2011 YOTC ISS Agenda
Agenda and Presentations
The YOTC Symposium is an integrated collage of oral presentations, poster periods, and targeted discussion. The Moderator for each discussion period is charged to identify from the orals, posters and discussions, those areas where substantial progress is being made and where the key challenges lie. The back-to-back scheduling of the YOTC symposium and the AMY workshop seeks synergy between the up-to-seasonal (seamless prediction) focus of the YOTC project and AMY’s longer-timescale objectives.
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Monday May 16, 2011 Second floor, CMA Conference Center
8:00 – 8:45 Registration
Opening, Chair: Jianping Li, co-chair of Local Organizing Committee, AMY IPO
Xiaofeng Xu, China Meteorological Administration, China-THORPEX
Guoxiong Wu, WCRP, AMY, Co-chair of the Science Committee
Mitch Moncrieff, YOTC, Co-chair of the Science Committee
Jim Caughey, THORPEX International Project Office, WMO
Session 1: Generic Elements of YOTC , Chair: Jim Caughey, THORPEX International Project Office, WMO, Geneva
09:10 Role of tropical convection and its multiscale organization in climate, Guoxiong Wu LASG/IAG/CAS, Beijing, China
09:45 Organized tropical convection and the weather-climate intersection, Mitchell Moncrieff, NCAR, Boulder, CO, USA
10:20 Climate variability and weather highlights during the “Year”, Duane Waliser, JPL/CalTech, CA, USA
10:55 Group Photo + Break
11:25 NASA Giovanni Tools and Services for Supporting the Year of Tropical Convection (YoTC), Dana Ostrenga, NASA GSFC, USA
12:00 On Improving Precipitation Diurnal Cycle and Frequency in Global Climate Models, Xiaoqing Wu, Iowa State Univ., USA
12:35 Lunch
Session 2: MJO and convectively coupled equatorial waves, Chair: Guang Zhang, Scripps Institution of Oceanography
14:00 Overview of the MJO and convectively-coupled equatorial waves during YOTC, Matthew Wheeler, CAWCR, Australia
14:30 Multiscale theories and models of the MJO, Samuel Stechmann, Univ. of Wisconsin - Madison, USA
15:00 Intraseasonal variability as simulated by a GCM with super-parameterization, Marat Khairoutdinov, Stony Brook Univ., USA
15:30 Break + Poster period 1
17:00 Discussion period 1, Moderator: Matt Wheeler
17:30 Ice Breaker
Tuesday May 17, 2011 Second floor, CMA Conference Center
Session 3: Easterly Waves and Tropical Cyclones, Chair: Xiaoqing Wu, Iowa State University
09:00 On the potential causes of non-stationary correlations between West African precipitation systems and Atlantic hurricane activity, Andreas Fink, Univ. Cologne, Germany
09:30 Microphysics in a multi-scale modeling systems with unified physics, W.K. Tao, NASA Goddard, USA
10:00 Tropical cyclones in high-resolution climate models: Progress and uncertainties, Julio Bacmeister, NCAR, USA
10:30 Break + Poster period 2
12:00 Discussion period 2, Moderator: Julio Bacmeister
12:30 Lunch
Session 4: Seamless prediction and hierarchical modeling, Chair: S.J. Lin, GFDL
14:00 Global cloud-system resolving modeling, Masaki Satoh, Atmosphere and Ocean Research Institute, Univ. of Tokyo, Japan
14:30 Cascade: High-resolution large-domain simulations of tropical convection, Christopher Holloway, University of Reading, UK
15:00 YOTC dataset analysis, MJO sensitivity, and ECMWF forecast skill, Peter Bechtold, ECMWF, UK
15:30 Break + Poster period 3
17:00 Discussion Period 3, Moderator: Jon Petch, MetOffice, GCSS Co-Chair
Wednesday May 18, 2011 Second floor, CMA Conference Center
Session 5: Tropical - extratropical interaction, Chair: Peter Bechtold, ECMWF
09:00 The 2010 Pakistan flood and Russia heat wave/wildfires: Teleconnection of hydrometeorologic extremes, William Lau, NASA GSFC, USA
09:30 Predictability at the Intersection of weather and climate, Prashant Sardeshmukh, NOAA/ESRL, USA
10:00 Pacific atmospheric rivers: Impacts on extreme rainfall, flooding, and water supplies, David Reynolds, NWS, Monterey, USA
10:30 Break + Poster period 4
12:00 Discussion period 4, Moderator: Prashant Sardeshmukh
12:30 Lunch
Session 6: Monsoon intraseasonal variability and AMY, Chair: W.K. Tao, NASA Goddard
14:00 Monsoon intraseasonal oscillation: Mechanism and predictability, Bin Wang, University of Hawaii, USA
14:30 Opportunities and Challenges in Prediction of Summer Monsoon Intraseasonal Oscillations, B.N. Goswami, IITM, India
15:00 Progress and prospects of AMY, Jun Matsumoto, Tokyo Metropolitan Univ., Japan
15:30 Break + Poster period 5
17:00 Discussion Period 5, Moderator: Bin Wang and Jun Matsumoto
18:00 YOTC Symposium and AMY Workshop Banquet