Joint MPAS/WRF Users Workshop 2025
Agenda
Workshop agenda (with presentation numbers) for 2025 can be found here.
The agenda below will be updated in the next few days.
All sessions will take place at NSF NCAR/UCAR Center Green Campus located at 3080 Center Green Dr Boulder, CO 80301.
Session 1A: Model Development Updates
Chair: Jordan Powers, NSF NCAR/MMM
Tuesday June 3, 2025: 8:30 - 9:45
8:30 am
Opening Remarks (pdf)
8:45 am
Bill Skamarock, NSF NCAR/MMM
9:05 am
Jimy Dudhia, Ming Chen, Wei Wang, Anthony Islas, and Kelly Werner, NSF NCAR/MMM
9:25 am
Zhiquan (Jake) Liu, NSF NCAR/MMM
9:45 am
Coffee Break
Session 1B: Model Development Updates
Chair: Bill Skamarock, NSF NCAR/MMM
Tuesday June 3, 2025: 10:15-12:00
10:15 am
Jimy Dudhia and Bill Skamarock, NSF NCAR
10:30 am
Yeer Cao, Wanliang Zhang, Fei Chen, Cenlin He, Yanyan Cheng, Alexis Kai Hon Lau, Jimmy Chi Hung Fung, and Junhao Hu, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (virtual)
10:45 am
Tzu-Shun Lin, Cenlin He, Changhai Liu, Ronnie Abolafia- Rosenzweig, Zhe Zhang, Jimy Dudhia, NSF NCAR, Michael Barlage, NOAA/Global Systems Laboratory, and Andrew Newman, NSF NCAR
11:00 am
Laura Fowler, Mary Barth, Soyoung Ha, Rajesh Kumar, Gabriele Pfister, and Chris Snyder, NSF NCAR
11:15 am
Pedro A. Jimenez, Anthony Islas, Daniel Rosen, M. Eghdami, and J. Dudhia, NSF NCAR
11:30 am
Integration of a Wildfire Smoke Plume Rise Scheme into MPAS-A: A Case Study of the 2019 Williams Flats Fire (pdf)
Jaqueline Pereira, Saulo Freitas, INPE National Institute for Space Research, Sao Jose dos Campos, Brazil, Mary Barth and Bill Skamarock, NSF NCAR (virtual)
11:45 am
Mary Barth, Adam Herrington, and Brian Dobbins, NSF NCAR
Session 2: Data Assimilation
Chair: Zhiquan (Jake) Liu, NSF NCAR/MMM
Tuesday June 3, 2025: 1:00 – 2:30
1:00 pm
Alberto Ortolani (CNR-IBE; LaMMA), Samantha Melani (CNR-IBE; LaMMA), Cristina Sgattoni (CNR-IBE), Luca Rovai (CNR-IBE; LaMMA), Luca Fibbi (CNR-IBE; LaMMA), Marco Ridolfi (CNR- INO), Stefano della Fera (CNR-IFAC), Elisa Butali (IUSS-Pavia; CNR-IBE), Antonio Sandroni (CNR-IFAC), Ugo Cortesi (CNR- IFAC)
1:15 pm
Working Towards Rapid-Refresh Regional Modeling using MPAS-JEDI at the U.S. Air Force's 16th Weather Squadron (pdf)
Samantha Baker, Matthew Vaughan, Jamie Brown, Maresa Searls, Andrew Elliott, Reid Strickler, Burkely Gallo, Jason Martinelli, and Evan Kuchera; 16 WS, OQutt AFB, NE
1:30 pm
Lipeng Jiang, Zhiquan (Jake) Liu, Junmei Ban, Tao Sun, and Xuewei Zhang; NSF NCAR
1:45 pm
Data Assimilation Using Mixture of Experts with ConvLSTM Networks for Global Weather Prediction (pdf)
Otavio Medeiros Feitosa, Haroldo F. de Campos Velho, Saulo R. Freitas, Juliana Aparecida Anochi, National Institute for Space Research (INPE), Sao Jose dos Campos, Angel Domnguez Chovert, Instituto Federal Goiano, Rio Verde (GO), Csar Magno Leite de Oliveira Junior, Universidade de Sao Paulo (USP), Sao Paulo, Brazil (virtual)
2:00 pm
Assimilation of Radar Radial Velocity and Reflectivity Observations Using LETKF within MPAS-JEDI: A Case Study of an MCS Event in Taiwan (pdf)
