From jrichter at ucar.edu Thu Aug 10 10:37:59 2006 From: jrichter at ucar.edu (Jadwiga (Yaga) Richter) Date: Sun Aug 13 13:30:17 2006 Subject: [CCSM-participants] AGU session: Recent Advances in Climate Modeling Message-ID: <44DB60E7.3070705@ucar.edu> Dear Colleagues, We we would like to bring your attention to the following session at this year's AGU meeting in San Francisco held between December 11 and December 15, 2006: *** A14: Recent Advances in Climate Modeling *** Session Description: Improving the representation of dynamical and physical processes in atmospheric models is one of the key issues for future climate model developments. An enhanced understanding of the modeling components as well as the ongoing progress in computing technology and numerical techniques will contribute significantly to more accurate climate model predictions. The session invites papers that address recent advances in atmospheric modeling techniques. The goal of the session is to facilitate an open discussion about the strengths and weaknesses of current and future modeling approaches. Special emphasis will be placed on models that resolve large-scale down to meso-scale atmospheric phenomena. The areas of interests are: 1) Recent developments in hydrostatic and non-hydrostatic dynamical cores, physics parameterizations and numerical methods 2) Multi-scale modeling approaches including variable mesh sizes, nested grids and regional climate models 3) Idealized model assessments including simplified General Circulation Models (GCMs) and idealized test cases for GCMs 4) Advances in whole atmosphere models with model tops above 80km, middle atmosphere dynamics 5) Model intercomparisons including sensitivity studies with respect to varying horizontal and vertical resolutions. Of particular interest are issues related to very high mesh resolutions in global atmospheric models. We would like to solicit abstracts for topics relevant to the above. Note, that AGU's abstract submission deadline is September 7. Hope to see you in San Francisco! Christiane Jablonowski University of Michigan cjablono@umich.edu Jadwiga (Yaga) Richter NCAR, Climate and Global Dynamics Division jrichter@ucar.edu Karen Shell Oregon State University kshell@ucar.edu -- --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Jadwiga (Yaga) H. Richter, Scientist I email: jrichter@ucar.edu Climate and Global Dynamics Division (CGD) phone: 303 - 497 - 1718 National Center for Atmospheric Research fax: 303 - 497 - 1324 P. O. Box 3000 Boulder, CO 80307 USA http://www.cgd.ucar.edu/~jrichter/ ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------