IDAG Spring Meeting January 2008
Jan 28, 29, and 30th
Boulder Colorado, NCAR HQ, the Damon room



Attendees
Meeting Agenda
Ground Travel
Hotel info
Parking
Food
Per Diem
Map
Hotel Stay info

Itinerary dates for attendees
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non-Federal IDAG members and Guests (need support unless noted)

Myles Allen, OxfordPhil Jones, CRUToru Nozawa, NIES, Japan
(paying own way)
Gabi Hegerl, Univ. EdinburghDavid Karoly, Univ Melbourne (only needs airfare from New Orleans and locals)Nathan Gillett, UEA, CRU
Jonas BhendJesse Kenyon, DukeRichard Smith, UNC
(Unable to attend)
Tim Barnett (unable to attend) Hideo Shiogama, NIES
(unable to attend)
Daithi Stone, Oxford
Francis Zwiers, Environment CanadaReto Knutti, SwissFIT
(needs air but not hotel)
Peter Stott, Metoffice
Hans von Storch, GKSS (paying own way)Jonty Rougier, Univ. BristolReiner Schnur
(unable to attend)
Karl Taylor, LLNLBen Santer, LLNLMike Wehner, Lawr. Berk. NL
Claudia Tebaldi, NCAR Xuebin Zhang, Environment Canada
(paying own way)
Doug Nychka,NCAR

Special Guests

       Nikos Christidis, Susan Solomon, and Linda Mearns

Guests, Locals, or Federal employees (can't support with IDAG funds)

Anjuli Bamzai, DOEChris Miller, NOAARandall Dole, NOAA
Marty Hoerling, NOAA Tom Knutson, NOAAJerry Meehl, Local UCAR
Caspar Amman, Local UCAR Dave Eaterling, NOAAErich Fisher, Switzerland


Agenda
Rough Draft

Click here for an MSWord file of this agenda.

Agenda: The questions are just suggestions of questions in my mind about a topic, that if you have a view about, please address them in your talk! - Gabi

8:30 NCAR Shuttle Pickup at Millennium; RENTAL CAR DRIVERS PLEASE MEET GROUP AT 8:30 FOR HELPING SHUTTLE. tx Gabi

Monday (9:00am to 5:30pm):

1. Regional climate change. Questions

8:50 Gabi and Jesse: Welcome, agenda, practicals
9:10 Anjuli: Perspective from DOE
9:20 Chris Miller: Perspective from NOAA

9:30 "Detection of an emerging regional scale signal in future climate change simulations and in the future climate variations." - David Karoly
9:50 "Examples of End-to-End and Multi-Scale Attribution" - Nikos Christidis
10:10 Attribution of regional extreme temperatures, observational uncertainty, and Atlantic salinity changes - Peter Stott 10:40 Discussion of talks so far

11:00 coffee

11:20 "Attribution of polar temperature changes" - Nathan Gillett
11:40 "D&A results for Western U.S." - Ben Santer , Tim Barnett
12:00 "Detection and Attribution Activities at PCMDI." - Ben Santer
12:20 Discussion: all talks combined.

1:00-2:00 Lunch

2:00 70's transition Jerry Meehl
2:20 "Attribution of high latitude precipitation changes" - Francis Zwiers
2:40 "Regional Climate Change from an Impacts Perspective" – Linda Mearns
3:00 Drought – Mike Wehner
3:20 Discussion

3:40 Coffee

4:00 "Detectability of regional scale precipitation and temperature changes in a surrogate climate" -Jonas Bhend
4:20 "Contributions of natural and anthropogenic forcing to changes in temperature extremes over the U.S." - Claudia Tebaldi
4:40 "Regional Detection and Attribution: Some updates" – Xuebin Zhang
5:00 The European Heat Wave: Erich Fischer
5:20 "Storminess in the Extratropics review plus new results for N Europe and NE Canada." Hans von Storch
5:40 Discussion; Wrapup regional attribution topic
6:00 Adjourn

7:30 Group Dinner at Laudisio

Tuesday (9-5:30):

'Operational attribution': Questions:

9:00 "Toward an operational weather risk attribution system" - Daithi Stone
9:20 "Mechanisms for the Recent Surge in US warming" - Martin Hoerling
9:50 "How should NOAA's new Climate Attribution Team handle near real-time attribution of climate anomalies to anthropogenic forcing?" - Tom Knutson

