Second GENESIS Users Workshop

National Center for Atmospheric Research
Boulder, Colorado
8-10 August 1995

Participants

Anna Maria Agustsdottir
Earth System Science Center
Pennsylvania State University
409 Deike Building
University Park, PA 16802
814 863-1666
annamari@essc.psu.edu

Steve Baum
Dept. of Oceanography
Texas A&M University
College Station, TX 77801
409 845-0793
baum@astra.tamu.edu

Jon Bergengren
ICS/CGD
NCAR
P.O. Box 3000
Boulder, CO 90307
303 497-1340
jcb@ncar.ucar.edu

Karen Bice
Earth System Science Center
Pennsylvania State University
540 Deike Building
University Park, PA 16802
814 863-7689
kbice@essc.psu.edu

Esther Brady
ICS/CGD
NCAR
P.O. Box 3000
Boulder, CO 80307
303 497-1396
brady@ncar.ucar.edu

John Caron
ACD
NCAR
P.O. Box 3000
Boulder, CO 80307
303 497-1471
caron@ncar.ucar.edu

Julie Cole
Campus Box 450
INSTAAR
University of Colorado
Boulder, CO 80309
303 492-0595
coleje@spot.colorado.edu

Marcos Costa
Climate, People and Environment Program (CPEP)
Institute for Environmental Studies
Department of Atmospheric & Oceanic Sciences
University of Wisconsin
1225 W. Dayton Street
Madison, WI 53706
608 262-5961
mhcosta@students.wisc.edu

Robert DeConto
University of Colorado
ICS/CGD/NCAR
P.O. Box 3000
Boulder, CO 80307
303 497-1357
deconto@ncar.ucar.edu

Jan Dutton
Pennsylvania State University
502 Walker Building
University Park, PA 16801
814 863-7701
jfd@essc.psu.edu

Carter Emmart
ICS/CGD
NCAR
P.O. Box 3000
Boulder, CO 80307
303 497-1644
emmart@ncar.ucar.edu

Peter Fawcett
Earth System Science Center
Pennsylvania State University
436 Deike Building
University Park, PA 16801
814 863-1700
peterf@essc.psu.edu

Benjamin Felzer
Department of Geological Sciences
Box 1846
Brown University
Providence, RI 02912
215 885-3343
bsf@brown.edu

John Firor
ASP
NCAR
P.O. Box 3000
Boulder, CO 80307
303 497-1600
firor@ncar.ucar.edu

Jon Foley
Climate, People and Environment Program (CPEP)
Institute for Environmental Studies
Department of Atmospheric & Oceanic Sciences
University of Wisconsin
1225 W. Dayton Street
Madison, WI 53706
608 265-5144
jfoley@facstaff.wisc.edu

Mark Gibbs
Department of Geosciences and Earth System Science Center
Pennsylvania State University
409 Deike Building
University Park, PA 16802
814 863-1667
gibbs@essc.psu.edu

Claire Granier
ACD
NCAR
P.O. Box 3000
Boulder, CO 80307
303 497-1445
granier@ncar.ucar.edu

Ann Henderson-Sellers
Climatic Impacts Centre
Macquarie University
North Ryde, New South Wales
2109 Australia
61 2 850 8398
ann@cic.mq.edu.au

Bruce Hewitson
Department of Environmental & Geographical Sc.
University of Cape Town
Private Bag
Rondebosch 7700
South Africa
27 21 650 3791
hewitson@hickory.egs.uct.ac.az

Steve Hostetler
USGS
ERL-C
200 S. W. 35th Street
Corvallis, OR 97333
503 754-4370
steve@ncar.ucar.edu

Peter Jaumann
ASP
NCAR
P.O. Box 3000
Boulder, CO 80307
303 497-1860
jaumann@ncar.ucar.edu

Greg Jenkins
Earth System Science Center
Pennsylvania State University
248 Deike Building
University Park, PA 16802
814 863-7205
osei@essc.psu.edu

