CCSM Joint Land Model
Working Group and
Biogeochemistry
Working Group Meetings
20 - 22 February 2008
Wednesday, 20 February, Land Model Working Group
CLM4
8:30
Continental breakfast
9:00 Dave Lawrence (NCAR) Welcome and Introduction
Hydrology
09:10 Gopi Goteti (UC Irvine) Catchment hydrology
09:25 Keith Oleson (NCAR) Soil moisture variability
09:45 Xubin Zeng (U. Arizona) Hydrology work at U. Arizona
10:10 Discussion
10:30
Break
Snow
11:10 Liang Yang (U. Texas, Austin) SCF, snow assimilation
11:30 Sean Swenson (NCAR) Snow patches
11:50 Dave Lawrence (NCAR) Community Snow project
12:10 Discussion
12:30
Lunch
Other modeling development activities and applications
13:30 Mariana Vertenstein (NCAR) CCSM/CLM software engineering
13:45 Dave Gochis (NCAR) Fine mesh, high resolution experiments, discussion
14:15 Ian Baker (CSU) Soils, roots, water stress in Amazon
14:30 Ren Diandong (U. Oklahoma) Land ice
14:45 Dave Lawrence (NCAR) Permafrost
15:00
Break
15:30 Jiangfeng Wei (COLA) Coupling CLM with other models
CLM4 Update
16:00 Liang Yang (U. Texas, Austin) Robust validation
16:15 Dave Lawrence (NCAR) CLM4 progress
16:30 Discussion
17:00 Adjourn
Thursday, 21 February,
8:30 Continental breakfast
Carbon
Cycle – DGVM
09:00 Sam Levis (NCAR) DGVM-CN update, shrubs
09:15 Xubin Zeng (U. Arizona) DGVM shrubs
09:30 Paul Moorcroft (Harvard) ED model
10:00 Discussion
10:30
Break
Land use / scenarios
11:00 Peter Lawrence (CIRES/CU) Talk
11:15 Gordon Bonan (NCAR)
11:30 Abby Swann (UC Berkeley) Talk
11:45 Johann Feddema (U. Kansas) AR5 land cover change scenarios
12:00 Discussion
12:30
Lunch
Towards Earth System Modeling
14:00 Beth Holland (NCAR) Nitrogen cycles
14:20 Atul
Jain (U. Illinois,
14:40 Kathy Hibbard (NCAR) Modeling ecosystems across scales, MIP
15:00 Break
Earth System Modeling (5-10
year plan)
15:30 Dave Lawrence, Gordon Bonan, Dave Gochis – discussion leaders
17:00 Adjourn
Friday, 22 February, Biogeochemistry Working Group
08:30
Continental breakfast
CLAMP – Review of metrics, diagnostics, and science
09:00 Forrest Hoffman CLAMP simulations and diagnostics
09:15 Peter Thornton CLAMP science, model development
09:30 Peter Thornton CLM-CN update, CLAMP analysis
09:45 Discussion Model spinup, CLAMPII
10:30
Break
BGC
11:00 Keith Lindsay (NCAR) CCSM3.5 carbon cycle update
11:30 Natalie Mahowald (Cornell) Talk
11:45 Silvia Kloster (Cornell) Ocean BGC/climate interactions through DMS
12:00 Keith Moore (UC,
12:15 Scott Doney (WHOI) Talk
12:30 Britt Stephens (NCAR) HIPPO
12:45
Lunch
13:30 Discussion BGC needs for CCSM
14:30 Adjourn