Conference room No.7 in the fourth floor of Lijing Holiday Hotel
350 Shushanhu Road, Hefei, Anhui 230031, China（安徽省合肥市蜀山湖路 350 号 科学岛丽景假日酒店西区）

9:00 – 12:00

September 9
Tuesday
Registration

12:00 – 13:00

14:00 – 17:00
17:30 – 18:30
18:30 – 19:30

September 10
Wendesday
Opening ceremonyGroup photo
Session 1
Session 2

September 11
Thursday

September 12
FridaySession 6

Visiting labs

Section 5

Lunch – buffet

Registration
Dinner - buffet

Session 3
Session 4

Dinner - buffet#Poster session is integrated in the tea break.

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Dinner – buffet

Session 7

Session 8

Closing remark

Dinner – banquet &farewell party

Program
September 9
8:00- 23:00

Registration
Lunch

Buffet at the dining hall in the second floor of theHotel

18:30 – 19:30

DinnerBuffet at the dining hall in the second floor of theHotel

12:00 – 13:00

The lobby of Lijing Holiday Hotel2 / 10September 10
8:00 – 9:00

Day 1
Registration

The lobby of Lijing Holiday Hotel

9:15 – 9:30

Group photo

The gate of Lijing Holiday Hotel

9:00 – 9:15
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5

9:30 – 10:40
9:30 - 9:50

9:50 - 10:10

10:10 – 10:25

10:25 – 10:40

Opening ceremony Chair: Dr. Dong Liu
Welcome speech by Prof. Yingjian Wang
Speech by Prof. Teruyuki Nakajima
Speech by Dr. Nobuo Sugimoto
Speech by Prof. Guangyu Shi
Logistics etc. introduced by Dr. Dong Liu

Session 1 : Overview of the SKYNET and AD-NET
Chair: Dr. Hitoshi Irie
Prof. Teruyuki Nakajima; University of Tokyo, JapanAn overview of the recent progresses in the skyradiometer
technology and SKYNET operation
Dr. Nobuo Sugimoto; National Institute for Environmental
Studies, Japan

Current status of the Asian Dust and aerosol lidar observation
network (AD-Net)
Prof. Huizheng Che; China Meteorological Administration,
China
Working plan of Chinese sub-group of SKYNET

Dr. Zhenzhu Wang; Anhui Institute of Optics and Fine
Mechanics, Chinese Academy of Sciences

The current status of SKYNET Hefei site and the observational
findings
10:40-11:00
11:00 – 12:00
11:00 – 11:20

Tea breakSession 2 : Ground-based observation of aerosol
Chair: Prof. Huizheng Che
Prof. Jianping Huang; Lanzhou University, China
Ground-Based Observation and Field Campaign for3 / 1011:20 – 11:40

11:40 – 12:00

Anthropogenic Dust over Northwest China

Mr. Vijay Kumar Soni; India Meteorological Department, India
Similarities and differences of Aerosol Optical Properties
between Mega City and nearby semi-urban Area in India
Prof. Tugjsuren Nasurt; Department of Geology andGeophysics, National University of Mongolia, Mongolia

Aerosol optical properties over Ulaanbaatar and Mandalgobi,
Mongolia
12:00 – 13:00

Lunch

14:00 – 15:20

Session 3 : Aerosol retrieval using sky radiance
Chair: Prof. Tugjsuren Nasurt
Prof. Zhengqiang Li; Institute of Remote Sensing and Digital
Earth, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China

14:00 – 14:20

14:20 – 14:40

14:40 – 15:00

15:00 – 15:20

Buffet at the dining hall in the second floor of theHotel

Recent progress on calibration methods of CE318 sun-skyradiometer

Dr. Pradeep Khatri; Center for Environmental Remote Sensing,
Chiba University, Japan
Comparison of single scattering albedo retrieved from PREDEsky radiometer and CIMEL sun photometer

