Integration of GEOS-Chem into NCAR models - Agenda

July 30-31, 2018: ACOM Laboratory in Boulder, Colorado, USA

Monday, July 30

9:00 Goal of the meeting (Guy Brasseur, NCAR and Daniel Jacob, Harvard)
9:10 GEOS-Chem overview (Daniel Jacob, Harvard)
9:30 GEOS-Chem code structure (Bob Yantosca, Harvard)
9:50 Singletrack overview (Andrew Gettleman, NCAR) (Singletrack at ACOM)

10:10 Break

10:30 Chemistry Café and MICM (Mary Barth, NCAR)
10:50 MUSICA (Dan Marsh, NCAR)
11:10 CAM Chem overview (Simone Tilmes and Doug Kinnison, NCAR)
11:30 Chemistry-ecosystems-climate coupling in GEOS-Chem (Lee Murray, U Rochester)
11:50 Coupling of GEOS-Chem with NASA GEOS-5 (Lizzie Lundgren, Harvard)

12:10 Lunch

1:00 GEOS-Chem adjoint (Daven Henze, U. Colorado-Boulder)
1:20 Coupling GEOS-Chem with CESM2 (Seb Eastham, MIT)
1:40 WRF Overview (Gabriele Pfister and Mary Barth, NCAR)
2:00 Coupling of GEOS-Chem with WRF (May Fu, Peking U.)
2:20 GEOS-Chem on the cloud (Jiawei Zhuang, Harvard)

2:40 Break

3:00 The new physics coupling framework (CPF) (Steve Goldhaber, NCAR)
3:15 Facilitating coupled model development for both climate and weather via CIME (Mariana Vertenstein)
3:30 Interface to the current CCPP (Cheryl Craig, NCAR)
3:45 Updating Chemical mechanisms in models (e.g., CESM) (Becky Schwantes, NCAR)
4:00 Initial software engineering discussion on coupling GEOS-Chem with NCAR models, and laying out a specific agenda for Day 2 (Leads: Seb Eastham, MIT and Dan Marsh, NCAR)

5:00 Adjourn

Tuesday, July 31: Continued software engineering discussions

9:00-12:00 Open discussion:

• Coupling of GEOS-Chem with CESM2
• Coupling of GEOS-Chem with WRF
• GEOS-Chem and WRF on the cloud
• Building a GEOS-Chem capability in the MUSICA architecture

12:00-1:00 lunch

1:00-2:00 Action items

2:00 Adjourn