Rong Kong, Jake Liu, Tao Sun, NSF NCAR, Hejun Xie, NSF NCAR and Zhejiang University, China (virtual)
2:15 pm
Advancing Nonhydrostatic Radar Data Assimilation for Convective-Scale Forecasting with Regional MPAS (pdf)
Soyoung Ha and Jun Park, NSF NCAR
2:30 pm
Coffee Break
Session 3: MPAS in NOAA Research and Operations
Chair: Curtis Alexander, NOAA/GSL
Tuesday June 3, 2025: 3:00 - 4:15
3:00 pm
Clark Evans, Curtis R. Alexander, Ligia R. Bernardet, Terra T. Ladwig, Ming Hu, David C. Dowell, and Trevor I. Alcott, NOAA/OAR/Global Systems Laboratory
3:15 pm
Yunheng Wang, Lou Wicker, Thomas Jones, Craig Schwartz, Soyoung Ha and Nusrat Yussouf, Cooperative Institute for Severe and High-Impact Weather Research and Operations (CIWRO), University of Oklahoma, Norman, NOAA/National Severe Storm Laboratory, Norman, and NSF NCAR
3:30 pm
Jordan Schnell, Haiqin Li, Ben Koziol, Johana Romero-Alvarez, Sudheer Bhimireddy, Minsu Choi, Eric James, Ravan Ahmadov, Cooperative Institute of Environmental Science, GSL/NOAA, and NOAA/EPIC, College Park
3:45 pm
Ming Hu, Guoqing Ge, Chunhua Zhou, Sijie Pan, Junjun Hu, Ruifang Li, Haidao Lin, Keenan Eure, GSL/NOAA
4:00 pm
Will Mayfield, and J. Beck, M.A. Harrold, T. Kalb, M. J. Kavulich Jr., G. Ketefian, and N. Wang, NSF NCAR, DTC, NOAA/GSL, CIRA and CIRES
Discussion, Informal Gathering
Tuesday June 3, 2025: 4:15 - 5:00
4:15 pm
Discussion I: MPAS in NOAA and the UFS, moderated by Bill Skamarock (NSF NCAR/MMM) and Curtis Alexander (NOAA/GSL) (pdf)
5:30 - 7:00 pm
Informal Gathering at the Rayback Collective (2775 Valmont Road, Boulder, CO)
Session 4: Forecasting Applications
Chair: Terra Ladwig, NOAA/GSL
Wednesday June 4, 2025: 8:30 - 10:00
8:30 am
I-Han Chen, Kalli Furtado, Patel Pratiman, Wei Wang, Zhiquan Liu, Dale Barker, Centre for Climate Research Singapore, Singapore, and NSF NCAR
8:45 am
James Cipriani, David Heeps, Brett Wilt, and John Wong, The Weather Company
9:00 am
Evaluation of MPAS-A Performance for Regional Forecasting Applications at the Central Weather Administration of Taiwan (pdf)
Wu, Y.-J., W. Wang, H.-L. Huang, B.-S. Lin, L.-F., Hsiao, CWA Taiwan and NSF NCAR
9:15 am
Burkely Gallo, Andrew Elliott, Evan Kuchera, Scott Rentschler, Glenn Creighton, Samuel Childs, Gordon Brooks, James Keane, Matthew Vaughan, Christopher Melick, and William Sedlacek; 16 WS, Offutt AFB, NE (virtual)
9:30 am
MPAS evaluations for severe weather forecasting during the 2025 NOAA/Hazardous Weather Testbed Spring Forecasting Experiment (pdf)
Adam Clark, Kent Knopfmeier, Yunheng Wang, Nusrat Yussouf, Israel Jirak, Louis Wicker, Clark Evans, David Dowell, Craig Schwartz, Ryan Sobash, Michael Duda, and William Skamarock, NOAA/OAR National Severe Storms Laboratory, CIWRO, School of Meteorology, University of Oklahoma, NOAA/NWS Storm Prediction Center, NOAA/OAR GSL, NSF NCAR (virtual)
9:45 am
Real-time Convection-Allowing Model Forecasts using Global MPAS Configurations for Springtime Convective Forecasting Applications (pdf)
Craig Schwartz, Ryan Sobash, and David Ahijevych, NSF NCAR
