Part 1 - Climate-Radiation Feedbacks: The Current State of the Science

iii: Summary
Climate-Radiation Feedbacks: The Current State of the Science
Richard Somerville
Catherine Gautier

1: A Field Test of a Simple Stochastic Radiative Transfer Model
Nelson Byrne

2: The High Spectral Resolution (Scanning) Lidar (HSRL)
Ed Eloranta

3: Stochastic Radiative Transfer and Real Cloudiness
Frank Evans

4: Fast Methods of Computing Bulk Radiative Properties of Inhomogeneous Clouds Illuminated by Solar Radiation
Phillippe Gabriel

5: Solar Radiation Absorption in the Atmosphere Due to Water and Ice Clouds: Sensitivity Experiments with Plane-Parallel Clouds
Catherine Gautier

6: Interplay Between Evaporation, Radiation, and Ocean Mixing in the Regulation of Equatorial Pacific Sea Surface Temperature
Robert Grossman

7: Fuzzy Cloud Concepts for Assessing Radiation Feedbacks
Howard Hanson

8: The Interpretation of Remotely Sensed Cloud Properties From a Model Parameterization Perspective
Harshvardhan

9: Sensitivity of the CCM Climate to Enhanced Cloud Absorption
Jeffrey Kiehl

10: Climatic Implications of Ice Microphysics
K.-N. Liou

11: Generalized Scale Invariance, Clouds and Radiative Transfer on Multifractal Clouds
Shaun Lovejoy and Daniel Schertzer

12: Preliminary Investigation of Radiatively Driven Convection in Marine Stratocumulus Clouds
Peter Norris

13: Preliminary Results of a Three-Dimensional Radiative Transfer Model
William O'Hirok

14: Parameterization of Clouds and Radiation in Climate Models
Eric Roeckner

15: Classical and Advanced Stochastic Multifractals in Geophysics: Lie Cascades and Multifractal Phase Transitions
Daniel Schertzer and Shaun Lovejoy

16: Influence of Sea Surface Temperature on the Tropical Atmosphere: Scale Dependent Feedbacks
Steve Sherwood

17: Observational & Modeling Analysis of Surface Heat and Moisture Fluxes
Eric Smith

18: Parameterization of Cirrus Optical Depth and Cloud Fraction
Brian Soden

19: Testing Cloud-Radiation Algorithms in GCMs and Single-Column Models
Richard Somerville

20: The ARM Unpiloted Aerospace Vehicle (UAV) Program
David Sowle

21: Cloud Microphysics and Surface Properties in Climate
Knut Stamnes

22: Cloud Physics Considerations in Global Climate Change Studies
Sean Twomey

23: Clouds and Relative Humidity in Climate Models or What Really Regulates Cloud Cover?
Chris Walcek

24: A New Conceptual Model of Convection
Chris Walcek

25: Global Cloud Climatology from Surface Observations
Stephen Warren

26: Dimethyl Sulfide as a Source of Cloud Condensation Nuclei
Stephen Warren

27: Modeling of Cloud Liquid Water Structure and the Associated Radiation Field
Warren Wiscombe

iv: Participant List Summer Session 1

Part 2 - Anticipating Global Change Surprise

1: Integrated Assessment Models as Tools to Study and Anticipate Global Change Surprise
Joseph Alcamo

2: Public Perceptions of Global Warming
Richard Berk

3: The Surprises in the Greenhouse May Be Chemical (and in Retrospect, Obvious)
William Chameides

4: Regional Climate Studies and Tropical Cyclones
Jenni-Louise Evans

5: Potential Feedback Between Climate and Methane Clathrate
Danny Harvey

6: Policy Tools to Limit Global Warming
Danny Harvey

7: Observations About Surprise from the Hazard and Risk Perspective
Roger Kasperson

8: Eliciting Expert Judgement about Uncertainty in Climate Prediction
David Keith

9: Demography and Social Change
Geoffrey McNicoll

10: Environmental Refugees
Norman Myers

11: The United States Global Change Research Program: Priorities for Addressing Unmet Needs
Rick Piltz

12: Possible Surprises in Nonhuman Animals and How they Affect Humans
Terry Root

13: Examples of Surprise from an Ongoing Global Warming Research Project
Scott Saleska

14: Education and Global Change
Bob Samples

15: Anticipating Global Change Surprises
Stephen Schneider

16: Economics and Global Change Surprises
James Sweeney

17: Social Science and Global Change Surprises
B. L. Turner

18: Potential Roles of Climatic Surprise in the Evolution of International Law on Climate Change, Beginning with the Current Framework Convention on Climate Change
David Victor

19: Potential Surprises in Clouds and Aerosols and their Effect on the Earth's Radiation Budget
Stephen G. Warren

20: Global Change Surprises: Examples from the Past and Possibilities for the Future
Robert Watts

21: Response of Terrestrial Ecosystems to CO₂ Fertilization
Donald Zak

iv Participant List Summer Session 2

Part 3 - Biological Invasion as a Global Change

1: Ecosystem Management and Legal Strategies to Maintain Ecosystem Integrity
Greg Aplet

2: Federal Policy and Plant Invasions
Faith Campbell

3: Biological Invasions in New Zealand
Mick Clout

4: Feral Animals as Biological Invaders
Bruce Coblentz

5: Invasive Plants and Ecosystem Processes
Carla D'Antonio

6: U.S. Park Service Policy on Exotic Species
John Dennis

7: Exotic Species in Aquatic Ecosystems
Tom Dudley

8: Lessons Learned in Plant Invasions
John Ewel

9: Biological Invasions in Wetlands
Katherine Ewel

10: Education and Biological Invasions
Bill Hammond

11: What Makes an Area Invasible
Richard Hobbs

12: Animal Invasions in Australia
Richard Hobbs

13: Relevant Factors in Plant Invasions
Laura Huenneke

14: Australia's Policies and Strategies for Non-Indigenous Species
Stella Humphries

15: Community Outreach and Interagency Involvement: Examples from Maui, Hawaii
Lloyd Loope

16: Risks of Biological Control of Invasions
Peter McEvoy

17: Regulation of Biological Control Agents and Other Biological Invasions
Marc Miller

18: Socio-Economic Aspects of Biological Invasion, A Case Study: The Golden Apple Snail
Rosamond Naylor

19: Invasive Weeds
John Randall

20: What Makes a Species a Successful Invader?
Sarah Reichard

21: Tree Improvements as a Strategy for Coping With Invasions
Scott Schlarbaum

22: Biological Invasion as a Global Change
Peter Vitousek

23: APHIS and Strengthening the U.S. Response to Invasions
Randy Westbrooks

24: Invasion on Public Lands
Steven Whisenant

25: Biological Invasions in Fresh Water Ecosystems
David Wilcove

26: The OTA Report and U.S. Policy on Non-Indigenous Species
Phyllis Windle

Appendix 1: Research Issues Working Group Report

Appendix 2: A Draft Model Law: Prevention of Harm by Non-Indigenous Species Act

iv: Participant List Summer Session 3

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