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NCAR’s Director’s Retreat Summary • • • • • 1 ½ days June 13-14 Presentations of thematic science areas Working group discussions of presentations Plenary Director’s meeting/discussion Cyberinfrastructure - H Tufo • • • • Large investments needed for credible effort $100M machines $10M/annum Comp Sci personnel Joint activity with science Observational Facilities – D Parsons • Hiaper deployment • Instrument development • Satellite/remote sensing Tech, observation & decision support systems – B Sharman • Research and develop weather and climate forecast systems • Deliver decision support tools to users in public and private sectors • Coupled modeling/prediction • Advanced verification • Hydrometeorology • Homeland security Science and Society - J Kleypas • • • • Link climate change to biosphere Link society and science Millennium ecosystem assessment Combine climate change projections with ecosystem response predictions • Make model output useful for ecosystem studies Learning and Professional Development - M Hagan • Life-long learning and professional development • Build diversity • Fill-in gaps in SOARS • Summer faculty fellowships, sabbaticals Past, Present and Future Climates - J Kiehl • Climate sensitivity • Human induced: GHG & Aerosols • Modes of climate variability and abrupt change • Responses of climate system: water availability, air quality Weather & Short-term predictability – C Davis • Prediction continuum: hours to interannual • Scale interactions and nested models • VERY SHORT RANGE prediction: merge nowcast with NWP Past, present and future atmos composition - A Guenther • Emission, transport, transformation, deposition • Chemistry in climate • Aerosols, clouds and water cycle • Regional air quality-WRF chem • Satellite observations Sun system and vertical coupling-K MacGregor • Solar dynamo modeling-climate forcing • Coronal Mass ejections-space weather • Linkages to troposphere and coupled sunearth system End Product: 6 GOALS • Develop and maintain robust & accesible cyberinfrastucture for… • Develop and maintain robust suite of observational facilities for… • Investigate, understand and predict the behavior of the Earth and Sun systems • Develop technology, observation and decision support systems and transfer them to public/private sector End Product: 6 GOALS (cont) • Enhance the societal benefits from atmospheric and related sciences • Support life-long learning & professional development in atmospheric and… NEXT STEP • List of 5-10 year objectives under each heading. • Position papers from June retreat will feed this step with input from: • ESSL Directors’ committee retreat • NSA white papers Contributed White Papers: to be presented July27-28 • • • • • • Remote Sensing (Bob Harriss, Bill Emery) Gravity Waves (Hanli Liu, Brian Ridley) Cyberinfrastructure Regional Climate Earth System Model THORPEX Need volunteers for WPs and presentations on • • • • Cyberinfrastructure Regional climate Earth system model THORPEX