GEWEX Cloud System Study - Working Group 4

Meetings

The inaugural meeting focused on evaluating and intercomparing CRMs using observational datasets from TOGA COARE. This meeting, entitled "Evaluation and Intercomparison of GCSS Cloud-resolving Models using TOGA COARE Observations", was held 21-23 October 1996 in Annapolis, Maryland. It was co-hosted by NASA Goddard Space Flight Center and NCAR.

The second meeting, the "Joint COARE Flux/Oceans/GCSS-WG 4 Workshop", was a joint meeting with the COARE Flux Working Group. It was held 14-16 May 1997 in Boulder, Colorado, and was hosted by NCAR.

This was the final workshop of the COARE Flux Group, and attempted to tidy up, resolve or review the many issues which have occupied the Group's attention since the IOP ended. Much of the discussion reported is relevant to the business of COARE98. Also, the concept of a joint workshop between a very active modelling group and the ocean and atmospheric scientists who participated in the COARE experiment, foreshadows the strong modeller/observer collaboration which we hope will be an outcome of COARE98.

The third meeting was part of COARE98, 7-14 July 1998, Boulder, CO.

The proceedings were published as COARE-98: Proceedings of a Conference on the TOGA Coupled Ocean-Atmosphere Response Experiment (COARE), Boulder, CO, USA, 7--14 July 1998, WCRP-107. [WMO/TD-No. 940]

The fourth meeting was the joint DOE ARM SCM (Single-Column Modeling )/GCSS WG 4 Workshop, 4-6 October 1999, Princeton, NJ, hosted by GFDL.

The fifth meeting was the Joint GCSS WG 4 and DOE ARM CPM (Cloud Parameterization and Modeling) WG Meeting, 6-8 November 2000, Silver Spring, MD, hosted by EMC/NCEP/NOAA.

EUROCS meeting in Lisbon, Portugal, May 2001

The sixth meeting was the Joint GCSS WG 4 and DOE ARM CPM (Cloud Parameterization and Modeling) WG Meeting, 22-24 October, 2001, Boulder, CO, hosted by NCAR.

EUROCS meeting in Utrecht, hosted by IMAU University of Utrecht and KNMI De Bilt, 8-10 April 2002

EUROCS meeting in Madrid, hosted by INM, 16-19 December 2002

The seventh meeting was the joint meeting between GCSS WG1, WG3, WG4, and
DOE ARM cloud modeling WG and cloud properties WG. It was held in
Broomfield, Colorado, during the week of October 27th, 2003. You can find an agenda (with links to presentations) and a short report online.