4th PAN-GCSS meeting on : "Advances in modeling and observing clouds and convection."

June 2-6 2008 at Meteo-France, Toulouse,France.

Meeting announcement and Call for papers

Sponsored by: NASA, U.S. Department of Energy's ARM Program, NOAA, The World Climate Research Program and Meteo France.

The GEWEX Cloud System Study (GCSS) investigates cloud systems, their role in the climate system and their representation in models with a view to improving our capability to predict weather and climate using state-of the-art modeling and data assimilation systems. GCSS will hold a meeting to review and discuss "Advances in Modeling and observing Clouds and Convection" from June 2-6 2008 at Meteo-France, Toulouse, France.

Key areas to be discussed at this meeting are: "New observations and recent field campaigns", "Tropical Convection", "High Resolution Modeling on Large Domains" and "Cloud Climate Feedbacks". See also the full meeting announcement and call for papers and the GCSS website.

CFMIP/ENSEMBLES Workshop on assessment of cloud and water vapour feedback processes in GCMs, Paris, 11th-13th April, 2007.

IPSL and the Hadley Centre held a joint workshop of the CFMIP and ENSEMBLES projects in Paris on Wed 11th - Fri 13th April, 2007.

The subject of the workshop was the development of diagnostic techniques for the assessment of climate feedback processes in ensembles of GCM simulations. The focus was on the use of observations and process studies to constrain cloud and water vapour feedbacks.

The workshop took place at the "Pierre & Marie Curie University", in the 5th Arrondissement of Paris (Metro: "Jussieu" on line 7).

Workshop programme.

Working group recommendations on experiments, diagnostics and CFMIP-GCSS collaboration.