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Events

Workshop
Tutorial


FIRST CORDEX-WRF Workshop


Workshop Schedule

Hour

Monday, October 1st


Tuesday, October 2nd

9:00 - 9:20

REGISTRATION


CORDEX-South America: Overview of on-going activities Silvina Solman, Centro de Investigaciones del Mar y la Atmósfera, Argentina

9:20 - 9:40


9:40 - 10:00

WELCOME


Dinamical Downscalling of the atmospheric and oceanic circulation at the Peru coast for IPSL-CM4 climate scenarios Véra Oerder, Univ. Pierre et Marie Curie, France

10:00 - 10:20


Sensitivity of the atmospheric circulation in the Intra-Americas Seas region to the Caribbean upwelling. Sarah Berthet, Univ. Pierre et Marie Curie, France

10:20 - 10:40

CORWES: a coordinated contribution to CORDEX by the Spanish WRF community. Jesús Fernández. Santander Meteorology Group, University of Santander, Spain


DRIHM and EXPRESS-HYDRO projects Antonio Parodi, CIMA Research Foundation, Italy

10:40 - 11:00


11:00 - 11:30

COFFEE BREAK


COFFEE BREAK

11:30 - 11:50

Coordination of the Cordex Africa Analysis initiative and preliminary results Chris Lennard. Climate Systems Analysis Group, University of Cape Town, South Africa  


Experiences with WRF in EURO-CORDEX Kirsten Warrach-Sagi. Uni. Hohemheim, Institut fuer Physik und Meteorologie, Stuttgart, Germany

11:50 - 12:10


12:10 - 12:30

Predictability of Off Season rain Extreme Events over Western Africa: Assessing WRF simulation of 2002 case over Senegal. Abdoulaye Sarr, Agence Nationale de la Météorologie Senegal


The WRF-CORDEX initiative in France: simulations, problems and on-going work Emmanouil Flaounas, IPSL, Paris, France

12:30 - 12:50

A multi-physics ensemble over the CORDEX-Africa domain Ana Casanueva. Santander Meteorology Group, University of Santander, Spain


Regional Climate Modelling for Ireland using a Representative Carbon Pathways Approach R.F. Teck, Department of Geography, National University of Ireland, Ireland

12:50 - 13:10

Cloud climatology in Africa-CORDEX domain from CMIP5 models and WRF. Albano González. GOTA, University of La Laguna, Spain


EURO-CORDEX regional climate simulations: Hindcast 1990-2008 Eleni Katragkou, Department of Meteorology and Climatology, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece

13:10 - 13:30

Presentation of the groups. All attendants not presenting a communication. in the workshop are encouraged to briefly (5 min. máx) present her/his group . And provide a short report of status and plans in relation to CORDEX-WRF.


Exploring WRF configuration sensitivity over the Euro-CORDEX domain Markel García, Santander Meteorology Group, University of Santander, Spain

13:30-15:00

LUNCH


LUNCH

15:00 - 15:20

Dynamical downscaling of regional climate for Pacific Islands Yuqing Wang. IPRC/SOEST, University of Hawaii at Manoa, Honolulu, U.S.A.


Assessment of the WRF topographic parameterization for the surface wind speed over Spain Raquel Lorente, Universidad de Murcia, Spain

15:20 - 15:40


Coupling of WRF to a regional ocean model for climate applications Pedro Jiménez, Universidad de Murcia, Spain

15:40 - 16:00

NARCliM: NSW | ACT Regional Climate Modelling project. Lluis Fita. Climate Change Research Centre, University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia


Dynamical downscaling in the Eastern Mediterranean and the Middle East using PRECIS Regional Climate Model Energy George Zittis, Environment and Water Research Center, Cyprus

16:00 - 16:20


Discussion: Coordination of the groups Motivation topics:

* Potential studies (with the goal of writing a paper)

* Sharing tools

* Developing new tools in common

16:20 - 16:40

CMIP5 GCM evaluation over several CORDEX domains: a downscaling perspective Jesús Fernández. Santander Meteorology Group, Spain


16:40 - 17:00

WRF simulations of water vapor in orographically complex terrains (Canary Islands). Juan C. Pérez. GOTA, University of La Laguna, Spain



17:00 - 17:30

COFFEE BREAK



17:30 - 17:50

Discussion session for the coordination of the different CORDEX domains Motivation topics:

* GCM access

* Fill the matrix (small GCM set?)

* Small number of configuration sets? Ensemble of opportunity?

* Validation data sets

* Postprocessing tools



17:50 - 18:10



18:10 - 18:30



18:30 - 18:50



18:50 - 19:10


Visit to San Cristóbal de La Laguna (UNESCO World Heritage Center)


Wednesday, October 3rd



9:00 - 19:00

On Wednesday, the Island Government (Cabildo de Tenerife, http://www.tenerife.es) offers a visit to the Institute of Technology and Renewable Energies (ITER, http://www.iter.es/index.php) and a tour around the island, including a visit to the Teide National Park (http://reddeparquesnacionales.mma.es/en/parques/teide/index.htm). WRF discussion and colaboration in a relaxed manner during the trip is encouraged ;-)





CORWES/WRF4G Hands-on Tutorial


Tutorial Schedule

Hour

Thursday, October 4th


Friday, October 5th

09:00 - 09:30

1.- WRF4G

* Introduction

* Basics: components & deployment

* Run basic examples


4.- Post-processing WRF output files

* p_interp (modified)

* Customizing WRF4G post-processors

09:30 - 10:00


10:00 - 10:30


10:30 - 11:00


11:00 - 11:30

COFFEE BREAK


COFFEE BREAK

11:30 - 12:00

2.- WRF4G

* Monitoring & debug

* Add multiple computing resources

* Customizing boundary data pre-processors


5.- Post-processing WRF output files

* WRF NetCDF eXtract aNd Join

12:00 - 12:30


12:30 - 13:00


13:00 - 13:30


13:30 - 14:00

LUNCH


LUNCH

14:00 - 14:30


14:30 - 15:00


15:00 - 15:30

3.- CLWRF

* Introduction

* Using CLWRF


Contributed tools

15:30 - 16:00


16:00 - 16:30


16:30 - 17:00


17:00 - 17:30

COFFEE BREAK


COFFEE BREAK

17:30 - 18:00

4.- Modifying the (CL)WRF code

* Adding a new averaged variable

* Adding a sounding

* Using RCP4.5 GHG concentrations



18:00 - 18:30



18:30 - 19:00



19:00 - 19:30