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2012 SPARC Data Assimilation Workshop
2012
SPARC Data Assimilation Workshop
Fidel
Center 3rd
Floor Conference Area,
New
Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology, Socorro, New Mexico
11–13
June 2012
AGENDA
(final)
Monday Morning 11 June 2012 (Chair:
Manney/Minschwaner)
8:30–9:00 Registration
9:00–9:20 Welcome:
Mary Dezember, NMT Associate Vice President for Academic Affairs
Ken Minschwaner, David Jackson, Gloria Manney
Session 1 – SNAP
9:20–10:00 P. Hitchcock et al
(Invited), Stratospheric
Predictability and the Arctic Polar-night Jet Oscillation
10:00–10:40 M. Charron, et al
(Invited), The
Stratospheric Extension of the Canadian, Global Deterministic Medium
Range Weather Forecasting System and its Impact on Tropospheric
Forecasts
10:40–11:10 Coffee Break/Poster
Viewing
11:10-11:30 Y. Zyulyaeva & S.
Gulev, Troposphere-Stratosphere
Interaction Diagnostics of the 3D Eliassen-Palm Flux and its
Association with the North Pacific SST in Different NWP Products
11:30–11:50 D. Jackson,
Intercomparison
of Operational Stratosphere-resolving Global NWP Systems
11:50–12:10 SNAP Discussion
(Charron/Jackson leading)
12:10–1:30 Lunch/Poster Viewing
Monday Afternoon 11 June 2012
(Chair: Schwartz/Davis)
Session 2 – Gravity
Waves (GW)
1:30–2:10 M.J. Alexander
(Invited), Gravity
Waves: Contrasting Observations and their Representation in Climate
Models
2:10–2:40 M. Pulido et al, A
Model Independent Technique Based on the Ensemble Kalman Filter to
Estimate Unresolved Gravity Wave Drag: Evaluation on the Lorenz 96
Model
G. Scheffler & M.
Pulido, Impact
of Gravity Wave Drag Parameter Estimation using Data Assimilation on
the General Circulation of the Middle Atmosphere
2:40–3:00 Poster Previews
3:00–4:00 Poster
Session I
4:00–4:40 D. Siskind (Invited),
Case
Studies of the Middle Atmospheric Response to Gravity Wave Drag using
NPGAPS-ALPHA at Varying Resolutions
4:40–5:00 R.S. Lieberman, Tidal
Variability in NOGAPS-ALPHA
5:00–5:20 GW Discussion
(Alexander leading)
5:30 GW Side Meeting
6:00 Icebreaker
Tuesday Morning 12 June 2012
(Chair: Hitchcock/Santee)
Session 3 – S-RIP I
9:00–9:20 M. Fujiwara & S.
Polavarapu, SPARC
Reanalysis/Analysis Intercomparison Project (S-RIP)
9:20–10:00 M. Rex (Invited),
Studies
of the Tropical Tropopause Region and Polar Ozone Loss – Two
Areas that are Particularly Sensitive to Uncertainties in
Meteorological Fields from Data Assimilation Systems
10:00–10:20
C. Long et al,
Usefulness
of the Recent Reanalyses to Provide Indicators of Climate Change
10:20–10:40 S. Chabrillat et al,
Fitness
of Meteorological Analyses by ECMWF and CMC to Model Tracer Transport
in the Arctic Vortex 2010-2011
10:40-11:10 Coffee
Break/Poster Viewing
11:10–11:50 K. Rosenlof
(Invited), The
Stratospheric Mean Meridional Circulation as Diagnosed from
Reanalyses
11:50–12:10
A.E. Dessler & M.R. Schoeberl, On
the Control of Stratospheric Water Vapor and the Implications for
Climate Change
12:10–12:30 S. Davis et al,
Multi-diagnostic Intercomparison of Tropical Width Time Series Using Models,
Reanalyses, and Satellite Observations
12:30–2:00 Lunch/Poster
Viewing/S-RIP Side Meeting
Tuesday Afternoon 12 June 2012
(Chair: Fujiwara/Dessler)
Session 4 – S-RIP II
2:00–2:20
G.L. Manney et al, Climatology
and Variability of Upper Tropospheric/Lower Stratospheric Jets from
MERRA Reanalysis
2:20–2:40 M.J. Schwartz et al,
Characteristics
of Multiple Tropopauses in Data Assimilation Systems as a Context for
Analysis of Satellite-based Trace Gas Measurements
2:40–3:00 S. Davis et al,
Variability and Trends in Effective Diffusivity from Reanalysis, and their
Implications for Stratospheric Circulation Changes
3:00-3:20 S-RIP discussion (Fujiwara
leading)
3:20–4:20
Poster Session
II
Session 5 – DAS
4:20–4:40
J.P. McCormack et al, High
Altitude Data Assimilation at the Naval Research Laboratory: Recent
Results and Future Directions
4:40–5:00 C.
