The 9th Workshop of the Virtual Laboratory for the Earth’s ClimateDiagnostics Program, and the University Allied Workshop
Sep. 29―Oct. 1, 2015, Atmosphere and Ocean Research Institute, The University of Tokyo

http://157.82.240.172/~vl/index-eng.html
This is the announcement of the 9th Workshop of the Virtual Laboratory for the Earth’s
Climate Diagnostics Program and the University Allied Workshop, which will be held
between September 29 and October 1, 2015 at Atmosphere and Ocean Research Institute(AORI) at The University of Tokyo. The workshop will consist of presentations by studentsand early career researchers on atmospheric modeling, simulations, and analyses, andtutorials/lectures about the Non-hydrostatic Icosahedral Atmospheric Model (NICAM)*.
The Virtual Laboratory for the Earth’s Climate Diagnostics Program (VL) is acollaborative project that was started in 2007 by four university research centers: AORI at
The University of Tokyo, the HyARC at Nagoya University, CAOS at Tohoku University, andCEReS at Chiba University. We have arranged the workshop to also to be a University AlliedWorkshop (UAW) in hope of offering opportunities for young scientists to build relationshipsthat will continue throughout their professional careers. The original UAW was an annual
workshop jointly involving the former Center for Climate System Research (CCSR, which is
now part of AORI, and universities from other Eastern Asian countries.
We sincerely look forward to your participation.

Call for presentations
Presentations are invited on the subjects: atmospheric modeling (global/regionalmodeling, dynamical cores, and physical processes), numerical simulations andanalyses at any time scale, and validation and improvement of numerical models
using observational data
Contact: VL office: E-mail: vl-office@aori.u-tokyo.ac.jp
Tel: +81-4-7136-4372, Fax: +81-4-7136-4375
Atmosphere and Ocean Research Institute, The University of Tokyo
5-1-5 Kashiwanoha, Kashiwa, Chiba, Japan*NICAM references: NICAM web site http://nicam.jp/Satoh, M., et al. (2014) The Non-hydrostatic Icosahedral Atmospheric Model:
Description and development. Progress in Earth and Planetary Science. 1, 18.
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s40645-014-0018-1

Dates:Sep. 29–Oct. 1, 2015
Sep. 29 (Tue): Presentations
Sep. 30 (Wed): AM: Presentations, PM: Tutorial/lecture
Oct. 1 (Thu): AM: Tutorial/lecture

Location: General Research Building
Atmosphere and Ocean Research Institute, The University of Tokyo
5-1-5 Kashiwanoha, Kashiwa, Chiba Prefecture, Japan
http://ccsr.aori.u-tokyo.ac.jp/directions-e.html
Presentations on the subjects: atmospheric modeling (global/regional modeling,
dynamical cores, and physical processes), numerical simulations and analyses
at any time scale, and validation and improvement of numerical models using
observational data
Tutorial/lecture: “NICAM: description and exercise”
The structure and programming of the Non-hydrostatic Icosahedral Atmospheric
Model (NICAM) will be described, and a NICAM simulation will be performed bycompiling the model and analyzing the results.
Lecturers: Masaki Satoh (Professor at AORI)
Tomoki Miyakawa (Assistant Professor at AORI)
Requirements : Basic Unix experience
Please bring your own laptop if possible.
A limited number of laptops will be available for rent.
Up-to-date anti-virus software must be installed on your laptop.
It is desirable that your laptop has the X-window system installed.
Installation guides for X-windows (X-ming for Windows, X-codes for Mac) will
be provided later for those requiring them.
Language: English and Japanese
Maximum number of participants: 40――――――――――――――――――――――――――――――――――――――
Please register by sending an e-mail to vl-office@aori.u-tokyo.ac.jp. Registration willclose by 31 July 2015.
In your registration e-mail, please provide:a) Name, affiliation, and e-mail addressb) Presentation title and preference (oral, poster, or no presentation)c) Your research area and interestsd) Details of your experience using Unix, numerical models, and GrADS.
(This information will be used to allocate participants into groups for the lectures.)