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PAN-GCSS PROGRAMME

 

 

PAN-GCSS PROGRAMME
 

Monday, 2June

8:00 – 8:30                   Registration                  Hall of the International Conference Center      

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8:30 – 10:30                  Morning Plenary : New Observations and Field Experiments

                                               Venue: Amphitheatre

                                               Key Note Speakers

                                               Chair: Christian Jakob

 

·         8:30-9:00

Pier Siebesma & Jean-Louis Brenguier

Opening and Welcome

 

·         9:00-9:30

Jean-Luc Redelsperger

The Amma Programme and Opportunities for GCSS.

 

·         9:30 – 10:00

Joao Teixeira

Recent Satelite Observations: Implications for Cloud Parameterizations

 

·         10:00 – 10:30

Pavlos Kollias

ARM’s Future Observations and Products

 

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10:30 – 11:00                BREAK

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11:00 – 13:00                Morning Plenary : (Continued)

                                               Amphitheatre

                                               Contributed Talks

                                               Chair: Tony Slingo

 

·         11:00 – 11:20

Kenneth Sassen

1-Year of Global Cloud Climatologies from CloudSat/CALIPSO: A New Era in Cloud Research

 

·        11:20 – 11:40

Claudia Stubenrauch

GEWEX assessment of global cloud climatologies: cloud properties and their variation

 

·         11:40-12:00

Doug Spangenberg

Improvement of passive sensor retrievals of cloud properties using surface and satellite Lidar-Radar Datasets

 

·         12:00-12-20

Suzanne Crewell

The Field Programs COPS and GOP 2007: Possibilities for model improvement.

 

·         12:20 – 12:40

Roel Neggers

The Cabauw Parameterization Testbed: Motivation, Configuration and Preliminary Results.

 

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13:00 - 14:00                 LUNCH

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14:00 – 15:45                BREAKOUT SESSIONS OF THE WORKING GROUPS

 

·         Boundary Layer Clouds Working Groups (BLCWG)

“Shallow Cumulus and RICO”

Chair: Adrian Lock

Venue: Amphitheatre

 

·         Precipitating Convective Cloud Systems

Chair: Jon Petch

Venue: Room 1 (50 pers)

 

·         Polar Clouds

Chair: Morrison/Pinto

Venue: Room 2: (25 pers)

 

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15:45 – 16:15                COFFEE AND TEA

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16:15 – 18:00                BREAKOUT SESSIONS OF THE WORKING GROUPS   (CONTINUED)

·         Boundary Layer Clouds Working Groups (BLCWG)

“Shallow Cumulus and RICO”

Chair: Adrian Lock

Venue: Amphitheatre

 

·         Precipitating Convective Cloud Systems

Chair: Jon Petch

Venue: Room 1 (50 pers)

·         Polar Clouds

Chair: Morrison/Pinto

Venue: Room 2: (25 pers)

 

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18:00-20:00                   ICEBREAKER RECEPTION

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Tuesday, 3 June

9:00 – 10:30                      Morning Plenary : 

Cloud Climate Feedback and Impacts of Clouds on Climate

                                               Amphitheatre

                                               Key Note Speakers

                                               Chair: George Tseloudius

 

·         9:00-9:30

Mark Webb

Towards understanding the mechanisms responsible for different cloud-climate responses in GCMs

 

·         9:30 – 10:00

Steve Sherwood / Sandrine Bony

An energetic link between cloud feedback and present-day climate

 

·         10:00 – 10:30

Ming Zhao

Sensitivity of GCM simulated clouds to cumulus mixing, convective cloud microphysics and its implications for cloud feedbacks to climate sensitivities.

 

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10:30 – 11:00                COFFEE  BREAK

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11:00 – 13:00                Morning Plenary : (Continued)

                                               Amphitheatre

                                               Contributed Talks

                                               Chair: Bjorn Stevens

 

·         11:00 – 11:20

Keith Williams

A quantitative climate performance assessment of cloud regimes in GCM’s.

