From cbook at ucar.edu  Mon Dec 31 13:39:43 2007
From: cbook at ucar.edu (cbook at ucar.edu)
Date: Mon, 31 Dec 2007 13:39:43 -0700 (MST)
Subject: [CCSM-participants] AMWG 2008
Message-ID: <2919.69.3.79.137.1199133583.squirrel@webmail.cgd.ucar.edu>

Dear Atmospheric Model Working Group Members,

Just a note to say that our plans for the upcoming AMWG meeting are
firming up. We are planning to have an overlapping meeting (with joint
sessions) with the chemistry and climate working group (CClimWG) the
week of February 11-15.

If you plan to attend (NCAR & CGD folks, this includes you!), please
do the following BY FRIDAY, 11 JANUARY:

1) Please send an email to Christina Book <cbook at ucar.edu> to let us
   know you are coming.
2) If you have suggestions on the AMWG meeting, abstracts for a
   proposed talk for meeting, new agenda items etc, please send them via
   email to Phil Rasch (pjr at ucar.edu) with the subject title
   "AMWG2008". Phil will assemble them and distribute them to the
   other co-chairs.
3) If you have suggestions on the CClimWG meeting please contact
   hess at ucar.edu, lamar at ucar.edu, mprather at uci.edu (Peter Hess,
   Jean-Francois Lamarque, Michael Prather)


The AMWG will meet from 1300 Tuesday, Feb 12 through 1700 Thursday,
Feb 14. The CClimWG will start its meeting Monday, Feb 11, around 0900
at NCAR in the Mesa Lab Main Seminar Room.

We plan to have overlapping sessions Tuesday PM, and part (or all) of
Wednesday. During the overlap we will cover the following topics:

1) A briefing on current CAM status, where we are, and what is left to do
  prior to freezing CAM4.

2) Discussion and presentations within areas of overlap, primarily:
     a) aerosol topics
     b) cloud microphysical topics
     c) any WACCM connected activities.
     d) possibly some of the boundary layer topics

For the non-joint component of the meeting taking place part of Wednesday
and Thursday the AMWG sessions will cover:

3) Radiative Transfer, possibly cloud overlap and subcolumn decompositions
4) P-I driven research covering deep convection, dynamical cores, data
   assimilation, CAPT Activities, CMMAP activities, and anything else.
5) Discussions on how to decide what constitutes CAM4
6) Key Directions for the future

There have been a lot of exchanges recently by a group of people
interested in extra-terrestrial application of CAM. Depending on time and
interest we will schedule a session on these applications (either Thursday
or Friday). Let us know specifically if you are interested in this topic!

SEND YOUR COMMENTS, PROPOSED ABSTRACTS AND OTHER SUGGESTIONS
BY FRIDAY, 11 JANUARY (see above!).

We will send another message shortly after 11 January which will include
plans for a reception and the updated agenda.

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

Regards,

AMWG Co-chairs, Phil Rasch, Minghua Zhang, Leo Donner
pjr at ucar.edu,  Leo.J.Donner at noaa.gov, mzhang at notes.cc.sunysb.edu