann Arbor, Department of Climate and Space Sciences and Engineering, Ann Arbor, MI, United States
10:50
Q&A
10:53
A239-08
Information content of a far-Infrared radiometer and its complementarity to AIRS with a focus on polar regions (694810)
Laurence Coursol1, Pierre Gauthier1 and Jean-Pierre Blanchet2, (1)University of Quebec at Montreal UQAM, Montreal, QC, Canada, (2)University of Quebec at Montreal UQAM, Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, Montreal, QC, Canada
10:57
Q&A
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