Athens pan-GCSS meeting BLCWG talks, May 2005

Plenary overview (Chris Bretherton) of recent BLCWG activities

RF02 talks (Monday 16 May)

• Margreet vanZanten, KNMI: RF02 case observational background
• Andy Ackerman, NASA-Ames: Case discussion and intercomparison of LES results
• Chris Bretherton, Univ. Washington: Status of SCM intercomparison results
• Adrian Lock, Met Office:  RF02 case sensitivity studies with UKMO LES.
• Chin-Hoh Moeng, NCAR: Coherent structure of drizzle events.
• Margreet vanZanten, KNMI: KNMI LES results from the RF02 case

Other talks (Tuesday 17 May)

• Stephan de Roode: The role of the mean relative humidity on the dynamics of shallow cumuli - Sensitivity experiments with an LES model.
• Frank Mueller, MPI-Hamburg: Treatment of microphysics in the MPI-Hamburg LES model
• Akiro Noda, Tohoku U., Japan: Development and application of a new shallow cloud parameterization scheme for the JMA non-hydrostatic regional model.
• Martin Koehler and Roel Neggers, ECMWF: The new ECMWF PBL scheme and beyond.