U.S. CLIVAR Scientific Steering Committee Meeting

(SSC-11)

The Scientific Steering Committee of the U.S. CLIVAR Program
will hold its 11th full meeting

December 16-18, 2003
Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory
Palisades, NY

BLDG: Lamont Hall (Bldg 14 on the map)
ROOM: Lamont Hall Conference Room

Travel Arrangements (e.g. lodging, travel, contacts)
http://www.joss.ucar.edu/joss_psg/meetings/clivar_ssc11/

The UCAR - JOSS contact person is Jill Reisdorf (303-497-8636).

Meeting Agenda and Supporting Documents
***pdf files require Acrobat 5.0 or later reader software***

1. SSC-11 Agenda *• Agenda with a few more names and details •
2. PanAmerican Panel Enhanced Monitoring Report *•
3. Pacific Panel Enhanced Monitoring Report (draft) •
4. Tropical Atlantic Climate Experiment (draft from Atlantic Panel) *•
Text (936K), Figures (5.3 MB)
5. U.S. Participation in AMMA plan (4.4 MB)*•
6. Example roadmaps from NASA •

7. List of US CLIVAR Supported Workshops/meetings 2003 *•
8. Tropical Bias workshop summary *•
9. Coupled Data Assimilation workshop report *•
10. Ongoing Analysis of the climate system (aka reanalysis) workshop draft report *•
11. Atlantic Marine ITCZ Workshop report *•
12. AAMWG summary •
13. Atlantic AMI Process Study Brief (added 12/15)•

* Distributed to SSC members 12/11
• Posted to web site 12/12

DRAFT AGENDA (last updated Dec 11, 2003)
Day 1 – December 16, 2003 - Tuesday
0830-1015 SSC Executive (SSC members only)
1015-1030 Break

1030-1050 Welcomes, introductions, logistics
1050-1120 Meeting objectives
1120-1220 Panel/Working Group Reports:
Southern Ocean Working Group Report & discussion
1220-1330 Lunch
1330-1430 Panel/Working Group Reports: Pacific Panel Report & discussion
1430-1530 Panel/Working Group Reports: Atlantic Panel Report & discussion
1530-1600 Break
1600-1700 NOAA Climate Observations (Mike Johnson) and discussion
1700-1720 CLIVAR Conference Update
1740 LDEO Reception, Monell Bldg, Mike Purdy-Host

Day 2– December 17, 2003 - Wednesday
0830-0930 AMMA Presentation and discussion
0930-1030 Panel/Working Group Reports: PanAmerican Panel Report & discussion
1030-1100 Break
1100-1215 Panel/Working Group Reports: AAMWG Working Group Report & discussion
1230-1330 Lunch
1330-1430 IRI (Steve Zebiak) and discussion
1430-1530 Modeling discussion
1530-1600 Break
1600-1700 Agency Reports (10-min each for NOAA, NASA, NSF) + discussion
1700-1730 A CLIVAR Roadmap…introduction (example roadmaps from NASA)
1730-1830 Executive Session (SSC members only)
TBD Group Dinner (Hosts: Martin and Kerstin Visbeck)

Day 3– December 18, 2003 - Thursday
0830-0930 Roadmap
0930-0945 Enhanced Monitoring - Introduction
0945-1005 TACE – Bill Johns, Univ of Miami: 20-min presentation then discussion
1005-1025 Break
1025-1100 Enhanced Monitoring - Discussion
1100-1215 NOAA Climate Programs (Chet Koblinsky) and discussion
1215-1245 Meeting summary
1245-1400 Executive Session (SSC members and panel chairs – Lunch served)
1400-1530 Executive Session (SSC members only)

Attendance

Fein Jay
Gutzler Dave
Hurrell James
Johnson Richard
Legler David
Schopf Paul
Stephens Cathy
Thorncroft Chris
Walliser Duane
Weller Robert
Wielicki Bruce
Meehl Jerry
Roemmich Dean
Kessler Billy
Johns Bill
Held Issac
Itsweire Eric
Todd Jim
Koblinsky Chet
Johnson Mike
Patterson, Mike
Bamzai, Anjuli

Local
Cane Mark
Goddard Lisa
Gordon Arnold
Visbeck Martin
Zebiak Steve
Schlosser Peter