Monday, 2 June
8:00 - 9:00Registration Hall of the International Conference Center
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8:40 – 10:30 Morning Plenary : New Observations and Field Experiments
Amphitheatre
Key Note Speakers
Chair: Christian Jakob
8:40-9:00
Pier Siebesma & Jean-Louis Brenguier
Opening and Welcome
9:00-9:30
Jean-Luc Redelsperger
The Amma Programme and Opportunities for GCSS
9:30 – 10:00
Joao Teixeira
Recent Satelite Observations: Implications for Cloud Parameterizations
10:00 – 10:30
Pavlos Kollias
ARM’s Future Observations and Products
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10:30 – 11:00BREAK
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11:00 – 13:00 Morning Plenary : (Continued)
Amphitheatre
Contributed Talks
Chair: Christian Jakob
11:00 – 11:20
Kenneth Sassen
1-Year of Global Cloud Climatologies from CloudSat/CALIPSO: A New Era in Cloud Research
11:20 – 11:40
Claudia Stubenrauch
GEWEX assessment of global cloud climatologies: cloud properties and their variation
11:40-12:00
Patrick Minnis
Improvement of passive sensor retrievals of cloud properties using surface and satellite Lidar-Radar Datasets
12:00-12-20
Suzanne Crewell
The Field Programs COPS and GOP 2007: Possibilities for model improvement.
12:20 – 12:40
Roel Neggers
The Cabauw Parameterization Testbed: Motivation, Configuration and Preliminary Results.
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13:00 - 14:00LUNCH
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14:00 – 15:45BREAKOUT SESSIONS OF THE WORKING GROUPS
Boundary Layer Clouds Working Groups (BLCWG)
“Shallow Cumulus and RICO”
Chair: Adrian Lock
Venue: Amphitheatre
Precipitating Convective Cloud Systems
Chair: Jon Petch
Venue: Room 1 (50 pers)
Polar Clouds
Chair: Morrison/Pinto
Venue: Room 2: (25 pers)
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15:45 – 16:15COFFEE AND TEA
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16:15 – 18:00BREAKOUT SESSIONS OF THE WORKING GROUPS (CONTINUED)
Boundary Layer Clouds Working Groups (BLCWG)
“Shallow Cumulus and RICO”
Chair: Adrian Lock
Venue: Amphitheatre
Precipitating Convective Cloud Systems
Chair: Jon Petch
Venue: Room 1 (50 pers)
Polar Clouds
Chair: Morrison/Pinto
Venue: Room 2: (25 pers)
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18:00-20:00 ICEBREAKER RECEPTION
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Tuesday, 3 June
9:00 – 10:30 Morning Plenary :
Cloud Climate Feedback and Impacts of Clouds on Climate
Amphitheatre
Key Note Speakers
Chair*******
9:00-9:30
Mark Webb
Towards understanding the mechanisms responsible for different cloud-climate responses in GCMs
9:30 – 10:00
Steve Sherwood / Sandrine Bony
An energetic link between cloud feedback and present-day climate
10:00 – 10:30
Ming Zhao
Sensitivity of GCM simulated clouds to cumulus mixing, convective cloud microphysics and its implications for cloud feedbacks to climate sensitivities.
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10:30 – 11:00COFFEE BREAK
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11:00 – 13:00 Morning Plenary : (Continued)
Amphitheatre
Contributed Talks
Chair: ******
11:00 – 11:20
Keith Williams
A quantitative climate performance assessment of cloud regimes in GCM’s
11:20 – 11:40
Brian Medeiros
Cloud-Climate sensitivities on a aquaplanet
11:40-12:00
Minghua Zhang
An intercomparison of shallow cumulus/stratocumulus and their climate feedbacks simulated in SCM’s CRM’s and LES under idealized forcings.
12:00-12-20
Chris Bretherton
Low cloud feedback mechanisms in a superparameterized GCM and their plausibility
12:40 – 12:40
Yoko Tsushima
A climate sensitivity study using NICAM
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13:00 – 14:00LUNCH
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14:00 – 15:45BREAKOUT SESSIONS OF THE WORKING GROUPS
Cloud Climate Feedback Working Group (CFMIP)
Chair: Bony/WEbb
Venue: Amphitheatre
Microphysics Working Group
Chair: Ulrike Lohmann
Venue: Room 1 (50 pers)
Cirrus Cloud Systems
Chair: Steven Dobbie
Venue: Room 2: (25 pers)
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15:45 – 16:00COFFEE AND TEA
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16:00 – 17:00BREAKOUT SESSIONS OF THE WORKING GROUPS
Cloud Climate Feedback Working Group (CFMIP)
Chair: Bony/WEbb
Venue: Amphitheatre
Microphysics Working Group
Chair Ulrike Lohmann
Venue: Room 1 (50 pers)
Cirrus Cloud Systems
Chair: Steven Dobbie
Venue: Room 2: (25 pers)
------17:00-19:00 Poster Session I
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Wednesday, 4 June
9:00 – 10:30 Morning Plenary : Tropical Convection
Amphitheatre
Key Note Speakers
Chair*******
9:00-9:30
Julia Slingo
Organised Tropical Convection and the coupling between dynamics and physics.
9:30 – 10:00
Courtney Schumacher
Running tropical convection through the radar gauntlet
10:00 – 10:30
Brian Mapes
Erasing Artificial scale boundaries with global cloud resolving data sets.
