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INTRODUCTION AND HOUSEKEEPING |
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9:15 |
Keynote: Kamal Puri (BoM) |
Modelling across scales: towards seamless prediction and projection |
Short to medium range coupled modelling |
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9:45 |
Keynote: Hendrik Tolman (NOAA) |
Short to medium range coupled modeling at the US National Weather Service; moving toward unified modeling approaches |
10:15 |
Chris Chambers (BoM) |
The effect of East Australian Current eddies on weather in east coast lows |
10:30-11:00 Morning Tea |
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11:00 |
Keynote: Tim Johns (UKMO) |
Global coupled NWP: recent research progress at the Met Office |
11:30 |
Paul Sandery (BoM) |
An ocean perspective of coupled short range prediction |
11:45 |
Claire Vincent (U Melbourne) |
Modelling the composite mesoscale signature of the MJO over the Maritime Continent |
12:00 |
Alex Babanin (Swinburne Univ) |
Wave-Coupled Processes in Air-Sea Modelling: from Turbulence to Climate |
12:30 – 14:00 Lunch |
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14:00 |
Gary Dietachmayer (BoM) |
Towards NWP at convection-permitting resolution at the BoM |
14:15 |
Michael Naughton (BoM) |
ACCESS Ensemble NWP status and plans |
Land-atmosphere interactions (Part 1) |
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14:30 |
Keynote: L. Ruby Leung (PNNL) |
From diurnal variability to land-atmosphere interactions: Implications for high resolution modeling |
15:00 |
Rachel Law (CSIRO) |
Interactions between land carbon, climate, and aerosols in ACCESS-ESM1 historical simulations |
15:20 |
Prasanth Divakaran (BoM) |
Lightning Talk |
15:25 |
Haifeng Zhang (UNSW) |
Lightning Talk |
15:30- 16:00 Afternoon Tea |
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16:00 |
Gab Abramowitz (UNSW) |
Evaluation of land surface models against Fluxnet observations |
16:30 |
Vanessa Haverd (CSIRO) |
Exploring and attributing Australian carbon cycle responses to water availability |
16:50 |
Xingjie Lu (CSIRO) |
Lightning Talk |
16:55 |
Ruth Lorenz (UNSW) |
Lightning Talk |
17:30 ICEBREAKER |
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Ocean-Atmosphere Coupled Processes |
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09:00 |
Keynote: Matthew England (UNSW) |
Pacific wind-driven circulation variability and its role in hiatus / accelerated warming decades |
09:30 |
Julie Arblaster (BoM) |
Decadal variability in global temperatures and Antarctic sea ice |
09:45 |
Richard Matear (CSIRO) |
Modelling the Earth System with ACCESS to assess the potential carbon climate feedbacks on climate change |
10:00 |
Chaojiao Sun (CSIRO) |
Long-term poleward trend of the Pacific South Equatorial Current bifurcation from high-resolution ocean hindcast using OFAM3 |
10:15 |
Andrew Marshall (BoM) |
Initiation and amplification of the Ningaloo Niño |
10:30-11:00 Morning Tea |
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11:00 |
Keynote: Wenju Cai (CSIRO) |
A cross-time scale coupling and impact on frequency ofextreme El Niño events. |
11:30 |
Harun Rashid (CSIRO) |
ENSO variability and change in the ACCESS coupled models |
11:45 |
Dietmar Dommenget (Monash) |
The seasonally changing cloud feedbacks contribution to the ENSO seasonal phase locking |
12:00 |
Eunpa Lim (BoM) |
Understanding and predicting the contrast of Australian springtime rainfall of 1997 and 2002 |
12:15 |
Kevin Walsh (U Melbourne) |
Coupled ocean-atmosphere processes in tropical cyclones on short and long timescales |
12:30 – 14:00 Lunch |
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High Impact Weather |
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14:00 |
Keynote: Adrian Lock (UKMO) |
Recent fog forecasting research at the Met Office |
14:30 |
Keynote: Hendrik Tolman (NOAA) |
Prediction High Impact Weather: The Weather Ready Nation approach |
15:00 |
John Nairn (BoM) |
Australia's new heatwave service: recent performance |
15:15 |
Valentijn Pauwels (Monash) |
Improving flood forecasting skill using remote sensing data |
15:30-16:00 Afternoon Tea |
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16:00 |
Michael Rumsewicz (Bushfire CRC) |
Coupled Systems: From physical science to community safety |
16:20 |
Justin Robinson (BoM) |
