| Welcoming Remarks: |
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| Masao Kanamitsu, Workshop Chair |
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| Suzette Robinson, VC Academic Affairs, Maui Community College |
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| Francis Fujioka, U.S. Forest Service |
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| Glenn Shishido, Hawaii Division of Forestry, Maui District |
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| GSM/RSM Overview: Chair, Henry Juang |
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| 1.1 Kanamitsu |
Introduction. "Current Status of G-RSM" |
| 1.2 Kanamaru |
Review. "An Overview of the ECPC G-RSM Contribution to Several Regional Climate Modeling Intercomparison Programs." |
| 1.3 Yoshimura |
Recent Improvements in numerics. “Spectral Nudging” Kei Yoshimura |
| 1.4 Hong |
Recent improvements in physics. “New PBL parameterizations” Song-You Hong |
| GSM/RSM Overview: Chair, Francis Fujioka |
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| 1.5 Juang |
“GSM/RSM/MSM Dynamics: Past, Present and Future.” Henry Juang |
| Scientific Presentations: Chair Francis Fujioka 1. Fire weather applications |
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| 1.6 Roads |
NCEP/ECPC Monthly to Seasonal US Fire Danger Forecasts J. Roads, P. Tripp, H. Juang, J. Wang, F. Fujioka and S. Chen |
| 1.7 Fujioka |
Use of Weather Models in Fire Danger and Fire Behavior Prediction. F. Fujioka, S. Chen, J. Benoit and M. Jolly |
| 1.8 Gonzalez-Caban |
Integration of Weather Data and the Spatial Allocation of Market and Nonmarket Values in Fire Management. A. Gonzalez-Caban and K. Baerenklau |
| 1.9 Jin |
Application of MSM at scale less than 1km in Northeast China to improve fire behavior modeling. S. Jin |
| Scientific Presentations: 2. Downscaling. Chair Shyh Chen |
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| 2.01 Wang |
The NCEP RSM Regional Climate Forecast Experiment J. Wang and H. Juang |
| 2.02 Amjad |
Dynamical Downscaling of Seasonal Climate Hindcast and Prediction Experiments using Regional Spectral Model over South Asia M. Amjad and M. M. Sheikh |
| 2.03 Brenner |
Downscaling the Mediterranean region winter season with the RSM coupled to a one dimensional ocean model. S. Brenner and E. Shiber |
| 2.04 Putrasahan |
Coupled Ocean-Atmosphere Interactions in the Southeast Pacific Ocean D. Putrasahan, H. Seo, A. Miller and J. Roads |
| 2.05 Seo |
Regional Coupled Downscaling of future climate projections in the Tropical Atlantic Sector. H. Seo and S-P Xie |
| 2.06 Chen |
Meso-scale Spectral Model Simulations over San Jacinto Mountain Region S. Chen, F. Fujioka, J. Benoit and H. Juang |
| Scientific Presentations: 3. Spectral nudging and bias correction. Chair Kei Yoshimura |
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| 3.01 Chan |
Seasonal Re-Forecasting of the North American Monsoon from a Regional Climate Model S. Chan and V. Misra |
| 3.02 Sun |
A new nesting approach with bias correction for regional climate models. L. Sun and H. Li |
| 3.03 Yoshimura |
Regional Downscaling for Stable Water Isotopes with IsoRSM. K. Yoshimura and M. Kanamitsu |
| 3.04 Kanamitsu |
Interannual variability and long term trend in dynamical downscaling. M. Kanamitsu, K. Yoshimura, Y-B Yhang and S-Y Hong |
| 3.05 Wu |
Local Mean Bias Correction in aregional model downscaling: A case study of the South China Sea Summer Monsoon of 1998. P-L Wu, P-L Lin and H. Juang |
| Scientific Presentations: 4. Numerical Methods. Chair Liqiang Sun |
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| Non-Iteration Mass-conserving Positive-definite Semi-Lagrangean Advection: Possible for RSM/MSM H. Juang. And Y. Zhang |
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| Scientific Presentations: 5. Monsoon applications |