NCAR

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NCARs Directors Retreat Summary

• 1 ½ days June 13-14
• Presentations of thematic science areas
• Working group discussions of presentations
• Plenary
• Directors meeting/discussion

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Cyberinfrastructure - H Tufo

• Large investments needed for credible effort
• 100M machines
• 10M/annum Comp Sci personnel
• Joint activity with science

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Observational Facilities D Parsons

• Hiaper deployment
• Instrument development
• Satellite/remote sensing

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Tech, observation decision support systems B
Sharman

• Research and develop weather and climate forecast
  systems
• Deliver decision support tools to users in public
  and private sectors
• Coupled modeling/prediction
• Advanced verification
• Hydrometeorology
• Homeland security

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Science and Society - J Kleypas

• Link climate change to biosphere
• Link society and science
• Millennium ecosystem assessment
• Combine climate change projections with ecosystem
  response predictions
• Make model output useful for ecosystem studies

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Learning and Professional Development - M Hagan

• Life-long learning and professional development
• Build diversity
• Fill-in gaps in SOARS
• Summer faculty fellowships, sabbaticals

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Past, Present and Future Climates - J Kiehl

• Climate sensitivity
• Human induced GHG Aerosols
• Modes of climate variability and abrupt change
• Responses of climate system water availability,
  air quality

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Weather Short-term predictability C Davis

• Prediction continuum hours to interannual
• Scale interactions and nested models
• VERY SHORT RANGE prediction merge nowcast with
  NWP

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Past, present and future atmos composition - A
Guenther

• Emission, transport, transformation, deposition
• Chemistry in climate
• Aerosols, clouds and water cycle
• Regional air quality-WRF chem
• Satellite observations

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Sun system and vertical coupling-K MacGregor

• Solar dynamo modeling-climate forcing
• Coronal Mass ejections-space weather
• Linkages to troposphere and coupled sun-earth
  system

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End Product 6 GOALS

• Develop and maintain robust accesible
  cyberinfrastucture for
• Develop and maintain robust suite of
  observational facilities for
• Investigate, understand and predict the behavior
  of the Earth and Sun systems
• Develop technology, observation and decision
  support systems and transfer them to
  public/private sector

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End Product 6 GOALS (cont)

• Enhance the societal benefits from atmospheric
  and related sciences
• Support life-long learning professional
  development in atmospheric and

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NEXT STEP

• List of 5-10 year objectives under each heading.
• Position papers from June retreat will feed this
  step with input from
• ESSL Directors committee retreat
• NSA white papers

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Contributed White Papers to be presented
July27-28

• Remote Sensing (Bob Harriss, Bill Emery)
• Gravity Waves (Hanli Liu, Brian Ridley)
• Cyberinfrastructure
• Regional Climate
• Earth System Model
• THORPEX

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Need volunteers for WPs and presentations on

• Cyberinfrastructure
• Regional climate
• Earth system model
• THORPEX