POAMA/ACCESS Seasonal Forecast System

Mini-workshop - December 2006

AGENDA

 

Date: Thursday 7 December 2006

Time: 09:30-14:00

Location: BoM 6th Floor Room 2

Agenda:

1. Welcome and introduction (9:30)

2. POAMA/ACCESS system (9:40-11:00, 15 mins each)

• Overview of progress and plans for POAMA1.5/2/ACCESS (Oscar Alves)
• Performance of POAMA-1 over past year and preliminary results from POAMA-1.5 (Guomin Wang)
• Overview of coupled model research underpinning POAMA/ACCESS (Harry Hendon)
• Regional SST/Rainfall via downscaling/bridging (Eun-Pa Lim)
• Discussion

3. Coffee (11:00-11:15)

4. Applications research relevant to dynamical prediction (11:15-12:30, 15 mins each)

• Skill from DEMETER multi-model ensemble runs (Ian Smith)
• Application of seasonal forecasts to Great Barrier Reef Management (Jeff Maynard)
• Joint Burea/CSIRO applications research (Andrew Ash)
• Mechanisms for providing POAMA/ACCESS data outside BoM (Tim Pugh)
• Discussion

5. Issues for general discussion (12:30-13:00)

• LWA Perspective (Colin Creighton)
• Products - direct vs downscaled, ensembles, etc
• Review workshop and future format
• Other issues

6. Networking buffet lunch provided by BMRC (13:00-13:50)

7. Close of workshop

8. Monthly seasonal climate outlook meeting (14:00-15:30)

 

 

 

 

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