Lee Klinger
ACD
NCAR
P.O. Box 3000
Boulder, CO 80307
303 497-1474
klinger@ncar.ucar.edu

Kay Koller
Climate, People and Environment Program (CPEP)
Institute for Environmental Studies
Department of Atmospheric & Oceanic Sciences
University of Wisconsin
1225 W. Dayton Street
Madison, WI 53706
608 262-5961
kjkoller@students.wisc.edu

John Kutzbach
IES-Center for Climatic Research
University of Wisconsin
1225 West Dayton Street
Madison, WI 53706
608 262-2839
jekutzba@facstaff.wisc.edu

Elizabeth Law-Evans
ICS/CGD
NCAR
P.O. Box 3000
Boulder, CO 80307
303 497-1675
lawevans@ncar.ucar.edu

Samuel Levis
Climate, People and Environment Program (CPEP)
Institute for Environmental Studies
Department of Atmospheric & Oceanic Sciences
University of Wisconsin
1225 W. Dayton Street
Madison, WI 53706
608 262-5961
slevis@students.wisc.edu

Xin-Zhong Liang
Atmospheric Science Research Center
State University of New York at Albany
100 Fuller Road
Albany, NY 12205
518 442-3816
liang@climate.asrc.albany.edu

Quentin Lindh
Department of Physics
University of California at Santa Cruz
Santa Cruz, CA 95064
qwlindh@cats.ucsc.edu

Xiaolei Liu
Atmospheric Science Research Center
State University of New York at Albany
100 Fuller Road
Albany, NY 12205
518 442-3379
liu@climate.asrc.albany.edu

Jim Maslanik
Campus Box 431
CCAR
University of Colorado
Boulder, CO 80309
303 492-8974
jimm@northwind.colorado.edu

Renaud Mathieu
INSTAAR
ICS/CGD/NCAR
P.O. Box 3000
Boulder, CO 80307
303 497-1398
mathieu@ncar.ucar.edu

David McGinnis
Campus Box 449
CIRES
University of Colorado
Boulder, CO 80309
303 492-2468
mcginnis@nsidc2.colorado.edu

Kendal McGuffie
Department of Applied Physics
University of Technology, Sydney
P.O. Box 123
Broadway, New South Wales
2007 Australia
kendal@phys.uts.edu.au

Bob Oglesby
Department of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences
Purdue University
West Lafayette, IN 47907-1397
317 494-9531
oglesby@spring.atms.purdue.edu

Bette Otto-Bliesner
UTA Box 19049
Department of Geology
University of Texas at Arlington
Arlington, TX 76019
817 273-2987
ottobli@ncar.ucar.edu

Bill Peterson
Earth System Science Center
Pennsylvania State University
436 Deike Building
University Park, PA 16801
814 865-0294
bill@essc.psu.edu

David Pollard
ICS/CGD
NCAR
P.O. Box 3000
Boulder, CO 80307
303 497-1344
pollard@ncar.ucar.edu

Navin Ramankutty
Climate, People and Environment Program (CPEP)
Institute for Environmental Studies
Department of Atmospheric & Oceanic Sciences
University of Wisconsin
1225 W. Dayton Street
Madison, WI 53706
608 262-5961
nramanku@students.wisc.edu

Franklin Robertson
NASA/Marshall Space Flight Center
Global Hydrology and Climate Center
977 Explorer Blvd.
Huntsville, AL 35806
pete.robertson@msfc.nasa.gov

Stephanie Shearer
ICS/CGD
NCAR
P.O. Box 3000
Boulder, CO 80307
303 497-1624
shearer@ncar.ucar.edu

Lisa C. Sloan
Earth Science Department
Earth and Marine Sciences Building
University of California at Santa Cruz
Santa Cruz, CA 95064
408 459-3693
lcsloan@earthsci.ucsc.edu

Eric Small
Department of Earth Sciences
University of California at Santa Cruz
Santa Cruz, CA 95064
esmall@earthsci.ucsc.edu

