| Water Cycle Components | ||
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| Introduction | ||
| 08:30 - 8:45 | Registration | |
| 08:45 - 9:00 | Welcome & House Keeping Luigi Renzullo & Stefan Zieger | |
| 09:00 - 9:15 | Welcome to Country Tony Garvey (Wurundjeri Elder) | |
| 09:15 - 9:30 | Opening Address Gilbert Brunet (Bureau of Meteorology, Australia) |  |
| Landscape Hydrology (Chair: Luigi Renzullo/Caroline Poulsen) | ||
| 09:30 - 10:00 | Gianpaolo Balsamo European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts, UK | ecLand: the ECMWF land surface modelling platform within the coupled Earth system model |
| 10:00 - 10:20 | Ashish Sharma The University of New South Wales, Australia | A new perspective on improving satellite data through merging for hydrology and climate change assessments |
| 10:20 - 10:40 | QJ Wang The University of Melbourne, Australia | Upskilling predictions from physical process models by using statistical spatial-temporal models |
| Morning Tea (10:40 – 11:10) | ||
| 11:10 - 11:30 | Christoph Rudiger Bureau of Meteorology, Australia | JULES and Australia - what lies ahead? |
| 11:30 - 11:50 | Shaun Kim CSIRO, Australia | Improving river model predictions via structural modifications and simple state adjustments |
| Oceans – Coastal Impacts (Chair: Stefan Zieger/Zaved Khan) | ||
| 11:50 - 12:20 | Claire Spillman & Wendy Sharples Bureau of Meteorology, Australia | Coastal and flooding hazards - what are we doing in the Australian Climate Service program? |
| 12:20 - 12:40 | Vanessa Hernaman CSIRO, Australia | Cross-scale coastal ocean modelling with unstructured mesh models |
| Lunch (12:40 – 13:30) | ||
| 13:30 - 13:50 | Christopher Leaman The University of New South Wales, Australia | A Multi-Scale Coastal Storm Hazards Early Warning System for Australia |
| 13:50 - 14:10 | Kane Church Moyne City Council, Victoria, Australia | Community Impacts of Coastal Hazards Port Fairy, Victoria |
| 14:10 - 14:30 | Luke Bennets The University of Adelaide, Australia | The marginal ice zone, the CICE6 floe size distribution and connections to the Earth system |
| 14:30 - 15:00 | Felicity McCormack Monash University, Australia | Antarctica and the anthropocene: coupled ice sheet-Earth systems modelling in a changing climate |
| Afternoon Tea (15:00 – 15:30) | ||
| 15:30 - 15:50 | Andrew Mackintosh Monash University, Australia | What is driving glacier and ice sheet mass loss? The role of climate variability and climate change |
| Clouds – Precipitation (Chair: Christian Stassen/Caroline Poulsen) | ||
| 15:50 - 16:10 | Chris Lucas Bureau of Meteorology, Australia | Enhanced stratospheric water vapor form the eruption of Hunga Tonga |
| 16:10 - 16:30 | Yi Huang The University of Melbourne, Australia | Southern Ocean Precipitation: New Insights from Recent Ship-based Field Campaigns |
| 16:30 - 16:50 | Gen Tolhurst Bureau of Meteorology, Australia | Approaches to understanding decadal and long-term shifts in observed precipitation distributions in Victoria, Australia |
| 16:50 - 17:10 | Cathryn Birch The University of Leeds, UK | Convection-permitting modelling: a powerful tool for tropical convection |
| Day 1 Close (17:10) | ||
| 17:30 - 18:30 | Workshop reception | |
| Coupled Earth System | ||
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| 08:30 - 9:00 | Registration | |
| Earth System Modelling (Chair: Luigi Renzullo/Julian O'Grady) | ||
| 09:00 - 9:30 | Huw Lewis UK Met Office | Developing coupled models at km-scale: advances enabled through Regional Environmental Prediction research in the UK |
| 09:30 - 9:50 | Chen Li Bureau of Meteorology, Australia | Biases and teleconnections in GC5 - insights for seasonal prediction and Australia |
| 09:50 - 10:10 | Tomohiro Hajima Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology (JAMSTEC) | Biogeochemical-hydrological processes simulated by an Earth system model MIROC-ES2L |
| 10:10 - 10:30 | Emma Howard Bureau of Meteorology, Australia | BARPA-R Regional climate modelling with the ACCESS and the UM |
| Morning Tea (10:30 – 11:00) | ||
| (Chair: Stefan Zieger/Katayoon Bahramian) | ||
| 11:00 - 11:30 | Yannick Tremolet Joint Center for Satellite Data Assimilation (JCSDA), USA | The Joint Effort for Data assimilation Integration |
| 11:30 - 11:50 | Paul Field UK Met Office | Implementing double moment cloud microphysics into the Met Office regional model configuration |
| 11:50 - 12:10 | Hongyan Zhu Bureau of Meteorology, Australia | Impacts of the new UM convection scheme (CoMorph) over the Indo-Pacific and Australian regions |
| 12:10 - 12:30 | Christian Jakob Monash University, Australia | Digital Earths - Rethinking Weather and Climate Prediction |
