Announcing the 2024 Joint WRF-MPAS Users' Workshop

[Michael Duda]

Dear MPAS-Atmosphere Community:

NSF NCAR's Mesoscale and Microscale Meteorology Laboratory invites you to attend the Joint WRF-MPAS Users' Workshop from 25 - 28 June 2024. The event will be held both in-person at the UCAR Center Green campus in Boulder, Colorado as well as virtually (online).

The primary objectives for this Users' Workshop are to provide updates on the WRF and MPAS modeling systems, to discuss model development and issues, and to present evaluations and applications of the two models. We seek contributions on development and applications using the WRF and/or MPAS model. Topics include the following:

   1) WRF/MPAS model and WRF/MPAS/DA development updates

   2) WRF/MPAS applications in high-resolution regional and global simulations
   3) New Physics development
   4) Evaluation of MPAS in real-time forecasting applications
   5) MPAS/WRF model comparisons

Authors may request either a poster or an oral presentation; however, we encourage authors to consider submissions for a poster presentation due to time constraints for oral sessions. Note that the poster session will be entirely in-person, with no virtual component.

In addition, we will offer short tutorials on Friday, 28 June related to our new development. Details will be provided in a later email.

To register and submit an abstract, or to just register for participation in the workshop, please visit https://www.mmm.ucar.edu/events/workshops/wrf-mpas .

Important Dates:
April 29: Abstract submissions due
May 29:   Workshop program posted
June 12:  In-person early registration deadline
June 19:  Virtual early registration deadline

Registration fees:
* Full-Time U.S. University Students (in-person or virtual):  $50
* All others:
     * In-person early registration: $250
     * Virtual registration: $100

We encourage anyone planning to attend in-person to book hotels early! Boulder hotels can be expensive in the summer. The Residence Inn, Boulder and the Courtyard Marriott, Boulder can be booked using the UCAR Corporate Rate (See "Logistics" on the workshop site - from the above link).

We hope to see you (virtually or in-person) at the Workshop!

With kind regards,

The WRF and MPAS-A Teams