14th Session of the VAMOS panel (VPM14)
Miami, Florida, USA
Friday, 25 March, 2011 - Saturday, 26 March, 2011
Location: The workshop was held at the Multipurpose Room, Miami University Alumni Center (on the main campus of the University).
- VPM14 Agenda
- Attendees
- Background documents
- Workshop on Coupled Ocean-Atmosphere-Land Processes in the Tropical Atlantic
Meeting goals:
After more than 10 years of coordinated monsoon research efforts within the NAME and MESA programs, there is now a need, in the American monsoon research community, to establish new emerging challenges that address continued limitations in prediction skill of the American monsoon systems. The overarching goal of the 14th VAMOS Panel Meeting (VPM-14) is to renew the strong linkage between VAMOS science programs and research community and theoperational centers responsible for creating and disseminating forecasts of the N. and S. American monsoons. These linkages must be strong across all spatial and temporal scales in order to accelerate improvements in forecast skill and in order to maximize the interpretation and utility of forecasts. To do so, we have organized the VPM-14 meeting under 4 main themes:
1) Review of VAMOS programmatics with emphasis on CLIVAR?s new structure and imperatives; assess links to GEWEX and funding agencies
2) Reporting on activities and products at operational forecast centers
3) Update on CLIVAR Cross-cuts including extremes and capacity building
4) Discussion on existing and newly proposed research programs, including a 0.5 day joint session with the CLIVAR Atlantic Panel
The outcome of this meeting will be a report which articulates progress on current VAMOS activities and, perhaps more importantly, identifies new research priorities and programmatic milestones for VAMOS-endorsed programs.
Agenda
Last update: Final
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Friday, March 25, 2011 - Morning, Atlantic Workshop last session
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| 9.00-12.00 | Atlantic Workshop Wrap-up Session | |
| 9.00-10.15 | Summary and continued discussion on findings and plans from the Atlantic Workshop | Zuidema/Terray/Mechoso |
| 10.15-10.30 | Break | |
| 10:30-12:00 | AIP and VAMOS panel chairs meeting to discuss results and plans from Atlantic Workshop | |
| 12:00-1:30 | Lunch | |
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Friday, March 25, 2011 - Afternoon, VPM-14 starts
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| 1.30-3.30 | VAMOS Panel Cross-cuts and Priorities Discussion | |
| 1:30-1:40 | Session Overview and Goals | Gochis and Berbery |
| 1:40-2:00 | Implementation of the VAMOS Modeling Plan and interactions with WGSIP | Ben Kirtman |
| 2:00-2:30 | Update on VAMOS Extremes Working Group/VAMOS Extremes | Schubert/Cavalcanti |
| 2:30-2:50 | TRACE: A proposed Regional Hydroclimate Program | RHP, Berbery |
| 2:50- 3:10 | MESA: new developments and numerical models' studies | Iracema Cavalcanti |
| 3:10-3:30 | VOCALS News | R. Mechoso, P. Zuidema |
| 3.30-4.00 | Break | |
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| 4:00-5:30 | Operational Forecast and Monitoring Products | |
| 4:00-4:10 | Overview and Session Goals | Gochis/Berbery |
| 4:10-4:30 | Operational Monsoon Monitoring at NCEP | WassilaThiaw |
| 4:30-4:50 | Transferring Research to Operations : The NOAA Climate Testbed | Jin Huang |
| 4:50-5:10 | Forecast Forum Activities | Gochis, A. Douglas |
| 5:10-6:00 | Wrap-up discussion | |
| 6.00 | Adjourn | |
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Saturday, March 26, 2011 - Morning
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| 8:30 - 10:10 | VAMOS/AIP joint session | |
| 8:30-8:45 | Update on GEWEX Goals and Imperatives | Peter van Oevelen |
| 8:45-9:00 | Update on IASCLiP | Art Douglas |
| 9:00-9:15 | CLIVAR ICPO - CLIVAR Imperatives | Bob Molinari |
| 9:15-9:30 | Atlantic Workshop report | Paquita Zuidema |
| 9:30-10:10 | Discussion on how VAMOS/AIP can push forward some of the outcome of the Workshop | VAMOS and AIP Chairs |
| 10.10-10.30 | Break | |
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| 10:30-12:30 | VPM-14 Invited presentations | |
| 10:30-10:50 | Update on U.S. CLIVAR Activities | Mike Patterson |
| 10:50-11:10 | Land-atmosphere coupling in the El Niño influence over South America | Marcelo Barreiro |
| 11:10-11:30 | Performance evaluation of different estimations of precipitation over South Eastern South America | Paola Salio |
| 11:30-11:50 | The Caribbean Modelling Initiative | Michael Taylor |
| 11:50_12:10 | Climate Risk Management in the IRI: Examples in the Agricultural Sector of Latin America | Walter Baethgen |
| 12:10-12:30 | The Tropical Atlantic Warm Pool | Chunzai Wang |
| 12.30 | Lunch | |
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Saturday, March 26, 2011 - Afternoon
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| 2:00 – 4:00 | Open discusssion | Berbery and Gochis |
| • Overview of WCRP, CLIVAR, GEWEX and VAMOS Program Structures • The WCR Open Science Conference • GPS Networks in the Caribbean and in Mexico • VAMOS Modeling Survey Discussion • Progress on IASCLiP' Goals and milestones • Comments on CORDEX and the Antropogenic Climate Change Working Group • Discussion on an updated S. American Monsoon research plan • Continued interactions with VOCALS • Review of proposed SE Atlantic Research Program' Goals and milestones • New VAMOS Science Priorities |
D. Gochis H. Berbery Gochis and A. Douglas B. Kirtman Art Douglas R. Arritt Cavalcanti |
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| 4:00-6:00 | VAMOS Panel Executive Session | |
| • Review of the VAMOS TOR in order to focus more on topical science issues | Berbery, Gochis | |
| • VAMOS Newsletter | C. Ereno | |
| • VAMOS business: Membership, Next meeting | Berbery, Gochis | |
| 6.00 | End of VPM-14 | |
Attendees
Hugo Berbery VAMOS co-chair
David Gochis VAMOS co-chair
Raymond Arritt
Walter Baethgen
Marcelo Barreiro
Iracema Cavalvanti
Art Douglas
Ben Kirtman
Paola Salio
Michael Taylor
Paquita Zuidema
Carlos Ereño
Catherine Beswick
David Enfield
Jin Huang
Brian Mapes
Jose Meitin
Bob Molinari
Mike Patterson
Siegfried Schubert
Wassila Thiaw
Peter van Oevelen
Chunzai Wang
Chidong Zhang
