27th meeting of Working Group for Numerical Experimentation (WGNE)
- About
- Schedule & Presentations
- Participants & Contact Information
Date
17-21 October 2011
Location
VISLAB at NCAR Mesa Lab
1850 Table Mesa Drive
Boulder, CO
Overview
Welcome to the 27th annual meeting of the World Meteorological Organization's Working Group for Numerical Experimentation, co-sponsored by World Climate Research Program (WCRP) and World Meteorological Organization Commission for Atmospheric Sciences. This year's meeting will have one day (Wednesday) of joint sessions together with the WCRP Working Group on Coupled Modelling (WGCM).
Contacts
Andy Brown (andy.brown@metoffice.gov.uk) Co-chair
Barbara Brown (bgb@ucar.edu) NCAR Liaison
Tom Hamill (tom.hamill@noaa.gov) Local Organizer
Christian Jakob (christian.jakob@sci.monash.edu.au) Co-chair
Pam Johnson (johnsonp@ucar.edu) Logistics
MEETING AGENDA
Monday 17 October
08h30 - 10h30 Welcome, Adoption of the Agenda, Local Arrangements (10 min)
C. Jakob, A. Brown, T. Hamill
Welcome by NOAA/NCAR (10 min)
B. Brown
Meeting Goals and Actions from last meeting (10 min)
C. Jakob, A. Brown
CAS matters (45 min)
M. Beland
WCRP matters (45 min)
M. Rixen
10h30 - 11h00 Coffee
11h00 - 12h30 GEWEX (30 min)
K. Trenberth
WWRP/THORPEX (60 min)
G. Brunet
12h30 - 13h30 Lunch
13h30 - 15h00 Centre Reports (4, 20 min each)
DWD, BOM, UKMO, Korea
15h00 - 15h30 Coffee
15h30 - 17h00 Centre Reports (4, 20 min each)
Brazil, Canada, NCEP, JMA
Tuesday, 18 October
08h30 - 10h30 Recent developments in high-resolution NWP (30 min)
B. Lapenta, G. Dietachmayer
Recent developments in Numerical Methods (30 min)
M. Tolstykh, M. Baldauf
Recent developments in Data assimilation (30 min)
F. Rabier, J.N. Thepaut
Recent developments in Ensemble Prediction (30 min)
T. Hamill, C. Muroi
10h30 - 11h00 Coffee break
11h00 - 12h30 Centre Reports (4, 20 min each)
France, China, Russia, ECMWF
12h30 - 13h30 Lunch
13h30 - 15h00 Centre reports (2, 20 min each)
NCAR, GFDL
Rainfall verification with a specific focus on diagnostics studies
(40 min) Participants led by Co-Chair
Rainfall Verification at DWD
WGNE Rainfall verification over Japan
QPF verification scores for NCEP and International Models
TIGGE multi-model and ECMWF reforecast-calibrated probabilistic
precipitation forecasts over the US
15h00 - 15h30 Coffee break
15h30 - 17h00 Science talks (3x30 min each)
Development of ensemble Kalman filter and variational hybrid
Jeff Whitaker, NOAA
DART, the Data Assimilation Research Testbed
Jeff Anderson, NCAR
MPAS, Model Predictions Across Scales
Bill Skamarock, NCAR
Wednesday, 19 October
Joint WGCM-WGNE Sessions
08h30 - 10h30 Welcome (10 min)
J. Meehl, S. Bony, C. Jakob, A. Brown
Overview over WGCM activities (10 min)
J. Meehl, S. Bony
Overview over WGNE activities (10 min)
C. Jakob, A. Brown
WCRP JSC overview (30 min)
G. Asrar, A. Busalacchi
CMIP (30 min)
Karl Taylor
Climate Model Metrics Panel (30 min)
P. Gleckler
10h30 - 11h00 Coffee break
11h00 - 12h30 Tanspose AMIP (30 min)
K. Williams
CFMIP (30 min)
S. Bony
YOTC and new MJO experiments (30 min)
M. Moncrieff, J. Petch, D. Waliser
12h30 - 13h30 Lunch
13h30 - 15h00 WGSIP report (30 min)
David DeWitt
High resolution AMIP and resolution in climate models (30 min)
Discussion introduced by P. Gleckler
CORDEX (30 min)
F. Giorgi, C. Jones
15h00 - 15h30 Coffee break
15h30 - 17h00 Model development and the prospect of international CPTs (30 min)
Discussion introduced by S. Bony and C. Jakob
Workshops in particular CMIP5 and Systematic errors (30 min)
Discussion introduced by S. Bony and C. Jakob
General discussion on joint activities (30 min)
J. Meehl, A. Brown to chair
17h30 - 20h00 Reception
Thursday, 20 October
