[Isp] [Fwd: Cloud Analysis Workshop. Sept 1-3, 2009. Boulder, CO]

[Terri Cantrell]

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Subject: 	Cloud Analysis Workshop. Sept 1-3, 2009. Boulder, CO
Date: 	Mon, 29 Jun 2009 17:21:09 -0600
From: 	Tom Auligne <auligne at ucar.edu>
To: 	undisclosed-recipients:;



Dear colleagues,

We look forward to seeing you at the *AFWA Cloud Analysis Workshop:*

*When: *Sep 1-3, 2009.

*Where:* NCAR (Foothills Lab). Boulder, Colorado.

*Workshop Goals:* 

-        Communicate results, ideas, and future directions for advanced 
cloud analysis. 

-        Identify best practices and collaborations between cloud 
analysis efforts. 

-        Understand and discuss improvements towards achieving our cloud 
analysis goals. 

*Registration: http://www.mmm.ucar.edu/events/09_clouds 
<http://www.mmm.ucar.edu/events/09_clouds/?index.php> *

*Deadline: Abstracts for oral or poster presentations must be submitted 
by July 31st, 2009.*

Best regards,

Thomas AULIGNE
Project Scientist
NCAR/MMM
P.O. Box 3000
Boulder CO 80307-3000
USA

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    Workshop Summary 

The Air Force Weather Agency (AFWA) has started a new effort to build an 
integrated AFWA Coupled Analysis and Prediction System (ACAPS). This 
capability will build upon and eventually replace AFWA's existing 
capabilities represented by the Cloud Depiction and Forecast System 
(CDFS-II) for operational users. ACAPS will represent a significant 
improvement and redesign requiring state-of-the-art cloud analysis 
capabilities to include hydrometeors in the assimilation.

In 2005, an "International Workshop on the Assimilation of 
Satellite-Observed Cloud and Precipitation Observations" was held at 
Lansdowne, VA (http://www.jcsda.noaa.gov/satellitecloud2005.php ). 
Significant progress has been demonstrated by the community in the past 
four years. 

This workshop will continue the scientific dialog and it will focus 
on building a roadmap toward realization of cloud analysis systems for 
operational use. This will include short-term, as well as long-term 
research objectives that are necessary to support the ACAPS 
goals. Collaboration discussions with other on-going or planned cloud 
analysis efforts are especially encouraged. 

General reviews from invited speakers will address the following topics; 
related oral and poster presentations are also solicited.

1-  Advanced and High-Resolution Data Assimilation techniques

2-  Linearization for cloud analysis

3-  Current cloud analysis systems

4-  Microphysics and cloud analysis

5-  Cloud prediction skills and verification

6-  Current and future observing systems and choice of observables

7-  Practical processing of cloud observations

8-  Cloud control variable

9-  Model Error at convective scales



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Terri A. Cantrell
303-497-8281

http://www.isp.ucar.edu
Acting Administrator


NCAR
Integrated Science Program
P.O. Box 3000
FL1-2024
Boulder, CO 80307-3000

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