2011 Gordon Research Conference on Radiation and Climate; Waterville, Maine; July 10 - 15, 2011

这笔赠款支持定于7月10日至15日在缅因州沃特维尔举行的关于辐射和气候的第七次戈登研究会议(GRC)。全球资源中心由一个起源于约翰霍普金斯大学的非营利性组织与特定会议的召集人合作组织，采用一种旨在最大限度地增加分配给非正式讨论和互动的时间的形式。辐射和气候GRC的目标是将在现场和遥感观测技术、观测数据集的合成和广泛范围内的数值模拟领域工作的研究人员聚集在一起，以解决云-气候相互作用的关键悬而未决的问题。2011年全球辐射与气候研究报告将介绍关于气候变化中突出问题的前沿研究，特别是那些云、气溶胶和降水之间的相互作用发挥重要作用的问题。会议讨论的具体专题包括：了解云、气溶胶和来自观测和过程模型的反馈；云反馈研究中的快速物理革命；气溶胶对云的加热效应；气溶胶-云-降水相互作用；利用偏振来确定云和气溶胶的性质；在多云世界从空间反演气溶胶；以及云遥感的未来。GRC将与戈登研究研讨会一起举行，这是一个学生主导(主要是学生参与)的GRC风格的小型研讨会，在GRC之前举行。预计参加GRS的30-50名学生中的大多数也将参加GRC。GRC将通过鼓励早期职业科学家和该领域知名专家之间的思想交流，产生更广泛的影响。遵循2009年辐射与气候全球研究委员会的先例，预计研究生和职业生涯早期的科学家将很好地参加这次会议。在那次会议上，110名与会者中超过40%是研究生和博士后研究员，近60%的与会者处于科学生涯的早期阶段。

This grant supports the seventh Gordon Research Conference (GRC) on radiation and climate, scheduled for July 10-15 in Waterville, Maine. GRCs are organized by a non-profit organization which originated at Johns Hopkins Univesrity, in collaboration with the convener of the particular conference, and follow a format which is designed to maximize the time alloted for informal discussion and interaction. The goal of this Radiation and Climate GRC is to bring together researchers working in the fields of in-situ and remote sensing observational techniques, synthesis of observational datasets, and numerical modeling across a wide range of scales, to address critical outstanding issues of cloud-climate interactions. The 2011 GRC on Radiation and Climate will present cutting-edge research on outstanding issues in climate change, particularly those in which the interactions between clouds, aerosols, and precipitation play a major role. Specific topics covered at the conference include: understanding clouds, aerosols and feedbacks from observations and process models; the fast physics revolution in the study of cloud feedbacks; aerosol heating effects on clouds; aerosol-cloud-precipitation interactions; the use of polarization to determine cloud and aerosol properties; aerosol retrievals from space in a cloudy world; and the future of cloud remote sensing. The GRC will be accompanied by a Gordon Research Seminar which is a student-led (and primarily student participatory) mini GRC-style symposium that takes place on ahead of the GRC. Most of the expected 30-50 students attending the GRS will also attend the GRC.The GRC will have broader impacts by encouraging the exchange of ideas between early-career scientists and prominent experts in the field. The meeting is expected to be well attended by graduate students and early-career scientists, following the precedent of the 2009 GRC on Radiation and Climate. At that meeting over 40% of the 110 attendees were graduate students and postdoctoral fellows, and nearly 60% of the participants were in the early stages of their scientific careers.