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4th Annual Climate Test Bed Science Advisory Board Meeting
September 11-12, 2008

Earth System Science Interdisciplinary Center (ESSIC)
University of Maryland
4th Floor Conference Room
M-Square Office Building #950
5825 University Research Court
College Park, MD 20740

Thursday, September 11, 2008
8:00 am - 8:30 am	Breakfast / Registration
8:30 am - 8:50 am	CPC Director Welcome		Wayne Higgins
8:50 am - 9:20 am	NCEP Director Welcome		Louis Uccellini
9:20 am - 9:45 am	CTB Yesterday, Today, Tomorrow		Fiona Horsfall
9:45 am – 10:30 am	Projects: Progress and Accomplishments
	9:45 am	FY06 Projects (15 mins) The Empirically Corrected CFS	Tim Delsole
	10:00 am	FY06 Projects (15 mins) Development of neural network emulations of model radiation for improving the computational performance of the NCEP seasonal forecasts and climate simulations	Michael Fox-Rabinovitz
	10:15 am	FY06 Projects (15 mins) The upper tropical Pacific variation during the 2007-2008 ENSO based on a new gridded dataset and GODAS (McPhaden PI)	Yan Xue
10:30 am - 10:45 am	Break / Refreshments
10:45 am - 12:05 am	Projects continued
	10:45 am	FY07 Projects (15 mins) System-wide Advancement of User Centric Climate Forecast Products	Holly Hartman
	11:00 am	FY08 Projects (10 mins) Development of an extended and long-range precipitation prediction system over the Pacific Islands	H. Annamalai
	11:10 am	FY08 Projects (10 mins) Probabilistic Forecasts of Extreme Events using the Climate Forecast System (Jones PI)	Jon Gottschalck
	11:20 am	FY08 Projects (15 mins) Multi-Model Ensemble Seasonal Prediction with CFS and CCSM	Ben Kirtman
	11:35 am	FY08 Projects (10 mins) Long-Term Retrospective Forecasts with CFS: Predictability of ENSO and Drought (Cane PI)	Dake Chen
	11:45 am	FY08 Projects (10 mins) Enabling the Transition of CPC Products to GIS Format	Brian Doty
12:05 pm - 1:10 pm	Lunch (provided)
1:10 pm - 1:30 pm	New Projects
	1:10 pm	FY09 (FY08 approved) Goddard PI (5 mins)	Malaquias Pena Mendez
	1:15 pm	FY09 (FY08 approved) Schubert (5 mins)	Siegfried Schubert
	1:20 pm	Status of FY09 Proposals	Chet Ropelewski
1:30 pm - 2:45 pm	Internal Activities
	1:30 pm	CFS Test and Evaluation (15 mins) Report on the 2008 CTB Internal Experiments	Jae Schemm, S. Moorthi
	1:45 pm	CFS Ocean Modeling (15 mins) Global Ocean Data Assimilation (GODAS) at NCEP Part I and Part II	David Behringer
	2:00 pm	CFS Land Modeling (15 mins) Impact of Different Land Models and Different Initial Land States on CFS Summer and Winter Reforecasts	Ken Mitchell
	2:15 pm	NIDIS activities (15 mins) Operational monitoring and prediction tools	Kingtse Mo
	2:30 pm	GIS/NCDC (15 mins) An Update of the NOAA/Climate Prediction Center (CPC) GIS Project	Viviane Silva
2:45 am - 3:00 am	Break / Refreshments
3:00 pm - 4:00 pm	Internal Activities / Science Plans
	3:00 pm	Summary of CTB Seminar Series (15 mins)	Jiayu Zhou
	3:15 pm	Science Plans: Products (45 mins)	Ed O'Lenic
4:00 pm - 5:30 pm	Executive Session		SAB members only
Friday, September 12, 2008
8:00 am - 8:30 am	Breakfast / Registration
8:30 am - 8:45 am	Discussion
8:45 am - 10:00 am	Science Plans
	8:45 am	Science Plans: CFS Model Improvements and Evaluation (45 mins)	Hua-Lu Pan
	9:30 am	Update on prospectus for IMME (30 mins)	Steve Lord / Huug Van Den Dool
10:00 am - 10:15 am	Break / Refreshments
10:15 am - 12:00 am	Science Plans continued
	10:15 am	Science Plans: MME (45 mins)	Suru Saha
	11:00 am	Science Panel Discussion
12:00 pm - 2:00 pm	Lunch (provided) in common areas / Executive Session (in meeting room)
2:00 pm - 3:00 pm	SAB report Out
3:00 pm	Adjourn


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