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2022 PPAI Fall Meeting Agenda

Thursday, September 29, 2022
Time (ET) Agenda Presenter
08:00 Breakfast  
  Session 1: Panel activities and priorities review Chairs: Matt Newman (U Colorado/ NOAA PSL) and Haiyan Teng (PNNL)
08:30 Discussion of panel priorities and meeting goals Matt Newman (U Colorado/NOAA PSL) and John Callahan (U Delaware)
09:15 Climate and health Working Group update and discussion Dillon Amaya (NOAA PSL), Kris Karnauskas (U Colorado)*, and Regina Bures (NIH NICHD)*

09:45 

Break  
  Session 2: Funding agency perspectives and opportunities to address climate equity Chairs: Mike Patterson (US CLIVAR), Matt Newman (U Colorado/ NOAA PSL), and Haiyan Teng (PNNL)
10:00 Howard University Welcome and Introduction Bruce A. Jones (Howard University)
10:15 Department of Energy (DOE) Earth and Environmental Sciences Division Renu Joseph and Jennifer Saleem-Arrigo (DOE Earth and Environmental Sciences Division)*
10:35 National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Transform to Open Science Initiative Yvonne Ivey-Parker (NASA HQ)
10:55 National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's (NOAA) Climate and Equity Roundtables and Pilots Meredith Cameron (NOAA Regional Collaboration Network)*
11:15 Discussion  
11:45 Lunch  
13:00 Session 3: Climate prediction for everyone

Chairs: Matt Newman (U Colorado/NOAA PSL), Haiyan Teng (PNNL), and Michelle L'Heureux (NOAA CPC)

13:10 Climate prediction for everyone Terri Adams (Howard U)

13:30

Usable climate risk science Adam Sobel (Columbia U)*
13:50 Climate prediction in support of climate justice during the climate crisis Gregory Jenkins (Penn State U)*
14:10 Discussion  
15:00 Break  
15:30 Session 4: Understanding and predicting connected extremes Chairs: Erin Towler (NCAR), Dillon Amaya (NOAA PSL), and Qinghua Ding (UC Santa Barbara) 
15:35 Compound events affecting US regions and their societal impacts Deepti Singh (Washington State U)*
15:53 On the prediction of compound climate extremes Liewi Jia (NOAA GFDL)*
16:11 Drivers and impacts of concurrent extreme weather events Kai Kornhuber (Columbia U)*
16:30 Discussion  
17:00 End open session; Panel closed session  
17:30 End closed session  
19:00 Panel dinner  
Friday, September 30, 2022
Time (ET) Agenda Presenter
08:30 Breakfast  
09:00 Session 5: Impact of model resolution upon predictions and projections Baoqiang Xiang (NOAA GFDL/UCAR), Victor Gensini (Northern Illinois U), and Haiyan Teng (PNNL)
09:05 The impact of model resolution on climate predictability and projection in the GFDL SPEAR modeling system Nat Johnson (NOAA GFDL)
09:23 Benefits and challenges for high-resolution climate modeling and prediction: Initial results from CESM1.3 experiments Ping Chang (Texas A&M)*
09:41 Evaluating the water cycle over CONUS at the watershed scale for the Energy Exascale Earth System Model version 1 (E3SMv1) across resolutions Bryce Harrop (PNNL)*

10:00

Discussion  
10:30 Break  
11:00 Session 6: S2D hydroclimate prediction Chairs: Sanjiv Kumar (Auburn U), John Callahan (U Delaware), Naresh Devineni (City College of New York), and Erin Towler (NCAR)
11:10 Hydroclimatic prediction on subseasonal to seasonal time scales: Some recent results and a few thoughts Randal Koster (NASA GFSC)*
11:30 Building an ecosystem of cross-timescale hydroclimate predictions for agriculture and health: the what, the why, the how Ángel Muńoz (Columbia U IRI)*
12:00 Discussion  
12:30 Working Lunch  
13:30 Session 7: Machine learning and climate prediction Chairs: Jason Furtado (U Oklahoma), Michelle L'Heureux (NOAA CPC), and Sanjiv Kumar (Auburn U)
13:40 Explainable AI for identifying state-dependent predictability of the climate system Elizabeth Barnes (Colorado State U)*
14:00 Where the Rubber Meets the Road: Forecaster Perspective on Adapting New Tools for CPC Outlooks Laura Ciasto (NOAA CPC)
14:30 Discussion  
15:00 Break  
  Session 8: Panel business  

15:30

Session Summaries (10 minutes each) Co-chairs for each session
16:20 Circle back to panel priorities & plan future activities  
17:30 End day 2  

 *Virtual

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