The 9th Antarctic Meteorological Observation, Modeling, & Forecasting Workshop June 8 - 11, 2014 — Charleston, SC

The 9th Antarctic Meteorological Observation, Modeling, and Forecasting Workshop
The College of Charleston
Charleston, SC, USA
8 June 2014 — 11 June 2014

Sunday June 8, 2014

7:00pm - 10:00pm Informal Icebreaker
Charleston Beer Works, 768 King St.

Monday June 9, 2014

9:00am - 9:20am Opening Remarks and Information
Chester Clogston, SPAWAR Polar Programs
9:20am - 9:40am Our Antarctic Community/Personal Introductions
Chester Clogston
Session:
Chair:		 Antarctic Numerical Modeling (1)
Jordan Powers
9:40am - 10:00am AMPS Update
Kevin W. Manning and Jordan G. Powers
10:00am - 10:20am Ensemble Testing in AMPS
Jordan G. Powers, So-Young Ha, Kevin W. Manning, and Christopher M. Snyder
10:20am - 10:40am BREAK
Session:
Chair:		 Antarctic Numerical Modeling (cont'd)
Jordan Powers
10:40am - 11:00am Improving cloud base forecasts in AMPS
Karen Pon and David H. Bromwich
11:00am - 11:20am AMPS-Polar WRF Boundary Layer on the Ross Ice Sheet: Comparisons with the Alexander Tall Tower!
Jonathan D. Willie and David H. Bromwich
11:20am - 11:40am The OSU AMPS Database
Sheng-Hung Wang and David H. Bromwich
11:40am - 12:00pm Blind Men And Elephants: Evaluating Antarctic Summer Surface Climate In Cmip5 Models With Multiple Tools
David B. Reusch and David P. Schneider
12:00pm - 1:30pm LUNCH
Recommendations and directions will be provided by organizers
Session:
Chair:		 Antarctic Observation Studies
John Cassano
1:30pm - 1:50pm Characteristics of the Atmospheric Surface Layer Over the Ross Ice Shelf
John J. Cassano, Melissa A. Nigro, Linda M. Keller, Matthew A. Lazzara, Jonathan E. Thom, George A. Weidner, and Lee J. Welhouse
1:50pm - 2:10pm Observations of the Summertime Boundary Layer Over the Ross Ice Shelf, Antarctica using SUMO UAVs
Melissa A. Nigro, John J. Cassano, Ben Jolly, and Adrian J. McDonald
2:10pm - 2:30pm The ARM West Antarctic Radiation Experiment (AWARE)
Dan Lubin, David H. Bromwich, Johannes Verlinde, Andrew Vogelmann, Lynn Russell
2:30pm - 2:50pm Optimizing the Antarctic Oberserving Network: Motivation and Theory
Gregory Hakim, Natalia Hyrniw, Guillaume Mauger, Karin Bumbaco, and Eric Steig
2:50pm - 3:10pm Optimizing the Antarctic Oberving Network: Results
Natalia Hyrniw,Gregory J. Hakim, Guillaume S. Mauger, Karin A. Bumbaco, and ERic Steig
3:10pm - 3:30pm BREAK
Session:
Chair:		 SPECICAL PRESENTATION(s)
David H. Bromwich
3:30pm - 4:30pm NRC Study to Advise NSF Science Priorities for Antarctic and Southern Ocean Research
Lauri Geller and David Bromwich

Tuesday June 10, 2014

8:55am - 9:00am General Announcement (Activites and Day Events)
Session:
Chair:		 Antarctic Observational and Logistical Efforts (1)
Steve Colwell
9:00am - 9:20am Real-time data processing at BAS, GTS monitoring and WMO work
Steve Colwell
9:20am - 9:40am The 2013-2014 Antactic Automatic Weather Station Network Update: The Argos Network Segment
David E. Mikolajczyk, Matthew Lazzara, Lee Welhouse, Linda Keller, Jonathan Thom, George Weidner, John Cassano, and Melissa Nigro
9:40am - 10:00am The 2013-2014 Antarctic Automatic Weather Station Network Update: The Freewave and Iridium Networks Segment
Lee Welhouse, Matthew Lazzara, David Mikolajczyk, Linda Keller, Jonathan Thom, George Weidner, John Cassano, and Melissa Nigro
10:00am - 10:20am Antarctic Peinsula Automatic Weather Station Network 2013-14 Feild Season Review
Rosey Grant, Steve Colwell, Petra Mildeova, Mairi Simms
10:20am - 10:40am BREAK
Session:
Chair:		 Antarctic Observational and Logistical Efforts 1 (cont'd)
Steve Colwell
10:40am - 11:00am The 2014-2015 Antarctic Automatic Weather Station Field Season Plans
Matthew Lazzara, Lee Welhouse, David Mikolajczyk, Carol Costanza, George Weidner, Andrew Slater, and John Cassano
Session:
Chair:		 Antarctic Observational and Logistical Efforts (2)
Joann Bain
11:00am - 11:20am SOPP Automated Weather Systems
Bob Vehorn
11:20am - 11:40m LAWRS Observations
Dustin Barrett
11:40am - 1:00pm LUNCH
Session:
Chair:		 Antarctic Observational and Logistical Efforts 2 (cont'd)
Joann Bain
1:00pm - 1:20pm South Pole Balloon Inflation Facility Move
Micheal Carmody
1:20pm - 1:40pm General status of the USAP TeraScan ground stations, data collections and distribution with comments on the future for Antarctic LDM
Andrew B. Archer
1:40pm - 2:00pm Radar Proposal
William Vandiver
Session:
Chair:		 Antarctic Observational and Logistical Efforts 3
Matthew Lazzara
2:00pm - 2:20pm AMRC Report
Matthew Lazzara
2:20pm - 2:40pm AMRC/Ops Relationship
Art Cayette and Chester Clogston
2:40pm - 3:30pm AMRC Workshop
Matthew Lazzara
3:30pm - 3:50pm BREAK
3:50pm - 4:30pm Poster Session
5:30pm Group Dinner
Fleet Landing Restaurant, 186 Concord Street

Wednesday June 11, 2014

Session:
Chair:		 Antactic Forecasting and Climatic Studies
Lee Welhouse
9:00am - 9:20am Applied Antarctic Meteorological Research To Practical Weather Forecasting Tools For SPAWAR Polar Programs
Paul Gulli
9:20am - 9:40am On Using South Pole Sounding Data as a Surrogate for the Antarctic Oscillation (AAO) Index and a Comparison with the Twentieth Century Reanalysis
William Neff
Session:
Chair:		 Antarctic Operations Forecasting
Paul Gulli
9:40am - 10:00am An overview of Meteorological support for the Australian Antarctic Program
Scott Carpentier
10:00am - 10:20am The Casey Station Thunderstorm
Scott Carpentier
10:20am - 10:40am BREAK
Session:
Chair:		 Antarctic Operations Forecasting (cont'd)
Paul Gulli
10:40am - 11:00am Science to Operations Cooperatives For Antarctic Weather Forecasting
Arthur Cayette
11:00am - 11:20am Decisions Aids Based On Radiosonde Data For Antarctic Weather Forecasting
Arthur Cayette