10:30 Coffee break

10:50 ‘Experiment design and model output collection for the AR5 runs’ Karl Taylor
11:10 "Early 21st Century Short term Predictions" - Tim Stockdale and Gabi Hegerl
11:20 Discussion

Large-scale changes and climate system properties:

11:50 Probabilistic predictions: Myles Allen
12:10 Challenges in Quantifying Climate Model Bias, Dependence, and Performance: Reto Knutti (NEEDS TO BE BEFORE 3)
12:30 Additivity of signals: Toru Nozawa
12:50 Discussion

1:00-2:00 Lunch

Group housekeeping

2:00 Discussion of workplan progress and plans; next meeting 3:00 Discussion of review paper #1: Myles Allen to lead

3:30 Coffee

3:50 Use of multi model ensembles to estimate the uncertainty due to model structural error - Jonty Rougier
4:10 Discussion: Doug Nychka
4:30 Lenny Smith
4:50 Group Discussion
5:30 adjourn

Wednesday: (9-lunch)

9:00 Group discussion probabilistic projections, short term projections
9:30 "Review paper and a History of Paleoclimatology" - Phil Jones.
10:00 Caspar Ammann?

10:20 Coffee break

10:50 "Towards understanding regional changes in past millennium" - Gabi Hegerl
11:05 Discussion of last block; next step on Paleo.

12:00 wrapup



Ground travel
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Denver International Airport to Hotel

I would suggest the SuperShuttle as taxis can be very expensive. The SuperShuttle website is www.bouldersupershuttle.com. The Millennium is a regular stop on their run, so people can purchase roundtrip tickets and make a reservation for pickup at the hotel as well. The airport URL is www.flydenver.com so that you can see other options if you want.
Please save your receipt for reimbursement

Rental cars:

Tom Knutson
Nathan Gillett
Karl Taylor/Ben Santer
Chris Miller

Millenium Hotel to NCAR

Please meet in the Hotel Millenium's Lobby at 8:30 every morning for Shuttle Departure to NCAR and rental car roundup.

Hotel
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IDAG attendees are staying at the Millenium Hotel Harvest House Boulder.

Millennium Harvest House Boulder
1345 Twenty-Eighth Street
Boulder, CO
USA 80302-6899

T: 1 (303) 443-3850
F: 1 (303) 443-1480

The hotel is approximately 1.5 miles from downtown Boulder which is scenic, and it very close to a nice shopping center.

Moving between Millennium Hotel and NCAR meeting site:
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NCAR will be providing shuttle transportation from hotel to our meeting site in the DAMON room at NCAR HQ. Unlike last year, the distance is not reasonable for walking. PLEASE meet by 8:30 in front of the hotel to catch the NCAR shuttle or a ride with one of the rental cars. The shuttle will have "NCAR" on the side.

Food
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As part of the IDAG meeting, we are providing lunch to all participants, as well as a morning and afternoon coffee break. Lunch will be provided the first two days of the meeting in the NCAR cafeteria.
PLEASE be sure to wear your name tag as this will be how NCAR keeps track of your lunch charge and bills IDAG directly.
NOTE: The cafeteria closes at 1:30, so we will have to end our sessions promptly in order to get to lunch
Additionally there is an in-house restaurant at the hotel serving all three meals of breakfast, lunch and Dinner.
A full AND FREE breakfast is provided at Millennium Hotel, PLEASE be sure to get your coupons upon check in.
On Monday evening, we will all attend a group dinner at Laudisio. All attendees are welcome, and IDAG members are paid for, as well as guests. Federal employees have different arrangements but they will be aware of that.

Per Diem
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IDAG members and others being supported by UCAR will receive a per diem of $54.00USD for food and incidentals. This amount will be decreased for days with meals provided, such as the lunches and breakfasts.


Attendees and Laudisio checklist.
Green equals committed to coming.

People Nychka Bamzai Miller Hegerl Allen Bhend Christidis Fischer Gillett Jones Karoly Knutti Nozawa Rougier Stone Stott von Storch Barnett Kenyon Knutson Santer Smith Taylor Tebaldi Wehner Zhang Zwiers
local manager overseas domestic
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