NAME 2004 Data Analysis Meeting and

Seventh Meeting of the NAME Science Working Group (SWG-7)

Mexico City, MX, 9-11 March, 2005

 

Program

  (Update: 21 February 2005)

 


Wednesday 9 March 2005

 

2:00 pm          Welcome / Logistics, etc. - Miguel Cortéz

2:10 pm          Reflections on NAME 2004 - Michel Rosengaus

2:20 pm          Goals / Objectives / Special Recognition - Wayne Higgins

 

Session 1:      NAME 2004 Overview         

Chair: Art Douglas

2:40 pm         NAME 2004 Overview - Wayne Higgins

3:00 pm          NAME 2004 Forecast Operations Center - Erik Pytlak

3:20 pm          NAME 2004 Project Office Activities - Gus Emmanuel

3:40 pm          NAME 2004 Field Data Catalog - José Meitín

4:00 pm         NAME 2004 Data Management - José Meitín, Scot Loehrer & Linda Cully

 

4:20 pm          Break

           

Session 2:      NAME 2004 Field Observations

                        Chair: David Gochis

4:40 pm          Enhanced sounding network: Performance and results - Paul Ciesielski

5:00 pm          NWS & SMN soundings / SMN Participation - Art Douglas and Miguel Cortéz

5:20 pm          PIBAL network / special raingauge measurements - Mike Douglas

5:40 pm          Research aircraft operations and results - Mike Douglas

6:00 pm          Overview of wind/flux/radiation observations at the ETL/AL flux site - Leslie Hartten

           

6:20 pm          Adjourn

 


 


Thursday 10 March 2005

 

Session 2:      NAME 2004 Field Observations, cont.

                        Chair: David Gochis

8:30 am          NAME Event Raingauge Network: Results and legacy issues - David Gochis

8:50 am          NAME Simple Raingauge Network - René Lobato

9:10 am          Profiler-based precipitation observations at the ETL/AL flux site - Christopher Williams

9:30 am          Vegetation Feedback and Soil Moisture projects - Chris Watts, M. Douglas et al.

9:50 am          SMEX04 - Tom Jackson and Dennis Lettenmaier

 

10:10 am        Break

 

10:30 am        Oceanographic measurements (R/V Altair) - Chris Fairall

10:50 am        Oceanographic measurements (CICESE) - Mike Douglas, Miguel Lavin & Tereza Cavazos

11:10 am        S-Pol radar data collection - Steve Rutledge

11:30 am        SMN radar network - Tim Lang

11:50 am        Overview of the observations made at the ETL/AL flux site - Christopher Williams, Clark King

 

12:10 pm        Box Lunch

 

Session 3:      NAME Diagnostics Studies

                        Chair: Richard Johnson

 

1:10 pm         Assessment of NCEP data assimilation systems during NAME04 -Kingtse Mo

1:30 pm         Diurnal cycle of cloudiness and precipitation using satellite observations - Pingping Xie

1:50 pm          NAME Precipitation Assessment Project - Wei Shi

2:10 pm         Some preliminary findings from a dynamically-based precipitation climatology in the Mazatlan - Culiacan region - Rit Carbone

2:30 pm          Climate Variability Studies over the American Warm Pools - Victor Magaña

           

2:50 pm          Break

 

3:10 pm          Gulf surges, the diurnal cycle, and convective outflows during NAME as
revealed by the NCAR ISS array - Richard Johnson

3:30 pm          Moisture Surges during NAME: Eta model evaluation and diagnosis - Hugo Berbery

3:50 pm          Relationships between gulf surges and tropical cyclones in the eastern Pacific basin - Wayne Higgins

4:10 pm          The diurnal cycle of precipitation over the Americas based on CMORPH - Vern Kousky

 

Session 4:      Executive Session

                        Chair: Wayne Higgins

 

4:30 pm          Executive Session (SWG)

-       NAME Data Analysis Panel Report assignments;

-       BAMS Article

-       SWG 2004 rotation

                        -   New Business (Extending the NAME timeline; Next meeting)

 

6:30 pm          Adjourn

 



Friday 11 March 2005

 

Session 5:       NAME Applications

                        Chair: Andrea Ray

 

8:30 am         The NAME Hydrometeorology Working Group / Engaging the International Community - David Gochis.

8:50 am        Hydroclimate in Mexico - Andrea Ray

9:10 am        Water Management in Mexico - Margaret Wilder

 

Session 6:    Plans for using NAME 04 Data in Modeling

                        Chair: Luis Farfán

 

9:30 am          Summary of the VPM8 Session on NAME Modeling & NAMAP2 - Dave Gutzler

9:50 am          Issues for global modeling / diurnal cycle activities - Siegfried Schubert

 

10:10 am          Break

 

10:30 am        NAME CPT / Issues for prediction - Jae Schemm

10:50 am        NOAA Climate Test Bed - Wayne Higgins

10:50 am        Warm-season convection over the U.S. continent: Simulation, modeling and parameterization - Mitch Moncrieff

 

11:30 am        NAM biases in an NCEP reanalysis-like ('reforecast') model - Brian Mapes

 

11:50 am        Effects of Assimilating Surface Measurements on the North American Monsoon: A Case Study Using a Regional Climate Model During the NAME 2004 - Kiran Alapaty

12:10 am         Brief discussion: Summary and recommendations for NAME modeling - Kingtse Mo

12:30 pm        Workshop Ends