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10:30 – 11:00BREAK
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11:00 – 13:00 Morning Plenary : (Continued)
Amphitheatre
Contributed Talks
Chair: ******
11:00 – 11:20
Dave Neelin
The transition to Strong Convection
11:20 – 11:40
Eric Tromeur
Interaction of tropical deep convection with the large scale circulation in the MJO.
11:40-12:00
Christian Jakob
Precipitation and latent heating characteristics of the major Western Pacific cloud regimes
12:00-12-20
Xiaoqing Wu
Improved Climate Simulations of Precipitation Cloud and Radiation Processes with the Constraint of CRM analysis, ARM and Satellite Observations.
12:20 – 12:40
J.-P. Chaboureau
Cross-tropopause transport by convective overshoots in the Tropics
12:40 – 13:00
Peter Bechtold
Advances in Atmospheric Variability with the ECMWF model.
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13:00 - 14:00LUNCH
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14:00 – 15:45BREAKOUT SESSIONS OF THE WORKING GROUPS
GCSS Pacific Cross Section Intercomparison (GPCI)
Chair: Teixeira
Venue: Amphitheatre
Precipitating Convective Systems, Part II
Chair Jon Petch
Venue: Room 1 (50 pers)
Polar Clouds WG part II
Chair: Morrison/Pinto
Venue: Room 2: (25 pers)
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15:45 – 16:00COFFEE AND TEA
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16:00 – 17:00BREAKOUT SESSIONS OF THE WORKING GROUPS
GCSS Pacific Cross Section Intercomparison (GPCI)
Chair: Teixeira
Venue: Amphitheatre
Precipitating Convective Systems, Part II
Chair Jon Petch
Venue: Room 1 (50 pers)
Polar Clouds WG part II
Chair: Morrison/Pinto
Venue: Room 2: (25 pers)
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19:00 – 19:30Transportation to Dinner.
19:30 – 22:30Dinner.
22:30 – 23:00Transportation to City Center.
Thursday, 5 June
9:00 – 10:30 Morning Plenary :
High Resolution Modelling on Large Domains
Amphitheatre
Key Note Speakers
Chair*******
9:00-9:30
Masaki Satoh
Global cloud-resolving model simulations: status and cloud microphysics issues.
9:30 – 10:00
Axel Seifert
The Challenge of convective scale numerical weather prediction
10:00 – 10:30
Marat Khairoutdinov
Large Eddy simulation of deep convection: successes and challenges.
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10:30 – 11:00BREAK
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11:00 – 13:00 Morning Plenary : (Continued)
Amphitheatre
Contributed Talks
Chair: ******
11:00 – 11:20
Dave Randall
Analysis of the MJO in the Super-CAM
11:20 – 11:40
Sue van den Heever
Tropical Convection Characteristics – Comparisons Between Large-Domain Cloud Resolving Model Simulations and CloudSat Observations
11:40 – 12:00
A.T. Noda
Development of a Global Cloud-Resolving Model NICAM:
Boundary-layer process and low-level cloud
12:00 – 12:20
Jorg Trentmann
Evaluation of high-resolution NWP model simulations of mid-latitude deep convection.
12:20 – 12:40
Luc Gerard
Ensuring consistency of operational NWP cloud and precipitation forecasts at various resolutions
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13:00 - 14:00LUNCH
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14:00 – 15:45BREAKOUT SESSIONS OF THE WORKING GROUPS
Boundary Layer Clouds Working Group ( part II)
Chair: Adrian Lock
Venue: Amphitheatre
Special Session on Modelling and Observations
Chair: *****
Venue: Room 1 (50 pers)
Metrics of Climate Models
Chair: Robert Pincus
Venue: Room 2: (25 pers)
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15:45 – 16:00COFFEE AND TEA
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16:00 – 18:00BREAKOUT SESSIONS OF THE WORKING GROUPS (CONTINUED)
Boundary Layer Clouds Working Group ( part II)
Chair: Adrian Lock
Venue: Amphitheatre
Special Session on Modelling and Observations
Chair: *****
Venue: Room 1 (50 pers)
Metrics of Climate Models
Chair: Robert Pincus
Venue: Room 2: (25 pers)
Friday, 6 June
9:00 – 10:20 Morning Plenary :
Summaries and Discussion of the Working Groups
Amphitheatre
Chair*******
9:00-9:20
Adrian Lock
Summary Boundary Layer Clouds Working Group
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9:20 – 9:40
Steve Dobbie
Summary Cirrus Clouds Working Group
9:40 – 10:00
Jon Petch
Summary Precipitating Convective System Working Group
10:00 – 10:20
Hugh Morrisson
Summary Polar Clouds Working Group.
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10:20 – 10:50BREAK
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10:50-11:10
Joao Teixeira
Summary GCSS Pacific Cross Section Intercomparison
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11:10 – 11:30
Ulrike Lohmann
Summary MicroPhysics Working Group
11:30 – 11:50
Webb/Bony
Summary Cloud Climate Feedback Working Group
11:50 – 12:10
Robert Pincus
Climate Model Metrics Working Group.
12:10 – 13:00 Panel Discussion on Themes and Working Group Summaries,
Summary and Conclusions of the Workshop
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13:00 - 14:00LUNCH
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14:00 – 18:00GCSS Panel Meeting (Invitation Only)