Translating Process Understanding to Improve Climate Models Agenda
| Time | Agenda/Abstracts | Presenter | Presentation |
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| 08:00 | Introduction and workshop overview | Aneesh Subramanian | Download |
| 08:15 to 10:00 |
Modeling Center Presentations (Chair: Sonya Legg) |
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| 08:15 | Key issues arising in CM4 development at GFDL | Isaac Held, NOAA GFDL | Download |
| 08:35 | Biases and development needs for CESM | Marika Holland, NCAR | Download |
| 08:55 | Improvements in the GISS climate model and process based evaluation | Anastasia Romanou, NASA GISS | Download |
| 09:15 | DOE's Accelerated Climate Model for Energy (ACME): Plans for Version 1 and Beyond | Dorothy Koch, DOE | Download |
| 09:35 | Moving to a simpler NCEP production suite; moving to unified coupled global modeling | Hendrik Tolman, NOAA NCEP | Download |
| 09:55 |
Break |
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| 10:15 to 12:00 |
Modeling Center Presentations Cont. |
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| 10:15 | US Navy Coupled System Research and Development Under Earth System Prediction Capability | Carolyn Reynolds, NRL | Download |
| 10:35 | Observation-driven studies using the GEOS-5 Earth System modeling and analysis: Some examples | Steven Pawson, NASA GMAO | Download |
| 10:55 | Discussion with modeling center presenters | ||
| 11:20 to 12:00 |
Current Status of Process Understanding (Chair: Joao Teixeira) |
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| 11:20 | Atmosphere-ocean boundary layers and fluxes | Baylor Fox-Kemper, Brown U. | Download |
| 11:40 | Improved parameterization of heat, mass, and momentum exchange for process studies in numerical models | Jim Edson, U. Connecticut | Download |
| 12:00 |
Lunch |
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| 13:00 to 15:00 |
Current Status of Process Understanding |
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| 13:00 | Recent advances in understanding glacier-ocean interactions | Fiamma Straneo, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution | Download |
| 13:20 | Radiation, clouds, and aerosols | Graeme Stephens, Colorado State U. | Download |
| 13:40 | Gliding into the Grey Zone: The Quest for Resolution-Independent Physics | Dave Randall, Colorado State U. | Download |
| 14:00 | Capturing the dynamics of ocean-estuarine interactions across multiple spatial and temporal scales | Sarah Giddings, Scripps Institution of Oceanography | Download |
| 14:20 | Land-Atmosphere Interactions - A Coupled Modeling Problem | Paul Dirmeyer, George Mason University | Download |
| 14:40 | Discussion | ||
| 15:00 to 15:15 |
Break |
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| 15:15 to 17:00 |
Breakout Session I
Room 1: Ocean (Lead: LuAnne Thompson) Room 2: Atmosphere (Lead: Steven Krueger) Room 3: Cyrosphere (Lead: Don Perovich) Room 4: Air-sea (Lead: H. Annamalai) |
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| 17:30 to 19:30 |
Poster Session and Networking Opportunity Brush Gallery, Princeton Campus |
| Time | Agenda/Abstracts | Presenter | Presentation |
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| 08:30 | Introduction | Aneesh Subramanian | |
| 08:35 |
Agency Perspective
Sandy Lucas (NOAA) Dorothy Koch (DOE) Dan Eleuterio (ONR) Eric Itsweire, Eric DeWeaver, Anjuli Bamzai (NSF) |
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| 09:05 to 10:00 |
Some Past Climate Process Team Examples: Lessons Learned (Chair: Marika Holland) |
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| 09:05 | Has a decade of Climate Process Teams strengthened US climate model development? | Chris Bretherton, U. Washington | Download |
| 09:20 | Ocean climate process teams: successes and lessons learned | Sonya Legg, Princeton U. | Download |
| 09:35 | Discussion | ||
| 10:00 |
Break |
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| 10:20 | Summary of breakout session 1 | ||
| 10:40 to 12:00 |
Breakout Session 2
Room 1: Tropical biases (Lead: Xianan Jiang) Room 2: Mid-latitude biases (Lead: Richard Small) Room 3: High-latitude biases (Lead: Wieslaw Maslowski) |
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| 12:00 |
Lunch |
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| 13:00 to 14:30 |
Future Prospects for Observations/Modelers (Chair: Caroline Ummenhofer) |
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| 13:00 | Air-Sea Interaction Regional Initiative (ASIRI) in the Northern Indian Ocean | Amala Mahadevan, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution | Download |
| 13:10 | From DYNAMO to YMC: How Field Campaigns Help Understand Processes of Tropical Deep Convection and Its Interaction with the Ocean | Chidong Zhang, U. Miami | Download |
| 13:20 | The CalWater Field Experiment: Overview of Objectives and Data Collected | Marty Ralph, Scripps Institution of Oceanography | Download |
| 13:30 | Smoke and clouds above the southeast Atlantic: Combined observational and modeling strategies to probe absorbing aerosol’s impact on climate | Paquita Zuidema, U. Miami | Download |
| 13:40 | The Oliktok Point Observational Facility | Gijs De Boer, U. Colorado | Download |
| 13:50 | Update on CMIP6 | Gokhan, Danabasoglu, National Center for Atmospheric Research | Download |
| 14:00 | Developing ocean and sea ice components of UK coupled models for seamless prediction | Helene Hewitt, UK Met Office | Download |
| 14:10 | Discussion | ||
| 14:30 |
Break |
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| 14:45 | Summary of breakout session 2 | ||
