PMIP Workshop 4 Programme

The 4^th PMIP Workshop
New Hall, Cambridge, UK
June 22^nd to 26^th, 2002

Saturday, June 22^nd

Arrival at college. Dinner will be available at 1900. For those arriving later, you will have to make your own arrangements.

The bar will be open after dinner!

Sunday, June 23^rd

Breakfast: 0800-0900
Introduction 0900-0945	Sylvie Joussaume: Overview of PMIP I Sandy Harrison: PMIP I data studies Paul Valdes: Aims of this workshop
Session 1 0945-1030	Mid-Holocene Akio Kitoh: 6ka simulations by two versions of the MRI CGCM Karl-Georg Schnitzler: AOGCM Simulations of Middle Holocene Climate: Inclusion of Land Surface Information from Proxy Data into a fully coupled AOGCM Bette Otto-Bliesner: Competing Roles of Glacial and Milankovitch Forcing on El Niño During the Last Glacial-Interglacial Cycle
Coffee Break: 1030-1100
Session 2 1100-1300	Zhengyu Liu: Coupled Model Simulations of the Climate of Holocene Preliminary results with CSM and FOAM Colin Prentice: Coupled simulations of the Holocene using LPJ-FOAM model Pascale Braconnot: Synthesis of working group of coupled simulation at 6 kyr BP: towards the comparison of model interannual variability Noah Diffenbaugh: Orbital forcing of Mid Holocene climate in the RegCM2 regional climate model: a case study of western North America Odile Peyron: Hydrological Conditions In Africa 6000 Years Ago Bruno Turcq: South American monsoon at 6ka
Lunch: 1300-1415
Afternoon	Discussion of 6ka experimental design for PMIP II (Led by Harrison/Braconnot/Valdes)
Tea Break: 1600-1630
Dinner: 1900

Monday, June 24^th

Breakfast: 0800-0900
Session 1 0900-1030	The LGM Chris Hewitt: Coupled OAGCM simulation of the LGM using HadCM3 Seong-Joong Kim: A coupled model simulation of the Last Glacial Maximum Shigenori Murakami: An enhanced Atlantic thermohaline circulation in a coupled AOGCM under a glacial condition Michel Crucifix: Several stable states for the ocean circulation of the last glacial maximum? Dick Peltier: Last Glacial Maximum Climate with Resolved ENSO and NAO
Coffee Break: 1030-1100
Session 2 1100-1230	Zhengyu Liu: Coupled Model Simulations of the Climate of LGM: Preliminary results with CSM and FOAM Nanne Webber: Coupled model simulations for the Holocene and the LGM Pandora Hope: Comparison of LGM proxy data and GCM results in the Australian region Ayako Abe-Ouchi: Topographic effects of the ice sheets on their self- maintenance and shaping the climate during the LGM Gilles Ramstein: Response of the ice sheets to climate changes from LGM to Present day: forcing the LGGE ice sheet model with LMD AGCM snapshots
Lunch: 1230-1415
Afternoon	LGM experimental design for PMIP II (Led by Hewitt/Valdes)
Tea Break: 1600-1630
Dinner: 1900

Tuesday, June 25^th

Breakfast: 0800-0900
Session 1 0900-1030	Climate Transitions/Sensitivity experiments/Data and Analytical Studies Bette Otto-Bliesner: The 8.2 ka Cold Event: Simulations with the NCAR PaleoCSM and Competing Roles of Glacial and Milankovitch Forcing on El Niño During the Last Glacial-Interglacial Cycle Ron Stouffer: A common framework for testing the thermohaline Andrey Ganopolski: Transient simulations of the last glacial cycle with a climate system model of intermediate complexity Hans Renssen: Simulation of Holocene climate evolution with the ECBilt-CLIO-VECODE coupled climate model Erik Tuenter: Orbital precession and obliquity influences on the African summer Monsoon in a simple GCM
Coffee Break: 1030-1100
Session 2 1100-1230	Paul Valdes: Multiple Snapshot GCM simulations during the glacial-interglacial transition Colin Prentice: LPJ variability experiments John Hughes: Large spin-up lags in the terrestrial vegetation, results from a GCM simulation Joel Guiot: Pollen and plant vital attributes reconstruction, a new tool for data-model comparison Julia Hargreaves: Assimilation of paleo-data in a simple Earth system model
Lunch and semi-final of world cup: 1230-1430
Punting: 1530-1630 (or longer) (Please note that if the weather forecast is bad for Tuesday but OK for Monday then we will swap activities between Monday and Tuesday afternoon)
Dinner at Kings College: 1930 (dress smart informal)

Wednesday, June 26^th

Breakfast: 0800-0900
Session 1 0900-1230	Discussion of proposed additional PMIP activities Early Holocene experiment (led by Valdes) Freshwater Hosing experiment (led by Stouffer) Possible Glacial Inception experiments (led by Ramstein) Data Activities (led by Guiot/Harrison)
Coffee Break: 1030-1100
Lunch and second semi-final of world cup: 1230-1430
Session 2 Meeting will finish at about 1600	Summary and further discussion of key experiments and additional activities (led by Joussaume + others)
For those staying the night, dinner will be at 1900


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