From lydia at ucar.edu Thu Jun 1 11:31:23 2006 From: lydia at ucar.edu (Lydia Shiver) Date: Thu Jun 1 11:31:25 2006 Subject: [CCSM-participants] CCSM News, 1 June 2006 Message-ID: <447F246B.8040907@ucar.edu> Hello everyone, Registration: ------------ --Workshop registration will close 9 June, so please be sure to register if you are planning to attend the workshop at http://www.ccsm.ucar.edu/news/ws.2006/registration.html. --Please remember to send a check for your workshop registration fee in the amount of $100 to: Ms. Barbara Ballard NCAR PO Box 3000 Boulder, CO 80307-3000 Posters: -------- If you requested to present a poster while registering, a confirmation of your poster presentation will be sent after 9 June. Please note that only 1 poster per person is all that can be accommodated due to high demand. The poster size is 4' x 4'. You will be able to hang your poster on Monday, 19 June, or before 8 a.m. on Tuesday, 20 June, in the Forest Room at The Village at Breckenridge. At the end of the workshop on Thursday, please be sure to take down your poster and take it with you. Workshop Speakers and Working Group Meeting Speakers: -------------------------------------------------------------- All plenary sessions and working group meetings will be Webcast. In order to Webcast, all presentations must be in Powerpoint format. All speakers must use the laptops provided by the CCSM Workshop; you cannot use your own computer. Hotel: ------ The Village at Breckenridge is sold out on 6/20 and 6/21 and has been for some time. If you need hotel reservations, please call The Village at 1-888-525-1787. They have availability at a property about 3 blocks from The Village called Breckenridge Mountain Lodge. The CCSM Workshop Group Code is BC7CCAR. Agendas: --------- The draft workshop agenda is at http://www.ccsm.ucar.edu/news/ws.2006/agenda.pdf. The working group agendas will be posted to the working group Webpages as they become available (http://www.ccsm.ucar.edu/working_groups/). Please let me know if you need further information or have any questions. Thanks, Lydia From lydia at ucar.edu Tue Jun 6 18:07:20 2006 From: lydia at ucar.edu (Lydia Shiver) Date: Tue Jun 6 18:07:22 2006 Subject: [CCSM-participants] CCSM Workshop Updated Agenda, Etc. Message-ID: <448618B8.1000806@ucar.edu> Hello everyone, 1. The 11th Annual CCSM Workshop Agenda has been updated. It can be viewed at http://www.ccsm.ucar.edu/news/ws.2006/agenda.pdf. 2. Inez Fung's plenary presentation title is The Coupled Carbon Cycle Climate Model Intercomparison Project. 3. CCSM Working Group Agendas: - Software Engineering http://www.ccsm.ucar.edu/working_groups/Software/agendas/062206SEWGagenda.pdf - Land Model http://www.ccsm.ucar.edu/working_groups/Land/Agendas/062106LMWGagenda.pdf - Biogeochemistry http://www.ccsm.ucar.edu/working_groups/Biogeo/agendas/062106BGCWGagenda-1.pdf - Climate Change http://www.ccsm.ucar.edu/working_groups/Change/agendas/062206CCWGagenda.pdf - Polar Climate http://www.ccsm.ucar.edu/working_groups/Polar/agendas/060621.pdf - Climate Variability http://www.ccsm.ucar.edu/working_groups/Variability/agendas/060622.pdf 4. Additional Meeting at CCSM Workshop: Ensemble Data Assimilation with CAM NCAR's Data Assimilation Research Section will sponsor a special session on Data Assimilation using CAM on Wednesday, 21 June 2006, from 12:35 to 1:15 PM in the Columbine Room. Two science activities using the CAM/DART ensemble data assimilation system will be highlighted. Information about how to use the CAM/DART system to further your research will be available. The agenda is: 12:35-12:45 Introduction to CAM/DART Jeff Anderson & Kevin Raeder, NCAR 12:45-1:00 Applications of CAM/DART to Climate Model Development: Arctic Circulation Experiments and Plans for a Parameter Estimation Project Eric DeWeaver & Justin Bagley, U. Wisconsin 1:00-1:15 Assimilating MOPITT Observations of Carbon Monoxide with the Finite Volume CAM GCM Ave Arellano, NCAR ACD --Absolutely no food allowed in the meeting room-- 5. Registration for the CCSM Workshop will close this Friday, 9 June 2006. Please register before Friday. 