From bballard at ucar.edu  Mon Jan 14 15:10:06 2008
From: bballard at ucar.edu (Barbara Ballard)
Date: Mon, 14 Jan 2008 15:10:06 -0700
Subject: [CCSM-LandWG] Joint LMWG and BGCWG meeting information
Message-ID: <478BDDBE.9060602@ucar.edu>

Dear LMWG and BGCWG members,

A reminder that the CCSM LMWG/BGCWG meetings are coming up in February.

Feb. 20:  LMWG meeting
Feb. 21:  Joint LMWG/BGCWG meeting
Feb. 22:  BGCWG meeting

If you plan to attend the meeting please do the following by WEDNESDAY,
JANUARY 23.

1) Send an email to Barbara Ballard (bballard at ucar.edu) and let
  her know that you are coming.
2) If you would like to give a presentation, please send a message
  to Dave Lawrence (dlawren at ucar.edu) and/or Gordon Bonan
  (bonan at ucar.edu) with a brief description of the topic.
3) If you have suggestions for additional agenda items (see
  proposed agenda items below) or other suggestions for the
  meeting, please send them to Dave Lawrence or Gordon Bonan.

Preliminary agenda items:

LMWG       - review progress and finalize plans for CLM4;
            fine mesh development and applications;
            Community Snow project;
            Soil moisture variability
LMWG/BGCWG - discussion of priorities for the next
            generation Earth System Model; plans for the DGVM
BGCWG      - CLAMP-1 (review of metrics and diagnostics, update
            on manuscript); pending release of CLM3.5-CN
            (review of control run, update on technical note);
            update on fully coupled carbon/climate simulations;
            ocean biogeochemistry; global observations and analysis
            (e.g., HIPPO); initialization of CLAMP-2

As always, we are interested in hearing from people who are developing
or using CLM or are working on CCSM biogeochemistry.  We are
particularly interested in LWMG/BGCWG member input related to the
improvement and application of the fine mesh (high-resolution) version
of CLM and in model applications for the next generation earth system model.

The meeting will take place in Boulder at the NCAR Mesa Lab. A list of
local hotels that generally offer good rates to NCAR visitors can be
found at http://www.ccsm.ucar.edu/working_groups/BoulderHotels.html

SEND YOUR COMMENTS, PROPOSED TALKS AND OTHER SUGGESTIONS BY WEDNESDAY, 
23 JANUARY.

Regards,

Dave Lawrence and Steve Running (LMWG co-chairs)
Gordon Bonan, Natalie Mahowald, and Jim Randerson (BGCWG co-chairs)

-- 
Barbara Ballard
Administrative Assistant III
Climate Dynamics & Predictability Section
Oceanography Section
National Center for Atmospheric Research
P.O. Box 3000
Boulder, CO  80307-3000
Phone: (303) 497-1358
Fax:   (303) 497-1700