Meetings

2013

• April 29-May 1, 2013: SPARC Reanalysis/analysis Intercomparison Project (S-RIP) Planning Meeting in Exeter, UK.

  The scientific objectives, scope and aims of the meeting appear on the meeting website  

  Important Additional Information:  
    The meeting is open to all, but since space is limited all participants must register. To do this, please  send the following information to   srip2013@ml.hokudai.ac.jp(1: Name, 2: Email address, 3: Affiliation, 4: Title and short abstract (if you are submitting a poster))  .

  Information on travelling to the Met Office is found   at the meeting webpage.
   

• June 17-21, 2013: American Meteorological Society Conference on the Middle Atmosphere, Newport, Rhode Island, USA. www.ametsoc.org/meet/fainst/201317middle.html. Members of the SPARC Data Assimilation Working Group are encouraged to submit abstracts (there shall be no separate SPARC Data Assimilation Workshop in 2013). Special sessions on Data Assimilation will be convened at the conference, provided enough relevant abstracts are submitted. A side meeting will be organised to discuss SPARC Data Assimilation Working Group-related business.

• October 7-11 2013: Sixth WMO Symposium on Data Assimilation, College Park, Maryland, USA  http://www.ncep.noaa.gov/events/2013/wmo6da/
  Symposium Goals:
  (1) Assess recent progress in atmospheric, oceanographic, and hydrologic data assimilation, in both research and operational environments.
  (2) Reach common understanding of the main challenges and opportunities that lie ahead in data assimilation.
  Abstract submissions are free and currently being accepted. The deadline has been extended to Friday, 10 May 2013.
  Abstracts can be submitted here. Please download the abstract template (MS Word format) and convert to pdf.

2012

• May 7-12, 2012: 4th WCRP International Conference on Reanalyses
  Silver Spring, Maryland, USA. http://icr4.org/

• June 11-13, 2012: 9TH SPARC DATA ASSIMILATION WORKSHOP
  Socorro, New Mexico, USA. http://ee.nmt.edu/~sparc-da

• June 13-15, 2012:The GCOS Reference Upper Air Network Workshop to Develop Network Design and Expansion Criteria Fürstenwalde/Spree, Germany  conference page

2011

• Oct 24-28, 2011:WCRP Open Science Meeting, Denver, CO. www.wcrp-climate.org/conference2011/

2010

• November 1-3, 2010: Evaluation of Reanalyses – Developing an Integrated Earth System Analysis (IESA) Capability, Baltimore, MD.  http://www.usclivar.org/Reanalysis2010.php .

Legler, D., Dole R., 2011: Identifying Challenges and Opportunities for Earth System Reanalyses. EOS Transactions, 92, 172.

Legler D., Dole R., Allan R., Compo G., Carton J., 2011:  Evaluation of Reanalyses – Developing an Integrated Earth System Analysis (IESA) Capability Workshop and the 3rd Atmospheric Circulation Reconstructions over the Earth (ACRE) Workshop: Reanalysis and Applications. US Clivar Variations, 9, 5-6, May 2011.

• November 3-5, 2010: 3rd ACRE Workshop, Reanalysis and Applications, Baltimore, MD. www.joss.ucar.edu/events/2010/acre/

Allan R., Compo G., Carton J., 2011: Recovery of Global Surface Weather Observations for Historical Reanalyses and International Users, EOS Transactions, 92, 154.

Legler D., Dole R., Allan R., Compo G., Carton J., 2011:  Evaluation of Reanalyses – Developing an Integrated Earth System Analysis (IESA) Capability Workshop and the 3rd Atmospheric Circulation Reconstructions over the Earth (ACRE) Workshop: Reanalysis and Applications. US Clivar Variations, 9, 5-6, May 2011. 

Meeting Presentations

• 3rd ACRE Workshop, Reanalysis and Applications
• Evaluation of Reanalyses – Developing an Integrated Earth System Analysis (IESA) Capability
• WCRP Open Science Meeting
• WCRP 4th International Conference on Reanalyses

By Topics (in progress)

Reanalysis Overviews:

• Kevin Trenberth, NCAR: An Overview of Atmospheric Reanalyses (pptx)
• Michele Rienecker, NASA GSFC: An Overview of Ocean Reanalyses Efforts - Issues and Prospects for the Future (pptx)
• Mike Bosilovich, NASA GSFC:  An Overview of MERRA (pptx)
• Bob Kistler, NOAA NCEP: An Overview of the NCEP Climate Forecast System Reanalysis (CFSR) (pptx)
• Gil Compo, NOAA ESRL/PSD: An Overview of the ESRL Historical Reanalysis
• Rob Allan: The international Atmospheric Circulation Reconstructions over the Earth (ACRE) initiative: Ongoing and Future Plans (pdf)
• Kevin Trenberth:     Building a Climate Information System (pdf)
• David Bromwich, Ohio State University: Prototype of the Arctic System Reanalysis
• Adrian Simmons, ECMWF: Challenges of Reanalysis: Past, Present, and Future (pdf)

Observational Data

  Data Recovery

• Russ Vose, NOAA NCDC: Atmosphere Data Recovery and/or Bias in Atmosphere Observations
• Jim Carton, University of Maryland: Observation bias and ocean reanalyses
• Marni Wasserman: The Development of A System to Analyze and Compare Colonial Weather Data to more Modern data to Investigate Climate Change

Extremes and Variability

• Siegfried Schubert, NASA GSFC: http://www.usclivar.org/drought.php An Analysis of the Nature of Short Term Droughts and Floods During Boreal Summer
• Dan Vimont, University of WisconsinDecadal Variability
• Prashant Sardeshmukh, Univ of Colorado Issues in Estimating the Probabilities of Extremes
• Nicholas Klingaman: Using reanalysis to investigate drivers of rainfall variability in Queensland, Australia
• Andrea Toreti: Towards a better characterization of extreme precipitation in the Mediterranean using instrumental time series and the 20th century reanalysis
• Richard Jones: The importance of sampling multi-decadal variability when assessing impacts of extreme precipitation
• Richard Seager Mechanisms of North American Drought

Specific Events

• Jason Naylor: Simulations of the supercell outbreak of 18 March 1925

Outreach and Education

• Helen Fairweather: Visualizing and using the ACRE data
• Philip Brohan: Visualization of events and uncertainities in the 20th Century Reanalysis
• Ed Geary:GLOBE and ACRE: Promoting Learning and Research through Effective Data Collaborations between Students, Teachers and Scientists.
• Richard Kurtz: Connecting Scientists to the World Through Science Research