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First Day (30 August 2010, Monday)

AM 08:00-08:40     Registration
AM 08:40-09:00     Opening remarks

Session 1: Current status of high resolution NWP models        - Chairs: Kazuo Saito (JMA)

AM 09:00-09:20     1.1 Current status of NCEP operational model system. Jongil Han [view]
AM 09:20-09:40     1.2 AROME: a high resolution model for NWP. Eric Bazile [view]
AM 09:40-10:00     1.3 Mitigation of Spurious Grid-Scale Precipitation in UM. Sang-Ok Han [view]
AM 10:00-10:20     1.4 High resolution atmospheric modeling at the Met Office. Adrian Lock [view]
AM 10:20-10:40     Coffee Break
AM 10:40-11:00     1.5 Real-time high-resolution precipitation forecasts over Korea at
                                    JHWC-GPP. Dong-Kyou Lee [view]
AM 11:00-11:20     1.6 Current studies and future plan on the cloud resolving NWP at MRI/JMA.
                                     Kazuo Saito [view]
AM 11:20-11:40     1.7 The mesoscale NWP system HARMONIE: the status and Challenges.
                                     Sami Niemelä [view]
AM 11:40-12:00     1.8 Current status of real-time convective-scale NWP at NCAR. Jimy Dudhia,
                                     Morris Weisman, Chris Davis and Wei Wang [view]
PM 12:00-1:00       LUNCH

Session 2: Multi-scale modeling        - Chairs: Wei-Kuo Tao (NASA)

PM 1:00-1:20     2.1 Progresses Weather and Climate Prediction using the Icosahedral-hexagonal
                                     Gridpoint Global Model. Jai-Ho Oh, Sumin Woo and Ara Koh
PM 1:20-1:40     2.2 Evaluations of cloud properties of the global cloud-resolving simulations and
                                     cloud microphysics. Masaki Satoh [view]
PM 1:40-2:00     2.3 A Global/Regional Integrated Model system (GRIMs) Song-You Hong [view]
PM 2:00-2:20     2.4 A Goddard multi-scale modeling system with unified physics. Wei-Kuo Tao
PM 2:20-2:40     2.5 Development of a quasi-3D multi-scale modeling framework. Joon-Hee Jung
                                     and Akio Arakawa [view]
PM 2:40-3:00     2.6 Numerical Simulations over Mountains. Wen-Yih Sun, Wu-Ron Hsu,
                                     Patrick Haines, Ming-En Hsieh, Shu-Hua Chen, and David Grove [view]
PM 3:00-3:20     Coffee Break
PM 3:20-4:30     Saved for extra presentation or summary of day 1 talks
PM 4:30-5:30     Poster presentation
PM 6:00-           RECEPTION

Second Day (31 August 2010, Tuesday)

Session 3: Precipitation and chemistry physics        - Chairs: Georg A Grell (NOAA)

AM 8:40-9:00     3.1 A three-dimensional convective ensemble parameterization for a smooth
                                    transition to cloud resolving scales. Georg A Grell [view]
AM 9:00-9:20     3.2 Cumulus parameterization scheme for gray zone resolution. Tae-Young Lee
                                     and Wu Xing [view]
AM 9:20-9:40     3.3 Atmospheric chemistry modeling at high resolution. Mary Barth, Alma Hodzic,
                                     and Jeff Lee [view]
AM 9:40-10:00     3.4 Effects of aerosols on cloud microphysics simulations with Weather Research
                                     Forecasting (WRF) model. Rokjin J. Park, Soo Ya Bae, Kyo-Sun Sunny
                                     Lim, and Song-You Hong
AM 10:00-10:20   3.5 Aerosol-induced changes in urban convection and precipitation. Ji-Young
                                     Han, Jong-Jin Baik, and Alexander Khain [view]
AM 10:20-10:40     Coffee Break

Session 4: Turbulence and subgrid-scale physics        - Chairs: Eric Bazile (MetFrance)

AM 10:40-11:00     4.1 Progresses in PBL parameterization in atmospheric models. Song-You
                                     Hong [view]
AM 11:00-11:20     4.2 PBL parameterization used in the NWP models at Météo-France. Eric
                                     Bazile [view]
AM 11:20-11:40     4.3 Recent update in convection and vertical diffusion schemes in the NCEP
                                     global forecast system. Jongil Han and Hua-Lu Pan [view]
AM 11:40-12:00     4.4 Momentum flux spectrum of convective gravity waves: Validation of a
                                    parameterization using ensemble mesoscale simulations. Hye-Yeong Chun
                                     and Hyun-Joo Choi [view]
PM 12:00-12:20     4.5 Impact of typhoon-generated gravity waves in the typhoon development.
                                    So-Young Kim and Hye-Yeong Chun
PM 12:20 - 1:20     LUNCH

Session 5: Large-eddy modeling and its application        - Chairs: Chin-Hoh Moeng (NCAR)

PM 1:20-1:40     5.1 Large-eddy simulation and its applications. Chin-Hoh Moeng [view]
PM 1:40-2:00     5.2 Turbulent collision-coalescene of cloud droplets and its impact on warm rain
                                     initiation. Lian-Ping Wang
PM 2:00-2:20     5.3 How turbulence should be represented in atmospheric models at kilometric
                                     scales. Rachel Honnert, Valéry Masson and Fleur Couvreux [view]
PM 2:20-2:40     5.4 Progress in turbulence parameterization for geophysical flows. Boris Galperin
                                     and Semion Sukoriansky [view]
PM 2:40-3:00     5.5 LES of the ocean mixed layer and its application to NWP. Yign Noh [view]
PM 3:00-3:20     5.6 Some examples of the use of LES to develop parametrizations at the Met
                                     Office. Adrian Lock [view]
PM 3:20-3:40     Coffee Break
PM 3:40-4:40     Break-Out Groups     - Chairs: Jimy Dudhia (NCAR)
                Convection, PBL/LES, ... sub-groups to discuss for their topic
                : what are the different approaches in current NWP models?
                : what are the grid/subgrid-scale-related problems in current models?
                : possible solutions and future directions in NWP



Session 6: Plenary Discussion [record file down]
PM 4:40-6:00                - Chairs: Jimy Dudhia (NCAR) and Song-You Hong (Yonsei Univ.)

                6.0 Summary of break-out groups (5 minutes per group).
                ::: General Discussion
                6.1 What are the convection-permitting and cloud-resolving scales?
                : What is the parameterization cut-off length scale for each physical process?
                6.2 What is the role of sub-grid scale parameterization?
                : What is the future of cumulus parameterization?
                : What is the future of PBL parameterization?
                6.3 What are the prospects and limitations of LES modeling?
                : What considerations are needed to use LES for the sub-grid scale parameterization?
                : What considerations are needed for embedding LES within an NWP model?

Third Day (1 September 2010, Wednesday)

Session 7: Future efforts and Wrap-up discussion [record file down]
AM 9:00-10:00                                        - Chairs: Song-You Hong (Yonsei Univ.)


AM 10:00      Workshop ends