Workshop on Data Analysis and Presentation Of Cloud Microphysical Measurements; Boston, Massachusetts; July 5-6, 2014

尽管用于云内微物理测量的仪器的能力和质量都有了进步，但仍然存在严重的差距，这反过来又影响了对地球天气和气候的了解。其中许多可以追溯到固有的不确定性和测量技术的局限性，以及同样重要的是，用于处理这些原始数据的数值算法的设计和行为。随着这些仪器的发展，相关数据处理和解释的方法也在发展，但是这种发展并没有系统地发展，因此，为了坚定地确定最佳处理方法和相关的不确定性，不同群体开发的处理方法很少相互评估。本次研讨会的智力价值集中在参与者的旅行支持上，允许更多样化的专家和学生群体对目前国际气象研究界正在应用的相对较多的处理和分析方法和相关算法进行精心组织的讨论、评估和记录。本次研讨会的更广泛影响将包括为早期职业生涯的讲习班参与者和为讲习班出版物提供贡献和后来获取讲习班出版物的学生提供教育机会，并促进来自代表性不足群体的讲习班参与者的参与。会议结束后，将在《大气与海洋技术杂志》或《大气测量技术》上正式发表一篇关于算法的技术综述，其中描述了算法的基本组成部分、如何实现算法及其固有的不确定性，并包含指导新学生和从业者的综合参考书目。受益将最终扩展到整个大气科学界，他们将首次有一个坚实的基础来比较不同的云微物理数据集。

Despite advancements in the capability and quality of instrumentation aimed at microphysical measurements within clouds, serious gaps remain that in turn have implications for understanding of earth's weather and climate. Many of these can be traced to inherent uncertainties and limitations of measurement technologies employed aboard cloud-penetrating research aircraft and, just as importantly, the design and behavior of numerical algorithms used to process these raw data. As these instruments have evolved, so have the methodologies for associated data processing and interpretation, however this evolution has not progressed systematically and so processing approaches developed by different groups have too-seldom been evaluated against one another in order to firmly determine optimum processing methods and associated uncertainties. The intellectual merit of this workshop centers upon participant travel support to allow a more diverse group of established experts and students to undertake a carefully organized discussion, evaluation and documentation of a comparatively large selection of processing and analysis methods and associated algorithms that are presently being applied by the international meteorological research community.Broader impacts of this workshop will include educational opportunities for both early-career workshop participants and students contributing to and later accessing workshop publications, and by facilitating involvement of workshop participants drawn from underrepresented groups. Following the meeting, a technical review of the algorithms that describes their essential components, how they are implemented and their inherent uncertainties and containing a comprehensive bibliography to guide new students and practitioners will be formally published in either the Journal of Atmospheric and Oceanic Technology or Atmospheric Measurement Techniques. Benefits will ultimately extend to the atmospheric sciences community at-large, who will for the first time have a firm basis on which to compare diverse cloud microphysical datasets.