6th Antarctic Meteorological Observations, Modeling, and Forecasting Workshop. Australian Bureau of Meteorology, Hobart Tasmania 22-24 June 2011.



Wednesday 22 June 2011 – Antarctic Observations.


8:45 am Opening Remarks and Introductions.

Alasdair Hainsworth – Assistant Director Services, Bureau of Meteorology.


Session 1. Antarctic Observations – AWS's-1.

Chair: Neil Adams


09:00 am Steven Colwell. BAS Antarctic Peninsula Automatic Weather Station Update.


09:20 am Matthew A. Lazzara Jonathan E. Thom, Lee J. Welhouse, Linda M. Keller, and George A. Weidner. USAP Antarctic Automatic Weather Station Program Status and Field Report.


09:40 am Steven Colwell, Alexander Klepikov and Victor Lagun. Russian AWS in the Antarctic.


10:00 am Gert König-Langlo, Bernd Loose. The Meteorological Observatory from Neumayer.


10:20 am Matthew A. Lazzara Jonathan E. Thom, Lee J. Welhouse, Linda M. Keller, and George A. Weidner. USAP Antarctic Automatic Weather Station Plans for 2011-2012 Field Season.


10:40 – 11:20 am Break.


Session 2. Antarctic Observations – AWS's-2.

Chair: Matthew Lazzara


11:20 am Steven Colwell. Real-time data processing at BAS and GTS monitoring.


11:40 am Jack Coggins, Adrian McDonald, Robert Ward, Graeme Plank. Snow Web: The Next Generation of Antarctic Meteorological Monitoring Systems.


12:00 – 01:00 pm Round table discussion on Antarctic AWS issues.


01:00 – 02:00 pm Lunch.


Session 3. Antarctic Observations – studies and new systems.

Chair: Steve Colwell


02:00 pm Matthew A. Lazzara, and Linda M. Keller. Fifty-Year Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station Climatology: Quality Control and Analysis.


02:20 pm C. Genthon. Two years of atmospheric boundary layer tower observation at Dome C, Antarctic plateau.


02:40 pm Gorodetskaya, I. V., N. P. M. van Lipzig, L. Scheêre, W. Boot, C. Reijmer, M. van den Broeke: "Synoptic controls of moisture transport and accumulation during 2009-2010 at the Belgian Antarctic Station Princess Elisabeth, Dronning Maud Land "


03:00 pm Murray Hamilton. An expendable polarisation backscatter sonde.


03:20 - 03:40 pm Break.


Session 4. Antarctic Observations – satellites and stations.

Chair: Michael Carmody


03:40 pm Cyril Palerme, Christophe Genthon, Nicolas Champollion, Ghislain Picard, Alexandre Trouvilliez, Martina Barundum and Chantal Claud. Detecting precipitation events in Antarctica by passive microwave remote sensing.


04:00 pm Matthew A. Lazzara. Meteorological Satellite Status Report.


04:20 pm Matthew A. Lazzara. Polar Satellite Composite Atmospheric Motion vectors.


04:40 am Steven Colwell. The British Antarctic Survey’s new Halley VI station.


05:00 pm Adjourn for the Day.


07:00 pm Dinner at Blue Skies.


Thursday 23 June 2011 - Numerical Modeling:


Session 1. Numerical Modeling – 1.

Chair: Phil Reid


09:00 am Jordan G. Powers, Kevin W. Manning, David H. Bromwich, and John J. Cassano. AMPS Support for Antarctic Science and Logistics— A Decennial Retrospective.


09:20 am Kevin W. Manning and Jordan G. Powers. AMPS 2011 Update.


09:40 am John J. Cassano and Shelley L. Knuth. Air-Sea Fluxes in Terra Nova Bay, Antarctica from In Situ Aircraft Measurements.


10:00 am Maria (Masha) Tsukernik and Amanda Lynch. Seasonal and inter-annual variability in the atmospheric moisture transport across the Southern Ocean.


10:20 am William Neff, Judith Perlwitz, Gilbert Compo. Assessing the Impact of Erroneous Winds from the South Pole, Antarctica Rawinsonde Soundings on Reanalyses for 2005-2007.


10:40 – 11:20 am Break.


Session 2. Numerical Modeling – 2.

Chair: Jordan Powers


11:20 am Michael S. Dinniman, John M. Klinck and Anna K Wåhlin. The importance of short duration wind events on intrusions of Circumpolar Deep Water onto Antarctic continental shelves.


11:40 am Daniel F. Steinhoff and David H. Bromwich. Foehn Mechanism in the McMurdo Dry Valleys from Polar WRF.


12:00 pm Johanna Speirs, Hamish McGowan, Daniel Steinhoff and David Bromwich. Foehn Winds in the McMurdo Dry Valleys: Implications for climate variability and landscape evolution.


