Transcript Contributed White Papers:presented July27-28

NCAR’s Director’s Retreat
Summary
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1 ½ days June 13-14
Presentations of thematic science areas
Working group discussions of presentations
Plenary
Director’s meeting/discussion
Cyberinfrastructure - H Tufo
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Large investments needed for credible effort
$100M machines
$10M/annum Comp Sci personnel
Joint activity with science
Observational Facilities –
D Parsons
• Hiaper deployment
• Instrument development
• Satellite/remote sensing
Tech, observation & decision
support systems – B Sharman
• Research and develop weather and climate
forecast systems
• Deliver decision support tools to users in
public and private sectors
• Coupled modeling/prediction
• Advanced verification
• Hydrometeorology
• Homeland security
Science and Society - J Kleypas
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Link climate change to biosphere
Link society and science
Millennium ecosystem assessment
Combine climate change projections with
ecosystem response predictions
• Make model output useful for ecosystem
studies
Learning and Professional
Development - M Hagan
• Life-long learning and professional
development
• Build diversity
• Fill-in gaps in SOARS
• Summer faculty fellowships, sabbaticals
Past, Present and Future
Climates - J Kiehl
• Climate sensitivity
• Human induced: GHG & Aerosols
• Modes of climate variability and abrupt
change
• Responses of climate system: water
availability, air quality
Weather & Short-term
predictability – C Davis
• Prediction continuum: hours to interannual
• Scale interactions and nested models
• VERY SHORT RANGE prediction: merge
nowcast with NWP
Past, present and future atmos
composition - A Guenther
• Emission, transport, transformation,
deposition
• Chemistry in climate
• Aerosols, clouds and water cycle
• Regional air quality-WRF chem
• Satellite observations
Sun system and vertical
coupling-K MacGregor
• Solar dynamo modeling-climate forcing
• Coronal Mass ejections-space weather
• Linkages to troposphere and coupled sunearth system
End Product: 6 GOALS
• Develop and maintain robust & accesible
cyberinfrastucture for…
• Develop and maintain robust suite of
observational facilities for…
• Investigate, understand and predict the behavior of
the Earth and Sun systems
• Develop technology, observation and decision
support systems and transfer them to
public/private sector
End Product: 6 GOALS (cont)
• Enhance the societal benefits from
atmospheric and related sciences
• Support life-long learning & professional
development in atmospheric and…
NEXT STEP
• List of 5-10 year objectives under each
heading.
• Position papers from June retreat will feed
this step with input from:
• ESSL Directors’ committee retreat
• NSA white papers
Contributed White Papers: to be
presented July27-28
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Remote Sensing (Bob Harriss, Bill Emery)
Gravity Waves (Hanli Liu, Brian Ridley)
Cyberinfrastructure
Regional Climate
Earth System Model
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Need volunteers for WPs and
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Cyberinfrastructure
Regional climate
Earth system model
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