Lana Stillwell
ICS/CGD
NCAR
P.O. Box 3000
Boulder, Co 80307
303 497-1316
lana@ncar.ucar.edu

Jozef Syktus
CSIRO Division of Atmospheric Research
Private Bag No. 1, Mordialloc
Victoria 3195, Australia
61 3 9586 7548
Jozef.Syktus@dar.csiro.au

Starley Thompson
ICS/CGD
NCAR
P.O. Box 3000
Boulder, CO 80307
303 497-1628
starley@ncar.ucar.edu

Debbie Tyson
Department Environmental & Geographical Sc.
University of Cape Town
Private Bag
Rondebosch 7700
South Africa
27 21 650 2878
dtyson@hickory.egs.uct.ac.za

Gary Upchurch
Department of Biology
Southwest Texas State University
San Marcos, TX 78666
512 245-8713
GU01@academia.swt.edu

Warren Washington
CSCORG/CGD
NCAR
P.O. Box 3000
Boulder, CO 80307
303 497-1321
wmw@ncar.ucar.edu

Robin Webb
NOAA Paleoclimatology Program
NGDC E/GC
325 Broadway
Boulder, CO 80303
303 497-6967
rsw@mail.ngdc.noaa.gov

Steve Welch
ICS/CGD
NCAR
P.O. Box 3000
Boulder, CO 80307
303 530-2661
smw@ncar.ucar.edu

Chris Wold
ICS/CGD
NCAR
P.O. Box 3000
Boulder, CO 80307
303 497-1303
chrisw@ncar.ucar.edu

Agenda

Tuesday, 8 August 1995

9:00 a.m. Starley Thompson, NCAR
Opening Remarks

Pre-Quaternary Modeling

9:10 a.m. Mark Gibbs, Pennsylvania State University
Sensitivity of the Late Ordovician Climate to Atmospheric CO2 in GENESIS
9:30 a.m. Steve Baum, Texas A&M
Modeling Carboniferous Coal Formation
9:50 a.m. Karen Bice, Pennsylvania State University
The GENESIS GCM: Sensitivity to Initial Conditions
10:20 a.m. Rob Deconto, University of Colorado/NCAR
Simulations of the Campanian (80 ma) with GENESIS version 2.0 and EVE.
10:40 a.m.
Break (30 minutes)
11:10 a.m. Chris Wold, NCAR
Modern and Late Cretaceous Evaporites: Distribution and Proxy Formation Modeling
11:30 a.m. Esther Brady, NCAR
Planning of OGCM Simulations for the Campanian (80 Ma)
11:50 a.m. Bette Otto-Bliesner, University of Texas at Arlington
Impact of Vegetation on the GENESIS Simulation of the Cretaceous-Tertiary (66.4 Ma) Climate
12:10 p.m. Gary Upchurch, Southwest Texas State University
Latest Cretaceous Paleovegetation and Global Climate: Comparison of Proxy Data with GENESIS Simulations
12:30 p.m.
Lunch (1 hour)

GENESIS version 2.0

1:30 p.m. David Pollard, NCAR
AGCM and Surface Model Physics
1:50 p.m. Jon Bergengren, NCAR
Present-Day Vegetation Prescription with LEAF
2:10 p.m. David Pollard, NCAR
New Results with version 2.0
2:40 p.m. Starley Thompson, NCAR
Where GENESIS is Going
3:00 p.m.
Break and Group Photo (30 minutes)
3:30 p.m. Esther Brady, NCAR
OGCM and GENESIS-OGCM Coupling
3:50 p.m. John Caron, NCAR
Atmospheric Chemistry in GENESIS
4:10 p.m. Renaud Mathieu, INSTAAR/NCAR
Implementation of Stable Isotopes Physics in the Hydrological Cycle of GENESIS
4:30 p.m. David Pollard, NCAR
Use of version 2.0: Inputs, Outputs, etc.
5:00 p.m.
End
5:30 p.m.
NCAR Shuttle leaves for Fiske Planetarium
5:45 p.m.
Reception/Dinner at Fiske Planetarium
6:30 p.m.
Buffet Dinner served
7:30 p.m.
Planetarium Shows on the Dome

