AGU Western Pacific Geophysics Meeting (WPGM) — 2010

Session: High-Resolution Global and Regional Modeling and Simulations of High-Impact Weather and Climate

Taipei, Taiwan 22–25 June 2010

Lead session organizer: Bo-Wen Shen (UMCP/ESSIC & NASA/GSFC), with co-conveners: Shian-Jiann Lin (NOAA/GFDL), Jin-Luen Lee (NOAA/ESRL), Masaki Satoh (U Tokyo), and Robert Atlas (NOAA/AOML).

Below is a compact agenda reconstructed from the official program for two oral sessions and a poster session. Please refer to the agenda PDF for complete listings.

Oral Session I — A21E (08:30–09:45) · Room 201ABC

TimeCodeTitleSpeaker(s)
08:30A21E-01Three Paths to High-Resolution Global ModelingD. A. Randall, A. Arakawa
08:45A21E-02Tropical cyclone simulations and predictions with GFDL's prototype global cloud-resolving modelS.-J. Lin, M. Zhao, Y. Fan, C. Kerr
09:00A21E-03Recent progress of the Nonhydrostatic Icosahedral Atmospheric Model (NICAM)M. Satoh
09:15A21E-04Global Multiscale Modeling with NASA Supercomputing Technology: multiscale simulations of tropical cyclogenesis associated with an MJO or AEWB.-W. Shen, W.-K. Tao, W. K.-M. Lau, J. Chern, J.-F. Li, B. Green, R. Atlas
09:30A21E-05NASA's plan for High-Impact Weather Data Assimilation and Modeling ResearchT.-J. Lee
09:45A21E-06The Nonhydrostatic Icosahedral ModelJ. Lee

Oral Session II — A22A (10:30–11:45) · Room 201ABC

TimeCodeTitleSpeaker(s)
10:30A22A-01U.S. Navy Numerical Weather Prediction Systems: Current Status and Future PlansM.-S. Peng
10:45A22A-02Recent Advances and Future Challenges in Cloud Microphysics ParameterizationY. Lin
11:00A22A-03On the Development and Evaluation of the NCEP High-Resolution Global Numerical Weather Forecast ModelF. Yang
11:15A22A-04High-Resolution Weather Modeling over the Hawaiian IslandsY.-L. Chen
11:30A22A-05Simulation of the interannual variation of seasonal northwest Pacific typhoon activity with a regional climate modelC.-Y. Chen, T. Knutson, S. Garner, W. Chang, J. J. Sirutis, Y. Feng, C.-C. Chou
11:45A22A-06Modeling convective–stratiform precipitation processes on a Mei-Yu front with the WRF model: comparison with observations and sensitivity to cloud microphysics parameterizationsY. Luo, Y. Wang, H. Wang, Y. Zheng, H. Morrison

Poster Session — A23B (from 14:00) · Poster Area

CodeTitlePresenter(s)
A23B-135The representation of tropical cyclones within the global non-hydrostatic GEOS-5 model at cloud-permitting resolutionsW. M. Putman, M. Suarez
A23B-142Development of a scalable concurrent visualization approach for high temporal- and spatial-resolution modelsB. Green, C. Henze, B.-W. Shen
A23B-144Predicting Tropical Cyclogenesis with a Global Mesoscale Model: Hierarchical Multiscale Interactions During the Formation of Tropical Cyclone Nargis (2008)B.-W. Shen, W.-K. Tao, W. K.-M. Lau, R. Atlas
A23B-133Incremental improvement on NCEP dynamics code for high-resolution modelingH.-H. Juang
A23B-139High-resolution numerical simulations of airflow and weather over the Island of OahuH. V. Nguyen, Y.-L. Chen, F. Fujioka
More posters are listed in the full agenda PDF.

Sources: official AGU WPGM 2010 program and meeting materials. This summary shows many talks were delivered by lead model developers in high-resolution global/regional modeling.