The 8th Antarctic Meteorological Observation, Modeling, & Forecasting Workshop June 9 - 12, 2013 — Madison, WI

The 8th Antarctic Meteorological Observation, Modeling, and Forecasting Workshop
The Pyle Center
Madison, WI, USA
9 June 2013 — 12 June 2013

Sunday June 9, 2013

6:30pm - 8:30pm Informal Icebreaker
Brocach Irish Pub, 7 West Main St.
Contact Matthew Lazzara by May 31, 2013 to request to attend.

Monday June 10, 2013

8:00am - 9:00am Registration
Outside room 235
9:00am - 9:15am Introductions
Matthew Lazzara, 2013 AMOMFW Organizer
9:15am - 9:30am Welcome
Wayne Feltz, CIMSS Associate Director
Session:
Chair:
Numerical Modeling I
Matthew Lazzara
9:30am - 9:50am AMPS Update - June 2013 (Abstract)
Kevin Manning and Jordan Powers
National Center for Atmospheric Research
9:50am - 10:10am The AMPS Archive on the Earth System Grid (Abstract)
Jordan Powers, Kevin Manning, and Eric Nienhouse
National Center for Atmospheric Research
10:10am - 10:30am The OSU AMPS Database: A portal for Antarctic science and operations (Abstract)
David Bromwich, Sheng-Hung Wang, and Julien Nicolas
Ohio State University
10:30am - 11:00am BREAK
-Poster Viewing
Session:
Chair:
Observational Networks I
Jordan Powers
11:00am - 11:20am Antarctic Peninsula Automatic Weather Station Data (Abstract)
Tamsin Gray
British Antarctic Survey
11:20am - 11:40am GCOS, SCAR, and EC-PORS Update (Abstract)
Steven Colwell
British Antarctic Survey
11:40am - 12:00pm Antarctic Automatic Weather Station Program: 2012-2013 Field Season Overview (Abstract)
David Mikolajczyk, Lee Welhouse, Matthew Lazzara, Linda Keller, Jonathan Thom, Maria (Masha) Tsukernik, and John Cassano
University of Wisconsin
12:00pm - 1:30pm LUNCH on your own
Antarctic - IDD Group Lunch
Session:
Chair:
Observational Research I
Steve Colwell
1:30pm - 1:50pm Boundary Layer Depth Effects on Surface Chemistry: Insights from South Pole Antarctica and Summit Greenland (Abstract)
William Neff, B. van Dam, D. Helmig, and D. Davis
NOAA, ESRL, PSD
1:50pm - 2:10pm The wintertime South Pole tropospheric water vapor column: comparisons of radiosonde and recent terahertz radiometry
Richard Chamberlin and Erich Grossman
National Institute of Standards and Technology
2:10pm - 2:30pm Observations of Vertical Temperature Profiles over the Ross Ice Shelf from Alexander Tall Tower AWS (Abstract)
Melissa Nigro, John Cassano, Linda Keller, and Matthew Lazzara
University of Colorado
2:30pm - 2:50pm An Analysis of the Meteorological conditions associated with Ozone Depletion Events in the Ross Island Region (Abstract)
Mark Seefeldt, Allison Burg, Lars Kalnajas, and Matthew Lazzara
University of Colorado
2:50pm - 3:10pm Surface-layer response to topographic shading in Miers Valley, Antarctica (Abstract)
Marwan Katurji, Peyman Zawar-Reza, and Shiyuan Zhong
University of Canterbury
3:10pm - 3:30pm BREAK
-Poster Viewing
Session:
Chair:
Observational Networks II
John Cassano
3:40pm - 4:00pm SNOWWEB 3.0 (Abstract)
Ben Jolly and Adrian McDonald
University of Canterbury
4:00pm - 4:20pm Observations on Sea Ice for Operations and Research (Abstract)
Ignatius Rigor, Michael Steele, Bruce huber, Son Nghiem, and Pablo Clemente-Colón
University of Washington
4:20pm - 4:40pm WWRP Polar Prediction Project (Abstract)
David Bromwich
Ohio State University
4:40pm - 4:50pm Antarctic Automatic Weather Station Data Usage in ECMWF Reanalysis Data Sets (Abstract)
Lee Welhouse, Matthew Lazzara, and Linda Keller
University of Wisconsin
4:50pm - 5:00pm Comments from NSF
Peter Milne
6:30pm Group Dinner
8 Seasons Grille, 45 S. Bassett St.
Contact Matthew Lazzara by May 31, 2013 to request to attend.

