Tuesday 25 November

WELCOME

Dr Sue Barrell, acting Deputy Director (Research & Systems)

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Dr Bruce Mapstone, Director, CAWCR

OCEAN/COASTAL (I)

Session 1 CHAIR: Kathy McInnes

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Keynote: Kevin Horsburgh, Proudman Oceanographic Lab

"Current developments in operational storm surge modelling"

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Siobhan O’Farrell, CAWCR

"Regional sea level rise around the Australian coastline"

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Benjamin Modra, Manly Hydraulics Laboratory

"NSW Storm Surge - a tidal epoch review"

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James Chittleborough, National Tidal Centre, BoM

 "Tide models used at the National Tidal Centre"

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John Middleton, SARDI Aquatic Sciences, South Australia

"Regional models for upwelling and self-circulation: the importance of backward boundary conditions, CTWs"

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Joanne O’Callaghan, NIWA, NZ

"Adaptive non-hydrostatic multi-scale modelling: application to coastal scale processes"

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REGIONAL CLIMATE MODELLING

Session 2 CHAIR: Tony Hirst

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Keynote: Marcus Thatcher, CAWCR

"Issues in regional climate modelling and future directions"

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Frank Drost, University of Melbourne

"On the effect of domain size of New Zealand's regional climate model on modelled climatology"

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Sam Dean, NIWA, NZ

"Regional climate modelling in New Zealand using the Unified Model"

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John McGregor, CAWCR

"A variety of tropical climate simulations using CCAM"

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Kim Nguyen, CAWCR

"Simulations of pan evaporation and rainfall over Australia"

ICE BREAKER

Wednesday 26 November

OCEAN/COASTAL (II)

Session 3 CHAIR: James Chittleborough

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Andreas Schiller, CSIRO 

"Explicit tidal forcing in an OGCM"

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Carlos Teixeira, SARDI Aquatic Sciences, South Australia & UNSW

"The effects of tides and wind forcing on the circulation within the Spencer Gulf"

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Matthew Collopy, South Aust Regional Office, BoM

"High resolution modelling of swell propagation in the near shore environment"

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NUMERICAL WEATHER PREDICTION (I)

Session 4 CHAIR: Peter Steinle

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Keynote: Sue Ballard, UKMO

"Development of Met Office 1.5km forecast and nowcasting system"

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Chris Tingwell, CAWCR

"Australian mesoscale data assimilation and numerical weather prediction in ACCESS"

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Mohar Chattopadhyay, CAWCR

"Impact of using 4D-Var Assimilation of SSMI data in ACCESS modelling framework"

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Holly Sims, CAWCR

"Impact of remotely sensed wind data assimilation within a 4D-VAR NWP System"

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Beth Ebert, CAWCR

"Assessing the quality of high resolution forecasts using fuzzy (neighbourhood) verification"

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Daisuke Miura, JMA

"Development of an operational mesoscale numerical prediction model at JMA"

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Vaughan Barras, CAWCR

"Modelling the atmospheric boundary layer in ACCESS : an alternate surface scaling"

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Hongyan Zhu, CAWCR

"Diagnosing MJO and convection behaviour in SP-CAM and CAM simulation"

WORKSHOP DINNER - Wednesday 26 November 19:00hrs
"The Cells", Royal Melbourne Hotel, 629 Bourke Street, Melbourne
http://www.rmh.com.au/content/tour.htm

Thursday 27 November

COUPLED MODELLING

Session 5 CHAIR: Gary Brassington

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Keynote: Isaac Ginis, Uni of Rhode Island

"New strategies for comprehensive coupled atmosphere-wave-ocean modelling in tropical cyclones"

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Paul Sandery, CAWCR

"Evaluation of a regional ocean-atmosphere coupled weather prediction system"

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Kevin Walsh, University of Melbourne

"Effects of air/sea interaction representations on ocean behaviour during topical cyclones"

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Gary Brassington, CAWCR

"East Coast Lows : oceanic boundary conditions"

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Alexander Babanin, Swinburne Uni of Technology

"Wave-Induced Upper-Ocean Mixing and Climate Modelling"

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Eric Schulz, CAWCR

"Atmosphere-wave coupling  under high wind conditions"

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Liu Chunxia, CMA

"The effect of sea wave on typhoon Imodu"

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NUMERICAL WEATHER PREDICTION (II)

Session 6 CHAIR: Jeff Kepert

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Roger Smith, Meteorological Institute, LMU, Germany

"The dynamics of tropical-cyclone intensification"

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Noel Davidson, CAWCR

"Experiments with initialization and prediction of tropical cyclone structure and intensity"

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Todd Lane, University of Melbourne

"The performance of nested cloud-scale simulations during TWP-ICE"

COFFEE

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Michael Reeder, Monash University

"Modeling pyrocumulonimbi and tornadoes spawned by bushfires"

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Kevin Cheung, Macquarie University

Friday 28 November

EXPECTATIONS

Session 7 CHAIR: John McBride

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Jack Katzfey, CAWCR

"Ensemble one kilometre resolution numerical weather forecasts for the American’s Cup"

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Craig Arthur and Bob Cechet, Geoscience Australia

"High resolution modelling for impact forecasting"

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Jeff Kepert, CAWCR

"Verification of high resolution NWP for wind energy prediction"

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Augusto Sanabria and Bob Cechet, Geoscience Australia

"Assessing wind hazard in Australia's Region A using a high-resolution GCM approach"

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Rod Potts, CAWCR

"High resolution modelling for the aviation weather service"

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John Nairn, South Aust Regional Office, BoM

"Modelling priorities in South Australia"

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Session 8 CHAIR: Gary Dietachmayer

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Plenary and Synthesis Discussion

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CLOSE – Bruce Mapstone, Director, CAWCR