Program

Workshop on Polar Simulations with the Weather Research and Forecasting (WRF) Model

Details

Time	Event
Tuesday November 1
6:00 - 9:00 PM	Workshop welcome at the University Plaza Hotel & Conference Center, 3110 Olentangy River Rd. Snacks provided. Cash bar.
Wednesday November 2
Location: Room 240, Scott Hall, Byrd Polar Research Center, The Ohio State University
8:00 - 8:45 AM	Continental Breakfast
8:45 - 9:00	Ellen Mosley-Thompson, Director, Byrd Polar Research Center Workshop welcome
9:00 - 9:30	Keith Hines, OSU Testing and formal release of Polar WRF 3.3.1 Abstract
9:30 - 10:00	John Cassano, UC-Boulder Modeling the Arctic Atmosphere with the Regional Arctic Climate Model (RACM) Abstract
10:00 - 10:30	Aaron Wilson, OSU Polar WRF Forecasts on the Arctic System Reanalysis Domain: Atmospheric Hydrologic Cycle Abstract
10:30 - 11:00	Break
11:00 - 11:30	Ola Persson, CIRES Arctic Process Studies Using a Fine-Resolution WRF Abstract
11:30 AM - 12:00 PM	Jordan Powers and Kevin Manning, NCAR WRF Real-Time Modeling in Antarctica Under AMPS: Efforts and Issues
12:00 - 12:30	Francis Otieno, OSU Development and testing of Polar WRF, Part IV: Antarctica Abstract
12:30 - 1:00	Kevin Manning, NCAR Recent analyses of simulations from the Antarctic Mesoscale Prediction System
1:00 - 2:00	Lunch
2:00 - 2:35	Poster overviews, about 5 minutes each.
2:35 - 3:30	Poster viewing: Mira Losic, Rutgers: Inferring Impacts of Volcanic Eruptions on Baffin Island Climate Using WRF Download Poster Mark Seefeldt, Rhode Island: wrfout_to_cdf - A post-processing utility for creating CF compliant NetCDF files from native wrfout files Download Poster Victoria Smith, Leeds: Observations of gravity and inertial in the region of the Antarctic Peninsula waves during the OFCAP field project Marco Tedesco, CCNY: Validation of a regional climate model (MAR) outputs through surface measurements and satellite data Download Poster David Bromwich, OSU: The ACCIMA project: coupled modeling of the high southern latitudes Download Poster • Abstract Ola Persson, CIRES: The Impact of a Humidity Inversion on the Persistence of a Decoupled Arctic Mixed-Phase Stratocumulus Download Poster Ola Persson, CIRES: Investigation of Microphysical Parameterizations of Snow and Ice in Arctic Clouds during M-PACE Through Model-Observations Comparisons Download Poster Ola Persson, CIRES: Relative Roles of Wind Forcing and Ice Dynamics for Predicting Short-Term Sea-Ice Movement as Estimated from In-Situ Observations Download Poster
3:30 - 4:00	Break
4:00 - 4:30	David Reusch, New Mexico; Derrick Lampkin, Penn State University; David Schneider, NCAR Characterizing and Predicting Surface Melt in Antarctica Abstract
4:30 - 5:30	Discussion of lessons learned from using WRF in the polar regions
5:30	Finish for the day
7:00	Workshop Dinner at Milestone 229, 229 Civic Center Drive, Columbus, Ohio 43215.
Thursday November 3
8:30 - 9:00 AM	Continental Breakfast
9:00 - 9:30	Craig Schwartz, NCAR Assimilation of microwave radiance measurements over the Antarctic with WRFDA-3DVAR Abstract
9:30 - 10:00	Zhiquan Liu, NCAR Atmospheric Data Assimilation with WRF-3DVAR: lessons learned from ASR
10:00 - 10:30	Michael Barlage, NCAR ASR land data assimilation Abstract
10:30 - 11:00	Break
11:00 - 11:30	Michael Barlage, NCAR Plans for a new land surface model for NCEP operations and for use with WRF Abstract
11:30 AM - 12:30 PM	David Bromwich and Lesheng Bai, OSU Results from Arctic System Reanalysis – Interim version and plans for the future
12:30 - 1:30	Lunch
1:30 - 2:30	Discussion of data assimilation in the polar regions
2:30 - 3:30	Tours of BPRC Research Facilities
3:30 - 4:30	Discussion of review paper on polar simulations with WRF
4:30	Close of Workshop
6:00	Dinner at J. Liu, 50 W Bridge St, Dublin, Ohio 43017