Water Availability Grand Challenge for North America

May 3 - 5, 2016 | Columbia, MD, USA

US Regional Hydroclimate Project Workshop Preliminary Agenda
3-5 May 2016
USRA Headquarters, Columbia, Maryland

Coffee breaks and lunch generously provided by USRA

TUESDAY, MAY 3RD

12:00 – 17:30
Welcome & Coffee

• Introduction: Graeme Stephens, Roy Rasmussen, Ana Barros
• WCRP Grand Challenge – Water for the Food Baskets of the World: Peter van Oevelen

Current Ongoing Relevant Activities

• Changing Cold Regions Network – John Pomeroy
• INARCH – John Pomeroy
• Convection Permitting Modeling/CONUS Runs – Roy Rasmussen

Outreach to Early Career Researchers

• Intro – Craig Ferguson
• Video Competition

Agency Introductions

• NASA – Jared Entin
• NOAA – Jin Huang

WEDNESDAY, MAY 4TH

09:00 – 12:30 Discussion/Introductions

A few longer presentations along with people’s short briefs. We are aware that we are not covering all aspects. The workshop is intended to discuss where the focus should be. Hence, the following proposed talks are mere starting points and do not indicate any preference!

Key Introductions/Stimulus Talks (10 minutes per person)

Modeling:

• JT Reager – Hyper resolution LSMs
• Ana Barros – Process modeling
• Ben Zaitchek – Human dimension
• Paul Dirmeyer – Land surface-atmosphere
• Roy Rasmussen – WRF Hydro System
• Christa Peters-Lidard – NASA/GSFC Land Information System (LIS) group
• Malaquías Peña – Use of the ensemble covariance matrix to propagate forecast uncertainty across climate model components

Observations and Data/ReAnalysis:

• Graeme Stephens for Ali Behrangi – Precipitation is poorly estimated in Western U.S.
• Tom Painter – California drought
• Matt Rodell – GRACE and human impacts on the water cycle
• Raymond Arritt – Trends of mean and extreme precipitation over the Central U.S.

Hydrological Applications:

• John Bolten – NASA program perspective
• JT Reager for Jay Famligetti – The Western States Water Mission
• Roy Rasmussen – A Regional Hydroclimate Project for the Rocky Mountains
• Christopher Castro – Water-related limitations in process understanding, modeling, monitoring
• Craig Ferguson – An integrated Water Availability Project

Other:

• Roy Rasmussen – Sources of uncertainty in climate projections
• Christopher Castro – Toward physically confident climate change projections in the Southwest U.S. and beyond
• Yonggang Wang – UWYO 30-year convection permitting retrospective simulations
• Ahmed Tawfik – NCAR Climate and Global Dynamics
• Scott Weaver – Environmental Defense Fund Climate Science
• Michael Cosh – Soil moisture
• Kelly Mahoney – Most relevant RHP research questions

Roundtable on Science Focus

12:30 – 13:30 Lunch

13:30 – 15:00 Roundtable on Science Focus (Continued)

15:00 – 15:30 Coffee Break

15:30 – 17:00 Roundtable on Relevant Funding Agencies and Programs

17:00 – 17:30 Introduction: Roundtable on Program Elements and Structure

THURSDAY, MAY 5TH

09:00 – 12:00

09:00 – 10:00 Discussion on Structure/Roadmap

10:00 – 10:30 Break

10:30 – 11:00 Planning Committee for RHP, Focus Leads

12:00  Adjourn

 

Background image by Rick Schwartz used under Creative Commons license.