 

·         11:20 – 11:40

Brian Medeiros

Cloud-Climate sensitivities on a aquaplanet

 

·         11:40-12:00

Minghua Zhang

An intercomparison of shallow cumulus/stratocumulus and their climate feedbacks simulated in SCM’s CRM’s and LES under idealized forcings.  

 

·         12:00-12-20

Chris Bretherton

Low cloud feedback mechanisms in a superparameterized GCM and their plausibility

 

·         12:40 – 12:40

Yoko Tsushima

A climate sensitivity study using NICAM

 

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13:00 – 14:00                LUNCH

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14:00 – 15:45                BREAKOUT SESSIONS OF THE WORKING GROUPS

 

·         Cloud Climate Feedback Working Group (CFMIP)

Chair: Bony/WEbb

Venue: Amphitheatre

 

·         Microphysics Working Group

Chair: Ulrike Lohmann

Venue: Room 1 (50 pers)

 

·         Cirrus Cloud Systems

Chair: Steven Dobbie

Venue: Room 2: (25 pers)

 

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15:45 – 16:00                COFFEE AND TEA

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16:00 – 17:00                BREAKOUT SESSIONS OF THE WORKING GROUPS

 

·         Cloud Climate Feedback Working Group (CFMIP)

Chair: Bony/Webb

Venue: Amphitheatre

 

·         Microphysics Working Group

Chair Ulrike Lohmann

Venue: Room 1 (50 pers)

 

·         Cirrus Cloud Systems

Chair: Steven Dobbie

Venue: Room 2: (25 pers)

 

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17:00-19:00   Poster Session I   

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Wednesday, 4 June

 

9:00 – 10:30                      Morning Plenary: Tropical Convection

                                               Venue: Amphitheatre

                                               Key Note Speakers

                                               Chair: William Rossow

 

·         9:00-9:30

Julia Slingo

Organised Tropical Convection and the coupling between dynamics and physics.

 

·         9:30 – 10:00

Courtney Schumacher

Running tropical convection through the radar gauntlet

 

·         10:00 – 10:30

Brian Mapes

Erasing Artificial scale boundaries with global cloud resolving data sets.

 

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10:30 – 11:00                BREAK

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11:00 – 13:00                Morning Plenary : (Continued)

                                               Amphitheatre

                                               Contributed Talks

                                               Chair: Martin Miller

 

·         11:00 – 11:20

Dave Neelin

The transition to Strong Convection.

 

·         11:20 – 11:40

Eric Tromeur

Interaction of tropical deep convection with the large scale circulation in the MJO.

 

·         11:40-12:00

Christian Jakob

Precipitation and latent heating characteristics of the major Western Pacific cloud regimes

 

·         12:00-12-20

Xiaoqing Wu

Improved Climate Simulations of Precipitation Cloud and Radiation Processes with the Constraint of CRM analysis, ARM and Satellite Observations

 

·         12:20 – 12:40

J.-P. Chaboureau

Cross-tropopause transport by convective overshoots in the Tropics

 

 

·         12:40 – 13:00

Peter Bechtold

Advances in Atmospheric Variability with the ECMWF model.

                                                                                                                                         

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13:00 - 14:00                 LUNCH

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14:00 – 15:45                BREAKOUT SESSIONS OF THE WORKING GROUPS

·         GCSS Pacific Cross Section Intercomparison (GPCI)

Chair: Teixeira

Venue: Amphitheatre

 

·         Precipitating Convective Systems, Part II

Chair Jon Petch

Venue: Room 1 (50 pers)

 

·         Polar Clouds WG part II

Chair: Morrison/Pinto

Venue: Room 2: (25 pers)

 

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15:45 – 16:00                COFFEE AND TEA

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16:00 – 17:00                BREAKOUT SESSIONS OF THE WORKING GROUPS

 

·         GCSS Pacific Cross Section Intercomparison (GPCI)

Chair: Teixeira

Venue: Amphitheatre

 

·         Precipitating Convective Systems, Part II

Chair Jon Petch

Venue: Room 1 (50 pers)

 

·         Polar Clouds WG part II

Chair: Morrison/Pinto

Venue: Room 2: (25 pers)

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17:00 – 19:00                Poster Session II

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19:00 – 19:30                Transportation to Dinner.                                                                                   19:30 – 22:30              Dinner.                                                                                                                  22:30 – 23:00                    Transportation to City Center.
 

