[RegCNET] Regional climate modeling session at Spring AGU meeting

[Raymond Arritt]

Dear RegCNET Colleagues,

We encourage you to present your research in session A12, "Dynamical
Regional Climate Modeling" at the 2006 AGU Joint Assembly (Spring
Meeting) to be held 23-26 May in Baltimore, Maryland USA.  The session
will be broadly inclusive of the current status of RCMs, with
contributions that relate to outstanding issues in RCM development and
practice being especially encouraged.  Note that issues relating to RCM
applications also are relevant to the session; examples could include
novel ways to interpret RCM results, or challenges in the use of RCM
output for climate impacts studies.

Abstracts are due by 2359 UTC on 1 March 2006.  Please keep in mind that
the AGU is very strict about their deadline -- they will not allow you
to submit an abstract even one minute after the deadline.  The Joint
Assembly web page contains abstract submission instructions and other
details, at http://www.agu.org/meetings/ja06/

You are welcome to get in touch with any of the session conveners if you
have questions.  We hope to see you in Baltimore.

Regards,
Ray Arritt
For the A12 Session Conveners


Session Description:   Dynamical regional climate models (RCMs) have
become standard tools for studying climate processes on small scales and
for downscaling global climate model (GCM) results to finer spatial
resolution. This session will provide an overview of the current state
of the art in dynamical RCMs and will summarize outstanding issues in
the development and application of RCMs. Contributions are solicited on
topics including but not limited to RCM intercomparison projects; design
of RCM simulations in light of the needs of climate impacts studies;
effects of resolution and physical parameterizations on RCM accuracy;
and skill of RCMs when applied to different regions.

Invited Speakers:

Dr. E. Hugo Berbery, University of Maryland, "How does preceding soil
moisture influence the onset of the South American Monsoon?"

Dr. Isaac Held, NOAA Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory, "A
planetary-scale perspective on regional hydrological responses to global
warming"

Dr. Linda O. Mearns, National Center for Atmospheric Research (title TBD)

Dr. Kenneth Mitchell, NOAA National Centers for Environmental
Prediction, "Summer and winter seasonal simulation and prediction
experiments at NCEP with the Eta Regional Climate Model"


Conveners: 	

Raymond Arritt, Iowa State University, rwarritt at bruce.agron.iastate.edu

L. Ruby Leung, Pacific Northwest National Laboratories, Ruby.Leung at pnl.gov

Colin Jones, Université du Québec à Montréal, jones.colin at uqam.ca

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