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AGENDA
NARCCAP USER MEETING
NCAR, Foothills Lab, EOL Atrium
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| THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 14, 2008 |
| 08:30 - 10:00 |
PIs' meeting (PIs only) |
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| 10:00 - 10:15 |
Break (Users join group, pick up badges, materials) |
| 10:15 - 10:45 |
Welcome and Overview -- Linda Mearns |
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General Introductions |
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Outline of meeting structure |
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High-level overview of NARCCAP |
| 10:45 - 12:30 |
User Introductions |
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Each user has 5-7 minutes to give a brief explanation of his/her works and how he/she uses climate model results, and plans for using NARCCAP data |
| 12:30 - 13:30 |
Lunch (salads and sandwiches brought into meeting room) |
| 13:30 - 14:00 |
Putting NARCCAP in broader context - the IPCC and Introduction to AOGCMS used in NARCCAP -- Richard Jones |
| 14:00 - 14:30 |
Time Slice Experiments
GFDL AM2.1 -- Isaac Held
CAM3 -- Phil Duffy |
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Preliminary climate change results from the two AGCM time slice experiments |
| 14:30 - 15:00 |
About the RCMs -- various modeling group members |
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Representative from each RCM modeling group will talk for ~15 minutes about the important features of their RCM and what users ought to know about them. |
| PRECIS -- Richard Jones |
| CRCM -- Sebastien Biner |
| MM5 -- Gene Takle |
| WRF -- Ruby Leung |
| ECPC -- John Roads (presented by Ruby Leung) |
| RegCM3 -- Lisa Sloan (presented by Bill Gutowski) |
| 15:00 - 15:15 |
Break |
| 15:15 - 16:15 |
About the RCMs, continued |
| 16:15 - 16:35 |
Overview of NCEP-driven run results -- Bill Gutowski |
| 16:35 - 17:15 |
Discussion with users (topics TBD) |
| 17:20 - 18:00 |
Cocktail hour - Foothills Lab Atrium |
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| 18:00 |
Dinner - Foothills Lab Cafeteria |
| 20:00 |
Return to Golden Buff |
| FRIDAY FEBRUARY 15 2008 |
| 09:00 - 09:20 |
Earth System Grid (ESG) Introduction -- Don Middleton |
| 09:20 - 10:00 |
Introduction to Model Output -- Seth McGinnis and Larry McDaniel |
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Description of data - formats, organization, useful tools |
| 10:00 - 11:00 |
Data Lab -- Seth McGinnis, Larry McDaniel, and Olga Wilhelmi |
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Walkthrough downloading data, hands-on experimentation & troubleshooting, presentation of data in GIS |
| 11:00 - 11:15 |
BREAK |
| 11:15 - 11:45 |
Model Uncertainty -- Steve Sain |
| 11:45 - 13:00 |
Lunch (salads and sandwiches in atrium) |
| 13:00 - 14:00 |
Feedback & Discussion 1 |
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Small groups for discussion about user needs, concerns and how they should be met
Climate Analysis Group Notes
Downscaling Group Notes
Impacts Group Notes |
| 14:00 - 14:45 |
Feedback & Discussion 2 |
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Collect back into large group to summarize small group discussions and general roundtable discussion - collect user ideas for web site
Large Group Notes |
| 14:45 - 15:00 |
Final Wrap Up |
| 15:00 |
Meeting Ends |
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Super Shuttle to the airport |
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