US CLIVAR Extremes Workshop Agenda
Workshop Agenda
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Tuesday, Aug. 20thWednesday, Aug. 21stThursday, Aug. 22nd
Tuesday, August 20th
| 08:00 | Continental Breakfast |
| 08:30 | Welcome & Introductions |
| Session 1: Data Invited Talks | |
| 08:40 | Kenneth Kunkel, NOAA CICS-NC/North Carolina State |
"Meteorological Causes of Observed Extreme Precipitation Trends in the U.S." | |
| 09:10 | Pavel Groisman, UCAR at NOAA NCDC |
"The impact of data paucity and handling techniques on intense precipitation analyses" | |
| 09:40 | Pardeep Pall, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory |
"Using large climate data sets for Probabilistic Weather-Event Attribution" | |
10:10 | Coffee Break |
| 10:30 | Data Breakout Sessions (2 parallel) |
| Session 2: Statistics Invited Talks | |
11:30 | Richard Grotjahn, University of California, Davis |
"The why, how, and what of large scale meteorological pattern" | |
12:00 | Richard Katz, NCAR |
"Statistical Methods for Relating Temperature Extremes to Large-Scale Meteorological Patterns" | |
| 12:30 | Catered Lunch |
| Session 2: Statistics Invited Talks cont. | |
01:30 | Francis Zwiers, Pacific Climate Impacts Consortium |
| 02:00 | Robert Black, Georgia Institute of Technology |
"Boreal Cool Season Temperature Regimes: Recent Trends and Low Frequency Mode Modulation" | |
| 02:30 | Christopher Paciorek, University of California, Berkeley |
| 03:00 | Alexander Gershunov, University of California, San Diego/Scripps |
"Diagnosing probability models for observed daily precipitation extremes" | |
| 03:30 | Poster Session (Data and Statistics) with Coffee Break |
| 04:30 | Statistics Breakout Sessions (2 parallel) |
| 05:30 | End of Day 1 |
| 06:30 | Collaborative Discussion Time Hotel Shattuck Plaza (6:30 - 8:00 pm) |
Wednesday, August 21st
| 08:00 | Continental Breakfast |
| Session 3: Synoptics/Dynamics Invited Talks | |
| 08:30 | Steven Feldstein, The Pennsylvania State University |
"A methodology for examining the relationship between teleconnections and extreme precipitation" | |
| 09:00 | Bill Gutowski, Iowa State University |
"Understanding Synoptic Weather Yielding Extreme Daily Precipitation" | |
| 09:30 | Shawn Milrad, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University |
| 10:00 | Russ Schumacher, Colorado State University |
| 10:30 | Coffee Break |
| Session 3: Synoptics/Dynamics Invited Talks cont. | |
| 10:50 | Steve Vavrus, University of Wisconsin |
| 11:20 | Randall Dole, NOAA ESRL PSD |
"The Making of An Extreme Event: Putting the Pieces Together" | |
| 11:50 | Synoptics/Dynamics Breakout Sessions (2 parallel) |
| 12:50 | Catered Lunch |
| Session 4. Modeling Invited Talks | |
| 02:00 | Noah Diffenbaugh, Stanford University |
"Robust increases in severe thunderstorm environments in response to greenhouse forcing" Slides not available online; Contact Noah Diffenbaugh for information | |
| 02:30 | Anthony Broccoli, Rutgers University |
| 03:00 | Gary Lackmann, North Carolina State University |
"Climate Change and Mesoscale and Synoptic-Scale Precipitation Events" | |
| 03:30 | Poster Session (Synoptics/Dynamics and Modeling) with Coffee Break |
| 04:30 | Modeling Breakout Sessions (2 parallel) |
| 05:30 | End of Day 2 |
| 06:00 | Extremes WG Meeting (by invitation) Hotel Shattuck Plaza (6:00 - 8:00 pm) |
Thursday, August 22nd
| 08:00 | Continental Breakfast |
| Reports and Discussion from Breakouts Sessions | |
| 08:30 | Session 1: Data |
| 09:15 | Session 2: Statistics |
| 10:00 | Coffee Break |
| Reports and Discussion from Breakouts Sessions cont. | |
| 10:30 | Session 3: Synoptics/Dynamics |
| 11:15 | Session 4: Modeling |
| 12:00 | Meeting Wrap-up |
| 12:30 | Adjourn |
Poster Session (Synoptics/Dynamics and Modeling)Wednesday, 8/21 @ 3:30Synoptics/Dynamics: |
| Laurie Agel, University of Massachusetts - Lowell |
| "Dynamical Analysis of Extreme Precipitation Events in the Northeast" |
| Bradford Barrett, U.S. Naval Academy |
| "Intraseasonal variability of large-scale meteorological patterns and tornado activity" |
| Benjamin Lintner, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey |
| "Impact of land-atmosphere interactions on surface temperature distributions" |
| Chihhua Tsou, National Taiwan Normal University |
| "Role of Multi-scale Interaction in Tropical cyclones Eddy Kinetic Energy" |
| John Walsh, University of Alaska, Fairbanks |
| "Atmospheric circulation patterns associated with extreme events in Alaska" |
| Modeling: |
| Tereza Cavazos, Department of Physical Oceanography, CICESE |
| "Present and future daily precipitation extremes in the North American monsoon region" |
| Anthony DeAngelis, Rutgers University |
| "Evaluation of CMIP3 and CMIP5 Simulations of Heavy Precipitation and its Associated Physical Mechanisms over North America" |
| Sho Kawazoe, Iowa State University |
| "Regional, Very Heavy Daily Precipitation in Global and Regional Climate Simulations of North America" |
| Arun Kumar, NOAA / Climate Prediciton Center |
| "Do Extreme Climate Events Require Extreme Forcings?" |
| Paul Loikith, Caltech/JPL |
| "Evaluating Extreme Temperatures and Associated Mechanisms in NARCCAP Hindcast Experiments" |