Micro2Macro: Origins of Climate Change Uncertainty Workshop Agenda
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Workshop registration and breakfast |
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Welcome, opening remarks, and workshop goals |
Edward Seidel, President of the University of Wyoming
Parag Chitnis, Vice President for Research and Economic Development
Daniel McCoy, University of Wyoming
Rob Wood, University of Washington |
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Session 1: What's Wrong with Microphysics in Climate Models?Chairs: Adele Igel and Daniel McCoy |
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| (Invited) What’s wrong with microphysics in climate models, and how can we fix it? | Johannes Mülmenstädt, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory | ||
| (Invited) Addressing outstanding uncertainties associated with high clouds | Sylvia Sullivan, University of Arizona | ||
| Detecting and identifying the impact of parameter interaction on climate model outputs based on two Perturbed Parameter Ensembles (PPEs) | Qingyuan Yang, Columbia University | ||
| Tracking structural uncertainty in aerosol model representation | Nicole Riemer, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign | ||
| The relationship between condensate lifetime and precipitating efficiency and their response to sea surface warming | Hassan Beydoun, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory | ||
Open discussion |
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Break |
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Lightning talks for virtual posters |
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Poster Session 1 |
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Lunch |
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Session 2: Can We Even Observe Microphysics?Chairs: Coty Jen and Masa Saito |
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| (Invited Virtual) Watching super-cooled water droplets nucleate heterogeneously with high speed cryo-microscopy | Nadine Borduas-Dedekind, University of British Columbia | ||
| (Invited) Remote sensing for cloud and precipitation measurement and science — Promises and challenges | Christine Chiu, Colorado State University | ||
| Can we infer microphysical process information from (infrequent) snapshots of data? | Graham Feingold, NOAA Chemical Services Laboratory | ||
| (Virtual) Aerosol products from PACE multi-angle polarimetric observations | Meng Gao, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center | ||
| Molecular simulations provide evidence in support of ice nucleation upon collision or breakup of supercooled cloud droplets | Elise Rosky, University of Michigan | ||
Open discussion |
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Break |
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Breakout Session 1 |
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End of day 1 for virtual participants; Networking event |
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End of day 1 |
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Breakfast |
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Recap day 1 |
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Session 3: How are Observations Being Used to Improve Models?Chairs: Leighton Regayre and Duncan Watson-Parris |
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| (Invited) Towards maximum feasible reduction of aerosol forcing uncertainty | Ken Carslaw, University of Leeds | ||
| (Invited) Using observations to design Earth System Model Perturbed Parameter Ensembles | Gregory Elsaesser, NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies | ||
| Constraining warm cloud precipitation initiation using aircraft measurements | Patrick Chuang, UC Santa Cruz | ||
| Satellite-based model constraint on cloud microphysical processes and its link to radiative forcing of aerosol-cloud interaction | Kenta Suzuki, University of Tokyo | ||
| Unraveling the striking difference in causal low-cloud susceptibility to aerosol between GCM and observation | Jianhao Zhang, NOAA Chemical Sciences Laboratory | ||
Open discussion |
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Break |
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Poster Session 2 |
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Lunch |
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Session 4: How Can We Plan Future Process Observations to Reduce Climate Change Uncertainty?Chairs: Susannah Burrows and Rob Wood |
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| (Invited) Ice multiplication as a long-standing question in cloud microphysics | Alexei Kiselev, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology | ||
| (Invited) A process system approach for addressing climate change uncertainties | Christina McCluskey, NSF NCAR | ||
| A novel computational framework for optimal experimental design to improve climate prediction | Zhongjing Jiang, Brookhaven National Laboratory | ||
| Investigating the impacts of aerosol perturbations with a denoising diffusion model | Jatan Buch, Columbia University | ||
| Observing cloud microphysics using (ultra) high resolution radar and lidar system | Zeen Zhu, Brookhaven National Laboratory | ||
Open discussion |
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Break |
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Poster Session 3 |
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Breakout Session 2 |
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End of day 2 |
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Breakfast |
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Recap day 2 |
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Session 5: What Do We Do Next?Chairs: Ann Fridlind and Susannah Burrows |
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| (Invited) Simulating cloud microphysics across scales for predicting climate extremes | Andrew Gettelman, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory | ||
| Significant trend in vertical wind velocity variability revealed by machine learning | Donifan Barahona, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center | ||
| Confronting structural uncertainty in aerosol-cloud interactions through process-level benchmarking | Laura Fierce, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory | ||
| The death of autoconversion? | Kaitlyn Loftus, Columbia University | ||
Open discussion |
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Break |
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Final discussion and next steps |
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End of workshop |