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
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
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
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
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
Rong Kong, Jake Liu, Tao Sun, NSF NCAR, Hejun Xie, NSF NCAR and Zhejiang University, China (virtual)
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
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
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)
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
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
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
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
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

Poster Session and Coffee Break

Wednesday June 4, 2025: 3:00 - 5:00
3:00 pm
 
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.
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
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
David Carchipulla-Morales and Lauren E. L. Lowman, Department of Engineering, and Department of Physics, Wake Forest University, Winston-Salem, NC
Jorge Guerra and Louis Wicker, NSSL
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
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)
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
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
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)
Shiyun Liu and Chun-Ho Liu, Department of Mechanical Engineering, The University of Hong Kong (virtual)
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
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
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
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
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
Nilton Rosario, Saulo Freitas, Danny Leung, Demerval Moreira, National Institute for Space Research, Brazil, NSF NCAR and Sao Paulo State University, Brazil (virtual)
11:35 am
Abhijit Das, Yangyang Xu, Department of Atmospheric Science, Texas A&M University (virtual)
11:50 am
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
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
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
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
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
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
A Tutorial: UXarray for MPAS output analysis and model intercomparisons
CISL NSF NCAR
10:00 am
Coffee Break
11:45 pm
End of the Workshop