The 14th Annual BMRC Modelling Workshop - "Modelling and Predicting Extreme Weather Events"
Bureau of Meteorology Head Office, 150 Lonsdale Street, Melbourne, 11-13 November 2002

MONDAY 11 NOVEMBER 2002
0830 COFFEE
0845 Welcome and introduction (Mike Manton &/or Elizabeth Ebert)
  SESSION 1: MODELLING AND PREDICTING EXTREME WEATHER AT THE MESOSCALE
0900 Stan Benjamin (NOAA, FSL), John M. Brown, Georg Grell and Tanya Smirnova - "Mesoscale application of a quasi-Lagrangian, quasi-isentropic model vertical coordinate in the Rapid Update Cycle" (Keynote presentation)
0950 Tony Bannister (VIC Regional Office, Bureau of Meteorology) - "Current use of NWP in operational fire weather forecasting"
1010 Graham Mills (BMRC) - "Modelling fire weather"
1030 COFFEE
1100 Dale Hess (BMRC), S. Lee (CSIRO), A. G. Wain (BMRC), K.J. Tory (BMRC) and M.E. Cope (CSIRO) - "Modelling the King Island smoke event with AAQFS and HYSPLIT"
1120 K.J. Tory (BMRC), M.E. Cope (CSIRO), G.D. Hess (BMRC), S. Lee (CSIRO) and N. Wong (EPA VIC) - "The use of long-range transport simulations to verify the Australian Air Quality Forecasting System"
1140 X. Huang, G. Mills, G. Weymouth, R. Potts and T. Keenan (BMRC) - "Using high resolution LAPS model to predict fog"
1200 Discussion Session
1230 LUNCH
  SESSION 2: MODELLING AND PREDICTING EXTREME WEATHER AT THE MESOSCALE
1400 Graham A. Mills (BMRC) - "Modelling extreme weather" (Keynote presentation)
1450 Peter Steinle (BMRC) - "A new assimilation system for meso-scale NWP"
1510 J.R. Colquhoun (NSW Regional Office, Bureau of Meteorology) and G.A. Mills (BMRC) - "The use of NWP models in severe thunderstorm forecasting - a Sydney perspective"
1530 COFFEE
1600 Harald Richter (BMRC) and Carl E. Hane - "Initiation of severe convection along the dryline of the southern United States"
1620 Gordon E. Jackson (NT Regional Office, Bureau of Meteorology) and Roger K. Smith - "Prediction of low-level mesoscale convergence lines over northeastern Australia"
1640 Neil Adams (Antarctic CRC and TAS Regional Ofice, Bureau of Meteorology) - "Modelling and predicting extreme wind events at Casey, East Antarctica"
1700 Discussion session
1730 'ICE-BREAKER'


TUESDAY 12 NOVEMBER 2002
0830 COFFEE
  SESSION 3: MODELLING AND PREDICTING TROPICAL CYCLONES
0900 Noel Davidson (BMRC) - "Verification, systematic errors and some interesting cases from operational TC-LAPS" (Keynote presentation)
0950 Barry Hanstrum (WA Regional Office, Bureau of Meteorology) - "The use of NWP in tropical cyclone forecasting - a case study of Tropical Cyclone Chris"
1010 J.F. Le Marshall (BMRC), L.M. Leslie (Univ. NSW), A. Rea and R. Seecamp (BMRC) - "Reducing large tropical cyclone forecast errors using high resolution satellite data and 4DVAR"
1030 COFFEE
1100 Lawrie Rikus, Noel Davidson and Robin Bowen (BMRC) - "Synthetic satellite imagery based on an operational tropical cyclone NWP model"
1120 Jeffrey D. Kepert (BMRC) - "Modelling the tropical cyclone boundary layer windfield at landfall"
1140 Discussion session
1210 LUNCH
  SESSION 4: MODELLING AND PREDICTING RAINFALL EXTREMES
1400 Elizabeth Ebert (BMRC) - "Heavy rain forecasts from operational NWP models"
1420 Noel E. Davidson (BMRC) - "Modelling heavy rain"
1440 Richard Dare (BMRC) - "Bulk explicit microphysics in the LAPS models"
1500 M.J. Revell (NIWA) - "A storm over the Australian desert driven by moist processes"
1520 COFFEE
1550 N.T. Servando (PAGASA, Philippines), A.C. de Sesto, R.T. Perez, L. About and R.Z. Quinto - "Evaluation of high resolution modelling for rainfall forecasting in the Philippines"
1610 Alan Seed (BMRC), Neill Bowler and Clive Pierce - "Stochastic nowcasts of rainfall"
1630 Matthew Wheeler (BMRC) - "The Madden Julian Oscillation and the Java floods of January/February 2002"
1650 D.-H. Shin and Y.-R. Guo (Korea Meteorological Administration) - "The impact of high-density surface observation data in 3DVAR for heavy rainfall case over the Korean Peninsula"
1710 Discussion session
1900 WORKSHOP DINNER at The Pumphouse Hotel, 128 Nicholson St., Fitzroy    (MAIN COURSES ABOUT $25; EACH PERSON TO PAY FOR THEIR OWN MEAL AND DRINKS)


WEDNESDAY 13 NOVEMBER 2002
0830 COFFEE
  SESSION 5: CLIMATE CHANGE AND EXTREME WEATHER
0900 Kerry Emanuel (MIT) - "Tropical cyclones and climate" (Keynote presentation)
0950 Kevin Walsh (Univ. Melbourne) - "Tropical cyclones and climate change: unresolved issues"
1010 Debbie Abbs (CSIRO) - "The impact of climate change on the intensity of extreme rainfall events"
1030 COFFEE
1100 B. Timbal and B. McAvaney (BMRC) - "Using downscaling to assess extreme weathers in changed climatic conditions"
1120 Andrew J. Pitman (Macquarie Univ.) - "Is land cover change a significant cause of changes in maximum temperatures and extreme precipitation?"
1140 Ian Simmonds and Harun A. Rashid (Univ. of Melbourne) - "Hemispheric-scale organisation during three successive intense cold outbreaks over southeastern Australia in 2000"
1200 Discussion session
1230 LUNCH
  SESSION 6: THE USE OF ENSEMBLES IN MODELLING AND PREDICTING EXTREME WEATHER
1400 Francois Lalaurette (ECMWF) - "Ensemble forecasts: can they provide useful early warnings?" (Keynote presentation)
1450 Michael Naughton (BMRC), Wlliam Bourke, Gerald Embery and James Fraser- "Bureau of Meteorology medium-range ensemble prediction system"
1510 Beth Ebert (BMRC) - "Poor man's (multi-model) ensemble forecasts of heavy rain"
1530 COFFEE
1600 John McBride (BMRC) - "The performance of the GASP ensemble prediction system for some extreme events"
1620 Christian Jakob and Elizabeth Ebert (BMRC) - "Probabilistic precipitation forecasts from deterministic forecast models"
1640 PANEL DISCUSSION
1730 FINAL REMARKS and CLOSE OF WORKSHOP

 

For further information contact:

Dr Beth Ebert (03-9669-4688, e.ebert@bom.gov.au)

or Phil Meighen (03-9669-4374, p.meighen@bom.gov.au).


Last updated 31 October 2002 by P. Meighen.




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