Draft AMWG Workshop Agenda - December 12-14, 2000

Main Seminar Room

NCAR Mesa Lab

 

Tuesday, 12 December

 

   8:00 am                 Coffee

 

   8:30 am                Welcome and update on model development activity (Hack/Randall)

 

 

 Presentations and Discussion of Candidate Configurations

 

   9:10 am                Vertical Diffusion of Dry Static Energy

                                                B. A. Boville

 

   9:30 am                Eulerian, 1-Digit Reduced Grid

                                                D. L. Williamson

 

   9:50 am                Longwave changes to H2O absorption

                                                W. Collins

 

  10:40 am                BREAK

 

 

  11:00 am                Semi-Lagrangian Dynamical Core

                                                D. L. Williamson

 

  11:50 am                Lunch

 

 

   1:00 pm                Finite-Volume Dynamical Core

                                                S. J. Lin

  

   1:50 pm                Zhang-McFarlane Cumulus Parameterization

                                Relaxed Arakawa-Schubert Cumulus Parameterization

                                                J. J. Hack

 

   2:30 pm                CSU Arakawa-Schubert Cumulus Parameterization

                                                M. Khairoutdinov

 

 

   3:30 pm                BREAK

 

  

   3:50 pm                Zhang-McFarlane Cumulus Parameterization - physical triggers

                                                P. J. Rasch

 

   4:20 pm                 Zhang-McFarlane Cumulus Parameterization - modified closure

                                                G. J. Zhang

 

   4:50 pm                 Progress on Boundary Layer Parameterization Work

                                                C. Bretherton

 

   5:10 pm                General Discussion of Candidate Configurations

                                               

 

   5:30 - 7:00   pm                 RECEPTION

 

 

 

Wednesday, 13 December

 

   8:30 am                 Coffee

 

 

 Diagnostic Analyses and Discussion of Candidate Configurations

 

   9:00 am                PCMDI Analyses of Candidate Configurations

                                                M. Wehner and K. Taylor

 

  10:30 am                 BREAK

 

 

  10:50 am                Intraseasonal Variability for the Candidate Configurations

                                                C. Demott

 

  11:20 am                Convective Variability for the Candidate Configurations: Diurnal through Intraseasonal

                                                L. Ricciarduli

 

  11:50 am                 LUNCH

 

 

   1:00 pm                Assessing Intraseasonal Oscillation Variability in the NCAR/CAM Candidate Configurations

                                                D. Waliser and D. Myers

 

   1:30 pm                 Potential Impacts of the CAM Candidate Model Configurations on Coupled Simulations

                                                E. Schneider

 

   2:00 pm                Reserved for other CCSM working group diagnostic analyses

 

   3:00 pm                 BREAK

 

   5:00 pm                Adjourn for the day

 

 

 

Thursday, 14 December

 

   8:30 am                 Coffee

 

 Discussion of Configuration Options

 

   9:00 am                 Comments on Candidate Configurations

                                                CCSM Working Group Chairs

 

  10:00 am                 Discussion of atmospheric component recommendations to SSC

 

  12:00 noon                ADJOURN