Developing and improving the flood forecasting service |
16:35 |
Vinodkumar (BoM) |
More accurate fire danger warnings through the use of NWP systems |
16:45 |
Xingbao Wang (BoM) |
Tropical cyclone forecasting using the high resolution ACCESS model |
16:55 |
Ghyslaine Boschat (U Melbourne) |
Lightning Talk |
High Impact Weather (continued) |
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09:00 |
Keynote: Beth Ebert (BoM) |
Emerging methods for high impact weather prediction and observation |
09:30 |
Jeff Kepert (BoM) |
High-resolution ensemble prediction of an East Coast Low |
Land-atmosphere interactions (Part 2) |
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09:45 |
Keynote: Andy Pitman (UNSW) |
How well do land models handle extremes? |
10:15 |
Huqiang Zhang (BoM) |
Transpose AMIP experiments for testing the potential impacts of land-surface models on ACCESS NWP |
10:30-11:00 Morning Tea |
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11:00 |
Yongqiang Zhang (CSIRO) |
Multi-decadal trend in terrestrial evapotranspiration and its implication on global climate models |
11:20 |
Eva van Gorsel (CSIRO) |
Impact of summer heatwaves on forest productivity in Southern Australia |
Coupled data assimilation and reanalysis |
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11:40 |
Keynote: Craig Bishop (NRL) |
Probabilistic state estimation for coupled models |
12:10 |
John Le Marshall (BoM) |
Reanalysis Benefits from Higher Spectral Spatial and Temporal Resolution EOS |
12:30 – 14:00 Lunch |
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14:00 |
Keynote: Dale Barker (UKMO) |
Towards a UM-based regional reanalysis for Europe |
14:30 |
Yonghong Yin (BoM) |
Coupled data assimilation for seasonal prediction |
14:45 |
Maggie Zhao (BoM) |
Impact of salinity assimilation on seasonal forecasts |
15:00 |
Terry O’Kane (CSIRO) |
Oceanic teleconnections as revealed in models and reanalyses with application to decadal forecast initialisation |
15:15 |
Eng Ching (BoM) |
Lightning Talk |
15:20 |
Jenny A. Fisher (U Wollongong) |
Lightning Talk |
15:25-16:00 Afternoon Tea |
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16:00 |
David Walters (UKMO) |
The new Met Office Coupled Atmosphere/Land/Ocean/Sea Ice Data Assimilation System |
16:20 |
Peter Steinle (BoM) |
Performance of convective scale DA during the Sydney Forecast Demonstration Project |
16:40 |
Paul Scott Hartlipp (UNSW) |
Lightning Talk |
16:45 |
Andy Taylor (BoM) |
Lightning Talk |
Scientific Computing Futures and Challenges |
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09:00 |
Keynote: Lesley Seebeck (BoM) |
Challenges to Strategic Innovation and Technology |
09:30 |
Tim Pugh (BoM) |
Scientific computing plans in the Bureau, opportunities and challenges |
09:50 |
Phil Brown (Cray) |
Trends in Supercomputing & Analytics and implications for Earth System Modelling |
10:10 |
Ben Evans (NCI) |
NCI enabling Earth Systems Science using High Performance Computing & Data |
10:30-11:00 Morning Tea |
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11:00 |
Luke Mason (Intel Parallel Computing Centre) |
Optimisation of Unified Model Radiation Calculations for Xeon Phi |
11:20 |
Rob Bell (CSIRO) |
From CSIRAC to Cray (again) and onwards |
11:40 |
Discussion : Computing future opportunities and challenges – Facilitator: Tim Pugh |
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12:30 – 14:00 Lunch |
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Current status and future opportunities |
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14:00 |
Dale Barker (UKMO) |
Status/Plans for NWP Upgrades Over the Next 5 Years at the Met Office |
14:20 |
Gary Brassington (BoM) |
Short to medium-range prediction: success and challenges |
14:35 |
Oscar Alves (BoM) |
Seasonal prediction : towards ACCESS-S |
14:50 |
David Walters (UKMO) |
Global coupled model development across timescales |
15:10-15:40 Afternoon Tea |
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15:40 |
Keynote: Tongwen Wu (BCC) |
Beijing Climate Centre Climate System Model (BCC-CSM) development and its operational applications for sub-seasonal to seasonal prediction |
16:10 |
Tony Hirst (CSIRO) |
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16:30 |
Tim Johns (UKMO) |
Towards CMIP6: Met Office Modelling Plans and Expectations |
16:50Dr Peter Craig: |
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