S2S meeting 2014 Onsite Share: 10 February 2014, 09:52 - 13 February 2014, 09:52 (Europe/Zurich: 10 February 2014, 09:52 - 13 February 2014, 09:52) Past event College Park, United States Subseasonal to Seasonal Prediction Project International Conference on Subseasonal to Seasonal Prediction Project (S2S) (College Park, Maryland, USA, 10-13 February 2014) PRESENTATIONS Monday 10 February Chair: Arun Kumar Programmatic Session T Nakazawa M Rixen WMO WWRP/WCRP Bill Lapenta NOAA-NCEP Opening remarks on behalf of the NOAA-National Centers for Environmental Prediction Wayne Higgins NOAA-OCP Remarks on behalf of the NOAA-Office of Climate Program Annarita Mariotti NOAA-OCP MAPP Research to advance intra-seasonal to inter-annual climate prediction Jae-Cheol Nam NIMR The activities of WMO S2S International Coordination Office F Vitart A Robertson S2S Overview of S2S project Daniel Eleuterio ESPC Towards a National Earth System Prediction Capability Chair: Arun Kumar Relevant Phenomenon Duane Waliser JPL-NASA Predictability of the Madden-Julian Oscillation in the Intraseasonal Variability Hindcast Experiment (ISVHE) Eric Maloney CSU WGNE MJO Task Force: Understanding MJO Dynamics and Aiding Subseasonal Prediction Nicholas Klingaman U. Reading The role of air-sea coupling in MJO propagation in the Hadley Centre model Hai Lin CMC Simulating the Extratropical Response to the Madden-Julian Oscillation Om Tripathi U. Reading The Stratospheric Network for the Assessment of Predictability (SNAP) Chair: Harry Hendon Relevant Phenomenon Paul Dirmeyer GMU Does the NOAA global model take full benefit of land state information for subseasonal forecasts? Joshua Roundy Princeton The importance of land-atmosphere coupling for seasonal drought prediction Bin Wang IPRC U Hawaii Subtropical High predictability establishes a promising way for monsoon and tropical storm Tim DelSole GMU Complimentary Skill and Predictability in Multi-Model Ensembles Matthew Newman NOAA-CIRES Diagnosing subseasonal predictability of tropical anomalies Tim Stockdale ECMWF Predictability of the Arctic Oscillation Yuhei Takaya JMA Are Negative Arctic Oscillation Events the Opportunity for Sub-seasonal Forecasting? Andrew Robertson IRI-Columbia Indian summer monsoon rainfall potential predictability on sub-seasonal to seasonal time scales Wanqiu Wang NCEP-NOAA Impacts of the convection parameterization and ocean surface on the MJO prediction Ming Cai FSU Variability of Mass Transport into Polar Stratosphere and Winter Cold Air Outbreaks in Mid-latitudes Tuesday 11 February Chair: Frederic Vitart Prediction of Extremes Randall Dole ESRL-NOAA Improving Understanding and Predictions of Extreme Events: The Climate-Weather Connection Stan Benjamin ESRL-NOAA Blocking error in 1-12 month global model forecasts, dependency on numerics and resolution Rainer Bleck ESRL-NOAA An improved algorithm for detecting blocking events Suranjana Saha NCEP-NOAA Analysis of CFSv2's capability to predict short lived extremes in the day 1-45 range R Elsberry H-C Tsai NPS Beyond Two-week Predictions of Tropical Cyclone Events in Western North Pacific and Atlantic Gabriel Vecchi GFDL-NOAA Towards regional predictions of tropical cyclone activity and hydroclimate Julia Manganello COLA Seasonal forecasts of tropical cyclone activity in an ECMWF coupled operational prediction system Debra Hudson BoM Subseasonal prediction of extreme heat over Australia William Stern GFDL-NOAA Seasonal Predictions of the Anomalous Heat and Dryness during the Summer of 2012 using GFDL GCMs Chair: Duane Waliser Initialization and Perturbation Methods Harry Hendon BoM Coupled Breeding for Initializing Ensemble Multiweek Prediction Laura Ferranti ECMWF Flow dependent verification of the ECMWF extended range ensemble forecasts Malaquias Peña NCEP-NOAA Subseasonal Prediction Experiments with the Global Ensemble Forecast System M Vellinga A Arribas Met Office Extended-range forecasts for onset of the African rainy seasons Yvan Orsolini NILU Impact of snow initialization on sub-seasonal forecasts Jesse Meng NCEP-NOAA Implementation of the NCEP operational GLDAS for the CFS land initialization Jon Gottschalk NCEP-NOAA Subseasonal to seasonal prediction: CPC operational outlooks and other applications Chidong Zhang RSMAS UM MJO: A possible path to forecast of global fire and flood probability with advanced lead time Zhihong Jiang Nanjing A study of the impacts of late spring Tibetan Plateau snow cover on Chinese early autumn precipitation Wesdnesday 12 February Chair: Andrew Robertson Design of Forecast Systems (Operational Centers) Wassila Thiaw NCEP-NOAA Subseasonal forecasting for Africa and tropical climate sensitive regions D Rowlands W Norton City Financial UK A user perspective on predictability and skill in extended range forecasts Huug van den Dool NCEP-NOAA Analysis of 35 Years of Hindcasts made in Conjunction with CFSR Kieran Lynch U. Reading Verification of European Monthly Wind Speed Forecasts Chair: David Dewitt Design of Forecast Systems Yuejian Zhu NCEP-NOAA NAEFS Status and Future Plan Jin Huang NCEP-NOAA North American Multi-Model Ensemble (NMME) Kim Hae-Jeong APEC Climate Center Forecasting Activities on Intraseasonal Variability at APEC Climate Center Atul Kumar IITM Current status and prospects of Extended range prediction of Indian summer monsoon using CFS model Frederic Vitart ECMWF Impact of resolution on sub-seasonal skill scores Jieshun Zhu COLA ENSO prediction in Project Minerva: Sensitivity to Ensemble Size and Atmospheric Horizontal Resolution Franco Molteni ECMWF Extra-tropical flow regimes and connections with tropical rainfall in the MINERVA experiments Antje Weisheimer ECMWF On the impact of stochastic physical parametrizations in ECMWF's seasonal forecasting system 4 Mong-Ming Lu CWB Taiwan The Subseasonal to Seasonal Operational Forecast System Developed at CWB Taiwan Joshua Fu U Hawaii S2S Researches at IPRC/University of Hawaii Sun Shan ESRL-NOAA Global Coupled Atmosphere/Ocean Model for Seasonal and Climate Forecast Applications at NOAA/ESRL Song Yang U. China Subseasonal-Seasonal Predictions of the Asian Monsoon in the NCEP Climate Forecast System Version Chair: Alberto Arribas Approaches to Integrate S2S Caio Coello INPE-Brazil Verification of Sub-Seasonal to Seasonal Predictions Sin-Chan Chou INPE-Brazil Evaluation of climatic extreme indicators forecasted by the regional climate Eta model Kingtse Mo NCEP-NOAA Hydrologic predictability over the United States using the National Multi Model Ensemble Augustin Vintzileos ESSIC-UMD Challenges in forecasting the MJO Ousmane Ndiaye ANACIM Forecasting at sub‐seasonal time scale over West‐Africa : needs, gaps and challenges Yuhei Takaya JMA The New JMA's one Month Ensemble Prediction System and its Performance Frederic Vitart ECMWF Sub-seasonal prediction at ECMWF