Next Meeting:
May 27-28, 2009
Location: The Keck Center, Room 110
500 Fifth St. N.W.
Washington, D.C. 20001
Meeting Agenda
Wednesday, 27 May 2009
8:00 A.M.
Continental breakfast
8:30 A.M.
Welcome, introductions, and agenda overview
Jerry Meehl (NCAR), CRC Chair
8:45 A.M.
Committee business and updates
Ian Kraucunas
9:00 A.M.
Review of recently released NRC reports
9:40 A.M.
Update on America's Climate Choices
Ian Kraucunas
10:00 A.M. Break
Forum on Connecting the IPCC WG1 and WG2 Communities through Regional Climate Information
As the scientific community makes plans for the production of the Fifth Assessment Report by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, a key topic is improving the coordination and integration among the three IPCC working groups. This Forum will focus mainly on the relationship between IPCC working group 1 (Physical Science Basis) and working group 2 (Impacts, Adaptation, and Vulnerability), with a working hypothesis that the relationship between these two groups and their communities might be significantly improved through a focus on the development and applications of regionally-specific climate information. Speakers and discussion will focus on the scientific underpinnings of regional climate projections, the translation of this information to regionally-specific impacts, and the availability of regional information to support these linked endeavors.
10:15 A.M.
Welcome and goals of the Forum
Jerry Meehl (NCAR), CRC Chair
Linda Mearns (NCAR), CRC and CHDGC member
10:30 A.M.
Keynotes perspectives
Chris Field, Stanford University, co-chair of WG2
Thomas Stocker, co-chair of WG1
(both via videoconference)
11:15 A.M.
Discussion
(with keynote speakers, Pauline Midgley, head of WG1 TSU, Dr. Kasper Plattner, deputy head Science in the WGI TSU [both via videoconference] Kris Ebi, head of WG2 TSU)
11:30 A.M.
Downscaling (focus on NARCCAP)
Linda Mearns, NCAR
12:00 P.M. Working Lunch, informal discussion
1:00 P.M.
Regional modeling (focus on CORDEX)
Lai-yung (Ruby) Leung, PNNL
1:30 P.M.
Missing pieces from the modeling perspective
Isaac Held, NOAA
2:00 A.M.
Regional impacts
Tim Carter, Finnish Environment Institute
2:30 P.M.
RCP scenario process
Richard Moss, World Wildlife Fund
3:00 P.M Break
3:15 P.M.
Water/decision support
Roger Pulwarty, NOAA
3:45 P.M.
Drought/DRICOMP
Siegfried Schubert, NASA, GSFC
4:15 P.M.
Discussion Panel
Chet Koblinsky, NOAA, Climate Program Office
Tony Janetos, CRC member, U of Maryland
5:15 P.M.
Wrap-up
Linda Mearns
Jerry Meehl
5:30 P.M. Open Session Adjourns
Thursday, 28 May 2009
8:00 A.M.
Continental breakfast
8:30 A.M.
Welcome and goals for the day
Jerry Meehl
8:45 P.M.
Review and discussion of new and ongoing NRC activities
9:45 P.M.
Military Specific Challenges and Opportunities for Partnership in the Climate Community
Addison D. Davis, Deputy Assistant Secretaryof Environment for the Army
10:15 A.M. Break
10:30 A.M.
New project development - discussion/update on ideas from previous meetings
CRC-CHDGC Virtual Working Group
Other project ideas
12:00 P.M. Working Lunch, continued discussion
1:00 P.M. Open Session Adjourns
Current Membership
Gerald Meehl (chair), National Center for Atmospheric Research
Ana P. Barros, Duke University
Cecilia Bitz, University of Washington
James Coakley Jr., Oregon State University
Gabriele Hegerl, University of Edinburgh
Henry D. Jacoby, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Anthony C. Janetos, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory/University of Maryland
Robert Lempert, RAND Corporation
Roger B. Lukas, University of Hawaii
Linda Mearns, National Center for Atmospheric Research
Sumant Nigam, University of Maryland
Joyce E. Penner, University of Michigan
Richard Richels, Electric Power Research Institute
Taro Takahashi, Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory of Columbia University
Lonnie G. Thompson, Ohio State University
Biographical information
Past Meetings
December 2-3, 2008
Washington D.C.
Meeting Agenda
- WCRP-CCSP-CRC Roundtable
- Forum on Decadal Prediction
March 19-21, 2008
Boulder, CO
Meeting Agenda
- Discussion on CCSP Workshop
- Discussed current and developing CRC activities
November 5-6, 2007
Washington, DC
Meeting Agenda
- WCRP-CCSP-CRC Roundtable
- Forum on Extreme Events in a Changing Climate
- Discussed current and developing CRC activities
May 16-17, 2007
Washington, DC
Meeting Agenda
- Joint Forum (with the Board on Atmospheric Sciences and Climate) on Key Outstanding Questions and High-Priority Research Needs Emerging from the Fourth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC AR4)
- Joint Forum (with the Board on Atmospheric Sciences and Climate) on Seamless Prediction and Year of Tropical Convection
- Discussed current and developing CRC activities
November 30 - December 1, 2006
Washington, DC
Meeting Agenda
- WCRP Roundtable
- CRC 25th Anniversary Dinner
- Forum on Development of an Abrupt Climate Change Early Warning System
- Joint discussions with the Board on Atmospheric Science and Climate and the Committee on the Human Dimensions of Global Change
March 22-23, 2006
Washington, DC
Meeting Agenda
- Forum on Development of Integrated Earth System Analysis Capability
- Discussed current and developing CRC activities
October 3-5, 2005
Washington, DC
Meeting Agenda
- Multiple sessions on U.S. Involvement in WCRP
- Discussed current and developing CRC activities
April 12-13, 2005
Washington, DC
Meeting Agenda
- Joint discussion with the Committee on the Human Dimensions of Global Change
- Joint discussion with the Board on Atmospheric Science and Climate
- Forum on Seasonal-to-Interannual Climate Forecasts: Current Capabilities and Future Challenges
October 25-27, 2004
Washington, DC
Meeting Agenda
- Forum on Characterizing and Communicating Climate Change Uncertainties
- Discussed current and developing CRC activities
April 7-9, 2004
Washington, DC
Meeting Agenda
- Joint meeting with the Coordinating Committee on Global Change
- Discussed current and developing CRC activities
