Workshop on
"chemical weather forecasting and online modeling"
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Frontier Research Center for Global Change /JAMSTEC, Yokohama, Japan
February 25th and 26th, 2008
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Tentative Agenda for Yokohama Workshop:
February 25 (Monday) |
| 9:30 - 9:50 |
Welcome and presentation of FRCGC
Prof. H. Akimoto
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| 9:50 - 10:10 |
Overview of this workshop, and logistic information
Dr. M. Takigawa |
Session 1: Chemical weather forecasting |
| 10:10 - 10:50 |
Chemical weather forecasting by using MATCH-MPI(keynote)
Dr. T. Butler (Max Planck Institute for Chemistry) |
| 10:50 - 11:05 |
Chemical weather forecasting at the National Institute for Environmental Study: Part 1, introduction
Prof. T. Ohara (NIES) |
| 11:05 - 11:30 |
Coffee-break |
| 11:30 - 12:00 |
4DVAR CTM : toward a dust weather forecasting at Kyushu University
Prof. I. Uno (Kyushu University) |
| 12:00 - 12:30 |
Chemical weather forecasting system by using CHASER and WRF/Chem
Dr. M. Takigawa (FRCGC) |
12:30 - 14:00 |
Lunch |
| 14:00 - 14:30 |
Transportation Demand Management and Chemical Weather Forecasting
Prof. Y. Tsubota (J.F.Oberlin University) |
Session 2: Online modeling |
| 14:30 - 15:10 |
Integrated systems: online and offline coupling of meteorological and air quality models, advantages and disadvantages (keynote)
Prof. A. Baklanov (DMI) |
| 15:10 - 15:50 |
Online Chemistry model WRF/Chem: Description and Application of a State-of-the-Art fully coupled multi-scale air quality and weather prediction model (keynote)
Dr. S. Peckham (NOAA) |
| 15:50 - 16:10 |
Coffee-Break |
| 16:10 - 16:40 |
Evaluation of vertical ozone profiles simulated by WRF/Chem using Lidar-Observed data
Dr. M. Niwano (FRCGC) |
| 16:40 - 17:10 |
TransCom model simulations of hourly atmospheric CO2: analysis of
synoptic scale variations
Dr. P. K. Patra (FRCGC) |
| 17:10 - 17:30 |
Development of a chemical data assimilation system using a local ensemble transformed Kalman filter
Dr.Masayuki Takigawa (on behalf of Dr.Kazuyuki Miyazaki) (JAMSTEC) |
| 18:00- |
Reception |
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February 26 (Tuesday)
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| 9:30 - 11:00 |
Wrap-up discussion Moderator; M. Takigawa
Workshop closure H. Akimoto |
| Adjourn |
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