Dear colleagues,

it is a pleasure to announce a combined GCSS-BLCWG/Euclipse meeting on boundary-layer clouds which will take place September 29/30 at the KNMI in De Bilt, Netherlands.

The meeting will be dedicated to discussing results of two new model intercomparison studies on cloud transitions, in addition to an update of the CGILS project which focusses on equilibrium states at three different locations in the GPCI domain. The webpage addresses of these projects are shown at the bottom of this email. Anyone who would like to join these modeling studies is more than welcome to participate!

We have reserved some room in the schedule for individual presentations. In case you are interested to give a talk please let us know as soon as possible.

The preliminary program looks as follows:

Wednesday 29 September- Stratocumulus to shallow cumulus transitions
* Composite case (Irina Sandu-MPI)
      Introduction to the case, LES (Irina Sandu/Bjorn Stevens) & SCM (Suvarchal Kumar) results
* ASTEX case (Stephan de Roode-TU Delft)
     Introduction to the case, LES & SCM results
* Individual presentations
* Discussion on how to proceed

Thursday 30 September - CGILS
* Recent progress on CGILS (Minghua Zhang-Stony Brook, Chris Bretherton-UW (by teleconference))
* Individual presentations
* Discussion

Please let us know if you would like to join this meeting. As hotels in the Utrecht area are sometimes quite busy, it is recommended to make an early reservation.

We are looking forward to meeting you in De Bilt,

Stephan de Roode, Adrian Lock and Irina Sandu
(s.r.deroode at tudelft.nl, adrian.lock at metoffice.gov.uk,
irina.sandu at zmaw.de)

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MODEL INTERCOMPARISON WEBPAGES:
ASTEX:http://www.srderoode.nl/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=70&Itemid=87
CGILS: http://atmgcm.msrc.sunysb.edu/cfmip_figs/Case_specification.html
Composite case: http://www.mpimet.mpg.de/en/mitarbeiter/irina-sandu/transition-cases.html
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