Tuesday June 11, 2013

8:00am - 9:00am Registration
Outside of room 235
9:00am - 9:10am Remembrances: Austin Hogan
Matthew Lazzara, Bill Neff, and David Bromwich
Session:
Chair:
Observational Networks III/Observational Research II
David Bromwich
9:10am - 9:30am USAP Grantee Observing training program
Michael Carmody
Antarctic Support Contract
9:30am - 9:50am Operational Meteorology and the Meteo-Climatological Antarctic Observatory: an overview and plans for XXIX Italian Expedition in Antarctica (Abstract)
Stefano Dolci, P. Grigioni, L. De Silvestri, C. Scarchilli, R. Schioppo, A. Iaccarino, and G. Camporeale
ENEA
9:50am - 10:10am Evaluating the Antarctic Observational Network with the Antarctic Mesoscale Prediction System (AMPS) (Abstract)
Karin Bumbaco, Gregory Hakim, Guillaume Mauger, Natalia Hryniw, and Eric Stieg
University of Washington
10:10am - 10:30am Observing Network Design Applied to Antarctic Surface Observations (Abstract)
Natalia Hryniw, Gregory Hakim, Karin Bumbaco, Guillaume Mauger, and Eric Steig
University of Washington
10:30am - 11:00am BREAK
-Poster Viewing
Session:
Chair:
Meteorology of the Ross Ice Shelf Embayment
Kevin Manning
11:00am - 11:20am Forcing Mechanisms of the Ross Ice Shelf Airstream (Abstract)
Melissa Nigro and John Cassano
University of Colorado
11:20am - 11:40am Spatial Cloud Structure Over the Ross Ice Shelf (Abstract)
Ben Jolly, Adrian McDonald, and Jack Coggins
University of Canterbury
11:40am - 12:00pm Surface Climate of the Darwin-Hatherton, Transantarctic Mountains, with links to synpotic circulation (Abstract)
Bob Noonan, Perman Zawar-Reza, and Wendy Lawson
University of Canterbury
12:00pm - 1:30pm LUNCH on your own
AMOMFW Committe Group Lunch
Session:
Chair:
Operational Weather Forecasting and Systems
Melissa Nigro
1:30pm - 1:50pm Decision Aids for Antarctic Weather Forecasting (Abstract)
Art Cayette
SPAWAR
1:50pm - 2:10pm Operational Forecasting with AMPS at Davis Station, East Antarctica (Abstract)
Karen Pon
Ohio State University
2:10pm - 2:30pm Direct Broadcast Terascan Operations in the U.S. Antarctic Program (Abstract)
Andrew Archer
Antarctic Support Contract
2:30pm - 2:50pm Satellite Status Report (Abstract)
Matthew Lazzara and David Mikolajczyk
University of Wisconsin
2:50pm - 3:10pm Initial Analysis of Weather Conditions Around Mount Elizabeth on January 23, 2013 (Abstract)
Karen Pon and David Bromwich
Ohio State University
3:10pm - 3:30pm BREAK
-Poster Viewing
Session:
Chair:
Warming, Melting, and Climate
Art Cayette
3:40pm - 4:00pm Recent temperature change on the Antarctic Peninsula (Abstract)
Qinghua Ding and Eric Stieg
University of Washington
4:00pm - 4:20pm Investigating And Predicting West Antarctic Surface Melting With Reanalysis- And GCM-Driven Polar WRF (Abstract)
David Reusch, Christopher Karmosky, Derrick Lampkin, and David Schneider
New Mexico Tech
4:20pm - 4:40pm What can AMPS tell us about the warming in West Antarctica (Abstract)
Julien Nicolas and David Bromwich
Ohio State University
4:40pm - 5:00pm May 2009 Atmospheric River Event in the Dronning Maud Land (Abstract)
Maria Tsukernik, Amanda Lynch, Maya Wei, and Irina Gorodetskaya
Brown University
5:00pm - 5:20pm Future Research on Climate Change in West Antarctica: A discussion
David Bromwich
Ohio State University
6:00pm Dinner on your own

Wednesday June 12, 2013

9:00am - 9:10am Antarctic Weather Briefing
Session:
Chair:
The Meteorology of Terra Nova Bay
Masha Tsukernik
9:10am - 9:30am Sensible and Latent Heat Fluxes from in Situ Aircraft Observations in Terra Nova Bay, Antarctica (Abstract)
Shelley Knuth and John Cassano
University of Colorado
9:30am - 9:50am UAV Observations of the Atmosphere over the Terra Nova Bay polyna: September 2009 and September 2012 (Abstract)
John Cassano and Shelley Knuth
University of Colorado
9:50am - 10:10am Uncertainty in Flux Measurements Calculated from Aircraft Measurements (Abstract)
Shelley Knuth and John Cassano
University of Colorado
10:10am - 10:30am The Feasibility Study for a Gravel Runway Near Mario Zucchelli Station (ITA) (Abstract)
Stefano Dolci
ENEA
10:30am - 10:50am BREAK
Session:
Chair:
Transitions
Mark Seefeldt
10:50am - 11:00am Polar Science Network Committee (Abstract)
Matthew Lazzara
11:00am - 11:20am Legacy Calibration of the Automatic Weather Station Model 2 of the United States Antarctic Program (Abstract)
George Weidner, Jonathan Thom, and Matthew Lazzara
University of Wisconsin
11:20am - 11:40am AWS Field Season Plans for 2013-2014 and beyond (Abstract)
Matthew Lazzara
University of Wisconsin
11:40am - 12:00pm Science to Operations Support (Abstract)
Arthur Cayette
SPAWAR
12:00pm - 1:30pm LUNCH on your own
Session:
Chair:
Community Discussions
Shelley Knuth
1:30pm - 2:10pm Discussion Topic: Antarctic Observational Meteorological Data (Abstract)
Matthew Lazzara
University of Wisconsin
2:10pm - 2:40pm Forecaster and Community feedback/input on AMPS
Jordan Powers
2:40pm - 3:10pm Community Feedback/Input on AWS
Matthew Lazzara
3:10pm - 3:40pm BREAK
3:40pm - 4:40pm General Discussion
4:40pm AMOMFW Ends