August 2012 Team Meeting Presentations

Tuesday August 7

David Randall	Opening remarks, Agenda, Logistics, and Updates
Minghuai Wang	SPCAM5: Multi-scale Modeling of Aerosols, Clouds, and Precipitation
Scott Denning	Multiscale Education and Diversity: K to Gray! Community-Based Participatory Research in the Mississippi Delta
Rachel McCrary	The West African Monsoon: Insights from the MMF
Breakout Session I	Clouds and Climate - Bretherton, Blossey Cloud responses simulated by NICAM, Masaki Satoh Understanding climate sensitivity and cloud feedbacks in the evolution of a climate model from CMIP3 to CMIP5, Andrew Gettelman Climate Sensitivity of a TC World, Marat Khairoutdinov SP-CAM Forecasts of the MJO, Mike Pritchard GPCI Tropical Cloud and Subtropical Cloud Transitions Simulated from CAM5, SPCAM and SPCAM-IPHOC, Kuan-Man Xu CGILS LES Intercomparison, Peter Blossey CyberInfrastructure - Helly, Schuchardt CIWG breakout slides, John Helly
Katie McShane	Climate Change and Environmental Ethics

Hiroaki Miura	Recent activities of the NICAM group and our scientific targets on K-computer
Breakout Session II	Multiscale Land Surface - Baker, Denning, Bonan Multi-scale land-atmosphere interactions with CESM/CLM: Spatial heterogeneity and canopy turbulence, Gordon Bonan Roughness Sublayer Turbulence in the Community Land Model, Ned Patton Prognostic Phenology (PGSI), Biljana Orescanin GPP constraint, Ian Baker CESM distributed land: now that we have land columns distributed to atmosphere columns in the SP-CAM, what experiments do we want/need to run? Giga-LES simulation, with Physical Processes group Physical Processes - Moeng, Morrison Response of tropical deep convection to local heating perturbations: Implications for aerosol-induced convective invigoration, Hugh Morrison & Wojciech Grabowski Downdrafts, Low Level Cooling, and Relagive Humidity, Kate Thayer-Calder An updraft-downdraft scheme for SGS transport in cloud-resolving models, Chin-Hoh Moeng & Akio Arakawa On ice particle habits, Andy Heymsfield & Carl Schmitt A moist static energy budget analysis of the MJO in the Superparameterized Community Atmosphere Model, Mike Pritchard
Gabe Kooperman	Estimating global aerosol indirect effects: a method for reducing the influence of natural variability
Breakout Session III	Sustainability Sustainability: Seeing the Future in the Clouds, Marcia Donnelson REACH, Rodger Ames Dynamical Frameworks - Randall, Konor Unified Parameterization - An Update, Akio Arakawa Unified Parameterization - Vertical Structures and Physical Sources and Sinks, Chien-Ming Wu Current work on topography in parallel VVM, Chien-Ming Wu Progress Report - Research Objective 2: Development of a Q3-D MMF, Joon-Hee Jung Progress Report: Global Cloud Resolving Model Developement, Celal Konor & Ross Heikes A simple way of incorporating terrain (and buildings) into SAM simulations, Marat Khairoutdinov A Vorticity-Divergence Dynamical Core based on the Nonhydrostatic Unified System of Equations on the Icosahedral Geodesic Grid, Ross Heikes
Melinda Laituri	Cultural Uses of GIS and Intersects with Climate Science

Tony Del Genio	Conventional Cumulus Parameterization - Dead and Loving It
Breakout Session IV	Knowledge Transfer - Krueger Coupled Models & Climate Change - Stan, DeMott Present day and 4xCO2 simulations with SP-CCSM4, Cristiana Stan The role of ocean-atmosphere coupling in simulations of the Asian summer monsoon, Charlotte DeMott Present Day and 4xCO2 simulations of the Arctic, Melissa Burt Arctic Convective Cloud Feedback Studies with the CESM, Mark Branson Catalog of existing SP simulations and plans for future research, group discussion
Reports from Break-outs:	Clouds and Climate CyberInfrastructure Physical Processes Dynamical Framework Land Surface Sustainability Coupled Models & Climate Change Knowledge Transfer
David Randall	Wrap-up