Modeling clouds and climate

MOC2 Agenda

 
   Version: 2004/11/30
 
 Friday December 3:  Room -- Koffler 113,  569 Spadina Avenue
 
 08:30-09:00   Coffee/Juice/Muffins
 09:00-09:10   Phil Austin, Introduction/schedule
 
 *GCM/SCM results*
 
 09:10-09:35   Steve Thomas (NCAR, invited): Aqua-planet 
                     Simulations using a Spectral Element Dynamical Core
 09:35-10:00   Knut von Salzen (CCCma): Non-local mixing in SCM 15
 10:00-10:25   Phil Austin (UBC) : Results of the GCSS Dycoms intercomparison
 
 
 10:25-10:50   Coffee break
 
 
 
 *GCM/SCM continued
 
 10:50-11:15   Yanjie Cheng (Dalhousie): Modeling of aerosol effects 
                    on precipitation
 11:15-11:40   Junhua Zhang (Dalhousie): A microphysical
                    parameterization for convective clouds in the 
                    ECHAM5 GCM: Impact of aerosols on convective clouds
 11:40-12:05   Jiangnan Li (CCCma): Accounting for Unresolved 
                    Clouds in a 1D Solar Radiative Transfer Model
 12:05-12:30   discussion
 
 
 12:30-13:30   lunch (sandwiches/wraps, catered)
 
 *superparameterization/unresolved clouds*
 
 13:30-13:55   Jean-Pierre Blanchet (UQAM): Application of the explicit 
                    mixed phase clouds to the Canadian Regional Climate 
                    Model during APEX
 13:55-14:20   Wojciech Grabowski (NCAR): Super-parameterization: wh
                    at it is and what is "super" about it
 14:20-15:00   Howard Barker (MSC)/Jason Cole (Dalhousie): McICA in the 
                    NCAR CAM
 15:00-15:25   discussion
 
 
 15:25-15:50   Coffee break
 
 *LES/Mesoscale simulations*
 
 15:50-16:15   Quanzhen Geng (UBC): Boundary layer cloud equilibrium 
                    transitions using the SAMS 6.2 LES
 16:15-16:40   Terry Clark (UBC): Modeling the trade cumulus 
                    boundary layer using WFIS
 16:40-17:05   Badrinath Nagarajan (McGill): TOGA COARE convection 
                    simulation and parameterization of slantwise convection
 17:05-17:45   discussion and planning for Saturday
 17:45-17:50   transition
 17:50-19:50   Dinner, U Toronto Faculty Club, 41 Wilcox St., Fairley Room
 
 Saturday, December 4, Room -- McLennan 137,  60 St. George St.
 
 08:30-09:00   Coffee/Juice/Muffins
 
 *Microphysics models and observations*
 
 09:00-09:25   George Isaac (MSC):  Summary of AIRS II and Relevance to MOC2
 09:25-09:50   Alexei Korolev (invited): Relative humidity in liquid, 
                   ice and mixed phase clouds from AIRS2 measurements.
 09:50-10:15   Ismail Gultepe:  Variations in cloud microphysical parameters 
                   and  cloudiness
 10:15-10:40   Faisal Boudala (Dalhousie): A new way of deriving optical 
                   parameters and bulk microphysical quantities from 
                   parameterized ice particle size distribution
 10:40-11:05   Coffee break
 11:05-11:30   Wojciech Grabowski (NCAR, invited): Cloud-clear air 
                   interfacial mixing: impact on cloud microphysics
 11:30-11:55   Jason Milbrandt (McGill): A multi-moment bulk 
                   microphysics scheme and the explicit simulation 
                   of a hail storm
 11:55-12:20   discussion
 
 *MOC2 year 5 planning*
 
 12:20-12:35   Wojciech Grabowski (NCAR): GCSS working group 4 update
 12:35-12:50   Phil Austin (UBC) Report on the CPT Seattle meeting
 12:50-14:20   lunch (catered, sandwhiches /wraps) and PI plans for year 5
 
 
 14:20-15:20   PI meeting in McLennan 713