Agenda GEWEX Upper Tropospheric Clouds & Convection PROcess Evaluation Study meeting
UPMC Sorbonne University, Paris, France
Day 1 (Room 24 – 02, Tour Zamansky (central tower), 24th floor)
09:00 Registration
09:15 Welcome, logistics – Claudia Stubenrauch
09:25 GEWEX update – Graeme Stephens
09:40 UTCC PROES update & goals for this meeting – Claudia Stubenrauch
09:55 Round-table presentation of participants
10:10 The Release 5 CloudSat Products: Upgrades of Relevance to UT Cloud Process Studies – Tristan L’Ecuyer, University of Wisconsin, USA
Observational analyses of mesoscale convective systems (20 minutes each)
10:35 A Mesoscale Convective Systems Database over the tropical belt for the 2012-2016 period, derived from the Meteorological Geostationary Fleet – Thomas Fiolleau, CNRS, LEGOS, France
11:00 Coffee break
11:20 MCS cloud life cycle from merged satellite data – Dominique Bouniol, CNRM, GMME, France
11:20 MCS life cycle and precipitation in the tropics: climatology and extremes –
Remy Roca, CNRS, LEGOS, France
11:45 The life cycle of anvil clouds from SEVIRI – Luca Bugliario, DLR, Germany
12:10 Monitoring deep convection and convective overshooting using MHS: A CloudSat/Calipso-based assessment – Jean-François Rysman, LMD, France
12:35 Group photo and lunch
14:30 Horizontal emissivity structure of UT cloud systems and resulting heating (A-Train Synergy) –
Claudia Stubenrauch, CNRS, LMD, France
Water vapor and convective transport (20 minutes each)
14:55 Statistical downscaling of water vapour satellite measurements from observations of tropical ice clouds – Gulia Carella, LSCE, France
15:20 Upper tropospheric water vapour and its interaction with cirrus clouds – Insights from two decades of IAGOS in-situ observations – Andreas Petzold, FZ Juelich, Germany
15:45 High convective clouds in the Asian monsoon TTL – Bernard Legras, CNRS, LMD, France
16:10 Coffee break
16:30 On the Use of Tracer Measurements to Diagnose Convective Transport Pathways from the PBL to the UT – Johnny Luo, CUNY, City College, USA
16:55 Discussion: Summarizing observational advances and potential diagnostics for comparison to models
Process studies (25 minutes)
17:30 The dynamical and microphysical support of convective anvils – Susan Van den Heever, CSU, USA (remote)
17:55 Discussions on potential of process studies
Adjourn 18:30
Day 2 (Earth, Environment and Biodiversity Faculty Conference Room, Tower 45/55, 3rd floor)
Climate variation and feedbacks (20 minutes each)
09:30 Observed cloud anomalies associated with the North Atlantic Oscillation, and their radiative feedback – Georgios Papavasileiou, IMK-TRO, KIT, Germany
09:55 Regional intensification of the tropical hydrological cycle during ENSO – Graeme Stephens, NASA JPL, USA
10:20 Roles of Convection in the Maintenance of Tropical Margins – Hirohiko Masunaga, Nagoya University, Japan
10:45 Coffee break
11:10 Quantifying the relative importance of the middle and upper troposphere for the clear-sky outgoing longwave radiation – Venkatachalam Ramaswamy, NOAA GFDL, USA
11:35 Discussions on cirrus heating and feedback
12:25 lunch
Parameterizations and model diagnostic studies (20 minutes each)
14:00 Simulating ice crystal formation by convective detrainment and in-situ formation with our new cloud routine for the GCM ECHAM-HAM – Part 1, Part 2 – Steffen Muench, ETHZ, Switzerland
14:25 Using a Cloud System Concept to assess bulk ice fall speed parameterizations in the LMDZ GCM –
Marine Bonazzola, LMD, France
14:50 A parametrization of the dynamics of cold pool population in the LMDZ GCM – Jean-Yves Grandpeix, LMD, France
15:15 High cloud responses to aerosols and surface warming in two versions of E3SM with different cloud and convection tunings – Po-Lun Ma, PNNL, USA
15:40 Coffee and Discussion
Bring observations and models together, and next steps:
Adjourn 17:00