12:20 pm Hubert Gallée and Christophe. Genthon. Atmospheric Circulation in the lower Troposphere above Dome-C, Antarctica: Observation and Simulations by the MAR RCM.


12:40 pm Hubert Gallée, Alexandre Trouvilliez, Cécile Agosta, Christophe. Genthon, Vincent Favier and Florence Naaim. Transport of snow by the wind: a comparison between observations made in Adélie Land, Antarctica, and simulations made with the Regional Climate Model MAR.


01:00 – 02:00 pm Lunch.


Session 3. Numerical Modeling – 3.

Chair: John Cassano


02:00 pm David B. Reusch. New Histories of Antarctic Sea Ice from West Antarctic Ice Cores.


02:20 pm W. Neff, D. Gottas, and D. Davis. Boundary Layer Depth Estimation for Chemical Box Model Applications at the South Pole using Short-Tower Meteorological Measurements.


02:40 pm C. Genthon, D. Six, V. Favier, M. Lazzara, L. Keller Atmospheric temperature measurements biases on the Antarctic plateau.


03:00 pm David H. Bromwich, Francis O. Otieno and Keith Hines. Sensitivity of Polar WRF Antarctic simulations to lateral boundary conditions and interannual circulation variability.


03:20 – 03:40 pm Break.


03:40 pm Peyman Zawar-Reza. Summertime surface layer winds over the Darwin-Hatherton Glacial System: observations and numerical analysis with Polar-WRF.


Session 4. Numerical Modeling – Open discussion.

Chair: Davis Bromwich


04:00 – 5:00 pm Open discussion on modeling issues.


05:00 pm Adjourn for the day.


Friday 24 June 2011 – Weather Forecasting:


Session 1. Weather Forecasting – 1.

Chair: Briony MacPherson


09:00 am Chester Clogston. Forecasting Challenges through the Years.


09:20 am Neil Adams, Mana Inoue. Observing and Forecasting Antarctic Clouds.


09:40 am J. P. Nicolas and D. H. Bromwich. An evaluation of low-level clouds forecast by AMPS- Polar WRF.


10:00 am Hans-Joachim Möller. The quality of AMPS-Wind-Forecasts with regards to flight operations at Dronning Maud Land Season.


10:20 am D. H. Bromwich and J. P. Nicolas. A perspective from AMPS forecasts on tragic accidents during the Antarctic 2010-11 field season.


10:40 – 11:20 am break.


Session 2. Weather Forecasting – 2.

Chair: Michelle Hollister


11:20 am Chester Clogston and Arthur Cayette. Forecasting Challenges Improvements for the Future.


11:40 am Tom Lachlan-Cope. High Resolution Forecasts for an Antarctic Field Campaign.


12:00 pm Paul (Al) Hay, Joe Kramer [Chester Clogston]. Deep Depression Impacts Palmer Station.


12:20 pm Hans-Joachim Möller. The Meteorological Service at Dronning Maud Land Season 2011/2012.


12:40 pm Lance Cowled. The 2010/2011 Australian Antarctic forecasting season.


01:00 – 02:00 pm Lunch.


Session 3. Weather Forecasting – 3.

Chair: Neil Adams


02:00 pm Scott Carpentier. Lambert Glacier Basin Outflow across the Amery Ice Shelf, East Antarctica.


02:20 am John J. Cassano and Melissa A. Nigro. Case Study Of A High Wind Event Off The Coast Of The Prince Olav Mountains, Antarctica.


02:40 – 04:00 pm Antarctic forecasting discussion (combined with coffee).


04:00 pm Workshop close.


04:30 pm Drinks at Customs House.


Posters.

Douglas Davis, William Neff, Yuhang Wang, Tao Zeng, Paul Wine, Kimberly Brady, Rodney Weber, Mike Nicovich, Andreas Beyersdorf, and Richard Arimoto. Dynamical Processes Governing Transport of Atmospheric Sulfur to the South Pole.


W. Thiery, I. V., Gorodetskaya, R. Bintanja, N. van Lipzig, M. van den Broeke: "Surface and snowdrift sublimation estimates at the Belgian Antarctic Station Princess Elisabeth, Dronning Maud Land: role in the surface mass balance"


S Carpentier. Fog Formation at Casey.


Matthew A. Lazzara, K. E. Willmot and L. M. Keller. The ebb and flow of Antarctic meteorological data.


Matthew A. Lazzara, J. E. Thom, G. A. Weidner, L. M. Keller, M. A. Nigro, and J. J. Cassano. The Antarctic automatic weather station program.


Lee J. Welhouse, M. A. Lazzara, G. J. Tripoli, and L. M. Keller. Composite analysis of the surface effects of El Nino southern oscillation teleconnections on Antarctica.


K. Elena Willmot, M. A. Lazzara and L. M. Keller. The analysis of Antarctic cloud mass transport events from composite satellite imagery.


Neil Adams. The Casey Antarctic Forecasting System - CAFeS.