7/27/20  (Plenary Session) | UFS Updates & Model Dynamics
Channel: Developmental Testbed Center
Date: 2020-08-06

Mon, 27 July (All EDT) 

UFS Updates, Cloud Computing, Infrastructure, and Computational Performance (Plenary Session)
Chair: Phil Pegion
Moderator: Tara Jensen

3:15 PM Common Community Physics Package Updates
Dom Heinzeller, CU/CIRES, NOAA/GSL, DTC; Grant Firl, NCAR/RAL, DTC; Ligia Bernardet, NOAA/GSL, DTC; Laurie Carson, NCAR/RAL, DTC; Man Zhang, CU/CIRES, NOAA/GSL, DTC; Julie Schramm, NCAR/RAL, DTC

3:30 PM Coupled Modeling Infrastructure for the Unified Forecast System
Rocky Dunlap, NCAR; Ben Koziol [2], Peggy Li [3], Fei Liu [4], Raffaele Montuoro [2], Bob Oehmke [1], Ryan O'Kuinghttons [1], Himanshu Pillai [1], Dan Rosen [2], Gerhard Theurich [4], Ufuk Turuncoglu [1]
1 National Center for Atmospheric Research; 2 NOAA Global Systems Laboratory / U. of Colorado/CIRES; 3 NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory; 4 Naval Research Laboratory

3:45 PM Extending the Feature-based Within METplus to Include Diagnostic Fields for Understanding Model Systematic Errors
Lindsay Blank, NCAR/RAL and DTC; Tara Jensen, NCAR/RAL and DTC; Brian Colle, State University of New York, Stony Brook; Paul Kucera, NCAR/RAL and UCAR/COMET; Taylor Mandelbaum, State University of New York, Stony Brook

Mon, 27 July (All EDT) 

Model Dynamics, Physics, and Air Quality (Plenary Session)
Chair: Ligia Bernardet
Moderator: Tracy Hertneky

4:00 PM Development and Testing of Coupled Global Unified Forecast System (UFS) – Experiments with an advanced atmospheric physics suite
Shrinivas Moorthi, MDAB/EMC/NCEP/NWS/NOAA

4:15 PM Testing the UFS with alternative cloud parameterizations
David Randall, Colorado State University; Steven K. Krueger, The University of Utah; Donald A. Dazlich, Colorado State University

4:30 PM Developing the MYNN-EDMF to Improve Boundary Layer Cloud Structures
Joseph Olson, NOAA/GSL; Jaymes S. Kenyon, NOAA/GSL/CIRES; John M. Brown, NOAA/GSL; Wayne M. Angevine, NOAA/CSL/CIRES; Dave Turner, NOAA/GSL; Hannah Barnes, NOAA/GSL/CIRES; and Georg Grell, NOAA/GSL

4:45 PM The Unified Gravity Wave Physics in the Vertically Extended Atmosphere Models of NGGPS and UFS
Valery Yudin, CU/CIRES; Fanglin Yang EMC), Svetlana Karol (CU/CIRES), Timothy Fuller-Rowell (CU/CIRES), Adam Kubaryk (CU/CIRES), Henry Juang (EMC), Sajal Kar (EMC), Jordan Alpert (EMC) and Zhuxiao Li (CU/CIRES)