10:00 am
Coffee Break
Session 5: Post-Processing
Chair: Michael Duda, NSF NCAR/MMM
Wednesday June 4, 2025: 10:30 - 11:15
10:30 am
Dan Adriaansen, John Halley Gotway, Howard Soh, George McCabe, Will Mayfield, Jared Lee, Tara Jensen, Michelle Harrold, NSF NCAR
10:45 am
Authors: Philip Chmielowiec, Orhan Eroglu, John Clyne, Brian Medeiros, Colin Zarzycki, Robert Jacob, Paul Ullrich, Rajeev Jain, Robert Jacob, Aaron Zedwick, Hongyu Chen, Cecile Hannay, Lantao Sun, NSF NCAR, The Pennsylvania State University, Argonne National Laboratory, UC Davis, Colorado State University (virtual)
11:00 am
Jorge Bravo, Marouane Temimi, Stevens Institute of Technology (virtual)
Session 6A: Physics Development and Testing
Chair: Georg Grell, NSF NCAR
Wednesday June 4, 2025: 11:15 - 12:00
11:15 am
Ending the half century monopoly of similarity functions in meteorology and air quality modeling (pdf)
Kiran Alapaty, Jesse Bash, Rob Gilliam, Christian Hogrefe, Daiwen Kang, Barron Henderson, Alan Vette, Chris Nolte, and Saravanan Arunachalam, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Research Triangle Park, and Institute for the Environment, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC (virtual)
11:30 am
Guilherme Tavares Farache, Saulo Ribeiro de Freitas, Paulo Yoshio Kubota, INPE, Sao Paulo, Brazil (virtual)
11:45 am
Joseph B. Olson, Wayne M. Angevine, Xia Sun, Dave Turner, and Clark Evans, NOAA-GSL, CIRES, and retired
Session 6B: Physics Development and Testing
Chair: Joseph Olson, NOAA/GSL
Wednesday June 4, 2025: 1:00 – 3:00
1:00 pm
Development updates to the Thompson-Eidhammer Microphysics Parameterization for Operations (TEMPO) (pdf)
Anders A. Jensen, Joseph Olson, and Clark Evans, NOAA/GSL
1:15 pm
Cliff Mass, David Ovens, and Robert Conrick, University of Washington, and Boeing Corporation (virtual)
1:30 pm
Song-You Hong, Wei Wang, Jimy Dudhia, Jian-Wen Bao, Sara Michelson, Evelyn Grell, Mike Toy, Joe Olson, Jongil Han, Fanglin Yang, Myung-Seo Koo, and Hyun-Joo Choi, NSF NCAR, NOAA/PSL, NOAA/GSL, EMC/NCEP, Korea Institute of Atmospheric Prediction Systems and Numerical Modeling Center, Korea Meteorological Administration (virtual)
1:45 pm
Georg A Grell, Haiqin Li, Saulo R. Freitas, NSF NCAR, CIRES/GSL/NOAA and INPE/CPTEC)
2:00 pm
HRRR Physics Validation and Development using WFIP3 Observations over the Northeastern U.S. Coast (pdf)
Xia Sun, Joseph Olson, David Turner, Laura Bianco, Bianca Adler, Timothy Myers, NOAA/GSL
2:15 pm
Peter D,A'breton, Ella Castillo, Katrina Swalwell, Windlab and Cumulus Environmental Consulting (virtual)
2:30 pm
Simulation of Tropical Cyclone Batsirai in the South West Indian Ocean: Sensitivities to Planetary Boundary Layer Schemes (pdf)
Athule James, Babatunde .J Abiodun, Akintunde .I Makinde, Department of Environmental and Geographical Science, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, and Nansen-Tutu Centre for Marine Environmental Science, Department of Oceanography, University of Cape Town, South Africa
2:45 pm
