Agenda

Monday, July 30th

8:00 – Registration 

8:30 - Welcome, Introduction, and Logistics - Tara Jensen and Jason Levit 

8:45-10:00 - Workshop Expectations and Example Test Plans 

• 8:45 - Workshop goals and participant expectations - Ligia Bernardet and Ivanka Stajner 
• 9:00 - Test plans for geophysical modeling - Ricky Rood 
• 9:15 - Overview of development validation at EMC - Vijay Tallapragada 
• 9:30 - The current EMC test plan - Geoff Manikin 
• 9:45 - An example of the GMTB test plan - Ligia Bernardet 

10:00-10:30 Break 

10:30 - 11:20 - Choosing and Using Metrics 

• 10:30 - How to choose metrics - Tressa Fowler 
• 10:55 - What’s currently available in MET+ - Tara Jensen 

11:20 – Verifying Weather Scale Applications 

• 11:20 - Global - Mallory Row 
• 11:35 - CAM/Regional - Curtis Alexander 
• 11:50 - Use of Ensembles - Brian Colle 
• 12:05 - Discussion 

12:30 - 1:30 – Lunch

1:30 – Verifying Weather Scale Applications 

• 1:30 - Land - Christa Peters-Lidard 

• 1:45 - Hydro - Brian Cosgrove 
• 2:00 - Marine, Coastal and Sea Ice - Avichal Mehra 
• 2:15 - AQ/Aerosols and Atmospheric Composition - Ivanka Stajner 
• 2:30 - Discussion 

2:40 - How to work in break-out working groups - Ligia Bernardet 

3:00 - 3:30 - Break 

3:30 - Breakout Session #1 – Drafting Test Plans 

• General
• Physics 
• CAM
• Marine 
• S2S Ensemble 

5:00 - End of Day 

5:30 - Group Dinner (optional) 

Tuesday, July 31st 

8:30 – Verifying Medium Range and S2S Applications 

• 8:30 - Ensembles for longer time scales - Yuejain Zhu 

• 8:45 - Verification at ECMWF - Martin Janousek 
• 9:00 - S2S Metrics Workshop Report-Out - Jessie Carman 
• 9:15 - Process-oriented diagnostics - Zhuo Wang 
• 9:30 - Discussion 

10:00a - 10:30 - Break 

10:30 - Verifying Coupled Applications 

• 10:30 - Coupled System Validation - Laurie Trenary 
• 10:45 - AQ/Aerosols and Atmospheric Composition - Steven Pawson 
• 11:00 - Land and Hydro - Mike Ek 
• 11:30 - Marine, Coastal and Ice - Bob Grumbine 
• 11:45 - Discussion 

12:15 - 1:30 – Lunch

1:30 - Breakout Session #2 – Defining Metrics 

• CAM/Regional Weather 
• Global Weather 
• S2S and Seasonal 
• Process Oriented Diagnostics for Multiple Scales 

3:00 - 3:30 - Break 

3:30 - Breakout session #3 – Building Guidelines for Hierarchical Model Testing 

• Atmospheric Physics 
• Tropical Cyclones
• Coupled Systems A 
• Coupled Systems B 

5:00 - End of day 

Evening – Work on Synthesizing Outcomes (optional) 

Wednesday, August 1st 

8:00 - Break-out Groups Prep for Report Out (Facilitators Only)

9:30 – Panel Discussion Report Out to Workshop Participants & UFS SIP Members 

• Test Plans - Physics - CAM - Marine - S2S Ensemble
• Metrics  -  CAM -  Global  -  S2S - Process Oriented  -  Atmos Comp and AQ
• Hierarchical Testing - Physics  - Tropical Cyclone  -  Coupled  
• General Discussion 

12:00 - Workshop Ends 

12:00 – 1:00 Lunch

1:00 - UFS SIP workshop begins

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