2015 NCAR Day of Networking & Discovery

The 2015 NCAR Day of Networking and Discovery was held on Friday, April 17, 2015.

The agenda is listed below.

Agenda - NCAR Networking and Discovery
Center Green Auditorium 17 April 2015
	Room South		Room Center		Room North
	Speaker	Title	Speaker	Title	Speaker	Title
0830	Jim Hurrell	Introduction	Jim Hurrell	Introduction	Jim Hurrell	Introduction
0900	Bas van Ruijven	Climate impacts on building energy use	Scott Ellis	A bird’s-eye view of a winter storm: The Hiaper Cloud Radar probes a Nor’easter	Doug Nychka and Dorit Hammerling	Statistical Hierarchical Models: An Emerging Framework for Geophysical Data Analysis
0930	Anny Malanushenko	Using Observations to Understand the Causes of Space Weather	Gabi Pfister	2014 Colorado Front Range FRAPPE field campaign	Angie Pendergrass	Precipitation changes with climate
1000	Break
1030	Andy Monaghan	On the edge: the climatically sensitive dengue vector mosquito Aedes aegypti in the Americas	Julio Bacmeister	Tropical cyclones in a changing climate simulated by the Community Atmosphere Model	Jim Smith	Aerosol formation and lab studies
1100	Britt Stephens	Tropical vs. extratropical terrestrial CO2 uptake and implications for carbon-climate feedbacks	Shawn Strande	NCAR's Next Generation Supercomputer	Rebecca Centeno-Elliott	Spectroscopy - The Art and Science of Capturing Magnetism
1130	Tom Galarneau	Trying to stop a leak in an operational global model	Diane Thompson	Physical barriers to coral larval dispersal: do currents shape biodiversity?	Branko Kosovic	Toward multiscale simulations of atmospheric boundary layer flows
1200	Lunch
1300	Helen Worden	15 years of observing pollution from space	Ben Sanderson	When can we expect to see the benefits of climate mitigation?	Holger Voemel	Exploring the tropical tropopause with stratospheric balloons
1330	Rich Loft	Sea Change: Accelerating NCAR Applications using Many Core Technologies	Hanli Liu	Bottoms Up: the Impact of Terrestrial Weather on Space Weather	Zhiquan Liu	Aerosol data assimilation and its application for air-quality and weather forecasts
1400	Jorgen Jensen	Giant sea-salt aerosol particles and why climate models should care greatly about them	Mark Raleigh	Snow processes in coniferous forest canopies	Paty Romero Lankao	Do cities have the institutional capacity to address climate change?
1430	Break
1500	Sang-Hun Park	Atmospheric Kinetic Energy Spectra from Global Models Using High-vertical Resolution	Minghui Diao	Airborne observations of cirrus cloud microphysical properties in polluted and pristine air	Mike Wiltberger	Modeling Space Weather
1530	Andy Wood	Advancing streamflow forecast science to support water management	Judith Berner	How random numbers improve weather and climate predictions	Rolando Garcia	Whole Atmosphere Modeling
1600	Reception