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Conference Programme Day by Day |
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| Monday, 24 October 2011 | |
| 8:30-10:30 | Plenary Session A1: Climate Research in Service to Society (chair: G. Asrar) Welcoming Remarks by Bill Ritter, former Governor of the State of Colorado Opening Remarks and Expectations for the Week (A. Busalacchi) Welcome by Local Host: Keynote address by Thomas R. Karl (NOAA, chair USGCRP Subcommittee on Global Change Research): Welcome Address and Expectations from the WCRP sponsors: Welcoming Remarks by European Commission (Claus Bruening) Keynote Talk by David Behar: |
| 10:30-11:00 | Morning Break sponsored by the National Renewable Energy Laboratory |
| 11:00-12:30 | Plenary Session A2: The Climate System Components and Their Interactions (chair: B. Hoskins) Scientific Grand Challenges for Global Climate Research Addressing Societies Needs (M. Visbeck) Uncertainties in aerosol cloud-mediated radiative forcing: two large and highly uncertain opposite effects from shallow and deep clouds (D. Rosenfeld) Biogeochemical, Ecosystem and Human Interactions with Climate and the Complexity of the Earth System (video) (C. Nobre, given by G. Brasseur) Panel Discussion followed by Q&A with the Audience |
| 12:30-13:30 | Lunch Break on your own |
| 13:30-15:30 | Session B1: Prediction from Subseasonal to Multi-decadal Scales (conveners: D. Anderson, G. Brunet, B. Kirtman, I.-S. Kang) Session B2: Detecting, Understanding and Predicting Extreme Climate Events (convener: L. Alexander, G.C. Hegerl, T. Knutson, P. Naveau, C. Schär, F. Zwiers) Session B3: Oceans Dynamics and Sea level: Variability and Change (conveners: B. Boening, A. Cazenave, M. Latif) |
| 15:30-16:00 | Afternoon Break sponsored by the College of Atmospheric and Geographic Sciences and the National Weather Center at the University of Oklahoma |
| 16:00-18:00 | Parallel Sessions B1, B2, B3.... continue |
| Post 18:00 | |
| Tuesday, 25 October 2011 | |
| 7:30-8:30 | Breakfast for all registered students - Sponsored by NCAR Climate & Global Dynamics (CGD) |
| 8:30-10:00 | Plenary Session A3: Observation and Analysis of the Climate System (Chair: A. Simmons) Challenges of a Sustained Climate Observing System (K. Trenberth) Understanding of the Global Hydrologic Cycle and Water Management Challenges in the 21st Century (P. Gleick) The Ocean Observations for Climate: Progress and Challenges (S. Wijffels) Panel Discussion followed by Q&A with the Audience
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| 10:00-10:30 | Morning break sponsored by Nature Climate Change Journal |
| 10:30-12:00 | |
| 12:00-13:30 | Lunch Break on your own |
| 13:30-15:30 | Session B4: Climate System Observations, Reprocessing, Reanalysis and Climate Data Records (conveners: M. Bosilovich, A. O'Neill, J. Kennedy) Session B5: Variability and Predictability of Regional Climate and Monsoons (conveners: C. Vera, B.N. Goswami, C. Thorncroft, C. Reason, R. Mechoso, W.J. Gutowski, B. Hewitson) Session B6: Understanding Atmospheric Processes in Climate: Clouds, Aerosols and Dynamics (conveners: J. Alexander, S. Sherwood, A. Brown) |
| 15:30-16:00 | Afternoon Break sponsored by Xcel Energy |
| 16:00-18:00 | Parallel Sessions B4, B5, B6.... continue |
| 18:15- 19:45 | Business Needs for Climate Information |
| 19:45-21:00 | Reception sponsored by Earth System Science Interdisciplinary Center (ESSIC) |
| Wednesday, 26 October 2011 | |
