University of Alaska Fairbanks, Geophysical Institute,

Elvey Auditorium/Globe Room

 

Agenda

 

Tuesday, March 13

 

Session Chair:      Nicole Mölders

 

9:00 – 9:30                Welcome

 

9:30 – 10:30              Keith M. Hines, Ohio State University,

The Polar WRF (invited)

 

10:30 – 10:40            Introduction into the Poster Presentations

 

10:40 – 11:00            Break

 

11:00 – 12:30            Panel Discussion Future Impact of Climate Change

chaired by Greg Newby

Panelists: Flannery, Olsson, Romanofsky, Wendler

 

12:30 – 13:30            Lunch (with weather briefing)

 

Session Chair:      Martin Stuefer

 

13:30 – 14:00            John Cassano, University of Colorado/CIRES,

Development and Evaluation of Polar WRF: SHEBA and ARM North Slope of Alaska Simulations

 

14:00 – 14:30            Robert Aune, NOAA/NESDIS/STAR,

Modeling Arctic Clouds and Precipitation using MODIS

 

14:30 – 15:30            Peter Q. Olsson, University of Alaska Anchorage, AEFF,

Numerical Weather Forecast over Prince William Sound of Alaska (invited)

 

15:30 – 15:45            Break

15:45 – 16:15            Rob Cermak, University of Alaska Fairbanks, Alaska Ocean

 Observing System,

A Pre-operational WRF Forecasting, Verification and Data Access System

 

16:15 – 16:45            Eugene M. Petrescu (presented by Don Morton), Weather

Forecast Office Missoula,

Investigating the Treatment of Winter Inversions by WRF

 

16:45 – 17:15            James A. Nelson, National Weather Service, Anchorage, Alaska,

Operational Modeling Efforts at the Anchorage NWS Forecast Office

 

17:15 – 17:45            Eric Stevens, National Weather Service, Fairbanks, Alaska

The Need for Fine-Resolution Local Modeling at the Fairbanks, Alaska Office of the National Weather Service

 

Wednesday, March 14

 

Session Chair:      Eric Stevens

 

9:00 – 10:00              Georg A. Grell, Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental

Sciences (CIRES), University of Colorado/NOAA Research – Forecast Systems Laboratory, Boulder, Colorado,

Description and Application of a State-of-the-Art Fully Coupled Multi-Scale Air Quality and Weather Prediction Model (WRF/Chem) (invited)

 

10:00 – 10:30            Peter W. Webley, University of Alaska Fairbanks, Arctic

                                    Region Supercomputing Center,

Using WRF Forecasts in Operational Dispersion Modeling of Volcanic Ash

 

10:30 – 11:30            Poster Session

Presentations by Morgan Brown, Ronald P. Daanen, Oceana Francis-Chythlook,  Jeremy Krieger, Debasish Pai Mazumdar, Nicole Mölders and Nicole Mölders,

 

11:30 – 12:00            Stanley Benjamin, NOAA/ESRL Global Systems Division,

                                    Assimilation and Modeling Branch, Boulder, Colorado,

The NOAA "Rapid Refresh" Hourly-Updated Assimilation/Model Forecast Cycle Using WRF for Aviation and Situational Awareness - (RUC goes North-American)

 

12:00 – 12:30            Nicole Mölders, University of Alaska Fairbanks, Geophysical

Institute/College of Natural Science and Mathematics,

On the Prediction of Alaska Fire Weather

 

12:30 – 14:00            Lunch (with weather briefing)

 

Session Chair:      N.N.

 

14:00 – 14:30            Nicholas A. Bond, University of Washington, Seattle,

Mesoscale Model Experiments for SARJET

 

14:30 – 15:00            Haibo Liu, University of Alaska Anchorage, AEFF,

A Climatology of Operational Model Simulated Low Level Jets over Cook Inlet and Shelikof Strait of Alaska

 

15:00 – 15:30            Don Morton, University of Alaska Fairbanks, ARSC/The

University of Montana, Dept. of Computer Science, Missoula,

Tradeoffs in Resolution versus Computational Resources in Modeling a Tanana Valley Wind Event

 

15:30 – 15:45            Break

 

15:45 – 16:15            Paul Shannon, National Weather Service, Juneau, Alaska,

Modeling Marine Winds in Complex Terrain – WRF vs WsEta

 

16:15 – 16:45            Martin Stuefer, University of Alaska Fairbanks, Arctic

Region Supercomputing Center/Geophysical Institute,

Smoke Dispersion in Alaska's Interior

 

16:45 – 17:15            Xingang Fan, University of Alaska Fairbanks, Geophysical

Institute,

Simulating Beaufort Sea Coastal Wind Events Using MM5 and WRF

 

18:30                          Dinner out

 

Thursday, March 15

 

Session Chair:      Don Morton

 

9:00 – 10:00              John Michalakes, National Center for Atmospheric Research,

MMM Division, Boulder, Colorado,

The Weather Research and Forecast Model (invited)

 

10:00 – 10:30            Zhao Li, University of Alaska Fairbanks, Geophysical

Institute/College of Natural Science and Mathematics,

Impact of Central Alaska Land-Cover Changes on Evapo(transpi)ration and Precipitation

 

10:30 – 10:45            Break

 

10:45 – 11:15            David E. Atkinson, University of Alaska Fairbanks,

International Arctic Research Center,

Surface Observational Data Support for Model Verification

 

11:15 – 11:45            Jessica E. Cherry, University of Alaska Fairbanks, International

Arctic Research Center/Arctic Region Supercomputing Center,

Development of a New Pan-Arctic Land-Based Snowfall Product

 

11:45 – 13:00            Discussion chaired by Nicole Mölders

 

13:00                          Departure Weather Briefing