Comparative Analysis of WRF and MPAS-A Performance in Simulating Extreme Rainfall during Superstorm Ida in the New York City Metropolitan Area (pdf)
Jorge Bravo, Marouane Temimi, Stevens Institute of Technology (virtual)
Poster Session and Coffee Break
Wednesday June 4, 2025: 3:00 - 5:00
3:00 pm
1. The Indian Summer Monsoon: Aerosol-Cloud Interactions and Their Impact on Extreme Rainfall Events
Rituparna Chowdhury, Indian Institute of Tropical Meteorology, Monsoon Mission division, India
Shuhua Lu, Khanh Do, Yang Zhang, Xiaodong Chen, Ruby Leung, and Michelle Bell, Northeastern University, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, University of Oklahoma, and Yale University
Michelle Harrold, Sarah Tessendorf, Sisi Chen, Lulin Xue, Jamie Wolff, Nick Dawson, and Hans-Peter Marshall, NSF NCAR and CryoToolbox, LLC
Libo Zhang and Yang Zhang, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Northeastern University, Boston
Duboc, Nicolas, Chui, Timothy C. Y., White, Rachel H., West, Gregory, Stull, Roland B., University of British Columbia
Cameron H. Cousino, Melissa S. Bukovsky, University of Wyoming
Jennifer B. Seth and Allison L. Steiner, Department of Climate and Space Sciences and Engineering, University of Michigan
Yuma Shimatani, Meteorological Engineering Center, Inc., Japan Teruo Ohsawa, Graduate School of Maritime Sciences, Kobe University, Japan
Jordan G. Powers and Kevin W. Manning, NSF NCAR. (poster)
David H. Bromwich, Lesheng Bai, Brian Rakoczy, and Sheng- Hung Wang, Polar Meteorology Group, Byrd Polar and Climate Research Center, The Ohio State University, Columbus (poster)
Sho Kawazoe, Atsushi Hashimoto, Yuki Kanno, and Masamichi Ohba (CRIEPI)
John Halley Gotway, Michelle Harrold, Tara Jensen, Molly Smith, Dan Adriaansen, Mrinal Biswas, Tracy Hertneky, Christina Kalb1, Will Mayfield, George McCabe, Brianne Nelson, Kathryn Newman, John Opatz, Julie Prestopnik, Howard Soh, Jonathan Vigh, and Minna Win-Gildenmeister, NSF NCAR, DTC and NOAA/GSL/CIRES
Michael J. Kavulich, Jr., Will Mayfield, Gerard Ketefian, NSF-NCAR/DTC and NOAA-GSL/DTC (poster)
David Carchipulla-Morales and Lauren E. L. Lowman, Department of Engineering, and Department of Physics, Wake Forest University, Winston-Salem, NC (poster)
Jorge Guerra and Louis Wicker, NSSL (poster)
Francisco Salamanca-Palou, Fengqi Li, Joshua R. New, Melissa Dumas and Matei Georgescu, Florida Institute of Technology, Oak Ridge National Laboratory and Arizona State University (poster)
Ajay Parottil, Mary Barth, Gustavo Cuchiara, Jose Jimenez, Pedro Campuzano-Jost, NSF NCAR, Air pollution Control Division/CDPHE and University of Colorado
Chia-Hua Hsu, Daven K. Henze1, Arthur P. Mizzi, Colin Harkins, Congmeng Lyu, Owen R. Cooper, Rebecca H. Schwantes, Jian He, Meng Li, Siyuan Wang, Chelsea E. Stockwell, Carsten Warneke, Andrew W. Rollins, Eleanor M. Waxman, Kristen Zuraski, Jeff Peischl, Shobha Kondragunta, Fangjun Li, Chuanyu Xu, R. Bradley Pierce9, Gonzalo Gonzalez Abad, Caroline R. Nowlan, Xiong Liu, and Brian C. McDonald, Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Colorado and others.
