Eleventh Annual Meeting of the WCRP/CLIVAR/VAMOS Panel (VPM11) Miami, Florida, USA 25-28 March 2008

Hosted by the NOAA Atlantic Oceanographic and Meteorological Laboratory

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Participants of the 11th Session of the CLIVAR VAMOS panel (VPM11)
25-28 March 2008, Miami, Florida, USA

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Agenda in format

List of participants

Logistic information

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Tuesday, March 25, 2008 - Morning Session, Plenary Chair: Hugo Berbery
8:30 am	Welcome - Dave Enfield, local focal point - Bob Atlas, AOML Director - H. Berbery/J. Marengo, VAMOS Co-Chairs
8:40 am	VAMOS Chairs&rsquo Report	Jose Marengo
9:00 am	VOCALS Progress and Plans	Roberto Mechoso
9:30 am	MESA Progress and Plans	Jose Marengo
9:50 am	NAME Progress and Plans	Dave Gochis
10:10 am	LPB RHP Status Report	Hugo Berbery
10:30 - 10:50 am	Break
Tuesday, March 25, 2008 - Morning Session, Plenary Chair: Jose Marengo
10:50 am	CLIVAR ICPO	Carlos Ereño
11:10 am	US CLIVAR	David Legler
11:30 am	VAMOS Modeling Plan	Ben Kirtman
11:50 am	VAMOS Project Office/VAMOS Database	Jose Meitin/Steve Williams
12:10 pm	VAMOS to the future: cross-cutting themes and links to other CLIVAR and WCRP groups	Hugo Berbery
12:30 pm	Lunch
	First Executive Session during lunch (a) VOCALS membership, (b) Discussion on Cross cutting themes
Tuesday, March 25, 2008 - Afternoon Session, Plenary - IASCLIP Chair: Chidong Zhang
2:00 pm	Introduction and science plan overview	Dave Enfield
2:30 pm	Model assessment and improvement strategy	Ben Kirtman
2:50 pm	Comparison of observed vs. model precipitation, MSD	Brian Mapes
3:10 - 3:30 pm	Afternoon Break
3:30 pm	Impact of the Atlantic Warm pool on Summer Climate and Atlantic Hurricanes	Chunzai Wang
3:50 pm	Regional applications & outreach	Lisa Goddard
4:10 pm	Tropical cyclones, hurricanes and IAS climate	Jason Dunion
4:30 - 6:00 pm	General discussion on IASCLIP
6:00 pm	Adjourn
Wednesday, March 26, 2008 - Morning Session, Plenary - Cross-cutting themes Modeling and Predictability Chair: Celeste Saulo
8:30 am	Monsoon Prediction	Jae Schemm
8:50 am	Predictability of the North American Climate	Marty Hoerling
9:10 am	The role of Oceans in the South American Predictability	Paulo Nobre
9:30 am	Predictability from land conditions	Paul Dirmeyer
9:50 am	Challenges in numerical modeling of the VAMOS region	Roberto Mechoso
10:10 - 10:30 am	Break
10:30 am	Regional Climate Modeling in South America	Rene Garreaud
10:50 am	Regional Climate Modeling in North America	Kingtse Mo
11:10 am	Atlantic Variability	Jim Carton and S. Grodsky
11:30 am	Thorpex - VAMOS common interests	Pedro Silva Dias
11:50 am	ACC studies in South America	Jose Marengo
12:10 pm	ACC studies in North America	Tereza Cavazos
12:30 pm	Lunch
Wednesday, March 26, 2008 - Afternoon Session, Plenary - Cross-cutting themes Extremes (floods and droughts) Chair: Dave Gochis
1:30 pm	Droughts	Martin Hoerling
1:50 pm	Extremes and Climate Change	Claudia Tebaldi
2:10 pm	Seasonal Prediction Assessment	Vasu Misra
2:30 - 3:20 pm	General Discussion on integrating science from different groups
3:20 - 3:40 pm	Afternoon Break
3:40 - 6:00 pm	Plenary discussion on VAMOS contributions to CLIVAR and WCRP activities through cross-cutting themes
6:00 pm	Adjourn
Thursday, March 27, 2008 - Morning Session, Plenary - Cross-cutting themes Chair: Jose Marengo
8:30 am	Floods	Dennis Lettenmaier
8:50 am	CLARIS-LPB	Jean-Philippe Boulanger
Interactions among science groups (Led by chairs of science groups)
9:10 am	NAME - IASCLIP	D. Gochis/D. Enfield
9:40 am	NAME - MESA collaborations	J. Marengo/D. Gochis
10:10 - 10:30 am	Break
10:30 am	VOCALS - MESA collaborations	R. Garreaud/J.Marengo
11:10 am	MESA - WAVES - IASCLIP	P. Nobre/D. Enfield/J. Marengo
11:50 am	VAMOS - WCRP/TFSP and CLIVAR/WGSIP	Ben Kirtman
12:10 pm	Report on cross-cutting themes
12:30 pm	Lunch
Thursday, March 27, 2008 - Afternoon Session

-Parallel - NAME

a. Continue Synthesis of emerging NAM scientific and prediction findings
b. Review and refine the NAME Forecast Forum activities and products
c. Finalize the NAME regional climate observing system design

-Parallel - MESA

a. Scientific issues on SAMS predictability
b. Implementation of indices as metrics for monsoons for monitoring and prediction of SAMS components
c. Model developments and bias reductions in global coupled models and regional models and applications for seasonal forecasts, with emphasis on extremes -VAMOS modeling plan and VAMOS-strategy for seasonal climate prediction
d. Impacts of climate change in water resources in the region
e. Update the Science and Implementation Plan
f. Planning of future studies using SALLJEX data and other data available (observations, models, remote sensing data)

-Parallel IASCLIP

4:30 - 6:00 pm NAME Executive meeting
4:30 - 6:00 pm MESA Executive meeting

Meeting ends for non-VAMOS Panel members

Friday, March 28, 2008 - Morning Session, VAMOS Panel Executive Session

- VOCALS issues
- Consideration of IASCLIP as a VAMOS Science Component. Implementation Plan
- WG on extremes in the Americas
- VAMOS Modeling Plan
- Review of NAME progress
- Review of MESA progress
- Next issue of VAMOS newsletter, funding and themes
- Requested input to the WCRP International Monsoon Study (IMS)
- Issues/actions for VAMOS Panel

12:00 pm VPM11 ends

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