The 2025 UTCC PROES Meeting will take place at Sorbonne Université – Pierre and Marie Curie Campus (UPMC), Tower 45-55 – IPSL Seminar room (2nd Floor).
Agenda
Monday 19 May 2025
| Time | Presentation Title | Presenter |
| 14:00–14:20 | Welcome and Introduction | Claudia Stubenrauch, LMD |
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| High cloud feedback – Moderator Graeme Stephens, NASA JPL |
| 14:20–14:50 | High cloud feedbacks | Brett McKim, LMD |
| 14:55–15:15 | Observational estimates of a short-term LW high cloud feedback | Juliet Pilewski, Columbia University |
| 15:20–15:40 | Tropical high-cloud feedback in ICON | Jakob Deutloff, Universität Hamburg |
| 15:45–15:55 | Round of introductions | |
| 15:55–16:20 | Break | |
| 16:20–16:40 | Anvil optical depth, small scale processes, and climate change | Blaz Gasparini, Vienna University (Remote) |
| 16:45–17:15 | Discussion | |
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| Microphysics – radiative heating – circulation – Moderator Bernd Kärcher, DLR | |
| 17:20–17:40 | Atmospheric dynamic – microphysics | Aurélien Podglajen, LMD |
| 17:45–18:10 | Sensitivities of cloud-radiative heating and condensate lifetime in storm-resolving models | Sylvia Sullivan, University of Arizona |
| 18:15–18:30 | Tropical Cirrus Are Highly Sensitive to Ice Microphysics Within a Nudged Global Storm- Resolving Model | Rachel Atlas, LMD |
| 18:30–19:00 | Discussion | |
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| Dinner (optional) | |
Tuesday 20 May 2025
| Time | Presentation Title | Presenter |
| 10:00–10:30 | Good morning coffee/tea & pastries | |
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| Process Studies – Moderator Claudia Stubenrauch, LMD |
| 10:30–11:00 | Identifying and Simulating Mesoscale Convective Systems in km-Scale Models | Andreas Prein, ETHZ |
| 11:05–11:35 | Novel strategies of satellite data analysis to reveal tropical convective dynamics | Hirohiko Masunaga, Nagoya University |
| 11:40–12:00 | Diabatic heating of mesoscale convective cloud systems from synergistic satellite data | Xiaoting Chen, LMD |
| 12:05–12:25 | Scale-dependence of tropical oceanic deep convective systems’ cloud shield morphology to environmental conditions | Thomas Fiolleau, LEGOS |
| 12:30–13:00 | Discussion | |
| 13:00–14:30 | Lunch | |
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| Observational studies and datasets – Moderator Juliet Pilewski, Columbia University |
| 14:30–14:50 | Radiative effects of convection | Tristan L’Ecuyer |
| 14:55–15:10 | Interaction between high clouds and winds seen by AEOLUS doppler wind space radar | Zacharie Titus, LMD |
| 15:15–15:35 | Using temporal composites to understand tropical cirrus development | Edward Gryspeerdt, Imperial College |
| 15:40–16:00 | Changes in UT clouds and synergistic dataset of UT Cloud Systems and Diabatic Heating for Process Understanding | Claudia Stubenrauch, LMD |
| 16:00–16:30 | Break | |
| 16:35–16:55 | No decrease of tropical convection in deep convective systems with global warming | Maximilien Bolot, LMD |
| 17:00–17:20 | Observed Changes in Tropical Convection Under Global Warming | Eric Mischell, University of Miami |
| 17:25–17:55 | Convection Tracking: Datasets, Activities, and Scientific Insights | Hanii Takahashi, NASA JPL |
| 18:00–18:30 | Discussion | |
| Dinner (optional) | |
Wednesday 21 May
| Time | Presentation Title | Presenter |
| 10:00–10:30 | Good morning coffee/tea & pastries | |
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| Deep convection and its organization – Moderator Thomas Fiolleau, LEGOS |
| 10:30–10:50 | Overshooting convection seen by satellites | Yi Huang, McGill University |
| 10:55–11:25 | Regimes of deep convective organization represented by models and identified by metrics | GiovanniBiagioli,LMD |
| 11:30–11:50 | A method for characterizing the spatial organization of convection in deep convective systems’ cloud shield | Louis Netz, LEGOS |
| 11:55–12:30 | Final discussion | |
| 12:30-14:00 | Lunch with UTCC PROES participants
at Le Tipi – Maison pour la Science, Jussieu Campus | |
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| Joint GDAP – UTCC PROESS Meeting |
| The primary focus of this session is to discuss future directions of cloud/convective process studies and the roles expected for GDAP (and for GEWEX at large). |
| 14:00–14:15 | UTCC PROES meeting takeaways | Claudia Stubenrauch |
| 14:15–14:40 | New perspectives on convective organization:
Observations, simulations and GASS projects | Sandrine Bony |
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| Emerging observations/datasets essential for process studies:
Vertical motion measurements form space |
| 14:40–14:55 | EarthCARE | Hiro Masunaga |
| 14:55–15:10 | INCUS | Graeme Stephens |
| 15:10–15:25 | C2OMODO | Hélène Brogniez |
| 15:25–16:00 | Discussion | |
| 16:00–16:30 | Break | |
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| Cloud observations | |
| 16:30–16:45 | Long-term cloud record from a series of space borne lidar observations | Artem Feofilov, LMD |
| 16:45–17:00 | ISCCP-NG | Claudia Stubenrauch / Graeme Stephens |
| 17:00–17:30 | Radiative heating rates | Claudia Stubenrauch / Tristan L’Ecuyer |
| 17:30–18:00 | Convection tracking | Juliet Pilewskie / Hanii Takahashi |
