Special Symposium on Global and Mesoscale Models: Updates and Center Overviews

Abstract Information

Abstracts are closed! The deadline was 31 August 2020 at 11:59 PM EST.

Abstract Fee and Author Instructions

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The Special Symposium on Global and Mesoscale Models: Updates and Center Overviews is sponsored by the American Meteorological Society and organized by the Committee on Weather Analysis and Forecasting. The AMS Committee on Weather Analysis and Forecasting is organizing a two-day symposium at the 2021 AMS Annual Meeting on recent updates made to operational modeling systems by the government, academia, and the private sectors. The emphases of this special symposium will be to highlight visions from national and international forecast centers and recent development and implementation of global- and regional-scale weather prediction models, including nested models, convection-allowing models, tropical cyclone models, and hydrological models. Advances in physics package development, development of ensemble systems for probabilistic forecasts, and operational data assimilation techniques at both global and regional scales will be provided. Updates on post-processing and verification across all scales will also be presented.

Call for Papers

The symposium will feature both invited and contributed oral presentations, as well as a poster session from national and international operational centers and the numerical weather prediction research communities. The topics will cover:

  • Operational Forecast Center Vision Updates;
  • WAF Symposium General Session

Joint Sessions

  • Services Update for Weather Agencies & Interagency Coordination within the Federal Weather Enterprise (Joint between the 37th Conference on Environmental Information Processing Technologies and the Special Symposium on Global and Mesoscale Models: Updates and Center Overviews);
  • Utilization and Development of Rapidly Updating Mesoscale Models for Impact-Based Decision Support Services (Joint between the Special Symposium on Global and Mesoscale Models: Updates and Center Overviews and the Ninth Symposium on Building a Weather-Ready Nation:Enhancing Our Nation's Readiness, Responsiveness, and Resilience to High Impact Weather Events) 

Student Award Opportunities

The Special Symposium on Global- and Regional-Scale Models: Updates and Center Overviews is pleased to offer one student presentation awards to a student who has submitted an abstract to present at the Global and Regional-Scale Model Symposium.  If you are interested in being in the competition please contact the program chair, Stephanie Avey ([email protected]) prior to October 15, 2020. All applicants will be notified of their status prior to November 1, 2020.

Conference Contacts

For additional information, please contact the program chair, Stephanie Avey (email: [email protected]).