Long et al, Current
and Future Plans at NCEP for Reanalysis
5:00–5:20 L.
Neef & K. Matthes, Assimilating
Observations of Atmospheric Angular Momentum: Synthetic-Observation
Experiments with NCAR's Community Atmospheric Model
5:20-5:40 Q. Errera
& R. Menard, Spectral
Representation of Spatial Correlations in Variational Assimilation
Systems with Grid Point Models: Application to the Belgian
Assimilation System of Chemical Observations (BASCOE)
6:30 Workshop Dinner (NMT Macey
Center, North Patio)
Wednesday Morning 13 June 2012
(Chair: Alexander/Jackson)
Session 6
– Chem DAS
9:00–9:20 J.L. Neu et al, Joint
Assimilation of Tropospheric Emission Spectrometer and Microwave Limb
Sounder Ozone Measurements in
the GEOS-Chem Chemistry Transport Model
9:20–9:40 K. Wargan et al,
Recent
Advances in Ozone Data Assimilation at the GMAO - Towards a New
Reanalysis
9:40–10:00 M. Keller et al, (presented by Dylan Jones)
Assimilating
MOPITT CO Observations in GEOS-CHEM using a Weak Constraint 4D-Var
Algorithm
10:00–10:20 F. Kolonjari et al,
ACE-FTS
Measurements of Anthropogenic Ozone Depleting Substances
10:20–10:50 Coffee Break/Poster
Viewing
10:50–11:10 J. deGrandpre et al,
On
the prognostic treatment of stratospheric ozone in the Environment
Canada global NWP model
11:10–11:30 T. Verhoelst, et al,
Parameterized
Observation Operators and Their Application on Illustrative 3D
Atmospheric Chemical Fields
11:30–12:30 Overall
Discussion/Wrap-up/Future Plans (Jackson Leading)
1:30 VLA Tour
Posters:
Session I, staffed Monday afternoon
M.L.
Santee et al, Variations
in trace gas distributions in the upper troposphere and stratosphere
deduced from Aura Microwave Limb Sounder measurements and their
relationship to the strength of transport barriers diagnosed from
meteorological analyses
W.H. Daffer et al, Intercomparisons
of Upper Tropospheric/Lower Stratospheric Jet and Tropopause
Diagnostics in Operational Data Assimilation Products
J.
France et al, A
Climatology of Stratopause Temperature and Height in the Polar Vortex
and Anticyclones
G.L. Manney et al, Stratospheric
Sudden Warming Signatures in Satellite Data and Data Assimilation
Systems: Stratopause Evolution and Transport
S. Bancala et al, Analyzing
the Preconditioning of Major SSWs in ECMWF Assimilations
J. Xu and A. M. Powell
VUncertainty of the Stratospheric/Tropospheric Temperature
Trends in 1979-2008: Multiple Reanalyses, MSUs, and Radiosondes
Session II, staffed Tuesday
afternoon
K.W. Hoppel et al, Assimilation
of SSMIS UAS brightness temperature observations for mesospheric
analysis
S. Skachko et al, Ensemble-based
Data Assimilation for Stratospheric Chemistry
A. Lambert et al, Aura
MLS Near-Real_Time Processing Stream for use in Data Assimilation and
in Support of SEAC4RS
W.A. Lahoz et al, Monitoring
Air Quality: the Role of OSSE's in Determining the Future Global
Observing System
R.S. Lieberman et al, Doppler
Wind and Temperature Sounder
Links to presentations and posters arranged by first author:
Joan Alexander
Severin Bancala
Simon Chabrillat
Martin Charron
William Daffer
Sean Davis (tropical width)
Sean Davis (effective diffusivity)
Jean deGrandpre
Andrew Dessler
Quentin Errera
Jeff France
Masatomo Fujiwara
Peter Hitchcock
Karl Hoppel
David Jackson
Dylan Jones
Felicia Kolonjari
William Lahoz
Alyn Lambert
Ruth Lieberman (tides presentation)
Ruth Lieberman (Wind/Temp poster)
Craig Long (climate)
Craig Long (NCEP plans)
Gloria Manney (jets)
Gloria Manney (USLM poster)
John McCormack
Lisa Neef
Jessica Neu
Manuel Pulido
Markus Rex
Karen Rosenlof
Michelle Santee
Michael Schwartz
David Siskind
Sergey Skachko
Tijl Verhoelst
Krzysztof Wargan
Jianjun Xu
Yulia Zyulyaeva
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