Ashish Bhattarai, Yuxuan Wang, Shailaja Wasti, Travis Griggs, and James Flynn, Department of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, University of Houston, Houston, TX
Eeshan Basu and Yang Zhang, Daniel Tong and Siqi Ma and Ravan Ahmadov, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Northeastern University, George Mason University and NOAA/GSL
Jun Park and Soyoung Ha, NSF NCAR
Tzu-Chin Tsai, Jen-Ping Chen, Siou-Ying Jiang, Ling-Feng Hsiao, Pao-Liang Chang, Central Weather Administration and Department of Atmospheric Sciences, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan
Andrew Lowry, Hamish McGowan, School of the Environment, The University of Queensland, St Lucia, Australia (poster)
24. Impact of droplet number concentration on WRF simulated in-cloud icing over a complex terrain site
Pravin Punde, Trude Eidhammer, Yngve Birkelund, Muhammad Shakeel Virk, Pavlo Sokolov, Deepak Waman, Department of Physics and Technology, UiT The Arctic University of Norway, Tromso, NSF NCAR, The Arctic University of Norway and Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Karlsruhe, Germany
Soren Rasmussen, Aubrey Dugger, Ryan Cabell, Arezoo RafieeiNasab, and Yongxin Zhang, NSF NCAR
Dustin Swales, Grant Firl, Soren Rasmussen, Vanderlei Vargas, Ligia Bernardet, Lulin Xue, NOAA/GSL, DTC, CIRES and NSF NCAR
Clark Evans, Ligia Bernardet, Michael D. Toy, Joseph B. Olson, Anders A. Jensen, William C. Skamarock, Michael J. Duda, NOAA/GSL, CIRES and NSF NCAR (poster)
28. Assimilation of spaceborne and airborne radio occultation observations within the MPAS-JEDI system
Ivette Hernandez Banos, Jennifer S. Haase, Pawel Hordyniec, Bing Cao, Zhiquan Liu, Phuong-Nghi Do, Junmei Ban, Byoung-Joo Jung, Chris Snyder, and Tao Sun, NSF NCAR, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California San Diego, and Wroclaw University of Environmental and Life Sciences, Wroclaw, Poland (poster)
Pierre Simon Tondreau, Juan Carlos Perez Darias, Juan Pedro Gonzalez Diaz, Grupo de Observacian de la Tierra y Atmosfera, Spain (virtual poster)
Marilia de A. Gregorio, Enver Ramirez, INPE, Brazil (virtual poster)
31. Nowcasting optimization of precipitation extremity in Hong Kong based on PCA-LSTM and WRF simulation
Shiyun Liu and Chun-Ho Liu, Department of Mechanical Engineering, The University of Hong Kong (virtual)
32. Improving meteorological simulations by data assimilation (FDDA) in WRF model for Sao Paulo (Brazil)
Alejandro Herman Delgado Peralta, Maria de Fatima Andrade, Institute of Astronomy, Geophysics, and Atmospheric Sciences (IAG), University of São Paulo (virtual poster)
Chetan Gurung, Leandro Alex Moreira Viscardi, Xiaowen Li, David Kenton Adams, Henrique de Melo Jorge Barbosa, University of Maryland, University of Hawai'i at Manoa, Morgan State University and Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico, Mexico City, Mexico (virtual poster)
Llacza Rodriguez, Alan; Huaman Bueno, Lorena, Subdirectorate of Numerical Modeling of the Atmosphere (SMN), Peru (virtual)
Y. Sujatha, N. Sujatha, L. Srivani, C. V. Srinivas, Indira Gandhi Centre for Atomic Research, Kalpakkam, India (virtual)
