Fifth Gordon Research Conference on Radiation and Climate; New London, NH; July 29-August 3, 3007

“关键气候问题的多尺度测量和模型集成”是戈登辐射和云系列会议的第五次会议，将于2007年7月29日至8月3日在新罕布什尔州新伦敦的科尔比索耶学院举行。 这次会议将汇集研究大气辐射传输各个方面的科学家，并促进他们之间的讨论。 会议将有一流的，国际阵容的22位发言者和9个讨论领导人，将确保科学卓越的连续性，一直是戈登会议的标志75年。 该补助金支持学生，博士后和其他年轻的研究人员以及受邀演讲者和讨论领导者，他们将与年轻的科学家互动。 会议将侧重于从新型卫星和现场数据以及从气候系统建模过程的新方法中获得的见解。 测量方案将着重于云、气溶胶和化学方面新卫星数据的综合，以及实地方案卫星和亚轨道观测数据的综合。 关于建模的方案将利用新型测量方法和全球模型中缺少的过程和物理学证据，对云解析和区域气溶胶模型进行评估。 会议将重点讨论两个关键的气候问题。 首先，是什么因素控制着云和气溶胶与区域和全球气候的辐射相互作用？ 第二，我们对辐射与陆地表面和冰冻圈的相互作用有多了解？ 会议将涉及的领域包括：多传感器测得的云的特性;多传感器测得的气溶胶特性;综合测量和模型的新方法;云系统的多尺度模型;区域气溶胶模型：“化学天气”模拟;地球系统建模的挑战;混合相云的气候作用;云/气溶胶相互作用的新理论和观测;模拟和测量变化的冰冻圈。 更广泛的影响谁参加的学生将受益于获得更好地了解测量建模气候过程和模拟地球系统的应用。 已建立的研究人员应该受益于暴露在这一领域的最新进展和新的想法。 总的来说，通过鼓励对气候系统的进一步探索和发现，交流思想有望造福社会，从而提高我们对人类活动对气候系统的影响进行有益预测和评估的能力。 这些期望得到了以往辐射和气候全球资源中心经验的支持。 例如，在2005年的会议上，110名与会者中有40%以上是研究生和博士后研究员。 近60%的参与者处于科学生涯的早期阶段。超过95%的与会者一致认为，会议是发人深省，刺激和令人兴奋的，并在该领域的前沿介绍。

"Integrating multiscale measurements and models for key climate questions", the fifth in a series of Gordon Conferences on Radiation and Clouds, will be held July 29 to August 3, 2007 at Colby Sawyer College, New London, New Hampshire. This conference will bring together, and foster discussion among, scientists studying various aspects of atmospheric radiative transfer. The conference will have a first-rate, international line-up of 22 speakers and 9 discussion leaders that will ensure continuity of the scientific excellence that has been a hallmark of Gordon Conferences for 75 years. The grant supports students, postdocs, and other young investigators as well as invited speakers and discussion leaders who will interact with the younger scientists. Intellectual Merit The meeting will focus on insights from new types of satellite and in situ data and from new approaches to modeling processes in the climate system. The program on measurements will highlight syntheses of new satellite data on cloud, aerosols and chemistry, and syntheses of satellite and sub-orbital observations from field programs. The program on modeling will address both the evaluation of cloud-resolving and regional aerosol models using new types of measurements and the evidence for processes and physics missing from global models. The Conference will focus on two key climate questions. First, what factors govern the radiative interactions of clouds and aerosols with regional and global climate? Second, how well do we understand the interaction of radiation with land surfaces and with the cryosphere? The areas to be covered by the conference include: properties of clouds from multiple sensors; properties of aerosols from multiple sensors; new methods for synthesizing measurements and models; multi-scale models of cloud systems; regional aerosol models: simulation of "chemical weather"; the challenges of Earth system modeling; the climatic role of mixed-phase clouds; new theory and observations of cloud/aerosol interactions; modeling and measurement of the changing cryosphere. Broader Impacts The students who participate will benefit by obtaining a better understanding of the application of measurements to modeling climate processes and simulations of the Earth system. Established researchers should benefit by an exposure to recent advances and new ideas in this field. Overall, the exchanges of ideas are expected to benefit society by encouraging further exploration and discoveries of the climate system, thereby increasing our capability for making useful predictions and assessments of anthropogenic impact on the climate system. These expectations are supported by experience from the previous GRCs on Radiation and Climate. At the 2005 meeting, for example, over 40% of the 110 attendees were graduate students and postdoctoral fellows. Nearly 60% of the participants were in the early stages of their scientific careers. Over 95% of the conferees agreed that the conference was thought provoking, stimulating, and exciting and that the presentations were at the frontier of the field.