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Workshop Program

Updated 18 September 2023

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Day 1: Monday August 7th

All times in AEDT (UTC +10)

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Introduction

12:00 Lunch and registration
13:00 Welcome to country, housekeeping, format, events

Session 1 - Partner perspectives and user needs (Chair: Lena Saboisky)

13:30 Gilbert Brunet
Bureau of Meteorology
Thriving seamless science and services recording
13:50 Chris Johnston
Department of Climate Change, Energy, the Environment and Water
Australia's National Climate Change Risk Assessment and Adaptation Plan
14:10 Judith Landsberg
Australian Climate Service
Building a national evidence base to assess climate risk recording
14:30 Matt Beaty
Australian Bureau of Statistics
Understanding heat-health vulnerability and impacts with integrated, cross-domain data recording
Afternoon tea (15:00 – 15:30)
15:30 Chantal Donnelly
Bureau of Meteorology
P1 Panel - Science gaps and user needs recording
16:30
L1 Lightning talks (10 presenters) recording

Session 2 - Examples of good practice - international (Chair: Ramona Dalla Pozza)

17:00 Nicola Golding
UK Met Office, UK
Creating Co-Potential Spaces recording
17:30 Samantha Burgess
ECMWF Copernicus, UK
Europe's operational climate service - C3S recording
Icebreaker (18:00)
Day 1 Close (19:30)

Day 2: Tuesday August 8th

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Session 3 - Further examples of good practice (Chair: Lynette Bettio)

09:00 Andrew Robertson
Columbia University, USA
Some examples of sub-seasonal to seasonal climate forecast products recording
09:30 Phil Watson
NSW State Government
From forecasting to sound operational advice: tips, tricks, and pitfalls recording
09:50 Mark Jones
NBN
Integrating Climate Science, Managing the Climate Change Transition recording
10:10 David Putland
QLD Department of Environment and Science
Origin and evolution of the Queensland Future Climate Dashboard recording
Morning tea (10:30 – 11:00)
11:00
P2 Panel discussion - From science to policy

Session 4 - Climate Hazards and Risk forecasts (Chair: Jessie Gray)

12:00 Naomi Benger
Bureau of Meteorolgy
Heat and Electricity: An analysis of vulnerability and exposure
Lunch (12:30 – 13:30)
13:30 Beth Ebert
Bureau of Meteorology
Value Chain Approaches to Improve Early Warning System recording
14:00 Cameron Do
Bureau of Meteorology
Developing a Tropical Cyclone Risk Assessment for Australia recording
14:20 Cass Rogers
Bureau of Meteorology
Compound heat events – extreme, impactful, and unknown recording
14:40 Simon Quilty
Australian National University
Housing and heat – understanding better ways to live in hot climates
Afternoon tea (15:00 – 15:30)
15:30 L2 Lightning talks (9 presenters) recording

Session 5 - Advances in modelling and projections (Chair: Irina Rudeva)

15:50 Ramona Dalla Pozza
NESP Climate Systems Hub, University of Tasmania
Bringing the Australian climate science community together to help users: A National Partnership for Climate Projections recording
16:10 Michael Grose
CSIRO
The new generation of CMIP6-based climate projections for climate change services in Australia recording
16:30 Belinda Roux
Bureau of Meteorology
ACCESS-A: Development of the Australian domain convective-scale numerical weather prediction model recording
16:50 Thomas Pagano
Bureau of Meteorology
Examination of in-situ wind station representativeness for forecast verification recording
17:10 Eun-Pa Lim
Bureau of Meteorology
The impact of ozone forcing on the 2020 Antarctic super vortex and associated surface climate recording
Day 2 Close (17:30)
18:00 Early Career Research event (register by 1 August)

Day 3: Wednesday August 9th

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Session 6 - Machine learning and infrastructure (Chair: Gem Lloyd)

