ec:s;a. DIVISION CLIMATE AND GLOBAL DYNAMICS NEWSLETTER Summer 1993, Climate Change & . to be discussed at this inaugural meeting are the Change in Climate Research 1994 budget update, DEC issues, CGD comput- ing and CCC recommendations, foreign travel, This newsletter is an excellent example of the discretionary funds, and the proposal process. scope of research activities taking place at NCAR, Tnne will be-allotted for general questions and many in cooperation with universities and other answers. If you have suggestions for additional institutions. We remain actively engaged in cli- topics, please send them to Holly Howard.or War- mate modeling and analysis by exploring the limita- / ren Washington by Friday, 3 September. tions of predictions; carrying out pioneering ocean modeling research; investigating important societal YOU'RE INVITED TO A PICNIC problems such as the causes and impacts' of global The annual picnic for CGD Division em-, warming, the ozone hole, and the carbon cycle; in- ployees, visitors, and their families will take place vestigating chemical, ecological, and biological ef- on Wednesday, 1 September 1993, on the NCAR fects on the climate; and explaining the causes of Mesa Tree Plaza. Come at 4:30 p.m. to sample past climates. We are contributing to the educa- ' the BBQ'd beef sandwiches (vegetarian BBQ also tion and development of a new generation of sci- , available) and beverages. The cost is $5 for adults ·entific talent Where do we go from here? We and $LSD for children under 12 years. Employees have built a new atmospheric model-the Commu- are asked to bring a potluck dish for sharing- nity Climate Model (CCM2). We have more refined whatever they wish-salad, dessert, or snacks. If surface hydrology and vegetation component op- you l,.ave not already done so, please RSVP to tions. Ocean-model components are also being de- your section secretary with payment. veloped that can be coupled and that will lead to , a family of Climate System Models (CSMs). The FOURTH c;:cM WORKSHOP IS HISTORY details have not been sorted out, but the goal of The Fourth Workshop on the Com- an integrated climate model is clear. Why not one munity Climate Model (CCM) was hosted grand model for all problems? NCAR and the uni- by NCAR/CGD's Climate Modeling Section versities need a family of models to address specific 21 June-1 July 1993. The CCM2 was the focus climate problems on many time and spatial scales. of the two-part program that featur:d in t?e first Furthermore, we need innovative and diverse ap- week tutorials and hands-on expenence m run- proaches. Over the next few months, the task of ning the CCM2 for 12 students. The second week NCAR, NSF/ATM, and other agency-supported re- was dedicated to scientific presentations and dis- search is to develop prototype CSMs. These CSMs cussions that were attended by nearly 100 partic- must be analyzed continually and compared with ipants (75 from other in~titutions and age~ci:s). observationally based studies so that we can have The topifS ranged fron: sn:1ulated e~rth radiat~on confidence in their simulations of the climate and budget and parameterization of mmst convection climate change. This we must do. in the CCM2 to modeling the regional and sea- · Warren Washington sonal response to increased anthropogenic sulfate CGD TOWN MEETING aerosols. See technical note, CCM Progress Report, for program and participant list. All CGD staff members are invited to a CGD Division Town Meeting on Wednesday, 8 Septem- In addition to CGD staff, ·speakers came ber 1993, at 9:30 a.m., in the Main Seminar Room. from the State University of New York, Universi- ties of Maryland, Wyoming, Arizona, WISC0nsin1 . The purpose of this meeting is to improve California, North Carolina, Purdue, Texas, Tokyo, the flow of information to CGD staff from divi- Washington, Cornell, Yale, St. Louis, Ohio State, sion and section management. Among the topics Texas A&M, Iowa State, North Carolina State, Climate & Global Dynamics Division (CGD), National Center for Atmospheric Researc? (NCAR), P.O. Box 3?00, . Boulder Colorado 80307. NCAR is operated by the University Corporation for Atmospheric Research under sponsorship of the National Science Foundation. (Newsletter writer & editor: Ann Modahl, CGD Division) MIT, General Science Corp., Maritime Consul0 tants, Lawrence Livermore, Applied Research · Corp., NASA Goddard, GFDL, Brookhaven, Na- tional Institute for Environmental Studies in Japan, and Battelle. Four new CCM-related publications are available from the Climate Modeling Section: Bath, L., J. Rosinski, and J. Olson, 1992: User's Guide to NCAR CCM2. Technical Note, NCAR/TN-379+IA, National Center for At- mospheric Research, Boulder, Colorado, 127 pp plus appendices. Hack, J.J., B.A. Boville, B.P. Briegleb, J.T. Kiehl, P.J. Rasch,. and D.L. WIiliamson, 1993: Description of the NCAR Community Climate Model (CCM;i). Technical Note, NCAR/TN- 382+STR, National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, Colorado, 108 pp. Williamson, G.S., 1993: CCM2 Datasets and Cir- culation Statistics. Technical