[RegCNET] European Geophysical Society (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 
CL21) at the EGU General Assembly, to be held 13-18 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 members are performing research that is relevant to the session 
theme and we encourage you to submit abstracts for the session.  Please 
note the abstract deadline is Monday, 14 January (one week from today).

The session will have presentations from two invited speakers.  Joao 
Teixeira will discuss results from the GCSS/WGNE Pacific Cross-section 
Intercomparison (GPCI).  Many of you are interested in parameterization 
of clouds and convection within climate models, so we think you will 
find Joao's talk to be interesting.  Also, Elizabeth Hunke will report 
on developments in sea ice modeling.  Elizabeth's talk is especially 
timely in light of the widespread concern over the record low Arctic sea 
ice that was observed this year.

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 
wonderful location.  We look forward to seeing you there.

Regards,
Ray Arritt



CL21 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.Invited Speakers  	

Invited speakers:
		
Joao Teixeira, GCSS/WGNE Pacific Cross-section Intercomparison (GPCI)

Elizabeth Hunke, Los Alamos National Laboratories, Developments in sea
ice modeling

Links:

General information for the EGU General Assembly 2008 is available from:
http://meetings.copernicus.org/egu2008/

The call for papers for the EGU Climate section is at:
http://www.cosis.net/members/meetings/programme/view.php?m_id=49&p_id=298

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   Raymond W. Arritt                              tel +1-515-294-9870
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