6. Registration Fee: Please send a check made payable to UCAR to pay the $100 registration fee to: Ms. Barbara Ballard NCAR PO Box 3000 Boulder, CO 80307-3000 Thanks, Lydia From lydia at ucar.edu Fri Jun 9 09:15:11 2006 From: lydia at ucar.edu (Lydia Shiver) Date: Fri Jun 9 09:15:13 2006 Subject: [CCSM-participants] Info on CCSM AMWG Meeting at CCSM Workshop Message-ID: <4489907F.4000005@ucar.edu> Greetings to the CCSM participant list from Phil Rasch and Leo Donner. This email is to make you aware of our plans for the Atmosphere Model Working Group (AMWG) meeting at the upcoming Breckenridge meeting. If you look at the CCSM Workshop Agenda, you will note that the AMWG breakout has been split into two time periods. IT IS IMPORTANT FOR ALL MEMBERS OF ALL CCSM WORKING GROUPS TO BE AWARE OF THE CONTENT OF THE SECOND TIME PERIOD OF THAT BREAKOUT SESSION, SO PLEASE READ ON! The first one and a half hours will be spent in joint session with the Ocean Model working group. You will receive an agenda for that session soon. The second one and a half hour period will involve a discussion of important metrics to be used in the assessment and development of CAM4. It is our intention to define a set of objective metrics that can be used to evaluate CAM and CCSM today and in the future. By "objective metrics" we mean a set of numbers that accurately measure the fidelity of the model in reproducing certain features of the atmosphere. With this goal in mind, we are going to devote most or all of the second period of the breakout to a discussion of AMWG metrics, or "objective diagnostics of model climate properties." The Climate Modeling Section within NCAR and a few of our friends outside of NCAR have started into a serious effort to define a set of metrics that can be used to evaluate model versions, but this topic is so important it must be done in an open context with the enthusiastic and active participation of the whole AMWG, and indeed the whole CCSM community. OF COURSE THESE METRICS WILL BE IMPORTANT TO MEMBERS OF THE AMWG, BUT WHAT MIGHT NOT BE SO OBVIOUS IS THAT THE METRICS ARE ALSO THE WAY THAT MEMBERS OF OTHER WORKING GROUPS MAKE SURE THAT WE DESIGN A MODEL THAT IS ALSO SUITABLE FOR THEIR APPLICATIONS. We want to invite you to consider attending the session, AND ALSO TO INVITE YOU TO SUBMIT YOUR OWN METRIC and participate in the discussion around the metrics! We envision dividing the session approximately into three parts (although not necessarily evenly), showing: 1) a skeleton outline of our straw man metric suite. 2) an evaluation using these metrics of a few model configurations that might be: a) the standard CAM3 or CSM3 b) a variant with Rich Neale's closure modification to the convection scheme c) a variant with Chris Bretherton's PBL and shallow convection modifications Please note that these configurations are only examples. Their use does not constitute an implicit endorsement of these modifications for CAM4! 3) an open session where people are allowed to show a "suggested metric" using 1 PowerPoint slide. I am putting a severe restrictions on what should constitute a metric. It must: a) employ a well defined and accepted observational dataset publicly available to the scientific community b) produce a number, or 2 numbers, that objectively measure the agreement between a model run and the observational dataset c) have been run on a CAM or CCSM model run to demonstrate its efficacy, and your ability to formulate it in a meaningful way for our environment d) the metric must be programmable with a combination of Fortran and NCL. Ideally you will have already done the programming using these languages. PLEASE CONSIDER THIS AN INVITATION TO PROPOSE A METRIC FOR THE AMWG! If accepted for presentation, you will have a few minutes to present this metric to the session attendees. For those interested, please send me (pjr@ucar.edu) an email with your proposal. The email should contain the following: a) the email subject line contains "AMWG METRIC" b) a paragraph describing the metric c) your personal information so we can track it back to you d) one PowerPoint slide containing: i) a description of the metric (words or equations are OK) ii) a table or figure showing the behavior of the metric for two model runs. iii) possibly a figure showing how the metric is reflected in a physically understandable way. To see an example of the kinds of metrics we are considering I have attached a "Taylor Diagram" of a set of metrics developed by Matt Wyant and Chris Bretherton to this email. Thank you, Phil Rasch and Leo Donner AMWG Co-Chairs From lydia at ucar.edu Fri Jun 9 09:42:18 2006 From: lydia at ucar.edu (Lydia Shiver) Date: Fri Jun 9 09:42:19 2006 Subject: [CCSM-participants] AMWG Meeting Attachment and other CCSM News Message-ID: <448996DA.4060006@ucar.edu> Hello everyone, 1. I forgot to attach the Taylor Diagram that went with the earlier message about the AMWG meeting, so it is attached now. 2. Mat Huber has stepped down after his term ended on 31 Mayh 2006 as Paleoclimate Working Group Co-Chair. Jeff Kiehl has replaced Mat as one of the PaleoWG co-chair. 