09:00 Ilene Carpenter
HPE
Exascale Computing for Meteorology recording
09:20 Peter Kerney
Intel
Open Software Development in a Heterogeneous Environment recording
09:40 Mithil Shah
AWS
Machine Learning opportunities for Earth Systems forecasting recording
10:00 Ben Evans
NCI
Preparing for the next generation of climate and weather demands for HPC at NCI recording
Morning tea (10:20 – 10:40)

Session 7: - Innovations in using observations (Chair: Agnes Lane)

10:40 L3 Lightning talks (9 presenters) recording
11:00 Bryan Hodge
Bureau of Meteorolgy
Opportunities for remote sensing in the rapidly evolving LEO Satellite Data Communications constellations recording
11:30 Caroline Poulsen
Bureau of Meteorolgy
National Space Missions for Earth observation recording
11:50 Alain Protat
Bureau of Meteorolgy
The bistatic and mobile radar demonstration projects to enhance severe weather and bushfire applications recording recording
12:10 Mengmeng Han
Bureau of Meteorolgy
MultiSiteBoost: Applying XGBoost to Site-specific Weather Forecast recording
Lunch (12:30 – 13:30)

Poster session

13:30 – 15:00 Multiple presenters List of posters
Afternoon tea (15:00 – 15:30)

Session 8 - Extreme event attribution, likelihoods and impacts (Chair: Carly Tozer and Andrew King)

15:30 Pandora Hope
Bureau of Meteorolgy
Adding context — towards adding attribution information to climate services recording
15:50 Lynn Zhou
Bureau of Meteorolgy
ACCESS-MICAS – a forecast-based method for event attribution recording
16:10 Damien Irving
CSIRO
Using large ensembles to quantify the likelihood of extreme events recording
16:30 Nina Ridder
Suncorp
High-impact Multivariate Compound Events in Australia under Present and Future Climates recording
16:50 Doug Richardson
University of NSW
The risk to global coffee supply from synchronous climate hazards recording
Day 3 Close (17:30)
18:00 Workshop Dinner (Invitation Only)

Day 4: Thursday August 10th

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Session 9a - Designing and delivering seamless services (Chair: Ulrike Bende-Michl and Jiawei Hou)

09:00 David Vallee
NOAA, USA
Toward the Implementation of Flood Inundation Mapping Services to the Nation recording
09:30 John Callahan
NOAA, USA
NOAA High Tide Flooding Products for the United States: Research to operations across climate time scales recording
09:50 Christoph Rudiger
Bureau of Meteorology
Towards and integrated and seamless hydrology at the Bureau of Meteorology recording
10:10 Conrad Wasko
University of Melbourne
Using the Australian Water Outlook for projection of extreme events recording
Morning tea (10:30 – 11:00)

Session 9b: Designing and delivering seamless services (cont.) (Chair: David McQueen)

11:00 Jonathan Dennis
Powerlink Queensland
Weather implications for Australia's energy transformation
11:30 Stephanie Dickson
Bureau of Meteorology
The role of customer engagement in multi-disciplinary teams recording
11:50 David Grant
Bureau of Meteorology
Operational experience in communicating low probability, but potential high impact events with emergency services stakeholders recording
12:10 Valentin Louf
Bureau of Meteorology
SWIRL: real-time observations and nowcasting of wind information's from weather radar recording
Lunch (12:30 – 13:30)

Session 10 - Communication and co-design of services (Chair: Carla Mooney)

13:30 Aysha Fleming
CSIRO
Co-design, co-development and co-delivery: lessons about collaboration recording
13:50 Jelmer Jeuring
Norwegian Meteorological Institute, Norway
Contextualising usability in research-based service development? Some insights from a maritime decision scenario workshop in Norway recording
14:10 Isadora Jimenez
Lobelia Earth, Spain
Navigating complexity: co-designing the user interface of weather and climate services recording
14:30
P3 Panel discussion - Bringing it all together
Workshop Close (15:30)

The 2023 Annual R&D Workshop is hosted by the Bureau of Meteorology with generous support from the following sponsors:

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