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

“整合关键气候问题的多尺度测量和模型”是戈登关于辐射和云的系列会议的第五次，会议将于2007年7月29日至8月3日在新罕布夏州新伦敦的科尔比·索耶学院举行。这次会议将把研究大气辐射传输各个方面的科学家聚集在一起，并促进他们之间的讨论。这次会议将有一流的国际阵容，由22位演讲者和9位讨论领袖组成，这将确保戈登会议75年来一直标志着的卓越科学的连续性。这笔资金支持学生、博士后和其他年轻的研究人员，以及将与年轻科学家互动的特邀演讲者和讨论领袖。知识价值会议将侧重于从新型卫星和现场数据以及从气候系统过程建模的新方法中获得的见解。关于测量的方案将突出综合关于云、气溶胶和化学的新的卫星数据，以及综合来自实地方案的卫星和亚轨道观测。建模计划将使用新类型的测量和全球模式中缺失的过程和物理证据，对云分辨率和区域气溶胶模式进行评估。会议将集中讨论两个关键的气候问题。首先，哪些因素支配云和气溶胶与区域和全球气候的辐射相互作用？第二，我们对辐射与地表和冰冻层的相互作用有多好的理解？会议将涉及的领域包括：来自多个传感器的云的性质；来自多个传感器的气溶胶的性质；合成测量和模式的新方法；云系的多尺度模式；区域气溶胶模式：“化学天气”的模拟；地球系统模拟的挑战；混合相云的气候作用；云/气溶胶相互作用的新理论和观测；不断变化的冰冻圈的模拟和测量。更广泛的影响参与的学生将受益于更好地理解测量在气候过程建模和地球系统模拟中的应用。成熟的研究人员应该会受益于该领域的最新进展和新想法。总体而言，思想交流有望通过鼓励进一步探索和发现气候系统而造福社会，从而提高我们对人类活动对气候系统的影响作出有用预测和评估的能力。这些预期得到了以前关于辐射和气候的全球气候报告的经验的支持。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，这次会议发人深省，令人兴奋，演讲处于该领域的前沿。

"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.