| 8:30-10:00 | Plenary Session A4: Assessing and Improving Model and Predictive Capabilities (Chair: M. Kimoto) From Regional Weather to Global Climate: Challenges and Progress in Improving Models (C. Jakob) Challenges and progress in sub-Seasonal to decadal prediction on Regional Scales (A. Scaife) Long-term Climate Change: Forcing, Response and Climate Sensitivity (S. Bony) Panel Discussion followed by Q&A with the Audience |
| 10:00-10:30 | Morning break - sponsored by NCAR Earth System Laboratory (NESL) |
| 10:30-12:00 | |
| 12:00-13:30 | Lunch Break on your own Lunch for all registered Early Career Scientists and Panel Discussion on Communicating Science - Sponsored by American Meteorological Society (AMS) |
| 13:30-15:30 |
Session B7: Assessing the Reliability of Climate Models, CMIP5 (conveners: V. Eyring, P. Glecker, B. van den Hurk, P. Braconnot) Session B8: How Climate Change Impacts Climate Variability (conveners: K. Rosenlof, L. Terray, C. Deser, D. Karoly, A. Clement, H. Goosse) Session B9: Radiative Forcing of Climate and Chemistry-Climate Interactions (conveners: T. Shepherd, V. Ramaswamy, T. Nakajima, D. Hauglustaine) |
| 15:30-16:00 | Afternoon Break |
| 16:00-18:00 | Parallel Sessions B7, B8, B9.... continue |
| 19:00- 21:00 | Conference Gala at Denver Art Museum - co-sponsored by Ball Aerospace and Technologies Corporation |
| Thursday, 27 October 2011 | |
| 8:30-10:00 | Plenary Session A5: Climate Assessments and Future Challenges (Chair: T. Stocker) Changes in Atmospheric Composition: Implications for Irreversible Climate Change and Mitigation Choices (S. Solomon) Cryosphere and Sea-Level Variability and Change (K. Steffen) Attribution of Weather and Climate-Related Extreme Events (P. Stott) Panel Discussion followed by Q&A with the Audience |
| 10:00-10:30 | Morning Break - sponsored by Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences (CIRES) |
| 10:30-12:00 | |
| 12:00-13:30 | Lunch Break on your own |
| 13:30-15:30 |
Session B10: Land Cover and Land Use Changes and their Impacts on Hydroclimate, Ecosystems and Society (conveners: T. Oki, E. Blyth, H. Berbery) Session B11: Cryosphere and Climate (conveners: M. Serreze, V. Kattsov, M. Drinkwater) Session B12: Understanding Anthropogenic Climate Change in Terms of Processes and Feedbacks (conveners: C. Senior, J. Mitchell, H. Le Treut) |
| 15:30-16:00 | Afternoon Break |
| 16:00-18:00 | Parallel Sessions B10, B11, B12.... continue |
| 18:15- 20:00 | US Global Change Research Program Town Hall Meeting - open to the public Overview and discussion of the major directions for the USGCRP, including the decadal Strategic Plan for the Program (Conveners: Dr. Thomas R. Karl, Chair of the US Subcommittee on Global Change Research, and Dr. Thomas Armstrong, Director of the USGCRP National Coordination Office) |
| Friday, 28 October 2011 | |
| 8:00-10:15 | Plenary Session A6: Translating scientific understanding of the climate system into climate information for decision makers (Chair: L. Goddard) Building Adaptive Capacity to Climate Variability and Change in Developing Countries (M. C. Lemos) Climate and Public Health - The MERIT Initiative (M. Thomson) Meeting User Needs: Limits, Ideals and Realities (B. Hewitson) Earth System Research for Global Sustainability (J. Rockström) Panel Discussion followed by Q&A with the Audience |
| 10:15-10:45 | Morning Break |
| 10:45-11:30 | Strengthening Policy Relevance of Scientific Assessments: |
| 11:30-13:00 |
Panel Discussion with Plenary Chairs: Future of WCRP and Closing (A. Busalacchi) |
| 13:00 | End of Conference |