AGENDA: Break out sessions  of

PRECIPITATING CONVECTIVE SYSTEMS WORKING GROUP

Monday June 2

14:00 – 18:00                 Precipitating Convective Working Group

Chair: Jon Petch

                                     Venue: Room 1

 

·         14:00 – 14:15

Jon Petch:

Updates on the activities of PCS WG

 

·         14:15 – 14:35

McFarlane

Remote Sensing Observations and Modelling for TWP-ICE

 

·         14:35 – 15:20

Fridland / Russo / Jacob

The planned TWP-ICE case study for cloud-resolving, single column and limited area models.

 

·         15:20 – 15:45

Discusions led by

Fridland / Russo / Jacob

 

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15:45 – 16:15                 COFFEE AND TEA

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Chair : Wojtek Grabowski

 

·         16:15 – 16:35

Neale

Leveraging sensitivities for convection parametrization in

GCMs

 

·         16:35 – 16:55

Xie

CAM3 and AM2 Simulations for TWP-ICE Using the Short-Range Forecast Approach

 

·         16:55 – 17:15

Bodas-Salcedo

Evaluation of clouds in the Met Office global forecast model using CloudSat data

 

·         17:15 – 17:35

 Ekman

Deep convective clouds as a source of mid-tropospheric  aerosols

 

·         17:35 – 18:00

                                           Further Discussion

Wednesday  June 4

 

 

14:00 – 17:00                 Precipitating Convective Working Group

                                    Theme:  Convection controlling factors and AMMA

Chair: Neale

                                     Venue: Room 1

 

·         14:00 – 14:20

Grandpeix

Representation of deep convection sensitivity to mid-

troposphere humidity in LMDZ4

 

·         14:20 – 14:40

Stirling

Entrainment processes in the diurnal cycle of deep

convection over land

 

·         14:40 – 15:00

Bouniol

Heating and moistening over the southern quadrilater of the AMMA experiment

 

·         15:00 – 15:30

Guichard - Possibilities for AMMA based case studies

 

 

·         15:30 – 15:45

Discussion

 

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15:45 – 16:00                 COFFEE AND TEA

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Chair : Fridland

The TTL (tropical tropopause layer)

 

·         16:00 – 16:10

Chaboureau

Cross tropopause transport in tropics

(quick summary of plenary talk)

 

·         16:10 – 16:20

Yano

An overview of TTL problem in a context of tropsophere-

stratosphere interaction (SHORT COMMENT - not from abstract)

 

·         16:10 – 16:45

Grabowski

A possible TTL idealised case (Talk and discussion)

 

·         16:10 – 16:45

Jon Petch

Discussion of strategies for PCS WG i.e. Next meetings/times

scales etc...