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

[Pablo Saide]

Hi all,
This is a reminder about today's seminar by Saulo Freitas (INPE/NOAA) at 
11:00 am in Foothills Lab Bldg. 2, Large Auditorium (FL2-1022). Se 
detailed info below
see you soon!
Pablo

On 5/8/2015 12:27 PM, Pablo Saide wrote:
> 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.