Session 6C: Physics Development and Testing
Chair: Anders Jensen, NOAA/GSL
Thursday June 5, 2025: 8:30 - 10:00
8:30 am
Bianca Fusinato, Saulo R. Freitas, Georg Grell, Haiqin Li, INPE, Brazil and NOAA/GSL, CIRES (virtual)
8:45 am
Sensitivity Analysis of WRF Model Microphysics Scheme on the Simulation of Super Typhoon SAOLA, and the Potential Impact of Sea Surface Salinity on Rapid Intensification (pdf)
Huisi Mo, Hui Su, PW Chan, Jianping Gan, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, HKUST, Hong Kong Observatory, and Department of Mathematics, Department of Ocean Science, HKUST, Hong Kong, China (virtual)
9:00 am
Using large language models to produce literature reviews: Usage and systematic biases of microphysics parameterizations in 2699 publications (pdf)
Tianhang Zhang, Shengnan Fu, David M. Schultz, Zhonghua Zheng, Centre for Atmospheric Science, Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, University of Manchester, School of Hydraulic Engineering, Dalian University of Technology, Dalian 116024, China, and Centre for Crisis Studies and Mitigation, University of Manchester, Manchester, United Kingdom (virtual)
9:15 am
Snow cover plays a non-dominant role in the long-standing surface cold bias in WRF/Noah-MP over the western U.S. (pdf)
Ronnie Abolafia-Rosenzweig (NSF NCAR), Cenlin He (NSF NCAR), Changhai Liu (NSF NCAR), Tzu-Shun Lin (NSF NCAR), David Mocko (NASA Goddard Space Flight Center), Karl Rittger (Institute of Arctic and Alpine Research, University of Colorado at Boulder), William Rudisill (Earth and Environmental Sciences Area, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory), Yifan Cheng (University at Buffalo, Department of Earth Sciences), Michael Barlage (NOAA Global Systems Laboratory), Ross Palomaki (Institute of Arctic and Alpine Research, University of Colorado at Boulder), Jerry W. Wegiel (NASA Goddard Space Flight Center), Sujay V. Kumar (NASA Goddard Space Flight Center )
9:30 am
Yuki Kanno, Soichiro Sugimoto, Juanzhen Sun, CRIEPI and NSF NCAR
9:45 am
Ju-Hye Kim, Jimy Dudhia, Changhai Liu, Roy Rasmussen, and Tim Schneider, NSF NCAR
10:00 am
Coffee Break
Session 7: Chemistry Applications
Chair: Gabriele Pfister, NSF NCAR/ACOM
Thursday June 5, 2025: 10:20 - 12:05
10:20 am
Pablo Lichtig, Louisa K. Emmons, Rebecca Schwantes, David Fillmore, Rebecca R Buchholz, Gabriele Pfister, Helen Worden, Zachary Moon, Benjamin Gaubert, Shima Shams, Meng Li, Colin Harkins, Quazi Rasool, Barry Baker, Beiming Tang, Edward Strobach, Margaret Bruckner, NSF NCAR, NOAA and CIRES (virtual)
10:35 am
Air Quality Forecasting in Eastern and Southern Africa: Leveraging Satellite Data Assimilation for Improved Predictions (pdf)
Shima Shams, Rajesh Kumar, Carl Drews, Victor weeks, Wenfu Tang, Forrest Lacey, Roelof Bruintjes, NSF NCAR
10:50 am
Worapop Thongsame, Daven K. Henze, Rajesh Kumar, Mary Barth, Gabriele Pfister, University of Colorado Boulder and NSF NCAR
11:05 am
Sensitivity of dust emissions to meteorological forcings in an agricultural land area: A case study in Sao Paulo (pdf)
