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The following people expressed interest in participating discussion about reorganization: Steve Ghan, Po-Lun Ma, Kai Zhang, Hailong Wang, Yun Qian, Rich Neale
Shaocheng’s comments:
- Regarding re-org, Phil and I have discussed this for a long time, but have not started to work on it yet
- Suggest Phil and I write first draft, then invite comments from others
- Some of the things being discussed could be proposed to be part of v2 or v3.
Peter: why do you need a group to decide how to re-organize? Is this just scoping / prioritization?
- Phil: identifying who will work on what? If we identify a need and don’t have the resources, then we may need to re-allocate resources to do it. Want to allow conversation to occur about this, and to give an opportunity for input. Want to play to the strengths of the team, but also to make sure high-priority tasks are addressed.
- Shaocheng: Since we are approaching the end of the v1 development cycle, people may be wondering what they will be working on next. Our group has more than 30 or 50 scientists, who can work on different things in parallel.
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- Some science questions (e.g. aerosol indirect effect) don't require coupled simulations. What science can we do now / what papers can we write?
- Ruby: effect of high resolution on simulations? What does high resolution buy us?
- Hailong: quick comment about diagnostics – when Po-Lun and I were tuning the aerosols, we used the new AOD diagnostics all the time
- Yun: Recently did some AMAZON work, so I volunteer to replace Jin-Ho on leading Amazon diagnostics
- Rich Neale: for high resolution simulations we really should be looking at time-step-by-time-step analysis to make sure the model is doing what it should be doing.
- Yun: aside from the spatial/horizontal resolution, the vertical resolution is important. Po-Lun might want to lead a paper on that.
- Shaocheng: think about what papers you want to write and the science that would drive those papers.
Where would Atm Team like to take a lead in investigating coupled features?
- ENSO?
- Surface Mass Balance over Ice Sheets?