[RegCNET] European Geosciences Union (EGU) session of interest to RegCNET

[Raymond Arritt]

Dear RegCNET Friends,

Burkhardt Rockel, David Williamson and I are convening a session 
entitled "Generality of Climate Models and their Components" (session 
CL9) at the EGU General Assembly, to be held 19-24 April 2008 in 
Vienna.  The aim of the session is to discuss how the performance of 
global and regional climate models and parameterizations varies for 
different regions of the world and different climate regimes.  The 
session description provides more details (see below).

Quite a few RegCNET participants are performing research that is 
related to the session theme and we encourage you to submit abstracts 
for the session.  We point out especially that the "hypermatrix" 
concept being executed in part through RegCNET is highly relevant to 
the topic of this session.

Please note the abstract deadline is Tuesday, 13 January 2009.

Some links for the EGU assembly are given below following the session 
description.  If you would like to discuss whether an abstract would 
be appropriate, or if you have other questions about the session, 
please let me know.  The EGU meeting is always interesting and Vienna 
is a beautiful location.  We look forward to seeing you there.

Regards,
Ray Arritt
for the CL9 organizers



CL9 Generality of climate models and their components

Climate models and their component parameterizations do not perform 
equally well for all regions of the globe or for all climate regimes. 
These disparities in model performance will become increasingly 
important as demand grows for climate-change information on regional 
scales. This session solicits contributions that explore the 
generality of climate models and their components across varying 
locations and across varying scales of space and time. Both global and 
regional climate models as well as reanalyses and data assimilation 
systems that use such models are relevant to this session. Examples of 
appropriate contributions include but are not limited to comparisons 
of model performance in different regions of the globe; independent 
verification of reanalyses for different regions or climate regimes; 
conflicts between the need for model "tuning" versus the conceptual 
ideal of generality; performance of parameterizations across a range 
of spatial scales; and relative performance of physical 
parameterizations when applied to differing climate regimes. 
Contributions that compare model performance across several GEWEX 
Continental Scale Experiment (CSE) regions are especially encouraged.


Links:

General information for the EGU General Assembly 2009 is available from:
http://meetings.copernicus.org/egu2009/

The Call-for-Papers entry for this session is at:
http://meetingorganizer.copernicus.org/EGU2009/session/214

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  Raymond W. Arritt                              tel +1-515-294-9870
  Professor, Department of Agronomy              fax +1-515-294-2619
  3010 Agronomy Hall, Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa  50011   USA
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