| 15:05 to 16:30 |
Breakout Session 3: Mechanisms for future activities that bridge process studies and modeling centers Group 1 (Lead: Andy Thompson) Group 2 (Lead: Maria Flatau) Group 3 (Lead: Alistair Adcroft) |
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| 16:30 |
Break |
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| 16:45 to 17:30 |
Summary Session: Next Steps (Chairs: Amala Mahadevan, Alessandra Giannini |
Poster Presentations
| Poster Title | Author | Presenter Affiliation | Presentation |
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| Isopycnal Mixing and Ventilation Controlled By Winds | Ryan Abernathey | Columbia University | Download |
| The Calving and Icebergs CPT | Alistair Adcroft | Princeton University/NOAA GFDL | Download |
| Systematic errors in monsoon simulation: A way forward | H. Annamalai | University of Hawaii | Download |
| The internal gravity wave spectrum: A new frontier in global ocean modeling | Brian Arbic | University of Michigan | Download |
| Implementing a New Convective Trigger function in the NCEP Climate Forecast System version 2 | Rodrigo Bombardi | George Mason University | Download |
| Extra-tropical origin of equatorial Pacific cold bias in climate models | Natalie Burls | George Mason University | |
| Southern Ocean open-sea convection teleconnections | Anna Cabre | University of Pennsylvania | Download |
| Evaluation of Cloud and Heating Rate Profiles in Eight GCMs Using A-train Satellite Observations | Gregory Cesana | NASA JPL/Caltech | Download |
| Sensitivity experiments with HYCOM-CICE during the CORE-II project | Eric Chassignet | Florida State University | Download |
| How lateral mixing affects the amplitude of El Nino | Anand Gnanadesikan | Johns Hopkins University | Download |
| Global ocean circulation and mixing strengths deduced from observations | Sjoerd Groeskamp | Columbia University | Download |
| AMIE/DYNAMO/CINDY: From process level understanding to model evaluation and improvement | Samson Hagos | Pacific Northwest National Laboratory | Download |
| Parameterizing subgrid-scale eddy effects using energetically consistent backscatter | Malte Jansen | The University of Chicago | Download |
| Exploring Key Processes in Modeling the Madden-Julian Oscillation | Xianan Jiang | University of California, Los Angeles | Download |
| An Economical PDF-Based Turbulence Closure Model for Cloud-Resolving Models and Global Climate Models | Steven Krueger | University of Utah | Download |
| Atmospheric Rivers From a Hierarchy of Climate Simulations | L. Ruby Leung | Pacific Northwest National Laboratory | Download |
| The ARM West Antarctic Radiation Experiment (AWARE) | Dan Lubin | Scripps Institution of Oceanography | Download |
| An Assessment of AGCM Skill in Predicting Horizontal Vapor Transport in Pacific Ocean Atmospheric Rivers | Andrew Martin | Scripps Institution of Oceanography | Download |
| Improving understanding and modeling of Arctic climate change with process resolving climate models | Wieslaw Maslowski | Naval Postgraduate School | Download |
| Coupled Air-Sea Interactions in Coastal Upwelling Regions: Atmospheric Low-level Coastal Jets and Marine Stratocumulus Clouds | Christina Patricola | Texas A&M University | Download |
| The Hybrid Global Ocean Data Assimilation System at NCEP | Steve Penny | University of Maryland/NCEP | Download |
| Arctic sea ice: 6 not so easy questions | Don Perovich | Dartmouth | Download |
| The CalWater 2 - Precipitation, Aerosols, and Pacific Atmospheric Rivers Experiment | F. Martin Ralph | Scripps Institution of Oceanography | Download |
| Shear driven turbulence in the natural environment | Kelvin Richard | University of Hawaii | Download |
| Bimodal Representation of Convection with a Modified Kain-Fritsch Cumulus Scheme | James Ridout | Naval Research Laboratory | Download |
| Wind driven currents in the Benguela upwelling system and the success of climate models | Richard Small | NCAR | Download |
| Short-term sea ice forecasts with the RASM-ESRL coupled model: A testbed for improving simulations of ocean-ice-atmosphere interactions in marginal ice zone | Amy Solomon | University of Colorado/NOAA-ESRL | Download |
| Stochastic multi-scale modeling for weather and climate prediction | Aneesh Subramanian | University of Oxford | Download |
| Improving modeling of diurnal variability in upper ocean processes and surface fluxes using satellite and in-situ observations | Aneesh Subramanian | University of Oxford | Download |
| Open-ocean submesoscale motions: Seasonal variations in mixed layer instabilities from gliders | Andrew Thompson | California Institute of Technology | Download |
| Resolution-dependent interannual Gulf Stream, heat content, and overturning variability in the CMIP5 | LuAnne Thompson | University of Washington | Download |
| Revelations about parameterizing lee waves in ocean models | David Trossman | NASA GSFC/Johns Hopkins University | Download |
| A GEWEX Process Evaluation Study (PROES) of water and energy cycles in mid-latitude storms | George Tselioudis | NASA/GISS | Download |
| Cloud-radiative feedback in the DYNAMO MJO events | Shuguang Wang | Columbia University | Download |
| An evaluation of the temperature and salinity structure of the North Atlantic circulation based on an eddy-resolving simulation | Xiaobiao Xu | Florida State University | Download |
| Remote Sensing of the Thermal Structure of Marine Boundary Clouds in the Southeast Pacific using COSMIC, CALIOP, and Radiosonde | Zhen Zeng | UCAR/COSMIC | Download |
| Shallow Cloud at Manus in Observations and GCM Simulations | Chidong Zhang | University of Miami | Download |