3. CCSM Publications: De Lannoy, G. J. M., P. R. Houser, V. R. N. Pauwels, and N. E. C. Verhoest, N.E.C., 2006: Assessment of model uncertainty for soil moisture through ensemble verification. Journal of Geophysical Research, 111, D10101, doi:10.1029/2005JD006367. Zhang, G. J., and M. Mu, 2005: Simulation of the Madden-Julian oscillation in the NCAR CCM3 using a revised Zhang-McFarlane convection parameterization scheme. J. Climate, 18, 4049-4067. Zhang, G. J., and M. Mu, 2005: Effects of modifications to the Zhang-McFarlane convection parameterization on the simulation of the tropical precipitation in the National Center for Atmospheric Research Community Climate Model, version 3. J. Geophys. Res., 110, D09109, doi:10.1029/2004JD005617. Collier, J. C., and G. J. Zhang, 2005: U. S. warm-season rainfall in NCAR CAM3: An event-oriented perspective. Geophys. Res. Lett., 32, L20801, doi:10.1029/2005GL024217. Zhang, G. J., and H. Wang, 2006: Toward mitigating the double ITCZ problem in NCAR CCSM3, Geophys. Res. Lett., 33, L06709, doi:10.1029/2005GL025229. Thanks, Lydia -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: b30.081_di.pdf Type: application/pdf Size: 24844 bytes Desc: not available Url : http://www.cgd.ucar.edu/pipermail/ccsm-participants/attachments/20060609/de416005/b30.081_di-0001.pdf From lydia at ucar.edu Fri Jun 9 13:25:59 2006 From: lydia at ucar.edu (Lydia Shiver) Date: Fri Jun 9 13:26:02 2006 Subject: [CCSM-participants] Joint AMWG and OMWG Agenda at CCSM Workshop Message-ID: <4489CB47.3080004@ucar.edu> Hello everyone, Attached is the draft agenda for the joint meeting of the AMWG and OMWG at the Workshop. 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AGENDAS: -------------- The 11th Annual CCSM Workshop begins next Tuesday, 20 June 2006. The agenda can be found at http://www.ccsm.ucar.edu/news/ws.2006/agenda.pdf. The Joint Atmosphere Model and Ocean Model Working Group meeting will be held on Tuesday, 20 June 2006, and the agenda can be found at http://www.ccsm.ucar.edu/working_groups/Atmosphere/Agendas/jointAM-OMagenda.pdf. All of the CCSM Working Group meeting agendas can be found at their Web page by going to http://www.ccsm.ucar.edu/working_groups/ and clicking on the individual Working Group page. All agendas will be printed and available to each participant in their registration packet. WEBCAST INFORMATION: ------------------------------------ Information on how to join the workshop via Webcast is at http://www.ccsm.ucar.edu/news/ws.2006/webcasts-2006.html. Please remember that the Webcasts are not available until the time the meetings start. HOTEL AND SHUTTLE CANCELLATION INFORMATION: ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- If you need to cancel or change your hotel and/or shuttle reservations, please do so 48 hours prior to your arrival date. OTHER --------- The Chemistry-Climate Working Group Report from its March 2006 meeting is now online at http://www.ccsm.ucar.edu/working_groups/Chemistry/Reports/ChemWGrpt0306.pdf, and the presentations are at http://www.ccsm.ucar.edu/working_groups/Chemistry/Presentations/CHEM060322.htm. If anyone has any questions or needs further information, please contact me via email. Thanks, Lydia From lydia at ucar.edu Fri Jun 16 15:05:16 2006 From: lydia at ucar.edu (Lydia Shiver) Date: Fri Jun 16 15:05:31 2006 Subject: [CCSM-participants] CCSM Workshop Webcast Info Message-ID: <44931D0C.4090808@ucar.edu> Hello everyone, I forgot to tell you the most important part of the Webcast info. The password is ccsm (all lower case). Again, the Webcast info is at http://www.ccsm.ucar.edu/news/ws.2006/webcasts-2006.html. Thanks, Lydia