Chapman Conference on Atmospheric Absorption; Estes Park, CO; August 13-17, 2001

该奖项支持研究生和年轻研究人员参加将于2001年8月13日至17日在科罗拉多州埃斯特斯公园举行的查普曼会议--“大气吸收”。会议的目的是聚集来自广泛学科的少数专家，将注意力集中在测量和模拟大气吸收太阳辐射的基本概念上，以努力解决困扰大气科学界多年的问题。这就是所谓的“过量吸收”问题，即理论模型与(一些)公布的测量结果相比，预测的大气太阳吸收不足。括号中的“一些”是围绕这一问题的激烈争论的基础。这是一个重要的问题，因为“过量吸收”被认为是相对较大的，大约25-30瓦/平方米，因此将对气候模式模拟中的大气加热和环流的细节产生强烈的影响。

This award supports graduate students and young researchers to participate in the Chapman Conference, "Atmospheric Absorption", to be held August 13-17, 2001 at Estes Park, Colorado. The purpose of the conference is to bring together a small number of experts from a wide range of disciplines to focus attention on the fundamental concepts of measuring and modeling atmospheric absorption of solar radiation in an effort to solve a problem that has plagued the atmospheric sciences community for a number of years. This is the so-called "excess absorption" issue, i.e., theoretical models under-predict atmospheric solar absorption when compared with (some) published measurements. The parenthetic "some" is the basis for the intense controversy that surrounds this issue. This is an important issue because the "excess absorption" is thought to be relatively large, ~25-30 watts/m2, and so would have a strong impact on the details of atmospheric heating and circulation in climate model simulations.