[RegCNET] EGU abstract deadline has been extended one day

[Raymond Arritt]

Dear colleagues,

The deadline for abstract submission to this year's EGU assembly has 
been extended by one day, to 14 January (24:00 CET).  So if you have 
not yet submitted your abstract there still is time to do so.

As well as the session on regional climate modeling (chaired by Ashraf 
Zakey and Filippo Giorgi) there is another session that will be of 
interest for many of you.  This is session CL9, "Generality of Climate 
Models and their Components. " 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. RegCNET research comparing model 
performance in different regions is well suited to this session.
We point out especially that the "hypermatrix" concept being executed 
in part through RegCNET is highly relevant to the session.

Some links for the EGU assembly are given below following the session 
description.  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
  http://mesoscale.agron.iastate.edu/arritt2.html
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