2nd Hybrid-Isentropic Modeling Workshop
April 18-20, 2002

Workshop Schedule:

Meeting place is the Rauch Planetarium Classroom, unless otherwise noted.

Thursday, April 18:

8:45-9:00am Welcoming remarks: Thomas Hanley, Dean of Engineering [in the Dome]
9:00-9:30am Louis Uccellini, Framework of where NCEP is headed: FY 2005 and beyond
9:30-10:10am Don Johnson, Where have we been, where are we now, and where are we going
10:10-10:40am Coffee Break, Sponsored by the Mechanical Engineering Dept.
10:40-11:10am David Randall, Coupled geodesic atmosphere-ocean-land surface models with hybrid coordinates
11:10-11:50pm Akio Arakawa, A quasi-Lagrangian vertical coordinate model with an improved formulation of PBL processes.
12:15-1:10pm  Lunch, University Club (4-minute walk) Sponsored by the J.B. Speed School of Engineering
1:10-1:40pm  Todd Schaack, Hybrid isentropic modeling at the University of Wisconsin
1:40-2:20pm Stan Benjamin, Mesoscale hybrid modeling with the RUC at 10 and 20 kilometers
2:20-2:50pm Jim Purser, Semi-Lagrangian non-hydrostatic model with a hybrid-theta vertical coordinate.
2:50-3:30pm Afternoon Break:  3pm Private showing of Oasis [in the Dome] Sponsored by the Rauch Planetarium, Shawn Laatsch, Director
3:30-4:00pm  Chris Davis, Coherence of warm-season rainfall over North America: Challenges for weather and regional climate prediction
4:00-4:30pm Pao Wang, An isentropic perspective of deep convection
4:30-5:00pm     Hank Dietz, Engineering PC Cluster Supercomputing Solutions For Meteorological Computing Problems
5:00-5:30pm Walk across campus to view the Comparative Planetology Linux Engine (COMPLINE), a 40-node Flat Neighborhood Network, 104 Sackett Hall
7:00-9:00pm Dinner,  Dillon's Steak House, 2101 S. Hurstbourne Pkwy, 499-7106 Guest Speaker: Randy Baker, head meteorologist for UPS.

Friday, April 19
9:00-9:30am       Brad Pierce, UW-Hybrid model global atmospheric chemistry
                                  predictions during the NASA TRACE-P (TRAnsport & Chemical
                                  Evolution over the Pacific) mission

Friday, April 19:

9:00-9:30am Brad Pierce, UW-Hybrid model global atmospheric chemistry predictions during the NASA TRACE-P (TRAnsport & Chemical Evolution over the Pacific) mission
9:30-10:00am Dowling, Progress on the hybridization of the Explicit Planetary Isentropic-Coordinate (EPIC) atmospheric model
10:00-11:00am Coffee Break & Press Availability
11:00-11:30am Rainer Bleck, Century-scale climate prediction emphasizing CO2 increase in a global coupled model consisting of the GISS atmospheric model and HYCOM
11:30-12:00pm Preliminary Roundup Discussion & Group Photo
12:00-1:30pm Lunch, University Club, Sponsored by the School of Engineering
1:30-2:00pm Ross Heikes, A comparison of vertical coordinate systems for numerical modeling of the general circulation of the atmosphere
2:00-2:30pm David Bacon, Geophysical fluid dynamics using adaptive unstructured grids
2:30-3:00pm  Tom Zapotocny, A chronological progress of physical parameterizations in the UW isentropic models
3:00-3:30pm Afternoon Break
3:30-4:00pm Rainer Bleck, Maximizing isentropic representations in hybrid coordinate models: the ALE (Arbitrary Lagrangian-Eulerian) technique and its use in RUC and HYCOM
4:00-4:30pm Allen Lenzen, Conversion of UW-Hybrid coordinate model for MPP computers
4:30-5:00pm Don Johnson, Diagnostic assessment of numerical accuracies

Saturday, April 20:

10:00-12:00am Discussion and Outline for Workshop Summary Paper
12:30pm Assemble car pool for field trip
12:30-2:00pm   Drive to Maker's Mark Distillery
2:30-3:15pm Guided Tour
4:00-5:00pm Visit to My Old Kentucky Home State Park, Bardstown
5:30-7:00pm  Dinner, Talbot Tavern, Bardstown

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