RMS Physical Processes Special Interest Group Meeting
on Boundary Layer Clouds

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The RMS Physical Processes Special Interest Group Meeting on Boundary Layer Clouds was held at ECMWF on 10 March 2005.

The meeting brings together experts in the area of boundary layer clouds. Cumulus clouds, stratiform clouds and fog are covered with the emphasis on their representation in large scale models. Supporting research from fine scale models and observations will be presented.

Organization

Please contact one of the organizers for more information and for registration:

Programme

10.00	Arrival coffee
10.25	Anton Beljaars	Welcome
Large scale models:
10.30	Adrian Lock (Met Off)	BL clouds in large scale models: current issues
11.00	Alejandro Bodas-Salcedo	Evaluation of low level clouds in a (Met Off) climate model using satellite data
11.30	Martin Koehler (ECMWF)	Stratocumulus in the ECMWF model
Fine scale models:
12.00	Rachel Capon (Reading)	Fog simulation in high resolution NWP
12.30	Lunch
14.00	Alan Grant (Reading)	Beyond the mass flux approach; Using LES to design cumulus parametrizations
14.30	Roel Neggers (ECMWF)	Variance similarity in shallow cumulus topped mixed layers
15.00	Coffee/tea
Observations:
15.30	Hugh Coe (Manchester)	The role of aerosols in the formation of boundary layer clouds
16.00	Alan Blyth (Leeds)	Shallow cumulus observations during RICO
16.30	Ewan O'Connor (Reading)	Radar/lidar observations of BL clouds
17.00	End of meeting