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DAY 1
08:00 Registration  
08:30 Welcome / Logistics L’Ecuyer / Drouin
08:35 NASA ESSP/ESRRP Status Obland / Nowottnick
08:55 Annual Mission Operations Review AMOR
  08:55 PREFIRE Project Status White
  09:10 Mission Assurance Lam
  09:25 Spacecraft Barrett
  09:50 Spacecraft / Instrument Operations Michaels
  10:05 Instrument / L1 data Drouin, Merrelli, Michaels
  10:35 Science Data Processing Wagner, Michaels
  10:55 Science Enablement Mahmoud
11:20 Discussion  
11:30 Lunch    
13:00 Algorithm Updates  
  13:00 2B-MSK Kahn, Michaels
  13:20 AUX-MET + AUX-SAT Mattingly (remote), Michaels
  13:40 ANC-SAT Mattingly (remote), Michaels
  14:00 2B-ATM + L1 bias correction Merrelli, Miller
  14:20 2B-SFC Huang, X. Chen
  14:40 2B-CLD Miller
15:00 Coffee Break  
  15:20 Intersection Mask Vos
  15:40 Atmospheric Radiative Effect Prince / L’Ecuyer
16:00 Algorithm Discussion / Q&A  
16:10 NASA Program / Project Interfaces Nowottnick, Considine
16:30 Discussion  
17:00 Icebreaker  
       
DAY 2
08:30 Mission Science and Applications  
  08:30 Update on FORUM Brindley
  08:50 PREFIRE science and applications overview L’Ecuyer
  09:10 Update on Libera Pilewskie
  09:30 Update on EarthCARE Cole
  09:50 Update on TICFIRE Blanchet (remote)
10:10 Discussion  
10:20 Coffee Break  
10:40 Surface Science and Applications  
  10:40 An improved machine-learning-based PREFIRE surface emissivity retrieval Hu
  11:00 Evaluation and Temporal Analysis of PREFIRE Land Surface Emissivity with a Far-Infrared Extension of the CAMEL Emissivity Database Borbas / Loveless
  11:20 Accurate spectral emissivity measurements in the far-IR: towards building a spectral library of natural surfaces Smekens
11:40 Lunch  
13:00 Water and Radiation Science and Applications  
  13:00 Improvements to PREFIRE L2 Products from Enhanced Accuracy of Water Vapor Absorption in the Far-Infrared Vannahs
  13:20 Temporally-varying biases in mountainous longwave radiative energy budgets in models with unrealistic surface emissivity Feldman
  13:40 Vegetation-Driven Far-Infrared Radiative Feedbacks and Surface Energy Balance over Arctic Land M. Chen
  14:00 Enhancing PREFIRE Cloud Products and Science with Cloud Phase Determination and Liquid Cloud Property Retrievals Peterson
  14:20 Validation and applications of the PREFIRE 2B-MSK Kahn
14:40 Discussion  
15:00 Coffee Break  
15:20 Validation  
  15:20 From Ground Truth to Radiative Forcing Validating PREFIRE Cloud Masks and Assessing their Impact on OLR Yue
  15:40 AERI/SHIRE Gero
  16:00 Scanning HIS/NURTURE Taylor
  16:20 ICECAPS/validation over Greenland Miller
16:40 Discussion  
17:00 Adjourn Day 2  
       
Day 3
08:45 Earth Action Overview Combley
09:00 Modeling and Applications  
  09:00 Advancing polar sea ice prediction with PREFIRE radiance observations and next-generation data assimilation methods Petty
  09:20 PREFIRE Modeling Updates: Understanding Far-Infrared Signals of 21st Century Climate Change and Variability Shaw (remote)
  09:40 Modeling the impacts of ice sheet emissivity measured by PREFIRE Schlegel, Greene
  10:00 Detecting convection using PREFIRE data Bean
10:20 Coffee Break  
10:40 Facilitated Discussion Around the Room
11:30 Wrap up SATM  
12:00 Lunch  
13:30 Workshop Start / Welcome  
  13:30 Granule Structure + 1B-RAD  
  14:15 2B-SFC + 2B-FLX  
14:30 Coffee Break  
  14:45 AUX-MET  
  15:00 2B-MSK  
  15:15 2B-ATM  
  15:30 DAAC  
  15:45 GEMB  
  16:00 Brainstorm on support needs, potential new products  
16:30 Wrap up Workshop  
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