2012 US CLIVAR Summit Agenda
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Newport Beach, California
17-20 July 2012
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2011 U.S. CLIVAR Summit Report
| Tuesday 17 July | ||
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| Time | Agenda | Room |
| 1700 – 1715 | Welcome, introductions, meeting objectives and outcomes (Lisa Goddard) | Terrace |
| 1715 – 1730 | US CLIVAR overview (Mike Patterson) | |
| 1730 – 1800 |
US agency engagement (Agency Managers: Eric Lindstrom, NASA; Sandy Lucas, NOAA; Eric Itswiere, NSF) |
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| 1800 – 1830 | Buffet dinner served | |
| 1830 – 1845 | Overview of science planning exercise (Lisa Goddard) | |
| 1845 – 1930 | Initial Panel breakout discussions on topic: “What are the most important deliverables from U.S. CLIVAR over the past 15 years and how will they inform the next 15?" | |
| Wednesday 18 July | ||
|---|---|---|
| Time | Agenda | Room |
| 0730 – 0800 | Light breakfast | Terrace |
| 0800 – 0830 |
Morning Plenary (Mike Patterson, moderator) Themes - purpose, progress, gaps and opportunities (Jay McCreary): Presentation / Summary |
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| 0830 – 0950 |
Science Team and Working Group Reports: AMOC (Bill Johns): Presentation / Summary Decadal Predictability (Arun Kumar): Presentation / Summary Greenland Ice Sheet/Ocean Interactions (Olga Sergienko): Presentation / Summary Hurricanes (Suzana Camargo): Presentation / Summary |
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| 0950 – 1010 | Break | |
| 1010 – 1150 |
Extremes (Richard Grotjahn): Presentation / Summary ENSO Diversity (Antonietta Capotondi): Presentation / Summary Eastern Tropical Ocean Synthesis (Simon de Szoeke): Presentation / Summary Ocean Carbon Uptake in CMIP5 Models (Curtis Deutsch): Presentation Southern Ocean (Joellen Russell): Presentation |
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| 1150 – 1200 | Charge to the panel breakouts (Mike Patterson) | |
| 1200 – 1300 | Catered lunch | Garden |
| 1300 – 1720 | Panel breakouts — click on Panel name to see schedule Phenomena, Observations & Synthesis Process Study Model Improvement Predictability, Predictions and Applications Interface |
Ocean Lagoon Surf |
| 1730 – 1900 | Summit reception | Garden |
| Thursday 19 July | ||
|---|---|---|
| Time | Agenda | Room |
| 0730 – 0800 | Light breakfast | Terrace |
| 0800 – 1000 | Panel business breakout sessions (continued) | Ocean, Lagoon, Surf |
| 1000 - 1030 | Break | Terrace |
| 1030 - 1100 |
Morning Plenary (Jay McCreary, moderator) U.S. agency engagement (Renu Joseph, DoE; Dan Eleuterio, ONR) |
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| 1100 - 1145 |
Panel breakout summaries and action items (Panel Co-chairs): POS / PSMI / PPAI |
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| 1145 – 1215 | International CLIVAR Program update and plans (Nico Caltabiano): Presentation / Summary | |
| 1215 – 1345 | Lunch on your own | |
| 1345 – 1400 | Charge to breakouts for science planning (Lisa Goddard) | Terrace |
| 1400 – 1530 | Breakouts for science planning – 1st round Goal 1 – Improve process understanding (Nick Bond) Goal 2 – Reduce/quantify uncertainties from GCMs (Baylor Fox-Kemper) Goal 3 – Improve practices and uses of climate information (Arun Kumar) Goal 4 – Strengthen connections between Earth science communities (Annalisa Bracco) |
Ocean Lagoon Surf Harbor |
| 1530 – 1600 | Break | |
| 1600 – 1730 | Breakouts for science planning – 2nd round Goal 1 – Improve process understanding (Nick Bond) Goal 2 – Reduce/quantify uncertainties from GCMs (Baylor Fox-Kemper) Goal 3 – Improve practices and uses of climate information (Arun Kumar) Goal 4 – Strengthen connections between Earth science communities (Annalisa Bracco) |
Ocean Lagoon Surf Harbor |
| 1730 | Break for day; dinner on your own | |
| Friday 20 July | ||
|---|---|---|
| Time | Agenda | Room |
| 0730 – 0800 | Light breakfast | Terrace |
| 0800 – 0830 |
Morning Plenary (Lisa Goddard, moderator) Schedule of tasks to complete drafting of plan (Mike Patterson) |
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| 0830 - 0930 |
Reports from breakouts on science elements for each goal (Session chairs): Goal 1 / Goal 2 / Goal 3 / Goal 4 |
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| 0930 – 1000 | Discussion and recommendations (Lisa Goddard) | |
| 1000 | Thank you and adjournment (Lisa Goddard) | |
| 1030 – 1230 | SSC working lunch (SSC members only) | TBD |
Individual Panel Breakout Schedules
| POS Panel Breakout Wednesday 18 July | ||
|---|---|---|
| Time | Agenda | Room |