| Lunch (12:30 – 13:30) | ||
| Infrastructure & Technical Issues (Chair: Christian Stassen/Luigi Renzullo) | ||
| 13:30 - 14:00 | Tom Soderstrom Amazon Web Services | Democratising data and compute to create sustainable solutions for our future |
| 14:00 - 14:30 | Ilene Carpenter Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE), Australia | HPC for Meteorology in the Exascale Era |
| 14:30 - 15:00 | Alastair Duncan Intel | Bureau of Meteorology R&D Workshop talk |
| Afternoon Tea (15:00 – 15:30) | ||
| 15:30 - 16:00 | Hilary Oliver National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research (NIWA), New Zealand | Cylc 8 Workflow Orchestration for Earth System Modelling |
| 16:00 - 16:20 | Joerg Henrichs Bureau of Meteorology, Australia | Using PSyclone in Ocean Modelling - The Evolutionary Way |
| 16:20 - 16:40 | Chloe Mackallah & Clare Trenham CSIRO, Australia | Data Structures for Facilitating Science |
| 16:40 - 17:00 | Andy Hogg Australian Earth System Simulator (ACCESS-NRI) & Australian National University | ACCESS as a National Research Infrastructure |
| Day 2 Close (17:00) | ||
| Water Observations & Insights | ||
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| 08:30 - 9:00 | Registration | |
| Novel Data Products & Processing (Chair: Stefan Zieger/Luigi Renzullo) | ||
| 09:00 - 9:20 | Abha Sood National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research (NIWA), New Zealand | Downscaling climate models: comparing dynamical versus data driven procedures |
| 09:20 - 9:40 | Jayaram Pudashine Bureau of Meteorology, Australia | Multi-source rainfall estimation and probabilistic rainfall forecasts for hydrological applications |
| 09:40 - 10:00 | Chris Griffin Bureau of Meteorology, Australia | A brief introduction to the Bureau's real time Himawari-8 NWCSAF precipitation products |
| 10:00 - 10:20 | Valentin Louf Bureau of Meteorology, Australia | Radar Hail and Wind nowcasting |
| Morning Tea (10:20 – 11:00) | ||
| (Chair: Zaved Khan/Katayoon Bahramian) | ||
| 11:00 - 11:30 | Dai Yamazaki University of Tokyo, Japan | CaMa-Flood global river model: its development and future perspectives |
| 11:30 - 11:50 | Mandi Thran Bureau of Meteorology, Australia | How insights from our customers and operational forecasters are driving improvements to the Bureau's Enterprise Hydrological Forecasting System (HyFS) |
| 11:50 - 12:10 | Jiawei Hou Bureau of Meteorology, Australia | Inland water body mapping with remote sensing technologies |
| User Perspectives (Chair: Caroline Poulsen/Stefan Zieger) | ||
| 12:10 - 12:30 | Jason Hunter HydroTas, Tasmania | Operationalising an ensemble inflow forecasting system |
| Lunch (12:30 – 13:30) | ||
| 13:30 - 13:50 | Melanie Gill Victoria States Emergency Service | Application of the Bureau of Meteorology intelligence and warning products for better community outcomes |
| 13:50 - 14:10 | Jacqueline Schopf Department of Water and Environmental Regulation, Western Australia | Application of the Bureau of Meteorology's future climate projections for water resource management in Western Australia |
| Observation Networks (Chair: Katayoon Bahramian/Luigi Renzullo) | ||
| 14:10 - 14:30 | Ben Hague Bureau of Meteorology, Australia | New tide gauge and flood threshold datasets to facilitate coastal flood hazard assessments |
| 14:30 - 15:00 | Michael Hutchinson Australian National University | Methods supporting ANUClimate 2.0 grids of daily and monthly climate across Australia |
| Afternoon Tea (15:00 – 15:30) | ||
| (Chair: Stefan Zieger/Caroline Poulsen) | ||
| 15:30 - 15:50 | Alex Evans Bureau of Meteorology, Australia | Improved gridded analysis of daily rainfall for Australia |
| 15:50 - 16:10 | Susan Rennie Bureau of Meteorology, Australia | Assimilating radar data in ACCESS Numerical Weather Prediction |
| 16:10 - 16:40 | Thorwald Stein Reading University, UK | The 3D morphology of convective storms: A priority target for next-generation model evaluation |
| 16:40 - 17:00 | Wrapping up Luigi Renzullo & Stefan Zieger | |
| Day 3 Close (17:00) | ||
| Tutorial | ||
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| Amazon Web Services Cloud Computing Solutions | ||
| 09:00 - 9:30 | Catherine Wilson & Patrick Sunter Bureau of Meteorology, Australia | Setup and benchmarking of the AWRA-L landscape hydrology model on AWS cloud HPC |
| 09:30 - 10:00 | Gem Lloyd Bureau of Meteorology, Australia | TP(AWS) – a cloud-deployed observation checking system with wider Bureau implications |
| 10:00 - 10:30 | AWS SageMaker (Intro) | |
| 10:30 - 13:30 | AWS SageMaker Immersion | |
| Day 4 Close (13:30) | ||
This year the Annual R&D Workshop is supported by the following generous sponsors:
