Microphysical effects determine macrophysical response for aerosol impacts
on deep convective clouds, Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A, Early Edition online the week of November 11 - 15, 2013, DOI: 10.1073 / pnas.1316830110.
The meeting will mainly cover the following themes, but can include other topics related to understanding and modelling the atmosphere: ● Surface drag and momentum transport: orographic drag,
convective momentum transport ● Processes relevant for polar prediction: stable boundary layers, mixed - phase
clouds ● Shallow and
deep convection: stochasticity, scale - awareness, organization, grey zone issues ●
Clouds and circulation feedbacks: boundary - layer
clouds, CFMIP, cirrus ● Microphysics and aerosol -
cloud interactions: microphysical observations, parameterization, process studies
on aerosol -
cloud interactions ● Radiation: circulation coupling; interaction between radiation and
clouds ● Land - atmosphere interactions: Role of land processes (snow, soil moisture, soil temperature, and vegetation) in sub-seasonal to seasonal (S2S) prediction ● Physics - dynamics coupling: numerical methods, scale - separation and grey - zone, thermodynamic consistency ● Next generation model development: the challenge of exascale, dynamical core developments, regional refinement, super-parametrization ● High Impact and Extreme Weather: role of
convective scale models; ensembles; relevant challenges for model development