January 2013 Team Meeting Presentations

Tuesday January 22

David Randall	Opening remarks, agenda, logistics, Updates
Kate Thayer-Calder	Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Downdrafts
Ian Baker, Scott Denning	Land Surface Hour
Wendy Parker	Let's Not Confirm Our Models...
Nolan Doesken	Colorado Climate Center
Breakout Session I	Physical Processes - Moeng, Morrison Cloudy updraft cores in the Giga-LES, Steve Krueger Implementation and testing of an ice nucleation scheme in SAM, Sonia Kreidenweis & James Carpenter New ways to couple a new radiation scheme to global models, Robert Pincus Performance of SPCAM and SPCAM-IPHOC at High Vertical Resolution in the Low Troposphere,Kuan-Man Xu Sensitivity of deep convection to microphysics and horizontal grid spacing under different environmental conditions, Hugh Morrison Microphysical effects of entrainment in large-eddy simulation of boundary layer clouds, Dorota jarecka Assessing the Central US summer mesoscale convection signal in observations and across several versions of SPCAM using a Wheeler-Hendon-type index, Gabe Kooperman Knowledge Transfer - Krueger Effective ways to communicate about your research for a non-technical audience, John Calderazzo Informal Q&A session on the state of the CESM, Mariana Vertenstein Plans and progress for implementing the MMF into the ECMWF global NWP model, Marat Khairoutdinov Overview of MJO Task Force and future plans, Eric Maloney A CPT for Improving Turbulence and Cloud Processes in the NCEP Global Models, Steve Krueger
Peter Bogenschutz	Successes and Challenges on Implementing a Unified PDF-based Cloud Scheme into Multiple CMPIP5 Models

Wednesday January 23

Minoru Chikira Eastward propagating Intraseasonal Oscillation represented by Chikira-Sugiyama cumulus parameterization: Analysis of moisture variation under weak temperature gradient balance
Breakout Session II

Land Surface - Baker, Denning, Bonan

Multiscale Modeling of Modeling and Measurement of Metabolism and Mixing, Scott Denning

Validation of a simplified land surface model and its application to the case of shallow cumulus convection development, Marat Khairoutdinov

Homogeneous versus heterogenous SiB3 in a Cloud-Ensemble model, Don Dazlich

The Soil-Plant-Atmosphere System - A problem of scale, Joe Berry

Canopy processes in the Community Land Model, Gordon Bonan

Wetlands: What they are, where they are and what they do, Parker Kraus

Dynamical Frameworks - Randall, Konor

Progress Report, Research Objective: Development of a Q3-D MMF, Joon-Hee Jung

The Unified Parameterization - New Diagnostic Results, Akio Arakawa

Progress Report on Global Dynamical Cores, Celal Konor

An Update on Model Development, Ross Heikes

Graham Feingold On the Stability of the Aerosol-Cloud-Precipitation System
Breakout Session III

Coupled Models - Stan, DeMott

Arctic Sea Ice and Clouds in the SPCCSM4, Melissa Burt

Arctic Convective Cloud Feedback Mechanisms in the SP-CESM, Mark Branson

The East Asian Summer Monsoon in SPCCSM4, Yan Jin

The Role of Atmosphere-Ocean Coupling in the Intraseasonal Oscillation, Charlotte DeMott

Tropical Cloud Response in SPCCSM4 Control and 4xCO2 Simulations, Peter Blossey

Evaluation of Climate Variability Simulated by SPCCSM4, Cristiana Stan

Cyber Infrastructure - Helly

GigaLES runs and more..., John Helly

Wendy Parker Ethics Activity

Thursday January 24

Jeff Morisette Dept of Interior North Central Climate Center - Overview and Potential Interaction with CMMAP
Melissa Burt & Scott Denning Summary of Education and Diversity Retreat
Breakout Session IV

Cloud and Climate - Bretherton, Blossey

Mesoscale Convection in CRMs, Emily Riley

Relationship between stratocumulus cloud hole size and entrainment, Tak Yamaguchi

Intrinsic predictability insensitivities of the super-parameterized Madden-Julian Oscillation, Mike Pritchard

Update on CGILS Plans, Peter Blossey

Low Cloud Sensitivity to Aerosol Perturbations in LES and SCMs, Peter Blossey

Sensitivity of Marine Low Cloud Transitions to Idealized Climate Perturbations, Peter Blossey

Reports from Break-outs:

Physical Processes

Land Surface

CyberInfrastructure

Clouds and Climate

Knowledge Transfer

Dynamical Framework

Coupled Models & Climate Change

David Randall Wrap-up