[Grad-postdoc-assn] ASP seminar next Wednesday (13 May) by Saulo Freitas from INPE/NOAA

[Pablo Saide]

Hi all,

The next ASP seminar by Saulo Freitas (INPE/NOAA) will take place on 
next Wed. (13 May) at 11:00 am in Foothills Lab Bldg. 2, Large 
Auditorium (FL2-1022), and will be followed by lunch with the speaker in 
the FL cafeteria.

Here are detailed information about his seminar. See also the poster 
attached. Hope to see you all there!


Title:
Model developments related to some South America environmental problems

Abstract:
Tropical areas over South America have faced severe environmental 
changes associated with the rapid economic expansion, such as 
deforestation and fire activities over the Amazon basin and cerrado 
areas and a sustained growing demographic density around large- and mega 
cities.

In this talk, we will show some aspects of model developments we have 
been working in Brazil in order to build a numerical tool able to 
simulate and forecast atmospheric state evolution that includes such 
processes. These developments are the base of the BRAMS model (Brazilian 
development on the Regional Atmospheric modeling System, RAMS) and, some 
of them, were implemented in WRF-Chem. BRAMS model has been used 
operationally at the Brazilian Center for Weather Forecast (CPTEC/INPE) 
since 2003 providing an on-line, coupled weather and air quality 
forecast on a 20 km grid-spacing and, more recently, since 2013, for 
weather forecast on 5 km covering the entire South America. BRAMS has 
also been broadly used for applications mainly over South America, with 
strong emphasis over the Amazonia and the main South American mega 
cities. An overview of the model development and main applications will 
be shown.

We will also use this opportunity to introduce some results of a project 
initiate in 2013 by the Working Group on Numerical Experimentation 
(WGNE). WGNE is supported by the WCRP Joint Scientific Committee and the 
WMO Commission for Atmospheric Sciences. This project has eight 
participating NWP centers: NCEP, ECMWF, NASA/Goddard, Japan Meteo 
Agency, Meteo-France, ESRL/NOAA, Barcelona Supercomputer Center and 
CPTEC/INPE, and aims to evaluate aerosols impacts on numerical weather 
prediction conducted by these centers.


Pablo Saide
on behalf of ASP seminar committee.
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