Ms. Tatiana Bedareva; V.E. Zuev Institute of Atmospheric Optics
SB RAS, Russia
Aerosol retrieval from Sun and sky radiance measurements
using non-Lambertian reflectance models
Dr. Shantikumar Singh Ningombam; Indian Institute ofAstrophysics, India

Estimation of aerosol radiative forcing from ground-based solar
radiation measurements during advection and non-advection
events over an aged-background aerosol feature
15:20-15:40

Tea break4 / 1015:40 – 17:00
15:40 – 15:55

15:55 – 16:10

16:10 – 16:25

16:25 – 16:40

16:40 – 17:00
17:30 – 18:30

Session 4 : Aerosol properties and validation
Chair: Dr. Pradeep Khatri
Dr. Baatarchuluun Tsermaa; Mongolian University of Scienceand Technology, Mongolia
A case study of comparison between scattering indicatrices atdifferent sky conditions in Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia

Prof. Teruyuki Nakajima，representative ofDr. Monica Campanelli; Institute of Atmospheric Sciences andclimate, Italy
Validation of downward solar radiation from Meteosat Second
Generation by ground-based observations of the European
Skynet Radiometer network
Dr. Jianrong Bi; College of Atmospheric Sciences, Lanzhou
University, China

Investigate the aerosol optical and radiative characteristics ofheavy haze episodes in Beijing during the January of 2013
Ms. Zhe Jiang; Institute of Atmospheric Physics, Chinese
Academy of Sciences, China

Validation of the new data-processing method for SKYNET
skyradiometer observations
Closing remark of day 1
DinnerBuffet at the dining hall in the second floor of theHotel

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9:00 – 10:00
9:00 – 9:20

9:20 – 9:40

9:40 – 10:00

Day 2
Session 5: Lidar network
Chair: Prof. Duk hyeon Kim
Dr. Atsushi Shimizu; National Institute for Environmental
Studies, Japan

Extinction coefficients of tropospheric background aerosol
derived from AD-Net lidar network in east Asia

Prof. Xianghui Xue ; University of Science and Technology ofChina, China

Recent progress on Atmospheric sodium layers studies in MLT
region detected by Chinese Meridian Project/USTC Lidars
Prof. Dengxin Hua; Xian University of Technology, China

Combined Raman Lidar for Profiling Atmospheric Water Vapor,
Temperature, Aerosol and Clouds up to the Height of 30 km

10:00-10:20

Tea break

10:20 – 11:50

Session 6 : Lidar technique
Chair: Dr. Atsushi Shimizu
Prof. Zongming Tao; New Star Institute of Applied Technology,
China

10:20 – 10:35

10:35 – 10:50

10:50 – 11:05

11:05 – 11:20

Measurements of aerosol backscattering coefficient in nearground by CCD side-scatter lidar

Dr. Seung-Kyu Park; Korea Atomic Energy Research Institute,
Korea
Error calibration of Doppler lidar signals by using reference
beam fluctuations

Dr. Chenbo Xie;Anhui Institute of Optics and Fine Mechanics,
Chinese Academy of Sciences, China
Development of Raman lidar to measure the atmosphericaerosol, temperature and water vapor

Dr. Kaifa Cao; Anhui Institute of Optics and Fine Mechanics,
Chinese Academy of Sciences, China
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11:20 –11:35

11:35 – 11:50

Development of a mobile differential absorption lidar system forSO2 and NO2 detection
Dr. Kee Yuan; Anhui Institute of Optics and Fine Mechanics,
Chinese Academy of Sciences, China

Reliability Analysis of Raman Lidar for Measurement on CO2 inthe low Troposphere
Dr. Dong Liu; Anhui Institute of Optics and Fine Mechanics,
Chinese Academy of Sciences, China

