The First IPRC Regional Climate Modeling Workshop

Agenda

Asia Room, Jefferson Hall East-West Center
1777 East-West Road, Honolulu, HI 96822
October 10 - 12,  2001

Wednesday, October 10, 2001

8:00-8:30          Registration and coffee

8:30-8:45          Opening

Session 1. Overview of group activities

Chairperson: Bin Wang, International Pacific Research Center, University of Hawaii

8:45-9:15 

Regional Climate Modeling: An Overview

Yuqing Wang, International Pacific Research Center, University of Hawaii

9:15-9:45 

SUNYA Modeling Program on Studying Regional Climate over East Asia

Wei-Chyung Wang, Atmospheric Science Research Center, State University of New York at Albany

 

9:45-10:15

Development of a Highly Resolved Regional Climate Model at IPRC

Yuqing Wang, Omer Sen and Bin Wang,  International Pacific Research Center, University of Hawaii

 

10:15-10:45

Present View on Development of MRI Regional Climate Models.

Yasuo Sato, and Kazuo Mabuchi, Hidetaka Sasaki, Kazuyo Adachi, Izuru Takayabu, Meteorological Research Institute, Japan Meteorological Agency

10:45-11:00 Coffee break

Chairperson: Fujio Kimura, Institute of Geoscience, University of Tsukuba

11:00-11:30

Numerical Experiments of Regional Climate Model in NCC 

Yiming Liu and Yihui Ding, National Climate Center, China Meteorological Administration

 

11:30-12:00

Explicit Modeling of Regional Climate in the LSA-East with the Coupled MM5/SsiB Model. 

Da-Lin Zhang and Weizhong Zheng, Department of Meteorology, University of Maryland, College Park, MD 20742, and Yong-Kang Xue, Department of Geography, University of California at Los Angeles

 12:00-13:30 Lunch

Session 2.  Scientific presentations

Chairperson: Wei-Chyung Wang, State University of New York at Albany

 

13:30-14:00

Development of the U.S. Weather Research and Forecast (WRF) Model

Duane Stevens, Department of Meteorology, University of Hawaii, Jeff Tilley University of Alaska at Fairbanks, and Joe Klemp, National Center for Atmospheric Research

 

14:00-14:30

Asian-Australian Monsoon Variability during 1997-1998 El Nino Simulated by Eleven AGCMs.

Bin Wang, International Pacific Research Center, University of Hawaii, In-Sik Kang and June-Yi Lee, School of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Seoul National University

 

14:30-14:50

Monsoonal climate from ECHAM4.6 and CCM3.6.6 with different resolutions and truncations.
Ping Liu, International Pacific Research Center, University of Hawaii

 

14:50-15:10

Coupled GCM Simulations.

Tim Li, Xiouhua Fu, Yongsheng Zhang, Bin Wang, International Pacific Research Center, University of Hawaii

 

 

15:10-15:30    Coffee break

Chairperson: Da-Lin Zhang, Department of Meteorology, University of Maryland

15:30-15:50

Study on the Formation Mechanism of the Baiu Front Using a Regional Climate Model. Fujio Kimura and Takao Yoshikane, Institute of Geoscience, University of Tsukuba

 

15:50-16:10

An Interactive Cloud Water-Climate Scheme in SUNYA Regional Climate Model for Studying East Asia Summer Monsoon. 

Wei Gong and Wei-Chyung Wang, Atmospheric Science Research Center, State University of New York at Albany

 

16:10-16:30

Evaluation of the Land Surface Model (BATS) Implemented into IPRC-RegCM1.

Omer Sen and Yuqing Wang, International Pacific Research Center, University of Hawaii

 

16:30-16:50

Verification of the Climate Features of a Regional Climate Model with BAIM.  

Kazuo Mabuchi and Yasuo Sato, Meteorological Research Institute, Japan Meteorological Agency

 

16:50-17:10

Numerical Simulations of Summer Trade-Wind Weather over the Island of Hawaii. 

Yi-Leng Chen, Department of Meteorology, University of Hawaii

 

17:10-17:30

Far-field Effects of the Hawaiian Islands: Observations and MM5 Simulations. 

Jan Hafner and Shang-Ping Xie,  International Pacific Research Center, University of Hawaii

18:00-20:00    IPRC Reception 

Thursday, October 11, 2001

Session 3. Issues related to model physics

8:30-9:45         Cloud-radiation feedback
                        Chairperson: Wei-Chyung Wang, State University of New York at Albany

9:45-11:00       Boundary layer processes including land-surface and ocean coupling
                        Chairpersons: Omer Sen and Yuqing Wang, International Pacific Research Center, University of Hawaii

11:00-11:15    Coffee break

11:15-12:30     Convective parameterizations
                         Chairperson: Fujio Kimura, Institute of Geoscience, University of Tsukuba

12:30-13:30    Lunch 

Session 4. Nesting strategies, verification and validation