| 1300 – 1315 | Introductions, orientation, breakout aims | Ocean |
| 1315 – 1345 | Framework on Ocean Observations (FOO), GOOS and U.S. IOOS update (Eric Lindstrom): Presentation / Summary | |
| 1345 – 1400 | Ocean state and surface flux estimation workshop (Tony Lee): Presentation / Summary | |
| 1400 – 1445 | Discussion of direction of US AMOC Program and the Greenland Ice Sheet/Ocean Interactions, Eastern Tropical Ocean Synthesis, ENSO Diversity and Extremes WGs | |
| 1445 – 1500 | Break | Terrace |
| 1500 – 1530 |
National Climate Assessment (NCA): NCA – National perspective: (Gregg Garfin): Presentation / Summary |
Surf Joint w/ PPAI |
| 1530 – 1545 | NCA – Agriculture (Richard Grotjahn): Presentation / Summary | |
| 1545 – 1600 | NCA – Climate extremes (Rajagopalan Balaji): Presentation / Summary | |
| 1600 – 1615 | NCA – Regional assessment (Nick Bond): Presentation / Summary | |
| 1615 – 1715 | General discussion on NCA and US CLIVAR contributions | |
| 1730 – 1900 | Summit Reception | Garden |
| POS Panel Breakout Thursday 19 July | ||
| 0730 – 0800 | Light breakfast | Terrace |
| 0800 – 0840 | Reanalyses updates (Mike Bosilovich/Yan Xue): Presentation / Summary | Ocean |
| 0840 – 0900 | Discussion of GEWEX Hydroclimate Project for North America (Mike Bosilovich) | |
| 0900 – 0920 |
New Process Study Implementation IASCLIP (Art Douglas): Presentation / Summary |
Lagoon - Joint w/ PSMI |
| 0920 – 0940 | SPURS (Tom Farrar): Presentation / Summary | |
| 0940 – 1000 |
Discussion and other Panel business POS contributions to Science Plan, membership, wrap-up |
Ocean |
| 1000 – 1030 | Break | Terrace |
| PSMI Panel Breakout Wednesday 18 July | ||
|---|---|---|
| Time | Agenda | Room |
| 1300 – 1305 | Introductions, orientation, breakout aims (Rob Wood) | Lagoon |
| 1305 – 1315 | CPT practices and motivating questions – the big picture | |
| 1315 – 1345 | Internal wave ocean mixing CPT (Jennifer MacKinnon): Presentation / Summary | |
| 1345 – 1415 | Stratocumulus to cumulus transition CPT (Roberto Mechoso): Presentation / Summary | |
| 1415 – 1445 | Ocean mixing process under sea ice CPT (Meibing Jin): Presentation / Summary | |
| 1445 – 1500 | Break | Terrace |
| 1500 – 1530 | Cloud parameterization and aerosol indirect effects CPT (Rob Wood): Presentation / Summary | Lagoon |
| 1530 – 1620 | General discussion on CPTs – successes, pitfalls, lessons | |
| 1620 – 1640 | Trace gas measurements (Christian Frankenberg): Presentation / Summary | |
| 1640 – 1700 | CLIMODE (Leif Thomas): Presentation / Summary | |
| 1700 – 1720 | DYNAMO (Chidong Zhang): Presentation / Summary | |
| 1730 – 1900 | Summit Reception | Garden |
| PSMI Panel Breakout Thursday 19 July | ||
| 0730 – 0800 | Light breakfast | Terrace |
| 0800 – 0820 | KESS (Meghan Cronin): Presentation | Lagoon |
| 0820 – 0840 | VOCALS (Rob Wood): Presentation / Summary | |
| 0840 – 0900 | DIMES (Baylor Fox-Kemper): Presentation / Summary | |
| 0900 – 0920 | IASCLIP (Art Douglas): Presentation / Summary | Joint w/ POS |
| 0920 – 0940 | SPURS (Tom Farrar): Presentation / Summary | Joint w/ POS |
| 0950 – 1000 | Green Ocean (GO) Amazon (Courtney Schumacher): Presentation | |
| 0950 – 1000 | Discussion | |
| 1000 – 1030 | Break | Terrace |
| PPAI Panel Breakout Wednesday 18 July | ||
|---|---|---|
| Time | Agenda | Room |
| 1300 – 1315 | Introductions and go around | Surf |
| 1315 – 1345 | PPAI activities and action items since the 2011 Summit (Arun Kumar and Annalisa Bracco) | |
| 1345 – 1415 | Status of CMIP5 (Arun Kumar): Presentation / Summary | |
| 1415 – 1430 | National Multi-Model Ensemble (Arun Kumar): Presentation / Summary | |
| 1430 – 1445 | Nonlinearity in climate responses (Bruce Anderson): Presentation / Summary | |
| 1445 – 1500 | Break | Terrace |
| 1500 – 1530 | National Climate Assessment (NCA) – National perspective (Gregg Garfin): Presentation / Summary | Surf Joint w/ POS |
| 1530 – 1545 | NCA – Agriculture (Richard Grotjahn): Presentation / Summary | |
| 1545 – 1600 | NCA – Climate extremes (Rajagopalan Balaji): Presentation / Summary | |
| 1600 – 1615 | NCA – Regional assessment (Nick Bond): Presentation / Summary | |
| 1615 – 1715 | General discussion on NCA and U.S. CLIVAR contributions | |
| 1730 – 1900 | Summit Reception | Garden |
| PPAI Panel Breakout Thursday 19 July | ||
| 0730 – 0800 | Light breakfast | Terrace |
| 0800 – 0815 | Extended-range TC forecasting – opportunity and challenge (Joshua Fu): Presentation / Summary | Surf |
| 0815 – 0900 | U.S. initiative on "Earth System Prediction Capability (ESPC)" and discussion (Dan Eleuterio): Presentation / Summary | |
| 0900 – 0945 | Background on the science elements for the U.S. CLIVAR strategic plan discussion | |
| 0945 – 1015 | Break | Terrace |