Third WCRP International Conference on Reanalysis - 28 January to 1 February, 2008

Conference Program
Monday, January 28
8:00 - 9:45

Registration

10:00 - 10:20

Opening Session

Introduction of the reanalyses
10:30

V1-101The JRA-25 Reanalysis
Kazutoshi Onogi
Japan Meteorological Agency, Japan

11:00

V1-102Evolution of Reanalysis at ECMWF
Sakari Uppala, Dick Dee, Shinya Kobayashi, Adrian Simmons
European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts, UK

11:30

V1-103

Reanalysis at NCEP: Past, Present and Future
1Robert Kistler and NCEP Staff, Contractors and Visiting Scientists, Past and Present
NCEP/SAIC, USA

12:00

V1-104Assimilating Earth System Observations at NASA: MERRA and Beyond
Siegfried Schubert, Michael Bosilovich, Michele Rienecker, Max Suarez, Ron Gelaro,Randy Koster, Rolf Reichle, Steven Pawson, Ivanka Stajner, Arlindo da Silva,
Christian Keppenne, Watson Gregg
GSFC/NASA, USA

12:30 - 14:00

Lunch

Applications of reanalysis products
14:00

V1-201

Detection of Key Atmospheric Features in Reanalysis Data
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Phillip A. Arkin , Randy Dole , Siegfried Schubert , James Carton , Eugenia Kalnay ,3Randy Koster
1University of Maryland, USA, 2NOAA, USA, 3GSFC/NASA, USA

14:30

G1-211

Use of Reanalyses to Examine Climate Model Errors via NWP Type Forecasts
David L. Williamson
National Center for Atmospheric Research, USA(1)

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14:50

G1-212

Numerical Simulation of a Bay of Bengal Tropical Cyclone: A Comparison of the Resultsfrom Experiments with Jra-25 And Ncep Reanalysis Fields
Dodla Venkata Bhaskar Rao, Desamsetti Srinivas, Dasari Hari Prasad
Andhra University, India

15:10

G1-213

A Stochastic Model of the Madden-Julian Oscillation
123Charles Jones , Adrian Matthews , Benjamin Pohl
1Institute for Computational Earth System Sciences, University of California Santa Barbara,
23USA, University of East Anglia, UK, Centre de Recherches de Climatologie, Université deBourgogne, France

15:30 - 16:00

Coffee break

16:00

V1-221A Comparison of Vertically-Integrated Water and Energy Cycle Diagnostics from Several
Reanalyses
Kevin E. Trenberth, Lesley Smith, John Fasullo
National Center for Atmospheric Research, USA

16:30

G1-222

Importance of the Low-level Diabatic Heating on the Formation of the Summertime
Subtropical Highs: Sensitivity to Diabatic Heating Data Set
1
1,2Takafumi Miyasaka , Hisashi Nakamura
1
University of Tokyo, Japan, 2Frontier Research Center for Global Change, JAMSTEC, Japan

16:50

G1-223Typhoon Landfall Mode in ERA-40 and JRA-25 Reanalysis Datasets
Tetsuo Nakazawa1, Kavirajan Rajendran2
1
Meteorological Research Institute, Japan, 2CSIR Centre for Mathematical Modeling &Computer Simulation, National Space Laboratories, India

17:10

G1-224Characteristics of Storm Tracks in JMA’s Seasonal Forecast Model
Akihiko Shimpo
Japan Meteorological Agency, Japan

17:30

G1-225

Usage of Atmospheric Reanalysis Data for Dynamical Diagnoses of the AtmosphericCirculation and Climate Variability
1,2
Hisashi Nakamura
1
University of Tokyo, Japan, 2FRCGC/JAMSTEC, Japan

17:50

G1-226

Impacts of Persistent Circulation Anomalies on Precipitation over Northern Eurasia
during Summer
11
1,2
Yoshiki Fukutomi , Kooiti Masuda , Tetsuzo Yasunari
12
FRCGC, JAMSTEC, Japan, HyARC, Nagoya University, Japan

19:00 - 21:00

Reception(2)