08h30 - 10h30 GASS/GCSS/GABLS report and discussion (60 min)
J. Petch, G. Svensson
GLASS report and discussion (30 min)
J. Santanello
10h30 - 11h00 Coffee break
11h00 - 12h30 SPARC report and discussion (30 min)
S. Polavarapu
Earth System Physics workshop (20 min)
J. Teixeira
GOVST workshop (20 min)
G. White, B. Lapenta
Follow up and decision on Systematic Error Workshop (20 min)
C. Jakob
12h30 - 13h30 Lunch
13h30 - 15h00 The grey zone project (60 min)
P. Siebesma, J. Onvlee
Recent developments in supercomputing (30 min)
J. Hack
15h00 - 15h30 Coffee
15h30 - 17h00 Current state of aerosol and air quality modelling at the centres
(60 min)
Participants led by S. Freitas & G. Dietachmayer
SURFA (30 min)
C. Fairall, A. Brown
17h00 - 19h00 Early Career Scientists Assembly Poster Session - ML Cafeteria
Friday, 21 October
08h30 - 10h30 Report of JWGV (45 min)
L. Wilson
TC verification (30 min)
C. Muroi
Polar Verification activities (20 min)
Participants led by F. Rabier and J.-N. Thepaut
Discussion on verification against own analysis (20 min)
Participants led by F. Rabier and JWGV
10h30 - 11h00 Coffee
11h00 - 12h30 Meeting summary and discussion of future WGNE activities,
including workshops
and projects
C. Jakob, A. Brown, Participants
12h30 - 13h00 Closing Session
Decisions and Actions
C. Jakob, A. Brown
Participants & Contact Information
Click to download in pdf| Bacmeister, Julio | NCAR | juliob@ucar.edu |
| Baldauf, Michael | Deutscher Wetterdienst | michael.baldauf@dwd.de |
| Beland, Michel | WMO | michel.beland@ec.gc.ca |
| Brown, Andy | Met Office | andy.brown@metoffice.gov.uk |
| Brunet, Gilbert | Environment Canada | gilbert.brunet@ec.gc.ca |
| Busalacchi, Antonio | ESSIC/UMD | rbandy@essic.umd.edu |
| DeWitt, David | IRI/Columbia University | daved@iri.columbia.edu |
| Dietachmayer, Gary | CAWCR / ABOM | g.dietachmayer@bom.gov.au |
| Donner, Leo | GFDL/NOAA | leo.j.donner@noaa.gov |
| Fairall, Chris | NOAA ESRL PSD | chris.fairall@noaa.gov |
| Freitas, Saulo | INPE | saulo.freitas@cptec.inpe.br |
| Gleckler, Peter | LLNL | gleckler1@llnl.gov |
| Hack, James | Oak Ridge National Laboratory | jhack@ornl.gov |
| Hamill, Thomas | NOAA/ESRL/PSD | tom.hamill@noaa.gov |
| Jakob, Christian | Monash University | christian.jakob@monash.edu |
| Lapenta, William | NOAA/NWS/NCEP | bill.lapenta@noaa.gov |
| Moncrieff, Mitchell | NCAR | moncrief@ucar.edu |
| Muroi, Chiashi | Japan Meteorological Agency | cmuroi@met.kishou.go.jp |
| Nakazawa, Tetsuo | WMO | tnakazawa@wmo.int |
| Onvlee, Jeanette | KNMI | onvlee@knmi.nl |
| Park, Hoon | Korea Meteorological Administration | hoon@kma.go.kr |
| Petch, Jon | Met Office | Jon.Petch@MetOffice.gov.uk |
| Polavarapu, Saroja | Environment Canada | saroja.polavarapu@ec.gc.ca |
| Rabier, Florence | CNRM-GAME, Meteo-France and CNRS | florence.rabier@meteo.fr |
| Rixen, Michel | WMO | rixen@nurc.nato.int |
| Rosen, Richard | NOAA Climate Program Office | rick.rosen@noaa.gov |
| Santanello, Joseph | NASA-GSFC | Joseph.A.Santanello@nasa.gov |
| Shen, Xueshun | China Meteorological Administration | shenxs@cma.gov.cn |
| Siebesma, Pier | KNMI / Delft University | siebesma@knmi.nl |
| Svensson, Gunilla | Stockholm University | gunilla@misu.su.se |
| Teixeira, Joao | JPL/Caltech | teixeira@jpl.nasa.gov |
| Thepaut, Jean-Noel | ECMWF | jean-noel.thepaut@ecmwf.int |
| Tolstykh, Mikhail | Hydrometcentre of Russia, Institute of Numerical MathematicsRAS | mtolstykh@mail.ru |
| Waliser, Duane | Jet Propulsion Laboratory | duane.waliser@jpl.nasa.gov |
| Williams, Keith | Met Office | keith.williams@metoffice.gov.uk |
| Wilson, Laurence | Environment Canada - WMO | lawrence.wilson@ec.gc.ca |
| Zadra, Ayrton | Environment Canada | ayrton.zadra@ec.gc.ca |