Workshop on Next-Generation Parameterizations of Moist Processes | Agenda

TUESDAY, 27 JANUARY 2015

1000 - 1015    Coffee
1015 - 1025    Welcome (Hendrik Tolman, NCEP)
1025 - 1030    Workshop goals
1030 - 1115    Keynote: Ten-year prospective for Numerical Weather Predition (Gilbert Brunet, CMC, UKMO)
1115 - 1200    Keynote: Challenges in coupling process across scales (Chris Bretherton, U. Wash)
1200 - 1300    Lunch
1300 - 1345    Convection: Survey/prospectus (supplemental)(Michael Whitall, UKMO)
1345 - 1400    Convection: EMC status (Jongil Han, EMC)
1400 - 1445    Clouds: Survey/prospectus (Richard Forbes, ECMWF)
1445 - 1500    Clouds: EMC status (Ruiyu Sun, EMC)
1500 - 1515    Break
1515 - 1600    Microphysics: Survey/prospectus (Axel Seifert, DWD)
1600 - 1615    Mirophysics: EMC status (Brad Ferrier)
1615 - 1700    Climate Process Team presentations (Chris Bretherton, U. Wash.; Steve Krueger, U. Utah; Dave Randall, CSU; Sarah Lu, SUNY-Albany)
1700 - 1715    NGGPS Overview (Fred Toepfer, NOAA)
1715 - 1730    Discussion plan for Wednesday

WEDNESDAY, 28 JANUARY 2015

0800 - 0830    Coffee
0830 - 1000    Discussion Breakout Session 1: Foundations - Microphysics, convection, clouds & turbulence
1000 - 1030    Break
1030 - 1200    Discussion Breakout Session2: Short-term prospects: What's next?
1200 - 1315    Lunch
1315 - 1345    Plenary: Stochastic physics perspectives (Dave Randall, CSU; Judith Berner, NCAR)
1345 - 1515    Discussion Breakout Session 3: "Grey zone" & probabilistic forecasts - Non-locality/non-deterministic/uncertainty
1515 - 1530    Break
1515 - 1700    Discussion Breakout Session 4: Medium term - Priming the pump
1700 -            Working dinner and continued discussion at Franklin's Restaurant and Brewery

THURSDAY, 29 JANUARY 2015

0800 - 0830    Coffee
0830 - 0930    Plenary: Summaries from Breakout Sessions (Discussion leader summaries)
0930 - 1030    Plenary Discussion
1030 - 1045    Break
1045 - 1200    Next Steps and Plenary Conclusion