Nilton Rosario, Saulo Freitas, Danny Leung, Demerval Moreira, National Institute for Space Research, Brazil, NSF NCAR and Sao Paulo State University, Brazil (virtual)
11:20 am
11:35 am
Abhijit Das, Yangyang Xu, Department of Atmospheric Science, Texas A&M University (virtual)
11:50 am
Simulating radiative forcing of wildfire smoke using a coupled high resolution meteorology-chemistry model-HRRR-Chem (pdf)
Minsu Choi, Jordan Schnell, Johana Romero-Alvarez, Sudheer Bhimireddy, Haiqin Li, Ravan Ahmadov, CIRES and NOAA/GSL
Session 8A: Model Applications and Evaluation
Chair: James Cipriani, The Weather Company
Thursday June 5, 2025: 1:00 - 2:30
1:00 pm
Coastal breezes and thermal comfort during a heatwave event in the southwestern Iberian Peninsula: an integrated modelling and observational study. (pdf)
J. Carbone, E. Lujan, P. Ortiz-Corral, A. Martilli, B. Sanchez, M. Sastre, C. Yague, Universidad de Cadiz, INMAR, CEIMAR, Universidad Complutense de Madrid and CIEMAT, Spain (virtual)
1:15 pm
Simulating the Influence of the Agulhas Current on Cut-Off Low-Induced Flooding in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa (pdf)
Akintunde I. Makinde, Babatunde J. Abiodun, Nansen-Tutu Centre for Marine Environmental Research, Department of Oceanography, University of Cape Town, Department of Environmental and Geographical Science, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa (virtual)
1:30 pm
Simulating the sensitivity of COLs to the Agulhas Current System over the Western Cape, South Africa using MPAS-A (pdf)
Chelsey Jansen, Babatunde Abiodun, Akintunde Makinde, Sabina Abba Omar, Climate System and Analysis Group, Department of Geography and Environmental Science, University of Cape Town and Nansen-Tutu Centre for Marine Environmental Science, Department of Oceanography, University of Cape Town, South Africa (virtual)
1:45 pm
Ting-Yu Cha, Rosimar Rios-Berrios, Wen-Chau Lee, Chris Davis, and Jennifer DeHart, NSF NCAR and Colorado State University
2:00 pm
Response of African Easterly Waves and Other High-Impact Weather Events to a Warming Climate: An MPAS Convection-Permitting Approach (pdf)
Kelly Núñez Ocasio, Erin M. Dougherty, Chris A. Davis, Zachary L. Moon, Texas A&M and NSF NCAR (virtual)
2:15 pm
Quinton A. Lawton, Rosimar Rios-Berrios, Falko Judt, and Linus Magnusson, NSF NCAR and ECMWF
2:30 pm
Coffee Break
Session 8B: Model Applications and Evaluation
Chair: Melissa Bukovsky, University of Wyoming
Thursday June 5, 2025: 3:00 - 4:00 pm
3:00 pm
Robert G. Fovell, University at Albany, SUNY (virtual)
3:15 pm
May Wong and Manda Chasteen, NSF NCAR MMM and Leidos Engineering
3:30 pm
Accelerating High-Resolution Downscaling of Meteorological Variables via Self-supervised Deep Learning (pdf)
Khanh Do, Shuhua Lu, Yang Zhang, Northeastern University
3:45 pm
Zhe Zhang, Cenlin He, Judith Berner, Abby Jaye, Michael Barlage, Changhai Liu , Julia Kukulies, Jimy Dudhia, Meg Fowler, and Yaga Richter, NSF NCAR and GSL/NOAA
Discussion
Thursday June 5, 2025: 4:00 - 5:00
4:00 pm
Discussion II: General Topics, moderated by Bill Skamarock, NSF NCAR/MMM (pdf)
Mini Tutorials
Friday June 6, 2025: 8:30 - 12:00
8:30 am
10:00 am
Coffee Break
10:15 am
11:45 pm
End of the Workshop