Wednesday, 9 August 1995

Pre-Quaternary Modeling, Continued

9:00 a.m. Lisa Sloan, University of California at Santa Cruz
The Paleocene/Eocene Boundary and the Early Eocene: Sensitivity Studies with GENESIS version 1.02.A.
9:20 a.m. Jan Dutton, Pennsylvania State University
GENESIS Sensitivity to Changes in Past Vegetation

Quaternary Modeling

9:40 a.m. Ben Felzer, Brown University
Sensitivity of the NCAR CCM1 to Changes in Northern Hemisphere Ice Sheets
10:00 a.m. Steve Baum, Texas A&M
Vegetation Induced SST Changes in the Last Glacial Maximum
10:20 a.m.
Break (30 minutes)
10:50 a.m. Lisa Sloan, University of California at Santa Cruz
The Last Glacial Maximum with GENESIS version 1.02.A, Part of the Paleoclimate Model Intercomparison Project Effort
11:10 a.m. Peter Fawcett, Pennsylvania State University
Changes in North Atlantic Ocean Heat Flux and the Rapid Termination of the Younger Dryas Climate Event
11:30 a.m. Kendal McGuffie, University of Technology, Sydney
Implications of Enhanced Forest Cover for the Paleoclimate of Tropical Australia
11:50 a.m. John Kutzbach, University of Wisconsin at Madison
Climate Sensitivity Experiments for the Changed Orbital Conditions and Changed Boreal Forest/Subtropical Grassland Distributions of 6000 yr BP
12:10 p.m. Steve Baum, Texas A&M
Is the Greenland Ice Sheet Bistable?
12:30 p.m.
Lunch ( 1 hour)

Other Models and Applications

1:30 p.m. Jon Foley, University of Wisconsin at Madison
IBIS: The Integrated Biosphere Simulator - A New Global Model of Terrestrial Ecosystems
2:00 p.m. Navin Ramankutty, University of Wisconsin at Madison
Implementation of a Coupled Photosynthesis-Stomatal Conductance Model in GENESIS
2:20 p.m. Josef Syktus, CSIRO, Australia
Modelling of the Sensitivity of Monsoonal Circulation to the Orbital, Solar and CO2 Forcing
2:50 p.m.
Break (30 minutes)
3:20 p.m.
Break-Out Groups (Cafeteria and Main Seminar Room)
5:00 p.m.
End

Thursday, 10 August 1995

Present Diagnosis and Future Applications

8:30 a.m. Samuel Levis, University of Wisconsin at Madison
Analysis of Terrestrial Hydrologic Budget as Simulated by the Land-Surface - Transfer Scheme (LSX)
8:50 a.m. Franklin Robertson, NASA/Marshall Space Flight Center
Hydrologic Forcing and Feedback Mechanisms Within GENESIS
9:20 a.m. Xin-Zhong Liang, State University of New York at Albany
Systematic Biases of GENESIS AMIP Simulations
9:50 a.m. Jon Bergengren, NCAR
Coupled GENESIS-EVE Experiments with 1x and 2x CO2
10:10 a.m. Break (15 minutes)
10:25 a.m. Bruce Hewitson, University of Cape Town, South Africa
Precipitation Downscaling Applications with GENESIS
10:45 a.m. Debbie Tyson, University of Cape Town, South Africa
Southern Hemisphere Cyclone Frequencies in GENESIS
11:05 a.m. James Maslanik, University of Colorado
An Assessment of GENESIS version 2.0 Performance for the Polar Regions
11:25 a.m. David McGinnis, CIRES, University of Colorado
Simulating Snowfall Using GENESIS: Generating Sub-grid Scale Information Using Neural Networks
11:45 a.m.
General Discussion
12:30 p.m.
End
Comments and Questions

12/8/97