YOTC Sessions @ AGU 2008 & AMS 2009 --- PLEASE CIRCULATEFrom Mitch MoncrieffDate July 11, 2008 MJOteam, Please note the forwarded message - sessions on the Year of Tropical Convection (YOTC) at the AGU and AMS meetings - relevant to the MJO. Regards, Mitch Moncrieff From: Duane Waliser <duane.waliser@jpl.nasa.gov> Date: July 10, 2008 4:10:19 PM MDT Subject: Fwd: YOTC Sessions @ AGU 2008 & AMS 2009 --- PLEASE CIRCULATE Dear colleagues Please consider submitting an abstract for your research related to the planning and science of the WWRP/THORPEX-WCRP Year of Tropical Convection (YOTC) activity. There are two opportunities for presentations and discussion in the near future. You can find the YOTC science plan at: http://hydro.jpl.nasa.gov/tmp/WCRP.WWRP.YOTC.scienceplan.pdf *************************** AGU AGU AGU *************************** There is a session being organized for the AGU Fall meeting in San Francisco, 15-19 Dec 2008. The session description is listed at the end of this message. The meeting web site is: http://www.agu.org/meetings/fm08/ Abstract submission and registration is not available yet but will be soon. *************************** *************************** AMS AMS AMS *************************** There is a session being considered for the 89th annual AMS meeting in Phoenix, AZ, 11—15 January 2009 by the organizers of the 21st Conference on Climate Variability and Change. If enough papers get submitted then a separate session will be put together. The relevant session information is listed at the end of this message. Abstract deadline is August 1st. To submit an abstract please follow these instructions:
Duane & Mitch Mitch Moncrieff moncrief@ucar.edu Duane E. Waliser Jet Propulsion Laboratory, MS 183-505 California Institute of Technology 4800 Oak Grove Drive, Pasadena, CA 91109 818-393-4094 (tel); 818 354-5148 (fax) http://hydro.jpl.nasa.gov duane.waliser@jpl.nasa.gov Year of Tropical Convection (YOTC): Addressing the Challenge of Multi-Scale Organized Convection Session organizers: Duane Waliser & Mitch Moncrieff The realistic representation of tropical convection in our global atmospheric models is a long-standing grand challenge for numerical weather prediction and climate projection. To address this challenge, WCRP and WWRP/THORPEX have proposed a year of coordinated observing, modeling and forecasting of organized tropical convection and its influences on predictability. This new effort, referred to as the Year of Tropical Convection (YOTC), is intended to exploit the vast amounts of existing and emerging observations, the expanding computational resources and the development of new, high-resolution modeling frameworks. The objectives of YOTC are to advance the characterization, diagnosis, modeling, parameterization and prediction of multi-scale convective/dynamic interactions, including the two-way interaction between tropical and extra-tropical weather/climate. This project and its ultimate success will be based on the coordination of a wide range of ongoing and planned international programmatic activities (e.g., GEWEX/CEOP/GCSS, THORPEX/TIGGE, EOS, AMY), strong collaboration among the operational prediction, research laboratory and academic communities, and the construction of a comprehensive data base consisting of satellite data, in-situ data sets and global/high-resolution forecast and simulation model outputs relevant to tropical convection. The time frame targeted for scientific focus, May 2008 to October 2009 was chosen in order to leverage the most benefit from recent major investments in Earth Science infrastructure and overlapping programmatic activities (e.g., AMY, TIGGE). Specific areas of emphasis identified in the YOTC are: i) the MJO and convectively coupled waves; ii) diurnal cycle; iii) easterly waves and tropical cyclones; iv) tropical-extratropical interactions; and v) the monsoon systems. Presentations are welcome that address such focus areas, especially if they have relevance to the target period and have an emphasis on the application and development of high-resolution modeling frameworks, parameterization development, application using satellite and in-situ data analysis and model-data comparison, and connections between YOTC and the above or related programmatic activities. |