15th Session of the WGCM

DAY 1 - Wednesday, October 19 - Joint Session with the WCRP/CAS Working Group on Numerical Experimentation (WGNE)

0830 - 1030

Welcome (10 min) - G. Meehl, S. Bony, C. Jakob, A. Brown

Overview of WGCM activities, potential WGCM-WGNE collaboration (10 min) - G. Meehl, S. Bony
Overview of WGNE activities (10 min) - C. Jakob, A. Brown
WCRP JSC overview (30 min) - M. Rixen
CMIP (30 min) - R. Stouffer and K. Taylor
Tanspose AMIP (30 min) - K. Williams

1030 - 1100 - Coffee break

1100 - 1230

Climate Model Metrics Panel (30 min) - P. Gleckler
CFMIP (30 min) - S. Bony
YOTC and new MJO experiments (30 min) -D. Waliser, M. Moncrieff, J. Petch

1230 - 1330 - Lunch

1330 - 1500

WGSIP report (30 min) - B. Kirtman
High resolution AMIP and resolution in climate models (30 min) - Discussion introduced by tbd
CORDEX (30 min) - C. Jones

1500 - 1530 - Coffee break

1530 - 1700

Model development and the prospect of international CPTs (30 min) - Discussion introduced by S. Bony and C. Jakob
Workshops in particular CMIP5 and Systematic errors (30 min) - Discussion introduced by S. Bony and C. Jakob
General discussion on joint activities (30 min) - G. Meehl, A. Brown to chair

1730 - 2000 Reception hosted by NCAR at the Mesa Lab

Meeting Venue

NCAR Mesa Lab1
1850 Table Mesa Drive
Boulder
Colorado
80305
303-497-1000

Local Contact

Our local organizer is Stephanie Shearer, who can help participants with any local queries:

Phone: 303-497-1624
Fax: 303-497-1715
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DAY 2 - Thursday, October 20

0900 - 0915 - Welcome, logistics and Meeting objectives (G. Meehl, S. Bony)

0915 - 0945 (10 minutes each)

WCRP update and WCRP Open Science Conference (M. Rixen)
Report from JSC-31 (G. Flato)
Report from CLIVAR SSG (S. Bony)

0945 - 1030 - CMIP5 status and analysis

CMIP5 update (R. Stouffer, K. Taylor)
CMIP5 Data Availability via ESG (Patterson)
CMIP5 coordinated analysis (G. Meehl)
CMIP5 Analysis Workshop planning (G. Meehl)

1030-1100 - Coffee break

1100-1115 - RCP update (B. O'Neill)

1115 - 1235 Working groups closely associated with CMIP5 (20 minutes each, including questions)

Suggest that each presentation addresses the following issues: status of the MIP; what science have we learned so far?; need for cross-MIPs analyses? plans for an introduction paper; plans for worshops and articulation with the CMIP5 workshop;

Dedadal prediction (B. Kirtman)
PMIP (P. Braconnot)
C4MIP (P. Friedlingstein)
SPARC-CCMVal (V. Eyring)

1235 - 1400 - Lunch

1400 - 1445 Working groups associated with CMIP5 (15 minutes each)

WGOMD (G. Danabasoglu)
CLIC and ice sheet status, sea-level rise, ARCHIMEDES subproject (K. Steffen)
IDAG (D. Karoly)

1445 - 1500 Discussion on CMIP5 Analysis : workshop planning + how to maximize the scientific benefit and impact of CMIP5 on climate research, e.g. encouraging people (or WCRP groups and panels) to synthesize CMIP5 results on different topics

1500 - 1530 - Model evaluation and development (15 minutes each)

WOAP (K. Taylor)

1530 - 1600 - Coffee break

CIRC Radiation code evaluation and intercomparison (E. Mlawer)

1615 - 1630 Observations for model evaluation (15 minutes each)

NASA data initiative status (D. Waliser)
ESA climate initiative (M. Doherty)

1635 - 1700 Synthesis discussion on observations for CMIP5 and other projects of model evaluation

Session ends for the day ~1700

1700-1930 Poster Session and Reception