Combined lidar measurements of Hefei, Lanzhou and Xianghesite
12:00 – 13:00

Lunch

Buffet at the dining hall in the second floor ofthe Hotel

14:00 – 18:30

Sightseeing in Hefei City, gathering at the gate of the Hotel

18:30 – 19:30

DinnerBanquet at the dining hall in the second floor ofthe Hotel

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9:00 – 10:00

9:00 – 9:20

9:20 – 9:40

9:40 – 10:00

Day 3
Session 7 : Aerosol and cloud properties retrieved bymultiple sensors
Chair: Prof. Soon-Chang Yoon
Dr. Omar Torres;NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, USA
Assessment of OMI retrievals of aerosol single scattering albedo
using ground-based sky brightness measurements
Prof. Tamio Takamura; Center for Environmental Remote
Sensing, Chiba University, Japan

Validation of Liquid water path (LWP) of AMSR2/GCOM-W1
using MODIS and SKYNET observation data
Prof. Duk hyeon Kim; Hanbat National University, Korea

Liquid Cloud Effective Size Measurement by Using Multiple
Scattering Degree of Linear Polarization and Saturated Degree ofLinear

10:00-12:00

Visiting the labs in AIOFM

12:00 – 13:00

Lunch

14:00 – 15:45

Session 8 : Aerosol and cloud properties retrieved using
lidar and climate
Chair: Dr. Bin Chen
Mr. Man-Hae Kim; School of Earth and Environmental Sciences,Seoul National University, Korea

14:00 – 14:15

14:15 – 14:30

14:30 – 14:45

Buffet at the dining hall in the second floor of theHotel

Characteristics of extinction-to-backscatter ratio of dust andpollution aerosols derived from NIES lidar, SKYNET andAERONET measurements

Dr. Yoshitaka Jin; National Institute for Environmental Studies,Japan
Applicability of ceilometer for retrieval of aerosol opticalproperties
Dr. Tian Zhou; Lanzhou University, China
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15:00 – 15:15

15:15 – 15:30

The Depolarization–Attenuated Backscatter Relationship for
Dust plumes
Mr. Lu Sun; Anhui Institute of Optics and Fine Mechanics,
Chinese Academy of Sciences, China

The relationship between cloud effective radius and aerosol
optical depth with different aerosol loads in SKYNETobservation of Hefei, China.

Dr. Tie Dai; Institute of Atmospheric Physics, Chinese Academyof Sciences , China
Improvement Of Aerosol Optical Properties Simulation Over
Eastern Asia With Data Assimilation

Dr. Bing Chen; Institute of Remote Sensing and Digital Earth,
Chinese Academy of Sciences, China
Anthropogenic Heat Release: An Important Factor in Global
Climate15:30-15:50

Tea break

15:50 – 16:50

Closing remark

17:30 – 19:30

DinnerChair: Dong Liu

Banquet and farewell party at the dining hall inthe second floor of the Hotel

9 / 10Poster Session**integrated in the tea break
Prof. Hai Du Cheong; Hanbat National University, Korea
An Ellipsometry Lidar for Atmospheric Parameters Determination Basedon Clouds and Aerosol Backscattering Matrix

Dr. Víctor Estellés; Universitat de València, Spain
Evaluation of the Improved Langley Plot technique on a Prede POM radiometerby comparison with AERONET field transferred calibrations

Mr. Sang-Woo Kim; School of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Seoul National
University, Korea
Measurements of aerosol vertical profiles and optical properties using PortableAerosol Profiler (PAP) “Polly” lidar in Baengnyeong Island, Korea
Mr. Byeonggwon Kim; School of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Seoul
National University, Korea
Improved ANN method for retrieving Asian dust AOT and height for
hyperspectral infrared measurements and its application

Mr. Sang-Moo Lee; School of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Seoul National
University, Korea
Asian-dust detection over the Yellow-Sea from MODIS window measurements
using combined Fresnel relationshipMrs. Nana Yi; College of Atmospheric Sciences, Lanzhou University, China
The Optical Characteristics and Direct Radiative Forcing of Aerosol over LoessPlateau

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