First US-China Symposium on Meteorology: Mesoscale Meteorology and Data Assimilation
February 26-28, 2008
National Weather Center
Norman, Oklahoma U.S.A.
Welcome
The goals of the First U.S.-China Symposium on Meteorology are to define the state of Knowledge in the two countries for Mesoscale Meteorology and Data Assimilation, and to identify the most important challenges for the next decade. The Symposium is being convened by the President of The University of Oklahoma (former U.S. Senator David L. Boren) and the Director of the Institute of Atmospheric Physics of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (Professor Huijun Wang). Sponsorship is being provided by the Office of the President of The University of Oklahoma, the Chinese Academy of Sciences, and the Natural Science Foundation of China. The American Meteorological Society is serving as a Co-Sponsor. The U.S. Co-Chairs are Professors Peter Lamb and Lance Leslie (The University of Oklahoma) and Professors Gongbing Peng and Sixiong Zhao (Chinese Academy of Sciences). They are being assisted by Scientific Steering Comittees from the U.S. (Greg Holland, Richard Johnson, John LeMarshall, David Stensrud) and China (Academician Qing-Cun Zeng, Johnny Chan, Zhaoui Lin, Yunfeng Luo, Jiang Zhu).
The Symposium will be organized into six half-day sessions, each of which will deal with one of the following themes:
- Observations of Mesoscale Phenomena
-- with emphasis on analysis and quality control of unique data sets (from field programs) and the merging of data from multiple sensors (radar, surface mesonet, satellite, rawinsonde).
- Theory of Mesoscale Phenomena
-- with emphasis on waves and instabilities (edge waves, gravity waves, conditional symmetric instability, etc).
- Data Assimilation Techniques and Mesoscale Applications
-- with emphasis on ensemble Kalman filtering and 4-D variational methods and use of non-traditional observations.
- Simulation of Mesoscale Phenomena
-- with emphasis on contemporary models (e.g., WRF and leading Chinese model ) and ensemble forecasting systems.
- Forecasting of Mesoscale Phenomena
-- with emphasis on events that threaten public safety (e.g., tornadoes, tropical storms, derechos, hail storms, flash flooding, dust storms, blizzards, ice storms).
- Connections between Mesoscale Phenomena, Regional Climate, and Larger-Scale Circulation
-- with emphasis on hydrologic cycle (including extremes) and use of regional networks and modeled and reanalysis data.
-- with emphasis on analysis and quality control of unique data sets (from field programs) and the merging of data from multiple sensors (radar, surface mesonet, satellite, rawinsonde).
-- with emphasis on waves and instabilities (edge waves, gravity waves, conditional symmetric instability, etc).
-- with emphasis on ensemble Kalman filtering and 4-D variational methods and use of non-traditional observations.
-- with emphasis on contemporary models (e.g., WRF and leading Chinese model ) and ensemble forecasting systems.
-- with emphasis on events that threaten public safety (e.g., tornadoes, tropical storms, derechos, hail storms, flash flooding, dust storms, blizzards, ice storms).
-- with emphasis on hydrologic cycle (including extremes) and use of regional networks and modeled and reanalysis data.