DICE workshop: 14th to 16th October 2013

The workshop with be hosted by the UK Met Office in Exeter, UK. Details of how to get here and accommodation can be found here.

The workshop will start around lunchtime on Monday 14th October and finish, again in the middle of the day, on Wednesday 16th - the aim being to allow at least some to travel on the Monday morning and Wednesday afternoon.

Although there will be no registration fee, as the Met Office is a secure site, names, affiliation and nationality of those planning to attend must be emailed to Martin Best and Adrian Lock by 30th September. Please also say if you wish to give a talk, including a suggested title.

Timetable for workshop

Monday

• 2.00pm Adrian Lock, Martin Best: DICE intercomparison motivation, CASES-99 plus stages 1b and 2, stage 1a and 2

  3.30pm Tea break

• 4.00pm Eric Bazille: Sensitivity experiment with the 1D model MUSC with ARPEGE or AROME physics for DICE
• 4.30pm Marie-Pierre Lefebvre:DICE results from LMDZ: Stages 1a, 2; stage 1b

  
  Time TBC: group meal in Exeter city centre

• 9.00am Wenyan Huang (via WebEx): Intercomparison of PBL schemes in WRF during DICE experiment
• 9.30am Bert Holtslag: Experiences with the EC-EARTH Single Column model for DICE
• 10.00am Gianpaolo Balsamo, Irina Sandu: ECMWF results
• 10.30am Maria Jimenez: UIB results
• 10.30am Martin Best: Met Office results
  Potential to shuffle the above for additional remote presentations by WebEx

  11.00am Coffee break

• 11.30am GABLS4 stable Antarctic BL case progress and plans, followed by discussion

  1.30-2.30 Lunch

• 2.30pm Mike Ek, Weizhong Zheng (via WebEx): NCEP/EMC results
• 3.00pm Ayrton Zadra (via WebEx): CMC results

  3.30pm Tea break

• 4pm Martin Best, Adrian Lock: stage 3a and 3b intercomparison results and discussion

• 9.00am: discussion of future analysis of DICE and other potential collaborative activities on land-atmosphere coupling
  • Starting with presentations from:
    • Pierre Gentine: radiative convective equilibrium over land
    • Cyril Morcrette: Introduction to the upcoming CAUSES project (Clouds Above the United States and Errors at the Surface)
• Summary of discussion and next steps

Attendees