Conferences of interest to CNAP/CCCC

Last update: 22 May 2012

These upcoming conferences concern climate and climate change issues of interest to California Nevada Applications Program (CNAP) and California Climate Change Center (CCCC) participants.

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• 16th International Symposium for the Advancement of Boundary-Layer Remote Sensing
  5-8 June 2012
  Boulder, Colorado

  This year's symposium will be hosted by the Cooperative Institute for Research in the Environmental Sciences at the University of Colorado and the NOAA Earth System Research Laboratory. It will be convened in plenary, oral sessions and poster sessions. Focus topics include:

  • Innovation and Potential New Directions
  • Ground-Based Remote Sensor Development
  • Ground-Based Remote Sensing in Boundary-Layer Science
  • Studies and Modeling of Boundary-Layer Physics
  • Operational Applications

  May 21, 2012, is the deadline for late registration

  To find out more information please visit:

  http://www.esrl.noaa.gov/psd/events/2012/isars/

  CNAP researchers Mike Dettinger and Dan Cayan will be presenting work in collaboration with Allen White, Mike Anderson, Marty Ralph and Art Hinojosa on:

  A 21st-century Observing Network for California
  Please click here for a paper describing this work

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• Southwest Climate Summit
  12-14 June 2012
  Tucson, Arizona

  The Southwest Climate Summit is a meeting of federal, tribal, state, and local stakeholders, resource managers, and scientists to discuss the state of climate science in the Southwest and needs for climate-related research to inform societal and management decisions. Summit activities include:

  • The author team will unveil the 2012 Southwest Climate Assessment (SWCA). The SWCA is a state-of-the art assessment and synthesis of climate change projections; climate change impacts on social, economic, and ecosystems; and adaptive capacity in the Southwest.
  • Resource managers will highlight opportunities for application of science to inform management decisions.
  • Facilitated discussions will focus on prioritizing regional climate concerns, knowledge gaps, and research to provide input to the Southwest Climate Science Center’s Five Year Science Plan.

  To find out more information please visit:

  http://www.swcsc.arizona.edu/announcements/southwest-climate-summit-0

  CNAP researchers will be presenting work at the summit:

  Kelly Redmond: The Weather and Climate of the Southwest

  Dan Cayan: New Analyses of Global Climate Models CMIP5 and AR5

  Mike Dettinger: Atmospheric Rivers

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• NOAA's 37th Climate Diagnostics and Prediction Workshop
  22-25 October 2012
  Fort Collins, Colorado

  NOAA's 37th Climate Diagnostics and Prediction Workshop will be held in Fort Collins, Colorado, on 22-25 October 2012. The workshop will address the status and prospects for advancing climate prediction, monitoring, and diagnostics, with emphasis on five major themes:

  • Improving climate prediction tools and techniques through dynamical and statistical models and methods, forecaster practices and protocols, data and model improvements, and scientific concepts.
  • Prospects for improved understanding, prediciton and simulation of intra-seasonal, seasonal and inter-annual climate variability, including the extratropical annual modes, statosphere/troposphere coupling, tropical-extratropical interactions, land-surface forcing, etc.
  • Climate variability and prediction in relation to the hydrologic cycle and in particular Western water resources.
  • Prediction and attribution of recent high impact weather and climate events.
  • Improving climate services through the application of new technologies, including GIS, statistical tools, and software development practices.

  July 13, 2012, is the absract deadline

  To find out more information about NOAA's 37th Climate Diagnostics and Prediction Workshop please visit:

  http://www.cpc.ncep.noaa.gov/products/outreach/CDPW37.shtml

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• AGU Fall Meeting
  3-7 December 2012
  San Francisco, California

  The American Geophysical Union's 45th annual Fall Meeting will be in San Francisco, California, 3-7 December 2012. Over 20,000 earth and space scientists attend this meeting to present groundbreaking research and collaborate with colleagues.

  Friday, April 20th: Deadline for Session Proposal submission

  To find out more information about the AGU Fall Meeting please visit:

  http://fallmeeting.agu.org/2012/

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