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The meeting agenda and some presentations from the meeting are available below. The presentations are posted with permission from the authors.
obs4MIPs - CMIP6 Planning Meeting | |||
April 29 - May 1, 2014 | |||
NASA Headquarters, 300 E Street SW, Washington, DC | |||
Day 1 (Apr 29) | Chair/Speaker | Rapporteur | |
8:00 | Check in (West Entrance, NASA HQ) | ||
8:30 | Meeting Introduction | ||
Welcome from NASA and DOE | Jack Kaye/NASA, Gerald Geernaert/DOE | ||
Remarks from the WCRP, WDAC | Michel Rixen/WMO, Otis Brown/WDAC | ||
Overview/Status of obs4MIPs | Duane Waliser | ||
Essential components | Karl Taylor | ||
CMIP6 evolution | Veronika Eyring | ||
Benchmarking climate model performance, WDAC Task Team | Peter Gleckler | ||
Examples of using satellite observations in model evaluation | Carl Mears | ||
Simulators overview | Robert Pincus | ||
Meeting objectives | Robert Ferraro | ||
10:30 | Break | ||
11:00 | Atmospheric Composition & Radiation | Kevin Bowman |
Nathaniel Livesey Arlindo da Silva |
Aerosol and radiation: CMIP6 model evaluation needs | Bill Collins | ||
Aerosols observations | Thomas Holzer-Popp | ||
Radiation observations | Norm Loeb | ||
Chemistry-Climate Observations and CMIP6 model evaluation needs | Brian Duncan | ||
Discussion | |||
12:30 | Lunch | ||
13:30 | Atmospheric Physics | Robert Pincus |
Tony Mannucci Claudia Stubenrauch |
Boundary Layer process modeling and observations | Joao Teixeira | ||
Convection and cloud-related processes: CMIP6 model evaluation needs | Christian Jakob | ||
Cloud properties: observations | Helene Chepfer | ||
Precipitation characteristics | Graeme Stephens | ||
Cloud simulators and CMIP6 model evaluation needs | Alejandro Bodas-Salcedo | ||
Discussion | |||
15:30 | Break | ||
16:00 | Additional Topics - Moderated Group Discussion | Duane Waliser |
Peter Gleckler Karl Taylor |
- CMIP6 forcing data sets | |||
- High frequency observations for CMIP6 model evaluation | |||
- High spatial resolution for CMIP6 model evaluation | |||
- Geostationary data? | |||
- Beyond satellite data (in-situ) | |||
- CFMIP-obs alignment? | |||
17:30 | Adjourn | ||
Day 2 (Apr 30) | Chair/Speaker | Rapporteur | |
8:30 | Announcements | ||
8:40 | Broadening involvement: Agency Perspectives / Reanalysis | Tsengdar Lee |
Renu Joseph Takuja Kubota |
NOAA | John Bates | ||
ESA | Simon Pinnock | ||
EUMETSAT | Jörg Schulz | ||
JAXA | Takuji Kubota | ||
9:25 | Reanalysis: contributions and caveats | Jean-Noel Thepaut | |
9:45 | ana4MIPs | Jerry Potter | |
9:55 | Terrestrial Water & Energy Exchange, Land Cover/Use | Christa Peters-Lidard |
Lukas Gudmundsson Dave Schimel |
Terrestrial Water & Energy Exchange observations & CMIP6 modelling needs | Alexander Löw | ||
Land use/cover observations & CMIP6 modelling needs | George Hurtt | ||
Discussion | |||
10:55 | Break | ||
11:25 | Carbon Cycle | Jim Randerson | Kathy Hibbard |
CMIP6 model evaluation needs | Forrest Hoffman | ||
Observations | Dave Schimel | ||
Discussion | |||
12:25 | Lunch | ||
13:25 | Oceanography & Cryosphere | John Dunne |
Sophie Nowicki Anastasia Romanou |
Ocean: CMIP6 model evaluation needs | Eric Guilyardi | ||
Ocean observations | Felix Landerer | ||
Cryosphere: CMIP6 model evaluation needs | Ron Kwok | ||
Snow/sea ice/ice sheet observations | Walt Meier | ||
Discussion | |||
14:55 | Additional Topics - Group Discussions | Mike Bosilovich |
Jörg Schulz Chi Ao |
Moderated discussions: | |||
- Satellite simulators: future development needs | |||
- The role of reanalysis in obs4MIPs/relationship to ana4MIPs | |||
15:30 | Break | ||
16:00 | Additional Topics - Group Discussion (continued) | Mike Bosilovich |
Jörg Schulz Chi Ao |
- Times and locations of measurements & averaging kernels for sampling of model output | |||
- Climate impacts research needs? | |||
16:45 | obs4MIPS - CMIP6 Alignment: Discussion | Karl Taylor |
Peter Gleckler Duane Waiser |
obs4MIPs formats/revisions/documentation | Robert Ferraro | ||
CMIP6 output - changes to better align with observations? | |||
17:30 | Adjourn | ||
Day 3 (May 1) | Chair/Speaker | Rapporteur | |
8:30 | Review & Actions | ||
Rapporteur summaries (commenting on requirements, simulators etc.) 5-10 minutes each | |||
Criteria for qualifying as obs4MIPs data - Discussion | |||
10:00 | Break | ||
10:20 | Action/ Recommendations for obs4MIPs - CMIP6: Discussion |
Robert Ferraro Veronika Eyring |
Duane Waliser Peter Gleckler Karl Taylor |
Observational dataset recommendations for improved model evaluation | |||
Model output recommendations to improve alignment with observational capabilities and constraints | |||
Use of simulators in CMIP6 | |||
Routine benchmarking/evaluation of CMIP6 models | |||
11:50 | Meeting End Notes | ||
12:00 | Adjourn |