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Appendix C
CRC Climate Modeling Workshop Invitation and Agenda
Dear Friends of the Climate Research Committee:
The Climate Research Committee (CRC) of the National Research
Council (NRC) and the Office of the U.S. Global Change Research
Program invite you to participate on 11 and 12 June 1996 in a
discussion of the Quality and Infrastructure of Climate Modeling in
the United States. This discussion is being held in Washington,
D.C. as part of a meeting of the CRC. Representatives of the
federal agencies that support climate modeling are expected to
attend this meeting. Those federal representatives, as they
allocate resources and organize the government's support of climate
modeling, are greatly interested in the thoughts of the scientific
community involved in climate modeling. The CRC will also use this
discussion as it prepares recommendations to the federal agencies
and to the research community of the future of climate modeling.
The agenda of the complete meeting follows this
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message.
We are working hard to ensure a broad spectrum of scientists
involved in all aspects of climate modeling at this meeting and
believe that your perspective can provide a valuable contribution
to the discussions. We look forward to seeing you.
Sincerely,
William Sprigg
Director
Board on Atmospheric Sciences and Climate
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Agenda of Climate Modeling
Workshop
TUESDAY, 11 JUNE
Executive Session
7:30 a.m.
Breakfast available in room and refectory
8:00 a.m.
Executive session
Eric Barron, chair
11:30 a.m.
Lunch in refectory
Public Session
The Quality and Infrastructure of Climate Modeling in the
United States
Climate modeling is a large complex enterprise. It requires
modeling not only the atmosphere, but also modeling of conditions
at the lower boundary involving the oceans, land surface
(especially vegetation), surface hydrology, cryosphere, and sources
of atmospheric constituents (such as carbon dioxide, methane,
aerosols, and CFCs). Observational data must be obtained,
assimilated, and archived. Model development and access must be
managed. Model output must be archived, made available, and
analyzed. This study session, sponsored by the NRC and the USGCRP,
will examine ways to improve the quality and infrastructure of
climate modeling in the United States.
12:30 p.m.
Introduction to session and review of the agenda
Tom Karl, chair
12:40 p.m.
The impetus for this discussion of climate
modeling Mike MacCracken
12:50 p.m.
What issues related to the quality and
infrastructure of climate modeling face the federal agencies
(especially those participating in the Interagency Modeling and
Prediction Working Group)
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IMAP WG representative
1:10 p.m.
What issues face the scientific community
related to the quality and structure of climate modeling? How
should the CRC address the issues facing both the federal agencies
and the scientific community?
Tom Karl
1:40 p.m.
Self introductions around the room. Participants
will be asked for a few words on what they would like to see as the
results of this meeting.
2:00 p.m.
Summary of the major areas of agreement and
disagreement in responses to the questionnaire on modeling from the
USGCRP V. Krishnamurthy
2:20 p.m.
The key conclusions and response to the General
Accounting Office report on “Global Warming: Limitations of
General Circulation Models and the Costs of Modeling Efforts”
GAO representative
2:30 p.m.
Break
2:50 p.m.
What are the strengths and weaknesses of climate
modeling in the United States? What impediments are there to
improving the U.S. modeling effort?
3:20 p.m.
How does the U.S. climate modeling effort
compare to modeling efforts in other countries?
3:50 p.m.
What steps should federal agencies take to
improve the quality and usefulness of climate models?
4:20 p.m.
What steps should the scientific community take
to improve the quality and usefulness of climate models?
4:50 p.m.
Review of plans for Wednesday
Tom Karl
5:00 p.m.
Adjourn for day
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7:30 p.m.
Working dinner for session chair, discussion
leaders, and invited guests
WEDNESDAY, 12 JUNE
8:00 a.m.
Breakfast available in room or refectory
Continuation of discussion on the “Quality
and Infrastructure of Climate Modeling in the United
States”
8:30 a.m.
Developing consensus recommendations for
improving the climate modeling effort in the United States Tom
Karl, chair
8:40 a.m. agencies?
What should the CRC recommend to the federal
10:20 a.m.
Break
10:40 a.m.
What should the CRC recommend to the scientific
community?
12:20 p.m.
Summary
Tom Karl
12:40 p.m.
Lunch in refectory
1:40 p.m.
Depending on the level of agreement reached in
the morning session, the discussion will continue or the CRC will
meet in executive session to begin preparation of a report on the
results of the session on the quality and infrastructure of climate
modeling in the United States.
2:30 p.m.
Break
2:50 p.m.
Executive Session
4:00 p.m.
Adjourn meeting
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Representative terms from entire chapter:
executive session
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