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Climate Test Bed Seminar Series
2008-09 Schedule of Speakers

Seminars at NCEP and COLA are 2:00-3:00 pm on Wednesdays unless otherwise noted.
NCEP location is WWB 707 unless otherwise noted.
ESSIC Seminars are 12:00-1:00 pm on 4^th floor. Please RSVP to Rong-Hua Zhang at rzhang@essic.umd.edu.
One hour is reserved afterwards for discussion.

#	Date	Location	Speaker	Title
1	29-Oct	NCEP	Steve Lord/Hua-Lu Pan, NCEP/EMC	CFS - Under the Hood and CFS - Where It's Going
2	12-Nov	NCEP	V. Ramaswamy, GFDL	Climate Modeling at GFDL: Teh Scientific Challenges
3	17-Nov	ESSIC	Ed O'Lenic, NCEP/CPC	An Interactive, Community-Based Web Tool for Evaluating the Skill of CPC Products
4	24-Nov	NCEP	Zhaohua Wu, COLA	Annual Cycle and Predictability of Interannual Variability
5	3-Dec	COLA	Eugenia Kalnay, U. Of MD	Local Ensemble Kalman Filter (LETKF)
6	10-Dec	NCEP/209	Kathy Pegion, COLA	Subseasonal Variability of Tropical Cyclone Activity
7	21-Jan	COLA	Jae Schemm, NCEP/CPC	Hurricane Season Prediction Experiment with CFS
-	28-Jan	NCEP	Augustin Vintzileos, NCEP/EMC	RESCHEDULED FOR MAR 16
8	4-Feb	NCEP	Emilia Jin, COLA/GMU	Factors limiting the current skill of forecasts: flaws in model and initialization
9	10-Feb	NCEP	J. Shukla, COLA	Seamless Weather and Climate Prediction
10	11-Feb	COLA	Soo-Hyun Yoo, NCEP/CPC	The Relationships Between Indo-Pacific SSTs and Asian Summer Monsoons in the NCEP CFS
11	24-Feb	NCEP	Reguang Wu, COLA	The Relationship of U.S. Droughts with SST and Soil Moisture: Distinguishing the Time Scale of Droughts (w/ J. Kinter)
12	9-Mar	ESSIC	Viviane Silva, NCEP/CPC	Validation of Reanalysis Daily Precipitation over the Americas
13	16-Mar	NCEP	Augustin Vintzileos, NCEP/EMC	On the importance of atmospheric and oceanic initial conditions in forecasting the MJO with the NCEP-CFS
-	18-Mar	NCEP	J. Kinter, COLA	RESCHEDULED FOR MAY 4
14	9-Apr	COLA	Kingtse Mo, NCEP/CPC	Monitoring many faces of drought over the United States
15	22-Apr	NCEP/209	E. Schneider, COLA	Amazon Deforestation in CFS
16	29-Apr	NCEP	Rong-Hua Zhang, ESSIC	Effects of Freshwater Flux (FWF) Forcing on Interannual Climate Variability in the Tropical Pacific
17	4-May	NCEP	J. Kinter, COLA	Soil moisture effects on predictions with CCSM
18	6-May	NCEP	Jiangfeng Wei, COLA	How much do different land models matter for climate simulation?
19	11-May	ESSIC	Huug van den Dool, NCEP/CPC	Methods of Multi-Model Consolidation, with Emphasis on Recommended Cross Validation Approach
20	27-May	NCEP	Vladimir Krasnopolsky, NCEP & ESSIC	Development of Neural Network Emulations of Model Radiation for Improving the Computational Performance of the NCEP Seasonal Climate Forecasts
21	3-Jun	NCEP	Alexander (Sandy) MacDonald	The Nonhydrostatic Icosahedral Model: Description and Potential Use in Climate Prediction
22	10-Jun	COLA	Jim Carton, U. of MD	Ocean reanalyses: prospects for climate studies
23	24-Jun	NCEP	Yun Fan, CPC	Bias Correction and Forecast Skill of NCEP GFS Ensemble Week1 and Week2 Precipitation and Soil Moisture Forecasts

Contact Information
NCEP World Weather Building 5200 Auth Road Camp Springs, MD 20746 E-mail: fiona.horsfall@noaa.gov	IGES/COLA 4041 Powder Mill Road, Suite 302 Calvertion, MD 20705 Contact: Jim Kinter E-mail: kinter@mail.iges.edu	ESSIC University of Maryland Research Park (M-Square) 5825 University Reasearch Court College Park, MD 20740 Contact: Rong-Hua Zhang E-mail: rzhang@essic.umd.edu

Directions to NCEP from Capital Beltway (I-495): Take Exit 7B (Branch Avenue North), make right at first light. The building is immediately on the left. At security barrier, push button on box to talk to guard. Security procedures require you to have a valid photo ID for entry into NOAA Science Center (WWB). Please allow time for security clearance procedures. Bring the seminar notice to facilitate entry to WWB.

Directions to COLA from Capital Beltway (I-495): Take interstate 95 north toward Baltimore. Take first exit (29B - Route 212 West) to Calverton. Turn left at the first light (intersection of Powder Mill Road and Beltsville Drive) into Centerpark Office Park. COLA is located on the 3^rd floor of the building 4041. Parking is free.

Directions to ESSIC from Capital Beltway (I-495): Take exit 23 to MD Route 201 (Kenilworth Avenue). Travel south for about 3 miles and turn RIGHT onto River Road. Take the first RIGHT turn AFTER the bridge, onto University Research Court.


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