Note, NCAR/TN- 391 +STR, National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, Colorado, 85 pp. WIiliamson, D.L., Editor, 1993: CCM Progress Report-June 1993. Technical Note, NCAR/TN-393+PPR, National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, Colorado, 114 pp. "'· A noteworthy- result of the Workshop and subsequent Advisory Committee meeting was agreement that the CCM2 code ·would be released for general distribution 1 October 1993. More information will be available in late September from the NCAR Staff Notes and/or the UCAR Newsletter. (Photo by Carlye Calvin) 2 Response Experimel)t, and the Central Equatorial CCM ADVISORY COMMITIEE Pacific Experiment. The Advisory Committee for the NCAR Community Climate Model (CCM) met at NCAR WORKSHOPS-TO-BE 1 July, following the close of the CCM Workshop. Joseph Tribbia (GDS) is organizing a GTP John Kutzbach of the University of W1SConsin Workshop on Predictability and Chaos in the chaired the meeting attended by Ferd Baer (Uni- Geo~iences, 7-10 September 1993, at NCAR. versity of Maryland), Leo Donner (Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory), Jay ):1ein (NSF ob- Starley Thompson and David Pollard (ICS) server), and Michael Prather (University of Cal- are co-convenors of the First GENESIS User's ifornia, Irvine). Lennart Bengtsson (Max Planck Workshop at NCAR 14-16 September 1993, Institute of Meteorology) was not able to attend. GENESIS stands for the Global Environmental and Ecological Simulations of Interactive Sys- . The agenda presented to the committee by tems. The workshop is to provide a forum for CGD and CCM staff consisted of a review of GENESIS users and developers to share ideas the ongoing program; computer time; NCAR and information on past ahd current uses of the oversight of global-change climate issues; CMAP model and future directions for model develop- planning, implementation, and next steps; sum- ment. Contact Stephanie Shearer, xl 624, for fur- mary of model comparisons; update on activi- ther information. ties of the Climate Systems Modeling Advisory Committee; contributions to more integrated cli- BOB AND BERT RECEIVE HONOR mate modeling and analysis development by the sections that make up CGD; and issues of pol- Robert Chervin (Climate Sensitivity and CO2 icy for model use at NCAR and other sitE:s.~nd Research Group) and Albert Semtner (CGD's consulting support for NSF, NCAR, and v1s1ting Affiliate Scientist from the Naval Postgraduate researchers. School in Monterey, California) were 1993 joint Following the presentations, the committee winners of the, Computerworld Smithsonian's met in executive session and with NCAR and Cray Research-sponsored Information Technol- ogy Leadership Award for Breakthrough Com- CGD management. The Final Report of the com- putational Science. Bob and ~ert were rewarded mittee has been distributed. Copies are available from the Division Office (ML213B, x1320). for their pioneering work in using a supercom- puter to study the world ocean and its influence on climate and climate change. They calculated, for the first time, the powerful effects of .ocean CLOUD COLLOQUIUM COMPLETED eddies in the global climate system. Jeffrey Kiehl (CMS), in conjunction with the 1993 was the inaugural year for the Break- Advanced Study Program, organized the Clouds through Computational Science award. For the and Climate Colloquium at NCAR5-22July 1993. first time in the history of the Computerworld Over 70 participants, including 36 students, from Smithsonian Awards, Cray Research recognized 20 universities and research institutions in the an "engineer or scientist who, over a lifetime and United States, Germany, Morocco, Spain, and in the face of significant challenges, has made an the United Kingdom gathered to deliberate on outstanding contribution to breakthrough com- the role of clouds in the climate system, an im- putational science." Bob and Bert's award com- portant problem in the geophysical sciences and plements the original, ongoing Computerworld one needing greater understanding and atten- Smithsonian Awards honoring individuals who tion. Discussions focused on the basic scales for · have used information technology to solve con- the processes of clouds-microscale, mesoscale, temporary problems. and global scale. In each week of the three-week meeting, participants concentrated on a different Representatives of government, university, "scale" and its physical processes, and lecturers and commercial organizations from the United presented data from the Atlantic Stratocumulus States and abroad served on the nomination com- Experiment, the Tropical Ocean Global Atmo- mittee, and the nominees were from around the sphere Program Coupled Ocean-Atmosphere globe and from many disciplines. The awards 3 · criteria were (1) to notably increase the poten- tial for improving the human condition, (2) to THANKS FOR THE MEMORIES solve, or make notable progress on, a previously intractable problem, (3) to set new, replicable If Lynda VerPlank, now Lynda Perdue or standards for scientific endeavor, (4) to create more formally, Mrs.