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NCAR’s Director’s Retreat Summary

Summary of NCAR's Director's Retreat presentations on thematic science areas, cyberinfrastructure, observational facilities, weather prediction, climate change, societal impacts, and professional development. Explore goals and next steps for advancing atmospheric and related sciences.

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NCAR’s Director’s Retreat Summary

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  1. NCAR’s Director’s Retreat Summary • 1 ½ days June 13-14 • Presentations of thematic science areas • Working group discussions of presentations • Plenary • Director’s meeting/discussion

  2. Cyberinfrastructure - H Tufo • Large investments needed for credible effort • $100M machines • $10M/annum Comp Sci personnel • Joint activity with science

  3. Observational Facilities – D Parsons • Hiaper deployment • Instrument development • Satellite/remote sensing

  4. Tech, observation & decision support systems – B Sharman • Research and develop weather and climate forecast systems • Deliver decision support tools to users in public and private sectors • Coupled modeling/prediction • Advanced verification • Hydrometeorology • Homeland security

  5. Science and Society - J Kleypas • Link climate change to biosphere • Link society and science • Millennium ecosystem assessment • Combine climate change projections with ecosystem response predictions • Make model output useful for ecosystem studies

  6. Learning and Professional Development - M Hagan • Life-long learning and professional development • Build diversity • Fill-in gaps in SOARS • Summer faculty fellowships, sabbaticals

  7. Past, Present and Future Climates - J Kiehl • Climate sensitivity • Human induced: GHG & Aerosols • Modes of climate variability and abrupt change • Responses of climate system: water availability, air quality

  8. Weather & Short-term predictability – C Davis • Prediction continuum: hours to interannual • Scale interactions and nested models • VERY SHORT RANGE prediction: merge nowcast with NWP

  9. Past, present and future atmos composition - A Guenther • Emission, transport, transformation, deposition • Chemistry in climate • Aerosols, clouds and water cycle • Regional air quality-WRF chem • Satellite observations

  10. Sun system and vertical coupling-K MacGregor • Solar dynamo modeling-climate forcing • Coronal Mass ejections-space weather • Linkages to troposphere and coupled sun-earth system

  11. End Product: 6 GOALS • Develop and maintain robust & accesible cyberinfrastucture for… • Develop and maintain robust suite of observational facilities for… • Investigate, understand and predict the behavior of the Earth and Sun systems • Develop technology, observation and decision support systems and transfer them to public/private sector

  12. End Product: 6 GOALS (cont) • Enhance the societal benefits from atmospheric and related sciences • Support life-long learning & professional development in atmospheric and…

  13. NEXT STEP • List of 5-10 year objectives under each heading. • Position papers from June retreat will feed this step with input from: • ESSL Directors’ committee retreat • NSA white papers

  14. Contributed White Papers: to be presented July27-28 • Remote Sensing (Bob Harriss, Bill Emery) • Gravity Waves (Hanli Liu, Brian Ridley) • Cyberinfrastructure • Regional Climate • Earth System Model • THORPEX

  15. Need volunteers for WPs and presentations on • Cyberinfrastructure • Regional climate • Earth system model • THORPEX

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