Thursday, 5 June

9:00 – 10:30                      Morning Plenary :

High Resolution Modelling on Large Domains

                                               Amphitheatre

                                               Key Note Speakers

                                               Chair: Steven Klein

 

·         9:00-9:30

Masaki Satoh

Global cloud-resolving model simulations: status and cloud microphysics issues.

 

·         9:30 – 10:00

Axel Seifert

The Challenge of convective scale numerical weather prediction

 

·         10:00 – 10:30

Marat Khairoutdinov

Large Eddy simulation of deep convection: successes and challenges.

 

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10:30 – 11:00                BREAK

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11:00 – 13:00                Morning Plenary : (Continued)

                                               Amphitheatre

                                               Contributed Talks

                                               Chair: Chris Bretherton

 

 

·         11:00 – 11:20

Dave Randall

Analysis of the MJO in the Super-CAM.

 

·         11:20 – 11:40

Sue van den Heever

Tropical Convection Characteristics – Comparisons Between Large-Domain Cloud Resolving Model Simulations and CloudSat Observations.

 

·         11:40 – 12:00

A.T. Noda

Development of a Global Cloud-Resolving Model NICAM: Boundary-layer process and low-level cloud

 

·         12:00 – 12:20

Jorg Trentmann

Evaluation of high-resolution NWP model simulations of mid-latitude deep convection.

 

·         12:20 – 12:40

Luc Gerard

Ensuring consistency of operational NWP cloud and precipitation forecasts at various resolutions.

 

 

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13:00 - 14:00                 LUNCH

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14:00 – 15:45                BREAKOUT SESSIONS OF THE WORKING GROUPS

·         Boundary Layer Clouds Working Group ( part II)

Chair: Adrian Lock

Venue: Amphitheatre

 

·         Models and Observations

PART 1: Metrics

Chair: Robert Pincus

Venue: Room 1: (50 pers)

 

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15:45 – 16:00                COFFEE AND TEA

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16:00 – 18:00                BREAKOUT SESSIONS OF THE WORKING GROUPS

                                               (CONTINUED)

 

·         Boundary Layer Clouds Working Group ( part II)

Chair: Adrian Lock

Venue: Amphitheatre

 

·         Models  and Observations

PART 2: Model Evaluation

Chair: Christian Jakob

Venue: Room 1 (50 pers)

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Friday, 6 June

9:00 – 10:20                      Morning Plenary :  Summaries and Discussion of the Working Groups

                                               Venue: Amphitheatre

                                               Chair: A. Pier Siebesma

 

·         9:00-9:20

Adrian Lock

Summary Boundary Layer Clouds Working Group

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·         9:20 – 9:40

Steve Dobbie

Summary Cirrus Clouds Working Group

 

·         9:40 – 10:00

Jon Petch

Summary Precipitating Convective System Working Group

 

·         10:00 – 10:20

Hugh Morrisson

Summary Polar Clouds Working Group.

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10:20 – 10:50                BREAK

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·         10:50-11:10

Joao Teixeira

Summary GCSS Pacific Cross Section Intercomparison

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·         11:10 – 11:30

Ulrike Lohmann

Summary MicroPhysics Working Group

 

·         11:30 – 11:50

Webb/Bony

Summary Cloud Climate Feedback Working Group

 

·         11:50 – 12:10

Robert Pincus

Climate Model Metrics Working Group.

 

12:10 – 13:00             Panel Discussion on Themes and Working Group Summaries,

                                   Summary and Conclusions of the Workshop

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13:00 - 14:00                     LUNCH

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14:00 – 18:00              GCSS Panel Meeting   (Invitation Only)          

 

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