October 17-18, 2022, Los Angeles, California
Organizers:
Roger Wakimoto, UCLA Vice Chancellor for Research & Creative Activities
Rong Fu, Professor, UCLA Atmospheric & Oceanic Sciences
David Randall, University Distinguished Professor, Colorado State University
This two-day symposium will foster scientific exchange in the fields of convection and clouds and climate modeling, to honor the contributions of Professor Akio Arakawa. A set of invited talks will provide the broad context for discussion and poster sessions that reflect the advancements and explore new directions in the areas to which he contributed, and to engage and inspire students and early career scientists to pursue careers in climate modeling and related areas. A public lecture aimed at a broad audience will be given by Professor Kerry Emanuel of MIT.
Professor Arakawa was a pioneer in the development of atmospheric global circulation models, which now are essential tools for both weather forecasting and climate change studies. He was an inspiring and generous mentor for his students and co-researchers. His scientific papers are models of clarity. His graduate-level classes were challenging and rewarding. He trained and inspired multiple generations of researchers and leaders in the field of global atmospheric models. This symposium will provide a great opportunity for current students and early career scientists nationwide to interact with leading scientists in the field of atmospheric and climate modeling, and to learn from Prof. Arakawa’s career.
Attendance is open to the community. We encourage abstract submissions from anyone with relevant research, though a presentation is not required to attend the symposium.
Location
James West Alumni Center, Collins Conference Room and Patio, UCLA, Los Angeles, California. UCLA Parking and Campus Maps
Dates
September 5, 2022: Applications deadline for travel support of graduate students and postdoctoral researchers.
September 30, 2022: Poster Abstracts Deadline
October 1, 2022: Registration deadline
October 17-18, 2022: Symposium
Submitting Abstracts
Submit title and Abstract here, due September 30th, 2022.
Travel Support
Application for travel support of students and postdoctoral researchers: (apply here):
Application should include a CV and a short written statement (no more than one page) declaring their financial need and circumstances, relevance of their research to the symposium, and their background.
Registration Form
- Two-day symposium and banquet dinner: $250 ($110 tax deductible)
- Monday symposium and banquet dinner: $125 ($5 tax deductible)
- Tuesday symposium only: $125 ($105 tax deductible)
- Banquet Dinner Only: $100($5 deductible)
- AOS Students can sign up for free registration to the symposium (excluding banquet dinner).
To donate to Prof. Arakawa Graduate Fellowship:
If you would like to make a donation in honor of Prof. Akio Arakawa, please click here. Symposium registration fees will be directed to the Akio Arakawa Fund. It is our goal to convert this current expenditure fund to an endowment and grow the endowment over time with support from family and friends. If a minimum of $100,000 in gifts or pledges is raised by December 31, 2022, the fund may be converted to an endowment fund whose purpose will be determined by the Arakawa family.
Hotels Near UCLA Campus
- UCLA Meyer and Renee Luskin Conference Center
- Hotel Angeleno
- Royal Palace Westwood Hotel
- Plaza La Reina
- Holiday Inn Express West Los Angeles-Santa Monica
- Courtyard by Marriott Los Angeles Century City/Beverly Hills
- Kimpton Hotel Palomar Los Angeles Beverly Hills
Contact
Symposium Program
Symposium to Honor Akio Arakawa
Oct 17-18, 2022
James West Alumni Center, UCLA
October 17
08:30 Welcome and opening remarks(Chair, Rong Fu)
Suzanne Paulson, Roger Wakimoto
Morning session: Numerical methods for simulating the atmosphere(Chair, David Randall)
09:00 Keynote talk: Prof. John Thuburn, University of Exeter: “Adjustment and conservation, from lat-lon to quasi-uniform grids and some “hidden duals”
10:00 Break
10:15 Invited talk: Young-Joon Kim, NOAA National Weather Service: “What Professor Arakawa left me Including the Kim-Arakawa Scheme”
10:45 Masaki Satoh, The University of Tokyo: Development of a global nonhydrostatic model NICAM and recent activity toward global large eddy simulations for testing cumulus convection schemes
11:00 Fiaz Ahmed, UCLA, Narrowing ITCZ under global warming: “Interplay between convection, circulation and radiation”
11:15 Li Xia et al., University of Utah/Princeton University: “Effects of wintertime Arctic Sea Ice leads on low-level clouds”
11:30 Ignacio Lopez-Gomez et al. CalTech: “Unifying turbulence and convection parameterizations: the. extended eddy-diffusivity mass-flux scheme”
11:45 Highlight of the posters
12:00 Lunch and Poster Session
Afternoon session – 1: The next generation
Three Invited Talks:
13:30 Andrea Jenney, University of California at Irvine(Chair David Randall); “Simulating Storms”
14:00 Alex Gonzalez, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution(Chair Wayne Schubert): “Wind-Evaporation-SST feedbacks and the southeast Pacific Ocean ITCZ”
14:30 Kathleen Schiro, University of Virginia(Chair David Neelin): “Model spread in tropical low cloud feedback tied to overturning circulation response to warming”
15:00 Break
Afternoon Session – 2: Arakawa and Modeling of the Atmosphere (Chair: David Neelin)
15:15 David Randall, Colorado State University: “Model Development: The Journey is the Reward”
16:15 Break
17:00 Public lecture, James West Alumni Center, (Chair: David Neelin)
Kerry Emanuel. MIT: “Climate Change and Hurricanes”
18:30 Banquet on the James West Alumni Center Collins Conference Room Patio, (including open mic time)
October 18
Morning session: From convection to the global circulation (Chair: Wayne Schubert)
08:30 Keynote talk: Tapio Schneider, CalTech: “Lessons from Arakawa in Fusing Theory, Data, and Computing.”
09:45 Keynote talk: David Neelin, UCLA: “More “quasi-” than “equilibrium”: unforeseen directions of Arakawa’s hypothesis”
10:45 Invited Talk: James McWilliams, UCLA, “Drilling down to bedrock”.
11:15 Break
11:30 Gang Chen, UCLA: “Extreme Stratospheric Wave Activity as Precursors of Cold Events over North America”
11:45 Alex Hall, UCLA: “Sub-seasonal Clustering of Atmospheric Rivers in the Western US”
12:00 Lunch
Afternoon session: The role of clouds in the climate system (Chair: Gang Chen)
13:30 Keynote talk: Wayne Schubert, Colorado State University: “Reflections on Arakawa’s Views of the Atmospheric General Circulation”
14:30 Break
14:45 Invited talk: Steve Krueger, University of Utah: “Akio Arakawa and the Era of 2D Cloud System Models”
15:15 Invited talk: Joao Teixeira, Jet Propulsion Laboratory: “The Quest for Unified Boundary Layer and Convection Parameterizations”
15:45 Kuan-man Xu, NASA Langley Laboratory, “Observational Analysis of Tropical Convective Aggregation.”
16:00 Chien-Ming Wu, National Taiwan University, Unified representation of deep moist convection in a global convection-permitting model”
16:15 Closing remarks
Adjourn